The Sunday snowstorm dumped 8 to 9 inches of snow around the Ann Arbor area. Forecasts from the day before had predicted a 50 percent chance of getting 0.25 inches of ice, but the storm track ended up giving the immediate area mostly snow, and the ice went to the ...
The first storm of the 2010 sledding season arrived on December 12. To celebrate, here's last year's guide to sledding, updated throughout. From the poem, "A Primer," by Bob Hicok in The New Yorker, May 19, 2008: February is thirteen months long in Michigan. We are a people who by ...
Fresh cider is not pasteurized. That gives it a distinctive fresh taste, and it also means that it will ferment if left to itself. Here's a list of some of the local cider mills that make cider on-site, with a look specifically at the cider makers that are part of ...
One of the nicest things to do on a Sunday is getting out of the house for a walk or a drive through the neighborhood. Sometimes that takes you to a place you don't normally go, and if you're like me and don't have a GPS handy at all times ...
I've been taking a mid-day trip from my downtown office to work for a while in one of the many places in our neighborhoods where you can sit down with a laptop and a cup of coffee and get on the network. The strategy is to find a destination that's ...
Residents of the neighborhoods surrounding Michigan Stadium are still waiting to hear what plans the city of Ann Arbor and the Secret Service have for President Barack Obama's trip to town to give the 2010 spring commencement address at the stadium on May 1. Stadium gates wil open at 6 ...
What's that giant glowing thing up in the sky? Could that be the sun? From our vantage point at AnnArbor.com, with windows that look out on Fifth Avenue and Liberty Street, we've been watching the transformation that takes place in the city as winter slowly releases her grip. North Face ...
Last week, we launched six new neighborhood pages on AnnArbor.com: Downtown Ann Arbor, Central Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor's West Side, Ann Arbor's South Side, Ann Arbor's North Side and UM Campus.As we've been working on these new pages, I've been looking maps of Ann Arbor to make sense of where ...
My northern vacation on Friday took me to the north side of town on Ann Arbor Transportation Authority Route 2C, one of the new routes that it put into service in January. The destination was Plymouth Green Crossings, where I spent the afternoon working. Here are some notes on what ...
If you have just moved to Ann Arbor, the new resident handbook doesn't include the crucial information that helps you navigate like a native. The native, or the immigrant who has picked up enough of the local folklore to pass for a native, is always prepared to refer to a ...
The City of Ann Arbor is entertaining proposals from developers for a conference and convention center hotel to be located on the Library Lot, next to the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library. But what if you have a meeting that you want to hold before construction is ...
I live in the Lower Burns Park neighborhood in Ann Arbor. I was recently asked what I liked about living there, and why I decided to live there, and what has made me stay. It's always hard to know why you do anything, and if I remember right, we bought ...
There's a lot going on in Ann Arbor, even in February. Â Although it's not the time of year when there's bright sunny sunshine, it's a time for skiing down the powdery slopes of Mount Washtenaw, and lots of people are hunkered down making their way through their first northern ...
Every year, just about this time, I start looking for places to have a birthday party. The challenge is to find something indoors that gets out the energy that a 5-year-old boy and his friends can build up on a weekend day. Here's a list, with a focus on the ...
One of the things I remember being in the stores as a kid during deer season was a round orange seat warmer. This was a relatively inexpensive, unpowered cushion filled with some kind of insulation that kept your bottom warm when you were sitting in a deer blind, riding in ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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