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

The Art of Racing on the Bay...........................10 Achtung, Baby!................................................14 An Alpine Tradition...........................................15 Lauren Duski’s Journey.....................................24 Vibrant Venetian...............................................20 Escape the Cabin.............................................21 Horse Magic....................................................23 Seen...............................................................24

dates..............................................25-28 music Alpine Audio.................................................12 FourScore......................................................29 Nightlife........................................................32

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letters Oppose Healthcare Bill

I strongly oppose the Senate healthcare bill because it robs a person’s peace of mind.

All Americans should have access to proper healthcare and medications, not just the wealthy and members Of Congress. Please vote “no” on the proposed bill.

Rosemarie Werner, Standish

Food For Thought

* Why are there 40 million poor people in the U.S.? * Politics should be about the improvement of people’s lives. * Future “Pure Michigan” ads: “No Sharks in the Great Lakes.” * Why won’t insurance companies pay for medical marijuana? * Why don’t hospitals have toilets that rinse and dry you? This could help eliminate the dreaded C-Diff, which is prevalent in hospitals and waiting rooms. * Where are Trump’s taxes? * To have voted for Trump and admit it was a mistake is a sign of intelligence. To say he’s doing a good job is a sign of being deaf and dumb or just stupid. * Vote Republican and you support corporations and banks. * Social security is based on the principle of solidarity. * Noam Chomsky says, “Democracy is when every free citizen has authority. Oligarchy is when the rich have it.” * The Powell Memorandum sent to the Chamber of Commerce warns, “Business is losing control over the society and something has to be done to counter these forces.” * From the Greenspan economy “Keep workers insecure. They are easier to control.” * The Koch brothers and their minions are evil and greedy. Foundations and trusts can be evil tools. Again, “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer is a must read for the sake of your children, grandchildren and our planet. * They’ve taken our 7th Amendment right away and most don’t even realize it.

David L. Petty, Charlevoix

Real Truth In Kalkaska

In my opinion, people were very unfair to Kalkaska Village President Jeff Sieting. These two writers never write about the actions of the far left. It is not like Mr. Sieting is a shooting Republican members of Congress or shutting down free speech at colleges and town halls across America.

Columnist Steve Tuttle compared Mr. Sieting to an Islamic jihadist, and Ms. Minervini believes he is doing great harm to the Village of Kalkaska. I wish these two writers would spend more time exposing their own far left. They have no understanding of Kalkaska Village politics. Kalkaska taxpayers allowed 25 years of good ol’ boy politics. Their seven-man police department was making over 3,500 traffic stops a year. You guessed it; the good ol’ boys didn’t get tickets. Only the down-and-out and tourist did. The police were proud of making 400 snowmobile stops one weekend. This is what did harm to the Village of Kalkaska. They are retired now, and their golden health benefits are now bankrupting the Village.

We also had a county prosecutor from 1996 to 2012 who encouraged the police to bring more cases to feed his ego. I wish Mr. Tuttle and Ms. Minervini would write about this. Ms. Minervini boldly predicts that he will not get re-elected; I predict Mr. Seiting will, because he will run unopposed. The good ol’ boy politics of 25 years has dug a hole too deep for anyone else to want the job. The voters can only blame themselves; I predicted in 1993 in the local newspaper that 21 full-time employees would bankrupt the Village.

The good ol’ boys weren’t being hunted for 25 years by Village police like I was for trying do away with their jobs.

Harold Eickholt, Kalkaska

One-Sided Media

I think the national media has put a racial divide in this country we haven’t seen since the ’50s. One-sided reporting, staging protests, all out lying. The national media has been caught doing all of it, so, their credibility has as much weight with me as the news on “Saturday Night Live.”

I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist, but it seems to be reported on one side, which has led to the deaths of innocent police officers who were just trying to protect everyone, regardless of race or religion.

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A DEAR JOHN LETTER TO CNN opinion

BY Mary Keyes Rogers Dear CNN, I think we both know it’s over. After 37 years together, I’m leaving you.

my Aaron was too cerebral for the younger demographic you sought. News for grownups was over.

This shouldn’t come as a complete surprise.

You must have noticed that I’ve been avoiding you and, on those rare times when we are together, you must have detected the look of disgust and contempt in my eyes. Our current relationship is exhausting me, disturbing my sleep, filling my thoughts with fear and hate. I want to love you, yet like an addict, I have kept coming back for more.

2007 You hired Kathy Griffin to join Anderson Cooper’s New Year’s Eve Live. Enough said.

Ours has become, dare I say, an unhealthy relationship? It is over.

What makes this so difficult for me is that we have history. Do you remember that day in 1980 when Bernard Shaw introduced us? I was only 17, but I knew with all my heart that you would be a significant part of my life. You assured me that you would always be there for me, in good times and in bad, 24/7, and you kept that promise.

My dear, looking back, I can’t help but feel nostalgic:

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1986 You brought me and the nation to tears reporting on the space shuttle Challenger disaster. You taught me everything I ever needed to know about O-ring failure.

1987 We were inseparable for 60 hours while clinging on to the last morsels of hope that Baby Jessica McClure would be rescued from that Texas well.

1991 You really hit your groove in the first Gulf War when Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett, and John Holliman were the only journalists in place to report live during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing from the darkness inside the al-Rashid hotel in Baghdad. I was so proud of you for your fearless dedication to news coverage.

2010 Honey, you became stubborn. Everyone told you that Piers Morgan was not fit to replace Larry King. You lost touch. You stopped listening.

Now, in the heat of this 2017 summer, my sense of embarrassment and need to distance myself from you has grown into anger and disgust.

You have lost your way, taken advantage of your power, and are damaging my country.

How do I loathe you? Let me count the ways: 1. Had you stuck to journalism instead of chasing ratings, Donald Trump’s campaign never would have been taken seriously nor received the grotesque abundance of coverage you gave it. I hold you responsible for his election.

2. You cover non-news to the point that it becomes news. A suggestion for you: Rather than devoting hours and days of panel discussions pointing out the ridiculousness of our president’s tweets, don’t cover them.

3. You fail to accept that the 2016 election is over. You promote your town hall meetings as if Senator Sanders and Governor Kasich were going to cage fight.

4. You currently have 56 political contributors on your payroll. I have no interest in nine biased talking heads simultaneously spouting opinions instead of facts.

5. Your standard for “breaking news” has never been lower. Hey — breaking news: I just ate a sandwich!

6. Trust me, we are not experiencing a daily constitutional crisis.

1994–95 O.J. Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. From the white Bronco pursuit to “If The Glove Doesn’t Fit,” you had me in the palm of your hand.

7. I don’t look to you for the history of comedy, Anthony Bourdain, or Mike Rowe.

1997 My husband was out of town, and I turned to you late at night from the loneliness of my bed. Princess Diana’s vehicle had been involved in a crash. We spent the night together, with the dawn’s first light bringing the confirmation of her death. I cried, and you stayed with me.

How to win me back:

2000 This was the first time I left you. Your screen clutter, like a teenage boy’s acne, just turned me off. So I, in turn, turned you off.

2001 I came back to you when my sister-inlaw phoned on the morning of September 11, hysterically insisting I return to you immediately.

Aaron Brown held me in the warm embrace of his humanity declaring, “There are no words” as the second tower fell. It was his first day broadcasting live, on the saddest and scariest day of my life. He got me through it.

2003 You replaced Aaron’s nightly anchor spot with Anderson Cooper 360, claiming

8. You fail to deliver the news.

I need journalism. Hard (fact-checked) news, investigative stories, with a smattering of human interest coverage that reassures me there is still some good in this world. I want a baby in a well that pulls the country together.

I miss quirky news about singing cowboys, karaoke cabs, and ice hotels. More than that, I am looking for coverage of prison reform, the epidemic of mental illness, innovations in the senior care industry, and progress in campaign finance reform, just for starters.

You will ask, “Is there somebody else?” Alas, no. I don’t know where I’ll go or whom I’ll turn to for news. I just know that you and I are done.

Mary Keyes Rogers is a Traverse City resident, business consultant, speaker, writer, and Experience 50 podcaster. mary@experience50.com

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Survey Says: TC Most Expensive Worth packing a picnic: Traverse City vocal dynamo Miriam Pico performs a free concert on the lawn at the GT Pavilions on Thursday, July 13, 7pm. Gtpavilions.org

Time to Ride Around Torch What’s the most expensive resort destination in the Midwest? Traverse City, according to a recent survey of hotel prices.

Rooms in Traverse City cost an average of $221, according to a survey of rates listed on Kayak.com by chicagohotels.org. Travel & Leisure magazine published the findings in June and noted that the average price of a hotel room in Michigan is a few pennies over $100 per night.

The survey looked at the minimum average price offered in July and August for a double room at centrally located hotels in cities where at least 10 hotels were listed.

Traverse City is one of nine Michigan cities among the 20 deemed the most expensive in the Midwest. The others are Marquette, Ann Arbor, South Haven, Grand Rapids, Mackinaw City, Detroit, Lansing, and St. Ignace. Mackinac Island is not on the list, but that’s not because rooms there are cheap — the island’s hotel rooms are not available on Kayak.

bottomsup Tropical Wines at The Rusty Pelican Traditionally, our fave way to savor summer is with northern Michigan-made wine. But if you’re looking to sip something a little more southern, you’ll find that, too, at Gaylord’s Rusty Pelican Wine Shop.

Owners Mike and Cassie Meredith — both Michigan natives — round out their inventory of Michigan wines with a little something for the snowbird set: vino that hails from Florida.

Among their favorite makers featured? Florida Orange Groves Winery in St. Petersburg, Fla., a third-generation, family-owned outfit known for its fruit wines.

“They don’t use juice or concentrates, and they’re not just diluted grape wines with flavors added — they’re all made from raw fruit,” said Mike Meredith. “Turning the tropical fruits into wine uses a similar fermenting process to regular wine made with grapes, except the tropical fruits are so sugary, they don’t have to add sugar, like you do with regular wine.”

The shop’s tropical wines selection includes Florida Sunset Pineapple; King Kiwi; and Florida Fever, a passion-fruit wine.

Two of particular note are the Coco Polada and the Florida Banana. All taste best when served chilled.

“The Coco Polada wine tastes just like a piña colada,” Meredith said, “and it’s really festive, very beachy.”

The Florida Banana wine might seem like a complete contradiction, but Meredith assures it’s another fun summer beverage that will make you feel like you’re sitting right underneath a palm tree in the hot sun.

“That one smells and tastes just like a banana-flavored Runts candy,” he said, “it’s very unique and, again, very summery!”

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Northern Michigan’s biggest bike ride is about to return to the roads around Torch Lake.

Cherry Capital Cycling Club’s Ride Around Torch takes place Sunday, July 16, and will see cyclists crowd the roads of Antrim County as they take part in 26-, 40-, 63-, or 100-mile rides.

The event’s been going on since 1986, said Robert Downs, an avid cyclist and the club’s communications director. There are already 700 riders signed up for this year’s event. The ride attracted just over 1,000 cyclists last year.

“People love this tour because it runs along quiet roads along a very scenic route,” said Jim Mitchell, who’s winding up his fourth year as tour director. “Torch Lake is considered one of the top five prettiest lakes in Michigan, and we draw riders from all over, including the Sault, Canada, Toledo, and many from downstate.”

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NOT EVEN SANCHO PANZA spectator by stephen tuttle Some Democrats in Washington, always willing to engage in a little windmill tilting, are talking about impeaching President Donald Trump. Or, in lieu of that, invoking the 25th Amendment.

This is quixotic, a hopeless waste of time and energy. It’s easy to understand the Democrats’ angst, but those now posturing are on a fool’s errand. Their efforts would be better served elsewhere.

The Constitution calls for the impeachment of the president, vice president, or other civil officers for “ ... Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

It’s just an accusation. The House of Representatives investigates, starting with its judiciary committee. The full House debates the particulars and then votes, a majority being required for impeachment. That’s only the first step.

An actual trial then takes place in the Senate, presided over by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. A conviction requires a two-thirds vote by Senate.

So why would a president be impeached? Evidence of treason or bribery are the obvious offenses specified in the constitution; high crimes and misdemeanors is a little trickier.

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During the impeachment hearings of Richard Nixon (he resigned before the House voted), then-Congressman Gerald Ford was asked what constituted a high crime. He was much criticized for his completely honest and accurate answer. It is, he said — and this is likely a paraphrase — whatever Congress says it is.

the House and Senate don’t yet have any taste for an impeachment. The votes aren’t there to even hear an impeachment bill in committee if it was introduced.

That leaves the 25th Amendment as a backdoor approach for Democrats.

It wasn’t designed to rid us of a buffoon.

Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967, the 25th Amendment was created to fill a constitutional vacuum in the event the president became incapacitated and was unable to carry out his or her duties. The amendment answered a simple question: If the president is alive but unable to function, who’s in charge?

It can be implemented temporarily, as should have been the case when Ronald Reagan was shot and had to undergo surgery. But those events happened so quickly, the proper paperwork — there is a process involving letters to and response from Congress — was never filed.

It also allows the president to declare that he or she is, or will be, unable to carry out duties. A president anticipating surgery with more than a brief recovery or one enduring an illness with debilitating treatment could invoke the 25th Amendment. In such a circumstance, the president could return to office once whatever impediment existed is no longer an issue.

What legislators did not anticipate in 1967 was the 25th Amendment being used to simply oust a president due to poor performance. But neither did they preclude it.

Congress could, in fact, remove the president simply because it wants him removed.

Only two presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, have ever been impeached. Neither was convicted by the Senate, though Johnson narrowly escaped the ignominy.

The Democrat’s problem is that Trump’s boorishness has not yet stooped to a level justifying his ouster, at least via impeachment or the 25th Amendment.

Johnson was accused of violating the Tenure of Office Act, which had been enacted specifically to prevent Johnson from removing Abraham Lincoln’s appointees from office.

When Johnson tried, twice, to remove Edwin Stanton as secretary of war, he was impeached.

Yes, his tweets are full of ugliness and often untrue. His outbursts directed at hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe show, followed by a bizarre photo-shopped video of him at a wrestling event punching a person with a CNN logo superimposed on his head, are fine examples.

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Clinton, of course, was impeached for allegedly lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. There was never any chance there would be sufficient Senate votes for a conviction, but we were told there was a principle at stake.

They are typical of Trump’s penchant for juvenile personal insults of the sort you caution your eight-year-old against. Surely there will be more from a president who now claims these ad hominem attacks are him being “modern day presidential.”

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President Trump, so far as we know, has neither committed treason nor accepted bribes.

If he has, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into all things Trump and Russia likely will expose it.

The point is that even an offensive and unpopular Trump — his disapproval rating is 57 percent — is unlikely to be removed from office. The 2016 Democrat-election collapse cannot be so easily erased.

But mean Tweets, incompetence, misogyny, and ignorance are not generally considered impeachable offenses. And Republicans in

The Democrat dreamers can continue tilting at windmills if they want. But, for now, even Sancho Panza isn’t likely to join the fray.

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Crime & Rescue TC MAN KILLED IN CRASH A 19-year-old Traverse City man was thrown from his SUV when it rolled on a Kalkaska County road.

Gabriel Jasmin was driving his Ford Ranger at high speeds on Plum Valley Road July 4 when he drove off the pavement, overcorrected as he tried to regain control, and skidded back across the road, rolling over several times and crashing into trees.

Jasmin was not wearing a seatbelt, troopers from the Houghton Lake state police post said.

Emergency responders pronounced Jasmin dead at the scene. The crash happened at 3:51pm in Clear Water Township.

MAN ARRESTED AFTER STRUGGLE Deputies spotted a wanted man at a Wellston store and arrested him after a

scuffle.

Manistee County Sheriff’s deputies spotted 24-year-old Michael Dander, who was wanted on a warrant for stalking, at the Dollar General Store at 1:15pm July 3. They waited outside to arrest him, but when the Wellston resident didn’t emerge from the store, officers went in to get him; Dander struggled and managed to break free, running out of the store.

Deputies caught up to Dander in the parking lot, where he repeatedly kicked the deputies and allegedly bit one of in the arm. The deputies held Dander down until backup arrived.

Dander, who was checked out at Munson Manistee before he was jailed, now faces charges of resisting arrest and resisting arrest causing injury. Deputies also were treated and released for minor injuries.

MOTORCYCLIST KILLED ON I-75 A 65-year-old died after he crashed on I-75 in Crawford County.

Deputies were called to the crash near the Frederic exit, where they found the driver had suffered severe injuries, at 7:15pm July 3, Sheriff Kirk Wakefield said.

The Bannister man was taken to Grayling Munson, where he was pronounced dead.

WOMAN ACCUSED OF ROAD RAGE Police arrested a woman after an alleged cross-town road rage assault.

At 10:34pm July 1, police were called to the apartments at Fitzhugh Drive, and they arrested a 34-year-old Traverse City woman.

Her live-in boyfriend told officers that the woman had attempted to break into his car while he was in it and parked on the 400 block of 10th Street. When he drove away, he said she followed in her car and repeatedly crashed into his vehicle’s rear end, TCPD Capt. Keith Gillis said. No one was injured.

TEENAGER SERIOUSLY INJURED A teen driver suffered serious injuries after he failed to yield at an intersection near Mesick and drove into the path of

a semi.

Goodrich resident Reilly Shellenbarger failed to stop at M-37 from 16 Road, troopers from the Cadillac state police post said. The crash happened at 10:55am July 5.

Shellenbarger was taken by Mesick Rescue and North Flight EMS to Munson Medical Center and then transferred to Devos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids. The semi driver was not injured.

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SUTTONS BAY TEEN ASSAULTED A 21-year-old Suttons Bay man is accused of attempting to run down a teenager he’d been dating.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Herman Road in Suttons Bay after a witness saw a car almost strike a female July 1 at 8:24pm.

A deputy found the 17-year-old girl and secured her inside a patrol car. The deputy spotted the suspect, pulled over his vehicle, and arrested him.

The two had been at the National Cherry Festival, where the man had consumed alcohol and became intoxicated. When the girl decided she wanted out of the man’s vehicle, he became angry, pushed her to the ground, injuring her shoulder, and took her cellphone.

The suspect was arrested for domestic assault and operating with a high blood alcohol content.

The girl was treated at the scene by Suttons Bay/Bingham Fire and Rescue and taken to Munson Medical Center.

CAB DRIVER ASSAULTED A cab driver lost a tooth after he told a 35-year-old Traverse City man there was no room left in his taxi.

The taxi was parked on the 100 block of S. Union Street July 3 at 2am. When the suspect was told there was no room left in the cab, he got angry and slugged the driver, a 62-year-old Traverse City man, who lost a tooth in the assault.

The suspect fled on foot, but the carload of witnesses was able to identify the suspect, and a report was sent to prosecutors seeking charges, Traverse City Police Capt. Keith Gillis said.

WOMAN KILLED IN UTV CRASH A downstate woman was killed in an Antrim County UTV crash.

Deputies were called July 2 to Satterly Lake Road in Mancelona Township at 8:40pm where a 26-year-old Walled Lake woman had been thrown from a UTV as it rolled over. Kelsey Grace Liepa was pronounced dead at the scene. Liepa was not wearing a seatbelt and suffered a severe head injury.

The driver, 20-year-old Burt resident Stevie Ray Prottenger, was wearing a seatbelt and was not injured.

Prottenger told deputies that he had lost control of his 2004 Yamaha 660 Rhino on a curve, and the vehicle had flipped over.

