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NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY • april 15 - april 21, 2019 • Vol. 29 No. 15

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Warning Shots In response to Stephen Tuttle’s April 1 opinion column, “Shots That Save”: In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, which gave vaccine manufacturers total immunity from being sued for any vaccine injuries or deaths. This act created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Court, which is under the Department of Justice. This Court has awarded over $4 billion for vaccine injuries and has $3 billion in trust for future claims.

The DOJ lists these claims quarterly on their website.

Multiple factors might place a person at risk for vaccine injuries. Renal function, your Immune system, whether you carry a mutation in your MTHFR gene — these can impair the body from eliminating adjuvants in vaccines, such as aluminum, formaldehyde, and other ingredients.

Aluminum is present in several vaccines.

According to the FDA, the maximum limit for aluminum per day is 25mcg, or 4mcg per kilogram. One kilogram equals 2.2 pounds. Examples of weight in pounds for safe aluminum levels per day: 8 pounds 18.2mcg 15 pounds 34.1mcg 50 pounds 113.0 mcg Yet the amount of aluminum contained in many vaccines is 225mcg. Combination vaccines have much higher amounts. There are currently no published studies on the safety of giving multiple vaccine injections on the same day.

Dr. William Thompson is a CDC employee who has requested whistleblower status to testify before Congress that he was ordered to destroy by shredding study findings on the MMR vaccine. He felt this was dangerous and unethical and retained copies. He has shown these copies to Congressman Bill Posey (R-Rockledge), and they are awaiting approval for him to testify.

Having choice over what is injected into our bodies is our ultimate right and freedom.

Do your own research on vaccine safety. Ask for the manufacturer’s information insert, read it several days in advance, then decide if this vaccine is safe for you or your child.

Toxic Acts What motivates the far right-wing Republicans in Congress to ignore their sworn oath to protect our Constitution and rule of law by allowing themselves to be influenced by foreign adversaries, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Mohammaed bin Salman; complicit with the Trump administration; and in violation of the 2001Patriot Act and Title VIII with activities that: A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any state (family separation) and B) items to intimidate or coerce a civilian population (Trump rallies), and to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion (conspiring) to advance their pursuance of a Dystopian (oppressive social control) society? Why is it that they (News Corp) continue their sanctimoniously ideological spin through sensationalized journalism and the Trumpfriendly Sinclair Broadcasting Group televised ‘must-run’ segments to control exactly what people think?

Their blatant hypocrisy, especially over the last two years, destroys their credibility and accountability and contradicts their claim to fiscal responsibility, common decency, and family, moral, and ethical values, and religious principles. Rest assured their toxic alternative facts will continue well into 2020. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

George Edmonds, Traverse City, The World is Our Backyard Most towns up here have suffered some kind of pollution problem: degreasers seeped into the water table, old underground gas tanks leaked into the soil, nasty bacteria that infected the water supply, heavy metals from a manufacturing process drained into a lake, fire-fighting chemicals got into the ground water, and so on. Sometimes the damage these pollutants could do was not understood; sometimes people were simply careless or looking to cut corners.

But it seems that experience and expense have taught us that limiting and regulating the on-site use and disposal of toxic stuff prevents costly (and usually taxpayerfinanced) cleanups. We’re to the point now that when somebody does something stupid and/or irresponsible and makes a mess, it makes us a little extra angry: What’s wrong with so-and-so? Didn’t they know that was going to be a problem …? What were they thinking …?

Which makes our attitude and actions about the worldwide atmospheric pollution problem — and the resulting global climate change — puzzling, to say the least. We put 1.6% more greenhouse gases up into the atmosphere in 2017 than we did in 2016, and then 2.7% more than that in 2018.

In other words, we are accelerating the polluting of our atmosphere.

Imagine the outrage if someone openly — with no concern about public censure or criminal penalty — dumped gasoline, toxic chemicals, trichloroethylene, or any kind of nasty stuff into Grand Traverse Bay! But we continue to do that to our atmosphere — in spite of overwhelmingly clear evidence that it’s changing climate and threatening life as we know it all over the world. Puzzling, to say the least.

Ron Tschudy, Central Lake

Space Race Several women have recently come forward claiming that former Vice President Joe Biden made them uncomfortable by invading their personal space. None of the women described the invasions as sexual assault or even sexual harassment.

Donald Trump has jumped into the discussion by asking “Are you having a good time, Joe?” as if to suggest that this kind of shared behavior makes Donald and Joe locker room buddies.

It is important to point out through Donald Trump’s own admissions in the Access Hollywood tapes, that the personal space invaded by Donald Trump was a decidedly more intimate one than the spaces invaded by Joe Biden. Trump wins the space race!

Bob Ross, Pellston

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

Our Bee Colonies.................................................10 Must-have Items for Spring............................17 Let the Sculpture Challenge Begin..................20 The Cook’s House..........................................24 Violin of Hope............................................28 NMC’s Big Band Hits the Big 40......................31

dates................................................32-35 music Four Score.....................................................38

Refreshing to Read Appreciated words put together to express the intelligent writing style [of David Frederick’s opinion column “Taking Truth to Power,” April 1 Northern Express]. If one Nightlife.........................................................39 agrees or not with what’s said, the process to say it was just plain good writin’! Thank you.

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Lois Bedtelyon, Interlochen Top Ten...........................................................5 Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Chef’s Notes...................................................13 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................36 Film................................................................37 Advice Goddess...........................................40 Crossword...................................................40 Freewill Astrology..........................................41 Classifieds..................................................42

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top ten Green Awards (and Kudos to Our Own Contender) It’s time again for the annual Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council’s Environmentalist of the Year Awards.

This is the 31st year and the ceremony will take place from 5:30 to 9pm April 26 at the Dennos Museum’ Milliken Auditorium.

The program will feature long-time tribal elder Frank Ettawageshik Frank Ettawageshik and music by Seth Bernard. NMEAC is honoring over 50 nominees for work related to the environmental in the Grand Traverse region, including Northern Express writer Patrick Sullivan, who is nominated in the journalism category.

Tickets are available at nmeac.org.

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Harlem globetrotters The world famous Harlem Globetrotters stop by Petoskey High School on Thurs., April 18 at 7pm during their 2019 Fan Powered World Tour. This team celebrated Guinness World Record Day by setting five new Guinness World Records titles – bringing the team’s standing Guinness World Record count to 21. There will be over 20 opportunities before, during, and after each event, where fans will get a chance to directly interact with the team’s stars. Tickets: $15-$27. harlemglobetrotters.com

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Abbot

The year is 1972. The racial paranoia of the late ’60’s has only just begun to dissipate, Detroit is rife with corruption, and Elena Abbott is at the center of it all. A heavy-hitting reporter with a sense for the supernatural, Abbott is also an African American female at a time when “different” is damning. So when the police ignore an especially gruesome crime streak — one that bears an uncanny resemblance to the forces that stole her husband — Abbott vows to destroy it herself. From Hugo Awardnominated novelist Saladin Ahmed and illustrator Sami Kivela, comes Abbot: a graphic novel that vanquishes villains while simultaneously smashing the patriarchy. Talk about multi-tasking.

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Goodale’s Meatloaf

When you walk into Goodale’s Bakery in Grayling, and a cook brings out a steaming pan and announces, “Our famous meatloaf is ready,” you have must abide. The meatloaf consists of three layers: herby ground beef, cloud-tender mashed potatoes, and gooey cheese.

Unpretentious as true comfort food should be, this mighty trio atop a modest plate warms the body, sticks to the bones, and tastes so good, snow in April seems almost a welcome accompaniment. Bakery owner Loren Goodale said the recipe was his mother’s. “We decided to try it one time, and it went over so good, we have been doing it ever since,” Goodale said.

The meatloaf, a staple on the menu for the past four years, is prepared once a week. “I was told when I started this [bakery] almost 48 years ago that a bakery would never last in Grayling,” Goodale said. “I have just kept my prices reasonable and do a quality product.” Mom’s meatloaf is testament to that. Call ahead to find out if it’s on the menu, then move quickly; it doesn’t last long. Find Goodale’s at 500 Norway St. (989) 348-8682, www.goodalesbakery.com

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Many in Village Fear Dollar General

The prospect of a new Dollar General store is causing a stir in Maple City.

The Glen Arbor Sun reported that a curious neighbor recently spotted a surveyor on a vacant lot, did some digging and learned of preliminary plans for one of the “small box” retail stores to locate in the tiny village. The same article also noted plans might be in the works for a store in Lake Ann. While some small towns embrace the coming of a discount retailer, that doesn’t appear to be the case in Maple City or Lake Ann, where many residents worry that the stores would put locally owned stores out of business.

At a township board meeting April 9, about 50 people showed up out of concern about the store, and 15 people spoke against it during public comment period, said Kasson Township Supervisor Greg Julian.

Julian said the matter was not on the agenda and would not come before the township board, anyway. He said land use issues are handled by the township planning commission.

There is a township planning commission meeting Monday, April 15, but Julian said he isn’t aware of Dollar General store on the agenda.

Stuff we love Tools to Fight Fake News If it’s online or on TV, it must be true, right? Northwestern Michigan College librarian Nicco Pandolfi knows better, and he wants to help people learn for themselves how to determine what’s true and what isn’t. His presentation, “Stumbling Over Our Own Brains: Media Literacy and the Interrupted Mind,” is geared to help people build defenses against disinformation. Pandolfi said he’ll talk about how we got from there (daily newspapers and three trusted networks) to here (myriad channels, 24-hour cable news, and endless sources of conspiracies, innuendo, and just-plain-falsehoods on the internet). “There’s a gap between the pace of technological development and our adaptation. That gap is being exploited, being weaponized,” Pandolfi said. His discussion will touch on tools, strategies and the best approach to become a savvy consumer of information. Interested? Be at the Traverse Area District Library at 6:30pm April 17. Free.

Hear about Michigan’s “Eccentrics” On Thursday, April 18, Frankfort historian Al Bryant will peer into the corners and crevices of Michigan history. The former college professor and librarian will discuss “Michigan Eccentrics,” some of Michigan’s most interesting — and occasionally forgotten — people of note at the Golden Fellowship Hall in Interlochen at 12:30. Subjects will include iconic personalities with a Michigan connection, such as James Bailey of Barnum and Bailey Circus fame, who was born in Detroit; Judith A. Moore, hailed as America’s worst published poet, who is buried in Manton; Ann Taylor from Bay City, the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live; and several politicians. Bryant does presentations on numerous historical persons of note, including his distant relatives Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde) and Lizzie Borden. The presentation is free, though a donation is requested for lunch.

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KILL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT spectator

by Stephen Tuttle We’re a nation that can’t quite make up its mind about capital punishment.

Three years ago the Nebraska legislature did away with the death penalty, only to have voters restore it by referendum last year.

Washington, New Hampshire, Louisiana, and Utah all considered capital punishment repeals without success in 2018. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 51% of respondents preferred life without parole over the death penalty, but 64% wanted to keep capital punishment available.

We still have 30 states, the federal government, and the military able to carry out a death sentence, but only 16 states have done so since 2009. The overwhelming majority of those have been in Texas, Virginia, and Oklahoma, in that order. More than half of the capital cases in the country occur in just 2% of the counties, the majority in Harris County, Texas.

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More politicians at the federal level are becoming a little queasy because of the capital punishment company we keep. Only 33 countries still cling to the death penalty: Just Russia and Belarus employ it in Europe, and the Scandinavian countries we so admire don’t even have life in prison much less capital punishment.

Instead, we’re in league with a Who’s Who of repressive, oppressive, non-democratic regimes. We executed more people last year than any country except China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt, and Somalia. Not exactly the company we’d like to keep. (North Korea would likely be on this list, except we don’t know how many they execute.)

We executed more people last year than any country except China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt, and Somalia.

Not exactly the company we’d like to keep.

There are good reasons for states to reconsider capital punishment.

(Of course, the entire criminal justice system could use a good reformation. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world by any measurement. We only have 4.5% of the world’s population, but with 2.3 million behind bars, a whopping 22 percent of the world’s prison population.

There isn’t even room here to discuss sentencing disparity —rich vs. poor, white vs. black, man vs. woman — a topic worthy of its own column.)

The first is simple economics.

According to University of Kansas study, trials involving the death penalty can be as much as eight times more expensive than those involving life in prison and are 70% more expensive on average. In California, such trials cost a minimum of an additional $1 million. Most of that is taxpayer money; the majority of defendants in murder trials need public defenders. Even a guilty plea in a capital case, with no trial, is twice as expensive as a plea involving a life sentence.

Then, of course, there are appeals, the first round of which are often mandatory. The state must defend itself in those appeals.

They can go on for years and years and then decades. There is a legitimate reason; since death is irretrievable, it’s good we cross every t and dot every i.

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eral population. With 2,621 death row inmates — the number is somewhat fluid — that’s nearly $236 million in extra annual spending for death penalty states.

Then there’s the housing of condemned prisoners. They have their own death row, with enhanced security, single cells, more guards, and the costs add up — on average an additional $90,000 per year, per death row prisoner versus a prisoner in the gen-

There is also the deterrence issue, or lack thereof. A person executed will commit no additional crimes, but there is no evidence that execution will deter anyone else. Murderers rarely consider consequences until they’re in handcuffs.

There is an additional issue. So far, 153 prisoners have been released from death row, their convictions overturned. A handful were weeks or days away from execution; one just a day. Some have been proven innocent, and others released because their convictions are now in doubt due to prosecutorial or police misconduct. Dozens more cases are under review by various innocence projects, law schools, prosecutors, and law enforcement personnel willing to look at old cases with fresh eyes.

We’re reasonably certain at least two people, one in Texas and another in Virginia, were executed for crimes they did not commit.

The case in Texas, involving alleged arson, is especially compelling and troubling.

Michigan, to its credit, abolished capital punishment constitutionally, in 1847, the first state to do so. Our crime rate has not soared as a result, nor has it in the other 20 states without capital punishment. Texas doesn’t have less crime because they execute more people.

