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We don’t have an opioid situation in northern Michigan.

WE HAVE A CRISIS.

NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY • january 29 - february 04, 2018 • Vol. 28 No. 05

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focus on and preserve the beauty of this world that we share. Think about it. Thoughts have no atomic structure, but they can change the world. Stop the stupidity!

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Atomic Thinking

The dogma of the atheist in the Jan. 15 column, “In the Image of God?” was a little more interesting than most but still clearly dogma in the sense of most religions. We have to move beyond dogma to bring any unity of understanding to these issues.

When co-author Scott Blair says, “Matter adopts forms allowed by nature …” we have to clarify the definition and description of nature. Science has learned that nature is composed of atomic structure. Everything in our universe is composed of atoms, including our bodies, the air we breathe, the water that makes up 83 percent of our brains, the flames of the fire, and the clouds in the sky.

These atoms are composed of much smaller sub-atomic particles. Neutrons and protons make up the nucleus of the atom, and a third particle, the electron, orbits this nucleus at near the speed of light to create the outer shell of the energy that is the atom.

Some in science feel that our consciousness developed along with our material world.

I believe that consciousness is a self-aware energy that is the substance of, and gives form to the energy that composes the atom, and through that, any form of material existence.

You could describe this self-aware energy as God if you are more comfortable with that expression, but within that image I see the beginnings of everything we know.

We all have this energy in common. We have to accept this commonality of origin and existence. We have to recognize what makes us the same and not judge others by their differences. There is no tomorrow if we cannot

Bob Wallick, Cross Village

What’s Going On?

In 1971 Motown recording artist Marvin Gaye sang one of his all-time hit songs, “What’s Going On,” a protest song that Gaye wrote questioning the many social and racial problems that America was facing. Fastforward to today, and reading the headlines, I question if we as a society have learned much, if anything, in the last 47 years. The same social and racial issues are playing, our country is still at war, hate and bigotry are still playing pretty well in America, and many of our politicians are still in there fighting for me, or so I’m told around election time!

I often wonder are we losing respect for one another, and it seems to me we use to believe in something called ordinary decency toward our fellow man. But with these brash political candidates and such opposite political polarity, decency seems to have been thrown out the window. We still talk to each other, but do we actually listen? Are we listening to each other with our hearts? Yes, I agree that there are good reasons that some of us are angry, probably always will be, but our democracy demands that we debate and resolve these complex issues together, so being passionate about them is OK. When the dust settles, we are still Americans and in this together!

Jay Richley, Cadillac

Blame Republicans, Not Congress

There is one huge error in Steven Tuttle’s mostly accurate Jan. 22 “Dear Congress” column. It’s right there in the title, “Dear Congress.” It should say “Dear Republicans.”

It’s Mitch McConnell’s Republican senators who defied the Constitution and completely dissed Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. It’s McConnell and Paul Ryan’s Republicans who won’t take any serious steps to find out what Russia is doing to our social media, our elections, and our country. It’s the same crowd who won’t pass reasonable gun

safety legislation supported by about threequarters of the country.

It’s the same guys who tried for many months to kill the ACA, despite strong support for it, and the same crowd that passed an odious tax plan focused entirely on stuffing more money in the wealthy’s pockets, despite massive popular opposition.

And it’s the same crowd that, surprisingly, was ready to move on a bipartisan proposal to help 800,000 Dreamers, only to turn tail and run after the Orange Wonder’s “sh-thousing” of not only that proposal but also dozens of countries with lots of brown or black people.

Republicans are plainly afraid of crossing the Shyster in Chief, even when most of the country supports the Dreamers — so afraid, in fact, that McConnell tried to ram something through that he knew would not pass (not even all Republicans supported it) and then blame the Democrats for his and the president’s failure of leadership.

Look: Republicans control the Senate, the House, all their relevant committees, the Supreme Court, and, oh yeah, the White House. But somehow this gridlock is the fault of “Congress” It’s not Congress. It is the Republicans.

Sir, if you can find examples from the past few years of Dems blocking action on highly popular proposals, and maybe even shutting down the federal government to get their way, by all means, list them! Got anything on taxes?

Healthcare? Infrastructure? Jobs training?

Education? Gun safety? Military spending?

Court nominations? Hurricane and firestorm aid? DACA? Climate? Voting rights? Human rights?

Of course you don’t. These are things D.C. Democrats strongly support and would pass in a heartbeat if Republicans would work for, not against them and most voters.

A full correction is in order, Mr. Tuttle.

We’re waiting.

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

Child care Underground...................................10 Drama Mama Rachael Harrell.........................12 (Spring) Break the Monotony...........................13 Opioid Crisis................................................14 Single MOMM on a Mission...........................18 The Music in Youth...........................................21 Northern Seen...................................................23

dates...............................................24-27 music FourScore......................................................28 Nightlife.........................................................31

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

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion............................................................8 Weird...............................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................29 The Reel...........................................................30 Crossword...................................................33 Advice Goddess.............................................33 Freewill Astrology.........................................34 Classifieds....................................................35

Jim Dulzo, Chair, Benzie County Democrats Beulah, Michigan

We All Must Demand Accountability

According to a Jan. 18 article in the The Detroit News, “Reports of sexual misconduct

by Dr. Larry Nassar reached at least 14 Michigan State University representatives in the last two decades before his arrest, with no fewer than eight women reporting his actions.

Among those notified was [Michigan State University] President Lou Anna Simon, who was informed in 2014 that a Title IX complaint and a police report had been filed against an unnamed physician … .”

As life-sentencing for Dr. Nassar (whose female victims number over 140) has finally been accomplished, and as public pressure has forced the resignation of President Simon and others, we should all take a moment to consider the above definition and the diminished state of accountability in our society.

We are a people who greatly value success, but at what price? The Nassar scandal has painfully demonstrated how that golden idol can be too-highly elevated, at great expense and pain to real victims, i.e., those whose sexual abuse stories were not believed, or whom were told to respect “authority” and keep quiet, resulting in a terrible cost borne by us all. It might sound trite, but when we allow the ends (be they sports related, or other) to justify the means, bad things often happen.

I am a proud alumna of Michigan State University. My husband and I love being Spartan fans and are simply thankful that our own daughter (who, though not a gymnast, was a varsity athlete at MSU a decade ago) was lucky to be spared the kind of injury that might have exposed her to this monster. But still we are left with great sadness and empathy for the many Nassar victims. And we take this opportunity to appeal to our fellow citizens to demand accountability of all those in authority, whoever and wherever they might be.

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The 42nd Annual White Pine Stampede takes place on Sat., Feb. 3, starting with the 50K at 9:30am at Mancelona High School. This cross-country ski race features 10K, 20K & 50K courses that stretch between Mancelona and Bellaire. The White Pine donates $5 of every entry to the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation. The Short’s Brewing Company Cool Down Party & Awards Ceremony will be held at 1:30pm in the Summit Center at Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire. For more info visit: whitepinestampede.org

Bay Area Recycling for Charities needs help to offset losses caused by a devastating fire at its Kaleva facility.

Fueled by bales of recyclable material, fire struck the facility Jan. 9. Although firefighters responded quickly and saved most of the structure, the loading dock area was destroyed, and the facility suffered smoke and water damage. No one was injured.

BARC director Andy Gale said the facility can be rebuilt.

“The facility as a whole is salvageable,” Gale said. “There is a lot of smoke and water damage throughout, but with the help of our insurance company, we think will be able to repair the building and get back in operation soon.”

In the meantime, BARC had to lay off employees at the facility where mattresses and large electronics are recycled. Since the nonprofit relies on revenue from the facility, Gale said the organization needs help while they rebuild. They’ve launched a campaign to raise $30,000.

To donate, search BARC on generosity.com.

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Hey, watch it My next Guest Needs No Introduction

When David Letterman left late night, with him went a piece of TV’s heart. Thankfully, he’s emerged from retirement, and we get to see what the elder statesman has been up to besides growing his beard. And in his new show, Paul’s not there, there’s no opening monologue, nor any trips to Hello Deli — it’s a format that flies in the face of the short attention spans of today’s audiences and allows us to luxuriate in civilized discourse.

There are no viral moments, no sound bites. This is Letterman, the master conversationalist, not the snarky comedian, and the results from his first one-on-one with Barack Obama are insightful, honest, and heartfelt. Look for future monthly sitdowns with Jay Z, Tina Fey, Howard Stern, and Malala Yousafzai.

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Creative Scones at Java Jones

Scones have long been the provenance of refined afternoon coffee breaks — faintly sweet and perhaps studded with raisins or currants. But Java Jones in downtown Elk Rapids is pumping up the flavor volume with a range of surprising ingredient combinations.

Tamara Jones and her daughter, Jacquilyn, bake all of Java Jones’ scones from scratch.

“When we first started making them, they were scones the way scones were ‘supposed’ to be, but our customers … well, they didn’t really like them,” Jones said. “So we started making them sweeter, and then in more crazy flavors. Most of the unique flavors are my daughter’s idea — she comes up with them.”

Some of their most popular have been the banana nut scone, the peanut butter chocolate chip, and the blackberry-lime with lemon frosting. Some of the scones are stuffed with fruit, nuts, or chocolate, and on Wednesday they always offer a gluten-free scone, the latest being bacon-and-chive.

“One real customer favorite is our Almond Joy scone,” Jones said, “It’s got coconut, coconut extract, chocolate chips, and almonds, and tastes exactly like the candy bar that it’s named after!”

The Jones’ gamble to turn the scone scene upside down has paid off; their cafe sells out of its scones nearly every day. Get yours (early!) for $2.55 each at Java Jones, 131 River St., in downtown Elk Rapids. (231) 264-1111 or facebook.com/javajoneselkrapids

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Texts from the Mackinac Bridge Authority and Mackinac County 911/Emergency Management alert travelers whenever the bridge closes and again when it reopens.

“For many years, the MBA has posted current closure information on our website, www. mackinacbridge.org, but travelers aren’t always able to access this information when on the road,” said Bob Sweeney, MBA executive secretary.

To opt in to this text alert system, text “MacBridge” to 67283. Data rates might apply.

It’s Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Super Weekend

What we love Sufjan and Oscar Former Petoskey High School and Interlochen Arts Academy phenom Sufjan Stevens has been wowing us with his multiinstrumental magic since we heard the first album in his Fifty States Project, Michigan, filled with folk instrumental odes to his home state. The indie rocker hasn’t stopped wowing us since, but now the Academy of of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has taken notice too: Stevens has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song, “Mystery of Love,” one of the songs he penned for the film Call Me By Your Name (reviewed this week in The Reel, p. 30). Although we’ll be watching, we’re not sure Stevens will; he recently told Vanity Fair that he’s never watched the Oscars.

Hey, Wonder Women and Super Dads, Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island is hosting its first-ever princess and superhero sleepover for kids this summer. Kids come dressed as their alter-ego and kick off the two-night stay with a Royal Welcome Reception and pajama party — sing-a-long and goodnight stories told by grown-up princesses included — then they’ll enjoy a day at princess charm school and superhero training, relax with some afternoon tea, then attend a princess and superhero ball in the evening. Charm school and superhero graduation closes the weekend. The enchantment runs Sunday, July 8, through Tuesday, July 10, and the rate is (appropriately, perhaps) super(man) sized: $1,429+ for a standard room for up to four people. (800) 33Grand, www.grandhotel.com

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bottoms up Whispering Pines Golden Orchid Tea Brenden Gebhart did a lot of traveling before he settled down near the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to become the owner and tea mixologist for Whispering Pines Tea Company, based in Twin Lake, Michigan. One of Whispering Pines’ standouts is Golden Orchid, a vanilla black tea with a range of scent and flavor layers intended to bring forth memories of Mackinac Island ice cream shops.

The many dessert notes in Golden Orchid recall vanilla cones, chocolate fudge, and top notes of another northern Michigan favorite — cherries. It’s all thanks to Gebhart’s intensive attention to small-batch, tea-blending detail — balancing the different black teas and secondary ingredients to craft a perfect cup — as well as the quality of the tea itself and the premium Grade A Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans he uses.

Whispering Pines is also working to include in its teas sustainable wild-harvested ingredients, such as needles from the North’s iconic eastern white pines. Gebhart says he collects the needles in the late morning after a rainfall. They’re then bruised, naturally oxidized, then warmed to create teas with a buttery mouthfeel akin to high grade green oolongs.

Check out Whispering Pines Tea Company’s offerings at whisperingpinestea.com.

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Traverse City’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) has a wish list a mile long and a steady income of taxpayer money. They’re safely ensconced a full step away from voter scrutiny so they get to think bigger than those directly accountable. Their latest fantasy is an “improvement” to the Sarah Hardy Farmers Market. They might be pushing their luck this time.

Downtown Development Authorities were created in the 1970s as a vehicle to help rehabilitate blighted downtown areas and restore and increase property values. They receive money from tax increment financing and a little piece of almost everybody’s millage success.

But while the DDA is proposing way too much, our elected public servants in Washington are accomplishing way too little.

They did a fine job in Traverse City and in many other places. The blight disappeared, but the DDAs are now here to stay, their own fiefdoms fully established. What were once critical infrastructure and business development needs are now mostly a DDA wish list.

ning for another three weeks. Yippee. It’s incomprehensible they were barely able to do that. It’s entirely possible 100 people selected off the street at random, or maybe some bright pets, would be an improvement.

The latest is a multi-million dollar farmers market, an entity they already run. Now the Traverse City DDA would like to expand and improve the market, which is ironically located in a parking lot (the DDA also runs Traverse City’s parking operations), on land that is actually zoned to be a park.

Farmer’s markets used to be a place where local growers assembled, set up tables or booths, and sold their produce to willing customers: Simple, cheap, effective, and way too easy.

Now we must create an extravaganza.

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everything Traverse City-related, has sat on every board and commission, and is currently helping out Grand Traverse County as the board searches for its third County Administrator in about six months. She knows as much as anybody about what the city actually needs in terms of development assistance. It would be nice if she steered the DDA back in that direction and away from something like a multimillion-dollar farmer’s market.

The Traverse City version will be a marvel, with permanent open-sided sheds, bathrooms, an indoor kitchen and, hey, let’s add $700,000 on top of the $3 million for a new pedestrian bridge because the current structurally sound and perfectly usable pedestrian bridge isn’t sufficiently aesthetically pleasing.

That would be $3.7 million total. That’s almost $1 million more than Traverse City pays annually for its fire department and nearly as much as it pays for its police department. Different pots of money, to be sure, but it does paint a picture of how grandiose the DDA’s suggestion really is.

The DDA expects the new market will be financed by private donations, plus $400,000 it already has committed, some as yet undetermined money from the city, and lots and lots of grants. As everybody knows, those grants are free money that sprouts every spring after gentle, warm rains.

The DDA’s new executive director, Jean Derenzy, has been involved in just about

Congress, practically dislocating their shoulders from self-congratulatory back-patting, has managed to keep the government run-

Leadership from the White House hasn’t been any better. President Trump has espoused so many different positions on immigration, it’s impossible to know where he’ll alight from hour to hour. That’s if he’s not busy with his Twitter-insult-of-the-day, a bizarre habit that clouds anything he does accomplish. (The impact extends beyond our shores. A recent Gallup International survey found that the United states is no longer considered the leader of the free world; it’s now Germany.)

Like all presidential candidates, Trump made lots of promises we knew he couldn’t keep.

But his strategy has always been to continue repeating the absurd and hope we won’t notice. His legislative agenda was no exception.

A year ago last week, the president said he would introduce a blizzard of legislation, all of which he claimed would be passed within one year. Or even just in 100 days. He was already late on his campaign promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) on his first day in office, but he included it on the list anyway.

