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Shakespeare in the Arb Returns This Week, Performing Every Weekend In June

Shakespeare in the Arb Returns This Week, Performing Every Weekend In June

Monday, June 3: Welcome to June, Ann Arbor! Here’s what’s happening this week:

Thursday: Sonic Lunch (more on this later)
Saturday: Ann Arbor Garden Walk
Sunday: Ann Arbor Airport Pancake Breakfast
All Weekend: Ann Arbor Greek Festival
Also This Weekend: Shakespeare in the Arb (more on this later)

Should be a good week in Tree Town!

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ANN ARBORITES SHOULD KNOW

Shakespeare in the Arb

🎭 Shakespeare in the Arb: Starting this week and continuing every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in June, Shakespeare in the Arb returns this year to present As You Like It. The 3-hour outdoor performances start at 6:30 pm in Nichols Arboretum. All tickets are general admission lawn seating and bringing a chair or blanket to sit on is recommended.

🚽 High-Tech Toilets: In an effort to add more downtown bathrooms, the city of Ann Arbor has begun installing eight free portable public bathrooms around town. Part of a one-year $500,000 pilot project, the high-tech restrooms are touchless, ADA compliant, unlock by scanning a QR code, and use usage data to ensure frequent cleanings. If porta potties meeting modern technology is your thing, here’s an Instagram video from the manufacturer, Throne Bathrooms.

🍳 Downtown Eggs: Iggy’s Eggies, a Detroit-based restaurant known for their customizable breakfast sandwiches and smash burgers, has opened their second location at 611 E Liberty Street (the old Salad’s Up location). Founded by a U of M alum, Iggy’s started as a walk-up window restaurant in Detroit 6 years ago.

🍗 Eat Mor Chikin: After receiving approval from the city’s planning commission, the old Denny’s on Washtenaw (3310 Washtenaw Ave) will officially be torn down and replaced with a Chick-fil-A. Assuming no construction delays, the Chick-fil-A will open in the fall of 2025. The Washtenaw location will be the first Chick-fil-A in the state built without a drive-through.

ANN ARBORITES SHOULD ALSO KNOW

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🏳️ New City Flag: In September, Ann Arbor announced a city-wide competition to design a new flag. Last week, they released the finalists:

Ann Arbor’s current flag
Winnie Ip’s design
Chris Anderson’s design
Steve Oney’s design
William Burgard’s design
Dennis Scherdt’s design

The city is now asking for the community to vote on their favorite design.

🍂 Leaf Blower Ban: Starting June 1st and running through September, Ann Arbor’s summer ban on gas-powered leaf blowers goes into effect. While electric blowers can be used anytime, the ordinance city council passed in December bans gas blowers in the summer and will ban gas blowers fulltime in the city after January 1, 2028.

🎸 Sonic Lunch Concerts: This Thursday the outdoor concert series Sonic Lunch returns. Here are the details:

Band: Shaed
Style: Electro-pop, indie-rock
Popularity: 2.7 million monthly Spotify listeners
Top Song: “Trampoline (with ZAYN)” with 532,000 plays
Links to Listen: Spotify or Apple Music
Concert Details: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm on the corner of Liberty and Division in downtown Ann Arbor