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ANN ARBOR’S Performance Network Theatre presents its second annual Dreamcast fundraiser — an evening of entertainment and bidding to support Ann Arbor’s professional theatre. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 11 2014. Tickets cost…

In January, The Indy revealed that UMHS had signed a 5-Year $45M deal with Life Technologies (LIFE), that Dr. Pescovitz held stock in LIFE and served on LIFE’s Board. ON MARCH 17 Dr. Ora Pescovitz sent an email to her system’s faculty…

Democrat Gary Peters is being targeted by the Koch PAC for his support of Obamacare. DEMOCRATS ARE FACING their toughest Michigan Senate fight in two decades. A sour national political climate, a little-known candidate and big…

County Administrator Verna McDaniel says Ann Arbor Commissioners Rabhi and LaBarre asked her to prepare a report that addressed  The Ann Arbor Independent’s March 11 story that documents county employee and elected officials’ stays at Las…

YOU DON’T NEED to wait at the docks for the latest installment of Charles Dickens’s Old Curiosity Shop. But what if your iPhone could recreate the excitement — and convenience — of reading a novel in serial form? Check out a new app…

by Jesse Kohn Dror Burstein is a telescope. To read Netanya, the Israeli author’s new memoir, is to pass inside the Givatayim observatory where Burstein’s grandfather once accompanied him, where the magnified vision of the moon so…

By Marc Joseph AS ENVIRONMENTALISM goes mainstream, corporations are marketing the word “green” as a panacea for the world’s climate crisis. Today the word describes a set of prescribed, mostly consumerist actions: buy local, organic and…

by Jill Richardson NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN, author of Righteous Porkchop, just coined a new catchphrase that ought to go viral: “Sugar is NOT just an empty calorie.” Her statement contradicts the notion we’ve had for years that the worst…

DR. JEANICE SWIFT hopes to attract students from districts throughout Washtenaw County in the 2014-2015 academic year. AAPS has designated 100 seats in kindergarten, 100 seats in first grade, 25 seats in grades 3, 4, 5, 50 seats in grades…

IN ANN ARBOR IT is said that some bleed maize and blue. Between its 2009 launch and its 2013 end, journalistic “experiment” AnnArbor.com bled talent.  Reporters frustrated by low pay and, several say, difficulty getting hard-hitting stories…