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Saturday, July 7 Koresh Dance Company

JUNE PERFORMANCES Thursday, June 28 An Evening With YES June 29 & 30 Much Ado About Nothing Interlochen Shakespeare Festival Saturday, June 30 Blondie

AUGUST PERFORMANCES

Tuesday, July 10 Interlochen “Collage” Wednesday, July 11 George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic and Robert Randolph and the Family Band

July 2, 3 & 5 A Doll’s House, Part 2 Interlochen Shakespeare Festival Tuesday, July 3 The Capitol Steps Wednesday, July 4 The Glenn Miller Orchestra Thursday, July 5 Sarah Cahill, pianist Friday, July 6 Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents an Evening of Chamber Music

Friday, Aug. 10 The Avett Brothers

Friday, July 13 An Evening With Lindsey Stirling

Saturday, Aug. 11 Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life with the Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Babko

Tuesday, July 17 The Beach Boys

Aug. 13, 15, 18 The Telegraph Quartet

Wednesday, July 18 Brentano String Quartet

Thursday, Aug.16 Jim Gaffigan

Saturday, July 21 THE PEKING ACROBATS

Tuesday, Aug. 21 Earth, Wind & Fire

Tuesday, July 24 Reba McEntire

Friday, Aug. 24 Jeff Daniels and the Ben Daniels Band

Thursday, July 12 Creedence Clearwater Revisited

JULY PERFORMANCES

Aug. 2 - 5 MEREDITH WILLSON’S THE MUSIC MAN High School Musical Theatre Co.

Saturday, July 28 Friction Quartet

Tuesday, Aug. 28 Chick Corea Akoustic Band with John Patitucci and Dave Weckl

July 6 & 7 Much Ado About Nothing Interlochen Shakespeare Festival

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The Only Thing to Fear In response to Jack Lane’s “Full Disclosure”: Jack, the only people you should be afraid of are privileged white males.

Michael St. Jean, Frankfort In Sinclair’s Clutches Hearing about the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s ownership/dictatorship in countless media markets in our country, I cannot help but think about my late husband, Dave Walker, a highly respected and awardwinning news director and anchor in this media market for nearly 40 years.

As news director at WCCW Radio in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and then anchor and managing editor at TV 7&4 for almost 25 years, he was passionate about the First Amendment and the research and subsequent broadcast of stories in an unbiased, balanced manner. His picture was still prominently displayed at TV 7&4 long after he had left us.

I am a retired Traverse City Area Public Schools teacher of many subjects — journalism classes among them. My college internship in the WOOD-TV news department in Grand Rapids solidified my own understanding of the importance of presenting factual, balanced accounts of events and issues.

Knowing about contracts signed by on-air media personnel, I have great pain in my heart for those Sinclair anchors nationwide who, if they did not agree with the recently broadcast script, had to drink the Kool-Aid in order to save their jobs. I know that Dave’s ashes — nearly 10 years after his untimely passing — are smoldering.

Kay Walker, Traverse City Gunning for Legislation Why do we need guns? According to Charles Knapp’s letter in the April 2 issue of Northern Express, “Shooting sports are fun.”

Mr. Knapp further postulates, “The idea of having to meet standards to exercise Second Amendment rights is hypocritical ...”

Backtracking, Mr. Knapp’s letter in the Dec. 18 issue of Northern Express, referencing two letters written by myself and Lois Bedtelyon, states that “They would warrant pistols at daybreak, or at

least a straitjacket …” Mr. Knapp appears to be challenging two women to a duel with guns because they have a different opinion than himself.

When a person’s caliber of vision extends only through what they see through their crosshairs, it constitutes criteria to examine more closely whether they are mentally stable enough to have guns in their possession.

Our world needs leaders who are capable of taking into account the entire spectrum of socioeconomic and political issues with balance and levity to ensure the safety and protection of our earth and its inhabitants.

How would the Mr. Knapps of the world feel if, without guns, they were air-dropped into one of Canada’s remote regions flush with grizzly bears and left there indefinitely?

That is how are children, teachers and administrators are feeling: preyed upon, terrorized, and unsafe.

The rigorous process of earning the right to drive a motorized vehicle requires many hours of practice and certifications in order to be used as modes of transport.

Guns are modes of killing. Even the most qualified law enforcement personnel and other weapon carriers make fatal mistakes.

Guns are not toys. It is not unreasonable to give serious consideration about how far the circumstances of gun violence have escalated here in the U.S. and abroad. Legislation is far overdue to help curb and better protect all.

Charlene Verschaeve, Cedar Shut Up & Do Something Actions speak much louder than words.

For decades, there has been a lot of talk about our need to reverse the damage that we, human beings, have caused to our environment. Much of the focus seems to be on governments, not individuals, to get the job done, even though history has clearly proven that relying on dysfunctional, and likely corrupt, governments to develop and enact solutions to ecological problems is a waste of time.

The understated and often completely ignored truth is that almost everything that we do comes at a cost to our natural resources and environment. Good economies and the consumption of available goods and services associated with them are the primary factors for the depletion of our precious, finite, natural resources and the destruction of our environment. I believe that greatly reducing consumption and waste is a critical first step toward saving our environment. And until that happens, the reversal of the damage that we are causing will be slow at best and likely will not happen at all.

We can live without most of the extravagances that are available to us. We cannot live without clean air, water, and soil, and we don’t need to rely on governments (often controlled by people who value profits over all else) to do what is necessary to create positive change. The time for talk is past, and the time to act is long past due.

Lifestyles, unlike governments, can easily be changed, and each of us has the capacity to do so. If everyone would willfully do their absolute best to consume a bare minimum and strive to achieve zero waste in their lives, the ecological problems we are experiencing will automatically begin to be reversed.

Patrick McDuff, Wellston A Scientist’s Perspective As a former research scientist and assistant professor, it is utterly shocking to me that anyone would dispute the fact that climate change is happening or that

it is primarily caused by humans. Over 97 percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is here, and it is catastrophic. They are the experts, give them some credit!

Having worked in many research labs, I’ve seen the blood, sweat and tears that go in to making even the tiniest discoveries, most of which go unnoticed by the public.

Research scientists put each other’s work through rigorous scrutiny before anything can be published. Scientific research is extremely competitive.

So it is absurd for politicians with no scientific background to disregard an issue that has been thoroughly studied, debated, and researched using numerous techniques and models, then finally published hundreds of times. I would like to say to [Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott] Pruitt, and others in positions of power who dispute the facts, please have some respect for people that have devoted their lives to the advancement of knowledge for the good for our living planet. We need to listen to climate scientists, heed their warnings, and dramatically decrease our fossil fuel consumption — before it’s too late.

Nicola Philpott, Traverse City Be Aware of Sinclair?

With all due respect to Jane Abbott and David Koss, [who warned Northern Express Letters page readers of Sinclair Broadcasting’s presence in our northern Michigan media market] this is much ado about nothing.

Rest assured that, for the most part, national and local news on television, radio, and in print is predominantly liberal-biased.

Same with our education system. Compared to the liberal control, 193 stations isn’t even a drop in the bucket.

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

Abdul El-Sayed ...............................................10 Be Like Bond...............................................12 Author Eileen McNamara...............................13 The ORVs Are Coming!...................................14 Espionage. Defection. Drama............................16 Petoskey’s Roast & Toast..................................19

dates................................................22-24 music Men, Meet ThE DroogS...................................18 FourScore.....................................................26 Nightlife........................................................28

columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................4

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle...................................6 Opinion............................................................8 Weird..............................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................25 The Reel..........................................................27 Advice Goddess...........................................29 Crossword...................................................29 Freewill Astrology.........................................30 Classifieds..................................................31

Chris Wormell, Indian River Speak Out Against Rape & Assault One in four women, and one in 10 men are sexually assaulted in their lifetimes, whether in the military, in college, in Hollywood, in Washington, or here in northern Michigan. Overwhelmingly, the great majority go unreported. I was attacked 65 years ago, at age 5, by the janitor.

Rape and assault are violent crimes.

There are varying degrees of harassment: violent, scary, and always intimidating. It’s all about control. Why has this ugliness been normalized in our society? We have all heard the phrases “Boys will be boys,” “Locker room talk,”and “bragging rights.” Victims lives are ruined. What about an unwanted pregnancy? As long as rapes continue, there will be abortions and suicides — legal or not.

Why don’t victims speak up? Fear of retaliation.

• Physical violence against the victim or family members — 85 percent of attackers are known by the victim.

• Victim is blamed. Her word against his. If a rape kit is turned in, it might take months to be processed. Courts can tear the victim to shreds while the attacker gets a warning.

• Media bullying, emotional agony, ruined reputation, loss of work or job opportunities.

We must speak out against sexual misconduct. Teach and demand respect from children and adults. Enough is enough!

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earth day

Various Earth Day activities are taking place in northern Michigan this week, including the 2nd Annual Earth Day Event at Twin Lakes Park and Gilbert Lodge, TC on Sun., April 22 from 11am-4pm. Along with the Wings of Wonder Live Raptor Program (pictured), you can also learn about recycling, composting, water protection, energy conservation and more.

See our listings for more info on this event and others. Wings of Wonder will also be at Betsie Valley Elementary gym, Thompsonville on Sat., April 21 at 11am.

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Now is your chance to own a piece of the Mighty Mac. The Mackinac Bridge Authority is auctioning off chunks of the original steel grating road deck. Online bidding runs through Thursday, April 19. The bridge was constructed in 1957, and its steel grating has recently been replaced.

What’s for sale is nostalgic, but it’s not for casual buyers — the pieces are 5 ½ feet by 38 feet by five inches, and they weigh two tons.

According to the auction listing: “Condition is used with corrosion and section loss appropriate to steel that is 60 years old. … Seller agrees to cut the grating section into two shorter pieces for ease of shipping if desired. Price of this one cut is included in the bid. No other cutting or manipulation of the grating will be done by the seller.”

As of a week before auction’s end, the high bids were around $510. For more info, search “Mackinac” at GovDeals.com.

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“The Thawing Man: Snapshots of Living Life in Early Recovery”

Derek Chowen didn’t become a writer on purpose. In fact, his past career endeavors included pretty much everything except writing. That is, until he got sober. Rather unsurprisingly, “author” is now at the top of Chowen’s extensive resume. From the staff at Local Flavor Bookstore in Boyne City comes a reading recommendation to mirror — both literally and figuratively — the spring runoff we’ve been expecting since late February. Derek Chowen’s debut publication, “The Thawing Man: Snapshots of Living Life in Early Recovery,” is the first installment in what will become a four-memoir series. In it, Chowen, a Charlevoix native and ex- “high-functioning boozer,” chronicles his past life as a closet alcoholic and the slow, deliberate undertaking that led to his recovery.

Equal parts captain’s log and advice column, with just a splash of humanitarianism, “The Thawing Man” is the true beginner’s guide to facing one’s own demons and coming out the other side with dignity.

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A MESS O’ SMELT!

Skip Telgard, owner of the Bluebird, in Leland, has an affinity for Great Lakes fish. After all, his grandmother was a Carlson — that’s fishing “royalty” in Leland. Consequently, when she and her husband founded the Bluebird back in 1927, whitefish, walleye, perch, and smelt figured prominently on the menu, as they do today. Telgard especially loves smelt — especially in the few fleeting weeks when they are running fresh in early spring.

They have become rare in the lower Great Lakes, however, so every year in April, he makes frequent trips to source them from a fishery on Lake Superior. Lightly breaded and flash-fried, “Bluebird style,” these intensely flavorful, crispy little morsels are a favorite of his customers: “Like me, many of them grew up smelting around here,” said Telgard. “So as soon as I can get them fresh, I post it on Facebook, and pretty soon, we’re packed.” $8-$14. Bluebird Restaurant & Tavern, 102 River Street, Leland. Note: While the restaurant is closed off-season, the tavern is open year-round, currently Wednesday through Saturday. For opening hours and smelt availability, see Facebook, call (231)256-9081, or visit bluebirdleland.com.

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Beachgoers, Watch Out for Hazards

Beachgoers, not property owners, must take care to avoid hazards on the shore, according to a Michigan Supreme Court ruling in the case of a girl who suffered burns when she stepped in hot coals from a bonfire at a Lake Michigan resort.

In an April 6 decision, the court reversed a January 2017 Court of Appeals ruling that upheld a lawsuit against the owners of the Watervale Inn. Earlier, a Benzie County Circuit Court judge had dismissed the lawsuit.

A 10-year-old girl was playing on the beach in August 2013 when she walked over the remnants of a fire and suffered burns to her feet. The girl’s family sued the resort for damages.

Supreme Court justices ended the lawsuit, finding that state law requires that for the property owner to be responsible for damages, they have to be found to have been grossly negligent or to have engaged in misconduct, findings that were absent in the case.

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There’s so much happening in Traverse City that it’s impossible to focus on a single issue.

So let’s tackle a few.

• Anyone who has ever traveled by train understands it’s a more comfortable and civilized mode of transportation, given you have the time to spare.

And it’s an economically and environmentally friendly way to get from here to there.

On longer hauls, you can even get your own little room with its own sleeping berth. Instead of being stuck on an airport floor overnight in bad weather, it’s likely you’ll just sleep through the storm with the lullaby of the rails serenading you.

If that little wall distracted you from that big body of water, there is something wrong with your focus regardless of whether or not you liked the color palette or design.

So, the mural is dead. One wonders if most proposed public art will meet the same fate.

Anything the slightest bit outside the public’s preconceived notion of “acceptable” art will be met with howls of protest. The alwayscharming comment sections online will once again be in full bloom.

Apparently the proposed mural on the retaining wall at the Open Space somehow distracted from a body of water threemiles wide and as-far-as-the-human-eye-can-see long.

Passenger rail service in Traverse City would be a delight. But no one has yet fully explained how it’s going to be financed, and such a venture will require financing aplenty.

And how fast do they want this thing to go?

How much track will have to be upgraded or replaced to accommodate that speed? Is the track bed itself sufficiently stable? How many crossings will have to be upgraded to meet current regulations? How many will need flashing lights and a barricade? One train or multiple trains? Where will its stops?

Are there stations, or at least a place for people to gather and wait, at those locations? Do the engines and passenger cars already exist?

Are all those old trestles still safe?

The cost will be in the billions, and whatever the proposed budget, it will cost more than that. And a train won’t operate in the black without government subsidies. Maybe the time is right to return passenger rail service to Traverse City; how it gets paid for, and who ends up paying, are questions still to be answered.

• Remember when Eighth Street was going to be redone in 2018? We were told repeatedly to just wait until 2018, and that rumble strip that passes for a street would be fixed.

We even had those nifty charrettes, to which many contributed.

Now the project has inexplicably fallen down the city’s priority list. At the top, as is always the case, another downtown parking garage for which there is no money.

At the same time, the City Commission would like to consider the possibility of changing downtown zoning so buildings taller than 60 feet can be built “by right.”

Sort of a casual middle finger to Traverse City voters who passed a charter amendment banning such buildings absent a vote of the public. Plus, possibly a new fee of one percent of your property tax. A delightful backdoor tax on a tax.

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• Apparently the proposed mural on the retaining wall at the Open Space somehow distracted from a body of water three-miles wide and as-far-as-the-human-eye-can-see long.

We can hope those making the decisions will not always be dissuaded by the venom of the amateur art critics. To paraphrase the old bromide, they don’t know much about art, but they know what they don’t like. And they don’t like much.

• Some Grand Traverse County Commissioners are already bad-mouthing the pool of candidates applying to become county administrator. They haven’t even narrowed the applicant field or interviewed anybody, but they’re already disappointed in most candidates.

The commissioners should be mindful that we weren’t all that excited about their candidacies either, but we have somehow survived them. Try something new and refreshing, Commishioners, give the candidates a fair chance.

• It would be malfeasance not to mention another daffy television commercial from a Michigan politician. This time it’s Attorney General Bill Schuette, who is running for governor.

Schuette has found a villain to attack, an old and trusted enemy sure to generate contributions and votes. Yup, Schuette is running against Jennifer Granholm and the “Granholm tax.”

You’d think that after eight years of Republican control of the legislature, and with a Republican governor at the helm, all traces of Granholm would have been successfully erased. No, Granholm’s legacy is so powerful that it still holds sway over the state, and Schuette will finally smite the last vestiges.

Good grief. Jennifer Granholm, who left office eight years ago and now lives in California, is a target long gone. Schuette might do better going after the “Snyder and GOP legislature tax.”

Unfortunately, that doesn’t have quite the same appeal to donors and the base.

So many issues, so little space ...

Crime & Rescue COCAINE LOAD SIEZED Police arrested a 38-year-old Benzonia man after getting a tip that he was receiving shipments of cocaine through the mail.

