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Kudos, Express I always enjoy reading through the Express but the June 25 magazine was especially appreciated. I was pleasantly surprised to see coverage of upcoming political issues — like the redistricting and classroom curriculum articles. I also appreciate that your editorial decisions are not politically slanted — though I do enjoy the back and forth in the letters to the editor. Whatever we can do to get people thinking and prepared as they go to the polls in November. Thanks for your great work. Keli MacIntosh, Traverse City

Paying for Abuse We, as a nation, are guilty. Our tax money has gone — and is going — to abuse children and parents. The psychological damage we have inflicted will likely continue a lifetime. Who will the next terrorists be? Which nations will object to our condemnation of them for human rights violations? Why are journalists and government officials not allowed in to see the incarcerated children? Look in the mirror for answers. Lou Ann McKimmy, Rapid City

Who Cares? Not the Trumps Trump called immigrants rapists, murders, and bad hombres while campaigning. He claims they come here to commit heinous crimes and to take your job. Never mind that facts show these rants to be false. In border towns, crime has dropped, and the flow of immigrants has lessened steadily over the years. Most of the current immigrants are actually refugees from Central America — families running from horrible violence in their home country. They take the dangerous trek here to save their families. The MS-13 gang members Trump claims are rushing here, are mostly growing from kids already living in the U.S.,

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American Exceptionalism Lost? My father served aboard the USS Janssen, a destroyer escort, in World War II, mostly in the North Atlantic. While serving on the Janssen, he participated in the capture and sinking of a U-Boat, the U546. When I was a boy, he told me that the German prisoners they took on board were nearly ecstatic. They knew the war was over for them, and that they would be treated well by the United States. He guessed that the expectation of good treatment made them more willing to surrender, which overall probably saved American lives. My wife has a similar tale to tell. She grew up in Rockford, Illinois. There was a prisoner of war camp near there, and when she was a young girl, she heard the adults talk about it. The prisoners were treated well, and when the war was over, many of them chose to remain in the United States. (The one wrinkle was that when they were fed corn they thought they were being tortured, because in Germany, corn was for cattle. The Red Cross had to explain to them that in the U.S., everyone ate corn.) How different things are now. The expectation of good treatment was part and parcel of America’s moral leadership in the world — what some like to call American exceptionalism. We were of the world, but in some sense, above it as well. People looked to us to do the right thing. Not that Americans were saints. As Churchill said, you can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve exhausted all other possibilities. Right now the Trump administration seems to be stuck in the “exhaust all other possibilities” phase. I hope we’ll get to the “do the right thing” part of the program soon.

This didn’t happen in the 1960s and ’70s, when I grew up, because of the feared buttwhipping, and/or grounding. You sold your children to the government when you let them take away your parental control rights. You want gun control? Try — hard as it may seem — to be a responsible parent. Try a little hide tanning and taking away that damn PlayStation and iPhone, and grounding for a month. That is not child abuse, it is discipline! I am an independent conservative Constitutional Christian patriot who holds no party affiliation. I refuse to abide by the latest, greatest gun law that undermines our Constitution. If you think making more laws and restricting my rights because your delinquent kid shot up the school will work, you are dumber than you look. You create this mess; I refuse to pay for your stupidity. Just remember that when you point the finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you. David P. Wittlieff, Fife Lake

But What About … ? Lately there’s been a lot of concern for the children being separated from their parents at the Mexican border, some of it bordering on hysteria. I wonder, where is the concern for the children left behind by the men and women of our armed forces while they’re deployed overseas or killed in action? What about the parents of those killed — are they not separated from their children as well? Except for one problem: That separation is permanent. What about the children or parents of some of our veterans that commit suicide every day? What about the veterans that are homeless? The shelters at the borders are certainly better conditions than the homeless are living in, but where’s the hysteria for them? In the words of a recent letter to the editor, “If you find this morally wrong, say something. Speak up. Please do not sit by and just feel sorry for those parents and their children.” Is there anyone with the courage to do this? I’m not so sure.

Correction In the Bottoms Up section of last week’s (June 25) issue, we listed the price for Shoreline Fruiit’s Cherry Bay Orchard’s Tart Montmorency Cherry Juice as available for $4.99. Pricing for the product — which is available at Costco, Meijer, Tom’s, and Our Family Markets — varies by retail location.

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You Are the Problem You irresponsible liberals are way out of line. Whining about the gun shootings, wanting more gun laws. Week after week, weak excuses for your lack of good parental control. Do you really think that the criminals are going to follow gun laws? Yes? Then you live in a fantasy world! Do you think that all those violent video games shape your child’s thinking, and numb them to the reality of gun violence? No? You couldn’t be more wrong! Just tattoo idiot on your forehead, so I can see you coming! The problem isn’t the guns; the problem is you. You let the government control your children, and they do a poor job of it. You can’t discipline them, for fear of jail time or losing them, so they walk all over you.

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Conservative Conservationist............................10 The Truth Behind the Cherries.........................12 Light it Up......................................................14 The Puppet Master...........................................15 The Grande Café & Bakery...............................17 The Best Lil’ Festival You Never Heard Of.........18 Pyro Guys............................................................22 On Your Mark, Get Set, DUCK!...........................30 Rock Royalty to Play Benzie Barn.......................28 Northern Seen...................................................31

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not immigrants. Ignoring these realities, Trump aides have devised a plan to separate children from their parents. Imagine the price of warehousing children indefinitely. There is no transparency about their treatment and no signals that Trump’s government thinks this is inhumane. There are much cheaper and humane ways of monitoring refugees, like ankle bracelets. Trump’s plan will create a generation of damaged children. Children can’t live in cages and not experience severe trauma. What do we hear from Trump? He blames others for this decision. He could correct this if he wanted. But like the quote on Melania’s coat said, “Who Cares?” Not Trump and his administration.

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top ten Mackinaw City Gets Some Midcentury Style A piece of midcentury modern Michigan history has been returned to its rightful place in Mackinaw City. A Michigan Welcome Center roadside sign — first installed in 1959 — has been painstakingly restored and returned to service. The distinctive sign features an off-center quadrilateral mounted onto a stylized “M” made of galvanized steel. The Michigan Department of Transportation says the nearly 60-yearold relic survived by accident and is now one of the oldest — or possibly oldest — surviving road signs in the state. The sign was reinstalled June 27. “I think people are really going to like it,” said Dan Townsend, MDOT’s North Region sign shop crew leader, who helped oversee the restoration. “It’s the only one of its kind. How can you not think that’s cool?” The sign is located at the Welcome Center at the I-75 business loop in Mackinaw City.

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Chris Fredrickson grew up on a third-generation cherry farm in Empire, where his father still grows the tart Montmorency variety. As an adult, Fredrickson took a different path, founding the Traverse City Whiskey Co. in 2011 with buddies Moti Goldring and Jared Rapp. Well, you can take the boy out of the cherry farm, but ... “We sold our first whiskey in 2012, and soon afterward, I had a kind of revelation,” said Fredrickson. “We’re in the Cherry Capital of the World, and we should honor that.” His partners agreed wholeheartedly. So in addition to the classic whiskeys already in their portfolio, the three set out to create the most authentic version of cherry whiskey on the market. Enter American Cherry Edition Whiskey, infused with fruit from the Fredrickson family farm. “It’s whiskey with just a hint of cherries — not the other way around,” said Fredrickson. “We didn’t want to alienate people who have more of a refined palate.” Mission accomplished: Their cherry whiskey has been enthusiastically embraced by customers at their Stillhouse Cocktail Bar, with many choosing to drink it neat or on the rocks and others going the cocktail route with a Cherry Whiskey Sour, Manhattan, or Old Fashioned. The proverbial “cherry on top?” Each of those cocktails are garnished with the first non-spirits item from the Traverse City Whiskey Co.: Premium Cocktail Cherries, made with local tart-sweet Balatons. Help them celebrate both products at a special Cherry Happy Hour Monday, July 2 through Thursday, July 5, from 4pm to 7pm. American Cherry Edition Whiskey (750 ml) will run you around $30; Premium Cocktail Cherries, $16 (prices may vary in different retail locations). Find the Traverse City Whiskey Co. Stillhouse Cocktail Bar at 201 E. 14th St., Traverse City. (231) 922-8292. tcwhiskey.com.

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Netflix’s new original movie Set It Up takes you back to the glorious heyday of early aughts romcoms (think The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days). It’s formulaic, but in the most comforting of ways, and it’s progressive where it needs to be. The film follows two overworked assistants (Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell) who conspire together to trick their respective bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) into falling in love — making their lives easier and perhaps falling in love themselves in the process. Hollywood studios have all but abandoned the genre as of late, but romcom fans need look no further. The chemistry is genuine, the banter feisty, the montages plentiful, and the subterfuge delightful — this is the real deal. Streaming on Netflix.

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The last push to complete the long-sought trail loop around Boardman Lake in Traverse City recently launched. The fundraising campaign seeks $150,000 to go along with $450,000 in private capital that’s already been raised for the project. That last bit of funding would enable the construction of a 1.8-mile pedestrian/bike trail along the western edge of the lake, which would connect to the existing trail that currently ends at Medalie Park next to Logan’s Landing in Garfield Township. Once completed, the trail will make a five-mile loop around the lake and will mark the completion of a project first imagined 25 years ago. For more information or to make a donation, visit the Boardman Lake Trail project page at the TART Trails website, traversetrails.org.

Move over, Traverse City. You’re not the only northern town racking up magazine awards these days. Coastal Living magazine has just named Bellaire one of the 25 Best Small Lake Towns in America. With a nod to the Antrim County village’s big and beautiful Torch Lake, a shout-out to the Bellaire Smokehouse, and recognition of the endless outdoor recreation opportunities to be found, Coastal Living put Bellaire as No. 17 on its list, a notch above places like Vergennes, Vermont; Greenville, Maine, and Branson, Missouri.

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Hey, kids — you want to tell everyone you blew by Boston Marathon winner Desiree Linden? Thursday, July 5, you can. The Michigan Olympian will stand at the start of the one-mile Cherry Kids Fun Run that leaves from F&M Park (corner of Railroad and State streets) in Traverse City, and she’ll be there to greet finishers at the finish, at Central Grade School. Parents, register your kids for the fun run — it’s not a race — online or at F&M park beginning at 5pm on the day of the event. cherryfestival.org

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RED AND BLUE RESTAURANTS spectator by stephen tuttle The Traverse City Film Festival recently announced they would be presenting a lifetime achievement award to Jane Fonda, who will appear at this year’s event.

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The reaction was predictable from all sides; she’s been both a movie star and divisive political activist for more than four decades. Calls to rescind the award or even ban her from coming here and speaking popped up online immediately. We’ll get back to Fonda in a bit, but the idea of simply banishing someone with whom you have political differences has become far too

By 1972, our politicians had already lost the war in Vietnam. Our troop levels, once exceeding half a million, were down to barely more than 25,000. Fonda’s visit did nothing to either hasten or slow our eventual departure. Fonda went on Radio Hanoi criticizing the U.S. practice of bombing dykes in then North Vietnam. And there was that infamous photo of a smiling Fonda on a North Vietnam antiaircraft gun, an act of bizarre naivete that was profoundly offensive to many in this country, including other anti-war activists. She has repeatedly apologized, including directly to Vietnam vets, for the photograph.

Are we really going to start dividing everything by political differences? Will there be ideological litmus tests at the doors of restaurants? Will we only shop, dine, and recreate with like-minded people? popular. The left has made a practical art form of keeping speakers with whom they disagree off university campuses. Now we have businesses deciding not to serve people because of politics or, worse yet, people who work for the Trump administration being heckled out of restaurants. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who has become her own one-person basket of deplorables, encourages people to heckle administration members wherever they go. The left, now so excited that presidential Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was booted out of a restaurant for purely political reasons, might be mindful that plenty of Trump supporters own businesses, too. Are we really going to start dividing everything by political differences? Will there be ideological litmus tests at the doors of restaurants? Will we only shop, dine, and recreate with like-minded people? Maybe we should all put up red or blue flags or pro- or antiTrump posters to make sure we’re not tainted by the other side. This is completely absurd, a kind of ugly, political apartheid separating us in ignorance. And what a delightful example for our children. Which brings us back to Jane Fonda. This will not be her first, nor likely her last, lifetime achievement award. Her half-centuryplus career includes a stunning body of work, seven Academy Award nominations, and two wins. There would be little debate about such an award had she done nothing but act. But Fonda was a vocal political activist on the left, an anti-Vietnam War crusader, and champion of civil and women’s rights. She was not afraid of controversy and created the worst attention herself.

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In July 1972, Fonda visited North Vietnam. She was not the first anti-war activist to make such a trip, but hers generated the most attention. A single photograph would forever label her as “Hanoi Jane.”

That wasn’t enough for whoever fabricated more dramatic tales of Fonda’s visit. The stories, widely circulated online and purporting to be written by a POW who was there, claim POWs who refused to meet with Fonda were tortured and beaten, that four died, and that she handed over to the North Vietnamese the Social Security numbers POWS had surreptitiously given her. The problem is, the stories aren’t true — and that is the unanimous opinion of fact-checking organizations that have investigated. The POW who allegedly wrote the initial story has repeatedly said he did no such thing and that none of the information is true. Other POWs specifically mentioned also said none of it happened. The Defense Department says there is no record of any American POW dying from abuse after 1969, much less four deaths in the immediate aftermath of Fonda’s visit. Those who were there say the North Vietnamese selected seven prisoners from a very large list of volunteers. They were the only prisoners she visited, though they did bring letters for her to take back to the states from other prisoners. (The Red Cross confirmed she returned with 241 letters.) The prisoners didn’t need to secretly pass their Social Security numbers; they all just told her their names. Nobody was beaten for refusing to volunteer to see her. If you believe Jane Fonda is irretrievably tainted by her actions of 46 years ago, fair enough. You probably shouldn’t go to any of the Film Festival events involving her, or attend her movies. In fact, you can just ignore her altogether. But trying to prevent someone’s public appearance, speaking engagement, or restaurant reservation because you disagree with their politics is antithetical to our values. There is nothing in the First Amendment giving us the right to silence or banish others. Let Sarah Sanders eat and Jane Fonda speak. You can always heckle them when they’re done.

