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Fathers Day Blues I want to thank my father for being there for me and his country. He served in the Russian Navy, National Reserve, and was a fun and caring dad. I am grateful to my husband for being my “knight in shining armor” when I desperately needed to be rescued. He also has served in the Marine Corps twice, voluntarily, and was a devoted father to his disabled daughter from his first marriage. The phrase “Father of the Nation” has a certain meaning for me, because in spite of all the progress women made, I believe we still need our men.

My new home, America, has no father right now. It used to be the Roosevelts, the Kennedys, and numerous other American presidents manned up to serve in the United States Army and Navy. And while my Tony served his country in Vietnam, “King” Donald was hiding in Studio 54. That is what we are facing now: the draft dodger Donny-boy.

If I was granted a wish, I’d exile Trump to Russia. Putin might be a monster, but he is a patriot. That is something to respect and learn about.

P.S. And what was Donny-boy doing in Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day? Criticizing Vietnam veteran Robert Mueller for not being there. What a travesty!

Larisa Pitocchi, Traverse City Stay Divided?

In Stephen Tuttle’s editorial “Parties Without Purpose,” [June 10 issue], he states that neither political party has ever done a thing for any of us. He then says that when working together they can and have accomplished much. Here are a few things that the Democratic party has done without the help of the Republican party: They

Sid Morkert, Petoskey Read Before You Judge Regarding Steve Redder’s [June 3 Letter]: Extremely well written and yet so ridiculous that I’m aghast. I read the Mueller Report — all of it — and you, sir, are so full of crap!

Robert Mueller is a traitor? Are you so into the orange Kool-Aid that you are blind?

Have you lost your mind? All I will say is, please, folks, read the damn thing. Don’t listen to either of us — read it, please.

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Gary R. Baumdraher, Maple City Dollars & Sense We give our ‘leaders’ our tax dollars every year and hope/expect they will somehow do the right things with it, but we never really follow up on their performance, never get nearly upset enough to change the corruption that is costing us billions of dollars every year. Our entire system of capitalistic government is designed to make money. Our elections are nothing more than a business, and the entities that spend the most win.

The bozos we elect are in it for their own aggrandizement and the financial benefits of political power. Trump’s war on immigrants might seem sincere to some, but taxpayers are paying $775 per day for each incarcerated person — that’s over two and a half times as much as extended medical care facilities, locally. Throw up a chainlink cage, fill it to four times legal capacity, and prison corporations are making a killing. The facility in Homestead, Florida, is making $2 million dollars per day on the kids they cage.

Trump’s tax cut has given so much money to the wealthy and corporations that even the hedge funds don’t know what to do with it. After making $2.3 trillion in profits last year, corporations are sitting on over $3 trillion in cash. The top 1 percent of the wealthy are holding $303 billion in cash above and beyond all their assets.

And yet, Michigan can’t raise $2 billion to fix its roads. I sent our new governor a plan for these desperately needed funds.

I suggested raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour. The increase in income tax revenue would go a long way toward paying for those roads — a win-win, really. When you consider that GM workers across the border in Mexico went on what is an illegal strike there for $15 a day, my request might seem extravagant, but the money is there; don’t let them tell you otherwise.

Bob Wallick, Cross Village

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top ten norm stulz Michigan’s Norm Stulz tells the truth with humor at the inaugural Planet of the Grapes, a comedy-infused wine festival hosted by Grand Traverse Events and Uncorrect Comedy on Sat., June 22 from 3-8pm at Leelanau Studios, GT Regional Campus Festival Lawn, TC. Along with additional comedy, there will be local wines, brews and food; live music by Soul Patch, Levi Britton and others; and wine education experiences. Tickets: $25 advance or $35 at the gate. Benefits Spark in the Dark TC. planetofthegrapesfest.com

See the Remnants of Sleeping Bear’s (Intentional) Forest Fire Visitors to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore can now have a look at the results of a successful controlled burn of 917 acres – a project that took several years of planning and preparation.

The project in the Platte Plains area of the park involved 25 firefighters and natural resources staff from the National Parks Service and the National Forest Service; it was the first-ever large-scale prescribed burn in the history of Sleeping Bear.

While keeping the fire under control, park personnel had to worry about protecting piping plover habitat, two campgrounds, a Michigan scenic byway and privately held inholdings in or near the burn area.

Funding for the burn was provided by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative as part of its mission to protect and restore the Great Lakes. Prescribed fire is used to replenish fire dependent ecosystems, reduce available fuels in the event of wildfire, and assist with the management of invasive species.

The area is re-opened to the public and the park service encourages visitors to hike the Platte Plains Trail, which takes you through burn units where you will see the areas regenerate.

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Substance abuse problems offer little cause for laughter. But one of the world’s most pervasive and least talked about addictions often comes wrapped in plain, brown paper, a seemingly innocuous compound that, to some, is as habit-forming as crack cocaine. It’s not discussed in the media and people often whisper breathlessly about their dependency experiences with this substance in the hushed tones usually reserved for juicy gossip. So I’ll just say it, publicly. Let’s just get it right out in the open; it’s cheese, folks.

Specifically, it’s the Prairie Breeze Cheddar ($19 lb.) at Symon’s General Store in Petoskey that has me shopping outpatient dairy abuse programs. This highly addictive product of Iowa’s Milton Creamery is so tasty, so creamy and so udderly delicious that, frankly, it should come with a Surgeon General’s warning. An artisan cheese aged at least nine months, Prairie Breeze Cheddar is Symon’s best-seller, leading the well-appointed downtown Petoskey store’s stable of 70 cheese varieties. Calcium crystals give this otherwise uber-creamy pressed curd a bit of crunch, adding to the pronounced pop of super cheddary flavor. Truly, this cheese is dope. But, for those willing to risk the perils of addiction, feel free to chase that dragon by visiting the main dealer, Symon’s General Store, 401 E. Lake St., Petoskey. 231-347-2438, www.symonsgeneralstore.com.

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Chernobyl & When They See Us

Two recent miniseries revisit two true-life tragedies to absolutely staggering effect, becoming the kind of must-see TV of the most necessary kind. HBO’s Chernobyl takes us inside to the unfathomable horror of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl and finds an unexpected modern resonance that will cut you to your core. Netflix’s Ava DuVernay-helmed When They See Us gives us the story of the Central Park Five, offering an intimate and deeply personal approach to the lives of the young boys who were falsely accused and coerced into serving time for a heinous crime they did not commit. Both shows tackle subject matter that can often be difficult to watch yet are told in told such uncompromising, compelling, and powerful ways, you dare not look away.

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Stormy-Kromer Store, Theater Planned for Cheboygan

A plan to redevelop a vacant building in downtown Cheboygan won support from the Michigan Strategic Fund.

Cheboygan Main Street LLC plans to redevelop a functionally obsolete two-story building to become home to the first-ever Stormy-Kromer retail store, a theater, a lounge with a chocolate shop, and three market-rate apartments, according to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

The project represents an expected investment of $902,800 that will create seven fulltime jobs, making it eligible a $417,500 Michigan Community Revitalization Program performance-based grant, according to the MEDC. Located at 219 and 221 N. Main St, it will be developed by Marcella and John Costin.

Local support includes a Commercial Rehabilitation Act tax abatement valued at approximately $38,280, along with $2,000 for façade improvements from the city of Cheboygan Downtown Development Authority.

Stuff we love Saving the World, One Bag at a Time Katey Buchanan has that entrepreneurial spirit, coupled with environmental concerns.

The 11-year-old heard in class about the amount of plastic in the sea and decided to do something about it. “In school we learned about how much plastic gets into the ocean,” she said. “I thought I could make some [reusable] bags.” So she did, purchasing fabric, creating patterns, then cutting and sewing the mesh bags, which she said are perfect for gathering mushrooms or for using at the supermarket for produce instead of the plastic bags on rolls. Each bag takes about a half-hour to make, and she’s selling them at the Harbor Springs Farmers Market for $5 each. She’s sold out each time she has been at the farmers market, and with demand outstripping supply, she admits the business might require she make some adjustments: “I might hire my friend.”

Color Yourself Proud In honor of June’s Pride Month — and right on time for this week’s Up North Pride Week — Traverse City tattoo parlor and beauty salon Pinups & Needles is offering rainbow “party pieces” as a color service all month. Whether you want some bold color in your bangs or some rainbows peeking out from underneath your usual color, the stylists are ready and able. Might we suggest the pride hawk? Find Pinups & Needles at 604 Grant St. in Traverse City. By appointment only. (231) 493-5045, www.pinupsandneedles.com

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Bottoms up S’more Porter Burnt Marshmallow Brewing’s S’more Porter has a strong, smoky flavor that belies its soft, spongy ingredients. Black as used motor oil, this opaque porter ($8/pint, $21.25/ crowler) is served in a Riedel Crystal white swirl glass and crowned with a smoldering burnt marshmallow, a smoky-sweet bonnet atop a bodaciously curvy vessel. Some, of course, will be unable to resist plucking the mallow ball and eating it immediately. But, letting the sugary nugget soak adds a sweet punch to this brew, in which the smoky taste and the other subtle s’more flavors derive from the bags of burnt marshmallows, graham cracker crumbs and chocolate malts actually used in this ferment. Enjoy S’more Porter (8.2% ABV) by one of the brewery’s fire pits, or quaff it in the cozy tasting room. Either way, this beer experience is unique, tasty and potent. Be sure to blow out the marshmallow fire before sipping; your nose hairs will thank you. Burnt Marshmallow Brewing is located at 3379 Lake Grove Rd., Petoskey, 231-622-4173, www.burntmarshmallow.beer.

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by Stephen Tuttle President Donald Trump and Congress are working, they say, to curb the ever-increasing costs of prescription drugs. They have made it a bit easier for generic drugs to come to market, a good thing. But they have a long way to go.

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The president, not surprisingly, wrongly claimed drug prices decreased in 2018. They did not. According to an Associated Press investigation, drug prices increased, on average, six percent last year. They found that for every drug with a price decrease, 96 drugs had price increases.

(Last year’s six percent increase was better than 2017’s nine percent increase, but a smaller increase isn’t really the same as a price decrease. By comparison, inflation was 2.1 percent in 2017, and 1.9 percent in 2018.)

as the rest of the world and how that margin compared to money spent on research.

They compared the cost of the 20 drugs most commonly prescribed here to the cost of those same drugs outside the U.S. The result?

The difference between how much we pay and how much everybody else pays is actually greater than all the money spent on drug research by all the drug companies in the world combined. We’re subsidizing everybody else.

Many of the most outrageous price increases we read about have nothing at all to do with research. More than 60 percent of those egregious price increases of 1,000 percent or more have been made by companies that didn’t even develop the drug; they simply bought the company that did.

We like our psychiatric drugs, too.

Forty million of us take them, including 12 percent of our children under 16.

We are apparently very sick, very distressed, and in considerable pain. And we pay for it.

The issue is important because we Americans love our prescription drugs. In fact, though we represent just six percent of the world’s population, we consume more prescription drugs than the rest of the world combined, including a stunning 80 percent of the world’s opioids.

We like our psychiatric drugs, too. Forty million of us take them, including 12 percent of our children under 16.

We are apparently very sick, very distressed, and in considerable pain. And we pay for it.

According to our Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Americans spent $470 billion on prescriptions in 2017, way more than the rest of the world.

The cost argument drugmakers have always made is that the research and development required to create, test, and bring to market a new drug is so expensive, drug pricing reflects those costs. That sounds logical enough on the surface. Politicians and our Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approves new drugs, certainly believe it.

In reality, they spend more on advertising and promotion, a tidy $30 billion last year, than they do on research. Of our top 10 drug makers, only Roche managed to spend more on research than it did on advertising. Most of that money is spent trying to convince doctors and other medical professionals to prescribe their drugs; only about 35 percent is spent advertising to the general public.

Intrepid researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York decided to test the cost-of-research theory a bit deeper.

Specifically, they wondered how much more Americans were paying for the same drugs

The best example, and the current king of drug prices, is Novartis. The FDA recently approved its drug, Zolgensma, for treatment of an especially nasty condition called spiral muscular atrophy that impacts children under two and is almost always fatal. Zolgensma, one of the new categories of gene therapy, can correct the affliction with a single treatment. It’s a tremendous breakthrough that has applications to other inherited diseases. But it’s a little pricey.

The cost for that single treatment? $2.1 million. And Novartis had nothing to do with creating the drug. A company called AveXis developed it; Novartis simply bought AveXis and the drug patent last year.

Novartis says the price reflects the potential value of a life saved at such a young age. (If that’s the new standard, it’s bad news for the cost of childhood vaccines but should be great news for older Americans.)

The drug companies keep the money flowing with help from their friends in Congress.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) reported $27 million in lobbying expenses last year. But according to Open Secrets, a non-partisan research group, individual drug companies spent an additional $184.3 million on top of that. And their political action committees (PACs), super-PACs, and employees contributed more than $40 million to political candidates in 2016 and 2018.

We take far too many drugs and pay way too much for what we do take. We’re captives of the pricing whims of drug companies.

The old logic for high prices — the cost of research and the costs of drugs that never make it to market — was always specious.

The reality is drug companies overcharge us for the simplest reason: because they can. It’s enough to make us sick.

Crime & Rescue VISITOR JAILED FOR ASSAULT Someone called 911 when they heard a woman yelling and what sounded like a physical fight outside of the Mill Pond Inn in Northport.

A Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputy was nearby and arrived June 7 at 11:33pm to find a woman laying on a driveway and a man standing over her.

The couple, a husband and wife from Grand Haven, had gotten into an argument on the walk back to their room. Deputies determined that the 66-year-old husband threw his 64-year-old wife to the ground and then choked her. The woman told police that the attack made it hard for her to breathe.

The man was arrested for domestic violence involving strangulation and the woman refused treatment for injuries.

TEENS ASSAULTED AMID RUMBLE Two 16-year-olds told police they were assaulted after going to a vacant field in Gaylord with a group of young people to watch a fight.

State police were called to Otsego Memorial Hospital to interview the teens, who were scraped up and one of them suffered from a head injury.

The officers investigated and tracked down a suspect, 18-year-old Christopher Joseph Lagranduer, who fled when troopers arrived at his house. The troopers followed Lagranduer and caught him near W. North Street.

He faces charges of felony resisting and obstructing, malicious destruction of property, and two counts of assault. A 15-year-old also faces charges in connection with the brawl, and police said others still might be charged.

RAID LEADS TO DRUG CHARGES Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement detectives arrested a suspect on drug and weapons charges when they executed a search warrant at a Petoskey apartment.

Officers made the arrest June 3 at Petoskey Park Apartments, according to a press release.

While searching an apartment there, detectives found 100 grams of cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, and $5,700 in cash.

Two suspects had left the apartment in a vehicle prior to the officers’ arrival and police stopped them a short distance away. Police said they found a loaded handgun underneath a seat in the vehicle.

Police arrested 27-year-old Petoskey resident Devin Miles Grundy on charges of delivery of cocaine.

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CITIZEN’S REPORT LEADS TO ARREST A man was arrested after his erratic driving caused another motorist to call

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Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to South Lake Leelanau Drive June 11 at 11:42pm after someone called 911 about a person who was driving ahead of them in a red Toyota. The car was travelling at 20mph and swerving all over the road.

A patrol sergeant responded and found the Toyota parked sideways on Maple Valley Road. The driver, a 26-year-old Traverse City man, denied that he’d been drinking, but he was arrested after field sobriety tests proved otherwise. The man faces charges of second-offense drunk driving and driving with a high blood alcohol content. The man’s BAC was over three times the legal limit.

DRIVER FOUND HIDING IN WOODS State police arrested an Interlochen man after he bolted into the woods when he was pulled over in Benzie County in the middle of the night.

Jered Bluhm got pulled over June 9 at 3:20am on Lindy Road in Colfax Township and once he stopped, the 22-year-old fled into the woods.

Troopers chased him and placed him under arrest a short time later. Police said Bluhm was intoxicated and that he’s got two prior drunk driving convictions. He faces charges of felony drunk driving, resisting arrest and driving on a suspended license.

TWO CHARGED IN GAYLORD BUST Two people were arrested after police said they were distributing crack cocaine and methamphetamine in Gaylord.

Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement officers made one arrest when they searched an apartment on South Court Street in May and found meth. One of the suspects was at the apartment when police arrived with a search warrant and a second was arrested when he arrived at the apartment during the search and had crack cocaine in his possession, police said.

Jody Taylor Philips, 47, of Gaylord, faces charges of delivery of methamphetamine and Lamonte Richawn Jackson, a 20-year-old Detroit resident, faces a charge of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver.

MOTORCYCLE CRASHES IN CHASE Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies arrested the driver of a motorcycle after a short pursuit on M-72.

A patrol sergeant was driving on M-72 near Lautner Road June 7 at 8:08pm when he clocked a black 2007 Kawasaki ZX600 headed the other way at 89mph. When the officer turned around his patrol car, the motorcycle driver sped up and turned onto Morgan Hill Road, where the driver couldn’t manage a sharp turn at the top of the hill and was thrown from his bike.

The 26-year-old Traverse City man was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment and then to jail on charges of fleeing and eluding police.

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The continuing dysfunctionality of the federal government is, in part, attributable to a single presidential candidate. His failure to comply with traditional norms pertaining to financial disclosure protocols denied voters access to information relevant to his candidacy. His repeated refusal to provide federal income tax returns, accompanied by an unprecedented barrage of intentional lies, attests to the importance of that information being made public.

