This column is dedicated to everyone who loves the Web — and to those who use their computers for transportation. The phrase "surfing the web" started appearing around 1991. Why "surfing" and not "traveling"; or "adventuring"? I know: it sounds better. But anyone who loves to travel knows it's a state of mind.
Miyoko Honma, owner of Cafe Japon in downtown Ann Arbor, is used to the question: How do you pronounce the restaurant’s name? She laughed. "Like a rock hitting water. Hah-pone." She carefully, purposefully poured more green tea. Several members of her kitchen staff, aprons dusted with flour, took a short ...
The art of the simple, honest meal: A slice of orange and black coffee; a sandwich, perfectly alternating between tiles of pink capicola and provolone; avocado with egg. To know these elements, to honor them, requires a confidence and cooking prowess that few chefs possess. Bee Roll, 34, Canada-born and ...
Writing about Anthony Bourdain’s new Travel Channel show, "The Layover," Mike Hale of The New York Times posed an interesting observation. "(Bourdain's) attention to the prosaic, something other hosts gloss over in their desire to focus, simply, cheaply and shallowly, on the weird or wonderful attributes of their destinations, is ...
ALMONT -- A shaky start never got much better for the Father Gabriel Richard football team on Friday night. The Fighting Irish bobbled the opening kickoff and nearly snapped the ball through the end zone on their first play from scrimmage. Before the 42-14 loss to Almont was over, the ...
"Born On A Blue Day: Inside The Extraordinary Mind Of An Autistic Savant" has been chosen as the subject for the 2012 edition of Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads. The book is the autobiography of Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant. Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads is a program that encourages everyone in the community ...
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 ...