Crime & Rescue DISPENSARY OWNER FACES CHARGES A 71-year-old Williamsburg businessman faces 20 years in prison on drug charges following an undercover investigation of his now-shuttered medical marijuana dispensaries. Michael John Hedden faces seven counts — including conducting a criminal enterprise, delivery and manufacture of marijuana, and maintaining a drug house — following an investigation by the Traverse Narcotics Team. After a court ruling that deemed the marijuana dispensary model illegal, an undercover police officer visited three stores owned by Hedden last September and October and purchased marijuana using a state-issued medical marijuana card; two former employees cooperated with investigators and will testify against Hedden, according to the charges. Hedden’s owned the Boutique and Compassion Center on State Street and the 809 Provisioning Center on Garfield Avenue in Traverse City, plus Great Lakes Healing Hands on M-72 in Acme. He faces a preliminary hearing July 18. TNT’s last undercover purchase in the case was on Oct. 2; on Oct. 4, law enforcement officials in Grand Traverse County announced that eight medical marijuana dispensaries had been raided and ordered closed across the county. Prosecuting Attorney Bob Cooney said he only received a criminal complaint for Hedden, but not the other owners, “probably because Heddon was in charge of a sophisticated operation with three store fronts, and the others were more mom and pop.” CHARGES: DRUG TEST WAS A FAKE The owner of a Cheboygan drug testing company faces charges after investigators determined she submitted false results from a drug test. Kerry Morrish, the 43-year-old owner of Advanced Safety Training and Drug Testing LLC, is suspected of submitting a false urine sample of a person on probation through Cheboygan courts, deputies said in press release. Morrish was arraigned June 28 on a charge of obstruction of justice that carries five years in prison. ROAMING DOG BITES WOMAN Cadillac Police responded after a pedestrian was attacked by a pit bull. Officers were called at 5:15pm June 21 to the northeast section of Cadillac and found a woman with a bite on her leg who refused medical treatment. While officers spoke to the woman, the dog charged the officers. As the dog barked and growled, a Wexford County Animal Control officer arrived and attempted to restrain the animal with a snare pole, but the dog charged the officer and then ran off. The dog was eventually subdued with a tranquilizer dart and taken to a shelter. Officers said in a press release that people should not let their dogs run free: “No one wants to see their dog injure another person or take the chance on their dog getting hurt because it is running at large.”

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MAN GOES ON RAMPAGE A Traverse City man who just turned 27 allegedly decided to go on a rampage on his birthday. Brandon Cody Feldman allegedly attacked a gas station clerk without warning June 21 at the Shell station at South Airport and LaFranier roads. Witnesses said Feldman walked into the store, went behind the counter, and started punching the male clerk, knocking him to the ground. A customer who tried to intervene was also punched several times. A Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputy who was called to the scene spotted Feldman behind the wheel of a Jeep Patriot and attempted to pull him over in the parking lot, but Feldman sped off, heading south and then blowing through a red light while allegedly reaching speeds over 100mph on Hammond Road The deputy called off the chase out of safety concerns, but later that day police received a call about a man making a disturbance at the Grand Traverse Mall; they responded and arrested Feldman. Feldman faces charges of fleeing from police, aggravated assault, and second-offense drunk driving. MAN SAVED FROM LAKE MICHIGAN Coast Guard rescuers snatched a man out of the water as he clung to a boat in Lake Michigan, southwest of Manistee. Dispatchers received a call about the man in distress at 8:30am July 23. The man was in the water and unable to get back into his boat. A crew from Coast Guard Station Manistee responded to the location five miles south of Manistee and two miles off shore. Two people in the boat had helped the man don a life vest and were holding on to the man, who had fallen out of the boat when he lost his footing while attempting to land a fish. He was in the water for 45 minutes before rescuers arrived. A rescue swimmer reached the man and brought him to the rescue boat, where he was treated for hypothermia and an injured knee. The man was taken to shore and then transported to a hospital. The water temperature was 61 degrees. POLICE: HEAD-BUTT LEFT DENT A woman headbutted and dented a Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s patrol car as she was arrested for domestic violence.

Deputies were driving on Barlow Street when they spotted a woman assaulting a man near Carver Street at 9:13pm Friday, June 22. They witnessed a 32-year-old Ortonville, Mich. woman shoving and pushing her 24-year-old boyfriend and stopped to investigate. The woman became unruly and head-butted the patrol car as she was arrested, leaving a dent. The woman was taken to jail on domestic violence and malicious destruction of police property charges. Deputies and Traverse City Police investigated the case. MORE SEX BAG CHARGES A man accused of handing a bag filled with lewd items to an underage girl faces more charges after two more girls have alleged that he did the same thing to them. Philip Edward Darga, 49, faces three counts of distributing sexually explicit material to children, charges that carry up to two years in prison. The new charges were filed by Grand Traverse County prosecutors June 27. Two girls came forward after Darga was charged in May; the teenagers said Darga approached them in January while they were in a vehicle at West Senior High following a basketball game. They said knocked on the window and told them he had gift bags for them. The bags allegedly contained sex toys, explicit books, batteries, a towel, candy, condoms, and $10 in cash. Investigators believe there may be more victims and ask anyone with evidence to come forward.

POLICE: WOMAN INVENTED ATTACK Investigators say a woman who claimed she was abducted and raped by two men in a van in Cheboygan County invented the allegations. Early on, detectives determined that there were problems with the woman’s account, Undersheriff Tim Cook said. Investigators determined the woman did have an encounter with someone but it was consensual. The woman, who has not been named, is expected to be charged with making a false report of a felony, which carries up to four years in prison. The allegations caused police to waste a lot of resources on the investigation, Cook said. The 33-year-old woman claimed in May that she was walking along Main Street in the afternoon when a van pulled up near Mickey’s Mini Mart and two men pulled her inside. The woman claimed she was taken to a dead-end road where she was sexually assaulted before she escaped.

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This time around, their scheme is to scuttle a popular vote to end gerrymandering. After the 2010 census, the party in power was able to redraw the lines of voting districts to heavily favor Republicans, even though Democrats typically win the popular vote in Michigan. In the 2016 Trump-fueled wave, Republicans earned only 50 percent of the state senate vote, yet scored 71 percent of the seats. It’s called gerrymandering, and it has created a stateby-state GOP tsunami, nullifying the votes of millions of Americans, with Michiganders struck particularly hard. The current attack on our democracy harkens back six years ago, to a state referendum intended to repeal Michigan’s emergency manager law. A broad grassroots coalition successfully gathered signatures to put the measure on the ballot. Republicans sunk low, employing a number of outlandish legal tactics aimed at keeping the question from the people. It started with “font-gate” — a claim that the font size used on the petition was too small. A corporate-funded political action committee, (a practice known as “astroturfing”), was formed to challenge the validity of the petitions. The Board of State Canvassers is the public body charged with certifying petitions for the ballot. One of its members was a principal in the corporation that funded the fight against the ballot drive. The Potemkin PAC ultimately failed, with the people voting down the emergency manager law. Governor Snyder’s response was to claim that voters were “confused.” Weeks later, he penned his name to a new emergency manager law — but this time with a provision rendering it referendum-proof.

eligibility of the VNP ballot question, citing legal challenges as a roadblock to allowing the measure to move forward. An astroturf PAC funded by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce — with the eye-rolling moniker Citizens Protecting Michigan’s Constitution — filed suit, claiming the measure was too broad in scope. The Michigan Court of Appeals disagreed in a 3–0 ruling, saying the question had squarely earned a spot on the ballot. End of story? Hardly. The legal battle will rage on. The opposition PAC is taking it to the Michigan Supreme Court. The impetus behind this line of attack is not simply to stop the measure from reaching popular vote. No, the GOP strategy is to drain the coffers of the activists through legal costs, leaving them unable to mount an information campaign for their cause in the run-up to the election. The well-funded opposition will pull cards out of their sleeves, among other dark places, for months to come. Two supreme court justices vying for reelection have been handsomely bestowed with financial support from the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, most recently at a fundraiser at the chamber’s headquarters — an address shared by the PAC challenging the VNP ballot drive. Michigan’s high court justices are, at least on the surface, non-partisan. However, hopefuls to that office are selected by political parties, and are thereby highly partisan creatures. Money — truckloads of it — is the driving force behind their campaigns. In 2016, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce showered favored nominees with $2.2 million in campaign cash, mostly in the form of “dark money” — a bonanza funneled through nonprofit organizations that exist solely to influence elections. Michigan’s Supreme Court races are notorious for the corruptive influence of outside funds.

Enter the 2018 ballot question on gerrymandering. The grassroots group, Voters Not Politicians, gathered many more petition signatures than needed to secure its place come November. Its goal is simple: Assign an independent commission to draw voting district boundaries instead of allowing politicians to abuse the system through decisions that intentionally marginalize large swaths of voters.

Herein lies the problem: The two justices receiving Chamber support are expected to be renominated this August by the Michigan Republican Party. But, the Supreme Court appeal of the lower court’s order to place the redistricting question on the ballot is likely to be heard prior to those nominations. Translation: Judicial prudence and impartiality cannot be trusted to protect the democratic process.

Katie Fahey, a 28-year old activist spearheaded the effort. As founder of VNP, she assembled possibly the most impressive grassroots campaign in Michigan’s history. Social media has taken a beating in recent months, but Fahey managed to harness its power with a Facebook post in the wake of the 2016 election with this request: “I’d like to take on gerrymandering in Michigan. If you’re interested in doing this as well, please let me know.” She marshaled 300 statewide captains who managed volunteer teams to collect signatures in all 83 counties.

Michigan’s legislature is equally venal. They recently invoked a constitutional loophole that permitted them to preemptively act on a qualified ballot measure they favored, thereby cancelling the popular vote. They repealed a statute that required union-scale wages on public construction projects. Regardless of how one might feel about the referendum question itself, blocking voters was an intentional assault on democracy.

The petitions were submitted to the Board of State Canvassers, but as we learned in 2012, that body is riven by partisan gamesmanship. GOP forces on the board postponed, and eventually canceled, a hearing on the

Of course they knew the public would have quashed their campaign. That’s why they did it. Amy Kerr Hardin is a retired banker, a regionally known artist, a public-policy wonk, and political essayist at Democracy-Tree.com.

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Undignified Death In the northeastern town of Teesside, England, last August, 22-year-old Jordan Easton of Thornaby was at the home of a friend, hanging out in the kitchen, when he boasted that his vest was “stab-proof.” To prove it, he “took hold a knife to demonstrate,” Karin Welsh, Teesside assistant coroner, testified, “and sadly realized it wasn’t the case.” Teesside Live reported Easton was rushed to the hospital, but doctors weren’t able to save him. Detective Superintendent Ted Butcher also testified at Easton’s inquest on June 16 that he found no evidence Easton intended to harm himself and died after “a boisterous act.” Welsh recorded a verdict of “misadventure.” News You Can Use Louis Cote of Mascouche, Quebec, Canada, became suspicious last August of the DNA test results obtained from the samples he collected in his work for the Confederation of Aboriginal People of Canada, whose members use DNA testing to determine their native ancestry. So, CBC News reported on June 13, Cote launched his own experiment. He collected two samples using his own inner-cheek swabs, and a third from his girlfriend’s Chihuahua, Snoopy, and sent them off to Viaguard Accu-Metrics. The results indicated that all three samples had identical DNA, including 12 percent Abenaki and 8 percent Mohawk ancestry. “I thought it was a joke,” Cote said. “The company is fooling people ... the tests are no good.” Public Servants In Putnam County, Florida, the sheriff ’s office provides a wide variety of services. So when Douglas Peter Kelly, 49, called the office on June 12 to complain that the methamphetamine he had been sold was fake, officers happily offered to test it for him. Kelly told detectives he had suffered a “violent reaction” after smoking the substance and wanted to sue the dealer if he had been sold the wrong drug. He arrived at the sheriff ’s office and “handed detectives a clear, crystallike substance wrapped in aluminum foil,” the office’s Facebook post explained, according to The Washington Post. It “field-tested positive for methamphetamine.” On the spot, Kelly was arrested and charged with possession of meth. The Facebook post continued: “Remember, our detectives are always ready to assist anyone who believes they were misled in their illegal drug purchase.” What Is Art? -- As part of the Dark Mofo art festival, Australian performance artist Mike Parr, 73, entered a steel tomb below busy Macquarie Street in Hobart on June 14, where he meditated, drew and read as traffic flowed overhead for 72 hours until his release on June 17. Parr had water but no food, and oxygen was pumped into the box. His performance was promoted as a “response to 20th-century totalitarian violence,” according to The Guardian, but the piece didn’t speak to everyone. “I don’t take anything away from it at all,” said Carolyn Bowerman from Townsville. “I’m just amazed that someone would put themselves through this and go to this much effort.” In a previous performance art piece, Parr hacked at a prosthetic arm with an ax before a shocked audience. -- Over in Melbourne, Australia, customers of the Prahran neighborhood Woolworths store will have to park somewhere else on July 9, as renowned American photographer Spencer Tunick captures thousands of willing

nudes in a group shot on the store’s rooftop parking lot. Reuters reported more than 11,000 people registered to disrobe for Tunick, who has done group nudes in other spots around the world. “It’s well and truly oversubscribed,” said John Lotton, director of the Provocare Festival of the Arts in Melbourne. Smooth Reactions When Daryl Royal Riedel, 48, was pulled over for suspected drunk driving June 14 by Monroe County (Florida) Sheriff ’s Deputy Anthony Lopez, he first drove off, but thought better of it and stopped to face the music. Riedel, who claimed to be scared, then stepped out of his truck with an open can of beer and chugged the contents as Lopez watched. The Associated Press reported that Riedel has four prior DUI arrests and now faces felony DUI, fleeing from a deputy, driving with a suspended license and failure to submit to a breath test.

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Czech This Out Czechoslovakian president Milos Zeman called a press conference on June 14 in Prague, where Zeman instructed two firefighters in protective gear to incinerate a huge pair of red underpants as reporters watched. The underwear had been hoisted during a 2015 protest at Prague Castle, replacing the presidential flag and symbolizing Zeman’s close relationship with Russia and China. Zeman told reporters, according to the Associated Press: “I’m sorry to make you look like little idiots, you really don’t deserve it.” Zeman’s longstanding difficulties with the press include an incident last year when he waved a fake machine gun at them. O.M.G. Wa Tiba, 54, disappeared on June 14 while tending her vegetable garden on Muna Island in the Southeast Sulawesi province of Indonesia. Her family found only her sandals, a machete and a flashlight in the garden, but just 50 yards away, villagers located a 23-foot-long python with a severely bloated midsection. Fox News reported that when the snake’s belly was cut open, it revealed the woman’s fully intact body inside, still wearing all her clothes. Villager Ayu Kartika said, “Everyone cried and was in shock. ... It looked like a horror movie.” Fetishes In Auckland, New Zealand, an unnamed 28-year-old man appeared in court June 18 to answer charges of stealing two human toes from the Body Worlds Vital exhibition, a traveling display that features human corpses and organs preserved through plastination. The toes, valued at $5,500 each, have been returned to the exhibition, the New Zealand Herald reported. The toe thief is looking at seven years in prison and two years for interfering with a dead body. High Times -- Two unnamed employees of the Inn at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vermont, enjoyed some malted milk ball-type candies left behind by guests on June 13, but they didn’t enjoy the aftermath. The candies were cannabis edibles, and the employees became sick after consuming them. Police arrived to find one of them lying in the parking lot, and both were transferred to the hospital, according to the Associated Press. Recreational use of marijuana becomes legal in Vermont on July 1; police said the guests who left the edibles would not be charged.

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CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIONIST After 34 years as head of the Little Traverse Conservancy, Thomas Bailey muses about environmental regulations, the sanctity of public land, the disappearance of hunters, and how he always felt a bit out of place as a conservative environmentalist.

