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I wanted to offer a different perspective on the issue of raising the minimum wage. The argument that raising the minimum wage will result in job loss is a bogus scare tactic. The need for labor will not change, just the cost of it, which will be passed on to the consumer, as it always has. “Higher prices will cost me business” they claim, while conveniently leaving out the other side of this equation: the four million Michigan residents making the minimum wage will suddenly have more spending power! Our economy is consumer-driven. Put more money into the hands of the working class and it will be spent here and now, creating demand for goods and services in our state. More demand for goods and services means the hiring of more people to provide them. Pay these employees a living wage and...the snowball effect! Raise the minimum wage. It’s a win-win! Lee Astrauckas, Mancelona
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Remember Bush-Cheney
Does anyone remember George W. Bush and Dick Cheney? They were president and vice president a mere eight years ago. Does anyone out there remember the way things were at the end of their duo? It was terrible. The Republicans have spent the last eight years obstructing every effort to fix what they screwed up. I say loud and clear that many people hate Obama simply because he’s black. Blatant racism. I don’t understand the hatred bestowed on Hillary. I find it very disturbing not to have any mention of our former president and vice president during the Republican convention. Why do they choose to ignore them and why are so many Republicans refusing to support Trump? Do they see some disturbing similarities? I believe so. Gary R. Baumdraher, Maple City
Mass Shootings And Gun Control
The largest mass shooting in U.S. history occurred December 29,1890, when 297 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in South Dakota were murdered by federal agents and members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their firearms “for their own safety and protection.” The slaughter began after the majority of the Sioux had peacefully turned in their firearms.
The cavalry began shooting and managed to wipe out the entire camp. Two hundred of the 297 victims were women and children. Wounded Knee was among the first federally backed gun confiscation attempts in U.S. history. The Second Amendment supports the right of the people to take up arms in defense of themselves, their families and property in the face of invading armies or an oppressive government. It was written by people who fled oppressive and tyrannical regimes in Europe, and it refers to the right of American citizens to be armed for defensive purposes. Wounded Knee is the prime example of why the Second Amendment exists and why we should vehemently resist any attempts to infringe on our rights to bear arms. Without the Second Amendment we will be stripped of any ability to defend ourselves. With gun control comes death to those that it is supposed to Protect. Hitler used gun control to “protect” the citizens in Europe. Gun control seeks to leave you defenseless. A.J. Fasel, Traverse City Familes Need Representation When one party dominates the Michigan administration and legislature, half of Michigan families are not represented on the important issues that face our state. When a policy affects the non-voting K-12 students, they too are left out, especially when it comes to graduation requirements. Michigan requires 18 credits to graduate, which it allots in a highly prescribed, onesize-fits-all policy. This leaves little time for students to pursue their interests and develop skills necessary for a career after high school graduation with courses in technology, industrial arts, or the skill center. We need an individual in Lansing who understands these issues and can speak to the point that our students are not clones. Ron Dykstra, Beulah
Cherryland Electric is about to change their net metering policy. In a nutshell, they want to buy the electricity from those of us who produce clean renewable electric at a rate far below the rate they buy electricity from other sources. They believe very few people have an interest in renewable energy. The board members are deciding this for the entire “cooperative” so I encourage all members to go to Cherryland’s web site and call or e-mail all the board members to cancel the implementation of this new policy. Russ Packard, Northport
Settled Science
Climate change science is based on the accumulated evidence gained from studying the greenhouse effect for 200 years. The greenhouse effect keeps our planet 50 degrees warmer due to heattrapping gases in our atmosphere. Basic principles of physics and chemistry dictate that Earth will warm as concentrations of greenhouse gases increase. Global warming is occurring because we have added more than 40 percent more carbon and three times as much methane in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution began. The global economy is fueled by burning CO2 to meet the needs of a dramatic rise in population, which has increased seven times during over this period. The rise in CO2 corresponds to the rise in global temperature. Prior to the Industrial revolution and after last Ice Age, CO2 has been stable or balanced, resulting in a stable climate. Given the above along with over 98 percent agreement among climate scientists and support from the vast majority of other scientific organizations, the science is settled. Human activity is the primary cause of global warming. We are also approaching tipping points that would initiate feedback loops that would intensify the problem. We can no longer gamble that we can afford to delay action any further. Given the above, we must act now. Ronald Marshall, Petoskey
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Free Parking?..................................................10 Music Meets Movies at the TCFF......................13 See the Future at The Woz...............................14 Changing Lives on the Red Dirt Road...............20 History is Stored in Horton Bay........................23 The Pointer Returns...........................................24 Catch Me If You Can.......................................27 Life in the Past Lane........................................28 Seen...............................................................31
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“The parade looked like how I always picture America in my mind when out of the country,” she marveled. “So diverse; people looked like the could have come from anywhere and everywhere across the globe. All colors all hues, and all of them marching together as one; what a country!” Alas, in a matter of days her infectious optimism was shattered. The parades were over, the wild display of national pride had started to recede into the shadows. Gone was the sense of an America embracing its diversities and differences, and in its place arose again the images such as the bloody aftermath of yet another police shooting. Protests have been taking place across the country in response to shootings in Minnesota, Louisiana, and Dallas.
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Nobody writes like that anymore; it is also abundantly clear that nobody writing today thinks like that. Mailer was able to see the gray areas, while so many of our writers/thinkers today tend to see black versus white, wrong versus right. The hope that our shared racial past would drown in a sea of diversity flickers like a match lit against a storm, yet refuses to die. We thought we had seen the worst, but this new wave of hatred has us all disenchanted and discouraged. The tiny hope nurtured in the deepest part of the American psyche has been severely tested these last few weeks. The violence reported from other countries almost always involved violence perpetrated by foreigners. The distressing part of our violent July is mostly homegown. America cannibalizes itself in ways that are as surprising as they are inexplicable and unsettling.
It is estimated that 40 percent of Americans support that candidate, which raises the question: Which America is the real one, the one my daughter observed at the parade, or the one represented by the recent violence and the spectacles attending the Republican candidate’s rally?
An inability to let it go -- to be both realistic and resigned to a fate destined from the start -that is our due, the ending we have worked for, hoped for, without being the least bit conscious of the outcome and price we will have to pay for when it’s all over. It is very much like watching the end of a movie and never having the opportunity to see how it starts. The ending is clear, the beginning hidden in the mist of past times.
We seem to lack either the will or the inclination to change course. As my daughter observed, there’s some wonderful, amazing good stuff happening here, things that we never thought we would see: Supreme Court rulings turning down Texas restrictions of abortion rights; the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage; TV commercials where you see successful couples of all different colors, mixed couples, same sex couples, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, nonbelievers, all representing American values. On the other hand, at the same time, you can’t help but see the apparent increase in hate mongering, violence and domestic terrorism and the ugly specter of the Republican nominee who, against all common sense and decency, commands millions of followers. These two trends develop in tandem at a dizzying pace, both the positive and the negative superimposed upon each other. I am an optimist, and I’d like to think that fundamental goodness of Americans will prevail, as it almost always has, and this too will
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In “Huckleberry Finn Alive at 100,” Norman Mailer wrote that “the near burned out, throttled, hate-filled dying affair between whites and blacks is still our great national love affair because it frees us to think of democracy and its sublime, terrifying premise. Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.”
Later the same day of the Dallas shootings, a supporter of the Republican presidential candidate called for the beginning of a race war in America. The candidate himself has been accused -- not without justification -- of racism, xenophobia, misogamy, and inciting violence at his rallies. He has encouraged his followers to “knock the hell out of them.
As a song from the turbulent 60s declares, “there’s something going on here; what it is isn’t exactly clear.” Our country seems to be coming together and coming apart, all at the same time, and right before our eyes.
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pass (as Lincoln famously said during another period of national turmoil). I invoke Lincoln because it does seem to me that America is going through another civil war, and this war may well last longer than the first one.
The burden gets so heavy at times it seems we will not be able to carry on; yet we persist for that is all we know. We are in this together, even as we fail to acknowledge our shared history and the inexorability of the fate that awaits us. When our daughter boarded the plane back to a country where most people look differently than she, her eyes were misty. It was not just that she would be missing her parents, but it was because America frightens her now. It frightens her so that she cannot imagine her son, my grandson, growing up here. She loves our country like any other good American, flaws and all; nevertheless, however, she admitted, “I feel we are safer in Sweden.” And that breaks my heart. Isiah Smith, Jr. is a former columnist for the Miami Times. He worked as a psychotherapist before attending the University of Miami Law School, where he also received a Master’s Degree in Psychology. In December 2013, he retired from the Department of Energy’s Office of General Counsel, where he served as a Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Administrative Litigation and Information Law. Isiah lives in Traverse City with his wife Marlene.
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A gallery style pop-up show, Traverse Higher Art Exhibition, with over 50 artists, will be shown at ECCO Event Space in Downtown TC on Friday & Saturday, July 29-30. Friday’s hours are 10am-7pm, with an opening reception from 4-7pm, featuring an art raffle, live music & more. Saturday’s hours are 10am-6pm. Proceeds benefit Speak Up, the homeless street zine. For more info find ‘Traverse Higher Art Exhibition’ on Facebook.
A young Ernest Hemingway will soon return to the streets of Petoskey. City council members approved a statue deign at their July meeting, paving the way for the statue to be sculpted and installed in 2017. The tribute to the author who spent his first 22 summers in Petoskey and on Walloon Lake was not without hiccups — some city officials and the family who are donating the statue disagreed about where the artwork should be placed. With that settled, the statue is destined for a spot in Pennsylvania Park near the gazebo. “I’m very happy that they got this settled,” said Carlin Smith, president of the Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce. “This was a very generous gift to the city of Petoskey and I’m glad we found a way to accept the gift that’s agreeable to everyone involved.”
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CMU’s “Northern Campus” Turns 50
Central Michigan University’s “northern campus” — the CMU Biology Station on Beaver Island — celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer. The multi-million dollar complex includes lecture halls, labs and a 28-foot research vessel that are used for scientific research and summer classes. The university bought the lakefront pretty for $1 in 1942 and it was named the CMU Biological Station in 1966. Like Beaver Island, the place is quiet in the winter and busy in the summer, filling up with masters and Ph.D. candidates there to pursue field research. The station is used to study water quality, invasive species and native wildlife.
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Closest to the heart of Traverse City Two quintessential Michigan companies are celebrating anniversaries this year – and their brands are uniting together to create one delicious pie. The Grand Traverse Pie Company, which is 20 years old this year, is offering a special limited-time-only Vernors Cherry Pie for the summer. According to GT Pie, Vernors – celebrating its 150th birthday – “ties back to good things people remember about their childhood and when times were simpler.” The pie features a tangy balance of Montmorency cherries grown in northern Michigan, ginger, and that “famous Vernors flavor,” according to GT Pie. The filling is topped off with the company’s trademark lattice dough. The Vernors Cherry Pie is available through September 11 at all 16 GT Pie locations, and can also be shipped anywhere in the country through the company’s online store at gtpie.com. Pick one up and see why the bakery promises that “every bite is guaranteed to be a perfect Michigan treat.” - Beth Milligan
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How does a person desirous of living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, instead of just visiting, end up playing such a distant second fiddle?
The job, downplayed by most of us, does come with some real potential. That entire “heartbeat away from the presidency” cliché has been prophetic nine times in our history; that’s 20 percent of our presidencies that ended before a term’s natural conclusion.
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And Pence has a visceral dislike for all things Clinton, so Trump logically assumed he’d be a useful attack dog on the campaign trail. The better question might be why did Pence, with presidential aspirations of his own, accept?
Pence, a safe choice, survived the vetting process, no campaign-destroying skeletons having been found. But campaign braintrusts are always naively hopeful the vice presidential pick will do more than avoid catastrophe.
Mike Pence is the latest victim, er ... choice. Should his ticket win in November, Vice President Pence will have but a single constitutional responsibility: In the unlikely event of a tie vote in the Senate, he gets to break the deadlock. That’s it.
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Pence was elected to Congress on the tea party wave and has remained in the group’s good favor. As governor of Indiana, he has gladly signed restrictive abortion legislation and the infamous religious freedom bill that allows store owners to discriminate against members of the LGBT community. Trump likely believed that would give him better credentials with social conservatives skeptical of his commitment to their cause.
Four presidents died in office from illness (Harrison, Taylor, Harding and FDR), and four were assassinated (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy). One, Richard Nixon, resigned. (Michigan’s Gerald Ford then became the only person to have ever served as vice president and president without having been elected to either.) How does Pence, or anyone, end up with the job? Clearly, the most important criterium is the ability to actually be president, something John McCain forgot when he made his selection. They can’t have a scandal in their past or a potential one in their future. They can’t have behaved like an idiot on social media. They can’t be on the wrong side of any litmus test issue. Pence, a safe choice, survived the vetting process, no campaign-destroying skeletons having been found. But campaign braintrusts are always naively hopeful the vice presidential pick will do more than avoid catastrophe. They always talk about what the second choice will add to the ticket.
Maybe he was just happy to get out of Indiana, where his approval rating is now below 40 percent and still falling. Maybe he figured Trump will lose, and Pence, having soldiered on bravely during a losing campaign, can keep his White House hopes alive. Unfortunately, only one losing vice presidential candidate in history eventually has won the presidency; FDR was on the losing ticket in 1920 before being elected president in 1932. We have a difficult enough time just remembering losing vice presidential nominees. Quick now, who was Al Gore’s VP in 2000? How about John Kerry’s in 2004? Or Mitt Romney’s in 2008? Exactly. (Senator Joe Lieberman was Gore’s running mate. He lost his bid for re-election to the Senate. John Edwards ran with Kerry. His career ended with scandal and criminal charges. Congressman Paul Ryan, now Speaker of the House, ran with Romney.) Perhaps Pence believes Trump will win and, in four or eight years, he will be the presumptive successor. But being the sitting vice president is also a poor launching pad for a presidential campaign; only four (John Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren and Bush the Elder) have been elected president. It’s not exactly a dead-end job but, sadly, the vice president’s best chance of promotion is that something terrible befalls the president. Come to think of it, Trump would be the oldest president ever. Now it’s Hillary Clinton’s turn. And another vice presidential nominee will smile into the cameras despite the history. After all, Clinton also would be almost the oldest president ever.