Here’s the legislation he said would be introduced and Congress would pass, believe me: Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act, End Offshoring Jobs and Money Act, American Energy and Infrastructure Act, School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act, Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act, End Illegal Immigration Act, Restoring Community Safety Act, Restoring National Security Act and, everyone’s favorite, the Clean Up Corruption in Washington, D.C. Act. One out of 10 isn’t so good. Congress isn’t any better. The Traverse City DDA is overreaching but at least it’s doing something.

Crime & Rescue LAWYER ACCUSED OF THEFT A longtime Traverse City attorney faces felony embezzlement charges that allege he took $100,000 from an incapacitated woman and gave it to Mt. Holiday to save the ski hill.

The charges filed Jan. 19 against 68-yearold David Kipley also allege that he overbilled the woman’s estate $14,230 in legal fees. Kipley, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Feb. 13.

Kipley was appointed conservator in October 2012, after the woman developed dementia. That December, he made the $100,000 donation to the nonprofit resort, where his wife worked as bookkeeper.

A Mt. Holiday board member told state police that the ski hill might have had to file for bankruptcy if they didn’t receive the donation. The woman’s will included eight charities, but Mt. Holiday was not among them, according to the charges.

ARMED ROBBERY REPORTED Cadillac Police are investigating a reported armed robbery.

A man told police he was walking to work on Leeson Ave. near Frisbie St. at 12:50am Jan. 22 when a light or cream colored two-door car stopped, and the man inside pointed a handgun and demanded the walking man’s wallet.

The man told police that a woman was also inside the car and that, after the couple looked through the wallet and removed cash, they returned it.

The man had short hair and wore a black jacket. The woman had black hair and concealed her face during the incident. Anyone who knows anything about what happened should call police.

ILLEGAL CAMPER DIVERTED TO MUNSON Traverse City Police tried to find a wayward downstate man a place to stay but diverted him to the hospital when he had a medical emergency.

The 43-year-old Belleville man was intoxicated and staying in a camper he parked at the Safe Harbor emergency homeless shelter property on Franklin Street on Jan. 20.

Safe Harbor staff wanted the man gone and called police, who arranged him a room at the Goodwill Inn, Chief Jeff O’Brien said. The man registered a .24 blood alcohol level, or three times the limit for driving.

While on the way the way to Goodwill, the man started having seizures, so police took him to Munson Medical Center for treatment. Camping is not allowed on city streets, O’Brien said.

MARIJUANA SEIZED FROM HOME Officers seized marijuana, guns, and cash from a Gaylord home.

Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement officers said they pulled over a vehicle Jan. 18, following a month-long investigation of a suspect whom they believe was selling marijuana.

Police also got a search warrant for the man’s home, where they found four and a half pounds of marijuana, 27 marijuana plants, 25 oxycodone pills, a vehicle, two handguns, four long guns, and $2,300 cash.

Police said in a press release that they were going to seek arrest warrants in the case.

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HOUSE FIRE CLAIMS ONE A person died in a Garfield Township house fire.

Grand Traverse County firefighters and deputies responded to a home off of Keystone Road at 4:10am Jan. 25, after a neighbor saw the fire and called for help.

Witnesses said they heard noises coming from the house and observed someone in a second story window of the burning structure, deputies said.

Deputies and a witness attempted to use a ladder to reach the person inside, but the fire was too extreme and pushed them away.

The body of an unidentified person was later found at the scene.

DISORDERLY CALL LEADS TO ARREST Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man after they were called to a home to investigate a disturbance.

Deputies and Grand Traverse Band Tribal Police visited a home on East Omena Road just past midnight Jan. 20 where a man was being disorderly. They found a 22-year-old Northport man at the residence and discovered that he had two warrants out for his arrest — one for failure to appear at a hearing for an assault and battery charge, and another for a probation violation. He was taken to jail.

A 38-year-old Morley man faces charges of conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance as a four-time habitual offender. He was held on a half-million-dollar bond. A 39-year-old Central Lake woman was charged with maintaining a drug house and was released on personal recognizance.

Police received an anonymous tip about the house Jan. 11 and launched an investigation.

13-YEAR-OLD SUFFERS OVERDOSE A 13-year-old Vanderbilt boy was revived after he apparently overdosed on methadone.

Otsego County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home Jan. 20 at 3:50pm for a possible overdose, where they found the boy unconscious and unresponsive.

Deputies administered naloxone to revive him.

He and another 13-year-old were taken to Otsego Memorial Hospital. The boys apparently were able to access some methadone that was not properly locked away.

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HEROIN HOUSE YEILDS MORE BUSTS Two more people have been arrested in connection with an alleged heroin house in Central Lake.

The Jan. 19 arrests bring the total to four people facing drug charges in connection to alleged sales at a home on Elm Street following a Traverse Narcotics Team investigation.

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THINKING MAKES IT SO opinion

bY Isiah Smith, Jr. On May 7, 2016, a 30-year-old woman aboard an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse, New York, had a fellow passenger escorted off the plane for suspected terrorist activity. The suspected “terrorist” was Guido Menzio, a young decorated Ivy League economist. His terrorist activity? He was busily scribbling math equations on a sheet of paper. Yes, math — a differential equation, to be exact.

In May 2016, Andrew Hacker published a book entitled “The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions.” Hacker argued, among other things, that anyone whose job path doesn’t involve math shouldn’t have to take math classes beyond basic numeracy.

These two events are related. In the first instance, the woman on the American Airlines flight was disturbed by a random delusion caused by a danger occurring only in her own mind. This helps prove that it’s not always something “out there” that threatens us; rather, it is often something occurring inside us. Or, as in this case, something missing.

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In the second instance, Hacker argues that mathematics is important only insofar as we use it in our careers. That view is myopic.

Knowledge isn’t important simply because we use it in our jobs. Literature, music, art, and sciences are important because they enrich us and inform our spirits. Moreover, these disciplines make us better citizens by improving our ability to think clearer and understand how the world works.

Of all the disciplines, math possesses the greatest power to improve thinking.

For intelligent beings, we humans are capable of doing and thinking the craziest things.

Words pour from our mouths untouched by logic, unhinged and unmoored from reality.

We travel the same roads to ruin that people before us travelled. With mind-numbing regularity, we repeat the same mistakes over and over again without any hint of thought or self-reflection. We cling to bogus ideas, flawed reasoning, and unsupportable assumptions — about people, the world, and ourselves. We resist giving up those ideas because we fear that without them we lose our essence.

Sloppy thinking leads us to embrace fictions over facts, lies over truths. We follow fools, knaves, braggarts, and the obviously unstable.

For example, consider televangelist and prosperity preacher Paula White, who allegedly wants her followers to start 2018 on the right foot. How? By giving her a big chunk of their hard-earned money, of course.

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White, who serves as the chairwoman of Trump’s evangelical advisory committee, says the money is for God, of course. By starting off the year giving your paycheck to her, er …

“God,” the donor is making an investment for a good year. The people who can’t offer money to White won’t be as lucky.

White will likely reap a financial windfall.

Nothing shakes the money tree like references to God. But did you ever wonder, if God is allpowerful, why does She need money?

The United Negro College Fund’s motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” seems appropriate here. The failure to use one’s mind

effectively can lead to rash decisions and mountains of regrets – not to mention the loss of a month’s salary. We already have proof that sloppy thinking can lead intelligent citizens to vote against their own interest.

My own sloppy thinking and history of making boneheaded decisions (for example, investing valuable time in Facebook) convinced me I needed help. So I read “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking,” by Jordan Ellenberg. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker says that the book should be in the toolkit of every thoughtful person, or anyone who wants to avoid fallacies, superstitions, and other ways of being wrong.

Pinker’s wife, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, writes, “These beautifully readable pages delight and enlighten in equal parts.” Rebecca is a recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, so who am I to argue with her?

No matter how much we might wish it were so, two plus two will always equal four. A loss can never truly constitute a win. Smaller numbers will never be greater than larger numbers.

Wishing doesn’t make it so.

Evil acts are still bad, and denying it doesn’t make it so.

I would argue that sloppy thinking imperils our democracy. Such thinking increases our reliance on tribalism, the idea that one’s own group is superior to those whom we consider outside our self-identified group. Thus, as citizens we converge on different sides of a wide chasm proclaiming we are better, smarter, and more virtuous.

Tribalism is often an excuse for not thinking, because who needs to think when our tribes provide the answers to all our questions?

History teaches that this is how great nations crumble from the inside out, collapsing in on itself like a house of cards.

Mathematical thinking teaches us that casinos never lose; the house will always win. It also tells us that ignorance plus arrogance minus knowledge never equals competence.

Mathematical thinking equips us with powerful weapons to detect when things just don’t add up. We can see through the distractions, selfserving miasma fed to us by those who seek to control and manipulate us. It helps us follow the ball, provides us with the skills to figure things out for ourselves.

So has “How Not To Be Wrong” improved my sloppy thinking? Well, for starters, I’m eschewing Facebook. Baby steps, you know.

I’m a work in progress, and I have the rest of my life to practice getting better.

Will you join me?

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

Wait, What?

Ikea has taken advertising in a whole new direction with its recent print ad for a crib. The ad, which appears in the Swedish magazine Amelia, invites women who think they might be pregnant to urinate on the paper to reveal a discounted price. “Peeing on this ad may change your life,” the ad reads at the top of the page. “If you are expecting, you will get a surprise right here in the ad.”

Adweek reported that the agency behind the gimmick adapted pregnancy test technology to work on a magazine page.

Recurring Themes In more extreme weather news from Australia, The Daily Telegraph reported on Jan. 8 that record high temperatures near Campbelltown had killed more than 200 bats, found on the ground or still hanging in trees. Cate Ryan, a volunteer with WIRES, an Australian wildlife rescue organization, came across the flying foxes and put the word out for volunteers to bring water to rehydrate the bats that were still alive. “I have never seen anything like it before,” Ryan said. “Ninety percent of the (dead) flying foxes were babies or juveniles.”

Bright Idea Chris McCabe, 70, of Totnes, England, escaped a frigid death thanks to his own quick thinking on Dec. 15. McCabe owns a butcher shop, and he had entered the walk-in freezer behind the shop when the door slammed behind him. Ordinarily that wouldn’t be a problem, as a release button inside the freezer can open the door. But the button was frozen solid. So McCabe looked around the freezer and saw the shop’s last “black pudding,” or blood sausage, which he used as a battering ram to unstick the button.

“They are a big long stick that you can just about get your hand around,” McCabe told the Mirror. “I used it like the police use battering rams to break door locks in. Black pudding saved my life, without a doubt.” He believes he would have died within a halfhour in the -4-degree freezer.

Ironies -- In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a church’s new electronic bells are creating a living hell for neighbor Bernadette Hall-Cuaron, who has lived next to Our Lady of Guadalupe for years. “The bells ring multiple times a day during the week, and play ‘Amazing Grace’ during the week, and then they run multiple times again during the weekend,” she told KOB-TV in January. “Because of the volume and frequency of the bells, this is not calling people to the church.” Hall-Cuaron called the church to complain, but said since her request, “they have added ‘Amazing Grace’ every day ... a full verse.” The pastor responded that he has lowered the volume but will not turn off the bells completely, as some in the neighborhood love them.

-- One of Quebec City’s iconic tourist attractions is its ice hotel, the 45-room Hotel de Glace. But on Jan. 9, the hotel’s most dreaded disaster, a fire, broke out in one of the guest rooms, the CBC reported.

Manager Jacques Desbois admitted that “when I received the phone call, they had to repeat twice that there was a fire in the ice hotel.” Predictably, the flames did not spread and caused little damage to the structure, although smoke spread throughout the hotel and residents were

evacuated. “In a room made out of ice and snow there are few clues to look at,” Desbois said, although each room has candles, and the hotel is considering the possibility that one of them caused the fire.

Family Values Alyce H. Davenport, 30, and Diron Conyers, 27, of Southbridge, Massachusetts, couldn’t make it to the funeral of Audra Johnson, Davenport’s mother, on Jan. 5 because they were busy stealing a safe from Johnson’s home. Southbridge police started searching for the pair after Johnson’s boyfriend discovered the safe was missing, reported The Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

When police stopped Davenport the next day, they found the safe in the trunk of the car she was driving (also registered to Johnson) and seized it. Davenport and Conyers were arrested at a Sturbridge motel, where officers found jewelry, keys, cellphones and other documents, and the two were charged with seven counts related to the theft. “Alyce has a history of larceny, identity theft and forgery,” the police report said.

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Armed and Frustrated Linda Jean Fahn, 69, of Goodyear, Arizona, finally succumbed to a frustration many wives suffer. On Dec. 30, as her husband sat on the toilet, she barged in and “shot two bullets at the wall above his head to make him listen to me,” she told Goodyear police when they were called to the scene.

Fahn said her husband “would have had to be 10 feet tall to be hit by the bullets,” ABC15 in Phoenix reported, but officers estimated the bullets struck about 7 inches over the man’s head as he ducked. She was charged with aggravated assault.

Creme de la Weird An unnamed 41-year-old Chinese woman who had been suffering from fevers and breathing problems for six years finally went for a checkup in early January at a hospital in Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province, China. Doctors X-rayed and found an inch-long chili pepper in her right lung. Metro News reported that Dr. Luo Lifeng tried to remove the pepper using a probe but was forced to operate because it was lodged too deep to reach. He speculated that she had inhaled the pepper and then forgotten about it.

Go Ahead, Take Two An unnamed Russian man, apparently desperate for a drink, stole an armored personnel carrier from a secured facility on Jan. 10 and used it to ram a storefront in Apatity, Russia, reported United Press International. Surveillance video showed him climbing out of the tank-like carrier and into the store, where he retrieved a bottle of wine, then returning to the vehicle and ramming the storefront again as several bystanders looked on. He was arrested after leaving the scene.

Employee Relations Pesto’s Pizza Shop in Boise, Idaho, takes its pizza prep seriously. So when an employee burns a pizza, the discipline is swift and public: The worker must don an orange bag that reads “I burned a pizza,” then “walk the plank,” or the sidewalk, in front of the shop five times. Pesto’s owner, Lloyd Parrott, told KBOI TV: “You know, we gotta have some fun around here. It’s all in good fun.”

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Child care worker Jordanne Michalski works with Molly at Teddy Bear Daycare and Preschool in Long Lake Township.

CHILD CARE UNDERGROUND

Child care deserts and months-long waiting lists are pushing northern Michigan’s day care situation to a crisis point.

By Patrick Sullivan Lack of professional child care is a crisis in northern Michigan that’s tantamount to the affordable housing shortage. Unlike housing, however, the child care shortage disproportionately affects women.

In Traverse City, there are months-long waiting lists for child care for infants and toddlers. In rural areas, there are child care deserts where the closest licensed provider is dozens of miles away.

“Where do I start? We are a disaster area,” said Bob McNabb, a first-year Frankfort city council member who made child care a platform of his campaign. “Certified, qualified, safe, secure — that kind of child care, unless you have it within your family, is very hard to find, especially for zero to three-year-old kids.”

DAY CAREUNDERGROUND People expect child care to be cheap, and most aren’t willing, or cannot afford, to pay too much for it. That’s made it a lowpaying profession, one that only someone completely dedicated to children would go into, said Mary Manner, collaboration coordinator for the Great Start program in Traverse City.

Low wages, on top of state regulations that keep child care providers spending and scrambling to adhere, has made child care a scarce commodity.

“It’s expensive, especially for infant care, because the ratio of caregiver to infants [1 to 4] is small,” Manner said. “If you want to pay a living wage to that one person who is taking care of those four infants, care is going to be in excess of $10,000 a year.”

Manner recalled one child care provider who worked out of her home had to close when she was told the risers on her stairs were too steep.

“They basically said you have to remodel your stairs, and she couldn’t afford to do it,” Manner said. “It’s these things that make sense from a code perspective, but in reality, don’t make a lot of sense.”

