Ann Arbor

Bicycle Stampede

Feb 10, 2009 | |

Or the Boys’ and Girls’ Glee Club of Ann Arbor. Or Candy Death Squad. By any name, they’re a self-described “hard-core” late-night bike-riding group.Weather permitting, they tear through town every...

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Charlie Louvin

Feb 9, 2009 | |

Charlie Louvin was one half of the Louvin Brothers, almost the last in classic country music’s sequence of great brother duets. They came on the scene in the late 1940s with a truculent brand of gospel harmony singing...

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Act of faith?

Feb 8, 2009 | |

With Borders reeling from old debts and falling sales, the bookseller’s board fired CEO George Jones in January. Yet new CEO Ron Marshall not only left his investment firm to take the job, he also promised to buy 200,000...

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December 2008 Crime

Feb 7, 2009 | |

Ann Arbor crimes were slightly up in December, 2008 over the previous year, with 63 burglaries (54 in 2007), 7 sexual assaults (5 in 2007), and 19 vehicle thefts (13 in 2007). One number fell slightly: there were 7 robberies in...

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AXIS Coffeehouse

Feb 6, 2009 | |

At 6:30, the scheduled starting time for the AXIS Coffeehouse, the only people in the multipurpose room of the Malletts Creek Branch of the Ann Arbor District Library are teen services librarian Sharon Iverson and intern Cherie...

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Dinner at the Melting Pot

Feb 5, 2009 | |

The new Melting Pot on Main Street may be the quintessential winter restaurant, a gemütlich gathering place that taps into the primal urge to draw together around a fire when snow falls. There will be no loners here hunkering...

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Dream House

Feb 4, 2009 | |

Valerie Laken played a mean second base on the O Team—the Observer’s co-rec softball team—a few years back. I usually played catcher, and I enjoyed chatting with her on the bench or over postgame beers. She had a house on...

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Snow Patrol

Feb 3, 2009 | |

Every time it snows, Ann Arbor community standards supervisor Mike Rankin fields dozens of complaints about unshoveled sidewalks. His small staff then warns the property’s owners that they’re legally required to...

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Good food on campus

Feb 2, 2009 | |

The U-M’s latest restaurant may lack the aged patina of its brethren in the Michigan Union and Michigan League, but it more than makes up for that in wonderful food. The Glass House Cafe opened quietly this past fall in...

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Luke Bergmann

Feb 1, 2009 | , |

I like to think that I am more comfortable in Detroit than most Ann Arborites. I know my way around the city and make a point of visiting often. Although I exercise caution occasionally, I haven’t felt much fear in the...

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Maitelates Chocolates

Feb 1, 2009 | |

When transplanted to a new land, even the most adventurous diners will miss the tastes of home—and yearn to rekindle family memories connected to food. Maite Zubía, thirty-one, came to Ann Arbor four years ago from Chile when...

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GM’s Cassandra

Jan 31, 2009 | |

“I was the resident Cassandra,” Marina Whitman recalls. “But I have to say that even in my most Cassandra-like moments, I never conjured up what’s actually happened.”Whitman was a vice-president of...

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Boos for the Big House

Jan 29, 2009 | |

Last month we asked six local architects to evaluate downtown’s newest buildings. This month they turn their eyes to the U-M campus. Campus buildings earned some of our panel’s harshest criticism—and their highest...

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Urban style

Jan 28, 2009 | |

It sounds as if it has something to do with investment banking, but Citi Trends, which opened in December in Glencoe Crossing Shopping Center on Washtenaw, calls itself “a value-priced retailer of urban apparel and...

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Missing pigs

Jan 27, 2009 | |

Three bronze pigs have gone missing from the playground at County Farm Park. According to Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation deputy director Tom Freeman, the metallic mother and her three piglets that once clustered near the...

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Going with the Flow

Jan 26, 2009 | |

Sparkling in the sunshine on a perfect fall day, Mill Creek cascades over rocks and meanders through quiet pools as it flows toward the Huron River. Turtles sun themselves on rocks, and minnows dart through the water. But from...

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Chanticleer

Jan 25, 2009 | , |

The first question you have to ask about Chanticleer—the twelve-voice, all-male choir from San Francisco coming to St. Francis of Assisi Church on Thursday, January 29—is “What do they actually sound...

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Postcard Passion

Jan 24, 2009 | |

Aikenhead’s business, Boulevard Postcards, may be the only one in the area that deals exclusively in old cards—most postcard merchants also trade in magazines or books. The Detroit native and trained photographer has a day...

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Overheard on Miller

Jan 23, 2009 | |

Walking down Miller in the first snowstorm of the season, two men bowed their heads to the wind as their boots crunched the newly fallen snow. “So what do you think about this weather?” asked one.”I like...

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