Crime & Rescue CHARGES IN HOMELESS ATTACKS One of two teenagers arrested for attacking groups of homeless people in Traverse City faces up to a year in jail on assault charges. A second suspect arrested in the case will not face charges after investigators determined that while he was present during the assaults, he did not take part. Maayingen Brauker, 19, faces two counts of aggravated assault and seven counts of assault and battery. Grand Traverse County Prosecutor Robert Cooney said that after a careful investigation it was determined that 19-year-old Timothy Boomer was present during the assaults but did not take part. Cooney said Boomer cooperated with the investigation. The charges against Brauker list eight victims, one of them assaulted twice. The assaults took place on July 6 and 7 and were investigated by Traverse City Police. “No one deserves to be assaulted. However, it is particularly disturbing when homeless persons are randomly assaulted,” Cooney said in a statement. “These folks have enough problems in their lives without having to worry about intentional acts of physical violence committed against them. We will do all we can to seek justice in this case.” METH LAB UNCOVERED Cadillac Police went to a residence to investigate a disturbance and they discovered a meth lab. Officers knocked on a door on Evart Street July 17 and made contact with the residents, according to a Traverse Narcotics Team press release. On a deck behind the house they found methamphetamine lab components in a duffle bag and a case for a long gun. The officers called TNT to help investigate. A search warrant was granted and police discovered an active one-pot meth lab in the house. Investigators said they expect a male suspect who fled on foot before they arrived will be charged, ROLLOVER LEADS TO CUFFS First someone called Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies to report a rollover crash. Then someone called to report the driver who crashed had been picked up and driven away. Deputies spotted the white pickup suspected of ferrying away the driver from the crash July 17 at 9:30pm. The suspect was a passenger in the pickup truck when deputies pulled the vehicle over. The 27-year-old Buckley man had been injured and needed medical treatment. After treatment he was arrested for drunk driving. The man had crashed a 1964 Volkswagen Beetle when he took a curve on Fouch Road in Solon Township too fast. HOME BURNS IN TC Traverse City firefighters were called to a home where a fire blazed from the second floor. When they arrived at 11pm July 14, everyone had gotten out safely and heavy smoke poured from the top the home. The size of the fire prompted a second alarm and firefighters from Grand Traverse Metro and
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Peninsula Township joined the effort. The fire was extinguished and damage was limited to an attic storage room where the fire is believe to have started. There were no injuries and the cause was under investigation. MAN ARRESTED FOR ABUSE Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a husband for domestic violence and malicious destruction of property after they were called to a Green Lake Township home. A 40-year-old woman told police she and her husband argued and she decided to leave their house; she used her cell phone to call a friend and her husband wrestled her and damaged the phone, said Capt. Christopher Clark. Deputies were called to the home at 8am July 15 and arrested the 38-year-old Interlochen resident. The woman was apparently not injured in the fight. MAN BUSTED AFTER WELFARE CALL A 60-year-old Traverse City man who asked police to check on his girlfriend ended up in jail after police determined he assaulted her. The man asked Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies to check on a home on S. West Bay Shore Drive July 19 at 5:16pm. When deputies spoke to the woman they determined that she’d been in an altercation with the man a day before and that though she was not injured, she was the victim in the fight. Deputies interviewed the man and then arrested him for domestic assault.
The driver of the Jeep, Mancelona resident Joseph Kelly and a passenger, South Boardman resident Joshua Vanderhorst, suffered serious injuries and were taken to Munson Medical Center where they were stabilized. The pickup driver, 59-year-old Fife Lake resident Michael Ingersoll, was not injured, The crash happened at 7pm July 17; the Jeep rolled several times, struck several trees and came to rest 25 yards away from the intersection. The pickup truck wound up in a ditch. DELIVERY TRUCK DAMAGED A car rammed into the side of a Schwan’s Home Service truck that was backing into a driveway in rural Leelanau County. Witnesses said the driver of the 2000 Chevrolet Blazer that crashed into the truck was driving way above the speed limit, and deputies determined that driver, a 22-yearold Suttons Bay man, was at fault for the crash. The driver also had a suspended license and no insurance. The 30-year-old Schwan’s driver suffered a minor injury to her hand. Deputies were called to Center Highway just south of Shady Lane in Bingham Township July 13 at 1:25pm.
BODY FOUND NEAR CABIN A maintenance worker noticed something amiss when he arrived at a cabin near Fife Lake -- the owner’s vehicle was there, but there was no sign of the man, so the worker called police. Grand Traverse Sheriff’s deputies responded at 4pm July 15 and they found a body in the woods. The body was too badly decomposed to positively identify and although investigators believe it is the property owner, they are waiting for fingerprint results before making a final determination. Foul play is not suspected. An autopsy was conducted to determine the cause of death. The cabin is a seasonal residence.
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The Power of Prayer A 28-year-old woman, unnamed in news reports, veered off the road and into a house in the Florida panhandle town of Mary Esther on July 7. She apparently was free of drug or alcohol influence, but readily explained to police that she must have gone through a stop sign and left the road when she closed her eyes to pray as she drove. (The house was damaged, but no one was injured.) Weird Numbers Making the News Recently -The Transportation Security Administration announced in May that it had collected $765,000 in loose change left behind in airport scanner trays during 2015 -- an average “haul” for the agency of $2,100 a day (numbers assuming, of course, that TSA personnel turn in all of the money they find). Los Angeles and Miami airports contributed $106,000 of the total. -- Take Your Word for It: Scientists at the University of Cambridge, writing in May in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, claimed to have figured out how to construct a “motor” a “million times” smaller than an ant. (It apparently involves lasers, gold particles and “van der Waals forces,” and the object is to bind the gold particles and then cause them to automatically “snap” apart with, according to author Jeremy Baumberg, “10 to a hundred times more force per unit than any known other machine.”) -- CEO Michael Pearson told a Senate committee in April that he “regret(s)” the business model he instituted in 2015 for Valeant Pharmaceuticals -- the one that, for example, allowed a drug (Cuprimine) that treats liver failure and formerly cost a typical user out-of-pocket about $3 a pill (120 per month, $366) to, overnight, cost the user $15 a pill. (The insurance company’s and Medicare’s cost went overnight from about $5,000 per 100 tablets to $26,000.) (A Deutsche Bank analysis of the industry tallied Valeant’s all-drug average price spike at more than five times the average of any competitor’s.) Pearson told the senators he had no idea that such a pricing strategy would turn out to be so controversial. -- Neck and Back Support: The Japanese branch of the intimate apparel maker Genie is currently advertising, in Japanese and English, a handy guide for bras that emphasizes the hardship women bear by having to lug around breasts of certain sizes in ill-fitting garments. The Genie chart reveals weight in ounces of typical A-cup chests (11.5 ounces) through F-cup (41.7 ounces, or 2.6 pounds). To assist any innumerate Japanese shoppers, the chart also shows practical comparisons, such as A-cup pairs weighing as much as “two chipmunks,” C-cups as “one newborn polar bear cub,” and F-cups as “one 3-month-old Persian kitten.” -- The Passing Parade: (1) Mark Herron, 49, of Sunderland, England, was arrested again in May -- his 448th arrest on alcoholrelated charges. The year started “well” for Herron, with only 14 collars through March, and he cleaned up briefly before a “family bereavement” sent him spiraling downward again. His current lawyer admitted that his client has been in court more often than he himself has. (2) Austrian Hans Heiland vowed in June to assist a needy family in Oberholz by donating to a charity fundraiser sponsored by the local fire department. He has been collecting bottle tops through the years and figures he could sell his “treasure” now, as scrap metal, to help the family. He has at
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FREE PARKING? Some In Traverse City Believe There’s No Such Thing
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Howe believes if people understood what they really pay for parking, many would change their behavior — at least some of the time. He There aren’t many things as mundane as cited Munson Medical Center, which offers its parking a car. It’s something you do between employees free parking, as an example. doing better things. But the act of parking, “That’s a bonus that the employees get that where you park, and how much you pay has the employees don’t even recognize, because become a heated topic in Traverse City. it’s not charged out,” Howe said. Take an experiment in June, when the city But, he said, if Munson were to itemize proposed a pop-up park at Lot O, at the corner parking as a benefit and put a $600 per year of State and Cass streets. Intended as a three-day value on it, the hospital could offer each emdry run for a theoretical city square, the pop-up ployee $600 in exchange for his or her parkpark sparked impassioned debate over whether ing space — a move that might motivate some space in the city should be reserved for parking employees to carpool, bike, or ride a BATA or could be used for other activities. bus to work, ultimately freeing up space in One of the forums that drew both pop-up the Munson parking deck and reducing trafpark supporters and dissenters was the Trafic around the campus and its surrounding verse City Ticker, an online sister publication neighborhoods. of the Northern Express, which had reported Howe said that the same incentive could on the pop-up. apply to other locations, such as the 100 spots One commenter called the experiment available at Traverse City’s Governmental Centone deaf: “We have constant issues with parkter, where parking is “free.” ing, and this is the plan … your tests to date “That’s where we need to start,” he said. have been failures … leave it alone and let “Parking should not be a given. It’s a choice.” people spend more time enjoying TC and not Howe’s idea for Traverse City might sound looking for parking spaces.” radical, but there’s a precedent in a significantAnother cheered for the idea: “I love this ly larger and more populous idea and hope Traverse City downtown in Michigan: Ann gains a permanent Civic Arbor. Square soon for people to “I get it: They’re The southeast Michigan gather at.” city, which had struggled for Another commenter trying to make years with parking issues, imjeered: “The urban hipplemented a successful parksters and downtown mermoney. They’re and-ride program. And it chants win again. The rest trying to build a sys- works because area employers of us lose.” offered meaningful incenThe reactions didn’t tem where they can have tives, said Jim Bruckbauer, polsurprise Gary Howe, a city commissioner who advopay for new parking icy specialist at Groundwork Center for Resilient Commucates for inno-vative land decks,” Danielson nities in Traverse City. use. “People who weren’t Bruckbauer believes Ann even parking there were said. “But it falls Arbor’s model could positively riled up,” said Howe. But impact small and mediumhe noted that in reality, a on the backs of the sized cities like Traverse City lot of people liked the park: downtown people and Petoskey. People gathered there to eat To make the model work, lunch. They sat on benches and the locals all though, employers offering that typically go empty. They brought their kids down to winter, paying these staff a choice of a parking spot or the equivalent in cash is just draw on the lot with chalk rates that are crazy, the first step. The city itself and listen to live music. must support the employers Howe believes people to park downtown.” and employees by making imwant more nice places provements that ensure it’s safe downtown where they can and convenient for people to gather and hang out, and he walk, bike, carpool, and take envisions a town square as a public transportation. way to transform State Street, which, compared “The infrastructure has to be there,” Bruckto bustling Front Street, only a block north, is a bauer said. “I think there are a lot of people quiet, underused strip of the city. who would love to bike and walk into downDowntown Development Authority (DDA) town, but they have to have safe options in orExecutive Director Rob Bacigalupi agrees, and der to do that.” said he believes it’s worthwhile to think about how a town square could improve the vitality MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? of State Street. Paul Danielson understands that Traverse “I think it was a good exercise, and it was good City’s parking rules are designed to nudge to hear those criticisms and balance those with the workers’ cars farther away from Front Street. value of the park,” he said. “We very much recogHe knows the higher meter rates, shorter time nize that parking is in short supply and continues limits and stricter enforcement that have come to be in shorter supply as time goes on.” along in recent years are meant to free up spots for customers. A POP-UP DISCUSSION But Danielson, co-owner of The Franklin, a Debate over parking can expose raw emorestaurant located at Front and Cass streets, is tions. Just ask Nicole VanNess, the Downtown frustrated because he believes the more strinDevelopment Authority’s parking administragent rules and pricier parking costs still aren’t tor who has overseen a stricter parking regime changing behaviors. He said that despite the rein her two years on the job. Parking rates have strictions, he sees a lot of the same cars parked gone up, and staff who write parking tickets has in front of his restaurant day after day, or for far increased. The changes have not escaped drivlonger than two hours at a time. ers’ notice. “If the point of two-hour parking and to “Parking is a very emotional thing. We’re make [parking at meters] more expensive is to tied to it. We’re tied to our cars,” she said, but push the employees into the parking decks, I she encourages people to look beyond their don’t think it’s working,” Danielson said. driver’s seat and consider the needs of an entire Danielson suspects that the DDA’s misdowntown. “You really have to take a step back sion to enforce parking rules has only sucand look at the big picture,” she said. ceeded in building an expensive bureaucracy, Part of the problem with parking, as Howe one designed to raise money to build more sees it, is that people take it for granted — beparking decks. cause in so many places it’s free. But in reality, “I get it: They’re trying to make money. he said, everyone pays for parking indirectly; They’re trying to build a system where they can its cost is hidden in rent, real estate prices and pay for new parking decks,” Danielson said. the prices at stores and restaurants. “But it falls on the backs of the downtown peo“All parking is subsidized at this point,” he ple and the locals all winter, paying these rates said. “It just has this entrenched entitlement to that are crazy, to park downtown.” it, because we’ve never had to pay for it.” By Patrick Sullivan
Danielson said the recently hired ticket writers, dubbed “parking ambassadors” by the DDA, are too tenacious. He points to a ticket he receive in February when he jumped out of his car on Union Street to run into a pharmacy. At the meter by his car, he pressed the button that allows 30 minutes of free parking. When he returned a few minutes later, he found a ticket on his car; the free time button hadn’t worked. Danielson challenged the ticket, and it was forgiven, but he believes the experience was something that should not have happened to begin with. Bacigalupi countered that the parking decks are doing what they were intended to do. “Our whole plan for downtown calls for taking parking out of surface lots, and putting them in vertical parking decks to free up land for more interesting things,” Bacigalupi said. The transformation that a parking deck can cause is evident in Traverse City, Bacigalupi said. He points to the two decks the DDA has made happen: the Larry C. Hardy deck between Front and State streets, and the Old Town Parking Garage on Eighth Street, near Union. “Once that thing was built, buildings popped up around it, and those surface lots went away,” Bacigalupi said. “What was hoped
PARKING IS A PROBLEM
UP AND DOWN LAKE MICHIGAN’S COAST From Petoskey to Frankfort, towns that attract tourists are dealing with the same conundrum: How do you make sure parking is available for visitors when they arrive? How do you encourage more people to bike or walk into town? How do you get employees to park in satellite lots? There are innovative solutions to these problems, but each seems to come with blowback and protest.
to happen did in fact happen. … At the end of the day, it’s not like we want cars downtown. We want people downtown.” There is one point on which Danielson and Bacigalupi seem to agree: If Traverse City wants a walkable, dense downtown with lots of shops and restaurants and busy sidewalks, driving and parking behavior has to change. Whether that means fewer cars downtown; more walking, biking, and public transportation; or greater use of decks and lesser use of lots and street-side parking—or some combination thereof — remains to be seen. PARKING TODAY … Parking is supposed to be a self-sustaining, business-like enterprise, Bacigalupi said. Some Traverse City parking revenue comes from fines, but the bulk of it comes from the primary ways that people pay for parking, generally by permit or hourly space rates. In the most recent fiscal year, total revenue was around $2.2 million. Although parking patrols have increased in Traverse City since 2013, when the DDA added two part-time ticket writers to complement two full-time staff, projected revenue from fines was actually down — from a budgeted $335,000 to around $275,000. A DECK FOR PETOSKEY Petoskey was the second city in the country to enable motorists to pay for parking with their phone. Petoskey adopted the new technology in 2008 because the city had received so many requests from people who wanted to pay with credit cards, said Becky Goodman, downtown director. Implementing a smart phone app turned out to be a less expensive solution than replacing the city’s parking meters. Now Petoskey is grappling with too much demand for too few spaces. For years, Petoskey has waited for a development — and the parking deck promised to come with it — to fill what’s become known as “The Hole” at 200 East Lake St. That development never delivered, so city officials have decided to act. They’ve hired consultants to draft two proposals — one for a mixed-use building with a deck, and the other for only a deck. Either proposal has to offer 150 public parking spaces, in addition to whatever the development would require if it’s mixed use, Goodman said. In the meantime, Petoskey uses time limits and zoned meter rates to encourage downtown employees to park away from the city center. Goodman said she hears complaints from employees who don’t like having to park blocks away from where they work, but there isn’t a better option. “Merchants see people circling the block
In addition to the two parking decks the DDA has built, there is a vision to build a third on West Front Street. Time, however, is running out on that vision. Whereas Traverse City’s two public parking decks were funded largely through Tax Increment Financing — a means of diverting marginal taxes from increased property values to public improvement projects — one of the two TIF districts expired this year, so less money will be available to build a third parking deck. Bacigalupi said that means it will be necessary to use parking funds to pay for new projects. “We know that there’s a ticking clock on the Tax increment Financing funding source,” Baciga-lupi said. “We’re still going to use TIF, but we need to rely on the parking fund to some degree.” … AND PARKING TOMORROW Any conversation about Traverse City’s future growth, or any new development within it, inevitably involves a lengthy discussion about parking. “All you have to do is spend a couple days at city hall, and you will understand, almost everything is related back to parking,” Bacigalupi said. “We’re always talking about parking. Parking is very important to economic development.” and circling the block and circling the block, looking for a space,” Goodman said. Parking rates were raised a year ago to open up mores spaces, but parking fines remain at $5, which is cheap enough to tempt many to take a gamble, she said. AN EXPERIMENT IN FRANKFORT Frankfort’s downtown is quiet most of the year, but when summer comes, it explodes with activity and fills up with cars. It’s often tough to find a place to park in July and August, so this summer, the city, business owners, and Benzie Bus teamed up to come up with a creative way to free up parking. They asked employees to park at a school lot on the edge of town in exchange for the chance to win weekly prizes. The program was seen as an alternative to installing parking meters or building a parking deck. Bill Kennis, executive director of the Benzie Transportation Authority, said the experiment didn’t go well; no one wanted to park in a remote lot and take a shuttle. “We could not get the employees motivated to do it. I don’t know if it was just [that we tried] to launch on the Fourth of July or what,” Kennis said. “But we decided to not continue, and revisit it when we can get employee participation. It’s certainly going to be challenging to change habits.”
