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NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY • november 25 - december 01, 2019 • Vol. 29 No. 45 Illustrated by Kristin MacKenzie Design

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Tuttle’s Nov. 18 column on the climate crisis, “Untold Human Suffering …” His column hit the mark with me as I’ve recently returned from my first visit to the U.S. House and Senate, lobbying for carbon fee and dividend legislation with 800 other American members of Citizens Climate Lobby.

My takeaway from this experience was a mixed bag. Clearly, most legislators’ offices were distracted and further polarized by the impeachment inquiry and continue to drag their collective feet in moving forward with our preferred bill, The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act if 2019, HR 763.

Our Michigan members cited a recent Columbia University economic study of HR 763 to several House offices. This study gives high marks to this bill, but we also embrace two or three of the other carbon fee bills currently waiting to be introduced to the House and Senate.

Optimistic feelings were held by some in our Michigan delegation because in one year, great progress has been made in the understanding of the urgency of carbon fee legislation and the commitment of many more members of Congress to act soon.

We encourage all readers to call their U.S. legislators to co-sponsor HR 763. My representative, Jack Bergman (Michigan’s 1st District), needs more pressure to co-sponsor this or another bill to combat the climate crisis before it’s too late for our children and grandchildren.

Kathleen Birdsall, RN Traverse City

Trade Suggestion for Trump Let’s get on with the impeachment of President Trump. Let’s see if Mike Pence and his opponent can solve all of our problems.

My brother doesn’t need the government, and neither does my leading petty officer on the first ship I was on in the Navy, who said, with glee in his eyes, that Jesus was a corporal in the Army.

Remember what Jesus said: “It’s all right to make fun of me but not God.” I’ve been to the Kit Kat Club in midtown Manhattan where Trump met Melania. I’ve been to five continents and 46 states by the time I was 31, including two port visits to Busan, South Korea. I’ve never met a Korean woman in this world I didn’t like, and I’d rather have Ki Jong Un’s sister be president of this country than Pence or his opponent.

Greg Doornbos, Traverse City Rethink Bergman’s Help for Vets Recently you ran a letter from someone who was unhappy with Congressman Jack Berman. He stated that Rep. Bergman has done nothing for the veterans. Perhaps he should subscribe to Bergman’s newsletter, the most recent of which noted some high spots of his accomplishments for the vets, of which I am one. Anyone can receive periodic news of his accomplishments for the vets [Bergman’s office newsletter can be subscribed to at bergman.house. gov/contact/]. But those who are simply politically opposed would never take you up on that. I think it’s called selective, blind resistance.

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Rep. Cole’s EV Snub Recently, my wife and I journeyed to Lansing to lobby our area legislators to support a very modest proposal — that our state should offer travelers an opportunity to — easily and at reasonable cost — recharge their electric vehicles at major highway rest stops. At present, with the exception of Tesla, which maintains its own dedicated station system, EV-owning drivers experience the “charging anxiety” of not knowing when and where they can recharge. And new technologies have made such EV stations both economical and fast.

For some reason, this is viewed as an unreasonable expenditure of tax dollars by “fiscal conservatives” like Michigan Rep. Tristan Cole (District 105), who asked, “Why should Michigan taxpayers pay for electric vehicles to charge-up at our roadside rest stops?” Mr. Cole, ironically, is the legislative chair of the transportation and infrastructure committee. At least we can be thankful he hasn’t questioned the need to offer tourists tax-funded sanitary services at those same places.

Please note, however, that House Majority Leader Cole does continue to support whatever it takes to enable Canada’s Enbridge Energy to continue transporting its petroleum products — only 15 percent of which benefits Michigan consumers — through the ecologically fragile Straits of Mackinac.

All of this serves as a reminder of larger issues. Climate change is real, and its impacts are all around us. The time is past when we need to transition to multiple alternative energy solutions. Science denialism by those who know better doesn’t serve the public interest in meeting common challenges. Nor will fossilized thinking, in support of fossil fuels, advance the interests of all Michiganders.

Frank W. Hawthorne, Petoskey

High (Water) Marks on Story Patrick Sullivan’s Nov. 18 article on Great Lakes water levels, “We’ve Been Here Before,” addressed the main issue people face when nature threatens. We do not act to accommodate our lives to the conditions; we continue on.

As one person said in the article, “We know it’s going to go down. It always does.”

Dave Dempsey addressed this attitude by pointing out that our records are based upon a blink of an eye in the geologic time frame. Always unpredictable, nature has entered a new phase, where climate change affects the outcomes. When environmental science gets in the way of development, it often gets pushed aside.

So now we have the combination of 1) the loss of natural features that buffer the effects of the lakes and 2) properties that are in danger from the high-water levels.

The irony here is that the property owners who might have fought regulations limiting development close to the water will now seek government funding to address their problems. This has been happening on the country’s ocean coasts as well as on the Great Lakes. John Nelson’s observation says it all: We cannot make the lakes adapt to us.

Rather, we have to be more resilient.

Michael Stilfer, Cadillac O’Malley Needs to Study Up on Schools State Rep. Jack O’Malley, a member of the education committee, doesn’t appear to understand the fundamentals of rural school funding in his district.

Recently, when a retired teacher pointed out disparities between state funding for Birmingham students ($11,555) versus Benzie County Central School students ($6,300), Rep. O’Malley said state support for Benzie recently went up $87 per student, while Birmingham schools increased only $34. While we are happy to get something, he fails to understand that, at that rate of increase, it will take 81 years for the Benzie schools to catch up.

Rep O’Malley also said that Michigan spends $15 billion a year on our schools, which he says is 10th highest in the nation.

But that’s misleading; the number that counts is per-student spending, which puts us in 20th place.

If you think you can’t fix schools by throwing money at them, please answer this: How can our kids keep up when we don’t have adequate resources for teaching basic trade skills like carpentry, engineering, drafting, shop, etc.?

Bridge Magazine just reported on a rise in teen suicides in our area, including in nearby Kinglsey. Could school funding be involved? It’s likely: Kids are feeling more and more hopeless for so many reasons, and no funds for school nurses and mental health counselors only compound the issue.

Meanwhile, we remain frustrated with a representative who fails to understand the fundamental issues of rural schools in his own district — a man whose top contributors include the pro-charter schools family, Maria DeVos, Daniel DeVos, and Cheri DeVos Vanderwiede. And also a man who is apparently comfortable with Benzie schools taking 81 years to get to fair funding. If he really cared, he’d be making some noise on that committee.

So Rep. O’Malley, just whose interests do you really support?

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

Christopher Hindbaugh.......................................10 12 Days of Christmas Spirit............................15 The Gift of Experience....................................18 For the Man/Woman/Teen Who Has Everything..14 A Taste of Home............................................26 Willow.................................................................34 Fudge, Unparalleled.................................................39 Oak Ridge Boys........................................................43 Seen...........................................................................45

dates................................................47-50 music Four Score.....................................................54

Nightlife.........................................................59

columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................5

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................51 Film................................................................56 Crossword...................................................60 Advice..........................................................61 Freewill Astrology..........................................60 Classifieds..................................................62

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Northern Express Weekly • november 25, 2019 • 3

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top ten Renowned Conductor Joins Interlochen

Interlochen’s World Youth Symphony Orchestra will have a new leader this year.

Interlochen alum Cristian Măcelaru has been named the inaugural artistic director and principal conductor of the orchestra at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

“Cristi’s palpable joy for music-making and high artistic standards consistently bring out the very best in our emerging young musicians,” said Trey Devey, Interlochen’s president.

“He is the ideal leader and artist to take our summer orchestral program to new heights.”

Măcelaru comes Interlochen with an impressive resumé.

He is the newly appointed music director of the Orchestre National de France, chief conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester, and music director and conductor of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

At Interlochen, Măcelaru will lead the artistic development of the summer orchestra program, advise on repertoire selection, and help recruit guest conductors, soloists, and summer music faculty. He will also conduct WYSO during a week-long residency.

Măcelaru first came to Interlochen from his native Romania as a violin student at Interlochen Arts Academy, which he attended from 1997 to 1999. He also attended Interlochen Arts Camp, where he served as concertmaster of WYSO in the summer of 1998.

2 tastemaker GROCER’S DAUGHTER PEPPERMINT

The holidays are upon us, and with them come the iconic and craveable sweet treats that we look forward to all year. Peppermint bark may not be one of the oldest traditional confections of the season — it dates back “only” about a half-century — but it has become one of the most popular.

Any excuse to eat chocolate and peppermint together, right? (Or drink it — see Bottoms Up on the opposite page.) Grocer’s Daughter peppermint bark is a cut above the rest: Comprising 70 percent dark chocolate covered in peppermint white chocolate with a sprinkling of organic peppermint candy, it is as pure and invigorating as fresh winter snowfall. The ultimate stocking stuffer! Continuing founder Mimi Wheeler’s legacy, current Grocer’s Daughter owners Jody and D.C. Hayden source all of their chocolate directly from smallscale organic farmers in Ecuador and use only natural cacao beans, cocoa nibs, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, organic sugar, and locally produced milk, as well as other local flavoring ingredients, to produce each of their unique, high-quality truffles, bars, barks, and other products. $8.00/3oz at Grocer’s Daughter Chocolates, 11590 South Lacore Street/M-22 in Empire (open Mon-Thurs 11am–5pm) and online at www.grocersdaughter.com.

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turkey trot Lace up your running shoes and make room for Thanksgiving dinner! Turkey trots are happening all over northern MI on Nov. 28, including the 12th Annual UpNorth Media TC Turkey Trot at St. Francis High School at 9am.

Choose from a 5K or 5 mile run that will benefit TART Trails Boardman Lake Loop Project and local youth teams/ organizations. tcturkeytrot.com

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How to Fail

When acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Day found herself stuck in the mire of another messy split, she decided it was time to turn her pain into a podcast. Eight short days later, she was signing that broadcast into a book. In her hilariously relatable nonfiction debut, “How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned from Things Going Wrong,” Day invites readers on her own textual “tour defeat” — and how it ultimately led to a world of success. With chapters spanning topics from Barbies and boyfriends to families and friendship, this manifesto of mishaps has something for anyone who’s ever experienced failure (read: everyone). But as Day poignantly reminds us, it’s the empathy of failure that’s the real equalizer.

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NoMi Communities Awarded for Being Green

Several municipalities in northwest Lower Michigan were among three dozen across the state to be recognized in the Michigan Green Community Challenge.

The project, led by the Michigan Municipal League, gauges efforts to increase sustainability or reduce energy consumption in cities, villages, counties and townships across the state. The best efforts are awarded gold, silver, or bronze certification.

Traverse City was the only northern Michigan city to attain gold certification. The city was recognized for launching the “kWh Challenge,” a program focused on increasing staff awareness of opportunities to reduce energy use.

Petoskey received silver certification for adopting a resolution to reach 100 percent renewable energy for the city’s electric needs by 2035.

Charlevoix and Elk Rapids each received bronze certification: Charlevoix (along with Charlevoix County) for their work with SEEDS to conduct energy audits of all cityowned buildings, and Elk Rapids for working with Energy Reduction Coalition to update and change old lighting in the shared village and township government center, police department, fire department and district library.

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Stuff we love Saying We Knew Him When Big news out of Petoskey this week: Carlin Smith, who has helmed the Petoskey Chamber for lo, these last 17 years, is stepping down to begin work as a regional Community Affairs Manager for Consumers Energy. Although not a Petoskey native, Smith has been such a cheerleader of the city and its downtown since arriving 30 years ago, we here at Northern Express came to call him Mr. Petoskey and made him our cover man in Septemeber 2016. Looks like his new job won’t require a moniker change.

While he’ll branch out to serve seven counties, Petoskey’s Emmet County is one, says Smith, “ … so I will be able to continue to live in this town that I love so much.”

If you find your kids — or your yourself — struggling to sit through a lengthy play, Parallel 45 Theatre has just the thing. From Nov. 30 to Dec. 8, it’s presenting “The Alphabet Experience” at the City Opera House in Traverse City — a series of 26 micro-plays, each corresponding to a letter of the alphabet, with the entire proceedings timed to come in under an hour. Director Noah Fried said the troupe’s team of actors has been developing and rehearsing the plays.

“Some will be splashy musical pieces, others will be comedic, others will be more intellectual. The result is a unique piece of interactive theatre where anything can happen,” he said.

Each play is about two minutes or less.

And if that isn’t enough, the audience plays a part as well, determining the order of the plays. So it’s different each night. Tickets — $14.50 kids under 12; $19.50+ for adults — and more information at www.parallel45.org.

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Bottoms up RIGHT BRAIN NAUGHTY GIRL STOUT We are among those crazy (or not so crazy?) people who love the combination of chocolate and beer, who crave that play of rich and sweet against refreshing and bitter. And when it comes together in liquid form as a stout? Sign us up. But Right Brain Brewery’s Naughty Girl Stout (ABV: 6.3%) doesn’t stop there. In addition to its luscious chocolate notes, it is infused with biodynamic peppermint from local Light of Day Organics. As Right Brain describes it, it’s like your favorite chocolate-mint cookies without the crumbs. OK, you’re thinking we’re on a real chocolate-mint kick, since our Tastemaker on the opposite page rhapsodizes about peppermint bark. Well, you’re right, and you’re welcome. Just consider these tips our holiday gift to you. Naughty Girl is one of Right Brain’s seasonal beers, but you’re in luck —’tis the season right now for this festive flavor bomb. Grab your six pack of 12-ounce bottles at locations all over northern Michigan. Also available on draft starting Thanksgiving weekend at Right Brain Brewery, 225 East 16th Street in Traverse City.

(231) 642-5001, www.rightbrainbrewery.com.

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by Stephen Tuttle Thanksgiving is the best of holidays, except maybe for some cooks. It’s a time when family, friends, and oftentimes stragglers with no place else to go are all welcome.

It has the added advantages of outstanding food and no secular connections; most everybody celebrates the same holiday at the same time. We give thanks for the companionship of our loved ones, the meal, and whatever good things have come our way.

And this year, perhaps more than most, we try to avoid politics.

Join us for one hour of inspiration with: A Thanksgiving Bible Lesson and an opportunity to express gratitude for God’s blessings.

“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalms 118: 24

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dozens if not hundreds of people who have done, are doing, or will do jobs that help makes our lives easier and safer. They all deserve our thanks, too.

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Then there are actors, directors, producers, singers, writers, publishers, editors, poets, artists, sculptors, musicians, and dancers who can inform, entertain, and delight us.

Even tour guides.

Dining out? Don’t forget the cooks, servers, hosts and hostesses, busers, dishwashers, and managers making that happen.

Let’s start with the obvious, the men and women at work while we feast.

Thanks to inventors and the entrepreneurs who have created the gadgets we now take for granted.

Thanks to the police officers, sheriff ’s deputies, state troopers, firefighters, and any and all first responders working today and every day.

And the growers, ranchers, and all those who harvest and process the bounty most of us enjoy on holidays and every day.

Plus the men and women in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, too many of whom will enjoy their holiday dinner in harm’s way, far from home. And a special thanks to everyone at Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, who save us from catastrophes natural and self-created.

If you’re traveling, give thanks to the pilots, flight attendants, ground crews, reservation clerks, and even the TSA employees who will help you get safely to your family and back.

And hotel/motel/resort managers, desk clerks, and housekeeping staffs.

There are just so many ...

Teachers, teacher aides, custodians, food service workers, administrators, and boards of education. Not to mention the brave souls who drive or are aides on school buses — think carpool, with 60 kids, twice a day.

Plus our intrepid snowplow drivers called into action way too soon this year. And thanks to the folks who build, maintain, and repair our streets and roads.

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Let’s not forget doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, technologists, administrators, nutritionists, dietitians, physical and inhalation therapists, and everyone else who tries to keep us healthy, cure our ailments, and put us back together when we’re broken.

While we’re at it, let’s thank all elected officials, even those we hope lose in the next election, just because they had the commitment and courage to put their names on the ballot.

Speaking of drivers, there are truck drivers, BATA bus drivers, delivery van drivers, tax drivers, and the others who take us places and bring us our stuff, not to mention the folks who sort it all before it gets delivered.

And mail carriers and other postal workers.

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And car designers, autoworkers, and everyone else putting together our favorite mode of transportation.

