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AUGUST 13–18 • ART AS A SPECTATOR SPORT! Paint Grand Traverse (PGT) is a new, six-day plein air (outdoor) painting festival and competition featuring top artists from across the country. Seek out the 44 artists as they paint their way around our bays and shorelines; through our vineyards and orchards; and around our quaint villages and vibrant downtowns.

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Movies Re-buffed We had a lot of direct experience with the effect of the movie tax credits in Manistee.

First, I have to tell you that I do have a dog in this fight. I have two kids who are in the entertainment business ... in L.A. I would be happy as a clam to have them come home to work sometime, but that doesn’t look likely now. A few years ago, my son was scouting locations for a Disney movie. Michigan was definitely in the mix.

They ended up going to Atlanta (big credits and some other incentives), but the buzz in the movie and TV production circles was “take a look at Michigan. They are players.”

My daughter appeared in one movie that coincided with her Manistee High School reunion. It paid for a trip home. Now I have to go to L.A. to see here on set.

At home in Manistee, Harold Cronk started a movie studio, 10 West. Pretty soon, movies were being shot all over town, people were working as extras, the local community college designed an “Introduction to Movie Production” course. A local coffee shop was catering craft services. Recognizable name stars were wandering around town, eating in restaurants, staying in hotels and motels, hobnobbing with the locals. Tourists were gawking at the movie sets. Movie premiers were sold out at The Vogue. Rich Brauer even produced one of his movies here.

There was the promise of work of all kinds — technicians, carpenters, electricians, seamstresses, cooks, drivers, casting directors, PAs ... I could go on. And this is big business. One of Harold Cronk’s movies grossed almost $70,000,000.

But just as everyone got geared up

to add something to the auto/tourist mix, the administration in Lansing changed. I sincerely believe that the new administration thought, “They’re not deserving.” The legislature could understand a factory — no problem with credits there. But a soft industry that involved writers, producers, actors, directors, gaffers, and best boys? That’s not honest work, and they are probably all lefties anyway. So we will continue to live and die by the auto industry. Here Up North, we’ll hope that auto industry is doing well enough that the fudgies can afford a vacation. We’ll continue to export our best asset: our youth. It’s another example of the incompetent, short-sightedness of the state administration.

Lee Trucks, Manistee America Getting Great Again I wonder how many of our military heroes would have had second thoughts about hitting those beaches at Iwo-Jima and on D-Day if they could have somehow known it would mean, in a future America, that their sacrifice would make possible the death of 60 million American babies by abortion and make gay marriage the law of land. Do you really think that’s what they thought they were fighting and dying for?

These abominations were not by a nationwide vote of the American people, but by a single one-vote majority on the Supreme Court.

Before Roe v. Wade our neighborhoods were alive with the play and laughter of children; now that’s rare. [We aborted] 60 million Americans who would now be working, paying into social security, buying houses and cars, and whose 60 million votes would decide any current election.

Americans are finally voting with their hearts and brains and not listening to what they’re being told to think, and truly beginning to make America great again. Hopefully our president will honor us with four more years to keep it rolling and growing.

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Crime and Rescue Map.......................................7 Northern Michigan’s Own Cult Film Director......10 Can’t Make it to the Movies?...........................12 Pianist Jeff Babko...........................................15 Traverse City’s Jeff Bihlman..............................16 Cinema Soundtrack.........................................19 Destination Empire.......................................20 ’80s Redux! Get Retro In St. Ignace..................24 Into the Pines..................................................27 The Roost at Bay Bread Company.....................28 Northern Seen...................................................29

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Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion.............................................................8 Weird...............................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................36 The Reel..........................................................38 Crossword...................................................40 Advice Goddess...........................................40 Freewill Astrology.........................................41 Classifieds..................................................42

Keith Lints, Traverse City Bypass Old Problem With New Plan Tom Kachadurian’s recent Opinion piece, “A Tale of Three Cities,” [July 23 issue] about the need for a bypass around Traverse City should be a call to arms for anyone that really wants to help Traverse City have a better future.

This idea should have been completed 30+ years ago and, unfortunately, every time it’s brought up again, it gets shot down — often by well-meaning but seriously misguided citizens.

Rather than restate what Kachadurian has already stated, I encourage readers to take a look at his column. [Find it online at northernexpress.com] I hope our leaders are thinking about this old issue and a new plan.

It’s so long overdue, and the pass-through traffic in town will not be slowing down, or better yet going away, without a bypass around Traverse City.

Let’s finally get this one done for good!

Scott Lowe, Traverse City

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top ten Where the Guv Candidates Stand on Clean Energy Traverse City’s Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities surveyed Michigan’s candidates for governor about clean energy, Line 5, and other environmental issues in the lead-up to the Aug. 7 primary. They got a broad spectrum of responses.

For instance, on the question of whether Michigan should increase its clean energy portfolio standard from where it stands today (15 percent by 2021), there are real differences between the candidates. Here’s a sampling of how the Republicans and Democrats answered that one: • Republican Patrick Colbeck said he doesn’t think there should be a standard and that the free market will best protect the environment.

• Democrat Abdul El-Sayed would like to see the standard set at 100 percent renewable by 2050.

• Republican Bill Schuette said he would support “a mix of nuclear, clean coal, natural gas, renewables and to encourage more choices for businesses.”

• Republican Evan Space said he would promote renewable energy through tax breaks.

• Democrat Shri Thanedar said he wants to see 100 percent by 2050, codified in law.

• Democrat Gretchen Whitmer said she supports an agreement made by clean energy advocates and Michigan energy producers to move to 50 percent by 2030.

To see the candidates’ full responses to this and other questions (along with responses from the Green and Libertarian candidates), visit the News section of the Groundwork website.

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bottoms up buzzballz

In terms of summer cocktail requirements, strong, cheap, and unbreakable top the list. Add to that roster pre-mixed and puntastically named — read: Strawberry Rum Job, Choc Tease, Stiff Lemonade — and you’re looking at a helluva party in a paper grocery sack, thanks to former Texas high school teacher Merilee Kick. She invented the aptly named BuzzBallz in 2009, and though these Ballz aren’t exactly the class act you’d bring to, say, a romantic picnic in the park, one or two should probably be on your radar for the boat, a river float, or that bachelorette party you’d prefer to forget by morning. As for taste? Well, one staffer pronounced them delicious — “kind of like a Jolly Rancher laced with [a strong taste of] liquor” — while three others offered an instant verdict of “cough syrup.” Either way, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you they’re out there, everywhere: We found them (generally priced between $2.49 and $3.99) at several Tom’s Markets, plus Saco’s Liquors, Deerings Market, Eastfield Party Store, and others in Traverse City. Find these and other locations under the Find a Store tab at BuzzBallz.com.

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Dragon Boat Festival

The Charlevoix Circle of Arts will host its Dragon Boat Festival on Sat., Aug. 4 at Ferry Beach, Lake Charlevoix. This festival features Dragon Boat Races. A typical dragon boat is 46’ long and features 20 paddlers, one drummer and one steersman. The Opening Ceremony begins with a practice known as “Awakening the Dragon” in which the dragon’s eyes are dotted just prior to the race to symbolize the dragon coming to life. charlevoixdragonfestival.org

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Hey, Watch It! detroiters

The first season of Detroiters might have flown under your radar, but thankfully it’s back for a second season so you can discover its goofy and sweet delights. Following a standard sitcom format—Sam Duvet and Tim Cramblin are best friends who live in Detroit. They love their city, and each other, fiercely.

They live next door to one another. They run a cheap ad agency together, where they produce low-rent, hilariously bad television commercials for local clients. On top of all that, it’s important to note that Sam and Tim are quite, quite dumb. The charm and humor of Detroiters comes from its jokes and perfect comedic timing, but what makes the show so special is the deep admiration it has for its namesake city. Created by and starring two Detroit natives Sam Richardson (Richard Splett on HBO’s Veep) and Tim Robinson (SNL writer/performer), and shot in location in Detroit, Detroiters is quirky and affectionate celebration of a city they are proud call home. On Comedy Central.

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Weigh in on Five Years of Road Projects

Michigan Department of Transportation released its five-year plan for the state’s highways last week. Residents have until Aug. 21 to comment.

There are some big projects planned for northern Michigan in the coming years.

Road reconstruction projects include, in 2022, the Grandview Parkway in Traverse City, from the Murchie Bridge to Garfield Avenue and, in 2023, from Murchie Bridge to Division Street.

In Benzie County, reconstruction of US-31 from M-115 south to Betsie River is planned for 2020. In Charlevoix County, reconstruction of US-131 from Cherry Hill Road to Thumb Lake Road is planned for 2020, and reconstruction of US-31 from Barnard Road/Norwood Road north to Barnard Road is planned for 2023. US-31 is to be reconstructed in Emmet County from Liberty Street to Rosedale Avenue next year, from M-119 to Manvel Road the following year and from Blumke Road to Milton Road in 2022.

Bridge replacement projects are planned for Manistee: for M-55 over the Manistee River in 2020, and US-31 over the river in 2022.

There are many more road rehabilitation and bridge preservation projects planned for the region. Search for the MDOT Five Year Plan to see the report.

Head North to See the Wizard

things we love WoofStock Furry creatures need free love (and funding) too.

That’s why the Charlevoix Area Humane Society is hosting its fifth annual WoofStock Pet and Music Festival from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4th.

Though we’re pretty sure Hendrix won’t be there, up to a dozen bands will take over two stages at Mackinaw Trails Winery while animal lovers are treated to agility demonstrations, a dog-pulling competition, a cute pet contest, horse-drawn wagon rides, and the now-famous Daschie Derby. Have you ever seen a pack of weiner dogs running? Let’s just say it’s as unforgettable as the “Starspangled Banner” screaming on electric guitar. Admission by donation; food, crafts, and pet-related goodies for sale, too. For more information, contact the shelter 231-582-6774 or director@charlevoixhumane.org. Find the winery at 3423 US-131, Petoskey.

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So the Traverse City streets are alive with a frenzy of films this week, but if you’re looking to see a movie come to life, head north to see “the Wizard of Oz.” The Northport Community Arts Center is bringing the classic MGM flick to its stage, but with a twist: The story is set in the present day, and Dorothy is a very today-style teen: a little lonely, a little artsy, and a lot sarcastic.

Photo by Bob Bayer Sound like one you know? Take her — or kids of any age — to see this musical (masterminded by New York actor/director, Scott Lilly), which runs through Aug. 5. Evening and matinee shows are available. Tickets at the door are $20 for adults, $5 for students. 231-386-5001, northportcac.org

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We’ve known for a long time that Traverse City’s downtown surface parking lots would serve a better purpose if they were developed. Our Downtown Development Authority (DDA) reminds us of this with some frequency. New tax revenues, additional downtown housing and commercial businesses, and a critical mass of residents and activity are the promises.

All of which is at least potentially true but seems to have been lost in the Great Building Height Debate, which continues unabated.

Now the DDA has decided it’d like to buy one of those lots, for $1.5 million, and turn it into a “civic park.”

That would seem to be a rather dramatic about-face in terms of priorities for that property. And it forces dozens of people now using the lot to find parking spots that do not currently exist.

Close Cass Street north of Front to just beyond the bridge, and there’s the best location for your park. There are some significant advantages.

To start, the land is already owned by the city so the DDA saves themselves a quick $1.5 million or more; it’s not clear the parking lot in question is even available at that price. Unlike the parking lots, the Cass Street property can never be developed or taxed. It would eliminate only a handful of existing parking spots instead of the dozens eliminated in the parking lot plan.

And parking in the big lot north of the river would still be available via the Parkway, Union and Park Streets.

That block of Cass is also actually in the middle of downtown, as opposed to sort of, kind of in the middle of downtown.

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It also would provide some refuge for harried families and others needing a brief escape from the excesses and hubbub of downtown without having to wander a couple blocks elsewhere.

Best of all, the surface parking lot would still be available for development. If we’d exercise some patience, an intrepid developer will eventually come along who has figured a way to make a profit on that land and the positive results promised by the DDA might then come to fruition.

And there is history. Decades ago that section of Cass was a civic park.

There are, as you might have guessed, some glitches inherent in the Cass Street park idea.

Close Cass Street north of Front to just beyond the bridge, and there’s the best location for your park.

There are some significant advantages.

Fortunately, there is an alternative. It is an idea that has been suggested, and rejected, more than once before, but the time may have come to seriously consider it. Maybe.

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tional function of significantly reducing runoff into the river and bay.

It could become the perfect gateway via the tunnel to Clinch Park, the marina, the Open Space and all things waterfront while inviting beach-goers to come into the business district.

Extend it around the corner a bit, and the farmer’s market could become part of the new, permanent civic park, and it could merge into the new and improved river boardwalk. Since there is an incline, there would be natural graduated seating looking north for any events. In the winter it would make the perfect little sliding/sledding/ coasting hill for small children.

Add grass, some trees and other natural landscaping, and it would serve the addi-

The alleys immediately south of the river would become dead ends. That would get a bit tricky with people cruising and looking for parking. It would likely complicate the lives of emergency vehicles that already find alleys inconvenient. Converting it into a park would require tearing up the street, and that might somehow impact some of the infrastructure beneath it.

The new park would likely be a bit less grandiose, but that might be a good thing.

And, yes, the elephant in the room is the closure of that block of Cass and the elimination of an entry/exit to and from downtown. But there are such entry/exit points just one block east and one block west, and both also have controlled intersections with traffic lights at the Parkway, unlike Cass.

Reducing vehicle traffic downtown is another of those often discussed but rarely accomplished goals. Nibbling away at the issue one parking spot at a time, or even dozens at a time, isn’t likely to work. Some big cities have had success limiting traffic by reducing vehicle access. Closing that block of Cass, in addition to being a fine place for the park, makes a bit bolder statement about intentions.

Developing surface parking lots is the right idea and, given time, is likely to happen. A civic park is also a fine idea and would enhance the downtown experience. But we can’t do both on the same parcel of land.

The Cass Street alternative serves one purpose while saving the potential for the other. We’ll call it Unity Park, and it will be swell.

Unless, of course, it’s impossible.

Crime & Rescue WOMAN DROWNS HELPING CHILDREN A woman who went into the Manistee River to help children who were struggling in the water drowned.

Manistee County Sheriff’s deputies said 33-year-old Lee Dawn Mann was found face down in the water after she helped children who were having trouble with the river’s current.

The Mesick woman had been able to push the children into shallow water before she faltered, deputies said. Witnesses grabbed floatation devices, pulled Mann to shore and started CPR, but rescuers arrived and pronounced Mann dead at the scene.

Deputies were called at 7pm July 25 to a public access point on the Big Manistee River, near Upper River Road in Marilla Township.

TWO QUESTIONED AFTER FIGHT A Washington Place resident called police after hearing a loud fight coming from a park and feared that two men were trying to kill each other.

Traverse City Police responded to Washington and Cass streets at 2:48pm July 21 and interviewed one of the men, who claimed the other had pulled a knife on him. Police tracked down the other man, who claimed the other man had been the one to pull a knife.

Police confiscated knives from both men, ages 26 and 36, and made a report to submit to prosecutors, Lt. Matt Richmond said. One of the men was arrested on unrelated warrants.

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taken to Munson Medical Center after she was hit by a car driven by an 82-year-old Traverse City man July 22, said Traverse City Police Lt. Matt Richmond.

The driver was in the right eastbound lane on Grandview at 11:41am when a truck in front of him stopped at the crosswalk to allow the woman to cross; the driver swerved around the truck and proceeded through the crosswalk, striking the bicyclist.

Richmond said the man was not cited for the crash, but a report will be sent to prosecutors for review.

The crosswalk markings that direct drivers to stop for pedestrians were introduced by the Michigan Department of Transportation last year.

PERSON FEARED LOST IN LAKE A person was lost while swimming with friends in Crooked Lake.

Two males and two females were swimming with inner tubes off of a pontoon boat the afternoon of July 25 when they drifted away from the vessel, Emmet County Sheriff’s deputies said. None of the swimmers wore life jackets.

One of the males separated from his inner tube and had trouble swimming; the other three attempted to rescue him without success, and they returned safely to the boat.

A search was launched for the swimmer that lasted until nightfall and resumed the following day. The man disappeared in an area of the lake that has a depth of 40 or more feet, deputies said.

MISSING KAYAKER RECOVERED Searchers recovered the body of a kayaker who went missing in Lake Michigan almost two years ago.

Searchers found the remains in Platte Bay July 19; an autopsy confirmed the identity of Tyler Spink, a 21-year-old who went missing over Labor Day weekend in 2016, Benzie County Sheriff’s deputies said.

Spink was kayaking with a friend when he went missing; numerous searches turned up no signs of his remains. This summer, a nonprofit organization called Bruce’s Legacy aided in the search with a remote underwater vehicle that used sonar.

BEAR FREED FROM UNDER TRUCK Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies rescued a bear that got stuck under a vehicle after it darted into traffic.

A 58-year-old Suttons Bay woman attempted to stop but could not avoid a collision with a small bear that ran out in front of her pickup midmorning July 24 on Eckerle Road. Deputies and animal control officers responded and found the animal trapped alive under the woman’s vehicle.

A deputy slowly moved the truck forward and backward until the bear and the vehicle separated.

The bear was coaxed back into the woods and appeared to be OK, deputies said. The truck was not damaged.

CYCLIST INJURED IN CROSSING A bicyclist was struck and injured while crossing Grandview Parkway in a marked crosswalk.

The 36-year-old Traverse City woman was

NINE INJURED IN CRASH Nine people were injured in a threecar crash near Traverse City.

A 71-year-old man from Winter Park, Florida, crossed the centerline of US-31 North between Five Mile and Holiday roads on the evening of July 22, colliding with two vehicles: one driven by a 21-year-old Kingsley woman, and the another driven by a 70-year-old man from Elgin, Illinois.

In all, nine people were injured, though some of the injuries were minor. A passenger in the at-fault vehicle, as well as the Kingsley woman, suffered serious injuries, Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies said.

MAN FOUND DROWNED Officials suspect an 81-year-old man who was found dead in Lake Michigan drowned.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said Bloomfield Hills-resident William Francis Malarney left his home alone for unknown reasons early on July 26 and was found dead in the water an hour or so later. Deputies said Malarney had suffered medical problems, and the death is under investigation. Deputies were dispatched to the scene at the 200 block of S. Manitou Trail in Leland Township at 7:15am July 26.

HOME INVASION INVESTIGATED Police are investigating after a woman woke up to find someone in her house, rifling through her adult son’s room.

Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies responded early July 25 and they found a car that had been reported stolen was parked outside of the Boardman Township home.

A 70-year-old South Boardman woman called 911 at just passed 5am after she discovered a man in her 52-year-old son’s room. The male suspect fled, but medication was missing from the son’s room following the incident, deputies said.

Grand Traverse County deputies are investigating the stolen car and state police were called in to use a K-9 unit to attempt to track the suspect.

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YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN opinion

bY By Isiah Smith, Jr. Like one that on a lonesome road / Doth walk in fear and dread, / And having once turned round walks on, / And turns no more his head.

— “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Coleridge In “A Moveable Feast,” Hemingway wrote that anyone lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man carries the memory of Paris with him wherever he goes.

I think that’s true of anyplace one happens to have spent considerable time during their formative years. Echoes and memories move across time and space, and they follow you wherever you go. But not all movable feasts nourish one’s soul.

After three failed attempts, I recently undertook a journey that cannot be measured in mere miles: to Blakely, Georgia, where I was born in the middle of the last century. Anticipating this journey had filled me with fear and dread, like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner.

Fingers trembling, sweat dripping down my face, I turned and stared at the tiny movie theatre directly across from the memorial.

A flood of childhood memories flooded my brain, and tears stung my eyes. As small children, my older sister, Rubye Nell, and I collected and sold pieces of scrap iron to earn money to watch western movies where we rooted for cowboys as they slaughtered Native Americans.

We were consigned to sitting upstairs. Up there, sweat ran down our backs in the summer. During the winter months, our teeth shattered from the cold, and we could see our breath floating between the small screen and our faces. We gained a measure of solace and revenge by launching occasional globs of spit upon the heads of the white kids sitting comfortably below us.

I don’t think any African-American male in reasonable possession of his sanity and relative consciousness would have volunteered to be born in Jim-Crow Georgia decades before the term “civil rights” entered America’s collective consciousness.

Walking around Blakely, then driving past the government housing I lived in until I was nine years old, I see not much has changed, except perhaps to have gotten worse. I suddenly realize how far I have travelled since the Eisenhower administration and the current regrettable one.

This is especially so if that place happened to have been Blakely, Georgia. In the 1950s, Blakely was not a place to be nobody — doubly so if you possessed an ounce of melanin, which I possessed in great abundance.

To have lived through those dark days and escaped with a measure of dignity is to have earned a certain form of endurance and an unshakeable belief that, no matter what happens, we’re going to be all right.

Some say that you have to know where you’re from before you can know where you’re going.

To which I say you have to know where you’re going in order to know where you’re going.

The day came that I left Blakely behind, never looking back. I refused to look back because, hey, that’s not the direction I’m headed.

Everything that matters lies ahead.

Isabel Wilkerson wrote about Blakely in her award-winning book about the black diaspora, “The Warmth of Other Suns.” She reported that because of a particularly savage lynching of a black veteran of World War II, the great literary figure Carl Sandburg gave Blakely the sad moniker, “The meanest little town in America.”

But there’s one last lesson to be learned by trying to go “home” again. And that is this: Although things might seem worse than they’ve ever been, they are not. So never lose heart.

Private William Little, the victim in this tragic tale, was mutilated, disfigured, and killed for the crime of refusing to remove the uniform he had worn while fighting the Nazis.