The death penalty excites our most primal instincts: revenge for a heinous act. But it is ridiculously expensive, there is no evidence it deters future capital crimes, it puts us in company of countries notorious for human rights abuses, and, occasionally, it condemns innocent people. It creates new problems while solving none.

It’s time we put capital punishment to death.

Crime & Rescue ROAD RAGE GOES ON FOR 17 MILES When a 17-year-old driver accidentally cut off an 80-year-old driver in Traverse City, the older woman got upset and decided she needed to tell the teenager about her poor driving skills.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies in Suttons Bay were alerted to the incident, which occurred at 7pm April 8 on Grandview Parkway, and told that the cars were headed in their direction, north on M-22.

Along the way, the teenage driver, who lives in Suttons Bay, allegedly cut off the older driver, who lives in Traverse City, two more times and flipped her the middle finger.

The two cars were spotted by deputies near Suttons Bay and pulled over. While investigating, deputies noticed marijuana odor coming from the teenager’s car. When questioned about it, the girl handed over three baggies that contained marijuana. The girl’s mother soon arrived to take the girl home.

BOTTLE, DOG BOWL USED IN FIGHT A late-night drinking session at a Traverse City home ended when an older brother tried to hit his younger brother with a champagne bottle, the brothers wrestled, and the younger brother defended himself with a dog bowl, then fled.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Kings Court in Garfield Township at 3:50am April 9 after a 38-year-old Traverse City man called 911 to report that his 42-year-old brother had a gun.

Deputies arrived to find the younger brother, who told them that he had received a call from his brother’s girlfriend asking him to come back because “his brother was freaking out.” He told them that as he walked back, he had heard gunshots.

As deputies investigated, the older brother exited the residence and surrendered. Deputies determined that he had also assaulted his girlfriend and had fired a gun into his brother’s pickup truck.

The man was expected to be charged with two counts of domestic assault, reckless discharge of a firearm, use of a firearm while intoxicated, and malicious destruction of property.

MAN ARRESTED IN CHILD ASSAULT State police arrested a man who allegedly sexually assaulted his friends’ 3-year-old daughter while they were sleeping and then fled their house.

The girl’s parents told police that the assault took place overnight, April 5, at their home in Kalkaska County’s Springfield Township. The girl was treated for injuries at Kalkaska Memorial Health Center.

Troopers investigated and arrested 31-yearold Mark Anthony Hill of Fife Lake, according to a press release from the state police Houghton Lake Post. Hill was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and held on a $1 million bond.

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TIP LEADS TO CHASE AND CHARGES Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement officers got a tip that a suspect had crystal meth in a Cheboygan motel room.

As detectives investigated, Theron John Hunter, a 40-year-old Ann Arbor man, was spotted driving in Cheboygan on April 9. State police who were assisting the investigation tried to pull him over at the intersection of State and Western streets, but he sped off, leading to a chase.

As police pursued, Hunter’s pickup was twice forced into a ditch. The second time, a trooper was able to pull him out of his truck and place him under arrest.

Police said they searched the truck and found meth. Hunter faces charges of delivery of meth, third-degree fleeing and eluding, and resisting arrest.

DRIVER JAILED AFTER ROLLOVER When Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene of a rollover crash, they found the driver had fled and evidence that he had been injured and was armed with a handgun.

A witness reported the rollover involving a 2011 GMC pickup on Elm Valley Road near Hilltop Road in Bingham Township at just before 10pm April 6. The truck rolled several times.

Around the truck, responders found items ejected from the truck that indicated the man had been carrying a handgun.

Police searched for the man and eventually state police spotted him running into a wooded area nearby. He was eventually tracked down at a residence on East Bingham Road.

The 43-year-old, who lives nearby, was taken to Munson Medical Center and then to jail on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, drunk driving, and leaving the scene of an injury accident.

CHARGES FILED IN FACEBOOK METH DEAL An alleged drug deal arranged over Facebook led to the arrest of a 33-yearold Traverse City man.

Joshua David Westberry allegedly offered to sell meth to someone he met on Facebook.

That person, it turned out, was a Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputy.

The pair agreed to meet at a parking lot near the intersection of Cass and South Airport roads on March 31. When Westberry arrived at the right time and in the vehicle he said he’d be in, deputies arrested him and searched his car, finding a substance that field tested positive for meth, according to the charges.

Westberry faces charges of delivery of methamphetamine, using a computer to commit a crime and maintaining a drug house.

As deputies attempted to convince the man to surrender, he retreated to his house and barricaded himself inside.

Later, after more police arrived, the suspect set his house in fire from inside. Eventually the smoke and fire forced him out. An officer subdued him with a taser and he was arrested.

No one was injured, but the suspect, 29-yearold Brian Muma, was taken to Munson Kalkaska for a mental evaluation before he was taken to jail.

Muma faces charges of first-degree arson and malicious destruction of police property.

POLICE: MAN SETS HOUSE ON FIRE Someone called police after their neighbor threatened to burn down the rental house where he lived.

When Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies and a DNR conservation officer arrived around 1:45pm April 7 to the home in Excelsior Township, they were met by a combative man who was verbally abusive and carried a pipe. Deputies said the man threatened to pull out a handgun.

Next, the man started throwing metal objects at police, forcing them to take cover behind patrol cars. One of the objects, a car jack, struck and smashed a patrol car window.

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CHINA’S SECOND “GREAT LEAP FORWARD” – OVER THE U.S.?

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bY Jack Segal President Xi Jinping says it is time for China to “take center stage in the world.” While President Trump has focused on forcing near-term changes to China’s behavior, China has a much longer-term strategic vision that aims to returning it to the position of global influence it held prior to the 19th century.

In a lifetime, China has gone from a “Third World” country to the second largest economy in the world, with nine of the world’s top 20 companies. China’s progress remains rooted in its communist five-year plan, the latest of which focuses on its Made in China 2025 campaign. This seeks to have Chinese firms dominate six key sectors — pharmaceuticals, automotive technology, aerospace, semiconductors, information/ data, and robotics — by channeling substantial investment into these sectors.

Will the country be successful? Hard to say, since the absence of capitalist incentives deprives China’s strategy of the innovation and competitiveness inherent in a global marketplace. In fact, China’s state-controlled system might actually slow its advance, limit Chinese firms’ ability to operate on a global scale, and open opportunities for other nations’ companies to outperform Chinese competitors. Perhaps investment decisions made by western tech entrepreneurs will outcompete the work of Chinese bureaucrats.

Politically, with Xi Jinping’s near-unanimous “election” to another five-year term and the end of presidential term limits, his regime can only be expected to become increasingly authoritarian. China’s ongoing crackdown on dissidents and minorities will intensify.

In the tech sector, that authoritarian streak shows up in China’s longstanding paranoia about foreigners. Whereas 75% of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign born, nothing like that openness to foreigners exists in China.

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On the other hand, Chinese commercial doctrine mandates that any advances made by industry must be shared with the Chinese state and military. This requirement empowers China’s drive to collect data on consumers. It is also embedded in China’s questionable trade practices and its industrial espionage campaign. The complaints of President Trump and other leaders about China’s stealing of intellectual property are well founded. The demand that the U.S. and other firms foreign to China “share” their technology as a condition of doing business in China is at the heart of recent actions by many nations, led by the U.S., to attempt to exclude the Chinese tech superstar, Huawei, from participating in the buildup of our 5G data network.

Beyond technology, China is increasing its global reach through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). BRI aims to link China with the rest of the world through investments in 152 countries. It consists of road and rail projects connecting China to Central and South Asia, as well as maritime links between China and Southeast Asia, the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, North Africa, and Europe.

BRI is not a Marshall Plan. Democracy and human rights are not considered. Rather,

it is a vehicle to provide loans to foreign leaders of any stripe to finance projects that complement China’s objectives.

For example, China loaned Kenya $3.2 billion to construct a new rail line linking the port of Mombasa to Nairobi. China subsequently negotiated an additional $3.6 billion loan to finance an extension of the new line to Lake Victoria. But countries that fail to make their loan payments have found themselves making concessions to China. In Sri Lanka, China financed a major port reconstruction — one of 35 such port projects. When Sri Lanka defaulted on its loan, China demanded as payment control of the port and its environs for the next 99 years.

We need to consider how best to meet this challenge. First, we might look at why there is no western competitor to China’s BRI. Like most other free-market economies, we lack a multinational foreign investment strategy. Creating one would require a level of cooperation with our allies that seems unlikely these days.

Another critical element underpinning China’s strategic vision we must pay attention to is China’s overhaul of its education system. China is aiming for 50 million undergraduates by 2020 (up from 10.5 million in 1999). Since 2001, 1,022 new universities have been created in China, and the country is investing in 40 world-class universities, like Peking University, by 2050.

Again, as an authoritarian state, China is dictating that education be the nation’s topmost national priority. Deficiencies of the past have been identified. The state-run system now demands increasing flexibility and creativity (versus the historically topdown approach). Faculty and administrators who cannot, or will not, execute the new approach are dismissed.

A coherent educational strategy is also interwoven into the BRI. China seeks to leverage inroads it makes through BRI to influence academic systems across Asia. The University Alliance of the Silk Road will bring together 130 universities on five continents.

The objective is to increase the number of Ph.D. students coming to China; move from a teacher/tutor to a student/learner approach; focus on applied technologies and sciences; and synchronize the needs of the industrial/commercial complex with the available competencies of students.

As investment in U.S. infrastructure and U.S. education declines, and teachers advise college students to avoid the teaching profession, the U.S. faces a huge challenge.

We are still No. 1, but China is catching up fast and has clear, strategic plans for overtaking us. We must respond.

Jack Segal and Karen Puschel co-chair the International Affairs Forum (IAF), whose next event features Tom Watkins, former Superintendent of Michigan Schools and frequent visitor to China, on Thursday, April 18, 6pm at Milliken Auditorium at Northwestern Michigan College’s Dennos Museum Center. The event is free. More info: www.tciaf.com

Dumb and Dumber Rogers, Arkansas, neighbors Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were hanging out on Ferris’ back porch on March 31, drinking and enjoying the spring air. Ferris was wearing his bulletproof vest -- because why not? -- and invited Hicks to shoot him with a .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle. KFSM reported the vest blocked the bullet from striking Ferris, but it still hurt and left a red mark on his upper chest. Next, Hicks donned the vest and Ferris “unloaded the clip into Christopher’s back,” according to the police report, also leaving bruises.

That’s where it all would have ended had Ferris not gone to the hospital, where staff alerted the Benton County Sheriff ’s Office.

Ferris initially told officers an elaborate story about being shot while protecting “an asset” in a dramatic gunfight, but Ferris’ wife spilled the beans about the back-porch challenge.

Both men were arrested for suspicion of aggravated assault.

Quirky In downtown Borrego Springs, California, a curious sign tops a 5-foot-tall post in front of the Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association gift shop: “This Post Not Currently In Use.” Mike McElhatton, the association’s education director, told The San Diego Union Tribune: “When I started working (here) I saw this post that ... had obviously been there for a long time. At first I just wondered what in the heck was the post for and then I got the idea to put a sign on it.” McElhatton seemed disappointed with the response, though: “Amazingly, we don’t get a whole lot of comment about it. I’ve seen people walk up and they just look at the sign and they just keep going.”

Why Not? Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, tried a new venue for staging an opera on March 30 and 31: underwater.

“Breathe: A Multidisciplinary Water Opera” featured dancers, percussionists, singers, a flute and other orchestra instruments -some above water, some below. Composer and musical director Loren Kiyoshi Dempster told WLUK TV he was skeptical at first. “It’s been kind of one of the great surprises of my life that you could play cello underwater,” he said. A device used by marine biologists to record underwater sounds delivered the music above the surface for audience members.

Police Report On March 29, in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, an off-duty police officer was enjoying a nice sauna when he noticed that another man in the sauna was a fugitive wanted for aggravated assault, among other offenses. They recognized each other, police spokesperson Carina Skagerlind told the Associated Press, and “the naked police officer calmly told the man that he should consider himself arrested.” The officer called for backup, and “the arrest was undramatic,” she added.

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-- Harris County (Texas) Civil Court Judge Bill McLeod, who was sworn in last November, accidentally resigned on April 1, but it wasn’t an April Fools’ joke. Reuters reported that McLeod shared his plan online to run for the state supreme court without

realizing that such an announcement amounts to a resignation, according to the state’s constitution. McLeod himself did not comment on the gaffe, but county commissioners may be able to keep him in office until a special election can be held.

-- Detroit police say they can’t confirm what made an unnamed 50-year-old man shoot himself in the foot on March 19, but rumor has it that he was aiming for something entirely different. WDIV TV reported that the man, who uses a wheelchair, was trying to kill a cockroach by throwing his shoe at it; the shoe contained his handgun, and it fell out of the shoe and discharged, striking his foot.

Police said the man was in stable condition after the incident.

Least Competent Criminals -- Who has time to bother with long lines and bureaucracy at the driver’s license office?

Not Mr. Tang of Liuzhou, China, who was pulled over for a routine check as he rode his silver motorcycle on March 31. Tang was happy to produce his license, carried in the customary cover, reported Oddity Central.

But when officers examined it, they realized it was homemade. “He behaved very calmly as he took out the license,” a traffic police officer said. “But I was shocked when I saw what was inside.” Tang had simply written all the pertinent information found on a standard driver’s license on a piece of lined notebook paper, then glued a photo of himself to the paper. When pressed for an explanation, Tang said he was too lazy to study for the license exam and didn’t want to spend the money on driving classes. He thought a handwritten license would be better than nothing at all.

“I didn’t expect the traffic police to be so serious,” Tang said.

