Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Mona Shore Michigan


Join the Facebook page to allow transgender student Oakleigh Reed to be Prom King . He recieved the most vote Homecoming King. He was dethroned because school admiristration stated he register as a girl. This is getting a great deal of national press. http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=103699403028170&ref=ts

Friday, September 24, 2010

Saugatuck Michigan

Saugatuck Dunes, in this article about 7 most endangered beaches http:..travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-35816900


Saugatuck Dunes, Michigan



Saugatuck is only 90 miles by boat from Chicago, but a visit to the classic resort town is like a step back in time. Among its many charms are beaches distinguished by the rare freshwater dunes formed by the waves of Lake Michigan. "Right now, you can see the dunes very much as Europeans saw them 200 years ago," says David Swan, president of the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance. Yet they may be in peril. The issue: a development proposed for a parcel of beachfront just outside the gates of Saugatuck Dunes State Park.



While the developer maintains that preserving the local culture and ecology are its top priorities, critics contend that the plan to build about 30 homes, a nine-hole golf course, a 66-slip marina, and a small hotel and condos heralds a drastic and deplorable change. Among the worries: The hotel's nine-story tower would forever alter a landscape that has drawn artists for centuries, and the construction will harm the fragile ecology of the 200-foot-high dunes. Local zoning laws prohibit anything of the scale being proposed, but the developer has filed a series of lawsuits to change them. In response, Saugatuck residents recently voted to raise taxes for a legal defense fund. Meanwhile, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named Saugatuck Dunes on its 2010 list of the country's most endangered historic places, and the developer has threatened to sue for defamation. Much of the shore remains protected, including Oval Beach, its best-known stretch, and an adjacent parcel the developer sold back to the municipality and state for conservation. But the rest of the shoreline—and the future of the town—hang in the balance.



If you go: Stay at the Sea Suites Boat & Breakfast, an inn located on a 105-foot houseboat docked right outside town. It has four large air-conditioned suites with private baths, and a hot tub on the top deck.

Art Prize Grand Rapids

Sept 22 to Oct 11 Grand Rapids Mi- 10 The Art prize Photograph  - Grand Rapids Mi- 10 The Art prize Fine Art Print Opens this pass wednesday to bigger crowds then expected. www.artprize.org/

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Indianapolis art museum -coming exhibition

Body Unbound: Contemporary Couture from the IMA’s Collection, on view from April 10, 2010 to January 30, 2011, will examine the many ways designers have manipulated, transformed and liberated the female figure. The exhibition will feature groundbreaking designs by Rudi Gernreich, Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, Thierry Mugler, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gianni Versace and other avant-garde fashion designers. Body Unbound will explore how these designers used modern construction and unexpected materials to contort, conceal, reveal or mock their wear

theater outing Indianapolis

...And Then There Was Nun!

September 17th through October 16th

The return of TOTS' Film Noir series! A hilarious parody of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians featuring the Sisters of San Andreas who are a collection of very familiar faces. Sisters Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Gloria Swanson, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katherine Hepburn, Vivian Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead and Sister Alfred (Hitchcock) have all been summoned by Mother Paramount to a retreat in a secluded mansion where one by one they are killed off in hilarious fashion until we ultimately learn whodunit!

This sound like fun-I'm hoping David and I can make it out for this.