My recent visit to Blakely was half over before I happened to walk through the center of the city square. There I saw a white marble memorial. Pristine and, apparently, recently white-washed, it proudly proclaimed: “A tribute of love, to the noble confederate soldiers who cheerfully offered their lives in defense of the right of local self-government, and to those who fought and survived.”

To my knowledge, no person, black or white, has ever been moved to protest, or even comment on, this memorial and its willful bending of facts and distortion of history.

Hear me out: I do not advocate tearing down all offensive memorials. I do, however,

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advocate telling the truth about what it was that those “noble” soldiers were really fighting for.

There’s no airport in Blakely, of course.

So I drove 36 miles northeast to Dothan, Alabama. My flight back to Michigan wasn’t until the next day, so I had time to explore.

I found my way to a Barnes and Noble bookshop.

As I paid for my purchase, the clerk looked at me with eyes the color of Lake Michigan in the summer time and asked with arched eyebrows, “You’re not from these parts, are you?”

“No,” I muttered in a voice cracking around the seams. “No, not anymore.”

Isiah Smith Jr. is a former newspaper columnist for the Miami Times. He worked as a psychotherapist before attending the University of Miami Law School, where he also received a master’s degree in psychology.

In December 2013, he retired from the Department of Energy’s Office of General Counsel, where he served as a deputy assistant general counsel for administrative litigation and information law. Isiah lives in Traverse City with his wife, Marlene.

white on rice sushi that rolls Inexplicable San Diego photographer Mike Sakasegawa prides himself on seeing the beauty in mundane objects, The Washington Post reports. But something about his latest subject took social media by storm. On July 11, as Sakasegawa returned home from his morning run, he noticed a round, yellow object rolling down the street. “I thought it was a tennis ball or something,” he said, but in fact it was a lemon. So he did what any self-respecting photographer would do: He captured video of the fruit as it continued its journey to the bottom of the hill, then posted his 1.5-minute documentary to Twitter. Within 24 hours the video racked up more than 2.5 million views.

“I post stuff that’s similar to this all the time,” Sakasegawa said. “Most of the time, it floats on by.” By the next day, the lemon video had gained more than 100,000 likes, was retweeted tens of thousands of times, and a literary agent had contacted Sakasegawa, wondering if he’d like to make the lemon into a children’s book.

Least Competent Criminals -- Rye Wardlaw, 40, chalked up a big FAIL on July 8 at NW Escape Experience in Vancouver, Washington, when he broke into the business in the pre-dawn hours. According to The Washington Post, Wardlaw tried and failed to enter through a back door using a metal pipe, then knocked a hole through the wall. After climbing through, he knocked over a set of lockers. Then, carrying a burrito and a beer he nicked from the company’s refrigerator, he wandered into the “Kill Room,” an escape room dressed to look like a serial murderer’s hideout. Among the blood-spattered walls and fake cadavers, Wardlaw got scared, but he couldn’t ... escape. So he called 911 (four times) and pleaded for help. Clark County Sheriff ’s officers accepted his confession and charged him with second-degree burglary.

-- In Mesa, Arizona, two troopers with the Arizona Department of Public Safety were surprised to find themselves being pulled over on State Route 51 by a black Dodge Charger on July 11. The troopers were in an unmarked Mustang and had spotted the Charger behind them sporting law enforcementstyle emergency lights, reported ABC15 Arizona. A registration check revealed the car was registered to a private citizen, who soon activated his flashing lights and pulled the troopers over. When the (real) troopers approached the Charger, they found 44-yearold Matthew Allen Disbro of Mesa wearing a security uniform and a gun belt with a handgun, cuffs and pepper spray. The car also contained a siren box, police radio and a vest with a baton and knife. Disbro was arrested for impersonating an officer.

Fun Suckers Organizers of Bats Day, a special celebration at Disneyland for the goth community, have called it quits, citing the loss of available tax deductions under President Trump’s new tax law. The annual event began 20 years ago and grew to attract more than 8,000 goths each year, with Disneyland offering discounted tickets and hotel rooms for participants. “We did a lot of research,” Bats Day founder Noah Korda told Vice, “and, unfortunately, it just wasn’t feasible to actually continue ... with the way that we run the event.” On May 6, about 800 goths showed up for a final group photo in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle.

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going to spend her summer sitting in a stuffy office. Instead, she announced on July 14 that she is holding summer office hours at state beaches, beginning with Scarborough State Beach in Narragansett. She and members of the Office of Constituent Services, who will help connect residents with state services, started their new schedule on July 16. The governor told the Associated Press she looks forward to hearing directly from residents while visiting some of the state’s most popular destinations.

Hey, It’s Florida -- Indian River County (Florida) sheriff ’s officers stopped Earle Stevens Jr., 69, on June 27 after another driver called 911, complaining that Stevens’ Mercury Grand Marquis kept tapping her bumper in a McDonald’s drivethru lane. The officers noted “a strong odor of alcoholic beverage emitting from his breath ... His speech was slurred and his eyes were red and glossy.” He also had an open bottle of Jim Beam bourbon in a brown paper bag on the passenger seat. Stevens, of Vero Beach, struggled to produce his ID and said he’s never had a valid Florida driver’s license, according to Treasure Coast Newspapers. He also explained he was not drinking while driving, only when he stopped for stop signs and traffic signals. After failing several field sobriety tests and a breath test, Stevens was charged with driving under the influence and driving without a license.

-- Florida Highway Patrol officers pulled over a Nissan sedan on May 16 on I-95 after observing erratic driving, reported the Miami Herald. Indeed, Port St. Lucie, Florida, resident Scott Allen Garrett, 56, smelled of alcohol, had an open bottle of 92-proof Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum on the passenger seat, was slurring his words and had “red, very glassy and bloodshot eyes,” according to the police report. Garrett then told officers his dog had been driving -which would have been notable on its own, but was particularly interesting considering there was no dog in the car with him. Garrett was charged with DUI. Undignified Behavior City Councilwoman Carol S. Fowler, 48, of Huron, Kansas, made a splash in the news when Atchison County Sheriff ’s deputies tried to arrest her on June 29 for failure to appear on an outstanding warrant. Fowler put up such a fight deputies had to use their tasers on her, and she was arrested for interference and battery on a law enforcement officer. But Fowler was just getting started, according to the Atchison Globe. On July 2, as jail workers tried to remove her jewelry and personal items, Fowler bit one of them on the thumb hard enough to break the bone. Fowler now faces three felony charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and a charge of interference with a law enforcement officer.

Bright Idea In Nashville, 20-year-old Antonio Freeman knew he had a problem on June 25 when three police officers approached him as he rolled a marijuana cigarette. He also knew there was a bigger problem in his pocket: a plastic bag full of cocaine. In a bold move, according to the Tennessean, Freeman pulled the bag out of his chest pocket, crushed it in his hand and sprinkled cocaine over Officer Ryan Caulfield’s head and into the air in an attempt to destroy evidence. The officers were able to salvage about 2.5 grams of cocaine and charge Freeman with tampering with evidence along with possession of a schedule IV drug and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia.

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A director who’s helped put Grand Rapids’ art scene on the cultural map makes his Traverse City Film Fest Debut

By Patrick Sullivan In just a few years, northern Michigan native Joel Potrykus has developed a reputation around the world as an edgy, exciting filmmaker whose work delves into the strangeness of ordinary lives.

Potrykus grew up in Ossineke, just outside of Alpena, and he studied filmmaking at Grand Valley State University.

After achieving success with his first film, Ape,”which won the Best New Director prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival, he didn’t move to Los Angeles. Potrykus stayed in Grand Rapids and continued to make films with a group of longtime friends that would go on to win greater and greater acclaim. He also teaches filmmaking at Michigan State University.

In 2014, Potrykus’ second feature, Buzzard, secured the auteur’s reputation as an up-and-coming indie filmmaker. That movie tells the story of a temp worker at a mortgage department who embezzles checks and steals office equipment as his directionless life spins out of control. Since Buzzard, there have been retrospectives on Potrykus’ work at

the Brooklyn Academy of Music and at the Valdivia Film Festival in Chile.

With his latest film, Relaxer, Potrykus finds himself at the Traverse City Film Festival for the first time. Northern Express caught up with him and got a chance to ask some questions via email.

thought into classifying them, or even what genre they’ll fit into before I make them. Or even afterwards. It’s the part of the process I’m not much interested in. I prefer to let the audiences tell me what they are. I’m just trying to make movies that I wish existed in the world but don’t yet. I like a little bit of everything, so I try to include it all into one

Yes, first time playing TCFF. I can’t answer why it took so long. These films have played as far as Moscow, but for whatever reason, I hadn’t been able to crack this city two and a half hours north of me until now.

Northern Express: Tell me about Relaxer — is it more of a coming-of-age drama or a quirky romantic comedy? Just kidding! I know your movies are none of those things. What’s the best way to describe your movies?

Potrykus: I’m probably the last person able to describe these things. I don’t put much

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movie — comedy, surrealism, a tiny bit of blood, sweat, whatever.

Express: At the SXSW screening of your film, you hosted a milk shot contest between two fans, which was so odd. Why did you do that?

Potrykus: We go to festivals to get an experience that we can’t get in a corporate theater chain. I’m just trying to show everyone how to properly experience this movie. You must start by chugging lactose.

Simple as that.

Express: From what I can tell, this is your first time showing at the Traverse City Film Festival. What took so long?

Potrykus: Yes, first time playing TCFF. I can’t answer why it took so long. These films have played as far as Moscow, but for whatever reason, I hadn’t been able to crack this city two and a half hours north of me until now.

Express: Something I think is cool about you is that you’ve become an indie/cult/ underground success as someone who comes from northern Michigan and as someone who has maintained ties with the people you grew up with. How did you pull that off?

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Alpena High School. My brother, Chuck, does artwork for the films. The production designer, Mike, and I used to dress up like Gizmo in college and sneak attack students. Our lead actor, Joshua, would play acoustic guitar across the street from our Grand Valley apartment. The producer, Ashley, and I just had a baby together. So we’ve been pretty close for awhile. I just like working with people that I like. I see us as a band, rather than a production company. We mostly come from music, so it’s a logical jump.

Express: Your film playing at TCFF, Relaxer, finds you working again with Joshua Burge, the star of your breakthrough film, Buzzard.

Tell me about how you guys met and what your friendship is like.

Potrykus: Again, he was a musician originally. I met him years ago at college briefly, then turned into a fan of his band, Chance Jones. Grand Rapids is a pretty small city once you’re inside the art community. I just thought he had a manic energy onstage that I wanted to try to capture in front of a camera. I had no idea if he could act or not.

So the first movie we made together, a Super 8 short film called Coyote, had no dialogue.

I was after a purely visual story. Turns out, he could act. He starred in my first feature film, Ape, and I realized I had found my guy. At this point, we communicate through small facial expressions on set. We’re locked in, and both understand the big picture without needing to talk about character motivations or all those things that actors sometimes annoy directors with.

Express: Joshua got a supporting actor role in The Revenant and has since moved to Las Angeles. Is that something that tempts you?

Potrykus: I have no interest in the West Coast. My management company is there, and they keep me in the loop on anything important. But at the end of the day, I make very small movies with my friends, and that type of filmmaking is difficult in a city that is fighting to make their own movies. In Michigan, no one asks for permits or proof of insurance. They support you because

they’re into what you’re doing. I’d rather live in an arts city, rather than an entertainment city. The business side of these films is supported by Oscilloscope Laboratories out of New York. It’s the distribution company founded by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.

They understand what we’re up to here in Michigan and have given me the financial ability to make these films the way I want.

It’s all about finding people that get you, and staying loyal to each other.

Express: I see you’ve taught screenplay writing and filmmaking at Grand Valley State, and you teach currently at Michigan State. What are your classes like, and what kind of teacher are you?

Potrykus: Well, I like to think my classes are totally awesome and inspirational and that I’m training up a filmmaking army to run the world.

Express: Tell me about [your collective] Sob Noisse and explain how that works.

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Potrykus: Again, we function more like a band than a company. It’s socialist when it comes to money. Everyone makes the same on these films. The assistant camera person makes the same as the sound person, which is the same as I make. We’re trying to make changes in the way commerce and art mix.

It’s mostly inspired by Dischord Records out of Washington, D.C. Express: When I searched Ossineke, Michigan, in Google Maps, at the first zoom level, the only feature listed is Dinosaur Gardens. If you zoom in a bit, a few more places show up, like Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox. Sounds like a weird place.

Potrykus: One of these days I’ll get a private tour of Hayden’s Acres. It’s the most elusive of all the weirdo spots in Ossineke.

Express: Is Ossineke worth a road trip? If so, where would you recommend going?

Potrykus: They just lost their one and only bar, but you should sneak into the haunted house on Nicholson Hill Road some time.

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In its first 13 years, the Traverse City Film Festival has brought over hundreds films and filmmakers to northern Michigan. In anticipation of the 14th edition of the festival, arriving July 31 and running until Aug. 5, here are some greatest hits and unsung gems from festivals past — all of which are available at the Traverse Area District Library. (Check out the awesome TCFF section in the library’s Sight & Sound Department.) Don’t live locally? You also can find these on popular online streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.

Tiny Furniture (TCFF 2010) Sometimes a film so overwhelms you with the originality of its voice, you simply can’t turn away. Tiny Furniture was such a film, and Lena Dunham joined us in Traverse City to present her directorial debut about a struggling recent film school grad. And while following the success of Dunham’s HBO television series, Girls, Tiny Furniture might seem much more familiar today, there was something so special at work that you can innately tell you’d be hearing a lot more from Dunham.

The Concert (TCFF 2010) A pitch-perfect French dramedy about a great conductor for the USSR’s Bolshoi Orchestra who was demoted to the position of janitor after hiring Jewish musicians. But opportunity comes knocking, and he stages an elaborate plan to get the old “band” back together for a triumphant concert in Paris.

Touching, delightful, and satisfying, it’s a winning crowd-pleaser.

Nashville (TCFF 2015) The TCFF has done its share of retrospectives

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of many of film’s top directors, but few were more powerful than this tribute to the late Robert Altman, whose storytelling poetry is at its peak in this panorama of human experience — one that feels as spectacularly alive today as it did over 40 years ago.

Meet the Patels (TCFF 2014) There have been few more joyous experiences at the TCFF than Traverse City so wholeheartedly embracing as Meet the Patels. It’s a real-life rom-com about a firstgeneration Indian-American man enlisting the help of his sweetly meddling, largerthan-life matchmaking parents on a crosscountry dating odyssey — as his sister comes along to document the whole thing. A laughout-loud delight from start to finish.

The Wolfpack (TCFF 2015) The stranger-than-fiction story of the six Angulo brothers (a couple of which joined us here in TC), who lived their whole lives locked up by their overprotective father in a Manhattan housing project. Only the movies they watched and painstakingly recreated were their outlet, powerfully demonstrating the escapist power of the movies.

Give Up Tomorrow (TCFF 2011) Flying under the radar, and narrowly missing out on the TCFF’s Audience Award, Give Up Tomorrow in an incredibly gripping (and still unresolved) true crime story of a wrongfully accused man that exposed the unbelievable corruption of the Phillipines judicial system in a moving and deeply personal fashion.

Troubled Water (TCFF 2009) One of the most memorable and profoundly moving Opening Nights in TCFF history,

people who were there still speak about the film in hushed, reverent tones. It’s an intense Norwegian drama that uses the differing perspectives of two people — a man getting his life back on track, and the mysterious woman from his past — to tell an unforgettable story of redemption and forgiveness.

Fruitvale Station (TCFF 2013) If you want to understand how, in only a three-film span, director Ryan Coogler arrived at a film as important and epic and meaningful as Black Panther (playing at The Open Space on Sat, Aug. 5, at dusk) look no further than his stunning debut feature.

It’s based on the tragic true story of the slaying of 22-year-old Oscar Grant (played

by Michael B. Jordan) by Bay Area transit police. It will stay with you forever.

Jesus Camp (TCFF 2006) Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda, this is definitely NOT Camp Grenada. No, at “Kids on Fire” camp in North Dakota campers are trained to be soldiers in God’s Army, and this fascinating look at the camp’s unnerving activities is from TCFF favorite director Heidi Ewing (One of Us, TCFF 2018) and must be seen to be believed.

The Intouchables (TCFF 2012) The very definition of TCFF crowd-pleaser, consider this hit French comedy your onramp to the film festival lifestyle. Not nearly as problematic as it sounds and completely heartwarming, it’s the story of the unlikely friendship between a stuffy wheelchairbound millionaire and his streetwise caretaker. If you think subtitled films aren’t for you, give this one a shot.

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When Steve Martin and Martin Short bring their comedy show “An Evening You Will Forget For the Rest of Your Life” to Interlochen Aug. 11, they won’t be alone.

Martin is bringing along the Steep Canyon Rangers, the crack bluegrass outfit with which he often tours and performs. But it’s the other onstage foil who might be the show’s secret weapon, pianist Jeff Babko.

Babko plays background to the two, or accompanies Short as he sings, but he also plays the (somewhat) straight man to their comedic ripostes. Not a bad gig for the versatile musician, who’s also spent time with Julio Iglesias and rock legends Toto; toured with James Taylor, Shelby Lynn, and Sheryl Crow; been part of dynamite drummer Simon Phillips’s band; led his own jazz recordings; and played on any number of recordings over the years. Oh, yeah, he’s also part of Cleto and the Cletones, Jimmy Kimmel’s house band heard nightly on ABC. Babko admitted he never had a real plan for his career and failed to ever see himself in the comedy spotlight. “I loved comedy — SCTV [Canada’s Second City Television, a sketch comedy show], Saturday Night Live,” said Babko. In the same breath, he said, “I never dreamed I’d get to collaborate with the greatest comedians in the world.”

He loved seeing comics and absorbing their routines, he said. But getting yucks wasn’t his forte — his skill and passion lay in playing piano. “I was only good at music.

Growing up in southern California, [I

thought] I’d love to be a session musician.”

Sometimes dreams come true. After graduating from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, Babko began working with Iglesias, who was still at the height of his fame. After leaving Iglesias, Babko hooked up with Phillips, then guitarist Robben Ford, and, later, guitarist Larry Carlton (the Crusaders, Fourplay).

In 1999, Babko learned of an opening as Martin Short’s musical accompanist. When asked if he knew a certain comic segment that Short had done previously — Jackie Rogers Jr.’s $100,000 Jackpot Wad — Babko asked if they wanted him to recite it, line by line. Needless to say, he got the gig, and he’s been working with Short ever since.

He credits Saturday Night Live and The Late, Late Show with David Letterman as foundational blocks for where he’s at now.

He loved the original band on Letterman: Steve Jordan on drums, Hiram Bullock on guitar, Will Lee on bass, and bandleader Paul Shaffer playing keyboards.

“I thought it was magical. Paul was bringing music and comedy together as a heightened version of who he is. I noticed music and comedy could co-exist.”

Babko said some of “An Evening You Will Forget” is planned in advance, but he’s always ready to follow Martin or Short when they improvise. “The show varies night to night. The structure or arc is set — the running order, this song to this chat, etc.” But if a particular segment takes off, Babko said there’s room to change things up. He cited as a recent example a segment in which Short was doing a piece where he’s a marionette. “It

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was going long because it was funny. I told him onstage, ‘We could do this all night.’”

He’s worked with Short long enough now that the two can rely on one another. “I can feel Marty’s timing. We read the room, read the energy, and are ready to turn on a dime.”

While Short and Martin exchange their share of barbs, some planned and some in the heat of the show, it’s still clear that the two share a lot of affection for one another.

Babko said that heart is at the center of the show. It’s reflected in the hang and the travel. “What’s onstage is real camaraderie. I can’t speak for Steve, but he’s intimated he’s having the best time he’s ever had. He loves to write and create and rewrite and tweak.

He loves the process. This gives him a chance

to create a new thing every night.”

Babko considers himself extremely fortunate and doesn’t take his success for granted. On the contrary, he makes sure he appreciates it all. “It won’t always be there. So every time I get to spend the summer with James Taylor, or whatever, is a blessing.”

He said that feeling is a common one.

Neither Short nor Martin need to be traveling, going onstage, or doing standup.

“They’re doing it because they’re really having fun. Steve loves and trusts the Rangers. He and Marty love one another and lift each other up. Marty and I have been doing gigs almost 20 years. For us, it’s a fun and familial relationship. Add Steve and the Rangers, and it’s a bigger, happier family.”

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TRAVERSE CITY’S JEFF BIHLMAN The Emmy-Award-Winning Musician Behind TCFF’s Live Music

By Kristi Kates If you’ve ever watched TV shows like All My Children, Sons of Anarchy, or the new series The Gifted — or if you’ve ever danced the night away to rockin’ tunes by The Bihlman Brothers — then you’ve likely heard musician Jeff “Jabo” Bihlman, music director for the Traverse City Film Festival. (Bihlman also helmed the music for the fest’s 2016 and 2017 editions.)

We called Bihlman to see what he’s been up to recently, as the 2018 TCFF approaches and his own career continues to grow.

HOME & AWAY Bihlman got his professional start as bandleader for electric blues guitarist Son Seals in the ’90s, and has since added a long list of accomplishments to his name, including work as a guitar instructor at Interlochen Center for the Arts summer camp and at the National Guitar Workshop.

He’s won several Michigan Emmy Awards for his television production music and has snagged plenty of kudos for his latest band project, Grinder Blues, on which he collaborates with his brother, Scot Bihlman, and King’s X frontman Dug Pinnick.