Manner said that, in recent years,

“They’re just not getting licensed,” Manner said.

“They’re just taking care of kids without licensing, so they’re just avoiding the whole thing.”

There are other problems that feed the region’s child care crisis, she said. As the economy improves, child care workers are drawn to jobs that offer better hours and better pay. More and more, as regulations have tightened, operators of home-based daycares have gotten out of the business rather than making improvements required by the state.

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regulators have become less adversarial and more helpful with providers, in part because the increased regulations have caused a lot of child care to go underground.

“They’re just not getting licensed,” Manner said. “They’re just taking care of kids without licensing, so they’re just avoiding the whole thing.”

Offering unlicensed day care is a crime

that carries stiff penalties, including jail, though Manner cannot recall a case that’s resulted in that. It is legal for an unlicensed provider to care for children in the child’s home, or for a relative to care for children in the relative’s home, but it’s illegal for an unlicensed provider to take children into their own home.

Nonetheless, there apparently isn’t a lot of enforcement.

On Craigslist recently, one person advertised their “unlicensed” daycare. After the Northern Express contacted the person and and asked for an interview, the ad disappeared.

BENZIE’S SUBTERRANEAN UNDERGROUND McNabb, who also owns Bayside Printing in Frankfort, said lack of child care forces people find solutions that are not ideal.

Today, McNabb provides child care for his daughter’s fourth child at his business.

He also helped her out with her first three.

But not everyone has family to fall back on. Lack of child care that’s affordable for working people is part of a larger cycle that keeps people — especially single women — struggling in northern Michigan.

If a father doesn’t stick around to help, mothers in need of child care typically work

two or three jobs to survive, McNabb said.

The underground economy that’s pervasive across northern Michigan, especially in rural areas, where men plow driveways or do odd jobs for cash, furthers the struggle for working single mothers, because when they attempt to collect child support, the father’s income is not recorded.

“Too many baby daddies bail out on the responsibilities. I’ve got a hundred anecdotal stories about this stuff,” McNabb said. “Go to family court and pay attention to what’s going on — there is a subterranean, underground, off-book economy that permeates northern Michigan.”

In Frankfort, the only significant child care provider is Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital, but it doesn’t come close to fulfilling all of the demand, especially when it comes to infant care.

That leaves people to improvise.

“The young mothers who are otherwise beset by the chaos of trying to get by, so that they can work the piss-poor jobs that they need just to get by, they are getting together in small groups, and they are helping each other,” he said. “They’ve arranged little cabals to help take care of each other’s children.”

On the city council, McNabb helped start a task force to look at child care. He also sits on a committee that is working to create a community center. He hopes that the community center will include a daycare.

IMPORTANCE OF STABLE CARE No one know how many unlicensed day care operators there are in northern Michigan. Manner said she knows it is a significant number.

“We think there’s a 40 percent gap in infant and toddler care in our communities, based on the number of people in the workforce and the number of infants and toddlers that there are. We can only account for about 60 percent of them in licensed care,” she said. “So they are somewhere.”

Some mothers stay home. Other children, no doubt, are with relatives.

Some parents juggle schedules so that one works days and the other works nights and weekends so that someone is always available to watch the kids.

“Lots of people are in a situation where one day it’s the neighbor, and the next day it’s the person down the street, and the next day it’s a friend across town, and the next day they actually have to take their kid to work with them,” Manner said. “So we wind up in this situation where there isn’t that kind of predictable, constant care. It makes a huge difference in children’s social and emotional development.”

That’s dangerous for child development, Manner said, because young children, especially in the first 18 months, need stable care from familiar faces. Many people also undervalue child care’s role in a child’s development. Good child care, she said, is not the mere warehousing of children.

“When you think of all of the things that a child learns from birth to the day they enter kindergarten, they learn to talk and walk and interact with people and manipulate their environment. Feed themselves. Clothe themselves,” she said. “I mean, they learn everything that you need to know to be a functioning human being in the first five years.”

DEDICATION TO CHILDREN REQUIRED Child care providers agree that it is a difficult and undervalued business. You’ve got to be dedicated to children in order to survive.

Carly LaFreniere, administrator at the Bayview Childcare Center and Pre-School in Traverse City, has been in child care for 20 years and said she’s seen the regulations get

more onerous over the years, forcing people primarily women as they are entering back out of business. into the workforce,” she said. “We really “In Traverse City, we obviously do need to come together as a community to not have enough centers, and I think the help find alternatives.” reason we don’t have enough centers is Manner agreed that the shortage is because the licensing rules are just so hurting women, which is hurting the ridiculous,” she said. economy.

For instance, LaFreniere just licensed a “Right now, we are graduating more new building in September, a process she women from college than we are men. found dumbfounding and frustrating. The But the number of women are declining newly opened day care cannot use one of in the workforce, so the investment we are their upstairs rooms because its windows are making, which is huge, with post-secondary rated to keep out fire for 20 minutes, not the education in our state, we’re not benefiting required 30 minutes. A fix would cost $4,000. from it,” she said. “Every time that a mom Bayview has a waiting list for the infant/ stays out of the workforce because she can’t toddler program, and the preschool program find childcare, that’s changing that return on is filling up and close to the point of having a investment.” waiting list, she said.

How do you increase the supply of child “Parents that move from downstate or care to make it more accessible to families, another area, they are surprised,” LaFreniere and at the same time raise the wages of child said. “Parents from Traverse City, they know care workers, to make it a more appealing as soon as you find out you career? It’s a conundrum. are pregnant, you get on a “We need to take it “What we know waiting list.” seriously. We need to really that the studies Beth Fryer and her understand that child care daughter-in-law Anna Fryer is an essential service in have shown is that run the Teddy Bear Day our economy,” Manner said. the first 1,000 days Care and Pre-School at two “Every business in town has of a child’s life are locations, one in Long Lake a help-wanted, now-hiring by far the most Township and the other at a sign in the window, and I new location on 14th Street know a couple of businesses important days,” in Traverse City. who are really frustrated said Beth Fryer, who right now because they’ve “If you’re downtown, you has worked in child pretty much have only two just lost employees who had child care center options babies.” care for 34 years. within a close vicinity, and “So we take our jobs then those are full,” Anna LONG HOURS AND LOW PAY very seriously and Fryer said. “Pretty much Child care workers anywhere you go, there is are among the lowest paid make sure that we a wait list for infants and workers across the country. expose all our toddlers.”

An analysis by the Center children to as Anna Fryer said she for the Study of Child Care many wonderful and her mother-in-law Employment at University pay themselves less so that of California, Berkeley experiences as they can pay their child determined the median we can.” care workers above-average wage for child care workers wages. is $9.77 per hour, putting it at What’s frustrating to people who work the bottom two percentile of all occupations. in child care is the disconnect between the In Michigan, the study found that the esteem the job holds in society and the impact median hourly wage for child care workers their work has on human development. dropped from from $10.46 to $9.43 between “It’s not a moneymaker by any means, 2010 and 2015. By contrast, a kindergarten because, again, we’re not recognized as being teacher in Michigan made an average hourly as important as we are,” said Anna Fryer, wage of $25.22 in 2015. who has worked in child care for 17 years.

“It’s just not adding up,” said Candice “What we know that the studies have Hamel, Great Start executive director. “If shown is that the first 1,000 days of a child’s we’re paying great people such low wages, life are by far the most important days,” said we’re not going to retain them. We’re paying Beth Fryer, who has worked in child care for them lower wages than we’re paying fast 34 years. “So we take our jobs very seriously food or even animal handlers.” and make sure that we expose all our Hamel said Great Start works to children to as many wonderful experiences improve the quality of day care that’s as we can.” provided. Part of the goal is to change the perception of child care so that it’s valued PROBLEM FOR EMPLOYERS more by society.

Lack of child care is also a problem The low wages combined with a for employers, who find they have trouble perception that child care is expensive retaining female employees after the birth of explains why there are waiting lists in a child.

Traverse City and deserts in Benzie County Coco Champagne, senior vice president — the people who are educated to provide of human resources at Hagerty, said her quality care for children should be able company has gone to great lengths to make to earn more money, and society should life easy for new parents. They offer paid respect the profession enough so that the maternity and paternity leave, they offer added costs would be accepted. graduated return-to-work hours so that “These licensed providers are not employees can transition back into full-time babysitters — they are licensed professionals, work, and they offer a wellness program for and they do really hard work,” Hamel said. new parents.

“Some of those higher risk communities, That doesn’t solve how hard it is for those are the families that can’t afford that parents to find child care once they return to higher quality care, and those are the ones work, however. that need the highest quality care the most.”

Champagne said she is working with other business and community leaders to LOOKING TO LANSING bring more child care to Traverse City after Matt McCauley, executive director of Hagerty determined it would not be cost- Networks Northwest, said he sees the day effective to open an in-house daycare. care crisis as an economic development issue “It’s a challenge for working families and that the state is ignoring. the lack of child care presents challenges for “In terms of importance to the region,

it’s right up there with housing,” McCauley said. “If we’re looking to attract and retain a younger, highly skilled workforce in this region, we have to have these conversations about housing and daycare.”

Although there’s a recognition now that the state of child care is in crisis, solutions are not immediately evident.

“There’s not a silver bullet, there’s not one thing that put us in this place, and there’s not one thing that can take us out of it, either,” McCauley said.

Gabriel Schneider of Northern Strategies 360, a government relations consultancy, said his firm worked with legislators to find room in the state budget to free up more money for day care; their intent was to spur an increase in the poverty level threshold for day care subsidies for working families.

Schneider said he’s also working with people in northern Michigan to come up with broader legislation that could make child care more accessible.

“We don’t have one proposal that were all behind yet, but that’s what we’re hoping to develop,” he said. “It may not be one thing.

We hope to have proposals, even plural, to look at for how to address this.”

Ken Morin, legislative director for Rep. Michele Hoitenga (R)-Manton said his office plans to propose legislation to address the problem, though they aren’t yet sure what it will look like.

“We are definitely aware that there is a day care shortage in northern Michigan,” Morin said. “It is definitely something that the representative is looking into.”

30 YEARS AND STILL NO RESPECT Thirty years ago, Christine Bazzett wrote an article about how hard to is to run day care while people have no respect for the profession and think of it as women’s work that should be performed at home for free.

Not much has changed in three decades, Bazzett said.

Bazzett operates Joyful Noise Daycare in Traverse City. She said her business keeps her so busy that she could only answer questions via email.

She said the result of the low-pay and low regard that people hold for the child care profession is that few people go into it, so it makes sense there isn’t enough supply to meet the demand.

“I get phone calls almost every day from parents looking for child care,” she wrote.

“I can’t speak to their level of difficulty, but they seem frustrated or discouraged or worn out when they call and get a ‘no’ from me.”

Bazzett said her next opening is in September 2019.

Employers should pay their employees more so that the employees can afford to pay more for childc are, she said. Employers should also offer regular, dependable schedules and be willing to be flexible so that employees can work with their child care providers.

“It’s amazing to me that a large office complex can’t let an employee shift their hours 15 minutes so they can pick up their child on time, and yet, they often won’t,” Bazzett wrote. “They expect that the provider will work overtime rather than let the employee come in a bit early and leave early.”

Ultimately Bazzett said that child care professionals should get more respect.

“We hear a lot about the difficulty parents have finding and paying for child care, but not a lot about why none of them are considering it for their career. And if they did, what would their friends think?” she wrote. “I’m still referred to in many circles and by some of my clients as ‘the sitter.’ I’m 61 years old. If that could change, my life would be better.”

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“It was a really good way to When not performing on a get back to Michigan,” she said. “I stage, Harrell was performing on had spent summers in Charlevoix a tennis, basketball, or volleyball when I was young and always court. After high school, Harrell loved the area. And Traverse City opted to leave the shadow of is such a cool place. The arts are Michigan State University, where really valued here. We have the her father taught marketing, and Rachell Harrell Film Festival, the Opera House, head to Ann Arbor to attend the the Old Town Playhouse.”

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Harrell and a staff of four part-time teachers Following graduation, she moved to run the local Drama Kids program, which Chicago, where she earned a Masters of is generally held after school for students in Fine Arts Degree in Theater Performance the first through eighth grades but also offers at Roosevelt University. She spent five years summer and holiday camps. Each one-hour in Chicago, honing her acting skills with class uses Drama Kids’ copyrighted original commercial work and in suburban theaters. curriculum and features up to six different “I was pretty successful,” she said. “I knew activities that involve speech development, I wanted to be in the entertainment industry, creative movement, improvisations, scene so I decided to go to L.A., pretty much cold starters, and whole class plays. But no class turkey.” ever repeats a lesson — even if a kid is enrolled She got her brother to drive the rental from age 4 to 17. truck, and as the siblings headed west. When “We take great pride in our program they arrived in L.A., Harrell contacted the only and are committed to making sure your person she remotely knew — a woman who child receives an excellent experience,” says was the daughter of a friend of her mother.

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Charleston

Dallas’ West Village Nashville

Showboat Branson Belle Missouri

(Spring) Break the Monotony 4 family friendly escapes where you won’t run into your neighbors Spring break is around the corner, warm weather is calling, and hordes of Northern Michiganians are feverishly planning their getaway to the usual spots: Florida, and the Alabama Gulf Coast. While both regions are great, their increasing popularity is making it harder to call them escapes. If you want warm weather without the risk of running into Frank from the IT department, consider these comparably priced, sunny destinations. Just don’t dawdle — airline prices can change daily, and lodging fills up fast. Prices here, found in January for dates at the end of March, are representative. By Daniel Harrigan Dallas, Texas Everything’s bigger in Texas, and that includes the fun! This metropolitan area has something for everyone: history, shopping, parks, and in the neighboring city of Arlington, Six Flags Over Texas, the area’s most popular attraction and home to thrill rides, shows, and all sorts of family friendly activities. On a more sedate day, have lunch and check out the wares from area craftsmen, artisans, and farmers at the 26,000-square foot Dallas Farmers Market. History buffs will lose themselves in the life, death, and legacy of President John F. Kennedy at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Be sure to visit Uptown, the most walkable district in the whole city and chock full of eclectic bars, restaurants, shopping, parks and beer gardens. For the best of the rest, the excellent DART rail system in Dallas can make getting around the big city mostly painless.

Don’t miss: Visit the Perot Museum with 11 permanent exhibit halls, and the Journey to Space exhibition only through May 6. An adventure for all ages.

Getting there: Flights from Traverse City average just over $600pp. Flying out of Grand Rapids can save you up to 50 percent on airfare. Flying from Detroit is even more affordable, and there are direct flights available. The drive is about 1,300 miles, or approximately 19 hours.

Lodging: Hotels in the core area start at $160. The beautiful Hotel Indigo Downtown is close to DART and offers a downtown and Uptown shuttle.

Charleston, South Caroline There’s something about the southland in the springtime. Not only is rich history and exquisite architecture available but also beautiful, warm beaches. The Charleston peninsula boasts all three. Start with a visit to the Historic Charleston City Market, where you can grab some tasty fixins and sweet tea, then head down to Waterfront Park for a picnic. Tired of walking? Jump on the water taxi to see the whole harbor (and dolphins, too).

Don’t miss: Walking tours are a great way to get to know a new area quickly. Free Tours

by Foot offers two-hour tours with history, humor, and … no set price.

Getting there: Expedia yielded flight options starting around $600pp from Traverse City. Flights from Grand Rapids were a little higher in cost, and Detroit prices were only marginally less than Traverse City. It’s close to 1,100 miles from the Grand Traverse area, so you’re looking at, potentially, an 18-hour drive.

Lodging: There are exquisite luxury hotels that are postcard-worthy (if you have the budget), but if you want something close to the action and around $200 per night during the spring break peak, a nice option is Bluegreen Vacations King Street: an all-suite hotel with kitchenettes, on the peninsula, close to everything. www.choicehotels.com.

