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WHEN WEED IS LEGAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY • September 10 - September 16, 2018 • Vol. 28 No. 36

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served our country’s and state’s interests with distinction. Who is better qualified than Michigan voters to determine the direction of our state or the issues that daily impact us all? My neighbor and I may not see eyeto-eye politically, but we do agree on one thing: Resource-extracting multinational corporations, out-of-state casino owners, hedge fund managers with off-shore bank accounts, “vulture” capitalists, and special interest PACs have absolutely no business influencing Michigan elections while hiding behind their wall of secrecy.

The dark monies that flow into our representatives campaigns essentially turn them into nothing more than a “paid shill” for their sponsors. Unfortunately, far too many of our current legislators are quite content being “at-will employees” for these donors while loudly proclaiming they are still “the voice of the people.”

Let us all level the playing field. Research your politician’s finances. See who they actually represent. Demand they support campaign finance reform and the 28th Amendment. Their answers and actions will reveal who their real constituent is. It should come as no surprise that it may be neither you or me.

Until there is reform and full transparency in campaign financing, we will all remain pawns on someone else’s chess board.

John Hunter, Traverse City

Step Up, Inman I am very disappointed in State Rep. Larry Inman’s position about not getting involved regarding the dispute between Munson Hospital and the Munson nurses.

As a former business agent for the Michigan State Employees Association, I am reminded of how we resolved problems during Governor Milliken’s years of office. I learned from the governor to “resolve problems, using common sense and foresight, before the problems become major difficulties.”

Representative Inman should follow Governor Milliken’s path of success. He doesn’t have to choose sides, but he can encourage both sides to work together to resolve this labor problem before it becomes a major difficulty. If not, we, the people dependent on local health care, will be the losers.

Joel Secrist, Traverse City Who Works For Whom Here?

The state of Michigan is certainly resilient. After numerous economic downturns, we always make a comeback, especially when the playing field is level. The state of Michigan is also somewhat unique.

We, the voters in Michigan, have the rare opportunity to amend our state constitution by popular vote. In amending our state constitution, we will clarify first principles for fairness and transparency in Michigan’s elections, and we will add our voices to the growing chorus of states that seek to amend the United States Constitution — specifically a 28th Amendment concerning campaign finance reform.

Since 1837, Michigan citizens have

Kudos to Tuttle Thank you, Steve Tuttle, for your insightful and timely op-ed piece on education.

I was a teacher for 37 years. Every year I looked forward to the Wednesday after Labor Day, when we all met our new students. It was fun, exciting and challenging. But then, I taught when we were not mandated to teach to the test, when we were not judged by our pass/fail rate. We had the freedom to be creative and innovative. College students wanted to become teachers, and classroom vacancies were filled quickly. Education was a noble, important profession.

Now the world is upside down. Teachers are blamed for failing schools by politicians who refuse to give professional educators the tools they need to help students succeed.

Instead, politicians are more concerned with comparing school districts based on MEAP test results. Politicians have taken local control away from communities. Funding, curriculum, and the length of the school year are just three of the things communities no longer control.

Politicians do not regulate any other profession as much as they do mine, and they really understand very little of what it takes to be a good, effective teacher, The numbers of persons choosing education as a profession decreases every year. How sad.

Steve is correct. “Let teachers teach, let students learn, and keep politicians out of the classroom.”

Lynn Larson, Traverse City John McCain and Trump John McCain was a great American war hero and senator. He served his country until his recent death. The United States flag should have been half-staff throughout the country. However, our “president” decided that apparently Senator McCain didn’t warrant the flag at the White House being lowered to half-staff. Not until our congresspeople raised cane did he decide to

lower the flag. This not only un- presidential but unAmerican.

Is it any wonder he wasn’t invited to the funeral while Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton were all there? It is too bad that Trump is so wrapped up in saying how great his administration is doing that he can’t even honor this great American. But that’s his loss. Too bad for his supporters.

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top ten Beaver Island Water Trail Unveiled A challenging adventure awaits anyone willing to take on all — or even a section — of Michigan’s newest recreational trail.

The Beaver Island Water Trail consists of 42 miles of shoreline circumnavigating the island, traveling past sand dunes, picturesque coves, and deep forest, all the while exposed to the unpredictable and ever-changing conditions of Lake Michigan.

The trail has been carefully mapped out, with access points dotted along the route, and plans are in the works to establish designated rustic camping spots.

Know this: It’s not for everyone.

The trail guide begins with a disclaimer that warns how dangerous canoeing or kayaking on Lake Michigan can be.

Years in the making, the trail was developed by the local community and Traverse City-based LIAA, with the support of Michigan’s Coastal Management Program and the DNR. For more information and a downloadable trail guide, search for the trail at www.michiganwatertrails.org.

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Ice cream that pairs perfectly with hot cup of coffee or an autumnal cinnamon latte? Yes, please. While this might sound like an unlikely duo, trust us when we say that Moomers’ Sticky Bun Ice Cream is perfect for the transition from summer into fall.

Sticky Bun is a cinnamon ice cream, festooned with chunks of sticky cinnamon roll buns and ribbons of swirled cream cheese. If it sounds rich and decadent , that’s because it is. It’s also made fresh right at Moomers’ farm, where they serve up over 20 flavors of homemade premium ice cream every day. (Their ice cream menu includes 160 flavors in all.)

If Sticky Bun doesn’t happen to be on the menu the day you’re having a craving for it, never fear — just call ahead to order, and Moomers will make some up and call you back when its ready. Get yours at Moomers, just outside of Traverse City, at 7263 N. Long Lake Rd. Open daily 11am–10pm. (231) 941-4122 or www.moomers.com.

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Grupo Ayé

Latin orchestra Grupo Ayé plays a combination of Cuban Timba, Salsa, Bachata, Merengue and Latin jazz at the Lake Leelanau Street Fair on Sat., Sept. 15 from 6-8pm. Music runs from 2 to 8pm and other performers include Zip and the Zippers, K. Jones and the Benzie Playboys, and Soul Patch. The fair runs from 11am to 8pm and also features local food, beverages and art. www.lakeleelanaustreetfair.org

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The sinner

USA’s standout anthology mystery series returns for a twisty season two with an entirely new stand-alone story. Back is troubled detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) and this time he’s brought to his old hometown to investigate the case of a 12 year-old-boy who seemingly murders his mom and dad by poisoning them while on a road trip to Niagara Falls — seemingly being the key word.

If you thought last year’s buzzy season featuring Jessica Biel would be hard to top, this season bring us prestige TV favorite, the magnificent Carrie Coon (The Leftovers, Fargo) plus plenty of cult intrigue.

And who isn’t intrigued by cults?

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Empire Hill Climb is Back!

The quirky and unique Empire Hill Climb car race is back, and this year it’s sponsored by Autoweek magazine and will feature some notable racers.

The event, which runs up the winding, climbing road that leads to the top of Empire Bluff, started in the 1960s and ended in 1984. Some local car enthusiasts saw a missed opportunity and revived the Hill Climb in 2014. It features racers from across Michigan who test their skill behind the wheels of drift cars, circle-track cars, vintage racers, sports cars, and rally cars.

Last year, the event caught the attention of Detroit-based Autoweek.

“This year Autoweek is not only sponsoring the event but has invited a couple of pro teams to come and run up the hill,” said Jimmy Pelizzari, a Traverse City native and an Autoweek staffer. “This gives spectators a real opportunity to watch and meet local grassroots racers and professionals alike.”

Notable entries include Peter Cunningham of Acura TLX RealTime Racing and amateur Eric Burmeister, a driver from Holland who will be driving a 600hp modified circle-track car.

The event takes place Saturday, Sept. 15. You can check out the cars between 8am and 9am; races begin at 10am.

stuff we love Turning Tragedy into Positive Change Janeen and Rod Wardie lost their son, Zechariah, to mental illness when he died by suicide Sept. 29, 2015. This year, they’re honoring his memory with a national walk alongside the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The walk, which will be held Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Grand Traverse Civic Center in Traverse City, has never been held Up North before. The mission: to bring awareness to mental illness, save lives, and bring help and hope to those affected by suicide here in northern Michigan. Want to help? Register online — it’s free — at www.outofthedarknesstc.com by noon Friday, or in person at 9am until the walk begins at 11am. Opening ceremony begins at 10:30am.

Red Wings on Ice Hey, hockey fans! The Detroit Red Wings are heading up I-75 for their annual training camp at Centre ICE arena Sept. 14 though 18. You can get tickets to watch the guys practice, scrimmage, or even play. Our pick for a must-see: Saturday night’s game (starts 7pm; tickets $25+), where you can watch your local Guns N Hoses team take on a Red Wings team that includes four-time Stanley Cup champions Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, Darren McCarty; hall of famers Chris Chelios and Dino Ciccarelli; and Red Wings GM Ken Holland, head coach Jeff Blashill, and the rest of the assistant coaches. Bonus: Chelios will be back at the rink at 11am Sunday to sign copies of his autobiography, “Chris Chelios: Made in America.” Get tickets and more information at www.centreice.org.

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bottoms up brewery vivant’s tropical-saison A refreshing end-of-summer beer for the fruit-averse, Brewery Vivant’s Tropical-Saison is said to brewed with pineapple and mango juice, but the taste of the two is so light, it’s a mere whisper. And that’s kind of why we like it. While the nose enjoys a tropical waft of said fruit ingredients, what really sings on the tongue is a lightly effervescent and slightly spicy start and a surprisingly hoppy finish. We found and paired ours with an equally complex South Shore sammie (ham, dill havarti, lettuce, tomato, onion, and pesto-mayo on pretzel bread) from the Village Cheese Shanty in Leland’s Fishtown. Both, highly recommended.

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A THIRSTY WEST spectator by stephen tuttle Some folks out West are about to face troubling times; they’re running a bit low on water.

The Colorado River Research Group, an unofficial collection of 10 scientists, recently released their conclusions on the future of the upper and lower basins of the Colorado River. They believe a crisis has already arrived, and it will only get worse.

The Colorado River system and its tributaries provide water for about 40 million people, and irrigation for 5 million acres of farmland. Seven states — Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, California, and Arizona — plus Mexico and tribal nations are all entitled to a portion of the river’s water.

What happened? The Colorado Upper Basin is in the 19th year of a drought cycle that has been the driest in 1,200 years. Less rain, smaller snowpacks and run-off, hotter temperatures that increase evaporation, and increased demand have all contributed.

If the climate scientists are right, that region is headed for even hotter and drier weather and even less water flowing into the Colorado system, and less for people and crops.

And everybody knows where there is a lot of fresh water: here.

We’re good targets since we have a history of taking our most valuable asset for granted. We spent more than a century using our Great Lakes as dumping grounds

If Lake Mead drops just another nine feet, which it might do within a year, water rationing will begin for Arizona and Nevada, the first two states required to do so.

(Mexico is entitled to a share because the Colorado used to flow all the way into the country and formed a delta into the Gulf of California, until we dammed it up. That area is now a desert.)

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Those who cobbled together the agreement known as the Colorado River Compact were especially generous, allocating more water than the river actually contains. That’s been acceptable as long as some states took less than their full allocation. But now they’d like more, and there is significant trouble downriver.

Most of this water is provided by Lake Mead, an enormous reservoir on the Colorado created by the Hoover Dam. About 100 miles back upriver is Glen Canyon dam, which holds back the sprawling Lake Powell reservoir.

Mead was to be the primary source of water, and Powell a backup. Both provide significant renewable hydroelectric power, enough for nearly a million homes. The once-mighty Colorado River, the flow of which is completely controlled at Glen Canyon dam, is really just a very fancy spillway connecting the reservoirs.

But Lake Mead is now just 38 percent of its capacity and is being kept that high with constant help from Lake Powell, which is now only 48 percent of capacity. Powell’s water levels are now a whopping 94 feet lower than they were in 2000. If either goes much lower, both will need to cut back their power generation.

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If Lake Mead drops just another nine feet, which it might do within a year, water rationing will begin for Arizona and Nevada, the first two states required to do so. In Arizona’s population centers, that means more reliance on an aquifer from which water is already being withdrawn seven times faster than it’s being recharged.

for all manner of toxic and human waste.

New laws and enlightenment helped us stop most of that and restore our lakes, but even now our appreciation of the water that is our lifeblood seems more muted than it should be.

We’ve allowed Nestle to pump billions of gallons of water from beneath Michigan soil and sell it as Mountain Ice. According to environmentalists in Mecosta County, the site of Nestle’s wells, Nestle has done so to the detriment of local springs, seeps, streams, and wetlands.

Lake Michigan is awash with invasive species, including zebra mussels whose shells now cover the bottom several feet deep in some places. We are not far away from the inevitable arrival of Asian carp. President Trump tried to strip away all funding designed to protect the Great Lakes, only to have our congressional delegation restore it. Scott Pruitt, the former EPA Administrator, rescinded agency restrictions that forbade oil and natural gas exploration and drilling in our big waters.

More importantly, we’ve already established a precedent of allowing water to be taken for municipal use well beyond the terms of the Great Lakes Compact. Waukesha, Wisconsin, is more than 20 miles from Lake Michigan — more than twice the Compact’s established 10-mile limit for withdrawals. But it is now allowed to suck nearly 8 million gallons of water from the lake every day.

A longer water pipeline isn’t as farfetched as it might sound, especially for people about to go dry. We have a seemingly bottomless reservoir of water we’ve worked hard to restore. But the next challenge won’t be something in the water, it will be those wanting to remove the water itself.

The American West is going to get thirsty.

They’ll be asking us for a drink. They will expect us to be good neighbors.

Crime & Rescue MURDER CHARGED IN INFANT DEATH A man who faces a murder charge for the death of his girlfriend’s nearly one-month-old child left the residence the couple shared with the crying girl and returned 10 minutes later with the child having suffered severe injuries.

Thomas Gene Weatherholt, 21, faces up to life in prison on a charge of open murder. He was ordered held without bond.

According to the charges, at 10pm Aug. 31, the girl’s mother put the child to bed. Later, Weatherholt, who was not the girl’s father, awakened her. He picked her up and took the nowcrying baby outside. The girl’s mother followed a minute later and called out for Weatherholt, but he was nowhere to be found.

Ten minutes later, Weatherholt reappeared, and the child was now silent. He was concerned about the girl and told his girlfriend that she “suddenly stopped crying.” He took the girl back inside and placed her in a bouncy chair. When the girl’s mother checked on her, the infant was ashy and pale and had blood on her clothes.

At Munson Medical Center, doctors determined that the girl had suffered severe head trauma, bruising to her arms, and a right arm injury. After the girl was airlifted to DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, doctors determined that the injuries were inoperable, and the girl died at 2:04am Sept. 1.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Barsheff said Weatherholt “was not forthcoming with information” about what happened.

Weatherholt, who lived at the East Bay Township home on E. Potter Road with the 23-yearold mother and her parents, was first charge with first-degree child abuse; when the girl died, the charges were upgraded to murder.

SEARCHERS FIND DEMENTIA PATIENT An 81-year-old dementia patient was found a day after a search was launched to find her.

The woman walked away from her residence in a rural part of Missaukee County north of McBain at just past 7pm Sept. 1, prompting sheriff’s deputies to search for her.

The search lasted until 3am that evening without success, and resumed the following morning at 7:30am. Deputies located the woman an hour and a half later, and she was taken to Cadillac Munson, according to a press release.

TEEN DRIVER KILLED A 19-year-old Benzie County man was killed in an early morning singlevehicle crash.

Kane Alan Thomason was pronounced dead at Munson Medical Center Sept. 5, Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies said.

A passing motorist spotted Thomason’s crashed vehicle on US-31 South near Lakes North Drive in Green Lake Township at 2:30am and called 911. Deputies arrived and found Thomason, who they determined had lost control of his vehicle, which left the road and crashed into a tree.

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MAN FACES COCAINE CHARGES A Gaylord man who sold crack cocaine to Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement detectives faces drug charges.

Undercover officers said they purchased the drugs from James Bozeman on Aug. 29 at a home in Corwith Township.

Officers returned to the home with a search warrant the following day and seized crack cocaine and cash. Later, officers arrested 44-year-old Bozeman, a suspect in the drug sale, in a traffic stop. They searched his apartment and found a small amount of cocaine and marijuana.

Bozeman faces charges of delivery of and possession with intent to deliver crack cocaine.

SEX ASSAULT ALLEGED A man who invited himself over to a friend’s house for a cigarette is accused of sexually assaulted his friend.

Jeromey Gene Crane, 36, faces up to 15 years in prison on a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

He texted a 40-year-old woman, asking to stop by her house for a cigarette Sept. 2, according to the charges. The woman agreed, and the two smoked outside the woman’s Blair Township house. When the woman went to go inside, he followed her in, despite not being invited in, and the woman let it go because, even though he appeared intoxicated, they were friends.

Inside, Crane allegedly took the woman to the floor and sexually assaulted her. Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the case.

