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No To Common Core

I just read Stephen Tuttle’s recent column and have to correct some misinformation.

Rep. Gary Glenn introduced House Bill 4192 to completely eliminate Common Core, not for a new reading program. It would replace CC with the MA standards pre-Common Core, which were the best in the nation.

Those standards were “discarded” by their state reps after they were bought and paid for by proponents of CC. Regarding the MSTEP, its only real usefulness is that it allows the tracking of your child’s personal information. Teachers

do not know what questions are being asked, so they have no clue if they are actually helping. Refuse them. It’s your choice.

I’m not sure how you keep Mr. Tuttle on your staff. His information is severely lacking much of the time.

Kelley Vilenski, Interlochen

Our Lakes Are Threatened

This is for all of us who live, vacation, enjoy, and appreciate the Great Lakes for their true value. Fittingly enough, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative was launched in 2010 with the help of Senator Debbie Stabenow. Its purpose was to protect one fifth of the world’s fresh water supply from pollution, oil, and invasive species such as the Asian carp. This was a long needed initiative and profoundly overdue.

We are now being threatened by the Republicans in Congress and the president, who want to reduce the funds needed by the Initiative by 97 percent, from $300 million to $10 million. Once again the GOP and its leader are showing their willingness to set us back to the 1950s with little or no water protection. The president wants to use these restoration funds to enhance our military and develop more nuclear weapons. If anything, our military budget—overweight, full of pork, and famous for paying too much for way too little – should be decreased. This after all is what Republicans claim to be good at. America has the most powerful military in the world, so powerful that our arch enemy Russia would only dare to use cyber attacks.

We might ask ourselves: What will the Great Lakes look like? Polluted and infested with invasive species? his should make us all angry.

W.D. Bushey, Elmwood Township

Bergman’s Oath

In 1969 a young Marine named Jack Bergman took the Oath of Enlistment and swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. For 30 years

he was “on point,” defending and protecting the American Dream and the American Promise.

Congressman Bergman reaffirmed that oath when he was sworn in as a member of Congress. General Bergman is the highest ranking military officer ever elected to Congress.

Unfortunately, Bergman seems reluctant to meet with his constituents unless they are financial contributors. Attempts to convey thoughts that pertain to the security of America or to the other issues that concern the citizens of the 1st District have repeatedly fallen on the deaf ears of his staff, so I find that my only recourse is to go public with this appeal.

General, you must call for and/or fully support an investigation into the alleged hacking of our election by the Russian Federation, and public disclosure of the findings. You must call for and/ or fully support an investigation into our current President’s tax returns to assure the American public there have been no entanglements between the Russian Federation and President Trump or any of his many far flung business interests. And again, the findings must be made public.

General Bergman, you are still “on point.”

Lights out has not yet been called. Taps has not yet sounded. You must do the job you swore to do. Defending America means finding the truth, wherever it may lead.

Sir, I hope that someday you will find that courage you had as a young Marine and face the Americans you represent as bravely as you faced this country’s foes in the past.

CONTENTS

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

Just One More Run..........................................10 Lobdell’s..........................................................11 What’s New in Brew......................................13 Traverse City’s Irish Sons..................................15 Kilkenny’s Aims at Irish Authenticity...................16 Brewing A Healthy Economy............................18 Seen..................................................................21

dates...............................................23-26 music Connecting to Ireland with The High Kings.........14 FourScore.......................................................27 Nightlife............................................................30

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

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................4 Weird................................................................8 Style..................................................................9 Crossed...........................................................12 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates.................................28 The Reel.......................................................29 John Hunter, Traverse City Advice Goddess..............................................31 Crossword.....................................................32 Freewill Astrology...........................................33 Good Regulations Classifieds......................................................34 As President Trump spends his time rolling out conspiracy theories as fact-based, our country is facing the real consequences of the Republicans’ rolling back regulations that in fact protect citizens. These rules Congress will be voting on include regulations that: control Wall Street, gun sellers, clean air and water, big pharma, workplace safety, energy efficiency, the list goes on…all under the ruse that by doing so will provide economic growth. Of course what that means is more Northern Express Weekly is published by profit for corporations. The price we all Eyes Only Media, LLC. Publisher: Luke Haase will pay is the health of our people and the 129 E Front Traverse City, MI planet. These are regulations – yes – but Phone: (231) 947-8787 Fax: 947-2425 they are good regulations!

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Support Our Schools

Public schools serve many purposes: educating citizens to ensure a wellfunctioning democracy; teaching life skills; making one nation out of a country of immigrants; preparing students for employment; and providing students with the means to a richer life through education in liberal arts and sciences. Over the years public schools have performed these tasks well, making America a wealthy nation and a stable democracy. There are thousands of public schools that serve as sources of civic pride, and millions of Americans who attribute their success to their experiences and teachers in these schools.

But now this vital institution is under attack. We have been closing public schools — often in poor neighborhoods — and replacing them with charters, into which we funnel public tax money. These charters are often poorly regulated; in some states, the teachers don’t even need to have teaching certificates. Predictably, the results are not wonderful.

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The charter movement began as a response to desegregation: white people who didn’t want integrated schools started a parallel school system. Now the issue is economic class. We are told that our schools are failing; they are not. If you look at test scores from schools where 10 percent or less of the students are poor, our schools are doing fine. The real problem is rampant poverty. Student performance is more closely related to family income than to anything else, and it isn’t because teachers in poor schools are lazy. It’s because of hunger, lack of proper medical care, homelessness, severe stress, etc. Teachers can’t teach kids whose basic needs aren’t being met.

We must stop blaming schools and teachers for the problems of the larger society, stop pouring money into charters, and start supporting the schools, students and teachers that need our help.

Tom Gutowski, Traverse City

Speak Out

When will Republicans speak out against this rogue, out of control president and his hounds? They are now talking nuclear proliferation, ridiculing the media, denigrating our intelligence agencies, destabilizing the world, confusing our allies and now accusing President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower.

I am afraid this president will get the United States into another war. Any military officer or enlisted person will tell you that Putin is not to be trusted. The involvement

by Russia in our last election needs to be investigated and measures taken to prevent another occurrence.

We have a paranoid bully in the White House, surrounded by like-minded radicals whose advice is far from mainstream America. This president wrote a big check at the (non) State of the Union which 30 percent of Americans including Congress applauded. Huge tax cuts vs. massive spending programs just does not add up.

Regulations protect our environment,

lakes, and streams; they protect our savings from agents that gamble and speculate; Trump is making it easier to ruin our environment and Americans to lose their savings.

Republicans have to get this president under control before we are in another recession or war.

Ronald D. Dykstra, US Army (ret), Beulah

Bergman Should Be A Computer

Hear, hear! Kudos to Stephen Tuttle for nailing the politicization and demise of public education. Our Congress knows nothing about educating children, or 51 of them would not have voted for a Secretary of Education who has never held a job.

Tuttle is right-on about tests being a false measurement of student skills. Who’s making money on these tests? Teachers can’t even see the test to see what is expected.

Talk about shooting blind. Oh, did I say shooting? That’s another issue.

I am honored to have spent 32 years in public education. We enliven, connect, and apply core skills to our students’ world. We model the love of learning. But when the test comes out (M-Step) with questions on history that aren’t even in our curriculum, what is the result?

Jack Bergman is proving every day how limited he is. We could have elected a computer. He won’t have town halls. Maybe a military career isn’t the best experience for listening and finding common ground with the people he is elected to serve. Democracy is messy. Oligarchy is cleaner.

Jack Bergman wants to abolish Common Core—which he hasn’t even read, or he wouldn’t feel that way—and use another state’s curriculum that has long been abandoned. What? A computer wouldn’t do that. A computer follows logic.

Bergman is a novice and is sealing himself off from his constituents. Too bad he didn’t put that on a yard sign. “I don’t meet with constituents.”

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THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY opinion

BY Carlin smith “Think Globally, Act Locally” has been a rallying cry for the environmental movement for many years. I say it is time that we expand the use of this slogan and apply its message to social responsibility as well. There is a lot of anger and unrest in the country, more than we’ve seen in a long time. What if we refocused that anger and turned it toward positive, hands-on efforts to create the social changes we are seeking at the grassroots level?

A lot of that anger has been directed at the government. Personally, I don’t expect positive social change to come from our government, and I haven’t for a long time.

Government is too fragmented. Through political eyes, a positive change for one person is a negative change for the next person, so agreement is difficult to reach. In addition to the political division, government just doesn’t have the resources to make profound differences anymore. The government is spread too thin financially and is no

been mentoring me for the past couple of years on the concept of elevating humanity through businesses. It’s known by many names: corporate social responsibility, conscious capitalism, conscious business, triple bottom line, positive business practices. No matter the name, the idea is that businesses should find a purpose beyond their profits, and then continue to do business to help fulfill that higher purpose.

Why businesses? As Nathan has taught me, businesses are the largest conveners of human effort. Businesses are the organizations that get things done. They are innovative, resourceful, efficient, and capable of doing great things by leading the people they employ. For more and more businesses, the great things they are doing go beyond the service or product they provide, and go way beyond their bottom line. Instead their efforts go toward enhancing the environment in which they live and the communities that support them.

I see the business community as being poised and ready to make the next level of change we want to see in our hometowns. longer able to make broad changes or mobilize people as it once did.

To me, the best way to move forward with positive social change is by rolling up our collective sleeves and getting to work in local communities. As Gandhi said, “be the change you want to see in the world.”

Change needs to happen at the grassroots level. Your time and resources are best spent serving those in your hometown.

What’s your passion? Is it public education?

Ending discrimination? Feeding the hungry? No matter the cause, you can find ways to get involved and make a difference here in northern Michigan.

The Petoskey Regional Chamber made the decision to lead change in Petoskey last year. In the past, as a business organization, our work was focused on programs and services that have helped businesses succeed.

Now we’ve broadened that vision to help our community succeed through the work of local businesses.

Businesses are sometimes portrayed as evil, driven by corporate greed. And yes, there are bad businesses out there, but they are a small minority. The businesses I know are led by good people who provide good jobs and have positive impact on their communities. They are the same businesses who support Little League Baseball, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, student robotics programs, food banks, land protection agencies, the arts, and on and on. Attend any community-led event and you will find it is sponsored or supported by local businesses.

My friend Nathan Havey of northern Michigan’s own Thrive Consulting has

Northern Michigan is blessed with a strong and effective nonprofit network.

Much of the social change in our region is led by these organizations, and some of our strongest leaders are at their helms. We are fortunate to have them and I’m grateful for the work that they do. But think about it, much of the work that comes from the nonprofit sector comes on the backs of businesses. Many of their donors are businesses or individuals who acquired wealth through business success.

I see the business community as being poised and ready to make the next level of change we want to see in our hometowns.

In Petoskey, our Chamber is leading an initiative called “Thriving Petoskey” with a mission of promoting positive business practices that help our businesses and communities thrive.

Over the two years of this initiative, I’ve heard many good stories about area businesses doing great things to enhance the lives of their employees or giving back to their community. Businesses are really the good guys after all. They’ve been quietly doing good things, supporting local causes, being environmentally friendly, and giving their employees a great place to work.

Through Thriving Petoskey we will be telling those stories in hopes of growing the momentum and getting businesses accurately portrayed as the organizations making a positive difference.

This is a movement I can get behind.

Carlin Smith is the president of the Petoskey Area Chamber of Commerce.

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Middle Schoolers Plan to Cross the Straits Two Elk Rapids middle schoolers and a teacher plan to cross the Mackinac Straits on stand-up paddle boards to raise money for the Great Lakes.

The Cherryland Middle School 8th grade International Baccalaureate students plan to make the crossing in late April to support the nonprofit group Stand Up For Great Lakes. Students Gordie Lafontaine and Kadin Patterson were inspired by their science teacher Kwin Morris’ tale of crossing Lake Michigan by stand-up paddleboard in 2016.

“We heard about the paddle and how much money and awareness they raised and wanted to help make a difference, too,” said Patterson. “We love our lakes – the great ones and the small ones – and the opportunity to make such a significant journey across one of them would be amazing.”

The trio will be joined by two more experienced paddlers and a support boat on the dangerous crossing; each is physically fit and they’ve trained all winter, Morris said.

Visit standupforgreatlakes.com or www.gofundme.com/GreatLakes

Get in the mood for St. Patty’s Day with ireland’s Téada & The Outside Track! Enjoy an evening of Celtic music at the Ramsdell Theater, Manistee on Thurs., March 16 at 7:30pm. $20 advance, $25 door. mynorthtickets.com. Téada also plays the Robert Emmet Society Annual Hoolie (fundraiser) at Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey on Fri., March 17 at 6pm.

Info: blissfest.org. The Outside Track also plays Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC on Sun., March 19 at 4pm. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door. 947-9213.

Gaylord Performer Makes the Cut on The Voice Northern Michigan fans of singing competition show The Voice might recognize another familiar face in a long line of Voice contestants hailing from our state, including Joshua Davis and Laith Al-Saadi. The newest member of The Voice’s Team Blake is Gaylord’s own Lauren Duski.

Duski, who graduated from Gaylord High School, is a country performer who went on to attend the University of Michigan, and who’s also performed at Gaylord’s Alpenfest. She’s lived in Nashville for the past two years, while her parents remain in Gaylord as dentists at Duski Dentistry.

Duski’s cover of Jewel’s song “You Were Meant For Me” caused three judges -- country star Blake Shelton, Maroon 5’s frontman Adam Levine, and singer Gwen Stefani -- to turn their chairs. Duski, who picked Jewel’s song because of Jewel’s own Michigan experience (Jewel attended Interlochen Center for the Arts), ultimately chose country singer Shelton as her coach to stick with her own country-western roots.

You can watch Duski’s progress on The Voice when the show airs at 8pm Monday and Tuesday nights on NBC.

tastemakers The New York’s Bumpy Cake Since 1904, the elegant New York Restaurant in downtown Harbor Springs has been welcoming guests with its old– school feel and classic American menu that features such retro favorites as oysters on the half shell, filet mignon, tuna nicoise and hangar steak.

But if you skip the dessert menu, you’re definitely missing out, especially on one dessert in particular.

The New York’s house–made “Bumpy Cake” should be on every cake fan’s must–consume list. On the surface, it may look like any other cake, albeit with a strange looking top layer; but that, devotees of sweets, is the Bumpy Cake’s secret.

On the bottom, you’ll find three layers of rich just–spongy–enough chocolate cake sandwiched together with vanilla buttercreme. But the top – the “bumpy” part – offers piles of rich buttercreme covered in chocolate glaze, and that sugary surprise is what puts this cake over the top.

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C R O S S H AT C H H I L L H O U S E SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND

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ENVIRONMENTAL BACKTRACKING spectator by stephen tuttle “I’m a very big person when it comes to the environment. I have received awards on the environment.” That’s what President Donald Trump said in a meeting with business leaders on January 23.

We’ll just ignore the fact that no one can find any awards he’s ever won “on the environment,” and let’s check to see how his environmental bigness is playing out.

He nominated, and the Senate confirmed, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt, who made a political career out of suing, more than a dozen times, the agency he now leads, wants to work with business on environmental issues.

He did that in Oklahoma by cozying up

cant waste adjacent to and into creeks and streams. According to the EPA, such dumping has already destroyed 2,000 smaller waterways in coal mining regions.

Additionally, Trump has pledged to increase coal production, the open pit version of which is the most environmentally destructive form of fossil fuel extraction. Now coal powered energy will continue to befoul the air while the mines continue befouling the surrounding landscape and waterways.

Perhaps most troubling for us in Michigan was the preliminary budget proposal, first reported in The Oregonian, to slash funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative from $300 million to just $10 million, a staggering 97 percent.

Perhaps most troubling for us in Michigan was the preliminary budget proposal, first reported in The Oregonian, to slash funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative from $300 million to just $10 million

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to the oil and natural gas industries, fighting for more fracking despite Oklahoma’s crazy earthquake clusters and denying the connection between fossil fuels and climate change.

His harshest critics believe his intent, and that of the president, is to dismantle the agency.

Trump doesn’t have to count on Pruitt.

He’s been plenty busy himself.

He ordered completion of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Delays caused by the Army Corps of Engineers, the State Department and protesters are over (he also insisted the unfinished segments use only American steel. TransCanada, the Alberta-based company that owns the pipeline, uses and has stockpiled steel made in India).

Proponents applauded the decision as a job creator and economy booster. Opponents decried the decision as a step backward in reducing greenhouse gasses – the process of extracting sand tar oil that will flow through the pipeline emits about 15 percent more greenhouse gasses than traditional oil drilling methods – and because of the risk of pipeline spills into nearby water supplies.

Trump also ordered expedited procedures and approval of environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects.

That’s especially odd since major projects have the greatest environmental impact and typically require the most careful reviews to mitigate that impact.

He reversed the clean water rule that extended EPA authority from major bodies of water and waterways to include smaller rivers, streams and wetlands. He said the old rule hindered business development and infringed on private property rights.

Environmentalists said those little waterways and wetlands are significant ecosystems in their own right and nourish the larger ecosystems into which they typically flow.

