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The Beastly Truth

I was reading today and came across this quote of Boris Pasternak’s: “What has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel, but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.” I thought of the phrase “We take these truths to be self-evident.” In a world confused intentionally by intellectuals who sowed the seeds of discontent exchanging men’s freedom for efficiency by fiat, we find our world tipped upside down.

How can truth be “self-evident” when we can’t agree on what “truth” is?

Is my truth as inconvenient as Al Gore’s, or that of Black Lives Matters, or the NeoNazis, or a religious believer who might think differently than the majority? Can I elect to think for myself, or must I bend to another’s truth as the only truth allowed in the public square? Must we hide in our homes, whispering our thoughts to see if others can understand our attempt to find meaning and fulfillment? Can I even question their ideas? Is it allowed? Or does the cudgel determine the limits of freedom?

Bill Deneau, Traverse City

state for Nixon and Regan, and James Baker, secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury under Reagan and secretary of state for George W. Bush, have been longtime advocates about taking action on climate. They have proposed a conservative market-based approach to diminish the effects of global warming. In addition, a bipartisan group of members of Congress that represents 25 percent of its members continues to increase and is preparing to introduce legislation regarding climate change.

It is of no surprise that prominent Republicans are deeply concerned about the environment. Under President Reagan we were able to deal with the global threat posed by ozone holes. President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, which passed the Clean Air Act and halted all dumping in our Great Lakes and helped reduce acid rain, which affects our health and our environment Besides Republican policies to protect our environment, many corporations have joined the growing consensus about global warming, including; BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell, and General Motors. In addition, religious leaders from all faiths have voiced concern about our changing climate.

Besides the widespread support from prominent Republicans, fossil fuel corporations, and religious leaders, the insurers are deeply concerned about the changing climate due to its effect on their pocketbooks. In the 1980s, the annual weather-related costs were 10 billion per year; now it is 50 billion.

Like the insurers, we need to manage risks by pursuing a market-based approach that puts a fee on fossil fuels and returns the dividend to households. Not only does this approach create jobs but also clean and efficient energy Ronald Marshall, Petoskey

Coming Together

Our changing climate is no longer a partisan issue but has evolved into a growing bipartisan concern. Prominent Republicans, including George Schultz, secretary of

Love and War

The latest installment of the Kim Jong Un/Donald J. Trump bromance had DJT

threatening to start a nuclear war if KJU even whispered a threat against the U.S. KJU then threatened to fling some missiles at Guam just to prove that he could.

That sounded like a threat to me, but DJT didn’t unleash the “fire and fury” he promised. Instead he double dog dared KJU by threatening him with things he never could imagine (Dennis Rodman in diapers? No, wait — that already happened.) Trump also said the military was “locked and loaded,” but that turned out not to be true (just like the last time Trump said an armada was heading to North Korea when they were really headed to Wendy’s). There were no changes in military preparedness that anyone could determine.

Then KJU said that they were still ready to fling missiles at Guam but weren’t interested in doing that right now. DJT responded that KJU wasn’t as stupid as he looks, which KJU took as a compliment.

Just to make sure that DJT still loves him after he caught DJT blowing kisses at the neo-Nazis and those cute white supremacists in Old Navy uniforms, KJU posted a video of what a missile attack on Guam would look like. Sounds like another threat. So far, DJT has been too busy defending his wandering eye to respond.

In the meantime, the regularly scheduled and intentionally provocative joint-military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea are starting. Stay tuned to see what KJU does next to test DJT’s affections.

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

Immeasurable............................................10 The Great Lakes’ Nemesis...............................13 Refurbishing a Jewel.......................................14 Big Wheels Keep On Turning............................15 60 Years One Big Change................................15 Harbor Springs’ Rodrigo’s................................17 Downstate Destinations...................................18 Yearbook Memories.........................................22 Seen................................................................26

dates..............................................27-30 music FourScore.......................................................31 Nightlife.........................................................33

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Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Weird...............................................................8 Crossed...........................................................9 Jeff Beamsley, Traverse City Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................32 Advice Goddess.............................................35 Crossword...................................................36 Freewill Astrology.........................................37 Think Outside Your Soapbox During the recent political debates Classifieds....................................................38 over the proposed repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (aka Obamacare), one of the major stumbling blocks for any action one way or another was pre-existing medical conditions. To the many sick, the loss of pre-existing-condition insurance coverage could become a death sentence — especially those suffering from cancer or a major illness. Repealing the Act would have made it all but impossible to purchase new insurance coverage. Thus, with the looming possibility of losing their Northern Express Weekly is published by coverage and being unable to obtain any Eyes Only Media, LLC. new coverage, how saddening it was to Publisher: Luke Haase read some of the letters from these families 129 E Front Traverse City, MI desperately pleading for the lives of their Phone: (231) 947-8787 Fax: 947-2425 sick children to their congressmen and email: info@northernexpress.com congresswomen and senators. www.northernexpress.com What was missing during this period Executive Editor: Lynda Twardowski Wheatley was the lack of anything — not even a single Finance & Distribution Manager: Brian Crouch word — from any one of the groups or Sales: Kathleen Johnson, Peg Muzzall, Katy McCain, Mike Bright, Michele Young, Randy Sills, Todd Norris individuals professing to support the rightFor ad sales in Petoskey, Harbor Springs, to-life concept, or the churches that preach Boyne & Charlevoix, call (231) 881-5943 the sanctity of life, or the politicians who wrap and cloak themselves in the right-toCreative Director: Kyra Poehlman Distribution: Matt Ritter, Randy Sills, life blanket. The plight of these families and Kathy Twardowski, Austin Lowe children who were being handed a possible Listings Editor: Jamie Kauffold death sentence from this legislation was Contributing Editor: Kristi Kates extremely bleak.

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MEN WHO WOULD BE KING opinion

BY Isiah Smith, Jr. There’s seems to be something in the mysterious makeup of the American mind that longs for a time when kings ruled, and the people followed with blind allegiance.

the ability of the president of the United States to do his job. [Therefore] I feel an obligation to pass on [the executive branch] in better shape than we found them to our successors.”

You can see it in our morbid fascination with the British royal family, and the continued deification of Princess Diana.

That Cheney expanded the power of the presidency cannot be gainsaid. In “Takeover: The Return of The Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy,” Charles Savage noted that Cheney/Bush reduced the authority of Congress and the courts and expanded the ability of the president to govern with maximum flexibility and minimum oversight. They enlarged the zone of secrecy around the executive branch and nominated judges who favored a stronger presidency.

It’s evident in the loose talk about a Bush “dynasty,” and before that, the idle dreams of a Kennedy dynasty, or Camelot. At his death, many otherwise respectful publications dubbed, JFK Jr. “America’s Prince.” Even now, some Americans see Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton as viable presidential candidates, apparently because of their last names. This is how royal powers are passed down as a family heirloom.

Kings, queens, and princesses are crowned almost daily in the entertainment world. The thirst for royalty in American life appears literally unquenchable.

America almost got its wish in George Washington, but when offered royal powers, he wisely declined — not once, but twice.

In 1776 and 1777, the young American Republic gave Washington virtually unlimited authority to wage war against the British. After the war, he wisely relinquished those powers.

After years of conventional British rule, America seemed poised to perpetuate the notion of the divine rights of kings. The powers that be pleaded with Washington to accept the vast political powers that usually followed military victories — perhaps even becoming the first King of America.

Washington rejected the offer as inappropriate and dishonorable, insisting he had fought the war not for his self-aggrandizement but to preserve the American Republic. After two terms as president, he declined the offer of a third.

Washington wasn’t the smartest of the Founding Fathers — far from it. He kept good company, however, and some of their better attributes apparently rubbed off on him.

America’s first president was a product of the Enlightenment, a period that produced men of high ideals and noble aspirations (not always evident in their actions). The Enlightenment brought political modernization to the West, introduced democratic values, and emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.

Since the middle of the 20th century, we have elected men (always men) who, unlike the first president, sought power over reason and openly attacked democratic institutions. Sadly, we have done little to rein them in.

The “imperial powers” vested in the president date back to the Cold War and grew with each successive president leading up to Nixon.

Remember, it was Nixon who said, “When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal,” but it didn’t end there.

Truman and Lyndon Johnson argued that the president held vast inherent powers beyond the Constitution that empowered him to defy the will of Congress. Those powers must be invisible, for I cannot find a hint of them in my studies of the Constitution.

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In 1992 Dick Cheney lamented, “I have repeatedly seen an erosion of the powers and

Barack Obama inherited a vastly empowered executive branch. Rather than dismantle or rein it in, Obama spent two terms exploiting those new powers to, among other things, order drone strikes at will against nations with which we were not at war. Americans citizens living in other countries were ordered killed in secret. An abuse of power does not depend upon who is doing the abusing.

In “The Road to Serfdom,” Friedman A. Hayek wrote that seldom do we lose our freedoms all at once; it’s a gradual process, and you hardly notice it’s missing until it’s gone.

You see where this is going, right?

The Americans who trusted Bush and Obama to do the right thing must now ask, “What happens when we elect an unstable individual who, in the words of The Economist, is “politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unsuited for office and … the solo star of his own drama?”

Recent that presidents have not been the products of the Enlightenment; rather, they are products of what I call the “Disenlightenment.” The Enlightenment was the beginning of the Age of Reason that emphasized reason over superstition.

Using the power of the press, Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire not only questioned accepted knowledge but also spread new ideas about openness, investigation, and religious tolerance. The Enlightenment embraced inquiry and critical thinking in place of myths and superstitions.

The Age of Disenlightment embraces myths, conspiracy theories, and lies that masquerade as truth. It also marks the end of faith in the power of democratic institutions and a return to the cult of personality that prevailed when men were kings. I submit that institutions are more reliable and stable than men. Men can be mean-spirited, petty, and uninterested in the general welfare. Such a “leader” with the power of the imperial presidency presents a danger that threatens the nation’s core values.

Having accepted previous presidents’ powergrab accretion because their ideas and policies reflected our own, we might now be reaping the bitter harvest of our inaction and acquiescence.

This present moment is a dangerous one, fraught with poison and peril.

Isiah Smith Jr. is a former newspaper columnist for the Miami Times. He worked as a psychotherapist before attending the University of Miami Law School, where he also received a master’s degree in psychology. In December 2013, he retired from the Department of Energy’s Office of General Counsel. Isiah lives in Traverse City with his wife, Marlene.

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Who knew 44 years ago that the small music fest on a Remus farm would grow to be a live-music-lover’s Mecca? One of the most popular music festivals in Michigan, Wheatland today draws over 10,000 attendees every year. Thanks to the fact that many of the original organizers remain at the helm, it’s maintained its intimate vibe and community embrace. This year’s fest, happening Sept. 8 through 10, will include performances from Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, Session Americano, Ruthie Foster, The Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers, Cadillac’s Luke WinslowKing, and Traverse City’s Don Julin. Expect on-site food, beverages, crafts, and more, plus a shuttle bus to and from Remus if you need extra supplies. Camping on the grounds requires no reservation but you’ll want to make an early effort to ensure a spot. Day passes start at $10 youth/$33 adult; Remus is about 50 miles south of Cadillac. wheatlandmusic.org.

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Pour’s executive chef Jarod Kirby has a way with watercress.

And he’s using it as the base for the wine bar and restaurant’s newest salad, an end-of-summer menu addition that makes the very best of local flavors and features a bombshell presentation.

Inspired by the abundance of local heirloom tomatoes, Kirby crafted this dish in which tomatoes, resting on a bed of watercress, are drenched in a dressing of preserved lemon and walnut pesto, 19-year-old balsamic vinegar, and oil pressed from hojiblanca olives.

But the little pouches of burrata — a fresh Italian cheese with an outer shell of mozzarella and an inner section of stracciatella (buffalo-milk cheese shreds) and cream — is the real highlight of this show. It sits atop the plate so the cheese and cream can flow through the salad itself, making for a rich mix of savory flavors.

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The “Queen of the Great Lakes” needs a facelift. The U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Mackinaw WAGB-83, built in 1944 to transport iron ore and copper from the Upper Peninsula to lower Great Lakes factories building tanks, airplanes, and jeeps for WWII, has served as a floating museum since 2006. But her 62 years of cutting through ice to keep Great Lakes shipping lanes open through the North’s harsh winters have caught up with her. Her iconic orange paint is fading; her exterior is rusty and ragged. A full resurfacing and repainting is in order — but costly: $365,000 plus. How can you help? Start with a $25 T-shirt or book an overnight adventure (with a little volunteer work required) for as little as $20 per person. themackinaw.org.

Ann Arbor’s Lucas Paul Band plays the 4th Annual “Concert on the Lawn” at the Old Art Building, Leland on Sat., Sept. 2 at 7pm. All about having fun on stage, the Lucas Paul Band brings their influences: The Beatles, Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Wonder, Muse, Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, & Neil Young. Tickets are $20. MyNorthTickets.com or (231)256-2131.

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Let’s take a look. We’ll start with the obvious.

Neither Washington nor Jefferson led a secessionist military of a self-proclaimed foreign country against the United States. Lee did. According to the Civil War Trust, the resulting war claimed at least 620,000 lives — no one knows for sure — making it by far the bloodiest war in our history.

Washington and Jefferson helped create the United States; Lee fought to destroy it. That’s a pretty big difference, Mr. President.

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All the monuments now at risk of being removed celebrate Confederate leaders. It’s difficult to twist reality sufficiently to make them American heroes since they all fought against the United States. Why did they fight? Apologists for the Confederacy always claim “states rights” as their lost cause. And what was the “right” these states wished to preserve? Slavery.

It started almost as soon as Europeans showed up. Hernando de Soto enslaved indigenous women and children in 1539, right after he led the first recorded massacre, killing 200 indigenous men in what is now Florida. Our first record of organized slavery was in the Jamestown Settlement in 1619.

It just got worse after that. By 1860 there were nearly 4 million slaves in the United States. The deep South, including the original secessionist states, almost entirely dependent on agriculture, counted nearly half its population as slaves.

There was no part of what became the Confederacy that wasn’t dependent on slave labor; it was the basis of its economy. The moral question didn’t much trouble them. After all, the U.S. Constitution did not prohibit it and gave tacit approval by counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for property taxation purposes.

When it became clear slavery was losing support outside of the South, the states seceded to protect what they claimed as their property. The 10th Amendment, giving states rights on issues not enumerated in the Constitution, was the hook on which they hung slavery. Protecting it was why they started the Civil War. When the war ended we finally did away with slavery with the 13th Amendment, gave citizenship to everyone born in this country

(remember: slaves weren’t citizens, they were property) with the 14th, and allowed all citizens to vote with the 15th.

