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bigger polluters, out of fairness, need to help them grow without contributing to pollution. Such decisive action will be a priceless gift to future generations.

Ronald Marshall, Petoskey

Questioning Holbrook Q&A

I would like to respond to your [interview with] Joni Holbrook (“What Now?” Jan. 15 issue). As per usual you did not investigate what you write. What Joni failed to tell you is that she left her husband and moved into her own place. She agreed to go back to him only after he agreed to give her money to buy or do what ever she liked. Over time, he refinanced the home to the point that he borrowed all he could. He borrowed against his retirement until he was told he could borrow no more. Joni also would not do anything for his daughter. Every time she was asked to help take her some place — doctor, school function, anything, she would use the excuse she did not feel well. But at the same time, if she, being sick, wanted something, she would go do it. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the so-called, wonderful woman.

About a few weeks after he husband told her there was no more money, she killed him then told her story. My question is, why did she go back to him, and why did she not do something before the money ran out?

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If you watch the news regularly, you will notice that there is not a night that goes by without a story of a severe weather disaster.

The hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires are naturally occurring events that are amplified by our changing climate. Last year was a record year for disasters. Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, and the California wildfires cost the American people $306 billion dollars. Our climate is changing. We are causing it by burning increasing amounts of fossil fuels. But there is hope.

The bipartisan Citizen Climate Lobby proposes three simple solutions that will reduce emissions and grow the economy: One, place a steadily rising fee on fossil fuels. (Giving the market a clear signal to start investing in renewables). Two, give 100 percent of the fees back to households in the form of a dividend. (Here, 70 percent of people would break even or come out ahead.) Three, use a border adjustment to stop business relocation (protecting American businesses).

Using this market-based approach, we could cut our emissions to the 1990s level while creating jobs and growing the economy.

Bob Eichenlaub, Traverse City

Let’s take a look at how Trump’s meritbased immigration checklist might work in practice.

Your tired: rejected. Your poor: rejected.

Your huddled: rejected. Your wretched: rejected. Your homeless: rejected. Your users of unsanitary latrines (read: sh**holes): rejected.

In a display of rare but much needed honesty, we should now quickly remove New York Harbor’s Statue of Liberty, which has long projected a vision of our nation’s welcoming spirit, a characterization that is, sadly, now inappropriate.

Bob Ross, Pellston

A Priceless Gift

Despite the accumulation of scientific evidence that human actions play an important role in climate change, international action has been disappointing. The Kyoto Protocol failed to create an international coalition for a carbon price in proportion to its social cost. It was also a perfect illustration of the instability of international agreements that do not take the free-rider problem seriously.

Every international agreement must satisfy three criteria: the same carbon price for all countries; penalties for all free riders; and fairness that ensures the biggest polluters help those with a smaller carbon foot print.

In order to achieve the above, the five biggest polluters — Europe, the United States, China, Russia, and India — represent 65 percent of worldwide emissions (28 percent of which is from China and 15 percent from the United States). The members of this coalition should agree to establish a universal carbon price compatible with the objective of no more than 1.5 to 2 degrees celsius increase in average global temperatures. At first, no attempt would be made to involve other counties who signed the Paris Agreement. But they would be urged to join. To penalize the free riders or counties that refused to join, they would be taxed at the borders. In order to stay within 2 degrees celsius, the emerging and poorer counties need to avoid underpricing carbon, and the

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

Transforming “The Armpit” of Leelanau County..10 Make Tracks.................................................12 Never Quit Going for the Gold.........................13 Bier Breaks into Beers...................................14 Whose T-Shirt is it Anyway?...........................15 Did You Know? ................................................16 Northern Seen...................................................17

dates...............................................18-20 music FourScore......................................................22 Nightlife.........................................................24

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

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Bill Deniston, Grawn Opinion............................................................8 Weird...............................................................9 Kudos to TC Character Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................21 Christie Minervini said it very well [in The Reel...........................................................23 her Jan. 8 issue column, “That Small-town Crossword...................................................25 Character We Want: Let it be a state of mind, Advice Goddess.............................................25 not a giant gated community.”] I agree that our residents, and our attitudes of helping, Freewill Astrology.........................................26 sharing, and caring are what make Traverse Classifieds....................................................27 City the great place it is.

Susan Schmidt, Traverse City

In a Small-town Character State of Mind

Putting aside most of Christie Minervini’s self-contradicting statements in her confusing piece about small-town character being a “state of mind,” I can’t help but see the irony of it coming from her. The Minervini name is synonymous with a place — the [former] state hospital grounds [now The Village at Grand Traverse Commons] — dear to all, which epitomizes real physical character that can be seen and experienced. People go and take others there to show them character.

It is that type of character that locals want to preserve and visitors seek in Traverse City. Those of us that do not struggle to understand what the character of Traverse City is, or what that means, want to preserve it, as do the documents regarding planning and zoning. We are not “NIMBYs” or “antidevelopment.” We are against certain kinds of development that don’t meet local planning or ordinance requirements or that destroy the character of the city. We do not want a “giant gated community.” Thankfully, just as the Minvervinis care about preserving the character of the Commons area, so, too, the citizens of Traverse City care about preserving the character of their city. We know that tall buildings downtown with half-million dollar-plus condominiums that won’t sell or are seasonally occupied won’t solve affordable housing, homelessness or sprawl issues.

However, they will destroy the character of the city, of that I am certain. To reach a smalltown character state of mind, one must first have an actual small town with character.

We have that. If Ms. Minervini and likeminded people have their way, we will not.

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top ten Big Gift to Bring Native Grayling Back Michigan’s native Arctic grayling just got a little closer to coming home.

A statewide effort to reintroduce the native fish to Michigan rivers got a big boost from the Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation: $180,000. This follows on the heels of a $10,000 grant from Rotary Charities of Traverse City in November. Both grants are earmarked for supporting the work related to restoring self-sustaining populations of this native fish inside its historical range. More than 32 groups are partnering in the effort, spearheaded by the DNR and Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, and are moving quickly to begin step one: collecting baseline data, acquiring fertilized eggs from Montana and/or Alaska, raising fry (small fish) in a controlled environment, and researching to assess acclimation, mortality, and more. The first river targeted to receive the reintroduced Grayling will be at the one of the fishes’ favorite swimming waters — the Manistee River watershed. Learn more at migrayling.com.

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Morsels’ Winter Hash

No need to wait until dinner to indulge your winter craving for warm and hearty dishes. Traverse City’s Morsels serves up its Winter Hash as a truly great start to your day.

The hash sets aside regular potatoes, instead calling on the more complex flavors of sweet potatoes to dance with brussels sprouts, onions, carrots, celery, and fresh herbs. On top, a poached egg and seasoned bacon; on the side, sourdough toast.

“It’s like a perfect breakfast,” said Misha Neidorfler, owner of Morsels. “The runny yoke of the poached egg acts as a rich sauce for the combination of vegetables. And the seasoning blend we developed in-house for the bacon adds in a bit of sweetness while still keeping the savory flavor to bring out the best in the bacon.”

This is a dish chock full of Michigan love, too; Morsels uses eggs from Vande Bunte Eggs in Martin, vegetables from Cherry Capital Foods in Traverse City, sourdough from Bay Bread Co. in Traverse City, and bacon from Jake’s Country Meats in Cassopolis, Michigan.

“Hash is such a classic dish, we serve it year-round but change it up a little with the seasons, so this is our winter version,” Neidorfler said.

Order it up for $9 at Morsels, 321 E. Front St., in Traverse City, morselsbakery.com or (231) 421-1353.

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Grand Traverse Bike Tours presents Vine to Wine Snowshoe Tour on Sat., Jan. 27 from 10:30am-4pm. Starting at Big Little Wines, TC, you will enjoy a guided hike; five tastings at each winery, which also include Suttons Bay Ciders, Ciccone Vineyard and Winery, and L.Mawby; a chili or soup (vegetarian) lunch from 9 Bean Rows; and wine bottle pick-up service. Tickets are $45 if you bring your own snowshoes, or $60 with a snowshoe rental. This tour will also be held on Sat., Feb. 17. grandtraversebiketours. com or 231-421-6815.

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Hey, read it Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid

From Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid comes “Exit West”: a New York Times bestseller that is equal parts romance novel and geographic dystopia. A finalist for the 2017 Man Booker prize, as well as an all-around staff favorite at Brilliant Books in Traverse City, “Exit West” tells the story of Nadia and Saeed: two young lovers entrenched in a new relationship amidst the unrest of a growing civil war. While the familiar structures of their homeland crumble around them, the duo promptly begin their search for an exit route. Rumors of magical doors capable of transporting people to new and faraway lands pique the interest of fierce and independent Nadia, who wastes no time in securing a door for herself and her gentle companion. Beyond that door, however, lies a new kind of struggle: now outsiders, the couple are forced into premature intimacy.

Simultaneously battling homesickness and their newly uncertain existence, Nadia and Saeed can turn to no one but each other in order to survive.

Why it’s Great: If “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “1984” had a literary love child, this would be it. As poignant as it is whimsical, “Exit West” graciously couples a thorough exploration of the global and political issues of our time with a well-placed exit route — both literal and metaphorical.

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6 Enviro Nominees Wanted Know someone who’s done something good for the Earth over the past year? The Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council is looking for nominations for its annual Environmentalist of the Year awards.

NMEAC wants to recognize people in the categories of student, educator, business, grassroots, journalism/communications, professional, agricultural and public service/ public office. Nominations can be made at nmeac.org.

Those selected will be honored at NMEAC’s 30th annual Environmentalists of the Year Award Celebration, which will take place April 13 at the Dennos Museum and Milliken Auditorium with music performed by Brotha James (pictured). For more information call Greg Reisig at (231) 264-8396.

What we love stalking plows up north Your options after a big snowfall used to be limited: Stare out the window and wonder if plows were clearing the mess, or head out in your car and hope like heck they were. No more. The Michigan Department of Transportation’s website now allows you to track where its plows are — and whether they’re actively plowing or laying salt and sand — every 60 to 90 seconds. The map allows you to zoom in to your zipcode or scope the plow scene across the entire state. Some plows even have a camera attached so you can watch the action outside the driver’s window. Captivating for truck-crazy kids and helpful for drivers, the tool comes with one caveat. It shows only what’s happening on MDOT-owned roads and highways — those with an M, I or US designation. As for the rest? Well, may your windows remain clear and your hopes high. Check it out: mdotnetpublic.state.mi.us/drive/

Park Projects Get Funded Several northern Lower Michigan projects are among the biggest recipients of Land and Water Conservation Fund grants announced this month by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Traverse City is to receive $150,000 for the Hickory Hills cross-country ski trailhead.

In Emmet County, $300,000 is slated for redevelopment of the lakeshore campground Wilderness State Park and $150,000 for renovation and expansion of the Pennsylvania Park public restroom in Petoskey. On Mackinac Island, $81,700 was awarded to improve the lighting at the Great Turtle Park softball fields.

The grants are part of $2,784,800 in federal funds provided to the state to support efforts by local governments and the DNR to improve public access to parks and outdoor recreation.

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bottoms up Bistro FouFou’s Pastis Meet France’s second favorite drink (really? You have to ask what’s first?): Pastis, the anise-flavored liquor, is in cafes and bars throughout France. But you might have to look a little harder to order one around northern Michigan.

We found Pastis at Traverse City’s Bistro FouFou, which makes sense, given the French heritage of chef and owner Guillaume Hazaël-Massieux. If you’ve tried Greek ouzo or Italian sambuca, or even absinthe, you know the taste. Pastis actually came into popularity in Europe after absinthe was banned in 1915.

But when you step up to the bar to order it, be sure to get your Pastis the “right” way: In order to unleash the subtle flavor notes, you’ll want to dilute it with water and/or ice. Once you do, the Pastis will change from clear to a milky white.

Though it’s primarily considered a pre-dinner cocktail or refreshing drink on a hot summer day, many committed locals enjoy it year-round.

Find it at 118 Cass St. in Traverse City. (231) 421-6583, Bistrofoufou.com

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Around 550 million years ago, the right combination of atmospheric oxygen and changes in the makeup of the oceans allowed critters to convert minerals into bone. About 7 million years ago, the first humanoid type used those bones to stand upright.

You, Congress, have managed to reverse hundreds of millions of years of spinal development in just one year. The bones you were born with and are supposed to have in your back have disappeared.

Your inability or unwillingness to stand upright in the face of ongoing presidential outrages is sad enough. But your complete abdication of your responsibilities as legislators is deeply troubling.

were brought here illegally as children, and have behaved themselves since, to eventually gain citizenship. There are about 690,000 such immigrants currently enrolled in the DACA program who would face deportation if it isn’t renewed.

It does seem unusually cruel to deport people, brought here involuntarily as children, to countries they’ve never known. But that might happen because you aren’t doing the job the Constitution specifically tells you to do.

Yes, we all understand the president is the titular leader of his party, and other Republicans are trying to follow his agenda when they can figure out what it is. But when he leads you into dark corners, it is your job, your right, and your obligation to bring us back out into the light.