In a nice, warm place for Thanksgiving?

Thank architects, engineers, masons, carpenters, framers, roofers, electricians, plumbers, heating/ventilation/air-conditioning installers, sheet metal workers, iron workers, painters, and the people who make everything they put together. Plus real estate agents, insurers, landscapers, and tree trimmers.

Let’s give a special thanks to all the scientists and researchers, from archaeologists to zoologists, who continue to enlighten and inform us about the world in which we live. We should be paying better attention to many of them.

Let’s also thank community activists, non-violent protesters, organizers, trouble-makers and curmudgeons for highlighting needed changes and keeping us on our toes.

While we’re at it, let’s thank all elected officials, even those we hope lose in the next election, just because they had the commitment and courage to put their names on the ballot. Local elected officials, of whom we expect much but repay with little compensation and much criticism, are especially deserving of our gratitude.

And so many other people working in relative obscurity but worthy of thanks anyway.

Utility company workers trying to restore power. City, county, and state employees, community groups, charities and, to be sure, everyone who volunteers for anything. And everybody I’ve unintentionally omitted.

Finally, thank you for reading the Northern Express and this column. It is appreciated.

Crime & Rescue ELK DEATH INVESTIGATED Authorities want to find whoever shot and killed an elk and left it to rot.

Someone poached a bull elk in the Pigeon River State Forest, east of Vanderbilt in Otsego County, on either Oct. 16 or 17, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

The carcass was located Oct. 18 by passersby near Ford Lake Road, approximately three-quarters of a mile south of the Grass Lake Road intersection.

The elk’s antlers included six points on one side and seven on the other.

“We are currently following up on leads,” Lt. Jim Gorno said in a press release. “We hope that the public can help us with this investigation, as they have always been helpful in the past. This is flat-out poaching. A majestic elk was killed for no reason and left to rot.”

Anyone with information can call the Gaylord DNR at (989) 732-3541 or the poaching hotline at (800) 292-7800.

MAN KILLED IN M-72 CRASH A driver who failed to stop at an intersection was killed in a crash.

An 80-year-old Traverse City man drove a van on South Cedar Road and failed to stop at the stop sign at M-72; the van collided with a westbound car driven by a 73-year-old Traverse City man. When Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies arrived, they found two heavily damaged vehicles and three injured people.

The van driver, Richard Szatkiewicz, was taken to Munson Medical Center, where he died from his injuries. A passenger in his car, as well as the other driver were also taken to Munson with serious injuries.

The crash happened 12:25pm Nov. 16.

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Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies spotted a speeding 2006 Audi near Suttons Bay and pulled over the driver just as he reached the village.

The 24-year-old Traverse City man appeared intoxicated and told the deputy, “I’m not going to lie to you, I’m a little messed up.”

He was arrested for second-offense drunk driving.

MSP: EMPLOYEE RAN UP BOSS’S CARD State police investigated after the owner of a sawmill noticed $4,000 in suspicious charges on his credit card.

An investigation led to the arrest of former Lake Ann Hardwood employee Michael McCumber, 33, of Cadillac, on Nov. 16.

McCumber asked to use his boss’s credit card in order to get his car out of impound but is accused of racking up thousands more in unauthorized charges through Western Union.

He faces a credit card fraud charge in Benzie County, a felony that carries up to four years in prison.

LOUISIANA FUGITIVE ARRESTED The state police Seventh District Fugitive Team arrested a 34-year-old Louisiana man wanted in New Orleans on assault and weapons charges.

Cliff Fernill Ruffin was arrested on Miller Road near Buckley Nov. 13 and waived extradition to Louisiana at a Nov. 18 hearing in Grand Traverse County District Court.

Ruffin is wanted on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, resisting arrest, aggravated assault, and extortion.

The state police team located Ruffin at the request of the U.S. Marshals Service, and after hours of investigation and surveillance, he was arrested without incident. Ruffin doesn’t have any family ties to northern Michigan, but investigators learned that he had come to the Traverse City area after he rekindled a relationship with a former classmate from New Orleans.

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CHILDREN SHOT BY STRAY BULLET Crawford County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating what they called “an accidental discharge of a firearm” that resulted in two children being shot.

The children were struck by a stray bullet and were taken to Grayling Munson with non-lifethreatening injuries.

The incident occurred on Nov. 15, the opening day of firearm deer season, though it happened inside a residence in Lovells Township.

LAKE FRONT HOMES BURGLARIZED A Petoskey man is accused of a four-day crime spree in Charlevoix County.

Thomas Richard Pettersch, 26, faces 21 felony counts after investigators said he targeted at least 19 seasonal homes between Oct. 27 and Oct. 30.

The charges range from first-degree home invasion, which carries up to 20 years in prison, to breaking and entering with intent, a 10-year felony; though because Pettersch is charged as a four-time habitual offender, he could face life in prison.

Pettersch targeted seasonal lakeside homes, where he allegedly stole firearms, a chainsaw, a leaf blower, pellet guns, flashlights, a drill, watches, an air compressor, a nail gun, a planer, jewelry, and loose change.

Pettersch faces similar charges in Cheboygan County.

MAN DRIVES 88MPH, GOES TO JAIL Police arrested a man on drunk driving charges after they pulled him over for driving 88mph on M-22.

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Upraised middle fingers have replaced civil debate. Many people think those whose political opinions differ from their own are morons, and they aren’t shy about saying so.

What’s going on?

There used to be liberal and conservative Democrats, and liberal and conservative Republicans. No more; we’ve sorted ourselves into one party that leans left and another that leans right. And we’ve sorted ourselves geographically, too. In 2016, 80 percent of U.S. counties went for one presidential candidate over the other by 20 points or more.

That makes gerrymandering — drawing up Congressional districts to be reliably Democrat or Republican — very effective.

Politicians representing gerrymandered districts know that to get re-elected they have to play to their left- or right-leaning base. Low voter turnout also plays a part.

When turnout is low and elections are close, you can win by generating enough outrage to get more of your own folks to the polls.

In neither situation is there much incentive to appeal to moderates.

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THE ALPHABET EXPERIENCE

A COMEDY FOR ALL AGES November 30 - December 1 December 7 - December 8 Tickets: $19.50, $14.50 Parallel 45 performs 26 micro-plays – one for every letter – in under an hour.

Bring the family for a fast-paced hour of laughter, spectacle and absurd delight.

THE BERGAMOT HOLIDAY CONCERT Thursday, December 19 Tickets: $22, $15

Named “The hottest emerging music talent” (People), this indie-folk duo celebrates the holiday with songs and stories of hope and inspiration. Hear favorites like “O Holy Night,” “White Christmas,” “Carol of the Bells” and more.

Now add in cable TV and the internet. In the old days, news anchors on the big three networks pursued high ratings by being nonpartisan and trustworthy; whatever our political leanings, we all started with the same facts. Nowadays, news anchors, commentators, and bloggers get attention by stoking partisan outrage. And this gets amplified by social media, which provides the personal distance that facilitates bad behavior, like angry drivers flipping off people they don’t know.

This presents a huge political opportunity.

Over the past several decades the Republican Party has been working diligently to reduce taxes on the wealthy, an endeavor at which they’ve been incredibly successful. The long term result of several rounds of massive tax cuts for the rich has been a soaring deficit and debt, the deterioration of our infrastructure, and extreme economic inequality. While the rich have gotten spectacularly richer, wages have been mostly flat, and the GOP is considering cutting Social Security and Medicare. The trickle-down effect never happened.

How do Republicans sell an economic program that focuses more on helping the rich than on helping average voters? By scapegoating and disinformation. GOP leadership, lately with the help of Russian trolls, has convinced their base that they’re defending America from attack by undocumented immigrants, ethnic and religious minorities, “fake news” sources, and evil liberals, and that those who disagree — including war heroes, registered Republicans, lifelong civil servants, and even Trump appointees — are lying scum.

This should not blind us to the fact that Trump supporters do have legitimate complaints. They’re right to feel ill served

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and condescended to by the establishment.

There’s seemingly no accountability for elites. Multiple institutions hid child molesters. The NFL hid a huge brain damage problem. Bond rating agencies hid the risk in collateralized mortgage obligations; when the bottom fell out, big banks got bailed out, but homeowners were left twisting in the wind. Drug companies double and triple their prices.

Corporations move jobs overseas, or put workers on part time to avoid providing health insurance. CEOs get huge bonuses even when they run their companies into the ground. Meanwhile, family farms go bankrupt and no one seems to care. And the Midwest is insultingly referred to as “flyover country.” The question, of course, is who’s really to blame for this mess, and who can fix it.

Unfortunately, the Trump experiment failed. Instead of a plain spoken, can-do, incorruptible white knight, we got a vulgar reality TV entertainer who uses his office to enrich his family, rejects science, runs an incompetent administration, kowtows to Putin, destroys markets with fruitless trade wars, and abuses his power, and whose only legislative accomplishment so far is passing yet another tax cut for the rich. Even his supporters are growing tired of the tweeting and the drama.

What’s to be done? Clearly we need to address the economic issues that underlay the alienation that gave us Trump. Reduce drug prices. Raise the minimum wage.

Create jobs by repairing the infrastructure.

End the trade wars. Find a way to cover everyone with health insurance. Reduce the cost of college. Raise taxes on the very wealthy. Create a job training program for displaced workers. And so on. Democratic presidential candidates are talking about these kinds of things; one hopes Republican leaders will soon begin to, as well. It would also help if Mitch McConnell would let the 100+ bills that have been passed in the House — and that are sitting on his desk — come up for debate in the Senate.

And there are structural changes, such as ending gerrymandering, getting big money out of politics, creating a national holiday for voting, and protecting the electoral process that may lead to a less extreme, more solutions-oriented politics.

At the individual level we need to reject disinformation and artificially ampedup divisiveness. That means digging for facts: getting news from multiple reliable sources, reading beyond the headlines, and fact-checking our own beliefs. It also means not needlessly vilifying people with whom we disagree. Wouldn’t it be nice if, when politicians, pundits and trolls tell us to believe the worst about each other, we simply refused to take the bait?

Tom Gutowski earned degrees in economics and history before entering the insurance industry, from which he retired a few years ago.

HOLIDAY The Entrepreneurial Spirit About a year ago, Les and Paula Ansley of Mossel Bay, South Africa, stumbled upon a novel idea for a new type of spirit, which they call Indlovu Gin, the Associated Press reports.

During a safari, they learned that elephants eat a wide variety of fruits and flowers, but digest less than a third of it. "As a consequence, in the elephant dung, you get the most amazing variety of these botanicals," Les Ansley said.

"Why don't we let the elephants do the hard work of collecting all these botanicals and we will make gin from it?" Why, indeed? They collect the dung themselves, by hand, and describe their gin's flavor as "lovely, wooded, almost spicy, earthy." ("Indlovu" means elephant in the Zulu language.) Each bottle's label notes where the dung was gathered and when. "Most people are very keen to actually taste it," Ansley said. A bottle sells for about $32.

Fine Points of the Law After losing in district court, convicted killer Benjamin Schreiber took an unusual claim to the Iowa Court of Appeals, but was shut down again on Nov. 6, according to The Washington Post. Schreiber, 66, was sentenced to a life term in 1997, but in March 2015, he suffered a medical emergency in his prison cell that caused doctors to have to restart his heart five times. Schreiber thus claimed he had briefly "died," and therefore he had served out his life sentence and should be released. The district judge didn't buy it, though, saying the filing proved he was still alive, and the appeals court agreed, saying, "Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead, in which case this appeal is moot."

Higher Education A Dutch university now offers students a turn in the "purification grave," a hole dug in the ground where students can lie down and reflect on their lives for up to three hours. The student chaplaincy at Radboud University initially offered the experience in 2009 as a temporary experiment, but due to increased demand, it's back this year, according to Vice. Students are not allowed to bring their phones or a book with them into the grave. "You can see it as a special place of meditation: below you the earth, above you the sky," the university website explains. "You will then automatically notice what is going through your mind." If you're skittish about entering the grave, you can sit on the bench nearby. Radboud also offers a finals-season "crying room" and nap pods.

The Continuing Crisis Female employees in Japan who wear eyeglasses are seeing red after some companies there have reportedly banned eyewear for their women workers, according to the BBC. While some retailers have said women in glasses give a "cold impression," the hashtag #glassesareforbidden has been trending, and Kumiko Nemoto, professor of sociology at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, spoke out against the "outdated" policies: "It's all about gender. It's pretty discriminatory. ...

The company values the women's appearance as being feminine and that's the opposite to someone who wears glasses." Japanese women have also rebelled against policies that require them to wear high heels.

Bright Idea Subhash Yadav, 42, of Jaunpur, India, visited

a market to eat eggs with a friend, News18 reported on Nov. 4, but the two fell into an argument. To settle the dispute, police said, Yadav accepted a challenge to eat 50 eggs in exchange for 2,000 rupees. He ate 41 eggs, but just as he began to eat the 42nd, he collapsed, unconscious. He was rushed to the hospital but died a few hours later. Doctors claimed Yadav died of overeating, but family members would not comment.

Least Competent Criminal On Oct. 30, Hudson, Florida, resident Michael Psilakis, 21, lost $1,000 in a card game to an unnamed man, which a witness told police upset Psilakis, reported the Tampa Bay Times. When the man was reported missing, Pasco County Sheriff 's deputies started their investigation with Psilakis, who told them the victim had dropped him off at his mother's house after the card game, so when the man turned up dead in a burnedout Ford Taurus, police visited Psilakis' mother. During her interview, Psilakis called his mother, according to court documents, and officers recorded the conversation. In it he told his mom he had burned his legs throwing gas on the car and they needed to coordinate their stories so he was coming right over. When he arrived, police found a stolen handgun in his car along with a cellphone containing internet searches for "can u shoot through a seat" and "how to treat burns." Deputies arrested him on weapons charges on Nov. 2 and later added first-degree murder, grand theft of a motor vehicle and resisting arrest.

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The Northern Echo, a newspaper in northeast England, is catching it from an area family after it ran an obituary on Nov. 10 for Charlie Donaghy, a local sports enthusiast and teacher -- who is not dead yet. In fact, his son, Ian, reports that Charlie is "alive and well," according to Fox News. The Echo published an apology the next day, but Ian posted on Facebook that "you can't UNHEAR or UNREAD that your Dad's dead! ... Northern Echo website arseclownery!"

A statement from the Donaghy family said the mistake has "caused immeasurable distress" and is "unforgivable."

Government in Action Residents of a small Canadian island off the coast of Maine are up in arms and demanding that the province of New Brunswick either establish a year-round ferry service or build a bridge to the mainland because their mail keeps getting opened by U.S. Customs. Mail to Campobello Island has to cross the border by sealed truck into Maine before it reaches the island, which rarely caused problems, reports Fox News, until last year, when Canada legalized recreational cannabis. Since then, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been searching for marijuana ordered from Cannabis NB, the only authorized seller of cannabis in the province. Cannabis NB has now stopped shipping packages to the island, but U.S. customs officials continue to search the mail, and the island's residents are fed up. "Expectations of privacy that the rest of Canada has just don't exist on Campobello," said Justin Tinker, a local engineer. Politicians are said to be open to the idea of the ferry, but there are no plans in place to fund the project.

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A DECADE ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE OPIATE EPIDEMIC Christopher Hindbaugh took over Addiction Treatment Services when the nonprofit was at perhaps its point in its 30-year history — and about to face its most formidable opponent yet: a prescription-fueled addiction on the verge of sweeping the region.

By Patrick Sullivan Christopher Hindbaugh didn’t know what he was getting into when he took over as executive director of Addiction Treatment Services in 2009. The Traverse City-based nonprofit — which had been providing substance abuse services to the community for 30 years — was in deep financial trouble. As it struggled to stay afloat, a deluge of another sort threatened: a culture-shifting opiate epidemic.

In the decade since Hindbaugh’s arrival, the organization has had to adapt and rapidly evolve in the face of opiate addiction. During that time, ATS’s annual budget has grown from $1.9 million to $5.2 million. They now serve around 3,000 clients each year, two or three times more than a decade ago.

Northern Express sat down with Hindbaugh to talk about the whirlwind of the past decade and how ATS has found its footing while staying true to its mission to treat drug addiction as the complex problem that it is.