Not coincidentally, the KKK, claiming to be a Christian organization, formed in 1865, the same year we abolished slavery. Its first Grand Wizard was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general honored multiple times with statues and monuments in Memphis. There’s even a lovely bust of the KKK’s first leader in the Tennessee statehouse.

The antebellum South was undeterred by pesky constitutional restraints. So-called Jim Crow laws created poll taxes to prevent poor African Americans from voting, confiscated property, supported the Klan and their lynchings, and segregated everything from schools to neighborhoods to drinking fountains.

The oppression was sufficiently onerous: It led to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1965, a full century after the abolition of slavery.

Confederate soldiers might have fought bravely, but their cause was shameful. The statues are symbols of our darkest hour, honoring those who fought to perpetuate our greatest evil. There’s nothing glorious about it.

Of course, it’s all old news. Things are better now. Shouldn’t we “get over it?”

• The last recorded lynching in the United States happened in Mobile, Alabama. That was 36 years ago.

• The federal government, having broken around 500 treaties with tribal nations, settled with the Osage Nation after decades of depriving them of money they were owed for their mineral, oil, gas, and timber rights.

That was six years ago.

• The government also settled with 41 mostly western tribal nations for the same reason.

That was five years ago. (Another 60 tribes are still negotiating.)

• A white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans at a Bible study class in a Charleston, South Carolina, church. That was two years ago.

• White, mostly wealthy residents of Gardendale, Alabama, have seceded from the Jefferson County School District, effectively segregating the school system. That was four months ago. (Some 47 other southern schools have done the same since 1987.)

• A hotel in Switzerland posted signs instructing Jewish guests to shower before using the pool. That was 17 days ago.

People in KKK robes and others carrying flags with swastikas are marching in American streets. That’s happening right now.

Maybe the reason we aren’t over “it” is because “it” isn’t over.

Crime & Rescue CHARGES IN OVERDOSE CASE A Canton man faces life in prison after police say he supplied drugs to a woman who later died of an apparent drug overdose.

Lebronze Pierre Seamon faces multiple counts of delivery of less than 50 grams of cocaine or hero-in and is charged as a four-time habitual offender, which carries up to life in prison.

The 34-year-old allegedly sold cocaine and heroin or fentanyl to a man and a woman on May 11. The woman, 27-year-old Molly Matthews, was later found dead in a Garfield Township apartment and an autopsy showed high levels of cocaine and fentanyl in her system, according to the charges.

The case was investigated by Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s detectives, who found surveillance footage of Seamon allegedly selling drugs to another man at the Turtle Creek Casino on the same day.

LOST GIRL FOUND Police located an autistic girl who was shopping at the Houghton Lake Walmart with her mother and ran away.

The girl was found at the side of M-55 by troopers from the Houghton Lake state police post after a four-hour search Aug. 23. The 15-year-old had crossed the highway and entered a wooded swamp where she crossed through waist-deep muck. She was checked for hypothermia and released to her parents.

BATH SALTS PLEA ENTERED A porn-peddling Traverse City businessman pled guilty to running a criminal enterprise in a scheme to import bath salts from China.

Brad Jason Vannatter, 46, faces up to 20 years in prison after his Aug. 21 plea. He originally faced a dozen counts, including pandering prostitution, money laundering, and drug charges. The crimi-nal enterprise charge was the most serious he faced.

Vannatter, of Peninsula Township, attempted to import the synthetic drug 4-MEC, which is used to produce bath salts, from overseas and distribute it in northern Michigan. In 2013, U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted a package of 4-MEC at JFK Airport heading from China to Traverse City.

The intercepted package launched a three-year investigation, conducted by Home-land Security and the Traverse Narcotics Team, into Vannatter and his business.

Vannatter was the owner of the Laughing Buddha in Traverse City and Fantasies Worldwide, a chain of adult bookstores.

STOP NETS METH A 50-year-old Cadillac man was jailed after state police found meth in his car during a traffic stop.

A trooper pulled over the man Aug. 22 in Wexford County’s Haring Township for an equipment violation and spotted a baggie that contained four grams of a suspicious-looking powder. The sub-stance field-tested positive for the presence of methamphetamine, troopers said.

The man was arrested for possession of meth and marijuana and driving on a suspended license.

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TEENAGE ROBBER BUSTED Police arrested an 18-year-old Traverse City man for robbery after he went behind the counter in a gas station, opened the cash drawer, and swiped some cash.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies and Traverse City Police were called to the Shell station at Garfield and Hammond roads at 1am Aug. 21.

The officers got to the scene quickly — the suspect was still behind the counter when they arrived — and arrested him without incident.

The suspect didn’t make any threats, and he didn’t have a weapon. He faces a charge of unarmed robbery.

SUSPICIOUS MAN ARRESTED Deputies arrested a man, wanted on burglary charges, who was spotted walking along a road in Karlin, possibly casing homes he wanted to burgle.

Grand Traverse Sheriff’s deputies got a call about a suspicious person at 6pm Aug. 19, and they stopped a 24-year-old pedestrian on Betsie River Road.

Deputies discovered that John Michael Vansingel was wanted in Oklahoma on a burglary warrant and arrested him. He was taken to jail to await extradition to Tulsa County.

CRASHES LEAD TO TICKETS Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies cited two teens after separate crashes that occurred the same day in Solon Township.

In the first, an 18-year-old Buckley man took a corner too fast and crashed head-on into another car near Cedar at 9:10am Aug. 18. He and the other driver suffered only minor injuries, and he was cited by Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies for speeding and lack of insurance. Both cars suffered extensive damage.

At 4pm, a 16-year-old girl lost control of her car on White Road and rolled over. She and a passenger suffered minor injuries, and she was cited for failing to maintain control of her vehicle.

PHONE SCAM WARNING People around Emmet County have received calls with a message to call the sheriff’s “civil divi-sion,” and when they return the call, they are prompted to leave their name and phone number.

Sheriff Pete Wallin said the calls are part of a scam. There is no civil division at the sheriff’s department. The number that supposedly had been connected to the “civil division” has since been disconnected.

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Unclear on the Concept In early August, Volusia (Florida) County Beach Safety officers banished 73-year-old Richard G. Basaraba of Daytona Beach from all county beaches after it was discovered he was handing out business cards to young women, reading “Sugardaddy seeking his sugarbaby.” The mother of a 16-year-old said he approached a group of girls with his cards and continued to speak with the minor girl even after she told him her age. He also produced a bra padding, telling the girls he was “looking for someone who would fill it.”

He told the 16-year-old she “would be perfect.”

People Different From Us In a shocking display of mischief, an unnamed 60-year-old man in Singapore is under investigation for lodging three toothpicks in a seat on a public bus in July. If he is found to be the culprit, he could spend up to two years in prison. Singapore has an extremely low crime rate, and even minor offenses result in harsh punishments. For example, vandalism is punishable by caning.

Police said at press time that the investigation was continuing.

Wait, What?

Practicing physicians in Cairo, Egypt, opened a surgery-themed restaurant called D.Kebda in July, where they wear surgical scrubs and prepare their only offering, grilled beef-liver sandwiches, behind a glass partition. Kebda is a popular street food in Egypt, but it can cause food poisoning if not prepared carefully. “We tried to take our career values and apply them to this other field,” said Mostafa Basiouny, one of the owners. “There is no contradiction between them; we are still practicing doctors.”

Great Expectations On Aug. 7, 16-year-old Jack Bergeson of Wichita, Kansas, filed papers in Topeka to run for governor as a Democrat in the 2018 race. Bergeson, who won’t be able to vote in that election, said: “I thought, you know, let’s give the people of Kansas a chance. Let’s try something new.” The candidate says he would “radically change” health care and would support legalizing medical marijuana, but he’s conservative on gun rights. Bryan Caskey, director of elections at the Kansas secretary of state’s office, said there is no law governing the qualifications for governor. Bergeson’s running mate, 17-year-old Alexander Cline, will be 18 by the election and will get to vote.

Animal Antics -- A skunk got up close and personal with a 13-year-old boy on July 25 when it climbed into his bed in Hamden, Connecticut, apparently after hitchhiking into the house in a trash can. The family was able to remove the skunk without the help of the Hamden Animal Control Division, but an officer said the “smell of skunk ... emanated throughout the house.”

-- The Scardillo Cheese factory in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has a squirrel to blame for a fire that resulted in more than 20,000 gallons of milk being spoiled on Aug. 8. The squirrel chewed through a main power line on the outside of the building, which sparked the fire, and power could not be restored for 12 hours.

Already-made cheese was kept cool with generators, but milk being readied to make cheese warmed and went bad.

Least Competent Criminals -- Criminal justice student Jordan Dinsmore, 20, of Columbia, South Carolina, had her car’s manual transmission to thank for her safe escape on July 26. Three men approached her around 1 a.m. and pointed a gun at her. After robbing her of her phone and purse, the men forced her into her car, threatening to kidnap and rape her, but when they realized none of them knew how to drive her stick-shift car, one of the criminals ran away. The other two forced Dinsmore to drive to an ATM to withdraw cash. As she drove, Dinsmore removed her seatbelt, then put the car in neutral and jumped out, screaming, “Call 911! Call 911!” to passing motorists. The Richland County Sheriff ’s Department arrested a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old in the kidnapping and robbery.

-- Surveillance video from a July 27 break-in at the home of John C. Burbage, 59, of Naples, Florida, showed a surprisingly familiar picture of the perpetrators: Harold Russell Lanham, 22, and his dad, James Edward Lanham, 41, both of whom Burbage employed and both of whom were wearing their work uniforms. The Lanham duo stole a safe containing more than $30,000 worth of cash and property from their boss’s home.

The Weirdo-American Community Residents of Hollis, Maine, were unnerved on the evening of July 25 as Corey Berry, 31, wearing a clown mask, walked around town with a machete duct-taped to the place where his arm had been amputated.

When Berry, intoxicated, was taken into custody in nearby Waterboro, he explained to officers that he was copying other clown sightings as a prank on a friend. Karmen LePage of Hollis warned: “He’s not funny. We live in the woods; you think we don’t have guns? He’s ... lucky.”

Paranormal Activity The South Carolina Emergency Management Division issued an alert on Aug. 9 in advance of the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 asking South Carolinians to be “vigilant” and look out for Lizardmen during the celestial event. “SCEMD does not know if Lizardmen become more active during a solar eclipse,” the note reads. “But we advise that residents of Lee and Sumter counties should remain vigilant.”

The folkloric reptilian beast is thought to live in swampland around Lee County and frequent sewers in nearby towns. While some people thought the warning might be a joke, SCEMD said it “will neither confirm nor deny” the existence of Lizardmen.

Anger Management Customers at a Flying J truck stop in West Hanover Township, Virginia, got quite the show on Aug. 14 when Craig Troccia, 54, of Roanoke smashed the windshield of his truck and poured a cup of urine onto the interior. Wait -- did we mention Troccia was naked? He then yelled a racial epithet at a black man and flashed his genitals at everyone within sight. Next, (still naked) Troccia pointed a gun at the same man and then at another man and threatened to kill them both. After state troopers loaded Troccia into their cruiser, he “slammed his body and head on the various panels of the vehicle,” they reported. He was charged with 34 criminal counts, including public drunkenness.

Should faith be a private matter?

Bill’s statement Sex, politics, and religion … the unholy trinity of forbidden subjects for public discussion. Most “polite” Americans have been ingrained with this mantra. Even in this age of social media self-exploitation, where nothing is left to the imagination, there is still a sense we must take care when expressing personal opinions, especially on religion.

The question is should faith be a private matter? Many Rev. Dr. William C. Myers would say yes. However, if faith is private, there is no room Senior Pastor for public discussion. That means a spiritual advisor to at Presbyterian President Trump, Dr. Robert Jeffress, has every right to Church of make the claim that “The Bible gives President Trump the Traverse City moral authority to use whatever force necessary, including assassination, or even war, to take out an evildoer like Kim Jong-un.” There is no recourse. Faith is private.

But isn’t it better for the commonwealth when such matters are addressed reasonably and respectfully in the public forum? Rather than simply reporting Dr. Jeffress’ opinion, A LOCAL PASTOR someone might ask, Is Romans 13 not a reference to the authority of a particular government over its citizens? Is this passage not deeply influenced by the political context of the first century? Is this mandate not limited to governments demonstrating their legitimacy by serving God’s justice?

These are but a few of the questions one might raise if matters of faith were discussed reasonably and respectfully in the public forum. The point is, such discussion holds the possibility of enhancing the commonwealth by changing belief and behavior.

It has long been an axiom in Christianity (and most faiths) that what we believe influences how we behave, and how we behave reflects what we truly believe. What we believe to be true and good — i.e., what we believe about God, God’s relation to the world, and human beings’ relationships with God and with one another — affects how we live our lives. To the extent this is true, those who can speak reasonably, respectfully, and openly, about matters of faith, can change our public life for the better.

Scott’s statement Assuming some people believe that faith should be kept private, I suspect their rationale would go like this: People are fixed in their beliefs, offense and conflict arise when differing faiths collide, and the world might be a more peaceful place if everyone, while having full right to practice their faith, just kept it to themselves.

Of course, an element of faith is personally felt, but it is largely a communal phenomenon. Faith is learned, shared, Scott Blair Blair is a consul- and reinforced in the company of others. It is part of our tant in the waste- nature to want to feel connected to others, and with others, water treatment to something bigger than all of us. So, when faith is practiced field and vice president of the in close-knit congregations to satisfy the human need for Grand Traverse connection, should those groups then refrain from expression that brings them into conflict with other groups?

Humanists.

There is a compulsion among many to push the joy and rightness of their beliefs out into the world. This evangelism is off-putting when not accompanied by consideration of ideas offered in return. Other believers are so intent on sharing the rightness of their ATHEIST DEBATE faith that they feel a duty to prevail, to make the world over so it aligns with their religious vision. This rejection of pluralism is dangerous.

Short of this danger though, is our society improved or injured by overt expression of faith, religiosity, and attempts to influence others’ beliefs?

As an atheist and a citizen, I do not hope for, or advocate for, suppression of expression of beliefs or perspectives. When sequestered into clutches, beliefs can become incestuous. The psychology of group identity further calcifies erroneous and sometimes dangerous beliefs, shielding them from dispassionate evaluation.

What I hope for and advocate for, is productive and civil engagement with a greater expectation for rationality when people bring their thinking to a public discussion. We should all bring a willingness to examine and a willingness to change our understanding when it can be improved by new information or insight. That is where growth for an individual and functionality for a society are found.

Let’s not refrain from exchanging perspectives — let’s just get better at it.

