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The lesson to Mr. Zmudzinski: When you do not like the opinion of others, it is better to challenge those opinions with facts. Otherwise the truth in your own opinions becomes suspect.
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The Neverending Story The nurses at Munson have been negotiating a union contract for over a year now. Why is it that a hospital that can build a new cancer center and another parking structure refuses to give its nurses a livable wage and necessary benefits? Most of us will someday be a patient at Munson — should we not be able to expect a qualified, experienced, well-compensated nurse to be responsible for our care? The administration that is dragging its feet needs to realize the community is supporting the nurses — and will continue to, as long as it takes. Keli MacIntosh, Traverse City Mystery Man Charles Knapp, thank you for illustrating what I will never understand. I can’t decide if you are a real person or a bot. Judy Childs, Traverse City And the Award Goes To With the widespread recognition of Donald Trump’s consistent pattern of fawning at the feet of the world’s most ruthless dictators, his often-stated dream of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize would appear to be a far-fetched one. I would suggest instead, that he should be considered a leading candidate for the “No-Balls” Peace Prize. Bob Ross, Pellston Mirror, Mirror In your last issue’s Letters page, Mr. Zmudzinski wrote a critical response to a slanted generalization description of Republicans, citing “liberal defensiveness.” Ironically, he continued his own bashing of President Obama with this: “As to President Obama, a know-nothing, inexperienced empty suit ... .” I must remind Mr. Z. that Mr. Obama not only held political office prior to becoming president (unlike inexperienced President Trump), but also graduated from Harvard Law School with honors — unlike President Trump, who threatened to sue his alma mater should they ever release to the public any of his test scores, which obviously would have indicated his intellectual prowess (or lack of. (Fordham University confirmed this threat.)
Fox “News” I found your magazine in a real coffee shop in Cadillac and had to respond to the gentleman from Maple City who suggested that by only watching Fox “News” he was well-informed. In 1994, Roger Ailes reportedly said everyone is stupid and lets their TVs do their thinking, so “we’ll do it for them.” Thus began 25 years of misinformation. America is now about 33 percent “Trumpettes.” These are folks who I am (kinda) sure are nice people; it’s just they believe in an upside-down world. They
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top ten Remote Island Makes Outside List Outside online — the digital companion to Outside magazine — named Beaver Island one of its 33 Best Trips for 2019. The list, published March 1, was compiled by 10 editors and contributors and touts the island’s remoteness and wild character. The island is No. 27 on the list, between Everest basecamp in Nepal and an inn in Elk, California, near the Navarro River Redwoods State Park. Per Outside: “The island has five inland lakes filled with pike, perch, and bass, lazy dirt roads that are easily navigated by cruiser bike, and Mount Pisgah, a 150-foot sand dune that, with an elevation of 730 feet, is a surprisingly strenuous hike. For a little more adrenaline, expert paddlers can test their skills against the Great Lake along a new 42-mile water trail that passes remote dunes, wetlands, and beaches as it circumnavigates the isle.”
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Coffee in a can? Why not? Troy Daily has added two new products to his StrongBrew beverage line: StrongBrew NITRO Cold Brew Coffee and Elevated Cold Brew Chai Tea have joined the original StrongBrew Cold Brew Coffee. NITRO Cold Brew Coffee is infused with nitrogen bubbles, but doesn’t come across as carbonated so much as smooth and rich. Other than the nitrogen, the only ingredients are coffee and water — cold-brewed, of course. No cream, no sugar, no calories. The Elevated Chai Tea doesn’t pack the caffeinated punch of its brethren. And for those anticipating something cool and creamy, you’re halfway right. This is not a latte; only the tea. It does boast a few more ingredients: water, black tea, cinnamon, ginger root, green cardamom, natural vanilla flavor, and love. No, really — that’s what it says on the label. And it comes in at a whopping five calories. Want a latte? Just add milk. StrongBrew beverages are available at a host of grocery stores, party stores, breweries, wineries, and restaurants across the region, and even some health clubs and fitness centers. For more information and a complete list of retailers, go to www.drinkstrongbrew.com.
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krazy daze Krazy Daze returns to Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs on Sat., March 16! Highlights includes Ski Over The Pond Competition, Silly Slalom, Nastar Race, Jumping Contest, Get Crazy After Party and much more. boynehighlands.com
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Over the course of its furiously paced, ambitiously constructed, and continually surprising episodes, Russian Doll unfolds like an indie (and very New York) version of Groundhog Day. Why the Groundhog Day comparison? An abrasive New Yorker played by Natasha Lyonne keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday over and over and over again. It’s a role tailormade for Lyonne, who is nothing short of phenomenal and who co-created the series with Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland (of the criminally underseen Sleeping with Other People). That it is written and directed entirely by women shows — in how the show values its characters, how it’s so beautifully layered, and how it challenges its audience in rewarding ways. A bingewatcher’s dream. Streaming on Netflix.
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East-West Corridor Comment Period Extended
Officials have extended the deadline for members of the public to comment on proposed solutions to ease traffic around Traverse City. Anyone who wants to share feedback can complete an online survey through March 15. Maps of the proposed “practical solutions” for improving east-west traffic flow around Traverse City, a link to the survey, can be found at the Grand Traverse County Road Commission’s website, www.grcrc.org. A planning and engineering team will refine the alternatives based on feedback, and the results will be shared with the public in early April. The year-plus-long project was profiled in the Jan. 19 edition of Northern Express, “The $365,000 Question: Is GT County Road Commission Quietly Resurrecting the Hartman-Hammond Bridge Proposal?”
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stuff we love Inclusive Kids Color our hearts warmed. Harbor Springs’ two elementary schools — Shay and Blackbird — are collecting plastic lids to build the best piece of playground equipment ever: a buddy bench. Designed to foster friendship, a Buddy Bench is where a kid can sit as a silent signal to others that he or she wants to play; it’s easier than asking and without risk of rejection. Elementary schools around the nation have been joining the Buddy Bench movement since a first-grader, after seeing one in Germany, reportedly asked for one at his elementary school in 2013. Shay, Blackbird, and the Harbor Springs Chamber have collection bins at the entry of their buildings for the kind of plastic lids and caps they can use — medicine bottle, milk jug, cottage cheese and yogurt, detergent and drink bottles, to name just a few — and Green Tree Plastics of Evansville, Indiana, will transform the plastic into the bench.
Kids and parents, teachers, and mental and physical healthcare providers — if you see one documentary this year, consider making it Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope. Showing at 6pm March 14 at the City Opera House in Traverse City, the film is intended to spark a critical community conversation about adverse childhood experiences, how they affect us all, and what we can do to help. Spoiler alert: Lots — beginning with the food we eat. Doors open at 4:30pm with a pre-screening reception and community health resources; a postfilm panel discussion (Q&A among a pediatrician, a farmer, a school psychologist, food and community health specialists, and the audience) follows at 7pm. Learn more at www.groundworkcenter.org; save your seat at www.farmsfoodhealth.org.
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Fast-food breakfast? No thank you — not when you can get a freshly baked hot bagel sandwich to kick off your day. The crunchy crust of the bagels (made in-house, of course) keep the heat in, so the last bite is every bit as warm and tasty as the first. As for the other kind of heat, try the pepper jack cheese and chorizo — yowza! Owners David Scott and Jonathan Clark are happy to add to the egg and cheese whatever else they have on hand (hint: try the roasted red peppers). If you sleep in till lunchtime, you might want to opt for something more lunch-like: We love the Sinai (pastrami, veggie cream cheese, deli mustard, and red onion on an onion bagel) and the Tripoli (turkey, ham, and hard salami with provolone, lettuce, tomato, and mayo on Jewish rye. Nope, not a bagel). Many of the sandwiches are named for people or places in the Mideast, continuing the theme the owners use to add intrigue and deliver delight. “I think a lot of people wonder why there’s a Jewish deli in Beulah,” said Clark. “So they come in — and then we’ve got them.” We got ours at 274 S. Benzie Blvd., in Beulah. (231) 882-5221. You can also visit L’Chayim on Facebook, and (May–October only) in Frankfort.
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THE ART OF THE OVERSELL spectator by Stephen Tuttle Remember the “immediate and irretrievable denuclearization” of North Korea? That’s what we were told was the result of the first meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. No such thing was likely to happen because no such agreement had been reached. The only agreement was to talk again, which they did without result a couple weeks ago. The wild exaggeration — the less charitable might call it a lie — is part of an ongoing pattern. For the president, almost everything he does, or claims he has done, is the greatest, biggest, most historic, never-been-donebefore, more-than-anybody-else-has-everdone accomplishment.
Franklin Roosevelt’s entire cabinet was confirmed, and he signed 76 pieces of legislation in just his first 100 days. Trump signed 96 pieces of legislation in his first two years, the least of any post-World War II president. Congressional action, or lack thereof, can’t always be controlled by the president, and legislation isn’t the only measure of activity. But accomplished more than anybody? C’mon. During his recent speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which has abandoned conservatism for Trumpism, the various fact-checkers found at least 100 falsehoods or dramatic exaggerations. That’s nearly one a minute in his two-hour talk. Other than self-aggrandizement before a fawning crowd, what’s the point?
There isn’t anything in the mix that is the greatest or most historic but there are campaign promises kept, and all good selling points for Republicans and independent conservatives without the preposterous embellishments. But for some reason that’s never enough for this president. In his book “The Art of the Deal,” he talks about something he calls “strategic hyperbole,” making claims he knows to be false in order to try and advance a business deal. Maybe it worked in the bizarre world of New York real estate. It’s an unnecessary distraction for a president. He oversold the results of the first meeting with Kim, then oversold the potential results of the second. When no deal was reached, in a moment of rare clarity he said, “Sometimes you have to walk away.” And had he left it at that, it could have been victory enough since a bad deal is worse than no deal. But he couldn’t. He had to claim, falsely, that the first meeting resulted in “no nukes and no missiles” in North Korea. Then he blamed Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress as his reason to walk away from the second meeting, successfully snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It has become bizarre. He claims we have the “strongest economy, fastest growing, the best ...” Certainly the biggest but many countries’ economies are growing, faster, including most of Europe’s. China’s economy is expanding almost twice as fast as ours.
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It is especially peculiar, given he has a story to tell without all the nonsense. For many conservatives and his hardcore base, he needn’t exaggerate what he’s done. The economy is chugging along, and unemployment hovers around a strong 4 percent (not 3.7 percent, as Trump claimed at CPAC). His administration has systematically stripped away Obama-era environmental regulations, as he said he would. He has cracked down on illegal immigrants, as promised. And he can certainly make the argument he’s made a good faith effort to get his wall built. He undid NAFTA, though most of its provisions still apply. He imposed tariffs, again, as he said he would. The tax cuts his administration proposed were enacted by Congress. Both his Supreme Court nominees were confirmed, altering the makeup of the court for at least many years. There isn’t anything in the mix that is the greatest or most historic but there are campaign promises kept, and all good selling points for Republicans and independent conservatives without the preposterous embellishments. But for some reason that’s never enough for this president.
He claimed to enact the “biggest tax cut in history” but, depending on the metrics used, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan, George W. Bush, and even Obama (by extending the Bush tax cuts) all oversaw larger cuts.
Trump’s willingness to treat facts like distant cousins seems to burnish his non-politician bona fides with his base. But he isn’t actually telling it like it is; he’s telling it like he wants us to believe it is. Eventually the oversell runs out of steam, not because he’s done nothing but because we can all see he hasn’t done what he claims.
He says he’s done more in two years than any other president ever did in his first full term. When he first got started with that boast, it was “more in my first 100 days.” Neither is even remotely close to being true, though it’s not necessarily all his doing.
He’s not exactly the boy who cried wolf. He’s the boy who cried wolf and then claimed it was the biggest, meanest, most vicious wolf ever, as big as a car, and he chased it away. But we already knew the wolf was really just a barking Yorkie.
Crime & Rescue MAN TAKES OWN LIFE AMID FIRE Investigators are sorting through ashes after an East Bay Township man apparently shot and killed himself amid a standoff with police that occurred after his home caught on fire. Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called at 11:13pm Feb. 28 to East Bay Township home; they found the homeowners, a husband and wife, safe at a neighbor’s house and their troubled adult son at large. The couple reported hearing an explosion before they fled the house; by the time firefighters arrived, the home was engulfed in flames and was blazing out of control. Meanwhile, deputies determined that the son had also left the house, and they tracked him to a shed outside the home. The 37-year-old threatened to harm himself with a long gun and fled, hiding underneath a pontoon boat. Soon, a single gunshot rang out. Capt. Randy Fewless said a regional emergency response team was called in and used a drone to make sure the man no longer posed a threat to responders. Fewless said the cause of the fire was under investigation. ESTATE SELLERS DISAPPEAR A Gaylord couple vanished after they raised thousands of dollars in an estate sale in Peninsula Township. A woman hired the couple to handle her mother’s estate sale on the Old Mission Peninsula in September. The sale raised $4,107. Of that, 65 percent was supposed to go to the daughter, according to charges filed in district court in Grand Traverse County. After several telephone conversations, the woman never received her money, the estate sale website disappeared, and the couple vanished. Police have not been able to track them down since then, according to the charges. Now they face felony charges of larceny by conversion under $20,000, felonies that carry up to five years in prison. Virginia Verdier Ackerman, 44, and Brian Matthew Ackerman, 39, were charged March 5 after an investigation by the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s office. DRIVERS OK AFTER SNOW PLOW CRASH No one was injured when a vehicle and a snow plow crashed in white-out conditions near Northport. Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called to M-22 and Lee Mann Road, where a 2016 Jeep driven by a woman from Texas collided with a county snow plow at 10:30am March 4. Investigators determine that the driver of the snow plow, a 56-year-old Lake Leelanau man, was headed south on M-22 and slowing to make a right turn when the driver of the Jeep, a 24-year-old from Dalhart, Texas, couldn’t see due to snowy conditions and rear-ended the truck. The woman’s car was badly damaged, but she and the other driver were not hurt.
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SPEEDING SNOWMOBILER KILLED A man died in a snowmobile crash in Cheboygan County. Deputies were called to Beaugrand Township the afternoon of March 1 after a 38-year-old man had apparently tried to abandon his snowmobile when he realized he was veering off of the trail, inadvertently throwing himself into a tree. The 2017 Arctic Cat ZR800 travelled an additional 50 feet before it crashed into some trees. Responders attempted to perform lifesaving measures but deputies said that Adam Fortuna of China Township succumbed to his injuries. Fortuna was transported to McLaren Hospital’s Cheboygan Campus, where he was pronounced dead. Deputies said that Fortuna was wearing a helmet and was dressed appropriately but speed was a factor in the crash. BOMB THREAT COULD LEAD TO CHARGES Traverse City Police sent a report seeking charges against an out-of-town man suspected of calling in a bomb threat after he was booted from a bar for being too intoxicated. Police were called to Brady’s Bar on South Union Street early on the evening of March 2 when the staff received a bomb threat via telephone about five minutes after a customer was asked to leave for being too drunk, said TCPD Capt. Keith Gillis. Officers responded, cleared the bar, and used a bomb-sniffing dog to make sure there was no bomb before letting everyone back in. Investigators identified a suspect through the telephone number he left on caller ID. They sent a report to prosecutors requesting a warrant on a felony charge of making a bomb threat.
