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Trump exhibits all nine traits for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which are grandiosity, arrogance and domineering, preoccupation with success and power, lack of empathy, belief of being unique, sense of entitlement, requires excessive admiration, exploitative and envious of others?

Or maybe it’s how Trump meets almost all of the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth, as they are enumerated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Obama saved our butts from Bush’s mess! Oh those pesky “facts.”

For The People

Open Letter to Bergman

As a military man you must be well trained in the art of leadership. Most importantly, you should be able to tell if an individual has the temperament and qualities to effectively and safely lead troops.

You are now in a position that requires you to make that assessment again. Just substitute “the nation” for “troops.”

Put aside your party affiliation for a moment. Can you honestly convince yourself that Donald Trump is displaying the temperament, judgment, and knowledge necessary to lead this nation? Are you not deeply troubled by: Trump’s attraction to and coziness with Russia; his handling an international incident surrounded by donors and patrons in an unsecured setting; his belittling of federal judges for decisions he doesn’t like; or his reaction to every perceived slight and criticism? Honestly, do you feel comfortable with his decisionmaking ability and emotional stability?

There is potentially a way out of this before he leads this nation to a disastrous result.

The 25th Amendment may provide that path.

Fittingly, it is your party and individuals such as yourself that may have to make this happen.

Impeachment starts and ends with Congress, which your party controls.

If you choose to sit back and “give him a chance,” it may be too late. On the other hand, if Trump remains in the Oval Office, it may lead to a disastrous result for the nation and for you and your party in 2018.

Peter Raphael, Traverse City

Meeting The Constituents

I attended the coffee hour with State Representative Curt VanderWall last Friday. I commend him for having an open discussion his constituents. Not everyone in attendance was of the same mind, but politely listened to all comments. A productive, informative, peaceful discussion took place. He closed by saying he wants to hear from constituents and provided multiple ways for that to happen. Then Mr. VanderWall warmly shook everyone’s hand and thanked them for coming.

I have gone to the regional office of Congressman Jack Bergman twice. The first time we calmly sat around a table and discussed our concerns. There was a good

exchange and agreement that constituents would be informed of any activities of Representative Bergman. As of yet, no notice has been sent.

This time the changes were drastic. No longer were we welcomed, but barred from the office by a wall. A security window one sees in a gas station welcomes Bergman’s constituents! You’re not offered a seat, a handshake, no courtesy at all. Though I was in a group of thirty people of all political persuasions, we were calm and orderly. In groups of three or four we entered the antichamber, autographed the sign-in sheet, then voiced our concern through the voice hole to a staffer who didn’t even take notes.

I can only assume, perhaps on orders from Congressman Bergman himself, he does not like to be courteous to the public. I think he runs the risk of hearing issues contrary to his preconceived ideas. I hope I am wrong. I thought he campaigned to be open to all ideas.

By the way, appointments at this office are not accepted. Draw your own conclusions.

Peggy Raddatz, Manistee

Facts Matter!

In the papers I read regularly, the Cheboygan Tribune and Northern Express (including letters to the editor), I find myself wondering where some people get their “facts.”

Let’s start with the stock market in order to refute Mr. Parth of Boon. Under George W. Bush on Nov. 20, 2008, the Dow hit 7,552.29. At the end of Obama’s eight years in office the Dow reached 19,974.62. Under Obama, not only did the market recover, but it soared! On January 25, 2017 under Trump it crawled upward, by a mere 100 points—to 20,068 points.

Per Mr. Parth: “Trump has brought back more jobs than the last two presidents.” If you check the Bureau of Labor Statistics you’ll see that under George W. Bush, there was a net loss of jobs in his eight years (-338,000 jobs). In fact, at the end of his administration, we were losing hundreds of thousands of jobs per month. Under President Obama we saw an unprecedented 75 months of job growth. We’re talking millions of jobs. Trump’s measly “hundreds” is nothing to brag about.

From Pellston, Bill Hartwig stands proud (re: Trump), over what? Is it that

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Old Mission Mysteries.........................................9 Farmer Foot Drum........................................10 DreamLab Industries.......................................12 You Said It!......................................................13 Karen Martin, Cheboygan Snowmobile at Gaylord Gathering........................15 La Bécasse.........................................................16 Seen..................................................................19

Regarding the letter asking to “give Trump a chance,” since the 70s I have seen the respect for presidents and lack of support go down.

The losing party has rarely come together to solve any real problems. Political stalemate happens and ‘we the people’ get nothing. The mud-slinging Republicans, now asking for a chance, just seems a bit hypocritical. Coming together to solve major needs of this country would be great; otherwise politicians are just wasting our tax dollars. Perhaps pay cuts for being unproductive may help.

President Barack Obama was rarely called by that title by anyone in the media or in the Republican party. They disrespectfully called him Obama because it sounded like Osama. President Trump was the most public person showing disrespect, never addressing him as President Obama, demanding a birth certificate, and claiming he was not American. Where is your tax return, President Trump?

Regarding the Affordable Care Act, we are the only democratic country in the world to not have health care for its people.

The politicians running our country have the best health care in the USA and are using our tax money to get it. If anyone really wants to get us a better healthcare plan, try this: On any Friday, the president tells Congress that nobody has health care until all of us do. Before they go home we will all have wonderful health care.

By the people, for the people, of the people.

Eric Bartell, Honor

Standing For Water and The Sioux

Let’s talk money. The Standing Rock Lakota Sioux Tribe is fighting the building of CEO Kelcy Warren’s Energy Transfer Partner’s (ETP) pipeline, spanning 1,172 miles across four states’ watersheds and making 200 river crossings. ETP is one of the world’s biggest pipeline corporations.

These are the ETP investors and the amount each invested: Citibank $521,808,000; ING Bank $248,354,000; TD Securities $365 million; Wells Fargo $467 million. In addition, 21 other Wall Street investors have provided credit lines totaling $8 billion for financing of the pipeline. These include Bank of America, Barclays, Compass Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, PNC Bank, UBS and US Bank. Each of these have contributed between $225 and $350 million.

According to federal disclosures, as of May, 2016, President Trump owned stock in Energy Transfer Partners as well as some of his cabinet appointees. Who will cry conflict of interest?

My point is, do we want to risk a spill of the dirtiest, most flammable, most explosive crude oil into the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers resulting in polluting drinking water for millions of people? Just ask Flint people what it’s like not to have had water protection. The Native Americans are the first protectors of water for all Americans.

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In the 1960s, the U.S and the Soviet Union embarked on a massive expansion of their nuclear arsenals that ultimately led to the amassing of over 50,000 nuclear warheads. Leading analysts at the time began to tackle the question of how these powerful weapons might be used.

Henry Kissinger, Herman Kahn, Kenneth Waltz all developed theoretical models of deterrence to predict superpower behavior that became required reading for generations of strategists.

Meanwhile, the sheer number of nuclear weapons, as well as near misses like the Cuban Missile Crisis and near disasters with the nuclear weapons themselves underscored the growing danger of these huge stockpiles. In the 1970s, the two superpowers began to limit the size of the arsenals through what would become known as the SALT talks. In the 1980s, the sides agreed to significantly reduce both arsenals in an agreement known as the START Treaty. Fast forward to 2010 and the signing of New START, which was negotiated during the Obama administration with then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.

New START happened to coincide with both sides’ strategic requirements at the time.

Russia’s nuclear arsenal was aging; submarines were experiencing alarming failures of their reactors and their missiles; silo-based missiles were proving unreliable in test firings; and Russia’s bombers were as old as our B-52s, but without the stealth bomber follow-ons we had built. So Russia was interested in limitations that allowed modernization. The U.S. had no desire to retain so many weapons and was also facing demands for modernization.

As was so often the case with arms control agreements, New START offered a way to continue to reduce overall numbers while building new weapons. Both Russia and America had significant interest groups of weapons manufacturers (and the politicians who supported them) that could readily agree on New START’s reductions to 1550 deployed warheads as long as modernization was left unhindered.

Beginning last year, Congress earmarked funding for revamping all elements of America’s nuclear arsenal – the nuclear triad of landbased missiles, submarine-launched missiles and bombers and their nuclear weapons. This projected 30-year process will include new missiles, bombers and submarines and the rebuilding of our weapons research labs and command and control centers at a cost in the neighborhood of $1 trillion. These plans proposed by President Obama sailed through Congress. Meanwhile, Russia had begun its modernization a few years earlier, so they are “ahead” at the moment.

During the presidential campaign, candidate Trump criticized New START as a bad agreement that favored Russia (despite the fact that the limits on both sides are identical). In December, President Trump tweeted: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” Aides frantically followed up the President’s tweet with explanations that he meant to refer to terrorism and the spread of nuclear technology. But a few days later the President added, “Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”

In reality, that race is already underway. In the coming decades both sides will field fewer, more accurate nuclear weapons deployed in presumably less vulnerable, more secure and better controlled systems. The only obstacle on either side will be financial; no new technology is needed.

On February 9, the President had his first phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Both the White House and

the Kremlin reported positively on the conversation without revealing details. But news outlets alleged that when Putin raised the issue of extending the New START agreement for an additional five years beyond its current 2021 expiration date, President Trump paused to consult with aides, then responded that he does not want to renew the agreement (the actual conversation is classified, so these reports are based on leaks).

If true, this was undoubtedly not good news to Putin. From the Russian perspective, nuclear weapons fit into a strategy that is intended to halt the spread of U.S. influence in Europe. President Obama’s 2009 call for a “nuclear-free world,” far from being welcomed as a signal of good will, was interpreted by Kremlin hardliners as a threat to Russia’s already weakening grip on the remnants of its former strength.

In the last half of the Obama administration, Russia’s response was an increase in nuclear exercises, including one involving the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which is surrounded by NATO members Poland and Lithuania. Tough talk from President Putin also signaled a clear intent to maintain a strong reliance on nuclear forces to counter NATO’s expansion. In December, Putin said, “Of course the U.S. has more missiles, submarines and aircraft carriers, but what we say is that we are stronger than any aggressor, and this is the case…”

With both sides now engaged in long-term modernization of their nuclear forces, the possibility of further arms control seems dim. What has prevented the use of these weapons for all these decades has been a combination of factors, but the most important has been a reliance on the idea that all the players are “rational actors.”

But it is this fundamental principle that has lately been called into question by no less than Henry Kissinger and George Schultz. Working together in the Nuclear Security Project, Kissinger explained that, “the classical notion of deterrence was that there were some possible consequences before which aggressors and evildoers would recoil. In a world of suicide bombers, that calculation doesn’t operate…” George Schultz added, “If you think of the people who are doing suicide attacks, and people like that get a nuclear weapon, they are almost by definition not deterrable.”

Thus the concern is not necessarily with the U.S. and Russia. Being rational actors, President Putin and President Trump would avoid using their newly-modernized arsenals and would more likely revert to the norm that has prevailed since nuclear equality was achieved -- wars by proxy. But the Kissinger/Schultz warnings about undeterrable actors (read North Korea, terrorists) seems to recommend a new and ironically a potentially promising avenue for arms control and risk reduction.

Putting aside the most recent exchange between Trump and Putin, they both might do well to decide that they have much to discuss about nuclear weapons -- not a seminar of arcane deterrence theory, but as a central issue in the new world order where the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the potential for nuclear terrorism is a significant threat.

Jack Segal is co-chair, with his wife Karen of the International Affairs Forum. The IAFs next event is the new documentary, “Is America in Retreat?” at Traverse City’s State Theatre on March 6 at 6pm. He participated in the START negotiations, drafted the US-USSR Agreement on Nuclear Risk Reduction and served as NSC Director for nonProliferation under President Clinton.

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top five Commotion at Bergman’s Home Office A once-quiet office plaza in Garfield Township has become a place of protest after Rep. Jack Bergman opened his district home office at the location south of Traverse City.

Democrats from across the region want to meet with Bergman to express worries about the current political climate, but so far the newly elected Republican U.S. Representative has made no public appearances announced, said Gwenne Allgaier of Leelanau Indivisible.

“We have been given nothing,” she said. “We need a town hall.”

The group was given a short meeting with office staff on Jan. 24 and since that day they’ve been refused entry into the building and a teller’s window has been installed in the lobby, she said.

The office is located in a private office plaza, not a public street. So far, officials said there haven’t been problems.

“The landlord is working with the protesting group and allowing them to remain on their property as long as they are respectful and do not disrupt the activities of neighboring businesses,” said Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Barsheff.

Winter Concert & Dance The Homestead, Glen Arbor is hosting a Winter Concert & Dance at Mountain Flowers on Sat., Feb. 25 from 7-10pm featuring The Robin Connell Jazz Connection with vocalist Kathy Lamar. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 door. mynorth.com or 231-334-5100.

Young Writers Wanted Juniors and seniors from area high schools are invited to put pen to paper for a chance to win a $1,000 scholarship.

2017 TC National Writers Series Scholarship is looking for creative writing from around the Grand Traverse region. Students who are juniors or seniors this school year from Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, or Leelanau counties are eligible.

The deadline is fast approaching, however – entries must be submitted by Feb. 28.

The NWS offers three scholarships each year in fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

To date, $39,000 in scholarships have been awarded.

The scholarships offer not just funds for school, but also cachet, said coordinator Kimberli Bindschatel.

“This is a prestigious scholarship that opens a lot of college doors for the winners” Bindschatel said.

Contest submission guidelines can be found at http://www.gtrcf.org/ scholarships/. Co-Founder Doug Stanton and a nationally renowned author will award the scholarships on Traverse City’s City Opera House stage in late spring.

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Our new president has pledged to bring back manufacturing jobs, a reality that has already been happening for the last seven years. Since 2010 there’s been an increase of more than 800,000 new manufacturing jobs compared to the five million we lost in the previous ten years.

Additionally, some 300 companies with offshore operations moved back to the United States in just the last three years.

Despite the good news, we’ll never again reach the zenith of manufacturing jobs we once had. Necessary environmental regulations, automation, significantly cheaper offshore opportunities and trade agreements are obstacles that can’t be overcome regardless of the wishes of the president.

