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A lot of our favorite places in Ann Arbor were hurting with the pandemic and no football traffic, so we partnered this fall with Underground Printing to do a t-shirt a week for the places we love. All proceeds went to the restaurant/bar/whatever. The plan was to take all the orders we could in a week, mass-produce them, send the institutions a big fat check, and let that be it.

So change of plans. Since it's the holiday season, and you probably know somebody who likes Ann Arbor, we're putting ALL OF THEM BACK UP in our store, and adding a code for free shipping—A2FREESHIP—if you get three of them or more.

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Even with football back on a lot of our favorite places in Ann Arbor are hurting. Hoping to soften the blow a bit, we're partnering this fall with Underground Printing to do a t-shirt a week for the places we love. All proceeds go to the restaurant/bar/whatever.

Previously: Good Time Charley's, the Brown Jug, the Blind Pig the State and Michigan Theaters, Mr. Spots, Literati, Dominick's, and Ashley's.

This week: The Pretzel Bell

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I want to use this space to talk a little history.

The reason Division Street is called such is because it's the line that divides the campus of the University of Michigan from the town. But much of the city's history it was the line between Dry and Wet Ann Arbor. A "student riot" at Hangsterfer's Hall, the favorite watering hole of the town's first century, caused city officials to ban alcohol east of the street, first with a handshake agreement in 1856, and 48 years later with a law. In 1918 (in large part thanks to their rival party's mishandling of a deadly pandemic), Republicans swept into office and enacted a statewide Prohibition. The Michigan law was soon superseded by the national one.

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The Sponsors

Thank you to Underground Printing for making this all possible. Rishi and Ryan have been our biggest supporters from the beginning. They're also behind our Ann Arbor Institutions t-shirt program, which was Ashley's this week.

And let's not leave out our associate sponsors: HomeSure Lending, Ann Arbor Elder Law, the Residence Inn Ann Arbor Downtown, Michigan Law Grad, Human Element, The Phil Klein Insurance Group, and Information Entropy.

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Ashley's today.

Let's hold court.

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fullbacks are discussed. hog maps are linked. a penguin is explained. departures are unofficial. cornerbacks are good at cornerbackery. a seal is befriended, but not by the penguin.