CROSSED

Scott’s reply Bill and I came to a similar stance. The basis for positions should not be hidden in a private faith; one’s rationale should be visible so it can be debated.

But Bill’s statement also reveals his expectation that the Bible be accepted as an authority, with discussion centered on interpretation. Interpretations of moral lessons from that ancient collection of writing vary widely and have no traction with those outside Bill’s faith.

Discussion toward public decision-making requires rationality and recognition of universal human needs. It should call on our instincts toward fairness and the compassionate part of our nature. And it demands honest appraisal of real conditions, causes, and effects. One might be motivated by principles found in his or her faith, but must bring arguments meaningful to everyone to public decision-making.

AND A LOCAL

Bills’s reply Scott would be a good test case of my contention: What we believe influences how we behave, and how we behave reflects what we truly believe. He professes an appreciation for the public expression of beliefs. But is this because, thanks in large part to the work of the American Civil Liberties Union, public expressions of faith are no longer allowed in many venues? Would Scott endorse a Christian valedictorian offering a prayer after her speech? Would Scott welcome a public display of religious symbols reflective of the religious identity of a particular community? Would Scott embrace the restoration of the display of the Ten Commandments in courthouses? Our secular culture is compatible with Scott’s beliefs. There is no threat. What would come of Scott’s “appreciation,” if people of faith were truly free to publically express their faith?

Agree statement Scott and Bill agree the voices of faith should be included in matters of public discussion. Beliefs underlie the positions we take, and the basis of those beliefs should be subject to evaluation in such discussions.

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IMMEASURABLE Scientific consensus increasingly recognizes there’s no way to determine the level of impairment in a driver who uses marijuana. So why is a woman who smoked marijuana 10 hours before an accident that killed her mother facing a 15-year felony for impaired driving? A Benzonia lawyer seeks to overturn the impracticable laws currently in place in Michigan.

By Patrick Sullivan Just as state officials set out to establish a measurement for marijuana impairment so that motorists can be held accountable for driving while high, state police have acknowledged — at least internally — that there’s actually no way to gauge the level of impairment due to marijuana.

A law passed late last year is supposed to establish a commission to develop a standard, but even before that commission holds its first meeting, it appears their mission might be futile.

Jeff Nye, assistant division commander and quality assurance manager for the MSP Forensic Science Division, asked a colleague to review literature on tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in pot, to help prepare the commission. What came back, according to an email, was discouraging.

The email was discovered by lawyers defending a woman facing a 15-year felony for driving while allegedly THC-impaired in a December 2016 crash in Grand Traverse County that killed her mother. They argue that the state’s marijuana laws are antiquated and arbitrary; they’ve turned to the state Court of Appeals to get those laws overturned.

NO SIMPLE ANSWER The trouble lies in the inability to measure whether someone is stoned.

As the state police were preparing to take part in the state’s newly established Impaired Driving Commission, Nye acknowledged that inability in a Jan. 27 email. Benzonia attorney Jesse Williams obtained the email through a Freedom of Information Act request.

“To put it in … simple and probably obvious terms … there’s no simple answer for a level of THC that causes impairment,” Nye had written in the email.

He had noted, too, that THC levels

actually might be a meaningless barometer of intoxication.

“First, THC metabolizes very quickly in the body. So much so that a person that is not a routine user of marihuana showing impairment while operating a vehicle may have very low to non-detectable levels of THC within 2-3 hours.

“On the opposite side of the spectrum, if you are a chronic user of marijuana there may be a fairly high level of THC in the bloodstream related to the release of reserves stored in fat tissue,” he wrote. “In other words, if you are a daily smoker and suddenly stop smoking, there may be significant levels that remain in the bloodstream for a month or more ... ” Moreover, Nye wrote, chronic users might develop a tolerance to the drug so that the level of THC might not represent the same level of impairment that it would in a non-regular user.

Williams included the email in a motion to dismiss charges of “operating under the influence of a Schedule 1 controlled substance, causing death” filed against 40-year-old Bear Lake resident Jennifer Lyn Greenwood.

THE SCENE OF THE CRASH When Grand Traverse County Sheriff ’s Deputy Eric Meier arrived at the crash scene at 11am Dec. 10, he found a green Dodge Dakota on its left side, driver door down, and a black SUV, both in the middle of the road.

Meier exited his patrol car and had trouble staying upright as he walked along the slippery road. It was 19 degrees outside.

Meier checked on the driver of the SUV, who was okay, and then walked over to the Dodge, where firefighters had already removed the roof.

There were three women, “kind of piled up inside,” he testified at a hearing in May. One of the women, Greenwood’s mom, Victoria Laviola, was dead. Marissa Laviola, Greenwood’s daughter, had a broken leg.

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Center with a broken ankle.

“If you can picture the chaos of a vehicle crashing, EMS, and everybody running around, people crying. My first responsibility is just let EMS do their job, and I’ll sort it out later, and that’s what happened,” Meier testified at Secretary of State hearing about the crash.

Investigators determined Greenwood had lost control on the snowy road, crossed the centerline, and crashed into the oncoming SUV, a Kia Sorento driven by an Interlochen man, Richard Robb.

Greenwood, her mom, and daughter had just been Christmas shopping in Traverse City and were headed home.

Robb had been heading back to Interlochen after muzzleloader hunting south of Empire.

He was driving east on US-31 near Betsie River Road that morning, a Saturday, when a long line of cars approached from the opposite direction. One of them — he wasn’t sure if the Dodge was the second, third or fourth in line — slid into his lane.

At first he thought the car was attempting to make a quick turn into a driveway, and then he realized he had nowhere to go to avoid a collision.

“I just remember blue and then the white of my airbag,” he testified at Greenwood’s preliminary hearing. His car spun around and came to a stop, and Robb said that he just sat there stunned. Someone eventually knocked on his window and asked if he was okay; Robb gave a thumbs up, and the person went away.

VICTIM AND DEFENDANT After the initial investigation, Meier went to Munson to talk to Greenwood, who was lying in a hospital bed.

“I remember her saying, ‘I just killed my mom,’ repeatedly,” Meier testified in the May hearing.

Greenwood told Meier that she had lost control on US-31, started to fishtail,

overcorrected, and then crossed into opposing traffic.

Greenwood was checked for alcohol, and her breathalyzer came back negative. She hadn’t taken any prescription drugs. But she wanted to open up about having smoking marijuana, Meier testified.

“She said that she just wanted to be up front and cooperative, and she told me that she had smoked marijuana approximately 10 hours prior to the crash,” Meiers testified.

“And that there was approximately an eighth of marijuana in a plastic baggy inside an empty glass cappuccino jar that was located — that she had put under her driver’s seat.”

Meier hadn’t suspected drug use, but Greenwood admitted she’d smoked marijuana at around 1am the night before the crash. Greenwood’s blood was drawn and tested for THC. Williams, Greenwood’s attorney, said Greenwood had suffered enough over the death of her mother and that the case amounts to prosecutorial overreach because there is no evidence that Greenwood was impaired when she crashed. She was travelling at 35mph in a 55 zone and lost control on ice, he said.

Williams refused to make Greenwood available for an interview because her charges are pending.

“The government is victimizing her in this case,” Williams said. “There was no sign of impairment or intoxication. They acknowledge it was an accident, and weather was the cause of it.”

CASE UNDER APPEAL Greenwood was charged Jan. 18. By coincidence, another woman who had smoked marijuana before driving and caused a fatal crash on Dec. 10 in Grand Traverse County was charged with the same crime.

That woman, Abby Rose Miller, 19, of Grawn, pled guilty for the crash that killed 83-year-old Armond Worrell. She was sentenced to a year in jail after Worrell’s family asked for leniency. In that case, there was little doubt about whether Miller was impaired.

Williams took Greenwood’s case in another direction: He’s attempted to put Michigan’s marijuana policy on trial.

Greenwood entered a conditional guilty plea and was sentenced to six months in jail in July, but the plea and sentence are being held in abeyance while her case goes before the Court of Appeals. She may withdraw her plea if that court refuses to hear her case.

On appeal, Williams argues that the classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug is improper, and therefore, the state law that makes it illegal to drive with any amount of THC in a person’s system should be struck down.

He also argues that Michigan’s marijuana driving laws violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause because they treat recreational users of marijuana differently than medical marijuana users.

For recreational users, all the state has to do is show the presence of the drug in a person’s system in order to convict for impaired driving.

For medical marijuana users, the state must prove the driver was impaired. Williams said that leads to unjust prosecutions.

“They’re only prosecuting her because they can, because the way the law is written,” he said.

POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE Before the case went to the Court of Appeals, Williams and assistant prosecutor Christopher Tholen battled over those issues at a hearing in May before 13th Circuit Court Judge Thomas Power.

The first issue Williams raised was the state’s classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, which puts it in the same category as heroin, LSD, and cocaine.

Power noted that the law says that a substance should be classified Schedule 1 if it has a “high potential for abuse and has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, or lacks accepted safety for use in treatment under medical supervision.”

Power said he agreed with Williams that

there’s no question that marijuana is being used for medical purposes.

However, the state uses different standards to determine whether a drug should be removed from Schedule 1 classification.

The state’s Greenwood Board of Pharmacy administrator is supposed to consider a drug’s “relative potential for abuse” and the “potential of the substance to produce psychic or psychological dependence” before removing it from the list.

“Now, if those are the standards — those are pretty general. And you could make arguments under all of those about marijuana, couldn’t you?” Power asked at the hearing. “I mean, actual or relative potential for abuse.

There’s — there’s potential for abuse. We see people who abuse marijuana, don’t we?”

Grand Traverse County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Cooney said he believes marijuana’s designation as a Schedule 1 drug is federal policy and is beyond the purview of county courts.

Anyway, he said, state legislators knew what they were doing when they made it illegal to drive with any Schedule 1 controlled substance in your system.

“They could have decided to exclude marijuana; they could have excluded other Schedule 1 drugs, but they chose not to,” he said.

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF DRUGS Williams also failed to persuade Power that the state’s marijuana law violates the equal protection clause, but Power questioned whether it is good law.

Power said he believes it is possible to think of a drug in two ways and to treat different kinds of users differently. Opioids, for example, have that double life: They are sometimes obtained legally and used according to a prescription, and they are sometimes gotten illegally and abused.

“People — sometimes they get them by prescription for medical use, and sometimes they get them down at the Open Space and buy them illegally or steal them from somebody’s medicine cabinet — that happens all the time,” Power said at the hearing. “And the nonmedical use — nonprescription use of those narcotic painkillers is treated differently than the use of narcotic painkillers pursuant to a prescription, isn’t it?”

Frederik Stig-Nielson, a lawyer who was working with Williams at the hearing, argued that that’s the way the drugs are looked at under the Controlled Substance Act, but they should be viewed differently when it comes to the Motor Vehicle Code, because the purpose of that code is public safety.

“It is not any safer for a person who’s been prescribed — or who has a certification and who’s participated in the Michigan Medical Marijuana program — it’s not any safer for that person to operate a motor vehicle than it is for someone who has not been certified,” StigNielson argued.

Tholen argued that there’s a legitimate purpose for the government to distinguish between recreational and medical users. They do it to encourage safety on the roads, to get abusers into treatment, and to discourage illegal drug use.

Power wasn’t entirely persuaded.

“Okay. But if — if we’re concerned about highway safety, which is a real reason for intoxicated driving laws — if we’re concerned about highway safety, why is it safe for people to drive with substantial amounts of marijuana, but not enough to be intoxicated, in their system if they’ve got a medical marijuana card?

That’s OK. That’s safe,” Power said.

Others, he said, would violate the law with “the presence of even a miniscule amount of active marijuana,” he said.

But Power ultimately rejected the motion,

saying it was a matter for legislators to decide.

“It passes the rational basis test,” he said of the double standard. “Which is not to say it’s fair, or it’s right, or it’s a good idea — those are all issues for the legislative process, not — not for a court.”

“THE ONLY SAFE LEVEL” Cooney said he thought the equal protection argument is more difficult to rebut because Williams makes a good point about how Michigan has decided to treat different marijuana users differently.

“That’s a little bit more interesting argument,” Cooney said. “That’s the thing — it really doesn’t make much sense. Either it’s bad to have THC in your system and drive, or it’s not.”

The case that changed Michigan law and created a different standard for medical marijuana users came from Grand Traverse County — the People v. Rodney Koon — and, as that case wound through state courts between 2010 and 2013, Cooney fought to maintain a zero-tolerance standard even for medical marijuana users.

Cooney said the means for measuring medical marijuana intoxication are flawed.

“The reason the legislature said zero, that’s the only safe level, is because, the fact is … we don’t have good science to show what a safe level of marijuana is,” he said. “Some states set artificial limits, limits that, really, there is very little science to support.”

In the Koon case, Koon’s blood test showed 10 ng/mL of THC, but he had a medical marijuana card, and his charges were dismissed because Cooney determined he wouldn’t be able to prove impairment. In the Greenwood case, there is no evidence that she was impaired after the crash, and yet she faces a felony charge after her test revealed a THC level of 1 ng/mL. Is it justice that Greenwood had onetenth the level of THC that Koon did, showed no sign of impairment, and still faces a felony charge?

Cooney said the cases are different, and Greenwood was tested hours after the crash and might well have had a much higher level at the time of the crash. (Williams noted that no one has disputed Greenwood’s contention that she had smoked the night before the crash.)

Also, Cooney said, the cases are different.

Koon was pulled over for speeding; Greenwood caused a crash that killed someone.

“What I do know in the Greenwood case is that she crossed the centerline, and she killed someone, and she seriously injured another person as a result of an error in driving,” Cooney said. “To simply state that, well, she was a one, and he was a 10 — that’s taking a lot of facts out of the equation.”

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Snyder spokeswoman Tanya Baker said in an email: “No appointments have been announced yet. The time it takes to find and vet qualified candidates varies with each commission. In this case, the vetting process is nearing completion, and we expect to announce the appointments soon.”

Josh Hovey, spokesperson for the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, the group behind an effort to get marijuana legalization on the November 2018 ballot, said his campaign supports a zero-tolerance approach to impaired driving. He said he hopes tests improve and one day will be able to actually show whether a person is under the influence or not.

“There should be better testing that can determine whether someone is impaired or not, similar to what we have for alcohol, but unfortunately the science isn’t there yet,” Hovey said.

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THE GREAT LAKES’ LONGTIME NEMESIS IS GOING DOWN Double agents. Plugged noses. Phermone-bait traps. Scientists’ latest schemes to control the North’s blood-sucking sea lamprey population are working wonders.

By Al Parker When it comes to invasive species in the Great Lakes, efforts to halt the spread of the Asian Carp have generated a lot of buzz.