WOMEN ARRESTED FOR DRUGS Two 19-year-olds were arrested for possession of marijuana and LSD after a Blair Township traffic stop.

A Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputy pulled over the women — one from Interlochen and one from Traverse City — after their car had swerved off M-37 several times near Vance Road. The deputy smelled pot in the vehicle, and a search turned up 10 grams of marijuana and a white powdery substance believed to be LSD. The traffic stop happened just after midnight July 6, and the women were taken to jail.

A charter boat found the body floating in the lake a mile and a half northwest of Leland July 4 at 10:11am.

The charter boat stayed with the body until authorities arrived; the body was transported to Kalamazoo for an autopsy, which determined the man likely had died of drowning.

An extensive search of the area found no other bodies or any wreckage. The man was between 55 and 70 years old, wore black sweatpants with two white stripes down the sides, a black jacket with white stripes on the arms, and white hightop tennis shoes. Authorities estimate the man had been in the water for at least several days but less than a week. Anyone with information should call (231) 256-8800.

EIGHT INJURED IN VAN CRASH A van carrying eight people from Detroit rolled over after its tire blew on US-131 near Cadillac.

Wexford County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the crash scene July 3 just before 10am and helped the occupants get to hospitals; none were thought to have life threatening injuries.

Five of the passengers were taken to Munson Cadillac, one was taken to Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, and one was flown to a hospital in Grand Rapids.

ID SOUGHT FOR BODY Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies are trying to learn the identity of a man found drowned in Lake Michigan.

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Ahhh....Summer

Tourists and father-son duos looking for out-of-this-world bonding experiences are paying up to $50,000 for the opportunity to “hunt” feral hogs from helicopters in Texas, sometimes using machine guns.

“There’s only so many places in the world you can shoot machine guns out of a helicopter and no one shoots back,” said HeliBacon company co-owner Chris Britt.

Texas passed the “pork-chopper” bill in 2011 allowing aerial hunting of feral hogs, and in May, legislators approved hunting from hot-air balloons, which are quieter and give hunters a steadier shot.

Pre-Existing Condition Enterprising mother Jeannine Isom in Cedar Hills, Utah, took her 7-year-old son’s dental care into her own hands in June when she purchased hand sanitizer and needlenose pliers at Walmart, then ushered her son into the store’s restroom and pulled out two of his teeth. Police were alerted after the boy’s older brother heard him screaming. The mother was charged with felony child abuse.

Sweet Revenge A frustrated victim of bedbugs in Augusta, Maine, reacted to city inaction by bringing a cup of bedbugs to a municipal office building and slamming it down on the counter, scattering about 100 insects and forcing the closure of several offices as officials scrambled to contain them. The apartment dweller had requested help finding other housing, but city officials told him he didn’t qualify.

Things We Didn’t Know We Needed Are cute vegetables easier to swallow? A Chinese company has developed fruit and vegetable molds that form growing foods into little Buddhas, hearts, stars and skulls.

Farmers afix the plastic molds over the stems of growing plants, and the fruit fills the mold as it grows. Some designs include words, and the company also offers custom molds.

Fashion Emergency French fashion label Y/Project, in an apparent response to the eternal question, “Do these jeans make my butt look big?” is selling buttless jeans. The waistband attaches to the legs of the jeans with a series of clasps and straps, so the pant legs hang loose on the wearer. The Detachable Button Down pants are priced at $570.

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Compelling Explanations College student Lydia Marie Cormaney almost made it out of a Gillette, Wyoming, Walmart with more than $2,000 worth of merchandise without paying for it. When police arrived, she was ready with a reason: She was doing research about kleptomania, which also explained the stockpile of stolen items in her dorm room. However, as she was enrolled in only a biology class at Gillette College, it was unclear what she planned to do with the results of her study.

-- The Happiest Place on Earth was a little less joyful for 17 visitors in June, when a hazardous materials team was dispatched to Main Street at Disneyland after park-goers reported being struck by feces. Experts quickly realized that rather than being victims of a bathroom bomber, the park guests had been regrettably positioned beneath a flock of geese flying overhead. The victims were ushered to a private restroom to clean up and were provided with fresh clothing.

-- Maintenance workers at the courthouse in Jonesboro, Arkansas, are fed up with people urinating in the elevators, especially considering

that restrooms are within spitting distance of the elevators. Craighead County officials hope to stem the tide with newly installed security cameras, which have caught three men in the act since their installation last fall.

Undignified Deaths Robert Dreyer, celebrating his 89th birthday, suffered no apparent injury when he crashed his car into a fire hydrant in Viera, Florida, in May. But as he got out of the car to check the damage, he drowned after being sucked into the hole by the strong water pressure where the hydrant had been. A bystander tried to rescue Dreyer, but couldn’t overcome the water pressure to reach him.

Frontiers of Marketing Male baseball fans attending the June 15 Jacksonville (Florida) Jumbo Shrimp minor league game were treated to a novel promotional giveaway: pregnancy tests. The “You Might Be a Father” promotion was conceived to help fans decide whether they should return for the Father’s Day game on Sunday, June 18.

People and Their Money -- Because leaving your falcon at home while you do errands is too painful, high-end automaker Bentley now offers a customized SUV featuring a “removable transportation perch and tether” for hunting birds and a wood inlay in the shape of a falcon on the dash. At a starting price of $230,000, the Bentayga Falconry also features a refreshment case and special compartments for bird hoods and gauntlets. “Falconry is regarded as the sport of kings in the Middle East, so it was vital that the kit we create ... appeal to our valued customers there and around the world,” noted Geoff Dowding with Bentley’s Mulliner division.

-- A stretch limo wasn’t posh enough for Saudia Shuler, a Philadelphia mom who wanted to make her son’s high school prom memorable.

Instead, she spent $25,000 creating a Dubaithemed prom night, including 3 tons of sand and a camel (for pre-prom photos). The lucky senior took not one but three dates to the dance, who along with him wore designer clothes and accessories. Shuler also sprang for a rented Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce and Range Rover.

Bright Ideas -- Japan’s Samurai Age store, which (naturally) offers novelty samurai apparel, is featuring a new line of samurai armor outfits for cats and dogs. The body armor is sized for small pets, but custom orders for larger sizes are possible, and can include a helmet and mask. (Samurai enthusiasts can also order armor for liquor bottles and dolls.)

-- Suspicions were aroused in New Hope, Alabama, when veteran mail carrier Susanna Burhans, 47, was seen throwing food at a dog along her route. On June 1, she was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after the dog’s owner found a nail-filled meatball near his house, and a subsequent X-ray revealed nails in its stomach. The USPS has put the mail carrier on non-duty status.

-- Thailand’s Scorpion Queen, who holds the Guinness World Record for holding a scorpion in her mouth (3 minutes and 28 seconds), shocked onlookers in June as she let scorpions crawl all over her body and in and out of her mouth as part of a show in Pattaya, a city on the Gulf of Thailand. Kanchana Kaetkaew also holds the record for co-habiting with 5,000 scorpions in a 12-meter-square glass enclosure for 33 days.

Many thanks to all of the our members, patrons, neighbors, coordinators & volunteers and the broader community for your overwhelming support this and every year preceding the 37th Annual Blissfest Folk & Roots Music Festival. You are Blissfest! Thank you! We are SOLD OUT for the 37th Annual Blissfest - there will be NO GATE SALES.

Blissfest Music Organization is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Our annual festival as our primary program service & fundraiser that allows us to meet our mission to “preserve traditions and promote innovators of American and worldwide music, arts & crafts and sustainable living skills through performance, education and community participation” through our concerts, dances, community outreach and events year-round!

Please join us the other 362 days of Blissfest!

Community Summer Music Programs

FALL CONCERT SERIES DATES

The Blissfest Music Organization supports many of the summer street music programs that are available throughout Northern Michigan, including Harbor Springs’ Street Musique, Boyne City’s Stroll the Streets Program and the Petoskey Charlotte Rose Lee Concerts in the Park Series.

There are many talented local artists showcased at these events, adding to the cultural opportunities for visitors coming to Northern Michigan and enhancing the quality of life for the community as a whole.

Oct. 28 • The Fitzgeralds: Family Folk Group featuring Fiddling & Step-Dancing

LIVE AT LEGS INN Our Roots Music schedule at the historic and unique Legs Inn in Cross Village, MI is all set to go! Music begins at around 9:00 pm.

For more information, visit www.legsinn.com FRI. JULY 21: A Spectacular Folk & Roots Extravaganza Featuring Kirby, Dr. Goodhart’s Home Remedy and the Bluegrass sounds of Thunderwüde.

SAT. AUG 19: Dr. Goodhart’s Home Remedy SAT. OCT 6: The Ben Daniels Band Kirby performs every Friday evening in the garden during the summer through Labor Day. Blissfest Concert Series The 2017/18 Concert Series at the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey, MI, along with some other local venues.

Sept 29 • Heywood Banks: Comedy Folkster

Nov. 3 • BeauSoleil at Beard’s Brewery: Grammy-Winning Cajun Powerhouse Nov. 11 • Steve Poltz: Unhinged Musical Genius - Blissfest Annual Membership meeting will precede the show.

Dec 16 • 12th Annual Solstice Show: Artists TBA. Our annual Solstice Show moves back to the Crooked Tree Arts Center and Carnegie Building this year.

Coming in 2018: The Waydown Wanderers, Jeremy Kittle Trio, James Hill, 10 Strings and a Goat Skin, Freddie and Francine.

Check Blissfest.org for artist information and details.

Special Blissfest Concerts and Events Aug. 7-11, 2017 • Blissfest Family Vacation: You are invited to spend a week at the Blissfest Farm with kindred spirits enjoying Northern Michigan. The schedule will be flexible, but it includes some morning workshops, afternoon free time to explore the area or the farm, and community events and activities in the evening. Join us for music, crafts, food and community.

Blissfest Farm to Table Dinners New this summer, Blissfest will host Farm to Table dinners at the farm. Featuring foods grown at the Blissfest and local area, plus some of our favorite Blissfest Alumni. Bring a bottle of wine and socialize at our quiet and secluded venue.

It’s a totally different experience without the festival. Social hour at 6:00 pm, dinner at 7:00 pm, and entertainment 8:30-10:00 pm.

Blissfest Dance Programs Old-Time Country Dance Series: Dances are held the first Saturday of the month at Red Sky Stage, in Petoskey, MI. The fall series begins October 7, 2017, and continues on the first Saturday of the month through the winter. The series features local and regional old-time bands with area callers. No experience or partner necessary. All dances are taught and families are encouraged to attend. $3/person, $5/couple and $7/family.

Aug. 8 • Mark Stuart: Mark is known for performances that blend clever storytelling with hot guitar licks. Stuart has played on a wide variety of stages, including Blissfest with his wife Stacey Earle. He has also been an instructor at Lamb’s Songwriters retreat.

The Up North Swing Band Swing Dance Series: Red Sky Stage in Petoskey, MI, is the venue for our swing dance series with The Up North Big Band. Complimentary dance lessons are provided prior to each scheduled dance. Basic swing, foxtrot, waltz and Latin styles are taught on a rotating basis. Check the Blissfest or Red Sky Stage web sites for dates and times.

Aug. 24 • Rebecca Loebe: Rebecca brings her audacious voice and Nashville sass to the farm for an intimate show.

Aug. 18 • Jack Williams: Jack performs his southern influenced musings and incredible stylings on guitar. A multiple Blissfest festival and concert series favorite.

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THE ART OF RACING ON THE BAY

Part art, part science, a night sailing with the Grand Traverse Yacht Club is nothing short of a truly northern experience.

Photos by Catherine Allchin

By Patrick Sullivan In the minutes leading up to the start of a Wednesday night sailboat race on West Grand Traverse Bay, the Grand Traverse Yacht Club’s longtime weekly tradition, vessels crowd together, each angling for an advantageous position on the water’s invisible starting line.

If you look out at the scene from shore, the cluster of boats and sails looks chaotic.

It looks even more so aboard one of them.

The Northern Express stowed away on the Rights of Mann, a 34-foot Sabre, for a midJune Wednesday night race. This is our story.

NO PLACE TO HIDE A little more than an hour before the race, the crew crowds on to the 1988 fiberglass craft, owned by Sam Bender, a New York City transplant whose accent betrays his East Coast origins.

The term “crowds” is apt, not because the boat is small, but because the crew includes extra people — at least a couple extra hands and a stray reporter. Unlike most Wednesdays, and perhaps owing to the perfect weather (72 degrees, sunny, light wind), everyone showed up, plus a couple more. It might not be great weather for a sailboat race, but it’s great weather to be on the bay.

Although an optimal crew would be five, including the skipper, Bender would not hear of leaving anyone at shore, even the stragglers who showed up at the last minute; they’re part of the crew, and they’ll be part of the crew this evening.

With eight people aboard, this reporter goes in search of a spot where he won’t be in the way but can still hear the lively backand-forth banter between Bender and his crew. That rules out the cozy cabin down below. The right spot turns out to be a corner near the stern, just to the side of the captain’s wheel. But that spot turns out to be evershifting, as weight needs to be moved from one side of the boat to the other.

“Tonight it might be nice to have extra bodies on the leeward side,” said Jed Mooney, a Grand Traverse Yacht Club board member who joined the Bender’s crew as a sort of sailing guru.

Translation: Every time the boat tacks, the dead weight hiding in the corner near the stern must squeeze to the other side of the boat while attempting to cause as little trouble as possible.

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the smallest — the Melges 24s, sleek white wedges that skim along the water with crews of three or four. The allure of racing Melges is that all of the boats are virtually identical, so the race is close to a true test of a crew’s sailing ability.

Next are two classes within theGrand Touring Fleet — larger sailboats that either sail with spinnakers, those bulbous sails that float out in front of their boats like Thanksgiving Day parade balloons, or with just jib and main sails. The spinnakers add considerable speed to their boats, so the crews that use them need more experience.

The Rights of Mann sails in the jib and main class.

“We signed up for the jib and main because we don’t have the experience, and it’s a little less complicated,” Bender said.

The Rights of Mann’s crew is not new to sailing or racing, but they are new to racing together, and that’s what presents the evening’s main challenge. Sails must be trimmed to the optimal tightness, turns must be carried off with as much efficiency as the crew can manage, and each movement of each crew member must be carefully orchestrated.

As the crews got ready to race, the jib and main boats motor out into the bay on diesel power, getting out to where the sails can be

raised.

When the motor is cut, the sails go up and, once the wind fills the sails, there is a palpable change in the propulsion of the craft. The boat leans into the water and picks up speed.

Six-or-so miles per hour have never felt so exhilarating.

It’s a light-wind evening, however, and that first gust would be the Rights’ strongest of the day. The crew tacks to turn back to the west and settles in to listen to instructions about the imminent race broadcast over the boat’s radio.

GETTING READY FOR A START Around 5:30pm, more than a half hour before the starting horn sounds, there’s a little time to sail around the bay and get a sense for what the wind is like. That means a series of tacks, a maneuver where the wheel is turned and the boat changes direction, moving the sails out of the wind so that they swing to the opposite side to find the wind again. For a crew that’s just getting used to working together, it’s a move that takes a few practice tries and some yelling above the wheezing of the winch before it starts to come off smoothly.

But this pre-race sail cannot take the boat just anywhere in the bay. First, each

crew has to be careful to stay out of the way of other sailboats. And, as 6pm approaches, the bay seemingly fills up with boats.

Suddenly they’re everywhere, traveling in all directions, and somehow they’re managing not to crash into each other. There is something beautiful in the improvised choreography, and it’s hard to imagine how it works in strong winds when every boat is sailing three or four times as fast.

And yet there is still another consideration as the seconds tick away toward the start time: All boats must keep an eye on the committee boat, which is already lined up with a buoy for the start of the Melges 24 races and soon will position itself elsewhere to send off the spinnaker class boats.

The invisible line between the committee boat and the appointed buoy make up the starting point of the race, a line that’ll earn you a penalty if you cross it before the race starts — but could earn you an edge if you’re just close enough when the starting horn sounds.

The timing is part art and part science, because getting a 34-foot hulk of fiberglass to slow down or speed up at the collective will of a crew who are not used to working together is a complicated matter — and one that requires lots of practice.

UP NORTH TRANSPLANT Bender and his wife, Susan, visited northern Michigan 30 years ago, and they liked the place. When they retired a couple years ago, they decided to move here almost out of the blue.

Bender said sailing was not what drew him to Traverse City, but once he got here, he couldn’t resist the allure.

“When I first moved here, I thought I would learn to play golf, but I opted for the boat instead,” he said.

In a way, Bender is both a seasoned sailor and a novice. He’d owned a boat years ago in New York and sailed on the Hudson River. When he got to northern Michigan, he applied for membership at the Grand Traverse Yacht Club, volunteered to pitch in, and found himself on some crews.

Last fall, he decided to bring a sailboat from Connecticut to northern Michigan.

“This is really my first season at it — we did a half season last year,” he said. “This is a new crew, and we just started working together.”

Slowly, he’s cobbled together a crew from people he met at the yacht club and people he met at the Newcomers’ Club of Grand Traverse.

“I know I’m not the best sailor. I know I’m not the fastest boat,” Bender said. “If we do well, we do well. I don’t want it to be a negative experience is the best way to put it.”

Sailing in this kind of race takes a captain who tells his crew what to do, but there’s a democratic atmosphere on Bender’s boat because everyone is learning their roles, and everyone is free to make suggestions.

“For my needs, I like to have people that are congenial. I’m not doing this to squabble and argue,” Bender said. “Sometimes I think maybe I’d just like to go cruising, but I like the excitement.”

“OTHER PEOPLE’S BOATS” When the horn sounds at 6:15pm, the Rights of Mann is in a good position, but soon finds itself calmed with several other

though, because of the inexperience of the crew. Bender said that over time the crew could develop and become more competitive.

Mooney said it is satisfying to help along a group of people who don’t have a lot of race experience.

Sailboat racing, really, is as old as sailing itself, he said. For centuries, sailing was the mode of transport in the world, and there was a real advantage in doing it well: Fishermen wanted to be the first to the fishing grounds and first back to port with the catch. That took good sailing skills.

“These sailors had to make their boats perform the best they could, and that was before racing,” he said. “Racing is just a development of that sort of attention to performance under sail.”

Allchin likes the temperament of the Isle of Mann’s crew members; they want to race as fast as they can, but they’re not consumed by the competition. boats between its sails and the wind. There isn’t that much wind to go around, and it’s going to be a slow race.

Mooney fell in love with sailing early and made a career out of it. He grew up in Gross Pointe and raced at yacht clubs there; he learned to sail at Camp Lookout, south of Frankfort.

He’s been a competitive sailor since junior high, and he’s raced the Bayview Port Huron to Mackinac sailboat race nine times and the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac six times.

“I just got hooked — I just started sailing and racing as much as I could,” Mooney said.

He owns a business, Mooney Marine Services, that does maintenance, repairs and custom rigging. The business grew out of his love of sailing.

“Basically the business came from helping the people who took me sailing maintain their boats as a thank you,” he said.

“I’m a proud member of the ‘other people’s boats’ yacht club.”

Mooney met Bender at the yacht club, and when Bender bought his boat last year, he asked Mooney to join his crew. In Mooney, Bender found a ringer. Over the years he’s been on crews that have dominated the Wednesday night races.

