Time to break out the long pants: tick season is back! The past couple of years we've had a tick boom along the west side of the state and it's happening again this year. Rich Keith spends a lot of time with ticks. He's the director of the Kalamazoo...
This week, the Detroit Regional Chamber's annual Mackinac Policy Conference gets underway on Mackinac Island. This is when Lansing, political Lansing at least, empties out of town and heads north to rub shoulders and click cocktail glasses with Michi...
This weekend, the electronic musical festival called Movement will bring in more than 100,000 people from around the globe to the birthplace of techno: Detroit. Techno is actually a much bigger deal in Europe than it is here. A lot of Detroit techno...
With a nod to Billy Joel, the Grand Rapids Art Museum is in a New York State of Mind these days. That's thanks to a special exhibition running this summer. T.J. Wilcox: In The Air is a multi-media celebration of the Big Apple's skyline by artist T.J....
As Dan Gilbert keeps buying buildings in downtown Detroit more than 70, now we're seeing the prospect of new businesses, new tenants, and new people downtown. Detroit Free Press columnist Nancy Kaffer wonders what this means in terms of private secur...
Monarch butterflies are not around in the numbers they used to be not by a long shot. By some estimates, monarch populations have dropped by 90% over the past twenty years. But why has that happened to these iconic butterflies? On a butterfly survey...
Imagine choreographing thousands of people into formations to look like famous things like the Liberty Bell, or the Statue of Liberty. Sound like a stunt? Maybe a little nutty? Well, that's exactly what Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas did in the ea...
I have to say, I never thought they would name the new Detroit River bridge after hockey legend Gordie Howe. We've been calling it the New International Trade Crossing so long it was at first hard to think of it as anything else. Originally, planners...
It's a question that will attract more attention than it might have before Detroit's bankruptcy raised the spectre of selling off the Detroit Institute of Artscollection to help pay down the city's crushing debt. Fortunately, the DIA survived unscath...
When we talk about immigrant communities in Detroit, the Hmong don't usually come up in that conversation. The ethnic group from Southeast Asia began settling in Northeast Detroit's Osborn neighborhood in the years after the Vietnam War. More recentl...