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NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY • FEBruary 11 - FEBruary 17, 2019 • Vol. 29 No. 06

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Instead of our usual Letters page, Northern Express decided to honor tradition of Valentine’s Day and dedicate this one to spreading a little love. The notes below come courtesy of Express readers who submitted an anonymous note to someone they admire. Our hope is that their missives inspire you to tell someone you admire that you do — anonymously or otherwise. Happy Valentine’s!

“Town Go-Fer,” but please know that you are one of our most respected members.You are a champion of keeping our downtown open and ready for business. Many people do not realize that you are up at 3:00am and out on the sidewalks shoveling and de-icing most of our downtown businesses throughout the winter. Your concern and care of our sidewalks is very noticeable by your perfection, patience, and care each and every day during the winter season. Your support of business owners is amazing.

From grabbing lunch at a nearby restaurant for a lone shopkeeper to helping create and construct artistic and fun scarecrows to display in our downtown for the fall festivals, to assisting with special projects for the Chamber of Commerce, to helping the East Jordan Freedom Festival during the busy festival week — selling tickets, helping with event setups, and more — you are always there for us! David, you are an exemplary resident, volunteer, and proud East Jordan community member. We appreciate your friendship and dedication to our town. Our downtown community is brighter, friendlier, and more beautiful thanks to you.

Your secret admirer To Mike Chesney, Your humor, honesty, and integrity are the traits I admire most. Your kindness and tender heart are seen every day by everyone who crosses your path. You know me inside and out, and I love the way you always accept me as I am. My love and admiration for you grows stronger with each passing moment.

Your secret admirer

To Wendy Nienhouse, As a parent of musicians in our TCAPS music program, you have volunteered at numerous TCAPS music events and cheerfully supported all students. When we had an opportunity to raise money for TCAPS music programs, you stepped up and joined TCAPS employee Phillip Leetes to dance Swing Shift with the Stars. I observed your hard work, steadfast integrity, and endless smiles during this process.

You treated everyone was if they were the most important person in your life at that time. You are welcoming, kind, talented, and humble. You encourage through your example and make the experience you’re involved with vibrate with positive energy and light.

Your secret admirer

To Rodney, You are the man of my dreams. You are amazing. You do so much for our girls and me. I couldn’t ask for a better partner in this life that we share. Whatever our future holds, I am so thankful to have you by my side and look forward to all the adventures left. I love you, and Finley and Quin love you. Happy Valentine’s Day, my love.

Your secret admirer

To David Schweer, East Jordan is very fortunate to have such a dedicated and devoted friend in you. Your kindness and friendship is immeasurable. I know you jokingly describe yourself as the

To Al Spafford, I have been inspired by the enthusiastic support and commitment by all of the Father Fred Foundation’s volunteers to the mission of helping neighbors in need. I have been especially inspired by one of the longterm volunteers, Al Spafford. He volunteers at The Foundation twice a week, and he never misses a day of work. He is constantly busy, sorting food, stocking shelves, and doing whatever it takes to keep The Pantry stocked and organized. He has also been an essential volunteer at our annual Frostbite Food Drive for the last 10 years. As a former postal carrier, he is not deterred by any kind of weather, and he has a work ethic that is beyond compare. He’s always positive and a pleasure to work with. Even in the Frostbite weather we experienced this year, he never complained but kept us all entertained by his great storytelling ability.

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the grace of a princess. I regret that the world often takes your talents and gifts for granted and that you toil outside the spotlight far too much. Being a mother is not a job. You and I know it is a gift. We also know that it doesn’t represent your entire being. You make contributions to our community in so many ways.

On Valentine’s Day, I just want you to know that you are loved, needed, and important. I know one day your kids will be grown, and they will look back to see all the sacrifices you made to give them more than they deserved. You need to know that you not only impact their lives but you will have a profound effect on how they raise their children. Mothers do more than protect today’s little people. They shape future generations one kiss and hug at a time.

Your secret admirer

To Jenny Noteware, You are one of the most kindest and generous people I know. You are a rock to your family and friends and loved by many.

You rock, Jenny!

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Your secret admirer Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Weird...............................................................9 Crossed.........................................................13 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................25 To the Young Professionals of Petoskey, Film................................................................27 Maybe I’m just jealous of your youth, or Advice Goddess...........................................29 perhaps a little intimidated by what you will Crossword...................................................29 actually accomplish someday, but I’ve been Freewill Astrology..........................................30 secretly admiring you young professionals Classifieds..................................................31 of Petoskey. People say that our young people all move away, or that Petoskey can’t offer what young people are seeking. They don’t see the YP movement going on here like I see it. They don’t see the work you’re doing to shape the Petoskey of the future.

They don’t see the passion you have for our community. I see it. I appreciate it. And I secretly admire all that you do.

Brian Bates of Bear Creek Organic Farm, Jeff Neill of Osborne Klein Ameriprise Financial, and Christa Rensel of Nimble Kettle are three great examples of the exciting YP movement in Petoskey.

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To Davonn Donell Cooper, I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you, baby. I love you! Soon you will be here with me. XOXO. Here is to forever.

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Your secret admirer To every mother everywhere, I admire the fact that you sacrifice a career to be at home with your young children. I am amazed at how you can also balance work and family with a smile and

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MARCH 11, 2019 Northern Express Weekly • february 11, 2019 • 3

this week’s

top ten Another Sturgeon Season in the Books

At just past sunrise on Feb. 2, the mad rush to spear or hook a monstrous sturgeon on Cheboygan County’s Black Lake began.

Seventy-eight minutes later, a canon explosion signaled the party was over. The 403 registered anglers also received text alerts ordering them to quit the hunt, and plenty of Department of Natural Resources officers were stationed around the ice to make sure all fishing ceased.

The 2019 sturgeon season could have lasted as long as five days, but it came to an end once anglers reached the quota established by the DNR — six fish.

The first four sturgeon pulled from the lake this year were males that ranged from 52 to 60 inches and weighed between 25 and 47 pounds. The last two were females ranging in length from 61 to 72 inches and weighing 54 to 80 pounds. Three of the six fish were previously captured and released by Michigan State University researchers and the DNR during spring spawning runs in the Black River. “We allow for any licensed angler to participate — as long as they register — so we need to have a significant on-ice presence of DNR personnel to protect the population of lake sturgeon in Black Lake from overharvest,� said DNR fisheries manager Dave Borgeson. “This year was another successful season for angler participation, fish harvest, and quick response times, as well as from a safety perspective.�

The Feb. 4 Northern Express featured “Sturgeon Fishing: The Other Winter Sport,� a profile of the annual sturgeon season.

Bottoms up Carnivor Cabernet Sauvignon Looking to elevate some leftover pot roast on a supremely frigid night, our editor popped into her local Tom’s market to do most of us do: Select a bottle of wine based entirely on the size of its discount. Carnivor’s 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon more than fit the bill. A rich and robust California red claimed to be made for meat pairing, its discount ($11 off!) was greater that its price ($10.99) Was it worth it? Maybe not for $22, but definitely at its markdown. A weighty, thick-legged wine in the glass and on the tongue, this cab wafted heavy on the blackberry at first whiff, but was surprisingly unsweet and almost entirely oak-ey at first, second, and third sip.

But let it sit and mingle in the open air a while, and it transforms. Still mellow but less leathery, a subtle fruit taste rises up just before a smooth finish. Sure wish it worked such wonders on her leftovers. $10.99 (until March 3) at Tom’s West Bay in Traverse City.

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winterlochen Interlochen’s annual family friendly indoor/outdoor festival, Winterlochen, celebrates all things winter! Held on Sat., Feb. 16, it will feature hands-on experiences, and a variety of indoor and outdoor activities, performances and workshops from 10am-3pm. Corson Auditorium will host brotha James, a solo musical performer who does “live looping,� which is layering recorded sounds on top of each other to create a full band effect, with Drum Circle workshops at 11am and 11:30am and a concert at 1pm. Free. tickets.interlochen.org

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THE OTHER TWO

Former Saturday Night Live head writers Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly bring us the best new comedy of 2019 so far, the story of two underachieving millennial siblings (star-making turns by from HelĂŠne Yorke and Drew Tarver) struggling with the fact their Gen Z kid brother has become an overnight musical sensation. Chase, aka “ChaseDreamsâ€? Dubek is a total Bieber type, and while his siblings love him dearly, they — a struggling actor and a former dancer, now-realtor sleeping in the apartments she lists — can’t help but want a piece of that limelight. Featuring a stellar supporting cast of comedy favorites, including Molly Shannon as the fame-reveling, Kate Gosselin-haircut-wearing momager, The Other Two’s scathing wit blends with semi-heartfelt drama (plus so many hilarious pop-culture references) to create a smart and relatable sitcom about family, success, celebrity, and relationships.

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East-West Corridor Options to Be Revealed

The Grand Traverse County Road Commission will unveil alternatives for an east-west bypass route around Traverse City at a public forum from 5pm to 8pm Monday, Feb. 18, at East Middle School on Three Mile Road.

The meeting will have an open format. Members of the public are invited to come and spend as much or as little time as they want looking over the route alternatives, providing feedback on comment forms, and talking with team members.

People who are unable to attend the forum will be able to see the options on the road commission’s web page, where they can leave feedback through March 1. Maps will also be available for reviewed Feb. 18 through March 1 at the road commission offices.

Concern by some critics that the east-west corridor study is destined to lead to a renewed Hartman-Hammond Bridge proposal was profiled in “The $365,000 Question” in the Jan. 19 Northern Express.

Pipe Dreams in Benzie

stuff we love “A Man Against Insanity” In 1954, Dr. Jack Ferguson — renowned for completing lobotomy operations in about three minutes — came to the Traverse City State Hospital to perform lobotomies on 500 patients deemed “incurably” insane. He never performed one. Instead, with what a Chicago Tribune writer in 1957 described as “an unscientific combination of chemicals plus love, he pierced the veil of insanity in one of the boldest, most bizarre and awesome experiments ever tried in a mental institution.” On Feb, 10, Mission Point Press republished “A Man Against Insanity,” author Paul de Kruif’s 1957 book about the complicated and controversial doctor.

An enlightening read for local history buffs, the book gives a deeply contextual and local peek at mental health methodology of the day, plus a riveting view of Ferguson the physician — and the patient, whose own battles with drug addiction and psychotic breakdowns put him in a locked ward and impacted his life’s work. $14.95 at local bookstores and online at www.missionpointpress.com.

From the Line 5 Pipeline to Elberta’s municipal sewage leak into Betsie Bay last winter, there are definitely scary things going on with the water in our own backyard, says organizers of the ninth annual Benzie County Water Festival. That’s why, this year, with PIPES as the fest’s theme, attendees will find dozens of ways to take action, get involved, and make an impact on the north’s waters — all while having fun. Among the offerings: You can bring the kids to Beulah’s COGNiTiON science exploration hub 10am–6pm Feb. 13–16 for daily water experiments, art, and activities, or they can build their own boat (or sea creature) out of LEGOS from noon to 2:30pm Feb. 16 at Benzonia Public Library. Everyone is invited to the Betsie Bay Frozen 5k Feb. 16. Prefer something a little cozier? Bring your brain and a dish to pass for a potluck and panel discussion starting at 6pm Feb. 12, or get elbow to elbow with your neighbors for some serious water worship: Several religious affiliations in Benzie will dedicate their Sunday, Feb. 17, sermons to the importance of water in scripture. Get all the details by searching Benzie County Water Festival on Facebook.

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Grocer’s Daughter Chocolates

Doesn’t matter if your love is a pint-sized peanut, a vegan, or an ultra-picky chocoholic — Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate in Empire has the last-minute Valentine’s Day treats you need to show you’re sweet on her or him. Run in and pick up a couple petite heart-shaped chocolate lollies ($2) for your little, or a 4-, 6-, or 16-piece box of vegan or non-vegan truffles ($10.50+) for your big … crush. We have our hearts set on the 16-piece Truffle and Honey-Caramel Collection, $38. Not near Empire? Traverse City folks who order online fast can have their order delivered Feb. 13 or 14 to TC’s Darling Botanical — where an array of beautiful accompanying bouquets and plants await. Visit the funky green chocolate shop at 11590 South Lacore (M-22) in Empire or www.grocersdaughter.com to see the full menu of options.

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10th Anniversary!

Live music, food, drinks, a silent auction, 50-50 raffle and much more!

Have a Heart

for Brother Dan’s Food Pantry!

Valentine’s Benefit Event

The Entertainers

Dance all day!

Noon Crosscut Kings

4 pm Pistil Whips

1 pm Craig Cottrill Band

5 pm Jelly Roll

2 pm James Greenway Band

6 pm Easy Picks

3 pm Northern Nites

7 pm Jon Archambault Band

Blues Rock

Funk/Soul

Classic Rock/Soul Pop/Classic Rock Country

Classic Rock / Soul

Honky Tonk Blues Rock

Order of appearance subject to change without notice

It’s a special day for you & your Valentine - and kids & families, too! Enjoy local entertainment at its best in a festive setting to benefit a terrific local cause:

Brother Dan’s Food Pantry in Petoskey!

Sunday Feb.17, 2019 Noon to 9 pm

doors open at 11:30 am

Emmet County Fairgrounds Community Building use Eppler Road entrance

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$15 / person

14 and under enter free

Price includes entertainment and ALL DAY BUFFET! Cash bar for pop, water, beer & wine.

Want to do more? Help fill our boxes at the front entry by bringing nonperishable canned goods and boxed food for the pantry!

Community Building at the Fairgrounds provided by Emmet County Parks and Recreation Department

RUNNING, EXPLORING, LURKING spectator

by Stephen Tuttle Democrats are circling, posturing, and positioning themselves for 2020. At least 13 of them — there might be more by the time you read this — are running, exploring, or lurking about for a presidential run.

Let’s start with the frontrunner in the current polls, Joe Biden.

Biden has neither formally announced nor formed an exploratory committee, but he is lurking. Frequently dismissed as a policy lightweight, he was out front on issues now manna to the Democrat base. He supports free college tuition at public colleges and universities, wants to increase taxes on the passive income of the wealthy, suggested a $15/hour minimum wage in 2015 and was the first member of Congress to introduce

Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who we’d label a moderate Democrat, is quietly lurking, perhaps the best strategy in an already muddled field.

Julian Castro, the former head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is in, and he’d like government-paid universal pre-kindergarten for all.

Also declared candidates are former Congressman John Delaney, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii (the first Hindu elected to Congress), spiritual author Marianne Williamson, and New York businessman Andrew Yang.

More taxes for the wealthy always starts Democrat voters’ heads nodding. But the number-crunching now being done by Democrat candidates seems wildly optimistic.

Even if the votes existed for any of these spending expansions — they don’t — the numbers don’t quite add up. climate-related legislation way back in 1986. But he will be 78 years old in 2020, and the torch might have already passed to younger candidates.

Senator Kamala Harris, the former California attorney general, is next. A declared candidate, she has plenty of big plans, most notably a $3 trillion tax cut for the middle class, cradle-to-grave Medicare for all, and a monster tax break for renters making less than $100,000 annually. She will pay for it all by new taxes on the wealthy, a mantra you’ll see repeated frequently.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has an exploratory committee. She wants higher income taxes on the wealthiest Americans and an annual “wealth tax” of one to three percent of the net worth of those folks. She claims it will pay for her free college, Medicare for all, and other goodies that would cost somewhere in the range of $3 trillion annually.

Bernie Sanders is lurking and may not run again since many of his disciples are doing so. Not to be outdone in the tax-the-rich contest, he proposes a 77-percent inheritance tax on estates of $3.5 million or more.

That wouldn’t be such good news for many family owned businesses and farms.

Senator Corey Booker of New Jersey is in.

He’s one of the few Democrats who has said publicly that he doesn’t believe wealth redistribution is such a good idea. Being an outlier might actually be helpful.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from New York is exploring. She, of course, supports universal Medicare and universal paid family leave. In a shocking turn, she’ll pay for it with more taxes on the rich.

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light on details, though it’s a good bet that taxing the rich will be in there someplace.

