What up Kzoo? I joined the Townsquare Media team from Detroit and am now enjoying the role as Digital Managing Editor for Townsquare Media Kalamazoo/ Battle Creek. I graduated from Specs Howard School of Media Arts in Southfield, MI in 2012. After working at a Top-40 station in Detroit, I moved to Kalamazoo in 2017, and it's the best move I ever made. I'm a lover of all music, a vocalist, wrestling commentator for the Kalamazoo promotion Independence Pro Wrestling, and obsessed with music and entertainment. Catch me weekdays on 103.3 KFR 10 AM - 3 PM & Weekends on 1077 RKR.
Mark Frankhouse
Introducing Hammerschläging: The Most Michigan Game Ever Created
You can play with as many people as you can fit around a stump. The stump is your game board and each player in the game has a 3-inch nail. Each nail is hammered into the stump about a half of an inch. The object of the game is to be the person with the last nail not fully hammered into the stump. Once your nail is completely hammered in, you're out. This is where things get interesting though
The Beatles “Paul Is Dead” Rumor Began With This Michigan DJ
Russ Gibb (June 15, 1931 – April 30, 2019) was a concert promoter, and media personality from Dearborn, Michigan, best known for his role in the 'Paul is dead' phenomenon, a story he broke as a disc jockey on radio station WKNR-FM in Detroit.
Accident At Battle Creek Field of Flight Air Show Causes Death
Battle Creek Police Department as they are saying tragedy has struck the Battle Creek Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival at Battle Creek Executive Airport, saying that an accident involving someone attending the festival has died
Let’s Look Back To When Michigan’s Little Caesar’s Sold Seafood
In 1959, Mike and Marian Ilitch opened the first Little Caesars – which also featured spaghetti, shrimp, chicken, and fish - in a strip mall at 32594 Cherry Hill Road, in Garden City, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit). Mike wanted to call it “Pizza Cheap”, but “Little Caesars Pizza Treat” suggestion won out as the first name.
Michiganders Question If There’s More To The Disappearance of Ruth Ann Miller
On Saturday, July 16, 1966 a happy and healthy seven-year-old girl named Ruth Ann Miller was playing with friends. She fell down an abandoned 1-mile deep vertical mine shaft in Calumet, Michigan in Houghton County (Upper Peninsula)
The Man Who Invented Paint By Number Was Born In Detroit
His name is Dan Robbins and he was bornin Detroit 97 years ago in 1925. Detroit Historical talks about how he got his start and ultimately gained success:
Michigan Man Interviewed For His Friendship & Time Spent with Elvis Presley
One special gift dealt to him was a coincidence of being drafted at the same time with Elvis Presley in the Army, which led to a long time friendship, as Johnny spent the better part of 2 years with Elvis and his crew. In that time Johnny really got to know who the man Elvis Aaron Presley truly was, as they grew really close
Did This Traverse City Man Capture A UFO During Recent Lightning Storms?
The video, which was uploaded by Nate Taylor lasts 37 seconds is shocking in that when you view it on a computer screen, you can clearly see the shadow of the UFO fly from the middle left of the frame, across the middle then slope down and to the right. The shadow first comes into view at around the 13 second mark.
The Story Behind This Pink House In Ovid, Michigan
The story goes to impress her and help persuade her to come here, Raymond built this home and windmill trying in his mind to replicate a home in Holland.
J. Geils Band’s Peter Wolfe Celebrates Life of Slain Detroit DJ John O’Leary
John O'Leary was fatally stabbed by his roommate on Nov. 21, 2021, and his roommate was soon arrested for his murder. John had been a DJ in Detroit for nearly 40 years and made a major impact in the community and market, as someone I grew up listening to.
Someone In Michigan Once Saved Chuck Norris From Failing His Master Test
The test took place in 1970 and the late Grand Master Hwang Kee, one of the five original Founders to open solely Korean Martial Arts Kwans, was there to judge his performance. Here's how someone bailed Norris out
Michigan Has Two Buildings Shaped Like Barrels
There are some really unique housing and building structures in Michigan that range in everything from lavish, odd, unique and at times, ridiculous. Such is the case for two buildings in Michigan that are literally giant barrels.