By Patrick Sullivan

hen Thomas Bailey took over as executive director of the Little Traverse Conservancy 34 years ago, he sat down and read a couple years’ worth of the nonprofit’s newsletters. While he found them to be informative, he also found that the writing lacked heart. Bailey believes the business of land conservation requires heart, and he wanted to explore that in his own writing. He would go on to write a quarterly column for the conservancy that would explore man’s connection to nature and would keep returning to the question — why must we save wild land? Bailey, who grew up in the Upper Peninsula, followed in his father’s footsteps and served as a Michigan Department of Natural Resources officer early in his career. He also identifies as a conservative, and over the years, his essays also explored what it means to be a conservative who has

dedicated his life to environmental work. In August, Bailey will retire from the conservancy. To mark the milestone, Michigan State University Press published a book of some of his essays called “A North Country Almanac – Reflections of an OldSchool Conservationist in a Modern World.” Northern Express sat down with Bailey to talk about his book, his career, and why wilderness is so important. Northern Express: One of the themes you keep coming back to in your essays is the notion of being a conservative and working in an environmental field. You often wrote as though you were on the defensive about that. Thomas Bailey: [Laughs] Well, I was on the defensive. There’s a lot of political orthodoxy in the environmental movement, and I never subscribed to that entire political orthodoxy. Express: Even in the 1960s, when you were an activist who lobbied the federal government to enact a wilderness

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designation for Isle Royal? Bailey: Yup. You know, I took a lot of grief because I voted for Nixon in ’72. That went against the orthodoxy. And even at the time when I worked at a regulatory agency, at the Department of Natural Resources, I was always concerned about over-emphasizing the regulatory side of things, because I saw the limits of the regulatory system from the inside, and I didn’t see it as the cure-all that some people seem to think government regulation could be. So yeah, I guess, in terms of the political rhetoric of many environmental organizations, I’ve always felt — I don’t know if I’d say defensive — but at least somewhat on the outside, and to some extent the loyal opposition. Express: And yet, you have a lot in common with the opposition. You share many common objectives. Bailey: Absolutely. I wouldn’t want to imply that I’m not in sympathy with the need for

pollution control and preserving natural areas and parks. It’s more about the means of how you accomplish it. Express: There was a paradox that jumped out at me from your essays: You’re a staunch supporter for private property rights, and you believe that private ownership is the solution to so many problems, but at the same time you devote an entire essay to the defense of public land and your belief that the government should hold onto it. How do you reconcile those? Bailey: I don’t see it as a conflict. I see it as protecting what gave rise to the American character. You know, when the United States was a young, growing nation with private property and private land ownership, there were a lot of people who felt that greed was going to completely take over, and this new experiment was going to show that there were going to be monopolies and greed and rampant corruption. And yet the nation that gave the world the most extensive system

of private property ownership also gave the world its first national park, in 1872, in Yellowstone. To me that dichotomy shows that sometimes private ownership can bring out the best in people. And sometimes that’s — like in the case of Yellowstone — the decision that private ownership is not the best thing. I think the first European Americans to see Yellowstone, and certainly the railroad people, thought, “Wow, we’re going to cash in on this,” but there was a consensus that developed: “Let’s leave it the way it is, and let’s let people come and enjoy it the way we did.” And the national park concept was created. Express: You also often wrote about your belief in the superiority of private interests over government regulation. Bailey: I think too much faith is put in the regulatory model. In the 1960s and ’70s we saw a huge rise in the regulatory system. Huge progress was made in a short period of time because there was so much work to be done. We took tons and tons of waste out of our rivers, lakes, and streams, for example, through the Clean Water Act. With one stroke of the pen, when the Michigan governor signed a phosphate ban, that did more to clean up Lake Erie than almost any other single thing. But now that we’ve done all of those, we’re reaching the point of diminishing returns with some of the regulatory things, and I think we need to start looking at, for example, pollutionprevention strategies rather than further regulations. Express: What do you think about the way things stand today, with the current Environmental Protection Agency leadership seemingly intent on dismantling as many regulations as they can? Bailey: There’s always been a tug-of-war about regulations, and the pendulum has swung between various administrations. And that’s one area where I think the political process is kind of healthy because it sorts itself out over time. That pendulum does swing, and it’s probably good that it does. I don’t foresee any cataclysmic dismantling of our regulatory system. I think we’re going to continue to see those pendulum swings. I don’t want to give the impression that I’m completely down on the regulatory system. I’m not. Express: In your essays over the years, you keep asking the question whether there is some actual health benefit to spending time in nature. Why is that so important to you? Bailey: Probably the one quotation that I’ve used more than any others in all of my public talks and presentations, [is from] Walt Whitman, who wrote in his book “Leaves of Grass,” “The secret of making the best person is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” Now that was a poet talking. But if you fast-forward now, there are a number of well-documented studies that show that, in fact, that human growth and development are enhanced by spending time in unstructured play in nature. Kids do better socially, cognitively, if they spend time in unstructured play outdoors. People in hospital rooms that have a scenic view tend to recover more quickly than people in the hospital rooms that don’t have a scenic view. The evidence is piling up and now the professors are starting to prove what the poet said, that it’s good for us to spend time outdoors. Express: Another favorite topic of yours is hunting. You write that that’s another

conflict that comes up between you and some environmentalists who are anti-hunting. Hasn’t that gotten better over the years? Don’t most environmentalists today, at least around here, understand that hunting is necessary for wildlife management, or am I missing something?

With one stroke of the pen, when the Michigan governor signed a phosphate ban, that did more to clean up Lake Erie than almost any other single thing. But now that we’ve done all of those, we’re reaching the point of diminishing returns with some of the regulatory things, and I think we need to start looking at, for example, pollution-prevention strategies rather than further regulations.

Bailey: I think there are fewer hunters today than there were 30 years ago. I think hunting is being seen more and more as kind of an archaic thing. But I think you can point to natural human inclinations and things that are hardwired in our brains. I think those hunting and gathering influences are in-born to us, and they express themselves in different ways if you don’t live in a natural environment. I think one of the things we’re seeing is that people lose their way when they don’t have the rites of passage that our ancestors had. For instance, there’s been a lot of literature about young boys being misguided and lost and having social adjustment problems. Well, it used to be, in the old huntergatherer cultures, that boys would have these rites of passage, they would go on their first hunt, they would make their first kill, they would provide their first food for the village. These were rites of passage that defined emergence from boyhood into manhood.

Express: Do you have any reason to believe that the trend of fewer people hunting will be reversed? Or do you think it’s something that’s just going away? Bailey: That’s a good question. Part of that is certainly because our population has become more and more urbanized, so people just simply don’t have the opportunity to hunt. They’re in areas where they can’t go hunting. Many of the urban areas, there’s more restrictions on firearms. So they don’t grow up with hunting. They don’t grow up with firearms. Those of us who grew up in rural areas, hunting was part of our culture. I mean, when I was going to school in Marquette, and I guess today this sounds sexist, but boys got two days off for deer season, because it was assumed that we were going to go hunting to put meat on the table. You know, you don’t see those kinds of things any more. I haven’t checked with Marquette High School lately. I don’t know if they still give time off for deer season or not. Express: Let’s zero in on northern Michigan. What accomplishments are you most proud of over your tenure at the Conservancy? Bailey: Certainly the one that kind of put us on the map was the Colonial Point Forest at Burt Lake, which now belongs to the University of Michigan Biological Station. That was and fortunately remains one of the most outstanding stands of red oaks anywhere in the Great Lakes. It exists because of a unique combination of American Indian agriculture in years past and simply being left alone for a long time. The logging company that purchased it was going to do a really heavy cut. Express: When did the logging company purchase the land? Bailey: Just after I started at the conservancy. Jim Devereaux of Devereaux Sawmill in Pewamo, Michigan, bought the property and was going to cut it. A woman named Wendy O’Neil, who worked at the Michigan Nature Conservancy at the time, called me about it. The Nature Conservancy wasn’t

going to make this project a priority but she said, “This needs to be done.” And Jim Devereaux was very cooperative. He said, “I see the value of this timber, and I will give you a chance.” Express: How did it play out? Bailey: I wrote probably the best news release of my career – “Conservationists Racing the Clock to Save Ancient Forest.” And it got picked up by the wire services. It was in The New York Times, L.A. Times, Miami Herald. It was in the winter, so I was getting phone calls and notes from our members who were at their winter homes. And so it gave us notoriety, and when we succeeded, it was our first milliondollar-plus project, and we realized what we were capable of as an organization and what people would do to support us. Express: Is there one that’s still out there, that you would have like to have gotten, but perhaps now has to be a goal for your successor? Bailey: The former site of the Big Rock Point nuclear power plant [near Charlevoix]. That was before the Natural Resources Trust Fund board for state acquisition a few years ago. It didn’t happen for a number of reasons that I think are unfortunate. But there’s a big chunk of unspoiled Lake Michigan shoreline there that has been guarded and protected because of the nuclear plant. Much of that land is wet, and to me the highest and best use of wetlands is conservation. And it would be a wonderful place for a public park. It’s really significant to the native people. It was their departure point, Kitchiossining, the Big Rock, a very significant place. It’s interesting because this area has been a resort for hundreds and hundreds of years. I mean, the Indian people, not all of them stayed here, a lot of them went south for the winter. So you think of the resort tradition today, the people who come in the summer, well, it’s nothing new. Express: How confident are you that the land that’s been preserved over your career will be preserved in the future? Could a political shift come along one day and take it all away? Bailey: Several thoughts on that. Number one, we have built and continue to build at the

Little Traverse Conservancy an endowment fund that guarantees we will be able to protect that land forever. When I interviewed for the job I asked if they had an endowment fund, and they said they hadn’t established it yet, it was planned for the future; and I said, “If you hire me, we’re going to have one because I’m not going to look somebody in the eye and tell them I’m going to protect your land forever if I don’t have some assurance that that’s going to happen. So that’s financial insurance that the organization will always be there in order to fulfill its obligations as land stewards. Second, the likelihood that conservation easements are going to be somehow undone I think is extremely remote. And also, as sprawl and the population grows, people are going to be more and more interested in land protection. Express: How do you sum up why land conservation is important? Bailey: I was invited several years ago to speak to a conference of city and urban planners. They were meeting in Traverse City, and I agreed to go down and talk about land conservation. I arrived and found that I was the last speaker on the last day in the last session after lunch. This is not the time to give a long, boring speech. So I said, “You all need to get on your way, and I won’t keep you, but I’m going to tell you something. You’re going to laugh when you hear it, but that’s OK. I hope you think about it on the way home. And that is this: In ecology we talk about indicator species. In a lot of systems there is a species that is an indicator of the health of that system. For example, on an inland lake, the loons. If the loons are healthy, it means the fish are healthy, and the water and the air and all of those things.” And I said, “In northwestern lower Michigan today, the principal indicator species is the wealthy resort property owner.” And they laughed. And I said, “Here’s why: I know these people. I work with them. These are people that can afford to live anywhere in the world if they want. What does it mean if they come here? It means that the natural environment, the cultural environment, and economic environment are all to their liking. That indicates there are quality of life indicators here that are literally world-class. I think we should pay attention to that.

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THE TRUTH BEHIND

THE CHERRIES The Traverse City National Cherry Festival celebrates the cherries grown here, in the cherry capital of the world, right? So why, every Fourth of July week, do you hear at least a few festival-goers snipe, “These aren’t Traverse City cherries! They ship ’em in — from [Washington/China/Mexico/Mars!]?”

By Ross Boissoneau The cherries featured at the National Cherry Festival are from the Traverse City region. At least partly. According to Maria Lammers of Gallagher’s Farm Market, the cherries for the first weekend actually come from (gasp!) the Grand Rapids area. That’s because the cherries three hours south of here are ripening by late June, while those in Grand Traverse and Leelanau County are a few days behind.

July — we have between 10,000 and 12,000 pounds from Grand Rapids, then another 4 to 5,000 from around here.” For Lammers, local cherries means cherries sourced from across northern Michigan, whether that’s Leelanau, Old Mission, or right next door. The orchard across the driveway from the Gallagher farm market on M-72, just west of Traverse City, is part of her family’s as well, though she admitted that the cherries east of there ripen before theirs do. As for theirs, “It will be ready for U-pick by the Fourth of July.”

Lammers acknowledged that there was one Cherry Festival several years ago when cherries had to be imported from Washington because the crop had been completely decimated all across the state. But that’s the exception.

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By the end of the week, local cherries are ripe and available at the Cherry Festival and across the area. “We look forward to having our own,” said Lammers. That’s true, and that is almost always what happens at the festival. Lammers acknowledged that there was one Cherry Festival several years ago when cherries had to be imported from Washington because the crop had been completely decimated all across the state. But that’s the exception. For this year’s Cherry Festival … ? No problem, though the April snows pushed the season back a bit. She’s confident the crop across the area will be a good one this year. “This year, spring was a little late, but we’ve caught up pretty close. We didn’t have a late frost, there was no damage. It’s been perfect weather for gardens, flowers, and cherries too,” Lammers said. She said the first weekend is always the busiest for the festival, and that means there needs to be plenty of cherries on hand. “The Blue Angels are here, the Fourth of

Lammers has been the unofficial cherry wrangler for the National Cherry Festival for a number of years. She said National Cherry Festival Executive Director Kat Paye began working with her in Paye’s previous role as operations director. “I’ve been there a long time. Kat went back and forth between us and another farmer” before finally handing the reins to Lammers. So why are local cherries so critical? Lammers said there’s a lot of pride locally in being dubbed the cherry capital of the world. Plus the cherries from the region that make their way to the festival are fresh and juicy, as opposed to those that are trucked in from out West. “People look forward to our cherries. They know they’re fresh. They want to experience it. They just taste special.” As for that one long-ago instance when the Cherry Festival was forced to use cherries from Washington? “Never again,” she said firmly. “We stay in Michigan.”

Your guide to this summer’s best backyard fireworks

By Kristi Kates Every Fourth of July, you’re faced with two choices: You can cram your kids and blankets and lawn chairs and snacks in the car and fight the crowds so you can be wowed by your town’s fantastic and free fireworks display. Or you can spend some money to risk life, limb, and your neighbor’s good graces to ignite your own backyard fireworks show. Both options offer some pros and cons, but if you’re hosting a party on or around the Fourth of July — remember: State law says you can only shoot off fireworks the day before, day after, and day of the national holiday — an at-home fireworks show is as essential as apple pie. Here’s what’s hot (pun intended) now. COLOR ME NEON Neon colors — the brightest of firework colors that almost seem to be 3D when viewed up in the sky — are one of the most buzzed-about things in the fireworks industry this season. “All of our fireworks are made in China, and China is doing really well right now with all of the neon-colored fireworks,” said Sean Conn, vice president of Big Fireworks in Lansing. “One of our most spectacular items is a 5-inch neon Supershell, which goes up the highest and breaks the biggest!” (“Break”

is the term for the flower-shaped firework display that most of us are familiar with.) Bill Barnes, owner of TC Pro Fireworks in Traverse City, agreed. “Those are the most spectacular,” he said. “They go a couple of hundred feet up, and make huge, colorful breaks or blooms — some of them even have new color-changing technology.” NEW NOVELTIES Two of the most popular emojis have managed to transcend social media and become the new must-have in the fountain fireworks department (fountain fireworks are stationary ground fireworks that shoot sparks up and out into the air, up to about 12 feet high. Unicorn- and poop-shaped fountain fireworks are huge this year, said Conn: “The unicorn and poo emoji fountains — which feature plenty of sparks and an intense crackle sound — are both huge sellers.” Perhaps not surprisingly, Star Wars has also transcended the screen. “We have hand-held lightsaber fountains that are fun for kids to hang onto, with supervision,” said Barnes. “Those shoot sparks out as well.” Other hot sellers include fountains shaped like tanks, pandas, and the everpopular “Big Chicken,” a chicken-shaped fountain that blasts sparks out of its … back.

