Category Archives: Traverse City

Discover Michigan Wines at Regional Wine and Food Tasting Events

January 23, 2012 – 12:26 pm

Delicious Michigan is a regular column by Lorri Hathaway and Sharon Kegerreis, authors of the award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries and The History of Michigan Wines. Learn more and get autographed books at deliciousmichigan.com and read some of their past articles on Absolute Michigan at Michigan Uncorked! Michigan’s wine industry is booming, and the [...]

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The Lake in Winter: an excerpt from The Windward Shore

December 26, 2011 – 9:53 pm

Works by Michigan author Jerry Dennis include The Living Great Lakes, Winter Walks (with wood engravings by Glenn Wolff and design and letterpress by Chad Pastotnik of Deep Woods Press), A Place on the Water, It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes, Canoeing Michigan Rivers and more. Jerry has kindly allowed us to run this excerpt from his [...]

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Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Higher Grounds Trading Company

December 14, 2011 – 5:57 pm

Higher Grounds Trading Co., was voted one of the top Michigan businesses to watch in 2010 and has been a big part of  getting the nonprofit On the Ground off the ground. On the Ground is involved in a variety of projects including the Chiapas Water Project, which brings clean drinking water to coffee growing regions in Mexico; the Run [...]

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Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival ~ August 26 & 27

August 16, 2011 – 10:29 am

Buckwheat Zydeco at the Beer Fest II by farlane, The annual Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival features over 50 breweries, a cider, mead and wine court, a new silent disco tent and a musical lineup including chart-topping folk rocker Martin Sexton, Grammy-nominated New Orleans brass brand Rebirth Brass Brand and Afro-Cuban funk favorites Euforquestra. It [...]

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Paella In The Park ~ August 5

July 19, 2011 – 8:47 am

Absolute Michigan’s Festival Summer “Frenzy Week” continues with our latest giveaway… The Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula (OMP) and Porterhouse Productions present the second annual Paella In The Park, a summer music & culinary event in the heart of downtown Traverse City. Traverse City’s bayside Clinch Park grounds will transform into a swingin’ festival! This [...]

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Solstice, Summer and Storms

June 21, 2011 – 10:49 am

Today at 12:16 PM EST is the Summer Solstice. Click that link to learn a little more about the solstice from Michigan in Pictures. We’re gearing up for an exciting development in our Festival Summer giveaway, so we’re going to keep it short & sweet today with this time-lapse video from photographer Ken Scott. It shows [...]

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Taste the Local Difference encourages you to Spend 10

May 23, 2011 – 8:30 am

Absolute Michigan sponsor and local food partner Taste the Local Difference has released their 2011 Local Food Guide. The pocket-sized guide is packed with information about more than 300 businesses that feature local food: local farms, wineries, breweries, distilleries, farmers markets and retail businesses and food artisans in the 10-county region stretching from Manistee to [...]

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Saving the Great Lakes Forever conference this weekend!

April 28, 2011 – 11:22 am

People from around the entire Great Lake Basin will be gathering for the 2011 Conference “Saving the Great Lakes Forever” which kicks off on Friday, May 6, at 6:50 p.m. at the historic State Theater in downtown Traverse City. Sequence 7408-09 by StacyN – MichiganMoments Hosted by the Flow for Water Coalition, the Great Lakes [...]

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Spring Can’t Come Soon Enough: Great Hikes Just Around Corner

February 28, 2011 – 10:32 am

By Bob Lovik, photos by Mark Lindsay I really enjoy the first two months of winter. The dropping temperatures are refreshing. There’s the anticipation of the holidays and the over-indulgences that come with them. And I love the snow. The first, fat flakes of pretty white snow. What’s not to love? High Rollaways winter hike [...]

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Report from the Traverse City Comedy Festival

February 17, 2011 – 9:41 am

Crowd for Jeffrey Ross by tcfilmfest The Absolute Michigan team spent the weekend working on the 2nd annual Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival. The festival was a big success and once again festival co-founders Jeff Garlin & Michael Moore packed the house for comedians including Bob Saget, Patton Oswalt, Jeffrey Ross, Caroline Rhae, Ted Alexandro, [...]

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