A fight ensued, deputies said, and the men threatened the 43-year-old with firearms, though no shots were fired.

The 52-year-old fled the scene with the shotgun, and he was later arrested on felonious assault charges by state police. The 43-year-old was arrested for a bond violation, and the 33-yearold was arrested for felonious assault.

DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies said a 26-year-old Elk Rapids man who died in a crash on US-31 might have swerved to avoid another vehicle.

Joseph Hejna was driving a Honda Fit northbound when he suddenly crossed into the southbound lanes and crashed head-on with a pickup truck. Hejna was pronounced dead at the scene.

One vehicle may have cut off another vehicle ahead of Hejna, forcing Hejna to have to make an evasive maneuver, Lt. Chris Barsheff said.

Investigators would like to talk to the driver of a red or burgundy vehicle that was traveling ahead of Hejna’s vehicle at the time of the crash.

The vehicle continued on after the crash. Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators at (231) 922-4550.

The crash occurred at 10:20am Sept. 1 near Five Mile Road in Acme Township, causing US-31 to be closed for several hours.

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THREE ARRESTED AFTER FIGHT Missaukee County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a fight between several people at a house where a suspect reportedly had left the scene with a shotgun.

Investigators said that a 43-year-old man who had been arrested the night before for domestic violence was released from jail and turned up at a house on East Moorestown Road. There he encountered the person he’d been accused of assaulting the night before. There were also two men there, ages 33 and 52.

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Two new exhibits featuring the work of Sherri Smith and fourteen of her students from across the globe.

FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS, fiber artist Sherri Smith has been impacting the field of fiber arts around the world. Smith’s artwork came to prominence after being included in the 1969 groundbreaking exhibition, Wall Hangings, at the Museum of Modern Art. Smith developed the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design’s fibers program. These exhibits celebrate the influence of Smith as she recently retired after teaching for over 40 years at University of Michigan.

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A TIME FOR REFLECTION opinion bY jack segal On Sept. 9, Jews worldwide began celebrating the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah). Observant Jews believe that this occasion marks when God sits in judgment of the world’s inhabitants, decides who will live another year, and decides whether the believers will enjoy happiness and success.

Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — follows on Sept. 18 and 19. Jews observe Yom Kippur by fasting from sundown until nightfall the following day, by refraining from work, and importantly, by turning inward for a day of self-criticism and praying to God for forgiveness for their transgressions and faults.

By now, I’ve already gotten myself into trouble with the real experts for presuming to describe these two important Jewish holidays to you. But my purpose here actually relates to foreign policy, about which I claim some expertise. Because the United States and Israel are so closely connected, it is essential for all Americans to understand what is happening between and within our two countries. These holidays are pivotal events in Israel, and the period of self-reflection expected of Jews should apply also to the policies of Israel’s government.

Recent events give cause for concern.

On July 20, Israeli lawmakers passed a controversial bill declaring that only Jews have the right to self-determination. The new law also downgraded Arabic from an official language to “special status,” declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s “united” capital, and proclaimed that Israel is the “historic homeland of the Jewish people.”

Though the new law is largely symbolic, many of the country’s 1.8 million Arabs — around 20 percent of Israel’s population — see it as an affront and have branded the bill racist.

The law also has incensed the 130,000 Druze in Israel. They are a non-Muslim, monotheistic minority known for their fierce loyalty to Israel. Traditionally, a majority of Druze young men join the Israeli Defense Forces and — because of their skill in Arabic — are often the troops most likely to encounter Palestinian protestors. As retired Brigadier General Amal Asad, a Druze veteran of 30 years in the IDF, said, “This law is the most painful blow I’ve received in my life, something I never thought I’d get from people with whom I served, alongside whom I was shot, with whom I’ve built this state … 450 Druze gave their lives for Israel, and Netanyahu passes a law telling me the country doesn’t belong to me?”

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These two communities — Israeli Arabs and Druze — have always underpinned Israel’s claim to be a true democracy. While the Arabs have at times wavered in their support for the Israeli state, they are essential players in any effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To them, this new law threatens a fundamental element of Israeli democracy.

In another example of the need for selfreflection by Israel, just this week, the NGO Breaking the Silence (BtS) was banned from putting on an exhibition at a private art gallery. Former IDF soldiers formed BtS to provide transparency of IDF practices in the occupied territories (called “Judea and Samaria” by some Israelis). BtS offers seminars in Israel about the occupation and even conducts tours of Hebron for visitors.

Like other Israeli organizations engaged in self-criticism in the territories, BtS is a symbol that democracy prevails in Israel; that freedom of speech exists; and that Israelis can criticize how Israel is conducting its now 50-year long occupation.

But during those tours of Hebron, some tourists break the rules and try to spur shouting matches with the IDF soldiers on guard in the overwhelmingly Arab city (pop. 120,000), also home to 500 Jewish settlers. Some of the rule-breakers have been hustled away to the airport and sent home.

In the Israeli Parliament, Prime Minister Netanyahu regularly lashes out at BtS, labelling the group as traitors.

Clearly, the situation between Israelis and Palestinians is not improving. Complicating matters: President Trump has followed through on his promise to be “the most proIsrael President ever,” but his long-promised peace plan hasn’t materialized. U.S. arms sales to Israel — financed by U.S. taxpayers — have increased. The U.S. has pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and tightened the screws in Teheran with sanctions that will increase sharply in November. The Assad regime in Syria has ceded much control to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, which Israel will not tolerate.

These developments place the Middle East closer to a war than it’s been in decades. The U.S. and Israel are committed to preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and Israel has also taken lately to bombing Iranian bases inside Syria to force Iran and its proxies back from Israel’s border.

But in the coming period of self-reflection, Israelis should be asking themselves if what they are doing in their own country, in the occupied territories, and to their democracy might weaken the ties that bind us to them. For American Jews, perhaps it’s unthinkable to abandon Israel. Growing anti-Semitism globally, rightist movements in Europe, even “identity politics” here, raise alarm bells. But for non-Jews, the ties are less strong. If most Americans cannot identify with Israel as a democracy, the risk of a break in the long-standing partnership between us is great.

Jack Segal served as Political-Military Counselor at US Embassy-Tel Aviv from 1989-1991. He and his spouse, Karen Puschel, co-chair Traverse City’s International Affairs Forum, whose 25th anniversary year begins at 7pm on Sept. 20 at Interlochen’s Corson Auditorium with Susan Goldberg, the first female chief editor of National Geographic.

Unusual Hobby Social media have given us the dubious opportunity to document all manner of celebratory, mournful, hilarious and contemplative events. And so they have opened the door to fame for “Paul Flart” (real name: Doug), a 31-year-old hospital security guard who took to Instagram in March to share with the world his “sphincter sirens.” Flart spent a lot of time sitting around at the front desk with nothing to do, but, he noticed, “The lobby has really great acoustics, and naturally, we all fart.

One day I ripped a rather nice one and got really good sound from it, so the next time it happened I recorded it and sent it to my group chat.” Those lucky friends encouraged him to go viral and helped him choose his Insta handle, Paul Flart. Today, he’s racked up more than 20,000 followers, according to Vice. Unfortunately, hospital management isn’t among them, and on Aug. 23, Flart was fired from his job. But he’s not deflated; he plans to expand his reach: “We can do Paul Flart on vacation, you know, throw in like a Hawaiian shirt and a hat ... and then just fart around Florida.”

Government in Action The public works department in San Francisco gets, on average, 65 calls EVERY DAY with complaints about feces on the sidewalk. Public works director Mohammed Nuru and the city’s mayor, London Breed, put their heads together and came up with a solution: the Poop Patrol. In mid-September, five public works employees with a steam cleaner will begin scouring poop “hot spots,” such as the Civic Center, Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, during the afternoons to clean up what nature has left behind. (Another team also cleans overnight.) Officials told the San Francisco Chronicle that the waste comes from dogs and people, and the mayor recently allotted about $1 million for new public restrooms.

“I just want the city to be clean,” Mayor Breed said, “and I want to make sure we’re providing the resources so that it can be.”

Bright Idea -- As his trial got underway on Aug. 22, Chinese University of Hong Kong associate professor Khaw Kim-sun pleaded not guilty to a breathtaking murder plot. Prosecutors say that in 2015, Khaw filled a yoga ball with carbon monoxide, then left it in the trunk of his wife’s car, where it slowly leaked the noxious gas and killed his wife and their 16-year-old daughter. The BBC reported that Khaw was angry because his wife wouldn’t divorce him so that he could be with a student with whom he was having an affair. When colleagues caught Khaw filling the ball, he said he was going to use it to kill rabbits, but in his statement to police, he said the gas was to kill rats in his home. He is charged with two counts of murder.

-- Jeffrey Tomerlin, 45, was charged with assault on Aug. 19 after he hurled a soft, fluffy, edible weapon at his ex-girlfriend.

When Tomerlin saw his ex in a car with her new boyfriend, he walked up to her window and threw a biscuit at her face. He also charged the car, banging on it and saying he would kill them, reported WKRN, earning additional charges of public intoxication and vandalism. It was not clear whether the biscuit damaged the ex-girlfriend’s face.

Florida. Says It All On Aug. 20, the Miami Herald endorsed Republican Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, who was running to replace Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to represent a district that includes parts of Miami and Miami Beach.

(She lost her primary bid on Aug. 28.)

Rodriguez Aguilera has been a city official and a business executive, the Herald noted, but conceded, “We realize that Rodriguez Aguilera is an unusual candidate.” Before she was a candidate, Rodriguez Aguilera appeared on Spanish-language television programs to talk about her experience of being abducted by aliens when she was 7 years old. Three beings, two women and a man who reminded her of Jesus Christ, spoke to her “telepathically” and took her aboard their spaceship. Inside, she saw “round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship,” and she said she has communicated with them several times since then. However, editorial page editor Nancy Ancrum didn’t think Rodriguez Aguilera’s beliefs or past experiences compromised her as an effective public servant. “Here’s why we chose her: She’s not crazy,” Ancrum told The Washington Post. “I don’t think we went off the rails here.”

Owwww!

Mohamad Zayid Abdihdy, 24, declared that he’s “going back to hookah” after a fiery incident on Aug. 25 involving his e-cigarette.

The cellphone store worker was in an HDTV Outlet store in Anaheim, California, buying a new television when the smoking device exploded in his pants pocket. “The gentleman, he is running ... and he is screaming and yelling,” store manager Antelmolare Guzman told NBC4. “Apparently, all of his right leg was completely burnt all the way down. Part of his private parts were also kind of affected.”

While Abdihdy ran to the restroom to see to his burns, Guzman put out the still-flaming e-cig on the store’s floor. Abdihdy, who did not go to the hospital, said he still can’t walk on his leg.

The Meth Made Me Do It Mason Tackett of Floyd County, Kentucky, told WYMT that neighbors called him on Aug. 26 to say his cousin, Phillip Hagans, was carrying items out of Tackett’s house. When Tackett returned home, he said, “It looked like he was packing up for a yard sale when he come out.” Hagans was “lying, throwing his hands, saying stuff like, ‘I didn’t do it. I didn’t do it.’ ... He did pull a gun on me,” Tackett said. But what he really couldn’t understand was Hagans’ choice of items to steal: a cheese grater, an empty Lysol bottle and soap. “Who steals a cheese grater?”

Tackett asked. “He stole my soap. Who steals soap? ... Must have been a bad batch (of methamphetamine) around here ‘cause Floyd County has gone crazy in the last four days.” Hagans was charged with receiving stolen property and being a convicted felon with a firearm.

Sorry You Missed It At least one competitor dressed up as Donald Trump at the World Gravy Wrestling Championships in Lancashire, England, on Aug. 27. As grapplers slipped and slid in the slimy mess, even the referee got toppled a few times. United Press International reported that both men and women participated to support the East Lancashire Hospice.

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEED IS LEGAL? People on both sides agree that the state’s ballot proposal to legalize recreational marijuana looks likely to pass.

Northern Express looks at what that might mean for northern Michigan.

By Patrick Sullivan Voters in Michigan will decide Nov. 6 whether to legalize recreational marijuana, a measure that observers on both sides believe is likely to pass.

What’s it going to mean for northern Michigan? Mark Clark, an attorney who specializes in marijuana at Traverse Legal in Traverse City, said he believes the legal recreational marijuana marketplace will look a lot like the medical marijuana marketplace did before the state cracked down on dispensaries.

That means some local governments will allow the production and retail sales of the drug; others won’t. The law does not allow smoking in public, so there shouldn’t be a lot of obvious signs of legalization. And Clark said many of the negative impacts assigned to marijuana have been overblown.

But Traverse City Police Chief Jeff O’Brien is worried that legalization would bring with it plenty of negative side effects, including improving teenagers’ access to the drug, causing more deadly crashes, and fueling bad behavior around town.

PAST IS PROLOGUE Clark said if recreational marijuana passes, he expects many of the businesses set up to supply and sell medical marijuana will simply shift to recreational marijuana.

Those businesses were shuttered amid a crackdown in northern Michigan earlier this year, but many medical marijuana businesses are expected to open early next year under new rules the state legislature recently passed to ensure the state’s 10-year-old medical marijuana act can function. Those businesses would be in position to get into recreational marijuana when those licenses begin getting approved about a year later.

Clark said he predicts that recreational marijuana would arrive in northern Michigan like medical marijuana — with some localities embracing it and others eschewing it entirely.

The Village of Kalkaska, for example, has gone all in on marijuana, essentially turning over its industrial parks to marijuana growers. Acme Township has opened up to medical marijuana, too. Traverse City is in the process of developing an ordinance.

The vast majority of local governments in northern Michigan, however, have so far decided to opt out.

“There have been very few others who have opted in,” Clark said. “I have clients who have attempted to obtain ‘opt-in permissions’ in several Leelanau townships and have been turned down.”

Other places have gone even further in opposition to marijuana. The boards of commissioners of Otsego and Crawford counties recently passed resolutions opposing recreational marijuana. The county resolutions are symbolic, however; they wouldn’t affect the implementation of legal recreational marijuana if the legalization proposal passes.

Those boards might be more resolute against marijuana than many of their constituents. Under the online publication of the article about the Otsego County resolution in the Gaylord Herald Times, there were nine comments, every one of them critical of the commission’s resolution.

SOME PERILOUS PROSPECTS Even though O’Brien predicts the marijuana proposal will pass, he doesn’t like it.

As Traverse City officials have mulled over what will and won’t be allowed under its medical marijuana ordinance, O’Brien has been there at every turn, citing studies and news articles that chronicle problems experienced in Colorado after that state legalized recreational marijuana in 2014.

When O’Brien cited a federal government study of Colorado legalization that highlighted increased marijuana-caused traffic fatalities, he said he was told that that study was framed with an anti-marijuana bias. He returned at the next meeting with mainstream media stories about increases

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in Denver’s homeless population that was connected to legalization.

“There’s some concerning articles about one woman that was murdered because of a transient person in Colorado,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien said he is worried that when marijuana can be produced legally in the state, Michigan will become a black-market supplier for states where marijuana remains prohibited. Moreover, because federal law prevents marijuana businesses from using banks, they are cash businesses, which invites crime and affords owners the means to avoid paying taxes, he said.

But even if marijuana was legalized in every state and by the federal government, and the black market and cash economy disappeared, O’Brien said he would still oppose legalization, because he worries that it will mean more children would be able to access marijuana, that there will be more traffic deaths, and that his officers will more often encounter deranged and dangerous people on the street who have consumed some combination of extremely potent pot and alcohol.

“When I worked the road, we didn’t see marijuana a lot — it wasn’t prevalent. But now, our officers are seeing it every day,” he said. “Some of the biggest concerns I have are the TCH levels. This isn’t the dope that was around when I was in high school. This is highly concentrated.”

Clark said marijuana critics exaggerate the ills of the drug. People don’t overdose on it, and it’s far less dangerous than alcohol.

“Even if you don’t buy into the fact that it’s therapeutic and has medical benefits, there really isn’t any harm in it,” Clark said. “We’re really to the point where education is going to convince the majority of the people that there aren’t harmful side effects that the critics have claimed.”

TEST-CASE STATE So, what’s it like in Colorado, where weed is legal? And what could that experience say about how life might change in northern Michigan?

Attorney Michael Spencer graduated from Traverse City (Central) High School in 1989 and lives in Colorado today.

A libertarian supporter of marijuana reform, Spencer said there have been problems, but he said he believes legalization has been good overall for society.

Spencer is the operational director of pain management clinic in Parker, Colorado.

His business is not directly involved in marijuana sales, but it does help patients find marijuana-based solutions to pain and addiction.

Many of the problems experienced in Colorado came because the state was the first in the country to legalize and because the federal government remains hostile to marijuana, cutting off business owners’ access to banks and overburdening them with taxes.

Spencer said Colorado did experience a growth in its transient population because of legalization, but that was because Colorado was first to legalize. That brought a lot of people to the state, and some of those people lacked resources. Being the 10th state to legalize, Michigan would see far less of those kind of impacts, he said.

