Featured Stories
Heather Johnson Durocher
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Fustini's Oils & Vinegars isn't your typical store. It's a place where customers are infatuated with the products, and a place where the owners care so much about what they do that they wrote the book on it--quite literally. Second Wave's Heather Johnson Durocher stopped in recently for a taste.
Sam Eggleston
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Local businesses are the lifeblood of a community. Be it the gas station down the road, the mom-and-pop's diner or the painter who advertises via bulletin boards, local entrepreneurs not only work here, they often live here as well. What's even better is that dollars spent at our local businesses stay local, says managing editor Sam Eggleston.
Sam Eggleston
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Traverse City and Northwest Michigan are full of movers and shakers and innovative entrepreneurs. Lisa Wehr, the founder and owner of Oneupweb, is all of those and more. She has changed the way marketing works in this region, and she's hardly done altering the way the game is played.
Kim North Shine
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The old Five Man Electrical Band song states that there are "signs, signs, everywhere there's signs." Mark VanderKlipp and the company Corbin Design are sure glad there are, because without them people would be lost everywhere. This is the company behind the scenes making sure that you and everyone else know exactly where they are and where they are headed.
Sam Eggleston
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Welcome to North x Northwest, a new column by managing editor Sam Eggleston which will be featured in each new edition of Northwest Michigan Second Wave. From food to wine to communities, businesses and people, he will discuss a myriad of topics. This week, he notes just how much of a foodie destination this region has become.
Michael Schafer
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
When the news of another winery opening in Northwest Michigan comes around, you have to ask yourself--do we really need another? Second Wave's Michael Schafer asked that very question to the owners of the newly-opened Verterra winery. The answer? A convincing "yes!"
Sam Eggleston
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
This time of year, everyone starts to look back at the months that have come and gone and the accomplishments that they, and those around them, have achieved. Here at Northwest Michigan Second Wave, we do the same--we'll be taking a hiatus from publishing over the holidays with a return Jan. 17. We hope that makes you begin to look forward at what Northwest Michigan and our publication will offer in 2012.
Tracy Certo
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
What's the best thing a city can do to achieve more economic success? Increase its number of college graduates. Read how the Talent Dividend calculates just how much college degrees add to a city's bottom line--think billions--and cities right here in Michigan are some of 57 competing for the $1 million dollar prize to boost college attainment.
Kim North Shine
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Picking out cards to send for the holidays is never easy. But Paperworks Studios, in Traverse City, makes selecting your cards much easier, because there's no other place you'll be able to get cards that are made with the love and affection of Paperworks' employees. Second Wave's Kim North Shine is feeling it.
Kim Eggleston
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive collects the oldest tree DNA on Earth, and clones new seedlings from it. If it sounds like Jurassic Park, but with trees, you're halfway right, except it's real, and urgent for the future of our planet. It all happens right down the road in Copemish.
Christopher Diem
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Bed and breakfasts, like hotels, can often be measured by their amenities. Wireless Internet. Air conditioning. Movie channels. But what about wood-fed cook stoves? Those are the amenities you'll find at Hillside Homestead, a bed and breakfast that harks back to 1910 for a different type of place to stay while on vacation.
Michelle Bruch
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
We're taking a closer look at people and organizations in cities across the country that are transforming neighborhoods and driving change in urban areas. The second in our series about good urban ideas focuses on how the best city spaces are built from the ground up rather than planned from the top down.
Kim North Shine
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
You wouldn't know it by looking at the outside of the IE Effects offices in Traverse City, but magic is created inside--movie magic, that is. Second Wave writer Kim North Shine recently sat down with the folks over at IE to discuss their work and their views on the movie industry's future in Michigan.
Heather Johnson Durocher
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Matt and Keegan Myers don't think of M-22 as a mere highway that twists, turns and winds through Leelanau County--instead, they view it as a frame of mind. Second Wave's Heather Durocher sat down and talked with the brothers about their M-22 business, triathlon and more.
Howard Lovy
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Something is growing in Northern Michigan that hasn't been seen in the fields since about the time the Civil War was taking place--hops. No, not the kind that bunnies do, but rather the kind that brewers do. Hops are an integral part of the beer-making process, and now they are being grown, processed and purchased right here in Northwest Michigan.