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Mexican Fence Let’s spend $20 billion to build a fence on our southern border. Stupid! How about we spend that money curing cancer? We have a madman as our leader. We need to put the brakes on this maniac. If you voted for him, shame on you. Get ready for another war.

A Disgusted American, David L. Petty, Charlevoix

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Troubling Administration I’m failing to understand the thinking of some that Trump is just cleaning house after years of neglect and stating we are not a trusted ally or leader of the free world anymore, especially with hostile nations and our security being the most important issue we face! Are we as a nation willing to spend the amount of money and initiate the military draft of men and women to achieve that imaginary level of security that would keep us safe 100 percent of the time? I believe some Trump supporters have forgotten that we are still a democratic form of government; we still operate under a Constitution with three branches. We are not a fascist government with one person making all the decisions.

I’m also concerned with the appointment of business and Wall Street millionaires dismantling the very foundations that made this country great.

If I recall wasn’t it business that closed the plants that gutted the manufacturing base of America and moved to China and Japan for more profits?

So now we are electing these very same people “to bring the jobs back to America?” Equally concerning are the hawkish attitudes of Trump and many in his administration that seem to be heading toward war and who profit more during wars, and are not the ones who come home in body bags and wheelchairs!

Mark Twain reminded us: ”If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”

Jay Richley, Cadillac

Working Together to Combat Climate Change On February 17th, TC350 presented “Before the Flood” at the Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City. The movie follows Leonardo DiCaprio’s three-year journey to discover the worldwide catastrophic impact of climate change. It is a heartwrenching but empowering film. There are things we as individuals and as a nation can do to combat the effects of climate change. The issue is not insurmountable, but we need to act now, for the

sake of our children and the future of our planet.

We need to stop using fossil fuels and we need the incentive to invest and use sustainable alternatives. As consumers, we need an environmentally friendly solution that’s easy to incorporate into our busy lives.

One solution BTF suggests is to introduce a carbon tax that is offset by paying lower income taxes.

The Citizen’s Climate Lobby (CCL) proposes a “carbon fee and dividend” policy whereby fossil fuel companies pay a carbon fee at source.

This will give energy companies the incentive they need to invest in sustainable alternatives.

Dividends are then paid to all households, instead of going to the government (as in a tax).

The dividend offsets the price increase for fuel so that 2/3 of households, including low-income households, are better off.

Here in northern Michigan we are lucky enough to have a very active CCL Chapter.

Volunteers reach out to the public and meet with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. The carbon fee and dividend movement is growing every day! As DiCaprio says, “politicians are not our leaders, they are our followers.” If enough people want something, politicians will follow; not because the politicians change their minds but because the public demands it.

Nicola Philpott, Traverse City

Divide And Conquer I believe that Donald J. Trump has an agenda, along with his pals, to rebuild this country into their bizarre version of what it should be. Screw the Constitution, unless it can be used or manipulated for their purposes. To make even more money, and somehow make the world a better and safer place. And somehow, magically, all will be well. Screw clean air and water. Screw the Native Americans. Screw women and immigrants and anyone of color.

Screw anyone who disagrees or complains. Are concentration camps next? Fix the schools by playing the God card, and all will be well. Pay a person for 40 hours of hard work so little that they qualify for food stamps.

Does anyone think that’s right? Should we really give Wal-Mart and other companies that do this a tax break? They whisper about privatizing Social Security rather than the simple fix of removing the cap. Everyone is the enemy unless they agree with their draconian ideas and actions. Simple truth is no longer the basis for much of anything. Hatred and intolerance have taken over. Because people are afraid, which plays right into their hands, because that’s the plan: Divide and conquer.

Time To Trust On Feb. 11 in Petoskey, a dozen demonstrators called for defunding Planned Parenthood, while 130 supporters turned out to focus attention on the vital and irreplaceable services that Planned Parenthood provides in our community, especially to our lowincome and uninsured neighbors. Among the anti-Planned Parenthood protestors was Rusty Chatfield, pastor of Northern Michigan Baptist Bible Church and father of our local state representative, Lee Chatfield. Mr. Rusty Chatfield disputed that federal funds for Planned Parenthood could be kept separate from the funds used to support abortion (which account for only 3 percent of its services nationally. No abortions are provided in Petoskey).

Mr. Chatfield, may we please trust each other on this issue? Planned Parenthood does not use federal funds to pay for abortions, and you do not violate the law that prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches from participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.

As people of good will and ethical intention, may we please trust each other to know where the boundaries lie?

I am 63 years old and underinsured. I count on Planned Parenthood for the affordable preventative and wellness care that keeps me healthy. My neighbors, many of whom are on Medicaid, will have no place to go for vital health care if Planned Parenthood is defunded.

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features Crime and Rescue Map........................................7

Mama Lu’s.....................................................9 Building A Better Benzie....................................10 Seen..................................................................14

dates...............................................16-19 music It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad March Madness!.............12

Breaking Down the Music.................................13 Hot Club of Detroit............................................15 FourScore.......................................................20 Nightlife............................................................22

columns & stuff Top Five............................................................5

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................4 Style..................................................................8 Weird................................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates.................................21 The Reel.......................................................23 Advice Goddess..............................................24 Crossword.....................................................25 Freewill Astrology...........................................25 Classifieds......................................................26

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Stay Tuned Dismayed Democrats, peeved progressives, lachrymose liberals: Lift Up Your Hearts!

Our national nightmare may not last much longer. Given the conflicts of interest of the “president” and many in his administration, and the apparent lack of any moral center, soon corruption on an unprecedented scale will force even a Republican Congress to draw up Articles of Impeachment.

And before long, a large portion of the folks who voted for him will finally realize they were conned and will come after him with pitchforks and torches. So don’t despair. Resist! Persist!

William Heil, Petoskey

Collective Wisdom Our country loses out when we don’t seek the input of others who have different ideas.

What has helped scientists minimize human bias is to include all points of views before proceeding. We need to get off the notion that one party has all the answers.

Representative Bergman has the opportunity to reach out to other side as we grapple with health care. The biggest problem with the Affordable Care Act has been the rising costs of premiums. This has occurred because free riders’ incentive to join has not been strong enough. The free riders can significantly lower premiums for everyone; the problem is how to encourage them to join.

It will be much simpler to amend the ACA and to focus on how to encourage more free riders to join by increasing incentives and finding ways to lower health costs. Significantly increasing the free riders lowers health care premiums for all. This insures that the individuals are not forced to join a higher premium group because of their condition most had no control over. Contact Representative Jack Bergman to find a bipartisan solution to health care.

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A SMALL VICTORY FOR CIVIL DISCOURSE opinion

BY Mary Keyes Rogers After this blistering election season and divisive first month of the new administration, one can only imagine how many friendships have been damaged or destroyed by the hot rage of political opinion. I’m not referring to the unfriending of the acquaintance of an acquaintance on social media.

I mean terminating all contact with close friends, relatives, cherished neighbors and the like.

Life truly is so much more pleasant when we stay within our own ideological silos. I am as guilty of this as anyone. We trim our social circle like a bonsai tree, forcing it into an unnatural though aesthetically pleasing configuration. So, when we are confounded by the unfortunate discovery that our politics are in contrast to a dear and valued friend’s, what do we do?

My personal decision has been to avoid risky topics with good friends where conflicts arise. I am quite certain that, no matter how persuasive my language nor how compelling my facts and figures, we will never see eye to eye.

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would feign disinterest and maybe it would end quickly. As they spoke, I examined my foot with the intensity of a surgeon preparing to make the first incision. Mission failed.

I didn’t understand why this was happening. I thought we had an unspoken agreement that we didn’t speak of such things. This was a very definite and deliberate breach of the terms outlined in our Bipartisan Friendship Agreement.

My plan not working, the words continued and I began to feel panicky as I scrambled to devise a Plan C: non-engagement. I would allow eye contact but remain silent.

Holding back my own thoughts, I chose to allow a one-sided conversation to unfold. I suppose that because I had firmly committed to not sharing my thoughts, I stopped formulating any and found myself just listening. Listening, fancy that.

I was able to listen without judgment because I wasn’t preparing a response, rebuke or retort. Right then and there, I saw that I was the person in this conversation who had the problem. I came to realize that

I didn’t understand why this was happening.

I thought we had an unspoken agreement that we didn’t speak of such things. This was a very definite and deliberate breach of the terms outlined in our Bipartisan Friendship Agreement.

A most interesting thing happened to me when I visited friends downstate this past weekend. I want to share what I experienced and, more importantly, what I learned.

I was a guest in their home, as I have been many times. Over the years, we’ve raised our daughters of the same age, watched the decline and eventual passing of our parents, and learned how to make some fabulous cocktails in each other’s kitchens.

Our shared appreciation for good coffee, guilt-free napping, and good conversation has kept us together.

We rarely stay on the topic of politics for more than a passing acknowledgment of the day’s headlines. Although we have much in common, I part ways with them on politics.

And religion.

This was my first visit to their turf since the election and it is a very safe bet that I canceled one of their presidential votes. As per my playbook, I prefer to avoid the topics of politics or religion rather than risk damaging a valued friendship. I compartmentalize, as they say. And so I did not expect our weekend to include any such discussions.

I am here to tell you that it did happen, at length, and nobody died. In fact, I feel closer to each of them than before.

This small victory for civil discourse is entirely to my hosts’ credit. They were brave and I was not. Allow me to share.

Upon the first breath of political opinion (the Women’s March, if I recall correctly), I bit my lip, pulled my legs under me in the recliner and crossed my arms in an attempt to convey through my body language that I was shutting this conversation down. Much to my surprise and dismay, it continued.

I did not want to unleash my flying liberal monkeys upon my friends. Plan B: I

my friend wasn’t picking a fight. She was sharing her opinion. She wasn’t being nasty or self-righteous.

Instead of being defensive, I became curious. I found that, in this mode, I wasn’t just hearing and dismissing, I was actually listening. The difference in my intent made all the difference. I was learning their core beliefs and thought processes that create their opinions while not exerting any effort to compare them to my own.

Admittedly, my initial motivation was selfpreservation, to keep my brain from exploding in their living room. But the result was a huge lesson for me to stop thinking when others are talking.

The tension in the air eased and the conversation flowed. I then shared my beliefs on the same issues without the purpose of persuasion or expectation of judgment. As the candles burned into the night, we shared our opposing views on immigration, guns, separation of church and state, and abortion.

I found it to be incredibly interesting. I disagree with their final conclusions, but I can understand how they came to them and why. I also acknowledge that they will not and could not see things the same way I do because they each have had completely different and unique life experiences that lead them in how they examine issues.

For the sake of our friendships, let us all practice the 5th of Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

Mary Keyes Rogers is an engaged citizen of Traverse City, certified small business consultant, writer, speaker and host of The Experience 50 Podcast For Midlife. mary@experience50.com

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A Monument to Mothers Left Behind Starla Owens lost her son, Army Spec. Joseph Lancour, in Afghanistan on Nov. 11, 2007. She got through her grief with help from military moms and two other Gold Star Mothers, but she wishes there would have been a wider community of support.

Today, Owens is busy raising money to attract attention to the plight of people like her. Her nonprofit, Northern Michigan Blue to Gold Star Mothers Inc., wants to erect a statue of a Gold Star mother at the Veteran’s Memorial Park at the Grand Traverse Commons.

“For years, after losing him, I had the support of my family and friends, but I didn’t have the support of other Gold Star families, and I think it would have made a difference,” Owen said.

“So often you hear the words, ‘I’m sorry for your loss.’ For me, sometimes those words weren’t enough to make a difference in my life.”

The group has already raised half of the $60,000 goal. They hope to have it installed by Sept. 24. A spaghetti dinner fundraiser will take place March 11 from 5pm to 8pm at the Cherryland VFW Hall on Veterans Drive in Traverse City.

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The other half, of course, is enjoying it.

Out on the shores of Bowers Harbor near Traverse City, The Boathouse’s version, as overseen by executive chef Jim Morse, is served up individually in a gleaming white ramekin with a cherry garnish. It’s perfect with a glass of crisp white wine and a winter sunset view from The Boathouse’s expansive windows overlooking West Bay. The Boathouse is located at 14039 Peninsula Drive, Traverse City. Call (231) 223-4030 or find them online at boathouseonwestbay.com. The dinner (and dessert, of course!) menu is served daily Monday–Sunday starting at 4pm; lunches will resume in May.

alice in wonderland Parallel 45 Theatre will perform the imaginative stage version of Alice in Wonderland made famous by Andre Gregory & the Manhattan Project, March 1–12 at the former InsideOut Gallery (229 Garland St.), Traverse City.

Five professional actors will enhance this story by utilizing a clowning style often referred to as French clown.

Performances are 7:30pm, Weds. – Sat., & 2pm, Sat. & Sun. Tickets, $20: parallel45.org.

Hit the Road to See Martin and Short Two of The Three Amigos are heading to Michigan for a musicalcomedy performance that blends standup comedy, buddy insults, goofy skits, and a healthy dose of bluegrass music.

Steve Martin and Martin Short, cast mates and real life pals, now perform a variety show including comedy and a segment featuring Photo by Steve Appleford Steve Martin’s band The Steep Canyon Rangers.

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BE THE PRESIDENT spectator by stephen tuttle Sigh. The President of the United States is a liar. There are politer ways to say it, but if he was your child you would have to take away his toys and make him go stand in the corner.

We begrudgingly accept that politicians exaggerate their accomplishments and minimize their failures. Most of the time they brush close enough to the truth to at least be able to defend their claims. What they don’t typically do is just make up stuff and then repeat the fabrications endlessly.

It isn’t so easy to keep track of President Trump’s various delusions in a weekly column because they spill out almost daily.

It’s safe to assume there will be more between the time this is written and when you read it.

So let’s review. Sometimes he just lies and sometimes his brain seems to process and then change the information it receives.

