
5x5 Night in Grand Rapids
5 ideas, 5 minutes each, 5 slides each, 5 judges, 5,000 dollars
5x5 Night is a monthly event in Grand Rapids that allows 5 people to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges who decide how to award $5,000 on the last Tuesday night of every…

Dig Michigan: Flint and the Tri-cities of Bay City, Saginaw & Midland
Flint/Tri-Cities is the third of Michigan's regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away and…

The Week for July 14-20, 2008
And so is the CSL Tadoussac by mdprovost
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." -Measure for Measure
Hundreds of years later, Shakespeare still has wisdom…

Word of the Week: Freighter
St. Mary's Challenger by midmichphotos
The word of the week is freighter, a familiar sight all along Michigan's shores. If there's one site that you can't miss, it's Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online aka "boatnerd.com". For well…

The Absolute Michigan channel on chime.tv
The chime.tv web site provides a very well thought out and high-powered* interface for viewing internet video. They also allow you to create a channel, so we created the Absolute Michigan channel on chime.tv.
The first video we're featuring…

The Huron Lightship: A Lighthouse that Floats
Lightship Huron by Darryl Wattenberg
Another view of the Lightship Huron
Lighthouses don't move ... unless they are lightships. Lightships were used in places where it was too difficult or expensive to build a lighthouse. A lightship…