Trump reversed regulations that would have prevented coal mines from continuing the practice of dumping their signifi-

That’s money to find, stop, clean up and prevent pollution. Money to prevent even more invasive species from gaining a foothold. It’s the primary source of funding for Great Lakes protection.

Even if those numbers, as we’re being told, are very preliminary, every member of Michigan’s congressional delegation, every legislator and every local official should be appalled and saying so. Surely they can at least be bipartisan on this issue.

Failure to protect that resource would have potentially catastrophic consequences here. We have a $9 billion fishing industry, a $16 billion boating industry, and a $25 billion tourism industry, predicated at least in part on having nice water, that supports more than 200,000 jobs.

Not to mention the Great Lakes provide drinking water for nearly 35 million people, including more than 24 million Americans.

That’s important enough to wonder why this administration would even consider any decrease in funding designed to protect such a resource.

We abused the environment when we didn’t know better. Now that we do, but we’re backtracking anyway. Part of that abuse is responsible for climate change.

The overwhelming majority of climate scientists tell us climate change is a reality we caused. The only solution is reducing our use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions; Trump’s actions will increase both.

The Trump Administration is either willfully ignorant of the importance of the environment or delusional, dreaming of a time when smokestacks belched and important men gathered in wood paneled rooms to smoke cigars after a nice steak dinner.

The business-first-environment-bedamned path we’re suddenly traveling might gain a few short-term jobs, some returns for shareholders and more parties at Mara-Lago. But ignoring the environmental tipping point on which we’re now perched will surely shorten the celebrations.

Crime & Rescue DOG KILLED DURING ARREST A deputy was forced to shoot a dog during an incident at a Blair Township home.

Grand Traverse Sheriff’s deputies investigated Yuriy Alekseykov for assault and disturbing the peace Feb. 28 after an incident at the West YMCA and forwarded a report to prosecutors. Alekseykov was not arrested, but in an unrelated case he was taken to jail on March 5 by state police for shoplifting and resisting arrest.

When prosecutors opted not to charge Alekseykov in the first case, jail staff released the 23-year-old on March 7 before he was arraigned in the second case. Later that day, a sergeant noticed the error and deputies were sent to Alekseykov’s home to bring him back to jail.

As officers approached the home, a German Shepherd jumped through an open window and ran aggressively toward one of the deputies.

The deputy retreated, but the dog kept pursuing, forcing the officer to shoot the dog. The dog later died. Alekseykov then exited the home and surrendered.

Sheriff’s officials said the incident will prompt a review of the procedures followed when inmates are released from jail.

CHARGES FILED IN PEDESTRIAN CRASH A 59-year-old Maple City man who struck a pedestrian is accused of drunk driving.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Dwayne Allen Mikowski after he struck a 70-yearold Cedar man on South Lake Shore Drive in Centerville Township.

Deputies said Mikowski crossed the centerline as he drove into a curve and struck the man, who was crossing the road. The pedestrian was thrown onto the windshield of Mikowski’s car and then onto the road. He was taken to Munson Medical Center and was listed in stable but critical condition.

Mikowski was determined to be drunk and faces felony charges of operating while intoxicated causing serious injury and being an habitual offender. He has prior drunk driving convictions in 1992, 2000 and 2011.

TWO ARRESTED FOR ONE-POT METH Two people were arrested in Gaylord after police received a tip about an in-home meth lab.

Straits Area Narcotics Team officers executed a search warrant on the evening of March 2 and found methamphetamine and items used to make it, according to a press release.

Two suspects who lived in the house were taken to jail – a 28-year-old man for manufacturing meth and a 30-year-old woman for supplying pseudoephedrine, the cold medicine drug that’s used in one-pot methamphetamine production.

TEENAGER ACCUSED OF SEX CRIME A 19-year-old Kingsley man is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

Nelson Manuel Rodriguez faces up to 15 years in prison on a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Michigan State Police investigated Feb. 24 when the girl reported that she and some friends had been in Rodriguez’s care. When he dropped them off, he asked her to remain in the car and then he pinned her in the back seat and sexually assaulted her, according to the charges.

Rodriguez was jailed in lieu of a $100,000 bond and he was arraigned March 3.

by patrick sullivan psullivan@northernexpress.com

PAROLE CHECK FINDS METH LAB A parolee home check in Cadillac led police to a meth lab.

Michigan State Police and Department of Corrections agents visited a house March 2 where a parolee was registered. They became suspicious as they checked the parolee’s room and sensed someone was hiding in the basement.

When the officials checked the basement, they found items and ingredients used to make methamphetamine and they called in the Traverse Narcotics Team and the state police meth response team.

Two Cadillac men, ages 47 and 31, were arrested for violating parole and for manufacturing meth.

BODY FOUND IN BOARDMAN Police are investigating a man’s identity and cause of death after a body was found in the Boardman River.

A canoer called 911 March 8 after he spotted a body on the east side of the river near the South YMCA facility in Garfield Township.

Dense woods and marsh prevented Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies from reaching the body by land so deputies launched a boat and retrieved the deceased by water.

The man was wearing winter clothes. An autopsy will take place in Kalamazoo, with pathology staff at Western Michigan University assisting in the investigation.

The helicopter crew faced conditions including deep snow, steep slope, and winds in excess of 25mph while rescuing the man. A member of the Coast Guard aircrew was lowered from the helicopter hovering 125 feet above the ground, and prepared the man to be hoisted to the aircraft.

The crew transported the man to Sault Ste. Marie Airport in Ontario, where an ambulance took him to a hospital.

MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES FILED An Ohio man faces manslaughter charges in the violent death of a 45-yearold Manistee man.

Gary Wayne-Woodward Mabry was found dead in his apartment on Hancock Street in January. Manistee Police identified a suspect and interviewed him within hours of the death but didn’t arrest him pending autopsy results, Chief Dave Bachman said.

“Without giving too much away, I will say that the suspect and victim were known to each other and that drugs were involved in this case,” Bachman said.

Now the suspect, 31-year-old Terell Dwayne Bentley, is in jail and he faces a count of involuntary manslaughter, a charge that carries up to 15 years in prison. Mabry died of blunt force trauma to the head.

CANADIAN SNOWMOBILER RESCUED A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City helicopter crew rescued a snowmobiler who suffered life-threatening injuries in a remote area of northern Ontario.

The crew was dispatched from Traverse City at 6:45pm March 4 and located the snowmobiler at 10pm near Chapleau, Ontario, north of Sault Ste. Marie.

The 40-year-old man was in a heavily wooded area covered in waist-deep snow. He had been traveling alone when he crashed. Another group of snowmobilers found him, some of the group staying with him and building a fire and others traveling to a lodge several miles away to phone for help and provide a GPS location.

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Corned Beef n’Cabbage Exploiting Villains In February, two teams of South Korean researchers announced cancer-fighting breakthroughs -- by taking lessons from how two of medicine’s most vexing, destructive organisms (diarrhea-causing salmonella bacteria and the rabies virus) can access often-unconquerable cancer cells. In journal articles, biologist Jung-joon Min of Chonnam National University described how his team “weaponized” a cancer-fighting invader cell with salmonella to stir up more-robust immune responses, and nanoparticle expert Yu Seok Youn’s Sungkyunkwan University team coated immunizing cells with the rabies protein (since the rabies virus is remarkably successful at invading healthy cells) to reach brain tumors.

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Unclear on the Concept -- Gemma Badley was convicted in England’s Teesside Magistrates’ Court in February of impersonating British psychic Sally Morgan on Facebook, selling her “readings” as if they were Morgan’s. (To keep this straight: Badley is the illegal con artist, Morgan the legal one.)

-- Michigan is an “open carry” state, and any adult not otherwise disqualified under state law may “pack heat” in public (except in a few designated zones). In February, an overly earnest Second Amendment fan, James Baker, 24 (accompanied by pal Brandon Vreeland, 40), believed the law was an invitation to walk into the Dearborn police station in full body armor and ski mask, with a semi-automatic pistol and a sawed-off rifle (and have Vreeland photograph officers’ reactions). (Yes, both were arrested.)

-- Wells Fargo Bank famously admitted last year that employees (pressured by a company incentive program) had fraudulently opened new accounts for about 2 million existing customers by forging their signatures. In an early lawsuit by a victim of the fraud (who had seven fraudulent accounts opened), the bank argued (and a court agreed!) that the lawsuit had to be handled by arbitration instead of a court of law because the customer had, in the original Wells Fargo contract (that dense, fine-print one he actually signed), agreed to arbitration for “all” disputes. A February Wells Fargo statement to Consumerist.com claimed that customers’ forgoing legal rights was actually for their own benefit, in that “arbitration” is faster and less expensive.

News That Sounds Like a Joke Ex-Colombo family mobster and accused hitman “Tommy Shots” Gioeli, 64, recently filed a federal court lawsuit over a 2013 injury at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City. He fell and broke a kneecap while playing ping-pong (allegedly because of water on the floor), awaiting sentencing for conspiracy to commit murder. The New York Post also noted that the “portly” Gioeli, who was later sentenced to 18 years, was quite a sight at trial, carrying his “man purse” each day.

Great Art! French artist Abraham Poincheval told reporters in February that in his upcoming “performance,” he will entomb himself for a week in a limestone boulder at a Paris museum and then, at the conclusion, sit on a dozen bird eggs until they hatch -- “an inner journey,” he said, “to find out what the world is.” (He apparently failed to learn that from previous efforts, such as the two weeks he spent inside a stuffed bear or his time on the Rhone River inside a giant corked bottle.) He told reporters

the super-snug tomb has been thoroughly accessorized, providing for breathing, eating, heart monitor and emergency phone -- except, they noted, nothing on exactly how toileting will be handled.

The Job of the Researcher A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “bioacoustic research” team recently reported recording and listening to about 2 million underwater sounds made over a four-month period by various species of dolphins (“whistles,” echolocation “clicks,” and “burst pulses”) and can, they believe, distinguish the sounds to match them to a particular dolphin species (among the five most prevalent) -- with 84 percent accuracy. The team built a computer algorithm to also make estimating dolphin populations much easier.

The Continuing Crisis -Compelling Explanations: (1) Oklahoma state Rep. Justin Humphrey, justifying his proposed bill to require a woman seeking an abortion to first identify the father, told a reporter in February that the father’s permission is crucial because, after all, the woman is basically a “host” who “invited that (fetus) in.” (2) After the North Dakota House of Representatives voted yet again in January to retain the state’s Sunday-closing “blue laws,” Rep. Bernie Satrom explained to a reporter: “Spending time with your wife, your husband, making him breakfast, bringing it to him in bed” is better than going shopping.

-- Small-Town Government: The ex-wife of Deputy Sheriff Corey King of Washington County, Georgia (largest town: Sandersville, pop. 5,900), filed a federal lawsuit in January against King after he arrested her for the “crime” of making a snarky comment about him on Facebook (about his failure to bring the couple’s children their medicine). King allegedly conspired with a friendly local magistrate on the arrest, and though the prosecutor refused the case, King warned the ex-wife that he would still re-arrest her if she made “the mistake of going to Facebook with your little (excrement) ... to fuss about.”

Leading Economic Indicators In a first-person profile for the Chicago Tribune in February, marketing consultant Peter Bender, 28, recalled how he worked to maximize his knowledge of the products of company client Hanes -- and not just the flagship Hanes underwear but its Playtex and Maidenform brands. In an “empathy” exercise, Bender wore bras for three days (a sports bra, an underwire and a lacy one) -- fitted at size 34A (or “less than A,” he said). “These things are difficult,” he wrote on a company blog. “The lacy one,” especially, was “itchy.”

News You Can Use “Fecal transplants” (replacing a sick person’s gut bacteria with those of a healthier one) are now almost routine treatments for patients with violent abdominal attacks of C. diff bacteria, but University of California researcher Chris Callewaert says the concept also works for people with particularly stinky armpits. Testing identical twins (one odoriferous, the other not), the researcher, controlling for diet and other variables, “cured” the smelly one by swabbing his pit daily with the sweat of the better-smelling twin. The Callewaert team told a recent conference that they were working on a more “general” brew of bacteria that might help out anyone with sour armpits.

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Whether your idea of a perfect day at the ski resort is cruising leisurely down a green circle run or carving it up fast on a tough black diamond, your days of doing either in northern Michigan are coming to an end as spring approaches. But never fear, ambitious skiers! There are still plenty of ski season wrap–up events on the way over the next month or so, so strap on those boots and let’s check out the highlights.

CELTS AND KAYAKS AT CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN:

March 17–18 This unique take on the St. Patrick’s holiday keeps things festive, from the Shamrock Search and Pot of Gold challenge to the Celtic Dance and hunt for the once–a– year “Leaping Leprechaun.” If you’re brave enough, you can even sign up, snag some equipment and try your paddles at the weekend’s trademark event, the Kayak on the Snow Race. For more information, visit crystalmountain.com.

CARNIVAL WEEKEND AT BOYNE MOUNTAIN:

March 17–19 The whole weekend is yours in Boyne Falls for the annual Carnival Weekend at the ski slopes, which blends St. Patrick’s Day and Mardi Gras into one big snowy blowout.

This year’s event includes music from ‘80s band The Breakfast Club alongside skiing, snowboarding, zipline rides, a food truck rally and more. For more information, visit boyne.com.

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March 17–19 Right alongside Boyne Mountain’s spring festivities is Boyne Highlands’ version, at which the sister resort offers up many similar events. From live music to the always soggy Ski over the Pond to festive face painting to the Silly Slalom and more, the Highlands says goodbye to another ski season with its own brand of krazy. For more information, visit boyne.com.

MARDI GRAS AT NUB’S NOB:

March 18 Nub’s annual spring fling is back with the Petoskey Steel Drum Band providing the tunes as you take on the Pepsi Challenge races, participate in the costume contest,

cheer on your favorite Crazy Couple, listen to tunes from Patrick Ryan and splash your way through the Soaker Cup at this family– oriented event. For more information, visit nubsnob.com.

BLARNEY STONE RAIL JAM AT SHANTY CREEK:

March 18 Snowboarders take over the Monster Energy Terrain Park starting at 1pm at this Shanty Creek spring event, with three judges keeping an eye on the boarders throughout this fun, daring competition that offers the opportunity to show off your skills and win lift tickets for the upcoming 2017–2018 ski and boarding season. For more information, visit shantycreek.com.

SHORT’S ROCKS THE MOUNTAIN AT TREETOPS RESORT:

March 18 This end–of–season bash is essentially an all–day party at Treetops, with live music from A Brighter Bloom and Sweet Tooth along with the famed Leprechaun on Stilts, the Slush Cup, corn hole games and a range of brews from Short’s Brewing Company in Bellaire; wear shorts and get a lift ticket for $5 bucks. For more information, visit treetops.com.

SKI LEAGUE/FAMILY AND FRIENDS/BOYNE DOWNHILL RACES AT BOYNE HIGHLANDS:

March 25–26 Whether you’re part of one of Boyne Highland’s official ski league teams, are associated otherwise (the Family and Friends race is open to all ages and abilities) or just want to watch the action–packed competition at the Olympic and Leprechaun levels, this annual trio of end–of–season ski races makes for a fun March weekend in Harbor Springs. For more information, visit boyne.com.

SNOW CHALLENGE AT SCHUSS MOUNTAIN:

April 1–2 Set your skis aside temporarily and take part in (or just watch!) Schuss’ late– season slopes transform into a track for side–by–side uphill truck racing, with modified trucks and jeeps hitting the gas to race to the top. It’s a fun, loud event for a great cause, with a portion of the proceeds going to help Michigan’s disabled American vets. For more information, visit shantycreek.com.

Lobdell’s Dining with Tomorrow’s Culinary Professionals

By Janice Binkert Lobdell’s, A Teaching Restaurant, at Northwestern Michigan College’s Great Lakes Culinary Institute (GLCI), has been called Traverse City’s best–kept secret. And yet this venue, which affords stunning 180–degree views of West Grand Traverse Bay, Power Island and Leelanau and Old Mission peninsulas, is one place where you’d be well advised to reserve a table in advance. Why? Because those who know about it come back again and again.

LEARNING BY DOING One might expect that the facility – which is essentially a classroom – would be basic and functional or that it might serve simple food since it is operated by GLCI students who are still learning their craft. Nothing could be further from the truth. The experience of dining at Lobdell’s, while relaxed for guests, occurs in an elegant, upscale atmosphere with gleaming china, stemware and silverware, crisply pressed white tablecloths, artfully folded napkins and flowers on every table. A full bar and wine list complements the diverse and creative bistro– style menu, and the white–coated waitstaff is discretely friendly and attentive. The students are taught not only how to prep and cook with flair and efficiency in a real–life restaurant kitchen, but they are also introduced to the finer points of professional dining room service.

Lobdell’s, named for the generous local bene-

factors who made the restaurant possible, is open for lunch during NMC’s fall and spring semesters and features a new menu every session. Chef–instructor Joel Papcun teaches and supervises the back of the house (that’s culinary speak for the kitchen and line crew), while front of the house director Patty Huhta, with assistance from service coordinator Kerry Fulcher, trains and manages the dining room team.

Three weeks of intense theory and development take place before the restaurant opens.

