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The Daily Michigan: As If We Were Prey by Michael Delp

February 7, 2012 – 7:36 pm

“In understated prose that remarkably says more in one sentence that many writers do in a paragraph, Delp takes us inside the head and hearts of his male characters, all of whom share a certain melancholy, both eerie and familiar, all in a style reminiscent of another up-north renowned author, Jim Harrison.” —Detroit News Today [...]

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day the Michigan Way

February 7, 2012 – 11:15 am

Here’s a whole ton of Valentine’s Day ideas. YOU probably have some other ideas – share them in the comments or right here or on our Facebook! Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius by Church of One Next Tuesday, February 14th is Valentine’s Day – a day for lovers, sweethearts, paramours [...]

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If you want to go to the Traverse City Winter Microbrew and Music Festival – Read This!

February 6, 2012 – 6:48 pm

Sooo… the person we selected to win 2 tickets to the Traverse City Winter Microbrew and Music Festivalhasn’t contacted us. The festival is this Saturday, February 11th – just days away. That means we have to give these away and give them away quickly to someone who wants to make the trip to Traverse City!If this [...]

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The Daily Michigan: Private Tea Cupping from Light of Day Organics

February 6, 2012 – 10:39 am

Today on The Daily Michigan we’re giving away a private tea cupping for up to 6 people, to include matcha ceremonial green tea at Light of Day Organics. Founder Angela Macke has a background in Holistic health, as an RN, educator and horticulturalist and based on her own positive experiences in utilizing gentle, natural rhythms to restore [...]

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Google Search Stories: Ypsilanti’s SolarYpsi Project

February 6, 2012 – 8:27 am

YouTube and Google have a feature called “Search Stories” about people who are using Google’s search to find new ways of doing things. One of the people they profile is Dave Strenski of Ypsilanti, who you can learn more about in the video below. Dave and some like-minded individuals created SolarYpsi in 2005 with the [...]

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The Daily Michigan: Tropical Love Valentine’s Day Box

February 3, 2012 – 4:02 pm

Our good friends at Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate in Empire are another of our featured partners for The Daily Michigan. Their chocolates are all-natural and contain many organic and other naturally grown ingredients, many grown in the garden on founder and proprieter Mimi Wheeler. This year Mimi and her staff are introducing five brand new fruits in [...]

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The Daily Michigan: Two tickets to the Winter Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival

February 2, 2012 – 1:32 pm

Today’s offering in The Daily Michigan is a pair of tickets to the 3rd Annual Winter Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival (must be 21 to win). The festival has so much to offer that probably the best thing we can do is give you the poster above to click on! Click here to sign up Shadows on [...]

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Fly High at the Pine Mountain Ski Jumping Tournament

February 2, 2012 – 9:40 am

Every year the Kiwanis Ski Club in Iron Mountain holds the Pine Mountain Continental Cup Ski Jumping Competition, one of the best tournaments in the United world. The first competition was held in 1939, making 2012 is the 73rd annual. The event takes place the weekend of February 11-12, 2012 and will draw top US & international [...]

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The Daily Michigan: 5# of Dried Cherries from Cherry Republic

February 1, 2012 – 8:46 am

Here’s the first of our new The Daily Michigan features, and one of our readers will win 5 pounds of tart cherries! All you need to do to be eligible is to let us know you want to win. We hope you’ll sign up to receive our daily email (Monday – Friday) but if that’s [...]

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February is National Cherry Month!

February 1, 2012 – 7:20 am

Michigan Cherries by jdurchen Did you know that Michigan is the largest producer of Montmorency tart cherries, growing 70-75% of the crop? February is National Cherry Month, and the Cherry Marketing Institute (link below) has bushels of info about the history and present state of the cherry industry including growing research showing that antioxidants in tart [...]

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