Category Archives: Destinations

Five Things You Need to Know Heatwave Edition: Beat the Heat in Michigan

Before we suggest a few ways to beat the heat, we’ll set the mood with Motown’s own Martha Reeves & the Vandellas who started at the Motown office in Detroit as William Stevenson’s secretary and was also charged with supervising Stevie Wonder during office hours and singing occasional backing vocals. Berry Gordy was impressed with her [...]

July Michigan Event Calendar

Expanse by g. s. george You don’t have to travel far when you live in Michigan to find a whole lot of fun. We encourage you to support the festivals, events, cities and businesses that are making all the cool things happen around the state. So get out this summer and have some fun and [...]

Michigan: Great Lakes Surfing Capital

Surfing Michigan by farlane We’ve pulled together a great collection of Great Lakes & Michigan surfing videos with a few links: The photo was taken on Lake Michigan at Leland. You can see more surfing photos on Michigan in Pictures and also on Northern Michigan Surf on Facebook and in the Surfing slideshow from the [...]

Festival Summer EXPLODES on the 4th of July!

We had some great entries from individuals and organizations, but our panel selected Eric Campbell of Traverse City who wrote: As a winner of the Festival Summer, I would chronicle the events on both my personal and company Facebook pages and blog. As the owner of a design firm (Tandem) and one-time music publication creator, [...]

Muskegon Summer Celebration ~ June 30 – July 9

Neal is our winner of a pair of passes to every night of the Summer Celebration. He says that while he has several favorite festivals, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival takes the cake. The annual Muskegon Summer Celebration takes place June 30 through July 9. It’s an all star music extravaganza with headliners including West Michigan’s [...]

Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival on June 18th

Awesome report from the Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival by our friends at Michigan By the Bottle! The Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival takes place on Saturday, June 18th from 1-10 PM at Weko Beach on Lake Michigan in Bridgman. It’s a showcase event that allows you to sample locally grown and produced varietals and [...]

June Michigan Event Calendar

Summer is just around the corner so take a look at our list of featured events and mark your calendars for some June fun! As usual we by no means have listed all the events happening around Michigan. Add ones we missed (with links) in the comments below! Points of Light by StacyN Quotes “Summer [...]

Leland Wine & Food Festival ~ Saturday, June 11

Leland Wine Festival by farlane The Leland Wine & Food Festival is Michigan’s oldest wine festival held on the second Saturday in June (June 11, 2011) from noon-6 PM. 2011 is the 26th annual of this fundraiser for the Leland Chamber of Commerce and there’s few things better than a day in the Leland Harbor [...]

Michigan Uncorked: June Wine Festivals Rock Michigan’s West Coast

Michigan Uncorked 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 Summer is kicked off spectacularly on June 11 and June 18 with two rockin’ wine and food festivals perfectly [...]

Jeremy Stein talks Electric Forest Festival

The Electric Forest Festival is sponsoring Absolute Michigan’s Arts & Entertainment section for the summer, and we’ve got a series of interviews to help you learn more about the festival and musicians who’ll be there: Mike Devol of Greensky Bluegrass Erin Zindle of The Ragbirds Grand Rapids DJ SuperDre …and Electric Forest founder Jeremy Stein [...]