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though he was not democratically elected. I’m questioning the wisdom and integrity of both President Trump for his nominee and Judge Gorsuch for accepting this nomination.

Up until now, although I disagree with many of Judge Gorsuch’s decisions, I would say he has shown himself to be qualified for this nomination. But no person can claim to be more qualified than Judge Garland. Both records are clear on this point. Judge Gorsuch himself once thought of Garland as a “most impressive judicial nominee,” while criticizing politicians for “grossly mistreated” nominations.

What’s changed in his mind? By accepting this nomination, Gorsuch demonstrates that gross mistreatment works, and that he values personal ambition above all else.

Therefore it is reasonable and pragmatic for Senate Democrats to block this nomination and potentially any nomination under this president, so that the people’s voice is heard. And if this results in the “nuclear option” being exercised or four years of one or more vacant seats on the Supreme Court, so be it. After all, Republicans need the Supreme Court to uphold restrictive voter ID laws and gerrymandered districts in order to hold power very long, since in fact they represent a democratic minority.

David Gardner, Benzonia

Replacing ACA Not Easy Representative Bergman and President Trump want to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It won’t be easy.

Mr. Bergman prioritized maintaining coverage for those with pre-existing conditions and for dependent coverage until age 26.

President Trump promised insurance for everyone with much lower deductibles.

Here’s the catch. A viable insurance system must enroll many more healthy people than sick people. Achieving that balance requires a mandate.

Cornell University economist Robert Frank stated the ACA has three inter-dependent components: guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, a subsidy for low-income people, and a mandate for people to buy insurance. Experts agree that if the government removes one “leg of the stool,” the entire system collapses.

It gets harder. A Kaiser Foundation poll indicates greater than 70 percent of Trump supporters prefer the ACA’s elimination of outof-pocket costs for preventive services, health insurance exchanges to shop for prices and benefits, and closing the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap.

Will our elected officials prioritize providing health care for all or lowering taxes, reducing regulation, and shrinking government? Their answer is literally a matter of life or death.

If you have concerns, share them with Representative Bergman by calling 231-714-4785.

Michael Earl, Traverse City

Fix The Affordable Care Act The Kaiser Family Foundation reported in December 2016 that 47 percent of Americans do not want ACA repealed and 28 percent do not want repeal without replacement. Thus, 75 percent of Americans want affordable care—so fix it! Keep what is working. Twenty million more Americans now have health insurance. As of January 2017, 32 states including Michigan implemented ACA Medicaid expansion where federal monies were provided to cover more low-income uninsured individuals. A University of Michigan study found that the Michigan Medicaid Plan expansion created 30,000 jobs and increased revenues to hospitals, physicians, decreased unpaid charity and generated savings in behavioral health, etc.

Approximately 52 million adults under 65 with

preexisting conditions are now insured with no annual or lifetime limits on coverage. Women no longer pay more than men, maternal and newborn care is covered and women have better preventive care with no copay. Other preventive services include cancer, diabetes, cholesterol screenings, vaccinations, etc. with no copay. Seniors have lower prescription costs and adults under 26 are covered on their parents’ insurance.

A major problem with ACA is the high insurance premium for nearly 34 percent of Americans in which insurance companies play a role. Many states are working on solutions such as a consumer-driven premiums where the state determines which insurers can operate, negotiates prices and benefits. Other proposed solutions are enforcing special enrollment periods, shrinking provider networks and pushing ER costs onto consumers. Additionally, there needs to be some assistance to small and large employers in providing insurance packages and benefits for their employees.

Under ACA, 20 million more Americans have insurance coverage, consumer protections, benefits and preventive services. Insurance executives, legislators, health professionals, and consumers should fix it and don’t reinvent it.

Catherine Hunter, Boyne City

Bergman & The ACA Congressman Bergman’s recent editorial in the Record-Eagle regarding the Affordable Care Act as well as letters he has sent to his constituents on the same subject are full of lies (e.g., The ACA has “discouraged economic growth” and has “placed the government in the driver’s seat of your health care decisions”) and misleading statements.

Please contact Congressman Bergman and tell him to stop lying about the ACA. Then tell him don’t repeal it, improve it.

Fred Cepela, Traverse City

Block The Nominations Mitch McConnell said “the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court Justice.” Assuming he was being sincere, he would have to acknowledge that our voice spoke against our president making this nomination. To be clear, I’m not questioning President Trump’s legitimacy; our President is constitutionally legitimate, even

A Response To Giving A Chance I’d like to respond to J. Parth’s letter in your Feb. 6 issue in support of the Donald.

J. Parth expresses a common theme we are now hearing from Republicans: “Give him a chance.” As if we had no idea what he might do once elected. First off, regarding the screening of immigrants: If J. Parth did a little research, it would show that it takes potential immigrants two to eight years of questioning, meetings, vetting, etc. before they are granted the chance to come here. You make it sound like the Donald is the first person to think they should be questioned.

On Obamacare; the fact that Northern Michigan has about 55,000 people who rely on our healthcare through this program; if the GOP had any idea what to do to improve it, why have they kept it a secret for the past eight years? Do you think the stock market recovery just happened, post Nov. 8? Did you not notice that U.S. unemployment has been at low levels throughout the last few years of Obama’s presidency, and the stock market nudging record highs the last few years, or was it unrecognizable to you because it was under a Democrat? This chant of thinking the last four years have been a nightmare, but all the good things you cite have been ongoing for years now, and have nothing to do with the confused, amateur moves being made by Trump and his minions.

Finally, “Treat our new president with respect”: Was there one Republican on planet earth for the last eight years who might have said that?

Tom Pixley, Traverse City

Colonization, Not Immigration Let me reassure Ellis Boal (Letters, Feb. 6) that neither John Tanton, whom I’ve known for 35 years, nor I are racists, and that the organization I run, US Inc., that publishes The Social Contract, has never advocated for “the preservation of a white majority.”

Regrettably, if you think we should enforce our immigration laws and support adopting the reforms that the 1994-96 U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform chaired by the late Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) recommended, far-left groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will call you a “racist.”

When people move to another country but keep their native culture, language, and sometimes their native laws and political allegiances, the correct name for the phenomenon is not immigration, but colonization. Given the speed and enormous flow of migration today that is undeniably occurring in a growing number of places throughout the U.S. and Europe, every country has the right to prevent that from

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Crime and Rescue Map........................................7 Out of the Loop..................................................10 Travis’ Trip...................................................16 Cooking with a Legend....................................19 A Showcase of Restaurants..............................20 Shades of Blues at New Petokskey Festival........25 From Masquerade Balls to Broomball................26 Seen..................................................................27

dates...............................................30-34 music The North Carolines........................................23 Stringed Theory..............................................29 FourScore.......................................................36 Nightlife...........................................................37

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Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................4 Style.................................................................9 Crossed...........................................................11 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates.................................35 The Reel.......................................................38 Advice Goddess..............................................39 Crossword.....................................................40 Freewill Astrology............................................41 Classifieds......................................................42

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happening within its borders.

In the article that Mr. Boal cites (“A tale of two legacies,” 1/23/17), reporter Patrick Sullivan mentioned my reference to the politically charged state of Israel as an example of a country that has a sovereign right to preserve its unique culture and identity by managing its immigration flow.

But he failed to report that I also cited Tibet, whose culture has long been threatened by the resettlement of Han Chinese.

Regarding the smear of racism, the real offenders are the SPLC and its Alt-Left allies who insist on refracting society through the fevered prism of race, and assign different groups privileges or penalties solely on the basis of their skin color. That is a surefire recipe for social conflict that every thinking person, including Mr. Boal, should oppose.

K.C. McAlpin, Petoskey

Save The EPA The current administration has launched a three-pronged attack on the EPA. Please call your congressperson to voice your opposition to HR 861 (to terminate the Environmental Protection Agency) and HR 637 (to prohibit EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions) and call your senator to tell them that you oppose the confirmation of Scott Pruitt as EPA administrator. We need to maintain a strong national regulatory authority that can effectively manage the health and safety of multijurisdictional waterways as well as control air pollution that knows no borders. A piecemeal state by state approach just won’t do.

And an agency stripped of its resources will be unable to function effectively.

Historically, we can thank the EPA: - for vast improvements in the quality our nation’s water bodies since the 1970s (Clean Water Act). Contrast the cesspool that was much of Lake Erie and the coastal waterways of the east coast in the 1970s to today - that we’re not wearing face masks to protect ourselves from airborne particulates and other pollutants, when we go outdoors (Clean Air Act) - that there haven’t been more disasters like Flint happening (Safe Drinking Water Act). With the potential for groundwater contamination that comes with increased fracking, we’ll need more protections.

- that greenhouse gas regulations are based on peer-reviewed science offering irrefutable proof that climate change is a clear and present danger.

For the sake of our future, please speak up and ensure that the EPA has the resources to protect our national health and the health of the ecosystems.

Michelle A. Moore, Traverse City

Embrace The Unknown Recent immigration “reforms” are beyond discriminatory; they demonize one-fourth of the world population based on their religious beliefs and our fear of the unknown.

As St. Augustine of Hippo said, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.” I have traveled in Muslim countries, visited Muslim communities in Michigan, and was always made to feel welcome. I have also hosted a Palestinian exchange student, and still keep in touch.

Those who are afraid reject the customs and culture of others by avoiding contact.

This is the dehumanizing of someone you don’t even know. That’s why it is so important to seek out information for yourself and not believe what someone else tells you.

Turn those next pages in the book of life and learn for yourself how other people live.

You will find that they share the same

needs of all humanity: air, water, food, shelter, friendship and love.

Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”

You only need to travel to Detroit or Grand Rapids, or challenge your unfounded opinions by coming to an event here in town sponsored

by MidEastJustPeace. You will be welcome.

Ann Rogers, Traverse City

Stand Up For Planned Parenthood I really love hypothetical babies. They’re super cute, they don’t cry at night, they don’t turn into bullies or shoplifters, and they don’t live in your house and eat your food for eighteen years. In spite of my fondness for them, however, I think concern for hypothetical babies is not a sound basis for policy decisions. At the very least, they should not be prioritized above living humans.

Thanks to Planned Parenthood, where I’ve been a patient since I was 16, I have never had to deal with a baby that was not hypothetical.

Nationwide, Planned Parenthood’s efforts to make sex education and contraceptives widely available have prevented countless unwanted pregnancies and the spread of disease. Their cancer screenings have saved numerous lives, including mine. They do an enormous amount of good in our community, particularly those among us who are near the margins because of our income, sexual orientation, health status, or sexual history. Furthermore, many Planned Parenthood clinics, including in Traverse City, don’t even offer abortions.

Everyone who cares about real human lives should stand up for Planned Parenthood. We cannot allow this essential healthcare provider to be defunded for the sake of hypothetical babies. Let’s make vasectomies great again!

Katherine Heins Traverse City

Seen Enough Yet? It has only been two weeks since the inauguration. Do you need to see any more to know where our country is headed?

Drain the swamp? His cabinet will be full of millionaires, most with no experience in the areas they are to lead. Many of them have made a career opposing the core missions of the departments they are to head up. His choice for Attorney General is a life-long racist, his closest advisor is the poster boy for white supremacists. Trump has indicated that regulations which protect consumers, the environment, workers, and the elderly are going to be lifted. Ethical guidelines are being ignored. Trump refuses to put any distance between his financial interests and his role as president. The swamp is getting deeper.

Make America Great Again? So far all we’ve had are threats and executive orders designed to shock and awe our fellow citizens, our leading corporations, our closest allies and trading partners, and governments across the globe. Sending shock waves of uncertainty, fear, and terror will make us great? Trump’s endless tweets ridicule, threaten and browbeat anyone who dares to challenge him. This will not keep America great.

The Media is the Enemy? As troubling as everything else is, Trump’s war on journalists and the truth is perhaps the most grievous concern.

Anything that doesn’t fit Trump’s narrative of reality is rejected. Trump and his mouthpieces deny the occurrence of things that happen, and make up things that never did. Journalists who dare to report news or opinions contrary to Trump’s narrative are liars, and are creating fake news. Media sources that continue to report Trump’s “truth” are legitimate; the others are not.

When information is controlled and shaped by government, free societies lose their freedom and tyrants are born.

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Peter Raphael, Traverse City

“AND THAT’S THE WAY IT WAS” opinion

BY Christopher Struble “The press is the watchdog that is in place to monitor those in government and other powerful positions.” That was the headline of the last story I was able to read last night before being advised by my girlfriend that enough time had been spent on my daily addiction to news. The First Amendment of the Constitution may be the most important of all, as it allows us to communicate freely as a society, to educate and to keep the public informed of the most pertinent issues. The main intention of our forefathers, though, was to make sure we could monitor our own government and be able to hold those accountable to the office and to the ethics and responsibilities that are expected of them.

The “power of the press” actually pertains to the fact that, until very recently, only a select few had access to the resources required to share information on a large scale.

Unfortunately, some who had actual printing presses first, and later other means of communicating to the masses such as the airwaves, have abused this right/power or used it to push personal or political agendas.

Needless to say, they were not in the best interest of the general public. James Strang (Mormon leader of Beaver Island), Henry Ford, William Randolph Hearst and Adolf Hitler would be examples of how people have utilized leaflets, fliers, and radio broadcasts. They trusted newspapers to spread propaganda and rhetoric that has not only changed history but at times humanity.

In fact, “fake news” has been around for a long time. When I was younger, it was common to see the newscasters of the day -- men with great names like Walter Cronkite, Eric Severide and Roger Mudd -- wait until the end of the broadcast, remove their glasses and give their “personal take” on a specific crisis or event; it was called an “editorial!”

Today we accept that we are listening to news from “the left” or reading a “right-leaning” paper where “the journalist” or “correspondent” is so opinionated and biased that the story simply becomes their perspective.

God forbid you are like me and reading online from your phone several times a day, where the “article” is written in such haste and with so many obvious grammatical or factual mistakes you can’t help but question the integrity of the remaining text.

Sensationalism and commentary, as I see it, are the majority of what is being submitted as news these days. Outright fake news should not just be attributed to the thousands of internet sources that abound. Remember Brian Williams? He was one of my favorite talking heads; smart, funny and still possessing that rare attribute that allowed me to believe he believed what he was saying. The most disturbing part about Williams’ multiple hyperboles was that he wasn’t just an anchorman, he was also the acting evening editor for one of the major three networks, a position that usually would imply one possessed virtue.

I honestly believe much of the divisiveness we are now experiencing is only being fueled by this separation of the press and their conflicting perspectives on even the most trivial of news stories. One only has to look to their favorite news source to confirm their beliefs on any issue. Right or wrong, the affirmation is out there and plentiful, regard-

less of what side you are on. This election has showcased the ability in all of us to become political commentators. Having two sides reciting inaccurate and biased information gathered from “journalists’” vast opinions -even if they represent reputable news organizations -- only acts as a catalyst to increase the likelihood of misinterpretation, while decreasing the chance for respectful discussion.

Another headline that caught my attention yesterday was, “should churches be able to endorse a political candidate?” My question/ response is, “should a newspaper be allowed to endorse a candidate?” How can The New York Times and dozens of other major sources for news not see a conflict in the attempt to present accurate, unbiased and equal coverage while endorsing a political candidate?

One of the most relevant examples where this policy became a conflict can be seen in the constant references to “Trump’s shocking win.” The majority of the polls and news outlets during the final months had Hillary Clinton favored by a wide margin, while the only statistic favoring Trump was the amount of Halloween masks being sold.

That Halloween mask statistic has never failed, BTW, very much in contrast to the endless analysts and reporters so confident in their assessments of this election and also so wrong. If one were to go back and read the progression of Huffington Post’s reports, I think the failure to provide competent and accurate coverage of this election on both sides would be apparent, and the outcome not so “shocking.” Many saw it coming all along, despite being force-fed the Hillary sunshine pill.

With the current political and social environment we are in, where people either feel or actually can’t express their beliefs without fear of ridicule or repercussions, we need as much accurate and objective information as possible. Perhaps a broader “common ground” based on facts, not emotion or political stances, can be found and encourage once again the delicate but absolutely essential art of conversation.

This ability to have respectful, reciprocal conversation seems to have gone out the window during -- and honestly long before -- this election. The internet has changed the way we obtain our news, allowing more checks and balances for those misusing governmental power. For all the diverse and abundant information available, there is at least as much inaccurate or just plain false information one has to sift through to find what is true.

Along with the right to a freedom of press is a responsibility and accountability to those protected under that umbrella. You must provide accurate and objective information that will help to better serve and unite mankind as opposed to inciting and separating neighbors and friends. One can only hope that the accuracy of information available to the consumer soon meets the abundance of misinformation that is circulating. As it says with my name, this is just an opinion. I look forward to hearing yours.

Christopher Struble is president of The Michigan Hemingway Society, a small local business owner, historian and avid outdoorsman.

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top five Mix Breakfast and Lunch for a Good Cause Tickets are now on sale for the annual Power of the Purse brunch to benefit the Goodwill Inn. Goodwill Northern Michigan needs help to maintain the region’s only shelter where families can sleep and eat together. Last year, 165 women and 58 children received emergency help at the Goodwill Inn in Traverse City. In addition to a warm bed and healthy food, the families receive counseling to set goals and find permanent housing.

At the event, guests will learn more about Goodwill and hear personal stories from women whose lives have been helped.

The brunch, presented by Bistro Fou Fou, takes place Saturday, March 11 from 9:30am to 12pm at the City Opera House. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased online at www.goodwillnmi.org/power or by calling (231) 995-7742.

tastemaker Paper Station’s Perch and Ribs If you just can’t decide whether to have meat or fish for dinner, The Paper Station Bistro in Harbor Springs has an appetizing solution for you.

Its Thursday night perch and ribs special is a rich combination of a half rack of ribs slathered in barbecue sauce plus three pieces of panko and parmesan-encrusted perch sautéed on a flattop grill.

“We get all of our meat and the perch direct from Fairway Packing in Detroit’s Eastern Market,” explained Paper Station co-owner Tawna Naturkas. “The perch is [from the] Great Lakes, and the barbecue sauce on the ribs is a secret recipe of our chef’s – he calls it his ‘Apple Jack’ barbecue sauce, but all I can tell you is that it contains apple juice and is very, very good!”

Served alongside the perch and ribs are The Paper Station’s own housecut French fries and cabbage coleslaw with Fuji apple chunks; the fish is also accompanied by a house-made tartar-caper aioli.

You’ve got to plan ahead for this one. Perch and ribs is only served on Thursdays, but you’ll get the whole savory extravaganza for $20.

Available at The Paper Station Bistro, 145 E. Main St. in downtown Harbor Springs. Visit online at Paperstationbistro.com or call (231) 242-4680.

Petoskey blues festival

Twenty-year-old guitar prodigy Marcus King brings his band & their American roots rock that King calls “soulinfluenced psychedelic southern rock” to the the inaugural Petoskey Blues Festival on Saturday, February 18 at 6:30pm at the Emmet County Community Building, Petoskey. Other performers on Sat. include Larry McCray & Laith Al-Saadi. Performers on Friday, February 17 include The Barbarossa Brothers, The Accidentals & Thornetta Davis.

Admission on Fri. is $20, & $30 on Sat. petoskeybluesfest.com

TC Eatery Is “Most Romantic” Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Trattoria Stella was named “most romantic restaurant” in Michigan by USA Today.

The newspaper generated the list based on the number of Yelp reviews a restaurant received and how often the word “romantic” was used in those reviews.

“Not surprisingly, the results have a lot in common — outdoor seating, string lights, candles, flowers and a lot of red décor,” the newspaper reported. “It doesn’t hurt that most of these places have great wine and desserts, too.”

Stella might not have outdoor seating (you wouldn’t want to sit outside in February anyway), but the restaurant does boast stunning interior architecture of cozy brick catacombs.

Better get those reservations for Tuesday in soon, however.

“We do still have some space available. Not a lot, but some,” said manager Paul Danielson.

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WRONG BATTLES spectator by stephen tuttle A short 40 years ago, Democrats were riding high. They had just elected a president and dominated Congress with 61 senators and a whopping 291 seats in the House.

Thirty states had Democratic governors and control of both houses of the legislature compared to just four with Republican control.

Their coalition of minorities, organized labor, the working poor, southern Democrats and assorted self-described progressives were thought to be an unbreachable, voteprotecting fortress.

Their president, Jimmy Carter, didn’t work out so well, and Democrats have been losing power and control at every level below the White House ever since. Their sporadic success with presidential and congressional elections can’t disguise the carnage they’ve suffered at every other level.