Bacigalupi said a single parking spot costs about $2,500 per year to build and maintain, whether it’s on the surface or in a deck. “It is very expensive to build and maintain parking spaces,” he said. “We’re not going to prevent everyone from driving downtown — we realize that. But to the extent that we can encourage folks to not drive or to carpool, basically to limit the number of times they bring a two-and-a-half-ton piece of metal downtown, that is to our benefit.” The DDA plans to conduct a “transportation demand management” study this year to find out how it can best influence people’s behavior. Bacigalupi said the ideal occupancy for parking is 85 to 90 percent. Hitting that means there are enough spots but not too many; people don’t have to drive around to hunt for a space. Front Street — especially in the summer — sees occupancy well above capacity, he said. A solution would be to make parking more expensive when demand is highest. Prices could change through the day or through the seasons. That would mean parking could be cheap in February when there are fewer people in town, but when summer festivals roll in, parking would cost a lot more. “Let’s say on a busy July day [parking rates] might be higher and discourage everybody from driving their single occupancy vehicle downtown,” Bacigalupi said. “Maybe they might chose to bike or walk or carpool. They would be more inclined to do it.” UP NEXT: PLATFORM CAFES? One potential development raising that’s bound to get people talking is the prospect of platform cafes, small partitioned-off seating areas that would extend into the street, giving downtown res-taurants on those streets the ability to offer outdoor seating. Platform cafes would not be allowed on Front Street, but they’d take up a parking spot or two out in front of the adjacent restaurant. Bacigalupi believes the trade-off would be fair. “Yes, that will take away parking, but the ordinance that we’re working with would limit it so much that we don’t feel like it’s going to take away a significant amount,” he said. “You’re always balancing the need for parking with other things.” EMPIRE’S PARKING METERS Empire became Leelanau County’s first municipality to charge for parking when it enacted a controversial rate in 2014 in the face of incredible demand for beach-side parking. The village council voted 4–3 to charge $1 per hour to park in one of the 87 spots at the village’s Lake Michigan beach. Residents of the village and Empire Township were exempted. The move stirred passionate support and opposition. Darlene Friend, deputy village clerk, said people still disagree about the meters. “I personally think they are working just fine,” she said. “It is helping offset our costs immensely, and that was the purpose behind it.” Concerns that the meters would force beach parking into the village have not been realized, she said. There are signs directing excess cars to the Lion’s Club parking lot; and on a sunny day, she said, that beach lot is full with or without the parking meters. Friend said revenue last year exceeded the cost to run the program by $18,000, and the village was able to use that money to maintain the beach. Two items made possible: Increased frequency of street sweeper service and total coverage of the beach restroom’s $2,500 annual toilet paper budget. “It’s not like we’re making a fortune off of it,” she said.
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rom the early 17th-century Greek word tekhnologia, or systematic treatment, springs today’s word technology, often thought of as a cold pursuit equal to the Greek translation. But today’s technology is as much about connecting to other people as it is to the invention and development of the gear itself. Case in point: The Woz, the Traverse City Film Festival’s special interactive new media venue. INSPIRED DIVERSITY Started three years ago, The Woz — inspired by and named for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — already has grown by leaps and bounds, said TCFF Creative Director Meg Weichman. Thanks to its diverse presentations of virtual reality advancements and clever showcasing of the latest and most innovative video games, it’s becoming known as a must-see for techies during the film festival. “The Woz has really come along wonderfully,” she said. “And since we partnered with Michigan State University, The Woz has been even better. They sponsor The Woz and are bringing up MSU students who will help us run it for the week, and they also introduce us to some of the new technologies that we’ll be displaying at the venue.” VIRTUAL COOLNESS MSU’s Games For Entertainment and Learning Lab will feature student-made video games, and some of the game developers will be on site for meet and greets at The Woz, where you’ll be able to try their new video games, such as Rogues Like Us, Asundr, and DROp — the latter a VR (virtual reality) experience in which you’re a stranded space pilot. In addition to MSU’s contributions, you’ll find a whole host of other VR opportunities to try. Last year’s The Woz offered the chance to try the Oculus Rift, one of the first major consumer virtual reality headsets; this year, it’s all about the HTC Vive, which includes both a headset and a pair of controllers for better interaction with your virtual surroundings. “I can’t wait to check out the HTC Vive,” Weichman said. “Last year Oculus Rift was so cool, so I’m excited to see what the Vive can do.”
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HUFFPO TO POKEMON GO In even more of a TCFF-tech crossover, the Huffington Post acquired virtual reality studio RYOT to build VR crossover productions, and they’re bringing several of their films to the fest. “The HuffPo’s VR films are mostly about global and social issues, and at the TCFF, several of them tie in to films that are being screened this year,” Weichman explained. “In Inside Trump’s America, you’ll get to virtually see, feel, and hear what it’s like to be at a Trump political rally; and in Confinement, what it’s like to be in solitary confinement in a prison.” A third of note is The Dolphin Project, which will serve as a VR companion to the acclaimed animal rights movie Unlocking the Cage. “There really are a lot of exciting things happening in VR,” Weichman said. That includes the newest hot VR game sensation for mobile phones, Pokémon Go. “Yes, we will have a list available of all of Pokémon Go’s local Pokestops,” Weichman said. FREE AND FUN Other fun diversions to be found at The Woz include opportunities to try out the eSports sensation “Rocket League,” complete with a casting booth that will let you take a turn as a commentator during this game of soccer played with rocket-powered cars, and the new party game “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes,” which traps you in a virtual room with a ticking time bomb that must be defused. More toward the serious side are “That Dragon, Cancer,” an indie game with a solemn theme about combating illness, and the interactive movie game “Her Story,” in which you search through a database of video clips to help find a missing man, reminiscent of the recent wildly popular podcast Serial. The best part of all of it? The Woz is completely free. “The things you’ll see at The Woz really make a case for video games being the next great art form after film,” Weichman said. “It’s the future of storytelling. And that’s our goal — to share the latest in technology and to bring new storytelling tools to the people.” TCFF’s The Woz, hosted at the Hotel Indigo, 263 W Grandview Parkway in Traverse City, kicks off with an opening party Wednesday night at 6pm. The Woz’ hours run Wednesday– Saturday, 12pm–9pm, and Sunday 12pm–5pm. For more information, visit traversecityfilmfest.org.
The Real Woz Born in 1950, the real Woz — aka Steve Wozniak — is the American inventor, programmer, and tech pioneer who co-founded Apple Inc. with with Steve Jobs. Wozniak single-handedly developed the computer that started the entire Apple empire, the 1976 computer called the Apple I. Who better to inspire an entire Traverse City Film Festival lab that’s focused on technology and its advancements? Wozniak, who is still a technical employee of Apple (he receives a generous yearly stipend) and also an Apple shareholder, continues to contribute to many other arms of technology and entertainment outside of Apple. He advises the clothing company SCOTTeVest on their tech-friendly gear, co-helms the Silicon Valley Comic Con with Stan Lee, holds four U.S. patents and a dozen honorary Doctor of Engineering degrees, and has been a guest and keynote speaker at numerous events. — Kristi Kates
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As the main educational sponsor for TCFF, Michigan State University is ushering in the next generation of creative talent, partnering with the festival to offer a dazzling array of student-produced films, filmmaking classes, an interactive multimedia gallery, and a special Spartan Headquarters open to the public. At this year’s event, MSU invites festivalgoers to learn, be inspired, and travel to the front lines where filmmaking and technology are intersecting in thrilling and thought-provoking new ways. SPARTAN HEADQUARTERS MSU is hosting a Spartan Headquarters in
the heart of downtown Traverse City at 333 E. State Street. The venue will offer free Spartan gear, MSU and TCFF information, and up to four free tickets to the festival for MSU students when they present their student ID. The public is invited to stop by the Headquarters July 26-29 from 9 a.m.-noon and 4-7 p.m., and July 30 from 9 a.m.-noon. Go Green! MSU STUDENT FILMS MSU’s College of Arts & Letters, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, and College of Music are launching pads for talented young students pursuing careers in the arts. TCFF attendees will have an opportunity to experience tomorrow’s next big names in film with a slate of student-produced programming, including: > “Sorta Late” – A full-length feature film, performed first as an original student play that was adapted for the screen, that follows
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student interns as they work a late-night talk show in Detroit. Made by more than 100 students, the 85-minute film will be shown July 27 at noon at the Old Town Playhouse (148 E. Eighth Street). > “Shorts by MSU Students” This year’s roster of “Shorts by MSU Students” includes four unique projects that will be shown in one screening on July 29 at 3 p.m. at The Buzz (301 Seventh Street). Scheduled films include: > “Blacktop” – An overworked, mentally exhausted paramedic happens upon a mysterious woman whose guidance spirals his troubled mind towards a sense of peace after he is unable to save the life of a young boy. > “From Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City” – The story of the Flint water crisis as told by those who have experienced the trag-
edy firsthand and from activists working through grassroots organizations to make a difference. > “#LendMIHand” – This film follows MSU Media Sandbox students as they mentor homeless youth in Lansing while working for the charity Pictures of Hope. > “Run, Jump, Paddle” – The environmental aspects of what athletes experience during extreme sports is the focus of this film featuring an ultra-runner, water athlete, and first-time skydivers. “This outstanding work by our students is a testament to the collaborative culture being fostered at MSU,” said Christopher P. Long, Dean of the College of Arts & Letters. “It’s interdisciplinary work like this that cuts across disciplines and facilitates experiential learning opportunities for our students that
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truly enhances our film and media arts programs and positions MSU to be a national leader in film.” THE WOZ The film festival’s most buzzed-about venue is moving to a new location for 2016. The newly opened Hotel Indigo in downtown Traverse City’s Warehouse District (263 W. Grandview Parkway) will host The Woz, a hands-on interactive media and gaming showcase where festivalgoers can explore the future of storytelling and experience virtual worlds in ways never before possible. Programmed and sponsored by the Game Design and Development program in MSU’s College of Communication Arts & Sciences, this multimedia gallery will feature the latest in gaming and virtual reality technology, including the recently released HTC Vive, which combines a virtual reality headset with motion-tracked handheld controllers to fully immerse users in virtual environments. The Woz also will offer some of the most cutting-edge games on the market as well as a diverse collection of entertainment options created by the next generation of game developers at MSU’s Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab.
“Our game design program is one of the best in the nation,” said Prabu David, Dean of the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at MSU. “We are excited to showcase at The Woz some of their work along with some new virtual reality gear and applications.” The Woz is free and open to the public July 27-30 from noon-9 p.m. and July 31 from noon-5 p.m. A free welcome party is scheduled for July 27 from 6-9 p.m. MSU FILM SCHOOL TCFF’s annual Film School offers a rare and invaluable opportunity to learn directly from filmmakers about their craft. In “Striking the Right Chords,” an MSU/TCFF Film School presentation, MSU Associate Professor of Journalism and documentary filmmaker Geri Alumit Zeldes, and Composer and Mott Community College Instructor Bill Withem will explore the collaborative process between composers and documentary filmmakers. Having collaborated on nearly a half-dozen documentary films, Zeldes and Withem will share their best practices for combining emotion and science to underscore silence, ideas, and action in film projects.
“Striking the Right Chords” is scheduled for July 29 at 3 p.m. in Scholars Hall at Northwestern Michigan College. Tickets are $5. OTHER SPARTAN FEATURED FILMS MSU will share the spotlight in two other major TCFF screenings this year. Spartan fans won’t want to miss “Men of Sparta,” a riveting documentary by former MSU fullback and actor Bob Apisa about Michigan State’s 1965 and 1966 national championship football teams that helped lead the charge in integrating college football. The documentary plays July 31 at noon at the Dennos Museum. Emmy award-winning actor Timothy Busfield stars in “One Smart Fellow,” one of the four funny and philosophical shorts playing
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in “Shorts: It’s Complicated” on July 29 at 3 p.m. at Old Town Playhouse. Busfield joined MSU as an artist in residence this summer, co-teaching courses on acting and filmmaking and serving as director of national content for WKAR, mid-Michigan’s NPR and PBS station. FOLLOW ONLINE! For more information on Michigan State University at the Traverse City Film Festival, visit tcff.msu.edu. On social media, follow the hashtag #MSUTCFF for the latest updates.
