Michael Hardy

Not even proximity to an actual beach will deter the zeal of lagoon builders.

LANSING, Mich. — More than six decades ago, Michigan delegates gathered in Lansing and argued over how their state should be governed. They debated educati

Avery County once had numerous individuals who served as “Candy Stripers.” No, they did not work in a confectioner’s shop. They were hospital volunteers, often high school or college students.

EAST TAWAS, Mich. — More than a century of Iosco County history is moving from museum shelves into digital storage. The Iosco County Historical Society has

A University of Michigan AI project has rebuilt 55,000 pages of Regents records, making 186 years of Michigan history easier to search.

If you think a horseshoe belongs on a farm, you haven’t sat down for lunch in Springfield. In 1928, Chef Joe Schweska at the Old Leland Hotel took a thick

Centuries before refrigeration, Indigenous communities in Michigan buried food underground. Archaeology in the Saginaw Valley is showing how the system wor

Texas’s junior senator didn’t work up much of a sweat researching this life of a conservative icon.

Wilder is not as well known as Marmon or Tufts, but he played a crucial role in the development of the area in the post-Civil War year.

“Hangmen”: Lesser McDonagh, imperfectly staged — but still fun - You can rely on Martin McDonagh. Black humor. Sardonicism. Impending menace. Clever twists. Simple phrases reworked ‘til they rise above their simplicity. But a potential downside to that reliability is that McDonagh’s lesser works inevitably put you in mind of his best. Hangmen — which Long Beach Playhouse delivers solidly if a tad too rigidly — falls in the former category. It’s a good play (with the exception of Seven Psychopaths, everything he’s penned ranges from good to transcendent) — it just doesn’t do itself any favors by being so identifiable as by the author of The Pillowman and The Banshees of Inisherin and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.