Brooke Black

Canterbury

South Canterbury Editor at Stuff.co.nz

Newshound. South Island roamer. Opinions are all my own

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Articles

YMX Closes Its Doors, but Diggers Remains

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

Your Media Exchange announced its closure, effective May 25, due to flagging sales. It bought, sold, and traded movies, music, books, and video games for nearly three years at 319 S. Main. Toledoan Broc Curry retains another YMX there, and his Diggers used media store, where all items are $1.50, will continue in Kerrytown Market…Subscribe Now This content is for subscribers only. Already a member? Log in here
JD Sports - Ann Arbor Observer

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

Upbeat music was pumping inside Briarwood Mall’s JD Sports store as employees busily stocked shoes and clothes in preparation for a late May opening. Romulus-based district manager Greg Gambrell agreed to step out for a quick chat in a quieter space, the mall’s main corridor across from the Apple store. Subscribe Now This content is for subscribers only. Already a member? Log in here
Inty Muenala Returns to Briarwood

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

NTVES, featuring handcrafted indigenous clothing, accessories, and gifts, is back at Briarwood, along with gallery space for the artwork of founder Inty Muenala and others. Subscribe Now This content is for subscribers only. Already a member? Log in here
Five Guys Arrives at Jackson and Zeeb

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

Just a decade ago, the land surrounding the Meijer store at Jackson and Zeeb was mostly parking and potential. Those out-lots now host everything from an urgent-care center to a tobacco shop, along with quick-service food and drink options galore. Subscribe Now This content is for subscribers only. Already a member? Log in here
Skechers Steps In

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

Skechers has found its first foothold in Washtenaw County: the shoe chain opened May 10 in the Arborland storefront that has seen only temporary Halloween City tenancy since Arhaus moved up Washtenaw Ave. to Arbor Hills Crossing in 2013. Subscribe Now This content is for subscribers only. Already a member? Log in here
Wage War - Ann Arbor Observer

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

The wage war began in 2018, when One Fair Wage, a national coalition of activists, workers and organizations fighting for a higher minimum wage for tipped employees, gathered 370,690 signatures to put the decision up to voters. If the measure had passed, the wage paid to tipped workers, then set at $3.84, would gradually be increased to match the statewide hourly minimum wage—which the same proposal would increase to $12 by 2022 and thereafter index to inflation.
Small Town / Big City

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

Supporters argue that the city needs that “densification” to allow more people who work in the city to live here, to bolster the property tax base eroded by the U-M’s expansion, and repair economic and racial inequities caused by past “exclusionary zoning.” Opponents question whether growth on that scale is necessary or even likely. But if it does come to pass, they predict, it will be at the expense of the city’s neighborhoods, as apartments and condos crowd out single-family homes.
The Ann Arbor Travelers

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

For a ten-year-old batboy in the 1950s, they were just a step away from the big leagues. One sunny day in June of 1957, Kenny Scodeller pounded on my front door. When I answered, he commanded, “Get your baseball glove, you’re going to work!” Subscribe Now This content is for subscribers only. Already a member? Log in here
Coratti's Opens at Last

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

It took over a year longer than expected, but the transformation of the venerable Original Cottage Inn into another family-owned Italian restaurant is nearing its big reveal on E. William. Coratti’s Pizzeria Bar and Bocce will open in early June in a vintage building in which most everything has been updated. Subscribe Now This content is for subscribers only. Already a member? Log in here
Voices from Prison

2 weeks ago | annarborobserver.com | Brooke Black

The connection she’s seeing is between incarcerated people and their children. As a volunteer and board member at large with a nonprofit called Staying in Closer Touch, she records women in the Huron Valley Correctional Facility reading children’s books aloud. Those waiting their turn use markers and crayons to create cards for their child or grandchild. Pilutti says it’s “very powerful to witness.” This content is for subscribers only.