It must have something to do with my Finnish roots, but I like rutabaga. The homely looking relative of turnip and cabbage is a staple…
Ooh, la la. Michigan has its own Paris, complete with Eiffel Tower. But the name and the replica of the world-famous landmark have nothing to…
In the North End of Boston, is Wednesday still Prince Spaghetti Day? Those of us of a certain age will remember the classic TV commercial…
As I poked around the Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing early one Saturday morning I half expected to turn a corner and bump…
If Suzanne Witthoff’s idea hadn’t taken root, the museum shop at the University of Michigan Museum of Art might have been filled with $67,000 worth…
Big Band leader Glenn Miller made the city famous in the 1940s with the hit, “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo,” but now that the…
He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, a prolific writer whose 30 books, from his very first, The Green Bay Tree in…
Tiger Town: 1983 Family drama written and directed by Alan Shapiro, starring Roy Scheider, Justin Henry, Ron McLarty, Bethany Carpenter, with appearances (as themselves) by…
I was looking for a cup of joe to fuel the ride back to the 313 from a quick trip to Lansing and figured there’d…
In the 1870s the first “Orientals” arrived in Detroit, and by the 1920s and ’30s the number of Chinese immigrants had grown to support a…
