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LandChoices interviews Tom Bailey, ex… Continue

Posted by Kirt Manecke, LandChoices on November 19, 2009 at 7:06am — No Comments

Fresh, Homemade Food in Downtown Traverse City

The El Dorado, Cafe, Catering and Events located at 149 E. Front Street in DownTown Traverse City next to the Captain's Quarters, between Cass and Union streets is the best kept secret in Traverse City. Chef John Hardy, Owner, has over 30 years of culinary experience. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. He has combined his love for the West with his love for cooking and created Cowboy Cuisine. Breakfast is served, in the Fall and Winter Months, Tuesday-Saturda… Continue

Posted by The El Dorado Cafe Catering and Events, John and Tracie Hardy, Owners on November 12, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

New website offers a place for Northern Michigan residents to buy, sell, and trade

New website offers a place for Northern Michigan residents to buy, sell, and trade Wheels-n-Deals Magazine Online is a place where the Northern Michigan neighbor has all the tools to buy, sell, or trade with one another. This powerful user friendly website is exclusive to over 15 Northern Michigan counties and has the added benefit of a national audience through search engines. Members of the communities can sell all types of property; autos, snowmobiles, motorcycles or watercraft (to na… Continue

Posted by Amy Savage on October 5, 2009 at 5:35pm — No Comments

John Robert Williams- The man behind the lens

Most Traverse City people know John Robert Williams as one of the guys who founded the Traverse City Film Festival and as a local photographer who has operated his photo studio in town for 30 years. His studio also shares his moniker, John Robert Williams Commercial Photography.… Continue

Posted by Missy Luyk on September 18, 2009 at 3:09pm — No Comments

Hosts to Pure Michigan

My wife Deborah is a Michigan girl. Born and raised and proud. She's not shy about it either when talking on blogs and over the Internet. She's "smitten with the mitten," as she likes to tell her out-of-state friends. And a couple of years ago, when we were thinking of taking our vacation out east, she said, "I don't know. I think I'd like to relax and go Up North. Besides, everything we want to do and our boys want to do is there anyway." Except whales. And the ocean. She knew this. And I did… Continue

Posted by Darren King on July 25, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

one down, more to go

Not a day for yachting you say? Certainly not the most thrilling. Despite thick gray threatening clouds overhead, the Traverse City Yacht Club held it's Wednesday races. And despite the dead calm over Grand Traverse Bay the boats did make it back to the marina, eventually. And I was in attendance. Inspired by the June issue of Traverse Magazine, one of the items on my summer list was to enjoy a drink on the deck at Scott's Harbor Grill while watching the Wednesday yacht races. I invited… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on June 17, 2009 at 11:52pm — 1 Comment

first spark

I remember waiting as a kid to go Up North. And once there, usually after the summer solstice we had two weeks or so to do everything cool. Even later when I worked Up North in the summer, staying with Grandma for a month or more, it was a mad dash to squeeze as much as possible out of the short time here. Nothing has changed now that we live Up North. And yesterday marked the start of summer with our first dinner on the beach. We're late. Memorial Day usually initiates the first picnic. Starin… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on June 14, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Parade of Homes Gives over a $250K Back to the Community

In the 20 years that the Home Builders Association of the Grand Traverse Area has produced the Parade of Homes, over $250K has been given back to the community. The HBA utilizes local non-profit organizations to host each Parade Home and then rewards the organization with a stipend a… Continue

Posted by Home Builders Association of the Grand Traverse Area on May 25, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Parade of Homes and Developments June 20 - 28, 2009

It’s that time of the year when the Home Builders Association opens many doors to you with the 2009 Parade of Homes. Nothing is quite like the feeling of a brand new home; and I invite you to experience the 17 special homes on tour in the Grand Traverse Area. Our participating builde… Continue

Posted by Home Builders Association of the Grand Traverse Area on May 22, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

The Cheese Throw Down Afterglow (and a Trip for Tastebud Travelers Who Missed the Party)

It’s been a few days since I’ve attended the Wisconsin Cheese Throw Down at Bowers Harbor Inn, and I apologize for the delay in the post-party blog. But you see, I’ve been in a cheese coma. This is what happens when a cheese lover attends an event showcasing a thousand-plus chunks of fine cheese and a dozen cheese-inspired gourmet dishes, all of which is washed down with her favorite local beers and wines. Judging by the turnout (Bowers Harbor Inn, its fabulous new outdoor patio and spiffy new… Continue

Posted by Lynda Twardowski on May 11, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

I am the cheese.