But there’s been an ongoing, persistent, under-the-radar effort to control an old nemesis — the fish-killing sea lamprey — that’s proven to be stunningly successful.

“The sea lamprey population in Lake Michigan is currently at about a 25-yearlow,” said Andrea Miehls, communications contractor of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission at the Hammond Bay Biological Station in Presque Isle County.

“The sea lamprey population in Lake Huron was at a 30-year low in 2015. The population increased slightly in 2016, but the Lake Huron population is still very close to the 30-year low recorded in 2015. These are all positive signs for sea lamprey control in the Great Lakes and protection of Great Lakes fisheries.”

The latest efforts against the eellike lamprey are designed to control the population, rather than eradicate it, according to Nick Johnson, a research ecologist for the U.S. Geological Service.

“I compare it to a farmer doing weed control,” explained Johnson. “When you see a farm field, it looks great, and you don’t see the weeds because the farmer controls them.

But if the farmer doesn’t take care of the field, you’ll soon see the weeds again. The farmer won’t eradicate the weeds — they’re still there — but he’ll control them. Lamprey control is the same.”

The rivers and streams that feed the

Great Lakes are the focus of lamprey control.

There are some populations of lamprey, according to Johnson, that stay in rivers and streams and never venture out to the Great Lakes. They maintain a breeding population in those rivers. Scientists are busy targeting those lampreys, working to interrupt their breeding cycle.

“Lampricide has been used in the past, and that kills them in the rivers, but eventually they become resistant,” said Johnson, who has been working this year on two lamprey control programs in northern Michigan, both with the goal of controlling lampreys.

The first involves the use of a lamprey pheromone — named 3KPZS — that was isolated and identified at Michigan State University, Johnson’s alma mater.

Late in 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency registered 3KPZS as safe for use in nature, making it the world’s first pheromone for biological control of a fish and opening the door for control methods that use the lampreys own pheromones to trick them. Traps baited with the pheromone are up to 50 percent more successful than unbaited traps. The pheromone research was conducted on the Betsie and Manistee Rivers.

Researchers also measure the natural pheromones in the streams to find lampreys, then use traps, low-voltage electric fields, and other control techniques. “The challenge is trying to optimize dosing requirements so they work best,” said Johnson.

Perhaps, the most effective approach may be to block the lampreys’ ability to smell the

pheromone in the first place. In the lab, scientists have plugged lampreys’ noses with latex.

Those who could not smell had little chance of finding spawning sites or mates. Researchers are looking for a chemical that would permanently block the lampreys’ ability to smell pheromones — a chemical trick to plug up their noses.

The second experimental research project involves injecting a compound into male lampreys that have been trapped by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The sterilized males were fin-clipped for identification, then released into three popular northern Michigan rivers — the Pigeon, the Sturgeon and the Maple. These males are not interested in feeding, only mating. The experiment is expected to last for three years.

“People sometimes get worried when we release lamprey, but these are adult lamprey who have stopped feeding on fish,” said Johnson. “They go out, find lamprey we couldn’t catch, and mate with them. Then they die — both male and female. It’s like they’re double agents.”

Sea lampreys use their suction-cup mouths filled with grasping teeth to latch on to larger fish and suck out vital bodily fluids.

By traveling up ship canals, the lampreys reached all of the Great Lakes by 1939. In the 1950s, lampreys virtually wiped out the lake trout population before scientists began a vigorous campaign of using lampricide to combat the invaders. Over several years, researchers tested more than 6,000 chemical compounds and found two that

kill sea lamprey larvae without significantly harming other aquatic life.

That lampricide treatment was a great success, reducing the number of Great Lakes lamprey by 90 percent according to Miehls.

Sea lamprey once killed almost 103 million pounds of Great Lakes fish every year. Today that number is less than 10 million pounds annually, according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. “Even though the numbers are down, the lampreys still destroy more fish than all the fishery operations,” Miehls noted.

Before the Great Lakes Fishery Commission began controlling sea lamprey, it’s estimated there were 2.5 million of the slippery invaders in the Great Lakes.

Current data shows a total of about 215,000 lampreys in the Great Lakes, with 82,000 in Lake Superior, 79,000 in Lake Huron, 30,000 in Lake Michigan, 17,000 in Lake Ontario and 7,000 in Lake Erie.

Northern Lake Michigan, northern Lake Huron and eastern Lake Superior are considered “hot zones” where numbers of lamprey are found.

“Fortunately, the sea lamprey control program in the Great Lakes is one of the best control programs for an invasive vertebrate species anywhere in the world,” said Miehls.

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Refurbishing a Jewel How to Paint the Mackinac Bridge

By Kristi Kates If you think painting your fence is a tough summer project, imagine repainting the entire Mackinac Bridge.

The suspension bridge, which connects Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas, stretches nearly 5 miles, across the Straits of Mackinac.

“Every component of the bridge has an expected life cycle in the case of its paint,” said Bob Sweeney, CEO and executive secretary of the Mackinac Bridge Authority.

“Each new full paint job will have a 35-year life expectancy — but to get that we have to continually reapply some of the paint every 3 to 5 years.”

The smaller jobs are regularly completed by the Bridge Authority’s in-house painting team; its crew is monitoring the bridge all the time, watching for small flaws in the paint so that the team can touch them up before they become major blemishes. “We have to keep an eye on where rust spots start to form, or where bubbles are surfacing in the paint,” said Sweeney.

SEASONED PROS The Bridge Authority’s own painting team handles the day-to-day touchups, but the full repainting effort, which involves

sandblasting off the old paint and repainting essentially from scratch, is contracted to large teams who specialize in the task.

“We usually get around a dozen bids to contract on our [full] bridge painting jobs,” Sweeney said, “and we require that they come and actually see our bridge firsthand before making their bid. We then take the lowest bid offered, but they’re all good companies — these are guys who are repainting bridges all around the world.”

The current cycle for the full repaint started in 1998, with the bridge divided into seven sections of repainting. Each section is stripped by high-pressure sandblasters right down to the metal and then repainted one section at a time.

“We picked the worst section first, the part with the most rust, which in this case was the south approach to the bridge,” Sweeney said. “Next, we worked on part of the suspended section, then the center span, the north side span, and the north approach.

It continues in that way as we skip back and forth across the bridge, working from the worst to the best sections.”

The methodical approach serves a vital purpose: When the team reaches the bare metal, the authority gets an up-close look at the condition of the bridge’s components.

“We do have some fatigue on the bridge

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at times, so it helps when we get down to the metal, as we can see any small cracks and fix them,” Sweeney said. If this sounds scary, be assured that it’s not: “The cracks are something we expect on any typical steel-structure bridge that’s 60 years old,” he said.

“We contain the work as the old paint is sandblasted off because the old paint has red lead in it from back in the day,” Sweeney said. “At the time, the lead was considered a rust preventative, but we stopped using leadbased paints in the late ’80s or early ’90s, and we now use a zinc-based paint.”

DANGER ZONE The hazards for the painting crew are as you might expect for anyone working on a bridge: wind, heights, and potentially dangerous equipment. All workers are clipped into harnesses any time they have to work in a hazardous location, and they’re used to the conditions regardless; these guys are pros. During the current repainting project, only two have sustained any serious injury, said Sweeney. “Mostly, we’ve been fortunate.”

If you drive across the bridge as repainting is underway, you might spot painters working inside a tented platform structure, made of canvas and roofing steel, that’s attached to the bridge. It not only offers them a safe, sheltered platform but also prevents the majority of paint chips from blowing out, keeping debris out of the water and in one spot so it can be collected with an industrial vacuum and sent to the appropriate landfill.

GREEN AND WHITE The distinctive green of the lower part of the Mackinac Bridge is a paint color called Foliage Green Federal Standard 595b Color No. 14110. The white towers are painted in Ivory Federal Standard 595b Color No. 13711. They’re industry-standard colors of an extremely durable paint that are part of a three-layer process that includes a primer coat, intermediate coat, and a urethane final coat. “It doesn’t really ever fade,” Sweeney said.

As for the paint numbers, they’re staggering: The Bridge Authority’s in-house painting crew uses between 1,000 and 1,200 gallons of paint per year for those touchups. And repainting the entire bridge takes 135,783 gallons of paint — 128,503 green and 7,280 ivory.

For more information on the Mackinac Bridge, visit mackinacbridge.org, where you can also view the Bridge Cam, which offers glimpses of the painting crews at work.

BIG WHEELS KEEP ON TURNING Truckers and Tractors to Roll Across the Mackinac Bridge in September

If your fandoms run toward the vehicular end of things, there are two upcoming events happening on the Mackinac Bridge that you shouldn’t miss: By Kristi Kates

Annual Mackinac Bridge Antique Tractor Crossing Sept. 8

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By Kristi Kates

Summer 2017 marks 60 years of the Mackinac Bridge walk and one major break in tradition.

“Because of threats happening across the country … We met with Homeland Security and the Michigan State Police, and it was decided that for the first time, we will not be allowing public [vehicle] traffic to drive across the bridge during the walk, for everyone’s safety and security,” said Bob Sweeney, executive secretary of the Mackinac Bridge Authority (MBA).

In prior years, the northbound bridge lanes were open to vehicles during the walk; this year, following incidents in London, Barcelona, and Charlottesville, Virginia, in which terrorists drove vehicles into crowds of pedestrians, the only vehicles allowed on the bridge will be law enforcement, emergency vehicles, and the shuttle buses that transport participants.

A total of 13 different law enforcement agencies — members of Homeland Security, the Michigan State Police, regional and local police, and the Native American Chippewa Tribe — will be on site for the event, including 240 troopers. Boats also will be deployed in the waters below the bridge.

Officials are quick to point out that there is no known threat to the event; they are simply taking precautions. Between 35,000 and 50,000 walkers are expected to participate.

The bridge walk, which has been held every Labor Day weekend since 1959 (the first actual walk, in 1958, was held in June), runs from 6:30am to noon on Sept. 4. The walk begins in St. Ignace; walkers trek south across the bridge until they reach Mackinaw City. Any walkers still on the bridge at 11:30am who are not expected to complete

The nationally syndicated TV show Small Town Big Deal covered it last year. In 2015, when cable network RFD-TV featured Mackinac Bridge’s annual antique tractor crossing on its program Classic Tractor, about 1,000 tractors made the trek. In 2016, when the nationally syndicated TV show Small Town Big Deal covered the event, a record 1,326 tractors showed up. For 2017, participation is expected to hit its maximum capacity: 1,500 antique tractors.

“It’s our 10th year, and it’s a big one — we expect record numbers,” said event coordinator Rebecca Canze, “and we’ve never had to cap participation before! I’m sure it’s because more people are aware of it due to the TV coverage.”

The event is exactly what its name suggests: A group of tractor enthusiasts from all over Michigan — and several this year from New York and Texas — bring their tractors Up North, and they all caravan across the Mackinac Bridge. Afterward, the tractors are on display at the Little Bear East Arena in St. Ignace, alongside concession stands, an antique snowmobile show, raffles and giveaways, a lumberjack show, and the “Tractor Games” complete with prizes. “The games are hilarious, especially the one where two guys have to wear dresses and race their tractors,” Canze said. “That’s a don’tmiss event.”

All events except the bridge crossing take place in downtown St. Ignace and at the Little Bear East Arena. This show is free and open to the public. For more information visit mackinacbridgecrossing. com or call (989) 729-6567.

the walk by noon will be transported off the bridge on the shuttle buses.

By the Numbers • The MBA tells walkers to expect to walk a minimum of 7 miles total, including the 5-mile trek across the bridge and to and from their parked car.

• Wheelchairs and strollers are allowed, but no fewer than eight categories of extras are forbidden for those participating in the bridge walk: all signs, banners, umbrellas, bicycles, roller skates, skateboards, wagons, and animals. Don’t plan on smoking during the walk, either.

100+ portable restrooms will be set up for the event, but you won’t find any on the bridge; they’ll be available at both ends.

• 100 shuttle buses will travel back and forth across the bridge to transport walkers; the buses are brought in for the Bridge Walk from various resources within a 200-mile radius from Mackinaw City.

• Two dozen souvenir stands, selling T-shirts, stickers, and other bridge walk memorabilia, will be set up at both ends of the bridge. “One of the most popular souvenirs are the patches,” Sweeney said. “You’ll often see people walking the bridge wearing 20, 30 patches from all the years they’ve walked it.”

• Sweeney has met people from all 50 states and Canada who have walked the Mackinac Bridge, as well as people from Australia, France, and Germany.

• For each yearly walk across the bridge that you complete, you’ll be awarded a numbered “Certificate of Completion.”

For more information on the 2017 Annual Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk, visit mackinacbridge.org/annual-bridge-walk.

There is a $5 charge per person for the shuttle rides, but walking the bridge is free.

22nd Annual Richard Crane Memorial Big Rig Truck Show Sept. 15–17 Launched by a group of friends as a tribute to the late Richard Crane, the founder of the American Truck Driving School in Texas and a pal of St. Ignace Car Show founder Ed Reavie, St. Ignace’s Big Rig Truck Show honors both Crane and the vehicles that dominate America’s highways: semi-trucks.

“Truckers pride themselves on decorating these trucks with cool paint jobs, neon, underglow lights, chrome, all kinds of embellishments,” said Quincy Ranville, director of the St. Ignace Visitor’s Bureau. “It’s quite a sight to see.”

The most spectacular part of the event (on Friday night) is the Parade of Lights, when more than 150 full-length semis drive across the bridge from St. Ignace to Mackinaw City and back again. It isn’t a simple lineup of trucks — these big rigs are on full display, with lights flashing and spinning, neon glowing bright, and specialty horns honking as they go.

“Bridge View Park in St. Ignace is the best place to watch from the north side,” Ranville said, “and there are lots of good spots to watch the parade from Mackinaw City — you can go to Fort Michilimackinac Park, or even sit at Audie’s (restaurant) and see it.”

All of the semi-trucks are on display Saturday; other events over the weekend include live music, food and craft vendors, a swap meet, and an awards ceremony on Sunday morning to recognize the standout semis.

This year’s special guest will be Alex Debogorski, a 26-year trucking veteran and star of the History Channel show Ice Road Truckers. He’ll offer autographs and photo opportunities.

All events, except the bridge parade, take place in downtown St. Ignace and at the Little Bear East Arena. This show is free and open to the public. For more information visit stignace.org or call (906) 643-6950.

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By Kristi Kates The husband and wife team of Sara Gaydan and Rodrigo Sandoval took the long route to northern Michigan. Both were born in Brownsville, Texas, a city at the southernmost tip of the state, just across the border from Mexico, on the banks of the Rio Grande. They eventually traveled east and spent several years living in Vero Beach, Florida, before making their way north to live closer to some of their friends.

