Category Archives: Michigan

Michigan 175: Yooper Steez Skateboard Deck

January 21, 2012 – 2:42 pm

One of the items in our Michigan’s 175th Birthday Bash giveaway (#mich175) is a skateboard deck from Absolute Michigan sponsor Yooper Steez. Yooper Steez isn’t a skateboard company, but has always drawn inspiration from the skateboarding and snowboarding culture. This is just one product (of many more to come) that offers a way for Yoopers to show [...]

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Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Ski Tickets to The Homestead

January 19, 2012 – 8:44 am

View from Bay Mountain by Patrick Kuras Our January Ski Month giveaways continue with a chance to win a pair of lift tickets to The Homestead in Glen Arbor – to be eligible, just add your email to our list using the form above! As you can see from the photo, Bay Mountain at The [...]

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Michigan’s 175th Birthday Bash!

January 19, 2012 – 8:12 am

Photo by Aunt Owwee On January 26, 1837 President Andrew Jackson signed a bill declaring Michigan the 26th state of the union.  That means the Great Lakes State turns 175 next Thursday. That seemed like a pretty big milestone to us, and to celebrate, we’re throwing Michigan’s 175th Birthday Bash and giving out a week’s worth [...]

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Why We Went Dark

January 19, 2012 – 8:03 am

Along with many sites on the Web, Absolute Michigan went dark on January 18th to protest a pair of truly awful bills that are on a fast-track for passage, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA). Neither of these new laws would stop piracy, which Absolute Michigan [...]

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The Legend of Heikki Lunta

January 17, 2012 – 12:07 pm

Now I’ll sing my song
, to make the snow come down And I’ll do my snow dance
. Whoops! I almost lost my pants I’ll holler and yell,
 And really give it —- It’s Heikki’s snow dance song, 
Heikki’s snow dance song ~from the original Heikki Lunta Snowdance Song This weekend (January 20-21), the annual Heikki [...]

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Martin Luther King’s Last Visit to Detroit

January 16, 2012 – 9:05 am

I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children, that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin. I have a dream this [...]

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2012 North American International Auto Show

January 12, 2012 – 12:02 pm

The 2012 North American International Auto Show aka the Detroit Auto Show runs January 14-22, 2012 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. 2013 Dodge Dart by ChriKett Photography The first Detroit Area Dealer Association (DADA)-managed Detroit Auto Show was held in December 1907 at Riverview Park. In 1987, the show was re-focused as an [...]

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Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Lift Tickets to Shanty Creek

January 12, 2012 – 7:56 am

Ski Month keeps rolling on Absolute Michigan with our latest giveaway, a pair of lift tickets to Shanty Creek near Bellaire in Northern Michigan. Shanty Creek boasts a 450′ vertical drop and has 53 runs with 4 terrain parks and a 300′ half pipe on its two mountains. With nearly 200″ of snow every year and [...]

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Winter on Sturgeon Bay

January 11, 2012 – 8:57 am

Here’s a gorgeous time-lapse exploration of winter on Sturgeon Bay near Cross Village Michigan. Jay Burlage of Milapse writes that it’s a great place to get away from it all and enjoy a cold snowy place for a bit. The music track is ‘Farlem’ by Galdson, and here’s hoping this will give you a little [...]

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Invasive Species in the National Parks

January 10, 2012 – 11:52 am

Goby by swatzo Last year the National Park Service produced a series of short documentaries exploring invasive species in the Great Lakes. The series was funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative showing how invaders are changing the ecosystems in national parks and what’s being done to stop them. All four of them are available [...]

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