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scheduled air service to areas either not served or underserved by the major airlines.

Now, by utilizing funding, an upstart, entrepreneurial company (Public Charters) is taking advantage of the program and delivering a product and service that gives the public an option in their travel needs.

Due to the EAS fund, they offer a service at a price point lower than the competition, and because of that, they are vilified by the legacy airlines (Delta, United and American) and Kevin Klein, Cherry Capital Airport manager.

But wait. Just several paragraphs later in Mr. Sullivan’s article he reveals the U.S. Department of Transportation, along with the Gaylord Tourist Bureau, guaranteed over $1 million dollars to American Airlines if they would start flying a seasonal non-stop from Dallas to TVC. Should that route not be profitable they would be guaranteed to be reimbursed with those funds, funds that were most certainly taxpayer provided! So … if used, it’s also a subsidy!

I’m tired of paying $400, $500, even $600 or more to fly into TVC. The three airlines serving Traverse City have been overtly or covertly colluding for years to keep the ticket price to TVC as high as they can.

If you want to really serve your community Mr. Klein, stop bitching about little ’ol Manistee and its one flight a day.

Let Southwest, Allegiant or even Spirit into your market and break the monopoly that is really stifling growth in northern Michigan.

Fritz Breland, Boynton Beach, Fla.

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Don’t Pick And Choose Facts

Climate change is a fascinating subject often mentioned in this section of Northern Express. Unfortunately, the letters are often formulaic such as the one most recently written by Mr. Currier.

Pick one study/analysis (in this case, University of Alabama Huntsville, UAH) or researcher (Drs. Roy Spencer and John Christy) and claim it disproves climate change/global warming. Add a comment about extreme environmentalists and then mention a conspiracy such as the UN holding the US “hostage ... subjection of the citizens ... etc.” Mr. Currie also mentions Dr. Judith Curry and implies that she retired due to the “craziness in the climate field” and does not mention that she also started her own consulting business. Dr. Curry does not claim there is no climate change, just that there are many variables making predictions difficult. In presenting the UAH data, Dr. Christy has been shown to manipulate the graphs in his presentations to reduce the apparent signal of warming.

It is easy to include some of the many data sets that show changes in climate such as glacier loss, global surface temperature increase, or sea level rise.

Climate science is complex. We cannot simplify it or make any progress by limiting our analysis and by name-calling.

Brian Allen, Manistee

[“Mile-High Subsidy Club,” May 29 issue] You must be congratulated on the story, “Should Northern Michigan’s Air Service Be Subsidized?” Unlike virtually every other recent report on the Essential Air Service (EAS) program, it was complete and factual.

Until this year, the EAS program has been the regular fodder for “investigative” reporters doing softball stories on government waste.

Now, however, it’s all different. To be blunt, it’s been a blizzard of fake garbage about how Trump is trying to cut small communities out of the global economy and isolate them. Until this article, there’s been no review of the areas where the program is a political joke — like Muskegon or Pueblo, or Tupelo, or a dozen other places where millions are spent to support flights that are vastly inferior to other consumer options. Consumers today at many of these communities will drive to an airport that accesses the rest of the globe better and more time-efficiently than using wasteful placebo flights that EAS delivers.

To be clear, Alaska is a very different story for this program. There aren’t any roads. But there is I-96 that gives Muskegon quick access to the wide range of service at Grand Rapids, and that’s what the majority of Muskegon consumers use. We can cite many other examples.

Our company has followed the EAS program for years, and there are some applications that make sense. But the sudden knee-jerk defense of the program, replete with concocted warnings of dire economic disaster, are clear proof that fake news is alive and well.

Michael J. Boyd, President, Boyd Group Aviation Forecasting

Mile-High Subsidy Hypocrisy

Does anyone else see the raging hypocrisy in Patrick Sullivan’s story last week on the airport subsidy issue?

Manistee, Pellston, and small communities like them all over the U.S. are beneficiaries of the Essential Air Service fund (EAS), a government program designed to subsidize

Real Green?

When all of these “green” people tell you to ride your bike to work or drive a Prius, watch what they leave in to get on their private jet, leaving the carbon footprint the size of Godzilla. I guarantee you it is not a bike or a Prius. Do you really think these Hollywood people travel the way we are supposed to? And I get called a fascist because I have a medium-sized SUV!

CONTENTS

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

Bear in Mind.....................................................10 Sporck Tile Art.................................................12 Wine Town Ramp Up.......................................14 Biking the Peninsulas......................................16 Mary Roach...................................................19 Seen.................................................................23

dates...............................................24-27 music FourScore.......................................................28 Nightlife...........................................................31

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

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................4 Weird................................................................8 Crossed...........................................................21 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates.................................29 The Reel......................................................30 Advice Goddess..............................................32 Crossword....................................................33 Freewill Astrology...........................................33 Classifieds.....................................................34

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Subverting Our Republic

Gerrymandering continues to damage American democracy. The House of Representatives — because its members are elected every two years — was intended to be one of the most responsive and reliable checks in our checks-and-balances system of government.

If most Congressional districts were competitive — more or less evenly divided between Democrat- and Republican-leaning voters — and a newly-elected Republican President revealed himself to be an ongoing disaster — as Trump has — ALL of those districts would be in play in the next election, and Republicans would likely pay a price for their president’s shortcomings.

But because the GOP has in most states gerrymandered the House (packed as many Democrat voters into as few carefully drawn districts as possible), it virtually owns a majority of districts and might not be held accountable for Trump’s incompetence.

One of the constitutionally-constructed and tradition-tested checks among our checks and balances has thus been subverted and the system weakened.

Political parties are actually private organizations that pursue public power.

The GOP’s gerrymandering has effectively privatized a majority of Congressional and other voting districts. It’s time for citizens to take back this fundamentally public responsibility to draw the lines that define districts — fairly.

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When it comes to running our government, I’ll take a career politician, non-profit director or government bureaucrat over a CEO-citizen every time. The oft-made campaign promise of “If elected, I promise to run this [county/ city/country] like a business!” leaves me slackjawed, dragging my hands down my face, and thinking only one thing: “No. Please don’t.”

Oh, I can hear the detractors now, ranting that: … our elected officials need “real world” experience to lead a government. … they’ve never even held a job in the private sector. … they don’t know what it means to balance a budget. … they have no idea what it takes to create jobs.

I say “Phooey.”

Most Americans lack an appreciation for the professions of political science and public administration. Yes, people really do earn degrees in these career fields. It takes a particular passion, talent, and unique skill set to actually run a government body. I’ve run my own companies, held executive management positions in nonprofit organizations, and managed both federal- and state-funded programs. These animals could be no more different from each other than a beer can, a bicycle, and a zebra.

In my experience, I found government work to be excruciatingly frustrating and not a good fit for me personally, but I do have a genuine appreciation and respect for the people who have made government their chosen playground.

They work within a beautiful yet confounding system of checks and balances that are meant to frustrate any effort to overreach their own authority. The CEO of a privately held company has no place here; nimble pivots and intuitive decision-making are not heroic qualities in government.

Consider managing government operations from the perspective of the mission statement, in this case, the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Yikes. That’s not just a tall order but one that suggests how delivering on one goal might undermine another. In business terms, it means multiple departments could be working at cross purposes. In government, it means the executive branch and elected officials will have a far more difficult time getting a “win.”

Rarely is there a winning bottom line to point to that does not have a negative impact on at least one sector of people.

People working in government work under a completely different model than private enterprise, and that’s a good thing. There are far-reaching implications for the actions taken by a single government branch or department

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that business people are not accustomed to concerning themselves with. Government is different. Trade sanctions against China, for instance, will impact our ability to request military assistance from China when dealing with North Korea. Commerce vs. defense.

Managing Results Business managers say, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Well, how do you measure Liberty? Is there a metric for Justice?

Government provides immeasurable outcomes that stretch across the deliverables of our constitution.

An example: When I directed a governmentsupported business-assistance program, our success was measured, in large part, by the number of new businesses launched and the amount of new capital invested in businesses we served — not by the business survival rate, profitability, etc. Was this helping or hurting the economy? Either way, it provided a metric that the business-influenced government officials required. Staff found it to be irrelevant to the actual impact we had on our client businesses and the local economy, but it was the primary measurement I was required to consider in reviewing program effectiveness.

This is a prime example of a business principle imposed on a government-funded program.

Managing costs Cheaper isn’t always better. For instance, reducing prison staff training and rehabilitation efforts and psychological services for inmates might enable private prisons to house incarcerated persons at dramatically lower costs, but the recidivism rate will rise, ultimately serving the market growth of the private company while increasing crimes against citizens.

Customer Service We are not customers of America. We might consume products and services of government, but, like me, I’m sure that you consider yourself to be a deeply invested stakeholder.

Don’t tell me to take my business elsewhere.

Selecting Your Team In government, you are forced to work with people that have been elected by voting citizens or appointed and protected by others.

These people might not be the best candidates for their jobs. Doesn’t matter. Can’t fire ’em. In government, you must learn to be political to keep the system working. This is not always a bad thing.

Exit Strategy When a business model proves to be unsustainable, the option exists to close the doors and paste a Going Out of Business banner across the storefront. The players disperse and find new gigs. This is not an option in government.

Although business and government can learn from each other, I maintain that the very premises of their existence are so fundamentally different that you cannot impose one’s principles on the other. Business principles work for business. Government principles work for governments.

Mary Rogers is a Traverse City-based business consultant, speaker, blogger, and podcaster. She also claims the title Government Geek. mary@ experience50.com

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Loud & Proud Harbor Springs’ The Marsupials play funk and rock at the Pellston Summerfest on Sat., June 10, 6–8pm. There will also be more live music, a car show, the 5K Sun Run/Walk, 3 on 3 basketball tournament, and much more.

The Pellston Summerfest runs June 9–11. Info: facebook.com/pellstonevents

Coast Guard Frees Deer A Pride Ride, a candlelight vigil, karaoke, yoga at the Open Space — Traverse City is hosting a heap of events leading up to the fourth annual Up North Pride Visibility March on June 25.

Over three years, the downtown march supporting the north’s LGBTQ community has seen a tenfold increase in attendance, growing from 300 in 2014 to 3,000 last year.

“More than half of our participants in the previous three years have been straight allies who show up to support, celebrate, and have fun with their friends and family in the LGBTQ community,” said Jenn Cameron, a cofounder of Up North Pride. “We need more of this. And we need even more friends who are prepared to show up and support their fabulous yet often marginalized and oppressed friends.”

This year’s grand marshal is Scott Turner Schofield, an internationally known transgender educator and actor.

For details on all the Pride Month events, visit https://www.facebook.com/ pg/upnorthpride/events/

The Coast Guard isn’t in the business of rescuing animals, but a crew who found a pregnant deer trapped in rocks on the edge of the Manistee River decided they’d better take care of the animal.

“Knowing how much people love animals and want to help them, we decided to rescue the deer before a person without rescue training could get hurt,” said Petty Officer 3rd Class Adrian Ledesma, a member of the rescue crew from the Coast Guard Station Manistee.

The crew was training on the river near Harbor Village in Manistee on the morning of May 31 when they spotted the animal; it had gotten its legs stuck in rocks on the river’s edge.

The rescuers pulled the doe free and took it to a nearby field. After determining the animal had suffered only minor scrapes, the crew let it go.

tastemaker The Fish’s PEI Steamed Mussels The latest bigwig of the bivalve world, PEI mussels — mussels that hail from Prince Edward Island, off Canada’s eastern coast — are sweeping the seafood world by storm. Their latest landfall: The Fish restaurant, just outside downtown Harbor Springs.

Steamed in white wine and finished with roasted garlic butter, these Canadian imports do their reputation proud. PEI mussels are known to be nothing if not reliable. Seems the tidal patterns and climate of their particular ocean home is conducive to raising mussels that are consistently tender, plump, and sweet.

The Fish’s simple preparation showcases this mid-sized mollusc’s mighty flavor. Pair a plate with the eatery’s toasted ciabatta bread, and you’ve got a sensational summer meal.

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SYMPTOMS OF AN OLD DISEASE spectator by stephen tuttle The man in the airline terminal screamed at the Hispanic man, an American citizen, telling him to go home. The woman at the Walmart scored a rare 2-for-1 hate special when she insulted a Latina, then hurled a racial slur at an African American woman in the same encounter.

Things got uglier still on a commuter train in Oregon, where a man began insulting two young minority women, one of whom was wearing a hajib. When three other passengers tried to intervene, the hatemonger stabbed two of them to death and injured the third. (The young women escaped physical injury.)

We’re hearing there’s an uptick in this kind of ignorant and overt bigotry, which came back to life during President Trump’s campaign. We’re told Trump’s use of racial, reli-

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To be sure, Trump’s rhetoric didn’t help at all — but it’s a symptom of an old disease, not the cause. The only thing new is the omnipresence of smart phones ready to record incidents like those mentioned above, which have been happening all along.

Religious, racial, ethnic, and gender bias appears to be a human constant. There is no record of any civilization that was ever free of it. Psychologists tell us we have an innate distrust of anyone who looks or speaks differently than we do. That explains fear but not hatred. Hate is passed along from generation to generation like a recessive gene, or from person to person like an infection.

We’ve been going after minorities of all sorts since before we were even a country.

We came here seeking religious freedom and ended up ostracizing and abusing those who didn’t agree. We called women witches and hanged them. (There wasn’t any burning at the stake here; that was a European outrage.)

We killed indigenous people with gleeful barbarity, and our willful ignorance of African culture made slavery all the easier.

California once tried to make it illegal for Chinese people to set foot there, and those who were already residents were assessed a special tax.

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We know that bigotry is a manifest part of our cultural past and present, but we grow weary of hearing about it. We’re always willing to point out the very real progress we have made. After all, we’ve had an African American president. We have an African American Supreme Court justice — not to mention two women justices, one of whom is a Latina. We’ve had multiple women Secretaries of State, and women and Latinos are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

Trump’s rhetoric didn’t help at all — but it’s a symptom of an old disease, not the cause. gious, and gender insults has given license for haters to slither out from under their rocks and openly spit their venom.

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Let’s see ... spics, kikes, wops, fags, dykes, mackerel snappers, dagos, savages, towel heads, bitches, and the entire pantheon of African American insults. Any of that sound familiar? No group outside the white, heterosexual Anglo Saxon-protestant firmament has escaped.

We’ve abused Japanese-Americans, and at various times marginalized Italians, Irish, Catholics, and Jews. We decided early on that “different” somehow equated to “inferior,” and that the actions of one member of a group was sufficient to condemn the entire group. We even created our own litany of derogation.

Some starring public roles have been filled, it’s true. But it’s also been reported the African American president received more death threats and needed more Secret Service protection than any previous president.

It seems unlikely that health care legislation was the cause. We delude ourselves that any progress means the end of the problem when progress only illuminates it.

It’s Muslims and Mexican immigrants who seem to be the latest target of our irrational animus. We have politicians and pundits who want us to believe all Muslims are terrorists and anyone from Mexico is either a criminal or a job-stealer. We now regularly insult and demean both groups, though Mexicans have been a target for a long time.

Never mind that we are statistically way, way more likely to be killed by a relative or known associate than by terrorists bastardizing Islam. Or that illegal immigrants actually commit far less crime than legal residents.

Bigotry is oblivious to reality, so bigots ignore it.

We like to think we’re above such things here in northern Michigan. It would be more accurate to say we’re simply away from such things, living in a region so homogeneous that 95-percent-white Traverse City is considered diverse. Racial and cultural sameness, however, do not equate to lack of bias; you can hear plenty of it in conversations on the streets of our hometowns.

We would prefer this entire racial/gender/ religion/ethnicity discussion would just go away. But it can’t. We’re not even past the beginning of addressing prejudice, not yet willing to acknowledge what we all have tucked away in our darker corners. In that darkness, bias grows into bigotry. Only

Crime & Rescue MATTRESS DUMPER WANTED Someone dumped and burned 20 mattresses on public land near Lake Ann, and conservation officers want to find them.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is looking for tips to find the scofflaw who trashed the state forest with refuse and risked starting a forest fire in Benzie County.

The DNR received a complaint about the mattresses on May 24 and confirmed around 20 burned mattresses and bedspring frames had been dumped on state-managed land in Inland Township. Included in the debris were around 18 identical metal headboards.

“It is illegal to dispose of mattresses by burning.