An example of the latter took place at an appearance in Melbourne, Florida, where he suggested there had been terrorist trouble in Sweden the night before. This was surprising news to the Swedes, since nothing happened other than many people,

itbart News, only 19 percent.

Trump also likes to talk about his “historic” electoral college victory, the biggest he says he was told, since Ronald Reagan.

This is a pretty easy thing to check. It wasn’t the biggest since Reagan, but it was nearly the smallest. George H.W. Bush had a bigger margin as did Bill Clinton twice and Barack Obama twice. Trump’s “historic” win was actually the 44th biggest.

Then, of course, there are his repeated claims he’d have won California if not for those millions of illegal voters, mostly illegal immigrants, who voted for Hillary Clinton. New Hampshire, too, if busloads of illegal voters hadn’t been shipped in from Massachusetts.

As we know, there is no evidence of either. None. Why in the world would someone here illegally risk felony convictions and deportation in order to vote? Those believing millions of illegal votes could be cast undetected have abandoned common sense and followed Alice down the rabbit hole.

Then there’s his non-stop assault on immigration, including repeated lies about refugees. They’re streaming in by

The Trump agenda, which he has every right to try to implement, gets totally lost in the blizzard of nonsense. His remarkably thin skin has him seeing enemies everywhere. mostly blonde, having a good time.

Trump later said he learned of Sweden’s problems from a Fox News show which, in fact, never claimed anything had happened in Sweden the previous night. That’s troubling.

While we’re on the subject of the media, we should mention the president’s ongoing attacks on any news organization reporting anything he doesn’t like. He calls those stories “fake news” and the organizations doing the reporting the “dishonest media.” He once actually said, in a tweet for everybody to see, that any negative polls are fake news.

He also likes to refer to the “failing” New York Times and Washington Post and, most alarmingly, said the media is the “enemy” of the country.

Fortunately we have some data. Both the Times and the Post have seen significant increases in readership and subscriptions, something for which Trump could have rightfully taken credit. But they aren’t failing; they’re doing the opposite of failing.

What we call the mainstream media is actually doing pretty well, too. The Pew Research Center, which is mostly self-funded so they aren’t being paid by anyone with a vested interest in the results, studies media credibility. The major networks (save one) and big city daily newspapers are trusted by about 60 percent of the public. Fox News is about 30 percent and Trump’s favorite, Bre-

the thousands, Trump says, with no vetting by anybody.

The reality is those claiming refugee status have a difficult road to come here.

They are all vetted, including FBI background checks and personal interviews.

On average, the process takes more than two years. And according to the Justice Department, refugees are about 30 times less likely to commit crimes than are natural-born U.S. citizens.

It’s all quite absurd.

Trump won the election but refuses to stop campaigning. He deserves a chance to govern but not by late night tweets and obsessing over perceived slights from which he should have recovered as he took the oath of office.

The Trump agenda, which he has every right to try to implement, gets totally lost in the blizzard of nonsense. His remarkably thin skin has him seeing enemies everywhere. While we wait for him to settle down, his instincts drag him off on another tangent followed by repeats of already disproven claims and new ones soon to be disproven.

Being an outsider shaking things up is fine; he earned that right back in November. He doesn’t even have to be “presidential.” But he does have to be the president.

Now would be a good time for him to connect with reality and start.

Crime & Rescue WOMAN FACES CHARGES IN DEATH A 58-year-old Manton woman supplied the drugs that killed a 24-yearold Kingsley man.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies investigated after Matthew William Peterson was found unresponsive at a Paradise Township home in May 2016.

A medical examiner ruled Peterson’s death accidental and found it was caused by an overdose of the prescription drugs Oxycodone and Alprazolam.

Investigators determined the drugs were supplied by Lucinda Marie Crouse, who faces charges of delivery of a controlled substance.

Crouse faces charges in Wexford County, where investigators believe the drugs were delivered.

MAN ACCUSED OF FILMING GIRLS A one-time youth pastor was arrested for recording videos of teenage girls.

Boyne City Police arrested the 49-year-old man after one of the girls found a video recorder set up in a bathroom and informed her parents, who called police, Chief Jeff Gaither said in a press release issued Feb. 22.

The girls, ages 15 and 18, were staying at the man’s house with their parents and siblings; the man had allegedly set up a video recorder where girls took showers, Gaither said.

There were recordings of both girls found on the device, he said. The girls and their family have known the suspect for many years; he once served as their youth pastor at a downstate church.

FAMILY INJURED IN PLOW TRUCK CRASH A downstate family suffered injuries when their pickup collided with a Kalkaska County snow plow truck.

A 28-year-old man, 25-year-old woman and three-year-old child, all from Niles, were treated at the scene, Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies said.

Police were called to US-131 and Supply Road at 10:08pm Feb. 19.

The family was headed south in a 2015 Chevy Silverado when the vehicle was struck by a plow truck that was crossing the highway from Supply Road to Boardman Road. The pickup suffered extensive damage but the Niles residents suffered only minor injuries.

REPLACEMENT DRIVER ARRESTED State police arrested a woman for drunk driving with a high blood alcohol content after she had arrived to help a friend who was in trouble with the law.

Troopers made a traffic stop in Missaukee County Feb. 22 and discovered the driver had a suspended license, Sgt. David Johnson said. The woman was issued an appearance ticket and told she would be allowed to leave if a licensed driver drove her home.

The woman called a friend and when the friend arrived to pick her up, troopers noticed “a strong odor of intoxicants.”

The woman admitted to drinking “a couple of beers,” but when checked, police determined she’d had more than that. The woman was taken to the Missaukee County jail for violating the state’s “super drunk” law, meaning she had a blood alcohol content above .17.

STANDOFF ENDS PEACEFULLY A 43-year-old man surrendered peacefully after an hours-long standoff with Traverse City Police.

Police were called at 7:30pm Feb. 19 by the man’s father, who said his son was suicidal, possibly on drugs, and that he had fallen “off the

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wagon.” The father told police his son had a pistol and had threatened to shoot himself.

The father, who called from his home in Garfield Township, also told dispatchers that his son – who was at a home on Santo Street with his mother, who suffers from dementia – promised to kill himself if police were called and said “if he hears sirens at all or if anyone knocks on the door he will shoot himself.”

Officers staged away from the residence and a sergeant called the distraught man, who repeated his threat to kill himself. The Northwestern Michigan Mutual Aid Emergency Response Team was activated along with a Traverse City Police hostage negotiator.

After extensive negotiation, the man agreed to surrender at 3am and voluntarily left his residence.

The man was taken to Munson Medical Center for evaluation and his mother was turned over to family members.

PICKUP BROADSIDES JEEP A teenager was injured when she pulled into traffic on a rural Leelanau County road.

The 17-year-old stopped at the intersection of Bugai and Hoxie roads Feb. 18 at 10:13pm and then pulled into the intersection without seeing a car approaching on Bugai, Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said.

A 41-year-old Traverse City woman who was driving a Dodge pickup broadsided the teen’s Jeep Liberty. The girl was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. She was also cited for failure to yield.

CAR ABANDONED AFTER CRASH Police were called when a grey Pontiac Grand Prix was found crashed down an embankment in the woods near Northport.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called Feb. 15 at 7:55am and they found the vehicle abandoned off of East Melkild Road near North Nelson Road.

Deputies found the driver at a home nearby.

The 18-year-old Northport woman said the crash happened the day before when she swerved to avoid a deer. She said she didn’t report the crash because her driver’s license is expired.

The woman was cited for failure to report the crash.

Both women were taken to Munson Medical Center to be treated for smoke inhalation. The younger woman also suffered severe burns.

KDPS Sgt. Blake Huff and Deputy Ben Hawkins were treated for smoke inhalation at Kalkaska Memorial Hospital.

The cause of the fire was unknown.

RESCUERS SAVE WOMEN FROM FIRE Rescuers helped two people and two dogs escape a middle-of-the-night house fire in Kalkaska.

Village of Kalkaska Department of Public Safety officers and Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a fire Feb. 22 at 12:36am on Division Street.

They helped 63-year-old Grace Tester and two dogs out of the house and learned that Tester’s 50-year-old paraplegic daughter-in-law remained inside.

Officers crawled through flames and under smoke and reached Mary Jo Tester’s foot; they dragged the woman out of the house to paramedics who were standing by, Lt. Glenn Artress said.

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TWO INJURED IN CRASH Two people were injured when a 74-year-old Rapid City woman pulled in front of another car on M-72 in Acme Township.

The woman attempted to make a left turn from Mt. Hope Road at 1:30pm Feb. 18 and she drove into the path of a vehicle driven by a 40-year-old Kalkaska man.

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STREET STYLE U-S-A! U-S-A!

Although discouraging the marriage of children in developing nations has been U.S. foreign policy for years, a data-collecting watchdog group in America disclosed in February that 27 U.S. states have no minimum marriage ages and estimates that an average of almost 25,000 children age 15 and under are permitted to marry every year (“estimates” because some states do not keep records by age).

Child marriage is often allowed in the U.S. if parents approve, although no such exemption is made in foreign policy, largely to curb developing nations’ “family honor” marriages -- which often wreck girls’ chances for selfactualizing. (However, “family honor” is still, in some states, the basis for allowing U.S. child marriages, such as with “shotgun” weddings.)

Compelling Explanations

Creative: (1) Glenn Schloeffel, vice president of the Central Bucks school board in a Philadelphia suburb, recommended that science books be viewed skeptically on “climate change” because teenage “depression” rates have been increasing. Surely, he said, one factor depressing students is reading all that alarming climate-change data. (2) Seattle’s Real Estate Services rental agency has informed the family of the late Dennis Hanel that it would not return Hanel’s security deposit following his January death because Hanel had not given the lease-required “notice” giving up his apartment. (He had cancer, but died of a heart attack. Washington state law requires only that the landlord provide an explanation why it is keeping the deposit.)

Runaway Math

-- (1) John Haskew, who told investigators that he was “self-taught on the banking industry,” evidently thought he might succeed making bogus wire transfers to himself from a large (unidentified) national bank, in the amount of $7 billion. He pleaded guilty in February in Lakeland, Florida. (He said he thought he “deserved” the money.) (2) Katherine Kempson, 49, deciding to pay “cash” for a $1.2 million home, forged (according to York County, Pennsylvania, deputies) a “proof of funds” letter from the Members 1st credit union. Home sales are, of course, highly regulated formalities, and several attempted “closings” were halted when her money kept not showing up. One deputy told a reporter, “I’m guessing that she probably didn’t think it through.”

-- The highest bail amount ever ordered in America -- $4 billion for murder suspect Antonio Willis -- was briefly in play in Killeen, Texas, in February, set by Bell County’s elected Justice of the Peace Claudia Brown. Bail was reduced 10 days later to $150,000 by a district court judge, prompting Brown to acknowledge that she set the “$4 billion” to call attention to Texas’ lack of bail standards, which especially punishes indigent arrestees with little hope of raising even modest amounts when accused of minor crimes.

Wait, What?

-- Researchers including Rice University biochemist John Olson revealed in a February journal article that one reason a man avoided anemia even though he had a gene mutation that weakened his hemoglobin was because he has been a tobacco smoker -- that the carbon monoxide from smoke had been therapeutic.

His daughter, with the same gene mutation, did develop anemia since she never smoked

(although Olson suggested other ways besides smoking to strengthen hemoglobin, such as by massive vitamin C).

-- Several death-penalty states continue to be frustrated by whether their lethal-injection “cocktails” make death so painful as to be unconstitutionally “cruel,” and Arizona’s latest “solution,” announced as a Department of Corrections protocol, is for the condemned to supply their own (presumably less unpleasant) drugs. (There was immediate objection, noting that such drugs might only be available by black market -- and questioning whether the government can legally force someone to kill himself.)

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People With Underdeveloped Consciences

(1) Just before Christmas, Tammy Strickland, 38, was arrested in Polk County, Florida, and charged with stealing 100 toys from a Toys for Tots collection box. (2) In February, thieves unbolted and stole a PlayStation from the children’s cancer ward at Wellington Hospital in New Zealand. (3) Judith Permar, 56, who was found dead, stuck in a clothing donation drop-off box in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, in February (a result, police said, of trying to “steal” items), had driven to the box in her Hummer.

Recent Alarming Headlines

“America’s Top Fortune Cookie Writer Is Quitting Because of Writer’s Block” (Time magazine, 2-3-2017). “Vaginal Pain Helps Exonerate Man Accused of Murder” (Miami Herald, 2-8-2017) (emergency medical technicians treating his sister corroborated his alibi). “Dresden Protest Against AntiIslam Pegida Group Banned Over Snowball Fight Fears” (The Independent (London), 1-24-2017) (previously in Dresden, Germany, religious-freedom demonstrators chose “tossing snowballs” as appropriate for ridiculing Pegida).

Phallic News From Overseas

(1) Earlier, He Would Have Been Worshipped: In February, doctors at Narayana Health City in Bangalore, India, were successful in a five-hour, 20-specialist surgery normalizing an infant born with the chromosomal abnormality “polymelia” -- which resulted in four legs and two penises. Doctors praised the parents, from rural Puladinni village, for recognizing the issue as “medical” and not as “superstition.” (2) In February, police in southern Bangladesh arrested a family that used a fake penis to convince neighbors that the family had the powers of genies (“djinns”).

The villagers had known the family had a girl, but overnight the genies had “changed” her into a “boy,” thus frightening the villagers into making offerings to the family.

Undignified Deaths

(1) Unhappy Ending: Clifford Jones, 58, was killed in a one-vehicle crash in Detroit in January, having lost control of his car because, according to Michigan State Police, he was distracted by watching pornography on his cellphone. He was also not wearing pants.