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Friends Marie Eckstein and Lin Alessio have several careers between the them. Eckstein worked in management at Dow Corning in Flint for over 30 years, then spent several more years at East Jordan Iron Works before retiring to work as a volunteer, helping women in third-world countries. Alessio was an educator at Detroit Public Schools, owned a trio of art galleries, and has owned Interlochen Perennial Farm for the past 21 years. Eckstein had traveled internationally frequently with her job; Alessio is a self-proclaimed “wimp” when it comes to flying, and — until recently anyway — had never left the U.S. But now, these two friends are working together on a project called Red Dirt Road, a venture that’s taken them from northern Michigan to Cambodia to make a difference in the lives of 11 women. REMOTE INSPIRATION Eckstein’s connection to Cambodia came about through Laura Asiala, a friend she’d worked with at Dow Corning who now lives in Washington D.C. “Laura introduced me to [physicist/novelist/educator] Alan Lightman and his Harpswell Organization,” Eckstein said. “He was taking a trip to Cambodia to check on his work there and invited me to meet him there to see what he does with his foundation to empower women. I was looking for something to do that wasn’t corporate, that had more purpose.” On that trip, they visited Tramung Chrum, the rural village that would become the focus of Red Dirt Road. There, Eckstein met a woman named Hab Saly and several other seamstresses. Saly had taken six months of sewing lessons that Harpswell had sponsored to empower her with a skill. Saly discovered she had quite a talent for the craft. The remote village setting and the women’s passion for creating beautiful objects in spite of their difficult living conditions really stuck with Eckstein, who would return home with several garments and a desire to do more to help. EXPANDED IDEAS Back in northern Michigan, Alessio and Eckstein met when Alessio helped Eckstein design her home garden. As their friendship evolved, they found common ground. “Marie eventually showed me some clothing she’d brought
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back from a village she was visiting in Cambodia,” Alessio said. “These tiny, size-three pieces that were heavily beaded, just gorgeous. She wanted to do something with them, but I knew there was no Western market for them.” Upon hearing Eckstein’s stories of the women sewing in the Cambodian village, Alessio saw something familiar in their situation. To get work, the women would travel far from their families, to Phnom Penh, where they often would work for as little as a few dollars for an entire day. “I myself had worked in the inner city for a long time, so I knew the challenges that impoverished people could have,” she said. Eckstein invited Alessio to meet her in Cambodia, where one of the goals had become to help these women work from their own village. It was Saly’s dream to start a sewing company; Lightman’s organization was the first step, and Red Dirt Road would be the expansion of that effort. INDEPENDENT WOMEN Alessio bravely flew over to Cambodia on her own, transferring through various modes of transportation with written instructions from Eckstein. “I arrived in Cambodia, and the very next morning I was in a van going down this bumpy red dirt road with these vast landscapes opening up before me,” Alessio said. “We got to a small, brightly colored dwelling, and all of these women came tumbling out to meet us.” Through an interpreter, Alessio used her art background to talk with the women about their sewing work, explaining the ideas she’d put together about how they could expand their work into something that would be more marketable, to benefit the women’s families and their village. “The women never had education or even proper tools. They were sewing with big old rusty scissors, no electricity, treadle sewing machines, and irons filled with hot charcoal,” Alessio said. “But they had tenacity. I realized this was an opportunity to help people who wanted to achieve something.” “Soon, our first purses, made of wonderful Cambodian silk, were born,” she continued. “And while this story is of course heartwarming and helps the women be independent, the products also have to stand on their own — people have to want to buy them simply because they’re beautiful, and they are.” SOLID SUPPORT Eckstein and Alessio stayed in the village with the women
Hab Saly is the lead seamstress for this team of Cambodian women who create purses and other items for Red Dirt Road to benefit themselves and their village. (photo credit Rodney Rascona). Some of the purses created from Cambodian silk by local Cambodian seamstresses as part of the Red Dirt Road initiative. (photo credit Rodney Rascona).
as honored guests, dining on rice and other food cooked over an open flame and sleeping in the best quarters in the village, which still had only square holes in the walls for windows and required sleeping under a mosquito net. “If it rained, you got rained on,” Eckstein said. “That’s just how it is there.” The main focus after redirecting the women’s skills was to solidify the business model. “We treat this as though there’s a production company in Cambodia that Saly runs, and then we take her products and sell them for her,” Eckstein explained. “We’re like her sales and marketing division — we sell at retail shops and online, and neither Lin nor I take a salary right now. We are paying our own expenses, and the profits go back to the women and to a fund for their village.” “It’s technically Saly’s business, and we’re supporting her,” Alessio added. VILLAGE OF CHANGE Red Dirt Road currently works with 11 seamstresses in Saly’s village, and now that basic operations are underway, the organization is readying for their next step: expansion. “We’d like to employ more women in Cambodia, moving on to other villages where the women have the same challenges,” Eckstein said. “We’ve helped Saly achieve her dream, and I feel like we can do the same for others. I spent 33 years in the corporate world, but in this new role, I feel like I’m getting more than I’m giving. This is my chance to make a difference.” “I think all of us in the U.S. are truly blessed,” Alessio added. “When you realize these people are no different than you, they just weren’t fortunate to have been born in a developed country, it makes you want to help. And when you empower people, you can change one village, one person at a time.” For more information on Red Dirt Road, visit reddirtroad.co. A film about the project, directed by Rodney Rascona, also titled Red Dirt Road, can be viewed on Vimeo at https://vimeo. com/165357134.
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n its classic wooden front porch, the footfalls of a young Ernest Hemingway easily can be imagined. At the church next door, now long gone, Hemingway was married. And in faraway Paris in the 1920s, the author recalled those days of his youth Up North, writing about the Horton Bay General Store and its surrounding environs in his Nick Adams Stories. So it’s no wonder that many Hemingway fans (and regular folks too), come to Horton Bay to seek out the famed store, today owned by Chip Lorenger, who bought the store in 2000 with his wife, Claudia.
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LABOR OF LOVE After moving up to Horton Bay from Traverse City 35 years ago to open a deli in Boyne City, the Lorengers were drawn to the uniqueness of the general store, built in 1876. They purchased it in 2000, prepared to take on the renovations that the store badly needed. Owning a building that old, Lorenger explained, definitely has had its challenges. “All the supports were rotten, so we had to put steel underneath,” he said. “Then we had to have the front and back of the building replaced, then we had to gut both the upstairs and the downstairs.” The Lorengers spent a full year on the major renovations. “Everybody says that kind of work is a labor of love, and that’s really how you have to look at it,” Lorenger said. “Claudia and I really enjoyed the restoration, but with the building being 140 years old and wooden, there’s definitely always something you need to be doing. It’s constant upkeep.” BACK IN TIME In its early days, the building, which has always housed a general store, was part of a thriving year-round community in Horton Bay. Today the tiny hamlet has a population of only about 500 people. “Back then, there were actually two general stores and several restaurants,” Lorenger said. “But since the advent of the big supermarkets, it’s been tough to be a true general store. The only one I know of around here is up in Cross Village, the Bliss General Store, where they sell hammers and nails right alongside clothing and food.” With the summer being their busiest time, the Lorengers had to figure out a way to make the store more prosperous. They began focusing on souvenirs and gifts instead of groceries, and they made the upstairs a Victorian bed and breakfast, with southern yellow pine floors, detailed woodwork, and antiques, all carefully reconstructed as a step back in time by Claudia Lorenger. Then they started to expand into several different dining options. MODERN FLAIR “It took about a year or so to figure out that staying a true traditional general store wasn’t going to work,” Lorenger said. So now we have a small deli with sandwiches, sliced meats and cheese for quick carryout. Then we have our classic soda fountain, which also has fresh baked goods. And most recently, we added a tavern in the back with tapas service. That’s really been our saving grace.” The tapas service is reservation only, with fine black linen tablecloths and limited seating, and the menu changes weekly. It’s a special treat unique to Horton Bay that’s helped add a little unique flair to the general store.
“We serve a variety of choices, from poached scallops and portobello mushrooms stuffed with smoked whitefish pate, to sage and oregano meatballs with gorgonzola cheese, to salt and pepper shrimp, to Sriracha frittata. Everything’s fresh every week,” Lorenger said. LOCAL LEGACY The menu has attracted crowds of summer visitors and helped maintain the store’s strong trade with the locals. “Specifically for the food, we even draw people in from as far north as Harbor Springs,” Lorenger said. “And for the general store itself, we get people coming from
very, very far away. We’re listed as one of the top ten Hemingway things to see in the U.S., and we’re listed in many Japanese and German tour books.” There’s a wall specifically dedicated to Hemingway in the Horton Bay General Store, right alongside the old Vernors signs and boxes of caramels, northern Michigan postcards and souvenir trinkets. The Hemingway legacy is attached to the store for good, and has been throughout its many changes of ownership. The store has had 28 owners to date. “We hold the longevity record for owning it the longest,” Lorenger said. But it is now up for sale again. Chances are it will sell to someone who values heritage as much as
Clockwise from top left: The Horton Bay General Store is a destination for locals, vacationers, and Hemingway fans alike. Part of the store’s lore is that Hemingway used to go there as a youth. From souvenirs to fresh baked goods, the store seemingly has it all.
Lorenger does. “What I’ve liked best about owning the general store is that we’ve maintained a piece of history,” he said. “I love history.” The Horton Bay General Store is located at 05115 Boyne City Road in Horton Bay. For more information, visit hortonbaygeneralstore.com or call 231-582-7827.
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THE POINTER
RETURNS Tour Boat Relaunches in Harbor Springs
By Kristi Kates Constructed in Chassell, Mich., in 1934, the low-slung wooden water vessel known as The Pointer has been a longtime icon of Harbor Springs. It first served as a water taxi to tony Harbor Point, then later retired to the backyard bay waters outside Stafford’s Pier restaurant on Bay Street. A couple years ago, The Pointer was taken out of commission, but the city and its visitors missed the sight of the classic yacht so much, Stafford’s brought The Pointer back. VINTAGE VESSEL Why was The Pointer taken out of commission? “The City of Harbor Springs had a longstanding tradition of no general tour boats in the Harbor,” Stafford’s Vice President and COO David Marvin said. “The boat also needed some updates to comply with Coast Guard regulations. So we didn’t put it in the water for a couple of years.” Stafford’s made good use of The Pointer’s time out of water. It worked with Irish Boat Shop to upgrade the tour boat, and The Pier applied for an exemption with the city. The exemption was granted, and The Pointer was
returned to its place outside The Pier. “Our boat now passes the same safety standards as Shepler’s ferry boats!” Marvin said. “We like to say that the Coast Guard came out and tried to break it and tried to sink it, and it passed!” “This is a good thing,” he added. “The Coast Guard said it was one of the first times they’d certified an 80-year-old wooden launch that had never been certified before.” FORTUITOUS FIND The Pointer is a rich part of Harbor Springs history. It was originally part of a taxi-boat service for the Harbor Point Association, taking guests from the Village of Harbor Springs to Harbor Point, which is closed to cars. “The Pier restaurant actually used to be the boathouse that housed The Pointer boat,” Marvin added, “and the dining room we call The Pointer Room was named after the boat.” There were three Pointer boats in all, with one always in operation until 1962, when it fell out of favor. For a time thereafter, the Pointer boats were just a memory. “In the late ’80s, my dad, Dudley Marvin, got a call from realtor Tom Graham, who was
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working with the piece of property and had found a boat in storage called The Pointer. It was one of the original Pointer boats, and is in fact the same one we have now. Dudley Marvin and Stafford Smith bought the boat, which was in terrible shape, and set about restoring it,” Marvin said. MODERN MARINE Steve Van Dam of Van Dam Boats was commissioned to bring The Pointer back to its former glory. He used old photos to guide the restoration of its original look, while upgrading its mechanics to reflect more modern water craft requirements. The completed boat, 34 feet long and constructed of oak and cypress wood with Kelly green interior seating, relaunched in 1990. “We basically used it as a fun marketing tool,” Marvin said. “Dudley would take people for rides on occasion, but otherwise it was just docked by the restaurant, looking great.” Requests for rides kept increasing, though; the novel-looking boat was a huge draw to tourists and locals alike. So The Pier started offering brief, complimentary tours of Little Traverse Bay. Which brought The Pointer right back to where it started.
BAY TOURS “Now that The Pointer is back in the water, and we’ve gotten approval from the city and the Coast Guard, we’re able to offer history tours,” Marvin said. “The tours are about an hour and fifteen minutes, can include food and beverages or not, and are really one of the best ways to view the bluff, as well as all of the yachts in the harbor and the historic architecture along the shoreline.” The Pointer can only carry twelve people at a time (by Coast Guard regulations), so pricing is based on that limitation. The tours are $25 per person, or you can rent the entire boat for $295. Food and beverages can be purchased separately through The Pier, and a complete menu is available online if guests want to enjoy a catered meal onboard. The Pointer is a unique and quiet way to tour the harbor, which Marvin feels is one of Harbor Springs’ best features. “We’re fortunate in that we have one of the deepest natural harbors in the world,” he said, “and this is really the way to see it.” For more information and to reserve a spot on The Pointer, visit pointerboat.com or call 231-881-8048.
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Jack Miller rehearses as Frank Abagnale Jr., the Leonardo DiCaprio character from the movie-turned-stage production of Catch Me If You Can. Photo provided by Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Catch Me If You Can Hits Interlochen Stage By Kristi Kates
While we won’t spoil the ending for you, the penultimate scene of Steven Spielberg’s movie Catch Me If You Can is the opener, where protagonist Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a contestant on the old game show To Tell The Truth. In it, Abagnale dares the audience to decide whether or not he’d really managed to impersonate a pilot, doctor, and lawyer — all while still a teenager. Spielberg did an impressive job of bringing Abagnale’s true life story as an accomplished con artist to the big screen, and now Interlochen Center for the Arts is taking that same story and giving it the Broadway treatment. EPIC ENDEAVOR Catch Me If You Can, the musical, got its
start in New York City in 2011, where it was a huge hit at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre, snagging four Tony nominations and hosting sell-out crowds throughout its run. “The play still has the epic sweep of the movie,” explained Bill Church, the director of theater at Interlochen. “We ‘go on’ planes, we have stewardesses, and of course we still follow the same plot of this kid con man and FBI agent Carl Hanratty, played by Tom Hanks in the movie, who chases Frank down.” What makes the play even more fun is the music — flashy production numbers that emerge from the plot and borrow from the sounds of ’50s and ’60s television variety shows, much of which hews close to lounge music. “Catch Me If You Can actually makes a great musical!” Church said.
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“The whole thing is going to take a lot of preparation. As the campers arrived, their first 3–4 days were spent auditioning for parts in the show, and then we started rehearsals toward the end of June.” Church said he’s looking forward to the dance numbers the most, along with one of Agent Hanratty’s songs. “One of the biggest songs in the whole production is his song “Don’t Break the Rules,” Church said. “That one’s going to bring the house down, for sure!” Catch Me If You Can - The Musical will be performed in Corson Auditorium at Interlochen Center for the Arts on August 4 at 7pm. Tickets are $28 adult/$25 senior/$10 youth. For more information visit tickets.interlochen.org
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By Kristi Kates Deb Matthew is a charter life member of the Northern Michigan Antique Flywheelers Club. Her commitment to the club isn’t simply because she’s a fan of tractors, engines and other farming mechanics. Her parents, Larry and Darlea Matthew, founded the club back in the 1980s. Their legacy takes center stage in Walloon Lake every summer, when the Flywheelers host an extensive show that takes visitors back to a time when tractors and life rumbled along slowly, patiently, and — for Flywheeler fans especially — quite beautifully. BACK TO THE BEGINNINGS “My mother and father and myself were all born and raised in Walloon Lake, and my parents were always involved with the Buckley Old Engine Show,” Deb Matthew said. “They thought that there was enough interest further north to start another club, which they did themselves in the late ’80s.” If the last 30 years of successful Flywheeler events are any indication, the elder Matthews’ instincts have proved correct. Deb, who serves as the show’s concessions and memorabilia chairperson, credits a significant part of the show’s longstanding popularity to her mother’s influence. “Ever since the show started, there’s been an emphasis on the ladies’ role in the farm
being just as important as [that of the] men,” Deb said. “Alongside the men’s duties, women would cane chairs, make straw brooms, craft bobbin lace, spin yarn, knit, weave, and take care of the small farm animals.” As always, demonstrations of many of these arts will take place at the show, with some of the wares crafted available for purchase. One special aspect, however, will be missing: 2016 marks the first year the show has run without Darlea Matthew, who passed away in March. Nevertheless, it will run with much of the elder Mrs. Matthew’s spirit and influence present. DEMOS AND TREASURES As part of the event, attendees also will be able to feel the heat of a half-dozen blacksmiths pounding iron into art, watch woodworkers crafting; and see a grist mill grind wheat for flour and corn for corn meal. The live-action experience continues with even more unique opportunities: There’s a branding station where you can pick up a souvenir shingle, an old-school barber shop where you can get a haircut, and demonstrations in crosscut sawing, rope-making, and more. Another unusual offering you likely won’t find elsewhere: The show’s veneer-mill basket factory. “We start right with the log, and peel the veneer (very thin slices of wood) off,” Deb explained. “A slicing machine cuts it into basket slats, which are then put on a machine that folds and staples them. So we
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go right from the log to finished baskets that people can buy!” Some previously-made baskets are also painted ahead of time by artists; these folk art designs are also available for purchase, as are the antique treasures filling the show’s 125 flea market spaces. TRACTOR POWER The true engine of the event, of course, is its engines. Gear-heads from around the state flock to Walloon to see the huge amount of vintage power displayed on the show grounds: 300 tractors and over 100 small engines — farm engines, chainsaws, buzz saws, walk-behind cultivators, and more. “Everything on display has to be at least 25 years old,” Deb said. “The only things new are a couple of tractors that Ginop Sales generously lets us use to move things around. But only vintage items are on display.” The tractors rev up every day of the show for the 2pm Parade of Power, as well as for the evening Tractor Safari, which wends to the top of a hill overlooking Lake Charlevoix. And this year, the Red vs. Green Tractor Rally is a new event sure to get tractor fans cheering. “It’s a friendly competition to see which color has more support,” Deb said. FRIENDLY GENERATIONS Visitors also can enjoy a display of antique automobiles at a non-operable vintage
filling station, music all day long on two stages, and plenty of food to keep fueled up for the entire show. Even the food sticks to the old-timey theme; every bit of it is prepped and homemade by Flywheeler Club members, said Deb. A breakfast buffet is available daily starting at 7am daily, and nightly dinner offerings include spaghetti (Thursday), pork roast (Friday), and a chicken dinner (Saturday). For dessert and snacks, ice cream is handdipped at a special booth; the Pie Shack offers homemade pies and quick munchies like cinnamon rolls, hot dogs, and nachos; and Thursday arrivals will be greeted with a complimentary summertime staple: a welcome-watermelon slice. From start to finish, the Antique Flywheelers Club’s event promises a simple, classic and fantastic time for families, just as the Matthews envisioned decades ago, and as their daughter, Deb, hopes to carry on. “We’re preserving the past for future generations,” Deb said. The 29th Annual Walloon Lake Antique Tractor Engine and Craft Show, hosted by the Northern Michigan Antique Flywheelers Club, will take place July 28–31 at the Flywheeler grounds on US-131, 2.7 miles north of Boyne Falls. Adults, $7 per day admission; additional charges for food/craft purchases/ camping. For more information and a full schedule, visit walloonlakeflywheelers.com.