It is also illegal to dispose of household materials on state land,” said Conservation Officer Rebecca Hopkins. “In this instance, the fire from the burning mattresses caused the grass and nearby trees to burn and damaged approximately one-half acre of public land. Had conditions been drier, this incident may have spread into a larger forest fire.”

Anyone with information should call the DNR’s Report All Poaching line at (800) 292-7800. Callers can remain anonymous.

MAN ARRESTED FOR ATM THEFTS A 48-year-old Kingsley man faces charges after an anonymous tipster connected him to the brazen thefts of two ATM machines.

The tip caused Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies, Traverse City Police, and Traverse Narcotics Team detectives to investigate the man to establish probable cause for a search warrant, said GTSD Lt. Brian Giddis. TNT officers were brought in to conduct surveillance; there was no indication the case involved drugs.

With a search warrant in hand, investigators raided the suspect’s house on May 30 and discovered the two allegedly stolen ATMs and other evidence connecting the man to the thefts.

Police believe the man had posed as an ATM service technician at two hotels — one in Traverse City and one in East Bay Township — where he removed the cash machines and left behind large but empty wooden boxes made to look like they contained replacement ATMs. The suspect faces two counts of larceny in a building, larceny of between $1,000 and $20,000, and safe breaking, plus one count of possession of burglary tools.

“That’s one nice thing about this area — when something like this happens, people are helpful in calling in when they see things,” Giddis said.

DRIVER FOUND IN ROLLED CAR A 28-year-old driver who ran his car off the road and crashed into several trees was found by a passing motorist in Cheboygan County.

Onaway resident Justin Mason rolled his vehicle on its side when he crashed his 2009 Ford Escape on M-68 in Walker Township sometime early May 27.

At 8:56am, a passing motorist called 911 to report the crash, and Cheboygan County Sheriff’s deputies responded, Sheriff Dale Clarmont said. It’s believed the crash might have occurred hours before.

Mason was removed from the vehicle and taken to McLaren Northern Michigan. The cause of the crash is unknown.

WOMAN INJURED IN HEAD-ON CRASH A head-on crash in front of the Gaylord Meijer store left a 79-year-old Grand Rapids woman with serious injuries.

The woman attempted to drive her SUV

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through a yellow light on M-32 when a semi pulled into her path, causing a head-on collision, state police said.

The woman was extricated from her vehicle and airlifted to Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. The 42-year-old Midland truck driver was cited for failing to yield the right of way.

Officers called in the Emergency Response Team and began negotiating with Houtman, who threatened to shoot police and himself but who peacefully surrendered just past midnight after speaking with negotiators and family. Houtman was arrested for assault by strangulation and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.

OVERDOSE VICTIM REVIVED An Allen Park man found passed out in a bar restroom with a needle stuck in his arm was revived and faces trouble for violating probation.

Traverse City Police were called to a bar on the 200 block of East Front St. at 1am May 27, Capt.

Jim Bussell said. Traverse City firefighters arrived at the same time and administered Naloxone to the 22-year-old, a drug that reverses opiate overdoses.

The man was taken to Munson Medical Center.

Bussell said police will notify the man’s probation officer in Grand Rapids and send a report to prosecutors.

MEDICAL CRISIS CAUSED CRASH Investigators believe a 59-year-old man who veered off a Cheboygan County road, struck a tree, and died had suffered a medical emergency prior to the crash.

Levering resident Brian Goode appeared to have suffered a medical crisis that led him to crash his 2002 Ford Ranger pickup, Cheboygan County Sheriff Clarmont said. The crash occurred on Heilman Road in Munro Township at 5:37am May 30. The cause of death was not released.

MAN CONVICTED OF SEX CRIMES A 33-year-old Cheboygan man pleaded guilty to molesting children under the age of 13.

On May 26 in Cheboygan, Stanley Wayne Peek Jr. made the plea to three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and one child pornography charge, prosecutors said. Peek will be sentenced as a habitual offender due to a prior fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct conviction.

Cheboygan City Police investigators determined Peek sexually abused two children who lived at his home in 2015 and 2016, and found child pornography on his computer.

STANDOFF FOLLOWS ASSAULT A 14-year-old called police after his father choked his mother, fired weapons, and fled, armed, into a pole barn.

The son called Kalkaska County central dispatch at 8:07pm May 29 to report that his father, 46-year-old Brian Houtman, had been drinking and choked his mother and threw her to the ground. The boy said that his father then grabbed several guns, fired multiple rounds, and locked himself in the family’s pole barn.

Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies and state police responded and interviewed 44-year-old Jennifer Houtman, who confirmed she had been choked.

CRASH INJURES FIVE Five people were hospitalized following a head-on collision near Suttons Bay after a driver pulled into the path of another driver.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said the May 31 crash on M-22 happened when a 79-year-old man pulled his Jeep around a vehicle to make a right turn, crashing into an oncoming Subaru that carried a family from Ohio.

The Jeep driver and his wife were taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment of nonlife threatening injuries. The driver also was cited for causing the crash.

The Subaru driver, a 35-year-old woman, and a 35-year-old male passenger were also taken to Munson with non-life threatening injuries.

Two young children in car seats in the back of the Subaru were OK after the crash, though a 4-yearold was taken to Munson to be treated for very minor injuries.

CHASE SPANS THREE COUNTIES A pickup-truck driver sped off when a trooper attempted to pull him over for not wearing a seat belt and having a cracked windshield near Petoskey.

The pursuit traveled across seasonal roads through Emmet, Charlevoix, and Otsego counties, and the trooper eventually called off the chase while police from across the region set up a perimeter in northwest Otsego County to search for the driver.

The incident began at 9:22am May 28.

Soon, a trooper spotted the suspect vehicle on Jewel Road north of Vanderbilt and the suspect sped off again.

This time three troopers pursued the suspect, and one of them performed a “precision immobilization technique maneuver” to force the fleeing vehicle into a slow spin and stop the car. The 28-year-old Harbor Springs man surrendered and was arrested for fleeing and eluding, driving with a suspended license, and possession of marijuana.

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Can’t Possibly Be True -- The inexplicable ease with which foreign hackers attack U.S. computers and security systems is finally grabbing the attention of officials. In a March Washington Post report, a technology expert from Britain’s King’s College London told a reporter of his astonishment to realize that the “security chips” on Congressional staff members’ identification badges are fake: The badge “doesn’t actually have a proper chip,” he said. “It has a picture of a chip.” Apparently, he added, “It’s (there) only to prevent chip envy.”

-- Suzette Welton has been in prison in Alaska for 17 years based almost solely on nowdebunked forensic evidence, but the state’s lack of a clemency process means she cannot challenge her life sentence unless she proves “complete” innocence. Evidence that the fire that killed her son was “arson” was based not on science but on widely believed (but wrong) folklore on how intentional fires burn differently than accidental ones. (The bogus arson “trademarks” are similar to those used to convict Texan Cameron Todd Willingham, who suffered an even worse fate than Welton’s: Willingham was executed for his “arson” in 2004.)

-- Reverence for the lineage of asparagus continues in epic yearly Anglican church festivities in Worcester, England, where in April celebrants obtained a special blessing for the vegetable by local priests as a costumed asparagus pranced through the street praising the stalks as representing “the generosity of God.” Critics (including clergy from other parishes) likened the parades to a Monty Python sketch, and “an infantile pantomime,” with one pleading plaintively, “Really, for (God’s) sake,” can’t the Church of England offer “more dignified” worship?

Leading Economic Indicators (1) Andrew Bogut, signed as a free agent by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers in March and expected to be a key player in the team’s quest to defend its league championship, checked into his first game and played 58 seconds before crashing into a bench and breaking his leg. For that 58 seconds, the Cavs owe Bogut $383,000.

(2) Jose Calderon signed as a free agent with the Golden State Warriors in March, but the NBA-leading Warriors changed their mind (for unforeseen reasons) two hours after the deal and released Calderon. For his 119 minutes as a Warrior (6:06 p.m. to 8:05 p.m.), Calderon was paid $415,000.

Police Report -- In May, as Taunton, Massachusetts, police were about to arrest Amy RebelloMcCarthy, 39, for DUI after she left the road and crashed through several mailboxes (with the crash causing all of her tires to deflate), she, laughing, told officers there was one other

thing: She had a bearded dragon in her bra (where it was riding while she drove). The lizard was turned over to animal control.

-- Felicia Nevins complained to reporters in May that the Pasco County (Florida) Sheriff ’s Office had improperly drawn attention to her on a matter of a purely personal nature -- that she had called for help, concerned that the sperm she was storing for in-vitro fertilization (kept under liquid nitrogen in a thermos) might explode. Deputies had placed the details (but not her name) on the office’s Facebook page, but the Tampa Bay Times deduced her name from public sources.

Fine Points of the Law In a legislative battle waged since a 1979 state court decision, some North Carolinians tried once again this year to change a state law that explicitly states that once a person (almost always, of course, a “female”) has “consented” to an act of sexual intercourse, that consent cannot be withdrawn -- even if the encounter turns violent. (The violence might be prosecuted as an “assault,” but never the more serious crime of “rape.”) Said state Sen. Jeff Jackson, whose bill to change the law failed in April to get a legislative hearing, “We’re the only state in the country where ‘no’ doesn’t mean ‘no.’”

Bright Ideas -- Skills: (1) In May, the British tribunal dealing with student cheating rejected the appeal of a law student who was caught taking an in-class exam with her textbook open (permitted) but containing handwritten notes in the margins -- not permitted, but written in invisible ink legible via the UV light on her pen. (2) On testing day in March for Romania’s 14- and 15-year-olds, administrators of the country’s popular DEX online dictionary, acting on suspicion, changed the definitions of two words likely to be improperly looked up by cheaters during the exam. “(H)undreds” of school searches for the words took place that morning, but administrators were still mulling an appropriate punishment for the cheaters (who were, of course, easily identified by their misapplication of the suspect words).

-- With limited trade, investment and ownership rights, many Cuban producers are forced to improvise in order to bring products to market -- like Orestes Estevez, a Havana winemaker, who finds condoms indispensable, according to an April Associated Press dispatch. The “most remarkable sight” the reporter saw was “hundreds of (open) bottles capped with condoms,” which inflate from gases as the fruit ferments. When fermentation is done, the condom goes limp. (The AP also noted that fishermen use condoms to carry bait far from shore and which also increase tugging resistance when nibbling fish fight the line.)

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Bear in Mind In the half century since the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore came into being, it’s gone from being a hotbed of controversy to The Most Beautiful Place in America. Now under the guidance of longtime park service veteran Scott Tucker, the Lakeshore faces a new future — one in which politics, its own fame, and diehard allies will undoubtedly play a part.

By Patrick Sullivan Scott Tucker has been with the National Park Service for 20 years, but he’s been superintendent of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore for just one.

Tucker comes to northern Michigan from Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, where he was superintendent. Before that, he was park manager of the President’s Park in Washington D.C. Sleeping Bear is a homecoming of sorts for the Colorado native. His wife, Josey, grew up in Michigan, and the couple and their two young children often explored Sleeping Bear on their visits to Josey’s home state.

Northern Express sat down with Tucker to talk about about his frist impressions as a new resident and caretaker of the National Lakeshore and what he’s got planned in the coming years.

Northern Express: What’s surprised you most about this place in your first year?

Scott Tucker: I’m surprised by a few things.

I was really surprised by the core staff that fluctuates with the season, so 50 employees in the winter and 150 in the summer. That’s not surprising — that’s Parks Service management — but just the in-depth core knowledge of that really surprised me. The employees that come back in the summer have been doing it for many, many years, and they are so much a piece of the integral puzzle.

Another thing that really surprised me was the community interaction with the friends’ groups, with both Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear and the Friends of Sleeping Bear. They are no-holds-barred “How can we help?” You never know what you’re going to get with friends groups, especially ones that are created out of angst to what the Park Service is doing.

Preserve was created because they didn’t like what the Park Service was doing, but that has morphed into a seamless partnership of meeting the mission of the park service.

Express: How does community involvement here compare to other parks where you’ve been?

Tucker: It varies. If I compare Sleeping Bear, and the almost 50-year history of how this park was created, to my last park, which was Lewis and Clark National Historic Park, in Oregon, it’s dramatically different. The community there was the catalyst for the legislation that created the park. It was the community and the state that for almost 50 years kept saying, “Hey, Park Service, let’s create this.” A little different than the dynamics that came here, which, just from my readings, involved controversies in the late ’60s: to build a Lakeshore or not to build a Lakeshore.

Express: Sleeping Bear was created out of conflict.

Tucker: Yes, conflict. The one thing I see from my seat and from all my interactions in

and those same families are the biggest park supporters. I see that shift here as well. Just a great community interaction.

Express: It goes from the worst thing ever to something that’s beloved.

Tucker: Exactly — that’s absolutely beloved.

And it goes from, “The government is taking over!” to “I have a Lakeshore!” And my mentality is, this is everyone’s Lakeshore, and how do we manage it as a community so that it’s here forever?

Express: What’s your first priority?

Tucker: I think my biggest priority is strategically looking at how we spend our money. Budgets will forever be a challenge; we will never get as much money as we want.

But 390 historic buildings are not getting any younger. Deferred maintenance is always going to be a piece of that. We have almost a $20

“THE DOWNFALL, THOUGH, IS ARE WE BEING LOVED TOO MUCH?” the last year, I do see maybe a generational shift. The folks that found a very negative piece of the Lakeshore back in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s will probably almost always have that. It’s a piece of who they are, and it’s a traumatic piece of their lives. But the next generation grew up with what’s here today. And there is a little shift there. They are seeing what the area could look like if the Lakeshore wasn’t here. And so there is a generational shift. If you look at other parks, I was down at Great Smoky Mountains National Park a few weeks ago — a very similar thing in the ’30s there, with homeowners who were really not keen on the idea — and they’ve gone through several generations now,

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million deferred maintenance backlog here.

A big chunk of that is just the parkland roads.

That doesn’t speak to the county roads that are in the park. And so the biggest challenge is how do we use our funds to get our biggest bang for the buck.

Last year we brought in $2.5 million dollars in fee money, and so we’ve outlined pretty critically over the next five years where that money is going and what projects are going to give us the biggest bang for our buck for visitor enjoyment, rather than going to things that a visitor can’t interact with, since it’s directly coming from their wallet.

Express: What’s an example of something like that?

Tucker: We just did a contract with a contractor that’s going to re-do the film in the visitor’s center. We are one of the last National Park Service visitor’s centers that are still showing a slide program. It’s been converted into a film, but it’s literally still a slide program from the ’80s and ’90s. We’ve updated a few photos so you don’t see the tube socks and short shorts from the ’70s anymore. But we have a film project that’s going to start filming this summer that’s going to capture Sleeping Bear in all its glory over a 12-month calendar year. It will give the visitors that start here at the visitor’s center a foundation that we’re more than just the Dune Climb and Pierce Stocking Drive, that we’re 70,000 acres [with] 35,000 acres of wilderness, lakes and seashores, and islands, and historic buildings, and the Port Oneida Historic District. So that’s going to be a really cool project.

We’re also working out on South Manitou Island. We have a restoration and access project for the South Manitou Island Lighthouse. We’re also doing accessibility projects in cooperation with Friends of Sleeping Bear. We’re going to be putting in what’s called a Mobi-Mat system at Glen Haven, which will allow visitors in wheelchairs to go from the parking lot to the water. And we’re working down at the Platte.

We’re going to be installing an [Americans with Disabilities Act] accessible kayak launch at Loon Lake.

Express: Sleeping Bear has been setting attendance records year after year. Is that good or bad?

Tucker: You know, it’s both. If you look at the Park Service centennial goals from last year, from the 100th anniversary, the centennial goals were to engage the next generation of visitor, supporter and advocate.

And so every visitor that comes to the Sleeping Bear Dunes, we have the potential to create a lifelong national park lover. And so that’s to the benefit of the National Park System as a whole.

The downfall, though, is are we being loved too much? And I use this story when I talk to the community. I was at Pierce Stocking No. 9 last summer with my daughter, and we were number 39 in line for the port-a-john. And so, what does that increased visitation do to park infrastructure? Parking? Restrooms?

Beach access? Trash cans? And so, as visitors increase, that means we have to come up with new facilities, which means, do we build new restrooms? Do we build new parking when our task is here to balance the natural resources and visitor access? So there’s also that aspect of being loved too much, which creates a challenge.