Jason Lopez faces charges in federal court following an investigation by the Benzie County Sheriff, Traverse Narcotics Team, and United State Postal Inspection Service.

The investigation began in March when police learned Lopez might be getting regular shipments of cocaine mailed from Texas. A package addressed to a residence on Love Road in Benzonia was intercepted April 5.

Investigators got a warrant to open the package and found two kilos of cocaine inside, which they estimated have a value of $300,000.

TNT and USPIS staged a delivery of the package to the home and, after Lopez took possession, he was arrested and held on $5 million bail.

FATHER OF FOUR KILLED A father of four was killed after he lost control of his vehicle on ice and crashed into a tree.

Paul Robert Henigan, 34, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Hobbs Highway in East Bay Township April 6.

Grand Traverse Sheriff’s responded after a neighbor who heard the crash called police at 10:50pm.

Investigators do not suspect drugs or alcohol were factors. Henigan was not wearing a seatbelt, and the 2005 Chevy pickup’s airbag did not deploy.

Henigan left behind a wife and four young children, according to a gofundme page set up for his family.

LOST TEEN FOUND SAFE A teenager with Aspergers strayed from his home but was found cold but safe, hiding out at a campground.

Police in Manistee County launched a search after the family of 16-year-old Garrett Sheaks reported him missing on April 2. On the evening of April 6, Sheaks approached a camper at the Orchard Beach State Park, on M-110 just north of Manistee, and complained that he was extremely cold and his feet were numb.

The occupants of the camper called police, who responded and reunited Sheaks with his family. Sheaks told police he had taken shelter in restroom facilities at the park. He was treated at Munson Healthcare Manistee Hospital for hypothermia.

INMATE FACES NEW CHARGES Police say a Grand Traverse County inmate supplied at least five others with Suboxone she had smuggled into the jail.

Early on April 9, Traverse City Police were called to the jail to investigate after staff found the 28-year-old Traverse City woman attempting to flush the drug down a toilet, Chief Jeff O’Brien

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said. Officers found the woman in possession of the drug and $300 in cash.

Investigators believe the woman supplied five female inmates, who tested positive for Suboxone use, including two, ages 21 and 27, from Traverse City, a 35-year-old from Beulah, a 38-year-old from Williamsburg, and a 19-year-old from Saginaw.

Those women are expected to face possession charges, and the alleged supplier is expected to face distribution charges.

SUBJECT ARRESTED An 18-year-old got drunk and drove onto the TART trail, getting his vehicle stuck, police said.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the trail at Fouch Road, just east of Bugai Road in Elmwood Township at 6:17pm April 8.

A witness found a 2003 Oldsmobile SUV stuck in the snow and told dispatchers that the young driver was passed out and slumped over the steering wheel.

Deputies revived the man and made sure he didn’t need medical treatment. The teen told them he’d had an argument with his girlfriend, and consumed vodka at a friend’s home. He was arrested for drunk driving.

MEN BUSTED FOR POT, WEAPONS State police who stopped a vehicle for speeding and a cracked windshield in Crawford County found the car filled with marijuana smoke and two handguns.

When troopers made the stop at 6pm April 6 on Old 27 in Grayling Township, they were greeted with “an overwhelming odor of marijuana,” according to a press release.

Police found some narcotics and a loaded handgun inside the car and another handgun in the trunk. The driver, a 29-year-old Crawford County man, and the passenger, a 24-year-old Crawford County man, were arrested on drug and weapons charges.

HANDGUN THEFT THWARTED A 20-year-old posed as a sheriff’s deputy and attempted to steal two handguns from a pawn shop.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Garfield Township store at 5:20pm April 10 after the man tried to bolt out of the store with two guns and was detained by a customer.

The suspect had been looking at the weapons and identified himself falsely as a sheriff’s department employee. When the clerk looked away, the suspect stuffed the guns into his pockets and attempted to flee.

and reduced visibility; when it passed, police spotted the man in the distance, wearing waders and attempting to flee along the slushy shore of Scotts Lake. They drove around to the other side of the lake and arrested him.

FUGITIVE FLUSHED FROM CABIN Police got a tip and arrested a wanted man who was hiding out in an Antrim County cabin.

A “distraught” woman visited the Gaylord state police post April 6 with information about a 29-year-old man who was wanted in Macomb County; he also was a suspect in a break-in near West Branch, according to a press release.

The woman told police the man possessed a stolen .22-caliber pistol and a rifle and that he was staying at a cabin on Lake Road near East Jordan.

Troopers and the state police fugitive team surveilled the cabin, got a search warrant, and used a patrol car PA system to ask the suspect to come out.

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ONE TRIGGER PULL, ONE ROUND opinion

bY Thomas Kachadurian Predictably, gun-banning advocates have pounced at recent shooting incidents. As always happens, the result of their hysteria is that gun sales have spiked, and donations to the NRA climbed to new heights. Oddly enough, despite this complete activism failure, the shouting mob retain a selfrighteous superiority. Satisfied, soon they will move on to their next outrage. We’ve seen this pattern over and over. In that time, more Americans have exercised their Second Amendment rights, new gun ownership is way up, and there have never been more concealed carry permits in our area, in Michigan, or in the country.

A major reason that gun grabbers continually fail in their activism is ignorance. They continue to rage on with spoon-fed talking points, created from pure fantasy. As a public service, I’d like to offer a bit of education to would-be gun protesters. That way, next time someone goes nuts in a gun-free zone, they can at least make sense when they paint their banners and craft their chants. I am no expert on guns, but my personal experience and general familiarity with firearms so vastly exceeds the average gun-grabber’s knowledge that it is my obligation to help. I live to serve.

Let’s start with some basic terminology to keep our gun-dreading friends from looking as foolish as Chelsea Handler. While Handler has admitted to being accompanied by armed guards, she insists that people who can’t afford their own security detail should not be permitted to arm themselves. So bold is she in her hypocrisy that, on March 28, Handler tweeted, “My armed guards aren’t killing children and don’t have semi-automatic weapons.” If you aren’t rolling on the floor laughing now, you clearly need to learn a few things. If Chelsea Handler’s guards are not carrying semi-automatic weapons they are armed with muskets and dueling pistols.

I know “Hamilton” is popular, but I’m pretty sure celebrity guards haven’t gone full 18th century with their armaments.

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Today’s lesson is semi-automatic. With a semi-automatic firearm, after you pull the trigger, the action of the recoil loads the next round. It doesn’t keep firing ifyou hold down the trigger. The granddaddy of semiautomatic pistols is the 10-round 45ACP 1911 created by John Browning in the late 19th century. Millions of semi-automatic 1911 pistols have been built, sold, and are still in service. It remains one of the bestselling pistol platforms to this day. They are not big scary-looking guns with accessories hanging off them. It’s hard to swallow the notion that after more than 100 years of use worldwide, suddenly the 1911 is too dangerous. If they were so dangerous, why weren’t schools being shot up with 1911s in the years between 1900 and 1999, the year of the Columbine shooting?

Let’s review. A semi-automatic weapon loads the next round after the shot. To fire a semi-automatic weapon, you must pull and release the trigger, then pull it again to shoot another round. One trigger pull, one bullet. The classic six-shooter in Westerns,

while technically not semi-automatic, works the same way. When you pull the trigger, the round is moved into place and fires. When you pull the trigger again, it shoots again. A semi-automatic pistol or rifle has the exact same one-pull, one-bullet shooting function as the revolver, which was first introduced in Germany in the 1500s.

Although the classic American Colt revolver wasn’t invented until 1836, revolvers were available when the Second Amendment was written. The functionality of one trigger pull, one bullet, with the next round immediately available was known by the men who penned the Constitution. When they wrote “ … the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” the arms they were talking about included those that shot one bullet each time the trigger was pulled, without reloading. Unless she has seriously low-budget security, Chelsea Handler’s minders probably carry Glock, Sig Sauer, H&K, or other common semi-auto pistols favored by guards and law-enforcement worldwide.

The scary AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle: one trigger pull, one round — the same as the classic M1 Garand from the 1930s.

My Beretta 12-gauge shotgun is a semiautomatic rifle. I have it set up for sporting clays where the rules limit me to two shots without reloading, just like a double-barrel shotgun. If I take out the magazine plug, it holds a total of four shells — three in the magazine and one in the chamber. But it’s still one trigger pull, one round. Thousands, maybe millions of Boy Scouts learned to shoot with Ruger 10/22 rifles, the classic semi-automatic 22-caliber plinker. The AR15, the M1 Garand, semi-auto shotguns, the Ruger 10/22, and many others are semi-auto rifles: one trigger pull, one bullet. The only difference is the AR-15 doesn’t have a lovely walnut stock. Politicians, who count on the ignorance of their constituents, exploit it by scaring them with the appearance of an AR-15, trying to confuse it with its military automatic cousins.

As was demonstrated by all the Democrat voters who confused Aaron Sorkin’s fictional The West Wing with the real U.S. government, the low-information activists think that what they see in the movies is reality. Those weapons spraying bullets on television and in movies look just like AR-15s. The uninformed, who have never touched a gun, think every AR-15 is poised to spew bullets at any second, as on TV — their only experience with firearms.

Their ignorance of firearms immediately undermines any credibility they hope to have. They sound like children struggling to understand an adult universe they aren’t ready to enter.

Let’s review. Semi-automatic: one trigger pull, one round.

Thomas Kachadurian is a photographer, designer, and author. He lives on Old Mission with his wife and two children. He is a member and past president of the Traverse Area District Library Board of Trustees.

Mistaken Identity Around 4:30 a.m. on March 22, High Point, North Carolina, 911 dispatchers received a surprising call from a man informing them he had broken into a business. “Yes, this is Jesus Christ, and I just broke into the Pizza Hut,” claimed 46-year-old Richard Lee Quintero of Greensboro, according to WFMY TV. “Jesus is here, he’s back to Earth. I just broke in and had a pizza. I’m Jesus,” Quintero told dispatchers.

“Because I’m Jesus, I can do whatever I want.”

He also complained that “everybody’s been treating me mean.” High Point police officers arrested Quintero and charged him with breaking and entering and larceny.

Extreme Measures Shannon Dean Egeland, 43, of Kuna, Oregon, was found guilty Feb. 28 in an elaborate scheme to delay a prison sentence and collect insurance. The Idaho Statesman reported that shortly before Egeland was to begin a 10-year jail term in 2014 for his role in a $20 million housing scandal, he took out a disability insurance policy and talked his then-17-year-old son into shooting him in the legs with a 20-gauge shotgun, which would delay his prison term -- not to mention let him collect on the new insurance policy. After the teenager shot him, Egeland called police and said he’d been assaulted, but police became suspicious when they found Egeland’s wallet and BMW were still at the scene. U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown tacked three years and 10 months of additional time onto Egeland’s original sentence. Egeland, who eventually lost his left leg, stood before the judge on his prosthetic leg and said he’d had a lot of time to reflect on his crimes and realized he needs mental health counseling. Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Bradford called him a “menace to society.”

Just Can’t Get Enough It’s been a twisty, U-turny road for Brittany Ann Koerselman, 19, and her first (soon-to-be second) husband, Jeremie Rook, 24, of Little Rock, Iowa. The two originally married in 2014, when Koerselman, then 15, was pregnant with Rook’s child. But they divorced when she was 18. “He just wasn’t ready to be all of that,” Koerselman told Metro News. “The parent, the husband, the responsible person. He just wasn’t ready for that.” She said she and Rook have gotten back together and split up seven times since their divorce, but they can’t stand being apart, so they’re planning a “f-ing princess wedding” for this summer. “The last time I got married, I got swollen on the way to Missouri -- it’s six hours (drive), so my shoes didn’t fit,” Koerselman recalled. “We’re reusing (the) old engagement ring. He’s different this time,” she told (herself).

Bright Idea A traditional March wedding at Peckforton Castle in Tarporley, Cheshire, England, was briefly interrupted when an owl trained to deliver the rings to a waiting best man changed its mind about where to land. The betrothed Jeni Arrowsmith and Mark Wood of Wrexham watched as the barn owl flew down the aisle toward the best man, but a seated groomsman then pointed at the bird, which it took as a signal to fly to his hand. “The owl just dived in and hit the guy -- who is terrified of birds!” said wedding photographer Stacey Oliver. “He fell off his chair.” “Everyone was absolutely hysterical,” the bride later told the BBC. “It made the wedding because we were talking about it all night.”

Least Competent Criminals -- When an intoxicated man arrived at the Delaware State Police Troop 1 station in Wilmington on March 20, looking for a ride home, officers thought he seemed familiar.

Turns out he was Christopher McDowell, 34, a suspect in a Feb. 22 shoplifting incident at a local Kohl’s store, according to the News Journal. McDowell was charged with shoplifting and arraigned, then released on $1,000 bail. After he made a phone call to a friend for a ride home, his Kohl’s accomplice, April Wright, 48, showed up -- and she too was arrested and charged.

-- John Silva and Derrick Irving thought they had a foolproof plan to cover their tracks after breaking into a mutual acquaintance’s apartment on March 13 in DeLand, Florida.

The Volusia County Sheriff ’s Office told News 6 the men stole appliances and a flat-screen TV from the home, then stopped before leaving to set a pot of spaghetti sauce on a hot burner and place a washcloth nearby so it would catch fire and destroy evidence. The victim had been alerted to the break-in by security cameras and called police, who stopped the two and found among the stolen goods in their car an empty jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce. Both men were charged with unarmed burglary, grand theft and arson.

Feuds -- In Toronto, a group of animal rights advocates started protesting outside a restaurant called Antler in early December. By March, the protests had grown, and Antler’s co-owner, Michael Hunter, had had enough of the “murder” signs and “You’ve got blood on your hands” chants. So on March 23, he told the Globe and Mail, he figured, “I’m going to have my own protest. ... This is who we are and what we do. So I went and got a deer leg.”

Hunter brought a cutting board, knife and the hindquarter of a deer into the front window and butchered the meat while the protesters looked on. As a result, Hunter and the protesters are now trying to open a dialogue, and reservation requests at Antler have increased.

-- Neighbors in Gainesville, Florida, called police on March 11 after finding a set of stairs barricaded in their condominium complex.

The Gainesville Sun reported that Derrick Lamar Walker, 34, told officers on their arrival that his neighbors had been stomping in the stairwell outside his apartment to “get back at him for his several (insurance-related) lawsuits,” according to a police department report. In retaliation, Walker had covered the stairs with fishing line, thin rubber gaskets, duct tape and cooking oil to try to keep the neighbors away. He was arrested on a criminal mischief charge and was held at the Alachua County Jail.

Oops!

-- A young driver in Buffalo, Minnesota, wasted no time earning an EPIC FAIL on her driver’s test on March 21 when she rammed the car into the examination station before she’d even pulled out of the parking space. As the driving test began, the 17-year-old shifted her 2014 Chevy Equinox into drive instead of reverse and hit the accelerator, causing the car to lurch forward, jump the curb and crash through the window of the station, located in a strip mall. While the driver was not hurt, the examiner, 60, was taken to a hospital with noncritical injuries. Buffalo Police Chief Pat Budke told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that no charges would be filed.

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Is Michigan’s Next Governor a 33-Year-Old Muslim?

Northern Express talks to Abdul El-Sayed as he gains traction, plans upcoming northern Michigan event

By Luke Haase Abdul El-Sayed wants your vote for Michigan governor. At 33, he’d be Michigan’s youngest — and the nation’s first Muslim — governor. He’s Michigan born, graduated valedictorian of his class at the University of Michigan, and then went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, earning a doctorate from Oxford University in London and a medical degree from Columbia University in New York.

At age 30, El-Sayed was named director of the Detroit Health Department after it was privatized during the city’s bankruptcy.

He’s never held elected office, but perhaps two events give his candidacy hope.

First, the unlikely victory of Donald Trump — who, until his 2017 presidency, also hadn’t held a public office — in the longtime Democratic stronghold of Michigan. And second, the lore: After delivering his class commencement address at the University of Michigan, none other than Bill Clinton came to greet him privately, El-Sayed recalled to Forbes online in November 2017: “After our speeches he came up to me behind the scenes in the locker room … He looked at me … and continued by telling me, ‘You know you have a real gift for speaking, and I hope you will consider a career in public service.’

I looked at him and said, ‘Mr. President I don’t know if you saw my name, but it’s got 11 letters in it — and that’s just my first name — so I don’t know if that’s going to be

possible for me.’” [El-Sayed’s full first name is Abdulrahman.]

Now criss-crossing the state, campaigning, El-Sayed will host a town hall meeting in Traverse City at 6pm April 19 at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa. We caught up with him by phone from his office in downtown Detroit.