(2) Leslie Ray Charping, 75, of Galveston, Texas, lived “much longer than he deserved,” according to his daughter, in a widely shared obituary in February, in a life that “served no obvious purpose.” The death notice referenced his “bad parenting” and “being generally offensive,” and closed with “Leslie’s passing proves that evil does in fact die.”

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Mama Lu’s

Kicking Mexican Street Tacos up a Notch

By Janice Binkert The names John Larson and Adrienne Brunette don’t exactly have a Hispanic-sounding ring, and the fact that Larson grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and Brunette in Suttons Bay puts them both far from Mexico, but there’s nonetheless a legitimate background to the couple’s “modern-day taco shop” restaurant theme. The venture is named for Larson’s 94-year-old maternal great-grandmother, Maria Luisa Gonzalez, affectionately called Mama Lu, who has shared her cultural heritage with Larson his entire life and instilled in him a love of cooking and passion for discovering new tastes and techniques.

THE CULINARY JOURNEY BEGINS

“As far back as I can remember, I spent my summers with my mother’s side of the family down in Texas and New Mexico,” said Larson.

“That region was my second home.” Mama Lu was a great cook, and Larson was usually at her side during his extended visits to El Paso. “She often took me over to Mexico, and she helped me understand Mexican food – at least the kind that was native to both sides of that border area.”

Back home in the Poconos after his visits, Larson continued to pursue his interest in cooking. “I spent half my day in high school and half in the local vocational school learning culinary arts,” he said. The next stop on his professional journey was the prestigious French Culinary Institute in New York City.

“There were a lot of great classically trained French chefs teaching us,” said Larson, “and I just built on that French ‘technique, technique, technique’ mentality.” After graduating, he continued his training working at top restaurants across the country.

Meanwhile, Brunette was pursuing her own path in the food and beverage industry at Michigan State University, where she earned a hospitality business degree. She, too, went on to travel and work in several states, acquiring

additional skills and experience along the way.

She met Larson in Florida, and they eventually married and began working together in San Diego and Chicago.

MARKET ORIENTED

“We both knew we wanted to open our own restaurant,” said Larson. “The main motivation to do it here – besides the fact that this area was home for Adrienne – was the market. We were living in Chicago, and I spent a year in Traverse City doing my own market study before we decided to move. I was amazed at the number of people downtown in the summer. I said to myself, ‘Wow, there’s so much pedestrian traffic walking by these doors.’ Then I asked myself, ‘What does Traverse City not have that we’ve seen in other markets?’ Once that’s defined, you introduce something new. That’s one of the reasons we’ve been so successful – there isn’t anybody else here doing what we’re trying to do.”

The couple opened Mama Lu’s in May, 2016, and Traverse City welcomed the restaurant with open arms and hungry mouths. “We have such a great local clientele, and we’re so grateful,” said Larson. “We couldn’t be happier to be in Traverse City. Without a doubt, it’s helped that I have a solid culinary background and that Adrienne has a solid restaurant finance and accounting background. She’s our operations manager – the CFO, if you will. She keeps the lights on.”

Larson said that while the flavor profiles and ingredients he incorporates at Mama Lu’s are Mexican in origin, he employs French cooking techniques. “I’m always thinking, ‘How can I elevate this dish? How can I put a fun spin on it, lighten it up, make it healthier?’ A lot of labor and love goes on back there in the kitchen, but because it’s in the simple format of a tortilla, you might wonder, ‘Why is this taco so good?’ For me, it’s that strong technical cooking skill that sets us apart from other places.”

¡COMAMOS! (LET’S EAT!)

Tacos are definitely the main event on

Mama Lu’s menu. From Panza (made with crispy pork belly, salsa negra, pickled jicama and apple plus pork rinds) to Pollo (made with achiote-spiced chicken, queso fresco, crispy chicken skin, pickled red onion and jalapeño) to Vegetal (made with roasted squash, quinoa, spicy chipotle, crispy Brussels sprouts and pomegranate), all dishes are made to order with freshly hand-pressed corn tortillas like those used in authentic Mexican street food.

And then there’s Pescado (made with fried whitefish, orange-jicama slaw, mint, house hot sauce and avocado crema). “That can never go,” said Larson. “We would have a revolt. It’s our number one seller.” Non-taco items that have earned avid fans include Street Corn (made with lime mayo and chile cotija cheese) and Churros (deep-fried éclair dough with cinnamon sugar and Mexican chocolate sauce).

Craving a margarita? No hay problema!

The shelf on the wall behind the bar boasts 10 different bottles in the three major styles – añejo, reposado and blanco – as well as three different mezcals. Beer, wine and intriguing cocktails like the Salty Chihuahua as well as zero proof beverages round out the bar menu.

If you can’t dine in, there’s always the takeout Taco Kit (“for 5 or 500 people” as the restaurant’s website proclaims). “People love it,” said Larson. “We have these custom boxes made by GT Containers, so it’s packaged perfectly and looks beautiful. I don’t even know how many of those we sold on Super Bowl Sunday – it was insane.”

So what is “modern” about Mama Lu’s “modern-day taco shop”? Larson explained, “On the kitchen side, we are progressive with flavors, textures, temperatures and presentation. We take a lot of these rich meats and break them down with pickled things, add something crunchy and something cooling on almost every dish and pay attention to color contrast.

The result is a well- composed plate with a lot of different elements that enhance the overall eating experience.” As for the dining room, it’s a

combination of different elements, too, with the smooth refined bar and contemporary lighting juxtaposed with the colorful rough texture of the walls and the original dark wood floors.

Approaching the first anniversary of Mama Lu’s, Larson said the experience has been everything he and his wife expected and more. “I really enjoy the challenges of running the business. It keeps my mind stimulated. I go home every night and I’m tired, but I know why I’m tired. I’ve worked hard, and I can go to sleep knowing I did the best I could and that I can look forward to new challenges tomorrow.”

Mama Lu’s is located at 149 East Front Street in Traverse City and is open daily 11am–11pm year round. Curbside pickup is available in the alley behind the restaurant between Grandview Parkway and Front Street. For more information, visit mamalustc.com, email info@mamalustc.com or call (231) 943-2793. Price rating: $

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Building A Better

BENZIE How one group’s work could make a world of difference for county residents

Richard Robb presides over an Advocates for Benzie County meeting at the governmental center in Beulah in January.

By Patrick Sullivan Nadine LaMont works, on average, three jobs to survive in Benzie County.

Over the decades, she’s had as many as six housekeeping and waitressing jobs at one time. Now she’s decided it’s too hard to make ends meet in northern Michigan. She wants to move back to Arizona, where she lived a couple of years ago, and where she could support herself with just one full-time job.

“I’m actually thinking of moving to Arizona permanently,” said the grandmother of four. “The cost of living out there is much better.”

Benzie County is two worlds in one place. One world is populated by well-off retirees or part-time summer residents who live on the lake and eat expensive meals at restaurants. The other world consists of workers who staff those restaurants and clean those homes, people who live in trailers or ramshackle houses or even the woods.

Life for these working people in recent years has become such a struggle that some of those well-off retirees have decided to do something about it. For the last year, they’ve been trying to figure out how to make life better for everyone in Benzie County.

LIVING IN THE WOODS The group called Advocates for Benzie County began at a meeting of the Sunrise Rotary in Beulah when Richard Robb and a friend listened to a speaker talk about rural homelessness. The retired automotive executive found himself intrigued by a virtually invisible problem – Benzie County’s homeless living in the woods.

“Afterwards, we looked at each other and said, ‘We’ve got to learn more about this,’” Robb said. “It’s not obvious. We don’t have people walking around the streets like you do in Traverse City or in a big city.”

Robb’s quest for a better understanding

took him to a homeless shelter in Cadillac jobs for themselves, and they decided to where a manager told him that 70 percent of open up membership to anyone who was the people they served suffered from mental interested. By the end of the year, there were illness or addiction; the other 30 percent 40 members. By Feb. 15, at a forum at which slipped into homelessness because they’d they hoped to reach some of the people been living in poverty and had a setback that they wanted to help by offering lasagna cost them their homes. Robb decided there and childcare during the meeting, nearly a had to be something that could be done for hundred individuals had joined the cause. that 30 percent.

He learned that many HOW TO HEAT A HOUSE people in Benzie County, lived in Arizona “For me, this is for Lamont even families, live in the a year before coming woods. They are fine eight back two years ago to Benzie the first time months of the year. In the County, where she’d raised winter, some band together three sons. since my kids and move into a trailer or Her story embodies pile into a house to share were little that I the struggle even a hardheating costs. They depend working person can face in haven’t worked the local economy. Today, on Benzie Area Christian Neighbors (BACN) or works at the Bayview three jobs,” she she other charities for food.

Grille and manages the They live in a poverty cleaning crew at Serendipity said. “When cycle that’s been going House in Frankfort. She has on for generations, Robb secure housing, thanks to I go back to determined, and nothing the large house she lives in was being done about it and a rotating number of Arizona, I can because no one was really housemates in Bear Lake. live on one.” trying to understand the She’s had as many as five roots of the problem or housemates, but that number trying to come up with solutions. fluctuates as people struggle to pay their He and a group of like-minded folks – bills.

John Parkins, Tim Bannister, Gerald Wilgus “Oh my gosh, the cost of living here is and Peter and Jill Brown – decided to so high. I mean, we pay $700 a month, and organize with a mission “to promote a better when we started there were six of us and quality of life for all the residents of Benzie now we’re at four,” she said. “We were at five County.” a month ago and the fifth person didn’t pay They hosted a meeting in January his rent, so he had to leave.” of 2016 and asked every local expert or Having fewer housemates increases the decision maker they could think of to burden for those who remain to pay for come. That first forum led to sub-topics that electricity, satellite, Internet and garbage spurred more meetings. They’ve since talked removal. about housing, employment, healthcare, Lamont said rents in northern Michigan education, infrastructure and childcare. are comparable to Arizona, but other things

By October, Robb said, the original cost a lot more. members realized they’d created full-time “There’s a farmer’s market down there

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[in Arizona], and I went and bought all these fruits and vegetables. They cost $25,” she said. “That same amount of fruits and vegetables, if I were to buy it up here, would be a hundred bucks or more.”

On top of that, houses must be heated in northern Michigan winters, and that is a crushing blow.

The propane bill at Lamont’s house this season topped $1,000 by early February. To keep the bill low, she and her housemates have bought 19 cords of wood since October to use for heating.

“The thing back here is work ethic; you have to have a good work ethic,” she said. “It costs a fortune to live here. You gotta be a go-getter. You gotta work.”

LaMont is currently taking an off-season breath. She’s working just two jobs, a rarity for her, and she looks forward to having more free time when she gets back to Arizona.

“For me, this is the first time since my kids were little that I haven’t worked three jobs,” she said. “When I go back to Arizona, I can live on one.”

CHILDREN WHO GOT AWAY The Advocates wants to create reasons for people to stay in Benzie County.

Lori Hill raised three children here.

Now adults, they’ve all moved away, but Hill worries about the kids who can’t leave.

“What do we do for the ones who don’t go away?” she said.

Hill believes there needs to be more opportunities in high school for vocational training, but state requirements and tight budgets pose challenges to schools that want to add computer drafting or construction trades programs.

“The local schools, to a certain extent, their hands are tied,” Hill said. “We are required to follow the type of curriculum the state mandates.”

Hill’s children were able to attend college

and move someplace where it’s easier to make a living. Her daughters, ages 26 and 18, live together in Utah and work in the ski industry; a 23-year-old son lives in Grand Rapids. She’s also got a 16-year-old daughter, Adrianne, who is disabled and lives at home.

Hill, who works in real estate and has served on the Benzie Central school board and the county planning commission, said the county struggles with cyclical poverty.

She noted that children raised in poverty seem destined to raise their own children in poverty.

“You see the people around you make bad choices, and you make bad choices.

You see your parents make bad choices, but you don’t know they’re bad choices because you’re a little kid,” Hill said.

She knows people on both sides of the county’s wealth gap, and she said there are good people on both sides. She believes things need to change in order for the poor to have more opportunities.

Hill said the Advocates is made up of good people who have decided to do something for their adopted home, but she said she’s also noticed an entrenched desire on the part of some of the other wealthy transplants against the change and growth it would take to create opportunities.

“Some of the lake people don’t want Benzie County to change. They don’t want to see growth,” Hill said. “It’s lovely and they want it to stay that way – that’s why they came. I’m not naming names, and I’m not even making a value judgment.”

THE CHILDCARE DILEMMA Hill’s experience as a mother showed her just how difficult it is to raise kids in a rural setting with little childcare available. It’s another piece of the puzzle that keeps people in poverty.

“When I first moved here, I said, ‘What do people do for childcare?’ Because there was no childcare available in the county,” she said. “And they said, ‘Well, everybody has relatives.’ ‘Well, what if you don’t have relatives?’” I asked. “And they just looked at me and said, ‘We don’t know.’”

Hill had a college education and professional career so she got by, but she knows a lot of people who struggle.

Meredith McNabb is expecting her fourth child in April, and she and her longterm boyfriend work full time.

McNabb is lucky — she works for her parents’ printing business in Frankfort and gets flexible hours in order to take care of her children, ages 4, 7 and 11.

But her understanding of the challenges posed by the county’s lack of childcare prompted her to get involved with the Advocates, which hopes to convince large employers to invest in childcare.

When her first child was born, McNabb was able to bring her to work for the first three years, until a spot opened up at the Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital daycare in Frankfort. The Munson satellite offers some spaces to children of people who don’t work at the hospital.

This enabled McNabb to place her next two children on the waiting list, and they received spots in the daycare at younger ages.

She understands the daycare is full now and that there may not be space available when her fourth child is born.

McNabb said that’s tough news because Paul Oliver’s is the only daycare in town.

“There are a couple of other women who have done it at times out of their homes, but that is the only facility available,” she said.