The suspect fled on foot as deputies responded. When deputies arrived, they tracked the suspect to a vacant trailer. The door was locked, and when the suspect, a 41-year-old Empire man, refused to come out, a deputy forced the door open. The suspect still refused to come out until the deputies said they were going to send in the police dog. The suspect was taken to jail and charged with second-offense domestic assault. The 41-year-old woman was treated at the scene by Glen Lake Fire and Rescue. DRUG CASES FOLLOW TRAFFIC STOP After police found meth during a traffic stop, they got an arrest warrant for a suspect. When they went to a residence to arrest that person, police ended up busting three people on drug charges. Grayling resident John Nicholls, 37, was pulled over in December and later charged because of the drugs. State police tried to arrest him at a Grayling residence in February; when police arrived, Nicholls allegedly attempted to stash drugs upon their arrival. That led state police to call in a canine team for a search. That led to additional charges filed in Crawford County against Nicholls and charges to be filed against two others who were at the residence, a 39-year-old man and a 32-year old woman, who also face various methamphetamine charges. The suspects were arrested in early March, and Child Protective Services was called in to place two children, ages 11 and 8, into foster care.
MAN STABBED ON ISLAND A 60-year-old Beaver Island man faces felony assault charges after police said he stabbed another man. Gregg Evans was arrested by Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies at 9pm March 1 on Kings Highway in Peaine Township. Evans and another man got into an argument that turned into a brawl and led to Evans stabbing the other man, deputies said. Evans was taken to the Charlevoix County jail and charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. He later posted bond and was released from jail.
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LIBERTARIAN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: A PRIMER opinion bY Donna Gundle-Krieg Many people in this country are fed up with the two-party system, and the division and problems that this system has created. Nothing ever seems to change. Recently, two separate groups of people in northern Michigan decided to do something about this. Simultaneously, these two groups decided to form official affiliates for the Libertarian Party of Michigan. Bylaws were drawn up, officers were elected, and a few candidates ran in local elections with very good results. The energy has been contagious. With all of the interest we’ve found up here, I guarantee that you’ll be hearing a lot more from the Libertarian Party — the third largest party since the 1980’s, and one that held primary party status at the last election. Libertarian party principles revolve around freedom and limited government, both in terms of government power and government spending. Basically, this means that a Libertarian is someone who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal. The first new northern Michigan Libertarian group to form is called the Straits Area Libertarian Party (SALP) and covers Cheboygan, Emmet, Otsego, and Presque Isle counties.
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The second group, the Northwest Michigan Libertarian Party (NWMLP), covers Grand Traverse, Benzie, Leelanau, Kalkaska, Antrim, Charlevoix, Wexford, Manistee, and Missaukee counties. Both affiliates have the purpose of nominating and campaigning for candidates for political office, initiating and/or supporting ballot proposals, lobbying elected officials, and engaging in educational and other informational activities. The Libertarian party is growing quickly because young people and many others do not like what they see in the other two parties. Right now, our national debt is over $22 trillion, or $67,000 per person, according to the United States Treasury. Republicans, who used to boast about being financially conservative, are running up the debt more quickly than the Democrats. Veterans also make up a large part of our membership. They have seen and experienced firsthand the destruction caused by our country’s foreign policies of interfering in other countries’ affairs and conflicts. Libertarians sign an oath to the “NonAggression Principle.” Simply put, most people live their lives and follow the nonaggression principle in their interactions. Libertarians take this further, and apply this principle to group actions, including government and military actions. We are conservative fiscally, but liberal on most social issues. For example, our party’s platform states that “sexual orientation,
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preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government’s treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration, or military service laws.” Local issues are very important to Libertarians, as citizens can often have more impact on local issues than they can on national issues. As a real estate broker in Mancelona, I run across many issues in northern Michigan involving property rights. I plan to expand on these issues in future columns. For example, Libertarians believe that the ever-increasing number of zoning regulations are slowly eroding our freedoms. These restraints on land use stem from wellintentioned efforts to promote public safety, environmental objectives, and aesthetic goals for development. However, according to a study by the Cato Institute, in addition to taking away our liberties, “a major side effect of this growing volume of zoning rules has been to deter construction and reduce the supply of housing, including multifamily and low-income housing.” Other local Libertarian issues involving property rights include vacation property rules, eminent domain, and the government benefitting from property tax foreclosures. Eminent domain in particular is currently being debated across the country, as Trump’s declaration of a so-called national emergency enables the government to take private property for the building of a wall. Libertarians will also be watching other local issues, such as the proposed new Antrim County jail and similar expensive government projects. We will be watching how the state and local governments implement the new recreational marijuana law. We have already impacted changes in civil forfeiture, as it is wrong for the state to seize personal property before a person has been found guilty. In addition to affecting local policy, our new groups’ purposes involve running as many local candidates as possible in the upcoming elections. In the last election, local Libertarian candidates did very well. Robert Clark, who ran for Arcadia Township Supervisor, earned 47.2 percent of the vote, which is the highest ever for a Libertarian candidate in Michigan. David Holmer of Manistee and Dana Carver of Onaway also received respectable percentages as candidates in County Commissioner races. Holmer is the NWMLP’s new political director and is currently seeking Libertarians who want to help us run a full slate of local candidates in the 2020 election. Donna Gundle-Krieg, owner and broker of DEK Realty, is the District 1 representative for the Libertarian Party for Michigan, and chairperson of the newly formed Northwest Michigan Libertarian Party (NWMLP). She writes from Mancelona. dokrieg@gmail.com
Religious Rascality Pastor Alph Lukau of Alleluia International Ministries in Johannesburg, South Africa, is facing lawsuits after a stunt in which he appeared to resurrect a dead man on Feb. 24. Sowetan News reported that a video of the incident shows Lukau placing his hands on the man’s stomach as he lay in the coffin, when suddenly the man, identified as Elliott, begins to gasp for air and sits up. “Can you see what happened?” Lukau exclaims in the video. “This man died since Friday, he was in the mortuary. ... Devil, I told you wherever I find you I will kick you.” Pastor Rochelle Kombou said the hearse driver heard noises coming from the coffin and ran away as soon as they arrived at the church. “I was screaming,” she said. “I saw his tongue moving. ... The man of God completed the miracle by praying because prayer is the key.” The lawsuits, meanwhile, stem from the misrepresentation of the situation to three funeral parlors, whose services were sought by church officials; a coffin was bought from one and the hearse was hired from another. Prince Mafu, who is representing the funeral homes, said the matter had been reported to the Jeppe police station for further investigation. Least Competent Criminal Christopher Thomas Knox, 37, of Hillsboro, Oregon, thought he was just calling for help when his car became stuck in the snow in Clatsop State Forest on Feb. 15. He didn’t count on Clatsop County sheriff ’s deputies putting two and two together: In the car with Knox was a 13-year-old girl from King County, Washington. He initially introduced her to responding officers as his daughter, but they quickly determined the minor had been lured from her home. The Oregonian reported that Knox had started an online relationship with the girl’s mother, and the girl left home without her parents’ knowledge or consent. Along the way, Knox allegedly sexually abused her twice, according to the sheriff ’s office. Knox was arrested for attempted second-degree rape and first-degree custodial interference. People With Issues Volleyball players at the University of Kansas had reported to Lawrence, Kansas, police a number of break-ins over 2017 and 2018, but it was the list of missing items that was most puzzling: swimsuit bottoms, socks, shoes -- and many pairs of underwear. After a spring break 2018 incident, police got a lead in the case: Surveillance video captured a suspect vehicle that had a dealership sticker in the window. The Lawrence Journal-World reported that officers worked with the local dealership, which had loaned the car to Skyler N. Yee, 23, while his own car was being serviced. Yee, a volunteer assistant volleyball coach since 2016, was arrested and charged with 15 counts of burglary, property damage and theft after police searched his home in early February, where they found a 40-drawer plastic storage container full of women’s underwear, with each drawer labeled with a player’s name; six other containers with underwear; and bags containing pink high heels, boots, a sundress and a jumpsuit that victims had reported missing, along with jewelry, sex toys and other items. Yee resigned from his position in mid-January; KU Athletics spokesman Jim Marchiony said, “We have taken precautions to ensure that he is not permitted to be anywhere near the volleyball program.” Bright Ideas -- Smartmouth Brewing Co. in Norfolk, Virginia, launched a new “magically ridiculous” beer on March 2: Saturday Morning, a limited-
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in One Day Beer blogger Kevin McKinney didn’t do it to get super drunk. He did it to prove what a great beer city Traverse City is.
By Patrick Sullivan Kevin McKinney started out 2018 with an ambitious goal. He’d started a blog the year before called Michigan Brewery Review, which serves as not only a creative outlet but also a justification to spend his free time travelling the state in search of craft beer. In 2018, he decided to up the ante: He’d attempt to visit all of the state’s roughly 300 breweries in one year. But he soon discovered that too many of Michigan’s breweries offer too many intriguing beers to go hopping from one to the next so quickly. Also, the industry refused to cooperate; by the end of 2018, there were nearly 400 beers in the state, making it hard for the 44-year-old with a full-time job to keep up with them all in his spare time. Also, McKinney, an Auburn Hills resident, keeps coming back to Traverse City, a place he considers the best beer destination in the state. Northern Express sat down with McKinney at the city’s newest brewery, Silver Spruce on Eighth Street, during one of his visits in February. NORTHERN EXPRESS: I’ve noticed your blog is pretty positive. You seem to like all of the beer you drink. Do you see yourself as a reviewer, or are you more of an explorer of all of these places around the state? KEVIN MCKINNEY: I think I misnamed my blog, initially, when I called it Michigan Brewery Review. When I first started, I
was going to tell people about each beer, about the food. And I still do, but now it’s more, “You have to travel here and go to this brewery,” and “You have to travel here and go to this brewery.” For example, you can go to Marquette for a lot of reasons, but there’s three great breweries in Marquette. If you go up to Copper Harbor, there’s a really stellar, small hole-in-the-wall brewery called Brickside that’s up there. And if you go there, you’ve got to go in and have some of their beer, because it is one of the better ones, not only in the U.P., but in the state. I’m trying to make Michigan Brewery Review a conduit for people to not only find out about the breweries — because there’s close to 400 of them now in the state — but [also] the destinations, the different places. EXPRESS: Late last year, you posted a video about visiting 14 breweries in Traverse City in one day. How does Traverse City rank as a beer destination? MCKINNEY: It’s by far my favorite. And I say that in some of my videos, like the one I did on 14-in-a-day. My goal was to show that there’s this many, and that they are very accessible, and that’s the reason that I like Traverse compared to say, Grand Rapids, which is the beer city, because there are a lot more, or Kalamazoo also has a lot more, but Traverse City feels like it has more breweries in a smaller area. I like it because you can be here — we’re staying on Eighth Street at an Airbnb, —and you can walk. We’re a quarter mile from Filling Station; Rare Bird
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is another quarter mile down the road. It’s very accessible. You can walk. Unless you are going to Jolly Pumpkin, and you can still bike to Jolly Pumpkin. Everything is close. Even when you leave Traverse, you have Lake Ann, you have Hop Lot [in Suttons Bay]; Frankfort’s not too far away for Storm Cloud. Elk Rapids has Short’s production facility. So even outside of town there’s a ton of breweries.
been to four or five of them, but we’re going all the way up to Hop Lot in Suttons Bay, too, so it’s going to take time to get there. Usually four or five. I know I was joking when I said it, but I can have two beers at a place here, and go through town and be OK and still make a video. I’ve done that.
EXPRESS: So, your post about 14 breweries in Traverse City in one day — you didn’t do that to advocate excessive drinking, did you? I mean, even one pint of craft beer from each place, that would be excessive. It doesn’t add up.
MCKINNEY: All of my free time. I have a 9-to-5 job, Monday to Friday. I work at a pediatrics ophthalmology practice. I’ve been in ophthalmology for over 20 years, in pediatrics for just over two years. And I do love it. I mean, my ideal goal is to end up somehow with a camera and someone paying me to go and travel Michigan, like the [public television] show Under the Radar Michigan. Pipe dream, I know, but I hope it happens one day. Until that time, if I have a weekend, I can be in Ann Arbor in 40 minutes from where I’m at, or I can be in Lansing, or I can be up in the Thumb. If I want to come up to Traverse for a weekend, like today, we fought the weather, and we were up here in four hours, and now we’re up here for whole weekend. Grand Rapids is only two hours away.
MCKINNEY: That day I did not drink at all 14 places. You’re right. It would be pretty hard to do that. Even in a 12-hour period. But the point when I did that video was to let people know Traverse City is not only a great place to go, but it’s also my favorite place. I think most people who follow me know: If I’m going to go someplace to drink for a weekend, most likely it’s going to be Traverse City. EXPRESS: In an ideal day, how many breweries would you visit? MCKINNEY: So today, we’re going to do the Stout Challenge [at Little Fleet], and we might hit two more tonight. We’re going out on the VASA trail, snowshoeing, tomorrow, and by the end of the day we might have
EXPRESS: How much of your time do you devote to exploring beer around Michigan?
EXPRESS: If you keep going back to the same places, it makes it hard to get to all of the new ones. MCKINNEY: When I first started this, I knew a woman, and she did all of them in one
EXPRESS: A couple years ago, as Rare Bird prepared to open, it seemed to me like Traverse City might already have enough, or too many breweries. Boy, was I wrong. Rare Bird has done great, and since then more and more breweries have opened. MCKINNEY: I’ll tell you why they did great. Tina [Schuett] makes stellar beer. When they first started they [had] guest taps, so you could go in and have some of Rare Bird’s, but they also [had] 25 other beers. I go in there now, and they might be down to 16, 18 now. Tina went from six of her own; now she might have 10, 11, 12 of her own. So, they are getting bigger brewing their own beers. And her beers are good, like Scott’s.
EXPRESS: How many more breweries do you think Traverse City could absorb?
MCKINNEY: There’s one called Mackinac Trail. Ralph [Stabile], the owner, he makes stellar wine. They started in Manistique, they have a tasting room in Mackinaw City, and they have a huge place they just opened maybe a year and a half ago in Petoskey. He was never intending to make good beer — he wanted the beer to give to the husbands who came in with their wives — but his beers ended up being amazing. Really, really good stuff.
MCKINNEY: I’m thinking there’s room on the east side of town. There are all those resorts over there. I think they could probably use one over that way. South of town, you’ve got Terra Firma and UBrew [on Cass Street, south of South Airport], maybe in that area, maybe there’s room for two or three more. I don’t know. The Grand Traverse Commons is really busy. They’re building condos in there now. Earthen Ales is in there and, not that they want any competition, but that’s getting busier and busier with people moving in and wanting to live in that area. I’ve never looked at the statistics. I don’t know how many more people are living in town compared to 14 years ago, when there maybe was one or two breweries here. EXPRESS: What about the Little Traverse area? How do you rate that as a destination? MCKINNEY: They are growing. There’s Beards, they have Petoskey Brewing, and there’s one south of town called Burnt Marshmallow [3379 Lake Grove Road], which is another hidden gem. That’s been there for maybe three years, and it’s a pole barn in someone’s front yard. You’re driving down this hilly road, in your rearview mirror you can see the bay, like, where the hell is there a brewery around here? And you get to the end of this road, and there’s a shed and a pole barn in someone’s front yard. They started out making wine, but they have stellar, stellar beer. There’s a place called Pond Hill Farm near Harbor Springs. Destination-wise, that’s my favorite in the state. They’re on 197 acres, they have a café, a vineyard — so they have a wine tasting room — and then they brew beer. The 197 acres, they’re open to anybody, so you can bring your fat tire bike, your snowshoes, you can go out and play on the trails and come back, eat and drink, and go back and play on the trails again. It’s right at the base of the Tunnel of Trees.