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SECOND ANNUAL HOT ART LIVE: 11am-11pm, The Little Fleet & entire parking lot in Downtown TC. Area artists will create art live, & there will be face painting, water balloon painting, feather weaving & more. Music by DJ Tom, DJesus, & the Ben Daniels Band. Free. thelittlefleet.com
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ART AT THE FARM: Pleine Air Paint-Out & Sale at Samels Farm, 8291 Skegemog Point Rd., Williamsburg. Registration, 8-10am; PaintOut, 10am-4pm. samelsfarm.org
-------------------“RICHARD III”: Presented by Riverside Shakespeare, LLC in TC’s Hannah Park at 6pm. Find Riverside Shakespeare, LLC on Facebook.
-------------------AUTHOR READINGS: With Alison DeCamp, Abi Ayres, L.E. Kimball, & Sue Allen. Readings start at 10am at Horizon Books, TC. Info: horizonbooks.com
-------------------“MICHIGAN TREASURES”: East Jordan Garden Club’s & Jordan River Arts Council’s Annual Flower Show. Noon – 4pm, Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan. Free admission. jordanriverarts.com
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COUNTRY DANCE: Held at Summit City Grange, Kingsley. 6pm hot dog dinner; 7-10pm dance. Live music. Donation. 231-263-4499.
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MUSIC IN MACKINAW: Featuring the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute. 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Downtown Mackinaw City.
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ATEN PLACE CONCERTS: Featuring Ronny Cox. 7:30pm, Aten Place, Boyne Falls. Tickets: $16/$15. atenplace.com
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REPTILE DISCOVERY: 10am-4pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. 10:30am: Borrow some binoculars to search for turtles along Sabin pond during a guided turtle hike. Noon: Paint turtle shells. Stop by anytime to pick up a snake habitat scavenger hunt & hike the trails. natureiscalling.org
-------------------ELK RAPIDS ART & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am-4pm, River St., Downtown Elk Rapids. Over 70 crafters.
-------------------CHARLEVOIX VENETIAN FESTIVAL: July 16-23. Today includes the Drenth Memorial Footrace, Ryan Shay Mile, Street Parade, Bridge Street Block Party, live music by 1964…The Tribute & David Bennett, the Boat Parade, “Spectacular Harbor” Fireworks, & more. venetianfestival.com
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MULEBONE: This New York based duo brings
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-------------------SLEEPING BEAR DUNES ASTRONOMY FESTIVAL: Featuring a presentation, “The Most Amazing 100 Years of Astronomical Discovery, 1916-2016,” by Bob Moler of the GTAS at the Visitor Center from 1-3pm. Then examine the sun with a solar telescope at the Dune Climb from 4-6pm. Observe the summer constellations at Platte Point from 9-11pm. nps.gov/slbe/
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8TH ANNUAL FRIENDS OF FISHTOWN BENEFIT 5K RUN/WALK: The course winds through Leland’s neighborhoods & along the Leland River, starting & finishing in the heart of Fishtown. 8:30am. Proceeds benefit Fishtown Preservation Society. fishtownmi.org
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-------------------DUNESVILLE MUSIC FESTIVAL: July 22-24, Harmony Park at the Harm Farm, Lake Ann. Music by Alex Mendenall, Blue Water Ramblers, Dragon Wagon, Kung Fu Rodeo, Tell Yo Mama, The Vermeers, & many others; camping, arts, crafts & more. dunesvillemusicfestival.com
-------------------ART LEELANAU BENEFIT & EXHIBITION: Promoting the artwork of more than 100 Leelanau artists, with 40% of art sales benefitting the Old Art Building. Held at the Old Art Building, Leland, the opening night gala will be held tonight from 5-8pm with live music, horsd’oeuvres & more. Tickets: $25 advance, $30 door. The exhibit & sale run through July 27. Info: oldartbuilding.com
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RACHEL B LIVE: This singer-songwriter performs at Sonic Bloom Recording, TC at 8pm. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 door. mynorthtickets.com
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“RICHARD III”: Presented by Riverside Shakespeare, LLC in TC’s Hannah Park at 6pm. Find Riverside Shakespeare, LLC on Facebook.
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CONCERT SERIES: Collegiate musicians of the Bay View Music Festival, String Quartet 2a, will perform at Mackinaw Crossings, Mackinaw City at 1pm.
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DUNESVILLE MUSIC FESTIVAL: July 2224, Harmony Park at the Harm Farm, Lake Ann. Music by Alex Mendenall, Blue Water Ramblers, Dragon Wagon, Kung Fu Rodeo, Tell Yo Mama, The Vermeers, & many others; camping, arts, crafts & more. Tickets: dunesvillemusicfestival.com
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The 69th Annual AuSable River Canoe Marathon takes place July 26-31. This non-stop canoe race starts at night with a LeMans-style running-start to the river in Grayling, & ends 120 miles later near the shores of Lake Huron in Oscoda. It is the middle leg of the Triple Crown of Canoe Racing. ausablecanoemarathon.org
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-------------------TRIBUTE TO THE GREATEST GENERATION: Enjoy an evening of jazz standards made popular by Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney, intermingled with music of the 1940’s & 50’s. 8pm, Hall Auditorium, Bay View, Petoskey. bayviewassociation.org
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THE DIVIDE: GRAVEL ROAD BIKE RACE: Starts at 11am in Downtown Manton. 19, 31 & 50 miles. Nonstop rolling hills on seasonal roads, two tracks & gravel roads. hardracingevents.com
WET PAINT SHOW & SALE: Hosted by the Northport Arts Association at the Willowbrook Mill, Northport at 5:30pm. Artists will paint scenes in & around Northport beginning after dawn. A pre-show talk, “Sparkle with Repose,” by W. Truman Hosner, will be held at 3:30pm. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 day of. Find Northport Arts Association on Facebook.
-------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIANS UNITE: Held at Wuerfel Park, TC, the park opens at noon for concession sales & fellowship. Worship begins at 3pm. $2 donation suggested. 231-325-0344.
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ALL DAY PAINTOUT IN NORTHPORT: Exhibit & Wet Paint Art Sale at Old Willowbrook Mill from 5:30-8pm. northportartsforall.com
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SUMMER EVENINGS AT FLINTFIELDS HORSE PARK, WILLIAMSBURG: Featuring Olate Dogs – winners of America’s Got Talent. 1pm; doors open at noon. General admission, $10. Featuring Coney Island & hot dog menu with BBQ. mynorthtickets.com
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MONDAY NIGHT CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Enjoy Cajun music with the Benzie Playboys. 7pm, Onekama Village Park. onekama.info
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THE SPRINGTALES: Performing everything from the standards of the 1920’s to reworked covers from their 1980’s childhood. 6:307:30pm, Charlevoix Public Library. Open mic runs from 7:30-8:30pm; five slot sign-up begins at 6pm. 231-547-2651.
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AHRENS’ ANTHOLOGY: An Artist’s Adventure: Presented by Neil Ahrens at the Carnegie Building, Petoskey at 7pm. petoskeylibrary.org
-------------------COLLEGE FAIR: Hosted by Interlochen Center for the Arts from 2-4pm in Kresge Auditorium. Featuring more than 70 state & national universities & conservatories. Free. interlochen.org
-------------------“VISUALIZING AN ENTIRE CONTINENT”: Enjoy this nature photography program with photographer Charles St. Charles. 7pm, Community Room, Leelanau County Government Center, Suttons Bay.
-------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: With the Jeff Haas Quintet featuring Anthony Stanco & Laurie Sears. 7pm, GT Pavilions, TC. Free. gtpavilions.org
-------------------AUTHOR EVENT: Ethan Canin will speak & sign his newest book, “A Doubter’s Almanac,” at the Bellaire Public Library at 1pm. bellairelibrary.org
july 26
TUESDAY
LITERATURE ON THE LAKESHORE SERIES: Louise Borden presents “Telling the Truth in Fiction & Nonfiction.” 5-6pm, Leland Library, Munnecke Community Room. lelandlibrary.org
-------------------TUESDAY TALKS, TUNES & TOURS: Americana singer & songwriter Tim Krause will share covers & originals “with a good time feel.” Noon, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee. Free. 231-398-9770.
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THE RHUBARBARY HOUSE CONCERT: Presents Les Poules a Colin. This group from Canada brings their vocals, fiddle, guitar, bouzouki, banjo, mandolin, piano & foot percussion. 7:30pm, 3550 Five Mile Creek Rd., Harbor Springs. 231-357-7339.
-------------------69TH ANNUAL AUSABLE RIVER CANOE MARATHON: July 26-31. This non-stop canoe race starts at night with a LeMans-style running-start to the river in Grayling, & ends 120 miles later near the shores of Lake Huron in Oscoda. ausablecanoemarathon.org
-------------------MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE: Presents The Planet D Nonet. 7pm, First Street Beach, Manistee.
-------------------10TH ANNUAL RUNNING BEAR 5K RUN/ WALK & 1/2 MILE KIDS’ RUN: Starts at Cherry Republic, Glen Arbor. Registration, 7:30-8:45am; 5K, 9am; Kids’ Run, 9:05am. runningbearrun.com
-------------------“THE WINTER’S TALE” PREVIEW: Presented by Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre at Tank Hill, Frankfort at 7pm. $15 suggested donation. lakesideshakespeare.org
ORYANA PATIO PICNIC CONCERTS: With Little Omena. 5:30-7pm, Oryana Community Co-op, TC. Free. oryana.coop
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-------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW: Featuring the Straits Area Concert Band. 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Downtown Mackinaw City.
-------------------HARBOR SPRINGS SUMMER FRIENDS LECTURE: Featuring Peabody Award-Winning journalist Anders Kelto who spent five years reporting on Africa for NPR & PRI’s The World. 5-6pm, Harbor Springs Library. $15. 231-347-4337.
-------------------CONCERTS IN THE PARK: With Kellerville. Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. Free. crookedtree.org
-------------------ELK RAPIDS GARDEN CLUB GARDEN WALK: 10am-4pm. “Gardens by the Bay.” Featuring six gardens in & around East Bay. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 day of. elkrapidsgardenclub.com
-------------------TC FILM FESTIVAL: Enjoy independent, foreign & documentary films, as well as premieres, parties, panel discussions & lectures about the world of film from July 26-31. Most events are held near downtown TC – at The State Theatre, Bijou by the Bay, the City Opera House & Old Town Playhouse, but there are also many free festival opportunities, including family movies shown each night at the Open Space Park. traversecityfilmfest.org
-------------------AN EVENING WITH LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND: Country singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett is a four-time Grammy-winning artist whose hits include “Cowboy Man” & “Stand By Your Man.” He is also an actor. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $39.50. interlochen.org
-------------------BOOKED FOR LUNCH: With author Peter Geye, whose third novel, Wintering, was released in June. Noon – 2pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey. Ticket info: 231-347-1180.
july 27
WEDNESDAY
PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH DAYTIME SUPPORT GROUP: 10am, TC Senior Center. parkinsonsnetworknorth.com
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AUTHOR SIGNINGS AT HORIZON BOOKS, TC: July 27-31. See: horizonbooks.com
-------------------NATURAL SHORELINE WORKSHOP: Hosted by Benzie Conservation District from 5:30-8pm at Grow Benzie. Register: 231-882-4391.
-------------------69TH ANNUAL AUSABLE RIVER CANOE MARATHON: (See Tues., July 26)
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BOOK SIGNING: With Alison DeCamp, author of “My Near Death Adventures, I Almost Died. Again.” 11am, Cottage Book Shop, Glen Arbor. cottagebooks.com
-------------------THE CRANE WIVES: This Indie-folk group performs at Studio Stage at Lake Street Studios, Glen Arbor at 8pm. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com
-------------------WINE DOWN WEDNESDAYS: Live music by Chloe & Olivia Kimes. 5-7pm, Chateau Grand Traverse, TC. Wine & small bites available. cgtwines.com/winedown
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THE “LITTLE” TRAVERSE IT HAPPY HOUR: 5-7pm, Knot Just a Bar, Bay Harbor. Local technology professionals invited. Free drinks & appetizers. eventbrite.com
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-------------------ADAPTIVE KAYAKING: 6pm, Interlochen State Park. Kayaks provided at this free event. Register: kseefeldt@lighthouserehab.com
-------------------COMMUNITY BAND CONCERTS: Featuring 1812 Overture (Again!) under the Pavilion in Downtown Gaylord at 8pm.