Democrats did almost nothing to stop the slide.

the ground. Union members were often the foot soldiers of local campaigns, doing the drudgery of distributing leaflets doorto-door or pounding signs in the ground.

A significant chunk of their base was being chipped away by influences and actions Democrats either couldn’t control or actually created themselves.

They didn’t react, as state after state rejected Democrat legislatures and lined up with the GOP. They lost control of redistricting and the control of legislative and congressional boundaries that goes with it. While Democrats focused entirely on Congress and the White House, political control in the states flipped completely.

Thirty-one states are now controlled by Republican governors and legislatures. The election of Donald Trump, about which Democrats wail and gnash their teeth, should be among the least of their worries; the local control they’ve ceded to Republicans should

They didn’t react, as state after state rejected Democrat legislatures and lined up with the GOP. They lost control of redistricting and the control of legislative and congressional boundaries that goes with it.

Their coalition began to disintegrate soon after Jimmy Carter’s demise. Organized labor began losing membership to outsourcing, automation and a growing right-to-work movement. Blue collar manufacturing jobs, so crucial as an entry to the middle class, diminished. Those left behind, who were mostly working class men, became their own disaffected demographic.

They saw Democrats support trade deals that seemed to favor other countries and corporate executives at the expense of their jobs. Every tax break seemed to help someone else and every tax increase impact them. Education and retraining social programs ignored them. Their loyalty began to waver.

Democrats forgot about them or simply let them go. Not that Republicans offered much, either, but they had a crisp, simple mantra – lower taxes, less government. For the first time in decades Republicans seemed more concerned about people losing their jobs than Democrats.

It didn’t matter that Republicans neither forged a smaller government nor create much tax relief for the working class; at least they talked about it. Democrats had already moved on, trolling for the next disaffected voting bloc.

Union membership, hovering near 21 million workers 40 years ago, is now barely 14 million and most of those members work for the government. Fully 25 percent of Michigan’s entire workforce belonged to organized labor four decades ago, and that has now shrunk to 14 percent.

Whether or not that helped the economy is a different column; it most certainly did not help Democrats.

Not only did they lose some of the powerful fundraising apparatus inherent in unions, it also diminished the boots on

be one of the biggest.

At least, they seemed to believe, they were in control of the electoral college so they could keep winning the White House.

That was their grand vision – an unbreakable lock on the northeast, the west coast and a handful of Rust Belt states would be enough to keep a Democrat in the White House, well, forever.

Except they forgot there’s a reason our region is called the Rust Belt. Manufacturing jobs disappeared and organized labor shrunk. Blue collar workers were left behind. Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania are now all controlled by Republican legislatures. The “blue wall” taken for granted by Democrats – Hillary Clinton barely campaigned in Michigan and not at all in Wisconsin – was already gone.

Democrats had to keep morphing their coalitions into new coalitions. It was southern Democrats who had been Reagan supporters added to the group for Bill Clinton. But they couldn’t hold those southern Democrats, many of whom voted for George W. Bush in 2000. So another allegedly unassailable coalition, the grandest electoral college strategy ever, was cobbled together that saw record numbers of minority and young voters head to the polls for Barack Obama.

All the while, Republicans kept dominating statewide and local politics.

Democrats might make gains in Congress, especially if mid-term elections follow their traditional path, and the Trump presidency is already in troubled waters. But they have surrendered local control, where most of the laws they find most onerous are birthed, without much of a fight.

Democrats, having fought the wrong battles on the wrong battlefields, are losing the war.

Crime & Rescue FOOTSTEPS IN SNOW LEAD TO POT Missaukee County Sheriff’s deputies followed footprints in the snow from a disabled roadside vehicle to a pole barn where they found a large marijuana grow operation.

The deputies stopped to check out a car parked partially in the roadway on S. 13 Mile Road Feb. 4. They followed tracks in the snow to a residence and a pole barn, where the deputies could smell marijuana and hear loud machinery working inside, according to Traverse Narcotics Team D/Lt. Daniel King.

TNT was called in and got a search warrant.

Investigators found marijuana growing in the pole barn and the basement of the residence. Two Merritt women were arrested, ages 19 and 23.

DOMESTIC ABUSER ARRESTED Police arrested a Gaylord man after his live-in girlfriend reported that he assaulted her and took her bank card.

State police responded to a home on Bagley Township Feb. 5 at 8:10am after the 31-year-old woman called 911. The suspect had driven off in an improperly registered Oldsmobile Bravada, which troopers found a half hour later in Corwith Township.

During the arrest of the 31-year-old suspect, police found cash he’d just taken out of a bank machine and marijuana in a container of powdered baby formula in the car, according to a press release. The man was arrested for third-offense domestic violence, second-offense possession of marijuana, and failure to pay child support, among other charges.

CHARGES FOLLOW DNA MATCH DNA evidence connected an Interlochen man to a 2015 crash that severely injured a woman, according to charges.

Jeremy Allen Bower, 25, faces charges of operating while license suspended causing serious injury and leaving the scene of a serious injury accident stemming from a July 1, 2015 crash on M-137 near Interlochen.

A driver told Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies that a Mercury Cougar swerved into his lane and crashed into him head-on, severely injuring one passenger.

The Mercury driver attempted to drive away and then fled on foot when his car broke down.

Deputies found a large amount of blood in the abandoned car and they sent a sample to the state police crime lab to be sequenced.

Deputies later requested a DNA sample from Bower. The profiles matched, according to the charges, which carry five years in prison. Bower is also charged as a two-time habitual offender because he has a previous conviction for delivery of marijuana.

WOMAN COULD FACE WEAPONS CHARGE A 67-year-old woman could face charges after police found two rifles and an 18-inch bayonet in her backseat during a traffic stop in Traverse City.

A Traverse City Police officer stopped the car for travelling 40mph in a 25mph zone on Eighth Street at 7:42pm Feb. 5, Chief Jeff O’Brien said.

The officer cited the driver for speeding and made a report for prosecutors about the weapons, which were sitting out in the open in the backseat.

O’Brien said state law requires that weapons be in cases and inaccessible to the driver. The woman could face a misdemeanor weapons charge.

WOMAN DIED OF OVERDOSE A woman found dead in a Missaukee County home is suspected to have

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overdosed on heroin.

Someone called 911 about an unresponsive female at 6:20pm Feb. 7 and sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Norwich Township home, where they found a deceased 42-year-old woman.

An autopsy was scheduled, but investigators believe she overdosed on heroin.

While investigating the death, deputies learned about two fugitives hiding at the property, Sheriff Jim Bosscher said. Brandon Russell Musselman, 41, and Autumn Lynn Burpee were arrested on warrants for crimes unrelated to the overdose.

BAT TURNED AGAINST VICTIM As many as five people burst into a Grawn home and attacked a 44-year-old resident until his 16-year-old daughter intervened.

The man attempted to defend himself with a baseball bat but his attackers got the bat out of his hands and beat him with it, Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies said.

The man’s daughter attempted to get the men off of her dad and he asked her to go into her bedroom and call 911. The girl returned to the fray after making the call and punched one of the suspects, who all left in a silver vehicle before deputies arrived. Despite the bat attack, the man only suffered some scrapes and bruises and was given some bandages. Police were called Saturday at 4:47pm.

TWO CRASHES IN 25 MINUTES Two cars rolled over in separate crashes 25 minutes apart when I-75 near Wolverine froze over in an ice storm.

Cheboygan County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the southbound lanes at 4pm Feb. 7 when a pickup driven by a 46-year-old Vanderbilt man spun out of control while passing another vehicle, slid off the road and rolled over. The man was taken to Otsego Memorial Hospital with nonlife threatening injuries.

At 4:25pm on the same stretch of road, an 81-year-old Indian River man rolled his car after he lost control while attempting to change lanes.

That driver suffered only minor injuries, Sheriff Dale Clarmont said.

investigate after a Department of Natural Resources conservation officer stopped to help out a car stuck in a ditch in Kalkaska Feb. 2.

The driver was headed east on M-72, lost control, crossed the highway and drove off the road.

The 32-year-old Antrim County man was determined to be well over the limit to drive and he was arrested for drunk driving. His blood alcohol level was .30, almost four times the limit.

During the investigation the trooper discovered that the man was already wanted on a warrant for drunk driving with a high blood alcohol content, Sgt. David Johnson said.

Steakhouse & American Grille and the owners set up surveillance cameras in the office.

Footage from Oct. 11 shows Van Maurick pocketing she should have deposited in the bank, according to the charges. She at first denied to a Michigan State Police detective that she had taken the money and later admitted the theft and said she took the money to gamble.

An accountant calculated that the restaurant lost $82,666 in cash deposits while Van Maurick was manager. The 39-year-old faces up to 15 years in prison if she is convicted of a charge of embezzlement between $50,000 and $100,000.

FIVE INJURED WHEN TEEN CRASHES Five people were injured when a car driven by a 17-year-old crashed in an intersection in Cadillac.

Police responded at 6:40pm Feb. 3 after the driver failed to stop at the intersection of W. Division St. from Seneca Place and was struck by a westbound vehicle that pushed his car into a third vehicle stopped at the stop sign on Seneca.

The 17-year-old driver and four passengers in his car were taken to Munson Cadillac for treatment. Neither of the other drivers sought treatment, Sgt. Nick Bertram said.

HOFBRAU MANAGER CHARGED An Interlochen restaurant manager gambled away tens of thousands of cash revenue, according to charges.

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Where Is the Evidence for the Existence of God? Bill’s statement “Copernicus, what are you thinking? The earth is the center of the universe!” Now, I don’t know if the church hierarchy ever said it quite like that, but there was a time when the church was threatened by scientific discovery.

Those days are gone, thanks in part to the Protestant Reformation.

In the days of Copernicus, the church was concerned with losing its monopoly on truth. Truth was whatever the Rev. Dr. William church taught. Church doctrine was the arbiter of revealed C. Myers Senior Pastor truth. In time, the authority of church doctrine was supat Presbyterian planted by “the proof ” of scientific discovery.

Church of Though the Protestant Reformation helped us see divine Traverse City revelation could occur in math, science, poetry, music, and art, as well as the teachings of the church, there are still many who hold fast to the false belief that science and faith are in conflict. In truth, science and faith use a similar method.

Scientists observe the world. From their observations, they form hypotheses. They, then, conduct experiments to “prove” their hypotheses. Once “proven,” they hold fast to their truths, at least until more information comes to light.

A LOCAL PASTOR Sometimes this new information supports what science “knew” to be true. Other times what science “knew” to be true is called into question or discounted completely. Scientific “proof ” is not absolute, but conditional.

People of faith observe the world and God. From our observations, as well as divine revelation, we form beliefs (hypotheses). In our life experience (experiments), these beliefs are proven or disproven. Once “proven,” we hold fast to our beliefs, at least until more information comes to light.

Sometimes this new information supports our beliefs and deepens our understanding. Other times our beliefs are called into question or discounted completely. Like science, our “proof ” is not absolute, but conditional. “For now, we see in a mirror, dimly…”

Gary’s statement Every non-theistic person who has ever engaged in conversation with someone trying to convince her/him that their god is the one, true god – and all others are invented – has likely demanded proof for the existence of that god.

The responses typically range from, “I just know it’s true in my heart” to “you can’t prove there is no God” to “how can you look at that sunset and tell me there is no God?” They never provide any evidence whatsoever. That’s because there Gary Singer Gary helps is none. businesses with So what about the accusation that we non-theists can’t their Internet prove there is no god? Nope, we can’t. Any more than we can marketing. prove there are no faeries in our gardens or unicorns roaming He was raised a the Alps. Logic dictates that it is impossible to prove a negaCatholic. tive. The burden of proof is always upon those who stipulate for an occurrence. Imagine the same situation in a court of law. The prosecutor who states that, “I have no evidence, but your client is guilty because my witness just knows it” would be disbarred on the spot.

Often the Bible is promoted as evidence for the existence of the Christian god. Most believers have no idea that the vast majority of the New Testament was written decades ATHEIST DEBATE after the supposed life of Jesus (for whose existence there is not a shred of credible proof) and was completely re-written by Emperor Constantine in the 4th century. Not much in the way of evidence there. As far as the Old Testament goes, only the most hardened fundamentalists interpret those tales as factual. They are amazing stories, but the operative word is “stories.”

Elite researchers along the lines of Sam Harris, Richard Carrier, and Richard Dawkins have spent their lives looking for the tiniest shred of palpable evidence to support the concepts of life after death and the existence of a god. All efforts have come up empty-handed.

Evidence however, means little to those living in fear of eternal damnation.

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Gary’s reply Bill, you and your church are relatively progressive. However, Christianity as a whole is still living in the Dark Ages and remains threatened by scientific discovery. Fifty-six percent of evangelicals are certain that global warming is “God’s will.” Many more have no doubt that the Bible is an accurate historical record.

When you say, “people of faith observe the world and God,” note that they observe the world because it is available for viewing. They contemplate (no one observes) a god only by means of faith in something, without substance.

Doesn’t it seem odd to you that everything else you have mentioned including math, science, poetry, etc. is tangible?

You and I both know that magic is an illusion and that Aesop wrote fables.

Yet for some reason, and I would suggest it is fear of divine retribution, you are willing to dismiss every rule of evidence in favor of a belief system based upon nothing more than tradition. That simply does not work for me or the fastest growing belief system in America: the “nones.”

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Bill’s reply Well, it’s good to see Kelly Anne doesn’t have a monopoly on “alternative facts!” The Emperor Constantine died in 337. The first Council to accept the Roman Canon was 393. The Book of Revelation didn’t make the cut in the Orthodox Church until the fifth century. So when did Constantine “completely re-write” the New Testament? He didn’t. Constantine was emperor during the Council of Nicaea in 325. The Council of Nicaea focused on the humanity/divinity of Jesus, not canonizing Scripture. Gary may be thinking of Marcion, who tried to edit out the Bible’s Jewish heritage. Or maybe “The Da Vinci Code” is his source. Either way, Gary confuses the matter with his “alternative facts.”

Here is the bottom line. Gary doesn’t believe in God. I do. I have no proof for my beliefs, nor do I need any. Neither do I need to convert Gary. He has a right to his beliefs, “alternative facts” and all. But Gary has no more evidence for his beliefs, than I have for mine. We are people of faith.

Agree statement Bill and Gary agree that evidence for the existence of God is based on faith. While discussions on the existence of God are helpful for deepening our understanding, their purpose is best served in finding common ground to further the common good.

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BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER A pipe discharging water into the Boardman River from 101 N. Park was removed by city workers Feb. 2. “At this point, with the information I have, it appears unrelated to the geothermal discharge,” City Engineer Tim Lodge said.

OUT OF THE LOOP

By Patrick Sullivan Discharges of water from geothermal energy systems at two Traverse City properties have raised questions about whether this green technology could have an environmental downside.

Staff at Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay take their mission to monitor the area’s waters seriously, so when someone spots unexplained fluid flowing from a pipe into a creek or river, they try to get answers.

This happened twice recently when water pumped through open loop geothermal climate systems was found flowing into the Boardman River and a tributary to Kid’s Creek.

This is troubling, said Christine Crissman, Watershed’s executive director.

Water that has been heated could threaten cold water ecosystems. Water from a contaminated groundwater source could threaten water quality.

A QUESTION LOOP Geothermal systems transfer the heat of the earth into renewable green energy, but Crissman said in certain cases – such as 101 N. Park in Traverse City and Cordia at the Grand Traverse Commons – there is reason to be concerned about possible negative side effects.

It’s possible the water outflows are harmless. If the water is clean and the temperature is close to the temperature of the water it’s flowing into, it wouldn’t adversely affect the environment.

That’s the case at 101 N. Park, said developer Thom Darga. He said the building’s geothermal system was state of the art when it was designed in the mid-2000s, that the water is from a clean source, and that its temperature doesn’t adversely impact the river.

Darga said when his hybrid geothermal system was constructed, its “pump and dump” use of water fell below the threshold that required permits. “There’s a lot of activities that are use by right,” he said.

T. J. Andrews, the Watershed Center’s attorney, said that’s news to her. She said a city ordinance requires a permit for any kind of fluid discharge into the river. What’s more, the city does not allow private wells.

Crissman said that as she understands it, what was proposed at 101 N. Park prior to construction was a closed loop geothermal system, meaning the fluid would be contained in the pipes and constantly recirculated, rather than an open loop system in which water is pumped from a well and discharged after.

Records in the city’s engineering department support Crissman’s hunch – the plans do not include a well connection or a discharge pipe, and no permits related to an open loop geothermal system were issued.

“As far as we know, that site was supposed to be a closed loop system that has a well,” she said. “But it’s discharging into the city stormwater system.”

A CONSTANT FLOW OF WATER A constant stream of water flowed from a pipe under 101 N. Park until Feb. 2, when workers closed the outflow because city officials said the storm sewer had failed. It remains unclear where the flow of water was redirected.

Andrews said water flowed from that pipe this summer even after days of clear skies when the storm sewers should have been dry.

That’s what alerted her to the possibility that 101 N. Park was discharging water.

Crissman said what’s concerning about 101 N. Park’s geothermal design is that the water likely comes from a groundwater well.

In recent years, downtown wells have been notoriously contaminated, which means it’s very possible that contaminated water flowing through the pipe was being pumped directly into the Boardman River a short distance from Grand Traverse Bay. “If they’re pulling ground water up that potentially has contaminants in it, then they’re running it through their system and discharging it warmer and with those

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potential contaminants [in it] straight into the river,” Crissman said.

She said she doesn’t know whether the water was contaminated, as she’s been unable to learn whether the discharged water has been tested.

“I know nothing about the contamination of the ground water. I just know there’s a lot of areas downtown that are contaminated,” she said.

“THE STANDARDS OF WHAT’S ALLOWED” Darga said the water is harmless and that 101 N. Park was constructed to be an environmentally friendly building.

In fact, Darga won an Environmentalist of the Year award in 2011 from the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council because 101 N. Park is a LEED-certified green building.

Darga said the system at 101 N. Park is a hybrid geothermal system, meaning part of it is closed loop and part of it is open loop. He said a closed loop system warms the building by heating the cement floors. The building is then cooled in the summer by an open loop heat pump that sucks out the warm air.

“There’s a discharge to the storm sewer of water passing across the heat exchanger that mediates the temperature in the summer months,” he said. It’s clean water, Darga clarified, that isn’t heated much above the river’s water temperature.

He said the system fell “within the standards of what’s allowed” when the building was designed and constructed.

He said water discharges like the one at 101 N. Park could only pose a threat to the environment if people started putting those kinds of pipes everywhere. Perhaps, he added, that’s why the city now says open loop systems are no longer allowed.

More and more developers want the benefits of geothermal heating and cooling, and Darga said he’s proud of the development.

The property was for years known as “the

hole,” an eyesore no one could figure out how to remediate.

“It exceeds what the DEQ [Department of Environmental Quality] required. We rendered the site itself from a brownfield to a greenfield [development],” he said. “It’s easy to do just what you need to do and not an ounce more. [But] this is downtown Traverse City.

Why would someone do the least, considering where we are?”

Darga, who has a proposed development in the Warehouse District currently pending before city commissioners, said his new development will feature a closed loop geothermal system.

“PRETTY MUCH UNACCEPTABLE” Watershed Center staff happened upon the discharge at Cordia by accident as they were surveying the area for future restoration projects around Kid’s Creek.

“As part of the process of looking at the stream and going out and figuring out what we’re going to do, we noticed the discharge,” Crissman said. “[It] has a direct outflow right into a tributary to Kid’s Creek, and we’ve tested that outflow and the temperature is 10 to 20 degrees higher at that outflow than it is upstream, and then it takes a significant amount [of time] before it actually cools back off downstream.”

The Cordia system uses city water.

Crissman is also concerned about what effect the chlorine in that water could have on Kid’s Creek.

“Kid’s Creek is already on the impaired waters list due to bad habitat and basically having too much storm water, and we’ve spent about $5 million in that area trying to put in best management practices to help get it off the list,” she said. “So there could be chemicals in there that are going into the stream, and there’s definitely the temperature piece.”

Crissman said the warm water could affect insect life, which in turn could impact the food chain and harm the fish population. She

A GEOTHERMAL DEMONSTRATION

The enormous Cathedral Barn at the Historic Barns Park at the Grand Traverse Commons is heated and cooled by a geothermal system.

Sarna Salzman, executive director of SEEDs in Traverse City, is helping to make the park a place for people to learn about energy. The geothermal system is an integral part of the “energy farm” concept SEEDs promotes.

SEEDs has designed signs to be installed this spring to explain how geothermal works. The organization wanted to install a small system that could be partially above ground so that people could see it and feel the hot and cold pipes, but that would have been too expensive.

