Boarder at Boyne courtesy Boyne Mountain
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Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Boyne Mountain & Boyne Highlands Ski Tickets

All January we have been giving away ski tickets to Michigan resorts in our January Ski Month Giveaway. Our last giveaway is to one of the pioneering ski resorts in Michigan. boyne highlands lodge by northernlightphotograph Boyne Mountain…
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See Detroit Rockers Sponge at the Emerald Theatre

One of the items in our Michigan's 175th Birthday Bash Giveaway is a pair of tickets to see Sponge! Just sign up for our email list if you're not already on it in the blue box at the bottom of the page! Detroit's beloved rock sons - Sponge…
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Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids - January 26-29, 2012

Michigan turns 175 Thursday and Absolute Michigan is giving away a whole bunch of prizes to people on our email list to celebrate! One of the items is 2 tickets to the Auto Show - you can sign up for our list at the bottom of this article. Smile…
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Northern Lights a strong possibility in Michigan!

NASA's Space Weather site is the place to go for Aurora Borealis forecasting as they help make sense of the data the space agency receives about solar flares and their impact on earth's atmosphere. Yesterday they gave Northern Lights watchers…
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Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Ski Tickets to The Homestead

View from Bay Mountain by Patrick Kuras Our January Ski Month giveaways continue with a chance to win a pair of lift tickets to The Homestead in Glen Arbor - to be eligible, just add your email to our list using the form above! As you…
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Why We Went Dark

Along with many sites on the Web, Absolute Michigan went dark on January 18th to protest a pair of truly awful bills that are on a fast-track for passage, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA). Neither…
Kenny Svenson of Traprock Valley as Heikki Lunta, Heikinpäivä Festival, Hancock, MI, ca. 2001 (www.csumc.wisc.edu)
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The Legend of Heikki Lunta

Now I’ll sing my song
, to make the snow come down And I’ll do my snow dance
. Whoops! I almost lost my pants I’ll holler and yell,
 And really give it ---- It’s Heikki’s snow dance song, 
Heikki’s snow dance song ~from…
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Martin Luther King's Last Visit to Detroit

I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children, that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of…
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2012 North American International Auto Show

The 2012 North American International Auto Show aka the Detroit Auto Show runs January 14-22, 2012 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. 2013 Dodge Dart by ChriKett Photography The first Detroit Area Dealer Association (DADA)-managed…
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Winter on Sturgeon Bay

Here's a gorgeous time-lapse exploration of winter on Sturgeon Bay near Cross Village Michigan. Jay Burlage of Milapse writes that it's a great place to get away from it all and enjoy a cold snowy place for a bit. The music track is 'Farlem'…
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Invasive Species in the National Parks

Goby by swatzo Last year the National Park Service produced a series of short documentaries exploring invasive species in the Great Lakes. The series was funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative showing how invaders are changing the…
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Looking forward with the Detroit Lions

"This may have been a loss. Even a lopsided loss. But it was nothing to be ashamed of." ~Mitch Albom There's no doubt that the 45-28 thumping the Lions received at the hands of the New Orleans Saints on Saturday night was a tough reality…