Trump would like to “level the playing field” by instituting what amounts to an import tax on goods coming into this country.

He started by suggesting a 35 percent tax on goods imported from Mexico, presumably to teach them a lesson about something. He settled back to 20 percent but started widening

a lot of us.

Food would be next on the list and we get plenty of it from Mexico this time of year. Berries of all sorts, avocados, vegetables. Central America and Chile provide most of the rest of our winter produce. All of it would get more expensive.

Cars and trucks would get pricier, too.

Determining a vehicle’s birthplace is a little trickier these days. Lots of parts from different places. A decade ago Cars.com created the American Made Index (AMI) to help us decipher things. To qualify for the AMI, a car or truck has to have at least 75 percent of its parts manufactured in the United States, be assembled in a plant here and make the majority of its sales here.

The vehicles highest on the AMI, the very most American made cars? The top five, in order, are the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, Toyota Sienna, Honda Odyssey and Honda Pilot. I’m not making that up. Ford doesn’t have a single vehicle that even qualified for the list.

An import tax would penalize some domestic automakers while rewarding some foreign brands. How that helps our economy is as yet an unsolved mystery. the target to include any country with which he believes our trade agreements are unfair.

For starters, Trump claims, the 20 percent tax on Mexican imports would easily pay for the wall about which he won’t stop talking, so Mexico would be paying for it.

Well, not exactly. The cost of any import tax will be passed along to consumers, as such increased costs always are. Just how many products would see a price increase? Many.

We are dependent on imports.

Start with our closets. According to the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), 97 percent of all apparel sold in the United States is made elsewhere.

From the cheapest to the most expensive clothes or shoes, they come flowing in from China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and elsewhere.

There are U.S. clothing manufacturers.

L.L. Bean in Freeport, Maine, might be the most famous, but even they include imported items in their catalog. Whatever your clothing budget, just add about 20 percent.

We’ve known for some time most electronic gadgets and appliances are made elsewhere. It’s a pretty good bet your computers, televisions, cable modem, Wi-Fi system, DVR and everything else you have hooked up were made in Asia. Even your remote control will say “Made in China” on the back.

Except for the Macbook Pro, all Apple products are made in China and your nonApple smartphone wasn’t made here, either.

Adding 20 percent to items already costing hundreds would be a problem for

An import tax would penalize some domestic automakers while rewarding some foreign brands. How that helps our economy is as yet an unsolved mystery.

Trump is correct that some trade agreements seem imbalanced, and not in our favor. Those agreements often gave American companies their first access to new markets. Plus, export income is actually a small part of our economy – we consume about 90 percent of what’s manufactured here ourselves.

American manufacturers, confronted with labor, environmental and tax headaches found greener pastures elsewhere. A compliant workforce unfettered by minimum wages or other labor laws, not to mention the absence of environmental regulations and other pesky rules, were attractive lures.

Bottom lines, shareholders and American consumers benefited. But it cost us millions of jobs. The question now is does making American consumers pay more for imports restore our manufacturing base. It’s hard to make that case.

Certainly the government would increase its revenues in a couple of ways. The import tax itself would increase revenues, and the increased cost to consumers would increase sales tax revenues at state and local levels.

But it would be a gut punch to American consumers, the very folks who drive our economy. They can call it whatever they want, but let’s not pretend; it would be a tax passed along to us, a hit from the folks always promising lower taxes.

Crime & Rescue TWO DIE IN NORTHPORT FIRE Two people died in a Northport house fire.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the fire, which destroyed a mobile home on the 800 block of North Mill Street and was first reported at 2:28am Feb. 11.

Once firefighters doused the blaze, investigators searched the wreckage and found the bodies of Shirley Devrou and Willie Jones.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The home was located directly across the street from the Northport Fire Department. By the time on-duty firefighters were awoken by the sounds of the blaze, the home was fully engulfed.

HUSBAND ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a husband for attacking his wife amid a divorce.

The 35-year-old suspect destroyed phones, took his 33-year-old wife to the ground and strangled her before she was able to escape and call 911 from a neighbor’s house at 3:25am Feb. 11, Lt. Chris Barsheff said.

The woman told deputies that the couple are divorcing, she was moving out the next day, and she thought her husband was in Ohio when she woke up to find him on top of her; when she reached for a phone to call police, he broke it against a wall.

She got away and reached a phone in the living room but he threw her to the ground, broke that phone and choked her. Before she escaped to a neighbor’s home, the man destroyed a third phone. Deputies arrived and arrested the man for domestic violence, among other charges.

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies investigated after a man fled his home dressed only in boxer shorts and socks.

The 30-year-old Lake Leelanau man told deputies that he and his 29-year-old wife were arguing when she became violent and punched him in the face and scratched his body. Family members took the man to Munson Medical Center to be treated for an eye injury.

Deputies were dispatched to the home on West Meinrad Street Feb. 14 at 7:12pm; they found the woman in the house with her father and three children ages 11 to 14. Deputies interviewed the woman and arrested her for domestic violence.

SNOWMOBILE DRIVER KILLED A man lost his life when he drove his snowmobile into open water on Lake Skegemog.

Williamsburg resident Michael Shananaquet was pulled from the lake Feb. 11 by dive teams from several area sheriff’s departments.

The night before, a Milton Township resident called 911 when they heard someone yelling for help from the lake at 8:30pm, according to Antrim County Sheriff’s deputies.

Searchers found a snowmobile track heading through the snow into open water. Searchers that evening, including the U.S. Coast Guard, could find no sign of the lost snowmobiler and the search was resumed the next morning.

SUSPECTED COUNTERFEITERS BUSTED Two 23-year-old Chicago men were jailed after they allegedly passed counterfeit $100 bills at a Traverse City grocery store.

The men bought chocolates, Alka-Seltzer, a 5.5-oz. bag of pistachios and a package of AA batteries at Family Fare on Eighth Street Feb. 12 at 8:30pm; each of them entered a different

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check-out and paid with $100 bills that staff later determined were fake, said Traverse City Police Chief Jeffrey O’Brien. The bills had matching serial numbers.

Police investigated and found surveillance footage of then men and their vehicle. They put out an alert for officers in the area to “be-on-thelookout” for the car.

A Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputy spotted the car at the Courtyard Marriot on South Airport Road that evening and arrested the suspects. O’Brien said the men were found with a “substantial amount” of counterfeit cash and the Secret Service has been called.

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman for an assault after a car stopped on the highway prompted an investigation.

Deputies stopped to check out the car pulled to the side of M-72 near Carter Road at 1am Feb. 12 and they found a woman standing outside.

The 37-year-old woman told the deputy she and her husband were driving home when they pulled over because of an argument. She said her husband was walking home.

The deputy could smell alcohol on the woman and suspected she was drunk. Another deputy found the 37-year-old husband walking along M-72 a short distance away. The man said he’d been out drinking with his wife, that she’d driven home, and that she’d struck him in the face and pulled his hair after an argument. The man had injuries on his face.

The woman admitted driving and she was arrested for drunk driving and domestic assault.

MAN ARRESTED FOR PUNCHING DAD A father suffered injuries when he attempted to stop a fight between his sons.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies arrested one of the sons for third-offense domestic violence after they were called to a home in Northport at 11:30pm Feb. 14.

The brothers’ 61-year-old father told police he had tried to break up a fight between his sons, ages 22 and 23, when the older one struck him in the face. The 23-year-old would not talk to deputies and he was placed under arrest.

VODKA THEIF WANTED Traverse City Police want to find a woman who swiped two bottles of vodka from a liquor store.

The woman entered West Side Beverage on Front Street at 10:15pm Feb. 13 and made off with the spirits. Police say the suspect goes by the name “Goody.”

Anyone who can identify the woman should contact Ofc. Reed Shea at (231) 995-5150.

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TWO WOMEN INJURED IN CRASH A woman lost control of her car and crossed the center line in Boyne Valley Township and crashed head-on into a car driven by another woman.

Both women were injured in the crash Feb. 15 at 8am on Dam Road near M-75 South, Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies said.

The driver who lost control was a 39-yearold from Gaylord. The other driver was a 40-year-old Boyne City woman. They were both taken to McLaren Northern Michigan for treatment.

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When Ordinary PeOPle dO extraOrdinary things

National Writers Series brings New York Times bestseller Beth Macy to the city Opera house on February 27 at 7pm.

The Man With the Golden Mop

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The victim called police, who arrested the man (and reported that it was the second residential break-in that night in which the snowfall had foiled a burglar’s getaway.)

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-- In Portland, Oregon, in January, Ashley Glawe, 17, a committed “goth” character with tattoos, piercings and earlobe holes (“gauges”) was, she said, “hanging out” with Bart, her pet python, when he climbed into one of the lobes.

She couldn’t get him out, nor could firefighters, but with lubrication, hospital emergency workers did (thus avoiding an inevitable split lobe if Bart had kept squeezing his way through).

-- Iraqi forces taking over an ISIS base in Mosul in January reported finding papers from at least 14 Islamic State “fighters” who had tried to claim “health” problems, asking commanders to please excuse them from real combat (and martyrdom). One (a Belgian man) actually brought a note from a doctor back home attesting to his “back pain.” Five of the 14 were initiated by volunteers from France, a country that endures a perhaps-deserved national reputation for battle-avoidance.

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More Things To Worry About

Higher Math: The first robots to have survived journeys close to the “core” of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan (which melted down in a 2011 earthquake) returned a reading of 530 “sieverts” per hour.

(Some scientists label just 4 Sieverts an hour fatal to half the people exposed to it.) Since the robots stopped short of the actual nuclear fuel, and since they only visited one of the three cores, the true danger of Fukushima remains unknown. (On a more optimistic note, scientists in February said they have developed a computer chip that would survive on the surface of Venus for 21 days, eclipsing the old record of two hours -- long enough to send back meaningful data, including the temperature.

The current estimated temperature is 878 degrees Fahrenheit.)

Priests Gone Bad

-- Prominent Tallahassee, Florida, pastor O. Jermaine Simmons, a community leader who ministers to the homeless and downtrodden, was rescued by police on Jan. 17, naked and hiding behind a fence after making a run for it when the husband of his mistress found the two in bed. The husband, screaming, “I’m gonna kill him,” ran for his handgun, and the mistress summoned police, but by Jan. 30, all involved had declined to press charges. Simmons, married with a son, is highly regarded for good deeds such as running a “cold night” shelter.

-- The decidedly uncelibate Catholic priest Don Andrea Contin, 48, of Padua, Italy, was accused by three women in December of having as many as 30 different lovers over the years, organizing “orgies” on church property, visiting a “swingers’” resort in France several times, making pornographic home videos of his trysts, “encouraging” one woman to have sex with a horse and “always” carrying a briefcase full of vibrators, sex toys and bondage equipment.

Contin has not yet been charged with a crime but, said a Catholic official, is “finished” as a priest. (Bonus: The boxes for his home videos were labeled by the names of Popes.)

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Legislators in Iowa and Florida recently advanced bills giving women who receive legal abortions up to 10 years (or longer, in Iowa) to sue the doctor if the abortion winds up causing them “emotional distress.” (Doctors in all states are already liable, of course, for actual “negligence” in their practice.) In the Iowa version (which the Des Moines Register reported would likely face amendments), even a signed consent form by the patient would not immunize the doctor (but might mitigate the amount of damages awarded).

In January, a New York City judge dismissed the original indictment of John Kennedy O’Hara, 55, who had been convicted in 1996 of the crime of “felony voting” -- the only person convicted under that state law since Susan B. Anthony, who cast a ballot in 1872 even though females were barred from the polls. O’Hara was indicted for voting in 1992 and 1993 after registering in Brooklyn elections from a “bogus” address -- a basement apartment that was considered uninhabitable. (A judge in 2017 determined that the apartment “could” have been habitable.) O’Hara paid $15,000 in fines and did 1,500 hours of community service.

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German art collector Rik Reinking paid the equivalent of about $138,000 in 2008 for a resplendent, complex drawing by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, but it was one created in ink on the skin of (the still-alive) tattoo parlor manager Tim Steiner -- to be delivered only upon Steiner’s death, when his skin will be displayed in Reinking’s collection. (The deal also requires that, in the meantime, Steiner

Recurring Themes: Once again, in January, curiosity got the better of a perp. Adriana Salas, 26, allegedly stole a truck in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and drove it to Fort Smith, 260 miles away, but then could not resist stopping by the local sheriff ’s office to ask whether the truck had been reported stolen. (It had; deputies, taking a look outside, read Salas her Miranda rights.)

O ld M issiOn M ysteries Transplanted Author Explores the Peninsula of a Century Ago

By Patrick Sullivan Brooklyn-born writer Stephen Lewis still carries the East Coast in his gruff voice, but for the last 15 years, he’s made Old Mission his home. The iconic peninsula is the setting for his most recent novel, a follow-up to a murder mystery he published a decade ago.

Lewis, a 75-year-old English professor emeritus who spent his career at a college on Long Island, NY, has published numerous novels and textbooks in a writing career that spanned decades and won him national attention for his debut novel The Monkey Rope, published in 1990.

Since he retired with his wife, Old Mission native Carol Johnson Lewis, to northern Michigan, Lewis has turned his literary eye to his adopted home. He just published Murder Undone, his second novel based on the life of Woodruff Parmelee, a peninsula resident who was convicted in 1895 for the murder of 22-year-old Julia Curtis.

Northern Express sat down with Lewis on a rainy February afternoon not far from the scene of the crime to talk about his connection to Old Mission, Parmelee and the limits of historical fiction.

Northern Express: You spent your career on the East Coast, but you’ve been in northern Michigan for a while now. How connected do you feel to the Old Mission Peninsula?

