Category Archives: Books, Music & Video

Absolute Michigan Sponsor: Earthwork Music

April 10, 2008 – 9:00 pm

One of our major sponsors is Earthwork Music, a group of fine and creative folks who believe in the power of music. Check their site for plenty of music to listen to and buy, performance schedules and information about the many talented musicians and artists who are a part of Earthwork.
They're playing a benefit for [...]

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Song of the Lakes 25th Anniversary DVD

March 21, 2008 – 7:50 am

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5120861441700385790

My good friends Song of the Lakes have a new DVD titled Live at Interlochen. It features a full-length movie of Song of the Lakes 25th Anniversary concert by Rich Brauer & Brauer Productions and the documentary Journey to Joy by Rebecca Glotfelty of Real People Media.
The band will have a link to order the [...]

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Jamie-Sue Seal presents the Un-Valentine's Roadshow

February 4, 2008 – 9:34 am

The Jammin Round with Jamie-Sue series is the creation of singer-songwriter Jamie-Sue Seal, who brings national, regional acts to Lansing and also takes the show around the state with her Roadshows. In this season of love, she'll do it again with the Un-Valentine's Roadshow: Songs & Tales Of Unforgiveness, Heartbreak, Dysfunction & Revenge at 4 [...]

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Book-related Michigan Festivals & Events

January 31, 2008 – 11:12 am

You can read on for a list of Michigan Festivals, Events and other happenings that feature books, authors and writers. If there's one we missed, please add information or a link to it in the comments!

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Michigan Books: Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard

January 30, 2008 – 8:41 am

Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow) is set in Detroit in 1945. U.S. Marshal Carl Webster hopes to use the free-spirited Honey Deal to track down a pair of escaped German POW's hiding out with Honey's ex-husband, Walter (a dead ringer for Himmler). Complete with German spies, a transvestite killer, and Nazi [...]

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Michigan Authors: Gloria Whelan

January 29, 2008 – 10:48 pm

Gloria Whelan was born November 23, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from the University of Michigan and became a social worker. In 1972, the Whelans tired of the hectic pace of the city and moved to Oxbow Lake near Mancelona in northern Michigan. After an oil company that owned the mineral rights to [...]

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Michigan Books: Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie by Patty Pinner

January 29, 2008 – 9:10 am

Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie by Patty Pinner (Taunton Press) was written by a Saginaw native Patty Pinner who gathered 70 prized pie recipes from the women in her life.
What distinguishes this book is its utterly beguiling storytelling - each recipe is accompanied by a story told on the woman [...]

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Michigan Books: Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen

January 28, 2008 – 8:19 am

Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen (Viking) is - according to author Bich Minh Nguye's web site - a story of:
As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in the 1980s in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In the pre-PC era Midwest, where the [...]

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Michigan Books: Sailing Grace by John Otterbacher

January 24, 2008 – 9:34 am

Sailing Grace by John Otterbacher (Samadhi Press) is the story of former Michigan legislator John Otterbacher of Grand Rapids surmounting the challenges of 8 heart surgeries in 8 months. From the Sailing Grace web site (where you can also see a lot of cool photos from the trip):
This true story, narrated with present-tense immediacy, begins [...]

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Michigan Books: Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison

January 23, 2008 – 9:17 am

Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison (Grove Press) is Harrison's ninth novel. It's the tale of Donald Burkett, a 45-year-old, terminally ill Chippewa-Finnish man who is determined to chronicle his family's history before he dies. An excellent review of Returning to Earth in the New York Times says that:
..."Returning to Earth" represents an interesting new [...]

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