EXPRESS: You do a lot of travelling. Do you have any money-saving tips? MCKINNEY: I’m a camper. We’re staying at an Airbnb this weekend, but if I wasn’t with my friends, I’d be camping. When I say camping in the winter, I’ve got a bed made in the back of my Jeep. My sleeping bag is rated for minus 30, and sometimes I’m sweating in there. I’ll go to the gym in the morning — I’ve got a membership at a CrossFit gym here in town — and I’ll work out and then shower there. It works out. I kind of suffer. In the summertime I’ll set up a tent.
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UBrew, perhaps the strangest place to have a pint around Traverse City, didn’t set out to be inconspicuous. The beer makers’ supply store/“nanopub” feels like it is hidden on purpose, tucked around the back of an industrial park building on Cass Street south of South Airport Road in Garfield Township. It’s the kind of place that, even if you know the address (3054 Cass Road, Suite F), you might drive by it five times before you find it. It’s not that way on purpose, said David Mellor, a Traverse City home brewer and treasurer of the Northern Michigan Home Brewers Guild. UBrew’s got a tiny sign because that’s all they’re allowed to have. “Garfield Township has very strict signage rules and they don’t allow freestanding signs in the industrial district,” Mellor said. He said U-Brew’s owners are looking for a new location. UBrew, Mellor said, represents a chance for members of NMHBG to share their concoctions and put their skills out there for the world (or at least the larger community) to taste. (The results are delicious, according to beer blogger Kevin McKinney, who called UBrew one of his favorite stops in Traverse City.) “We have an informal apprenticeship program. Here, you have to be checked out; you don’t brew by yourself the first time,” Mellor said. “We’re trying to provide exposure to what home brewing can be.” Read more about UBrew and one of its founders on p. 23.
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MCKINNEY: A lot have opened. There are some that close, like Brewery Ferment here, and years ago, there was one in Acme — Bravo Zulu — that kind of fell off. Luckily, I was able to get to those before they closed. Some fall off, but more are opening now. Someone told me that as a brewer, you have to submit your application to become a brewer, but if they approved every application to open a brewery tomorrow, the number in the State of Michigan would double, there’s so many people who want to be a brewer, that want to open their own place.
EXPRESS: That seems to be a trend — wineries that open breweries.
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year. And at that time there were 318, and she knocked them all off, which was an accomplishment. And that was my idea — all right, by the end of 2018 I will want to have gone to all of them, and I started to go to places, and that would mean, like, if you want to knock 12 of them off in a day, you’re coming to Silver Spruce, having one beer, and taking off. You know, I like to have a couple beers. Scott [Stuhr, Silver Spruce’s brewer], who makes great beers, if I only have one of his beers, it might not be his best or what he thinks is his best, and I’m not getting a full idea of what he’s making. So, I completely got away from going to all of them as fast as possible.
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Drink Like Nobody’s Watching Local Brewers share their go-to beers — one they brew, and one they buy By Craig Manning You won’t catch a Ford salesman tooling around town in a Toyota, but seeing a local brewer tipping back a beer in another’s pub … ? Well, let’s just say it wouldn’t shock us. Local beer culture is a community culture. And be it in the name of love, respect, or research, these Up North brewmasters were generous in telling us about the beers they reach for — their own and others’ — whether for special situations or on an average day. Fact is, a good craft beer is a good craft beer, no matter who in northern Michigan made it. Tyler Force (left) and Josh Thomas
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Right Brain Brewery, Traverse City Mine: “I would say my favorite beer of the moment from Right Brain is probably the Bourbon Barrel-Aged Coffee with Cream,” said Josh Thomas, one of Right Brain Brewery’s two brewmasters. “It’s an imperial cream ale with coffee from Roaster Jack that’s aged in bourbon barrels from Grand Traverse Distillery. I love my IPAs, but it’s nice to have something a little different every once in a while.” Theirs: If I were to say what my non-Right Brain go-to beer would be, I would have to go with the Juniper Rye from Earthen Ales, which has been a consistent go-to for me since they opened.”
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Right Brain Brewery, Traverse City Mine: Right Brain’s other brewer, Tyler Force, loves Right Brain’s Who Gose There Celery Juniper, a “kettle-soured ale with fresh celery juice and juniper berry, with a hint of celery salt.” Theirs: Force praised the Ball Peen ESB (Extra Special Bitter) from the Workshop Brewing Company in Traverse City, a
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medium-bodied, copper-hued ale with flavors of malt and earthy hops.
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Short’s Brewing Company, Bellaire Mine: Hale singled out one of Short’s seasonals, the Sticky Icky Icky, a citrusy, fruity American IPA with a 7.1 percent ABV (alcohol by volume). “I enjoy almost every style of beer, but I am a hop-head at heart,” Hale said. “Sticky Icky Icky has become one of my favorite IPAs we produce at Short’s — and we make a lot of IPAs! I like the balance. It has a nice malt backbone, and a heavy dose of dank citrusy hops without being too bitter. I wish I had one right now!” Theirs: Hale says that he almost always has a bottle of “some sort of Jolly Pumpkin beer” in his refrigerator at home. His go-to might be La Roja, an award-winning sour ale brewed in the Franco-Belgian tradition.
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The Workshop Brewing Company, Traverse City Mine (after snow-blowing the driveway): “As a Master Snow Blower, I understand the importance of the post-blow beverage,” Wooster said. “I usually go for Workshop’s
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Tenpenny Blonde Ale, since it’s light, refreshing, and conveniently in cans.” The Tenpenny is a lightly hopped “session-strength American Ale” with a 4.5 percent ABV. Theirs: The beer I most eagerly await every year is whatever my good friend Evan, head brewer at Upper Hand Brewery in Escanaba, brings me for his visits during the holidays. This year, it was their Upper Hand IPA, and just like all of their selections, it’s a clean brew that represents the style well.”
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Stormcloud Brewing Company, Frankfort Mine: Stormcloud’s flagship beers are the Rainmaker Ale, a Belgian-inspired pale ale; and the Whiled Away IPA, a Belgianinspired IPA. For celebratory occasions, though, Stormcloud’s brewmaster goes for the brewery’s GBA 228 Tripel. The beer is a Belgian Tripel, a style known for its high quantity of malts and its resulting sweetness and high ABV. Stormcloud’s GBA 228 Tripel adds an extra step — aging in gin barrels — for a complex and unique flavor. Theirs (after the kids have gone to bed): Isn’t really a beer at all. Once Confer’s sons are down for the count, the brewmaster enjoys just a hint of beer, by way of Iron
Fish Distillery’s bourbon whiskey, which is finished in imperial stout casks. The bourbon highlights a growing trend in the world of craft alcohol, where distillers and brewers trade barrels and use the aging process to capture properties of one another’s beverages. In this case, Iron Fish Distillery sent American Oak casks to Traverse City’s Filling Station, who used the barrels to age an imperial stout. Iron Fish used the same barrels to create the ultimate cross between beer and bourbon, a whiskey carrying “notes of cherry, dark chocolate, and dried fruit.”
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Paddle Hard Brewing, Grayling Mine: “My go-to beer after a long, hard shift of brewing is my own Paddle Hard Brewing Marathon IPA,” Vargo said. “This IPA is perfect for any occasion.” The Marathon IPA balances malt and hops for an easy-to-drink 6% ABV beer. Theirs: “My favorite beer from another brewery is so difficult to decide — due in part to the fact that we have so many awesome breweries with great beer,” Vargo said. “But if I have to decide, I would go with Uncle Green Guy from Hop Lot Brewing in Suttons Bay. It’s a great medium-body session IPA.”
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Monkey Fist Brewing Company, Traverse City Mine: Mowing the lawn in northern Michigan’s sometimes-oppressive summer heat can be an ordeal —one that certainly calls for a refreshing beverage once the job is done. For Joe Mulder of Monkey Fist Brewing Company, the go-to beer in such a situation is Monkey Fist’s State Street Easy, an easy-drinking German-style pilsner with a 5.1% alcohol content. “I like things light, bright, and a bit on the lower ABV side when working on a hot day,” Mulder said. “This one does great on the farm.” Theirs: “I need a tractor to clear my drive,” Mulder said when asked for the beer he craves following a scraping down of his snowy driveway. “It takes a bit of time, and afterwards, I just want to melt into a chair and sip on something full and complex.” Mulder’s go-to beer for such a moment? Go Juice from Short’s, a Milkshake IPA brewed with Ethiopian coffee, marshmallow, milk sugar, and vanilla. Complex indeed.
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Lake Ann Brewing Company, Lake Ann Mine: There’s something to be said for a beer that goes as well with an afternoon boat cruise in the summer as it does with a fireside chat in the winter. For Matt Therrien of Lake Ann Brewing, that beer is his own Jungle Fungus IPA. “It’s a session IPA, and it’s almost the only thing I ever drink because I like it so much,” Therrien said. “It is my goto beer for all occasions. Summer, winter, on the boat fishing, with dinner, paired with anything. It’s like a pair of blue jeans: It works with everything.” Theirs: Though it’s not technically from northern Michigan, Therrien says that the Mosaic Promise from Founder’s carries the spirit of the North. “It’s so approachable, but it’s seasonal, so it’s only available four months a year,” Therrien said. “It’s my desert island beer. If I could only drink one beer for the rest of my life, it would be that one. It’s especially great for fall walleye fishing in northern Michigan.”
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Mitten-Made Beer is Better It’s no secret that Michigan is one of the top states in the country for craft brewing. Not only is the Mitten State surrounded by beer’s most important ingredient — fresh water — but it is also becoming one of the country’s top hops producers. Last year, when Thrillist ranked states based on their beer, Michigan landed at No. 4, behind only California, Oregon, and Colorado. Thrillist didn’t just acknowledge Michigan titan brewers like Bell’s and Founder’s, either. On the contrary, the website also called out craft beer from both the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Michigan. “Tiny Traverse City manages to out-beer cities five times its size,” Thrillist editors wrote. Amen.
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At 7:30pm March 17, Scottish band Heron Valley will bring its sound — sans one 9-to-5er — to Crooked Tree Arts Center.
“Electric Folk” To Sit Down and Listen To
Young Scots bringing traditional and original tunes to Crooked Tree By Ross Boissoneau The Scottish band Heron Valley is performing for the first time in the region on March 17 at Crooked Tree Arts Center. The group is comprised of six friends
from Argyll: piper/guitarist/whistle player Euan McNab; banjo player and drummer Nick Hamilton; keyboardist Arlene Mackechnie; her brother Alex Mackechnie on fiddle, accordion and guitar; bassist Callum Cronin; and guitarist/vocalist (and
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fiddler) Abigail Pryde. Pryde explained that they came together organically. “Alex and Arlene are brother and sister. Euan went to school with them. Nick is their cousin. I knew Arlene from high school. Callum and I went to music school together,” Pryde said. So it’s a six-piece band, but when they play abroad, they do so as a five-piece. Alex Mackechnie has a full-time job in IT for a financial services firm, so he doesn’t travel. According to Pryde, that doesn’t greatly impact the band’s performance. “Here in Scotland, everyone learns two or three instruments. You pick what happens to be needed in a band. At home I play guitar and sing. So in the States, I fiddle and don’t play guitar. Callum plays some. It doesn’t change our sound.” Heron Valley officially formed in 2014, playing traditional tunes. The group soon began to work on original material, and the next year released its debut single. “Pressed for Time” was accompanied by a music video, which juxtaposed scenes of the band performing on a boat with a more traditional performance on land. A year later, Heron Valley released its second single, “Home,” again with a video. This time, the band set off at 4am to climb up Beinn an Lochainn, a hill on the west coast of Scotland in the area where all the members had grown up. The video showcases the group’s journey from bottom to top and shows them playing on the mountainside. It garnered an impressive 173,000-plus views. Next up was a full album: The band is now touring behind its debut album Roam. “It’s a mix of music,” Pryde said of their show. “Probably 80 percent is from the album.” Asked how she would describe their sound, Pryde thought for a moment before calling it “electric folk. “She explained how the Scottish traditions are being enlivened with other genres. “It’s lively Scottish folk
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music. The traditional scene was always part of our culture. Now people are doing different things: Electric, rock, jazz. “We kind of started off as folk. We’d do ceilidhs [kay-lees] for dancing, birthdays, weddings. It evolved — we began incorporating other genres, like bluegrass and modern folk. I think (now) we’re more in pop traditional,” she said. She said whatever the label, the group draws on numerous traditions and styles. “It’s easy to dance to. It’s catchy songs and traditional songs.” She’s quick to add that both their music and their taste encompass many genres. She and Cronin both study classical music and embrace popular sounds as well. “Pop music, Pink Floyd — we don’t listen just to traditional,” she said. Pryde said a difference between their shows in their home country and in the U.S. is that those at home are primarily danceoriented, while the shows in this country have been concerts. “We had never once played a sit-down concert in Scotland,” she said, noting the group was more used to rowdier crowds “getting up, being drunk and dancing. Here [in Scotland] we could scream, and they’d scream back. “When we first came to the USA, we did a lot of sit-down concerts,” she said. The audience response was jarring at first. “We felt people weren’t enjoying it,” Pryde said. As they grew used to it, they began to relish the difference. “It’s really humbling to have people sit down and listen.” Whatever the style and wherever the audience, Pryde said the band’s goal is the same. “We sing songs, tell stories. Music gives people joy. I don’t think that’s different anywhere.” Tickets for the 7:30pm show are $20; $15 for Blissfest members. Go to www.blissfest.org.
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House charcuterie, a cold appetizer.
Char-grilled Spanish octopus, a hot appetizer.
