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…
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…
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…
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…
“It’s all about the breakfast,” explains Bob Piskoty on why he books The Kalamazoo House Bed & Breakfast on his frequent business trips to Kalamazoo. He and…
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…
Sun is shining, temperature’s rising, most of the tulips have faded and the hostas and other ground cover is well, covering the yarden. And it’s…
In my hunt for gifts from the Great Lakes State I decided to check in on MIUpperHand, an online store for goods handmade in the Upper…