“Once we priced it out, it was really cost prohibitive,” Salzman said. SEEDs also wanted to build something kids could play on but realized they’d be better off modifying a future project than building a stand-alone demonstration.

The geothermal system that’s already in place at the Commons was a collaboration between the City of Traverse City and Charter Township of Garfield Recreation Authority, Consumers Energy, Cherryland Electric and Traverse City Light & Power.

It was constructed in 2013 to demonstrate how the massive barn could be heated and cooled efficiently.

The system includes 16 loops of underground piping, each 300 feet long, that transfer fluid in a closed loop system to heat and cool the building.

Matt Cowall, the recreational authority’s executive director, said the system’s efficiency has exceeded expectations.

“Our worst electric bill in the last year or so has been right about a thousand dollars a month,” he said. That’s to run a 5,000-square-foot building with 30-foot ceilings and keep it cool in the summer or warm in the winter. said she believes too much money has been invested in restoring the creek to good health to jeopardize it with a water discharge.

“For that site specifically, we have spent so much money just downstream to try to keep storm water and stuff out that a direct discharge to the stream is pretty much unacceptable,” Crissman said.

LOW IMPACT DISCHARGE The Watershed Center alerted Michigan’s DEQ of the discharge from Cordia. The DEQ sent Cordia a violation notice, and the company is now trying to get an after-the-fact permit for the discharge.

Mike Parks, a member of Cypress Partners, a co-developer of Cordia, said what Watershed staff found is a minimal discharge of clean water that is allowed by DEQ rules. He said developers failed to get a permit because of an oversight.

“We just didn’t know it had to be done that way,” he said. “We didn’t realize that was even a requirement. But now we do.”

The DEQ fined Cordia several hundred dollars for the violation and is waiting for more information before deciding whether to issue a permit, said spokeswoman Melody Kindraka.

“We have received a permit application, but the permit application is incomplete,” she said. “We have contacted them to provide more information.”

If a permit is issued, the discharge would be monitored to ensure it meets Michigan’s water quality standards, Kindraka said.

Parks characterized the outflow as a “minimal discharge of clean water” that’s used to run a chiller-boiler system that’s used exclusively in warm months to cool the building.

The discharge is city water with a low chlorine content and is within a couple of degrees of the water in the creek, he said.

“The impact on Kid’s Creek watershed is virtually nonexistent,” he said.

“THEN YOU HAVE ALL THESE QUESTIONS” City Engineer Timothy Lodge said the concerns raised by the Watershed Center have proven the city needs to develop requirements for geothermal systems.

He said he searched the file for 101 N. Park and could find no evidence that city staff approved an open loop geothermal system that included a discharge into the Boardman River.

For one thing, wells have been prohibited by city ordinance for decades. That means developers (and homeowners) could construct a closed loop system but not an open loop one because they would not be allowed to draw groundwater.

Lodge said the city hasn’t drafted the policies it needs to regulate geothermal.

“We’ve been made aware by our water quality partners of their concerns, so we’re looking at our regulations,” he said. “We’re not there yet, but that’s the discussion we’ve been having.” He added, “Moving forward, we’re saying, ‘Okay, open loop systems are not allowed; closed loop systems are allowed.’”

Lodge said he doesn’t know if the discharge into the Boardman has been tested to make sure it’s clean.

Crissman said it’s frustrating to find out about something like a discharge into a river or a creek after the fact and only by chance.

She hopes regulations for geothermal systems are codified and enforced.

“It’s a big concern, because the only thing you know and look at is the plans as they’re happening. You can look at this stuff and it seems great. ‘Great! A closed loop geothermal system downtown,’” Crissman said. “‘They’re going to have really efficient ways of heating and cooling.’ But then when you see it discharging, you have all these questions. You don’t know anything about it and you can’t really get answers about it. It’s difficult.”

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ravis Hubbell’s timeline is lengthy. From his early days as a busboy to the proprietor of his own franchise restaurant in his hometown, his journey is one of patience, focus, hard work and finding his place in the world while appreciating every moment along the way.

Born in Traverse City and raised in Timberlee Hills, where his parents bought a house when he was a toddler, Hubbell started his working life early, doing jobs for the owner of Timberlee Ski Resort and later becoming a busboy at the Apache Trout Grill in his teens. Even back then, he had an idea he wanted something more. What it was might have been dim and undefined, but the ambition was there. “I didn’t mind working at the grill, but I wasn’t getting enough hours, so I wanted to look for something else,” Hubbell said. “I saw that the Outback Steakhouse was under construction in Traverse City, so I went

for an interview right in the trailer on the construction site before the place was even open, and I got hired.”

Traverse City’s Outback Steakhouse opened in December of 1998; Hubbell had just turned 17 the previous October. He started working at a little over $2 an hour plus tips – literally the ground level of restaurant work – but he was undeterred. His positive outlook meant he was ready when the first opportunity knocked. “One day, they needed somebody to help cut lettuce at the salad station, and I said sure; I liked helping out in the kitchen,” Hubbell said. From there, he was assigned the “cold side” of prep, making salads and desserts. He then moved on to the fry station, preparing appetizers, coconut shrimp and Outback’s famed Bloomin’ Onion.

“I did a good job, and the boss liked me,” said Hubbell. “After that, I moved up to the flattop grill, cooking steaks.” With that change in duties, Hubbell had found a temporary

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niche at Outback. He ran the grill for several years and liked it. “It was fast paced,” he said, “and I took pride in cooking steaks for our guests every day.” The challenge was speed, because the Traverse City Outback regularly clocked in as one of the busiest franchise locations in the region. “When you’re at full speed, you’re cooking 100–120 steaks an hour,” Hubbell said. “It’s not as easy as it might sound. It’s kind of like that game Memory – there are all the different steaks, with different seasonings and temperatures, all at the same time, and you have to keep track [of it all].”

Larry LaFray was running the Traverse City Outback when Hubbell appeared on the scene. LaFray is no longer in Traverse City – he now runs the Outback Steakhouse in Brighton, Mich. – but he was immediately enthused upon hearing Travis’ name. “Travis was my grill guy,” LaFray said. “He’s awesome. He’s one of those guys that no matter what he got into, he made it look easy and made everyone around him

comfortable. To have someone like that in the building is always an asset.”

Hubbell was also attending Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City while working at the Outback, and it was during this phase that he experienced what might have been his only period of ambiguity.

“I started at NMC after I graduated high school in 1999,” he said. “I was taking CADD (computer aided design and drafting), but after a couple of years, I realized I just didn’t want to sit at a desk all day.” Looking for a change as well as warmer weather, Hubbell moved to Savannah, Ga. Even then, he took his Outback experience with him.

“I worked for Outback in Savannah, too,” he said. “Did the same thing there – started on the cold side, then moved to the grill station, then became assistant kitchen manager.” For a while, Hubbell divided his time, working at the Savannah Outback in the winters and the Traverse City Outback in the summers. “I

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guess they liked me,” he chuckled, “as I got to his parents and entered into a contract with do that for two and a half years. I wasn’t in Outback to take over the Traverse City location. school any more, so in the winter, I’d just hang Hubbell is 32 years old now and has owned out in Savannah and work and boogie board his own Outback for a little over four years. “I and enjoy the warm weather.” love it here,” he said. “Mostly, I love working But one summer, Hubbell returned to the with the people. Like I said, I never wanted to Traverse City Outback and decided to stay. sit at a desk. Here you get to talk to people, “I’m not sure why,” he said. “I just kind of welcome guests and have fun. And it’s not just decided that I do love it here, and I missed the the food – people also come to interact with four seasons.” By now, he was 25. He’d decided us, and that’s important. So I take pride in to not return to school. He’d also decided that both the food and the service.” while he appreciated the opportunities he’d Brian Allore is a manager at the Traverse had so far at Outback, he was getting tired of City location and has worked with Hubbell just cooking steaks. “I didn’t want to be a grill for the past 10 years. “When I started here cook my whole life,” he said. as a dishwasher, Travis was already here After talking to LaFray, as a grill cook; he actually Hubbell started training as a trained me,” Allore said. host, waiter and bartender, After talking to “He’s a driven person learning more about the for sure, and a lot of that restaurant and climbing the LaFray, Hubbell driven quality went toward Outback ladder, first becoming started training as wanting to be the best he an hourly manager and then could be as he worked his a host, waiter and a year and a half later earning way to the top. He’s in here the title of kitchen manager, bartender, learning five days, 50 hours a week. his first salaried position. “I more about the I like the fact that he’s just learned to do everything up a personable guy; he’s really front and started learning the restaurant and easy to get along with. Plus financials,” Hubbell explained. climbing the he’s got goals, which gives us “It was at this point that I all something to look up to.” decided I wanted to have Outback ladder, A big part of Outback’s my own Outback.” He made first becoming an culture as a business, said that decision based in great LaFray, is how well it relates part on watching how LaFray hourly manager and to people, a trait that Hubbell ran the restaurant. “He was then a year and a seems to have in spades. an inspiration to me, and he LaFray noted that by the time taught me a lot. And obviously half later earning Hubbell decided he wanted I wanted to make more money,” the title of kitchen to own the Traverse City Hubbell laughed. franchise, he’d already figured manager, his first Once Hubbell had out that the key was building advanced to senior manager, salaried position. relationships with customers the wheels started turning on and employees.

LaFray the final leg of his journey to explained, “You have to becoming a restaurant owner. He traveled understand that the crew in Traverse City really to Outback Steakhouse’s headquarters in is like Travis’ family; that’s how he explains it to Tampa, Fla., for a dedicated meeting with the me whenever I check in and ask how the team company’s executives. “If you want to take is doing. He says, ‘You mean my family?’” over your own Outback, you have to go to According to LaFray, the Traverse City Florida for two full days,” Hubbell explained. restaurant also has a very low employee “You meet with the president and VP of turnover rate and remains at the top of the Outback, who are there the entire time. You’re list in west Michigan; Allore confirmed the in a conference room with about 30 other restaurant is currently tied for second place people who also want to take over their own for busiest location out of the nine Outback Outbacks, and you’re asked a lot of questions franchises in the region. “I think the success of to make sure you’ll work out.”

Travis’ Outback [is due to] how he treats people Hubbell said that seeing Outback’s home with respect,” LaFray said. “I may have been a base and the president’s office was inspirational. mentor to him, but in many ways he was like a Upon returning to Michigan, he waited to hear mentor to me in how he relates to people.” from Outback. He was soon offered a location Since all roads to date have ended at downstate, but with his heart firmly ensconced Outback for Hubbell, what might come next? in Traverse City, he bided his time, waiting for “I love Traverse City,” he said simply. “I’m from Outback’s current owner to decamp. When she here, I love it here and I’m satisfied with my did, Hubbell was ready; he borrowed funds from current position at Outback. That’s enough.”

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Cooking with a Legend

By Janice Binkert The gleaming stainless steel demonstration kitchen in the Oliver Art Center in Frankfort – a former U.S. Coast Guard Station building that underwent a 3.4 million-dollar renovation in 2011 – boasts an awe-inspiring view of Lake Michigan from its upper level perch.

The kitchen is quiet and empty now, but soon it will be bustling with lively conversation, sizzling pans and the rhythmic percussion of knives on chopping blocks. And the participants who have already signed up for the center’s first culinary arts class of the spring to be held Feb. 18 are no doubt happily anticipating being taught by a master: Joe Muer III, scion of the eponymous Detroit restaurant dynasty. For 70 years, Joe Muer’s was the place to go for seafood in the Motor City, welcoming everyone from Detroit’s high and mighty to everyday citizens.

The Muers’ legacy as restaurateurs goes back to Muer’s grandfather, Joseph Muer Sr., the son of German immigrants who arrived in Detroit in the mid-1800s to open a cigar factory at 1996 Gratiot Avenue near St. Joseph’s Church and Eastern Market. Cigar making was a lucrative business in that era, part of the economic and cultural fabric of booming industrial Midwestern cities. “And where did people go to smoke cigars?” Muer asked, quickly answering his own question: “To the saloons, of course.

That was where people met to exchange views, to do business and to pass on life experiences. It was the internet of its time.”

When Joe Sr.’s father passed away suddenly in 1906, Joe Sr., as eldest son, stepped in to run the factory. He was just 19 years old, but the business prospered under his leadership until the dawn of Prohibition in 1919. When alcohol as a social institution was killed, the twin institution of smoking cigars died with it. Joe Sr. struggled on for another decade but lost a fortune.

Not one to be kept down, he changed directions and opened Detroit’s first public oyster bar with just seven tables in the front

room of the cigar factory. The date was October 28, 1929 – one day before the crash of Wall Street and the start of the Great Depression.

Somehow, said Muer, perhaps because of his grandfather’s Old Country work ethic and his love of people and food, the new venture not only survived but thrived.

Why did Joe Sr. choose to peddle oysters given that the nearest ocean was more than 700 miles from Detroit? “At the time, they were a hot commodity, and his enterprise was the only place in the city where you could eat them besides private clubs,” explained Muer. “Sourcing was relatively easy, too, because Detroit was served by great rail transportation back then. My grandfather received regular shipments of oysters packed in ice in great big wooden barrels from the famous M. F. Foley Fish Market in Boston.”

Muer’s father, Joe Jr., took over the flourishing little business in 1941 and turned it into a full-on restaurant seating about 120 people. After that, the rail – and later, refrigerated truck – shipments from Foley’s grew to include not only oysters but clams and lobster and all other manner of seafood delivered three times a week.

Muer was already shucking oysters and clams when he was 12 years old, but his long apprenticeship in the family business began even earlier than that. “My dad used to take me and my older brother Chuck down to the restaurant when he did the bookkeeping on Saturday mornings,” he reminisced. “I was about 10 or even younger, and he’d tell us to take the chairs down from the tables where the cleaning staff put them when they mopped the floors every night. Our reward was that we’d get to have ice cream or go to the soda machine and drink pop. I was trained in every aspect of running a restaurant from the ground up. Very early on, I learned how to swing a mop, buff the floors, clean toilets – the whole nine yards.

By the time I got into high school, I was in the kitchen, which is right where I wanted to be. My mentor was head chef Ernst Zeltwanger, who had started with my grandfather in 1930. He

was a fantastic cook and an awesome individual – he worked for our restaurant for 40 years.”

Under Chef Ernst’s tutelage, Muer went from deep-fry cook to broiling to sautéing to garde manger to learning how to fillet fish and split lobsters by hand. “But gradually, my father moved me to the front of the house,” he said, “because he was grooming me to take over the restaurant. In college, I studied insurance, business, economics, public speaking and labor relations – all of the practical stuff I figured I’d need to run the business someday.”

That someday came in 1965, and Muer was ready. “Each generation that came along… made expansions and improvements and championed new developments,” said Muer.

“With my younger brother Tom, I undertook a complete renovation of the restaurant inside and out, enlarging it to 400 seats spread over five dining rooms. As customer demand for what we were doing continued to grow, those seats filled up night after night, week after week. Sometimes it took me over an hour just to make the rounds of the tables to greet and talk to our customers!”

Muer loved running the restaurant and was heartbroken when he was forced to close it in 1998 as a result of demographic changes and downtown Detroit’s economic decline. On the positive side, he and his wife Jane were now free to pursue a dream they’d long held. They had vacationed with their family at a cottage on Crystal Lake for many years, and they’d often said to each other, “What if we could live up here?”

About 10 years ago, they made the move to Frankfort and immediately became involved with the community, including the Oliver Art Center. Muer said, “I felt very fortunate to have lived the way I did and to have the opportunities I had. When I closed the restaurant, I closed that chapter of my life, too.”

But Joe Vicari, CEO of the Joe Vicari Restaurant Group in Detroit, had other plans.

In 2005, he approached Muer about reviving the legendary Joe Muer’s in a spectacular new location – the GM Renaissance Center

overlooking the international riverfront in the heart of the city – and he wanted Muer to come on board as a consultant to get it started.

“For several years, I resisted the idea,” said Muer, “because I didn’t think my name and the restaurant’s name were that valuable anymore, but he finally convinced me. And apparently they were [valuable], because the new place, which serves iconic dishes from the original Joe Muer’s as well as ‘new classics,’ opened in 2011 and is very successful.”

It seems the Muer name is a powerful magnet in Frankfort, too. “Joe’s classes, which he does with his associate Jean Sitter, are immensely popular and consistently sell out,” said Mercedes Michalowski, executive director of the Oliver Art Center. “He’s a terrific chef and instructor, and his charismatic personality brings students back again and again.”

Much of what Muer passes on to his students are things Chef Ernst taught him many years ago. “I call it ‘kitchen nomenclature,’” Muer explained. “I go through a whole litany on that, including knife skills, seasoning pans, safety and sanitation, purchasing, handling and storing fish and seafood, various cooking methods and time-saving tips. I love to teach, and I always have. I encourage people to ask questions and share their opinions and critique – their ways of doing things.”

Joe Muer III may be the teacher now, but reminiscent of his childhood and later career, he never tires of learning something new.

Joe Muer’s 2017 Culinary Arts classes at Oliver Art Center begin Feb. 18 and will be held once a month (except May) until September. The cost of each two-hour session is $55 for Oliver Art Center members and $65 for non-members.

For more information, to register or to check out the full schedule and descriptions, visit Oliverartcenterfrankfort.org or call (231) 3524151. Oliver Art Center, which also offers a wide variety of art classes, exhibitions, special events and programs, is located at 132 Coast Guard Road in Frankfort.

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Please be seated for these abbreviated versions of the restaurant reviews we’ve featured since our last restaurant tour issue. Bon appetit!

Compiled by Kristi Kates

The Ridge

Peshawbestown With a panoramic view of West Grand Traverse Bay that’s spectacular in every season and a new revamped menu to match, executive chef George Weir and his crew present food created with “heart and soul.”

On the Menu: The Ridge’s meat-centric menu complements its tap house theme, but seafood and vegetarian options abound as well, including pan-seared striped bass and seafood pasta.

Signature Dishes: Thick and meaty baby back ribs and the “B.E.T.,” aka Belly, Egg and Toast, meaning pork belly served crispy and tender on a toasted baguette with a sunny side up egg and spicy apple syrup.

Find Them: The Ridge Tap House is located at 2511 North West Bay Shore Dr. in Peshawbestown. For more information, visit Ridgetaphouse.com or call (231) 866-4372.

The Seabiscuit Cafe

Mackinac Island This racing horsethemed restaurant bets on a good time with its staff of former French Outposters and its unique, picturesque location in a former 1800sera bank near the waterfront on Mackinac Island.

On the Menu: Several dishes nod specifically to horse racing, including the Derby Burger with barbecue sauce and the Triple Crown sandwich with turkey, ham and bacon; other selections include jambalaya and Salt and Pepper Fish and Chips.

Signature Dishes: Stuffed French Toast made with thick slices of banana bread stuffed with crème cheese and Painted Pony Macaroni and deep-fried macaroni and cheese balls rolled in artisanal breadcrumbs.

Find Them: The Seabiscuit Café is located at 7337 Main St. on Mackinac Island and is open daily from 7am–2am. For more information, visit Seabiscuitcafe.com or call (906) 847-3611.

Mission Table

Old Mission Peninsula Offering up food from farm, field and fishing line to fork, Mission Table continually reinvents itself. Most recently, it opened up the kitchen and added a chef ’s table in a semi-private space for unique dining experiences.

On the Menu: Working with local sources for menu ingredients ensures that everything at Mission Table is fresh, from the ri-

sotto with wild mushrooms and sage to the flash-fried cauliflower with garlic-jalapeno vinaigrette.

Signature Dishes: Lively salads like saltroasted beets with local greens, lemon basil, goat cheese and pickled radish; tempting mains like lake trout with crispy Brussels sprouts, quinoa, pancetta and Nomad cider.

Find Them: Mission Table is located at 13512 Peninsula Dr. on Traverse City’s Old Mission Peninsula. For more information, visit Missiontable.net or call (231) 223-4222.

Scovie’s

Charlevoix Scovie’s has been a Charlevoix fixture for over a dozen years, thanks to its views of boats traversing the Round Lake Channel and interior blending resort-feel earth tones with worldly souvenirs brought in by the owner.

On the Menu: Burgers and salads share menu space with more hearty dinner fare, from vegetarian entrees to baked five-cheese bruschetta chicken finished with a balsamic vinegar reduction; dinner and a movie nights offer special themed menus.

Signature Dishes: Northern Michigan chicken salad with white meat chicken, Traverse City-dried cherries and toasted almonds; pecan-crusted walleye with crushed pecans, panko and amaretto beurre blanc sauce.

