May 5, 2009 | Community |
Swine Flu panic hit its peak the last week of April and beginning of May. Non-stop media coverage had everyone in Michigan and the rest of the United States whipped up into a froth of fear and hysteria, afraid for their very...
Read MoreMay 4, 2009 | Marketplace |
Tom and Cindy Hollander, who already own Hollander’s paper goods emporium on the first floor of Kerrytown’s Godfrey Building, and Hollander’s School of Book & Paper Arts in the basement below it, are...
Read MoreMay 3, 2009 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
During World War II, dozens of Jews skilled in the printing trade were placed in isolated, top-secret barracks within the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There, under threat of death, they counterfeited British currency worth...
Read MoreMay 3, 2009 | News |
Q: What are those poles on the street that are green or blue and have little cone-shaped hats on top? Some of them are in pairs.A: Once aware of these poles, one spots them in many places around town, for example, on the...
Read MoreMay 3, 2009 | Community |
Backpacking Light’s website reports the Ken was found on Saturday, May 2, “and walked out under his own steam.”
Read MoreMay 2, 2009 | News |
What if they held an election and nobody came? That’s the situation for the school board vote scheduled for Tuesday, May 5. Incumbents Glenn Nelson and Irene Patalan are unopposed for new four-year terms. Board president...
Read MoreMay 2, 2009 | Marketplace |
After last winter, it’s hard to believe there will be long, sultry nights when we will yearn for an ice cream. But if you can’t wait for a double-dip mint-chip or a length of chocolate-almond bark, Kilwin’s on...
Read MoreMay 1, 2009 | Community |
A group of girls examine a rack of brightly colored prom dresses, laughing and talking. It’s a familiar scene during prom season—except that none of these dresses have price tags and they’re displayed not in a store,...
Read MoreMay 1, 2009 | Community |
Old West Side resident Ken Knight, editor of Backpacking Light magazine, is missing on a hike in Virginia. Knight, who has impaired vision, was last seen on the Appalachian Trail on Sunday, April 26; he missed his return flight...
Read MoreApr 30, 2009 | Community |
Jessica Thatai knew she had to lose weight on the February morning when she told her then four-year-old daughter that she was too tired to go out in the snow to play. “Mommy,” her daughter Sonia responded, “you...
Read MoreApr 29, 2009 | Community |
Mysterious rituals, clandestine meetings, lost treasure, murder: the Freemasons, or “Masons” for short, are a rich source of literary fodder. Real-life Masons, for their part, tend to accept the attention with good...
Read MoreApr 28, 2009 | News |
“In my business, we always need three pumps–two pumps and a standby,” says Mike Amicangelo. “And we get very nervous when one of the two pumps goes down and we’re running on...
Read MoreApr 27, 2009 | News |
Click here to view this month’s Crime Map.Burglaries, sexual assaults, and robberies were all down slightly in February 2009 compared to the same month a year earlier, while vehicle thefts rose. #PAGEBREAK#February 2009...
Read MoreApr 27, 2009 | News |
The bar area of Mélange Underground Bistro is dark, crowded, and buzzing. But only a few of the well-dressed people here are sipping drinks. The rest are waiting, nervously or confidently, for the opportunity to pitch their...
Read MoreApr 25, 2009 | Marketplace |
Palm Palace Restaurants Inc. bought out Charlie’s Mediterranean Cuisine—formerly Charlie’s La Shish, formerly La Shish—last fall. “La Shish had a pretty strong following,” says Palm Palace spokesperson...
Read MoreApr 25, 2009 | Community |
A proud liberal, I moved from an East Coast factory town to Ann Arbor in 1954, sure I would find a compatible political atmosphere. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Mayor Bill Brown, a Republican stalwart, was elected to...
Read MoreApr 24, 2009 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
In a fine new John McCutcheon Live DVD recording issued by Ann Arbor’s Bamboo Concerts, the musician diverges almost immediately from his opening numbers into monologues recounting episodes in his education as a folk...
Read MoreApr 23, 2009 | Community |
After the Big Day, it gets dry-cleaned, wrapped carefully around bodice-shaped cardboard, placed in a double-thick acid-free cardboard box the size of a bathtub, and stored in the closet. And there it stays, year after year.You...
Read MoreApr 22, 2009 | Marketplace |
Two-year-old Café Japon, the French-Japanese fusion bakery café on Liberty, now serves breakfast seven days a week. Like the rest of the menu, it’s an ideal counterpoint of East and West: on the one side, French omelets,...
Read MoreApr 20, 2009 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
What is this—a movement?For the second time in the same season, the UMS has hired a very attractive German violinist to perform in town immediately after she released recordings of Bach’s violin concertos. Earlier this...
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