You, Congress, have managed to reverse hundreds of millions of years of spinal development in just one year.

The legislative spine that has left you is right there for you to see, in black and white, in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, it’s the very first thing in the Constitution, Article 1, Section 1. Follow along: “All legislative Powers herein granted will be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.”

You can set your own agenda — preferably one that puts the country ahead of any party and doesn’t shut down the government — and implement it. If you believe immigration reform works better by extending DACA and omitting billions for a wall, then pass the bills, override the veto, and move along.

Did you notice the phrase “All legislative powers?” The first three words of the Constitution? The power to legislate is solely yours.

You don’t need the approval of the president, the lobbyists, the media, or anybody else.

Seriously, you are allowed to do that. It’s right there in the Constitution.

Your latest offense, in which you once again devolved from actual legislators into slithering supplicants, involves immigration reform.

A bipartisan group of your senators came up with a reform package and took it to the president, who liked it, didn’t like it, said he’d support whatever you wanted, and then really didn’t like it and uttered some crude unpleasantries. And your senators went scurrying off.

Assuming the proposal really had bipartisan support, it seems likely, if not probable, such legislation could pass the Senate. (Your House is likely a different matter, but this is starting in the Senate.) Oh, but the mighty president would veto it because he doesn’t like it.

Remember the bipartisan part of this? You need only 67 votes in the Senate to override a veto. And for sure you start with 49 Democrat votes because they’ll vote, lockstep, in opposition to all things Trump. So you need only 18 Republican votes and, after all, it had bipartisan support.

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It should be noted here the immigration reform efforts just denounced by the president included an extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA).

This is the program that allowed those who

These are difficult times. A significant majority of the country doesn’t trust the leadership of our president or approve of the job he’s doing. We’re worried about possible war, lack of direction here at home, and a loss of prestige abroad.

Frankly, your popularity is even worse than the president’s, at least in part because you aren’t doing your job, and you haven’t been for some time. You work for us, and we sort of like our employees to do the jobs for which they were hired. You appear to be working for someone else, or something else, or not working at all. We’re not getting much in return for what we pay you.

You swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution when you took office, an oath that says nothing about supporting any individual or party. If you have a different agenda, perhaps you should seek employment opportunities elsewhere.

There are real challenges out there, unimpressed with party ideology or individual whims. It will take actual effort and rational legislation to meet them. Just stiffen that cartilage that used to be backbone, stand up and do the job our Constitution instructs you to do.

Sincerely, Your friend, Steve

Crime & Rescue

by patrick sullivan psullivan@northernexpress.com

CHARGES IN COLD CASE OVERDOSE Three years after an Antrim County man died of a drug overdose, another Antrim County man faces charges in his death.

On Jan. 3, deputies arrested Wade Alan Druckenmiller, 31, on charges of delivery of a controlled substance causing death and being a three-time habitual offender. Druckenmiller’s bond was set at $1 million, and he is scheduled to have a preliminary exam Feb. 14.

Antrim County Sheriff’s investigators allege that Druckenmiller sold drugs to Damien Brandon Smith in January 2015; the 37-year-old later died at a home on Rushton Road in Central Lake.

Smith’s death was ruled an overdose after toxicology tests found large amounts heroin and fentanyl in his system.

SNOWMOBILE CRASH CLAIMS MAN Investigators suspect speed and alcohol caused a downstate man to lose control of his snowmobile in a fatal crash.

Nick Evers crashed into an embankment near the shore of Manistee Lake and was thrown from his sled into a tree, Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies said.

The 49-year-old man’s wife called 911 at 7am Jan. 14 to report that she had not seen her husband since midnight and that he had been out riding a snowmobile.

Searchers soon found the St. Johns man, who was pronounced dead at the scene in Coldsprings Township. Investigators determined that Evers had been travelling at a high rate of speed when he crashed.

RUN FROM POLICE FAILS A Chicago man landed in jail after he sped away from police and dashed through a Traverse City neighborhood.

Laurec Francisco Woods faces up to five years in prison on a charge of fleeing from police and more time for being a three-time habitual offender.

Woods caught the attention of a Traverse City Police officer on Titus Street, near Civic Center Drive, and he refused to stop for emergency lights Jan. 13, according to charges.

The 33-year-old turned north onto Garfield and then east on Webster, which he followed to Railroad Avenue, ignoring stop signs. He turned south, crossed Eighth Street without stopping and ended up at Railroad Place and Franklin, where he got out of his car and ran.

The officer ran after Woods and chased him down on the railroad tracks. Woods, who told the officer that he ran because he had some unpaid fines, was also arrested for drunk driving and open intoxicants.

TWO ARRESTED IN CENTRAL LAKE Undercover police arrested two men after receiving a tip that they were selling drugs from a Central Lake home.

Traverse Narcotics Team officers received the tip Jan. 10 and set up surveillance of the Elm Street home, according to a press released from the Antrim County Sheriff.

After obtaining a warrant, officers searched the home and found a substantial amount of heroin, some marijuana, and some suspected drug proceeds.

Police arrested a 47-year-old Detroit man and a 40-year-old Central Lake man on drug charges and parole violations.

POLICE SEARCH FOR TRUCK When employees at Buckley Auto Sales arrived at work the morning of Jan. 11, there was one fewer truck on the lot.

State police investigated and have asked for help to find the 2002 Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup that someone drove away from the dealership.

The four-wheel drive vehicle is green and beige, features an extended cab, and has a 7.3 liter diesel engine. The truck did not have a registration plate attached. Anyone with information should call police at (231) 775-9215 or the Silent Observer at (231) 779-6040.

THIRTY YEARS FOR ABUSER A Charlevoix man was sent to prison for 30 years for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old child.

Anthony Atkinson was sentenced Jan. 12 in 33rd Circuit Court to 30 to 50 years in prison after he pled guilty to two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

The crimes each carry a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison. The judge in the case, Roy C. Hayes III, could have sentenced Atkinson to serve each term consecutively, but he opted to give Atkinson credit for pleading guilty and not putting the victim through the trauma of a trial, Charlevoix County Prosecutor Allen Telgenhof said in a press release.

Hayes did depart from the guidelines and sentence Atkinson to a minimum of 30 years, saying the guidelines didn’t take into account the impact the assaults had on the victim.

workers, who shared the surveillance footage with police. When police circulated an image around the department, a sheriff’s deputy and a sergeant recognized Gay, a 29-year-old Traverse City man with an extensive criminal record. He’s also being charged as a three-time habitual offender.

DOGS KILLED IN HOUSE FIRE Twelve dogs died in a house fire in Alanson.

Firefighters were called the morning of Jan. 14 to a burning home that also housed Greenwing Kennel. Neighbors had spotted the fire and called 911.

On Facebook, the homeowner said that he was at church when the fire broke out in the kitchen for unknown reasons.

The man said he lost five adult dogs and seven puppies who had just turned seven weeks old.

Manistee County Sheriff’s deputies received a complaint about neglected animals Jan. 5 at a residence in Maple Grove Township. Deputies visited and found the malnourished animals and numerous deceased animals on the property.

Investigators arranged to have the animals removed and submitted a report to prosecutors, who charged the 62-year-old Kaleva man with cruelty to 10 or more animals, a felony that carries four years in prison.

ANIMAL CRUELTY CHARGES FILED A Kaleva man faces animal cruelty charges after sheriff’s deputies found on his property a cow, two ponies, two pigs, three goats, as well as some geese, chickens, and turkeys living without food and in filthy conditions.

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PURPORTED PURSE SNATCHER NABBED A man allegedly took advantage when a woman momentarily walked away from her purse on a grocery store counter.

Police said the suspect stuffed it into his coat and bolted from the store.

Traverse City Police investigated and determined that Bradley Alex Gay was the man captured on surveillance footage at Family Fare on Eighth Street, according to a felony theft charge filed against him Jan. 12.

The woman reported her purse missing Dec. 20 to store

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bY Mary Rogers When did Americans decide that incarceration was acceptable housing for the seriously mentally ill?

According to one advocacy agency for inmates: In 44 states, a jail or prison holds more mentally ill individuals than the largest remaining state psychiatric hospital; in every county in the United States with both a county jail and a county psychiatric facility, more seriously mentally ill individuals are incarcerated than hospitalized.

Family and friends of the newly incarcerated mentally ill can be heard saying: “It was just a matter of time. We tried to get them help. Our hands were tied until they broke the law.”

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There is a direct correlation between the rising rate of incarcerations and the closing of state hospitals for psychiatric patients. Law enforcement has been put on the front line as first responders to mental illness, funneling our most vulnerable and yet sometimes dangerously mentally ill population into illsuited hospital emergency rooms, jails, and prisons where appropriate treatment is not funded or available.

Over time, reduced government funding for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness has been effectively shifted away from public health to law enforcement and incarceration budgets. Also picking up the bill: private sector non-profits.

It is my opinion that our society as a whole is paying the price for the reduction of public spending for the diagnosis and treatment (including institutionalized treatment, if needed) of serious mental illness. These people deserve better; the current situation is inhumane.

True enough, there was a time in this country when state mental hospitals were filled with patients who had been involuntarily committed to institutional care, many sedated into submission for easier management (rather than treated), and rarely if ever, released. But there were also public institutions offering the latest treatment methods with great success.

Consider that approximately one-third of all homeless are mentally ill. Many will commit petty theft just to survive.

The National Council reports while at least half of prisoners have some mental health concerns, about 10 to 25 percent of U.S. prisoners suffer from serious mental illnesses, such as major affective disorders or schizophrenia. Some estimates put the number of seriously mentally ill inmates in jails or prisons at 50 percent.

The height of institutionalized psychiatric care came in 1958 with over 550,000 state hospital beds for the most serious cases of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe chronic depression, etc. Mental patients were largely kept out of the public eye and out of the public square.

Sixty years later, with the closing of state hospitals, mental patients still remain largely out of sight, incarcerated or living on the streets, untreated, and likely headed for an encounter with the judicial system. Instead of restrictive psychiatric institutions with hospital beds, more people with serious mental disorders will find themselves in solitary confinement or SHUs (Special Housing Units) in a prison.

Over the course of time, a few important changes have taken place: • New medications became available, making it seem possible for many patients to live independently and lead productive lives • The rising legal standing of an individual’s right to refuse treatment • States moving to ever-decreasing public funding for community-based mental health programs • A 95 percent decrease in the number of public hospital beds for seriously mentally ill patients • Mental health diagnosis and treatment is, by and large, now paid for at the discretion of private health insurance companies, with consumers responsible for large deductibles and copays.

Before moving to Traverse City, I worked in the hustle bustle of downtown Detroit’s historic office buildings. In the 1990s, Michigan’s public mental health system was effectively dismantled. One of Detroit’s greatest community assets was The Lafayette Clinic, a state-funded inpatient psychiatric hospital that was lauded for its leading-edge advancements in the treatment of psychiatric conditions.

Under Governor John Engler, funding was eliminated, and the doors were thrown wide open. It was asserted that a network of public community mental health programs would fill the need for treatment of the patients.

That did not happen, and the patients of The Lafayette Clinic became residents of our streets — essentially, our insane and unmedicated neighbors.

In those first cold winter months, my coworkers and I would give money, food, blankets, and coats to our new neighbors who were living in stairwells and behind dumpsters, only to walk past them the next day and find them without.

One by one, these people either committed crimes that landed them in jail or prison, or they died living on the streets. That is what community-based mental health looked like to me.

Twenty-five years later, there still seems an inhumane and inadequate social safety net for the mentally ill. Last year, Michigan House Speaker Tom Leonard created the bipartisan House C.A.R.E.S. (Community, Access, Resources, Education, and Safety) task force to receive input from individuals and professionals on how to improve mental health services in Michigan. No action yet.

Mary Rogers is a Traverse City resident, blogger, and podcaster. mary@experience50.com

Weird Chemistry In Lawrence County, Tennessee, law enforcement officials are confronting the fallout from a new drug known as “Wasp” (crystallized wasp repellant mixed with methamphetamine). To wit: On Dec. 18, as the Johnson family baked Christmas cookies in their Lawrenceburg kitchen, Danny Hollis, 35, walked into their home and asked for help.

NewsChannel 5 in Nashville reported Hollis poured himself a glass of water from the sink before grabbing a knife and cutting across his throat. Teenage son Canaan Johnson said Hollis then ran up to the second floor, heaved an oak dresser down the stairs, and jumped out a window onto a gazebo below, seriously injuring his neck. The Johnsons, meanwhile, had retreated to their car, where they called 911. Hollis chased the car down the street, but got hung up on a barbed wire fence, then stripped naked to free himself and climbed a nearby tree, where officers found him, according to police reports. Hollis fought them off by allegedly throwing his own feces at them, as they tased him out of the tree.

Hollis was booked into the county jail on numerous charges.

