Category Archives: SW

From the Vine: Lake Michigan Shore Wine Trail

As part of our celebration of Michigan Wine Month, we'll be featuring excerpts on each of Michigan's five wine trails (and one taking you beyond the trails) from the Michigan Notable Book award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries.
(Lake Michigan Shore and Fennville AVAs)
The Lake Michigan Shore viticultural area, with its blend of northern continental [...]

When Carl Sandburg Called Michigan Home

Renowned author Carl Sandburg loved Lake Michigan. In many ways, it influenced his writing. From 1928 until 1945, Sandburg and his family, which included three daughters, called Michigan home. During these years, he lived in the sand dunes in the southwestern Lower Peninsula. It was there that he produced some of his best known [...]

Southwest Michigan Bookstores

Southwest Michigan is the first stop on our tour of Michigan's great new and used bookstores. As always, we love it when you let us know about the ones we've missed in the comments!

Michigan October Event Calendar

Upper Tahquanemon Falls by JohnnyRR
A sampling of Michigan festivals & events for the month of October. As usual, there's no way we'll get them all, so please add links and information about those we've missed (or reviews of ones we have here) in the comments below.
October 6
The Red Flannel Festival - Cedar Springs
This will is [...]

Wheatland Music Festival: Live Coverage

Seth & May at Dunegrass by Andy McFarlane
The Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun is sending blogger Eric Baerren and photographer Lisa Yanick to this year's Wheatland Music Festival. They'll be sending us updates as we have them and we'll try to pass them along to you from this page. You can also check the Morning Sun's [...]

Wheatland Music Festival

Check out Wheatland Music Festival: Live Coverage for updates from the festival!
The 34th Annual Wheatland Music Festival will be held September 7-9, 2007 at the 160 acre Wheatland Music Organization (WMO) property near Remus (Mecosta County midway between Big Rapids and Mt. Pleasant). The goal of the WMO is to serve as a resource center [...]

Michigan September Event Calendar

pig races by radiospike
A sampling of Michigan festivals & events for the month of September. As usual, there's no way we'll get them all, so please add links and information about those we've missed (or reviews of ones we have here) in the comments below.
August 18 - September 30

Michigan Renaissance Festival- Holly (Open Weekends and [...]

Dance your way through Kalamazoo videos

Train to Kalamazoo by P4T
We've been slacking a bit in stocking our Absolute Michigan station on chime.tv, but our video team has just unveiled a veritable videographic Kalamazooapalooza (see also Kalamazoo, Michigan photos on Michigan in Pictures).
We have an EDC style tour of Kalamazoo from Southwest Michigan First, Katie Couric looking at the Kalamazoo [...]

Michigan: Great Lakes Surfing Capital

Surfing Michigan by farlane
We've pulled together a great collection of Great Lakes surfing videos on our Michigan Station at chime.tv including:

The best of the bunch is what appears to be a TV special on Grand Haven filmmaker Vince Deur's movie Unsalted. the 7 minute short introduces you to the history and present day of Great [...]

Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Vacation Time?
There's an interesting speech by Sen. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) wondering if now is a good time for members of the Senate to take a summer recess, pointing out (quite rightly) that schools, local government and others are waiting for hard numbers for the upcoming budget year. To see it, go to the Michigan [...]