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Below the Surface

Below the Surface

Spend time beside any of our Great Lakes and you’re quickly reminded of what it means to be watchable.

November 2009
We've Got Mail... November 2009

We've Got Mail... November 2009

Praise us or pan us, but just put it down in words. Bravos or boos, we want to hear from you.

November 2009
Good Ways to Stay Well

Good Ways to Stay Well

Eating home-cooked food prepared with unprocessed ingredients and minimizing vices can keep your wallet fat and your waistline slim.

October 2009
Widening Our Orbits

Widening Our Orbits

Sure, the price of living is a lot of work. But we control our leisure hours, and we don’t have to spend that time blotto in front of CSI or flaccid at the computer screen.

September 2009
A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

Being odd man out chafes like ill-fitting clothes — sleeves that won’t reach our wrists no matter how vigorously we tug at the cuffs. Lucky are the people who are comfortable in their skin — and their setting.

August 2009
Staying Power

Staying Power

It’s a mainstay of metro Detroit media: Write about someone famous who used to live here.

July 2009
Making ‘Tweet’ Music

Making ‘Tweet’ Music

Every city has its sound: New Orleans jazz, L.A. hip-hop. In Motown, political bickering has become the same old song and dance, drowning more pleasant melodies.

June 2009
Places in the Sun

Places in the Sun

This year, especially, the early warm breezes may have the reviving effect of smelling salts — leaving us gulping and gasping with a sudden return to life.

May 2009
Contention, Reinvention

Contention, Reinvention

If metro Detroit political leaders were characters in a TV medical drama, they might be estranged parents so embroiled in a stubborn custody dispute that their sick child nearly dies while they bicker.

April 2009
It’s Time To Talk

It’s Time To Talk

A high-profile Washington, D.C., hostess once, when pressed for the secret to her great parties, advised handing guests a stiff drink the minute they step through the door.

March 2009

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