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	Michigan Travel: Great Escapes From kayaking along the Detroit River to bellying up to the bar in an Upper Peninsula brewpub, traveling in Michigan is a year-round love affair.
	Wings Over Michigan Former Girl Scout’s memoir recalls Detroit's postwar heyday as a small airport hotbed. By Richard Bak
	Home Décor: Old & New Local furniture emporiums and antique centers/auction houses offer inspired design ideas from the past and present. Styling by Stephanie Potts // Photographs by Martin Vecchio

Features

Michigan Travel: Great Escapes

From kayaking along the Detroit River to bellying up to the bar in an Upper Peninsula brewpub, traveling in Michigan is a year-round love affair.

Wings Over Michigan

Former Girl Scout’s memoir recalls Detroit's postwar heyday as a small airport hotbed.

By Richard Bak

Home Décor: Old & New

Local furniture emporiums and antique centers/auction houses offer inspired design ideas from the past and present.

Styling by Stephanie Potts // Photographs by Martin Vecchio

The Insider More »
	Upscale Resale: 'The Dukes of Melrose' Detroit native Christos Garkinos is TV’s 'Robin Hood of Fashion.' By Wensdy Von Buskirk
	Sean Forbes' 'Deaf' Jam A loss of hearing hasn’t stopped Sean Forbes from launching a rap career. By Jim McFarlin // Photographs by Joshua Kristal
	U-M Professor Develops Self-healing Concrete April showers bring May flowers — and better roads and bridges? By Rachelle Hadley
	Eastern Market's Proposed Shipping-container Hotel Proposed hotel to be made from reused shipping containers. By Ariel Achatz
	Birmingham Makeup Artist Lends His Talents to New 'Oz' Film Jon Lieckfelt’s latest brush with moviemaking lands him on the set of ‘Oz the Great and Powerful.’ By Jim McFarlin

The Insider

Upscale Resale: 'The Dukes of Melrose'

Detroit native Christos Garkinos is TV’s 'Robin Hood of Fashion.'

By Wensdy Von Buskirk

Sean Forbes' 'Deaf' Jam

A loss of hearing hasn’t stopped Sean Forbes from launching a rap career.

By Jim McFarlin // Photographs by Joshua Kristal

U-M Professor Develops Self-healing Concrete

April showers bring May flowers — and better roads and bridges?

By Rachelle Hadley

Eastern Market's Proposed Shipping-container Hotel

Proposed hotel to be made from reused shipping containers.

By Ariel Achatz

Birmingham Makeup Artist Lends His Talents to New 'Oz' Film

Jon Lieckfelt’s latest brush with moviemaking lands him on the set of ‘Oz the Great and Powerful.’

By Jim McFarlin

Web Exclusive MORE »
	Mark Kurlyandchik Discusses Drinking Water on 'Stateside with Cynthia Canty' Hour Detroit Senior Editor Mark Kurlyandchik demystifies drinking water and discusses his article, "Ebb & Flow," on Michigan Radio.

Web Exclusive

Mark Kurlyandchik Discusses Drinking Water on 'Stateside with Cynthia Canty'

Hour Detroit Senior Editor Mark Kurlyandchik demystifies drinking water and discusses his article, "Ebb & Flow," on Michigan Radio.

The Way It Was More »
	George Pierrot, 1965 The Way It Was By George Bulanda

The Way It Was

George Pierrot, 1965

The Way It Was

By George Bulanda

24/Seven More »
	‘Otterly’ Aquatic This mom’s a natural at giving swimming lessons.
	Ebb & Flow: Demystifying Drinking Water Is the glass half empty or half full? It depends on what kind of drinking water is inside. By Mark Kurlyandchik
	Big Plans: When Erie Canal Envy Got Michigan Digging The abandoned Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal project could have changed the face of Michigan. By Steve Wilke
	Getting Busy?: Detroit Zoo's Two-toed Sloth This aptly named sloth is a real couch potato.

Letter from the Editor More »
	Memorable Field Trips Memory is a fickle thing. There are times I can’t remember what I did yesterday. Other times, I’ll experience a total recall of details from a long-ago meal... By Steve Wilke

Letter from the Editor

Memorable Field Trips

Memory is a fickle thing. There are times I can’t remember what I did yesterday. Other times, I’ll experience a total recall of details from a long-ago meal...

By Steve Wilke