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THE BACKROOM GANG CONCERT: Enjoy traditional jazz & blues as well as Dixieland with The Backroom Gang at the Presbyterian Church of TC, 701 Westminster Rd. at 7pm. tcpresby.org
-------------------ATEN PLACE CONCERTS: Featuring magic by Jania. 2pm, Aten Place, Boyne Falls. atenplace.com
-------------------TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 26) -------------------RICK SPRINGFIELD “STRIPPED DOWN”: This show offers a glimpse into the life rockstar/actor Rick Springfield has experienced through music, with personal stories introducing each song in the set, plus an audience Q&A. 7:30pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $27.50. interlochen.org
july 28
THURSDAY
69TH ANNUAL AUSABLE RIVER CANOE MARATHON: (See Tues., July 26)
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FIND YOUR PARK SUMMER CONCERT: Enjoy folk with Dana Falconberry at the Platte River Campground Amphitheater at 8pm. nps.gov/slbe/
-------------------SUMMER BOOK SALE: Presented by Friends of the Petoskey Library from 10am4pm. petoskeylibrary.org
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29TH ANNUAL FLYWHEELERS CELEBRATION: July 28-31, Walloon Lake. All-U-CanEat Breakfast Buffet, 7am; opening ceremonies, 9am; Parade of Power, 2pm; & Tractor Safari, 7pm. walloonlakeflywheelers.com
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-------------------TALK ABOUT ART WITH KATHLEEN STOCKING: This award-winning essayist will discuss her new memoir “The Long Arc of the Universe – Travels Beyond the Pale” at the Glen Arbor Art Association at 7pm. glenarborart.org
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MUSIC ON THE BIDWELL PLAZA: With the CTAC Youth Orchestra Chamber Ensemble. 12:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. crookedtree.org
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THE JEREMY KITTEL TRIO: 8pm, The Bay Theatre, Downtown Suttons Bay. Led by Grammy nominee & world-class fiddler Jeremy Kittel. $20 advance, $25 door. mynorthtickets.com
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-------------------UPBEAT DOWNTOWN THURSDAYS: With The Planet D Nonet. 7-9:15pm, Pavilion, Downtown Cadillac. cadillacmichigan.com
-------------------JAZZ AT SUNSET: Celebrating student musicians with an evening of music, wine & stunning sunsets at Chateau Chantal, TC from 7-9:30pm. www.chateauchantal.com
-------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: With Jetty Rae & Chris DuPont. 7pm, GT Pavilions, TC. Free. gtpavilions.org
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-------------------CONCERTS IN THE PARK: With Pete Kehoe. Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. Free. crookedtree.org
-------------------POETRY READING: Author Michael Delp will read from his new book of poetry, “Lying in the River’s Dark Bed: The Confluence of the Deadman and the Mad Angler.” 6pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org
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-------------------ALDEN EVENING STROLL: Live music by the Sweetwater Blues Band. 4-8pm, Downtown Alden.
-------------------BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY: Enjoy this energetic swing band who has been together for over 23 years & has sold millions of records & had their music appear in hundreds of movies & television shows. 8pm, Hall Auditorium, Bay View, Petoskey. Tickets start at $16. bayviewfestival.org
-------------------“THE WINTER’S TALE”: Presented by Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre at Tank Hill, Frankfort at 7pm. $15 suggested donation. lakesideshakespeare.org
-------------------TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 26) -------------------ART RAPIDS! SUMMER CONCERT: Featuring Miriam Pico & David Chown at 7pm with an opening performance by Jay Schumacher at 6pm. Held in the Deborah Wentworth Memorial Pavilion at the Elk Rapids Day Park. Free. artrapids.org
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-------------------REPORTER SUSAN STELLIN & PHOTOGRAPHER GRAHAM MACINDO: Will discuss their dual memoir “Chancers.” This is a wine & cheese event. 6-7pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Free, but reservations requested: 231-347-1180.
july 29
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THE RFD BOYS: Enjoy bluegrass at the Old Town Hall in Elk Rapids at 8pm. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door. 231486-0224.
-------------------SUMMER BOOK SALE: (See Thurs., July 28) -------------------29TH ANNUAL FLYWHEELERS CELEBRATION: (See Thurs., July 28)
-------------------“THEN AND NOW: The Art of Mary E. Andersen & Carla Sutton”: July 29-31, Old Art Building, Leland. A show of original oils & pastels. An opening wine & cheese reception will be held tonight from 5-7:30pm. oldartbuilding.com
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-------------------ALDEN DAYS: Today features a cake walk at the Alden Depot at 6:30pm. 231-331-4154.
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BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: With Breathe Owl Breathe. 8-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Tickets: $10 advance, $12.50 at door. redskystage.com
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51ST ANNUAL SIDEWALK SALES: 9am-9pm, Downtown Petoskey. petoskeydowntown.com
69TH ANNUAL AUSABLE RIVER CANOE MARATHON: (See Tues., July 26)
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MUSIC IN MACKINAW: Featuring Dance North. 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Downtown Mackinaw City.
29TH ANNUAL FLYWHEELERS CELEBRATION: (See Thurs., July 28)
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COUNTRY MUSIC CONCERT: With Drew Hale, national champion at the 34th Annual Country Showdown. 7pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Tickets, $10. michlegacyartpark.org
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CONCERTS IN THE PARK: With Pete Kehoe. Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. Free. crookedtree.org
-------------------PETOSKEY ROCKS!: Featuring free carriage rides, Music in the Park with The Up North Big Band, Ghost Walks & Movies in the Park – “Snow White.” 6pm – dark, Downtown Petoskey. petoskeydowntown.com
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17TH ANNUAL BAY HARBOR ARTS FESTIVAL: Featuring painting, pottery, jewelry, metal works, furniture, glass, fiber art & much more. 6-9pm, Village at Bay Harbor. bayharbor.com
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15TH ANNUAL BAROQUE ON BEAVER MUSIC FESTIVAL: July 29 – Aug. 7. Featuring the classical trio of May Phang, Aaron Berofsky & Derek Snyder. Gala Benefit Concert. 7:30pm, Beaver Island Community Center Auditorium. Tickets: $50 or $75 for two nights. baroqueonbeaver.org
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TRAVERSE HIGHER ART EXHIBITION: This gallery style pop-up show, with over 50 artists, will be shown at ECCO Event Space in Downtown TC from 10am-7pm. An opening reception will be held from 4-7pm. Featuring an art raffle which benefits Speak Up, the homeless street zine, live music & more. Find ‘Traverse Higher Art Exhibition’ on Facebook.
-------------------MUSIC IN THE PARK: Enjoy folk/rock with Looking Forward CSN. 7-9pm, Marina Park, Northport.
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SUMMER EVENINGS AT FLINTFIELDS: With the Joshua Davis Quartet with Nik Carmen. Featuring farm fresh paella & BBQ. Doors at 6pm, show at 6:30pm, Flintfields Horse Park, Williamsburg. General admission, $25; w/ paella dinner, $35. mynorthtickets.com
-------------------56TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY UGOTTA REGATTA: July 29-31. The Ugotta Regatta begins with “one-design” racing on Friday followed by a “tour-of-the-bay” course on Saturday & windward-leeward racing on Sunday. ltyc.org
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EAST JORDAN MUSIC IN THE PARK: Americana with Kellerville. 7-9pm, Memorial Park Bandshell. 231-536-7351.
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JAY LENO: Enjoy a stand-up comedy show with longtime Tonight Show host Jay Leno. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $47.50. interlochen.org
july 30
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HARRY POTTER BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: 9pm-midnight, Petoskey District Library. Info: petoskeylibrary.org
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TRINA HAMLIN: 8pm, InsideOut Gallery, TC. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 door. 929-3254.
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THE RFD BOYS: Enjoy a Bluegrass Party Picnic with The RFD Boys on the lakeside lawn of the Myers’ Cottage on Crystal Lake. Picnic, 6:30pm; concert, 7:30pm. Bring your own chairs & picnic basket. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door. 231-941-8667.
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--------------------------------------RAKS INCENDIA PRESENTS IGNITE: The 4th Annual Bellydance Showcase. 8pm, The Children’s House, TC. Tickets: raksincendia.com
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“THEN AND NOW: The Art of Mary E. Andersen & Carla Sutton”: July 29-31, Old Art Building, Leland. A show of original oils & pastels. Today’s hours are 10am-7pm. oldartbuilding.com
-------------------“THE WINTER’S TALE”: Presented by Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre at Tank Hill, Frankfort at 7pm. $15 suggested donation. lakesideshakespeare.org
-------------------ALDEN DAYS: Today features the Alden Run, Alden Days Parade, afternoon entertainment, the Beef Roast, Alden United Methodist Church Bake Sale, & more. 231-331-4154.
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51ST ANNUAL SIDEWALK SALES: 9am-6pm, Downtown Petoskey. petoskeydowntown.com
-------------------BIKE4BREASTCANCER RIDE: Choose from 50-mile, 22-mile or 7-mile routes. Following the ride lunch is available at the East Park Pavilion next to Bay Harbor. bike4breastcancernm.org
-------------------CIVIL WAR DEDICATION SERVICE: For Dr. David Wilson Cousins, Union Veteran Company H 102nd Colored Infantry. 10am, Down Cemetery, Mayfield Township, GT County. Featuring a performance by members of The Grand Traverse Pipe & Drums.
-------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW: Featuring pianist Matthew Ball. 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Downtown Mackinaw City.
-------------------CROOKED TREE OUTDOOR ART FAIR: 9am-4pm, NMC Main Campus, TC. Featuring more than 100 artists & artisans from across the country. Jewelry, sculpture, photography, glass, wood, fiber & more. crookedtree.org
-------------------LIONS CLUB FLY-IN, DRIVE-IN BREAKFAST: Watch classic planes land & old cars arrive in style at the Woolsey Memorial Airport, Northport at 8am. 231-386-5911.
-------------------“THE MUSIC MAN”: 8pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Tickets: $25 adults, $5 students. northportcac.org
-------------------ATEN PLACE CONCERTS: Featuring the Jeremy Kittel Trio. 7:30pm, Aten Place, Boyne Falls. Tickets: $16/$15. atenplace.com
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15TH ANNUAL BAROQUE ON BEAVER MUSIC FESTIVAL: July 29 – Aug. 7. Featuring “An Orchestral Rainbow” at 2pm at Beaver Island Community School Gym; & Gala Benefit Concert at the Beaver Island Community Center Auditorium at 7:30pm. baroqueonbeaver.org
-------------------TRAVERSE HIGHER ART EXHIBITION: This gallery style pop-up show, with over 50 artists, will be shown at ECCO Event Space in Downtown TC from 10am-6pm. Proceeds benefit Speak Up, the homeless street zine. Find ‘Traverse Higher Art Exhibition’ on Facebook.
-------------------INSECT ADVENTURE: Open 10am-4pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Head to the center at 10:30am to participate in the cricket capture & learn secret bug hunting locations. Stop by at 1pm to check out the live wiggling worms. Presented by the GT Conservation District. natureiscalling.org
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-------------------TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 26)
july 31
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JEREMY KITTEL TRIO: 8pm, Studio Stage, Lake Street Studios, Glen Arbor. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com
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29TH ANNUAL FLYWHEELERS CELEBRATION: (See Thurs., July 28)
Info: greatlakesequestrianfestival.com CEMETERY TOURS: The Traverse Area Historical Society will conduct these walking tours of Oakwood Cemetery, TC at 7pm on Sundays in July & Aug. Cost, $10; proceeds benefit the Historical Society. Meet on the sidewalk outside the cemetery at the corner of Eighth St. & Steele 20 minutes before start time. 995-0313.
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STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Poetry, storytelling & music every Sat. at 9pm through Sept. 3. Featuring a unique outdoor setting around a fire. Ten miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. $5 adults, $3 kids. terry-wooten.com
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DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: 12 Step Meeting. Held on Tuesdays from 7-8pm at Munson Community Health Center, east door, Room G, TC. For info, email: tcdajp34@gmail.com
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ADOPTION SATURDAYS: Pets Naturally, TC hosts one dog & one cat from the Cherryland Humane Society on Saturdays from 11am2pm. www.petsnaturallytc.com
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PETOSKEY FARMS VINEYARD & WINERY: Open to the community every Thurs. from 5:30-8:30pm through Sept. Enjoy the outdoor patio with food & wine available to purchase, & live music. petoskeyfarms.com
“THEN AND NOW: The Art of Mary E. Andersen & Carla Sutton”: July 29-31, Old Art Building, Leland. A show of original oils & pastels. Today’s hours are 12-4pm. oldartbuilding.com 69TH ANNUAL AUSABLE RIVER CANOE MARATHON: (See Tues., July 26)
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17TH ANNUAL BAY HARBOR ARTS FESTIVAL: Featuring painting, pottery, jewelry, metal works, furniture, glass, fiber art & much more. 10am-2pm, Village at Bay Harbor. bayharbor.com
-------------------CONCERT SERIES: Collegiate musicians of the Bay View Music Festival, Woodwind Quintet 2b, will perform at Mackinaw Crossings, Mackinaw City at 1pm.
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“THE MUSIC MAN”: 2pm & 8pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Tickets: $25 adults, $5 students. northportcac.org
-------------------56TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY UGOTTA REGATTA: (See Fri., July 29)
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15TH ANNUAL BAROQUE ON BEAVER MUSIC FESTIVAL: July 29 – Aug. 7. Featuring “Music Camera, Camera Sacra.” 2pm, St. James Episcopal Church. baroqueonbeaver.org
-------------------BLUE STAR MEMORIAL DEDICATION: Presented by the Friendly Garden Club at The Botanic Gardens at The Historic Barns Park, TC at 2pm. thefriendlygardenclub.org
-------------------TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 26)
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BELLA MUSICA: This dinner theater is held on Tuesdays & Wednesdays through Aug. 3 at Bella Fortuna Stage, Lake Leelanau. Dinner, 6pm; show, 7:30pm. Info: bellafortunarestaurant.com
-------------------USED BOOK SALE & LOCAL ARTISTS FAIR: The Book Sale runs through Aug. 3. The Local Artists Fair will be held on Sat., July 23 from 9am-4pm. Held at Old Mission Peninsula Elementary School. Benefits the Peninsula Community Library. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org
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MCLAREN NORTHERN MI DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: Meets the second Mon. of each month from 7-8pm at the John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. northernhealth.org/ wellness
-------------------TUESDAY TEA & TALK SERIES: Explore the backgrounds of gemstones while enjoying tea & scones in Becky’s garden. Tuesdays at 3pm through Aug. 9 at 5795 Lake Street, Glen Arbor. RSVP: 231-334-3826.
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GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: July 6-31, Flintfields Horse Park, Williamsburg.
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-------------------THE VILLAGE OUTDOOR FARMERS MARKET: On the Piazza at The Village at GT Commons, TC on Mondays through Oct. from 12-4pm. www.thevillagetc.com
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-------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Farmers & gardeners from around the local region bring their fresh produce, flowers & baked goods to this Downtown Farmers Market located between Cass & Union streets, across from Clinch Park, TC. Held on Wednesdays from 8am-noon, & Saturdays from 7:30am-noon through Oct. www. downtowntc.com
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-------------------GROW BENZIE FARMERS MARKET: Mondays through Oct. 3, 3-7pm, 5885 Frankfort Highway, Benzonia. growbenzie.org
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ALDEN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, Tennis Court Park, 4-8pm. visitalden.com
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-------------------COLORING CLUB FOR GROWN-UPS: Held on Wednesdays from 12-1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Free. crookedtree.org/tc
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SONG OF THE MORNING, VANDERBILT: Free yoga classes, Tues. – Fri., 7:30-8:30am. songofthemorning.org
-------------------TRAVERSE BAY BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION: Held the third Thurs. of every month from 7-10pm at InsideOut Gallery, TC. traversebayblues.com
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PETOSKEY FILM THEATER: Showing international, indie, art house & documentary films on Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays. Carnegie Building, 451 E. Mitchell St., next to Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Donations welcome. For schedule find ‘Petoskey Film Theater’ on Facebook. 231-758-3108.