Beto O’Rourke of Texas, who made a big splash while losing his Senate race to Ted Cruz, is lurking. He’s big on charisma and

The overriding theme in all of this, so far, is more taxes for the wealthiest Americans paying for new social programs. Several have decided Switzerland, which has both high taxes on high incomes and a wealth tax, is the perfect example of how all this redistribution of money can work.

Except Switzerland has been doing this for a long time and has a voter-approved tax structure. Plus, it’s about the size of New Hampshire and Vermont combined, has a population under 8.5 million, and doesn’t spend nearly a third of its budget on national defense. It might not be the perfect analog.

More taxes for the wealthy always starts Democrat voters’ heads nodding. But the numbercrunching now being done by Democrat candidates seems wildly optimistic. Even if the votes existed for any of these spending expansions — they don’t — the numbers don’t quite add up.

Most disappointing is that none of the candidates have uttered a peep as to how we can pay for already existing programs like Social Security and Medicare. Shouldn’t we pay for those before we create new, multi-trilliondollar spending? Wouldn’t a more logical way to do that be closing all the corporate loopholes big enough to drive yachts and private jets through, instead of new taxes?

The race is in its early stages, and candidates are still finding their footing. We haven’t even dug up all the embarrassing and offensive moments from their past, an obligatory part of the digital age. The field will selfregulate as many abandon their candidacy.

But whoever emerges from this gaggle needs a more rational platform than what we’re now hearing. Trillions more in annual spending, higher deficits, and more debt isn’t much of a plan. And there is scant evidence that making rich people poorer makes the rest of us richer.

Crime & Rescue OHIO MAN KILLED IN SNOWMOBILE CRASH A 51-year-old Ohio man died in a snowmobile crash in Antrim County.

Jeffrey Achinger of Holland, Ohio, struck a snowbank and flipped his sled at just before noon Feb. 2, sheriff’s deputies said. The crash happened on Hillview Drive in Lakes of the North in Star Township.

Speed and alcohol were factors in the crash, deputies said.

PANTLESS MAN INVADES HOME A Haring Township couple removed their children from their home after a man clad only in his underwear and a backward sweatshirt showed up with a stolen 55-inch television.

State police arrested 27-year-old Anthony Billett Feb. 4 on charges of home invasion and being an habitual offender.

The Cadillac resident allegedly entered a home on Cecil Road at 10am Feb. 4, alarming the three children, ages 15, 14, and 12, inside. The children’s parents soon arrived home, removed them from the house, and called police.

In addition to his unseasonable and strange attire, police said Billet was barefoot and scratched and bloody from the knees down. Billet is also accused of stealing the television from Walmart and some clothing from Meijer.

THREE ARRESTED FOR MURDER Three men were arrested in what police described as the “senseless murder” of a 29-year-old Houghton Lake man.

Robbery was apparently a motive when three masked men forced themselves into a home on Houghton Lake’s McKinley Street and shot and killed Jon Paul Dirette on Jan. 14.

At a news conference that included state police and the sheriffs of Roscommon and Missaukee counties, investigators said the three suspects were tied to the murder only after an exhaustive investigation that spanned 23 days and involved officers from the three agencies and tips from the public.

Levi Seelye, 20, of Falmouth, Keante Grays, 18, of Lake City, and Jordan Tetro, 18, of McBain, each face charges of open murder and assault with intent to commit armed robbery. They were arrested Feb. 3.

ALLEGED ABUSER FACES CHARGE A man accused of using a pistol and threats to terrorize a woman into following his commands faces domestic violence charges.

A 24-year-old Traverse City woman told Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies that a 31-year-old Interlochen man asked her to come with him to pick up his children Feb. 2, which she agreed to do.

As the woman pulled out of a driveway at Foxhunt Lane in East Bay Township, however, the man pulled out a pistol and placed it on his

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lap. When she refused to go further, the man threatened to shoot up the residence, deputies said, and then the pair went to pick up the children and spent several hours in town without incident.

Later, the couple argued, and the woman locked herself in a bathroom; deputies said the woman told them that the man threatened to plant a gun or drugs in the woman’s vehicle.

It’s unclear who called police, but when deputies arrived, the woman reported that the man had assaulted her on Jan. 13 by grabbing her neck, punching her, and placing her foot on her throat. The woman apparently had taken photos of her injuries that day and, on Saturday, had a lingering injury on her neck that she showed investigators. The man was arrested for domestic assault.

POLICE SWARM KALKASKA HOME Police raided a Kalkaska County home that has been the site of two other drug raids in the past year.

Traverse Narcotics Team organized the Feb. 1 bust at a home in Coldsprings Township; there were 15 state police troopers and five sheriff’s deputies involved.

Police made a significant show of force because they’d gotten tips that the suspects had multiple weapons inside the house, but the suspects did not put up a fight and, in a press release, police did not report finding weapons.

Suspected drugs were found, and two suspects were arrested on charges of conspiracy to deliver and manufacture methamphetamine.

POST-BAR FIGHT LEADS TO JAIL A man was arrested on domestic violence charges after he allegedly attacked his live-in girlfriend when the couple got into an argument after returning home from a bar.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Garfield Township home at 12:43am Feb. 5; the 39-year-old woman said her boyfriend had bitten her on the chin and thrown her to the floor. The boyfriend, also 39, had punched several holes into walls in the home.

The suspect was found in a parking lot across the street and arrested.

Both sustained minor injuries but declined medical treatment.

The man had a blood alcohol content of .14 and the woman of .09. The limit to drive in Michigan is .08.

MAN CHARGED FOR THREATS AGAINST CPS A Manistee man faces charges after he allegedly threatened a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services employee.

A female Child Protective Services agent reported to state police that 40-year-old John Richards threatened her on more than one occasion over several weeks in January.

State police interviewed witnesses and collected evidence, and the Manistee County prosecutor charged Richards with threatening a DHHS employee with physical harm, a misdemeanor that carries up to one year in jail.

He was arraigned Jan. 31.

A Traverse City Police dog handler arrived to track the suspect, who was later spotted by a deputy inside Kohl’s department store. The suspect bolted out of the back of the store but was soon tracked to the Fox Motors parking lot and arrested.

The 19-year-old East Jordan man was arrested for driving without a license, resisting arrest, and on several other unrelated charges.

TRACKING DOG NABS TEEN A teenager sprang from a car stopped by police for driving without headlights, leading to a search that ended a little while later when a police dog tracked down the suspect nearby.

The traffic stop happened at 7:19pm Feb. 4 when a Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputy pulled over a car on US-31 South, near Auto Zone, and the driver fled on foot. An 18-year-old passenger was briefly detained and then released.

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BULLIES, BOTS, AND TROLLS, OH MY! opinion

bY Amy Kerr Hardin In this turbulent political climate, internet harassment is clearly on the rise, largely due to a president who can’t make it through his first BK Whopper of the day without trolling anyone who disagrees with his halfbaked public policy schemes. On Trump’s lead, online bullying of women, minorities, and LGBTQ individuals is now considered acceptable among his cult.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the posterchild quarry for angry white males with internet access and wee little hands. She is also a fine example of how to handle those whiny bitches.

Anyone who’s been on social media since 2016 knows exactly who these guys are and the types of memes they post. When she was disparaged for a video of her dancing in college, her rejoinder was perfect: “It is not normal for elected officials to have a reputation for dancing well, and I’m happy to be one.”

Remember, AOC is not the target; it’s you, the viewer, especially if you’re of the female persuasion. There are those who don’t want us to have a voice. They wish to gaslight us into silence on social media.

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Several years ago, I penned a commentary questioning the wisdom of arming school teachers. My opinion garnered an anonymous death threat from a man who desired to see me raped and killed while he watched, in pleasure. My intrepid web host searched the sender’s internet-provider address (he left a cyber trail), and found the threat was generated from deep in the heart of Michigan Militia territory. At that time, there was a federal statute that specifically prohibited that form of online harassment. I should have enjoyed protection under the law, but no enforcement agency would touch it. Since then, internet bullying has escalated, while the rules prohibiting it have been gutted.

Typically, male-on-female bullying is subtler.

The most common remark issued from the unclever mansplainers is “put on your big girl pants.” I get that one whenever a male bully is unable to cogently articulate an opposing position on the topic at hand.

Journalist and target Ginger Gorman set out to profile the average troll. What she found was surprising and deeply disturbing. Trolls are not basement-dwelling troglodytes. Neither are they always politically motivated, but the political arena is a target-rich environment for them.

They actually work in organized online groups — gangs, really — and they share their favorite targets with friends, so they can commit the equivalent to cyber gang rape. It’s fun for them.

Surprise — the typical troll is a white male.

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Bots too, are on the ascendance. Bots are robotic social media accounts designed to influence the opinions of real people. Russia in particular is increasingly weaponizing social media to attack both sides of the political spectrum. In 2016, Russian-created bots worked to divide Democrats to dilute their vote, and they likely succeeded. They didn’t spare Republicans either; bots aimed to nudge them well into crazytown by circulating outlandish conspiracy theories.

Around 20 to 25 percent of Trump supporters are particularly vulnerable to this tactic.

These falsehoods are then amplified by farright websites, Fox News, and the president himself, via Twitter.

Bot-spotting skills should be a prerequisite for social media usage, yet those most prone to targeting are also the least likely to educate themselves.

Watch for Twitter and Facebook accounts with more posts than humanly possible. Another red flag: profile pics that are too good looking.

(They may resemble stock photos, ’cause they are.) During the 2016 election cycle, I received a steady stream of Facebook friend requests from square-jawed men wearing heavily decorated military uniforms. The bot producers must have flagged me as ultrapatriotic because, in my writing, I frequently visit the subject of protecting the democratic process; naturally, a man in uniform was going to make me swoon with nationalistic fervor.

Large gaps in social media posting is another clue that the account is computer-generated.

Propogandists only fireup the bot machine when they wish to create a sphere of influence, primarily around elections, but also in an attempt to put a finger on the scale during public policy debates, as with immigration and the border wall.

Bots additionally employ the vernacular and commonly used vulgarities of the sub-group they’re attempting to infiltrate and influence.

Key phrases are the truck they use to move the mindset, and it only takes a few individuals to spread the pathogen. Bots are currently using this ploy against Kamala Harris, among black Twitter followers. They are attempting to discredit her candidacy by implying she is “not black enough.”

Mother Jones magazine compiled a checklist of bot-spotting tips: * Use of multiple languages * Use of URL shorteners * Suspicious images * Hyperactivity * Unlikely popularity The latter point, excessive popularity, brings to mind the fact that, according to TwitterAudit, Donald Trump himself has a large number of fake Twitter followers. As of January, he had over 6.8 million counterfeit followers on the platform, either purchased by himself through a service or provided by Russian bots.

There is a temptation to walk away from social media altogether. But that’s exactly what the bots, bullies, and trolls want us to do. That way they win. A New York University and Stanford study found that those who shunned social media gained a small amount of happiness, but they became measurably less informed about factual news. Think of it this way: Would you give up your cell phone just because of obnoxious robocalls? So, why abandon social media?

Amy Kerr Hardin is a retired banker, a regionally known artist, and a public-policy wonk and political essayist at www.democracytree.com.

Wait, What?

Vaev, a Los Angeles-based internet startup, is offering consumers the “luxury to choose” when to become sick with a cold, gushes 34-year-old Oliver Niessen, the company’s founder. For $79.99, Vaev will send you a box containing a petri dish, which houses a facial tissue used by a sick person.

Niessen explained to Time magazine that the recipient wipes their nose with the provided tissue and contracts a cold virus to get it out of the way before, say, leaving on a vacation. But Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, debunked Niessen’s theory: “There are more than 200 types of rhinoviruses ... getting inoculated from one doesn’t protect you against all the others.” He adds that Vaev’s customers will never know what exactly is on the provided tissues, which Niessen says are produced by a “stable” of 10 go-to sneezers, some recruited on the internet.

Still, Neissen claims to have sold about 1,000 used tissues, although the company’s website currently shows the product as sold out.

“We’ve had some supply-chain issues,” Niessen said, without offering details.

Gift With Purchase

A shopper at a Primark store in Essex, England, was startled to discover a human bone in a sock on Dec. 10. Essex police reassured the public that the bone “did not appear to be a result of recent trauma,” and it did not have any skin attached to it, according to Sky News. A Primark spokesman said the company is checking with its supplier, and “No evidence of any kind exists to suggest that any incident has occurred in the factory, so it is highly probable that this object was placed in the sock by an individual for unknown reasons.”

Police Report

A motorist in New Canaan, Connecticut, called police on Jan. 23 after spotting a woman stopped at an intersection in the driver’s seat of her car with her eyes closed. When officers arrived, they found Stefanie WarnerGrise, 50, “unable to answer basic questions,” according to the arrest report. They “detected an odor of vanilla coming from her breath (and) her speech was slurred. ... In addition, several bottles of pure vanilla extract were located inside the vehicle.” The Hour reported Warner-Grise failed field sobriety tests and she was charged with driving under the influence of vanilla extract. The Food and Drug Administration requires that pure vanilla extract must be at least 35 percent alcohol, which makes it 70 proof.

It’s Good to Have Goals

Pavol Durdik added another Guinness world record to his collection Aug. 3 in Puchov, Slovakia by extinguishing 62 lighted matches with his tongue within one minute, according to United Press International. In a video posted by Guinness World Records on Jan. 25, Durdik had the matches laid out in front of him and lighted each one before putting it out on his tongue. He also holds the record for most socks put on one foot within 30 seconds.

Gutsy

So much for advanced Russian security. As art lovers browsed an exhibition at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery on Jan. 27, Euro News reported, a thief nonchalantly strolled in, plucked a 1908 landscape by Arkhip Kuindzhi off the wall, and walked out of the building.

Police quickly viewed surveillance video and arrested a 31-year-old man, who admitted

he hid the painting, worth an estimated $185,000, in an unfinished building nearby.

The gallery was able to recover the painting and announced that “security measures have been reinforced ... at all venues of the Tretyakov Gallery.”

Least Competent Criminal

Police in Austin, Texas, caught up with 19-year-old suspect Luca P. Mangiarano on Jan. 24, a month after a bank robbery in large part because of his choice in getaway vehicles.

According to police, Mangiarano stepped into the BBVA Compass bank on Dec. 18 and handed a note to a teller, reading: “This is a robbery, please give me all your 100’s and 50’s in a envelope and everything will be ok.” The employee did as directed and the robber left the building, then hopped on a Jump electric scooter and took off down the sidewalk. He perhaps failed to consider that the scooters are linked to GPS tracking systems and online accounts with phone numbers, email addresses and credit card information, which, after police obtained them from Jump, led them to Mangiarano. Austin Detective Jason Chiappardi told The Washington Post: “We had never had a scooter involved in a robbery.”

Bright Idea

Outdoorsman Scott Ritchie of Loveland, Colorado, has a new lease on life thanks to 3D printing. Ritchie, 52, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in early 2018 after noticing pain in his hip after fly-fishing. CBS4 in Denver reported Dr. Ronald Hugate of the Panorama Orthopedics and Spine Center in Highlands Ranch took an aggressive and creative approach to treating Ritchie: He made a 3D virtual model of Ritchie’s pelvis, then designed an implant to exactly replace the area of bone that would have to be surgically removed. Made of titanium, the implant was produced using a 3D printer. Two weeks later after surgery, Ritchie was walking with crutches and is expected to walk on his own in a few weeks more, although he was warned he might have a limp. “If I do have a limp, it’s better than nothing,” Ritchie said.

Uh, No

On Jan. 29, the Chenoa (Illinois) Police Department put a call out for volunteers to help with a training session taking place that evening. “Officers are undergoing their annual Taser training tonight ... and are looking for members of the public who are willing to volunteer for the experience,” announced WEEK-TV. Volunteers were required to sign an “exposure waiver” in order to participate, but it was unclear whether the Tasers would be live.

Ewwww!

