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The Daily Michigan: As If We Were Prey by Michael Delp

“In understated prose that remarkably says more in one sentence that many writers do in a paragraph, Delp takes us inside the head and hearts of his male characters, all of whom share a certain melancholy, both eerie and familiar, all in a…
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Celebrate Valentine's Day the Michigan Way

Here's a whole ton of Valentine's Day ideas. YOU probably have some other ideas - share them in the comments or right here or on our Facebook! Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius by Church of One Next Tuesday, February…
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If you want to go to the Traverse City Winter Microbrew and Music Festival - Read This!

Sooo... the person we selected to win 2 tickets to the Traverse City Winter Microbrew and Music Festivalhasn't contacted us. The festival is this Saturday, February 11th - just days away. That means we have to give these away and give them…
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The Daily Michigan: Private Tea Cupping from Light of Day Organics

Today on The Daily Michigan we're giving away a private tea cupping for up to 6 people, to include matcha ceremonial green tea at Light of Day Organics. Founder Angela Macke has a background in Holistic health, as an RN, educator and…
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Google Search Stories: Ypsilanti's SolarYpsi Project

YouTube and Google have a feature called "Search Stories" about people who are using Google's search to find new ways of doing things. One of the people they profile is Dave Strenski of Ypsilanti, who you can learn more about in the video below. Dave…
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The Daily Michigan: Tropical Love Valentine's Day Box

Our good friends at Grocer's Daughter Chocolate in Empire are another of our featured partners for The Daily Michigan. Their chocolates are all-natural and contain many organic and other naturally grown ingredients, many grown in the garden…
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The Daily Michigan: Two tickets to the Winter Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival

Today's offering in The Daily Michigan is a pair of tickets to the 3rd Annual Winter Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival (must be 21 to win). The festival has so much to offer that probably the best thing we can do is give…
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Fly High at the Pine Mountain Ski Jumping Tournament

Every year the Kiwanis Ski Club in Iron Mountain holds the Pine Mountain Continental Cup Ski Jumping Competition, one of the best tournaments in the United world. The first competition was held in 1939, making 2012 is the 73rd annual. The…
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The Daily Michigan: 5# of Dried Cherries from Cherry Republic

Here's the first of our new The Daily Michigan features, and one of our readers will win 5 pounds of tart cherries! All you need to do to be eligible is to let us know you want to win. We hope you'll sign up to receive our daily email (Monday…
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February is National Cherry Month!

Michigan Cherries by jdurchen Did you know that Michigan is the largest producer of Montmorency tart cherries, growing 70-75% of the crop? February is National Cherry Month, and the Cherry Marketing Institute (link below) has bushels of…
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Michigan and the Super Bowl

Here's the most Michigany commercial - Chrysler's Halftime in America spot: While there's nowhere near the degree of Michigan hype this year as there was in 2006 when Detroit hosted Super Bowl XL, we have a few points of Michigan interest…
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February Michigan Event Calendar

Iron Works #2 - Cranbrook by MikeRyu Our Michigan February Event Calendar shows that the more the weather tries to keep us holed up, the more ways we find to get out and have fun!! Of course, there's still many, many more and we invite you…