Category Archives: Festivals, Attractions & Event Calendars

Celebrate Valentine’s Day the Michigan Way

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

February is National Cherry Month!

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 [...]

February Michigan Event Calendar

Iron Works #2 – Cranbrook by MikeRyu Our Michigan February Event Calendar shows that the more the weather tries to keep us holed up, the more ways we find to get out and have fun!! Of course, there’s still many, many more and we invite you to fill us in on other February events in [...]

Discover Michigan Wines at Regional Wine and Food Tasting Events

Delicious Michigan is a regular column by Lorri Hathaway and Sharon Kegerreis, authors of the award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries and The History of Michigan Wines. Learn more and get autographed books at deliciousmichigan.com and read some of their past articles on Absolute Michigan at Michigan Uncorked! Michigan’s wine industry is booming, and the [...]

The Legend of Heikki Lunta

Now I’ll sing my song
, to make the snow come down And I’ll do my snow dance
. Whoops! I almost lost my pants I’ll holler and yell,
 And really give it —- It’s Heikki’s snow dance song, 
Heikki’s snow dance song ~from the original Heikki Lunta Snowdance Song This weekend (January 20-21), the annual Heikki [...]

2012 North American International Auto Show

The 2012 North American International Auto Show aka the Detroit Auto Show runs January 14-22, 2012 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. 2013 Dodge Dart by ChriKett Photography The first Detroit Area Dealer Association (DADA)-managed Detroit Auto Show was held in December 1907 at Riverview Park. In 1987, the show was re-focused as an [...]

January Michigan Event Calendar

Frankfort, Michigan Lighthouse and Beach by forestlady Here’s a few highlights of the many events being held around Michigan for the month of January (be sure to click Read More to see them!). A lot of them are out in the snow for snowmobiles, skates, skis and sled dogs, but there’s also a chance to [...]

Michigan New Years Eve Happenings

We have assembled a list of some of the best New Year’s Eve events from across the state including a number from Detroit & Grand Rapids / Kalamazoo’s massive New Year’s Fest’s featuring fireworks, music and more! Did we get them all? Not likely!! Be sure to add the ones we missed to the comments [...]