The experience on Rights is different,

THE PERSONALITY OF THE BOAT The race is made of up three legs that stretch between buoys set about a mile apart on the bay. Tonight’s race has a calm quality because the wind is so mild; sailing between these turns and around the buoys is smooth and uneventful. There’s time to talk and enjoy the scenery.

Crew member Bill Byrne started sailed competitively after college with friends at the Gross Isle Yacht Club.

In 2014, he moved to Traverse City to retire and decided to take up sailing again.

He bought a 19-foot sailboat and took classes. He met Bender at the Newcomers’ Club, and when Bender got his boat, Bender asked Byrne to join his crew.

Different crews include people of all ages and from diverse backgrounds. Byrne said it’s important to find the kind of crew that suits you.

“I think part of it is kind of the combined personality of the boat, the way people’s personalities mesh on the boat,” he said.

“You’re under a little bit of strain, especially when you’re racing, and you’ve got to click as a group.”

Byrne said it’s not the speed that he finds alluring, it’s the character of the motion.

“What’s really kind of captured me — sailboats don’t go very fast, relative to power

boats, but you’re much closer to the water,” Byrne said. “When the boat’s heeled over, and the water starts to flow over the side, there’s that sensation of speed that kind of gives you that exhilarating feeling. It’s the wind against the sails. It’s the tension on the lines, on the sheets. It’s all of that that starts to get into play.”

RELATIVE CALM The relative peace of the sailboat race this Wednesday stands in stark contrast to what the crew experienced a week earlier, when they found themselves in the path of a quickly approaching thunderstorm. The crew could see the storm barreling in from the western horizon as they raced.

“It was pretty impressive,” said Catherine Allchin, a seasoned sailor from Suttons Bay who was invited to lend some experience to Bender’s boat. “It was like we were trying to beat the storm, you know? And we got into shore, and the rains hit. We were just deluged right as we got the boat tied up, so it was good timing.”

Some of the crew, like Allchin, have been yacht club members for years, and they’ve jumped from boat to boat. Others simply show up and walk on to any crew that’ll take them.

The week before, Allchin said a young man who’d learned to sail when he was little showed up at the yacht club. Mooney had invited him to join his crew, but when the evening arrived, Bender learned of another boat that was short-handed, so they sent the young man there.

Everyone was happy to see the kid came back the next week to race on the same boat.

“He’s like, ‘Hey, I really want to sail,’” Allchin said.

You don’t necessarily need sailing experience to show up and sail, though it helps. What you do need is a strong desire and willingness to learn.

“If you let them know at the yacht club that you’re interested and want to be on a crew, they’ll do their best to help you get on a boat,” Allchin said.

Allchin likes the temperament of the Isle of Mann’s crew members; they want to race as fast as they can, but they’re not consumed by the competition.

“There are those who really thrive on the winning aspect and being very competitive, and then there are those who want to go out and do the best that they can,” she said. “In my lifetime, I have raced aggressively, and I enjoy being on a boat where people want to learn and where you’re passing it on.”

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2017 ALPINE AUDIO

Nagata Shachu • July 15

Amos Lee with special guest Bailen • July 22

Chris Janson with special guest Davisson Brothers Band • July 25

Don’t Miss the Music of Alpenfest

By Kristi Kates

Danish String Quartet • July 28

Salt-N-Pepa with Tone Lōc • Aug. 10 BATA shuttle info: Pick-up at Hall Street transfer location and Grand Traverse Mall, non-stop service to Interlochen, non-stop return service to Traverse City after the concert for $5 per person. Reservations required, more info at BATA.net or by calling 231.941.2324.

THESE PERFORMANCES AND MANY MORE!

If you’re a fan of free live music, the Pontresina Entertainment Tent at Gaylord’s Alpenfest (July 11–15) is the place to be. “We’ve got more entertainment than we’ve ever had before this year,” said Paul Beachnau, the executive director for the Gaylord Area Tourism Bureau. “We’ve really beefed up our music schedule this year, adding a great Christian band, some country, some soul music, and more — we try to have a wide range of music so there will be something that everyone will like.

And it’s all free, so you won’t go broke having fun!” Here’s a look at some highlights of this year’s music schedule.

CITIZEN WAY Tuesday July 11 Faith-based pop-rock outfit Citizen Way hails from Illinois, bringing together two sets of brothers to offer up radio- and familyfriendly tracks like it’s two most recent singles, this year’s “I Will” and “Bulletproof.”

The band is best known for its expansive anthems and pop ballads, and having toured for years, puts on a well-seasoned live show.

Neshema, a fellow Christian band that offers a mix of acoustic folk, bluegrass, and country sounds, will open.

Neshema opens at 6:55pm at the Jay’s Sporting Goods Main Stage; Citizen Way plays at 8pm at the Jay’s Sporting Goods Main Stage.

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ENDLESS SUMMER BAND Wednesday July 12 The perfect fit for a multigenerational crowd, the Endless Summer Band is a 10-member ensemble with a crazy amount of musical range. Its setlist includes everything from Beyonce and The B-52s to Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi, Usher, and Santana. “They’re a lot of fun, very energetic, and they play all the big hits,” Beachnau said. The Eric Neubauer Ensemble, aka Die Dorfmusikanten (German for ‘town band’) will perform its authentic Bavarian music late Wednesday afternoon before the Endless Summer set.

Eric Neubauer Ensemble plays at 5pm at the UnitedHealthCare Pavilion; Endless Summer Band plays at 8pm on the main stage.

DREW HALE Thursday July 13 Texas native Drew Hale hails from Traverse City, but the country singer has made a big impression on Nashville, having recently won Music City’s big Country Showdown competition, a grand prize that not only snagged him some pretty great award money but also gave him a leg up on his country music career and put him on stage alongside the likes of Dierks Bentley and Tim McGraw. Big Daddy Lackowski and the La Dee Das, a popular Polish polka band, will get things started a little earlier in the day.

Big Daddy Lakowski plays at 5pm at the Pavilion on Court (corner of Main and South Court streets); Drew Hale plays at 8pm on the main stage.

MEGA 80S Friday July 14 After judges choose the 2017 festival queen at the Queen’s Pageant, the whole festival will celebrate with the music of the Mega ’80s, a Detroit band that not only dedicates itself to accurately reproducing that inimitable ’80s sound and look but also has snagged several Detroit-area awards for best cover band. Also on Friday (noon– 2pm), you can grab a mic and showcase your own talent at the Alpenfest Idol competition’s auditions.

The Queen’s Pageant hits the main stage at 5:30pm; the Mega ’80s take over at 8pm.

PHASE 5 MOTOWN REVIEW Saturday July 15 Bringing the best of authentic Motor City sounds Up North, the Phase 5 Motown Review brings together five standout vocalists to interpret a familiar roster of Motown soul, complete with on-stage choreography and flashy outfits. Local favorites the Gaylord Community Band will get its moment in the spotlight before the Motown show. Alpenfest Idol finals also happen on Saturday.

Alpenfest Idol finals take place at 3pm at the UnitedHealthCare Pavilion; Gaylord Community Band follows at 6pm. The Phase 5 Motown Review will take the main stage at 7pm.

For a complete Alpenfest schedule including these performers and more, visit gaylordalpenfest.com.

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Tuesday, July 25 - 7:00 pm The Charm Bracelet & The Hope Chest 2017 Michigan Notable Book Award

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Achtung, Baby!

Top Ten Reasons to Alpenfest

By Kristi Kates Wilkommen one and all to the 2017 Gaylord Alpenfest (July 11–15), the trademark summer celebration of the Up North destination that claims the title of Michigan’s Alpine Village. Chock full of food, music, and activities for people of all ages, the city’s nummer eins (aka No. 1) festival can overwhelm even the hardiest Alpen soul. To help you focus your festival to-do list, we’ve tallied up the top ten reasons to yank on your lederhosen and go.

Eins: Alpine Ambiance

The quaint architecture of Gaylord’s downtown, replete with Tyrolean flourishes and finishes (think: chalet-style facades and ornate, carved balconies and trim) transports you as close as you can get to Germany and Austria’s alps, without ever having to leave the state. And while Gaylord’s Alpine ambiance in the winter is magnified thanks to all of that mid-state snow, in the summer you can enjoy a similar Austrian feel — sans heavy boots and coats, which makes Alpenfest a much more relaxing vacation escape. Find It: Gaylord is located just off I-75, 58 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.

Zwei: Alpenfest Grand Parade

The big, boisterous Alpenfest grand parade offers over 90 entries and plenty of music and is known for combining a respectful homage to Gaylord’s alpine heritage with a fun sense of humor. This means you’ll see witty takes on local culture and characters (like the glockenspiel kids from Gaylord’s own Glockenspiel clock) right alongside more refined traditions like the Alpenfest Queen and her court, plus a variety of carefully-crafted float entries

from local businesses. Find It: The parade starts at noon, Saturday, July 15, launching from Illinois Avenue and traveling down Main Street to its end at the Otsego Country Library.

Drei: World’s Largest Coffee Break

At what Alpenfest claims is the “World’s Largest Coffee Break,” 50 gallons of coffee are brewed up in a huge kettle for a communal (and free) coffee klatch featuring one very American side: donuts. It’s a great way to mingle with your Gaylord neighbors and meet some new friends. Find It: At the Pavilion on Court, located at the corner of Main and South Court streets, starting at 9:30am, July 12.

Vier: Alpenfest Costume Contest

Enthusiastic Gaylordians in lederhosen, dirndl folk dresses, alpine vests, and felt hats march through town for the Alpenfest Costume Contest, a walking parade of friends, neighbors, and Alpenfest enthusiasts that’s as much a fashion event as it is a traditional gathering. Honors are awarded for best-dressed individual, family, and kid at this photo-worthy event sponsored

by Arlene’s Diner. Find It: The event starts at 8:30am, July 12, launching from Family Fare supermarket (829 W. Main St.) and progressing down Main Street.

Fünf: Classic Car and Truck Show

Now in its second year, the Alpenfest car and truck show showcases classic hot rods, cruisers, vintage vehicles, trucks, and more.

More than 30 car show categories and awards give participants plenty of opportunity for bragging rights, too. Find It: At Court and First streets, 1pm–4pm, July 15.

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Sechs: Ethnic Alley

While we’re not ones to sneeze at a perfectly good corn dog or elephant ear, Alpenfest’s Ethnic Alley is offering up some more atypical festival foods that draw from a range of ethnic influences, including traditional Polish, Mexican, and Italian fare. To add to the fun, each day of Alpenfest will pair a band with its selected cuisine (for instance, German bratwurst with Bavarian folk music). And keep an eye out for the chicken-and-dumplingsoup-sampling events, at which you can snag a cup of free hot and hearty soup. Find It: Next to the Pavilion on Court.

Sieben: Alpenstrasse

During Alpenfest, Main Street is closed to traffic and becomes the Alpenstrasse (alpine road), a Tyrolean marketplace, where 60+ diverse artists and craftsmen from both the local region and around the U.S. showcase their handcrafted wares.

You’ll find everything from scarves and jewelry to garden decorations, small furnishings, and soaps. Early holiday shopping, anyone? Find It: Next to the Pavilion on Court; the Alpenstrasse runs down one block of Main Street and will be ongoing throughout the festival.

Acht: Alpenfest Art Tent

An arts tent was just added to Alpenfest last year and returns this year in an expanded format on the courthouse lawn. Sponsored by the Gaylord Area Arts Council, the arts tent will feature an auction of local artists’ work with proceeds going to support both Alpenfest and the arts council. All week long you’ll find ongoing art displays and demos of painting, pottery, and more. Find It: The Otsego

County Courthouse lawn downtown (225 W. Main Street); 12pm–8pm daily throughout the festival except for July 15 (12pm–3pm.)

Neun: Alpenfest Run

Whether you choose to run or walk, Alpenfest’s annual foot races will take you on a race route right through the Alpine Village, with music spurring you on through the course. 5K and 10K walkers and runners will be gifted with a T-shirt, and an awards ceremony after the races will reward the winners in 16 different age divisions. Find It: Register at the Otsego County Community Center 5–7pm July 14; late registration at the Pavilion on Court 6:45am–7:45am on race day, July 15. Races start at the Pavilion on Court at 8:15 am.

Zehn: The Pin

The Alpenfest Pin might be the most popular souvenir at Alpenfest, and for good reason: With the purchase of your pin ($5), all of the music events are free, and you’ll also be welcomed to many other happenings at free or reduced cost — over 40 events in all. If you’ve got an interest in the TJ Schmidt carnival, you also can pick up an all-you-can-ride bracelet starting at $15, or go festival-crazy with a mega pass, starting at $50, which gets you unlimited carnival rides for all of Alpenfest week. Find It: At the information tent on the Alpenstrasse or at participating shops in downtown Gaylord.

For a complete schedule and more information, visit gaylordalpenfest.com.

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Tradition Gaylord’s Grocery Store Glockenspiel

By Kristi Kates A quarter century old, nearly two dozen bells strong, and a favorite stop for many people coming up north for Gaylord’s Alpenfest each year, the Gaylord glockenspiel makes tradition a timely pursuit.

Glockenspiel is the German name for what’s technically a carillion, a musical instrument of bells that’s usually housed in the bell tower of a church or municipal building. Gaylord’s glockenspiel claims an unusual home — it’s housed in a special dedicated section above the entrance to the local Family Fare Supermarket.

The clock face itself is around 15 feet in circumference; beneath the clock hang 23 bells that range in weight from 24 pounds to 116 pounds. Each one chimes a different musical note. Accompanying the bells are the Glockenspiel’s two “mascots,” Andre and Andrea, who pop out from two little doors on either side of the clock at the top of the hour.

Raymond Gilmore has worked at Family Fare for 51 years in a variety of capacities.

He started back when the grocery was called Glen’s Market, and was there on July 15, 1992, when the glockenspiel was installed and dedicated.

“I remember when we put the clock in, and we put a call out for local kids to name the two characters that come out of the clock,” Gilmore said. Informally, the characters are called “the glockenspiel kids,” but the local youth had other ideas. “The kids submitted names, and the market chose two out of their submissions, so from that point on the characters were called Andre and Andrea,” said Gilmore.

The clock’s chimes are a familiar sound to Gaylord residents and anyone who’s vacationed for any length of time in the area.

A singular bell rings on the quarter, half, and three-quarter hour; at the top of each hour, a bell rings out the number of the hour itself, then the bells chime a song as Andre and Andrea pop out of the doors to wave their arms and legs and do a little spinning dance.

“During Alpenfest, the song of the bell changes,” Gilmore said. “There’s a computer set up that sends the programming to the

bells to make them play, and during the festival we mix it up with a new playlist of Alpine music.” There’s also an organ that can be played along with the bells, to add even more Alpine flair.

“Local organists join us during Alpenfest and play music on the organ from a big songbook of Austrian music, German music, and polkas,” Gilmore said.

Andre and Andrea, who find themselves very much in the spotlight during Alpenfest, are also part of the festivities during other times of the year in Gaylord. They wear their Alpenfest costumes most of the time — Andre in brown lederhosen, and Andrea in a traditional red and white dirndl dress — but they have other costumes, too. “Their wardrobe was made by our store associate Nancy Hall,” Gilmore said. “At Christmas, they turn into Santa and Mrs. Claus, and in the fall, they wear the local school colors.”

In true celebrity fashion, the glockenspiel kids have a little diva in them; they won’t come out of the clock in bad weather. “There’s a sensor that senses moisture to keep them inside during heavy rain or snow,” Gilmore said. “Otherwise they’d probably get ruined.”

While the real Andre and Andrea aren’t able to march in the Alpenfest parade, Family Fare has two larger-than-life glockenspiel-kids costumes — oversized heads included. A pair of volunteers dons the costumes to appear in the parade each year. “It’s all in good fun, and people really like to see them,” said Gilmore.

Tammy Sluck, Family Fare’s store director, said the glockenspiel has a universal appeal, but for her, it means something more. “My dad was in the Army,” she said. “So when I was a little kid, and he would go to Europe for several weeks at a time, he’d bring me back gifts. When he went to Germany, he brought me back a cuckoo clock Christmas ornament. The glockenspiel really reminds me of those gifts and that time. My dad’s now retired from the military, but when I hear the glockenspiel, it reminds me of my dad coming home.”

To visit the Gaylord glockenspiel, head to Gaylord’s Family Fare Supermarket at 829 W Main St. (989) 731-3222.

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No Compromise

Lauren Duski’s journey to The Voice

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By Kristi Kates ames McNeice, Ryan Whyte Maloney, Laith Al-Saadi (technically from Detroit, but an adopted Traverse City favorite), and Joshua Davis. What is it about northern Michigan that’s sending out a steady stream of singers talented enough to make it onto the NBC singing competition show The Voice? Maybe it’s something in our waters, or perhaps that crisp northern air — or in the case of Gaylord’s Lauren Duski, 2017’s The Voice finalist, it’s a local community that brought her both encouragement and a place to explore country music.

Duski grew up in a house filled with tunes of country-western variety — plus a few Disney albums — all of which she said she sang along to constantly. When she was nine years old, a family friend suggested she

take part in the karaoke contest at Gaylord’s Alpenfest; it didn’t take much to get Duski up on stage for her first real performance. “I sang ‘Heads Carolina, Tails California’ by Jo Dee Messina,’” Duski said. “And right then, I realized that I didn’t just love to sing, I also love to perform.”

She continued to do just that right through junior high and high school, singing in choir and acting in community plays. “Although I think I was pretty much just a prop in ‘Aladdin,’ the first one I was in,” she said with a laugh. Duski continued to grow her singing talent, eventually rising to bigger and bigger parts, such as Little Red Riding Hood in “Into the Woods.”

“I also started playing guitar when I was about 13,” Duski said. “But I was too scared to play out anywhere. I felt like it wasn’t cool.

So I mostly just played music in my own room. I kind of let peer pressure control me back then.”

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Similar societal expectations found Duski at the end of her high school career applying to colleges, with the intent of following in her parents’ footsteps to become a dentist. She was accepted to the University of Michigan’s pre-dentistry program and headed downstate to Ann Arbor, where she temporarily set her music aside.

“Between not even being sure how I got into U of M in the first place and having to study constantly once I got there, I didn’t have any time for anything else — definitely not music,” she said. “Music went on the back burner.”

But in her junior year, fate stepped in.

“A friend of mine at school had a band, and they needed a singer for a show in Royal Oak,” Duski said. “They knew I sang, so they asked me, and without hesitation I said I’d do it, even though at that point I don’t think I’d done any singing for several years.”

That performance was a pivotal one — it

reignited Duski’s desire to perform. “I knew at that show, in that moment, that I wouldn’t be a dentist,” she said.

Since Duski was already partway through her junior year, she followed through and finished her degree; after graduation, however, she moved to Nashville and focused on writing songs. She also posted online videos of herself singing; The Voice discovered her on Instagram, singing a cover of Chris Stapleton’s Tennessee Whiskey, and invited her to audition for the show. “I was surprised when they contacted me, as I hadn’t been an avid watcher of The Voice,” she said. “I mean, I knew about it, but living in Nashville, I dreamed of my music career starting in a more organic way.”

Nevertheless, Duski drove down to Atlanta for the audition.

“I didn’t expect anything to happen, really. I just thought, well, I might as well try it. But it seemed every time I blinked, I’d

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TV show, but now I’m very glad I did it.”