McNabb said the service jobs that are most common in Benzie cannot support childcare. A good job might pay $12 or $14 an hour. At a minimum of $3 per hour per child, that cuts into income fast.

Jeanne Peters and Darlene Knudsen at a meeting about affordable housing hosted by the Advocates for Benzie County at Platte River Elementary in Honor Feb. 15.

“If you have more than one child, there’s really no point in leaving home,” she said.

Her father, Bob McNabb, also joined the Advocates and now heads the childcare task force.

“I think the Advocates is the most hopeful thing I’ve seen occur in Benzie County in 10 or 15 years,” he said. “It’s trying to get people together in one room and talk about what they do and what the problems are and how to fix them.”

LACK OF HOUSING Lack of childcare is a small piece of the problem, Meredith McNabb said.

Everything always comes back to lack of affordable housing. McNabb is also lucky on that end – she purchased a foreclosure in Frankfort during the recession and today she lives in an affordable house, but for lots of people looking for housing today, there are no houses in their price range and the rents have gotten too high.

“It’s not only lower income housing; it’s also just kind of middle income housing,” McNabb said. “We’re in an area where you’re looking for housing and there are $350,000 or $250,000 houses, but in that $175,000 range that some people would be able to afford, [the houses are] just not out there.”

On top of that, many working people don’t qualify for subsidized housing. That leaves a scant few rental units under $700 per month, even for one-bedroom homes.

“We’ve got a school that’s seeing enrollment dwindling because people just can’t afford to live here,” she said.

Darlene Knudsen spends weekdays volunteering at the Gathering Place, a senior center in Honor. She clears tables and helps people who need help getting their meals. Knudsen, 65, is struggling to get into subsidized housing. The Advocates has identified a lack of decent senior housing as another critical concern.

After her husband died eight years ago, Knudsen moved in with her son and daughter-in-law into a small house where she pays rent but has no time to herself.

“It’s not a very good situation,” she said.

“I’m just not happy where I am. I want to be on my own.”

Knudsen resolved to find her own place, but she cannot believe how difficult the process is.

“When I applied for housing, no one told me it took up to a year,” she said. She said she’s been on a waiting list for nine months, and in that time, she’s moved from 54th to 38th on the list.

Douglas Durand, executive director of Benzie Senior Services, said Knudsen’s experience is normal. When seniors need to get into subsidized housing, they have to wait because there are not a lot of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) units available.

NATURAL GAS FOR THOMPSONVILLE? Part of the reason there’s so little affordable housing is that there’s no one around to build it, a consequence of vocational programs being cut in the county’s high schools a decade ago.

Another reason involves infrastructure and the fact that there are few places where developers could build HUD developments even if they wanted to. Those developments require water and sewer hookups, and the economics of operating the projects require access to natural gas because propane costs too much, Durand said.

Frankfort is the only place in the county where a new HUD development could currently be built. Thompsonville has water but no sewer or natural gas. Honor has a sewer but lacks water hookups.

Kay Bond, the treasurer of the Advocates and chairperson of the housing committee, joined the group in October. Benzie County residents are literally caught in the income inequality squeeze, she said.

Bond understands how desperate some folks are. For six years, she ran Benzie Area Christian Neighbors, which she took from a fledgling charity with no income to a bustling nonprofit with an annual revenue of $300,000. Today the organization is a critical safety net for the poor.

She said increasing affordable housing

will require creative solutions.

The Advocates has looked to Jackson Hole, WY., a resort town with similar dynamics, where a nonprofit launched a workforce housing “land bank” that owns land and rents or sells housing with restrictions to ensure it remains affordable.

A second solution could be figuring out how to get natural gas to Thompsonville, an underdeveloped, partially abandoned town. It has some of the infrastructure it needs to support widespread development like water and platted neighborhoods, and the township is planning to install a sewer system. The community simply needs natural gas.

“What a great place for workforce housing, and it’s right around the corner from our largest employer [Crystal Mountain],” Bond said.

STANDING ROOM ONLY At an Advocates meeting about healthcare held Jan. 18, every seat in the Benzie County Board of Commissioners chambers filled up and more seats had to be brought in as people stood at the back to listen.

After a year of forums on topics like healthcare, education, employment, infrastructure and housing, the meetings are becoming more specialized and the movement is gaining momentum.

Robb said the Advocates is in this for the long haul and that it might take a decade to see big changes occur.

“It’s an aggressive thing, but it’s not, ‘We’re going to solve this tomorrow,’” he said. “We want to be sure we’re not just a bunch of old white guys with beards trying to push something on people we think are in trouble.”

Not everyone agrees with the direction the Advocates has taken. Founding member Wilgus said he dropped out because he believes low wages, not lack of affordable housing, is the problem.

“We have a problem of labor affordability, with employers unwilling to provide adequate compensation,” he said.

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DOWNTOWN

TRAVERSE CITY

IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD MARCH MADNESS!

By Kristi Kates

6 Oscar Noms!

H

ey, music fan – got a plan for your Sundays in March? You do now – Sleder’s in Traverse City is celebrating its March Madness month of music with shows every Sunday so you can get a good solid dose of great tunes right before starting another work week. Sleder’s Seamus Shinners is an expert at presenting performers; he also helms the venue’s On the Porch concert series, which started way back in 1998. “These shows will hopefully lift the spirits of everyone, as we all get slowed down by the winter doldrums,” Shinners said. He added, “Within all these March Madness performers is a common thread – community. It’s sharing the music with an audience in a way that makes the audience feel part of the moment.” Here’s a sneak peek at Sleder’s March Madness schedule:

SUNDAY 1:30 • 4:30 PM MONDAY 1:30 • 4:30 • 7:30 PM TUESDAY - THURSDAY 12:45 • 3:30 • 6:15 • 8:45 PM •••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••

ACADEMY AWARDS PARTY

DRIFTWOOD – March 5 From Binghamton in upstate New York hails this melting pot of Americana music in which you’ll hear hints of folk, country, oldtime ballads, punk and rock, depending on what the songs require.

“Driftwood has a solid foundation in the tradition of Americana and roots music,” Shinners said. Dan, Joe, Joey and Claire expand upon that foundation with vintage instruments and plenty of attitude, equipping their stage performances with the detailed storytelling that runs through classic Driftwood songs like “Before I Rust,” “The Carburetor and the Steam Engine” and “High School Paycheck”; those tunes will be joined onstage by songs from the band’s new album City Lights, including fan favorites “Lemonade” (not to be confused with anything Beyonce’s ever done) and “Talkin’.”

For more information, visit driftwoodtheband.com.

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Tickets $15/$10 Members - Broadcast Starts at 8:30 pm

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FRIDAY 11 PM - Friday Night Flicks $3 or 2 for $5 Day of the Dude Celebration w/Workshop Brewing in the House!

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4 Oscar Noms!

SUNDAY - THURSDAY 1 • 4 • 7 PM 231-947-4800

THE WAYDOWN WANDERERS (with Ghost of Paul Revere) – March 12 Called “a folk band with boy-band appeal,” The Waydown Wanderers is a quickly-rising quintet that’s only been around for three years but already has a dedicated fan base. On the surface, the band is all about the bluegrass, and that genre certainly is a pivotal and influential one for this Illinois outfit, but individual influences include everything from rock and spoken word to jazz and hiphop. You’ll also be impressed by how bandmates juggle an equally wide array of instruments, including guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, drums and percussion. “The Wanderers really pushes the creative envelope with both songs and composition,” said Shinners. And keep an eye out around town, too; the band is known for performing impromptu “restSTOMPS,” free acoustic sets at area rest stops along its tour route. Maine holler-folk band Ghost of Paul Revere will appear as opening act.

For more information, visit thewaydownwanderers.com and ghostofpaulrevere.com.

THE OUTSIDE TRACK – March 19 The Outside Track’s performances include both music and dancing, specifically the step dancing so familiar to Celtic music fans, and that combo has proved a big success, as the group has already won several awards (including Best Group at the LiveIreland Music Awards) and critics’ prizes. The band’s name hardly indicates just how “outside” it is. With members from Minnesota, British Columbia, Scotland, Ireland and Germany, it’s a wonder band members can figure out how to get together to rehearse. The band’s Norah Rendell once jokingly called The Outside Track a “homeless band.” Still, they do just fine, thank you, with their contemporaryCeltic fusion style complementing the music with orderly chaos as the dancing swirls around to meet up with those Highland rhythms.

“It’s a Celtic group that has found its own groove with a fine mix of Scots, Irish and Cape Breton sounds,” Shinners said.

For more information, visit theoutsidetrack.com.

Traverse CiTy

231-929-3200 • 4952 Skyview Ct.

Charlevoix

231-237-0955 • 106 E. Garfield Ave.

www.schulzortho.com

BILL STAINES – March 26 Winding up the March Madness series is Bill Staines, the New Hampshire singer-songwriter who’s seen his songs recorded by a wide range of his musical peers, among them Peter, Paul and Mary, Nanci Griffith, The Highwaymen and Mason Williams. Staines is a recording standout on his own merits as well. He’s put out 22 albums to date and has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion and Mountain Stage as well as hundreds of other stages; he performs about 200 shows a year, drawing crowds with his classic sound and folksy presentation. “He remains the master of traditional folk. His songs are timeless, familiar and reassuring,” said Shinners.

For more information, visit acousticmusic.com.

For more information on the above March Madness shows, visit sleders.com or call (231) 947-9213. All shows begin at 4pm. Sleder’s is located at 717 Randolph in Traverse City

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Breaking Down the Music!

Your 2017 Spring Break Destinations

By Kristi Kates Every year, spring break offers a welcome escape for students and an equally good excuse for everyone else to abandon their regular winter routines and take a vacation.

For many music fans, the very best vacations include plenty of live tunes. Thanks to some savvy festival organizers, many of those tunes can be heard each year at major music festivals specially timed to coincide with the season. Let’s break down what’s happening for 2017 so you can choose where to rock your spring break.

Big Ears: March 23–26 Bringing together several generations of musicians and artists for a wide view of music and entertainment, Big Ears starts with live music performances and sifts in a vast array of other entertaining presentations from art installations and interactive workshops to talks and lectures, film screenings and surprise collaborations between performers.

It all takes place in the relatively close environs of Knoxville, Tenn., about a day’s road trip from northern Michigan.

Performing: Tortoise, The Quavers, Nils Økland, Supersilent Theater of Voices, Matmos, Joan Shelley, Glenn Kotche, Horse Lords, The Magnetic Fields, Colin Stetson For tickets and more information: bigearsfestival.com Savannah Music Festival: March 23–April 8 This is a great choice if your spring break lasts a little longer than most. A two-week celebration of the musical arts, this lengthy festival crosses genres and venues to allow for days of wandering through Savannah, Ga., with music around every corner. If you prefer your tunes on the more refined side, this is a good choice. Amidst the edgy, modern rock sounds of the Avetts and the Watsons, you’ll also find world music, blues, Cajun, classical and ballet performances.

Performing: The Avett Brothers, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, Richard Thompson, Kolachi, Hiss Golden Messenger, Travelin’ McCourys, Jeff Austin, Parker Millsap, Lurrie Bell, Patrick Watson For tickets and more information: savannahmusicfestival.org Beyond Wonderland: March 24–25 Taking over San Bernadino, Cal’s., NOS Events Center with a vibrant and unique cast of characters is this heavily themed festival that works to take attendees to a completely different visual world through musical performances, costumed guides and endless art installations. Everything takes on a mystical twist at this fest, including stage names such as The Aquarium, Upside-Down House and The Outer Realm, and there’s no shortage of dance floor space at this electronica-focused event, either.

Performing: Diplo, Astrix, Dieselboy, Martin Solveig, Redlight, Paul Van Dyk, Markus Schulz, Liquid Soul, MC Dino, Craig Williams For tickets and more information: beyondwonderland.com Ultra Miami: March 24–26 Already a favorite destination of northern Michigan spring breakers, Ultra Miami also plays host to a massive EDM/ electronica festival this time of year that attracts a wildly international crowd. This fest always delivers stacks of memorable dance floor moments and major label EDM

performers, all presented beneath the hot Florida sun and in trendy late-night venues that crank up the volume until dawn. If your biggest goal for spring break (other than the music, of course) is to get away from the cold weather, this is your spot.

Performing: Justice, Major Lazer, David Guetta, The Prodigy, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, Tiesto, Carl Cox, Afrojack, Underworld For tickets and more information: ultramusicfestival.com Fool’s Paradise: March 31–April 1 Also in Florida but a little further north in St. Augustine is this fest that’s anything but foolish for fans of roots music, funk rock and jam bands. Just steps from the water, you’ll find plenty of long-form concert performances, musical workshops and local excursions led by musicians and other guides. Additional activities include yoga and late-night parties hosted by some of the fest’s main stage artists and other special guests.

Performing: Lettuce, Joe Russo, Manic Science, Antwaun Stanley, The Main Squeeze, Dumpstaphunk, Fools for Funk, The Motet, The Floozies, Oteil Burbridge For tickets and more information: foolsparadisefl.com Winter Wondergrass: March 31–April 2 Those who are perfectly fine with winter’s snow and ice but just want a little change of scenery might want to head to Lake Tahoe in Squaw Valley, Cal., for this bluegrass-heavy fest that features some of the best-known names of the genre. Many performers will be familiar to northern Michiganians, thanks to their repeat performances at Michigan’s own Electric Forest Festival. A plethora of jam bands rounds out the offerings along with a focus on sustainability and ample support of local arts, food vendors and California craft brews and wines.

Performing: Greensky Bluegrass, Peter Rowan, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Infamous Stringdusters, Leftover Salmon, Dustbowl Revival, Brad Parsons, Grant Farm, The Good Bad, Everyone Orchestra For tickets and more information: winterwondergrasstahoe.com

Freedom 2017!

When Is Your School’s Spring Break?