Oooh, Wise Guy, Eh? Khaled A. Shabani, 46, a hairstylist in Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested on a tentative charge of mayhem and disorderly conduct while armed after an altercation with a customer on Dec. 22. Shabani scolded the 22-year-old customer for fidgeting, then taught him a lesson by using the “shortest possible attachment” to “run down the middle of the customer’s head,” reported the Wisconsin State Journal, and “leaving him looking a bit like Larry from ‘The Three Stooges,’” police spokesman Joel DeSpain said. Shabani also clipped the customer’s ear with scissors. “While it is not a crime to give someone a bad haircut,” DeSpain noted, “you will get arrested for intentionally snipping their ear with a scissors.” Shabani said the snip was an accident, and his charge was later reduced to a ticket for disorderly conduct.

News. “I know I shouldn’t have done it. People have just been laughing about it ... well, apart from my wife.” Middleton was fined about $54 plus court costs for his antics.

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Bertha Vickers of Morgantown, Mississippi, turned 100 on Jan. 9. To celebrate, she bagged a deer. “I was sort of shaking until I got ready to shoot,” Vickers told the Clarion Ledger. “I didn’t think it was all going to go right.” Vickers still lives in her home and mows her own lawn, tends a garden and hunts for squirrels. “I don’t know why everybody is making such a big deal about it,” she said. “It was just a doe. I would love to kill a buck.”

Least Competent Criminal When Dustin Johnson, 22, of Minot, North Dakota, tried to steal $4,000 worth of merchandise from a local Hobby Lobby, he failed to take into account that shopping carts don’t have snow tires. The Grand Forks Herald reported that over a sevenhour period on Jan. 3, Johnson filled a cart then fled the store -- where the cart became stuck in snow in the parking lot and flipped over. Johnson fell down, then got up to run, leaving behind his wallet with photo ID matching the shoplifter’s description. Minot police caught up with Johnson at his home.

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Extreme Climate News It may be cold where you are, but it’s hot in Broadford, a small town about an hour from Melbourne, Australia, where on Jan. 5, the highway began melting. Temperatures of 100 degrees Fahrenheit and higher reactivated an ingredient in the road surface, turning it into a sticky mess on the Hume Freeway, 9News reported. Motorists were warned by Victoria police to avoid the right lane and expect delays over a 10km stretch. Officials also put in place a fire ban and urged people to stay indoors until the heat abated.

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The Litigious Society Siera Strumlauf and Benjamin Robles of California, and Brittany Crittenden of New York, saw their complaints go up in steam on Jan. 5 when U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed their lawsuit against Starbucks for underfilling its lattes and mochas. According to Reuters, the judge cited lack of evidence brought by the plaintiffs, who accused the coffee chain of fraud by making its cups too small and instructing baristas to skimp on ingredients and adhere to low “fill-to” lines on milk pitchers. The suit also claimed milk foam should not be counted toward advertised volumes, an opinion Rogers said reasonable customers do not hold. Starbucks and the plaintiffs had no comment.

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Bright Ideas -- Polk County (Florida) Sheriff ’s officers responded to an unusual 911 call on New Year’s Eve: Michael Lester, 39, of Winter Haven, started off by telling the dispatcher, “Umm, I’m drunk. I don’t know where I’m at. I’m just drunk driving.” The dispatcher urged Lester to pull over and park, but he explained that he was driving on the wrong side of the road near a Publix and wondered where the police were. WTVT reported that officers finally caught up with Lester, who helpfully explained he’d had several beers, hadn’t slept much and had taken methamphetamine earlier in the day; he was jailed on a DUI charge. Officers later posted on their Facebook page that “in this particular incident, nobody was hurt, so we couldn’t help but LOTO (that means we Laughed Our Tasers Off).”

-Disgruntled driver Matthew Middleton, 49, of Peterlee, England, spotted a speed camera near Hartlepool Rugby Club in October and decided to take a stand. He got out of his car and stood in front of the camera, blocking it, until police arrested him.

Middleton further antagonized the officer by calling him a “pig” and giving his name as Elvis Presley. “They acted like what I did was the crime of the century,” Middleton told Metro

Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em Christians in a Portuguese village carry on a curious tradition during Epiphany: They encourage their young children to smoke cigarettes. Vale de Salgueiro locals told Fox News that nobody is sure what the smoking symbolizes, but the centuries-old tradition persists. And Portuguese authorities don’t intervene, despite the fact that the legal age to purchase tobacco in Portugal is 18. Writer Jose Ribeirinha researched the tradition and said that since Roman times, villagers in the region have done things that were out of the norm during winter solstice celebrations.

MEET, DINE, BOWL

Transforming “The Armpit”of Leelanau County Into The Gateway

Looking north along M-22 from the Grand Traverse Yacht Club’s Bluewater Hall.

Photos by Eagle-Eye Drone Service.

Elmwood Township’s Greilickville has shaken off most its industrial roots, but its mish-mosh mix of businesses, beach, driveways, and docks along M-22 have made the bayside township a traffic nightmare and eyesore. The township is eager to improve, but is the only solution — potentially costing millions and decades — moving M-22? While the township awaits the answer, a boom of new development looms, and the clock continues to tick.

By Patrick Sullivan Elmwood Township Supervisor Jeff Shaw hopes a study of the section of M-22 that stretches through Greilickville will offer a roadmap for the future of the highway.

Maybe M-22 can be swapped with the TART Trail to improve traffic flow and create a bay-side Main Street? Or perhaps the study will help officials decide that a swap isn’t feasible, and officials can look for other ways to improve the flow of traffic and pedestrians along the corridor?

One way or another, Shaw said, something needs to be done about that one-mile stretch of M-22 in southeast Leelanau County.

The study, which cost $17,345 and is being conducted by Gourdie-Fraser Inc. and paid for with grants from Rotary Charities and Networks Northwest, should be complete in February.

“My goal was to have them look at (moving M-22) and give us an idea of, is that even possible?” Shaw said. “And if it’s not, then let’s put it to bed and put it to rest, and put it behind us and focus on something that’s doable, that’s realistic.”

SHORTER-TERM SOLUTIONS The study will also offer some less ambitious suggestions for how to improve the corridor.

A major feature under consideration is how the township could create a service drive that parallels M-22 and runs behind most of the businesses, said Heather Harris-Brady,

marketing coordinator for Gourdie-Fraser. in Elmwood Township.

“The parking lots follow a line from north Shaw said he understands that moving to south,” Harris-Brady said. “We’re looking at M-22 would take decades and cost millions a way to connect those parking lots so people and millions of dollars, and that the Michigan who are shopping in the corridor can move up Department of Transportation has made clear and down without getting back out on M-22.” they are not interested in pitching in funds. He The bigger question — whether M-22 said that’s why the township needs to either go should stay where it is or whether it should all in walk away. be moved to the TART “We’ve had traffic studies.

Trail corridor — will We had a $70,000 traffic require more time and “The main thing that study a couple of years ago, study than can be offered which essentially didn’t give in the scope of this study, came out of that us any answers,” Shaw said.

Harris-Brady said.

“The money is out there if we was that you feel like She said the study decide that it is something will give the township a you’re going to die that’s worth pursuing.” list of things they need to accomplish if they want to with every car that GREILICKVILLE, REIMAGINED move the highway.

To reinvent Greilickville goes by,” Shaw said.

“It will give them an and M-22 — whether idea of what they need to moving the highway a few do to seriously evaluate it,” hundred feet to the east or she said. just sprucing it up — is going to be a long, Gourdie-Fraser’s proposal noted that after hard task. the 2020 census, Elmwood Township is likely Shaw, who lives on M-22 just north of to join Traverse City and be designated a the corridor, said he’s heard people refer to “metropolitan area.”

Greilickville as the “armpit of Leelanau County.”

That means federal funding will become Once known for its oil drums and massive available that isn’t available today, said coal pile, evidence of the area’s industrial roots Michael Woods, managing director of remains long after those remnants have been Traverse Transportation Coordinating removed. The variety of structures along the Initiative. Woods said he doesn’t know what highway today — a house next to an office next effect that might have on the future of M-22 to a store next to an abandoned oil depot next

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to a restaurant — stand as if the zoning code exploded and lots were randomly assigned.

Among the challenges to fixing M-22 will be the 15 mismatched commercial driveways straggled across 850 feet of road.

Shaw said there are challenges if you want to transform this stretch into a good-looking “Gateway to Leelanau County,” as a task force of business and government leaders was formed to investigate.

“Obviously, I think everyone would like it to be a beautiful place when you enter and when you drive through,” Shaw said. “The challenge is to create that without trying to unduly impose our will on business owners and residents. That’s a challenge. And that’s why we have things like the task force.”

Shaw said the township is challenged because despite all of the growth that’s coming, there are residents who don’t want to see the township change.

“You know, there’s a contingency of people out here that are from here that don’t want to see anything change, and it’s always been that way, and it will always be that way,” he said.

“There is that mentality out there, and, to me, that’s not really realistic. It’s a beautiful place. It’s an amazing place that we live. And people want to come here from everywhere to see it. And you can’t blame them for wanting to live here. So, we’re charged with the task of trying to figure out how to make that palatable for everybody.”

Shaw said he is committed to making the

Looking south along Greilickville’s shoreline from the Great Lakes Children’s Museum and Discovery Pier, from which the Traverse Tall Ship Company launches its ships for summer tours.

changes while gathering as much input from residents as along the way. Shaw, who just finished his first year as supervisor, said he plans before his four-year term is up to knock on the door of every door Elmwood Township and talk to people about local government.

DREAMS OF SIDEWALK Before Shaw became supervisor, he was a township resident and business owner. He got together with others concerned about the corridor and formed a group called Crew 22. They met a couple years ago at the Grand Traverse Regional Arts Campus, walked up and down the corridor with notepads, and wrote down their thoughts.

“The main thing that came out of that was that you feel like you’re going to die with every car that goes by,” Shaw said.

Shaw said he is hopeful there are more nearterm ways to make pedestrian improvements.

For one, he’d like to see sidewalks on each side of M-22.

In recent discussions with the MDOT, Shaw said he learned that if sidewalks are added, the state might approve a signaled pedestrian crossing, something officials thought had been ruled out by MDOT following the traffic study completed in 2016.

Shaw said he understands that for many people, the problem with Greilickville is that at peak times during the summer, traffic can back up well over a mile from the M-72 intersection.

Five or 10 minutes stuck in traffic in peak times might be something that residents have to get used to, he said.

“All these people kept talking about how much traffic there is and how many cars,” Shaw said. “We’re so spoiled here because we’re not

used to having to anything like that. We’re used to jumping on there, and it’s five minutes for me to get to Traverse City. It may take me 15 on the very worst day.”

Shaw said in the short-term, sidewalks and pedestrians will be his priority.

“My concern is the people trying to get across the road,” he said. “Because there’s no good way to get from the west side to the east side. And the traffic study didn’t give us a silver bullet.”

For MDOT to approve a signalized crossing, the township would have to demonstrate there is enough pedestrian traffic to justify one. That’s difficult under current conditions because the road scares away pedestrians. On the other hand, if there were sidewalks, Shaw said that would attract pedestrians.

Last summer, a temporary traffic island/ pedestrian crossing was approved by MDOT at the Discovery Center. It proved to be a success: It was a safe, effective way for people to cross M-22 and could open the door to more crossings in the future.

“I truly believe if we had sidewalks, then there would be pedestrian traffic,” he said.

Shaw said he plans to canvas the business owners and gauge whether there is interest in sidewalks. He would need support from businesses because they would likely be required to pay a portion of the cost, he said.

VERGE OF A BOOM? The discussion of what should happen to M-22 in Greilickville comes at a critical time. There is an unprecedented amount of development in the works that, if comes to fruition, will only add cars and pedestrians.

Shaw said he met recently with his predecessor, Jack Kelly, who told him in his

eight years as supervisor he’d never seen nearly as much development as had been proposed in Shaw’s first year.

That includes the West Shore Hotel and Marina, a proposed 28-slip marina and threestory, 115-room hotel comprised of twobedroom suites. Brownfield work commenced at the site earlier this year, and structures have been removed from the 11-acre property, which sits between the Dockside Party Store and the Masonic Temple.

“They’ve continued, and they are on schedule, at least in terms of what the township has required so far,” Shaw said. “That was a Brownfield site. There used to be oil tanks there. I think it would be wonderful if he could get this whole thing done. I think it’s a great use for a chunk of land that was contaminated and was just sitting there.”

When the project was announced last April, developer Ron Walters said part of the hotel could be open by summer, but engineering problems with the soil have caused a delay, and it looks like the hotel’s opening will be delayed.

“We’re probably three months from being able to start construction,” Walters said.

Heather Smith, Grand Traverse Baykeeper, said the Watershed Center has opposed the permits for the marina because that’s one of the last segments of natural shoreline in the area.

“This particular spot is important to us because we’re seeing so much fragmentation of the shoreline in Elmwood Township,” Smith said. “So much of it is hardened.”

Walters said he is working with the Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to finalize permits for the marina.

Also in the works for the corridor are a 12-

unit development just off M-22 on Grandview Road; a $4.2 million, five-year project intended to improve the township marina and integrate it with the township park; and the revamping of the Discovery Center campus.