480-653-9330.

Homewood Suites by Hilton-Charleston Historic District is another good choice in the $200 range. (843) 724-8800.

Nashville, Tennesee Music City. Only 11 hours by car (about 700 miles) and you can find yourself immersed in one of America’s most authentic cities and — according to TripAdvisor — one of the best for family vacations. Stroll the Broadway strip for live music every day (free in many venues), and take a detour to the Shelby Street pedestrian bridge for amazing views. Shopping, shows, history, culture — it’s all here.

Don’t miss: Opryland should be high on your list. For the little ones, be sure to visit Adventure Science Center, or the Nashville Zoo with a Jungle Gym Travel + Leisure named one of the world’s coolest playgrounds.

Getting there: If you don’t mind a fullday drive, you can save loads of money, and likely miss the summer construction season.

Flights from Traverse City start at $480pp; $280 from Grand Rapids, and $250 non-stop from Detroit.

Lodging: People say if you ever get a chance to stay at the Opryland Hotel, do it! Now dubbed the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, if you can squeeze $250+ per night, you’re treated to far more than just a hotel. The resort can be booked through www.marriott.com. For the outdoorsy type, rent a campsite at Two Rivers Campground in Music Valley with full hook-up sites, a pool, and playground. www.tworiverscampground.com.

Branson, Missouri Branson is known as a family vacation destination. It’s a small town that delivers big with nearly 100 live shows; “Silver Dollar City,” an 1880s-style theme park; and loads of Ozark mountain outdoor activities. Take a ride on the Branson Scenic Railway through the Missouri countryside, or tour the beautiful Table Rock Lake on the Showboat Branson Belle.

Don’t miss: The Titanic Museum is an experience you won’t forget. The museum mixes detailed reproductions with actual artifacts and allows visitors to walk through a true-to-scale reproduction of the ship’s Grand Staircase, explore the bridge, and more. With interactive exhibits and personal touches, this museum is a treat for the whole family.

Getting there: Flights start at $350pp, but most airlines only service the SpringfieldBranson airport, which is 50 miles north of town — so you would need a car. The drive from northern Michigan will be about 14 hours, or nearly 900 miles.

Lodging: The Grand Country Resort might be your kids’ favorite hotel ever, thanks to its on-site water park, go carts, and arcade.

A family room that sleeps four starts at $120 per night and includes access to the water park! (888) 514-1088. www.grandcountry. com. Cooper Creek Campground has 75 full hook-up sites, 2- and 3-bedroom cabins, boat rental, and trout fishing! (417) 334-4871. www.coopercreekresort.com.

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OPIOIDS UP NORTH

“We are in the middle of a public health crisis.

But we have yet to create the public health response.”

By Lynda Wheatley This fall, President Trump directed acting Health Secretary Eric Hargan to declare opioid abuse a public health emergency. The epidemic has taken hold all over the country, reaching across age, gender, and socio-economic lines — and, as anyone who reads the headlines is familiar, right here into what many perceive as our northern Michigan paradise.

While there’s no way to pinpoint the number of opioid abusers in the region, Benzie County led the state in its population’s proportion of opioid overdose deaths — 2.9 deaths per 10,000 residents — in 2015 (the last year the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services made data available).

Antrim and Crawford counties weren’t far behind with 2.2 deaths per 10,000 people respectively.

Grand Traverse County, the focus of this story, had nine opioid-related overdose deaths, or one in every 10,000 residents.

In 2016, according to Capt. Chris Clark, the Grand Traverse County Sheriff ’s Office documented 14 fatal overdoses (including those due to alcohol and non-opioid drugs).

In 2017, that number dropped to eight.

Does credit for the slight improvement go to naloxone, the overdose reversal drug

that the Grand Traverse County Sheriff ’s Office began supplying its officers in 2016, of which 14 applications have been used so far? Is it an effect of the Sheriff ’s office Interdiction Team, a specially trained unit that began operations in January 2016 to work closely with the Traverse Narcotics Team (TNT) and department detective bureau to target criminal activity related to drugs? Better prevention and education efforts in schools? Or is it simply one slightly better year amidst an increasingly growing problem?

Last week, the Northern Express gathered a group of people who have different roles in — and vantage points on — the opioid situation in the Grand Traverse Community: • Tom Flitton, a sergeant with Grand Traverse Sheriff ’s Office and supervisor of the department’s interdiction team • Lynn Hertler, a Grand Traverse resident who lost her son, Michael, to an opioid overdose in September 2017 • Dr. Rob Smith, EMS med director for NW Regional Medical Control Authority, an ER physician at Munson Medical Center, a former paramedic and firefighter, and former SWAT doctor with Wayne County Sheriff ’s Department

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• Christopher Hindbaugh, chief executive officer of Addiction Treatment Center in Traverse City • Michigan State Police Lt. Kip Belcher, task force section commander for the 7th district, overseer of three drug taskforce teams in 19 Michigan counties Although each clearly has his or her unique view on the whats and whys of the situation, all started off the conversation in agreement on one central issue: We don’t have an opioid situation Up North. We have a crisis.

Northern Express: How would you describe what’s happening in the community with opioids?

Sgt. Tom Flitton: Over the last five years it’s exploded. We don’t see as many overdoses anymore because the opioid kits are out in the general public, in the community, but it’s definitely an increased problem.

Lynn Hertler: [Michael] really didn’t hang out with his using friends, that we knew, but when we’d talk about it, he’d say heroin and human trafficking is everywhere up here.

I kept saying, I don’t understand it. And he said people from downstate would get women and men addicted and use them as drug mules, is that the right term?

Dr. Rob Smith: Right now, it’s an epidemic.

It is a public health concern. Has it gotten a lot worse? It’s gotten a lot worse as far as with younger people. People have always overdosed on drugs, but now you have kids using. When you see a person addicted, their entire life centers around using the drug. There was a lady transported by EMS last week, and she wanted pain medicine so bad, she let them put in an intraosseous line, where they drill [to feed fluids or medicine] into your bone. She turned out to be a psychiatric patient, but she was feigning abdominal pain and stating how much it hurt, and it was later determined she didn’t have anything wrong with her, but she wanted opiates so badly that she actually had that line put in; they couldn’t get an IV in anywhere else.

Express: How do you determine whether someone is really in pain or seeking drugs?

Smith: It’s Gestalt [an approach to therapy that emphasizes personal responsibility and focuses upon the individual’s experience in the present moment]. If you’re in a bunch of pain, it’s hard for me to believe you have 10 out of 10 pain when you’re not sweating, your blood pressure’s not up — usually people will show signs. It’s mostly what’s Gestalt and what’s appropriate. If you’ve snapped your femur — that’s a pretty big bone, you

Lynn Hertler

Sgt. Tom Flitton

need some pain medicine. But I’ve had parents of 12 year olds who ask me, “Aren’t you going to give him anything for pain for his sprained ankle?” And my response is Motrin or Tylenol … The ER only writes 2 percent of the narcotic prescriptions. In general, we don’t write for more than three days. Are there people who come in and get pain medication? Sure. Some get one over on me, but I would have to write a big prescription for them to get addicted. The whole point of being a doctor is to alleviate suffering. If you think they’re in pain, you can treat them appropriately. But if they look they’re a normal person and after three doses of Dilaudid, they still say 10 out of 10 pain, and they need more, we say, ‘Well, it’s not working, let’s try some Tylenol.’ But that doesn’t happen too often.

Chris Hindbaugh: Speaking from our organization, Traverse City is on trend what’s happening in the rest of the country.

We currently have 100 beds we offer in this community — all were full last night.

Between residential care, our jail alternative program, and our recovery homes, we serve 2,500 people a year, and the vast majority from this immediate area. It’s overwhelming; it was about half that 5 or 6 years ago.

Express: Are you ever in the position where you have to turn people away?

Hindbaugh: Very often — especially in our detox unit, which is really, for a lot of folks, the gateway into other treatment options.

We’re constantly bumping up against [its limits], and we incrementally add beds, but as soon as we do, they’re full. This field is underfunded. And only 10 percent of the people who need treatment really have access to treatment. This is the only disease that we don’t treat people until they get to the highest levels of acuity, and it’s often too late by that point because they’re entering other systems at that point, legal or otherwise.

Express: When did it start becoming apparent this area had an opioid problem?

Dr. Rob Smith, Chris Hindbaugh, Lt. Kip Belcher

Lt. Kip Belcher: Back maybe 7, 8, 10 years ago, there was a rash of pharmacy burglaries, all controlled medication stolen and most assuredly marketed. And then from there, it gradually evolved into a heroin market — heroin being much easier to obtain and cheaper than prescription drugs. What happened with the heroin is that the same identical distribution routes used for things like crack cocaine, marijuana, those don’t change. You have to look at this thing from an economic perspective: If you’re successful with your marketing or routing it a certain way, why change that? So eventually, they

those high potency drugs added in with the heroin, which is high potency of itself.

Express: What is most pervasive here now — prescription drugs, heroin, fentanyl?

Belcher: It varies upon which section you’re in. In greater Traverse City/Cadillac area, it defaults to heroin, intravenous usage, which is the quickest way to obtain a high, right Doc? [Dr. Smith nods.] The further east you get, into SANE’s coverage area, Gaylord up through the Straits, it morphs into more of a prescription drug, tablet form. But they

There’s a stigma of a junkie that people think of, that their life has spiraled out of control to get to the point where they’re sticking a heroin needle in their arm.

And that’s not what we’re seeing. began to bring heroin up, mainly from metro cities — Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint, Saginaw. A consumer demand develops. And then you see this progressive acceleration, which is what we’ve seen in the greater northwestern Lower Michigan area here.

And like with anything else, the people who market it have to continuously make it better. And how do you make it better?

You make it more potent, stronger. You mix it because you want to be the top salesman, the person with the best material out there ready for sale. So the goal now becomes, for the consumers of it, to approach that point in time where they feel like they’re fading into the mist. In other words, they’re close to death. That’s the high that a lot of people want to achieve, and how do you achieve that? You mix it with something like fentanyl or carfentanyl — carfentanyl being a large animal tranquilizer used for surgical purposes on animals like rhinocerouses and African elephants. Often, the opioid reversal drugs are not at all effective when you have

still have some issues with heroin. Further over toward the far east side of the state, it’s actually shifted a little bit over to prescription drug items and a resurgence in cocaine [due to fears about what’s in the heroin].

Express: How are people getting into opiates?

Is there a common denominator?

Hindbaugh: Multiple pathways. For us, we’re seeing a huge increase in a couple particular demographics: women — professional educated women in particular. It’s trending younger. And what we’re finding just in our data in our organization, those younger users are using it recreationally very often and started in high school. The other trend we’re starting to see more of is a boomer population. Probably the most significant, which isn’t a demographic marker, but — we’re seeing people who have no history of addiction ever and yet, one year after their first opiate use, they’re addicted to heroin.

It’s just such a quickly progressive disease.

Hertler: You know, I’m not sure [how and when Michael started using]. He had two hernia repairs and deviated septum fixed in high school. I remember the first time he took a pain med, the next morning he said, “I had a dream last night! And I never remember my dreams!” I remember the next day he wanted to drive, and I said, ‘No, not while you’re taking these,’ and I took them, and he was perfectly fine with that.

I don’t know if it started then. Somebody reached out after he died and said they’d been using with him eight years ago, which I didn’t know. A lot of these people struggle to keep everything OK, does that make sense? He would have really bad times, and we’d talk about getting help, and he’d say, “I got this, Mom,” and then he’d work, and we’d go on family vacations for a week, and I didn’t know much about [opiate addiction].

I thought he’d be shaking in a corner if he was still on it, so I thought he was doing well. I though, he’s gaining weight … It’s a rollercoaster. A roller coaster. And you know, he always insisted he wasn’t doing heroin. I think he was scared of the stigma, ashamed. His friends — his true friends — said they had no idea. He never talked about it to them.

Express: Are any of you surprised by whom you’re finding addicted?

Flitton: Yes, there’s a stigma of a junkie that people think of, that their life has spiraled out of control to get to the point where they’re sticking a heroin needle in their arm. And that’s not what we’re seeing. We’re showing up at houses where an 18- or 19year old kid has overdosed, and we’re giving the naloxone and getting a save, and this kid has zero criminal history — we have no idea who they are. That’s been the most alarming thing for us on the road is that, we have no way to get ahead of this or know who’s using.

I think a lot of it is a very private thing for them, a very shameful thing. Heroin’s not a party drug — it’s not ‘Let’s get together.’ It’s, ‘Hey, I got a dose, I’m going in my room, and no one’s going to see me for a little bit.’

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Express: What’s the youngest age you’ve seen so far?

Flitton: I have one female I’ve been in contact with, I know she started using at 16. I haven’t seen younger than that.

Hertler: A woman I used to work with brought her 14-year-old son to my son’s funeral. He’s using heroin.

Express: It seems like every time a dealer is shut down, there’s another to take his or her place. Do you ever feel you’re banging your head against a wall?

Belcher: Well, no, and I’ll tell you why. As long as we’ve got one single overdose or one near overdose, I don’t know how you can characterize it as ‘banging your head against a wall.’ There’s work to be done, but it’s not entirely a law enforcement circumstance. It’s everyone in this room, working collectively together to solve that problem. I do not, have not, and will not perceive this problem as head-banging, or not being the most efficient use of time. We still have people who are finding themselves in this circumstance who are using this drug, provided by others, who are not surviving their experimentation with it. We need to eliminate that problem, and the most efficient way is to identify the highest end distributors that you can and put those people out of business.

Express: Do you find yourself spending less time pursuing marijuana busts when there is this deadly stuff going around?

Belcher: In contrast to what you might see in social media posts, very little time is spent by any of the [drug] task forces across the state with marijuana enforcement.

Express: What one thing, in terms of policy, federal or state laws, or whatnot — what would you change?

Belcher: One of the things that would be helpful to us is to have better access to the people who survive overdoses. Having an opportunity to talk to them, without there being any fear of a criminal charge, so we could obtain that distributor information and develop a criminal case. It’s very challenging for us right now, with rules in place that provide patient privacy. And I understand that, but it also produces a bit of a blockade for us from having the opportunity to lock that distributor up and prevent the next overdose from happening.

Express: Michigan State Police has the Angel Care program, which allows addicts to walk in any MSP post and seek help for their addiction without fear of arrest. Does the county have anything like that in place?

Flitton: There’s no program set up like that in the sheriff ’s department. There is a new state law, the Good Samaritan Law, passed about a year ago. If the police have contact with you as a result of medical treatment, say you call in with an overdose and we get sent there, the person who is the victim of the overdose and anyone who called for assistance cannot be charged with any sort of crime. That is statewide, across the board.

Chris: Access to care is significant. Only about 10 percent of the people who need treatment have access to it. The treatment system we have is really focused on acute care, and we don’t have people access it early on in their addiction. There’s very few who are in active addiction who want to be there, but we don’t have mechanisms, we continue to build shame around the issue. We hear this very often: It’s the stigma that kills in the end.

There’s medicated treatments that we know are best practices, but there’s inadequate providers there — definitely in Traverse City but also around the country. There’s new methodology, but we don’t have the systems, the mechanisms to manage it.

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Express: So what does a family without means do if they can’t afford rehab for a loved one who’s addicted?

Hindbaugh: So the irony is, the family without means has a higher likelihood of getting care, because it’s Medicaid or block grant funding. It’s the professional with insurance who has a harder time accessing care. Which is part of why the stereotype continues and why Dakoske Hall is for ‘those folks,’ right?