Stephen Lewis: I tell people that I am incompletely and imperfectly acculturated to northern Michigan. There is such a profound difference in culture. When I was teaching at Suffolk Community College, my students, as I came into class, would be kind of sprawled on their chairs – this was before constant cell phones – very comfortably sprawled on their chairs, with no great enthusiasm. This was a required English course. I [also] taught for a period of time at NMC. I would come to class, the students would be sitting at a wall opposite the door, waiting for me to open the door so they could come in. The manner and attitude were so different.

Express: How did you end up in northern Michigan?

Lewis: My wife wanted to come home after I retired from teaching. We had been coming out here every summer while I was still working, and we saw a house we liked and bought it.

Express: How did you become interested in the Parmelee story?

Lewis: On one of our visits in the summer, my father-in-law took us to this little cemetery off Eastern Avenue in Old Mission Village. In that private cemetery are the Parmelee family plots. There’s a major monument to George Parmelee, who was Woodruff Parmelee’s father.

Walter Johnson, my wife Carol’s father, said, “There’s a story here about this fellow’s son.”

He told me briefly about the case. That was in August. Between August and the holidays, he sent me voluminous newspaper clippings of the trial, pretty much insisting there was a story to tell. His point was, he thought Woodruff had been railroaded. Or at least there was serious doubt about the evidence that convicted him.

He pointed specifically to the fact that one of the prosecution’s [arguments] was that Woodruff ’s footprints were found where the body was located. My father-in-law said, “Well, yea, that’s true, but there were also the footprints of 20 or 30 men who were tromping around looking for this young woman who had been missing for days. How did they pick out his footprints from all those others?”

Express: And you thought he had a point, so you wrote Murder on Old Mission.

Lewis: Walter Johnson was an engineer and interested in factual accuracy, and he thought that Woodruff hadn’t gotten a good deal. I’m a novelist, so I’m looking for something else rather than absolute truth. I’m looking for the story. I had written some murder mysteries prior to that, which is probably why Walter thought I might take a shot at this one. When I read through the newspaper reports, the thing that jumped out at me as a possible way into the story was that Woodruff Parmelee’s son was called as a defense witness to support his father’s alibi. Woodruff said, “The body was found on East Bay, in a place they called the hemlock swamp. I was clearing a road going to West Bay at the same time. I can’t be in both places. And my son will verify that.” I thought, “What if the son had a reason to believe that maybe his father was guilty? Now what do you do? You’re the son, you have pretty good reason to believe your father might be guilty, but he’s your father.” To make it more believable, I made the son older. The kid was only 14 at the time. I made him old enough to have a romantic interest in the young woman, so that he was kind of competing with his father for the attentions of this young woman, though his father had already won that battle.

Express: Do you think Woodruff Parmalee committed the murder?

Lewis: That’s an interesting question. No. I do think the way I represented it in the book is maybe a fair guess as to what happened. I don’t see him, insofar as I got to know him, as a violently disposed man. I saw him as a careless man, one who responded to his impulses. I don’t see him as one who would kill a young woman. I think it was probably more accidental. There was reason to think she might have overdosed on laudanum, because they did find a laudanum bottle nearby, by the body.

Express: The sequel, Murder Undone, picks up after Parmelee is convicted and punished.

What can you tell me about the real-life story that’s based on? Was there more or less material to research for the second book?

Lewis: Less. I did do some research on Jackson [State] Prison, and, as you can

imagine, it was not a very nice place. They had punishments for prisoners that bordered on torture…At about that time, prisoners like Woodruff would have been in solitary. At a certain point, they stopped the solitary, but the solitary cells were really nasty. They were very, very uncomfortable. No light. Dank.

Express: So what historical record inspired the sequel?

Lewis: The circumstances that jumped out at me. Again, I’m a novelist. The most puzzling part of the premise for the second book is that Parmelee was convicted of the heinous crime of killing his pregnant girlfriend. The community was staunchly opposed to him because he had a checkered past…Twice divorced, an older man in his 40s having a relationship with a young woman of about 20. This is in the 1890s, when morals were more strict, by far, than they are now. Sentenced to life in prison at Jackson.

Had there been a death penalty, I’m sure he would have gotten it. Twenty years later, in 1915, he’s out. Governor [Woodbridge] Ferris directly intervened. My wife and I went down to the archives in Lansing to see what we could find, and the clerk there gave me a copy of two index cards – they literally had [the records] on index cards – that said Parmelee had been denied parole two times in a row. And then, in 1915, Governor Ferris interviewed him. [The governor] went to Jackson 20 years after the fact, and of all those thousands of prisoners at Jackson, he interviewed him. Several months later, Parmelee was out.

Express: So it sounds like the mystery of the second book is why he got released from prison.

Lewis: It’s what drives the book. I’m not quite sure I’d call that a mystery, in the sense of murder mysteries, but it is a puzzle, why he got out. So I made stuff up. I did play on the fact that his conviction was questionable.

Express: When Parmelee was convicted, contemporary accounts indicate he was a pariah around Old Mission and Traverse City, a hated man. People couldn’t have been happy to see him return home.

Lewis: But they seem to have been. The only notices I found, by doing a newspaper search, are a couple of very brief notices downstate – Woodruff Parmelee, bup-bup-bup, was

released. One or two sentences, that’s it. The local papers from that time aren’t available.

But he came back. He lived another, let’s see, he came back in ‘15, he died, I think, in ‘43.

He lived on the peninsula. He lived for a while with the son who had inherited his house from Parmelee’s first wife, the kid’s mother. I found places where Parmelee lived in town. He listed himself at times as a carpenter, which he had been. He died in the state hospital. He seems to have been absorbed back into the community.

Express: I know it’s common in historical fiction to embellish what’s known, but isn’t there a distinction between historical fiction that sticks to the known facts and embellishes upon that framework versus historical fiction that changes known facts like you’ve done, changing the ages of characters, bringing to life Woodruff ’s father, a character who in real life had died? How do you defend that?

Lewis: It’s an interesting question; I think about it all the time. The short, quick answer to your question is, “Well, Shakespeare did it.”

Shakespeare took history and changed stuff for the purpose of his plays. I’m not pretending to tell what actually happened, so I think the key word is “suggested” or “based on.” I understand your question about what liberties can and should be taken – if you’re dealing with really minor historical people like Parmelee, it seems to me you’re pretty well free to do what you want.

Express: Have you heard from any of Parmelee’s descendants?

Lewis: Yes. I don’t know exactly what this guy’s connection is, but he’s written to me a couple of times. He wrote to me just a couple of days ago saying he’d just finished reading Murder Undone, having already read the first one. He was happy that I used so much of the Parmelee family history, and he wanted to know if I had plans to continue because, he said, there’s more Parmelee history that could be covered. So I wrote back to him, thanked him for his interest, but said, “I think I’m pretty well done with the Parmelees because there’s no more dead bodies. I don’t know what else you want me to do.”

Murder Undone is available through Mission Point Press, which has also just published a second edition of Murder on Old Mission. Lewis will appear at Horizon Books in Traverse City March 4 from 2pm until 4pm.

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MUSIC IN THE KEY OF F: Meet the Farmer Foot Drum

By Kristi Kates You’ve gotta be fast with your feet to carry the beat when you play foot percussion. The most common foot drum is the kick or bass drum seen on the typical drum kit behind any rock band, but foot percussion is actually an age-old Native American practice that also shares roots with Appalachian clogging and traditional European and early AfricanAmerican dancing. Pete and Kate Farmer of Cedar, Mich., have taken these various musical traditions, pulled the influences from them, and created their own foot percussion setup: the Farmer Foot Drum, a portable, self-propelled, multi-pedal beat machine that’s changing the way solo artists busk and perform. We talked to the Farmers to find out more.

Express: How did you initially get the idea for Farmer Foot Drums?

Pete Farmer: I suppose it was rooted in hearing blues musicians playing on my radio in the shop; that heavy stompin’ foot music kind of thing. As it is, I’m really just an average guitar player, so to get my sound out there, I really wanted to have a drum thing going with it. I played more on the streets busking in Seattle than I ever wanted to gig.

As a one-man busker, you can call your shots for what, where and how you play music. A foot drum has played a vital role in shaping how I do my thing as a musician.

Express: What was the original Farmer Foot Drum like?

Pete Farmer: It looked much more like

a suitcase box with a very folky-looking mechanism to make percussive sounds.

Some of the hardware used were hairbands, toilet gaskets and wooden toy truck parts – those were untamed beasts.

Express: What kind of components help produce the sound in today’s version?

Pete Farmer: It’s more or less the same concepts of hardware and mechanisms that are used on drum kit bass drum pedals and the like. Of course, the real work is to get 12 pedals all working to make great sounds within a low profile, 30-inch-by-20-inch crafted wood frame.

Express: What are some of the other challenges of these drums, both building and playing them?

Pete Farmer: To both questions, too many parts! Each foot drum has parts from all over the world, from multiple fields of manufacturing, and is assembled in small production runs that constantly change in order to accommodate customer feedback, new parts and better building procedures.

For playing, I tend to gravitate toward our seven-pedal foot drum over our 12-pedal model; I have enough to handle making my guitar and harmonica work with a basic drum kit sound. I made the 12-pedal model after some customers kept asking for more.

It’s a fun challenge to take on for sure, but it can be a bit too much for me to really enjoy.

Express: How difficult is it for the average musician to learn to use the Farmer Foot Drum?

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Pete Farmer: Funny, we’ve had some of the world’s best drummers sit and play one, and some blow my mind at what they can do right out of the gate, while others struggle for the 10 minutes they try.

Express: Regarding “some of the world’s best drummers” – anybody we might know?

Kate Farmer: JJ Grey (of jam band JJ Grey and Mofro), G. Love (of G. Love and Special Sauce), Les Claypool (Primus), blues harmonica player Adam Gussow, blues musician Ash Grunwald of Australia and Eric Dane Jaqua of the Pistil Whips – he’s a northern Michigan local!

Express: So how long does it take to build a Farmer Foot Drum, and how many people work on that process?

Pete Farmer: Four people help with our foot drums. Kate set up the website and handles lots of the questions early on. Our employee Mike Cramton or I will prepare some of the wood components, and Tom O’Brian will build it from there. I’ll give it a quality control play through and look over, we’ll get it packed up and then ship it out the door to customers all around the world.

All told, a small batch of four drums will take about two to three weeks start to finish.

We have lots of custom options, so we wait for each order to come in before we start to build it.

Express: When did you find that the original foot drum was working well enough to expand into other drums and components? (I see you have a pretty full selection on your website.)

Pete Farmer: I have a hard time with wasted material, so I saw an opportunity early on in some of the foot drum offcuts to make our downbeat pedals, by far the most popular thing we sell by units sold. The backbeat drum kit started out as a special request for a customer. After building it, I simply had to say yes to future orders because it is such a interesting community of folks who are into that sort of instrument (most are shipped to Europe). Our harmonica holders are a little outside our wheelhouse, but the idea for a magnet mount hit me one day. I knew it was a good idea, and I just had to build them. Three months later, I filed and was eventually granted a couple of patents on the design. Looking forward, since we’re by now getting really good at making drums,

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Express: What are the most rewarding things about designing, building and selling these drums?

Kate Farmer: On a daily basis, I absolutely love connecting with musicians around the world. I am also so proud to witness the long steady journey the foot drum has brought us on. It has far exceeded the expectations I had when Pete filed for an LLC over 10 years ago. Thinking back to Pete holing up in a tiny cold garage working on the earliest versions to working at our legitimate business today – one that can support our family and two additional employees – is so rewarding.

Pete Farmer: For guitar players like me, I find that the fun is in the consistency of beats that back up my song and not trying

to mimic the complexity or intricacy that a full-on drummer can bring to a musical performance. I don’t feel the difference between what it takes me to get dancing and how I play my foot drums to a song.

You probably know this on a personal level, but the impulse to tap your foot to music is almost innate in all humans; I just happen to make instruments that transcribe that natural feeling into drum kit sounds.

Farmer Foot Drums is located at 8568 E. Lincoln Rd., Cedar. For more information, visit footdrums.com or call (231) 943-2087.

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Ambition in Three Dimensions: DreamLab Industries

By Kristi Kates Everyone thinks random thoughts while doing mundane tasks, but if you’re Brandon Williams, you take one of those thoughts and run with it – in his case, straight toward the rapidly advancing technology of 3D printing, the futuristic pastime that Williams has developed into a new Traverse City-based business.

“The idea came to me while I was taking a shower one evening back in July, 2016,” Williams said. “I had just been laid off from my job and thought it was time to go out on my own. I had a few ideas for new products but did not have the capital to have them manufactured, so I started researching. 3D printing popped up, and I was instantly in love.”

LEARNING CURVE 3D printing is a simple enough process but one that can be difficult to master. Also known as AM, or Additive Manufacturing, the process involves synthesizing a threedimensional object by utilizing computer design and control to lay down successive layers of materials, essentially “stacking” them to fill out the shape, design and details. It starts with a CAD (computeraided design) and then utilizes 3D modeling computer software to translate the design to a 3D printing machine, where it can be printed in materials ranging from plastics to rubber to metals. Williams sold a few of his personal items to acquire his first DIY 3D printer kit; he had zero experience with the

process and had never designed a product in his life. But he had plenty of ideas and some solid educational tools to assist him.

“I had studied mechanical engineering in college but ultimately graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business from NMU,” Williams said. “Learning AutoCAD all over again was not easy and was certainly a steep learning curve, but I managed to push through by studying and practicing day and night, literally until I had the designs I wanted.” He dubbed his new venture DreamLab Industries (“because I believe that whatever I can dream, I can build”) and set out to craft and sell products made in Michigan from eco-friendly materials.

TRENDY TRINKETS Williams built a laboratory in his garage in 2016 and began production. “I felt that starting small in my own garage would save on overhead,” he noted. He soon found that the classes he’d taken back in 2004 were already outdated, so he ordered whatever books he could find on 3D printing and design and studied day and night. “I crammed a four-year degree into a few months of intense self-training,” he said.