-- Where others see innocent little girls raising money for educational programs, some see an opportunity to pad their bank account. So it went for Brian Couture, 40, of Forest Grove, Oregon, who is accused of going to elaborate lengths to skim more than $700 of Girl Scout cookie money from his daughter. Forest Grove police responded to a 911 call at Couture’s home on March 6, where the man said an intruder had entered his home and struggled with him. When police arrived, according to KPTV, Couture was “unresponsive” and was taken to the hospital with undisclosed injuries, while K9 units set out to look for the thief around the neighborhood, alarming residents. Police said Couture later admitted to investigators that he had staged the whole thing, but at his hearing on March 29, he pleaded not guilty to initiating a false report. The money, according to a Girl Scouts spokeswoman, is still unaccounted for.

Weird Science In Cachoeira Alta, Brazil, Judge Filipe Luis Peruca handed down an unusual judgment in a paternity case that involved identical twin potential fathers. The mother of a young girl filed a paternity suit against Twin A, who accused Twin B of being the actual father, reported the BBC. DNA tests showed an equal probability for the two men to be the father, so Judge Peruca ordered them both to pay maintenance for the daughter. As a result, she will receive twice as much as she would with only one father. “One of them is acting in bad faith in order to hide the fact that he is the father,” the judge wrote. “Such vile behavior cannot be tolerated by the law.”

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Our Bee Colonies Aren’t Collapsing — Yet In an effort to bolster Northern Michigan’s struggling bee populations, 20 local farms are putting plots of pollinator-approved wildflowers on their properties. Will adding wildflowers be enough?

By Patrick Sullivan If the Farmland Pollinator Protection Project is successful, it will offer some of the region’s fields two benefits for the price of one.

It will bolster habitat for bees, a population that’s been under stress lately, while at the same time create acres of dazzling wildflowers that bloom throughout the spring and summer.

The Grand Traverse region was selected for the five-year project, overseen by the American Farmland Trust and to be implemented by the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, Kaiser & Associates and Michigan State University Department of Entomology.

ALREADY PLANTED, BUT FUNDS NEEDED Here’s how it works: First, MSU researchers conducted studies to determine which plants the region’s pollinators — bees and other insects — prefer.

“They used these little Shop-Vacs, and they sucked the insects off the plants, and then they counted to see which are honeybees, which are commercial honey bees, which are native insects, and which ones are maybe pest predators,” said Vic Lane, senior conservation project manager at GTRLC. Data collected from those experiments led the team to assemble a mix of plants that could be planted in the area and would bloom throughout the growing season.

“We were able to use some of that data to create a mix that will provide pollen and nectar throughout the entire season,” Lane said.

Next, calls went out to farmers and large landowners to sign up for the project. In exchange for pledging a single plot a land for five years, the farmers are compensated for the cost of participating.

They also get the advantage of ensuring they’ve got pollinators working on their property.

landowners met the criteria; they all applied and were accepted.

The program is in its early stages, however. Lane said they’ve only been able to fund some of the participants. So far, four participants have been seeded, representing over 15 acres. They are going to have to get more support before they can expand the

“Having the presence of food makes all if it easier: Even if there is pesticide risk in that area, if they have proper nutrition, it helps them overcome that.”

When GTRLC reached out to landowners, Lane said the sales pitch went like this: “We said, ‘Hey, would you be interested in this program? We want to install this habitat. We’ll pay for the installation. You have some obligations to maintain this over a period of time, but we’ll pay you two-hundred bucks an acre per year to maintain this habitat, which in many cases will benefit you — your gardens, your farms, your whatever, but it also services the community, not just ecologically, but also the pollination services for all of those fruit crops out there.’”

Initially, 30 landowners were interested, but not all of them owned land that qualified for the program. Twenty

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program to all 20 participants.

“We’ve only been able to fund a fraction of those people,” he said. “So, we have 40 acres of seed that we’ve been looking to plant, but we now need additional funding.

We need to find businesses that will support the work that we do.”

A PREVENTATIVE APPROACH One thing that’s unique about the program is the way the fundraising sales pitch is designed. The pollinator program isn’t looking for donations. They are looking for “investors” — even if this isn’t a traditional investment with a traditional kind of return.

That approach is intentional, Lane said. That’s because the investment is in

the creation of a healthier environment for growing crops. Lane said the organizers plan to solicit funding from businesses that benefit from the region’s fruit economy.

Some businesses, like sellers of cherry pies, are obviously connected to the pollinators. Other businesses, like winery tours, are less directly linked, but depend on the pollinators in other ways.

“A lot of these wineries we have on the Old Mission Peninsula and elsewhere, they’re looking out over views of other orchards, too,” Lane said. “The actual wine operation, the grapes may not require it, but some of the operations benefit from the views of those orchards, that do require it.”

Another expected benefit of the habitat — which will take three years to develop and establish itself — is that it will benefit a variety of insect populations, including pest predators. That could reduce the need for pesticides and create a better ecosystem balance. The program is also expected to offer richer habitat for monarch butterflies.

“The ecological concept is that if you have a system, the system has a bunch of checks and balances, and it supports itself,” Lane said. “But when you’ve oversimplified the system, and you have a particular crop here, and the habitat is there to support the insects that are needed to control those pests, there might be something out of balance there.”

Lane said the program was not established out of concern that the region’s bee populations are collapsing. The bee population, he said, is under stress, and the pollinator protection program is meant to see that things don’t become worse.

Vic Lane at the Grand Traverse Reginal Land Conservancy’s restored Maple Bay farmhouse.

“I would say that this program is really more about a preventative approach rather than a reactive approach in our region — recognizing the pattern and the concern and figuring out if there’s a solution here that we can implement before it becomes necessary,” Lane said.

“ALL MY BEES ARE LEAVING” Some people are more concerned about the current state of the bee population.

Traverse City’s Garth Ward has been beekeeping since 2005, when a bad accident forced him to get out of construction. Ward dedicates himself to saving beehives that would otherwise be destroyed. He is an expert at removing them from houses and relocating them to his “bee sanctuary.” He’s got a big yellow truck marked with black letters: “Swarm Trooper.”

Ward began beekeeping just as reports of colony collapse disorder started to make the news and concerns were raised about the effects of pesticides, lack of food, and climate change on bees. He said he’s watched the life of the bees he takes care of become more precarious over time.

Ward said he doesn’t understand what’s going on.

“They say different years are different, and, yeah, different years are different, but all of a sudden the bees started disappearing,” Ward said.

There are hundreds of acres around Ward’s property west of Traverse City that should provide great habitat for bees, but he said that hasn’t been the case in recent years.

“All my bees are leaving my property to go find food, because there’s something wrong here with all my forage at my bee sanctuary,” he said.

He said there’s been a steady decline in the bee population over recent years.

What’s more, the bees he does have aren’t doing as well.

Ward said he opposes pollinator programs like this one because he believes it merely offers cover for farmers who use pesticides that kill bees.

“Generally, this whole ‘pollinators’ thing has one thing in mind, which is: What do

we do with your bees while we spread our poison?” he said. “My question to them is: Why aren’t we talking about what we’re spraying instead of where we put our bees?’”

“ASTOUNDING AND FRIGHTENING” Brad Kik, co-founder and co-director of Crosshatch, a Bellaire-based nonprofit that promotes sustainability in northern Michigan, sees Ward’s point, but he said he supports habitat programs because they engage people and ask them to think about what’s going on, ultimately increasing the number of people who are following what’s happening to bees.

What farmers do to raise crops is complicated, and he said he’s reluctant to make blanket criticisms. Pollinator programs, at least, start a discussion.

“Creating more habitat doesn’t solve the problem of a bee getting killed by a pesticide, but it does get people into the space,” Kik said. “I’m a fan of any program that gets people thinking about it.”

He said he especially likes programs like the one GTRLC is engaged in because it focuses on a spectrum of pollinators rather than just one type.

Crosshatch works with local beekeepers and helps organize area beekeeping clubs.

Kik said the decline of the area’s bee population is disturbing.

“I don’t remember it being that way when we got started 15 years ago,” he said.

“This is astounding and frightening.”

Beekeepers begin to check their hives in April after they have been dormant for the winter. What many beekeepers have found in recent years has usually been grim, he said.

“What I’m hearing is that when people find hives, and the hives are healthy and alive, it’s almost miraculous,” Kik said.

PLANT MORE FLOWERS Meghan Milbrath, academic specialist at the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University and coordinator of the Michigan Pollinator Initiative, said that since bee population declines are believed to be caused by multiple factors, including pesticide and poor nutrition brought on by

lack of habitat, meaning improvements in one area, like nutrition, can offset damage from another, like pesticides.

A pollinator program like the one around Traverse City is designed to create habitat that will offer a pollination source throughout the season with a diverse selection of plants that take turns blooming.

Improving habitat to strengthen the health of bee population works in concert with smarter pesticide use, Milbrath said.

She said not all pesticides are harmful to bees, and some pesticides can be made less harmful to bees if they are deployed properly and at the right time.

“Our philosophy is do what you can, where you can,” Milbrath said.

In many cases, she said, pesticides are a necessity of modern agriculture and without them, we wouldn’t have crops.

“There’s a lot of pesticides that are necessary, in order for people to protect their crops, that are low risk to bees,” she said. “Farmers can be responsible in the way they use pesticides. … I don’t like to get in the middle of telling farmers how to farm, because I know it’s very nuanced.”

Milbrath, though, said she believes it is a distraction to talk too much about pesticides. She said she believes people don’t give enough consideration to how modern life destroys bee habitat. Regular habits of otherwise conscientious people increasingly put strains on bees, she said.

“The loss of habitat for pollinators is so profound and most people are contributing to it, mowing lawns, managing their own land,” she said. “Having the presence of food makes all if it easier: Even if there is pesticide risk in that area, if they have proper nutrition, it helps them overcome that.”

In general, what people can do, she said, is plant more flowers. (To learn how to improve the pollinator habitat in your own yard, go to https://pollinators.msu.edu).

ORGANIC HABITAT COMING The land conservancy isn’t just recruiting farmers to take part. They’ve signed up themselves and are planning to install

pollinator habitat on their Maple Bay Farm property in Acme Township.

They are going one step further than the program, however: GTRLC plans to install its habitat without the use of herbicides, a complication that will make installation take four years rather than three years.

“We’re actually doing a demonstration out here of an organic installation,” Lane said. “This is kind of interesting to us, because there’s been a lot of talk about herbicides being used to prep these sites.”

Lane said the conventional manner of installing pollinator habitat begins by clearing an area with herbicides. A one-time dose of herbicide makes the plot a blank slate, but it comes with the stigma of poison.

“I think the thought of doing it that way is, the long-term benefit of having the habitat outweighs any potential risk of a single application of an herbicide,” he said.

But, Lane said, he’s not aware of any studies that have proven that, so the open question of what harm might come from herbicide made GTRLC decide to set out without it as a test case. Lane said he’s been working with agricultural consultants to come up with a plan to clear the land naturally with frequent tilling.

Going organic has downsides, too, however.

“It’s more labor intensive to do an organic protocol. It takes more time, it takes more fossil fuel. There’s a lot of considerations that go into something like this,” he said.

“We’re disturbing the surface of the soil, which some people say it disrupts the fungal and bacterial interactions, so if you’re really trying to create soil habitat as well as plant habitat, is that the right thing to be doing?”

Another thing Lane wants people to know, if they are interested in seeing the fruits of the project and viewing acres of pristine wildflowers either at Maple Bay or at one of the other farms — is that it’s going to take a while and, until then, it won’t look like much.

“It takes three years to establish the habitat,” he said. Before then, “it’s going to look like a mess. It’s just going to be weeds.

You’re going to think you made a mistake.”

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LET THE SCULPTURE CHALLENGE BEGIN You. A stroll. Some selfies. And a great way to add art to your April.

By Ross Boissoneau If the budding trees and increasingly blue skies don’t inspire you to head out for a spring stroll, maybe this will: April 27 is International Sculpture Day, a singular day the International Sculpture Center created to get people seeing sculptures and thinking about the artform and its unique contributions to society. (See sidebar for special day-of events.)

Unless you’re the artsy type, you might not realize we have big-city proportions of sculpture in northern Michigan. Many pieces are in plain sight around area arts centers, but even more have quietly erupted from forest floors and alongside windswept Lake Michigan beaches.

Ready to seek them out? Now is the time. Five local art institutions — Dennos Museum Center, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Oliver Arts Center, and the Elk Rapids Walk of Art — are pulling together to draw you in with a unique challenge: Go visit one (or all!) of the participating sites by the end of April and post a photo of your favorite sculpture on Facebook or Instagram, hashtag #NoMISculpture.

Besides earning prestigious “I’m totally into art” clout on social media, one person will win an annual membership package to all five organizations (valued at over $400), plus a yearlong subscription to Sculpture Magazine. Need more motivation? We tapped each participating venue to share a story about a single piece in their collection. Maybe they’ll all get you thinking.

DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER Sally Rogers, whose sculpture “Nexus” is displayed in front of the Dennos Museum Center, attended Northwestern Michigan College, earning an associate degree in liberal arts. She went on to earn a BFA from the Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, and an MFA from Kent State University. In the past 15 years, Rogers has completed a number of large-scale public art commissions created with combinations of stainless steel, glass, and granite.

She describes Nexus as “a visual metaphor for the action of connecting or combining the various disciplines of the academic world to achieve an integrated approach to education.”

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MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK Of her “Bonnet,” Lois Teicher (Born 1938) writes, “The ‘Bonnet’ with its inner space and flowing outer ribbon represents women’s contribution and presence throughout time, particularly during pioneer life when the very sustenance of life had to be created daily. As pioneers began settling Michigan in the mid 1800s, women took on tremendous responsibilities to care and provide for their families and communities.”

Built on-site in 1998, ‘Bonnet’ is painted fero cement over wire mesh created on stud lathe, resulting in a sculpture that is 9 feet high at the crown and extends to almost 28 feet long as it lays on the wooded floor of the Art Park, where organic growth has now become a part of the work as whole.