TRATTORIA STELLA Without a lot of vision and a big leap of faith, this well-loved and highly respected Traverse City eatery would never have come to be. Opening back in 2004, it was the first and only business in Building 50, part of the former State Hospital — also known as the Northern Michigan Asylum. Although the whole property was under redevelopment at the time, many windows on the floors above the restaurant were still broken, and caged porches loomed above its front door. The owners knew they had to create a total experience that would enable guests to suspend reality once they sat down and allow themselves to be transported to a cozy trattoria in Italy. By Janice Binkert When Detroit native Amanda Danielson and her husband, Paul, moved to Traverse City in March of 2000 with a five-year plan to open an Italian restaurant, they immediately began exploring possible locations for it. They knew they wanted someplace historic — at least for the New World — and when they came upon the stately 19th-century yellow brick, Victorian-Italianate style Building 50 in what is now the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, they knew they had found it. Although the property was in a dismal state of disrepair, as fate would have it, the Minervini Group had just started an extensive renovation. Finding that their first choice of venue within the structure was beyond what they could afford, they settled on the basement of the long-abandoned asylum, a former root cellar, which in its future incarnation would be known as the garden level. And in the end, that turned out to be the best choice. “Not only the exterior but also the physical atmosphere of the interior — exposed brick, concrete floors, and arches — could be down a small street in an Italian town,” said Amanda Danielson, co-owner and beverage director of Trattoria Stella. OUT OF THE RUBBLE But the aspiring restaurateurs realized a daunting task lay ahead them before “what was” became “what would be,” and before getting too far into it, they wanted to make sure they had the right team in place to create their dream. When it came to choosing an executive chef, Myles Anton, a talented and
experienced culinary professional and old friend from Detroit, was at the top of a very short list, so they reached out and invited him to come and see the space — in its original condition. “Walking across the lawn toward the back door before any real work had been done was like a scene in a post-apocalyptic film,” said Danielson. “The three of us went in and crossed the original terrazzo floor in what is now the kitchen and navigated the dining room over a series of wooden planks set over the trenches where the in-floor heating would eventually be laid under concrete. The arches were crumbling, and there were holes in the ceiling that allowed glimpses of the floor upstairs. We picked our way through the mess, with Paul and I describing our vision to Myles while no doubt being dusted with asbestos and lead-laden paint chips. On our way out, Myles paused, standing on the terrazzo, and said, ‘So, this is my kitchen.’ That was how he accepted the position, and he has since become our partner.” Other culinary industry colleagues from Detroit followed, contributing their expertise to getting the restaurant off the ground: “Alfiero Silveri came to help train staff and open the restaurant, returning a couple years later as our general manager,” said Danielson. “And Maureen [Moe] Loftus has been a server since day one — she continues to be our doyenne of fine service.” Many other employees have been with the restaurant for over a decade. “I have always been a reader, writer, and teacher, no matter what the subject,” said Danielson. “I learn everything with the intention of teaching, which necessitates much more than gaining a superficial knowledge.”
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In addition to writing the beverage list (she is an accomplished sommelier), Danielson manages a continual, intensive training program for Stella’s servers and bartenders that includes every aspect of hospitality, with a particular focus on wine. And given the longevity of the core front of the house crew, many of the classes are now at master level. “Each menu — food and beverage — serves as a navigational tool,” said Danielson. “The staff finds out from the guests where they’d like to go, and using the familiar ‘maps’ as references,” guides them toward an exceptional experience that suits them, whether by the straightest route or exploring the back roads.” LOCAL AND GLOBAL TASTES In the kitchen, Chef Anton follows the same training philosophy for his brigade and shares the same commitment as the Danielsons in showcasing foods grown and raised in northern Michigan. “As we’ve added local farmers [now numbering more than 40] as suppliers, they would bring in things that interested me and allowed me to formulate an ever-changing menu based on what is fresh and available,” he said. Anton also believes in incorporating foods and techniques from other regions, especially Europe. Several trips to Italy, Germany, and Austria have allowed him to work alongside and learn from renowned butchers in those countries, and multiple stages in Italian kitchens in Palermo, Rome, and Florence have been instrumental in the inspiration and refining of his cuisine. “Ninety-five percent of the Stella menu is produced from scratch,” he said. “We make our own bread, desserts, pasta, sausages,
and mozzarella and burrata cheeses. Again, this gives us the chance to change things up often.” Anton has also practiced a continuous whole-animal butchery program for the last nine years, and the menu features a special Chef ’s Taste of offal and a Chef ’s Cut of meat, every day. A sampling of items from a recent dinner menu bore testament to Anton’s omnivorous and local/global approach to cooking in every category. Antipasti Caldi (hot appetizers): char-grilled Spanish octopus with housemade Calabrese sausage, smoked shallots, rice, beans and tomato; Antipasti Freddi (cold appetizers): house-made charcuterie platter with massafegati, cacciatore, Calabrian ham, duck liver pâte, rabbit galantina, giardiniera, hard-boiled egg, Italian parsley, date and onion puree, tart cherry mostarda and crostini; Zuppa e Insalate (soup and salad): oven-roasted and chilled beets with housemade fresh mozzarella, candied hazelnuts, red onions and strawberry vinaigrette; Paste (pasta): hand-rolled tortelli with butternut squash and amaretti cookie filling, spiced pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seed oil, sage butter and grated Parmigiano Reggiano; Pietanze (main dishes): seared organic breast of chicken saltimbocca with Prosciutto di Parma ham and Fontina Fontal cheese stuffing, golden potatoes, celery root, broccoli florets, thyme and lemon; Contorni (side dishes): oven-roasted carrots and acorn squash with rosemary, maple syrup and pomegranate. (Don’t worry, Stella’s servers are willing and able to demystify any unfamiliar ingredients!) Bruschetta and the white and red pizzas are especially popular in the bar area, but can be ordered anywhere in the restaurant.
SUPERIOR SIPS And speaking of the bar, the aforementioned beverage menu written by Danielson is a fascinating 61-page tome that reads like a good book, offering interesting tidbits and insights into everything from water (yes, that’s special, too) to coffee, tea, beer, cider, spirits, liqueurs and, of course, wines — which come from nearly every major wine-growing region in the world, with an emphasis on Italian varietals, and also including bottles from northern Michigan and elsewhere in the U.S. Three in-house sommeliers oversee the cellar. For their part, Stella’s bartenders are proficient mixologists who can and do turn out just about any cocktail that you could imagine (and some that you can’t). “Trattoria Stella a singular expression of place for those who want to experience
a unique part of Traverse City and the surrounding region,” said Danielson. “It is also an expression of Italy and other Old World countries — authentic and honest — based on our profound appreciation for not just the food and wine, but the incomparable hospitality we have experienced at every winery, restaurant, farm and home of a friend, both here and abroad.” Adds Anton: “The level of care for the food that my kitchen staff and I prepare is the perfect paring with Amanda and the front of the house staff ’s passion for beverage knowledge and dining service. It’s a wonderful partnership.” Trattoria Stella is located at 1200 West 11th Street in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City. Open for lunch and dinner Monday—Saturday; dinner only on Sunday. (231) 929–8989, www.stellatc.com.
A STARRING ROLE
Stella means ‘star’ in Italian, and a star is just what the restaurant has become — to the trade (five James Beard Award nominations for Chef Myles Anton; MLive: Best Italian Restaurant in Michigan 2018; OpenTable: 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America 2019); to the media (Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Traverse City Business News and more); and to the public, which has embraced the restaurant’s commitment to exciting and memorable dining.
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This spring, you can still get in on Trattoria Stella’s monthly Italian Adventure Series. Enjoy a four-course tasting menu from one of Italy’s famous wine regions ($35 plus tax and gratuity, with an optional wine flight from the featured regions for $11.50). The regular dinner menu is also available. March 10-16: Puglia – Lecce and Gallipoli April 21-27: Roma On Thursday, April 11, Chef Guillaume Hazaël-Massieux of La Bécasse and Myles Anton of Stella face off in the kitchen again for the annual France vs. Italy dinner, featuring wines and food from both countries served side-by-side. Tickets are $150 per guest, inclusive of tax and gratuity, and must be purchased in advance by calling Trattoria Stella at (231) 929-8989. Whose cuisine will rule? Your votes will decide!
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You don’t need to be Irish to enjoy St. Patrick’s Day, and despite what the North’s many packed pubs and bars indicate each year, there are other ways to celebrate the holiday without guzzling a gallon of green beer. Here are our picks for getting in the Irish spirit before and on St. Pat’s: PRE-PATTY PARTY First up, get a little pre-Patty warmup in with Kennedy’s Kitchen, performing at the Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay March 10. The sextet hails from that bastion of Celtic music, South Bend, Indiana. Its music is rooted in traditional Irish jigs, reels, hornpipes, aires, recitations, stories, and songs, with the band’s own compositions as well. Expect to hear fiddle, flutes, whistles, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, tenor banjo, harmonica, bodhran, bass — and they love to sing. Tickets for the 4pm show are $25 at the door. www.baytheatre.com. More Celtic music fun: The Outside Track performs at 7pm March 12 at Sleder’s and at 7:30 at the Garden Theater in Frankfort March 13. Winners of “Best Group” in the Live Ireland awards and the Tradition In Review awards, The Outside Track also won the German Radio Critics Prize for its album Flash Company. Live Ireland has called The Outside Track “among the top bands in the world.” Of course, for audiences, it’s not about awards, it’s about the music. The fourfemale, single-male quintet blends the sounds of fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, flute, whistle, step-dance, and vocals into a Celtic stew of music, song and dance. Band members hail from Scotland, Ireland, and Cape Breton, united by a love of traditional music and a commitment to creating new music. Tickets for both shows are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. www.sleders.com and www. frankfortgardentheatre.com.
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ON-HOLIDAY CANADIAN CELTIC But wait, there’s more: The Steel City Rovers will perform a 5pm concert March 17 at Sleder’s. A Celtic band, the Canadian group also incorporates bluegrass, folk and country strains into its music. The band members perform on meticulously crafted replicas of historic instruments. Active as educators as well, the group frequently gives workshops and master classes, even performs with symphonies. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. RUN LEPRECHAUN, RUN! The 9th annual Fifth Third Bank Leapin’ Leprechaun 5K foot race launches 9am Saturday, March 16, from Traverse City’s Warehouse District. Proceeds go to the Munson Healthcare Foundation in support of the new Family Birth and Children’s Center. There are prizes for best Irish costume, plus a complimentary beverage and music following at Kilkenny’s Irish Public House, courtesy of the Wild Sullys, Song of the Lakes, and Blue Footed Booby. ARTS & EDIBLES Go north to Boyne City, where the Charlevoix Creatives Collective and the Boyne River Inn are hosting a weekend celebration. The fun begins Friday, March 15 with an opportunity to color a Celtic knot design. Take selfies at the photo station — costumes welcome — and stay until 6:30pm to hear a live podcast with (we’re not making this up) The Fat Irish Nerd & Friends. Saturday opens the Soda Bread Contest, with the winner named Sunday. More music? Yep, with the Hidden Valley Irish Band. Sunday will feature more music, poems, stories, and of course Irish food and drink. Free admission. Search Charlevoix Creatives Collective on Facebook. AN IRISH DINNER PARTY The Ramsdell’s Irish Night Festival in Manistee Friday or March 15, part food, part music, and all fun. The doors open at 6pm.
Chef Brian Kissel from the Manistee National is preparing an authentic Irish meal. The Conservatory of Dance Manistee performs at 6:30, and at 7pm, An Dro — a band of “eclectic instrumentalists — takes the stage in the theatre. The dancers return at 8:15, followed by the Moxie Strings. Both bands are string duos often augmented by percussion, which blend everything from Celtic and folk to Arabic and African sounds. Tickets are available at MyNorthTickets.com. OUTDOORS, SILLY-STYLE More the outdoors type? Not a problem. Celebrate your St. Patrick’s Day weekend Shanty Creek-style, with the soon-to-beworld-famous Cardboard Classic on Saturday, March 16. Sleds must be made out of cardboard, tape, and glue — and nothing else. Cardboard Classic prizes will be awarded for best design, best use of the Shanty Creek logo, and fastest sled. There’s tons of other activities for kids and families, too: face-painting, crafts, shamrock-cookie decorating, a frozen fish toss, silly slalom, and shovel races. KAYAK THE SLOPES Oh, so you like your St. Pat’s festivities on the slopes? No problem. At Crystal Mountain it’s Celts & Kayaks on the 17th. From 9am to 4pm you can enter the Pot of Gold Challenge — best guess wins the Pot of Gold. And while you look for the leaping leprechaun on the hill, you can get ready for the kayak race (equipment provided), where racers will compete in waves. (Of course.) Following that is the Slush Cup, ski or ride through a giant pit of icy slush. PARADE PARTY Finally, everybody loves a parade. And the 19th annual Gaylord St. Patrick’s Day parade, which wends its way through downtown on Saturday, is one of the best. Parade marshal is Joe Somerville, a fixture at Gaylord Middle School for the past 26 years, and one of the founding members of the Ancient Order Of Hibernians.
cheers to the high life! International pilot, homebrew master, business co-owner, pianist. We look inside the life of Chuck Green so you can live it for a minute (at least the homebrewing part).
By Eric Cox Chuck Green is halfway to James Bond. He’s an international man, but not so much a mystery. The facts: The 43-year-old Traverse City bachelor travels the world as an pilot for United Airlines. And when he’s not aloft, he’s likely hanging out on Cass Road, sipping and selling his own brews while chatting about the art of microbrewing with other local enthusiasts. It’s quite the life — maybe not 007 status, but pretty darned good. When we caught up with Green, he was preparing to catch a flight to Chicago. Out of O’Hare, he said he’d be piloting a massive Boeing 777 — his regular ride — to Sao Paolo, Brazil. Just another day at work for one of Traverse City’s up-and-comers. Green understandably loves his commercial pilot career and all the interesting places it’s taken him. (The 777 holds his heart: “It’s a beautiful plane — a pilot’s plane,” he said. “Lots of automation, but also lots of hands-on. A great mix.”) But Green discusses flying very little and instead launches into his other passion: microbrews and homebrewing. His eyes get wider and his enthusiasm bubbles up like the head on a great lager when he talks about brewing great beer. “Making a beer, putting it on tap here, and selling it … and having someone go ‘This is really good.’ It makes everyone here feel good.” His exhilaration is well paired with his part-time, earthbound job: co-owner of UBrew, a “nano” brewery, brewing school, tasting room, and retail space with a very nondescript facade, sandwiched between a storage facility and a tire store. The front of the place is packed with shelves and refrigerators and rows of plastic dispensers, displaying almost 80 malt varieties, their sundry brown shades foretelling the degree of roast in each. Clearly, this is the lair-haven of a garden variety home brewer. UBrew sells all the equipment, all the grains, the various yeasts and hops, and all the other little items and gadgets that make home brewing possible. Brewing classes, offered about six times annually, are offered, and thirsty geeks of homemade beer from far and wide congregate here, elating the excitable Green, who we suspect would rather sit and chat with his fellow beer brewers than jet through the wild blue yonder hauling humans. In the back of UBrew, 3054 Cass Rd., Suite D, is a small bar and a few tall tables where locals and others in the know gather to sip the potions and gum over the secrets and lore associated with quality home beer-making. Beyond that, tucked in a back corner, is Green’s own brewing system — one he built with UBrew co-owner and fellow aviator Aaron Spangler. Spangler, another Traverse City native, flies for a competing airline (Delta), but when it comes to their joint venture, the emphasis for both entrepreneurs
is on the Team UBrew’s ground game. Almost a year and half in, things are going well, according to Green, who said interest in the business and its beers has grown steadily. Green, a bachelor with a longtime girlfriend, said the whole shebang got started when, a few years back, his current roommate asked him what he had planned for some empty basement space at the house they share. “Homebrewing has always been a hobby I wanted to get into,” Green said. “So I went down to the store (the now defunct Bad Teacher), bought the equipment and took a class. That class happened to be taught by a good friend of mine, Marty Mack. He taught me how to brew from extracts [a simplified brewing process featuring a ready-made mash mixture].” Green absorbed much more knowledge from his childhood friend, namely, how to perform all-grain brewing (making a mash mixture from raw components like malt, hops, yeast, etc.). “From there it was just reading and reading and reading,” he said. His research still goes on today. “I started reading everything I could find about brewing different kinds of beer and the sciences behind it … the water science is a fascination, too.” This is where Green’s two interesting jobs collide. But, it’s a happy collision in which no one gets hurt, unless one overindulges. The travel he does for work, Green explained, “has formed my brewing exponentially. Instead of reading about a style and trying to recreate it, I can hone my brewing to match the tastes of some of these old breweries.” Put another way, Green has tasted beers all over the planet, a fact that helps him guide his own recipes, as well as help new brewers dial in their own. As such, Green and Spangler offer brewing classes at UBrew, with experienced brewmasters guiding students through the processes. Some might conclude, despite all this, that Chuck Green is not very Bond-like, that he does not measure up to that hero’s graceful, refined worldliness. But, consider this: Green not only brews great beer and is an enviable international aeronaut who pilots gleaming, ultra-modern aircraft all the way around this gorgeous globe — he also (almost sickeningly well) plays the guitar and piano, sings, and writes his own songs. As if that weren’t enough — and to wilt the even the most towering egos, Double-O UBrew also snowmobiles all winter and boats all summer, his large, white teeth gleaming, his gorgeous Russian girlfriend waving. Cue: Bond theme playing. Then there’s the snowboarding and the commercial drone flying, the “little” property management company he dabbles in, and the junkets with Anya to exotic locales most of us only see in YouTube videos. Green shrugs it all off, though. Who
wouldn’t love his life? He clearly digs it with every shovel in the shed. But, he’s not some spoiled rich kid; he’s worked for what he has and he seems aware of the good fortune he’s found. But, for as far and wide as he’s traveled — to Sao Paolo’s beaches … to Hong Kong’s new year’s fireworks — gravity always seems to push Green back to Traverse City, back to Cass Road, back to the hobby and the microbrew community he holds so dear. Why? With the entire world within one’s reach, why would they set their sights on UBrew, Cass Road, Traverse City, Michigan, USA? That’s simple. “It’s beautiful here,” said Green. “Plus, I
think it’s the joy of watching people expand their horizons. It’s turned into kind of a community, and that’s fun. It’s cool to create that! I know [UBrew co-owner] Aaron enjoys that, too. He likes having this little establishment that, in the evenings, you might have 10 or 15 people, most of whom like to brew themselves — just sitting here chatting about brewing and having a brew. They often bring some of their own for others to try. ‘Here, try what I created!’ For Chuck Green, that’s what really puts the wind beneath his wings. Find out more about UBrew, 3054 Cass Rd., Suite D, Traverse City. (231) 943-2016, www.ubrewtc.com.