And he’s also newly returned to Traverse City, having resumed his residency here after six years spent playing music in Las Vegas. The Bihlman Brothers are fresh off of a European tour, which they undertake once a year to keep its overseas audiences — who love the classic American rock at the root of the Bihlman Brothers’ sound — happy.

“We tour heavily in Europe as people there are so enthused about our music,” Bihlman said. “In my opinion,

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live touring has slowed down a lot in the U.S., but people over there will take a chance on going out to hear a new or unknown band.”

Bihlman works simultaneously with both the Bihlman Brothers and Grinder Blues. Now that the Europe 2018 tour is behind him, he’s turned his attentions back to Grinder Blues; the band is at work developing some new originals for a fall release.

“We’re already working on it. We’re just still talking about exactly how to release it,” Bihlman said. “We’ve been talking with Mike Varney [founder of Shrapnel Records] and also an Australian label, Golden Robot Records, but everything’s so different these days in the record industry.

Back in the day, you’d pour your soul into an album, and then put all the work into promoting it. These days, it’s more about singles, so we’re trying to decide if we should do a CD album, download cards, or what.”

ON-SCREEN OPPORTUNITIES Bihlman’s work for screens is substantial arm of his career.

Years ago, he started working with a publisher in New York to get the Bihlman Brothers’ music on the soap opera All My Children.

That opportunity spurred him to look further into licensing — essentially, contracting out the use of his music, usually Bihlman Brothers songs or his own solo guitar-based instrumental compositions — to various media, such as TV shows, streaming series, or movies.

“Once I realized how big a part of a music career music licensing could be, I put more focus on it,” he said.

Bihlman signed a deal with Warner/Chappel music publishing company years ago, but when the contract expired, he chose not to renew.

“That was a cool experience, but we wanted to take our catalog [of music] back over, and now that we have control over it again, we’re actually doing better with it,” he said.

He still works with Warner/Chappel on occasion but as a freelance musician, either providing prerecorded tracks or composing specific tunes that match up with visual cues happening on the TV or movie screen.

ROCKIN’ ROUTES Despite his screen-music success, Bihlman has no interest in putting either of his bands on the back-burner. In fact, he said he’s eager to take it to the next level with video.

“Physical CDs are disappearing, even up here,” Bihlman said. “Videos are the big thing now — they’re critical. So many people are just releasing a song or two as single videos. And downloadable digital music is the wave of the future. I even did a panel on that at last year’s Traverse City Film Festival.

“It seems weird putting out five grand to make a music video where you used to put that money into an album,” he added, “but that’s just the way it is now.”

Grinder Blues took that route for its big single, 2015’s “Burn the Bridge,” which is available on YouTube and Vevo.

“We shot the video out in California with a professional company, and I have to say that made a huge difference,” Bihlman said. “The videos really fuel music sales. So we’ve got to roll with what’s going on now. I definitely have a lot of music, and I want to do something with it.”

For more information on Jeff “Jabo” Bihlman and his bands, The Bihlman Brothers, and Grinder Blues, visit jabobihlman. com, bihlmanbros.com, grinderblues.com, and reverbnation. com/thebihlmanbros.

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By Kristi Kates The live music before each film screening at the Traverse City Film Fest is a lot like the soundtrack to a film: It sets the scene, defines the mood, and elevates the audience experience.

That’s why performers are hand-selected to match the films, explains TCFF Music Director Jeff “Jabo” Bihlman. “For instance, before our screening of Coco, we’re going to have ukulele music. For Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, we’re looking for an ’80s cover band, and for Black Panther, an upbeat, electronic-rock outfit.”

Many of the musicians who play TCFF are local, but a large number hail from around the state and the country. Traverse City’s Open Space, the biggest venue, is a coveted spot for performers, but not only because of the huge crowds that attend.

Every night brings two new bands, each playing a full show before the films starts, said Bihlman.

So which of the many solo acts, duos, and bands should audiophiles keep an ear out for this year? Here’s our picks — aided

by TCFF music intern Lorielle Walker — for the acts you can’t miss.

1. THE BERGAMOT Arriving from: Brooklyn, New York Their story: Married couple Nathaniel Hoff and Jillian Speece are an American indie folk-rock duo who’ve been going strong musically for almost 10 years. They started touring the U.S. after college, and eventually won the 2012 Bud Light Battle of the Bands, which led to opening spots for the likes of Young the Giant, All American Rejects, and Wiz Khalifa. You can also “play” one of their original songs, “Forget About Tomorrow,” on the video game Rock Band Rivals.

Their sound: Tight songwriting and equally sharp harmonies fuel their positive, uplifting melodies. “Their compatibility is apparent through their rapport on stage and through how well synced their music is with each other,” Walker said. “They’re eclectic and mellow and easy to listen to.”

Learn more: thebergamot.com Catch them: Tuesday, July 31, at the TCFF Opening Night Party, and Thursday, Aug. 2, at 7:30pm at the Open Space.

2. VIANDS Arriving from: Detroit Their story: The two met in the early aughts while both were trucking around Detroit’s

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underground music club scene. Once they combined forces, their sound really became something that commanded attention no matter where they performed. Joel Peterson (also of Immigrant Suns and Chatoyant) and Dave Shettler (also of Dead Band) have mastered the art of electronic keyboard improv, and they show off those skills on their debut album, Temporal Relics, inspired by the first time they sat down to record together and discovered that their musical skills clicked immediately. They’re currently promoting their newest release, Seven Thousand Year Plan.

Their sound: By turns pensive and energetic, spare and dense, Peterson and Shettler’s combined approaches to meditative keyboard music are more than just complimentary. “They’re really unique and different,” said Walker. “And the upbeat side of their music just makes you want to get up and dance.”

Learn more: viands.bandcamp.com Catch them: Friday, Aug. 3, at the City Opera House, and Saturday, Aug. 4, at the Old Town Playhouse.

3. LIGHTNING MATCHES Arriving from: Grand Rapids Their story: The versatility of Rachel White and Matt Plessner allows them to diversify their sound. Depending on the venue, you can catch them as an acoustic duo, a folkrock band, or as solo artists — both sing and play guitar — promoting their own albums (White’s debut EP, Destination Sunday and Plessner’s fifth effort, Forest Blue, are their latest.) The pair perform a stack of their own original material plus a selection of entertaining cover tunes at their live shows, and they’re planning to expand their sound even further by recording their very first album as Lightning Matches later this year.

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for songwriting, you’ll hear hints of Wilco, John Mellencamp, and country artists like Hunter Hayes in their sound. Once you add in their backing band members (Eric Locke on drums; Adam Parada on keyboards/bass), their tunes take on more of a rock turn.

Learn more: lightingmatches.weebly.com 4. TOM JOLIN Arriving from: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania His story: Jolin has been crafting music — and the instruments he plays the music on — for almost five decades. He’s combined his formidable skill on hammered dulcimer, banjo, harmonica, and accordion with strong vocals to record eight albums, participate in over 80 artist-in-residence programs, and perform a ridiculously long list of live shows.

(And yes, he builds instruments, too.) He and his wife hail from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where the sounds of the local traditional music has become irreversibly intertwined with what Jolin performs. Alternating between reflective melodies and energetic folk stompers, his is compelling Americana music at its best.

His sound: A mix of traditional folk, “oldtimey” folk, and even Civil War tunes, Jolin’s performances are infused with humor and standout musicianship. “He actually plays every year here — he’s a longtime festival favorite,” Walker said.

Learn more: thomasjolin.com Catch him: Saturday, Aug. 4, at The Kubrick, Central Grade School.

5. J. MARINELLI Arriving from: Lexington, Kentucky His story: Now 16 albums in (the latest is Stray Volts), touring maverick Marinelli hones much of his sound on the road via treks through the U.S., the U.K., and western mainland Europe, where his post-punk/garage-rock mix pulls

in fans of all of those genres, as well as those looking to listen to authentic Americana music. Marinelli also keeps things uber-real during his live shows, leaning solely on his own skills, swagger, and punk aesthetic to function as a modern-day one-man band, cranking through his shows on guitar and drums with only himself crafting the sounds.

His sound: Recalling a mix of Guided by Voices and fellow punk-folkster Frank Turner, Marinelli digs into his songs with a gritty abandon straight from the lesser-mined underground of this particular musical genre.

Learn more: jmarinelli.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/j-marinelli Catch him: Not available at time of press.

6. BRETT MITCHELL AND THE GIANT GHOST Arriving from: Midland, Michigan His story: Singer-songwriter Brett Mitchell grew up in the Mitten State, but he didn’t start with guitar; that came later. He kicked off his music career as a drummer, and by the age of 17 was touring behind the kit for a wide range of bands. Once he became interested in songwriting, he added guitar to his repertoire, and by 2005 recorded his debut album, playing most of the instruments himself. Right now, though, he’s busy hyping his third album, Falling Apart at the Seams, a rock-country-folk hybrid that’s his most accomplished recording yet.

His sound: Reminiscent of Marshall Crenshaw or Matthew Sweet, his tunes showcase his instrumental and vocal versatility. “He’s really great on the acoustic guitar, and his sets are such an upbeat mix,” Walker said.

Learn more: brettmitchellmusic.com Catch him: Wednesday, Aug. 1 at Central High School and Old Town Playhouse (times not yet available); Thursday, Aug. 2 at the City Opera House; Saturday, Aug. 4 at the TCFF Filmmakers’ Party.

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Destination Empire Beaches, hikes, drives, and a wee bit of chocolate make for a divine day in Empire

Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive Overlook

By Ross Boissoneau The tiny village of Empire, due west of Traverse City at the terminus of M-72, offers more than just a beachfront on Lake Michigan (though that’s lovely too). There are some great nearby hikes, a gorgeous drive, and other lakefront options, all within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Hike Empire Bluff One a clear day you can see forever. Or at least to South Manitou Island. This hike of 1.5 miles takes you through beech and maple forests, across hilly terrain and fields, to a bluff overlooking the sandy shores of Lake Michigan from a height of more than 400 feet.

Though relatively short, its terrain makes for a moderate amount of exercise. The length means it’s perfect for families, as it can be done in around an hour. Pick up the self-guided brochure at the trailhead, which also describes the six interpretive posts and the natural and geographical history of the area. One caveat:

Be aware of the poison ivy commonly found in the open areas along the way.

Hike Pyramid Point In an area known for its stunning views of sand dunes, islands ,and the varied hues of Lake Michigan, Pyramid Point stands out as one of the best. Also part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the point is a 2.6-mile trail that also traverses old farm fields. It encompasses three extremely different environments: maple-beech forest, high bluffs, and meadow.

Lookout Point is about 0.6 miles from the trailhead. At both Pyramid Point and Empire Bluff, hikers are warned not to descend the hillside to Lake Michigan, both for safety and to protect the natural setting from erosion. The last half-mile loop of the trail follows Basch Road, so it’s important to watch out for traffic on the return to the trailhead.

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consider the 7.4-mile Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, north of Empire on M-109. You can stop for a picnic at one of the many scenic spots along the route. Stretch your legs by taking a dune hike along the Cottonwood Trail. Or just admire the views — there are spectacular overlooks of the Glen Lakes, the Sleeping Bear Dunes, and Lake Michigan.

The observation deck at the Lake Michigan Overlook is a must-see, at 450 feet above the lake level. While hiking down the bluff is not prohibited, it is discouraged, as it is dangerous and erodes the hillside; each year many hikers need to be rescued because they get injured or find themselves unable to hike back up the steep, sandy incline. A park pass is required to access the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive.

Beach It at Otter Creek/Esch Road Beach Located off M-22 about three miles south of Empire, Esch Road Beach (also known as Otter Creek to locals) is one of the best beaches in Michigan. After driving about a mile and parking along the road, you’ll traverse a 300-foot walk through soft

sand to the pristine waters of Lake Michigan.

The beach spreads far to the north and even farther to the south, including the mouth of Otter Creek.

This is the site of the former logging village of Aral. It was a vibrant logging community with a sawmill and dock.

Intrepid hikers can hike all the way around Otter Lake. The trailhead to Otter Lake Loop Trail is on the gravel road just east of the parking lot. There is also a bridge over Otter Creek near the trailhead.

Still want more?

Stop at the Visitors Center, the local headquarters of the National Park Service, at the end of M-72, just before it hits M-22 in Empire. Park passes, brochures, and maps are available at the information desk. Rangers and volunteers are available to answer questions and assist visitors. The facility is open 8am to 6pm daily.

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By Ross Boissoneau Bright green building façade? Check.

Delectable chocolates, incorporating everything from lavender to liquor?

Check. More visibility and more space?

Check and check.

Looks like everything is set for a bigger summer than ever at Grocer’s Daughter Chocolates in Empire. Owners Jody and DC Hayden have successfully moved from their location south of Empire to a spot across from the Village Inn next to the hardware store.

And yes, the building is the same familiar bright (some might say bilious) shade of green. “People have come to like it. It stands out,” said DC. He likens it to a food truck he’s seen around the area that’s painted bright pink. “Why not have more bright pops of color?” he asked.

Color aside, it’s the chocolates that attract people to the store. Hayden said that’s been the case since Mimi Wheeler opened the store a decade and a half ago.

Incorporating unexpected flavors of spices and herbs into the chocolate gave the candies a distinct identity.

“The business started with herbal chocolates, like rosemary, basil, and lavender. Those continue to be some of the best-sellers. It’s fresh and pops through the chocolate in a fun way.”

Another favorite, especially in the summer, are Grocer’s Daughter’s own fudgsicles, similarly enhanced with unexpected flavor pairings like ginger or hazelnut. Now, with the room to showcase them in a freezer next to the register, they’re more popular than ever.

And that’s good and bad, according to Hayden. “In the new spot we fill [the freezer with fudgsicles] in the morning, and before the end of the day we’ve run out. It’s incredible,” he said.

Hayden said there have been some hiccups along the way, like trying to remember where everything from spoons to trays to ingredients are in the new facility. “We were used to where things

were before, and we’re still getting used to this space,” he said.

While it’s not that much bigger — the new store is 1,500 square feet, while the old one was 1,100 — it is much more open. Customers have room to mill about, they can see what goes on in the kitchen, and the large windows in front bring in plenty of daylight. Plus they’ve set up picnic tables alongside the store’s entrance.

The couple has owned the store for five years. Previously, Jody had a background in fair trade coffee, with Higher Grounds Coffee. She left the when the couple moved to Minnesota, and when they moved back, Wheeler was looking to sell the business. Jody was helping her get ready to sell when she and DC decided they were interested in buying it themselves.

While his wife had a background that made for a relatively easy transition, his experience was in video and film.

“I thought Jody would run it,” he said, and he’d occasionally help out a little as needed. Hah. He was soon wholly involved as well, and said his video and photographic background actually helped in terms of putting together displays and designing their brochures and website.

“When we bought it, neither of us knew diddly. It was an education and continues to be,” Hayden said. But with hard work and a good base from the decade that Wheeler had nurtured the store, they were able to make the business grow.

Hayden said one thing that he and Jody are planning to do is offer more customers learning options, as well as be able to interact with them help them understand and hopefully share their passion for chocolate. “We can create more experiences. There will be more educational [opportunities]. Knowing how chocolate works, it takes time and experimentation. It’s so cool — the space fits what we do.”

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By Kristi Kates You might be hard-pressed to find a person who waxes nostalgic about ’80s hair and makeup. But press play on an album of ’80s hits at a wedding, and stand back and watch a group of otherwise upstanding 40- and 50-somethings get down like they’re reliving the best high school dance of their lives. On Aug. 4, St. Ignace Kewadin Casino is going far better than playing covers of ’80s hits; it’s bringing the Retro Futura Tour, a concert featuring live performances from six ’80s hitmakers whose names you might not instantly recognize, but trust us — you’ll know the music.

1. BELINDA CARLISLE The New Wave Woman She started her music career in Los Angeles and now lives in Thailand with her family — perhaps an apt pair of living destinations for the woman who’s had not one, but two musical careers. Singer Carlisle started her pop fame by fronting the famed ’80s band The Go-Gos, a quintet of energetic women who cranked out a long list of bubbly new wave/power-pop hits like “We Got the Beat” and “Vacation.” She toured the world with the band, and 10 years later kicked off a solo career that kept her cranking around the globe with a second string of smash singles.

Listen For: “Mad About You,” “Circle in the Sand,” and the endlessly catchy “Heaven is a Place on Earth.”

More Info: belindacarlisle.tv 2. ABC The Fashionable Frontman Hailing from Sheffield, England, and leaning

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into the New Romantic music movement of the ’80s (think: early Ultravox, Spandau Ballet, Classix Nouveaux), ABC and its frontman, Martin Fry, stood out for their glitzy, unconventional stage clothing (including Fry’s famed gold lamé suit) and sophisticated brand of new wave. The band’s sound fit in with the synth-pop of the day but infused it with generous helpings of Motown, R&B, and saxophone solos from bandmate Stephen Singleton.

To the surprise of fans, ABC released a new studio album, The Lexicon of Love II, in 2016.

Listen For: “The Look of Love,” “Be Near Me,” “How to Be a Millionaire” with its blazing bass line, and the campy “Poison Arrow.”

More Info: abcmartinfry.com 3. LIMAHL The Hairspray King If Martin Fry was known for his wardrobe, than Limahl — singer for dancefloor favorite Kajagoogoo, who also hailed from England — was perhaps best known for his gravity-defying, Aqua-Net-consuming, two-toned black and blonde punk mullet hairdo … oh, yeah, and those ’80s-defining ’pop vocal tones. The band itself traveled quite a rocky road, notching one major single quickly, and then imploding less than a year later, as Limahl struck out to start a solo music career, one of the other bandmates took over lead vocals and the original band floundered. His hair’s shorter and lower these days, but that voice can still crank out the tunes. He’s even reunited with his former bandmates, now that they’re older and presumably wiser.

Listen For: Massive hit “Too Shy,” “Hang

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on Now,” and childhood film soundtrack favorite “The NeverEnding Story.”

More Info: kajagoogoo.com 4. MODERN ENGLISH The Pop-Punk Quintet More punk than new wave, with hints of Joy Division and The Human League with a dash of Simple Minds, six-piece English band Modern English, led by singer Robbie Grey, hit the big time with their first single — and never really got much farther than that outside of its core fan group, in spite of some strong post-punk songwriting heavy with jangling guitars and catchy refrains.

But the band didn’t give up; after several lineup shifts, many of the original members reconvened with Grey and recorded a new crowdfunded album, Take Me to the Trees, released in 2016. That same year, the band toured to promote its new music and reignite fervor for its first album, 1981’s Mesh and Lace.

Listen For: Trademark single “I Melt With You,” the schoolboy pop of “Ink and Paper,” and “Hands Across the Sea.” More Info: modernenglish.me 5. TONY LEWIS The Countdown Rocker The voice for ’80s pop-rock band The Outfield is touring solo these days, having taken a few years away from the music scene. He’s enjoying some renewed nostalgic interest in The Outfield’s songs and in his own Sting-meets-Ric-Ocasek vocal stylings as he promotes his new solo album, Out of the Darkness, which was released in June. It its heyday, the Outfield

enjoyed a healthy dollop of U.S. fame for its singles and for its first album, 1985’s Play Deep, but never reached the same level of recognition in its English homeland.

Good thing this tour is across America, then, where people will recognize the band’s trademark sound from ’80s radio countdown shows.

Listen For: “Say It Isn’t So,” “All the Love in the World,” and the familiar belting kickoff line of “Josie’s on a vacation far away … ” from their signature single “Your Love.”

More Info: tonylewismusic.com 6. ANNABELLA LWIN The Quirky Diva Spawned from a mixture of Adam Ant’s backing band (The Ants) and Annabella Lwin’s vocals, the ’80s band Bow Wow Wow found the spotlight focused largely on Lwin, likely thanks to her mohawk hairdo and a fashion sense that mixed new wave with South American influences. Bow Wow Wow’s biggest hits had a different, edgier sound than its contemporaries — one influenced by a mix of surf guitars, African rhythms, and a wide range of world music that presented listeners with a more complex, challenging pop sound.

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By Ross Boissoneau As an artist, Judy Jashinsky knew how important it was to have a studio where she could do her work without interruption.

Her dream and that of her husband was to have such a place in the woods of northern Michigan. After he passed away, she went ahead with their plans. The result is Pines of Arcadia, a stunning open space filled with light. It turned out so well, she’s decided to share it with others: Pines of Arcadia is available as an artist retreat and is itself a non-profit.

“We vacationed in northern Michigan while working in Washington, D.C. One year we drove past Arcadia, and while he got gas, I stopped in a real estate office. We visited the site, loved the land, and bought four acres in 1985 for $7,200,” Jashinski said.

As the years went by, they visited the site, but built only a driveway. When her husband unexpectedly died, Jashinski left D.C. and relocated to Chicago. She had a cabin built on their property outside Arcadia. Then she saw a friend’s place that had the ends of logs set into the wall, and decided she should do the same. After searching for a builder who could and would do such a project, she eventually got things underway in fall 2016.

The building was completed in fall of 2017.

The soaring ceiling and wide-open space lend themselves to big art, such as what Jashinsky herself produces. But it also provides space and inspiration for those working on a smaller scale.

One of the first to utilize the studio space was her friend, artist Jamey Barnard of Onekama, who did a retreat there earlier this year. “He did a week in May, and did some incredible paintings,” said Jashinsky.

Barnard, who is also a musician, returned in July for an opening showcasing his work and performed with his band as well.

The studio space is airy and light. The front of the building opens up to the great outdoors, courtesy of large garage doors.

Through the trees one can get glimpses of the fairways at Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club.

Even with the doors down, the expanse of glass provides plenty of natural light.