“The restaurant class [CUL 295, Contemporary Service and Cuisine] is a required part of the GLCI curriculum,” said Papcun. “It is the capstone course for the program. Students develop the food selections, create and test the recipes and decide on plate layouts while being trained in table service, beverage service and general restaurant procedures.”

In addition to passing on their own expertise, Huhta and Papcun arrange for specialists from other fields to present wine seminars and other specific industry–based training. Then, in the course of the semester, students move through nine work stations, including everything from dishwasher to server and sauté cook to wheel/line lead. Customer service skills, host duties, reservation systems, menu planning and costing are emphasized as well.

RESPECT FROM ALL SIDES “This gives students the chance to become adept at things they might not have experi-

enced before,” said Huhta.

“It’s important for them to understand all the different sides of the hospitality business.” It’s a tall order for these aspiring culinarians, but both Huhta and Papcun agree it’s one the students are well prepared to fill.

“The students are here from 9am until 3pm four days a week,” said Huhta. “Monday is prep day in the kitchen and set–up day in the dining room. Tuesday through Thursday, we start in the classroom in the morning and then move into the restaurant.”

Huhta has great admiration for students who work outside of school, which is common. “It’s a demanding program,” she emphasized, “and when they have another job – even if it’s 20 hours a week – that’s a lot, because this class is like a job itself, and most of them are taking other classes, too. But the majority of them handle it well, keeping up with their schoolwork along with everything else they have going on. We’re very proud of them.”

Papcun concurred. “Working with the students at GLCI is very rewarding,” he said. “The amazing variety of personalities and skill levels keeps me sharp and continues to drive my own desire to learn.”

Customers are encouraged to fill out comment cards after dining at Lobdell’s. “Every morning that we’ve had service the day before, we go through them and discuss them – what we did right, what we could have done better,” said Huhta. “We appreciate hearing constructive criticism and praise. As their instructors, Chef Joel and I hold the students to high standards, but in the end, the most important thing is being respectful and kind to guests – I think in any type of job, that’s the key thing.”

A FEAST FOR THE SENSES There’s no denying that Lobdell’s food is also a key factor that keeps its clientele loyal. A sampling from the current menu reveals delicacies from the fields, forests and waters of Northern Michigan and beyond, tickling the taste buds and delighting the other senses, too. Temptations include roasted wild–caught white shrimp with garlic butter, spinach, lemon–basil aioli and toast points; corn and bacon chowder with chives; smoked duck on a bed of mixed greens, candied

pecans, port–infused currants and Manchego cheese with black currant vinaigrette; and seared beef tenderloin with shiitake and cremini mushrooms, shallots, garlic, thyme and Chardonnay– Dijon cream sauce.

Hungry for more? How about a piece of decadent flourless chocolate cake with raspberry mousse and hazelnut cream anglaise, topped with raspberries, cocoa nibs and Chantilly cream?

And while we’re on the subject of desserts, they’re all prepared for the restaurant by GLCI’s Advanced Baking and Garde Manger classes, as are the breads, charcuterie and salad dressings.

“Lobdell’s focuses on seasonal foods as the supply in Northern Michigan permits,” said Papcun. “We use as many local and sustainable products as we can, sourcing many items from long–time partners in the region (including free trade coffee and organic/biodynamic tea selections) as well as nationally recognized sustainable purveyors. For example, the fish and seafood featured on each semester’s menu meet the requirements of the Monterey Bay Aquarium ‘Seafood Watch’ program.”

The quality of the food is high, but the prices are surprisingly low – and there’s no extra charge for that million–dollar view outside the windows. “It’s a nice spot to bring people from out of town so they can sit overlooking the bay while enjoying some very good food,” said Huhta. “Our regulars bring in guests all the time – friends, family and business associates. Our community is proud of the school and likes to show it off – and show off the students, too.”

Lobdell’s is located within the Great Lakes Culinary Institute at the Great Lakes Campus of Northwestern Michigan College, 715 East Front Street in Traverse City. Open for lunch Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:30am–1pm during the spring semester (first week of February to end of April) and fall semester (mid–September to mid– December). Reservations are highly recommended.

GLCI’s World Cuisine classes will be hosting two special events at Lobdell’s this spring: a French dinner Mar. 17 and an Italian dinner Apr. 21. Seats are still available for both. For more information, call (231) 995-3120 or visit nmc.edu/lobdells.

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Should Religion Be Taught in Public Schools?

Bill’s statement If they have their day in court, one local mother and a Wisconsin-based lobby for the separation of church and state might be granted the power to dictate what the good people of Mercer County, WV, may teach their children.

There is something wrong with that picture. In a democracy, should not the majority of a community’s people have a say in what their children are learning?

According to the article Gary sighted, “For nearly 80 Rev. Dr. William years, Bible stories have been taught in Mercer County as C. Myers Senior Pastor part of the regular school week and they’re extremely popuat Presbyterian lar in the community.” The classes are so popular that 96 Church of percent of the students in the county’s 19 elementary schools Traverse City participate -- a fact lost on Jane Doe and the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

“Popular doesn’t mean legal” is their argument. But legal is legal and, according to a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing religious organizations to create after-school activities in public school facilities, “Bible in the Schools” -- the program in question -- is perfectly legal. The Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution is pretty clear as well. If other organizations, religious or otherwise, are A LOCAL PASTOR granted access to public facilities, churches must be granted access as well.

So if the class is legal, what is the issue?

Are children being forced to attend that they might be indoctrinated in the “evils” of Christianity? No. Attendance is voluntary.

Are tax dollars being used to fund “Christian Fairy Tales”? No. Private donations pay for the program. So what’s the problem?

Apart from a Wisconsin-based lobby trying to burden the good people of West Virginia with its social agenda, there isn’t one. The parents of Mercer County should be able to send their children to Bible class at school. Those parents who don’t want their children to participate should be free to opt out. If, as has been alleged, there has been teasing or taunting, those incidents should be addressed appropriately. To each their own!

Gary’s statement There was an interesting story out of West Virginia on February 8. For almost 80 years, Mercer County public schools have been teaching Bible stories as part of the regular curriculum. Although the course is now voluntary and funded by private donations, it is administered by the school district. The enrollment rate for the class in this heavily Christian region is 96 percent.

If the program is voluntary and privately funded, why Gary Singer Gary helps should anyone be concerned? businesses with One parent, who had to remove her daughter from the their Internet school system after she was bullied for opting out of the class, marketing. cares very much. Another mother of a kindergartner, together He was raised a with the Freedom from Religion Foundation, have filed a joint Catholic. lawsuit against the county.

Just because something is popular does not mean it is legal. The only way that teaching religion to public school students can be justified is that it must have a secular purpose. It must equally address all other religions without promoting or denigrating any of them. That is not what is occurring here.

There is nothing remotely secular about a class that only addresses Christianity. Can ATHEIST DEBATE you imagine the outrage that would ensue if a Quran class were to be taught in a predominantly Muslim public school district?

Each of us today should be concerned with eliminating or minimizing barriers to equality. At least until the current administration took office, we had been making strides as a nation toward that end with respect to gender identity, sexual orientation, equality for women, and racial diversity. Unlike any of those, religion is a choice. To promote or even recognize that one religion is more correct or valuable than another only raises the discrimination bar. To do that in a public school is to show complete disregard for those who choose to live their lives without religion.

Elementary schools are for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Churches are for teaching religion. It’s just that simple.

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Gary’s reply “What’s the problem?” It’s simple. Mercer County is fostering social separation among young children. It is creating another level of segregation beyond those of gender and race, which are problematic enough for a six-year-old child. It’s easy for you and I to say “just opt out.” Opting out turns that child into a pariah among the overwhelming majority of her peers who have alternative beliefs. Actually, the religion class would be more tolerable in an environment comprised of a nationally representative mixture of belief systems.

In Mercer County’s world, you are either a Bible-bearing Christian or there is something wrong with you. Do you imagine these Christian parents would embrace equality in the form of also offering classes on Islam or Sikhism?

On top of that, this class is “taught as part of the regular school week,” not as an after-school program. That means that regardless of the funding source for the “teacher,” measurable school time and resources are being directed toward a class on Christianity in clear violation of laws separating church and state.

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Bill’s reply “Each of us today should be concerned with eliminating or minimizing barriers to equality.” Gary, you are right and that’s the point. The law allows for equal access and people can’t be discriminated against because of their faith. If a school district allows other groups (e.g. Junior Achievement, Scouts, YMCA, etc.) access to students and/or school property, they have to give religious organizations the same access. This freedom extends to all religions.

The Satanic Temple of Portland recently started an “After School Satan” program at a local elementary school. Where is the hue and cry from the Freedom from Religion folks? There won’t be any. The issue for them and most secularists isn’t freedom from religion. The issue is freedom from Christianity.

Sadly, what so many secularists don’t remember is that Christians and other people of faith were among those who led the way in establishing public schools and breaking down barriers to equality. Theirs was a divine mandate. In a world where there is no God, there is no moral authority for equality and freedom.

Agree statement Bill and Gary agree that equality and the free exchange of ideas, both within the school setting and beyond are worthy goals for all of us. We both wish to see more resources directed toward all education in our country.

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WHAT’S NEW IN BREW? Microbreweries Roundup SNOWBELT BREWING – GAYLORD

Nate Muellenberg and his wife Angielena have opened Gaylord’s first microbrewery with all beers made on the premises. The brewery was in the planning stages for the better part of a year, and the result is a carefully crafted menu of eight draft beers in a range of styles, from the Trail 7 Stout to the Pontresina Pale Ale; visitors can try a sampler of four five–ounce beers with pretzels.

Don’t Miss: Snowbelt’s “Viewing Window,” where guests can watch the intriguing process of how the brewery makes its beer.

It’s a Fact: Brewing runs in the Muellenberg family – Nate’s father was a home brewer for 40 years, and Nate himself worked at the home version of the process for 10 years.

Find It: 132 W. Main St., Gaylord.

Visit facebook.com/snowbeltbrewingco or call (989) 448-7077.

EARTHEN ALES – TRAVERSE CITY

Opened by husband and wife duo Jamie and Andrew Kidwell– Brix, Earthen Ales in The Village at Grand Traverse Commons aims to brew beer “with a sense of place and community,” sharing stories through microbrews in a welcoming space that includes an outdoor patio and draft beers on tap.

Don’t Miss: Unique IPAs including the Juniper Rye with juniper berries for a Finnish– inspired piney hop character and the Dos Serranos, brewed with Michigan–grown Centennial hops and roasted serrano chiles from Bare Knuckle Farm in Northport.

It’s a Fact: The taproom only offers very light snacks and instead encourages guests to bring food in from neighboring cafes in the Commons.

Find It: 1371 Gray Dr., Suite 200, Traverse City. Visit earthenales.com or call (231) 252-4270.

CLAM LAKE BEER CO. – CADILLAC

By Kristi Kates Two things that have really been growing in northern Michigan (in spite of the snow) are microbreweries and brewpubs, which are proliferating through our cities like fudgies in June. So what’s new in brew? What follows is a short list of some of the newest breweries to the Up North scene.

Formerly known as Shay Station, Clam Lake Beer Co. is a 139–seat tap house that carved itself out of an historic building in the city of Clam Lake, known today as Cadillac. With industrial metalwork and exposed brick, it’s a throwback to the early worker feel of the city and serves up its own IPAs and ales alongside a range of other regional and national microbrews.

Don’t Miss: Clam Lake Brewing’s own locally–focused beers, from the Ice Shanty Ale to the Lumber Baron and the Iron City IPA. It’s a Fact: If you join Clam Lake Beer Co.’s exclusive brew club, your lifetime membership will get you beer discounts, a special logo glass, birthday specials and a personal tour of the brewery with the brewmaster.

Find It: 106 S. Mitchell St., Cadillac. Visit clamlakebeerco.com or call (231) 775-6150.

THE SHED – TRAVERSE CITY

Conveniently located behind the Blue Tractor restaurant, The Shed is a casual hangout spot that brings together microbrews from North Peak Brewing Company (Siren Amber Ale, Wanderer Session IPA), Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales (Calabaza Blanca), Short’s Brewery (Huma Lupa Licious) and more, alongside its own menu of fun sliders that include meat and veggie options.

Don’t Miss: For $3 bucks, you can snag the ingredients to make your own s’more to sweetly complement your slider–and–beer lunch.

It’s a Fact: The Shed’s awesomely vintage beer truck is a classic 1955 Chevy.

Find It: 423 S. Union Street, Traverse City. Visit theshedbeergarden.com or call (231) 922-9515 (reopening spring 2017).

STIGGS BREWING COMPANY – BOYNE CITY

Housed in an historic railroad depot–turned–former lumber company in Boyne City, Stiggs Brewing Company is owned by microbiologist Mike Castiglione and includes a rotating menu of hearty snacks, sandwiches and entrees along with Stiggs’ own brews, including house brews like the Amarillo Rye and Avalanche Porter, plus favorites from other regional breweries and quirky beer offerings like The Elvis, a chocolate stout brewed with peanuts and banana.

Don’t Miss: The opportunity to stare at Stiggs’ unique tables, embedded with colorful, complex mosiacs made of beer caps.

It’s a Fact: Castiglione brewed his very first batch of beer in his college apartment on a cheap electric stove and fermented it in buckets in his closet. The result? He said it was one of the worst beers he’s ever made. (Don’t worry, his skills have improved since then.)

Find It: 112 South Park, Boyne City. Visit stiggsbrewingcompany.com

MICRO DONATIONS, MACRO CHANGE! Alongside your favorite new microbreweries is a new local charity that’s aiming to help our communities one miniature step at a time.

Established in 2016 by Rare Bird Brewpub’s owner and brewer Tina Schuett, Pour For More compounds micro–scale donations from participating vendors, including breweries, taprooms, wineries, coffee shops and other establishments serving locally–crafted beverages, bringing them together to benefit 12 northern Michigan nonprofits each year.

The program focuses on and benefits one different charity each month; 2017’s program beneficiaries include Bay Area Recycling for Charities, Goodwill’s Food Rescue, For the Love of Water, and TART Trails.

By purchasing your microbrews at any of the participating vendors, you, too, are helping your community.

See the current list of vendors or find out more at pourformore. org or email pourformore@gmail.com.

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Connecting to Ireland WITH THE HIGH KINGS

By Kristi Kates

(“I loved it there – great people!” Holden said.)

Each member of Dublin folk band The High Kings has a storied past all their own.

Guitar and banjo player Finbarr Clancy toured the U.S. and Ireland in the 1990s with the Irish traditional group The Clancy Brothers.

Brian Dunphy, who plays guitar and bodhrán with The High Kings, got his big break as a performer in Riverdance: The Show and was also a member of The Irish Tenors. Multi– instrumentalist and singer Martin Furey hit the charts in Europe in the mid–‘90s with the band Bohinta. And Darren Holden, also a Riverdancer, portrayed the role of Billy Joel in the Broadway show and U.S. tour of the musical Movin’ Out; he even lived in Detroit for four months while performing in the show.

FOLK ‘N ROLL By 2008, all of these talents had gathered together to form The High Kings, and the accomplishments began tallying up. To date, the band has released four studio albums, two live albums and two live DVDs, with many of its releases charting on Billboard and on the Irish music charts. Calling its genre “folk n’ roll,” The High Kings takes a strong base of traditional Irish songs and sings them with tight, well-honed harmonies, applying that same treatment to carefully–selected covers in other genres of music. The band’s 2016 album Grace and Glory is its current focus and has already taken the group to the Isle of Wight and Glastonbury festivals overseas as well as

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into the middle of its current U.S. tour, which will encompass nearly 50 stateside shows. The band’s success to date is the result of the perfect melding of four musicians’ talents with a keenly unique approach.

“Our folk n’ roll sound originated after I suggested taking on a more commercial approach to what we were doing after the first album,” Holden explained. “We started to mix traditional Irish songs and tunes with our own original songs like “Oh Maggie” and “All around the World.” Then we did a version of “Hey, Soul Sister” by Train and “Weather with You” by Crowded House, and the audience absolutely loved it.” This response, Holden added, proved The High Kings isn’t limited to one genre of music but can use its skills to experiment with other sounds as well.

GRACE AND GLORY The High Kings did choose to lean back into its original approach for Grace and Glory, eschewing some of its more modern influences for the vintage dulcet tones of tracks like “Follow Me up to Carlow,” “Kelly the Boy from Killane” and “Ireland’s Call.”

The big song from this particular set so far has been “Hand Me Down My Bible,” a tune that Holden knew as a youth and brought to the band when it was preparing to go into the studio. “The guys all thought it was a great idea,” he said, “and then I got the writer Phil Coulter to come up with a brand new third verse for the song, which was very special indeed, as Phil has written songs for everyone from The Dubliners to Elvis Presley!”

Focusing on the more traditional side happened organically for the band this time around. “The mood changes for each record, as every time we go into a studio to do a new album, we have grown a little bit more and are most likely listening to and absorbing different music, bands, artists,” said Holden. “We also listen to the fans who sometimes let us know the type of songs they’d like us to put out.”

