
This week on Absolute Michigan
Watch Out! by useful_fiction
This week we're spending some time enjoying the holiday season, some working on new features for Absolute Michigan and some more just enjoying Michigan's snowy fun. While we do that, we'll let a few of the many…

Photo Friday: Rochester Elevator by St. Laurent Photography
Earlier this week, Alanna St. Laurent added the 24,000th photo to the Absolute Michigan group. Though her photo of the Borealis sculpture at the Ren Cen is cool, I thought this one would be a better introduction.
Alanna has a lot more…

Five things you need to know for Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The Kalamazoo Gazette notes that while our state's leaders pay lip-service to protecting our environment and many plans call for re-development that leverages our amazing natural assets, we are almost at the bottom of US states in spending to…

Photo Friday: Lioness by rckrawczykjr
This photo is titled Lioness and it was taken by Ralph Krawczyk Jr. at the James Scott Memorial Fountain on Belle Isle in Detroit. If you follow Michigan in Pictures, you've seen a lot of Ralph. If you don't click here to see what you've…

Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Welcome to the "Big Tuesday" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan (sequel to our critically acclaimed Big Wednesday edition). For us, some big news was the fact that the Nick of Time Gang in Lansing managed to replace the service…

Weird Photo: Meet the Hamtramckquins
Last year Insomnia Jones, J.D. profiled "the poor, decrepit plastic people of a small, Polish-friendly Michigan town" (Hamtramck) in her Hamtramckquins set. Since it's a "Weird Wednesday" here on Absolute Michigan, we thought we'd share…

Five things you need to know for Tuesday, November 27, 2007
They said it: Dana Johnson, chief economist for used-to-be-Detroit-based Comerica Bank in forecasting modest 1-2% growth for Michigan's economy in 2008. We'll finally have the sense, after four years of a downturn, we're on a rise again. Roy…

Photo Friday: Comerica Park by tdog4msu1
Thomas has added a bunch of photos of Michigan scenes like Comerica Park to the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr.
He took this photo of the home of the Detroit Tigers from the top floor of the Ren Cen. Check out his other photos from…

Dressing it up for Thanksgiving
2007 will be the 81st Thanksgiving Parade along Detroit's Woodward Avenue. Today they call it America's Thanksgiving Parade ® and I think there's a dress code.
The photo is Briefcase Brigade by visualthinker and it's just one of the…

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Exploring the wreck of the Grecian
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Most information provided by the DEQ's Michigan Underwater Preserves page.
The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron off Alpena was designated in…

Photo Friday: First Presbyterian 01 by numstead
You gotta click through and see it bigger!
Nathan takes some amazing photos of Michigan's cities and urban architecture. Have a look at his photos of Ann Arbor (especially this one) and Grand Rapids (especially this one ... and that one…

Five things you need to know for Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Downtown, down the hatch, downriver, downstream - I'm sensing some kind of a theme here...
Quicken Chooses Detroit Yesterday's Detroit News reported that Quicken Loans has chosen to move its headquarters to Detroit:
The move, pending…