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A fundamental axiom defining democratic republics is that citizens are not to be denied access to relevant information regarding political candidates. Included within that assumption is the right of voters to have access to verifiable information — information that enables them to determine if candidates for federal office have financial interests that constitute a potential conflict of interest with the duties of the office they’re seeking.

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Securing this right for Michigan voters does not need to be complex. All that is required is for the State of Michigan to enact laws establishing and/or modifying relevant financial disclosure protocols for candidates seeking federal offices on Michigan ballots.

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With partisan politics at a notably high level of dysfunctionality, the process for implementing a financial disclosure law in Michigan will likely prove to be difficult. Nevertheless, enacting legislation to accomplish this requires little more than a measure of bipartisan support from the Michigan state legislature and the signature of the governor.

The legislation would need to include something akin to the following: “In order for an individual’s name to appear on any ballot in the State of Michigan as a candidate for a ‘federal elected office,’ the documentation supporting that nomination is required to include a complete set of the candidate’s federal income tax returns for the five consecutive years immediately prior to the year in which the election is held. And furthermore, those documents are to be made available for not less than 120 days prior to the date of the election.”

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Note that these certification requirements would also apply to incumbent candidates seeking reelection. The importance of this centers on the requirement that the requisite tax returns are for the five consecutive years immediately prior to the year in which the election is held. Establishing requirements for this time span addresses a concern particularly relevant to candidates seeking reelection — because elected office holders over time can potentially, and occasion do, become more committed to maintaining their corporate-based financial support rather than representing constituents.

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens brings this issue to our attention in

his 2014 book, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.”

He does this by quoting a portion of Republican President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 annual message to Congress: “All contributions by corporations to any political committee for any political purpose should be forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders’ money for such purposes; and, moreover, a prohibition of this kind would be as far as it went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed at in corrupt practices.”

Roosevelt’s recommendation to Congress became law in 1907. For the next 75 years, it served well in protecting the integrity of our electoral process. But a series of Supreme Court decisions — beginning with 1982’s Federal Election Commission v. National Right to Work Committee and culminating with 2010’s Citizens United — have unraveled the protections from the very corruption Roosevelt predicted.

If enacted, a financial disclosure concept will be a step toward reversing that undoing.

That in and of itself is justification for its enactment; there are, however, additional benefits that merit consideration. For example, tax-based financial disclosures are a nonpartisan means for the vetting of political candidates. Because the information required will be equally available to the public, news media, nominating parties, and opposition candidates, it would be difficult to logically assert that its enactment will benefit any one political party to the detriment of others.

A second benefit is the near certainty that it is extraordinarily unlikely that either of the two major political parties would nominate a candidate for president of the United States who has been deemed ineligible to have their name placed on the ballot in the State of Michigan.

A Michigan financial disclosure law will additionally provide a path for other states to follow. As other states enact similar measures, the American experiment in developing and sustaining a nation of, by, and for the people will be better protected than it is today.

As a citizen of Michigan, you can be a part of restoring protections for the rights of American voters to have access to information required to cast informed ballots. Uncle Sam needs the help of middle- and working-class Michiganders in reaffirming our fundamental political values.

Are you there yet?

David Frederick, a centrist-based Independent, regards extremist political partisanship as a dangerous threat to the wellbeing and security of middle-class Americans.

He further believes reestablishing coordinated grassroots truth-to-power messaging is a prerequisite for diminishing that threat. dcf13343@gmail.com

It’s Come to This The Pokemon Co. has made Japanese brides’ dreams come true with its announcement that it is collaborating with a wedding planner to offer sanctioned ceremonies with its characters in attendance, dressed as a bride and groom.

Yes, Pikachu will stand up with you and your betrothed (as long as you go to Japan to tie the knot), and the icing on the cake is Pokemonthemed food items and a Pikachu cake topper.

Finally, United Press International reports, for your scrapbook, you’ll have a marriage certificate decorated with Pokemon imagery -- surely an item you’ll want to preserve in a licensed Pokemon photo frame.

Stay With Me Here Around 1:40 a.m. on May 9, as an unnamed Cocoa, Florida, homeowner slept in her garage, a black Cadillac crashed into the structure, missing her by only inches, according to the 911 call. The Cadillac was stolen, it turns out, and was fleeing an Orange County Sheriff ’s Office patrol vehicle -- which was also stolen and being driven by someone impersonating a police officer. After the crash, WFTV reported, the imposter patrolman continued trying to pull over vehicles before speeding away. The patrol SUV was later abandoned behind a shopping plaza in Cocoa.

Least Competent Criminal Police in Lincoln, Nebraska, responded to a call on May 21 about a domestic assault. They didn’t find the suspect, identified as Markel Towner, 26, in the residence, but someone who matched his description was sitting outside in a car. When questioned, the man said his name was Deangelo Towns, but a fashion faux pas led officers to suspect he was lying -- a lanyard around the man’s neck clearly bore the name “Markel Towner.” After some resistance, KETV reported, Towner was finally subdued and arrested on a variety of charges.

Oops An unidentified man in Tuscumbia, Alabama, did what so many of us do every day: He went online to Amazon to order some household items. But when his package arrived on May 23, he was alarmed to discover a urine sample from a private citizen, not the shower curtain and rings he’d ordered. “When I reached in and pulled it out (it was) some kind of urine specimen or something like that,” he told WHNT. An Amazon representative said the company was “very sorry” about the mistake and would send his bathroom accessories right away, but declined to have him return the sample.

Bright Ideas -- May 17 wasn’t the first time Dan Smith of Seattle found a Car2Go vehicle left in the driveway of his rental property, so he erected a fence around it and posted NO TRESPASSING signs and other warnings. He then informed Car2Go’s parent company, Share Now, that he wanted $65 per day for storage, $300 for the fence and $500 for harassment. Share Now responded to inquiries from KIRO saying seven different customers tried to rent the car a day after it was left in Smith’s driveway but couldn’t because of the barricade. Asad Rasheed, who lives in Smith’s building, said the errantly parked vehicles are a common problem: “People are not made aware of where to park, where not to park and how to use them,” Rasheed said. Share Now has agreed to work with Smith but told the TV station they wouldn’t be paying him.

-- Damon Hudson, 25, of St. Ives, England, first noticed his missing milk delivery on May 17. “My milk delivery means the world to me. My little brother and sister can’t function without their cereal in the morning,” Hudson told Metro News. He could see the thief on his doorbell video footage, but he didn’t want to bother the police with such a trivial case, so after two weeks of going milk-less, he set up his own sting. Hudson introduced a couple of new ingredients in the milk bottle: fish oil and his own urine. “Hopefully that’s the end. The weirdo deserves it.” No word on whether the thief has found a new target.

Star Treatment Gwen Lynch, the lone 2019 graduate of the eighth grade at Cuttyhunk Elementary School on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, will receive the accolades and advice of a celebrity graduation speaker, actress and comedian Jenny Slate, on June 17. The island, which has a year-round population of only about a dozen people, is familiar to Slate, whose parents live nearby, reported the Cape Cod Times. Gwen has also been working on her own speech.

Graduation festivities will include a potluck dinner, and organizers expect a “packed house”: “Most of the town will be there,” predicted Michael Astrue, who secured Slate for the address.

For Traverse City area news and events, visit TraverseTicker.com

Fashion Statement Beachgoers looking to make a statement this summer will want to check out the Jeado, a Speedo-style swimsuit brief for men that looks like it’s cut from a pair of jeans, but is really made of polyester and Spandex, for comfort and quick drying. The retailer describes the faux-denim look: “It is like eating a bag of chips in church. Everyone looks over at you with disgust, but deep down they want some too.” United Press International reports that Jeados sell for $39.99 through shinesty.com.

Questionable Judgment While students at Holy Family Catholic School in Port Allen, Louisiana, took a field trip to Washington, D.C., to learn about our nation’s founding and visit historic sites, their principal, Michael Comeau, had another kind of sightseeing in mind. In the pre-dawn hours of May 31, police were called to Archibald’s Gentleman’s Club in D.C. after “an intoxicated man refused to pay his bill,” according to the arrest report. The Advocate reports that officers found Comeau, 47, standing in a roadway, “refusing to move.” He was arrested for public intoxication and possession of an open container of alcohol. Comeau immediately resigned his position as principal, along with his role as a reserve police officer at the Brusly Police Department.

Unclear on the Concept For reasons that remain unclear, a local police officer drove a beach patrol ATV into a marsh on Tybee Island, Georgia, on May 31, where it became stuck in the mud. Officials with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources say the officer then used a City of Tybee pickup truck to try to free the ATV, but the truck also became stuck. City workers next attempted to pull both vehicles out using two backhoes, which also succumbed to the marsh.

An excavator was finally able to free one of the backhoes from the muck, but the Coastal Resources Division of the DNR reported to WSAV that it will likely take a barge and crane to extricate the other three vehicles. Tybee city officials are conducting an investigation.

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Attorney General Dana Nessel, the first openly gay person to hold state office in Michigan, isn’t in the fight of her life. But she might be in the fight of ours. She’s battling Enbridge to shut down Line 5. She’s taking on the rules, regulations, and court decisions that discriminate against the state’s LGBT community.

She’s hoping to protect your grandparents.

Northern Express sat down with Nessel before her turn as grand marshal of Traverse City’s Pride Visibility March to talk justice, environment, and dignity — and why they should matter to all of us.

By Patrick Sullivan

PROUD

Dana Nessel with Traverse City Mayor Jim Carruthers at a 2018 Pride Week event.

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Jonny Cameron believed, like in much of the nation in recent years, LGBTQ rights were under increasing attack in Michigan, but said last year’s election of Dana Nessel to the post of Michigan Attorney General was a welcome relief.

Nessel had attended last year’s Pride Week in Traverse City, when she was a candidate. Now that Nessel is the state’s attorney general, Cameron, co-founder Up North Pride, said it made sense to invite her back to this year’s march as grand marshall.

“When Dana was elected, I thought, ‘OK, we can stay in Michigan. Some scary stuff was going on, but we have her at the helm,’” said Cameron.

Indeed, Nessel has been busy since she became the first openly gay person to hold statewide elected office in Michigan, taking immediate steps to fight for both civil rights and environmental protections.

Nevertheless, she made time to talk with Northern Express in advance of her arrival in Traverse City, where she’ll serve as grand marshal of the 2019 Up North Pride Visibility March on June 22.

Northern Express: Have you ever been the grand marshal of a march before?

Dana Nessel: I have, actually. After our success on the DeBoer case [DeBoer v. Snyder, a 2012 lawsuit that helped establish the right to same sex marriage], I got a lot of grand marshalling opportunities around the state, so that was fun.

Express: Tell me about the Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer case and how that inspired you to get into politics.

Nessel: It’s actually pretty simple. From beginning to end, it was about a three-year case, and I just saw all of the time and effort and energy and expense that the office of Michigan Attorney General was utilizing to discriminate against a pretty significant portion of Michigan residents, and I could not help but think how much better it would be if that office was utilized to help and to support Michigan residents, instead of engaging in discrimination against them.

So, it was impactful, but to be honest, I never really thought of running for office until after the 2016 election.

Express: How concerned are you about the state of LGBTQ rights and tolerance today?

Nessel: I think if you look at it from a public opinion perspective, every year that goes by, there is more support, publicly, for LGBTQ rights, but unfortunately, that’s not the case with many of our elected leaders.

As a Democrat, one of the things I will say about my party is LGBTQ rights have been a pivotal part of our platform, both as a state and nationally, for some time. As a Democrat, I’ve always felt accepted in my party. For many, many years I have.

Unfortunately, my party has not controlled the state until recently, and we don’t control the federal government, and that has resulted in an exhaustive number of laws and administrative rules and regulations, and also court decisions from Republican-appointed judges that have been horrifically discriminatory toward the LGBT community. Honestly, all of my worst fears about how this community would be treated under this [Trump] administration, have come to fruition — every single solitary one of them — and it gets worse and worse every day. I ran for office for a lot of different reasons, but one of those reasons was certainly to fight back on behalf of the LGBTQ community who had not had anyone ever fight for them from this office before. Democrats included.

Express: How does that look, fighting for the LGBTQ community as attorney general?

Nessel: I think if you just look no further than the case that we filed in conjunction with many other states against the Department of Health and Human Services over a right to refuse healthcare based on religious beliefs. And to say that, literally, you could have every single gay, bisexual, transgender, gender-nonconforming individual be

denied healthcare services for no other reason than who they are in a relationship with, or how they identify. It violates every tenent of the separation of church and state that I’ve ever been taught in any of my law school classes, and I find it appalling. And I guess I’m here to tell this community that you have somebody to fight for you, you have somebody who has your back, and who always will fight for you. I think it’s a message that this community needed to hear after so many years of this office being utilized to support discrimination.

Express: You’ve made a name for yourself as a fighter. Is that how you’ve always been, or was there a turning point in your life that made you more willing to take on challenges?

Nessell: You know, I just have always been of the belief, from a legal perspective, that you can never win a case that you don’t file, right? I think that I’ve even had issues within the community of wanting to be more proactive than other people. It’s just a basic belief that it’s never the wrong time to fight for justice, it’s never the wrong time to fight for what’s right, and that there are so many people out there clamoring for representation, clamoring to have their voices heard, clamoring for recognition of their rights and equal dignity, just as human beings. You know, what the hell did I go to law school for if it wasn’t for this?

Express: How did being gay/lesbian affect your running for office? Were there people who used your sexual orientation during the election process to attempt to discredit you? Did you face discrimination during the campaign?

Nessel: Yeah, I think I did. Obviously, it was not impactful enough. I mean, it speaks well of the state of Michigan that I won.

Clearly whatever efforts were made to use my sexual orientation against me were not successful, but, yeah, certainly I saw that — both in the general election, as well as in my effort to secure the nomination from my own party.

Sometimes it’s more subtle – ‘Dana Nessel loves sex offenders’ or ‘Dana Nessel is not tough on sex offenders’ — those subtle sorts of ways that you compare things that are abhorrent like pedophilia to homosexuality.

I saw that for sure. But obviously it was not impactful. On election night, I kissed my wife on stage, and there were so many people who said, ‘Before I saw that, I didn’t know that you were gay.’ I just went out on the campaign trail, and I talked about issues that affect everyone in this state, and I think that really resonated.

Express: Let’s change gears to another fight. Could you explain to me what your legal strategy is, currently, to address Line 5?

Nessel: No. We’ll have something that we will be moving forward on shortly, and as soon as we file anything, you’ll know about it.

One of the central promises of Nessel’s campaign was a vow to shut down Line 5 at the Straits of Mackinac, a commitment Nessel said she maintains. In early June, when Northern Express interviewed Nessel, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Enbridge, the Canadian company that operates the Line 5 oil pipeline, were in negotiations over a plan to move the line into an underground tunnel.

Since that time, those negotiations have broken down, and Enbridge has filed with the Michigan Court of Claims seeking to enforce an agreement made with Gov. Rick Snyder to construct a tunnel in five to 10 years. Nessel would not go into detail with Northern Express about her legal strategy to uphold her promise to shut down Line 5, but she has previously declared that agreement between Snyder and Enbridge is unconstitutional.

Express: You started out allied with Gov. Whitmer on Line 5. Recently, you and the governor seem to be taking different approaches. Is that a fair characterization?

Can you explain what’s going on?

Nessel: All I can say is that negotiations are ongoing, and I suspect that you’ll see some movement in regard to Line 5 shortly. And that the governor and I continue to have ongoing conversations, and I would not characterize it as a disagreement. I think that’s an incorrect characterization. [Line 5] is a priority to me. I ran in very large part because of my concerns about Line 5, and I just want to assure folks that are living in areas that would be most impacted in the event of a rupture — I mean, we’d all be impacted, but nowhere moreso than Up North — I want to assure people that I plan to do absolutely everything in my power as Michigan Attorney General to make certain that we are protecting the Great Lakes, that we are protecting the natural resources, and that we are protecting jobs that are related to tourism and recreation, and we’re protecting our drinking water.

Express: When you come to Traverse City for Pride Week, you are also bringing the Elder Abuse Task Force for a stop on its listening tour. Tell me about what that is and why it’s important to you.

Nessel: For decades there have been these commissions put together that talk about recommendations to combat elder abuse, elder neglect, and economic

exploitation of seniors not just in consumer protection, but also in the probate court and problems in the guardianship process. I mean, it is hugely impactful with our aging population in Michigan. We are working very industriously to correct many of the problems in the system. It’s going to be myself and Justice Meghan Cavanaugh, and we’re going to be covering as much of the state as possible. We want to hear concerns that seniors have, and we also want to talk about some of the proposed solutions that we have. We have — I think it’s nine particular areas that we are focusing on where we are trying our hardest to ensure better protection for seniors.

Express: What kind of problems are you already aware of?

Nessel: Firstly, abuses in the guardianship process. In my opinion, it’s far too easy to get full guardianship over another human being. What’s worse than having somebody take from you the ability to make any decisions at all about your healthcare or about your finances? We see seniors that have total strangers taking control of their lives, and they have no say in it. Often times they are not even brought into court when it happens. And their wishes are not followed by the probate courts a lot of times. We’re trying to address those issues. Before we make these changes, we want to get around the state and listen to everybody’s concerns.

Express: Jared Polis from Colorado is the first out, gay governor in the U.S. Do you believe that the U.S. could elect an out, gay person to be president? I am thinking at this moment of Mayor Pete Buttigieg, but of course, there might be others — if not in 2020 but perhaps in 2024.

Nessell: I do. I am hopeful that people — it’s not that they will see [a candidate who is openly gay] as a positive or a negative, just simply, it won’t matter. People will look at all the other attributes that a person has and the characteristics they want in a person elected to the highest office in the land.

