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by Donna Iadipaolo ON SUNDAY MARCH 22, George Bedard and the Kingpins will be playing a benefit concert, “Rocking for the Homeless,” for the Ann Arbor Vineyard Homeless Ministry at 2275 Platt Road from 4-6 p.m. Not only will attendees…

Editor: Zoe Ash is a Junior at Ann Arbor Skyline High School and an intern at The Ann Arbor Independent. Beginning this week, she will be working on a project called Businesses of Ann Arbor. The photo essay project is a riff on the "Humans…

by Bryan Kelly I AM GOING door-to-door gathering signatures for a candidate (who isn’t me) to run for City Council in the partisan election. At least, I’m trying to gather signatures. Often, no one’s home when I visit, or their hiding…

by Brent McDermott IF I ASKED five people on the street to describe Ann Arbor in five words or less, these are the answers I would hear: academic, charming, friendly, transient and progressive. They are not the first that come to my…

by Brent McDermott IN “THE WIZARD of Oz,” Dorothy longs for adventure in the Emerald City. A melting witch and a troupe of flying monkeys later, she pines for the comforts of her home in Kansas. She clicks her heels three times, and…

by John Ball ON FEB. 18, the Detroit Metro Times published what has alternatively been called an “expose” and a “hit piece” about the owners of the Ann Arbor Brewing Company. Ann Arbor business owners Matt and Rene Greff’s business…

by P.D. Lesko LET’S START WITH the good news: Ann Arbor Mayor Chris Taylor is reaching out to residents and trying to keep in touch about important matters such as city government, transit and public safety and the environment. It’s a…

by Brent McDermott SEVEN STRANGERS HAVE cut my hair in the past eleven months. I’m ready to make a clipper commitment. The conversation is always the same. “So… what are we doing today? How much do you want to take off the top?” Next,…

by Bryan Kelly I HAPPENED INTO a sandwich shop the other day whose name shall be withheld from the record (though it shall not be spared the indignity of being guessed correctly). It charged some uncompromising prices! These were no…

The Ann Arbor Independent’s Skyline High School intern Stavi Tennenbaum kicks off an original High School Heroes interview series with a conversation about homelessness among AAPS students.  by Stavi Tennenbaum ALI SHAHIN IS a peer…