Northern Express: How did you end up as the leader of ATS? Did you always plan to work in substance abuse treatment?

Christopher Hindbaugh: My background is in mental health, really, since the age of 19. I got my first job in a psych hospital as a tech, just as a college job, and then just never left.

I was actually wanting to do journalism. My first major was broadcast journalism. But I

worked in mental health for 17 years and was in different administrative roles. And then coming here was as much about moving north as a lifestyle. I wanted to work in a behavioral health field, but I wasn’t necessarily looking to work in addiction, because I don’t have that background. But there’s a lot of parallels, similar systems, similar funding structures. There’s no romantic story about how I ended up here.

Express: And then just as you grapple with that, here comes the opiate crisis …

Express: That’s how it showed up in society, I think.

Hindbaugh: Right — the perfect storm. The other piece of it was then, as we see the opiate epidemic rise up, we’re just not prepared for it. My first concern was how are we going to survive? That’s where my head was that first year: How are we going to exist to help address

Hindbaugh: Exactly. And we seemed to be a click or two behind. We were hearing about it at national conferences. As I was learning this field, I was doing everything I could to consume information, and there was all this information around the start of this epidemic happening. The biggest shift for us was when we started seeing people that had no addiction history that were middle-class, middleincome, educated folks that showed up in our treatment center, when this system was really built as a safety net for people that are coming through the criminal justice system, or who have lost everything and are on Medicaid. The system wasn’t equipped to handle that new demographic.

When we switched our philosophy from keeping you clean to helping you live healthily, it changed everything for us.

It changed how we operate from our core.

Express: When you took this place over, did you know going in what you were up against?

Hindbaugh: No. It was this perfect storm of an agency that was really months away from going out of existence. We’d lost a quarter million dollars the year before, on a $1.9 million budget, so that was far from sustainable. We had very little in the bank.

We could barely make payroll. But I didn’t have a good sense of that coming in, because I think the board didn’t have a good sense of it, and so within my first month I realized this organization was in big trouble. I did contemplate not continuing, but I felt kind of a moral obligation to give it a go.

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what we were starting to see? But even then, we didn’t know where this was headed. We didn’t have the data. We didn’t have the resources.

Express: How did you become aware that there was this big problem out there, that this was something different than we’d seen before?

Hindbaugh: We first heard about it in 2010. We kept hearing more and more about folks becoming addicted to prescriptions — that really predated the heroin use. So, it was really around prescribing practices. And now [in 2010] we’re having people show up addicted to pain meds. That’s really how it first showed up for us.

Express: How do you think you handled it?

Hindbaugh: The first thing we had to do was to look at the science and the research to see what interventions make sense, when our whole history had been sort of closed-door, 12-step-oriented talk therapy. And the data really pointed to having evidence-based, peerreviewed curriculum. That was way outside the norm for community-based small nonprofits.

We couldn’t afford curriculum. So, we had to professionalize both our staff and the type of intervention we were doing. And we also had to shore up our financial sustainability. I mean, our entire leadership changed in 2010. It really

had to. We needed to have more accountability to the people we served.

Express: How would you grade yourself then? How well do you think you adapted to this new reality?

Hindbaugh: I think it took us a number of years to do some internal reflection, because it was a philosophical shift, and once we got there, I think we’ve done amazingly with the resources that we have. We’re still underfunded.

The field, in general, lacks adequate research.

But for what we have at our disposal, we’ve done an amazing job of meeting the people’s needs. When we switched our philosophy from keeping you clean to helping you live healthily, it changed everything for us. It changed how we operate from our core. We changed our mission statement to meet that. We recruited staff and board members that understood that strategy. It took us out from under the shadows. It gave us pride, as opposed to just dealing with the stereotypes that we wait for people to become. That’s one of the flaws of this field — we wait for people to become the stereotype that we assume an addict is, and then we’re here for them. So, our philosophy is about keeping people healthy and keeping people out of our system.

Express: At the same time, though, I know you work closely with the court system, and the court system doesn’t have the same philosophy, specifically when it comes to medically assisted treatment. How much of a challenge is that?

Hindbaugh: Our goals are not always in line with the court or the jail system. We’re really trying to talk about rehabilitating someone’s health and wellness. Those systems, rightfully so, are concerned about public safety.

Sometimes there’s an alignment there, and sometimes there isn’t. So, the more we become a healthcare facility, the more tension shows up. That said, we have a really good working relationship. We still support the specialty courts. We wish some of their practices could more follow the lead of the healthcare community.

Express: Recently ATS stopped providing daily drug testing for the court. Why did you make that decision?

Hindbaugh: For a lot of years, it felt like having drug testing was an unnecessary connection to the court system that really undermined our desire to meet people’s healthcare needs. It no longer really met mission for us. So when we had an opportunity to create a community health center, that didn’t fit anymore. We let the courts know that that was the case, and I think that they’ve figured it out since.

Express: What do you mean, “It doesn’t fit with the mission”?

Hindbaugh: In its nature, sending somebody for drug testing is punitive. For us, that’s not anywhere near our mission, so it no longer made sense to continue drug testing, because our mission is more about health and wellness. The one reason we kept doing drug testing for as long as we did was because we could do it in a community center where we had other offerings, so if folks were going to be sentenced with drug testing, at least they could walk past services that would be of benefit to them. Eventually, when we went to our new facility, we just couldn’t reconcile that anymore. We’re trying very hard to have a different kind of relationship with folks who are struggling.

Express: You’ve said that drug testing was a losing proposition financially. Why is that?

Hindbaugh: To do it right and maintain the chain of custody and look at it as essentially a

medical service, it has overhead that, on our best months, was break even, but we mostly lost money on that. We also refused to raise prices. In the entire time, in the last 10 years, we only raised the prices one time; because it just didn’t feel right to do that on the backs of folks that were putting bags of change in front of us. They had no choice. And we had no choice, because if they didn’t have the money, then we had to report them, then they could do a retainer in jail. The whole scenario just didn’t feel right.

Express: The Porch, which you call the community center, moved this year from Eighth Street to your small campus on Garfield Road. And while the former Porch is now the retail location of City Bike Shop, in an ironic twist, a marijuana dispensary for a while had an option on that building. What do you think about the coming of medical marijuana and now recreational marijuana in Michigan?

Hindbaugh: We don’t see people very often come in for our services where marijuana is their primary drug of concern. It might be part of their mix, but nobody’s breaking and entering, nobody’s entering the criminal justice system — especially now that it’s legalized — to the extent that they are with other drugs. I don’t want to say it’s not a concern, but for us at this agency, we tend to serve folks that have higher needs and are pretty deep into their addiction, and so marijuana just doesn’t play a big role that.

When we look at the data nationally, what we see is, if there’s any place we should be concerned, it should be stopping or delaying [marijuana] use for our young people. We know that there is arrested development that happens if you use marijuana in your developmental years. That data is very clear.

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Express: I notice that you refer to The Porch as a community center. What do you mean by that?

Hindbaugh: We’ve created a place that anybody in the community can walk into and have access to information, access to sameday assessment, access to social activities, [like Monday Night Football sober-viewing get-togethers], prevention activities, after-care activities and, most progressively, compared to other facilities in the state, there is a whole medical facility there. We’re now able to actually manage people’s primary care. Again, as we think about our philosophy of health and wellness, how could we not have that piece connected to what we do? So, for us, it’s really about expanding the public health strategy, so we can add both prevention and healthcare services. We’ve added P.I.E.R. coaches. [The P.I.E.R. is ATS’ medically assisted detox treatment center.] We’ve added case management.

Express: How difficult has it been over the years to work on the front lines of the opiate epidemic? It must have been heartbreaking at times.

Hindbaugh: The irony of the opiate epidemic is that when you look at the last 30 years, addiction rates have not increased.

It’s just that this particular addiction to opiates has a fatal outcome more than any other drug before its time. And so, the heartbreak has been the number of families that we’ve had to console, the number of families that I’ve had to sit in these chairs and talk about funeral arrangements with.

Historically, that was not the case to this degree. We’re losing friends and neighbors.

That’s the heartbreaking part. It also really adds a layer of obligation to put everything we have at it. From the federal government all the way down to organizations like ours, we really haven’t prioritized taking addiction seriously. The opiate epidemic has really highlighted that we have something fundamentally challenged in our society.

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By Ross Boissoneau There’s no lack of seasonal spirit sparkling in northern Michigan this year (just look out your window). But if you’re looking for a little boost to amp up the festive mood, we’ve compiled 12 unique holiday outings and activities happening around the North, each sure to warm your heart and create a special memory for you and anyone on your nice list.

Christkindlmarkt at Bay Harbor The Village at Bay Harbor This is the second year for the holiday marketplace in The Village area of the lux Bay Harbor community. Artists and artisans offer their wares from otherwise empty seasonal storefronts, plus Bay Harbor Village Hotel’s 360-degree-view The Loft space. Restaurants will add some German flair to their menus, and outdoor firepits will keep the scene (and shoppers) cozy, while Christmas trees and window décor add to the ambience. It’s held in conjunction with Crooked Tree Ballet School’s performance of “The Nutcracker” at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts. Christkindlmarkt (4000 Main St., Bay Harbor) runs 2pm to 7pm Friday, Dec. 13, and 10am to 7pm Saturday, Dec. 14. There are two Nutcracker performances Saturday: 3pm and 7pm. www.glcfa.com.

Holiday Steinmaking Earthen Ales, Traverse City We’ve been wondering, and apparently it’s official: The best way to spread Christmas cheer is to craft a stein from clay — and fill it with beer. It’s part of a unique series of Community Clay Workshops offered

by Clay Space TC ceramic artists. No clay experience necessary, though beer experience is preferred. Registration fee includes the experience of creating your own stein, as well as one pint of beer to help bring forth your cheer. This hand-building clay workshop is for folks ages 21 and up. 7pm to 9pm Dec 13 at Earthen Ales, 1371 Gray Dr., Suite 200. www. clayspacetc.com.

Real Women Christmas Event Resurrection Life Church, Cadillac Celebrate the holiday season with a catered dinner, inspiring music and message, and many gifts and giveaways exclusively for like-minded women. Women 13 and up are invited to gather with friends old and new in a place where “you can be yourself and be welcomed with open arms. Where you will be loved, encouraged, and filled with hope.” It’s an outreach from a ministry where women love and care for each other, share one another’s joys and trials, encourage each other and pray for each other. Doors open at 5:15pm, seating begins at 5:45, and dinner begins at 6:30. $15 per person; reserved seating is available for tables of seven or 10. (231) 876-1885 or search “Real Women Christmas 2019” on Facebook.

Gingerbread House Workshop Lakeview Hotel, Shanty Creek Resort, Bellaire Invite the whole family to indulge everyone’s sweet tooth as you all take part of the resort’s annual Thanksgiving weekend tradition — no prep or cleanup required.

Shanty Creek Vice President for Sales and Marketing Chris Hale said the food and beverage team builds the gingerbread house walls and roofs, then it’s up to the participants to craft their houses. “In the middle are tables full of every candy type you could think of,” said Hale. He said there are vats of white icing for sticking the candies on and gluing the walls together. The weekend also includes the Brewski Bash at Short’s, and skiing if there’s snow (insert guffaw here). The fun runs 1pm– 3pm Nov. 30. $43 per house. Reservations must be made by 5pm, Nov. 29. (231) 5333000, ext. 7185.

“Elf the Musical” Old Town Playhouse, Traverse City Based on the Will Ferrell movie, the stage play tells the tale of Buddy, an orphaned baby who crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is accidentally transported to the North Pole.

Unaware that he is actually human, Buddy tries his best, but his enormous size and poor toymaking skills force him to face the truth: He’s not a real elf. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to find his birth father, discover his true identity, and share the spirit of Christmas with everyone. Full of music and mirth. Tickets $15–$28. Nov. 29–30, Dec. 1, 5–7, 8, 12–14. Go to www.oldtownplayhouse.com.

Train Wonderland and more Castle Farms, Charlevoix If your holiday heart goes pitter-pat at the sight of elaborate trimmings, immerse yourself in the dramatic winter wonderland that is Castle Farms at Christmastime. Got kids? Check out the miniature Polar Express, a small part of Train Wonderland (Dec. 7 & 8; $5 per person age 3+), which also includes riding trains, interactive games, a scavenger hunt, crafts, light snacks, and hot cocoa.

There’s also several intimate 20-kid Story Time with Santa events that same weekend and the weekend of Dec. 14 & 15 ($20+ per child and adult, $5 addt’l adult; advance tickets only). No kids? Enjoy an enchanted Dec. 11 evening listening to classic carols while enjoying wine and a three-course meal in the extravagantly decorated castle. $60 per person. (231) 237-0884 or go to www. castlefarms.com.

IAA Chamber Singers; Wind Symphony and Choir Interlochen Center for the Arts Get your musical fix of and for the season at Interlochen Center for the Arts. First, at 3pm Sunday, Dec. 15, it’s a free carol sing with the academy’s chamber singers and the sonorous sound of the pipe organ at Dendrinos Chapel and Recital Hall. Then, come back at 7pm Tuesday, Dec. 17, for a performance by the Wind Symphony and Choir at Corson Auditorium ($28; $14 per student). This family friendly showcase features seasonal selections by both ensembles, classic stories, and a singalong led by man in the big red suit himself!

Stay after the show for milk, cookies, and merriment. Go to www.interlochen.org.

Story Time, Santa and Mrs. Claus, Discovery Fun Oliver Art Center, Frankfort Oliver Art Center will host two major holiday celebrities from 3pm to 5pm Sunday, Dec. 8, at this free, family event. Expect holiday story time with Benzie Shores Library, holiday arts and crafts, a hot chocolate bar, activities courtesy of Cognition Discovery Center — and, of course, celebrities Santa and the Mrs. spreading holiday cheer. Oliver Art Center transforms its galleries and classrooms into a unique event space sure to become a family tradition every year. Executive Director Mercedes Michalowski said last year’s holiday event saw close to 200 people. “We were blown away by the response,” she said.

The Christmas Shop The Ellison Place, Gaylord Want to keep it local and easy? The Christmas Shop brings wares — created from more than 125 artists, artisans and crafters — to you. Try to hit them all, if you dare. You will have time, as the event runs from 10am to 4pm Dec. 9. And what makes shopping even better? Why, a mimosa bar, of course. Sip & shop to your heart’s content.

Event organizer Sherice Villeme said the goal is to make it easy to shop small, with nearly every vendor hailing from nearby. This is the third year for the event at The Ellison Place, and Villeme said it has grown every year. $1 admission; proceeds go to local charity. For more information, search “The Christmas Shop Gaylord” on Facebook.

“How Grinchy Met the Who” Grand Traverse Circuit, Traverse City Imagine a parody of Dr. Seuss’s beloved Christmas classic crossed with The Who’s psychedelic rock opera “Tommy,” with live music, dance, improv, and plenty of audience participation. It’s brought to you

by TC community theater’s favorite “bunch of weirdos,” Mash-Up Rock & Roll Musical organization, which remixes mainstream media and popular culture into innovative new live shows. Here, the gang is reprising its first show, from 2013, with several original cast members. Guest musician Jimmy Olson is the Mean Ol’ Grincher, who does his best to try and stop the Whos from playing their music so loud. $20+; shows held 7:30pm Dec. 13, 20 & 21; and 2pm and 7:30pm Dec 14 at the Grand Traverse Circuit, 225 W. 14th St., Traverse City. www.

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“Home for the Holidays” All-Ages Cabaret Market at Cadillac Commons, Cadillac Part holiday show, part singalong, and all family friendly: Cadillac’s Footliters theatre group will ring in the holiday season with a weekend-long engagement at the downtown Market at Cadillac Commons (117 W Cass St.). While the troupe continues its quest for a permanent home, it wanted to take advantage of Christmastime with a show for both youngsters and adults. The musical cabaret special will take the audience on a holiday rollercoaster of nostalgic and melancholy tunes as well as fun and festive favorites.

Showtime is 7pm nightly, Dec 12–14, with complimentary hot chocolate available at 6:30.

Tickets $12–$15. www.cadillacfootliters.com.