Duski’s time on The Voice is over, but What happened, in case you missed it, is her association with Shelton isn’t; she said that Duski sang her way through the entire he’s an advocate to the musicians that he season of The Voice this past spring and ended mentors both on and off the show. “He’s up in the top two; her fellow finalist, soulful definitely become a friend, and I never singer Chris Blue, won the competition, but expected that going into this journey,” Duski finished in a respectable second place. Duski said. “If I have any questions about A little background if the music industry — or you’ve never watched the show: anything else, really — he Each competing performer always picks up the phone. on The Voice, after making it He’s just a good person.” through a series of off- and on- It wasn’t that I Next for the Gaylord-raised screen auditions, is assigned didn’t believe singer — who’s living back in to a team led and coached by Nashville as she completes her a celebrity musician. Duski’s in myself. I new album — is a plan to head coach was country singer and just didn’t up north to her hometown for songwriter Blake Shelton. She at least a brief visit this summer. cited Shelton’s encouragement, know what Then she’ll embark on a series and his good ear for songs that of live tour dates this fall and suited her vocals, as the reasons could possibly winter, which she said she’ll she got so far on the show. happen for my announce soon.

“It can be a scary thing, “When I came off the show, being on a show like this,” career from obviously I didn’t win, so I was Duski said. “I do believe I’m an a reality TV able to just take a step back for artist, not just a singer — but a little while,” she said. “I do you sing covers on this show. show, but now have new original music, but I Most of the time they’re telling don’t want to release a record you what to sing. You might get I’m very glad I just to release a record, so a chance to do one of your own did it.

I’m taking my time, carefully original songs — or you might crafting a list of songs for the not, if they just don’t like it. So album, which I’d say is in its that part can be tough. But I preliminary stages.” was lucky, because Blake knew So was The Voice experience the artist I wanted to be, and he picked such worth it? You bet, said Duski. And she good songs, I couldn’t argue. The music he hasn’t forgotten that it was her northern chose really suited me, and I didn’t have to Michigan hometown that gave her the first compromise who I was as an artist.” step up to that national platform.

Duski’s performances included covers of “I’m so, so thankful,” she said. “The show Wynonna Judd’s “Tell Me Why,” Randy Travis’ allowed me to grow into the artist I always “Somewhere in My Broken Heart,” and Faith wanted to be. I always knew I wanted to Hill’s “Cry,” as well as her own original single share music with people, but being on The “Déjà Vu,” which hit No. 1 on the iTunes Voice, working with Blake, performing in chart after her television performance. In front of so many, just confirmed that this the finals, she performed “Better Man” with is what I need to be doing. And I believe Alabama country band Little Big Town. But it if it hadn’t been for the people of Gaylord, doesn’t happen this way on the show for every my community, encouraging me in the first contestant, she said. place, I wouldn’t be doing this at all.”

“The Voice is an incredible platform, but it’s also still a TV show, so they do keep To find out more about Lauren Duski and her control of things,” she said. “But Blake was music, visit laurenduski.com.

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PARADE POWER For the 87-year-strong Venetian Festival, the parades are always a highlight. That’s right, we said parades, plural. There are two at this fest: one by land and one by water. The land version, for which this year’s theme is Gods of the Sea, starts at 11am July 22nd on Bridge Street and will feature floats, marching bands, quirky guest appearances, and a visit from the Venetian Festival Queen. The water parade happens on the same day and follows the same theme but offers a different visual entirely; it begins after evening arrives, at dusk, prior to the fireworks. Each boat adorns itself with a glimmering plethora of lights, which turns Round Lake into a mystical Venetian fantasyland.

BRIDGE STREET Bridge Street, Charlevoix’s main road through downtown, gets its own dedicated day at Venetian Festival called The Bridge Street Experience, turning the neighborhood into a festive occasion reminiscent of a much bigger city. A streetwise basketball tournament kicks off at 9am, and that’s only the start of the day’s Bridge Street activities, which include a performance from the Ragamuffins Theater Company and the Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps, plus an overload of great art — a sand art station, a giant art mural, and impressive sidewalk chalk art — throughout the downtown area.

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SUPER SOUNDS Venetian Rhythms is the festival’s free concert lineup, which this year includes another eclectic schedule of acts in many different genres. Some regional acts you might recognize include Charlie’s Root Fusion (July 18), Miriam Pico (July 18), David Cisco (July 19), Tom Zipp (July 20), The Up North Big Band (July 21), and The Ragbirds (July 22). This summer’s bigger-name headlining acts are The Roots Vibrations reggae band (July 15), classic ’80s rockers Loverboy, with local opening act Galactic Sherpas (July 19), and Nashville country outfit and The Voice finalists The Swon Brothers (July 20.)

COOL CARNIVAL What’s a festival without a carnival? Not festive enough! That’s why Venetian Fest brings in the Arnold Carnival Wednesday (July 19) through Saturday (July 22) for loads of rides, games, and other amusements. Snag a carnival armband (starting at $17), and you can get your fill of rides and games all day. In addition to the carnival itself, you also can head over to East Park on July 18 (1:30pm– 4pm) for Castle Farms’ Garden Games (all free, all ages), which include croquet, bocce ball, castle bean bag toss, corn hole toss, and a self-propelled wooden train.

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The new escape room game facility in Gaylord will offer two games: one (available now) in which players work to escape a jail cell, and a second (coming soon) in which players try to escape from an old fisherman’s cabin.

Escape rooms, themed rooms where players are locked inside and have to solve a puzzle to escape before time runs out, started in Asia, but their popularity has brought them west — and more recently, north. The latest town to take on the trend Up North? Gaylord, with a truly Northern approach to the game: Players will be locked inside a northwoods cabin.

TOO MUCH FUN The couple opened Escape the Cabin late last year with a short test run, which Patrick said went well, but they soon found the cabin they were using wasn’t zoned for operating a business. Not to be deterred — after all, the zoning issue was just another puzzle to solve — they bought another building that was zoned for commercial use. Having spent the past nine months renovating it, setting up the escape rooms, hidden doors, and all the mechanisms for the gimmicks and tricks that make up each game, the family just reopened in their new digs and is ready for a busy summer.

Escape the Cabin’s opening game is called Too Much Fun. “We like to say you come here on vacation and leave on probation,” Patrick said.

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GETTING HOOKED Gaylord’s Escape the Cabin is owned by Penny Patrick and her husband, Tim. The couple’s daughter, Hanna, introduced them to the escape room entertainment trend on a family trip to Universal Studios in Florida last Halloween. “Hanna had found The Escape Room [franchise] online, and said that we just had to go to the one in Orlando while we were in Florida.”

The family played two games — “Classified” and “Jailbreak” — and were hooked. They later tried games at another The Escape Room facility in Nashville. “We really liked the concepts of team building, of putting your phone down, and playing and communicating together. It was just too much fun,” Patrick said, “so we decided we needed to open our own and bring this kind of fun to Gaylord.”

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After signing the waiver to play the game, your “mugshot” is taken and put onto your arrest record (which you get to keep as a souvenir when you leave).

Then players are placed into a jail cell, where they have to find and collect your team’s arrest records in order to learn the exit route out of the room — all in 60 minutes or less.

GONE FISHING Before the end of the year, a second escape room game, called Gone Fishing, will open at Escape the Cabin. “That one is a copy of the first game we ran in the old cabin,” Patrick said. In that scenario, you’ve broken into an old man’s fishing cabin, he found you out, and locked you inside while he’s gone fishing.

“For this one, we use a lot of Michigan natural resources as the clues, as you have to figure out which lake the old man went to and what type of fish he’s fishing for to get the clues to find your way out,” Patrick said.

These aren’t just summer pursuits; the Patricks plan to keep Escape the Cabin open year-round to chase away the North’s cabin fever. “There’s a lack of entertainment out in these rural areas,” Patrick said. “We bring haunted houses to the community at Halloween — which is my favorite time of year — but that’s limited to the holiday, of course. So now we can do this year-round.”

Escape the Cabin is located at 3764 E. M-32, just outside of Gaylord. To learn more, visit escapethecabin.com or call (989) 448-7200 or (989) 350-1584. Each game is $25 per person, with a minimum of four players and a maximum of eight players suggested.

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TASTE OF LOCAL Crystal Mountain’s Thistle Pub & Grille will be serving local farm-to-table three-course meals.

July 21-22 • Aug 18-19 • Sept 15-16 Visit crystalmountain.com/events for more information.

Reservations are recommended.

866.716.3596 | CRYSTALMOUNTAIN.COM

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Annie (horse) and Lilly during a therapeutic lesson.

Horse Magic:

Sensory Successes at Liberty Valley Ranch

By Kristi Kates According to Gaylord’s Jane Rau, passion for horses runs in the blood. Rau and her family — husband, Robert, and their four kids — moved to Michigan from Madison, Wisconsin in 2000. Since Rau had grown up with horses, the family planned to get a couple after establishing their new home in Gaylord. What she didn’t anticipate was how the horses would lead her to a whole new career.

Michigan started as a vacation spot for the Raus, who had visited many times prior to moving here. “We had friends here, and we just fell in love with the area,” Rau said.

“The countryside, the open spaces, the northern appeal. And we’re from the city, so we’d always wanted to own some land.”

Upon arriving in Michigan, the Raus got their kids involved in the local 4-H, joining a neighbor’s rabbit club. Soon, they found a couple of nice horses and ponies for their family. “Then, I thought, well, we might as well start doing some lessons and maybe a camp,” Rau said. “But the whole thing kind of exploded!”

The fallout was Liberty Valley Ranch, where the Rau’s home — and that of their horses — sits on a beautiful stretch of open pastures and wooded trails weaving among pines, hardwoods, and pin cherry trees, all backed up against an equally pretty expanse of state land.

As their ranch drew more and more people seeking lessons, the Raus bought more full-size horses. And as their string of horses grew, another aspect of Rau’s background came into play.

“I grew up with a brother with a disability, so I’ve always had a heart for special needs

people,” she explained. Rau, who had helped her brother train to compete as a swimmer in the Special Olympics, began toying with the idea of using the family’s team of horses as therapy.

Rau took the classes and certification to become a certified therapeutic riding instructor with PATH (the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship), and started applying those skills to Liberty Valley Ranch clients. “That’s a lot of long words to say that I utilize horses to help people,” she said.

Assisting both adult and youth clients, Rau and the Rau family’s horses — quarter horses, a Tennessee walker, a Norwegian fjord, an American paint, and Shetland ponies — team up to help people with a host of different issues, both physical and mental.

“I’m a facilitator and a guide. I know the horses, and I get to know the rider, so we match them up for the best fit,” Rau said.

“There’s a lot of pre-planning before our first lesson. I communicate with the rider, or the parent, if it’s a youth rider, to understand their current abilities and future goals — which all can change as we go, based on what we’re working on. You really have to be flexible.”

Horses offer a lot of sensory input to people: the sounds they make, the texture of their coat, their movements — even their gaits as they walk over different surfaces (grass, concrete, a hard-packed trail). As a rider experiences these changes and differences, said Rau, it can help them both calm down and open up. Accomplishing various goals, from simple ones like grooming a horse, to more challenging ones like learning to ride, fosters growth and change in the ranch’s clients.

And just like people, each horse has a

different personality. Two of Rau’s favorites for working with her clients are Annie, a calm 32-year-old sorrel quarter horse, and Jasper, a 21-year-old brown-and-white American paint, who is a relative newcomer to the ranch.

“Annie has been giving adults and youth therapeutic lessons here for the past eight years,” Rau said. “Something unique to her is when the clients brush her, she closes her eyes and rests her head on the grooming post. You can see the connection and the peacefulness between horse and rider. That may not sound like much, but it helps the rider to see how positively their actions are affecting the horse.”

Jasper, she said, is “just a stocky, nice guy.” “He did therapy programs at another place two years before we got him,” she said.

“We just got him last year, and he’s a real up and comer with our riders. He’s super nice and so easygoing.”

Although many kids and adults benefit from working with Liberty Ranch’s horses, Rau said kids with autism and other sensory issues especially seem to thrive. “We have them groom and brush the horses, and for many autistic kids, their behavior smooths out during the lessons, and for a while afterward,” she said.

For people with physical limitations, Rau said the gait of the horse moves the rider’s body gently and rhythmically in a manner that closely simulates the way a person walks.

“So, for someone who can’t walk, now they can experience this movement that they might not otherwise be able to have,” she said. Riding the horses has many other benefits as well; Rau said that the lessons help improve muscle strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and self-confidence.

Horses and riders exercise together in the ranch’s outdoor arena.

“It’s hard to wrap it up into a few sentences, as there are so many ways the horses help, and it’s very rewarding,” she said. “When you put a person with a horse, and the horse allows the rider to totally forget about their disabilities and have successes, that’s the biggest reward. But I’ve got to point out that it’s really not anything that I do — it’s the horse. There’s a magic, something very special that goes on between horse and rider.”

For more information, visit libertyvalleyranch. com or call (989) 731-0149.

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2. Alexander the Magician and Sydney the “White Lady” entertain the crowds at the National Cherry Festival.

3. Dick Clark, Jane Garver Dylan Taylor, and Jim Daniels serve ice cream during an Independence Day social at the Petoskey Museum.

4. Sue Gresens joins Ben and Keely Trombly for drinks at the Cherry Festival beer tent.

100% cotton sweaters from Avalin in lots of summer colors! One Size $49.99 Buy online at www.hullsoffrankfort.com or in-store.

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5. Scott and Billie Jo McConnell stand in front of the giant crowd gathered for the Shinedown concert in TC. 6. Chippendales of Cross Village.

7. Catherine Casadonte, Biz Bauer, and Robert Wallick were all smiles during the Cross Village Community Parade.

8. Becky Serrano getting ready to lead her beautiful Clydesdales in the Cross Village Community Parade.

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91ST NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC. Today includes the Meijer Festival of Races, Disc Golf Tournament, DTE Energy Foundation Cherry Royale Parade, Ultimate Air Dogs Finals, Cherry Idol Finals, Festival Fireworks Finale Over West GT Bay & much more. Info: cherryfestival.org

-------------------RED WINGS DEVELOPMENT CAMP: Tickets: $5 daily. Centre Ice Arena, TC. centreice.org

-------------------SWEATY YETI 5K RUN & 1 MILE FUN RUN: 8am, Bosewell Stadium, East Jordan. sweatyyetirun.com

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37TH ANNUAL BLISSFEST FESTIVAL: 10am, Festival Farm, Harbor Springs. Bluegrass, blues, zydeco Celtic, folk, jazz, Latin, ethnic, world music & dance. Performers include Los Lobos, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Chubby Carrier & The Bajou Swamp Boys, Davina & the Vagabonds, Donna the Buffalo, Dustbowl Revival, The Mammals, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Brotha James, Boomatwang, John D. Lamb, Seth Bernard & many others. blissfest.org

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49TH ANNUAL ART & CRAFT SHOW: 10am6pm, East Park, Downtown Charlevoix. Featuring over 150 exhibitors. charlevoix.org

-------------------AMERICAN GIRL EVENT: 10am, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. McLean & Eakin Booksellers & Petoskey District Library welcome Carrie Anton & Erin Falligant, co-authors of “American Girl Character Encyclopedia,” for a morning of crafts, activities & games. Reserve your space. mcleanandeakin.com

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ARTISTS’ MARKET: 10am-5pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Ninety art booths in Leland on the river & inside the building.

-------------------AUTHOR SIGNINGS: 10am-3pm, Horizon Books, Cadillac. With Juliann Tacoma, author of “Color Cadillac Scavenger Hunt”; Angela Crandall, author of “Myth & Spirit Guide”; & Daniel Feister, author of “Tales From the Rhyming Realm of Gandolin VI.”

-------------------EAGLE PROGRAM: 10am, Habitat Discovery Center, Omena. Wildlife biologist & federal & state eagle counter Jerry Weinrich will share his numbers of nests he counts every spring when he flies over the lower peninsula. $10 adults; free for kids under 12. 231-271-3738.

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LIFELONG LEARNING: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: 10am-12pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. Presented by Tony Dunaske, a retired NCMC professor & photographer.

Registration required. Free. petoskeylibrary.org

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RANDOM ACTS OF MUSIC: 10am-7pm, Downtown Gaylord. Listen to over 30 local musicians performing in various participating downtown businesses. From 9-10am each day you can pick up that day’s schedule at GACA’s Art Center, Gaylord. Also available at: www.gaylordarts.org

EAST JORDAN BREW FEST: 2-9pm. Featuring live music by The Mickeys & Jelly Roll Blues Band in Memorial Park, domestic & craft beer, food, & more. $5/person; 12 & under free.

HIKE TIMBERS REC AREA: 6:30-8:30pm, Timbers Recreation Area, TC. Join GTRLC staff on a short hike to discuss current status of the property & future goals. RSVP. gtrlc.org AN EVENING OF CHAMBER MUSIC: 7pm, Gaylord First United Methodist Church. Presented by Gaylord Community Productions.

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BENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY CHORUS: 7:30pm, Mills Community House Theatre, Benzonia. Tickets: $15; $10 children 16 & under.

231-399-0242.

-------------------THE STRING DOCTORS: 7:30pm, The Aten Place, Boyne Falls. Enjoy storytelling, stage banter, & original & traditional acoustic music.

Tickets: $16/$15. atenplace.com/Schedule.html

-------------------“KING LEAR,” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Upton-Morley Pavilion. $33. tickets.interlochen.org

-------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. Featuring Monday’s Supper. mackinawchamber.com

-------------------SHEN WEI DANCE ARTS: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Shen Wei is a choreographer, director, dancer, painter, designer & lead choreographer for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Tickets start at $37. tickets.interlochen.org

july 09

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49TH ANNUAL ART & CRAFT SHOW: 10am4pm, East Park, Downtown Charlevoix. Featuring over 150 exhibitors. charlevoix.org

-------------------“PIPPIN”: 2pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee. Heir to the Frankish throne, the young prince, Pippin, is in search of the secret to true happiness & fulfillment. Tickets start at $18. manisteecivicplayers.org

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SUNDAY FUNDAY: GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: 2pm, Flintfields Horse Park, Williamsburg. Grand Prix Show Jumping featuring Olympic athletes. Gates open at noon. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

-------------------14TH ANNUAL BOYNE THUNDER POKER RUN: Boyne City. Begins with parade laps starting at 10:15am, leaving from the Boyne City Marina. Showcasing 120 high performance boats from all over the country, roaring through the waters of Lake Charlevoix & Lake Michigan on a 130-mile excursion in search of the best poker hand. boynethunder.com

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

“PIPPIN”: 7:30pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee. Heir to the Frankish throne, the young prince, Pippin, is in search of the secret to true happiness & fulfillment. Tickets start at $18. manisteecivicplayers.org

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ART SNAKE: 10am-4pm. 10th annual tour of artists’ studios & work environments in the Onekama/Portage Lake area. Maps to artists’ studios are available at Onekama & Manistee businesses & the Manistee Chamber of Commerce.

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PANEL DISCUSSION: 2pm, The Provincial, Kaleva. Artists as Organizers/ Artists as Agitators.

Panelists include Leelanau County artist Michael Huey, TC poet Jennifer Sperry Steinorth & visiting artist Douglas Witmer from Philadelphia.

Melanie Parke of Kaleva will be moderating. Info: 231-633-8772; melanieparke.studio@gmail.com

SOUTH ARM CLASSICS: 10am-3pm, Charlevoix. The boat show is on the shore of Lake Charlevoix, with both land & water displays.

The car show is on Main St., Charlevoix, displaying up to 150 cars. Free. Find on Facebook.

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-------------------ART SNAKE: (See Sat., July 8) -------------------AN AFTERNOON WITH AUTHOR ADAM SCHUITEMA: 3pm, Cellar 152, Elk Rapids.