Hone Your Homebrew
UBrew offers classes, each generally lasting four to six hours, that allow all levels of brewers to quickly learn the art of homebrewing. Participants pay $30 per class, but are provided with everything they need to make a five-gallon batch. According to the American Homebrewers Association, there are two basic kinds of do-it-yourself home beer-making. All-Extract Brewing: This is the most basic of home brewing methods, requiring minimal knowledge and equipment. A good option for those with time, budget and equipment restraints, the allextract method relies on pre-mixed, malt extract syrups that provide a timely shortcut. All-grain Brewing: More advanced brewers may opt for UBrew’s all-grain class, which sees students creating their own recipe from the ground up. They choose the malts and add the other ingredients, the basics of which are malt, hops, yeast and water. This method requires more equipment, more time and additional space. But, again,UBrew provides students with all necessary ingredients and equipment to brew a five-gallon batch. Green said that in the realm of small-batch brewing, this method is known as “brew in a bag,” in which the ingredients are placed in a mesh bag, then boiled in a pot. Once complete, the bagged ingredients are then simply pulled out, leaving behind the liquid.
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RADIOLOGY & BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY NMC CAREER EXPLORATION DAY: 8:45am, Munson Medical Center, TC. Explorers must be between 11-20 years old. Participants will explore multiple careers within Radiology, & tour the diagnostic equipment laboratories of Biomedical Technology. Questions? Please contact: Mark Ewing at 231-631-7490 or mark.ewing@scouting.org Free. ExploringMi.eventbrite.com
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KIDS’ FESTIVAL WEEKEND: Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls. Featuring Splatmaster Paintball target practice, rock wall & Extreme Dual Air Jumpers, inflatable obstacle course & bounce house, Silly Slalom Race, kids’ Seal Slide, a pizza making class & more. boynemountain.com/upcomingevents/kids-festival-weekend
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NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOME SHOW: 9am5pm, NCMC, Petoskey. Featuring over 70 exhibitors from all areas of construction, remodeling, home systems, design & architectural services & more. $5; free for 5 & under. hbanm.com
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SPRING CARNIVAL: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Today features the Cardboard Classic Creative Sled Contest, Cardboard Classic Race, DJ Dance Party & BBQ, Slush Cup, & much more. crystalmountain.com/event/spring-carnival
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25 CENT KIDS MATINEES: 10am, State Theatre, TC. Featuring “Trolls.” stateandbijou.org/ calendar
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CHILDREN’S VISION DAY IN THE MUSEUM: 10am-3pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Presented by the Michigan Optometric Association (MOA) Children’s Vision Committee. Learn about eye safety, eye anatomy, what to expect at an eye exam, & how to locate a doctor in your area. Includes interactive stations. $7; members get in free. Find on Facebook.
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MAKE A GIFT SERIES: 10am-noon, Interlochen Public Library. Essential Oils & Winter Wellness. For adults. Materials provided. Free. Sign up: 231-276-6767. tadl.org/interlochen
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DR. SEUSS’ BIRTHDAY PARTY: 11am-3pm, Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord. Guest readers at 11am, noon, 1pm & 2pm. There will also be activities, prizes & more. Free. saturnbooksellers.com
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HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: March 1-10. Several Harbor Springs restaurants are offering $15/$25/$35 menu specials.
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THE INCREDIBLE TOY STORY ON ICE: 11:30am & 4:30pm, Centre Ice Arena, TC. Presented by the TC Figure Skating Club. Featuring favorite characters from The Incredibles, Toy Story, Up, Inside Out, Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, Ratatouille, Cars, Monster’s Inc. and Coco, as presented by the local club’s figure skaters. $17-$150. mynorthtickets.com
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SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: 12-5pm, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. blackstarfarms. com/snowshoes-vines-wines
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CBG MINDED MICHIGANDERS: 1-5pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Cigar Box Nation is a country-wide movement of musicians, instrument builders, hobbyists, fans & just plain folks with an interest in cigar box guitars, ukuleles & related creations. Free. redskystage.com
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KIDS FUN DAY CARNIVAL: 1-3pm, Benzonia Public Library, upper level. Reading time with Benzie Central student-athletes, carnival games, make & take craft workshops, snacks & more. Friends from the University of Michigan School of Information will offer a special activity. 231-8824111. Free. benzonialibrary.org
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MANITOU WINDS ALBUM RELEASE PARTY: “FIRST FLIGHT”: 2-5pm, Rove Estate Vineyard & Tasting Room, TC. Featuring live performances at 2:30pm & 4pm. Free. manitouwinds. com/upcoming-performances
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BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: 3-5pm, Horizon Books, TC. Leslie Lee, “We Are the Land.” horizonbooks.com
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10TH ANNUAL BREW-SKI FESTIVAL: Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. Hit the slopes & visit sampling bars where brewery representatives from more than 150 breweries share info about more than 200 brews. There will also be brats, burgers & live music. $10; includes 3 beer tickets. boynehighlands.com
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ROCK N JAM: 4:30pm, The Rock of Kingsley. A community play-along for music lovers of all ages. Dancers & listeners are welcome too. Free. facebook.com/pg/therockofkingsleyMI/events
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COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS NOPI: amical, TC. An encore performance of recipes from a favorite cookbook author. Featuring Ottolenghi & Scully’s modern Middle Eastern cuisine. Call 941-8888 for reservations. amical. com/nopi
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CLASSICAL MUSIC OPEN MIC NIGHT: 6:30pm, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. Classical IPR’s Amanda Sewell will emcee the event. Register in advance: ipr@interlochen.org or 231276-4403. Leave the performers’ names & instruments as well as what piece they’re going to play. Free. interlochenpublicradio.org
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“NEWSIES THE MUSICAL”: 7pm, TC West Senior High School Auditorium. Presented by TC West Senior High School. “Newsies” tells the story of the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 against Joseph Pulitzer & William Randolph Hearst. $12 general admission. mynorthtickets.com/organizations/traverse-city-west-senior-high-school-choir
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BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: 401 River St., Elk Rapids. There will be a basic skills workshop from 7-7:30pm & the dancing will take place from 7:30-10:30pm. The live band will be Sam Herman and Friends. $11 adult, $7 student, $9 member. dancetc.com
UK band The Outside Track brings their Celtic music to Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC on Tues., March 12 at 7pm and the Garden Theater, Frankfort on Weds., March 13 at 7:30pm. The Outside Track were ‘Best Live Act’ nominees in the MG Alba Scots Traditional Music Awards, and won the German Radio Critics Prize for their album Flash Company. Tickets are $20 advance and $25 door each night. Sleders: 947-9213. Garden Theater: frankfortgardentheater.com
“MOON OVER BUFFALO”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. When two fading Broadway stars bring their run-down touring company to Buffalo, they discover they have one last chance at stardom. $28 adults, $15 youth under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com
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DERVISH: 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Enjoy Irish traditional music with this band that has played at festivals from Rio to Glastonbury. They are described by the BBC as “an icon of Irish music.” $24 members, $27 advanced, $30 door. dennosmuseum.org
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HELL ON HEELS: 8pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. A lip syncing, dancing & singing adventure. redskystage.com
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LONESTAR: SOLD OUT: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. These multi-platinum-selling, pop-country superstars perform chart-topping ballads. $35, $45, $50. lrcr.com/event-calendar/ concerts/lonestar
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MADE IN MICHIGAN FUNDRAISER: 8-11:30pm, Cadillac Elks Lodge. Enjoy a night of local music with Zak Bunce, Frank Youngman, Shari Kane & Dave Steele, Mary Sue Wilkinson, Gary VanHouten, Rick West, Ed Gilbert, & Bunce & Tiyi; & silent auction items that will help improve Gopherwood Concerts’ sound & lighting infrastructure. Advance tickets: $15 adults, $7 stu-
dents, free for 12 & under. Door: $18 adults, $9 students. mynorthtickets.com
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RUNA: 8pm, City Opera House, TC. This CelticAmerican Roots music “super group” pushes the boundaries of Irish folk music into the Americana & roots music formats. $27.50, $22.50; students, $15. cityoperahouse.org/runa
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SIPS & GIGGLES COMEDY SHOW FEATURING MICHAEL PALASCAK: 8pm, ECCO, TC. Michael has late night performances on David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan, Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing & more. $20 advance; $25 door. mynorthtickets.com
mar 10
KIDS’ FESTIVAL WEEKEND: (See Sat., March 9)
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HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., March 9)
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WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY: 11am-9pm. Come to Moomers, TC to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day. dsupnorth.org
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“MOON OVER BUFFALO”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. When two fading Broadway stars bring
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their run-down touring company to Buffalo, they discover they have one last chance at stardom. $28 adults, $15 youth under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com
---------------------“NEWSIES THE MUSICAL”: 2pm, TC West Senior High School Auditorium. Presented by TC West Senior High School. “Newsies” tells the story of the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 against Joseph Pulitzer & William Randolph Hearst. $12 general admission. mynorthtickets.com
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ENCORE WINDS PRESENTS “SONGS OF THE EARTH”: 3pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Featuring Cajun, Armenian, medieval, contemporary & popular music. The featured soloist will be tubist Dr. Jerry Young, performing “Away, I’m Bound Away.” $15 adult; $10 senior; $5 student; free for 12 & under. mynorthtickets.com
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VIENNA BOYS CHOIR: 3-5pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. The Vienna Boys Choir bring their “rapturous harmonies, purity of tone, delightful repertoire, and charming demeanor.” $60, $47, $42, $32. greatlakescfa.org/eventdetail/vienna-boys-choir
Panel speaker: Gregory Johnson - Retired NASA Astronaut. STEM Panel will also include local STEM professionals. 34+ colleges attending. Open to all northwest lower MI students, parents & community members. Free. gotocollegefairs.com
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CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING: 6:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Speakers include Parks & Recreation Director/Facilities Manager Derek Melville & Nicole VanNess, Residential Parking Program of Traverse City.
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PTSD & RELEASING TRAUMA FROM THE BODY: 7pm, Whole Health, 3639 Cass Rd., TC. Free. gtreiki.com
---------------------PETOSKEY AUDUBON PROGRAM: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, conference room, Harbor Springs. District Manager for the Emmet Conservation District Jackie Pilette will discuss the services of ECD. Free.
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RESCHEDULED FRIENDS @ THE CARNEGIE: LETTERS HOME FROM WWI: 7pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. Jane Garver & Dylan Taylor from the Little Traverse Historical Museum will share letters & journal entries written by local men & women to illustrate their contributions to World War I. Free. petoskeylibrary.org
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THE OUTSIDE TRACK: 7pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Enjoy a Celtic night of music. The Outside Track were ‘Best Live Act’ nominees in the MG Alba Scots Traditional Music Awards, & won the German Radio Critics Prize for their album Flash Company. 947-9213. $20 advance; $25 door.
---------------------10TH ANNUAL BREW-SKI FESTIVAL: (See Sat., March 9)
KENNEDY’S KITCHEN: 4pm, The Bay Community Theatre, Suttons Bay. This group’s music is rooted in traditional Irish music, jigs, reels, hornpipes, aires, recitations, stories & songs... adding their own compositions along the way. 231-2713772. $20 advance; $25 door.
OVERDOSE RECOGNITION & RESPONSE TRAINING: 4-7pm, Community Center (Little Red Schoolhouse), Rapid City. Presented by Harm Reduction Michigan. Free testing will be available for Hepatitis & HIV, while all interested community members are welcome to participate in the demonstration, administering the life-saving antidote, Narcan/Naloxone. Free lifesaving kits will be available. Free. harmreductionmi.org
---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS NOPI: (See Sat., March 9)
mar 11
monday
OTP YOUNG CO. AUDITIONS: 4-6pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. For “The Three Musketeers.” Open to students ages 9-18. Read from the play & learn a short fight sequence, so come dressed to move. oldtownplayhouse.com
---------------------SOUP & BREAD: 6-8pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Local chefs donate soup. You eat the soup & donate what you can. Proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity. thelittlefleet.com
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GT HUMANISTS PRESENT SAIL CHAMPION: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Enjoy a presentation on the history of the Maritime Heritage Alliance (MHA) & the role of SAIL Champion in the community. Free.
mar 12
tuesday
GET CRAFTY: 11am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Paint & print some bubble wrap onto fish shapes. Hang it up. Your creation will swim right before your eyes. greatlakeskids.org/news-events
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OTP YOUNG CO. AUDITIONS: (See Mon., March 11)
---------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6-8:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new, come at 5:45pm for an introduction to CCL. 231-499-6747. citizensclimatelobby.org
---------------------STEM SPEAKER PANEL & COLLEGE FAIR: 6pm, TC Central High School. Featured STEM
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mar 13
wednesday
PROJECT CONNECT: 11am3pm, Odawa Casino, Petoskey. A day of service for those in need in Charlevoix & Emmet counties. During this one day event 500 to 1,000 individuals will connect with a range of health & human services provided by around 70 local non-profit agencies & other businesses. Free. projectconnect231.com
---------------------GT BAY AREA STROKE CLUB PONDERS MEDICAL WISHES: “WHO WILL SPEAK FOR YOU?”: 2:30-4:30pm, The Presbyterian Church, TC. Munson Medical Center Advance Care Planning Coordinator Stephanie VanSlyke, R.N. will talk about advance care planning & the decisions that are important prior to any medical crisis. munsonhealthcare.org/services/stroke/support-for-survivors
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ARTS FOR ALL YOUTH ART CLASSES: 3-4pm, Elk Rapids High School. Art Escapes for high school aged students. Learn from artist Dani Knoph about Northern Michigan Wildlife, & try out a variety of art making techniques in printmaking, illustration & watercolor painting. Materials are provided. Free. artsforallnmi.org/art-escapes
---------------------“CREATE” DECORATE A TOTE: 4-5pm, Interlochen Public Library. For teens & tweens, ages 10-19. Tote & materials provided. Sign up: 231276-6767. Free. tadl.org/interlochen
---------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS - FOUNDERS CELEBRATION: 5-7pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey. Celebrate seven of the members who were part of the original membership drive in 1919 when the chamber was formed! First 100 attendees will be entered into drawings for this night only. $10 members; $15 not-yet members. petoskeychamber.com/business-after-hours
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GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Buffalo Wild Wings, Gaylord. Enjoy a free drink ticket & food. Wear green & be in the grand prize drawing for four VIP tickets to the TC Pit Spitters baseball game. $5 members; $10 not-yet members. gaylordchamber.com
---------------------LIFELONG LEARNING: THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY: 5:30pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom, Petoskey. Featuring professor & ordained pastor Toby Jones. Free. petoskeylibrary.org
Sleder’s Family Tavern 717 Randolph St.