Find Them: Scovie’s Gourmet is located at 111 Bridge St. in downtown Charlevoix. For more information, visit Scovies.com or call (231) 237-7827.

Bud’s

Interlochen This nostalgic dining destination has been an Interlochen landmark in one form or another since the 1950s; a visit to Bud’s is like being in a rustic cabin and in the woods all at the same time.

On the Menu: Deceptively simple menu selections are kicked up more than a few notches by Bud’s insistence on homemade quality and freshness, from the soups, sandwiches, potpies and flatbread pizzas to the salads and ice crème.

Signature Dishes: The Backwoods Burger featuring meat from Maxbauer Market with melted provolone, grilled baby portobello mushrooms and onions; the Mexican-themed Zinger salad with avocado and salsa ranch.

Find Them: Bud’s is located at 3061 M-137 in Interlochen. For more information, visit Budsisback.com or call (231) 276-9090.

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Boyne City Tap Room

Boyne City The Tap Room completes a trio of brewpubs in Boyne City and Charlevoix with its historicalmeets-nautical interior, vintage photographs of the region and 40 brews on tap including a special nitrogen draft line for microbrews.

On the Menu: Modern American fare begins with appetizers like pulled pork nachos, homemade onion rings and baconwrapped jalapeno poppers and winds on through fresh soups, salads, burgers and more.

Signature Dishes: Black bean chili, fried egg cheddar burger, mahi-mahi fish tacos with pineapple salsa and eggplant Neapolitan layered with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spiced tomato and crème palomino sauce.

Find Them: The Boyne City Tap Room is located at 220 South Lake St. in Boyne City.

For more information, visit Bctaproom.com or call (231) 459-4487.

Pepe Nero/Ballaró

Traverse City Italian native Giorgio Lo Greco and his Romanian wife Monica opened this small restaurant (Nero) and its younger brother, Ballaró Wine Lounge, to bring the spirit of old Italy to northern Michigan via the restaurants’ romantic European ambiance.

On the Menu: Reminiscent of an Italian enoteca (wine bar) where you can also get small plates, the menus change seasonally as Lo Greco and his executive chef Coburn MacNaughton work together to use local ingredients in classic ways.

Signature Dishes: The charuterie plate at Ballaró featuring cheese, olives and meats representing different regions of Italy; tuna mojama with organic arugula and cherry tomatoes; and spinach fettuccini.

Find Them: Ballaró and Pepe Nero are located at 700 Cottageview Drive in Traverse City. For more information, visit Pepenerotc. com or call (231) 929-1960.

Big Boy

Traverse City A classic American destination for families, Big Boy and its signature mascot bring back fond memories for many, with Traverse City’s franchise the fifth busiest in the state of Michigan.

On the Menu: The menu practically has its own fan base, thanks to its Belgian waffles, long list of burgers and customizable

build-your-own Blockbuster Breakfast and build-your-own 3-egg omelets.

Signature Dishes: The “world-famous” weekend breakfast buffet, six versions of hot cakes, sandwiches like the Slim Jim that arrive alongside massive piles of crispy French fries and those coffee pots left right on the table.

Find Them: The Traverse City Big Boy is located at 3828 U.S. 31 South. For more information, call (231) 941-7430.

East Park Tavern

Charlevoix From its early days as the Silver Birches Bar, then Topside Lounge, then Whitney’s Oyster Bar, East Park Tavern has morphed into its current incarnation with a great balance of old and new, casual and quality, with an aim to claim the title of best burgers.

On the Menu: Friendly faces serve up elevated basics with special twists on simple items like the Bavarian pretzel sticks appetizer with craft beer cheese and locally made Mike’s Mustard; French fries are elevated with truffle oil and garlic aioli.

Signature Dishes: Beer-battered cod fish fry with house-made coleslaw full of kale and Brussels sprouts in a poppy seed vinaigrette; mussels tossed with fire-roasted tomatoes, smoked bacon and Sambuca and served with grilled focaccia bread.

Find Them: East Park Tavern is located at 307 Bridge Street in downtown Charlevoix.

For more information, visit Eastparktavern. net or call (231) 547-7450.

Bière de Mac Brew Works

Mackinaw City Run by a local who boasts several generations of family based in Mackinaw City, Danny Ranville’s brewpub was inspired by the craft beers of Colorado and is complemented by menu items from chef Edgar Jacobs.

On the Menu: Eclectic appetizers share menu space with gourmet sandwiches and burgers as well as faintly exotic entrees and a few staples like macaroni and cheese and an Amish chicken sandwich.

Signature Dishes: Thai-spiced hummus platter; ale and cheddar chowder, a perfect accompaniment for one of Bière de Mac’s brews; and the seared wild-caught salmon served with avocado and roasted garlic mayonnaise.

Find Them: Bière de Mac Brew Works is located at 14277 Mackinaw Highway in Mackinaw City. For more information, visit Bieredemac.com or call (231) 427-7007.

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By Kristi Kates Meet the Band: Caroline Barlow from Raleigh, N.C., and Kurt Westie, originally from Bloomington, Ind., make up local band The North Carolines, a folk outfit brand new to the scene as of just last year. The pair’s common thread – pardon the expression – is that they’ve both worked on music projects with Billy Strings, who actually facilitated their meeting. “I heard Caroline playing a solo gig prior to one of Billy and Don Julin’s shows and instantly knew I wanted to play music with her,” Westie said. “Billy introduced us, and it turned out that Caroline and I had similar backgrounds as folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriter types.”

Andy Evans, an upright acoustic bassist and nephew of local musician/artist Glenn Wolff, recently joined the group as its third member; his background includes an eight-year stint in Nashville performing with such musicians as hillbilly jazz performer Vassar Clements and vocal group The Fifth Dimension.

YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THEM Westie also put in some time in Nashville working as a songwriter. After moving to Michigan, he became the mandolin player for Cabin Fever and then joined M23 Strings, which included the just-starting-out Billy Strings. He’s also performed at Boone Docks in Glen Arbor and at the Traverse City Film Festival with Barlow. You might have heard Barlow separately on her solo gigs around town as well as her shows with a trio from Petoskey called The Deepest Height that performs music in the style of Peter, Paul and Mary at venues like Red Sky Stage and various outdoor events in Petoskey. Evans has played bass locally for a variety of area musicians in a wide range of genres while also working his day job as choir director at Kingsley High School.

THEIR INSPIRATION “We’re rooted in folk and singer-songwriter music, but you’ll find cues from bluegrass and other traditional genres too,” Barlow said. One of The North Caroline’s goals is to bring more original material to the table as well as to dig into old archives to find more obscure songs to perform. “I like to call myself a ‘songminer,’” Barlow said. “I love bringing lesser known songs to light.” Westie, who in addition to his other band projects has produced two solo CDs of original music, has met his match in Barlow, who started playing guitar when she was 15. “I’ve spent most of my adult life as an

extreme music nerd, participating in music events, open mics and small gigs but never seriously playing in a group,” she explained.

“So it’s been really fun to have Kurt move us towards something more solid.”

CURRENT PROJECTS The North Carolines originally planned to head into the studio to start work on its first album in December, but between conflicts with the holidays and the weather, it rescheduled for February, which means sessions are right around the corner. “We’ll be working with Scott Zylstra (Detour Bluegrass) at Frontier Ranch Studio,” Westie said. “We hope to get an EP completed by summer and/or a full CD by the end of the year.” This first project for the band will be a combination of originals and the “mined” covers that Barlow spoke of. “We also have a strong interest in recording a live project with the idea of capturing the raw energy and dynamics of our group,” Westie said.

WHAT’S IN A NAME? Barlow, who grew up in North Carolina, has family based in Traverse City and has always considered Michigan her other home.

“Since moving up here in 2011, I’ve felt the pull between my roots in the sweet sunny south and the wild unpredictable north.

Musically, I think we infuse this tugging feeling into our harmonies, song choices and instrumental lines,” she said. “The band name ‘The North Carolines’ came to both Kurt and me in a sense. We [each] brought a scratched notepad to a band meeting one day, and we’d each noted this theme of home, land, adventure and namesake.”

FUTURE CAROLINES: Currently in the process of booking concerts, festival dates and shows at local Grand Traverse and Emmet County venues, The North Carolines’ immediate goal is to play as many shows as it can, complete its album goals and become better known throughout the region. “We’re also excited to work more heavily with Andy,” Westie said. “He brings a lot to the table with his experience, professionalism and versatility. We’d like to get a tour booked outside of northern Michigan by next year while strengthening our base and connection to this rich community.”

Find out more about The North Carolines by searching “The North Carolines” on Facebook or email Cmbarlow@ncsu.edu for booking information.

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Shades of the Blues at New Petoskey Festival

By Kristi Kates Music festivals in northern Michigan, by sheer virtue of the weather, are primarily summer affairs. Other than a few exceptions put together by brave stalwarts like Traverse City’s Porterhouse Productions and Petoskey’s Crooked Tree Arts Center in conjunction with Blissfest, most fests wait patiently until the parks and streets are free of snow, warmed by the sun and ready to make room for everything from folk to funk.

But Paul Koch has decided to try something a little different this year. He’s throwing a brand new blues festival into the mix in Petoskey in an aim to both heat up the winter scene and make use of what he sees as an underused local facility, the Emmet County Fairgrounds. Remodeled in 2004, the fairground’s new state-of-theart facilities include a 10,000- square-foot community building, spacious barns, WiFi throughout the property and a covered 2,700-seat grandstand with sunset views from the upper tiers.

“I’ve been trying to rent the fairgrounds for five years,” Koch said. “It’s really one of the most wasted facilities in America, in my opinion. It’s such a beautiful place, with an amazing view like what you’d see in Monterey, but they’re primarily using it for

weddings. It should be used for larger events that would welcome far more people.”

Koch, who hails from Bay City, Mich., manages a small roster of blues artists and has staged concerts in Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis and Sarasota as well as booked artists in northern Michigan. He also worked with Castle Farms in Charlevoix back when it was a music venue. Koch shoots from the hip in a straightforward way. With years of experience, he knows potential when he sees it. “I buy talent,” he said simply, “and I want the blues festival to draw both younger and older people, so I put together a roster that would really appeal to both. The chamber of commerce told me this is the busiest weekend [of the winter], so I thought if the roster of bands was strong enough, we could make it work.”

Not merely work, though. Part of Koch’s aim is to exceed expectations. “I want this to be an annual event for people, eventually turning into one of the best winter music festivals in the country,” he said. “Up north is a great place to have this thing, because people can ski, snowmobile, go to the casino and then go to a big concert event all in the same weekend.”

To that end, Koch has put together a standout roster of talent starting with Marcus King, a new Southern-rock inspired

blues guitarist and singer who’s making a big splash across the country. “He’s the hottest thing on the blues scene today, really,” Koch said. “I’ve been in this business 30 years and never seen anything like him. He makes other blues legends look like beginners, and he sings like Al Green.”

Several other blues legends are on the Petoskey Blues Festival roster right alongside King, including Koch’s longtime client Larry McCray, the award-winning blues performer born in Arkansas who now hails from Saginaw. Michigan’s Laith Al-Saadi is another headliner; the powerful singer-guitarist is both regionally and nationally famed for his recent appearances on The Voice. Grand Rapids’ Barbarossa Brothers will be performing their brand of rootsy blues with plenty of harmonies in the vocals, and the festival is also welcoming a performance from newly signed Traverse City band The Accidentals plus a full set from Detroit blues vocalist Thornetta Davis, a 30-year veteran of the Motor City blues scene who appreciates the way Koch is mixing things up.

“I used to perform in Traverse City, Petoskey and Boyne City quite a bit back in the day,” Davis said. “I love to perform, and I’ll sing wherever they call me, but I think this festival is such a very good idea

for winter – that’s when you need a festival, you know? People tend to not go out because it’s too cold, and then you end up with cabin fever.” Davis, who is just releasing her first original album in 20 years, said she’s most looking forward to watching the audience have fun. “I’m also looking forward to seeing The Accidentals,” she said. “I’ve heard so much about them but have never seen them perform. It’s time to come on out and get your spirits lifted!” she added.

The lineup is sure to be a draw for fans of both traditional blues and the expansion of the genre, such as the bluesinspired folk rock of The Accidentals and Al-Saadi’s soul-inflected take on the genre. It’s the performers, Koch said, who are key; even he’s impressed by this roster.

“This time of year, most talent is sitting around not doing anything, so we got ‘em,” he said with enthusiasm. “You’d never get a blues lineup this strong in the summer to go this far north!”

The Petoskey Blues Festival will take place Feb. 17–18 at the Petoskey Fairgrounds. Feb. 17 features Thornetta Davis, Barbarossa Brothers and The Accidentals ($20). Feb. 18 features Laith Al-Saadi, Larry McCray and the Marcus King Band ($30.) For tickets and more information, visit Petoskeybluesfest.com.

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From Masquerade Balls to Broomball:

Eight Decades of Winter Carnival Fun!

By Kristi Kates Has it really been 89 years since the tradition of the Petoskey Winter Carnival began? Even as far back as the 1920s, Petoskey had a solid reputation as one of Michigan’s winter sports capitals. In 1928, the carnival began crowning a winter carnival queen. In the 1930s, she was gifted with a massive 80-foot-tall ice throne carved

by Stanley Kellogg out of Lake Michigan ice and lit in colored lights.

In later years, big toboggans handcrafted for the carnival slid down the middle of Mitchell Street; sporting events soon became the main focus of the event, although other activities such as parades, dances and a special ice masquerade ball were also popular.

Today, the Petoskey Winter Carnival has expanded to downtown Petoskey’s Gaslight District and Pennsylvania Park, with activities in all three locations celebrating the best of winter in the north. This year, for starters, you’ll be able to find beautifully transparent, intricate ice sculptures throughout downtown’s sidewalks and also in Pennsylvania Park.

The big focus at the start of the festival is Petoskey’s Wine and Dine progressive dinner (6pm on Thursday, Feb. 16, for $50 per person), a unique multi-course event that lets guests sample foodstuffs from five different downtown Petoskey dining establishments. The Wine and Dine will begin at American Spoon Foods, where a starter will be served, then it’s on to Petoskey Cheese, where local cheesemonger Katie Potts will arrange a cheese course. Pour Public House will serve up soup and salad before guests continue to Palette Bistro, where they will enjoy smoked risotto with roasted mushrooms and gouda (a vegetarian option is also available.) Finally, it’s dessert at Simply Sweet by Jessica, locally known for its mini cupcakes and other sweet baked treats.

As the weekend arrives, Friday, Feb. 17,

brings the super popular Chocoholic Frolic, where a trek through downtown Petoskey not only yields great shopping but also chocolate treats everywhere you go. Those who visit all the participating Chocoholic Frolic stores can enter a drawing for a delectable Chocoholic gift basket. (Participants can enter by picking up a stamp book and collecting stamps as they shop.)

Replete with chocolate, carnival goers can head over to the Perry Hotel for a fun show to benefit the Little Traverse Bay Humane Society. The Too Cool to Duel concert (tickets are $50 per person) will feature the Main Street Dueling Pianos from Grand Rapids, an all-request music show with a dash of interactive comedy. The 6–10pm performance will be accompanied by a cash bar, hors d’oeuvres, dancing and a silent auction. If that’s not your thing, dare to be scared and head out for the Petoskey Ghost Walk at 8pm, where you can take an hour-long tour of the reportedly haunted establishments downtown ($15 per person).

But wait, there’s more! As Saturday, Feb. 18, arrives, you’ll want to lace up those athletic shoes for the 5K/1K Fun Run ($15 fee), which starts and finishes at the gazebo in Pennsylvania Park; this is a great challenge for runners (and walkers) who may not be used to dodging the winter weather.

At noon, also at the gazebo, you’ll get a chance to watch one of the more unusual winter sports, the broomball tournament, a rollicking sporting event similar to hockey but played with – you guessed it – brooms and balls. Sports are the focus of the day on Saturday, as many of the festivities move from downtown to the Winter Sports Park, with its 400-square-foot ice rink. This is where you’ll find the youth sledding competition, a figure skating performance, a pair of hockey games, the raucous bumpjumping competition and the Cardboard Challenge XXII, where corrugated cardboard and duct tape are used to craft a variety of ambitious, often funny and always entertaining sleds.

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Refresh at the Winter Carnival ice bar celebration with DJ Jimmy Hotkeys from KHQ (1–5pm), with proceeds benefitting the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, and then get some rest to prep yourself for Sunday, Feb. 19, when it’s all about kids in Pennsylvania Park from noon to 3pm. Events include snowshoeing, snow art, a snowman building contest and finally the Where’s Olaf? competition to find the beloved Frozen movie character hiding downtown.

He may not have a throne of his own, but Olaf is the perfect 2017 mascot for this carnival carved from snow and ice.

For a complete schedule and more information, visit Petoskeydowntown.com/ downtown-events/winter-carnival.

Too Chilly? Go Get Some Chili!

Ready for what Harbor Springs calls a “hot time in the cold winter”? Namely, the city’s 13th annual Harbor Springs Chili Cook-Off, where amateur cooks, professional chefs and other food service pros compete to prepare the best spicy bowl of awesome as voted by the people.

This year’s event will take place Sunday, Feb. 19, from noon to 3pm at the Birchwood Farms Golf and Country Club and is open to everyone. Tickets at the door are $12, but to celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation (PHSACF) is offering complimentary passes for kids. The Chamber of Commerce invites everyone to attend, whether they’ve got a great secret chili recipe up their sleeves or just want to help determine the winner.

Some like it hot, while others like it medium or even mild. A wide variety of chili will be available courtesy of some great local food experts.

The chili cook-off is partnering with the Harbor Springs Food Pantry this year

to help keep local families’ shelves full all winter. Everyone attending the event is encouraged to bring non-perishable items for donation, everything from food (including pet food) to paper products, toiletries and cleaning supplies, all of which will help your neighbors in need.

Birchwood Farms Golf and Country Club is located at 600 Birchwood Drive in Harbor Springs. For more information, visit Harborspringschamber.com or call (231) 526-7999.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. DJ Jakeway, Harbor Springs Fire Chief John Cupps, and Bob Thoma prepare to be auctioned off during the One Hot Dish fundraiser at Mustang Wendy’s.

2. It’s a row of happy folks at the bar, toasting Taproot’s one year anniversary.

3. Lucas Farley and Tina Schuett of Rare Bird Brewpub hoist their trophy after winning Best Stout at the second annual Traverse City Stout Challenge at The Little Fleet February 3.

4. The crew from TC’s Taproot had plenty of fun celebrating their one year anniversary.

5. Brian and Caroline pause during a sunny day bike ride through the neighborhoods of downtown Traverse City.

6. Matt, Erica, & Emily brunch like royalty at the new Red Spire Brunch House in the Grand Traverse Commons.

7. Just a sampling of the people who came out for the Charlevoix Shadowfest and didn’t mind a few more weeks (months?) of winter.

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EXPLORE THE SNOW

Stringed Theory: Black Violin’s New Musical Approach

By Kristi Kates Wil B. and Kev Marcus, known offstage as Wilner Baptiste and Kevin Sylvester, are the pair of talents who make up Black Violin, a hip-hop and classical music duo changing the way people view stringed instruments and perceive musical genres.

The musicians met in orchestra class at the Dillard High School of Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 1996, both having arrived at their respective instruments reluctantly. Baptiste originally wanted to study the saxophone but by mishap was placed in a string class. He at first objected but then decided to pick up a viola and, as he put it, “accept his fate.”

Sylvester had similar misgivings about the violin class his mother enrolled him in to help keep him out of trouble – he didn’t want to be “the violinist” in the neighborhood.

“But we both had a love of hip-hop, R&B and reggae, and we always kept that in the back of our heads while we studied classical music,” Sylvester said.

On a whim, the two friends started combining classical music and hip-hop.

Once they did, things rapidly started to change. “People were blown away when they heard it,” Sylvester said. “That’s when we made the decision to pursue this genrebusting sound full-time. We realized we had stumbled on something amazing when we won Showtime at the Apollo in 2004. It’s the hardest audience to win over in the world,” he explained, “and we did it with ease.”

The title of Black Violin’s new album, Stereotypes, addresses some of the misperceptions that occur when people try to figure out the duo’s crossover sound, not to mention those that result from its visual image. The music does the rest of the talking: the title track, with its choppy string riffs and voiceovers, discusses racial issues. “Shaker” leans more toward the classical side of things, referencing both Copeland (Aaron) and hints of Bach. “Walk on By” gets jazzy, showing off Black Violin’s seemingly endless versatility, and the intricately layered “Send Me a Sign” merges vocals from Melanie Fiona and hip-hop artist Black Thought to create a dramatic, faintly Arabian knockout of a tune.