Who a candidate is married to should be completely irrelevant.

This interview was edited for clarity.

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From Broadway to the Little Fleet The fabulous Miss Peppermint to headline Drag Night

By Ross Boissoneau A fixture on the New York nightlife scene, Miss Peppermint will headline Drag Night at The Little Fleet on June 21. Peppermint has starred on TV and the Broadway stage and will be bringing her talents to Traverse City as part of Pride Week, June 17–23.

Peppermint is perhaps best known as the runner-up on the ninth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Though other transgender women have competed on the show, she was the first to be out prior to the show’s airing, having come out in 2012.

BEFORE FAME “It was scary at first. I didn’t know any of the queens or producers. The only plan was to be myself, an openly trans woman. What gave me courage was knowing that my story could influence others,” said Peppermint.

In 2017, during her tenure on the show, Peppermint told Huffington Post that she sees drag as a way to experiment with their gender identity. “There’s a lot of wonderful places in great cities and groups of people and LGBT centers that are safe spaces for people of trans experience to kind of explore their identity and step into that realm,” she said. “But, as we know, there are a lot of places that aren’t safe spaces and I think drag in most cities, at least in America, continues to be a safe space for someone to kind of experiment with gender expression.”

Peppermint said there are still challenges faced by transgender and non-binary people, especially in today’s political climate. “The trans and non-conforming community is under attack, and we need understand, support and action from any and everyone. It’s time we focus in on our trans and non-binary siblings. I believe it’s my job to remind people that we expect them to support us the way we have supported them.”

OH, PIONEER She has expanded her pioneering reach. Peppermint is the first transgender woman to originate a principal role on Broadway, starring as Pythio, the Oracle of Delphi, in the Go-Go’s-inspired musical “Head Over Heels.”

Based on Philip Sidney’s 16th century English prose poem “The Arcadia,” the show was a giddy fairy-tale exploration of love, sexuality, and gender fluidity that followed the quest of a royal family threatened with extinction. While the characters and plot boasted a 16th century vibe, the music was decidedly more modern: the hits (and some misses) by ’80s pop stars the Go-Gos. “At one point, a spirited debate takes place over Pythio’s gender identity, with the oracle demanding to be described as a “non-binary plural” before eagerly agreeing to the suggested pronoun, ‘they,’” said Hollywood Reporter critic Frank Scheck. He went on to say, “Peppermint exudes amusing diva-style imperiousness,” though he wasn’t so kind to the production itself.

Miss Peppermint said she hopes her role is the beginning of a trend. “While it’s an honor for me I’m even more hopeful that I’m not the last trans actor on Broadway. I hope I can inspire young folks who may believe they have seen themselves reflected before,” she said. “I hope I did our community proud.”

The show received mixed reviews, but Peppermint’s role was almost universally hailed. Rolling Stone called her turn a “rollicking number.” Peppermint agreed. “The preview and tech periods were a nightmare, but otherwise it was like a big family party.

The whole cast was together for a year bonding. Couple that with the brilliant writing and music. Sounds rollicking to me!”

MAKING CHANGE Peppermint also helped raise over $100,000 for the Human Rights Campaign as an auctioneer. The funds included a large bid from Vanessa Williams. “I was the auctioneer helping to raise money for two years for them. It was focused on marriage equality. Vanessa Williams and Tim Gunn were major supporters. I felt like such a rock star.”

Nick Viox, vice chair and programming chair, said her appearance will be the focus of Drag Night. “Miss Peppermint will be performing three large numbers throughout the twoand-a-half hour set, with fabulous costumes, wigs, and drag fantasy,” he said. “Our three other queens and one king will be doing four numbers each, lip syncing and dancing to a mix of Pride classics and newer hits.”

The Up North Pride Drag Night event happens Fri., June 21 at 7pm to 10pm at The Little Fleet in Traverse City. There will be a 15-minute intermission before Peppermint’s second number.

For a complete schedule of Up North Pride Week 2019 events, visit www.upnorthpride.com.

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Meet Elon & Jonny The founders of Traverse City-based Up North Pride, Jonny and Elon Cameron, met when they were 25 and 28 years old. Over their past 17 years together, they’ve navigated a move from Chicago to northern Michigan, marriage, and — weeks after leaving a job, building a new home, and taking in a parent and her terminally ill longtime partner — launched Up North Pride. Most recently, they made another life transition: Jen Cameron transitioned to Jonny Cameron. The two share their story.

By Lynda Wheatley Express: Tell me about what propelled you two, along with Marta Turnbull, to start Up North Pride in 2014.

Elon: It wasn’t really the best time to take on another project, but we felt strongly that this town needed something that would bring people together in a way that acknowledged that we’re here. And I think that — unfortunately for many of the members of the LGBTQ community — the more public you are does not mean the safer you are. The average lifespan for a trans person of color is 35 years in this country.

It’s just abhorrent to me to think that there’s

any citizen of the one of the most wealthy nations in the world whose life expectancy is only 35 years.

Express: Elon, what was it like in Traverse City when you were growing up? Was it hard to even find gay people? Was it like a, “don’t ask, don’t tell” situation?

Elon: It wasn’t even “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

It was an unsafe place. The police actually performed sting operations as recently as the ’90s — the mid-’90s. That wasn’t that long ago.

They were cruising in parks and there was an undercover operator who would flirt with a gay man, and if the gay man was interested, which, come on — they would book them.

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Jonny: They’d entrap them, criminalize them, and publicly humiliate them.

Elon: So until the very very recent past, and really only for people who are socially acceptable in other manners, have we ever had the support of social services. You know, public accommodation. That was the big thing that passed in 2010 when we passed the Non-Discrimination Ordinance — let me rephrase that — when we added LGBTQ people to the existing Non-Discrimination Ordinance that the city already had.

It dictated that no one could be discriminated against in employment, housing or public accommodation, because previously we had been discriminated

against in all of those places. I know gay men who were fired from their jobs. I know gay men who were ostracized from their social circles because they were put in the newspaper as criminals for being gay, less than 30 years ago! But it’s really, it’s stunning to consider that 25 years ago, a gay man could’ve been put in jail for being interested in another man publicly.

Express: Jonny, what was growing up like for you?

Jonny: I was raised a southern belle debutante in Texas. I was put in a white dress and presented to society. I had the Mary Kay lady at my house teaching me how to do

makeup when I was 12. I had a grandmother who was a pillar of the Baptist church.

Express: How did you two meet?

Jonny: [After living for a time in Austin], I was working for the Reconciling Ministries Network, which is a national non-profit challenging the United Methodist church and its policies and practices towards LGBTQ people. I did their communications, and I was organizing and reclaiming my parts of myself that were really harmed by growing up Southern Baptist and being queer and coming out bi, and then coming out, and coming out in all these ways. I didn’t know where my home was. I knew it wasn’t in Austin anymore, but I knew I hadn’t found my people [in Chicago]. I’d been pretty lonely. I just hadn’t found my people.

Elon: I’d already lived in Chicago for seven or eight years at that point and had a very well-established group of queer friends who were fashion designers and art dealers and bike mechanics and who worked at ad agencies — just people who had really interesting lives and jobs.

Jonny: Getting to know Elon … I finally found a safe place to start getting out of my Banana Republic camisole shirts and all of the adornments of trying to pass as femme or being female enough, or appealing.

Elon: It took us about three weeks to figure out we were dating, because obviously we have differences in our gender, but at the time we were navigating a same-sex relationship, and it really wasn’t clear if we were having a slumber party, or if we were gonna make out. … You know, I came out to my mom when I still lived in Traverse City, but I wasn’t open about my identity until I lived in Chicago. So at that time, I hadn’t really experienced a lot of opportunities to date women or to know what I liked.

All I knew was, if what I saw in northern Michigan lesbians was a lesbian, I must be something else.

Jonny: And what I had been experiencing in Austin [where an androgynous look was the ideal], was “I must be something else.”

I was hanging out at the lesbian coffee shop — I did a great job — I identified internally as bi, but I mostly dated women. Yeah, there was something that wasn’t me.

At this point in the interview, as we discuss Jonny and Elon’s personal growth and the evolution of their relationship over nearly two decades, it becomes evident that the reporter’s assumption that Jonny transitioned because they [Jonny] “felt like a man trapped in a woman’s body” is not correct.

Express: Do you feel like one of you struggled more than the other with the transition? I was assuming it would be Elon.

Elon: I had been asking Jonny for a long time, “Do you feel like transition might be a thing for you?” And they were like, “Eh.” You know, you have to understand that if you get societal messaging that who you are is not OK, you could be in a loving relationship with someone for 10 years — you could be married to someone — and still be afraid to tell them that there’s something else? You could have someone saying “I love and accept trans people, and I suspect you might be one,” and you could still not be able to recognize that truth because of nothing other than societal pressure.

It’s the air we breathe, it’s the water we drink, it’s the subtle and not-so-subtle messages we get from our parents and from our culture. Jonny and I were together for 14 years before they said, “Yeah, I think that might be a thing.”

Express: So, Jonny, was there a turning point, a moment or a day that you reached, or was your realization gradual?

Jonny: I was at the Creating Change conference in Philadelphia the weekend that Trump was inaugurated. We were at this queer conference — 2,500 people. Pride was a 501(c)(3) at this point. I went to an executive director roundtable with a lot of my heroes that have been in this work for a long time, nationally. We were breaking out into groups, woman-lead executive directors, directors with whatever, and executive directors who were trans. I literally was in this room of queer people and I was like, “I wanna be with [the trans leaders].”

I walked over and I was like, “I feel like I wanna be with y’all here.” And even coming out to people who were obviously the most welcoming and embracing, I was still like, “Can I … am I trans enough?”

I was just down a very personal rabbit hole of self discovery of getting really real with myself, and I cried a lot. I thought about all the ways that I’d harmed this wonderful, beautiful feminine in me because I was so angry about not having the body I wanted and not having a more masculine presentation, so I’d kind of hated on this part of me. I’d done some anger and harm. That was the point where I was like, “Well, glad I’ve got that date with my therapist when I get home.

There was also this thing that happened as I was really moving toward transition,

Express: You are just … Jonny, where you are.

Jonny: I really don’t like correcting people too much, but it is me, and if you really want to get to know me, that’s where we start talking about it. There are a lot of young people who are identifying nonbinary, more so than ever before, and we’re gonna see this continue. It’s not like we’re trying to break … well, maybe we are.

Elon: We’re not trying to break down the useful, helpful determining factors that allow people to navigate society with greater ease. We’re actually trying to make our culture, our society, our being on this planet more humane for everybody.

It’s not about saying “I’m different, I’m special, I’m other.” It’s about saying, “I’m human, just like you. I just have different aspects to my being-ness. And because those things are marginalized and “othered” by our primary macro-culture, there’s an aspect of that that’s work.

It’s a lot of emotional labor to just be a queer person in this world. We’re always fielding questions. It’s a blessing to be able to field questions, but it’s work.

You know, you just go to the hospital, and you do a thing, or your husband gets a thing done, and you leave. We go to the hospital, and 500 people ask me, “Well what’s going on? Well, what kind of surgery?” Somehow, because trans people are so marginalized, well-educated, well-meaning allies will often ask about Jonny’s genitals.

So “they” is my pronoun, and when you talk about me, talk about me as Jonny: “Jonny was over the other night. They looked great, their mustache is fu*%ing fantastic.” which was [because of their founding and continued work of organizing Up North Pride], suddenly, we became the queer spokespeople — highly public. At some point, I realized: The noise in my head is really loud, I hate looking at myself in a mirror, I have parts of me that I am completely dysphoric about. I realized that I was going to be in this small town with some public-facing stuff, and I was gonna transition publicly.

Express: Do you think your work with Pride and the LGBTQ+ community helped realize you needed to undergo change to be more who you are, or did it complicate it?

Jonny: It complicated it. What’s public, what’s private? What am I doing for me, what am I doing because I love these young people, and I want to pave the way as my elders have paved the way for me? That got murky in the last few years, and it’s a lot more in focus now. I am identifying now, for myself, and trying to be more true in an LGBT space. Identifying as genderqueer and coming forward that way. … For me, I just know it’s not “girl,” “ma’am,” “honey pie,” “lady.”

Elon: And it’s also not “sir,” “mister,” “gentleman.”

Jonny: Although, I’d rather that. It keeps me safe in certain places where people don’t know me. That’s for safety. So “they” is my pronoun, and when you talk about me, talk about me as Jonny: “Jonny was over the other night. They looked great, their mustache is fu*%ing fantastic.”

Express: But wait. You’re not saying you felt like a man.

Jonny: I’m not.

Jonny: The only people that get asked about their genitals are transgender people.

Elon: No one else.

Jonny: It’s objectifying and very dehumanizing, and I’ve been very surprised at how many people are interested. Not directly with me —kind of sidesaddle, through other people. But that’s impolite — I’m not an object.

The conversation turns to the manners (or lack thereof) of even well-meaning people when talking to or about a person’s transition.

Elon: You might have a nickname at home that isn’t the name that’s called out in the world, right? It’s not hard to change who we call a person. Women get married all the time and change their last name. Everyone can do that. They don’t suddenly say, “Oh, I’m sorry, I just can’t keep up with your name changes.” Whereas a trans person gets that all day long: “Oh, I’m so sorry, I just can’t keep up with all your name changes. Oh, and this pronoun! I’m an English major, I just can’t do they/them for a singular.”

Express: Are you getting that?

Elon: All day long.

Express: What can people who think of themselves as allies do to help?

Elon: There are these awareness events that you can show up at one week a year, one day a year and march with us, but, to be an ally is more. I mean, we’ve got great t-shirts — get a t-shirt, wear it, put it out there — but actually put some action behind it as well. You can’t just wear our Pride, you have to do something.

And that’s an uncomfortable transition from an ally to an accomplice, right? We’re asking you to actually put some of your privilege on the line to make our lives safer.

Express: For people who might be figuring out where and who they are, or are considering transitioning, do you have any advice?

Jonny: For people in the area who have a concern or who may be exploring this, there’s a trans and non-binary support group through Polestar. There is also the program that I am in [University of Michigan Comprehensive Gender Services], and what I like about it is that they have a longitudinal research aspect to it. So they’re studying the positive outcomes of the therapy. They have a lot of requirements to get in, but you can fill out an application, and they are very responsive.

Express: Within the trans community, is it equally embraced if someone doesn’t do any surgeries; they just do hormones, or simply dress differently?

Jonny: It’s different for everyone. I mean, I have friends who are going all the way. I recently met someone who had never met another transgender person, and they are absolutely certain that they are having all the surgeries. But it’s — it’s expensive. It often comes down to access and privilege.

Elon: If we didn’t have fiscal help from our family, there’d be no way we could do the things that we’re doing. We’ve depleted our retirement accounts. We have no savings.

This is — Jonny’s survival is more important than our future, right? But these are things that people don’t see, you know — our life. I like to joke that we live extravagantly from paycheck to paycheck. But we pass for middle-class.

Jonny: And when we’re talking about young people who’re prepubescent, there are hormone blockers that some young people can get onto so that they can make a decision that’s not so long-lasting, until they’re older and more actualized. It’s a tender area though because there are also kids who are trans, and at seven years of age — the age of persistence — if they are showing certain markers, that’s when you know, if that persistence is at such a level at age seven, then you may want to recognize that it may be very likely that you have a trans child on your hands.

Express: And then?

Jonny: Therapy. They need to make sure that a therapist is absolutely an LGBTQinformed therapist. There are a lot of therapists who make that claim who aren’t.

Elon: I think Pollstar is actively gathering resources to make sure that they can make a [vetted] referral network basically.

Jonny: I am so grateful for the wonderful therapy and so many awesome people I’ve had in my life. I’ve been around a lot of people who’ve helped me. But yeah, therapy.

Revisiting that kid and going, “I’m so sorry.”

Picking up the pieces. And that’s a lot. I am still picking up my pieces.

Express: Final insights or advice for anyone — gay, straight, trans, or on a spectrum — who’s reading this?

Elon: The most basic thing I can think of is as a human — and that’s what this is about. It’s not about anything more complex than that. It’s not about all these politicized aspects of our identity — it’s about: We deserve to be who we are and love who we love. And that’s true of everyone. Let’s make that true for everyone.

Let’s make that true that there are no more kids — may there be no more queer kids in these isolated areas who don’t think that they deserve love.

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ARE WE EVEN SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE? It’s easy to be threatened by what you don’t understand. But bridging that gap isn’t only worthwhile — whose life isn’t made richer by knowing people who aren’t just like you? — it’s critical if you believe all human beings are worthy of dignity and respect. A simple way to start? Telling it like it is. Here to help is a glossary of terms, courtesy of GLAAD.

preferred by the person. Many transgender people are prescribed hormones by their doctors to bring their bodies into alignment with their gender identity. Some undergo surgery as well. But not all transgender people can or will take those steps, and a transgender identity is not dependent upon physical appearance or medical procedures.

Sexual Orientation: The scientifically accurate term for an individual’s enduring physical, romantic and/ or emotional attraction to members of the same and/or opposite sex, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual (straight) orientations.

Avoid the offensive term “sexual preference,” which is used to suggest that being gay, lesbian, or bisexual is voluntary and therefore “curable.” People need not have had specific sexual experiences to know their own sexual orientation; in fact, they need not have had any sexual experience at all.

Queer: An adjective used by some people, particularly younger people, whose sexual orientation is not exclusively heterosexual (e.g. queer person, queer woman). Typically, for those who identify as queer, the terms lesbian, gay, and bisexual are perceived to be too limiting and/or fraught with cultural connotations they feel don’t apply to them.