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VINES TO WINES CONFERENCE: 6-9pm, NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Featuring Dave Anthony, owner of Northern Sun Winery. Attendees can sample many regionally produced wines. Must be 21+. Must register in advance. Free. eventbrite.com
---------------------COMMUNITY EVENT: LEARN ABOUT MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK: 6:30pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Learn about the many activities, education programs, artist opportunities, concerts & more that happen year-round at this 30-acre contemporary sculpture park. Meet staff for a time of Q&A. Free. michlegacyartpark.org
---------------------THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. $33 full, $13 youth. tickets.interlochen.org
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THE OUTSIDE TRACK: 7:30pm, Garden Theater, Frankfort. Enjoy a night of Celtic music. The Outside Track were ‘Best Live Act’ nominees in the MG Alba Scots Traditional Music Awards, & won the German Radio Critics Prize for their album Flash Company. $20 advance; $25 door. frankfortgardentheater.com
mar 14
thursday
INTERACTIVE STORYTIME: 11am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” by Laura Numeroff. greatlakeskids.org/news-events
---------------------LENTEN LUNCHEON SERIES: 11:30am, Presbyterian Church of TC. “Amazing Love Love, as I have loved you.” A soup & sandwich luncheon presented by Church Women United of Grand Traverse. Today features Major Dawn Russell of Salvation Army. By donation. Donations will be shared with local charities. Find on Facebook.
---------------------FARMS, FOOD & HEALTH: 12-9pm, City Opera House, TC. Featuring a documentary screening, panel discussion & community health resources. Save your seat: farmsfoodhealth.org Free.
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GROOMING APPRECIATION PARTY: 5:30pm, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. Join TART Trails, Northern Michigan Mountain Bike Association & all of the groomers of winter trails. Enjoy food & beer. Celebrate another season on winter trails. Free. traversetrails.org/event/groomingappreciationparty
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CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP, ARTS ACADEMY DANCE CO.: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Phoenix Theatre. Free. tickets.interlochen.org
mar 15
friday
CARNIVAL WEEKEND: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls, March 15-17. Featuring skiing & snowboarding, live music, On-Hill Party, Village Party, Adult Costume Contest, ShamROCK Party, twin zip rides, Slush Cup & much more. boynemountain.com/upcoming-events/ carnival-weekend
---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: BIG MOVES WITH ME: 10am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Jump, roll & slide on the indoor gym equipment. greatlakeskids.org/news-events
---------------------STORYTIME AT LELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARY: 10:30am. Stories & play designed to promote joy & growth in literacy. Children ages 0-6 & their caregivers welcome. Free. lelandlibrary.org
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LIFE LUNCH: “YOGA, YOGA, EVERYWHERE”: 12-1:30pm, NMC, University Center, Rm. 215, TC. Hosted by NMC LIFE Academy. Join Libby Robold, for whom yoga is a career & a lifestyle, on a journey into understanding the “Yoga Wave” of today. Bring your own lunch; beverages & dessert included. $10. nmc.edu
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ST. PATRICK’S DAY PUB WALK: 12-11pm, Downtown TC. Bring festive decorations & party favors & enjoy performances by members of the Grand Traverse Pipes and Drums. The event starts at Minerva’s on State St. & continues throughout the day & evening at nine additional venues located throughout downtown. sites. google.com/site/aohbunbrady/highholydays
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STATE SEN. WAYNE SCHMIDT COFFEE HOURS: 1-2pm, East Jordan City Hall. The senator will be available to answer questions & provide info & assistance, as well as take suggestions on issues affecting communities & businesses in the 37th Senate District. senatorwayneschmidt.com
---------------------CELTIC WEEKEND: The Boyne River Inn, Boyne City. Color a Celtic knot design, enjoy Irish & Celtic food specials, a podcast by The Fat Irish Nerd & Friends, a pub crawl, Soda Bread Contest, live music by the Hidden Valley Irish Band, Celtic stories, poems & more. Free.
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INLAND SEAS: EVENING CREW TRAINING: 5:30-8pm, Capt. Thomas M. Kelly Biological Station, Suttons Bay. Welcome + Way of a Ship. Free. schoolship.org/news-events/volunteertraining-events
IRISH NIGHT 2019: 6pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. Featuring Conservatory of Dance Manistee performances, live music by AnDro & The Moxie Strings & more. You can buy tickets with or without dinner. $12-$35. mynorthtickets.com/events/IRISHNIGHT-RRCA-2019
PRE-ST. PATRICK’S DAY FUNDRAISER: 5:309pm, The Inn at Bay Harbor, Sagamore Room. Raises funds for Women’s Resource Center of Northern Michigan’s services. Featuring Irishthemed merriment, live & silent auctions, & appetizers & desserts. $10 advance; $15 door. wrcnm.org
OPENING RECEPTION FOR JESSE JASON SOLO SHOW: 6-8pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Jesse Jason presents his solo show “Neu Histoires.” Dreamy, abstract, narrative paintings exploring the power of human emotion will be on view. Free/ suggested donation. higherartgallery.com
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FREE “SAVING SNOW” SCREENING: 6pm, NEW Interlochen Public Library, 9411 Tenth St. This is a documentary about the economic impact of more unpredictable, warming winters. After the movie, Brian Lawson (Crystal Mountain) & Nicola Philpott (Citizens’ Climate Education) will talk about how climate change is affecting northern MI & the strategies that are being used to solve the climate crisis. Hosted by Grand Traverse Area Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Find on Facebook.
---------------------RECYCLE EVERYTHING?: 7pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. Join Kate Melby from Emmet County Recycling & get updated. Free. petoskeylibrary.org
---------------------“MOON OVER BUFFALO”: (See Sat., March 9) ---------------------ARTS ACADEMY HOUSE BAND: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Free. tickets.interlochen.org
DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID JR. PERFORMANCES: 7pm, Elk Rapids High School, Peterman Auditorium. Presented by Cherryland Middle School. $3 children, $7 adults.
from Michigan Ave. to Main St. to Center St. to the community center. Following the parade will be the St. Pat’s Day Pub Crawl.
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LEGO SATURDAY: 12-2pm, Benzonia Public Library. Creative LEGO fun. For boys & girls ages 6 to 106. 231-882-4111. Free. benzonialibrary.org
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SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: 12-5pm, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. blackstarfarms. com/snowshoes-vines-wines
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP, ARTS ACADEMY DANCE CO.: (See Thurs., March 14) HEIKKI LUNTA PARTY: 7:30pm, Treetops Resort, Gaylord. Party of the Snow Gods. The weekly celebration carries on the tradition of asking for abundant snowfall. Enjoy a big bonfire, entertainment by Tommy Tropic, s’mores, hot chocolate, a tube-pulling contest & more. Free. treetops.com
---------------------NPR’S “FROM THE TOP”: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. This program highlights the nation’s best & most talented young musicians. It will be hosted by actor & composer Damon Gupton with pianist Michelle Cann. $33 full, $13 youth. tickets.interlochen.org
---------------------QUEENS: 8pm, Odawa Casino, Ozone, Petoskey. The Queens are taking over Ozone! $5. odawacasino.com/entertainment/ozone.php
mar 16
saturday
SPRING PASTELS & MORE: 1-3pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. To welcome spring, participants, led by artist & naturalist Arlene Westhoven, will take a short walk looking for signs of spring’s awakening. Everyone will return to the Grass River Natural Area Nature Center to use pastels & a variety of other media to illustrate what they discovered. $8. grassriver.org
---------------------KRAZY DAZE: Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. Featuring inflatables, Jumping Contest, Nastar Race, Silly Slalom, Ski Over The Pond Competition, Get Crazy After Party & more. boynehighlands.com
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CARDBOARD CLASSIC BY SHORT’S BREWING: 9am-2pm, Shanty Creek Resort, Bellaire. Design your sled & construct it with cardboard, tape & glue. Prepare for racing down Ivan’s Alley. shantycreek.com
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CELTS & KAYAKS: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Featuring a Kayak on the Snow Race, Slush Cup, DJ Dance Party & BBQ, Celtic Dance, free Slopeside Concert featuring Brena & more. crystalmountain.com/event/celts-kayaks
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------------------------------------------ANNUAL ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE: 1:303pm, Downtown TC. Presented by the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Northern Michigan Irish Queens. Starts & ends at Kilkenny’s where there will be a post-parade party with music & more.
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1ST ANNUAL TC DANCE RHAPSODY & FUNDRAISER: 2pm, Bodies in Motion, TC. Hosted by Mykl Werth Movement and Torch Valley Dance. Enjoy a day of workshops, open dance & food. Workshops include tango, swing, contact improv, lifts, hip-hop, co-creative partner dance & more. All proceeds go to benefit the MWM Teacher Certification Program. Tickets on Eventbrite: $25 all day, $15 dance, $10 workshop.
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CELTIC WEEKEND: 4pm, The Boyne River Inn, Boyne City. Color a Celtic knot design, enjoy Irish & Celtic food specials, a podcast by The Fat Irish Nerd & Friends, a pub crawl, Soda Bread Contest, live music by the Hidden Valley Irish Band, Celtic stories, poems & more. Free.
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4 C’S CRAWL FOR THE CURE: 6:30pm, Bellaire. Register & pick up shirts at Short’s Brewing Co. Complete Bingo cards by finding items & participating in tasks at each of the participating establishments. Hosted by Cyd’s Crusaders & Cancer Crushers teams of the Chain of Lakes Relay For Life. $25. main.acsevents.org
---------------------“BYE BYE BIRDIE”: (See Fri., March 15) ---------------------“CINDERELLA”: (See Fri., March 15) ---------------------“NEWSIES THE MUSICAL”: (See Sat., March 9) ---------------------BENZIE CENTRAL PRESENTS “THE MUSIC MAN”: (See Fri., March 15)
---------------------DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID JR. PERFORMANCES: (See Fri., March 15)
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RAY & THE BLUES MAKERS IN: “THE SONG OF THE WOOD MAN”: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring poetry, prose, comedy & music. $10 advance; $15 night of. redskystage.com
---------------------“MOON OVER BUFFALO”: (See Sat., March 9)
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LEAPIN’ LEPRECHAUN 5K: 9am, Downtown TC. Wear green! Starts & ends at The Workshop Brewing Co. there will be a post-race party. runsignup. com/Race/MI/TraverseCity/LeapinLeprechaun5K
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ANNUAL YOUTH 3-ON-3 TOURNAMENT: 10am, Petoskey High School Gym. This is a one day, double elimination tournament for youth in grades 3-10 with both boys & girls divisions. First, second & third place teams in each division will receive award medals. $25/player. gtbayymca.org
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BOYNE CITY’S 1ST ANNUAL PUB CRAWL: Local area businesses will offer Irish inspired food & beer specials all day long. Guests go from business to business, on their own time frame, to have a bite or a pint. facebook.com/boynecitypubcrawl
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SHAMROCK SHUFFLE 5K & 1 MILE FUN RUN/WALK: 10am, Charlevoix Elementary School. runsignup.com
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“BYE BYE BIRDIE”: 7pm, Suttons Bay Public Schools, auditorium. Spring musical “Bye Bye Birdie” will be performed by a cast of 30 students from Suttons Bay Public Schools. $8 students, $10 adults. “CINDERELLA”: 7pm, Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. The original Rodgers & Hammerstein version. Presented by Harbor Springs High School. $10 adults, $7 students.
---------------------“NEWSIES THE MUSICAL”: (See Sat., March 9) ---------------------BENZIE CENTRAL PRESENTS “THE MUSIC MAN”: 7pm, Benzie Central High School Auditorium, Benzonia. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy has been entertaining audiences since 1957 & is a family-friendly story to be shared with every generation. Tickets: 231-882-9653. $12/adult, $6/student & senior.
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5TH ANNUAL TC FAMILY EXPO: 1-4pm, Hagerty Center, TC. This interactive expo features family-friendly resources on health, wellness, education, arts, music, recreation, retail, community organizations & events, & more. This expo is for folks thinking of growing their family to those with kids up to about age 7. Free. tcfamilyexpo.org
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“BYE BYE BIRDIE”: 2pm, Suttons Bay Public Schools, auditorium. This spring musical will be performed by a cast of 30 students from Suttons Bay Public Schools. $8 students, $10 adults.
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“NEWSIES THE MUSICAL”: (See Sun., March 10)
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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11:30am12:30pm: Book Release Party with Brianne Farley, author of “Charlotte the Scientist Finds a Cure.” 2-4pm: Tanya Anne Crosby will sign her book “Everyday Lies.” horizonbooks.com
BENZIE CENTRAL PRESENTS “THE MUSIC MAN”: 2pm, Benzie Central High School Auditorium, Benzonia. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy has been entertaining audiences since 1957 & is a family-friendly story to be shared with every generation. Tickets: 231-882-9653. $12/adult, $6/student & senior.
19TH ANNUAL EAGLE 101.5 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE: Noon, Downtown Gaylord. Runs
DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID JR. PERFORMANCES: 2pm, Elk Rapids High School,
25 CENT FAMILY FAVORITES: 11am, The Lyric, Harbor Springs. Featuring “Big.”
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Peterman Auditorium. Presented by Cherryland Middle School. $3 children, $7 adults.
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NWS BATTLE OF THE BOOKS W/ GRACE LIN: 2:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Award-winning children’s author & illustrator Grace Lin is the star author at the National Writers Series Battle of the Books championship. Free. cityoperahouse. org/nws-grace-lin
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---------------------“CINDERELLA”: 3pm, Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. The original Rodgers & Hammerstein version. Presented by Harbor Springs High School. $10 adults, $7 students.