It’s eloquent stuff both musically and lyrically, so it’s no surprise that the duo has also been collaborating with a tall stack of talented big-name peers, among them

Alicia Keys, Kanye West, The Eagles, 50 Cent, Aretha Franklin and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda. These cooperative efforts have helped Black Violin fine tune its innate ability to adapt what it does to many different types of music.

“We performed live with Alicia at a couple of awards shows, and she was the most gracious superstar we’ve ever worked with – humble, driven and extremely talented,” Sylvester said. “We opened for Kanye in North America and Dubai; our connection with him was minimal, but that was our first major international tour and we appreciate the experience we gained from rocking with him.” Linkin Park’s Shinoda is one of Black Violin’s biggest mentors, and Sylvester cites him with helping the duo climb to bigger stages. “He took us all around the world and taught us how to be professional musicians,” Sylvester said. “We owe him a ton.”

Sylvester and Baptiste are also advocates of their own theories. They promote selfempowerment, problem solving and “daring to be different” as important components in human development. “The most important messages to us are to think outside the box and to break stereotypes,” said Sylvester. “The reason we’re successful isn’t that we’re the greatest violinists in the world; it’s that we approach [our music] in a very unconventional way while always keeping our goal of creating unifying music in mind.”

They’re already creating more of that music. The duo’s next album is due to be released late in 2017. Until then, Black Violin’s plans include more touring and also scoring TV shows in the pair’s spare time, what little they have of it (listen for them on the new FOX TV show Pitch.) But perhaps the most important tenet of Black Violin’s approach is the simplest one: know thyself.

“Performing this new brand of music comes pretty naturally for us. I wouldn’t say that aspect is challenging at all,” Sylvester said. “The tough part is creating new music in this genre that’s true to both the classical and hip-hop cultures – now that’s walking a tightrope.”

Black Violin will be in concert at the City Opera House in Traverse City Thursday, Feb. 16, at 8pm. For tickets and more information, visit Cityoperahouse.org or call (231) 941-8082.

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By Kristi Kates Also at the City Opera House this week is Old Friends: A Simon and Garfunkel Tribute, a live recreation of Simon and Garfunkel’s famed concert in Central Park. Attended by over 500,000 people, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s 1981 performance spanned 90 minutes on a breezy September night; the recording has become a must-listen-to for fans all over the world.

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by Old Friends duo Nick Foresman and Jason Elsenheimer brings back the tunes, arrangements and even some of the ambiance of that legendary event, with both performers working to stay true to the source material. Live, Foresman and Elsenheimer perform and interact almost as smoothly as Simon and Garfunkel themselves; they’ve been friends since the seventh grade and have been playing music together for more than 26 years.

The duo’s tribute show was born of the fact that they’d already been singing so many of Simon and Garfunkel’s songs for a quarter century. Once they decided to focus solely on the Central Park concert, they spent three years rehearsing and honing the details before hitting the road. Foresman even found the exact acoustic guitar model that Paul Simon played at the 1981 concert in New York City.

In addition to Foresman and Elsenheimer’s precise melodies and harmonies, a nine-piece band and horn section round out the familiar sounds in songs such as “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” “Late in the Evening,” “Bridge over Troubled Water,” “Cecilia,” and, yes, “The Sounds of Silence.”

Old Friends: A Simon and Garfunkel Tribute will perform at the City Opera House in Traverse City at 8pm Saturday, Feb. 18. For tickets and more information, visit Cityoperahouse.org or call (231) 941-8082.

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“THE FOREIGNER”: Dinner theatre & a comedy in two acts. Presented by the Northland Players, Inc. Dinner is at 6:30pm & the show at 7:30pm. Audie’s Restaurant, Mackinaw City. Tickets, $26. 231-436-5744. nlplayers.org/winter-dinner-theater

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NORTHPORT’S DINNER THEATRE PRESENTS “BOEING BOEING”: Cocktails are served at 5:30pm, with seating at 6pm. Tickets, $50. 231-386-5001. Tucker’s of Northport. northportcac.org

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FREE ARTS & CRAFTS DAY: 12-3pm, Gaylord Area Council for the Arts. Today features felting. For all school age children. gacaevents. weebly.com

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“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------NORTH AMERICAN VASA 41ST ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF RACES: 9am, Timber Ridge, TC. Cross-country skiing & fat bike races. Info: vasa.org

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LEARN HOW TO DYE A SILK SCARF CLASS: 10am, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. For adults. Free. Register: 231-276-6767.

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THE ROMANCE OF THE STARS: 7pm, Headlands International Dark Sky Park Guest House, Mackinaw City. Featuring musician Laszlo Slomovitz & poet Jennifer Burd, setting the poems of Rumi & Hafiz to song. Arrive early to catch sunset at 6pm, or arrive at 6:30-6:45pm to park, get settled & wait for the show to begin. $5 free will donation. midarkskypark.org

-------------------WINTERFEST: 8am, Downtown Beulah. Featuring a Poker Run, Frozen Turkey Bowling, Chili Cookoff, 12th Annual Frozen Fish Toss, Winterfest Parade, Outhouse Sprint, & much more. clcba.org/event/winterfest

-------------------FLY TYING FOR BEGINNERS: 9am-12pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Free.

Reserve your spot: 941-0960.

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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MEDIA SALE: 9am-4pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Thousands of CDs, DVDs & audiobooks will be on sale. Everything is $2. tadl.org

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ARTS IN ACTION: 10am-1pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Make hand-felted egg shakers. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------SUPER SATURDAY SPECIAL: 10am-2pm, TBAISD Career-Tech Center, TC. Community members can get their tax preparation done for free. Workshops will be offered, & snacks & lunch will be provided. Presented by the Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency. Must register: 231-590-0100. networksnorthwest.org

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WINTER HIKE: 10am, Green Point Dunes Preserve, Benzie. Presented by the GT Regional Land Conservancy. gtrlc.org/recreationevents/events

-------------------5TH ANNUAL SNOWSHOE STAMPEDE: 10:30am, Leelanau Outdoor Center, Maple City. 5K & 1 mile for kids (12 & under). locprograms.org/5th-annual-snowshoe-stampede

-------------------GIVING GATHERING: 11am-1pm, SCRAP TC. Experienced knitters can make preemie hats for donation to Munson Hospitals. Bring size 7 double-pointed needles. scraptc.org

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TASTE THE PASSION: 11am-5pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, $35; includes a souvenir wine glass, Leelanau wine & food pairings, & snow-filled photo contests. lpwines. com/events/taste-the-passion

NORTHERN LIGHTS, NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE SUPPORT GROUP: 12-2pm, The GT Circuit, TC. 231-399-0365.

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PHIL STAGG WATERFALL PHOTOGRAPHY: 1pm, Cadillac Wexford Public Library Community Meeting Room. cadillaclibrary.org

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TC WINTER MICROBREW & MUSIC FESTIVAL: 4pm, Downtown TC. Featuring 200+ brews, wines, ciders & meads; live music by Kyle Hollingsworth Band, The Nth Power, The Change featuring Grammy winner Peter Madcat Ruth, & many others; local food vendors, a rare beer tour, silent auction & much more. General admission, $45. microbrewandmusic.com

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15TH ANNUAL SPORTSMEN’S BANQUET: 5pm, East Bay Calvary Church, TC. Doors open at 3:30pm, with dinner at 5pm & the program at 6pm. Speakers include Dan Fitzgerald & Guy Fitzgerald, producers of Team Fitzgerald Keepin’ It Real Family Productions. Tickets: $50 full, $30 program. traverseoutdoors.com/news-and-events

-------------------BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS WALTZ WORKSHOP & DANCE: 5pm, Solon Township Hall, Cedar. The waltz workshop with Mykl Werth will start at 5pm ($6 or $10/pair), followed by the contra & square dancing at 7pm. $11 adults, $7 students & $9 members. dancetc.com

-------------------VALENTINE COMMUNITY SLEDDING NIGHT: 5pm-8pm, Harbor Springs Winter Sports Park. A free family party that also includes pizza, crafts & games. 231-526-0610.

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SWING & SWEETS BIG BAND DANCE: 7pm11pm, Ellison Place, Gaylord. Dance lessons at 6pm. $30/couple or $20/person. miellisonplace.com

-------------------TOAST TO LITERACY: 7pm-10pm, Castle Farms, Charlevoix. Presented by Char-Em United Way. Mardi Gras theme with festive decorations, music and activities. Features wine/beer/mead/cider tastings, food, a silent auction, games, strolling entertainment, and music. All proceeds benefit the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. 231-487-1006 or www. charemunitedway.org. $35 at door or $30 advance. charemunitedway.org

-------------------VALENTINE WORKSHOP: 10am-noon, Munnecke Room, Leland Township Library. Free.

231-256-9152.

-------------------KIDS MOVIE NIGHT: 7:30pm, Aspen Room or Alpine Room, Treetops Resort, Gaylord. Free. treetops.com

-------------------GOPHERWOOD CONCERT: 8pm, Cadillac Elks Club. Ralston Bowles brings his distinct brand of folk music. Advance tickets: $12 adults, $6 students 13-18 ($15 & $7 at door) & free for children 12 & under with adult. mynorthtickets.com

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TEN STRINGS & A GOAT SKIN: 8pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This bilingual folk/ fusion trio from Prince Edward Island presents traditional & original music inspired by their Atlantic Canadian histories & roots, & infused with pop & world rhythms. Presented by Blissfest. Tickets for members: $15 adults, $7 students. Non-members: $20, $10. blissfest.org/concerts

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GOOD ON PAPER IMPROV SHOW: 9pm, The GT Circuit, TC. Tickets: $10 at door. facebook. com/events/2059584364265790

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The 7th Annual Betsie Bay Frozen 5K begins at the Elberta scenic lookout at 10am & follows around the beautiful Betsie Bay to the finish line in downtown Frankfort on Sat., Feb. 18. Be ready to face 10 degree temperatures & 30 mph gusts off Lake Michigan. Proceeds benefit water initiatives & other community efforts, including the Benzie County Water Festival’s student scholarship. Pre-registration is $20: events.bytepro.net/betsie-bay, or register race day for $25 at the Frankfort American Legion Post from 8:30-9:30am. Photo by Jack Gyr.

feb 12

Sunday

NORTH AMERICAN VASA 41ST ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF RACES: 9am, Timber Ridge, TC. Cross-country skiing & fat bike races. Info: vasa.org

-------------------BOY SCOUT SUNDAY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: 8am-1pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. Free will offering. 946-5191.

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8TH ANNUAL HAVE A HEART FOR BROTHER DAN’S FOOD PANTRY: 12pm-9pm, Emmet County Fairgrounds. Featuring live bands, food from over 20 area restaurants, a silent auction & more. $15/person; under 12 are free.

Find ‘Brother Dan’s Food Pantry’ on Facebook.

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TASTE THE PASSION: 12pm-5pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, $35; includes a souvenir wine glass, Leelanau wine & food pairings, & snow-filled photo contests. lpwines. com/events/taste-the-passion

-------------------3RD ANNUAL VALENTINE’S DAY SNOWSHOE & SKI TREK: 1pm, Ruby Ellen Farm, TC. Free will donation; proceeds will help buy a new roof for the farmhouse. Bring your own equipment. rubyellenfarm.org

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THE BAY FILM SERIES: 2pm & 5pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Presents “The Eagle Huntress”. Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan is the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to train to become an eagle hunter. $9.50 at door. thebaytheatre.com/25/bay-film-series

-------------------UNDERGROUND RAILROAD PROGRAM: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. 231-331-4318.

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“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”: 2pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------“SCREENAGERS”: 2pm, The Garden Theater, Frankfort. This film examines the impact of the digital age on children. It will be shown free of charge. A discussion will follow the film. screenagersmovie.com AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MINUTES: 3PM, First Congregational Church, TC. Presented

by Encore Winds with Conductor Dr. Timothy Topolewski. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students, & free for 12 & under. encorewinds.org

-------------------NORTHPORT’S DINNER THEATRE PRESENTS “BOEING BOEING”: 3:30pm, Tucker’s of Northport. Cocktails are served at 3:30pm, with seating at 4pm. Tickets, $50. 231-3865001. northportcac.org

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BUCKETS OF RAIN BENEFIT: 4pm-6pm, Acoustic Tap Room, TC. Featuring Andre Villoch performing. Tickets, $10. Through the construction of urban gardens on abandoned city lots, Buckets of Rain diminishes urban blight, rekindles hope in struggling neighborhoods, brings fresh vegetables into the neighborhoods, & feeds the homeless through partners. bucketsofrain.org

-------------------GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SUNDAY SERIES: 4pm, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Petoskey. Presents The Three Sopranos. Free will offering. glcorchestra.org

feb 13

monday

THE BAY FILM SERIES: 6pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Presents “The Eagle Huntress”. Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan is the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to train to become an eagle hunter. $9.50 at door. thebaytheatre.com/25/bay-film-series

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HELP WITH SMART DEVICES: 11:30am, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Lowell Spence & Elena Strasser from the Senior Center Network will help seniors connect with their devices during a free workshop. Topics include iPad, Smart phones & tracfones. Register: 922-4911.

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HEALTHY EATING SUPPORT GROUP: 6:30pm, TC Senior Center. Dietitian-led discussion on healthy snacks. Food demo and tastings included.

RSVP: 231-922-4911 $5 per person. nutritionandbodydynamics.com/events-and-classes.html

-------------------“PUBLIC RADIO IN OUR COMMUNITY”: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Presented by the GT Humanists & Peter Payette, executive director of Interlochen Public Radio.

Free. 231-392-1215.

feb 14

tuesday

THE BAY FILM SERIES: (See Mon., Feb. 13)

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FREE INTERNATIONAL LECTURE: 11:30am, Iron Horse Café, NCMC, Petoskey. “Welcome to the Land of the Rising Sun” will be presented by Dr. Gretchen Carroll. 231-348-6613.

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DARK & STORMCLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: “A Man Called Ove” will be shown at the Garden Theater, downtown Frankfort at 4:30pm. Admission is $7, plus each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. February’s beer is Sonja. Beer is not served inside the Garden Theater. The Feb. Beer Dinner takes place at 6:30pm at Stormcloud Brewing Co., pairing Scandinavian cuisine with Stormcloud’s handcrafted beer. frankfortgardentheater.com/dark-stormcloudy-film-series

-------------------CHEBOYGAN LGBTQ FRIENDS GROUP: 6pm, Cheboygan Area Public Library, downstairs. Info: 231-268-8709.

-------------------DINNER & DISCUSSION: BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: 6-8pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. A panel discussion with the Benzie Community Water Council. $10 suggested donation. Proceeds benefit Grow Benzie’s culinary programs. facebook.com/ events/1707341756246695

-------------------“FOR THE LOVE OF YOGA”: 6:30pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center, TC. FREE yoga class.

231.392.8492 or ehaan2@mhc.net.

-------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY TC MEETING: 6:30pm-8:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. citizensclimatelobby.org

-------------------BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

-------------------THE WRECK OF THE SCHOONER NELSON: 6:30-8pm, Inland Seas Education Association, Suttons Bay. Free. schoolship.org/ news-events/2017-seminar-series

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PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY PROGRAM: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreations, Harbor Springs. Bills Parsons will talk about the LTBB Natural Resource Department & their work on bald eagle monitoring/research utilizing solar powered cellular backpack transmitters on bald eagles. petoskeyaudubon.org

-------------------JULIAN LAGE & CHRIS ELDRIDGE & AOIFE O’DONOVAN & HER BAND: 7:30pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. O’Donovan sings in her “Americanastyle,” while Lage & Eldridge perform their style of folk, bluegrass & jazz. Tickets: $31.50 & $36.50. tickets.interlochen.org

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VALENTINE’S DAY CRAFTS: 9am-5pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

-------------------“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

feb 15

wednesday

BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

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BREAKFAST THE HEALTHY WAY: 8am, Otsego County Sportsplex, Gaylord. Hosted by McLaren Northern Michigan. Presented by Jeanne Kincaid, RD, CDE, diabetes educator. Free. mclaren.org/ northernmichigan/health-month.aspx

-------------------PICNIC AT THE OPERA: Noon, City Opera House, TC. Live TV variety show. Today

features Benjaman James, The Dance Center, Anne-Marie Oomen, Here:Say Storyteller Larry Heitman, Sarah Brunner, TC West High School Musical & NMC’s Canticum Novum. Hosts are Miriam Pico & David Chown. Attendees are part of a live studio audience. Free; donations encouraged. Bring a lunch. cityoperahouse.org

-------------------ZONTA CLUB OF TC MEETING: Noon, Hagerty Center, TC. Featuring guest speaker Erin House, J.D., Grant Project coordinator from Safe Haven. Cost: $16, includes a buffet lunch. Email: rhonda1.estes@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

-------------------SUPPORT CLEAN WATER FUNDRAISER: 4pm, Bubba’s Burgers, TC. From 4pm-close, 30% of all proceeds will go to The Watershed Center GT Bay. Get an extra 25% off all food items between 4-5:30pm during “Bubba Time”. 995-0570.

-------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Bagger Dave’s, GT Mall, TC. Free for TC Area Chamber of Commerce members; $15 for others. tcchamber.org

-------------------GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Buffalo Wild Wings, Gaylord. Admission, $5. 989-705-1000.

-------------------MUSIC & ARTISTIC EXPRESSION: 6:30pm, Presbyterian Church of TC. Their Connection to our Well-Being: Featuring a documentary viewing of “Alive Inside”. Free. 946-5680.

feb 16

thursday

BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

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“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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FEBRUARY GEEK BREAKFAST: 8am, Bubba’s, TC. A casual monthly community-driven networking event for tech-minded people to discuss topics like social media, digital marketing, design, & more over bacon, eggs & coffee. geekbreakfast.org/cities/traverse-city-mi

TRAVERSE AREA CAMERA CLUB MEETING: 7pm, The Presbyterian Church of TC. Featuring Managing Partner & Principal Owner of The Minervini Group, redevelopers of The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, Ray Minervini. tacconline.org

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BLACK VIOLIN: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Featuring Wilner “Wil B” Baptiste & Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester, who fuse classical, hip-hop, rock, bluegrass, R&B & pop. They have collaborated with P. Diddy, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Tom Petty & many others. Tickets start at $22.50. cityoperahouse.org/black-violin

-------------------DARK & STORMCLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: “A Man Called Ove” will be shown at the Garden Theater, downtown Frankfort at 7:30pm. Admission is $7, plus each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. February’s beer is Sonja. Beer is not served inside the Garden Theater. frankfortgardentheater.com/dark-stormcloudy-film-series

feb 17

friday

BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

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CABIN FEVER ARTIST TALK SERIES: 5:30pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring local fiber artist Holly Sorensen. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

-------------------DISNEY’S ALADDIN JR.: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by the Cadillac Footliters Junior Players. Tickets: $10 advance, $12 door. cadillacfootliters.com/calendar

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10am: Story Hour: ABCs. 8:30-10:30pm: Live Music with Songwriters in the Round featuring Louan Lechler, Jim Hawley, Adair Correll & Kurt Westie. horizonbooks.com

-------------------WATER-THEMED STORY TIME WITH MISS KAITLIN: 10am, Benzie Shores District LiWESTBAYBEACHRESORTTRAVERSECITY.COM brary, Frankfort. Children ages 3-5 are invited to hear water-themed stories & make crafts.

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LUNCHEON LECTURE: WINGS OF WONDER: Iron Horse Café, NCMC, Petoskey.

11:30am lunch, 12:15pm presentation. $10.

Reservations required. ncmich.edu

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PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL: Petoskey - Downtown & Winter Sports Park. 3-7pm: Chocoholic Frolic. 6-10pm: Cool to Duel. 8pm: Ghost Walk. petoskeydowntown.com

GIVE KIDS A SMILE: FREE DENTAL SCREENINGS: 8:30am-7pm, 6051 Frankfort Hwy., Benzonia. Hosted by Northwest MI Health Services Inc. nmhsi.org

65TH ANNUAL ROTARY CLUB OF PETOSKEY’S SPAGHETTI DINNER: 5-7:30pm, Petoskey High School. $5 adults, $2.50 ages 4-12, & free for under 4. Proceeds help the Rotary Club of Petoskey, Noon Club, support numerous programs in the community & worldwide. 231-439-9204.

