Posts Tagged ‘Detroit’

12 Aug 2009

by j.

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Babbling, Misc., News

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Renaissomething…

It would appear that good ol’ Baghdad Bob has a new gig for the City of Detroit’s tourism board:

“This is a city that has been going through an incredible renaissance. We have wonderful history, great architecture and fabulous ethnic restaurants. We also have 37% less crime than the national average,”
I love Detroit… but I [...]

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10 Aug 2009

by j.

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Babbling, Family, Golf, Misc., Politics

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The Great Michigan Adventure…

For the last three weeks or so I had ventured back to Michigan for a tour, if you will, of the state of which I was raised.
On my agenda first was the Hiawatha Music Festival, a traditional music (read hippies in long, grotesquely patterned skirts banging on fiddles, bongos, and the usual assortment of acoustic [...]

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