OLIVER ART CENTER Frankfort From sculptor K.W. Bell: “This [piece] is called Confident Doubt — a feeling I’m well acquainted with when sculpting. This was my first larger sculpture, and I learned a great deal creating it. I wrote a poem that often expresses my process.”

I’ve got it I can do this I’m good, I’m great, Brilliant even!

Wait ... NA No no ... NO Not brilliant, Not great, Not even good, Oh man, I stink I can’t do this This is horrible I am horrible.

WALK OF ART Elk Rapids “Grand Traverse Portage” was installed in the shoreside Walk of Art in 2018, the third of Dewey Blocksma’s works to be displayed in the forest park. Blocksma worked as an emergency room physician for 10 years after graduating from Northwestern University Medical School. He is now a full-time artist. He says his sculptures, which are often whimsical and witty, are an extension of his toy-making experiences he developed in childhood while living on the border of India and Pakistan, where conventional children’s toys were unavailable.

Of this piece, Blocksma said, “Portage — the transport of one’s possessions between bodies of water could be interpreted to include our psychological baggage. A Grand Traverse is made possible by portages.”

SEIZE THE SCULPTURE DAY EVENTS

The public is invited to special events around the region on April 27: Dennos Museum Center Join docents to take part in a guided experience of the Dennos Museum Center’s indoor and outdoor sculpture collection from 10:30 to 11:30am in Traverse City. The event is free to the public.

Oliver Arts Center Join artist and sculptor K.W. Bell at 12:30pm for a special hosted tour of her exhibit “Body of Works,” featuring projects in clay, copper, metal, acrylic and watercolors at the Oliver Arts Center in Frankfort. The event is free and open to the public.

CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER Traverse City John Sauve was born in 1963 in Detroit, and is an American artist and arts educator. His medium is sculpture and printmaking. He studied art history at Michigan State University.

Sauve created the Man in the City project in 2008. It consists of bright orange metal sculptural silhouettes placed in locations that have a cultural or historical significance. Man in the City has been exhibited in locations including Detroit, New York City’s Highline, and New York City’s Governors Island. Crooked Tree Arts Center brought it here in 2015, and one of the 43-inch orange silhouettes remains atop Crooked Tree Arts Center’s Traverse City building, as well as other locations downtown.

Michigan Legacy Art Park Enjoy free admission all day and join a special guided tour at 2:30pm, followed by a social mixer for all artists and art lovers at nearby Iron Fish Distillery at 4:30. The collection features more than 40 major works of art and 31 poetry stones expressing the Michigan experience.

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A showcase of dishes Patterson and Blakeslee created for a dinner at Detroit’s Public House.

THE COOKS’ HOUSE

It’s a paradox: For two cooks whose cuisine speaks volumes, they prefer not to. They just want to cook.

Eric Patterson and Jen Blakeslee, chef-owners of The Cooks’ House in Traverse City, celebrated the 11th anniversary of the restaurant on April 1 — not with champagne corks popping and revelry, but by going to work and continuing to do what they do so well.

By Janice Binkert Patterson, the ponytailed, perennially suit-and-tie-wearing half of the founding duo of The Cooks’ House (who, nota bene, are partners in the business sense only), doesn’t hold back when it comes to things he feels strongly about, but neither does he give much away, either about himself, or his cooking. He credits Blakeslee with being the more creative force in the kitchen. She, demure and casual in a black T-shirt and chef ’s pants, is the quieter one, but she is quick to dispute that statement. “You’re just as creative as I am,” she countered. “You just do things in a more structured way.”

FROM VEGAS TO TC In spite of the generally accepted rule in the culinary world that egos and hierarchy allow for only one head chef in a professional kitchen, Blakeslee and Patterson have been successfully cooking together for over 15 years, having first met when they both worked at star chef Andre Rochat’s eponymous Michelin-starred restaurant in Las Vegas.

The two took very different paths to their culinary careers. Growing up in Kansas, Patterson had an epiphany at the ripe old age of 11 that cooking was his calling (it involved popcorn — ask him about it the next time you’re at The Cooks’ House). He worked at a steakhouse during high school and went straight to Las Vegas at age 18, determined to learn to be a chef.

“I kind of hunted down the best chef in town, which at the time was Andre. I

just showed up at his restaurant. I talked to the chef de cuisine, who basically said, ‘Seriously, your best experience is a steakhouse in Kansas?’ and showed me the door. But I don’t take ‘no’ very well, so I came back every month for nine months, until I think I just wore them down. When I finally met Andre, he said that my experience was dismal, but if I was still interested, he would hire me as an apprentice.”

Patterson turned out to be a quick study and a hard worker, and ultimately became the restaurant’s chef de cuisine himself.

Blakeslee, a Traverse City native, was a professional dancer for six years at the Hubbard Street Dance Company in Chicago before discovering her love of (and aptitude for) cooking during a vacation in Colorado.

Taking a job as a server at a ranch resort in the mountains, she quickly earned herself a spot in the kitchen and moved up the ladder quickly. That eventually led to her being hired as the chef for a new Italian trattoria in Denver that is still going strong today. A few years into that job, she decided to go to culinary school and enrolled at Johnson & Wales in Providence, Rhode Island. Later, back at her old job in Denver, some colleagues told her about a sous chef position opening at Andre’s in Las Vegas and encouraged her to apply. As it turned out, Patterson had already been working there for some time when she arrived. A dream team had been born. As their boss told them at the time: “It’s scary how well you two work together.”

So how did Blakeslee end up convincing Patterson to relocate to Traverse City?

“There was zero convincing necessary,”

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said Patterson. “We knew that we wanted to partner in opening a restaurant, and she felt this would be a good place, so I came with her.”

Blakeslee recalled that when they were still in Las Vegas, they used to talk about their plan a lot. “We would say things like, ‘Let’s use products that are fresh — things that we can buy right from the farm.’ But neither of us actually had any idea what we would be able to get here.”

WHAT LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT? Blakeslee and Patterson opened the first iteration of The Cooks’ House in 2008 in a tiny building on East Front Street in Traverse City that has served as an incubator for several successful local restaurants.

“People think I’m joking when I say this, but honestly, at the time, we didn’t know anything about the rise of the local food movement in this country,” Patterson admitted. “For us, using local, seasonal ingredients just made perfect sense.” Though it was difficult at first, over time, the two built up a long list of farmers in the region who now deliver to them on a regular basis.

In October 2010, they moved to their present location just around the corner — a two-story, white clapboard house that was formerly home to the House of Doggs.

“It needed a lot of renovation,” said Blakeslee. They started with $25,000, and by the time the remodel and everything else was done, they had less than $2,000 in the bank — less than a day’s worth of revenue. “Which is not how you want to open a restaurant,” Patterson noted. Nevertheless, it thrived.

“When we opened The Cooks’ House, we

really wanted to make sure that it was casual and approachable enough for everybody,” said Blakeslee. Although they both take their cooking seriously, neither she nor Patterson take themselves too seriously. On their website, they describe the restaurant as having a “comfortable, come-as-you are approach to enlightened food.” For the dress code, they suggest only: “clothes.”

Patterson and Blakeslee understand and complement each other well. They finish each other’s sentences. They laugh at each other’s jokes. And they have the highest respect for each other’s culinary abilities. “Her weaknesses are my strengths, and my weaknesses are her strengths,” explained Patterson.

But these are also two individuals with very divergent personalities and tastes. She keeps the restaurant’s décor clean-lined, with interesting textures; he has little interest in such things. He likes bright lights and soft music in the dining room; she likes candlelight and turned-up volume. She loves being in the kitchen, on the line; he prefers plating, expediting, and playing host. His favorite cuisine is French; hers is Italian (closely followed by Indian, Asian, and Mexican, a reflection of some of her favorite travel destinations).

INGREDIENTS, TECHNIQUE, PRESENTATION, TASTE While elements of those latter culinary influences may show up on The Cooks’ House menu at any time, Blakeslee’s and Patterson’s food defies any particular definition. What comes out on the plates that are brought to the tables is elevated cuisine, artfully presented, but never predictable, and

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Each item is listed succinctly, with only its ingredients; clever names have no place here. Thus, under Salads & Appetizers, one might find Roasted Beets-Red CabbageDukkah-Olive Oil-Fresh Chevre. Or Warm Mushrooms-Asian Seasoned Pig Ears-Horse Gram Lentils, or Gemelli Pasta-Braised Rabbit-Milkweed Pods-Parmesan Cheese.

Main Plates could include Hay Smoked Striped Bass-Carrots-Radish-Pea ShootsSesame Seeds; or Slow Roasted BrisketWild Ramp Chimichurri-Potato Subji-Swiss Chard; or Sautéed Chicken Breast and Leg Confit-Baby Kale-Whole Roasted GarlicCurry. Five- and Seven-course menus are another option, with or without suggested wine pairings. Dessert may be something like Parsnip Cake-Spiced Honey Yogurt.

Wine, beer and spirits also play an essential role at The Cooks’ House. Patterson and Blakeslee are of the mind that the best ingredients deserve the best beverages. They stock an impressive 150 different bottles of wine, including one of the biggest selections of local wines in Michigan.

“We don’t change the entire menu every week or every month, but we change certain items and certain preparations on

a regular basis,” Patterson said. “Our core philosophy is that the ingredients inspire what we cook, so those ingredients should be of the highest quality available, seasonal, and as local as feasible. Cooking is about 75 percent ingredients and 25 percent technique, but you have to have the technique to make the ingredients work. And then to take it a little further, what’s more important — presentation or taste? It’s taste. You can have a dish that is put together impeccably, but if it doesn’t taste good, the presentation is wasted.”

Blakeslee said that while both she and Patterson contribute ideas for the menus, they collaborate on most dishes. “I know that Eric will always fully give me his opinion about things,” says Blakeslee. “And I do the same with him. It’s all about making the food the best it can be.” The staff is also encouraged to give their feedback on any dish. And speaking of staff, many aspiring cooks who are just starting out in the business have been welcomed into The Cooks’ House kitchen over the years. “Mentoring has always been inherent to our culture here,” said Patterson.

“If we can help somebody out, we’re happy to do it. We’ve got a ton of experience between us, so why not pass it on?”

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As if Blakeslee and Patterson didn’t literally have enough on their plates running their restaurant (actually two restaurants, since they also operate Milkweed, in The Little Fleet), they also do catering — including large, high-end benefits for local organizations like the Leelanau Conservancy, the Father Fred Foundation, and Groundworks — as well as dinners with wineries, breweries, distilleries, and guest chefs. “These collaborations are basically a result of us wanting to ‘play in the sandbox’ with other food and beverage professionals,” said Blakeslee. Want a place in the sandbox, too? Go to mynorthtickets.com and make a reservation for one (or more) of these upcoming special events: April 22, 5:30 seating – Young Chef ’s Dinner April 22, 8:30 seating – Young Chef ’s dinner April 23, 7:00 seating – Brys Estate Wine Dinner May 6, 5:30 seating – Lady of the House guest-chef dinner May 6, 8:30 seating –Lady of the House guest-chef dinner May 7, 7:00 seating – Big Little wine dinner May 20, 5:30 seating – Anti-Hero beer dinner May 20, 8:30 seating – Anti-Hero beer dinner May 21, 7:00 seating – 2 Lads wine dinner

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By Ross Boissoneau Musicians are typically the focal point of any performance, but one particular instrument will be center stage at the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra concert April 28. The Violins of Hope are a collection of instruments played by Jewish musicians in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. One of those instruments will be showcased at the performance at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts.

The beginning of this rare program traces back some 50 years ago, when Amnon Weinstein, a young violin-maker in Israel, was approached by a customer who brought him an instrument in complete disrepair. The man said he had played the violin on the way to a gas chamber but was spared because the Nazis heard his music and decided he would instead play in their orchestra. Weinstein was too overcome by emotion to make the repairs, but by 1996 he began searching out such instruments to repair and restore them.

Today Weinstein and his son Avshalom have restored 18 of these instruments, one of which will come north to be played by GLCO Music Director Libor Ondras. It will then circulate through the orchestra section.

The insutruments made their North American debut in 2012 at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, and have been featured in performances by the Berlin Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony in Florida, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and others.

Ondras has also chosen to feature music by composers associated with the Holocaust.

Music of Terezin will feature compositions

by Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein and Hans Krasa, all of whom were imprisoned at Terezin, also known as Theresienstadt (a hybrid concentration camp and ghetto roughly 30 miles north of Praque in the Czech Rupublic). All were later executed at Auschwitz and other concentration camps.

“These were great composers with great potential,” said Ondras. Also on the program will be Mozart’s Requiem with chorus, Symphony for Strings by Shostakovich, and music from the film Schindler’s List by John Williams. “Some pieces people will recognize, and some will not be familiar. But it’s all great music,” said Ondras.

The programming is in part how Ondras was able to acquire one of the instruments, which are typically loaned to larger orchestras. “We created our own vision and negotiated a deal to bring in one of them. I thought putting it together would be meaningful, and they [the Weinsteins] agreed that with these pieces it would be meaningful.”

Ondras had previously become acquainted with the instruments while studying and performing in Tampa, Florida.

His quartet was asked by the management of the orchestra there to play on them.

“That was the first I heard of the Violins of Hope. It was a great honor, a unique experience,” he said.

Judy Zorn, the general manager of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, said while the performance is the centerpiece, there will also be other events built around the violin.

They include a viewing of a PBS documentary, Violins of Hope, and Holocaust Remembrance Day at Temple B’nai Israel in Petoskey on May 1. Zorn and others will also be visiting clubs and classrooms. “This has become a big project.

It’s about the resilience of people and the power of music to lift hearts.”

Ondras concurred. “Preparing for it is kind of haunting. They may not be the best instruments, but history permeates them,” he said. “How valuable art is in our lives.”

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NMC’s Big Band Hits the Big 40 Trombonist Billy Gauthier started the jazz band in 1978.

