WE'VE GOT CRAFT breweries downtown, along with a wine bar, a tattoo parlor, a piercing shop, a waxing studio, farm-to-table restaurants, and tons of coffee shops...so why not a sushi bar? It's on the way. Thomas Flemal and his fiancee Charlene Donovan are moving their business, Benri Sushi, from Escanaba to Masonic ... Continue Reading
More Music, More Coffee, a Mea Culpa, Fewer Books, Many More Apartments, A New Tech Launch, More National Praise, and How Not to Do Business
EXPECT TO HEAR more music on Third Street later this month. A new music store, Yooptone Music, offering instruments for sale and rent, repairs and lessons, hopes to open its doors in the Village Shopping Center on November 20th. That's the space currently occupied by the Sara Cambensy headquarters. If you're saying to ... Continue Reading
Dubious Treasure Coughed Up by Lake Superior
IT WAS ONE of the most discouraging photographs to come out of last week's historic wind and wave storm on Lake Superior. Garbage. Junk, much of it plastic, that washed up on the beaches of Marquette County. Stella Larkin, one of the owners of Rustico, which makes rustic log furnishings here in Marquette, was ... Continue Reading