Because it is! Because those are the only folks that can access care! You’re in the criminal justice system. You’ve lost your employer, you’ve been kicked out of your house, and so it perpetuates that stereotype. Historically, it’s easier to get care if you’re at either end of the socioeconomic spectrum. So if you have the means, you leave town. You go to Malibu or Minnesota Hazleton, Betty Ford, that sort of thing. But for general population, it’s becoming more accessible — there are parity laws that have been passed that are supposed to give people more access — but we’re still waiting for that to materialize.

Express: Are there any stop-gap options for families and/or people struggling with addiction?

Hindbaugh: We are in the middle of a public health crisis. But we have yet to create the public health response. So if you think about the HIV epidemic in the ’80s, it was mostly gay men that raised their hand — the population that had the highest prevalence of dying. They said, ‘We’re not going to put up with this,’ and demanded a public health strategy. Within a number of years, we had better prevention and education, money toward research, money for ongoing recovery. Again, with an acute care model [our current response to addiction], it’s, well, put somebody in rehab, and if they mess up, then that’s the end. There’s no after-care, and there’s very little prevention and education.

It’s hard to fathom a society that loses the equivalent of an airplane full of people going down every single day — and we don’t have the public will to take that seriously? It’s unfathomable, but that’s what’s happening right now.

Hertler: I believe a 30-day program is about $37,000, is that right?

Hindbaugh: Yes, not ours. But yes, it could be that much.

Hertler: And if you leave after three days, there’s no refund.

Hindbaugh: That’s another part of the system.

It’s either private pay, or nonprofits that are underfunded. There’s no in-between.

Smith: A week and a half ago, I just put a friend of a friend in rehab. He’s 25. He’s addicted to Vicodin. And for an eight-day detox with a 28 day rehab, it’s $10,000 — and you have to come up with a $1,500 deposit. When we know that the majority of Americans would have trouble coming up with $400 on a moment’s notice, to tell a family, ‘We’re going to need $8,000 or $10,000 within 36 days for you to complete this program’ — I’m just not really sure how that’s acceptable when we spend 40 percent of our health care dollars on the last 30 days of a person’s life, keeping the 94-year-old lady who’s in a vegetative state alive so that Aunt Connie from Florida can fly in and say goodbye at a cost of $30,000 to $40,000 a day in an intensive care unit, when she’s already passed her expiration date by 16 years, and she’s vegetative! We put money toward that! What if we took that money and put it [toward addiction help], where it’s better spent — I mean, this is killing off people who are younger and younger. It’s killing off people who are the future of America.

AT WHAT COST?

According to Sgt. Flitton and Lt. Belcher, the prices for heroin are roughly $240 to $280 a gram in Traverse City. In Detroit, it costs about $80 to $100 for a gram.

“Considering the typical dosage of heroin is just a tenth of a gram, or a half of a tenth of a gram, you understand the economic dynamics at play here,” said Belcher. “[For an addict,] it could easily transcend to $200- or $300-per-day need for that particular drug, so that’s often leading to other criminal activity — larcenies, burglaries — to help support that, because the drive, the demand produced internally for heroin and other opiates is so extreme that it becomes your sole focus. And you are going to find a way to obtain that $250 you need for that day’s worth of heroin. You will do whatever is necessary. You’ll steal from relatives, you will assault people, you will steal and rob people. And you may have been, prior to that, a great person, a great kid.”

WHAT ARE OPIOIDS?

Opioids are a class of highly addictive drugs that include the illicit drug heroin, as well as legal, physicianprescribed pain relievers like oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine, morphine, fentanyl, and more.

Opioids work by attaching to specific proteins found on nerve cells in the brain, spinal cord, gastrointestinal tract, and other organs, reducing the perception of pain, and producing a sense of well-being or euphoria.

OPIOID-RELATED DEATHS UP NORTH

Opioid-related deaths reported elsewhere in the Northern Express coverage area in 2015: Mackinac County had .9 per 10,000 residents, Missauke County had .7 per, Emmet and Kalkaska counties each had .6 per; Leelanau had .5 per; Wexford had .3 per, and Manistee had .8 per. Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Otsego had no overdose deaths related to opioids.

It should be noted, however, that all of these numbers don’t include all deaths related to opioid overdose; only those whose death certificates specifically list an opioid as the cause of death.

SAVE A LOCAL LIFE:

Want to help your community? Many local families who have lost a loved one to an overdose request that, in lieu of flowers, mourners donate to Traverse City’s Addiction Treatment Services. A full 100 percent of the donations go to community outreach and prevention efforts (not toward ATS operational expenses).

Recently, Michael Hertler’s family donated $10,000 to ATS for the purchase of naloxone (overdose reversal) kits to be donated to the public. If you would like to receive a kit, please call (231) 409-9967.

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Single MOMM on a Mission After her husband left her, Jennifer Finnegan Pool craved a place she could go to connect with other single moms. She couldn’t find one, so she created one.

By Kristi Kates Jennifer Finnegan Pool clearly remembers the day that she was, as she calls it, “deposited” in northern Michigan with her two children, aged one and three years old.

“My husband had left me, and I had to move in with my parents, who were living just north of Traverse City, to restart my life,” said Pool.

Thrown into the deep end, Pool — who had been a stay-at-home mom — suddenly found herself in need of things that felt very foreign to her.

“I needed to find employment. I had to go on public assistance for the first time in my life. I was going through all the emotional pain of the situation and trying to guide my small children through all of it,” she said.

It took her two years to “feel like she was actually standing up again.” She took on several jobs to support herself and her kids, and finally began to establish new routines.

“At that point, I started kind of looking around, and I realized, Huh, there are a lot of other women trying to do this single parenting thing too,” she said.

“And the thing was, people were

living room, at first as just a simple idea to gather single mothers together to support each other and talk about their possibilities.

“I just didn’t want women, as I’d been, to feel overwhelmed and tired and alone,”

“People say, ‘Oh, well, now you have all this time to explore who you are — but that’s not it at all. You’re too busy,” she said.” encouraging me to go to singles groups, but I wasn’t able to go out at night, as I had to kids to take care of. And I wasn’t really single — I had a family. So I tried parents’ groups — but I didn’t feel like I fit in there either.”

Frustrated with the situation, she looked around for an alternative. But nothing seemed right.

And so Single MOMM was born in Pool’s

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said Pool. “I believed my family, the way it was, could be whole and strong and viable, and that I could contribute back to my community. But the talk ‘out there’ wasn’t like that at all. It was very negative about single moms.

“I thought, you know, let’s get all of us into a room where, when you talk, everybody else nods their head in agreement, because

they understand,” she said. “We began doing monthly event nights, where we’d have the kids watching a supervised movie in another room, and we moms would all get to eat food and talk.”

At first it was primarily a supportive social event. But soon, Pool decided she wanted to help change public perception of single moms both locally and nationally.

“I wanted to help change that thought process, so we needed to gather more community support,” she said. “That way, we could all work together for single moms, to build confidence in ourselves so we can build that bridge to the other pieces of our community.”

Pointing out that many single moms are forced to be independent, Pool said it can be difficult to know yourself and figure out what your needs are, because you’re just so focused on surviving.

“People say, ‘Oh, well, now you have all this time to explore who you are — but that’s

Jennifer Pool

not it at all. You’re too busy,” she said. “So attention on Mother’s Day, you don’t get a our organization is a pause button to help hug on your birthday. These event nights are women pause, seek, and learn how to move a moment where we say, ‘We see you, and themselves and their families forward.” you’ve got this.’ We show them how valuable Through Single MOMM, Poole said they are.” she’s seen many of her fellow single mothers At the event, single moms are introduced step off of public assistance, become to Single MOMM’s mentorship program homeowners, improve their finances and and other components of the organization, personal relationships, get better at co- including resource networking, a new pilot parenting, and in some cases (including hers; residential program to help with housing Pool is now remarried), choose to establish concerns, and the ‘No More Crazy’ binder, a new romantic relationships. legal organizational tool to assist with court “As we work with single moms, that also situations. benefits their children directly, and also Another pivotal component is the benefits co-parenting,” Pool ReVIVE course. said. “We are not empowering “This is our signature single mothers against fathers “A single program, entirely written and — we want everyone to work designed by me,” Pool said. “It’s mom will well together.” a 13-week intensive program Pool’s initial idea of event walk through with three different phases, nights still continues, as on a DVD that was recorded one of the tentpoles of the the door, and locally and features 19 local organization. single moms plus myself.”

“We offer an open invitation think, ‘Wow, During the ReVIVE course, for single moms to network and participants watch the DVD, encourage each other, and be someone did then break up into small groups filled with hope to help displace this for me?’ to work through the course. some of the discouragement “It includes understanding they might be feeling,” she said. And that’s self, personal barriers, practical Now expanded from its management, and financial initial modest offering, the exactly decision-making,” Pool said.

Single MOMM event nights the point.

“It’s a lot to digest, and some provide an entire supervised people take the course twice, kids’ program for the evening, but in the end, they’ll have the for newborns through 16-year-olds, with tool set to decide on what they need, and appropriate games and movies for each age how to achieve that.” category, plus pizza and snacks.

Single MOMM offers reduced prices for The kids’ evening happens at the same local moms living within specific northern time as the mom’s program, which takes Michigan counties (see the website for place in a church gymnasium. The ambiance, pricing details); the overall fee includes Pool said, is a big component of the moms’ a retreat weekend halfway through the side of the event. course, which is subsidized locally through “We decorate the gym beautifully, with private funding. warm lighting, a welcoming atmosphere, a coffee bar, and meals sponsored by different places in our community, like Grand Traverse Pie Company,” she said. “A single mom will walk through the door, and think, ‘Wow, To participate, support, or find out more someone did this for me?’ And that’s exactly about Single MOMM, visit singlemomm.org; the point. As a single mom, sometimes you additional information on the ReVIVE course get forgotten on holidays, you don’t get can be found at revivecourse.org.

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The Music in Youth Kid musicians making their mark But how they started and where they’re headed next... the Northern Express had to know.

By Ross Boissoneau

Favorite musical artists: Pink Floyd, Bad Bad Not Good, Beethoven Influences: Chopin and Bill Evans How she started: Her dad, local pianist and performer David Chown, didn’t push Kaysen, but the fact there were instruments around the house did give her an advantage. “I started just after I began to walk. First piano, then violin around first grade. It seemed like an exotic instrument.”

Instruments: Piano, violin, viola, guitar. She recently got a bass guitar and wants to explore drums as well. Chown said while her favorites come from distinctly different genres — space rock, jazz fusion, and classical top the list — they all share one similarity in her mind. “Their musical progressions tell a story. Music can tell a story, and you don’t have to understand it [technically] to enjoy it.”

Kaysen Chown 17 years old

Future plans: Chown said she is passionate not only about music but also music technology. She is exploring music tech programs at the University of Michigan .

Cy Shoemaker 11 years old Ean Greer 16 years old

Instrument: piano, bass guitar, guitar, drums. Formerly tuba Favorite style: “I like every style of music. My playing gravitates toward jazz and funk.”

How he started: From second to fifth grade, Greer played piano nearly every day.

He stopped taking lessons in the middle of sixth grade. “That’s when I started playing bass guitar. I was 11 at the time. I was 12 when I got an electric guitar for my birthday. I play that every day. In seventh grade I bought a drum set.

My mom has some friends who gave me a few instruments — I got a banjo, lap dulcimer, harmonica. I got a melodica as a Christmas present. In sixth grade, when you can join the band, I decided to play tuba. It wasn’t as fun.”

After ninth grade, Greer decided to focus more on percussion. He was asked to join Petoskey high school’s steel drum band while still a freshman, as the group needed a bass player. He plays tenor drum in the marching band.

Future plans: Greer hopes to attend the Young Americans Performing Arts College in Corona, California. “I’ve attended their workshops. That was when I decided to go to that college.” Other options he’s considering, The Julliard School in New York City and Columbia College in Chicago.

Favorite Musical Artists: Chris Thile/The Punch Brothers, The Foo Fighters, Jason Isbell, Brown Bird Instrument: Guitar, with some banjo and mandolin

Nik Carman 12 years old

Favorite musical artists: AC/DC, Metallica, Eddie Van Halen How he started: “There was always a guitar laying around. I’d play around with it, strum the strings. My grandpa taught me the basics, how to play chords, because I asked him to.”

Instruments: Guitars, mostly electric Shoemaker took lessons at the Beat Lab and now at the Rock Stop, both in Traverse City. “They teach me songs and riffs to get me better at finger work. I do a lot of Youtube, research songs on Youtube.

Best thing about playing: “It’s kind of therapeutic at times. I enjoy it a lot.”

Performing: Shoemaker has played at Tap Root, State Street Grill, State Street Marketplace, the Workshop Brewing Company, the Little Fleet and the Filling Station, among other places.

Future plans: He plans to sign up for band or choir when he gets to middle school.

Style: Mostly bluegrass. “I saw Billy Strings just after I started learning how to play. I was blown away. I didn’t know it existed. I like it, it suits me. It’s happy music, even if the lyrics are sad.”

How he started: “My brother, Andrew [who’s 10 years older], kept on asking me to play.

Finally I said OK. I really liked it and started playing.”

What he enjoys most: “Definitely playing in front of people. And learning new stuff.”

That said, Carman is currently deliberately staying off the stage. “I still play at home, but I’m retired from performing.”

That’s too bad, as he has performed with others, including Billy Strings, opening for him at a Porterhouse Productions show. “It was a goal for me ever since I was 7. It was amazing. He’s a really nice guy.”

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Attention Back Pain and Sciatica Sufferers!

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• Do you suffer with back pain or leg pain when you stand or walk?

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“The most important thing that I took home from this workshop was that there is HOPE. After a car accident that fractured my sternum I began having severe lower back pain. The week before I attended this workshop I was on vacation with my husband and I couldn’t even walk. This workshop showed me that traditional treatments focusing only on my lower back symptoms are not enough. I was able to focus on my upper back mobility and my hip mobility and I am able to sleep again without pain. It is amazing. I would highly recommend this workshop to anyone suffering with lower back pain.” Anne Smith Back pain and sciatica can completely ruin your life…I’ve seen it many times. ✓ It can make you lean on the shopping cart when walking through the grocery store (how embarrassing)… ✓ It can take your focus away on enjoying your life…like spending time with your children or grandchildren… ✓ It can mess up your work or force you to do a job you don’t want to do… ✓ It can ruin your travel plans… ✓ And it can take away your ability to live life…having to rely on others…or to wait for you to sit down for a minute.

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2. Members of the cast and friends joined Doug Stanton, writer of Horse Soldiers, on stage for the premier of 12 Strong, the film adapted into a major motion picture.

3. Detroit Tiger legend and future Hall Of Famer Alan Trammell doled out ice cream at the Traverse City Cherry Republic last week during a promotional tour.

4. A group from Fuse (formerly the TC Young Professionals) volunteered serving meals at Safe Harbor in Traverse City.

5. The Castiglione family toasts to the first year in business at Stiggs Brewing in Boyne City.

6. Ashley Froelich, Kimberly Neerken, Linda Parker, and Cliff Parker were in the mood for a luau at City Park Grill in Petoskey.

7. Eric Davis, Marcie Wolf, and Lindsey Pauline Walker looking good at Business After Hours in Petoskey.

8. Nikki Devitt, Alexis Denoyer, Peter Iverson, and Lisa Hoyt were into the Hawaiian theme at Petoskey’s Business After Hours.

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jan 27

saturday

FROZEN FOOT RACE: 9am, 1600 Eastern Ave., TC. Includes a 5-mile run/ walk & 1 mile kids race through neighborhoods at the base of Old Mission Peninsula. $5-$20. runsignup.com

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SIMPLY DELICIOUS WITH CHEF TOM: 10am, Kingsley Branch of the Traverse Area District Library, Kingsley. “Meatball Soup” with Chef Tom Sisco. tadl.org

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SNOWMAN STORY TIME: 10am-noon, Castle Farms, Charlevoix. Children can enjoy hot cocoa, winter stories, snowman making, snowman crafts, treats & interactive trains. $5/person. For ages 3+. castlefarms. com/events/snowman-story-time

Jolly Pumpkin, Gonzo’s Bigg Dogg, Big Lake, Terra Firma, Good Harbor, & more.

