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ArtPrize 2011 in Grand Rapids

September 19, 2011 – 1:16 pm

The Eyes Have It by pairadocs Our favorite Michigan art event, ArtPrize, kicks off its third year in Grand Rapids this Wednesday. ArtPrize runs September 21 – October 9, 2011. It’s billed as a radically open art competition that is open to any artist in the world who can find space and it is one [...]

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Traverse City Wine & Art Festival ~ August 20th

August 2, 2011 – 7:47 am

Traverse City Wine & Art Festival, 2010 by KatSwinehart The 2011 Traverse City Wine & Art Festival takes place Saturday, August 20th from 3-10 PM on the beautiful front lawn at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, rain or shine. It’s Michigan’s premier celebration of wine, art, food and music, offering an incredible opportunity to taste wines [...]

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ArtPrize Happenings: Concerts, Presentations & Parties

September 23, 2010 – 9:23 am

Absolute Michigan will be on location at ArtPrize and bringing you regular updates In addition to seeing all the art at the venues around the city, ArtPrize 2010 features numerous happenings all over the city. Before we get into that, however, here’s a great Opening Montage by filmmaker Brian Kelly that we came across this [...]

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Michigifts: Pewabic Pottery – Detroit, MI

December 10, 2008 – 11:56 am

Pewabic Pottery -Detroit by DetroitDerek Pewabic Pottery is a living treasure and offers visitors an exciting glimpse of a little known part of American history. Founded in 1903 during the Arts & Crafts Movement, Pewabic is nationally renowned for its tile and pottery in unique glazes. Today it is a non profit ceramic art education [...]

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Shop Michigan: Your Downtown

December 20, 2007 – 8:54 am

Old Downtown by cmu chem prof Of course Absolute Michigan is all about buying what gifts you can through the web sites of Michigan’s shops, stores and manufacturers. However, as the clock ticks down, shipping times mean you’re probably going to have to finish up offline. Our Michigan shopping section can help there too with [...]

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Berrien County, Michigan

June 12, 2007 – 8:52 am

Berrien County is located at the southwest corner of Michigan along the shores of Lake Michigan and shares a state border with Indiana. Read on for history and links! Share this:

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Michigan Memorial Day Runup

May 24, 2007 – 10:12 am

The lighthouse at Frankfort MI by OddZen It’s time to cast our net around the state and see how the media is promoting the big travel weekend. The Lansing HUB has decided that the best way to encourage travel given the high price of gas is to focus on short trips with their One Gallon [...]

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Culinary tour of Grand Traverse County’s Old Mission

April 13, 2007 – 8:01 am

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 [...]

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All about Ann Arbor’s Argus Camera Company

March 29, 2007 – 9:11 am

I spent all my Michigan blogging time today on The Argus Camera Company of Ann Arbor, Michigan over at Michigan in Pictures. Since it is a pretty significant piece of Michigan history, it probably deserves your attention. Share this:

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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