Express: First, please give us an update on the potential court ruling on your eligibility as a candidate. [Questions have surfaced about his eligibility after Bridge Magazine reported he was registered to vote in New

we are going to do whatever it takes to prove that all it was was a political attack.

It’s people who are my opponents doing opposition research, and the goal was to spread this in the court of public opinion.

I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t know I was eligible.

Express: So you have no idea if that ruling will come tomorrow or two months from now?

El-Sayed: It’s up to the courts now, but [the ruling] will show that I’m 100 percent eligible.

So we’re just working through the process.

I win the race because I’m showing a different look: I’m not taking corporate tax money, and I’m not a millionaire trying to buy the election. I am a public servant trying to better peoples’ lives.

York from October 2012 through March 2015. The Michigan Constitution requires any candidate for governor to be a registered elector in the state at least four years prior to the election. Secretary of State records show El-Sayed was “continuously registered to vote in Michigan since 2003,” and El-Sayed has petitioned a judge to rule on the matter.]

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Express: What is the appetite among voters for a new course, given that jobs and wages are at near all-time highs and, partisanship aside, Governor Snyder appears to remain fairly popular?

El-Sayed: I don’t know that I agree. The last I looked he was one of the least popular governors in the country. And unemployment is a money statistic.

The truth is, middle-class wages are stagnant, and that’s the experience of most Michiganders. Sure, they can find a gig with no job security and virtually no benefits.

And then we are the epicenter of water disasters [with Flint], and Bernie Sanders won in the primary here, and then, by the slimmest of margins, so did Trump. So I think there’s a huge appetite for change.

Anything [positive] Snyder did had more to do with Obama’s national policy than anything he did, and he fundamentally robbed our self-determination with his emergency management law. He made key cuts at the union movement, which has for so long delivered a standard of living and quality of life to workers. I think the Michiganders I see are really frustrated with where we are and want real change. If you look at where we are versus the absolute overall expenditures, we spend the second most on corporate subsidies. They say they’ll bring jobs here, and they don’t. And then we cut revenue on things like schools and infrastructure. The for-profit, marketoriented approach has failed us.

Express: So what, in your view, are the primary issues of the campaign?

El-Sayed: Starts with the government. We are among the least accountable states in the country. We have to stop the underground pipeline of money between corporations and candidates’ coffers. Also, infrastructure and

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the environment — and those are connected — roads and bridges but also water quality.

Meanwhile we’re allowing companies like Nestle to bottle water for pennies on the dollar and Enbridge to run a pipeline that’s old through the Mackinac Straits. We have to invest in our infrastructure and protect our Great Lakes.

And then education: We used to be at the top then, and now we rank in the bottom 10 of states. We allow corporations to buy into public education, and too many people can’t attend college with huge debt. We need to shut down charter schools and make college tuition free for families making $150,000 or less per year. We have to make sure the economy is creating small business jobs while stopping corporate handouts, and invest in ourselves. In health care, 600,000 still don’t have access to care, and we have a raising opioid epidemic. Those are the critical issues.

Express: But where are you going to find the money to pay for all that?

El-Sayed: I’ll tell you. Right now there are billions in corporate subsidies that should be invested in our education and infrastructure.

There are some real opportunities to pay for those things. I don’t think we should be handing out money to the richest. It’s not that we don’t have money, it’s that we don’t spend it right. And secondly, we have to make sure the rich and ultra-rich are paying their fair share for resources they’re using most often.

And then there are pockets of money … like when voters vote to legalize marijuana in 2018. We pay 19 cents per dollar for health care, more than any society. We already pay for it. But can we make it work better for us through a single-payer system.

Express: You mentioned legalizing marijuana.

Tell us more about your position on that.

El-Sayed: I’m a big advocate of it. I’m not somebody who’s ever used it, but from a public policy perspective, it’s an obvious choice.

From a civil rights perspective, minorities are 3.3 times more likely to be arrested just by possessing marijuana. And that money can be invested in education. And there are additional values to marijuana. During my training, I remember meeting a young woman, and her son had a disorder, and the only thing that helped was marijuana, but it continues to be illegal. There’s no higher risk among marijuana [use] than alcohol [use], and we need to legalize it and make sure we are empowering our local communities and make sure we have the infrastructure in place. We need to get with the times.

Express: What do you know about Traverse City and the Grand Traverse region?

El-Sayed: Traverse City is an incredible city and a beautiful place. I know, like all places, it has its challenges; it tends to be a highquality vacation place, but almost all of the local economy is seasonal. There’s also a lot of agricultural processing that happens there. I know there are a lot of opportunities for growth.

Express: I’m sure you’ve been asked so many times, but how is it going, recognizing all the barriers you’re no doubt facing? I mean, Grand Traverse County is some 97 percent white, and many of the voters you’ll meet have never even met a Muslim.

El-Sayed: I’ve been all over the state now, and wherever I’ve gone, I’ve gotten a really warm reception. There are a few bad apples that try to speak for everybody, and some

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want to see my faith as an issue. But the vast majority of people don’t care how you pray, they care what you pray for. And I pray for my daughter, my wife and parents, my parents in-law, our state, country, for peace, for justice … those are the things that people all over the state pray for.

Turns out, if you’re willing to listen and speak to empower peoples lives, people are interested to hear what you have to say. We are a lot more similar than different, and people are looking for leaders who believe in them, who are forthright, who care about a more just and sustainable world. That’s been our conversation, and I’m thankful for the hospitality and generosity I’ve experienced around the state.

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Express: You begin most of your town halls by talking about your family Thanksgiving, with people seated around the table from around the U.S., from Egypt, and one family member whose ancestors have been in Michigan since the Civil War, and you talk about all of you just eating and talking and watching the Lions on TV. Is that intended to sort of break down peoples’ predispositions about a Muslim candidate?

El-Sayed: I think when you’re willing to share your story, people will share about their lives. I want them to understand where I’m coming from. ‘This guy’s from the Detroit area, and his experience isn’t mine.

What does he know about my life?’ Well, my experience is diverse, and I don’t know about your life, but let me share that I come in the spirit of people coming together to solve problems for each other.

Express: The latest polls show you’re in third place on the Democratic side. Gretchen Whitmer has now been endorsed by the UAW. What’s the roadmap for you winning this nomination and election?

El-Sayed: I win the race because we are the closest on ideals, and ideas, and polices.

Because we inspire young people and people of color. I win the race because I’m showing a different look: I’m not taking corporate tax money, and I’m not a millionaire trying to buy the election. I am a public servant trying to better peoples’ lives. I win the race because people in Michigan are interested in retaking their future. And it’s like “March Madness”: There’s the season, and then a lot happens in the actual tournament. We aren’t even in the tournament yet. And frankly, many who will vote for me aren’t showing up in a poll. The only poll I care about is the seventh of August and then the first Tuesday in November.

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Be Like Bond Man up to a made-to-measure suit

By Kristi Kates GQ (Gentleman’s Quarterly), The Financial Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal.

What do they all have in common? They’ve all recently championed the resurgence in popularity of bespoke and made-to-measure suits for men — those high-end ensembles traditionally acquired at places like Savile Row, the famed London street known as the “golden mile of tailoring,” where everyone from Jude Law and Ian Fleming (James Bond’s creator) to Winston Churchill and Lord Nelson have shopped.

But did you know you can get a madeto-measure suit of your own right here in northern Michigan?

Traverse City’s Captain’s Quarters provides this unique service to their customers, so that you, too, can dress like James Bond.

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FASHIONABLE FIT Where to begin? Make sure you’ve got your terminology right before you make any suitordering plans. Bespoke tailoring is perhaps the better known term. (If you’ve watched any classic ’40s- or ’50s-era films, you’ve probably seen the process at some point, with a gentleman standing up on a platform while the tailor pins and tucks the suit all around (usually over witty movie banter.) But there’s a definite difference between bespoke and made-to-measure suits.

“Bespoke suits started in England,” said Captain’s Quarters’ owner, Maurie Allen.

A bespoke suit, said Allen, is made from a pattern individually custom-cut for each specific individual; a made-to-measure suit takes a preset pattern and alters it to fit the customer. Often, Savile Row suits or other bespoke suits are completely stitched by hand.

(Third on the list of men’s suits are RTW (“ready-to-wear”) — those are suits

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purchased directly off the rack without any prior fitting, unless the customer seeks out a tailor afterwards to make adjustments, or the shop where the suit was purchased offers such a service.)

COOL CUSTOMIZATION For made-to-measure suits, the service that Captain’s Quarters offers, a high level of customization is available.

“You can select everything,” Allen explained. “The fabric, styling, lining, colors, lapel size, even the buttons. There’s a huge catalog of options available.”

The process at Captain’s Quarters for a made-to-measure suit — a service they’ve been offering for over 50 years — begins with a sit-down meeting.

“We primarily discuss what you’re looking for in the suit, and we spend a considerable amount of time reviewing swatches of fabric,” Allen said. “There are different types and weights of fabric for summer versus winter suits, and of course a whole range of colors, shapes, and styles.”

Once those decisions are made, the measuring process begins. You’ll spend about an hour getting measured from head to toe; everything from neck, chest, arm length, and shoulders to inseam are measured. In addition to the custom madeto-measure full men’s suits, you can also order made-to-measure sport coats, slacks, vests, and shirts.

With the suit’s materials and the measurements confirmed, the suit goes out to a factory to be made. Your custom Captain’s Quarters suit, from your fitting to the finished product, will be ready for you to wear in three to four weeks.

TRENDY TAILORING If you’re thinking it’s time you ditched the racks for a suit this spring or summer,

be aware of what’s hot — literally and figuratively — on the customized suit scene.

“As always, we’ll see lighter colors and fabrics — things like linens, cotton, poplin, and lightweight tropical wools, which are all more comfortable and breathable, as opposed to the heavier wools and darker colors we see in the fall,” he said.

Customers also are increasingly leaning toward more fitted, tighter suits.

“A lot of our custom suits are for people who can’t find that kind of fit off-the-rack, or they just don’t have the time to look for it,” Allen said.

In color trends, Allen’s seeing a swing back toward the basics — lots of tans and khakis — and one surprising pick from the color wheel.

“We’re actually not seeing navy as much as usual this spring,” said Allen. “What seems to be popular right now is a more vibrant shade of blue, a bright blue, really.

Although we’re more of a traditional store to begin with, so most of our customers don’t go too far out with the colors.”

No matter what colors or materials you choose, the cost for this wardrobe luxury will range between $550 and $1,200.

“We probably do about 100 or so madeto-measure suits each year,” Allen said.

“They’re such a great addition to a man’s wardrobe.”

The other cool factor? Your suit won’t ever be like anyone else’s.

Not even James Bond’s.

“It’s the nature of their being custom,” said Allen. “In their own way, each suit is special because they’re all unique.”

Much like the man who wears it.

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Shriver’s Honors

Later in Shriver’s life, honors started pouring in, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (her husband, Sargent Shriver, received the same high distinction for creating the Peace Corps, Job Corps, Head Start and for his role in the War on Poverty), the Theodore Roosevelt Award, a papal knighthood and the Author Ashe Courage Award (bestowed posthumously). A year before her death, the U.S. Congress renamed the NICHD the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Biographer Eileen McNamara

‘MEN PLAY, WOMEN PRAY’ was Never Enough for Eunice Kennedy Shriver An interview with TC-bound author Eileen McNamara

By Clark Miller Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921–2009) never held elected office, avoided the spotlight, and focused on a single cause her entire life: the welfare of the intellectually and physically disabled.

This complex, driven woman is the subject of new biography by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Eileen McNamara, who will unveil “Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World, ” at the National Writers Series on Wednesday, April 25. Host for the 7 p.m. event at City Opera House will be Interlochen Public Radio reporter Morgan Springer. Doors open at 6 p.m.

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER McNamara makes the case that Shriver was the least written about but, in many ways, most remarkable Kennedy. A tireless activist, Shriver founded the Special Olympics, which under her leadership grew into an international movement. The organization started, quite literally, in her backyard. At Shriver’s funeral, special athletes in attendance tossed their sports medals into her grave to honor what she had done for them.

Through not-so-diplomatic arm-twisting, she helped found the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

She also shifted the priorities of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation to funnel millions of dollars into research the causes and humane treatment of people with intellectual and physical disabilities.

And behind the scenes, Shriver heavily influenced her brothers, President John F. Kennedy; Attorney General (and, later, Senator) Robert Kennedy; and Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy to lend their political support to her cause.

AN EFFECTIVE ADVOCATE Eunice Kennedy Shriver wasn’t the first advocate of the intellectually and physically

disabled to appear on the scene, but it’s no exaggeration to say her efforts (as well as family money and influence) put this part of the civil rights movement on firm footing.

She championed those who had been neglected, misunderstood and all too often institutionalized.

“Formidable,” McNamara says. “That was the word pretty much everyone I talked to used to describe her,” McNamara tells Northern Express. “When she walked into her office, they knew she wanted something and that she would probably get it.”

KNOWN BUT LITTLE STUDIED Considering her many accomplishments, surprisingly little has been written about Eunice Kennedy Shriver. “ … for all of her influence and impact, [she] lives in public perception at the fringe of her brothers’ life stories rather than at the center of her own,” McNamara writes. “Of the hundreds of books written about the Kennedys, none has focused on the member of the clan who made [the] most enduring mark.”

McNamara suggests some reasons for that.

Above all, Shriver didn’t care about fame; she cared about results.

It was also a different era. She believed in the power of women. But, as McNamara says, she bowed to the reality that in those days, it helped to have her influential brothers take the lead publicly.

“Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World” is an especially solid, well-documented biography. That’s because McNamara, a former columnist for The Boston Globe, had access to extensive family archives. She also interviewed surviving family members and former staffers.

“There’s no such thing as good writing without solid reporting,” the veteran journalist tells Northern Express. “If it flows, it’s because it’s packed with information. All the pretty words won’t carry you past the first chapter.”

Even so, she admits writing about such a

complex person as Shriver was not an easy task.

“How do you really get to know a person?

It’s a challenge, especially with someone as guarded as Eunice. I got as close as I could to knowing her.”

THREE INFLUENCES McNamara’s book sheds light on three great influences in Shriver’s life: Shriver longed for the affection and respect of her parents, Joseph Patrick and Rose Kennedy. Her mother was aloof; her father carefully groomed his sons for high office but firmly believed in relegating his daughters to traditional, supportive roles as Catholic wives. He was a proponent of the idea that “men play, women pray.” Much of Shriver’s life was spent proving her father wrong.

That doesn’t mean her father didn’t influence her in positive ways, too.

“In many ways, she absorbed his lessons about ambition and power,” says McNamara.

“But in lots of other ways, she was the anti-Joe Kennedy. She found her way around [her father].”

Outrage was another motivator. Although she denied it publicly, Eunice’s activism was also rooted in resentment over the treatment of her disabled sister Rosemary, who was lobotomized and for many years institutionalized.

The third great influence was her Catholic faith, which informed her belief in the dignity of all lives but also — especially in matters such as abortion — put her at odds with much of the women’s movement.

AN UNSPARING BUT EMPATHETIC LOOK McNamara does not shy away from showing us some of Shriver’s rougher edges.

For all of her compassion for the disabled, Shriver was an unrelenting boss who ran through 24 assistants in four years at the family foundation.

And like her own mother, Shriver was a devoted but emotionally unconnected parent

to her own (six) children. McNamara wisely chooses to neither defend nor criticize this.

Instead, she helps us understand why, and defers to Shriver’s second child, Maria Shriver, who said of her mother: “She couldn’t give what she never got.”

Shriver might have made a good, even great, president, McNamara argues, but she would have had a tough time getting elected then, or now, not only because she was a woman in a male-dominated world but also “because her temperament was so prickly.

She ruffled feathers but wasn’t interested in smoothing feathers.”

“She had no patience for anyone who slowed her down or who didn’t have her sense of urgency,” McNamara writes.

IF SHE WERE ALIVE TODAY Asked what she thinks Shriver would be doing if she were alive today, McNamara responds, “I think she’d be knocking on the Oval Office door and lobbying the Hill. And there’d be a damned good reason, because there’s a bill floating around today that would roll back important parts of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).”

Above all, McNamara makes clear that at all turns, Shriver put the cause of the intellectually and physically challenged first — above her own health and regardless of all hurdles in her way. Ever the pragmatic idealist, the “tinkerer” with a noble cause, Shriver worried only about getting the job done.

Tickets For tickets to the Wednesday, April 25, National Writers Series event with Eileen McNamara, go to cityoperahouse.org, call (231) 941-8082, ext. 201, or visit the City Opera House box office at 106 E. Front St., Traverse City.

