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The Week for May 12-18, 2008

May 12, 2008 – 11:03 am

Untitled by flatgraphic (wren at Dodge Park)
Welcome to The Week!
Our Michigan May Event Calendar says that this weekend's fun includes the Morel Mushroom Festival in Boyne City, the East Lansing Art Festival, Ann Arbor Book Festival, the Motor City Comic Con and the Annual Flower Fair & Home & Garden Marketplace in Lake Orion.
In the [...]

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Make it a Michigan Vacation in 2008!

May 5, 2008 – 7:25 am

Ludington State Park, Big Sable Light
by Through Joanne's eye
Last month tourism experts from Michigan State University delivered a less than rosy forecast for Michigan's tourism industry at the Driving Tourism 2008 conference. Also see the full Michigan Tourism 2008 presentation (PDF). The report projected that poor economic indicators on the state and national level and [...]

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Free Amir … and the whole Zoo Crew

April 27, 2008 – 7:24 am

Free Amir!
Amir Johnson is just 21. Wikipedia says that on April 19, 2007, Amir Johnson scored a career-high 20 points, grabbed 12 rebounds (6 of them offensive), and recorded four blocks and three steals in 37 minutes against the Boston Celtics. And he can do this.

Amir is also part of the Detroit Piston's most impressive [...]

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The Week for April 21 - 27, 2008

April 21, 2008 – 11:09 am

Bumps On A Log by MD2!
The Week is where we post comments about the news, happenings and events of the week. We invite you to do the same.
Our Michigan April Event Calendar says that tomorrow is Earth Day. There are a whole slew of events this weekend including the National Trout Festival in Kalkaska, the [...]

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The Week for April 14-20, 2008

April 14, 2008 – 7:39 am

Wild Turkeys by forestlady
Our Michigan April Event Calendar says that some of the events on tap for this week are the Earth Day Festival in Calumet on April 19 (featuring EarthWork Music artists), the Michigan Wine Celebration on Pioneer Wine Trail in SE Michigan on April 19 & 20 and the Ann Arbor Antiques Market [...]

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The Week for April 7-13, 2008

April 7, 2008 – 8:41 am

How Sweet It Is -Gladwin, Michigan by jfactor1
Our Michigan April Event Calendar says that this week is pretty much the best week to plan an event if you want to be the only game in town because we've got nothing to suggest.
If you have an event to suggest, a comment on the news, a link [...]

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Breaking Barriers in Michigan

April 4, 2008 – 9:19 am

As a young journalist in the early 1940s, Roberta "Bobbie" Applegate covered sports, police activities and trials at a time when most middle-class women rarely worked outside of the home. If women went into journalism, they were restricted to women's sections that typically featured the traditional role of women: family, fashion, food and furnishings. But [...]

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Canadian Freeze Ray wreaks havok on Michigan

April 1, 2008 – 8:37 am

Residents of the Straits area were stunned Sunday afternoon when the Mackinac Bridge was mysteriously encased in huge blocks of ice, rendering it totally impassible. While proponents for the 51st State of Superior seized upon the event to renew calls for U.P. secession, most folks on either side of the Mighty Mac were wondering if [...]

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The Week for March 31 - April 6, 2008

March 31, 2008 – 7:53 pm

lil white flower by artsy T
OK, it's spring now. Thanks for the great memories, Winter, see you in 8 months or so. As usual, The Week is the place to post comments on what's popping up in your garden or in the Michigan news. You can complain about the weather too if Winter decides not [...]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan UFO Sightings

March 26, 2008 – 7:39 am

Michigan is full of UFO's, from numerous sightings over Lake Superior (especially around Saulte Ste. Marie) to the tale of a radio announcer who observed one over the freeway near the Detroit airport in 1978, so close that the radio host, Marc Avery, described it as "looking up into the belly of a craft." [...]