Potentially most significantly for traffic volume, it appears that the 149-unit Moorings and Leelanau Flats development — perched on the clear-cut hill between Greilickville and Traverse City — might have new life; its two developer groups recently settled a lawsuit.

Also, just outside of Greilickville, in the part of Traverse City that is in Leelanau County, a luxury condo development called Solasta is in the works on West Bay, at M-22 and M-72.

Realtor Judy Robinson said a certain number of units have to sell before construction starts, but she is optimistic and there has already been a lot of interest. The 15 units are on sale for between $1.5 and $5 million each.

SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Ultimately, the solution to Greilickville’s traffic problem is going to involve more than just Elmwood Township.

Shaw said he met recently with six or seven other township supervisors in Leelanau County, and everyone was curious about the traffic bottleneck at the bottom of the county.

“The thing I told them was, we are the end of the funnel,” Shaw said. “Everything that’s done in all of their townships affects us. Every house that’s built, every business, every extra person that drives to and from, for the most part, goes through Greilickville. And so coordinating with them and keeping them up to speed with what’s going on here I think is really crucial, so that they understand, and they can help. And I don’t even know what that is now.”

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Of all the things made in Michigan, the things you can make yourself are often the best. And if you love our great outdoors in the winter, there is no better DIY than building a set of Michigan’s oldest shoes for yourself.

Craig Kasmer is a naturalist and park interpreter at Hartwick Pines State Park in Grayling, where teaching visitors how to craft their own snowshoes has been a popular workshop for years.

“I’ve been here at Hartwick Pines for 16 years, and teaching the snowshoe workshops for 12,” said Kasmer. “I learned how to make snowshoes from one of my colleagues, Alan Wernette, who’s now at Ludington State Park. And now we have people coming from downstate, Ohio, even as far away as Texas, to take the workshops.”

Kasmer collaborates with Hillary Pine, the historian at the park, to teach classes of 10 people each how to make the snowshoes.

Perhaps surprisingly, there are more types of snowshoes than you might think.

SNOWSHOE MADNESS “There are several different types of snowshoes, anything from traditional Michigan or ‘Huron’ style — rounded at the top and pointed at the bottom, to Alaskan, which also have rounded tops and pointed bottoms but are a lot longer, like five feet.”

Ojibway snowshoes are pointed at both the top and tail; the “bearpaw” — the kind of snowshoe you see displayed at ski lodges — are almost completely round.

“You almost have to waddle when you wear those,” Kasmer said. “The modified bear paw is better. It’s still oval, but more narrow so it’s easier to walk in.”

It’s definitely not a style thing with snowshoes, either. It’s different mobility for different conditions.

“For instance, the Ojibway carry a lot of gear, and often walk through big open fields, which means big snowdrifts. Their

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snowshoes are longer to displace more weight, and the point in front means you can poke your way through snowdrifts. Alaskan snowshoes are even bigger, to displace as much snow as possible.”

More rounded snowshoes have their own advantages. They’re usually smaller, so if you’re in a forested area with lots of little saplings and undergrowth, it’s easier to step over and around things.

“There’s a method to the madness of all the different kinds of snow shoes,” Kasmer said.

THE FUN PART Snow affects how the snowshoes work, although maybe in the opposite way that you might expect. Lighter snow, Kasmer said, means you’ll stay more on top of it, while heavier, “snowball-making” snow compacts, causing walkers to sink.

“You actually do sink some with every snowshoe, but the size and shape of it determine just how much,” Kasmer explained.

Kasmer and Pine instructed classes how to make modified bear paw snowshoes this past November, December, and January.

In the upcoming February and March workshops, they’ll teach students how to build Ojibway snowshoes.

Each workshops begin with an introduction to snowshoes. Kasmer and Pine also chat with the workshops’ participants, to find out if they plan to actually use the snowshoes or just display them.

“We also like to hear what other hobbies people have,” Kasmer said. “Experience in basketweaving, knitting, or crocheting often helps people make the snowshoes.”

The making, he added, “is the fun part.”

“A lot of people are nervous about it — it seems daunting to them,” he said. “And when you’re new to the process, it can be slow, and learning is tricky. So we break it down into segments, with diagrams to help, and Hillary and I walk around the room to help step everyone through it. That’s why we’re here.”

KEEP ON GOING Participants will use a 45-foot-long lace to make the footbed of their snowshoes, weaving the lace into the frame. For the bear paw style, the snowshoe is 10 inches wide and 36 inches long; for the Ojibway, it’s 11 inches wide and 54 inches long.

Each two-day workshop (Saturday and Sunday) starts at 9am, and includes a lunch break (bring your own bagged lunch), but Kasmer said many people just keep right on going.

“People find it really rewarding to make the snowshoes,” he said. “It’s a real accomplishment. I see people texting their friends to show them, putting it all over Facebook. And we get to help, which is rewarding for us. Our job is to pull people back from the edge of ‘I can’t do this!’

Being patient and helpful gives them the confidence to complete their snowshoes.”

“Afterward, people often come back to Hartwick Pines, and say, ‘Hey Craig! remember us? We’re going snowshoeing today on the snowshoes we made!’”

Each two-day snowshoe-making workshop class, held in the Michigan Forest Visitor Center at Hartwick Pines, costs $185, including the materials you need to make a pair of snowshoes (frame, binding, precut laces.) Park entry fees may also apply.

The next round of workshop dates (fall/winter 2018–2019) will be announced this summer. Even though snowshoes may be the farthest thing from your mind in July or August, Kasmer encourages those interested to sign up as early as possible for next year, as each class allows only 10 people. There’s a lot of interest, and limited space.

“They definitely fill up fast!” he added.

For more information, visit michigan. gov/hartwickpines or call (989) 348-2537.

Hartwick Pines State Park is located at 4216 Ranger Rd. in Grayling.

GOING FOR

THE GOLD Petoskey speedskater Tyler Cain narrowly missed his shot at the 2018 Olympic team. But the former hockey player and single-minded skater isn’t done yet.

By Kristi Kates From Petoskey to Pyeongchang.

It has an exotic sound to it, much like “speedskating” might in northern Michigan, as it’s one of the less common sports here.

But Tyler Cain of Petoskey has made success in the unique sport his mission, and he’s making a bid for the bigger ice rinks of foreign lands.

Earlier this month, Cain competed in the qualifying rounds of the U.S. Olympic Long Track Team Trials in hopes of securing a spot at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. He raced in the 500-, 1,000-, and 1,500-meter races, as well as the mass start.

To qualify for the Olympic team, he

needed to place in the top 3.

Cain didn’t hit that goal — he placed eighth in the 500, 12th in the 1,000, and 13th in the 1,500. But for a former local hockey player who only tried speedskating for the first time just over seven years ago, his rankings are remarkable accomplishments.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN Perhaps fortuitous, the first time Cain noticed speedskating was while watching the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics on television.

“I immediately thought, I can do this,” he said. “I found out that there was a speed skating club in Petoskey, so I went for it.”

He started training locally, attending speed skating meets in Midland, Chicago,

COOL CASH Cain’s high school coach in Petoskey, Ed Russell, has watched Cain’s career on ice unfold.

“I think he realized, by the time he was a senior, that he’d have to go somewhere else to train,” Russell said. “He can only skate long track in Petoskey in the winter; the training season is much longer in Milwaukee.”

In part inspired by Cain’s dream, his mother, Sarah Cain, decided to leave her job in Petoskey for other opportunities in Milwaukee.

The move gave Cain a chance to commit completely to speedskating. Today, he lives and breathes the sport — in part because that’s what it demands.

“At first, I spent more time on the [Pettit Center] ice than I did money, and just used loaner gear from the speed skating club,” Cain said. “But as you advance, you need better gear.”

Better and much pricier gear. Custom speedskating boots cost $1,500–$2,000, blades $600–$1,000. “Skinsuits” — those sleek, often colorful bodysuits you see the skaters wearing — run $300–500. And helmets and cut-proof gloves start at $50.

Add in coaching fees, an ice pass for time in the rink, registration fees for meets and time trials, and travel, and competitive speedskating is not a cheap pursuit.

“The last few seasons, the cost per year has run $12,000–$15,000,” Sarah Cain said.

“That cost will increase as Tyler will be competing internationally.”

To offset costs, her son works part-time at the Pettit Center, spending the rest of his waking hours training there. He also has two sponsors, Bayko Concrete Services Inc. of Boyne City and Decka Digital LLC of Harbor Springs, which help with some of the coaching and ice fees. But it’s a long, and sometimes lonely, road to achieving Olympic gold.

WINTER 2022 “With speed skating, you do your own thing most of the time,” Cain said. “You do meet other skaters, coaches, which is nice, of course. But you’re really out there for yourself. It’s just you, and every little detailed bit of your body and your focus, all working together. I like the training and the lifestyle though — so the whole thing is a real fit for me.”

Now that the Olympic trials for this winter

games are over and the games themselves are about to begin, Cain will return to his regular routine and a new goal: the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

“To make it to the Olympic trials, you need a certain time standard, so you work to be as fast as you can, and keep competing until the trials arrive so you can hopefully try out again,” he said.

In between now and 2022, he’s also striving to join the International Skating Union’s World Cup speedskating team.

“They take the top five people, and I haven’t made it yet, but I’m getting close,” he said.

PRIME TIME “I knew he’d place top 10,” Coach Russell said of Cain’s so-close effort at making the 2018 Olympic team, “but I didn’t necessarily expect him, at 21 years old, to make the Olympic team this time.

He’s only been seriously doing this for about three years, and I think he’s done very well in that time.”

Russell also points out that Cain really is a relative newbie at the sport because of his age.

“Most of the men that made the Olympic team are in their mid- to late 20s,” he added. “This is a sport that requires several years of development and training.

By the next Olympics, Tyler will be in his prime, so if he trains for four more years, he’ll be in good shape. He’s got a good chance at it.”

So with no team jersey in hand, nor medals beckoning him to Pyeongchang, what did Cain take away from his experience at the Olympic trials, as a representative of the sport of speedskating and of his hometown of Petoskey?

“The practice of just doing it, really,” he said. “See, the most stressful thing about a race is usually the race. But for the Olympic trials, the stressful part was everything leading up to the race, people wanting to talk to you, all the extra things you had to do.”

“Once I got out on the ice, and I was warming up, it was all about the race and having fun. That’s what felt best.”

To keep pace with Tyler Cain’s career, find Tyler Cain Speedskating on Facebook.

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Just up the hill from the Bier Gallery and Pottery Studio, noted potter and avid brewer Tyler Bier and his wife, Anna, are remodeling a 20-year-old Victorian-style home to house their coming Bier’s Inwood Brewery.

Bier Breaks into Beers Charlevoix’s Bier Gallery owners to open brewery in gallery’s backyard under 50 guests inside, plus offer a large outdoor area so visitors can enjoy the fresh air, games and stunning panoramic views of Lake Michigan.

“We have no food plans at this time,” said Bier. “But people are welcome to bring their own food, and food trucks are a possibility.”

Bier will be brewing on a two-barrel system and plans to have eight rotating taps of beer, along with cider and wine. He looks forward to using local ingredients as much as he can, whenever they are available.

“I’d like to offer a little bit of everything,” he said. “I’ll be brewing a lot of beers true to style but also take the opportunity to use nontraditional techniques and ingredients that are shaping the craft-beer world.”

So what type of beer does he enjoying making the most?

“My favorite beers to brew are Belgianstyle beers because the simplest ingredients can create the most complex flavors, which are almost entirely dependent on the yeast,” he said.

“They are more unpredictable because the yeast plays more of a role in the outcome of the flavors than I do.”

So is Bier giving up his popular pottery work to focus solely on a new career as brew master?

Not at all.

“I’ll be doing all of the brewing, and my wife and I will be running the brewery,” he explained.

By Al Parker A popular Charlevoix-area gallery is hoping to expand from artwork … to ales and lagers.

Adjacent to the Bier Gallery and Pottery Studio, noted potter and avid brewer Tyler Bier and his wife, Anna, are planning to open Bier’s Inwood Brewery in a separate building just a short walk up a hill from the art gallery.

Bier said the idea came about one night as the couple and a group of friends sat outside the family’s “Eagle Nest,” sipping on Bier’s homebrews and marveling at the Lake Michigan sunsets.

“I’ve been brewing for about seven years,” said Bier. “Working as a potter, I had a little extra time in the winter, so the idea of brewing my own beer meant I could be productive and have some fun.

I’ve always been interested in how things work, so I really enjoyed building my own brewing equipment — first brewing in my kitchen and then outside on another system that I built.”

As a self-taught brewer, there was plenty of trial and error for Bier.

“I read a lot of books and beer forums, but ultimately I learned new things with every batch I brewed.”

The brewery, located about six miles south of Charlevoix, just off US-31, on Ferry Road, will be housed in the family’s Victorian-style home. It’s been renovated and will seat just

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“I plan on having Bier Art Gallery stocked with my pottery by spring, as well as beer-related pottery in the brewery. The long winters should allow for me to continue making some pottery.”

The exact date for the brewery’s opening is still undetermined. “As soon as we’re finished with construction, we will have our final walkthrough with the state inspector and will start brewing shortly after that,” said Bier.

