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East Lansing Art Festival & MSU Arts and Crafts Show, May 22 & 23

Established in 1964, the East Lansing Art Festival is held every spring during the weekend prior to the Memorial Holiday weekend. Known for featuring the highest caliber fine art and fine craft, this highly anticipated Festival attracts 70,000-80,000…
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From the Vine: Lake Michigan Shore Wine Trail

As part of our celebration of Michigan Wine Month, we'll be (re)featuring excerpts on each of Michigan's five wine trails (and one taking you beyond the trails) from the Michigan Notable Book award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries. (Lake…
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Detroit Music Awards - April 16, 2010

a language we all understand by mlephotos The Detroit Music Awards awards are similar to the Grammy Awards presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Award winners are determined by local musicians and music industry…
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Photo Friday: Touch by angela7dreams

This photo is part of the 5 senses garden sculpture at the Children's Gardenat the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids. If you've never been to the gardens be sure to put it on your places to visit in 2010. Currently…
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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Michigan

2011 Michigan St. Patrick's Day Events St. Patrick's Day Parade - Detroit Sponsored by the United Irish Societies in metro Detroit, the parade runs along Michigan Avenue in the area known as "Corktown", so called because of the many immigrants…
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Absolute Michigan onLocation: Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival

Absolute Michigan is going on location again, this time to the first ever Traverse City Comedy Fest! Here's the post from the Absolute Michigan onLocation blog - stay tuned for more! Event dynamo Michael Moore has teamed up with comedian…
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2010 Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival

The 5th Annual Winter Beer Festival will take place Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at the Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, just north of Grand Rapids. The Winter Festival is a unique opportunity to sample some of the best beers in the world,…
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Backcountry Skiing and the Michigan Telemark Festival

Nick writes: Yes, it's true. You don't have to live in Utah to ski the deep stuff. Here's some nice tele turns in a couple of unknown locations in northern Michigan. The skiers in the video above are using telemark skis, about which Wikipedia…
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Love & Wine in Northern Michigan

Taste the Passion 2011 - February 5&6, 2011. Cabin fever taking hold? Well here are a couple of great reasons to embrace winter in northern Michigan. The Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association presents "Taste the Passion ~ Wine, Chocolate…
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January 26th is Michigan's Birthday

Photo: Mighty Mac at 50 by smiles7 Today is Michigan's 173rd Birthday. The Kalamazoo Gazette wonders what you'd get Michigan for the occasion - jobs seems to be leading the way - and they have the Beatles singing their birthday song.…
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Michitwitter January 2010

Read a good article or blog post about Michigan? See a cool picture or video? Listen to a great podcast? Attend a fun event or find a new web site? Scroll down to tell folks in the comments. Please keep them brief and friendly! Subscribe…
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Michigan Books: American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell

American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell (Wayne State University Press). In these stories about cold, lonely, working-class Michigan life, Campbell creates a world where salvation counterbalances loss and despair, and she leaves the reader…