If an artist needs further inspiration, the back deck off the second floor offers peaceful woodland vistas, plus the beginning of a sculpture garden, with a sculpture of a lantern and an upside-down tree by another artist, for which Jashinsky has additional plans.

Why go to such trouble, with the large building and windows, all on a gravel road well away from the mainstream? That’s just

the point, said Jashinsky.

“I’ve been to artist residencies, such as the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. You explore solitude. It’s quiet to work. There’s a lot [of artist retreats] on the East and West Coasts, but not in the middle. The space is big. You can fill the wall,” she said.

Jashinsky said the facility serves as both a working studio for her and a nonprofit residency for visiting artists. She’s not looking to turn it into a studio that’s open all hours for the public. The intent, rather, is to provide for artists, with the occasional show as she deems appropriate. “It’s by appointment only,” Jashinsky said. “I have two board members.

“It’s not a gallery,” she continued. “I want to keep it by invitation. I run into artists and give them my card.”

Jashinsky is planning a mid-August fundraiser for the non-profit to include music by K. Jones and the Benzie Playboys, which also features her friend Barnard as the drummer. She said she’s also looking at making it a center for other artistic endeavors.

To stay up to date on the happenings and opportunities at Pines of Arcadia, visit the studio’s Facebook page.

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THE ROOST AT BAY BREAD COMPANY Stacey Wilcox, co-owner of the Bay Bread Company with her husband, Steve, since 2003, emphasizes that The Roost upstairs from the bakery is basically just “overflow seating,” but there’s no denying that to her, personally — and to many others — it’s so much more than that: a cozy, informal gathering place with a lovely view of the bay, where customers can sit and relax (yes, that’s one definition of “roost”) while enjoying a delicious sandwich and sipping a cup of coffee or tea in surroundings that make you feel as if you’re in Mom’s or Grandma’s sunroom – because, in a way, you are ...

The cheerful two-story yellow Grelickville brick building with bright accents of roostercomb red that has housed the Bay Bread Company since 1998 dates back to the 19th century. Long before the aroma of fresh-baked yeasty goodness wafted through the air here, it was first a bar, then a deli, a camera shop, and a natural foods co-op.

Fifteen years ago, Stacey Wilcox and her husband, Steve, had just returned to northern Michigan to be closer to family after 20 years in Denver, Colorado, where she was a software engineer and he was a food broker and distributor.

The pair had enlisted a realtor to help them find a house, and in the process, he kept telling them, “You’ve got to see this little bakery that’s for sale!” Wilcox said they resisted, saying, “We’re not looking to buy a business, and we don’t want to change careers. We just want to find a house — and then we’ll find a job.”

FATE STEPS IN But the realtor persisted, and when Wilcox finally gave in and visited the bakery, she was immediately smitten. “I walked in that day, looked around, and said, ‘Wow, this is amazing. Yes, I want this.’ One thing I had loved about Denver is that they took a lot of very old buildings and brought new life into them, so I saw the potential of doing something like that here.”

The owner — who had studied baking in Europe and had started Bay Bread as a French bakery, offered to train Wilcox. “She really took the time to teach me everything she could about the bread. ... Steve and I always say that we bought ourselves a job. But it has been a good thing for both of us.”

A FITTING TRIBUTE Originally, the second-floor rooms of the building were just used as office space. But when Wilcox unexpectedly lost her mother in 2009, she wanted to find a way to honor her legacy, and The Roost turned out to be the answer.

“Mom had a decorator’s eye for design, and she had always wanted me to do something up here. At first I wasn’t sure what that would be, but I had inherited all of the furnishings from her house, including my grandmother’s things, and I wanted to use them in a way that she would have approved of. And I thought if I could make it more of a community venue — she was very community oriented — that would be a fitting tribute to her. I even started a book swap up here, because that was something that she and I both enjoyed, and it has become really popular. It’s very informal. There are baskets and shelves all over with books and magazines, and people come up here to drop them off or pick them up, and they get talking to one another, they share tables, they socialize, they get to know each other. It’s the best thing ever.”

Wilcox’s mother’s decorating style, Country French, ended up providing the name for the new space. Roosters are very much are part of that style, being the unofficial national symbol of France and quintessential to the French countryside.

“When my good friend and I looked around during the time we were decorating and putting her things in here, we started cracking up,” said Wilcox, “because there were rooster motifs everywhere, and I said, ‘It’s kind of like a roost up here. We’re up above, and there’s a French bakery down below — it’s The Roost.’ And it stuck.”

RELAX The way The Roost works: Customers order and pay for their food and drinks at the counter downstairs in Bay Bread’s bakery, and when the food is ready, everything is delivered to their table upstairs in The Roost. “You don’t have to wait for your number or come back downstairs to get it,” said Wilcox. “We tell our customers, ‘Go and relax upstairs, and we’ll bring it up to you.’”

Coffee pots are self-serve, but specialty coffees from the upstairs espresso machine (café Americano, lattes, cappuccino, mocha,

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and more) are made and served by the staff member who delivers your food. All the coffee comes from local Roaster Jack’s. In The Roost’s small kitchen, customers can get their own water and ice, as well as half and half or milk for their coffee, from the refrigerator. Sandwich paper and bags for taking home leftovers are neatly arranged on the counter, as well as sugar, stirrers, napkins and other kitchen ‘necessities.’

“We say, ‘It’s just like being at home, except you don’t have to do the dishes,’” said Wilcox.

Hungry for breakfast? Try the not-asdangerous-as-it-sounds The Devil (egg, Havarti, onions and roasted peppers with mayo and mustard on ciabatta), homemade oatmeal (with cinnamon sugar and cherries), or opt for one of Bay Bread’s specialty pastries — a tempting array of sticky buns, scones (five varieties, including cherry almond), muffins (three varieties, including carrot walnut with cream cheese frosting) or cinnamon rolls. The bakery now makes its own bagels, too.

OUT (OR UP) TO LUNCH For lunch, there are five salads, including The Greek (romaine, tomato, Greek olives, onion and feta), and one daily soup (which can be served in a sourdough bread bowl upon request). But not surprisingly — this is a bakery after all — sandwiches are the main attraction here. The menu lists 22 different kinds: a selection of deli, grilled or toasted, with customer favorites like the Grinder (turkey, ham, roasted peppers, asiago, house made basil pesto and tomato on herb focaccia); the Chipotle BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato with house made chipotle mayo on ciabatta or Italian bread), and the Pepper Parm Turkey (turkey, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and mayo on toasted and buttered pepper parmesan bread).

Wilcox said that although Bay Bread and The Roost are away from the main shopping and dining district of Traverse City, business is steady year-round. “People always need bread. And we supply a lot of local restaurants daily, too — that has been our little niche.

We’re not competing with places downtown — their menus are extensive, and they have professional chefs. We’re a bakery first and foremost, and we offer some very good basic sandwiches. The difference is that we make all of this great bread, and we make some

Left to right: Bay Bread Company makes its home on the first floor of this 19th Century Traverse City building. After ordering, guests head outside and enter the red door on the right, which leads to The Roost on the second floor.

The Bay Bread Grinder Guests in The Roost have many options for seating: kitchen-style tables and chairs shown here or a more cozy cushioned rocker and overstuffed loveseat setup.

great spreads. So when you put those two together with a generous filling of other fresh ingredients, well, I guess that’s our secret to a good sandwich.”

The Roost is located on the upper level of the Bay Bread Company at 601 Randolph St. in Traverse City. (231) 922-8022, baybreadco.com. $

GOT BREAD?

Certain breads are suggested for certain sandwiches on Bay Bread’s menu, but basically, customers can request any kind they want. “We’ve found that people like to have some guidance on what to choose,” said Wilcox, “since we make different 40 kinds of bread.” A sampling: Whole Wheat Apple Spice, Jalapeño Cheddar, Pesto Batard, Baguettes, Rosemary Ciabatta, Pecan Raisin, All-American with Blueberries and Cherries — even one called “Nic’s Power Loaf” with whole grains, carrots and spinach. “There is an opportunity to educate people about good bread when they come in,” said Wilcox, “and about what’s in it. Our bread is just flour, water, salt and yeast. If it’s a cheese and onion loaf, then it has cheddar cheese and onion added, but the basic bread recipe remains the same.”

ORDER IN

Bay Bread offers box lunches (sandwiches or salads with a freshly baked cookie, chips and a pickle) or sandwich platters for delivery throughout Traverse City. (For large groups only; no delivery of individual sandwiches or box lunches.)

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. Daris Harcourt, clearly a huge fan of National Writers Series visiting author Adriana Trigiani, had a novel idea; he asked her to autograph his chest.

2. Cross Village Cafe’s Kim, Tania, and Kristen at Blissfest.

3. Beth, Rita, Steele, Steve, Loren, Mike, Bill and Cindy in the Blissfest spirit.

4. Northern Michigan’s own Jeannette Widman and Bob Downs finding their Bliss.

5. Nick and Anita of Bulldog Berries are enjoying the peak of summer in TC.

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19TH ANNUAL BAY HARBOR ARTS FESTIVAL: The Village at Bay Harbor, on the waterfront North & South Terraces. July 27-28. bayharbor.com

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NORTHERN MI ANTIQUEFLYWHEELERS ENGINE TRACTOR & CRAFT SHOW: Antique Flywheelers Show Ground, 00145 US 131 North, Boyne Falls. July 26-29.

Featuring Silver King, Montgomery Ward & Steel tractors, John Deere small engines, & The Huddleston School. There will also be opening ceremonies, Parade of Power, live music by various bands & more. $7/day; 12 & under, free. walloonlakeflywheelers.com

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------BENEFIT RUMMAGE SALE: 8am-2:30pm, Alden Methodist Church parking lot. Presented by the Alden Men’s Club. Benefits the food pantries in Antrim & Kalkaska counties. 603-540-3581.

---------------------1ST ANNUAL SUPERHERO HEART RUN: 8:30am, Bayfront Park, Petoskey. “Save the Day for Congenital Heart Defects” at this 5K/2K fun run/walk. Registration & family activities, 8:30am; run/walk, 10:30am. superheroheartrun.com

---------------------53RD ANNUAL DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY SIDEWALK SALES: 9am-6pm, Downtown Petoskey.

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---------------------ALDEN 5K/10K RUN & 2 MILE WALK: 9am.

All three events start just east of the Community Center, up the hill from town. aldenrun.com

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CROOKED TREE OUTDOOR ART FAIR: 9am4pm, NMC campus, TC. Featuring art by over 100 artists & artisans from across the country. crookedtree.org

LITTLE PLATTE LAKE WATER TOUR: 9am – noon, Little Platte Lake DNR Access Site on Saffron Rd. Paddle the shallow waters of Little Platte with Jo Latimore, aquatic ecologist. Learn about aquatic plants & identify them. Bring a kayak or canoe, paddles, life jacket, appropriate clothing & a water bottle. Free. benziecd.org

---------------------SIDEWALK SALES, DOWNTOWN FRANKFORT: 9am-4pm.

---------------------TRIWALLOON - TRIATHLON & DUATHLON: 9am-5pm. Park at Walloon Community Church, Walloon Lake. triwalloon.com

---------------------11TH ANNUAL BOCCE TOURNAMENT: 10am5pm, The Village at GT Commons, TC. There will also be a BBQ picnic (bring a dish to pass & beverage) & Italian folk music. $15/player. thevillagetc.com/11th-annual-bocce-tournament-2 26TH ANNUAL ART LEELANAU BENEFIT EXHIBITION: 10am-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Raises operating funds for programs offered throughout the year at the Old Art Building. oldartbuilding.com

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into Swine.” 4-6pm: James Lenfestey will read from his book, “A Marriage Book: 50 Years of Poems from a Marriage,” & Fleda Brown will read from her book, “The Woods are on Fire.” horizonbooks.com

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R E A DY TO H E L P YO U

The High Energy Automobile Show, Cruise for a Cause, will be held on Sat., Aug. 4 at Streeters, TC from 11am-3pm. It will feature collectable cars, trucks, motorcycles and specialty vehicles with a dedicated tribute to American veterans featuring present and restored military vehicles. There will also be live music. Proceeds donated to Reining Liberty Ranch, which offers support for PTSD veterans. $12 advance; $15 day of. nwmr-aaca.com/cruise-for-a-cause

58TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY REGATTA: Harbor Springs On Lake Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay. July 27-29. This event begins with “one-design” racing on Fri., followed by a “tourof-the-bay” course on Sat. & windward-leeward racing on Sun. It may be viewed from around the bay from 10am-4pm. ltyc.org

---------------------DISCOVERY DAY II - LEELANAU COUNTY POOR FARM: 10am-noon, Kasson Township Hall, Maple City. Grandchildren of 25-year managers, Charles & Mabel Coleman, will share their memories of daily life at the County Farm.

231-334-4395.

---------------------FREE CHILDREN’S THEATRE WORKSHOP: 10am-noon, Tank Hill, Frankfort. Presented by Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre. For ages 9-11. lakesideshakespeare.org/lst/education

---------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10am-noon: Kathryn Houghton will sign her book “Little Michigan: A Nostalgic Look at Michigan’s Smallest Towns.” 12-2pm: Jane Sheffer & Duff Leuder will sign their book “Pollinating Your Toolbox.” 2-4pm: R.J. Erskine will sign his book “Casting Demons

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PLANT IT WILD FIELD TRIP: 10am-noon, Misty Acres Preserve, 11983 N. Manistee County Line Rd. Join Josh Shields, forester in identifying native trees & shrubs in the wild. plantitwild.net

TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DOWNTOWN WALKING TOURS: 10:30am.

Start at the Perry Hannah statue on the corner of Sixth St. & Union St., TC. Free; donations appreciated. traversehistory.wordpress.com

---------------------MEET THE MACKINAW: 11am. Join the Icebreaker Mackinaw Maritime Museum aboard the Mackinaw; author of Michigan Chillers Johnathan Rand who will sign his book “Great Lakes Ghost Ship”; & local author Mike Fornes. General admission. mackinawchamber.com

---------------------CHARLEVOIX VENETIAN FESTIVAL: July 21-28. Featuring Aquapalooza, Beach Bash Basketball, 4-H Youth Sailing Regatta, Venetian Rhythms with Ruth & Max Bloomquist & Charlevoix City Band, Sailing Regatta, fireworks, Drenth Memorial Footrace, Ryan Shay Mile, Bridge Street Block Party, Boat Parade & much more. venetianfestival.com

---------------------ALDEN DAYS PARADE: 1-3pm, Downtown Alden. visitalden.com

---------------------FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER MARCH: 1pm. Gather outside of The Workshop Brewing Co., TC & march peacefully to the Parkway where you will stand until 2pm. Bring signs. 231325-6812. Free.

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---------------------“THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 7:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $20-$25. northportcac.org

---------------------BILL STAINES: 7:30pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. Enjoy this poet, storyteller, songwriter & folk musician. 231-882-9510. $20 advance; $25 door. growbenzie.org

---------------------THE SERIES AT LAVENDER HILL FARM: 7:30-10:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City.

Featuring the Funky Butt Brass Band. $22.50. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------AN EVENING WITH SARA EVANS: 8-10pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor.

This multiple-platinum earning country star has released seven studio albums with hits like “Born to Fly,” “Real Fine Place,” & “Stronger.” Tickets range from $40-$110. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------FRICTION QUARTET: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall.

This quartet’s performances have been called “terribly beautiful” (San Francisco Classical Voice) & “chillingly effective” (San Francisco Examiner). Free. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. Enjoy rustic Appalachian, swing & bluegrass by The Raisin Pickers.

july 29

sunday

NORTHERN MI ANTIQUEFLYWHEELERS ENGINE TRACTOR & CRAFT SHOW: (See Sat., July 28)

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58TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY REGATTA: (See Sat., July 28)

YOGAFEST: 3pm, Song of The Morning Yoga Retreat Center, Vanderbilt. July 26-29. A celebration of spirit, nature, community, service, & all things yoga. yogafestmi.com

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LAKESIDE SHAKESPEARE’S “HENRY VIII”: 7pm, Tank Hill, Frankfort. In Henry VIII, politics & personal life collide in Shakespeare’s tale of lust & loyalty. Free; suggested donation, $15/person. lakesideshakespeare.org/lst/performances

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------------------------------------------STREET MUSIQUE: 7-9pm, Downtown Harbor Springs. Women of Street Musique.

---------------------“THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE”: 7:30pm, Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, Burdickville. Presented by the Glen Arbor Players.

A couple in paradise related in first person present the separate perspectives in diary form of the legendary father & mother of the human race. Free, donations accepted. glenarborart.org/events

26TH ANNUAL ART LEELANAU BENEFIT EXHIBITION: 12-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland.

Raises operating funds for programs offered throughout the year at the Old Art Building. oldartbuilding.com “THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 2pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $25. northportcac.org

---------------------YOGAFEST: (See Sat., July 28) ---------------------JOAN SHELLEY: 4pm, Old Art Building, Leland.

This singer, songwriter & guitarist sings about life, love, lust & existence itself. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------“NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK”: 6-8:30pm, Bijou by the Bay Theatre, TC. See this documentary film about the water crisis in Flint. A Q&A will follow. Free. noranydropfilm.com

MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES: THE CRANE WIVES: 8-10pm, Lake Street Studios, Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. Initially part of the indie folk boom, The Crane Wives’ sound has grown & broadened. $18 members; $20 nonmembers. 18 & under, free. glenarborart.org

---------------------WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, BRETT MITCHELL, CONDUCTOR; JEFF THAYER, VIOLIN: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. $30. tickets.interlochen.org/ arts-festival

july 30

monday

FREE CHILDREN’S THEATRE WORKSHOP: (See Sat., July 28)

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26TH ANNUAL ART LEELANAU BENEFIT EXHIBITION: 10am-4pm, July 30 - Aug. 1. Old Art Building, Leland. Raises operating funds for programs offered throughout the year at the Old Art Building. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------TALKING HEADS NIGHT: 3pm, The Little Fleet, TC. A preview to TCFF’s “Stop Making Sense.” Featuring Talking Heads music & more.

Held before & after the viewing at the Open Space. thelittlefleet.com

---------------------JOANNE GALLOWAY: 5:30-7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Meet the Candidate Democrat 107th Michigan House District. Free. redskystage.com

---------------------SUMMERFOLK: LARA FULLFORD: Charlevoix Public Library. Lara plays both popular titles & original songs. Concert: 6:30-7:30pm.

Open mic: 7:30-8:30pm; sign up at 6pm when doors open. charlevoixlibrary.org

---------------------“50 MINUTE HAMLET”: 7pm, Tank Hill, Frankfort. A fun & fast-moving two-person adaption of Shakespeare’s masterpiece. A preview is held tonight. Free; suggested donation, $15/person. lakesideshakespeare.org/lst/performances

---------------------MONDAY NIGHT CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 7pm, Onekama Village Park. Featuring classic MI folk troubadours Ray Kamalay & Joel Mabus. Free.

---------------------POETS MEET MUSICIANS: 7-9pm, Acoustic Mead Tap Room, TC. NY Times best-selling poet & novelist Brittany Cavallaro. 231-392-6121.

july 31

tuesday

26TH ANNUAL ART LEELANAU BENEFIT EXHIBITION: (See Mon., July 30)

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KIDS SUMMER READING CLUB FINALE: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Miriam Pico will rock the library.

Enjoy music, movement & ice cream sundaes. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------RED DIRT ROAD: 10am-8pm, GT Distillery Tasting Room, TC. Hosted by Marie Eckstein & Lin Alessio, this display will run July 31 - Aug. 5.

A documentary on life in the village & the Red Dirt Road story will be shown hourly. A photo gallery of the lives of the women seamstresses & other exhibits will be displayed, & Red Dirt Road handloomed Cambodian silk fashion accessories will be for sale. red-dirt-road.org

---------------------TC FILM FESTIVAL: July 31 - Aug. 5. See rare, indie films & documentaries that often don’t make

FREE SUMMER KIDS MOVIE SERIES: 3pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Featuring “Trolls.” facebook.com/thebaytheatresuttonsbay

---------------------CANDIDATE FORUM: 5:30pm. A candidate forum for 86th District Court Judge will be held at 1740 S. Garfield, TC (in the Cherryland Mall).

Candidates are Bob Cooney, Paul Jarboe & Haider Kazim. Free.

---------------------LIVE ON THE BIDWELL PLAZA: KELLERVILLE: 5:30-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This Americana duo juggles various instruments, adding percussion through the use of a washboard, foot tambourine, rattles, shakers, & a floor tom. crookedtree.org

---------------------BENEFIT DINNER WITH THE DOC: 6pm, La Senorita, 1245 South Garfield, TC. All-you-caneat taco bar & more. Proceeds benefit Arts for All of Northern Michigan. Hear from Dr. Kyle & Shift Chiropractic. Sign up. $10. eventbrite.com

---------------------OD RECOGNITION & RESPONSE: 6pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. Harm Reduction Michigan presents its monthly training for those who want to learn to recognize & respond to an opioid overdose situation. Each clinic demonstrates a hands-on method of life saving with the antidote, Naloxone, & offers a kit to go. Free. harmreductionmi.org

---------------------DEBTORS ANONYMOUS MEETING: 6:30pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center, Rm. 3002, TC. Recovery meeting for those with money troubles.

973-476-7384. Free. debtorsanonymous.org

---------------------GTHC - TUESDAY NIGHT TREK: 6:30pm, Timbers Recreational Area, TC. 1.7 mile hike (loop trail). Access to this property is the parking area on Timbers Trail off N. Long Lake Rd. only.

---------------------“50 MINUTE HAMLET”: (See Mon., July 30) ---------------------MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE SERIES: 7pm, Douglas Park, Rotary Park Pavilion, Manistee. Featuring Midwest’s “Lil Big Band” Planet D Nonet. Free.

