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Stateside: Restaurants open again; pandemic Super Bowl parties; Michigan’s bootlegging history

By • Feb 2, 2021

Restaurants are open for indoor dining in Michigan. Here's what that means for owners, workers, and diners
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Today on Stateside, Michigan restaurants and diners face the re-opening of indoor dining. Plus, an etiquette guide to the first Super Bowl in the pandemic. And, a look at Michigan’s role as a bootlegging hub during Prohibition.

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Restaurants reopen with a cautious optimism as restrictions lift on indoor dining

  • Tyler Scott is reporter with Michigan Radio
  • Amanda Danielson is the co-owner of Trattoria Stella in Traverse City

Wings for one, please: Your guide to a pandemic Super Bowl

  • Alex Beggs is a senior staff writer at Bon Appetit

Convergence of cars and alcohol made the Detroit-Windsor-Toledo triangle a bootlegging hotspot

  • Joe Boggs is a historian in Monroe
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