Flip side, you can probably walk out the door, in July — and I did it last summer, I have two kids, and we lived in the park last summer, with my wife, in park housing — and so pretty much every day after work we’d go on a hike or we’d go to the beach. It was the perfect summer, to be honest. And it was the heart of July and the heart of August, and I could take a hike with my family and not see another person. I could also wind up at a beach with a thousand other people.

Express: What should the ideal visitor experience be like?

Tucker: I use the term, and I’ve been using it since I’ve gotten here, and I don’t think people are tired of it yet … a “postcard moment.” And so my image of what a visitor experience should be here is, they should be able to walk away from their visit to this region and have a snapshot image to their head of beauty, of a smiling kid running down the dune, of a beautiful sunset, a walk in the woods, and have that postcard image be what they take with them, rather than a rude ranger, 39 people in line in front of you at a restroom, a bad dinner at a restaurant, a loud hotel, a loud campground. And so the ideal experience is one that makes you want to come back and explore more.

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Express: I understand that 90 percent of visitors are going to visit the dune climb and the scenic drive, and they might not go anywhere else. How do you get people to spread out across the park more?

Tucker: How do we get them to know that there’s other things here? One is how do we get them to stop first at the visitor’s center here and talk with a ranger and get opportunities to say, “Hey, go check out these other things.’?

Hopefully a new film will do that. Two is put our staff where those visitors are — not for formal programming but just casual interaction. I joke that when I get fed up with my work here, I just put on my hat, and I go out to No. 9 or I go to the dune climb, where no one has a clue who I am, and I just hang out with the public and talk with them. That’s how we get visitors to other places, just casual conversation that strikes up interest in other things they can do here at the Lakeshore.

Express: What roles do Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear and Friends of Sleeping Bear play, and are they at odds in their roles?

Tucker: No, I think they work pretty well together. You know, there’s history with everything. They are the ultimate tool for a superintendent. They bring hundreds of volunteers to the table that all have a passion for what we do. And the two boards actually work pretty well together.

If somebody comes to Friends with a funding stream or an idea of something that has to do with the historic or cultural resources of the park, they don’t say “Give us your money,” they say, “Hey, call Preserve! They’re the ones that handle that piece.” And Preserve does the same thing, if someone comes and says, “You know, I really want to volunteer by riding my bike on the Heritage Trail and helping the visitors,” Preserve could of course sign them up and say, “Okay, ride in Port Oneida, in the historic district,” but instead, they send them

to the Friends group. They work together well.

They do some collaborative fundraising. It’s really a strong relationship.

Express: Is there any uncertainty or tension here given the national political climate?

Tucker: You know, is it a piece in my head of, “Okay, what is next week going to bring?”

But as I sat down with return employees — just yesterday we sat down with … about 40 returning and new employees — the job we’re doing today is no different than what we were doing a year ago. I have had no direction to change how we manage Sleeping Bear Dunes.

And so there’s a little angst, because there is the unknown, and that’s with all employees, all 150 employees: What’s to come with October, with the next budget year? But as we stand today, we have our mission ahead of us, and we have a budget to do it, and we have partners to help us do it. The bonus that we have is that the

3. South Manitou Island

5 Sleeping Bear Favorites 1. The Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail

Twenty-two miles of trail stretch from Empire, through Glen Haven and Glen Arbor, all the way to the beach at Bohemian Road. The trail is slated to be 27 miles long, once extensions are added at each end, taking the trail south to Benzie County and north to Good Harbor.

The trail offers a great tour of the different environments that make up the park, said Kerry Kelly, chairman of Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes.

“It’s something that gives you a variety of different experiences on your bike, or, if you’re walking, on foot,” Kelly said. “I think the neat thing about it is, families do it together, and it’s something that’s pretty much available to people of all abilities.”

Get there: There are several trailheads along the completed trail. At its southern end, you can catch the trail on Front St., just west of M-22 and the Phillip A. Hart Visitor Center, in Empire. At the northern end, access it via the Port Oneida Trailhead, just

northwest of M-22 on S. Lane Rd. Maps at sleepingbeartrail.org.

2. Cottage Row on North Manitou

This one’s hard to get to, but if you manage it, the payoff is great.

It’s a row of cottages from another era of northern Michigan summers, when people travelled by ship from Chicago and got by without electricity or plumbing.

Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear has been restoring one of the buildings, the Katie Shepard Hotel, over the last nine years, and the group hopes to get permission from the Park Service to operate it as an eightroom rustic hotel in order to give people who don’t like to camp an opportunity to experience North Manitou. That hotel, if it’s approved, will lack electricity and plumbing.

Get there: Ferry service to North Manitou is available from Manitou Island Transit in Leland.

South Manitou offers a mix of history and stunning beauty.

“I would say the whole island is pretty cool. You’ve got the village, you’ve got the lighthouse, the lighthouse itself is amazing, to be able to go up to the top of the lighthouse,” Kelly said. “There are three campgrounds on the island, there’s a shipwreck, there’s dunes to climb and there are the giant cedars.”

The old growth cedars remain intact on the west side of the island because sand from a nearby dune was embedded in their bark and it dulled the sawblades, which caused the loggers to move on, Kelly said.

How much time should be allotted to see South Manitou? You can accomplish a lot in a day trip (and Manitou Island Transit offers a motorized tour) but if you really want the experience, spend one or two nights backpacking and camping.

Get there: Ferry service to South Manitou is available from Manitou Island Transit in Leland.

4. Beyond the Dune Climb

If you hike up the dune climb, and then you keep on hiking, you will eventually reach Lake Michigan.

It’s a long and sometimes frustrating trip that can seem like it will never end, Kelly said, but it’s worth it.

“Every time you reach a knoll, it’s like, ‘Oh, darn, there’s another dune to climb!” he said. “What you get when you get out there, what most people don’t realize is, is that there are two major shipwrecks.”

One is on the beach a quarter mile south and the other is a quarter mile north. Kelly said the 18th Century schooners (or perhaps schooner, as they may each be part of the same ship) are more or less visible depending on wave

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Express: If you’ve got a friend coming from out of town who’s never been here before, where’s the first place you take them?

Tucker: I take them down to Pierce Stocking. I take them there just for that shock and awe moment of standing on No. 9. No. 9, looking out over Lake Michigan, you get this expanse of the park, you have an image of the islands, of Sleeping Bear Point, you can see the mouth of the Platte River, it’s that moment of awe. I had visitors who came last summer that just stood at that location and shook their head and they couldn’t believe what they were seeing. And these were folks that had travelled to Yosemite and Grand Canyon and Yellowstone, the big parks of out West, and they couldn’t believe that they were standing in Michigan seeing this. action, lake level and how much sand has washed over them.

The distance from the dune climb to Lake Michigan is 1.7 miles, and trekkers should use sun screen, carry water and pack a snack.

Get there: Park at the Dune Climb, 6900 S. Dune Highway (M-109), in Empire, and hike west.

5. Historic Structures of the Park

Sleeping Bear offers no shortage of chances to step back in time.

The Port Oneida Historic District offers a chance to look at life on a 19th century farm.

“Part of the beauty of Port Oneida is that it is serene, and there’s not a lot of traffic around there,” Pocklington said.

Kelly, who studied at Tillers International near Kalamazoo to take part in blacksmithing demonstrations, volunteers at the Glen Haven blacksmith shop through the summer, where he helps make hooks or hinges or wagon wheels or ship anchors.

“Once a week, we try to get two or three or four blacksmiths working together on something big, because that’s what would have been going on in this blacksmith shop,” he said.

Then there’s the Boekeloo Cabin on a two-track off of M-22 in Benzie County, which gives visitors a chance to see what a primitive and remote northern Michigan homestead looked like.

“We’ve put a lot of work into that,” said Susan Pocklington, director of Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear. “The setting is gorgeous, next to this cranberry bog that they hand dug years ago.”

Get there: The Boekeloo Cabin is located off M-22 at Boekeloo Road in Benzie County; Glen Haven is located at M-109 and Glen Haven Road; the Port Oneida Historic District is located along M-22, between S. Thoreson Road and S. Basch Road.

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Sporck Tile Art: Carving Out a Career

Leif Sporck’s tile art can be found at two showrooms, one in Fishtown, and one between Suttons Bay and Lake Leelanau.

By Kristi Kates Superstar basketballer to artistic tile maker.

This may sound like an unusual transition at first — until you dig further into Leif Sporck’s story, a narrative of youthful ambitions, family ties, and a sudden realization of purpose.

Sporck is the artist and proprietor of Sporck Tile Art, a business in which he handcrafts clay tiles that capture moments and elements specific to northern Michigan. As a youth in Suttons Bay, Sprock was a talented high school basketball player who was recruited — with several offers for full rides — by several different colleges.

Sporck chose Hope College in Holland, Michigan. “There were technically better deals for me at other colleges, but it’s a good college, and even though it was basketball that was taking me there, it was my education that was the priority,” Sporck said. “Although why I was actually going to college was up in the air for quite a while.”

Two years in, Sporck quit the basketball program; his heart just wasn’t in it anymore, he said. He continued his education, however, earning a degree in humanities, and aiming to pursue a career as a lawyer, spurred on in part by friends of the family, Dean Robb and Grant Parsons, both local lawyers in the Grand Traverse area.

“They were both so successful, and both encouraged me to go into law,” Sporck said.

“As I’d been thinking about careers throughout college, the one thing that I knew was that I wanted to stay in Leelanau County. But houses and property were getting really expensive here, so I thought maybe I could be a lawyer, then I could afford to stay. And I thought — being idealistic at the time — that I could be an environmental lawyer and do some good too.”

His goal set, Sporck went to Washington D.C. for a law internship and began to study for his law school admission test. He was at the testing facility when things took a drastic turn.

“I was just sitting in there, ready to take the admissions test, and I suddenly realized that the law school dream, of being a lawyer — none of it was going to work,” Sporck said. “I’d have to go to another state and be away from Leelanau.

I’d have to figure out how to pay for law school.

I couldn’t do it. So after all of that preparation, I walked out of the admissions test.”

Sporck returned to Suttons Bay to stay with his mother and reassess his future. In her

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garage was an art studio. One day, Sporck’s father, Karl Sporck, dropped off some clay tiles to the younger Sporck, suggesting that he try carving on them.

Clay was hardly an unknown medium to the young man. Both parents had fine arts degrees. Karl, in fact, was a career potter who had spent over 30 years as an adjunct professor of pottery at Northwestern Michigan College.

“Ever since I was a kid, as long as I can remember, I was around ceramics,” Sporck said. “I’d hang out in the pottery shop all the time and play with clay and stuff. Clay was just always around.”

Although Sporck hadn’t worked with clay in years — “due to basketball and all that studying,” he said — that day in his mother’s studio, with the clay once again in his hands, something opened up for Sporck.

“When my parents saw what I’d carved into the tiles, they really encouraged me. Funny thing is, before then I couldn’t draw as much as a stick figure. Maybe all the discipline I learned from basketball and school helped me? But whatever the reason, I realized that all of my good memories were tied up with pottery and ceramics, so I kept making more, and fired them in my mother’s kiln. I surprised myself by what I was able to draw on the tiles, and I kept getting good feedback.”

Sporck placed a few of the tiles in his father’s pottery shop, and the tiles sold right

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along with the elder Sporck’s pottery.

“When I saw that happening, I decided to start growing what I was doing and began putting the tiles into other shops as well as my dad’s, and going to art fairs with the tiles,” he said. Showcasing themes native to the region — local Leelanau County towns, the Great Lakes, wildlife, flowers, and morel mushrooms — Sporck’s tiles became quick sellers, and he decided to make a go of it, leaving any potential return to college behind.

Today, he works from his own studio in Leelanau County, with his tiles available for purchase at two showrooms: one in Leland’s Fishtown, and one just off M-204, between Suttons Bay and Lake Leelanau.

Each tile is part of an intense, multi-step process. Sporck creates the clay itself, mixing clay powder with water, sending the mix through a slab roller, rolling it out flat, then cutting each slab into squares, which become the blank canvases for his designs.

Carving alone can take anywhere from a day for a simple image, to a week for a more complex design. Sporck also makes clay molds of each tile for future use, and he makes his own glazes as well, which he says a lot of potters don’t do any more.

“Plus I can’t glaze just one tile at a time, so I put [up to] 500 into the kiln at once for the small tiles, and for the larger ones, around 50 at a time,” he said. Sporck estimates that he’s

carved several thousand tiles a year since his business began; he guessed that he’s close to the 100,000 mark by now.

His subject matter has evolved over the years. Some tiles hew closely to his original ideas, but as his business has grown, he’s added tiles with words on them, fish and boatshaped tiles, maple leaves, different varieties of wildlife, flora, and fauna, outdoor sports — and a personal favorite, Viking images and symbols, a nod to his own Norwegian heritage.

People purchase the tiles for many reasons and purposes: as a souvenir, a miniature piece of art, a garden decoration, or to install as a feature in a tile backsplash.

The designs, which now number in the hundreds, are as varied as the many different places that the tiles end up. “At first, the subject matter was always nature, as I was always out in nature myself; then I started going to art fairs and getting more feedback, which gives you more ideas to work with.

We’re taught to fuel our emotions into our art, but when you grow a business, you have to be a businessman, so I learned to let that go, or every time I sold a piece I’d be sad,” Sporck said. “What’s always on my mind now is the need of the customer.”

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Wine Town Ramp Up The region’s wineries and vineyards are ready — and rarin’ — for summer 2017

By Ross Boissoneau New tasting rooms, new websites, new chefs, new vintages — there’s a host of changes and enhancements afoot at the wineries and vineyards throughout northern Michigan.

Most recently: The move of Michigan Wine Month from May to April. Traverse City Uncorked, a marketing effort supported

by Traverse City Tourism and Pure Michigan, took advantage of the late-spring shift and, said Lorri Hathaway, the executive director at the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail, it was a resounding success: “[Traverse City Uncorked) has been huge.”

Next up? The renamed Traverse City Wine & Cider Festival, happening at the Village at Grand Traverse Commons on June 24. Hathaway said the former Wine & Art Festival is refocusing on the libation side of the equation, evolving it from what in recent years had become a day-long concert with some wine. It will still feature music and art, but the emphasis is now squarely on wine, cider, and its makers, with 16 wineries and three cideries participating.

It’s not all good news, as Longview Winery, outside Cedar, has closed. But that closure is offset by new openings in Traverse City, Elk Rapids, and Glen Arbor. The first is the new Barrel Room at Left Foot Charley in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons.

The 2,000-square-foot cellar and event space, located behind Left Foot’s tasting room, offers private tours and tastings and rental space for private events.

Further north, Waterfire Vineyards has opened a new tasting room at 12180 Sutter Rd., just past Elk Rapids. Owners Chantal

Lefebvre and Mike Newman, who have bottled and released vintages since 2013, opened the tasting room last month.

Leelanau Peninsula The third winery opening in the Grand Traverse area this summer is Glen Arbor Wines, located at 5873 S. Lake St. Opening in mid- to late June, it will feature 10 wines made from local grapes, plus two hard ciders made from local apples. The tasting room will include picnic and deli items; the property will have a bocce court and other lawn games. Each label tips a hat to the beauty of its backyard, showcasing a unique image of the Sleeping Bear Dunes and Lake Michigan shoreline.

Elsewhere on the Leelanau Wine Trail, Bel Lago is now offering outdoor seating, the better to enjoy its crisp whites and deep reds. Also new this year, Verterra Winery is hosting weddings and events at its Swede Vineyard. Its upper ridge offers views of Grand Traverse Bay, Northport Bay, Gull Island, North/South Fox Islands, and even the mouth of Little Traverse Bay. Black Star Farms outside Suttons Bay is now hosting tours of its 160-acre estate.

Those looking to participate more fully can enjoy an hour of gentle yoga on the bay-view crest of its vineyard, paired with a special sixflight wine tasting. At the winery’s Hearth & Vine Café, patrons can enjoy a new patio, with offerings from Chef Cole Thornton (celebrating his one-year anniversary with Black Star Farms). Pair them with a limited release pear cider, available only at the café or the farm’s 2016 Arcturos Sauvignon Blanc. Black Star also has created its own

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line of private label artisan foods, featuring two types of crackers and two granolas.