Williams focuses primarily on products made of the plastic resin PLA (polylactic acid), which is biodegradeable and made of corn. “I have to use eco-friendly materials or I can’t sleep at night,” he explained. His product line so far includes witty trinkets perfect for gift giving with an appealingly nerdy edge: squirrel toothbrush holders,

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a literal “tooth” brush holder, UFO nightlights, the Crystal Dreamlight, a DNAshaped jewelry rack, various keychains and Fishy Pinchy’s, which are Williams’ own brand of kitchen bag clips. “People think they are very unique and cute, and they make a great addition to any household,” he said.

GRATIFYING GROWTH Transforming the PLA into, say, a UFO requires a strong mechanical aptitude and a great deal of patience. “3D printing still has a way to go, and the machines need a lot of attention and maintenance,” Williams said.

“The ability to understand the materials is also vital, as some perform better than others.”

Williams also manages all aspects of the business on his own. “I’m trying to grow the business and at the same time design, prototype and manufacture the items myself along with marketing, selling, keeping the books in order and [managing the] upkeep on the machines. The most challenging aspect of all would have to be the balancing act between running the business and trying to be an amazing father and husband to my beautiful wife.”

But so far, it’s a gratifying business, with more than a pinch of fun. “The most rewarding feeling is knowing that what I am building will be passed down to my two sons,” Williams said. “My five-year-old, Jack, loves to hang out with me in the lab and helps me come up with some of the more ‘interesting’ products.”

Williams reaches out to others as

well. During the Christmas holidays, he designed some kids’ toys and delivered them anonymously. “I like to go on Facebook and find families in need and reach out with a little something fun,” he said.

VETERAN’S VISION Next up, Williams is seeking capital to purchase an injection molding machine that will help him streamline the manufacturing process. He’s also working with the Department of Veterans Affairs to become a certified disabled veteran-owned business (Williams served with the Navy in the Persian Gulf for four years), which will open up federal business opportunities to him. You might also see some of DreamLab Industries’ products on Meijer store shelves in the near future as Williams seeks investors to help him expand; he’s also seeking people looking to learn about 3D printing and product design and salespeople to help him get the word out even more.

“This is a very lucrative business as there are limitless possibilities,” he said. “We are a startup and growing fast. I envision this business becoming a place where the dreamers can go to dream, the builders can come to build and the creative can come to thrive. All of our products are one of a kind and practical, which makes it such a dream to do every day.”

For more information, visit dreamlabusa. com. If you’re interested in helping Williams grow his business, visit gofundme.com/ dreamlabindustries.

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By Kristi Kates Would you head over to Walmart’s to get a pop and pick up a new clicker with your friend, the fudgie?

You probably would if you live in northern Michigan. Each region of the country, right down to the state and often the town, has its own phrases, nicknames and slang terms indigenous to the area.

Expecting a friend or relative for a visit?

Email them a copy of this guide, and they’ll be able to blend right in with the townies, er, locals, here in northern Michigan.

CLICKER Clickers are those little devices you often see on key chains that make little clicking noises when squeezed. Kids love ‘em, and they’re also used to train dogs. Here in northern Michigan, the clicker also refers to the remote control for your TV. FUDGIE Perhaps the best known of northern Michigan nicknames, a fudgie is a person visiting our area. The nickname grew out of the simple fact that most people don’t manage to leave without first buying fudge.

Indeed, thousands of rectangular pounds of the sweet stuff are exported every year.

HAVE A GOOD ONE While in other places you’re told to “Have a nice day,” here in northern Michigan, the most common exit phrase is “Have a good one,” although no one quite knows what the “one” refers to. Could be a day, but it could also be a vacation, an ice cream cone, a dentist appointment, or a wedding. You just never know.

HOLY WAH If you’re participating in a northern Michigan conversation and looking to express awe, excitement, disbelief, surprise, delight, or “whoa!”, you can’t go wrong with a good hearty “Holy wah!” Again, no one’s really sure what’s being called holy, or even what “wah” means, but pretty much everyone says it.

HOURLIES Stemming from Michigan’s long and storied history in the labor movement, hourlies are people who work for an hourly wage as opposed to a salary. The phrase covers all branches of work and is used everywhere from restaurants to offices.

MEIJER’S/WALMART’S Wait…Aren’t those names supposed to be singular? Nope, not in northern Michigan. It’s a quirk of the region that stores like Meijer, Walmart, Kmart and JCPenney are spoken of in the possessive. If you say JCPenney, it sounds strange, but say JCPenney’s, and you’ll fit right in. Perhaps making stores sound like they’re owned by a person is just another way to share our Midwestern friendliness.

MICHIGAN LEFT Known as a U-turn in other parts of the country, this nickname is derived from the Michigan road design that allows for U-turns at intersections where cars can’t turn left. Instead, cars are guided to make a U-turn past their intended turn in order to then turn right, with a lane specially designated for this baffling maneuver.

MICHIGAN SAUCE Nope, it’s not made of cherries, although that would be a good first guess considering how many condiments up here are made of northern Michigan’s favorite fruit. Michigan sauce is actually a ground beef meat that’s doused across the top of a hot dog and then dubbed a Coney dog.

PANK Elsewhere, you might pack it, flatten it, or compress it, but here in northern Michigan, we pank it. This word is most often used when building a snowman or trying to carve a trench pit out of snow to get to your front door after a blizzard.

POP Carbonated beverages are referred to as soda on the East and West Coasts; in the southern U.S., all carbonated drinks are

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THE COTTAGE It could be a musty old wooden cabin covered in sandy towels and vintage carved signs that say things like “Go Jump in the Lake,” or it could be a six-bedroom glasswalled beach house with its own dock and power boat. Either way, the place people head up north to for summer vacations or skiing is always, always referred to as “the cottage.”

TOWNIES It’s not quite the Jets and the Sharks, but visitors – usually the kind who return every summer, often to the same cottage (see above) – sometimes refer to the locals as townies, aka the people who live here year ‘round.

TROLLS If you live in the Lower Peninsula, you’re a troll. This isn’t a reference to the internet troublemakers who poke and prod on message boards and chat rooms; the word is simply borrowed from the old folktale “Three Billy Goats Gruff.” In this case, those of us who live in the Lower Peninsula are trolls, and the bridge we live under is the Mighty Mac, yet another northern Michigan nickname, this one a reference to our storied Mackinac Bridge.

YOOPER Okay, Trolls – you get to shoot a nickname right back at those who call you such. Those living in the Upper Peninsula are called Yoopers, a nickname squeezed out of the first letters of the region (“U” and “P”) with a bit of a twist on the end. There’s Yooper pride, too, most notably from the Ishpeming band Da Yoopers.

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CELEBRATE THE SNOWMOBILE AT GAYLORD GATHERING

By Kristi Kates You might consider Michigan to be the perfect place to host a snowmobile festival, and you’d be right for more reasons than just our abundant snow.

Did you know the earliest snowmobile was first patented in Michigan? Back in 1915, Ray H. Muscott of Waters, Mich., snagged a Canadian patent for his “traineau automobile,” or “motor sleigh.” By the following year, he’d patented a new version, this time in the U.S., that looked a lot more like what we now know as the snowmobile, with a rear track and two skis in front.

Thus, it’s no wonder that when Gaylord was developing a new festival last year, it chose snowmobiles as the focus. “We

wanted to celebrate the fact that we are the premier destination for snowmobiling,” commented Kelly Combs, special events/ marketing coordinator for the Gaylord Area Convention and Tourism Bureau.

With all events taking place at Gaylord’s picturesque Pontresina Park, the festival is easy to find. It kicks off Friday, Feb. 24, with pre-registration for the snowmobile fun run alongside the visual treat of the antique sled show highlighting snowmobiles from a wide range of vintages. Starting at 5pm, you’ll want to hop off that snowmobile seat and head for the live music tent, where dancing and beer will run for hours.

If you haven’t signed up for the snowmobile fun run yet, you’ll get your last chance to do so when Saturday’s activities

start; sign up last minute from 10am until the fun run begins at 11am. The vintage sleds will still be on display Saturday, too; take in a little snowmobile history, then treat the kids to a special kids’ snowmobile parade between noon and 3pm, after the fun run begins. Saturday’s schedule also includes one of the Snowmobile Festival’s biggest events, the chili cook-off, a ticketed occasion that starts at 3pm and lets you try some great chili concoctions sure to warm you right up.

The second and perhaps most popular happening of the weekend is the SnoMo Rodeo, which starts this year at noon. The rodeo is comprised of old-fashioned rodeo games, the kind you might see at a traditional rodeo, but in this case, the competitions take

place on snowmobiles. Relay races and barrel races will be two of SnoMo’s events; last year’s SnoMo also included a flag race and a rescue relay. Visitors will have to wait and see what else this winter’s rodeo might have in store.

After all this focus on the snowmobile, those who need to burn off a little energy can do just that with the return of the live music tent at 5pm, where they can enjoy a cold brew and cheer on the snowmobile champs at this year’s awards ceremony.

The 2017 Michigan Snowmobile Festival will take place Feb. 24–25 in Gaylord, with all events held at Pontresina Park at 540 S. Illinois Ave. off Trail 7. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit gaylordmichigan.net/snowmobile-festival-242.

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La Bécasse French Flair with a Twist

By Janice Binkert For those who have not yet discovered the French country cuisine at La Bécasse, a note about getting there: Despite what your GPS, Google or even the opening page on its own website might tell you, this Leelanau Peninsula restaurant is not located in Maple City or Glen Lake or Empire. It sits at the corner of Dunns Farm Road (675) and Burdickville Road (616) in the tiny hamlet of Burdickville, as it has for the past 38 years.

For the past 12 years, La Bécasse, updated and discreetly painted on the exterior with the blue, white and red of the proudly flying Tricolore, has been helmed by Guillaume HazaëlMassieux and his wife Brooke.

Asked what his official title is, Hazaël-Massieux cocked his head, smiled, and responded, “Proprietor, chef, owner, plumber, electrician, carpenter, wine curator?” Brooke keeps the books and oversees the aesthetics, but if needed, she also steps in to help in other areas, such as working the service bar or hosting.

LEARNING FROM THE EARTH UP Born in Paris, Hazaël-Massieux moved at age 10 with his family to tropical Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, where his father, a native of the French protectorate, had been offered a government job. There, they were housed on a 10-acre fruit and coffee plantation tucked into the side of a volcanic mountain on the island of Basse Terre. While his father worked in a nearby town, Hazaël-Massieux, his mother – a former home economics teacher in France – and his siblings, with the help of a small staff, farmed the property.

Hazaël-Massieux gets a faraway look in his eyes recalling that place and those times: “The soil was very fertile. We had mandarins, oranges, lychees, mangoes, bananas, avocados, pomelos, ugli fruit, peaches, coffee – one year we harvested over 900 pounds of lychees!”

They also had animals, everything from guinea hens to goats, along with a large vegetable garden. “I was very close to food all the time on the plantation,” Hazaël-Massieux said.

“It was very idyllic but also an unbelievable amount of work. Very educational, though.”

Educational indeed, especially for someone who had aspired to be a chef for as long as he could remember. Hazaël-Massieux was sent back to France at age 16 to attend boarding school and earn a baccalaureate degree in biology (his father had told him he needed a backup plan in case the cooking thing didn’t work

out). From there, he enrolled in the École des Arts Culinaires et de l’hotellerie in Lyon, later renamed L’Institut Paul Bocuse in honor of the iconic French chef who founded the school. A photo of Hazaël-Massieux with Bocuse, still going strong at 91, sits on a shelf in HazaëlMassieux’s office at La Bécasse.

Besides Bocuse, Hazaël-Massieux’s other culinary idols include French legends Fernand Point and Bernard Loiseau. “My admiration for them stems from their openness to innovation and their dedication to simple ingredients prepared meticulously to preserve their essence,” he said. “I always strive to emulate them in my own cooking.”

A SUBTLE CULINARY MERGER Hazaël-Massieux incorporates elements of both his French and Caribbean roots into the menu at La Bécasse. Although French food dominates, subtle Caribbean ingredients sometimes infuse flavors into his dishes. “I might make a currycrusted tuna or a passion fruit beurre blanc, for example. Right now we’re doing our own bread and butter pickles with Caribbean spices – we serve them with our pâtés.” A peek into the walkin cooler reveals neatly lined up jars and crocks of those pickles and pâtés, along with other housemade delicacies like boudin blanc and Toulousestyle sausages, duck confit and sauerkraut.

“Purely Caribbean dishes are usually on the specials board when I make them,” said Hazaël-Massieux. “For example, brandade [reconstituted and cooked salt cod mixed with garlic, olive oil and whipped potatoes] or cod-

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fish fritters, which are both big in Guadeloupe.

And I make a great goat curry!”

Hazaël-Massieux noted that certain classic French dishes are offered at some point every year, such as cassoulet, onion soup and onion pie, all of which are on the current winter menu. The latter is a specialty from the Lorraine region of France, where his mother grew up. The house-made pastries are also primarily française, including tarte tatin, crème brulée and profiteroles.

The restaurant’s wine cellar, which HazaëlMassieux built himself, is his pride and joy. With two levels of sommelier training, this chef knows his wine and what goes well with his menus. “My food is simplicity on a plate, but at the same time very complicated, and you see that in my wine list as well as in our other beverage selections. We have a little bit of everything, but we also have a lot of things that are very French – you can’t have a French restaurant without pastis, for example.

You go to tradition – you have to have this wine, this apéritif, this after-dinner drink or digestif. It’s part of our culture.”

DEFINING FRENCH COUNTRY CUISINE La Bécasse serves “authentic French country cuisine,” but what does that really mean?

Hazaël-Massieux is clearly pleased to be able to define it. “You have to understand that there is no ‘French’ cuisine per se – there is regional cuisine. It can be specific to Brittany, to Alsace, to Toulouse, to Marseille…That’s what ‘country French’ means to me. I make dishes from many different regions of France. Of course, the ba-

sic classical techniques are used all over, like the mother sauces. But when Paul Bocuse does regional Lyon cooking, he’s primarily using ingredients from his area, like the famous Bresse chicken – it’s his terroir. As for me, I’m using French techniques but cooking with what I can get from the countryside around me: ramps, morels, fruits and vegetables, poultry and meats and some cheeses and wines. Sometimes when I can’t get pike for my quenelles, I will use whitefish – I’m always trying to work with what’s local – that’s what makes this a ‘country French’ restaurant. Of course there are exceptions – some seafood, for example – but I try to stick to my terroir.”

