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March is Home Month on Absolute Michigan

Homes along East Ferry Avenue - Detroit MI by pinehurst19475 For the month of March, Absolute Michigan will be featuring Homes with stories about historic Michigan houses, home & home design blogs, green building and other new trends…
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Michigan Restaurants: Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant in Ann Arbor and Ferndale

Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant in Ann Arbor (and Ferndale) offers a unique dining experience. Central to Ethiopian dining is eating from the same plate and sharing the same bread (called injera). The injera, a flat, tangy, crepe-like bread,…
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He Is "The Spirit"

He Is "The Spirit" by One Foot Over The Moon was taken Memorial Day Weekend 2007 in Detroit, Michigan. More about The Spirit of Detroit by sculptor Marshall Fredericks on Michigan in Pictures.
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Michigan Restaurants: The Whitney in Detroit

Billed as "An American Restaurant in an American Palace", The Whitney is located on Woodward Avenue in an 1894 mansion constructed of rare South Dakota Jasper for lumber baron David Whitney, Jr.: The 21,000 square foot home has 52 rooms, 10…
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The Detroit Free Press gets a(nother) makeover

A little less than a year after its last re-tooling, the Detroit Free Press aka the Freep aka Freep.com has once again rolled out a major upgrade. In addition to bringing more stories, columns and blogs to the homepage, they have also added…
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Windows + Grids

Ralph says (with tongue firmly in cheek) that words cannot express his love for this building. Proof, I think, that you need not love something to see its beauty.
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Jerry Linengar: Five Months in Space

Jerry Linenger is one of more than a dozen Michiganians who have been (or still are) astronauts. Born in 1955 in Eastpoint (a Detroit suburb), Linengar graduated from East Detroit High School and earned a degree from Wayne State University.…
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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, February 5, 2007

Welcome to a Super Fat Pazcki Tuesday edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. We've been meaning to share the video of Gov. Granholm's 2008 State of the State speech, which probably ranks near the top in the "Getting People Who…
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Hip Hop Icons featured in Detroit exhibit

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) will host an exhibition of portraits by Russian-born American painter Alexander Melamid in Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid. The life-size portraits of twelve icons of hip-hop…
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Michigan Books: Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard

Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow) is set in Detroit in 1945. U.S. Marshal Carl Webster hopes to use the free-spirited Honey Deal to track down a pair of escaped German POW's hiding out with Honey's ex-husband, Walter (a dead…
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Southeast Michigan Bookstores

Even with a whole lot of Southeast Michigan booksellers on the list, we know we're missing many more - add them in the comments! One Way by soleilani Marwil Bookstore, Detroit Marwil Bookstore offers an incredible variety of books and…
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Cars, Cows, Politics & Tigers

Well, there was supposed to be a Five Things you need to know about Michigan here but my job got in the way. Here's a couple things that would have been here ... you can see why this sort of thing is normally grouped under the "Five Things you…