Mackinaw City Public Schools: March 27–March 31 Harbor Springs Public Schools: March 24–April 4 Public Schools of Petoskey: March 24–April 4 North Central Michigan College (Petoskey): March 27–March 31 Boyne City School District: March 24–April 4 Charlevoix Public Schools: March 24–April 3 Gaylord Community Schools: March 27–April 3 Traverse City Area Public Schools: March 24–April 3 Northwestern Michigan College (Traverse City): March 27–April 2 Cadillac Area Schools: March 27–April 3

WEDNESDAY MARCH 1 • 5-7PM Take a stroll through The Village The Village at Grand Traverse Commons THE MERCATO PRIZES INCLUDE: Two lucky attendees will win $100 Village gift baskets

FEATURING FOOD FROM Cuppa Joe, MI Farm Market and Underground Cheesecake Co., Red Spire Brunch House, S2S Sugar 2 Salt, Pepe Nero

FEATURING BEVERAGES FROM Earthen Ales & Left Foot Charley Winery

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2. Executive Chef Dean, Michael, Eric, and Nathan were all smiles with their 1st Place win in the Professional Division for Boyne Highlands during the Harbor Springs 13th Annual Chili Cook-Off. 3. Suzanne and Dennis Hug of Harbor IGA fame at Birchwood Farms Golf & Country Club during the Chili Cook-Off. 4. Mike Lintz of Pierson’s Grille & Spirits serving up some great chili for David Jones and Marcie Wolf during the 13th Annual Harbor Springs Area Chili Cook-Off. 5. It’s broomball! The tournament was part of the Petoskey Winter Carnival.

6. Traverse City native Lt. Meagan Neumann, assigned to the “Golden Dragons” of Strike Fighter Squadron 192, overlooks the Luzon Strait near Taiwan from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) flight deck.

7. A group of concerned citizens gather and protest outside a town hall meeting in Petoskey with U.S. Representative Jack Bergman.

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HOT CLUB OF DETROIT REINVENTS REINHARDT

By Kristi Kates He was a Belgian-born French guitarist and composer – the first and most significant jazz musician to export his sounds from Europe – and today he influences a vast array of “hot club” outfits, musicians who structure their musical roster and performances around his music.

Django Reinhardt, who crafted a new style of jazz guitar technique to accommodate a hand injury, is considered a living tradition in both the French gypsy music scene and also in places far flung from his home country. This includes Detroit, where Hot Club of Detroit carries on Reinhardt’s jazz standard sound.

Julien Labro plays accordion and bandoneon (a small Spanish concertina) for Hot Club of Detroit; he picked the instrument up when he was nine years old after seeing it played on TV. “I was drawn to the sound and movement of the instrument,” Labro said. “In North America, the accordion is seen as a very hokey instrument, often relegated to the realms of polka. However, in Europe, where I grew up, the accordion is used quite often, especially in cultural folk music, because of its melodious tonal qualities.”

Labro is now thought of as one of the foremost players of both instruments; he was part of Hot Club of Detroit’s inception back when he was a student at Wayne State University.

“Since there weren’t a lot of accordion players around, people knew me as the French kid who plays accordion,” he explained. “Evan Perri got wind of me and approached me on campus, told me about this new group he was starting and wanted to know if I’d be interested in being part of it. We played together a few times, and the group was essentially formed.”

Perri, who plays lead guitar, spent six years in five different colleges pursuing his music studies.

He didn’t hear Reinhardt’s work until later in his college life but found it to be exactly what he was looking for. Hot Club was born out of his desire to recreate the sounds that might have been heard in Reinhardt’s own Hot Club in Paris in 1936.

In addition to Labro and Perri, Hot Club of Detroit includes two additional members, Ivan Peña on rhythm guitar and Jordan Schug on bass. Peña got his start singing in the Tulsa Boys Choir at the age of seven and later picked up a guitar to perform in a high school jazz band. Schug, a Michigan native, studied music at the University of North Texas and also plays jazz cello.

These diverse players were brought together, again, by the influence of the great Reinhardt.

“I think we just all really liked the music and the playing of Django,” Labro said. “He is one of the greatest jazz improvisers and guitar players of all time. His playing was very virtuosic but also lyrical.

At first our repertoire mostly consisted of his compositions that we used as a platform to create and improvise, but over time, as we grew as a band and individually as musicians, the influences from other genres and types of music also entered our sound and led to the creation of our own repertoire.

I think this is an inevitable evolution.”

Will Reinhardt’s, and subsequently Hot Club of Detroit’s, sound appeal to you? Considering the extent of inspirations that filter in to their music, the odds are very good. “Fans of bluegrass, country, acoustic, Americana and jazz all end up being Django-philes,” Labro said. “Our jazzier influences and sound might actually make us more appealing to an even wider range of audiences, but at the end of the day, we can only do what we believe in and enjoy, regardless of how it fits. I think our concert at Crooked Tree Arts Center will show how we have grown musically, and hopefully the fans will like it.”

Hot Club of Detroit will be performing at Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey 6:30pm on Mar. 4 as part of CTAC After Dark. Tickets are $40 for members/$50 for non-members and include the performance, appetizers and one drink ticket (additional drink tickets are $5 each.) For more information, visit crookedtree.org.

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MI SNOWMOBILE FESTIVAL: Gaylord. Featuring a Snomo Rodeo, live music, Snowmobile Fun Run, Antique & Vintage Sled Show, Fun Ride & more.

989-732-6333.

TREETOPS OLYMPICS: Treetops Resort, Gaylord. Free entry. Enjoy NASTAR ski racing, human curling, & steeplechase. Located at the ski hills & running for the entire day. treetops. com/general-information/event/treetopsolympics3/?eID=2271 ALDEN MEN’S CLUB’S BUSINESS/ BREAKFAST MEETING: 8am, Alden United Methodist Church, Alden. 231-322-6216.

GIVES BACK TO TART TRAILS: 8am, Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC. For the month of Feb., Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC will partner with TART Trails. Morsels has created a custom morsel (their bite-sized bakery goods) for TART Trails called “happy trails” which is a trail mix cookie with dried cherries, peanuts & mini m&m’s candy. For each “happy trails” morsel sold, Morsels will donate $.25 to TART Trails.

PINK WEEKEND - BREAST CANCER FUNDRAISING EVENT: 8:30am-9:30pm, Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs. Today includes feeding the Boyne Highlands horses, pony rides, snowboarding with the SnowSports Academy instructors, the Rail Jam, Pink Party & much more. boyne.com/ boynehighlands/events/2017/february/pinkweekend 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 SNOWSHOEING AT GROEN PRESERVE: 10am, Groen Preserve, Johannesburg. Free event with free snowshoes to borrow. Reserve your snowshoes: 989-731-0573.

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

AUTHOR SIGNING: 12pm-2pm, Horizon Books, TC. John Scott will sign his book “A Guy Like Me: Fighting to Make the Cut”. horizonbooks.com/event/author-signing-johnscott-guy-me 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-and-coming pro wrestlers from around the Midwest. Tickets: $15 door, $12 advance.

Children 10 & under, free. mcpwonline.com

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“FIND YOUR PARK” AFTER DARK: 7pm9pm, 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/ planyourvisit/calendar.htm CHEBOYGAN LGBTQ FRIENDS GROUP: Will meet at Purple Tree Coffee, Cheboygan at 10am. Find ‘LGBTQ Friends in Cheboygan, MI’ on Facebook. 231-268-8709.

AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATRE: 7pm, Mary Schmuckal Theatre at Old Town Playhouse, TC. Performing “Tender Moments,” personal stories we have experienced. Music provided by STRUM. Donations accepted. oldtownplayhouse.com WINTER CONCERT & DANCE: 7pm-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 “OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. Tickets for this lyrical comedy are $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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sunday

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 GIVES BACK TO TART TRAILS: 8am, Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC. For the month of Feb., Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC will partner with TART Trails. Morsels has created a custom morsel (their bite-sized bakery goods) for TART Trails called “happy trails” which is a trail mix cookie with dried

Hike a half mile through the backwoods of Timber Ridge Resort, TC on Sat., March 4 for the 11th Annual Suds & Snow, where you will enjoy two live music stages with Jesse Ray & The Carolina Catfish, Hannah Rose & The Gravestones, & Tell Yo Mama, along with 20+ craft breweries serving beer, wine & cider, & local food vendors. Suds & Snow runs from 1-6pm. General admission tickets are $25 & include two drink tokens. sudsandsnowtc.com

cherries, peanuts & mini m&m’s candy. For each “happy trails” morsel sold, Morsels will donate $.25 to TART Trails.

GREAT INDOOR FOLK FESTIVAL: 12pm5:30pm, 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.

AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATRE: 1:30pm, Mary Schmuckal Theatre, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Performing “Tender Moments,” personal stories we have experienced. Music provided by STRUM. Donations accepted. oldtownplayhouse.com TSO: SCHUBERT IN THE ROUND: 3pm, City Opera House, TC. Tickets start at $23.50. mynorthtickets.com/events/schubert-in-the-round

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monday

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 GIVES BACK TO TART TRAILS: 8am, Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC. For the month of Feb., Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC will partner with TART Trails. Morsels has created a custom morsel (their bite-sized bakery goods) for TART Trails called “happy trails” which is a trail mix cookie with dried cherries, peanuts & mini m&m’s candy. For each “happy trails” morsel sold, Morsels will donate $.25 to TART Trails.

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Happy Hour: Chris Sterr Solo Then: Soulpatch Sat March 4: ONE HOT ROBOT Sun March 5:

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THURSDAY

Trivia nite • 7-9pm

FRIDAY FISH FRY

All you can eat perch $10.99

FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS for all Home Team Sporting Events.

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

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INNER CIRCLE GALLERY TALK: 10am, Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Featuring Kalamazoo artist Mary Brodbeck who will discuss the art of Mokuhanga: a Japanese woodblock printmaking process. charlevoixcircle.com GT DEMS PROGRESSIVE POTLUCK: 6pm8:30pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Featuring a short presentation from Gladys Munoz, co-founder & president of the Justice & Peace Advocacy Center. The Little Fleet is donating 10% of all drink sales to the guest organization each month. At each potluck, the Dems will ‘pass the hat’ for voluntary donations, 50% of which will be given to the month’s featured organization.

Bring a friend & a dish to pass. Email Betsy Coffia at bcoffia@gmail.com with questions.

WINTERFOLK CONCERT: 6:30pm, Charlevoix Public Library. Featuring Grayling’s A Brighter Bloom, an Indie folk & pop duo, performing at Charlevoix Public Library. Open mic follows the concert, with sign up at 6pm.

231-547-2651.

NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. A conversation with Beth Macy, author of National Bestseller “Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South”. General admission, $15.50. nationalwritersseries.org/programs/eveningbeth-macy PETOSKEY LIBRARY CARNEGIE LECTURE SERIES: 7pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey.

Learn about the history and influence of the St. Francis Solanus Indian Mission Church, Petoskey’s oldest building, presented

by Joe Hoffman and Jeff Haven. Free. petoskeylibrary.org

feb 28

tuesday

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

mar 01

wednesday

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/event/traverse-cityrestaurant-week?eID=2930 REHABILITATIVE ALTERNATIVES TO JAIL: 12pm, Leelanau County Government Center, lower level. Presented by the League of Women Voters Leelanau County. The forum will focus on new innovative efforts offered by local courts to address adult and juveniles’ problematic behaviors that previously would have landed a person in jail. LWVLC business meeting will follow. lwvleelanau.org MARCH RECESS: 5pm-7pm. “Take a Stroll Through the Village”. Join The Ticker at The Mercato, The Village at GT Commons, TC for socializing, food by Cuppa Joe, MI Farm Market, Underground Cheesecake Co., Red Spire Brunch House, S2S Sugar 2 Salt, & Pepe Nero, beverages by Earthen Ales & Left Foot Charley Winery, & door prizes including two “Experience the Village” gift baskets.

Presented by Remax Bayshore Properties.

Admission, $10. traverseticker.com THE TRAVERSE IT HAPPY HOUR: 5pm7pm, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Free drinks and appetizers will be provided compliments of Safety Net. Network with IT colleagues.

Register: eventbrite.com CLEARWATER SIERRA CLUB: 7pm, La Senorita, 1245 Garfield, TC. “Fire in the Woods” will be presented by Jed Jaworski on dealing with forest fires at your home.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: 7:30pm, Former InsideOut Gallery, 229 Garland St., TC. Parallel 45 Theatre will perform the imaginative stage version of Alice in Wonderland made famous by Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project. Tickets, $20. parallel45.org

GIVES BACK TO TART TRAILS: 8am, Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC. For the month of Feb., Morsels Espresso + Edibles, TC will partner with TART Trails. Morsels has created a custom morsel (their bite-sized bakery goods) for TART Trails called “happy trails” which is a trail mix cookie with dried cherries, peanuts & mini m&m’s candy. For each “happy trails” morsel sold, Morsels will donate $.25 to TART Trails.

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

GET CRAFTY: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. 11am & 2pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. greatlakeskids.org/ calendar

INTO THE WILD: All Day, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. A big game hunting exposition, auction, and banquet presented by the Northeast MI Chapter of Safari Club International. nemisci.com

PETOSKEY CONNECTING WOMEN IN BUSINESS FUNDRAISING LUNCHEON: 11:30am-1:30pm, This is the annual silent auction which is a specific GO GRANTS Fundraiser. Advance registration required: 231-347-4150. $35.

“FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN”: 11:30am-1:30pm, The Lighthouse, Elk Rapids. Hosted by the Elk Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce.

Featuring Munson Healthcare CEO Ed Ness. Free, includes lunch. Register. elkrapidschamber.chambermaster.com/ eventregistration/register/8292

CARDIAC REHAB SUPPORT GROUP: 2pm, MCHC, Rooms A&B, TC. 935-8560.

