1. Life at Prettyman’s

    Horace and Jennie Prettyman’s sprawling manse on North University was Ann Arbor’s best-known boarding house, serving more than a million meals to students from 1875 to 1914 — including Fielding Yost’s varsity football players, who ate there nightly.

  2. Episode 56: Cinema Ann Arbor, featuring Frank Uhle, BFA ’83/MILS ’92

    Historian/author Frank Uhle pulls back the curtain on Ann Arbor’s love affair with film in his gorgeous coffee table book  ‘Cinema Ann Arbor.’ Go back a hundred years and revisit the emergence of A2’s wildly creative cinema guilds, film festivals, and events with Frank Capra, Robert Altman, Andy Warhol, and more. 

  3. Up in smoke, or should we say ‘vape?’

    A devastating fire in Ann Arbor destroyed a restaurant that once was home to the iconic Canterbury House. 

  4. It was a wonderful life

    After a dazzling turn with Jimmy Stewart in what would become an iconic holiday classic, Virginia Patton stepped out of the Hollywood spotlight. She traded the film industry for an illustrious life in Ann Arbor.

  5. Episode 51: Art Fair: A jewel in Ann Arbor’s crown, featuring Angela Kline

    Blazing temps, a torrential storm, and thousands of passionate art aficionados reunited in Ann Arbor in July for Art Fair 2022. Love it or leave it, this annual event is one of the town’s longest-running and most-cherished traditions.

  6. The first Teach-In

    In 1965, U-M professors took the lead in stirring national opposition to the war in Vietnam. Their example inspired a new form of campus protest nationwide.

  7. SAPAC volunteer’s project gathers thoughts on sexual violence

    Providing sticky notes and pens, U-M senior Sara Fess asked customers at M36 Coffee Roasters in Ann Arbor to imagine a world without sexual violence, followed by the prompt: What would be different? “Everything,” wrote one person.

  8. Game of chants

    You know Ann Arbor is embracing its pre-pandemic self when you hear the Hare Krishnas chanting at Art Fair.

  9. Episode 45: Wisdom and whimsy, featuring David Zinn

    When local treasure David Zinn spots his imaginary friends – Sluggo, Nadine, and Philomena the Flying Pig – he draws them into life amid the cracks and flaws on our local sidewalks. But this man is no mere ‘Artist.’ He is Mr. Rogers, the Wizard of Oz, and a Buddha with a box of chalk. Listen in, as Zinn inspires us to look beyond what the eye can see.