-------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Historic Elk Rapids Township Hall. Hosted by HERTHA. elkrapidschamber.org

-------------------IMPACT 100 TC INFORMATIONAL OPEN HOUSE: 5-6:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. impacttc.org

-------------------IAF LECTURE: 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. “The Fractured Middle East: Connecting to the Next Generation”. Free for current students & educators. $10 for all others. 995-1700. nmc.edu

-------------------HEART & HEALING ART: 7pm, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center of McLaren Northern Michigan, Petoskey. Featuring Yoga Poses: Connecting through breath & movement. Free. mclaren. org/northernmichigan

-------------------SLABTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WINTER MEETING: 7pm, Traverse Bay United Methodist Church, TC.

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Shop at 1pm. Entry fee is $20; $10 of entry fee counts as your admission to the Chili Cook-off, which kicks off at noon at Boonedocks, Glen Arbor. visitglenarbor.com

-------------------HBA HOME EXPO 2017: 9am-5pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Tickets, $7. hbagta.com/ home-expo

-------------------PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL : 9am, Petoskey - Downtown & Winter Sports Park.

9am: 5K/1K Fun Run. Noon: Beard’s Broomball Tournament. 1-4pm: Ice carving. There will also be a Bump Jumping Competition, Curling for a Cause, hockey games & much more. petoskeydowntown.com/downtown-events/winter-carnival

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WINTER GUIDED HIKE: 9:30am-noon, Brown Bridge Quiet Area, TC. Free. RSVP required: 941-0960, ext. x 27. natureiscalling.org

-------------------7TH ANNUAL BETSIE BAY FROZEN 5K: 10am, Elberta scenic lookout. $20 pre-registration; $25 on race day. Proceeds benefit water initiatives & other community efforts. events.bytepro.net/betsie-bay

-------------------FULL STEAM AHEAD: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Kids can explore hands on science with DIY activities. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

-------------------ROMANCING THE RIESLING: 10am-5pm, The Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula. Each winery pairs Rieslings with a food offering. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day of. wineriesofomp.com

-------------------WINTER HIKE: 10am, Camp Maplehurst, Kewadin. See the proposed site of a new park in Antrim County. Presented by the GTRLC. gtrlc.org

-------------------WINTERLOCHEN: Interlochen’s annual familyfriendly outdoor festival. Featuring snow painting, a snow treasure hunt, frozen fish toss, workshops, performances & much more. Free, unticketed events begin at 10am. www.interlochen.org

-------------------NORTHERN MI CHAPTER SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION QUARTERLY 615 EAST FRONT | Tuesday, TRAVERSE CITY, MI 49686 11am,STREET Ruby TC. MEETING:

-------------------NORTHPORT OMENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WINTER CARNIVAL: Noon-4pm, Braman Hill Recreation Area.

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NORTHPORT PROMISE CHILI COOK OFF: Noon-2:30pm, Braman Hill Recreation Area, Northport. $10 to enter a chili. $5 to taste the chilis. Find ‘Northport Promise Chili Cook Off’ on Facebook.

H E AT U P W I T H O U R

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-------------------1ST ANNUAL PETOSKEY BLUES FEST: 6pm, Emmet County Community Building, Petoskey.

Featuring Thornetta Davis, The Accidentals, & Barbarossa Brothers. $20 general admission. brownpapertickets.com/event/2739127

DISNEY’S ALADDIN JR.: 2pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by the Cadillac Footliters Junior Players. Tickets: $10 advance, $12 door. cadillacfootliters.com/calendar

Winter!

-------------------CHERRYLAND JAZZ SOCIETY’S MARDI GRAS CONCERT: 6pm, Elks Club, TC. Featuring the Back Room Gang. Admission, $15.

Chicken buffet, $12.95. Buffet & beverages available at 5:30pm.

-------------------1ST ANNUAL PETOSKEY BLUES FEST: 6pm, Emmet County Community Building, Petoskey.

Featuring Laith Al-Saadi, Larry McCray, & The Marcus King Band. $30 general admission. brownpapertickets.com/event/2739168

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AT THE BLUEBIRD JAZZ every Thursday •BLUES BLUES every BENEFIT: Friday6pm,

The Bluebird Restaurant, Leland. Featuring Queen of Detroit Blues Thornetta Davis.

There will also be a buffet dinner. Tickets, $40; benefits the Leelanau Conservancy. 231-2569665. leelanauconservancy.org

BUILD YOUR OWN BLOODY MARY BAR

feb 18

every Sunday starting at Noon saturday -------------------BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

GT COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY WINTER FRIDAY FISH RALLY: FRY 6-9pm, Tower Ballroom, GT Resort,

- -4-9pm - - - - - -•-$14.95 - - - all Acme.

Featuring with the Bill Sears Trio you canmusic eat

A WHOLE BRUNCH OF ART: Enjoy a strolling, Scandinavian-inspired brunch, live music by Ron Getz, artist & woodworking demonstrations, & the Hygge: A Winter’s Glow art exhibition. 11am-1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Tickets: $30 CTAC members, $35 non-members. crookedtree.org

& speakers. Suggested donation, $20 plus a non-perishable food item for the GT Dems Blue Tiger initiative. Info: 231-645-4436.

PRIME RIB SATURDAY --------------------

SALDAJE PERFORMS “WINTER’S Dinner 4-9pm • 12oz 12 $16.95 or 16oz $20.95

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GHOST”: 7pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Eclectic musical duo Saldaje presents music, song, strange tales & surprises celebrating winter & remembering summer. $15 suggested donation at door. 231-252-4616. saldaje.com

JOIN US FOR RESTAURANT WEEK!

GLEN ARBOR WINTERFEST: 7am: Perch Fishing Contest. Bring your biggest catches from Big & Little Glen Lake to the Sportsman

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feb 14

tuesday

THE BAY FILM SERIES: (See Mon., Feb. 13)

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FREE INTERNATIONAL LECTURE: 11:30am, Iron Horse Café, NCMC, Petoskey. “Welcome to the Land of the Rising Sun” will be presented by Dr. Gretchen Carroll. 231-348-6613.

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DARK & STORMCLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: “A Man Called Ove” will be shown at the Garden Theater, downtown Frankfort at 4:30pm. Admission is $7, plus each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. February’s beer is Sonja. Beer is not served inside the Garden Theater. The Feb. Beer Dinner takes place at 6:30pm at Stormcloud Brewing Co., pairing Scandinavian cuisine with Stormcloud’s handcrafted beer. frankfortgardentheater.com/dark-stormcloudy-film-series

-------------------CHEBOYGAN LGBTQ FRIENDS GROUP: 6pm, Cheboygan Area Public Library, downstairs. Info: 231-268-8709.

-------------------DINNER & DISCUSSION: BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: 6-8pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. A panel discussion with the Benzie Community Water Council. $10 suggested donation. Proceeds benefit Grow Benzie’s culinary programs. facebook.com/ events/1707341756246695

-------------------“FOR THE LOVE OF YOGA”: 6:30pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center, TC. FREE yoga class.

231.392.8492 or ehaan2@mhc.net.

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CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY TC MEETING: g r votin 6:30pm-8:30pm, you fo kfast!Central United Methodist k n a Th Brea floor, TC. citizensclimatelobby.org Church, Bestthird

- -us - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

-------------------THE WRECK OF THE SCHOONER NELSON: 6:30-8pm, Inland Seas Education Association, Suttons Bay. Free. schoolship.org/ news-events/2017-seminar-series

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PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY PROGRAM: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreations, Harbor Springs. Bills Parsons will talk about the LTBB Natural Resource Department & their work on bald eagle monitoring/research utilizing solar powered cellular backpack transmitters on bald eagles. petoskeyaudubon.org

-------------------JULIAN LAGE & CHRIS ELDRIDGE & AOIFE O’DONOVAN & HER BAND: 7:30pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. O’Donovan sings in her “Americanastyle,” while Lage & Eldridge perform their style of folk, bluegrass & jazz. Tickets: $31.50 & $36.50. tickets.interlochen.org

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features Benjaman James, The Dance Center, YOUR NEXT Anne-Marie Oomen, Here:Say Storyteller Larry Heitman, Sarah Brunner, TC West High School DREAM VACATION Musical & NMC’s Canticum Novum. Hosts are just& David might come true!

Miriam Pico Chown.

Attendees are part of a live studio audience. Free; donations encouraged.ENTER Bring a lunch. cityoperahouse.org TODAY

- - - - - - -FOR - - - -YOUR --------ZONTA CLUB OF TC MEETING: Noon, Hagerty Center, TC. Featuring speaker CHANCE TOguest WIN Erin House, J.D., Grant Project coordinator TalonTravelAgency.com from Safe Haven. Cost: $16, includes a buffet facebook.com/talontravelagency lunch.orEmail: rhonda1.estes@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

Talon

-------------------SUPPORT CLEAN WATER FUNDRAISER: 4pm, Bubba’s Burgers, TC. From 4pm-close, 30% of all proceeds will go to The Watershed Center GT Bay. Get an extra 25% off all food items between 4-5:30pm during “Bubba Time”. 995-0570.

TRAVEL AGENCY

- - - 231-930-4770 - - - - - - - -•-877-211-9377 -------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Bagger Dave’s, GT Mall, TC. Free for TC Area Chamber of Commerce members; $15 for others. tcchamber.org

“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

feb 15

BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

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BREAKFAST THE HEALTHY WAY: 8am, Otsego County Sportsplex, Gaylord. Hosted by McLaren Northern Michigan. Presented by Jeanne Kincaid, RD, CDE, diabetes educator. Free. mclaren.org/ northernmichigan/health-month.aspx Petoskey, Mt. Pleasant

- - - - - and - - -two - -locations ---------PICNIC AT THE OPERA: Noon, City Opera House, TC. TV variety show. Today in Live Traverse City.

-------------------DARK & STORMCLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: “A Man Called Ove” will be shown at the Garden Theater, downtown Frankfort at 7:30pm. Admission is $7, plus each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. February’s beer is Sonja. Beer is not served inside the Garden Theater. frankfortgardentheater.com/dark-stormcloudy-film-series

Family Dining feb 17 -------------------& Pizza MUSIC & ARTISTIC EXPRESSION: 6:30pm, Presbyterian Church of TC. Their Connection to our Well-Being: Featuring a documentary viewing of “Alive Inside”. Free. 946-5680.

231.369.2821

feb 16

WE’RE OPEN

ALL YEAR! thursday

BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

5026 US 131 - - - - - - - Mi ---South -“OUTSIDE Boardman, MULLINGAR”:

7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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FEBRUARY GEEK BREAKFAST: 8am, Bubba’s, TC. A casual monthly community-driven networking event for tech-minded people to discuss topics like social media, digital marketing, design, & more over bacon, eggs & coffee. geekbreakfast.org/cities/traverse-city-mi

friday

BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

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CABIN FEVER ARTIST TALK SERIES: 5:30pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring local fiber artist Holly Sorensen. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

-------------------DISNEY’S ALADDIN JR.: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by the Cadillac Footliters Junior Players. Tickets: $10 advance, $12 door. cadillacfootliters.com/calendar

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10am: Story Hour: ABCs. 8:30-10:30pm: Live Music with Songwriters in the Round featuring Louan Lechler, Jim Hawley, Adair Correll & Kurt Westie. horizonbooks.com

-------------------WATER-THEMED STORY TIME WITH MISS KAITLIN: 10am, Benzie Shores District Library, Frankfort. Children ages 3-5 are invited to hear water-themed stories & make crafts.

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LUNCHEON LECTURE: WINGS OF WONDER: Iron Horse Café, NCMC, Petoskey.

11:30am lunch, 12:15pm presentation. $10.

Reservations required. ncmich.edu

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PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL: Petoskey - Downtown & Winter Sports Park. 3-7pm: Chocoholic Frolic. 6-10pm: Cool to Duel. 8pm: Ghost Walk. petoskeydowntown.com

GIVE KIDS A SMILE: FREE DENTAL SCREENINGS: 8:30am-7pm, 6051 Frankfort Hwy., Benzonia. Hosted by Northwest MI Health Services Inc. nmhsi.org

65TH ANNUAL ROTARY CLUB OF PETOSKEY’S SPAGHETTI DINNER: 5-7:30pm, Petoskey High School. $5 adults, $2.50 ages 4-12, & free for under 4. Proceeds help the Rotary Club of Petoskey, Noon Club, support numerous programs in the community & worldwide. 231-439-9204.

-------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Historic Elk Rapids Township Hall. Hosted by HERTHA. elkrapidschamber.org

-------------------IMPACT 100 TC INFORMATIONAL OPEN HOUSE: 5-6:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. impacttc.org

-------------------Movie/Dinner Package $20 per person (taxAuditorium, included).

IAF LECTURE: 6pm, Milliken

wednesday

BLACK VIOLIN: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Featuring Wilner “Wil B” Baptiste & Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester, who fuse classical, hip-hop, rock, bluegrass, R&B & pop. They have collaborated with P. Diddy, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Tom Petty & many others. Tickets start at $22.50. cityoperahouse.org/black-violin

GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Buffalo Wild Wings, Gaylord. Admission, $5. 989-705-1000.

GIVE A NIGHT OUT!

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VALENTINE’S DAY CRAFTS: 9am-5pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

TRAVERSE AREA CAMERA CLUB MEETING: 7pm, The Presbyterian Church of TC. Featuring Managing Partner & Principal Owner of The Minervini Group, redevelopers of The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, Ray Minervini. tacconline.org

Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. “The Fractured Middle East: Connecting to the Next Generation”. Free for current students & educators. $10 for all others. 995-1700. nmc.edu

-------------------HEART & HEALING ART: 7pm, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center of McLaren Northern Michigan, Petoskey. Featuring Yoga Poses: Connecting through breath & movement. Free. mclaren. org/northernmichigan

-------------------SLABTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WINTER MEETING: 7pm, Traverse Bay United Methodist Church, TC.

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--------------------------------------1ST ANNUAL PETOSKEY BLUES FEST: 6pm, Emmet County Community Building, Petoskey.

Featuring Thornetta Davis, The Accidentals, & Barbarossa Brothers. $20 general admission. brownpapertickets.com/event/2739127

-------------------CHERRYLAND JAZZ SOCIETY’S MARDI GRAS CONCERT: 6pm, Elks Club, TC. Featuring the Back Room Gang. Admission, $15.

Chicken buffet, $12.95. Buffet & beverages available at 5:30pm.

feb 18

saturday

BENZIE COUNTY WATER FESTIVAL: Feb. 14-18. Info: water-festival.org

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A WHOLE BRUNCH OF ART: Enjoy a strolling, Scandinavian-inspired brunch, live music by Ron Getz, artist & woodworking demonstrations, & the Hygge: A Winter’s Glow art exhibition. 11am-1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Tickets: $30 CTAC members, $35 non-members. crookedtree.org

-------------------GLEN ARBOR WINTERFEST: 7am: Perch Fishing Contest. Bring your biggest catches from Big & Little Glen Lake to the Sportsman

Shop at 1pm. Entry fee is $20; $10 of entry fee counts as your admission to the Chili Cook-off, which kicks off at noon at Boonedocks, Glen Arbor. visitglenarbor.com

-------------------HBA HOME EXPO 2017: 9am-5pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Tickets, $7. hbagta.com/ home-expo

-------------------PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL : 9am, Petoskey - Downtown & Winter Sports Park.

9am: 5K/1K Fun Run. Noon: Beard’s Broomball Tournament. 1-4pm: Ice carving. There will also be a Bump Jumping Competition, Curling for a Cause, hockey games & much more. petoskeydowntown.com/downtown-events/winter-carnival

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WINTER GUIDED HIKE: 9:30am-noon, Brown Bridge Quiet Area, TC. Free. RSVP required: 941-0960, ext. x 27. natureiscalling.org

-------------------7TH ANNUAL BETSIE BAY FROZEN 5K: 10am, Elberta scenic lookout. $20 pre-registration; $25 on race day. Proceeds benefit water initiatives & other community efforts. events.bytepro.net/betsie-bay

-------------------FULL STEAM AHEAD: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Kids can explore hands on science with DIY activities. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

-------------------ROMANCING THE RIESLING: 10am-5pm, The Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula. Each winery pairs Rieslings with a food offering. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day of. wineriesofomp.com

-------------------WINTER HIKE: 10am, Camp Maplehurst, Kewadin. See the proposed site of a new park in Antrim County. Presented by the GTRLC. gtrlc.org

-------------------WINTERLOCHEN: Interlochen’s annual familyfriendly outdoor festival. Featuring snow painting, a snow treasure hunt, frozen fish toss, workshops, performances & much more. Free, unticketed events begin at 10am. www.interlochen.org

-------------------NORTHERN MI CHAPTER SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION QUARTERLY MEETING: 11am, Ruby Tuesday, TC.

-------------------NORTHPORT OMENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WINTER CARNIVAL: Noon-4pm, Braman Hill Recreation Area.

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NORTHPORT PROMISE CHILI COOK OFF: Noon-2:30pm, Braman Hill Recreation Area, Northport. $10 to enter a chili. $5 to taste the chilis. Find ‘Northport Promise Chili Cook Off’ on Facebook.

-------------------DISNEY’S ALADDIN JR.: 2pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by the Cadillac Footliters Junior Players. Tickets: $10 advance, $12 door. cadillacfootliters.com/calendar

-------------------1ST ANNUAL PETOSKEY BLUES FEST: 6pm, Emmet County Community Building, Petoskey.

Featuring Laith Al-Saadi, Larry McCray, & The Marcus King Band. $30 general admission. brownpapertickets.com/event/2739168

-------------------BLUES AT THE BLUEBIRD BENEFIT: 6pm, The Bluebird Restaurant, Leland. Featuring Queen of Detroit Blues Thornetta Davis.

There will also be a buffet dinner. Tickets, $40; benefits the Leelanau Conservancy. 231-2569665. leelanauconservancy.org

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GT COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY WINTER RALLY: 6-9pm, Tower Ballroom, GT Resort, Acme. Featuring music with the Bill Sears Trio & speakers. Suggested donation, $20 plus a non-perishable food item for the GT Dems Blue Tiger initiative. Info: 231-645-4436.

-------------------SALDAJE PERFORMS “WINTER’S GHOST”: 7pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Eclectic musical duo Saldaje presents music, song, strange tales & surprises celebrating winter & remembering summer. $15 suggested donation at door. 231-252-4616. saldaje.com

GT PIPES & DRUMS FUNDRAISER WINTER CEILIDH: 7-10:30pm, TC Elks Lodge. Featuring the GT Pipes & Drums, The Wild Sully’s & Celtic Fire Highland Dancers. Admission: $20 adults, $10 ages 10 & younger. grandtraversepipesanddrums.org

-------------------VALENTINE’S NIGHT SKI: 7pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. A guided evening ski with a fire & hot cocoa to enjoy afterwards. $8/ couple. Pre-register. grassriver.org

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KIDS MOVIE NIGHT: 7:30pm, Aspen Room or Alpine Room, Treetops Resort, Gaylord.

Tonight will feature “Shrek”. Free. treetops.com

-------------------OLD FRIENDS: A SIMON & GARFUNKEL TRIBUTE: 8pm, City Opera House, TC. The Concert in Central Park. Featuring Nick Foresman & Jason Elsenheimer. Tickets: $20, $10. cityoperahouse.org/old-friends-a-simongarfunkel-tribute

been at the water protection actions at Standing Rock, North Dakota numerous times. They will provide their accounts & updates of the efforts to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. 231-271-5600.

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GAAA’S MOSTLY MUSIC: 7pm, Leelanau School Dining Hall, Glen Arbor. Featuring Trio Jazz Volume 1 with David Chown, Andy Evans & Bob Foskett. Tickets, $12. glenarborart.org “OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”: 2pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

ongoing

INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Held in The Mercato on Saturdays through April 29 from 10am-2pm. thevillagetc.com

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ADOPTION SATURDAYS: Pets Naturally, TC hosts one dog & one cat from the Cherryland Humane Society on Saturdays from 11am2pm. www.petsnaturallytc.com

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“UKES FOR YOU! LEARN TO PLAY THE UKULELE”: Tuesdays through March 7, 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

Jim Gillespie will help you learn to play the baritone ukulele. Learn easy folk songs & some old 60’s tunes - you’ll even learn to strum & sing at the same time! Free. crookedtree.org

PURE MICHIGAN COUNTRY PART 2: 8pm, Ground Zero, Streeters, TC. With Uncle Kracker, Matt Austin & Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys. Advance tickets: $25 + handling. groundzeroonline.com

SEMI-FINALS: 2ND ANNUAL FROZEN CHERRY JAM & HOT LICKS GUITAR COMPETITION: 8pm, The Workshop Brewing Company, TC. Judges are Jabo Bihlman, Tim Callahan, Rodney James & John Archambault. $1 of every brew sold during this competition benefits Northwest Michigan Supportive Housing. Finals are on Feb. 25. Find ‘Frozen Cherry Jam & Hot Licks Guitar Competition’ on Facebook.