Launching a brewery is pricey, and the Biers have received plenty of help from other family members — namely Tyler’s parents, Ray and Tami Bier; his brother, Ryan; and Ryan’s wife, Sara.

The Biers have also gone online to help raise money for the final phases of construction, including an additional bathroom, support beams, a new parking lot and deck. So far, they’ve raised about $2,000 toward their goal of $15,000.

“We set up a GoFundMe at gofundme.com/ biersinwoodbrewery for generous individuals to help us complete what has turned out to be a very expensive project,” he said. “In return, we offer several levels of rewards consisting of handmade beer glasses and even a brewing experience. Also we’ll be putting all of the donors’ names on a ‘special thanks to’ plaque in the brewery to show our gratitude. I’d like to thank my wife for putting up will all of my homebrew equipment laying around the house … and my family and friends for their help and support.”

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Whose T-shirt is it Anyway?

State pride shirts are everywhere.

The Northern Express attempts to find out who designed what, when.

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By Ross Boissoneau Of course Michiganders are happy to showcase the Great Lakes State. And who doesn’t want to look good?

Welcome to the Michigan T-shirt. More and more people are proudly displaying their home state in clever and colorful ways.

That’s true whether it’s M-22, the Michigan hand, the burgeoning brewing scene, or any of a number of other ingenious ways to represent.

No doubt the T-shirt scene is a crowded one. There are a plethora of T-shirt manufacturers/distributors around the area sporting various Michigan themes. Add those from downstate and it’s hard not to see someone sporting a Michigan T-shirt.

Nick Madrick, the COO at M-22 in Traverse City, said company founders Matt and Keegan Myers just made a couple M-22 themed T-shirts on a whim in the early 2000s. “There was no intention to turn it into a brand,” he said. Then they were featured in a story on kiteboarding in Traverse Magazine, and the cover shot included an M-22 shirt. “We started getting requests for shirts and would sell them from the back of a van,” Madrick said.

They branched out from T-shirts to hoodies, hats, and mugs, all emblazoned with the familiar road sign. Until they hit on another idea: turning the lower peninsula a few degrees counterclockwise and using it as a V in LOVE. “That’s a sub-brand,” said Madrick.

Lance Hill and Byron Pettigrew started High Five Threads in Traverse City almost seven years ago. “Most everything was touristy and gimmicky then,” said Hill. “It

was all moose and cabins, except for M-22.”

The two were doing marketing and consulting and opened a shop at the Village at Grand Traverse because they wanted some office space. They decided to try their hands at the T-shirt business — literally.

Their logo of two hands — the right hand fingertips up to represent the lower peninsula; the left hand with fingertips facing east to represent the upper peninsula —quickly became their calling card. “They wanted retail [at the Village], and we said we’ll do this on the side.”

When the business took off, they were as surprised as anyone. The two eventually opened a second store in downtown Traverse City, which they closed last year when more space opened up in the Village.

“We almost quadrupled the size. We love what’s going on there,” said Hill, noting it’s easier to have more space in one store without the additional rent and overhead of a second location.

Beau Warren is another who has embraced the concept. The owner of Tee See Tee in Traverse City said he first got into T-shirts as a youngster. “As a lad I was a little chubby. I’d wear T-shirts that made a statement. It obscured the awkward days, and I felt really good,” he said.

In addition to playing off Lord of the Rings (with a Michigan map shirt recalling the maps of Middle Earth) and camping logoed shirts, he offers limited runs of shirts recalling the past, touting places like Dills, Tanz Haus and Arne’s Funland. “We did Skateworld two years ago and had such a huge response. They are always a limited run, and I get permission,” Warren said.

One of the owners of Livn Fresh, based in Gaylord, disputes the notion that his company sells apparel. That’s despite the evidence online, where there are models sporting the Michigan map on shirts, pants, and bags. “We sell emotion,” said Tim Croll, who works with fellow co-owners Dave and Cari Samalik.

Among the company’s most popular items are the Great Lakes Girl line, which sport an anchor setting off the lettering.

Another favorite is a play on the Detroit Tigers logo, with an old English-styled D, the cutout of the D being the lower peninsula and the upper part of the D the upper peninsula. “You have to be unique and original,” he said.

Livn Fresh is looking to extend the concept of state pride outside our borders, with another dozen state-themed shirts and ancillaries available, as well as sharing the fun with our neighbor to the north, Canada.

While most of the companies favor online sales with either a single brickand-mortar location or wholesaling to other retail operations, Dave Michaels had a different concept. He owns three Momentum stores, with another three owned by his sister and his sister-in-law.

His three stores — in Charlevoix, Petoskey, and Traverse City — are open year-round, while the others, located in summer hot spots like Glen Arbor, Frankfort and Saugatuck, are open seasonally.

Each store stocks a variety of clothing emblazoned with variants on the Great Lakes and other waterways. “Our main theme is water,” he said.

Josh Kent, the founder and CEO of

Sunfrog, in Gaylord, sells thousands and thousands of T-shirts across the country.

He said the Great Lake State and the Lone Star State are the leaders among statethemed shirts. “Michigan and Texas are some of the strongest state pride shirts,” he noted. Sunfrog also exclusively prints for M-22. “They move a lot of product — millions of dollars.”

Given the hype and competition, some try to steer clear of the scrum. Ed Roth, founder and owner of Roth T-Shirt Company in downtown Traverse City, eschews any sort of “Love Michigan” designs in favor of his squiggly drawings set off by sayings such as “Love My Grandkids ... should have had them first.” But he, too, favors some local landmarks, such as area lakes and rivers, and the state’s craft beer scene, reinterpreting the peninsulas as a bottle pouring into a beer mug.

All those in the business say the key to success is originality. Though it’s a crowded market, they seem to welcome competition, as long as everyone plays by the rules and doesn’t slavishly copy one another. “Anybody can grab a T and put Michigan on it and start selling them. We just make sure others aren’t copying us, and vice versa,” said Madrick. “They tout the state — you can’t get mad at that.”

Is there continued room for growth? Hill thinks so, with a caveat. “I don’t know that we’ve reached a saturation point, as long as you’re coming up with unique stuff,” he said.

“I don’t think Michigan pride is ever going to go away,” said Warren. He believes that enthusiasm about the state’s bevy of natural features, from forests to lakes and rivers, will always lend itself to expressions of Michigan love.

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Did You Know?

Look What’s Made in Michigan!

By Kristi Kates Most Michiganians are familiar with big names like Kellogg’s, Faygo pop, Hudsonville ice cream, Better Made snacks, and of course the entire lineup of Detroit auto manufacturers. And closer to home here in northern Michigan, we’ve got American Spoon Foods, Baabaazuzu, Cherry Republic, our famed Mackinac Island fudge, and a host of wine and beer producers. But there’s a whole lot more made right here in Michigan that you might not have realized.

GETTIN’ JIFFY WITH IT Those cake, bread, and muffin mixes in the little boxes with the iconic blue logo are found in nearly everyone’s pantry. Jiffy Mix started producing mixes back in the 1930s. It was the first company to market prepared baking mixes, as invented by Mable White Holmes, in the U.S. Today, Jiffy’s parent company — the Chelsea Milling Company of Chelsea, Michigan — produces 1.6 million boxes of mix every day. The whole operation is overseen by Holmes’ grandson, the colorfully named Howdy Holmes. Holmes is not only the company president but also a former Indianapolis 500 driver. The Jiffy brand sponsored several of Holmes’ racing cars.

Fun Fact: The company is kept steadfastly friendly and local, with Holmes stating in an interview that he doesn’t want “a 28-year-old brat from Wall Street telling me how to run my company.”

More! jiffymix.com

STEPPING OUT The Upper Peninsula knows snow. So when Clarence Iverson started building snowshoes back in 1954, he had the background to do it right. He designed “the Iverson snowshoe” with an eye toward maximum weight distribution, so the walker would float on top of the snow. Iverson relied on top-notch materials for his company’s snowshoes: premium Michigan white ash, copper hardware, and full-grain rawhides. Those traditions continue at the company today, which continues to craft snowshoes from its U.P. headquarters, but Iverson’s is hardly immune to change. It’s expanded its catalog to offer 17 different models of snowshoes in a variety of sizes. Buyers can stick to the traditional rawhide lacing, or more modern neoprene. Either way, the company carefully consults with each customer to match the right snowshoe to its user’s weight, planned usage, and terrain.

Fun Fact: Iverson is also responsible for the Standard A snowshoe harness, which has become a reference standard of the snowshoe industry.

More! iversonssnowshoes.com

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GOING GOING GO! Materne — the company behind the popular applesauce pouch snacks GoGo queeZ — began in Europe a lot longer ago than you might expect: 1881. Its roots were as an applesauce and puree factory in Boué, France; Edmond Materne bought the factory in 1922. More than 60 years later, Materne would create Pom’Potes, said to be the first “fruit in a pouch.” In 2011, Materne teamed up with Traverse City’s Cherry Growers, Inc. to launch production for its other fruit in a pouch, GoGo squeeZ. The line has grown from its initial offerings — apple and strawberry applesauce — to banana, peach, and cinnamon applesauces; GoGo squeeZ Organic Fruit and VeggieZ; and YogurtZ. Fun Fact: Once the fruit arrives at the Traverse City factory, it’s bathed, peeled, mashed, and cooked, then sent down a pipe to its pouch. The processing from whole fruit arrival to completed pouch takes only one hour.

More! gogosqueez.com

MORE THAN A NAME If you ever stood under a pop-up tent or tent pavilion at an art fair, music festival, or concert, chances are good you’ve seen a product of Traverse City’s TentCraft. But that’s not all the company does — it also makes promotional banners, flags, inflatable furniture, vehicle wraps, and a lot more. The company originated as MasterTent, a business based in Italy; following a 2011 agreement, MasterTentUSA changed its name to TentCraft. Craft is a keyword here; the company encourages clients to literally sketch the tent they want, and TentCraft will do their best to make it reality.

Fun Fact: One of the company’s guiding principles is “fun and a little weirdness.”

More! tentcraft.com

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. Lisa Pointe, Kristel Rodriguez-Peacock, Valarie Handy, and Emily Arbut volunteer at the Downtown Traverse City Chili Cook-Off. 2. Meredith McDonald and Haley McLeod enjoying Mari Vineyards’ mulled rose during WOMP’s Winter Warm-Up event.

3. Matt and Ben pose in front of a “wall of chili” as they prepare for the Downtown TC Chili Cook-Off. 4. The crew from Sugar2Salt served up hundreds of bowls of chili and managed to stay warm at the Downtown TC Chili Cook-Off, held at the State Street Marketplace.

5. Students from the MSU Institute of Agricultural Technology and NMC pose in the NMC Aviation hangar.

The group is studying unmanned aircraft systems together.

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jan 20

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37TH ANNUAL EAST JORDAN SNO-BLAST: Today includes the Classic & Antique Snowmobile Show, Obstacle Course, Blessing of the Sleds, Antique/Vintage/Classic Snowmobile Ride, Softball in the Snow Tournament & more. ejchamber.org

---------------------BIGFOOT 5K & 10K SNOWSHOE RACE: 9am, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. $25 advance or $30 late. runsnow.com

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HOME EXPO: 9am-5pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Hosted by Home Builder’s Association.

Featuring new building trends, products, ideas, seminars & more. hbagta.com/home-expo

a man tries to deal with his two brothers (one homicidal, the other crazy) while coming to grips with the fact that his two spinster aunts poison lonely old men. $15-$28. mynorthtickets.com

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ROGER BROWN WSG JOE WILSON: 7:30pm, The Moon Tower, TC. Enjoy an evening of Americana music. Singer, songwriter & guitarist Roger Brown wrote the music & lyrics to Ringo Starr’s children’s release “Scouse the Mouse” & worked with Ringo as musical director when the album was recorded. 941-8667. $20 advance; $25 door.

---------------------THE WAY DOWN WANDERERS: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Ross Stoakes Theater, Petoskey. This alternative folk band from Chicago is presented by Blissfest. Advance tickets: $15 members, $20 not members.

Students: $7 members, $10 not members. blissfest.org

20-28 send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------- ---------------------53RD ANNUAL MOOSE JAW: 10am, Moose Jaw Junction, Harbor Springs. Ride your vintage sled & enjoy bean soup at Bean Pot. Preregistration at skating rink from 8:30-9:30am. moosejawtrails.com

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AVALANCHE MOUNTAIN FAST & FLURRIOUS FAT TIRE BIKE RACE: 10am, Avalanche Mountain Preserve, Boyne City. The course is six or ten miles on the singletrack at Avalanche Mountain. Pre-race brunch at Stigg’s Brewery and Kitchen from 7-9am. Proceeds benefit the Top of Michigan Mountain Bike Association. $50. fatandflurrious.com/register

“EVERY BRILLIANT THING”: 8pm, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Actor & Stage Play Director Josh Thomas presents this play that was on HBO. It addresses the difficult topic of suicide in a way that is both heart-wrenching & hilarious. Benefits CFS’ Third Level Crisis Center.