---------------------“THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 7:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $20-$25. northportcac.org

---------------------DUOMUZI: 7:30-9pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Duomuzi presents “Come Out of the Storm,” a new two-man play inspired by King Lear. Free. duomuzi.com

---------------------NON-FICTION AUTHOR HEATHER SHUMAKER: 7:30pm, Leelanau Township Library. leelanautownshiplibrary.org

---------------------CHARLEVOIX CITY BAND CONCERT: 8pm, East Park, Odmark Pavilion, Charlevoix.

---------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. Featuring the Straits Area Concert Band.

---------------------RED DIRT ROAD: (See Tues., July 31) ---------------------TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 31) ---------------------SUMMER READING CLUB PIZZA PARTY FINALE & MERRY MUSIC MAKER: 10:30am, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen.

---------------------ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: Aug. 1-4.

Featuring a Sunset Paddle, Yoga on the Beach, Bicycle Stunt Show, Diaper Derby & Toddler Trot, Swan Race, Fireman’s Waterball Contest, Harborun 5K Run/Walk & 10K, pet show, fireworks, live music by The Ronnie Hernandez Band, Risque, The Bronk Brothers, & much more. elkrapidsharbordays.org/events-schedule

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. Featuring folk artist Kirby Snively. crookedtree.org

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26TH ANNUAL ART LEELANAU BENEFIT EXHIBITION: (See Mon., July 30)

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RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: 9am, Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City. Aug. 1-5. Featuring cannon & musket demonstrations, 18th Century Cook-Off, live music by February Sky, native drumming with the Great Lakes, battle, Midland Highlanders & much more. Free. mackinawchamber.com

---------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: Tom Carr will sign his book “Blood on the Mitten”; Bill Smith will sign his book “Chickadees at Night”; & A.V. Walters will sign her book “The Gift of Guylaine Claire.” 12-2pm: Carol

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LET’S VISIT THE NEIGHBORS! PORT ONEIDA BIKE TOUR: 9:15-11am, Port Oneida Rural Historic District, Maple City. You will visit five historic farms & a historic school on this four-mile ride. Please bring water & wear a helmet. Free.

---------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: Marina Call will sign her book “Eastbound, I Think”; Cindy Hull will sign her book “Chippewa Lake: A Community in Search of an Identity”; & Cari Noga will sign her book “The Orphan Daughter.” 12-2pm: Tom Conlan will sign his book “My Journey Begins Where the Road Ends”; Scott Couturier will sign his book “The Curse of Roc Thalian”; & Evelyn Harper will sign her book “Essence.” 2-4pm: Jon R. Constant will sign his book “Leelanau by Kayak.” 4-6pm: Kirk D. Doge will sign his book “Crystal Clear: Adversity as a Gift.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------BABY’S BREATH WORKBEE: 10am-noon, Elberta Beach, Elberta. Help the Northwest MI Invasive Species Network & the GT Regional Land Conservancy on Elberta Beach to remove invasive baby’s breath. Dress for the weather & bring water &. habitatmatters.org/eventsworkbees.html

See it made...

HOWARD MARKEL LUNCHEON: 12-2pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Rose Room, Petoskey.

Presented by McLean & Eakin Booksellers.

Markel will discuss his book, “The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek.” 231.347.1180. $25. mcleanandeakin.com/event/howard-markel

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Marabell Aug. 1) EAST BAY • ACME 4500 N US-31 will sign his most recent book, “Death Lease.”

The Landmark with the Huge Box on Top since 1965 (5 miles north of T.C.) Free. mcleanandeakin.com/event/peter-marabell LIVING ON: LOSS OF A SPOUSE: 1pm, Mackinaw Trail Middle School, Cadillac. A grief support Open 7 DayS anD eveningS FREE SUMMER KIDS MOVIE SERIES: 3pm, program focusing on those who have lost a The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Featuring “Trolls.” spouse or partner. Register: 231-444-3350. Free. facebook.com/thebaytheatresuttonsbay “A PLASTIC OCEAN”: 2pm, HERTH, Elk JOHNATHAN RAND: 3pm, Charlevoix Public Rapids. This documentary is hosted by Green Elk Library, Community Room. Meet the author of Rapids. Free/donations. greenelkrapids.org the American & Michigan Chillers series. Free. charlevoixlibrary.org THE 44TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 2-5. Tonight is Oldies Night in the SAND DUNES, SAWDUST & SHIPWRECKS Polka Tent. There will also be a car show, 50’s & PRESENTATION: STORIES FROM THE SUN60’s best dressed awards & more. boynefallspolSET SHORE: 4pm, Leland Township Library, ishfestival.com/schedule-of-events Munnecke Room. A Michigan History Program

by Larry Massie. leelanauhistory.org MUSIC ON MAIN W/ DARBY O. BELL: 6-8pm, The Village at Bay Harbor, Main St..

EVENINGS AT THE GAZEBO: 6:30pm, Old City Park, Boyne City. Featuring Olivia MillerWC BEVAN, MURALIST PRESENTATIO: schin. Free.

6:30pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. Bevan will discuss the mural he created in Northport FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: 6:30pm, Helena Town& his other works in the states & abroad. Free. ship Community Center, Alden. Featuring “Wonnorthportartsassociation.org der.” 231-331-4318. Free.

“50 MINUTE HAMLET”: (See Mon., July 30) “50 MINUTE HAMLET”: (See Mon., July 30) CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions, ANNE MARIE OOMEN: 7pm, Empire Township lawn, TC. Featuring Miriam Pico. Free. gtpavilFEAST! Hall. This local author will present her latest book, ions.org/2018-concerts-on-the-lawn “The Lake Michigan Mermaid.” glenlakelibrary.net MEREDITH WILLSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: ELK RAPIDS SUNSET PADDLE: 7-8:30pm, 7pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson y BodBeach, Elk Rapids. Presented by Paddle Dam Auditorium. Interlochen’s High School Musical Antrim.

MindBring your paddleboard, kayak or Theatre Co. performs this six-time Tony Awardt i paddle paddle.

Free. winning musical comedy. $30 full, $27 senior, Spircraft of choice for this slow spring 2018 paddleantrim.com $13 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

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EARTH RADIO: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Musicians who are pushing the boundaries of soul music to a new level. $15/ adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

Teegardin will sign her book “Strawberry: How an Exotic Dancer Toppled Detroit’s Hip-Hop Mayor.” 2-4pm: Jennifer Pharr Davis will sign her book “The Pursuit of Endurance.” 4-6pm: Robert Downes will sign his book “Bicycle Hobo”; Tim Keena will sign his book “The Good Hike”; & Jeff Smith will sign his book “Becoming Amish.” horizonbooks.com

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NORTHPORT PLEIN AIR PAINT OUT WET PAINT SALE & RECEPTION: Village Arts Building, Northport. July 28-29. Sun., July 29 features the Wet Paint Sale & Reception from 6-8pm. northportartsassociation.org

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STREET MUSIQUE: 7-9pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs. “Blissfest Buskers Collective” featuring The Real Ingredients, Harbor Hoedown w/ Contra Dance, open mic hosted by Kirby, Holly Keller, Dr. Goodhart, Tommy Tortuga & Lil’ Arrrmstrong, face painters & Twister Joe.

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MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES: 8-10pm, Lake Street Studios, Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. Three friends raised on funk, jazz, blues & soul combine their styles to create Emma Cook & Questionable Company. $18 members; $20 non-members. glenarborart.org

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NORTHPORT PLEIN AIR PAINT OUT WET PAINT SALE & RECEPTION: Village Arts Building, Northport. July 28-29. Sun., July 29 features the Wet Paint Sale & Reception from 6-8pm. northportartsassociation.org

---------------------EARTH RADIO: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Musicians who are pushing the boundaries of soul music to a new level. $15/ adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES: THE CRANE WIVES: 8-10pm, Lake Street Studios, Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. Initially part of the indie folk boom, The Crane Wives’ sound has grown & broadened. $18 members; $20 nonmembers. 18 & under, free. glenarborart.org

---------------------WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, BRETT MITCHELL, CONDUCTOR; JEFF THAYER, VIOLIN: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. $30. tickets.interlochen.org/ arts-festival

july 30

monday

FREE CHILDREN’S THEATRE WORKSHOP: (See Sat., July 28)

---------------------FREE SUMMER KIDS MOVIE SERIES: 3pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Featuring “Trolls.” facebook.com/thebaytheatresuttonsbay

---------------------CANDIDATE FORUM: 5:30pm. A candidate forum for 86th District Court Judge will be held at 1740 S. Garfield, TC (in the Cherryland Mall).

Candidates are Bob Cooney, Paul Jarboe & Haider Kazim. Free.

---------------------LIVE ON THE BIDWELL PLAZA: KELLERVILLE: 5:30-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This Americana duo juggles various instruments, adding percussion through the use of a washboard, foot tambourine, rattles, shakers, & a floor tom. crookedtree.org

---------------------BENEFIT DINNER WITH THE DOC: 6pm, La Senorita, 1245 South Garfield, TC. All-you-caneat taco bar & more. Proceeds benefit Arts for All of Northern Michigan. Hear from Dr. Kyle & Shift Chiropractic. Sign up. $10. eventbrite.com

---------------------OD RECOGNITION & RESPONSE: 6pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. Harm Reduction Michigan presents its monthly training for those who want to learn to recognize & respond to an opioid overdose situation. Each clinic demonstrates a hands-on method of life saving with the antidote, Naloxone, & offers a kit to go. Free. harmreductionmi.org

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26TH ANNUAL ART LEELANAU BENEFIT EXHIBITION: 10am-4pm, July 30 - Aug. 1. Old Art Building, Leland. Raises operating funds for programs offered throughout the year at the Old Art Building. oldartbuilding.com

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TALKING HEADS NIGHT: 3pm, The Little Fleet, TC. A preview to TCFF’s “Stop Making Sense.”

Talking Heads music & more.

FindFeaturing us on Facebook & Instagram Held before & after the viewing at the Open 222 St. Joseph Ave • Suttons Bay Space. thelittlefleet.com

- - - -231-271-5462 - - - - - - - - - •-Open - - - -7- days --JOANNE GALLOWAY: 5:30-7:30pm, Red thelimabean.net Sky Stage, Petoskey.

Meet the Candidate Democrat 107th Michigan House District. Free. redskystage.com

---------------------SUMMERFOLK: LARA FULLFORD: Charlevoix Public Library. Lara plays both popular titles & original songs. Concert: 6:30-7:30pm.

Open mic: 7:30-8:30pm; sign up at 6pm when doors open. charlevoixlibrary.org

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“50 MINUTE HAMLET”: 7pm, Tank Hill, Frankfort. A fun & fast-moving two-person adaption of Shakespeare’s masterpiece. A preview is held tonight. Free; suggested donation, $15/person. lakesideshakespeare.org/lst/performances

---------------------MONDAY NIGHT CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 7pm, Onekama Village Park. Featuring classic MI folk troubadours Ray Kamalay & Joel Mabus. Free.

---------------------POETS MEET MUSICIANS: 7-9pm, Acoustic Mead Tap Room, TC. NY Times best-selling poet & novelist Brittany Cavallaro. 231-392-6121.

july 31

it to the popular “mega-plexes.” The festival screens over 100 movies at 10 different venues in & around downtown TC. There are also free movies at the Open Space & local musicians & artists. traversecityfilmfest.org

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26TH ANNUAL ART LEELANAU BENEFIT EXHIBITION: (See Mon., July 30)

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KIDS SUMMER READING CLUB FINALE: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Miriam Pico will rock the library.

Enjoy music, movement & ice cream sundaes. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------DEBTORS ANONYMOUS MEETING: 6:30pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center, Rm. 3002, TC. Recovery meeting for those with money troubles.

973-476-7384. Free. debtorsanonymous.org

---------------------GTHC - TUESDAY NIGHT TREK: 6:30pm, Timbers Recreational Area, TC. 1.7 mile hike (loop trail). Access to this property is the parking area on Timbers Trail off N. Long Lake Rd. only.

---------------------“50 MINUTE HAMLET”: (See Mon., July 30) ---------------------MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE SERIES: 7pm, Douglas Park, Rotary Park Pavilion, Manistee. Featuring Midwest’s “Lil Big Band” Planet D Nonet. Free.

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“THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 7:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $20-$25. northportcac.org

---------------------DUOMUZI: 7:30-9pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Duomuzi presents “Come Out of the Storm,” a new two-man play inspired by King Lear. Free. duomuzi.com

---------------------NON-FICTION AUTHOR HEATHER SHUMAKER: 7:30pm, Leelanau Township Library. leelanautownshiplibrary.org

---------------------CHARLEVOIX CITY BAND CONCERT: 8pm, East Park, Odmark Pavilion, Charlevoix.

---------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. Featuring the Straits Area Concert Band.

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SUMMER READING CLUB PIZZA PARTY FINALE & MERRY MUSIC MAKER: 10:30am, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen.

---------------------ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: Aug. 1-4.

Featuring a Sunset Paddle, Yoga on the Beach, Bicycle Stunt Show, Diaper Derby & Toddler Trot, Swan Race, Fireman’s Waterball Contest, Harborun 5K Run/Walk & 10K, pet show, fireworks, live music by The Ronnie Hernandez Band, Risque, The Bronk Brothers, & much more. elkrapidsharbordays.org/events-schedule

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. Featuring folk artist Kirby Snively. crookedtree.org

---------------------HOWARD MARKEL LUNCHEON: 12-2pm, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Rose Room, Petoskey.

Presented by McLean & Eakin Booksellers.

Markel will discuss his book, “The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek.” 231.347.1180. $25. mcleanandeakin.com/event/howard-markel

---------------------NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING PRACTICES: 12:30pm, The Rock of Kingsley. Presented by Paul Raphael & JoAnne Cook of the GT Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians. An optional lunch will be served at noon; suggested donation of $3 for $60+ & $5 for all others. Reserve your spot: 9222080. Free. grandtraverse.org/712/Senior-Centers

---------------------PETER MARABELL BOOK SIGNING: 2-4pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Marabell will sign his most recent book, “Death Lease.”

Free. mcleanandeakin.com/event/peter-marabell

---------------------FREE SUMMER KIDS MOVIE SERIES: 3pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Featuring “Trolls.” facebook.com/thebaytheatresuttonsbay

---------------------JOHNATHAN RAND: 3pm, Charlevoix Public Library, Community Room. Meet the author of the American & Michigan Chillers series. Free. charlevoixlibrary.org

---------------------SAND DUNES, SAWDUST & SHIPWRECKS PRESENTATION: STORIES FROM THE SUNSET SHORE: 4pm, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. A Michigan History Program

by Larry Massie. leelanauhistory.org

---------------------EVENINGS AT THE GAZEBO: 6:30pm, Old City Park, Boyne City. Featuring Olivia Millerschin. Free.

---------------------FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: 6:30pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Featuring “Wonder.” 231-331-4318. Free.

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ELK RAPIDS SUNSET PADDLE: 7-8:30pm, Dam Beach, Elk Rapids. Presented by Paddle Antrim. Bring your paddleboard, kayak or paddle craft of choice for this slow paddle. Free. paddleantrim.com

26TH ANNUAL ART LEELANAU BENEFIT EXHIBITION: (See Mon., July 30)

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ANNE MARIE OOMEN: 7pm, Empire Township Hall. This local author will present her latest book, “The Lake Michigan Mermaid.” glenlakelibrary.net

RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: 9am, Conkling Heritage Park, RED DIRT ROAD: 10am-8pm, GT Distillery Mackinaw City. Aug. 1-5. Featuring cannon & Tasting Room, TC. Hosted by Marie Eckstein & Free Parking Vendors On-Site 18th Century Cook-Off, demonstrations, Lin Alessio, this display will run July 31 - Aug.&5.Foodmusket live music by February Sky, native drumming with A documentary on life in the village & the Red the Great Lakes, battle, Midland Highlanders & Dirt Road story will be shown hourly. A photo much more. Free. mackinawchamber.com gallery of the lives of the women seamstresses & other exhibits will be displayed, & Red Dirt Road handloomed Cambodian silk fashion accessories AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. will be for sale. red-dirt-road.org 10am-noon: Tom Carr will sign his book “Blood on the Mitten”; Bill Smith will sign his book “Chickadees at Night”; & A.V. Walters will sign her book TC FILM FESTIVAL: July 31 - Aug. 5. See rare, “The Gift of Guylaine Claire.” 12-2pm: Carol indie films & documentaries that often don’t make

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Teegardin will sign her book “Strawberry: How an Exotic Dancer Toppled Detroit’s Hip-Hop Mayor.” 2-4pm: Jennifer Pharr Davis will sign her book “The Pursuit of Endurance.” 4-6pm: Robert Downes will sign his book “Bicycle Hobo”; Tim Keena will sign his book “The Good Hike”; & Jeff Smith will sign his book “Becoming Amish.” horizonbooks.com

------------------------------------------“THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 7:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $20-$25. northportcac.org

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES: 8-10pm, Lake Street Studios, Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. Three friends raised on funk, jazz, blues & soul combine their styles to create Emma Cook & Questionable Company. $18 members; $20 non-members. glenarborart.org

aug 02

thursday

RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: (See Weds., Aug. 1)

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LET’S VISIT THE NEIGHBORS! PORT ONEIDA BIKE TOUR: 9:15-11am, Port Oneida Rural Historic District, Maple City. You will visit five historic farms & a historic school on this four-mile ride. Please bring water & wear a helmet. Free.

---------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: Marina Call will sign her book “Eastbound, I Think”; Cindy Hull will sign her book “Chippewa Lake: A Community in Search of an Identity”; & Cari Noga will sign her book “The Orphan Daughter.” 12-2pm: Tom Conlan will sign his book “My Journey Begins Where the Road Ends”; Scott Couturier will sign his book “The Curse of Roc Thalian”; & Evelyn Harper will sign her book “Essence.” 2-4pm: Jon R. Constant will sign his book “Leelanau by Kayak.” 4-6pm: Kirk D. Doge will sign his book “Crystal Clear: Adversity as a Gift.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------BABY’S BREATH WORKBEE: 10am-noon, Elberta Beach, Elberta. Help the Northwest MI Invasive Species Network & the GT Regional Land Conservancy on Elberta Beach to remove invasive baby’s breath. Dress for the weather & bring water &. habitatmatters.org/eventsworkbees.html

---------------------RED DIRT ROAD: (See Tues., July 31) ---------------------TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 31) ---------------------CHILDREN’S ARTS & CRAFTS WORKSHOPS: 11am-1pm, Mackinaw Pavilion, behind Mackinaw City Public Schools. Starry Night Card Set. Bring a snack & clothes to paint in. Free. facebook.com/ mackinawartscouncil

---------------------ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: (See Weds., Aug. 1)

---------------------LIVING ON: LOSS OF A SPOUSE: 1pm, Mackinaw Trail Middle School, Cadillac. A grief support program focusing on those who have lost a spouse or partner. Register: 231-444-3350. Free.

---------------------“A PLASTIC OCEAN”: 2pm, HERTH, Elk Rapids. This documentary is hosted by Green Elk Rapids. Free/donations. greenelkrapids.org

---------------------THE 44TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 2-5. Tonight is Oldies Night in the Polka Tent. There will also be a car show, 50’s & 60’s best dressed awards & more. boynefallspolishfestival.com/schedule-of-events

---------------------MUSIC ON MAIN W/ DARBY O. BELL: 6-8pm, The Village at Bay Harbor, Main St..

---------------------WC BEVAN, MURALIST PRESENTATIO: 6:30pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. Bevan will discuss the mural he created in Northport & his other works in the states & abroad. Free. northportartsassociation.org

---------------------“50 MINUTE HAMLET”: (See Mon., July 30) ---------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions, lawn, TC. Featuring Miriam Pico. Free. gtpavilions.org/2018-concerts-on-the-lawn

---------------------MEREDITH WILLSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: 7pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Interlochen’s High School Musical Theatre Co. performs this six-time Tony Awardwinning musical comedy. $30 full, $27 senior, $13 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------STREET MUSIQUE: 7-9pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs. “Blissfest Buskers Collective” featuring The Real Ingredients, Harbor Hoedown w/ Contra Dance, open mic hosted by Kirby, Holly Keller, Dr. Goodhart, Tommy Tortuga & Lil’ Arrrmstrong, face painters & Twister Joe.

---------------------THURSDAY EVENING AUTHOR EVENT: 7pm, Dog Ears Books, Northport. Ginny Johnson will read from her book, “Ira’s Farm,” a memoir. booksinnorthport.blogspot.com

“THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 7:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $20-$25. northportcac.org

MEREDITH WILLSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: (See Thurs., Aug. 2)

through current wooden classics. Presented by the Water Wonderland Chapter of The Antique & Classic Boat Society, Inc. wwcacbs.com

merengué & Latin jazz. $10 adults; kids free.

- Ladies Night - $1 off michlegacyartpark.org/events/summer-sounds drinks & $5 martinis

FORAGING WORKSHOP WITH LISA M. ROSE: 10:30am, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. Lisa is the author of “Midwest Medicinal Plants” & “Midwest Foraging.” Register: 231-2569152. Free. lelandlibrary.org

with artists from Sara Bareilles & Regina Spektor, to William Shatner. Tickets range from $35-$65. bayviewassociation.org

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MACKINAW HERITAGE FESTIVAL: 10am-3pm, melodies, global rhythms & songwriting styles Forward.

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“THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO”: (See Thurs., RED DIRT ROAD: (See Tues., July 31) who serveDomiNate up a - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aug. 2) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Featuring WedThe - GetAlley it in Cats the can forwill $1 w/DJ blend of 1950’s & 60’s hits & comedy. They were “THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO”: 8pm, Bay View, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 31) opening actallfordrinks sevenw/DJ years.Fasel $22.50.

