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The Michigan shout-out page is a place for you to post local events that our readers should check out, helpful advice for travelers from near and far, a favorite Michigan band or gallery and comments about pretty much whatever. All we ask is that you refrain from swearing or mean attacks and that whatever you're talking about be somehow about Michigan. We'd like Absolute Michigan to be a place where people go to learn more about our great state to dream about how much better Michigan could be and collaborate to make it happen.
We hope this page is part of that, and everyone here at Absolute Michigan is really glad you're here and very interested in your town or city and also your ideas, thoughts, comments - for Michigan and for Absolute Michigan.
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Shout out, Michigan!
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Champane’s Wine Cellars pub will be hosting the 3rd Annual Taste of Michigan Wine Tasting on Thursday April 10, 2008 benefiting Cub Scout Pack 1477 (Pack 1477 is based out of Westwood Elementary, Warren, MI).
This Taste of Michigan wine tasting expects to have the largest selection of traditional and exotic produced Michigan wines. Attendees will also have an opportunity to sample Michigan produced sparking wines (Champagne style) and assortment of the “Fruit Off the Vine Wines”.
This is a ticketed event and the wine tasting event costs $15.00 and begins at 6:00 pm.
Get the complete details at Champane's Wine Cellar & International Marketplace
Michigan Asthma Walks Set for May 17th
The American Lung Association of Michigan Asthma Walks will be held at the following locations on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 9:00a.m. Registration will begin at 8:00a.m. at all locations except for Detroit where registration will begin at 7:30a.m.
WHERE:
Detroit – Detroit International Riverfront
Grand Blanc – Heritage Park Shopping Center
Grand Rapids – Ah-Nab-Awen Park
East Lansing – Jack Breslin Student Events Center, Michigan State University
The Asthma Walks will raise funds for lung health education, advocacy, asthma treatments and research. 1 of every 9 Michiganders lives with asthma, and asthma is responsible for more school absences than any other chronic disease.
Registration is free for everyone. All participants who raise the suggested minimum of $100 will receive an official Asthma Walk T-shirt. Individual and team prizes will be awarded at various fundraising levels. Families, children, individuals, and teams are welcome to participate.
For more information and to register, please visit http://www.AsthmaWalk.org or call 1-800-LUNG-USA.
Please join us at:
The Fortune Lake Festival - 5th Annual - Saturday, May 10, Crystal Falls, Michigan - an all day music festival with morning classes on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, kantele, hammer dulcimer, homemade instruments and shape-note singing; afternoon dances and jam sessions and an evening concert featuring the bluegrass music of Detour, the beautiful sounds of Duo Borealis and Glen and Judi Morningstar.
http://www.white-water-associa.....nefest.htm
Looks like a great festival! Detour is great!
Here's a (very trebley) video of Detour at Dunegrass last summer.
Summer wind Farms Sanctuary is a donation supported 501.c3 USDA Licensed Exotic bird . reptile & large animal sanctuary.
We are having our Spring concert & fund raiser June 21st saturday from 2 p.m. till dusk. A full day of music, raffles, contest and just plan fun. Please check out the link If there is more you would like to know . Or if there is any way that you can help promote are event. contact Keith thru the link.
All of us from the sanctuary look forward to meeting you & will be forever Thankful . Have a wonderful & fulfilling day
http://thefarm.i8.com/
SEMINAR: Darrell Gulin - Canon Explorer of Light
Date: May 10, 2008
Time: 9am - 4 pm
Place: Park Congregational Church
10 E. Park Place NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Cost: $65 thru April 15 / $75 after
Darrell will be presenting several interesting topics during the day, including:
Digital Photography: This will include the converting of images, Nik Filters, Helicon Focus, Black and White techniques, Magic Ovals, Pans and more.
Come Travel with Darrell - We will go to a number of foreign destinations including, Turkey, Italy, Greek Isles, Antarctica, Norway's Arctic, Africa and more. What to take and how to travel with your equipment. What equipment that is really needed.
Creative, Colorful and Conceptual Images. We can travel the world or by using the 3 C's we can create wonderful images right in our own backyard.
Landscape Photography and the 5 S's to Successful Photography. Seeing, Subject, Simplification, Skill, Situation.
For more information and/or to download the registration form go to:
http://www.grcameraclub.org/seminar/
Come see the Welkin Base Ball Club of Port Huron re-create base ball from the 1860's
when neckties were worn, no gloves were used, and players were fined for
rolling up their shirt-sleeves, sliding or any other "ungentlemanly behavior."