FAUX PRO It takes a seasoned pro to put together the best, brightest, and biggest fireworks displays, so how can an average Joe even get close with his or home display? Nick Tompkins, owner of the Elk Rapids Fireworks Tent, shared the secret: “Repeater cakes.” “These are fireworks that you simply light once — you light the fuse, and they do multiple different firework effects all right in a row. Then, at the end of their run, they do a final round of four or five effects all at once — bursts, blooms, whistling,” he said. “They’re great! You sit back, and they essentially just do the whole firework show for you!” There are three other great ways to send those colors high up into the Fourth of July sky. The first are what Tompkins called “consumer-grade mortar rounds.” “Those make all different colors of dahlia-shaped explosions,” he said. Next, Sky Lanterns, essentially balloons of light, are lit on one end, released, and float way up into the air where they hover and glow. (Tompkins said the ones he sells are biodegradable.) And Sky Rockets — similar to bottle rockets — zip up fast like a ‘regular’ bottle rocket, but soar up to 150 feet or so and then explode into a beautiful firework bloom.

KID APPROVED Conn was adamant that kids should never use fireworks unsupervised, and he stressed that ‘regular’ sparklers — the type you can find most easily, with metal cores, are “probably the most dangerous firework in the country.” “You’re essentially giving a welding torch to a four-year-old who’s running around in bare feet,” he said. Instead, he suggests Morning Glory sparklers for kids. “Also with adult supervision, of course, but they have bamboo handles so there’s no hot metal, and they don’t have magnesium, so you don’t get the big sparks that you get with regular sparklers. They just crackle and glow,” he said. “They’re not quite as bright but much safer.” Tompkins suggested another option entirely. “We have mega-snappers, the things kids can throw on the sidewalk or driveway to make big popping sounds,” he said. “There are several different styles of those available — you just have to be ready for all the noise!” Find the Elk Rapids Fireworks Tent at 119 Ames St. in Elk Rapids, elkrapidsfireworks. com. TC Pro Fireworks has three locations, in Acme, Grayling, and Petoskey (see profireworks.com for addresses and hours). Big Fireworks has a variety of locations in the Lansing/Ann Arbor area (see bigfireworks. com for addresses and hours).

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By Kristi Kates A singing female rabbit, a mouse from Motown (who has a crush on Mel B., aka Scary Spice, from ’90s girl group the Spice Girls), a granny carrying a torch for Simon Cowell, and a yodeling cowgirl. These are just a few of the characters that follow 13-year-old ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer around as she takes her talkative talents to new audiences nationwide. Farmer’s career — a surprising one in general, not to mention for a teenager — got jumpstarted in a big way when she won season 12 (2017) of the NBC competition series America’s Got Talent (AGT). “I’d watched AGT for years before I got to be on it, and I’d seen that two ventriloquists had won, so I thought, well, maybe I have a chance!” Farmer said. GLAMOUR SHOTS Farmer not only had a chance, she got fast-tracked after her first performance on the first episode of season 12. After she did a routine with her rabbit puppet in which the puppet sang George Gershwin’s song “Summertime,” AGT judge Mel B. pressed her Golden Buzzer, which locks in a contestant’s place on the show’s quarterfinals. Farmer’s second performance, with her Motown mouse puppet, snagged her a standing ovation (even from notoriously prickly judge Simon Cowell). Her semifinals

performance featured the granny puppet (Edna Doorknocker) flirting with Cowell, while her finals performance brought together two of her puppets and secured her win — and an award of $1 million and a headlining gig at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Since then, she’s appeared on A Very Pentatonix Christmas, The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, Little Big Shots, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She’s also performed at Madison Square Garden and at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas with Fergie. It’s all been a real shot of glamour for a girl who became interested in puppeteering while on an educational trip. PUPPET INSPIRATION “I was traveling for a pageant [the International Cinderella Scholarship Program] with another girl, Laryssa Bonacquisti, who did ventriloquism, and I was just so obsessed with what she was doing, I thought it was so cool,” Farmer said. (Bonacquisti is currently Miss Louisiana, and still performs as a ventriloquist.) At the age of 10, she asked her parents if she could get a puppet, and they found one on eBay. That puppet would become Farmer’s first ventriloquism partner. “She had blonde hair — and she didn’t have a neck,” Farmer said with a laugh. “I called her Katie. I still have her, but we recently gave her a makeover — now she has red hair.”

She started practicing in her mirror, eventually entering local, then regional talent shows, often commenting that she wanted to “help keep the art of ventriloquism alive.” Farmer doesn’t only speak through her puppets, although that would be impressive enough. She also sings, a skill few ventriloquists can effectively master. NATIONAL TOUR “When I decided to audition for AGT, I was originally going to have one of my puppets sing opera,” Farmer explained. “I had to send in a video of what I was going to perform, so I learned the opera song fast, like, in two days, and sent the video in.” But at the last minute, Farmer changed her mind, and that might have been what helped her secure her initial win. “Just a week before I was going to be on the show, we thought maybe we should do a different song,” she said. “My dad had always sung ‘Summertime’ to me, so we decided to change it to that.” The crowd, recognizing the song and Farmer’s undeniable talents, went wild. This summer, Farmer is on tour across the U.S., with live show dates scheduled from now through mid-January 2019. She likely isn’t lonely though; she brings along four of her puppet partners to each of her “Darci Lynne and Friends” shows. Each show follows a similar routine, adjusted slightly to accommodate each new location. It’s definitely been a whirlwind for the

young ventriloquist. When asked, Farmer wasn’t quite sure if she’d been to the state of Michigan yet. “I … just don’t know,” she said. “But I’m looking forward to it. Everywhere I go people are so kind and nice and welcoming, and I’m sure it will be the same there.” “Ventriloquism is really fun to do, and also the people love it. It makes them happy and makes them laugh, and that’s what this is all about.”

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THE GRANDE CAFÉ & BAKERY Hail to the Cherry!

By Janice Binkert The culture and philosophy of Cherry Republic, founded by Glen Arbor native Bob Sutherland in 1989 in his hometown and now comprising six stores throughout Michigan, is summed up in its intentionally lighthearted mantra: “Life, Liberty, Beaches and Pie.” By extension, the Grand Café & Bakery, which opened in 2015 at Cherry Republic’s Traverse City location, operates under a similarly whimsical motto: “Eat, Drink and Be Cherry.” Come inside, and the familiar red hue that permeates the logo, décor, packaging and signage throughout the space makes it quickly obvious: This is basically a year-round cherry fest! “Our goal is to promote the cherry and promote northern Michigan,” said Kaylena Mausolf, Traverse City store manager, “and the Café is another way to do that.” Its menu — which features snacks, soups, salads, sandwiches, pizzas, and desserts — showcases a wide array of products from the retail section, so that people can see how the items can be used and how versatile they are. “That was part of the idea behind establishing the Café,” said Mausolf. “Almost everything on the menu incorporates cherries in some way.” FUN WITH FLAVORS Another reason for adding the Café to the Traverse City retail store (which opened in 2007), Mausolf said, was simply to have another fun venue for customers to experience. “Our ice cream, which is all homemade, is a perfect example of that. We feature up to 16 different cherry-themed flavors at a time, and we invite customers to try any of them. After all, sampling — trying before you buy — is one of the hallmarks of Cherry Republic.” Talk about fun — check out some of these smile-inducing scoopables: Cherry CuckooNut (cherry ice cream with toasted coconut, honey-roasted almond slivers, chocolate pieces), My Life is a Circus (cotton candy ice cream, black cherries, sprinkles), Pie in the Sky (cherry-almond ice cream, pie bites, cherry ribbonettes), or Pucker Up (tart cherry sorbet). And for the most intrepid of ice cream lovers, there’s the Monster Sundae in two sizes (both large; it’s just a matter of degree), the base

of which is formed by one or two “audaciously large” Boomchunka cookies (fresh from the inhouse bakery), four or five scoops of the ice cream of your choice (mix and match to your heart’s content), cherry fudge or cherry caramel sauce, whipped cream, and — of course — a cherry on top. Presiding over this lively scene is Boomer the Bear, Cherry Republic’s lovable but mischievous mascot, who is said to have an insatiable sweet tooth. (Ask about “Boomer’s Blunder.”) The Grand Café & Bakery occupies the back third of the Traverse City Cherry Republic store, where a curved wooden half-wall defines the space. Wire-caged filament bulbs and strings of small, garden-inspired globe lights hang from exposed wooden ceiling beams, casting a warm glow over the sturdy, dark-wood tables and chairs (with cherry-red upholstered seats) below. Rustic wide-plank pine floors, white subway-tile walls, colorful chalkboard menus, and whimsical retro signs complete the charmingly eclectic décor. It all adds up to a casual, comfortable atmosphere where everyone is welcome — singles, couples, groups, or families with kids (the latter of whom will flock immediately to the adjacent enclosed tree house play area). WHAT’S YOUR PLEASURE? So settle into those inviting surroundings, and let’s take a look at that menu. Kitchen supervisor/chef Corey Thiel is happy to guide you through it with a few suggestions: “The cherry chicken salad (mixed greens, romaine, cherry tomatoes, dried Montmorency cherries, toasted almonds) is probably our best seller, and you can also have it as a sandwich or as a wrap,” he said. “Another standout is the Parmesan-crusted grilled cheese (Parmesancoated cherry bread, Michigan cheddar and Muenster cheese, cherry fig jam). “It’s just cheese upon cheese upon cheese. And the signature beef or chicken chili (your call), which uses roasted tomatoes, fresh garlic, roasted red peppers, our original cherry salsa, is very popular, year-round. We garnish it with cheddar cheese and sour cream and serve it with tortilla chips.” Mausolf can’t resist recommending a customer favorite that is, incidentally, her own top pick as well — the Cuban sandwich. “It’s

a combination of shaved ham, shredded pork, melted Swiss cheese, house-made pickles, and our cherry artisan mustard pressed between two slices of Cuban bread, which is made for us locally by the Bay Bread Company. I can tell you that I’ve been to restaurants in the Cuban Quarter of Tampa, Florida, where my mom lives, and tried theirs, but I think ours is as good or better. We’ve heard similar testimonials from customers, too.” Other global flavors on the menu are the cherryaki chicken lettuce wraps (lettuce, roasted chicken, Cherry Republic cherryaki sauce, shredded carrots, edamame, toasted almonds) and the Greek salad (roasted golden beets, cucumbers, dried Montmorency cherries, kalamata olives, red onions, feta, mixed greens, Greek dressing). Pizzas, available as 7-inch or 12-inch pies and by the slice (gluten-free upon request), might seem a surprising menu item amid this flurry of cherries, but customers love them, said Mausolf. And though there are seven varieties to choose from, apparently, most swoon over the bacon and blue fig jam pizza in particular (homemade blue cheese cream sauce, mozzarella and provolone cheeses, cherrywood-smoked bacon, fresh basil, and a few dollops of cherry fig jam). BE A KID AGAIN Any Cherry Republic products highlighted in red on the menu are available for purchase in the store, and there is at least one in nearly every listing. Even the hot dog on the kids’ menu manages to incorporate cherries in its accompanying cherry ketchup and cherry mustard. Speaking of that menu — it’s labeled “The Tall and the Small” for a reason. The message below it: “Whatever your age … you can order them all.” So teenagers and grownups, if you want the kid-sized hot dog, mac and cheese, PB&J, taco, go right ahead and order it! Need something to quench your thirst? Cherries are here, too, in the coffee, tea (iced and hot), lemonade and cherry wine, as well as on tap in the seven Boom Chugga Lugga sodas, made for the Café by the Northwoods Soda Company in these flavors: original cherry, true cherry cola, cherry root bear (yes, that’s bear,

not beer), cherry ginger bear, cherry ginger ale, and black cherry cream soda. And last but definitely not least — in fact it was the first thing Sutherland offered at the original Glen Arbor Cherry Republic – we come to cherry pie, in three varieties: true cherry (a traditional two-crust pie), cherry crumb and cherry-blueberry. A few times a year, there are also seasonal flavors, such as cherry-rhubarb for summer and cherry-apple in the fall. Sold whole, by the slice (pie à la mode upon request) and as portable hand pies, they are the heart of the café. “Lots of people come in just for our pie, whether they want to sit and have it with a cup of coffee, take it home with them, or just grab a hand pie and be on their way,” said Mausolf. “After all, what’s more ‘northern Michigan’ than a cherry pie?” The Grand Café & Bakery is located inside Cherry Republic at 154 East Front St., Traverse City. Open seven days a week (extended hours during Cherry Festival). For more information, call (231) 932-9205 or visit cherry republic.com.$ NEWS FROM THE REPUBLIC CHERRY PUBLIC HOUSE The latest development in the Cherry Republic organization is the establishment this spring of the Cherry Public House at the original Glen Arbor location of Cherry Republic. The new year-round, full-service restaurant and brewery specializes in smoked and grilled foods (steaks, chops, ribs, whitefish, pasta) and offers nine handcrafted beers on tap, made especially for the Cherry Public House by Short’s Brewing Company in Bellaire (four riffs on the cherry and five classics — IPA, light lager, brown ale, fruity ale, seasonal), as well as three hard ciders (two cherry infused). Besides indoor seating, a large outdoor patio accommodates many more guests in warm weather. Find it at 5109 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor, cherryrepublic.com, (231) 226-3033.

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The 82-year-old Manistee National Forest Festival Looking for a smaller, quieter way to celebrate your Fourth in the North? Try on the Manistee National Forest Festival for size. A truly down-home tradition that started eight decades ago as a homecoming event for Manistee natives, Manistee County’s signature summer festival melds fireworks, midway, and musical traditions with a one-of-a-kind forest tour, outstanding arts and crafts, and — new this year — a Polynesian fire and dance show. HISTORICAL FUN When the festival began, it was actually called the Manistee Homecoming, as it was staged to both celebrate the Fourth of July, and to welcome back former residents who had moved out of town. The first festival — held on July 6, 1936 — was a bit different than today’s version. There were Navy training ships on display in the Manistee River Channel; a Michigan State Police exhibition; a Native American tepee village; Ottawa ceremonial dance; forest fire demonstrations and local history displays; coronation baseball games; and a Grand Parade that featured more than 75 floats. And perhaps remarkably for the time, over 50,000 people were said to have attended. The fest has gone through some major changes over the years. In the ’50s, it was converted to a sports festival. In the mid’60s, it became the National Strawberry Festival. But by 1977, it was switched back to the Manistee National Forest Festival, and that’s where it’s stayed. COLORFUL ACTIVITIES One of the biggest events at the festival is the fireworks show, planned for Tuesday, July 3. This year’s show, rumored to be triple the size of previous years’, is staged right over Lake Michigan. (If you tune into 101.5FM, The Mitten, you can enjoy a musical accompaniment with the show.) Like most festivals, Manistee’s offers a marketplace, with fun seasonal merchandise and festival foodstuffs for sale throughout the grounds. But its Manistee World of Arts and Crafts is something to behold. Featuring

everything from paintings, photography, and pottery to carvings, jewelry, and handcrafted items, goers will see items created by more than 90 artists and craftsmen. FESTIVAL JAMS If you’re looking for some great sounds to enjoy, don’t miss the Live Music on the Porch events at nearby Douglas Valley Winery (various days/times, free), where you can catch such performers as Chris Skellenger, Cousin Curtiss, Clear Heels, The Breakfast Club, Awesome Distraction, and more. The Scottville Clown Band — a raucous combo of rock and clowning around — is back at the festival as well, and will also be marching in the Fourth of July parade. Ann Arbor band The Ragbirds, a bluegrass-folk-pop outfit with top-notch instrumentation and vocals, will perform on July 2 at the Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts (ramsdelltheatre.org for tickets and details). New this year is the Jaycees Beach Bash, on July 7. For ages 21 and over only, the show will feature another performance from the band Clear Heels, plus a Polynesian fire and dance show from Aloha Chicago. MIDWAY TO FOREST Traditional midway pursuits can be found during the fest at the Anderson Carnival (located at the 1st Street Beach). Snag an armband for $20, and you can ride the rides at this traveling theme park all day long, with a few breaks in between to try your skill at some carnival games. Enjoy Manistee’s also-traditional Independence Day Parade on July 4. It starts at 10 am (and the parade travels west on River Street from Division Street). For a full schedule of events and more information, visit manisteeforestfestival.com.