Old Mission Peninsula Heading up Old Mission Peninsula? At Chateau Chantal, new chef Nick Battista, a Traverse City native who has worked for the likes of Charlie Trotter and the Greenbriar Hotel, is offering three-course lunch pairings that replace the winery’s Tapas/Sensory Tours. Also new to the staff is tasting room manager Ralph Kridner.

Those looking for the ultimate experience can take part in a new winery tour, followed by a semi-private seated tasting featuring fine stemware, personal guide, charcuterie board, and Power Island views. The facility also has completed three more room renovations in its bed and breakfast.

This summer, Chateau Chantal will release its 30th vineyard anniversary reserve chardonnay and reserve riesling. From the 2016 vintage, these limited production wines will sport a retro label similar to the original 1990 vintage.

Mari Vineyards is known for its hoop house structures, which extend the growing season by a month or more. The “nella serra” technique is being used for six acres, while the vineyard has now grown to a total of 60 acres of planted grapes. Villa Mari is getting ready to release some new white wines to complement its reds: sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio, and malvasia bianca. (Its riesling will come out in June/July.)Tours of its caves used for wine barrel aging are available as well.

Big trucks and asphalt aren’t generally thought of as inducements to visit a winery, but Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery begs to

differ. The drive to its Secret Garden was paved earlier this year, allowing guests and tour drivers to enjoy a smooth, dust-free drive to its agricultural oasis. The farmhouse-inspired gift shop is full of handmade lavender products and gifts, and is serving four custom flavors of Moomer’s homemade ice cream made from lavender, strawberries, and blueberries grown at the estate’s Secret Garden.

The winery is also celebrating the return of its pinot noir/riesling after a two-year hiatus. It offers notes of strawberry, cherry and — wait for it — cotton candy. You can find out more about the wines and facility at the winery’s updated website, BrysEstate.com, including a virtual tour of its tasting room.

Bower’s Harbor Vineyards is offering new vineyard tours, plus its popular interpretive nature trail. The mile-long hike provides participants with information about vineyards, history, ecology and the landscape of the area. It no doubt helps work up a thirst, which can be quenched by a couple new wines. The first is a 2016 gewurztraminer, Wind Whistle, which hails from its Wind Whistle Vineyard, situated less than a mile from Lake Michigan and boasting sandy soil and all day sun exposure.

Its other new wine, Henry, is a story in itself. Since opening in 1992, dogs have played a significant role at Bower’s Harbor Vineyards. Otis, Cooper, and Brix each have a signature wine with a label featuring their picture and paw prints. Now Henry joins the team. A native of Michigan, the pup has spent most of his life in Vail, Colorado, as part of the Colorado Rapid Avalanche Deployment Team (C.R.A.D.). Spencer Stegenga, coproprietor of Bowers Harbor Vineyards,

has close ties to Vail. Henry is a full-bodied Bordeaux blend, aged in French oak barrels; thus far, Henry’s sales have generated $1,500 donated to the C.R.A.D. program.

Bay View Wine Trail They once said wine grapes couldn’t be grown in northern Michigan. When they were proven wrong, they said wine grapes couldn’t be grown further north than the Traverse City area. Whoever “they” were, Ralph and Laurie Stabile proved them wrong by successfully growing loads of them in the Upper Peninsula. When Ralph found

himself running out of room in the U.P., he moved the facility to Petoskey, opening Mackinaw Trail Winery in 2012.

“In the U.P. there were no others,” Stabile said, but he didn’t need that community; winemaking was in his blood. “I have the press my grandfather and I used when I was six,” he said. He and Laurie have passed the tradition on to son Dustin, who now runs the production side of the business.

Today, the family’s big news is about a new business: Resort Pike Cidery and Winery. Ralph says they’ve planted two acres of apples and will planting 30 more

acres of grapes on the property, located on the corner of Williams and Resort Pike roads, south of Petoskey and west of US131. When the cidery/winery opens July 1, it will offer 10 ciders and five sparkling wines, as well as three or four still wines.

He’s pleased that the winemakers continue to find the area attractive and open new vineyards and wineries. “When we built in 2012, we saw the need [for a wine trail],” Stabile said. Today? “There are nine, with two new ones opening this year and two more next year.”

The other newcomer to the northern region is Chateau Lake Charlevoix. It is located at 00551 Snyder Road, Boyne City.

Owner John Vondrin said it will open for weekends only initially, but aims to open five or six days per week over the summer.

“I worked for Philip Morris, which had a lot of wineries on the West Coast. I had all this land, and I thought, ‘I could do that,’” he said. The winery offers three varieties — a pinot grigio, a pino noir, and a riesling — with three more to come this summer.

Petoskey Farms Vineyard & Winery is

unveiling a second tasting room this month, this one at 207 Howard St., in downtown Petoskey’s Gaslight District. The new location will offer longer hours, from noon to 8pm. Not to be outdone, the tasting room on Atkins Road will add a second weekly food and wine event, with Tuesdays joining Thursdays. Local food trucks will rotate each week, and visitors can grab a snack or dinner to complement their wine.

Producing those wines will be new head winemaker Josh Morgan, who spent the last nine years at Black Star Farms. His fiancée, Sarah, will join the staff at the tasting room.

At Royal Farms on US-31, outside Ellsworth, not only are wines and ciders on tap, so are food, yoga and magic. The Vino & Vinyasa events, June 24 and Aug. 12, combine yoga and a wine tasting; on July 15, the winery adds food to the mix with a complete luncheon. On summer Thursdays beginning June 29, patrons can opt for cider to complement tasty barbecue. And on July 29, Ben Whiting will offer tricks of the trade, with mindreading and feats of legerdemain.

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Biking the Peninsulas

By Kristi Kates Prepping your wheels to get some spins in this summer? Here are some great ways to find your bicycling bliss on the Old Mission Peninsula and throughout Leelanau County.

YOUR MISSION: Hit the Road, Jack!

Experienced cyclists will enjoy a trip along highway M-37 on Traverse City’s Old Mission Peninsula. The two-lane road, which cuts right up the peninsula’s center, offers a wide paved shoulder and a plethora of scenic views all the way to its wow-worthy end at Old Mission Point.

The ride, 18 miles one way, showcases the two arms of Grand Traverse Bay and equally grand vistas of farms and vineyards. Get those calves working, because there are 10 challenging hills along this route. Once you finish, however, you can claim that you’ve biked to the 45th Parallel; that’s where the historic 1870-built Mission Point Lighthouse (now a museum) resides at the peninsula’s point. Post-ride, stretch your legs with a shady stroll on the trails of neighboring Lighthouse Park, or simply sprawl out on one of its narrow beaches; you’ve got 18 more miles till home. Find out more: eyeonmichigan.com/trails/oldmission/

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RAIL RIDE: The Leelanau Trail Utilizing the last of Leelanau County’s former railroad corridors, the Leelanau Trail is a great one for both beginning bikers and those who like a milder, calmer kind of bicycle tour. The 17-mile paved trail runs between Traverse City and Suttons Bay, with several easy access points (with parking lots) along the way. Two spots worth braking for: Grand Traverse Edible Trails’ food forests, featuring free edible plant snacks ripe for the pickin’. Both forests are about two miles northwest of Traverse City: The Cedar Creek Food Forest is across from the Orchard Creek apartments next to Realeyes Homestead. The DeYoung Forest Garden is at the Leelanau Conservancy’s DeYoung Farm and Natural Area, a 145-acre preserve that also offers hiking trails and access to a rest-worthy sitting/fishing dock on Cedar Lake. Other sights include the historic caboose on Cherry Bend Road and the beautiful harbor of Suttons Bay itself, home to art galleries, restaurants, boutiques, and more. Bonus for one-wayers: For $3, you and your bike can hop on a BATA bus at either end of the trail (or points between), so you can go the distance without, well … going the distance. Find out more: traversetrails. org/trail/leelanau-trail/.

BIKE MINDS: Cherry Capital Cycling Club The club motto — “traveling at the speed of fun” — defines Cherry Capital Cycling Club’s more-than-just-bikes approach.

Join on for group rides, cycling support events, and heaps of social activities with people who love bicycling as much as you do. You’ll have the opportunity to meet several hundred fellow cycling aficionados, from beginning bikers to racing cyclists, as you meet up for informal road bike and mountain bike rides, “fixie” (aka fixed-gear

bicycle) events, and big traditions like the club’s annual Ride Around Torch in July and the Leelanau Harvest Tour in September.

The club also assists with bike trail cleanups and smart commuting, giving back to both their favorite sport and the places they live.

Find out more: cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org LOW GEAR: Grand Traverse Bike Tours Primarily aimed at recreational cyclists and those touring the area, this full-service bicycle tour company is smack in the middle of Leelanau wine country and aims to help folks explore what’s often nicknamed the Napa Valley of the Midwest. One tour takes guests down the paved Leelanau Trail, with detours to boutique wineries and a picnic lunch. Another is a mildly more rugged adventure, offering a cycle through a vineyard’s own trails, with wine tasting to follow. There are several jaunts to choose from, many led by local guides, or you can choose to explore in a more leisurely fashion with a fully supported self-guided tour you can tailor to your own style. Find out more: grandtraversebiketours.com FELLOW PEDALERS: The Cherry Roubaix There’s a reason bikers consider the Cherry Roubaix the most beautiful bike race in Michigan. The race, which happens this year on August 5, starts in downtown Traverse City and wends riders along the rolling hills, vineyards, and coasts of Leelanau County on routes that run 86, 51, or 20 miles, depending on cycling ability.

Every course comes to a celebratory end at the Hop Lot Brewing Company in Suttons Bay, where riders kick back their tired legs and enjoy live music, local food, and craft beer. Want to race for prizes? Go for it. Want to stick to your own pace? You can do that too. Find out more: cherry-roubaix.com

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By Clark Miller With her latest bestseller, “Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War,” author Mary Roach has combined science and humor to dissect the simple, stubborn annoyances of military life — the struggle to get a good night’s rest on a cramped submarine, survive the mind-numbing heat of the Middle East or, say, deal with pesky flies.

Roach, who comes to the National Writers Series stage on Wednesday, June 7, can be expected to demonstrate her highly developed nose for the quirky: To understand the military’s nastiest odor weapon, the aptlynamed Stench Soup — something so strong it might change the course of a battle — she visited a government-funded malodor research project. (If a definition of the word malodor eludes you, think malpractice, malignant, or malicious, all things to avoid).

As she described the lab, “On a shelf over our heads is a box of firefighter underarm odor, each subject’s contribution sealed in a Ziploc bag.”

It says something that one of the lab’s scientists, Pam Dalton, once served as an expert witness in a pig farm lawsuit. She is the same researcher who, during a 15-hour flight to South Africa, brought along lab samples ominously labeled Vomit, Sewage, Burned Hair, and US Government Standard Bathroom — all of which began leaking in-flight.

Grunt kicks off with a bang when Roach describes something you don’t get to see every day: a 60-foot-long chicken cannon, a device the U.S. military uses to test the resiliency of airplane canopies to bird strikes. A four-pound chicken is shot at 400-plus miles per hour at a parked plane.

The experiments, it seems, can lead to interesting data, though less so for the researchee.

Without even a tiny flush of embarrassment, Roach devotes a whole chapter to diarrhea as a threat to national security — a topic that, judging by the name, Diarrhea Clinical Trials, our military takes seriously. Entire wartime missions can go wrong simply — yes, in malodorous fashion — because, as one special ops soldier put it, “Unfortunately, we don’t fight in first-world countries.”

With Roach, the humorous, weird and seriously inappropriate co-exist peacefully.

Clearly, nothing is off bounds to her curiosity.

And she never misses a good quote. For example, in what we can only hope is intentional self-irony, one enthusiastic longtime researcher of diarrhea notes, “I live and breathe this stuff.”

A researcher who designs high-tech military clothing doubts anyone will invent bomb-proof skivvies: “If the insurgents can make a bomb big enough to blow up a 71ton M1 tank, they can certainly make a bomb that’s going to blow up your underwear.”

Throughout, Roach has paid attention to seemingly small details that impart to readers a sense of the military mindset.

Fort Benning, Georgia, she described as possessing the three main ingredients for inducing heatstroke, “humidity, intense sun, and Army Ranger School.” When a battle-hardened instructor there removes an earbud to hear a question, Roach said “a tinny musical aggression leaks out. It’s Five Finger Death Punch, a metal band that from what I can tell uses synthesized machine-gun fire in place of a drummer.”

Roach described the food at Fort Benning in her typical, stomach-churning style: “The pizza at Warrior Café does not look healthy. By that I don’t mean that it’s unhealthy to eat — though possibly it is — but rather that the item itself looks in poor health … The sweating cheese. The scabs of pepperoni.”

Writing about her tour guide at another special forces camp, Roach observed, “Seamus Nelson is six foot three. When he extends his neck to its full reach, his head is like a periscope. It’s up now, surveying a scene of clean-shaven, supper-chewing heads in the Camp Lemonnier dining facility.”

Somehow, Roach always finds a way to gain access to the people and places she wants to write about. Her engaging sense of wonder and self-deprecating humor opens doors. A

Mary Roach: Far More Than “A Goober With a Flashlight”

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self-described “goober with a flashlight,” her modus operandi seems to be, if you can help me, a non-scientist, understand this subject, just maybe I can explain it to other people.

She even charmed her way onto a nuclear submarine, and noted excitedly, “I’ll be traipsing through the missile silos with no security clearance.”

Next, she tracked government attempts to make and test shark repellant. That’s where she dug up this little gem: “For actual shark expertise, the OSS [precursor to the CIA] turned to a college dropout named Stewart Springer, whose resume included stints as a commercial fisherman and as a chemical technician at the Indianapolis Activated Sludge Plant.”

Who but Mary Roach would even think to ask? And who knew that such arcane, smelly and downright disgusting topics could be so interesting?

“Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War,” is Roach’s eighth book. It is a New York Times national bestseller and was Library Journal’s Best Science Book for 2016.

Her other works include the New York Times bestseller Stiff: “The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,” “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex,” “Packing for Mars,” and “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Gulp,” in which she takes her readers on a winding, guided tour of the digestive track.

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You’ve probably heard of a half-dozen vintage automobile rallies, motorcycle meetups, or airplane fly-ins around Michigan. But if your passion is seaplanes, there’s only one place to go: Gaylord, for the annual Otsego Lake Fly-In. Randy Rhodes is one of the founders of the event. His love for seaplanes stems from another romance — or more specifically, his efforts to win the hand of his now-wife, Nancy.

Her father, Dick Scribner, was an avid lover of all planes, from the small ones to the big airliners. “Dick was so devoted to the air that when I asked him for permission to marry his only daughter, Nancy, his response was ‘You have to learn to fly!’” Rhodes said. “So I did.”

Together, with the assistance of good friend Brian VanWagnen, Rhodes and Scribner bought, salvaged, and rebuilt many airplanes as a hobby — seaplanes among them.

Rhodes’ in-laws had a cottage on Otsego Lake, where they soon discovered that a couple of seaplanes were moored, in addition to Rhodes’ and Scribner’s own. That was as good an excuse as any to build a new event around this unique local hobby. “So in 1981, with help from Don and Art Butcher, Chum Noroit, and the blessing of Otsego County, we sent out word that a gathering of seaplanes would be held on Otsego Lake the second weekend in June,” Rhodes said. “We ended up with more spectators than we did planes!”

That first year of the Splash-In, 13 planes participated, three of them belonging to Rhodes’ family. The following year, the Splash-In drew 26 planes, and the event has continued to grow each year. Scribner passed away in 1988, and Rhodes took over as president of the event.

Part of the event’s popularity among seaplane enthusiasts? Several different varieties of seaplanes are on display. “Many of the planes are only able to operate on water — those are float planes — and many can operate on both land and sea — those are considered amphibious,” Rhodes said. “Some float planes are additionally equipped with wheels and can also operate on either water or land, and we call these amphibious floats.”

Amphibious seaplanes aren’t manufactured much these days, so when those show up at the Splash-In, they’re immediately the subject of attention.

Seaplanes in general aren’t an inexpensive item to own, though, so pretty much all of the planes are of interest to airplane fans. “One can still put floats on a tail dragger, or build a kit plane, but with the rising costs of ownership, insurance, and meeting FAA requirements, most of the seaplanes are older — sometimes several years older than their owners,” Rhodes said.

Financial burdens to plane owners notwithstanding, the Splash-In has seen some pretty cool customers land in Otsego Lake: The Coast Guard has landed at the SplashIn to put on rescue demonstrations with its float-equipped helicopter. And a Grumman Albatross attended one year (an amphibious flying boat that was used by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy).