All Match games are free to the public are perfect family entertainment.
May
Sunday, May 18, 2:00 P.M., Rochester Grangers host at VanHoosen Farm
June
Sunday, June 8, 2:00 P.M., Welkins host Woodstock Actives
Sunday, June 22, 2:00 PM, Eclipse Base Ball Club of Northville host in Northville
Saturday, June 28, 2:00 P.M., Welkins host Rochester Grangers
July
Saturday, July 12, 2:00 PM, Welkins host Eclipse Base Ball Club of Northville
Sunday, July 20, 4:00 PM, Exhibition match at Saint Clair Sesquicentennial
August
August 1-3 World Tournament of Historic Base Ball at Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI
August 16-17 Grayling Swampers host at Hartwick Pines State Park
Sunday, August 31, 2:00 PM, Saginaw Old Golds Base Ball Club host in Saginaw
September
Sunday, September 7, Regular Base Ball Club of Mount Clemens host in Mt. Clemens
Sunday, September 14, 2:00 P.M., Welkins host Saginaw Old Golds Base Ball Club
Saturday, September 27, 2:00 P.M., Welkins vs. Port Huron Icehawks
All home match-games are played at Port Huron's Lincoln Park,
located between North and South Blvd., West of Electric Avenue.
Bring a picnic lunch, relax on the lawn
and see the game of base ball the way it was meant to be played.
Check http://www.welkinbbc.com for the latest news about the Welkin Base Ball Club
The Federal Reserve has been retiring and eliminating positions for a few years now. That how me and my husband ended up here, in West Des Moines. His position was essentially moved a few states away from our home in Roseville, MI three years ago and it looks as though his jobn will disappear altogether in roughly a year. Yes, the economy is much better here (poor farmers are a myth in Iowa, especially with the ethonol and land booms), meat is cheap (especially pork), the weather is milder than at home, crime is low, streets are safe and clean, etc..... BUT IT IS NOT HOME!! Any other displaced Michiganders out there who echo these sentiments? I'd like to hear from you. We can recall Lafayette coney island dogs, Faygo pop, real snow falls, the Ambassador bridge, the Zoo, the dream cruise. I mean all we have here is the State Fair. We miss home, Kwame and all.
"Ced N Teri", the hilarious new series created by Mikey Brown, is redefining what it means to be a “sit” com. The politically incorrect comedy about two, full-time couch potatoes and a cat, shot locally at the Planet Ant Theatre in Hamtramck (Detroit), is quickly finding an audience on the mini screen at You Tube.
It all begins with a knock at the door. Ced (Mikey Brown) tries to deliver a pizza that Teri (Sarah Switanowski) never ordered. She’s drinking a beer. He asks if she has another. Ced sits on the couch and Teri gives him a cold one. Then we meet N, their four-legged co-star who sits between them. Will they ever get off the couch? So far, seven episodes have aired and there’s no sign of that happening. But they have some special visitors including the mail lady who also delivers Teri’s weed, a crazy neighbor and a character who pays homage to Wilson, the man who hid behind the fence in Home Improvement.
Each episode of "Ced N Teri" also features a local band or rapper who plays a song at the end of the episode and during the closing credits.
Several made-in-Detroit bands have graced the mini screen including The Brown Stripes, Blair, Hellen, Alison Lewis and Outdated Fate. Rapper JJ Sacks even portrayed Teri’s crazy ex in one episode as he serenaded her from the backyard with a special song about big booty. Awwwww, isn’t that special? And, in the soon-to-be-released Episode 8, look for funky rocker Jamie McCarthy who will also make a cameo appearance as a guy from The Repo Depo. He’ll break into "I’d Rather Be Ced N Teri" on Teri’s guitar. Before he repos the guitar, that is.
"I’d Rather be Ced N Teri" will not appear on "Salvation", Jamie’s upcoming album scheduled for release this summer. But Jamie will be stopping by to play his song and a few others at the premiere of "Ced N Teri", Episode 8, on Sunday, May 4, at the Park Bar in Detroit. Doors open at 8 pm. 18+ are welcome. Come and hang with the cast and crew at this free event - besides, it might be the only time that Ced and Teri actually get off the couch.
For more information about "Ced N Teri", and to see the previous episodes, visit http://www.cednteri.com or http://www.myspace.com/cednteri. For more information about Jamie McCarthy and his upcoming CD release party for "Salvation", visit http://www.myspace.com/jamiemccarthy
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