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By Ross Boissoneau Over the course of its 40 years of existence, Northwestern Michigan College’s Big Band has seen conductors come and go (and sometimes come again). Scores of musicians have passed through its ranks.

It’s even spawned another big band, while performing music by a host of the genre’s most acclaimed writers and arrangers.

But from its first concert in 1979 to the upcoming performance April 20 at Milliken Auditorium, there’s been one constant: trombonist Billy Gauthier. Not only was Gauthier there at the beginning, he’s largely responsible for it coming into existence in the first place. And for that, he credits his love of music.

“I transferred to Traverse City High School [now Traverse City Central] my senior year from Green Bay,” said the lead trombonist for the NMC Big Band. He saw the college just over the fence and wondered if it had a jazz music program he could join.

He ended up in the president’s office at NMC, talking to the college’s then-president Bill Yankee. He was told the college didn’t have a jazz band, and that to get one started he’d need to find an adjunct faculty member and at least 12 members. He approached Mike Davis, whom he’d met in high school, and Davis agreed to take on the role of music director.

“Mike Davis was huge. I was just a crazy high school kid. He made it a reality. It started in the fall of 1978. We had our first concert in 1979,” said Gauthier.

When Davis left, Chris Bickley, who was leading the Reef Petroleum Big Band, came in as director. While he was leading the group he took it to the Aquinas Jazz Festival in Grand Rapids. Bickley was followed by Laurie Sears and then Pete Asch, and Mike Hunter took over in 1990.

It was during Hunter’s tenure that the program expanded. He welcomed additional musicians to sit in and occasionally double

parts, but it got to the point that there were more than the group could comfortably accommodate. He also wanted to make sure that there were opportunities for younger players to learn jazz styles and repertoire.

“We were getting into charts that were more advanced. I started the second [the Jazz Lab Band] for kids who wanted to develop the skills to transfer to a university, but I just couldn’t throw them in front of a Buddy Rich chart,” he said.

Hunter also took on the task of leading the Vocal Jazz Ensemble at its start, when the original director abruptly left just before it was to begin.

“Steve Sandner moved to Arizona about two weeks before [the semester started].

Mark Puchala [then the head of the music program at NMC] came to me, and I said I’d do it.

“To me, the most fun was rehearsals, the camaraderie, and friendships. The standing joke was that it was musicians’ bowling night. It always came down to the people,” he said. “I had a blast and learned a lot.”

When Hunter retired in 2014 after 24 years, he was succeeded as director of the bands by one of his predecessors, Laurie Sears. And completing the circle, founding director Mike Davis returned as the director of the Vocal Jazz Ensemble.

For Sears, the chance to work with a mix of traditional college students, community members, semi-professional, and professional musicians was an opportunity she jumped at. “I love the mix.

I had experience with adult band camp at Interlochen,” she said. “When Mike approached me, I said yes.”

She said the approach to the two bands differs in some ways. “The Big Band has played together for many years. It’s riddled with pros and verges on being a professional band. The other is less experienced. It’s a nice mix of players who share their experience with others.”

Gauthier isn’t the only member of the

band with longevity. Several others have been part of the group for a number of years, such as Doug Endicott, Dean Kolden, Adam and Eric Olson and Mitch Ronk. Trumpet player Bill Fromm has been on board for nearly as long as Gauthier, though he took a single-semester break when he briefly moved to Florida. Like many others, he saw it as a chance to pick up his instrument after not playing for years. “It got me back into playing,” said Fromm, who has since been in the band for some 30-plus years.

Today, he not only plays, but also frequently leads the melody. “It doesn’t get much better than Big Band as a trumpet player. In rock or blues, you’re in the back row, maybe play a solo once in a while.”

Being in the band only whetted his appetite for more, which grew into Jazz North, an eight-piece band populated in large part by current and former members of the NMC jazz bands. In addition, many of those in the bands also play in musicals at Old Town Playhouse and with other bands around the area.

Including Gauthier, who regularly plays with his blues band and other groups. His day job also allows him the financial flexibility and time to play. “I don’t need music to pay the bills. It’s not a job. I’m always having the best time on stage.”

People typically leave jobs, move, begin and end relationships over the course of four decades. So the question remains: Why does Gauthier continue in the band after 40 years?

For him, the answer is simple. “Love for music. I play in a number of bands. I love playing jazz, rock, funk.” But there’s a deeper layer to it as well. “I like making people smile or dance. That’s what puts a smile inside my heart,” Gauthier said.

The NMC Big Band, Jazz Lab Band, and Vocal Jazz Ensemble perform at Milliken Auditorium at 7:30 Saturday, April 20.

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BIG LITTLE HERO RACE: 9AM, NMC, TC. A superhero-themed race; wear your favorite superhero costume.

Following the race will be face painting, balloon animals & more. All proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Michigan.

The one-mile fun run starts at 9am & is free; the 5K & 10K start at 9:30am. $20 students, $30 adults. biglittleherorace.com

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april 13-21 send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

FRIENDS OF THE TRAVERSE AREA DISTRICT LIBRARY MEDIA SALE: Traverse Area District Library, TC. The members-only pre-sale is held from 9-10am. The public sale runs from 10am-4pm. Shop from thousands of quality used CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, & an assortment of vinyl records. All items are $2 each. tadl.org/event/friends-of-tadl-media-sale

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SPRING BIRDS & EBIRD: 9am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Learn to ID birds by sight & sound & log observations online using eBird. $5. grassriver.org

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29TH ANNUAL MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHILDREN’S HEALTH FAIR: 10am-2pm, Petoskey Middle School. Featuring events & activities for newborns to 12 year olds. Includes an Action Hero Fun Run, fire engine & helicopter tours, child fingerprinting & DNA completion, preview of “Junie B. Jones, JR” play, & much more. 800-248-6777. Free.

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ANGELA SAXON STUDIO OPEN HOUSE: 10am-5pm, 10666 S. Watkoski Rd., TC. On display: “Creek + Waterfalls,” a series of Saxon’s new paintings & monotypes. Free. angelasaxon. com/creek-waterfall-april-studio-open-house

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EASTER EGG HUNT: 10am-noon, American House Charlevoix. Also, get your photo taken with the Easter Bunny. Free.

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FRIENDS OF THE MANISTEE COUNTY LIBRARY APRIL SHOWERS SALE: 10am-4pm, Book House, behind the Manistee Library.

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HEATHER SCHMAKER AUTHOR EVENT: 10am, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

Heather the author of “The Griffins of Castle Cary.”

Kids ages 8-12. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

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FREE COMMUNITY EASTER EGG HUNTS: 10:30am, First Congregational Church, TC. Indoor face painting, food & two bounce houses.

Outdoor egg hunts organized by age groups, & one more bounce house. Parents will be able to take outdoor photos of their child with the Easter Bunny. A Special Needs Egg Hunt will be held at noon. fcctc.org/events/communityeaster-egg-hunt

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BUSINESS EXPO & JOB FAIR: 11am-3pm, Benzie Central High School, Benzonia. Free. benzie.org

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STICKS & SKATES FAMILY FUN DAY: 11am2pm, Centre Ice Arena, TC. $5/person or $20/ family. Includes hot dogs & skate rentals.

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EASTER HOP: 11:30am-1pm, Downtown Gaylord. 989-350-5316.

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INLAND TOWNSHIP EASTER EGG HUNT & CRAFT SHOW: 12-4pm, Inland Township Hall, Interlochen. Egg hunt starts at 1pm. Free.

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TRAINING SHIP STATE OF MICHIGAN OPEN HOUSE: 12-3pm. Enjoy the Great Lakes Maritime Academy’s open “ship,” showcasing the training ship State of Michigan. Tours will begin at the pier security gate entrance on the north side of NMC’s Great Lakes campus, 715 E. Front St., TC. Low-heel, closed-toe, soft-soled shoes are highly recommended. 995-1213. Free.

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EGGSTRAVAGANZA: 1-3pm, The Ellsworth Community Park Pavilion.

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You might not have heard of Nellie McKay, but chances are you’ve heard her. McKay’s music has been featured in Grey’s Anatomy, Rumor Has It, Monster-in-law, Weeds, GasLand, Terrible Thrills, Boardwalk Empire, Downtown Express, Nurse Jackie, Mad Men, NCIS and others. Her song “P.S. I Love You” was the title tune for the Hillary Swank/George Butler movie P.S. I LOVE YOU. Nellie also played Hillary Swank’s sister in the movie. She performs this Sat., April 20 at 8pm at Freshwater Art Gallery/Concert Venue, Boyne City. Tickets: $30 advance. Call 231-582-2588. freshwaterartgallery.com

AUTHOR READING + NEW POEMS: FLEDA BROWN: 3-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. Fleda is the author of “Growing Old in Poetry.” horizonbooks.com

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LOCAL AUTHOR ANNE-MARIE OOMEN: 3pm, Empire Township Hall. Presented by Glen Lake Library. Anne-Marie will read from “Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction,” a 2019 Michigan Notable Book selection. glenlakelibrary.net

& square dancing. Live music by Aunt Lu & The Oakland County All Stars. $11 adult, $7 student & $9 member. dancetc.com

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“INSIDE/OUT: SELFIES OF THE SPOKEN KIND” BY OTP’S AGED TO PERFECTION: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. Freewill donation. oldtownplayhouse. com/get-involved/aged-to-perfection.html

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

A community play-along for music lovers of all ages. Free. facebook.com/pg/therockofkingsleyMI/events

“MARJORIE PRIME”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. An elderly woman’s memory is fading but now she has a handsome young holographic image of her deceased husband to feed her life story back to her. $17 + fees. oldtownplayhouse.com

DANI KNOPH - FISH WATER COLOR EXHIBIT: 5-7pm, Ethanology, Elk Rapids. ethanologydistillation.com

GOOD ON PAPER IMPROV: 8pm, West Bay Beach Holiday Inn Resort, TC. Enjoy 90 minutes of improvised shenanigans & laughter. $10.

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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS’ 2ND ANNUAL WINE EVENT: 6:30pm, Kirkbride Hall, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Tonight is SOLD OUT. Featuring a cocktail reception, guest speaker Steve McClatchy, a live auction, & live music & libations. $100. tcbigswineauction.org/events

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PETER PAN BALLET CONCERT: 6:30pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. The Dance Center Youth Ensemble will present a one-act ballet, “Peter Pan”. In addition, the concert will include performances by The Dance Center Competitive Dance Team, as well as Ballet Virtuoso & Studio Company performing excerpts from “Pirates of the Caribbean.” $15/child & senior; $20 adult. dance-center.net

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“SHREK THE MUSICAL JR.”: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Based on the DreamWorks Animation film & Broadway musical, “Shrek The Musical Jr.” is presented by the Footliters Junior Players. $10 advance at ticket outlets; $11 online; $12 door. cadillacfootliters.com/tickets

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BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall. 7-7:30pm: Basic Contra dancing lesson. 7:30-10:30pm: Contra

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GOPHERWOOD CONCERT: SETH BERNARD & FRIENDS W/ OPENING ACT RICK WEST: 8pm, Cadillac Elks Club. Seth’s tastes run from folk & blues to rock. West brings his tunes about our home state. $7-$15. gopherwoodconcerts.org

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“FIND YOUR PARK” AFTER DARK STAR PARTY: 9-11pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Dune Climb parking lot, Empire.

Please park in the row furthest from the dunes with your headlights facing M-109. Participants need only purchase the park entrance pass or have an annual pass displayed in their vehicle.

There will be prospects for star-gazing, meteor showers, solar viewing, storytelling & more.

Free. nps.gov/slbe/planyourvisit/calendar.htm

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sunday

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS’ 2ND ANNUAL WINE EVENT: 12-3pm, Sorellina, TC. Today features the BIGS Bubbles & Brunch. $75 + tax & gratuity. tcbigswineauction.org/events

COMMUNITY EASTER EGG HUNT: 12:30pm, Trinity Lutheran School, TC. Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------PETER PAN BALLET CONCERT: 1pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. The Dance Center Youth Ensemble will present a one-act ballet, “Peter Pan”. In addition, the concert will include performances by The Dance Center Competitive Dance Team, as well as Ballet Virtuoso & Studio Company performing excerpts from “Pirates of the Caribbean.” $15/ child & senior; $20 adult. dance-center.net

---------------------8TH ANNUAL YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE: 1:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Enjoy six original one act plays written by regional high school students who have been matched with national mentors.

Free. cityoperahouse.org/young-playwrightsfestival-performance

---------------------“INSIDE/OUT: SELFIES OF THE SPOKEN KIND” BY OTP’S AGED TO PERFECTION: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. Freewill donation. oldtownplayhouse. com/get-involved/aged-to-perfection.html

---------------------TSO PRESENTS CARMINA BURANA: 3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. With Kevin Rhodes, music director.

Featuring vocal soloists Kimberley Dolanski, John Bragle & Gustav Andreassen, & the combined voices of the NMC & Interlochen Academy choirs. Tickets are $28 to $65. Students & first-time attendees eligible for a 50% discount. traversesymphony.org/concert/carmina-burana

SPRING CLEANING FOR YOUR MIND, BODY & SPIRIT: 2pm, Leland Township Library. Join Dr. Caleb Halulko of River of Life Chiropractic & Wellness for this discussion. Free. lelandlibrary.org

Mon - Ladies Night - $5 martinis,

TASTE OF GAYLORD: 5:30-8pm, Treetops Resort, Convention Center, Gaylord. “Under the Big Top!” Featuring live circus entertainment, a photo booth, $500 grand prize & more. $35 advance; $40 door. gaylordchamber.com/events/details/ taste-of-gaylord-under-the-big-top-2571

8-9:30 TC Comedy Collective

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

---------------------“OUR ADULT CHILDREN WITH ASPERGER’S”: 6:30pm, TC. A NW Michigan NT Support parent group meeting. The exact TC location is provided when the neurotypical family member joins the NW Michigan NT Support group at tinyurl.com/joinnwmints or contacts Nan Meyers at 231-631-8343 or nwmints@ gmail.com before noon on the meeting day.

