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URBAN HUNTER: Buy It New? Five Things You Should Never Buy New
by Cliff Weathers
WHILE YOU MAY already be purchasing new products that are deemed environmentally friendly, you can actually contribute to a by buying used items, especially those that take a lot of energy and resources to produce. Of…
The Foodist: Wood-Fired Pizza—Mani Osteria Versus Bigalora Cucina
by Eleanor Shelton
PIZZA IS LIKE a favorite pair of jeans—you can dress them up and look great, but they are still jeans. Wood-fired pizza, takes the Levis and adds a glamorous top and kickass shoes to create an outfit pretty enough to…
THE PARENT TRAP: Child-Centric Parents: What to Do About Them
By Jason Hill
I LOVE KIDS. Honestly. For years I dreamed of adopting one, but my partner has no interest in being a parent and, truth be told, the happier I became with my own life the less I wanted a child. We have a lot of friends with…
Deliverance: I’d Like To Buy The World A Coke
by Warren Liverance
IN THE FIRST few days following The Superbowl, the narrative consisted of the demonization of the people who were offended by “the Coke ad.” The one in which America the Beautiful was sung in several languages…
A2Politico: The Ann Arbor Observer—“As you know, we made a serious error in reporting…”
by P.D. Lesko
IMAGINE MY SURPRISE when I opened the February 2014 issue of The Ann Arbor Observer and discovered my photo. The title of the piece? “A $250,000 Election: This Year’s City Council Race Is Shaping Up As The Most Expensive…
Food Gatherers Announces $50,000 Matching Gift Challenge
A LOCAL ANONYMOUS donor has offered to match, dollar for dollar, financial gifts made to Food Gatherers up to $50,000 through Monday, March 31. With the match in place, donations to Food Gatherers of one dollar will provide enough food for…
THE FOODIST: Bluefin Tuna Have Been Fished to the Brink — Can We Save Them?
by Jill Richardson
THE INVENTION OF the refrigerator was bad news for the bluefin tuna. So was the invention of the airplane, as well as the creation of modern industrial fishing methods. All in all, technology has not been good for this…
URBAN HUNTER: “Shopping While Black” Is Still A Major Problem
by Teresa Wiltz
WHEN I WAS a little girl living in Staten Island, whenever my dad needed a new suit, we’d ferry it into Manhattan and head on over to Barneys. There, I’d spend many a happy hour playing in the racks while my dad tried on…
A2POLITICO: You Want What? “We Can’t Possibly Fix All The Roads.”
by P.D. Lesko
THE LAST TIME Julie Grand ran for City Council, she told a room full of voters at a Democratic candidate forum: “And I don’t know that we can get every road paved in the neighborhood. I don’t know that we can fix all of the…
THE FOODIST: The Five Biggest Food Trends of 2013
by Jill Richardson
ASK A BUNCH of food writers what food trends they observed in 2013, and you get a long list of sometimes surprising answers. “Octopus everything: grilled, carpaccio, salad, escabeche! It’s everywhere!” says Sandra A.…