Most fans of traditional Irish music, he explained, appreciate the real, heartfelt sentiments of the songs, and fans of The High Kings are no exception. “[This kind of music] connects on a human level the way very few genres of music have ever done,” he said. “And everybody likes to think they have a little bit of Irish in them, so they always strive to find that connection through bands like ours.”

The High Kings will perform along with accordion and fiddle player Sharon Shannon at the 2017 CelticFest at the Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts on Sat., Mar. 18. For tickets and more information, visit kirtlandcenter.com.

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By Kristi Kates Back in May of 1836, between the crowded, dusty streets of New York City and the coal– mining region of Pennsylvania, a fraternal society was formed that actually borrowed its roots from more than 3,000 miles away: the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH).

The AOH shares a common thread with the early societies that unspooled in Ireland in the mid–1500s to help protect Irish Catholics during times of persecution.

But while the AOH’s reach extends today throughout Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Canada and America, it’s the U.S. version that’s seen the largest growth as the Hibernians seek to welcome the newly– arrived Irish and to keep pockets of Irish brotherhood intact across the country.

Mike Shirley is one of the founders of the AOH’s local chapter. The Bernard J. Brady Division 1 of Grand Traverse County is named after Bernard Brady, the founder of Brady’s Bar in Traverse City. For the Brady division members, and in fact for all AOH members, “being Irish” means more than simply wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day. It means keeping Irish traditions alive through the Hibernians’ brotherhood and activities, including charity efforts.

“Back in 1978, a couple of close friends of mine who happened to be Irish ladies decided to have a St. Patrick’s day parade because they didn’t have one here yet in Traverse City,” Shirley said. “They had already named one of their own as the Irish queen for the festivities, and they said, ‘Oh, Mike, you can be the king,’ because they knew I was Irish and all.” At the parade, Shirley was handed a shillelagh (a wooden

walking stick associated with Irish folklore) and told he was now the Irish Lord Mayor for the day.

It only took a year for the new tradition to expand and inspire other local Irish happenings.

“The following year, in 1979, I got a call from John Conley – he’d been a Hibernian in Detroit – and he said, ‘We’d like to start a group of Irish men up here in Traverse City,’” Shirley explained. “So we started our chapter of the AOH and then turned around and put on a parade and invited the Irish queen.”

Requirements for becoming a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians were simple: be of Irish descent, be male, be Catholic and take the Hibernians’ oath of “friendship, unity, and Christian charity.”

Tim Smith is a past president, a former Lord Mayor and a current member of the AOH’s Grand Traverse chapter. Along with co–chair Mike Nolan, Smith also co– chairs the AOH’s annual charity event, the Father Fred Black Tie Cigar Dinner. Each AOH division picks a charity to help in its area; the Grand Traverse group has chosen the Father Fred Foundation, a nonprofit, nondenominational organization that aids needy and hungry individuals and families.

“These four–course cigar dinners, which we do each May, pair a cigar with each course for $250 per person,” Smith explained.

“We’ve been doing these dinners since 1996, and we’ve raised over a million dollars for Father Fred over the past 20 years.” (2017’s

annual dinner will be held May 18.)

If you enjoyed celebrating this year’s St. Patrick’s Day in Traverse City at the local parade and after– party at Kilkenny’s, you can thank the Hibernians for that, too. The AOH continues many of the exact same traditions it started for the St. Patrick’s holiday back in 1979: appointing a Lord Mayor for the day who will rule the festivities alongside the Irish queen; naming a local boy the Prince of the Leprechauns and a local girl the Princess of Erin (or Éirinn, Irish for Ireland); and having this annual Irish “court” lead the “Peoples’ Parade,” an Irish extravaganza of everything from marching bands and bagpipers to folks dressed entirely in green with friendly Irish setters in tow.

“Years ago, when I first moved here, there was none of this,” Shirley said. “Now we have a real thing going on and a great bunch of local guys, and we just want to keep bringing in new people.”

Smith echoes the sentiment. “I was a kid when my dad and Mike and John Conley started this,” he said. “As a kid growing up in this town, I’d always, always look forward to St. Patrick’s Day. This whole thing is just such a great way to celebrate being Irish.”

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By Kristi Kates What makes an authentic Irish public house? The definitions and dissertations vary depending on whom you’re talking to, but some things remain consistent, starting with a penchant for craic, the Irish word for “having a fun and happening time.” This includes an atmosphere that’s suffused in dark wood, comfortable chairs and barstools that invite long sittings and warm, low light as far away from fluorescent bulbs as it’s possible to get. Don’t forget plenty of local characters, those guys and gals who seem to have taken up permanent residence in your favorite pub and who always have something to say. Finally, add an ample supply of freshly– poured brews and free–flowing conversation at all hours of the day and late into the night because, after all, a true Irish public house – i.e., a “pub” – is as much a community as it is a bar.

American author Bill Barich in his book A Pint of Plain explained how Irish pub culture in our modern age has become an export commodity of a certain kind, so much so that one company has built over 500 “Irish pubs” – what Barich termed “plastic pubs” – in 45 countries. Anyone who’s ever been to the real thing will likely tell you the authenticity is tough to replicate unless you’re actually in Ireland. After all, unlike a plastic shamrock keychain or a corporate plan, a genuine Irish

public house is something that can’t simply be bought.

Locally, Kilkenny’s Irish Public House in Traverse City is taking a solid shot at being the next best thing to being there.

It may be part of a larger organization (Kilkenny’s is affiliated with a long list of partner establishments including The Blue Tractor, Mission Table, North Peak Brewing Company and a number of restaurants downstate), but Kilkenny’s has put a lot of effort into setting itself apart as its own piece of Irish–inspired local culture.

“Since we’re the only Irish pub in the area, we make sure things happen,” explained Mike Lloyd, Kilkenny’s manager and one of its minority owners. Majority owners Jon Carlson and Greg Lobdell traveled to Ireland before opening Kilkenny’s to get a feel for actual Irish pubs before attempting to open one in northern Michigan. Lloyd explained, “It’s not just the décor and design of the bar, although our dark lighting, dark wood and secluded little cubbies are a big part of how it feels here.” He added, “Jon and Greg really looked into what makes places like this work, and they even brought back some souvenirs from Ireland that are in Kilkenny’s today.”

In addition to the beer – Kilkenny’s offers Irish lagers and stouts, including Guinness – a big part of what makes the pub work on a local Irish–inspired level is the food. While a few Americanized twists exist, much of the hearty fare is taken right from traditional

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Irish pub menus, including fish and chips with pub fries and malt vinegar, cheddar–ale soup served with pretzels and a corned beef reuben. For St. Patrick’s week, Kilkenny’s is expanding its food options with such dishes as corned beef and cabbage and a classic stout potato boxty, a kind of hybrid potato pancake/hash brown dish made of mashed and grated redskin potatoes, carrots, kale and cheddar served with an applewood mustard sauce. “A good part of the menu sticks to traditional Irish food,” Lloyd said.

And you can bet that St. Patrick’s Day is a big deal at Kilkenny’s. “We open four hours earlier than usual on St. Patrick’s Day,” Lloyd said. “Things start happening here at noon.

This year’s local Irish queen will rule over the festivities with her crown and sash, and of course the Grand Traverse Hibernians are a key part of our whole Irish celebration.”

Starting at 5pm, the music will kick up a notch, too. While Kilkenny’s plays Irish music during the daytime hours on a regular basis, live bands playing Irish music and more will really help get the craic going. “Kilkenny’s is an awesome pub year–round, but on St. Patrick’s Day, it’s a whole new experience,” Lloyd said. “The whole community thinks it’s Irish!”

Kilkenny’s is located at 400 W. Front Street in downtown Traverse City. For more information, visit kilkennyspub.com or call (231) 941-7527.

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BREWING A HEALTHY ECONOMY How Beer Revived Bellaire and Other Northern Michigan Communities

By Patrick Sullivan

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ven though Don Hoyt grew up in Gaylord, he never visited Bellaire until he met his future wife, a chiropractor from California who had moved to the Antrim County town for a job. That’s the thing about Bellaire – it’s not on the way to anything. People need a reason to go there.

They’ve got one now. Since Short’s Brewing Company opened in April of 2004, what started out as an operation of seven employees led by Joe Short and his wife–to–be Leah has grown into a beer powerhouse with a national reputation. Today, Short’s employs 150 in Bellaire and at its bottling facility in Elk Rapids, Short’s opened a “brewtique” in Bellaire in 2014 and they expanded the pub last year to

include a beer garden and seating for 460.

Bellaire Village President David Schulz said when he travelled downstate 20 years ago, people didn’t know where Bellaire was. Now it’s famous.

“The name recognition is unbelievable in terms of putting us on the map,” Schulz said.

“Unlike neighboring communities, the village right now, the downtown community, has just one vacant storefront for sale. Everything else is occupied.”

Bellaire isn’t the only place that’s seen economic revival through microbrews. Across northern Michigan – in Frankfort, Traverse City and Petoskey, for example – the beer business is booming.

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Hoyt’s first visit to Bellaire occurred 10

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years ago when he and his then–girlfriend went to Short’s on their third date. The brewpub was young and its future uncertain. Hoyt said they had a blast, but the place was almost empty, and they worried it would go out of business.

What a difference a decade makes.

Now Hoyt, his wife, Dr. Kathy Hoyt, and their kids, five–year–old Amelia and three– year–old Tyler, live and work in Bellaire, and Hoyt said he’s watched the small town be transformed by Short’s.

The microbrewery brings jobs and visitors throughout the year, including devotees from across the Midwest who visit as a sort of pilgrimage, and it’s made the town a more attractive place to live.

“To see how far it’s come over the years has certainly been exciting – it’s like being a fan of a sports team that’s an underdog,” Hoyt said. “To

see where we are now – that at all times of the year our downtown is hopping – is pretty cool.”

Hoyt said he’s noticed other young families have moved into the village to be within walking distance of restaurants, shops and Short’s. He said it’s an appealing move even for people who don’t work at the brewery. He’s noticed the effect on the real estate market, too.

“A few years ago, there were a lot of homes for sale on our street, and now there are none,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence.”

Jamie Creason has also noticed Short’s allure for young adults. She owns the Applesauce Inn, a bed and breakfast five minutes outside of Bellaire. Short’s not only brings her a lot of business but also younger customers.

Typical bed and breakfast lodgers tend to be in their 40s or 50s, but Creason is seeing more and more 20–somethings come to her door. That

after a career downstate and agrees that, like Bellaire, Frankfort is out of the way.

Nonetheless, it seems more and more people are finding their way to Frankfort since Stormcloud Brewing Company opened in 2013. Since then, Campbell has seen Frankfort experience a renewal and reinvention.

“I would describe it, I guess, as transformative,” Campbell said. “It’s created a vibrancy that, paired with the [Garden] theater, has created a vibrant downtown that didn’t exist to that level before.”

Campbell has notice how Strormcloud, which specializes in Belgian-inspired beers, attracts people who wouldn’t otherwise come to Frankfort. He credits Stormcloud’s success to how well it’s pulled off each level of the business, from the beer to the food to the atmosphere.

“It’s just doing a really good job; it’s firing on all cylinders,” he said. “It amazes me how many people have heard of Stormcloud, even ones who’ve never been here before.”

Rick Schmitt, Stormcloud co-founder and co-owner, said he’s not entirely surprised by the impact Stormcloud has had on Frankfort, but he also said the success is like a dream.

“When people say, ‘Did you ever dream it would be like this?’ the answer is ‘Yes’ because you have to dream,” he said. “We saw what happened in Bellaire. We spent some time in Short’s, many times, and chatted with Joe over the years as we were looking at this project.”

Stormcloud’s impacts on Frankfort are tangible and anecdotal. The brewery employs 40 people in the off–season and 65 in the summer, jobs that wouldn’t otherwise exist.

“The intangible would be the people who come in and say, ‘Boy, I used to be able to park here in the fall or in the winter,” Schmitt said.

Schmitt believes his brewery has also had a secondary effect on Frankfort’s economy.

The jobs the brewery creates cause other jobs to be created as those people spend money in the community. And the people who come to Frankfort for beer inevitably spend money elsewhere on gas, coffee or at another restaurant. Schmitt believes the trickle–down effect goes even further, to businesses such as Betsie Bay Furniture, because some people only discover such shops because they’ve come to town to visit the brewpub.

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doesn’t mean they’re there to party, she explained.

They tend to be beer connoisseurs who home brew and want to tour Short’s and taste some specialty beers to see what they can learn.

“They’re coming up here because they want to experience what the different brewpubs are doing,” she said. “It’s not like they come up here for a college frat party; it’s not like that at all.”

A BREWER STORMS FRANKFORT

A brewery that opened almost a decade later than Short’s is having a similar effect in Frankfort, another small town located off the beaten path.

Steve Campbell, the general manager of Harbor Lights Resort, moved to Frankfort in the early 1980s and attended his senior year of high school there after his family purchased the resort. He moved back to Frankfort in 2005

What’s important about Stormcloud’s revitalization of Main Street is that it lasts year round; it’s not just a summer event, a time when Frankfort is always crowded, said Frankfort City Manager Joshua Mills.

Mills credits that to how Stormcloud has become a family gathering spot that organizes creative events to bring people together, things like trivia nights and curling competitions.

And Stormcloud’s effect on Frankfort’s economy has only just begun. The owners have now broken ground on a production facility in the city’s industrial park on a prime 6.4–acre lot that’s languished for decades, since the park was developed in the 1970s.

The property was owned by a downstate manufacturer who built a facility on another lot and ran a metal fabrication/plastic injection molding business until he died in the early 2000s and the factory closed.

His family sold the building – today, part of it houses offices for Graceland Fruit and part of it is an entrepreneurial center with incubator kitchens and spaces for people who want to launch a business, including a fly rod manufacturer – but the 6.4 acres sat idle because the family never responded to requests from Frankfort officials or interested buyers for information about the lot.

Over the years, Mills said he repeatedly left messages and wrote letters to the owners and never got a response. It was frustrating for officials who wanted to see economic development but were powerless to make anything happen.

Then Stormcloud came along and was able to get the attention of the family and ink a deal. “(Stormcloud) paid a premium – the sellers weren’t going to budge, but Stormcloud really

stepped in,” Mills said.

Schmitt said the company will can beer at the facility for sale around northwestern Lower Michigan and Grand Rapids.

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Troy Daily moved back to Traverse City in early 2012. He’d opened a branch of the family business, Kilwin’s, in Williamsburg, Va., but the timing was inauspicious. The store opened in 2008 just as the economy tanked.

Daily stuck it out for four years, and when he returned to Traverse City, he noticed a change.

Something was brewing in his hometown. A beer economy was taking shape, and Daily sensed an opportunity.

“I’m an entrepreneur, and I saw and heard about all these breweries opening, and I just wanted to work with them,” he said.

To some, by 2013 or 2014, it seemed like Traverse City was already so crowded with breweries that the next one to open would be the last, but then another would open, and another, and another. Daily started a business that proved

“To see how far it’s come over the years has certainly been exciting – it’s like being a fan of a sports team that’s an underdog,” Hoyt said. “To see where we are now – that at all times of the year our downtown is hopping – is pretty cool.”

Traverse City has become a destination because of its vibrant microbrew scene.

Daily first helped a friend launch the Traverse City Cycle Pub, the bicycle contraption that conveys flocks of drinkers slowly through town to bar after bar. Its success made him realize there were plenty of other business opportunities to be had.

Daily soon launched the Traverse City Ale Trail, a promotion that advertises 10 breweries in the city and offers a pint glass for drinking at them all, but he wanted to go further. That led to the Brew Bus, a company that shuttles groups from brewpub to brewpub or from winery to winery, but he really struck gold with Paddle for Pints.

“It was just an idea that came about after going, ‘Hey, we’re doing this on the cycle pub; how can we do it in the water?’” he said.

Paddle for Pints launched in 2014 and has since grown tremendously. That first year, 80 people participated in events featuring kayak and bicycle tours of Traverse City’s drinking scene.

Daily credits social media for the resulting explosion in popularity. People posted photos of the fun they were having, and other people decided they needed to sign up, too.

In 2015, the number of participants in Paddle for Pints swelled to 1,200. Last year, it ballooned to 4,400. This summer, the 4,000 spots in the Paddle for Pints schedule sold out within an hour of going on sale Feb. 26.

“I had no idea it was going to explode like this. No idea,” Daily said. “I just did it because I wanted to get on the water and drink beer.”

Daily conducted a survey of his customers last year, and in addition to learning that 86 percent traveled more than 75 miles to attend the events, he found that Paddle for Pints contributes significantly to the local economy: 81 percent of participants spent over $100 while in town, 46 percent spent over $300 and 23 percent spent over $500 during their stay.

STEEP CLIMBS IN PETOSKEY

When Beards Brewery opened five years ago, co–owner Benjamin Slocum had a sense he and his partner were late to the microbrew market and that they’d better get in before it was too late. Today, he said, it feels like they’re seasoned veterans.

They were around the 130th brewery in the state to open, and by the end of this year, nearly 400 brewers are projected to have sunk roots in Michigan “It wasn’t that long ago, and we are well within the older half of breweries open in the state,” Slocum said. “It’s insane to see where it’s going.”

