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 ...
Health officials received confirmation this week that a skunk found on Ann Arbor's west side in late November had rabies.
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 ...
Story: Drake Johnson runs, throws Pioneer past Temperance Bedford in district final
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 ...
Few things transcend cuisines, cultures and centuries like coffee. What began in Arabia as a broth of dried seeds — the drink of Muslims in North Africa, India and the Mediterranean — today exists as another empire, one that has changed our entire social experience. Coffee no longer is solely ...
Yes. We know, it's annoying. You're at the Big House, trying to call a friend about the unbelievable pass you just saw Denard Robinson throw (it's complete!) and... nothing. No voice on other end. No ring tone. No operator. No service.
"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 ...
Pittsfield Township residents will have the opportunity to enjoy a new greenway after the snow thaws this winter. Work along the last mile-long stretch of the Lohr-Textile Greenway is under way, and officials are hoping to have a ribbon cutting sometime in spring 2012.
The long-awaited Dick’s Sporting Goods store on Lohr Road in the Waters Place Shopping Center in Pittsfield Township opened Wednesday.
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 ...
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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