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monday

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

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“THE MACKINAC BRIDGE THEN & NOW”: 7pm, Mackinaw Area Public Library, Mackinaw City. Presented by the Mackinaw Area Historical Society Lecture Series & Kim Nowack, the first woman to hold the position of chief engineer for the Mackinac Bridge Authority’s 60+ year history. Free.

---------------------HERE:SAY PRESENTS: SOS!: 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Scheduled performers take the stage to tell true, first-person stories about times when they needed an assist. Donations taken at door. Find on Facebook.

---------------------NWS: A CONVERSATION WITH LISA SCOTTOLINE: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Lisa is The New York Times #1 bestselling & Edgar awardwinning author of 30 novels. Her latest is “Someone Knows,” a novel about how our past misdeeds can derail our present. Also featuring live music & Morsels sweet treats. $5 students; $17 reserved; $27 premium reserved. nationalwritersseries.org

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tuesday

COFFEE @ TEN: “CRAFTING A CAREER IN THE ARTS”: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. With Amy Vos Dillinger, admissions counselor at Kendall College of Art and Design at Ferris State University. Free. crookedtree.org

Wed - Get it in the can night - $1 domestic,

“Where Friends Gather”

Thurs - $1 off all drinks & $2 Coors Lt. pints

Featuring Super Greek Food in a Relaxed Atmosphere

$3 craft w/DJ Ryan Zuker

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INTERNATIONAL LECTURE: 7pm, NCMC, Main Classroom Building, Room 122, Petoskey.

Featuring a presentation by videographer Peter Sinclair on dark snow & climate change. Free. ncmich.edu

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then: open mic/jam session w/Matt McCalpin & Jimmy Olson

FILM ARTS AT OAC: 6:30pm, Oliver Art Center, Fisher Classroom, Frankfort. Featuring “Beat the Devil.” Free. oliverartcenterfrankfort. org/welcome

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TAHS HISTORY SALON SERIES: 5-7pm, 123 Speakeasy, TC. History ambassadors will present stories of Traverse City past. Share your own stories, those of family members, or stories you have researched or heard over the years. Tonight’s theme is “Illicit Operations.”

Free. downtowntc.com

Tues - $2 well drinks & shots

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GTHC APRIL PROGRAM: 7pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Join the GT Hiking Club & Triston Kirt for a photo-travelogue of Iceland’s Laugavegur hiking trail, its numerous waterfalls & mountains along the Ring Road & the rocky beauty of its arctic locale. Free. facebook.com/GTHikers

THE BOARDMAN REVIEW - ISSUE 7 RELEASE: 4pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Featuring food, drink, live music by Peter M. Melichar, live readings, films, locally produced clothing & bags, & photography. Find on Facebook.

$5 domestic beer pitcher, $10 craft beer pitcher. with Jukebox

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apr 17

wednesday

ACCESS TO THE ARTS: 10am & 1pm, Cheboygan Opera House. Featuring “Trout Fishing in America.” theoperahouse.org

---------------------GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: April 17-24.

Participating restaurants offer $25 dinner specials & $15 lunch specials. gaylordchamber. com/restaurant-week

---------------------HABITS OF TIME MANAGEMENT: 121:30pm, NMC University Center, TC. Today features “Scheduling Your Time & Building Better Boundaries.” Presented by NorthSky Nonprofit Network. Register. Free. northskynonprofitnetwork.org

---------------------ALL ABOUT THOSE ROUNDABOUTS: 12:30pm, Fife Lake Public Library. Join officials from the Michigan Department of Transportation to learn about the Fife Lake roundabout on US-131, slated for construction this spring.

Optional lunch served at noon for $3 suggested donation for ages 60+; $5 all others. Must register for both: 231-879-4101. Free.

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SUMMER 2019 JUNE Saturday, June 8 JOSH GROBAN

Tuesday, June 25 STEVE MILLER BAND MARTY STUART and his FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES

June 28, 29 & July 5, 6 RICHARD III

by William Shakespeare

Tuesday, July 16 I’M WITH HER

Tuesday, July 23 PETER FRAMPTON The Farewell Tour

DIANA ROSS

Thursday, July 25 “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC

Interlochen Shakespeare Festival

JULY Saturday, July 6 DORRANCE DANCE Thursday, July 11 CASTING CROWNS Friday, July 12 REBA MCENTIRE

2019 SUMMER Wednesday, July 17 Friday, July 19 JOSHUA DAVIS with special guests STEPPIN’ IN IT

AUGUST Aug. 1 - 4 9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL

Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton

Friday, Aug. 9 LADY ANTEBELLUM with KYLIE MORGAN

Wednesday, Aug. 21 VINCE GILL

Tuesday, Aug. 13 JONNY LANG AND JJ GREY & MOFRO

AND MANY MORE!

CHARLEVOIX BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, East Park Tavern, Charlevoix.

---------------------EAST JORDAN BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, East Jordan American Legion #227.

Network, play bingo, enjoy snacks & more.

---------------------FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: 5-7:15pm, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. Featuring “Mary Poppins Returns.” Free. tadl.org/interlochen

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PARENTING PROGRAM: INFANT MENTAL HEALTH WITH EMILY KOHLER: 5-6:30pm, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room.

Emily is a master licensed social worker with a Level III endorsement in infant mental health.

She specializes in supporting those in the pre-

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natal, postpartum & early stages of their relationship with their children. Free. lelandlibrary.org

BENZIE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, The 231 Bar & Grill, Thompsonville. $5/person.

INLAND SEAS: VOLUNTEER SCHOOLSHIP INSTRUCTOR TRAINING: 5:30-7:30pm, NMC’s Freshwater Studies Building, Room 112, TC. Water Quality + Fish. Free. schoolship.org/ news-events/volunteer-training-events

ELK RAPIDS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Blue Heron Gallery, Elk Rapids. Hosted

by Green ER.

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SUICIDE AWARENESS PRESENTATION: 6pm, NMC, Scholars Hall, Room 102, TC. A panel of speakers will discuss several topics related to suicide/suicide awareness. Following will be a Q & A. The speakers include people from Michael’s Place, CMH, Kingsley School District, Third Level Crisis Center & more.

There will also be a shoe memorial throughout the campus. If you would like to sponsor a set of shoes with the story or name of a friend/loved one who has lost their life to suicide, please send a message. Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS GRAND TRAVERSE AREA PRESENT: 6:30-8pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Media Literacy: Nicco Pandolfi from NMC will offer ways to evaluate what we read, see & hear. Free.

---------------------MARIHUANA (MARIJUANA): 6:30pm, Leelanau County Government Center, Lower Level, Suttons Bay. MI voters approved Proposal 1 in Nov., opening the door to legalizing the recreational use of marihuana (marijuana). Proposal 1, now the MI Regulation & Taxation of Marihuana Act (MRTMA), became effective Dec. 6, 2018. This program will outline the three MI laws regulating marihuana, the role of a zoning ordinance vs. police power ordinance, & a sampling of the current “knowns” & “unknowns” around zoning for marihuana related land uses. RSVP: 231-256-9812.

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thursday

SHIPWRECK DISCOVERIES: Join Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary’s Research Coordinator & Maritime Archaeologist Stephanie Gandulla for a presentation on recent shipwreck discoveries in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. 7pm, Great Lakes Maritime Academy, Room 101, TC. 231-386-7195.

---------------------GEEK BREAKFAST: 8am, Bubba’s, TC. A casual monthly community-driven networking event for tech-minded people to discuss topics like social media, digital marketing, design & more over bacon, eggs & coffee. Free + cost of breakfast. facebook.com/pg/TCGeekBreakfast/events

---------------------ACCESS TO THE ARTS: 10am & 1pm, Cheboygan Opera House. Featuring “Trout Fishing in America.” theoperahouse.org

---------------------GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Weds., April 17)

---------------------“THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE MAD”: 12:30pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen.

With humor & some surprises along the way, Allison Bryant with the Benzie Area Historical Museum will talk about some of the state’s eccentric residents. Optional lunch served at noon: $3 suggested donation for 60+ & $5 all others. Register: 922-4911. Free.

---------------------ANIMAL SIGNS: 3:30pm, Petoskey District Library. Join Conservancy naturalist Samantha Baker to solve mysteries & learn how to read animal signs. Share stories & make a fun animalthemed craft. An optional field trip to Round Lake Nature Preserve will occur afterwards where you will discover animal signs outside. 231-758-3123.

Free. landtrust.org/event/animal-signs

---------------------2019 BUSINESS EXPO: 5-8pm, Odawa Casino, Ovation Hall, Petoskey. There will be 76 businesses & organizations, including seven restaurants featuring a “Taste of Petoskey.” $10.

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AUTHOR TO SPEAK ON NATIVE AMERICA 400 YEARS AGO: 6pm, Suttons Bay Library.

Robert Downes presents “Life in Native America 400 Years Ago.” Downes is also the author of “Windigo Moon.” robertdownes.com

---------------------INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FORUM LECTURE: 6pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. “Trumping China: Will China’s Rise Come at our Demise?” Presented by Tom Watkins, China partner/managing director WAY American School, advisor to MIChina Innovation Center. $15. tciaf.com

---------------------ARTS FOR ALL SPRING DANCE: 6:308:30pm, Elks Lodge, TC. $5. eventbrite.com

---------------------INTERNATIONAL LECTURE: 6:30pm, NCMC, Health Education & Science Center, Room 312, Petoskey. Ian Shumway, NCMC graduate & international relations student at MSU, will take you on a journey to Azerbaijan, & talk about his studies there. Free. ncmich.edu

---------------------“RIVERS & TIDES”: 7pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Enjoy the screening of a documentary film about Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist known for his site-specific installations involving natural materials & the passage of time. Free. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------GAME NIGHT: 7pm, NCMC, Student & Community Resource Center, Iron Horse Café, Petoskey. 231-439-6370. Free.

---------------------HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS 2019 FAN POWERED WORLD TOUR: 7pm, Petoskey High School. This world famous team decided to celebrate Guinness World Record Day by setting five new Guinness World Records™ titles – bringing the team’s standing Guinness World Record count to 21. There will be over 20 opportunities before, during & after each event where fans will get a chance to directly interact with the team’s stars. Tickets: $15-$27. harlemglobetrotters.com

---------------------LAWRENCE BROWNLEE: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Named 2017 “Male Singer of the Year” by both the International Opera Awards & Bachtrack, Brownlee has performed with almost every leading international opera house & festival, as well as several major orchestras. $27 full, $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

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friday

GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Weds., April 17)

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“SHREK THE MUSICAL JR.”: (See Sat., April 13)

---------------------TARTUFFE, ARTS ACADEMY THEATRE CO.: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Harvey Theatre. In one of the most famous theatrical comedies by French playwright Molière, hypocrisy, religion, loyalty & laughter combine in a play written in 1664, but it still sheds light on contemporary norms. $18 full, $16 senior, $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

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saturday

EARTH DAY COFFEE & CONVERSATION: 9-10:30am, Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall. Hear the latest updates on environmental issues & some ways your community is addressing plastics, trash, recycling.

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Learn about our state wildlife management plan addressing threatened species & more.

---------------------SPRING BIRDING IN ARCADIA: 9am. Presented by the Benzie Audubon Club at the GTRLC preserve in Arcadia. Meet in the parking lot of the preserve (off M-22 - east side of road). Brian Allen will lead you as you check out the waterfowl & look for early migrants. Free. benzieaudubon.org

---------------------EARTH DAY TREE PLANTING: 10am-2pm, Consuelo Diane & Charles L. Wilson Jr. Working Forest Reserve, Harbor Springs. Help plant 1,000 trees to accompany those planted last spring. Pre-register: 231.347.0991 or landtrust. org/events/. Free.

---------------------EASTER EGG HUNT, CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, THOMPSONVILLE: 10am. Follow the signs on Mountain Center Rd. for the egg hunt. Search for over 3,000 eggs. Find the golden egg & win an Easter basket of fun. Get a photo with the Easter Bunny at the Inn Lounge at 11am. crystalmountain.com/event/egg-hunt

---------------------EASTER FUN & GAMES: 10am, East Jordan Middle/High School Gymnasium. Join the Easter Bunny for some free fun, games, candy & prizes.

---------------------SPRING WORK BEE: 10am-noon. TART Trails is hosting work bees at various locations along the trail network. A TART Trails staff member or ambassador will lead each work bee. Free. traversetrails.org/event/tart-trails-work-bee-2

---------------------TC EASTER CRAFT & VENDOR SHOW: 10am-3pm, Williamsburg Event Center, Williamsburg. Free.

---------------------EASTER ACTIVITY: 11am-1:30pm. Decorate & color your Easter bunny crown & bag at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Easter Egg Hunt starts at 2pm in Charlevoix’s East Park. charlevoixcircle.com

---------------------EASTER EGG HUNT, WEST SIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH, TC: 11am-noon. For ages 12 & under. Meet at the softball field. Free.

---------------------GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Weds., April 17)

---------------------CELEBRATE EARTH DAY AT LEO CREEK PRESERVE, SUTTONS BAY: 1-4pm. Grand Traverse BAYKEEPER® Heather Smith will be on hand to teach attendees about macroinvertebrates & their important role in a healthy stream ecosystem. There will also be games, activities, a biochar demonstration & live music. leocreekpreserve.com

---------------------FROG & SALAMANDER WETLAND WALK: 1pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Celebrate Earth Day & the coming of spring by taking a walk to woodland vernal pools to look for salamanders & listen for frog activity. Learn how to identify local salamanders & frogs & help record species for research. $5. grassriver.org

---------------------OTP AUDITIONS: 1pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. For “Much Ado About Nothing.” Presented by Riverside Shakespeare. oldtownplayhouse.com

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TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAM: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Presented by former TAHS board member & local historian Richard Fidler. Richard’s presentation will review the history of education in TC from 1885 to the present.