Penny Pospisil, 47, of Sumter County, Florida, was arrested on Jan. 25 for the alleged murder of her boyfriend, 55-year-old Anthony Mitchell, according to WFTV. Investigators believe that last August, in the Lake Pan RV Village where Pospisil and Mitchell lived, she killed Mitchell and cut his body into pieces, living with the remains in their camper. When neighbors asked about him, she explained that Mitchell had died of natural causes and she had him cremated. But they also noticed a foul odor coming from the camper and that Pospisil was regularly showering at the pool. When police arrived in December to investigate her overdue lot fee, she told them that she was a victim of domestic violence and had killed Mitchell in self-defense. She faces charges of second-degree murder and abuse of a dead human body.

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Lost in the Lake A mother has dedicated herself to a nonprofit that recovered her son’s body in Lake Michigan long after the official search was called off.

By Patrick Sullivan Losing a loved one to drowning is one kind of terrible tragedy. Not knowing where their body is, except that it’s out there in a certain section of water, is another kind altogether.

That’s something Kelly Dalton said she learned after her son, 21-year-old Tyler Lee Spink, drowned while kayaking with a friend in Benzie County’s Platte Bay on Labor Day 2016. Spink’s body was recovered this July by Wisconsin-based Bruce’s Legacy, a nonprofit dedicated to recovering the bodies of drowning victims.

“We lived almost two years without having him, and now it’s been about six months since he’s been recovered, and I can tell you, 100 percent, there is a difference,” Dalton said.

“I could not get past that day, Sept. 5, 2016.

Every day, every single night, I saw my son in that lake, and I wanted him out. No family should be left in that situation.”

CASE CLOSED Spink drowned after both his and his friend’s kayaks overturned on Platte Bay. Dalton said her son shouldn’t have been in the water that day, but he lived with an almost reckless sense of fun-loving adventure.

“He was free-spirited, he lived every moment, he enjoyed life, almost carelessly, in a way,” she said. “Even as a child he had no fear.”

Neither Spink nor his friend wore life jackets. A fisherman heard them calling for help and was able to rescue Spink’s friend, but not Spink. The friend later told Dalton that if her son hadn’t been with him in the water to calm him down through the ordeal, he wouldn’t have survived.

Following Spink’s disappearance, the U.S. Coast Guard searched by air for 28

hours; state police and Benzie County Sheriff ’s deputies also searched for three days. Searches cannot go on indefinitely, however; especially in a body of water as vast as Lake Michigan.

“Law enforcement look at it differently, and I don’t mean it in a negative way — if someone gets lost on land, and they’re never recovered, it doesn’t ever get to a point where it’s closed,” Dalton said. “It’s always open.”

In Tyler’s case, the official police search didn’t seem to last that long, from Dalton’s perspective.

do that,” Dalton said.

Dalton uses the Facebook page she started amid the search for her son to spread a message about water safety, the importance of using the right kind of kayak for open water, and the value of life jackets. She figures since she’s got access to those thousands of followers, maybe she can reach some of them and prevent something like what happened to Tyler from happening to them.

“If it helps to inform someone out there to think twice before making such a critical decision, it’s worth it,” she said.

“I don’t know of any drowning victim that we have recovered that had a life jacket on,” Bensley said.

“It’s just, case closed, and you’re supposed to move on,” she said. “I get it. You will be forever grieving. It’s just a different process.”

Enter Keith Cormican and his partners, Beth Darst, Drew Morris, and Kathy Morris, of Bruce’s Legacy. After repeated searches over 21 months, they found Spink on July 19, 2018, at a depth of 180 feet, by using a remote-controlled underwater vehicle. Their dedication left a lasting impression on Dalton.

“It’s devastating, but at least I have a peace within me, because he’s not in that lake any longer,” she said.

FINDING MEANING IN THE MISERY Today, Dalton hopes to make her son’s death meaningful as a lesson to teach people about water safety and to raise money for Bruce’s legacy.

“Tyler would have wanted something positive to come out of this, so I needed to

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She promotes life jackets not only for their life saving function. In the event of a water death, a life jacket also ensures the body can be rapidly recovered, saving loved ones from the horror that is knowing a body is lost out there, somewhere.

Dalton said that the conditions that took her son on Labor Day 2016 might have taken him even if he had been wearing a life jacket. The water was extremely cold, and he wouldn’t have lasted long adrift in the lake.

“Tyler could have still not survived that.

The water was 70 degrees, and that’s cold to our bodies,” she said. “At least if they were wearing a life jacket, Tyler would have been recovered right away, and that part of our story never would have happened.”

Dalton also tries to spread the message about using the right equipment. Her son used one of their family’s kayaks that they had bought for lazy floats down a river. It was

not designed for sea kayaking. Moreover, he didn’t know what he was doing because he hadn’t sea kayaked before.

“There’s so many steps that those boys should have took,” she said. “They had no idea; they had no business being out there.”

LOSS SPARKS A MISSION Bruce’s Legacy is named after Cormican’s brother, Bruce, who drowned while working as a recovery diver.

Bruce and Keith got certified as divers in 1990 because they wanted to start a dive team in their county. Bruce Cormican was a volunteer firefighter and an EMT, so he was well positioned for the task. The brothers volunteered their time whenever there was a drowning death in their county.

Bruce Cormican was diving in search of a missing canoer in 1995 when tragedy struck.

“Things didn’t go right,” Cormican said.

Cormican said his brother and the team he was working with didn’t understand the hydraulics of the river, leading to his brother’s drowning. The loss inspired Cormican to change his life.

“I decided to switch gears in my life, and I went out and got trained, and I opened up a dive shop,” he said.

Cormican’s dive shop, Wazee Sports Center, is located in Black River Falls, near a lake that’s a diving destination. He also became a public safety trainer, he said, and he gradually became known as a lost-body search specialist.

“So as the years went by, I was getting called to different areas around Wisconsin, and I learned a lot, and I saw the need for specialized equipment, sonar equipment, to better offer that service,” he said.

Five years ago, after he spent $75,000 of his savings on a sonar device and an old

pontoon boat from which to operate it, Cormican started Bruce’s Legacy.

To have a family member who is lost in a lake can be unbearable, Cormican said.

“When they know that they’re in the lake, they know that they’re in there and nobody can find them, that sense of not getting closure, not being able to bury a family member, it’s very hard on families not having that,” Cormican said. “There’s nothing else like it.”

NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN Cormican said he sees the service offered

by Bruce’s Legacy as one of last resort. The bodies they find are bodies that would otherwise be lost forever.

“We’re really getting bombarded right now, I mean, boy, we’ve got a plane to look for in New Jersey next summer, with five people missing from 21 years ago,” he said.

“We’ve been requested to go to Nepal, to a mountain lake that is up by Mount Everest, at an elevation of 16,000 feet. We’re going to be doing that in May.” In Nepal, three young boys drowned in the lake, and the bodies of two of them have never been recovered. The boys’ family and their community don’t have the means to look.

Cormican said a man from Lake Tahoe had gotten to know one of the families, knew about Bruce’s Legacy, and arranged a fundraising drive to make the mission a reality.

“They have no resources there, so to speak, and he reached out to me and asked me if I would be interested in doing that,” he said. “He started a GoFundMe and is spearheading it.”

Bruce’s Legacy relies on donations, but they don’t charge the families for searching for their loved ones.

In Benzie County last summer, when Bruce’s Legacy divers found the body of Tyler Spink, they turned it over to the sheriff ’s department so that officers could complete their death investigation.

But that’s not where their work ended.

Over nearly two years of working together to find Tyler, with Tyler’s mother and Cormican became close friends and have stayed in touch.

Cormican said it is grim work looking for bodies, but it’s also satisfying and rewarding to know that he can offer hope to grieving loved ones who have nowhere else to turn.

“I would say probably the hardest part of our job is when we’re not successful, when I have to tell a family member that we can’t find them, we just can’t find them,” he said.

“It’s very devastating to them and us as well.”

SEARCHERS FACE CHALLENGES Grand Traverse County Sheriff Tom Bensley doesn’t dive anymore, but he began diving for the sheriff ’s department in 1972.

He said he can’t remember in instance when a recovered body was wearing a life jacket.

“I don’t know of any drowning victim that we have recovered that had a life jacket on,” Bensley said.

The sheriff department dive team for Grand Traverse County started in the midto-late 1960s under Sheriff Richard Weiler, and today they work with departments around the region through Northern Michigan Mutual Aid. Bensley, who in recent years has led several successful searches for drowning victims, said the operations face lots of challenges.

Visibility, especially on inland lakes, and an inability to dive deeper than 100 or 120 feet put limitations on what divers can do. Also, before divers even stick a toe into the water, lots of investigation has to take place, he said.

The searchers want to get as much information as they can about where the victim is likely to be before they start searching. That means interviewing witnesses, sending detectives out to canvas

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the area to look for people who may have heard or seen something, and getting the word out through the media that they are looking for information.

“If nobody witnesses the drowning, where do you start?” Bensley said. “If there’s somebody there, that helps. But people’s recollections, even when we put them in a boat, and go back and trace their routes, say where and when did it happen, they may be 200 yards off, depending on the body of water.”

Often, surviving witnesses were in a boat, and that boat has drifted, making it difficult for them to determine where their loved one went into the water.

“If it’s witnessed, even the witnesses can be a long ways off, so now we have a huge area to start looking,” he said.

DESPITE BEST INTENTIONS… For five or six years, Bensley’s department has had a ROV, a remotely operated vehicle, that’s equipped with sonar, lights and a camera. That’s greatly expanded their ability to search and overcomes a lot of the limitations of divers.

That can reach anywhere in the region, because the deepest water depths are around 600 feet and they’ve got 800 feet of tether.

The department was also able to upgrade to “enhanced imaging” sonar equipment last year through a $34,000 Homeland Security grant, so that the sonar image readouts now look a lot more like photographs.

Still, towing an ROV is laborious and painstaking work, because the equipment isn’t smart enough to know where it is while it’s gathering images, and the operators, once they find something that they want to take a closer look at, have to triangulate an estimation of where the device was and how far away it was from the object in the image.

For complicated searches — including the one for Spink in 2006 at Platte Bay — the Michigan State Police have an automated underwater vehicle that’s got far more advanced systems and can send immediate GPS coordinates for whatever it finds.

Given how valuable that device would be for searches in northern Michigan and the fact that the state only has one, Bensley would like his department one day to get an AUV, but they cost $250,000, so he knows that’s not going to happen any time soon.“We’d like to have one,” he said.

Despite all of the commitment and the modern-day equipment, Bensley said sometimes bodies cannot be found. He can think five or six bodies that have not been found around the area — one in Big Glen Lake and four or five in Grand Traverse Bay. “Unfortunately, time and money issues comes into play, which we never want to

run up against. We don’t want to do that,” he said. “That’s why we put a lot of effort into these cases.”

A STRING OF TRANGE CALLS In those early weeks, while Dalton was adjusting to the horror of having lost her son and knowing that his body was in Lake Michigan, but no one was looking for him, a surprising number of strangers contacted her.

Many people, from friends and family to complete strangers, offered comfort and support. Dalton said that helped her make it through those early days.

But she also heard from some less helpful people.

In the second week after the drowning, the mother of someone who had lent her son an oar called her, looking for its return.

Dalton couldn’t help her.

Multiple people who claimed they were psychics called offering to find Tyler. Divers with boats called, offering to search for a fee.

Someone with an airplane offered to fly around and look for him from the air. These people struck Dalton as ignorant of the realities of the challenges the search for her son faced.

“It didn’t feel right to me. I had people tell me that they would find him in the first day, and they had no idea what they were up against,” she said. “You have no idea.”

When she finally connected with Cormican of Bruce’s Legacy, it was a breath of fresh air. Dalton said it was immediately clear that he knew what he was doing and that he only wanted to help.

“People who don’t really understand the whole picture of a drowning,” she said.

“Keith had done so much investigating on his own. He knew the water was deep where he drowned.

He knew that right from the start, and he was the only one that understood that.”

Dalton said she learned of Bruce’s Legacy because Cormican had learned of her plight and contacted her. Frustratingly, she said, Cormican sent a message to a Facebook page about her son, but at that time, Dalton was not running the page, and the message was not forwarded to her. She didn’t connect with Cormican until about a month after Labor Day, and she believes critical weeks of searching were lost.

She said that in addition to spreading the word about drowning and water safety, she’s dedicated herself to raising money for Bruce’s Legacy because of the selfless devotion they showed her in their relentless search for Spink over two years.

“Never once, not from day one, did Keith make me feel like he wasn’t going to come out and search unless I was able to give him significant funds to do it,” she said.

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Go to a Boyne City High School basketball game, and you’ll see something rarer than a Detroit Pistons victory parade.

The Ramblers’ Nick and Julie Redman have the distinction of being among a very small number of married couples in Michigan coaching varsity basketball.

Nick is in his 10th year as a very successful coach of the boys team, while Julie is in her second season with the girls squad.

“We won eight games last year,” said Julie.

“And we’re hoping to build on that.”

Basketball has been a family affair of the Redmans for decades. Both Nick and Julie played when they attended BCHS as students, and two of their sons, Jay and Corey, played the game.

In fact, Corey is still playing at Central Michigan University after a stellar career at BCHS where the two-time captain scored 1,334 points and was an All Stater. Older brother Jay played at Lawrence Tech, where he earned both athletic and academic scholarships.

Julie took over the struggling girls program after former coach Kevin Fitzpatrick stepped down after a 3–18 season in 2016. It was a grim situation for fans of the girls program. The squad had no legacy of excellence, and Julie was coming in without any varsity coaching experience.

But she did have a basketball background, having played at BCHS herself. She also had posted a single-season winning record by coaching a middle school team to an 11–1 mark. Despite that impressive record, Julie admits to being nervous about her varsity debut against Bellaire.

She had prepared by attending some coaching clinics and continues to study the game that has been such a big part of the family’s daily life.

“It went better than I thought, but I was scared,” she remembered with a laugh. “I’m still learning. The coaching clinics helped a lot. ” Because going from an eighth grade coach to a varsity position rarely happens, Julie continues to devote time to proving her mettle, studying the game and learning some of the nuances that can make the difference between a win and a loss.

“She’s been working really hard at it,” said Nick. “She’s been learning and figuring it out and showing the girls. She has good common-sense knowledge of the game from her playing it.”

Those playing days came more than three decades ago when Julie and Nick were high school sweethearts. “We met in 1983 and started dating in the summer of ’84,” said Nick, who runs a construction company when he’s not coaching.

By the end of her first season, Julie’s team had won eight games, more than doubling the previous season’s victory total. “I don’t want to be overconfident,” she said. “But one of our goals this year is to win more than eight games.”

When Nick became Boyne City’s head coach, like Julie, he had no varsity coaching experience. His first game took place in December 2009; his Ramblers nipped Glen Lake, 68–66.

“Then we lost 18 in a row,” he said with a laugh.

During the losing streak, Nick’s team kept getting better, even though the losses kept piling up. “That group of kids kept fighting, kept improving,” he said.

It was more than two months later when he finally got his second win, a 62–54 victory over Inland Lakes.

But the best was yet to come for the fledgling coach and his intrepid team. When the playoffs came, the Ramblers edged East Jordan, 57–54, earning the right to take on a powerful Charlevoix squad that had won six of its previous eight games. In a contest that they still talk about in Boyne City, the resolute Ramblers upset Charlevoix, 65–64, before a season-ending loss to Suttons Bay. “Charlevoix and [Traverse City] St. Francis are our toughest games every year,” said Nick, who has built a reputation for teams that hustle no matter the outcome.

That game-long intensity has paid off with six District Titles in Nick’s nine seasons. Last year the Ramblers went 19–7.

“We have to play with enthusiasm and execute,” he said of his current team. “We don’t probably have the size or athleticism as we had last year or in previous years, but I think overall our size is OK, and our team speed is OK. It’s just a matter of playing hard, playing together.”

Key returners this year included seniors Dillon Sulak and Trevor King, plus juniors Max Vondra and Pete Calcaterra.

“Our kids have a lot of pride in our program,” said Nick. “But we talk a lot about taking care of the things we can control. That’s our enthusiasm, our effort and execution. If we take care of those three things, good things will happen.”

To Pray or Not to Pray?

Note to readers: The Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners last month approved a motion to open its regular meetings with an invocation. (You can find the resolution in its entirety by searching “invocation” at www.grandtraverse.org.) Here, Scott and Bill respond to the issue.