Living now in Traverse City, a place I consider a food lover’s paradise, it sometimes shames me that my three favorite foods haven’t changed as I’ve become an adult. They are, exactly as they were at age six: pizza, ice cream, and cheese. These are my deserted-island three. My last-meal trifecta. My go-to, triple-time-healer of a broken heart, bad hangover or even slightly irritable episode of P.M.S. I eat the big three, I feel joy. It’s very simple. They don’t have to be high-end either. In… Continue

Posted by Lynda Twardowski on May 5, 2009 at 9:11am — 3 Comments

The Catch

Tonight, as I walked from the main cabin to the Wee House, the wind was howling. Hard. It sounded like a freight train, circling around our “40″. I stopped along my snowy trail and listened. Closing my eyes in the dark, I relied on one of my five senses to capture the full mom… Continue

Posted by Sherry Sutherby on March 25, 2009 at 10:47pm — No Comments

Carter Oosterhouse in Traverse City

Go ahead women of Northern Michigan, breathe my rarified air. Yep. I touched Carter Oosterhouse, the carpenter-model-star of a slew of HGTV shows (currently, Red Hot and Green and Carter Can). Want the sizzling truth? He put his arm around me. Okay, enough. I'm old enough to be his mother (he was born when I was a freshman in college—I did the math). But here is what I really want to say about Carter: He’s a really good guy. The hometown… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on March 2, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Shootin the Boardman

Show us your pictures of the Boardman River! No, we do not need your opinion of what to do with the dams, just your pictures. The Grand Traverse Conservation District (GTCD) is holding a digital photography contest to determine the future banners that will be displayed behind the Boardman River Nature Center’s welcome desk. The banner size is approximately 7’ by 15’ and cannot be missed as one walks into the Nature Center (come and check it out if you have not yet). Britten and TruckSkin have g… Continue

Posted by JonP on February 20, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Meeting Brandon: Traverse City Iraq Veteran Michelle Rudzitis Introduces Me

I got to know Brandon Stout this weekend. Before Saturday afternoon, he’d only been a name—a part of the backstory to the piece I wrote about Traverse City Iraq war veteran in September of 2008 Michelle Rudzitis. On January 22, 2007, Michelle had her leg blown off by a roadside bomb when she was serving in Iraq. Brandon was her driver. The blast killed him. Since his death, Michelle has gotten to be friends with Brandon… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on January 29, 2009 at 10:36am — No Comments

Kids and Cross-Country Skiing in Traverse City

When my husband and I invite kids to go cross-country skiing with us, they've been known to run and hide, or slink off and call their parents to come get them. When we ask parents to bring the family along, they usually hem and haw and say they really should get their kids out skiing—after all, it's one of the healthiest, cheapest sports around—but usually they don't go. They know their kids will whine. Which would leave me thinking that kids and Nordic skiing just don't mix. Except that we hav… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on January 22, 2009 at 1:03pm — 3 Comments

Pilates in Traverse City

I'm 50. It's winter in Traverse City. I have a desk job. Two years ago, when I was 48 and it was winter and I had a desk job, I looked down at the midlife crisis my body was in and asked myself if there wasn't some remedy. I think I may have found it. One ingredient to this cure is across the alley in back of my office on Front Street, around the corner and up the flight of steps next to the Omelette Shoppe on Cass. The scent of warm raisin bread with frosting follows me up the steps. But once… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on January 8, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Friday Night in the Sleeping Bear Dunes

It’s Friday, the end of a very long workweek in Traverse City, and I’m looking forward to a wild time tonight. Nope, it’s not dropping mega bucks at a smoky nightclub or waiting in line for a table at the Olive Garden. My husband and I will cross-country ski Alligator Hill in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Dressing for for this occasion is simple. I leave my ski gear hanging on a hook in my bedroom so I can be changed within 15 minutes of getting off the bus from work. I have a new… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on December 5, 2008 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

Help with Holiday Pie (Crust)

I spilled the beans that I can't make a good pie crust (or, to be honest, any pie crust) in the October issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Since then, I got a little help from my friend, Olida, a homemade Michigan apple pie lover transplanted to NYC, who had been experimenting all summer with her pie crust while awaiting fall apples. Now she's a pro, even mixing Gruyere cheese in the crust of her apple pies.

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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on November 25, 2008 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Shop Traverse City for Your Next Renovation

My husband and I are starting our second renovation project in two years. After 26 years of marriage, we feel that our relationship can finally withstand it. A year ago we remodeled our kitchen. This renovation is for two bathrooms that haven’t been updated since Hubert Humphrey ran against Richard Nixon in 1968. That is excepting the red magic marker graffiti my son scribbled on the wallpaper when he was 4 in 2001. Our contractor, Kevin McCarty of Blue… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on November 17, 2008 at 12:07pm — 2 Comments

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