---------------------TARTUFFE, ARTS ACADEMY THEATRE CO.: 2pm & 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Harvey Theatre. In one of the most famous theatrical comedies by French playwright Molière, hypocrisy, religion, loyalty & laughter combine in a play written in 1664, but it still sheds light on contemporary norms. $18 full, $16 senior, $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------“SHREK THE MUSICAL JR.”: 2pm & 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Based on the

DreamWorks Animation film & Broadway musical, “Shrek The Musical Jr.” is presented by the Footliters Junior Players. $10 advance at ticket outlets; $11 online; $12 door. cadillacfootliters. com/tickets

---------------------FREE SCREENING OF AWARD-WINNING “HOW WE GROW”: 4pm, Garden Theater, Frankfort. This documentary will be shown with a community Q&A celebrating MI farmers. Presented by several local organizations.

---------------------SOUND OF MUSIC SING-A-LONG: 4pm, State Theatre, TC. Enjoy the movie & sing along to the Rodgers & Hammerstein songs.

Prizes will be given to the best costumes. $5.

---------------------SPRING JAZZ ENSEMBLE SHOWCASE: 7:30pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. $12 adults; $7 students & seniors. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------NELLIE MCKAY: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery/ Concert Venue, Boyne City. Nellie’s music has been featured in Grey’s Anatomy, Rumor Has It, Monster-in-law, Weeds, GasLand, Terrible Thrills, Boardwalk Empire, Downtown Express, Nurse Jackie, Mad Men, NCIS & others. Her song “P.S. I Love You” was the title tune for the Hillary Swank/George Butler movie P.S. I LOVE YOU. Nellie also played Hillary Swank’s sister in the movie. Tickets: $30 advance. Call 231-582-2588. freshwaterartgallery.com

---------------------COMEDY NIGHT FEATURING DAN ALTEN: 9pm, Studio Anatomy, TC. $10.

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sunday

GAYLORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Weds., April 17)

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OTP AUDITIONS: (See Sat.,

---------------------SOUND OF MUSIC SING-A-LONG: 2pm, State Theatre, TC. Enjoy the movie & sing along to the Rodgers & Hammerstein songs.

Prizes will be given to the best costumes. $5.

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WHEN HELPING HURTS: The Presbyterian Church of TC. The “Small” Group Experience

by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert. If you are interested in learning about the root causes of poverty, as well as approaches to assist the poor without further hurting them, then attend this five week session of discussion & video presentations. Runs March 13 & 20, & April 3, 10 & 17 from 6:30-8pm. You can also attend the Wednesday Night meal from 5:30-6:15pm.

Free. tcpresby.org

---------------------FUNNY BUSINESS COMEDY SHOW: Saturdays, 9pm, Odawa Casino, O Zone, Petoskey. odawacasino.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

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40TH ANNUAL SUTTONS BAY ART FESTIVAL POSTER CONTEST: Open to all ages. Include the date: August 3-4, 2019. Marina Park, Suttons Bay in an 11” x 17” format. Deadline: May 10, 2019. Winner receives $350 & the art is used as the official announcement for the Art Festival. suttonsbayartfestival.org/postercompetition-2

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2019 YOUTH ART SHOW: Crooked Tree Arts Center Galleries, Petoskey. Artwork created by Char-Em ISD & home school students, kindergarten through grade 12. The opening reception will be held on Sat., April 13 from 2-4pm.

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“MESDAG & THE MASTERS OF THE SEA”: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. A collection of life-sized prints of 30 historic paintings by five of the world’s greatest seascape painters.

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“PORTRAITS OF WHIMSY”: Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Paintings, assemblages & sculptures that illustrate that “whimsy” can truly acquire the status of sophisticated fine art.

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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.

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HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - CALL FOR ARTISTS: MODERN ARCHETYPES: An all-female artist exhibit exploring the idea of human consciousness & how archetypes unite all of us. Submit up to 2 pieces each which really capture the idea of the role archetypes play not only in your own life personally, but in society as a whole. Deadline to apply is July 1 at midnight. Exhibit runs Sept. 6 - Oct. 4.

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R.E.M. “BEGIN” THEIR BIOGRAPHY

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The first R.E.M. biography since the band broke up in 2011 is hitting outlets May 14. Titled “Begin the Begin” (which was one of the band’s mid-’80s singles), the tome was penned by Robert Dean Lurie and showcases an extensive overview of the band’s early years, from its early tours traveling by van across the U.S., to its rise alongside such fellow Athens, Georgia, artists like The B-52s and the dBs. Lurie reportedly interviewed a long list of colleagues and cohorts from across the band’s career …

The Misfits has set up a band-reuniting summer show at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles June 29. It will include bandmates Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only, Dave Lombardo, Acey Slade, and Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein, along with special appearances from Rise Against, The Distillers, Cro-Mags, and the Anti-Nowhere League. If you’re heading out that way, tickets can be snagged now on LiveNation …

Indie diva Lykke Li has founded a new one-day, all-female music festival called Yola Fest (named after the event’s primary sponsor, Yola Mezcal, a female-run mezcal company based in Mexico and co-founded

by Li herself). The event, which will take

place June 8 at Los Angeles State Historic Park in California, will also be headlined by Li and feature additional performances from Charli XCX, Ambar Lucid, Megan Thee Stallion, and classic ’90s grunge-rocker Courtney Love. A portion of the ticket sales will go to the Downtown Women’s Center in L.A …

In other festival news, Travis Scott and Cardi B will headline the 2019 Made in America Festival, now in its eighth year under the direction of Roc Nation and Jay-Z. The fest will take place Aug. 31¬–Sept.

1 (Labor Day Weekend) on Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Parkway and include live sets from James Blake, Anderson .Paak and The Free Nationals, Kodak Black, and more. Portions of the proceeds will benefit the ACLU of Pennsylvania and The Reform Alliance …

LINK OF THE WEEK Two Door Cinema Club is channeling ’80s sights and sounds with the music video for its new single “Talk.” As directed by Max Sidentopf, the video features experimental, pop-art visuals and a new wave-influenced beat. Check it out at https://youtu.be/ Zsaz72OBT9s …

THE BUZZ The lineup for the 2019 Lollapalooza

fest in nearby Chicago is starting to unfold.

The event will hit the city’s Grant Park August 1–4; so far the roster includes Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino, and Twenty One Pilots …

Machine Gun Kelly is getting ready to release his fourth studio album, Hotel Diablo, and will team it with a series of tour dates, including a June 1 stop in Detroit …

Carly Rae Jepsen (the “Call Me Maybe” singer) has announced her first album in four years, Dedicated, which will also be

accompanied by a tour that includes a show on July 13 at Detroit’s Fillmore…

The Beaver Island Music Festival is returning July 18–20, with performances scheduled from Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish, Bootstrap Boys, Hacky Turtles, Bigfoot Buffalo, and more … 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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DUMBO

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W The latest target of Disney’s seeming quest to release live-action remakes of all the animated classics in its vaunted Disney vault (Aladdin and The Lion King are just around the corner this summer) is everyone’s favorite flying pachyderm. And I have to give Disney some credit for going outside of millennial bait territory for their source material — all the way back to 1941.

At only 64 minutes originally, Disney’s distressing fable was in need of some padding and updating (no more racist crows). And so, in comes Ehren Kruger, a writer on several Transformers movies, to change the very focus of the film. Here, the animals don’t talk. Instead, the film focuses on a bunch of boring humans, which means Dumbo and his very affecting pain that left such an impression on so many children falls to the wayside, and you’re left with another work of bland and sentimental family entertainment.

And that’s somewhat of a feat, considering cinematic weirdo Tim Burton is directing.

Playing it very safe, Dumbo doesn’t feel very Burton-y at all (except for the collection of Burton mainstays, including Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, and, of course, composer Danny Elfman). Take, for instance, that the original film’s iconic pink elephants sequence — that might very well have given birth to the psychedelic era — is paid tribute to in pastel bubbles. BUBBLES. Lame.

Also, circuses don’t seem like best place to set a film in 2019, but I guess they do try to account for those issues in the very end. And of course, Dumbo also isn’t set in 2019; it takes place 100 years ago, in 1919, at the Medici Brothers’ Circus run by Max Medici (DeVito).

It’s a small-time troupe, but they do seem to take care of their own, even in those struggling times. Take the Farrier family. Dad Holt (Colin Farrell) just returned to the circus from duty in WWI, leaving his kids, Milly and Joe, in the care of the circus after their mother died of influenza (Disney dead parent alert!). Oh, and Holt, the circus’ former horseback-riding trick showman, is now missing an arm, and the circus sold off his horses.

The sole hope for the Medici Bros. now lies in a new baby elephant about to be born. And Holt has been assigned to care for Mrs. Jumbo and Baby Jumbo. When the baby is born, his unnaturally large ears prove to be a source of derision for audiences, earning him the nickname Dumbo and causing the protective Mrs. Jumbo to act out and then be sent away.

The Farrier children still care for Dumbo, so when they notice he can use his ears to fly, they go about teaching him to fly in the show so he can earn enough money to bring his mom back. Milly approaches this endeavor from a completely scientific perspective. See, she wants to be a scientist. (Cue groaning at yet another STEM-interested Disney girl protagonist, which, to be clear, I do support the representation of girls interested in STEM, but yet again, this feels so patently contrived.)

ith Gloria Bell, Oscar-winner Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Best Foreign Film 2018) has remade his own Chilean film Gloria. Now before you go dismissing this as unnecessary, or claiming that English-language remakes can never be as good the original, did I mention that this remake stars one of the greatest actresses of our time, Julianne Moore, in a role that is tailored made for her magnetic talents? I mean, if this wasn’t a remake, you could almost swear the part was written especially for her. And while the chance to see Moore in this compassionate and relatable story of a divorcee finding herself and coming into her own as she exuberantly lets go on the dance floor is worth admission alone, Gloria Bell also builds upon Lelio’s original in delicately humorous and other interesting ways.

As a whole, the Farrier family could not be more dull. It’s almost as if the little brother isn’t even there. And while Milly’s token science interest might annoy me, Joe doesn’t have one single defining characteristic I can remember. Both children also give lifeless performances. There is something to be said for more subdued child actors, but these two can barely hold your attention, never rising above a 4 out 10 on an energy scale. They also have zero chemistry with Farrell, so don’t expect many heartwarming feels to come from this familial unit.

After the kids are successful in getting Dumbo to fly during the show, he becomes an immediate sensation, and in comes V.A. Vandevere (Keaton), who wants to take Dumbo away to his gleaming entertainment center, Dreamland. Vandevere wants to put Dumbo in an act with Dreamland’s famous trapeze artist (Green) and makes Medici an offer that’s too good to be true. I don’t think it would be a spoiler to let you know that Dreamland becomes more of a nightmare for Dumbo and friends.

Where Burton excels in the film are the visuals, which are refreshingly restrained and more along the lines of Big Fish than the sensory overload of the Alice in Wonderland films.

Dreamland is a true Art Deco wonder, and in the brief moments on Nightmare Island, you can feel Burton truly stretching his muscles.

Then you have Dumbo himself, who is pretty undeniably cute (those eyes!) — the team did a great job CGI-ing him to life.

US

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t’s not a sophomore slump for writer-director Jordan Peele.

Fresh off his Oscar win for the genre-pushing work of genius that was Get Out, he returns to the screen with another audacious piece of storytelling. And while he’s certainly not slumping, Us is also not a Get Out-level triumph. Rather, it’s a follow-up wherein the brilliance is perhaps a little more muddled, but the thrilling entertainment and heady filmmaking is still plenty there. A family comedy, a home-invasion thriller, and potent work of social commentary, it’s about a family, led by an absolutely astounding Lupita Nyong’o, who encounters a family of mysterious doppelgängers (basically feral versions of ourselves) with less-than-good intentions. Terrifying, unnerving, and thematically complex, the film’s mysteries, Easter eggs, and metaphorical ambiguity lends itself to both repeated viewings and rich post-viewing discussions.

Seeing Keaton and DeVito together again does have its moments, but Keaton’s campy portrayal, which should work in the context of the story, just doesn’t. He takes things a little to far. DeVito, on the other hand, is a complete joy, knocking everyone else in the film out of the water.

The most interesting part of the film, especially in light of the recent Fox-Disney merger, is that the villain is basically Walt Disney himself (Dreamland = Disneyland). At first this subversive critique made me think there’s a little more going on with Burton here after all. But then again, this film and script were obviously approved by a zillion corporate suits who would surely notice the not-so-subtle similarities to their late overlord; it just makes you angry that they can put this in and get away with it because we’ll buy that adorable Dumbo plush featured in the film (and also in stores) anyway. So if there is any critique of corporate commodification, it’s a very hollow one.

Putting the subtext aside, at its core, Dumbo left me emotionally dry. It wasn’t even upsetting when Dumbo was separated from his mom, and for a girl who grew up traumatized because she believed the original Dumbo ended with him locked up and drunk (my parents taped over the end of the film and never told me), that this ultimate of bleak tales couldn’t stir anything in me is saying something.

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

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here’s a new superhero in town (and it turns out, she kinda started the whole thing … sorta). It’s Captain Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, an Air Force pilot shanghaied by an alien race and tricked into fighting for its cause. But of course her real cause is us here on earth, as well as finding her own true power, duh. And if that sounds a little confusing, just wait, it’ll all be fine. Because the only real confusing thing here is that it somehow took the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) 20 films to get to its first female-led feature. And Brie Larson is absolutely radiant as Captain Marvel. She works for every single beat of this highly scrutinized and highly enjoyable joy ride. There’s something about the distinct pleasures of Captain Marvel that just works — especially the ’90s setting, and all the awesomely fun, extremely well-done, and incredibly satisfying moments of nostalgia (shout out to the AltaVista cameo), many of which stem from the film’s killer soundtrack. The use of period popular music in the film is very reminiscent of Guardians of the Galaxy’s Awesome Mixes Vol. 1 & 2: It gets your heart pumping, brings on all those wistful feels, and provides some subtle humor. And while I won’t spoil it, the film is almost worth seeing just for what is perhaps the best Stan Lee cameo to date (RIP).