---------------------TSO TCHAIKOVSKY + PROKOFIEV: 3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. With Kevin Rhodes, music director. Featuring awardwining pianist Ralph Votapek on Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor. The Symphony will also perform Mussorgsky’s original version of St. John’s Night on Bald Mountain, & Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Tickets: $28-$65. Students & first-time attendees eligible for a 50% discount. traversesymphony.org/concert/tchaikovsky-prokofiev
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THE STEEL CITY ROVERS: 5pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Enjoy a blend of traditional Celtic music & North American styles including bluegrass, folk & roots. 947-9213. $20 advance; $25 door.
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HERON VALLEY: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This young folk band from Scotland also performs country & bluegrass styles. $15 Blissfest members; $20 non-members. blissfest.org/concert-series
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STORY STEW: Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Held every Thurs. at 10am, with the fourth Thurs. offering free books for kids courtesy of Born to Read & Twilight Rotary. Featuring stories, crafts & songs. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org
---------------------THREADS FIBER ARTS GROUP: Mondays, 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Bring your own needlework project & work among friends. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org
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WINTER MUSIC JAMS: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Held every Sun. through winter from 3-5pm for musicians of all skill levels. Learn & network with other musicians. Bring your instrument, music & a friend. gaylordarts.org
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“WOOD, WOODS, WOODEN”: Glen Arbor Arts Center. An exhibition that approaches the material (wood), the place (the woods), the state (wooden) from fresh, innovative & inventive perspectives — & carves into wood – the material, the place & the state – to reveal new layers of understanding, inquiry & thinking. Runs through April 11. glenarborart.org
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CALL FOR ARTWORK: “A WORLD WITHOUT ABUSE”: Area artists are invited to share their unique, artistic vision in the 2nd Annual “A World Without Abuse — Expanding the Circle” Art Exhibit, sponsored by the Traverse Bay Children’s Advocacy Center. The exhibit will open on April 4 at City Opera House, TC. The deadline to submit artwork is March 15. Participating artists should deliver their work to: Traverse Bay Children’s Advocacy Center, 2000 Chartwell Drive, Suite 3, Traverse City, MI 49696. traversebaycac.org/art-exhibit-2019
---------------------GREAT NORTHERN FINE ART - FINE CRAFT EXPO: An outstanding fine art—fine craft open to all MI artists 18 & older, offering eight juried category awards - $500 each, & a grand award determined by the People’s Choice: $1,500. Can submit through May 31. Downtown Grayling becomes an art gallery during the fifteen days of voting: July 19-Aug. 3. Artists’ demos & the Performing Arts Music Competition will take place on Sat., Aug. 3, concluding with the awards gala at 5pm at Paddle Hard Yard, Grayling. artisanvillage.org/
KATHLEEN HOAGG ART EXHIBITION: Runs through April 4 at Blk Mrkt Coffee, 144 Hall St., TC. New Line Drawings by TC artist Kathleen Hoagg. Reception with the artist: Fri., March 15, 6-7:30pm. NEW EXHIBITION AT OAC: Featuring work by TC artists Marcia K. Hales, Dorothy Anderson Grow & Julie Braverman. Exhibit runs through April 5. Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org
---------------------SPOTLIGHT ON INNOVATION: March 9 – April 6, Charlevoix Circle of Arts. Showcasing artwork created by regional high school students. An opening reception will be held on Sat., March 9 from 1-3pm. Live music by South Paws. charlevoixcircle.com
---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - HERE AND THERE: Runs through March 30. A photographic exhibition showcasing the work of photographers Jin Lee, Larson Shindelman & Regan Golden. - 2019 JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Held in Bonfield Gallery. Juried by John FergusJean, this exhibition includes 43 photographs by 34 exhibiting photographers of local & regional acclaim. Runs through March 30. crookedtree.org
---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - 2019 YOUTH ART SHOW: Runs through March 30. Celebrating the work of K-12 art students & educators from throughout the Grand Traverse region. crookedtree.org - CALL FOR ARTISTS: CERAMICS EXHIBITION: Apply through March 23 for “Bodies of...”, a juried ceramics exhibition. crookedtree.org/callfor-artists/call-artists-bodies
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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - “ENTIRE LIFE IN A PACKAGE”: Runs through May 5. The story of millions of refugees with millions of packages, suitcases...sacks. “Life packages” that hold the desire to survive. In this exhibition Ben-Ami sculpts the packages carried by refugees shown in Reuter’s new photos in iron & then mounts them to the photo in place of the photographic image of the package. - 2019 NORTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION: Runs through May 5. Featuring art made by local artists over the last year, juried by a regional arts professional. Hours: Mon. - Sat.: 10am-5pm; Thurs.: 10am-8pm; Sun.: 1-5pm. dennosmuseum.org
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GAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, GAYLORD: - 100-DAY PROJECT WEEKLY CHECK-INS: Held each Mon. at 1pm through April 29. Bring the work you’ve been doing or get inspired by others. - ANDREA ONDISH-RECENT WORKS EXHIBIT: On display through March 30. Opening reception on Sat., March 9 from 5-7pm. - ARTFUL AFTERNOONS: Have fun learning about art history & culture. Free. Wednesdays through April 24 at 1pm. gaylordarts.org
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HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - CALL FOR ARTISTS: MODERN ARCHETYPES: An all-female artist exhibit exploring the idea of human consciousness & how archetypes unite all of us. Submit up to 2 pieces each which really capture the idea of the role archetypes play not only in your own life personally, but in society as a whole. Deadline to apply is July 1 at midnight. Exhibit runs Sept. 6 - Oct. 4. - “NEU HISTOIRES”: Runs through April 30. This exhibit by Jesse Jason features a collection of abstract, narrative works with a central focus on the imaginative world that weaves its way through reality. higherartgallery.com
---------------------NORTHPORT ARTS ASSOCIATION: - CALL FOR ARTISTS - NORTHPORT PLEIN AIR PAINT OUT: Open now through May 1. Artists paint July 27 & 28. Reception & wet paint sale on July 28, 6pm at the Village Arts Building, home of the Northport Arts Association. northportartsassociation.org - CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS - NORTHPORT PHOTO EXHIBIT: Through May 31. Northport Photo Exhibit: June 21-30. Limited to 35. Photographers Reception: June 21, 6pm. northportartsassociation.org
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Astronoid – Astronoid – BMusic
Don’t be deceived by that chill, downtempo-looking album cover — this is actually the latest from Astronoid, 45 minutes of mildly disappointing, heavy prog-influenced rock. In spite of song titles like “A New Color,” the sounds here are mostly stuck in the past, as if they’re trying to recapture the rock sound of the early ’90s with screeching garage guitars and predictable lyric combos. “I Dream in Lines” is a telling example; it offers little variance in the arrangement or melody line. The production level is fine, if a little too polished; the problem is, there’s not much to polish.
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MASSIVE ATTACK GETS DECONSTRUCTED English trip-hop outfit Massive Attack is returning to the U.S. for a 10-date North American tour and will stop at Detroit’s Masonic Temple Theater for a show on March 22. The band has teamed up with filmmaker Adam Curtis for some bigtime audiovisuals that will appear on stage during shows said to “deconstruct” Massive Attack’s Mezzanine album. Few details have been released about the new visual effects, but rumor has it they’ll be inspired by Mezzanine itself and the career of the band over the last 20 years … The Chainsmokers and 5 Seconds of Summer have teamed up to release a track that’s poised to be the sad/breakup song of the summer: “Who Do You Love,” a surprisingly pop mid-tempo number with a deceptively spry melody that conceals lyrics about someone’s partner finding someone new. The song has already hit outlets, complete with a brightly colored lyric video; you can also pick up new(ish) music from both bands: The Chainsmokers’ second studio album, Sick Boy, was released in December, and 5SoS’s third, Youngblood, is still hanging in there from its release last June … Alt-rock Cage the Elephant is set to release its fifth studio album, Social Cues,
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on RCA Records this spring. You might already have heard the album’s lead single, “Ready to Let Go,” on radio or streaming. That first track arrives accompanied by a music video directed by the band’s lead singer, Matt Schultz; the rest of Social Cues includes 13 tracks in all, with an appearance from Beck on the song “Night Running.” Social Cues will hit outlets on April 19 and will be followed up by an appearance from the band at the Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 4 … From prepster-popsters Vampire Weekend: a fourth set, Father of the Bride, tentatively set for release this April or May. The band’s first new single in a half-dozen years, “Harmony Hill,” is already playing on a station/stream near you and will shortly be followed up by the album’s second single release, “2021.” The band first previewed songs from Father of the Bride at last year’s big Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago …
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LINK OF THE WEEK Singer Sam Tsui got his start covering other musicians’ tunes on YouTube, but he’s finally getting some attention for his own original music. His new song “Carousel,” is a personal one, and its video features clips of Tsui throughout his early days as a performer to the present. He says the video is a “reflection of his own life.” Check out
THE BUZZ Indie electronica band Pink Sky will perform at the Grand Rapids Public Museum on March 21 … Grand Rapids multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Max Lockwood has released his eponymous sophomore album, and will promote it with several shows across Michigan this month …
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Rockford, Michigan, duo Political Lizard has started showcasing its songs on local radio stations; plans are in the words to record an acoustic EP later this year … Vintage pop-rockers The Monkees will perform a concert this week (March 12) at the Royal Oak Music Theater … 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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The reel
by meg weichman
GRETA FIGHTING with MY FAMILY
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irst things first. Yes, this is the World Wresting Entertainment (WWE) movie. But no, you don’t have to like or really know anything about wrestling to appreciate this megaentertaining flick. In fact, you’ll likely come out with a newfound respect for the sport. So set aside your preconceived notions and give yourself over to the big-hearted joys of this feel-good charmer, because when you strip away the spandex and stiffs, you not only have an inspiring story in the grand tradition of underdog sports movies but also a heartwarming tale of a family chasing its dreams — and a colorful and likeable family at that. Based on the true story of WWE Diva Paige’s unlikely rise to success from her family’s small-time wrestling league in Norwich, in the United Kingdom, to being selected to for the WWE’s training program in Florida, the film culminates in a finale that will make you want to stand up and cheer. With its heart in the right place and its own offbeat sweetness, professional wrestling may be “fake,” but the feeling here is very real.
It’s been one of those weeks — you know, the kind where the biggest factor influencing what new release I would review was based on which title had the shorter runtime. So consider me pleasantly surprised when I ended up getting quite into this stylish thriller with the heart of a campy B-movie horror flick. And while I want to be clear that there’s not a ton going on here, and it won’t be a film you’ll necessarily remember or revisit, some very giddy and satisfying thrills await. Greta has a pretty respectable pedigree. Neil Jordan, director of films like The Crying Game and Interview with a Vampire, is no slouch. And he’s cast iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert (Elle) in the title role, a woman whose rare forays into Englishlanguage films are worth savoring. Not only is Huppert an undeniably great actress who makes this film worthwhile, she also gets it. She’s in on the joke, and by the time her as-menacing-as-she-is-kooky Greta is prancing and twirling with maniacal joy, you’ll have fallen in love. The film starts, however, in much more ponderous dramatic territory. We focus on Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz), a recent Smith graduate working in Manhattan at a high-end restaurant while still grappling with the recent death of her mother. Frances has a really nice wardrobe, but there’s not much else to say about her. The whole portrayal is kind of muted and one of the film’s weakest parts. Thank goodness for her scene-stealing roommate, Erica (Maika Monroe Buckley), who adds some needed energy and charisma. It is Erica, ever the voice of reason, who calls Frances out after Frances finds an elegant handbag on the subway and, instead of thinking it’s a bomb, decides to return it to the owner. Frances ventures to a charming and quaint carriage house in Brooklyn that has an almost fairy tale quality to it. The chicly dressed bag owner, Greta, invites her in. Greta is quite friendly — maybe a little too friendly — and speaks of missing her dead husband and daughter, who moved back to France. She’s hospitable, offering a warm drink, and shushing the strange noises coming from behind the piano. And Frances,
in search of a bit of that maternal connection she lost, warms to the kindly stranger. Next thing you know Frances is accompanying Greta to adopt a dog and coming over to her house for wine and risotto. It’s a pretty slow go at this point, but all that changes after an unsettling reveal that suggests Greta might not have “lost” her bag after all. And from there the film becomes a tale of obsession — unhinged and unstable obsession — with more fun reveals to follow as Greta refuses to leave Frances alone. While Frances comes off as a little naïve, she’s not your standard oblivious horror trope. Frances actually does a lot of things right. She and Erica are reasonable, normal people who are aware of the situation and try to take precautions. It’s just that they are no match for Greta, whose stalking game seems to rise to almost superhuman levels as the film goes on. And things do get cray in the last act. As the film makes its delirious march from serious to silly, Huppert rises to the occasion. She gets you all riled up and delivers the best table flip since the Season 1 finale of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. It’s not the most original of plots, but still very visceral. How much I want to yell at the screen (and not just because characters are being “stupid”) is always a solid measure of how good a time I’m having at the movies. Part of the enjoyment here is precisely because there are no lessons to be learned and nothing to interrogate, other than the perhaps troubling messaging that good deeds get you nowhere, or Greta’s depiction of old women as crazy (though I also think there’s something to be said here about not underestimating them either). There’s a certain beauty to how tight and clear the action is, the film going only a little over the 90-minute mark. There are some twists, some jump scares, and I’ll never look at a cookie cutter the same way again. All in all, it’s an entertaining little thriller, without many bells and whistles, but economically and tidily told. Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.
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ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
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ollywood is back on board with the rom-com with their own high-concept take. See, the premise here is that a woman who despises rom-coms and thinks they perpetuate toxic ideals finds herself trapped in one! It’s pretty much what Amy Schumer’s I Feel Pretty wanted to be, and while it’s much more successful in execution of its concept and empowerment ideals, it’s not without its failings. Because while it takes loving aim at the romantic comedy, it’s perhaps too loving of a satire that somehow also seems to take a bit of the joy out of the genre. But the overriding complaint may be that, for as enjoyable and charming of a romp as it is, it’s not as sharp as you want it to be. Long-time supporting player and former rom-com best friend (see the underrated How to Be Single) Rebel Wilson steps into the lead role here. She’s Natalie, a New York City architect who has long lost her infatuation with the romances of her youth and resigned herself to much more practical life focused on her career. Then one day, after getting mugged on the subway and experiencing head trauma, she wakes up in a rom-comified New York, where she is the leading lady. Between the gratuitous rom-com references, the stellar production design, sense of fun, and fact that it’s under 90 minutes, if you enjoy romantic comedies, you’re going to enjoy this.
they shall not grow old
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n They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson has made something miraculous. He has given sound and agency to ephemeral images that have been locked in silence for over 100 years, allowing a generation to have their say in the most visceral way possible. Jackson (you know, Lord of the Rings Oscar-winner Peter Jackson) has lovingly restored and enhanced over 100 hours of original film footage of the First World War. Using stateof-the-art technology, he has made that footage sing with new life, and the result is more stunning and more immersive than any dry documentary, any big budget Hollywood retelling, or even any first-person video game could ever hope to be. Presented with the audio from interviews with WWI veterans recorded in the 1960s, Jackson and his team have revealed a humanity that has long been hidden and disguised in grainy and stilted black and white. You feel like you’re trespassing through time itself, glimpsing something you have no right to see, and the men on screen are so suddenly real and emotionally naked, that you almost feel like you need to turn away.