“I would say you’re going to see a lot more of a balanced impact right now, because when there’s a small number of states that have legalized, there’s a big influx of people who want to take advantage of it,” he said. “Now that there are far more states where you can go and have legal marijuana.

That’s changing things.”

Spencer agrees with O’Brien that federal prohibition causes problems for legalization, particularly by forcing business owners to deal in cash. That invites break-ins and robberies and causes crimes rates to go up.

Also, Spencer acknowledged that some means to reduce drugged driving needs to be found because there is no question that marijuana use impacts user’s response time and causes deadly crashes.

“I’m not usually a huge fan of additional regulation, but we do need something there to protect people,” he said.

Ultimately, though, Spencer said he doesn’t believe legalization would change life that much in northern Michigan.

“From a day-to-day life standpoint, I don’t think you’re going to see a tremendous change,” he said.

STILL, THERE IS OPPOSITION Despite the momentum, legalization still has serious opposition, and no one expects the anti-marijuana side to give up.

Up until now, Healthy and Productive Michigan, a group formed to oppose the proposition, has worked quietly to oppose the measure. In northern Michigan, the group was behind the resolutions opposing legalization in Otsego and Crawford counties.

As of the most recent disclosure deadline in July, Healthy had raised $278,561, nearly all of that from one donor, Virginia-based Smart Approaches to Marijuana Action.

Messages from Northern Express seeking an interview with the Healthy group were not returned. A spokesman, however, told

the Detroit Free Press in July that the group planned to begin a fundraising drive as the election neared.

The supporter of the ballot measure, Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, had amassed $1.74 million by the same deadline date in July, raised from numerous organizations and individuals. It reported 800 contributors compared to 13 for Healthy, according to data compiled by the Michigan Campaign Finance Network.

The numbers don’t mean the resources of each side are a lopsided as they appear, however.

Craig Mauger, executive director of MCFN, said that the pro-marijuana group needed to raise a lot of money up front in order to collect signatures and get the proposition onto the ballot. He said he expects the “no” side to start spending money on a campaign in the coming weeks.

“It’s an expensive task if you don’t have enough volunteers,” he said. “The ‘no’ side hasn’t had to do anything, yet.”

WHAT HAPPENS IF PROPOSAL 1 PASSES? When will marijuana stores open?

The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is directed to begin accepting applications for marijuana business licenses within one year of the law taking effect.

What does it mean for individuals?

The proposal would allow individuals over the age of 21 to possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana, including up to 15 grams of marijuana concentrate, on their person; and to possess 10 ounces of marijuana at their home. The act would allow a person to cultivate as many as 12 marijuana plants. A person over the age of 21 could give another person over the age of 21 up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana as a gift, as long as the giver doesn’t take any payment for the gift.

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What does it mean for landlords and employers?

Landlords could prohibit tenants from smoking marijuana inside their homes, and employers could demand that employees refrain from marijuana use or being high while at work.

What does it mean for marijuana businesses?

Anyone who wants to open a store to sell marijuana comes under additional regulation.

They have to get a license from the state and approval from their local unit of government, such as a city, township, or village. Localities can also regulate things like what the store’s signs look like and where they are located.

Localities could also allow for the establishment of what would essentially be marijuana bars — places where people over 21 would be allowed to consume, so long as no one under 21 was allowed on the premises.

Local governments could also require their own licenses for marijuana businesses and charge an annual fee of up to $5,000 for those licenses.

There is also a provision for “marijuana microbusinesses.” These would allow small sales operations involving up to 150 plants.

Mark Clark, an attorney at Traverse Legal, said this language was added so that people who were caregivers under the medical marijuana laws — meaning they could possess up to 12 plants and serve a limited number of patients — could take part in the marijuana economy on a small scale. Otherwise, Clark said, it takes investments of hundreds of thousands of dollars to become licensed to be a marijuana grower or seller.

Are people with prior marijuana convictions prevented from getting licenses?

Marijuana business operators must pass a background check, but prior marijuana convictions would not disqualify a person from getting a license, according to the act. Marijuana convictions are specifically exempted from being a disqualifying factor “unless the offense involved distribution of a controlled substance to a minor.”

What about the children?

Aside from prohibiting marijuana possession and use for people under 21, the measure also takes steps to protect children. Marijuana-infused candy that looks anything like candy for children is prohibited. Also, when sold, marijuana must be put in opaque, child-resistant packages.

How will marijuana be taxed?

There will be a 10 percent tax on the sale of marijuana, in addition to other taxes.

What will happen to the money?

The money will be used to implement, administer, and enforce the act. Also, for at least two years, it will provide $20 million per year to be used to study how marijuana can be used to treat “the medical conditions of United States armed services veterans and preventing veteran suicide.”

After that, remaining balances would be split up between municipalities that have approved marijuana businesses (15 percent), counties where businesses are located (15 percent), the state school aid fund (35 percent), and for road maintenance and repairs (35 percent).

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LOOK OUT BELOW! Traverse City to welcome 40 of the state’s fastest and most agile tree climbers to the Michigan Tree Climbing Championship.

Who will be named king — or queen — of the crowns?

By Ross Boissoneau Championships come in all sports: football, basketball, auto racing, climbing trees. No, really, there is actually a treeclimbing championship series.

And it’s coming to Traverse City.

On Sept. 15, Traverse City will host the Michigan Tree Climbing Championship, with the winner advancing to the world championships. It will take place at the Village at Grand Traverse Commons under the watchful eye of local arborist Bo Burke.

“This is the first time [it has been held locally. I have some nice trees, some notable trees on the Great Lawn,” said Burke.

Unfortunately, Burke himself will not be competing. This year, he’s in charge of the championship. As chair, he’ll be busy overseeing the 40 competitors coming in from all over Michigan.

The competitors will engage in a variety of tree-climbing activities: Work Climb, where competitors have to climb over or around an obstacle; Throw Line, where they get points for correct placement of thrown ropes; Belayed Speed Time, based on speed to the top while another person is belaying their rope; Aerial Rescue, the rescue of a dummy, with points for time and safety; and Ascent, a 60-foot climb speed event. All the events involve climbing safely using rope and harnesses.

The tree-climbing championships will be the focal point of a day of general revelry.

Burke said various vendors will be on-site, and the public is welcome to observe the day-long activities free of charge. It’s all part of the World Tree Climbing Championships, which falls under the auspices of the International Society of Arboriculture.

Annie Kruise, the executive director of the Arboriculture Society of Michigan, said the event is a way to draw in the public to showcase professional skills and safety, while providing a competitive learning environment for those working in the industry. She is especially excited that among the climbers will be two female climbers who will be competing in the women’s division.

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Tree climbing has fascinated Burke for much of his life. “I’ve been climbing for 20 years,” he said. His passion for trees and tree climbing began when he saw some skilled climbers working far off the ground, using chain saws to prune trees while suspended in mid-air.

He went through an apprentice program to get certified and then moved from Fort Collins, Colorado, to Chicago, where he worked for the city. Then it was back to his home state, where he saw an opportunity for a certified arborist in the Traverse City/ Leelanau/Benzie area.

“Trees are living things. They need water and sunlight. When they are sick, you need to go to a pro.” He said that’s why he’s been promoting the certification process locally, and he’s pleased there are now more certified arborists in the area. “People want professionals,” he said.

Burke’s passion for trees has led to a unique sideline: He teaches tree climbing.

And it isn’t just for kids — though Burke has taught youngsters as young as 7 years old. At the other extreme, his oldest student was a sturdy 83. “Remember, age is just a number,” he says on his website.

In fact, he has a whole section of his site (BoKnowsTrees.com, of course) devoted to tree-climbing. He touts climbing as “one of the world’s newest organized individual sports” and promises participants that they will be able to climb a tree during their very first session. What’s more, he says it’s both educational and a great workout. Burke said the view from 30 to 40 or more feet in the air is like nothing else.

For those who just want to observe the climbers while remaining firmly anchored to Mother Earth, the competition will start at 7:45 am and go till sundown. The 40 competitors will each go through the five events. Then the top three finishers will compete head-to-head, with the winner moving on. While Burke is ineligible, he is looking forward to competing next year.

“I was eighth overall [last year] and fourth fastest,” he said. And next year? “I plan on being in the top three.”

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MORE BUDDHA Targeting zen with the Michigan Centaurs

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By Ross Boissoneau The half-horse, half-human centaurs from Greek mythology were famous for their archery skills. The creatures, which also made several appearances in the Harry Potter stories and films, are the inspiration for a group based in Gaylord: The Michigan Centaurs. Their goal is to capture that legendary expertise once again.

There are a few differences. For one, the Gaylord-based group isn’t mythical at all. The brainchild of Maryellen Werstine and her business partner and co-founder, Erin Halloran, Michigan Centaurs aims to share and build on the passion and skills of mounted archery.

And unlike the creatures for which the group is named, the humans and horses do not share the same flesh. But sharing the same aim is of paramount importance.

“Horses sense everything,” said Werstine.

Indeed, the group’s philosophy as noted on its website is “Be one with your horse and bow in harmonious union.”

ONE WITH THE ARROW So why horseback archery, a staple of civilizations from Persian and Roman warriors to Mongol and Manchurian armies in Asia? It’s no longer about warfare, but instead dedicated to providing calm and focus amidst chaos by marrying the two skills. Less Attila the Hun, more Buddha.

Indeed, Werstine said archery aids in developing the ability to relax and concentrate at the same time. “Archery really helps with focus. You pull back and release,” she said. And doing it while riding adds another element.

“You have to account for the speed and gait of the horse.”

Michigan Centaurs offer several clinics each

year for those who want to try the sport, as well as the more experienced who want to expand their skills. Next up is a horse archery clinic for beginners taking place Sept. 23 at Sojourn Farm in Gaylord, with another offered Oct. 28.

CENTAUR GURU IN GAYLORD Between those is a horseback archery clinic with centaur great Mihai Cozmei on Oct. 20 and 21. Cozmei has been active in the sport for 20 years and has taught in Hungary, Turkey, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Poland, and other countries, including the U.S. As a competitor, he has won several international horseback archery competitions in both Europe and Asia.

“He’s the ultimate horse archery guru,” said Werstine.

As with any skill, repetition is the key to success. “It takes time to get in the muscle memory,” said Werstine. “Having a strong foundation of riding is really important.”

Of course, so is archery. Participants first practice their ground archery and get comfortable with the process, then up they go.

“They embrace the partnership with the horse.

Don’t rush it. Start with a walk,” said Werstine.

The inherent challenge for many is to get comfortable riding without holding onto the reins. “It’s not uncommon for people to be cautious not holding the reins,” said Werstine, though she was quick to add this: “It’s liberating. Not holding the reins is bliss.”

EMPOWERED CONNECTION The program developed in part from Werstine and Halloran’s collaborative business, EquuSpirit Partnership. It offers workshops and retreats that explore selfawareness, healing, leadership, empowerment and adventure through working with

horses. Clinics and workshops are geared toward individuals and groups, whether for encouraging self-awareness, personal growth, healing, leadership, team-building, or, of course, horseback archery.

Werstine said her own interest in the sport developed from watching a video. “I said, ‘Wow, people actually do it,’” she said. She learned from a group in Georgia and brought it back to northern Michigan.

Overseeing the growth is the parent organization, Horse Archery USA. Interest in the sport is burgeoning, and Michigan is one of the states where it is seeing its greatest growth.

Michigan Centaurs is one of three such groups in the state; it is the only Midwest state to have more than one such organization.

Werstine said the opportunity to deepen the bond between humans and horses through this ancient practice is something she finds engaging, and she loves to pass it along.

“Horses are magical beings for those of us who ride.” And as for the archery aspect, “It’s amazing how accurate you can be,” she said.

Ride Free. Shoot Brave.

Be a Centaur!

For more information on Michigan Centaurs or its horse archery clinics, go to MichiganCentaurs.com.

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BIÈRE DE MAC

The Ranville family has deep roots in the Mackinaw Straits region. They can trace their history in the area back to the 18th century, during the era of the voyageurs, when their French-Canadian ancestor Alexander Ranville arrived on Mackinac Island from Quebec. Eventually, some family members moved from the island to the mainland and over the years became fishermen, lighthouse keepers, railroad employees, and ferry boat workers.

And today, a Ranville is the owner of the first-ever craft brewery in Mackinaw City.

By Janice Binkert “My dad was the first Ranville to leave the Mackinaw area, moving to Grand Rapids after World War II,” said George Ranville, owner of Bière de Mac Brew Works in Mackinaw City.

“That’s where I grew up.” But after marrying his wife, Gail, raising a family, and many years of running businesses downstate, it would be on Mackinac Island that Ranville would unexpectedly find his way back to his roots.

WHERE IT ALL STARTED Ranville’s son, Danny, graduated from college in 2008, in the depths of Michigan’s economic crisis, and moved to Colorado to get a job. While he was there, he became interested in the craft beer business. “When he was back in Grand Rapids for a visit about five years ago, he and I and Gail went up to Mackinac Island for a little vacation. Gail and I are both runners, and one day I had just finished a couple of loops around the island and stopped at Marquette Park, where I met Danny. I was tired and thirsty, and I said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if there were a craft brewery here where we could get a nice fresh beer right now?’

And he said, ‘Dad, I’ve been thinking about just that.’ So he and I started throwing around ideas, and we both agreed then and there that the Straits area needed a craft brewery.”

Neither George nor Danny had any prior experience in brewing beer, although one of the elder Ranville’s businesses years ago had been a high-end retail wine shop in Grand Rapids that sold some European beers. “And some longtime family friends had opened breweries in the city in recent years,” said Ranville, “so we had seen them get started, and we had watched how the whole craft brewery scene grew there. Danny and I did a

lot of research, put together a plan and — after a lot of hard work and a sharp learning curve — here we are doing the same in Mackinaw City today!”

The Ranvilles opened Bière de Mac (the name is a nod to their French descendants) in January 2017, with Danny overseeing daily operations and serving as general manager. It’s a known fact that winter is not the best time to open a new business in northern Michigan — especially in the food and beverage industry — but as it turned out, it was the right time for this venture.

“We couldn’t have handled it if we had opened in the high season,” said George Ranville. “We needed those first few months to get into our rhythm, because it was an almost instant success. By July, we were incredibly busy, and it has only gotten busier. Now, on Fridays and Saturdays, or on any day in July, we open the doors, and there’s a line outside.”

UPSCALE COMFORT FOOD From the start, Ranville knew that Bière de Mac couldn’t only have what the critics call ‘good beer.’ “The freeway is kind of our off-season lifeline, but we had to give people a reason to get off that freeway right at that exit and come here year-round,” he said. “Our beer had to be really good, and not just the same thing people can get somewhere else. But we also had to have exceptional food.”

They were excited to find that Edgar Jacobs, an experienced professional chef who is originally from the area, was available and interested in working with them. “We had heard good things about him, so we got together to see if he might be able to bring us what we wanted — upscale comfort food that would complement our beers and make people want to stop here. It turned out to be

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a perfect fit. He’s not only a great chef, he’s a great instructor, teaching the staff with a system that makes everything run smoothly.

And he’s the creative force behind the food menu. It’s one we are really proud to offer and one that appeals to both people who love craft beer and people who are foodies.”

The menu is certainly diverse. BBQ Chicken Sweet Potato Poutine (sweet potato fries, shredded chicken, smoked Gouda cheese curds, red onion, cilantro, BBQ gravy) shares the spotlight with Dirty Chips (house-made potato chips, warm chopped bacon, shredded roast chicken, melted blue cheese, green onion, green chile crème fraîche) and the Baba Ganoush Platter (char-grilled eggplant, roasted garlic tahini spread, warm pita bread, veggies for dipping).

Then there’s the Ale & Cheddar Chowder (made, of course, with Bière de Mac’s own ale, and garnished with white cheddar-cheese popcorn), the Crunchy Whitefish Goujons (the fish is delivered fresh daily from Big Stone Bay Fishery, lightly breaded and fried, served with Belgian fries, Carolina-style slaw, remoulade, and fresh lemon), and the Mackinaw Platter (cured meats, smoked whitefish dip, tavern cheese spread, ripe fig spread, beer mustard, crackers, warm flatbread, seasonal fruit garnish).

BREW-WORTHY TASTES Moving down the line, it’s hard to resist the burgers, especially if you see one coming out to another table, speared with a steak knife — which you will probably need.

They all come with lettuce, tomato, sweet onion, and sweet hottie pickles, with a side of freshly made and seasoned potato chips.

Each burger starts with a half-pound of the proprietary chuck and brisket house blend and is kicked up a notch from there. Try the

Left: Chef’s special: Low Country pork shanks with sweet and sour slaw and steak fries.

Right: Chef’s special: Smoked and beer-steamed elk sausage with mustard kraut and sweet onion on naan bread with German potato salad.