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Pyro Guys The Michigan Brothers-in-law behind TC’s greatest fireworks show

Larry Forton (left) one of Great Lakes Fireworks’ lead technicians, and Bruce Tyree get ready to ignite another Cherry Festival night from their fireworkfilled barge on West Grand Traverse Bay.

By Ross Boissoneau Like so many youngsters, Bruce Tyree was fascinated by fireworks. Unlike most, however, he failed to outgrow his obsession. So he made the most of it. Today he’s surrounded by Roman candles, display shells, and barrage cakes on a daily basis as the head of the northern division of Great Lakes Fireworks. “I blame it on my brother-in-law,” said Tyree. “I grew up in West Branch, and his family had a cabin in St. Helen. He’d come up with fireworks and do a display in St. Helen. It got bigger and bigger, and a bunch of people started coming.” Including the local gendarmes. “The police came,” said Tyree. Though they weren’t charged with any violations, the twosome was warned about possible consequences. “They said if anything went wrong, things could turn out bad.” So they decided to do it right. Barry Beltz, Tyree’s brother-in-law, went to Pennsylvania to learn the proper way to indulge in his passion for lighting up the sky, and they then went through the permitting process for shows. They did events here and there and continued to pick up business, eventually getting contracted by companies to do shows across the region.

Eventually they realized they actually had a business. “It just got to the point where we said we should just start bidding and doing shows on our own,” Tyree said. They traveled across the country to suppliers and importers, until they decided they might as well take on that aspect of the business as well. They booked a flight to China, where most fireworks are manufactured. “Now here we are 25 years later,” Tyree said with a laugh. Today Tyree, Beltz, and their crews travel across the Midwest, providing fireworks at about 150 shows a year. About half of those are around the Fourth of July,” Tyree said — happening either on the holiday or the weekend before or after. “Right now it’s crunch time.” That means that perhaps surprisingly, fully half of their business takes place at some other time. “We do festivals and events year-round,” he said, pointing to Houghton Lake’s Tip-Up Town, Alpenfest in Gaylord, Rogers City Nautical Festival, and Christmas events such as Manistee’s Victorian Sleighbell Parade and Old Christmas Weekend. So what about those fireworks? Where do they come from and how does a show actually work? As Tyree pointed out, most come from China, though there are some

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manufacturers in Spain, Mexico, and even in the U.S. Tyree and Beltz fly to China frequently to watch demonstrations, assess the fireworks, and negotiate. Given the pair’s practiced eyes for fireworks, they can immediately tell if the product is something they’d be interested in or not. “If it’s bright, vivid color, it’s really pleasing to the eye,” he said. On the other hand, “Maybe the blue is dim, or half of it didn’t fire, or it’s lopsided. We see and know the difference.” The operation today is significantly different from decades ago. “Originally they were all hand-fired with flares. You’d have five or six guys with hard hats,” said Tyree. “Safety and quality have improved a lot.” Today, all the shells have electronic igniters. The hard work is done ahead of time, with each item labeled to tell the technician where it’s plugged into the firing system. Many of the displays are coordinated with music and controlled by a computer. For a show like the National Cherry Festival, where the fireworks are shot off from the water, barges come in by truck and are craned into the water. The fireworks are set up, and the entire thing is covered by a tarp that is taped in place. That takes two full days. The day of the show, a single person at the controls tests all circuits, arms the

system, then the show begins with the click of a mouse. While it is an independent business, Great Lakes Fireworks still contracts with larger firms for various displays. “They often call us to help with big contracts. That’s gotten us to Dubai in [as part of an international team that set the World Record fireworks display] in 2014 ... and again in 2017,” Tyree said. “My daughter Shannon was invited to the international fireworks display (the Sanfermines Fireworks International Competition) in Pamplona, Spain, part of the Running of the Bulls Festival. The morning after the Cherry Festival, we get on a plane to Spain.” In addition to the National Cherry Festival and the Fourth of July celebration in St. Helen, which the company still does, Great Lakes Fireworks does displays for the Venetian Festival in Charlevoix and celebrations in Bay Harbor, Harbor Springs, Torch Lake, Bear Lake, and Onekama, among other locations in the region. So with the company at the 25-year mark and more than 30 years into the business, is it everything Tyree thought it would be? “It seemed like a good idea at the time,” he said, laughing. “This time of year, it’s pretty stressful.”

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A Flock of Fun is Heading to Cherry Fest for first time ever By Kristi Kates The athletes are poised for action at the starting line, their coaches behind them for one last pep talk, their competition lane before them. The air vibrates with the sound of the starting horn, and all webbed feet and wings suddenly rev up into full speed… … wait, what? Yes, these aren’t your typical athletes. They’re ducks — real live Mallard ducks, to be specific — and they’re the competitors in the Great American Duck Race, a touring event run by Robert Duck (and yes, that is his real name) that will be making a stop at the Traverse City Cherry Festival this year. BUCKS FOR DUCKS The event got its start back in 1980 as the Great American Duck Race of Deming, in the city of Deming, New Mexico. “They’d started a local festival there, thinking it would be fun to round up 50 or so ducks and race them,” Duck explained. “They just expected maybe a couple hundred people would show up.” At the time, Duck and his wife live 200 miles away from Deming, in Albuquerque, and ran a jewelry store. When they heard about the event, they decided to enter the two pet ducks they’d been raising in their backyard. “We got there and found out that there were way more than 50 ducks — there were 176,” Duck said. “Our ducks got third place that year, so we thought it might be fun to train them. The next year, we brought more ducks, since our ducks had hatched baby ducks. There were over 400 ducks competing, and we won first place.” The Ducks’ experience with the duck race went swimmingly; they won for 12 years straight — and there was prize money. “We made $50,000 racing ducks over that 12 years,” Duck said. DUCKY DECADES They also won a lot of attention, between winning that many times and the fact that

Duck’s name is Duck. “We were in People magazine and The Wall Street Journal, and a Japanese TV show even came out and filmed us training our ducks,” Duck said. “We also got to bring one of our ducks, Quacky Simone (named after a local news anchor in Albuquerque) onto the Johnny Carson show.” The whole experience was so much fun Duck decided to take a quack — er, crack — at making a living racing ducks. In 1999, he and his wife sold the jewelry business they’d owned for over two decades, got all their ducks in a row, and started their own branch of the Great American Duck Race, touring it around the country. “We’ve now been racing ducks for 20 years, full time,” said Duck. FAST FOWL In today’s version of the duck race, only Mallard ducks compete. “Back when we were racing duck competitors, we’d experimented with racing different types of ducks,” Duck said. “Rouen ducks, Indian Runners, and Khaki Campbells. But Mallards were always the fastest.” The Ducks bring their own stable of ducks to the races, traveling with a total of 41 ducks, and rotating the ducks, 20 at a time, so the ducks can rest in between shows. (They get the ducks from a hatchery, and train them to race using the ducks’ natural instincts to return to their flock.) “The non-competing ducks rest in a shaded pen at each venue,” Duck said. “And we have a little setup where people can buy duck food from a machine and feed them.” Six ducks in particular hold the “fastest duck” honor on the Ducks’ team, and they all have stage names: Nitro, Buttercup, Justify, Crazy Girl, Rocket, and Turbo. “And two of our ducks are now 13 years old,” Duck said. “Which is pretty good, considering the average lifespan of a Mallard duck in the wild is about two years.” DUCK DASH The Ducks loan their ducks to guests who

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wish to participate in the Great American Duck Race, which is quite the show (this will be the race’s — and the Ducks’ — first visit to Cherry Festival). The event includes the race itself, plus plenty of enthusiastic commentary and lots of fun facts about Mallard ducks. “We race the ducks four at a time, on a 16-foot-long water tank track,” Duck explained. “The ducks’ feet don’t touch the bottom; they swim and use their wings a little to propel forward.” The guests chosen to be the ducks’ ‘coaches’ simply set their ducks into each duck’s lane as the starting horn blows, and the ducks know what to do. The ducks race for four heats and then a final round. During the final round, the guests get to bestow a temporary name on their temporary duck. “It’s fun to see what names people come up with!” Duck said. Some of the ducks have even become exceptionally good at racing, taking to it like — well, like a duck to water. One of Duck’s ducks holds the world record for the 16-foot duck racing course at .83 seconds. The Great American Duck Race will take place July 4-7 in Clinch Park, Traverse City during Cherry Festival (see cherryfestival.org for exact race times). For more information visit racingducks.com.

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ROCK ROYALTY TO PLAY BENZIE BARN Jimi Hendrix mentor coming north for one night only By Ross Boissoneau It’s about 150 miles from Detroit to Cleveland, but Billy Davis’ road was so circuitous it took decades to get from one to the other. Now the celebrated musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is adding another 250 miles to the journey, trekking north to Beulah on July 6 for Bayou in the Barn. “I saw him at a festival last year. He’s been playing guitar longer than I’ve been on the planet,” said Josh Stoltz. The executive director of Grow Benzie was so enthralled he invited Davis to play at the annual fundraiser for the nonprofit located between Benzonia and Frankfort. “I contacted his manager, and the more I learned about him, the more connected he was with what Grow Benzie represents.” What does Grow Benzie represent? Actually, a whole lot of things. It’s a hub of social activity and enterprise, home to gardens and greenhouses, food trucks, maker spaces, and a fiber barn, even a seed library. Its mission statement is “connecting people to healthful foods, job skills, life skills, and each other.” It offers nutrition, culinary and entrepreneurial classes, farming, gardening, and food preservation workshops, afterschool programs and a weekly farm market. Add to that Bayou in the Barn, an annual event combining food, fundraising and music held at St. Ambrose Cellars in Beulah. This year, Bayou in the Barn features Davis as the headliner. The guitarist and vocalist, who’s called the Motor City home since he was 13, was not only inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, he’s also a member of the Doo Wop Hall of Fame,

and the R&B Hall of Fame in his hometown. The Detroit Blues Society awarded Davis a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Davis turned 80 years old earlier this year, and he’s still going strong. “I’m trying to do the best I can,” he said from his Detroit-area home. He’s still playing shows and festivals and just last week played in Kalamazoo. Davis was a longtime member of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. While on tour with the band, he befriended a young Jimi Hendrix and gave him some lessons. When Davis was drafted into the U.S. Army three years later, he enlisted Hendrix to take his place in the band. Davis returned to the band after his stint in the service, while Hendrix took some of the showmanship he’d gleaned from Davis and made it his own as he ascended into the rock stratosphere. “Jimi and I became friends in 1959. It lasted until he passed away. I spent two weeks with him. He wanted to know how to do this, how to do that,” Davis said. He said he didn’t have any inkling at that time that Hendrix would become a guitar god “The only thing I saw in him was his desire. He never got tired of playing. He wanted to learn.” Nor does he harbor any resentment that Hendrix became a superstar. Davis is content with knowing where Hendrix got some of his tricks, such as playing behind his back and with his teeth. “The showmanship, different sounds, and feedback — I was doing that before there was a name for it,” Davis said matter-of-factly. Don’t get the idea Davis and his music are some relics of the past. His stinging guitar leads and chunky rhythm fills are the basis for styles still popular today, incorporating

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blues, country and R&B in equal parts. And he still believes he can continue to grow as a player — even as an octogenarian. “One thing about guitar — every day I pick it up, I learn something else. It keeps you going. If there was nothing else to learn you’d get bored.” While Davis will be the headliner at Bayou in the Barn, he’s not alone. Kansas City blues band Katy Guillen and The Girls, Blake Elliot, and Beulah’s own K. Jones & the Benzie Playboys will also perform. Stoltz said the party is the organization’s largest fundraiser. He said the nonprofit previously held both an auction/dinner and a festival gathering at different times of the year, but after seven years, interest and attendance at the former was dwindling. Last year, Grow Benzie combined the two and moved the event to July, when the greatest number of people are in the area. “We want to maintain our relationship with summer visitors and year-round residents,” he said. The first such gatherings were dubbed Bayou on the Bay, as they took place in Frankfort, fronting Betsie Bay. Now it’s been moved to St. Ambrose, which offers an advantage because the organization doesn’t have worry about a lot of the logistics, such as alcohol permits. “We don’t have to deal with that,” said Stoltz. And it’s a natural fit. “St. Ambrose and Sleeping Bear Farms are already partners with Grow Benzie.” St. Ambrose and Sleeping Bear Farms are sister companies located on the same site. Both are owned by Kirk Jones, who also leads K. Jones and the Benzie Playboys. Stoltz’s father is also a member of the band. Bayou in the Barn will also feature

Grow Benzie’s food truck and other vendors serving Louisiana and southern cuisine such as jambalaya, barbecue and beignets, the sweet French doughnuts popularized by Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans’ French Quarter. There will be a live and silent auction including chef-hosted dinner parties and fishing expeditions, plus yard games throughout the property to enjoy. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs or blanket to relax on the grassy open space. Ticket admission includes entry to the event; merchandise, food, and drinks can be purchased separately. Stoltz said the event helps the non-profit balance its books. “The focus the last three years is to make sure we’re not basing our entire income off grants,” he said. While Grow Benzie derives income from other sources, such as memberships, its food trucks, and renting out its event center, Bayou in the Barn remains its single largest source of income. “This is still the big one,” said Stoltz. And it is getting bigger. Stoltz said the first couple years it drew around 700 to 800. Last year the crowd swelled to 1,100. “It’s great to see the support from the community and the greater community. I look forward to the time we have to go to Crystal Mountain because it’s grown so much,” he said. Bayou in the Barn runs from 5pm to 11:30pm Friday, July 6. Tickets are $20 in advance ($10 students) and $25 at the door. They are available at MyNorthTickets.com, Grow Benzie’s Monday Farmers Market (2pm–6pm), and St. Ambrose Cellars. For information about Grow Benzie or the event, call 231-882-9510 or visit GrowBenzie.org.