Some people may use queer, or more commonly genderqueer, to describe their gender identity and/or gender expression (see non-binary and/or genderqueer below).

Once considered a pejorative term, queer has been reclaimed by some LGBT people to describe themselves; however, it is not a universally accepted term even within the LGBT community.

Gay: The adjective used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attractions are to people of the same sex (e.g., gay man, gay people).

Sometimes lesbian (n. or adj.) is the preferred term for women.

Lesbian: A woman whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to other women. Some lesbians may prefer to identify as gay (adj.) or as gay women.

Bisexual, Bi: A person who has the capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attractions to those of the same gender or to those of another gender. People may experience this attraction in differing ways and degrees over their lifetime. Bisexual people need not have had specific sexual experiences to be bisexual; in fact, they need not have had any sexual experience at all to identify as bisexual.

Gender Identity: A person’s internal, deeply held sense of their gender. For transgender people, their own internal gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Most people have a gender identity of man or woman (or boy or girl). For some people, their gender identity does not fit neatly into one of those two choices (see non-binary and/or genderqueer below.) Unlike gender expression (see below) gender identity is not visible to others.

Gender Expression: External manifestations of gender, expressed through a person’s name, pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, and/or body characteristics.

Society identifies these cues as masculine and feminine, although what is considered masculine or feminine changes over time and varies by culture. Typically, transgender people seek to align their gender expression with their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth.

Transgender: An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. People under the transgender umbrella may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including transgender. Use the descriptive term

LGBTQ: Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. Sometimes, when the Q is seen at the end of LGBT, it can also mean questioning. LGBT and/or GLBT are also often used. The term “gay community” should be avoided, as it does not accurately reflect the diversity of the community. Rather, LGBTQ community is preferred.

Intersex: An umbrella term describing people born with reproductive or sexual anatomy and/or a chromosome pattern that can’t be classified as typically male or female.

Those variations are also sometimes referred to as Differences of Sex Development (DSD). Avoid the outdated and derogatory term “hermaphrodite.” While some people can have an intersex condition and also identify as transgender, the two are separate and should not be conflated. (For more information, visit interactyouth.org.)

Homosexual: Outdated clinical term considered derogatory and offensive.

Coming Out: A lifelong process of selfacceptance. People forge a LGBTQ identity first to themselves and then they may reveal it to others. Publicly sharing one’s identity may or may not be part of coming out.

Closeted: Describes a person who is not open about their sexual orientation. Better to simply refer to someone as “not out” about being LGBTQ. Some individuals may be out to some people in their life, but not out to others due to fear of rejection, harassment, violence, losing one’s job, or other concerns.

Outing: The act of publicly declaring (sometimes based on rumor and/or speculation) or revealing another person’s sexual orientation or gender identity without that person’s consent. Considered inappropriate by a large portion of the LGBTQ community.

Lifestyle: Inaccurate term used by antiLGBTQ extremists to denigrate LGBTQ people. As there is no one straight lifestyle, there is no one LGBTQ lifestyle.

Learn more: www.glaad.org.

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Polish for a Day Or a weekend (recommended), at the Cedar Polka Fest

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Whether you polka or just wish you did, the music that drives the Cedar Polka Fest’s dance floor is something to behold. In addition to Larry and his Larks, here’s who’s playing, when:

By Ross Boissoneau Pennsylvania has nothing on Cedar. Sure, it boasts the Pennsylvania Polka, but Cedar has the Polka Fest. And can you get kielbasa, golabki, or pierogies in Pennsylvania? Well, yes, you likely can, but Cedar is much closer, and besides, there’s the parade, dancers, and yes, plenty of polka music.

The Cedar Polka Fest takes place June 20–23. And though it’s the 38th annual, “I think this will be the best one in a long time,” said Lisa Rossi Brett, co-chair of the festival.

“We’ve added a car show Saturday from 9 to noon. At the same time is the fireman’s pancake breakfast under the tent. The parade is a 1pm, and it will be the largest ever — we have over 90 entrants this year. We have two Polish dance troupes. And tethered hot air balloon rides and the Coast Guard helicopter will be making an appearance.”

So, parade — check. Dancers — check.

Balloon and chopper — check, check. Cars, pancakes, and Polish food — check, check and check. If only there was some Polish beer, or maybe a polka-themed religious celebration.

LEGIT POLISH BEER “We changed beer vendors, and we’ll have Okocim Polish beer. Sunday morning, we’ll have the polka mass. That’s one of the things people come back every year for. It’s a unique experience.”

Indeed, such could be said about the entire Cedar Polka Fest. The longtime celebration is the oldest festival in Leelanau County. The four-day event takes place

under the big tent in downtown Cedar.

Really, you can’t miss it.

And yes, there will be polkas aplenty, with music by Judy & Her Suchey Brothers, Larry & The Larks, Dyna Brass and Cynor Classics. “Larry & the Larks is one of the original Polkafest bands,” said Rossi Brett.

Also on board are two different dance groups: The youth dance troupe Gwiazda Polish Dancers will perform Saturday afternoon, while an adult group, Wawal Folk Ensemble, will perform Sunday afternoon.

LOCAL BOY’S VODKA Another special feature of the Polkafest is the official vodka, Valentine Vodka from Ferndale. Why Valentine Vodka? It was named “World’s Best” by The World Vodka Awards in London in both 2016 and 2017.

Oh, and Rifino Valentine, who founded and heads Valentine Distilling, is originally from Cedar and is a Glen Lake graduate.

As for the food, local vendors Pleva’s Market and Bunting’s Market will offer authentic Polish food of all sorts, as will Srodeck’s from Hamtramck. Rocco’s Pizza will be on hand as well, for those eschewing the authentic themed foodstuffs.

RIDE, DON’T DRIVE There’s even special bus service between Cedar and Traverse City Friday and Saturda.

BATA is offering service beginning at 5 and looping continuously with the last bus back to Traverse City at 11:30.

Even when the party’s over, it’s not over.

Following the Polka Fest teardown, the afterparty will run from 6pm to 10pm Sunday. It

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will feature Crosscut Kings, a root and blues blues duo from Charlevoix.

Rossi Brett said the welcoming atmosphere makes for a great time for both polka enthusiasts and those who aren’t. “It’s such a small community but such a large event,” she said. The festival is a project — perhaps the project — of the Cedar Chamber of Commerce. “Most people don’t know every penny goes back into the community — scholarships, the fire department, families in need, parks. It’s a great fundraiser for the area.” For more information, go to CedarMiChamber.com.

Kids Day

The Cedar Polka Fest is kid-friendly, but Saturday, June 22, is extra special: It kicks off with a 9am–11am pancake breakfast, a one-hour Polka Fest parade, hot air balloon rides, and a DJ playing music of all kinds — not just polkas — until 4pm.

Making things even kid-friendlier between 2pm and 4pm are Clark the Juggler and an illusionist performing for the amusement of youngsters and the young at heart. There will also be kids games, face-painting, a bounce house, and more. Admission to the festival is half-price until 4pm.

The DynaBrass DynaBrass is an award-winning IPA (International Polka Association) and USPA (United States Polka Association) music group based in Toledo. It has been performing at venues and festivals throughout the US and Canada for more than 20 years. The band won two United States Polka Association (USPA) awards in 2017. Its CD Dance All Night was named Recording of the Year, and the title track won Song of the Year. It is one of six CDs the band has recorded.

Judy and Her Suchey Brothers Originally the five Suchey brother and little sister Judy on drums, the Alpena-based band still boasts a number of Sucheys, as well as honorary family members. The group has been going strong for over 45 years, performing across the country; it was even written up in the Washington Post.

Cynor Classics The self-described “Chicago-style honky polka band” formed in 2004, though its musical heritage dates back a half-century. Its style is derived from the ethnic Polish cultures of Chicago in the ’50s. Bobby and Lee Cynor joined with another local band to form a quartet featuring concertina, bass, trumpet, and saxophone/drums.

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Larry & his Larks Come Home Beloved Cedar-founded family polka band to open Cedar Polka Fest

By Ross Boissoneau Larry Fleis can’t kick the polka habit.

On the night of June 20, Fleis, president and chairman of the board of directors of the multi-state engineering company he helped found, will pick up his accordion and bring back one of northern Michigan’s finest family polka bands, Larry & his Larks.

Together, the band will help open — fittingly — the most famous festival of their hometown, the annual Cedar Polka Fest.

Larry and his wife, Jackie; sister Noreen and her husband, Dale; and longtime friend and band member Bobby Atkinson will kick things off. Maybe they’ll even get Larry and Noreen’s sister Joanie onstage to sing and play drums for a couple tunes. That seems only right, since it was Larry, Noreen, and Joanie that started the band way back when.

The Polka-playing Fleis kids grew up in Cedar and attended Glen Lake Community Schools. After graduating, they went went their separate ways — Larry to Grand Rapids, where he began working as a civil engineer; Noreen to Ohio and then to Grand Rapids — but the draw of polka music kept them and their family band close, and close to home.

“When I moved to Grand Rapids, it seemed like all our gigs were in Traverse City,” said Larry Fleis with a laugh.

And there were a lot of gigs. Fleis said at one time the group played as many as 80 a year. “We played a lot of festivals. We were on the road a lot — Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin. We made a couple trips to Florida, a couple cruises. We went to Hawaii with three bands.”

But by the early ’90s, polka was taking its toll, and their own families and jobs needed to take precedence. “It was a lot of fun, but it was getting to be too much,” Fleis said.

“Our kids were in high school. We made our careers and kids the focus, and kind of put it [the band] on the shelf. But we never really stopped.”

Since then, the band has played just a handful of shows each year. “We mainly just do benefits,” said Fleis. Most recently, he and Jackie played at a family gathering celebrating their Uncle Joe’s birthday. “He’s in his early 80s. We came over and played for his birthday. That’s just a lot of fun, a lot of laughs,” Fleis said.

When their hometown festival came calling, however, the band didn’t hesitate. No polka band would, he said.

“The Cedar Polka Fest is an awesome festival. Other bands came up to us [at other shows] and asked, ‘How do we play [Cedar Polka Fest]?’ It’s a very desirable place to play.

It has great crowds. You get some younger people too. You don’t see that at some of the others.”

With a life lived in polka come accolades.

In 2010, Fleis was inducted into the Michigan State Music Hall of Fame for Polka and Ethnic Music. That’s not the only award he’s received. He also was cited by Michigan State University for his contributions to his day job when he received the 2019 Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award. (He and Steve VandenBrink and their wives founded Fleis & VandenBrink (F&V) Engineering, Inc. in 1993. The company now has more than 225 employees in nine offices in Michigan and Indiana. Fleis served as president of the firm until 2017; today he serves as president and chairman of the board of directors of the parent company, F&V Companies, Inc.) The demands of his day job notwithstanding, Fleis and his Larks remain committed to giving the people — Polish or not — what they want on Cedar’s summer dance floor.

So what is it about the timeless sound that continues to draw him and his sisters, and so many others to polka? Fleis believes it’s hard to resist that insistent polka beat. “It’s an energy type of music,” he said. “I’m usually pretty tired by the end of the evening.”

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Authors Steve Hamilton and Bryan Gruley Michigan’s own mystery men Few know the necessity of homecoming quite like a native of the great Mitten State.

Even fewer know the nooks and crannies of its illustrious Up North. Enter acclaimed suspense writers Bryan Gruley and Steve Hamilton. For these novelists, northern Michigan’s singular nostalgia is as nearby as the next page. Both have pioneered wildly successful suspense novel series, set in — you guessed it — northern Michigan, and with two highly anticipated new books just released, this prominent pair will take the stage for a National Writers Series event, June 27 at the City Opera House in Traverse City. Northern Express reached out to them in advance of their appearances to talk mystery, manuscript, and of course, Michigan. By Anna Faller

Steve Hamilton

Bryan Gruley

Before he was a writer, Steve Hamilton was a storyteller.

“I started out, like most writers, by being a big reader,” he said. “The dream of being able to tell stories for a living was born there, and I never let go of it — even when I went to college and got a ‘real’ degree and started working a ‘real’ job. In the back of my mind, I had made this promise to myself that, no matter how long it took, I would become a writer.”

Now a two-time Edgar Award recipient and an author of 15 New York Times bestselling novels, it’s safe to say Hamilton has made good on that promise. Since the 1998 success of his debut novel, “A Cold Day in Paradise,” Hamilton has added nine installments to his celebrated Alex McKnight series, a collection of crime-thrillers about a Detroit cop who leaves the force for Paradise, Michigan. And now, he’s tacking on a tenth.

“Alex McKnight is the one character who’s been with me from the beginning,” said Hamilton. “Dead Man Running is the first McKnight novel in five years, so I really wanted to up the ante for him — but I was kind of surprised at just how dark this book turned out.”

In coherence with its 10 spine-tingling predecessors, “Dead Man Running” (2018) follows the affairs of P.I. powerhouse, Alex McKnight. After the FBI summons McKnight to speak with a serial killer, he finds himself at the center of a sinister plot. In order to crack the code, McKnight must play by the murderer’s rules. But when revenge is the name of the game, the only way to win is to survive.

According to Hamilton, suspense is essential to the very human condition. “One of the characteristics of crime fiction is that it appeals to the fundamental storytelling instinct that we all have,” he said. “If you think about it, dark, violent stories are the oldest stories of all!”

A current resident of upstate New York, Hamilton is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a native of Detroit. “And then I moved away,” he said. But hindsight is invariably 20/20. “Sometimes you have to leave a place to really understand what it was that made that place special. James Joyce wrote Ulysses when he was living in Paris, looking back at Dublin and seeing it from that distance. I understand why he had to do it that way.”

But if Joyce’s paradise was Dublin, Hamilton’s paradise is literally Paradise, Michigan.

“As far as the U.P goes, Alex McKnight wanted to leave his whole life behind and go to the most remote place he could find,” said Hamilton of his choice of setting. “As a Michigander, I knew there was only one choice: Straight north on I-75, across that bridge, and into another world.”

Bestselling author Bryan Gruley has been writing stories since primary school, but his endeavors as a novelist, are still somewhat, well … novel. A journalist by trade, Gruley got his start writing for a few small publications in southeastern Michigan before moving on to features for the Detroit News; the Wall Street Journal, where he shared the Pulitzer Prize awarded to the journal staff in 2002; and finally Chicago’s infamous Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in 2011.

Nevertheless, his need to narrate persisted. “I was writing like crazy all those years,” said Gruley. “News stories, features, essays — but my favorite is to write narrative features.

All along, I wanted to write novels: That was my dream.”

In 2002, Gruley finally began the framework for what would become his acclaimed “Starvation Lake” trilogy. But, once a journalist, always a journalist. “[Writing nonfiction] requires a lot of observation that helps bring places to life,” says Gruley. So while the backbone of the book is entirely fictional, it’s based on a lake that actually exists. “My mom and dad have a place on Big Twin Lake, which is near Starvation Lake — you can find it on a map,” he says. “It’s a big, beautiful lake [in the Mancelona area], and one of the most beautiful places on earth, as far as I’m concerned.”

In his most recent release, Bleak Harbor (2018), Gruley chronicles the kidnapping of an autistic boy from a similarly tiny town. Everyone knows everyone in Bleak Harbor, Michigan. A tourist trap with an old-fashioned feel, Bleak Harbor is rife with nosey neighbors and closed curtains. So when Danny Peters, the youngest member of one of the city’s most significant families suddenly goes missing, the town clamors to find the culprit, but in a city of secrets, someone’s bound to let one slip.

So what what’s the muse behind Gruley’s mystery M.O? “To be honest, when I wrote “Starvation Lake,” I just thought of it as a story,” he said. “But the publishing industry said, ‘Well, this is a mystery.’ They have so many labels. For me, most novels are mysteries of some sort. [Mine are just] called mystery fiction.”

Gruley isn’t about to let labels constrain his craft. “In all cases, you’re trying to write so that people will read a paragraph and want to read the next paragraph,” he says. “You want to keep it interesting, keep them in the room; that’s the challenge. And that’s what makes it fun, too.”

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She said doing shows at smaller venues is something she enjoys, engaging the audiences both in performances and following the show. As an example, she mentioned a recent show in Bozeman, Montana.

“It was a teeny little theater that had been restored. Afterward I often do a meet and greet, say hello. The people after were delightful, saying ‘Thank you for coming all the way to Bozeman.’ It’s kind of charming. It should be the other way — you bought a ticket.”

It also doesn’t matter where the gig is, conservative or liberal, black or white, red or blue. While personally leaning to the left side of the political spectrum, Poundstone said an audience’s political affiliations don’t necessarily impact her. “First of all, we all have more in common [than we don’t]. My act is not entirely political, but some is,” she said. And even in areas that skew one direction or another, “There’s no place I know of that is totally one way,” she said.

Poundstone has been a frequent guest of television shows such as The Tonight Show, as well as starring in her own shows on network television as well as several HBO specials. She’s worked as a voice actor and was recognized on Comedy Central’s list of The 100 Best Stand-up Comics of All Time.

She has also won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-up.

Today, many people are familiar with her from her role as a panelist on the NPR news

quiz/comedy show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me.” Poundstone admits that she wasn’t a fan of the show before joining it. In fact, she wasn’t familiar with it at all. “They called me up. I hadn’t heard of it,” she said.

The producers sent her a cassette of the show, which she promptly deposited on her kitchen island. One day her nanny saw it, and said, “I love that show. You have to do it.”

It’s now one of NPR’s most popular programs. “I have to say it’s one of the best things that’s ever happened to me,” Poundstone said.