Jalapeño Popper Burger (crispy jalapeños and onion rings, spicy jalapeño cream cheese) or the Mushroom Lover’s Burger (thick-cut cremini and shiitake mushrooms smothered in Gruyère and more mushrooms).

“Naanwiches” (sandwiches on naan bread) are favorites as well, including the Asian Chicken version (seared and sliced breast of chicken, ale-brined with ginger and soy, avocado, Asian cilantro slaw, and sriracha mayo).

“We got third place for our Mighty Mac & Cheese in Traverse Magazine’s 2017 Red Hot Best issue, the first year we were in business,” said Ranville. It’s an enticing combination of corkscrew pasta, bacon lardons, smoked Polish sausage, diced butternut squash and a creamy five-cheese sauce, dusted with toasted parmesan crumbs.

“I go to a lot of breweries. I think our food is as good or better than any brewery in the state, and we think our beer is outstanding, too,” said Ranville. “If you’re going to cross the bridge, stop in any time, any season — we’re here for you all winter. It’s only a year and a half since we opened, and we’re pleased with the way things are going. Customers may initially come in for the beer, but they are usually impressed by the food, too. Even people from big cities like New York have told us, ‘This is such a nice surprise — I never expected to get food like this in northern Michigan!’”

Bière de Mac Brew Works is located at 14277 Mackinaw Hwy in Mackinaw City, just 800 yards south of I-75 exit 337, (231) 427-7007.

Closed Mondays. For more information, visit bieredemac.com or check out their Facebook page. $$

IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE THAT COUNTS The building that is now home to Bière de Mac has been a fixture in Mackinaw City for decades — always as a restaurant or supper club. The original exterior outside belies an interior that, while it retains its original layout and retro tables and chairs, now sports a modern twist on the Up North look — bright orange painted trim as a splash of color against a backdrop of stainless steel fixtures, wood-paneled walls, and a polished concrete floor. The brewery’s logo — a stylized outline of the Mackinac Bridge — shows up in both expected and unexpected places, including hand-carved wooden taps behind the bar and wooden sampler boards with cutouts for serving beer flights. Both were made by the shop teacher at the local high school.

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No-nonsense “football overlord” Tim Wooer leaves his winning Titans behind to lead his alma mater’s struggling Stags to excellence — and to be a more excellent Dad.

By Al Parker Unbelievable, just unbelievable,” muttered Tim Wooer, not even trying to conceal the frustration in his voice as he trots to confront a linebacker who missed his assignment during a Thursday morning scrimmage.

Wooer pulls the defender aside and gently, but firmly, explains the mistake as play continues in the background. That’s just a taste of how life goes when you’re the head coach of the Kingsley football team that won only one of nine games last year.

Wooer, a Kingsley native, stepped down as the football overlord of perennial powerhouse Traverse City West after posting a 9-2 mark last year, including a playoff win. He was named the Detroit Lions High School Coach of the Week after his Titans beat Traverse City Central in the annual TC Patriot Game.

It was the most successful season Wooer had with the Titans, yet he left the school to take over the reins of a onceproud Kingsley squad that has fallen on hard times in recent seasons.

It’s a return to a familiar role for the former Central Michigan University punter, who began his head coaching career at Farwell, where he posted a 28-18 mark over five seasons. Wooer, a 1988 Kingsley grad, then coached his alma mater, guiding the Stags to a 68–29 mark in eight seasons. That run included seven playoff appearances and the 2005 Division 6 State Championship.

He joined TC West in 2008, and the decision to leave that program came after much soul-searching and was an extremely tough decision for Wooer.

“Football-wise, it looks like a dumb move,” he said. “And I’m not looking forward to rebuilding, but I did it for family and being closer to my kids as they go through their high school years. As a coach you spend a lot of time away from family. It seems I’ve lost years of my kids’ lives. I don’t want to lose

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four or five more years.”

His oldest daughter, Lauren, is a freshman, and youngest daughter, Sarah, is a fifth-grader at Kingsley. They’re active in cross country, basketball, and track.

“And there’s the competitive reason. We want to build this team to a competitive level.

The third factor was the kids here. They are still polite, courteous, eager, blue-collar kids.

They deserve excellence.”

Excellence might be a bit down the road for this Kingsley squad. Wooer has about 30 players on the varsity squad and 40 on the jayvee team. Through mid-August he was still uncertain about his starters. Only one or two varsity players have secure jobs, with all other positions wide open.

And the schedule is no friend of the Stags.

After games with McBain and Ogemaw Heights, the Stags are on the road facing perennial playoff team Grayling, who beat them 48–22 last year.

On Sept. 15, they visit Thirlby Field to take on TC St. Francis. The Gladiators have dominated the Stags over the past four years, winning all four games by shutouts.

And they weren’t even close, with scores of 35–0, 38–0, 42–0, and 35–0. The last time the Stags scored against St. Francis was the 2012 season opener, won by Kingsley, 18–0.

The Stags return home Sept. 21 to face rival Kalkaska in the homecoming game at Rodes Field.

Other tough games on the schedule include Benzie Central, Glen Lake, Cheboygan, and Boyne City.

“We’re not very good right now,” Wooer admitted. “We can compete when right, but we had a recent scrimmage, and we were very poor. We have kids who have the ability to play Division I, but it involves work. We have to eliminate apathy and complacency.

We’ve been working on strength and work habits. We’ve talked about habits a lot and made some huge gains. They’ve got to earn it, that’s the bottom line.”

Wooer runs a no-nonsense football program, and there were some rumblings that not everyone at TC West was saddened by his departure. It’s not unusual for some parents and players to bristle at a head coach’s rules.

One of those is summarized in a quote on T-shirts worn by the Kingsley coaching staff.

“Work Hard. Good things will happen.”

It’s the words of Justin Hansen, a former Kingsley linebacker under Wooer who graduated in 2003 and joined the Marines two years later. He was killed in Afghanistan on July 24, 2012. Much of the Kingsley community mourned the loss and turned out for his funeral. Gov. Rick Snyder ordered flags lowered to half-staff in Hansen’s honor.

“Sgt. Hansen will long be remembered for his sacrifice,” Snyder said at the time.

“He bravely served this state and nation. Our thoughts are with his entire family during this difficult time.”

At a pre-season scrimmage in August, Hansen’s father talked about Wooer’s impact on the Kingsley community, on and off the football field.

“He takes boys and helps them become men,” said Rick Hansen. “Justin is part of this Kingsley team and always will be as long as Tim is here.”

Following Hansen’s death, Wooer suggested an annual football game between TC Central and TC West be designated to honor the military.

The first Patriot Game was played in 2012 before some 10,000 fans, and it’s grown to a huge annual event that now also honors first responders and raises funds through T-shirt sales. The seventh annual Patriot game is set for Sept. 14, with proceeds from the shirt sales going to Warrior Sailing, a program that uses sailing to support the mental health of wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans while reconnecting them with the camaraderie and teamwork they experienced in the military.

An Earl A. Young house in its native habitat

Wildwood Rush Canopy Tour

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Take Back the North Shoulder season meanders

By Kristi Kates The early fall shoulder season is a northern Michiganian’s reward for working her way through another hot, bustling, crowded northern Michigan summer season.

The tourists have departed, the roads and sidewalks are less crowded, the weather is right in that comfortable middle ground between sweltering and freezing. It’s the perfect time to reclaim your roads and trails and become something of a tourist yourself, so take advantage of this slower time of the year to do some of the things that draw so many others Up North.

Boyne City Stroll Through History Boyne City’s self-guided tour — aided by a a colorful, well-written brochure available at the Boyne Area Chamber and iPhone audio app — leads you to 52 historic landmarks and houses.

Did you know that Boyne City used to have a zoo (the Old City Park Zoo, which housed, among other inhabitants, a bear named Teddy)? Or that at the height of the city’s lumbering era, the population numbered 6,000? (It’s about 3,800 now.)

Find out even more about Boyne City’s transition from industrial and lumber boom town to its current status today as a tourist and retirement destination.

When: Year-round.

Top Tips: Get the free app and you can add an audio tour that you can listen to as you take the walking tour (download it at tinyurl.com/boynecitytour).

More Info: Pick up a brochure at the Boyne Area Chamber of Commerce, 28 South Lake St., in Boyne City. (800) 845-2828.

Big Mac Scenic Shoreline Fall Tour This annual bicycling event, now in its 27th year, is going through some major

changes. It’s no longer cycling across the Mackinac Bridge (most pedestrian and cyclist events on the bridge have been cancelled in recent years due to safety reasons).

Instead, the shoreline tour will head directly to Mackinac Island to bike around the island’s perimeter. That’s in addition to the event’s other four routes, which start from just south of Mackinaw City down to Harbor Springs for 25-, 50-, 70-, or 85-mile jaunts.

When: 9am, Sept. 16 Top Tips: This is the first year the event has extended to the island and M-185 — the only state highway in Michigan that doesn’t permit regular motorized vehicles. So courtesy is going to be paramount to ensure that the event’s invited back: Make sure you stick to the 12mph speed limit and make way for horses!

More Info: Request an entry pamphlet for the fall event by emailing kelly@ mackinawchamber.com.

Wildwood Rush Canopy Tour If you’ve ever wanted to try zip lining but were deterred by the crowds, fall is a great time to go, especially with the fall colors brightening up the local foliage. Boyne City’s Wildwood Rush offers nine different zip lines, six platform towers, and five “sky bridges,” all for you to get views of northern hardwood forest and Lake Charlevoix.

Guides take you on a two-hour trek through the route, which concludes with a grand-finale a zip down a 1,200-foot triple racing line.

When: Fridays through Mondays, by reservation only.

Top Tips: Participants should weigh between 70 and 270 pounds, and wear pants or long shorts, shirts with sleeves, and closed-toe shoes (don’t arrive in sandals, flip-flops, or clogs). You should also be

capable of walking graded woodland trails.

More Info: Wildwood Rush is located at 2575 Boyne City Rd., in Boyne City. wildwoodrush.com or (231) 582-3400.

Breezeway Color Tour Whether you decide to drive it, bicycle it, or motorcycle it, The Breezeway, a 26-milelong rural route along C-48 — from Atwood through Ellsworth, East Jordan, and Boyne Falls — offers beautiful countryside views, working farms and orchards, quaint little roadside shops, lodging, a nature preserve (The Bolt Nature Preserve), the Ellsworth labyrinth, and even art galleries and studios.

Each town boasts eateries and shops; you can spend an entire day going from one end of the Breezeway to the other, discovering new things at each stop.

When: Year-round, but fall is especially picturesque.

Top Tips: Once you hit Boyne Falls, you’ll be right at Boyne Mountain Resort, where you can grab an off-season chairlift ride to the top of the hill for a top-notch view of those fall colors from a completely different angle.

More Info: www.ridethebreezeway.com has a plethora of info and facts, including a map and a guide to lodging, shops and stops.

Charlevoix Mushroom House Tours The unusual, earthy mushroom-shaped houses designed by legendary architect and Charlevoix native Earl A. Young are well known locally, and are also a must-see for those interested in architecture, history, and whimsy.

Starting at Elements Gallery at 211 Bridge St., these tours take you by some or all of the mushroom houses in Charlevoix (depending on which tour you choose), and on occasion (depending on the homes’ rental status), you can even take a peek at a mushroom house interior.

All 28 of the houses can be peeped during a GEM car tour, in which you’ll ride in a chauffeured car. You can join a random group, or reserve the car for five. If you prefer walking, try the 50-minute walking tour on which you’ll spy 11 of the houses.

When: Contact Mushroom House Tours to reserve your spot (see below).

Top Tips: If you hitch a ride in the GEM car — nicknamed Gigi — bring a jacket if it’s cool. Though its roof will protect you from rain, the GEM is open-sided.

More Info: www.mushroomhousetours. com or (231) 445-0770 Manistee Riverwalk Supersize your typical morning, afternoon, or evening stroll with a trek along the Manistee Riverwalk, a 1.5 mile excursion that starts at the end of Jones Street and follows the picturesque Manistee River. Bring your camera, because you’ll see postcard-worthy docks, fishermen, freighters, leisure boats, gulls, and more. At the end of your walk, you can either use one of the side stairs to climb up to downtown Manistee’s restaurants and shops (or even catch a show at the Ramsdell Theater if your timing’s right!), or relax at the park at the end of the walk, which features inviting picnic tables, grills, and bench swings for further enjoyment of those views.

When: The Riverwalk is open year-round, weather permitting.

Top Tips: Mileage markers every tenth mile are placed along the Riverwalk to track your distance if you’re walking for fitness; if you’re walking for fun or city discovery, watch for the historical markers along the route that point to local sites of importance and interest.

More Info: www.manisteeriverwalk. com offers more info, plus a map of the full riverwalk route.

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Ed Asner performing at Ramsdell

By Ross Boissoneau Ed Asner has won more Emmy Awards — seven — than any other male performer.

He’s one of the few actors to portray the same character in a comedy and a drama, and the only male to win an Emmy for both. He’s played Santa Claus in movies and TV shows numerous times, and appeared in both live action and animated films and television shows. And he’s coming to Manistee to perform.

Yes, acting legend Ed Asner will be performing the one-man play “A Man and His Prostate” at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee Sept. 21.

Why? “I’ve had so many afflictions I thought it would be nice to do a show on one I haven’t had,” said the actor in a phone interview.

Many of the characters he plays are curmudgeons with a heart of gold, from Lou Grant to Carl Fredricksen in Pixar’s Up, and he’s similarly cantankerous in the interview.

“Go get the phone, please!” he bellowed in the midst of this conversation when another telephone began ringing.

“It’s a lovely, wonderful piece that does a public service,” he continued without missing a beat. “It fits like a glove.”

The play was written by Ed Weinberger, a veteran comedy writer who wrote for standup comics Dick Gregory and Richard Prior, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, The Dean Martin Show, The Cosby Show and Taxi, as well as creating several sitcoms. Asner said Weinberger based it on his own experience but wrote it for him. “Ed reached out to me. He knew he was writing for me,” he said.

This wasn’t the first time the two worked together. They also wrote a book, “The Grouchy Historian,” subtitled “An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs.” Asner is well-known as a staunch liberal and served two terms as president of the Screen Actors

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Guild, as well as supporting a number of progressive causes.

The cause here is not anything political: It’s health. While the play is largely a comedy, Asner said the message is important, as did Xavier Verna, the executive director of the Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts.

Verna said he had been looking for a way to collaborate with other organizations.

“We want to have shows where we partner with corporate or other sponsors,” he said.

“We talked to Munson about sponsoring a presentation. They said it needed to be health-related. We came across this and approached Munson.” As a result, Munson Healthcare Manistee Hospital has signed on.

The timing couldn’t be better: The show will be presented in the middle of Prostate Cancer Awareness Week (Sept. 17–24).

“We’re excited about the idea. Cancer is such a big topic. This takes a lighthearted look to create more awareness. We thought it would be great,” said Verna, though he admitted he too was surprised to book the show. “I didn’t realize he was still touring.

We tell people, and they say ‘Ed Asner?’

“It’s great to see him take on a leadership role,” Verna continued. He noted that celebrities bring publicity to their causes.

“If I say something, who cares. When actors say something, it brings that matter to the forefront.”

The play will be followed by a panel discussion about the topic. “It’s lighthearted but with a heavy message. The message is clear.

We need to create more awareness,” Verna said.

So, a serious topic with a comedic presentation. And Asner is just the man for the job. “It’s a role you can dig into. He bitches and bitches and bitches,” said Asner of the play’s protagonist. Sounds like a crusty Ed Asner role indeed, and, apparently, those who have seen the play agree. “I’ve been very happy with the audience response,” Asner said.

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HARBOR SPRINGS CYCLING CLASSIC: Birchwood Inn, Harbor Springs. Three road routes (20, 45, 60 miles) all include the Tunnel of Trees.

Register in advance: $30 adults; $20 ages 6-12; & free for ages 5 & under. Start between 7:30-9:30am. birchwoodinn.com/hscyclingclassic.html

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FALL BARN MARKET: 9am-3pm, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Presented by the Red Dresser. Featuring more than 65 vendors, live music & more. Free admission & a $2 parking fee will support Rainbow of Hope, local Kingsley sports teams & 4H groups. thereddressertc.com

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FORESTRY FIELD DAY AT PALMER WOODS: 9am. 721 acres – Leelanau Conservancy’s largest natural area. Offering miles of hiking, cross-country skiing or snowshoeing through rolling hills & northern hardwood forest. Learn about: How multiple use management works on the ground; sustainable forest management practices; forest insect & disease control treatments & more. Cost is $5/person. Register: 231-256-9783 or kama.ross@macd.org

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HARVEST STOMPEDE 5K/7 MILE TRAIL RUN/ WALK: Race through Leelanau’s vineyards at 9am at Ciccone Vineyard, Suttons Bay, followed by a self-guided wine tour along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Wine tour tickets only available at www.lpwines.com. Race fees are not included ($32 for 5K Walk; $34 for 5K/7 Mile Run). signmeup.com

---------------------AAUW SEPT. MEETING: 9:30am, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. The American Association of University Women, TC Branch will hold a brunch.