The couple arrived in Harbor Springs with an idea: to try opening up a restaurant that would draw upon food traditions from their family’s origins in Michoacán, Mexico.

They borrowed a few of their grandmother’s recipes and now run Rodrigo’s every evening, sharing restaurant facilities with a local breakfast/lunch diner. (Out to Lunch uses the kitchen and 45-seat dining area from 7am–2pm daily, while Rodrigo’s is open in the same space from 5pm–9pm.)

“What we serve is really authentic Mexican food; it’s not ‘American-Mexican’ food,” explained Sara Gaydan. “We use as many local ingredients as we can, organic foods, and food from the farmers markets. We make our own tortillas, our own guacamole, our own pico de gallo, our own queso.”

The menu, which has slowly grown since Rodrigo’s opened in December 2016, features some familiar-sounding dishes but with genuine flavors that you won’t find at your local fast-food taco chain.

The tacos, with their homemade corn tortilla shells, are filled with your choice of protein — sauteed chicken or shredded chicken, beef, or steal. Or you can choose the vegetarian option, a seasoned mix of carrots, green and red peppers, onions, mushrooms, cauliflower, and broccoli. They’re served with chopped fresh onion and cilantro on top, a slice of lime, and a side of homemade guacamole made fresh daily.

Burritos offer similar meat/vegetable options but also are filled with homemade refried beans, more of the guacamole, and homemade pico de gallo, queso, and salsa verde. The fajitas, which also can be ordered with any of the above meats or vegetables, also come with seafood options: shrimp or fish, or the Del Mar fajita, which mixes fish and shrimp together. All entrees are served with a side of Rodrigo’s rice and refried beans.

“We just added street tacos, too,” Gaydan said. “Those are served on smaller corn tortillas, and you get six to a plate. You choose your protein or the vegetables, and then they are topped with chiles toreados

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Rodrigo’s also has some pretty delicious plans on the horizon for their upcoming dessert menu. “We plan to add flan (custard), banana chimichanga (a deep-fried dessert like a sweet version of a burrito), sopapilla (a sweet fried pastry), and fried ice cream,” Gaydan said. But mostly, Gaydan and Sandoval just plan to work hard at keeping up with the demand they’ve experienced since Rodrigo’s opened.

“It’s been very good,” Gaydan said. “It’s been moving faster than we expected here, especially this summer, which has been crazy!”

Rodrigo’s is located at 7593 S. State Rd., in Harbor Springs, (231) 526-2980. Open seven days a week from 5pm–9pm. Visit them on Facebook at facebook.com/ rodrigosharborsprings to view menu updates and specials. $$

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By Kristi Kates Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum — named after the late Marvin Yagoda, who founded the place back in 1979 — is exactly as remarkable as its name would indicate.

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There’s really no end to what you can do at Marvin’s. “It’s not a place people tire of very easily,” said Jeremy Yagoda. Jeremy, Marvin’s son, has been running the museum for the past several years; his father passed away this past January, leaving behind a family legacy that started with just one machine.

“My dad was a pharmacist in Detroit,” said Yagoda. “He ran the drugstore, Sam’s Drugs, that had been founded by his father, my grandfather Sam Yagoda.” One night, Marvin Yagoda was at a bar near the University of Michigan, where he attended school, and he spotted a Nickelodeon machine that, for the cost of a single nickel, would play its internal instruments using the music from a piano roll (much like an old player piano). Little did he know, that nickel would start him on a second career path.

“He loved it. After he saw that, he got obsessed with coin-operated machines,” Yagoda said. His father started collecting them, filling the family house with all different sizes and colors of the contraptions.

“Then in the late ’70s, mom took me to the food court in Tally Hall (a now defunct, formerly popular entertainment/hangout complex in Farmington Hill, Michigan), and she thought what a great place that would be to encourage dad to get some of that stuff out of the house,” Yagoda said.

But Marvin Yagoda thought that the coin-ops he had at home were “too nice” to put out into the public. “They really were high-end, collector’s edition ones,” Yagoda said. “So my mom actually created a monster, because he loved the Tally Hall idea, so now he had to go and buy even more machines to put in the food court!”

Yagoda set up shop in Tally Hall with crane prize machines, “Love Testers,” coin games, all manner of entertaining diversions.

In 1988, Tally Hall closed for remodeling.

When it reopened, the Yagodas were offered a dedicated space in the new development, and they’ve been there ever since.

Today at Marvin’s, you’ll find thousands of items, everything from large-scale game machines and a merry-go-round to small, quirky souvenirs and gadgets. “We’re very well known by now, so people often contact us with things they’ve found,” Yagoda said.

“We buy things at auctions, have people make machines specially for us, and sometimes we get weird emails from people who say they’ve found something in their basement,” he said. “We always want what’s unique and different.”

The current inventory — all playable coinoperated machines — includes a computercontrolled “orchestra” with 60+ self-playing instruments; it can play your choice of 1,200 songs for 50 cents. There’s a huge collection of working pinball machines, including brand new models. Several handmade, one-of-akind mechanical fortune tellers — choose from robotic scientist The Brain, Chinese fortune teller Harry Chin, or Old Granny from the 1930s — dole our mystical advice.

The place is such a sensory overload, you’ll definitely need to take breaks from your investigating, browsing, and gaming, and the museum has made sure you can do that right on site in their own little snack bar, which offers carnival-style food:

Downstate Destinations: Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum “Everything from circus hot dogs and pizza to popcorn and cotton candy — all the good junk,” Yagoda said.

All of this is housed in a building with 40-foot ceilings that are decorated with billboard-sized posters from the ’30s advertising feats of magic, radio-controlled miniature planes that fly around on conveyor wires, (a nod to one of Marvin’s other hobbies, as a private pilot), and more.

Crammed together as it is — with nearly every available inch of space taken up by something marvelous — the museum has drawn coverage from media all over the state and several higher profile network programs, including American Pickers and Modern Marvels. “Modern Marvels were doing a show on the history of coin-operated machines, and they filmed a whole section of it right here,” Yagoda said.

Up until the past couple of years, Marvin Yagoda was in the museum every single day and night, according to his son. Now it’s Jeremy Yagoda who is ready and willing to keep this most unique of family businesses moving forward and thriving. “My dad just loved showing all of his stuff to people and talking to them,” Yagoda said. “I grew up with this stuff most of my life, so I’m used to being around all of it. It’s still a job to run the place — I mean, a job’s a job — but when you’re making people smile and really making their day better, well, that’s

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Yearbook Memories They might not have been named ‘Most Likely to Succeed,’ but these accomplished artists showed a little promise — and a lot of personality — back in their school days.

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By Kristi Kates As the return of school approaches for students across northern Michigan, we like to ask some of our region’s notable arts successes to dig into their attics and share a glimpse of their former selves from school days gone by. This year’s brave participants — a one-time pyro-adventurer, a class prep, a Whitney Houston wannabe, an aspiring artist, and a “tortured” writer — did not disappoint.

Kristi Dockter,

Glenn Wolff,

Senior year (1986), StandishSterling Central High School, Standish Activities: Dockter grew up in Omer, Michigan, which at that time was the smallest city in Michigan. Her graduating class was around 150 students. In spite of its size, she was involved in many activities. “I was on the college prep plan and worked on yearbook,” Dockter said. “And I enjoyed sports like cross-country, track, basketball, and softball. I was an avid equestrian and spent a lot of energy on my horse. But by senior year, I had my eye on my future and was chomping at the bit to be independent and in a bigger city.”

Memories: “In our Mock Elections I was voted ‘Class Prep’,” Dockter said. At the time I could not believe I had been elected to this title. But in 1986 the most popular TV shows were The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Miami Vice and movies like Back to the Future, so those must have been what inspired my senior hairstyle — look at my little side hair tail!” A year and a half later, Dockter was sporting long hair with a voluminous spiral perm at Michigan State University.

Junior year (1970), Traverse City High School, Traverse City Activities: Wolff today is a popular national artist with a long list of works and books to his credit, and he also works on a parallel career as a bass player, performing with many well-known northern Michigan musicians. In addition to “drawing a lot” in high school, he was into class politics. In 1970, he served as vice president of his class, alongside pals John Wunsch and Fred Doelker.

Memories: Most of Wolff ’s work today focuses on wild places and wildlife; back in his school days, he was living a different kind of “wild life” as a ’70s-era folk musician and early environmentalist. “We [Wolff, Wunsch, and Doelker] were starting our first band that year, playing earnest folk music with our classmate Marilyn [Robbins] Tilley,” Wolff said. “Our first gigs were at The Cove in Leland. Paid gigs in high school, what a concept! In our spare time on the weekends, we also started the town’s first glass recycling center that we continued until we all left for college.”

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Marty Scott,

Erin Anderson Whiting,

Third grade (1988) Interlochen Elementary, Interlochen Activities: A combination of outdoor sports and brainy indoor pursuits were the hallmark of Kelto’s elementary school days. “The highlight of third grade was learning how to downhill ski at Crystal Mountain through Interlochen Elementary’s ski club,” Kelto said. “Now I take my own six-year-old there!” According to Kelto’s memory book from that time in school, she was also very into math, most specifically what she had written down as ‘multaplucation.’

Memories: “I really, really loved Whitney Houston and her song ‘How Will I Know,’” Kelto said. “Somewhere buried in storage at my parents’ house, there exists a VHS tape of me wearing a ridiculous ’80s getup, complete with a metallic wig, singing and dancing to that song, and giving it my absolute all. I fear — but also kind of look forward to — the day that tape is unearthed.”

Senior year (1968), West Bloomfield High School, West Bloomfield Township Activities: Long before he was running his eclectic, independent performing arts venue in downtown Petoskey’s Gaslight District, Scott was an earnest high school student involved in a well-balanced slate of activities. “I was on the debate team and student council, taking AT chemistry, in the ski club, and also in the square-dancing performance group,” Scott said.

Memories: Scott’s musical aspirations started early: “I wanted to be Bob Dylan,” he said. In his opinion, his high school days were also a time when “the best music in the history of the world” was on the radio — and the world itself was in an interesting state of flux. “President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for re-election, the Vietnam War was raging on, and we were all about to go to college and change the world,” Scott said. “What could possibly go wrong?”

Senior year (1996), Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen Activities: “I was a creative writing major at IAA, and I focused mainly on fiction, particularly short stories, so my nine-hour school day was half focused on academics and half focused on learning with, and from, my exceptionally talented fellow writers and the incredible writing faculty,” Whiting said.

Memories: Both of Whiting’s photos come from her senior yearbook, where IAA used both a standard “mugshot,” as Whiting calls it, and then also asked students to submit a more creative senior portrait of their own. “Because we were at art school, of course many of us had our friends take our senior portraits,” she said. “So, combine art school and the fact that it was the mid-90s — a particularly angsty time — and that I was still young enough to believe the only way to be a ‘real’ writer was to be a little tortured and brooding, and you get my senior photo, complete with crushed-velvet mock-turtleneck. The same photographer friend took my photo and many of my friends’ and they all look similar!”

While Whiting said she was already an “obsessive artist” by that point, she actually really loved her life at Interlochen, and many of the artists she met there from all over the globe are still among her closest friends today.

Communications Coordinator, Interlochen Center for the Arts Sixth grade (1996), Cherryland Middle School, Elk Rapids Activities: “I am obviously deep into my love of all things baseball in this pic,” Vanderbush said. “I discovered music and theater at this stage, too, and I was very into [Odyssey of the Mind], an advanced quiz bowl type of thing. My best friend, Jeff Converse, and I had also just begun to discover how awesome girls were.”

Memories: Vanderbush characterized his time in middle school as the life of a Sandlot kid mixed with a mischievous Goonies kid. “Once, we had to do a history presentation at school, so Jeff and I chose the heyday of mobsters,” he explained. “My dad helped us get an old car door and put ‘authentic’ bullet holes in it. After he left us to play, we decided to give the door a more authentic look — if you shoot up a car, it’ll catch fire like in the movies, right? — so we doused it with gasoline, set it on fire, and almost burned down the garage. We got in a LOT of trouble — but we also got a B on the presentation, so there’s that!”

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Too many features to list with this 4 BR / 5 BA, 3,354 sq/ft home on 101’ feet of Private frontage on Big Glen Lake. Tucked into the tip of Aliigator Hill, this home is backed by National Park, and within walking distance to trails, and just a short bike ride to downtown Glen Arbor. Rental potential and ample room for a large family or multiple families! A must see! $885,000 MLS 1834277 LOG HOME ON 2 PARCELS Impeccably maintained log home on just over 2 acres in Leelanau County. Lots of character and long list of features that include beautiful hardwood flooring, floor to ceiling natural stone fireplace, granite countertops in both the kitchen and baths, copper gutters and full walkout basement, already plumbed for additional bath. $475,000 MLS 1835187 FULLY FURNISHED TOWNHOUSE Just 100 yards from the pristine waters of Lake Michigan and downtown Glen Arbor, this condo is completely turn-key! Just bring your bathing suit and enjoy all that Glen Arbor has to offer. 2 BR / 2.5 BA, 1,650 sq/ft in this delightfully decorated space with a bright beach feel. Attached one car garage to store all your toys, and patio for entertaining! $414,000 MLS 1836250

RIVERBEND TIMBER FRAME Located at The Homestead Resort, this beautifully built 3 BR / 3 BA home was featured in Timber Homes Illustrated magazine. Features such as western red cedar siding, island kitchen, grand master suite, open concept, and cathedral ceilings on a half acre lot with walkout hillside basement.

A must see! $595,000 MLS 1835992

TC: 231-941-9488 • www.crookedtree.org

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FULL LOG HOME W/VIEWS Come check out this beautifully crafted custom 2 BR / 2.5 BA, 2,385 sq/ft, full log home with multilevel decking boasting views of Glen Lake. Impressive floor to ceiling natural stone fireplaces, and gourmet kitchen. Custom features include Turkish bath, copper sinks, and custom features throughout.

A must see!! $860,000 MLS 1834803

231-334-2758

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402 E. Front Street Traverse City, MI 49686

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FANTASTIC PANORAMIC VIEWS OF BOTH BAYS! 22.85 Acre Parcel is Prime for Development or Multiple Home Sites!

Highest Point on Old Mission Peninsula.

Directly Across the Road from the Scenic Overlook! One of the Most Photographed Places in Michigan! Tremendous Views from Many Spots of this Large Wide Property. Traditional Farmhouse Check it out!