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THE BARD’S THE THING Chicago-area troupe brings Shakespeare to life in Benzie County for 15th year

By Ross Boissoneau Of course people will show up for a free outdoor performance of plays by Shakespeare. Yes, in rural Benzie County. Who would doubt that? Turns out the very people who put the play on. “We had no idea,” said founding member Jeff Christian. No idea what people would think, how many people would attend — indeed, whether people would turn out at all. They did, and 14 years on continue to do so. Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre brings together a host of Chicago-area theater veterans and vacationers and residents of the area, some coming from as far away as Charlevoix. The theatre company sprang from a vision by longtime vacationer Elizabeth Laidlaw, a veteran of the Chicago theatre scene. She mentioned it to Christian, a fellow actor and director, and when he attended her wedding in

the area, he, too, was smitten by the idea and the surroundings. “She’d been going to the area her entire life, her family for three generations. She said, ‘What about doing a Shakespeare festival there?’ I said, ‘Will it work?’ I was there for her wedding, and it’s beautiful. I said, Yeah, let’s try it.” He adapted A Midsummer Night’s Dream for a cast of seven and directed the play for three performances over a single weekend in the Elberta bandshell. Prior to curtain, they noticed people bringing in picnic baskets and lawn chairs. He recalled thinking, “Oh my God, people are coming!” Some people, he said, came all three nights. Lakeside Shakespeare was off and running. The next year the group did two productions with larger casts, and the festival ran for two weeks. It’s been hosting families, vacationers, Shakespeare enthusiasts, and play novices ever since. “Some have never seen a play before.

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Some have season tickets at Stratford,” said Christian of their audiences. “Everyone is in this together.” He said the work begins long before they arrive in Frankfort, with the selection of the plays and then the casts. “We rehearse in Chicago, then we all drive up.” The productions moved from the bandshell in Elberta to Tank Hill, outside Frankfort, in 2010. “There’s not much there. We come in, build the stage, we’re there for two weeks, then we go away. It is not a normal theatrical paradigm.” Of course, being outdoors brings challenges. “We were doing Macbeth and near the end the skies opened up. You could hardly hear with the rain pounding on a wood stage. Yet 60 intrepid souls gutted it out.” In another play, he recalled a fight scene, complete with broadswords, where the audience cheered on the combatants. “It’s unlike anything else I’m involved with. It’s a very singular experience.” The troupe no longer relies on the good graces of locals to provide accommodations as they did the first years. Both the company and the number of performances have expanded, leading to increasing costs. “The budget is relatively high for a bunch of people standing out in the woods,” said Christian with a laugh. And yet, there is no admission charge.

Christian said he is loathe to go to a ticketing system, both due to the logistics involved and how it could keep people away. “We have a suggested donation, but we don’t want it to get the way. It’s cool to see people give it a try. They’ll stand at the back.” Over the course of the 14 years, Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre has performed before more than 10,000 people and reached over 1,000 students through its education workshops. LST actors have graced stages on Broadway, regional theatres, and all of the major houses across the Chicago theatre scene. Its education program was established in its third season. Christian said the program continues to thrive, with over 100 children engaging in LST actor-led workshops each summer. “People here just came out and supported us,” he said, somewhat wonderingly. Which brings us to Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre 2018. This year’s offerings are Henry VII, running July 24–28, and 50 Minute Hamlet, which Christian has adapted for two actors, July 30–Aug. 3. All shows are at 7pm, rain or shine. Christian said the unique setting provides for different interaction with the audiences, some of whom return year after year. “You see everybody’s face. If they’re dozing off, you see that. There’s not a green room — I’ll change in the truck. I walk around and talk to people before the show, at intermission — I’d never do that in Chicago. It just feels more intimate, more connected. “I get to do these great plays for people with whom I have a relationship. A lot of them I don’t know by name, but we’ve had conversations: ‘Oh, kale guy is here.’” And so is Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre. WHERE THE HECK IS TANK HILL? The city-owned park, about 15 acres of diverse hardwoods, is located at 178 Park Ave., near Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital in Frankfort.

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NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 - July 7. Today features Two Person Beach Volleyball, Very Cherry Flying Pancake Breakfast, Kids Big Wheel Race, U.S. Navy Blue Angels Air Show, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo w/ Special Guest Loverboy, & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

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---------------------MANISTEE NATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL: Today includes the Manistee Firecracker 5K Run/Walk & 1K Fun Run, Manistee World of Arts & Crafts Show, Whispering Pines Animal Kingdom, Little Big Shots Talent Show Finals, & much more. manisteeforestfestival.com

---------------------FRIENDS OF IPL’S 32ND ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE: 9am-3pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. newinterlochenlibrary.org

---------------------ART IN THE GARDEN FESTIVAL: 10am5pm, Otsego County Alternative Landscaping Demonstration Garden & Conservation Forest, Gaylord. Explore winding garden paths, listen to live music by Rokko Jan, The Real Ingredients, Brian & Sarah Peterson & Jakey Thomas; browse art displays, attend workshops that range from building birdhouses to creating art with your nature hike, & see Wings of Wonder. Free.

---------------------FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER MARCH: 10am-noon. March in TC, in solidarity with the national Families Belong Together March in Washington, D.C., & around the country. Special musical guest Miriam Pico will perform. Gather at the TC Courthouse. Bring signs, drums & your voices. This will be a peaceful protest. For more info contact Monica: 231325-6812 or find on Facebook. Free.

---------------------HISTORIC SLEEPING BEAR CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY: Celebrating as a partner of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. 10am, Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center/Olsen Farm. Today features bus tours of Port Oneida, an art show & sale, demonstrations of old-time crafts & skills, storytelling with Beach Bard’s Norm Wheeler, live music by The North Carolines, an inaugural barn dance & much more. phsb.org

---------------------STARS, STRIPES & SPLATTER 5K: 10am, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. A group color toss will take place at 11am at Jazz Live Field, followed by a post-race after party at noon. This is a fun run; not chip timed. starsstripesandsplatter.com

---------------------PICNIC & PLANES FUNDRAISER: 11am, Traverse Bay United Methodist Church, TC. Enjoy the Blue Angels Air Show & a Maxbauer hot dog & cherry cobbler. All proceeds from the food sales will benefit Love In the Name of Christ which provides emergency help to neighbors in need in the Grand Traverse area, & also provides free Life Skills classes. loveinctraverse.org

---------------------BIGS & BLUE ANGELS AIR SHOW: 1pm. BBQ picnic benefit for BIGS. Watch the Blue Angels Air Show from 44 NORTH (above Tom’s West Bay). Gates open at 11am. All proceeds will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern MI. $10 minimum donation per vehicle.

---------------------RED, WHITE & BREW: 4-8pm, Harbor Springs waterfront. Enjoy beer, wine, food from BC Pizza, & live music by Mike & Jeff from The Remedee Band. Tickets: $10 advance or $15 at door; include two drink tickets.

---------------------EAST JORDAN FREEDOM FESTIVAL: June 27 - July 1. Featuring old time kids games, an outdoor movie, live music by Derailed, Project

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The Capitol Steps will make Interlochen Center for the Arts laugh again! Returning to Corson Auditorium on Tues., July 3 at 8pm, this crew of former Senate staffers takes shots at both political sides and governmental goings-on in Washington, D.C. Tickets: $33. tickets.interlochen.org

6, & Sault Ste. Marie Pipe Band, Friday Night Block Party, 3 on 3 basketball tournament, Grand Parade, a lip sync contest, fireworks & much more. eastjordanfreedomfestival.org

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---------------------“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Upton-Morley Pavilion. $33. tickets.interlochen.org/arts-festival

---------------------BLONDIE: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. A new-wave rock band of the 80’s, Blondie is known for hits such as “One Way or Another” & “Heart of Glass.” Tickets range from $54-$71. tickets. interlochen.org/

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CROSS VILLAGE COMMUNITY PARADE: 1pm, Lakeshore Dr., Cross Village. Celebrate after the parade at Three Pines Studio.

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MANISTEE NATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL: Today includes the Jiingtamok, Manistee Lumberjack Competition, the Scottville Clown Band, Bed Races, & much more. manisteeforestfestival.com

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NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 - July 7. Today includes the Four Person Beach Volleyball Tournament, Arts & Crafts Fair, Old Town Classic Car Show, Great American Picnic, U.S. Navy Blue Angels Air Show, Family Sand Sculpture Contest, Here Come

the Mummies concert & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

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

---------------------BIGS & BLUE ANGELS AIR SHOW: (See Sat., June 30) EAST JORDAN FREEDOM FESTIVAL: (See Sat., June 30)

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LOVE OF COUNTRY: 7pm, Benzie Central High School Auditorium, Benzonia. Presented by the Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra with Conductor Tom Riccobono & featured soloist Lauren Lise Pokorzynski. $10 seniors; $15 adults & free for 12 & under. benziesymphony.com

---------------------SUNDAY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7-10pm, Elk Rapids Harbor Pavillion at the Edward C. Grace Memorial Harbor. Featuring Elizabeth Sexton Rivers & Peter J. Murphy. Free. THE APPLESEED COLLECTIVE: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Enjoy Americana music rooted in traditions from all over the world & from every decade. $20/ adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------SUMMER SUNSETS VESPERS CONCERTS: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. “Liberty & Justice for All: The Bay View Pops Orchestra.” $17.50 adults, $13.50 members & $25 families. bayviewassociation. org/vesper

---------------------WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Featuring Michael Francis, conductor & Martin Chalifour, violin. $30. tickets. interlochen.org

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monday

PADDLE ANTRIM COMMUNITY PADDLE: 8:30-10am, Bradford St. Boat Launch, Central Lake. Bring your paddleboard, kayak or canoe. Free. paddleantrim.com

---------------------NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 - July 7. Today includes the Cherry Pie Bike Ride, Yoga by the Bay, Kids Turtle Race, Hole-in-One Contest, Kids & Adult Cherry Pie Eating Contests, live music by Dan & Shay & much more. cherryfestival. org/events

---------------------MANISTEE NATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL: Today includes the Beach Buddies Kids Parade & Activities, Prince & Princess Pageant Crowning Ceremony, live music by The Ragbirds & more. manisteeforestfestival.com

---------------------MONDAY NIGHT CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 7pm, Onekama Village Park. Roots, blues, jazz & rock with the Schrock Brothers & Grammywinner, Peter Madcat on harmonica. Free.

---------------------“A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Harvey Theatre. $33. tickets.interlochen.org

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VIOLIN & GUITAR DUO RECITAL W/ MARTIN CHALIFOUR & MAK GRGIC: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. $33. tickets.interlochen.org

july 03

tuesday

FOREST FESTIVAL BOOK SALE: 9am-5pm, Book House, behind the Manistee Library.

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MANISTEE NATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL: Today includes Friends of the Library Book Sale, Fireworks over Lake MI, & more. manisteeforestfestival.com

---------------------NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 - July 7. Today includes Heritage Day, the Kids Pet Show, Royale Pageant of Fashion & Luncheon, Consumers Energy Heritage Parade & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------BOYNE CITY 4TH OF JULY FESTIVAL: Today includes the 42nd Annual Waterside Arts & Crafts Show, Soap Box Derby School, & more. boynechamber.com

---------------------KIDS SUMMER READING CLUB EVENT: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Hear stories & create your own pet rock. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------WILDFLOWER WALK: 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Catch a glimpse of some July wildflowers. Free; donations appreciated. grassriver.org

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

---------------------INDEPENDENCE DAY BAND CONCERT: 7pm, Old School House lawn, Glen Arbor. The Northport Community Band presents a concert of patriotic & march favorites. Free. glenarborart.org

---------------------MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE SERIES: 7pm, Douglas Park, Rotary Park Pavilion, Manistee. Enjoy blues & classic rock with the Big Boss Band.

---------------------“A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: (See Mon., July 2)

CAPITOL STEPS: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. A comical blend of songs, skits & political satire by a crew of former Senate staffers. $33. tickets.interlochen.org

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

---------------------FIREWORKS DISPLAY & PETOSKEY STEEL DRUM BAND: 8-10:30pm, The Village at Bay Harbor.

---------------------TORCH LAKE FIREWORKS: 10pm; south end of Torch Lake at dusk.

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wednesday

BOYNE CITY 4TH OF JULY FESTIVAL: Today includes the 42nd Annual Independence Day Run, Grand Parade, Boyne City Rotary Club Chicken Barbecue, live music by Northern Nites, Sneaky Pete & The Forever Family Band, Tribe of Chiefs, & Krista Javens; Commemorative Raft Race, 30th Annual Duck Race, Soap Box Derby, fireworks & more. boynechamber.com

---------------------NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 July 7. Today includes Fun & Games for Special Kids, Great American Duck Race, Kids Bicycle Rodeo, Kids Cherry Town Fun Night, live music by Three Days Grace, 4th of July Fireworks & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------4TH OF JULY - HARBOR SPRINGS: 44th Annual Paul Revere Run: 10-mile run: Zoll St. Park, 8am; 3-mile run: The Depot, 8:15am. Parade: Main, State & Bay streets, 1pm. Young Americans Concert: Shay Park, 3pm. Fireworks over the bay, 10:30pm. harborspringschamber.com

---------------------CRYSTAL LAKE FIRECRACKER 5K: 8am, Beulah Park. clcba.org/event/5k-firecracker-run

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: Flintfields Horse Park, TC, July 4 - Aug. 12. Six weeks of equestrian competition, featuring jumpers, hunters & equitation with riders from around the country competing for prestige & prize money. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

---------------------MANISTEE NATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL: Today includes the Independence Day Parade, Duck Race, Port City Pet Pageant & more. manisteeforestfestival.com

---------------------4TH OF JULY AROUND GLEN LAKE: Flag Raising Ceremony: 10am at Old Settlers Park, Empire Township. Parade: Noon in downtown Glen Arbor.

Enjoy live music by Dave Cisco at the Walloon Lake Inn & the Jelly Roll Blues Band in the park, kids events, fireworks & more. Find on Facebook.

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EVENING ON RIVER STREET: 6-9pm, River St., Downtown Elk Rapids. Featuring live music by DAGS UND TIMMAH!, kids activities, food & more.

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------------------------------------------PETOSKEY 4TH OF JULY: Parade at 6pm through downtown Petoskey; entertainment by Battle of the Bands winners at the waterfront from 7-10pm; fireworks at 10pm.

JAZZ AT SUNSET W/ JEFF HAAS TRIO, DON JULIN & NANCY STAGNITTA: 7-9:30pm, Chateau Chantal, TC. chateauchantal.com

FOURTHFEST: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. This annual patriotic concert features faculty & student artists playing Sousa marches, military service medley, American folk songs & more. $13.50. tickets. vendini.com

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THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA: 2pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. This 18-piece ensemble keeps Glenn Miller’s patriotic legacy alive with classic songs & an all-American performance. Enjoy hits such as “Tuxedo Junction” & “In the Mood.” $33, $28. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------BIG SHOW OVER THE LITTLE VILLAGE: FIREWORKS OVER WALLOON LAKE: 3-10pm, Barrel Back Restaurant, Walloon Lake.

