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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Monday, May 14, 2007

Been a while since I got the old 5 out of the bag. Great Lakes Blogger Dave Dempsey gets a stand-up double with this stunning satellite view of the Great Lakes, of which NASA says: At the very top of the image is a round white patch - this…
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Blogs We Dig: Grow Detroit

Under the People Mover by suesue2 If you've been paying attention to Absolute Michigan over the last few months, you are probably aware of Grow Detroit due to the fact that we always seem to be linking to stories over there. Their diverse…
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Wine, food and a sense of place

Marcus Samuelsson at the Epicurean Classic by farlane Travel writer Kim Schneider has a nice article about how Michigan's wine tourism industry is developing. David Creighton of the Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council says visitors…
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The Last Days of Slumpy

Over on Michigan in Pictures today there's a pretty cool feature titled slumpy ... the William Livingstone Mansion in Detroit's Brush Park about an Albert Kahn designed home that has fallen on hard times. ...and so you don't get too depressed,…
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Movement 07: 2007 Detroit Electronic Music Festival

Richie Hawtin DEMF 2006 by Amanda Stroyer Detroit Michigan is the birthplace of techno and every Memorial Day weekend the city cuts loose with the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, a multi-day celebration of techno. DEMF.com says: Detroit's…
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Photo Friday: .bus north on woodward. by tEdGuY49

It's hard to know what to say about Ted. I guess I'll just say that he is one of the most brilliantly original photographers I know, tell you that you should make his Flickr photo page a regular stop and leave you with the words of Tom…
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Blogs We Dig: Bootstrap Analysis

Today on Michigan in Pictures we have a post on the Michigan Bird Breeding Atlas II, so it probably makes sense to go bird crazy today on Absolute Michigan. I don't know what to say about Bootstrap Analysis. According to its author, nuthatch,…
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The fire of 500 cameras

The 500th member joined our Absolute Michigan photo pool on Flickr over the weekend. To me, it's an amazing thing to know that there are five hundred people who allow us to use their photos to help tell Michigan's story. Thank you all very…
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Photo Friday: The Sun Sets by SNWEB.ORG Photography

SNWEB writes that (like many buildings in Detroit) the James Scott Mansion in Midtown faces an uncertain future. Despite the fact that he's a high school junior, he probably knows as much about Detroit's abandoned buildings and vanishing…
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Government by gridlock in Michigan

Whither Michigan's Future? by Andrew McFarlane It's been a while since we last looked in on what Michigan's elected officials have been up to. Unfortunately for all of us, the answer is "Not much." Recently Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry…
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On the trail of the elusive UP waterfall...

Today on Michigan in Pictures there's a post titled Waterfall Hunting in the Upper  Peninsula that I'm especially recommending.   This photo is part of a beautiful set of photos of Wagner Falls by Kyle Schneider (makes great wallpaper…
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Photo sharing and public history

Barbershop helper from Joey Harrison Michigan Radio's Jennifer Guerra has an interesting feature about how online photos sharing websites like Flickr (where most of the photos on Absolute Michigan are housed) can impact people interested…