Monthly Archives: December 2007

Michigan Ski Tour: Northwest Lower Michigan

We’re be featuring each region of Michigan every day this week with our Michigan Ski Tour. Today it’s Northwest Lower Michigan which is home to some of Michigan’s most well-known ski resorts. Read on for photos, information & links and if you have something to share, add a comment! Share this:

Five things you need to know for Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The Kalamazoo Gazette notes that while our state’s leaders pay lip-service to protecting our environment and many plans call for re-development that leverages our amazing natural assets, we are almost at the bottom of US states in spending to protect & enhance them. Great Lakes Town Hall turns two In December 2005, an online social [...]

Michigan Ski Tour: Upper Peninsula

We’ll be featuring each region of Michigan this week with our Michigan Ski Tour. The first is the first place the snow falls and the lifts open: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Read on for ski area and ski resort information & links! As always, if you have something to add: a story to tell, a helpful [...]

Michigan Word of the Week: Toy

Chim-Chim by jnhkrawczyk The word of the week this week is toy. If you don’t want to end up with the 2007 version of Chim-Chim (or some toy that ends up being recalled for lead), why not try and take it more local this year? A few of the cool links we found are Down [...]

Photo Friday: Lioness by rckrawczykjr

This photo is titled Lioness and it was taken by Ralph Krawczyk Jr. at the James Scott Memorial Fountain on Belle Isle in Detroit. If you follow Michigan in Pictures, you’ve seen a lot of Ralph. If you don’t click here to see what you’ve been missing! Ralph says that he’s a graphic designer, a [...]

Shop Michigan: Mackinac Bridge 50th Anniversary puzzle by Barn House Puzzle

Celebrate the Mackinac Bridge’s 50th birthday with this Mackinac Bridge 50th Anniversary (1957 – 2007) puzzle from Barn House Puzzle. The 15 x 21″ puzzle features a photo by John Russell and is 513 pieces. Barn House Puzzle features distinctive jigsaw puzzles that stimulate learning and make great gifts. If they’ve run out of these [...]

Tiger Triple Play: Cabrera/Willis trade, DIBS on Tigers & TigerFest 2008

Once in a life time by picturepal The Stove Heats Up Earlier this week the Tigers assembled an eight player trade with the Florida Marlins for All Star slugger Miguel Cabrera (.320, 34 HR, 119 RBI for the Marlins) and lefty Dontrelle Willis (2 time All Star who is one year off a 22 win, [...]

Teddy Knape Film Festival

Forging Path by J.E.T. The Michigan Ski & Snowboard Blog tipped us to the 2nd Annual Teddy Knape Film Festival will be held Saturday, December 29, 2007 at Crystal Mountain Resort. The event honors the memory of Grand Rapids filmmaker Teddy Knape who shot many of his first films at Crystal Mountain. In addition to [...]

Blogs We Dig: Michigan Ski & Snowboard Blog

The Michigan Ski & Snowboard Blog is taglined The Latest Word From The Slopes, and they deliver that and then some. It features articles and updates from resorts all over the state about everything from free skiing days to ski film festivals to ski reports to webcams and photos. One of the coolest things is [...]

Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Welcome to the “Big Tuesday” edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan (sequel to our critically acclaimed Big Wednesday edition). For us, some big news was the fact that the Nick of Time Gang in Lansing managed to replace the service tax with something a lot fairer and more sensible. AP writer [...]