Category Archives: Chambers of Commerce

Live from the 2009 Boyne City Morel Festival

Editor’s Note: We originally planned for this to be a post-event feature, but Cherie was having so much fun that she wanted to give folks a chance to check out the rest of the festival today! morel spring 2008 by baldo1man When an avid morel mushroom hunter stands before 250 people recounting a time when [...]

Grand Rapids ArtPrize: the city is the gallery

Thanks Matt for passing this one along… inducement by powerbooktrance Yesterday the city of Grand Rapids announced the ArtPrize, a competition open to artists of all kinds from around the world that will award nearly one-half million dollars to prize winners, including $250,000 to the artist who receives the most public votes. The display and [...]

Michigan morels and the Boyne City Mushroom Festival

morel mushroom by Latitude 45 The Boyne City National Morel Mushroom Festival takes place May 14-17, 2009. This year is the 49th annual*, and the 4 day celebration of the morel mushroom includes a morel seminar and guided mushroom hunt on Friday and of course the Boyne Valley Lions National Mushroom Hunt on on Saturday [...]

Call for Artists: Honoring Michigan’s Downtowns

Main Street Businesses by Eridony On September 15-16, 2009 Lansing will host the 2009 Michigan Downtown Conference. The annual conference brings hundreds of civic and business leaders from across the State and features an award ceremony to recognize excellence in our Michigan downtowns. The conference organizers are seeking an exceptional, hand-crafted, Michigan-made award to reflect [...]

Are we doing tourism right in Michigan?

Carefree Days in West Michigan by loungelistener The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that Michigan’s tourism industry is expected to drop by 3-4 percent this year (this on top of last year’s 6.2% drop) due to the economic downturn in Michigan and the rest of the country. “This year will be an even more challenging year [...]

Motown Winter Blast aka the Detroit Winter Blast

Ice Rink by Allan M The event started in 2005 as a tuneup to Super Bowl XL and was called the Motown Winter Blast. It’s now called Detroit’s Winter Blast and it happens February 6-8, 2009. In what has become typical Michigan media fashion, the Detroit News fills the glass half full, dwelling on what [...]

Counting Tuesday: Two states, three cities and a final four

One of Those Moments by MAGICDUDE PHOTOGRAPHY The New York Times reports that 30 states are looking at running out of funds to pay unemployment compensation in the next few months. Two states have already run out. One is Indiana. One guess as to the other: Michigan, which has been borrowing money from the federal [...]

Dig Michigan: Flint and the Tri-cities of Bay City, Saginaw & Midland

Flint/Tri-Cities is the third of Michigan’s regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away and an idea of what is going on in the region, so if [...]

Dig Michigan: Traverse City

Traverse City is the largest city in Northwest Lower Michigan, and the first of Michigan’s regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away, so if you have [...]

Dig Michigan in August

Untitled by diana.vermeulen There’s probably no month that is better for exploring the Great Lakes State than August, and all month we’ll be highlighting some great things to do in every corner of Michigan. Because gas prices and a soft economy are getting in the way of some folks’ enjoyment, we’ll be sure to include [...]