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BONOBO WINERY, TC 3/9 -- Peter Melichar, 6-8:30 GT DISTILLERY, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 KILKENNY'S, TC 3/8-9 -- Soul Priority, 9:30 3/15 -- Soul Patch, 9:30 3/16 -- Jabo Bihlman's Family Band, 9:30 3/17 -- Song of the Lakes, Blue Footed Booby & Wild Sully, 6 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 3/11 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30 RIGHT BRAIN BREWERY, TC 3/17 -- 78 Sunday, 2-4 ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 3/9 -- Manitou Winds Album Release Party, 2-5 3/15 – TC Celtic, 5-8 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9
SLEDER'S FAMILY TAVERN, TC 3/12 -- The Outside Track, 7 3/17 -- The Steel City Rovers, 5 STUDIO ANATOMY, TC 3/16 -- Stand-up Comedy feat. Ben Langworthy, 9 TC WHISKEY CO. 3/10 -- Drew Hale, 3 3/14 -- Chris Smith, 6-8 TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 3/9 -- Blair Miller, 7-10 3/10 -- Kids Open Mic, 3-5 3/13 -- Open Mic, 6-9 3/14 -- Jimmy Olson, 6-8 3/15 -- Rob Coonrod, 7-9 3/16 -- Chris Michels, 7-9 THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7 THE HAYLOFT INN, TC Thu -- Roundup Radio Show Open Mic Night, 8 THE LITTLE FLEET, TC 3/9 – The Daylites, 6-10 3/15 – Jes Kramer wsg Ben Davila in The Yurt, 7-10 Wed -- Tiki Night w/ DJ, 3 THE PARLOR, TC 3/9 -- Chris Sterr, 8
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HIVE FIVE SPIRITS, PETOSKEY 3/9 -- Kennedy's Kitchen, 8 KNOT JUST A BAR, BAY HARBOR Mon,Tues,Thurs — Live music LEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN, PETOSKEY Thurs — Karaoke w/ DJ Michael Willford, 10 NUB'S NOB, HARBOR SPRINGS NUB’S PUB: 3/9 -- Pete Kehoe, 3-6 3/16 – Mike Ridley, 3-6
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Leelanau & Benzie BIG CAT BREWING CO., CEDAR 3/13 -- Blake Elliott, 6:30-8:30 CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, THOMPSONVILLE VISTA LOUNGE: 3/8-9 -- Scarkazm, 7-11 DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 3/12 -- Patrick Niemisto & Chris Skellenger, 6:30-9:30
LEELANAU SANDS CASINO, PESHAWBESTOWN BIRCH ROOM: 3/9 -- Alan Turner, 8 3/12 -- 45th Parallel Polka Band, noon 3/16 -- Greg Evans, 8
STORMCLOUD BREWING CO., FRANKFORT 3/9 -- Mitch & John G, 8-11 3/10 -- Storm the Mic - Hosted by Blake Elliott, 6-9 3/15 -- Gabrial James, 8-10
LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Fri & Sat -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9
THE 231 BAR & GRILL, THOMPSONVILLE 3/16 -- Tim Thayer, 7
ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 3/9 – Barefoot, 6-9 3/14 – Open Mic w/ Jim & Wanda Curtis, 6 3/15 – Blake Elliott, 6-9 3/16 – Rob Coonrod, 6-9
VILLA MARINE, FRANKFORT Tue -- Open Mic, 8-11
Otsego, Crawford & Central ALPINE TAVERN & EATERY, GAYLORD Sat -- Live Music, 6-9
Antrim & Charlevoix CELLAR 152, ELK RAPIDS 3/15 -- Jeff Brown, 8-10
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Between A Squawk And A Hard Place
Q
: I’m a 32-year-old gay man, and my boyfriend of three years sometimes vents to his friends about our relationship. I feel a little betrayed by this -- like my privacy’s being violated. Why can’t he figure things out on his own -- without bringing in a jury? — Disturbed
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: A few years back, a woman with a grudge against my assistant called me to try to get me to fire her: “She talks trash about you!” Me: “Everybody talks trash about their boss!” The truth is, we all do a lot of grousing to others about people in our lives -- our romantic partner, our business partner, our criminal conspirator. That’s actually a healthy thing, though it runs contrary to what emotion researcher Bernard Rime calls the “Lone Ranger individualist perspective of adult emotional regulation.” This, Rime explains, is the mythic view (held even by many psychologists) that healthy adult processing of emotions involves a sort of “rugged individualism” — meaning being “self-contained, independent, and self-reliant.” In fact, Rime notes, emotion seems to have evolved to be not just an internal, solo process but a “fundamentally interdependent process.” Research by the late social psychologist Stanley Schachter, Rime, and others suggests that experiences that give rise to emotion in us motivate us to seek out others — to share the experiences and our feelings. Rime explains that our emotions — especially painful ones — can be overwhelming to us. Experiencing emotion “is a dense and diffuse experience in need of cognitive articulation”; that is, it needs to be hashed out and understood. “By using language and by addressing others, individuals ‘unfold’ the emotional material” so they can understand and manage it and maybe gain objectivity and insight. Understanding how driven we are to share our experiences might help you stop feeling like your boyfriend’s betraying secrets and instead see it as his seeking a sounding board. There’s a good chance that this serves to improve your relationship — sometimes by confirming that he has a legit issue to discuss with you and try to resolve.
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BY Amy Alkon
Of course, we’re all prone to latch on to crazy and ride it like a pony. We need someone to talk sense into us — like to convince us that the jail time isn’t worth it, despite our partner’s disgusting, depraved indifference to all that’s good and right. Yes, I’m talking about atrocities like opening food packages from the middle (“Hello...are you a rodent?!”), vacuuming in weird, random lines (like a serial killer!), and setting the alarm an hour early and then hitting snooze five times (surely an underappreciated cause of homicide).
Fairy Bail Romance
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: I’m a 66-year-old man. I got married in my mid-20s. I was totally faithful, but my wife left me after 10 years (I think for another woman). I was with the next woman for 20 years. Again, I was faithful, but she left me, too. Is being faithful overrated? I thought it was the way to secure a relationship. — Failed Relationships
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: Keeping a marriage together by being faithful is important -- but it’s also a step above keeping a marriage together by not being dead. (Note that the marriage ceremony has a little more text to it than “Keep it in your pants, mkay?”) Still, it isn’t a surprise that you’d go, “Wait... faithful to the first one, faithful to the next one; must’ve been why these relationships tanked!” This leap you’re making probably comes out of how uncomfortable our minds are with uncertainty (stemming from ambiguous situations, unanswered questions, and other mental untidiness). According to research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, a mechanism in our brain’s left hemisphere that he calls “the interpreter” steps in to fill in the blanks, to save us from the cognitive chaos by coming up with an explanation. Unfortunately, it’s like the world’s sloppiest detective. It quickly scans for any patterns or vaguely plausible meanings and then just goes with them — creating a narrative that seems to make sense of our experience (and never mind the tedious snore of weighing whether it actually does). Accordingly, though it’s easier on the ego to see your being faithful as some sort of common denominator, a more productive take would be accepting that relationships end and considering whether there’s anything you might have done better, both in picking partners and in being one.
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MAR 11 - MAR 17 BY ROB BREZSNY
PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): NASA managed to place
its MAVEN spacecraft into orbit around Mars. The cost of the mission was $671 million. Soon thereafter, the Indian government put its own vehicle, the Mangalyaan, into orbit around the Red Planet. It spent $74 million. As you plan your own big project, Pisces, I recommend you emulate the Mangalyaan rather than the MAVEN. I suspect you can do great things—maybe even your personal equivalent of sending a spacecraft to Mars—on a relatively modest budget.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For many
of us, smell is our most neglected sense. We see, hear, taste, and feel with vividness and eagerness, but allow our olfactory powers to go underused. In accordance with astrological omens, I hope you will compensate for that dearth in the coming weeks. There is subtle information you can obtain—and in my opinion, need quite strongly—that will come your way only with the help of your nose. Trust the guidance provided by scent.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Essayist
Nassim Nicholas Taleb says humans come in three types: fragile, robust, or antifragile. Those who are fragile work hard to shield themselves from life’s messiness. The downside? They are deprived of experiences that might spur them to grow smarter. As for robust people, Taleb believes they are firm in the face of messiness. They remain who they are even when they’re disrupted. The potential problem? They may be too strong to surrender to necessary transformations. If you’re the third type, antifragile, you engage with the messiness and use it as motivation to become more creative and resilient. The downside? None. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I urge you to adopt the antifragile approach in the coming weeks.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming weeks
might be a good time to acquire a flamethrower. It would come in handy if you felt the urge to go to a beach and incinerate mementoes from an ex-ally. It would also be useful if you wanted to burn stuff that reminds you of who you used to be and don’t want to be any more; or if you got in the mood to set ablaze symbols of questionable ideas you used to believe in but can’t afford to believe in any more. If you don’t want to spend $1,600+ on a flamethrower, just close your eyes for ten minutes and visualize yourself performing acts of creative destruction like those I mentioned.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus aphorist
Olivia Dresher writes that she would like to be “a force of nature,” but “not causing any suffering.” The way I interpret her longing is that she wants to be wild, elemental, uninhibited, primal, raw, pure—all the while without inflicting any hurt or damage on herself or anyone else. In accordance with your astrological omens, Taurus, that’s a state I encourage you to embody in the coming weeks. If you’re feeling extra smart— which I suspect you will—you could go even further. You may be able to heal yourself and others with your wild, elemental, uninhibited, primal, raw, pure energy.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In some major
cities, the buttons you push at a crosswalk don’t actually work to make the traffic light turn green faster. The same is true about the “Close Door” buttons in many elevators. Pushing them doesn’t have any effect on the door. Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer says these buttons are like placebos that give you “the illusion of control.” I bring this phenomenon to your attention, Gemini, in hope of inspiring you to scout around for comparable things in your life. Is there any situation where you imagine you have power or influence, but probably don’t? If so, now is an excellent time to find out—and remedy that problem.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):Philip Boit was
born and raised in Kenya, where it never snows except on the very top of Mount Kenya. Yet he represented his country in the cross-country skiing events at the Winter Olympics in 2002 and 2006. How did he do it? He trained up north in snowy Finland. Meanwhile, Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong
competed for Ghana in the slalom in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Since there was no snow in his homeland, he practiced his skills in the French Alps. These two are your role models for the coming months, Cancerian. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’ll have the potential to achieve success in tasks and activities that may not seem like a natural fit.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the process of
casting for his movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, director David Fincher considered selecting A-list actress Scarlet Johansson to play the heroine. But ultimately he decided she w a s too sexy and radiant. He wanted a pale, thin, tougherlooking actress, whom he found in Rooney Mara. I suspect that in a somewhat similar way, you may be perceived as being too much something for a role you would actually perform quite well. But in my astrological opinion, you’re not at all too much. In fact, you’re just right. Is there anything you can do—with full integrity—to adjust how people see you and understand you without diluting your brightness and strength?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1993, an
English gardener named Eric Lawes used his metal detector to look for a hammer that his farmer friend had lost in a field. Instead of the hammer, he found the unexpected: a buried box containing 15,234 old Roman silver and gold worth more than four million dollars today. I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because I suspect that you, too, will soon discover something different from what you’re searching for. Like the treasure Lawes located, it might even be more valuable than what you thought you wanted.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The role of the
artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover,” wrote author James Baldwin. “If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” To fully endorse that statement, I’d need to add two adverbs. My version would be, “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to kindly and compassionately make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I recommend that you Libras enthusiastically adopt that mission during the coming weeks. With tenderness and care, help those you care about to become aware of what they’ve been missing—and ask for the same from them toward you.
ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For thousands
of generations, our early ancestors were able to get some of the food they needed through a practice known as persistence hunting. They usually couldn’t run as fast as the animals they chased. But they had a distinct advantage: they could keep moving relentlessly until their prey grew exhausted. In part that’s because they had far less hair than the animals, and thus could cool off better. I propose that we adopt this theme as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks and months. You won’t need to be extra fast or super ferocious or impossibly clever to get what you want. All you have to do is be persistent and dogged and disciplined.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Wompsi’kuk
Skeesucks Brooke is a Native American woman of the Mohegan tribe. According to her description of Mohegan naming traditions, and reported by author Elisabeth Pearson Waugaman, “Children receive names that are descriptive. They may be given new names at adolescence, and again as they go through life according to what their life experiences and accomplishments are.” She concludes that names “change as the individual changes.” If you have been thinking about transforming the way you express and present yourself, you might want to consider such a shift. 2019 will be a favorable time to at least add a new nickname or title. And I suspect you’ll have maximum inspiration to do so in the coming weeks.
“Jonesin” Crosswords
"In the Neighborhood" --along with the owl and the pussycat. by Matt Jones ACROSS 1 Biblical fratricide victim 5 Ragged peak 9 Passing lines 13 “3 Feet High and Rising” group ___ Soul 14 Pick up 16 Controversial director Riefenstahl 17 Current U.S. Secretary of Transportation 19 Cheap bar 20 Calico pony 21 Vaccination 23 Patch of grass 24 Holiday in Hanoi 25 Suffix for novel 28 In a genial manner 30 1992 song by The Cure that goes through the week 33 Airline from Stockholm 34 Likely 35 Fanning of “Maleficent” 36 Magazine for teens since 196 40 “___ Is Us” 42 Charged-up particle 43 Settings for med. dramas 46 Thought experiment featured in an episode of “The Good Place” 50 Meat dish with a filling 51 Mop & ___ (floor cleaner brand) 52 French possessive meaning “your” 54 Contribute 55 Thailand, formerly 57 “Inconceivable!” 59 “Cool, man” 61 TV host with a “Neighborhood of Make-Believe” (where the starts of the theme answers were found) 64 Letterman rival, once 65 Meditation teachers 66 “Language” of “haxored” and “pwn’d” 67 Agitated state 68 Word before or after break 69 Airport data, for short
DOWN 1 Not so klutzy 2 Philosophy 3 2019 Hyundai model 4 CafÈ au ___ 5 A.L. Central team, on a scoreboard 6 Tape deck button 7 Oohs’ followers 8 S’mores flavor component 9 Antiquarian 10 Diamond game, in Santo Domingo 11 Make use of 12 Create a colorful T-shirt 15 Swedish actress Rapace of the “Millennium” series 18 Domino’s ad character, once 22 ___ pedis (athlete’s foot) 26 ___ paneer (Indian spinach dish) 27 Do some keyboarding 29 2008 Verizon acquisition that once had naming rights to Jacksonville’s stadium 31 “And ___ don’t know what’s going on!” 32 “Let ___!” (“Go ahead”) 37 Cuba y Puerto Rico, por ejemplo 38 “Star Trek” collective 39 Compound with a double bond 40 Walked on 41 Harry who died on Halloween 44 Amplify a certain message 45 Spoke ill of 46 Hiker’s routes 47 Inform 48 ___ the Pig (2019) 49 “With or Without You” singer 53 Complex orgs. 56 Prefix with byte or hertz 58 Stare at in a gross manner 60 “I ___ You Babe” 62 Talk smack about 63 Q-U filler
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