Though Petoskey boasts far fewer breweries than Traverse City – there are only two in the city limits, Beards and Petoskey Brewing Company – Slocum said a craft beer culture has developed in Petoskey that has put the city on the beer tourist’s map.

Beards has been so successful that the brewery is moving to a new location this spring that will be four or five times the size of its original home. Its new location will offer a full restaurant, space for three times as many customers and more room for brewing. (The company will keep its production facility in Charlevoix.) Beards will employ around 45 when the new facility opens.

Slocum said he can see a beer culture developing in Petoskey the way it has in Traverse City, but perhaps not to the same extent. For instance, Petoskey is unlikely to get its own pedal pub.

“We’re built on the side of a hill; the whole town is on the side of a hill,” he explained.

And while there might only be two breweries, other bars in Petoskey offer excellent selections of beer, something that was not the case when Beards opened in 2012.

“When we opened, somebody had six taps.

I think that was the most anybody had,” he said.

“Now it’s just exploded. I don’t think you can go out without tripping into good beer now.”

In addition to offering employment opportunities and drawing tourists, Slocum said breweries have other positive effects on local economies, too. Brewers like Beards use grains, hops and produce from nearby farms, and they spend money on construction.

Beards is even lending a hand to Michigan’s manufacturing sector. Slocum explained that Beards bought its brewing equipment from Craftwerk Brewing Systems in Lake Orion and its canning equipment from microcanner [sic] in Rockford.

“We’ve put a couple million back into the state of Michigan just on equipment,” he said.

“That’s the beauty of Michigan – we’ve got the manufacturing base to make the equipment to be able to produce our own beer.”

PRETTY DAMN DURABLE

Joe Short didn’t start out aiming to create an economic renaissance in Bellaire. His success didn’t necessarily follow a plan. It followed a passion.

Short started out wanting to make great, creative beer, and he wanted to do it in Bellaire because he loved the place, not because he thought it was the best location for a brewpub.

“To be honest, the fact that we survived such an unlikely demographic as Bellaire is truly astounding,” Short said. “Landing in Bellaire was certainly self–serving and not a business strategy at all. I love the small town.

I love the continued construction of the pub grown out of the worn down old hardware store. I love the lakes. I’m in love with northern Michigan.”

But the success of his business isn’t really a surprise to Short, either, because from the beginning, even though he started out against the odds, everything seemed to click.

Most significantly, he met his wife as he opened the business. Leah was his deli manager before she was his partner.

“Leah and I fell in love in the beginning of it all,” Short said. “That bond between us and the power we had together was a tenacious catalyst that made Short’s undeniably special and also pretty damn durable.”

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. Traverse City founder Perry Hannah is not ready to let go of the 2017 ski season!

2. Stephanie Wiitala of Sugar2Salt and Paul Muller of Vollwerth’s King of Meats have welcoming smiles at Recess at The Mercato at the Grand Traverse Commons.

3. Dennis and Jennifer grab a pint at Rare Bird Brew Pub during Traverse City Restaurant Week.

4. Kelsey and Julianna put the finishing touches on a terrarium at Darling Botanical in TC. 5. Sadie, Caitlyn, and Jessie toast TC Restaurant Week at The Towne Plaza.

6. Friends gather at Red Ginger to plan the annual Pathfunder fundraiser for Pathfinder School.

7. Dee Dee and the Dreamers perform at the Indoor Folk Festival at the Grand Traverse Commons.

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saturday

2017 HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MI HOME SHOW: All day, NCMC, Petoskey. Showcases more than 100 display booths.

HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: March 3-12. Area restaurants offer breakfast & lunch specials for $15, & dinner specials for $25 & $35. harborspringsarea.com SPRING CARNIVAL: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Today includes Family Bootcamp, Cardboard Classic Creative Sled Contest, Cardboard Classic Race, DJ Dance Party & BBQ, Slush Cup, Free Slopeside Concert featuring Brena, & much more. crystalmountain.com/events/spring-fling CARDBOARD CLASSIC: 9am-2pm, Schuss Mountain, Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire.

Make your own sled from only cardboard, tape & glue & race down Schuss Mountain.

Registration runs from 9-11am in Ivan’s Cafe. Judging of sleds is at 11:30am slopeside, outside Ivan’s. Races, noon. shantycreek.com KIDS’ FESTIVAL WEEKEND: Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls, March 10-12.

Featuring a Zipline Adventure Tour, Spaghetti Dinner with Fritz, horse drawn wagon rides, coloring contest, Family Fun Village Party, inflatable obstacle course, bounce house, rock wall & Extreme Dual Air Jumpers, Kids’ Silly Slalom Race, Egg Race & much more. For a schedule, visit: boyne.com/boynemountain/ events/kids-fest.

LEAPIN’ LEPRECHAUN 5K: 9am, TC’s Warehouse District. Wear your green! Postrace party at The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. runsignup.com/Race/MI/TraverseCity/ LeapinLeprechaun5K NWS’ BATTLE OF THE BOOKS: 9am, NMC, TC. Student teams that have read 10 preselected books will answer questions about them in this all-day, triple-round competition.

Four semi-finalist teams will emerge from the competition & compete in a semi-final & final battle on March 19 at the City Opera House, TC. battleofthebooksgt.com THE KINGSLEY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: 9am-2pm, Kingsley Branch of the Traverse Area District Library. Bag sale starts at 11am. Fill a bag for $5. tadl.org/ kingsley “THE 2016 JILL STEIN PRESIDENTIAL RECOUNT & THE FUTURE OF MI ELECTIONS”: 9:30am, Minerva’s, Park Place Hotel, TC. Presented by Attorney Mark Brewer at Minervas Restaurant, Park Place Hotel, TC. Free. 929-0437.

POWER OF THE PURSE: 9:30am-12pm, City Opera House, TC. A fundraiser to benefit the women & families who stay at the Goodwill Inn. Featuring a brunch, silent auction, live music & stories of success. $40. goodwillnmi. org/2017/01/power-of-the-purse ACHILLES TENDONITIS & PLANTAR FASCIITIS WORKSHOP: 10-11:30am, Superior Physical Therapy, TC. Registration required: 231-944-6541 or www. thesuperiortherapy.com/footworkshop. Free.

ARTS IN ACTION: 10am-1pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. With Kaye Krapohl.

Featuring “With the wind in your sails” program. greatlakeskids.org JOB FAIR: 10am-2pm, Mackinaw City Recreation Center. Focused on seasonal, full-time and part-time jobs, and is targeted toward young adults in high school or college.

Participants will meet face-to-face with more than 50 employers. 1-800-285-WORK.

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HEAD BANKED SLALOM: 11am, Nub’s Nob, Harbor Springs. A unique bank to bank course down Birch Run. For all ages & abilities with an emphasis on fun. $10 entry fee. nubsnob.com “PRINCESSES & VILLAINS ON ICE”: 11:30am & 4:30pm, Centre ICE Arena, TC. Presented by the TC Figure Skating Club.

Dress as your favorite villain or princess & get your picture taken with the cast. General admission, $17. mynorthtickets.com

11-19 send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

U.S. MEN’S PARALYMPIC GOALBALL EXHIBITION GAME: 11:30am, Leland Public School. Featuring a public Q&A with team members & a hands-on goalball experience.

8TH ANNUAL BREW-SKI FESTIVAL: 12pm, Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs. Bringing together snow, craft beers & entertainment.

Featuring representatives from more than 80 breweries who will share their enthusiasm about more than 300 brews. boyne.com/ boynehighlands/events/brewski-festival FREE ARTS & CRAFTS DAY: 12-3pm, Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord.

Featuring art journaling for school age children. gacaevents.weebly.com POT OF GOLD GPS & COMPASS SCAVENGER HUNT: 1pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Go geocaching in search of a lucky pot of gold! Learn how to find the prize using GPS or map and compass.

Pre-register: grassriver.org. $5.

39TH ANNUAL TC ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE: Hosted by the TC Ancient Order of Hibernians. Starts & ends at Kilkenny’s, TC. Pre-parade festivities begin at 11am. The parade begins at 2pm & follows along Front.

St. to State St. & again through Downtown TC along Front St., returning to Kilkenny’s. Postparade entertainment begins at 3pm with The Wild Sully’s, Song of the Lakes & Blue Footed Booby. 231-883-5625.

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 “LEGALLY BLONDE”: 3pm & 7pm, Cadillac High School. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 students; on sale now at Brinks Custom Framing, CAPS Central Office, Cadillac High School, and Cadillac Junior High School. Also for sale at the door. Find ‘CHS Music Department presents Legally Blonde the musical’ on Facebook.

The National Writers Series’ final-battle showdown for the 2nd Annual Battle of the Books with area fourth & fifth graders takes place at the City Opera House, TC on Sun., March 19 at 1pm. At 5:30pm will be a book signing with New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman, who has over 80 children’s & young adult fiction books, & who wrote his first book at 12 years old. battleofthebooksgt.com

Walk on a trail & listen for owls. RSVP: 989983-4101.

PLANTING CONTAINERS W/ JEANINE RUBERT: 6-8:30pm, Botanic Garden Visitor Center, Historic Barns Park, TC. Free will donations appreciated. Register: eventbrite.com BACK PORCH COFFEEHOUSE: 7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center. Featuring Two Track Mind. Musical influences include rock, folk, country, bluegrass & Americana. A circle jam will follow. 231-622-2944. $10 donation suggested..

BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: Twin Lakes – Gilbert Lodge, TC. 7pm: Contradance lesson for beginners. 8-11pm: Contra & square dancing. $11 adult, $7 student, $9 member. dancetc.com

TYPEWRITER 101: BUYING A TYPEWRITER: 3pm, Landmark Books, TC. Free. 922-7225.

SHREK THE MUSICAL: 7pm, TC West Senior High School, TC. Tickets start at $12. mynorthtickets.com

FRONTIER QUEST 300 4-H CLUB FREE SPAGHETTI DINNER & SILENT AUCTION: 5-8pm, Interlochen Eagles Club #3503, Interlochen. Fundraiser for a Chicago science trip & Picture Rocks summer camping trip.

“THE MOUSETRAP”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. mynorthtickets.com

TC ROLLER DERBY BIRTHDAY BASH & SILENT AUCTION: 5pm, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Join live derby girls for a celebration of eight years as a league. Silent auction items include TCRD season tickets, jewelry, handcrafted items, artwork by local artists & more.

TCRD supports their charity partners this season: GT Parks & Recreation, The Disability Network, & The Women’s Resource Center through collecting $5 donations at the door. facebook.com/tcrollerderby OWL PROWL: 5:45-7:45pm, Pigeon River Country Discovery Center, Gaylord. Kids can dissect an owl pellet & make a craft item.

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

Tonight will feature “Open Season”. Free. treetops.com GOPHERWOOD’S 5TH ANNUAL MADE IN MICHIGAN FUNDRAISER: 8pm, third floor of Elks building, Cadillac. Featuring musicians Frank Youngman, Zak Bunce, Roger Brown, Barry Lempe, Gary VanHouten, Tiyi Schippers, & David Bunce. Advance tickets: $12 adults, $6 students 13-18, & free for 12 & under. Door: $15, $7. 1-800-836-0717. mynorthtickets.com GOOD ON PAPER IMPROV SHOW: 10pm, The GT Circuit, TC. Cost, $10. gtcircuit.org/ calendar.htm

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sunday

HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: March 3-12. Area restaurants offer breakfast & lunch specials for $15, & dinner specials for $25 & $35. harborspringsarea.com KIDS’ FESTIVAL WEEKEND: (See Sat., March 11) “THE MOUSETRAP”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. mynorthtickets.com 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 DARK & STORMCLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: “The Brand New Testament” will be shown at the Garden Theater, downtown Frankfort at 2pm. Admission is $7, plus each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token.

March’s beer is Ea & The Goddess. Beer is not served inside The Garden Theater. stormcloudbrewing.com SHREK THE MUSICAL: 2pm, TC West Senior High School, TC. mynorthtickets.com THE BAY FILM SERIES PRESENTS “TONI ERDMANN”: 2pm & 6pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. $9.50. thebaytheatre.com/25/bayfilm-series

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

CWIB LUNCHEON: 11:30am, The Inn at Bay Harbor. At this luncheon you will hear from four millennial entrepreneurs all under 31 years of age, with four very different Petoskey businesses. This will be a panel discussion.

Registration and networking begin at 11:30am.

The luncheon and presentation will begin at noon. Cost is $17 for CWIB members or $22 for not-yet-members. business. petoskeychamber.com

FREE LADIES NIGHT OUT IN TC: 6-9pm, Art Van Furniture, TC. Enjoy massages, crafting and shopping that will feature local vendors and artisans selling handmade goods. There will also be dancing, a photo booth, wine and hors d’oeuvres, & a chance to win prizes. RSVP required: LadiesNightOutTraverseCity2017 at eventbrite.com.

ILLUSTRATOR PRESENTATION: 4pm, Horizon Books, TC. With Brianne Farley, illustrator of “Charlotte The Scientist is Squished”. horizonbooks.com

FULL MOON FEAST + SHOW & TELL: SAP MOON: 6pm, Martha Wagbo Farm & Education Center, East Jordan. Enjoy a potluck feast & an open mic for stories, poems, songs, dance, etc. Free. RSVP: 231536-0333.

JIGJAM: This quartet blends bluegrass & Irish folk music & will play the Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall at 7pm. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door. jigjam.brownpapertickets.com

mar 13

monday

TC KID EXPO: 1-5pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Presented in partnership with Traverse City Kid, the Traverse City Kid Expo is an opportunity for parents, grandparents, and caretakers to learn about kid-friendly activities, events, and venues around town. Free. traversecitykid.com/expo OTP YOUNG COMPANY AUDITIONS: 4-6pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage, TC. For “Young King Arthur,” a play based on the legendary story of the boy who would become a king. Open to students ages 9-18. oldtownplayhouse.com THE BAY FILM SERIES PRESENTS “TONI ERDMANN”: 6pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. $9.50. thebaytheatre.com/25/bay-filmseries FREE WORKSHOP: BUSINESS SIDE OF BEING A WRITER: 6:30-8pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Hosted by TC SCORE to benefit all writers and future writers who want to better understand how to manage the challenges of bringing a book to the marketplace. Pre-register: upnorthscore.com/ scorewp/.

MARK MAKERS CHALLENGE: SPEED DRAWING EDITION: 6:30-8:30pm, Cambria Suites-Reflections Lounge, TC. Support local artists as they compete in a live speed drawing competition. The audience will participate by voting for their favorite artists after each round, until only two remain. $5 donation suggested. higherartgallery.com CONTRA DANCING: 7pm, Short’s Brewing Co., Bellaire. $5.

mar 14

tuesday

PEEPERS PROGRAM: GETTING A SENSE OF NATURE: 10-11:30am, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Presented by the GT Conservation District.

For ages 3-5. Featuring stories, crafts, music & discovery activities. $5 per child. Register. natureiscalling.org

OTP YOUNG COMPANY AUDITIONS: 4-6pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage, TC. For “Young King Arthur,” a play based on the legendary story of the boy who would become a king. Open to students ages 9-18. oldtownplayhouse.com WOMEN, WINE & WELLNESS: 5-9pm.

Presented by Big Beautiful Life Chiropractic & Wellness at Corner Loft, TC. Celebrate women’s health with an evening of wine, health & wellness experts, makeup, chocolate, & much more. Tickets, $10; proceeds benefit the Women’s Resource Center. www. womenwinewellnessbbl.eventbrite.com BOOKS AT THE BOATHOUSE: A Cèilidh — a traditional Irish social gathering, will be held at the Boathouse Restaurant, TC at 6pm with food & local wines in support of the building project of the new Peninsula Community Library structure. Purchase tickets at the library. $150. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org THE BAY FILM SERIES PRESENTS “TONI ERDMANN”: 6pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. $9.50. thebaytheatre.com/25/bay-filmseries CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: 6:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. The Central Neighborhood Association of Traverse City will meet; all Central Neighborhood residents are welcome. The agenda includes Hannah Park improvements ADU discussion and BATA millage. Free.

CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6:308:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. citizensclimatelobby.org ISEA SEMINAR SERIES: 6:30-8pm, ISEA Education Center, Suttons Bay. Featuring USCG Oil-in-Ice Exercises. Free. schoolship. org/news-events/2017-seminar-series PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY PROGRAM: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreations, Harbor Springs. Featuring Tom Clement of CAKE – “Detrimental Effects of Invasive Species”. 231-675-7222. Free.

TSO: CIVIC STRING ENSEMBLES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. An advanced string orchestra open to instrumentalists of violin, viola, cello and bass. Free. traversesymphony.org

mar 15

wednesday

INTERLOCHEN ARTS CAMP JOB FAIR: 12-7pm, Mallory-Towsley Center for Arts Leadership building, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Looking to fill dozens of summer positions at Interlochen Arts Camp. interlochen.org/careers OFF THE CUFF: 12pm, B.C. Pizza, Boyne City. Join East Jordan’s city, chamber & school leaders to ask questions & hear about current projects & events. 231-536-7351.