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THE ORVS ARE COMING! The effects of Public Act 288, a little-noticed law that’s opened up Michigan’s state forest roads to off-road vehicles, will be seen across northern lower Michigan this spring. The problem? Many of these roads run close to — and cross — trails, like Traverse City’s Vasa Pathway, frequented by mountain bikers, hikers, and runners.

By Patrick Sullivan Big changes are coming to a state forest near you.

It used to be very few northern Lower Michigan two-tracks were open to ORV traffic, and the ones that were open to ORV traffic were required to be posted.

No more.

As of Jan. 1, all state forest roads are open to ORVs unless they are posted as closed.

The change is creating a buzz.

Ray Ruediger, a board member of the Northwest ORV Association, a Traverse City off-road advocacy group, said people don’t realize how many ORVs will descend upon state forests once the weather warms.

“It’s going to be a lot busier in the woods than it has been in previous years,” he said.

“I know I’ve been out riding the two-tracks since the beginning of the year, just going out and exploring.”

Traverse City’s Vasa Pathway, which exists largely within state forest land, will remain closed to motorized traffic, but trail proponents worry about all of the overgrown two-tracks that cross the beloved trail.

They worry that ORV drivers will often — knowingly or not — end up on the closed trail.

In best case scenarios, that might shatter the serenity of trail users. In the worst cases, it could cause major injury.

“I predict a real mess once the snow melts and ORV groups head out,” Michael Roberts, an avid cross-country skier and Vasa Pathway neighbor wrote in an email. “And no one will enforce the limited closures. The hundreds of miles of two-tracks are poorly marked, with vague borders. People will suddenly find ORVs roaring along those forest paths they thought were meant for enjoying nature.”

BIG IMMEDIATE CONCERN The law, PA 288, sponsored by Rep. Triston

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Cole (R-Mancelona) and signed by Gov. Snyder in September 2016, prompted DNR officials to spend 2017 surveying roads and listening to public input. Maps were finalized in December, and, although some argued that the state forest roads around the Vasa Pathway should be closed to ORVs, officials left some open.

Brian Beauchamp, outreach and program director for TART Trails, which manages the Vasa Pathway, said his biggest concerns are safety and trail experience.

Beauchamp said he worries about blind spots on the trail where the paths of an OVR rider and mountain biker, hiker, or runner might collide.

He also worries about the esthetic experience of the trail.

“Non-motorized trail users are looking for a different experience in the woods than a motorized user,” he said.

Beauchamp, though, said he was

encouraged by the collaboration that took place between the DNR, ORV groups and other user groups in the lead-up to the law taking effect. He said he is encouraged by interest among ORV groups to avoid conflicts with other users.

“The folks that represent these organizations, they are really working to see that there are no bad apples within their ranks,” Beauchamp said.

Nonetheless, it’s going to be confusing for anyone to figure out which roads are open and which are closed. The DNR posted detailed state forest road maps online, but the maps don’t come up in navigation systems, and it will be hard for people to figure out what’s what.

“We were advocating to make sure that the Vasa itself and the non-motorized trails we have remain protected,” Beauchamp said.

“That was the big immediate concern.”

MAINLINES INTO THE VASA Roberts said he believes all forest roads around the Vasa should have been closed to ORV traffic, like forest roads in some other isolated regions across northern Michigan.

He said he fears ORV access will create thoroughfares into the Vasa 25k loop and make life difficult for everyone.

For example, an off-roader on Sand Lake Road might make a few turns onto sandy, unmarked trails, and in a short while, without intending to, might turn onto the Vasa from an unmarked two-track at a place where there are no signs.

“An ORV user — even a responsible one — might get going, make a few turns, and suddenly be sailing along the formal Vasa Pathway, having seen no signs barring access,” Roberts wrote.

Roberts said hiking trails in the Muncie Lake area face the same threat of encroachment.

Roberts compared the enactment of PA288 to the legalization of exploding fireworks in the state several years ago, legislation many residents didn’t know about until they heard cherry bombs exploding outside of their homes.

“Some poor hiker may soon be passed by a dozen roaring vehicles,” Roberts wrote. “Then you will hear the ‘How did this happen?’”

Ruediger said he doesn’t think there will be much conflict between Vasa trail users and OVRers because of the consideration that went into implementing PA288 around the trail.

“I don’t think that’s going to be too much of an issue,” he said. “The DNR has already addressed that issue by restricting many of the trails around the Vasa.”

A LONG, DRAWN-OUT PROCESS Through 2017, there were two 45-day comment periods, drafts of maps, revisions, and user groups meeting held around the region. The DNR considered user conflicts, environmental concerns, connectivity, and access to recreation.

“We made our initial proposal and opened it up for comment,” said Scott Whitcomb, DNR unit manager for the Pigeon River State Forest.

“We heard a lot in the first public comment period. We had over 1,000 comments.”

Whitcomb said, at first, some user groups proposed that the entire Vasa area be closed to ORVs. After that, more than 100 people showed up to a meetings in Cadillac to oppose the closure of the Vasa to ORVs. From then on, the DNR worked with user groups to come up with a plan to partially close the Vasa area to ORVs. “The way the bill was written, the default was they were going to open up unless we specifically closed them, and we knew that would be a concern to a lot of people,” Whitcomb said. “We heard both sides of it.

There were people who thought everything should be open, and we shouldn’t close anything.”

Whitcomb said if there are problems,

the DNR wants to hear about them, and he said people should report violations to their local DNR office. He said the final plan is not permanent, and the rules can change if officials determine that’s necessary.

There were other areas that sparked similar outcry across northern Lower Michigan, he said.

The Pigeon River Country State Forest near Gaylord stayed closed to ORVs, as did the Mason Tract east of Grayling and the Jordan River Valley. So did the DeWard Tract, between Mancelona and Gaylord.

“That’s what we did. It was fun because we didn’t understand what we were doing,” he said. “We’ve been here before. I’m not saying it’s going to happen just like this, but we’ve been here before.”

THOUSANDS OF MILES For some sellers of ORVs, the new regime means off-road machines don’t stay in stock.

Heidi Young, who sits on the ORV riders association board with Ruediger and is general manager at Epic Powersports in Traverse City, a consignment dealer of ORVs and dirt bikes, said in the last couple weeks they’ve sold every ORV SOLUTION? MORE SINGLETRACK that’s been put up for sale.

Tom White, director of trail development What’s got everyone so excited is that for the Northern Michigan Mountain there used to be very few places to legally ride Biking Association, said ORVs in the Lower Peninsula. the introduction of ORVs Now there are thousands of into forest roads means his miles of trails. organization will move more That’s a huge change, but it’s An ORV user — mountain bike trails onto perhaps not as huge as it seems even a responsible on its face because, prior to PA singletrack, single-lane bike trails too narrow for ORVs 288, lots of folks rode ORVs on one — might get to enter. state forest two-tracks illegally, White said he’s also spent a and law enforcement officers going, make a lot of time thinking about how usually looked the other way few turns, and singletrack trails and ORV unless the driver was doing roads should interact. something to attract attention. suddenly be “I’m designing it so I don’t “Were people out using have to put a stop sign for the those two-tracks anyway? Yes, sailing along ORV guy. I’m going to make they were, and usually the the formal Vasa it so we yield in a place where DNR didn’t have problems we’re already stopped on our if you weren’t on the power Pathway, having bicycle,” White said. “You’re lines,” she said. going to be going super slow Young said her ORV group seen no signs when you cross that trail.” is busy attempting to establish barring access That means bringing the an ORV route through the state mountain bike trail alongside forest east of the Vasa, a trail the ORV road as it ascends that would mostly segregate terrain and building the ORVs from other users. She crossings at the tops of hills, so that the biker said her group also plans to educate and selfand the ORV rider can see each other and police its members so there are as few conflicts avoid collisions. with other users as possible.

White said bike trails should stick close to “Inevitably, people are going to go off ORV trails, anyway, because the undisturbed the beaten path,” she said. “There’s a lot of tracts of forest that are out there should be left speculation on how this is going to pan out.” to hunters.

Young also agreed that the collaboration PA 288 essentially makes the ORV rules in between the user groups in the last year has been the Lower Peninsula the same as they’ve been amazing and although everyone started out at for years in the Upper Peninsula. odds, they’ve established a basis to get along.

The law works in the Upper Peninsula “It took a little bit to get on the same page, because there’s so much more space and fewer but the big picture is that we as a community people, White said. He expects, at least at first, moved here for a reason, which is to enjoy the there will be strife between motorized and outdoors,” Young said. non-motorized users.

“I think we’re going to have more of a stew A HISTORY OF INTERLOPERS for conflict,” he said.

With or without PA 288, there have White emphasized, though, that he is not been motorized interlopers on the Vasa trail critical of ORV riders, the majority he believes as long as anyone can recall. Bud Huber, a just want to have fun and don’t want to harm North American Vasa board member, said the trail experience for others. snowmobiles, ORVs, or 4X4s regularly have But White is also old enough to remember gotten onto the trail and degraded it. the 1970s and 80s when Michigan woods were “It’s hard to tell whether they are being wide open to ORV traffic. ORVers would go malicious or just stupid,” he said. wherever they could go and they brought A few years ago, Huber and other skiers bonfires and parties and heavy metal music to were focused on a different kind of invasive ponds and meadows across the region. White species: fatbike riders. When fatbikes appeared said he recalls those details vividly because he five or so years ago, it seemed at first that was an ORV rider in those days. the bikers and skiers would never get along.

Since then, after forming a coalition to work things out, the snow-sport enthusiasts found common ground, mostly by determining that fatbikes needed designated trails and that the bikes don’t belong on groomed ski trails. Since then, skiers have helped fatbike enthusiasts build winter cycling routes.

Huber said it is ironic now that the skiers and fatbike riders find themselves allied in the face of the looming wave of ORVs. “We’re suddenly buddies,” Huber said, laughing. “Keep your enemies close.”

Can non-motorsports enthusiasts and ORV riders find similar common ground?

“The real question is, to what degree is this really likely to create and adverse impact?”

Huber said. “It’s possible that Michael [Roberts] is overreacting, just as a I was overreacting a few years ago with the fatbikes.”

There is precedent for desperate groups to get along. Some motorized and non-motorized users have already joined together.

Take an incident that occurred in January, weeks before the North American Vasa crosscountry ski races. Someone in a large ORV or Jeep got onto the Vasa course during a thaw and tore up a half-mile of trail in Riley’s Loop, a section of the course near the singletrack parking lot off of Supply Road.

Race organizers worried they would have to reroute the course.

“We had a number of people go out and assess it, and it wasn’t safe to take the grooming equipment through there,” Huber said.

A snowmobile club had some more heavyduty grooming equipment, however, and they came in to help, repairing that section of trail in time for the race to go off as planned.

QUESTIONS WAITING FOR SUMMER One major difficultly in the implementation of PA 288 is that the bill offered no funding for the DNR to enact or oversee the law.

“I don’t think the DNR asked for this law, and I don’t think they’re equipped to handle it,” White said. “They’ll do their best.”

The DNR will attempt to enforce the rules, but there will be no added patrols to make sure ORVs stay where they’re supposed to.

“This bill passed without any money attached to it, so we’re going to be doing what we do on all of our state land,” Whitcomb said.

Everyone contacted by the Express said they were uncertain and curious to see how this all plays out, once the snow melts.

“We’re seeing some changes already. I will be really curious what happens,” White said.

“I think it’s going to be kind of ugly at first, because ORVs are going to everywhere they can go until things get tightened down.”

Beauchamp said it remains to be seen how much impact the law will have, but he said he believes there is room for everyone.

“We’re in sort of a wait-and-see, monitor-the-situation mode. I think we’re going to know a lot more come July or August,’ Beauchamp said. “Bottom line is, there’s a lot of real estate out in the woods there. There’s plenty of room for people to get their trails.”

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Espionage. Defection. Drama.

A former Freep writer tells his story about the Red Wings’ famed Russian Five

By Ross Boissoneau It was more than two decades ago, but in many ways it feels like yesterday. In 1997, the Detroit Red Wings were on top of the world as Stanley Cup winners, thanks in very large part to the Russian Five. Days later, that euphoria was suddenly, shockingly ended when the car carrying Vladimir Konstantinov, Slava Fetisov, and team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov slammed into a tree following a golf outing.

The accident incapacitated Konstantinov and Mnatsakanov.

Detroit Free Press sports reporter Keith Gave had been there every step of the way, from the 1990 arrival of Sergei Fedorov, then that of his teammates — Konstantinov, Fetisov, Slava Kozlov, and Igor Larionov — all the way to the championship, the accident, and the subsequent Stanley Cup the next year. What very few knew until he wrote the book “The Russian Five” was his level of involvement in the defection of Konstantinov and Fedorov.

Gave actually served as an undercover gobetween for the Wings and those two when they were playing for the Soviet Union’s Red Army team. Gave spoke Russian, and he was enlisted by the Red Wings to sneak some information to the two players in Helsinki — a ploy that caused Gave no small concern on a number of levels.

“The Russian Five” details the plot: “We’ve learned the Russians are holding part of their training camp in Finland. And you’re the only person I know who speaks Russian,” Red Wings Executive Vice President Jim Lites said to Gave. Lites asked him to pass a secret message along to the two Russians.

Gave was in a quandary. His first allegiance was to his employer, the Free Press.

“I was surprised the Wings would even ask,” Gave said, recalling the discussions with Lites. “I was intrigued, excited, and offended at the same time. I was covering a pro team for a great paper and didn’t want to jeopardize things.”

He immediately said no, but as he pondered it, Gave decided it could provide the Freep with an opportunity for a scoop. He eventually accepted the assignment, but he refused the big bucks Lites offered him. He traveled on

his own dime, with no compensation from the Wings or his employer. Instead, he made a more valuable trade for the paper and his career: He demanded exclusive rights to the story if and when either player joined the team.

“I said, ‘I’m the first call when they come over. I want to be the first to interview them.

I get dibs on all the stories. That’s the deal,’” Gave said about his follow-up discussion with Lites.

The details as recounted in the book are engrossing. Gave flew to Helsinki and was able to briefly speak with the two players — in their native language — and pass along some Red Wings propaganda. Included were secret letters he’d written to the two, extolling the virtues of both the Red Wings and American hockey, and the fact that the Wings were prepared to pay them serious money to defect and play for them — far more than they would ever see in the Soviet Union.

A year later, Gave’s phone rang. “I was having dinner at home in Dearborn when Jim Lites called. He said, ‘Keith, I’m flying home.

Guess who’s with me?’” Lites then handed the phone off, and Gave was on the line with Sergei Fedorov. “I had a quick conversation (with) Sergei and took notes. Then I typed my ass off. Deadline was coming up for the first edition.” The next day, Gave’s feature was the lead story on page one of the Free Press.

And that’s just the first 30 pages of this fascinating look inside the group that would come to be known the Russian Five — Fedorov, Konstantinov, Slava Fetisov, Igor Larionov, and Slava Kozlov. They helped transform the Red Wings from what was a good hockey team (following years of uninspired play that earned the team the nickname of the “Dead Things”) into a great team, winners of two Stanley Cups in a row, and a third in 2002. And while the defections at first enraged the Russians, as more of them joined the National Hockey League, relations thawed, and the Red Wings became that country’s favorite NHL team. “I don’t think Russian-American relations were better than that 10-year stretch,” said Gave.

Gave had learned Russian when he was drafted and opted to go to the Defense

Language Institute in Monterey, California, rather than go to Vietnam. “I didn’t want to go to [Vietnam]. I had friends who went over and didn’t come back,” Gave said. He was eventually sent to West Berlin to work for the National Security Agency.

After leaving the military, Gave attended Michigan State University as a journalism major, eventually working for the Lansing State Journal and then the Free Press. That’s where he was working when he had a choice: Cover either the Pistons or Red Wings.

Today Gave is retired from the Free Press and living in Roscommon. He’s since taught college courses in journalism. And he readily admits he’s still somewhat uncomfortable with his own actions. “I wouldn’t suggest you do that,” he said of his decision, but he admitted he would probably do the same thing again.

“I’m prepared to be judged by ethicists.”

Gave said he’s had the book in his head for years, but it took prodding to get it out; said prodding arrived in the form of Joshua Riehl’s documentary The Russian Five. The Flint filmmaker’s movie incorporated interviews with numerous former members of the Red Wings, and Gave served as a writer/producer.

“The in-depth interviews (provided) a lot of good stuff for the book. I knew I was writing a book. Now’s the time,” Gave said he decided while participating in the film.

The movie was to premier, naturally enough, at the Free Press Film Festival this past week. Riehl and Gave hope it will also find a home at the Traverse City Film Festival this summer. Riehl said he is currently working on a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the film’s licensing budget. Both he and Gave say the possibility of showing the film at Hockeytown North is enticing, and they hope it will happen.

Gave is touring in support of the book.