Scott’s statement There should not be prayer at county board of commissioners meetings. This doesn’t mean religion is banned from the room. We elect whole people; if religion is part of what makes up a candidate, it is part of what makes up the commissioner, and he/she is free to express it. Commissioners may wear a yarmulke or carry a Bible. They may draw from religious principles when making decisions. However, there is a line the religious have no right to cross: Religious pracScott Blair tices should not be incorporated into our public meetings.

Blair is a conA lead prayer, fixed into the agenda, is a government prayer, sultant in the wastewater treat- not individual expression.

Commitment to pluralism is essential for a functional ment field and community. This means we willfully carve out a neutral space president of the for public decision-making, one where everyone is granted Grand Traverse access, and where no element of the community may impose Humanists. its religiosity. Any honest, fair-minded person can understand and accept that. To reject pluralism is to always be subject to whichever group has the upper hand.

The purported purpose of the prayers is to “lend gravity to the proceedings.” But humankind is notoriously non-aligned on A LOCAL PASTOR religion. You cannot impart gravity or establish a sense of common purpose by alienating attendees.

So why did four commissioners vote for the invocation policy, despite overwhelming expressed public opposition? I have to assume that they don’t care about pluralism, that they simply want to prevail.

They imposed the prayer as a statement, a flag planted in a common space in an attempt to claim it for their group. They are declaring that this a God-worshiping community.

The “opt out” option doesn’t cut it. The proceedings are still painted with the religiosity of others. Those who leave, or visibly don’t participate, are identifying themselves and may then be subject to prejudice in matters they might have before the board. People face choosing between honoring their own beliefs or feigning participation.

Prayer in the meeting room is unnecessary and divisive; it is wrong to impose it in the very place that should remain blind to people’s religious affiliations.

Bill’s statement To pray or not to pray? That is the question the Grand Traverse County Commissioners considered in January.

The divisiveness of the issue is reflected in the 4–3 vote and the tenor of many of the comments posted in response on social media. The negativity and mean-spirited nature of these comments are reflective of the social and political discourse of our day.

The commissioners made the right decision, and I’m Rev. Dr. William grateful they had the courage to do so. Some will cry C. Myers “separation of church and state!” However, that political Senior Pastor philosophy has no legal standing. The legal measure is the at Presbyterian establishment clause of our Constitution: “Congress shall Church of make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or Traverse City prohibiting the free exercise thereof …”.

The establishment clause of our Constitution preserves our unalienable right to live, work, and play as a person of faith in all facets of life, even the political arena. In this case, the key is the second clause: “prohibiting the free exercise thereof … .” In the same way someone can’t be made to worship or pray in public, the right to do so must be protected.

ATHEIST DEBATE Hearing someone pray is not the same as praying. No one’s rights are violated by the board’s decision to open their meetings with prayer. As cited in The Ticker (a local online sister to Northern Express), “The U.S. Supreme Court has held that prayer is permitted in an official setting of legislative bodies, such as county commissions, provided invocations do not ‘denigrate non-believers or religious minorities, threaten damnation, or preach conversion.” If a majority of the commissioners desire to open their meetings with prayer, it is their right to do so.

Rather than fighting over whether to pray or not, maybe the better question to ask is this: How can this new invocation policy be used to further the common good? Finding even more ways to reflect and respect the diversity in our community, including people of all faiths, is a good place to start.

CROSSED

Bills’s reply Scott champions pluralism — just not in matters of faith. How do we promote pluralism by denying board members their constitutional right? A majority of the board voted to open its regular meetings with prayer. The Supreme Court says the action is legal. The issue is only divisive if we make it so.

If we truly embrace a spirit of pluralism, we should welcome prayer to open our governmental meetings. One meeting could feature a Christian prayer; another a Jewish prayer; another an Islamic prayer. Other meetings could feature pagan prayers, Buddhist prayers, or Hindu prayers. Our non-theist friends could offer a statement on gratitude, justice, wisdom, or compassion — whatever human virtues they want to affirm. Such a practice would prepare board members for the consequential matters of their meetings and affirm the religious pluralism of our community. The essence of Scott’s argument is that public prayer offends his religious sensibilities. Scott, sitting respectfully while someone prays is not the same as praying. However, the opportunity might help those present learn to appreciate the religious diversity of our community.

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Scott’s reply Bill ignores the distinction between individuals and government. Religious speech and free exercise are rights that belong to citizens. People may practice religion and pray anywhere and everywhere. But when government does it, when it is imbedded into public meeting agendas, it becomes “establishment” in the First Amendment sense. Can we please respect one another enough to acknowledge that?

Some believers are so accustomed to the privilege they have enjoyed for centuries that they are comfortable imposing religion on our common institutions as though it were a divine entitlement. It is perfectly easy to keep our government neutral and respectful to all, but Bill and the four prayervoting commissioners will not recognize that simple, fair principle. They are not content with freedom to be religious in our society; they must make our society religious.

Agree statement While they disagree on whether prayer is appropriate when incorporated into our common public institutions, Bill and Scott agree all citizens must remain free to publicly practice their faith, express and debate their religious beliefs, and pray (or not).

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Want to kick things up a notch this Valentine’s Day? Forget the predictable chocolates, flowers, wine, or jewelry — even the fancy restaurant dinner. A beautifully presented home-cooked dinner, made with love, is so much more personal. And why not think even more outside the box by choosing anything-butpredictable ingredients for your culinary feast? Go a little wild … with wild game. OK, it’s mostly farmraised in northern Michigan, but the quality is high and consistent, and you don’t have to take to the fields and forests to source it; we’ve done the sourcing for you (see sidebar “Hunting Down Game Meats”). To make it even easier, we offer four surefire recipes using buffalo, venison, rabbit, and duck that are sure to impress and delight your special someone. By Janice Binkert

Buffalo Meatballs, Italian Style Makes 24 meatballs Ingredients: • 1 lb. ground buffalo • ¾ c. crushed saltine crackers • ½ c. Parmesan cheese, grated • 2 eggs • 1 small onion, finely chopped • 1 tsp. dried oregano • 1 tsp. garlic powder • ½ tsp. dried red pepper flakes • ¼ c. chopped parsley • ½ c. milk • 1 tsp. kosher salt • ½ tsp. freshly ground pepper • 8 ounces provolone, cut into 24 ½-inch cubes (save any extra cheese for another use) • 2 24-oz. jars marinara sauce (such as Barilla) or your own homemade sauce Shaved Parmesan cheese, for garnish Chopped parsley, for garnish Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a largerimmed sheet pan with parchment paper. In a large bowl, use your hands to gently mix, ground buffalo with next 11 ingredients (through pepper) until just combined. Using a 1½-inch portion scoop, make 24 meatballs, placing them on the parchment-lined sheet pan. Take one meatball into the palm of your hand and make an indentation with your thumb. Stuff with one provolone cube and form the meatball around the cheese, covering it completely. Place meatball back on sheet pan. Repeat with remaining meatballs.

Bake for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, bring marinara to a slow simmer over low heat.

Remove meatballs from oven when done, transfer to simmering marinara sauce, and cook for 5–10 minutes longer. Serve with thin spaghetti or other favorite pasta and garnish with Parmesan and parsley.

Mustard-Braised Rabbit Serves 2

(Adapted from a recipe by James Beard Awardwinning French Chef Joël Robuchon in his cookbook “The Complete Robuchon,” recommended by Adam Eastman of Burritt’s Fresh Markets)

Ingredients: • 1 whole rabbit, about 2–2½ lbs.

• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste • 2 tbsp. safflower or canola oil • ¼ c. Dijon mustard, divided • 2 tbsp. unsalted butter, cut into small cubes, plus more for greasing baking dish • 2 small shallots, sliced thinly • 3 large cloves garlic, smashed and halved • 1 c. dry white wine • 1 tbsp. chopped fresh rosemary, plus 2 small whole sprigs • ¼ c. heavy cream Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut rabbit into 6–8 pieces (or ask your butcher to do this).

Dry pieces thoroughly with paper towels, then season with salt and pepper. Grease a baking dish large enough to accommodate all of the pieces in a single layer. In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat and sear the rabbit pieces on all sides, in two batches if necessary, to avoid crowding. Transfer to a platter and brush pieces all over with 2 tbsp. of the mustard before arranging them in the prepared baking dish. Dot with butter cubes, scatter with shallots and garlic, pour wine over everything, and sprinkle with chopped rosemary. Cover, place in oven, and braise for 40 minutes, checking temperature with an instant-read thermometer after 30 minutes to avoid overcooking (internal temperature when done should be at least 160 degrees). Remove from oven and set rabbit on a plate to rest while you finish the sauce. Stir remaining mustard and cream into the liquid in the baking dish with a wooden spoon, scraping up any brown bits, and pour mixture into a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer and cook for about 3 minutes, whisking constantly. Taste and season as needed with salt and pepper. Serve with polenta and sautéed spinach or other green vegetable.

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Acorn Squash with Wild Rice and Venison Stuffing Serves 4

Duck Legs with French Lentils and Red Wine Serves 2

Ingredients: • 1 c. wild rice blend • ½ tsp. sea salt • 2 acorn squash, halved and seeded • ½ lb. ground venison • 2 tbsp. olive oil, plus more for drizzling • 1 medium onion, finely chopped • 2 garlic cloves, minced • 1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme leaves, plus 4 sprigs for garnish • Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste • ¼ c. pecans, toasted and finely chopped • ½ c. dried cranberries • 1 c. grated ricotta salata cheese, divided (can sub any grating goat cheese for this)

Ingredients: • 2 tbsp. olive oil • 2 duck legs • Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste • 2 medium onions, quartered, leaving stems intact • 2 celery stalks, sliced about ¼-inch thick • 2 carrots, quartered lengthwise and cut into • ½-inch pieces • 2 garlic cloves, sliced • 2 c. French green lentils • 1 tbsp. tomato paste • Bouquet garni (parsley, thyme and bay leaf, bundled with butcher’s string) • ½ c. dry red wine • 2 c. duck or chicken stock, plus more as needed • Pinch of sugar

(Recipe provided by Stephanie Mathewson, Marketing & Communications Manager at Oryana)

Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a heavy saucepan, add rice to 2 cups of water and sea salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer for about 50 minutes, or until all liquid is gone (check at about 40 minutes). Remove pan from heat and let stand, covered for 10 minutes, then fluff rice. Drizzle the squash with olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and place on a rimmed sheet pan, cut side down. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until tender when pierced with a sharp knife. Keep warm. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, thyme and cranberries, and sauté for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the venison and continue cooking, breaking up the meat, until browned. Add the cooked rice, pecans and half of the cheese. Stir to combine and season to taste. Stuff each squash half with rice/venison mixture and top with the remaining cheese. Place stuffed squash upright on the same sheet pan and bake about 10 minutes longer. Remove from oven and serve each squash-half hot, garnished with fresh thyme sprigs.

Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Heat oil in a heavy, flameproof casserole dish (enough to just cover the bottom of the pot) over medium-high heat. Pat duck legs dry and season with salt and pepper. Sear, skin side down, until golden brown, about 5 minutes, then reduce heat to medium, turn duck legs over, and cook for 15 minutes longer, checking a few times to make sure they are browning evenly. Transfer to a plate. Fry the onion quarters in the same fat left in the casserole until they start to brown around the edges, turning carefully to keep them intact. Remove to the same plate as the duck legs. Add the celery, carrots, garlic, lentils, and tomato paste to the casserole and cook for another minute or two, adding more oil if necessary. Add the bouquet garni, wine, stock, and sugar; bring to a boil. Return duck legs and onions to the casserole, arranging them on top of the lentils and vegetables and tucking them in a bit. Remove casserole from heat, cover with a lid, transfer to the oven, and cook for 1 hour, checking at about 45 minutes to see if you need to add more stock (the duck and lentils should remain moist during the full cooking time).

When fully cooked, the lentils should be tender, and the duck should register 165 degrees on an instant-read thermometer and come away from the bone easily.

HUNTING DOWN GAME MEATS

Game meats can be hard to find in your local grocery store or butcher shop, so we went hunting (pardon the pun) — not just for rabbit, but also buffalo, pheasant, quail, duck, geese and even yak — and discovered several excellent sources in Northwest Lower Michigan where you can buy game meat for cooking at home, much of it from animals raised right here in our region. FYI: Game meats are not only delicious, but also lower in fat and calories, and higher in protein than most conventional meats.

Note: Not all game selections are available all of the time at the following retailers.

If you’re looking for something specific, it’s best to call ahead. Most places will also take special orders if they’re out of the product you want.

Oleson’s Traverse City Plaza East, (231) 941-9000 Traverse City Plaza West, (231) 947-6510 Petoskey, (231) 439-9911 Charlevoix, (231) 547-6548 All cuts of buffalo, including ground, short ribs, stew meat, franks, steaks, roasts, even buffalo tongue!

Burritt’s Fresh Markets Traverse City, (231) 946-3300 Venison, pheasant, rabbit, quail and quail eggs, duck (whole and parts, plus duck fat for cooking and, sometimes, duck eggs) Oryana Traverse City, (231) 947-0191 Ground venison, ground yak, elk, bison Lucky’s Market Traverse City, (231) 486-2491 Buffalo, venison, duck, goose Plath’s Meats Petoskey, (231) 348-8100 Ground buffalo, buffalo steaks (not available at Rogers City location) Toski-Sands Market Petoskey, (231) 347-1571 Buffalo (in store); venison, duck, pheasant, goose, and quail by special order Ebel’s General Store Falmouth (231) 826-3333 Ground venison, buffalo * Cherry Capital Foods in Traverse City is a wholesaler that supplies retail outlets and restaurants with specialty foods, including game meats. While they do not sell directly to the general public, they recommend that those who would like to see these kinds of products in their local grocery stores or butcher shops make a request that they carry them.

COOKING TIPS

Since game meats usually have less fat than conventional meats, they risk being tough if overcooked. Low and slow is usually the best way to go. Marinating and cooking with moist heat is another way to ensure tenderness. And adding a little fat (e.g., wrapping whole cuts in bacon, or mixing ground meat with a little pork sausage) can help prevent drying out. Following are three of the most highly rated cookbooks for wild (and farm-raised) game: • “Wild Gourmet: Naturally Healthy Game, Fish and Fowl Recipes for Everyday Chefs,” by Daniel Nelson • “The Everything Wild Game Cookbook: From Fowl and Fish to Rabbit and Venison – 300 Recipes for Home-Cooked Meals,” by Karen Eagle • “A field: A Chef ’s Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish,” by Jesse Griffiths

TAKE TO THE FIELDS

If you would like to experience wild game hunting for deer, elk, quail, partridge, ducks, geese or pheasant (and take home your bounty afterward), there are several preserves in our region that offer various packages on a seasonal basis, including guided hunts. For a list of them, Google “Game preserves in northern Michigan.”

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By Ross Boissoneau Correct us if we’re wrong, but marriage proposals aren’t what they used to be — and happily so. While our grandparents might have proposed marriage with no frills and a simple question — or even a statement — the couples of today are turning the big ask into a memorable event in and of itself. Here, a few unforgettable favorites we found: In the Air — and on the Ground One of the most imaginative proposals took place at Black Star Farms in Suttons Bay. Or rather, in the air above it and on the grounds. Josh Scheur and his girlfriend, Marcy, were up from Portland for a weekend stay, and he decided to propose in the most imaginative and romantic way he could think of, in a hot-air balloon above Black Star Farms, the question spelled out in giant letters on the lawn.

Of course, it wasn’t that easy. First, he couldn’t get a hot air balloon, so the resourceful Scheur booked a helicopter to fly overhead. Meanwhile, back at the farm, the staff discovered that the table linens they’d set out to shape the letters had gotten soaked from the sprinklers, and all had to be replaced. Then, when the twosome were finally airborne, the pilot took them over the grounds of Black Star Farms, all right, but it was the location on Old Mission Peninsula. “I said, ‘We’re at Black Star Farms in Suttons Bay — can you fly over Suttons Bay?’ He had to change the flight plan,” said Scheur.

In the end, it all worked out. She said yes, and the two were married at Black Star Farms — in Suttons Bay — the following spring.