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ZONTA CLUB OF TC MARCH PROGRAM MEETING: 12pm, Hagerty Center, 715 Front St., TC. The speaker will be Girls on the Run of Northwest Michigan Coordinator & the Zonta Club of TC 2016 Outstanding Woman Leader award recipient Therese Larson.

Tickets, $16. zontacluboftraversecity.org PROJECT CONNECT: 1-7pm, Odawa Casino Resort, Petoskey. 700 to 1,000 individuals will connect with a range of health and human services provided by over 60 local non-profit agencies and other businesses. projectconnect231.com MICHIGAN READS! AUTHOR LISA WHEELER: 2pm, Bellaire Public Library. This author of “Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum” will talk about storytelling & why she wrote this book.

231-533-8814. Free.

GT GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING: 1pm, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, TC. Amy Barritt will speak about the updates of the numerous Traverse Area District Library resources available to genealogists. 231-275-6671.

IMPACT 100 TC - THE GIVING OF THE GREEN: 4:30-6:30pm, Harrington’s By the Bay, TC. Impact 100 TC is a transformational fundraising group for women. The Giving of the Green is an informational/joining party for current and interested members. Conversation and refreshments from 4:30-6:30pm; Founder Wendy Steele will speak at 5:30pm. impacttc.org EAST JORDAN BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Korthase Flinn Insurance & Financial Services, East Jordan. EJ Chamber members, free; not-yet-members, $10. 231-536-7351.

BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Incredible Mo’s, Grawn. Free for TC Area Chamber of Commerce members; $15 for others. tcchamber.org

PETOSKEY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey. Made In Michigan theme. $7 for members; $12 for not-yet members. petoskeychamber.com

ANNUAL NATIVE SEEDLING SALE & WORKSHOP: 5:30-7:30pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. The GT Conservation District will host a free workshop titled “Successfully Planting Bareroot Native Trees for Timber or Backyard Diversity”. Free. natureiscalling.org

“PAINT A PUP” OPEN HOUSE: 5-8pm, Blackbird Arts, TC. Cherryland Humane Society has acquired new, ceramic, Donor Dog collection banks and is calling on all artists with intermediate to advanced painting skills to give the banks a facelift and new look.

A donation is requested to participate, which will benefit CHS. 946-5116.

INTRO TO HULA HOOPING: 5:30pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. A walk through of beginner hula hoop dance techniques taught by Libby Barbercheck.

Reservations required: petoskeylibrary.org.

WRCNM’S SPRING FUNDRAISER: 5:309pm, Sagamore Room, The Inn at Bay Harbor.

Raises funds for the Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI. Featuring live & silent auctions. Tickets, $10 in advance or $15 at door. 231-347-0067. wrcnm.org JONATHAN BISS & MARK PADMORE: 7:30pm, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Musical America’s 2016 Vocalist of the Year Mark Padmore pairs with world-renowned pianist Jonathan Biss. Tickets, $30. tickets. interlochen.org

mar 16

thursday

MARCH GEEK BREAKFAST: 8am, Bubba’s, TC. A casual monthly community-driven networking event for tech-minded people to discuss topics like social media, digital marketing, design, programming, & ways to better the community over bacon, eggs and coffee. geekbreakfast. org/cities/traverse-city-mi STORY HOUR WITH LISA WHEELER: 11am, Glen Lake Library, Empire. This author of “Bubble Gum Bubble Gum,” the official 2017 Michigan Reads children’s book, will be at the Glen Lake Library, Empire. glenlakelibrary.net “THE PERFECT STORM EVENT: CHILDREN WITH AUTISM & CHIROPRACTIC CARE”: Hosted by Dr. Ramona Pleva, chiropractor & owner of Northern Lights Chiropractic, at the TC Area Chamber of Commerce Blue Room, TC at noon. Cost, $15; includes soup & salad lunch. Register: eventbrite.com LIFE - AROUND THE WORLD: 12:30pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen.

Experience a photographic tour of warmer destinations above and below the water through the lens of Chris Doyal, award-winning photographer and instructor for Northwestern Michigan College Extended Education. Free, but must register in advance. 922-4911.

BOATER SAFETY CLASS: 5:30pm, Coast Guard Air Station, TC. Taught by the Coast Guard Auxiliary. For ages 12 & older. Meets 8 hours in two sessions: Thurs., March 16, 5:30-9pm & Sat., March 18, 9am-1:30pm.

Preregister: 231-883-8040. $10.

GREAT LAKES GRAHAM & THE FIDDLE MAN: 5:45pm, Crawford County Commission on Aging & Senior Center, Grayling. Enjoy this bluegrass & folk duo from Marquette.

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IAF LECTURE: 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. “Keeping Up With the Drones: Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S.”. Free admission for current students and educators. $10 others.

995-1700. dennosmuseum.org HEART & HEALING ART: 7pm, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center of McLaren Northern Michigan, Petoskey. Acupuncture: Correcting unbalance in the body through traditional Chinese medicine. Free. mclaren.org/ northernmichigan TRAVERSE AREA CAMERA CLUB MEETING: 7pm, Presbyterian Church, 701 Westminster Rd., TC. The speaker will be Gary Gee, a northern MI nature photographer. 231-883-1588.

“THE MOUSETRAP”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. mynorthtickets.com DARK & STORMCLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: “The Brand New Testament” will be shown at the Garden Theater, downtown Frankfort at 7:30pm. Admission is $7, plus each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. March’s beer is Ea & The Goddess. Beer is not served inside The Garden Theater. stormcloudbrewing.com TEADA & THE OUTSIDE TRACK: 7:30pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee. Enjoy an evening of Celtic music from these two Ireland groups. $20 advance, $25 door. mynorthtickets.com ART OFF THE SHELF: Conversation with Jerry Dennis & Glenn Wolff. 5pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Free. thebaytheatre.com

mar 17

friday

CARNIVAL WEEKEND: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls, March 17-19.

Includes a Village Party, live music, twin zip rides, St. Pedro’s Day Buffet, skiing & snowboarding, the Slush Cup, & much more. Info: boyne.com/ boynemountain/events/carnival-weekend KRAZY DAZE: Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs, March 17-19. Includes live music, Ski Over the Pond on Camelot, “Get Krazy Party,” Jump Competition on Camelot, Nastar Race on Leprechaun, Silly Slalom on Camelot, & more. boyne.com/boynehighlands/events/krazy-daze HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10am: Story Hour: Nursery Rhymes. 8:30-10:30pm: Live Music with Songwriters in the Round, featuring Mary Anne Rivers, Jim McNeiece, and Bob Downes. horizonbooks.com LUNCHEON LECTURE: MI’S FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT: 11:30am, NCMC’s Library conference room, Petoskey. Featuring Robin Luce-Herrmann, general counsel to the Michigan Press Association. Lunch, 11:30am; program, noon. Reservations required: 231348-6600. $10, includes lunch.

HUNTING & FISHING EXPO: 4-9pm, TC Civic Center. Meet G.O. Heath, host of “Rugged Nation TV” on “The Sportsman Channel”. tchuntfishexpo.com 12TH ANNUAL HOOLIE: 6pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey. Fundraiser for the Robert Emmet Society’s annual scholarship which sends a student from NCMC on a trip to Ireland. Featuring music by Teada, the Northern Lights Irish Dancers & The Hooligans.

Tickets at Emmet County Celtic: $15 adults, $10 members & $7 students. blissfest.org “DISNEY & DESSERTS”: 7pm, TC Central High School. Student entertainers from TC Central High School’s Chorale & Choral-Aires will perform favorites from Disney movies, stage & TV shows. A dessert reception will follow. $12 adults, $6 children & students. tcaps.net/schools/high-schools/chs “GET TO THE HEART OF PARENTING”: 7-9:15pm, New Hope Community Church Auditorium, Williamsburg. Two-day conference. $15/person. Info & register: www.newhope.cc/ parenting “THE MOUSETRAP”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. mynorthtickets.com IAA ORCHESTRA : 7:30pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Tickets: $10 adults, $7 seniors & $7 youth.

Proceeds benefit the Friends of Interlochen Public Library & the Children’s Summer Reading Program. 231-276-7800.

mar 18

saturday

ST. FATTY’S DAY WEEKEND: March 18-19.

8am, The Summit Grill @ The Ridge, Gaylord. Sat. group ride, Sat. night entertainment w/ Jo Nathan Burke & Jamie Andress, awesomagic, race on Sun., & Sun. group ride. Find on Facebook.

CARNIVAL WEEKEND: (See Fri., March 17) HUNTING & FISHING EXPO: 9am-7pm, TC Civic Center. Meet G.O. Heath, host of “Rugged Nation TV” on “The Sportsman Channel”. tchuntfishexpo.com KRAZY DAZE: (See Fri., March 17)

“GETTING TO THE HEART OF PARENTING”: 9am-12:15pm, New Hope Community Church - Auditorium, Williamsburg.

Two-day conference. $15/person. Info & register: www.newhope.cc/parenting

Lake Rd., TC. Join the Down Syndrome Association of NW MI (DSANM) to celebrate individuals with Down Syndrome for World Down Syndrome Day. 10% of all sales will be donated to DSANM.

LOWER BACK PAIN & SCIATICA WORKSHOP: 10-11:30am, Superior Physical Therapy, TC. Registration required: 231944-6541 or www.thesuperiortherapy.com/ workshop. Free.

THE HISTORY OF POWER ISLAND: 1pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Presented by Kathleen Firestone & the Traverse Area Historical Society. traversehistory.wordpress.com

JOB WINSLOW CHAPTER, DAR MEETING: 11am, TC Elks Lodge. “Understanding the DAR” presented by Mary Ellen Byrne and Lin Meeker. Lunch will follow. Reservations required: 946-6337. jobwinslow.michdar.net

WINE FOR WHISKERS: 1-5pm, Williamsburg Event Center. An afternoon of wine, appetizers

by Catering By Kelly’s, and a live auction to help animals. Benefits AC PAW Animal Rescue. $20 & one decorated bottle of wine for the live auction. wineforwhiskers.com

AUTHOR SIGNINGS: 12-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. Jonathan Burke & Barbara Counsil will sign their book, “Made” from noon-2pm; & Michael Dow will sign his book “Dark Matters Betrayal” from 2-4pm. horizonbooks.com SIPS, CHIPS & DIPS: 12-5pm, 19 participating Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail wineries.

Tickets are $10 per person and include a souvenir wine glass, a snack-and-wine pairing at each of 19 participating Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail wineries and a $5 donation to help save the Leland Harbor. lpwines.com/events/ sips-chips-dips

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“THE MOUSETRAP”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. mynorthtickets.com/events/the-mousetrapmatinee LOCAL AUTHOR SHENANDOAH CHEFALO: 2pm, Alden District Library. Chefalo is the author of “Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir,” the story of one woman’s journey to overcome her desolate childhood, that also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system. 231-331-4318.

“DISNEY & DESSERTS”: 2pm, TC Central High School Auditorium. Student entertainers from TC Central High School’s Chorale & ChoralAires will perform favorites from Disney movies, stage & TV shows. A dessert reception will follow. $12 adults, $6 children & students. 933-3571.

TC FAMILY EXPO: 2-5pm, Hagerty Center, TC. A community event to bring awareness, education and support to expecting, new and growing families in Northern Michigan.

Featuring community resources, kids activities, door prizes, chair massage, face painting, super heroes and more. Free. tcbirthexpo.com

FIREHOUSE CHILI COOK-OFF: 4-6pm, Township Community Building, Kewadin. Fire and EMS departments compete for the best chili. 231.632.2412.

Mt. Pleasant,2pm, Gaylord and Circle THE HARMELING’S: Charlevoix of Arts. The Charlevoix Circle of Arts presents two locations in Traverse City. a concert with local talent: Anna, Katie and Megan Harmeling. charlevoixcircle.com Join us on • www.lasenorita.com

ST. PATRICK’S DAY DINNER/DANCE: Summit City Grange Hall, Kingsley. Featuring the Kingsley Village Market Band. Dinner, 4-6pm; dance, 6-10pm. 16 & up, $15; 5-15, $7; 5 & under, free.

“THE MOUSETRAP”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. mynorthtickets.com HEATHER MALONEY: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery, Boyne City. Tickets: $25 advance. freshwaterartgallery.com/concertCalendar.php THE STORMCLOUD GONG SHOW: 8pm, Stormcloud Brewing Co., Frankfort. This amateur talent contest invites contestants to perform for prizes from Stormcloud & Frankfort’s Garden Theater. 20 percent of pub sales go to Grow Benzie. stormcloudbrewing.com LAUGH FOR A GOOD CAUSE! COMEDY SHOW: 9pm, Studio Anatomy, TC. Falling Down Stairs Productions has offered to donate proceeds from their shows in March and April to help Polestar LGBT + Community Center launch itself as a new non-profit. tcpolestar.org

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RACH 2 + BRUCKNER 6: 3pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Presented by the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. Tickets: www.traversesymphony.org

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NWS PRESENTS BATTLE OF THE BOOKS & GORDAN KORMAN: 1pm: 2nd Annual Battle of the Books with area fourth & fifth graders.

3:45pm: New York Times bestselling children’s author Gordan Korman takes the stage. City Opera House, TC. nationalwritersseries.org/ programs/battle-books-gordon-korman

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

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2017 JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey. Runs through March 23. Juried by renowned photographer Howard Bond.

Includes works selected from 140 submissions. crookedtree.org 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 HISTORY TALK: Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Fridays through March 17. Each week will cover decade $5 1 7a 5 2 U Sof-the 3 1 1800’s. , suggested crookedtree.org/event/ T Rdonation.

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CALL FOR ART!: Higher Art Gallery, TC is having a Functional Fiber and Functional 615 EAST FRONT STREET | TRAVERSE CITY, MI 49686 Ceramics pop up Market. Event is May 6 and geared towards Mothers Day gift giving. If you would like more info, and to apply, visit: higherartgallery.com or call: 231-252-4616.

Deadline to apply is April 5. higherartgallery.com CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS 1: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Now accepting submissions for “Emerging Artist, Under 24 Exhibit”. All local artists ages 17-24 are encouraged to apply to be in this juried exhibit, & have the opportunity to show & sell in a gallery. To apply visit: www. higherartgallery.com. Deadline to apply is March 20. higherartgallery.com CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS 2: Higher Art Gallery, TC. If you are between the ages of 1624 and would like to show your artwork, please email images of your most recent body of work to: higherartgallery@gmail.com. Accepting up to 3 young artists at a time. Will change artists 4 times a year. The first exhibit begins April 22. higherartgallery.com

CROOKED TREE PHOTOGRAPHIC BUILD YOUR OWN BLOODY MARY BAR SOCIETY EXHIBIT: Crooked Tree Arts Center,

CARNIVAL WEEKEND: (See Fri., March 17)

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

HUNTING & FISHING EXPO: 10am-4pm, TC Civic Center. Meet G.O. Heath, host of “Rugged Nation TV” on “The Sportsman Channel”. tchuntfishexpo.com

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GARDEN OF LIFE CLASS: Wednesdays, FREE COMMUNITY ProteinBikram ShakesYoga, 845 S. Garfield Ave., 7:30pm, available in 4 flavors: TC. bikramyogatcgr.com

SPRING!

THE OUTSIDE TRACK: Scots, Irish, Cape Breton fusion of songs, tunes & step dance.

4pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door. 947-9213.

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

ST. FATTY’S DAY WEEKEND: (See Sat., March 18)

Nutrition education video with Dr. Neal Organic Foods •onQuality Supplements Barnard, founder of Physicians Committee for Experienced Responsible Medicine. Professionals

Atrium Gallery, every Sunday starting atPetoskey.

NoonRuns through March 17. Featuring diverse digital works from more than 30 members. crookedtree.org

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OAC SPRING EXHIBITION: Oliver Art Center, 4-9pm • $14.95 all youAncan Frankfort. exhibit eat of artwork by Mary Fortuna, Janelle Songer and Jessica Kovan. Runs through April 7. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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PROTEST! FROM THE Dinner 4-9pm • 12oz 12 $16.95 orPHOTOGRAPHS 16oz $20.95 WOMEN’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON:

EATING RIGHT FOR CANCER: Cowell Family Cancer Center, TC. Six Wednesdays: March 1 - April 12, 5:30-7pm. Contact Emily Haan at 231.392.8492 or ehaan2@mhc. net with questions and to RSVP. Features evidence-based information on the dramatic impact food has on cancer risk and survival.

By Kathy Silbernagel and Babs Young Exhibit: March 2-28, Corridor Gallery, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, TC. Panel Discussion/Meeting with Photographers: March 22, 7pm. uucgt.org

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CARNIVAL WEEKEND: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls, March 17-19.

Includes a Village Party, live music, twin zip rides, St. Pedro’s Day Buffet, skiing & snowboarding, the Slush Cup, & much more. Info: boyne.com/ Featuring Super Greek Food boynemountain/events/carnival-weekend in a Relaxed Atmosphere KRAZY DAZE: Boyne Highlands, Harbor TUESDAY Springs, March 17-19. Includes liveNIGHT music, Ski Over the Pond on Camelot, “Get Krazy Party,” Jump Competition on Camelot, Nastar Race on starts at 8pm& more.

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10am: Story 214Nursery E Front St • Downtown Traverse City Hour: Rhymes.

