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Ann Arbor Observer Farmers' Market in Winter: More vendors braving the coldest months.
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Last February, an average of eighteen sellers showed up each week at the public market on Fourth Avenue--compared to an average of ten or eleven in the previous two Februaries. Manager Molly Notarianni thinks the totals will be even higher this winter, in part because of the tough economy.
Ann Arbor Observer David Doris: Rocker turned African art expert
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University of Michigan art history professor David Doris doesn't go out of his way to tell students he played saxophone for a few years in a rock band called the Raunch Hands. But those who find out are definitely impressed. ...
Ann Arbor Observer The Heidelberg Pulls the Plug: No more music at Club Above.
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The Heidelberg's Club Above abruptly shut down its music operation in January, less than eight months after Claudia Leo took over the North Main Street club, spruced up the venue, and inaugurated an ambitious schedule of intriguing local, regional, and national acts. ...
Ann Arbor Observer Cafe Zola: Evolved
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In the early days of Cafe Zola, we would order our crepes and watch them being made for us through a little window at the end of the coffee bar. This was before the big weekend brunch crowds, when Zola was more of a proper cafe. ...
Ann Arbor Observer Budget Potholes: Road commission funding in a rut.
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The Washtenaw County Road Commission's budget was reduced 10 percent this year. Roy Townsend, WCRC director of engineering, says that's meant less maintenance on county roads and delayed construction projects. ...
Ann Arbor Observer Steve Nardella: You won't be mistreated. He returns to Guy Hollerin's tomorrow night.
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Well into his third set at Guy Hollerin's, Steve Nardella asked for a request from the still sizable audience, and someone yelled "Chuck Berry!" It was all Nardella needed to break into the familiar opening riff of "Oh Carol," and within seconds the dance floor was jumpin'. ...
Ann Arbor Observer Jiffy's New Face: Chelsea Milling builds a welcome center.
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Tours of the Jiffy Mix factory are by far Chelsea's top attraction. That's partly why the Chelsea Milling Company is spending $6 million on a new addition--in the shape of three small grain silos.The multipurpose ...
Ann Arbor Observer Victorious Egret: January's fake ad flushed out.
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Last month's Fake Ad--for the Victorious Egret lingerie shop for bird-watchers--lured 236 clever Fake Adders out of the bush. It also ruffled a few feathers among birders--though only "those who aren't from A2," emails Cendra Lynn. ...
Ann Arbor Observer Cooking to Help Haiti: An exile gives back.
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Guerda Harris fled Haiti as a teenager in 1960. Now Harris, who owns the Back Alley Gourmet in the South Main Market, is organizing a benefit dinner for the earthquake-devastated nation.
Ann Arbor Observer Crime Map for December 2009: A quiet month in Ann Arbor
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Click here to view of zoomable map of December, 2009, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Crime was down slightly in all tracked categories in December, 2009 compared to December, 2008:
Ann Arbor Observer Former Ann Arborite Elizabeth Kostova reads from The Swan Thieves, her new book, at Nicola's February 3.
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Obsession. It is one of the great cultural themes. Most of us have probably felt some form of it, usually mild, for a person, our work, an art form, or an idea. When we recover our "normal" perspective, ...
Ann Arbor Observer Crime Map for December 2009 shows a quiet month in A2.
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Click here to view of zoomable map of December, 2009, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Crime was down slightly in all tracked categories in December, 2009 compared to December, 2008:
Ann Arbor Observer Olympic Dreams: Ice dancers pointed toward Vancouver.
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When Nancy Bates told her nine-year-old son, Evan, that she wanted him to learn ice dancing, his first reaction was yuck: "I don't want to hold hands with a girl," Nancy recalls him protesting. But she insisted he give it a try. ...
Ann Arbor Observer New Statuses: Murray's now O'Reilly's and other news.
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It used to be you shopped Murray's Discount Auto Parts on Stadium from east to west. Now it's O'Reilly Auto Parts, and you shop it north to south. Murray's changed the layout of its Ann Arbor store last ...
Ann Arbor Observer A Leap of Faith: Fuller Road Station a bold investment.
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A design for a planned town-gown transit station on Fuller Road at East Medical Drive could be ready as early as this month. But Ann Arbor residents looking at drawings of the Fuller Road Station may still wonder what's in it for them.
