Welcome to 'The Week' for October 20-26. This is where we will be posting comments such as news items, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan and other items of note.

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Temps are dropping and most areas have [...]

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This week we're broadcasting (sort of) live from the Renaissance Center in Detroit and the Creative Cities Summit 2.0.

In addition to a cool outing that we'll talk about later, we were able to check out the «Unconference» at MOCAD where 150 or so people gathered to focus on the future of Detroit. [...]

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As now in October... by sgs_1019

A sampling of Michigan festivals & events for the month of October. As usual, there's no way we'll get them all, so please add links and information about those we've missed (or reviews of ones we have here) in the comments below.

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Currant harvest - get ready for jam! photo courtesy Earthworks Urban Farm Back in August, Detroit Make It Here - a site produced by Crain's Detroit Business that is targeted at young professionals - had an interesting article titled The urban prairie: Detroit farms connect people, food that explores the rise...

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