http://arborweb.com/ Ann Arbor online: news and reference community resource, with the area's best events calendar, Ann Arbor Observer City Guide, comprehensive information on housing, restaurants, government, education, and more, and free classified ads. en-us 2012 Ann Arbor Observer. All Rights Reserved. http://arborweb.com/articles/evil_robot_wins_election_.html "It's not every day you have an opportunity to hack a government computer without going to jail," says U-M prof Alex Halderman. And it's not every day an academic paper makes news around the world. But the caper reported by Halderman and three U-M collaborators in February was irresistible: they'd e... James Leonard Community http://arborweb.com/articles/new_faces_at_arborland.html Arborland hasn't yet found anyone to fill Borders' shoes, but down at the east end of Arborland the last year has been a busy one. Arborland's mini-mall with the Starbucks on one end now has America's Best opticians as the other bookend. It used to be in the middle. Manager Baise David says Five Guy... Sally Mitani Marketplace http://arborweb.com/articles/jos__a__bank.html Nearby, next to Arhaus, Jos. A. Bank opened last August. It's just now entering its high season, when graduating seniors begin hitting menswear departments everywhere to buy suits for job interviews, and manager Ashley Wexler is looking forward to helping them. "I started out dressing my brother, an... Sally Mitani Marketplace http://arborweb.com/articles/arcade_tv.html "I haven't had to make one call to the police since [the cameras] were installed," says Hank Schoch. Schoch, of Van Boven clothing on State St. has worked in the campus business district for nearly forty years. Last November, he sent a sorrowful letter to the city. "[B]ecause of the reduced number o... Jan Schlain News http://arborweb.com/articles/blue_house_goes_mobile.html Blue House, the craft studio and consignment gallery across the street from Michigan Stadium, still exists in a virtual kind of way, but the blue house for which it was named has been sold and will become rental property. Siobhan Lyle opened Blue House in 2010. The house, property of her husband's f... Sally Mitani Marketplace http://arborweb.com/articles/gary_conrad.html Exploiting hypnotism for its comic potential is at least as old as vaudeville, and when vaudeville died, it had a good second run as a sitcom subplot in the 50s and 60s. In vaudeville and sitcoms, the audience laughed at victims made to bark like dogs, cluck like chickens, and what not; the hypnotis... Sally Mitani Culture http://arborweb.com/articles/you_are_what_you_read.html Since John Weise and Stephanie Bentley started selling books, CDs, and DVDs on consignment almost seven years ago, they've processed more than 400,000 items, about 85 percent of them books. "One thing that's always fascinated me is that most books that come through here we've never seen before," say... Jeff Mortimer Community http://arborweb.com/articles/chs_on_huffpo.html Like almost everybody else under age twenty, Eva Hattie Schueler has read the Hunger Games trilogy. "I read them all in the last three or four months," says the Community High School junior, "once all the way through, and then I went back and read the first two three times." Schueler was eager to se... James Leonard Community http://arborweb.com/articles/abandoned_bike_blues.html "I bike every day if it's a nice day," says Marilee Sturtevant, manager of the Red Hawk Bar & Grill on State St. "I need a place to park my bike, and the nice thing about the Maynard St. parking structure and the bike rack across the street is that they're covered so your bike doesn't get wet." ... James Leonard Community http://arborweb.com/articles/ann_arbor_cantata_singers_2012.html While it was well attended-seventy-some folks gathered in St. Paul's Lutheran Church on Liberty on a sunny February ­afternoon-the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers' concert called Serenades and Nocturnes still seemed very intimate. Partly it was the program: all love songs, nine for chorus, six for soloist... James Leonard Culture