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A PRJCT OMNI & WAREHOUSE MRKT EXHIBITION: Selected artists’ work from around the world will be shown & sold in the halls of Warehouse Market, TC, July 28 – Nov. 30. An opening will be held on Thurs., July 28 at 6pm. warehousemrkt.com
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JULY AT THE BOTANIC GARDEN, HISTORIC BARNS PARK, TC: Featuring the work of local photographers Don Rutt & Kristina Lishawa. Don’s work highlights the gritty spaces of Building 50 (before renovations) while Kristina’s work features landscape & nature photographs. thebotanicgarden.org
-------------------“THE MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS”: Runs through Aug. at City Opera House, TC. cityoperahouse.org
-------------------RANDI FORD & JUSTIN GUSTAFSON EXHIBIT: Somebody’s Gallery, Petoskey. somebodysgallery.com
“FROM WITHIN – A DEPARTURE FROM REALITY”: Featuring the work of 14 area artists who use unconventional approaches to visual experiences. Runs through July. Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. twistedfishgallery.com
-------------------CENTER GALLERY @ LAKE STREET STUDIOS, GLEN ARBOR: - Neil Walling Exhibit: Featuring Leelanau County watercolor & oil paintings. July 29 – Aug. 4. Walling will conduct a painting demonstration on Sat., July 30 at 1pm. - Margo Burian Exhibit: Paintings of Leelanau County’s land & water – as processed through the imagination of Grand Rapids artist Margo Burian – are on display through July 28. 231334-3179.
-------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - Summer Artisans Market: Fridays through Sept. 30, 9am-1pm on the Bidwell Plaza. Artisans will sell their work & provide demonstrations. - A Passion for Painting: This CTAC’s Kitchen Painters exhibit takes place in the Atrium Gallery through Sept. 6. - The Art of Seeing Birds: Original Paintings by Glen McCune: Held in Gilbert Gallery through Sept. 3. Featuring over 20 paintings, each depicting MI birds & their habitat. - “Twenty Years in Retrospect: Paintings” & “Tales Lost to the Wind”: The Works of Kevin Barton: Held in Bonfield Gallery through Sept. 3. crookedtree.org
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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - 1966: Remixed: This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of its gallery space, the 1966 addition of the old City Library, designed by architect Gordon Cornwell. Runs through Sept. 3 & features new works inspired by the trends, fashions & events of that transitional era in American life. crookedtree.org
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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: 25th Anniversary Exhibitions: June 12 – Sept. 4: - Soo Sunny Park: Unwoven Light: Park will recreate a version of her Unwoven Light that will be suspended as a sculptural composition of chain-link fencing & iridescent Plexiglas formed in organic shapes within the Schmuckal Gallery of the Dennos, transforming it into a shimmering world of light, shadow & color. - Ilhwa Kim: Seed Universe: Artist Ilhwa Kim of Seoul, Korea hand-dyes, cuts, & rolls thousands of sheets of Korean mulberry paper to form colorful, three-dimensional works of art that form vibrant patterns & shapes. - Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds: This exhibition consists of large helium-filled, pillow-like forms made from silver plastic film. The clouds will float in a confined space of the Binsfeld Gallery space where the helium-filled clouds will move gently on fan-propelled wind, allowing visitors to experience an interactive walk through a pop interpretation of the heavens. - Exhibited & Acquired: 25 Years of Exhibitions that added art to the Dennos Collections. - Looking Back to the Beginning: Clifton McChesney – Painting / Dale Chihuly – Glass.
-------------------KAYE BUCHMAN EXHIBIT: Kaye’s work includes large-scale pen & ink drawing, series painting on polyester resin & aluminum sheeting, thematic bookmaking, & more. The exhibit runs through Aug. 6. Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org
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“BEAUTY BROUGHT TO LIGHT”: Landscape paintings by Louise Pond, July 23 - Aug. 2. Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. threepinesstudio.com
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A SALUTE TO OUR VETERANS EXHIBIT : July 6-30, GACA Art Market & Gallery, Gaylord. gaylordarts.org
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Alex Somers – Captain Fantastic Original Score – Invada Records From the very quirky movie starring Viggo Mortensen — a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival — arrives this equally strange soundtrack, constructed by Sigur Rós coproducer/engineer Alex Somers. Otherworldly, shoe-gaze-y strings, swirling vocals (some by Sigur Rós’ own Jonsi), and carefully-played pipe organs are consistent throughout, setting the tone for the film’s heartfelt but off-the-wall storyline on tracks like “Fortress,” “Disappear,” and “Keepsakes.” Snag the limited-edition double colored vinyl if you really want a special version of this set.
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Various Artists – Ghostbusters Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – RCA
The reboot of the famed Ghostbusters movie has been a polarizing one for many people. Seems you either love the new take on the film, or you hate it. Same goes for the soundtrack. First up is the remake of the original theme song, here revamped by Walk the Moon — and it’s a winner, refreshed but not completely unrecognizable. A second version, mostly a capella, by Pentatonix, is also a win. Not so great is a jittery version by Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliott, but some of the new tunes are better bets, one being “Get Ghost” by Mark Ronson and Passion Pit.
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This fall, Tinie Tempah will release a brand new album titled Youth, which will be his third effort, and one that Tempah wrote and produced on his own, in his private studio. In a recent interview, Tempah said that the sounds on the set are a nod to all of the genres of music he heard growing up and the tracks that made him want to be a rapper. Collaborators on the album include Katy B and Jess Glynne. Three singles from the set already have been released to radio, including “Not Letting Go.” Youth will hit outlets on Sept. 16 … Drive-By Truckers have a new album on the way, too — one that will be released by their home label, ATO Records. The album, recorded in Nashville with the band’s regular producer/engineer David Barbe, arrives during the band’s 20th anniversary year and will be prefaced by their 2016 Darkened Flags Tour, which starts in August and will take them across the U.S. A first track from the album, “Surrender Under Protest,” was previewed on NPR; the band is calling the album a “rock and roll call to arms.” Look for Drive-By Truckers’ American Band on Sept. 30 … Two Door Cinema Club played a new song of their own at this summer’s big Glastonbury Festival in the U.K., debuting “Are We Ready” on the fest’s famed Pyramid Stage. The track was just a small preview
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of the band’s upcoming new album, recorded after TDCC took a three-year break following an endless tour schedule that burned out the band. That new album, titled Gameshow, is much-anticipated by fans and critics alike, and is said to be a more cheerful effort now that the band has had some time to catch a breath … If you like alternative rock music and, uh … Chipotle (yes, we said Chipotle), this is your week. For one of Chipotle’s trademark promo video shorts, the restaurant tapped Alabama Shakes’ frontwoman, Brittany Howard, and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James to duet on an old ’90s song from boy band The Backstreet Boys (“I Want It That Way”). The pair give the tune an entirely new twist, perfectly soundtracking the tale of two kids who start with neighborhood lemonade stands and grow them into fastfood empires. The tune, produced by Blake Mills, takes “I Want It That Way” and makes it into a brooding alt-rock anthem with a sprinkle of hope … MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: The very first Lollapalooza Colombia festival reportedly has been canceled after one of the headliners dropping out, and the fest was unable to find a main-stage replacement in time. Lolla didn’t identify the no-show, but rumors point to Rihanna. Lollapalooza Chicago, however, is still a go for July 29–31. You can get updates on
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everything Lolla at lollapalooza.com … MINI BUZZ: Portishead have released a video for their cover of ABBA’s pop single “SOS” as a tribute to late British Member of Parliament Jo Cox … New Order’s big 2005 Singles compilation album is being updated and remastered via Warner music to add several tracks; it will be released Sept. 9 on digital, CD, and vinyl formats … Henry Rollins is one of the musicians who have been tapped to model for fashion designer Calvin Klein’s upcoming fall 2016 campaign … Bastille have announced the release date for their sophomore album, Wild World, which will hit outlets on Sept. 9 and be prefaced by first single “Good Grief” … Smokey Robinson has been awarded
the U.S. Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, joining fellow honorees like Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, and Michigan’s own Stevie Wonder … August Burns Red, Erra, and Silent Planet are teaming up for a fall headlining tour that will make stops in Indianapolis (Sept. 17), Grand Rapids, Mich. (Sept. 29 at The Intersection), and Madison, Wis. (Sept. 22) … And this week’s albums are hoping that you’ll stop by your local music outlet and make a purchase … Relient K’s Air for Free … Fantasia’s The Definition Of … Nao’s For All We Know … Billy Talent’s Afraid of Heights … and ZHU’s Generation Why… 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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• 522 - MANISTEE Tues. -- Karaoke Thurs., Fri., Sat. -- DJ • BUCKLEY BAR - BUCKLEY Fri. -- DJ Karaoke/Sounds - Duane & Janet • CADILLAC SANDS RESORT Porthole Pub & Eatery: Thurs. -- Live music
SandBar Niteclub: Fri. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs Fri. -- Karaoke/linedancing, 8:30 Sat. -- Dance videos, 8:30 • COYOTE CROSSING HOXEYVILLE Thurs. -- Open Mic Sat. -- Live Music
• DOUGLAS VALLEY WINERY MANISTEE Sun. -- Live music, 1:30-4:30pm • HI-WAY INN - MANISTEE Wild Weds. -- Karaoke Fri.-Sat. -- Karaoke/Dance • LOST PINES LODGE HARRIETTA Sat. -- Karaoke, dance videos
Grand Traverse & Kalkaska • ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM - TC Sat. -- Jam session, 6-10 • BOONE'S LONG LAKE INN - TC The Big Deck, 6-9: 7/23 -- Matt Foresman 7/24 -- Scot Bihlman 7/25 -- Greg Seaman 7/26 -- Jim Hawley 7/27 -- Jeff Bihlman 7/28 -- Big Rand 7/29 -- Matt Phend 7/30-31 -- Matt Foresman • BRAVO ZULU BREWING WILLIAMSBURG Fri. -- Live music, 7-10 • BREW - TC 7/24 -- Blair Miller, 9-11 7/31 -- Miles Prendergast, 8-10 • BUD'S - INTERLOCHEN Thurs. -- Jim Hawley, 5-8 • CHATEAU CHANTAL - TC 7/28 -- Jazz at Sunset w/ Jeff Haas Trio & student musicians, 7-9:30 • CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE - TC 7/27 -- Wine Down Weds. on the patio w/ Chloe & Olivia Kimes, 5-7 • FANTASY'S - GRAWN Adult Entertainment w/ DJ • GT DISTILLERY - TC 7/23 -- Blair Miller, 5-8 • GT RESORT & SPA - ACME Lobby: 7/23 -- Blake Elliott 7/29 -- Blake Elliott • HAYLOFT INN - TC Thurs. -- Open mic night by Roundup Radio Show, 8 Fri. - Sat. thru July -- Cow Puppies • INSIDEOUT GALLERY - TC 7/29 -- The Villette Brothers 7/30 -- Trina Hamlin, 8 • LEFT FOOT CHARLEY - TC Mon. -- Open mic w/ Blake Elliott, 6-9 Patio: 7/29 -- Sierra Cassidy, 6-8 • LITTLE BOHEMIA - TC 7/29 -- Awesome Distraction, 8-11 7/30 -- The Dune Brothers, 8-11– Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 • NORTH PEAK - TC Deck, 5-9:
7/23 -- Matt Phend 7/27 -- Ryan Harcourt 7/28 -- Project 6 7/29 -- David Lawston 7/30 -- Jim Hawley Kilkenny's, 9:30-1:30: 7/22-23 -- Risque 7/29-30 -- Brett Mitchell & the giant GHOST, 9:30 Mon. -- Team Trivia Night, 7-9; karaoke, 9-1 Tues. -- Levi Britton, 8-12 Weds. -- The Pocket, 8-12 Thurs. -- 2 Bays DJs, 9:30-1:30 Sun. -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9 • PARK PLACE HOTEL - TC Beacon Lounge: Mon. -- Levi Britton, 8:30pm Thurs. - Sat. -- Tom Kaufmann • PARKSHORE LOUNGE - TC Fri. - Sat. -- DJ • RARE BIRD BREWPUB - TC 7/25 -- Brady Corcoran, 9 7/28 -- May Erlewine, 9 Weds. -- Open mic night, 9 • SAIL INN - TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs, karaoke, dance videos • SIDE TRAXX - TC Weds. -- Impaired Karaoke, 10 Fri.-Sat. -- DJ/VJ Mike King • SONIC BLOOM RECORDING - TC 7/24 -- Rachel B Live, 8 • STATE STREET GRILLE - TC 7/27 -- Project 6 7/28 -- Joe Babcock 7/29 -- Limelight, 7 7/30 -- Balsom Brothers Tues. -- Open mic night, 7-11 • STUDIO ANATOMY - TC 7/23 -- Comedy Night, 9 7/29 -- Stay Fast, The Parking Lots, The Good Die Young, 8 • TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE - TC Mon. -- Levi Britton, 7-9 Weds. -- Open mic, 7-10 Thurs. -- Acoustic G-Snacks, 7-10 Fri. -- Rob Coonrod, 8-10 Sat. -- Christopher Dark, 8-10 Sun. -- Kids open mic, 3
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by meg weichman
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espite sharing many similarities and cast members with the stinking dumpster fire that was the worst movie I’ve ever seen (Dirty Grandpa), Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is actually a pretty delightful and funny surprise. It’s just the right amount of raunch, with no icky after-taste — a balance that is pretty hard to strike in movies like these. Based on a true story — believe it or not — Mike (Workaholic’s Adam DeVine) and Dave (Tiger Beat’s Zac Efron) are bachelor brothers who, at the insistence of their beleaguered family, must bring dates to their little sister’s destination wedding in Hawaii. They are selfish screw-ups to be sure, but they’re not dicks. And in the film’s first of many forays into genuine sincerity, they take their sister’s pleas to heart. They promise to bring “nice girls” as their dates to the wedding. And naturally they use the soundest method of locating eligible nice women to accompany them: Craigslist. Tatiana (Parks and Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza) and Alice (Pitch Perfect’s Anna Kendrick) see the brothers on TV and hatch a plan: Rather than answer the Craigslist ad directly, the two will fake a meet-cute and sweep them off their feet. Surprisingly, pretty much everyone in this movie is likeable; there’s no evil bridesmaid to fend off, no smarmy fiancée to expose, and the lineup of comedic bit parts and setups moves the story right along. It’s really very nice to see an adult comedy treat you like an adult. As a result the film feels truly modern. If you don’t mind an occasional dip into the sophomoric, I heartily recommend it.