Most of the attending pilots have single- or twin-engine aircraft; those who don’t have waterfriendly airplanes simply land their “regular” planes at the nearby airport and drive over to attend. “We have had pilots attend from Alaska, Puerto Rico, California, and many from Canada,” Rhodes said. “We expect several WWII aircraft to be in attendance this year including Grumman Widgeons, a Grumman Goose, a multitude of Lake Amphibians which are a newer singleengine craft, and many, many float planes.”

Planes, pilots, and spectators start arriving as early as the Wednesday before the weekend event, with the majority arriving on Friday at the Otsego County Park on West Otsego Lake Road (Note: Call ahead if you need accommodations, as the campground and local hotels fill up quickly.)

Friday evening, the Splash-In feeds all the pilots: “Usually a barbecue of pulled pork and burgers, which my wife and daughter and several friends help prepare,” Rhodes said.

On Saturday morning, the flying events, which include a parade of planes and a series of friendly competitions, take flight. “We’ll also have a mass fly-over the town, followed by contests of skill — balloon bomb drops, spot landings and take-offs — these contests can take up the major portion of the day,” said Rhodes.

The local Boy Scouts set up in the park’s West Pavilion and serve breakfast and lunch on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday; the proceeds from the food sales enable the troop to attend camp each year.

Saturday evening, most attend the SplashIn’s annual banquet and meeting at BJ’s Restaurant, which has welcomed guests of the event for over 16 years.

“And finally, Sunday is devoted to sharing rides, the teardown of equipment, and goodbyes,” Rhodes said.

It’s not unusual to have 1,000 people lining the beach to watch the planes, but don’t expect to snag a ride in a plane unless you’re fortunate enough to know someone, said Rhodes.

“Airplane rides cannot be purchased at this event by the general public,” Rhodes said.

“Our insurance does not permit that.” But if the weather holds, there will be plenty of planes to see. “We could have as many as 70 airplanes this year, judging from the responses we have received.”

Rhodes no longer flies — “I dearly miss it, but age and injuries have caught up with me.” — but he said he looks forward to seeing a long list of friends who have played a big part in the lives of himself and his family, as well as in the pursuit of his aerial hobby. “We have watched each other’s children grow, have children of their own, and we have lost some dear friends and family along the way, so each Splash-In for us, is like a family reunion,” he said.

The 2017 Otsego Lake Splash-In will take place June 9–11 at the Otsego County Park, 1657 County Park Rd., in Gaylord. For more information, call (248) 431-5435 or visit www.facebook.com/otsegosplashin or otsegolakesplashin.wordpress.com.

Looking Back & Forward Bill’s statement If you’re reading this column, you’re a person of faith.

You made a number of decisions based on your beliefs: You got out of bed. You picked up a copy of Northern Express. You read “Crossed.” You had no proof any of these were “right” choices. You took it on faith that the choices you made were in your best interest.

The existential theologian, Paul Tillich, said it much more profoundly. He described faith by using the analRev. Dr. William ogy of a person walking up to an abyss and peering into its C. Myers Senior Pastor darkness. If the person chooses to walk away from the abyss, at Presbyterian rather than casting themselves in, they are a person of faith.

Church of They have chosen life over death.

Traverse City I don’t believe I have convinced Gary, but even as a nontheist, he is a person of faith. I do believe I have given him an alternative to the rigid dichotomy he was exposed to as a child. Like so many who share his beliefs, Gary has a selective and skewed view of Christianity, which has little resemblance to the good news of God’s love in Jesus Christ or even the Christian faith. This is why it is important to A LOCAL PASTOR teach our children faith from an early age, so that their lives might be formed by reason and a healthy faith.

From my perspective, in Crossed, Gary and I provide complimentary systems of belief to address consequential issues. Gary might not call on the name of the Judeo-Christian God, but many of the values he holds are rooted in the faith of those who do. We often come to similar conclusions, particularly on social issues. This reflects, perhaps, the greatest challenge we face — finding topics with enough conflict so that our opinions will truly cross.

As I consider our time together with Crossed, Paul’s words to the Athenians in Acts17:23 seem apropos: “For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.”

Godspeed, Gary! By whatever name you call upon, may you know the peace of mind and heart God offers in Jesus Christ!

Gary’s statement When I began writing this column over three years ago, my goal was to provide a forum to illuminate the views of today’s non-theists or, if you prefer, atheists. I felt then as I do now that, as a minority — albeit one that is growing significantly — our views were generally distorted and poorly presented. That is especially true in the relatively conservative regions of northern Michigan.

If I had to summarize my goals with this column, it Gary Singer Gary helps would be to stimulate readers into at least considering that businesses with religious worship of over 2,500 deities creates more harm their Internet and isolation than benefit. That is in no way to denigrate the marketing. dedicated groups of people organizing around worthy efforts.

He was raised a Religious denominations led by people like Bill, for whom I Catholic. have developed enormous respect, produce substantial benefits to those who need them most. Sadly, we live in a country that refuses to distribute its wealth equitably, but that is a topic far beyond the scope of this limited space.

As I have always stated, the harm from religion comes from indoctrinating children ATHEIST DEBATE into these belief systems when they are too young to understand the ramifications. After all, the primary reason people adhere to religious beliefs is because their parents did.

It is extremely difficult to bring about change when it conflicts with a vast amount of historical understanding, even though that information has zero validity from a scientific viewpoint. In my estimation, when proven science conflicts with ancient legends and folklore, the science must always take precedence. “Believers” will disagree, of course.

Just because it makes a person more content to fathom some sort of life-afterdeath scenario, that does not give the scenario credence. In the end, massive faith and early childhood intervention are required to maintain the phenomenal grasp that religious fantasy has on so many lives. Beyond that, religion serves as an optional way to further segregate ourselves beyond gender and race.

My hope moving forward is that, as more of us become less fearful of rejecting absurd religious beliefs, we can begin to embrace our oneness and start treating every other human being on earth as an equal. There always will be those who violate moral and legal precepts. While government is cumbersome and slow to evolve, it is a far more effective way to handle social disruption than with fragmented religious belief systems. However, our current government might prove to be the exception.

Editor’s note: This column concludes Gary Singer’s work with Crossed, for which he’s been a valued contributor since 2014. Starting later this month, Gary will be replaced by Scott Blair, vice president of the Grand Traverse Humanists.

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Agree statement Though we both occasionally have struggled with this part, this time it is easy. Bill and Gary agree that the best way to present a valid argument is to take the time to learn as much as possible about the counter argument.

When both sides listen to and truly care about each other, common ground is always achievable.

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1. Traci Hart, Ivy Hart and Lizzy Shetler are all the smiles at the National Writers Series event that featured Andrea Petersen, author of “On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety.”

2. Higher Art Gallery in TC hosted “How to Look at Art,” led by Joe DeLuca, Andrea Gerring and Rufus Snoddy.

3. Debra Woodward and Jim Glynn made the most of Petoskey Restaurant Week at City Park Grill.

4. Rhiannon Zeeff, Suzzi Moss and Carolyn Morrow enjoying the sun during The Little Fleet Summer Launch Party.

5. Beau and Jennifer Warren pause for the camera during the grand opening of MI Happy Place, their new downtown Traverse City store.

6. Hailey, Dustin, and Bob Drost stepped outside during an evening at Blue Smoke in East Jordan.

7. Larry Nykerk, Paul Phillips, Jen Bourdo, Leslie Asman, Mary Nykerk, and Nan Schaefer loving the sun and The Little Fleet!

8. Artist EM Randall looking proud after completing her mural outside BLK MRKT in TC. 9. Mandy & Ryan Martin are proud to introduce their new Charlevoix shop, Martin’s Market.

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june 03

saturday

FISH-TC.COM TROUT DERBY: This fishing tournament is held on East & West GT Bays. fish-tc.com/troutderby-1

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31ST ANNUAL BOAT AUCTION & NAUTICAL GARAGE SALE: 9am, Discovery Center, TC. Presented by the Maritime Heritage Alliance. Proceeds benefit the Schooner Madeline, the Champion S.A.I.L. youth program, the MHA Restoration Shop and many other MHA projects. maritimeheritagealliance.org

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7TH ANNUAL RECYCLE-A-BICYCLE BIKE SWAP: 9am-2pm, Old Town Parking Garage, TC. Check-in items to sell Fri., June 2 from 5-8pm. If sold, you receive 75% of sale price. 25% supports the Recycle-A-Bicycle program. Pick up unsold bikes from 2-4pm.

-------------------GT HIKING CLUB’S NATIONAL TRAILS DAY: Two hikes at 9am on the North Country Trail.

From noon until 1:30pm enjoy a potluck picnic at Baxter Bridge SF Campground. Bring a dish to share, table service, beverage & camp chair.

(231) 620-3543.

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GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA, BELLAIRE EVENTS: 9am: Birding Series: Nesting Birds.

See a few examples of nests and learn to ID birds by song and habitat. 1pm: Sedge Meadow Trail Hotspots. grassriver.org

-------------------THE CHEESE CUP WARM WATER SLAM: Third Level Crisis Center, TC. In memory of Alexander M. Hawke. This event will encompass carp, bass, bluegill & pike. At 9am anglers meet at the Shop for coffee & breakfast treats, & then head to the Bay to fish. Meet back at the Shop at 4:30pm for social hour & judging; includes silent auction & raffle. Benefits Third Level Crisis Center. Register: 933-4730.

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SPEAKER ATTORNEY MARK BREWER: 9:30am, NMC, Scholars Hall, TC. “Ending Partisan Gerrymandering in Michigan: Reform Through the Courts and By Ballot Question.” Sponsored by the GT County Democratic Party. 929-0437.

-------------------ART BEAT OF ELK RAPIDS: 10am-5pm, Elk Rapids. An open house gallery walk. Includes Mullaly’s 128 Studio & Gallery, The Blue Heron Gallery, & the Twisted Fish Gallery.

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ELMWOOD FIRE DEPARTMENT PARTNER PROGRAM: 10am-1pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Elmwood Fire Department will share info on fire safety. An informative class will be offered along with exploration of the firefighter uniform and their big red truck. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------LEELANAU ARTISTS EXHIBITION: The Old Art Building, Leland. June 2-4. Representing the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly to paint at the Old Art Building. Today’s hours are 10am-5pm. oldartbuilding.com THIS BEACH PARTY GIVES KIDS A SHOT AGAINST DISEASE: 10am-4pm, Pediatric Specialty Clinic, TC. Featuring a glow hand washing station, presentation by Norte on bike safety, the Traverse City Police Department’s K9 unit, first

aid and hands-only CPR training, & more. Young participants will enter the Pediatric Specialty Clinic building and meet the pediatric child-life specialist in the Teddy Bear Clinic where they will be walked through the process of receiving a vaccination using a teddy bear. Then they will receive vaccinations. munsonhealthcare.org/immunize

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-------------------INSECT EXPLORATION WALK WITH BUG EXPERT DR. DUKE ELSNER : 10:30am-12pm, GT Conservation District, TC. Presented by GT WildOnes. 231-357-0911. Free.

-------------------8TH ANNUAL DIRTY DOG DASH: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Covering 5 km of mountainous terrain with a bunch of obstacles thrown in along the way. The first wave starts at 11am, with each successive wave estimated to start every 20 minutes. Noon-4pm: Live music by Chris Calleja Band. boyne.com/boynemountain/ events/dirty-dog-dash

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11am-1pm: Author Kristy Kurjan will sign her books “Dream Sweet Dreams” & “The Many Ways to Say I Love You.” 1-3pm: Author Evelyn Harper will sign her book “Essence.” 3-5pm: Book Launch for “Inside Upnorth” by Heather Shaw, Bob Butz, Jodee Taylor, Tom Carr, Gabrielle Shaw, Mike Delp, Glen Wolff & Duncan Spratt Moran. horizonbooks.com

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CHARLEVOIX CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL: 126pm, Bridge Park, Charlevoix. Featuring 20 MI breweries & cideries & a local food court. $10, includes two tastings. visitcharlevoix.com/Charlevoix-Craft-Beer-Festival

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KINGSLEY ADAMS FLY FESTIVAL: 12-6pm, Kingsley Branch of the Traverse Area District Library. Featuring a display of AuSable River boats, rods, reels, flies & more. Fly tying demonstrations & the opportunity to learn fly casting, & much more.

Special guests will be Joseph Lunkas, Outdoorsman author, & Jon Lyle, editor/publisher. Free. Microbrew tent admission, $20. Proceeds benefit the Kingsley Friends of the Library. tadl.org/kingsley

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FAIRY FEST: 2-4pm, The Village at GT Commons in the green space (piazza) across from Left Foot Charley, TC. Live music by Pete Farmer of Farmer Foot Drums at 2pm. At 2:30pm will be a musical march back to the Fairy Trails, where you can check out the new houses. 231-421-5984. lifeandwhim.com/fairy-trails

-------------------MANCELONA BASS FESTIVAL: 5pm. Includes live music, a Classic Car and Custom Bike Show and Swap Meet, Communities In Schools of Northwest Michigan 5K Run/Walk, Bean Bag Tournament, & much more. mancelonabassfest.org/events

-------------------“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------GAAA READERS’ THEATER: 7:30pm, Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, Glen Arbor.

Presents two plays by British playwright J.M. Barrie: “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals” & “The Twelve-Pound Look.” Make your reservation: Email gaaareaderstheater@gmail.com Free.

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Pre-Professional dancer Taylor Naturkas portrays both the fox & rose in “Le Petit Prince,” author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic French tale, presented by the CTAC School of Ballet at the Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. Performances: Fri., June 9 at 7pm, & Sat., June 10 at 1pm & 7pm. Adult tickets: $10; students: $5; reserved: $25. crookedtree. org. Photo courtesy of Henry Joy. THE CHANCEL CHOIR: 7:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. The Chancel Choir from St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana will be presenting a concert of sacred music. Free. tccentralumc.org

-------------------DARK SKY PARK RENDEZVOUS: 8:30pm, Headlands International Dark Sky Park, Mackinaw City. Explore the night sky with photographer Bill Schwab and Dark Sky Park Program Director Mary Stewart Adams. Participants will venture out under the stars to photograph the sky. Preregister. Free. crookedtree.org/event/dark-skypark-rendezvous

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STRAWBERRY MOON BAZAAR: 9am-3pm, Eyaawing Museum & Cultural Center, Peshawbestown. Artists & crafters will display their gifts & talents. Featuring Ellie Mitchell of Bead & Powwow Supply, LLC. 231-534-7768.

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sunday

BLUEBERRY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: 8am-12pm, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Benefits Rainbow of Hope Farm. 231-263-4673. Suggested donation of $7.

-------------------LEELANAU ARTISTS EXHIBITION: The Old Art Building, Leland. June 2-4. Representing the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly

to paint at the Old Art Building. Today’s hours are 11am-4pm. oldartbuilding.com

-------------------CHERRY CAPITAL CYCLING CLUB ANNUAL SPRING PICNIC: 12-3pm, VASA Trailhead, 4450 Bartlett Road, Williamsburg. Featuring bike rides before the picnic, bike demos, music, food, & more. Free. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

-------------------“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 2pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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ARCADIA DUNES’ OVERLOOK TRAIL GRAND OPENING: 2-4:30pm, Arcadia Dunes. Presented by the GT Regional Land Conservancy. RSVP: gtrlc.org

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AUDITIONS: “THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL”: 7-9pm, Manistee Senior Center.

For five women & two men, 16-60 years of age. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. 231-723-7188.

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FREE GENEALOGY WORKSHOP: 2-4pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Room, TC. Job Winslow Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution are co-hosting this workshop with GT Area Genealogical Society, Sons of the American Revolution & Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. jobwinslow.michdar.net

-------------------“AMERICANA JUBILEE” CONCERT: 4pm, Bellaire High School auditorium. Presented by the

Antrim County Community Choir. 231-331-6587.

Free-will offering.

Grayling. TrueNorth Presentation with Gary Lamberg. crawfordcoa.org

MANCELONA BASS FESTIVAL: Includes live music, a Classic Car and Custom Bike Show and Swap Meet, Communities In Schools of Northwest Michigan 5K Run/Walk, Bean Bag Tournament, & much more. mancelonabassfest.org/events

PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH EVENING GROUP: 6pm, MCHC, Rooms A&B, TC. Questions: 947-7389.