The Bergamot Holiday Concert City Opera House, Traverse City A northern Michigan summer concert favorite, husband-and-wife duo Nathaniel Paul Hoff and Jillian Speece produce dreamy indie pop, and here infuse it with the Christmas spirit. With influences ranging from Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac to Nick Drake and Bob Dylan, their heady mix of alt-pop and holiday-inspired music provides a night of intimate, unique music, and stories of inspiration. The musical duo’s name comes from bergamot essential oil, used to induce happiness and release stress. “Our music reflected this same ambiance — so we landed on our name: The Bergamot,” says Speece.

Tickets for the Dec. 19 event are $15+. www. cityoperahouse.com.

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Thursday, December 12th – 6:30 PM EMS Winter 6th-8th Grade Orchestra Concert EMS Performance Hall, 1776 Three Mile Rd. Thursday, December 12th – 7 PM WMS/WSH 6th & 8th Grade Bands & Wind Ensemble TC West Middle School Gymnasium, 3950 Silver Lake Rd. Monday, December 16th – 6:30 PM WSH/WMS Orchestra Holiday Concert Lars Hockstad Auditorium, 301 Seventh St. Tuesday, December 17th – 6:30 PM CHS Winter Orchestra Concert TC Central High School Auditorium, 1150 Milliken Dr. Tuesday, December 17th – 7:30 PM WSH Choir Green Holiday Concert: Cantate, Cantate Select, Con Brio, Westmen TC West Senior High School Auditorium, 5376 N. Long Lake Rd. Wednesday, December 18th – 7 PM CHS Holiday Choral Concert TC Central High School Auditorium, 1150 Milliken Dr. Thursday, December 19th – 7:30 PM WSH Choir Gold Holiday Concert: Bel Canto, Bella Voce, Choral, Choral-Aires Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1025 S Union St.

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Know someone who likes cheesemaking? Knitting? Making acrylic Christmas tree ornaments?

String art? Candle-making? It’s all here and more. “Here” is Gather in Harbor Springs, the brainchild of photographer Stephanie Baker, who decided she needed some time with others in addition to all the solitary time she spend in front of a computer manipulating photo images. So she offers various classes/workshops/get-togethers, which run the gamut as above. But if you want to gift a special class for yourself and your friends or family, she’ll oblige, with birthday classes, bachelorette classes, even just-because-I-want-to-hang-out-withmy-friends-and-make-stuff classes. www.gatherharborsprings.com; gatherharborsprings@gmail.com.

Three Pines Studio in Cross Village offers a variety of workshops for the creative snowbird on your list.

A few we’re betting she hasn’t tried before: Shibori-Indigo, a traditional Japanese form of pleating, folding, twisting, and wrapping using string to resist the dye. Or BatikIndigo, wax-resist dyeing with environmentally friendly soy wax.

Also on the agenda: Woodblock Printing with textile paints on cotton or linen. Cost is $10/day for studio time plus materials fee. Make napkins, T-shirts, table runners, scarves, bandanas, linen towels, etc.

Go to www.threepinesstudio.com or call (231) 526-9447.

Share the season the way it was meant to be: together, on a horsedrawn sleigh. Tom and Kathy Cyr keep a herd of 10 to 12 majestic Percheron horses at Black Horse Farm outside Empire. An hour-long scenic ride through the wooded hills of the farm (complete with lookouts over Glen Lake and Lake Michigan) is interrupted only by the sound of sleigh bells. Oh, and a stop midway for hot chocolate at the warming house. Adults, $18.50; ages 4–12 $13.50; age 3 and under, no charge.

Call (231) 334-4705 (office) or (231) 632-4705 (cell). Visit www. blackhorseLLC.com

A membership to the community gardening/maker/nature center is ideal for the Benzie area do-ityourselfer on your list. It includes admittance to a Grow Benzie workshop of his choice, an invitation to the annual Harvest Celebration, monthly newsletters, access to the “Stuff Library” (tools, appliances, books, seed library), and other events — are you excited yet? Located on M-115 between Frankfort and Benzonia, Grow Benzie hosts a farmers market, sewing studio and fiber shed, incubator kitchen, and community garden, and it provides workshops, after-school programs and fosters access to healthful foods, jobs, life skills, and each other by providing a community place that supports and nurtures these activities. Membership levels run from $1 to $500 or more. www. growbenzie.org.

Part microbrewery, part beer supply store, and all fun and foamy, Traverse City’s Fresh Coast Beer Works offers a host of beers on tap.

Find one you think your beer-hound brother-in-law might like, then get the recipe and all the ingredients he needs on site at sister shop, Brew Homebrew Supply. If he’s never home-brewed before, pick up some starter gear and enroll him in one of Ubrew’s Brewing 101 classes.

Advanced 201 classes are available, too. (231) 943-2016, www. fcbeerworks.com.

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Summer’s on the way (no, really), and there’s no better way to spend it than on the water. But if sticking a boat under the tree isn’t in the cards, simply book now for a day or sunset sail aboard Sunshine Charters’ Sunshine II next summer in Charlevoix. It’s a a Coast Guard-inspected 40-by-24foot catamaran built for smooth blue-water sailing, and trips are designed so guests will feel like it’s their own. You can trim the sails and steer. Cruise the south side of Round Lake while viewing amazing homes and boathouses on the way to Lake Charlevoix. Blow the horn to open the bridge as you pass the “mushroom houses” and travel through the channel into Lake Michigan. Day sails start at $35 per person, sunset cruises at $55.

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If the travel bug has bitten you, Tom Rockne can help. A veteran of the industry and veteran traveler himself (he’s been to all 50 states and all seven continents), he can help you plan a trip anywhere, though he specializes in two places few average agents do: Kenya and Cuba. While there are some restrictions on the latter in terms of “vacationing,” experiential travel there is available, and Rockne knows how to make cultural immersion happen. “You’ll have the stories and memories for the rest of your life,” he says. (231) 6310040, www.tomrockne.com

Give your family or group of pals the gift of getting through winter with a grin. Stormcloud Brewing Company in Frankfort is offering private group curling lessons, starting Jan. 6. The classes are available Monday through Friday noon to 4pm, and Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 5–9pm. Cost is $125 per group with a maximum of eight people; $15 per person for groups larger than eight. Fee includes a 1½ -hour curling session with instruction and equipment. All ages are welcome.

Curlers must sign a waiver before their lesson; those under 18 require a parent or guardian to sign. Minimum of one week advance notice required. www. stormcloudbrewing.com.

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Golf is the fastest-growing sport in America — that is, if you’re focusing on disc golf. For those who don’t already know: Disc golf is played in much the same way as traditional golf, though with Frisbee-like discs and above-ground baskets rather than clubs, dimpled balls, and in-ground holes. There are dozens of disc golf courses in and around northern Michigan’s woods and meadows, and the region happens to have its own disc golf headquarters at Tilley’s Party Store in Traverse City. Marc Hamlin will be more than happy to set up any beginner with a custom disc golf kit that includes driver, mid-range, and putter discs, a small bag, a mini marker, and insulated water bottle.

How much is one of those Callaway drivers again? And what are greens fees running? Consider this a great ticket to getting your gamer teen — and you — outside. Expect to pay about $90. (231) 947-5248, www.tilleystc.com.

The easiest way to give a gift the recipient is certain to love?

Outsource it. Independent bookstore Brilliant Books offers a personalized book subscription service in which every giftee gets a new book delivered each month, chosen by an expert bookseller based on that giftee’s personal reading preferences. When you order a gift subscription, the recipient will receive a gift box a reader’s preference card and bookworm goodies to tide him or her over until their first hand-picked selection arrives. Once the store receives the preferences card, the subscription will be assigned to the appropriate book selector — and every selection, every month, is guaranteed. (231) 946-2665, www.brilliant-books.net.

Gifting a spirits lover a bottle of her favorite whiskey is great — if you know her favorite whiskey.

But if you don’t … ? Gift her the experience of making her own.

Mammoth Distilling of Bellaire offers a Whiskey Blending Experience at its Traverse City cocktail lounge, allowing average folks to create their own unique blend of bourbon or rye in a single evening, choosing from the hundreds of aged barrels in Mammoth’s rick house. The opportunity happens most every Monday from 6pm to 8pm for just $125 per person. You can book a single spot or arrange for an experience for up to six people.

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Easy, inexpensive, and applicable to anyone with a window, these Birdie Cottage birdhouses from Grandpa Shorter’s are one of the shop’s hottest sellers this season. And we can see why.

What self-respecting chickadee or nuthatch wouldn’t love to partake of this crunchy delight? Four different styles (flavors) are available, each for $14.98. Grandpa Shorter’s Gifts has been offering the area unique gifts like these for over 71 years and through three generations of the Shorter family. (231) 347-2603, www.grandpashorters.com

Move over, Leland Blue. Take a seat, Frankfort Green. The new kid on the block is here. Veteran jewelrymaker Liz Saile has discovered a new type of stone to craft jewelry from, and Saginaw Sweetstone might be the next big thing. The purply-blue stone is the slag left over from sugar beet processing at the Pioneer Sugar plant in Bay City.

Saile believes she’s the only person creating jewelry from it. “I looked online for six months and couldn’t find anything,” she said. Earrings start at $35, pendants at $35, with her mountings added to that. L Saile is located at 8998 S. Kasson St. in Cedar. Call (231) 228-2082.

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2. Crooked Tree Breadworks Bread of the Month Club Get a fix of artisan breads delivered to your favorite homesick Northerner’s doorstep every month.

Crooked Tree Breadworks’ Bread of the Month Club allows you to choose the membership level (three, six, or 12 months) and whether you’d like one or two loaves to come in each delivery. Each membership includes a hand-stamped bread linen from Three Pines Studio in Cross Village.

The perfect gift for someone who tasted a loaf of Pepper Parmesan on a trip to the area, or who grew up eating these tasty loaves and moved away. Price depends on the plan, e.g. one monthly loaf for 12 months is $300; two loaves for three months is $130. Go to wwwwcrookedtreebreadworks.com or call (231) 347-9574.

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Owner Tim Barr has put his name on the package, so he must know what he’s doing (or at least his wife, Bonnie, does). Tim Barr’s Best Damn Jam (tart cherry, strawberry, simple berry), Tim Barr’s Cherry Habanero Jelly (zippy) and Tim Barr’s Tavern Mustard will give you a taste of Glen Arbor in the comfort of your own home. But don’t try ordering online. Art’s merchandise is only available in person — and, you’re no kind of local if you don’t already know: Art’s doesn’t take credit cards. $6.95, (231) 334-3754, www.artsglenarbor.com

“We take soup seriously,” says Petoskey institution Roast & Toast on its website. Those aren’t just words: The restaurant serves over 20,000 bowls of soup each year.

Four soups are made daily from 135 signature recipes, the most popular of which are White Chicken Chili, Potato Bleu Cheese, and Chicken Noodle. If you know a soup nut who lives in or visits Petoskey often, gift him or her this truly hot deal: a Roast & Toast insulated travel container (at 17 ounces, they’re portioned a little larger than a standard bowl) with a pre-paid soup card for six soups … and a guaranteed-warm belly all winter long. $59. (231) 347-7767, www.roastandtoast.com.

What was once a U.P. tradition has long since made its way south, thanks in part to Jerilyn De Boer, who brought her mom’s original recipe from the family’s Iron Mountain pasty shop in 1979 and used it to launch Cousin Jenny’s Cornish Pasties in Traverse City.

Today, you can ship seven different varieties of Jenny’s gourmet pasties to any hometown-hungry recipient on your list, anywhere in the nation.

The pasties are made fresh every morning, partially baked (to seal in their flavor), then frozen and packed in cooler boxes for two-day delivery, so they’re ready to bake on arrival. One caveat: You must order in batches of 12 pasties, about 10 days out. $6.95 per 10-ounce pasty; $7.95 per 16-ouncer. (231) 9431481, cousinjennyspasties.com/ shop to order.

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By Kristi Kates The best part about being Up North for the holiday season? Small-town celebrations done in cozy community style. Don your knit caps and mittens experience one of these picturesque scenes to rub snowy elbows with your neighbors or pick a new place you haven’t yet been. Either way, you’re sure to be welcome.

BELLAIRE Dec. 7 is this year’s 10th Annual Light Up the Night and Soup Cook-Off Celebration in downtown Bellaire, starting at 11am and running until 7pm. It’s a full day of holiday fun, from kids’ movies and ornament making to visits with Santa Claus and a Toys for Tots toy drive. Participate in the soup cook-off starting at 7pm. Pre-purchase tickets to try the soups — more than 10 restaurants are competing for your votes — and get bread samples to go from Ruthann’s Gourmet Bakery, then stick around for the tree lighting, Christmas caroling, the beautiful Parade of Lights, and a live nativity scene, all family-friendly events.

More information: (231) 533-6023, www. bellairechamber.com BOYNE CITY Nov. 29 is the big day in Boyne City for holiday festivities, with downtown businesses offering a plethora of specials and great opportunities for early holiday shopping at their Downtown Open House.

Santa will arrive in Boyne City during the Santa Parade (6pm start), and he’ll lead the crowds to the lighting of the Christmas tree and stick around to meet up with local kids.

More information: (231) 582-6222, www. boynechamber.com, boynecitymainstreet.com CADILLAC The Cadillac area has several fabulous ways to enjoy the holiday season, the first being the Santa Experience at Pahl’s Country

Store in nearby Buckley, where you can take a tractor-pulled hayride into the snowy woods to visit Santa Claus at his very own cabin and enjoy hot cocoa and marshmallows by the bonfire ($8 per person, days/times vary.) Nov. 29 brings Cadillac’s annual lighting of the local Christmas tree, photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus, and snacks available for purchase from local food trucks at Cadillac’s Christmas in the Park, which startis at 5:30pm.

More information: www.pahlscountrystore. com (for the Santa Experience), and www. cadillacmichigan.com.

CHARLEVOIX The lakeside city’s big holiday parade and tree lighting are set for Friday, Nov. 29, with Black Friday deals taking place all day long (starting at 10am) in local shops.

The full roster of activities includes holiday crafts and fun, plus free photos with Santa (at Charlevoix State Bank, 3pm–5pm). The parade itself starts at 5:30pm downtown, on Bridge Street, and culminates with the community lighting of the tree at 6pm in East Park. Get even more deals on Dec. 7, when Charlevoix’s Merchant Open House takes place from 9pm to 5pm.

More information: (231) 547-2101, visitcharlevoix.com EAST JORDAN East Jordan’s Holiday Community Night (5pm–7pm, Dec. 5) is a perfect welcoming spot for Santa, who will make his way down Main Street as part of the Lighted Parade, and then meet up with the local kids. East Jordan’s Citizens of the Year will get the honor of lighting the 2019 Christmas tree; businesses and restaurants will be open with special sales and deals; and the town’s annual soup cook-off will be happening, too, with proceeds to benefit the Care and Share Food Pantry.

More information: (231) 536-7351, www. ejchamber.org

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GAYLORD Head to the Gaylord Area Arts Council Holiday Art Market 2pm–6pm Dec. 4 to enjoy light refreshments, music from WCMU’s Judy Wagley and Rokko Jans and lots of great gift choices. On Dec. 6, enjoy the Extreevaganza at Otsego Resort, full of beautifully decorated holiday trees, games with friends, and live/silent auctions to benefit the Community Fund. Then head downtown by 5:30pm Dec. 7 for Gaylord’s annual Santa Light Parade, featuring local business, individuals, and organizations teaming up to make Main Street into a festive welcoming road for Santa Claus in his horse-drawn sleigh.

More information: (989) 732-6333, http://www.gaylordchamber.com” www. gaylordchamber.com; www.gaylordarts. com (for the art market), and www. otsegofoundation.org for the Extreevaganza.

HARBOR SPRINGS Santa Claus is coming to Harbor Springs on Nov. 30, to help kick off holiday shopping and invite locals and visitors alike to The Lyric theater for a free holiday movie and a meet and greet with Santa himself.

Afterward, stop by the intersection of Main and Spring streets to meet Santa’s reindeer, and starting at 6pm, celebrate over 100 years of tradition by joining the town for carols and the lighting of its always-giant Christmas tree. The following week, the 2019 classic Merchant’s Open House in Harbor Springs is all set for the evening of Dec. 7 (6-9pm), complete with beautifully decorated shop windows, live music, shopping specials, beverages and snacks, and more.