Join in team-building exercises, hear from President Ann Marie Love & learn about the group’s interest groups & projects. Donation, $10.

---------------------TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DOWNTOWN WALKING TOURS: 10:30am.

Start at the Perry Hannah statue on the corner of Sixth St. & Union St., TC. Free; donations appreciated. traversehistory.wordpress.com

---------------------13TH ANNUAL MIKE MCINTOSH MEMORIAL CAR SHOW: 11am-3pm, NMC, TC. 995-1316.

---------------------AUX TO SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR MEETING: 11am, Elks Lodge #323, TC. A business meeting for Frances Finch #9, ASUVCW (Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War). Please send questions to francesfinch9.asuvcw@gmail.com Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------DRAWING LESSON: 11am, Horizon Books, Cadillac. Horizon’s own local artist, Vlasta Bovee, will demonstrate techniques for you to follow to create your own original drawing, based on the book “THE DOT.”

---------------------“HEAVENLY” GARDEN WALK: 12-6pm, 9059 Nelson St., Cedar. Tour of fire station following the walk. 231-228-3378. Suggested donation: $15.

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 122pm: Gary Macchioni will sign his book “Letters From a Vietnam Vet.” 2-4pm: Janice Broyles will sign her book “The Secret Heir.” 4-6pm: C.M. Gleason will sign her book “Murder in the Oval Library.” horizonbooks.com

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GRANT UMC PIG ROAST & MUSIC FESTIVAL: Noon, Grant United Methodist Church, Buckley. Featuring The Distinguished Gentlemen & the 2018 Cherry Idol winner, Trent Dexter. There will also be food, kids games, pony rides & more. Free. grantumcbuckley.com

MHA CLASSIC SAIL, PADDLE & ROW BOAT SHOW: 12-4pm, Discovery Pier, TC. Featuring a small craft display, boat tours, maritime skill demonstrations, music & more. Free. maritimeheritagealliance.org

---------------------WATER WAYS EXHIBIT WATER FESTIVAL: Noon, Raven Hill Discovery Center Picnic Area, East Jordan. Area water organizations will share their mission; a demonstration of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s weather model; a chance for visitors to try fly casting; & more. Donations appreciated. miravenhill.org

---------------------DOODLE ART DAY: 1-3pm, Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Open to ages 9-90. Bring paper & a pen or favorite drawing tool. twistedfishgallery.com

---------------------MACKINAW CITY BEER & WINE FESTIVAL: 1-9pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City.

Featuring live music by Brett Harfert, Whitmore 4 & Sturgeon Valley. Cost is $5; includes a tasting glass & three tasting drink tickets.

---------------------TRAVERSE CITY RISES FOR CLIMATE: 1pm, The Open Space, TC. Join in this rally to demand local leaders commit to building a fossil free world that works for everyone. Free. peoplesclimate.org/actions/sept-8

---------------------GALLERY ARTIST & TALK: 3pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. Debra Howard will give a presentation on her art & her experiences of plein air painting coming to MI, in MI, in Leelanau County & her journey as a plein air painter. northportartsassociation.org

---------------------NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: Centre Ice Arena, TC, Sept. 7-11. Featuring eight teams.

On Mon., Sept. 10 at 2:30pm meet the author of “The Russian Five,” Keith Gave. centreice.org

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

Community play-along until 8pm. Singers, dancers & listeners also welcome. Free. facebook. com/pg/therockofkingsleyMI/events

---------------------A TRIBUTE TO OUR HEROS: 7pm, Charlevoix Pavilion. Featuring a rock concert by Madison Rising. Free. facebook.com/CharlevoixElks

---------------------GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: 7pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Featuring Composer-in-Residence Gwyneth Walker.

Tickets: 231-487-0010. $25, $35. mynorthtickets. com/events/great-lakes-great-music

---------------------HARVEST OF HARMONY: 7pm, TC Central High School Auditorium, TC. 52nd annual

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The Traverse Symphony Orchestra kicks off their 66th concert season on Sat., Sept. 15 at 7:30pm at Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts, with their first ever collaboration with the Traverse City Dance Project, a local not-for-profit dance company engaging professional dancers from major cities across the country. Enjoy Debussy’s “La Mer,” Handel’s “Water Music,” Hanson’s “Dance of Two Worlds,” and Danielpour’s “Urban Dances.” $25.50-$61.50. traversesymphony.org

concert presented by the Cherry Capital Chorus.

Special guests include the Grand Traverse Show Chorus & the Hemidemisemiquaver 4. $15.

---------------------SUMMER VIBES II: 7-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring local hip-hop musicians Drebb, Noemad, Blissful, Moe Staxx, Big Sharp, Marcodetc, Sky Diamond & more. $6 advance; $8 night of. redskystage.com

---------------------MONTGOMERY GENTRY: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy this multi-platinum country artist with songs like “Something To Be Proud Of.” $30, $40, $45. lrcr.com

---------------------“FIND YOUR PARK” AFTER DARK: SUMMER STAR PARTY: 9-11pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Dune Climb, Empire. Takes place one day before a new moon, providing an opportunity to observe deep space objects, the Milky Way, & the planets Mars & Saturn. Please park in the row furthest from the dunes with your headlights facing M-109.

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AUTUMN FEST CAR & MOTORCYCLE SHOW: 12-4pm, Tom’s Food Market, Interlochen. interlochenchamber.org/ annual-car-show-festival.html

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NCMC’S 21ST ANNUAL COOKOUT & 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: 12-3pm, NCMC, Petoskey. A picnic-style lunch, the Kidz Zone, music by DJ Tim Roback, dancing, demonstrations & much more. 231-439-6225. $8. ncmich.edu

---------------------NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: (See Sat., Sept. 8)

---------------------MURDER MYSTERY DINNER THEATER: 5-8pm, Otsego County Sportsplex, Gaylord. Presented by GCP. Dinner served by Michaywe Inn the Woods Restaurant. $25. ocsportsplex.com

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NORTHERN MI HIV SUMMIT: 9am-3pm, Hagerty Conference Center, NMC, TC. Offering info on advances in HIV treatment & prevention, & the urgent need for testing in northern MI. Continuing education credits are available.

Includes keynote address by Ryan White’s mom, Jeanne White-Ginder. Registration required.

Lunch provided. Free. mhc.eventsair.com

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OTP AUDITIONS: 4-6pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. For “Disney’s the Little Mermaid, JR.” Open to students ages 9-18. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------“MOVIE MONDAYS: ART & DESIGN FILMS”: 5:30-8:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Theater, Petoskey. Featuring “Frank Gehry: Sketches of Frank Gehry.” A film screening & discussion hosted by architect Robert Swanson.

Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------GT HUMANISTS PRESENT JOHN WIERENGA: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. “Climate Science, Paleoclimate, Paleogeology, & Paleontology: How the Past Informs the Future.”

Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------MACKINAW AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S LECTURE SERIES: 7pm, Mackinaw Area Public Library, Mackinaw City. Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Bruce Lynn will give a presentation on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald & the subsequent creation of the Shipwreck Society’s latest publication, “The Legend Lives On.”

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WETLANDS WILDFLOWER WALK: 10am-noon, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Learn about wildflowers that like “to get their feet” wet. Donations appreciated. grassriver.org

---------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create a fall flower bird feeder. Held at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: (See Sat., Sept. 8)

---------------------PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION & AVOIDING IDENTITY THEFT WORKSHOP: 3pm, TBA Credit Union, 630 E. Front St., TC. Call 946.7090 to register. Free. tbacu.com

---------------------FREE STOP THE BLEED TRAINING: 4pm, McLaren Northern Michigan, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. Become trained, equipped & empowered to help in a bleeding emergency. Register: 231-487-3165. Free.

---------------------OTP AUDITIONS: (See Mon., Sept. 10) ---------------------FREE “FROM EMPLOYEE TO OWNER” WORKSHOP: 5:30-7pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Presented by SCORE TC. Reserve your spot. upnorthscore.com/scorewp

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT SPEAKER SERIES: GOING IN CIRCLES-CANOEING THE GREAT LAKES: 6-8pm, Raven Hill Discovery Center Museum, East Jordan. Featuring Steve Brede.

Donations appreciated. miravenhill.org

---------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6:308:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new, come at 6pm for an introduction to CCL. 231-499-6747. citizensclimatelobby.org

---------------------NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH TALKS: 7pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Patrick McGinn, CEO of Harbor Hall, will discuss substance use disorders, the family system, & adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON MEETING: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, Harbor Springs. Wildlife photographer Lynn Fraze presents “An Obsession with Kestrels….Where Citizen Science & Photography Meet.” Free.

---------------------AOIFE SCOTT WITH ANDREW MEANEY: 7:30pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Scott was named “Best Folk Act” at the 2018 Irish Post Music Awards & “Emerging Artist of the Year” at the Live Ireland Awards. Renowned guitarist Meaney will join her. 947-9213. $20 advance; $25 door.

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ROBERT DOWNES’ BOOK RELEASE PARTY & BIKE TOURING SHOW: This TC author offers insights into the world of bicycle touring with a digital slide show from 6-8pm at Left Foot Charley, TC. Downes will discuss his 2016 bike ride from Seattle to TC, which ran 2,711 miles across the Rocky Mountains & Great Plains. He will offer his new murder-mystery, “Bicycle Hobo”; $2 from every book sold will be donated to Save the Children’s child refugee fund.

torical Museum, Benzonia. Brown will present “Time in Poetry.” 231.882.5539. By donation.

on display from 8-10am & the racing runs from 10am-6pm. Free. empirehillclimb.com

ART & CULTURE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Hosted by the Petoskey Chamber. $7 members; $12 not-yet members.

LEELANAU HARVEST TOUR: 8am, Suttons Bay High School. Organized by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club (CCCC) of TC, this tour offers 20, 40, 65 & 100-mile routes, with five food stops along the way & a barbeque buffet with root beer floats at the end of the ride. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

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---------------------GT BAY AREA STROKE CLUB MEETING: 2:30-4:30pm, The Presbyterian Church of TC. Featuring a presentation on “An Integrated, Global Approach to Recovery-based Rehabilitation Following Stroke.” 935-6380. munsonhealthcare.org

---------------------“SAVING ARCADIA” BOOK TALK WITH AUTHOR HEATHER SHUMAKER: 4pm, Leland Township Library. “Saving Arcadia” is the story of a small band of determined townspeople & how far they went to save land from a powerful corporation. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------T ‘N’ T CREATE! PENCIL DRAWING MADE EASY: 4pm, Interlochen Public Library. For ages 10-19. A class to learn pencil drawing techniques.

Sign up: 231-276-6767. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------GAYLORD AREA BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Fairfield By Marriott, Gaylord. Featuring live music by A Brighter Bloom, appetizers by Porter Haus, beverages from Alliance Beverage & more. $5 members. gaylordchamber.com/ business-after-hours

---------------------MANAGING STRESS, ANXIETY & DEPRESSION: 5pm, Otsego Memorial Hospital, Professional Medical Building Conference Room, Gaylord. Presented by Stephanie Rutterbush, MD. 989-731-2343. Free.

---------------------AN EVENING WITH CLIFF DENAY: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. This author will lead a discussion of his book “Parent’s Grief: Daily Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Child.” RSVP: events@mcleanandeakin.com. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

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WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: Featuring a two-day paddle event through the Chain of Lakes of Antrim County. Local events begin Thurs., Sept. 13 in the evening with food, music & more, & run through Sat., Sept. 15. paddleantrim.com

Shugart Wagner & Louan Lechler. A free will offering will benefit the Elk Rapids Area Historical Society & the Elk Rapids Food Pantry.

---------------------RED TAIL RING: 7pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. This roots duo brings original folk music & traditional ballads with banjo, fiddle, guitar & more. $15 advance; $20 door. thebaytheatre.com

MICHIGAN TREE CLIMBING CHAMPIONSHIP & ARBOR FAIR: 8am, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Free. asm-isa.org

---------------------A HISTORY OF GRAND TRAVERSE MUSICALE: 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. An original presentation, with readings & music of the history of Grand Traverse Musicale. Free. gtmusicale.org

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MyNorthTickets.com ---------------------BAY HARBOR HOME TOUR: Learn about the history of Bay Harbor as you are driven through Bay Harbor & are then shown through the homes by guides. Held at 9am & 11am.

231.439.2700. $40. bayharborfoundation.org N O R T H E R N

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TAGE TOUR: 10am-5pm. Tour eight homes, from just south of Elk Rapids to Alanson. There will also be a party at Twisted Fish Gallery from 12-6pm, presented by Pleasant Valley Custom Homes. $25 advance; $26 door. mynorthtickets.com

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WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: (See Thurs., Sept. 13)

---------------------APPETIZERS & ART: 6:15pm, Up North Arts, Cadillac. Friends of the Cadillac Library Fundraiser. Mediterranean cuisine, live music, 50/50 raffle & entertainment by speed painter Martina Hahn. Tickets available from Brinks Art & Framing in Cadillac or by calling 231-510-9047. $25. friendsofthecadillaclibrary.com

for the whole family

---------------------DYLAN SCOTT: 7pm, Streeters, TC. This Platinum-selling country star brings his current Top 5 smash “Hooked” to Ground Zero. His first hit was “My Girl.” $22. groundzeroonline.com

---------------------“MAMA MIA!”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. The Michigan Community Theatre premier

by Catherine Johnson with music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson & Bjӧrn Ulvaeus. $28 adults; $15 under 18 (plus fees). oldtownplayhouse.com

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---------------------DE-CLUTTER YOUR LIFE: 12:30pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Join TC Fire Chief Jim Tuller as he shares tips on how to get started uncluttering your life. An optional lunch will be served at noon. $3 suggested donation for lunch for 60+.

Reservations for lunch are required. 922-2080.

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NORTHERN LIGHTS FUN RUN: 8pm, Munson Medical Center, Parking Lot “K,” TC. Help raise awareness of HIV care & prevention in northern MI. $20. runsignup.com

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20TH TRAINING CAMP GOLF CLASSIC: 11:30am, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. centreice.org

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BALLETX: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. The Resident Dance Company of The Wilma Theater & Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet. $37. tickets.interlochen.org

INTERACTIVE STORY TIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Pete the Cat - Rockin in My School Shoes” by Eric Litwin. greatlakeskids.org

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sept saturday 15

BIG MAC SCENIC SHORELINE FALL BIKE ONE DAY OR TWO DAYS TOUR: Day 1: North Emmet Shoreline Tour & Luncheon. Begins at St. Anthony’s, Mackinaw City.

Choose from 25, 50, 70 or 85 mile routes. Day 2: Island Ride. mackinawchamber.com/product/fallshoreline-only

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: (See Thurs., Sept. 13)

---------------------LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S: 10:30am, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. act.alz.org

---------------------THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OUT OF THE DARKNESS WALK: 10:30am, GT County Civic Center grounds, TC. afsp.donordrive.com

---------------------LAKE LEELANAU STREET FAIR: 11am-8pm.

A celebration of food, art & music. Featuring live music by Zip and Zippers, & Grupo Aye; food from Dick’s Pour House, Rose’s Indian Food, Pleva Meats & others; & local wine & beer from 45 North, Amoritas, Bel Lago, Boathouse Vineyards & others. lakeleelanaustreetfair.org

---------------------AMERICAN MILITARY LEAGUE CLASSIC CAR/ MOTORCYCLE SHOW: 2423 Sybrandt Rd., TC. The Car/Motorcycle Show runs from 12-4pm, & the pig roast from 4-8pm. Proceeds benefit the Northern Michigan Blue to Gold Star Mothers Inc. Pig dinner: $10 adults, $6 children; under 5 eat free. 941-7253. $20 registration fee. americanmilitaryleague.com

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: ART OF WATER FESTIVAL & PAINT OUT: Noon, Raven Hill Discovery Center Picnic Area, East Jordan. Water-related artwork will be for sale by artists. A few hands-on art classes will be available for all ages & artists are invited to participate in a paint out & wet paint art show & sale. miravenhill.org

---------------------OTP YOUTH AUDITIONS: 1-3pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. For “A Christmas Carol.” This play has roles for at least 20 performers ages 10 & older. oldtownplayhouse.com

- - - - - - - - - - ORYANA - - - - - - - -COMMUNITY - - - - - - - - - - -CO-OP --------------AUTHOR SIGNING: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. 260 E. 10th St, Traverse City | 947-0191 | oryana.coop Marilyn Lahr will sign her book “Living the Sea-

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OTP AUDITIONS: 4-6pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. For “Disney’s the Little Mermaid, JR.” Open to students ages 9-18. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------“MOVIE MONDAYS: ART & DESIGN FILMS”: 5:30-8:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Theater, Petoskey. Featuring “Frank Gehry: Sketches of Frank Gehry.” A film screening & discussion hosted by architect Robert Swanson.

Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------GT HUMANISTS PRESENT JOHN WIERENGA: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. “Climate Science, Paleoclimate, Paleogeology, & Paleontology: How the Past Informs the Future.”

Free. Find on Facebook.

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LECTURE 7pm,RN, Mackinaw Area Public Keli SERIES: Macintosh CNC, DN Library, Mackinaw City. Executive Director of the 231-946-3872 Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Bruce Lynn will give a presentation on the wreck of the Edmund Call for a personal consultation Fitzgerald & the subsequent creation of the Shipwreck Society’s latest publication, “The Legend Lives On.”

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WETLANDS WILDFLOWER WALK: 10am-noon, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Learn about wildflowers that like “to get their feet” wet. Donations appreciated. grassriver.org

---------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create a fall flower bird feeder. Held at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: (See Sat., Sept. 8)

---------------------PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION & AVOIDING IDENTITY THEFT WORKSHOP: 3pm, TBA Credit Union, 630 E. Front St., TC. Call 946.7090 to register. Free. tbacu.com

---------------------FREE STOP THE BLEED TRAINING: 4pm, McLaren Northern Michigan, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. Become trained, equipped & empowered to help in a bleeding emergency. Register: 231-487-3165. Free.

sept 12

wednesday

ROBERT DOWNES’ BOOK RELEASE PARTY & BIKE TOURING SHOW: This TC author offers insights into the world of bicycle touring with a digital slide show from 6-8pm at Left Foot Charley, TC. Downes will discuss his 2016 bike ride from Seattle to TC, which ran 2,711 miles across the Rocky Mountains & Great Plains. He will offer his new murder-mystery, “Bicycle Hobo”; $2 from every book sold will be donated to Save the Children’s child refugee fund.

---------------------NONPROFIT EXCHANGE MONTHLY COFFEE BREAK: 8am, Otsego County Community Foundation, Gaylord. An hour dedicated to nonprofit networking.

---------------------MONTHLY MEETING OF THE BENZIE AREA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: 2pm, Benzie Historical Museum, Benzonia. Jo Bahry will show you different ways to create your own unique family chart.

---------------------GT BAY AREA STROKE CLUB MEETING: 2:30-4:30pm, The Presbyterian Church of TC. Featuring a presentation on “An Integrated, Global Approach to Recovery-based Rehabilitation Following Stroke.” 935-6380. munsonhealthcare.org

---------------------“SAVING ARCADIA” BOOK TALK WITH AUTHOR HEATHER SHUMAKER: 4pm, Leland Township Library. “Saving Arcadia” is the story of a small band of determined townspeople & how far they went to save land from a powerful corporation. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------T ‘N’ T CREATE! PENCIL DRAWING MADE EASY: 4pm, Interlochen Public Library. For ages 10-19. A class to learn pencil drawing techniques.

Sign up: 231-276-6767. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------GAYLORD AREA BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Fairfield By Marriott, Gaylord. Featuring live music by A Brighter Bloom, appetizers by Porter Haus, beverages from Alliance Beverage & more. $5 members. gaylordchamber.com/ business-after-hours

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MANAGING STRESS, ANXIETY & DEPRESSION: 5pm, Otsego Memorial Hospital, Professional Medical Building Conference Room, Gaylord. Presented by Stephanie Rutterbush, MD. 989-731-2343. Free.

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---------------------OTP AUDITIONS: (See Mon., Sept. 10) ---------------------FREE “FROM EMPLOYEE TO OWNER” WORKSHOP: 5:30-7pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Presented by SCORE TC. Reserve your spot. upnorthscore.com/scorewp

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT SPEAKER SERIES: GOING IN CIRCLES-CANOEING THE GREAT LAKES: 6-8pm, Raven Hill Discovery Center Museum, East Jordan.

Featuringare Steve Brede.

Pendleton blankets Donations appreciated. miravenhill.org perfect for football games

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-----------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6:308:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new, come at 6pm for an introduction to CCL. 231-499-6747. citizensclimatelobby.org

---------------------NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH TALKS: 7pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Patrick McGinn, CEO of Harbor Hall, will discuss substance use disorders, the family system, & adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON MEETING: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, Harbor Springs. Wildlife photographer Lynn Fraze presents “An Obsession with Kestrels….Where Citizen Science & Photography Meet.” Free.

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AOIFE SCOTT WITH ANDREW MEANEY: 7:30pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Scott was named “Best Folk Act” at the 2018 Irish Post Music Awards & “Emerging Artist of the Year” at the Live Ireland Awards. Renowned guitarist Meaney will join her. 947-9213. $20 advance; $25 door.

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---------------------AN EVENING WITH CLIFF DENAY: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. This author will lead a discussion of his book “Parent’s Grief: Daily Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Child.” RSVP: events@mcleanandeakin.com. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

sept thursday 13

WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: Featuring a two-day paddle event through the Chain of Lakes of Antrim County. Local events begin Thurs., Sept. 13 in the evening with food, music & more, & run through Sat., Sept. 15. paddleantrim.com

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---------------------ART & CULTURE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Hosted by the Petoskey Chamber. $7 members; $12 not-yet members.

---------------------CROSSHATCH TWILIGHT TOUR: 6-8pm. Join Vic Lane of GTRLC at Maple Bay Farm. See where farming meets conservation with a discussion & tour of pollinator planting, grassland bird habitat & wetland protection. gtrlc.org

---------------------FREE WORKSHOP: 6-8pm, NCMC, Petoskey.

Sierra Bigham, certified herbalist & owner of Bear Earth Herbals, will provide insight into trending herbs for potions & tinctures. Register. ncmich.edu

---------------------MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS, FRIENDS & MUSIC: 7pm, Elk Rapids Area Historical Society, Elk Rapids. Featuring Mary Anne Rivers, Elizabeth Sexton Rivers, Donna Wilson Probes, Kelly Shugart Wagner & Louan Lechler. A free will offering will benefit the Elk Rapids Area Historical Society & the Elk Rapids Food Pantry.

---------------------RED TAIL RING: 7pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. This roots duo brings original folk music & traditional ballads with banjo, fiddle, guitar & more. $15 advance; $20 door. thebaytheatre.com

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MICHIGAN TREE CLIMBING CHAMPIONSHIP & ARBOR FAIR: 8am, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Free. asm-isa.org

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RED WINGS TRAINING CAMP: 9am, Centre Ice Arena, TC. On Sat., Sept. 15 at 6pm meet the author of “The Russian Five,” Keith Gave. On Sun., Sept. 16 at 11am meet the author of “Made in America,” Chris Chelios. centreice.org

---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Between 10am-noon, have fun raking up leaves in the Great Lakes Room. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: (See Thurs., Sept. 13)

---------------------APPETIZERS & ART: 6:15pm, Up North Arts, Cadillac. Friends of the Cadillac Library Fundraiser. Mediterranean cuisine, live music, 50/50 raffle & entertainment by speed painter Martina Hahn. Tickets available from Brinks Art & Framing in Cadillac or by calling 231-510-9047. $25. friendsofthecadillaclibrary.com

---------------------DYLAN SCOTT: 7pm, Streeters, TC. This Platinum-selling country star brings his current Top 5 smash “Hooked” to Ground Zero. His first hit was “My Girl.” $22. groundzeroonline.com

---------------------“MAMA MIA!”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. The Michigan Community Theatre premier

by Catherine Johnson with music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson & Bjӧrn Ulvaeus. $28 adults; $15 under 18 (plus fees). oldtownplayhouse.com

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BALLETX: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. The Resident Dance Company of The Wilma Theater & Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet. $37. tickets.interlochen.org

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NORTHERN LIGHTS FUN RUN: 8pm, Munson Medical Center, Parking Lot “K,” TC. Help raise awareness of HIV care & prevention in northern MI. $20. runsignup.com

INTERACTIVE STORY TIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Pete the Cat - Rockin in My School Shoes” by Eric Litwin. greatlakeskids.org

20TH TRAINING CAMP GOLF CLASSIC: 11:30am, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. centreice.org

---------------------DE-CLUTTER YOUR LIFE: 12:30pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Join TC Fire Chief Jim Tuller as he shares tips on how to get started uncluttering your life. An optional lunch will be served at noon. $3 suggested donation for lunch for 60+.

Reservations for lunch are required. 922-2080.

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torical Museum, Benzonia. Brown will present “Time in Poetry.” 231.882.5539. By donation.

A HISTORY OF GRAND TRAVERSE MUSICALE: 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. An original presentation, with readings & music of the history of Downtown Grand TraversePetoskey Musicale. Free. gtmusicale.org

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sept saturday 15

BIG MAC SCENIC SHORELINE FALL BIKE ONE DAY OR TWO DAYS TOUR: Day 1: North Emmet Shoreline Tour & Luncheon. Begins at St. Anthony’s, Mackinaw City.

Choose from 25, 50, 70 or 85 mile routes. Day 2: Island Ride. mackinawchamber.com/product/fallshoreline-only

---------------------EMPIRE HILL CLIMB PRESENTED BY AUTOWEEK: Downtown Empire. Race cars will be

on display from 8-10am & the racing runs from 10am-6pm. Free. empirehillclimb.com

---------------------LEELANAU HARVEST TOUR: 8am, Suttons Bay High School. Organized by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club (CCCC) of TC, this tour offers 20, 40, 65 & 100-mile routes, with five food stops along the way & a barbeque buffet with root beer floats at the end of the ride. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

---------------------MICHIGAN TREE CLIMBING CHAMPIONSHIP & ARBOR FAIR: (See Fri., Sept. 14)

---------------------SAND LAKES TRAIL CORRIDOR RIDE: 8amnoon. Ride to the property from the VASA Single Track Supply Rd. parking area to learn about the Sand Lakes 160 parcel’s story & its importance.

From there, riders can either turn back to the VASA Single Track parking area via the Iceman route (for a total trip of around 2 hours) or continue to Kalkaska for the full Iceman out & back (for a total trip of around 4 hours). Bring your own bike, helmet & water. gtrlc.org/recreation-events/events

---------------------9/11 HONOR RUN 5K: 8:46am, F & M Park, TC. Run to honor those who lost their lives in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, as well as local first responders & veterans. Proceeds will go to the GT Region Public Safety Alliance. Gather before the race for a ceremony. An after party will be held at The Little Fleet. $30 per person. runsignup.com

---------------------BAY HARBOR HOME TOUR: Learn about the history of Bay Harbor as you are driven through Bay Harbor & are then shown through the homes by guides. Held at 9am & 11am.

231.439.2700. $40. bayharborfoundation.org

---------------------RED WINGS TRAINING CAMP: (See Fri., Sept. 14) ---------------------TRI UP NORTH TRIATHLON & BETSIE BAY WALK: 9am, Frankfort. The triathlon features 10- or 22-mile course options; or the 2.5-mile Betsie Bay Walk along the lakeshore. Benefits the Betsie Hosick Health & Fitness Center’s Community Wellness Programs. tri-upnorth.com

---------------------PETOSKEY AREA NORTHERN HOME & COTTAGE TOUR: 10am-5pm. Tour eight homes, from just south of Elk Rapids to Alanson. There will also be a party at Twisted Fish Gallery from 12-6pm, presented by Pleasant Valley Custom Homes. $25 advance; $26 door. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: (See Thurs., Sept. 13)

---------------------LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S: 10:30am, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. act.alz.org

---------------------THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OUT OF THE DARKNESS WALK: 10:30am, GT County Civic Center grounds, TC. afsp.donordrive.com

---------------------LAKE LEELANAU STREET FAIR: 11am-8pm.

A celebration of food, art & music. Featuring live music by Zip and Zippers, & Grupo Aye; food from Dick’s Pour House, Rose’s Indian Food, Pleva Meats & others; & local wine & beer from 45 North, Amoritas, Bel Lago, Boathouse Vineyards & others. lakeleelanaustreetfair.org

---------------------AMERICAN MILITARY LEAGUE CLASSIC CAR/ MOTORCYCLE SHOW: 2423 Sybrandt Rd., TC. The Car/Motorcycle Show runs from 12-4pm, & the pig roast from 4-8pm. Proceeds benefit the Northern Michigan Blue to Gold Star Mothers Inc. Pig dinner: $10 adults, $6 children; under 5 eat free. 941-7253. $20 registration fee. americanmilitaryleague.com

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: ART OF WATER FESTIVAL & PAINT OUT: Noon, Raven Hill Discovery Center Picnic Area, East Jordan. Water-related artwork will be for sale by artists. A few hands-on art classes will be available for all ages & artists are invited to participate in a paint out & wet paint art show & sale. miravenhill.org

---------------------OTP YOUTH AUDITIONS: 1-3pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. For “A Christmas Carol.” This play has roles for at least 20 performers ages 10 & older. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------AUTHOR SIGNING: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. Marilyn Lahr will sign her book “Living the Sea-

PETOSKEY POETRY PALOOZA: 7-9pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Join Charlie Brice, Judy Brice, Dar Charlebois, Monica Rico & Larry Koehler as they read new poems & poems from their recently published poetry collections. Free. petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------RED WINGS ALUMNI VS. GUNS-N-HOSES: 7pm, Centre Ice Arena, TC. centreice.org “MAMA MIA!”: (See Fri., Sept. 14)

---------------------LELAND MUSICAL ARTS CELEBRATION: 7:30pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Musicians include Barry Martin, Pat Brumbaugh, Amy Anderson, Susie Rockett, Dr. Mezraq Ramli, Elisa Montoya, Mia Zamora, Vince Ocampo, Kaylee Whitfield, Clinton Webb & John White. Artwork

by Trudy Underhill. $20. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------TSO & GUESTS: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. The Traverse Symphony Orchestra pairs with the Traverse City Dance Project. Featuring Handel’s “Water Music,” Debussy’s “La Mer,” Hanson’s “Dance of Two Worlds,” & Danielpour’s “Urban Dances.” $25.50-$61.50. traversesymphony.org/concert/ la-mer-tc-dance-project

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---------------------“MAMA MIA!”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. The Michigan Community Theatre premier by Catherine Johnson with music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson & Bjӧrn Ulvaeus. $28 adults; $15 under 18 (plus fees). oldtownplayhouse.com

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GLACIAL HILLS PATHWAY & NATURAL AREA: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Speaker Bob Holtzman will be sharing the history & current opportunities for biking, hiking & running. 231-331-4318. Free.

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CEMETERY WALKING TOURS: 4pm, TC. Will start just inside the cemetery off Eight St., across from the fire station. Free; donations appreciated. traversehistory.wordpress.com

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CÚIG: 4pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album, “New Landscapes,” Irish quintet Cúig were awarded “Best New Irish Band 2016” by the Irish American News. 947-9213. $20 advance; $25 door.

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CO-ED ADULT SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT GROUP: Thursdays, 11am-12:30pm, Healing Private Wounds Center, Cadillac. 231-846-4495.

---------------------GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR OF TC: Perry Hannah Plaza, corner of 6th & Union, TC. A 2 1/2 hour, 2 mile walk around the city & through its historic neighborhoods. Held at 2pm on Mondays & Tuesdays. walktchistory.com

---------------------ROCK ‘N RIDES: Wednesdays, 6-8pm through Sept. 12, Little Bohemia Family Tavern, TC. Presented by Northwestern MI Regional Antique Automobile Club of America. Blues music host Blair Miller on The Cruise Brothers Stage. Enjoy cars, trucks, motorcycles, music, food & more. nwmr-aaca.com/events

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THREADS FIBER ARTS GROUP: Mondays, 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Bring your own needlework project & work among friends. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------BELLAIRE FARMERS MARKET: Held on Fridays, 8am-noon, ASI Community Center & Park,

---------------------EAST JORDAN FARMERS MARKET: Sportsman’s Park, East Jordan. Held on Thursdays from 8am-noon. Featuring local organically grown fruits & vegetables, baked goods, jewelry, crafts, flowers & more. Free coffee.

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INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET: Sundays, 9am-2pm through Oct. 28. Interlochen Corners, parking lot behind Ric’s Grocery Store, Interlochen. facebook.com/InterlochenFarmersMarket

---------------------MANISTEE FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 8am-1pm, Washington St. & Memorial Dr., Manistee. mifma.org

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OUTDOOR BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Veteran’s Park, Boyne City. Held every Weds. & Sat., 8am-noon. Featuring over 70 vendors. Sat., Sept. 8 will feature live music by Doug Thomas, & Sat., Sept. 15 will feature live music by Kirby Snively. boynecityfarmersmarket.com

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CHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS: - JURIED FINE ARTS SHOW: Runs through Sept. 8.

- MICHIGAN PRINTMAKING: Sixteen MI artists have been invited to represent traditional & contemporary methods of printmaking in the exhibit “Block-Paper-Ink.” An opening will be held on Fri., Sept. 14 from 5-7pm. Runs through Nov. 3. Open Mon. - Sat., 11am-5pm. charlevoixcircle.com

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - “NORTHERN MICHIGAN, LIVING IT, LOVING IT!”: This CTAC Kitchen Painters Exhibit runs in the Atrium Gallery through Sept. 8. Over 20 area artists capture the beauty & spirit of Northern MI in their original paintings.

