On October 7, 2023, as Jon Mallek married first-term state representative Jason Morgan in matching navy suits with teal bowties under a trellis draped with eucalyptus leaves, the thought of running for office himself was the furthest thing from his mind.
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Thomas Jude Schriber passed away peacefully on December 31, 2024, at the age of 89 in his beloved “Little Ann Arbor Town,” surrounded by his immediate family.
Read MoreThe Southern hospitality of Slim Chickens now extends to Scio Township, where the fast-casual chain recently opened its first stand-alone restaurant in Michigan.
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On one autumn afternoon in 1925, two U-M students stopped for lunch at a restaurant in Nickels Arcade, but no one came to take their order. After a long wait, a busboy approached them with a stack of dirty dishes and placed them on the table.
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I had a seminal experience in sixth grade. I rearranged my school schedule to maximize my exposure to the wisdom of Soupy Sales.
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Maya Savarino, a cherished mother, grandmother, godmother, sister, aunt, and friend, passed away peacefully on December 26, 2024, in Chelsea, Michigan, at the age of 87.
Read MoreAvalon Cafe and Kitchen has moved a block west, joining forces with another Mission Restaurant Group restaurant, the Pretzel Bell.
Read More“In other areas of the world, if you get Yemeni coffee beans, they’re called the gold mine of coffee beans, because they have lower acidity,” says manager Ghaith Balbeisi. “It’s a healthier coffee. It’s a better quality product as well.”
Read More“It’s something other than video games, and it brings people together.”
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No need to look out the window—just sign up for A2 Fix It, the app and website where residents report problems online. After a mid-January snowfall, most of the complaints were about people who hadn’t cleared their sidewalks.
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In December the U-M dropped $2.9 million for 116, 144, and 146 E. Hoover, which back up to the Michigan Stadium complex.
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“You thought you could skate this one by the readers, didn’t you?” quips Mary Adams about January’s feature. “I believe the ‘cathedral’ is Yost Ice Arena on S. State,” writes David Cooke, referring to the clue. “I admit that I don’t get the clue,” writes Mike McGraw, “but I recognize Yost.” “One of the best sports environments anywhere,” says Jane Thurston.
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“I just happened to look back at an invoice from January of 2022, and we were selling eggs for $23 a case,” says Washtenaw Dairy owner Mary Jean Raab. “Yesterday I paid $83 a case.” Another supplier was asking $147.
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Good news for the one in five people who have difficulty processing written words: Michigan now has two strong laws governing how schools screen for dyslexia and train teachers to respond to it. And it has them largely because of Ann Arbor school board member and former special ed teacher Susan Ward Schmidt.
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Recently, a book appeared among the Nepali handicrafts in the window of Himalayan Bazaar on Main St. Beyond Everest traces the path that took the store’s co-owner from grinding poverty to the top of the world’s highest mountain. He and his wife and co-owner, Moni Mulepati, were married there, drawing international coverage.
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Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1930, the retired U-M professor remembers a wonderful childhood—until 1937, when the Nazis confiscated her father’s bank and gave it to “non-Jews.” Ever resourceful, her father managed to find a job with American Express and moved the family to Amsterdam. “But we had not moved far enough,” Butter says. The Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940 and instituted the same anti-Semitic policies the Hasenbergs had fled three years earlier.
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An offbeat brand of stuffed toys has grown from an online shop run out of a one-bedroom apartment to more than forty stores, including one on Briarwood Mall’s center court.
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It’s been a long haul for the Miami-based developer: Finvarb and several Michigan partners first proposed building a hotel on Glen Ave. between Ann and Catherine streets in 2017. After a Covid delay, construction on the 188-room Vanguard Hotel finally started at the end of 2022.
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In mid-December, when Concordia University Ann Arbor issued a press release announcing the school would consolidate its operations at its North Building on Plymouth Rd. and away from its sprawling, lush campus along Geddes, few were surprised.
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“‘We’re going back’ can be taken a couple ways but add in the 1600 Penn Street address I know what it means to me 😢”
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