He will be at Horizon Books in Cadillac this coming Saturday, April 21, from 2pm to 4pm.

He will also visit McLean and Eakin Books in Petoskey on Friday, May 11, from 6pm to 7:30pm.

And he isn’t done. Gave is working on another book, this one on Lary Sorensen, the former MLB pitcher who has battled substance abuse. Sorensen pitched for seven teams during his 10-year career and subsequently was a radio broadcaster, including being the first voice heard on a Detroit sports talkradio network and serving as a Tigers color commentator. He’s also served prison time for his seven drunk-driving convictions.

“He’s four years sober, rebuilding his life, broadcasting,” said Gave. Of the possibility of Sorensen’s story making a great book, the selfeffacing Gave said, “There’s potential if I don’t screw it up.”

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Men, Meet ThE DroogS A “band born out of the desperation of boredom, formed by the miracle of modern computing, and brought up by the disillusionment of today’s rock & roll.

A three-piece rock band for the forward-thinking man.”

By Kristi Kates MEET THE BAND Self-described “laid-back Midwestern dudes” ThE DroogS began when drummer Jeff Houser arrived in Traverse City from Los Angeles. Upon arriving, “I immediately posted that I was looking to start a fun Ramones/ Core-style band,” Houser said. Bass player Jim Mineweaser was the first to reply; the pair met up at Mineweaser’s house in Long Lake, near Traverse City.

Turns out, Mineweaser brought more than his talent and experience to the table. He had been playing the past several years with a guitarist and singer, Jeremy West.

Houser contends he found a couple “amazing musicians” that day, but Mineweaser sees it differently: “Jeremy and I had been playing together for three years before we found Jeff,” he said. “While we were waiting for him to show up, we went through six other drumming auditions!”

YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THEM Whatever kismet was at work, it works.

Since ThE DroogS formed, they’ve become a familiar (and rockin’) sight around local northern Michigan venues from Traverse City to Gaylord, and all the way downstate. You’ve probably seen them locally at Inside Out Gallery and Studio Anatomy gigs. Downstate they’ve hit venues in Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Jackson. “We also opened for Mustard Plug at The Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids,” Houser said.

THEIR INSPIRATION “We write songs about our lives, some silly, some serious,” Houser said. From the start, he said, their mission was simple: to write fun, two-minute pop-punk hits that would kick-start a party. “Just focusing on writing songs we think are great has allowed us to get noticed,” he said. “That goal has not changed for me.”

West said he didn’t have any early expectations for the band other than playing guitar and having fun, but adds, “We’ve had a lot of cool opportunities that I really didn’t see coming. It’s also been interesting to do a couple of different albums in the studio, and see how much you grow as a musician between albums.”

CURRENT PROJECTS Those albums — two EPs called The Dark Places and Ehh…, plus a new full-length collection titled Comforts — are a big part of why ThE DroogS have been getting more

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attention. Comforts, a mash-up of ’90s-heavy punk influences that range from Sublime and NOFX to Sum 41 and Lagwagon, was inspired by the guys’ youth — “Growing up and going on dates at the roller rink, with skee ball and all the fun songs that came with those times,” Houser said — and its tunes easily encapsulate the devil-may-care feel of that era, when nothing was more important than having your crush notice you and making sure your deck (skateboard) was the best you could afford.

“We recorded the full-length at 231 Recordings with Andy VanGuilder,” Houser said. “We spent a few years working on those songs, and we’re proud of how they turned out.”

THE NAME GAME Those into garage rock and protopunk might be wondering about the band’s name, since there’s a well-established band with the exact same moniker (though the Michigan band’s version sports a unique stylized spelling). The Los Angeles version of The Droogs was formed in the early ’70s, and most recently released a brand new album of originals plus one reboot of one of their earlier tracks (2017’s ‘Young Gun.”) Northern Michigan’s ThE DroogS are quick to go on the defense. “There are more than just us with the Droogs name,” Mineweaser said. “I can think of four including us.”

West added, “There hasn’t been much confusion beyond that besides friends finding the (Los Angeles) Droogs’ music online, and saying ‘this doesn’t sound like you.’”

FUTURE DROOGS Current DroogS plans — the northern Michigan outfit, not the L.A. band — are to continue working on ways to get the new album out to a wider audience. “We have been getting good feedback on it so far,” Houser said. “We think it might be something a label might want to put out. Aside from playing more shows with touring bands we love, we’d also love to release our album on vinyl.”

Taking the band out of ‘hobby’ and into ‘career’ is also a major goal for the trio. “If we can get busy enough with the band that I don’t have time to work a day job and can still live a semblance of a life, that’s success to me,” West said. But the most important thing, as with most bands, are those tunes. “The biggest goal is to keep writing songs that get stuck in your head and make you want to rage!” Houser said.

More information: Find ThE DroogS music online at thedroogs.bandcamp.com or thedroogs.hearnow.com.

Petoskey’s Roast & Toast

By Al Parker Mary and Bob Keedy were living in Georgia and dreaming of being entrepreneurs when they decided to stop the dreaming and apply perspiration to their aspirations.

“We decided that we wanted to start our own business,” said Mary. “We had maps spread out all over the table. We looked at Petoskey and thought ‘Oh my gosh, it’s way the hell up there.’

But after looking into the schools and visiting the space, we decided, let’s just go for it.”

Thus was born Roast & Toast, a Petoskey landmark and mecca for lovers of fine coffee and delicious food.

And now they’re celebrating 25 years in business with a month of fun events during May. “There’s nowhere else we would rather be,” said Mary. “We are so grateful to be here. It’s an awesome place to raise our kids and such a beautiful place to live. We are grateful for our business, for life, for people.”

And coffee lovers are grateful for Roast & Toast, where the philosophy is “Great coffee doesn’t just happen.”

“Using carefully selected beans from around the world, we roast according to bean profile, create blends, and conduct small batch techniques to maintain a selection of freshly roasted varieties,” said Mary. “We never sell coffee more than two weeks old. Any coffee inventory roasted over two weeks prior is donated to Brother Dan’s Food Pantry in Petoskey.”

Each day the Roast & Toast team brews five varieties, rotating the offerings with coffee sourced from around the world. “We like guests to sample the globe with our daily brews,” said Mary. “For those with a favorite origin, we have expertly made French-pressed coffees … we all have our passions.”

Whether crafting a cappuccino or making a mocha, the Roast & Toast baristas are passionate about coffee. For those who prefer a little sweetness and zingy flavor, they offer Northwoods Soda and Syrup’s small-batch syrups made with real cane sugar.

“We are proud to partner with two local businesses that utilize our coffee,” said Mary.

“Northwoods Soda makes Espresso Root Beer with our Roast & Toast espresso, and Beards Brewery serves Beards Blend coffee and makes Malabar Black IPA with our Indian Monsoon Malabar coffee.”

Roast & Toast coffee is exclusively served at City Park Grill and Palette Bistro, sister restaurants of Petoskey’s Wineguys Restaurant Group.

But there’s more than coffee to the Roast & Toast experience. Unlike your average coffeehouse, the shop invests mightily to make its food component a staple and stand-out.

From baked goods to salad dressings, from hand-cut sandwich meats to breads, everything is made in-house using products from local growers whenever available and in season.

Roast & Toast offers options — dine in, take out or even have your party catered.

BEFORE THE BEANS The Keedys grew up in suburban Detroit and both graduated from Michigan State University. Mary majored in dietetics, while Bob’s degree is in hotel management. He trained in New York City, honing his craft as a professional roaster for 15 years. One of his apprentices was Chuckie Grooters, now Roast & Toast’s head roaster.

Using their savings, the Keedys opened Roast & Toast in the former Port of Call shop in May of 1993.

25 years, and the Keedys are still cookin’ and brewin’ “way the hell up there”

“We had worked for enough people and had enough (money) saved,” said Mary. “We had looked in Traverse City and my mom, who lived in Alden, actually found the location in Petoskey.”

After seven years, the Keedys launched a facelift and enlisted artist Jesse Hickman to create Roast & Toast’s brightly colored façade, featuring cascading chunks of plates and cups, in 2001.

“Jesse did all the work with the broken cups,” explained Mary. “We feel very blessed to have that.”

Later the Keedys opened a second location at the Burns Professional Building.” We are very grateful to the medical and hospital community for their continued support of Roast & Toast.

And, as the hospital grows and expands, we look forward to doing the same with them.”

The Keedys credit much of their success to their low turnover rate. “A lot of our people stay on year after year,” said Mary. “Terry McNabb, a dishwasher, has been with us for 17 years. He’s amazing. He’s here every day, on time, for 17 years.”

Ben Walker, general manager and now part-owner, started at Roast & Toast in 2001 when he was just 18 years old. He had been frequenting the place so often that the Keedys asked him to join the team. He agreed, eventually becoming a partner last year.

“Roast & Toast was my introduction to the local community,” recalled Walker, who grew up in Alanson. “The job here exposed me to what Petoskey is all about. … I wanted to move to Alaska, but after starting to work at Roast & Toast, I fell in love with Petoskey.”

Another key member of the Roast & Toaster team is barista Hillary Davis, who joined in 2015 to train as the assistant roaster.

Her skills and knowledge of brewing have made her a quick study in the craft of roasting.

She’s a member of both the Baristas Guild and the Roasters Guild.

Year-round the staff numbers about 25, with another dozen or so needed for the busy summer months. [Note to those hungry for employment: “We’re looking for people now,” said Mary. “Since every staff member will interact with customers, we need friendly people with good people skills.”]

Throughout the years, Roast & Toast has always been a charitable organization, supporting local groups through donations and sales of their burlap coffee bags.

“We receive coffee from 16 countries, and more than half are fair trade organic, and some come direct from the coffee farmer,” said Mary.

“We source almost all of our beans through Café Imports, a coffee brokerage house based in Minneapolis. They have green-coffee buyers all over the world who build relationships with farmers … . We trust their mission and philosophy for fair and quality purchasing.”

Roast & Toast is open 7 am to 7 pm daily at 309 E. Lake Street in downtown Petoskey. To learn more, visit www.roastandtoast.com or call (231) 347-7767. $

Roast & Toast is celebrating its silver anniversary with an event or special every single day in May, plus weekly drawings. The celebration starts May 1 with $2.50 lattes and a new spring-summer menu. Throughout the month you’ll find several 25 percent lunch discounts, roaster facility tours, Throwback Thursdays with ’90s music and classic menu items, plus a nitro-coffee day, and more. Follow the fun on Roast and Toast’s Facebook page.

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apr 14

saturday

BIG LITTLE HERO RACE: 9am, NMC, TC. Featuring a one-mile fun run (free), 5K ($15 students; $25 adults) & 10K ($15 students; $25 adults).

Wear a costume. There will also be food, family-friendly events, games & more. Benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Michigan. biglittleherorace.com

---------------------AAUW ANNUAL MEETING: 9:30am, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. After this short business meeting, AAUW State President-Elect Deb Kennedy will speak on the “State of our AAUW State.” Free. aauwtc.org

---------------------GAYLORD’S FOURTH ANNUAL 5K COLOR TOUR: 9:30am, Downtown Gaylord Pavilion. $35 for 18 & over; $30 for under 18. Benefits the Otsego County United Way, T.A.C.K.L.E. Cancer Fund. 5kcolortour.weebly.com

---------------------APRIL SHOWERS SALE: 10am-4pm, Book House, behind the Manistee Library. Presented

by Friends of the Manistee County Library.

TC BIGS WINE AUCTION: City Opera House, TC. Presented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern MI, April 13-15. This wine experience includes movies, seminars, wine tasting, Guest Speaker & New York Times Best Selling Author, Dr. Tilar Mazzeo, & an auction followed by entertainment from Mark Randisi—featuring the classic sound of Sinatra. For info & tickets visit: tcbigswineauction.org

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---------------------BACK PORCH MUSIC: 7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center. Dave Boutette & Kristi Davis fuse a classical folk feel, along with a little modern folk. Free soup, cookies & coffee available. A circle jam will follow. 231-622-2944. $10 suggested donation.

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

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MAGIC ON THE VINE: 7pm, Chateau Grand Traverse, TC. Featuring magician & actor Ben Whiting performing magic & mind reading. Tickets include the show, hors d’oeuvres & a glass of wine. Ages 21+. magiconthevine.com $30/person.

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WES “WARMDADDY” ANDERSON: 7pm, Harbor Springs High School Performing Arts Center.

This jazz saxophonist performs with his quintet, following a short performance by the Harbor Springs High School Jazz Band. Reserved seats: $25; all others, free. 231-526-4829.

---------------------- ---------------------EARLY CHILDHOOD FAIR: 10am-1pm, Betsie Valley Elementary School, Thompsonville. Free activities & books for kids. Lunch provided.

Sponsored by the Betsie Valley Elementary School, Benzie Central Schools, 5toOne Group, & Grand Traverse Great Start Collaborative.

231-378-4164. Free.

---------------------APRIL ACCESS - FLOWER POT PAINTING: 11am, Arts for All of Northern MI, TC. Paint flower pots & plant spring blooms. For teens, adults & their peers. Free. artsforallnmi.org

“THE FATHER”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. A performance of an honest & human story of dementia. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------11TH ANNUAL TRASHION FASHION SHOW: 8pm, TC West High School. Students from area schools will gather to showcase their one-of-akind creations in a runway style event. Tickets, $5; proceeds benefit the Father Fred Foundation. tcaps.net

---------------------- ---------------------TSO TOTS @ TADL: 11am, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Join members of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra for an hour of music & movement. Explore rhythm & instruments of the orchestra with hands-on musical fun. Instrument petting zoo, story reading, movement & crafts.

Ages 5 & under. Free. traversesymphony.org

---------------------MAKER DAY AT BENZONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: 1-3pm. Featuring friends from the University of Michigan School of Information with many Maker Stations for open play & creation.

LEGOs, Robots, 3-D printer & much more. Info: 231-882-4111. Free. benzonialibrary.org

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THE ART OF: SLOWING DOWN: 1pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. A special event for Slow Art Day. Enjoy a guided discussion about works in the new permanent collection wing of the Dennos. Afterwards, create your own art. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------BOOK LAUNCH: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. “THE RUSSIAN FIVE: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage” by Keith Gave. horizonbooks.com

---------------------CTAC SCHOOL OF MUSIC BASEMENT SHOW: 2pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Lower Carnegie Studio, Petoskey. The CTAC Jazz & Rock Programs present this first-ever “underground” concert. crookedtree.org

---------------------“12 ANGRY JURORS”: 3pm & 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------ROCK N JAM: 4:30pm, The Rock of Kingsley.

Community play-along. Bring an instrument or listen in. Free. Find on Facebook.

GOOD ON PAPER IMPROV SHOW: 8-9:30pm, West Bay Beach Holiday Inn Resort, TC. Performs the second Sat. of each month. $10. facebook.com/GoodOnPaperImprov

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MASQUERADE GALA: 6pm, Treetops Resort, Convention Center, Gaylord. Presented by the Gaylord Rotary Club. Includes an auction, food, beverages, live entertainment by Sweet Tooth, & an after party with Distant Stars. $50.

Schopieray will discuss her new book, “Jens C. Petersen: From Bricklayer to Architect: The Life and Works of a Visionary Michigan Architect.”

Free. traversehistory.wordpress.com

--------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -“TALK ABOUT ART”: 2pm, Glen Arbor Arts LUKE WINSLOW-KING: 8pm, Elk’s, third floor, Cadillac. Presented by Gopherwood Concerts.

Luke mixes country, blues, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll & folk. His latest album, “Blue Mesa,” will be available May 11. Advance tickets: $15 adults; $7 students; free for 12 & under. Door: $18 adults; $9 students. gopherwoodconcerts.org

Center, Glen Arbor. GAAC Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal will talk with “In Bloom” exhibitors Lauren Everett Finn & Carol C. Spaulding about their attraction to flowers. “In Bloom” runs through May 17. The GAAC is open Mon.Fri., 9am-2pm; & 12-4pm on Sun. 231-334-6112.

Free. glenarborart.org

Ottawa & Chippewa Indians. Advance registration required. 922-2080. grandtraverse.org/712/ Senior-Centers

---------------------INTERNATIONAL LECTURE: 6:30pm, NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. “Activismo: Art & Dissidence in Cuba.” Learn about this documentary by Philip Sugden & Carole Elchert that explores the power of art to transform societies & improve human conditions. Free. ncmich.edu

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NMC, TC. This duo draws on traditional Celtic music & original songs to reflect their Irish heritage & Midwestern roots. $24-$27. mynorthtickets.com

“THE FATHER”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. A performance of an honest & human story of dementia. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

HERE:SAY PRESENTS: PSA: 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Public service announcement: Scheduled performers at the April Here:Say will take the stage to tell true “cautionary” tales that will entertain us as much as they help us learn from the storytellers’ mistakes. Suggested $5 donation at door. Find on Facebook.