MLS#1833714 $2,000,000

81 FT OF WIDE SANDY WEST BAY BEACH! 3BD-3.5BA-2850 SQFT Raised Ranch Close to Downtown TC! Nice Private Setting! Home Totally Renovated in 1999! Has Oak Wood Floors, Pella Windows & Doors, Large Main Floor Master Suite, 3 Fireplaces, Entire Home Features Beautiful Water Views! Wonderful Sun Room/Study Addition, Walkout Lower Level. MLS#1832930 $1,599,900

BIG GLEN LAKE ESTATE PARCEL! Large Estate Size Parcel of 1.81 Acres w/200 Feet of Frontage & Towering Trees Backs Up to Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore Property! May 2011 Appraisal on File $850,000! Privacy at the Waters Edge w/the Lakeside Peninsula/Landing! No Value in Home & Sellers Anticipate Buyers will Build New Dream Home here. MLS#1831816 $789,900

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172 FT ON LONG LAKE! GREAT HOME4BD-3BA-2189 SQFT- PRICE REDUCED BELOW APPRAISED VALUE APRIL 2017!!! Quiet Cove of Long Lake. Excellent Location End of Cul-De-Sac & Nature Area of Long Lake! Loons, Eagles, & Fish Common Sites at this Special Property. 2 Docks, Boat Hoist, & 8 Person Bull Frog Hot-Tub Included! MLS# 1832980 $699,900

SOUTH LAKE LEELANAU HOME! 100 FT of Hard, Sandy, Shallow Lake Bed! Perfect for Swimming! 3BD-2BA-1584SF Ranch Home! One Level Lakeside Living! Big Brick Natural Gas Fireplace! Great Lake Views!

Updated Large Eat In Kitchen w/Island! Big Deck Off Dining Rm & Living Rm! Newer Roof & Furnace! Pole Barn w/10 Ft Overhead Door Features a Cool Man Cave w/ Upstairs Storage. MLS#1831749 $574,900

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TRAVERSE CITY RETAIL SPACE FOR LEASE! Large Storefront with Plate Glass Windows for Excellent Displays! Great Location in Traverse City Across from the Library!

2329 SQ FT, Lots of Parking! Excellent Opportunity for Retail/Service. MLS#1834495 $2,135/month

Two Units of Approx. 1150 SQ FT For Lease if Existing Space is Divided. 3 Yr Minimum Lease Required for Creating the Smaller Units! Lots of Parking! Excellent Opportunity for Retail/Service Close to Downtown TC. Modified Gross Lease with Tenant Responsible for Rent & Utilities!

MLS# 1834499 $1,342/month

RAISED RANCH IN ARROWHEAD ESTATES! 4 BD-2.5 BA-3412 SQ FT at the Bear Golf Course. Orchard in Back Affords Privacy & Peaceful Setting! Large Main Floor Master Suite & Laundry Rm for One Level Living! Huge Family/Great Room in Lower Level w/2 BD & BA for Company.

Third Garage is 33 Ft Deep w/10x10 Overhead Door for RV or Boat Storage!

MLS#1833722 $309,900

DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE One Dedicated Parking Space! 2nd Floor Offices in Historical Wurzburg Building!

High Ceilings-Wood Floors-Bay Windows Overlooking Front Street. Private Bathroom.

Modified Gross Lease. Tenant Responsible for Rent, Utilities, & Trash Removal.

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Tour the forest canopy with AWESOME views of Lake Charlevoix, or race your friends on the Midwest’s only 1,200-foot TRIPLE zip line.

For reservations call 855.ZIP-INFO or visit WILDWOODRUSH.COM Located 2 miles from downtown Boyne City, across from Young State Park.

Wildwood Rush is independently owned and operated, and is not affiliated with Boyne Mt. or Boyne Resorts

231.313.0591

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4. The Traverse City Authors group gathered at Horizon Books in TC celebrating Friday Night Live.

5. Crowd favorite and newest addition to the Legs Inn family, Vivienne, hung out with Dad Chris, Kirby, and Uncle Mark.

6. Bay Area Turf Care’s Patrick Leitelt caught up with Mr. Petoskey himself...A.K.A. Carlin Smith at Legs Inn. 7. Chef/owner Ben Crow serving it up at The Mitten Brewing Co. in Northport.

8. Casha Matthews and Casey McBride were loving the sun at the TC Chamber golf outing at Crystal Mountain.

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OLD 27 MOTOR TOUR HITS CHEBOYGAN: 4pm, near the Great Lakes Grill & the west end of the Kmart Plaza on State St., Cheboygan. Check out the vehicles on display & talk to the drivers. old27tour.com

-------------------BENZIE FISHING FRENZY: Aug. 25-27, Mineral Springs Park, Frankfort. frankfortelberta.com/calendar-of-events

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-------------------NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL RUN: 3500 Udell Hills Rd., Wellston. Featuring an ultramarathon, marathon & half marathon.

Different races have different start times. northcountryrun.com

2 - 5 p.m. (auditions begin at 2:30 after registration) Dance Building – Interlochen Center for the Arts

112TH ANNUAL EMMET-CHARLEVOIX COUNTY FAIR: Petoskey Fairgrounds.

Runs Aug. 22-27. Featuring a Firefighter Show, Mini Horse Pulls, 4-H Dog Show, Monster Truck Shootout & much more. emmetchxfair.org

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The Dance Division at Interlochen Center for the Arts will present its biennial production of The Nutcracker, a newly choreographed version that premiered in 2015. This year’s production promises even more excitement as the ballet celebrates its 125th anniversary. Performance dates are Dec. 7-9, 2017 at Corson Auditorium.

20TH ANNUAL SUMMER MODEL AIRPLANE SHOW: 10am-3pm, Thompsonville Airport. Presented by the Benzie Area Radio Club, this show features both fixed wing & helicopter aircraft. There will also be a Classic Car Show, candy drop for the kids, & pyrotechniques show. benziearearc.com

-------------------28TH ANNUAL CORVETTE CROSSROADS AUTO SHOW: 10am-2pm, Mackinaw Crossings Mall Parking Lot, Mackinaw City. Featuring Gary Engle with G-Man Entertainment. There will also be a Poker Walk. “Corvettes on Parade” proceeds through downtown Mackinaw City & across the Mackinac Bridge at 7pm. mackinawchamber.com

-------------------ALDEN DEPOT ART FESTIVAL: 10am5pm, Alden Depot.

All candidates must be registered by Sept. 11, 2017.

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: 10am-6pm, Horizon Books, TC. horizonbooks.com

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MACKINAW CITY FINE ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am-7pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City.

-------------------USED BOOK SALE: 10am-4pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. benzonialibrary.org

-------------------BARK AT THE PARK: 11am-3pm, Hull Park, behind Traverse Area District Library, TC. Featuring adoptions, a silent auction, activities, & pet friendly businesses. Free.

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BOOK SIGNING EVENT: 11am-2pm, Horizon Books, Cadillac. Featuring Lori Taylor, author of “Holly Wild” Series; Richard Alan Hall, author of “Big Bay” Series & Ellen Wahi, author of “Full Moon Lore.” facebook. com/horizonbookscadillac

-------------------HARMONIA INTRO: 1pm, Cadillac Public Library. Harmonica history & performance with Steve August. 231-510-9047. Free.

-------------------GOOD HART MARKET DAYS: 2-5:30pm, Good Hart General Store. Featuring special events such as book signings, live music & more. goodhartstore.com/market-days

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SEUSSICAL, KIDS: Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company.

Children’s Auditions Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017

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FLY-FISHERMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE BRIAN KOZMINSKI: 10am-12pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

Brian will discuss fly-fishing in Grayling & much more. Afterwards, participants are encouraged to walk to the mouth of the Bear River for a fly-fishing demonstration. Reserve your spot. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

The Nutcracker

A Parisian Night of Music Featuring Pierre Bensusan takes place at Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC on Tues., Aug. 29 at 7:30pm. Pierre is described by the L.A. Times as “one of the most unique and brilliant acoustic guitar veterans in the world music scene today.” $20 advance; $25 night of. 947-9213.

Performances at 2pm & 7pm. $15 adults; $6 youth under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------2ND ANNUAL HEADWATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL: 4-10:30pm, Otsego Club & Resort, Gaylord. Featuring Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, The Crane Wives & local musicians. $30 advance; $40 gate. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------METAPHESTIVAL: 6pm, Downtown TC free outdoor music phestival. Takes place in the alley behind Front St., behind the Camera Shop. Featuring Parking Lots, rockabilly/surf; J. Marinelli, one-man punk garage teacher/preacher; Handsome Pete, rock; & Petty Crime, alternative rock. Presented by Studio Anatomy. Find on Facebook.

-------------------BLACK & WHITE GALA: 7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Featuring a Strolling Supper by Chandler’s - A Restaurant, live entertainment with Ben Sharkey, view the Ansel Adams Masterworks Exhibit, & more. General admission, $75. crookedtree.org

-------------------SOUSA CONCERT: 8pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $15. northportcac.org

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For more information and to register online, visit interlochen.org/ nutcracker-auditions

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BENZIE FISHING FRENZY: (See Sat., Aug. 26)

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VINEYARD TO BAY 25K: Brengman Brothers, driveway, TC. Shuttle buses will transport all runners to the start of the 25K (& race day registration) as well as to the start of the 5K from Marina Park in Suttons Bay. Buses will begin transporting 25k runners at 6:30am.

Buses will begin transporting 5K runners at 7:15am. 25K & Relay start at 8am & 5K Run/Walk starts at 8:30am. vineyard2bay25k.com

-------------------BREAK A WAVE OPEN WATER SWIM: 8:30am, Haserot Beach, TC. Choose from one-mile or two-mile course options. michinaccomplished.com

-------------------112TH ANNUAL EMMET-CHARLEVOIX COUNTY FAIR: (See Sat., Aug. 26)

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INTERLOCHEN STATE PARK CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION & CLASSIC CAR SHOW: 10am-2pm, Interlochen State Park.

The John Griffin Memorial Classic Car Show will display vintage cars. New this year will be a “Classic Kids” event where participants can enter their vintage pedal cars, tricycles

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Wed - Get it in the can for $1 w/ DJ DomiNate Thurs - $1 off all drinks w/The Pocket

Fri Sept 1 - Happy Hour: The Harvey Wallbangers

Then: Mainstays Buckets of Beer starting at $7 from 2-8pm Sat Sept 2: Mainstays Sun Sept 3:

BROTHA JAMES 941-1930 downtown TC check us out at unionstreetstationtc.net

& bikes. To celebrate Interlochen’s 100th year as a park, there will be cake at 1pm.

Info: 231-276-9511. Free, but a Recreation Passport is needed for park entrance. michigan.gov

-------------------MACKINAW CITY FINE ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am-3pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City.

-------------------RECOVERY ROAD RIDE POKER RUN: 10am, Traverse City Free Masons. Five stop poker run followed by food, live music, silent auction & raffle. Proceeds benefit the Recovery Road Scholarship dedicated to local kids whose parents have lost their battle with drug addiction. If you can’t make the poker run please come to the after party starting at 2pm. Free. Find on Facebook.

-------------------FOURTH ANNUAL FARM TOUR: 1-4pm, Idyll Farms, Northport. See where Oryana Community Co-op gets their local goat cheese. Take a self-guided tour, pet baby goats, enjoy samples of cheese, create your own cheese, press cider from apples grown on the farm, & participate in goat yoga. 947-0191.

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ST ANDREWS SCOTTISH SOCIETY ANNUAL POTLUCK PICNIC & FAMILY HIGHLAND GAMES: 1-4pm, Silver Lake Recreation Area, TC. RSVP: dssarna@ sprintmail.com or 947-3902.

THURSDAY

Trivia nite • 7-9pm

FRIDAY FISH FRY

All you can eat perch $10.99

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FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS for all Home Team Sporting Events.

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

231-922-7742 121 S. Union St. • TC. www.dillingerspubtc.com

7-COURSE WINE DINNER

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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

-------------------SUMMERFOLK: 6:30-8pm, Charlevoix Public Library Community Room. Featuring Jackie & Gary. An open mic will follow.

Open mic sign up begins at 6pm & slots are limited. 231-237-7340. charlevoixlibrary.org

-------------------FRIENDS @ THE CARNEGIE: MACKINAC BRIDGE: 7pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Featuring Chief Engineer Kim Nowack. 231-758-3100.

aug 29

tuesday

LIVING IN A LIGHTHOUSE: 3:30pm, TC Senior Center. Kathy Belden spent a week in both 2015 & 2016 as keeper of the historic Great Lakes Mission Point Light.

Join Belden as she tells her story & shares photographs of her keeper weeks. Must register in advance. Free.

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• Wine by the Glass • Daily Cellar Tours • Reserved Tastings • Private Group Tours

OD TRAINING WITH FREE NALOXONE KIT: 6-7:30pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. For all community members who think they might possibly need to save a life from an overdose. Preregister. harmreductionmi.org

-------------------AUDITIONS: 7-9pm, Manistee Senior Center. For “Deathtrap.” Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. Looking for two women, 40-60 years old; & three men, 2060 years old. 231-723-7188. manisteecivicplayers.org

-------------------Visit us online to view all the ways you can expereince Chateau Chantal.

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MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE: 7-9:15pm, First Street Beach Lions Rotary Gazebo, Manistee. Featuring the Jim Shaneberger Band, a soulful blues & funk driven trio from Grand Rapids.

-------------------A PARISIAN NIGHT OF MUSIC FEATURING PIERRE BENSUSAN: 7:30pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Pierre is

described by the L.A. Times as “one of the most unique and brilliant acoustic guitar veterans in the world music scene today”. $20 advance; $25 night of.

aug 30

wednesday

DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC - LANDSCAPE PROBLEMS: 10am-2pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. Free advice by MSU Extension. 231-882-4111. benzonialibrary.org

-------------------WINE DOWN WEDNESDAY W/ MIRIAM PICO & E MINOR: 5-7pm, Chateau Grand Traverse, TC. cgtwines.com/winedown

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

-------------------FISH-TC.COM ANNUAL SALMON CLASSIC FISHING TOURNAMENT: East & West GT Bays, TC. Held Aug. 30 - Sept. 3. Different events are held on different days, with varying start times. fish-tc.com

-------------------KICK UP YOUR HEELS SOCIAL DANCE EVENT: 6-9pm, Kirkbride Hall, GT Commons, TC. Enjoy professional dance instruction, food & beverages. Sponsored

by BrickWays, PEACE Ranch & Special Olympics Area 2. 231-883-7929. onans@ brickways.org $15.

-------------------AUDITIONS: (See Tues., Aug. 29)

aug 31

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GLEN ARBOR SIDEWALK SALE DAYS: Aug. 31 - Sept.

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CHERI LEACH: 10am, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

Cheri is Raven Hill Discovery’s co-founder & director of programming. She will bring a few of her reptile friends to share. Reservations requested. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

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SNOW BIRDS FAREWELL PARTY: 12pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Featuring Latin style music with Ronnie Hernandez.