---------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Weds. & Sat., 7:30am-noon through Oct. Sara Hardy Farmers Market Lot, TC. Local produce, baked goods, flowers & plants. downtowntc.com

---------------------THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mon., 12-4pm. Held on the South Historic Front Lawn. Overflow parking will be available on the front lawn adjacent to the market. thevillagetc.com

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---------------------RAVEN HILL DISCOVERY CENTER, EAST JORDAN: - SMITHSONIAN WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: Featuring model ships & water technology models, ongoing Power Point presentation of early water technology, a Call for Citizen Scientists Display

by National Science Foundation, School of Fish Art “swimming” & more. Runs through Sept. 23.

- WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT MULTI-MEDIA ARTS SHOW: Sept. 8-14, Raven Hill Discovery Center Alternative Energy House, East Jordan. All manner of water-related art will be on display for a week. miravenhill.org

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- “WOVEN TOGETHER: THE FIBER WORK OF SHERRI SMITH”: Sherri’s exhibition features work from her most recent series, “Astronomy,” which investigates science & mathematics. Runs through Nov. 17.

- “WOVEN TOGETHER: BEYOND THE INFLUENCE OF SHERRI SMITH”: An exhibit of works created by a selection of 14 artists who completed their MFA degrees under Sherri Smith at the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. Runs through Nov. 17. crookedtree.org

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“ABSURD DYNAMISM” SCULPTURE BY STEVE WIRTZ: Michigan Artists Gallery, TC. Featuring wire & laminated paper (papier mache) sculptures that represent action & foolish drama.

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---------------------“MEMORIES AND ART IN THE MAKING: CELEBRATING THE COMMUNITY WE SHARE”: Ephraim Shay Hexagon House, Harbor Springs.

Presented by the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society. Runs on Fridays & Saturdays from 11am-3pm through Sept. 28. 231-526-9771.

---------------------.E .P .H .E .M .E .R .A: Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan. This exhibit opens on Sun., Sept. 9 from 1-4pm & runs through Oct. 5. jordanriverarts.com

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ALL MEDIA JURIED EXHIBITION: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring juror Mary Fortuna.

Runs through Oct. 12. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------DEPTH OF FOCUS: DUAL POSITIONS ON ABSTRACTION: Twisted Fish Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Elk Rapids. The works of Marcia K. Hales & Ginnie Cappaert will be shown in this exhibit through Sept. twistedfishgallery.com

---------------------EDWARD DUFF: “VIEWS FROM THE ROAD”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Runs through Oct. 12. higherartgallery.com

---------------------JURIED FINE ART EXHIBIT: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Runs through Nov. 3 during gallery hours of 11am-3pm, Tues. through Fri. & 12-2pm, Sat. Opening Reception on Sat., Sept. 8 from 5-7pm. gaylordarts.org

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MONSTER FISH: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST RIVER GIANTS: A Major Exhibition of National Geographic. Runs through Oct. 7 at Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Dennos Museum hours: Mon.-Sat.: 10am-5pm; Thurs.: 10am-8pm; & Sun.: 1-5pm. dennosmuseum.org

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TEMPESTRY PROJECT EXHIBIT: Runs through Oct. at NCMC, Library, Petoskey. A group of nine women from NCMC combined their knitting & art talents with their concern about the environment to create a series of long, knit works where changing color represents the daily high temperatures for one year. ncmich.edu

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TV ON THE RADIO REBOOTS OLD ALBUM It doesn’t seem like 10 years since TV on the Radio released its third hit indie rock album, Dear Science, but it has indeed been a decade. (The band’s latest album was 2014’s Seeds.) To celebrate that fan-beloved release, the band is staging a special concert devoted to performing that album in its entirety. Expect TV on the Radio to whoop it up on stage at The Knockdown Center in New York City on Sept. 20 …

If you like your rock country-style, check out the upcoming AmericanaFest Big Velvet Revue music showcase at the Basement East in Nashville, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, when Paul Cauthen and house band, Whiskey Wolves of the West, will back up each of the revue’s performers.

Featured will be Daniel Donato, Erin Rae, Kashena Sampson, Tennessee Jet, Kirby Brown, Wade Sapp, and Sam Morrow.

Cauthen will close out the evening with a full-band set promoting his own new EP, Have Mercy, which hit outlets in June …

On a similar genre note, musical icon Loretta Lynn will release her new studio album, Wouldn’t It Be Great, on Friday, Sept. 28. The album was co-produced by John Carter Cash and Lynn’s daughter, Patsy Lynn Russell, and includes tracks

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“I’m Dying for Someone to Live For,” “The Big Man,” and an updated version of Lynn’s longtime classic tune “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” The title track has been tapped as the album’s first single and is available now at all outlets …

And with a completely different sound, funk-soulsters Tank and the Bangas have teamed up with rap pioneer Big Freedia for a co-headlining North American tour that just kicked off, on which you’ll be sure to hear the Bangas’ breakout track “Quick,” which was featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk program. The tour will also feature opening act Naughty Professor. Nearby tour stops include Oct. 25 in Toronto, Ontario (at Danforth Music Hall); Oct. 26 in Chicago (at Concord Music Hall); and Oct. 28 in Minneapolis (at First Avenue)…

LINK OF THE WEEK The Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers took a nostalgic step back last week on Seth Meyers’ late night show, performing a song from the band’s Sam’s Town album (2006). Check out Flowers’ impressively spare acoustic performance of “When You Were Young” at youtube.com/ watch?v=RZ7zVmi8gT4 …

THE BUZZ Detroiter Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, just released two singles, “Charcoal Baby” and “Jewelry,” from his upcoming new album …

Fellow Detroit rapper Lakeith Stanfield has teamed up with indie-rockers TuneYards to release the edgy hip-hop track “Mango,” out now on Stanfield’s own label, Haven Sounds …

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Michigan-born band FINKEL — aka Jane and Brian Spencer — might reside in Los Angeles now, but they’re heading back to the Mitten for a series of downstate shows in the Grand Rapids area this month … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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

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Using four acoustic guitars stacked in quirky layers, Papa M’s (aka David Pajo’s) compositions are simultaneously bold and careful, striking out in complex directions on the composition side while keeping the moods familiar enough to attract new listeners. Opener “The Upright Path,” at just over four minutes, crafts its own ’90s-inspired road, while additional highlight “A Lighthouse Reverie” keeps things with its restrained choruses, and “Shimmer” brings in some expert processing for effective FX.

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So this is the movie that takes place entirely on computer screens — think text messages, FaceTime calls, emails, social media, and so on. But it’s not just a gimmick, or rather, it’s not just click bait, it’s the real deal. Searching’s unique storytelling format is cleverly done and completely draws you in. Then on top of being a riveting and taut thriller about a missing person’s case, it’s also one with emotional texture that has something to say about the digital age and our relationships.

It opens on a shared family computer (a PC, before we switch to the much more appealing Apple interface), in a sequence that brilliantly sets the stage for what’s to come as we see 16 years of the Kim family’s life through their photos, videos, calendar events, and more. There’s David (John Cho), his wife, and a little girl we get to watch grow as they enjoy many happy moments together, from piano recitals to cooking mom’s famous Korean gumbo.

But amid the happiness we also learn of the mother’s lymphoma diagnosis and watch her fight. And wow, does it manage to elicit real emotions. It’s kind of like those Google commercials told only through searches, but here it feels earned and not overly manipulative.

Then we’re in the present day (and we’ve got that cleaner Apple setup I mentioned).

David and his now-teen daughter, Margot (Michelle La), message each other about the study group she has that night to prep for finals, and she even answers his FaceTime call from said study session. Which goes to say that all signs suggest Margot is an ideal student and all-around good kid.

The next day, David assumes Margot just came home late and left before he went to work, so he tries to touch base. No reply from Margot, which is so unlike her. So he calls the piano teacher at the lesson Margot is supposed to be at, and she’s tells him Margot stopped showing up six months ago. Then her school says she wasn’t in class, and David realizes something is wrong and contacts the police.

Assigned to the case is Detective Rosemary Vick (Debra Messing), who asks David to get in touch with Margot’s friends and to see what else he can find out about who she’s been talking to. He finds Margot’s computer and gets access to her email and social accounts and starts calling the kids at school, uncovering a picture of his daughter that suggests he might not have known her as well as he thought he did.

he unbelievable true story of French convict Henri “Papillon” Charrière is once again brought to the screen.

A remake of the same-named 1973 movie starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, this version doesn’t have quite the same star power, with Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) and Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) stepping into their respective roles.

And while I can’t speak to how this Papillon compares to the original (never seen it, ’cause you know, I’m not a dad), I don’t quite understand why it was remade. It’s not that Hunnam and Malek don’t give fine performance. They certainly do. Nor that this daring true story of escape from a hell-scape of a jungle prison isn’t compelling. It inherently is. Or that production value isn’t there. It’s beautifully shot and must have been quite the undertaking to mount. It’s just that the film is such a drag, an unrelenting drag, with so much suffering and inhumanity. Not even gratuitous shots of a shirtless Hunnam (50 percent of why I was there) could make up for it. For the duration of the film’s punishing 2+ hour runtime, there’s absolutely no release or change of pace. It’s one bad thing after another, and one can only take so much. But you will like Malek and Hunnam together, and the bromance they develop feels authentic, with some payoff in the final act. Just don’t be surprised if you find yourself wanting to make your own escape from the theater.

These revelations, plus a mysterious transfer of cash, are all signs that Detective Vick says point to the likelihood that Margot running away is the answer to the now viral #FindMargot case.

The film effectively plants doubts about Margot in your head and leaves you asking what else she might have been hiding. David, however, refuses to believe his daughter ran away and continues to push the case as it makes its many twisty turns until the big final reveal.

And while the ending wasn’t as pitch perfect as the lead-up to it, it in no way nullifies what you experienced up until that point, and we’ll leave it at that. Ultimately, one of the film’s strengths is that it’s more of a human story than one simply focused on technology. The loneliness and disconnect it shows Margot was suffering from in a series of sad Instagram selfies with few likes or her uploaded YouCast videos, feels heartbreakingly real.

The filmmakers, including director Aneesh Chaganty and some incredibly deft editors, get very creative with how Searching stays within it’s own self-imposed “rules” of the computer screens to tell the story, and it pretty much always feels very organic. You forget about how everything is happening on a screen and just become so absorbed in watching everything unfold. It feels incredibly natural and intuitive. There’s also so much bonus info and clues hidden on the screen that you are constantly engaged in the search.

It also taps into a deeply satisfying aspect of human nature — those internet deep dives we’ve all done on something or someone.

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John Cho is very compelling as the concerned father, even though I was totally surprised he’s now in the category of being cast as a dad of a teenager. The only substantial thing that didn’t work for me was Messing’s casting.

She just didn’t fit the role, and it felt like there was no reason for her to be in the film other than she must’ve been on a list of TV stars with name recognition that the film’s budget could afford.

Effective, compelling, and interesting, I’m definitely giving Searching a “like.” #goseeit Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.

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roundbreaking for its all-Asian cast (the first major studio film to do so since The Joy Luck Club 25 years ago!), this is not only the latest win for representation in Hollywood, it’s another big win for showing audiences just how much better and more interesting movies can be when we widen our view. Because this is what the beleaguered rom-com has been waiting for, a bold reinvention that is sublimely entertaining with everything you could possibly want: an ultra glamorous setting, swoon-worthy romance, pitch-perfect cast, laugh-outloud humor, and resonant emotional truth. Adapted from Kevin Kwan’s addictive bestseller, this sparkling delight of a romantic fantasy is as sudsy as it is smart. Taking you into an unfamiliar world, the cultural specificity is vibrant and real, counterbalancing it’s dazzling-with-decadence setting among the uber rich of Singapore. It’s a classic fish-out-of-water story, about a New York girl (Constance Wu) who after traveling to her boyfriend’s home for a wedding, finds out he’s the heir-apparent to one of the oldest and largest fortunes in Asia. And how she comes to find that despite their love, their differences may end up keeping them apart. It’s a story we’ve all seen, but you’ve never seen it like this before. I swear. This is classic Hollywood glamour with a euphoric ending that begs for a sequel. Glamorous, glossy, gossipy, and glittering you’d be crazy to miss it.

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ith an irreverent marketing campaign that seemed to be in on the joke, The Meg appeared to be a film that, while you knew it wouldn’t be very good, would at least be a very fun, schadenfreude-filled time. But that was all a great white lie. It’s not the so-bad-it’s-good disaster flick you were hoping for, but something that is just run-of-the-mill bad. Let’s dive in to the film’s soggy scenario: A billionaire (The Office’s Rainn Wilson) has funded a groundbreaking deep-sea research station and, through the course of their research, the team unknowingly opens up a shark superhighway that allows a once-hidden and long-thought-extinct megalodon (75-foot prehistoric shark) to emerge in our neck of the ocean. So The Meg must be stopped, and on the case we have father-daughter marine scientists Suyin and Zhang, plus a renegade and disgraced deep-sea diver, Jonas (Jason Statham), who lost all credibility after an earlier encounter with The Meg. It’s all very predictable and offers only a few good jump scares because, as a whole, The Meg is really not that much of a menacing presence. And it suffers from a bizarre mishmash of tones that tries to be both deadly serious and occasionally cheesy. It’s weird that you’ll wish it was worse, but waterlogged and over-bloated, it’s neither bad enough nor good enough — it just exists in this boring middle ground that does nothing for anyone. So don’t worry about rushing to see it; we all have bigger fish to fry.

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska

ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM, TC 9/8 -- Les Dagliesh, 7-9 9/15 -- The Duges, 7-9

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

BONOBO WINERY, TC 9/14 -- Paul Livingston, 6-8 FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close GT DISTILLERY, FRONT ST. TASTING ROOM, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 KILKENNY'S, TC 9/7-8 – Lucas Paul 9/14-15 – Strobelight Honey Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 Sun. -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 9/10 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 9/14 -- Jeff Brown, 6-8 LITTLE BOHEMIA FAMILY TAVERN, TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 Weds. – ROCK ‘n’ RIDES ‘n’ BLUES w/ Blair Miller, 6-8 Thurs. -- The Duges, 6:30-8:30

ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 9/14 -- Chris Smith, 5-8 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 SLEDER'S FAMILY TAVERN, TC 9/11 -- Aoife Scott with Andrew Meaney, 7:30 9/16 -- Cúig, 4 STREETERS, TC 9/15 – Larry McCray, 7:30 GROUND ZERO: 9/8 -- Jawga Boyz, 7 9/14 -- Dylan Scott, 7 STUDIO ANATOMY, TC 9/8 -- Brycie & DJ Extragramtan, 9 TC WHISKEY CO. 9/13 -- Paul Livingston, 6-8

Emmet & Cheboygan CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY 9/8 -- The Marsupials, 10 9/14 -- Annex Karaoke, 10 9/15 -- The Brother's Crunch, 4:45 KNOT JUST A BAR, BAY HARBOR Mon,Tues,Thurs — Live music

THE LITTLE FLEET, TC 9/13 -- Locals Party w/ Hot N Bothered, 5 THE PARLOR, TC 9/8 -- Jim Hawley & Co., 8 9/12 -- Rob Coonrod or Wink Solo, 8 9/13 -- Chris Smith, 8 9/14 -- Blue Footed Booby, 8 9/15 -- Mitch McKolay, 8 UNION STREET STATION, TC 9/8 -- Town Meeting, 10 9/9,9/16 -- Karaoke, 10 9/10 -- Jukebox, 10 9/11 -- TC Comedy Collective, 8-9:30; then Open Mic w/ Matt McCalpin, 8 9/12 -- DJ Prim, 10 9/13 -- DJ Fasel, 10 9/14 -- Happy Hour w/ Chris Sterr; then 1000 Watt Prophets, 5 9/15 -- Kung Fu Rodeo, 10 WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN RESORT, TC 9/8 -- DJ Motaz @ View, 10 9/15 -- DJ Motaz @ View, 10

THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7

SNOWBELT BREWING CO., GAYLORD 9/14 -- The Kari Lynch Band, 7 TAP HOUSE, GAYLORD 9/8 – Randy Reszka

TREETOPS RESORT, TOP OF THE HILL, GAYLORD 9/8,9/15 -- A Brighter Bloom, 7:30-10:30 9/13-14 -- Zeke Clemons, 7:3010:30

Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee

THE GRILLE AT BAY HARBOR Nightly Music

Leelanau & Benzie BOATHOUSE VINEYARDS, LAKE LEELANAU 9/9 -- Bryan Poirier, 1:30-4 CICCONE VINEYARD & WINERY, THE PERGOLA, SUTTONS BAY 9/12 -- Tim Harding, 5:30-8 DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2