John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. This comical MATTHEW MORRISON: 8pm, Great Lakes Cen- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jay Leno’s Thurs - $1 off lavenderhillfarm.com staged production of Mozart’s opera, accompanied ter for the Arts, Center Stage, Bay Harbor. Emmy, THE 44TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH by orchestra, will be presented. $25/$28. bayvieTony & Golden Globe-nominated star Matthew FESTIVAL: Aug. 2-5. Today is Fun Day & features - Fri - - Aug - -3-- -Buckets - - -of-Beer - -starting - - - -at -$8-(2-8pm) --wassociation.org/performing-arts Morrison, backed by his five-piece band, will perthe Grand Royale Parade, Music on the Hill with BEN FOLDS: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall AuHappy Hour:The Harvey ditorium, Petoskey. creatorWallbangers of genre-bending - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - form Broadway standards & numbers from his past Scarkazm, Loudmouth Soup, & much more. productions, such as “Hairspray,” “South Pacific,” & boynefallspolishfestival.com music that includes albums with Ben Folds GREAT LAKES MUSIC FESTIVAL: 8pm, Great then:pop Black Masala “Finding Neverland.” $40-$110. greatlakescfa.org Lakes Center for the Arts, Center Stage, Bay - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Five, multiple solo albums, & collaborative records Harbor. Featuring young indie/country/rock artists, the Drew Hale Band & Jake Allen. $20. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------MOVIES IN THE PARK: 9pm, Village Park, Alanson. Tonight features “Beauty and the Beast.”

Free. facebook.com/VillageOfAlanson

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friday

ONEKAMA DAYS: Aug. 3-5.

Featuring a pancake breakfast, 1 Mile Fun Run, 5KDownhill Screamer & Annual 5K Run/ Walk, dances, fireworks, a parade & more. onekama.info

---------------------PATH TO PEN 2 (FLAT ROUTE): 9am-1pm, Oleson Farm/Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center.

Join agroecologist & science educator Elise DeBuysser & national park artist Nancy McKay on a writing tour of Port Oneida farms, gardens & landscapes. phsb.org

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saturday

CHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: 8am, Ferry Beach, Charlevoix. Featuring Dragon Boat Races. The Opening Ceremony begins with a practice known as “Awakening the Dragon” in which the dragon’s eyes are dotted just prior to the race to symbolize the dragon coming to life. Free. charlevoixdragonfestival.org

THE 44TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 2-5. Today is Youth Day & features the Youth Bike Parade, Virgil Baker & the Just 4 Fun Band, DynaBrass alternating with Roger Majeski & the Harmony Kings, a family movie & more. boynefallspolishfestival.com

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: David Richarde will sign his book “Yellow Dog River.” 12-2pm: John Garavaglia will sign his book “Dorian Gray.” 2-4pm: Susan McKenna will sign her book “Last Tracks.” 4-6pm: Derek A. Chowen will sign his book “The Thawing Man.” horizonbooks.com

CRUISE FOR A CAUSE: 11am-3pm, Streeters, TC. High Energy Automobile Show. Featuring collectable cars, trucks, motorcycles & specialty vehicles with a dedicated tribute to American Veterans featuring present & restored military vehicles. There will also be live music. Proceeds donated to Reining Liberty Ranch. $12 advance; $15 day of. nwmr-aaca.com/cruise-for-a-cause

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Parade at 11am, children’s games, ive music by Pair O’ Jacks, car show, contests & more. 602-5683232. Free admission. cadillacmichigan.com

WALLOON WOODIES CLASSIC BOAT & CAR SHOW: 11am-4pm, Barrel Back Restaurant, Walloon Lake. Find on Facebook.

NORTHPORT LIONS CLUB PANCAKE BREAKFAST & FLY-IN: 8am-noon, Woolsey Airport, Northport. Also featuring a car show. $8 adults; $4 kids 4-12; free for under 4.

5TH ANNUAL WOOFSTOCK PET & MUSIC FESTIVAL: 12-5pm, Mackinaw Trails Winery, Petoskey. Presented by the Charlevoix Area Humane Society. Ten plus bands will perform & there DOWNTOWN TRAVERSE CITY will be animal agility demonstrations, a pet contest, horse drawn wagon rides, the Daschie Derby & 231-946-1131 more. 231-582-6774. Donation.

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---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: (See Fri., Aug. 3) ---------------------- ---------------------RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: (See Weds., Aug. 1)

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9TH ANNUAL PORT ONEIDA HERITAGE RUN/ WALK: 8:20am, Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center/Olsen Farm. Choose from the Tiller’s 10K, Homesteader’s Hardcore 5K, Farmer’s Flat & Fast 5K, or Kid’s 1/4 mile Schoolhouse Dash. phsb.org

---------------------ANTIQUES AT THE FAIRGROUNDS: 9am-5pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey.

Featuring more than 150 dealers from around the country. Admission is $5 - good for both days.

Under 15 are admitted free.

---------------------CHERRY ROUBAIX GRANFONDO: 9am.

Choose from a 20, 40, 60, or 90 mile course on challenging roads in Leelanau County. This event starts in downtown TC & finishes in Suttons Bay with an after party at Herman Park. events. bytepro.net/2018cherryroubaix

- - -CREATIVE - - - - &- QUALITY - - - - -TOYS - -SINCE - - - 1984 ---4TH ANNUAL DEPOT MUSIC FEST: 3-9:30pm, Cadillac Rotary Performing Arts Pavilion. The headliner will be 1000 Watt Prophets. Others include Rick West, Alex Mendenall, Frank Youngman & many others. Also featuring kids games & activities, & more. Free. after26project.org

---------------------PETOSKEY DISTRICT LIBRARY 3RD ANNUAL LOCAL AUTHOR FAIR: 3-5pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Keynote Address by Randy Evans.

Other authors include Mary Agria, Clifford Denay Jr., Kenn Grimes, Ruth Wilkey & many others.

Free. petoskeylibrary.org

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PAUL REISER : 8pm, Odawa Casino, Ovation us out at actor, unionstreetstationtc.net 941-1930 downtown TC check Hall, Petoskey.

This comedian, television writer, author & musician has spent the last 30+ years acting in Oscar & Emmy award-winning movies & TV shows. He was voted one of Comedy Central’s “Top 100 Comedians of All Time.” $30/ person. odawacasino.com

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BOAT IN MOVIES IN THE PARK: Village Green Park, Walloon Lake. The movie will start 20 minMARKET & BAKERY utesFARM after sunset & can be watched from the park’s lawn or from your boat. Tune your boat radio in to SWEET CORN & SWEET CHERRIES listen for sound.

231-535-5000.

Free.

Blueberries, Raspberries & Apricots

Home-baked Bread & Pies Homemade Jams & Jellies BLUEBERRY PANCAKE Local Honey & Maple Syrup BREAKFAST: 8am-noon, RainIce Cream & Donuts bow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. $7. rainbowofhopefarm.weebly.com Cherry Products & Wines

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ON M-72 JUST 3.5 MILES WEST OF TC Zorn COASTAL CRAWL: 8am, 231-947-1689 •gallaghersfarmmarkettc.com Park Public Beach, Harbor Springs. 1/2, 1, 2 or 3 mile open water & kids mile swim.

OPENswim DAILY 8am1/2 - 8pm harborinc.org/coastal-crawl-132

---------------------NORTHWESTERN MI FAIR: Northwestern MI Fairgrounds, TC, Aug. 5-11. Featuring harness racing, livestock auctions, a carnival on the midway, food, demonstrations, exhibits & more. northwesternmichiganfair.net

---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: (See Fri., Aug. 3) ---------------------RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: (See Weds., Aug. 1)

------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE 44TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 2-5. Today is Family Day & feaRED DIRT ROAD: (See Tues., July 31) VIP RECEPTION TO BENEFIT CENTRE ICE tures Mass for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time ARENA: 3-5:30pm, Venue 120, 120 S. Park St., ---------------------Celebrated, 4-Wheel Drive Mud Run, live music by TC. A meet & greet featuring filmmakers of the TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 31) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - documentary “The Russian Five.” In-depth look at Jimmy K Polkas & Northern Nites, & much more. boynefallspolishfestival.com ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: (See Weds., Aug. 1) COPEMISH AMERICAN LEGION POST 531 CAR how five Russian hockey players each made their way to Detroit, becoming the first all-Russian five- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHOW: 9am, 18483 Cadillac Hwy., Copemish.

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey.

Featuring indie folk-pop duo A Brighter Bloom. crookedtree.org

Open to cars, motorcycles, trucks, etc. Music by Duke & the Studebakers from 7-11pm. Info: 231942-8222. $12 for registration. Find on Facebook.

“WHY UNIFORMS WERE THE WAY THEY WERE”: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. The final program of a 3 part summer series. Part 3 is about the Civil War. The speaker is a professional reenactment clothing maker who was one of the professionals selected to create uniforms in “The Last of the Mohicans.” Free. Find on Facebook.

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GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL: 5-11pm, Antique Flywheelers Show Ground, 00145 US 131 North, Boyne Falls. Live music by Foresters, Blue Grass Revival, The Walkers, Gloria Lynne & others.

Free. nmgmf.com

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THE HERITAGE FESTIVAL: 6-8pm, Mackinaw City. Watch a vintage baseball game, ride on a hay wagon, square dance, or watch quilters & spinners. mackinawhistory.org/heritage-festival.html

---------------------RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: (See Weds., Aug. 1)

39TH ANNUAL SUTTONS BAY ART FESTIVAL: 10am-6pm, Marina Park, Suttons Bay. Featuring 100 artists in all genres, food, a library book sale & more. suttonsbayartfestival.org

---------------------56TH ANNUAL PORTSIDE ARTS FAIR: 10am5pm, Elm Pointe Historical Museum, East Jordan. portsideartsfair.org

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ANIMALS IN THE CREEK: 10am, Antrim Creek Natural Area, Atwood. All ages. Free. grassriver.org

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: Anne Lewis will sign her book “Goodnight Sleeping Bear.” 12-2pm: Gary Murrell will sign his book “Bones in a Box.” 2-4pm: Charles E. Zitta will sign his book “Disney & The Wonder Within: Ears of Virtue.” 4-6pm: Scott Winkler will sign his book “The Meadow.” horizonbooks.com

man unit to take the ice for the NHL in October of 1995. $100. centreice.org/therussianfive

---------------------FILMS & MORAL GUIDANCE: 3:30pm, Immaculate Conception Church, TC. Michael Tueth, SJ, retired professor of communication courses at Fordham University & known for his humor, will discuss how contemporary movies of moral struggle often demonstrate that values & morality are still alive. Info: 248-540-8157. Free. jfangt.org

2ND ANNUAL PONTOON POKER RUN: 10am-6pm, Tommy’s, Walloon Lake. Players will form teams to cruise the lake & collect cards for the best hand to earn prizes. Fundraiser for the Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI.

---------------------39TH ANNUAL SUTTONS BAY ART FESTIVAL: 10am-5pm, Marina Park, Suttons Bay. Featuring 100 artists in all genres, food, a library book sale & more. Today features live music by The North Carolines that starts at 9am & a pancake breakfast. suttonsbayartfestival.org

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Boyne Falls. Live music by Souls Harbor, Adam Thurston, The Maendels, Chosen & others. Free. nmgmf.com

56TH ANNUAL PORTSIDE ARTS FAIR: 10am4pm, Elm Pointe Historical Museum, East Jordan. portsideartsfair.org

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SHORT’S FEST 2018: 5pm, Short’s Production ANTIQUES AT THE FAIRGROUNDS: 10am-4pm, Facility, Live Elk Rapids. in conjunction withevenings.

Elk Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey. musicHeld Friday & Saturday Rapids Harbor Days, enjoy Short’s brews, Starcut Featuring more than 150 dealers from around ciders, live music, local foods, & more. Tickets: the country. Admission is $5 - good for both days. shortsbrewing.com/shortsfest. $30/person.

Under 15 are admitted free.

- - - -Hotel - - - -Indigo -------------- ---------------------Traverse City MEREDITH WILLSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: RED DIRT ROAD: (See Tues., July 31) (See Thurs., Aug. 2) ------------------------------------------263 W. Grandview Parkway “50 MINUTE HAMLET”: (See Mon., July 30) - - - -Traverse - - - -City,- MI - -49684 - - - - - - - - - - - TC FILM FESTIVAL:facebook.com/hotelindigo (See Tues., July 31) t: 231.932.0500 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUMMER SOUNDS: GRUPO AYÉ CONCERT: -----------Reservations: 877.8.INDIGO (846.3446) EAST JORDAN MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, East Jordan Memorial Park Band Shell. Enjoy 60’s rock with Full Circle.

BOATS ON THE BOARDWALK, TC: 10am-4pm.

A free, judged boat show along the Boardman River boardwalk, featuring 50 boats, circa 1900

7pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. hotelindigo.com/TraverseCityMI Grupo Ayé is a ten-piece Latin orchestra who brings a mixture of Cuban timba, salsa, bachata,

AUTHOR SIGNING: @hotelindigo 12-6pm, Horizon Books, TC. Karl Manke will sign his book “Harsen’s Island Revenge.” horizonbooks.com

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“THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 7:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $20-$25. northportcac.org

MEREDITH WILLSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: (See Thurs., Aug. 2)

THE RAGBIRDS: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Performing a hybrid of indie-pop melodies, global rhythms & songwriting styles influenced from all over the world. $20/adults, $5/ under 16. mynorthtickets.com

MUSIC IN THE PARK, NORTHPORT: 7pm, Marina Park, Northport. With CSN Tribute Looking Forward.

staged production of Mozart’s opera, accompanied by orchestra, will be presented. $25/$28. bayviewassociation.org/performing-arts

ter for the Arts, Center Stage, Bay Harbor. Emmy, Tony & Golden Globe-nominated star Matthew Morrison, backed by his five-piece band, will perform Broadway standards & numbers from his past productions, such as “Hairspray,” “South Pacific,” & “Finding Neverland.” $40-$110. greatlakescfa.org

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through current wooden classics. Presented by the Water Wonderland Chapter of The Antique & Classic Boat Society, Inc. wwcacbs.com

merengué & Latin jazz. $10 adults; kids free. michlegacyartpark.org/events/summer-sounds

MACKINAW HERITAGE FESTIVAL: 10am-3pm, Mackinaw City.

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---------------------- ---------------------“THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO”: (See Thurs., RED DIRT ROAD: (See Tues., July 31) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aug. 2) ---------------------“THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO”: 8pm, Bay View, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 31) John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. This comical MATTHEW MORRISON: 8pm, Great Lakes Cen------------------------------------------GREAT LAKES MUSIC FESTIVAL: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Center Stage, Bay Harbor. Featuring young indie/country/rock artists, the Drew Hale Band & Jake Allen. $20. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------MOVIES IN THE PARK: 9pm, Village Park, Alanson. Tonight features “Beauty and the Beast.”

Free. facebook.com/VillageOfAlanson

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ONEKAMA DAYS: Aug. 3-5.

Featuring a pancake breakfast, 1 Mile Fun Run, 5KDownhill Screamer & Annual 5K Run/ Walk, dances, fireworks, a parade & more. onekama.info

---------------------PATH TO PEN 2 (FLAT ROUTE): 9am-1pm, Oleson Farm/Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center.

Join agroecologist & science educator Elise DeBuysser & national park artist Nancy McKay on a writing tour of Port Oneida farms, gardens & landscapes. phsb.org

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aug 04

saturday

CHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: 8am, Ferry Beach, Charlevoix. Featuring Dragon Boat Races. The Opening Ceremony begins with a practice known as “Awakening the Dragon” in which the dragon’s eyes are dotted just prior to the race to symbolize the dragon coming to life. Free. charlevoixdragonfestival.org

THE 44TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 2-5. Today is Youth Day & features the Youth Bike Parade, Virgil Baker & the Just 4 Fun Band, DynaBrass alternating with Roger Majeski & the Harmony Kings, a family movie & more. boynefallspolishfestival.com

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: David Richarde will sign his book “Yellow Dog River.” 12-2pm: John Garavaglia will sign his book “Dorian Gray.” 2-4pm: Susan McKenna will sign her book “Last Tracks.” 4-6pm: Derek A. Chowen will sign his book “The Thawing Man.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------FORAGING WORKSHOP WITH LISA M. ROSE: 10:30am, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. Lisa is the author of “Midwest Medicinal Plants” & “Midwest Foraging.” Register: 231-2569152. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------CRUISE FOR A CAUSE: 11am-3pm, Streeters, TC. High Energy Automobile Show. Featuring collectable cars, trucks, motorcycles & specialty vehicles with a dedicated tribute to American Veterans featuring present & restored military vehicles. There will also be live music. Proceeds donated to Reining Liberty Ranch. $12 advance; $15 day of. nwmr-aaca.com/cruise-for-a-cause

---------------------- ---------------------HARRIETTA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: Celebrate all things blueberry - pancakes, sundaes & pies.

Parade at 11am, children’s games, ive music by Pair O’ Jacks, car show, contests & more. 602-5683232. Free admission. cadillacmichigan.com

WALLOON WOODIES CLASSIC BOAT & CAR SHOW: 11am-4pm, Barrel Back Restaurant, Walloon Lake. Find on Facebook.

NORTHPORT LIONS CLUB PANCAKE BREAKFAST & FLY-IN: 8am-noon, Woolsey Airport, Northport. Also featuring a car show. $8 adults; $4 kids 4-12; free for under 4.

5TH ANNUAL WOOFSTOCK PET & MUSIC FESTIVAL: 12-5pm, Mackinaw Trails Winery, Petoskey. Presented by the Charlevoix Area Humane Society. Ten plus bands will perform & there will be animal agility demonstrations, a pet contest, horse drawn wagon rides, the Daschie Derby & more. 231-582-6774. Donation.

---------------------ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: (See Weds., July 1) ---------------------- ----------------------

---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: (See Fri., Aug. 3) ---------------------- ---------------------RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: (See Weds., Aug. 1)

THE 44TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 2-5. Today is Fun Day & features the Grand Royale Parade, Music on the Hill with Scarkazm, Loudmouth Soup, & much more. boynefallspolishfestival.com

9TH ANNUAL PORT ONEIDA HERITAGE RUN/ WALK: 8:20am, Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center/Olsen Farm. Choose from the Tiller’s 10K, Homesteader’s Hardcore 5K, Farmer’s Flat & Fast 5K, or Kid’s 1/4 mile Schoolhouse Dash. phsb.org

---------------------ANTIQUES AT THE FAIRGROUNDS: 9am-5pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey.

Featuring more than 150 dealers from around the country. Admission is $5 - good for both days.

Under 15 are admitted free.

---------------------CHERRY ROUBAIX GRANFONDO: 9am.

Choose from a 20, 40, 60, or 90 mile course on challenging roads in Leelanau County. This event starts in downtown TC & finishes in Suttons Bay with an after party at Herman Park. events. bytepro.net/2018cherryroubaix

---------------------4TH ANNUAL DEPOT MUSIC FEST: 3-9:30pm, Cadillac Rotary Performing Arts Pavilion. The headliner will be 1000 Watt Prophets. Others include Rick West, Alex Mendenall, Frank Youngman & many others. Also featuring kids games & activities, & more. Free. after26project.org

---------------------PETOSKEY DISTRICT LIBRARY 3RD ANNUAL LOCAL AUTHOR FAIR: 3-5pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Keynote Address by Randy Evans.

Other authors include Mary Agria, Clifford Denay Jr., Kenn Grimes, Ruth Wilkey & many others.

Free. petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------“THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 7:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $20-$25. northportcac.org THE SERIES AT LAVENDER HILL FARM: 7:30-10:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City.

Featuring The Alley Cats who will serve up a blend of 1950’s & 60’s hits & comedy. They were Jay Leno’s opening act for seven years. $22.50. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------BEN FOLDS: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. The creator of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, & collaborative records with artists from Sara Bareilles & Regina Spektor, to William Shatner. Tickets range from $35-$65. bayviewassociation.org

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PAUL REISER : 8pm, Odawa Casino, Ovation Hall, Petoskey. This comedian, actor, television writer, author & musician has spent the last 30+ years acting in Oscar & Emmy award-winning movies & TV shows. He was voted one of Comedy Central’s “Top 100 Comedians of All Time.” $30/ person. odawacasino.com

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BOAT IN MOVIES IN THE PARK: Village Green Park, Walloon Lake. The movie will start 20 minutes after sunset & can be watched from the park’s lawn or from your boat. Tune your boat radio in to listen for sound. 231-535-5000. Free.

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sunday

BLUEBERRY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: 8am-noon, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. $7. rainbowofhopefarm.weebly.com

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COASTAL CRAWL: 8am, Zorn Park Public Beach, Harbor Springs. 1/2, 1, 2 or 3 mile open water swim & kids 1/2 mile swim. harborinc.org/coastal-crawl-132

---------------------NORTHWESTERN MI FAIR: Northwestern MI Fairgrounds, TC, Aug. 5-11. Featuring harness racing, livestock auctions, a carnival on the midway, food, demonstrations, exhibits & more. northwesternmichiganfair.net

---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: (See Fri., Aug. 3) ---------------------RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: (See Weds., Aug. 1)

------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE 44TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 2-5. Today is Family Day & feaRED DIRT ROAD: (See Tues., July 31) VIP RECEPTION TO BENEFIT CENTRE ICE tures Mass for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time ARENA: 3-5:30pm, Venue 120, 120 S. Park St., ---------------------Celebrated, 4-Wheel Drive Mud Run, live music by TC. A meet & greet featuring filmmakers of the TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 31) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - documentary “The Russian Five.” In-depth look at Jimmy K Polkas & Northern Nites, & much more. boynefallspolishfestival.com ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: (See Weds., Aug. 1) COPEMISH AMERICAN LEGION POST 531 CAR how five Russian hockey players each made their way to Detroit, becoming the first all-Russian five- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHOW: 9am, 18483 Cadillac Hwy., Copemish.