Cost for taco bar lunch: $3. RSVP: 922-4911.

-------------------FISH-TC.COM ANNUAL SALMON CLASSIC FISHING TOURNAMENT: (See Weds., Aug. 30)

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JAZZ AT SUNSET: 7-9:30pm, Chateau Chantal, TC. Season Finale Jam Session.

Featuring The Jeff Haas Trio, Jim Cooper, Bill & Laurie Sears, Nancy Stagnitta & Janice Keegan. chateauchantal.com

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-------------------CONNEMARA COMMUNITY CONCERT SERIES: 7:30pm, Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall. Featuring The Outside Track. $20 advance; $25 door.

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NORTE! BENEFIT CONCERT: 6pm, GT County Civic Center, Amphitheater, TC. Nik Carman wsg Zachary Watson. BYO picnic at 6pm; music at 7pm. Free. Donations benefit The Bike Mas Project. elgruponorte.org MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7-9pm, G.M. Dane Marina Park, Northport. Reggae/ska with Don Julin & the Microtones. northportomenachamber.org/musicinthepark

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FINE ART FAIR: 10am5pm, Old Art Building, Leland. oldartbuilding.com

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CADILLAC FESTIVAL OF RACES: 9am, Cadillac City Park & Rotary Pavilion area on Lake Street. Featuring a 10K, 5K, Adventure Triathlon & Stand Up Paddle Board. cadillacfestivalofraces.com

-------------------ALDEN SIDEWALK SALES: 10am-5pm, Downtown Alden.

-------------------ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am-4pm, Downtown Elk Rapids. Featuring more than 70 artisans.

-------------------FISH-TC.COM ANNUAL SALMON CLASSIC FISHING TOURNAMENT: (See Weds., Aug. 30)

-------------------4TH ANNUAL CONCERT ON THE LAWN: 7pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Featuring the Lucas Paul Band, who bring their influences - The Beatles, Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Wonder, Muse, Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, & Neil Young.

231-256-2131. $20. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------STILL VIBE’N: A NORTHERN MICHIGAN HIP HOP SHOW: 8pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Hip hop artists include Lil Luke, Drebb, Blohmtreezy and King Rayn with special performances by Noemad and Braedon The Faded. $6 advance; $8 door. redskystage.com

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-------------------BOYNE CITY TRIATHLON: 8am, Peninsula Beach Park, Boyne City. tritofinish.com/ boyne-city-triathlon

-------------------ALDEN SIDEWALK SALES: (See Sat., Sept. 2)

-------------------FISH-TC.COM ANNUAL SALMON CLASSIC FISHING TOURNAMENT: (See Weds., Aug. 30)

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MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN GATHER: 6:30pm, on the new moon or the Weds. prior to one through Oct. Gather to share medicines, plant knowledge & stories.

Please email wisewomengather@gmail. com for more info.

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

HOW IT WORKS IN AL-ANON: Fridays, 10am, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC.

-------------------TC PATHS TO RECOVERY: Weds., noon, St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, TC. Al-Anon meeting.

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BAGELS HAND-CRAFTED O N LY A T Y O U R N E I G H B O R H O O D B I G A P P L E B A G E L S ®

ARGENTINE TANGO PRACTICA/MILONGA: Wednesdays, 7-10pm, Aug. 30 - Oct. 25. Houdini School of Music & Dance, Boyne City. 231-675-2935.

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

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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.

1133 S. Airport Rd. W., Traverse City • (231) 929-9866 www.bigapplebagels.com

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QUIET TIME- GUIDED MEDITATION: Tues., 4pm, Munson Hospice House, TC. Enjoy a relaxing environment where you can push your pain & anxieties away. 800252-2065 or munsonhomehealth.org

• Custom Reupholstery • • Window Treatments • • Cushions • Custom Bedding •

-------------------COMMUNITY MEDITATION & SATSANG: Tuesdays, 7pm through Aug. 29. Higher Self Bookstore, TC. A free meditation class. higherselfbookstore.com/monthly-calendar

• Thousands of Designer Fabrics • • Free Design Assistance •

-------------------SPIRIT SHIP HAUNTED HARBORS: Sat., Mon., Thurs., 9pm, Aug. 26 - Sept. 2.

Clinch Park, pier, TC. Presented by Twilight Walking Tour. Wood Smoke Jim & River Lark Mary, story teller & vocalist, spin ghost stories. Recommended for 10 & older. 906440-5910. jimcouling@yahoo.com. twilightwalkingtours.com

-------------------STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Sat., 9pm.

Stone Circle: Ten miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr. & follow signs. Poetry, storytelling & music under the stars with poet bard Terry Wooten.

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

Ask about our Snowbird Special 15%-20% off Fabric Let us do the work while you’re away!

231-ASK-LILY (275-5459) • 18080 US 31 • Interlochen Visit our online gallery: www.lilysfurnituregallery.com

LIVE MUSIC 7 DAYS A WEEK! HAPPY HOUR

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

Mon-Thurs • 4-6pm Sun • ALL DAY!

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“SOMETHING TO SMILE ABOUT”: Through Sept. 22, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Solo exhibit featuring works in oil, gouache, acrylic & collage by Carol C. Spaulding. An artist talk & discussion will be held on Sun., Aug. 27 from 3-4:30pm. Hours: 11am-3pm Sun. - Tues; 11am-7pm Weds. - Sat. higherartgallery.com

-------------------“THE LIGHT OF LEELANAU: REFLECTION, REFRACTION, SURFACE”: Lake Street Studios, Center Gallery, Glen Arbor.

This exhibition of new oil paintings by Mark Meyer runs Sept. 1-14. An artist’s reception will be held on Fri., Sept. 1 at 6pm. Meyer will also conduct a demonstration of his process, tools & technique on Sun., Sept.

3 at 1pm. 231-334-3179. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com

-------------------“THE SEASONS OF SUE BOLT”: Runs through Sept. 23, Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.com

-------------------“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. Featuring art inspired by Cowell Cancer Center staff & patient interactions during the past year.

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

-------------------AUGUST ARTISTS OF THE MONTH: Featuring Dorothy Grossman & Janet Oliver. “Feathers & Flora.” The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. thebotanicgarden.org

-------------------OIL AND WATER ART EXHIBIT: Through Sept. 22 at Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Featuring the work of Alan Maciag, Charles Murphy & Paul LaPorte. twistedfishgallery.com

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THREE VILLAGE ARTS XII: SUMMER PLEIN AIR PAINTINGS 2017: Sept. 2-12, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. An opening reception will be held on Sat., Sept. 2 from 2-7pm. threepinesstudio.com

-------------------TODD & BRAD REED OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Through Aug. 26, Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. gacaevents.weebly.com

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

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VENTURE”: Sept. 2 - Oct. 30, City Opera House, TC. Group painting exhibit by the Cats: Jane Ditri, Mary Fuscaldo, Candace Petersen, Sue Quinlan & Barbara Reich. An opening reception will be held on Fri., Sept.

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - CTAC SUMMER ARTISANS MARKET: Fridays, 9am-1pm, 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 Sept. 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: - “PRACTICE, RHYTHM, & RITUAL: MEDITATIVE MINIMALISM”: Through Sept.

30. Four Michigan artists will exhibit works in a variety of media & forms. They include Lydia Boda, Nathan Lareau, Brian Schorn & Deanna Hergt-Wilmott. crookedtree.org

-------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - DIANE CARR: SPIRAL GESTURES AND A JESTER: Through Oct. 1.

- MYTHS & MORTALS: THE MIXED MEDIA SCULPTURE OF SALLY ROGERS: Through Sept. 9.

- THREE DECADES OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING: PAINTINGS BY DAVID PAUL GRATH: Through Sept. 9. dennosmuseum.org

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Former Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic has a new band called Giants in the Trees, and the newbie quartet has just dropped a lo-fi music video for its debut tune, “Sasquatch.” In the video, the bandmates clamber around on old tree trunks as the song — alternative rock with a hint of blues and a dash of harmonica — careens through lyrics about sneaky eyes watching the band in the forest. The band formed last year when the four musicians met up at a local environmental event in their home state of Washington …

Sept. 23 is the date set for this year’s Global Citizen Festival, the annual free (and massive) event that takes place on the Great Lawn in Central Park in New York City. Attendees can take virtual “Action Journeys” through the official Global Citizen app, which helps bring awareness to such issues as food security, health care, education, poverty, and more. While fans are getting global, they’ll also be treated to music performances from a long list of big names. This year’s headliners include Stevie Wonder, The Killers, The Chainsmokers, The Lumineers, Pharrell Williams, and Detroit’s own Big Sean. If you can’t make it to NYC, you can watch

the concert live on MSNBC’s cable channel, and at msnbc.com …

Pop-rock quintet MisterWives is packing now for its upcoming Connect the Dots tour, which begins on Sept. 21 in Nashville. The tour will be the band’s biggest to date and will serve to promote its new single, “Coloring Outside the Lines,” which hit radio and streaming outlets on July 28 …

Miley Cyrus is set to release her sixth fulllength album, Younger Now, on Sept. 29, with her recent left-field single “Malibu” likely to be included in the tracklist. The set likely will be a whole lot of left-fielding for Cyrus, who has said in interviews that her new collection is a vast change from her recent work: her 2013 hip-hop effort, Bangerz, and her quirky (OK, weird) collaboration in 2015 with the Flaming Lips. A little bit of country music — part of Cyrus’ roots with her dad, country performer Billy Ray Cyrus — will be part of Younger Now’s tunes …

LINK OF THE WEEK The brand new Detroit A Go Go Festival will kick off in Detroit on Oct. 18 with a five-day slate of DJs, meetups, chats, and performers like The Dramatics, The Capitols, Melvin Davis, The Contours, Kim Weston, and more in this homage to classic Detroit soul and Motown. Check

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Take a short drive west to catch Big Boi at the North Coast Music Festival in Chicago on Sept. 2, as it’ll be the one near-Michigan stop on his current tour …

The Electric Six is now set to perform at Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit on Sept. 23…

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Eminem’s Rochester Hills house is on the market. The rapper reportedly wants $2 million for the property … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM, TC 8/26 -- Jennifer Thomas, 7-9 8/28 -- Poets Meet Musicians, 7 BONOBO WINERY, TC 9/1 -- Oh Brother Big Sister, 6-8 9/3 -- Jeff Brown, 2-4 BUD'S, INTERLOCHEN Thu -- Jim Hawley, 5-8 CHATEAU CHANTAL, TC 8/31 -- Jazz at Sunset Season Finale Jam Session w/ The Jeff Haas Trio, Jim Cooper, Bill & Laurie Sears, Nancy Stagnitta & Janice Keegan, 7-9:30 CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE, TC 8/30 -- Miriam Pico & E Minor, 5-7 FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close GT DISTILLERY, TASTING ROOM, TC Fri -- Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 GT RESORT & SPA, LOBBY BAR, ACME 8/26, 9/2 -- Adam Dennis, 7-11 9/1 -- John Pomeroy, 7-11 HAYLOFT INN, TC Thu -- Open mic night by Roundup Radio Show, 8 KILKENNY'S, TC 8/25-26 -- Risqué, 9:30 9/1 -- Scarkazm, 9:30 9/2 -- Wild Sullys, 9:30 9/3 -- Off Beat Band, 9:30 Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 Thu -- 2 Bays DJs, 9:30 Sun -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9

9/1 -- Jim Moore, 6-8 LITTLE BOHEMIA, TC Tue -- TC Celtic, 7-9 8/31 -- Robert Abate, 6:30-9 MONKEY FIST BREWING CO., TC 8/30 -- Levi Britton, 7 NORTH PEAK BREWING CO., TC 8/26 -- Chris Sterr, 5:30 8/30 -- David Lawston, 5:30 8/31 -- Brett Mitchell, 5:30 9/1 -- Dags Und Timmah, 5:30 9/2 -- Big Rand, 5:30 PARK PLACE HOTEL, BEACON LOUNGE, TC Thu,Fri,Sat -- Tom Kaufmann, 8:30 RARE BIRD BREWPUB, TC 8/30 -- Loren Johnson, 8:30 ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 8/27,9/3 -- Dennis Palmer, 2 9/1 -- Miriam Pico, 6 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Karaoke w/ Phattrax DJs, 9 SIDE TRAXX, TC Wed -- Impaired Karaoke, 10 9/1-9/2 -- DJ/VJ Mike King, 9-9 SLEDER'S FAMILY TAVERN, TC 8/29 -- Pierre Bensusan, 7:30 TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC Tue -- Turbo Pup, 7-9 Thu -- G-Snacks, 7-9 Fri -- Rob Coonrod, 7-9

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by meg weichman

the EMOJI MOVIE

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s great as the potential for imaginative possibilities and satire, and as much as one might appreciate the artistry in emoji communication, please do not give The Emoji Movie the benefit of the doubt. Trust your instincts on this one, and see it for what it is: a soulless, inane, and just plain stupid film made

by Sony in the sinister service of promoting its electronics and consumerist interests. Much like Inside Out (the foremost of the films this one blatantly rips off) took you inside your head, The Emoji Movie takes you inside your phone and into the world of Textopolis, where Emojis live, work, and play. Our focus is on a “Meh” Emoji named Gene, voiced with the utmost indifference

by TJ Miller. Gene is ready to make his first official appearance on preteen boy Alex’s phone but can somehow express more than one emotion, so he’s deemed a malfunction. What follows is his attempt to escape the bots sent to delete him and fix his error in the Cloud. But what really follows is a tour de product placement as you visit Spotify, Instagram, Dropbox, and even play a game of Candy Crush. Yet as bad as it is, this all remains fairly watchable, which is where the darkness at the heart of The Emoji Movie starts to creep in. While I wish I could say this has brought the bar in animated children’s fare to a new low, when you think about it, it really seems more like par for the course in a world where The Angry Birds not only got a movie but a sequel too. I don’t know what the answer is about the state of kids animated entertainment these days. I only know that we all deserve better.

LOGAN LUCKY Director Steven Soderberg (Sex, Lies, and Videotape) went into a self-imposed retirement from Hollywood back in 2013. But since that time he’s been surprisingly active for a “retiree.”

He’s gained new hobbies (see his fan video/ edits of films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Heaven’s Gate), worked in for the small screen (directing The Knick), and even served as director of photography on Magic Mike XXL (sequel to his own Magic Mike).

But it is with the release of the (very commercial) feature film Logan Lucky that I think we can definitively say his retirement jig is up. Yet, if going into retirement eventually yields movies as good and smart and fun as this one, maybe more directors should consider taking this kind of sabbatical.