8:30-10:30pm: Live Music with Songwriters in the Round, featuring 231-946-8932 Mary Anne Rivers, Jim McNeiece, and Bob Downes. horizonbooks.com LUNCHEON LECTURE: MI’S FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT: 11:30am, NCMC’s Library conference room, Petoskey. Featuring Robin Luce-Herrmann, general counsel to the Michigan Press Association. Lunch, 11:30am; program, noon. Reservations required: 231348-6600. $10, includes lunch.

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HUNTING & FISHING EXPO: 4-9pm, TC Civic Center. Meet G.O. Heath, host of “Rugged Nation TV” on “The Sportsman Channel”. tchuntfishexpo.com

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12TH ANNUAL HOOLIE: 6pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey. Fundraiser for the Robert Emmet Society’s annual scholarship which sends a student from NCMC on a trip 231-941-2276 to Ireland. Featuring music by Teada, the Northern121 LightsS.Irish Dancers Hooligans.

Union St.&•The TC. Ticketswww.dillingerspubtc.com at Emmet County Celtic: $15 adults, $10 members & $7 students. blissfest.org “DISNEY & DESSERTS”: 7pm, TC Central High School. Student entertainers from TC Central High School’s Chorale & Choral-Aires will perform favorites from Disney movies, stage & TV shows. A dessert reception will follow. $12 adults, $6 children & students. tcaps.net/schools/high-schools/chs

“GETTING TO THE HEART OF - Ladies Night - $1 off PARENTING”: 9am-12:15pm, New Hope drinks & $5 martinis Community Church - Auditorium, closing atWilliamsburg.

9pm Two-day conference. $15/person. Info & register: www.newhope.cc/parenting $2 well drinks & shots

Lake Rd., TC. Join the Down Syndrome Association of NW MI (DSANM) to celebrate individuals with Down Syndrome for World Down Syndrome Day. 10% of all sales will be donated to DSANM.

LOWER BACK PAIN & SCIATICA WORKSHOP: Physical Wed - Get it10-11:30am, in the can for $1Superior w/ DJ DomiNate Therapy, TC. Registration required: 231944-6541 Thursor- www.thesuperiortherapy.com/ MI beer night $1 off all MI beer workshop. Free. THE POCKET

THE HISTORY OF POWER ISLAND: 1pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Presented by Kathleen Firestone & the Traverse Area Historical Society. traversehistory.wordpress.com

JOB WINSLOW DAR MEETING: FriCHAPTER, March 17: 11am, TC Elks Lodge. “Understanding the DAR” presented by Mary Ellen Byrne and Lin Meeker. Lunch will follow. Reservations required: 946-6337. jobwinslow.michdar.net

WINE FOR WHISKERS: 1-5pm, Williamsburg Event Center. An afternoon of wine, appetizers

by Catering By Kelly’s, and a live auction to help animals. Benefits AC PAW Animal Rescue. $20 & one decorated bottle of wine for the live auction. wineforwhiskers.com

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Happy Hour: Bangers & Mash Then: Nashon Holloway Band

Sat March 18: NASHON HOLLOWAY BAND

AUTHOR SIGNINGS: 12-4pm, Horizon Books, Sun &March 19:Counsil will TC. Jonathan Burke Barbara sign their book, “Made”(10PM-2AM) from noon-2pm; & KARAOKE Michaeldowntown Dow willTC sign book “Dark Matters checkhis us out at unionstreetstationtc.net 941-1930 Betrayal” from 2-4pm. horizonbooks.com SIPS, CHIPS & DIPS: 12-5pm, 19 participating Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail wineries.

Tickets are $10 per person and include a souvenir wine glass, a snack-and-wine pairing at each of 19 participating Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail wineries and a $5 donation to help save the Leland Harbor. lpwines.com/events/ sips-chips-dips “DISNEY & DESSERTS”: 2pm, TC Central High School Auditorium. Student entertainers from TC Central High School’s Chorale & ChoralAires will perform favorites from Disney movies, stage & TV shows. A dessert reception will follow. $12 adults, $6 children & students. 933-3571.

FIREHOUSE CHILI COOK-OFF: 4-6pm, Township Community Building, Kewadin. Fire 231-922-7742 and EMS departments compete for the best chili. 231.632.2412.

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www.dillingerspubtc.com ST. PATRICK’S DAY DINNER/DANCE: Summit City Grange Hall, Kingsley. Featuring the Kingsley Village Market Band. Dinner, 4-6pm; dance, 6-10pm. 16 & up, $15; 5-15, $7; 5 & under, free.

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PUB WALK “THE MOUSETRAP”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. mynorthtickets.com

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HEATHER MALONEY: 8pm, Freshwater Art “GET TO THE HEART OF PARENTING”: Gallery, Boyne City. Tickets: $25 advance.

7-9:15pm, New Hope Community Church Auditorium, Williamsburg. Two-day conference. freshwaterartgallery.com/concertCalendar.php $15/person. Info & register: www.newhope.cc/ parenting STORMCLOUD GONG SHOW: 8pm, Start the day with a delicious lunch of THE traditional Irish fare at: Stormcloud Brewing Co., Frankfort. This amateur talent contest invites contestants to “THE MOUSETRAP”: 7:30pm, Old Town perform for prizes from Stormcloud & Frankfort’s Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15.

Garden Theater. 20 percent of pub sales go to mynorthtickets.com Grow Benzie. stormcloudbrewing.com IAA ORCHESTRA : 7:30pm, Corson LAUGH FOR A GOOD CAUSE! COMEDY Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts.

SHOW: 9pm, Studio Anatomy, TC. Falling Tickets: $10 adults, $7 seniors & $7 youth.

Down Stairs Productions has offered to donate Proceeds benefit the Friends of Interlochen proceeds from their shows in March and April Public Library & the Children’s Summer to help Polestar LGBT + Community Center Reading Program. 231-276-7800. launch itself as a new non-profit. tcpolestar.org

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Bubba’s

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The U & I Lounge

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ST. FATTY’S DAY WEEKEND: March 18-19.

8am, The Summit Grill @ The Ridge, Gaylord. Sat. group ride, Sat. night entertainment w/ Jo Nathan Burke & Jamie Andress, awesomagic, race on Sun., & Sun. group ride. Find on Facebook.

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Brady’s

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The Blue Tractor

CARNIVAL WEEKEND: (See Fri., March 17)

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Firefly Lounge

HUNTING & FISHING EXPO: 9am-7pm, TC Civic Center. Meet G.O. Heath, host of “Rugged Nation TV” on “The Sportsman Channel”. tchuntfishexpo.com

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KRAZY DAZE: (See Fri., March 17) HUNTING & FISHING EXPO: 10am-4pm, TC Civic Center. Meet G.O. Heath, host of “Rugged Nation TV” on “The Sportsman Channel”. tchuntfishexpo.com

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“THE MOUSETRAP”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. mynorthtickets.com/events/the-mousetrapmatinee LOCAL AUTHOR SHENANDOAH CHEFALO: 2pm, Alden District Library. Chefalo is the author of “Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir,” the story of one woman’s journey to overcome her desolate childhood, that also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system. 231-331-4318.

TC FAMILY EXPO: 2-5pm, Hagerty Center, TC. A community event to bring awareness, education and support to expecting, new and growing families in Northern Michigan.

Featuring community resources, kids activities, door prizes, chair massage, face painting, super heroes and more. Free. tcbirthexpo.com THE HARMELING’S: 2pm, Charlevoix Circle of Arts. The Charlevoix Circle of Arts presents a concert with local talent: Anna, Katie and Megan Harmeling. charlevoixcircle.com RACH 2 + BRUCKNER 6: 3pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Presented by the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. Tickets: www.traversesymphony.org NWS PRESENTS BATTLE OF THE BOOKS & GORDAN KORMAN: 1pm: 2nd Annual Battle of the Books with area fourth & fifth graders.

3:45pm: New York Times bestselling children’s author Gordan Korman takes the stage. City Opera House, TC. nationalwritersseries.org/ programs/battle-books-gordon-korman THE OUTSIDE TRACK: Scots, Irish, Cape Breton fusion of songs, tunes & step dance.

4pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door. 947-9213.

Nutrition education on video with Dr. Neal Barnard, founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

FREE COMMUNITY CLASS: Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Bikram Yoga, 845 S. Garfield Ave., TC. bikramyogatcgr.com ICESKATING GAMES: Harbor Springs Sk8 Park/Ice Rink. Saturdays through March 11, 1-3pm. facebook.com/harborspringssk8park SECULAR A.A.: The Porch, TC. Thursdays, 5:30pm; Fridays, 7pm. secularaainmichigan.org SNOWSHOE HIKE: Meet at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Empire every Sat. through March 11 at 1pm. facebook.com/sbdnl

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2017 JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey. Runs through March 23. Juried by renowned photographer Howard Bond.

Includes works selected from 140 submissions. crookedtree.org 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 HISTORY TALK: Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Fridays through March 17. Each week will cover a decade of the 1800’s. $5 suggested donation. crookedtree.org/event/ art-history-talk ARTFUL AFTERNOONS: 1pm, Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord, every Weds. through April 26. Free. gacaevents.weebly.com CALL FOR ART!: Higher Art Gallery, TC is having a Functional Fiber and Functional Ceramics pop up Market. Event is May 6 and geared towards Mothers Day gift giving. If you would like more info, and to apply, visit: higherartgallery.com or call: 231-252-4616.

Deadline to apply is April 5. higherartgallery.com CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS 1: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Now accepting submissions for “Emerging Artist, Under 24 Exhibit”. All local artists ages 17-24 are encouraged to apply to be in this juried exhibit, & have the opportunity to show & sell in a gallery. To apply visit: www. higherartgallery.com. Deadline to apply is March 20. higherartgallery.com

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CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS 2: Higher Art Gallery, TC. If you are between the ages of 1624 and would like to show your artwork, please email images of your most recent body of work to: higherartgallery@gmail.com. Accepting up to 3 young artists at a time. Will change artists 4 times a year. The first exhibit begins April 22. higherartgallery.com

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

CROOKED TREE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY EXHIBIT: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Atrium Gallery, Petoskey. Runs through March 17. Featuring diverse digital works from more than 30 members. crookedtree.org

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

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.

EATING RIGHT FOR CANCER: Cowell Family Cancer Center, TC. Six Wednesdays: March 1 - April 12, 5:30-7pm. Contact Emily Haan at 231.392.8492 or ehaan2@mhc. net with questions and to RSVP. Features evidence-based information on the dramatic impact food has on cancer risk and survival.

OAC SPRING EXHIBITION: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. An exhibit of artwork by Mary Fortuna, Janelle Songer and Jessica Kovan. Runs through April 7. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org PROTEST! PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WOMEN’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON:

By Kathy Silbernagel and Babs Young Exhibit: March 2-28, Corridor Gallery, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, TC. Panel Discussion/Meeting with Photographers: March 22, 7pm. uucgt.org

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Perhaps Pollinator should have been called Party–inator, considering the gleaming lineup of standout guest stars on Blondie’s newest set. Of course you’ll hear Debbie Harry’s distinctive vocals along with her bandmates’ instrumental work, but you’ll also hear snippets from Sia, Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Charli XCX, TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek, The Strokes’ Nick Valensi and Dev Hynes. Whew. And then there are the songs – slices of ‘80s–era classic Blondie sounds deftly layered against modern production and uber–catchy melodies, most notably on “Fun,” “Best Day Ever” and “My Monster.”

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Michelle Branch – “Hopeless Romantic” – Verve

The title track prefaces Branch’s return to the music scene after being absent, album–wise, for the past 14 years, and she wisely chose a couple of strong collaborators – The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney and Sia/Norah Jones cohort Gus Seyffert – to help her step back into her songs. The set’s first single, which is also the album’s title track, is more bluesy and soulful than Branch’s previous radio–friendly hits (“Breathe” and “Are You Happy Now?”); the rest of the tracklisting sticks nicely to this soul–pop lovelorn theme, from “Not a Love Song” to “Fault Line.”

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Depeche Mode is already (probably correctly) anticipating a big fan response to its latest album and has set it up to be available in both digital and CD form as a standard 12–track set and a deluxe version with five additional remixes by the band. Producer James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco stepped in to change things up for the duration, and his outside influence shows in the more muscled feel of tunes like the direct first single “Where’s the Revolution?” and the dark “Poison Heart”; band members are still clad all in black, but the band seems to have discovered a new political purpose.

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SHAKE YOUR SHAMROCK WITH DROPKICK MURPHYS No matter where in the country you’re headed this St. Patrick’s Day, you’ll find music, music, music (and lots of food and drink that’s been tinted green), starting with Detroit’s own St. Patrick’s Day parade and the usual plethora of rollicking informal Irish music jams in Corktown. If you’re heading to Washington, D.C., don’t miss the ShamROCK Fest, said to be America’s largest St. Patrick’s event; this year’s ShamROCK will include concerts from Dropkick Murphys, Street Dogs, Coolio, Carbon Leaf, The Fighting Jamesons and Gaelic Mishap, among others. Jimmy Eat World has been tapped to headline the massive St. Patrick’s Day concert in Dallas, and those in the know in Chicago will surely catch Chi–town’s own parade, along with live music around town from The Irish Heritage Singers, The Shannon Rovers, The Chancey Brothers and more.

Minus the Bear (MTB) has a new album on the way five years after its last; this week sees the release of its sixth effort, VOIDS, which was prefaced by the set’s first official single.

“Invisible” is a minutely–detailed production with stacks of sound layers and plenty of guitar work from Dave Knudson. MTB will embark on a 29–date North American tour this spring to promote the album, and tickets are already on sale. Nearby stops will include

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shows in Toronto Mar. 31, Detroit Apr. 2 at St. Andrews Hall, and Chicago Apr. 6 at the House of Blues. The band will bring along Bayonne and Beach Slang as support acts.

With much of the political situation in America in disarray in every direction, a number of prominent musicians have banded together to organize an all–star benefit concert for the ACLU. The event, which will occur at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Apr. 3, will include performances from Imagine Dragons, Incubus, Halsey, Skrillex, Macklemore, Zedd and Daya, with more to be announced.

A new documentary about The Beach Boys’ 1960s’ masterpiece album Pet Sounds is heading to Showtime in April. The film will feature studio outtakes, archival footage, photos and exclusive interviews with the album’s creators, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston. Called Making Pet Sounds, the documentary is part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the album from 2016; there’s also a massive deluxe reissue of the album itself available in outlets now.

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: With its brand new album Heartworms just around the corner, The Shins appeared on the Chris Thile version of A Prairie Home Companion recently to play a new song called

“The Fear” as well as a couple of older Shins’ gems; check out the entire episode and The Shins’ performance on YouTube at youtube. com/watch?v=76CFxaoM13g.

MINI BUZZ: Detroit’s R&B Hall of Fame is prepping for its 2017 ceremony on June 11. This year’s inductees include James Brown, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Patti La Belle, Mary Wells and Isaac Hayes.

John Mayer has just been confirmed for a live concert at the DTE Energy Theater in Detroit Fri., Sept. 1, with tickets on sale now at livenation.com.

If you’re looking to check out a new music venue, try Grand Rapids’ brand new 20 Monroe Live, the new club that just opened a month ago that’s set to host 150 shows a year

starting with Shinedown, The Head and the Heart, The Flaming Lips and Primus.

In other Michigan music venue news, here’s a tip for those looking to acquire their own concert hall – Ann Arbor venue The Blind Pig is officially for sale, with the listing including the Pig itself and its attached 8 Ball Saloon.

Motown Records’ own Michael Jackson’s album Thriller has just become the first album in RIAA Gold and Platinum history to be certified 33x Diamond, meaning it’s exceeded the RIAA’s 30 million sales mark in the U.S…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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As a regional referral center, we’re on top of your care with consistent recognition for high quality.

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The reel

by meg weichman

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From its first brutal moments that find Logan (aka Wolverine) horrifically slaughtering a gang of would-be carjackers, “Logan” lets you know that it will be wearing its R rating on its sleeve, not only in terms of the extreme violence, but also in its extreme seriousness. This is a movie that wants you know it’s somber, difficult, and important – a superhero movie with the soul of an indie western that aspires to be a great stand-alone drama, and not just another X-Men movie (though it’s the tenth one, you’ll note no X-Men branding in the title).

And these aspirations are appreciated. I appreciate that “Logan” tests the range of the genre, feels fresh and different for Marvel/ superhero movies, and has some great performances along with some powerful emotional beats.

But comic books aren’t high art; that wasn’t the idea. So you can make “Logan” edgier and brooding and fill it with as much pathos, f-bombs, and beheadings as you want; all it does it make you more aware of its overreaching.

You see, “Logan” is basically the same plot as the soulful, excellent, and criminallyunderseen “Midnight Special,” but diluted down, with the violence amped up, and wrapped in a superhero package. And voila, suddenly you have a blockbuster seen by millions.

Yet though it doesn’t necessarily meet all of its high ambitions, it’s still a very solid movie with a lot of strong points and about as good as a “serious” comic book movie can be (rare outliers like the pop art masterpiece “The Dark Knight” excluded).

