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From the Vine: Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail

April 15, 2008 – 11:52 am

As part of our celebration of Michigan Wine Month, Absolute Michigan will be featuring excerpts on each of Michigan's five wine trails (and one taking you beyond the trails) from the Michigan Notable Book award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries by Sharon Kegerreis and Lorri Hathaway.
Leelanau Peninsula AVA
Known for its lake vistas and pure [...]

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April is 'Michigan Wine Month'

April 3, 2008 – 12:07 pm

Wine takes center stage this month with Governor Granholm proclaiming April 'Michigan Wine Month'. Having received numerous awards and adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the state's coffers each year, Michigan produced wines have become an important addition to the economy and connoisseurs alike.
The 2008 edition of Michigan Wine Country is now available. The [...]

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Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival

February 15, 2008 – 7:29 pm

The 3rd Annual Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival is scheduled for next Saturday, February 23, 2008. This year the event moves from Lansing's Old Town to Fifth Third Ballpark in Grand Rapids. It's a mostly outdoor celebration of Michigan Beer featuring 25 of Michigan's finest breweries and over 150 varieties of Michigan-brewed craft beer. [...]

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February is Dining Month on Absolute Michigan

February 1, 2008 – 9:16 am

Crab Rangoon by Shawn Botruff
(chef who made this at the Bluebird)
For the month of February, we'll be focusing on dining in Michigan. Starting Monday, we'll be offering daily profiles of restaurants. We'll begin with diners and dives, check out some casual and family restaurants, dress up for fine dining and sample some of the great [...]

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Michigan February Event Calendar

January 28, 2008 – 9:03 am

Our Michigan February Event Calendar seems to demonstrate that the more the weather tries to keepDownload free cingular ringtone, cingular wireless, download free cingular music ringtone! About Me Name: cingular sprint ringtones View my complete profile. us bottled up, the more innovative ways [...]

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Michigan Restaurant profiles

January 10, 2008 – 7:29 am

Frank's Restaurant by meanmustard1982
In February we'll be focusing on Michigan dining and cooking all month.
Every day, we'll profile a Michigan restaurant and we're hoping that you'll recommend some of your favorites in the comments below or by email.
From diner to four star restaurant and Detroit to Menominee, we want to offer up a palate-pleasing buffet [...]

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Michigan Books: From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries by Sharon Kegerreis and Lorri Hathaway

January 10, 2008 – 7:09 am

Today's Notable Michigan book is From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries by Sharon Kegerreis and Lorri Hathaway published by the Ann Arbor Media Group. The 192 page, coffee table book does a great job of taking both those new to Michigan wines and those who know a lot about them closer to the wineries and [...]

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Taste the Passion - a celebration of Wine, Chocolate & Love

January 9, 2008 – 10:16 am

The Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association invites you to celebrate Valentine's Day (and wine and chocolate) at their annual "Taste the Passion" wine tour held February 9-10.
The weekend features special pours and tasty chocolate treats and many of the wineries along the wine trail are hosting special events including snowshoeing, cross country skiing, evening parties, a [...]

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Michigan New Years Eve Happenings

December 17, 2007 – 9:31 am

We have assembled a list of some of the best New Year's Eve events from across the state. Did we get them all? Not likely!! Be sure to add the ones we missed to the comments and safely enjoy ringing in 2008!

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

November 14, 2007 – 11:20 am

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 [...]