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2011 September Michigan Event Calendar

September 6, 2011 – 6:30 am

Mick Road Maple Monster by jimflix Say hello to September and enjoy the bountiful harvests and beautiful scenery it brings. September is a perfect time to enjoy the outdoors with it’s warm days and cool evening temperatures (not to mention the declining mosquito population). As far as things to do in the Great Lakes State [...]

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Sponsor Feature: Great Northern Beer Tour

May 27, 2011 – 10:24 am

Tour designer & leader Bob Lovik writes for Absolute Michigan and we’re featuring this in appreciation for his work and also because we think it’s a great chance to drink a little deeper of Michigan’s craft brew scene! Join us on Sunday June 26th from 12 – 5pm for  the first ever tour of its [...]

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Michigan Culinary Tourism

February 21, 2011 – 9:44 am

Mack-in-touch Apples by ( Jennifer ) A month ago, Absolute Michigan participated in the the Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations conference (read our live blog) where the Michigan Culinary Tourism initiative was launched. For the video below, we spoke with Melody Johnson of the International Culinary Tourism Association, keynote speaker Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman’s, Linda Jones [...]

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Take a ride with The Night Move

February 3, 2011 – 1:51 pm

A couple of years ago I met Chris Ramos who started The Night Move in metro Detroit. Tom Hendrickson of metromode put together this great piece on Chris’s carbon-neutral transit company that runs to private shuttles for corporate conferences, tours, major concerts & events and a 6 PM to 3 AM loop every Friday & [...]

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Live at the Michigan Culinary Tourism Conference

January 10, 2011 – 8:26 am

Click here for a video from the conference! All day today the Absolute Michigan team is at Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations, Michigan’s first conference on Culinary Tourism. The conference was a hot ticket, and nearly 200 tourism industry stakeholders are getting ready to learn about Michigan’s new initiative to increase tourism. You can learn all [...]

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Tweet & Taste Michigan: Wines from Old Mission Peninsula

June 6, 2010 – 7:25 am

Courtney & Shannon Casey of MichiganByTheBottle.com are all about letting you know what’s what in Michigan’s fast-growing wine industry. One fantastic thing that they are doing are the Tweet & Taste Michigan virtual wine tastings conducted through Twitter. View from Chateau Chantal by troyryans Their next Tweet & Taste takes place tomorrow night (Monday Jun [...]

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Autumn in Michigan: Something for Everyone

October 22, 2009 – 12:50 pm

Autumn Pathways by pentax hammer (gary syrba) The crowds and traffic have subsided, the harvests are bountiful and the mosquitoes are few and far between. What we’re trying to say is that autumn is perfect time to get out and enjoy a color tour, take in a late season festival or event, go camping or [...]

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Be A Tourist In Your Own Town – Lansing, May 30th

May 28, 2009 – 2:17 pm

We wanted to draw attention to this annual event in Lansing as it is something every city in Michigan should consider emulating. It is just too easy to grow into the mind set that where you reside there is absolutely nothing to do or that you have already seen it, done it, surfed it. We [...]

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Cruising the Great Lakes Past, Present and Future

May 19, 2009 – 6:16 pm

A Brief History of Cruising the Great Lakes Although pleasure boating and shipping have held steady over the years another form of once popular vacation travel is making a regal comeback – seeing the Great Lakes by passenger ship. According to the Great Lakes Cruising Coalition it was 1865 when it first became established upon [...]

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M is for Monday … and Midwest, MCS, Michigan Agriculture and MORELS!

May 4, 2009 – 8:51 am

Morels ! by cedarkayak The latest issue of Midwest Living feature on the Best Midwest Food Towns served up a platefull of restaurants in our region that might entice the culinary tourist. Their editors selected Traverse City as the #2 town and Ann Arbor #3. Also featured were a collection of recipes from Traverse City [...]

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