And because they care so much about the lakes, forests and fields that yield such bounty, the proprietors of La Bécasse steward the environment, too. They recycle everything possible from the restaurant – glass, paper, cardboard, metal – use eco-friendly cleaning products and have hot water available only on demand. They love this little corner of the world where their restaurant stands, and as concerned citizens and parents of two young daughters, they want it to thrive for generations to come.

La Bécasse is located at 9001 South Dunns Farm Road in Burdickville. Winter hours are 5pm–9pm Tuesday through Saturday. At this time of year, it makes sense to call before dropping in at 9! For reservations, details about winter specials (click the “News and Events” tab on the website) or other information, call (231) 334-3944 or visit Restaurantlabecasse. com. Price rating: $$–$$$

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From his early, gritty journeys to his later, more accomplished drives down the open road, singer-songwriter Martin Sexton’s own trip through the music scene has been a steady trek that gives new meaning to the word “grassroots.”

Sexton bounced through a series of garage bands in his youth, eventually ditching the rock n’ roll scene in Syracuse, NY, to try his fortune in Boston’s coffeehouse scene, rife with folksingers competing for a limited number of performance spots.

Sexton stood out fast for his soulful brand of folk and his ability to push his vocal range to the limit. Before long, he’d released his own album (In the Journey) as a cassette and sold 15,000 copies of it direct to fans via his live shows and touring. By 1994, he’d won the National Academy of Songwriters’ Artist of the Year Award and begun sharing stages with the likes of John Hiatt, Art Garfunkel and Jackson Browne; his songs were subsequently featured on TV shows like Parenthood and Scrubs.

MIX IT UP These days, it’s still about being onstage for Sexton, but it’s also about sitting at the kitchen table – Kitchen Table Records, that is – his own label imprint that he’s utilized to release his albums from 2001 to today.

His latest set is Mixtape of the Open Road, a collection of new songs that Sexton explained is exactly what it sounds like.

“It’s like that mixtape you made for a friend after graduation or a breakup or a road trip,” he said. “It’s a collection of songs from many different schools of music that I wrote all over North America over the years.”

With tracks like “Pine Away,” the grooving “Give It Up,” and the breezy, insouciant “Doin’ Something Right,” Mixtape supports its own theme by being a virtual potpourri of tunes that moves through different genre influences in a way that will undeniably remind you of any mix – cassette, CD or streaming – you’ve ever put together.

ROAD ROMANCE Sexton, as a matter of fact, said he was

influenced in making this album by one mixtape in particular. “The love of my life, who became my wife, made a mixtape for me in a turbulent time while we were dating,” he explained. “The outcome of this relationship was uncertain and my heart was heavy, and the collection of songs she prepared for me eased my worried mind.”

That’s not to say the open road itself wasn’t an influence. Sexton called the road a “welcome presence” in his career. “And also a necessity, as like any touring recording artist, the open road is a large part of my bread and butter,” he explained.

He’s been maximizing America’s highways on his current tour and is seeing a remarkable amount of camaraderie and people finding common ground. “I’m amazed by the unity that music is bringing in these shows,” he said. “It’s inspiring. I’m on a mission to bring harmony where there is discord, and folks from all walks of life are singing together at my shows all around America.”

The scenery is a bonus. “As I answer these questions, I’m traveling through some of the most stunning mountain passes in the Rockies!” he added.

COOL COMPILATION Given all this, we’re going to guess that Sexton is probably a master of the mixtape, but what would he include if he were to compile a mixtape for himself of tracks outside his own repertoire? At least one answer is found in his tourmates, who happen to comprise a favorite legendary band.

“The mixtape would begin with Traverse City’s own The Accidentals and their tune ‘Epitaphs,”” Sexton said, “and it would end with something like Led Zeppelin. I had a wonderful time with Sav, Katie and Michael on the western U.S. dates and look forward to having them on the show at the Opera House.”

Martin Sexton with special guests The Accidentals will be in concert at the City Opera House in Traverse City 7:30pm Tuesday, Feb. 21. For tickets and more information, visit cityoperahouse.org.

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2. Brad and Emi King enjoying music in the lobby before the start of the National Writers Series event on autism.

3. Chris Bueby and Samantha Bovee enjoy the Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival in downtown Traverse City Feb. 11.

4. Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council’s Lindy Buffington and Kate Cwikiel shared a laugh at Odawa Casino during Petoskey’s State of the Community luncheon.

5. Marie and Jon of Woodworks Chainsaw Carving display their art at Alpenfrost in Gaylord.

6. Mara meets with Mandi and Jason during the Thrive 45 event at 7 Monks in Boyne City.

7. Quite a group traveled from Grand Rapids and Walker for the Microbrew and Music Fest.

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

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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

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

-------------------PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL: 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/wintercarnival

-------------------WINTER GUIDED HIKE: 9:30am-12pm, Brown Bridge Quiet Area, TC. Free. RSVP required: 941-0960, ext. x 27. natureiscalling.org

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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

-------------------BIRDING SNOWSHOE/HIKE: 10am-12pm, Postle Farm Preserve, located between Petoskey & Boyne City. Presented by the Petoskey Regional Audubon Society & the Walloon Lake Trust & Conservancy. Loaner snowshoes will be provided by Bearcub Outfitters. Free. 231-347-0100.

-------------------DOWNTOWN CHARLEVOIX INDOOR SIDEWALK SALES: 10am, Downtown Charlevoix, Feb. 17-20. 231-547-2101.

winery pairs Rieslings with a food offering.

Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day of. wineriesofomp.com/36/womp-trail-events/4

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

WINTERLOCHEN: 10am, Interlochen. Winterlochen: Interlochen’s annual family-friendly 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: 12-4pm, Braman Hill Recreation Area.

-------------------NORTHPORT PROMISE CHILI COOK OFF: 12-2:30pm, Braman Hill Recreation Area, Northport. $10 to enter a chili. $5 to taste the chilis. Find on Facebook.

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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.

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

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ROMANCING THE RIESLING: 10am-5pm, The Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula. Each

SALDAJE PERFORMS “WINTER’S GHOST”: 7pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Eclectic musical

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

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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

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Composer Gabriel Kahane is best-known for his Craigslistlieder that sets actual, real-life Craigslist ads to music. Kahane will also perform several songs from his albums Where are the Arms and The Ambassador, as well as Schumann’s Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love) at Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall, Interlochen Center for the Arts on Tues., Feb. 21 at 7:30pm.

All seats are $30. interlochen.org

duo Saldaje presents music, song, strange tales & surprises celebrating winter & remembering summer. $15 suggested donation at door. 231-252-4616.

-------------------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

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

Tonight will feature “Shrek”. Free.

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

-------------------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. Find on Facebook.

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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 non-profit. tcpolestar.org

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DOWNTOWN CHARLEVOIX INDOOR SIDEWALK SALES: 10am, Downtown Charlevoix, Feb. 17-20. 231547-2101.

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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

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

-------------------PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL: 12-3pm, Petoskey - Downtown & Winter Sports Park.

Kids Carnival Day featuring snowshoeing, snowman building contest & snow art, activities in Downtown stores & more. petoskeydowntown.com/downtown-events/winter-carnival

-------------------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

-------------------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 FILM & BEER 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

-------------------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 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.

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

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BATTLE OF THE BANDS WEEK 4: 6:30pm, Shorts Brewing Co., Bellaire. Featuring Jack Pine, G-Snacks & Act Casual. shortsbrewing.com

-------------------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

feb 20

monday

DOWNTOWN CHARLEVOIX INDOOR SIDEWALK SALES: 10am, Downtown Charlevoix, Feb. 17-20. 231547-2101. business.charlevoix.org

-------------------CADILLAC FOOTLITERS AUDITIONS: For “Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain”. 6-8pm, Cooley High School Annex, Cadillac. Roles for five females. cadillacfootliters.com

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HERE:SAY PRESENTS: CALAMITY!: 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. $5 suggested donation. heresaystorytelling.com

OTP AUDITIONS: 7pm, Schmuckal Theatre on the lower level, Old Town Playhouse, TC. For “Spamalot”. This musical has roles for at least seven women & 13 men. Auditionees must prepare a short memorized solo to highlight the singer’s strengths (approximately two minutes) & bring the sheet music. Auditionees will also be asked to learn a short dance. oldtownplayhouse.com

feb 21

tuesday

COFFEE @ TEN: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. The Magic of Photography with John FergusJean. crookedtree.org

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COFFEE @ TEN: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. With furniture maker David Abeel. crookedtree.org

-------------------ANTRIM AREA WOMEN DEMS FEB. MEETING: 12pm, The Lunch Box, Bellaire. Brandon Fewins, regional director of Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s TC office, will be the speaker. Lunch, $13. RSVP: chrisandglennh@gmail.com.

-------------------LIVING ON: LOSS OF SPOUSE: 12-1:30pm, Hospice of Michigan office, 10850 E. Traverse Hwy., Ste. 1155, TC. First & third Tues. of every month. Free. For more info: 929-1557 or kholl@hom.org.

-------------------CADILLAC FOOTLITERS AUDITIONS: (See Mon., Feb. 20)

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GT HIKING CLUB MEETING: 7pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. GTRLC Land Steward Stephen Lagerquist will talk about the 30 preserves & 14 trail systems of the service area of the GT Regional Land Conservancy. northcountrytrail.org/gtr

-------------------MEETING OF BEFORE DURING AFTER INCARCERATION: 7-9pm, GT County Governmental Center. 231-632-9447. facebook.com/ groups/BeforeDuringAfterIncarceration

-------------------OTP AUDITIONS: (See Mon., Feb. 20) -------------------GABRIEL KAHANE: 7:30pm, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall, Interlochen Center for the Arts. One of composer Gabriel Kahane’s best-known works, “Craigslistlieder,” was rereleased by indie record label Family Records in 2008. All seats, $30. tickets.interlochen.org/

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MARTIN SEXTON WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Sexton is touring in support of his ninth studio release, “Mixtape Of The Open Road”. His songs have appeared in television series such as “Scrubs,” “Parenthood,” & more. Tickets start at $29.50. cityoperahouse.org/martin-sexton-with-very-special-guest

feb 22

wednesday

PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH DAY SUPPORT GROUP: 10am, TC Senior Center. Split discussion sessions. gtaparkinsonsgroup.org

-------------------PICNIC AT THE OPERA: 12pm, City Opera House, TC. Live TV variety show. Today features Oh Brother Big Sister, The Dance Center, New Third Coast, The Minor 6, Here:Say Storyteller Jonelle Bowers, David & Kaysen Chown & TC Central High School ChoraleAires. Hosts are Miriam Pico & David Chown.

Attendees are part of a live studio audience.

Free; donations encouraged. Bring a lunch. cityoperahouse.org

-------------------HOBBIES IN THE LOBBY: 5:30pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. Learn a few standard embroidery stitches with staff member Donna Smith. Materials provided. Free.

Registration required: 231.758.3100. petoskeylibrary.org

-------------------INTERLOCHEN BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30pm, Green Lake Township Offices & Emergency Services Quarters, Interlochen. interlochenchamber.org

-------------------FREE COMMUNITY SPAGHETTI DINNER: 6pm, Traverse Bay United Methodist Church, TC. 946-5323.

-------------------MUSIC & ARTISTIC EXPRESSION: 6:30pm, The Presbyterian Church of TC. Featuring Mary Sue Wilkinson & her “Singing Heart to Heart Program”. Bringing joy & connection to those who are living with Alzheimer’s, other forms of Dementia or who are in Hospice Care. Free. 946-5680.

-------------------PLANTING NATIVE TREES & SHRUBS FOR TIMBER, WILDLIFE, & AESTHETICS: 6:30-8:30pm, Leelanau County Government Building, Community Room, Suttons Bay. Presented by the GT Conservation District.

Free. Register: 231-256-9783 or kama.ross@ macd.org

feb 23

thursday

FEBRUARY SWIRL: 5:30pm-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Mingle in the galleries & enjoy live music with Kirby Snively & sampling beer from Petoskey Brewing, & appetizers from Vernales. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 day of. crookedtree.org

-------------------STAMPUNK JEWELRY WITH MARY: 6-8pm, The Vintage Vanity, Suttons Bay. Participants may choose to make either a necklace & earrings or three pair of earrings. Register. eventbrite.com

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BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Nub’s Nob Ski Area, Harbor Springs. Dual BAH with the Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce & Harbor Springs Area Chamber of Commerce. $7 members; $12 not-yet members.

-------------------ARE PAIN & FOOD RELATED?: 5:30-7pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center, Conference Room B031, TC. Learn about the root causes of pain, what foods may be triggering pain, & how tweaking your diet may provide pain relief. Sponsored by Oryana Community Cooperative. Free. Contact Emily Haan at 231.392.8492 or ehaan2@mhc.net to RSVP.

-------------------LOVE SONGS SING-A-LONG: 5:45pm, Crawford County Commission on Aging & Senior Center, Grayling. Free. 989-348-7123.

-------------------ELF TALKS: 6pm, ELF, GT Commons, TC. “Teens & Technology”. Featuring Joe Sanok, owner & therapist at Mental Wellness Counseling. Free. Register: 943-2272.

-------------------FUNDRAISER: 6-8:30pm, Hang Workshop, TC. A painting class to benefit Relay For Life Grand Traverse & the American Cancer Society. $50. Pre-register. hangworkshop.com

-------------------HOMEBREWERS BOTTLE SHARE: 6-9pm, Cultured Ferments Co., TC. All kombucha home brewers are welcomed to share their favorite bottle of home brew with other area brewers. Free. RSVP: 517-206-1960. facebook.com/CulturedKombucha

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“THE OCCUPATION OF THE AMERICAN MIND”: 6:30pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States. Presented by MidEast: JustPeace & community co-sponsors. Free. 941-6515.