946-8975, ext. 1025. Suggested donation: $10 per ticket.

---------------------BRIAN HOWE WSG AUTOGRAPH: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Bad Company’s Brian Howe will jam with 80’s rockers Autograph.

Tickets start at $30. lrcr.com

--------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -THREE MEN AND A TENOR: 8-10pm, MAKE-A-GIFT SERIES: PICTURE FRAME ART: 10am-noon, Interlochen Public Library, Golden Fellowship Hall. For adults. Free. tadl.org

---------------------TC 250 VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE RACE: 10:30am, Interlochen Eagles Club. Races include kitty kats, 120’s, juniors & adult men. Kids races begin at 10:30am; men’s at 1:30pm.

---------------------SIPS & SOUPS: 12-5pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail, TC. Enjoy soups & chilis paired with Pinot Noirs, Rieslings, Chardonnays & more at wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets are $20 & include a souvenir wine glass. $5 of each ticket sold will be donated to local food banks. lpwines.com/ events/sips-soups

---------------------WOMEN’S MARCH TC 2018: Gather at the Chamber of Commerce, TC at 1pm & march through Downtown TC, returning to the Chamber, where you will stand along the Parkway.

Afterwards gather at the Workshop Brewing Co. for conversation, networking & more. Find on Facebook or call 231-325-6812.

---------------------CHEER FEST: 2-11:30pm, Leland Lodge.

Featuring live music by Jim Hawley & The Broom Closet Boys, ice skating, sledding, bounce houses & much more. $10 ages 13 & older; $5 ages 4-12, & free for ages 3 & under.

231-256-9848.

---------------------MACKINAW CITY WINTERFEST: 2pm, Downtown Mackinaw City. Featuring a parade, chili cook off, Outhouse Parade & race, city wide poker walk, ice fishing contest & more. mackinaw-city.com

---------------------“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. In this dark comedy,

Charlevoix Cinema III. Enjoy pop vocal music & quick-witted humor. $25. livefromcharlevoix.com

jan 21 winter/sno-blast

sunday

37TH ANNUAL EAST JORDAN SNO-BLAST: 7am-noon, East Jordan SnoMobilers Club House. Today includes the Sno-Lovers Breakfast. $6 adults; $3 10 & under. ejchamber.org/events/

---------------------FAT CHANCE FAT BIKE RACE: 11am, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Held on the Otter Trail loop, featuring laps of speed, twisting sections & minimal elevation. $50 fee also includes a brew ticket & post race chili bar. $60 for late registration. events.bytepro.net/ FatChance2018

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HOME EXPO: 11am-3pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Hosted by Home Builder’s Association.

Featuring new building trends, products, ideas, seminars & more. hbagta.com/home-expo

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WORLD SNOW DAY CELEBRATION: 11am, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Enjoy free activities geared towards first timers in the snow.

These include a scavenger hunt, bonfire, the Art of Snowmaking, adults & kids ski & snowboard presentations, ice skating, snow bikes & much more. crystalmountain.com/events/world-snowday-celebration

---------------------OVERCOMING SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER YOGA CLASS: 1-2:30pm, New Moon Yoga Studio, TC. Presented by Oryana & New Moon Yoga, this class features deep

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Americana soul artist Chastity Brown performs at Freshwater Art Gallery and Concert Venue, Boyne City on Sat., Jan. 27 at 8pm. Brown has toured the U.S. and abroad, appearing on the U.K.’s “Later...with Jools Holland.” For much of 2016 she toured alongside folk icon/activist Ani Difranco. $30 advance; $35 door. freshwaterartgallery.com

breathing & positive mantras to help the student clear their mind & allow the body to create more space awareness to ease the winter blues.

Bring a yoga mat. $10; part of the cost will be donated to Third Level Crisis Center. Registration required. 947-0191. eventbrite.com

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TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY HISTORY SERIES: 1-3pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Traverse City Planning Director Russ Soyring presents “How Traverse City Planning Developed and its Effects on Our Community, 1940 to the Current Day.” Free. traversehistory.wordpress.com

---------------------“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sat., Jan. 20, except today’s time is 2pm)

BUCKETS OF RAIN BENEFIT: 4-6pm, Acoustic Tap Room, TC. Featuring live music

by Paul Koss. Suggested donation: $10. 231275-2041.

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ROBIN LEE BERRY & THESE GOOD SOULS: 4pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Enjoy folk & jazz songs from Robin’s new CD, “Weave Me a Parachute,” with Robin Lee Berry, Glenn Wolff, Dave Goodwin, Steve Carey & Chris Michels.

947-9213. $20 advance; $25 door.

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”: 6-8pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. There are roles for about 25 people ages eight & up. oldtownplayhouse.com

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jan 22

monday

TEX LEATHERMAN: 6pm, Samaritas Senior Living of TC, Williamsburg. This classic country western performer pays tribute to Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Hanks Williams Jr. & other legends. RSVP: 231-408-3385. Free.

---------------------FLIES @ THE FRANKLIN: 6:30-8:30pm, The Franklin, upstairs, TC. Presented by The Northern Angler. Jeff Hubbard from Outfitters North Guide Service on the Pere Marquette River will be tying some different steelhead patterns.

Free. thenorthernangler.com

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”: 7pm-9pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. Roles for about 25 people ages eight & up. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------CONSUMER EDUCATION: 7pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Learn about phone, mail & email scams. By the State of Michigan’s Attorney General. Free. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

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COFFEE @ TEN, TC: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Featuring food stylist & photographer Krystn Madrine.

Also enjoy complimentary baked goods & coffee. Free.

---------------------CONNECTING WOMEN IN BUSINESS LUNCHEON: 11:30am, Inn at Bay Harbor, The Arlington Room, Bay Harbor. Erin Bemis of Google’s Get Your Business Online will help you “Grow Your Business Online.” $18 for CWIB members & $25 all others. petoskeychamber.com

---------------------DARK & STORM CLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: “The Age of Shadows” will be shown at The Garden Theater, Frankfort at 4pm. Tickets are $10. Each movie ticket purchaser receives a $5 Stormcloud Brewing Co. token. Stormcloud’s Jan. beer is Age of Shadows, a black rice & green tea IPA. stormcloudbrewing.com

---------------------MAKER SPACE: BUTTON MAKING: 4-5:30pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Design & punch out a unique design or two for your jacket or backpack. For ages 9-14. tadl.org

---------------------FOOD AS MEDICINE: CULINARY DEMONSTRATION & PANEL: 5pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. Featuring a food demonstration led by chef Steve Tebo, registered dietician Laura McCain, & special guest sous chef Dr. Jacob Flynn.

At 6pm will be a potluck & interactive panel discussion including Laura & Dr. Flynn, Abby Beale (nutritional therapy practitioner) & Paula Martin (MS, RDN, LDN). Free. Guests are encouraged to bring a dish to pass. Find on Facebook.

---------------------FREE LEAN AGRICULTURE SERIES: 6-8pm, NCMC, Student & Community Resource Center, room 536, Petoskey. “5S Your Farm the Lean Way.” Register: 231-348-6613. ncmich.edu

---------------------COMPUTER TAKE APART: 6:30-8pm, Charlevoix Public Library, Community Room.

Take apart computers & learn what’s inside.

Ages 13 & up. Register early: 231-237-7340.

Free. charlevoixlibrary.org

---------------------MOVIE NIGHT: 6:30pm, Bellaire Public Library. Featuring “Oddball.” bellairelibrary.org

---------------------SUDS WITH SNYDER: 6:30pm, Platte River Inn, Honor. Watch & discuss Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s annual State of the State address. There will be a conversation following the speech. $10.

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”: (See Mon., Jan. 22)

jan 24

wednesday

PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH: 10am, TC Senior Center, TC. Informational media/discussion groups.

Info: 947-7389. gtaparkinsonsgroup.org

FIREFLY RELAY FOR LIFE GIVEBACK NIGHT: 5-9pm, Firefly Restaurant, TC. 1/3 of all sales to benefit The American Cancer Society. Find on Facebook.

---------------------HISTORY SERIES: THE DUST BOWL: 6:30-8pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. The ecological disaster of the ‘Great Plow-Up,’ followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s will be portrayed by a team from Gilmore Car Museum with period photographs & first-hand accounts. Dust Bowl era songs of Woody Guthrie & others will be performed live. tadl.org

---------------------LIFETREE CAFÉ: 8pm, The Rock of Kingsley.

This “News from the Future” session includes a brief film, discussion & refreshments. Free.

Find on Facebook.

jan 25

thursday

ICE BREAKER WINTER SPEAKER SERIES: Noon, Watershed Council, Petoskey.

Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council presents “The Latest in Coastal Dune Science.” watershedcouncil.org

---------------------DETROIT TIGERS WINTER CARAVAN: 4:45pm, Cherry Republic, TC. Hall of Fame inductee Alan Trammell, pitcher Shane Greene & outfielder Nicholas Castellanos will hand out free cherry pie, ice cream & candy. cherryrepublic.com

---------------------SWIRL: 5:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Toski Sands will provide hors d’oeuvres & wine, while the Dustbowl Aristocrats perform on stage. The three most recent art exhibits will be on display. $15 advance; $20 door. crookedtree.org

---------------------“THE MASK YOU LIVE IN”: 6pm, TC Central High School Auditorium, TC. This movie is recommended for ages 15+. It is about how boys grow up to be “men” - & what is means to be masculine & manly in today’s society. Free. commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/themask-you-live-in

---------------------FULFILLAMENT #10: STORYTELLING TO INSPIRE: 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Real stories, real challenges, live music, inspired audience, $500 grant to good idea.

Five storytellers drawn from the TC business community will take the stage to share a true story from their journey toward fulfillment through their work. They include Ben Davila, Megan Madion, Fred Sitkins, Christal Frost Anderson, & Pete Kirkwood. Fulfillament is created & hosted by Chelsea Bay Dennis & Shea Petaja. $12 online, $15 door. fulfillamentstories.com/next-event

---------------------“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sat., Jan. 20)

---------------------DARK & STORM CLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: “The Age of Shadows” will be shown at The Garden Theater, Frankfort at 7:30pm.

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

jan 26

friday

HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am: Story Hour: Sandra Boynton’s Books. Kids enjoy stories, activities & a craft. 8:3010:30pm: Live music with the Jim Crockett Trio. Enjoy original folk, roots & blues. horizonbooks.com

---------------------STORYTIME AT LELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARY: 10:30am. Enjoy stories & play designed to promote joy & growth in literacy.

Children ages 0-6 & their caregivers welcome.

Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------ICE WINE HARVEST FESTIVAL: Jan. 26-28, Chateau Chantal, TC. Events range from snowman building, ice bowling & ice sculpting to outdoor fire pits with roasted treats.

The winery’s walking trail will be open for snowshoeing or skiing with a scavenger hunt

& prizes. There will also be a multi-course Ice Wine education dinner on Sat., including a tour of the cellar & winemaking process. Entrance to the festival is free, with a fee to sample & attend the wine dinner. shop.chateauchantal.com

---------------------4TH ANNUAL CABIN FEVER ARTIST TALK SERIES: 5:30pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort.

Featuring Nat Rosales, a sculptor from Manistee who will talk about his intricate & eclectic works of art. Free. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------“THEATER AFTER HOURS”: 6:30-8pm, Elk Rapids District Library. Featuring Raymond Goodwin in his one man play, “The Last Man in Merrinsville.” Free. elkrapidslibrary.org

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

---------------------“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sat., Jan. 20)

---------------------“YOUNG HEMINGWAY & HIS ENDURING EDEN”: 7:30-9pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey.

This documentary features the commentary of some of the country’s top Hemingway scholars & writers. hemingwaysmichigan.com

---------------------UP NORTH BIG BAND: 30’S & 40’S SWING & BIG BAND DANCING: 7:30-10:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. A dance lesson will be held from 6:45-7:30pm. $10 adults; $5 students w/ ID. redskystage.com

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

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

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

---------------------SNOWSHOE HIKE: 10am, Louis Groen Preserve, Johannesburg. Adult, youth & toddler snowshoes available. Reserve yours: 989731-0573. Free.

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

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

---------------------ICE WINE HARVEST FESTIVAL: (See Fri., Jan. 26)

---------------------YETI FEST: Suttons Bay. Featuring a Yeti Discovery Program, Yeti Scavenger Hunt, free movie at the Bay Theatre, Norseman Cardboard Classic, Yeti Chili Cook-off, Variety Show/Student Collage & more. 231-271-7423.

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

---------------------BEARCUB OUTFITTERS TORCHLIGHT SNOWSHOE OUTING: 5-9pm, Camp Daggett, Petoskey. Enjoy snow-covered trails illuminated by more than 100 torches. Afterwards have hot chocolate & cookies while warming up by the fire in the lodge. Free; snowshoes available. campdaggett.org

---------------------“ALMOST MAINE”: (See Fri., Jan. 26)

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

An evening of fun, food, beer, wine & dancing.