In the restaurant Sure, proposing at dinner is fairly common. But what if it’s the bride-to-be doing the proposing? “We had discussed

even have a ring.’

“I said, ‘Will you marry me?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Will you get on one knee?’ He said, ‘No.’ “It was pretty sudden and impromptu. I don’t’ know if anyone even saw it.”

The surprises didn’t end there. Ten years and two kids later, O’Neill put together an anniversary party at Arcadia Bluffs and

Then, when the twosome were finally airborne, the pilot took them over the grounds of Black Star Farms, all right, but it was the location on Old Mission Peninsula. getting married,” said Joan O’Neill. “He [husband Scott Gest] is a researcher and planner. I’m more ‘Let’s do this, let’s do it now.’ He finally said, ‘Let me surprise you.’”

O’Neill had her own ideas for a surprise.

She bought a ring for him that September and started carrying it with her, looking for just the right time and place. Three months later, she still hadn’t found her moment — until they went to dinner at Hannah (now Bistro Foufou) for her birthday on Dec. 20.

“He gave me a birthday bracelet. He said, ‘I want you to be with me when I pick out a ring.’ I said, ‘Okay, that’s fine, but you ruined my surprise. I was going to propose to you. I

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rounded up as many people from their wedding as she could. “It totally surprised him.” Again.

On the Top of the Bridge Emily Misner of St. Ignace had long been hoping to win a trip to the top of the Mackinac Bridge. She had purchased raffle tickets several times, but had no luck. Then two years ago, she ran the length of the bridge on Labor Day. Those who posted on social media were eligible for a drawing, and sure enough, this time she won. “I said, Oh my God, I’ve been trying for this forever,” she said.

Her boyfriend, Cord Wilson, decided to make the event even more memorable. “We went up the elevator and steps,” she said. “I wanted to be the first, but he said, ‘I’ll go first.’ Before I got there he told the Bridge Authority and photographer. I was looking out — the views were incredible. He called me, and was down on one knee.” She was so taken by surprise that the rest of the time atop the bridge is a blur. “I don’t know what happened after that. Now I want to go again.”

On the Top of the Bridge II Turns out they aren’t the only couple to get engaged on top of the Mighty Mac. When Sid Hawkins won a trip to the top of the bridge, he naturally enough invited his girlfriend, Jessica Smith, to go along.

She had some suspicions — “We’d talked about marriage, and he had cleaned our house, did the dishes, got things all ready for something” — but kept them to herself.

Turns out she was right to be on the lookout. “Everybody knew but me,” she said with a laugh. She was taking photos looking toward Mackinac City when she turned around to see him on one knee with a ring. “I looked at him and said, ‘This isn’t happening.’ He asked, and I said yes. He said he was so scared, he didn’t want to drop the ring.” When they returned to their (freshly cleaned) home, their friends and family were gathered around.

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Friends and short film made Lesley Tye and Tony Bero’s engagement happen.

On the slopes Chris Hale, vice president of sales and marketing at Shanty Creek Resorts, said he knows of several proposals made on the slopes over the years. “We have at least one a year,” he said. Most are at the top, though he said one couple asked to go for a ride in one of the groomers, where the proposal took place. One of his favorites took place on the lift, where he said the groom-to-be was so nervous he kept saying to himself, “Don’t drop the ring, don’t drop the ring.”

He was even part of one such proposal many years ago when skiing with another couple in Colorado. His friend took a tumble, and they all gathered around him to make sure he was all right. “We were all behind him. Then his girlfriend is crying.

He holds his hand up, and there’s a ring in his hand.”

On the Water What better way to disguise a proposal than in a mock wedding? And why stop there — why not get married too? That was Tim Nance’s plan. His girlfriend, Kaitlyn, at the time worked for Orchestrated Grace, a wedding planning service. When the two were enlisted to appear on board the Tall Ship Manitou for a photo shoot for Orchestrated Grace, he came up with his idea. He hatched his plan and cleared it with his wife’s boss. “It was cool, unique, spontaneous,” he said.

Not only did he intend to propose while on the water, he gathered family and friends to welcome them with a wedding back on shore — should she say yes. He had only two days to prepare. Adding to the fun was the fact that the shoot (and engagement and

wedding) took place the same day the couple was moving. “I had to keep going into the bathroom to text,” Nance said.

He said their moms and Orchestrated Grace owner Chandra Wheeler helped pull everything together. “We got there at 2, sailed at 3, were married by 5 or 6.”

In a Movie Trailer Lesley Tye, a film instructor at Interlochen, and Tony Bero, on staff at Interlochen Public Radio, had met doing theatre at Old Town Playhouse. They dated, fell in love, and began to talk of marriage.

Putting the cart before the horse, the two booked their venue and started planning months before there was ever a proposal. “I was starting to wonder if I was just going to have to send out the invitations without a proposal,” said Tye. No worries. Bero approached their friend Lars Kelto about putting together a video, and Kelto made a short film encapsulating their story. Bero set things up with the staff at the State Theatre and then got Tye to go see a movie. When the film began rolling, “I thought, ‘Oh, this is nice, they’re going to show a local film here.’ Then I started to recognize some things, including clothes of mine, and certain songs, and about halfway through, finally figured it out,” said Tye. “Of course, at the end, the lights came up, and Tony was there with the ring, and the audience freaked out.”

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By Ross Boissoneau For Dr. Michael Coonrod, Memorial Day weekend 2014 was looking like any other.

He went camping with the scout troop he sponsors, and after dinner they decided to go on a hike, as they had the previous year. But when Coonrod tried to clamber over a barbed wire fence, the ring on the fourth finger of his right hand got stuck in one of the barbs. The weight of his body pulled the skin, muscle, and tendons off his finger.

Coonrod said there was surprisingly little blood or pain at first. “The nerves were ripped,” he said. “It wasn’t super painful — mostly anguish.”

Traumatic for anyone, the accident was even more devastating for Coonrod, a professional pianist and instructor at Interlochen.

Within three hours, he was flying to Ann Arbor, where a team of surgeons worked for four hours to reattach the finger. “It was experimental. They used leeches to try to get the blood to flow,” he said. Unfortunately, the surgery was unsuccessful. The pianist ultimately had the finger amputated.

He was appreciative about two things, however. “I was grateful it didn’t happen to a student. And I got back in time to see graduation. I had it amputated in the morning, and graduation was the next day,” he said.

While all this was happening, his friends and colleagues were trying to figure out how they could help him. Fellow piano instructor TJ Lymenstull and his wife, Susan Day, also a pianist, were among the first to hear of the accident. “We were absolutely devastated. I couldn’t sleep that night,” Day said.

That was when she came up with the idea of commissioning a piano piece that could be played with only the left hand. “There’s a long tradition” of such pieces, she said. Within a week, she had fleshed out the idea and, with the help of her daughter, set up a GoFundMe account. She reached out to colleagues, fellow pianists and musicians, and Coonrod’s former students.

“We reached a significant number of people influenced by Michael,” she said.

“What I didn’t know was that a prominent teacher and friend had a foundation that was used to promote projects. When she heard about it, she doubled the amount,” said Day. The fundraiser ultimately grew to over $13,000. Coonrod decided he would ask his friend Kenji Bunch to compose the piece.

“He’s a unique composer,” said Coonrod, who met Bunch when they were both working at

a music camp in Owensboro, Kentucky. “He was the composer in residence, and we were bunkmates. He gave a master class I really liked. At least five of my colleagues said they were glad I chose him.”

Bunch is in such demand as a composer that it took him nearly three years to get to the piece. But when he did, he was able to compose rather quickly. He started in February, and Coonrod had the first movement in April, the second in June, and the third and final movement in September.

Coonrod said the composition is everything he hoped it would be. “All the movements are different,” he said. “It starts with piano cadenzas. It’s very dramatic. The second is slow and impressionistic, with harp and piano and a horn solo.”

The piece builds to what Coonrod said is a joyful conclusion. “It builds to a feverish pitch.

It’s happy, and the climax is triumphant.” Bunch also put in a solo for viola, his own instrument.

“He’s a viola virtuoso,” said Coonrod.

Coonrod said he cannot play exactly the same as he did, and for that reason he chooses not to play most of the pieces he knew before, instead challenging himself to learn new ones.

“I can’t play too long, and my hand gets cold.

I love Schubert and can do all of that,” said Coonrod. On the other hand, he said Chopin etudes or extremely fast Liszt pieces are still beyond him.

TSO Musical Director Kevin Rhodes is looking forward to the concert. “When Michael approached us to perform the premiere, I immediately jumped at the opportunity both to play a new work by a prominent composer and to celebrate Michael’s heroism and perseverance in the face of daunting circumstances,” he said in a press release. “He is an inspiration to us all.”

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by Beethoven, the Egmont Overture and his Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Eroica), cornerstones of the classical tradition. Tickets start at $25.50. Go to www.mynorthtickets.com.

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saturday

ANNUAL WINTERFEST: Beulah. Features the Poker Run, frozen turkey bowling, Chili Cookoff, Benzie County Fire & EMS ice rescue demo, frozen fish toss, rubber duck race, Winterfest Parade, Outhouse Sprint & much more. clcba.org/event/winterfest

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NORTH AMERICAN VASA 43RD ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF RACES: Feb. 9-10. Today includes VASA Freestyle Races: 50km Okerstrom Ski Marathon, 27km George Kuhn Half Ski Marathon, 12km Korteloppet, Junior VASA, 6km freestyle Ski Race (for kids 14-19 years of age), 6km Freestyle Fun Ski Tour; Short’s Grand Fat Bike Race, 40K, & Short’s-n-Fat Bike Race, 20K. vasa.org

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DENTAL HEALTH DAY AT STATE THEATRE, TC: 10am. The Northern Michigan Oral Health Coalition is raising awareness of good oral health & celebrating National Children’s Dental Health Month by sponsoring Dental Health Day. “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween” will be shown after a short skit by NMC dental assistant students.

Tooth care bags will be provided for kids as well as information to access dental care. 25 cents.

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FRIENDS OF THE MANISTEE COUNTY LIBRARY BOOKLOVER’S SALE: 10am-3pm, Book House, behind the Manistee Library.

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GREENWOOD FOUNDATION SNOWSHOE & CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING ADVENTURE: 10am-noon, Greenwood Foundation, near Wolverine. Pre-register. Free. landtrust.org

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MAKE A GIFT SERIES: BEADED ART: 10amnoon, Interlochen Public Library. For adults. Sign up: 231-276-6767. Free. tadl.org/interlochen

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PROPOSED UPPER MANISTEE HEADWATERS PRESERVE HIKE: 10am. Bring your own winter gear, including snowshoes or skis.

Presented by the GT Regional Land Conservancy. gtrlc.org

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SUPER SATURDAY SPECIAL: 10am-2pm, TBAISD Career-Tech Center, TC. This free community event includes tax preparation being done for free & a free Health & Wellness Fair. Register: 231-590-0100. nmcaa.net

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VALENTINE WORKSHOP: 10am-noon, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. A vintage–inspired valentine-making workshop for children & their families. Participants will be encouraged to spread messages of love by making valentines for their friends, family & local seniors. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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25 CENT KIDS MOVIES: 11am, The Lyric, Harbor Springs. Featuring “Ice Age.”

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4TH ANNUAL WINESHOEING EVENT: 11am, Maple Moon Sugarbush & Winery, Petoskey.

You will receive a guided tour, wine before & after snowshoeing, a bowl of chili, a roaring fire, & a souvenir glass to take home. Snowshoes are provided by Bearcub Outfitters & available to borrow on-site. Reservations required: 231-4879058. Guided snowshoeing departs at 11:30am, 1:30pm, & 3:30pm. $25. mmsyrup.com

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os, chili cook off, broomball tourney, fat tire bike demo, snowshoe demo, sled dogs, ice boating demo, music & more. Find on Facebook.

FUN IN THE SNOW - FUNDRAISER FOR TART TRAILS: 1-6pm, Brengman Brothers, TC. Explore Brengman Brothers’ property trails while fat tire biking, snowshoeing & cross-country skiing. Warm up & refuel after with chili & soup, wine, hot chocolate & coffee. All donations for chili & soup go to Tart Trails, as well as a portion of all wine & tasting sales. brengmanbrothers. com/events/fun-in-the-snow

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AUTHOR SIGNING: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. Ruthy Kirwan will sign her book “Healthy Sheet Pan Cookbook.” horizonbooks.com

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A READING OF MARY OLIVER’S POETRY & PROSE: 3-5pm, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. Help read or enjoy listening at this tribute to Oliver’s life & work. Presented by TC Authors.

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ROCK N JAM: 4:30-8pm, The Rock of Kingsley. Music lovers of all ages are welcome to play & sing along, dance or listen in. Free. facebook.com/pg/therockofkingsleyMI/events

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COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS AMICAL ALUMNI WEEK: amical, TC. Celebrate amical’s 25th year with amical alumni whom have gone on to achieve even greater success within the industry & beyond. Featuring past staffers & favorites from the TC & Chicago restaurant scenes. Call 941-8888 for reservations. amical.com/alumni-week

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“LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS”: 5:30pm, Tucker’s, Northport. Northport Community Arts Center’s Feb. dinner theatre production. $60, includes dinner. northportcac.org/events/thelast-of-the-red-hot-lovers

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“A TIME TO SHINE”: 7pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Presented by Voices Without Borders. A variety show featuring northern MI talent. $10 general admission. greatlakescfa.org

Karen Marietti, director of Camp Daggett Adventure Center, will share her experience of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, during NCMC’s Luncheon Lecture on Fri., Feb. 15 in the Library Conference Center. Always on her bucket list, Karen decided it was time to make the climb when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2017 she and three other women climbed the 19,340 feet to the summit. Cost for the lecture is $12 and includes lunch, which begins at 11:30am. The program starts at noon. Reservations required: 231-348-6600.

BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: 401 River St., Elk Rapids. There will be a basic skills workshop from 7-7:30pm & the dancing will be held from 7:30-10:30pm. The live band will be Harbor Hoedown. $11 adult, $7 student, $9 member. dancetc.com

turing guitar virtuoso Albert Lee. 231-582-2588. $35 advance/$40 door. freshwaterartgallery.com

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“SYLVIA”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. Enjoy this comedy about a marriage & a dog. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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DAVINA AND THE VAGABONDS: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Enjoy this high-energy quintet who has performed in 45 states, two Canadian provinces & 12 European countries. $20 advance. blissfest.org

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WATERFOWL ON THE RIVER: 11am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Learn to ID birds on the water using mounts indoors & take a hike to the river. grassriver.org

PETOSKEY FILM SERIES PRESENTS “BOY ERASED”: 7:30pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. Free. facebook.com/petoskeyfilm

DOWNTOWN HARBOR SPRINGS 2019 ICE FEST: Featuring ice sculptures, carving dem-

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

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TASTE THE PASSION: 11am-5pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Enjoy sweet & savory bites paired with wine, a Snow Fun Photo Contest, pop-up shopping & more. Tickets include a souvenir wine glass & wine and food pairings at each of the 24 participating wineries. $40. lpwines.com/events/taste-the-passion

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9TH ANNUAL OUTHOUSE SPRINT: Downtown Beulah. Build your outhouse, mount it on skis & push it for a 30 yd. sprint down a snow covered track. Bring your outhouse to the Trailhead building & register by 2pm. Be prepared to pull your entry in the parade at 3:30pm through downtown Beulah. The race will be held immediately after the parade at the Trailhead. clcba.org

JOSHUA DAVIS WSG LUKE WINSLOW-KING: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Joshua writes & performs songs that “blend the roots of American music with gritty rock ‘n’ roll and vintage soul.”

