Wisdom Sauce
The wind today doesn’t blow, it swirls in eddying leafy gusts. Trees dance naked in southern drafts, green tipped spring growth colors the horizon for the first time in months. Early May in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula runs the weather spectrum—from humid days overshadowed by big bellied storm clouds to bursts of snow flurries that keep […]
Making REdesign A Reality In The U.P.
Taylor Ehle REdesigns The Way We Wear Clothes
Marquette Michigan – If someone asked you, “If given the choice to save 1,500 gallons of water, keep unecessary pesticides out of the ground, and prevent caustic chemicals from entering our water systems, would you do it?” I believe most of us would answer a resounding, “Yes!” Now what if they said you could accomplish […]
Che Bello’s 4th Annual Fashion Show
Bringing On The Summer With Style!
Marquette Michigan – The Che Bello Fashion Show kicked off the summer season in downtown Marquette with it’s 4th annual event Thursday, April 23, 2015. The show is an awesome collaboration by many local businesses who donate their time, talents, and services to raise money for a community based charity each year. Patrons of the […]
The Art Of Eating Chocolate
If you’re at all like me, you’ve probably had a situation like this: You’re at a party. There is a bowl of m&m’s on the refreshment table around which you’re conversing. You grab a handful of m&m’s while your chatting. And then another handful. And then another. And before the night is over, you single-handedly […]
Recipe Lines
I’ve been cared for by almost every permanent neighbor within a square mile of my parents’ home on the north shore of Big Manistique Lake, and many other country “neighbors”. As a result, my early culinary background was diverse: Campbell’s Bean with Bacon soup at the Saunders’, sliced hotdogs on Kraft Macaroni and Cheese at […]
Care And Feeding: Proper Record Care
Marquette Michigan – Generations have passed now since vinyl albums were the mainstream system for enjoying our favorite music. So as vinyl record collecting makes a comeback to new generations of listeners it’s only natural that many people out there may have no idea how to best care for their grooved vinyl discs. Geoff Walker, […]
A Brisk, 15-Minute Walk Could Help Curb Your Junk Food Cravings
Exercise is great for you and all, but who has time for over an hour at the gym after a long work day? Unfortunately, a lot of people abandon their fitness ambitions because of time. Little do they know, any amount of exercise is good exercise. A recent study published in PLOS ONE has revealed […]
The Pasty: A Recipe Wrapped In Memories
Growing up in the Upper Peninsula, pasties become a part of your national identity—the food linked with wooded hills cradled in the arms of three great lakes. It’s the food that came with miners who forever altered the craggy, ancient, almost-mountains as they dug for copper, iron, and even gold. Cornish miners, communities with half-lives […]
Our Love For Chocolate
At Donckers Love is Chocolate!
Over the past few months we have learned about what chocolate is in Daniel Rutz’s article, What is Chocolate? , how different types of cacao beans affect the taste of your end product chocolate in Davin Makela’s article, Flavors of Cacao, and we have learned some powerful reasons why we should eat more chocolate in […]
Marquette Kings and Queens of Drag
Marquette MI- Northern Michigan University hosted their annual drag show on January 23rd, 2015. People of all ages packed NMU’s Vandament Arena for the yearly drag show. For 19 years some of the Midwest’s greatest kings and queens have been making the trip to NMU to perform for the Upper Peninsula. The family friendly show […]
