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Justin Verlander pitches 1st Tiger no-hitter since 1984!

The only thing better than throwing a no-hitter is doing it at home, and Justin Verlander's no-hitter in a 4-0 vistory over the Milwaukee Brewers on June 12, 2007 was the first ever for Comerica Park and the first by a Tiger pitcher since…
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Detroit Sports Bloggers Roundtable

starting off right by paulhitz I went over to Mack Avenue Tigers, hoping to get some analysis on Tiger rookie Andrew Miller, but ended up at Behind the Jersey reading through an excellent Detroit Bloggers Roundtable featuring a discussion…
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Blogs We Dig: 18thC Cuisine

Wishing you could time travel? 18thC Cuisine does, join Carolyn Smith-Kizer as she explores 18th century French cuisine as a women of that era may have cooked it. Her blog is a filled with a rich assortment of historical facts and recipes.…
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Photo Friday: Untitled by Patrick T Power

Patrick Power took the 3rd photo I blogged to Michigan in Pictures, and he has been supportive of what we've been trying to do here at Absolute Michigan for about as long. He has tons and tons (and tons) of photos of East Lansing &…
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The Mood at Mackinac

Porch of the Grand Hotel by FrancescaM From the Grand Hotel at the annual Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce Mackinac Policy Conference (via their "Fresh Thoughts" email), the Center for Michigan gauges the mood of the attendees: GENERAL…
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Rabbits and hats under the Capitol Dome

Michigan Capitol Dome by ratz plt I thought I might wend my way through the analysis of the "balancing" of Michigan's budget but it soon became apparent that there wasn't much to say in favor of what was little more than a cheap accounting…
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Welcome to Absolute Michigan, may we take your order?

sit'er down... by IntangibleArts We've noticed a lot of new folks showing up at Absolute Michigan over the last few weeks. We'd like to welcome you, and also to ask old friends and new faces about what you'd like to see on Absolute Michigan. More…
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Blogs We Dig: Detroit BikeBlog

While some photo blogs might skimp on the number of photos or size, Mac over at Detroit BikeBlog serves up your photos as big and tall as the internet can handle. "When heading out to Lansing I again realised how little Detroit sometimes…
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Detroit Pistons / Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Eastern Conference Finals Preview

I was going to scour the web, looking for all the best posts on the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Detroit Pistons and the Cleveland Cavaliers which start tonight. Fortunately, my first stop was Matt Watson's Detroit Bad Boys post…
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Super picture of Detroit's Penobscot Building

Head over to Michigan in Pictures for a Superman/Penobscot Building mashup in which everything somehow gets tied in to Michigan. I have no idea how it happened, but it did.
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Who will answer the call of the Great Lakes?

Rocky by Jessie Turner From the editors of the Sudbury Star who warn that Superior's lake levels have been below average now for almost nine years - a situation not seen in 100 years of record-keeping, and well beyond a statistical blip,…
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The point is, sometimes you don't know the point

Lucas Seidenfaden recently took his camera (and Peleng 8mm fisheye) to Detroit. I thought that the results were pretty cool. It was made even cooler when I clicked to the slideshow of Lucas's Detroit photos. Hooray for Flickr's User Interface…