Category Archives: Attractions

Michigan Ski Tour: Upper Peninsula

We'll be featuring each region of Michigan this week with our Michigan Ski Tour. The first is the first place the snow falls and the lifts open: Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Read on for ski area and ski resort information & links! As always, if you have something to add: a story to tell, a helpful [...]

Photo Friday: Lioness by rckrawczykjr

This photo is titled Lioness and it was taken by Ralph Krawczyk Jr. at the James Scott Memorial Fountain on Belle Isle in Detroit. If you follow Michigan in Pictures, you've seen a lot of Ralph. If you don't click here to see what you've been missing!
Ralph says that he's a graphic designer, a [...]

Shop Michigan: Mackinac Bridge 50th Anniversary puzzle by Barn House Puzzle

Celebrate the Mackinac Bridge's 50th birthday with this Mackinac Bridge 50th Anniversary (1957 - 2007) puzzle from Barn House Puzzle. The 15 x 21" puzzle features a photo by John Russell and is 513 pieces.
Barn House Puzzle features distinctive jigsaw puzzles that stimulate learning and make great gifts. If they've run out of these Mackinac [...]

Tiger Triple Play: Cabrera/Willis trade, DIBS on Tigers & TigerFest 2008

Once in a life time by picturepal
The Stove Heats Up
Earlier this week the Tigers assembled an eight player trade with the Florida Marlins for All Star slugger Miguel Cabrera (.320, 34 HR, 119 RBI for the Marlins) and lefty Dontrelle Willis (2 time All Star who is one year off a 22 win, CY Young [...]

Blogs We Dig: Michigan Ski & Snowboard Blog

The Michigan Ski & Snowboard Blog is taglined The Latest Word From The Slopes, and they deliver that and then some. It features articles and updates from resorts all over the state about everything from free skiing days to ski film festivals to ski reports to webcams and photos. One of the coolest things [...]

Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Welcome to the "Big Tuesday" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan (sequel to our critically acclaimed Big Wednesday edition). For us, some big news was the fact that the Nick of Time Gang in Lansing managed to replace the service tax with something a lot fairer and more sensible. AP writer [...]

Michigan Word of the Week: Copper

Michigan Copper by stone_singer48
The word of the week this week is copper. Copper is a substance that has a big role in the history of Michigan, especially the Upper Peninsula. Wikipedia's entry for copper tells you what you need to know about this vital mineral. Michigan was a major producer of native copper (copper found [...]

Absolute Michigan Word of the Week: Shipwreck

Sandusky by Michael Schout
The word of the week is shipwreck, and all November on Absolute Michigan we'll be featuring tales of the dangerous side of Great Lakes. A staggering 6,000 vessels have been lost to the fury of these inland seas, and approximately 1/3 of those were lost in Michigan waters. Michigan Shipwrecks offers a [...]

Blogs We Dig: RandomSPACE by Lars Jensen

RandomSPACE features the musings and photography of Lars Jensen. Lars explains:
Well, I'm not sure what to say about this place. As the title suggests it is mostly random stuff, although in recent times it has mostly focused on photography from my travels. I try to only put stuff on this page that is interesting [...]

Five (spooky) Things you need to know about Michigan

Welcome to a special Halloween prequel edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. You can find more spooky stuff at our Haunted Michigan page and also at the Michigan Word of the Week: Halloween!  Know a ghostly tale or link that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!
Weird Michigan and [...]