Poundstone also weighed in on an area infrequently explored: the role technology has played in comedy, from social media to streaming services to podcasting (she also has her own podcast, “Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone”). She unsurprisingly has a succinct and amusing take on what it all means: “Technology makes it possible for people to do more work for less money.”

Neverthless, she adds, “I mess around with Twitter far more than is productive.”

The comedian said her stand-up shows vary from night to night. She often incorporates material derived from the area she’s visiting, from the audience, or even on her drive to the theater where she is performing. “Part of the joy in my job is [incorporating] something in the theater or on my way to the venue. In the old days, I tried to ignore distractions. Now my whole act is a distraction.

“I don’t have a set, and I can’t memorize a set list,” she said, adding, “I’m sure aging is not helping my memory. When my kids were little and getting ready for school, I would tape my list [of things to do] on my shirt. My whole act has changed in response to the fact I can’t remember.”

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GLEN ARBOR SOLSTICE HALF MARATHON & 5K: 7am, 6050 South Lake St., Glen Arbor. enduranceevolution.com/glen-arbor-solsticehalf-marathon-5k

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MICHIGAN MOUNTAIN MAYHEM SPRING CLASSIC: SOLD OUT: 7am, 119 Water St., Boyne City. 50K, 100K, 160K & 200K. michiganmountainmayhem.com

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ELLSWORTH/ATWOOD PIG ROAST: Featuring a pancake breakfast, 5K run, hometown parade, crafts, food, benefit motorcycle ride, annual horse pull, softball tournament & more.

Find on Facebook.

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE AREA PARADE OF HOMES: 9am-7pm. $15 advance; $18 during parade. hbagta.com/parade-of-homes

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SUMMER 2019 STEVE MILLER BAND MARTY STUART AND HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES June 25

ROTARY’S KIDS FREE FISHING DAY: 9am1pm, NMC’s Great Lakes Campus, TC. Kids will fish with the help of caring community volunteers. Over 750 rainbow trout are stocked in the Great Lakes Campus Harbor, on the bay side of NMC Hagerty Center. More than 50 volunteers assist with equipment set-up, fish cleaning & kids’ safety. The event also features fish painting by the Great Lakes Children’s Museum & free pizza. The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station TC will perform an air rescue by helicopter demonstration. New this year will be the Greilick Outdoor Recreation & Education Center Mobile Fishing Camp. Free.

---------------------SUMMER KICK-OFF PARTY: 9am-4pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Celebrate the start of the 50th summer at Grass River with guided hikes, live music, games & crafts, including the start of a new fairy garden. Free. grassriver.org BÉLA FLECK & the FLECKTONES • July 1

---------------------WINGS OVER NORTHERN MI: 9am-5pm, Gaylord Regional Airport. Featuring everything from historical WWII aircraft & vehicles to stateof-the-art modern military assets, pyrotechnics & more. $12-$110. mynorthtickets.com/events/ wings-over-northern-michigan-airshow-2019

---------------------The MAGIC of BILL BLAGG LIVE! • July 2

ZEN MEDITATION RETREAT: 9am-4pm, UUC-GT building, 6726 Center Rd., TC. Includes dharma talks & lunch. Offered by SokukoJi Buddhist Community. Suggested donation: $40. RSVP. sokukojitc.org

---------------------ANNUAL BAY HARBOR LAKE MARINA INWATER BOAT SHOW: 10am-8pm, Bay Harbor Lake Marina. Runs June 14-16.

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FAIRIES & FORTS: 10am-1pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Featuring art projects at Discovery Grove, stories & songs with Miriam Pico & Jenifer Strauss, & a Parade to the Fort for the annual flag raising, led by teen bagpiper Micah Bauer. Free. crystalmountain.com/ event/fairies-forts

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GUIDED WALK AT CLAY CLIFFS NATURAL AREA: 10am. With Conservancy docents Ann McInnis & Jane Gale. leelanauconservancy. org/events/hikes

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JOSHUA DAVIS with special guests STEPPIN’ IN IT • July 20

THESE AND MANY MORE

tickets.interlochen.org 800.681.5920

HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10am-noon: Poet signing with Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois, author of “The Arrest of Mr. Kissy Face.” 122pm: Book launch party with Richard Alan Hall, author of “They Call Me Machete.” Jill Jack will also perform live music. 2-4pm: J.R. Erickson will sign his book “Ashes Beneath Her.” 4-6pm: Katie Kalisz will read from her book “Quiet Woman: Poems.” horizonbooks.com/event

A lecture by sailor Jerome Rand will be held on Weds., June 19 from 8:30-10am at NCMC, Student & Community Resource Center, Petoskey. Rand will speak about his 271-day non-stop sail around the world aboard the Westsail 32, “Mighty Sparrow.” This journey of 29,805 miles sailed tested every limit, both mental and physical. $10, includes breakfast. Reservations required: 231-348-6600.

This exhibition represents the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly to paint at the Old Art Building. Some work in oils while others use watercolors, pastels, acrylics & other media. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------TC HEALTH & WELLNESS/CRAFT & VENDOR EXPO: 10am, GT County Civic Center, TC. The first 50 people through the doors will receive a goodie bag of coupons, samples & more. Register as “Going” to be entered into the giveaway for a $50 MasterCard. Get your Passport Card at the door to win prizes from the vendors. Free. Find on Facebook.

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WHERE TO NOW?: A POETRY WORKSHOP WITH MARY ANN SAMYN: 10:30am, Leland Township Library. Join poet, professor & Leelanau-enthusiast Mary Ann Samyn for a poetry workshop titled “Where to Now? A Sense of Direction for Poets.” Samyn will encourage participants to start a new poem & consider the many ways it could go, the discoveries it could make, the satisfactions it could offer. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------39TH ANNUAL TASTE OF THE NORTH: 11am-2pm, Little Traverse Historical Museum, Petoskey. Featuring food samples from 11 area restaurants. Tickets: $2 per taste; available at museum during event. There will also be a petting zoo, free bike tune-ups & food stories. petoskeymuseum.org/taste-of-the-north.html

---------------------“CHANGE YOUR MINDSET/CHANGE YOUR AGE”: 1pm, Grace Episcopal Church, TC. Featuring Chicago author & Michigan native Dr. Margaret Robling. Free.

---------------------ART SHOW & SALE: 1-5pm, Unity Church, TC. “Cool Bugs We Love: The Role of Insects in Northern Michigan.”

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KIDS EVENT: 10am, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. For ages 4-8. Author Natalie Ziarnik will discuss her book “A Lullaby of Summer Things.” There will also be a craft to go with the book. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

“COMPANY”: 2pm & 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by Cadillac Footliters. On the night of his 35th birthday, Robert struggles to think of a wish to make as he blows out his birthday candles. The lone bachelor, Robert is uncertain whether he should simply be happy with his life or whether he should be part of a “couple” himself. $14 online. cadillacfootliters.com/tickets

LEELANAU ARTISTS’ ANNUAL EXHIBITION: 10am-5pm, Old Art Building, Leland.

“THE THREE MUSKETEERS” BY OTP YOUNG COMPANY: 7pm, Old Town Play-

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house, TC. Young D’Artagnan hopes to become a musketeer alongside Athos, Porthos & Aramis. $17 adults; $9.25 youth under 18. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------“DIVE DEEP INTO SELF-EXPRESSION THRU INTERPLAY”: 2-5pm, New Moon Yoga, TC. Explore yourself, life & joy of creativity, using drama, movement, sound, storytelling & contact. $15-$30 suggested donation. 231-774-6146. soulwayshealing.com/interplay.html

---------------------2ND ANNUAL SUDS & SUN: 2-8pm, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Enjoy live music featuring local & regional musicians including Soul Patch, Zion Lion & more, 20+ craft breweries serving beer, wine & cider, & local food vendors. $40 general admission; $35 early bird tickets. sudsandsuntc.com

---------------------DEDICATION OF DOUGHERTY MISSION HOUSE: 2pm, 18459 Mission Rd., Village of Old Mission. Dedication & Official Opening of the Historic 1842 Dougherty Mission House is being held. Free.

---------------------EXPERIENCE ART RAPIDS 2019: FILMS!: 3:30pm & 7pm, Elk Rapids Cinema. Featuring “Maria By Callas.” Tickets: $6 matinee; $8 evening. Available at Elk Rapids Cinema box office. artrapids.org/calendar

---------------------STORMCLOUD BREWING CO. CELEBRATES 6TH BIRTHDAY WITH TRAIL FUNDRAISER: 4-6pm, Stormcloud Brewing Co., Frankfort. In addition to beer cupcakes & live music, the birthday party will include a fundraising event for the Betsie Valley Trail, a 22-mile, non-motorized pathway stretching across Benzie County. Stormcloud will donate a portion of proceeds from pub sales between the hours of 4-6pm to the Friends of the Betsie Valley Trail. stormcloudbrewing.com

---------------------THIRD COAST CONVERSATIONS: “WATER”: 4-5pm, Raven Hill Discovery Center, East Jordan. miravenhill.org

---------------------NASHVILLE NORTH: 5:30pm, Belle Iron Grille, Big Pavilion, Gaylord. Featuring Raleigh Keegan at 5:30pm, Mark Blomsteel at 7:30pm & Wyatt Putman at 9:30pm. Advanced weekend pass purchases available at Event Bright

for $25. Single day passes available at Belle Iron Grille for $15.

---------------------“THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL”: 7:30pm, Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, Glen Arbor. Presented by the Glen Arbor Players. Find ‘Glen Arbor Players’ on Facebook. Donations.

---------------------PETOSKEY FILM SERIES: 7:30pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. Featuring “The Mustang.” Donations appreciated. facebook.com/petoskeyfilm

---------------------CLAY WALKER: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy this multi-platinum country music star. $45, $55, $60. lrcr.com/eventcalendar/concerts/clay-walker

---------------------KATHLEEN MADIGAN: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. This comedian has made 25 appearances on the Tonight Show & multiple appearances on Letterman & Conan. Recently, Madigan has been seen riding around with Jerry Seinfeld in his internet series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” She is currently on her “Hot Dogs and Angels” standup tour. $80, $65, $50, $30. greatlakescfa.org/ event-detail/kathleen-madigan

june 16

sunday

“THE THREE MUSKETEERS” BY OTP YOUNG COMPANY: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Young D’Artagnan hopes to become a musketeer alongside Athos, Porthos & Aramis. $17 adults; $9.25 youth under 18. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------WINGS OVER NORTHERN MI: (See Sat., June 15)

---------------------ANNUAL BAY HARBOR LAKE MARINA INWATER BOAT SHOW: 10am-3pm, Bay Harbor Lake Marina. Runs June 14-16.

---------------------LEELANAU ARTISTS’ ANNUAL EXHIBITION: 10am-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland.

This exhibition represents the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly to paint at the Old Art Building. Some work in oils while others use watercolors, pastels, acrylics & other media. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE AREA PARADE OF HOMES: 11am-4pm. $15 advance; $18 during parade. hbagta.com/parade-of-homes

---------------------YOGA + BEER: 11am, Silver Spruce Brewing Co., TC. Flow class. Bring your own mat. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com/e/yoga-beerat-silver-spruce-tickets-59014678492

---------------------STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: 12-4pm, Alden Depot. Enjoy strawberry shortcake with whipped cream.

---------------------HEALTH CARE FOR ALL: 1-2:30pm, Petoskey District Library. Dr. John Cavacece, a family physician & educator from Grand Rapids, will speak on the complex costs & issues in providing health care. He is a member of Physicians for a National Health Program. Free.

---------------------SONGS & DANCES: 3pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Featuring The Village Voices & the Northport Community Band. $5 - $15. northportperformingarts.org/event

---------------------EXPERIENCE ART RAPIDS 2019: FILMS!: 3:30pm & 7pm, Elk Rapids Cinema. Featuring “Crossing Superior,” Stand Up for Great Lakes.

Tickets: $10 all showings. Available at Elk Rapids Cinema box office. artrapids.org/calendar

---------------------THE ACCIDENTALS IN CONCERT: 6pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. $20$30. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. Featuring

music from The Beatles to Dvorák, honoring love of country to parental love, & including classical to popular songs. $13.50 member; $18.50 non-member. tickets.vendini.com

june 17

DOWNTOWN GLEN ARBOR

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BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: 9am, Miller barn, 4 miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22. June 17-21.

Hosted by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

The workshop will address repairing “hewn sills, a concrete door threshold, wood floor, & structural loft.” Register: 231-326-4771. Free.

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STATE SEN. WAYNE SCHMIDT COFFEE HOURS: 9-10am, East Jordan City Hall. For constituents throughout the 37th Senate District. senatorwayneschmidt.com

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---------------------COFFEE WITH SEN. CURT VANDERWALL: 12-1pm, Cadillac Area Chamber of Commerce.

Open to residents of the 35th Senate District to express their opinions or concerns about state government or to request assistance with a state issue. senatorcurtvanderwall.com/senvanderwall-announces-june-coffee-hours

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---------------------EXPERIENCE ART RAPIDS 2019: FILMS!: 3:30pm & 7pm, Elk Rapids Cinema. Featuring “Crossing Superior,” Stand Up for Great Lakes.

Tickets: $10 all showings. Available at Elk Rapids Cinema box office. artrapids.org/calendar

---------------------MOVIE MONDAYS: ART & DESIGN FILMS: 5:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

Featuring “The Impressionists and the Man Who Made Them.” The host, local artist Heidi Marshall, will lead a discussion about the film after it is shown. crookedtree.org

---------------------LEELANAU PRIDE EVENT: 6pm, Suttons Bay. At 6pm Wren will serve appetizers & a signature cocktail & attendees can bid on items provided

by Leelanau County artists & merchants, as well as buy LGBTQ books provided by Bay Books. At 7:30pm the Bay Theater will show “Wild Nights with Emily.” Afterwards there will be a panel discussion followed by dessert at Wren. Tickets: $25 advance; $30 evening of. Proceeds benefit UpNorth Pride. upnorthpride.com

---------------------THE FORT BEND BOYS CHOIR OF TEXAS IN CONCERT: 7pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. William R. Adams founded the award-winning Fort Bend Boys Choir of Texas Inc. in 1982. Since then, the ensemble has performed for three U.S. Presidents, received an Addy Award, & was nominated for a National Emmy.

Their music ranges from classical selections to folk music. Free.

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: HERE:SAY STORYTELLING: 7-9:30pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. An evening of LGBTQ-themed live storytelling. Suggested $5 donation. upnorthpride.com/ events/2018/6/18/monday-heresay-storytelling

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SUNRISE YOGA FLOW: 7am, East Bay Park, TC. Vinyasa Flow session. Bring your own mat. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com/e/sunrise-yogaflow-east-bay-park-tickets-58449901228

---------------------BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 17)

---------------------COFFEE @ TEN TALK: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. A presentation & demonstration by award-winning ceramic artist Scott Leipski.

Free. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-traverse-city/ coffee-ten-talk-scott-leipski-ceramic-artist

---------------------LEELANAU COUNTY SENIOR EXPO: 10am2pm, Suttons Bay High School. Presented by

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Leelanau County Senior Services. Featuring over 100 vendors showcasing the latest in information, resources, products & services.

Free. leelanau.cc/seniorservices.asp

---------------------GET CRAFTY: 11am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Circle Bird: Children & caregivers explore using geometric shapes to create avian artwork. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------GUEST SPEAKER KAREN DIONNE: 11am, Bellaire Library. This author of the 2018 Michigan Notable Book, “The Marsh King’s Daughter” will sign her book. bellairelibrary.org

---------------------EXPERIENCE ART RAPIDS 2019: FILMS!: 3:30pm & 7pm, Elk Rapids Cinema. Featuring “Singin’ in the Rain.” $6 matinee; $8 evening. artrapids.org/experience-art-rapids

---------------------“ART UP CLOSE”: 4pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. A program that brings works of art by historically significant artists into contemporary spaces. Two works on loan from Grand Valley State University by American Impressionist Mathias J. Alten will be on display from 4pm on Tues., June 18 until 4pm on Weds., June 19. crookedtree.org

---------------------PROGRAM FOR PARENTS: BE SMART GUN SAFETY: 5-6:30pm, Leland Library, Munnecke Room. A presentation with a representative of the Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense on America, the Be SMART public education campaign. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------LIVE! ON THE BIDWELL PLAZA: 5:30-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Bidwell Plaza, Petoskey. Enjoy live music by The Easy Picks, a honkytonk/country/rock band. There will also be free food & art projects for kids. crookedtree.org

---------------------EAT, DRINK, RACE, RECOVER: 6pm, GT Bay YMCA West, TC. Terence Reuben, physical therapist, & Todd Buckingham, Ph.D., lead exercise physiologist, both with Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation, along with Stephen Andriese, M.D., share insight on the importance of fueling smart to perform well. Free.

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UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: LGBTQ+ SHORTS: 6-7pm, State Theatre, TC. Featuring “Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls,” “Do I Have Boobs Now?”, “The Cocoa Fondue Show,” “Something About Alex,” & “Proud to Love.” upnorthpride. com/events/2018/3/30/tuesday-lgbt-shorts-atthe-state-theatre

---------------------GTHC GROUP HIKE: 6:30pm, Pelizzari Natural Area. A 2-3 mile loop hike. Optional refreshments afterward at Peninsula Grill. Questions: Jill Nordin @ detour42@gmail.com facebook.com/GTHikers

---------------------DETOX YOGA FLOW: 6:45pm, Press On Juice Cafe, TC. This one hour class involves a lot of twists & poses that are focused to help eliminate toxins from the body through movement & breath.

