Ann Arbor

Too Much Time

Nov 8, 2008 | , |

Pieces of women peek out from behind shadows, prison bars, and maximum-security doors in the current collection of Jane Atwood’s photographs at the Slusser Gallery. Taken throughout the 1990s in prisons from Arizona to the...

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Saxophonist Joe Lovano

Nov 6, 2008 | , |

For many the tenor saxophone is the totemic instrument of mainstream jazz, and Joe Lovano is one of its prime high priests. Born in Cleveland into a family that worshipped music, he was largely self taught, although mentored by...

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Horse Play

Nov 6, 2008 | |

To Ted Kennedy, riding a Clydesdale around Kerrytown is a form of performance art.His performance atop Duncan, on the afternoon following Election Day, was a crowd-pleaser.Duncan’s literally a ton of horse, rescued from...

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Easy come, easy go

Nov 5, 2008 | |

Seven years ago, Ann Arbor environmental engineer Kevin Olmstead won $2.18 million on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. During the three weeks between the time the show was taped and the time it aired, Olmstead prepared, like an...

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Artist Martha Keller

Nov 4, 2008 | |

Martha Keller’s hair is thinner than Andy Warhol’s but just as white. At eighty-two, she’s begun to feel her age, but when she talks about painting, her eyes fill with the joy of a child.After earning a...

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It’s a Scoop!

Nov 4, 2008 | |

The word spread through voting lines on the morning of November 4–Ben and Jerry’s is giving away a free scoop of ice cream to celebrate Election Day. At about 2 p.m., a crowd of U-M students flocked in the State...

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A new club on Fifth

Nov 4, 2008 | |

Daniel Stephens closed his clothing store Ethnic Creations last December after a ten-year run. Now he’s back with BGreen, which was scheduled to open in mid-October in Colonial Plaza on South Industrial. Its niche:...

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The Two-Man Judge Race

Nov 3, 2008 | |

One election this year won’t be touched by the expected tidal wave of Democratic voters turning out to support Barack Obama: the contest for Fifteenth District judge. The successor to retiring judge Ann Mattson will be...

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Two Parks Proposals

Nov 2, 2008 | |

They’re not generating anything like the excitement of the state ballot proposals, which would legalize medical marijuana and loosen restrictions on stem cell research. But parks supporters are strongly interested in a...

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New owners at Naylor

Nov 2, 2008 | |

“Our goal is [to] bring high-line import luxury experience to domestic stores,” says Joseph Gilmour, new co-owner of Naylor Chrysler Jeep. He and business partner Benn Gilmore (different spelling, no relation)...

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Brandywine Cemetery

Oct 31, 2008 | |

On Halloween, Robert Beech’s yard has no fake blood, chain saws, or decapitated children. But the “haunted attraction and art installation” outside his southeast-side home does feature plenty of gargoyles and...

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The Lonely Republicans

Oct 31, 2008 | |

Nothing brings out voters like a presidential contest—and even by that standard, the November 4 vote is shaping up to be exceptional. County clerk Larry Kestenbaum says his office is preparing for the largest turnout in Michigan...

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The Lovell Sisters

Oct 30, 2008 | , |

I think I want to play the bassoon. Really, really well. I know, everyone says it’s one of the hardest instruments to play, but I figure if I make a plan and stick to it—you know, maybe start with some DVDs, take some...

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John Janviriya’s new place

Oct 30, 2008 | |

If you’ve been peering curiously into the Black Pearl Seafood & Martini Bar, which hung out its sophisticated-looking shingle months ago on Main, you can finally go inside. The floors of the narrow, deep space are black,...

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The Many Lives of 210 E. Huron

Oct 30, 2008 | |

The building at 210 East Huron first shows up on a city map from 1853. Although only a block from the Washtenaw County Courthouse, which was then the center of Ann Arbor’s commercial district, that stretch of Huron was...

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North by northwest

Oct 29, 2008 | |

Autumn pushes us outdoors to tank up on the sun and sky before we hunker down for winter. This year, instead of one last run to Harbor Springs, we decided to stick closer to home—up north, but just barely: Pinckney and Hamburg,...

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Hell and Back

Oct 29, 2008 | |

Don Vettese remembers the first time he saw hell. “It was an accident, literally and metaphorically,” says the Jesuit priest. “It started in 1994 when I gave a talk about service to the seniors at St....

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StoryCorps

Oct 27, 2008 | |

In September the national StoryCorps visited the U-M’s Silver Club enrichment program for folks with dementia. The corps’s goal: recording people’s stories before the memories fade. A Georgia-born...

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The Hatch Act Strikes Again

Oct 27, 2008 | |

An obscure 1939 federal law originally designed to curb rampant patronage in the post office, the Hatch Act is now being used as a blunt political object to force candidates out of elections—or jobs.The act’s changed the...

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