Category Archives: Community & Nonprofit Organizations

Michigan January Event Calendar

Here's a few highlights of the many events being held around Michigan for the month of January. A lot of them are out in the snow for snowmobiles, skates, skis and sled dogs, but there's also a chance to heat up with the Ann Arbor Folk Fest, Ferndale Blues and the Detroit Auto Show. The [...]

Introducing the Michigan Potluck Project

Hello.
You can read all about the Michigan Potluck Project and see a video at the Michigan Potluck Project page.
Please post the date, time, location and a contact for potlucks you are coordinating in the comments below.
We are working on a community calendar for the Michigan Potluck Project and it would be great if you [...]

Michigan December Event Calendar

Below is a list of just a few Michigan festivals & events for the month of December. As usual, there's no way to get them all, so please add links and information for those we missed and reviews of ones we have here in the comments below!

home for the holidays by Where's Walden
November 20 - [...]

Michigan Word of the Week: Turkey

turkeys by The Amazing Mr. Keebler
The fall turkey hunting season ended yesterday (November 18th). The spring season is from April 23 to March 31 (so that means you'll have to continue the hunt for your holiday feast below). The Michigan DNR's wild turkey page has more info about Michigan's turkeys and there's more from Michigan [...]

Five things you need to know for Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Downtown, down the hatch, downriver, downstream - I'm sensing some kind of a theme here...

Quicken Chooses Detroit Yesterday's Detroit News reported that Quicken Loans has chosen to move its headquarters to Detroit:
The move, pending yearlong studies of the former Hudson's site on Woodward and vacant Statler Hotel site, would consolidate at least 4,000 employees in [...]

Manoomin Project restores wild rice to UP … and that's just the beginning

Last year we ran a story on the Manoomin Project, a program in which at-risk teens restore wild rice to Michigan's Upper Peninsula with help from American Indian tribes. Click through to read a feature by Greg Peterson about this ground-breaking Michigan initiative that's now in its 4th year. You can also scroll to the [...]

The Ultimate Sacrifice: Remembering Michigan's Veterans

The Ultimate Sacrifice - Black and White, photo by DarrinW.
Copied from Michigan in Pictures.
Darrin took this photo at Veterans Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I think it's a good idea for everyone to take a pause in their activity this weekend to consider the profound sacrifices that so many have made on the behalf [...]

Five Things You Need to Know for Tuesday, November 6 2007

It's an off-year Election Day edition of Five Things You Need to Know about Michigan. Despite the lack of big name offices to decide, there's a lot of the nuts and bolts decisions to make about schools and local government. The Secretary of State reminds you to bring your photo ID to the polls for [...]

Petoskey's C.S. Lewis Festival

Aslan by Michael Morris
The annual C. S. Lewis Festival is a month-long exploration of the life and works of C.S. Lewis held in Petoskey, MI. While Lewis is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, he was also a leading theological scholar whose works included Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters.
In an [...]

Five (spooky) Things you need to know about Michigan

Welcome to a special Halloween prequel edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. You can find more spooky stuff at our Haunted Michigan page and also at the Michigan Word of the Week: Halloween!  Know a ghostly tale or link that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!
Weird Michigan and [...]