A couple of weeks ago I did the Photo Friday on a Thursday, which I suppose is better than almost forgetting about it altogether!
I'm going to pretend that I decided to wait until evening get the full impact of this great fireworks photo.
In addition to this set of Bay City fireworks photos, Michphotog has a [...]
Somehow or another, we've ended up with both the Sleeping Bear Dunegrass and Blues Festival and the Traverse City Film Festival as clients and I thought we should acknowledge that both events take place next week. What better way than a Tale of the Tape?
Dunegrass Festival
vs
TC Film Festival
dates
location
beach
big name
venues
news/photos
accessory
August 2 - 5, 2007
Empire
this one
David Grisman
Three [...]
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Welcome to our special "Geez are we worried about the Great Lakes" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan...
Crown jewel of North America?
Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty says that the Great Lakes are a tremendous resource, it is something that people around the world recognize as being a kind of crown jewel of [...]
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Up North, Towns Eye 'Granny Flats'
Carolyn Kelly, Michigan Land Use Institute
Related feature from MLUI Media:
Young People Speak Up for Granny Flats
Somehow, it doesn’t seem to add up: Northwest Lower Michigan’s population is rising, but the number of people living in its towns and villages is falling.
Apartment hunting in the region quickly reveals one reason [...]
April 20, 2007 – 12:01 pm
Bob Dylan - Oslo Spektrum 2007 by Ketil Blom
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports...
Bob Dylan is the headliner for the 2007 Interlochen Arts Festival summer concert series, while just about every decade of rock since he helped change the world of music in the 1960s is represented.
Other shows include Trace Adkins, Lyle Lovett & k.d. lang, [...]
Check out Absolute Michigan keyword "Old Mission" for more web sites and articles about Old Mission.
A Vintage Year? by oddzen
Lake Magazine has a nice feature by Emily Bingham on Northern Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula that focuses on the culinary attractions of this orchard and vineyard filled peninsula that divides the East and West Grand Traverse [...]
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A few weeks ago Leelanau.com featured this nationally produced travelogue from 1949. James A. FitzPatrick's Travel Talks: Roaming in Michigan features views of Glen Lake and the Sleeping Bear Dunes (complete with Sleeping Bear Dunesmobile rides), cherries and Traverse City, a visit to Mackinac Island, naturalist/storyteller/bear park operator John "Spikehorn" Meyer, the Soo Locks and [...]
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By Julie Hay, Great Lakes Bulletin News Service
Leo Ocanas photo by J. Carl Ganter
with-these-hands.com
There is an ease in his heavily accented voice. Neither his accent nor his modesty, though, masks the smile in Leo Ocanas’s voice when he speaks about the Hispanic tradition in farming.
“The legend of the Hispanic people is work. Our ambitions come [...]
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Jennifer Granholm by C.A. Carrigan
WJRT-TV 12 Flint has complete video coverage of the first of Governor Jennifer Granholm's live town hall meetings and also video of the Republicans "counter-offensive" on the budget.
The Freep has an article that includes a schedule on these invitation-only events:
Tuesday, March 6: Southfield, 7 p.m. on WXYZ-TV (Channel 7). View the [...]
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February 20, 2007 – 8:29 am
Last week one of the more popular anonymous legal bloggers, the Greatest American Lawyer, "came out" via YouTube. Turns out he's an attorney from Michigan ... and also that he's a friend of mine ... the things you learn about people online.
Also last week, the Freep had a feature on an ongoing video blogging effort [...]
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