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D Because two of the people I’m closest to consider Ghostbusters the most defining text of their lives, I was acutely aware of the nervousness that this reboot would be terrible. Not terrible because of the bald-faced misogyny that pissants on the internet have been spouting about it (which I won’t give any more ink to here), but terrible because it just seemed tacky and sad to remake the movie at all. But seeing that it was helmed by Bridesmaids director Paul Feig and blessed by our Ghostbusters forefathers, I was just excited to see a movie with some of my favorite female comedians in a story that has absolutely nothing to do with being female. So whether you’re someone like me, or someone like my Ghostbuster-obsessed compatriots, you can rest easy, because the new Ghostbusters is tremendous. It is funny, smart and fun. Fun. Something that armchair directors seem to forget was the main component of the original 1984 version. It’s been 32 years since director Ivan Reitman (who also produced the 2016 version) brought to the big screen the tale of four guys in New York City that save the world from a demigod brought into our world by a shadowy cult. It was a runaway hit that’s still fresh today, and it has been a comedic blueprint for generations since. This new version doesn’t reinvent the wheel and is better for it. Feig keeps the story in Manhattan (but a decidedly cleaner one than 1984’s, which at times looks suspiciously like Boston), but this time, as you may have heard, our heroes are four women. We first meet Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig), a Columbia University physics professor on a tenure track, when a ghost from her past comes back to haunt her: a book about paranormal investigation that’s been republished by excolleague Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy). Gilbert had given up chasing ghosts and pursued a serious scientific career. Yates, on the other hand, still keeps the faith and teaches at a vocational school with her new partner,
the wiggy-brilliant engineer Jillian Holtzman (Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon). Yates will remove the book from Amazon only if Gilbert accompanies them on one last investigation. Thus the three find themselves face to face with the etheric plane in a haunted mansion (naturally), and they get the whole thing on video. Not only are ghosts real, mysterious devices placed near haunted spots are amplifying their power. Patty Tolan (SNL’s Leslie Jones), an MTA employee with an encyclopedic knowledge of New York City history, joins the group after she discovers one such device in a subway tunnel. With Patty comes Ecto1, actually a hearse from her uncle’s funeral home. So now we’ve got our four Ghostbusters, and the car, so we’re off to the races. Now, let’s talk cameos. Make no mistake, this film is a loving, reverent homage to the original, and all our heroes from the first one make appearances. I’ll only spoil one here: a bust of the late Harold Ramis (he of Egon fame, and one of the franchise’s original creators) appears in the halls outside Erin’s Columbia office. It’s a quick hit, but you’re meant to see it, and when you do, you know you’re going to be OK. Other cast members show up in delightfully in spots you don’t expect, and each one looks pleased as punch to be involved. They give the film the weight you’ll look for if you’re a Ghostbusters originalist. But the real joy comes from the four main characters themselves. Wiig is quirky but restrained, and you grow along with her as the film progresses; McCarthy is the heart, the Aykroyd stand-in, confident and full of wonder at what they are accomplishing; Jones is the nononsense bedrock; and McKinnon gives the film its irreverent, Murray-esque boost. Her performance is one of pure, bizarre joy. Holtzman is the curve ball no one saw coming. She alone is a reason to watch the film. She’s the reason to see the sequel. And of course there will be a sequel. I can’t wait to see where they go from here. Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.
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isney’s The BFG is a real nail-biter — a film so boring, you’ll gnaw you nails down to the quick simply out of the need for something to do. Slow, uneventful, and dramatically inert, the restless energy in the auditorium for the first 90 minutes is more than most viewers will be able to take, and it demands some sort of release. So yeah, the latest from director Steven Spielberg is a disappointment to be sure, something all the more frustrating because his dream team is all here. The film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Frank Marshall (Raiders of the Lost Ark); written by the late, great Melissa Mathison (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial); with cinematography by Janusz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan); and music by John Williams (every great soundtrack ever). Yet even when you combine all their talents with source material from a beloved children’s classic about a strong and smart little girl (Ruby Barnhill) and her genteel giant friend (Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies), as it turns out, the world of Roald Dahl’s wry and droll sense of imagination is simply no fit for that trademark Spielbergian sense of wonder. And try as they might for nearly two tiresome hours, the two never manage to successfully mesh together. Sweet-natured, low-key, and with its heart in the right place, this had the chance to be the refreshing antidote to the garish and frenetic entertainment that dominates children’s fare. But unless you or your child is a very old soul indeed, the sincere and mannerly approach will register as mundane and their adventures as tedious.
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his is a movie that feels like summer. And it’s not the beachy setting or its sun-dappled beauty but that it captures the best of what a summer blockbuster should be: pure riveting entertainment. Yet this is no blockbuster. It’s something much, much smaller and more modest, with a tight budget of only $17 million. Stripped of Hollywood excess, The Shallows is lean and mean — just like the killer fish at the story’s center. And in a summer that has been filled with over-bloated and ultimately forgettable “bigger is better” entertainment, this is a welcome respite. It’s the incredible story of one woman’s (a sensational Blake Lively) survival saga, narrowly escaping a shark attack and finding sanctuary on a rock only 200 tantalizing yards from shore. Yet with a blood hungry behemoth continuing to circle the waters, it might as well be the moon. So yeah, it’s a shark movie, but it’s one so effortlessly efficient in its storytelling, so unpretentious in it’s B-movie brilliance, it just might be the best shark movie to come along since Jaws. Spanish action savant Jaume Collet-Serra (Non-Stop) has made one heck of a sharp, satisfying and thrilling piece of filmmaking. It’s fun, it’s pretty, it’s 86 minutes of engaging entertainment — nothing more and nothing less.
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: Yesterday, on the phone with my boyfriend, I had to ask him to repeat something he’d just said because I’d become briefly mesmerized by a big fern shimmying in the breeze. No, sadly, I wasn’t all “Sorry, I missed that bit because my couch caught fire.” The man was competing for my attention with a plant. It isn’t that he’s boring. I have ADHD — attention-defici…sorry, what was I saying? And in our relationship, as in yours, teasing plays a big role. So when my boyfriend has something important to tell me, he’ll sometimes prepare me (with a line that always makes me laugh): “Do I have your divided attention?”
Teasing like this is what social psychologist Dacher Keltner calls an “indirect, playful way to negotiate conflict.” This is especially important in a relationship, where there are many conflicts and annoyances you’ll never resolve. In mine, for example, in addition to my midsentence day trips to the Baltics, there’s how my boyfriend seems to have attended the Jackson Pollock school of culinary arts. Or, as I put it — while cupping an ear theatrically and looking upward: “What’s that? … Um…honey, the ceiling says it ordered its sauce on the side.” Teasing is like bullying, Keltner explains — in that it’s something you say or do that’s intended to provoke another person. However, teasing includes clues that what you’re saying isn’t to be taken literally — and that your intent is playful, not hurtful. These playfulness signals are called “off-record markers” and include laughter, obvious exaggeration, a jokey tone, mimicry, and contorted facial expressions. As for the concern that your teasing is endangering your relationship, on the contrary, Keltner and his colleagues found that “couples who playfully teased, as opposed to resorting to direct, cogent, but ultimately hackle-raising criticism, felt more connected after (a) conflict and trusted their partners more.” And the reality is that only two people who truly love each other can get away with trash-talking each other in extravagantly
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awful ways. This is an example of what behavioral ecologists call a “costly signal” — one that, through its expense or riskiness, tells you it’s more likely to be for real. Conspicuous consumption is an example — signaling that you’ve got money to burn by shelling out $8K for a Rolex when a $50 Swatch tells the time just fine. So, sure, there are many ways to express romantic appreciation, but it’s nice to opt for something unique, like “What a wonderful love note — made all the sweeter by handwriting that looks like that of an 8-year-old locked up after multiple disappearances of neighborhood pets.”
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(July 23-Aug. 22): Be alert for white feathers gliding on the wind. Before eating potato chips, examine each one to see if it bears a likeness of Rihanna or the Virgin Mary. Keep an eye out, too, for portents like robots wearing dreadlocked wigs or antique gold buttons lying in the gutter or senior citizens cursing at invisible Martians. The appearance of anomalies like these will be omens that suggest you will soon be the recipient of crazy good fortune. But if you would rather not wait around for chance events to trigger your good luck, simply make it your fierce intention to generate it. Use your optimism-fueled willpower and your flair for creative improvisation. You will have abundant access to these talents in the coming weeks.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Free your body. Don’t
ruminate and agonize about it. FREE YOUR BODY! Be brave and forceful. Do it simply and easily. Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory. Tell it you’re ready to learn more of its secrets and adore its mysteries. Be in awe of its unfathomable power to endlessly carry out the millions of chemical reactions that keep you alive and thriving. How can you not be overwhelmed with gratitude for your hungry, curious, unpredictable body? Be grateful for its magic. Love the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate its fierce animal elegance.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): The people
of many cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise he wouldn’t be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it’s time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine.
medical experiments. During the long hours spent doing tasks that had little meaning to me, I worked diligently to remain upbeat. One trick that worked well was imagining future scenes when I would be engaged in exciting creative work that paid me a decent wage. It took a while, but eventually those visions materialized in my actual life. I urge you to try this strategy in the coming months, Libra. Harness your mind’s eye in the service of generating the destiny you want to inhabit.
ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): ): You have
every right to celebrate your own personal Independence Day sometime soon. In fact, given the current astrological omens, you’d be justified in embarking on a full-scale emancipation spree in the coming weeks. It will be prime time to seize more freedom and declare more autonomy and build more self-sufficiency. Here’s an important nuance to the work you have ahead of you: Make sure you escape the tyranny of not just the people and institutions that limit your sovereignty, but also the voices in your own head that tend to hinder your flow.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An Interesting
Opportunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won’t call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity’s unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest. Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong -- you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.
CANCER June 21-July 22): [Editor’s note:
The counsel offered in the following oracle was channeled from the Goddess by Rob Brezsny. If you have any problems with it, direct your protests to the Queen Wow, not Brezsny.] It’s time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values. Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior. Ask yourself, “How does Goddess want me to respond when my co-worker pisses me off?”, or “How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?” For extra credit, get a t-shirt that says, “Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): ): You have just
begun your big test. How are you doing so far? According to my analysis, the preliminary signs suggest that you have a good chance of proving the old maxim, “If it doesn’t make you so crazy that you put your clothes on inside-out and try to kiss the sky until you cry, it will help you win one of your biggest arguments with Life.” In fact, I suspect we will ultimately see you undergo at least one miraculous and certifiably melodramatic transformation. A wart on your attitude could dissolve, for example. A luminous visitation may heal one of your blind spots. You might find a satisfactory substitute for kissing the sky.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For many years, my
occupation was “starving artist.” I focused on improving my skills as a writer and musician, even though those activities rarely earned me any money. To ensure my survival, I worked as little as necessary at low-end jobs -- scrubbing dishes at restaurants, digging ditches for construction companies, delivering newspapers in the middle of the night, and volunteering for
the forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite? Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which might inspire you to redefine the meaning of “comfort”? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts. And while you’re out on the frontier dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have a special talent for accessing wise innocence. In some ways you’re virginal, fresh, and raw, and in other ways you’re mature, seasoned, and welldeveloped. I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing. Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Where is
everybody when I need them?” Even if you haven’t actually spoken those words recently, I’m guessing the voices in your head have whispered them. But from what I can tell, that complaint will soon be irrelevant. It will no longer match reality. Your allies will start offering more help and resources. They may not be perfectly conscientious in figuring out how to be of service, but they’ll be pretty good. Here’s what you can do to encourage optimal results: 1. Purge your low, outmoded expectations. 2. Open your mind and heart to the possibility that people can change. 3. Humbly ask -- out loud, not just in the privacy of your imagination -- for precisely what you want.
PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of
Pisceans less fortunate than you won’t read this horoscope. Uninformed about the rocky patch of Yellow Brick Road that lies just ahead, they may blow a gasket or get a flat tire. You, on the other hand, will benefit from my oracular foreshadowing, as well as my inside connections with the Lords of Funky Karma. You will therefore be likely to drive with relaxed caution, keeping your vehicle unmarred in the process. That’s why I’m predicting that although you may not arrive speedily at the next leg of your trip, you will do so safely and in style.
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EMPLOYMENT NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S Best Wedding DJ Company is seeking trainable disc jockeys and assistants. Contact: Barb@plu-ent.com MALE MODELS TC professional photographer seeks male physique models ages 18 to 27 for fitness, sports, exercise, fashion shoots. Please respond to: mmodelsinc@aol.com BLUE TRACTOR BARBECUE and THE SHED beer garden, hiring servers, host and server assistants. Fun place to work in Old Town with rooftop bar, outdoor fire pits, and popular restaurant. Apply in person: 423 S. Union. Traverse City HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR Goodwill seeks an experienced Human Resources professional to deliver HR programs and services. In this hands-on position the HRD plans and executes initiatives relating to employee relations, comp and benefits, performance management, and fostering diversity & inclusion. This person also coaches and provides guidance & interpretation on a variety of HR policies and initiatives. Minimum requirements: bach-
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BUY/SELL/TRADE RETIREMENT SALE - EVERYTHING MUST GO Crystal lake Emporium 6613 frankfort hwy, benzonia 231-8820096 hours - wednesday - saturday 11-5 our last day will be august 15, anyone wishing to pick up consigned merchandise, please contact us. SAWMILLS FROM only $4397.00MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill-Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship! FREE info/DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800578-1363 Ext. 300N
SEWING, ALTERATIONS, mending & repairs. Maple City, Maralene Roush 231-228-6248.
JT’S LAWN SERVICE PLUS Lawn Mowing, Mulching & More (231)412-0846 Call today! NORTHWEST SCUBA will be starting dive certification classes on August 1 to become a certified open water diver.Please call now for details and to reserve a spot.(231-536-0235) TIME RUNNING OUT FOR U-PICK SASKATOONS! Jacobs Farm would like to show their appreciation for an awesome harvest with a Saskatoon U-Pick BOGO (buy one pound, get one FREE) until the saskatoon bushes are empty. Lots of Big, Juicy, Flavorful Berries! Easy to Pick! Great fresh or in recipes. Open sunrise to sunset. Bring a pail and a pal. 7100 East Traverse Hwy (M-72 West), Traverse City, MI 49684.
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LEGAL REAL ESTATE AUCTION By order of the County Treasurer of Kalkaska County August 25, 2016 Registration: 5 PM; Auction: 6 PM Location: Civic Center next to The Kaliseum, 1900 Fairgrounds Road, Kalkaska, MI Detailed info on parcels and terms at www.BippusUSA.com
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Alden Meadows
Crofton Ridge
Antrim / Helena Twp.
Kalkaska / Boardman Twp.
Walk to Torch Lake! Beautiful 3-5 acre estate size parcels. Custom homes/ ready to build. Blacktop road. Rolling meadows surrounded by hardwoods. Starting at $34,900. $3,000 down, $350/mo.
6.72 acres, borders 1000s of acres of state land, hilltop site with big view! Private road, electric, cable tv/internet. Direct access to trails. RVs/Motorhomes OK! $89,900 $10,000 down, $650/mo.
Blair Townhall Road
Kalkaska / Rapid River Twp.
Grand Traverse / Blair Twp.
5 and 10 acre parcels, wooded, county road, electric, borders state land! Starting at $34,900 $2,500 down, $325/mo.
Kingsley Road
Grand Traverse Paradise Twp.
10 acres, hardwoods, county road, electric. $49,900 $3,500 down, $425/mo.
Starlight Trail
Grand Traverse Paradise Twp.
5 and 10 acre parcels, 1 mile from Kingsley! Private maintained road, electric. $29,900 $2,500 down, $300/mo.
Red Hawk
Grand Traverse / Union Twp.
T U O D L O S
5 acres, carr, cleared site, maintained road, electric $49,900 $3,000 down, $450/mo.
Wood Road
Grand Traverse Paradise Twp.
10 acres, very private quiet area perfect for Up North getaway. $34,900 $2,500 down, $325/mo.
Beebe Road
10 acres, borders state land! County road with electric. $49,900 $3,500 down, $425/mo.
Smith Road
Kalkaska / Rapid River Twp.
5 and 10 acre parcels, county road, electric, borders state land! $34,900 $2,500 down, $300/mo.
Coyote Trail
T U O D L O S Kalkaska / Orange Twp.
5 acres wooded, perfect for camping or cabin. $17,900 $1,500 down, $200/mo.
Blue Heron
Kalkaska / Orange Twp.
Spectacular wooded subsdivision surrounded by 3 private “no motors” lakes. Blacktop roads, custom homes. $34,900 $3,000 down, $350/mo.
Walk to downtown Cedar
Leelanau
1/2 acre building site on Cedar Highway. $29,900 $2,500 down, $300/mo.
Big Sky
Wexford / Hendersen Twp.
Close to Caberfae Ski & Golf Resort. 10 acres, borders national forest, 13 mile west of Cadillac. Camp or build. $49,900 $3,500 down, $425/mo.
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