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AF’s third album is the latest happening in a long list of ups and downs for the band, from a critically acclaimed debut to a band breakup, to a reformation, and the subsequent loss of the band’s house in a resale. Still soldiering on, AF released first single “Silhouettes” earlier this year, alongside a buzzy music video. For the set’s second single, “Uncomfortably Numb,” the band brought in Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams to sing; it proves to be one of the album’s highlights.

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CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY 4/13,4/19 -- Annex Karaoke, 10 4/20 -- Reggae Party w/ DJ Franck, 10 ERNESTO'S CIGAR LOUNGE & BAR, PETOSKEY 4/18 -- Owen James Trio, 7-11 KNOT JUST A BAR, BAY HARBOR Mon,Tues,Thurs — Live music

ODAWA CASINO, PETOSKEY O ZONE: Sat -- Funny Business Comedy Show, 9 4/19 -- Scarkazm, 8 THE SIDE DOOR SALOON, PETOSKEY Sat. – Karaoke, 8

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Leelanau & Benzie BIG CAT BREWING CO., CEDAR 4/17 -- Dennis Palmer, 6:30-8:30

SHOWROOM: 4/16 – 45th Parallel Polka Band, noon

DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2

LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Fri & Sat -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9

LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 4/16 -- Medicine Bow-Skellenger/ Koss/Holmes, 6:30-9:30 LEELANAU SANDS CASINO, PESHAWBESTOWN BIRCH ROOM: 4/13 -- Derailed, 9 4/20 – Broom Closet Boys, 9

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Antrim & Charlevoix CELLAR 152, ELK RAPIDS 4/19 -- Jeff Brown, 8-10

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Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee NORTH CHANNEL BREWING CO., MANISTEE 4/18 -- Vinyl Night, 6 4/19 -- Fremont John, 7

LITTLE RIVER CASINO RESORT, MANISTEE RIVER ROCK SPORTS BAR & GRILLE: 4/13 – BBI, 10

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ACROSS 1 “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin 5 Barry Manilow’s club 9 Cold shoulders 14 Apiece 15 “Chocolat” actress Lena 16 Records, informally 17 Lucy’s neighbor with a nasty attitude?

19 Rico, to Napoleon Dynamite 20 Lover of suffixes?

21 “___ I Believe” (2018 song by Clean Bandit) 23 ___ de vivre 24 “It sucks being a young horse,” e.g.?

27 Sweat equity concept 29 “Hotel California” band 30 Big scallion 31 In actuality 35 “La ___” (Debussy composition) 36 NPR host Shapiro 37 Color in a Patriots uniform 40 10,000 square meters 44 All-night party 45 Like a venomous snake 48 Room for negotiation 50 Studs and labrets that are a bargain?

54 Pioneer Boone, folksily 55 Hand sanitizer additive 56 Actress Lawrence of “The Cool Kids” 59 Bush Supreme Court appointee 61 Completely stocked with enemies?

63 Hands, in Spanish 64 Small spot of land 65 It may have rings and needles 66 Dating app motion 67 Falcons’ home?

68 “Gone Girl” actress Ward DOWN 1 Humvee forerunner 2 Promising words

3 Claudia once married to David Copperfield 4 Roxette hit of 1989 5 Dot-___ bubble 6 Acid used in soapmaking 7 “Shine” instrument 8 Per ___ (yearly) 9 “Law & Order: ___” (spinoff that will break a record for longevity) 10 Lego series with its own 2017 movie 11 Straighten, as a hose 12 Writing credit 13 Comes down in icy drops 18 Shakespearean king 22 Work on ___ 25 Inc., in Australia 26 Back muscle 27 Nightmare street of film 28 Greens ___ 32 Have a picnic, e.g.

33 Monk’s title 34 Mattress filler 37 Unadjusted stat 38 Actress Longoria 39 “Who ___” (Cincinnati Bengals chant) 40 Natural vantage point 41 Thought transference 42 Pet you water 43 Director Roth 44 Passes on a present 45 Fester’s family 46 Mariner’s set of rules 47 Pressed sandwiches 49 Be covetous of 51 Like some D&D characters 52 Awaken 53 Honeycomb components 57 On an even ___ 58 Piece of mind?

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: I’m a married lesbian. Yesterday on the phone, my wife invited her sister to spend the night (in our small one-bedroom apartment) without asking me. When I confronted her, saying it’s OUR home, she said, “It’s my sister!” Family’s very important to her, and her sister didn’t come, so I let it go. But what’s the protocol with guests, specifically family?

— Feelings Ignored

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: To err is human — as is the tendency to duck personal responsibility like it’s a shoulder-fired missile.

We have a powerful drive to be consistent -to have our actions match what we claim to stand for. We are also frequently inconsistent.

Welcome to “cognitive dissonance,” social psychologist Leon Festinger’s term for the discomfort we feel when we hold two competing beliefs or attitudes or when our beliefs and our behaviors clash. An example of this (totally random!) would be the belief “I’m a loving, respectful, considerate spouse” and then the behavior “I just hauled off and told my sister our home is her hotel room — without so much as a courtesy ‘Hey, hon...?’ to my wife.”

Social psychologist Elliot Aronson, one of Festinger’s former students, found that we manage our inconsistencies through “selfjustification.” This involves creating an explanation for our hypocritical attitudes or behavior that makes us look good: smart, honest, and 100% in the right.

So (again, super randomly!) an example of selfjustification would be a spouse who’s just acted like a singleton instead of a partner — who excuses it with “Family is everything to me!” instead of conceding “Whoopsy...got a little impulsive on the phone and forgot to run Sis’s visit by you.” (Just a guess, but you probably wouldn’t have been all “Sorry, but the couch is totally booked up with our unfolded laundry.”)

As for your question — “What’s the protocol with guests, specifically family?” — unfortunately, there’s no set of numbered stone tablets to answer that. In fact, as with so many questions that come up in relationships, the process of answering — not the actual answer — is what really matters.

I see this constantly in my work as a volunteer mediator (doing free dispute resolution for Los Angeles residents in the LA City Attorney’s

BY Amy Alkon

office). Conflicts that turn ugly and escalate are typically the result of people pushing for “positions” without regard for “interests.”

Positions are our goals — the “what,” as in what we want another person to do (or stop doing). So, your position might be “I want to be asked, even just as a formality, before you tell somebody they can stay over.” Interests are the underlying motivations — the “why”: “I want to be treated with respect, like my feelings matter.”

In my mediations, I’ve found that positions that are deeply important to a person can become far less do-or-die when you tend to their underlying interests. This starts with framing whatever happened in, uh, flameretardant rather than inflammatory terms. You do this by expressing your feelings — “I felt really humiliated when X happened’’ — instead of making accusations: “You did this, you relationship criminal!”

Hearing feelings (instead of blame) allows you to empathize with each other. (HINT: You should actively try to empathize — and, in mediator lingo, “validate” feelings,” meaning let the other person know that you get where they’re coming from.) For example, in addressing this guest issue, you might’ve said to your wife, “I hear how important family is to you.” Hearing that you understand eliminates the need for her to try to MAKE you — meaning she can approach the conflict between you more like a loving partner than a “Thrones” swordsmistress, bent on turning the enemy into a human doily.

The beauty of dialing down from combat mode like this is that it enables you to engage in collaborative problem-solving — for example, brainstorming together to come up with ideas for how things could work regarding overnight guests at your place.

And finally, a little real-worldism in approaching any disagreement: In the heat of the moment, most of us are about as able to speak calmly and listen with an open mind as we are to flap our wings and fly to the corner store. Following the lead of parents with tantrummy children, you could preplan to say “Hey, let’s take a time out” when things get heated.

You could each briefly go off on your own (take a walk around the block, take a bath) and consider whether the other might maybe, POSSIBLY have a point. In this case, for example, you two are sharing a home, not running a hotel — which is why you have a cat, not a concierge, and there’s no engraved note informing guests that they will be socked with a credit card charge if they make off with your ratty bathrobe.

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ARIES

(March 21-April 19): French writer Simone de Beauvoir sent a letter to her lover, Aries author Nelson Algren. She wrote, “I like so much the way you are so greedy about life and yet so quiet, your eager greediness and your patience, and your way of not asking much of life and yet taking much because you are so human and alive that you find much in everything.” I’d love to see you embody that state in the coming weeks, Aries. In my astrological opinion, you have a mandate to be both utterly relaxed and totally thrilled; both satisfied with what life brings you and skillfully avid to extract the most out of it; both at peace with what you already have and primed to grab for much more.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All over the

world, rivers and lakes are drying up. Sources of water are shrinking. Droughts are becoming more common and prolonged. Why? Mostly because of climate change. The good news is that lots of people are responding to the crisis with alacrity. Among them is an engineer in India named Ramveer Tanwar. Since 2014, he has organized efforts leading to the rejuvenation of twelve dead lakes and ponds. I propose we make him your role model for the coming weeks. I hope he will inspire you to engage in idealistic pursuits that benefit other people. And I hope you’ll be motivated to foster fluidity and flow and wetness everywhere you go. The astrological time is ripe for such activities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A blogger

named Caramelizee offered her definition of elegance: “being proud of both your feminine and masculine qualities; seeing life as a nonending university and learning everything you can; caring for yourself with tender precision; respecting and taking advantage of silences; tuning in to your emotions without being oversensitive; owning your personal space and being generous enough to allow other people to own their personal space.” This definition of elegance will be especially apropos and useful for you Aquarians in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): You Pisceans

have been summoning heroic levels of creative intensity. You’ve been working extra hard and extra smart. But it seems that you haven’t been fully recognized or appreciated for your efforts.

I’m sorry about that. Please don’t let it discourage you from continuing to express great integrity and authenticity. Keep pushing for your noble cause and offering your best gifts. I’m proud of you! And although you may not yet have reaped all the benefits you will ultimately sow, three months from now I bet you’ll be pleased you pushed so hard to be such a righteous servant of the greater good.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): The Beat Generation of American poets arose in the late 1940s as a rebellion against materialistic mainstream culture and academic poetry. It embraced sexual liberation, Eastern spirituality, ecological awareness, political activism, and psychedelic drugs. One of its members, Jack Kerouac, tweaked and ennobled the word “beat” to serve as the code name for their movement. In its old colloquial usage, “beat” meant tired or exhausted. But Kerouac re-consecrated it to mean “upbeat” and “beatific,” borrowing from the Italian word beato, translated as “beatific.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you’re on the verge of a similar transition: from the old meaning of “beat” to the new.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): “Scattered through the ordinary world, there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.” Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges said that, and now I’m passing it on to you—just in time for your entrance into a phase when such doorways will be far more available than usual. I hope you will use Borges’ counsel as a reminder to be alert for everyday situations and normal people that could lead you to intriguing experiences and extraordinary revelations and life-changing blessings.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Free

Will Astrology Committee To Boldly Promote Cancerian’s Success is glad to see that you’re not politely waiting for opportunities to come to you. Rather, you’re tracking them down and proactively wrangling them into a form that’s workable for your needs. You seem to have realized that what

you had assumed was your fair share isn’t actually fair; that you want and deserve more. Although you’re not being mean and manipulative, neither are you being overly nice and amenable; you’re pushing harder to do things your way. I approve! And I endorse your efforts to take it even further.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many experts who

have studied the art and science of running fast believe that it’s best if a runner’s legs are symmetrical and identical in their mechanics.

But that theory is not supported by the success of champion sprinter Usain Bolt. Because he has suffered from scoliosis, his left leg is a half-inch longer than his right. With each stride, his left leg stays on the track longer than his right, and his right hits the track with more force. Some scientists speculate that this unevenness not only doesn’t slow him down, but may in fact enhance his speed. In accordance with current astrological variables, I suspect you will be able to thrive on your asymmetry in the coming weeks, just as your fellow Leo Usain Bolt does.

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

Jason Lewis traveled around the world using transportation powered solely by his own body.

He walked, bicycled, skated, rowed, pedaled, and swam more than 46,000 miles. I propose that we make him your role model for the next four weeks.

You’re primed to accomplish gradual breakthroughs through the use of simple, persistent, incremental actions. Harnessing the power of your physical vitality will be an important factor in your success.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Curcumin is a chemical found in the plant turmeric.

When ingested by humans, it may diminish inflammation, lower the risk of diabetes, support cardiovascular health, and treat digestive disorders. But there’s a problem: the body is inefficient in absorbing and using curcumin—unless it’s ingested along with piperine, a chemical in black pepper. Then it’s far more available. What would be the metaphorical equivalent to curcumin in your life? An influence that could be good for you, but that would be even better if you synergized it with a certain additional influence? And what would be the metaphorical equivalent of that additional influence? Now is a good time to investigate these questions.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I have the

usual capacity for wanting what may not even exist,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell. How abut you, Scorpio? Do you, too, have an uncanny ability to long for hypothetical, invisible, mythical, and illusory things? If so, I will ask you to downplay that amazing power of yours for a while. It’s crucial for your future development that you focus on yearning for actual experiences, real people, and substantive possibilities. Please understand: I’m not suggesting you’re bad or wrong for having those seemingly impossible desires. I’m simply saying that for now you will thrive on being attracted to things that are genuinely available.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in,” wrote Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen.

I’m guessing you’ve had that experience—maybe more than usual, of late. But I suspect you’ll soon be finding ways to express those embryonic feelings. Congrats in advance! You’ll discover secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself. You’ll receive missing information whose absence has made it hard to understand the whole story. Your unconscious mind will reveal the rest of what it has thus far merely been hinting at.

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