Soderberg makes a triumphant return to Hollywood with a real humdinger of a comedy caper — a film coincidentally not that all far removed from his biggest commercial success, Ocean’s 11. So yes, it’s another heist movie — and who doesn’t like a heist movie? — but this time around Soderbergh has not only given it a Southern little-guy twist but also infused it with a sweet spirit he certainly isn’t known for but really nails. It’s like a feel-good crowd-pleaser, without being “feel-good.” The result is fresh, invigorating, and just supremely entertaining.

We begin in West Virginia, where we meet Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), a divorced dad who loses his construction job because of liability concerns stemming from the preexisting condition that ruined the oncepromising football star’s career.

He’s also dealt the news that his ex (Katie Holmes) is planning on moving his cute-as-allget-out daughter (Farrah Mackenzie) across state lines. His bartender brother, Clyde (Adam Driver), who lost his arm fighting overseas, always has thought the family was cursed, but Jimmy is ready to put an end to all that superstitious talk, and in a big way.

See, the job he was fired from was working on a massive NASCAR stadium, and thanks to his insider knowledge, he devises a plan involving pneumatic tubes, sinkholes, a vault full of cash, prison breaks, and explosives, to rob said stadium on the biggest race day of the year. Assisting him is Clyde; younger sister, Mellie (Riley Keough), a quirky spitfire of a hairdresser with a need for speed; explosives expert Joe Bang (Daniel Craig); and Joe’s dimwitted brothers.

The heist is elaborate, intricately and deftly plotted, and you’ll find yourself as involved by the criminal proceedings as the preparations for his daughter’s big pageant (which, would you believe it, is set to happen on the same day).

The characters are great, and the filmmaking dynamite, balancing an ultra-cool ’70s vibe with chicken-fried buoyancy. Soderbergh knows what we want from a heist movie, and he gives it to us in spades, hitting a complete sweet spot.

At a certain point, though, you become hyper aware that … ahhh, this is totally like Ocean’s 11. Heck, the film even acknowledges the connection referring to the robbery as Ocean’s 7-11, but this doesn’t ruin the ride.

‘Cause while there’s a lot of the Ocean’s franchise to be found, in forgoing the slick, glamorous world of those films for a more hardscrabble and natural reality, the stakes feel higher and the emotion more sincere.

Much like Ocean’s 11 (I swear this is the last time I’ll mention it), this is a movie where you can tell Soderbergh lets the actors have fun, but it’s never to the point of self-aware annoyance.

Here the approach amounts to giving the actors a certain freedom that allows for some truly outstanding, surprising, and freewheeling performances.

Channing Tatum holds it all together in one of his most open and honest performances to date. And I might finally have been converted into an Adam Driver fan after fighting the urge for so long. The chemistry between the two brothers is unexpected, which makes it all the sweeter when it clicks.

Then there’s Daniel Craig, who is in such a departure of a role that he’s literally credited as “Introducing.” Bleach blonde and with an accent that is no way authentic but 100 percent committed, I couldn’t help but giggle when he first appeared on screen, he’s so gosh darn delightful.

While they’re playing characters we might term good old boys or hicks or rednecks (this is definitely red-state territory), the film never condescends, the performances are never caricature. The laughs — and there are many (most notably prisoners demanding “Game of Thrones” books during a riot — are never at their expense. These are rich, relatable characters, and the story pulls at your heartstrings in a genuinely beautiful way.

There’s an alchemy at play here, they way cast, director, and story came together. And Soderbergh has enough skill to make every shot, every detail, feel effortless. But it’s that same skill that demonstrates how there’s really nothing lucky about this accomplishment.

Only that, considering his retirement, we’re just lucky we get to see it.

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

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irst things first: This is not an easy watch. But we could all stand to see more things that make us uncomfortable, especially things that in some ways have become a normalized aspect of American culture. And Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s look at the 1967 Detroit uprising is something all the more important to see after recent events in Charlottesville, because even though it’s been 50 years, what happened in Detroit, as we all just saw, is still all too relevant.

Following an overview of the uprising and how it started, the film’s arc shifts to a much more intimate American horror story, focusing on true events at the Algiers Motel that left three men dead and others tortured at the hands of the police. Unfolding in near-real time, this is filmmaking at its most immersive. You’re there in that room, like it or not, and there is no release until things comes to a devastating conclusion. And it’s not even that the imagery is revolutionary, or something we haven’t seen on screen before, but it’s the strength and authenticity of the filmmaking depicting these inhumane acts of police violence that makes it an altogether unique and unforgettable artistic experience. So while overall this is a flawed and disjointed film, it is the overwhelming blunt force of emotion that overpowers its deficiencies — because Detroit’s most telling success is the raw feeling it conveys. How it makes you angry, makes you hurt, and reveals so much (Black Lives Matter parallels abound, but in true Bigelow-style, it’s not explicit). For its sheer visceral impact, this is not only a tremendous cinematic achievement but a necessary one.

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n Dunkirk, director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Interstellar) sets out to tell a true story most Americans have never heard of but his fellow Englishmen know by heart. It was called Operation Dynamo, and as Winston Churchill said, it was a “miracle of deliverance” that changed the course of the Second World War. In 1940, as the Nazis conquered one European country after another with startling ease, British and French forces fighting in France were driven to the sea. Stranded there with nowhere to run, a near-miraculous evacuation of the 300,000 beleaguered Allied forces was orchestrated by both the Royal Navy and English civilians in small, privately owned boats.

Nolan hopes that the pure spectacle of what he’s filmed will instill that same sense of awe, and he succeeds. These almost impressionist vignettes follow RAF pilots flying above the fray (one pilot is played by Tom Hardy), a shell-shocked soldier pulled from the sea (Cillian Murphy), and the civilian yachtsman who rescued him (Mark Rylance, the film’s standout), as well as brass on the beach directing the evacuation (Kenneth Branaugh). Much has been made of Nolan’s choice to use as many practical effects as possible in this film, to shy away from a reliance on computergenerated imagery. And seeing fighter planes streak across the skies and lines of thousands of men waiting to disembark from empty beaches is truly stunning stuff. Not to mention the incredible soundscape that perfectly punctuates every heartpounding moment. With more art-film tendencies than you might expect, Dunkirk is a stirring, exciting look at a terrifying moment in world history that must be viewed on the big screen.

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— Pondering

row while sitting in your car with binoculars trained on his house, figure out proactive ways to avoid that and other crazypants stuff you do. (Perhaps, for example, give your nextdoor neighbor custody of your phone and car keys upon coming home.) Sure, love is said to be “a journey,” but it shouldn’t be one that has something in common with being chased by feral hogs down a lonely country road.

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confuse “the chase” with something closer to criminal stalking. In their defense, these ideas don’t come out of nowhere. For example, consider how creepy the Cupid dude with the little bow and arrow actually is. Basically, he’s the chubby baby version of the maniac hunting people down with a crossbow.

The reality is, nobody pines for what’s easy to get or, worse, what’s chasing madly after them. It’s about value. Being easy to get or seeming desperate suggests one has what anthropologists call “low mate value.” Social psychologist Robert Cialdini explains this with “the scarcity principle,” which describes how the less available something is the more valuable it seems and the more we want it.

Being scarce doesn’t necessarily equate to being more valuable; however, because of how psychologically painful we find regret -feeling that we screwed up and thus missed out -- scarcity kicks us into a motivational state, making us all hot for whatever’s in short supply.

This is the sales principle behind those chichi boutiques with just one item on a rack, as if they were a mini museum of the little black dress. There’s a good chance they have 20 more in the back. But putting out 20 sends a different message -- like one of those shops with a big yellow sign, “Everything in the store, $15, including the dog.”

Still, the scarcity principle sometimes gets falsely accused of causing a burgeoning relationship to tank when other factors are actually to blame.

Consider whether you’re choosing wisely -- going for someone who’s ready to be in a relationship. Some people who think they’re ready may not be. (Time -- along with wanting to know instead of just wanting to believe -- will tell.) Others will admit that they aren’t ready.

Believe them -- or at least tread cautiously -- and recognize the propensity many women have for Svengali-ette-alism: “I’ll be the one to change him!” (Kleenex has succeeded as a brand in no small part thanks to these women.)

With someone who is a real possibility, you’ll have your best shot by coming off appropriately interested instead of stalkerishly so. If you tend to go from zero to texting a guy 36 times in a

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: My sweet boyfriend always leaves his nose hair and beard trimmings in the sink. He claims he forgets to wipe up afterward and asks, “Is it that big of a deal?”

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Research on habit change by psychologist Wendy Wood and her colleagues suggests that “disrupting” the usual physical sequence of a stored behavior can jolt a person out of autopilot, triggering their conscious mind to take over. You can disrupt your boyfriend’s beard-snipping routine simply by changing where the scissors get stored. Maybe put them in a kitchen cabinet for a while -- and of course, clue him in and explain why.

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Yes, this could actually work to get him to remember your “Yoo-hoo…sinkiepoo!”

However, what ultimately matters is how you treat each other. If your sink continues to have a five o’clock shadow, maybe decide to just laugh about your sweet daydreamy slob instead of going all toxic-ragey “I’ll show him!” and throwing out the beard clippings yourself -- by dragging the sink to the curb.

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30 Hamburger’s home?

32 Fictional TV locale you can actually visit in Mount Airy, N.C. 36 Bowler’s target 37 Like the river, in an Olivia Newton-John song title 38 Morgan Freeman, in “Bruce Almighty” 39 Business management plans involving Internet platforms, e.g.

42 Neck of the woods 43 Queen ___ (Jay-Z’s spouse, to fans) 44 Superman’s symbol, in crosswords 45 Tortilla chip condiment 47 Elton John/Tim Rice musical 51 Yellow, blue, and red national symbol flown over Quito 57 ___ Martin (British car company) 59 People, collectively 60 Granola bar variety 61 3501, to Nero 62 Imagine Peace Tower creator Yoko 63 Unfinished statue?

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(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the miraculous communication system that we know as the World Wide Web. When asked if he had any regrets about his pioneering work, he named just one. There was no need for him to have inserted the double slash -- “//” -- after the “http:” in web addresses. He’s sorry that Internet users have had to type those irrelevant extra characters so many billions of times. Let this serve as a teaching story for you, Virgo. As you create innovations in the coming weeks, be mindful of how you shape the basic features. The details you include in the beginning may endure.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming

days, maybe you could work some lines from the Biblical “Song of Solomon” into your intimate exchanges. The moment is ripe for such extravagance. Can you imagine saying things like, “Your lips are honey,” or “You are a fountain in the garden, a well of living waters”? In my opinion, it wouldn’t even be too extreme for you to murmur, “May I find the scent of your breath like apricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses.” If those sentiments seem too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda’s love sonnets. How about this one: “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” Here’s another: “I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We are continually

faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems,” said businessman Lee Iacocca. You are currently wrestling with an example of this phenomenon, Aries.

The camouflage is well-rendered. To expose the opportunity hidden beneath the apparent dilemma, you may have to be more strategic and less straightforward than you usually are -- cagier and not as blunt. Can you manage that?

I think so. Once you crack the riddle, taking advantage of the opportunity should be interesting.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): Close your

eyes and imagine this: You and a beloved ally get lost in an enchanted forest, discover a mysterious treasure, and find your way back to civilization just before dark. Now visualize this: You give a dear companion a photo of your face taken on every one of your birthdays, and the two of you spend hours talking about your evolution. Picture this: You and an exciting accomplice luxuriate in a sun-lit sanctuary surrounded by gourmet snacks as you listen to ecstatic music and bestow compliments on each other. These are examples of the kinds of experiments I invite you to try in the coming weeks. Dream up some more! Here’s a keynote to inspire you: sacred fun.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On its album

Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty, Jefferson Starship plays a song I co-wrote, “In a Crisis.” On its album Deeper Space/Virgin Sky, the band covers another tune I co-wrote, “Dark Ages.”

Have I received a share of the record sales? Not a penny. Am I upset? Not at all. I’m glad the songs are being heard and enjoyed. I’m gratified that a world-famous, multiplatinum band chose to record them. I’m pleased my musical creations are appreciated. Now here’s my question for you, Gemini: Has some good thing of yours been “borrowed”?

Have you wielded a benevolent influence that hasn’t been fully acknowledged? I suggest you consider adopting an approach like mine. It’s prime time to adjust your thinking about how your gifts and talents have been used, applied, or translated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Roger

von Oech tells us that creativity often involves “the ability to take something out of one context and put it into another so that it takes on new meanings.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy could and should be your specialty in the coming weeks. “The first person to look at an oyster and think food had this ability,” says von Oech. “So did the first person to look at sheep intestines and think guitar strings. And so did the first person to look at a perfume vaporizer and think gasoline carburetor.” Be on the lookout, Cancerian, for inventive substitutions and ingenious replacements.

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ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t hoot with

the howls at night if you want to crow with the rooster in the morning,” advised Miss Georgia during the Miss Teen USA Pageant. Although that’s usually good counsel, it may not apply to you in the coming weeks. Why? Because your capacity for revelry will be at an all-time high, as will your ability to be energized rather than drained by your revelry. It seems you have a special temporary superpower that enables you both to have maximum fun and get a lot of work done.

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this phase of your astrological cycle, it makes sense to express more leadership. If you’re already a pretty good guide or role model, you will have the power to boost your benevolent influence to an even higher level. For inspiration, listen to educator Peter Drucker: “Leadership is not magnetic personality. That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people.’ That is flattery.

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, raising a person’s performance to a higher standard, building a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “One

should always be a little improbable,” said Oscar Wilde. That’s advice I wouldn’t normally give a Capricorn. You thrive on being grounded and straightforward. But I’m making an exception now. The astrological omens compel me. So what does it mean, exactly? How might you be “improbable”? Here are suggestions to get you started. 1. Be on the lookout for inspiring ways to surprise yourself. 2. Elude any warped expectations that people have of you. 3. Be willing to change your mind. Open yourself up to evidence that contradicts your theories and beliefs. 4. Use telepathy to contact Oscar Wilde in your dreams, and ask him to help you stir up some benevolent mischief or compassionate trouble.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A modern Israeli

woman named Shoshana Hadad got into trouble because of an event that occurred long before she was born. In 580 B.C., one of her male ancestors married a divorced woman, which at that time was regarded as a sin. Religious authorities decreed that as punishment, none of his descendants could ever wed a member of the Cohen tribe. But Hadad did just that, which prompted rabbis to declare her union with Masoud Cohen illegal. I bring this tale to your attention as a way to illustrate the possibility that you, too, may soon have to deal with the consequences of past events. But now that I have forewarned you, I expect you will act wisely, not rashly.

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