LEELANAU SANDS CASINO, PESHAWBESTOWN 9/8 -- Pete 'Big Dog' Fetters, 8 9/11 -- Box On Polka Band, 12 9/15 -- Funkamatic, 9 LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Fri & Sat -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 PLATTE RIVER INN, HONOR Tue -- Open Mic, 7

HOP LOT BREWING CO., SUTTONS BAY 9/14 -- Blair Miller, 6-9 9/15 -- Mike Moran, 6-9 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 9/8 -- Uncle Z w/ Bryan Poirier, 6:30-9:30 9/11 -- Andre Villoch & Zack Light, 6:30-9:30 9/14 -- Jim Hawley & Co., 6:309:30 9/15 -- Alfredo, 6:30-9:30

STORMCLOUD BREWING CO., FRANKFORT 9/8 -- Levi Britton, 8-10 9/14 -- Lynn Thompson, 8-10 THE CABBAGE SHED, ELBERTA 9/13 -- Open Mic Night, 8 9/14 -- Darby O'Bell, 6-9 THE HAYLOFT INN, TC Thu -- Roundup Radio Show Open Mic Night, 8

ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 9/8 -- The Crush - Annual Birthday Party w/ K Jones & the Benzie Playboys, Turbo Pup & Others, 4-11 9/13 -- Open Mic Night, 6-10 9/14 -- Maggie McCabe, 6-9 9/15 -- Chris Michels Band, 6-9

Antrim & Charlevoix

Otsego, Crawford & Central ALPINE TAVERN & EATERY, GAYLORD Sat -- Live Music, 6-9

LEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN, PETOSKEY Thurs — Karaoke w/ DJ Micheal Williford, 10 Fri – TRANSMIT, Techno-Funk-Electro DJs, 10 Sun — DJ Johnnie Walker, 9

BLUE WATER BISTRO & PIZZERIA, ALDEN Sat -- Tim Thayer, 6:30 CELLAR 152, ELK RAPIDS 9/8 -- Clint Weaner, 7-10 9/15 -- Sol Varon, 7-10

RED MESA GRILL, BOYNE CITY 9/11 -- Pete, Big Dog Fetters, 6-9 9/16 -- 21 Year Anniversary Party w/ Dave Cisco, 6-9 SHORT'S BREWING CO., BELLAIRE 9/8 -- The Moderns, 8:30-11 9/14 -- The Marsupials, 8:30-11 9/15 -- Seth Bernard & Friends, 8:30-11

ETHANOLOGY, ELK RAPIDS 9/8 – Trent 9/15 – Miriam Pico

TORCH LAKE CAFÉ, CENTRAL LAKE 1st & 3rd Mon. of mo. – Trivia Tues. – Bob Webb, 6-9 Weds. – Dominic & Lee Thurs. – Open mic Fri. & Sat. – Live bands Sun. – Pine River Jazz, 2-5

LITTLE RIVER CASINO RESORT, MANISTEE 9/8 -- Montgomery Gentry, 8

Mon - Ladies Night - $1 off drinks & $5 martinis with Jukebox

Tues - $2 well drinks & shots

8:9:30 TC Comedy Collective then: Open Mic w/Matt McCalpin Wed - Get it in the can for $1 w/DJ Prim Thurs - $1 off all drinks & $2 Coors Lt. pints

with DJ Fasel

Fri Sept 14- Buckets of Beer starting at $8 (2-8pm) Happy Hour: Chris Sterr then: 1000 Watt Prophets Sat sept 15 - Kung Fu Rodeo Sun Sept 16 - KARAOKE (10PM-2AM) 941-1930 downtown TC check us out at unionstreetstationtc.net

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the ADViCE GOddESS Swarm Feelings

Q “Jonesin” Crosswords

"Free Stuff"--a big freestyle for the 900th Jonesin' puzzle. by Matt Jones ACROSS 1 URL component 4 Writer Bombeck 8 Flat floaters 13 Longtime Jets QB who led the NFL in passer rating in 1985 15 “Ran” director Kurosawa 16 Put into a different envelope 17 Uncompromising 18 For each 19 Slowdowns 20 ___-days (heavy practices for football teams) 21 Letters on NYC subways 23 Woody Guthrie’s kid 24 2008 puzzle game for the Wii that relied heavily on multiplayer modes 29 Velvet finish 30 “Jackass” costar who had his own “Viva” spinoff on MTV 31 Droop 32 “No ___ way!” (self-censorer’s exclamation) 33 Big figure 36 Night away from the usual work, maybe 40 Hotshot 41 “Things will be OK” 43 Charity calculation 45 Ex-NHL star Tikkanen 46 Magazine that sounds like a letter 47 Supporting bars 49 Congenitally attached, in biology 51 Coloraturas’ big moments 52 “Can’t eat another bite” 55 Norse goddess married to Balder 56 Many seniors, near the end?

57 Feline “burning bright” in a Blake poem 58 “Good for what ___ ya” 59 Jekyll creator’s monogram

DOWN 1 Hard-to-search Internet area “just below the surface” in that iceberg infographic 2 The slightest bit 3 Record player component 4 Perry Mason creator ___ Stanley Gardner 5 2016 Olympics city 6 “Au revoir, ___ amis” 7 Suffix after hex- or pent8 Seldom seen 9 AKC working dog 10 “Yeah, just my luck ...”

11 One step below the Majors 12 Elegy, perhaps 13 Surname of brothers Chris and Martin, hosts of “Zoboomafoo” and a self-titled “Wild” PBS Kids show 14 Discreet way to be included on an email, for short 19 Where the military goes 21 Harvard’s school color before crimson 22 Hesitant 25 Plant firmly (var.)

26 Artillery barrages 27 Spruces up 28 “Crazy Rich Asians” actor Jimmy O. and comedian Jenny, for two 33 “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” director 34 Cube origin?

35 Taking a close look 37 Precede, as at a concert 38 Pita filler 39 Snapchat features 42 Saxophonist’s supply 44 Gregg Allman’s brother 48 Peter I, e.g.

49 “Hole-in-the-wall” establishments?

50 Really liked 52 Strong pub option 53 Test for internal injuries, for short 54 Fa follower

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: I’ve been flirting with two guys all year.

I feel a connection and chemistry with both, but neither’s asked me out yet.

This weekend, I’m attending a going-away party of a grad student we all know, and I’m nervous that they’ll both show up and ask me out. (There’s also a third guy who seems interested.) What should I do? I wouldn’t want to be one of somebody’s many options.

— Feeling Unfair

A

: The first few dates are the free trial period of romantic relationships. Think of it like accepting a sample of lox spread at Costco. You’re seeing how you like it; you aren’t committing to buy a salmon hatchery.

It sounds like you instead see a date as a Wile E. Coyote-style trapdoor dropping you into a relationship. You and the guy have sex for the first time, and assuming he doesn’t fake his death afterward or ditch a burner phone he’s been texting you from, you two become a thing — right on track to sign up for those cute side-by-side burial plots.

The problem is, this is like getting into a relationship with the first stranger who sits down on the bus next to you. You’re skipping an essential step — the “see who the guy is and decide” part. Even when the guy isn’t just some Tinder rando — even when you’ve known him for a while — you need to see who he is as a boyfriend and how you work as a couple.

Also, making matters worse, if you’re like many women, sex can act as a sort of snuff film for your objectivity, leading you to feel emotionally attached to the man you’ve just slept with. Psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss speculate that this may come out of the orgasm-driven release of oxytocin, a hormone that has been associated with emotional bonding. (In men, testosterone goes all nightclub bouncer, blocking oxytocin so it can’t get to its receptor.)

To keep sex from drugging away your objectivity, try something: unsexy broaddaylight dates with various guys for just a few hours each. Yes, various guys. It’s not only okay to date more than one guy initially; it’s ideal. (A man with rivals is a man who has to try harder.)

Meanwhile, your having options should curb any tendency you might have to go all needypants on a guy who, say, doesn’t text you right back — even if his competition’s texts are more preventive distraction than romantic

ideal: “What are u wearing? Also, are u good w/Excel?” Or “I know u like fashion. Here’s my penis in a beret.”

Dead Wait

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: I’m a 35-year-old guy who’s been texting with this girl. She got out of a sevenmonth relationship two months ago and is still kind of emotional about it. We’ll make plans to go out, but she always cancels at the last minute, claiming that she’s “still a mess” and adding, “Hope you understand!” Should I just keep texting with her and see where things lead?

— Limbo

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: Think about the guys women get stuck on — those they can’t get to text them back, not those who put out lighted signs visible from space: “iPhone’s always on! Call 24/7! Pick me! Yaaay! Over here!”

Consider FOMO — fear of missing out — or, in scientist-speak, the “scarcity principle.”

That’s psychologist Robert Cialdini’s term for how the less available something is the more valuable (and desirable) we perceive it to be. This is not because it actually becomes more valuable but because scarcity triggers a motivational state — a state of “grab it or lose it!”...”don’t let it get away!”

Contrast that with how available you are — to a woman who doesn’t seem ready for a relationship but is up for the emotional perks that come with. So she sucks up the consoling texted attention she gets from you but ducks out of any in-person get-togethers that could eventually lead to your trying to, well, console her with your penis.

Consider shutting off the therapy spigot and making yourself scarce until she’s ready to date. Tell her you want to take a timeout from texting and give her a little time to heal ’n’ deal and then go on a date. Pick a night — about a month from now — and ask her to put it on her calendar, explaining that it’s fine if she needs to reschedule if she still doesn’t feel ready.

Putting it on the calendar makes it tangible — but putting it in the future, with an option to push it forward, takes the pressure off. And your disappearing for a while is probably your best shot at shifting your, um, zoological category — to potential “animal in bed” from emotional support animal in the Hello Kitty diaper for the plane.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your keynote is the Japanese word shizuka. According to photographer Masao Yamamoto, it means “cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted.” One of his artistic practices is to wander around forests looking in the soil for “treasures” that emanate shizuka. So in his definition, the term isn’t about being scrubbed or sanitized. Rather, he’s interested in pristine natural phenomena that are unspoiled by civilization. He regards them as food for his soul. I mention this, Virgo, because now is an excellent time for you to get big doses of people and places and things that are cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted.

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

Margaret Mead had definite ideas about “the ways to get insight.” She named them as follows: “to study infants; to study animals; to study indigenous people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it.” I have my own list of ways to spur insight and inspiration, which includes: to do walking meditations in the woods on a regular basis, no matter what the weather; to engage in long, slow sex with a person you love; to spend a few hours reviewing in detail your entire life history; to dance to music you adore for as long as you can before you collapse from delighted exhaustion. What about you, Aquarius? What are your reliable ways to get insight? I suggest you engage in some of them, and also discover a new one. You’re in the Flood of Radical Fresh Insights Phase of your astrological cycle.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stanley Kubrick

made masterful films, but most of them bore me. I regard John Ashbery as a clever and innovative poet, but I’ve never been excited by his work. As for painter Mark Rothko, I recognize his talent and intelligence, but his art leaves me empty. The music of Nora Jones is pretty and technically impeccable, but it doesn’t move me. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to make the kinds of fine distinctions I’m describing here.

It will be important for you to be faithful to your subjective responses to things, even as you maintain an objective perspective about them and treat them with respect.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Anne

Carson describes part of her creative process in this way: “Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.” I suspect you might be able to benefit from using a comparable trick in the coming days. That’s why you should monitor any odd dreams, seemingly irrational impulses, or weird fantasies that arise in you. Although they may not be of any practical value in themselves, they could spur a train of thought that leads you to interesting breakthroughs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The idea of

liberation through the suppression of desire is the greatest foolishness ever conceived by the human mind,” wrote philosopher E. M. Cioran.

I agree that trying to deny or stifle or ignore our desires can’t emancipate us. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that freedom is only possible if we celebrate and honor our desires, marvel at their enigmas, and respect their power. Only then can we hope to refine them. Only then can we craft them into beautiful, useful forces that serve us rather than confuse and undermine us. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to engage in this spiritual practice, Taurus.

GEMINI

SEPT 10 - SEPT 16

(May 21-June 20): “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck,” says the Dalai Lama.

Ain’t that the truth! When I was 22 years old, there were two different women I desperately yearned for as if they were the Muse Queens of Heaven who would transform me into a great artist and quench my infinite passion. Fortunately, they both rejected me. They decisively set me free of my bondage to them. Later, when I was older and wiser, I realized that blending my fortunes with either of them would have led me away from my true destiny. I got lucky! In a similar but less melodramatic way, Gemini, I suspect you will also get lucky sometime soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’ts for Boys

or Errors of Conduct Corrected was an advice book for boys published in 1902. Among many other strictures and warnings, it offered this advice: “Don’t giggle. For the love of decency, never giggle.” There was additional counsel in the same vein: “Don’t be noisy. The guffaw evinces less enjoyment than the quiet smile.” Another exhortation: “Don’t tease. Be witty, but impersonal.” In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby proclaim that all those instructions are utterly wrong for you right now. To sweetly align yourself with cosmic rhythms, you should giggle and guffaw and tease freely. If you’re witty—and I hope you will be—it’ll serve you well to be affectionate and personable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Simplicity is about

subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful,” writes designer John Maeda.

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak up,” says artist Hans Hofmann. “Simplicity strips away the superfluous to reveal the essence,” declares a blogger named Cheo. I hope these quotes provide you with helpful pointers, Leo. You now have the opportunity to cultivate a masterful version of simplicity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger

Ana-Sofia Cardelle writes candidly about her relationship with herself. She keeps us up to date with the ever-shifting self-images that float through her awareness. Here’s one of her bulletins: “Stage 1. me: I’m the cutest thing in the world. Stage 2. me, two seconds later: no, I’m a freaking goblin.

Stage 3. me, two seconds after that: I’m the cutest goblin in the world.” I’m guessing that many of you Libras have reached the end of your own personal version of Stage 2. You’ve either already slipped into Stage 3, or soon will. No later than October 1, you’ll be preparing to glide back into Stage 1 again.

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ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There’s no

such thing as love,” said Scorpio painter Pablo Picasso, “there are only proofs of love.” I’m tempted to believe that’s true, especially as I contemplate the current chapter of your life story.

The evidence seems clear: you will thrive by engaging in practical demonstrations of how much you care. You’ll be wise to tangibly help and support and encourage and inspire everyone and everything you love. To do so will make you eligible for blessings that are, as of this moment, still hidden or unavailable.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to a Pew Research Study, nearly 75 percent of Americans say they talk to God, but only 30 percent get a reply. I’m guessing the latter figure will rise dramatically for Sagittarian Americans in the next three weeks, however. Why? Because the astrological indicators suggest that authorities of all kinds will be more responsive than usual to Sagittarians of all nationalities. Help from higher powers is likely to be both more palpable and more forthcoming. Any communications you initiate with honchos, directors, and leaders have a better-than-normal chance of being well-received.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): One day in

October 1926, author Virginia Woolf inscribed in her diary, “I am the usual battlefield of emotions.” It was a complaint, but also a brag. In fact, she drew on this constant turmoil to fuel her substantial output of creative writing. But the fact is that not all of us thrive on such ongoing uproar. As perversely glamorous and appealing as it might seem to certain people, many of us can do fine without it. According to my analysis, that will be true for you in the coming weeks. If you have a diary, you might justifiably write, “Hallelujah! I am NOT a battlefield of emotions right now!”

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Learn how to protect your children’s health now – and for the future Tuesday, Sept. 18, 6 - 8 pm HPV Epidemic Q&A Session Scholars Hall, Northwestern Michigan College Scholars Hall is located behind the Dennos Museum. Enter at the corner of East Front St. and College Drive. Parking is available in the Aspen Lot.

Join us for this free event, which includes a viewing of the film “Someone You Love – the HPV Epidemic.”

Expert panelists include: • Leah Walbridge, MD, Northwest Michigan Health Services, Inc. and Munson Family Practice • William Lee, DDS, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians • David P. Michelin, MD, Cowell Family Cancer Center • Robert Sprunk, MD, Pediatrician Other featured speakers include Rebecca St. Clair, cervical cancer survivor, and Rebecca Gallegos, a parent and oncology certified nurse at the Cowell Family Cancer Center.

What is HPV? Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a common virus that can cause cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 80 million Americans, most in their late teens and early 20s, are infected with HPV. About 14 million people become newly infected each year.

In most cases, HPV goes away on its own and doesn’t cause health problems. However, some types of HPV can cause genital warts and cancer. The HPV vaccine protects against several strains of HPV that cause cancer. The vaccine works best when given at age 11 - 12 years.

This event is sponsored by: • Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics & Neonatal Nurses • Grand Traverse County Health Department • Munson Medical Center’s Cowell Family Cancer Center • Northern Michigan Oral Health Coalition • Oncology Nursing Society, Michigan Traverse Bay Region • Northwest Michigan Health Services, Inc. For more information, please visit munsonhealthcare.org/events or call 800-533-5520.

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