-------------------BUILDING THE TEAM: 7pm, Peninsula Community Library in the Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Find out how to build and be part of the team that will build a new home for

Peninsula Community Library. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

-------------------ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: 7pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. A talk by the current Superintendent of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore Scott Tucker. 231-392-5699.

-------------------UP NORTH GREEN PARTY: 7pm, Horizon Books, Petoskey. Resist the two-party duopoly. Grow the Green Party in Antrim, Charlevoix & Emmet and other counties. upnorthgreenparty.org

-------------------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-stormcloudyfilm-series

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

feb 24

friday

AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATRE: Performing “Tender Moments,” personal stories we have experienced. Music provided by STRUM. 7pm, Mary Schmuckal Theatre, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Donations accepted. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------MI SNOWMOBILE FESTIVAL: All Day, Gaylord. Featuring a Snomo Rodeo, live music, Snowmobile Fun Run, Antique & Vintage Sled Show, Fun Ride & more. 989-732-6333.

-------------------LESS STUFF. MORE TIME. CHANGE THE WORLD: 12-1:30pm, University Center Rm. 215/217, NMC, TC. Hear inspiring stories and discover how to consume less, live more, value time, and learn how to do what you love to change the world. $19 with buffet Code: 4203; $10 without lunch (bring your own), Code: 4204.

CALL (231) 995-1700 TO REGISTER. nmc.edu

-------------------A TASTE OF SUCCESS: 6:30pm, Lobdell’s: A Teaching Restaurant, NMC, TC. This fundraiser for students at NMC’s Great Lakes Culinary Institute includes a strolling dinner of international cuisine with local wine & craft beers, all prepared & served by culinary students. Info/ tickets: www.nmc.edu/tasteofsuccess

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“TENDER MOMENTS - SELFIES 2017”: 7pm, Mary Schmuckal Theatre in the lower level of the Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by OTP Aged to Perfection. Admission is by a goodwill donation. oldtownplayhouse.com

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CONCERT: 7pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Featuring pianist Dr. Michael Coonrod & special guests from Interlochen Arts Academy. Free. habitatgtr.org

-------------------“HOME SWEET HOME”: 7:30pm, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Presented by the NMC Concert Band. Tickets: $12 adults, $7 seniors & $5 students. nmc.edu

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

feb 25

saturday

AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATRE: (See Fri., Feb. 24)

-----------MI SNOWMOBILE FESTIVAL: All Day, Gaylord.

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Featuring a Snomo Rodeo, live music, Snowmobile Fun Run, Antique & Vintage Sled Show, Fun Ride & more. 989-732-6333.

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ALDEN MEN’S CLUB’S BUSINESS/BREAKFAST MEETING: 8am, Alden United Methodist Church, Alden. 231-322-6216.

-------------------GLCM’S NEW PARTNER PROGRAMS: 10am-1pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Deane Widgren, volunteer & community outreach coordinator for the Cherryland Humane Society will bring an animal friend or two. For ages 2-8. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------ICE3 ARCTIC TRIPLE RELAY: 10am, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. 5 Mile XC Ski, 5 Mile Fat Bike Ride, & 5 Kilometer Snow Shoe. Presented by Race TC. racetc.com SNOWSHOEING AT GROEN PRESERVE: 10am, Groen Preserve, Johannesburg. Free event with free snowshoes to borrow. Reserve your snowshoes: 989-731-0573.

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WINTER HIKE: 10am, Pelizzari Natural Area, TC. Learn about the history of this property & gain insight about its natural features. Presented by the GT Regional Land Conservancy. gtrlc.org

-------------------WINTER WATERFOWL: 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Learn to ID waterfowl & take a hike to the river. grassriver.org

-------------------PUBLIC VISIONING SESSION: 10:30am12pm, Empire United Methodist Church, fellowship room. Hosted by the Glen Lake Community Library to gather input for their future building expansion. 231-326-5361. glenlakelibrary.net

www.PlathsMeats.com 2200 East Mitchell Rd., Petoskey, MI p. 231-348-8100

HOT CLUB OF DETROIT A CTAC After Dark Event Groove to the sounds of Gypsy Jazz BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

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AUTHOR SIGNING: 12-2pm, Horizon Books, TC. John Scott will sign his book “A Guy Like Me: Fighting to Make the Cut”. horizonbooks.com

-------------------BEARCUB OUTFITTERS TORCHLIGHT SNOWSHOE DEMO: 5-9pm, Camp Daggett, Petoskey. Featuring snow-covered trails illuminated by more than 100 torches on your trek. Afterward, enjoy hot chocolate & freshly baked cookies, & warm up by the fire. Free. campdaggett.org

-------------------“FIND YOUR PARK” AFTER DARK: 7-9pm, Dune Climb parking lot, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. First Ever Winter Star Party. Explore the Milky Way, Mars, & Venus with park rangers & astronomers. Park in the row farthest from the dunes, away from the telescopes, with headlights facing M-109. nps.gov/slbe/

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“TENDER MOMENTS - SELFIES 2017”: 7pm, Mary Schmuckal Theatre in the lower level of the Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by OTP Aged to Perfection. Admission is by a goodwill donation. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------MEET & GREET WITH THE BAND!

SATURDAY, MARCH 4

DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 pm • CONCERT AT 7:30 pm crooked tree arts center - petoskey Tickets include: One drink, appetizers, dessert bites TICKETS & INFO: www.crookedtree.org or 231.347.4337

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WINTER CONCERT & DANCE: 7-10pm, The Homestead, Glen Arbor. Featuring The Robin Connell Jazz Connection with vocalist Kathy Lamar. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 door. mynorthtickets.com

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

Tonight will feature “Surf’s Up”. Free. treetops.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

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2ND ANNUAL FROZEN CHERRY JAM & HOT LICKS GUITAR COMPETITION FINALS: 8pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Find on Facebook.

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LIVE PRO WRESTLING: 5:30pm, East Jordan Civic Center. Featuring former WWE Superstar, American Ninja Warrior, & wrestling’s only

One-Legged Star Zach Gowen, plus 104.5 BOB FM Host Mikey Zeroe as well as up-andcoming pro wrestlers from around the Midwest.

Tickets: $15 door, $12 advance: MCPWOnline. com. Children 10 & under, free.

feb 26

sunday

AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATRE: Performing “Tender Moments,” personal stories we have experienced. Music provided

by STRUM. 1:30pm, Mary Schmuckal Theatre, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Donations accepted. oldtownplayhouse.com

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7TH ANNUAL TC RESTAURANT WEEK: All Day, Downtown TC. Feb. 26 - March 4. Participating restaurants will offer three course meals for $30/person. Reservations encouraged. downtowntc.com

-------------------ICEBERG WINTER TRIATHLON: 9am, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. 5 Mile XC Ski, 5 Mile Fat Bike Ride, & 5 Kilometer Snow Shoe.

Presented by Race TC. racetc.com

-------------------GREAT INDOOR FOLK FESTIVAL: 125:30pm, The Mercato, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Free family-oriented festival. More than 100 musicians from Northern Michigan’s folk, bluegrass and acoustic music scene will perform. Info: Find ‘Great Indoor Folk Festival’ on Facebook.

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“TENDER MOMENTS - SELFIES 2017”: 1:30pm, Mary Schmuckal Theatre, lower level of Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by OTP Aged to Perfection. Admission is a goodwill donation. oldtownplayhouse.com

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TSO: SCHUBERT IN THE ROUND: 3pm, City Opera House, TC. Tickets start at $23.50. mynorthtickets.com/events/schubertin-the-round

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“UKES FOR YOU! LEARN TO PLAY THE UKULELE”: Tuesdays, 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

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ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS (ACA): Thursdays, 5:30-7pm, basement of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. For those who seek to address the residual effects of having been raised in dysfunctional household. adultchildren.org

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CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 10am, Upper Level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. crookedtree.org

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DEBTORS ANONYMOUS (NEW LOCATION, NEW TIME): Tuesdays, 6:30pm, Cowell Cancer Center (Munson), room B031, Sixth & Madison streets, TC. 12-Step Recovery Meeting for those with money issues. More info, call John P at (973) 476-7384.

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FREE COMMUNITY CLASS: Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Bikram Yoga, TC. bikramyogatcgr.com ICE SKATING GAMES: Saturdays, 1pm, 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.

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SATURDAY SNOWSHOE HIKES: Meet at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Empire at 1pm.

Free, but reservations required: 231-326-4700, ext. 5010. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. nps.gov/slbe/

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

-------------------SNOWSHOE, WINE & BREW: Sundays through March 5, Old Mission Peninsula, 10:40am-noon. Park at Jolly Pumpkin to board the TC Brew Bus & start your trek. $20. Old Mission Peninsula. tcbrewbus.com/events

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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. Info: blackstarfarms.com

-------------------WINTER WALK WEDNESDAYS: Walk to school every Wednesday this winter. Presented by Norte! Traverse City.

- ARTFUL AFTERNOONS: Every Weds. through April 26 at 1pm. Free. gaylordarts.org

-------------------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.

-------------------- 2017 JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Runs through March 23 in Gilbert Gallery. Juried by renowned photographer Howard Bond. Includes works selected from 140 submissions.

-------------------- TINKER, TAILOR, WELDER, WEAVER: The Art of Assemblage: Runs through March 23 in Bonfield Gallery. crookedtree.org

-------------------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.

-------------------- ART HISTORY TALK: Fridays through March 17, noon-1pm. Each week will cover a decade of the 1800’s. $5 suggested donation. crookedtree.org

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6TH ANNUAL GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB: Through March 25, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Artists of all media in & from the GT region will display & sell their work commission-free. Closing Reception on March 25. Featuring live music & performance art. facebook.com/GrandTraverseArtBomb

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

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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. 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.

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

-------------------THROUGH THE WINDOW, ALL MEDIA: Through March. Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. threepinesstudio.com

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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. higherartgallery.com

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GAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, GAYLORD: - BLACK & WHITE WITH A LITTLE RED EXHIBIT: Through March 4.

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You Me at Six – “Night People” – BMG

Lesser known in the U.S. but making a big impression in the UK rock scene is You Me at Six, the Surrey band made up of five musical pals who truly arrived in 2014 when their set Cavalier Youth first drew them deserved attention.

On this new collection, as produced by Kings of Leon/James Bay cohort Jacquire King, the band sharpens its instruments and delivers via its first single “Give”; unfortunately, the rest of the album isn’t as focused, with songs like “Swear” and “Brand New” proving a little undercooked.

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Andrew McMahon – “Zombies on Broadway ” – Vanguard

Inspired by the city that hosts the street featured on the album’s title – New York City, of course – this set follows McMahon’s eponymous debut and continues his quirky brand of singer-songwriter pop with manifestations of nostalgia on tracks like “Walking in My Sleep,” with lyrics direct from one of McMahon’s journals, and “Love and Great Buildings,” with its vast imagery. Some of the melodies are a little mindless, veering toward the plastic end of the top 40 charts, but at least a solid half of the album is well worth the listen.

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MATTHEWS GETS SOME MICHIGAN ENERGY If you love the ‘90s and also a good acoustic jam, you’ll be excited to learn Dave Matthews’ summer plans. Since the full Dave Matthews Band isn’t touring this summer, Matthews is instead hitting the road with his pal Tim Reynolds to perform a series of unplugged-style acoustic shows starting this May. Online presale has already started for the Matthews/Reynolds shows at warehouse.davematthewsband.com; nearby dates include stops in Chicago June 9 and 10 and in Clarkston, Mich., at the DTE Energy Theater June 13. For the show itself, should you be fortunate enough to snag tickets, you can expect a good mix of DMB tunes and probably some other surprises as well.

Detroit rapper Big Sean has just dropped a brand new album, I Decided. Across the album’s 14 tracks, you’ll find even more of his Michigan contemporaries. Sean expands his narratives and stretches into new verbal territory with collaborators the Flint Chozen Choir (on the massive closing album track “Bigger Than Me”) and fellow Motor City rap celeb Eminem (on “No Favors”) as well as Sean’s girlfriend Jhene Aiko, who guests on “Same Time Pt. 1.” Big Sean will promote the set with a schedule of live shows, including a stop at Detroit’s Fox Theater April 1.

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, whose new album Divide is just out and raking in

MODERN

ROCK

BY KRISTI KATES

the fans, recently visited Liberia for Comic Relief ’s Red Nose Day, a charity outreach that raises money to help suffering kids around the world by assembling entertainers for events.

This year’s Red Nose Day lineup, in addition to Sheeran, included appearances from comic duo French and Saunders as well as renowned physicist Stephen Hawking; Sheeran called the trip an “eye-opening experience.”

Fellow English musician Eric Clapton, the renowned blues-rock guitarist, is the focus of a new rockumentary titled Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars. Directed by filmmaker Lili Fini Zanuck, the movie showcases Clapton’s commitment to the blues and its traditions.

In conjunction with the film, Clapton will be kicking off a 50th anniversary concert tour to which he’ll bring bassist Nathan East, drummer Steve Gadd and keyboardists Chris Stainton and Walt Richmond; Clapton’s opening acts on the trek will be Gary Clark Jr. and Jimmie Vaughan.

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: The Weeknd’s fans will be stoked to see he’s performing at The Palace of Auburn Hills in his own solo show Wednesday, May 24.

The Weeknd’s current tour has been dubbed Starboy: Legend of the Fall after his newest album Starboy; you can get tickets for that Detroit area show plus more information on The Weeknd’s music at weeknd.com.

THE BUZZ: Traverse City’s The Accidentals won album of the year and song of the year at Grand Rapids’ Jammie Awards last week; other honorees included Red Tail Ring, The Go Rounds, Thornetta Davis, Seth Bernard and Billy Strings.

Third Eye Blind is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its eponymous debut album this summer with a string of tour dates including a stop at the DTE Energy Music Theater in Clarkston, Mich., July 7.