-------------------LAUGH FOR A GOOD CAUSE! COMEDY SHOW: 9pm, The Parlor, TC. Presented by Falling Down Stairs Productions who will donate proceeds to help Polestar LGBT + Community Center launch itself as a new nonprofit. tcpolestar.org

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Sunday

THE VINEYARD RACE AT FORTY-FIVE NORTH: 10am, Forty-Five North, Lake Leelanau. A 3.2 mile fat bike race.

Admission, $50; $10 more day of. shortsbrewingfatbikeseries.com/forty-five-north-vineyard-race/

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PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL: Noon-3pm, Petoskey - Downtown & Winter Sports Park. Kids Carnival Day featuring snowshoeing, snowman building contest & snow art, activities in Downtown stores & more. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------HBA HOME EXPO 2017: 11am-3pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Tickets, $7. hbagta.com/ home-expo

-------------------13TH ANNUAL HARBOR SPRINGS AREA CHILI COOK-OFF: 1-3pm, Stafford’s Pier Restaurant, Harbor Springs. Adults, $12. Kids up to 12 years old, free. Please bring a nonperishable food item for the Harbor Springs Food Pantry. harborspringschamber.com

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CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 10am-1pm through June 9. Upper Level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. crookedtree.org

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DEBTORS ANONYMOUS (NEW LOCATION, NEW TIME): Tuesdays, 6:30pm.12-Step Recovery Meeting for those with money issues. More info, call John P at (973) 476-7384.

Cowell Cancer Center (Munson), room B031, Sixth & Madison streets, TC.

-------------------FREE COMMUNITY CLASS: Every Weds. at 7:30pm. Bikram Yoga, 845 S. Garfield Ave., TC. bikramyogatcgr.com

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-------------------ANNUALThurs FURNITURE, FIBER, PHOTOGRAPHY, & SCULPTURE - MI beer night $1 off all MI beer EXHIBITION: Through Feb. 24. Oliver Art Center, Frankfort.

STROBELITE oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

“Where Friends Gather”

-------------------Fri Feb ART 17:BOMB: Runs through 6TH ANNUAL GRAND TRAVERSE - - - - - - - - - - -TUESDAY - - - -NIGHT ----March 25. Artists of all media in & from the GT region will Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey: Happy Hour: Harvey Wallbangers display & sell their work commission-free.

Encore Reception/ - Crooked Tree Photographic Society Exhibit: Runs through TRIVIA Art Bomb Prom on Feb. 11; &Zoopack Closing Reception on March 25.

Then: March 17 in the Atrium Gallery. Featuring diverse digital works Featuring live music & performance art. Right Brain Brewery, starts at 8pm from more than 30 members.

TC. facebook.com/GrandTraverseArtBomb Sat Feb 18: ZOOPACK WIN GIFT ------------------------2012

THROUGH THE WINDOW, ALLFeb MEDIA: Sun 19:Through March. Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. threepinesstudio.com “Making Art Together”: The Northport Arts Association hosts this open studio everyTCThurs. in the Village checkfrom us out10am-1pm at unionstreetstationtc.net 941-1930 downtown Arts Building, Northport. northportartsforall.com

KARAOKE (10PM-2AM)

Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC: CERTIFICATES! - Hygge: A Winter’s Glow: This multimedia exhibition celebrates all the214 waysE those the•northern latitudesTraverse embrace &City find Frontin St Downtown contentment during the winter months. Runs through Feb. 25.

231-946-8932

THURSDAY

Trivia nite • 7-9pm

FRIDAY FISH FRY

All you can eat perch $10.99

FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS for all Home Team Sporting Events.

231-941-2276 121 S. Union St. • TC. www.dillingerspubtc.com

231-922-7742 121 S. Union St. • TC. www.dillingerspubtc.com

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MORSELS GIVES BACK TO TART TRAILS: For the month of Feb., Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC will partner with TART Trails. Morsels has created a custom morsel (their bite-sized bakery goods) for TART Trails called “happy trails” which is a trail mix cookie with dried cherries, peanuts & mini m&m’s candy. For each “happy trails” morsel sold, Morsels will donate $.25 to TART Trails.

Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC.

-------------------SATURDAY SNOWSHOE HIKES : Held on Saturdays through March 11 at 1pm. Meet at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Empire. Free, but reservations required: 231-326-4700, ext.

5010. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. nps.gov/slbe/index.htm

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STORIES FROM STANDING ROCK, NORTH DAKOTA: 2pm, Bayside Coffee & Tea, Suttons Bay. League of Women Voters Leelanau County will host activists Holly Bird, Kareen Lewis & Belinda Bardwell, three Northern MI women who have

ART COMPETITION - WINE LABEL DESIGN closingNEEDED: at 9pm Deadline for art entry is March 10! Attention artists: Design a wine bottle label for the Mission Point Lighthouse fundraiser. Support Mission Point $2 well drinks & shots Lighthouse Friends nonprofit - preserve the lighthouse.

Winner will have their design on the label for the 2nd Annual Lighthouse Wine Fundraiser. Go to events at www.missionpointlighthouse.com for WedOr- Get in the can for $1 w/ DJ DomiNate application. emailitmplfmedia@gmail.com.

Higher Art Gallery, TC: - Call for Artists: 2nd Annual Mark Makers Competition: Speed Drawing Edition. Looking for 8 artists to draw in this free competition in front of a live audience. Competition is at Cambria Suites / Reflection Lounge on 3/13. Email : higherartgallery@gmail. com for more info on how to apply. Deadline is February 25.

- Call for Artist Submissions: For the spring show “Sacred Spaces” at Higher Art Gallery, TC. Deadline to apply is Feb. 20.

Visit higherartgallery.com for info.

- CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS: Now accepting submissions for “Emerging Artist, Under 24 Exhibit”. All local artists ages 17-24 are encouraged to apply to be in this juried exhibit, & Featuring Super Food have the opportunity to show & sell Greek in a gallery.

To apply visit: in a Relaxed Atmosphere www.higherartgallery.com.

Deadline to apply is March 20.

Higher Art Gallery, TC. higherartgallery.com

ICE SKATING GAMES: Saturdays, 1-3pm, Harbor Springs Sk8 Park/Ice Rink. facebook. com/harborspringssk8park

SNOWSHOE, WINE & BREW: Sundays, Old Mission Peninsula, 10:40am-noon. Park at Jolly Pumpkin to board the TC Brew Bus & start your trek. $20. tcbrewbus.com/events

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Ladies Night - $1 off drinks & $5 martinis

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DARK & STORMCLOUDY BEER & FILM SERIES: “A Man Called Ove” will be shown at the Garden Theater, downtown Frankfort at 2pm. Admission is $7, plus each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. February’s beer is Sonja. Beer is not served inside The Garden Theater. frankfortgardentheater.com/dark-stormcloudy-film-series/

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SECULAR A.A.: Thursdays: The Porch, TC, 5:30pm. Fridays: By the Bay Alano Club, TC, 7pm. SecularAAinMichigan.org

TAHS PROGRAM: 1-3pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. “Steamers of the Grand Traverse Bay Line” presented by Steve Kelsch. traversehistory.wordpress.com/

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SNOWSHOES, VINES, & WINES!: Explore the easy to moderate trails at Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay & then warm up with a glass of mulled wine & a bowl of chili. Held every Sat. & Sun. through Feb. 25-26 from noon-4pm. blackstarfarms.com

-------------------WINTER WALK WEDNESDAYS: Walk to school every Wednesday this winter. Presented by Norte! Traverse City. Find ‘Norte’ on Facebook.

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GT PIPES & DRUMS FUNDRAISER WINTER CEILIDH: 7-10:30pm, TC Elks Lodge. Featuring the GT Pipes & Drums, The Wild Sully’s & Celtic Fire Highland Dancers. Admission: $20 adults, $10 ages 10 & younger. grandtraversepipesanddrums.org

-------------------VALENTINE’S NIGHT SKI: 7pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. A guided evening ski with a fire & hot cocoa to enjoy afterwards. $8/ couple. Pre-register. grassriver.org

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KIDS MOVIE NIGHT: 7:30pm, Aspen Room or Alpine Room, Treetops Resort, Gaylord.

Tonight will feature “Shrek”. Free. treetops.com

-------------------OLD FRIENDS: A SIMON & GARFUNKEL TRIBUTE: 8pm, City Opera House, TC. The Concert in Central Park. Featuring Nick Foresman & Jason Elsenheimer. Tickets: $20, $10. cityoperahouse.org/old-friends-a-simongarfunkel-tribute

been at the water protection actions at Standing Rock, North Dakota numerous times. They will provide their accounts & updates of the efforts to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. 231-271-5600.

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GAAA’S MOSTLY MUSIC: 7pm, Leelanau School Dining Hall, Glen Arbor. Featuring Trio Jazz Volume 1 with David Chown, Andy Evans & Bob Foskett. Tickets, $12. glenarborart.org “OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”: 2pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

ongoing

INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Held in The Mercato on Saturdays through April 29 from 10am-2pm. thevillagetc.com

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ADOPTION SATURDAYS: Pets Naturally, TC hosts one dog & one cat from the Cherryland Humane Society on Saturdays from 11am2pm. www.petsnaturallytc.com

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“UKES FOR YOU! LEARN TO PLAY THE UKULELE”: Tuesdays through March 7, 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

Jim Gillespie will help you learn to play the baritone ukulele. Learn easy folk songs & some old 60’s tunes - you’ll even learn to strum & sing at the same time! Free. crookedtree.org

PURE MICHIGAN COUNTRY PART 2: 8pm, Ground Zero, Streeters, TC. With Uncle Kracker, Matt Austin & Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys. Advance tickets: $25 + handling. groundzeroonline.com

SEMI-FINALS: 2ND ANNUAL FROZEN CHERRY JAM & HOT LICKS GUITAR COMPETITION: 8pm, The Workshop Brewing Company, TC. Judges are Jabo Bihlman, Tim Callahan, Rodney James & John Archambault. $1 of every brew sold during this competition benefits Northwest Michigan Supportive Housing. Finals are on Feb. 25. Find ‘Frozen Cherry Jam & Hot Licks Guitar Competition’ on Facebook.

-------------------LAUGH FOR A GOOD CAUSE! COMEDY SHOW: 9pm, The Parlor, TC. Presented by Falling Down Stairs Productions who will donate proceeds to help Polestar LGBT + Community Center launch itself as a new nonprofit. tcpolestar.org

feb 19

Sunday

THE VINEYARD RACE AT FORTY-FIVE NORTH: 10am, Forty-Five North, Lake Leelanau. A 3.2 mile fat bike race.

Admission, $50; $10 more day of. shortsbrewingfatbikeseries.com/forty-five-north-vineyard-race/

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PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL: Noon-3pm, Petoskey - Downtown & Winter Sports Park. Kids Carnival Day featuring snowshoeing, snowman building contest & snow art, activities in Downtown stores & more. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------HBA HOME EXPO 2017: 11am-3pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Tickets, $7. hbagta.com/ home-expo

-------------------13TH ANNUAL HARBOR SPRINGS AREA CHILI COOK-OFF: 1-3pm, Stafford’s Pier Restaurant, Harbor Springs. Adults, $12. Kids up to 12 years old, free. Please bring a nonperishable food item for the Harbor Springs Food Pantry. harborspringschamber.com

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CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 10am-1pm through June 9. Upper Level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. crookedtree.org

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DEBTORS ANONYMOUS (NEW LOCATION, NEW TIME): Tuesdays, 6:30pm.12-Step Recovery Meeting for those with money issues. More info, call John P at (973) 476-7384.

Cowell Cancer Center (Munson), room B031, Sixth & Madison streets, TC.

-------------------FREE COMMUNITY CLASS: Every Weds. at 7:30pm. Bikram Yoga, 845 S. Garfield Ave., TC. bikramyogatcgr.com

-------------------ICE SKATING GAMES: Saturdays, 1-3pm, Harbor Springs Sk8 Park/Ice Rink. facebook. com/harborspringssk8park

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MORSELS GIVES BACK TO TART TRAILS: For the month of Feb., Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC will partner with TART Trails. Morsels has created a custom morsel (their bite-sized bakery goods) for TART Trails called “happy trails” which is a trail mix cookie with dried cherries, peanuts & mini m&m’s candy. For each “happy trails” morsel sold, Morsels will donate $.25 to TART Trails.

Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC.

-------------------SATURDAY SNOWSHOE HIKES : Held on Saturdays through March 11 at 1pm. Meet at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Empire. Free, but reservations required: 231-326-4700, ext.

5010. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. nps.gov/slbe/index.htm

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SECULAR A.A.: Thursdays: The Porch, TC, 5:30pm. Fridays: By the Bay Alano Club, TC, 7pm. SecularAAinMichigan.org

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SNOWSHOE, WINE & BREW: Sundays, Old Mission Peninsula, 10:40am-noon. Park at Jolly Pumpkin to board the TC Brew Bus & start your trek. $20. tcbrewbus.com/events

TAHS PROGRAM: 1-3pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. “Steamers of the Grand Traverse Bay Line” presented by Steve Kelsch. traversehistory.wordpress.com/

DARK & STORMCLOUDY BEER & FILM SERIES: “A Man Called Ove” will be shown at the Garden Theater, downtown Frankfort at 2pm. Admission is $7, plus each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. February’s beer is Sonja. Beer is not served inside The Garden Theater. frankfortgardentheater.com/dark-stormcloudy-film-series/

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STORIES FROM STANDING ROCK, NORTH DAKOTA: 2pm, Bayside Coffee & Tea, Suttons Bay. League of Women Voters Leelanau County will host activists Holly Bird, Kareen Lewis & Belinda Bardwell, three Northern MI women who have

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SNOWSHOES, VINES, & WINES!: Explore the easy to moderate trails at Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay & then warm up with a glass of mulled wine & a bowl of chili. Held every Sat. & Sun. through Feb. 25-26 from noon-4pm. blackstarfarms.com

-------------------WINTER WALK WEDNESDAYS: Walk to school every Wednesday this winter. Presented by Norte! Traverse City. Find ‘Norte’ on Facebook.

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ART COMPETITION - WINE LABEL DESIGN NEEDED: Deadline for art entry is March 10! Attention artists: Design a wine bottle label for the Mission Point Lighthouse fundraiser. Support Mission Point Lighthouse Friends nonprofit - preserve the lighthouse. Winner will have their design on the label for the 2nd Annual Lighthouse Wine Fundraiser. Go to events at www.missionpointlighthouse.com for application. Or email mplfmedia@gmail.com.

-------------------ANNUAL FURNITURE, FIBER, PHOTOGRAPHY, & SCULPTURE EXHIBITION: Through Feb. 24. Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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Higher Art Gallery, TC: - Call for Artists: 2nd Annual Mark Makers Competition: Speed Drawing Edition. Looking for 8 artists to draw in this free competition in front of a live audience. Competition is at Cambria Suites / Reflection Lounge on 3/13. Email : higherartgallery@gmail. com for more info on how to apply. Deadline is February 25.

- Call for Artist Submissions: For the spring show “Sacred Spaces” at Higher Art Gallery, TC. Deadline to apply is Feb. 20.

Visit higherartgallery.com for info.

- CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS: Now accepting submissions for “Emerging Artist, Under 24 Exhibit”. All local artists ages 17-24 are encouraged to apply to be in this juried exhibit, & have the opportunity to show & sell in a gallery. To apply visit: www.higherartgallery.com. Deadline to apply is March 20.

Higher Art Gallery, TC. higherartgallery.com

6TH ANNUAL GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB: Runs through March 25. Artists of all media in & from the GT region will display & sell their work commission-free. Encore Reception/ Art Bomb Prom on Feb. 11; & Closing Reception on March 25.

Featuring live music & performance art. Right Brain Brewery, TC. facebook.com/GrandTraverseArtBomb

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THROUGH THE WINDOW, ALL MEDIA: Through March. Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. threepinesstudio.com “Making Art Together”: The Northport Arts Association hosts this open studio every Thurs. from 10am-1pm in the Village Arts Building, Northport. northportartsforall.com

Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC: - Hygge: A Winter’s Glow: This multimedia exhibition celebrates all the ways those in the northern latitudes embrace & find contentment during the winter months. Runs through Feb. 25.

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Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey: - Crooked Tree Photographic Society Exhibit: Runs through March 17 in the Atrium Gallery. Featuring diverse digital works from more than 30 members.

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MODERN

YOU, TOO, CAN GO TO BONNAROO WITH U2 A favorite early summer trek of many northern Michiganians is the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. This year’s lineup for June 8–11 is offering some major names that will put tickets in high demand. Most notably, U2 is set to be one of the headliners, as the band is back out on the road in celebration of the 30th anniversary of its album The Joshua Tree. Also headlining the event are Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd, Chance the Rapper, The xx, Major Laser, Flume and the much-anticipated return of Lorde, who is also expected to release a new album soon. For the entire lineup, tickets and all the info you’ll need to make a trek to Tennessee, visit the fest’s official website at Bonnaroo.com.

Icelandic band Sigur Ros has expanded its touring schedule with a new run of North American dates set to kick off Apr. 7 in Santa Barbara, Cal., a trek that will keep the band on the road until mid-June when it wraps up this particular outing in Queens, N.Y. Sigur Ros booked mostly mid-range theater shows on its last tour, but this next run will offer up some bigger events, including a three-night residency at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (Apr. 13–15), where the band will be accompanied by the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra. Closer to home, you’ll be able to catch the group live in Toronto May 28, in Detroit June

ROCK

BY KRISTI KATES

2 at the Masonic Temple Theater, and in Chicago June 3 at the Auditorium Theater.

John Mayer reportedly spent hundreds of hours in Capitol Studios working on his new album. The Search for Everything is being released in segments; the first four-song set arrived a couple of weeks ago. The album is a self-proclaimed “ambitious” one for Mayer, who spent the past several years touring with former members of The Grateful Dead (as Dead and Company); he cited artists like Rihanna and Drake as his inspiration for breaking away from the typical album model to release the tracks in chunks rather than as a full album all at once. Tunes on the new album include “Moving On and Getting Over,” “Love on the Weekend,” and “Changing.”

Emo-acoustic pop outfit Dashboard Confessional has just released a surprise cover EP called Covered and Taped on which it performs its own versions of pop and rock tracks including Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself,” Julien Baker’s “Sprained Ankle” and Sorority Noise’s “Using.” This was the band’s first album of any kind since 2009’s Alter the Ending; a couple of years ago, DC frontman Chris Carrabba told the press he was about to start writing a new record, but nothing has surfaced yet, although the band is currently on a U.S. tour.

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: Are you livin’ on a prayer down by the docks? Pull yourself up to the big stage and

take a chance on opening for ‘80s rock band Bon Jovi. The band plays at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit Mar. 29 and is looking for local bands to open every stop on its tour. Interested?

Submit a video of your band playing that’s impressive enough to garner an invitation to be Bon Jovi’s opening act. Send your vids to Bonjovi.com/2017-opening-act-contest and let us know if you’re a winner.

THE BUZZ: In other ‘80s band news, energetic performers Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper are teaming up for a concert at the DTE Energy Music Theater Aug. 1 with tickets on sale now.

Grand Rapids singer Roberta Bradley has returned to the Michigan music scene and is now collaborating as one half of the bluesy Roberta Lee and Denny G duo performing regularly around the GR region.

Kanye West protégé Big Sean recently

debuted two new songs on Saturday Night Live, “Bounce Back” and “Sunday Morning Jetpack,” positioning the Detroiter and Cass Tech alumni pretty well for a great start to his new year.

English singer Morrissey canceled his Detroit show twice late last year, but fans probably shouldn’t hold out for his return any time soon, as make-up dates still haven’t surfaced.

Detroiter Flint Eastwood, also known as singer-songwriter Jax Anderson, just released her first single with her new record label Neon Gold Records; “Queen” relays the first time Anderson was asked what it’s like to be “a woman in the music business”…and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ‘em to Kristi at Modernrocker@gmail.com.

A Whole New Life Kyle Zemsta was so impressed by his wife’s weight loss results one year after surgery, he decided to have the procedure, too. Now they both have much more energy, stamina, and enjoy outdoor activities together.

“It’s been absolutely wonderful,” Katie said. “I’ve lost 120 pounds.

My health is excellent and my sleep apnea is gone. My new addiction is shopping. I can’t find anything I can’t fit into.”

