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Electric Blues: Remembering Les Paul

August 17, 2009 – 6:42 am

"Les Paul brought six strings to electricity and electricity to six strings. Les Paul was an innovator, a groundbreaker, a risk taker, a mentor and a friend. Try to imagine what we'd be doing if he hadn't come along and changed the world. There will always be more Les to come. That's certified."
~ Billy Gibbons, [...]

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100 Hours of Astronomy

March 26, 2009 – 2:06 pm

The 100 Hours of Astronomy project (100HA) is a worldwide event with a wide range of public outreach activities including live webcasts, observing events and more taking place during a 100-hour period in early April. One of the key goals of 100HA is to have as many people as possible look through a telescope [...]

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Windmill School in Kalamazoo

March 5, 2009 – 10:53 am

windmill (sepia) by idiot_girl
In Training Turbine Installers: A Michigan First, the blog Got2BeGreen tipped us off to:
A school in southwest Michigan called Kalamazoo Valley Community College is launching a first-of-its-kind program to train people to install wind turbines. If you want to get one of those green jobs that Van Jones and the others keep [...]

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Michigan celebrates the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

February 4, 2009 – 7:40 am

This year is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth (Feb. 12, 2009) and the Michigan Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee is working to help the people of Michigan to appreciate how Lincoln's life relates to the lives of Michiganians today.
You can click over to see events & exhibits in Michigan relating to Abraham Lincoln, including [...]

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Back to School: Free college with The Kalamazoo Promise

September 9, 2008 – 1:13 pm

The Promise Starts Here by Ed Roth
Quite simply, The Kalamazoo Promise is a scholarship offered to every Kalamazoo Public School student. Depending on the time in the district and income level of the family, students may earn up to 100% tuition at any public State of Michigan university or community college.
You can get an update [...]

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Dig Michigan: Kalamazoo Region

August 13, 2008 – 1:36 pm

Situated approximately half way between Detroit and Chicago and home to Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo is the second of Michigan's regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas [...]

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Road Trip: 2008 World Disc Golf Championships; August 8 – 16

August 7, 2008 – 2:51 pm

From August 8th through the 16th, 2008, Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, Michigan will be hosting the biggest Disc Golf event to date, The 2008 Professional and Amateur World Championships, crowning the best disc golfers from around the world in one location.
The World Championships will invite over 1000 participants from all over the world to come [...]

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Road Trip: Air Zoo – Kalamazoo

May 29, 2008 – 2:24 pm

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Proton Beam Group, Attacked by a lamp post

May 27, 2008 – 4:58 pm

There's pretty much zero chance that I'm NOT going to post a link to an article titled "Proton beam group forms". More here.
The photo is Attacked by a lamp post (150) by caterpillars. It's part of her Detroit show. Yow.

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Five things you need to know for Thursday, March 27, 2008

March 27, 2008 – 9:47 am

Welcome to a special Michigan Homes & Real Estate edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Before I dive in I wanted to say a little something about our month themes. We got the word that a) you like them but b) you would like them to be not so loud so [...]