My great aunt Suela had a hog farm and, when I was a child, there was nothing more entertaining than spending a day with her at the farm. The highlight would be her calling the domesticated swine to their slop buckets: "Sue-we!" she shouted, cupping her hands to her mouth. ...
When embryonic stem cells are grown, these sensitive cells need an extra-friendly environment to live in.University of Michigan researchers have created a special synthetic surface, which they say could create a more consistent environment within a petri dish for those little stem cells. And that, they say, could in turn ...
Jamie Weeder stars in the Blackbird Theatre's "Patty Hearst: The New Musical."The irony of extremists who take themselves very, very seriously is this: you can’t help but laugh at them a little bit. Why? Because more often than not, they lack self-awareness regarding their own blind spots, contradictions, and hypocrisies; ...
The college football season doesn’t begin for three months, but magazines previewing the fall already are in bookstores nationwide. The Michigan football team, most pundits agree, is headed for a middle-of-the-pack finish in the Big Ten. “If you’re a long-time Michigan fan, eight wins doesn’t sound like a lot, but ...
One of Bill Lewis' World War I drawings. (Note: For the past five years, World War II veterans have been dying at an average of more than 1,000 a day. With Memorial Day approaching, I will be focusing my next two Reflection columns on a pair of local WWII veterans ...
Timothy VanRiper, 18, has taken his love for music to far corners of the world, from Tanzania to China and back to Ann Arbor. While VanRiper is an accomplished musician - he plays six instruments and has had the lead five Pioneer High School musicals (did we mention he is ...
May 1, 2010 Dear Mr. President, I just wanted to let you know how cool it was to have you in town today for Michigan’s commencement - despite the brevity of your visit, it was a day I won’t soon forget. In my 25-year career as a photojournalist, you’re now ...
I’ve been having a lot of revelations lately as I steam through middle age. Most, unfortunately, are a bit depressing. Like the one I had last fall when it suddenly dawned on me that the poor trees in Michigan spend more months naked and bare, than they do fully clad ...
SIGNS, SIGNS, EVERYWHERE A SIGN: The Diag at the University of Michigan was a sea of signs during the April 15 Tea Party rally. When I moved to Ann Arbor 15 years ago, it was quite a cultural shock for me, a small-town boy from the fruit farms of northern ...
It’s a thousand degrees in this tube. How can something under a polar bear’s tank be so warm? I guess it doesn’t matter anyway, there’s nothing to see here but a bunch of dead fish parts at the bottom of the water. And where did all these people come from? ...
In May 2008 I lost a job at a bank here in Ann Arbor. I was not finding much after that and decided a new city was in order. Randomly pretty much I moved to Milwaukee to see if I might find better luck. After living there for nine months I ...
By the time you read this, it’s entirely possible there could be a foot of snow on the ground. It might also be sleeting sideways, or just be 40 degrees and raining. But not today - today is special.
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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