I don’t exactly know where in the X-Menverse this falls or what timeline this is in (don’t worry; it remains entirely accessible no matter your level of mutant knowledge), but the year is 2029 and mutants are on the way out. Gone are the days of X-Men heroics and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is now a haunted and haggard-looking chauffeur driving around bachelor parties in El Paso, earning money to take care of an ailing Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart). His hope? To save enough so he and Charles, whose all-powerful brain has set in to dementia, can buy a boat and take to the seas and maybe find a little peace.

That plan goes all to hell, however, when Logan’s path crosses with Laura (exciting newcomer Dafne Keen), a young girl very much like him and in need of a ride to North Dakota, where an “Eden” for mutant children awaits. Laura escaped a shady medical experiment in Mexico and those responsible for her mutantness want her back. The last

thing Logan wants to do is stick his neck out, but Charles convinces him otherwise and a surrogate family is formed.

It then becomes an on-the-run road movie, with the group traveling from convenience stores to casinos, stopping for the action set pieces you’d expect along the way as they’re chased by a private security team (there is no standout villain worth mentioning).

The design is a vaguely futuristic, rust belt chic that’s heavy on the western iconography -- with even its own modern day homesteader standoff. The mood is bleak and elegiac, tinged with regret and melancholy; and the redemption arc predictable and meandering but with some originality and nuance.

The film’s smartest decision was restricting the focus on just a few of the X-Men and not the whole menagerie. The intimate moments between Charles and Logan are the film’s best – tender, heartfelt, and true thanks to the incredible performances from Stewart, who lends some major Shakespearean heft, and Jackman, putting every ounce of his heart he can in to this 17-year coming swan song that ends things on his terms (he even took a pay cut to ensure the film’s darker, grittier feel).

I hear from X-Men devotees that Wolverine’s supposedly “final” movie marks a chance for us to finally see him let loose – see what damage those adamantium claws (that are now poisoning him) can really do. And I’m happy that Logan delivers this kind of wish fulfillment. Yet for the rest of us, that initial thrill gives way to a numbness that comes with the gratuitous and repetitive killings. On the plus side, the uberviolent and downright barbaric action refreshingly enough never feels like the overly bombastic CGI heavy stuff you’re used to in superhero flicks.

As the chase heads to its inevitable conclusion and your interest should amp up, the last 30 minutes drag instead. “Logan” neither lands its sentimental and manipulative ending nor addresses in a meaningful way its timely thematic undercurrent of Mexican “immigrants” crossing borders and a climax where dark-skinned children are hunted down on their way to Canada for sanctuary.

Where the film actually ends up being the most topical and telling of our times is that it eschews fun to such a grim degree (stopping it from besting “Days of Future Past” as the franchise’s top effort). Cause if we can’t even have a little fun at our superhero movies these days, it says more than you can know about where we’re at right now.

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

he less you know about “Get Out” going in, the better.

You could call it a melding of the satirical dread of “The Stepford Wives” with the uneasiness of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, but it’s more than just a smashing of those two genres. It touches on current events and comments on long-standing, unfortunate truths but never in a glib or unsavory way. And it’s one of those rare thrillers that leave you breadcrumbs you won’t even realize you’ve noticed until they’re all lined up at the end – everything comes together with such a satisfying and mind-blowing brilliance. It’s smart, clever, incredibly thoughtful, funny, and even though it draws heavily from classic horror influences, manages to feel wholly original. The setup is amazingly simple: Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a young black man is introduced to his white girlfriend’s family and things take a very strange term. And to explain more would ruin the payoff of this truly remarkable film. You should know going in that this is a horror movie that chills not with blood and gore (there is some of that) but with the weight of social awkwardness and underlying racial tension. That writer/director Jordan Peele (he of Key & Peele) has wrapped such a meaningful conversation and packaged it as a horror-comedy goes to show how both necessary and accessible this conversation is. And in our particularly strained times, a horror movie has never felt more vital.

THE GREAT WALL

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he Great Wall” puts forth the legend that the 5,500 miles 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 an entertaining flick. But “The Great Wall” is monster movie where the monsters are an afterthought. It’s a war epic with no reverence. And it’s an action fantasy that fails to transport. A painfully anemic Matt Damon plays William, a 12th century mercenary whose search for the explosive black powder 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. When the Tao Tei attack, the film comes alive. From the drums, cannons, catapults, and lizard-shearing blades to the battle-trained aerialists, it’s cool to see The Wall not just as an ancient wonder, but as a living, breathing fortress. But these moments of wacky wonder don’t last and we have to return to the drudgery of its West meets East propaganda.

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

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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.

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: My problem is that I’ll go on one or two dates with a girl and then get the whole “I just wanna be friends.” And they really mean that. They want me to do lunch and go shopping and talk on the phone about their guy problems. How can I nicely tell these girls, “I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but no, I’m not going to be your friend — and I especially don’t want to hear about your new guy”? I guess the problem boils down to the fact that I don’t want to make a woman mad.

— Frustrated

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: Over and over, you hear the same thing — basically, “Sorry…we have to turn down your application for CEO, but we’d love to have you as our parking attendant.”

By the way, your first problem is that you’re wrong about what your problem is. It isn’t how to TELL a woman you aren’t up for the role of pet eunuch. It’s how to BE the man holding her in his arms instead of the one holding her purse while she’s exploring her options in the tampon section.

Consider what the ladies tend to want — whether the ladies are hermit crabs or humans. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers’ theory of “parental investment” explains that in species that provide continuing care for their young after they’re born, females have evolved to go for “dominant” males.

Dominance translates to being more able to “provide protection and material support” (through physical ability, as well as high social status).

However, the term “dominant” is a little… uh…unrefined. Women aren’t looking to be dragged off into the sunset by some thug.

Social psychologist Jerry M. Burger and one of his students, Mica Cosby, took a nuanced look at dominance and found that women overwhelmingly want a man who is “confident” and “assertive” as their ideal date or romantic partner. And though most also want a man who’s “sensitive” and “easygoing,” none — NOT ONE — of the 118 women they surveyed wanted a man who is “submissive.”

Chances are, “submissive” is exactly how you’re coming off. Your pleaserboy bottom line — “I don’t want to make a woman mad” — suggests a hunger for women’s approval and probably leads you to wilt like a man-daisy to avoid even the slightest conflict. Unfortunately, that won’t get you out of the friend zone. What will is self-respect — and the assertiveness that comes out of it: showing that you have opinions, needs, and

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preferences, and tough tostadas if a woman doesn’t like them. This, of course, doesn’t mean being rigidly uncompromising. However, when you do sacrifice your needs, it should be because you feel good about doing something nice — not because you’re dreaming of a day when your “Well, hellooo, gorgeous!” won’t be followed by “Thanks!

And I seriously appreciate your watching Senor Fluffyface while I’m on my date.”

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: I’m a 40-something woman, living with my 50-something male partner. Our relationship is slightly open, in that every Tuesday, we each go out separately and “do whatever with whomever.” I have lived up to my part of this, but I recently discovered that my partner has not. On Tuesdays, he stays home by himself. Beyond being irritated that he’s effectively been lying, I feel weird being the only one doing the open relationship thing. How do I get him to live up to our agreement?

--Poly-Annoyed

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: There’s no fun like mandated fun. What’s next, holding him at gunpoint and demanding that he enjoy miniature golf?

Chances are, his lying and your feeling “weird” that things aren’t all even-steven in the sexual snacking domain come out of the same place — the evolution of cooperation and the sense of fairness that fostered it. Fairness comes down to how benefits or resources get divided between people — whether in a balanced or imbalanced way. We evolved to get all freaked out about imbalances — even when they’re in our favor — explain population biologist Sarah Brosnan and primatologist Frans de Waal. In fact, we are driven to equalize things “to our own detriment.” But, don’t get too misty-eyed about human moral nobility. They point out that it’s in our selfinterest to take the long view — trying to avoid being perceived as unfair, which could kill the possibility of “continued cooperation” between ourselves and a partner.

Understanding the likely evolutionary psychology behind your feeling upset could help you focus on why your partner is saying (a silent) “nope!” to the sex buffet. My guess?

He loves you and wants you to have what you need. And he doesn’t want you to feel uncomfortable about going out and getting it — even if the only taboo things he’s doing in bed are allowing the dog on it and clipping his fingernails and letting them ricochet around the room.

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ACROSS 1 His treehouse inspired the “Treehouse of Horror” 5 Manufactured 9 First full month of spring 14 “On the Waterfront” director Kazan 15 Musk of Tesla Motors 16 Livelihood 17 Indy gets in his ___ and drives, only to miss a stray blowgun missile ...

19 Arcade coin 20 Pilfer 21 Kremlin denial 23 “You’re not fully clean ...” soap 24 Maya of Vietnam Memorial fame 26 Hindu prince’s title 28 BLT spread 31 Indy turns on his car radio to hear “Wild Wild West” band ___, narrowly avoiding being bludgeoned by a nearby motorist ...

37 ___ Bator (Mongolia’s capital) 38 ___ Wall (“American Ninja Warrior” fixture) 39 Before, to Byron 40 Island nation southeast of Fiji 42 “The Doors” star Kilmer 43 Mirror reflection 45 A billion years 46 Jane who played Daphne on “Frasier” 49 Rehab candidate 50 Indy orders ___ at the restaurant, only to avoid servers flinging meat ... (and why’d it have to be THIS meat?)

52 Health clinic leaflet subjects, for short 53 10th grader, for short 54 Up to this point 56 “Jeopardy!” creator Griffin 59 “The Untouchables” agent Eliot 62 Like hairpin turns 66 Adjust to fit 68 Finally, Indy’s ready to come home, turn on some cartoons, and watch ___, only to avoid his neighbor who won’t stop with the stories ...

70 When hell freezes over 71 Jai ___ (fast-paced game) 72 They’re the top brass 73 Derisive 74 Dome-shaped tent

75 Career honor not accomplished by Lin-Manuel Miranda at this year’s Oscars DOWN 1 Hotel needs 2 In a big way 3 Take the bus 4 Girl Scout Cookie with peanut butter and chocolate 5 Rx order 6 Late “Hannity & Colmes” co-host Colmes 7 Nemo’s successor?

8 Respond in court 9 Part of D.A. 10 Drug in an Elizabeth Wurtzel title 11 Pick up debris, perhaps 12 “Julius Caesar” date 13 Time to give up?

18 Peyton’s brother 22 Finish line, metaphorically 25 Unopened in the box 27 Skywalker, e.g.

28 Shuts the sound off 29 Give it ___ 30 “Live at the Acropolis” keyboardist 32 Fix a bad situation, superhero-style 33 Lust after 34 Superlatively minimal 35 Advised strongly 36 Oktoberfest quaffs 41 Like Charlie Parker’s sax 44 Necessity 47 Sports channel owned by Disney 48 Observatory’s focus 51 Answered an invitation 55 Suffix denoting extremeness 56 “The Wrong ___” (James Corden BBC series) 57 Barbara of “I Dream of Jeannie” 58 Norah Jones’s father 60 “Star Trek” crewman 61 “The Lion King” villain 63 Character retired by Sacha Baron Cohen 64 Forfeited wheels 65 “Hey, over here” 67 “Boyz N the Hood” character 69 Model airplane purchase

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PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like some free healing

that’s in alignment with cosmic rhythms? Try this experiment.

Imagine that you’re planning to write your autobiography. Create an outline that has six chapters. Each of the first three chapters will be about a past experience that helped make you who you are. In each of the last three chapters, you will describe a desirable event that you want to create in the future. I also encourage you to come up with a boisterous title for your tale. Don’t settle for My Life So Far or The Story of My Journey. Make it idiosyncratic and colorful, perhaps even outlandish, like Piscean author Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The more unselfish

and compassionate you are in the coming weeks, the more likely it is you will get exactly what you need. Here are four ways that can be true: 1. If you’re kind to people, they will want to be kind to you in return. 2. Taking good care of others will bolster their ability to take good care of you. 3. If you’re less obsessed with I-me-mine, you will magically dissolve psychic blocks that have prevented certain folks from giving you all they are inclined to give you. 4. Attending to others’ healing will teach you valuable lessons in how to heal yourself -- and how to get the healing you yearn for from others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): I hope you will

consider buying yourself some early birthday presents. The celebration is weeks away, but you need some prodding, instigative energy now. It’s crucial that you bring a dose of the starting-fresh spirit into the ripening projects you’re working on. Your mood might get overly cautious and serious unless you infuse it with the spunk of an excited beginner. Of course only you know what gifts would provide you with the best impetus, but here are suggestions to stimulate your imagination: a young cactus; a jack-in-the-box; a rock with the word “sprout” written on it; a decorated marble egg; a fox mask; a Photoshopped image of you flying through the air like a superhero.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many Geminis

verbalize profusely and acrobatically. They enjoy turning their thoughts into speech, and love to keep social situations lively with the power of their agile tongues. Aquarians and Sagittarians may rival your tribe for the title of The Zodiac’s Best Bullshitters, but I think you’re in the top spot. Having heaped that praise on you, however, I must note that your words don’t always have as much influence as they have entertainment value. You sometimes impress people more than you impact them. But here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, that could change. I suspect your fluency will carry a lot of clout. Your communication skills could sway the course of local history.

CANCER June 21-July 22): Your world is

more spacious than it has been in a long time.

Congrats! I love the way you have been pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and into the wilder frontier. For your next trick, here’s my suggestion: Anticipate the parts of you that may be inclined to close down again when you don’t feel as brave and free as you do now. Then gently clamp open those very parts.

If you calm your fears before they break out, maybe they won’t break out at all.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I like rowdy, extravagant

longing as much as anyone. I enjoy being possessed by a heedless greed for too much of everything that feels rapturous: delectable food, mysterious sex, engrossing information, liberating intoxication, and surprising conversations that keep me guessing and improvising for hours. But I am also a devotee of simple, sweet longing . . . pure, watchful, patient longing . . . open-hearted longing that brims with innocence and curiosity and is driven as much by the urge to bless as to be blessed.

That’s the kind I recommend you explore and experiment with in the coming days.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know that

forbidden fruit you’ve had your eyes on? Maybe it isn’t so forbidden any more. It could even be evolving toward a state where it will be both freely available and downright healthy for you to pluck. But there’s also a possibility that it’s simply a little

less risky than it was before. And it may never become a fully viable option. So here’s my advice: Don’t grab and bite into that forbidden fruit yet. Keep monitoring the situation. Be especially attentive to the following questions: Do you crave the forbidden fruit because it would help you flee a dilemma you haven’t mustered the courage to escape from? Or because it would truly be good for you to partake of the forbidden fruit?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I expect you will get

more than your usual share of both sweetness and tartness in the coming days. Sometimes one or the other will be the predominant mode, but on occasion they will converge to deliver a complex brew of WOW!-meets-WTF! Imagine chunks of sour apples in your vanilla fudge ripple ice cream. Given this state of affairs, there’s no good reason for you to be blandly kind or boringly polite. Use a saucy attitude to convey your thoughtfulness. Be as provocative as you are tender. Don’t just be nice -- be impishly and subversively nice.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I want to

gather your darkness in my hands, to cup it like water and drink.” So says Jane Hirshfield in her poem “To Drink.” I bet she was addressing a Scorpio. Does any other sign of the zodiac possess a sweet darkness that’s as delicious and gratifying as yours? Yes, it’s true that you also harbor an unappetizing pocket of darkness, just like everyone else. But that sweet kind -- the ambrosial, enigmatic, exhilarating stuff -- is not only safe to imbibe, but can also be downright healing. In the coming days, I hope you’ll share it generously with worthy recipients.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Saturn has

been in your sign steadily since September 2015, and will continue to be there until December 2017. Some traditional astrologers might say you are in a phase of downsizing and self-restraint.

They’d encourage you to be extra strict and serious and dutiful. To them, the ringed planet is an exacting task-master.

There are some grains of truth in this perspective, but I like to emphasize a different tack. I say that if you cooperate with the rigors of Saturn, you’ll be inspired to become more focused and decisive and disciplined as you shed any flighty or reckless tendencies you might have. Yes, Saturn can be adversarial if you ignore its commands to be faithful to your best dreams. But if you respond gamely, it will be your staunch ally.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Born in

the African nation of Burkina Faso, Malidoma Somé is a teacher who writes books and offers workshops to Westerners interested in the spiritual traditions of his tribe. In his native Dagaare language, his first name means “he who befriends the stranger/ enemy.” I propose that we make you an honorary “Malidoma” for the next three weeks. It will be a favorable time to forge connections, broker truces, and initiate collaborations with influences you have previous considered foreign or alien.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

EVERY relationship has problems. No exceptions. In the beginning, all may be calm and bright, but eventually cracks will appear. Here’s the corollary to that rule: EVERY partner is imperfect. Regardless of how cool, kind, attractive, or smart they may seem in the early stages, they will eventually unveil their unique flaws and troubles.

Does this mean that all togetherness is doomed? That it’s forever impossible to create satisfying unions? The answer is HELL, NO! -- especially if you keep the following principles in mind: Choose a partner whose problems are: 1. interesting; 2. tolerable; 3. useful in prodding you to grow; 4. all of the above.

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