More information: (231) 526-7999, www. harborspringschamber.com MANISTEE Manistee’s most festive holiday weekend is Dec. 5-8, when the old port city welcomes locals and visitors to their Victorian

Sleighbell Parade and Old Christmas Weekend. Highlights including carolers in Victorian attire, downtown decorations, a Jingle Bell Run, bagpipers, a performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet (at Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts), tours of a lumber baron’s mansion, gift shopping, and more. The biggest highlight, though, is the holiday parade, which features draft horses pulling a 30-foot holiday tree down Manistee’s River Street.

More information: (877) 626-4783, www. visitmanisteecounty.com PETOSKEY Nov. 30 is the day for the little city’s big Stafford’s Downtown Petoskey Holiday Parade. The parade, which starts at 6pm, will run right through the gaslit downtown, with bands, horses, floats, walking ensembles, and, of course, Santa.

At 6pm Dec. 6, Santa will return to light the Christmas tree in Pennsylvania Park, and merchants will stay open late to offer shopping deals, beverages and snacks, holiday greetings, live carolers and music, and the traditional “bean pots” of soup made by the Petoskey Snowmobile Club.

More information: (231) 622-8501, www. petoskeydowntown.com TRAVERSE CITY Traverse City’s holiday shopping is topnotch, and is, in fact, specially organized so you can nab deals and treats at several different events. Bring the whole family downtown for the Dec. 8 Cocoa Crawl to enjoy hot cocoa from various locations while doing your holiday shopping and voting on your favorite cocoa choice. Ladies Night is set for Dec. 12, and Mens Night takes place Dec. 19; both nights offer super shopping deals, snacks, and refreshments, and a huge party scene.

More information: (231) 947-5075, www. tcchamber.org.

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WILLOW Culinary artistry in Harbor Springs

Harbor Springs is the quintessence of a traditional Northern Michigan resort village. With its quaint downtown streets and shops, its sheltered harbor, and its stately “cottages” tucked away in wooded waterfront enclaves, it evokes a vintage Currier & Ives print. And in the midst of it all sits Willow, a restaurant whose modern vibe might seem to be in stark contrast to this scene, but whose pure, classic approach to food and dining are in perfect harmony with it.

By Janice Binkert In its own way, Willow actually mirrors the unique Harbor Springs feel: understated, elegant and above all, tasteful — literally and figuratively. Opened on June 26, 2018, the restaurant, whose menu features an everevolving array of seasonal, creatively prepared and artfully composed small and large plates, quickly became a hot ticket for both locals and visitors, the latter of whom greatly outnumber the former during the busy summer months.

A SENSE OF PLACE Listening to Willow’s chef-owner Daniel Rutkowski talk, you would guess he’s a native of this charming town, having embraced it wholeheartedly not only as a business owner but also as a member of the community. But in fact, he was born and grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and returned to work and live in the Detroit area for years after earning a

degree in economics from Oakland University and subsequently graduating from the Culinary Institute of America.

During his first five years after culinary school, he was part of the Roberts Restaurant Group in Oakland County, owned by Bill Roberts, one of the most successful restaurateurs in Michigan. “He’s a terrific guy, and I learned a lot about the restaurant business from him, working at his Beverly Hills Grill and Streetside Seafood establishments, and helping him open the Roadside [B & G] in Bloomfield Hills,” said Rutkowski.

Most recently, Rutkowski worked at the Motor City Casino in downtown Detroit, serving as executive chef of the hotel and the 16th floor fine dining restaurant, Iridescence, where he oversaw 187 cooks and over a dozen sous chefs. It was an exciting time for Rutkowski, but eventually, the 100-hour weeks got to him, and he was ready to leave city life behind. “After a while, you lose track

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of what you’re doing and lose track of time — I needed a change,” he said. “I had saved some money and had some backing, and I wanted to open my own restaurant.”

Rutkowski’s girlfriend, Caitlin, was on board with the restaurant idea, too. They started by looking in northern Michigan, because the couple had always loved the area but Rutkowski said he was initially focused on looking into space for sale in Traverse City and Petoskey. Then a friend told him about a pre-exisiting restaurant for sale farther north.

“I didn’t actually choose Harbor Springs,” Rutkowski said. “It chose me.

Because the space was already outfitted with many essentials, such as exhaust hoods and the like, Rutkowski said they were able to devote money and elbow grease into bringing the kitchen up to his standards while updating interior finishes and décor in a way that reflected the style they envisioned. The result is minimalist and contemporary, with warm,

Clockwise from top left: Chef Daniel and Front of House Manager Caitlin House made corn-filled caramelle pasta with Maine lobster, tarragon, corn butter and popcorn.

Coconut shrimp, aerated coconut, crisp sushi rice, heirloom carrot, coconut almond crumb and pineapple gel.

Heritage pork belly with grilled kohlrabi, kohlrabi purée, pickled kohlrabi, fermented rhubarb jam, micro fennel and fennel oil.

Wild mushroom bolognese, cacio e pepe polenta, basil salsa verde, microgreens.

rustic touches and large, striking photos of northern Michigan landscapes lining the walls to underscore the sense of place.

The actual placement of the restaurant, of course, does that job equally well. “Our location right across from the marina, as you can see, is perfect,” he said. “Water views are very much appreciated by our clientele.” Next summer he

plans to add a garage-type glass door at the front of the restaurant that can be opened to let guests enjoy warm breezes off the water.

“We had a great first year, and our second year was even better,” he said. “The clientele in Harbor Springs is serious about their food and drink. They are sophisticated diners who are seeking a special restaurant experience. If you put out a good product and provide good service, they will reward you. We cultivate close relationships with them, and many of them have become repeat customers.”

IT STARTS WITH BRUNOISE Rutkowski calls his cuisine “modern American,” which he defines as having an emphasis on farm to table, respecting the ingredients, and seeking out ethical suppliers who care about quality and sustainability. “Are we a true 100 percent farm-to-table restaurant?

No. It’s very difficult to be that, especially in a four-season climate like ours,” said Rutkowski.

“And are we a true American restaurant? Well, it depends on how you interpret that. When I think of American cuisine, we are really a melting pot of many cuisines, and I like to honor that with my food.”

One thing is certain: The care that goes into each dish that is prepared in the Willow kitchen is of the highest level. “When you’re making a brunoise (fine dice) of potatoes or carrots, for example, you can either do it carelessly, just to get it done, or take your time and do it right,” said Rutkowski. “When you put forth your best effort, and the result is beautiful, you feel good about yourself. And I love that feeling.”

Equal attention is afforded to plate presentation, showcasing each element of a dish to its best advantage. The look is deliberate and clean, yet a bit fanciful, making it appealing and satisfying for both chef and diner. “That’s why we cook,” Rutkowski said. “It’s all about pleasing our guest and doing whatever you have to do to make them and yourself happy.”

Willow’s menu is fairly condensed but full of variety, emphasizing quality over quantity.

In summer, it changes about every two weeks.

“During those four peak months, we’re getting fresh produce from seven farms in the region, local fish is available, and I’ll fly in four different kinds seafood from the coasts every single day, because I know I will be able to sell it.” said Rutkowski. “During the winter, seasonality still counts, but I scale back on the amounts of food I buy, because I want to avoid having too much waste. It’s about being smart and making menus that work for the guests and for the kitchen. We have a really great organic chicken farm right here in Emmet County that we source from year-round. You pay for it, but the quality is unmatched. Being in a community like Harbor Springs, local people want to see you support other local people, just like they support you.”

In the coming weeks and months, Rutkowski said he will concentrate heartier fare — comfort foods like braised meats and house-made pastas, as well as fish and seafood entrées and root vegetables. Last year’s December menu listed small plates that included maitake mushrooms (with miso-celeriac purée, dashi, and burnt onion), crab cakes (with jumbo lump crab, Old Bay seasoning, lemon gel, and hot Chinese mustard aioli) and Brussels sprouts (with mint, parsley, cilantro, chile, fresh lime, and agave).

Large plates featured handmade gnocchi (with beurre noisette, aerated sunchoke and red Anjou pear), lobster linguini (with Maine lobster, caramelized fennel cream, tarragon and lemon crumb), Thai curry shrimp (with togarashi spice, red curry rice and coconut lime emulsion), and beef filet (with crisp potato pavé, leek ash and Detroit-style “zip sauce”).

A sampling of the fall 2019 menu featured a smoked whitefish chowder, steak tartare, and miso salmon, among other dishes. “There are two things we always have on the menu — the Brussels sprouts and the filet,” said Rutkowski, “and the preparation is always the same. Those are definite customer favorites. Being from

Detroit, the original Zip Sauce is very dear to my heart. Ours is my take on it.”

LOVE WHAT YOU DO As much as Rutkowski loves Harbor Springs, he admitted that when you have a destination restaurant in a small resort town in northern Michigan, winters can be tough. “You know you’re going to have four good months and eight really bad months, so you have to make it count when you can. The first year we stayed open all year, but you soon recognize the ups and downs of the seasons, and you know when to be open and when not. So we made the decision to only be open at certain times during the off season (see sidebar: WINTER DINING HEATS UP). But when we’re closed, I don’t go on vacation.

“I cater at Augusta National for the Masters in April. Then I go to Hilton Head and cook at the Heritage Sea Pines golf tournament.

After that, I go out to the Aspen Food and Wine Festival, and I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with some amazing chefs, like Marcus Samuelson, Eric Ripert, and Anthony Bourdain, through that event. I’m working all year, but it’s fun and interesting, and it all helps grow your brand on who you are. That’s what you do if you want to be successful. You have to love what you do, or you’ll never last in the restaurant industry.

“And speaking of loving what you do, my best story is Caitlin. She runs the front of the house here at Willow and is an experienced bartender, but she also just starting cooking with me. She’ll research ideas until 2 a.m. and tell me the next morning, ‘We’re making mozzarella balloons today.’ Recently, she did individual lemon tarts, making her own dough and filling and decorating each one beautifully. She doesn’t need me to help her.

I’ll taste with her, but that’s about it. She’s not a chef or a trained baker, but she has learned by doing and teaching herself.”

The name “Willow” reflects just how deeply Rutkowski has put down roots in Harbor Springs.

“We’re right on M-119, the Tunnel of Trees, a Scenic Heritage Route, and black willows — which are the one of the oldest tree species in the world — grow along that corridor,” he explains.

“It was important to me to choose a name for the restaurant that had some connection to where I was, and Willow just felt right.”

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WINTER DINING HEATS UP Willow has been closed since late October (because, Rutkowski explained, “Harbor Springs is a ghost town in November”), but the restaurant will be opening for dinner from 5pm to 10pm the weekend of the town’s annual Christmas tree lighting (Nov. 29 and 30, and Dec. 1). It will reopen again for dinner seven days a week, from Dec. 18 Jan. 5, except for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Two wine dinners will also be held during the holidays, one featuring Italian wines on Dec. 22, and one with French wines on Dec. 29.

Watch the website for the menu and further details. Rutkowski also revealed that based on the popularity of last year’s New Year’s Eve party, he is planning a reprise this year that will feature a pre fixe menu. Calling ahead for reservations is a must for both dinner and any special events, since Willow is also hosting several private gatherings over the holidays. The restaurant will open for the summer the week before Memorial Day and will be add lunch in addition to its regular dinner service.

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By Ross Boissoneau You can’t really say that Tim and Bridgett Lambdin’s candy store is without parallel. After all, Candy World is the sister operation to their 45th Parallel Café located right next door.

But maybe you can say it about the fudge. Certainly you can say its variations on candied apples are unique. It’s all in a day’s work for the couple, who escaped the big city for their little slice of paradise in Suttons Bay a quarter century ago.

“My husband and I were working the corporate grind outside Chicago,” said Bridgett Lambdin. “His parents retired to Leland. We were up here at least once a month.”

It wasn’t long before the corporate world began to pall, and they decided to explore opportunities in northern Michigan. After struggling to find jobs that would dovetail with their experience — he had a degree in agronomy, she was in marketing — they decided to make their own jobs and opened 45th Parallel Café. That was 25 years ago.

“We resigned, sold our home, and moved here. My husband had restaurant experience, and his fraternity brother, who was a chef at Spago, moved with us.”

Post-Eat Sweets About seven years later they bought the then-empty store next door, knocked a hole in the wall and opened Candy World. While Tim boasted a background perfect for the eatery, having worked in all capacities in multiple restaurants all through college, this was a chance for Bridgett to lean on her life experience: Namely, chocolate.

“My dad worked at Nestle for 43 years, and my mother and grandmother were both chocolatiers,” she said.

So while the store stocks scads of

different candies, it was her fudge that she saw as a way to really set the store apart. And boy, does it.

about eight hours per shift, depending on the day and orders. We also wholesale to other shops and supply them with their fudge.”

A Flavor for All Tastes “We make 45 different flavors,” she said.

That includes Egg Nog with Rum, Peanut Butter Snickers, Pecan Pie, Almond Joy Coconut Dough, and even four different kinds of pumpkin fudge: One is a basic Pumpkin Pie fudge, one adds walnuts, there’s a turtle version with caramel and pecans, and — wait for it — Pumpkin Chocolate Toffee and Sea Salt.

Lambdin said the No. 1 crowd pleaser is the Belgian Dark Chocolate Caramel Sea Salt. She said it’s not unusual to go through 275 pounds of it per week in the summer.

Other popular varieties include (deep breath): Dark Chocolate Cherry, Toffee Sea Salt, Turtle, Maple Bacon (“tastes just like pancakes and bacon”), Cherry Amaretto Pecan, Snickers with peanut butter-dipped chocolate peanuts, Reese Cup with hunks of peanut butter, Cookies and Cream, Peppermint Bark, and Vanilla Caramel Sea Salt. Whew.

So how does all that fudge get made?

Exactly as her mom and grandmother did: in many, many batches on the stove, stirring constantly, then pouring directly into the pan to harden. Lambdin does admit to using large kettles to churn and stir the fudge as demand has grown, but there are no marble slabs, and yes, she is the one and only fudge-maker.

She said the old fashioned, homemade approach is the best way to create a super creamy consistency without any grittiness and smooth flavor. “You don’t just taste sweet — you can actually taste the flavors of the cocoa and other ingredients.

“I make fudge every other day. It takes

Incognito Jelly Belly HQ So is there anything else at the shop besides fudge? Well, yes. “It’s not fudge only. We’re northern Michigan’s Jelly Belly headquarters. We have a huge gummy selection, a fun kids’ selection, and nostalgia candies,” Lambdin said. Then there are candy bars, Reeds hard candies, popcorn, and caramel corn … the list goes on and on.

So is one of those items the most popular, or is it the fudge? The answer: neither. The holidays in particular see the giant fudge-dipped apples fly out the door. Lambdin starts with a Honeycrisp or Granny Smith apple, then begins the dipping process: vanilla caramel, vanilla fudge, and chocolate fudge, all drizzled in caramel, vanilla, and chocolate. There you have the Unparalleled Apple.

Of course, you don’t have to stop there.

Lambdin doesn’t. The best-selling apple is the Michigan Queen, which adds local dried cherries, Belgian dark-chocolate cherries, red velvet cherries, and Belgian dark chocolate almonds. “It’s really pretty,” said Lambdin.

Or start with the Unparalleled and Go Nuts with milk and dark chocolate-dipped almonds and cashews. Or the Turtle Sea Salt Apple, again using the Unparalleled as a base, then incorporating dark and Belgian chocolate fudgebefore it’s coated with Georgia pecans, Belgian-dipped extra-large pecans and then lightly dusted with sea salt.

Lambdin then wraps the apple (yes, there’s still apple underneath it all), so it’s ready for shipping. “What’s cool is sending something local that you can’t get anywhere else,” said Lambdin.

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One thing they have in common: Lambdin recommends always using the best ingredients you can afford. “I’m incredibly picky and use only the finest ingredients. I use finely grated Belgian cocoa, creamy real butter, organic cream, fine sugar, real Vermont maple, and Madagascar vanilla,” she said. The same is true of whatever additional flavorings or ingredients she uses.

Beyond ingredients, she said the most important part of fudge-making is patience, Pay attention to what you’re doing, she said. Don’t get distracted and don’t wander off, or your fudge is sure to burn.

Last, keep it moving. “If you’re making it at home, I suggest you constantly stir your fudge while it’s cooking, so as to not scorch the bottom.

This breaks down the sugar as well.”

