Category Archives: Festivals, Attractions & Event Calendars

Toast the Season Wine Trail Tour

October 15, 2009 – 2:06 pm

The annual Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association Toast the Season wine trail tour is held on 2 separate weekends in November. A few tickets remain for both the November 7 & 8 weekend and the November 14 & 15 weekend - get them while they last!
The annual Toast the Season wine trail tour is a great [...]

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Giant Pumpkins (and a big old Michigan pumpkin slideshow)

October 12, 2009 – 8:34 am

the biggest pumpkin in Michigan by farlane
Halloween season of course means pumpkins, and if possible, the bigger the better!
The largest pumpkins are Cucurbita maxima. They were cultivated from the hubbard squash genotype, crossed with kabocha-pumpkin types by enthusiast farmers through intermittent effort since the early 1800s.
Weigh-off competitions for giant pumpkins are a popular fall festival [...]

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Winners of the 2009 Grand Rapids ArtPrize

October 10, 2009 – 10:05 am

ArtPrize 09-Open Water no.24 by deviant_anomaly

ART PRIZE 2009-0032 by RichardD72

AND THE WINNER IS... by rkramer62

DETAIL FROM WINNERS CANVAS by bitsorf

The first-ever ArtPrize in Grand Rapids has ended with Open Water no. 24, a 6' x 19' oil painting by Ran Ortner being chosen as the winner by public vote from 1,262 artists who exhibited at [...]

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Michigan Goes Nationwide with Art & Wine

October 8, 2009 – 1:47 pm

ART PRIZE 2009 by RichardD72
Michigan has taken the national stage with one eye on the ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids and the other on it's burgeoning and award winning wine industry which gaining credibility amongst wine experts and wine lovers. This is truly a positive and a definite 180 degree flip from most of the [...]

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Inaugural Detroit Beer Week Announced, Oct 16 – 24, 2009

October 8, 2009 – 10:35 am

Following the success of “Beer Week” events held in other cities such as Philadelphia, New York and San Diego, a group of Industry Professionals is organizing the first ever Detroit Beer Week, to be held the third week of October, 2009.
The week-long series of beer-centric events will be held at participating venues in Detroit, with [...]

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Michigan apples, not only delicious but prized

October 7, 2009 – 2:32 pm

Local Apples by nasunto
Fall is here and that means it is once again time to enjoy Michigan's largest and most valuable crop - the apple. With temperatures unseasonably flirting with the freezing point, the race is on to harvest the prized fruit. Adding to this challenge is the fact that Michigan is enjoying it's largest [...]

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Oktoberfest, Lansing – October 9 & 10, 2009

October 7, 2009 – 9:57 am

When the summer air begins to cool and the leaves begin to fall, it can only mean one thing – Oktoberfest is on its way! On Friday & Saturday, October 9 & 10, the heart of Old Town, Lansing will be filled with the sights, scents, sounds and suds of Old World Germany!
Oktoberfest is [...]

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Michitwitter October 2009

October 5, 2009 – 12:51 pm

Read a good article or blog post about Michigan? See a cool picture or video? Listen to a great podcast? Attend a fun event or find a new web site?
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Ticket Giveaway: Legally Blonde The Musical at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit

October 5, 2009 – 12:12 pm

Absolute Michigan in conjunction with Broadway in Detroit will be giving away 5 pair of tickets to 'Legally Blonde The Musical' which is playing at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit (directions) from October 15 through November 1, 2009. The lucky winners will receive tickets to opening night.
The ticket giveaway is now over with and [...]

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Snapshots from the Grand Rapids ArtPrize

October 1, 2009 – 8:12 am

Here's a video produced by Absolute Michigan featuring audio from Brad Aspey of Interlochen Public Radio along with photographs from the Absolute Michigan pool and the Creative Commons. The music is Octopussy by Juanitos. There's so much more to see - definitely go to Grand Rapids if at all possible to check out ArtPrize [...]

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