Live music by Scotty Doesn’t Know. $35. mynorthtickets.com/events/the-grand-tasting

jan/feb

---------------------“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. In this dark comedy, a man tries to deal with his two brothers (one homicidal, the other crazy) while coming to grips with the fact that his two spinster aunts poison lonely old men. $15-$28. mynorthtickets.com

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27-04 send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

THE ACCIDENTALS: SOLD OUT: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Interlochen alumni & multi-instrumentalists Sav Buist & Katie Larson are joined by drummer Michael Dause. The Accidentals are named among Yahoo Music’s “Top 10 Bands to Watch in 2017.” $30 Pit, $25 Orchestra. tickets.interlochen.org

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---------------------VINE TO WINE SNOWSHOE TOUR: 10:30am-4pm. Starts at Big Little Wines, TC. Enjoy a snowshoe adventure through the vines & trails between four wineries, where you will stop along the way for a chili & soup lunch. The hike is about 2.5 miles on rolling terrain. $45 per person or $60 w/ snowshoe rental. Make reservations: grandtraversebiketours.com

---------------------A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S FAERY TALE: 11am, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Excerpts from this upcoming production by Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre will be presented. tadl.org

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ICE WINE HARVEST FESTIVAL: Chateau Chantal, TC, Jan. 26-28. Events will range from snowman building, ice bowling & ice sculpting to outdoor fire pits with roasted treats. The winery’s walking trail will be open for snowshoeing or skiing with a scavenger hunt & prizes. There will also be a multicourse Ice Wine education dinner tonight, including a tour of the cellar & winemaking process. Entrance to the festival is free, with a fee to sample & attend the wine dinner. shop.chateauchantal.com

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YETI FEST: Suttons Bay. Featuring a Yeti Discovery Program, Yeti Scavenger Hunt, free movie at the Bay Theatre, Norseman Cardboard Classic, Yeti Chili Cook-off, Variety Show/Student Collage & more. 231-2717423. Find on Facebook.

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5TH ANNUAL SNOWFEST: 12-3pm, Birchwood Farms Golf & Country Club, Harbor Springs. Enjoy a bonfire, hot dogs, cocoa & snow creature contest. Free. birchwoodcc.com

---------------------BOY SCOUT TROOP 27 SPAGHETTI DINNER: 4pm, First Christian Church, TC. Also includes a silent auction. Donations accepted.

---------------------BEARCUB OUTFITTERS TORCHLIGHT SNOWSHOE OUTING: 5-9pm, Camp Daggett, Petoskey. Enjoy snow-covered trails illuminated by more than 100 torches.

Afterwards have hot chocolate & cookies in the lodge. Free; snowshoes available. campdaggett.org

---------------------“ALMOST MAINE”: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by the Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------THE GRAND TASTING: 7-11pm, Homestead, Mountain Flower Lodge, Glen Arbor.

An evening of fun, food, beer, wine & dancing. Samplings by Right Brain, North Peak,

CHASTITY BROWN: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery & Concert Venue, Boyne City. Chastity has toured the U.S. and abroad, appearing on the U.K.’s “Later...with Jools Holland”.

For much of 2016 she toured alongside folk icon/activist Ani Difranco. $30 advance; $35 door. freshwaterartgallery.com

---------------------KATHLEEN MADIGAN: BOXED WINE AND BIGFOOT: 8pm, City Opera House, TC. Comedian Kathleen Madigan has been on the Tonight Show, Letterman, Conan & appeared with Jerry Seinfeld in his series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Her most recent special “Bothering Jesus” is her fifth hour long standup special. $37.50. cityoperahouse.org/events

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TORONZO CANNON: 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Toronzo is one of Chicago’s most recognized & most popular bluesmen.

Tickets: $27 advanced; $30 door; & $24 museum members. dennosmuseum.org

jan 28

sunday

ICE WINE HARVEST FESTIVAL: Chateau Chantal, TC, Jan. 26-28. Events will range from snowman building, ice bowling & ice sculpting to outdoor fire pits with roasted treats. The winery’s walking trail will be open for snowshoeing or skiing with a scavenger hunt & prizes. shop.chateauchantal.com

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“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sat., Jan. 27, except today’s time is 2pm.)

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DARK & STORM CLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: 2pm, The Garden Theater, Frankfort. “The Age of Shadows” will be shown.

Tickets are $10. Each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. Stormcloud’s Jan. beer is Age of Shadows, a black rice & green tea IPA. stormcloudbrewing.com

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CTAC YOUTH ORCHESTRA WINTER CONCERT: 2:30-4pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Theater, Petoskey. The concert will feature performances by the Crooked Tree Concert Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Jazz Orchestra, & Symphonic Jazz Orchestra. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “12 ANGRY JURORS”: 3-5pm, Cooley School Annex, Cadillac.

Looking for 13 actors ages 18+. There are also 2 off stage voices. Presented by Cadillac Footliters. Call for more info: 231-4292676. cadillacfootliters.com

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NORTHPORT ARTS ASSOCIATION PRESENTATION: 3pm, The Village Arts Building, Northport. Featuring Diane Speas & Jim

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Don’t miss the 7th Annual Alpenfrost on Feb. 2-3 in Gaylord. Events include the Frosty Plunge, World’s Largest Hot Cocoa Break, Soup Cook-off, Frosty 5K Run, kids snow activities, Meet, Greet and Skate with Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Kristof, Michigan Beer and Wine Festival and more. gaylordalpenfrost.com

Panek, who will discuss the inmate enrichment programs they have been involved with in Grand Traverse & Leelanau counties.

231-386-9798.

---------------------TC SINGS! COMMUNITY CHOIR BIG SING BENEFIT: 3pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, TC. Enjoy a cappella favorites from around the world.

Admission is free; donations accepted to benefit Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency. tcsings.org

jan 29

monday

AUDITIONS FOR “12 ANGRY JURORS”: 6-8pm, Cooley School Annex, Cadillac. Looking for 13 actors ages 18+. There are also 2 off stage voices. Presented by Cadillac Footliters. Call for more info: 231-429-2676. cadillacfootliters.com

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TRAPPING BEAVERS IN NORTHERN MI LAKES & RIVERS: 7pm, Tuscarora Township Hall, Indian River. Northern Michigan trapper, Rick Meisterheim, will share his knowledge & skills in trapping beavers in our northern lakes & rivers. Free.

jan 30

tuesday

COFFEE @ TEN, PETOSKEY: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

Join Taekyeom Lee for a lecture & to view “Hand in Hand: Craft and New Technologies.” Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------MICHIGAN SPECIAL OLYMPICS WINTER GAMES: Shanty Creek Resorts, Schuss Mountain, Bellaire. somi.org

---------------------LUNCH AND A MOVIE: Noon, Disability Network, 415 W. Eighth St., TC. Open to anyone interested in the topic of disability & cinema. Bring a lunch. RSVP: 922-0903, ext. 321 or djones@disabilitynetwork.net.

This month’s movie is “Inside I’m Dancing.”

---------------------FREE LEAN AGRICULTURE SERIES: 6-8pm, NCMC, Student & Community Resource Center, room 536, Petoskey. Featuring “The Waste in Farming and the Lean Approach.” Register: 231-348-6613.

---------------------OVERDOSE TRAINING: 6pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. Learn recognition of an opiate overdose & how to respond with the life-saving method of using the antidote, Naloxone/Narcan.

Receive a free rescue kit. Reservations encouraged: www.harmreductionmi.org

jan 31

wednesday

MICHIGAN SPECIAL OLYMPICS WINTER GAMES: (See Tues., Jan. 30.)

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HIGH SCHOOL FAIR AT PATHFINDER: 6pm, Pathfinder School, TC. For 8th grade students considering their high school options. Speak with representatives from area public, independent & parochial schools in addition to in-state boarding schools & more. Free.

---------------------LIFETREE CAFÉ: 8pm, The Rock of Kingsley. This “Friends for Life” session includes a brief film, discussion & refreshments.

Free. Find on Facebook.

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dent members; $10 student non-members. blissfest.org

feb 02

friday

GOOD MORNING GAYLORD: 7am, Treetops Resort, Oak Room, Gaylord.

Featuring Bill Marsh Jr. of Bill Marsh Ford of Gaylord on “Customer Service.” $10; includes breakfast buffet.

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STORYTIME: 10:30am, Leland Township Library. Enjoy stories & play designed to promote joy & growth in literacy. Children ages 0-6 & their caregivers welcome. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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FIRST FRIDAY FOR FOODIES: MOXIE CHOCOLATES: 11am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Kitchen, Petoskey. Enjoy this free chocolate tasting. crookedtree.org

MICHIGAN SPECIAL OLYMPICS WINTER GAMES: (See Tues., Jan. 30.)

CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP: 4-5:30pm, Life Beyond Barriers Rehabilitation Group, 415 Munson Ave., Suite 101, TC. Give & gain support from other caregivers, & share info about community resources. RSVP: 231-486-6330. lbbrehab.com

---------------------MORTGAGE BURNING CELEBRATION: 4pm, Inland Seas Education Center, Suttons Bay. Inland Seas Education Association paid off their mortgage early & invite you to celebrate this milestone with them.

There will be guided tours explaining next plans for the building/campus, s’mores, cocoa/coffee, & a toast. Free. schoolship.org/ news-events/mortgage-burning-celebration

---------------------OFF THE WALL MOVIE NIGHT: 6pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden.

Dinner, 6pm; movie, 7pm. Sign up for the potluck at Alden District Library. aldenlib.info

---------------------BOOK SIGNING: 7-9pm, The Applesauce Inn B&B, Bellaire. Local poet Yvonne Stephens will sign her new poetry chapbook “The Salt Before It Shakes.” 231-533-6448.

------------------------------------------EAST BAY CALVARY SPORTSMEN’S EVENT 2018: 4:30pm, EBCC Sportsmen’s Fellowship, 2225 Hammond Road E, TC. Featuring Dr. Grant Woods, Mark Hammer, The Wild World of Animals, thousands of dollars worth of prizes, & more. traverseoutdoors.com/shop

---------------------4TH ANNUAL CABIN FEVER ARTIST TALK SERIES: 5-7pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Local photographer Noah Sorenson will discuss how his work captures MI’s beauty. Free. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------7TH ANNUAL ALPENFROST: 6pm, Gaylord. Tonight includes the Burning of the Boog & entertainment. gaylordalpenfrost. com

---------------------“ALMOST MAINE”: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by the Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------FAST, FEISTY & FRESH; HEALTHFUL MEALS IN 15 MINUTES: 7:30pm, Oryana Café, TC. Enjoy a free cooking demonstration class. Learn about food budgets, food, fridge organization, 15 minute dinners & savvy snacks. Sample a taste of Coconut Curry Soup & Massaged Kale Salad & take home some recipes. oryana.coop/cookingbasics-series

---------------------JAMES HILL & ANNE JANELLE: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

Presented by Blissfest. This Canadian Folk Music Award-winning ukulele/cello duo has performed in over 15 countries. $15 adult members; $20 adult non-members; $7 stu-

---------------------FESTIVAL OF FOODS: 10am-3pm, Hagerty Center, TC. Area chefs & specialty food businesses dish up cooking tips & techniques, while you enjoy samples. Each hour highlights four workshops—you select your favorite 4 of the 16 options. $89. nmc.edu

---------------------CARS, COFFEE & CHILI COOK OFF: 11am-1pm, MFD Classic Motors, TC. Vote for your favorite chili by MFD & several other guests. Proceeds benefit Child & Family Services & the Celebrity DreamRoom.

---------------------TRAILBLAZING RIDE: 11am-3pm, Leelanau State Park. Try out the Winter Sports Trail, a 7-mile non-motorized & multi-use trail system at Leelanau State Park. There is a series of 2-3 mile groomed trail loops for fat tire bikers, xc skiers, snowshoers & winter hikers. Bike Leelanau will share info about proper trail etiquette, & Suttons Bay Bikes will offer free fat tire bike demos.

Two fat tire bike rides will be offered: 3-mile loop for beginners & 7-mile loop.

Free. bikeleelanau.com

---------------------WALLOON WINTERFEST: 12-5pm, Village of Walloon. There will be games, prizes, food & drink specials at the Barrel Back, Tommy’s, The Walloon Lake Inn, & Hotel Walloon. The Petoskey Snowmobile Club will serve free bean soup.

---------------------HANDMADE & FROM THE HEART: 1-3pm, Elk Rapids District Library. Make valentines using fabrics, buttons, beads, paint, paper & your creativity. Free. elkrapidslibrary.org

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“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sat., Jan. 27)

CALIDORE STRING QUARTET: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. This chamber music ensemble was the winner of the $100,000 Grand-Prize of the 2016 & inaugural MPrize International Chamber Music Competition. $29. tickets.interlochen.org

“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sat., Jan. 27)

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“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sat., Jan. 27)

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POLAR PLUNGE FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MICHIGAN: 9:30am, North Peak Brewery/Kilkenny’s, TC. Benefits the athletes of Michigan Special Olympics.

Registration at 9:30am; Plunge at 11am. $75 donation. firstgiving.com/polarplunge/ TCpolarplunge2018

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OLD MISSION PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING: 7pm, Peninsula Township Hall, TC. Featuring Director of the Northwestern Michigan College Aviation Program Alex Bloye. 947-0947. Free.

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TREETOPS BEER & WINE FESTIVAL: 6-10pm, Treetops Resort, Convention Center, Gaylord. Featuring over 40 MI breweries & wineries. treetops.com

---------------------NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. An Evening with Peter Heller. This national bestselling author’s adventures as river guide, pilot, logger, & fisherman shine through his prose. Heller’s newest novel is “Celine.” Cocktail hour with live music starts at 6pm. Tickets start at $15.50; students, $5.50. cityoperahouse. org/nws-peter-heller

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11:30am. The Short’s Brewing Company Cool Down Party & Awards Ceremony will be held at 1:30pm in the Summit Center at Shanty Creek Resorts. whitepinestampede.org

feb 03

saturday

7TH ANNUAL ALPENFROST: 8am, Gaylord.

Today includes the Opening Ceremony, World’s Largest Hot Cocoa Break, Soup Cook-off, Frosty 5K Run, kids snow activities, Meet, Greet & Skate with Elsa, Anna, Olaf & Kristof, Frosty Plunge, Michigan Beer & Wine Festival & more. gaylordalpenfrost.com

---------------------42ND ANNUAL WHITE PINE STAMPEDE: 9:30am, Mancelona High School. Crosscountry ski race featuring 10K, 20K & 50K courses that stretch between Mancelona & Bellaire. The White Pine donates $5 of every entry to the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation. The registration fee from Jan. 16 - Feb. 1 is $85, & on Feb. 2-3, registration is $95. The 50K racers start at 9:30am; the 20K at 10:30am, & the 10K at

NORTHERN CONFLICT XV: Park Place Hotel, TC. Join GT Games & the TCFGC for a fighting game tournament including: Super Smash Bros (WiiU), Super Smash Bros Melee (GC), Mystery Tournament, Street Fighter V (PS4), Mortal Kombat XL (PS4), & much more. $10 pre-registration or $15 at the door; $10 per game. Find on Facebook.

WINTERFEST SNOWSHOE/XC 2K: 1-4pm, Mackinaw Trail Winery, Petoskey.

Find on Facebook.