Adam will discuss his latest novel “Haymaker.”

Presented by Elk Rapids District Library. elkrapidslibrary.org

-------------------BENZIE AREA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 4pm, St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah. Chamber Music Concert: “Classics in the Country.” benziesymphony.com

Brooklyn-based blues duo Mulebone is touring northern MI this week! They play Stormcloud Brewing Co., Frankfort on Thurs., July 13 at 8pm; Aten Place, Boyne Falls on Sat., July 15 at 7:30pm & the Manitou Music Festival at Studio Stage, behind Lake Street Studios, Glen Arbor on Sun., July 16 at 8pm.

MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVE DUNE CLIMB CONCERT: 7pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. With Wisconsin-based blues powerhouse The Jimmys. Free. glenarborart.org

-------------------SUNDAY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7-10pm, Edward C. Grace Memorial Harbor Pavilion, Elk Rapids. Music with Rum Boogie. Free.

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BENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY CHORUS: 7:30pm, Mills Community House Theatre, Benzonia. Tickets: $15; $10 children 16 & under.

231-399-0242.

-------------------FOUNTAIN POINT CONCERT SERIES: 7:309:30pm, Fountain Point Music, Lake Leelanau.

With The Understorey. fountainpointmusic.com

-------------------WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. With Conductor JoAnn Falletta. $21 adults, $18 seniors & $11 youth. tickets. interlochen.org

july 10

monday

RED WINGS DEVELOPMENT CAMP: (See Sat., July 8)

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NORTHERN MI RENTAL PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION MEETING: 12pm, Harrington’s By the Bay, TC. Arrive by 11:30am if you are ordering lunch. RSVP required. Email Kathy at: gkroush48@outlook.com.

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CHILDREN’S HEALING GARDEN: 4:30pm, Michael’s Place, 1212 Veterans Dr., TC. Plant flowers, plants & other creative elements in memory of your loved one. mymichaelsplace.net

-------------------ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM: 5pm, Petoskey District Library’s lower level classroom.

Michigan Sierra Club leaders will provide an overview of environmental & conservation issues challenging the region, state & nation.

Register. Free. petoskeylibrary.evanced.info/ signup/Calendar

-------------------FREE MEETUP: TC TRANS WELLNESS: 6pm, TC. 944-8200 or meetup.com/traversecity-TRANSwellness-meetup to register. Location provided following registration.

-------------------MONDAY NIGHT CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 7pm, Onekama Village Park. Tonight features Americana/folk duo Rough and Tumble. onekama.info

-------------------OTP AUDITIONS: 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. For “Wait Until Dark.”

This drama has roles for one woman playing someone in her 20s or 30s, four men playing characters in their 30s or 40s, & one girl playing someone age 12 to 14. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------BENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY CHORUS: (See Sun., July 9)

july 11

tuesday

RED WINGS DEVELOPMENT CAMP: (See Sat., July 8)

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2017 GAYLORD ALPENFEST: July 11-15. Today includes the Sechselauten Celebration, concert with Jasmine Murray, concert with Neshama, Lampion Making Contest, Burning of the Boogg & much more. gaylordalpenfest.com

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AUTHOR CHRISTINE CHITNIS: 2pm, Bellaire Public Library. Christine presents her latest cookbook, “Icy Creamy Healthy Sweet.” bellairelibrary.org

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BOOK SIGNING WITH GAIL DEMEYERE: 2-4pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Gail is the author of “The Sweater: A History.” Free. mcleanandeakin.com

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MUNSON HOSPICE GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: 3pm, Samaritas Senior Living Facility,

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-------------------TCNEW TECH: 6pm, City Opera House, TC. Five presenters are allowed five minutes to present & five minutes of question & answer. cityoperahouse.org/tcnewtech

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

-------------------GT HIKING CLUB LED HIKE: 6:30pm, Pyatt Lake, TC. Questions? detour42@gmail.com

-------------------“ANSEL ADAMS: A DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING”: 7-8:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Theater, Petoskey. Free. crookedtree.org

-------------------“BRIDGES: CROSSING CULTURAL DIVIDES”: 7pm, Bay View Association, Voorhies Hall, Petoskey. Dr. John Corvino will discuss the areas of diversity & other cultural issues facing society. Free. bayviewassociation.org

-------------------LEELANAU SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL: 7pm, Sala Koncertowa Concert Hall, Holy Rosary Arts & Education Center, Cedar. Featuring the Gryphon Trio. $20 adults, $10 students w/ ID. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE: Presents the Greg Nagy Blues Band. 7-9:15pm, First Street Beach Rotary Gazebo, Manistee.

-------------------OTP AUDITIONS: (See Mon., July 10) -------------------OFF THE PAGE 2017: 7pm, Darcy Library of Beulah. Featuring Travis Mulhauser, author of “Sweet Girl.” 231-882-4037.

-------------------COFFEE AFTER DARK: HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY W/ KALEIGH JAMES: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. $10. crookedtree.org

-------------------INTERLOCHEN “COLLAGE” : 7:30pm, Kresge Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Experience the best of Interlochen in a non-stop, fast-paced showcase. This program highlights samplings from dance, creative writing, theatre, visual arts, film, music & more. $29 adult, $26 senior & $15 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

-------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. With the Straits Area Concert Band. mackinawchamber.com

july 12

wednesday

NIGHT OF ARTS (GALLERY WALK): 6-9pm, Downtown Harbor Springs. Look for the bouquet of colorful balloons at participating galleries. Featuring an array of mediums. harborspringschamber.com

-------------------2017 GAYLORD ALPENFEST: July 11-15.

Today includes the Alpenfest® Costume Parade, Die Groeste Kaffe Pause, Ladies Ankle Contest, Men’s Knee Contest, Bicycle & Tricycle parades, concert with Endless Summer & much more. gaylordalpenfest.com

CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 12pm, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring Jetty Rae who brings her folk rock acoustic solo-guitar & vocals. Free. crookedtree.org

-------------------A DAY IN THE GARDENS: 1-6pm, Gaylord.

Enjoy a self-guided tour of six gardens & view local artists at work. Presented by the Edelweiss Garden Club. $8/person. otsego.org

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CHILDREN’S MATINEE W/ KAREN BONNICI CZARNIK, STORYTELLER: 2pm, Aten Place, Boyne Falls. atenplace.com

-------------------MUNSON HOSPICE SUPPORT GROUP: 5pm, Senior Center Network, TC. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss are understood. Meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 5pm. 800-252-2065 or munsonhomehealth.org. Free.

-------------------WINE DOWN WEDNESDAYS: 5-7pm, Chateau Grand Traverse, TC. With E Minor. cgtwines.com/winedown

-------------------EVENING ON RIVER STREET: 6-9pm, River St., Elk Rapids. Live music by The Three B’s.

-------------------LOCAL FOOD ALLIANCE MONTHLY POTLUCK & MEETING: 6-8pm, Provence Organic Farm, Central Lake.

-------------------MUNSON HOSPICE LOSS OF A PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: 6pm, Senior Center Network, TC. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss are understood. Meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month. 800-252-2065 or munsonhomehealth.org. Free.

-------------------CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT: 8-10pm, Bay View Association, Voorhies Hall, Petoskey. $13.50 + handling. bayviewassociation.org

-------------------TRACE ADKINS WSG DREW HALE: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium.

Grammy-nominated member of the Grand Ole Opry, Adkins has also gained fame as a TV personality, an actor & an author. Hale is the winner of the national Country Showdown competition held at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, earning him the title Best New Act in Country Music.

Tickets start at $46. tickets.interlochen.org

july 13

thursday

2017 GAYLORD ALPENFEST: Today includes the Alpine Country Breakfast, Diaper Derby, Stilt Walking Contest, Children’s Hour, Alpenfest® Stone Throw, concert with Big Daddy Lackowski and the La Dee Da’s & much more. gaylordalpenfest.com

-------------------ROSE EXHIBIT AT THE GARDEN: 10am4pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Presented by the Cherry Capital Rose Society. thebotanicgarden.org

-------------------SIX GALLERY ART TOUR: 10am-5:30pm, TC. Pick up your map at Inspire Gallery, TC. Enter to win art from each gallery. Free. inspireartgallerytc.com

George Peebles - Colorful Impressionistic Landscapes & Dove Day - The Art of Quilling. staffords.com/staffords-art-gallery

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SUMMER READING CLUB EVENT: 6pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Michigan Humanities Touring Artist, Narrative Consultant & award winning Storyteller Jenifer Strauss. Pizza at 6pm & program at 6:30pm. Free. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

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-------------------ANSEL ADAMS: IN FOCUS WITH ALAN ROSS: 7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Theater, Petoskey. Learn about the man behind the famous images from the perspective of someone who worked side-by-side with him for nearly six years. $10. crookedtree.org

-------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions, on the lawn, TC. With Miriam Pico. Free. gtpavilions.org/2017-concerts-on-the-lawn

-------------------STREET MUSIQUE: 7-9pm, Harbor Springs.

Featuring Doug Thomas, Whiskey Creek, A Brighter Bloom, Rosalind and the Way, & Steel & Wood. visitharborspringsmichigan.com

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TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: 7pm, Old Arts Building, Leland. Presented by Riverside Shakespeare. Valentine & Proteus tease each other over their love affairs, but when they end up as rivals for the same woman, it tests their friendship. 941-4953. Free. Find on Facebook.

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ARTS FOR ALL BENEFIT: A collaborative concert featuring Andre Villoch & Travis Hall.

Donations. 7-9pm, Acoustic Tap Room, TC. 231-275-2041.

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2017 GAYLORD ALPENFEST: Today includes the Ugly Dog Contest, Going on Around Gaylord: 22nd Annual Northern MI Artist Guild Art Show & Sale, Pet Parade, Alpenfest® Idol Tryouts, Tommy Tropic School of Juggling, Swiss Stone Spitting, Alpenfest® Queen’s Pageant, Concert: Mega 80’s, fireworks & much more. gaylordalpenfest.com/calendar

-------------------KALEVA DAYS: July 14-16. Today’s events include “Anything But a Car” Fun Ride Around Town, live music by Incognito, live music by Powerplay & much more. visitmanisteecounty.com

-------------------PERIWINKLE GARDEN CLUB OF FRANKFORT GARDEN WALK: 10am-4pm. Featuring seven gardens in the Beulah area, with refreshments at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. Tickets are available at Hull’s in Frankfort or Crystal Crate and Cargo in Beulah. $8 advance or $10 day of.

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MUSIC ON THE BIDWELL PLAZA: 12:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Bidwell Plaza, Petoskey. With Americana duo Kellerville.

Free. crookedtree.org

GARDEN WALK: “Town & Country Gardens.”

10am-4pm, various gardens in Charlevoix. $10 advance; $15 day of. 231.547.2119. charlevoixareagardenclub.org INDIAN RIVER LIBRARY USED BOOK SALE: 10am-2pm, Indian River Area Library, Tuscarora Township Building, lower level.

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“MADAGASCAR - A MUSICAL ADVENTURE, JR.”: 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company. $15 adults; $6 under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com

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

-------------------EAST JORDAN MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, Memorial Park, bandshell stage, East Jordan.

Pop & R&B with Rachel B. Free. ejchamber.org

-------------------MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, Marina Park, Northport. Enjoy Americana/folk with New Third Coast.

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UP NORTH VOCAL INSTITUTE: 7-8:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Theater, Petoskey.

Free. crookedtree.org

S.T.E.A.M. MAKER SPACE: 11am, Leland Township Library. From programmable robots to art activities, there will be something for everyone. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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“PIPPIN”: 8pm, Bay View Association, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. $15-$28. bayviewassociation.org

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LUNCHEON EVENT W/ AUTHOR JULIE BUNTIN: 12-2pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel Rose Room, Petoskey. Julie is the author of “Marlena,” $25. mcleanandeakin.com

34TH ANNUAL HARBOR SPRINGS WOMEN’S CLUB ART FEST: 9:30am-4pm, Nub’s Nob, Harbor Springs. This juried art show draws as many as 120 artists from all across the country. $3/person; free for 12 & under. nmiwomensclub.org/annual-art-fair

PETOSKEY ROCKS!: 6pm-9pm, Downtown Petoskey. Featuring free carriage rides throughout Downtown Petoskey, a Ghost Walk, a Movie in the Park at Dark & more. petoskeydowntown.com

SUMMER SOUNDS CONCERT SERIES: Presents Blake Elliott & the Robinson Affair with their retro, bluesy rock. 7pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. $10; free for 12 & under. michlegacyartpark.org/events/summer-sounds

S.T.E.A.M. MAKER SPACE: 11am, Leland Township Library. From programmable robots to art activities, there will be something for everyone. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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NEW PAINTINGS: THE LELAND SHOW: Old Art Building, Leland. Exhibition of new work by artists Angela Saxon, Royce Deans, Lynn Uhlmann & Anne Corlett. An opening reception will be held tonight from 6-9pm. facebook.com/ NewPaintingsTheLelandShow

FOUNTAIN POINT CONCERT SERIES: 7:309:30pm, Fountain Point Music, Lake Leelanau.

With Oh Brother Big Sister. $10-$20. fountainpointmusic.com

SHAY DAYS: 10am-3pm. Live steam model trains under the tent at Shay Park, an electric train, games, historical photograph displays & self-guided tours at the Shay Hexagon House, & crafts, games & more at the Harbor Springs History Museum. Donation. harborspringshistory.org

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An opening reception will be held tonight from 5-8pm. northportartsforall.com/gene-rantz-show

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CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 12pm, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring Maya Story & Owen James. Free. crookedtree.org

-------------------RANTZ ANNUAL ART EXHIBIT: Village Arts Building, Northport. “Leelanau Landscapes.”

--------------------------------------“PIPPIN”: (See Thurs., July 13)

july 15

saturday

2017 GAYLORD ALPENFEST: Today includes the Alpenfest® Fun Run, Run & Walk, Alpenfest® Gaylord Art Van Grand Parade, Classic Car & Truck Show, Dharma Squad Industries First Skatepark Competition, Karaoke (Alpenfest® Idol) Finals, concert with Phase 5 Motown Review & much more. gaylordalpenfest.com/calendar

-------------------CHARLEVOIX STREET LEGENDS 25TH ANNIVERSARY CAR SHOW: 8am-3pm, East Park Band Shell, Downtown Charlevoix.

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BEAR RIVER CRAWL - 5K RUN/WALK: 8am, Bay Front Park, Petoskey. Benefits Northern Michigan Cancer Crusaders. northernmichigansportsmed.com

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KINGSLEY HERITAGE DAYS: Today includes the Chemical Bank Kingsley Heritage Days 5K & Fun Run, Obstacle Course Race, 2nd Annual Co-Ed Softball Tournament & live music. kingsleyheritagedays.com

-------------------INVASIVE SPECIES WORK DAY: 9am12pm, Elberta Dunes, Frankfort. Help remove invasive baby’s breath from Elberta Beach in Benzie County. Please bring your own work gloves. Presented by the GT Regional Land Conservancy. RSVP. 929-7911. gtrlc.org

-------------------KALEVA DAYS: July 14-16. Today includes the Railroad Depot Museum & Manistee-&-Northeastern Engine, Antique Tractor Show, Finnish Line 5K Run/Walk, Kaleva Days Car Show, Kids Fun Pet Parade, Finnish Wife Carrying Contest, live music by Awesome Distraction, much more. visitmanisteecounty.com/event/kaleva-days

-------------------RANTZ ANNUAL ART EXHIBIT: All day, Village Arts Building, Northport. “Leelanau Landscapes.” northportartsforall.com/generantz-show

32ND ANNUAL PETOSKEY ART IN THE PARK: 10am-6pm, Pennsylvania Park, Downtown Petoskey. Featuring about 130 booths.

-------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: 10am-3pm, Horizon Books, Cadillac. Featuring Judith St. King, author of “Incomplete Diary of Good and Evil,” & Pamela Dushane, author of “Popping Bubbles with Rocco.” 231-775-9979.

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LIFELONG LEARNING: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: 10am-12pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. Presented by Tony Dunaske, a retired NCMC professor & photographer. Photographic walk to follow class. Registration required. Free. petoskeylibrary.evanced.info/signup/Calendar

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NEW PAINTINGS: THE LELAND SHOW: 10am-5pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Exhibition of new work by artists Angela Saxon, Royce Deans, Lynn Uhlmann & Anne Corlett. facebook.com/NewPaintingsTheLelandShow

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AUTHORS VISIT: Horizon Books, TC. 12-2pm: Carla Blacker will sign her book “Salt in the Wound and the Courage to Forgive.” 2-4pm: Julie Buntin will read from & talk about her book “Marlena.” horizonbooks.com

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BUSINESS/CONSULTANT EXPO: 12-5pm, Trader’s Outpost Open Space, 309 N. Dansforth St., Mancelona. Over 20 vendors will represent their businesses in a flea market style. Free. 989255-7206 or hmull812@gmail.com. Free.

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LEELANAU PENINSULA WINE ON THE WATER FESTIVAL: 1-7pm, Marina Park, Suttons Bay. Tickets, $15 advance; $20 gate. Tastes from local wineries, breweries & cideries, plus local fare, live music, including Jabo Bihlman’s Family Jam & Fifth Gear & more. leelanauchamber.com

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“MADAGASCAR - A MUSICAL ADVENTURE, JR.”: 2pm & 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company. $15 adults; $6 under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------PIZZA & PIPES: Music House Museum, Williamsburg. Pizza dinner & a concert from Detroit Fox Theater & Red Wings organist Dave Calendine. Doors open at 6pm with the concert at 6:30pm. Tickets: $25 adults, $10 10 & under.

Reservations required by 4pm on July 14. 9389300. musichouse.org

-------------------TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: 6pm, Memorial Park, Elk Rapids. Presented by Riverside Shakespeare. Best friends Valentine & Proteus tease each other over their love affairs, but when they end up as rivals for the same woman, it tests their friendship. 9414953. Free. Find on Facebook.

-------------------MULEBONE: 7:30pm, Aten Place, Boyne Falls.

They have spent 15 weeks in the Top 100 Albums in America. $16/$15. atenplace.com

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“PIPPIN”: 8pm, Bay View Association, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. $15-$28. bayviewassociation.org

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sunday

KINGSLEY HERITAGE DAYS: kingsleyheritagedays.com

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RIDE AROUND TORCH: Starts at Elk Rapids High School. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club with routes that include 26, 40, 63 & 100 miles. $40 individuals, $90 familes in advance; $50/$100 day of. Enjoy a scenic route, food stops & a posttour picnic at the beach-side park in Elk Rapids. Different start times for various distances.