OD TRAINING: 6pm-7:30pm, Thirlby Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Harm Reduction Michigan is offering free training on how laypeople can recognize an opioid overdose and respond to an overdose emergency. Training also includes a free overdose rescue kit, including naloxone.

Register. Free. eventbrite.com

mar 02

thursday

CELTIC CROCHETING : 2pm, Interlochen’s Golden Fellowship Hall. Presented by the GT Senior Center Network. Register in advance: 922-4911. grandtraverse.org/712/Senior-Centers NMC 11TH ANNUAL CAREER & EMPLOYMENT FAIR: 4pm-5:30pm, Hagerty Conference Center, NMC, TC. Featuring over 80 employers looking to fill over 200 positions. nmc.edu GT COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY EXECUTIVE BOARD BUSINESS MEETING:

6pm, MEA office, 1745 Barlow, TC. Please bring a non-perishable food item for the GT Dems Blue Tiger initiative which helps youth in need. 946-5555.

‘GREAT LAKES, BAD LINES’: 6:30pm8:30pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. FLOW, Beth Price Photography and Hallie Koehler Design are hosting a special viewing of this Patagonia supported film. Learn about how you can help shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 Pipeline while exploring the intersection of water, art, and the vibrant surfing community of Northern Michigan. A panel discussion will follow the film. flowforwater.org/events CLEAN ENERGY NOW!: 6:30pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Sponsored by NMEAC, this program will include energy expert Skip Pruss on climate change and the urgent need to transition to clean energy sources. 231-264-8396.

HEART & HEALING ART : 7pm, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center of McLaren Northern Michigan, Petoskey. Presents Tai Chi: Chinese mind/ body practice, the gentle martial art. Free. mclaren.org WIPE YOUR FEET! FUNDRAISER: 7pm-9pm, Boyne City Tap Room. Leadership Charlevoix County is raising funds to install boot brush stations to help prevent the spread of invasive species throughout Charlevoix County. Trivia Night offering discounted pizzas. $1 from every 16 oz. beer purchase will go to this project.

231.582.7211 or stephanieo@northmicpa.com leadershipcharlevoixcounty.org ALICE IN WONDERLAND: 7:30pm, Former InsideOut Gallery, 229 Garland St., TC. Parallel 45 Theatre will perform the imaginative stage version of Alice in Wonderland made famous by Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project. Tickets, $20. parallel45.org

mar 03

friday

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 INTO THE WILD: All Day, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. A big game hunting exposition, auction, and banquet presented by the Northeast MI Chapter of Safari Club International. nemisci.com FIRST FRIDAYS FOR FOODIES: 11am, Crooked Tree Arts Center Kitchen, Petoskey.

Mabs’ Atomic Mustard: Learn recipes to combine its explosive flavor on sandwiches, crunchy snacks, or in your favorite sauces.

Free. crookedtree.org LUNCHEON LECTURE: 11:30am, NCMC Library Conference Room, Petoskey. Save the Bees. Anne Morningstar, head beekeeper for Bear Creek Organic Farm, explains the inner workings of a beehive and what life is like as a honeybee. Cost: $10, includes lunch.

Reservations required: 231-348-6600.

ART IN ICE: 4pm-7pm, Downtown Bellaire.

Watch 3,000 pounds of ice being transformed into 10 community supported ice sculptures by local culinary artists.

MARDI GRAS ON THE MOUNTAIN: 6pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Today includes mask making with the Snow Monsters in the Crystal Center. crystalmountain.com/ events/mardi-gras-on-the-mountain

GLACIER HISTORY PRESENTATION: 6:30pm-8:30pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Presented by the Leelanau Conservation District. Sponsored by the Michigan Forestry Assistance Program. Cost: $5 before March 1 or $10 at door. Register: 231-256-9783.

2017 FLY FISHING FILM TOUR: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Tickets: $17 advance, $20 door. cityoperahouse.org/fly-fishing-filmtour-2017 SHREK THE MUSICAL : 7pm, TC West Senior High School, TC. Tickets start at $12. mynorthtickets.com/organizations/click-herefor-all-events-for-the-tc-west-shrek-musical ALICE IN WONDERLAND: 7:30pm, Former InsideOut Gallery, 229 Garland St., TC. Parallel 45 Theatre will perform the imaginative stage version of Alice in Wonderland made famous by Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project. Tickets, $20. parallel45.org

mar 04

saturday

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 INTO THE WILD: All Day, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. A big game hunting exposition, auction, and banquet presented by the Northeast MI Chapter of Safari Club International. nemisci.com KALKASKA WINTERFEST: 8am, Kalkaska.

Michigan’s Premier Sprint Sled Dog Race. kalkaskawinterfest.org/home.html MARDI GRAS ON THE MOUNTAIN: 8am, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Today includes Sunrise Yoga, It’s All Downhiller Alpine Race, New Belgium Ski Scavenger Hunt, Stylin’ on the Slopes Costume Contest, Mardi Gras Rail Jam, & much more. crystalmountain.com/events/mardi-gras-onthe-mountain THE SLUSH CUP: 9am-4pm, Schuss Mtn., Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire. Skiers & riders attempt to cross an icy 60’ pond. Other events include a frozen fish toss, snow shovel racing and a seal slide. shantycreek.com/event/slush-cup AUTHORS’ LUNCHEON: 11:30am-2pm, Cadillac Grill, Cadillac. Sponsored by Friends of the Cadillac Library. Featuring authors Lisa Gigliotti, Janice Broyles & Shenandoah Chefalo. 231-510-9047. $20.

BEARD OF ZEUS FAT BIKE RACE: 12pm, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. A flat, fast circuit at Timber Ridge Resort, TC. 90 minute & 45 minute races. shortsbrewingfatbikeseries.com/ beardofzeusfatbikerace 11TH ANNUAL SUDS & SNOW: 1pm-6pm, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. Includes a 1/2 mile hike through the back woods of Timber Ridge Resort where there will be two live-music stages featuring local musicians, 20 + craft breweries serving beer, wine, & cider, and local food vendors. Musicians include Jesse Ray & The Carolina Catfish, Hannah Rose & The Gravestones, & Tell Yo Mama. General admission tickets: $25, includes 2 drink tokens. sudsandsnowtc.com/#About ALICE IN WONDERLAND: 2pm & 7:30pm, Former InsideOut Gallery, 229 Garland St., TC. Parallel 45 Theatre will perform the imaginative stage version of Alice in Wonderland made famous by Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project. Tickets, $20. parallel45.org

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BOB JAMES AND NANCY STAGNITTA: 2:30pm & 7:30pm, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Launch of “In the Chapel in the Moonlight”. $32 full, $10 youth. tickets.interlochen.org/events/bobjames-and-nancy-stagnitta-chapel-moonlight/ march-4-2017-230pm “CTAC AFTER DARK” : 6:30pm-9:30pm, CTAC Theater, Petoskey. With Hot Club of Detroit, a jazz ensemble specializing in the Gypsy jazz sound made famous by 1930s guitarist Django Reinhardt. Tickets: $40 CTAC members; $50 non-members. 21 & up event. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-after-dark-with-hotclub-of-detroit/?instance_id=4555

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THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS 20TH ANNUAL IRISH PARTY: 7pm, Knights of Columbus Hall, Gaylord. Music by Jerry Belanger & Doug Berkshire of The Pub Runners, & The Irish Dance Club of Lansing will demonstrate traditional Irish dance.

Tickets, $15. 989-939-7245.

LAUGH FOR A GOOD CAUSE! COMEDY SHOW: 8pm, The Parlor, TC. Falling Down Stairs Productions has offered to donate proceeds from their show to help Polestar LGBT + Community Center launch itself as a new non-profit. tcpolestar.org

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KALKASKA WINTERFEST: 8am, Kalkaska. Michigan’s Premier Sprint Sled Dog Race. kalkaskawinterfest.org/ home.html

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: 2pm, Former InsideOut Gallery, 229 Garland St., TC. Parallel 45 Theatre will perform the imaginative stage version of Alice in Wonderland made famous by Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project. Tickets, $20. parallel45.org SHREK THE MUSICAL: 2pm, TC West Senior High School, TC. Tickets start at $12. mynorthtickets.com/organizations/click-herefor-all-events-for-the-tc-west-shrek-musical SIXTH ANNUAL PURE A CAPPELLA FESTIVAL: 4pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. A talented mix of entertainment will feature Grand Traverse Show Chorus, Trillium Singers, TC Sings, Sashay Quartet, NMC Grand Traverse Chorale, NMC Chamber Singers, Choral Fusion, & The Cherry Capital Men’s Chorus.

Proceeds benefit a local children’s choir with scholarships. Tickets, $13. mynorthtickets.com

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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 ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS (ACA): Thursdays, 5:30pm-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 BREATH & BALANCE - A ZERO IMPACT AIKIDO: Tuesdays, 10am-11am, The GT Circuit, TC. A no-impact, safe class for adults/ seniors, focusing on maintaining & regaining balance, breathing exercises, & training with a partner. innerpathdojo.com

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

FREE COMMUNITY CLASS: Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Bikram Yoga, 845 S. Garfield Ave., TC. bikramyogatcgr.com ICE SKATING GAMES: Saturdays, 1-3pm, Harbor Springs Sk8 Park/Ice Rink. facebook. com/harborspringssk8park SECULAR A.A.: Thursdays, 5:30pm; Fridays, 7pm, The Porch, TC. secularaainmichigan.org SNOWSHOE HIKE: Saturdays, 1pm, Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. facebook.com/ sbdnl SNOWSHOE, WINE & BREW: Sundays through March 5, 10:40am-noon, Old Mission Peninsula. Park at Jolly Pumpkin to board the TC Brew Bus & start your trek. $20. tcbrewbus. com/events 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/snowshoes-vines-wines

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6TH ANNUAL GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB: Right Brain Brewery, TC. Through March 25. 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 ART COMPETITION - WINE LABEL DESIGN NEEDED: Deadline for art entry is March 10!

Attention artists: Design a wine bottle label for the Mission Point Lighthouse fundraiser.

Support Mission Point Lighthouse Friends nonprofit - preserve the lighthouse. Winner will have their design on the label for the 2nd Annual Lighthouse Wine Fundraiser. Go to events at www.missionpointlighthouse.com for application. Or email mplfmedia@gmail.com OAC SPRING EXHIBITION: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. An exhibit of artwork by Mary Fortuna, Janelle Songer and Jessica Kovan. The opening reception takes place on Fri., March 3, 5-7pm. The exhibit runs through April 7. There will also be an artist panel discussion on Sun., March 5 at 1pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org THROUGH THE WINDOW, ALL MEDIA: Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. Through March. www.threepinesstudio.com CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY- CROOKED TREE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY EXHIBIT: Atrium Gallery. Runs through March 17. Featuring diverse digital works from more than 30 members.

- TINKER, TAILOR, WELDER, WEAVER: THE ART OF ASSEMBLAGE: Bonfield Gallery.

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Higher Art Gallery is 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 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.

GAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, GAYLORD- ARTFUL AFTERNOONS: Every Weds. through April 26 at 1pm. Free.

- BLACK & WHITE WITH A LITTLE RED EXHIBIT: Through March 4. gacaevents. weebly.com

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FOURSCORE by kristi kates

Bonobo – “Migration” – Ninja Tune

Simon Green, aka Bonobo, is back with his sixth album, and all that practice definitely pays off on this set. A carefully ordered assortment of tunes, the album runs the gamut of both emotions and audio energies, from the title track that shifts through a wide range of both to singles that each explore a different feel.

“Kerala” utilizes an R&B vocal riff almost as a percussion element while “Surface” leans more pop and “No Reason” pours out the English DJ’s soul, disco style.

Anderson .Paak – “Malibu” – Steel Wool

From Stephen Colbert’s late night show to NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts, .Paak has been making a huge impression lately, in large part because of tracks from this album. The West Coast rapper/ vocalist is on his third album, with the added cache of some standout guests as well (Talib Kweli and Schoolboy Q), who add their own flourishes to already confident, self-assured tracks like the Motown-inspired “Put Me Thru,” the expanded jam of “Parking Lot,” and the positively focused “The Dreamer.”

Lupe Fiasco – “Drogas Light” – 1st and 15th Productions

The tough street-smart beats of trap affix the foundations of each track to Fiasco’s latest album, which introduces him as a rejuvenated artist ready to crank it out as he steps away from his former record label for a new venture. There’s a decent balance of downbeat hooks (“Law”) and presentation hype (“Made in the USA”), but many of the rhymes could use some work. Surprisingly, Fiasco often falls back on repetitive cliches or generic phrases, which really isn’t up to par for an artist of his considerable skill.

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Recorded on a rural Nevada mountainside and now being rereleased on vinyl, this is Panic!’s first foray into expanding its sound, with those chill mountain vibes filtering in to make this set a calmer and more outright pop collection than the band’s first effort.

But these are b-i-g, not average, pop songs, with ambitions similar to Brian Wilson, with psychedelic swirls and gallops on “When the Day Met the Night,” ‘70s-glam “Mad as Rabbits,” and the sharp “We’re So Starving.”

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TURNING THE EDM UP AT MOVEMENT Detroit’s internationally renowned electronic music fest, Movement, is returning to Hart Plaza in the Motor City for its threeday run over Memorial Day weekend (May 27–29.) Over 40 acts have been announced for this edition of the event, including deadmau5’s side project, Testpilot, Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig’s Versus Synthesizer Ensemble, The Saunderson Brothers, Ben Sims and more. Check out three-day weekend passes, VIP tickets and general admission rates now online at movement.us.

Lil Wayne has helped launch a new virtual reality music series from Hulu called On Stage with the series’ first episode delving into the rapper’s own musical career, with cameras going along as he prepares for his Lil Weezyana Fest concert event.