Samplings by Right Brain, North Peak, Jolly Pumpkin, Gonzo’s Bigg Dogg, Big Lake, Terra Firma, Good Harbor, & more. Live music by Scotty Doesn’t Know. $35. mynorthtickets.com/ events/the-grand-tasting

---------------------“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sat., Jan. 20)

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

---------------------CHASTITY BROWN: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery & Concert Venue, Boyne City. Chastity has toured the U.S. & abroad, appearing on the U.K.’s “Later...with Jools Holland.” For much of 2016 she toured alongside folk icon/ activist Ani Difranco. $30 advance; $35 door. freshwaterartgallery.com

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

---------------------TORONZO CANNON: 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Toronzo is one of Chicago’s most recognized & most popular bluesmen. Tickets: $27 advanced; $30 door; & $24 museum members. dennosmuseum.org

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ICE WINE HARVEST FESTIVAL: (See Fri., Jan. 26)

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“ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Sun., Jan. 21)

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DARK & STORM CLOUDY FILM & BEER SERIES: (See Thurs., Jan. 25 except today’s time is 2pm.)

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

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “12 ANGRY JURORS”: 3-5pm, Cooley School Annex, Cadillac. Looking for 13 actors ages 18+. There are also 2 off stage voices. Presented by Cadillac Footliters. Call the director, Russell Peak, for more info: 231-429-2676. cadillacfootliters.com

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

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

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: OPEN SPEAKER MEETING: Saturdays, 8pm, Munson Medical Center (basement), TC. district11aa.org

---------------------ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: YOUNG PEOPLE’S MEETING: Fridays, 8pm, Grace Episcopal Church (basement), TC. district11aa.org

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

---------------------BAY HARBOR MUSIC ON MAIN: Thursdays, 6pm, Jan. 25 - Aug. 30. Enjoy live music in

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The Village at Bay Harbor. Weekly themes & genre will vary & may compliment the Sat. event or Great Lakes Center for the Arts performance schedule. bayharbor.com

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

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

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“MEET MACKINAW”: Jan. 19-21, Mackinaw Clothing & Sportswear, Mackinaw City. A Regionally Inspired Art Exhibit. Presented by the Mackinaw City Area Arts Council. Featuring artwork that reflects the beauty found in the northern lower peninsula. 231-412-2787.

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“THE LYRICS OF BOB DYLAN”: Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. Nobel Laureate 2016.

This all media exhibition runs through March. threepinesstudio.com

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

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

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BLACK & WHITE WITH A LITTLE RED EXHIBIT: Runs through March 3 at Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. A reception will be held on Sat., Feb. 10 from 5-7pm.

Hours: Tues.-Fri.: 11am-3pm; Sat.: 11am-1pm. gacaevents.weebly.com

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

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

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

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

NEW YEAR LIFE SKILLS CLASSES: Wednesdays, 6-8pm, Jan. 24 - Feb. 21.

Journey Wesleyan Church, TC. Presented by Love In the Name of Christ. Featuring Basic Budgeting, Communication Skills, Smart Food Shopping, Goal Setting, & Parenting Topics.

Call to register: 941-5683.

GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB: Runs through Apr. 7 at Right Brain Brewery, TC. This collaborative art show featuring talent from around northern MI gives artists an opportunity to showcase their talents with minimal cost.

An Encore Reception will be held on Sat., Feb. 10, & a Closing Reception will be held on Sat., April 7. gt-artbomb.wixsite.com/2018

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OLD MISSION SNOWSHOE, WINE & BREW: Sundays, 11am through March 4. Starts at Jolly Pumpkin, TC & then shuttles to Brys Estate, followed by snowshoeing to Bowers Harbor Vineyards & Jolly Pumpkin. tcbrewbus.com/events

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

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

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

---------------------SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: Saturdays, 12-5pm, Jan. 20 - Feb. 24. Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. Explore easy to moderate trails & then warm up with drinks & food. Hearth & Vine Café will provide beef & bean chili, white chicken chili & a grilled sandwich. Last snowshoe rental ($15) is at 4pm. blackstarfarms. com/snowshoes-vines-wines

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STORY TIME: Horizon Books, Cadillac. Held on Wednesdays from 4-5pm. Hear a story & participate in an activity. Find on Facebook.

---------------------SUNDAY FAMILY FUN SKI: Sundays, 2-3:30pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire.

Rent cross country skis by donation & sign up for an instructor to guide you through the trails.

Enjoy a fire & hot cocoa afterwards. 231-5338576. grassriver.org

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

---------------------BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April. Main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City. boynecitymainstreet.com/farmers-marketwelcome

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

This market has moved back inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: - MOLLY PHINNY: WORKS IN CLOTH 20152017: A small survey of fiber constructions by Leelanau County artist Molly Phinny. Runs through April 8. 231-334-6112

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- NEW GALLERY/NEW WORK: This exhibition showcases the work of 25 visual artists from Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau & Manistee counties. The first “Talk About Art” will be held on Sun., Jan. 21 at 2pm, where GAAA Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal will talk with Jesse Hickman, mixed media artist; & painters Richard Kooyman & Sheila Stafford about the challenges & strategies they use to keep their work fresh & new. The second “Talk About Art” will be held on Sun., Feb. 11 at 2pm with Beth Bynum, mixed media collage & assemblage artist, & Mary O’Neill, who works in PLART [fused recycled plastic]. The exhibition runs through Feb. 22. glenarborart.org

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

- TUTANKHAMUN: “WONDERFUL THINGS” FROM THE PHARAOH’S TOMB: Jan. 21 May. 6. From the artisans of the Pharaonic Village in Egypt & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibit features about 100 replicas of the pharaoh’s possessions & artifacts from the period surrounding Tutankhamun’s reign. It reconstructs the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter & the life of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Hours: Mon.-Sat.: 10am-5pm; Thurs.: 10am8pm; Sun.: 1-5pm. A free public open house will be held on Sun., Jan. 21 from 1-5pm. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------- ---------------------INDOOR FARMERS MARKET, THE MERCATO, THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Saturdays, 10am-2pm through April. 941-1961.

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“INSPIRED: ARTISTIC IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAND TRAVERSE COMMONS”: The Village at GT Commons, Sanctuary, TC. Runs through Jan. 20. thevillagetc.com

CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - 2018 JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Through March 24. This year’s juror is photographer & founder of the annual Photostock Festival, Bill Schwab. crookedtree.org

ARE YOU READY FOR THE GRAMMYS? The 2018 Grammy Awards are just around the corner, with a whole host of musicians in several different categories lined up to perform at this year’s event. In addition to performances from Childish Gambino, Little Big Town, P!nk, and Lady Gaga, you can also expect a special tribute to Broadway, honoring the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Leonard Bernstein (presided over by Ben Platt and Patti LuPone.) Catch it Sunday, Jan. 28, broadcast live on CBS TV from Madison Square Garden in New York City.

At 8pm Tuesday, Jan. 30, — Grammy organizers will be busy with Elton John: I’m Still Standing – A Grammy Salute, during which many of Elton John’s musical peers will pay tribute to him at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Featured performers will include Kesha, Miley Cyrus, John Legend, Sam Smith, Keith Urban, and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, among others. Each will sing a selection from John’s discography, with that special show set to be broadcast later this year, also on CBS …

The Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festivals have announced their heavy-duty lineups for their 2018 editions; both will take place June 1–3 this year in Nürburgring

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and Nuremberg, Germany. The triple threat of headliners will include electro-hip-hoppop outfit Gorillaz, alt-rockers Thirty Seconds to Mars, and ever-popular festival fave Foo Fighters. They’ll be joined on the lineup by A Perfect Circle, Enter Shikari, Good Charlotte, Rise Against, Asking Alexandria, and more …

In other festival news (and a little closer to northern Michigan), the roster for this year’s Rock on the Range Festival has been announced, with that event taking place May 18–20 in Columbus, Ohio.

Topping the bill will be Tool and Alice in Chains, with additional performances happening from Stone Sour, Three Days Grace, Machine Gun Kelly, Breaking Benjamin, and Stone Temple Pilots, who will be taking the stage with new frontman/singer Jeff Gutt, a native of Marine City, Michigan …

LINK OF THE WEEK The new reboot of the ’90s movie Jumanji, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, is still crashing through theaters and racking up some big bucks, but also of note is the movie’s dynamic, impressive soundtrack as composed by Henry Jackman. Check it out at the Jumanji official website, jumanjimovie.com …

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THE BUZZ Michigan’s own music awards show, The Jammie Awards, is set for Friday, Feb. 9 at The Intersection in Grand Rapids, with performances from Jake Kershaw, Yolonda Lavender, The Founding, ConvoTronics, and Major Murphy …

A performance competition at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum determined who would be awarded two spots on the roster for the Kalamazoo Fretboard Festival, taking place in early March): Jam band Cosmic Knot and country/folk artist Sarah Lynn were the winners for 2018 …

Swifties, get ready for the big show — Taylor Swift’s Reputation stadium tour is heading to Detroit’s Ford Field on Aug. 28 …

Shakira fans, however, will have to wait until Saturday, Aug. 4 for her Detroit appearance (at Little Caesars Arena), as the Colombian singer has had to postpone her prior Jan. 22 concert date due to medical reasons …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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After a half dozen ambitious albums, BRMC’s latest seems to step back a little, in that it seems comfortable relying confidently on the sound the band has crafted. It opens the set with an instrumental (“DFF”), then dives right in to the rest of the album with the in-your-face rawk of “Spook” and “King of Bones.”

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The Indiana band has spent most of 2017 touring, have much of 2018 already booked for more road time yet, somewhere in the middle, it carved out a week to record this album, which is a mix of live favorites and some new songs that have reportedly been sitting on McGee’s back burner for a while. Active fans will recognize tracks like “Remind Me” and parts of “The Silent Type” that were played at live shows; the rest of the set is a good enough intro to a band that’s something of an acquired listen.

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“If you’re kind and polite, the world will be right.” That is the motto our beloved blue toggle-coat-wearing, marmalade-loving, and impeccably mannered ursine hero lives by. And for the hour and 40 minutes you’re watching Paddington 2, those words not only seem true but also pretty much sum up why this uber-delightful film is the movie we need right now.

After a run of a heavy prestige Oscarbait films (’tis the season), it’s time for some enchanting escapism. And while I have loved many of those more serious films of this winter, and found them, like The Post in particular, to be vital pieces of work for our embittered times, I was surprised by just how much I also responded to the good-natured sweetness and disarming gentleness of Paddington 2.

With a generous and playful spirit and a compassionate and open heart, the splendid sequel to 2014’s Paddington is a perfect family adventure. Featuring an incredible cast of great British actors, alluring animation that blends seamlessly into a live action world, witty wordplay, and wonderful sight gags, this is warm, whimsical, and comforting entertainment that is never predictable. Set in a simultaneously modern and timeless London, it seems to exist in the same universe as The Great British Bakeoff, in the similar cozy, contented feeling it delivers.

We pick back up with Paddington in his Windsor Gardens home, where he now resides with his new adopted family, the Browns: free-spirited illustrator mother, Mary (The Shape of Water’s Sally Hawkins); risk-averse risk analyst father, Henry (Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville); and their two smart and thoughtful children, Judy and Jonathan.

Paddington has become part of the fabric of the neighborhood, and in a remarkably choreographed sequence of delights, we see just how as he shares breakfast with a cyclist, helps the garbage man study, and reminds a neighbor to grab his keys. Basically, he brings joy wherever he goes and no one bats an eye at the fact that there is a bear walking around and talking, and neither will you.

Part caper, part mystery, part treasure hunt, and full-on treat, the crux of the story’s action stems from Paddington’s wish to get his Aunt Lucy, who he left back home in Peru, the perfect birthday present. And he finds it at an antique shop helmed by the great Jim Broadbent — a meticulously crafted pop-up book of London. And the imaginative animated sequence that finds

Paddington exploring the pages with dear Aunt Lucy is really something to see.

While it is indeed the perfect gift, the rub is that it’s also quite valuable, and Paddington’s only got the one coin he dug up from his ear. So he sets out to get a job, and you can bet charming hijinks ensue as the clumsy bear attempts to find his calling.

Right when Paddington has almost has earned enough to buy the book, he catches someone breaking in to the shop, lo-andbehold, to steal said book! Good Samaritan that he is, Paddington tries to track down the thief, but the culprit gets away and ends up framing Paddington for the dastardly deed, sending poor Paddington to prison.

Now I know, this sounds like a dark turn, and Paddington is certainly more than a little dismayed to find out no one in prison wants to start a gardening club or read him a story before bed, but no one has ever spent a more amusing time in the can. With his ingenuous charm Paddington befriends even the hardest of criminals, an irascible Brendan Gleeson among them, and utterly transforms the bleak place, flooding it with music, color, life, and … marmalade.

Meanwhile the Brown family works tirelessly to free Paddington by finding the real offender. And it’s not a spoiler to reveal that it’s the devious actor a few doors down, who is using the book as a key to find clues at various London landmarks that will lead to a treasure. And as played

by Hugh Grant, this washed-up thespian now doing dog food commercials is gloriously campy and self-aware, and some of Grant’s very best work.