--------------------------------------FRESHWATER CONCERTS: 7pm, Freshwater Art Gallery, Boyne City. Presents John Gorka & Amelia K Spicer. Gorka’s songs & stories capture life’s moments with great perspective. Spicer recently celebrated the release of her new CD “Wow and Flutter.” $35 advance; $40 door. freshwaterartgallery.com

june 05

monday

23RD ANNUAL SMART COMMUTE WEEK: June 5-9. Bike, walk, carpool, take the bus or try any creative form of ‘smart’ transportation. Today features free breakfast for smart commuters at North Peak Brewing Co., TC from 7-9am. traversetrails.org/smart-commute

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ZONTA CLUB OF TC GOLF OUTING: 9am, Lochenheath Golf Club, Acme. Benefits the Zonta Club of TC. $125. zontacluboftraversecity.org

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AUDITIONS: “THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL”: 7-9pm, River Street Artisan’s Gallery, Manistee. For five women & two men, 16-60 years of age. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. 231-723-7188.

-------------------THE FIRST EVER HERE:SAY STORYTELLING OPEN MIC: 7-9pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. traversecityworkshop.com

june 06

tuesday

23RD ANNUAL SMART COMMUTE WEEK: June 5-9. Bike, walk, carpool, take the bus or try any creative form of ‘smart’ transportation. Today features free breakfast for smart commuters at NMC Campus, TC & GT Pavilions, TC from 7-9am; & 10% off Happy Hour at The Shed Beer Garden, TC for smart commuters. traversetrails.org/smart-commute

-------------------BLOOMS & BIRDS: WILDFLOWER WALKS: 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. grassriver.org

-------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create a name flag at 11am or 2pm. Spell out your name with colorful letters and string them together to hang up anywhere. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------GOLF CLASSIC FUNDRAISER: 11:30am, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Supporting the Michigan Legacy Art Park. Tickets: $100/golfer, inlcudes dinner; $25 dinner only. michlegacyartpark.org/events/golf RECYCLE EVERYTHING: 12:15pm, Crawford County Commission on Aging & Senior Center,

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TCNEWTECH MEETUP: 6-8pm, City Opera House, TC. Five pre-selected speakers will each be given five minutes to showcase their technology product or business startup, and another five minutes to field questions from peers, potential partners, and investors in the audience. tcnewtech.org

-------------------“101 THINGS THAT HAPPENED ON THE MACKINAC BRIDGE”: 6pm, Cadillac Library Meeting Room, Cadillac. By Mike Fornes. 231-510-9047.

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IMAGES OF YOSEMITE: 6:30pm, Charlevoix Public Library Community Room. In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the National Parks, Mike Schlitt of the Charlevoix Photography Club will be presenting photographs of Yosemite National Park. charlevoixlibrary.org

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“HAVE YOU BEEN ASPERGATED?”: 6:30pm, TC. The NW Michigan NT Support group will discuss a unique phenomenon that may occur when neurotypicals adapt to the world of their Asperger’s loved ones. The exact Traverse City location is provided when the neurotypical (NT) partner or family member joins a private Meetup group: meetup.com/ NW-Michigan-NT-Support/. 231-313-8744. Free.

-------------------“HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS”: 7:30pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building.

Presented by the Petoskey Film Series. A witty and compassionate late-life, coming-of-age story that will make you cheer and want to say, “I’m Possible!”

231-758-3108. Free. facebook.com/petoskeyfilm

june 07

Boz Scaggs & a pair of tickets to Amos Lee, both at Interlochen. Presented by Remax Bayshore Properties. Admission, $10. traverseticker.com

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COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: 5:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Presented by Friends Enhancing Emmet Transit. redskystage.com/event-schedule-4 SCREENING OF “RADICAL GRACE”: 6pm, The Garden Theater, Frankfort. SKYPE with director. Presented by the Benzie County Democratic Party. Donations encouraged. 231-399-0365.

AUTHOR JOSH MALERMAN: 6-8pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. This MI native will discuss his latest novel “Mad Black Wheel.”

Josh is also a member of the rock band The High Strung. Free wine & cheese event. Reserve your spot: 231-347-1180. mcleanandeakin.com

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-------------------NWS PRESENTS: AN EVENING WITH MARY ROACH: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Mary is the author of “Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.” Doors open at 6pm with live music & treats from Morsels. Q & A & book signing afterwards. General admission, $20.50. nationalwritersseries.org/programs/evening-mary-roach

-------------------“101 THINGS THAT HAPPENED ON THE MACKINAC BRIDGE”: 7pm, Fife Lake Library. Mike Fornes, author and speaker, will give a presentation about Michigan’s iconic five-mile span that has seen historic, tragic, and hilarious events since its construction that began in 1954. Free. tadl.org/fifelake

-------------------NORTHERN SYMPHONIC WINDS SPRING CONCERT: 7:30pm, Charlevoix High School.

“The Sounds and Colors of Spring.” Free.

june 08

thursday

CELEBRATE BORN TO READ!: 5:30pm, TC Golf & Country Club. Celebrate the progress that has been made in promoting early literacy in the community. Hosted by Rotary Club of Traverse Bay Twilight.

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23RD ANNUAL SMART COMMUTE WEEK: June 5-9. Bike, walk, carpool, take the bus or try any creative form of ‘smart’ transportation. Free breakfast for smart commuters at BATA Transfer Station, TC & The Kitchen, TC from 7-9am. There will also be a Curbside Chat with Chuck Marohn, president of Strong Towns at Bijou by the Bay Theatre from 7-8:30pm; as well as free BATA bus rides, TC & free rides on Benzie Bus. traversetrails.org/event/smart-commute-week-2017

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SHARING ANISHINAABE HISTORY & CULTURE: 12pm, Eyaawing Museum & Cultural Center, Peshawbestown. This forum is hosted by The Energy & Natural Resources Committee of the League of Women Voters Leelanau County. LWVLC business meeting to follow. lwvleelanau.org

-------------------WINE DOWN WEDNESDAY: RECESS EDITION!: 5-7pm, Chateau Grand Traverse, TC. Join The Ticker while sipping on award winning wines & dining on a large cheese, meat, and fruit display, Naan bread pizzas, Chef Perry’s Bruschetta on toasted baguette slices, & more. Prizes are a VIP Tour & Tasting for 8, 60 min. massage at Living Light, $150 gift certificate to the CGT Tasting Room, a pair of tickets to see Michael McDonald &

RIVER SCULPTURE DEDICATION: 4pm, Main St., Boyne City. This is followed by a cocktail hour at Stiggs Brewery. The Walkabout Sculpture Show is also happening. boynecitymainstreet.com

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23RD ANNUAL SMART COMMUTE WEEK: June 5-9. Bike, walk, carpool, take the bus or try any creative form of ‘smart’ transportation. Free breakfast for smart commuters at Disability Network, TC & Harvest, TC from 7-9am. There will also be a TART Fiesta with live music by Jack Pine at Red Mesa Grill, TC from 6-9pm. traversetrails.org/ event/smart-commute-week-2017

-------------------LOOK GOOD, FEEL GOOD, DO GOOD COMMUNITY EVENT: When you to shop at Talbots, TC today, 10% of pre-tax sales will be donated to the Friends of Interlochen Public Library.

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INTERACTIVE STORY TIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Conejito” by Margaret Read MacDonald. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------GT MUSICALE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS PERFORM: 1pm, First Congregational Church, Sanctuary, TC. Free. gtmusicale.org

-------------------BAY HARBOR BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, The Loft, Bay Harbor. $7 members; $12 not-yet members.

Create a Cozy Cottage with timeless wool blankets and home furnishings.

LEELANAU BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30pm, VI Grill, Suttons Bay.

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-------------------ODP PRESENTS SAYWECANFLY STORYTELLER UNPLUGGED TOUR: 6pm, Up North Grill, The Alley, Kalkaska. Obscurrus Diem Productions presents SayWeCanFly with Call Me Karizma & Marina City, local bands. Featuring a questions & answers session, and stories and conversations. $25 at door. Questions: 231-3925481. www.obscurrus.com

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REP-A-RAMA W/ PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE BOOK REPS: 6pm, Horizon Books, TC. Three representatives from Penguin Random House will preview upcoming titles and discuss the latest in the publishing world. horizonbooks.com

-------------------HIKE TIMBERS REC AREA: 6:30-8:30pm, Timbers Recreation Area, TC. Presented by the GT Regional Land Conservancy. RSVP: gtrlc.org

-------------------“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------BAND OF LOVERS: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Tickets: $10 advance; $15 night of. $8 students, $5 kids 12 & under. redskystage.com/ event-schedule-4

-------------------FETE D’ ETE: Travel between five TC restaurants atop bicycles with the dinner party. These include Trattoria Stella, Burritt’s Fresh Market, The Towne Plaza, Tuscan Bistro, & Olives & Wine. Five courses, five restaurants, one winemaker. $89. 6-10pm. anneamie.com/biketour

june 09

friday

MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTION - RICK BURBEE: 6-8pm, Bonobo Winery, TC. Featuring the unique woven-paper technique of local Tinker Studio artist & owner Rick Burbee. Find ‘Meet the Artist Reception: Rick Burbee’ on Facebook.

-------------------23RD ANNUAL SMART COMMUTE WEEK: June 5-9. Bike, walk, carpool, take the bus or try any creative form of ‘smart’ transportation.

Today features the Award Ceremony Breakfast at Oryana, TC. traversetrails.org/event/smartcommute-week-2017

-------------------GOOD MORNING GAYLORD: 8am, BJ’s Restaurant & Catering, Gaylord. Sponsored by Beacon Dental Center. Featuring guest speaker Alfred Soriano-Micheau, Bag Full of Dreams.

989-448-0523. $10.

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am: Story Hour w/ Local Author Gary Bower. Hear

Northern Michigan’s Favorite Gift Store 301 E. Lake Street

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Gary’s new books, & do some activities & a craft.

8:30-10:30pm: Live Music with Jim Crockett Trio.

Enjoy original folk, roots & blues. horizonbooks.com

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BIG SUMMER READING KICK-OFF PARTY: 12pm, Bellaire Public Library. Build-A-Better Bear, enjoy a “Forest Adventure” story, pizza party, & meet Boomer the Bear. (231) 533-8814.

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SCHOOL’S OUT PARTY: 2-10pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Bounce house, lemonade slushies, live music by Sharp Edges, Slow Tako, & Bluegrass Association, and a dunk tank. Raise money for schools by dunking your favorite teacher or principal. thelittlefleet.com/new-events-1

-------------------DIVAS UNCORKED: 3:30-9:30pm, Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula. “Girls Night Out” devoted to women, wine, food & fun. $35; $30 Designated Divas. wineriesofomp.com/36/womp-trail-events

-------------------LELAND ARTWALK ARTSCAPE: 5-8pm, throughout Leland. Pre Leland Wine & Food Festival. Music by Sierra Creamer & Blair Miller. lelandmi.com

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“THE LITTLE PRINCE”: 7pm, Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. Presented by the CTAC School of Ballet. $5 students, $10 adults. crookedtree.org/ event/ctac-school-of-ballet-presents-the-little-prince

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“YOUNG KING ARTHUR”: 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by OTP Young Company. $15 adults; $6 under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------COMMUNITY DANCE: 7-9:30pm, East Jordan Civic Center Gym. Featuring the Pine River Jazz Band. $10.

-------------------“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------CANTICUM NOVUM CONCERT: 7:30pm, First Congregational Church, TC. A program of choral music featuring music by the masters both old and new: Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, Lauridsen, Whitacre, Paulus, and Swingle. And, featuring music from cultures around the world including the music of Germany, Latvia, India, Russia, France, and American spirituals and hymn tunes. Suggested donation: $15 adult, $10 seniors and students.

-------------------PELLSTON SUMMERFEST: Today features an Art & Craft Show in Veteran’s Memorial Park throughout the day, & a Teen Dance from 8-11pm in the Main Tent. facebook.com/pellstonevents

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Come hear an inspirational talk.

NEVER ALONE: How spiritual ideas work in us Find out how to feel God’s presence in tangible ways.

MONDAY, June 12, 2017 at 7:00pm

Traverse City West Middle School Little Theater 3950 Silver Lake Road • Traverse City, MI

“God’s powerful, loving ideas care for us every moment.”

Melanie Wahlberg, CS

Christian Science Practitioner and Lecturer

Free Talk Sponsored by: First Church of Christ, Scientist, Traverse City Child Care Provided • For more information call (231) 947-6293 • www.tccschurch.org

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WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW: A concert exploring the aspects of love. Presented by the Leelanau Children’s Choir & Leelanau Youth Ensemble. 7:30pm, Northport Community Art Center. $15 adults, $5 students. 231-883-SING.

june 10

saturday

PELLSTON SUMMERFEST: Today includes a Car Show, the 5K Sun Run/Walk, 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament, live music by Kirby, Michelle Chenard, Pete Kehoe, The Marsupials, & others, & much more. facebook.com/pellstonevents

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CHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS PAINT OUT: 8am-6pm, Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Artists register at 8am to have their blank canvases stamped for a day of painting. As they return to the Circle with their work, a “Wet Paint Sale” will be installed. Live music

by Chris Martin. charlevoixcircle.com

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M22 CHALLENGE: 8am, Little Glen Lake Picnic Area, Empire. Run-bike-paddle event. FULL. m22. com/pages/m22-challenge

-------------------3RD ANNUAL SANDY KAY 5K: 8:30am, Benzie Central High School. Benefits Multiple Sclerosis research. $25; $20 advance. bcinteract.weebly. com/sandy-kay-5k-2017.html

-------------------BETSIE RIVER CLEAN SWEEP: Meet at Benzonia Congregational Church at 8:30am for a complimentary pancake breakfast! To register, please contact John Ransom, john@benziecd. org; 231-882-4391. benziecd.org

4TH ANNUAL CHANDLER HILL CHALLENGE: 9am, 7620 Chandler Hill Rd., Boyne Falls. 10K run, 5K run and 5K walk. active.com

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5TH ANNUAL BLESSING OF THE BUGS VOLKSWAGEN CAR SHOW & CRUISE: 9am-2pm, Manistee National Golf & Resort, Manistee. $5 registration per vehicle. Food, games, silent auction, 5 mile cruise to the shores of Lake Michigan. northernmittvdubclub.com

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THE RED DRESSER HENS & FRIENDS BARN MARKET: 9am-3pm, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Featuring live music, coffee truck, architectural salvage, vintage furniture and décor, & much more.

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NORTHERN MI WALK TO CURE LUPUS: 10am, Mineral Springs Park, Frankfort. In memory of Josephine VanHam. A silent auction will be held between 9 and 10am. A free picnic and children’s games for registered walkers will occur after the walk. The handicap accessible walk is 5K on the Betsie Valley Trail from Frankfort to Elberta and back along Betsie Bay. 100% of all proceeds are given to the Lupus Research Alliance for research. Donation. Walk. lupusresearch.org/Frankfort

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11am-1pm: Author of “The Faith that God Built Series” Gary Bower will sign his books. 1-3pm: Deborah A. Wolf will read her book, “The Dragon’s Legacy.” horizonbooks.com

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MICHIGAN SUNSET COAST BIRDING TRAIL DEDICATION: 11am, Charlevoix Township Hall.

Prior to the dedication will be a morning bird walk at nearby Charlevoix Northpoint Nature Area from 8:30-10:30am. sunsetcoastbirdingtrail.org

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LELAND WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL: 12-6pm, Leland. 12 wineries, 1 brewery, 8 food vendors & 4 art booths. Live music by the Drew Hale Band & The Hidden Agenda Band. Tickets: $15 advance; $25 gate. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------“THE LITTLE PRINCE”: 1pm & 7pm, Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. Presented by the CTAC School of Ballet. $5 students, $10 adults. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-school-of-ballet-presents-the-little-prince

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CBG MINDED MICHIGAN’DERS: 1-5pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. A Michigan based movement of musicians, instrument builders, hobbyists, fans and just plain folks with an interest in cigar box guitars, ukuleles and related creations. Free. redskystage.com/event-schedule-4

-------------------WATERVALE WALK: 2pm, Watervale Inn, Arcadia.