------------------------------------------STREET MUSIQUE: 7-9pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs. “Great American Songbook” featuring Sunshine StringBand, Kevin Johnson, Keith Scott Blues, Katherine Ryan Trio, My Generation Trio, Twister Joe, face painters & Magic by Jania.

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NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 - July 7. Today includes Kids Fun & Games & Arts & Crafts, Teen Volleyball Tournament, Cherry Pie Make & Bake, Princess Tea, Ultimate Air Dogs, Depot Neighborhood Picnic, Cherry Mile, Cherry Kids Festival Fun Run led by Desiree Linden, winner of the 2018 Boston Marathon, live music by Sheryl Crow, Touchstone Energy Junior Royale Parade & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------INVASIVE SPECIES (BABY’S BREATH) WORK DAY: 10am-noon, Elberta Beach, Elberta. Bring comfortable shoes & work gloves. gtrlc.org

---------------------RANDOM ACTS OF MUSIC: FREE LIVE MUSIC IN DOWNTOWN GAYLORD: Starts at 10am & runs all day on July 5-6. gacaevents. weebly.com/concerts.html

---------------------FREE ARTS & CRAFTS WORKSHOP: 11am1pm, Mackinaw City Pavilion, behind Mackinaw City Schools. Each child will decorate & take home a 10” x 12” personalized canvas banner to hang on their door or wall. Questions? Email: alianalee.art@gmail.com.

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RYAN SHAY MID SUMMER NIGHT RUN: 10K, 5K, 1 MILE RUN: 7pm, Thurston Park, Central Lake. ryanshay.org

LEGO’S ROCK: 1pm, Bellaire Public Library. Part of the Summer Reading Program. For children 6-12. bellairelibrary.org

CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT: 1:30pm, Central Lake Tavern. Must be 21 to enter & play. Call 231-544-9800 to pre-register before July 2. $10 per two person team. cltavern.com

CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions, lawn, TC. Featuring Song of the Lakes. Free. gtpavilions.org/2018-concerts-on-the-lawn

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---------------------LELAND’S 4TH OF JULY: Old Art Building, Leland. Starting at 1pm there will be materials to decorate your bike for the parade, as well as live music by Jazz North. Following will be a parade. Free. oldartbuilding.com

MUSIC ON MAIN: 6-8pm, The Village at Bay Harbor, Main St.. Featuring The Real Ingredients. Free.

GHOST TOWNS OF SLEEPING BEAR DUNES: 7-9pm, Elk Rapids Area History Museum. Featuring Kerry Kelly. 231-264-5692. Donation. elkrapidshistory.org

CIRQUE AMONGUS: 11:30am, East Park, Charlevoix. Held at the Farmer’s Market. A combination of comedy, circus skills & audience participation. Free. charlevoixlibrary.org

BAY HARBOR FOURTH OF JULY PARADE: 11am, Main St., Village at Bay Harbor. GEM cars, custom vehicles & celebration.

DONNY ROD: 5:45pm, Crawford County Commission on Aging & Senior Center, Grayling. Enjoy this Rod Steward tribute artist. 989-348-7123. Free.

------------------------------------------31ST ANNUAL TC OPTIMIST BOARDMAN RIVER DUCK RACE: 4pm, Union Street Bridge, TC. Ducks for sale at the Great Lakes Children’s Museum & TBA Credit Union’s downtown location: 630 E. Front St., TC. $5 for 1 duck or $25 for 6 ducks. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------AN EVENING FOR THE GREAT LAKES TO BENEFIT FLOW: 5-9pm, Cherry Basket Farm, Omena. Enjoy farm-to-table fare by Epicure Catering, beverages by Baia Estate Leelanau, Arbor Brewing, & Iron Fish Distillery, & a performance by four time Grammy winner & NPR’s Live From Here host Chris Thile. Benefits For the Love of Water & their work to protect the Great Lakes. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------MANISTEE NATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL: Today includes the Onekama Block Party. manisteeforestfestival.com

COLD TONE HARVEST: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. This group delivers songs that “pull on emotion & maintain a raw feel.” $15/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------“A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: (See Mon., July 2)

---------------------RANKY TANKY: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. Enjoy funk, R&B & jazz. Kids under 18, free. $0-$35. bayviewassociation.org/performing-arts

---------------------SARAH CAHILL, PIANIST: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Sarah was awarded the 2018 Champion of New Music Award from American Composers Forum. $33. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------MOVIES IN THE PARK: 9:30pm, Alanson Community Park, Alanson. Featuring “The Greatest Showman.” Free.

---------------------NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 - July 7. Today includes Kids Fun & Games & Arts & Crafts, Teen Volleyball Tournament, Cherry Pie Make & Bake, Princess Tea, Ultimate Air Dogs, Depot Neighborhood Picnic, Cherry Mile, Cherry Kids Festival Fun Run led by Desiree Linden, winner of the 2018 Boston Marathon, live music by Sheryl Crow, Touchstone Energy Junior Royale Parade & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

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NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 - July 7. Today includes the Cherry Brat Lunch, Cherry Golf Scramble, Cherry Idol Auditions, Diaper Derby & Toddler Trot, Cherryland Band Classic, live music by Dustin Lynch, Queens Ball & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------RANDOM ACTS OF MUSIC: FREE LIVE MUSIC IN DOWNTOWN GAYLORD: (See Thurs., July 5)

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring musician, performer & teacher Chris Koury. crookedtree.org

---------------------BAYOU IN THE BARN: BLUES & ZYDECO FUNDRAISER: 5-11:30pm, St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah. Benefits Grow Benzie. Featuring

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live music by the Billy Davis Duo feat. Wayne Craycraft, Kathy Guillen & The Girls, K Jones & The Benzie Playboys & others. There will also be Cajun food vendors. $10-$25 pp. mynorthtickets.com

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KURT ANDERSON & KEVIN BARTON MEET & GREET: 6-8pm, Somebody’s Gallery, Petoskey. Meet these hometown painters. Enjoy wine & appetizers. Free. somebodysgallery.com

---------------------BENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY BAND CONCERT: 7pm, Mineral Springs Park, Frankfort. Free. MUSIC IN THE PARK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, East Jordan Memorial Park Band Shell. Enjoy folk, shanties & ballads with the Blue Water Ramblers.

---------------------MUSIC IN THE PARK, NORTHPORT: 7-9pm, G.M. Dame Marina Park, Northport. Featuring Jazz North. northportomenachamber.org/ musicinthepark

SUMMER SOUNDS: THE BERGAMOT CONCERT: 7pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Enjoy Americana-infused indie rock from this traveling couple. $10 adult; kids free. michlegacyartpark.org

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UP NORTH VOCAL INSTITUTE: 7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This summer young artist training program focuses not only on training the voice, but the mind & body as well. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------POP/FUNK WITH BENJAMAN JAMES: 7:309:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. $5-$15. fountainpointmusic.com

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“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: (See Sat., June 30)

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DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS AN EVENING OF CHAMBER MUSIC: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Enjoy a diverse repertoire of classical & contemporary pieces. $33. tickets.interlochen.org

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UP NORTH VOCAL INSTITUTE: 7pm, Harbor Park, Harbor Springs. This summer young artist training program focuses not only on training the voice, but the mind & body as well. Free. crookedtree.org

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LAVENDER HILL SERIES: 7:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Enjoy “genre-melding indie-folk” with The Accidentals. $22.50. lavenderhillfarm.com

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NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC, June 30 - July 7. Today includes the Meijer Festival of Races, Hole in One Shootout, Ultimate Air Dogs, DTE Energy Foundation Cherry Royale Parade, Cherry Idol Finals, ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer, TC Swing!, Festival Fireworks Finale & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

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---------------------GRAND OPENING GALA: RAISING THE CURTAIN!: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Featuring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Camp’s World Youth Honors Choir, & other surprise guests. 231.439.2606. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------KORESH DANCE COMPANY: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Enjoy these internationally renowned dancers. $41, $36. tickets.interlochen.org

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CHERRYMAN & TC CHERRY TRIATHLONS: 7:15am, Greilick Outdoor Recreation Center, TC. 3disciplines.com

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LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST: 8-10am, Park Place Hotel Conference Center, TC. Showcase of Republican candidates for statewide offices in MI. Meet & greet & presentations. Call 9463333 for ticket reservations.

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---------------------PETOSKEY ANTIQUES SHOW: 9am-5pm, Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey. Featuring 170 dealers. $5; good for both days. antiquesatthefairgrounds.com

---------------------APRÈS HOLIDAY BEACH CLEAN UP: 1011:30am, Elberta Beach, Elberta. Sponsored by the Benzie Conservation District & The Cabbage Shed. Please pre-register: 231-8824391; aime@benziecd.org. benziecd.org/ home/apres-holiday-beach-clean-up

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SCOTTVILLE CLOWN BAND: 2pm. Enjoy a free concert at the Cherry Festival Beer Tent in the Open Space, downtown TC, following the Cherry Royale Parade.

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---------------------SUNDAY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7-10pm, Elk Rapids Harbor Pavillion at the Edward C. Grace Memorial Harbor. Featuring The North Carolines.

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BENJAMAN JAMES: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Enjoy this singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist with roots in funk, jazz, R&B & soul. $15/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com/organizations/fountain-point-resort

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LAVENDER HILL SERIES: 7:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Enjoy “genre-melding indie-folk” with The Accidentals. $22.50. lavenderhillfarm.com

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WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, GUILLERMO FIGUEROA, CONDUCTOR: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Enjoy such masterpieces as Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini Overture; Cordero’s Mariandá; & Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1. $22, $19, $12. tickets.interlochen.org

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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, facepainters & balloon-twisters. boynecitymainstreet.com

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GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR OF TRAVERSE CITY: 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

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

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ROCK ‘N RIDES: Wednesdays, 6-8pm, July 4 - 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

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ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-noon through Aug. 31. Elk Rapids Chamber, 305 US 31, Elk Rapids.

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS FARMERS MARKET: Weds. & Sat., 9am-1pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs.

---------------------INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET: Sundays, 9am-2pm through Oct. 28. Interlochen Corners, parking lot behind Ric’s Grocery Store, Interlochen. facebook.com/InterlochenFarmersMarket

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MARKET: Weds. & Sat., 7:30am-noon through Oct. Sara Hardy Farmers Market Lot, TC. Local produce, baked goods, flowers & plants. downtowntc.com

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THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mon., 12-4pm. Held on the South Historic Front Lawn. Overflow parking will be available on the front lawn adjacent to the market. thevillagetc.com

---------------------MANISTEE FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 8am-1pm, Washington St. & Memorial Dr., Manistee. mifma.org

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---------------------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. 231334-5890.

---------------------JORDAN VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND: Thursdays, 7:30pm, through July 26. East Jordan Memorial Park Band Shell.

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“ART OF THE GARDEN”: Old Art Building, Leland through July 1. Artists were invited to display up to 3 paintings inspired by gardens—flora or fauna. 40% of sales will be split with the LCCC & the Little Garden Club. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------“PORTRAITS IN MICHIGAN”: The works of 27 artists will be on display representing different approaches to the fine art of portraiture. Runs through July 14 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.com

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LOCAL AUTHOR BOOK SIGNINGS: Saturdays, 11am, June 30 - July 28, Horizon Books, Cadillac. Meet & greet new MI authors. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

ARTIST OF THE MONTH: MARY KAY BURBEE: The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. This exhibit runs through June. Mon. - Sat.: 9a-5pm; Sun.: 12-5pm. thebotanicgarden.org/events

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

100-DAY PROJECT EXHIBIT: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Runs through July 7. Hours: Tues. - Fri.: 11am-3pm; Sat.: 11am-1pm. gacaevents.weebly.com

PETOSKEY ROCKS!: Fridays, 6pm, July 6 - 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

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

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INNER LIGHT: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. The art of Katarzyna Korytowska, Mark Mehaffey & William Sievert will be featured in this exhibit, July 6-29. An opening reception will be held on Fri., July 6 from 6-8pm. twistedfishgallery.com

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MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS SUMMER SHOW & SALE: Runs July 2 - Aug. 31 at City Opera House, TC. Featuring nine artists with over 100 pieces of original art. A special feature is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seeking Van Gogh.â&#x20AC;? Each artist has painted a local scene as Van Gogh might have painted it. An opening reception will be held on Weds., July 11 from 5-7pm. cityoperahouse.org

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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

---------------------OAC EXHIBITION: Artists Beth Bynum, Cynthia Foley & Sarah Innes will display their multi-media work through July 13. Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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The Beastie Boys

ROCK BY KRISTI KATES

The Beastie Boys are the subject of a new print memoir that will finally hit stores this fall, after much anticipation from their fans and much effort from Mike D and Ad Rock, who have been working on the book since 2013. The tome tells readers all about the growth of the trio (third Beastie Boy MCA passed away in 2012,) in their own words and via contributions from the likes of Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and Amy Poehler. At 592 pages, this is a big get for Beastie fans; the hardcover book will also include a cookbook, a graphic novel, mixtape playlists, a map of the Boys’ New York stomping grounds, and more. It’ll be in stores Oct. 30 … Classic prog-rocker Utopia — now called Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, after the band’s frontman — has just hit the tour road again, 33 years after last U.S. tour. The band, which now includes Rundgren, Kasim Sulton, Willie Wilcox, and Gil Assayas, will perform a two-set show at each venue, mixing R&B and pop into its usual progressive rock sound. No Michigan dates are booked (yet!) — but the closest show so far looks like Aug. 13 in Nashville, if you’re willing to travel. Buzz indie band The Oh Sees is returning to outlets (and hopefully the charts) with

a new studio album, Smote Reverser, this summer. The album has been prefaced by its first single, “Overthrown” and features cover artwork by artist/illustrator Matt Stawicki. It’ll be in stores on Aug. 17. If you’re a fan of the band’s live performances, make sure you snag tickets for The Oh Sees’ upcoming fall tour, which is sure to sell out fast … Also heading your way with a new studio album — his third — is Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky, whose latest was unveiled at the end of a performance art piece (“Lab Rat”) that the artist staged in Manhattan, New York, where he encased himself in a large transparent box and took on a number of challenges, which included answering questions and dunking himself in ice water. The album, dubbed Testing, is focused on Rocky trying out some experimental sounds on his tracks, as showcased on Testing’s first single “ASAP Forever” which also features Moby … LINK OF THE WEEK Great moments always happen during summer festival season, and one of the sweetest so far had My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James and indie folk rocker Angel Olsen hopping on stage together in New York City last week to cover the Sonny and Cher track “Baby Don’t Go.” Check it out at https://tinyurl.com/y8uddet8 …

THE BUZZ Grand Rapids indie-folk band Watching for Foxes has just downgraded into a duo, and renamed itself Winnow … If you’re a fan of ’90s garage rock, get your tickets now (they just went on sale) for Dinosaur Jr.’s upcoming Aug. 27 show at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit … Also reconfiguring the band are Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish, who recently

separated from their bass player and are now just a twosome … This week brings the Common Ground Music Festival to Lansing (July 5–8), featuring performances from Halsey, Logic, Gucci Mane, Hunter Hayes, and more … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock. Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ’em to Kristi at modernrocker@gmail.com.