---------------------“ALMOST MAINE”: 2pm & 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by the Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------EAST BAY CALVARY SPORTSMEN’S EVENT 2018: 3:30pm, EBCC Sportsmen’s Fellowship, 2225 Hammond Road E, TC. Featuring Dr. Grant Woods, Mark Hammer, The Wild World of Animals, thousands of dollars worth of prizes, & more. traverseoutdoors.com

---------------------27TH ANNUAL ST. FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL GALA AUCTION & RAFFLE: 5pm, Bay Harbor Yacht Club/Lange Center.

Includes dinner & music. The Live Auction item is four tickets to see Taylor Swift at Ford Field. There is also a $20,000 Grand Raffle. Tickets: 231-347-4133.

---------------------FLY FISHING FILM TOUR: 6-10pm, Boyne Mountain Resort, Vienna A, Boyne Falls. Show starts at 7pm. $15. boyneoutfitters.com

------------------------------------------THREE DOG NIGHT: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy the timeless pop-rock sounds of this band. $35$50. lrcr.com

feb 04

sunday

KING OF THE HILL UPHILL/DOWNHILL RACE: 8am-5pm, Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire. Participants may choose any nonmotorized, non-wheeled winter gear to travel both uphill & downhill sections of the course. These include snowshoes, alpine, xc, telemark or randonee skis & bindings, snowboards, & climbing skins.

Starts at Ivan’s Café. Registration: $20 advance; $25 late. shantycreek.com/event/ king-of-the-hill-race

---------------------THE OUTFITTER NORDIC SKI LOPPET: 9:30am. Starts on LaCount Rd. The 34th annual classic cross-country ski tour takes place on 16 miles of groomed trail from Harbor Springs to Cross Village. $35 early registration; $40 afterward. outfitterharborsprings.com

---------------------WOMEN’S HISTORY PROJECT ANNUAL SOUPER SUNDAY EVENT: 12:30-2:30pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Karen Anderson, writer & Interlochen Public Radio contributor, will share her writing journey & read essays from her new book, “Gradual Clearing: Weather Reports from the Heart.” Enjoy soup, bread & dessert catered by Centre Street Cafe. $5 donation. Reservations required by Jan. 31: sansep19@earthlink. net or 703-597-7925. whpnm.org

---------------------FAT TIRES & SNOWSHOES: 1-3pm, Susan Creek Nature Preserve, Charlevoix.

Join Latitude 45 fat bike & snowshoe experts on Little Traverse Conservancy’s groomed winter trails at Susan Creek Nature Preserve. Register. 231-347-0991.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: OPEN SPEAKER MEETING: Saturdays, 8pm, Munson Medical Center (basement), TC. district11-aa.org

---------------------ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: YOUNG PEOPLE’S MEETING: Fridays, 8pm, Grace Episcopal Church (basement), TC. district11-aa.org

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ART PARK SNOWSHOE TOUR: Sundays, 2:30pm at Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Enjoy a guided tour to see sculptures, scenery, & maybe even some wildlife along the way. Bring your snowshoes. Free with $5 adult park admission (kids free). michlegacyartpark.org

---------------------BAY HARBOR MUSIC ON MAIN: Thursdays, 6pm through Aug. 30. Enjoy live music in The Village at Bay Harbor. Weekly themes & genre will vary & may compliment the Sat. event or Great Lakes Center for the Arts performance schedule. bayharbor.com

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

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

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COMMUNITY MEDITATION & SATSANG: Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm, Higher Self Bookstore, TC. higherselfbookstore.com

---------------------COMPULSIVE EATERS ANONYMOUS: Thursdays, 5:30pm, 5th & Oak St., TC. Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength & hope are recovering from compulsive eating & food addiction. traversecityceahow.org

---------------------FREE COMMUNITY CLASS: Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Bikram Yoga, TC. Find on Facebook.

---------------------NEW YEAR LIFE SKILLS CLASSES: Wednesdays, 6-8pm through Feb. 21. Journey Wesleyan Church, TC. Presented by Love In the Name of Christ. Featuring Basic Budgeting, Communication Skills, Smart Food Shopping, Goal Setting, & Parenting Topics. Call to register: 941-5683.

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Visions from Cape Breton and Beyond Saturday, February 10 at 8pm

Two of the world’s most celebrated fiddlers command the stage with raw energy and passion that combines their traditional Celtic heritage with a new flair.

The Birdland All-Stars featuring Tommy Igoe The Art of Jazz

Sunday, February 25 at 7pm

The Birdland All-Stars have been thrilling audiences for the last 10 years.

Led by one of the world’s greatest drummers, Tommy Igoe, The Birdland All-Stars set the standard for the 21st-century jazz orchestra.

The Manhattan Transfer 45th Anniversary Season Friday, March 16 at 8pm

The Manhattan Transfer continues to set the standard as one of the world’s greatest and most innovative vocal groups. Winners of ten Grammy Awards, this amazing quartet is building upon the extraordinary legacy created by founder Tim Hauser.

OLD MISSION SNOWSHOE, WINE & BREW: Sundays, 11am through March 4.

Starts at Jolly Pumpkin, TC & then shuttles to Brys Estate, followed by snowshoeing to Bowers Harbor Vineyards & Jolly Pumpkin. tcbrewbus.com/events

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RANGER-LED SNOWSHOE HIKES: Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. Meet at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center. Reservations required: 231-326-4700, ext. 5010. Free, but park entrance pass or annual pass required. nps.gov/slbe/index.htm

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SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: Saturdays, 12-5pm through Feb. 24. Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. Explore easy to moderate trails & then warm up with drinks & food.

Hearth & Vine Café will provide beef & bean chili, white chicken chili & a grilled sandwich. Last snowshoe rental ($15) is at 4pm. blackstarfarms.com/snowshoes-vines-wines

---------------------STORY TIME: Horizon Books, Cadillac.

Held on Wednesdays from 4-5pm. Hear a story & participate in an activity. Find on Facebook.

---------------------SUNDAY FAMILY FUN SKI: Sundays, 2-3:30pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Rent cross country skis by donation & sign up for an instructor to guide you through the trails. Enjoy a fire & hot cocoa afterwards. 231-533-8576. grassriver.org

---------------------WINTER WALK WEDNESDAYS AT THE CLUBHOUSE: Wednesdays, 9am, TC. Enjoy a stroll on the Civic Center path. Free Higher Grounds coffee to follow. Presented

by Norté.

---------------------BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April.

Main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City. boynecitymainstreet. com/farmers-market-welcome

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

inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

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

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STUDENT ART SHOW: Higher Art Gallery, TC. TCAPS High School Student Art Exhibit.

Runs through Feb. 9. Business hours are 11am-6pm. facebook.com/higherartgallery

---------------------“THE LYRICS OF BOB DYLAN”: Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. Nobel Laureate 2016. This all media exhibition runs through March. threepinesstudio.com

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---------------------ANNUAL FURNITURE, FIBER, PHOTOGRAPHY, & SCULPTURE EXHIBITION: Runs through Feb. 16 at Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------BLACK & WHITE WITH A LITTLE RED EXHIBIT: Runs through March 3 at Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. A reception will be held on Sat., Feb. 10 from 5-7pm. Hours: Tues.-Fri.: 11am-3pm; Sat.: 11am-1pm. gacaevents.weebly.com

---------------------CHASING THE RUNNING STITCH: Charlevoix Circle of Arts. This exhibit runs through March 3. charlevoixcircle.com

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

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB: Runs through Apr. 7 at Right Brain Brewery, TC. This collaborative art show featuring talent from around northern MI gives artists an opportunity to showcase their talents with minimal cost. An Encore Reception will be held on Sat., Feb. 10, & a Closing Reception will be held on Sat., April 7. gt-artbomb. wixsite.com/2018

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GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: - MOLLY PHINNY: WORKS IN CLOTH 2015-2017: A small survey of fiber constructions by Leelanau County artist Molly Phinny. Runs through April 8. 231-334-6112.

- NEW GALLERY/NEW WORK: This exhibition showcases the work of 25 visual artists from Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau & Manistee counties. “Talk About Art” will be held on Sun., Feb. 11 at 2pm with Beth Bynum, mixed media collage & assemblage artist, & Mary O’Neill, who works in PLART [fused recycled plastic]. Runs through Feb. 22. glenarborart.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: Mon. - Sat., 10am-5pm. Sun., 1-5pm.: - “LINES OF LIGHT: CRAIG TANDY MONOFILAMENT SCULPTURE”: Runs through April 29 at Zimmerman Sculpture Court. Canadian artist Craig Tandy constructs complex sculptures with monofilament nylon that illustrate the properties of projected light, with an interest in creating a space through which the viewer can move.

TUTANKHAMUN: “WONDERFUL THINGS” FROM THE PHARAOH’S TOMB: Runs through May. 6. From the artisans of the Pharaonic Village in Egypt & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibit features about 100 replicas of the pharaoh’s possessions & artifacts from the period surrounding Tutankhamun’s reign. It reconstructs the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter & the life of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Hours: Mon.-Sat.: 10am-5pm; Thurs.: 10am-8pm;

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Accompanying this dark offering about the Olympic skier-turned-ruler of an underground poker empire is this dramatic score by Pemberton, who perfectly captures the vast range of happenings in the storyline — from the pensive “Molly’s Dream,” which relies on not much more than a piano, to the heavier and powerful “Raided” and “Play Your Hand.” Pemberton has an innate ability to shift his tunes into any variety of moods at the drop of a chip, and that suits this movie well.

Alan Howarth – The Thing (Music from the Motion Picture) – NoteForNote

Reproducing Ennio Morricone’s original score for the 1981 John Carpenter movie is no easy task, but Howarth and Larry Hopkins do a solid job on these suspenseful and scary tracks. This score set the groundwork for future horror movie and game soundtracks to follow (think: Resident Evil, the game, and all of the Alien movies) as it marries tension, trepidation, and thrills into a serious audio experience. (Also available for the first time ever on vinyl.)

JUSTIN IS A MAN OF THE WOODS Justin Timberlake is dropping his brand new album Feb. 2, just a few days before his upcoming halftime performance at the 2018 Super Bowl. The set, titled Man of the Woods and featuring Timberlake on the cover in a split photo featuring him in both rustic and more contemporary clothing, is said to be his “most ambitious” album to date, and includes collaborations with the likes of Alicia Keys, Timbaland, and The Neptunes. The theme running throughout is Timberlake’s life journey from his youth in Memphis, Tennessee, to pop stardom. You can pick up a regular copy of the album at all the usual outlets, or head over to Target for an exclusive version that includes unique artwork, a vinyl version of the record, and a poster …

Canadian DJ and producer Deadmau5, who’s already taken a deep step into online streaming, has announced that he’s going to launch an actual formatted podcast in 2018, one that might just serve as an apt accompaniment to his upcoming 2018 album. Mau5 didn’t offer up too many details about his new venture, although it’s probably a safe bet to say that you’ll be hearing plenty of tunes from him, as well as from fellow artists within his Mau5trap Records group. Guests are

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anticipated as well, since the DJ is known for being straightforward in interviews and commentary; keep an ear out for this one …

Long Island alt-rock band Glassjaw is returning later this month with its first album in 15 years. This third set, titled Material Control, will include the tracks “11 Days,” “Pompeii,” and “Shira.” In addition to the usual forms of album release (physical/ digital), fans will also be able to purchase unique album bundles that include bonuses like T-shirts, tickets to a special limitedaudience album release party, or “going out to get a tattoo with the band” …

Also releasing a new album this week is LANCO, the alt-country outfit fronted by singer-lyricist Brandon Lancaster. Tipped as one of Billboard’s Emerging Artists, the band first courted fame with its debut EP, Extended Play, which was released last spring. Now LANCO’s offering up a fulllength debut set titled Hallelujah Nights, 11 tracks in all, including the band’s breakthrough single, “Greatest Love Story,” as produced by Jay Joyce (Little Big Town/ Zac Brown/Emmylou Harris) …

LINK OF THE WEEK In a remarkable feat of YouTube-ing, Korean rapper Psy’s music video for his viral hit “Gangnam Style” recently notched

a whopping 3 billion views on YouTube. Psy tweeted out his thanks and said that he’s ready to “move on” from the track, although it will remain part of the rapper’s legacy and a persistent earworm for most of the American public. Check out the throwback at tinyurl.com/74qk8s4 …

THE BUZZ The 1,900-seat amphitheater at Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids is currently getting an overhaul, with new permanent seating being installed plus new permanent bars and an upgraded spotlight platform …

Charlevoix native-turned-touring musician Jetty Rae said in a recent interview that she’s “taking her time”

with her next solo project, and might also embark on her second kids’ lullaby album some time in 2018 …

Detroiter Kid Rock is reportedly being sued by the no-longer-performing Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus for promoting his tour with its trademarked “Greatest Show on Earth” slogan …

Detroit’s Motown Museum just snagged $500,000 grant from a private foundation to assist the museum with its planned 50,000-square-foot expansion … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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

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The reel

by meg weichman

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There are a lot of things you can call Call Me By Your Name — evocative, beautiful, tender intelligent, and so darn civilized, but it all comes down to this: It’s a must see, one of the very best film of this or any year.

A film like The Shape of Water might be getting the bigger awards, but this my friends, is this season’s true and only swoonworthy romance. It’s a stunning film, and I’m not just talking about how great star Armie Hammer looks in shorts.

A coming-of-age story set in northern Italy in 1983, teenage Elio (Timothée Chalamet) spends each summer in his family’s villa with his Italian mother and American antiquities professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg).

Elio is some kind of gifted prodigy, an incredibly smart polyglot, and talented pianist who spends his time reading classics and transcribing music. But there’s also plenty of time for naps, eating, and meeting up with the local girls — you know, your standard listless teenager stuff.

And Elio’s listlessness is reflected in the languid pace of the film. Director Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) is in no hurry, and while this more artsy pace may not be for everyone, it’s one of the things that makes this trip to Italy all the more rewarding.

Each summer, Elio’s father takes in a grad student to assist with research, and this year’s boarder is Oliver (Hammer), who shows up with his unbelievably tanned skin, elegant good looks, easy intelligence, and athletic build, and immediately charms everyone in the house. He is the perfect houseguest, but to Elio he’s the “usurper” who puts him out of his bedroom.

Yet try as Elio might to put up a front that he is turned off by this impossibly confident American interloper, his confusion over his burgeoning attraction to Oliver comes through. Only the Star of David that Oliver wears makes the golden Adonis more relatable to the also-Jewish Elio. And the longing and desire between the two builds in the most understated and profound of ways.

Now I want it to be clear, there is absolutely nothing predatory about what develops here. Oliver takes such care with Elio and is so hesitant to start anything that it could not be more heartening. There is a generosity to their relationship that is a minor miracle.

But yes, this is essentially the sexual awakening story you think it is. It isn’t uncharted territory, story-wise. What sets

Call Me By Your Name so apart from similar forays is the atmosphere, the setting, the pace, and the feeling.

The villa is something straight out of a dream, and the dinner parties, the delicious food, the dips in the swimming hole, the bike rides through the countryside, the quaint Italian town squares, the sun-dappled lazy days, the nights dancing at open-air discotheques (Hammer’s moves of dorky abandon are bellissimo!) — it’s nothing short of bliss. You can feel the sun on your skin, taste the sweetness of the fruit, smell the orchard and the fervent pheromones — it’s an intoxicating experience that goes straight to your head.

And the performances, well, they bring it all together. They have finally figured out what to do with the-man-who-would-be-amovie-star Armie Hammer. And with Lady Bird also to his credit this year, Chalamet is having quite the breakthrough moment.

His will be a career to watch. Together, their chemistry is otherworldly.

And punctuating every perfect moment is a wonderful soundtrack featuring one of the most perfect music-movie moments set to a Psychedelic Furs number, as well as original songs from Sufjan Stevens, who, if he doesn’t win the Best Original Song Oscar, I don’t think the voters understand what award they are voting for.