Bring your own mat. Contact: townsendsar. yoga@yahoo.com or 944-5694 with questions.

Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------A NEW VIEW OF GOD & ITS EFFECT ON WELL-BEING: 7:30pm, Masonic Temple Building, TC. Phillip Hockley, international speaker, gives a talk on healing whatever is painful & debilitating in our lives. Childcare provided. Free. tccschurch.org

june 19

wednesday

LECTURE BY AROUNDTHE-WORLD SAILOR: 8:3010am, NCMC, Student & Community Resource Center, Iron Horse Café, Petoskey. Jerome Rand will speak about his 271-day non-stop sail around the world aboard the Westsail 32, “Mighty Sparrow.” $10, includes breakfast. Reservations required: 231-348-6600.

---------------------BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 17)

“ART UP CLOSE”: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. A new program that brings works of art by historically significant artists into contemporary spaces. Joel Zwart, curator of exhibitions at GVSU, will give at talk about the historical significance of American Impressionist Mathias J. Alten’s work. crookedtree.org

---------------------2ND ANNUAL CLEAN WATER SYMPOSIUM: 10am-3pm, The Leelanau School, Glen Arbor.

Hosted by Leelanau Clean Water. $20. leelanauconservancy.org/events/2nd-annual-cleanwater-symposium

---------------------IPL’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM: 10:30am, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. “Space For Rent” kick off & registration. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring northern MI bluegrass band Steel & Wood. Free. crookedtree.org

gency Services Field. Activities will include CPR, bleed control & First-Aid instruction. Special appearances from area fire departments with handson demonstrations & agility course. Antrim County Sheriff’s Department deputy to discuss school safety & an appearance & demonstration by TC Coast Guard helicopter & crew. Register. Free.

---------------------INTERACTIVE STORYTIME: 11am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “The Very Quiet Cricket” by Eric Carle. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------LUNCH & LEARN: CONSUMER PROTECTION: 12-1pm, 406 S. Cedar, Kalkaska. Presented by Northwest MI Community Action Agency. Register. nmcaa.net

---------------------“E.T.”: 1pm, Bellaire Public Library. This movie will be shown with popcorn.

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ARCHAEOLOGY DAY: 3-5pm, Samels Farm, Williamsburg. View artifacts, cache pits & more. .

PINT-SIZED PAINT OUT: 1-4pm, Held at Crooked Tree Arts Center & Pennsylvania Park, both in Petoskey. Artists ages 8-15 will compete for prizes, while younger artists are welcome to create their own masterpieces for fun. crookedtree.org

EXPERIENCE ART RAPIDS 2019: FILMS!: 3:30pm & 7pm, Elk Rapids Cinema. Featuring “Soufra,” a Thomas Morgan film. $10. artrapids.org/experience-art-rapids

BOOK SIGNING WITH ALLIE MALDONADO: 2-4pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

Allie is the author of “Tough Cases.” mcleanandeakin.com

---------------------------------------------------------------WEDNESDAY UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: 5:45-7pm: Pride Ride. Meet at F&M Park, TC & take a short bicycle tour through downtown TC. 7-8:30pm: Sign Making Party at Rare Bird Brewpub, TC. upnorthpride.com/events

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------------------------------------------PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH AFTERNOON SUPPORT GROUP: 2pm, 8527 EGovernment Dr., Suttons Bay. Questions: 9477389. Free. pnntc.org

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11TH ANNUAL FINE ART TOUR: 6-9pm.

Showcasing 12 shops in Harbor Springs. 231526-7999.

EXPERIENCE ART RAPIDS 2019: FILMS!: 3:30pm & 7pm, Elk Rapids Cinema. Featuring “Soufra,” a Thomas Morgan film. $10. artrapids.org/experience-art-rapids

EVENINGS AT THE GAZEBO: 6:30pm, Old City Park, Boyne City. Featuring the James Michael Duo.

BENZIE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Thompsonville Airport. See Remote Control (RC) aircraft fly & watch RC vehicles play. $5.

------------------------------------------FIFE LAKE HISTORY - THEN & NOW: 7pm, Fife Lake Library. A Pictorial History. 231-879-4101.

---------------------IDENTIFYING INVASIVE SPECIES: 7pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, Frankfort. Learn how to identify invasive species, how properly remove them, prevent new invasions, & all about beneficial replacement plants. Presented by Emily Cook from the Invasive Species Network. Free. plantitwild.net

---------------------NORTHLAND PLAYERS SUMMER YOUTH THEATER: 7pm, Cheboygan Opera House.

Saddle String...Saturday Night: A radio play, on-stage. Enjoy a night of “A Prairie Home Companion” style entertainment with songs, dancing & hilarious story lines. 231-627-5841. $7 adults, $4 students. Find on Facebook.

---------------------EXPANSIVE: MUSIC OF MOZART, BRAHMS & SHAKESPEARE: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. $15. tickets.vendini.com

june 20

thursday

CHERRY CAPITAL TOASTMASTERS WEEKLY MEETING: 7:15am, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. Gain skills in leadership, communication, confidence & public speaking.

Arrive early. Free. cherrycapitaltm.org

---------------------2019 SENIOR EXPO: 9am-1pm, Wexford Civic Center, Cadillac. Presented by the Wexford County Council on Aging, this year’s theme is Wild Wild West. Featuring over 70 vendor booths, Marcus & Lil Mama from Phattrax, live music by Torrey Warren, Senior Karaoke, & much more. Free. wexfordcoa.org

---------------------BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 17)

---------------------CAMP 911: 9am-4pm, Township Ambulance Authority-Bellaire Station . Children ages 9-12 can spend the day learning about the Emer-

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------------------------------------------CEDAR POLKA FEST: 5pm. Annual festival celebrating the town’s rich Polish history. Featuring live Polka music from Polka bands, food vendors offering traditional Polish food, & more. $10. facebook.com/cedarpolkafestofficial

---------------------DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY PAINT OUT: The “wet paint sale” & reception takes place from 5-9pm on Crooked Tree Arts Center’s Bidwell Plaza. Featuring appetizers, live music & more.

Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------ELK RAPIDS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Short’s Pull Barn.

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: PRISM - A POP-UP: 5-9pm, BLK MRKT, TC. A pop-up art experience offering a night of queer art & fresh local treats.

Parallel 45 Theatre will give a sneak-peak miniperformance at 7:30pm of a few songs from “Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” slated to be performed July 11-Aug. 3 in the Civic Center Park Amphitheater. upnorthpride.com

---------------------HISTORY OF THE POINTER BOAT: 5:30pm, Harbor Springs History Museum, 2nd floor.

Presented by Dudley Marvin & Ed Meyer. Reserve your spot: 231-526-9771. $5 Historical Society members; $10 non-members.

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

Featuring a demo on warping a loom & a summary of the recent Michigan League of Handweavers conference. There will also be a Show and Tell of members’ recent creations. Free. northlandweaversguild.com

---------------------“MEMBER ONLY” PREVIEW SALE FOR 33RD ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE: 6-8pm, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. tadl.org/interlochen

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DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY’S 20TH ANNUAL GALLERY WALK: 6-9pm. Many of the galleries will have the artists present to introduce their works. Each gallery that you visit during the eve-

ning earns you an entry into the prize drawing for that gallery. Tickets will be drawn at the Afterglow Party from 9:15-10pm on the Rose Garden Veranda at Stafford’s Perry Hotel. petoskeydowntown. com/downtown-events/2019/gallery-walk

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FORUM: RUSSIA AGAINST THE WEST: 6pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Can the post-WWII Global Order Survive? Speaker Angela Stent, PhD, director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies & professor at Georgetown University. $15. tciaf.com

---------------------MUSIC ON MAIN: 6-8pm, Village at Bay Harbor. Featuring Lou Thumser.

---------------------YOGA IN THE PARK: 6pm, Hull Park, TC. Vinyasa Flow session. Bring your own mat. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------PLANT-BASED LIFESTYLE TC TASTING, LEARNING & NETWORKING EVENT: 6:30pm, 6105 Center Rd., TC. Join Dr. Caroline Trapp as she discusses “Patient-Centered Plant-Based Diabetes Care” & her quest to change the current treatment paradigm & help end the epidemic of diabetes with simple lifestyle changes & plantbased nutrition. $5/person. eventbrite.com

---------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions Campus, Grand Lawn, TC. Featuring The Drew Hale Band. Concessions open at 5:30pm & offer a picnic style menu & Moomer’s ice cream. Find on Facebook.

june 21

friday

HARRIS GARDEN TOURS: 8:45-10am, NCMC, Petoskey.

Join North Central President Dr. David Roland Finley & his wife, Heidi, on a guided tour of the Harris Gardens. Meet in the NCMC Library lobby.

---------------------33RD ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE: 9am8pm, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 17)

---------------------QUILTS BY THE BAY: 9am-5pm, Holy Childhood Community Center, Harbor Springs. Benefits charities. $8. ltbquiltersguild.org

---------------------21ST ANNUAL VINTAGE CAR & BOAT FESTIVAL: 10am-2:30pm, Village at Bay Harbor.

---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Play Dough Fun. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES TOUR: 10am-5pm. Featuring five homes & one garden. $15. upnorthhometour.com

---------------------S.T.E.A.M.ING THROUGH SPACE WITH STORYTELLER JENIFER STRAUSS: 10:30am, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. Jenifer will be merging years as a science teacher & storyteller in an interactive, wacky program filled with intergalactic stories, songs & DIY ideas for young space explorers. Make moon rocks & launch your own rocket. This program is intended for families & children ages 5-12. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring Crosscut Kings. This blues duo is made up of Charlie “Hipps” Witthoeft on harmonica & Jim Bonney on guitar. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------GRAND OPENING & 30-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: 4-7pm, Capt. Thomas M. Kelly Biological Station, Suttons Bay. Featuring s’mores at the outdoor fire pit, hands-on science in the lab, music by Song of the Lakes under the tent & much more. Free. schoolship.org

13TH ANNUAL SUTTONS BAY SUMMER SOLSTICE ART & WINE WALK: 5-9pm. Visit participating shops, meet local artists & sample Leelanau County Wines. A walking guide is created which includes the name of the participating merchants. The guide will be stamped after visiting each business. Two names will be drawn & each will receive a $10 gift certificate from each of the participating businesses.

---------------------3RD ANNUAL SUMMER SOLSTICE PUMPKIN PADDLE & DECK PARTY: 5-8pm, Jolly Pumpkin, TC. Enjoy stand-up paddle boarding around Bowers Harbor before heading to the deck for a Summer Solstice party. Live music by Chris Sterr.

Suttons Bay Bikes will be on-site with SUP rentals. $15 rental for the event. Donations will be collected for FLOW for Water to show support for the Great Lakes. Find on Facebook.

---------------------CEDAR POLKA FEST: (See Thurs., June 20) ---------------------BOYNE CITY’S STROLL THE STREETS: 6-9pm, Water & Lake streets, downtown Boyne City. Live music by Full Circle, Indigo Moon, Steven D & the Keys, & more.

---------------------GILBERT GOTTFRIED: Odawa Casino, Petoskey. 6pm & 9pm. This stand-up comedian, actor & entertainer. $20. odawacasino.com

---------------------INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY FLOW: 6pm, Hull Park, TC. Flow class. Bring your own mat.

Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------NORTHPORT PHOTO EXHIBITION: 6pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. An opening reception will be held tonight from 6-9pm. A Summer Solstice Sunset Shoot at Peterson Park with Sheen Watkins will be held at 9:30pm. Runs through June 30. northportartsassociation.org

---------------------RED DRIVE CONCERT SERIES W/ BLAKE ELLIOTT: 6-9pm, The Village Piazza, TC. Inspired by the beauty of her home state & this

big adventure called “Life,” Blake Elliott writes songs that tell stories of love & heartbreak, dive bars, good whiskey, & everything that can come from them. Free. thevillagetc.com/reddrive-concert-series-blake-elliott

---------------------DETOX YOGA FLOW: 6:45pm, Press On Juice Cafe, TC. Featuring twists & poses that are focused to help eliminate toxins from the body through movement & breath. Bring your own mat. Must register. Free; donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------EAST JORDAN MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, Memorial Park Bandshell, East Jordan. Enjoy R&B/soul with the 1000 Watt Prophets.

---------------------SUMMER SOLSTICE YOGA ON THE BEACH: 7pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Empire. All levels class at Glen Haven Beach near the Cannery. Donations accepted to support Friends of Sleeping Bear programs. Find on Facebook.

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: UP NORTH PRIDE DRAG NIGHT: 7-10pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Featuring a headlining performance by Peppermint, season 9 runner-up on “RuPaul’s Drag Race!” upnorthpride.com

---------------------DAUGHTRY - A LIVE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE: 8-10pm, Leelanau Sands Casino Showroom, Peshawbestown. Chris Daughtry was an American Idol finalist & frontman for the Grammynominated rock band Daughtry. This one-night show will feature many of Daughtry’s biggest hits.

Tickets start at $55. leelanausandscasino.com

---------------------JORGE FEDERICO OSORIO IN RECITAL, PIANO: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Jorge Federico Osorio is the recipient of several international prizes & awards, including the Medalla Bellas Artes, the highest honor granted by Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts. $80 / $65 / $50 / $30. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/ jorge-federico-osorio-in-recital-piano

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saturday

CHARLEVOIX MARATHON, HALF MARATHON, 10K & 5K: 6:30am, Bridge St., Charlevoix. charlevoixmarathon.com/registration

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45TH PARALLEL PADDLE FESTIVAL: 8am, Suttons Bay Beach. Includes a 6 mile paddle race, 3 mile recreational race & duathlon - paddle & bike. There will also be a kids & family short paddle race. Free for teenagers under 18. racetc.com/register

---------------------FREE BOATER SAFETY CLASS: 8am-4pm, Leelanau County Court House, Suttons Bay. Bring a sack lunch & water bottle. 231-256-8650.

---------------------33RD ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE: 9am3pm, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------BEAVER ISLAND BIKE FESTIVAL: 9am. Bikers can enjoy 20 or 42 miles at their own pace on a combination of pavement, gravel roads & two tracks. The Bill Wagner Memorial Campground will host a private beach picnic lunch with Lake Michigan views before riding the last leg back into town. After the ride plan to attend the downtown party that will provide dinner, music & entertainment. beaverislandbikefestival.com

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CLASSIC CAR SHOW - CEDAR POLKA FEST: Sponsored by Hagerty Insurance. Cars will be on display from 9am-noon & will then ride in the Polka Fest Parade, starts at 1pm.

Free. Find more on Facebook.

mile paddle. Long Course: 19 mile ride, 2 mile run & 3 mile paddle. adventuresportsnorth. com/race-details

---------------------WALK FOR WISHES NORTHERN MI: 9amnoon, The Village at GT Commons, TC. A nationwide Make-A-Wish fundraiser. Register.

Donations accepted. secure2.wish.org

---------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN BRAIN WARRIORS 5K: 9:30am. A 5K or 1 mile run/walk/roll for all ages to support & learn about brain injury. Scenic route along the Little Traverse Wheelway in Petoskey. Proceeds to the Brain Injury Network of Northern MI. $25. raceentry.com/brain-warriors-5k-runwalkroll/race-information

---------------------21ST ANNUAL VINTAGE CAR & BOAT FESTIVAL: 10am-2:30pm, Village at Bay Harbor.

---------------------EXPLORE HOUDEK DUNES: 10am. On a guided walk you will see the succession of vegetation from dunes to northern hardwoods while looking for evidence of wildlife. leelanauconservancy.org/events/hikes

---------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES TOUR: (See Fri., June 21)

---------------------NORTHPORT PHOTO EXHIBITION: 10am, Village Arts Building, Northport. Features “Discover the Village of Northport Shoot with Sharon Kalchik.” Runs through June 30. northportartsassociation.org

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QUILTS BY THE BAY: 9am-3pm, Holy Childhood Community Center, Harbor Springs. Benefits charities. $8. ltbquiltersguild.org

PROTECTING OUR LAKES & SHORELANDS: 10:30am-noon, Greilick Outdoor Recreation & Education Center, TC. “The Giving Trees: Safeguarding Our Shorelines, Uplands, Water, Fish & More.” Presented by Kama Ross, district forester for Grand Traverse, Benzie & Leelanau counties. RSVP. eventbrite.com

R3 TRIATHLON: 9am, East Jordan Tourist Park. Short Course: 9 mile ride, 2 mile run & 3

HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11am-1pm: Anthony DeBenedet will sign his book “Play-

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Blues on the Bay Concert Series Tuesdays in June 7:00 to 9:30 pm June 4, Sweetwater Blues Band June 11, Sweetwater Blues Band June 18, Sweetwater Blues Band June 25, Sweetwater Blues Band

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ful Intelligence: The Power of Living Lightly in a Serious World.” 1-3pm: Celebration of Bob: Employee of 50 Years. 2-4pm: Diana Stampfler will sign her book “Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses.” horizonbooks.com

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sunday

OLD TOWN ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: 10am-5pm, Union St., TC. Featuring more than 90 artists & crafters.