The short-form series aims to give viewers an in-depth look into the process of how artists craft music and can be viewed both through Hulu’s own VR (virtual reality) app or traditionally on the regular Hulu network; the second episode will follow Major Lazer performing in Jamaica.

In other festival news, the Mo Pop Festival, also in Detroit, is running July 29– 30 this summer. Last year’s edition took place

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at West Riverfront Park (where the event will return this year) and included sets from M83, Father John Misty, and Tunde Olaniran; no acts have been confirmed yet for this year, but the likes of Banners, Bishop Briggs, Arcade Fire and The Weeknd are rumored, so keep your eyes on mopopfestival.com.

Queen and singer Adam Lambert are hitting the road for another tour, this one a long summer venture set to kick off June 23 in Phoenix, Ariz. Lambert, the former American Idol contestant, first teamed up with Queen in 2009 for a performance on the TV singing competition show. The band snapped him up, and he’s been touring with Queen ever since. For its latest outing, Queen promises a “brand new show that will bring [our] history alive in all its passion and glory”; get your tickets now so you can see the whole thing in Detroit at the Palace of Auburn Hills July 20.

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: The 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced, and among this year’s batch are prog-rock band Yes, Electric Light Orchestra, Tupac Shakur and Chic founder Nile Rodgers. The ceremonies will take place in Brooklyn, N.Y., in early April and will be recorded for a highlights

special that will air later on HBO. Check out all the inductees, both new and old, at rockhall.com.

THE BUZZ: Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley has signed a record deal with 300 Entertainment, a record company and management label founded by alumni of Def Jam. Guided by Voices – minus multiinstrumentalist and northern Michigan resident Tobin Sprout, who is currently busy promoting his latest solo album The Universe and Me – will be in concert at The Magic Stick on Detroit’s Woodward Avenue May 5.

Nickelback, Cheap Trick and Daughtry are going to hit the road together

for the Feed the Machine Tour, arriving in Detroit June 24.

Heavy prog-rock band Mastodon is set to release its latest album, Emperor of Sand, Mar. 31; tour dates will include a stop in Detroit May 16.

Kings of Leon’s performance at Detroit’s Fox Theater in late January was canceled when the band’s drummer, Nathan Followill, came down with pneumonia; KOL is on its way back to the Motor City to make up that show Mar. 9; tickets from the January show will be honored on the new date…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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Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee

• 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 • 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 2/28 -- Open & un-mic'd w/ Ben Johnson, 7-9 • BUD'S - INTERLOCHEN Thurs. -- Jim Hawley, 5-8 • FANTASY'S - GRAWN Adult Entertainment w/ DJ • GT RESORT & SPA - ACME Grand Lobby: 2/25 -- Blake Elliott, 7-11 3/3-4 -- 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 Fri. - Sat. thru March -- The Cow Puppies • HORIZON BOOKS - TC 3/3 -- Blair Miller, 8:30-10:30 • HOTEL INDIGO - TC 2/25 -- Clint Weaner, 7:3010:30 3/3 -- The Bohemians w/ Dawn Campbell, 7:30-10:30 3/4 -- Robin Lee Berry & Glenn Wolff, 7:30-10:30 • LEFT FOOT CHARLEY - TC Mon. -- Open mic w/ Blake Elliott, 6-9 • LITTLE BOHEMIA - TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 • NOLAN'S CIGAR BAR - TC 3/3 -- Windy Ridge Trio, 8-10 • NORTH PEAK - TC Kilkenny's, 9:30-1:30: 2/24-25 -- Sweet J Band 3/3 -- Scarkazm 3/4 -- Soul Patch 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 3/1 -- Benjaman James, 8:30 Mon. -- Open Mic Night, 8:30 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 • SLEDER'S FAMILY TAVERN - TC 3/5 -- Driftwood, 4 • STREETERS - TC Ground Zero: 2/25 -- David Allen Coe w/ Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys & The Whiskey Rebels, 8 • TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE - TC 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. 3/2 -- Paul Livingston 6-8

• THE LITTLE FLEET - TC 3/4 -- Grand Rapids Music Series: Book of Symbols, 8-10 • THE OL' SOUL KALKASKA Weds. -- David Lawston, 8-12 • THE PARLOR - TC 2/28 -- Clint Weaner, 7:30pm • THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO. - TC 2/25 -- 2nd Annual Frozen Cherry Jam & Hot Licks Guitar Competition Finals, 8 2/28 -- Make-TC Meetup, 6-8 3/3 -- Featured Local DJ, 8-11 3/4 -- Brett Mitchell, 8-11 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 2/25 -- Electric Red 3/1 -- DJ DomiNate 3/2 -- The Pocket 3/3 -- Happy Hour w/ Chris Sterr, then Soul Patch 3/4 -- One Hot Robot Sun. -- Karaoke, 10-2 • WEST BAY BEACH RESORT - TC View: 2/25 -- DJ Veeda, 9-12 Thurs. -- Jazz w/ Jeff Haas Trio & Laurie Sears; 3/2 includes The NMC Vocal Jazz Ensemble, 7-9:30

Antrim & Charlevoix • BARREL BACK RESTAURANT WALLOON LAKE VILLAGE Weds. -- Michelle Chenard, 5-8 • BOYNE CITY TAPROOM 2/25 -- Sean Bielby, 7-10 • BRIDGE STREET TAP ROOM CHARLEVOIX 2/25 -- Kellerville, 8-11 2/26 -- Pete Kehoe, 6-9 2/28 -- Nelson Olstrom, 7-10 3/4 -- Chris Koury, 8-11 3/5 -- Chris Calleja, 6-9 • CAFE SANTE - BOYNE CITY Mon. -- Nathan Bates, 6-9 • CELLAR 152 - ELK RAPIDS 2/25 -- Blair Miller, 7:30-10:30 3/3 -- Jeff Brown, 7:30-9:30 • 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 2/26 -- Mardi Gras w/ Anthony Gomes, 6-9 2/27 -- Mardi Gras w/ The Moxie Strings, 6-9 2/28 -- Fat Tuesday w/ Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, 6-9 • QUAY RESTAURANT & TERRACE BAR - CHARLEVOIX Weds. -- Live jazz, 7-10 • RED MESA GRILL - BOYNE CITY 2/28 -- Fat Tuesday Party w/ Dave Cisco & his Magical Steel Drum, 6-10

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• SHORT'S BREWING CO. BELLAIRE 2/25 -- Turbo Pup, 8:30-11 2/26 -- Battle of the Bands Week 5 w/ellyeahdehd, Impulsive Hearts & Lucy's Brown Seville, 4 3/3 -- Whistle Stop Revue, 8-11 3/4 -- The Pistil Whips, 8:30-11 3/5 -- Battle of the Bands Week 6 w/ Dos Ultra, Kronie & Theo Batzer & The Moon Surfers, 4-6:30pm • 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

Don't miss Mardi Gras, specifically Fat Tuesday, at Pearl's, Elk Rapids on Tues., Feb. 28, 6-9pm with Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials. Performing together for 30 years, The Chicago Sun-Times says, “Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials are the hottest purveyors of bottleneck boogie to come out of Chicago since Hound Dog Taylor.” You can also catch Anthony Gomes on Feb. 26 & The Moxie Strings on Feb. 27 at Pearl's.

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The reel THE GREAT WALL

by meg weichman

Matt Damon

jackie

“J

ackie” may 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 as Jackie Kennedy. It’s a penetrating work of art that reveals something profoundly human about one of history’s most fashionable footnotes. Because for someone who has had so much written about her and so much of her life documented, she 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 untraditional yet brilliantly structured script 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. Both familiar and strange, Chilean director Pablo Larraín, uncannily recreates the iconic imagery of November 22, 1963 and takes events and people now so mired in conspiracy and consumed by popular culture and makes it all feel anew.

Mournful and ethereal, raw and real, no matter how many biographies you’ve read, after seeing “Jackie” you’ll never see her the same way again.

Recently I’ve noticed more and more Chinese company logos at the beginning of Hollywood productions. And the release of “The Great Wall” marks a culmination of this uneasy trend. Uneasy not because I am against cross-cultural collaboration, but because of what this transparent cash grab at the Chinese market (1.3 billion+ people) represents for the film industry. And if it means more movies like this, the largest ever co-production between the U.S and China, we are not headed down a road I wish to travel on.

With a white A-list star (Matt Damon), an auteur Chinese director, Zhang Yimou (“House of Flying Daggers”), and a prestige U.S. screenwriting team including Tony Gilroy (“Michael Clayton”), the failings of “The Great Wall” demonstrate the inherent difficulties of so calculatingly trying to serve the cultural demands of two very different audiences.

Putting forth the legend that the 5,500 mile-long, 1,700 years-to-build Great Wall of China was constructed to keep out monsters, it’s a ridiculous notion, though not necessarily a bad idea for a ridiculously entertaining flick. But “The Great Wall” is monster movie (monster movies top the box office in China) where the monsters seem like an afterthought.

It’s a war epic with no reverence. And it’s an action fantasy that fails to fully transport.

Damon plays William, a 12th century mercenary whose search for the explosive black powder of the Chinese lands him in prison at The Great Wall. He’s a prisoner of the Nameless Order, Chinese warriors who defend the country from alien monsters known as Tao Tei that appear every 60 years to somehow, I dunno why, teach us a lesson about greed (how’s that for a laugh?). And wouldn’t you know it, they are set to return at any moment.

My primary question when watching this plot hole-ridden movie was what the heck was “serious actor” Damon doing here (wearing a man bun, no less!). And not just because of whitewashing concerns (which technically speaking are tempered). The only reasons for his involvement could be that Damon was offered too much money to say no (perhaps explaining the subpar remaining CGI budget), or someone had major dirt on him.

The Tao Tei are these uninspired, frilled reptilian green meanies, swarming The Wall by the thousands in search of food to offer their queen. Other than some requisite slime and guts and growls (this is only PG-13 after all), Zhang doesn’t seem all that interested in these monsters. No, these generic beasts are merely a reason for the wall-to-wall spectacle of The Wall.

See, it’s the weaponry, technology, and pageantry of The Wall that is the film’s only

marvel. From the drums, cannons, catapults, and lizard shearing blades to the color-coded battalions and the battle-trained aerialists that descend The Wall with spears like a killer Cirque du Soleil trained K Pop girl group, it’s pretty cool to see The Wall not just as an ancient wonder, but as a living, breathing, badass fortress.

So this is the film at its most awesome, but these moments of wacky wonder don’t last, and we have to return to the forgettable story and drudgery of its West meets East propaganda.

Seeing what the Order is up against, and finally finding a worthwhile cause, William, who as it happens is maybe the greatest archer in the history of ever, decides to stay and fight.

At first he’s all classic Western Individualism, out to make his fortune by stealing gunpowder.

But then he meets the female Commander Lin (Tian Jing), who teaches him about the group ideals of the East. And this is why “The Great Wall” isn’t technically whitewashing. William is not really a white savior, since it’s the Eastern ways that prevail.

Her stilted English aside, Jing’s Lin is a fairly impressive and feminist character (women are equally willing to and subject to slaughter here). In one of the script’s better decisions, William and Lin’s relationship stays tastefully platonic (must be the man bun that keeps her away, amirite ladies?).

Some of the script’s lesser decisions, though? It’s clumsy sense of buddy humor with William’s BFF Tovar (Pedro Pascal), and that the whole thing hinges on an allto-convenient discovery. These, however, are not necessarily faults that would prevent me from just sitting back and enjoying the nutty spectacle. No, that honor would go the performances, specifically Damon’s.

Remember how I didn’t understand why Damon was in this? Well, he doesn’t seem to understand either. His performance is absolutely anemic, with a hilariously fluctuating accent to boot. And he’s so visibly and painfully disengaged that it’s like having to watch Matt Lauer do a puff piece.

Thanks to its brevity and gonzo set pieces, “The Great Wall” was not the disaster I was expecting. It almost bluffed its way to becoming another forgettable but enjoyable action blockbuster. But what separates it, and what it couldn’t hide from, was the complete disinterest from the cast, as well as the disinterest of a U.S. audience that could see the contrived reasons behind its conception all the way from space.

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

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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.

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“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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the ADViCE GOddESS A Ruse Is A Ruse Is A Ruse

Hyde And Seek

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: A year ago, the woman who pet-sits for me began inviting herself over for dinner.

We started going out about three times a week. I always paid for dinner. She never introduced me to her friends, wouldn’t let me pick her up at her apartment, and wouldn’t let me touch her. Even a genial “thank you” touch on the arm got a grim response. Her reason: She didn’t want a relationship. I kept hoping this would change. Recently, I went on Facebook and saw that she’s been in a relationship with another man. Her response?

“Well, I’m not sleeping with him, so I can see whomever I want.” After a long, demoralizing year, I ended things. Did I do right by getting out?

— Not A Game Player

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Consciously or subconsciously, this woman deceived you into thinking a relationship was possible — but she had help. Yours. To understand how you got tripped up, let’s take a look at self-deception — through an evolutionary lens. Evolutionary researchers William von Hippel and Robert Trivers describe self-deception as a “failure to tell the self the whole truth” by excluding the parts that go poorly with our goals and our preferred view of ourselves. We do this through “information-processing biases that give priority to welcome over unwelcome information” — or, in plain English: What we ignore the hell out of can’t hurt us.

Seems crazy, huh — that we would have evolved to have a faulty view of reality?

However, von Hippel and Trivers contend that the ability to self-deceive evolved to help us be better at deceiving others — keeping us from giving off the cues we do when we know we’re putting out a big fibby. As Trivers explains in “The Folly of Fools”: “We hide reality from our conscious minds the better to hide it from onlookers.”

Knowing that we do this can help us remember to ask the right questions — the ego-gnawing kind — and drag the facts upstairs to consciousness and give them a long look. Nice as it is to glimpse the proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel,” it’s wise to make sure it isn’t just the one on the tip of the colonoscope.