Another group heading for the DTE Energy Music Theater is Train, although it’s not promoting an old album but a new one, namely its eighth set titled A Girl, a Bottle, a

Boat, which hit outlets in late January; Train will arrive in Detroit June 25.

Dabke singer Omar Souleyman is set for a Detroit gig, too – tickets just went on sale for his upcoming show at the El Club May 12 during which he’ll perform with Atlanta postgarage rockers The Black Lips.

Rebel Kind singer Autumn Welti and her band just made a new music video in Detroit titled “Everyone” based on a track by the same name from the band’s new album Just for Fools… 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.

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• 522 - MANISTEE Tues. -- Karaoke Thurs., Fri., Sat. -- DJ • BUCKLEY BAR - BUCKLEY Fri. -- DJ Karaoke/Sounds - Duane & Janet • CADILLAC SANDS RESORT Porthole Pub & Eatery: Thurs. -- Live music SandBar Niteclub: Fri. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs

Fri. -- Karaoke/line dancing, 8:30 Sat. -- Dance videos, 8:30 • COYOTE CROSSING - HOXEYVILLE Thurs. -- Open Mic Sat. -- Live Music • DOUGLAS VALLEY WINERY MANISTEE Sun. -- Live music, 1:30 -4:30pm • ESCAPE - CADILLAC 2/25 -- Duck Soup, 8-10 • FAMOUS FLYNN'S PIZZA -

MANISTEE 2/24 -- Cheryl Wolfram, 7-9 • HI-WAY INN - MANISTEE Wild Weds. -- Karaoke • LITTLE RIVER CASINO MANISTEE River Rock Sports Bar: 2/25 -- Flat Broke, 9 • LOST PINES LODGE HARRIETTA Sat. -- Karaoke, dance videos

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska • ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM INTERLOCHEN 2/21 -- Open & un-mic'd w/ Ben Johnson, 7-9 2/22 -- Acoustic Blues Workshop w/ Dane Hyde & Patrick Niemisto, 7-9 • BUD'S - INTERLOCHEN Thurs. -- Jim Hawley, 5-8 • FANTASY'S - GRAWN Adult Entertainment w/ DJ • GT RESORT & SPA - ACME Grand Lobby: 2/17-18 -- Blake Elliott, 7-11 2/24 -- John Pomeroy, 7-11 2/25 -- 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 2/24 -- Lena Wilson, 8:30-10:30 • HOTEL INDIGO - TC 2/18 -- Elizabeth Rivers w/ Peter Murphy, 7:30-10:30 • LEFT FOOT CHARLEY - TC 2/24 -- Amanda Egerer, 6-8 Mon. -- Open mic w/ Blake Elliott, 6-9 • LITTLE BOHEMIA - TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 • NOLAN'S CIGAR BAR - TC 2/24 -- Blues Boy Stanton, 9-11 • NORTH PEAK - TC Kilkenny's, 9:30-1:30: 2/17-18 -- One Hot Robot 2/24-25 -- Sweet J Band, 9:30 Mon. -- Michigan Team Trivia, 7-9; Toxic Trivia, 9-11

Tues. -- Levi Britton, 8-12 Weds. -- The Pocket, 8-12 Thurs. -- 2 Bays DJs, 9:301:30 Sun. -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9 • PARK PLACE HOTEL - TC Beacon Lounge: Thurs. - Sat. -- Tom Kaufmann, 8:30-11:30 • PARKSHORE LOUNGE - TC Fri. - Sat. -- DJ • RARE BIRD BREWPUB - TC 2/18 -- Galactic Sherpas, 9 2/22 -- Oh Brother Big Sister, 8:30 Mon. -- Open Mic/Artist Night, 7:30-11:30 Tues. -- Trivia night, 7 • SAIL INN - TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs, karaoke, dance videos • SIDE TRAXX - TC Weds. -- Impaired Karaoke, 10 Fri.-Sat. -- DJ/VJ Mike King • STREETERS - TC Ground Zero: 2/18 -- Pure MI Country Part 2 w/ Uncle Kracker, Matt Austin, & Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys, 8 2/24 -- Becoming Human w/ Heartsick, Hail Your Highness, & Death of The Party, 8 2/25 -- David Allen Coe w/ Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys & The Whiskey Rebels, 8 • TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE - TC 2/18 -- Christopher Dark, 7-9 Tues. -- Turbo Pup, 7-9 1st Weds. of month -- E-Minor open mic, 7-10 Thurs. -- G-Snacks, 7-9

Fri. -- Rob Coonrod, 7-9 Sun. -- Kids Open Mic, 3 • TC WHISKEY CO. 2/22 -- Mitchell McKolay, 6-8 • THE OL' SOUL - KALKASKA Weds. -- David Lawston, 8-12 • THE PARLOR - TC 2/21 -- Clint Weaner, 7:30pm • THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO. - TC 2/18 -- Semi-Finals: 2nd Annual Frozen Cherry Jam & Hot Licks Guitar Competition, 8 2/24 -- Seth Bernard, 8-11 2/25 -- 2nd Annual Frozen Cherry Jam & Hot Licks Guitar Competition Finals, 8 Mon. -- Rotten Cherries Comedy Open Mic, 8-9:30 Weds. -- WBC Jazz Society Jam, 6-10 • TRATTORIA STELLA - TC Tues. -- Ron Getz, 6-9 • UNION STREET STATION - TC 2/18 -- Zoopack 2/22 -- 2 Bays DJs 2/23 -- Chris Sterr & Ron Getz Band 2/24 -- Happy Hour w/ Strobelite, then Electric Red 2/25 -- Electric Red Sun. -- Karaoke, 10-2 • WEST BAY BEACH RESORT - TC View: 2/18 -- DJ Veeda, 9-12 2/24 -- The Muze, 9-12 2/25 -- DJ Veeda, 9-12 Thurs. -- Jazz w/ Jeff Haas Trio & Laurie Sears, 7-9:30

Antrim & Charlevoix • BARREL BACK RESTAURANT WALLOON LAKE VILLAGE Weds. -- Michelle Chenard, 5-8 • BOYNE CITY TAPROOM 2/17-18 -- DJ Johnnie Walker, 8 2/18-19 -- Jelly Roll Blues Band, 8 2/24 -- The Shifties, 7-10 2/25 -- Sean Bielby, 7-10 • BRIDGE STREET TAP ROOM CHARLEVOIX 2/18 -- Ben Overbeek, 8-11 2/19 -- Chris Calleja, 6-9 2/21 -- Sean Bielby, 7-10 2/24 -- Ben Overbeek, 8-11 2/25 -- Kellerville, 8-11 2/26 -- Pete Kehoe, 6-9 • CAFE SANTE - BOYNE CITY Mon. -- Nathan Bates, 6-9 • CELLAR 152 - ELK RAPIDS

2/18 -- Levi Britton, 7:30-10:30 2/24 -- Jessica Dominic, 7:30-10:30 2/25 -- Blair Miller, 7:30-10:30 • JORDAN INN - EAST JORDAN Tues. -- Open Mic w/ Cal Mantis, 7-11 Fri. & Sat. -- Live Music • MOUNTAINSIDE GRILL - BOYNE CITY Fri. -- Ronnie Hernandez, 6-9 • MURRAY'S BAR & GRILL - EAST JORDAN Fri. & Sat. -- Live Music • PEARL'S - ELK RAPIDS 2/24 -- Mardi Gras w/ Dave Cisco, 6-9 2/26 -- Mardi Gras w/ Anthony Gomes, 6-9 • QUAY RESTAURANT & TERRACE BAR - CHARLEVOIX Weds. -- Live jazz, 7-10

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• RED MESA GRILL - BOYNE CITY 2/21 -- Charles Madison, 6-9 2/22 -- BOTALA - Latin DJ w/ Afro-Cuban Drumming, 6-9 • SHORT'S BREWING CO. - BELLAIRE 2/18 -- Benjaman James, 8:30-11 2/19 -- Battle of the Bands Week 4, 46:30; Amy Andrews, 8-10:30 2/24 -- The Native Howl, 8:30-11 2/25 -- Turbo Pup, 8:30-11 2/26 -- Battle of the Bands Week 5 w/ellyeahdehd • TORCH LAKE CAFE - EASTPORT Weds. -- Dueling Pianos, 8:30 Thurs. -- Open mic w/ Tim Hosper, 8:30 Fri. & Sat. -- Leanna Collins Trio, 8:30 • VASQUEZ' HACIENDA - ELK RAPIDS Acoustic Tues. Open Jam, 6-9 Sat. -- Live music, 7-10

Duck Soup hits Escape in Downtown Cadillac on Saturday, February 25 from 8-10pm with their American roots, Celtic & bluegrass music.

Leelanau & Benzie • BELLA FORTUNA NORTH - L.L. Fri.-Sat. -- Bocce e DeRoche, 7-10 • BLACK STAR FARMS - SB Third Weds. of ea. mo. -- Jazz Café w/ Mike Davis & Steve Stargardt, 7-9 • CABBAGE SHED - ELBERTA Thurs. -- Open mic, 8 • DICK'S POUR HOUSE - L.L. Sat. -- Karaoke, 10-2 • JODI'S TANGLED ANTLER BEULAH Fri. -- Karaoke, 9-1 • LAKE ANN BREWING CO. - LAKE ANN 2/21 -- Patrick Niemisto & Andre Villoch, 6:30 • LAUGHING HORSE -

THOMPSONVILLE Thurs. -- Karaoke, 9 • LEELANAU SANDS CASINO - PESHAWBESTOWN Tues. -- Polka Party, noon-4pm • LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL - HONOR Thurs., Fri., Sat. -- Phattrax DJs, karaoke, dance videos • MARTHA'S LEELANAU TABLE - SB Weds. -- The Windy Ridge Boys, 6-9 Sun. -- The Hot Biscuits, 6-9 • ROADHOUSE - BENZONIA Weds. -- Jake Frysinger, 5-8 • ST. AMBROSE CELLARS BEULAH

2/18 -- Jen Sygit, 6-9 2/24 -- Laurie Sears Duo, 6-9 2/25 -- Lisa & Ingemar Johansson, 6-9 Thurs. -- Open mic night, 6-8 • STORMCLOUD BREWING CO. - FRANKFORT 2/18 -- Jesse Hunter, 8-10 2/24 -- Blake Elliott, 8-10 2/25 -- Keith Scott, 8-10 • THE BLUEBIRD RESTAURANT - LELAND 2/18 -- Thornetta Davis, 7:30 • WESTERN AVE. GRILL GLEN ARBOR Fri. -- Open Mic Sat. -- Karaoke

Emmet & Cheboygan • BEARDS BREWERY PETOSKEY Weds. -- "Beards on Wax" (vinyl only night spun by DJ J2xtrubl), 8-11 • BOYNE HIGHLANDS - HARBOR SPRINGS Zoo Bar: 2/18 -- Union Guns/Pink Party, 5:30-9:30 • CITY PARK GRILL PETOSKEY 2/17 -- The Marsupials, 10 2/18 -- The Brother's Crunch, 10 2/21 -- Ken Harris, 9 2/25 -- Mardi Gras Party & Parade, 10

• DIXIE SALOON - MACKINAW CITY Thurs. -- Gene Perry, 9-1 Fri. & Sat. -- DJ • KNOT JUST A BAR - BAY HARBOR Fri. -- Chris Martin, 7-10 • LEO'S TAVERN - PETOSKEY Weds. -- Karaoke Night, 10-1 Sun. -- S.I.N. w/ DJ Johnnie Walker, 9-1 • MUSTANG WENDY'S - HARBOR SPRINGS 2/24 -- Valentine's Hangover: Back in Black w/ Michelle Chenard & Johnnie Walker, 7 • OASIS TAVERN - KEWADIN Thurs. -- Bad Medicine, DJ

Jesse James • STAFFORD'S PERRY HOTEL - PETOSKEY Noggin Room: 2/18 -- Alex Mendenall 2/24 -- Mike Ridley 2/25 -- The Pistil Whips • STAFFORD'S PIER RESTAURANT - HS Pointer Room: Thurs. - Sat. -- Carol Parker on piano • UPSTAIRS LOUNGE - PETOSKEY 2/18 -- DJ Psycho - PigMack IV: Bessie's Boy, 10-1 2/19 -- The Bad NASA & Distant Stars

Otsego, Crawford & Central • ALPINE TAVERN - GAYLORD 2/18 -- Mike Ridley, 7-10 2/24 -- Joshua Rupp, 7-10 2/25 -- Charlie Reager, 7-10 • MAIN STREET MARKET & BISTRO - GAYLORD 7-9:30: 2/18 -- A Brighter Bloom

2/20 -- Adam Hoppe, 7-9:30 2/21 -- Lee Dyer, 7-9:30 • MARY'S TAVERN - GAYLORD 2/25 -- Becoming Human & 3 Hearted, 9:30-1 • THE BLACKLITE LOUNGE - GAYLORD 2/18 -- Exit 282, 8

• TIMOTHY'S PUB - GAYLORD Fri.-Sat. -- Video DJ w/Larry Reichert Ent. • TREETOPS RESORT GAYLORD Hunter's Grille: 2/17-18 -- CP2 2/24-25 -- CP2

The reel jackie

by meg weichman

Natalie Portman

the space between us

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ombine “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 teen romance about a boy born on Mars (Asa Butterfield) and the girl (Britt Robertson) he’s in love with 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. The boy’s mom was part of a team of astronauts set to colonize Mars who unexpectedly discovered enroute that she was pregnant. Flashing forward 16 years we arrive in time for Gardner’s moody teen years still living in the east Texas Mars colony. Despite his classified existence, Gardner finally gets to come to Earth (and meet Tulsa, the girl he’s been covertly chatting with online). Once on Earth he escapes NASA custody and the film morphs into a road movie with chase scenes and cloying encounters where unintentionally hilarity abounds.