STAR PARTY: 9-11pm, Platte River Point. Get to the beach to view Venus before it sets over the western horizon. Weather permitting, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the Orion Nebula after 9:30pm. nps.gov/slbe/index.htm

BACH’S FAMILY FESTIVAL: 4pm, Petoskey United Methodist Church. Presented by Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra. A pre-concert talk with Libor Ondras will be held at 3pm. $25 general admission. glcorchestra.org

RODNEY CROWELL: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Enjoy Americana music with this two-time Grammy award-winner. Crowell’s newest album is “Close Ties.” $32.50, $25.00. cityoperahouse.org/rodney-crowell

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sunday

PETOSKEY - RUN MI CHEAP: 9am, East Park, Petoskey. Half marathon, 10K & 5K. runsignup.com

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9TH ANNUAL TC CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL: City Opera House, TC. A fundraiser for the Northwest Food Coalition. This kaleidoscope of chocolate also features live music by Jim Hawley & door prizes. 11:30am-2pm & 2:30-5pm. $15.50 adults; $8.50 12 & under. facebook.com/tcchocolatefestival

---------------------- ---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: amical, TC, through April 15. “Art of Simple Food II” by Alice Waters. For more than 40 years Waters’ restaurant Chez Panisse has been turning humble ingredients into elegant dishes. amical.com/ cookbookdinnerseries

North Central Michigan College’s Lecture Series brings you award-winning magician Jania Taylor, who will present “Those Magical Dames,” featuring six overlooked female magicians, beginning with those who paved the way in the 1800s. See some of the magic that was performed in their shows. Held on Tues., April 17 at 7pm in the gymnasium in the Student and Community Resource Center, NCMC, Petoskey, admission is free. Call: 231-348-6600 to reserve your seat.

COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS: 1-2:30pm, New Moon Yoga Studio, TC. Presented by Oryana, this class will focus on calming three common types of stress: work, relationship & time-management.

Taught by Devin Moore, Marlaina Norgan & Abby Havill, 200-hour RYT. Bring your own mats. Registration required: eventbrite.com or 947.0191. Cost: $10. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Third Level Crisis Center. oryana.coop/events/684

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: (See Sat., April 14)

---------------------TC BIGS WINE AUCTION: (See Sat., April 14) ----------------------

IMAGINE DANCE: 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Presented by the Dance Department of NMC. (800) 836-0717. $12 adults & $7 students, seniors. mynorthtickets.com

apr 16

monday

EARTH DAY PROJECT UNVEILING: 1pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts. High school students from Interlochen Center for the Arts are unveiling a conservation awareness project – the restoration of a 70-year old plantation forest. academy.interlochen.org/blog/riley-road

apr 17

tuesday

MUNSON HOSPICE SOCIAL GROUP: 9am, Big Boy Restaurant, Cadillac. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss are understood.

1-800-252-2065. Free. munsonhomehealth.org/griefservices

---------------------TC NONPROFIT SALESFORCE USER GROUP MEETING: 9am, Interlochen Center for the Arts. The topic will be “Grants and Major Donors.” RSVP. events.salesforceusergroups.com

---------------------COFFEE @ TEN, PETOSKEY: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. NCMC Student Artist Panel Discussion. The work of NCMC student artists will be on display through April 21. crookedtree.org

---------------------- ---------------------PLANT BASED NUTRITION SUPPORT GROUP - PETOSKEY: 5:30pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. pbnsg.org

GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create animal sock puppets at 11am or 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

6pm, GT Senior Center Network, 115 E. Blair St., Kingsley. Presented by Paul Raphael & JoAnne Cook of the Grand Traverse Band of

tops Resort, Convention Center, Gaylord. “Food Network” will feature 17 Gaylord Chamber Member restaurants with some of their best flavors,

--------------------- ---------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -NATIVE 2018 TASTE OF GAYLORD: 5:30-8pm, TreeAMERICAN HEALING PRACTICES: TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY HISTORY SERIES: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Julie

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live entertainment, a silent auction & more. $35. gaylordchamber.com/taste-of-gaylord

---------------------SEPSIS 911- SUSPECT SEPSIS. SAVE LIVES: 5:30-7pm, MCHC, rooms A&B, TC. Hosted by the Munson Community Health Library with Claudia Orth, RN. Register. Free. munsonhealthcare.org

---------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6:308:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new, come at 6pm for an intro to CCL. citizensclimatelobby.org

---------------------“THE HEART OF YOUR ASPERGER’S / NEUROTYPICAL RELATIONSHIP”: 6:30pm, TC. A meeting for neurotypical partners & spouses.

The exact TC location is provided when the neurotypical spouse/partner joins the NW Michigan NT Support private Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/NW-Michigan-NT-Support/ or contacts Carol Danly at 2007danly@gmail.com or 231-313-8744 before noon on the meeting day. meetup.com/NW-Michigan-NT-Support

---------------------BIKE TOUR TRAVELOGUE: 7pm, Otsego County Library, Gaylord. Joe Wambold will talk about his 6,000 mile bike ride from Gaylord to Prince Edward Island, & then to Key West. 989732-5841. Free.

---------------------GTHC APRIL PROGRAM: 7pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Join the Grand Traverse Hiking Club to learn about the NCTA Annual Celebration for 2019 being held in Michigan.

Free. northcountrytrail.org/gtr

---------------------NCMC LECTURE SERIES: AN EVENING OF MAGICAL ENTERTAINMENT: 7pm, NCMC, Student & Community Resource Center, gymnasium, Petoskey. Local magician Jania Taylor presents “Those Magical Dames.” Reserve your seat: 231-348-6600. Free.

---------------------DAVID SEDARIS: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Enjoy this bestselling author & humorist’s wit & wisdom.

Tickets start at $48. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------TC CHARITY JOKE JAM: 7:30pm, GT Distillery Tasting Room, TC. Finals. Benefits Norte, Cherryland Humane Society, Polestar LGBTQ Center & FLOW. Free. traversecitycomedy.com

apr 18

wednesday

GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: Gaylord, April 18-25. $25 dinner specials; $15 lunch specials. gaylordchamber.com/restaurant-week

---------------------‘ART IN BLOOM’ ART HISTORY LECTURE: Noon, Glen Arbor Arts Center. Presented by Linda Young. $10 GAAC members; $15 nonmembers. 231-334-6112. glenarborart.org

---------------------LAUNCH OF “LEELANAU NATIVE PLANTS INITIATIVE”: Noon, Leelanau County Government Center, Suttons Bay. Featuring presentations from students from Leland High School & Glen Lake High School. savingbirds.org

---------------------BEAVER ISLAND THEMED ENHANCED BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, East Park Tavern, Charlevoix. $5 members; $10 not-yet members. 231-547-2101.

---------------------CHAMBER BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, The Filling Station Microbrewery, TC. Hosted by Habitat for Humanity-GTR. Celebrate the completion of Habitat’s Net Zero Depot Neighborhood. Non-members need to register. $15. tcchamber.chambermaster.com

---------------------WINE MAKING TECHNIQUES FOR COLD HARDY GRAPES: 6-8pm, NCMC, room 536 SCRC, Petoskey. Must register. Free. eventbrite.com

---------------------LEELANAU COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION SESSION: 6:30pm, Leelanau County Government Center, lower level, Suttons Bay. “Housing.” RSVP: 231-256-9812.

TASTE OF YOGA FREE CLASS: 6:30pm, Yoga-45, Gaylord. For new clients. Reserve your spot: 989-350-4660.

---------------------THE SECRETS TO STRAW BALE GARDENING W/ CARLLEEN ROSE: 7-9pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Free; donations appreciated. thebotanicgarden.org

---------------------A SPECIAL FUNDRAISING PERFORMANCE OF “THE FATHER”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. This performance of an honest & human story of dementia will benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. $25 + fees. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------JOSHUA ROMAN & JACK QUARTET: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Joshua Roman, principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony, teams with the JACK Quartet, recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, New Music USA’s Trailblazer Award & more. $33 full, $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------PETOSKEY FILM SERIES PRESENTS “THE GREATEST SHOWMAN”: 7:30pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. facebook. com/petoskeyfilm

---------------------LIFETREE CAFE: 8pm, The Rock of Kingsley.

This one-hour event features a film about embracing life to the fullest before you die, along with a discussion. Free. Find on Facebook.

apr 19

thursday

INNER CIRCLE GALLERY TALK: 10am, Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Featuring northern MI award-winning poet & creator of Stone Circle, Terry Wooten. Free. charlevoixcircle.com/inner-circle-talks.html

---------------------GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Weds., April 18)

---------------------INTERACTIVE STORY TIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Where’s my Teddy” by Jez Alborough. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------TSO LUNCH WITH THE MAESTRO - BAROQUE CHORAL FESTIVAL: Noon, TC Golf & Country Club. Explore the composers, repertoire & stories behind the music with Maestro Kevin Rhodes. $25 per person, includes lunch. traversesymphony.org

---------------------YOGA AT MICHAEL’S PLACE: Noon, Michael’s Place, 1212 Veterans Dr., TC. Held every third Thurs. Classes are free to those grieving the loss of a loved one & to those for whom death & grief are part of their job. Bring a yoga mat & bottled water. RSVP: 947-6453 or goodgrief@mymichaelsplace.net.

---------------------NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING PRACTICES: 12:30pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen.

Presented by Paul Raphael & JoAnne Cook of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians. Advance registration required. 922-2080.

Free. grandtraverse.org/712/Senior-Centers

---------------------GT GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING: 1-3pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Featuring guest speaker Vicki Wilson, who has been researching Native American genealogy for 40 years. gtags.org

ing 75 businesses & organizations from across the area, including area restaurants offering a “Taste of Petoskey.” $8. petoskeychamber.com

---------------------HARBOR HISTORY TALK: 5:30pm, Harbor Springs History Museum, second floor.

Presented by the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society. Learn about the history of the Blissfest Music Organization with Jim Gillespie. $5 adults; free for current Historical Society members. Reservations: 231-526-9771.

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“FOOLS & FOOLISHNESS”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. This collection of short comic plays is presented by OTP’s senior readers’ theatre. Goodwill donation. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------MICHIGAN COLLEGE PLANNING WORKSHOP: 6:30pm, TC West Middle School. Free. michigancollegeplanning.com

---------------------‘LET’S TALK’: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. In 2017, Chris Andrews walked 3,200 miles to research the effects of smartphone overuse.

He will premier his documentary, talk about his project & perform live music, followed by a Q&A. $5. cityoperahouse.org/lets-talk

---------------------“THE FATHER”: (See Sat., April 14) ---------------------“AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY”: 8pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Theater, Petoskey. Presented

by Little Traverse Civic Theatre. $17 adults, $12 students & matinee. ltct.org

apr 20

friday

GOOD MORNING GAYLORD: 7-8am, Michaywe Clubhouse, Terrace Room, Gaylord.

Featuring Jason Weiss from Gaylord Community Schools speaking on “Team Building in the Workplace.” $10, includes breakfast buffet.

---------------------PARADE OF SENIOR HOMES: 9am-2:30pm.

The Alliance for Senior Housing & the Senior Center Network will host this free bus tour.

Enjoy visiting different types of homes, including independent living, assisted living & skilled rehab centers. There will also be food, door prizes & info. Begins at Senior Center Network, TC at 9am. Registration required: 922-2080.

---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Sing & dance with bubbles & scarves. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Weds., April 18)

---------------------LIFE ACADEMY LUNCH: 12-1:30pm, NMC, University Center Rm. 215, TC. “The History & Future of the Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park.” Bring a lunch. Register: 995-1700. $10.

---------------------A GALLERY BY ARTS FOR ALL OF NORTHERN MI: Dentolutions, TC. Showcasing artists of all abilities. A reception will be held from 5:307:30pm. artsforallnmi.org

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SPRING FASHION SHOW: 6-9pm, Woolybuggers, Gaylord. Includes prizes, wine, food, fashion & more. 989-705-1111.

BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Michigan Lake Products, Elk Rapids.

---------------------THE PETOSKEY BUSINESS EXPO: 5-8pm, Odawa Casino, Ovation Hall, Petoskey. Featur-

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IAF LECTURE: 6pm, Dennos Museum Center, Zimmerman Sculpture Court, NMC, TC. “American and Iran: Confrontation or Coexistence?” presented

by Reza Marashi, research director, National Iranian-American Council. Reception at 5:15pm. $15 door; free for students & educators. nmc.edu

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BENZIE COUNTY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Xpert Fulfillment, Inc., Benzonia. $5. benzie.org

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“A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES” BENEFIT: 7pm, The State Theatre, TC. Featuring the film “The Greatest Showman” with a pre-show musical medley of award-winning songs from the film, including “This is Me” by local youth. Tickets for the event are $25 & can be ordered at www.stateandbijou.org. All proceeds benefit Michael’s Place.

DOLPH LIVE IN CONCERT WSG KEVIN JOHNSON: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey.

Tickets: $10 advance; $15 door. $8 students, $5 12 & under. redskystage.com

TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP: FACEBOOK: 1:30pm, Leland Township Library. Facebook has many levels of functionality; learn how to maximize them with Mark Morton. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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NORTHLAND WEAVERS & FIBERS ARTS GUILD MEETING: 5:30pm, TC Senior Center.

A demonstration of a technique to make coiled baskets is planned. Find on Facebook. Free.

GTWOMAN’S ANNUAL CHEER & BEER TOUR: 5:30-9:30pm. The three stops include Right Brain Brewery, 45 North Vineyard & Winery & Rove Estate. Tickets: $60 (two or more are $55 each). grandtraversewoman.com/ events/gtw-wine-tour-april2018

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April 20, 1999. Share feelings, poems or songs.

Hosted by Northern Michigan for Gun Reform.

231-325-6812. Find on Facebook.

------------------------------------------CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR COLUMBINE: 6:30pm, The Open Space, TC. Remember & honor the 13 students & teachers who lost their lives at Columbine High School, & the more than 20 others who suffered gunshot wounds on

------------------------------------------“THE FATHER”: (See Sat., April 14) ---------------------“AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY”: (See Thurs., April 19)

---------------------THE MOTH MAINSTAGE: 8pm, City Opera House, TC. True stories, told live & without notes. $55.50, $45.50. cityoperahouse.org/themoth-mainstage

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saturday

CARS & COFFEE: 8-11am, MFD Classic Motors, TC. mfdclassicmotors.com

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SPARTAN’S GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICE: 9am-noon, Traverse Bay Children’s Advocacy Center, TC. MSU alumni, family & friends can learn about the work of the Traverse Bay Children’s Advocacy Center, the reality of child sexual abuse in the community, & take a “help, hope & healing” tour of the Center’s facilities. serve.msu.edu

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STEWARDSHIP DAY • ART PARK SPRING CLEANUP: Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. There are many jobs for people of all ages & abilities. Dress appropriately for weather & working outdoors. Arrive at the Art Park trailhead at 9am. Bring work gloves, a rake, drinking water, leaf blower, or other outdoor maintenance tools. Expect to work no later than noon. michlegacyartpark.org/events/stewardship-day

---------------------EARTH DAY COFFEE WITH GREEN ER: 9:30-11am, Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall. Learn about Earth Day’s 2018 theme “Ending Plastic Pollution,” hear research specialist Bonnie Hamilton review the status of plastics in Lake Michigan, see one man’s solution to plastic garbage, & preview “A Plastic Ocean.” greenelkrapids.org

---------------------MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S 28TH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S HEALTH FAIR: 10am2pm, Petoskey Middle School. Featuring the snowman Olaf, “Action Hero Fun Run,” crafts & much more. 800-248-6777.

---------------------TART TRAILS SPRING WORK BEE: 10amnoon, TART Trails. Held at various locations along the trail network. This is a family friendly event. 941.4300. Free. traversetrails.org/event/ tart-trails-work-bee-2

---------------------VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING: 10am, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. Open to those interested in promoting peace at home & discussing the cost to individuals. A silent peace walk follows in downtown TC at noon. vfp50.org

---------------------GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Weds., April 18)

---------------------HEALTHY KIDS DAY: 11am, GT Bay YMCA, 3700 Silver Lake Dr., TC. This free event provides education, activities & experiences that teach good health & foster connections through fitness, sports, fun & healthy habits. gtbayymca.org

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JOB WINSLOW CHAPTER, NSDAR MEETING: 11am, Elks Lodge, TC. Lunch will follow the meeting. jobwinslow.michdar.net

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THE WINGS OF WONDER: 11am, Betsie Valley Elementary Gym, Thompsonville. Meet Rebecca Lessard, wildlife rehabilitator & educator, & the Birds of The Wings of Wonder. 231-378-2716.