A self-guided walking tour of the historic resort benefitting the Benzie Area Historical Society. See the renovations and preservation of a logging town turned resort that dates back to 1892. Includes a presentation by the descendants of Oscar Kraft and a reception on the terrace overlooking Lower Herring Lake. 231-352-9083. $20. watervaleinn.com

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DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: 4-6:30pm, Llama Meadows Farm, Benzonia. Using simple movements, mantras, lyrics and songs from many religious traditions, the Dances focus on peace and harmony, celebrating solidarity and unity with all spiritual traditions of the world. Potluck dinner at 6:30pm, followed by open mic. Register: betty@llamameadows.com or 231-651-0370.

-------------------RUDOLPH VALENTINO STARRING IN ‘THE SON OF THE SHEIK’: 5:30pm, Music House Museum, Williamsburg. With accompaniment by IAA pianist, Steve Larson. Showings at 5:30pm & 7:30pm. $15 adults, $13 seniors & $5 students. musichouse.org

-------------------“YOUNG KING ARTHUR”: 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by OTP Young Company. $15 adults; $6 under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: 7pm, Solon Township Hall, Cedar. Live music

by Aunt Lou & the Oakland County Allstars. $11 adults, $7 students & $9 members. Contra-dance lesson for beginners from 7-7:45pm; contra & square dancing from 8-11. dancetc.com

-------------------CANTICUM NOVUM CONCERT: 7pm, St. Andrews Presbyterian, Beulah. A program of choral music featuring music by the masters both old and new: Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, Lauridsen, Whitacre,

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

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AC PAW’S PUTTING FOR PAWS: 12pm, GT Resort & Spa, The Wolverine, Acme. Register your team at acpaw.org. Enjoy an afternoon of golf, dinner, a 50/50 raffle, prizes, and a silent auction. $100/person. acpaw.org/pages/events.html

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GLCO AROUND THE WORLD TOUR: 6:15-8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey.

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-------------------BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Held on Wednesdays & Saturdays, 8am-noon at Veterans Park, Boyne City. boynecitymainstreet.com

-------------------CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET: Upper Level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Fridays, 10am-1pm. crookedtree.org CHARLEVOIX FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 8am-1pm, 408 Bridge St., Charlevoix. charlevoixmainstreet.org/farmers-market

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EAST JORDAN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 8am-noon, Sportsman’s Park, East Jordan.

DOWNTOWN GAYLORD FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9:30am, Downtown Gaylord Pavilion. m.facebook.com/DowntownGaylordFarmersMarket

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SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET, TC: Saturdays, 7:30am-12pm, Lot B, across from Clinch Park, TC. downtowntc.com

-------------------THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 12pm-4pm, on The Piazza, The Village at GT Commons, TC. thevillagetc.com/events-attractions/farmers-market

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GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR: Mondays, 2-4pm, Perry Hannah Memorial at 6th & Union, Traverse City. A 2 hour, 2-mile, walk through Traverse City’s historic neighborhoods. Emphasis is put on the 1840’s through the early twentieth century.

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-------------------“POINTS OF INTEREST”: Runs through June 9 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Artists interpret the idea of mapping their world, life, & emotions in an exploration in charting the course of life. charlevoixcircle.com

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100-DAY PROJECT EXHIBIT: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts. Runs June 6 - July 5. An opening reception will be held on Sat., June 10 from 5-7pm. gacaevents.weebly.com

“FRESHLY PICKED”: Twisted Fish Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Elk Rapids. The five artists are Lindy Bishop, Ginnie Cappaert, Anne Corlett, Mimi Prussack & Lynn Uhlmann. Runs through July 2. twistedfishgallery.com

Ladies Night - $1 off drinks & $5 martinis

Thurs - MI beer night $1 off all MI beer

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“RETROSPECTIVE”: Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan. An exhibit by Chuck Forman. An opening reception will be held on Sun., June 4 from 1-4pm. Runs through June 23. jordanriverarts.com

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“THIS PLACE FEELS FAMILIAR”: Presented by students from the Aesthetics of Health Class led by Interlochen Arts Academy’s Visual Art Department faculty member Megan Hildebrandt. Runs through the summer in the cancer center’s Reflection Gallery on the third floor & Health & Wellness Suite on the second floor, TC. munsonhealthcare.org/cancer

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ART IN THE CITY ARTIST COMPETITION: Cadillac Area YMCA. Theme: Local Inspirations. 11x14 Art Competition and fundraiser. The proceeds from the sale of your donated art will be shared equally for the benefit of area 7th graders having free access to the Cadillac YMCA. The deadline is Aug. 23 & the preview party will be held on Thurs., Aug. 24 from 4-6pm. 231-775-3369. paulk@cadillacareaymca.org

-------------------EXPERIENCE ART RAPIDS!: June 10-24, GT Bayside community. A juried art show with $6,000 in cash awards takes place. 33 venues, 104 artists, 277 works. Vote for your favorite work of art. artrapids.org/calendar

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HIGHER ART GALLERY CALL FOR ART: Higher Art Gallery, TC. For their first Black and White Photography exhibit. Submissions are taken until June 5. higherartgallery.com/callsforart

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JUNE ARTIST OF THE MONTH: The Botanic Garden at HIstoric Barns Park, TC. Featuring the work of local artist Rebecca Deneau. An Artist Reception will be held on Sat., June 3 from 1-3pm.

Exibit runs through June. thebotanicgarden.org

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“OUR NATIONAL PARKS” JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

A juried photography exhibit in honor of Ansel Adams and the 100th Anniversary of our National Parks. Runs through Sept. 9. Members, artists and their guests are invited to celebrate the opening of the exhibit on June 3 at 2pm. crookedtree.org

-------------------THROUGH THE LENS: ANSEL ADAMS - HIS WORK, INSPIRATION & LEGACY: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Bonfield & Gilbert Galleries, Petoskey. Featuring 47 iconic images of Ansel Adams and 1 portrait of Ansel Adams by James Alinder. Runs through Sept. 30. crookedtree.org

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MONTE NAGLER: VISIONS OF LIGHT: June 9 Aug. 2, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. A collection of photographic work by Michigan’s own Monte Nagler, a former student of Ansel Adams. crookedtree.org

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NORTHERN LIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: June 8 - Aug. 2, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. An exhibition of night sky photography and the Northern Lights. In collaboration with the Michigan Aurora Hunters. An opening reception will be held on Thurs., June 8 from 7-9pm. crookedtree.org

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SUMMER MEMBERS EXHIBIT: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Runs through June 16. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

-------------------VISUAL ODES: A TRIBUTE TO PABLO NERUDA: Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. Runs through June 27. threepinesstudio.com

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This project of singer-songwriter Mary Timony, who is by turns fierce or Joni-Mitchell-esque, depending on the song, is quite a departure from her previous work with Wild Flag. There’s more focus on electronica than rock. And this is a much better backdrop for Timony’s vocals, as well as for the R.E.M.reminiscent guitar work, most notably on songs like “Cosmic Rays,” “Lady of the Fire,” “The Revolution of Hearts Pts. I and II,” and album pick “Lullaby of the Moths.” Some of the unusual secondary instruments used give an almost medieval tone to certain tracks, which adds yet another layer of interest.

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This set from the influential Irish rockers is totally a throwback to the ’80s — well, and the ’90s, too, really — and could be both a perfect overture to the band, or a great way for existing fans to carry around some of U2’s best hits. Opening with the towering tones of “Beautiful Day,” the album shifts around out of chronological order, stepping back to the band’s really, really early days with tracks like “New Year’s Day” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” and bouncing forward to more recent (relatively speaking) radio faves like “Vertigo,” “One,” and “Elevation.”

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Bottle Rockets Eric Ambel The Surreal McCoys Saturday, June 17 Tickets $27.50, $17.50 Americana, cowpunk and rock n’ roll all rolled into one high-energy alt-rock show. Since the mid-1990s, Bottle Rockets bard Brian Henneman and his shifting ensemble of compadres have been crafting heartland epics within a rock n’ roll framework, that spill beer and stir the heart on impact.

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Colin Hay – Fierce Mercy – Compass

A whole new generation of fans who weren’t around for the Men at Work (band) era have discovered Hay’s singer-songwriter talents and gruffly sweet vocals through his funny musical cameos on the Zach Braff series Scrubs. And for good reason. Hay’s songs always have been succinct little capsules of observation teamed up with catchy melodies, a solid formula that’s often underrated in these oh-so-overproduced times.

On this set, his sound gets a modernized twist via the faintly electronic, romantic “A Thousand Million Reasons”; the Sting-esque “Frozen Fields of Snow”; and the precise tones of “The Best in Me.”

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Having borrowed (figuratively speaking) guitar sounds from both Alex Chilton and Wilco, this Scottish pop-rock outfit kick off this set with an absolute ear-catcher in “I’m In Love,” which swirls with Doorslike organ riffs and plenty of layered vocal harmonies. “The Darkest Part of the Night” is another standout, living up to its title with so much late-night familiarity (and more of those perfectly-balanced harmonies, this time from the guitars) it’s almost a direct invite to sing along. But aside from that one pensive tune, most of what you’ll hear here is the brighter side of pop, festooned with the band’s ability to use melodies and whammy bars, both with plenty of abandon.

CHICAGO GETS ALTERNATIVE WITH RIOT FEST Chicago’s Riot Fest just announced their 2017 lineup, with an eclectic roster of artists sure to bring in something for nearly every variety of alternative music fan. Headlining night one is Nine Inch Nails, with Queens of the Stone Age taking over the headlining spot on night two; night three’s grand finale will feature a reunion of punkers Jawbreaker, who hasn’t performed live in nearly 20 years. Also on the bill are New Order, M.I.A., TV on the Radio, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Paramore, who is promoting its newest album. Riot Fest runs Sept. 15–17 this year in Chi-town’s Douglas Park. Tickets, a complete schedule, and more information are available at riotfest.org …

Jack White appeared on “CBS This Morning” to share a sneak peek at his recently opened Third Man Records pressing plant and factory in Detroit. The factory, which includes a giant vinyl-themed art mural and custom German-built vinyl record presses, is located in D-Town’s Cass Corridor. White’s goal for the facility is “to bring people back to the physical product of music and get away from invisible music and disposable music.” Along with the facility tour, “CBS This Morning” also showcased a performance by one of Jack White’s touring bandmates and a recent Third Man Records signee, the fiddle player Lillie Mae …

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Hayley Williams, Taylor York, and Zac Farro — aka the Tennessee rock band Paramore — have a brand new album out, After Laughter, and have announced a new run of tour dates they’ll embark on to promote it this fall. The tour will start in Jacksonville, Fla. on Sept. 6, and will end Oct. 17 in Nashville.

Prior to this trek, Paramore will play KROQ’s Weenie Roast and will then criss-cross the U.S. over the summer for a scattered series of music festival live appearances …

LCD Soundsystem appeared on “Saturday Night Live” for the very first time to perform two of its own brand-new songs, “Call the Police” and “American Dream,” tracks the band debuted during its recent residency at New York City’s Brooklyn Steel music venue. Both tunes run around six minutes long, so had to be shortened for the SNL broadcast. In conjunction with the TV appearance, the band’s James Murphy also updated fans on LCD’s upcoming new album, its first since 2010. He said the band has only a few more things left to track and mix, and then the record should be mastered and shipped later this summer …

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK The Ann Arbor Summer Festival has announced the lineup for its 2017 outdoor Top of the Park Music Series, which starts on June 9 and runs through July 2. The shows take place at The Rackham Stage on

the U of M campus, and the O&W Acoustic Stage under the Bell Tower. This summer’s performers include Flint Eastwood, The Crane Wives, The Appleseed Collective, and Third Coast Kings; get the full schedule and more information at A2SF.org …

THE BUZZ The East Grand Rapids Summer Concert Series is kicking off in just a few weeks in the city’s John Collins Park, with performers including Drew Hale on June 19, Green on Blue on July 10, and The Doran Brothers on July 17…

Mary J. Blige’s tour is going to pass through Michigan this summer, with a show at the Michigan Lottery Amphitheater in

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Sterling Heights on Aug. 1 …

Aug. 10–12 are the dates for this year’s Cowpie Festival at the Shagbark Farm in Alaska, Michigan, with performances from UV Hippo, Delilah DeWylde, Jesse Ray, and Fauxgrass, among others …

Celtic/world music outfit An Dro sat at the top of Grand Rapids’ WYCE Radio’s playlist in May …

Katy Perry is set to bring her world tour to Detroit’s new Little Caesars Arena on Dec. 6 … 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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Kyle Zemsta was so impressed by his wife’s weight loss results one year after surgery, he decided to have the procedure, too. Now they both have much more energy, stamina, and enjoy outdoor activities together.

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

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

- Katie Zemsta, 36 and Kyle Zemsta, 34

“Katie and Kyle have had great success. Doing all of the followup steps and having the full support of a spouse really helps achieve and maintain long-term good health. It’s been very rewarding to watch the Zemstas become healthy and active.”

- Steven E. Slikkers, MD Grand Traverse Surgery PC

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

To learn more, join us for a free, informational seminar.

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The reel PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES

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I didn’t think I’d be here. I didn’t think that six years after the last interminable and completely unnecessary outing, On Stranger Tides, and vowing to never see another Pirates of the Caribbean movie, not only would I be back for round FIVE, I’d even be excited for it.

But as they say, time heals all wounds, and the pain of On Stranger Tides has subsided, and a thing called nostalgia has kicked in. ’Cause somehow, it’s been 14 years since Johnny Depp first set sail as the world’s most eccentric pirate, Jack Sparrow, in a film that stands as a genuinely great popcorn flick. And even though it’s debut stars have left the series and been exposed for heinous acts, and Captain Jack is less culturally relevant than ever, the strength of that first film and the attachment to the characters it established still buys a lot of good will.

So when news broke that franchise favorites Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley would be returning (no matter how small the capacity), and that the Norwegian directors behind the spirited and the intelligent nautically themed hit Kon-Tiki would be at the helm, it was more than reason enough to hope that this wouldn’t be a complete waste of time and resources.

This isn’t the soulless void you might expect from anything with a five after the title. While Dead Men Tell No Tales might still be far from the heights of that first film, it works as both a standalone adventure and an entertaining continuation of what people have come to know and love about this franchise. It’s swashbuckling fun that returns to the heart of things and delivers some satisfying emotional beats for longtime fans.

It kicks off with the introduction of Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites), the grown son of Pirates 1, 2, and 3 characters Will Turner (Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Knightley).

Henry has spent his young life becoming an expert in maritime lore in hopes of finding the Trident of Poseidon and breaking the curse that keeps his father enslaved as the captain of the Flying Dutchman. As fate would have it, in the course of his quest, he meets up with his parents’ old friend, Jack Sparrow, to whom the Trident holds its own, less altruistic, appeal.

They team up with Carina Smyth (Kayla Scodelario), an astronomer seeking the Trident for reasons involving the legacy of her unknown father. Carina is a woman of science at time when women aren’t exactly respected for their minds, and her search for knowledge has led to her persecution as a witch. It would seem as though the film has really tapped into the zeitgeist of the

#shepersisted moment with such a strong feminist character, but after we’re repeatedly told she’s a “woman of science,” the effort starts to ring a little hallow.

Thwarting the group’s efforts is an old foe of Sparrow’s, Captain Armando Salazar (Javier Bardem), a man whom Sparrow condemned to the life of the undead in the Devil’s Triangle, and who now seeks revenge.

There’s a lot of action and set pieces and parting of the seas and magic and curses and creatures, and Sparrow is mercifully kept to the sidelines for much of it. He almost functions as a sidekick, the film’s comedic relief, and is responsible for much of its surprisingly bawdy tone.

But even though this isn’t the Depp show, he still does his thing, and at this point it’s hard to tell if he’s phoning it in, if he’s just that good (he was Oscar-nominated for his work as Captain Jack), or if character and actor simply have melded into one.

Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg prove capable captains, following the same standard formula but streamlining it a bit. The scenery is all so lush and detailed and transporting, and the action doesn’t feel mindless. Even if it’s missing the spark of a Gore Verbinski set piece, the effects are truly first rate. So when Sparrow literally jumps over a zombie shark, I can safely say we don’t fully descend into jump-the-shark territory.

Twaites and Scodelario, both veterans of failed Y/A franchises, give strong performances, and Scodelario in particular elevates things with her smarts and pluck.

The pair remain likable even if their romance is a bit perfunctory. Whether they can carry the franchise remains to be seen.

Continuing the tradition of bringing acclaimed actors to take on thankless villain roles is Bardem, who neither has enough fun with the part nor is menacing enough to really leave a mark. Basically, Anton Chigurh doesn’t belong in a PG-13 world.

