State Sen. Patty Birkholz was walking along the sugar-sand beach here on Lake Michigan recently when she picked up a handful of dime-size, black-and-white-striped shells clinging together at the ...

wandering "Michigan's Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash" at the Detroit Institute of Arts, up through May 3. This handsome show of large black-and-white images is calming and stirring both ...