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MUTT STRUT: 11am-1pm, Royal Farms Farm Market & Winery, Atwood. Register your dog in categories such as dog/owner look alike, largest, smallest, best dressed, etc. Benefits Cherryland Humane Society. royalfarmsinc.com/ product/mutt-strut-festival-registration

UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: BIG GAY BRUNCH: 11am1pm, The Little Fleet, TC. upnorthpride.com

PRINCESS PARTY & STORY TIME: 11am, Bookbrokers and Kramer’s Cafe, GT Mall, TC. Meet Sleeping Beauty. Singing, dancing & stories at this free event for all ages. Presented by Enchanting Events of Traverse City. 231-649-0869. enchantingevents-tc.com

NORTHPORT PHOTO EXHIBITION: Village Arts Building, Northport. Today features “Nature Photography with Bob Bayer & Sheen Watkins” at 12:30pm & Wings of Wonder Presentation with Birds at 2:30pm. Runs through June 30. northportartsassociation.org

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---------------------SOLSTICE CELEBRATION: Leelanau Community Cultural Center, Old Art Building, Leland.

There will be solar fun & educational activities from 11am-3pm. Free. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------TIN CAN TOURISTS CENTENNIAL CARAVAN: 11am-3pm, Interlochen State Park. View vintage trailers & motor coaches representing camping through the decades. Free/Recreational Passport required. michigan.gov

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---------------------CEDAR POLKA FEST: 1-5pm. Annual festival celebrating the town’s rich Polish history.

Featuring live Polka music from Polka bands, food vendors offering traditional Polish food, & more. Free admission. cedarmichamber.com/ the-cedar-polka-fest-2019

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ON THE FARM THEN & NOW: 1-3pm, Bill’s Farm Market, Petoskey. Food, historical displays, photos & farm tools, demonstrations, farm tours, racing pigeons & more.

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CLASSICAL OPEN MIC EVENT W/ IPR & HORIZON BOOKS: 2pm, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. Info: ipr@interlochen.org Free.

ASTEROID ATTACK!: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Open to all teens between the ages of 11-17. Free. tadl.org/event/asteroid-attack POLKA FEST PARADE: 1pm. Travels through downtown Cedar. This free event will feature Clark the Juggler, Polish dancers, classic cars & tractors, lots of balloons & more. Find on Facebook.

---------------------CEDAR POLKA FEST: 2pm. Annual festival celebrating the town’s rich Polish history. Featuring live Polka music from Polka bands, food vendors offering traditional Polish food, & more. cedarmichamber.com/the-cedar-polka-fest-2019

---------------------PLANET OF THE GRAPES: 3-8pm, Leelanau Studios, GT Regional Campus Festival Lawn, TC. A comedy-infused wine festival hosted by Grand Traverse Events & Uncorrect Comedy. Featuring local wines, brews & food; live music by Soul Patch, Levi Britton & others; wine education experiences; & comedy including by Norm Stulz.

Tickets: $25 advance or $35 at the gate. Benefits Spark in the Dark TC. planetofthegrapesfest.com

---------------------SATURDAY UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: 3-6pm: Pride Picnic at F&M Park, TC. 5:30-7pm: 2019 Visibility March. Gather at the Pride Picnic in F&M Park at 5:30pm for a rally, & then march down Front Street to the Open Space for a family-friendly Visibility Celebration. 7-11:59pm: 2019 Visibility Celebration: Held in the Open Space park at the corner of Grandview Parkway & Union Street.

Live music, DJs, cocktails, food trucks, dancing & carnival games. upnorthpride.com/events

---------------------COUNTRY DANCE: 6-10pm, Summit City Grange, Kingsley. Featuring the Straight Forward Band. 231-263-4499.

---------------------STATE PARK CENTENNIAL CAMPFIRE STORYTELLING EVENT: 7pm, Interlochen State Park. These stories will allow visitors to catch a glimpse of many of the lifelong memories made in MI’s beautiful places. Up to five seasoned storytellers will share their stories, while attendees are welcome to give two-minute anecdotes. These stories will be captured & distilled into a podcast shared on social media. Free - must have a recreation passport for vehicle entry. michigan.gov

---------------------2019 ANN HALL VISITING ARTIST SETH BERNARD: 7:30pm, Old Art Building, on the lawn, Leland. This northern MI singer/songwriter & environmentalist will be joined by a few of his closest friends. They will play original & cover music, share stories & more. $10. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------THE SERIES @ LAVENDER HILL FARM: 7:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Featuring The Moxie Strings. $15-$25.50 + fees. lavenderhillfarm.com/the-series

------------------------------------------HOME/PLACE: PLACE BASED -- WRITING ABOUT HOME, INSPIRED BY PLACE: 2pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center. Three northern MI authors discuss the different ways Leelanau County, its homes & places figure into their fiction & non-fiction writing. The writing of local authors Stephanie Mills, Lynne Rae Perkins & Aaron Stander is linked by its focus on place & home.

Each of these writers will discuss how their stories are propelled by Leelanau. This program is offered in conjunction with the exhibition “New Views: Home/Place,” an exploration of home & place identity. Free. glenarborart.org

---------------------LOCAL AUTHOR KAREN ANDERSON: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Karen will discuss her new book “Gradual Clearing: Weather Reports from the Heart.” 231-331-4318.

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& return along West Bay. Beware of high traffic areas & please ride single file in these areas, especially Center Rd. along East Bay & Peninsula Dr. along West Bay south of Bowers Harbor. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

---------------------FREE PROGRAM FOR THOSE WITH MEMORY LOSS: Peace Ranch, TC. Hosted by the Evergreen Experience. This farming & gardening program for those with memory loss is held on Saturdays from June - Aug., 9-11am. Register.

810-299-1479. mievergreenexperience.com

---------------------GENTLE YOGA FOR ADULTS: Interlochen Public Library. Held on Tuesdays during the summer, 9:30-11am. Bring your own mats, water & towels. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOURS: Mon., Tues., Weds. at 2pm. The tours begin & end at Perry Hannah Plaza - 6th & Union streets. Tour is about two & a half hours of slow walking over a two-mile route, with a rest at TC Visitors Center.

---------------------TEEN HANGOUT: Tuesdays, 1-4pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Enjoy playing games & making things. Open to all teens between the ages of 11-17. tadl.org/event/teen-hangout/2019-06-18

---------------------THURSDAY NIGHT MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE: Thursdays, 6pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Geared for intermediate level riders & new racers. You’ll get a chance to ride a lap of the Peak2Peak Mountain Bike Race Course including the Crystal Climb. Meet at the Park at Water’s Edge. Rental bike with helmet: $19. Helmet only: $10. crystalmountain.com/event/thursday-nightmountain-bike-ride

---------------------TUESDAY BIKE NIGHTS & CAR CRUISEINS: Tuesdays, 6-9pm, Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Bring your favorite roadster, hog, or coupe. There will also be free chairlift rides, a weekly raffle to benefit local charities & giveaways. boynemountain.com

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BEACH TRASH ART EXHIBIT: June 21 – July 20, Capt. Thomas M. Kelly Biological Station, Suttons Bay. Artist Deborah Hecht uses objects she has found on Lake Michigan beach to create mosaics. A silent auction will be held from 5:307pm on June 21 with remaining pieces for sale until July 20. Proceeds from the sale of her mosaics throughout the month-long exhibit benefit Inland Seas Education Association. schoolship. org/news-events/beach-trash-art-exhibit

PG WHAT HAVE I SEEN?!?: 2pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Movies so bad…they’re good.

Join us for bad movies, popcorn & many laughs.

Warning: some material may be hilarious for teens under 17. Open for all teens between the ages of 11-17. Free. tadl.org/event/pg-what-have-i-seen

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AN AFTERNOON WITH ELIN HILDERBRAND: 3-5pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

Celebrate “The Summer of ‘69.” mcleanandeakin.com

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------------------------------------------EMERSON DRIVE: 7:30pm, Cheboygan Opera House. This band’s first two singles, “I Should Be Sleeping” & “Fall Into Me,” peaked in the Top 5 on the Billboard charts. “Moments” gave the band their first #1 single in the USA. Call at 231-6275841 for tickets. $25 adults. Find on Facebook.

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“THE ART OF COMING UNDONE” EXHIBIT: Michigan Artists Gallery, TC. Over 40 artists interpreting the work of Daniel Belardinelli. Runs through mid-June. michiganartistsgallery.com

PAINTER BETH BRICKER EXHIBIT: Center Gallery, Lake Street Studios, Glen Arbor. Many of Beth’s acrylics were done on paper or canvas that was prepped with a pattern or texture.

Exhibit runs through June 27. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com

---------------------FRESH IMPRESSIONS: City Opera House, TC. A fine art exhibition featuring Ann Robinson, Kristy A. Avery & Beth Bynum. Runs June 3-28. cityoperahouse.org

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. Faculty artists perform spirituals, sacred songs, & instrumental chamber music on themes of seeking a place to call home. $13.50 member; $18.50 non-member. tickets.vendini.com

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BLOOMS & BIRDS: WILDFLOWER WALK: Tuesdays, 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. A relaxing stroll on the trails with Grass River Natural Area docent Julie Hurd to find & identify wildflowers. Along the way listen & look for the birds that call Grass River home. grassriver.org

---------------------CHERRY CAPITAL CYCLING CLUB MON. EVENING PENINSULA RIDE: Mondays, 6pm, TC Central High School, west side parking lot.

Old Mission Peninsula ride out along East Bay

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“FLOATING, BUILDING & GILDING”: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Work by Betty Bea Washburn, Katarzyna Korytowska & Charles Murphy. Runs through July 13. twistedfishgallery.com

“TALKING ALL THINGS WATER”: Raven Hill Discovery Center, East Jordan. This exhibit runs through June 21. Open 12-4pm on Saturdays & 12-2pm on Sundays, & always by appointment. 231.536.3369. miravenhill.org

---------------------NEW VIEWS: HOME/PLACE - AN EXHIBITION: Glen Arbor Arts Center. A juried show of 27 2D & 3D works that explores home & place identity from original & unexpected perspectives. The exhibition runs through Aug. 8. There

will also be a full range of programs – from author interviews to panel discussions -- that explore the exhibition’s theme from a wide variety of perspectives. Glen Arbor Arts Center is open Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm; & noon – 4pm on Saturday & Sunday. glenarborart.org

---------------------“PENCIL AND PAPER”: This summer is dedicated to the fine art of drawing, a fundamental building block of which most other forms of art are created. This exhibit will highlight works from three regional artists: Paul VanHeest, James Johnson & Erwin P. Lewandowski, & two Charlevoix-based artists: Paul Andrzejewski & Steve Toornman. Runs through Aug. 10 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.org

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - “LOCAL COLOR”: CROOKEDTREE.ORG This exhibition series highlights outstanding examples of art, design & craft created by artists in the region. June, July & Aug. feature the work of Martha Landis & Connie Landis.

- “FRESH WORKS”: Held in Atrium Gallery.

Crooked Tree Arts Center Painters’ Studio exhibit. Runs through July 27.

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: CROOKEDTREE.ORG - “BODIES OF COLOR... RECENT WORK BY DECARLO LOGAN”: Logan’s artwork analyzes the intangible aspects of identity to encourage dialog & understanding. Two recent mixed media series by the artist will be on display.

Runs through July 20.

- “BODIES OF ME... RECENT WORK BY LIZ WIERZBICKI”: Held in Carnegie Gallery. Liz creates work that critiques ideas of gender, sexuality & self in a digital age. Runs through July 20.

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: DENNOSMUSEUM.ORG - “ARMAND MERIZON: HIS LIFE AND ART”: Armand was a lifelong Grand Rapids painter remembered for his detailed landscapes & brilliantly colored abstractions. Runs through Sept. 8.

- “LEE SUNG KEUN: INTERCONNECTED”: S. Korean artist Lee Sung Keun creates sculptures of primordial shapes that, at first sight, evoke human cells or the notion of fertility.

Runs through Sept. 22.

- “MINGLINGS: THE MIGRATION”: Featuring internationally recognized fiber artist Gerhardt Knodel. Inspired by a 17th century Ming dynasty textile fragment that traveled in its day from China to Portugal. Runs through Sept. 8.

---------------------GAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, GAYLORD: - CREATIVE CROWD: Fridays, 11:30am2:30pm through June 28. Bring your own supplies to work on any type of art or craft project.

- 100 DAY PROJECT EXHIBIT: See what 100 days of creativity can bring to life! Exhibit open during Art Center hours of 11am-3pm, Tues. through Fri. & 12-2pm, Sat. Runs until July 6. gaylordarts.org HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - CALL FOR ARTISTS: MODERN ARCHETYPES: An all-female artist exhibit exploring the idea of human consciousness & how archetypes unite all of us. Submit up to 2 pieces each which really capture the idea of the role archetypes play not only in your own life personally, but in society as a whole. Deadline to apply is July 1 at midnight. Exhibit runs Sept. 6 - Oct. 4.

- “IN CONVERSATION”: A duo show featuring the artwork of two local artists: Carol C. Spaulding & Douglas Hoagg. Runs through July 17. higherartgallery.com OLIVER ART CENTER, FRANKFORT: - TC ARTISTS REUNITE FOR EXHIBITION: Featuring three artists who met years ago while attending high school in TC. They include Glenn Wolff, Nancy Nash & Steve Kline. Enjoy seeing recent work from each of their portfolios.

Runs through July 12.

- SMALL WORKS, BIG IMPACT: COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROJECT: Over 100 community members, ages 3 to 80+ created work for this exhibition. It is a fundraiser & as the work sells, it is taken off the wall. Runs through Aug. 16. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

GRETA VAN FLEET CALLS UP ITS ARMY

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BY KRISTI KATES

Frankenmuth, Michigan, band turned national rock act Greta Van Fleet has added a stack of shows to the fall leg of its March of the Peaceful Army tour through North America. Attendees can expect tunes from its debut full-length album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, as well as several new tracks.

Supporting the band on all dates will be garage-punkers Shannon and the Clams.

You can catch the show nearly everywhere … but Michigan: The band will hit Kansas City (Sept. 21), San Diego (Sept. 29), Sugar Land, Texas (Oct. 9), Nashville (Oct. 13), and Philly (Oct. 15)…

A new documentary is debuting this summer about Trey Anastasio, best known as the frontman/singer for the noodledancing jam-band Phish. Called Between Me and My Mind, the movie recently made its own debut at the Tribeca Film Festival and was picked up by Trafalgar Releasing for national showings at selected theaters on July 17 only. Between Me and My Mind, as directed by Steven Cantor, showcases a deep dive into Anastasio’s work with Phish, his additional musical projects, his concert prep, and his writing process. It also introduces fans to one of his newest endeavors, a side project that will feature some more introspective songs from the musician …

In other documentary news, there’s one about music producer Rick Rubin on the way, too. The Rubin doc will take the form of a Showtime series called ShangriLa (named after Rubin’s recording studio in California) and will dig into his creative methods producing such big-name acts as U2, Kanye West, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It’s directed by Morgan Neville, who also worked on the Mr. Rogers movie Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and the documentary about back-up singers, 20 Feet From Stardom …

Logic’s newest album, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, features a host of guest appearances from the likes of Will Smith, Wiz Khalifa, Gucci Mane, and YBM Cordae, among others. In support of the album, his fifth, Logic will kick off a fall trek in Vancouver, Canada, on Oct. 5. The tour will include a stop in Michigan (Nov. 10 at the Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center in Ypsilanti), plus shows in Toronto (Nov.13), Chicago (Nov.15), and Madison, Wisconsin (Nov. 16) …

LINK OF THE WEEK Flying Lotus and Anderson .Paak have collaborated on an animated music video to go with their new tune “More” (from Flying Lotus’ new Flamagra album). Check out the sci-fi-psychedelia clip, directed by

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THE BUZZ If you’re ever at Detroit Metro Airport, and you spot a plane that says Air Drake on the side — well, that’s rapper Drake’s actual plane, a Boeing 767 that he reportedly purchased for $185 million Grand Rapids duo Lighting Matches (Matt Plessner and Rachel White) is releasing a new album, Against the Flame,

this week …

Grand Rapids’ all-volunteer wind and percussion band The Calder City Concert Band will perform at Concerts in the Park in East Grand Rapids on June 24 …

Concerts in the Park in Sparta, Michigan, will welcome The Swift Brothers on June 26… and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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Happily, the experiment works well. “Brand New Day” deletes the lengthy intro/outro and adds synths and an energetic harmonica; classic “Every Breath You Take” is a little faster, with a more complex arrangement; and “Message in a Bottle” gets funky and adds in stacked vocals and an extra chorus.

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Devoted Elton John fans might well be divided as to whether or not this album is a must-have — the songs aren’t sung by John, but by Taron Egerton (who plays John in the movie; but the performances

by Egerton are quite good. The arrangements add variety (only some stick close to the original sound), while other songs take a more Broadway approach.

Also interesting: The tracklist is sequenced in a way that underscores John’s biographical story, as opposed to each song’s release date. Standouts include Egerton’s takes on “Pinball Wizard,” “Bennie and the Jets,” and “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word.”

Black Mountain – Destroyer – Jagjaguwar

The Canadian rockers return with a major shift in their lineup: Only one original member remains. The rest are all new musicians carving out their place in the band. Where Earle (see above) was heavy in subject matter, the Mountain is heavy in sound — dark, dated, teeth-gnashing rock, from the acidic, grinding opener “Future Shade” to the unfocused speed of “Licensed to Drive.” The difference between Black Mountain and other ’70s-inspired bands, like The Darkness, is that Black Mountain takes itself way too seriously. The end result sounds like the band got stuck in the ’70s and still hasn’t found its way out.

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The reel

by meg weichman

dark phoenix rocketman

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Dark Phoenix (the latest and penultimate film in the 20th Century Fox X-Men saga — and I’m qualifying the studio here because Fox is now owned by Disney, which already controls most of the Marvel superhero stable) is a film that feels both rushed and sluggish.

Advancing the overall arc (and setting up the final installment) is pretty much all this film accomplishes, which is disappointing considering all it has to work with.