Proceeds benefit bicycling in the Grand Traverse area. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

-------------------LITTLE TRAVERSE TRIATHLON, MINI KIDS RACE, & 4 MILE RUN: 8:15am, Zoll Street Beach, Harbor Springs. littletraversetri.com

-------------------KALEVA DAYS: July 14-16. Today includes horse back rides by Kay Miller, Big Bear Sportsman’s Club: 5 Stand/Archery/Skeet Shoot, live music by Tangle Eye, the Grand Parade & much more. visitmanisteecounty. com/event/kaleva-days

-------------------NEW PAINTINGS: THE LELAND SHOW: 11am-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Exhibition of new work by artists Angela Saxon, Royce Deans, Lynn Uhlmann & Anne Corlett. facebook.com/NewPaintingsTheLelandShow

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RANTZ ANNUAL ART EXHIBIT: 12-3pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. “Leelanau Landscapes.” northportartsforall.com/gene-rantz-show

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SUNDAY FUNDAY AT GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: 2pm, Flintfields Horse Park, Williamsburg. Grand Prix Show Jumping featuring Olympic athletes. Gates open at noon. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

-------------------FREE DELVING INTO SHORT FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP: 5-7pm, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. Learn some tools to help define & refine your short stories, & enjoy writing something new with a few writing prompts. northernwildes.com

-------------------TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: 6pm, Hazerot Park, Northport. Presented by Riverside Shakespeare. Valentine & Proteus tease each other over their love affairs, but when they end up as rivals for the same woman, it tests their friendship. 941-4953. Free. Find on Facebook.

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AROUND THE BAY: A CINEMATIC TOUR: 7pm, Lyric Theater, Harbor Springs. Featuring “Truman.” traversecityfilmfest.org/around-the-bay

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SUNDAY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, Harbor Pavilion at Edward C. Grace Memorial Harbor, Elk Rapids. With the Steel Drum Band.

Free. elkrapids.org/harbor

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FOUNTAIN POINT CONCERT SERIES: 7:309:30pm, Fountain Point Music, Lake Leelanau.

With The Giving Tree Band. $10-$20. fountainpointmusic.com

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MUSIC IN MACKINAW CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. 4th Annual Mustang Stampede mackinawchamber.com

MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL: 8pm, Studio Stage, behind Lake Street Studios, Glen Arbor.

Featuring blues duo Mulebone. Presented by the Glen Arbor Art Association. Tickets, $15; 18 & under, free. glenarborart.org

NAGATA SHACHU: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. A professional Japanese taiko drumming & music group. $37. tickets.interlochen.org

SUNDAY VESPER CONCERTS: 8pm, Bay View Association, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey.

“Heroes & Villains: Caped Crusaders, Comics & Cartoons.” bayviewassociation.org

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5TH ANNUAL UP NORTH STANDUP PADDLEBOARD CLASSIC: 8am-8pm. Featuring the Crystal Lake SUP Challenge on Crystal Lake, Beulah & the Lake Michigan Downwind Duel, starting at Point Betsie Lighthouse beach & finishing at Frankfort Beach. Register: upnorthsup.com/registration/

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WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. With Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Simone Porter, violin. $29. tickets.interlochen.org

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GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: Flintfields Horse Park, Williamsburg. July 1230. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN GATHER: 6:30pm, on the new moon or the Weds. prior to one, May-Oct. Please email wisewomengather@gmail for more info.

art LIVE MUSIC 7 DAYS A WEEK!

-------------------ALDEN EVENING STROLL : Thursdays, 6-8pm, Downtown Alden. A street party featuring live music, street performers, food & more.

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BEACH BARDS BONFIRE: Fridays, Leelanau School beach. Open forum for By Heart poetry, storytelling & music. Starts with Children’s Hour at 8pm. 231-334-5890.

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DIXIELAND DEVOTIONS: Weds., 7pm, The TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN Presbyterian Church, TC. Backroom Gang Jazz Band as they celebrate 20 years of music, laughs & inspiration. 946-5680. tcpresby.org

- - - - - -JOIN - - - - - - -US - - - -ON --ELLSWORTH MUSIC IN THE PARK: Weds., 6-8pm, Lake Street Pavilion, Downtown Ellsworth.

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“BLACK AND WHITE”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. A photography exhibit in small works of photographers. Exploring botanical, form, landscapes & abstractions. Runs through Aug. 10. higherartgallery.com

HAPPY HOUR

“CHANGESMon-Thurs IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES”: • 4-6pm Runs through July 25 at Jordan River Arts Center, East JorSun • Jordan ALLRiver DAY! dan. An exhibit of works by Arts Council Artist Gathering Participants. Hours are Tues. - Sun., 1-4pm. jordanriverarts.com “CITIES, LIKE DREAMS, SWAMPS WHERE CEDARS GROW”: The Provincial, Kaleva. An exhibition featuring over 50 works by 29 artists. Runs through July 15. Free and open to the public on Saturdays from 12-4pm during exhibition or by appointment. theprovincial.net “LAKE EFFECT”: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. A group exhibit featuring objects, sculpture, paintings & drawings by mid-career artists who have a strong connection to the region. Runs through July 21. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR: Mon., 2-4pm, Perry Hannah Memorial at 6th & Union, “THIS PLACE FEELS FAMILIAR”: Presented by students TC. A 2-mile walk10 through TC’s historicPianos 2 hour, Mon, July - Dueling 7-9:30pm from the•Aesthetics of Health Class led by Interlochen Arts neighborhoods. Emphasis is put on the 1840’s Academy’s Visual Art Department faculty member Megan through the early July twentieth through • the7-9:30pm summer in the cancer center’s  Tues, 11century.

- Sweetwater Hildebrandt.

BluesRuns Band

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Reflection Gallery on the third floor & Health & Wellness Suite

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YMCA. Theme: Local Inspirations. 11x14 Art Competition &

on the second floor, TC. munsonhealthcare.org/cancer JORDAN VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND:  7:30pm, Wednesdays - bandshell Electric Fusion Project featuring Thurs., Memorial Park, IN THE CITY ARTIST COMPETITION: Cadillac Area stage, East Jordan. ejchamber.org Jeff Haas & ART Don Julin • 7-9:30pm

fundraiser. The deadline is Aug. 23 & the preview party will QUIET TIME- GUIDED MEDITATION: Tues., held on Thurs., Aug. 24 from 4-6pm. 231-775-3369.

Thurs, July 13 TC. - Fat Pocket •be5-9pm 4pm, Munson Hospice House, 800-252paulk@cadillacareaymca.org 2065 or munsonhomehealth.org

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STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Sat., 9pm.

July 30. Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Presenting the Stone miles north Rapids off USSullies Circle: Sat,TenJuly 15 -of Elk The Wild • 6-10pm perspectives of 20 artists. Art Activist Paul Welch will hold a 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr. & follow signs. discussion of his work & the artists who influenced him on 231-264-9467. terry-wooten.com/index.html Mon., July 10 from 3-5pm. twistedfishgallery.com

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STORY HOUR: Weds., 10am, Helena TownSOCIETY OF ANIMAL ARTISTS GUILD Anthony StancoINTERNATIONAL 7-9:30pm ship Community Center, Alden. Bring your preEXHIBIT: Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Runs through July 15. schoolers to listen to stories, have a snack & charlevoixcircle.com meet new friends. Sponsored by Alden District JULY ARTISTS OF THE MONTH: Featuring Don Rutt & Library/Friends of the Library. 231-331-4318.

westbaybeachresorttraversecity.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James DeWildt. The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, STROLL THE STREETS: Fri., 6-9pm, Main St., Boyne City. Featuring live music, magicians, caricature artists, face painters & balloon twisters. boynecitymainstreet.com

TC. thebotanicgarden.org/events

Eat. Drink. Kiss a Moose.

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• ALDEN FARMERS MARKET: Thurs., 4-7pm, Tennis Court Park, Alden.

• BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Veterans Park, Boyne City. Held on Wednesdays & Saturdays, 8am-noon. boynecitymainstreet.com • CHARLEVOIX FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 8am-1pm, 408 Bridge St., Charlevoix. charlevoixmainstreet.org/farmers-market • DOWNTOWN GAYLORD FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9:30am, Downtown Gaylord Pavilion. Find on Facebook.

• DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8:30am-1pm, 400 block of Howard St. between Mitchell & Michigan streets. petoskeychamber.com • EAST JORDAN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 8am-12pm, Sportsman’s Park, East Jordan.

• ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-12pm, Elk Rapids Chamber, 305 US 31. elkrapidschamber.org • GROW BENZIE FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 3-7pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. Featuring free cooking & nutrition education classes.

Find on Facebook.

• SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET, TC: Saturdays, 7:30am-12pm; Wednesdays, 8am-12pm. Lot B, across from Clinch Park, TC. downtowntc.com • THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 12-4pm on The Piazza, The Village at GT Commons, TC. thevillagetc.com

MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS: Through Aug. 30, City Opera House, TC. This exhibition features paintings in oil, watercolor, pastel & acrylic. A portion of all sales benefits the City Opera House. cityoperahouse.org

At the oldest restaurant in Michigan

-------------------COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS: Tuesdays, 5:30pm, New Moon Yoga, TC. Donation only. newmoonyogastudio.com

NORTHPORT ARTS HISTORY EXHIBIT: Through July 9, Village Arts Building, Northport. Featuring the works of Emily Nash Smith, Hans Anderson & black ash baskets & quillwork made by Leelanau’s Odawa & Anishnabek artists.

Presented by the Northport Arts Association. 231-3861113. northportartsforall.com TODD & BRAD REED OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Through Aug. 26, Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. gacaevents.weebly.com Lake Street Studios, Center Gallery, Glen Arbor: BARBARA COCHRAN EXHIBIT: Through July 13. This Maple City painter shows paintings that reflect the color & spirit of Leelanau County. 231-334-3179.

JOSEPH LOMBARDO EXHIBIT: Lombardo continues his study of Glen Arbor with a series of new paintings, July 1420. An artist’s reception will be held on Fri., July 14 from 6-8pm. He will conduct a demonstration on Sun., July 16 at 1pm. 231-334-3179. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey: CTAC SUMMER ARTISANS MARKET: Fridays, 9am1pm, Bidwell Plaza. Artisans will sell their work & provide demonstrations.

“OUR NATIONAL PARKS” JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Held in honor of Ansel Adams & the 100th Anniversary of our National Parks. Runs through Sept. 9.

THROUGH THE LENS: ANSEL ADAMS - HIS WORK, INSPIRATION & LEGACY: Runs through Sep. 30 in Bonfield & Gilbert Galleries. Featuring 47 iconic images of Ansel Adams & 1 portrait of Ansel Adams by James Alinder. crookedtree.org

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Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC: MONTE NAGLER: VISIONS OF LIGHT: Runs through Aug. 2.

A collection of photographic work by Michigan’s own Monte 717 RANDOLPH, TRAVERSE | SLEDERS.COM CITYstudent | 231.947.9213 Nagler, a former of Ansel Adams.

FREE COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS: WednesNORTHERN LIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Runs days, 7:30pm, Bikram Yoga, 845 S. Garfield through Aug. 2. An exhibition of night sky photography & Ave., TC. bikramyogatc.com the Northern Lights. Presented in collaboration with the Michigan Aurora Hunters. crookedtree.org

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32ND ANNUAL PETOSKEY ART IN THE PARK: 10am-6pm, Pennsylvania Park, Downtown Petoskey. Featuring about 130 booths.

-------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: 10am-3pm, Horizon Books, Cadillac. Featuring Judith St. King, author of “Incomplete Diary of Good and Evil,” & Pamela Dushane, author of “Popping Bubbles with Rocco.” 231-775-9979.

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LIFELONG LEARNING: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: 10am-12pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. Presented by Tony Dunaske, a retired NCMC professor & photographer. Photographic walk to follow class. Registration required. Free. petoskeylibrary.evanced.info/signup/Calendar

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NEW PAINTINGS: THE LELAND SHOW: 10am-5pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Exhibition of new work by artists Angela Saxon, Royce Deans, Lynn Uhlmann & Anne Corlett. facebook.com/NewPaintingsTheLelandShow

-------------------SHAY DAYS: (See Fri., July 14) --------------------

AUTHORS VISIT: Horizon Books, TC. 12-2pm: Carla Blacker will sign her book “Salt in the Wound and the Courage to Forgive.” 2-4pm: Julie Buntin will read from & talk about her book “Marlena.” horizonbooks.com

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BUSINESS/CONSULTANT EXPO: 12-5pm, Trader’s Outpost Open Space, 309 N. Dansforth St., Mancelona. Over 20 vendors will represent their businesses in a flea market style. Free. 989255-7206 or hmull812@gmail.com. Free.

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LEELANAU PENINSULA WINE ON THE WATER FESTIVAL: 1-7pm, Marina Park, Suttons Bay. Tickets, $15 advance; $20 gate. Tastes from local wineries, breweries & cideries, plus local fare, live music, including Jabo Bihlman’s Family Jam & Fifth Gear & more. leelanauchamber.com

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“MADAGASCAR - A MUSICAL ADVENTURE, JR.”: 2pm & 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company. $15 adults; $6 under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com

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sunday

KINGSLEY HERITAGE DAYS: kingsleyheritagedays.com

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RIDE AROUND TORCH: Starts at Elk Rapids High School. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club with routes that include 26, 40, 63 & 100 miles. $40 individuals, $90 familes in advance; $50/$100 day of. Enjoy a scenic route, food stops & a posttour picnic at the beach-side park in Elk Rapids. Different start times for various distances.

Proceeds benefit bicycling in the Grand Traverse area. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

-------------------LITTLE TRAVERSE TRIATHLON, MINI KIDS RACE, & 4 MILE RUN: 8:15am, Zoll Street Beach, Harbor Springs. littletraversetri.com

-------------------KALEVA DAYS: July 14-16. Today includes horse back rides by Kay Miller, Big Bear Sportsman’s Club: 5 Stand/Archery/Skeet Shoot, live music by Tangle Eye, the Grand Parade & much more. visitmanisteecounty. com/event/kaleva-days

-------------------NEW PAINTINGS: THE LELAND SHOW: 11am-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Exhibition of new work by artists Angela Saxon, Royce Deans, Lynn Uhlmann & Anne Corlett. facebook.com/NewPaintingsTheLelandShow

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RANTZ ANNUAL ART EXHIBIT: 12-3pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. “Leelanau Landscapes.” northportartsforall.com/gene-rantz-show

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SUNDAY FUNDAY AT GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: 2pm, Flintfields Horse Park, Williamsburg. Grand Prix Show Jumping featuring Olympic athletes. Gates open at noon. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

-------------------FREE DELVING INTO SHORT FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP: 5-7pm, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. Learn some tools to help define & refine your short stories, & enjoy writing something new with a few writing prompts. northernwildes.com

-------------------PIZZA & PIPES: Music House Museum, Culinary Adventure Series Williamsburg. Pizza dinner & a concert from -------------------Detroit Fox Theater & Red Wings organist Dave Calendine. Doors open at 6pm with the concert at 6:30pm. Tickets: $25 adults, $10 10 & under.

Reservations required by 4pm on July 14. 9389300. musichouse.org

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: 6pm, Hazerot Park, Northport. Presented by Riverside Shakespeare. Valentine & Proteus tease each other over their love affairs, but when they end up as rivals for the same woman, it tests their friendship. 941-4953. Free. Find on Facebook.

FARM FORK

-------------------TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: 6pm, Memorial Park, Elk Rapids. Presented by Riverside Shakespeare. Best friends Valentine & Proteus tease each other over their love affairs, but when they end up as rivals for the same woman, it tests their friendship. 9414953. Free. Find on Facebook.

-------------------MULEBONE: 7:30pm, Aten Place, Boyne Falls.

They have spent 15 weeks in the Top 100 Albums in America. $16/$15. atenplace.com

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“PIPPIN”: 8pm, Bay14 View Association, John JULY M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. $15-$28. bayviewassociation.org

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AROUND THE BAY: A CINEMATIC TOUR: 7pm, Lyric Theater, Harbor Springs. Featuring “Truman.” traversecityfilmfest.org/around-the-bay

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SUNDAY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, Harbor Pavilion at Edward C. Grace Memorial Harbor, Elk Rapids. With the Steel Drum Band.

Free. elkrapids.org/harbor

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#EatLocal

FOUNTAIN POINT CONCERT SERIES: 7:309:30pm, Fountain Point Music, Lake Leelanau.

With The Giving Tree Band. $10-$20. fountainpointmusic.com

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MUSIC IN MACKINAW CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. 4th Annual MusAUGUST 25 tang Stampede mackinawchamber.com

MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL: 8pm, Studio Stage, behind Lake Street Studios, Glen Arbor.

Featuring blues duo Mulebone. Presented by the Glen Arbor Art Association. Tickets, $15; 18 & under, free. glenarborart.org

NAGATA SHACHU: 8pm, Interlochen Center 22 A professional for theSEPTEMBER Arts, Kresge Auditorium.

Japanese taiko drumming & music group. $37. tickets.interlochen.org

SUNDAY VESPER CONCERTS: 8pm, Bay View Association, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey.

“Heroes & Villains: Caped Crusaders, Comics & Cartoons.” bayviewassociation.org

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5TH ANNUAL UP NORTH STANDUP PADDLEBOARD CLASSIC: 8am-8pm. Featuring the Crystal Lake SUP Challenge on Crystal Lake, Beulah & the Lake Michigan Downwind Duel, starting at Point Betsie Lighthouse beach & finishing at Frankfort Beach. Register: upnorthsup.com/registration/

RESERVE TODAY!

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WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. With Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Simone Porter, violin. $29. tickets.interlochen.org

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GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: Flintfields Horse Park, Williamsburg. July 1230. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com 888-TREETOPS TREETOPS.COM

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MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN GATHER: 6:30pm, on the new moon or the Weds. prior to one, May-Oct. Please email wisewomengather@gmail for more info.

-------------------ALDEN EVENING STROLL : Thursdays, 6-8pm, Downtown Alden. A street party featuring live music, street performers, food & more.

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BEACH BARDS BONFIRE: Fridays, Leelanau School beach. Open forum for By Heart poetry, storytelling & music. Starts with Children’s Hour at 8pm. 231-334-5890.

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DIXIELAND DEVOTIONS: Weds., 7pm, The Presbyterian Church, TC. Backroom Gang Jazz Band as they celebrate 20 years of music, laughs & inspiration. 946-5680. tcpresby.org

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art

“BLACK AND WHITE”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. A photography exhibit in small works of photographers. Exploring botanical, form, landscapes & abstractions. Runs through Aug. 10. higherartgallery.com “CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES”: Runs through July 25 at Jordan River Arts Center, East Jordan. An exhibit of works by Jordan River Arts Council Artist Gathering Participants. Hours are Tues. - Sun., 1-4pm. jordanriverarts.com “CITIES, LIKE DREAMS, SWAMPS WHERE CEDARS GROW”: The Provincial, Kaleva. An exhibition featuring over 50 works by 29 artists. Runs through July 15. Free and open to the public on Saturdays from 12-4pm during exhibition or by appointment. theprovincial.net

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“LAKE EFFECT”: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. A group exhibit featuring objects, sculpture, paintings & drawings by mid-career artists who have a strong connection to the region. Runs through July 21. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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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

ELLSWORTH MUSIC IN THE PARK: Weds., 6-8pm, Lake Street Pavilion, Downtown Ellsworth.

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

JORDAN VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND: Thurs., 7:30pm, Memorial Park, bandshell stage, East Jordan. ejchamber.org

-------------------QUIET TIME- GUIDED MEDITATION: Tues., 4pm, Munson Hospice House, TC. 800-2522065 or munsonhomehealth.org

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STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Sat., 9pm.

Stone Circle: Ten miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr. & follow signs.

231-264-9467. terry-wooten.com/index.html

-------------------STORY HOUR: Weds., 10am, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Bring your preschoolers to listen to stories, have a snack & meet new friends. Sponsored by Alden District Library/Friends of the Library. 231-331-4318.

