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A-Squared

A travel journal to Ann Arbor by goingy

Quote: College kids in Ann Arbor think it's the center of the universe. Spend a few days there, and you'll see how it's surprisingly easy to have that delusion. It's a small mecca of culture and ideas, packing quite a lot into just a few square miles.
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A-Squared Best of IgoUgo

Overview

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#1. The Wave Field on the North Campus of the University of Michigan. Designed by Maya Lin, of Vietnam Memorial fame, it crosses a field of grass with sand dunes and is a good place to act like you're 4 again. #2. The cemetery. Nice old graves, and no-one seems to object to joggers. #3. The green market, weekends in cobblestoned Kerrytown. #4. Hill Auditorium. It'll be closing for renovations, but really amazing acoustics. Not to mention great performers, who often stop there before or after their New York City gigs. Quick Tips: If college kids make you cringe, avoid A2 September though May. Or visit during a home football game -- for 4 hours, the streets are empty. ...Read More

The Earle Best of IgoUgo

Restaurant

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A treat for a special occasion. It's in the basement, you feel like you're eating in the wine cellar. Candles, jazz, romantic, that type of thing. French/Italian fare. A bit pricy, but nice for memories.

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on February 19, 2002

The Earle
121 W. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 994-0211

Jerusalem Garden Best of IgoUgo

Restaurant

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Middle Eastern food when you need some good, cheap and fast. No frills falafel. The ambiance is as small as the check but I'll take it.

Member Rating 3 out of 5 on February 19, 2002

Jerusalem Garden
307 S 5th Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 995-5060

Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Best of IgoUgo

Attraction | "More museums than you have time for"

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The U-M Museum of Art is not the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but it's a fantastic little museum with pieces you naturally can't see anywhere else. It has displays from Japan, Africa -- but also an interesting modern collection and sometimes offbeat special exhibits. Check out the painting by Whistler called "Sea and Rain". Have you ever seen anything more lovely? The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology is just steps from the art museum, and it's very small -- so if you're short on time, just stick your head in. The museum is housed in a pretty, old stone dormitory. It has beautiful wood floors and, upstairs, a beautiful stained glass window. It is, in short, a very nice place to quietly contemplate ancien...Read More

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on February 19, 2002

Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
220 East Ann Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 995-5439

Peoplewatching Best of IgoUgo

Attraction

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Some of the more interesting spots:

Fleetwood Diner at 300 S. Ashley. It's famous for being always open and for its hippie hash - which is hashbrowns with a twist. (Hash Bash, a marijuana celebration, is an annual Ann Arbor event.) In the middle of the night, Fleetwood attracts some of Ann Arbor's more interesting characters.

The Ann Arbor bus depot, the Greyhound station, is a time warp seemingly unforgotten by the last 50 years.

The Diag in the center of campus attracts preachers, protestors and loafers.

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on March 22, 2002

Peoplewatching
Throughout town
Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Arb Best of IgoUgo

Attraction

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Nichols Arboretum is 123 acres of urban park. It's Ann Arbor's Central Park equivalent, but on the banks of the Huron River. It's good for frisbee, hackeysack, reading, jogging, cross country skiing, even dance concerts (I've seen them). It's an inviting place to spread a blanket and stay for 4 or 5 hours at a time - if you've got the time. There's also a path that leads from the Arb to the city's Gallup Park, where you can canoe or amble through wildflowers across a system of boardwalks/bridges that, in season, look suspiciously like something from a Monet painting.

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on March 21, 2002

The Arb
1610 Washinton Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 998-9540

Music / Concerts Best of IgoUgo

Attraction | "Music/Concerts"

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Music lovers unite here! Ann Arbor is a magnet for musicians, and more are bred in dorm rooms, coffee houses and the school's renowned school of music. On any given night, you may have to choose between the Chicago Orchestra, a gamelan ensemble and some guy's friend's well-reviewed band. If you're looking for live performances, they're not hard to find: The University Musical Society brings top acts to Hill Auditorium, Rackham Auditorium and the Power Center. School of Music students and professors play often - and for free - in these venues, or at the school itself on north campus. The same goes for shows of musical theatre, straight theatre, and dance. There are other performance sp...Read More

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on March 21, 2002

Music / Concerts

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Kerrytown Best of IgoUgo

Attraction

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Kerrytown is a small collection of shops and restaurants, some in houses some in an inoffensive mallish structure, on cobblestoned streets. The very good Indian restaurant has become a very good Ethiopian restaurant, and a hip-looking bar. Kerrytown has a nice space for small concerts, the Kerrytown Concert House, and, best of all, it has a weekend greenmarket where farmers gather from all around.

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on March 21, 2002

Kerrytown
303 Detroit Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 662-5008

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