The Week for March 24-30, 2008


Sandhill Cranes 1 by C.A. Mullhaupt

We're in the first full week of spring, which of course means that there's big piles of snow on the ground and even the Easter Bunny is feeling the cold. CA says that sandhill cranes are migrating back through Michigan in mid-March and that she captured this pair was at Kensington Metropark in southeast Michigan (see them coming in for a landing too!).

Our Michigan March Event Calendar says that the big event this week is the Ann Arbor Film Festival. There's also the 2008 U.S. Open Snow X Championships at Boyne Mountain and the 2008 Cottage & Lakefront Living Show in Grand Rapids. With many schools out for spring recess, Travel Michigan offers advice for a Michigan spring break. You might also check out the Copper Country Spring Home Show (Houghton).

The Week is the place to read (and post) links to news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events and new Michigan web sites.

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This entry was written by farlane and posted on March 24, 2008 at 8:55 am and filed under Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Blogs & Forums, Festivals, Attractions & Event Calendars, Media, Michigan, Newspapers, Radio & Podcast, Technology & Internet Media, Television & Internet Video, The Michigan Pages, The Week. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

9 Comments

  1. farlane
    Posted March 24, 2008 at 11:46 am | Permalink

    Cabrera gets extension to 2015! SI.com has confirmed has confirmed that the Detroit Tigers have agreed to terms with superstar third baseman Miguel Cabrera on a seven-year extension for $20 million a year. At $152.3 million, it's the fifth highest in baseball history.

  2. Absolute Michigan
    Posted March 24, 2008 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

    Think-tank calls for United States of Great Lakes

    A report from a prestigious U.S. think-tank released Sunday argues that Canada and the U.S. should work together with the aim of creating a common market for commerce and labour by 2030 for the states and provinces in the Great Lakes basin.

    "If it stood alone as a country," says the report, "it would be the second biggest economic unit on Earth, second only to the U.S. economy as a whole and larger than Japan, the rising powers of China and India, and the traditional heavyweights of Germany and the U.K."

    Under this plan, by 2015, Canada and the U.S. should have mutually recognized credentials and identification to allow for the secure and unhindered movement of people across the border. As well, within seven years, the report envisages what it calls "seamless border pre-clearance of U.S.-Canadian goods transported as part of a comprehensive North American customs clearance system or fully compatible national systems."

    Link

  3. Absolute Michigan
    Posted March 25, 2008 at 9:55 am | Permalink

    Study: Great Lakes 'salties' ban may create jobs - via Muskegon Chronicle

    Banning ocean freighters from the Great Lakes and requiring those ships to transfer cargo in Montreal would create more than a thousand new jobs for domestic shipping employees, truckers and rail employees, according to a new study.

    Link

  4. Absolute Michigan
    Posted March 25, 2008 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

    Earth Hour: Turn off the lights - via The Ann Arbor News

    Copenhagen's doing it. So are Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tel Aviv.

    Now a Scio Township woman is hoping Ann Arbor joins the number of international cities in Earth Hour 2008.

    During that hour - 8-9 p.m. Saturday - people will turn off all unnecessary lights to spread the message about global warming.

    Link

  5. Absolute Michigan
    Posted March 26, 2008 at 7:37 am | Permalink

    Hear the best of Motown online from the Freep

    Motown lives -- somewhere other than in the boxes of albums and singles boomers have stored away in their seldom used record collections these days.

    Several classic Top 40 and R&B jocks have gotten together on http://www.hitsvilleradio.com playing vintage Detroit music of the '60s and '70s, mostly Motown.

    *You will be propmted to download a player to listen which allows you to see artist/track info and will not interfere with other players or preferences. The download is safe but if you prefer you can opt to use a media player already installed on your system.*

    Link

    or go straight to the tunes

    HitsvilleRadio.com classic detroit hits

  6. Old Man Winter
    Posted March 26, 2008 at 9:37 am | Permalink

    The National Weather Service reports that a new record daily maximum snowfall was set yesterday at Houghton Lake (4" breaking the old record of 3.1 inches set in 1969) and Sault Ste Marie (4.8" breaking the old record of 2.3 inches set in 1979).

    That sound you hear? Old Man Winter ... laughing.

  7. Absolute Michigan
    Posted March 26, 2008 at 12:32 pm | Permalink

    Relax at the state's newest wineries

    Whether you're an old pro or a first timer, by this summer Michigan will offer 56 wine tasting rooms where you can boost your wine competence in the presence of knowledgeable and non-judgemental winemakers.

    Link

  8. Judy Ferrara Graham
    Posted March 27, 2008 at 10:50 am | Permalink

    Got the winter Blues?
    Please join Blue Gallery in welcoming in spring
    Saturday March 29, 2008
    6:00 - 9:00 PM

    Blue Cocktail, hors d'oeurves and as always....

    Wonderful art by Gallery artists

    Blue Gallery
    16 S. Elm St.
    Three Oaks, Michigan
    269-756-9338 or
    574-276-6001

  9. Absolute Michigan
    Posted March 28, 2008 at 11:40 am | Permalink

    FRETBOARD FESTIVAL: Honoring the legacy

    The third annual Fretboard Festival is expanding to two days this year to make room for more pickers and those who appreciate a good picking.

    A celebration of Kalamazoo's stringed heritage, the festival brought in an estimated 1,800 on a Sunday afternoon last year, organizer Jay Gavan said, making it one of the busiest events at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum.

    The city's luthier (the craft of making stringed instruments) history goes back to 1884, when Orville H. Gibson started a mandolin business at 114 S. Burdick St. The shop evolved into the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Company Ltd., opening up a factory in 1917 at 225 Parsons St., where it still stands.

    Source: mLive.com

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