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey.

Featuring indie folk-pop duo A Brighter Bloom. crookedtree.org

Open to cars, motorcycles, trucks, etc. Music by Duke & the Studebakers from 7-11pm. Info: 231942-8222. $12 for registration. Find on Facebook.

“WHY UNIFORMS WERE THE WAY THEY WERE”: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. The final program of a 3 part summer series. Part 3 is about the Civil War. The speaker is a professional reenactment clothing maker who was one of the professionals selected to create uniforms in “The Last of the Mohicans.” Free. Find on Facebook.

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GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL: 5-11pm, Antique Flywheelers Show Ground, 00145 US 131 North, Boyne Falls. Live music by Foresters, Blue Grass Revival, The Walkers, Gloria Lynne & others.

Free. nmgmf.com

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---------------------RENDEZVOUS IN MACKINAW & 18TH CENTURY TRADE FAIR: (See Weds., Aug. 1)

39TH ANNUAL SUTTONS BAY ART FESTIVAL: 10am-6pm, Marina Park, Suttons Bay. Featuring 100 artists in all genres, food, a library book sale & more. suttonsbayartfestival.org

---------------------56TH ANNUAL PORTSIDE ARTS FAIR: 10am5pm, Elm Pointe Historical Museum, East Jordan. portsideartsfair.org

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ANIMALS IN THE CREEK: 10am, Antrim Creek Natural Area, Atwood. All ages. Free. grassriver.org

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: Anne Lewis will sign her book “Goodnight Sleeping Bear.” 12-2pm: Gary Murrell will sign his book “Bones in a Box.” 2-4pm: Charles E. Zitta will sign his book “Disney & The Wonder Virtue.”

Where there is a need, there’s a Lion. It’s EasyWithin: to be aEars Lion,ofJoin your4-6pm: Lion’sScott ClubWinkler Today! will sign his book “The Meadow.”

“50 MINUTE HAMLET”: Mon.,toJuly Special(See Thanks our30) Golfers, who were all winners this year.horizonbooks.com THE HERITAGE FESTIVAL: 6-8pm, Mackinaw City. Watch a vintage baseball game, ride on a hay wagon, square dance, or watch quilters & spinners. mackinawhistory.org/heritage-festival.html

man unit to take the ice for the NHL in October of 1995. $100. centreice.org/therussianfive

---------------------FILMS & MORAL GUIDANCE: 3:30pm, Immaculate Conception Church, TC. Michael Tueth, SJ, retired professor of communication courses at Fordham University & known for his humor, will discuss how contemporary movies of moral struggle often demonstrate that values & morality are still alive. Info: 248-540-8157. Free. jfangt.org

---------------------GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL: 4-10pm, Antique Flywheelers Show Ground, 00145 US 131 North, Boyne Falls. Live music by Souls Harbor, Adam Thurston, The Maendels, Chosen & others. Free. nmgmf.com

2ND ANNUAL PONTOON POKER RUN: 10am-6pm, Tommy’s, Walloon Lake. Players will form teams to cruise the lake & collect cards for the best hand to earn prizes. Fundraiser for the Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI.

---------------------39TH ANNUAL SUTTONS BAY ART FESTIVAL: 10am-5pm, Marina Park, Suttons Bay. Featuring 100 artists in all genres, food, a library book sale & more. Today features live music by The North Carolines that starts at 9am & a pancake breakfast. suttonsbayartfestival.org

---------------------56TH ANNUAL PORTSIDE ARTS FAIR: 10am4pm, Elm Pointe Historical Museum, East Jordan. portsideartsfair.org

---------------------- ---------------------SHORT’S FEST 2018: 5pm, Short’s Production Facility, Elk Rapids. Held in conjunction with Elk Rapids Harbor Days, enjoy Short’s brews, Starcut ciders, live music, local foods, & more. Tickets: shortsbrewing.com/shortsfest. $30/person.

ANTIQUES AT THE FAIRGROUNDS: 10am-4pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey.

Featuring more than 150 dealers from around the country. Admission is $5 - good for both days.

Under 15 are admitted free.

7pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville.

Grupo Ayé is a ten-piece Latin orchestra who brings a mixture of Cuban timba, salsa, bachata,

AUTHOR SIGNING: 12-6pm, Horizon Books, TC. Karl Manke will sign his book “Harsen’s Island Revenge.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------- ---------------------MEREDITH WILLSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: RED DIRT ROAD: (See Tues., July 31) (See Thurs., Aug. 2) ------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TC FILM FESTIVAL: (See Tues., July 31) - - - -On- -behalf - - -of-our- -beneficiaries, - - - - - -Thank - - -you - so-much.

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- - - - - - - SUMMER SOUNDS: GRUPO AYÉ CONCERT: ---------------------EAST JORDAN MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, East Jordan Memorial Park Band Shell. Enjoy 60’s rock with Full Circle.

BOATS ON THE BOARDWALK, TC: 10am-4pm.

A free, judged boat show along the Boardman River boardwalk, featuring 50 boats, circa 1900

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MEREDITH WILLSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: 1:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Interlochen’s High School Musical Theatre Co. performs this six-time Tony Awardwinning musical comedy. $30 full, $27 senior, $13 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------“THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 2pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $25. northportcac.org

---------------------THE NORTH CAROLINES: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. A new Americana band. $10/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & “LES PRELUDES,” JUNG-HO PAK, CONDUCTOR: 7:30pm, Interlochen Bowl. Free. tickets. interlochen.org

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES: 8-10pm, Lake Street Studios, Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. Oh Brother Big Sister bring a wide variety of music genres. $18 members; $20 nonmembers. glenarborart.org

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GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: Flintfields Horse Park, TC, through Aug. 12.

Six weeks of equestrian competition, featuring jumpers, hunters & equitation with riders from around the country competing for prestige & prize money. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

---------------------FITNESS WITH A FRIEND: Current Y regular members can bring a friend for free over the summer months, through Sept. 3. Effective at any GT Bay YMCA facility. gtbayymca.org

---------------------ALDEN EVENING STROLL: Thursdays, 6-8pm through Aug., Downtown Alden. Featuring live music & street entertainers. Shops & restaurants stay open late.

---------------------BEACH BARDS BONFIRE: Featuring By Heart poetry, storytelling & music. Fridays at 8pm, through Aug. 3, on the beach at the Leelanau School. One dollar per being. 231-334-5890.

---------------------BOYNE CITY’S STROLL THE STREETS: Fridays through Aug., 6-9pm, downtown Boyne City. Featuring traditional folk, bluegrass, jazz & rock music. Special activities include magicians, caricature artists, face-painters & balloon-twisters. boynecitymainstreet.com

---------------------FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE: Fridays, 5:30-9pm, Aug. 3-24. A block party featuring live music, entertainment, food, demonstrations & family activities along the 100 & 200 blocks of East Front St., TC.

---------------------GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR OF TC: Perry Hannah Plaza, corner of 6th & Union, TC. A 2 1/2 hour, 2 mile walk around the city & through its historic neighborhoods. Held at 2pm on Mondays & Tuesdays. walktchistory.com

HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY BAND: Mondays, 8pm through Aug. 20, on the lawn next to The Pier Restaurant, Harbor Springs. Performances include show tunes, pop, standards, folk, classical, marches, jazz & more.

---------------------LOCAL AUTHOR BOOK SIGNINGS: Saturdays, 11am through July 28, Horizon Books, Cadillac.

Meet & greet new MI authors. facebook.com/ horizonbookscadillac

---------------------MINI/JUNIOR SPEED OF LIGHT: A laid-back race series. Ride bikes on dirt, explore the woods & more. Held every Thurs. at 6pm. Meet at the Vasa parking lot off Bartlett Rd., TC. elgruponorte.org

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MONDAY EVENING OLD MISSION PENINSULA RIDE: Mondays, 6pm, TC Central High School.

Presented by Cherry Capital Cycling Club. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

---------------------MUFFIN RIDE: Fridays, 9am. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club. Pick from 30, 38 or 44 miles. Leave from the parking lot behind Subway, Greilickville. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

---------------------THE HONOR RIDE: Mondays, 9am. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club. Meet at Honor Village Park, across from the Honor Plaza.

Choose from 25-30 miles or 35-50 miles. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

---------------------MONDAY MOVIE NIGHT: Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Every Mon. through Aug. 20 at 8pm. Bonfire at 7pm. lavenderhillfarm.com/ movie-nights

---------------------PETOSKEY ROCKS!: Fridays, 6pm through Aug. 10. Featuring free carriage rides throughout downtown, an eerie Ghost Walk, Music in the Park, & a Movie in the Park at Dark. petoskeyarea.com/ event-detail/petoskey-rocks

---------------------ROCK ‘N RIDES: Wednesdays, 6-8pm through Sept. 12, Little Bohemia Family Tavern, TC. Presented by Northwestern MI Regional Antique Automobile Club of America. Blues music host Blair Miller on The Cruise Brothers Stage. Enjoy cars, trucks, motorcycles, music, food & more. nwmr-aaca.com/events

---------------------STONE CIRCLE: Held on Saturdays through Sept. 1 at 9pm. Featuring poetry, storytelling & music in an outdoor amphitheater. Poet bard Terry Wooten will host the gatherings around the fire. Located 10 miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr., & then follow signs. $5/adults, $3/kids. 231-264-9467. stonecir@aol.com terry-wooten.com

---------------------YOGA ON THE BEACH: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8:30am; Fridays, 10am through Aug. 14. Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. All levels. facebook. com/yogaonthebeachNMI

---------------------VASA DOMINGOS: Sundays, 10am, Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC. elgruponorte.org

art

“WHERE WE LIVE” ART EXHIBIT: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Runs through Sept. 1 during gallery hours of 11am-3pm, Tues. through Fri. & 12-2pm, Sat. gaylordarts.org

---------------------ART WALK WEDNESDAYS: Petoskey/Bay Harbor. Every Weds. through Aug. 15 from 4-6pm, participating galleries, including the Northern Michigan Artists Market, will have events like artist meet & greets, artist demos, music, appetizers & more. redskystage.com

---------------------COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS EXHIBIT: The Gallery at Iron Fish Distillery, Thompsonville. Featuring the art of Barbara Webb & Jane Smeltzer, who work together to create paintings in a style they call “rustic/contemporary works of art which emerge from a combination of wood, metal & paint.” Runs through Aug. 28. The gallery is open on weekends from 12-7pm, & on weekdays by appointment. Call 231-378-3474 to schedule.

---------------------FAMILY, FOOD & MORE OFTEN THAN NOT FODOGRAPHS - FIBER ART OF MARIE WOHADLO: Traverse Area District Library, TC. This exhibit runs through the summer. A Meet-n-Greet Slideshow with Wohadlo will take place on Sun., July 29 from 1-3pm. tadl.org

---------------------JURIED FINE ARTS SHOW: Runs through Sept.

8 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.com

---------------------MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS SUMMER SHOW & SALE: Runs through Aug. at City Opera House, TC. Featuring nine artists with over 100 pieces of original art. A special feature is “Seeking Van Gogh.” Each artist has painted a local scene as Van Gogh might have painted it. cityoperahouse.org

ings. This exhibition runs through Aug. 2.

- HOME + TABLE SHOW: A reception to open this group show will be held on Fri., Aug. 3 from 6-8 pm. The show celebrates artist-made objects for the abode, created by studio artists represented by Lake Street Studios. Center Gallery is open daily, 11am-5pm. 231-334-3179. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - MIND INTO MATTER - CYNTHIA RUTHERFORD: Runs through Aug. 18 in Gilbert Gallery.

Cynthia’s paintings include textures, images, graffiti, glazes, & washes of paint.

- SEEING & BEING SEEN – THE WORKS OF SUSAN OFFIELD: Runs through Aug. 18. Susan enjoys painting the human being & standing before an inspiring object.

- “NORTHERN MICHIGAN, LIVING IT, LOVING IT!”: This CTAC Kitchen Painters Exhibit runs in the Atrium Gallery. Over 20 area artists capture the beauty & spirit of Northern MI in their original paintings. Runs through Sept. 8.

- THE BLURRED LINES OF FASHION & ART: A POP-UP EXHIBIT: Runs through Aug. 4. Couture designed & fabricated by Sis Fisher with works of art created by Cynthia Rutherford. crookedtree. org/events/petoskey

---------------------TWISTED FISH GALLERY, ELK RAPIDS: - RURAL INSPIRATIONS BY ALAN MACIAG: See how light transmits from eye to hand to canvas. Runs Aug. 3-31. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held Fri., Aug. 3 from 6-8pm.

- INNER LIGHT: The art of Katarzyna Korytowska, Mark Mehaffey & William Sievert will be featured in this exhibit through July 29. twistedfishgallery.com

---------------------MONSTER FISH: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST RIVER GIANTS: A Major Exhibition of National Geographic. Runs through Oct. 7 at Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Dennos Museum hours: Mon.-Sat.: 10am-5pm; Thurs.: 10am-8pm; & Sun.: 1-5pm. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------RUFUS SNODDY: “TEXTURES & ALLUSIONS”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. An Artist Talk will be held on Sun., Aug. 12 from 12-1:30pm. Runs through Aug. higherartgallery.com

---------------------OAC EXHIBIT: Oliver Arts Center, Frankfort. Join Higher Art Gallery owner & artist Shanny Brooke, along with artists Joe De Luca & Daniel Heron in a group show. An artist talk will be held on Sun., Aug. 4 at 1pm. Runs through Aug. 30. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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Deadline for Dates information is Tuesday for the following week.

OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA JURIED SUMMER SALON SHOW: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gallery, TC. Featuring about 230 pieces by many top oil painters. Runs through Sept. 1. crookedtree.org

---------------------CENTER GALLERY, GLEN ARBOR: - MICHAEL LOWERY: Michael returns to Leelanau County with a new body of watercolor paint-

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POP AND UNDERWORLD TEAM UP FOR DUB TRACKS Punk Detroiter Iggy Pop has teamed up with futuristic electronic/dub outfit Underworld for a collaborative single called “Get Your Shirt,” which can be found on their equally collaborative EP, Teatime Dub Encounters. The massive seven-minute dance track features super-catchy beats and lyrical proclamations about “being free” and “being me.” An accompanying video for the track features a trio of dancers and liquidized special effects. The idea for the team-up came after a prior film soundtrack project the two were supposed to work on never happened, prompting them to branch out on their own for this effort …

Elvis Presley’s classic tune “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” previously covered by reggae outfit UB40, has been revamped once again — this time by boy-band member turned solo artist Zayn Malik (One Direction).

Malik revealed his surprise cover of the hit last week, on which he stays faithful to the song’s main melody until the bridge, when he busts out his high range to impressive effect.

The reason for the surprise track release is likely further promotion of his upcoming sophomore album, for which a release date has yet to be revealed …

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More outdoor music is heading your way August 24–26 in Jackson County, Michigan, at Holler Fest. Taking place at — where else? — Irish Hills’ Frog Holler Farm — the festival will showcase May Erlewine, Appleseed Collective, Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish, Olivia and the Aquatic Troupe, Wire in the Wood, the Barbarossa Brothers, and many more. Tickets start at $15 for day passes and $50 for weekend passes. Expect four stages, plus a number of workshops, local food and art vendors, and kids’ activities …

Fans of New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen will be glad to hear that The Boss has officially released his full June 1978 performance at The Roxy in Los Angeles.

Several songs from that legendary gig were released as part of a Springsteen live album, but this particular album marks the first time that the entire concert (all four hours) has been made available, including the live debut of the track “Point Blank,” a cover of a Buddy Holly tune, and a piano version of “Independence Day” …

LINK OF THE WEEK Jonny Greenwood has teamed up with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express for a side project called Junun, a blend of Greenwood’s electronic

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music experience and bass and Tzur’s classical Indian sounds. They made their latenight TV debut on Stephen Colbert’s show, and you can check out that performance by following The Late Show with Stephen Colbert link at CBS.com. Junun is currently opening for Radiohead (Greenwood’s other band) on its tour …

THE BUZZ Check out some spiritually uplifting music at the Unity Christian Music Festival, happening in Muskegon Aug. 8–11 …

A little later in the month (Aug. 18–19), you can enjoy some tunes at the only free weekend-long jazz fest in West Michigan, the Grand Jazz Fest in Grand Rapids

(grandjazzfest.org) …

Gaylord’s Jake Allen (formerly of The Cookies) has released his third album, Deviant Motions, a progressive-pop effort that’s his first record since 2011 …

Planning ahead for 2019? Then mark your calendars for these shows, coming to East Lansing’s Wharton Center: Best of Bernstein’s Broadway (Feb. 16), Regina Carter (Feb. 22), Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour (March 24), and The Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6 (April 10) … 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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Completing Erasure’s World Be Gone album project, which followed them around the globe on various tour dates (this particular contribution was tracked at their recent London shows at the Apollo), World Be Live, the latest segment, includes two dozen tracks spanning much of the band’s career, including its energetic take on the 1981 Blondie classic “Atomic.” But Erasure’s not just falling back on the hits; it’s reinfusing them with the drama of the originals, proving that dance music doesn’t have to be devoid of emotion.

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Mendes’ latest is the subject of some major hype (including a vinyl edition of this same set), all produced to promote his upcoming 2019 world tour, an extensive outing that’s said to be Mendes’ biggest solo trek to date. Locked somewhere between the ’80s and the ’90s in its audio ambiance, Mendes’ tracks pay homage to everything from Stevie Nicks to Lenny Kravitz, veering from the more earthy “Fallin’ All in You” (cowritten with Ed Sheeran) to the funky downtempo number “Why.” The biggest highest is probably his collaboration with Khalid on “Youth.”

Christina Aguilera – Liberation – RCA

Confident and unadorned in the most positive way (see: album cover, devoid of noticeable makeup), Aguilera’s latest is similar to her Stripped album in tone, in that she seems to be going back to basics, focusing on melody construction and her always-strong vocals to deliver a package of potential radio hits. Bringing in production from California rapper and record producer Anderson .Paak and Kanye West, lead single “Accelerate” fuses edgy pop and hip-hop, the stage-y “Maria” effectively incorporates a Michael Jackson sample, and “Sick of Sittin’” appears to be a well-aimed punch at her stint on The Voice.

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The reel

by meg weichman

MAMMA MIA 2 the catcher was a spy

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orris Berg was a pretty fascinating guy. Educated at Princeton and Columbia University, he spoke a halfdozen languages, practiced law, and traveled the world.

He was also a professional baseball player, catching for several American League teams over a 15-season career in the 1920s and 30s. But his most unusual accomplishment was that of a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) in World War II. The Catcher Was a Spy attempts to tell Berg’s incredible story, but it doesn’t give it the push and polish it deserves. The film is, sadly, a lackluster affair, one with some half-hearted action scenes thrown in and a tacked-on cat-andmouse duel that injects the movie with a jolt of excitement far too late in the proceedings to do much good. Paul Rudd (AntMan and The Wasp) plays Berg, and his effortless charm is one of the few things that will keep you in engaged in the story. He’s joined by an equally stellar cast, including Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti, Mark Strong, and Sienna Miller, but the filmmakers refused to reach for anything beyond the expected. Berg deserves better, and so do you.

If Oscars were awarded based purely on the enjoyment quotient of an audience, well then consider this the Best Picture frontrunner.

But we all know that’s not how the Oscars do. And to be honest, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is not a very good movie. In quality, it’s noticeably worse than its 2008 predecessor Mamma Mia!.

And the sequel plainly demonstrates the ABBA catalogue does not run deep.

I mean, this sequel to the big-screen adaptation of the global sensation jukebox musical really could’ve re-used just about every single one of ABBA’s big hits from the first movie. It could not have mattered less. And they do end up reprising quite a few of those songs, and those are, by far ,the film’s best parts. Well that, and Cher (’cause Cher makes everything better).

But what’s Cher got to do with it? Well, allow me to turn back time and start at the beginning of the film. We find Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), the young woman who brought her three potential fathers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård ) together on the eve of her wedding, has renovated the hotel owned by her mother, Donna (Meryl Streep), on the most picturesque of magical Greek isles and is days away from a big party marking its grand opening.

Sophie’s … husband? Partner? Whatever he is, Skye (Dominic Cooper, the low-point of the franchise), is in New York, and they’re fighting.

But she’s got a mysterious man running the hotel (Andy Garcia, which, between this and Book Club, has me officially calling this the Garciassance) and her stepdad, Sam (Pierce), by her side. Conspicuously missing? Donna.

At first I was upset to discover Meryl would not play a central role in the sequel, because, well, she’s Meryl. And honestly, say what you will about her singing in the first film, she did elevate the whole affair. It does come as a shock to discover Donna has died, but it does allow the sequel to do some more interesting things with the story.

So, in addition to Sophie’s present day struggles, we get to enjoy a young Donna and find out what exactly led her to this idyllic Greek life and to having a baby with three possible daddies. Playing young Donna is a simply luminous Lily James (Cinderella). I think she has been a star in the making for quite some time, and you just can’t argue with her magnetism in this film.

And the other young cast members are near perfect matches with their older counterparts, particularly Donna’s best friends, Rosie and

Tonya (played by Christine Baranski and Julie Walters in present day scenes). Like, honestly, let’s give Rosie and Tonya their own spin-off sequel. Or have them inhabit some crossover world where Hotel Bella Donna and the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel exist in the same universe. I would totally watch that.