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By Ross Boissoneau It’s the holiday season, but don’t fret: While the Oak Ridge Boys show at Leelanau Sands Casino is billed as a “Down Home Christmas,” there’s no doubt Bobby Sue and Elvira will join in the fun. After all, it wouldn’t be an Oaks concert without bass Richard Sterban’s “Oom papa mau mau.”

Asked by phone how cool it is to be able to hit those notes way down low, Sterban chuckled and said, “It is extremely cool.”

True story: He actually began his singing career as a six-year-old soprano in Sunday school in his native Camden, New Jersey.

By seventh grade, he was a tenor in the glee club, but when he returned for eighth grade in the fall, lo and behold, he was a bass.

Octo-Xmas Fast forward a few decades, and the Oak Ridge Boys, with Sterban anchoring the low notes, continue to thrill crowds. The group also continues to release new music. Its most recent effort is Down Home Christmas, its eighth(!) holiday recording, featuring “Silent Night,” “Amazing Grace,” and eight new holiday songs. It was produced by Dave Cobb, who was behind the boards for 2009’s The Boys are Back. “Dave’s a genius. He has access to young, hot songwriters and made some brand new songs sound Christmas-y,” Sterban said.

During the recording session, the

group got to the next to the last day when they realized they didn’t have one that featured Sterban’s inimitable bass. The team went home and, overnight, came up with “Reindeer on the Roof.” The group learned and recorded it the next day. With its chorus of “B-Boom, b-boom boom boom boom boom,” followed immediately by Sterban’s “What’s that,” it’s got hooks aplenty. Add some witty lyrics and a comical video, and you’ve got what sounds like a hit.

“The whole thing happened in less than 24 hours. It’s amazing how quickly it came together,” said Sterban of the song.

The video was later recorded at Nashville’s Santa’s Pub by the Oaks, fellow country stars Jamey Johnson and John Rich, and a relatively new pal, actor and singer Dennis Quaid.

AKA The Georgia Clodhoppers While musical groups like The Rolling Stones and Moody Blues celebrate more than 50 years as musical entities, the Oak Ridge Boys easily top that. The celebrated vocal quartet actually originally formed as Wally Fowler and the Georgia Clodhoppers an astonishing 76 years ago, initially performing at the nuclear research plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. That precipitated the name change to the Oak Ridge Quartet, and finally, the Oak Ridge Boys.

The current version came together in 1973, when Joe Bonsall was added to the

group that featured Sterban (who’d joined the year before), William Lee Golden (whose tenure began in 1965), and Duane Allen (who joined in 1966). They’ve been together ever since, except for Golden’s nine-year sabbatical, which ended when he returned one minute after midnight on Jan. 1, 1996.

Even with all that time behind them, the Oaks look ahead and have no plans to hang it up. “We have to be realistic. We know nothing goes on forever — we’re not kids anymore,” Sterban said. “But as long as we’re healthy and still doing it at a high level, we do not plan to retire anytime soon. We’re still having fun doing it.”

Presidential Honors They’re making fans along the way. One of the group’s biggest was President George H.W. Bush. When the group was invited to play for President Ronald Reagan, thenVice President Bush stopped in at their sound check, asking them to play a couple songs for him because he wasn’t able to be at their show. That started a relationship that continued to the end of his life.

“We were dear friends,” said Sterban.

The group and their wives even spent time with the Bush family at the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

“We’d hang out and do private concerts in his living room,” Sterban said.

“He asked us to sing at his funeral,” Sterban said. The group was in the midst of

its tour when Bush died. The group did its scheduled show the night before the former president’s funeral in Spokane, Washington, then went directly to the airport.

“A private jet took us to Houston. We went to a hotel, cleaned up, went to the church and met with the family. When we sang, it was a very emotional time,” Sterban said. After the funeral, the group boarded a plane and flew back to the tour. “We didn’t miss a [concert] date, and we kept our promise.”

Up Close at Christmas Concert Sterban said the group’s holiday show features a few different segments. They do some of their country pop hits, then take an intermission and come back with some holiday favorites. After a visit from a special guest (spoiler: It’s the big guy in the red suit), they kick back on comfy rocking chairs to talk about themselves and some of their favorite songs. “It gives the audience a chance to know the Oak Ridge Boys a little better,” he said.

Then the group finishes up with a series of songs that Sterban said encapsulate the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of Jesus. “We end on a sacred note. It’s the total package.”

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Buy now and Save! Purchase a complete pair of prescription eyeglasses or sunglasses and receive 30% off. Current eyeglass prescription is required.

This offer includes designer frames and prescription sunglasses. *some restrictions apply see store for details. Offer also valid at Midland and Mt Pleasant locations.

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nov 23

saturday

BOYNE CITY’S EARLIER THAN THE BIRD: 7-11am.

Keep your pajamas on & get a head start on your holiday shopping. All the downtown stores will have deals, snacks & more. Stop at the Boyne Area Chamber of Commerce office early; the first 125 shoppers in line will receive a free gift & a buyer’s guide. Free. boynecitymainstreet.com

---------------------ANNUAL TAAG HOLIDAY ARTS & CRAFT SHOW: 9am-3pm, Alden Community Center.

A large variety of vendors showing jewelry, woodworking, textiles & holiday décor. Free admission.

---------------------BOOK SALE: 9am-3pm, Alden District Library. Held during the TAAG Craft Show. 231331-4318.

---------------------TOY TOWN TOY TROT 5K: 9am, 122 S. Mitchell St., Cadillac. Benefits Toys for Tots of Wexford & Missaukee counties. $35 for 18 & up. $25 for under 18. racewire.com

---------------------2019 KAIR FESTIVAL OF TREES: Northland Plaza, Kalkaska. Featuring 35 decorated trees in sizes ranging from 2 feet to 8 feet in all colors & themes. There will also be a raffle, Santa & live music by Patty Cox. Hours are 10am-3pm on Sat., Nov. 16 & Sun., Nov. 24; & 10am-7pm on Nov. 17-23. 231-350-5114. Free.

---------------------MERRY MAKERS MARKETPLACE: 10am4pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. An annual sale of fine art & fine craft during the holiday season. Shop from over two dozen artists & artisans. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-traversecity/merry-makers

---------------------MINDFUL EATING, MINDFUL LIVING: 10am, trans•form [tc], 819 S. Garfield Ave., TC. Join the founders of Love Body to discuss how mindfulness applies to the eating experience.

Please bring your own yoga mat for seating.

RSVP in advance by emailing: contact@transform-tc.com. Free. lovebodywisdom.com

---------------------HOLIDAY MULTI-AUTHOR CHRISTIAN BOOK PARTY: 11am-2pm, GT House of Prayer/Table 12 Coffee House, TC. Several book genres available by local Christian authors.

---------------------YOGA FOR ALL - KARMA YOGA WITH ARTS FOR ALL & JUST BEE YOGA: 11am, Arts for All of NMI Studio, 1129 Woodmere Ave., Unit A, TC. Donation. artsforallnmi.org/ community-events

---------------------FREE FROZEN PARTY: Noon-2pm, Once Upon A Child, TC. “Frozen II” opens in theatres on Nov. 22. Meet & greet your favorite Frozen princesses as well as real reindeer & alpacas.

MEET THE AUTHORS: Bay Books, Suttons Bay. Kathleen Stocking will present her newest book, “From the Place of the Gathering Light,” from 12-1:30pm. Cindy Hull will sign her new book, “Human Sacrifice,” from 2-4pm.

Free. baybooksmi.com

nov/dec

HOLIDAY WREATH WORKSHOP: 1pm, Elk Rapids District Library. Join Connie from Elk Lake Floral to create a wreath for the holiday season. Attendees will be provided a 12 inch wreath frame. Please bring pruning shears, gloves, at least two brown grocery bags of balsam, cedar, & pine boughs. Also bring ribbon, rose hips, dried fruit & nuts, etc. to decorate the wreath. Please call 231-264-9979 to register. Free. elkrapidslibrary.org/news-events/ holiday-wreath-workshop

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

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---------------------NORTHWEST MICHIGAN BALLET THEATRE PRESENTS “THE NUTCRACKER”: 2pm & 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Enjoy Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. An experience in the Land of Sweets. $12-$20. ballet-etc.com/northwestmichigan-ballet-theatre

---------------------“THE STONE CIRCLE”: 3pm, Bellaire Theater. A Film by Patrick Pfister. Terry Wooten will be present. Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------MISSOULA CHILDREN’S THEATRE: “THE SNOW QUEEN”: 3pm & 7pm, Cheboygan Opera House. 231-627-5841. $10 adults, $5 children. theoperahouse.org

---------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHORALE PRESENTS: SING JOY!: 3pm & 7:30pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Featuring many carol arrangements of the renowned Robert Shaw. $15 adults, $12 students, free for 10 & under. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------DOWNTOWN LIGHT PARADE, SANTA’S ARRIVAL & TREE LIGHTING: 5:30-8pm, Downtown TC. Santa will arrive at 6pm to light the tree at the corner of Cass & E. Front streets. The parade will start shortly after & travel along E. Front Street, Franklin to Union. Find on Facebook.

---------------------“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF”: 7-10pm, TC West Senior High School. Presented by TC West Vocal Department. $15-$25. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------CHARLEVOIX PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS “THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 7pm, Charlevoix Middle/High School Auditorium. $10 adult; $5 students & seniors; special matinee pricing. Find on Facebook.

---------------------GOPHERWOOD CONCERTS: CHARLIE MILLARD BAND: 7pm, Cadillac Elks Lodge.

With influences like Tom Waits, Patrick Watson, and The Kinks, this band brings an indieAmericana style that is similar to 70’s folk/ rock. $7-$15. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------MEL LARIMER CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Featuring

Harken back to the quaint charm of Christmas a century ago at the Grand Traverse Lighthouse in Northport 10am– 4pm, Dec. 1–8. The cozy keeper’s apartment is dolled up just as it would have been for Christmas of yesteryear, and an actor in period costume will share tales of the lighthouse families that have lived there — including the only female keeper and the history of the Christmas Tree Ship that sank in Lake Michigan in 1912. On Family Day, Dec. 8, the lighthouse stays open until 6pm, and beginning at 3pm, kids can enjoy cookie decorating, ornament making, a hot cocoa bar, and of course, a visit with Santa. $5 per person, plus a State Park Recreation Passport (required to enter the park’s grounds). Search “Grand Traverse Lighthouse” on Facebook. the Grand Traverse Area Festival Chorus & Chamber Orchestra, NMC Grand Traverse Chorale & Chamber Singers, NMC Children’s Choir, & soloists Laura & Keith Brown, all under the baton of nationally known conductor Dr. Henry Leck of Butler University. Adults $15; children $10. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------“ELF THE MUSICAL”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Adults: $28; youth: $15 (plus fees). mynorthtickets.com

ELK RAPIDS PLAYERS PRESENT “GUYS AND DOLLS”: 7:30pm, HERTH Hall, Elk Rapids. $16 GA; $13 seniors; $10 students. ertownhall.org/er-players.html

---------------------THE SMOKED OUT SHOW HIP-HOP CONCERT: 8-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor.

Featuring Lawson, Drebb, Letter B, Clay Meadows, M-Five, Blissful, Markavelli, & SASRJ. $10. mynorthtickets.com

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nov 24

sunday

SANTA CARES DAY: 9:3011:30am, GT Mall, TC. Children within all spectrums of special needs & their families are welcome to attend this sensory-friendly event. Free. grandtraversemall.com/en/ events/santa-cares.html

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WMISD SCHOOL HOLIDAY BAZAAR: 8:30am-1pm, WMISD Special Services Gymnasium, Cadillac. A wide variety of gifts made by students in special education.

9TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY GIFT & CRAFT SHOW: 11am-5pm, Odawa Casino, Ovation Hall, Petoskey. Free admission. odawacasino.com

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2ND ANNUAL CRANKSGIVING TRAVERSE CITY: Noon, Norte Wheelhouse, Civic Center, TC. Part bicycle ride, part food drive. Ride by yourself or with a team. You will be provided a list of food items & tasked with purchasing these items from several grocery stores in town. You will also be challenged to commit at least one act of random kindness. Register. elgruponorte.org/cranksgiving/registration

---------------------AUTHOR SIGNING: 1-3pm, Horizon Books, TC. Barbara Kudwa will sign her book “Finding God Anew.” horizonbooks.com/event/authorsigning-barbara-kudwa

---------------------EATING CLEAN DURING THE HOLIDAYS: 1pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. With Oryana Education & Outreach Coordinator Devin Moore. Register. Free. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------“ELF THE MUSICAL”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Adults: $28; youth: $15 (plus fees). mynorthtickets.com

---------------------“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF”: 2-5pm, TC West Senior High School. Presented by TC West Vocal Department. $15-$25. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------CHARLEVOIX PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS “THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 2pm, Charlevoix Middle/High School Auditorium. $10 adults; $5 students & seniors; special matinee pricing. Find on Facebook.

---------------------NORTHWEST MICHIGAN BALLET THEATRE PRESENTS “THE NUTCRACKER”: 2pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Enjoy Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. An experience in the Land of Sweets. $12-$20. ballet-etc.com/northwest-michiganballet-theatre

GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Paint Sample Turkey. Held from 11am-noon & 2-3pm. greatlakeskids.org

CARDIAC SUPPORT GROUP: 2pm, MCHC, Meeting Room A, TC. Free. munsonhealthcare.org/cardiac-rehab

---------------------OVERDOSE CLINIC: 6pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. Harm Reduction Michigan offers their monthly workshop on recognizing & responding to an opioid overdose. All participants will be instructed on the use of the immediate antidote, Nalaxone/ Narcan, & given an emergency kit to go. Free. harmreductionmi.org

---------------------MOVIE NIGHT: 6:30-9pm, Bellaire Public Library. Enjoy a TCFF 2018 movie, “The Russian Five.” Wear your Red Wings swag & get a prize. Free.

nov 27

wednesday

PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH DAY SUPPORT GROUP: 10am, TC Senior Center. No December day time support group. 9477389. Free. pnntc.org

---------------------TCNEWTECH BOOMERANG HOMECOMING: 5pm, The Park Place Hotel, TC. This event is geared towards professionals who have made the trip home for the holidays & are considering relocating back to TC or northern MI. Featuring some of TC’s fastest growing companies, top local tech & professional services companies, investors, & non-profit organizations. Free. eventbrite.com

nov 28

thursday

ELK RAPIDS PLAYERS PRESENT “GUYS AND DOLLS”: 3pm, HERTH Hall, Elk Rapids. $16 GA; $13 seniors; $10 students. ertownhall.org/er-players.html

9TH ANNUAL TURKEY TROT 5K: 8:30am, Charlevoix Hospital. Costumes encouraged. Donations of non-perishable food items for local food pantries appreciated. Find on Facebook.

NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHORALE PRESENTS: SING JOY!: 3pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Featuring many carol arrangements of the renowned Robert Shaw. $15 adults, $12 students, free for 10 & under. greatlakescfa.org

12TH ANNUAL UPNORTH MEDIA TC TURKEY TROT: 9am, St. Francis High School, TC. 5K & 5 mile runs. This year’s race will benefit TART Trails Boardman Lake Loop Project & local youth teams/organizations. $20-$40 per person. tcturkeytrot.com

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nov 26

2019 KAIR FESTIVAL OF TREES: (See Sat., Nov. 23)

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And be sure to visit�

FREE COMMUNITY DINNER: 5:30-6:30pm, First Presbyterian Church, Elk Rapids.

MEL LARIMER CONCERT SERIES: 4pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Featuring the Grand Traverse Area Festival Chorus & Chamber Orchestra, NMC Grand Traverse Chorale & Chamber Singers, NMC Children’s Choir, & soloists Laura & Keith Brown, all under the baton of nationally known conductor Dr. Henry Leck of Butler University. Adults $15; children $10. mynorthtickets.com

nov 25

monday

WMISD SCHOOL HOLIDAY BAZAAR: 3-6pm, WMISD Special Services Gymnasium, Cadillac. A wide variety of gifts made by students in special education.

