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Michigan Musicians on Vacation: Timothy Monger in Oregon

By Mark | November 25, 2013

Following my recent interview with Matt Jones about his trip to Gettysburg, I’ve been inundated with suggestions as to other musicians I should speak with about their vacations. Today’s interview is with Timothy Monger, an accomplished singer-songwriter, who is perhaps still best known in these parts for his work with Great Lakes Myth Society. Well, […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Airbnb, Ale Trail, All the Young Dudes, Anthony Bourdain, Astoria, baseball, beer, beer tourism, Bend, Bill's Beer Garden, bird watching, Blackrocks Brewery, Calumet, Cannon Beach, Centerfield, Colin Stetson, Copper Harbor, Corey Feldman, Crow's Feet Commons, Crux Fermentation Project, Cyndi Lauper, Dale Cooper, David Bowie, Detroit Tigers, Detroit tourism, Doug Coombe, Enya, Fort Wilkins, Fratelli Chase Theme, fundraisers, fundraising, FundRazr, Goonies, Goonies tourism, Great Lakes Myth Society, Green Dot Stables, Haystack Rock, high desert, Hitsville, Houghton, Jim Leyland, John Fogerty, Joslyn Layne, Journey, Julee Cruise, Keweenaw, Kristie Brablec, Leelanau, Lehto's, Lenawee County, loud music, Lupitas, Mackinac Bridge, Marquette, Michael Waite, Michigan Musicians on Vacation, Mississippi Studios, monoliths, Moonage Daydream, Motown, Mott the Hoople, music, musicians, Netarts Bay, Ocean Roll, oral hygeine, Oregon, oysters, Pacific Northwest, pasties, pastries, pop music, Portland, pub crawl, Puffins, Quincy Dredge, ruin porn, rural pop, Saline, school bus, soundtracks, Sparrow Bakery, Steve Miller Band, Sutton's Bay, Tandem Ciders, The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love, Tom Rudd, tooth brushing, Torii Hunter, Twin Peaks, Upper Peninsula, vacations, vitamins, west coast, whiskey | 13 Comments

What exactly happened to Detroit?

By Mark | November 23, 2013

Someone from Europe posed the following question on Reddit a few days ago… “Americans: What exactly happened to Detroit? I regularly see photos on Reddit of abandoned areas of the city and read stories of high unemployment and dereliction, but as a European have never heard the full story.” Here, because I think some of […]

Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized | Also tagged Albert Kahn, anti-union, automotive industry, Belle Isle, Brush Park, Chicago, city income tax, Coleman Young, Corktown, corruption, crack cocaine, Dave Bing, Detroit '67 riots, Detroit City Council, Detroit corruption, Detroit Riot, Detroit River, factories, Ford Field, Ford Motor Company, forestry, General Motors, GM, Henry Ford, housing bubble, housing crisis, industrialization, Joe Louis Arena, Kevyn Orr, Kwame Kilpatrick, logging, lumber, maquiladora, Mexico, NAFTA, North American Free Trade Act, northern migration, outsourcing, People Mover, Poletown Plant, prohibition, public transportation, Pulte, racism, Rail, Renaissance Center, Rick Snyder, rightsizing of Detroit, Ross Perot, the parable of Detroit, union busting, unions, westward expansion, who to blame for the situation in Detroit | 9 Comments

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