Without a doubt though, with only a few minutes of screen time, the film’s MVP is Sir Paul McCartney (yes, that Paul McCartney), who simply kills it in a highly publicized cameo as Jack’s uncle. His comedic timing is perfection and reason enough to see this movie.

If you know what you’re in for, there’s a gratifying, albeit fluffy tale here, and by film’s end the saga has been, you guessed it, set up to continue. So all things considered, I think I’m game for more. I guess it’s a pirate’s life for me, after all.

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

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fter reviving the franchise five years ago with the panned and highly cerebral prequel Prometheus, director Ridley Scott, at the age of 79, tries his hand at getting it right with the next chapter in the Alien saga, an origin story for those titular aliens that marks a return to basics. While Scott might continue down the heady philosophical vein of Prometheus (this is a film that quotes the likes of Byron and Shelly), he also tones down the reaching mythology and amps up the thrills, the result of which is a film with decidedly more slasher vibes. We pick up 10 years after the events of Prometheus on the Covenant, a colonizing ship carrying some 2,000 souls and still seven years out from its destination.

Everyone is in hyper-sleep save for android Walter (Michael Fassbender), who is keeping things running. But then a freak accident occurs, the crew has to wake up, and through a series of too-good-to-be-true developments, they decide to explore a potential new home planet for their colony. And what do they find there? Well, it ain’t good. And it involves aliens and alien eruptions out of human bodies. This is a gruesome film, one that trades heavily in silly horror tropes and gives of its gore too freely for much of a suspenseful payoff and where it’s profound aspirations and cheap scares don’t always mesh. But with the craftsman touch of Scott behind the lens, it’s still pretty terrifying, rather entertaining, very beautiful, and well done.

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n these original-story-averse, and Game-of-Thrones-loving times, King Arthur actually seems about due for a reboot — a canonical work where someone could leave a mark. And this time around that someone could be director Guy Ritchie, whose reboots of properties like Sherlock Holmes brought something new to the table in an enjoyable way and who has an innovate and unique visual style — facts together that seem to practically prophecize, Hey, at least this will probably be fun. But, as is turns out, Guy Ritchie will not be the one to pull the sword from the stone and bring the satisfying Arthur of every “The-Onceand-Future-King” reader’s dreams to the screen. Worse yet, you won’t even get to have much fun. Because while there are glimmers of the cheeky delight found in Ritchie’s gangster films like Snatch, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is never enough of a romp. In this, the first of supposedly six planned films (yeah, that kind of optimism is almost endearing), the focus is on a streetwise Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) getting Excalibur, discovering his true heritage, and going from reluctant hero to taking back the throne from his power-hungry uncle, Vortigern (Jude Law). While I can certainly appreciate that this doesn’t go down the expected Guinevere-and-Lancelot-love-triangle path, without Guinevere, women are only here to get stabbed. And you can’t take away the thoughtful and melancholy Arthur while failing to offer any significant female presence. They needed to make a little more room at the (round) table.

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veryone’s favorite misfit band of intergalactic mercenary heroes are back in a sequel that equals or maybe surpasses the original. It has just as much heart, the soundtrack is just as rocking, it’s still laugh-out-loud hilarious, and though it trades heavily in snark, the feelings you’ll develop for these characters grow even deeper. There’s the verdanthued assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana), that genetically-altered talking raccoon Rocket (Bradley Cooper), deadpan literalist Drax (Dave Bautista), and of course Star-Lord (everyone’s BFF Chris Pratt), the abducted Missourian turned space bandit.

And joining them is Star-Lord’s long lost father Ego, played by none other than Kurt Russell with a swagger that trades on his legendary status in the most delightful of ways. And of course, the irresistible, adorable, Baby Groot, who truly steals both the film and your heart. Star-Lord and Gamora do their “unspoken” thing, enemies become allies, and family takes a focal point. It’s about sisters, fathers and sons, and the surrogate families we create – it’s a beautiful thing. Returning director James Gunn knows this world. He’s one of the misfits, and while not every bit lands, he has made a visual and verbal feast with a sincerity of spirit that speaks to us all.

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the ADViCE GOddESS Silicone Valley

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: I’m a guy who hates fake boobs. I’ve dumped women I really liked upon discovering they have them. Total dealbreaker for me. However, I obviously can’t just ask whether a woman has them.

What should I do? I don’t want to waste my time or hers.

— Real Deal

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: Right. Not exactly a first-date question: “So…did you get your boobs from your mom’s side of the family or from some doc’s Yelp review?”

Your aversion to counterfitties doesn’t come out of nowhere. Breast implants are a form of “strategic interference,” evolutionary psychologist David Buss’ term for when the mating strategies of one sex are derailed by the other. Women, for example, evolved to seek “providers” — men with high status and access to resources. A guy engages in strategic interference by impressing the ladies with his snazzy new Audi — one he pays for by subletting a “condo” that’s actually the backyard playhouse of the rotten 8-yearold next door.

A woman doesn’t need an Audi (or even a bus pass) to attract men. She just needs the features that men evolved to go all oglypants for — like youth, an hourglass bod, big eyes, full lips, and big bra puppies.

Men aren’t attracted to these features just becuz. Biological anthropologist Grazyna Jasienska finds that women with big (natural!) boobs have higher levels of the hormone estradiol, a form of estrogen that increases a woman’s likelihood of conception. Women with both big boobs and a small waist have about 30 percent higher levels — which could mean they’d be about three times as likely to get pregnant as other women. So, big fake boobs are a form of mating forgery — like a box supposedly containing a high-def TV that actually contains a bunch of no-def bricks.

There are some telltale signs of Frankenboobs, like immunity from gravity. Women with big real boobs have bra straps that could double as seat belts and bra backs like those lumbar support belts worn by warehouse workers. However, an increasing number of women have more subtle implants (all the better to strategically interfere with you, my dear!). Though you might get the truth by teasing the subject of plastic surgery into conversation, you should accept the reality: You may not know till you get a woman horizontal — and the sweater Alps remain so high and proud you’re pretty sure you see

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: I went out with this guy twice. He was really effusive about how much he liked me and how we had the beginnings of something awesome. He seemed sincere, so I ended up sleeping with him, and then, boom. He vanished. Was he just telling me he was into me to get me in the sack? I can’t imagine ever doing that to somebody.

— Integrity

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: A guy’s “I really care about you” makes a woman feel that he’s got a real reason for being there with her — beyond how the neighbor’s goat’s a surprisingly fast runner.

Men evolved to be the worker bees of sex — the wooers of the species, trying to sell women on their level of love and commitment with mushy talk and bunches of carats. Women generally don’t need to work to get sex; they just need to let men know they’re willing — which is why around Valentine’s Day, you don’t hear the tool-time version of those Kay Jewelers commercials, reminding the ladies, “Every kiss begins with a circular saw!”

This difference aligns with what evolutionary psychologist David Buss calls men’s and women’s conflicting “sexual strategies” —in keeping with how getting it on can leave a woman “with child” and a man with a little less semen. Accordingly, Buss finds that women are more likely to be “sexual deceivers” — to dangle the possibility of sex to get a favor or special treatment from a man. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to be “commitment deceivers.” In Buss’ lab, when the researchers asked 112 college dudes about whether they’d “exaggerated the depth of their feelings for a woman in order to have sex with her, 71 percent admitted to having done so, compared with only 39 percent of the women” who were asked whether they’d done that sort of thing.

Knowing the different ways men and women deceive and are prone to be deceived is the best way to avoid being a victim of that deception. Borrow a motto from Missouri, the Show Me State. And note that this “show me” thing takes time.

Wait to have sex until you’ve been around a guy enough to see that he’s got something behind those flowery word s— beyond how getting you into bed is preferable to staying home, dressing his penis in a tiny cape, and playing video games.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When I grow up, I’m not sure

what I want to be.” Have you ever heard that thought bouncing around your mind, Gemini? Or how about this one: “Since I can’t decide what I want to be, I’ll just be everything.” If you have been tempted to swear allegiance to either of those perspectives, I suggest it’s time to update your relationship with them. A certain amount of ambivalence about commitment and receptivity to myriad possibilities will always be appropriate for you. But if you hope to fully claim your birthright, if you long to ripen into your authentic self, you’ll have to become ever-more definitive and specific about what you want to be and do.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take your seasick

pills. The waves will sometimes be higher than your boat. Although I don’t think you’ll capsize, the ride may be wobbly. And unless you have waterproof clothes, it’s probably best to just get naked. You WILL get drenched. By the way, don’t even fantasize about heading back to shore prematurely. You have good reasons to be sailing through the rough waters. There’s a special “fish” out there that you need to catch. If you snag it, it will feed you for months -- maybe longer.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you chose me as

your relationship guide, I’d counsel you and your closest ally to be generous with each other; to look for the best in each other and praise each other’s beauty and strength. If you asked me to help foster your collaborative zeal, I’d encourage you to build a shrine in honor of your bond -- an altar that would invoke the blessings of deities, nature spirits, and the ancestors. If you hired me to advise you on how to keep the fires burning and the juices flowing between you two, I’d urge you to never compare your relationship to any other, but rather celebrate the fact that it’s unlike any other in the history of the planet.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Milky Way

Galaxy contains more than 100 billion stars. If they were shared equally, every person on Earth could have dominion over at least 14. I mention this because you’re in a phase when it makes sense for you to claim your 14. Yes, I’m being playful, but I’m also quite serious. According to my analysis of the upcoming weeks, you will benefit from envisaging big, imaginative dreams about the riches that could be available to you in the future. How much money do you want? How much love can you express? How thoroughly at home in the world could you feel? How many warm rains would you like to dance beneath? How much creativity do you need to keep reinventing your life? Be extravagant as you fantasize.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Cancerian

myself, I’ve had days when I’ve stayed in bed from morning to nightfall, confessing my fears to my imaginary friends and eating an entire cheesecake. As an astrologer, I’ve noticed that these blue patches seem more likely to occur during the weeks before my birthday each year. If you go through a similar blip any time soon, here’s what I recommend: Don’t feel guilty about it. Don’t resist it. Instead, embrace it fully. If you feel lazy and depressed, get REALLY lazy and depressed.

Literally hide under the covers with your headphones on and feel sorry for yourself for as many hours as it takes to exhaust the gloom and emerge renewed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the early days of the

Internet, “sticky” was a term applied to websites that were good at drawing readers back again and again. To possess this quality, a content provider had to have a knack for offering text and images that web surfers felt an instinctive yearning to bond with.

I’m reanimating this term so I can use it to describe you. Even if you don’t have a website, you now have a soulful adhesiveness that arouses people’s urge to merge. Be discerning how you use this stuff. You may be stickier than you realize!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Ancient Mayans

used chili and magnolia and vanilla to prepare exotic chocolate drinks from cacao beans. The beverage was sacred and prestigious to them.

It was a centerpiece of cultural identity and an accessory in religious rituals. In some locales, people were rewarded for producing delectable chocolate with just the

right kind and amount of froth. I suspect, Virgo, that you will soon be asked to do the equivalent of demonstrating your personal power by whipping up the best possible chocolate froth. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, the chances are good you’ll succeed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you have your visa

for the wild side? Have you packed your bag of tricks? I hope you’ll bring gifts to dispense, just in case you’ll need to procure favors in the outlying areas where the rules are a bit loose. It might also be a good idea to take along a skeleton key and a snake-bite kit.

You won’t necessarily need them. But I suspect you’ll be offered magic cookies and secret shortcuts, and it would be a shame to have to turn them down simply because you’re unprepared for the unexpected.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re like a

prince or princess who has been turned into a frog by the spell of a fairy tale villain. This situation has gone on for a while. In the early going, you retained a vivid awareness that you had been transformed.

But the memory of your origins has faded, and you’re no longer working so diligently to find a way to change back into your royal form. Frankly, I’m concerned. This horoscope is meant to remind you of your mission. Don’t give up! Don’t lose hope! And take extra good care of your frog-self, please.

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

might have ideas about you that are at odds with how you understand yourself. For example, someone might imagine that you have been talking trash about them -- even though you haven’t been. Someone else may describe a memory they have about you, and you know it’s a distorted version of what actually happened. Don’t be surprised if you hear even more outlandish tales, too, like how you’re stalking Taylor Swift or conspiring with the One World Government to force all citizens to eat kale every day. I’m here to advise you to firmly reject all of these skewed projections. For the immediate future, it’s crucial to stand up for your right to define yourself -- to be the final authority on what’s true about you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “God

doesn’t play dice with the universe,” said Albert Einstein. In response, another Nobel Prizewinning physicist, Niels Bohr, said to Einstein, “Stop giving instructions to God.” I urge you to be more like Bohr than Einstein in the coming weeks, Capricorn. As much as possible, avoid giving instructions to anyone, including God, and resist the temptation to offer advice.

In fact, I recommend that you abstain from passing judgment, demanding perfection, and trying to compel the world to adapt itself to your definitions. Instead, love and accept everything and everyone exactly as they are right now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lysistrata is a

satire by ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes.

It takes place during the war between Athens and Sparta. The heroine convinces a contingent of women to withhold sexual privileges from the soldiers until they stop fighting. “I will wear my most seductive dresses to inflame my husband’s ardor,” says one. “But I will never yield to his desires. I won’t raise my legs towards the ceiling. I will not take up the position of the Lioness on a Cheese Grater.” Regardless of your gender, Aquarius, your next assignment is twofold: 1. Don’t be like the women in the play. Give your favors with discerning generosity.

2. Experiment with colorful approaches to pleasure like the Lioness with a Cheese Grater, the Butterfly Riding the Lizard, the Fox Romancing the River, and any others you can dream up.

“Jonesin” Crosswords "You Say You Want a Revolution"--it's your turn. by Matt Jones ACROSS 1 Like “der” words, in Ger. 5 “48 Hours Investigates” host Lesley 10 Bus route 14 Palindromic Italian digit 15 Jason who will play Aquaman in 2018 16 Ride-sharing app 17 “Va-va-___!”

18 Bring together 19 “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” spinoff 20 Character on a cel 23 “Unleaded” drink 24 Maker of Centipede 25 Takes much too seriously, for short?

26 “Carmen” highlight, e.g.

30 Some Italian models 33 Third-generation actress who co-starred in “Jackie Brown” 36 “The Secret ___ Success” 39 “Fences” star Davis 40 “Back in the ___” (Beatles tune) 41 Did some birthday prep work, maybe 44 Bicycle shorts material 45 Sacred promise 46 Trucker’s compartment 49 Civic’s make 52 Like theremin noises, usually 54 Toys that are making the rounds in 2017 news?

58 Waitstaff’s handout 59 Crowdfunding targets 60 Moore of both “The Scarlet Letter” and “Striptease” 61 Baldwin with a recent stint on “SNL” 62 “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” author Mitch 63 Page for pundit pieces 64 Prior 65 Huge amounts 66 Cubs Hall of Famer Sandberg

DOWN 1 Name in men’s watches 2 Made amends

3 Zeno’s followers 4 “Girl, Interrupted” character?

5 Blue matter 6 Quality of voice 7 Enclosed in 8 Labor leader Jimmy who mysteriously disappeared 9 ___ on thick (exaggerate) 10 Extravagant 11 Portuguese, by default 12 “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Leakes 13 “___ Yes!” (1970s political placard) 21 Way out there 22 Angler’s spear 27 Break apart 28 “Oops! ... ___ It Again” 29 Disco-era term meaning “galore” 31 Six-pointers, briefly 32 Saloth ___ (Pol Pot’s birth name) 33 Secondary result of a chemical reaction 34 Film director Kazan 35 The last U.S. president with a prominent mustache 36 X, of Twitch’s “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” marathon, e.g.

37 “Frizzle ___” (1990 Primus album) 38 Electric can openers and pencil sharpeners, e.g.

42 Guilty feeling 43 Nostalgic time, perhaps 46 Like porcelain dolls you just know are staring right at you 47 Fly guys 48 Compared with 50 “L’Absinthe” painter 51 Lagoon surrounder 53 “Return of the Jedi” moon 54 Afrobeat composer Kuti 55 “QuiÈn ___?” (“Who knows?”)

56 “Call Mr. ___, that’s my name, that name again is Mr. ___” (jingle from one of Homer Simpson’s business ventures) 57 Unspecified philosophies 58 It might cover the continent

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