Sophie’s trio of dads are all totally game for the sequel and have fun with just how ill-qualified they are to provide musical entertainment.

Though I think the flashbacks really add to the film, they don’t always add up. The film really is one of the more egregious examples of unreasonable timeline and age math. Cher (72) is Meryl Streep’s (69) mother? For some reason they make a point to say Sophie is only 26, when her mother apparently had her at, like, 22. no one in this film could possibly be in their 40s! And the film contradicts the established mythology (if you will) of the first film with wild abandon.

But, honestly, don’t let that frustrate you until afterward, when you can have a hearty laugh and dive into the near thesis-length breakdowns on just how bizarre the film’s timeline truly is.

And to that end, you’ll also have the chance to really stop and think about just how bizarre the music of ABBA is. ’Cause sure, it’s goofy and silly and ridiculous — but in the best possible way. I mean somehow, seeing French waiters dressed like Napoleon and dancing to “Waterloo” felt like seeing a deep-seated dream I didn’t even know I had and had long held close to my heart, finally coming true.

This is a film that knows what it is and who it’s for. And it plays to its audience perfectly.

And for that, I am incredibly impressed. And when they do bust out “Dancing Queen” as boats filled with Greek villagers arrive for the opening of Hotel Bella Donna, an endorphin high is released that honestly will make you feel like you’re dancing right along with them.

It’s practically transcendent.

As the film comes to its conclusion, a woman next to me was basically bawling, and I won’t lie; I did get misty-eyed at the emotional ending. And if you’re looking for an epic musical finale, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again will not — I repeat: will NOT — disappoint. This is a most joyous of escapist delights. It made me so happy. And I think it will make you happy too.

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

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ant-man and the wasp

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uys, these dang superhero movies just aren’t ever going to stop, are they? In some ways its comforting; regardless of the ebb and flow of popular culture we’ll always have these films with which to trace our collective cultural experience.

And as I know I’ve mentioned in a previous review for some superhero blockbuster or another, some of them are pretty entertaining. Some actually engage you to the point that you become invested in their worlds. But some are also just so boring and insider-thick that it can wound you on the whole genre real quick. So thank goodness for Ant-Man, which falls effortlessly in that former category of superheroes who know when to keep the pace quick and the plot light — but not too light. Ant-Man is, for the uninitiated, a superhero who uses a sci-fi suit to shrink down to do his do-gooding. He is also the least serious, least essential of the Marvel superheroes whom, it has been deemed, need their story told, leaving the story to do its own thing. And in the hands of Paul Rudd, the most likeable actor out there right now, it makes for a light and enjoyable two hours. Aside from a spirited plot, Ant-Man and the Wasp has a lot of fun with its central premise of shrinking. There are plenty of sight gags that help ground the movie in a playfulness that many comic book movies often eschew. It’s honestly pretty refreshing, seeing a movie be this much fun while it still fits within a construct that has been designed to be taken so seriously. And especially on the heels of the ultra heavy, people-are-still-recovering-from-its-finale, Avengers: Infinity War, this is the kind of Marvel fluff we need.

won’t you be my neighbor?

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ennis shoes. A sweater. Our great secular saint. There’s only one man I could be describing, and it’s Fred Rogers.

He’s the subject of a new documentary that traces his life, work, and incalculable legacy. By the end of its 90-some touching minutes, you’ll not only find your face tear- and snotstained (pro tip: bring tissues) but also washed clean of the anguish of modern adult life and wanting to be the person Mr. Rogers thought you could be. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is an altogether rare experience, an empathetic tearjerker that could not be more deeply felt. Using archival clips and interviews with friends, family, and co-workers to tell the story of Fred Rogers’ path from seminary school to writing, producing, and starring in that staple of youth, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, this is pretty simple and straightforward filmmaking. But as we remember from watching clips of the low-fi magic Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which didn’t need fancy sets or puppets, just because it’s simple doesn’t make it any less impactful. While certainly following the template of a standard biography, it transforms into a much-needed salve to these troubled, embittered times. And the film serves as a rallying cry sung in the softest and sweetest of sing-songy voices, stirring things you have long lost touch with or forgotten — those formative lessons he shared with us and the power of being warm, loving, patient, and kind. So let yourself cry, and you’ll come out better on the other side, ready for the days and fight ahead.

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Blair Miller, 6-8 Thurs. -- The Duges, 6:30-8:30

7/28 -- The Crane Wives, 7-10 8/4 -- Mark Lavengood, 8-10:30

PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30

BONOBO WINERY, TC 8/3 -- The North Carolines, 6-8

RARE BIRD BREWPUB, TC 7/28 -- DJ PRIM, 10

THE LITTLE FLEET, TC 7/30 -- Talking Heads Night, 3 8/3 -- Turbo Pup, 6:30-9:30 8/4 – Vinyl Night w/ DJ Heady – Music for Films

CHATEAU CHANTAL, TC 7/5 -- Jazz at Sunset w/ Jeff Haas Trio, Don Julin & Nancy Stagnitta, 7

RIGHT BRAIN BREWERY, TC 8/5 -- 78 Sunday, 4-6

CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE, TC 8/1 -- Chris Smith, 5 FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close

SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9

FIREFLY, TC 8/3 -- Clint, 8

STATE STREET GRILLE, TC 7/28 -- Scarkazm, 7-11

GT DISTILLERY, FRONT ST. TASTING ROOM, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30

TC WHISKEY CO. 7/29 -- Drew Hale, 3-5

KILKENNY'S, TC 7/27-28 – Risque 8/3-4 – Soul Patch Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 Sun. -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 7/30 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 8/3 – Jim Moore, 6-8

TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 7/28 -- PPM, 8-10 7/31 -- Big Daddios, 8-10 8/1 -- Open Mic, 7-10 8/2 -- Medicinal Groove, 8-10 8/3 -- Rob Coonrod, 8-10 8/4 -- E Minor Trio, 8-10 THE BAYVIEW, WILLIAMSBURG 7/28 -- Tim Thayer, 7

LITTLE BOHEMIA FAMILY TAVERN, TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 Weds. – ROCK ‘n’ RIDES ‘n’ BLUES w/

THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7 THE FILLING STATION MICROBREWERY, THE PLATFORM, TC

SNOWBELT BREWING CO., GAYLORD 8/3 -- Tribe of Chiefs, 7

ODAWA CASINO, PETOSKEY OVATION HALL: 8/4 -- Paul Reiser, 8 PIERSON'S GRILLE & SPIRITS, HARBOR SPRINGS 7/28 -- Bill Oeming, 10 8/3 -- Charlie Reager, 10 8/4 -- Nelson Olstrom, 10 THE GRILLE AT BAY HARBOR Nightly Music

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THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 7/31 -- Jazz Society Jam, 6-10 TOWNLINE CIDERWORKS, WILLIAMSBURG 8/3 -- Tim Thayer, 6 UNION STREET STATION, TC 7/28 -- Mainstays, 10 7/29 -- Head for the Hills Live Show, then Karaoke, 5 7/30,8/2 -- DJ Fasel, 10 7/31 -- TC Comedy Collective, 8-9:30; then Open Mic w/ Matt McCalpin, 8 8/1 -- DJ DomiNate, 10 8/3 -- Happy Hour w/ Harvey Wallbangers, then Black Masala, 5 8/4 -- Black Masala, 10 8/5 -- Ryan White Maloney, 10 WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN RESORT, TC 7/28,8/4 -- DJ Motaz @ View, 10 7/31 -- Sweetwater Blues on the Patio, 7-9:30 8/1 -- Piano w/ David Chown on the Deck, 5; Jeff Haas Trio on the Patio, 7 8/2 -- Fresh Water Ensemble on the Patio, 6 8/3 -- Funkamatic on the Patio, 6-10; DJ Shawny D @ View, 10

TREETOPS RESORT, GAYLORD 7/28,8/2 -- Zeke Clemons, 7:3010:30 8/3 -- A Brighter Bloom, 7:30-10:30 8/4 -- Dos Hippies, 7:30-10:30

Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee TJ'S PUB, MANISTEE 7/28 -- Jeri & Tony, 6-9

MACKINAW CROSSINGS, MACKINAW CITY 7/28 -- Syndi in Depot, 2-5; Double Trouble, 5:30-9 7/29 -- Toast & Jam, 2 7/30 -- Charlie, 2-5; Double Trouble, 6-9 7/31 -- Marko, 2-5; Toast & Jam, 6-9

LEGS INN, CROSS VILLAGE Fri -- Kirby, 6-9

THE PARLOR, TC 7/28 -- Joe Wilson, 8

Otsego, Crawford & Central ALPINE TAVERN & EATERY, GAYLORD Sat -- Live Music, 6-9

LEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN, PETOSKEY Thurs — Karaoke w/ DJ Micheal Williford, 10 Fri – TRANSMIT, Techno-Funk-Electro DJs, 10 Sun — DJ Johnnie Walker, 9

CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY 7/28 – Not Quite Canada, 10 7/31 -- Sean Bielby, 9 8/3 -- The Be Colony, 10 KNOT JUST A BAR, BAY HARBOR Mon,Tues,Thurs — Live music

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BELLA FORTUNA, LAKE LEELANAU 7/31 – Robin Connell & Jim Cooper

8/3 -- G-Snacks, 7-10 8/4 -- Blind Dog Hank, 7-10

BOATHOUSE VINEYARDS, LAKE LEELANAU 7/29 -- Bryan Poirier, 3:30-6 8/1 -- Jim Hawley, 5:30-8 8/5 -- Blake Elliott, 3:30-6

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DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2 HOP LOT BREWING CO., SUTTONS BAY 7/28 -- Jen Sygit, 6-9 8/3 -- Matt Gabriel, 6-9 8/4 -- Little Something, 6-9

PLATTE RIVER INN, HONOR Tue -- Open Mic, 7

LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 7/28 -- Full Cord Bluegrass, 7-10 7/31 -- New Third Coast, 6:30-9:30 8/1 -- Don Savoie, 6:30-9:30 8/2 -- Emma Cook & Questionable Company, 6:30-9:30

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“Jonesin” Crosswords "Bounce Back"--take a left at the circle... by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 Chamillionaire hit parodied by Weird Al 6 Kermit-flailing-his-arms noise 9 Air Force One occupant, for short 14 “F¸r ___” (Beethoven piece) 15 Purpose 16 Siskel was his partner 17 Good deeds 19 Maker of Posturepedic mattresses 20 “øComo ___ usted?”

21 Printer adjunct, maybe 23 Feel remorse for 24 Its subtitle is “Day-O” 28 Ren Faire underlings 30 “Children of a Lesser God” Oscar winner 31 Tart glassful 36 Pre-euro electronic currency 37 DeVry or University of Phoenix 41 Quilting event 42 Distrustful about 43 The Suez Canal can take you there 46 Item increasingly made from recyclable material 50 Latkes and boxties, e.g.

55 It’s not a prime number 56 Fires up 57 Aquarium organism 58 Show disdain for 61 Manned crafts involved in atmospheric reentry 63 Having regressed 64 Fabric dye brand 65 “Chasing Pavements” singer 66 Declined 67 Sue Grafton’s “___ for Silence” 68 Jay-Z’s music service

DOWN

1 Alludes (to) 2 “If you do that... see you in court!”

3 Mike Myers character who hosted “Sprockets”

4 “Insecure” star Rae 5 Duck Hunt console, for short 6 Desert plant related to the asparagus 7 Take ___ at (guess) 8 Question type with only two answers 9 Pre-euro coin 10 Conor of Bright Eyes 11 Rooibos, for one 12 It contains (at least) two forward slashes 13 Pigpen 18 Amino acid asparagine, for short 22 To wit 24 “Yeah, right” 25 Couturier Cassini 26 “Yeah, right on!”

27 Wildebeest 29 Progressive spokesperson 32 Alyssa of “Who’s the Boss?”

33 When aout occurs 34 Term used in both golf and tennis 35 Cannes Film Festival’s Camera ___ 37 Amanda of “Brockmire” 38 Decorate differently 39 At a ___ (stumped) 40 Direct deposit payment, for short 41 Strapped support 44 Hardly dense 45 Made, as money 47 Like some oats 48 Bassett of “Black Panther” 49 Pop performer?

51 Prompt givers 52 Computer code used to create some lo-fi artwork 53 John who wrote “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 54 Paranormal skill, supposedly 57 “Truth in Engineering” automaker 58 Stockholm’s country (abbr.)

59 Corn remainder 60 Poetic sphere 62 Took a load off

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: I’m a 31-year-old guy who got really hurt after a relationship ended a few years back.

Now I just don’t date women whom I’ll ever really care about because I don’t ever want to feel how I felt when my previous relationship ended.

My friends say I’m being a coward and missing out, but, hey, I’m not depressed over any chicks.

I think I’m being smart in protecting myself.

Maybe more people should take this approach.

— Comfortably Numb

A

: These days, your relationships probably start when you eyeball a woman on the street: “Whoa! I bet she’d be seriously mediocre in bed!”

Next, you discover that she’s a real yawn out of the sack, too — and you’re in!

Now, it’s possible that you’re way more emotionally sensitive than most people, to the point where a loss that others would eventually recover from hits you like a never-ending colonoscopy (with, um, artisanal anesthesia: “If you’ll just bite this stick...”).

Even if you are super sensitive, avoiding the pain comes at a substantial price: living a gray goulash of a life, spending every day with some uninspiring somebody you don’t really care about. But consider that we evolved to be resilient — to heal from emotional injuries as we do physical ones. However, in order for you to do this — and to see that you might actually be able to stand the pain of loss -- you need to view resilience not as some mysterious emotional gift but as a practice.

Resilience comes out of what clinical psychologist Salvatore Maddi calls “hardiness.”

He writes that “hardiness ... provides the courage and motivation to do the hard, strategic work of turning stressful circumstances from potential disasters into growth opportunities.” His research finds that hardiness is made up of three “interrelated attitudes,” which he calls the three Cs: Commitment, Control, and Challenge.

Commitment is the desire to engage with people and life instead of pulling away and isolating yourself. Control is the motivation to take action to improve your life “rather than sinking into passivity and powerlessness.” Challenge is the willingness to face the stress life throws at you and use it as a learning experience “rather than playing it safe by avoiding uncertainties and potential threats.”

These attitudes might not come naturally to you. But you can choose to take them up, same as you might other “unnatural practices,”

like monogamy and wearing deodorant.

Understanding that there are steps you can take to recover from heartbreak might give you the courage to go for a woman you really love.

Sure, that woman might leave you — causing you big-time pain. But consider that risk avoidance — like by being with a woman you don’t really care about — isn’t pain avoidance.

The pain is just different. It’s low-dose extendedrelease -- like frequently experiencing the postsex horror that leads you to want to grab your clothes and make a run for it before the woman next to you wakes up. And then you remember a couple of essential points: She’s your wife, not some Tinder rando, and it’s your apartment.

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: I’m a straight 36-year-old woman, and I recently lost a lot of weight. My doctor’s happy.

My girlfriends think I look great. They’re all “How’d you do it?” “You look like a model!”

However, my male friends think I’m too skinny now. Is there a big difference in what the sexes consider a good body?

— Slim

A

: Though women assume that men think the ideal female body shape is modeliciously skinny, consider that construction workers rarely yell out, “Hey, Hotstuff ! Great set of ribs!”

In studies exploring men’s and women’s ideas of the ideal female body weight, women consistently “perceive men as being attracted to thinner female figures than is true in reality,” writes social psychologist Viren Swami. And it isn’t just North American men who like fleshier women. Swami ran a massive survey — of 7,434 men and women in 26 countries, across 10 world regions -- and “men across all world regions except East Asia selected a significantly heavier figure as being most physically attractive compared to what women believed was most attractive to men.”

Swami and his colleagues speculate that “women exposed to magazines marketed to women may form skewed perceptions of what body types are most appealing to men.” But don’t despair. Swami’s study and others measure the preferences of the “average” man. There is no such person. Or, as an epidemiologist friend of mine often reminds me, there are “individual differences” —meaning individuals’ preferences vary. In other words, there are men out there who will be seriously into a woman like you — a woman who can do amazing feats in the bedroom, like removing a pair of skinny jeans without calling 911 and asking for firemen to come over with the Jaws of Life.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future

pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.” A character named Julia says that in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. I bring it to your attention as an inspiring irritant, as a prod to get you motivated. I hope it will mobilize you to rise up and refuse to allow your past and your future to press so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present. It’s a favorable time for you to fully claim the glory of being right here, right now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The questions

you’ve been asking aren’t bad or wrong. But they’re not exactly relevant or helpful, either.

That’s why the answers you’ve been receiving aren’t of maximum use. Try these questions instead. 1. What experience or information would you need to heal your divided sense of loyalty? 2. How can you attract an influence that would motivate you to make changes you can’t quite accomplish under your own power? 3. Can you ignore or even dismiss the 95 percent of your fear that’s imaginary so you’ll be able to focus on the five percent that’s truly worth meditating on? 4. If I assured you that you have the intelligence to beautify an ugly part of your world, how would you begin?

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): A scuffle you’ve

been waging turns out to be the wrong scuffle. It has distracted you from giving your full attention to a more winnable and worthwhile tussle. My advice? Don’t waste energy feeling remorse about the energy you’ve wasted. In fact, be grateful for the training you’ve received. The skills you’ve been honing while wrestling with the misleading complication will serve you well when you switch your focus to the more important issue. So are you ready to shift gears? Start mobilizing your crusade to engage with the more winnable and worthwhile tussle.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that

August will be a Golden Age for you. That’s mostly very good. Golden opportunities will arise, and you’ll come into possession of lead that can be transmuted into gold. But it’s also important to be prudent about your dealings with gold. Consider the fable of the golden goose. The bird’s owner grew impatient because it laid only one gold egg per day; he foolishly slaughtered his prize animal to get all the gold immediately. That didn’t work out well. Or consider the fact that to the ancient Aztecs, the word teocuitlatl referred to gold, even though its literally translation was “excrement of the gods.” Moral of the story: If handled with care and integrity, gold can be a blessing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus socialite

Stephen Tennant (1906-1987) was such an interesting luminary that three major novelists created fictional characters modeled after him.

As a boy, when he was asked what he’d like to be when he grew up, he replied, “I want to be a great beauty.” I’d love to hear those words spill out of your mouth, Taurus. What? You say you’re already all grown up? I doubt it. In my opinion, you’ve still got a lot of stretching and expansion and transformation to accomplish during the coming decades. So yes: I hope you can find it in your wild heart to proclaim, “When I grow up, I want to be a great beauty.” (P.S. Your ability to become increasingly beautiful will be at a peak during the next fourteen months.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Manage with

bread and butter until God sends the honey,” advises a Moroccan proverb. Let’s analyze how this advice might apply to you. First thing I want to know is, have you been managing well with bread and butter? Have you refrained from whining about your simple provisions, resting content and grateful? If you haven’t, I doubt that any honey will arrive, ether from God or any other source. But if you have been celebrating your modest gifts, feeling free of greed and displeasure, then I expect at least some honey will show up soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t worry your

beautiful head about praying to the gods of luck and fate. I’ll take care of that for you. Your job is to propitiate the gods of fluid discipline and hard but smart work. To win the favor of these divine

helpers, act on the assumption that you now have the power and the right to ask for more of their assistance than you have before. Proceed with the understanding that they are willing to provide you with the stamina, persistence, and attention to detail you will need to accomplish your next breakthrough.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m not an ascetic

who believes all our valuable lessons emerge from suffering. Nor am I a pop-nihilist who sneers at pretty flowers, smiling children, and sunny days. On the contrary: I’m devoted to the hypothesis that life is usually at least 51 percent wonderful. But I dance the rain dance when there’s an emotional drought in my personal life, and I dance the pain dance when it’s time to deal with difficulties I’ve ignored. How about you, Virgo? I suspect that now is one of those times when you need to have compassionate heart-toheart conversations with your fears, struggles, and aches.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you absolutely

need orchids, sweet elixirs, dark chocolate, alluring new music, dances on soft grass, sensual massages, nine hours of sleep per night, and a steady stream of soulful conversations? No. Not really. In the coming days, life will be a good ride for you even if you fail to procure those indulgences. But here are further questions and answers: Do you deserve the orchids, elixirs, and the rest? My answer is yes, definitely. And would the arrival of these delights spur you to come up with imaginative solutions to your top two riddles? I’m pretty sure it would. So I conclude this horoscope by recommending that you do indeed arrange to revel in your equivalent of the delights I named.

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ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t try to

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Dear

Astrologer: Recently I’ve been weirdly obsessed with wondering how to increase my levels of generosity and compassion. Not just because I know it’s the right thing to do, but also because I know it will make me healthy and honest and unflappable. Do you have any sage advice? -Ambitious Sagittarius.” Dear Ambitious: I’ve noticed that many Sagittarians are feeling an unprecedented curiosity about how to enhance their lives by boosting the benevolence they express. Here’s a tip from astrologer Chani Nicholas: “Source your sense of self from your integrity in every interaction.” Here’s another tip from Anais Nin: “The worse the state of the world grows, the more intensely I try for inner perfection and power. I fight for a small world of humanity and tenderness.”

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Time does not necessarily heal all wounds. If you wait around passively, hoping that the mere passage of months will magically fix your twists and smooth out your tweaks, you’re shirking your responsibility. The truth is, you need to be fully engaged in the process. You’ve got to feel deeply and think hard about how to diminish your pain, and then take practical action when your wisdom shows you what will actually work. Now is an excellent time to upgrade your commitment to this sacred quest.

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