Set roughly 10 years after the events of the previous film in the series (2016’s X-Men: Apocolypse), Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy, bald telekinesis guy in wheelchair) has finally seen his life’s dream accomplished: a world of respect and tolerance of mutants. Not only is his school of gifted youngsters (future X-Men in training) thriving, his brand is a geopolitical force, complete with a dedicated “X” phone on his desk that connects directly to the Oval Office. His team of do-gooders — which this time around includes laser-eyes guy (Tye Sheridan), blue teleportation guy (Kodi Smit-McFee), and blue beast guy (Nicholas Holt), among others — are more than up to the task. But Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence, blue shape-shifting lady) is starting to question their leader’s intentions: Are these missions putting her friends at risk just for Prof. X’s own ego?

So when the Space Shuttle Endeavor is beset by a weird energy field while in orbit, naturally it’s the X-Men the president calls to save the day.

Once in space, the team saves the imperiled astronauts, but not before Jean Grey (Game of Throne’s Sophie Turner, normal-looking telekinesis lady) absorbs the entirety of the weird energy field. Back on earth, her powers are strongly magnified, eventually to the point where she can no longer control them, and Xavier, her guardian and mentor since childhood, can no longer help her.

The central conflict (aside from the force of invading aliens who want the energy field for themselves — sorry, I almost forgot about them) is between Grey and Xavier, and it starts off as a pretty nuanced one for a comic book movie. Taken in by Xavier after the death of her parents in a car accident her powers inadvertently caused, Grey lived a relatively normal life at the school, saddened by her parent’s death but seemingly at peace with it.

Through Xavier’s teaching and guidance, she became one of his star pupils.

Her amplified powers, however, now reveal that Prof. X had been using his powers to cloud her memory, blocking from her the realization that her parents’ death was her fault. The whole middle act of the movie is basically a treatise on male ego run amok, and the people,

howing us how Reginald Kenneth Dwight became Elton Hercules John (Taron Edgerton), Rocketman follows your basic Behind the Music framework of rise, fall, redemption, and what have you. But the filmmaking not only understands the spirit of its subject but also shows that despite all the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll set dressing, the film is a universal story of self-acceptance after years with parents and partners incapable of giving John the love he so craved. From the first musical number, the film feels like Busby Berkeley, MGM’s Freed Unit, and Bob Fosse all had a glittering and gaudy baby. Director Dexter Fletcher uses John’s music not to match a timeline, but to match the feeling. It adds to the movie in remarkable way and doesn’t simply check off each box on the greatest hits list.

These lavish musical numbers are of the grandest and most thrilling sort, the kind of exhilarating rush that makes you feel like you’re floating in mid-air, and then, wouldn’t you know it, so does John (the magical realism really works here). While the film doesn’t exactly hide from the more unpleasant aspect’s of John’s life — it was produced in full cooperation with John himself — it didn’t get overly critically either. We’re in full-on valedictory mode. So while vanity may run a little amok, this is as exactly as it should be, because in the end, John is still standing, and we don’t want our rocketman to come down.

particularly women, who are forced to deal with the consequences. Xavier thought what he was doing was best for her. But should he have sheltered this woman as drastically as he did, robbing her of the emotional catharsis that only an inward forgiveness could provide?

Well, yeah, since Grey is now out for some sort of undefined revenge. Confused as to who she is and lashing out at the world, she’s becoming more and more dangerous, and the bodies are starting to stack up. She eventually seeks out assistance from the polar-opposite of Charles Xavier, the brooding arch mutant Magneto (Michael Fassbender, handsome metal-controlling guy), easily the most turnable villain of the X-Men universe.

(Seriously, I think pretty much every one of these movies starts with Magneto as the bad guy, only to have him coaxed over to the good side with little more than a “aww c’mon, be nice” speeches.)

So what happens? Fightin’, of course, and lots of it. And there are a few decent set pieces where everybody gets their licks in, and we get to see the full suite of everyone’s powers and abilities.

For those few minutes of action, you sort of forget how boring the rest of the film has been.

And then just when you’re feeling warmed up, it all ends rather abruptly, but I honestly can’t tell if that’s due to the story itself or that we’ve all been conditioned to expect superhero films to last upwards of three hours.

Aside from how inert it is, what really irks me about this movie is just how little it indulges in its time and place. It’s set in 1992, but no effort whatsoever is made to make what we are watching feel like the early ’90s. Aside from a period-correct car in the background every now and then, the costumes, makeup, set dressing — pretty much everything looks like it was purchased at Target last week.

This isn’t that important, I suppose, but when some of the best of the other X-Men films are set amid real historic events and use cultural touchstones of those events to ground the realism in a very clever and charming way, Dark Phoenix’s lack of trying really disappoints.

And while those other Disney-helmed Marvel properties are bringing the high heat when it comes the ’90s nostalgia (see Captain Marvel), Dark Phoenix is not only boring but also feels unmoored in time and place. We can only hope that the final film (due in 2020; notably plagued by reshoots) is injected with some of that same Disney pep before its release. Unfortunately for now, we’re stuck with this one.

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

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f every generation gets the teen comedy they deserve, after watching Booksmart, I can’t help but think the kids are all right. As raunchy as it is sweet, hilarious as it is heartfelt, the brazenly paced and boisterous flick, oddly enough, made me feel comforted about where Gen Z is headed. Taking the onewild-night approach, teen comedies of yore, like Can’t Hardly Wait, live in Booksmart’s DNA, but it also feels like a different breed altogether. So, while it’s easy to label this as the female Superbad — partying and antics, vulgarity and horny kids are definitely present — there’s so much more. Booksmart is also unapologetically nerdy and feminist, and it’s a wonderful thing.

The plot: Best friends Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) took a take no prisoners approach to high school. And while their hard work paid off — they’re both getting into the Ivy League schools they wanted — after discovering that their partying, drug-doing, and drinking peers also got into top schools, they plan one final night to show themselves and their classmates that they’re fun too. Calling it now: Booksmart will endure as a touchstone for generations to come. The smartest move is to book it to the theater and see it.

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his story of interracial star-crossed teens — with timely, ripped-from-the-headlines notions and luminous lens flares — might have a certain cultural specificity that makes it feel like it could perhaps be something slightly different, but it’s essentially the same-old same-old teen romance. It follows high schooler Natasha (grown-ish’s Yara Shahidi), who has lived in New York City since she was nine years old and now has one day before being deported back to Jamaica. That day, she falls for Daniel (Riverdale’s Charles Melton), the son of Korean immigrants with a big Ivy League interview, while on her way to meet a lawyer that might be able to change her family’s fate. What follows in their whirlwind courtship could totally be described as a Gen Z take on Before Sunrise, but if you know anything about that film and its sequels, you know how much the dialogue matters. And the dialogue here is not great. As things briskly move toward their inevitable conclusion, the ending is both not and exactly what you expect. Try as it might, The Sun is Also a Star gives credence to the old saying that there is truly nothing new under the sun.

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BY Amy Alkon

Q

As for you, though you say you haven’t resembled your partners, it’s possible that you actually have in subtle ways you didn’t notice.

Back in 1903, researchers Karl Pearson and Alice Lee looked at 1,000 couples in the U.K. and found correlation in height, arm span, and left forearm length between husband and wife.

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This isn’t to say everyone’s going to resemble their romantic partner, but we seem subconsciously drawn to people who share our features to some extent: “You know, Pooh Bear, looking at you is kind of like looking in the mirror...and for a second, being horrified that I have a forest-like grove of chin hair.”

: I’ve heard that we’re romantically attracted to people who look like us. Is that true? I don’t think any of my boyfriends have looked anything like me, but I have seen couples who look so similar they could be related.

— Wondering : You can kinda see the merits of dating your doppelganger: “I’m looking for myself, but as someone else so I don’t always have to empty the dishwasher and scream out my own name in bed.”

There is this notion that opposites attract.

Actually, the opposite often seems to be the case. According to research on “assortative mating,” people tend to pair up with partners who are physically similar to them — creating a matchy-matchy assortment — more often than would be expected through random chance.

To explore how much matchiness is appealing to us, social-personality psychologists R. Chris Fraley and Michael J. Marks used a computer to blend each research participant’s face into the face of a stranger of the opposite sex. They did this to increasing degrees, morphing in 0%, 22%, 32%, 39%, and 45% of the research participants’ features. Their research participants rated the strangers’ faces most sexually appealing with the 22% blend -- that is, with just 22% of the participants’ own features mixed in.

In another morphing study, neuropsychologist Bruno Laeng and his colleagues mixed each participant’s face with that of their romantic partner — with 11%, 22%, and 33% blending. And again, 22% was picked consistently -- suggesting that people find their romantic partners more attractive when they look just a bit like them.

Granted, it could be a coincidence that the exact same percentage — only 22% morphed — popped up in both studies. However, what’s noteworthy is that more resemblance didn’t lead to more attraction. This jibes with how some degree of similarity is genetically beneficial, increasing the likelihood of desirable traits showing up in partners’ children. (Tall plus tall equals tall.)

However, evolution seems to have installed a psychological mechanism to keep us from lusting after extremely similar partners, such as siblings and first cousins. Such close relatives are more likely to have the same rare recessive genes for a disease. A recessive gene when paired with a dominant gene (say, from a genetically very different partner) doesn’t express — that is, the person doesn’t develop the disease. But when two recessive genes get together...PARTAAAY!

Groundhug Day

Q

: I’ve been with my wife for 23 years. I know sex is important, but sometimes we’re tired or not in the mood. I want to keep our intimacy alive. What are some things we can do to stay connected physically?

— Embarrassed Having To Ask

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: Many couples do eventually need help from a professional to connect physically -- whether it’s an advice columnist, a sex therapist, or a bank robber who leaves them duct-taped together in the vault.

It turns out the answer isn’t all that complicated: Basically, you just need to bring in some of the G-rated part of foreplay and afterplay (without the sex in between). Psychologist Debby Herbenick and her colleagues note that researchers have found three things — kissing, cuddling, and massage — to be “important aspects of sexual intimacy ... associated with relationship and sexual satisfaction.”

Helpfully, the Herbenick team chiseled apart what they call the “KCM composite” -- the way kissing, cuddling, and massage get mushed together in studies. They felt that this blending might obscure “important differences” in the effect of each. In fact, they found that cuddling seems to be uniquely powerful, increasing emotional intimacy (as well as sexual pleasure) in a way kissing and massage do not.

Though you’re seeking a solution for when you’re too zonked for sex, it’s important to make sure that cuddling is often an end in itself.

This, paradoxically, should help keep your sex life alive: Your wife will see your cuddles as an expression of your love rather than a sign that you just want something out of the sexual vending machine. Ultimately, cuddling for cuddling’s sake is probably the best way to keep from getting to the point where “taking care of her in bed” involves holding a mirror under her nose to see if she’s still breathing.

“Jonesin” Crosswords "Themeless Plug" --another freestyle for you. by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Success story focus, maybe 12 Catered to?

15 Stat that may figure into a walking itinerary 16 Bambi’s aunt (in the book) 17 She played Edith Bunker in 2019 18 Music game with a floor pad, for short 19 “48___” (Nick Nolte film) 20 Like the works of Sappho 22 Brazilian jiu-___ 26 Gregarious beginning?

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54 Theta preceder 55 State with the shortest motto (“Hope”) 61 “___ blu, dipinto di blu” (“Volare” alternate title) 62 “Bake him away, toys” speaker 63 Packers’ pts.

64 Moldable, squishy material in some ASMR videos DOWN 1 Late comedian Kinison 2 TV actor Longoria

3 The Once-___ (“The Lorax” narrator) 4 Part of WTF? 5 Woven compositions?

6 Petri dish substance 7 P.D. investigators 8 Gen. Eisenhower’s WWII command 9 “Rent” heroine 10 Final answer?

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23 Cowed 24 Dramatic performances, quaintly 25 Maple syrup, essentially 28 Longstocking of kids’ books 29 Ait, e.g.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some traditional astrologers believe solar

eclipses are sour omens. They theorize that when the Moon perfectly covers the Sun, as it will on July 2, a metaphorical shadow will pass across some part of our lives, perhaps triggering crises. I don’t agree with that gloomy assessment. I consider a solar eclipse to be a harbinger of grace and slack and freedom. In my view, the time before and after this cosmic event might resemble what the workplace is like when the boss is out of town. Or it may be a sign that your inner critic is going to shut up and leave you alone for a while. Or you could suddenly find that you can access the willpower and ingenuity you need so as to change something about your life that you’ve been wanting to change. So I advise you to start planning now to take advantage of the upcoming blessings of the eclipse.

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

children are repelled by the taste of broccoli.

Food researchers at the McDonald’s restaurant chain decided to address the problem. In an effort to render this ultra-healthy vegetable more palatable, they concocted a version that tasted like bubble gum. Kids didn’t like it, though. It confused them. But you have to give credit to the food researchers for thinking inventively. I encourage you to get equally creative, even a bit wacky or odd, in your efforts to solve a knotty dilemma. Allow your brainstorms to be playful and experimental.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Spank

yourself for me, please. Ten sound swats ought to do it. According to my astrological assessments, that will be sufficient to rein yourself in from the possibility of committing excesses and extravagance. By enacting this humorous yet serious ritual, you will set in motion corrective forces that tweak your unconscious mind in just the right way so as to prevent you from getting too much of a good thing; you will avoid asking for too much or venturing too far. Instead, you will be content with and grateful for the exact bounty you have gathered in recent weeks.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): Your inspiration

for the coming weeks is a poem by Piscean poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It begins like this: “The holiest of all holidays are those / Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; / The secret anniversaries of the heart, / When the full river of feeling overflows.” In accordance with astrological omens, Pisces, I invite you to create your own secret holiday of the heart, which you will celebrate at this time of year for the rest of your long life. Be imaginative and full of deep feelings as you dream up the marvelous reasons why you will observe this sacred anniversary. Design special rituals you will perform to rouse your gratitude for the miracle of your destiny.

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(March 21-April 19): Orfield Laboratories is an architectural company that designs rooms for ultimate comfort. They sculpt the acoustic environment so that sounds are soft, clear, and pleasant to the human ear.

They ensure that the temperature is just right and the air quality is always fresh. At night the artificial light is gentle on the eyes, and by day the sunlight is rejuvenating. In the coming weeks, I’d love for you to be in places like this on a regular basis. According to my analysis of the astrological rhythms, it’s recharging time for you. You need and deserve an abundance of cozy relaxation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope that

during the next four weeks, you will make plans to expedite and deepen your education. You’ll be able to make dramatic progress in figuring out what will be most important for you to learn in the next three years. We all have pockets of ignorance about how we understand reality, and now is an excellent time for you to identify what your pockets are and to begin illuminating them. Every one of us lacks some key training or knowledge that could help us fulfill our noblest dreams, and now is a favorable time for you to address that issue.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next four

weeks, you’re not likely to win the biggest prize or tame the fiercest monster or wield the greatest power. However, you could very well earn a second- or third-best honor. I won’t be

surprised if you claim a decent prize or outsmart a somewhat menacing dragon or gain an interesting new kind of clout.

Oddly enough, this less-than-supreme accomplishment may be exactly right for you. The lower levels of pressure and responsibility will keep you sane and healthy. The stress of your moderate success will be very manageable. So give thanks for this just-right blessing!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are you doing

with the fertility and creativity that have been sweeping through your life during the first six months of 2019? Are you witheringly idealistic, caught up in perfectionistic detail as you cautiously follow outmoded rules about how to make best use of that fertility and creativity? Or are you being expansively pragmatic, wielding your lively imagination to harness that fertility and creativity to generate transformations that will improve your life forever?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mythologist Joseph

Campbell said that heroes are those who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. That’s never an easy assignment for anyone, but right now it’s less difficult for you than ever before. As you prepare for the joyous ordeal, I urge you to shed the expectation that it will require you to make a burdensome sacrifice. Instead, picture the process as involving the loss of a small pleasure that paves the way for a greater pleasure. Imagine you will finally be able to give a giant gift you’ve been bursting to express.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1903, the Wright

Brothers put wings on a heavy machine and got the contraption to fly up off the ground for 59 seconds. No one had ever done such a thing. Sixty-six years later, American astronauts succeeded at an equally momentous feat. They piloted a craft that departed from the Earth and landed on the surface of the moon. The first motorcycle was another quantum leap in humans’ ability to travel. Two German inventors created the first one in 1885. But it took 120 years before any person did a back-flip while riding a motorcycle. If I had to compare your next potential breakthrough to one or the other marvelous invention, I’d say it’ll be more metaphorically similar to a motorcycle flip than the moon-landing. It may not be crucial to the evolution of the human race, but it’ll be impressive—and a testament to your hard work.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the year 37

AD, Saul of Tarsus was traveling by foot from Jerusalem to Damascus, Syria. He was on a mission to find and arrest devotees of Jesus, then bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished. Saul’s plans got waylaid, however—or so the story goes. A “light from heaven” knocked him down, turned him blind, and spoke to him in the voice of Jesus. Three days later, Saul’s blindness was healed and he pledged himself to forevermore be one of those devotees of Jesus he had previously persecuted. I don’t expect a transformation quite so spectacular for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. But I do suspect you will change your mind about an important issue, and consider making a fundamental edit of your belief system.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You could

be a disorienting or even disruptive influence to some people. You may also have healing and inspirational effects. And yes, both of those statements are true. You should probably warn your allies that you might be almost unbearably interesting. Let them know you could change their minds and disprove their theories. But also tell them that if they remain open to your rowdy grace and boisterous poise, you might provide them with curative stimulation they didn’t even know they needed.

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