Articles tagged:arts

Posted: Wed Dec 7 12:07 p.m. by Paula Gardner News Director
3rd rabid skunk of 2011 found on west side of Ann Arbor

Health officials received confirmation this week that a skunk found on Ann Arbor's west side in late November had rabies.

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Posted: Sat Nov 19 6 a.m. by Jim and Janice Leach AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
The Roxbury Russet apple might be the best heirloom fruit you've never tasted

Jim explained a Roxbury Russet apple to our friend Jay. "It’s small, and very, very hard, and covered with a brownish sandpapery skin." Replied Jay, "What you’ve described is the worst advertisement for an apple that I’ve ever heard." But don’t be fooled by the exchange. A Roxbury Russet apple ...

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Posted: Thu Oct 20 11:02 a.m. by Lizzy Alfs Business Reporter
New Dick's Sporting Goods store opens at Lohr Road shopping center

The long-awaited Dick’s Sporting Goods store on Lohr Road in the Waters Place Shopping Center in Pittsfield Township opened Wednesday.

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Posted: Mon Oct 3 5 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff

Here is the daily Sudoku puzzle for October 3: sud111003.pdf

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Posted: Sun Sep 25 6:12 a.m. by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
U-M Center for Chinese Studies Kite Festival and Frances' Farewell--let us keep the conversation going

The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. As usual for an academic department, they have all sorts of lectures and films and art exhibits and concerts and performances and colloquia and conferences planned. Kicking it all off is the New Millennium East ...

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Posted: Sat Sep 24 11:41 a.m. by Jim Knight AnnArbor.com Sports Director
Final score: Michigan 28, San Diego State 7

FINAL SCORE: Michigan 28, San Diego State 7 FOURTH QUARTER Michigan 28, San Diego State 7: Vincent Smith bulled up the middle for a 7-yard touchdown run. Michigan scored on a four-play, 57-yard drive, all of them runs, including a 30-yarder by Denard Robinson. THIRD QUARTER Michigan 21, San Diego ...

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Posted: Sat Sep 24 5 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff

Here is the daily Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for September 24: 20110924pzdxl-a.pdf

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Posted: Sun Sep 18 6:12 a.m. by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
'Looking Both Ways' at the 'Made in China' label and 9/11 fears

The wall of 52 faces at the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Looking Both Ways contemporary art exhibit is striking. The styles are all different — formal, casual, realistic, cartoonish, playful, even black and white and fake-photoshopped. There are old men and young women, hipster rock stars and craggy-faced workers. There ...

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Posted: Mon Sep 12 8:20 p.m. by Catherine Zudak

Friday night, the sign on the door said, “Last 4 days.”  Borders, Store Number 1, was going out of business along with the rest of the chain.  I didn’t intend to shop the liquidation sale. It felt too much like helping a vulture that had swooped in to pick over ...

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Posted: Sun Sep 11 6:12 a.m. by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
Making Mooncakes the modern traditional way for the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is this Monday. That means mooncakes! A harvest festival, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a Chinese (Zhong Qiu Jie), Vietnamese (Tet Trung Thu) and Korean (Chusok) festival that celebrates the end of the harvest, family and food. It's sort of like Thanksgiving (without the turkey), Octoberfest (without ...

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Posted: Sun Sep 4 6:12 a.m. by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
Ode to bento boxes and lunchboxes for back to school perfection

In the hubbub of back to school preparations—registration, green emergency cards, forms, fees, textbooks, pictures, school supplies, backpacks, lunchboxes, scheduling extracurriculars, new lunch and snack ideas, catching up with old friends, etc., I keep ending up in the bento box or lunchbox section of every store I enter, be it ...

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Posted: Sun Aug 28 3:22 p.m. by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
Showing off our many local treasures, the power of sharing our ideas

Asian American photojournalist Corky Lee shows his Vincent Chin case photographs exhibited at the Chinese Cultural Center in Madison Heights during the Asian American Journalists Association National Convention | Photograph courtesy of Joz Wang jozjozjoz.comThe Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) National Convention was held in Detroit this month. I really ...

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Posted: Fri Aug 26 11:30 a.m. by Carol Tietz Editorial Administrative Assistant
Ann Arbor news roundup: August 26

AnnArbor.com's daily roundup offers you a look at some of the stories on our site today, as well as other content about Ann Arbor around the Web. Top headlines on our site: Lowest-performing school list includes Lincoln, Ypsilanti, Willow Run high schools Liebherr-Aerospace plans to expand Saline operation, add jobs ...

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Posted: Sun Aug 21 4:12 p.m. by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
From Band Camp to Ramadan - finding strength, skinniness and similarities

At the annual Band Camp concert at Interlochen a few years ago, my friend Shih-yi joked, “This would be a good day to rob Ann Arbor. Half the town is here.” After a summer of family time, it is quite the plunge back into the cold refreshing waters of school ...

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Posted: Sun Aug 21 5:57 a.m. by Susan Isaacs Nisbett Freelance Entertainment Writer
Stars of Russian Ballet livening up summer at the Power Center

Daniil Simkin is part of the Stars of Russian Ballet Gala at the Power Center. August in Ann Arbor is something of a doldrums for the lively arts, and dance is no exception. Yet, for the second year running, the end of the month brings what promises to be an ...

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