Top-three finalist on NBC’s eighth season of The Voice. Luke brings his smoky vocals & sharp guitar playing to his mix of Delta blues, folk, country, jazz & rock ‘n roll. $30. oldtownplayhouse.com

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FUNNY BUSINESS COMEDY SHOW: 8pm, Odawa Casino, Petoskey. Featuring nationally recognized comedians. 21+. $5 per person. odawacasino.com

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GOOD ON PAPER IMPROV: 8-9:30pm, West Bay Beach Holiday Inn Resort, TC. $10. westbaybeachresorttraversecity.com

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GOPHERWOOD CONCERT: 8-10:30pm, Cadillac Elks Lodge. Featuring The Legendary Trainhoppers. Enjoy these Indiana songwriters/performers in the American folk tradition. $7-$15. mynorthtickets.com/events/the-legendary-trainhoppers

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HELL ON HEELS PRESENTS DOWN WITH LOVE: 8pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. A lip syncing, dancing & singing adventure with comedy & crassness. Featuring Mercedes Benz-Over, Kelly Ann Jefferies, Vajojo Visage & King Roth. $10 advance; $15 door. redskystage.com

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CADILLAC FOOTLITERS PRESENTS “FROM BROADWAY, WITH LOVE”: 9pm, Raven Brewing & BBQ, Cadillac. Free. cadillacfootliters.com

feb 10

sunday

BOY SCOUT SUNDAY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: 8:30am12:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. Free will offering. tcpack36.com

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NORTH AMERICAN VASA 43RD ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF RACES: Feb. 9-10. Today includes: 35km Lombard Loppet, 16km Chemical Bank Classic, 6km Classic Race, & 6km Fun Tour. vasa.org

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YOGA RECOVERY AT RUNNING FIT: 9:30am, Running Fit, downtown TC. A 50 minute, all-levels class designed to enhance recovery for athletic performance. The goal is to build strength, flexibility, focusing on lengthening tight hamstrings, calves, quadriceps & hip flexors. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

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TASTE THE PASSION: 12-5pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Enjoy sweet & savory bites paired with wine, a Snow Fun Photo Contest, pop-up shopping & more. Tickets include a souvenir wine glass & wine and food pairings at each of the 24 participating wineries. $40. lpwines.com/events/taste-the-passion

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YOGA + BEER: Noon, Silver Spruce Brewing Co., TC. A one hour flow class. Bring your own mat. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com “A MAN AGAINST INSANITY” BOOK LAUNCH:

2pm, Kirkbride Hall, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Presented by Mission Point Press.

Featuring a panel discussion that will include former employees of the State Hospital as well as family members of former patients. In this book, originally published in 1957, author Paul de Kruif tells the story of Dr. Jack Ferguson, a family physician who originally made a name for himself by perfecting a three-minute lobotomy. Free. missionpointpress.com

---------------------“SYLVIA”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. Enjoy this comedy about a marriage & a dog. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------GARDEN STORYTELLER SERIES: 2-3:30pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Jenifer Strauss, Michigan Humanities touring artist & storyteller, will present an interactive program for families. Afterwards head out for a winter story walk to look for signs of the season & then warm up with hot chocolate. RSVP. Free. mynorthtickets.com/events/garden-storyteller-series-winter

---------------------“LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS”: 3pm, Tucker’s, Northport. Northport Community Arts Center’s Feb. dinner theatre production. $60, includes dinner. northportcac.org/events/thelast-of-the-red-hot-lovers

---------------------SPEAKERS SERIES, NAA: 4pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. Photographer Bill Muempfers will give a power point presentation on taking vacation photographs, the correct camera & equipment, & how to store photographs. Sponsored by the Northport Arts Association. Free. northportartsassociation.org

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS AMICAL ALUMNI WEEK: (See Sat., Feb. 9)

feb 11

monday

SEN. SCHMIDT TO HOST FEBRUARY COFFEE HOURS: 12-1pm, Village of Kingsley Town Hall. Open to constituents throughout the 37th Senate District. The senator will be available to answer questions & provide information & assistance, as well as take suggestions on issues affecting communities & businesses in the district. senatorwayneschmidt.com

---------------------LOSS BY SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP: Michael’s Place, 1212 Veterans Dr., TC. Held the second & fourth Mondays of each month from 6-7pm. Open to adults who have experienced the death of a loved one to suicide. 947-6453 or GoodGrief@MyMichaelsPlace.net Free. mymichaelsplace.net/support-group-programs

---------------------SOUP & BREAD: 6-8pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Held the second Mon. of every month. Local chefs donate soup. You eat & donate what you can. This month’s proceeds go to The Watershed Center. thelittlefleet.com

---------------------BIRTH ‘N BABIES TC: 6:30-9pm, Interlochen.

A childbirth education class taught by two maternity RN’s from Munson. Guest speakers include a lactation consultant providing information on breastfeeding, a dad discussing support for dads through pregnancy, labor, birth & postpartum, & a certified Dancing for Birth instructor sharing benefits of specific movements through labor. For registration & info, email: birthnbabiestc@gmail.com, find on Facebook, or you may leave a message at 231.492.0406.

feb 12

tuesday

NETWORKING SPRING TRAINING: 8am, Harringtons

By The Bay, TC. Free one hour meeting where you can learn how to pitch yourself.

This session includes a short

tutorial on your pitch, followed by speed networking. Sponsored by BNI Business Before Sunrise. Find on Facebook.

---------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Make hearts out of shaving cream & paint for your valentine. Held at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------2019 CONNECTING WOMEN LUNCHEON SERIES: 12-1pm, Otsego Grand Event Center, Gaylord. “Gearing Up for a Healthy 2019!”

Learn about mental health with Heidi Yocum, body & fitness with Theresa Mathias, spirit yoga/meditation with Amy Mertz & Erin Mann, physical therapy with Niki Diehl, & nutrition with Julie Scheier, registered dietitian. gaylordchamber.com/connected-women-in-business

---------------------“HEART INNOVATIONS”: 12:30-1pm, Emmet County Friendship Center, Petoskey. Hosted

by McLaren Northern Michigan. Featuring Dr. Jason Ricci. Free. mclaren.org/northernmichigan/health-month.aspx

---------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, InMotion Chiropractic & Exercise Therapy, Williamsburg.

231-252-2800.

---------------------IMPACT 100 TRAVERSE CITY MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT SOCIAL: 5:30-7pm, Firefly, TC. Meet women committed to making a collective impact on the community. Open to all women who give $1,000 - 100% of which will be given to non-profits in the five county area. impacttc.org

---------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6-8:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new, come at 5:45pm for an introduction to CCL. citizensclimatelobby.org

---------------------LOW SODIUM COOKING CLASS: 6-7:30pm, McLaren Northern Michigan, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. Free. mclaren.org/northernmichigan/ health-month.aspx

---------------------DETOX YOGA FLOW: 6:15pm, Press On Juice Cafe, TC. This one hour class involves a lot of twists & poses to help eliminate toxins from the body through movement & breath.

Bring your own mat. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------PETOSKEY AUDUBON PROGRAM: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, conference room, Harbor Springs. Derek Shiels of the Little Traverse Conservancy & Darrell Lawson of the Petoskey Regional Audubon Society will introduce & demonstrate bioacoustic monitoring techniques, equipment & software that is used to form a better understanding of what wildlife is inhabiting conservancy land. Free.

feb 13

wednesday

PRESCHOOL STORY HOUR ANNUAL BEACH PARTY: Interlochen Public Library. Held at 10am & 1pm. Enjoy beach fun in Feb. Kids can play in the water, dig in the sand, make crafts & enjoy story time & snacks. Bring your swimsuit & towel. Free. tadl.org/interlochen

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GT BAY AREA STROKE CLUB - “FAMILY LOVE LETTERS”: 2:30-4:30pm, The Presbyterian Church, TC. Fortitude Wealth Planners financial planner Vicki Beam will present information on creating a “Family Love Letter” that gives families the important facts & thoughts they need to know in case of incapacity or death. 935-6380.

---------------------T ‘N’ T CREATE! HOW TO MAKE MOLDED CHOCOLATE: 4-5pm, Interlochen Public Library. For ages 10-19. Free. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Bill Marsh Ford of Gaylord. Enjoy food, refreshments, give aways & more. Speed Net-

working will be held from 5:30-6pm. Wear pink or red to be entered into an exclusive prize drawing. $5 members; $10 not-yet members. gaylordchamber.com

DISCOVER WITH ME: LET’S PAINT: 10amnoon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Kids add their creative strokes, splatters & squirts to the big wall & window murals. greatlakeskids.org

BOOK SIGNING: 6pm, Left Foot Charley, TC. The author of “Leaving the Suburbs” will be signing books. A whole chapter is dedicated to the Great Lakes Region & the Cherry Capital of the World in particular. Free/$10 print books.

Find on Facebook.

STORYTIME AT LELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARY: 10:30am. Stories & play designed to promote joy & growth in literacy. Children ages 0-6 & their caregivers welcome. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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---------------------NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: AN EVENING WITH TOMMY TOMLINSON: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. This acclaimed journalist will talk about his upcoming memoir “The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America.” Tomlinson spent 23 years as a reporter & local columnist for the Charlotte Observer, where he was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in commentary. Guest host is Elon Cameron, a writer, scholar, acupuncturist, activist & artist. $5 students, $17 reserved, $27 premium reserved, plus fees. nationalwritersseries.org

feb 14

thursday

BOOK SIGNING: 8:30am, Espresso Bay, Downtown TC. The author of “Leaving the Suburbs” will be signing books. A whole chapter is dedicated to the Great Lakes Region & the Cherry Capital of the World in particular. Free/$10 print books. Find on Facebook.

------------------------------------------LUNCHEON LECTURE: 11:30am, NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Featuring Karen Marietti, director of the Camp Daggett Adventure Center, who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Reservations required: 231-348-6600. $12, includes lunch.

---------------------ST. PATRICK’S DAY PUB WALK: 12-11pm, Downtown TC. Bring festive decorations & party favors & enjoy performances by members of the Grand Traverse Pipes and Drums. The event starts at Minerva’s on State St. & continues throughout the day & evening at nine additional venues located throughout downtown. sites. google.com/site/aohbunbrady/highholydays

---------------------CANDLELIGHT HIKE: 5-8pm, Mt. McSauba, sledding hill parking lot, Charlevoix. Presented by Charlevoix Recreation & Visit Charlevoix. Enjoy snowshoeing, hiking or cross-country skiing on candle-lit trails. Hot chocolate by a fire afterwards.

---------------------CABIN FEVER ARTIST TALKS: 5:30pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring Nancy McRay (fiber). Free. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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COMMUNITY CPR: 11am-1pm, McLaren Northern Michigan, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey.

Presented by McLaren Northern Michigan.

Free. mclaren.org/northernmichigan/healthmonth.aspx

FRIDAY FAMILY FUN NIGHT: 6-9pm, Table Health, GT Commons, TC. Enjoy a potluck dinner, games for kids & adults, music & more.

Table Health will provide a healthy dish to pass & recipes to share. Participants are welcome to bring healthy, whole food side dishes, main dishes, appetizers, or dessert. RSVP. Free.

TableHealthTC.com/events

INTERACTIVE STORYTIME: 11am-12pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?” by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague. greatlakeskids.org

ROCK OUT FOR RESCUE: 6-9pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey. A Dueling Piano Party to benefit Little Traverse Bay Humane Society. $50. ltbhs.com

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------------------------------------------ICEBREAKER SPEAKER SERIES: “THE NEW BLPA STURGEON CLUB”: 12-1pm, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, Petoskey. Free. watershedcouncil.org/attend-an-event.html

---------------------WINTER CARNIVAL: Downtown Petoskey, Feb. 14-17. Enjoy winter activities, along with ice sculptures displayed on downtown sidewalks & in Pennsylvania Park. petoskeydowntown.com/downtown-events/winter-carnival

---------------------DETOX YOGA FLOW: (See Tues., Feb. 12) ---------------------“SYLVIA”: (See Sat., Feb. 9) ---------------------FREE DEMONSTRATION COOKING CLASSES: 7:30pm, Oryana Community Co-op Café, TC. Feb. 14: Confident & Comfortable Knifehandling. eventbrite.com

feb 15

friday

CHOCOLATE COVERED BOYNE: Downtown Boyne City. Merchants & vendors will offer delicious treats & some in store specials. Enjoy the Dessert Contest at Stiggs, last year’s winner, from 11am-1pm to sample this year’s entries.

The 2019 winner will be announced at 1pm at Stiggs. Free. boynecitymainstreet.com

---------------------DOWNTOWN CHARLEVOIX INDOOR SIDEWALK SALES: Feb. 15-18.

---------------------PRESIDENTS’ WEEKEND AT BOYNE HIGHLANDS RESORT, HARBOR SPRINGS: Feb. 15-17. Includes a costume contest, Rail Jam, Snow Globe Ski & Snowshoe, Treasure Hunt, live music by Union Guns, Chili Cook off, & Murder Mystery Dinner. boynehighlands.com

------------------------------------------WINTER CARNIVAL: (See Thurs., Feb. 14) ---------------------“SYLVIA”: (See Sat., Feb. 9) ---------------------“TOWN CAR FOR SALE”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------CURE FOR THE WINTER BLUES FEATURING LAITH AL-SAADI: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. A finalist in NBC’s “The Voice” in 2016, Ann Arbor’s Laith Al-Saadi presents his own blend of blues, soul & classic rock. $49.50, $35, $29.50, $25. cityoperahouse.org

---------------------HEIKKI LUNTA PARTY: 7:30pm, Treetops Resort, Gaylord. Party of the Snow Gods. The weekly celebration carries on the tradition of asking for abundant snowfall. Enjoy a big bonfire, entertainment by Tommy Tropic, s’mores, hot chocolate, a tube-pulling contest & more. Free. treetops.com

feb 16

saturday

GLEN LAKE WINTERFEST: Featuring a perch fishing contest & chili cook-off. Find on Facebook.

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DOWNTOWN CHARLEVOIX INDOOR SIDEWALK SALES: Feb. 15-18.

---------------------FIRE & ICE: Pond Hill Farm, Harbor Springs.

Enjoy a trailside bonfire with wine & beer tasting & marshmallow roasting from 12-2pm; Gnome House Hunt from 9am-6pm; sledding; Children’s Biathlon at 11:30am; Snowshoe Biathlon at noon; X-Country Ski Biathlon at 1pm; Fat Tire Bike Biathlon at 2pm; & Snowman Explosion at 3:15pm. pondhill.com

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PRESIDENTS’ WEEKEND AT BOYNE HIGHLANDS RESORT, HARBOR SPRINGS: (See Fri., Feb. 15)

---------------------25 CENT KIDS MATINEES: 10am, State Theatre, TC. Featuring “Pick of the Litter.” stateandbijou.org/calendar

---------------------BETSIE BAY FROZEN 5K: 10am. For runners who are willing to face 10-degree temperatures & 30-mph gusts off Lake Michigan. The course starts at the top of Elberta’s lookout of Lake Michigan & continues down the hill through Elberta, around the bend, along Betsie Bay via scenic M-22, & then heads into Frankfort at Main St., with a finish at the other end of downtown, just before you reach the lighthouse.

Bussing will be provided to the start line. $20. facebook.com/BetsieBayFrozen5k

---------------------BREAKOUT FOR TEENS: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Teens (13 +) team up with Marla Gerber to solve the Escape Room in a box. BreakoutEDU is a game that will have them thinking critically, problem-solving, troubleshooting, working collaboratively & having fun. Please RSVP by 2/15. Free. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------CARDBOARD SLED MAKING WORKSHOP: 10am-5pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom, Petoskey. Build your own cardboard sled to compete in the Winter Sports Park Cardboard Sled challenge during Winter Carnival. petoskeydowntown.com/downtown-events/winter-carnival

---------------------GREEN POINT DUNES WINTER HIKE: 10am, Green Point Dunes Nature Preserve, Frankfort.

Participants will learn about the property, check out tree species & look for animal tracks. A strenuous hike on steep terrain - come prepared with all of your own winter gear, water & a snack. gtrlc.org

---------------------KNEE HIGH NATURALIST: WINTER WONDERLAND: 10-11am, Round Lake Nature Preserve, Harbor Springs. For 3-5 year olds. Enjoy a walk through the woods as you gather materials to create your very own nature snowmen, look up close at snowflakes, & discover what stories are left behind in the snow. Free. landtrust.org

---------------------ROMANCING THE RIESLING: 10am-5pm, Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula. Wineries will showcase Rieslings (and they will be served in a souvenir wine glass), food pairings & deals on Riesling varieties. $30 advance, $35 day of, $25 designated driver. wineriesofomp. com/46/romancing-the-riesling

---------------------WALK 4 WARMTH: Enjoy a super-hero themed walk through downtown Cheboygan, with food, music & other activities along the route. All donations go towards the United Way Walk 4 Warmth fund, which provides heating assistance to Cheboygan County residents in need.