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Bariatric procedures are not for everyone. People qualify for weight loss surgery only if it is the best choice for their health and they demonstrate the required commitment, motivation, education, and medical history. Munson Medical Center’s nationally accredited program provides long-term support and thorough follow-up care.

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Sleater-Kinney – “Live in Paris” – Sub Pop

Sleater-Kinney has long been known for stage shows in which it attacks its instruments with vengeance and interprets its own tracks on a level so raw it feels like the tunes are being crafted as you watch. But that experience has yet to be suitably translated to any of the band’s recordings. That changes with this album.

Recorded during a show at Paris’ La Cigale venue, Live in Paris features a selection of tracks from across its repertoire, including the strikingly prescient “Entertain,” the classic “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone,” and the barnstorming “No Cities to Love.”

Austra – “Future Politics” – Domino

With an operatically styled voice reminiscent of Charlotte Church, vocalist/artist Katie Stelmanis, aka Austra, is on her third album.

She chose to make it a thematic one with a view toward the future and its vast boundaries. This time around, she pared down her usual sound. Emptying her voice while performing with less bombast leaves more space for roiling synth lines and nervous club beats with heft such as on “I Love You More Than You Love Yourself” with its stiff backbeat. Elsewhere, “Free Power” brings in a disconcerted tone before “Utopia” sweeps in with better prospects.

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska • 7 MONKS TAPROOM - TC 2/14 -- May Erlewine, 7:3010:30 • BUD'S - INTERLOCHEN Thurs. -- Jim Hawley, 5-8 • FANTASY'S - GRAWN Adult Entertainment w/ DJ • GT RESORT & SPA ACME Aerie Lounge: 2/14 -- Johnny P. Band, 6-9 Grand Lobby: 2/10-11 -- Blake Elliott, 7-11 2/17-18 -- Blake Elliott, 7-11 • HAYLOFT INN - TC Thurs. -- Open mic night by Roundup Radio Show, 8 Fri. - Sat. thru Feb. -- Two Old Broads & 3 Buddies • HORIZON BOOKS - TC 2/17 -- Songwriters in the Round w/ Louan Lechler, Jim Hawley, Adair Correll & Kurt Westie, 8:30-10:30 • HOTEL INDIGO - TC 2/17 -- Al Jankowski, 7:3010:30 2/18 -- Elizabeth Rivers w/ Peter Murphy, 7:30-10:30 • LEFT FOOT CHARLEY - TC 2/17 -- Jim Moore, 6-8 Mon. -- Open mic w/ Blake Elliott, 6-9 • LITTLE BOHEMIA - TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 • NOLAN'S CIGAR BAR - TC 2/17 -- The True Falsettos, 9-11:30 • NORTH PEAK - TC Kilkenny's, 9:30-1:30: 2/10-11 -- Lucas Paul 2/17-18 -- One Hot Robot

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The reel

by meg weichman

THE SPACE BETWEEN US gold

“G

old,” the latest helicopter, hot tubs, and hubris film about a scrappy underdog in whom we are meant to somehow see ourselves is such an empty husk with no hustle at all that at times it barely seems to exist.

Based loosely on a mining scandal, “Gold” tests its protagonist (Matthew McConaughey) in predictable, underwhelming ways. The story exists in a well-trod world of greed and backstabbery and doesn’t flesh out that world, has no urgency or drive, and too many half-hearted twists to sustain itself.

McConaughey plays Kenny Wells, a prospector running the family business in Reno. Set in the 1980s when the mining business ain’t what it (apparently) used to be, Wells has a literal dream about a mother lode in Indonesia that sends him to team up with renegade geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramírez). What follows is your standard rags to riches to excess to overconfidence to betrayal to backstabbing to… well, you get the idea. It takes a special kind of film to be this bad for no particular reason. Sure, the tone is all over the place, with stylistic flourishes that make no earthly sense, but this is minor at best. “Gold” is actually pretty innocuous save for the fact it fills you with an existential dread that you’ll never get the hours back you just spent watching it.

Combine “The Martian” with “The Fault in Our Stars” and then take out smarts and sincerity of those movies and you’ll have an idea of what this cheesy teen romance about a boy born on Mars and the girl he’s in love with back on Earth has in store for you.

With that outrageous premise, it won’t come as a surprise that this is the kind of film where it’s easy (and entertaining) to poke fun at all the plot holes and general ridiculousness.

Yet although it is by no means a “good” movie, it is the watchable kind of bad movie. Over the course of two hours I was never bored and the nonsensical twists only served to add to my enjoyment.

How exactly was this aforementioned boy born on Mars? His mom was part of a team of astronauts set to colonize Mars who unexpectedly discovered too far into the journey that she was pregnant. Once on Mars she dies in childbirth, but her son survives, and thus we have Gardner Elliott – a space oddity if there ever was.

Following this drawn out exposition, we flash forward 16 years, skipping right over what ostensibly is the good stuff (I mean how exactly did the surviving five male astronauts go about raising an infant baby on Mars? That’s a “Three Men and a Baby” spinoff I would totally watch!). We thus arrive in time for Gardner’s (Asa Butterfield, “Miss Peregrine”) predictable moody teen years with him still living in the east Texas, Mars colony.

His entire existence is still a classified secret, having been deemed a PR disaster and a return to earth a risk to his health. With his gestation and birth occurring outside earth’s gravity, there’s no protocol for knowing whether he could survive in our atmosphere.

Raised by scientists, he has some serious hacking skills, so he’s figured out how to covertly chat online with a random Colorado high school girl. How exactly they found each other, why no one cared who his father was, and many other pertinent questions are left unclear.

So now with this girl in his life, he really has a reason to go to Earth, and his scientist surrogate mom (Carla Gugino,“Troop Beverly Hills”) convinces the project team to let him return to earth following extensive operations.

Back on earth, NASA wants to run tests and studies to make sure all is well with Gardner, but he only wants two things: to find his dad and head for Tulsa (not Oklahoma; that’s the name of the girl he’s been talking with).

And Tulsa (Britt Robertson) could not be a more uninspired character. She’s a rough around the edges foster kid who rides a motorcycle and hates everyone (except for

Gardner, for some unknown reason). She also has a frequently cited passion for music that results in an original composition being sung in a Sam’s Club (of all places) and pretty much nothing else.

Garner escapes NASA custody, meets Tulsa in super anticlimactic fashion, and they hit the road to find Gardner’s dad with only the faintest of clues. Hot on their trail are both his surrogate mom and the east Texas project’s recluse maverick founder (Gary Oldham), a man with an unhealthy obsession with Gardner’s well-being.

Sensitive, eternal boy-child Butterfield is perfectly cast here if only for the fact that his scrawniness and general frailty make him look like he really is about to break at any moment under the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere.

Robertson (“Tomorrowland”) manages to hold their flimsy romance together on the strength of her moxie and charm, even in light of the painfully apparent age differential that makes clear she is too old to play a teen.

The labored script from Allan Loeb, the man behind 2016’s most offensively ill-conceived disaster, “Collateral Beauty,” features absurd situations like the rogue piloting a biplane (of all things) and a clunky use of metaphor that culminates in a character exclaiming that Gardner’s heart is LITERALLY TOO BIG to survive on earth.

There is, however, a metaphor here worth exploring, which what helps keep this film enjoyable, despite the fact that the touching and comedic potential of experiencing the world anew through the eyes of literal Martian is underplayed in favor of a lot chase scenes and cloying encounters so bad that hilarity abounds.

Though it’s light years from getting things right, with slightly better dialogue, more coherent development, and less preposterous situations this could’ve been a winner. Because when you take away the sappiness of the romance and the weight of teen film conventions, its central idea about what it means to be human, giving the audience pause to reconsider how they view the world, offers a strain of emotional truth that keeps you invested.

But if you want to see a film that does get this particular subject matter sublimely right, look no further than “The Space Between Us” itself, which directly references “Wings of Desire,” Wim Wender’s masterpiece about an angel (ie a Martian) who falls to earth and falls in love.

Do yourself a favor: Leave out this cinematic middleman and go watch that instead.

Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.

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the founder

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ow did one little restaurant in quiet Bakersfield, Calif. grow to have over 36,538 locations in 119 countries serving 68 million people daily? That’s the question behind “The Founder,” a film that’s part biopic, part corporate origin story, part myth, and made from 100 percent American values. That restaurant in question is of course McDonald’s, and the story behind its unparalleled success as led by franchisee master Ray Kroc (an outstanding Michael Keaton) is a fascinating one that some might even say involves its own real-life hamburglar. But the film doesn’t live up to that so inherently compelling story. It’s good and entertaining, but you’ll just be crestfallen that where it could’ve strove for “The Social Network” style bite, it settles for satisfactory and satisfying procedural fineness making it feel like just another awards season also-ran. Both celebrating American ambition and condemning its ruthlessness, it is neither a takedown nor ode to the Golden Arches, an indeterminateness felt most at the film’s end. It doesn’t conclude with profound ambiguity, it just stops without sufficiently following through on the obvious setup to interrogate capitalism’s ideals. But it will leave you with one particular hankering. I’ll give you one guess what I had for dinner the night after I saw this.

patriots day

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atriots Day,” the first of supposedly three forthcoming films about the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013, is efficiently directed by Peter Berg (“Friday Night Lights”) and tells the story of the bombing from before it starts all the way to a moving and pseudo-satisfying conclusion.

To shepherd us through the events and the subsequent search for the perpetrators, Berg mainstay Mark Wahlberg (“Deepwater Horizon”) stars as a police sergeant who somehow manages to be present for all the major moments of the case. But Wahlberg’s Tommy Saunders, unlike pretty much everyone else we meet in this film, isn’t real; he’s a composite of several officers and their experiences. He’s a compelling audience surrogate, but it’s disappointing that the film decided it needed so simplistic a device to connect with the audience. The real people depicted here – including Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis (John Goodman), Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese (J.K. Simmons), and Special Agent Richard DesLauriers (Kevin Bacon) – are compelling and would have sold the story just fine. The film does a solid job encapsulating the events in an exciting and respectful manner, and we get to know the victims, investigators, and even the bombers in thoughtful ways. The rah-rah jingoism of, say, a Michael Bay film of the same type is for the most part absent. Nothing new is said here though. The bigger, more upsetting questions remain unanswered. Love Triumphs Over Hate™, like Saunders says, but what else is new? “Patriots Day” tells a tragic, riveting story adequately, but it misses the big picture.

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: Ideally, “till death do us part” doesn’t lead to daydreams involving a shovel and a tarp.

Granted, there are people in miserable marriages who stay together — sometimes because they believe that a man with horns and a tail would end up chasing them around with a flaming pitchfork if they split up and married somebody else. Others, in humdrum but not ugly or toxic marriages, stay together — admirably — for their kids’ sake.

But many unhappy couples — with no pitter-pattering little feet but the schnauzer’s — don’t split up or are seriously slow to do it out of this notion that quitting is for losers.

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These days, however, if continents or children won’t be ravaged by a couple’s breaking up, maybe there’s no reason to be answering the question “Grandma, how’d you and Grandpa make it work?” with “We didn’t. I just stayed till he died.”

Even so, human psychology doesn’t make it easy to extricate ourselves. Research by psychologist Elliot Aronson finds that we are prone to “self-justification” — believing whatever puts us in the best light. In other words, we are natural-born spin doctors, driven to protect both our ego and our public persona — to the point where our kneejerk response when we fail at something is pretending we haven’t, to ourselves and everybody else.

There is a psychological tool you can use to combat this. It’s “self-compassion” — basically, when you’re going through a hard time, treating yourself as kindly as you’d treat someone else who’s struggling. Psychologist Kristin Neff, who studies self-compassion, finds that an essential element of this is seeing your “common humanity” — meaning viewing yourself as part of a whole population of flawed, fallible humans.

I’m not suggesting that couples should scurry off to divorce court at the first sight of a cloud on the marital horizon. But there’s a cost-benefit analysis to be done. Couples need to consider whether it’s actually possible to work to make their marriage succeed or whether that would take their being two totally different and actually compatible people.

This might help you look charitably on the concept of the “starter marriage.” This is a first marriage for a very young couple without kids or many assets that ends in divorce in five years or less. (These are people who went into marriage not knowing themselves or their partner all that well and not really understanding what marriage requires.)

Still, older people, upon hearing about this newfangled “get out of jail free” card, will often grumble the marital version of “When I was your age, I crawled 20 miles to school over broken glass!” (“Um, thanks, Aunt Bessie, but I learn just fine when Mom drops me off in her Tesla.”)

As for what “succeeding” in marriage means, let’s be honest: In modern society, we have a luxury we never did before — marrying for love and happiness. We then expect that these will continue to some reasonable (or sometimes unreasonable) degree. In previous centuries, sometimes you lucked out and got love in the marital package. But, as marriage historian Stephanie Coontz points out, for “thousands of years” — until the late 18th century — “marriage was more about property and politics than personal satisfaction.”

Two people would get “betrothed” to each other as a way of brokering peace between nations or getting the money to keep land in the family (“marriage is between a man and a potato farm”).

But consider that this “starter marriage” concept is actually very helpful — right in line with the notion from self-compassion that you’re not alone in making mistakes. Understanding this can help you view your failures less as shameful embarrassments and more as learning experiences that you can use to make better choices in the future. Seeing failures in this more compassionate, positive light could also help you be a bit faster to admit when you’ve screwed up so you can move on. This is certainly preferable to just sitting there glumly mired in your bad choices like a little kid who peed his pants — and has to stay in those wet pants for the next 50 years, at which point somebody will throw him a big anniversary party to celebrate.

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15 Drama with the fictional firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak 16 Indian restaurant basketful 17 “Don’t point the finger ... the freeze was an accident!”

20 School crossing sign word 21 It may be copied for family members 22 Mitt Romney’s alma mater, for short 23 “Ology,” for short 24 Grass-like surfaces 26 Startle 27 Extremely 28 Far-sighted person?

29 Adjective for 2017 (but not 2018) 31 Uprising of a sort 32 Desert rest stop 34 Genre for many “Weird Al” Yankovic medleys 35 “That coffee holder won’t work if it’s ginormous” 39 Nastily derogatory 40 FX series with Billy Bob Thornton 41 Tacks on 42 “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” author 44 Prefix with byte or hertz 48 Nabokov ending?

49 Fencing weapon 50 Take, as a coupon 51 Cy Young Award stat 52 Vegas headliner?

53 Day-___ (fluorescent paint) 55 “Kneel before ___!” (“Superman II” line) 56 “I was impervious to constant chatter” 60 “Alice’s Restaurant” singer Guthrie 61 Kerfuffles 62 “Sounds like a plan!”

63 Henchman created by J.M. Barrie 64 Loses it 65 Borscht ingredient

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39 Cut down on driving, say 42 Speaks too proudly 43 Champ before Ali 45 Source of a breakdown?

46 Rent co-payer, casually 47 Burning with desire 49 Reason for a yearly shot 50 Companion to five “W”s 53 Unappetizing food 54 Word often confused with “fewer” 57 Strummer or Cocker 58 Agcy. overseeing cosmetics 59 Lobster wearer’s clothing

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Here’s your mantra for the

next three weeks: “I know what I want, and I know how to glide it into my life.” Say this out loud 11 times right after you wake up each morning, and 11 more times before lunch, and 11 more times at bedtime. “I know what I want, and I know how to glide it into my life.”

Whenever you do this little chant, summon an upflow of smiling confidence -- a serene certainty that no matter how long the magic might take, it will ultimately work. “I know what I want, and I know how to glide it into my life.” Don’t let any little voice in your head undermine your link to this simple truth. Lift your heart to the highest source of vitality you can imagine.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): By my estimates, 72

percent of you Aries are in unusually good moods.

The world seems friendlier, more cooperative.

Fifty-six percent of you feel more in love with life than you have in a long time. You may even imagine that the birds and trees and stars are flirting with you. I’m also guessing that 14 percent of you are weaving in and out of being absurdly, deliriously happy, sometimes without any apparent explanation. As a result of your generosity of spirit, you may be the recipient of seemingly impossible rewards like free money or toasted ice cream or unconditional tenderness. And I bet that at least ten percent of you are experiencing all of the above.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): I am launching a

campaign to undo obsolete stereotypes about you Bulls. There are still backwards astrologers out there who perpetrate the lie that many of you are stingy, stolid, stubborn slowpokes. As an antidote, I plan to heighten everyone’s awareness of your sensual, soulful sweetness, and your tastefully pragmatic sensitivity, and your diligent, dynamic productivity. That should be easy in the coming weeks, since you’ll be at the height of your ability to express those superpowers. Luckily, people will also have an enhanced capacity to appreciate you for who you really are. It will be a favorable time to clarify and strengthen your reputation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Will Giovanni

surreptitiously replace Allesandra’s birth control pills with placebos? Will Camille take a hidden crowbar to her rendezvous with the blackmailer? Will Josie steal Jose’s diary and sell it on eBay? Given the current astrological omens, you may have an unconscious attraction to soap opera-type events like those. The glamour of melodrama is tempting you. But I’m hoping and predicting that you will express the cosmic currents in less toxic ways. Maybe you’ll hear a searing but healing confession after midnight in the pouring rain, for instance. Perhaps you’ll break an outworn taboo with ingenious grace, or forge a fertile link with a reformed rascal, or recover a lost memory in a dusty basement.

CANCER June 21-July 22): All naturally-

occurring matter on earth is composed of 92 basic elements arranged in various combinations. Since some of these appear in trace amounts, they took a long time for humans to discover. In the 18th and 19th centuries, chemists were exuberant when they tracked down seven of the 92 in a single location: an underground mine on the Swedish island of Ytterby. That small place was a mother lode. I’m predicting a metaphorically similar experience for you, Cancerian: new access to a concentrated source that will yield much illumination.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The next four weeks

will be an excellent time to upgrade your understanding of the important characters in your life. In fact, I suspect you will generate good fortune and meaningful synchronicities whenever you seek greater insight into anyone who affects you. Get to know people better, Leo! If there are intriguing acquaintances who pique your curiosity, find out more about them. Study the oddballs you’re allergic to with the intention to discern their hidden workings. In general, practice being objective as you improve your skill at reading human nature.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1787, English

captain Arthur Phillip led an eight-month naval expedition to the southeastern part of the continent now known as Australia. Upon arrival, he claimed the land for England, despite the fact that 250,000 Aboriginal people were living there, just as their

ancestors had for 2,000 generations. Two hundred years later, an Aboriginal activist named Burnum Burnum planted the Aboriginal flag on the White Cliffs of Dover, claiming England for his people. I encourage you to make a comparably artful or symbolic act like Burnum’s sometime soon, Virgo -- a ritual or gesture to assert your sovereignty or evoke a well-deserved reversal or express your unconquerable spirit.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The ancient Roman

rhetorician Quintilian authored a twelve-volume textbook on the art of oratory. As ample as it was, it could have been longer. “Erasure is as important as writing,” he said. According to my reading of the astrological omens, that counsel should be a rewarding and even exciting theme for you in the coming weeks. For the long-term health of your labor of love or your masterpiece, you should focus for a while on what to edit out of it. How could you improve it by making it shorter and more concise?

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do you know

about the long-running kids’ show Sesame Street? Are you familiar with Big Bird, the talking eight-feet-tall yellow canary who’s one of the main characters? I hope so, because your horoscope is built around them. In the Sesame Street episode called Don’t Eat the Pictures, Big Bird solves a riddle that frees a 4,000-year-old Egyptian prince from an ancient curse. I think this vignette can serve as a model for your own liberation. How? You can finally outwit and outmaneuver a very old problem with the help of some playful, even child-like energy. Don’t assume that you’ve got to be relentlessly serious and dour in order to shed the ancient burden. In fact, just the opposite is true. Trust blithe and rowdy spirits.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your

lessons in communication are reaching a climax.

Here are five tips to help you do well on your “final exam.” 1. Focus more on listening for what you need to know rather than on expressing what you already know. 2. Keep white lies and convenient deceptions to a bare minimum. 3. Tell the truth as strong and free as you dare, but always -- if possible -- with shrewd kindness. 4. You are more likely to help your cause if you spread bright, shiny gossip instead of the grubby kind. 5. Experiment with being unpredictable; try to infuse your transmissions with unexpected information and turns of phrase.

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PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): “We cannot

simply sit and stare at our wounds forever,” writes Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.

“We must stand up and move on to the next action.” That’s your slightly scolding but ultimately inspirational advice, Pisces. According to my astrological analysis, you have done heroic work to identify and investigate your suffering. You have summoned a tremendous amount of intelligence in order to understand it and further the healing.

But right now it’s time to turn your focus to other matters. Like what? How about rebirth?

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