ART IN THE CITY ARTIST COMPETITION: Cadillac Area YMCA. Theme: Local Inspirations. 11x14 Art Competition & fundraiser. The deadline is Aug. 23 & the preview party will be held on Thurs., Aug. 24 from 4-6pm. 231-775-3369. paulk@cadillacareaymca.org FROM WITHIN II, A DEPARTURE FROM REALITY: Through July 30. Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Presenting the perspectives of 20 artists. Art Activist Paul Welch will hold a discussion of his work & the artists who influenced him on Mon., July 10 from 3-5pm. twistedfishgallery.com INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANIMAL ARTISTS GUILD EXHIBIT: Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Runs through July 15. charlevoixcircle.com

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JULY ARTISTS OF THE MONTH: Featuring Don Rutt & James DeWildt. The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. thebotanicgarden.org/events

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MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS: Through Aug. 30, City Opera House, TC. This exhibition features paintings in oil, watercolor, pastel & acrylic. A portion of all sales benefits the City Opera House. cityoperahouse.org

STROLL THE STREETS: Fri., 6-9pm, Main St., Boyne City. Featuring live music, magicians, caricature artists, face painters & balloon twisters. boynecitymainstreet.com

• ALDEN FARMERS MARKET: Thurs., 4-7pm, Tennis Court Park, Alden.

• BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Veterans Park, Boyne City. Held on Wednesdays & Saturdays, 8am-noon. boynecitymainstreet.com • CHARLEVOIX FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 8am-1pm, 408 Bridge St., Charlevoix. charlevoixmainstreet.org/farmers-market • DOWNTOWN GAYLORD FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9:30am, Downtown Gaylord Pavilion. Find on Facebook.

• DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8:30am-1pm, 400 block of Howard St. between Mitchell & Michigan streets. petoskeychamber.com • EAST JORDAN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 8am-12pm, Sportsman’s Park, East Jordan.

• ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-12pm, Elk Rapids Chamber, 305 US 31. elkrapidschamber.org • GROW BENZIE FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 3-7pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. Featuring free cooking & nutrition education classes.

Find on Facebook.

• SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET, TC: Saturdays, 7:30am-12pm; Wednesdays, 8am-12pm. Lot B, across from Clinch Park, TC. downtowntc.com • THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 12-4pm on The Piazza, The Village at GT Commons, TC. thevillagetc.com

-------------------COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS: Tuesdays, 5:30pm, New Moon Yoga, TC. Donation only. newmoonyogastudio.com

-------------------FREE COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS: Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Bikram Yoga, 845 S. Garfield Ave., TC. bikramyogatc.com

NORTHPORT ARTS HISTORY EXHIBIT: Through July 9, Village Arts Building, Northport. Featuring the works of Emily Nash Smith, Hans Anderson & black ash baskets & quillwork made by Leelanau’s Odawa & Anishnabek artists.

Presented by the Northport Arts Association. 231-3861113. northportartsforall.com TODD & BRAD REED OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Through Aug. 26, Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. gacaevents.weebly.com Lake Street Studios, Center Gallery, Glen Arbor: BARBARA COCHRAN EXHIBIT: Through July 13. This Maple City painter shows paintings that reflect the color & spirit of Leelanau County. 231-334-3179.

JOSEPH LOMBARDO EXHIBIT: Lombardo continues his study of Glen Arbor with a series of new paintings, July 1420. An artist’s reception will be held on Fri., July 14 from 6-8pm. He will conduct a demonstration on Sun., July 16 at 1pm. 231-334-3179. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey: CTAC SUMMER ARTISANS MARKET: Fridays, 9am1pm, Bidwell Plaza. Artisans will sell their work & provide demonstrations.

“OUR NATIONAL PARKS” JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Held in honor of Ansel Adams & the 100th Anniversary of our National Parks. Runs through Sept. 9.

THROUGH THE LENS: ANSEL ADAMS - HIS WORK, INSPIRATION & LEGACY: Runs through Sep. 30 in Bonfield & Gilbert Galleries. Featuring 47 iconic images of Ansel Adams & 1 portrait of Ansel Adams by James Alinder. crookedtree.org Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC: MONTE NAGLER: VISIONS OF LIGHT: Runs through Aug. 2.

A collection of photographic work by Michigan’s own Monte Nagler, a former student of Ansel Adams.

NORTHERN LIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Runs through Aug. 2. An exhibition of night sky photography & the Northern Lights. Presented in collaboration with the Michigan Aurora Hunters. crookedtree.org

FOURSCORE

DOWNTOWN

TRAVERSE CITY

by kristi kates

Various Artists – 2017 Tony Award Season – Broadway Records

SUNDAY 1:30 • 4 • 6:40 • 9 PM MONDAY - THURSDAY 1:30 • 4 • 6:30 • 9 PM

If you can’t get to Broadway, this album — at least for your ears — is the next best thing. Broadway Records has entered into an official collaboration with the Tony Awards, so this is the first compilation album specifically for the Tonys. A portion of the proceeds go to help theater productions and arts education initiatives, so you’re already starting your purchase at a karma surplus. Then, of course, there’s all that music: The quirky “Sincerely, Me” from Dear Evan Hansen, “The Last Night of the World” from Miss Saigon, “Seeing You” from Groundhog Day, and “Nobody” from Bandstand are just a few of the standouts you’ll hear.

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017)PG TUE, THU & SAT 10 AM - 25¢ Kids Matinee

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THE BLUES BROTHERSR FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKS $3 or 2 for $5

Christopher Spelman – The Lost City of Z Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Filmtrax

The 2016 movie is based on the 2009 adventure book of the same name by David Grann about a series of attempts to find an ancient lost city in the Amazon rainforest; its soundtrack travels along that same track of drama, suspense, and the sometimes murky haze of being in a misty, unfamiliar jungle environment.

“The Hunt” contrasts the unknown with the familiar, as its main melody swims in bagpipes; while the more exotic, tribal drum-heavy sounds of “The Attack” and the gripping “Crossing the River” convey the peril of the whole excursion. It may not be a particularly daring or different score, but it is well suited to the film.

DOWNTOWN

IN CLINCH PARK

Petoskey, Lansing, Mt. Pleasant, Gaylord and two locations in Traverse City.

SUNDAY - THURSDAY 1 • 3:30 • 6 • 8:30 PM 231-947-4800

Bette Midler and Cast – Hello Dolly! The New Broadway Cast Recording – Masterworks Broadway

The talent of this show is exemplary, from the great Ms. Midler and full-of-personality David Hyde Pierce (perhaps best known as Niles Crane on the TV sitcom Frasier) and all the way to the orchestra. All of the above prove top-notch at translating a revitalized version of this old chestnut to a new Broadway era.

So what’s the problem? The recording itself, which fails to capture enough of that live energy, instead adds in several unwelcome annoyances: a lack of cohesion in the orchestra mix, a hesitant feel overall, and a peculiar brand of echo that sounds like Dolly fell into a sewer tunnel.

Geoff Zanelli – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales – Walt Disney Records

After a lackluster fourth installment that almost alienated a sizeable segment of Pirates fans, the series aims to get its bandanna’d groove back with its fifth film, and they call upon Zanelli to help recapture the vim and vigor of Johnny Depp and crew. Will you hear any audio swashbuckling? You bet — so even if the movie doesn’t live up to your pirating standards, the soundtrack will. The familiar recurring themes composer Hans Zimmer set down in the series’ earlier scores are now infused into Zanelli’s own tracks, like the suspenseful “You Speak of the Trident,” the appropriately confident “My Name is Barbossa,” and the complex, winding arrangement of El Matador Del Mar.” With subtle hooks from those original themes sprinkled throughout, this is the perfect accompaniment for a Pirates revival.

THURSDAY JULY 13 - CHRIS WINK FRIDAY JULY 14 - MIKE MORAN SATURDAY JULY 15 - NICK VASQUEZ

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DEATH CAB’S DEPPER GETS EMOTIONAL Death Cab for Cutie bandmate Dave Depper, who’s also been collaborating with the bands Fruit Bats and Menomena, is finally releasing his own debut solo album, Emotional Freedom Technique, complete with nine tracks of synthy pop that embrace the influences of David Bowie and ABBA. This is a new venture for Depper, who started writing songs for this solo work in 2012, the beginning of a process he said helped him find his “own sound.” Emotional Freedom Technique is in outlets now on Tender Loving Empire Records …

Icelandic singer Bjork has released an unusual music video from her 2015 album Vulnicura, which might seem even more unusual considering that the album is two years old. Bjork decided to return to the album this year (already having released several traditional-format videos when the album first came out) to add on some virtual reality (VR) vids for her fans. The first of these is the single “Notget,” which features the singer transforming, via computer animations, throughout the clip from a black insect-like character to a neon-gold creature as the tune fades out. The VR version of “Notget” can be viewed in several different versions on YouTube …

If you like ’70s movies, disco music, and

MODERN

ROCK

BY KRISTI KATES

John Travolta, then this next piece of news is for you: The History Hollywood Auction is auctioning off the original light-up dance floor from the classic movie Saturday Night Fever, a movie that’s been deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the U.S. Library of Congress. The dance floor, which measures 24 feet by 16 feet, is made up of red, blue, and yellow light-up panels, and is expected to be auctioned to the highest bidder for at least $1 million …

Speaking of ’70s classics, a musical version of singer Cher’s life is heading to Broadway in 2018, an announcement that arrives on the heels of her recent performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, where the 71-yearold performed wearing, well … not much at all. Jason Moore (Avenue Q/ Pitch Perfect) is set to direct the show, which will tell the story of Cher’s life and career and feature many of her greatest hits, so far thought to include “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves,” “If I Could Turn Back Time,” and “Believe.” Cher, who attended a secret pre-read of the show back in January, said that she “sobbed and laughed” through the performance and that the preview audience gave it a standing ovation …

LINK OF THE WEEK Head 14 hours south from northern Michigan, and you’ll be in Atlanta, Georgia, a good place to aim your car if you’re looking

for some cool music this fall. The one-day ONE Musicfest 2017, now in its eighth year, will take over Hotlanta’s Lakewood Amphetheater on Sept. 9 with a deep slate of live performances from Jill Scott, Damian Marley, Detroit rapper Sean Paul, Tank and the Bangas, Too $hort, Kaytranada, Jidenna, and Ari Lennox. ONE also will present what’s reportedly going to be the farewell show of Yasiin Bey (Mos Def). For tickets and more information, check out onemusicfest.com …

THE BUZZ The Black Music Award Association voted Detroit-based Motown cover group Serieux the best R&B vocal group in Michigan …

Justin Bieber, who will perform at Toronto’s Rogers Center Sept. 5 and 6 this year, has teamed up with famed French DJ

and record producer David Guetta for an upcoming mystery collaboration, teasing the song title “2U” on social media …

The Michigan-originated dream-pop band In the Valley Below has just relocated from Los Angeles back to Grand Rapids, where it’s currently booking a summer slate of local shows …

Fellow Grand Rapids rock outfit The Autumnatic has announced that it’s made plans to record a new EP at the city’s StoneHouse Recordings later this year …

And Katy Perry has added a Grand Rapids stop to her 2017 tour. She’ll perform at Van Andel Arena on Dec. 7 … 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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The reel

by meg weichman

BABY DRIVER cars 3

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Six years after the hyperactive mess of a Bond-esque spy romp that was Cars 2, the third installment drops and attempts to right the course with director Brian Fee taking the wheel from Pixar CCO John Lasseter (Toy Story) and returning to the simple charms of the first. This is a thoughtful, poignant, and touching character-driven film that brings everything people loved about Cars full circle. Racing great Lighting McQueen (Owen Wilson), suddenly finds himself at the back of the pack as rookie racers, fueled by the latest technology, are beating him. These “next gen” rivals, led

by Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer), won’t let Lightning forget his “glory days” are behind him. And after a near-fatal crash, it seems he’s done with racing. But then a new sponsor swoops in and offers him another chance at glory, taking Lightning to his state-of-the-art training facility, where he meets trainer Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo) and embarks on a journey that takes him back to the world of his departed mentor, Doc (Paul Newman), as he puts it all on the line for a big make-or-break race. This is an incredibly didactic work, but its pedagogy is just so amiable and tender, it feels like something special. I’m talking about a focus on aging, respecting your elders, and the cyclical nature of life. So despite the predictable sportsdrama narrative and overt sentimentality, this is satisfying and straightforward storytelling with the gentlest of hearts. Cars 3 may not be Pixar’s best, but it’s still Pixar, doing what Pixar does best.

The German polymath Gottfried Leibniz remarked 300 years ago that music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting, without being aware that it is counting. If that observation holds true (and I think even those of us who are wholly math averse would agree that it might), then Baby Driver might be one of the most pleasurable movies ever made. Not only is it fun, exciting, and genuinely moving, it’s paired with music unlike anything seen in cinema before. Every car horn honk, every gunshot fired, even every set-down coffee cup or sneaker squeak is on rhythm, sometimes overtly and sometimes subliminally. And this choice doesn’t cloy, like you would expect. It envelopes and invigorates.

It’s basically a movie musical, just without all that singing.

Edgar Wright, the film’s writer and director, was last on the big screen with 2013’s The World’s End, the conclusion to his Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy (which included 2004’s Sean of the Dead and 2007’s Hot Fuzz.) He’s a skilled director who can helm a certain kind of British comedy with aplomb, but you wouldn’t necessarily peg him as an action guy.

But Baby Driver reveals that his grasp of image, movement, and sound is both revolutionary and deeply familiar. Only he could’ve made this movie — you can feel this is a culmination of all he’s seen and absorbed as a cinephile and music obsessive.

And is it cool? Boy howdy, it’s the coolest damn movie you’ve ever seen. It’s effortlessly cool.

Tarantino on his best day couldn’t match even a shade of this level of cool.

The baby driver here is actually named Baby (The Fault in Our Stars’ Ansel Elgort), a getaway driver with an uncanny knack for outrunning the authorities. He’s a good kid, too. His handler, Doc (Nine Lives’ Kevin Spacey), considers the taciturn Baby his good luck charm. And even though Doc never uses the same crew twice, he’s always got Baby behind the wheel. What’s Baby’s secret to being the most skilled, daring driver out there? Baby’s got tinnitus, so he’s never without his ear buds; to drown out the ringing, he’s always bumpin’ to some tunes.

The opening car chase (no spoilers — this is a car-chase movie) is perhaps the most exciting car chase since 1971’s The French Connection.

Baby’s driving to a bank heist so he can spirit the assailants away. He scrolls through and chooses a song on his iPod. Once the robbers are out of the car and at their task, Baby lets loose; he drums on the steering wheel, flicks the wipers on and off, and lip-synchs the lyrics. The job complete, the robbers get back in the car and look forward. But Baby guns it in reverse, drifts the car around in clouds of smoke, and effortlessly speeds through city streets. Never has a car looked so nimble, like

it’s dancing on tiptoe.

The best part of this opening set piece might be the looks shared between the bank robbers (including Mad Men’s Jon Hamm as Buddy, and Sicario’s Jon Bernthal) as they are awed at just what this kid can do in a car. Their getaway is breathtaking, flawless, and clever. And as they complete their escape, Buddy squeezes Baby’s shoulder with a look of genuine admiration, and you’re instantly on Baby’s side. Like Doc said, He’s a good kid. And Elgort is something akin to Gene Kelly meets Steve McQueen by way of Jacques Tati. In short, he’s divine.

But Baby’s in over his head. He lost his parents at an early age and took to boosting cars as a way to get by. He lives with his foster father (deaf actor CJ Jones) and is slowly paying off an underworld debt by getaway driving. He’s haunted by the memory of his mother, so he spends his free time at the diner where she used to work. There he meets Deborah (Cinderella’s Lily James), a waitress who’s intrigued by the brooding Baby.

The two hit it off, bridged by a love of music and the tallying of songs that contain their names (only two songs with Deborah in the title; untold numbers with Baby).

Naturally, the jobs Baby drives for get increasingly dangerous and require the participation of more and more frightening individuals. And it all leads to the biggest and most dangerous heist yet. Baby wants out though, to escape with Deborah with only their love and his music. But then things, of course, take a turn ...

There are great performances and characters aplenty, but it’s the music in Baby Driver that really stands out. It’s our helpful narrator, tonesetter, and constant companion. The songs range from known classics you know by heart (like the Commondore’s “Easy”) to obscure footnotes you’ve probably never heard at all (like one by ’90s Britpop band Blur that perfectly scores a meticulously planned situation’s inevitable descent into chaos). You’re gonna walk out of the theater downloading the soundtrack.

Baby Driver is poised to be the film of the summer, and it couldn’t be more deserving. It’s a sleeper blockbuster that’s going to set the bar for action movies for years to come. It’s a thrilling dance party that you’ll want to watch it again.

And it excites you about the cinema in the way only a bravura achievement can. You could see it a dozen times and still come out energized and exuberant. Maybe it’ll even resurrect Apple’s now-discontinued iPod. That would be a feat. But you never know; like Baby himself, this movie can do almost anything.

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

rough night

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ough Night, the latest in the growing line of girls-gonebad comedies, is the kind of movie that makes you question your commitment about halfway through. What did I get myself into? Should I leave now before it gets any worse? And by “gets any worse” we’re not talking about the writing or acting or quality of the film but about the situation the characters find themselves in. The situations are horrific, too terrible to be believed, and you wonder how this could turn itself back into a comedy. But it is a comedy, and a pretty good one, too — you just have to trust that it knows what it’s doing. The wildly successful Bridesmaids set the scene for films like this, cementing the idea that a lot of us already knew: Women could be hysterically funny and carry bawdy comedies just as well as males. Rough Night further proves this true by assembling known comediennes (including Jillian Bell, national treasure Kate McKinnon, and Broad City’s Ilana Glazer) and matching them with an A-lister (Scarlett Johansson) in a story about a bachelorette party that goes off the rails (like, manslaughter off the rails). The result is a dark but incredibly funny film that is much more than a one-note raunch fest.

wonder woman

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onder Woman is not the movie you think it is (or worried it would be). It’s not some campy, exploitative, or perfunctory “female superhero” movie. Its feminism is natural as can be, and its empowerment is something you feel in your bones. And it’s not really a superhero movie. No, it’s more an anachronistic and stylized war movie ¬— like a PG-13 Inglorious Basterds, or a retro-cool globetrotting adventure á la Indiana Jones — than your standard caped crusader fare. Plus for a DC Universe film, it is not only free of the brooding tedium that has befallen so many of its recent films but also has finally found a Marvel-esque balance of light and dark, seriousness and levity. Most crucially though, unlike folly-filled predecessors like Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman is actually good. Like really, really, really good. What we have here is an origin story, but one never bogged down by mythology or exposition, that takes Diana, aka Wonder Woman (a revelatory Gal Gadot), from her sheltered idyllic island to the Front of WWI with an absolutely delightful Chris Pine adding some serious rom-com vibes.

Wonder Woman is a comic book story that is both familiar and revolutionary. It’s a more nourishing and meaningful experience than you can imagine, and one that so earnestly pursues its ideals it reminds us, as cheesy as it might seem, that love can change the world.

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Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee

CADILLAC SANDS RESORT, SANDBAR NITECLUB Sat -- Dance videos, Phattrax DJs, 8:30

MITCHELL STREET PUB, CADILLAC 7/8 -- Limelight, 9

Irish morph band Wild Sullys blends traditional Irish music & contemporary Americana with some of their original music in TC this weekend! Find them at Kilkenny’s on Fri., July 14 at 9:30pm & West Bay Beach Resort on Sat., July 15 from 6-10pm.