: I feel that my boyfriend brings out my best self: loving, sweet, productive. In my failed marriage, my ex seemed to bring out my worst self: unstable, selfish, lazy. It’s almost as if I’m a different person with my boyfriend. But how different can I be?

— In A Better Place

A

: Okay, so you sometimes daydreamed about your naked ex and the things you’d like to do to him — like painting him all over with maple syrup and throwing him into a pit of starving fire ants.

To understand what’s different with your current boyfriend, consider that the relationship is an environment — one that influences your behavior just like a physical environment.

(Alaska in January calls for a snowsuit, not a bikini and your rainbow unicorn water wings.)

There’s a term for the sort of relationship dynamics that bring out your best self -- the “Michelangelo phenomenon” — coined by social psychologist Caryl Rusbult and her colleagues.

The name was inspired by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo’s belief that there’s an ideal figure hidden within each block of stone and that it’s the sculptor’s job to chip away the pieces around it until it’s revealed.

They find that in a relationship, two things foster your bringing out the best in each other. One is that your partner “affirms” your values — meaning that your partner is aligned (enough) with what you care most about. (This doesn’t mean they want exactly what you do; they just need to respect you for going for it.) Second, they engage in behaviors that encourage you to move toward your “ideal self.” This might mean urging you to acquire new skills or, at a cocktail party, asking you about the dog-walking drone you invented while you’re standing next to that trustafarian with the tech-funding hobby.

Rusbult and her colleagues observe that when individuals in a relationship improve and grow — especially through their partner’s encouragement — it makes for a better relationship and happier partners. Conversely, when their partner is unhelpfully critical, controlling, and at odds with who they are and what they want, the relationship suffers, as do those in it. Ultimately, if you say “I barely recognize who I am with this person,” it should be a good thing -- not one that leads to TV news clips of your bewildered neighbor: “We’re all just shocked. She seemed so nice, so normal. I guess she just…snapped.”

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lOGY

FEB 27 - MARCH 5

BY ROB BREZSNY

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your immediate future is too good

to be true. Or at least that’s what you, with your famous selfdoubt, might be inclined to believe if I told you the truth about the favorable developments that are in the works. Therefore, I have come up with some fake anxieties to keep your worry reflex engaged so it won’t sabotage the real goodies. Beware of dirty limericks and invisible ladders and upside-down rainbows and psychic bunny rabbits. Be on guard against accountants wearing boxing gloves and clowns singing Broadway show tunes in runaway shopping carts and celebrities telling you classified secrets in your dreams.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that you

will have earned the title of Master Composter no later than March 26. Not necessarily because you will have packed your food scraps, wilted flowers, coffee grounds, and shredded newspapers in, say, a deluxe dual-chamber tumbling compost bin. But rather because you will have dealt efficiently with the rotting emotions, tattered habits, decrepit melodramas, and trivial nonsense that has accumulated; you will have worked hard to transform all that crap into metaphorical fertilizer for your future growth. Time to get started!

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): ): It’s a good time for you to wield your emotional intelligence with leadership and flair. The people you care about need more of your sensitive influence. Any posse or tribe you’re part of will benefit from your thoughtful intervention. So get out there and build up the group morale, Taurus. Assert your healing ideals with panache. Tamp down the insidious power of peer pressure and fashionable nonsense. You have a mandate to wake up sleepy allies and activate the dormant potential of collective efforts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were ever

in your life going to be awarded an honorary PhD from a top university, it would happen in the next few weeks. If there were even a remote possibility that you would someday be given one of those MacArthur Fellowship “genius” grants, now would be the time. Likewise if you had any hopes of being selected as one of “The World’s Sexiest Chameleons” or “The Fastest, Sweetest Talkers on Earth” or “The Planet’s Most Virtuoso Vacillators,” the moment has arrived. And even if none of those things happen, I’m still pretty sure that your reputation and status will be on the rise.

CANCER June 21-July 22): You’re wandering

into places you’ve always thought you should be wary of or skeptical about. Good for you! As long as you protect your innocence, I encourage you to keep exploring. To my delight, you have also been fantasizing about accomplishments that used to be off-limits. Again, I say: Good for you! As long as you don’t overreach, I invite you to dream boldly, even brazenly. And since you seem to be in the mood for big thinking, here are other revolutionary activities to consider: dissolving nonessential wishes; transcending shrunken expectations; escaping the boring past; busting irrelevant taboos..

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I did a good job of

raising my daughter. She turned out to be a thoughtful, intelligent adult with high integrity and interesting skills. But I’m not sure my parenting would have been as effective if I’d had more kids. I discussed this issue with Nathan, a guy I know. His six offspring are all grown up, too. “How did you do it?” I asked him. “Having just one child was a challenging job for me.” “I’ll tell you my secret,” Nathan told me. “I’m a bad father. I didn’t work very hard on raising my kids. And now they never let me forget it.” In the coming weeks and months, Leo, I recommend that you pursue my approach in your chosen field, not Nathan’s.

Aim for high-quality intensity rather than scattershot quantity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her poem “Not

Anyone Who Says,” Virgo writer Mary Oliver looks down on people who declare, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love.” She disparages the passion of anyone who asserts, “I’m going to choose slowly.” Instead she champions those who are

“chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable.” Here’s my response: Her preferred formula sounds glamorous and dramatic and romantic -- especially the powerful and beautiful part. But in practice it rarely works out well -- maybe just ten percent of the time -- mostly because of the uncontrollable and unsuitable part. And now is not one of those times for you, Virgo.

Be careful and smart in matters of love, and choose slowly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The poet Rainer

Maria Rilke bemoaned the fact that so many of us “squander our sorrows.” Out of self-pity or lazy self-indulgence, we wallow in memories of experiences that didn’t turn out the way we wished they would have. We paralyze ourselves with repetitions of depleting thoughts. Here’s an alternative to that approach: We could use our sadness and frustrations to transform ourselves.

We could treat them as fuel to motivate our escape from what doesn’t work, to inspire our determination to rise above what demoralizes and demeans us. I mention this, Libra, because now is an excellent time to do exactly that.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time for the

Bliss Blitz -- a new holiday just for you Scorpios.

To celebrate it properly, get as buoyant as you dare; be greedy for euphoria; launch a sacred quest for pleasure. Ah, but here’s the big question: Can you handle this much relief and release? Are you strong enough to open yourself to massive outbreaks of educational delight and natural highs? Some of you may not be prepared.

You may prefer to remain ensconced in your protective sheath of cool cynicism. But if you think you can bear the shock of unprecedented exaltation and jubilation, then go ahead and risk it. Experiment with the unruly happiness of the Bliss Blitz.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his book

The Horologicon, Mark Forsyth gathered “obscure but necessary” words that he dug out of old dictionaries. One of his discoveries is a perfect fit for you right now. It’s “snudge,” a verb that means to walk around with a pensive look on your face, appearing to be busy or in the midst of productive activity, when in fact you’re just goofing off. I recommend it for two reasons: 1. It’s important for your mental and physical health that you do a lot of nothing; that you bless yourself with a healing supply of refreshing emptiness. 2. It’s important for your mental and physical health that you do this on the sly as much as possible; that you avoid being judged or criticized for it by others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wish

your breakfast cereal came in boxes decorated with Matisse and Picasso paintings. I wish songbirds would greet you each morning with sweet tunes. I wish you’d see that you have more power than you realize. I wish you knew how uniquely beautiful you are. I wish you’d get intoxicated with the small miracles that are happening all around you. I wish that when you made a bold move to improve your life, everyone greeted it with curiosity and excitement. And I wish you would let your imagination go half-wild with fascinating fantasies during this, the Capricorn wishing season.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “You’re a

different human being to everybody you meet,” says novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Now is an excellent time to contemplate the intricacies and implications of that amazing truth -- and start taking better advantage of how much freedom it gives you. Say the following statements out loud and see how they feel: 1. “My identity isn’t as narrowly circumscribed as I think it is.” 2. “I know at least 200 people, so there must be at least 200 facets to my character.” 3.

“I am too complicated to be completely comprehended by any one person.” 4. “Consistency is overrated.”

“Jonesin” Crosswords

"When Words Collide"--you can do it. by Matt Jones ACROSS 1 Fast food sandwich option 14 Kids’ game played on a higher level?

15 They’re called for in extreme cases 16 Mention 17 Bankable vacation hrs., in some workplaces 18 Black or red insect 19 It’s slightly higher than B 20 Hairy cousin of Morticia 21 Like muffled sound recordings, slangily 22 Bridge, in Brindisi 23 Labor Day Telethon org.

24 Orange tea that’s really black 25 Parts of joules 26 They get their picks in dark matter 28 Seattle-based craft beer brand 29 Bite matchups, in dental X-rays 33 Mardi ___ 37 Battery count 38 React with disgust 39 “Pride ___ before destruction” 40 Cabinet dept. since 1977 41 “Primetime Justice wtih Ashleigh Banfield” network 42 Definitely gonna 43 Elvis Presley’s record label 44 Mock-stunned “Me?” 45 Coca-Cola Company founder Asa 46 You’ll want to keep it clean 49 “Ugh, so many responsibilities!”

50 Transfers of people (or profits) to their home countries

DOWN 1 Type of dish at brunch 2 Feels hurt by

3 “In the event it’s for real ...”

4 Buttonholes, really 5 A little, to Verdi 6 ___ Kippur 7 Moved way too slowly 8 “Perfectly Good Guitar” singer John 9 “This ___ unfair!”

10 Actor Gulager of “The Virginian” 11 Amateur night activity, maybe 12 “Not ___ a minute ...”

13 Cartoonish villains 14 Quake 15 Heavy curtain 20 Gem State resident 21 “Billion Dollar Brain” novelist Deighton 23 “Reclining Nude” painter 24 Water___ (dental brand) 26 Annual Vegas trade show full of tech debuts 27 “The Italian Job” actor ___ Def 28 Country with a red, white, and blue flag: abbr.

29 Unlikely to win most golf tournaments 30 Admit defeat 31 Explain 32 8 1/2” x 11” size, briefly 33 ___ knot (difficult problem) 34 Two-___ (movie shorts) 35 Be present 36 Sandcastle spot 39 Avid 41 Norse god of indecision that helped create humans (RHINO anag.)

42 Quaint version of “according to me” 44 Abolitionist Lucretia 45 Debt memo 47 1974 Hearst abductors 48 Airport near Forest Hills, N.Y.

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NMC CAREER FAIR NMC Career and Employment Fair. Over 80 participating employers looking to hire. The event will take place Thurs, March 2nd, 2017 4:00-5:30pm at Hagerty Conference Center on NMC Great Lakes Campus.

Free and open to community! For info: www.nmc.edu/careerfair Call 231995-1040 with questions NEW OUTDOOR WEDDING VENUE Beautiful Covered Bridge surrounded

by Hemlocks or a Rustic Log Cabin nestled in the forest. Private and lovely in Buckley. Call 231-360-4218 for more info and to visit.

TAX RETURNS PREPARED at Discounted Rates Personal returns prepared for as low as $99-$149. Business returns prepared for as low as $199$249. We have 18+ years of tax experience. We promise an accurate return in a reasonable amount of time at a cost everyone can afford. Please check out our website at www.supernawcpa.com or call Jon at 231-252-4682 for a free consultation. You’ll be happy you did!

TAX RETURNS PREPARED at Discounted Rates Personal returns prepared for as low as $99-$149.

Business returns prepared for as low as $199-$249. We have 18+ years of tax experience. We promise an accurate return in a reasonable amount of time at a cost everyone can afford. Please check out our website at www.supernawcpa.com or call Jon at 231-252-4682 for a free consultation. You’ll be happy you did!

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SAWMILLS FROM ONLY $4397.00MAKE & SAVE MONEY with you own bandmill- Cut lumber any dimension.

In stock ready to ship! FREE Info/DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800578-1363 Ext. 300N TAX RETURNS PREPARED at Discounted Rates Personal returns prepared for as low as $99-$149. Business returns prepared for as low as $199$249. We have 18+ years of tax experience. We promise an accurate return in a reasonable amount of time at a cost everyone can afford. Please check out our website at www.supernawcpa.com or call Jon at 231-252-4682 for a free consultation. You’ll be happy you did!

TAX RETURNS PREPARED at Discounted Rates Personal returns prepared for as low as $99-$149. Business returns prepared for as low as $199$249. We have 18+ years of tax experience. We promise an accurate return in a reasonable amount of time at a cost everyone can afford. Please check out our website at www.supernawcpa.com or call Jon at 231-252-4682 for a free consultation. You’ll be happy you did!

TAX RETURNS PREPARED at Discounted Rates Personal returns prepared for as low as $99-$149. Business returns prepared for as low as $199$249. We have 18+ years of tax experience. We promise an accurate return in a reasonable amount of time at a cost everyone can afford. Please check out our website at www.supernawcpa.com or call Jon at 231-252-4682 for a free consultation. You’ll be happy you did!

NEED LAUGHS AT AN UPCOMING PARTY or event? Falling Down Stairs Productions offers live comedy to fit your entertainment needs and budget. fallingdownstairsprod@gmail for details.

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ST. PARLOR DAY!

4-11 pm

half off happy hour 4-7pm

party continues until 11pm!

$4 Craft Draft Green IPA

Irish themed cocktail specials ALL NIGHT

IRISH INSPIRED FOOD MENU

$4 Guinness, Jameson & Bailey’s specials ALL NIGHT

no cover, 21+ welcome

Half Off Happy Hour 4-7, all 3 bars open!

Derailed Celts - Traditional Irish Music- 5-8pm in The Parlor “Green” Blue Footed Booby - Old Timey Irish/American Foot Stompers - 8-11pm in the Northern Express Room

Sláinte!

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Introducing the NEW Players Club Join for FREE today.

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Standard Promotional rules apply. See Player’s Club for details.

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