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---------------------5K TURKEY VULTURE TROT: 9am. Held on a paved, looped-course thru the rolling terrain of Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Top male & female finishers overall in the 5K receive a Crystal Premier Season Pass. The 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk will be held at 10am. $25 through Nov. 26 for 5K; $30 race day. $10 for 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk through Nov. 26; $15 race day. crystalmountain.com/event/5k-turkey-vulture-trot

---------------------7TH ANNUAL TURKEY TROT: PETOSKEY: 9am, YMCA of Northern MI, Petoskey. gtbayymca.org/ynm/events/#!/turkeytrot

---------------------KIWANIS BOYNE CITY TURKEY TROT - 5K & 1 MILE FUN RUN: 9am, City Hall, Boyne City.

Please bring a nonperishable food item that will be donated to Boyne area food pantries. $25 advance; $30 day of. runsignup.com/Race/MI/ BoyneCity/KiwanisBoyneCityTurkeyTrot

THANKSGIVING GRATITUDE FLOW: 9am, Elk Rapids Yoga Flow. Free; please bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the local food pantry. A mix of slow flow & static postures.

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TURKEY LEG 5K RUN/WALK: 9am, Zorn Park, Harbor Springs. Hosted by The Outfitter of Harbor Springs. Benefits the Harbor Springs Food Pantry. $10 per participant suggested donation. outfitterharborsprings.com

nov 29

friday

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND IN GLEN ARBOR: PJ Party Shopping: 6:30-9am: Participating retailers in Glen Arbor offer shopping specials. 9am: Bed Parade. 6:15pm-8pm: Holiday Marketplace Opening, Christmas caroling, tree lighting, handcrafted, locally made goods by 30+ artisans, & more.

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RECORD STORE DAY: 8am-6pm, RPM Records, TC.

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OPT OUTSIDE, TRAVERSE CITY!: 10am, Higher Grounds Trading Co., TC; meet at the Piazza. Enjoy a quick hike, bike or run. Presented

by Norte, Groundwork Center, Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy & the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation. Free.

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 2-4pm: Kathleen Firestone will sign her book “Meet Me at the Dock.” 7:30-9:30pm: Jim Crockett, known for his “Manistee River Song” & “Last Believer,” will perform with bassist Dennis Armstrong & lead guitarist Ray Smith to deliver original folk, roots & blues. horizonbooks.com

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CHARLEVOIX HOLIDAY PARADE & TREE LIGHTING CELEBRATION: Downtown Charlevoix. 3-5pm: Holiday craft & photos with Santa. 4-6pm: Cookies & hot cocoa in East Park. 5:30pm: Holiday Parade on Bridge St. 6pm: Tree lighting in East Park.

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BOYNE CITY’S HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE & SANTA PARADE: 5pm. See Santa & the tree lighting. Free. boynecitymainstreet.com

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HOLIDAY TRAIL CELEBRATION: 6pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Enjoy a festive tour through Crystal’s resort village. Each trail stop offers activities, entertainment, food & beverage & retail sales. Get your “trail stop sticker” at five or more locations to receive a chance to win one of several great prizes. Activities include horse-drawn surrey rides, outdoor laser tag, elf hunt, visit with Santa, his elf helpers & reindeer, ice skating & much more. Free. crystalmountain.com/event/holiday-trail-celebration

---------------------“ELF THE MUSICAL”: (See Sat., Nov. 23)

nov 30

saturday

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY: East Jordan. Starts with a mini kick-off breakfast from 8-10am. Stop by the Chamber Office, grab a “tote bag” filled with coupons, goodies, etc. & then shop East Jordan.

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BROTHER DAN’S HANDMADE HOLIDAY CRAFT SHOW: 9am-4pm, Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey. Benefits Brother Dan’s Food Pantry. 231-348-5479. $2/person or a non-perishable food item. Find on Facebook.

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CHRISTMAS AT THE MUSEUM: 10am-2pm, Leelanau Historical Society Museum, Leland.

Featuring pop up exhibits, a Christmas display & more. leelanauhistory.org

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CHRISTMAS IN THE VILLAGE ARTISAN MARKET: 10am-4pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. Gifts available from over a dozen artists & craftspeople. There will also be car-

riage rides & tree lighting in Northport. Free admission. northportartsassociation.org FRIENDS OF LELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARY HOLIDAY PUZZLE & GAME SALE: 10am2pm, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. A wide array of gently used puzzles, games & children’s books will be available at low prices. Find on Facebook.

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GLEN ARBOR HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE: 10am-3pm, Glen Arbor Town Hall. Featuring locally made goods from 30+ artisans. Meet Santa from 11am-1:30pm.

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

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SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY - BELLAIRE: 10am-6pm, Downtown Bellaire. Stop by the Welcome Station & then shop small.

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WINTER FANTASY ART SHOW: 10am-4pm, Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall. Mixed-media art, fine craft & local specialty goods. All items handcrafted. Free admission. pillywigginsgarden.com/winter-fantasy-2019.html

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LEFTOVER TURKEY TRAIL RUN: 11am, Running Fit, 3301 S. Airport Rd., TC. Gather at Running Fit on S. Airport, TC & then travel together to run the trails at Miller Creek Nature Preserve. Also bring leftovers from Thanksgiving to share with other runners.

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RIGHT BRAIN BREWERY’S HOLIDAY MINI MARKET: 11am-4pm, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Featuring holiday home decor, live music, local vendors & brews. rightbrainbrewery.com

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STUFF THE TRUCK: 11am-1pm, Bill Marsh Ford, Gaylord. Bring a new, unwrapped toy or make a cash donation to Toys for Tots. Enjoy photos with Santa, Christmas coloring, holiday treats & more.

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THE ALPHABET EXPERIENCE: 11am & 3pm, City Opera House, TC. Parallel 45 puts on 26 micro-plays—for every letter of the alphabet—performing all 26 in under one hour.

Plus, the show order is determined by the audience. No two shows are alike. $19.50; 12 & under, $14.50; premium, $28. cityoperahouse. org/the-alphabet-experience

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AUTHOR SIGNING: 12-2pm, Horizon Books, TC. Lynne Rae Perkins will sign her book “Winter Cake.” horizonbooks.com

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FIRST LIGHT CELEBRATION: 5pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. See Crystal Mountain set aglow with lights, along with singing holiday carols & seeing the lighting of the Christmas tree. crystalmountain.com/event/ thanksgiving

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HOLIDAY ILLUMINATION: 5-8pm, Downtown Alden. Tree lighting, caroling, refreshments.

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HARBOR SPRINGS HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS: Movie at The Lyric, Santa with the firemen, reindeer on Main Street, Christmas Tree Lighting at 6pm, chili, cookies & coffee at the Holy Childhood Parish Hall.

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STAFFORD’S DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY HOLIDAY PARADE: 6pm. Kids can see Santa before the parade at Stafford’s Perry Hotel.

“ELF THE MUSICAL”: (See Sat., Nov. 23)

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FRESHWATER CONCERT: DOC WOODWARD & HIS GUITAR SUMMIT: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery/Concert Venue, Boyne City.

Doc’s bringing a six-piece band featuring three MI guitar slingers: Big Daddy Fox, Jon Archambault & Ivan Greilick. 231-582-2588. $30 advance; $35 door. freshwaterartgallery. com/concertCalendar.php

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SIPS & GIGGLES COMEDY SHOW FEATURING BILL BUSHART: 8pm, West Bay Beach, A Delamar Resort, TC. Bill Bushart was voted Funniest Comic in Detroit by the Metro Times & Best of Detroit Stand Up 2019

by Hour Detroit. $20 advance; $25 door. mynorthtickets.com

A HANDMADE POP-UP Saturday, December 14 10AM - 3PM 144 Hall St. Traverse City, MI WAREHOUSEMRKT.COM

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RECOVERY YOGA: 9:30am, Running Fit, downtown TC. A 50 minute, all-levels class designed to enhance recovery for your athletic performance. Classes will build strength, flexibility, focusing on lengthening tight hamstrings, calves, quadriceps & hip flexors. Must register. Donation based class. eventbrite.com

---------------------OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS AT THE LIGHTHOUSE: 10am-4pm, Grand Traverse Lighthouse, Northport. The keeper’s apartment will be decorated as it would have been in the Christmases of yesteryear & the keepers’ stories will be told. $5/person & State Park Recreation Passport. Find on Facebook.

WONDERFUL IN TOWN HOME in a quiet neighborhood in the city of Traverse City. Home features 4 bedrooms 2 baths, stainless steel appliances, central air, beautiful landscaping, multi-level decking and matching playhouse in private backyard. This home is in move-in condition, smoke free, pet free and a pleasure to show. Additional finished room for a den/ office, 4 ceiling fans, built-ins, work bench, utility sink in garage. MLS # 1867733 $245,000 1500 Arnold Court Traverse City

---------------------THE ALPHABET EXPERIENCE: (See Sat., Nov. 30)

---------------------SUGAR PLUM FAIRY TEA: 1-3pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey. Enjoy a festive afternoon with principal performers of the CTAC School of Ballet’s “The Nutcracker.” Each reservation includes lemonades, tea, cocoa, finger sandwiches & treats; a reading of “The Nutcracker” story; & while available, two tickets to a performance of “The Nutcracker” at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $75 (for two). crookedtree.org

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December 3rd is Giving Tuesday Your contribution to Habitat – Grand Traverse Region is an investment in the people of our community.

IRISH CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA: 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Featuring lively instrumental tunes on fiddle, flute, uilleann pipes & harp, along with Irish old-style dancing from Samantha Harvey. Before the show, ticket holders can visit the museum. Afterwards, meet the artists & enjoy light refreshments. $25-$32. mynorthtickets.com

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THE GIVING TREE: Held at McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey, bookstore staff members decorate The Giving Tree with ornaments representing the ages of children at the Safe Home, the domestic abuse shelter serving families in Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet & Otsego counties. Shoppers may select an ornament on the tree which will help guide them in their purchase of an age-appropriate book or gift to donate & place under the tree. Runs through Dec. 15. 231-347-1180.

---------------------FRIENDS ANNUAL HOLIDAY MITTEN TREE: Donate new mittens, scarves & hats to the Friends of Interlochen Public Library, Dec. 2-30. Bring to Interlochen Public Library to benefit those in need within the Interlochen area. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------PLAY FOR PAWS: Runs through Dec. 16 & benefits the Cherryland Humane Society.

Please bring toys, food, treats, beds, bowls, old towels & blankets to Premonitions Pizza & Arcade, 100 A Cedar St., Suttons Bay. Each person with a donation gets a 30-minute arcade pass to Premonition’s Arcade. premonitionspizza.com

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HARVEST FOOD & SUPPLY DRIVE: Benefits the Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI. Donations include: grocery/supermarket gift cards, non-perishable foods, household goods/paper products, personal care items & financial contributions. Please bring to the WRCNM main office at 423 Porter St. & Gold Mine Resale Shops in Petoskey; & WRCNM offices in Cheboygan, Gaylord & Mancelona.

231-347-1572.

---------------------WINTER GEAR DRIVE: Collecting mittens, gloves, hats, coats & boots for local kids & teens in need. Proceeds benefit EJ kids. Collection locations: South Arm Café, East Jor-

dan Public Schools (Elementary front door), East Jordan True Value, Valley Graphics Printing, Inc. & The East Jordan Laundromat. 231350-0781.

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OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD: On Nov. 18-25, multiple locations throughout TC will open to collect shoebox gifts filled with toys, school supplies & hygiene items for the Samaritan Purse project. A list of drop-off locations can be found at: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/ drop-off-locations/?utm_source=OCC-PressRelease-Coordinator-Multiple-Drop-OffOpening&utm_medium=referral&utm_ content=Drop-Off-Locations-Pitch

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ANNUAL WINTER MEMBER EXHIBITION: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Runs Nov. 30 - Jan. 3. An opening reception will be held on Fri., Dec. 6 from 5-7pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------SMALL WORKS HOLIDAY EXHIBITION: Glen Arbor Arts Center. Runs through Dec. 18.

This holiday show features art work 12” x 12” & smaller, all priced at $150 or less. A Gallery Talk will be held on Nov. 24 at 2pm: Thanks + Gratitude – A Year-round Practice with JoAnna Pepe. A Holiday Open House will be held on Dec. 5 from 4–6pm. glenarborart.org

---------------------HOLIDAY GIFT MARKET: Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan. Runs through Dec. 20.

Featuring gifts made by local artists. jordanriverarts.com

---------------------BIG GROUP/SMALL WORKS EXHIBIT: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Featuring over 50 artists. This show is dedicated to encouraging the gifting of original art by providing small works at affordable gift giving prices. Show runs through Jan. 1. higherartgallery.com

---------------------ANNUAL CIRCLE MARKET: Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Featuring local artists’ & designers’ handmade gifts. Runs through Dec. 23. Open Mondays-Saturdays from 11am-5pm. Closed Sundays. charlevoixcircle.org/exhibit-circle-market

---------------------CITY OPERA HOUSE, TC: - JUST GREAT ART: This exhibit runs through Jan. 2, 2020. Fifteen local artists, all members of the Plein Air Painters of Northwest Michigan, will exhibit their original works in pastel, oil, watercolor & acrylic. The show hours are M-F from 10am-5pm & during events at the Opera House.

- PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF NORTHWEST MI’S GREAT ART EXHIBITION & SALE: Held Mon. - Fri., 10am-5pm, through Dec. 30. Fifteen artists will be in attendance with over 100 pieces of art on display. Find on Facebook. www.cityoperahouse.org

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - “READY-SET-GO: YOUNG ARTISTS SPOTLIGHT”: Held in Atrium Gallery. A juried exhibit of local student artwork. Runs through Dec. 20.

“PRINT/POP: POP-UP SHOW OF CONTEMPORARY PRINTS”: Runs through Dec. 20.

Featuring the work of nine contemporary artists working across the United States. Prints demonstrating relief, screen & intaglio processes will be on display. crookedtree.org

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - EXPLORATIONS IN WOOD: SELECTIONS FROM THE CENTER FOR ART IN WOOD: Runs through Dec. 29. Curated by Andy McGivern, this exhibition features 74 objects, a small sample of the work in the collection of Philadelphia’s Center for Art in Wood, gathered over a forty-year period.

- CAROLE HARRIS: ART QUILTS: This fiber artist extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textures, materials & objects. Runs through Dec. 29. dennosmuseum.org

Beck is Back

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’90s musical hipster Beck is returning with a fresh, relevant take on his music — his new album, Hyperspace, which arrives in outlets at the end of this week. Co-written and co-produced by Pharrell Williams, the set merges Beck’s original folk-pop sound with Williams’ hip-hop production stylings, adding a more synthy, polished flair to Beck’s tracks, on which he also collaborates with the likes of Chris Martin of Coldplay (“Stratosphere”), Sky Ferreira (“Die Waiting”), and additional work by superproducers Greg Kurstin and Paul Epworth. …

NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts are known for encouraging big-name artists to break down their songs to a much more spare format, and that’s exactly what Taylor Swift did during her recent four-song set at Tiny Desk.

Performing her songs “The Man,” “Lover,” “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” and older tune “All Too Well,” Swift told the stories behind the writing of the songs, alternating between guitar and piano and passing guitar picks out to adoring preteens in the crowd while the adults sang along. “All Too Well” was a particular highlight for the nearly 300 staffers and fans assembled in the (yes, very small) NPR offices, as it’s a longtime fan favorite tune …

Are you a Spongebob Squarepants fan? Then keep an eye on Nickelodeon this December (exact date to be announced) for a live televised performance of the award-winning Broadway show “The Spongebob Musical”, which will air 20 years after the original Spongebob Squarepants TV show debuted in 1999. The 2019 TV cast will include Ethan Slater as Spongebob, Gavin Lee as Squidward, and Danny Skinner as Patrick; the musical’s soundtrack will include music by David Bowie, Lady Antebellum, Sara Barielles, and more, plus orchestral arrangements by Tom Kitt …

Amazon Web Services is the surprising source behind the upcoming Intersect music and technology festival, slated for Dec. 6 and 7 in Las Vegas. With performers like Foo Fighters, Anderson .Paak, Chvches, Beck, and Jamie xx taking the stage in the Nevada desert, the two-day event will also include 1 million feet of games and activities, among them a “post-apocalyptic” dodgeball stadium, a mega ball pit with over 200,000 balls, a video arcade, and a light show involving 500 Intel drones. Tickets are on sale now for the event …

LINK OF THE WEEK Singer Tyler Joseph plugged his computer into a recording studio board in Berlin and played through his Twenty One Pilots’ tune “The Hype” for a Location Sessions videos, a

short video series the duo has been doing while traveling; check the tune out at https:// youtu.be/oHUAXMvtZvU …

THE BUZZ Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith’s offspring Jaden Smith and Willow Smith are teaming up for a performance at the Royal Oak Music Theater on Dec. 1 …

Also sharing the stage elsewhere will be Eric B. and Rakim, who will be at Detroit’s Sound Board on Dec. 1 …

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singer Chris Michels has been keeping busy, touring with his own music and that of Dede and the Dreamers …

Michigan-based Third Coast Recording has released a single and video featuring 15 female singers from across West Michigan singing a choral rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s single “The Chain” … … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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This story of a trio of female spies fighting crime first appeared on television in 1976, and it was followed by a goofy 2000 film adaptation (and 2003 follow-up, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle), starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu — all of which will likely make you cringe at its depictions of women.