Walk starts at the Eagles Hall (626 N. Main St., Cheboygan). Registration: 9am; walk: 10am.

Donation. cheboygancountyunitedway.org

---------------------WINTERLOCHEN WITH BROTHA JAMES: 10am-3pm, Interlochen. Interlochen’s annual family-friendly outdoor festival celebrating all things winter. Featuring a full day of hands-on experiences, a variety of indoor & outdoor activities, performances & workshops. Held in Corson Auditorium will be an afternoon performance by brotha James, a solo musical performer who does “live looping,” which is layering recorded sounds on top of each other to create a full band effect.

Free. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------25 CENT FAMILY FAVORITES: 11am, The Lyric, Harbor Springs. Featuring “My Friend Flicka.” lyricharborsprings.org

---------------------VINE TO WINE SNOWSHOE TOUR: 11am4pm. A snowshoe hike with guides, stopping at Suttons Bay Ciders, Ciccone Vineyards & BigLittle Wines. Enjoy a lunch of chili & soups with wine purchase pick up service. Tour starts at BigLittle & L. Mawby Vineyards, Suttons Bay. $55. grandtraversebiketours.com/vine-to-winesnowshoe-tour.html

FREE ICE FISHING DAY FOR KIDS AT CAMP PET-O-SE-GA, ALANSON: 12-4pm. For kids in kindergarten through 8th grade & their parents.

Food & fishing gear is supplied. If the outside temperature (including wind chill factor) is below zero degrees, the event will be held on Sun., Feb. 17. There will also be a Snowman Building Competition by the Rec. Hal. Find on Facebook.

---------------------SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: 12-5pm, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. blackstarfarms. com/snowshoes-vines-wines

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TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAM: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Brian McCall will present “WW1, Christmas Truce of 1914.” 995-0313.

---------------------CHILI-COOK OFF: 2pm, Downtown Elk Rapids. Tickets are available at the Elk Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, Nifty Things, Cellar 152, & the Elk Rapids EZ Mart. Sample each competing chili prepared by Downtown Elk Rapids merchants & restaurants. Once you’ve tried them all, cast your vote for fan favorite. $4 advance; $5 day of. Find on Facebook.

---------------------BENZIE AUDUBON CLUB FIELD TRIP: 4pm.

You will be looking for waterfowl in the Logan’s Landing area of TVC. Doug Cook will lead & help identify birds. Meet at Logan’s Landing off Airport Rd. in TC. Depending on weather, the group may carpool to other nearby locations, so plan to be flexible. Optional post-field-trip gathering for refreshments & birding stories at a local establishment. Free. benzieaudubon.org

---------------------WINTER CARNIVAL: (See Thurs., Feb. 14) ---------------------VALENTINE’S DANCE: 7pm, The Rock of Kingsley. Open to those in grades 6-12 & parent volunteers. Dancing, contests & prizes. $3/person. facebook.com/pg/therockofkingsleyMI/events

---------------------“SYLVIA”: (See Sat., Feb. 9) ---------------------“TOWN CAR FOR SALE”: (See Fri., Feb. 15) ---------------------BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI CONCERT SERIES FEATURING NORTHERN MI SINGER/SONGWRITERS: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. February Sunshine Concert.

Includes Kevin Johnson, Eliza Thorp, Indigo Moon, & Lara Fullford. $12.50 advance; $17.50 door. redskystage.com

---------------------AMERICA: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy this Grammy Award-winning rock band. $35, $45, $50. lrcr.com/event-calendar/concerts/america

---------------------CAPITOL STEPS: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. The group that puts the “mock” in Democracy. The Capitol Steps have recorded over 35 albums, including their latest, “Make America Grin Again.” No matter who or what is in the headlines, you can bet the Capitol Steps will tackle both sides of the political spectrum & all things equally foolish. $45, $40, $30, $20. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/capitol-steps

---------------------FUNNY BUSINESS COMEDY SHOW: 8pm, Odawa Casino, Petoskey. Featuring nationally recognized comedians. 21+. $5 per person. odawacasino.com

---------------------MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER: 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. This premier bluegrass fiddler has ten International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Fiddle Player of the Year awards under his belt. He brings his band Flamekeeper. $24 members, $27 advance & $30 door. mynorthtickets.com/ events/michael-cleveland

---------------------PRESIDENTS’ WEEKEND FIREWORKS: 9pm, Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls.

Best viewed from the base area in front of Clock Tower Lodge. Free. boynemountain.com

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DOWNTOWN CHARLEVOIX INDOOR SIDEWALK SALES: Feb. 15-18.

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PRESIDENTS’ WEEKEND AT BOYNE HIGHLANDS RESORT, HARBOR SPRINGS: (See Fri., Feb. 15)

---------------------YOGA RECOVERY AT RUNNING FIT: (See Sun., Feb. 10)

---------------------NORTHERN MI WEDDING & EVENT EXPO: 11am-3pm, The Ellison Place, Gaylord. Featuring a fashion show, live music & grand prize drawing. miweddingexpo.com

---------------------10TH ANNUAL HAVE A HEART VALENTINE’S BENEFIT: 12-9pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey. Benefits Brother Dan’s Food Pantry. Featuring live music by Crosscut Kings, Craig Cottrill Band, James Greenway Band, Northern Nites, Pistil Whips, Jelly Roll Blues Band, Easy Picks, & Jon Archambault Band. $15; 14 & under, free.

---------------------MACKINAW CITY BRIDAL SHOW: 12-3pm, Audie’s Restaurant, Mackinaw City. Featuring dozens of local wedding professionals. Enjoy refreshments & samples & enter to win prizes.

Free admission for brides & their guests. audies.com/mackinaw-city-bridal-show

---------------------SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: (See Sat., Feb. 16)

---------------------YOGA + BEER: (See Sun., Feb. 10) ---------------------PAINTBALL BIATHLON: 1-3pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Combine paintball & cross-country skiing to create the Paintball Biathlon. Ages 8+. Cost: $15 per person. Includes cross-country ski equipment rental & paintball equipment. 888-968-7686, ext. 4000. crystalmountain.com/event/biathlon

---------------------“TOWN CAR FOR SALE”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------NMC CHAMBER SINGERS, GRAND TRAVERSE CHORALE & NMC CHILDREN’S CHOIRS: 3-6pm, Lars Hockstad Auditorium, TC. $15 adults, $10 students & seniors, $45 family. mynorthtickets.com/events/NMCChoirs-concert-feb

---------------------TSO CONCERTO FOR PIANO, LEFT HAND: 3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Featuring Kevin Rhodes, music director. Includes local pianist Michael Coonrod on the world premier of Kenji Bunch’s Concerto for Piano Left Hand. The Symphony will also perform Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Symphony No. 3 (Eroica). Tickets are $28-$65. Students & first-time attendees eligible for a 50% discount. traversesymphony.org/concert/beethoven-bunch

---------------------WINTER CARNIVAL: (See Thurs., Feb. 14)

ongoing

DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: Tuesdays, 6:307:30pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center, Rm. 3002, TC. A twelve step program for those with money problems. debtorsanonymous.org

---------------------RANGER-LED SNOWSHOE HIKE: Saturdays, 1pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. Meet at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center. Snowshoes will be loaned at no charge to participants who do not have their own. Reservations required: 231-326-4700, ext. 5010.

---------------------SNOWSHOE SUNDAYS: 12-5pm, Rove Estate Vineyard & Tasting Room, TC. Bring your snowshoes or skis. roveestate.com

---------------------STORY STEW: Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Held every Thurs. at 10am, with the fourth Thurs. offering

free books for kids courtesy of Born to Read & Twilight Rotary. Featuring stories, crafts & songs. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

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

---------------------WINTER MUSIC JAMS: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Held every Sun. through winter from 3-5pm for musicians of all skill levels.

Learn & network with other musicians. Bring your instrument, music & a friend. gaylordarts.org

---------------------WINTER WALK WEDNESDAYS: Presented

by Norte. All community members are invited to commit to walking to work, school, as an errand or just for fun every Weds. through March. elgruponorte.org/winter/walk

art

“NEU HISTOIRES”: Feb. 15 - April 30, Higher Art Gallery, TC. This exhibit by Jesse Jason will feature a collection of abstract, narrative works with a central focus on the imaginative world that weaves its way through reality. higherartgallery.com

---------------------FURNITURE, FIBER, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND SCULPTURE: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Runs through Feb. 22. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------WINE LABEL ART COMPETITION: Mission Point Lighthouse Friends and Bowers Harbor Vineyards are sponsoring a contest to design a label to be used for the BHV 2019 Lighthouse Pinot Grigio release. Visit bowersharbor. com/events for details. Submission deadline is March 11. The winning entry wins a $250 cash prize & will be displayed on each 2019 Lighthouse wine bottle.

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - CALL FOR ARTISTS: The call is open now through Mon., March 4 for the American Impressionist Society’s third annual “AIS Impressions Small Works Showcase.” This 2019 summer exhibition will run from Sat., June 1 through Sat., Aug. 31. All submissions must be oil, pastel, acrylic, watercolor, or gouache, & submitted by current American Impressionist Society (AIS) members. crookedtree.org/petoskey - HERE AND THERE: Runs through March 30.

A photographic exhibition showcasing the work of photographers Jin Lee, Larson Shindelman & Regan Golden.

- 2019 JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Held in Bonfield Gallery. Juried by John Fergus-Jean, this exhibition includes 43 photographs by 34 exhibiting photographers of local & regional acclaim. Runs through March 30.

- 2019 CROOKED TREE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY JURIED FINE ART SHOW: Runs through March 2. Juried by current Crooked Tree Photography Society members. Showcases the work of fifteen current members. Subject matter includes, but is not limited to, nature, landscapes, wildlife & northern MI scenes. crookedtree.org

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - FRESH CUTS: THE ART OF PAPERCRAFT: Runs through Feb. 16. crookedtree.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - “ENTIRE LIFE IN A PACKAGE”: Runs through May 5. The story of millions of refugees with millions of packages, suitcases... sacks. “Life packages” that hold the desire to survive. In this exhibition Ben-Ami sculpts the packages carried by refugees shown in Reuter’s new photos in iron & then mounts them to the photo in place of the photographic image of the package.

- 2019 NORTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION: Runs through May 5.

Featuring art made by local artists over the last year, juried by a regional arts professional.

Hours: Mon. - Sat.: 10am-5pm; Thurs.: 10am8pm; Sun.: 1-5pm. dennosmuseum.org

MIX IT UP WITH SOME ’80S BABIES

MODERN

ROCK

BY KRISTI KATES

A massive 53-city schedule has been announced for The Mixtape Tour, an ambitious retro-music tour set to launch a little later this year. The tour will focus on ’80s music via headliners New Kids on the Block, who will share the trek with Salt-N-Pepa, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, and Naughty By Nature; NKOTB got together tour mates to record a special tune for the tour called “’80s Baby” that you can dig up online. Tickets for The Mixtape Tour are available now, including those for the tour’s stop at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena on June 18 …

A biopic of legendary Motown singer Aretha Franklin has long been discussed and long kept on hold, but that’s changing with the team-up of stage director Liesl Tommy and Thelma and Louise screenwriter Callie Khouri, who will collaborate on Respect, the upcoming new movie about Franklin set to star Jennifer Hudson as the singer herself. Grammy-nominated music producer Harvey Mason Jr. and Straight Outta Compton producer Scott Bernstein will handle the producer roles for MGM. No release date has been announced, but in the meantime, you can watch theaters for

the upcoming re-release of the 1972 concert film Amazing Grace, which centers around Franklin’s work …

Fellow native Detroiter (and vintage classic rocker) Bob Seger is set to be honored with his very own street right here in Michigan. Classic rock radio station 94.7 WCSX-FM held a five-month-long street naming campaign last year; the result is “Bob Seger Boulevard,” which now runs between Southfield Road and Philomene Boulevard in Allen Park. The street was named after Seger in a special ceremony held right before he kicked off his 26-show farewell tour, which he’s currently in the middle of, with his longtime Silver Bullet Band …

And in more specifically modern music news, EDM producer Calvin Harris has brought in soulful English crooner Rag N’ Bone Man to take over lead vocal duties on Harris’ new single “Giant.” Over driving synths, a wide range of instrumental seasonings — strings, brass, and chanted backing vocals —and a phat house beat, RNBM sings about redemption. “Giant” is Harris’ first single of the year, carrying on his tradition of collaborative tunes with musicians like Sam Smith, Dua Lipa, Benny Blanco, and Miguel …

LINK OF THE WEEK President’s Day is next Monday, and what better way to celebrate than with a Hamildrop, actor/singer Lin-Manuel Miranda’s remixes of the acclaimed tracks from his Broadway musical Hamilton?

Check them all out (including one featuring former President Barack Obama) at www.hamildrops.com …

THE BUZZ Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y will make a stop in Detroit next week as part of their 2009 Tour (yes, you read that correctly — the tour is named after 2009, Khalifa and Curren$y’s collaborative mixtape of the same name). They’ll hit the stage at Saint Andrew’s

Hall on Feb. 20 …

Spiritualized has announced a show in the Detroit area; expect the band to play Apr. 10 at the Royal Oak Music Theater …

Ariana Grande will arrive in the Motor City a few days earlier, for a performance at the Little Caesars Arena on Apr. 5 …

Michigan punk band Werewolf Jones has released its first album, a self-titled cassette set that’s available on Rare Plant Tapes, a Madison, Wisconsin record label … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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

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Speaking of hip-hop influence, Whiney (electronic musician Will Hine) is back with plenty of exactly that, in a sophomore album that fuses grime, drum and bass, and massive dance beats. He brings in Truthos Mufasa to throw down on “Triple Duppy Demon,” one of the album’s standout tracks, along with the gurgling, rampaging jungle/dangerbass mess that is “The Capital.” Rapper Inja stops by to join Whiney on “Mission”; “Shards” brings in Mr. Porter; and “The Edge” features a stack of ’80s-worthy keyboard sounds.

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Fans are calling this latest set from KKB more “real” than previous efforts, as it features songs that are more grounded in everyday issues than the group’s former collections, which dealt more with fantasy situations. The same whirling computer beats and electronic-popped garage guitars are present, but now the band is staking its claim to more direct tracks like the synthy “Time Today,” and the brooding “Only Acting” with its Devo-esque shift from quirky FX to radio rock.

The reel

by meg weichman

The lego movie 2 stan & ollie

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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is really all about expectations. ’Cause let’s face it, there is no way this sequel can ever top the unexpected giddy joy of the first film — a film so fresh, so wonderful, so inventive, and so subversive it ranks among the best kid’s movies ever made. And while The LEGO Movie 2 almost comes within striking distance of that former brilliant confection, it can’t shake the feeling of trying too hard to recreate that same magic.

All the right ingredients are here: the fun cameos, pop-culture references, catchy tunes, candy-colored visual delights, and a script that is undeniably smart. But the satire is not as sharp. The pace a little less breathless and a lot more convoluted. And the jokes and gimmicks are too familiar and, occasionally, a little too lazy.

Picking up five years after the events of The LEGO Movie, our Bricksburg Minifig friends are still dealing with the fallout of the invasion of the adorably destructive DUPLOs. They now find themselves inhabiting a Mad Max: Fury Road version of Bricksburg known as Apocalypseburg. And while the friends of our intrepid hero Emmett have all become hardened and brooding, he’s still just as optimistic and sunny as they guy we fell in love with. All Emmett (Chris Pratt) wants is to make a sweet little home with a double-decker porch swing and his best gal pal, Lucy (Elizabeth Banks), where he can eat waffles and have fun. But Lucy can’t buy into this dream and thinks Emmett needs to put aside his naïve wishes, grow up, and become hardened to their new reality.

Things take a turn with the DUPLOs when Emmett’s friends Lucy, Unikitty (Alison Brie), Batman (Will Arnett), and Benny (Charlie Day) are kidnapped and taken to the Systar System.