Free. betsievalleydistrictlibrary.org

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MAKE YOUR BIKE MAGIC FOR EARTH DAY: 1-2:30pm, Elk Rapids District Library. Ride your bike to the library to make a bike flag & handle bar streamers with recycled & eco-materials.

Free. elkrapidslibrary.org

“THE LAKE MICHIGAN MERMAID” BOOK TALK: 11:30am, Leland Township Library. Authors Anne-Marie Oomen & Linda Nemec Foster will discuss their new book. lelandlibrary.org GREAT LAKES MARITIME ACADEMY OPEN HOUSE/SHIP TOUR: 12-3pm, Great Lakes Maritime Academy, TC. Cadets will lead guided tours of the Training Ship State of Michigan.

995-1200, ext. 0. Free. nmc.edu/maritime www.bigapplebagels.com

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GO FLY A KITE!: 1-3pm, The Village Arts Building, Northport. Hear kite stories & decorate & fly your creation, weather permitting. Kites & decorating materials provided. For school age children. Pre-register at the Leelanau Township Library, Northport. 231-386-5131. Free.

POETS SIGNING: 3-5pm, Horizon Books, TC. Anne-Marie Oomen & Linda Nemec Foster will sign their tale in poems, “The Lake Michigan Mermaid.” horizonbooks.com

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---------------------“FOOLS & FOOLISHNESS”: (See Fri., April 20) ---------------------“THE FATHER”: (See Sat., April 14) ---------------------“AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY”: (See Thurs., April 19)

TC CHARITY JOKE JAM: 9pm, State Theatre, TC. Grand Finale Event headlined by Stewart Huff. Benefits Norte, Cherryland Humane Society, Polestar LGBTQ Center & FLOW. Free. traversecitycomedy.com

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EARTH DAY VOLUNTEER WORKBEE: 9am-noon, Miller Creek Nature Reserve, TC. Join GT Conservation District staff & fellow stewards by sprucing up trails & planting native seedlings along river banks. 941-0960, ext. 15.

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2ND ANNUAL EARTH DAY EVENT: 11am-4pm, Twin Lakes Park & Gilbert Lodge, TC. Presented

by GT County RecycleSmart & GT County Parks & Recreation. Includes a scavenger hunt, Wings of Wonder Live Raptor Program, Smokey Bear & Woodsy Owl, Meet the Fleet & Photo Op – American Waste Recycling Truck; DNR Fire Brush Truck, live music by Jack Pine & much more. Learn about recycling, composting, water protection, invasive species, earth friendly gardening, energy conservation & more. 941-5555. Free. co.grand-traverse. mi.us/1976/2018-Earth-Day-Event

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“AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY”: 2pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Theater, Petoskey. Presented

by Little Traverse Civic Theatre. $12. ltct.org

BAROQUE CHORAL FESTIVAL: 3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Featuring the Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Kevin Rhodes, the Interlochen Arts Academy Choir, combined choirs from NMC, & vocal soloists. $25.50, $38, $46. traversesymphony.org

SIPS N’ GIGGLES COMEDY SHOW FEATURING MICHAEL PALASCAK: 6pm, Streeters, Ground Zero, TC. Leelanau wine is paired with nationally touring comedian Michael Palascak. Free wine tasting, dinner packages & VIP tables available. $20 advanced, $25 door. mynorthtickets.com

AN EVENING OF ILLUSION: 8-10pm, Charlevoix Cinema III. With illusionist Ben Whiting. $25. livefromcharlevoix.com

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TALK ABOUT ART WITH THE MANITOU WINDS: 2pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center, gallery, Glen Arbor. Leading the conversation will be Norm Wheeler. Free. glenarborart.org

BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: KITTY DONOHOE: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Enjoy hearing this Michigan Emmy Award-winning songwriter perform ‘folky, bluesy, Irishy, American, Canadianish’ music.

Tickets: $15 advance; $20 door. $8 students, $5 12 & under. redskystage.com

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EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: 1-4pm, Leo Creek Preserve, Suttons Bay. Activities include a biochar demo, making oyster mushroom totems, seedlings give away, conifer excursion, nature scavenger hunt, & more. Parking available at the Leelanau Trailhead, Fourth St., Suttons Bay. Free. leocreekpreserve.com

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CADILLAC CELEBRATES EARTH DAY: 1-4pm, Cadillac City Park. Kids activities & crafts include creating a “Seed Bomb” & a seekand-find puzzle game. There will also be live music by Seth Bernard, an Earth Day themed sculpture, a collection of examples of MI wildlife from the Michigan DNR & more. 231-468-9554.

GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Weds., April 18) A PLASTIC OCEAN DOCUMENTARY: 1pm, Elk Rapids Cinema. Presented by Green Elk Rapids. Free. greenelkrapids.org

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East Jordan. Creating with Clay Without a Potter’s Wheel. An exhibit of vessels & sculptures created out of clay by hand without the aid of a pottery wheel. Runs through April 29. jordanriverartscouncil15.wildapricot.org

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SUMMER MEMBER EXHIBITION & RETROSPECTIVE: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Celebrating OAC’s 70 Years. Featuring a multi-media presentation on the history of OAC going back to 1948 & works by former members, instructors & volunteers of OAC. Runs April 20 - June 1. An opening reception will be held on Fri., April 20 from 5-7pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------“COLOR CATCHERS”: Runs through Apr. 25 at The Old Art Building, Leland. Five photographers examine the wonders & mysteries of color through abstract images. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------“MARGIE GUYOT, A NOT SO STILL LIFE”: Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix. Known for her plein air paintings & still lifes, Guyot’s exhibit will run through May 26. charlevoixcircle.com

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AIKIDO AT LIFT YOUTH CENTER - AN ADAPTIVE ARTS FOR ALL EXPERIENCE: Mondays, 4pm at LIFT Youth Center, Suttons Bay. Registration required. Free. artsforallnmi.org

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SUTTONS BAY ART FESTIVAL POSTER CONTEST: The Suttons Bay Art Festival committee is accepting entrees for the 2018 poster that will be used in advertising & promoting the 39th anniversary of the show. $350 prize. Deadline for submitting is May 15. suttonsbayartfestival.org

---------------------DRINK & DRAW: Tuesdays, 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. traversecityworkshop.com

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C3: CHARLEVOIX CREATIVES COLLABORATIVE WEEKLY BREAKFAST GATHERING: Fridays, 10:30am, Smoke on the Water Cafe, Charlevoix. Info: alexis @ 503.550.8889. Find on Facebook.

---------------------C3: CHARLEVOIX CREATIVES COLLABORATIVE WRITE ALONG GROUP: Sundays, 2:30-4pm, Charlevoix Public Library. Info: alexis @ 503.550.8889. Find on Facebook.

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BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April, main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City.

On April 14 Sean Miller will perform live music. On April 21 Robert Beaupre will perform. boynecitymainstreet.com/farmers-market-welcome

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

This market has moved back inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

---------------------INDOOR FARMERS MARKET, THE MERCATO, THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Saturdays, 10am-2pm through April. 941-1961.

---------------------SUNDAY FUNDAY GENTLE YOGA: Sundays, 10:30-11:30am, Bodies in Motion, TC. Open to all levels, this class is for anyone looking for an unhurried soothing practice & will introduce postures & breathing techniques. bodiesinmotiontc.com

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“A WORLD WITHOUT ABUSE” COMMUNITY ART EXHIBIT: Sponsored by the Traverse Bay Children’s Advocacy Center in honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Work from 35 artists will be on exhibit in Downtown TC through April 26. Locations include Brew, James C. Smith Jewelers, Fustini’s, Diversions, & Acoustic Mead Taproom. traversebaycac.org “HANDBUILDING”: Jordan River Arts Council,

GREAT LAKES PHOTOGRAPHY: A SAILOR’S PERSPECTIVE: Runs through Apr. 14 at Tinker Studio, TC. Featuring work by photographer & sailor on the Great Lakes, Michael Diduch. Gallery is open Weds.-Sat., 10am-5pm & Sun., 12-4pm.

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JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Runs through Apr. 28 at Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Enjoy the work of nature & wildlife photographer Kristina Lishawa.

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MARCIA K. HALES SOLO SHOW: Runs through Apr. 27 at Higher Art Gallery, TC. Marcia’s new exhibit, “Cycle of Duality,” contains new abstract works. higherartgallery.com

---------------------“IN BLOOM”: An exhibition exploring the different ways five local artists interpret the subject of flowers in paint, mixed media & porcelain. Runs through May 17 at Glen Arbor Arts Center, Glen Arbor. glenarborart.org

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - “ART OF NCMC STUDENTS”: Featuring 29 NCMC student artists. Runs through April 21.

- YOUTH ART SHOW: Featuring artwork created by Char-Em ISD & home school students, kindergarten through grade 12. Runs through May 5. crookedtree.org

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: -CRAFT AND NEW TECH EXHIBIT: Where traditional handcraft meets new technologies, materials & methods. On display through May 5. crookedtree.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: Mon. Sat., 10am-5pm; Thurs., 10am-8pm; Sun., 1-5pm.

- “LINES OF LIGHT: CRAIG TANDY - MONOFILAMENT SCULPTURE”: Runs through April 29 at Zimmerman Sculpture Court. Canadian artist Craig Tandy constructs complex sculptures with monofilament nylon that illustrate the properties of projected light, with an interest in creating a space through which the viewer can move.

- TUTANKHAMUN: “WONDERFUL THINGS” FROM THE PHARAOH’S TOMB: Runs through May 6. From the artisans of the Pharaonic Village in Egypt & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibit features about 100 replicas of the pharaoh’s possessions & artifacts from the period surrounding Tutankhamun’s reign. It reconstructs the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter & the life of Pharaoh. dennosmuseum.org

Lollapalooza Revs Up for Summer Lollapalooza, one of the biggest (and oldest) U.S. music festivals, is getting all prepped for its 2018 edition, which will be happening August 2–5 in Chicago’s Grant Park. This summer’s headliners have already been named, and will feature The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Arctic Monkeys, and Detroit’s own ex-White Stripe Jack White. Additional stages will feature live sets from the likes of Odesza, Logic, Khalid, Chvrches, Walk the Moon, The National, Vampire Weekend, Tyler the Creator, Post Malone, and more; all tickets (from one-day to four-day weekend passes) are on sale now at lollapalooza.com …

The 2018 Record Store Day is coming up April 21, and a pile of artists are preparing special releases for the event, which celebrates and promotes independent record stores worldwide. This year’s Record Store Day official ambassador, Run the Jewels, will release exclusive tracks of its own, alongside the likes of U2 (a limited-edition Record Store Day picture disc featuring two tunes), Taylor Swift (re-releases of three of her albums on special colored vinyl), vintage New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen (a reissue of his 1995 greatest hits collection on

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red vinyl), and many more. Get all the details at recordstoreday.com …

Neko Case is edging her way back with her first solo album since 2013. HellOn finds Case partnering up with Bjorn Yttling (of Peter Bjorn and John) to record the collection of tunes, which they did in a studio in Stockholm, Sweden. The first single (also called “Hell-On”) showcases a mix of Case’s alt-country sound with dark drums and a bit of a gallop toward the end as the track shifts gears, much like the album itself, which showcases a variety of influences.

Case will hit the road for a North American tour in support of the new album starting later this spring, with Ray LaMontagne as opening act …

If you like space shows, don’t miss the NatGeo original series Mars, the Ben Young Mason/Justin Wilkes drama that features a cast trying to figure out how to thrive on the red planet. Musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis scored the first season of Mars. Season two of the show will premier later this year (still on NatGeo) with a brand new set of cast members and a plot that jumps several years into the future. Season two will be scored by Brian Reitzell, also known for his musical contributions to the likes of 30 Days of Night, Friday Night Lights, and American Gods …

LINK OF THE WEEK Former One Direction singer-turnedsolo artist Niall Horan is back with a new single (“On the Loose”) and a brand new music video to go with it. The vid is a desertthemed clip with faintly psychedelic edits that bring to mind the ’70ss. Check it out at https://tinyurl.com/niall-on-the-loose…

THE BUZZ Jay-Z and Beyonce’s joint Road II Tour is heading our way this summer. They’ll play one show at Detroit’s Ford Field on Aug. 13, with additional Midwestern dates in Minneapolis (Aug. 8), Chicago (Aug. 10 and 11), and Columbus (Aug. 16) …

Jack White rocked the house at Brooklyn’s Warsaw Club last week, live-streaming the gig in promotion of his new album, Boarding House Reach …

Paramore will make a stop in Detroit on June 29 as part of their 2018 North American After Laughter summer tour (with Foster the People as openers)…

And so will Panic! at the Disco, who will hit the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on July 14 … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ’em to Kristi at modernrocker@gmail.com.

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FOURSCORE by kristi kates

The Voidz – Virtue – RCA

New Yorker Julian Casablancas is back for a sophomore set with his side project, on which he takes a lot of audio risks that pay off maybe 60 percent of the time. The weirdly boy-band-esque “All Wordz Are Made Up” is a little too self-aware for its own good, while “Permanent High School” is another that’s trying to hard to be chart-cute.

But “Pink Ocean” showcases Casablancas’ ability to sink solidly into a good groove, and “Black Hole” sharpens up the sonics to better reveal his rumbling-glass vocals.

The Vaccines – Combat Sports – Columbia

Digging back into their power-pop origins is the latest from Justin Hayward-Young and The Vaccines, one of the most buzzed-about UK bands of the moment. The reason?

Those tunes are perfectly honed, short radio-ready gems that grab you by the eardrums and won’t let go (sometimes for days — these are big hooks, folks). Highlights this time ’round include the polished punkiness of “I Can’t Quit,” the newwave of “Nightclub,” and “Your Love is My Favorite Band,” a deftly crafted slice of pop relationship regret.

Wolf Parade – EP4 – Sub Pop

After the band’s last effort, 2017’s impressive Cry Cry Cry, dare we say fans were … howling … for a full-length set from Wolf Parade? This collection fills that bill and more, with first single, “Valley Boy,” taking the lead via a garage-glam rock mix and giant hooks.

This is a confident and well-produced effort, with the production work highlighted on longer tracks like “Dinner Bells” and “Kissing the Beehive,” both of which keep the momentum going in perfect balance even as each tune goes well beyond radio-edit territory.

The Sword – Used Future – Razor and Tie

The Sword’s latest — its sixth — is a bizarre juxtaposition of futuristic art rock and ’70s hippie-rock, with both genres not quite able to communicate with the other. While tracks like “Intermezzo” and “Nocturne” show a glimpse of intriguing instrumental promise, the band shows those tunes the door quickly, leaving too abruptly in order to make room for the more average rockers like “Deadly Nightshade” and the overly-serious behemoth that is “Brown Mountain,” both of which prove far less compelling. Shame.

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The reel

by meg weichman

ready player one

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hat is there to say about the nostalgia feast that is Ready Player One? It’s an adventure story with no complex motive, designed to be readily consumed and to hit all the spots your brain needs in order to be moved. And yes, for two-plus hours it feels so, so good. Based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One is set in the year 2045 and centers on a young man named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan). Wade, like everyone else in the vaguely dystopian world he inhabits, spends all his time on the OASIS, an advanced virtual reality network where people can do anything and be anyone. The OASIS was designed and built by an enigmatic weirdo named James Halliday (Oscar winner Mark Rylance looking like an elderly Garth from Wayne’s World.). And when Halliday dies suddenly, he posthumously reveals that he’s hidden a secret quest in the OASIS that, once successfully completed, will award the whole kit and caboodle to the winner.

Director Steven Spielberg (you know, the guy who has been the steady hand guiding popular culture for the past 40 years) takes the flimsy source material and slim characters and absolutely knocks it out of the park. I mean this is a guy who certainly knows a thing or two about a good treasure hunt (see: Indiana Jones franchise), and the set pieces, action sequences, and chase scenes are just so absolutely stunning and undeniably thrilling. Even though the film is certainly CGI-heavy, RPO gets the full Spielberg treat

BLOCKERS I recently wrote about my disillusionment with the studio comedy, and the tired, one-crazy-night setup that seems to dominate these films nowadays. And while a film like the recent Game Night proved to be a pleasant surprise, with Blockers we have something that is not just a solid, enjoyable effort but also something genuinely refreshing — a film that is coarse and crude, yet also sweet and heartfelt, perfectly balancing smart, broad, and raunchy comedy.

The premise, though, could not be more cliché: Three lifelong friends make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night. But this isn’t your typical gross-out teen sex comedy ála American Pie or Porky’s. See, it flips the situation in a couple of key ways, making the film not only about teen girls but also about their parents.