This is a a film where just getting to bask in the setting and sights and the beautifully drawn characters will make you want to immediately book your ticket to Italy and/or have this warm and inviting family take you in, but then the last half-hour goes and takes the movie to transcendent heights.

Stuhlbarg’s soulful soliloquy giving his son some advice will startle you with its display of pure empathy and humanity. It’s like everything before it in the movie ceases to matter and fades from memory. He is compassionate and gentle and kind, and you wish every kid could be as lucky to have a father like him, or at least everyone could see this speech. Yes, it’s that good.

And after that, just when you think your heart can’t possibly take anything else, we close with a long take that runs over the credits that will stop you cold. It is a marvel of performance, and of skill, and a risk that pays off in a huge way, and like the entirety of the movie, is something I will carry with me for a long time to come.

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

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f you’re kind and polite, the world will be right.” That is the motto our beloved blue-toggle-coat-wearing, marmalade-loving, and impeccably mannered ursine hero lives by. And for the hour and 40 minutes you’re watching Paddington 2, those words not only seem true, they also pretty much sum up why this uber-delightful film is the movie we need right now. With a generous and playful spirit and a compassionate and open heart, the splendid sequel to 2014’s Paddington is a perfect family adventure. Featuring an incredible cast of great British actors, alluring animation that blends seamlessly into a live-action world, witty wordplay, and wonderful sight gags, this is warm, whimsical, and comforting entertainment that is never predictable. We pick back up with Paddington in his new Windsor Gardens home, where he now resides with his new adopted family, the Browns. Part caper, part mystery, part treasure hunt, and full-on treat, the crux of the story’s action stems from Paddington’s wish to get his Aunt Lucy, whom he left back home in Peru, the perfect birthday present. There’s a madcap chase, the greatest prison breakouts since The Grand Budapest Hotel, clever Chaplin-inspired slapstick comedy, tender moments, and plenty of derring-do.

This is truly all ages entertainment; it’s heartwarming and hilarious and just plain enjoyable for everyone.

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f you were alive in the 1990s, there’s no doubt you’ve at least heard of figure skating’s Tonya Harding and “the incident” with rival skater Nancy Kerrigan that branded her the most hated woman in America. But you’ve probably never really heard it until now. And you’ve certainly never felt what it meant for someone to go from being the best female figure skater in the world to a punchline, but that’s the brilliance of I, Tonya, and not only how it does just that but also that is does it in such immensely entertaining fashion. This movie is a complete riot — you’ll laugh so hard it hurts, and then it goes and lays a gut punch on you that really starts to hurt. It’s this balance between comedy and tragedy that ups the degree of difficulty.

And thankfully I, Tonya not only nails the landing, it pretty much nails the whole darn thing. A sports biopic utterly free of clichés and told with breezy, epic bravado, it’s a fresh and idiosyncratic treat. Taking a faux documentary approach, the film offers candid (and often contradictory) interviews with all the main players involved, including Harding (a sublime Margot Robbie); her husband, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan); and her mother, LaVona (the always incredible, but especially here, Allison Janney). I, Tonya is not only about what you feel for Harding, but what you feel for what you did to her after seeing how this icon of public scorn is just a damaged human like us.

It’s messy, it’s powerful, it’s uncomfortable, and you still don’t know if you’re getting the full story. This is an invigorating piece of filmmaking, that doesn’t just excel, it axels.

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ith The Post, we get the perfect melding of Steven Spielberg’s populist adventures and historic dramas — it’s like a superhero movie for thinking adults. And the latest McGuffin surrounding his heroes’ journeys? The Pentagon Papers. Set in 1971, we focus in on a decision by the thenstruggling provincial paper, The Washington Post, to publish leaked documents —an official Defense Department history of American involvement in the Vietnam War — following a federal injunction that they could not be published. And while The Post’s executive editor Ben Bradlee (Spielberg’s most trusted herald, Tom Hanks) is all “We must publish,” the fate of the First Amendment hangs in the balance, and it’s not his decision to make. No, that falls to Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep), and watching her faced with the potential destruction of her family’s legacy, possible imprisonment, and the death of American journalism, in a role where women traditionally do not hold power, is the film’s most resonant arc. Even more so than the timely (to say the least) parallels to today, if you can believe it. This is a film that practically sight unseen you might as well award it Best Picture. (Streep!

Hanks! Spielberg! The First Amendment!). ’Cause even if it might not be the best piece of filmmaking I’ve seen this year, it’s hard to argue that there is one more vital to this moment. And that it’s also so dynamic, moving, thrilling, and suspenseful, well, it just feels like moviegoers got impossibly lucky this January.

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Suddenly, after years of outdoor sports, I have a dime-sized dark brown sunspot on my face. It’s not cancerous, and I’m having it lasered off. This will take a while. Though I cover it with makeup, I’m terribly selfconscious about it, and I don’t want to date till it’s removed. I know how visual men are, and I don’t want a man to find out I have this thing and see me as unattractive. My friends say I’m being ridiculous.

— Insecure

A

: It’s a spot on your face that suggests you’ve done some stuff in the sun; it isn’t Mark of Satan™ or a button with a message underneath, “Press here to activate the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

Your intuition that a clear, even complexion is important isn’t off base. Anthropologist Bernhard Fink and his colleagues did some pretty cool research on how skin tone uniformity affects perceptions of a woman’s attractiveness. This isn’t a new area of study, but almost all of the research has been on Western populations. Social science findings are more likely to be representative of human nature when the subject pool goes beyond the usual “WEIRD” participants (from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic countries -- and, more often than not, 19-year-old college undergrads fighting a wicked hangover to answer survey questions for class credit).

So Fink and his team sought out 172 men and women, ages 17 to 80, from two remote tribes — the cattle-raising Maasai in Tanzania and the forager-farmer Tsimane tribe in Bolivia — each “unfamiliar with lighter-colored skin.” The researchers explain that these tribes have no electricity and “little or no access” to magazines or newspapers from the West. They also live far from any tourist destinations, so no -- no pale-faced college girls dropping by, all “C’mon, Mr. Maasai…just one more selfie with me and your totally adorbs cow!”

Tribe members were asked to assess “age, health, and attractiveness” from photographs of skin — squares of white-lady skin cropped from photos of faces of British girls and women ages 11 to 76. Echoing findings from Western populations, women with “homogenous skin color” — meaning even in tone overall, with little or no “skin discoloration” (blotches or

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spots) — “were judged to be younger and healthier” and more attractive.

Research finds that humans, in general, prefer faces with clear, uniform skin, which is associated with being parasite- and diseasefree. There’s also strong support, from cross-cultural studies, for the notion by evolutionary psychologists that men evolved to be drawn to female features that suggest a woman is young and healthy — and thus more likely to be fertile. Men just don’t think of it in so many words —“Better babies when Mommy’s got skin like an airbrushed Vogue cover girl!” — especially not in places where the nearest newsstand is maybe four days away by donkey.

Because women coevolved with men, women anticipate this male preference for flawless skin — leading them to feel, uh, undersparkly when their facial landscape is less than pristine.

This brings us to you. The thing is, you aren’t just a skin dot with a person attached. A guy will look at the whole. Also, we accept that people use products and technology to hide or fix flaws in their appearance — or to enhance the features they have. Accordingly, a guy is not defrauding you by using Rogaine, and no man with an IQ that exceeds your bra size believes you were born wearing eye shadow.

Ultimately, you have more control than you probably realize over how much any imperfections affect your total attractiveness.

A woman I know is a living example of this.

She’s got two fewer legs than most of us. But she understands — and shows it in the way she carries herself — that she’s vastly more than the sum of her (missing) parts.

In other words, your real problem is you -- your feeling that this spot is some kind of bouldersized diminisher of your worth. Chances are, this comes from putting too much weight on your looks as the source of your value. Though you may not be where you want in your career, doing regular meaningful work to help other people — like volunteer work — might be the quickest way for you to feel bigger than that dot on your face.

There’s nothing wrong with getting it lasered off, but as long as it’s still with you, try something: Revel in having it instead of going into hiding over it. I’m serious. After all, it’s basically a sign that you went outdoors and seized life — not that you got drunk and joined one of those racist Tiki torch marches and now have to hit up some tattoo artist to turn the swastikas into butterflies.

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1 Candy brand that comes in twos 5 One of Australia’s six 10 “The King and I” character 14 Planetarium roof 15 Hardwood playing surface 16 Ending for concert or movie 17 Banana peel, in British English 18 Image transmitter to the brain 20 Early Doritos flavor 22 Cuatro doubled 23 Charles played by Jamie Foxx 24 Bitter beer variety, for short 26 It spits out bills 28 Cassis-and-wine cocktail 29 Altar-ed statement?

30 Flowers related to tobacco, tomatoes, and deadly nightshade 33 The Bahamas’ capital 35 Dress rehearsal follower 37 Ricky’s portrayer on 1950s TV 38 Bread in an Indian restaurant 39 Doesn’t feel so great 43 Potential award winner usually announced in January 48 2016 Lady Gaga album 51 TNT drama whose 77th and final episode aired on Christmas 2012 52 Abbr. on food labels 53 Certain Wall Street trader, slangily 55 In medias ___ 56 Voting yes 57 Bread for a Reuben 58 “Afternoon of a ___” (Debussy work) 60 Train travel 62 2019 and 2021, e.g.

65 House, in Havana 68 “Switched-On Bach” synthesizer 69 “This one goes out to the one ___ ...”

70 “Monday Night Football” network 71 Muppet with a goldfish 72 Burn perfume, in religious ceremonies 73 “Take ___! (And ___!)”

1 6-pt. plays 2 Panda Express vessel 3 Knocks off 4 Lucy Lawless title role 5 Make more room at a booth, perhaps 6 Highest-ranked 7 Car, alternately 8 End-of-October option 9 Art done with acid 10 Candle count 11 Actor Chuck with a “Facts” meme 12 McCarran International Airport’s home 13 Words before ready or serious 19 “Come Away With Me” singer Jones 21 “What ___ do?”

24 The Touch is the only one still produced 25 “Muppets Tonight” prawn 27 ___ cum laude 31 Group with dues 32 Hair tangle 34 Flight component?

36 Word before child or peace 40 Very quickly 41 Brick that hurts when stepped on 42 Fortune teller 44 Screw-up 45 Like some tiles 46 Direct 47 Tableland 48 Former halfback Bettis 49 Detergent that debuted in 1914 50 The world of simians 54 “Haven’t Met You Yet” crooner Michael 59 Element #10 (Really, it’s that early in the sequence? Wow.) 61 “Law & Order: SVU” costar 63 The Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders, e.g.

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I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac Bonewits. He didn’t have a moral objection to cannabis use, but believed it withered one’s willpower and diminished one’s determination to transform one’s life for the better. For a year, I meditated on and experimented with his hypothesis. I found it to be true, at least for me. I haven’t smoked since. My purpose in bringing this up is not to advise you about your relationship to drugs, but rather to urge you to question whether there are influences in your life that wither your willpower and diminish your determination to transform your life for the better. Now is an excellent time to examine this issue.

to shed unwieldy baggage before moving on to your next big challenge? I hope so. It will purge your soul of karmic sludge. It will prime you for a fresh start. One way to accomplish this bravery is to confess your sins and ask for forgiveness in front of a mirror. Here are data to consider. Is there anyone you know who would not give you a good character reference?

Have you ever committed a seriously unethical act? Have you revealed information that was told to you in confidence? While under the influence of intoxicants or bad ideas, have you done things you’re ashamed of? I’m not saying you’re more guilty of these things than the rest of us; it’s just that now is your special time to seek redemption.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In all of history,

humans have mined about 182,000 tons of gold.

Best estimates suggest there are still 35 billion tons of gold buried in the earth, but the remaining riches will be more difficult to find and collect than what we’ve already gotten. We need better technology.

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the power to either dampen or mobilize your life energy. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will make heroic efforts to seek out the latter and avoid the former. Now is a crucial time to treat yourself to stories that will jolt you out of your habitual responses and inspire you to take long-postponed actions and awaken the sleeping parts of your soul. And that’s just half of your assignment, dear Taurus. Here’s the rest: Tell stories that help you remember the totality of who you are, and that inspire your listeners to remember the totality of who they are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Anaïs Nin

said, “There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” For two reasons, Anaïs’s formulation is especially apropos for you right now. First, you should not allow yourself to be seduced, tempted, or won over by sweet gestures alone. You must insist on sweet gestures that are synergized by a sense of wonder and an appreciation of your unique beauty. Second, you should adopt the same approach for those you want to seduce, tempt, or win over: sweet gestures seasoned with wonder and an appreciation of their unique beauty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you more

inclined right now to favor temporary involvements and short-term promises? Or would you consider making brave commitments that lead you deeper into the Great Mystery? Given the upcoming astrological omens, I vote for the latter. Here’s another pair of questions for you, Cancerian. Are you inclined to meander from commotion to commotion without any game plan? Or might you invoke the magic necessary to get involved with high-quality collaborations? I’m hoping you’ll opt for the latter. (P.S. The near future will be prime time for you to swear a sacred oath or two.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In March 1996, a

man burst into the studio of radio station Star FM in Wanganui, New Zealand. He took the manager hostage and issued a single demand: that the dj play a recording of the Muppet song “The Rainbow Connection,” as sung by the puppet Kermit the Frog. Fortunately, police intervened quickly, no one was

hurt, and the kidnapper was jailed. In bringing this to your attention, Leo, I am certainly not suggesting that you imitate the kidnapper. Please don’t break the law or threaten anyone with harm. On the other hand, I do urge you to take dramatic, innovative action to fulfill one of your very specific desires.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many varieties

of the nettle plant will sting you if you touch the leaves and stems. Their hairs are like hypodermic needles that inject your skin with a blend of irritant chemicals. And yet nettle is also an herb with numerous medicinal properties. It can provide relief for allergies, arthritis, joint pain, and urinary problems. That’s why Shakespeare invoked the nettle as a metaphor in his play Henry IV, Part 1: “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety,” says the character named Hotspur. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I choose the nettle as your power metaphor for the first three weeks of February.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Knullrufs is a Swedish word that refers to what your hair looks like after sex: tousled, rumpled, disordered. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you should experience more knullrufs than usual in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you need and deserve extra pleasure and delight, especially the kind that rearranges your attitudes as well as your coiffure. You have license to exceed your normal quotas of ravenousness and rowdiness.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his “Crazy

Lake Experiment” documented on Youtube, Harvard physicist Greg Kestin takes a raft out on a lake. He drops a tablespoon of olive oil into the water, and a few minutes later, the half-acre around his boat is still and smooth. All the small waves have disappeared. He proceeds to explain the science behind the calming effect produced by a tiny amount of oil. I suspect that you will have a metaphorically comparable power in the next two weeks, Scorpio. What’s your version of the olive oil? Your poise? Your graciousness? Your tolerance? Your insight into human nature?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1989,

a man spent four dollars on a painting at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. He didn’t care much for the actual image, which was a boring country scene, but he thought he could use the frame. Upon returning home, he found a document concealed behind the painting. It turned out to be a rare old copy of America’s Declaration of Independence, originally created in 1776. He eventually sold it for $2.42 million. I doubt that you will experience anything quite as spectacular in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will find something valuable where you don’t expect it, or develop a connection with something that’s better than you imagined it would be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the

1740s, a teenage Capricorn girl named Eliza Lucas almost single-handedly introduced a new crop into American agriculture: indigo, a plant used as a dye for textiles. In South Carolina, where she managed her father’s farm, indigo ultimately became the second-most-important cash crop over the next 30 years. I have astrological reasons to believe that you are now in a phase when you could likewise make innovations that will have long-range economic repercussions.

Be alert for good intuitions and promising opportunities to increase your wealth.

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