Articles tagged: arts
3rd rabid skunk of 2011 found on west side of Ann Arbor
Posted: Dec 07, 2011Health officials received confirmation this week that a skunk found on Ann Arbor's west side in late November had rabies. Read more »
home & garden: The Roxbury Russet apple might be the best heirloom fruit you've never tasted
Posted: Nov 19, 2011Jim 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 ... Read more »
New Dick's Sporting Goods store opens at Lohr Road shopping center
Posted: Oct 20, 2011The long-awaited Dick’s Sporting Goods store on Lohr Road in the Waters Place Shopping Center in Pittsfield Township opened Wednesday. Read more »
Sudoku for October 3, 2011
Posted: Oct 03, 2011Here is the daily Sudoku puzzle for October 3: sud111003.pdf Read more »
column: U-M Center for Chinese Studies Kite Festival and Frances' Farewell--let us keep the conversation going
Posted: Sep 25, 2011The 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 ... Read more »
Final score: Michigan 28, San Diego State 7
Posted: Sep 24, 2011FINAL 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 ... Read more »
Crossword for September 24
Posted: Sep 24, 2011Here is the daily Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for September 24: 20110924pzdxl-a.pdf Read more »
column: 'Looking Both Ways' at the 'Made in China' label and 9/11 fears
Posted: Sep 18, 2011The 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 ... Read more »
Saying Goodbye to the Spirit of Borders Booksellers
Posted: Sep 12, 2011Friday 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. ... Read more »
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column: Making Mooncakes the modern traditional way for the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Posted: Sep 11, 2011The 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 ... Read more »
Column: Ode to bento boxes and lunchboxes for back to school perfection
Posted: Sep 04, 2011In 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 ... Read more »
column: Showing off our many local treasures, the power of sharing our ideas
Posted: Aug 28, 2011Asian 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 ... Read more »
Ann Arbor news roundup: August 26
Posted: Aug 26, 2011AnnArbor.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 ... Read more »
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column: From Band Camp to Ramadan - finding strength, skinniness and similarities
Posted: Aug 21, 2011At 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 ... Read more »
Stars of Russian Ballet livening up summer at the Power Center
Posted: Aug 21, 2011Daniil 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 ... Read more »
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