But even 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, it’s central idea gives the audience pause to reconsider how they view Earth and the world around them, offering a strain of emotional truth that keeps you invested.

“Jackie” might not have exactly cleaned up Oscar nominations, but don’t let its lack of recognition convince you this exquisitely crafted-film is just a showcase for Natalie Portman’s magnificent Oscar-nominated performance. It’s a penetrating work of art that reveals something profoundly human about one of history’s most fashionable footnotes.

For someone who has had so much written about her and so much of her life documented and dissected, Jackie Kennedy has largely remained an enigma. And it is this enigmatic, unknowing quality that colors this unconventional biopic’s almost otherworldly tone that occupies the hazy intersection of myth, history, and reality.

The question of if the events depicted here occurred or not is entirely immaterial. What this evocative and poignant portrait does oh so very well is vividly convey the emotional reality of Jackie’s inner life more so than any other depiction or look at Jackie on record.

The untraditional yet brilliantly structured script from former NBC News senior vice president Noah Oppenheimer doesn’t check off key life event after milestone moment, but rather, like so many of the most illuminating biopics, is more narrow in scope, focusing primarily on the immediate aftermath of her husband John F. Kennedy’s assassination as she grieves, works to ensure her husband’s legacy, and comes into her own.

Composed of impressionist memories, the fragmented narrative moves between the events of November 22, 1963, the filming of Jackie’s 1961 Emmy-winning TV special “A Tour of the White House,” the pageantry of JFK’s funeral, her private moments of grief, and her candid discussions with a priest (the great John Hurt, RIP).

These sequences are anchored by her interview with Life Magazine journalist Theodore White (Billy Crudup) from the family’s Hyannis Port compound that occurred only weeks after her husband’s death, with what came out of their meeting cementing the fabled image of “Camelot” and the Kennedys for generations.

Her candid conversations with White not only unveil a smart and shrewd woman ready to let her guard down and tell her story, but one also very attuned to the idea that she is in control of what version of events will be released to the public (while she smokes a cigarette, White asks her about smoking, to which she resolutely replies, “I don’t smoke”).

As Richard Burton’s somber singing of “Camelot” plays, Jackie says goodbye to her life in the White House, trying on her old gowns and guzzling Beefeater. And it is in this

transcendent sequence that this towering icon of American history has never seemed more relatable.

It is in these moments that Jackie comes off the elegant, graceful, and dignified pedestal of history that has rendered her bland, to show her fierceness and individuality.

At first it’s off-putting to hear someone as famous as Portman, someone we’ve been watching since she was 13, take on such a wellknown figure. But it only takes a few minutes for her to completely disappear into the role.

Portman completely captivates. And for as good as this film is, it still could not have succeeded without this chilling and luminous performance. Capturing Jackie’s uniquely breathy and affected East Coast cadence to a pitch-perfect degree -- to such a technical degree -- that it is mimicry, yet it couldn’t be any further from mere impersonation.

The art direction and costume design that recreate iconic moments share this uncanniness. And the score, with its anguished strings and melancholy horns, is one of the year’s best. With each shot so gorgeously composed and each scene more potent than the next, this is par exemple of style and substance working together. The innate beauty of the intimate imagery only adds to the guttural pain of Jackie’s loss and the visceral horror of the assassination.

I love that it took a Chilean, director Pablo Larraín in his first English film, to allow us to experience American history in such a unique and powerful way. Both familiar and strange, Larraín takes events and people now so mired in conspiracy and consumed by popular culture and somehow makes it all feel anew.

Everyone has seen the pictures of Jackie from that fateful day, standing by as LBJ gets sworn in, forever in her blood-stained pink Chanel suit. And as pervasive as those photos are, it’s easy to lose sight of the very personal tragedy of the woman who picked up the skull fragments of a man she loved and tried to put them back together. And that is what this film is ultimately about – not politics, history, mythmaking, or celebrity though they are all there. What you are overwhelmingly left with instead is the sense of having connected with one woman’s experience.

Mournful and ethereal, raw and real, no matter how many biographies you’ve read, or how engrained those images are in your head, after seeing “Jackie” you’ll never see her the same way again.

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

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.

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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.

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: The 40-year-old guy I’m dating swivels his head to check out ladies everywhere.

He even comments on those he finds attractive. I’ve mentioned that it bugs me. He contends that it’s my insecurities that are really the issue here. I can see how lower selfesteem might lend itself to an offended reaction, as opposed to just a shrug or an eye roll, but is this really on me?

— Blamed

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: Yes, of course your insecurities are the real issue here. Because what woman wouldn’t feel great when her boyfriend’s all “Whoa, boobs are out tonight!”?

That said, it is normal that he’s driven to look.

Men evolved to have their eyeballs all up in every hot woman’s business because the features considered beautiful in a woman correlate with health and fertility. Ancestral men who passed on their genes (and mating psychology) — the men whose male descendants are walking the planet today — are those who went for the fertile young hotties, not the 70-year-old ladies with a lot of personality.

Not surprisingly, brain imaging studies by evolutionary psychologist Steven Platek and his colleagues find that when men see pictures of curvalicious women — those with an hourglass bod, a fertility indicator — there’s “activation” in (most notably) the nucleus accumbens. This is part of the brain’s reward circuitry and, as they put it, “the seat of addictive behavior.” Regarding their findings, Platek told me, “We think that this is why men quite literally find it challenging to look away from a highly attractive female body.”

No, not “impossible” to look away. “Challenging.” Like it may sometimes be for you to keep from stabbing your boyfriend in the thigh with a fork when he rubbernecks at a passing pair of Wonderbreasts. However, feeling disturbed by his girl-gawking isn’t a sign you’re emotionally defective. Consider that emotions aren’t there just to jazz up your day. Psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse explains that emotions have a job to do — to motivate us to “respond adaptively” to threats and opportunities. For example, that rotten feeling you get in response to your boyfriend’s ogling is basically an alarm going off alerting you that a man’s commitment isn’t there or is waning. Wanting to feel better pushes you to remedy the situation.

If your insecurity is tripping you up, it’s in how you seem to be second-guessing the emotions yelling at you, “Do something!

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HELLO?! Are you in a coma?” The thing is, you don’t have to feel assertive to be assertive. You just have to (gulp!) stand up for yourself as an assertive person would.

Again, the problem isn’t that your boyfriend’s looking; it’s that he’s looking (and commenting) while you’re standing right there, feelings and all. Be honest with him: This doesn’t just “bug” you; it hurts your feelings.

It makes you feel disrespected. And it needs to stop. Now. Because you want to feel loved, respected, and happy — either with him or with some guy you meet at his funeral, after his tragic but inevitable death from drowning in a pool of his own drool.

Splendor In The Gracias

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: For two years, I’ve been in the best relationship of my life, after years of really bad ones. I’m thinking that maybe the key to a happy relationship is having two people who think they aren’t good enough for each other.

Not that we feel that in a pathetic way. We each just feel really grateful and lucky to be with the other person, and it makes a difference in how we treat each other. Thoughts?

— Happy At Last

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: Sometimes the thing we tell ourselves is love is really “the thing I got into because I was scared I’d die alone -- surrounded by empty single-serving zinfandel bottles -and get discovered 10 years later, mummified, on my couch.”

What seems key this time around — in how happy you two are — is the gratitude you feel. Gratitude for your partner comes out of noticing the sweet, thoughtful things they do — like taking out the trash without needing to be “asked” at gunpoint.

However, what you’re grateful for isn’t so much the garbage relocation as what it shows — what social psychologist Kaska Kubacka describes as your partner’s “responsiveness to (your) needs.” This, in turn, tells you that your happiness is important to them, which tells you that they value you and the relationship. Awww.

Seeing that you’re loved and cared for like this motivates you to do sweet, loving things for your partner. Which motivates them… which motivates you… (Think of it as love on the Ping-Pong model.) This helps create and maintain the kind of relationship where, when your partner blurts out “I love you so much!” your inclination is to respond in kind — instead of turning around to see who the hell they’re talking to.

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a situation like this? Please note that I’m not asking, “What would your mother do?” I’m not suggesting you call on the counsel of your actual mother. When I use the term “your best mother,” I’m referring to the archetype of your perfect mother. Imagine a wise older woman who understands you telepathically, loves you unconditionally, and wants you to live your life according to your own inner necessity, not hers or anyone else’s. Visualize her. Call on her. Seek her blessings.

radar suggests there’s a space-time anomaly looming just ahead of you. Is it a fun and exotic limbo where the rules are flexible and everything’s an experiment? That might be cool.

Or is it more like an alien labyrinth where nothing is as it seems, you can hear howling in the distance, and you barely recognize yourself? That might be weird. What do you think?

Is it worth the gamble? If so, full speed ahead. If not, I suggest a course correction.

ferocious seeker of absolute fulfillment.” If you want to swear an oath like that, Virgo, I understand. But I hope you will try a softer approach -- more like the following: “Between now and April 15, I will be imaginative and ingenious in getting my needs met. I will have fun calling on every trick necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are playfully addressed. I will be a sweet seeker of unpredictable fulfillment.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How would Buddha

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): Someone on

Reddit.com asked readers to respond to the question, “What is the most liberating thought you’ve ever had?” Among the replies were the following six: 1. “If new evidence presents itself, it’s okay to change my beliefs.” 2. “I get to choose who’s in my life and who isn’t.” 3. “I am not my history.” 4. “You can’t change something that has already happened, so stop worrying about it.” 5. “I am not, nor will I ever be, conventionally beautiful.” 6.

“I don’t have to respond to people when they say stupid s--to me.” I hope these testimonies inspire you to come up with several of your own, Taurus. It’s a perfect time to formulate liberating intentions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It has been a

while since I told you that I love you. So I’m doing it now. I LOVE YOU. More than you could ever imagine. And that’s why I continue to offer these horoscopes to you free of charge, with no strings attached. That’s why I work so hard to be a playful therapist and an edgy mentor for you. That’s why I am so tenacious in my efforts to serve you as a feminist father figure and a kindly devil’s advocate and a sacred cheerleader. Again, I don’t expect anything in return from you. But if you would like to express your appreciation, you could do so by offering a similar type of well-crafted care to people in your own sphere. Now would be an excellent time to give such gifts.

CANCER June 21-July 22): “I like the

word ‘bewilderment’ because it has both ‘be’ and ‘wild’ in it,” says poet Peter Gizzi. I propose that you go even further, Cancerian: Express a fondness for the actual experience of bewilderment as well as the word. In fact, be willing to not just tolerate, but actually embrace the fuzzy blessings of bewilderment. In the coming weeks, that’s your ticket to being wild in the healthiest (and wealthiest) ways.

As you wander innocently through the perplexing mysteries that make themselves available, you’ll be inspired to escape formalities and needless rules that have kept you overly tame.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Are you familiar with psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow? It’s the unflattering or uncomfortable part of you that you would prefer to ignore or suppress. It’s the source of behavior about which you later say, “I wasn’t acting like myself.” Jungians say that the shadow hounds you and wounds you to the degree that you refuse to deal with it. But if you negotiate with it, it leads you to beautiful surprises. It prods you to uncover riches you’ve hidden from yourself. I mention this, Leo, because any shadow work you do in the coming weeks could generate rather spectacular breakthroughs..

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You could make a

vow like this: “Between now and April 15, I will be relentless in getting my needs met. I will harbor a steely resolve to call on every ploy necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are not just gratified, but satiated to the max. I will be a dogged and

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ask for a raise or promotion? How would Jesus tinker with his career plans as he took into consideration large-scale shifts in the economy?

How would Confucius try to infuse new approaches and ideas into the status quo of his work environment? Ruminate deeply on these matters, dear Libra. Your yearning to be more satisfyingly employed may soon be rewarded -- especially if you infuse your ambitions with holy insight. How would Joan of Arc break through the glass ceiling? How would Harriet Tubman deal with the inefficiencies caused by excess testosterone? How would Hildegard of Bingen seek more emotional richness on the job?

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect you

would benefit from acquiring a new bedroom name, my dear. But should I be the one to give it to you? I’m not sure. Maybe you could invite a practical dreamer you adore to provide you with this crazy sweet new moniker. If there is no such person to do the job (although given the current astrological omens, I bet there is), I’ll offer the following array of amorous aliases for you to choose from: Wild Face . . . Kiss Genius . . . Thrill Witch . . . Freaky Nectar . . . Boink Master . . . Lust Moxie . . . Pearly Thunder . . . Peach Licker . . . Painkiller . . . Silky Bliss . . .

Slippery Diver . . . Swoon Craver.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Soon I’ll

be off on my first vacation in 18 months. At first glance it might seem odd for an astrologer like myself to have selected two Sagittarians to be my housesitters. Members of your sign are reputed to be among the least home-nurturing people in the zodiac. But I’m confident that by the time I return, raccoons won’t be living in my kitchen, nor will my plants be dead or my snailmail stolen or my TV broken. The current astrological omens suggest that most of you Centaurs, at least for the foreseeable future, will display an uncommon aptitude for the domestic arts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The near

future will be mutable, whimsical, and fluky. It’ll be serendipitous, mercurial, and extemporaneous.

You should expect happy accidents and lucky breaks. Your ability to improvise will be quite valuable. Do you believe in lucky numbers? Even if you don’t, yours will be 333. Your sacred password will be “quirky plucky.” The cartoon characters with whom you will have most in common are Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. The place where you’re most likely to encounter a crucial teaching is a threshold or thrift shop. Your colors of destiny will be flecked and dappled.

(P.S.: I suspect that an as-yet-undiscovered talisman of power is crammed in a drawer full of junk.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Treat your

body like a sublime temple, please. And regard your imagination as a treasured sanctuary. Be very choosy about what you allow to enter in to both of those holy places. This strategy is always a wise idea, of course, but it’s especially so now, when you are extra sensitive to the influences you absorb. It’s crucial that you express maximum discernment as you determine which foods, drinks, drugs, images, sounds, and ideas are likely to foster your maximum well-being -- and which aren’t. Be a masterful caretaker of your health and sanity.

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