Grand Traverse & Kalkaska ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM, TC 7/8 -- Hannah Harris & Dane Hyde, 7-9 7/11 -- Open & Un-mic'd w/ Ben Johnson, 7-9 7/14 -- Arts For All Benefit; Andre Villoch plays, 7-9 7/15 -- Jenny Thomas, 7-9 BONOBO WINERY, TC 7/9 -- Sunday Funday w/ Jeff Brown, 2-4 7/11 -- E Minor, 6-8 7/14 -- The Swan Brothers, 6-8 BUD'S, INTERLOCHEN Thu -- Jim Hawley, 5-8 CHATEAU CHANTAL, TC Thu -- Jazz at Sunset w/ Jeff Haas Trio & special guests, 7-9:30 CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE, TC 7/12 -- Wine Down Wednesdays w/ E Minor, 5-7 FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close GT DISTILLERY, TC 7/14 -- Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 HAYLOFT INN, TC Thu -- Open mic night by Roundup Radio Show, 8 KILKENNY'S, TC 7/7-8 -- Risqué, 9:30 7/14 -- Wild Sullys, 9:30 7/15 -- Off Beat Band, 9:30 Sun -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia , 7-9 Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 Thu -- 2 Bays DJs, 9:30 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 7/10 -- Open Mic w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 7/14 -- Jeff Brown, 6-8

LITTLE BOHEMIA, TC Tue -- TC Celtic, 7-9

THE LITTLE FLEET, TC 7/14 -- Escaping Pavement, 6:30-9:30

BLUE PELICAN, CENTRAL LAKE 7/15 -- Billy P & Kate, 6-9

PARK PLACE HOTEL, BEACON LOUNGE, TC Thu,Fri,Sat -- Tom Kaufmann, 8:30

THE PARLOR, TC 7/11 -- Clint Weaner, 7:30-10:30

BOYNE CITY TAP ROOM 7/14 -- Sean Bielby, 8-11 7/15 -- Pat Ryan, 8-11

ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 7/14 -- TC Celtic, 6-9 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Karaoke w/ Phattrax DJs SIDE TRAXX, TC Wed -- Impaired Karaoke, 10 7/14-7/15 -- DJ/VJ Mike King, 9-9 STREETERS, GROUND ZERO, TC 7/15 -- Becoming Human w/ Live For Tomorrow, Graves Crossing & Parsec, 8 STUDIO ANATOMY, TC 7/15 -- Comedy Night, 9 TC WHISKEY CO. 7/13 -- Paul Livingston, 6-8 7/16 -- Drew Hale, 3-5 TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 7/9 -- Kids Open Mic, 3 Tue -- Turbo Pup, 7-9 Thu -- G-Snacks, 7-9 Fri -- Rob Coonrod, 7-9 THE FILLING STATION MICROBREWERY, THE PLATFORM, TC 7/8 -- Paddlebot, 8-11 7/10 -- Gypsy Blues, 7-10 7/12 -- Loren Johnson, 7-10 7/13 -- Chris Sterr, 7-10 7/14 -- Bigfoot Buffalo, 8-11 7/15 -- Glenn Poorman, 8-11 7/16 -- Kasondra Rose, 1-4

THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 7/7 — Big Dudee Roo 7/8 — The Pocket 7/11 -- The Workshop Live Jazz Jam: Summer Edition, 6-10 7/14 — Scott Pellegrom 7/15 — Steve Leaf & the Expats UNION STREET STATION, TC 7/10 -- Jukebox, 10 7/11 -- Open Mic w/ Host Chris Sterr, 10 7/12 -- 2 Bays DJs, 10 7/13 -- The Brothers Crunch, 10 7/14 -- Happy Hour w/ Joe Wilson Trio, then Brett Mitchell &The Giant Ghost, 5 7/15 -- Brett Mitchell & The Giant Ghost, 10 7/16 -- Karaoke, 10 WEST BAY BEACH RESORT, TC 7/8 — Strobelite Honey, 6-10; DJ Motaz, 10-2 7/13 — Fat Pocket, 5-9 7/14 — 3 Hearted, 6-10 7/15 — Wild Sullys, 6-10; DJ Motaz, 10-2 Mon -- Dueling Pianos, 7-9:30 Tue -- Sweetwater Blues Band, 7-9:30 Wed -- Electic Fusion Project Jam Band w/ Jeff Haas, Don Julin, Jack Dryden & Randy Marsh, 7-9:30 Sun -- DJ Motaz, 4-7; Jazz w/ Jeff Haas Trio plus Anthony Stanco & Laurie Sears, 7-9:30

BRIDGE STREET TAP ROOM, CHARLEVOIX 7/8 -- Ty Parkin, 8-11 7/9 -- Chris Calleja, 7-10 7/11 — Sean Bielby, 7-10 7/14 — Pat Ryan 7/15 — Ben Overbeek, 8-11 7/16 — Pete Kehoe, 7-10

CELLAR 152, ELK RAPIDS 7/8 -- Levi Britton, 7:30-9:30 7/14 -- Turbo Pup, 6:30-9:30 7/15 -- Abigail Stauffer, 6:30-9:30 RED MESA GRILL, BOYNE CITY 7/11 -- Third Groove, 7-10 SHANTY CREEK RESORTS, LAKEVIEW RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, BELLAIRE 7/8 -- Danny Bellenbaum, 8:30-11:30 7/15 -- Kenny Thompson, 8:30-11:30 SHORT'S BREWING CO., BELLAIRE 7/8 -- Levi Britton, 8:30-11:30 7/9 -- The Rough &Tumble, 8-11

THE LANDING RESTAURANT, CHARLEVOIX 7/9 -- Dave Cisco, 2-5 7/10 -- Chris Sterr, 6-9 7/13 -- Nelson Olstrom, 1-3 7/14 -- Chuck Short, 6-9 TORCH LAKE CAFE, EASTPORT Mon -- Bob Webb, 6-9 Tue -- Kenny Thompson, 7:30 Wed -- Lee Malone, 8 Thu -- Open Mic w/ Leanna Collins, 8 Fri,Sat -- Torch Lake Rock & Soul w/ Leanna Collins, 8:30

Leelanau & Benzie AURORA CELLARS, LAKE LEELANAU 7/12 -- Pizza, Music & Wine Wednesdays w/ Clint Weaner, 6:30-9 FALLEN TIMBERS, HONOR 7/15 -- Hard Luck Kings, 9 HOP LOT BREWING CO., SUTTONS BAY 7/8 -- Roosevelt Diggs, 6-9 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 6:30-9:30: 7/8 -- Andre Villoch 7/11 -- New Third Coast 7/12 -- Doc Probes 7/13 -- Jazz North 7/14 -- Nick Vasquez 7/15 -- North Carolines LEELANAU SANDS CASINO, PESHAWBESTOWN Tue -- Polka Party, 12-4

LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Thurs. -- Karaoke w/ Phattrax DJs MARTHA'S LEELANAU TABLE, SUTTONS BAY Sun -- The Hot Biscuits, 6-9 Wed -- The Windy Ridge Boys, 6-9 Fri -- Dolce, 6-9 SPICE WORLD CAFÉ, NORTHPORT Sat -- Jeff Haas Trio w/ Laurie Sears & Anthony Stanco, 7-10 ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 7/8 -- Elle Carpenter, 6-9 7/9 -- Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Concert, 4 7/14 -- Alfredo, 6-9 7/15 -- Miss Atomic, 6-9

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the ADViCE GOddESS The Truth About Stats And Dogs

“Jonesin” Crosswords "Bo Knows"--so, do you know five Bos?. by Matt Jones ACROSS 1 Std. tee size 4 Mild cheddar cheese 9 “Cheers” and “The Good Place” network 12 Uru. neighbor 13 When some night owls go to bed 15 Dove noise 16 Overly 17 First Family of the 1980s 18 Tails do it 19 Musical subgenre for Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard 22 German magazine, with “Der” 23 Restaurant reviewer’s website 26 “___ la vie” 27 2000 World Series MVP 32 Pianist Rubenstein 34 Gillette razor brand 35 “That can’t be right!”

36 Exhibitions seen through a small hole 40 “Washboard” muscles 43 Conspire 44 Daytime programming, once 48 Gene Chandler doo-wop hit that starts with a solo bass voice 52 Ball of thread (whose name lent itself to a word meaning “hint”) 53 Cookbook instruction 54 “The House at Pooh Corner” author 56 “Running on Empty” singer 61 “Shine On ___ Crazy Diamond” 63 Beryl ___, head cook on “Downton Abbey” 64 Nibble on 65 Nightmarish street 66 Park, Fifth, and Q, e.g.

67 Coldplay’s label 68 Rally feature 69 Santa ___, Calif.

70 Barbie’s on-again, off-again boyfriend

DOWN 1 Sardou drama on which a Puccini opera is based

2 Another word for sea bass 3 Self-absorbed person 4 Sank your teeth into 5 Divine counselor 6 Company that’s built brick by brick?

7 Jeff Bridges’s brother 8 “Life of Pi” author Martel 9 “Treasure Island” illustrator, 1911 10 Flamboyant scarf 11 Gear tooth 13 “Hamlet” genre, for short 14 Clock setting in most of AZ 20 Abate 21 Swirly bread variety 24 Spider-Man co-creator Stan 25 Get leverage, in a way 28 Reggae Sunsplash attendee, maybe 29 Numerical suffix 30 Marvel shapeshifting supervillain, leader of the Deviants 31 1975 Spielberg hit 33 Defaulter’s risk 37 Middle Earth being 38 Rue Morgue chronicler 39 Economic start 40 Halftime fodder 41 “Everything ___ the kitchen sink” 42 Winter Olympics structure 45 Frequently over an extended time, maybe 46 Robert Galbraith, e.g.

47 Jodie of “Full House” 49 “It’s the end of an ___!”

50 Expired 51 California’s ___ Tar Pits 55 G.I. rations 57 H&R Block worker 58 Intoxicating Polynesian beverage that rhymes with something flowing out of a volcano 59 WWII submachine gun 60 Defunct sci-fi magazine 61 Nope’s opposite 62 “Bravissimo!”

Q

: I’m a woman looking for a new boyfriend and considering various online dating sites.

Some have long questionnaires, and they factor your answers into an “algorithm” to match you with the best possible partner. Are these sites significantly better than the others?

— Site Seeker

A

: Most people will tell you they want to

be accepted for who they really are — yet those doing online dating rarely post profiles with stuff like “I like long walks on the beach, fine dining, and obscenely large breasts.”

In light of this, sites using these compatibility “algorithms” would seem to have some added value. However, according to a massive online dating analysis by social psychologist Eli Finkel and his colleagues, this algorithm stuff mainly seems to be a “science!”-flavored marketing ploy. The researchers explain that it’s “virtually impossible” for sites to do what they promise with these algorithms: “match people who are uniquely suited to one another” and who are likely to have a “satisfying and lasting longterm relationship” together.

As the Finkel team notes about the “uniquely suited” business: The evidence suggests that these algorithms are really no better at rooting out compatible partners than the matching most people already do themselves with sites’ search parameters — culling the herd of breathing, profile-posting humans down to, say, fellow Ph.D.s who are also weekend Satan worshippers. (“Shall we meet at the Starbucks by your office, or are you up for an afternoon of ritual goat slaughter?”)

Even more outrageous is the sites’ claim that this mathematical alchemy can identify two people who can have a lasting, happy relationship together who have yet to even meet. The researchers point out that the algorithms only measure the “individual characteristics of partners” (personality, attitudes, values, background). They note that this is just one of three essential variables that determine whether relationships sink or swim.

The other two are elements that can’t really be sussed out before two people are in a relationship. One is the “circumstances surrounding (a) couple” — like how they fit into each other’s family and whether one loses their job or goes through other major stressors.

The other factor is the “interactions between the partners” — how partners communicate, solve problems, and support each other.

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I would add an essential fourth factor that needs to be assessed face to face — physical attraction. So, regarding those “29 dimensions of compatibility!” that one site advertises, consider, if you will, 30 and 31: discovering “this must be what dead bodies smell like when the detectives cover their nose with a hanky on TV” and “I’m as sexually attracted to you as I am to a stalk of wheat.”

There’s also the “garbage in, garbage out” problem (statisticians’ shorthand for how poor-quality input leads to poor-quality output). It’s unlikely that people are any more honest and accurate in filling out these questionnaires than they are in their online dating profiles. (No, sadly, outside the world of “gender-fluid” activism, being a woman isn’t just “a state of mind.”)

Typically, deception in online dating profiles is intentional; sometimes — as research on personality finds — we can’t quite see ourselves as we really are. For example, take an item on one of these sites’ compatibility surveys: “I try to accommodate the other person’s position.”

There are seven little circles on a scale to blacken in, from “not at all” to “very well.” Well, okay, but do control freaks always understand that they’re control freaks? Sometimes somebody seriously controlling might fill in “very well” on “I try to accommodate…” simply because they see themselves in the best light — instead of the actual light: “I’m Stalin — though I’ve never been able to grow much of a mustache.”

Probably the best that can be said about these personality questionnaires is that they might lead you into a little helpful introspection.

But otherwise, these tests seem as pointless as they are grueling (kind of like filling out an application for a bank loan for your personality).

This isn’t to knock online dating itself, which offers really rapid, easy access to a lot of potential partners whom you’d probably never meet otherwise. However, it helps to have a smart strategy vis-a-vis the potential pitfalls, and that’s meeting any person you think might be a possibility ASAP (before you have any long, bond-y text-athons).

Meeting pronto gives you the best shot at seeing whether you click, as well as spotting any vast differences between profile and reality.

And as I always advise about first dates, keep it cheap, short, and local. Less investment means less disappointment if you find out a guy’s lying — or, maybe worse, if he’s being honest: He really is looking for his “partner in crime” — because one of the guys on his robbery crew got arrested last week.

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aSTRO

lOGY

JULY 10 - JULY 16

BY ROB BREZSNY

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“All life is an experiment.” I’d love to see you make that your operative strategy in the coming weeks, Cancerian. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now is a favorable time to overthrow your habits, rebel against your certainties, and cruise through a series of freewheeling escapades that will change your mind in a hundred different ways. Do you love life enough to ask more questions than you’ve ever asked before?

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There is a direct

correlation between playfulness and intelligence, since the most intelligent animals engage in the greatest amount of playful activities.” So reports the National Geographic. “The reason is simple: Intelligence is the capacity for learning, and to play is to learn.”

I suggest you make these thoughts the centerpiece of your life in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you have an enhanced capacity to master new tricks. That’s fortunate, because you’re also in a phase when it’s especially crucial for you to learn new tricks. The best way to ensure it all unfolds with maximum grace is to play as much as possible.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s not your

birthday, but I feel like you need to get presents.

The astrological omens agree with me. In fact, they suggest you should show people this horoscope to motivate them to do the right thing and shower you with practical blessings. And why exactly do you need these rewards? Here’s one reason: Now is a pivotal moment in the development of your own ability to give the unique gifts you have to give. If you receive tangible demonstrations that your contributions are appreciated, you’ll be better able to rise to the next level of your generosity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Other astrologers

and fortune-tellers may enjoy scaring the hell out of you, but not me. My job is to keep you apprised of the ways that life aims to help you, educate you, and lead you out of your suffering.

The truth is, Taurus, that if you look hard enough, there are always seemingly legitimate reasons to be afraid of pretty much everything. But that’s a stupid way to live, especially since there are also always legitimate reasons to be excited about pretty much everything. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to work on retraining yourself to make the latter approach your default tendency. I have rarely seen a better phase than now to replace chronic anxiety with shrewd hope.

cactus flower’s pollen. I suspect this scenario has metaphorical resemblances to a task you could benefit from carrying out in the days ahead. Be alert for a sudden, spectacular, and rare eruption of beauty that you can feed from and propagate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If I had more room

here, I would offer an inspirational Powerpoint presentation designed just for you. In the beginning, I would seize your attention with an evocative image that my marketing department had determined would give you a visceral thrill. (Like maybe a photoshopped image of you wearing a crown and holding a scepter.) In the next part, I would describe various wonderful and beautiful things about you. Then I’d tactfully describe an aspect of your life that’s underdeveloped and could use some work. I’d say, “I’d love for you to be more strategic in promoting your good ideas. I’d love for you to have a well-crafted master plan that will attract the contacts and resources necessary to lift your dream to the next level.”

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

against snorting cocaine, MDMA, heroin, or bath salts. But if you do, don’t lay out your lines of powder on a kitchen table or a baby’s diaper-changing counter in a public restroom.

Places like those are not exactly sparkly clean, and you could end up propelling contaminants close to your brain.

Please observe similar care with any other activity that involves altering your consciousness or changing the way you see the world. Do it in a nurturing location that ensures healthy results.

P.S. The coming weeks will be a great time to expand your mind if you do it in all-natural ways such as through conversations with interesting people, travel to places that excite your awe, and encounters with provocative teachings.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In late

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): At least for the

short-range future, benign neglect can be an effective game plan for you. In other words, Gemini, allow inaction to do the job that can’t be accomplished through strenuous action. Stay put. Be patient and cagey and observant. Seek strength in silence and restraint. Let problems heal through the passage of time. Give yourself permission to watch and wait, to reserve judgment and withhold criticism. Why do I suggest this approach? Here’s a secret: Forces that are currently working in the dark and behind the scenes will generate the best possible outcome.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Thank you for contacting

the Center for Epicurean Education. If you need advice on how to help your imagination lose its inhibitions, please press 1. If you’d like guidance on how to run wild in the woods or in the streets without losing your friends or your job, press 2. If you want to learn more about spiritual sex or sensual wisdom, press 3. If you’d like assistance in initiating a rowdy yet focused search for fresh inspiration, press 4. For information about dancing lessons or flying lessons or dancing-while-flying lessons, press 5. For advice on how to stop making so much sense, press 6.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The cereus cactus

grows in the deserts of the southwestern U.S. Most of the time it’s scraggly and brittle-looking.

But one night of the year, in June or July, it blooms with a fragrant, trumpet-shaped flower. By dawn the creamy white petals close and start to wither. During that brief celebration, the plant’s main pollinator, the sphinx moth, has to discover the marvelous event and come to gather the

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1811 and early 1812, parts of the mighty Mississippi River flowed backwards several times. Earthquakes were the cause. Now, more than two centuries later, you Sagittarians have a chance -- maybe even a mandate -- to accomplish a more modest rendition of what nature did way back then. Do you dare to shift the course of a great, flowing, vital force? I think you should at least consider it. In my opinion, that great, flowing, vital force could benefit from an adjustment that you have the wisdom and luck to understand and accomplish.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re

entering into the Uncanny Zone, Capricorn.

During your brief journey through this alternate reality, the wind and the dew will be your teachers. Animals will provide special favors. You may experience true fantasies, like being able to sense people’s thoughts and hear the sound of leaves converting sunlight into nourishment. It’s possible you’ll feel the moon tugging at the waters of your body and glimpse visions of the best possible future. Will any of this be of practical use? Yes! More than you can imagine. And not in ways you can imagine yet.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is one

of those rare grace periods when you can slip into a smooth groove without worrying that it will degenerate into a repetitive rut. You’ll feel natural and comfortable as you attend to your duties, not blank or numb. You’ll be entertained and educated by exacting details, not bored by them. I conclude, therefore, that this will be an excellent time to lay the gritty foundation for expansive and productive adventures later this year. If you’ve been hoping to get an advantage over your competitors and diminish the negative influences of people who don’t empathize with you, now is the time.

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