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Then there are nice touches like the Angels bringing supplies of birth control and tampons to an informant running a clinic in Turkey that work naturally within the film’s progressive ethos. And although an inspirational opening montage of young girls across the world felt a little too on the nose, I can appreciate the genuine intent behind it.

Her film really does make you think about how far we’ve come since 1976 — not in terms of actual sexism experienced by women, but at least in some attempts at better representation in the media.

The film travels to a lot of international locales, yet they all feel like chintzy European destinations (ie where they could get the best tax break). And there’s a certain action action formula it follows very closely, but some genuine twists that you might not seem coming. Banks’ comedic chops are very apparent contribute to the breezy vibe, but she doesn’t rely on them, instead focusing on crafting a slick production. The action sequences, while executed fairly well, lack a certain dazzle. We are definitely in midrate action territory, where the set pieces can feel a little perfunctory.

Cheeky and fun, the 2019 Charlie’s Angels definitely makes some modern updates but never patronizingly so. In this freely feminist and empowering piece of escapist entertainment, you’ll definitely feel the sisterhood stronger than ever before.

The last action sequence, however, as they converge at a wild house party, features a dance routine that really kicks up the fun.

This is an example of how, while the story and action itself is a little flat, when it comes to the character’s personalities, the film really pops.

We have the basic starting point of three gorgeous women working for this private crime fighting organization run by a mysterious millionaire named Charlie who works through a proxy (now multiple proxies) named Bosley.

Case in point: Stewart’s delightful oddness really gets to shine. She’s no longer hiding behind her hair and tucking it behind her ears; but out there commanding — no, demanding, — your attention. She is the unexpected comic relief the film needed and watching her come into her own is very rewarding.

I mean, the franchise’s greatest legacy actually might be establishing the preferred photo pose of basic sorority girls everywhere (you know: back to back, pantomiming guns with their fingers). Mercifully that is not to be found in director (and star) Elizabeth Banks’ take.

There’s the two pros: bad girl Sabina (Kristen Stewart), a sarcastic rich girl gone rogue, and the tightly-wound Jane (newcomer Ella Balinska), a more level-headed loner who used to work for MI6. And serving as our audience surrogate into this world of international intrigue is Elena (Aladdin’s Princess Jasmine, Naomi Scott). She’s an engineer working in Germany on a device known as Calisto, a green energy source that will change the world. But after discovering a bug in the system that can be used to weaponize the device and kill humans, Elena finds her life threatened and she goes on the run with the two Angels to stop the device from getting in the wrong hands.

Here the women don’t just work for a spy agency, they have agency. Smart and strong, their sexiness doesn’t come as a result of the male gaze. And while they sport fancy gadgets and glamorous costumes, it never feels as though they are objects.

The screening I attended seemed to consist mostly of young girls there only to catch a glimpse of Noah Centino (the heartthrob of Netflix’s To All the Boy’s I’ve Loved Before).

I was mostly there for Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey singing the soundtrack’s single, “Don’t Call Me Angel.” But I’d like to think these girls, much like myself, were not only pleasantly surprised by the movie but also realize how inconsequential the men were to the proceedings. And now, I’m ready for a female-centric action flick free of any franchise trappings (no Marvel, no DC), ’cause this film was better than its connection to Charlie’s Angels would have you believe.

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So if there is a discussion I would like to have about this film, it’s about how refreshing it is to see such a truly original and cheerfully audacious film come out of mainstream Hollywood.

The brilliantly creative mind of Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor: Ragnarok) brings us a bold, goofy, sweet, and quirky film that is completely within good taste, and is all the more powerful and entertaining for the audience thanks to the storytelling risks he takes, including using Hitler as the young boy’s imaginary friend and hype man.

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Before she was Harriet Tubman, the famed Underground Railroad conductor, she was “Minty� (Erivo). And the film shows us the journey Minty makes from slavery to freedom in the North, before returning again, to the South as “Harriet,� to rescue over 300 slaves, including her own friends and family.

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Sagittarian composer Ludwig van Beethoven was inclined to get deeply absorbed in his work. Even when he took time to attend to the details of daily necessity, he allowed himself to be spontaneously responsive to compelling musical inspirations that suddenly welled up in him. On more than a few occasions, he lathered his face with the nineteenth-century equivalent of shaving cream, then got waylaid by a burst of brilliance and forgot to actually shave. His servants found that amusing. I suspect that the coming weeks may be Beethoven-like for you, Sagittarius. I bet you’ll be surprised by worthy fascinations and subject to impromptu illuminations.

the next eleven months, you could initiate fundamental improvements in the way you live from day to day. It’s conceivable you’ll discover or generate innovations that permanently raise your life’s possibilities to a higher octave. At the risk of sounding grandiose, I’m tempted to predict that you’ll celebrate at least one improvement that is your personal equivalent of the invention of the wheel or the compass or the calendar.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The only

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ACROSS 1 Sporty British car, for short 4 Pharmacy bottle 8 Military helicopter 14 Prosecutor’s need 16 Yokels 17 Drawn-out lyric in “The 12 Days of Christmas” 19 Fairly matched 20 Bathroom floor furnishings 21 Rockstar Games title, to fans 22 Chinese general on menus 24 Gp. that’s supposed to be green 26 Monarch who gives an annual Christmas speech, briefly 27 “Captain Underpants” creator Pilkey 30 Drag 32 Shakes awake 34 Panel game show dating back to the 1950s 38 “The Jeffersons” actress Gibbs 39 It’s multifaceted 40 German camera company 43 Activity involving a few windmills, maybe 46 Brent who played Data 48 Vast expanse 49 Badminton divider 50 Mediation asset 51 “You’ve got mail” ISP 54 Strands in a crime lab 56 Rice-Eccles Stadium footballer 57 Pointed file 59 Online post caption with someone pointing upward 63 Come through 68 Embedded, as tiles 69 Diner sandwich 70 Ear affliction 71 Crafter’s website 72 Part of GPS DOWN 1 Boss, in Barcelona 2 Tel ___, Israel 3 Yield

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7 Pigeon’s perching place 8 “Atlas Shrugged” writer Rand 9 Average score 10 Fish on a sushi menu 11 Cold medicine target 12 Thwart completely 13 Classic French work by Montaigne (which inspired a literary form) 15 Body shop challenge 18 Clairvoyant’s claim 23 “Miss ___” (2016 Jessica Chastain political thriller) 25 Multi-episode story 26 Bogart’s role in “The Caine Mutiny” 27 Low-lit 28 “Selma” director DuVernay 29 Very thin pasta 31 “Alejandro” singer, casually 33 “The Orchid Thief” author Susan 35 Brief flash 36 Game with 81 different cards 37 Grounded birds 41 The Cavs, on scoreboards 42 Naval direction 44 Retirement nest egg 45 “See me after class” writers?

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65 Edward ___ (Victoria’s successor) 66 Mag wheels?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

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

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thing we learn from history is that we never learn anything from history. Philosopher Georg Hegel said that. But I think you will have an excellent chance to disprove this theory in the coming months. I suspect you will be inclined and motivated to study your own past in detail; you’ll be skilled at drawing useful lessons from it; and you will apply those lessons with wise panache as you re-route your destiny.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): In his own time,

poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was acclaimed and beloved. At the height of his fame, he earned $3,000 per poem. But modern literary critics think that most of what he created is derivative, sentimental, and unworthy of serious appreciation.

In dramatic contrast is poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). Her writing was virtually unknown in her lifetime, but is now regarded as among the best ever. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to sort through your own past so as to determine which of your work, like Longfellow’s, should be archived as unimportant or irrelevant, and which, like Dickinson’s, deserves to be a continuing inspiration as you glide into the future.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Humans invented the plow in 4,500 BC, the wheel in 4,000 BC, and writing in 3,400 BC. But long before that, by 6,000 BC, they had learned how to brew beer and make psychoactive drugs from plants.

Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel points to this evidence to support his hypothesis that the yearning to transform our normal waking consciousness is a basic drive akin to our need to eat and drink. Of course, there are many ways to accomplish this shift besides alcohol and drugs. They include dancing, singing, praying, drumming, meditating, and having sex. What are your favorite modes? According to my astrological analysis, it’ll be extra important for you to alter your habitual perceptions and thinking patterns during the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What’s something

you’re afraid of, but pretty confident you could become unafraid of? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to dismantle or dissolve that fear.

Your levels of courage will be higher than usual, and your imagination will be unusually ingenious in devising methods and actions to free you of the unnecessary burden. Step one: Formulate an image or scene that symbolizes the dread, and visualize yourself blowing it up with a “bomb” made of a hundred roses.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The word

“enantiodromia” refers to a phenomenon that occurs when a vivid form of expression turns into its opposite, often in dramatic fashion.

Yang becomes yin; resistance transforms into welcome; loss morphs into gain. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Geminis are the sign of the zodiac that’s most likely to experience enantiodromia in the coming weeks. Will it be a good thing or a bad thing? You can have a lot of influence over how that question resolves.

For best results, don’t fear or demonize contradictions and paradoxes. Love and embrace them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There are

Americans who speak only one language, English, and yet imagine they are smarter than bilingual immigrants. That fact amazes me, and inspires me to advise me and all my fellow Cancerians to engage in humble reflection about how we judge our fellow humans. Now is a favorable time for us to take inventory of any inclinations we might have to regard ourselves as superior to others; to question why we might imagine others aren’t as worthy of love and respect as we are; or to be skeptical of any tendency we might have dismiss and devalue those who don’t act and think as we do. I’m not saying we Cancerians are more guilty of these sins than everyone else; I’m merely letting you know that the coming weeks are our special time to make corrections.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation,” wrote the sensually wise poet Kenneth Rexroth. That’s a provocative and profitable inspiration for you to tap into. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in the Season of Lucky Plucky Delight, when brave love can save you from wrong turns and irrelevant ideas; when the grandeur of amour can be your teacher and catalyst. If you have a partner with whom you can conduct these educational experiments, wonderful. If you don’t, be extra sweet and intimate with yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the follow-

up story to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, our heroine uses a magic mirror as a portal into a fantastical land. There she encounters the Red Queen, and soon the two of them are holding hands as they run as fast as they can. Alice notices that despite their great effort, they don’t seem to be moving forward. What’s happening? The Queen clears up the mystery: In her realm, you must run as hard as possible just to remain in the same spot. Sound familiar, Virgo? I’m wondering whether you’ve had a similar experience lately. If so, here’s my advice: Stop running. Sit back, relax, and allow the world to zoom by you. Yes, you might temporarily fall behind. But in the meantime, you’ll get fully recharged. No more than three weeks from now, you’ll be so energized that you’ll make up for all the lost time—and more.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most sane people wish there could be less animosity between groups that have different beliefs and interests. How much better the world would be if everyone felt a generous acceptance toward those who are unlike them. But the problem goes even deeper: Most of us are at odds with ourselves. Here’s how author Rebecca West described it: Even the different parts of the same person do not often converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other. That’s the bad news, Libra. The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to promote unity and harmony among all the various parts of yourself. I urge you to entice them to enter into earnest conversations with each other!

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Cecilia

Woloch asks, “How to un-want what the body has wanted, explain how the flesh in its wisdom was wrong?” Did the apparent error occur because of some “some ghost in the mind?” she adds. Was it due to “some blue chemical rushing the blood” or “some demon or god”? I’m sure that you, like most of us, have experienced this mystery.

But the good news is that in the coming weeks you will have the power to un-want inappropriate or unhealthy experiences that your body has wanted. Step one: Have a talk with yourself about why the thing your body has wanted isn’t in alignment with your highest good.

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: I was feeding my meter the other day, and this guy started chatting me up outside his store and got me to take his number. He seemed sweet, but things quickly got weird when he wanted to come over the next night. I said that didn’t work for me, but I offered to swing by his work and say hi during the day. He responded angrily: “No. I wanna come to your house, but you aren’t ready for it.” I politely explained that I didn’t know him at all and wasn’t into casual sex anymore.

If that didn’t work for him, that was totally cool and we could just be friends. He got angry again, saying (bizarrely), “I’m not a negative person” and then “But now you’ll never know how awesome I am!” I was dumbfounded. Why do some guys get so jerky when you turn them down or just want to take things slow?

— Baffled

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: Sure, you might miss out on how “awesome” he is. You might also miss out on trying to call 911 with your face while zip-tied to the coffee table.

Of course, we can’t know exactly why the guy went so nasty on you. The easy assumption is that he just wanted sex and went all brat-o when he didn’t get it. However, research on men’s responses to romantic rejection suggests some interesting possibilities, including strong masculine “honor beliefs.” Social psychology doctoral student Evelyn Stratmoen explains, “Masculine honor beliefs dictate that men must respond aggressively to threat or insult in order to create and maintain their desired masculine reputations.”

“Honor beliefs” come out of a “culture of honor.” It rises up in places with weak or nonexistent formal law enforcement. It’s why men of yore fought duels. In modern life, we see it in gangs and especially in prison. Literary scholar Jonathan Gottschall explains in “The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch” that a “culture of honor” is a “culture of reciprocation.” “In a tit for tat fashion,” a man “returns favors and retaliates against slights.” His building a “reputation for payback” protects him physically, socially, and even economically, signaling to others not to cross him.

In two studies that Stratmoen and her colleagues ran, they found that as men’s “honor beliefs increased” -- that is, when

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individual men had more intense honor beliefs -- “so did their perceptions that a man’s aggressive responses to the woman rejecting his attempt to initiate a relationship with her were ... appropriate.” The Stratmoen team’s findings suggest that being romantically rejected “is perceived as an insult to the man’s honor,” making him, say, feel insulted and like less of a man and justified in using “aggressive behaviors, possibly in an effort to restore his lost honor.”

Other research by social psychologist Khandis Blake and her colleagues found that men showed heightened aggression following romantic rejection by a “sexualized” woman: a woman wearing revealing, sexy clothing and expressing attitudes that “give an impression of sexiness and availability for sexual encounters.” The researchers grant that “women have varied reasons for selfsexualizing,” like finding it “empowering and enjoyable.” Their motivations may even be “nonsexual in nature.”

However, women with a sexualized look and demeanor activated a sex-seeking mindset in men (primed “sexual goals,” as the researchers put it) in a way nonsexualized women did not. This sex goal activation -- plus the presumption that a sexualized woman is “more interested in having sex” — increases “the expectancy that romantic interest is reciprocated.” Any romantic rejection that follows has a worse bite — “a greater ego threat,” especially in men with shaky selfesteem — triggering aggressive responses.

Now, this is not a call for women to start shopping at Burka Barn or Amishcrombie & Fitch. Wearing a miniskirt (or expressing “liberated” attitudes about sex) does not make you responsible for men’s behavior any more than serving chocolate cake at a party makes you responsible for a guest’s subsequent struggle to fit into their favorite pants.

In short, you did everything right, asserting what works for you in kind and dignitypreserving ways. Though this guy’s party manners fell off faster than a bumper Scotch-taped to a car, other aggro men might be better at hiding their Mr. Scary Side. With those guys, your new “take it slow” approach should serve you well. And with the good guys out there, your not wanting to rush into anything is ultimately a signal: You’re a woman worth having — and for more than relationships that begin at 11 p.m. and end at 1, give or take 20 minutes after the guy’s shoe is confiscated and dragged off to a secure location by your sociopathic Pomeranian.

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