The parents of said teen girls make it their business to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night after catching wind of their plans on iMessage. And I know, I know, all the feminist bells in my head starting going off, thinking, How dare they, how offensive. But the film never objectifies these girls; it confronts the double standard head on.

As one of the mothers not party to this mission points out, the girls don’t need to be protected. Yet, despite the parents’ otherwise progressive social stances, when it comes to their own daughters, they can’t apply the same logic, exclaiming, “I’ll deal with society tomorrow.” And in the end, their reasons for wanting to intercede are more nuanced than you would expect.

Now back to the #sexpact. These three best friends about to graduate and go their separate ways each go into the pact with their own different reasons, but also intend it as a way to tying them together forever. Golden girl Julie (Big Little Lies’ Kathryn Newton) wants to have the perfect romantic night with her longtime boyfriend. Athletic Kayla (breakout comedic talent Geraldine Viswanathan) just wants to get it over with before college. And nerdy Sam (Gideon Aldon, daughter of Pamela) wants to bond with her friends before everything changes, and work through her attraction for the cool lesbian at school.

And then we have the parents. Julie’s codependent single mom, Lisa (a glowing Leslie Mann) isn’t ready to cut the cord. Ike Barinholtz’s (The Mindy Project) deadbeat divorced dad is actually against the whole thing until he realizes he doesn’t want his closeted gay daughter to lose it to a boy.

Although Kayla’s father, Mitchell (John Cena), comes from the most stereotypical “dad” reasoning of not wanting to lose his baby,

the wrestler is a giant with a heart of gold — such a softie, you can’t help but love him.

Again, as outdated as their motives might be, they are acknowledged and called out as such.

It’s never about outmoded ideas of “purity.”

What’s also great is that, as the girls, who are all that easy kind of friendly cool, hop from party to post party, their friendship comes first, not the boys. The boys are much less central to the goings on, but they all seem to be more evolved Gen-Zers, and very respectful of women.

So throughout the night, the parents are hot on their trail, and crazy, Fast and Furious-like antics follow. You’ll learn a lot about youth culture (butt-chugging beer is apparently a thing), laugh uncontrollably at a memorable vomit scene you’ll never erase from your memory, and never look at hide-and-seek the same way again. The set pieces are very funny, and while every joke doesn’t hit, the film doesn’t waste a laugh.

The cast is composed of a lot of people you can count on to make smart choices. Mann, Cena, and Barinholtz’s chemistry is incredibly on point. And then, even in smaller supporting roles you have fantastic comedic players in June Diane Raphael, Hannibal Buress, and Gary Cole. They all make their moments count.

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h to be post-retirement Steven Soderbergh, to get an idea into my head for a feature film and seemingly just do it.

Like you get the feeling the auteur director is just working his way through genres, experimenting along the way. And his latest experiment? A psychological horror film with decidedly pulpy B-movie vibes shot entirely on an iPhone (an iPhone 7 Plus to be exact). The Crown’s Claire Foy plays Sawyer Valenti, an incredibly capable woman who has just started a new job in a new city. Struggling with the move more than she lets on to family and friends, she seeks out a therapist and ends up accidentally committing herself to the psych ward for what starts as a 24-hour voluntary hold. The situation escalates when the real reason for Sawyer’s move, her stalker, shows up as an orderly on the ward.

And so you begin to start questioning what’s real and what isn’t.

Is the stalker really there, or is she actually crazy? Unbearably tense and socially aware, Unsane is a tight and effective thriller with something on its mind — a work of metaphorical resonance for the #metoo era that is worth your time.

Without spoiling anything, the girls end up coming to their own conclusions and making decisions best for them. It’s empowering and a rare positive display of female sexuality.

And while resolution might come a little too easy, there are moments that will melt your heart. Goofy and sentimental, it’s fairly insightful when it comes to this raising kids and coming-of-age thing.

One of the main reasons this is such an emotional and sex-positive comedy, is that we have a female director running the show. First-time director Kay Cannon (writer behind the Pitch Perfect films) hits an incredibly sweet spot of hilarity that both young and old can connect with and relate to, taking things to some all-too-real places.

Though ultimately not as subversive or disruptive as it could’ve been (the status quo is still pretty much upheld, albeit in its empowering ways), it is still something noteworthy — something not only incredibly funny but also something that moves things forward, reflecting where we are today, so don’t let your ideas of what a studio comedy can be block you from seeing it.

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

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ove, Simon is a coming-of-age coming-out story that is universally, beautifully, and even painfully relatable. The first mainstream film about a closeted teen, this is a huge milestone for Hollywood inclusivity, and with its sharp script, solid soundtrack, and endearing characters, it’s so good, it was almost worth waiting for (but mostly totally overdue).

Simon (Nick Robinson), as he narrates, is a teenager “just like you.” He’s got a great family and great friends; he’s living the suburban dream. And it is this mix of idealism and realism that makes the film’s point all the better. Simon is a kid who has it so good, and yet his story is still so hard. See, Simon’s got a “big-ass secret,” one that prevents him from living the honest life he deserves. So when a classmate anonymously posts to the local gossip blog that he’s gay, Simon reaches out to the online alias, Blue. With neither knowing the other’s identity, the two trade emails and forge a unique connection that Simon hopes will end with them finally meeting. Exuberantly and intelligently told, the magic of Love, Simon is that something so “groundbreaking” feels so normal, so familiar. Gay stories are not just “indie” stories, and gay love stories don’t have to be tragic, and there is incredible value in that. Sincere and meaningful, this is not just a teen or a coming-out movie, it’s the kind of generous and heartfelt filmmaking we all deserve.

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM, TC 4/14 -- Rob Coonrod, 7-9 Tue -- Songwriters Open Mic, 7-9 4/20 -- Corbin Manikas, 7-9 4/21 -- Andre Villoch, 7-9 FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close

LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 4/16 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 4/20 -- Chamomile & Honey, 6-8 MONKEY FIST BREWING CO., TC 4/20 -- Botola, 7-10

FIREFLY, TC 4/20 -- Chris Smith, 9-11

PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30

GT DISTILLERY, TC 4/17 -- TC Charity Joke Jam Finals, 7:30

SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9

GT RESORT & SPA, GRAND LOBBY BAR, ACME 4/14 -- Levi Britton, 7-11 4/20 -- Adam Dennis, 7-11 4/21 -- Jim Hawley, 7-11

STREETERS, GROUND ZERO, TC 4/19 -- Russell Dickerson, 7 4/20 -- Back to the 80's & 90's Party Purple Masquerade wsg 3 Hearted, Derailed & DJ Rickey T, 7 4/21 -- Sips n' Giggles Comedy Show w/ Michael Palascak, 4

GAIJIN, TC Wed -- Karaoke, 8 HOTEL INDIGO, BAY BAR, TC 4/14 -- Dominic Fortuna, 7-10 4/20 -- Al Jankowski's 3rd Birthday Bash w/ The Bohemians, 7-10 4/21 -- Zeke Clemons, 7-10

STUDIO ANATOMY, TC 4/20 -- Tongue Punched, 8

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44 Cake, in Italian restaurants 48 “Zero stars” 49 Troubled 51 “Le Freak” disco group 53 Summary 54 Counts’ counterparts 55 Have ___ (stop standing) 56 Doomed one 57 British war vessel of WWII 62 ___-80 (old Radio Shack computer) 63 DDE’s WWII arena 64 Took the gold 65 Alley-___ (basketball maneuver) 66 Apt. divisions

A Brief History Of Tame

Darth Vaper

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: I’m a 45-year-old single guy seeking a longterm relationship. My problem is that when I’m interacting with a woman I’m attracted to, my ability to read whether she’s interested in me goes out the window. I suspect I’ve missed out on some great women because I couldn’t read their signals quickly enough.

— Disappointed : Where you go wrong is in taking the hesitant approach to asking a woman out — waiting for her to give you some unambiguous indication of interest (ideally, in large red letters on a lighted billboard pulled by a pair of rented elephants).

That said, you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself. The psychological operating system now driving you (and all of us) evolved to solve ancestral mating and survival problems, and what was adaptive back then can be maladaptive today.

Take how we evolved to be deeply concerned about safeguarding our reputation. Reputation is essentially our social report card — others’ evaluation of the sort of person we are. It matters today, of course, but not in the lifeor-death way it often did in an ancestral environment, where — per anthropologist Irven DeVore’s estimate —many people were with the same band of about 25 others for much of their life. Back then, if a guy got snubbed by a girl, it would be front-cave news; everybody would know and be laughing behind his back in short order.

Flash-forward to today. You’re in a bar. Some woman you hit on spurns you. Well, that blows — and more so if there are witnesses. But there are countless other bars — which means you can erase the embarrassing stain on your social rap sheet simply by trotting down the block to the next happy hour.

Ultimately, recognizing the mismatch between our evolved emotions and modern life helps you understand when the emotions driving you are counterproductively outdated — and basically stupid. In short, assuming that a woman you’re chatting up isn’t giving you a hate glare, ask her out. If she isn’t interested, she’ll let you know — either right then, with some brushoff like “Actually, I have a boyfriend…” or later, when you phone her and hear: “Home Depot, lumber department.

How may I direct your call?”

: I just accompanied my best friend on this extremely stressful trip to put her mom into assisted living. My friend vapes, and I started vaping, too, after being off nicotine for years. I bought a vape, but I’m hiding it from my wife because she’s so judgmental about it. I’m not ready to stop yet, but I feel awful hiding it.

— Hooked : What’s worse than the crime? The coverup — when your wife asks “How was your day, honey?” and you just nod as vape smoke leaks out of your nostrils.

Your hiding your vaping is an “instrumental lie.”

This kind of deceit, explains deception researcher Bella DePaulo, is a self-serving lie used as an “instrument” to unfairly influence other people’s behavior — allowing the liar to get what they want, do what they want, or avoid punishment.

Chances are, the “punishment” you’re avoiding is the rotten feelings you’d have in the wake of your wife’s dismay that your old BFF, nicotine, is back.

However, DePaulo’s research on people duped by those close to them suggests that covering up the truth is ultimately more costly — leading to far more and far longer-lasting feelbad.

It makes sense that the betrayal is the bigger deal because it socks the duped person right in the ego, telling them they were a sucker for being so trusting. In romantic situations, a duped person’s notion of the relationship as a safe space — a place where they can let their guard down — gets shaken or shattered when reality turns out to be “reality” in a fake nose and glasses.

Telling the truth, on the other hand — leaving your wife feeling disappointed, but not deceived — sets the stage for a discussion instead of a prosecution.

This allows your wife the emotional space to see the real you — the you who broke down and started vaping while doing this emotionally grueling very kind deed. (What?! You aren’t made of titanium?!) Compassion from your wife should mean more leeway for you to set the behavioral agenda — to tell her that you want to stop but ask that she let you do it on your own timetable.

This isn’t to say you should always be perfectly or immediately honest. For example, if you prefer your wife with longer hair, that’s something she needs to know — eventually. But at that moment when she walks in with an “edgy” new haircut, “Helloo, beautiful!” is actually the best policy — as opposed to the more honest “Whoa! Stevie Wonder attack you with a pair of garden shears?”

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aSTRO

lOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): ): The Chesapeake Bay is a fertile estuary that teems with life. It’s 200 miles long and holds 18 trillion gallons of water. More than 150 streams and rivers course into its drainage basin. And yet it’s relatively shallow. If you’re six feet tall, you could wade through over a thousand square miles of its mix of fresh and salt water without getting your hat wet. I see this place as an apt metaphor for your life in the coming weeks: an expanse of flowing fecundity that is vast but not so deep that you’ll get overwhelmed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Germany was

one of the big losers of World War I, which ended in 1919. By accepting the terms of the Versailles Treaty, it agreed to pay reparations equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold. Not until 2010, decades after the war, did Germany finally settle its bill and fulfill its obligation. I’m sure your own big, long-running debt is nowhere near as big or as long-running as that one, Aquarius. But you will nonetheless have reason to be ecstatic when you finally discharge it. And according to my reading of the astrological

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I would rather

have a drop of luck than a barrel of brains,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes.

Fortunately, that’s not a choice you will have to face in the coming weeks, Pisces. According to my reading of the cosmic signs, your brain will be working with even greater efficiency and ingenuity than it usually does. Meanwhile, a stronger-than-expected flow of luck will be swirling around in your vicinity. One of your main tasks will be to harness your enhanced intelligence to take shrewd advantage of the good fortune.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the early history

of the automobile, electric engines were more popular and common than gasoline-powered engines. They were less noisy, dirty, smelly, and difficult to operate. It’s too bad that thereafter the technology for gasoline cars developed at a faster rate than the technology for electric cars. By the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, the petroleum-suckers were in ascendance. They have remained so ever since, playing a significant role in our world’s ongoing environmental degradation. Moral of the story: Sometimes the original idea or the early model or the first try is better. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should consider applying this hypothesis to your current state of affairs.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll soon arrive

at a pressure-packed turning point. You’ll stand poised at a pivotal twist of fate where you must trust your intuition to reveal the differences between smart risks and careless gambles.

Are you willing to let your half-naked emotions show? Will you have the courage to be brazenly loyal to your deepest values? I won’t wish you luck, because how the story evolves will be fueled solely by your determination, not by accident or happenstance. You will know you’re in a good position to solve the Big Riddles if they feel both scary and fun.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Strong softness

is one of your specialties. So are empathetic rigor, creative responsiveness, and daring acts of nurturing. Now is a perfect time to summon and express all of these qualities with extra flair. If you do, your influence will exceed its normal quotas.

Your ability to heal and inspire your favorite people will be at a peak. So I hereby invite you to explore the frontiers of aggressive receptivity. Wield your courage and power with a fierce vulnerability. Be tenderly sensitive as an antidote to any headstrong lovelessness you encounter.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1973, Pink Floyd

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released the album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Since then, it has been on various Billboard charts for over 1,700 weeks, and has sold more than 45 million copies. Judging from the astrological aspects coming to bear on you, Leo, I suspect you could create or produce a beautiful thing with a similar staying power in the next five months. What vitalizing influence would you like to have in your life for at least the next 30 years?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I beg you to

take a break sometime soon. Give yourself permission to indulge in a vacation or recess or sabbatical. Wander away on a leave of absence. Explore the mysteries of a siesta blended with a fiesta. If you don’t grant yourself this favor, I may be forced to bark “Chill out, dammit!” at you until you do.

Please don’t misunderstand my intention here. The rest of us appreciate the way you’ve been attending to the complicated details that are too exacting for us. But we can also see that if you don’t ease up, there will soon be diminishing returns. It’s time to return to your studies of relaxing freedom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Singer-songwriter

Roy Orbison achieved great success in the 1960s, charting 22 songs on the Billboard Top 40. But his career declined after that. Years later, in 1986, filmmaker David Lynch asked him for the right to use his tune “In Dreams” for the movie Blue Velvet. Orbison denied the request, but Lynch incorporated the tune anyway. Surprise! Blue Velvet was nominated for an Academy Award and played a big role in reviving Orbison’s fame. Later the singer came to appreciate not only the career boost, but also Lynch’s unusual aesthetic, testifying that the film gave his song an “otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension.” Now let’s meditate on how this story might serve as a parable for your life. Was there an opportunity that you once turned down but will benefit from anyway? Or is there a current opportunity that maybe you shouldn’t turn down, even if it seems odd?

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve been

to the Land of No Return and back more than anyone. But soon you’ll be visiting a remote enclave in this realm that you’re not very familiar with. I call it the Mother Lode of Sexy Truth. It’s where tender explorers go when they must transform outworn aspects of their approach to partnership and togetherness. On the eve of your quest, shall we conduct an inventory of your capacity to outgrow your habitual assumptions about relationships? No, let’s not. That sounds too stiff and formal. Instead, I’ll simply ask you to strip away any falseness that interferes with vivacious and catalytic intimacy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1824,

two British explorers climbed a mountain in southwestern Australia. They were hoping to get a sweeping view of Port Phillip Bay, on which the present-day city of Melbourne is located. But when they reached the top, their view was largely obstructed by trees. Out of perverse spite, they decided to call the peak Mount Disappointment, a name it retains to this day.

I suspect you may soon have your own personal version of an adventure that falls short of your expectations. I hope -- and also predict -- that your experience won’t demoralize you, but will rather mobilize you to attempt a new experiment that ultimately surpasses your original expectations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn

rock musician Lemmy Kilmister bragged that he swigged a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey every day from 1975 to 2013. While I admire his dedication to inducing altered states of consciousness, I can’t recommend such a strategy for you. But I will love it if you undertake a more disciplined crusade to escape numbing routines and irrelevant habits in the next four weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have a special knack for this practical art.

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