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A few friends and I decided to take our rowboat out to the middle of Douglas Lake. It’s sunset, and the air is cool – but not too cool. Our boat is a worn, metal boat that tends to dramatically tip if you move the least bit out of place. The lake is clear and still, and as it grows darker and darker, the sky is becoming beautifully painted with hues of pink and purple, twisting and twining with various shades of blue. Gray clouds obstruct the colors in thick, ridged, stony stripes. All four…

The Latest New Home Design Trends

Each year at the National Association of Home Builders’ International Builders’ Show, the Best in American Living Awards (BALA) provide recognition to builders and design professionals who have accomplished outstanding design achievements. Awards are given in all sectors of the residential housing industry, including single-family production, custom, rental, affordable, interiors,…

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Ever wonder how many grapes it takes to make a bottle of Silver Leaf wine? How many grapes are in a glass? How much wine does one vine yield? We've answered these burning questions and more in this handy-dandy conversion chart.

Grape-to-Wine Conversion Chart:…

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To Da U.P. - A Sacred Quest

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A poetic journey into the U.P. of Michigan. Enjoy the Fall colors and stunning still photography while…

Traverse City Events: If the calendar isn’t telling us summer is over, the weather is blowing up a roaring North wind sea on Lake Michigan that is so wild I can hear it from my house a block away from Sleeping Bear Bay. It’s Labor Day 2011, and okay universe, we hear you: time to turn our thoughts inside…

Easter Screech Owls

By Guest Blogger Hanna VanDuzen, Soon-To-Be Sixth Grader at Glen Lake School

The screech owl release at The Homestead resort, put on by Wings of Wonder founder Rebecca Lassard, was inspiring, amazing and extremely fun! I learned about the screech owl as they were…

It's almost noon on Sunday, two days before the start of the 7th Traverse City Film Festival.  The New Foreign Jury has just watched the French film Queen to Play.  Leave it to the French to make chess sexy.  Queen to Play makes my jury's eighth foreign film so far. We've been ensconced in the cozy 35-seat Dutmers Theatre at the Dennos Museum on the southwest edge of NMC's campus since Friday morning.  All in all we'll have seen eleven films by the end of tonight.  After a…

The Homestead announces the new Sounds of Sleeping Bear concert series for summer 2011. The concerts takes place on beautiful Bay Mountain that is located in the Village at The Homestead. Guests  will experience dazzling views…

We love Leelanau Coffee. So much in fact, that we had it shipped to us when we lived out of state for a few years. Yrgacheffe is our favorite. And we're big Stone House Bread fans too.



At the recent Red Hot Best Bash, we…

From the rooftop of the unit in Traverse City's 101 North Park where Nick Darga lives, you can look down on the beach, the bay…

Okay Northern Michigan. Here's your chance to sound off about what you love best about our people, places, food, wine and events. Click to vote for the Red Hot Best of Northern Michiganand we'll be announcing the top three winners in each category in the June 2011 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. You'll find nominations on the ballot—but if you think you…

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 - The latest National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) Remodeling Market Index (RMI) edged up to 41.5 in the fourth quarter of 2010, compared to 40.8 in the third quarter. An RMI below 50 indicates that more remodelers say market activity is lower compared to the prior quarter than report it is higher. The RMI has been running below 50 since the final quarter…

I'm going off topic today to ask you to sign a new petition from the World Society for the Protection of Animals to end horrific bear bile farming at http://www.endbearfarming.org/en/. It will take you less than 20 seconds.



Imprisoned in coffin sized “crush cages” barely big enough for a bear’s body, bears enslaved in bear bile farming suffer this way for a lifetime. They endure this torture for up to 25 years. Try to imagine…

With our 21st annual Parade of Homes & Developments now history, it is time to celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of all who participated.…

My husband and I are Just back from our mini-vacation at the Bear River Writers Conference. We kicked it off by attending a fabulous evening at the Perry Hotel in Petoskey listening to readings by poets Jack Ridl and Jane Hirshfield and essayist Thomas Lynch. We laughed, flirted with tears, and fell in love with words all over again. …