Ann Arbor Archives - Page 345 of 391

Chris Bathgate 2009

Apr 17, 2009 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

“I blame Bob Dylan for records like this.” That’s what my friend, Steve, said to me as we listened to Chris Bathgate’s A Cork Tale Wake, released last year. Steve was referring to the inscrutable lyrics...

Taxation with Representation

Apr 17, 2009 | News |

On April 15–Tax Day–two hundred people gathered on the Diag to protest taxation. We called five county commissioners to ask if they’d been persuaded to cut taxes. With the county facing a projected $26 million...

Thrift Shop Exodus

Apr 16, 2009 | Community |

“We’re down to one volunteer a day,” says Janet Fritsch, chair of the PTO Thrift Shop. “We used to have ten or fifteen.” The shop, which raises money for PTO and booster groups in the public...

End of the Dream

Apr 16, 2009 | Marketplace |

“It has just been a walk-through of hugs and well-wishes,” says Doreen Collins, of the final days of Dream On Futon. Collins and her husband, John, planned to close Dream On at the end of March.The Collinses have...

Tios goes down swinging

Apr 15, 2009 | Marketplace |

“I’m not closing because we’re not doing business,” says Tios owner Tim Seaver. “I’m closing because the city’s decided a parking lot’s worth more than nineteen jobs.” Seaver...

Small Donors Save PerfNet

Apr 15, 2009 | Uncategorized |

Michigan nonprofits have had it tough for years and have had to find increasingly clever ways to wring money from an increasingly destitute public. Last week, Performance Network, Ann Arbor’s professional theater, in...

After Great Pain

Apr 14, 2009 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

There are at least a couple of ways of reading a book of poetry. You can jump around in it, looking for individual gems that move your fancy—or you can read the whole thing from beginning to end, including even the blurbs, the...

A fresh start at U Towers

Apr 13, 2009 | Marketplace |

If you’re looking for sweet, TCBY-style yogurt, you won’t find it at Yogo Bliss Frozen Yogurt & Gelato Bar. “This is going to be a more of a tart yogurt, so it’ll have more of a real yogurt...

Hyundai Holds Up

Apr 12, 2009 | Marketplace |

“You’re not seeing what we call ‘tire kickers,'” says Ann Arbor Automotive president Doug Fox. But though the window-shoppers are staying home, Fox says, Ann Arbor’s high levels of education and...

Museums in the 21st Century

Apr 10, 2009 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

A hot orange wave catches my eye as I walk into the new exhibit at UMMA. It’s a study for the roof of the Paul Klee Centre in Switzerland. Like most of the buildings featured in this exhibit of 21st-century museum...

Sonya’s Faithful Steppers

Apr 9, 2009 | Community |

“Lung cancer seems to carry a stigma, because people think everyone who has lung cancer is a smoker,” says former Ann Arborite Janice Nash. In fact, Nash points out, “over fifty percent of people with lung...

Pricey Parking

Apr 8, 2009 | News |

The city’s first underground parking garage will be expensive—but also bright and cheery.So promises architect Carl Luckenbach, designer of the structure the Downtown Development Authority will build beneath the current...

Leo Zulueta and Jared Leathers

Apr 7, 2009 | Community |

It’s a running joke in the tattoo world that everyone owes Leo Zulueta $100. It started when an inker friend handed him a $100 bill, saying it was partial payment for all the money he’d made from the designs Zulueta...

Community Foundation Meeting

Apr 7, 2009 | Community |

Sue Upton of the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation called to correct an error in the Ann Arbor Observer’s April Events listings: the AAACF’s annual meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 28, not on Friday, April...

Vinyl Revival

Apr 5, 2009 | Uncategorized |

Alan Black, operations manager for WAAM, bought his first vinyl LP, a Nirvana bootleg, in 1996, five years before he owned a turntable.Black initially saw it as an obscure collector’s item from his favorite band. Now...

Buy of the Century

Apr 4, 2009 | News |

The U-M made out like a bandit on its purchase of the former Pfizer research complex. In 2001, the university sold fifty-five vacant acres near North Campus to the drug giant for $27 million, and the company announced plans to...

Thank You, Sam

Apr 4, 2009 | Community |

Surely Sam Breck has helped many thousands of people over his long and varied lifetime. My ex-husband, Don Hunt, and I were among the multitudes. In 1976 we started the Ann Arbor Observer.During the preceding year I had been the...

Middle Eastern on Washtenaw

Apr 3, 2009 | Marketplace |

Inexpensive restaurants beckon powerfully in hard times. But fast food isn’t as cheap as it looks, once you add the ultimate price exacted by sugar, fat, and carbs. Middle Eastern food, with its emphasis on wholesome...

Festifools

Apr 2, 2009 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

The first weekend of April is pay dirt for pagan celebrations. The Hash Bash and the Dance for Mother Earth Ann Arbor Powwow (this year being held at Saline Middle School) have been around since the 1970s, and they were joined...

Family Secret

Apr 1, 2009 | Community |

Ann Arbor has its share of amateur historians, but few can match Patrick McCauley.In 2006, when he was twenty-eight, McCauley and his girlfriend, Andrea Kinney, purchased an old Greek Revival home on Pontiac Trail. They set to...

Ann Arbor

Chris Bathgate 2009

Taxation with Representation

Thrift Shop Exodus

End of the Dream

Tios goes down swinging

Small Donors Save PerfNet

After Great Pain

A fresh start at U Towers

Hyundai Holds Up

Museums in the 21st Century

Sonya’s Faithful Steppers

Pricey Parking

Leo Zulueta and Jared Leathers

Community Foundation Meeting

Vinyl Revival

Buy of the Century

Thank You, Sam

Middle Eastern on Washtenaw

Festifools

Family Secret

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Nightspots