![Artists Drop Anchor in The Nautical City](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Leaf-dish-Rogers-City-IMAG0072-470x140.jpg)
A favorite little serving dish we bought at an art fair many years ago is dark green, made of thick clay, and shaped like a leaf…
![An Ice Gift: Michigan Ice Molds](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ice_8972-225x140.jpg)
Here’s a nifty gift idea for those who think the Great Lakes State is cool: MI-Ice Cube Trays that freeze water in the shape of Michigan—both the…
![Finnish Nisu](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nisu_7787-470x140.jpg)
No one ever went hungry at Ellen Lahti’s house or diner. My mom’s mom grew up in the Upper Peninsula but moved to Detroit where…
![Tradition Lives at Roma Cafe](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/roma_9109-470x140.jpg)
Oh how I’d like to be at the bar of Roma Cafe, sipping a Manhattan and listening to the walls talk. Roma, in Detroit’s Eastern Market, is…
![World's Largest Limestone Quarry is Pure Michigan](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/limestone_6630-470x140.jpg)
It looks like something out of the west…the wide open spaces, the eerie landscape. But it’s the world’s largest limestone quarry, located near the Tip…
![Moosewood: A Meat Glue-Free Zone](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/moosewood-dining-room_1571-470x140.jpg)
Maybe it was the memory of the unappetizing “meat glue” video (just as it sounds, the stuff that sticks meat parts together) that had made…
![Michigan Minute](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Barker-Lake-Superior.P1040956-470x140.jpg)
Take a break. Escape for a minute to a place of beauty, blinker light towns, beaches and oddities in Michigan, the Great Lakes State. Visit…
![Anatomy of a Murder](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/voelkeranataomycast-300x140.jpg)
Anatomy of a Murder: 1959 (unrated, adult themes) drama based on a true story, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden and Arthur O’Connell. Directed by…