This means it’s up to Emmett to embark on another quest to rescue them. Along the way he meets Rex Dangervest, a meta take on Chris Pratt’s big screen persona (he’s assisted by a team of velociraptors, ála Jurassic World), also voiced by Pratt, in a styling that could be described as Pratt, doing Kurt Russell (his Guardians 2 costar), doing John Wayne.

Another new addition to the proceedings is Queen Watevra, the empress of the Systar system. Voiced by Tiffany Haddish, she breathes in some needed new life. See, it’s Watevra who ordered the Brickburgians to her planet for a matrimonial ceremony that would unite their world with the glittering land of DUPLOS and the LEGO Best Friends girl-oriented toy line that inhabit Systar.

ar from a “nice mess,” Stan & Ollie is a lovely and wistful ode to famed slapstick duo Laurel & Hardy, as well as to the bygone era of comedy they represent. Uncanny performances, a warmhearted script, touching moments, and a gentle wit are just some of the bittersweet charms of a film that traces Stan Laurel & Laurel Hardy (Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly) in the twilight of their careers. And what a treat it is to watch their perfectly recreated routines play out. There’s a little patter, a little song and dance, and plenty of slapstick. It’s comedy that we are certainly not used to seeing these days, but it’s a style of comedy so effortless, timeless, and simple that its appeal is immediately apparent.

But it’s not all laughs, of course; a sense of melancholy runs throughout the film, especially as long-held regrets and resentments start bubbling up to the surface. While this good-natured, compassionate, and slightly old-fashioned (in a good way!) biopic may not generate the kind of attention that leads to a major rediscovery of Laurel & Hardy in the public consciousness, those who do enjoy the film’s understated appeal will see why Laurel & Hardy have endured and why they’ll continue to do so.

At this point it must be said that this all builds off that divine ending of the first film that brought the real world into the LEGO world.

We know that human Will Ferrell passed off his LEGO collection to his son and daughter, and now the daughter wants to play, too.

So, now, as we watch the adventures of the LEGOs unfold, it’s to the film’s detriment that we know who really is in charge: the human children. Thus, the world-building becomes more complicated (don’t get me started on the time-travel aspect) as it tries to maintain a sense of surprise when we can see where this is all headed for little sister and big brother, and by extension, their toys.

The best thing to come out of the dualnarrative worlds is, without a doubt, “OurMOMageddon,” played by the divine Maya Rudolph, who does a bit with stepping on LEGOs to which every parent can relate. And the film does have a lot of very adult-oriented jokes, which makes this an enjoyable ride for everyone. Bruce Willis in Die Hard mode is a particularly stand-out moment. And a world where Marie Curie and RBG pal around with Batman and Superman is a place I definitely want to be.

One of the things that made The LEGO Movie so wonderful is the way it celebrated imagination and play. And while that theme is continued here with the conflict between brother and sister, it could’ve been significantly more disruptive when it tackled issues of gendered play. Although younger sister, Bianca (played by The Florida Project’s Brooklyn Prince), definitely has her own unique style, the film wastes a great subversive opportunity.

There are a bunch of songs in this one — some only meh; some that will not leave your head for weeks. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) Batman, in full-on Liberace attire, in a duet with Queen Watevra, is a real highlight.

And whatever you do, do not leave during the credits sequence that features a hilarious song by The Lonely Island.

What I most appreciated about The LEGO Movie 2’s heartfelt lessons is how, when it returns to the hit song, “Everything is Awesome,” from the first film, it reminds us that everything can’t be awesome all the time. And just like you should adjust your expectations going into this movie, the film makes the same point for realistic expectations in life. So although everything isn’t awesome about this movie, it’s still head and shoulders above 90 percent of children’s entertainment, so everything is more than all right.

on the basis of sex

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n addition to this summer’s hit documentary RBG, we now have a biopic that serves as the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s own superhero origin story, if you will. It follows Ruth as she studies to become a lawyer at Harvard and then jumps ahead to her first groundbreaking case as an attorney; she takes advantage of an obscure bit of tax code that prevents a man from benefiting from a tax credit to set a legal precedent for sex-based discrimination cases. Director Mimi Leder (of the beyond brilliant The Leftovers), working from a script written by RBG’s nephew Daniel Stiepleman, takes a standard approach to her subject. Sure it has its rousing moments, is earnest in its respect, and has the best of intentions, yet it can’t avoid that TV biopic sheen. There’s nothing very remarkable about the filmmaking, but in a way, this less flashy approach is perhaps more true to Ruth and her personality. Quiet, humble, and unassuming, a more dynamic film would not capture her essence. So, final verdict? On the Basis of Sex is impassioned enough to make a case for its existence.

if beale street could talk

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irector Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar Best Picturewinning, near-perfect second feature, Moonlight, with an adaptation of a 1974 James Baldwin novel about a young African American couple and their families in early 1970s Harlem and a devastating injustice they face. And it’s a tribute to the film, the filmmaking, and the story that Jenkins creates something so beautiful out of something so painful.

Sure, there’s a plot, and it’s very compelling, and sure, there’s social commentary about the systemic oppression of Blacks in America, and it’s potent and resonant, but what stays with you most is the film’s profound feeling. Beause at its core, If Beale Street Could Talk is a love story — a gorgeous, aching, swooning romance of exquisite longing and intoxicating visuals. Practically a tonal poem of a film, the warm colors and music dazzle the senses and transport, allowing the luminous glow of their love to wash over you. And just like Moonlight, this is a film where one wordless glance can cut straight to the heart.

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

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7 MONKS TAPROOM, TC 2/14 -- Mike Moran, 7:30-10:30 GT DISTILLERY, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 KILKENNY'S, TC 2/8-9 -- Ben Daniels Band, 9:30 2/15-16 -- Off Beat Band, 9:30 2/17 -- Soul Patch, 8:30-11:30 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 2/11 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9

THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 2/9 -- Sean Miller, 8 2/11 – Rotten Cherries Comedy Open Mic, 8 Tues. – TC Celtic – Traditional Irish music, 6:30-9 Wed -- Jazz Jam, 6-10 2/15 – Chris Sterr, 8 2/16 – Heartbreakers Ball feat. The Go Rounds w/ Molly, 8-11

TC WHISKEY CO. 2/10 -- Drew Hale, 3-5 2/14 -- Chris Smith, 6-8 THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7 THE HAYLOFT INN, TC Thu -- Roundup Radio Show Open Mic Night, 8

UNION STREET STATION, TC 2/9 -- Electric Red, 10 2/10,2/17 -- Karaoke, 10 2/11 -- Jukebox, 10 2/12 -- TC Comedy Collective, 8-9:30 2/13 -- DJ JR, 10 2/14 -- DJ Ryan Zuker, 10 2/15 -- Happy Hour w/ Harvey Wallbangers; then DJ DomiNate 2/16 -- DJ DomiNate, 10

THE LITTLE FLEET, TC 2/10 -- Heavy Color @ The Yurt, 6-9 Wed -- Tiki Night w/ DJ, 3 2/16 -- Winter Social Presented by Michigan House w/ Lady Ace Boogie, Seth Bernard & Jack Droppers & The Best Intentions, 5-10

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WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN RESORT, TC 2/14 -- Jeff Haas Trio w/ Bill & Laurie Sears, 6-8:30 2/15 -- Sweetwater Blues Band @ View, 7:30

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OTSEGO RESORT, GAYLORD 2/9 -- Adam Hoppe, 9

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Eat, Gray, Love

The Bedder Business Bureau

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: I am almost 50 but look much younger, and I’m noticing that a number of the guys who are pursuing me are in their early 30s.

I’m flattered but not really interested, as I want to get married again and I’m thinking that these guys are too young to consider that and probably want to have babies. Am I a magnet for guys with mommy issues? What gives?

— Puzzled

A

: Nothing like rolling up to your guy’s band’s gig and having everybody be all “Mike, your mom’s here!”

As for these young whippersnappers’ intentions, chances are the only “aisle” they’re looking to walk down with you is the one from the front door to their bedroom in the pizza box graveyard-slash-apartment they share with a bunch of dudebros. Of course, men, just like women, can get to a point where they’re ready for cuddlyschmuddlywuddly forever — which is to say, a relationship.

However, evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains that there’s strong evidence from a good deal of research that men (who don’t have to worry that they’ll get pregnant from sex) evolved to “have a greater desire for short-term mating” — casual sex with a variety of partners.

Buss notes that there are some stumbling blocks for men in short-term mating mode.

A major one is “the problem of avoiding commitment.” That’s where you older but still hot ladies sometimes come in. Older women are less likely to demand a relationship with an age-inappropriate partner. Of course, older women are also likely to be sexually experienced and sexually adventuresome in a way younger women aren’t. And, unlike younger women, who are often shy about expressing what they want in bed, older women can stop just short of going all Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: “Faster, you maggot, faster! And 3 millimeters up and a centimeter to the left!”

The thing is, sometimes two people with the most casual of sexual intentions unexpectedly fall for each other. But if you and the young hardbodies can stay in the sex-only lane, your having regular sex might help you take your time getting to know dates with real partner potential for you rather than flying right into bed. Finally — generally speaking -- there’s the obvious plus in sex romps with the young Turks: fewer occasions when the manparts are like papier-mache fruit — for decorative purposes only.

: I’m a woman with a male business partner. He just got a new girlfriend, and he pretty much goes MIA whenever he goes to visit her. It can take him up to two days to return my phone calls, and I’ll have to call or text two or three times to get him to respond. (I’m contacting him about business, not social stuff.) He is usually -- well, used to be -- very available by phone. His disappearing act when he’s with the girlfriend is really annoying and detrimental to our business and, frankly, pretty disrespectful. I’ve made jokes about it, but nothing’s changed. Help.

— Annoyed

A

: “Hello, Search and Rescue? Can you send out a team? I think my business partner is lost in his girlfriend’s pants.”

Tempting as it must be to blast your partner for constantly leaving you in the telephonic lurch, you’d be better off simply telling him that it feels really crappy to have your calls and texts go ignored for days; you feel disrespected. Research by social psychologist C. Daniel Batson and his colleagues suggests that we have an evolved motivation to try to alleviate others’ pain, to help other humans who are struggling emotionally (or are otherwise in need). However, there’s a caveat: If a person’s pain or need is expressed with an attack on our behavior, we’re likely to go into fight-back mode instead of “there, there, lemme see what I can do to make things better” mode.

As for why you have yet to get through to him, you write, “I’ve made jokes about it, but nothing’s changed.” Jokes are just the thing if you’re putting on a show with a two-drink minimum; not so much if you’re trying to communicate your needs (especially to a man). The same goes for hints. Instead, opt for healthy assertiveness — from the start. Figure out what you need — how soon you’d like to have a callback — and then express that.

You may not get exactly the timetable you want, but this at least opens up a discussion: “Call you back within three hours?” he responds — countering with “Ehh...how about five hours?” You should ultimately find this approach vastly more productive than going snarky and, say, suggesting that he and his girlfriend make love like they do in the movies — specifically, the video in which Paris Hilton answers the phone in the middle of having sex.

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46 Bedazzler item 47 Color categorized as #DA1884 and Pantone 219C and trademarked by Mattel 52 Diamond experts?

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a huge landlocked country. It borders no oceans or seas. Nevertheless, it has a navy of seven sailors. Its lone ship is a tugboat moored on Lake Khovsgol, which is three percent the size of North America’s Lake Superior. I’m offering up the Mongolian navy as an apt metaphor for you to draw inspiration from in the coming weeks. I believe it makes good astrological sense for you to launch a seemingly quixotic quest to assert your power, however modestly, in a situation that may seem out of your league.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to the

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, the word “obsession” used to refer to the agitated state of a person who was besieged by rowdy or unruly spirits arriving from outside the person.

“Possession,” on the other hand, once meant the agitated state of a person struggling against rowdy or unruly spirits arising from within. In the Western Christian perspective, both modes have been considered primarily negative and problematic. In many other cultures, however, spirits from both the inside and outside have sometimes been regarded as relatively benevolent, and their effect quite positive. As long as you don’t buy into the Western Christian view, I suspect that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to consort with spirits like those.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When directors

of movies say, “It’s a wrap,” they mean that the shooting of a scene has been finished. They may use the same expression when the shooting of the entire film is completed. That’s not the end of the creative process, of course. All the editing must still be done.

Once that’s accomplished, the producer may declare that the final product is “in the can,” and ready to be released or broadcast.

From what I can determine, Aries, you’re on the verge of being able to say, “it’s a wrap” for one of your own projects. There’ll be more work before you’re ready to assert, “it’s in the can.”

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(May 21-June 20): In 1995, astronomer Bob Williams got a strong urge to investigate a small scrap of the night sky that most other astronomers regarded as boring.

It was near the handle of the constellation known as the Big Dipper. Luckily for him, he could ignore his colleagues’ discouraging pressure. That’s because he had been authorized to use the high-powered Hubble Space Telescope for a ten-day period. To the surprise of everyone but Williams, his project soon discovered that this seemingly unremarkable part of the heavens is teeming with over 3,000 galaxies. I suspect you may have a challenge akin to Williams’, Gemini. A pet project or crazy notion of yours may not get much support, but I hope you’ll pursue it anyway. I bet your findings will be different from what anyone expects.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A study by the

Humane Research Council found that more than eighty percent of those who commit to being vegetarians eventually give up and return to eating meat. A study by the National Institute of Health showed that only about 36 percent of alcoholics are able to achieve full recovery; the remainder

relapse. And we all know how many people make New Year’s resolutions to exercise more often, but then stop going to the gym by February. That’s the bad news. The good news, Cancerian, is that during the coming weeks you will possess an enhanced power to stick with any commitment you know is right and good for you. Take advantage!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are there two places

on earth more different from each other than Europe and Africa? Yet there is a place, the Strait of Gibralter, where Europe and Africa are just 8.7 miles apart. Russia and the United States are also profoundly unlike each other, but only 2.5 miles apart where the Bering Strait separates them. I foresee the a metaphorically comparable phenomenon in your life. Two situations or influences or perspectives that may seem to have little in common will turn out to be closer to each other than you imagined possible.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo basketball

star Latrell Sprewell played professionally for 13 years. He could have extended his career at least three more seasons, but he turned down an offer for $21 million from the Minnesota team, complaining that it wouldn’t be sufficient to feed his four children. I will ask you not to imitate his behavior, Virgo.

If you’re offered a deal or opportunity that doesn’t perfectly meet all your requirements, don’t dismiss it out of hand. A bit of compromise is sensible right now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1992, an Ethiopian

man named Belachew Girma became an alcoholic after he saw his wife die from AIDS. And yet today he is renowned as a Laughter Master, having dedicated himself to explore the healing powers of ebullience and amusement. He presides over a school that teaches people the fine points of laughter, and he holds the world’s record for longest continuous laughter at three hours and six minutes. I nominate him to be your role model in the next two weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be especially primed to benefit from the healing power of laughter. You’re likely to encounter more droll and whimsical and hilarious events than usual, and your sense of humor should be especially hearty and finely-tuned.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A study

published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that people who use curse words tend to be more candid.

“Swearing is often inappropriate but it can also be evidence that someone is telling you their honest opinion,” said the lead researcher. “Just as they aren’t filtering their language to be more palatable, they’re also not filtering their views.” If that’s true, Scorpio, I’m going to encourage you to curse more than usual in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s crucial that you tell as much of the whole truth as is humanly possible. (P.S. Your cursing outbursts don’t necessarily have to be delivered with total abandon everywhere you go. You could accomplish a lot just by going into rooms by yourself and exuberantly allowing the expletives to roll out of your mouth.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the mid-

1980s, a California carrot farmer grew frustrated with the fact that grocery stories didn’t want to buy his broken and oddly shaped carrots. A lot of his crop was going to waste. Then he got the bright idea to cut and shave the imperfect carrots so as to make smooth little baby carrots. They became a big success. Can you think of a metaphorically comparable adjustment you could undertake, Sagittarius? Is it possible to transform a resource that’s partially going to waste? Might you be able to enhance your possibilities by making some simple modifications?

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