There’s a madcap chase, the greatest prison breakout since The Grand Budapest Hotel (the Wes Anderson comparisons do not stop there, folks), clever Chaplininspired slapstick comedy, tender moments, and plenty of derring-do. This is truly all ages entertainment. It doesn’t subscribe to American kiddie entertainment notions of dual address, it doesn’t need to — it’s heartwarming and hilarious and just plain enjoyable for everyone.

Paddington 2 may not be complicated (OK, there is the subtlest of post-Brexit pro-immigration subtext) and it may not be serious, but that it so joyfully exudes decency, respect, and kindness, well, these days that makes it all the more affecting and even profound.

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

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

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

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

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

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apturing less than a month in the life of Winston Churchill as he first takes office as Prime Minster of the United Kingdom and sets out to, you know, save the world from tyranny during some of the darkest days of WWII, Darkest Hour gives us a rousing and semi-revealing portrait of the British Bulldog. And as a historic drama featuring a transformative performance (from Gary Oldham as Churchill) and middlebrow storytelling, this is pretty much your standard prestige picture, Oscar-bait stuff. The film’s more theatrical focus on “behind-closed-doors” political meetings and emphasis on rhetoric as his fellow party members seek to have Churchill consider peace talks over his more “never, never, never give up” approach, plods along slowly. That being said though, right now definitely seems like a good time for just about any kind of movie about bringing down fascists.

So by bringing to life such a towering figure of history and telling an important story, the film might not be a masterpiece, but to paraphrase Churchill, the filmmakers definitely didn’t bugger it up.

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: Out of the blue, my boyfriend of two years broke up with me. Not long afterward, I saw pix on Facebook of him with some other girl. It’s been two months since our breakup, and he wants to reconcile, so whatever he got into obviously tanked. We were planning on moving in together in the spring. (Maybe he got cold feet?) I still love him, but I’m worried.

Did he just break up with me to be with this girl? How do I know this won’t happen again?

— Fighting Uncertainty

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: We crave certainty, and we get freaked out by uncertainty. If we weren’t like this, there would be no horror movies, because somebody would say, “Whoa…I hear this weird, unearthly growling in the basement,” and their friend would say, “Yeah, whatever” and keep playing chess, and the monster would cry itself to sleep off camera.

Interestingly, there are some lessons for dealing with potential romantic horror from actual horror fare. Evolutionary researcher Mathias Clasen, author of “Why Horror Seduces,” believes that one reason we appreciate horror movies is that they allow us to have an intense scary experience under safe circumstances — basically acting as a sort of mental training to help us protect ourselves in dire situations. For example, from a list of horror movie survival tips at the website Slasher Mania: “As a general rule, don’t solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.”

Because horror movies are “evolutionarily novel” — meaning they didn’t exist in the ancestral environment that shaped the psychology still driving us today — our brains tend to respond to fictional slasher/zombie/ demon stuff as if it were real. So, upon entering a tall building, I occasionally flash on a helpful life lesson I picked up from “The Shining”: If the elevator opens and a flood of blood comes out, take the stairs.

Research by Clasen and his colleagues (presented at a 2017 academic conference I attended, but not yet published) appears to give preliminary support to his horror-moviesas-life-prep hypothesis. There is also published research showing benefits from what I’d call “preparative worrying.” For example, social psychologist Kate Sweeny found that law students who worried more about taking their bar exam felt much better about their results -- whether they passed or tanked the thing -compared with those who didn’t fret or didn’t fret much.

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Sweeny notes that findings from her research and others’ support two benefits of worry.

Worry amps up motivation — spotlighting “the importance of taking action” to head off some undesirable outcome. Worry also leads people “to engage in proactive coping efforts” — providing an emotional airbag should things go badly.

As for your situation, sadly, Apple and Amazon have been remiss in giving Siri and Alexa a crystal ball feature, so there’s no way to know for sure whether this guy would just end up bouncing again. But there is a helpful way to “worry” about a possible future with him, and it’s to do it like a scientist, estimating “probabilities” — what seems likely to happen based on prior experience and information.

To do that, ask yourself some questions: Is he generally a person who feels an obligation to be careful with other people’s feelings? How in touch is he with his own? Is he easily bored and does he have a big lust for novelty and excitement (called being “high in sensationseeking” by psychologists)?

Next, factor in your own temperament -how emotionally fragile or resilient you are.

Practically speaking, the question to ask yourself: “If he left again, how crushing would that be for me?” However, in answering that, it’s important to get specific about the actual worst-case scenario; for example: “I’d spend four months deforesting the Pacific Northwest by binge-weeping into Kleenex.” This might be a price you’re willing to pay for a shot at being with the man you love, especially if you hate trees.

Ultimately, as psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, who studies decision-making, writes: “Understand that there is no certainty and no zero-risk, but only risks that are more or less acceptable.” If you conclude that you can accept the potential downsides of trying again with him, consider that his aborted jaunt off into Otherwomanland may have been a good thing.

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to point us in the right direction. Or, putting that another way, perhaps through your boyfriend’s going for what he thought he wanted, he figured out what he really wants.

To avoid being resentful over this little detour of his, maybe use the experience as a reminder to appreciate what you have as long as you have it. As we’ve seen, there are no guarantees in life — not even that the government has safeguards on the missile strike warning system stronger than your grandma’s AOL password. (Hi, Hawaii — glad you’re still with us!)

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1 Trivia contest locales 5 Went over like ___ balloon 10 Sheep sounds 14 Racecar driver Luyendyk whose son is currently “The Bachelor” 15 How some rooms are lit 16 Shrek or Fiona, e.g.

17 Hanging around, being a particle, losing its charge, catching up on reading, etc.?

19 Like some histories 20 Piece of property 21 Gym fixture 23 Take out 25 May honoree 26 Anticipating a little devil?

33 Furor 34 Leachman of “Young Frankenstein” 35 Caffeine-containing nut 37 “Rebel Without a Cause” costar Sal 39 “Superman” archvillain Luthor 40 Abate 41 Tennis player Wawrinka 42 Copper coating 44 “May ___ now?”

45 Nonexistent grades like “G+”?

48 “Westworld” network 49 Photos, slangily 50 Chain that sells a lot of cups 56 Time periods 60 “Free Willy” whale 61 “Give it up!” (or what the theme answers do) 63 Clock face 64 Pulitzer-winning novelist Alison 65 Spiced tea beverage 66 Gardener’s purchase 67 Streisand title role of 1983 68 Russian ruler, before 1917

1 NATO phonetic alphabet letter after Oscar 2 Web addresses 3 Confirmation ___ 4 Iroquois League nation 5 Big bother 6 Pick-me-up 7 Abu Dhabi leader, for instance 8 Lip balm ingredient 9 Phenomenal performers 10 Soundstage equipment that hangs high 11 Cultural leader?

12 Kazakhstan border “Sea” that’s really a lake 13 Auction off 18 Exterior finish for some houses 22 Palme ___ (Cannes Film Festival prize) 24 ___ Tuesday (“Voices Carry” group) 26 Water filter brand name 27 Kidney-related 28 “The Dark Knight” trilogy director 29 “Lady Bird” writer-director Gerwig 30 Hyphenated descriptor for a repairperson 31 Recurrent theme 32 Not-so-subtle promos 33 Contacts online, for short 36 Abbr. on military mail 38 Spellbind 40 Sumptuous 42 In a self-satisfied way, maybe 43 Little bite 46 Flow’s counterpart 47 Look forward to 50 Covers with turf 51 Muse, for one 52 Antioxidant-rich berry 53 Heavy metal’s Mˆtley ___ 54 “Freak on a Leash” band 55 Barbecue rod 57 Satisfied sounds 58 March Madness gp.

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another opens,” said inventor Alexander Graham Bell. “But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened.” Heed his advice, Aquarius.

Take the time you need to mourn the lost opportunity. But don’t take MORE than the time you need. The replacement or alternative to what’s gone will show up sooner than you think.

painted the most famous portrait of America’s first president, George Washington. It’s the image on the U.S. one-dollar bill. And yet Stuart never finished the masterpiece. Begun in 1796, it was still a work-in-progress when Stuart died in 1828.

Leonardo da Vinci had a similar type of success. His incomplete painting The Virgin and Child with St. Anne hangs in the Louvre in Paris, and his unfinished The Adoration of the Magi has been in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery since 1671. I propose that Stuart and da Vinci serve as your role models in the coming weeks.

Maybe it’s not merely OK if a certain project of yours remains unfinished; maybe that’s actually the preferred outcome.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Anders Haugen

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competed for the U.S. as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete who had previously set a world record for distance, he won no medals at the games. But wait! Fifty years later, a sports historian discovered that there had a been a scoring mistake back in 1924.

In fact, Haugen had done well enough to win the bronze medal.

The mistake was rectified, and he finally got his long-postponed award. I foresee a comparable development happening in your life, Aries. Recognition or appreciation you deserved to have received some time ago will finally come your way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): In 1899,

Sobhuza II became King of Swaziland even though he was less than five months old. He kept his job for the next 82 years, and along the way managed to play an important role when his nation gained independence from the colonial rule of the United Kingdom. These days you may feel a bit like Sobhuza did when he was still in diapers, Taurus: not sufficiently prepared or mature for the greater responsibilities that are coming your way. But just as he received competent help in his early years from his uncle and grandmother, I suspect you’ll receive the support you’ll need to ripen.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “When one door closes,

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world, dancing and singing wouldn’t be luxuries practiced primarily by professionals. They would be regular occurrences in our daily routines. We’d dance and sing whenever we needed a break from the numbing trance. We’d whirl and hum to pass the time. We would greet each other with an interpretative movement and a little tune. In schools, dance and song would be a standard part of the curriculum -- as important as math and history. That’s my utopian dream, Gemini. What’s yours? In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to identify the soul medicine you’d love to incorporate into your everyday regimen. Then go ahead and incorporate it! It’s time for you to get more aggressive about creating the world you want to live in.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Psychology

pioneer Carl Jung believed that most of our big problems can never be fully solved. And that’s actually a good thing. Working on them keeps us lively, in a state of constant transformation. It ensures we don’t stagnate. I generally agree with Jung’s high opinion of our problems. We should indeed be grateful for the way they impel us to grow. However, I think that’s irrelevant for you right now. Why? Because you have an unprecedented opportunity to solve and graduate from a major long-running problem. So no, don’t be grateful for it. Get rid of it. Say goodbye to it forever.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Between now and

March 21, you will be invited, encouraged, and pushed to deepen your understanding of intimate relationships. You will have the chance to learn much, much more about how to create

the kind of togetherness that both comforts and inspires you.

Will you take advantage of this eight-week opportunity? I hope so. You may imagine that you have more pressing matters to attend to. But the fact is that cultivating your relationship skills would transform you in ways that would best serve those other pressing matters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In December,

mass protests broke out in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. Why? The economy had been gradually worsening. Inflation was slowly but surely exacting a toll. Unemployment was increasing. But one of the immediate triggers for the uprising was a 40-percent hike in the price of eggs. It focused the Iranian people’s collective angst and galvanized a dramatic response. I’m predicting a comparable sequence in your personal future, Virgo. A specific irritant will emerge, motivating you to stop putting up with trends that have been subtly bothering you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the late 1980s,

Budweiser used a Bull Terrier to promote its Bud Light beer in commercials. The dog, who became mega-famous, was presented as a rich macho party animal named Spuds MacKenzie.

T h e ad campaign was successful, boosting sales 20 percent. But the truth was that the actor playing Spuds was a female dog whose owners called her Evie. To earn money, the poor creature, who was born under the sign of Libra, was forced to assume a false identity. To honor Evie’s memory, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you human Libras to strip away any layers of false identity you’ve been pressured to acquire. Be your Real Self -- to the max.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The giant

panda is a bear native to China. In the wild, its diet is 99 percent bamboo. But bamboo is not an energy-rich food, which means the creature has to compensate by consuming 20 to 30 pounds of the stuff every day. Because it’s so busy gathering its sustenance, the panda doesn’t have time to do much socializing. I mention this, Scorpio, because I want to offer up the panda as your anti-power animal for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should have a diversified approach to getting your needs met -- not just in regards to food, but in every other way as well. Variety is not just the spice of life; it’s the essence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re

the star of the “movie” that endlessly unfolds in your imagination. There may be a number of other lead actors and actresses, but few if any have your luster and stature. You also have a supporting cast, as well as a full complement of extras. To generate all the adventure you need, your story needs a lot of dramatis personae. In the coming weeks, I suggest that you be alert for certain minor characters who are primed to start playing a bigger role in your narrative. Consider the possibility of inviting them to say and do more to advance the plot.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Thirty-five

miles per hour is typically the highest speed attained by the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. That’s not very fast. On the other hand, each ship’s engine generates 190 megawatts, enough to provide the energy needs of 140,000 houses, and can go more than 20 years without refueling. If you don’t mind, I’m going to compare you to one of those aircraft carriers during the next four weeks. You may not be moving fast, but you will have maximum stamina and power.

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