Droughts worldwide, constant wildfires in our western states, deadly wildfires in Tennessee and Portugal; unprecedented hurricanes and flooding in Houston, Puerto Rico, Florida, and a Hurricane hits Ireland? Killer storms, flooding, and tornados ravage our central southern states. The CO2 we are putting in the atmosphere is changing our weather. The CO2 has now reached 400ppm - a level even the most pessimistic scientists believed we wouldn’t reach for decades. Here’s the prediction of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawkings reached shortly before his death projecting the CO2 induced temperature rise on the planet. In his words: “We have 100 years before global warming renders the earth uninhabitable.” At http://gofundme.com/one-planet-one-chance is an appeal that explains in simple terms how we got to this point; but its main message is how to reverse this apocalyptic future facing mankind. Please go to the gofundme site and read it or you can just keep arranging the desk chairs and listening to the band because you’re being told this planet is unsinkable just like the passengers on the Titanic were assured by the powers that be. Also, learn what they’re not telling you about the steadily dropping oxygen levels in the atmosphere. If after reading ‘One Planet One Chance” if you’d like to help us spread this message to Every corner of the planet, please help in any way you can. Any donations are specifically for that purpose. Peace, Happiness, and Harmony to all. Enjoy beautiful Northern Michigan. Bill Minore Northern Express Weekly • july 02, 2018 • 37

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Ray LaMontagne – Part of the Light – RCA

Sticking to his folksy, ’70s-inspired sounds — perfectly suited for, say, a long, dull afternoon drive through Ohio — LaMontagne’s textured tunes waver back and forth between being pleasant background tracks and compelling, lean-in listeners. “Such a Simple Thing” and “It’s Always Been You” are certain to draw you in; numbers like “To the Sea” are quieter presentations that might take additional listens to appreciate.

The Revivalists – The Revivalists – Wind-Up Records

The band has been knocking around since 2006 or so, but it’s only the most dedicated of underground music fans that have managed to dig out what The Revivalists has to offer, and that’s a shame. Its unique fusion of roots rock, funk, and R&B shows off hints of the band’s New Orleans roots, modernized for a sleeker contemporary folk audience. Opening with the catchy “Concrete (Fish Out of Water),” the album immediately hooks you in.

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by meg weichman

tag incredibles 2

Tag, a film about a group of friends who have played the same game of tag for 30 years, is one of those films that you’ve probably seen the preview for and thought, “That could be good.” It’s populated with funny actors who make good choices in their roles, and the jokes shown land well, so by all accounts it looks like it could be a fun little distraction.

Jon Hamm), overt stoner Randy “Chilli” Chilliano (New Girl’s Jake Johnson), and low-key authentic stoner Kevin Sable (Broad City’s Hannibal Buress). I differentiate their levels of stoner-ness because although Chilli has a joint between his lips in literally every scene, Sable’s spacey-ness and deadpan delivery reveal him to be the real deal.

But you’ll probably end up skipping it at the theater and catch it on cable in a few years, and that’s fine. This is the perfect movie for that scenario. It’s right up there with a handful of studio comedies that you sort of remember kind of wanting to see. And when you’re scrolling through channels at home someday, you’ll come across it and think, “Oh right, why not?”

Along for the ride is Hoagie’s wife, Anna (Now You See Me’s Isla Fisher), who, though not technically a player in the game, is probably the most tenacious of the bunch. Our audience surrogate is Wall Street Journal reporter Rebecca Crosby (Peaky Blinders’ Annabelle Walis), who happens to be present when Hoagie first tags Callahan and quickly abandons her real assignment (something about stocks or whatever) to tag along — Ha! See what I did there? — and write this much more interesting human interest story.

Tag is a perfectly serviceable comedy that you’ll probably enjoy. You’ll get a few chuckles out of it, and you’ll come to like the characters you encounter. You won’t love it, but you certainly won’t hate it. You’ll most likely just forget it. It’s sort of the film equivalent to an OK sandwich from a so-so restaurant you stopped at while passing through an unremarkable town. “Did I eat lunch today? Oh right, I ate at that one place … ” That’s Tag. But really, when it comes down to it, sometimes, what more do you really want? Based on a true story (and I’ll come back to that later), the film centers on five friends who have engaged in the same game of tag — you know, the game of “you’re it” from our shared childhood playground — for basically their whole lives. The game is only in effect for the month of May each year, and since it’s ongoing, the object isn’t to win, per se, it’s just to not be “it” when June 1 rolls around. The players go to great lengths to surprise and trick each other into being tagged, but it’s all in fun. It’s what keeps their bonds of friendship strong even though they live in different parts of the country. And it keeps them young, as they regularly cite via a quote misattributed to Ben Franklin (the quote is actually from George Bernard Shaw), “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

The plot beyond the setup is pretty inconsequential, forming around Jerry’s upcoming wedding and his fiancé’s insistence it not be ruined by the game. And the film drags for the first third before it starts to loosen up and get goofy. Some of the best sequences are these Matrix-esque moments of Jerry acrobatically outwitting his opponents in slow motion, complete with zen-master inner monologue.

lease do not lump in Incredibles 2 in with other superhero movies. Sure it’s about a bunch of superheroes doing daring deeds, but it’s really about a loving family (and may I remind you they don’t even wear capes!). So for these reasons and so many more, please don’t think for a moment this is just another superhero movie, or even just another quick cash grab of an animated sequel. Cause after 14 years coming, what it is is a film filled with rich and wonderful characters, inventive whiz-bang action, quick-witted humor, heartfelt storytelling, empowering and thoughtful messages, and exhilarating family fun. We pick up right where the previous film left off. Superheroes are outlawed, but that can’t stop the Parr Family — father Bob “Mr. Incredible” (Craig T. Nelson), mom Helen “Elastigirl” (Holly Hunter), daughter Violet (Sarah Vowell), son Dash, and baby Jack-Jack – from doing their thing. Enter superhero superfan Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk), a billionaire mogul with a plan to get supers back into the public’s good graces, a plan that involves Elastigirl fighting crime on the streets and Mr. Incredible staying home and folding the sheets. A total delight from start to finish, Incredibles 2 is here to do nothing less than save the summer movie season.

hereditary

he hype surrounding Hereditary has hailed it as an ultra-terrifying take on the horror genre and perhaps the scariest thing to hit screens since The Exorcist. So was it scary? Well, not as much as you would’ve thought. But was it traumatic? 10/10. And was it brilliant? Completely. This is not some disposable and formulaic genre exercise. And not the kind of horror film that relies on jump scares. No, this is something far more unsettling, something you won’t be able to shake: the cerebral horror of existential dread. The story surrounds a family, led by mom Toni Collette, and the dark family secrets that come to light following the death of their grandmother, and you don’t need to know more than that. It’s a setup found in many an indie drama, and at many points the slow-moving terror could pass as a prestige domestic drama, complete with Oscar-caliber performances and stunning cinematography, but then the creepy stuff and haunting atmosphere begins to take hold. Disturbing and intense, by film’s end you’ll want to unravel all the mysteries of the chilling tragedy of Hereditary, but you know, also never want to watch or think about it again.

And just as the trailer shows, most of the jokes land well (most of the best feel like adlibs from Buress). Look for some small but very funny supporting roles from the likes of SNL alum Nora Dunn and Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch, as well. But the moment the movie will win you over is at the very end, right before the credits roll. We’re treated to home videos of the real guys on whom the film is based. They’re normal dudes, middle-aged around the midsection, and not Hollywood handsome, just all comfortable dad types delightfully surprising their buddies.

But something is afoot this year, as reigning never-been-tagged-ever player Jerry Pierce (The Avengers’ Jeremy Renner) says he’s quitting after this round, his perfect record intact. This injustice will not stand, so Hoagie Malloy (The Office’s Ed Helms) rounds up the gang for an especially crucial month of play.

And we also see that some of the more outlandish moments from the film, the ones you think were cooked up only for the story, actually really did happen. It’s pretty impressive. Each time one of the guys gets tagged, there’s always a smile on his face and a hug to follow. It’s truly heartwarming. For this alone, Tag is worth a shot. Just don’t be too worried if you don’t run to see it right away.

In turn, we meet all the fellas: handsome businessman Bob Callahan (Mad Men’s

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

american animals

he bored college kids in American Animals (which is a true story) planned and executed a heist, and it was a pretty daring one at that. In December 2004, they stole and then tried to fence rare books raided from a university library, but the plan went south, and they all ended up doing time in federal prison. Their story, one of hubris and overconfidence and the insatiable need to do something extraordinary, is an incredibly compelling one told incredibly well. Director Bart Layton wisely uses a cast of basically unknowns to tell this story. American Animals is a sort of docu-narrative, one where the real people involved provide talking-head interviews and even interact with the actors portraying them to provide context to a scene. It’s a wonderfully sly way of getting us to understand where each of these young men were coming from and why they made the choices they did. At first they tell their stories like they’re catching up an old friend, but as the film goes on, their contriteness becomes palpable. You’re never quite rooting for them, but you can sort of see where they’re coming from. American Animals links traditional storytelling and whip-smart narrative touches to a truly bizarre (but not all that unsurprising) American crime. Presented as a straight documentary, the “Transy Book Heist” would make for compelling viewing. But told the way it has been here, blending voices and styles in ways you’ve likely never seen before, makes it one of the best movies you’ll see in some time.

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ACOUSTIC DRAFT MEAD, TC 6/30 -- Corbin Manikas, 7 7/6 -- The Duges, 7 7/7 -- Rob Conroy, 7

Weds. – ROCK ‘n’ RIDES ‘n’ BLUES w/ Blair Miller, 6-8 Thurs. -- The Duges, 6:30-8:30

BAYVIEW INN, ACME 7/7 -- Tim Thayer, 7 CHATEAU CHANTAL, TC 7/5 -- Jazz at Sunset w/ Jeff Haas Trio, Don Julin & Nancy Stagnitta, 7 CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE, TC 7/4 -- Jeff Brown, 5-7 FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close GT DISTILLERY, FRONT ST. TASTING ROOM, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30

PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30 RIGHT BRAIN BREWERY, TC 6/30 -- TC Celtic feat. Dane Hyde, 8-10 7/6 -- DJ Psycho, DJ Marshall Law & DJ Skin Kwon Doe, 9 7/8 -- 78 Sunday, 4-6 ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 7/6 -- Chris Smith, 5-8 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 STATE STREET GRILLE, TC 7/7 -- The Swan Brothers, 7-11

HOTEL INDIGO, BAY BAR, TC 6/30 -- E | P, 7-10 KILKENNY'S, TC 6/29-30 – Sweet J 7/6-7 – One Hot Robot Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 Sun. -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9

STREETERS, TC GROUND ZERO: 7/3 -- The Star Spangled Banner w/ EDM Dj's, 9 LOUIE LOUIE: Fri,Sat -- Dueling Pianos, 8 TC WHISKEY CO. 7/5 -- Paul Livingston, 6-8

LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 7/2 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 7/6 -- Dennis Palmer, 6-8 LITTLE BOHEMIA FAMILY TAVERN, TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9

TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 6/30 -- Aaron Dye, 8-10 7/3 -- Turbo Pup, 8-10 7/5 -- brotha James, 8-10 7/6 -- Rob Coonrod, 8-10 7/7 -- Matt McCalpin, 8-10

THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7 THE FILLING STATION MICROBREWERY, TC 7/7 -- The Whistle Stop Revue, 8-11 THE PARLOR, TC 6/30 -- Blair Miller, 8 THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 6/30 -- Scott Pellegrom Trio, 8-11 7/3 -- Jazz Society Jam, 6-10 UNION STREET STATION, TC 6/30 -- Old Shoe, 10 7/1 -- Biomassive, 10 7/2 -- DJ Fasel, 10 7/3 -- Open Mic w/ Host DJ DomiNate, 10 7/4 -- G-Snacks, 10 7/5 -- 1000 Watt Prophets, 10 7/6 -- Happy Hour w/ Chris Sterr, then Tree House, 5 7/7 -- Tree House, 10 7/8 -- Karaoke, 10 WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN RESORT, TC 6/30 -- Fish & The Chips on The Patio, 6-10; DJ Motaz @ View, 10-2 7/3 -- Sweetwater Blues on The Patio, 7-9:30 7/4 -- David Chown @ View, 5-7; Jeff Haas Trio on The Patio, 7-9:30 7/5 -- Fresh Water Ensemble on The Patio, 6-9 7/6 -- Funkamatic on The Patio, 6-10; DJ Keller @ View, 10-2 7/7 -- DJ Motaz @ View, 10

Otsego, Crawford & Central ALPINE TAVERN & EATERY, GAYLORD Sat -- Live Music, 6-9 SNOWBELT BREWING CO., GAYLORD 7/5 -- Gaylord's Rising Stars: Random

Acts of Music, 4 7/6 -- Oh Brother Big Sister, 7-10 SUGAR BOWL RESTAURANT, GAYLORD 7/5 – Randy Reszka

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Emmet & Cheboygan BAY HARBOR YACHT CLUB, BAY HARBOR 7/7 – Randy Reszka BEARDS BREWERY, PETOSKEY 6/30 – The Murphy Bedheads, 9 7/1 – Mac Dralle, 6-9 7/6 – Michigan Rattlers, 9:30 7/7 – Melissa Lee & Bobby Randall, 9 7/8 – Owen James, 6-9 CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY 6/30 – Galactic Sherpas – Summer

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NAUTI INN BARSTRO, CHEBOYGAN Tue -- Randy Reszka, 6-9

LEGS INN, CROSS VILLAGE Fri -- Kirby, 6-9 LEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN, PETOSKEY

THE GRILLE AT BAY HARBOR Nightly Music

Leelanau & Benzie BLUSTONE VINEYARDS, LAKE LEELANAU 7/7 -- Fauxgrass, 7 BOATHOUSE VINEYARDS, LAKE LEELANAU 7/1 -- Jim Hawley, 3:30-6 7/4 -- Larry Perkins, 5:30-8 7/8 -- Andre Villoch, 3:30-6 DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2 HOP LOT BREWING CO., SUTTONS BAY 6/30 -- Jen Sygit, 6-9 7/1 -- New Third Coast, 6-9 7/2 -- Full Cord Band, 6-9 7/3 -- TooMuchOfAGoodThing, 6-9 7/5 -- Dede & the Dreamers, 6-9 7/6 -- Zak Bunce, 6-9 7/7 -- E Minor Trio, 6-9 IRON FISH DISTILLERY, THOMPSONVILLE 6/30 -- Chris Winkelmen Trio, 7-9 7/1 -- The Hacky Turtles, 6:30-9:30 7/2 -- Kristen Kuiper, 7-9

7/3 -- The Feral Cats, 6:30-9:30 7/5 -- Blake Elliott, 7-9 7/6 -- Peter Murphy, 7-9 7/7 -- Jeff Bihlman, 7-9 7/8 -- Cheryl Wolfram, 3:30-5:30 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 6/30 -- Full Cord Bluegrass Album Release Party, 6:30-10:30 7/2 -- Cabin Fever String Band, 6:309:30 7/3 -- New Third Coast, 6:30-9:30 7/4 -- Charlie Millard Band, 6:30-9:30 7/5 -- Turbo Pup, 6:30-9:30 7/6 -- G-Snacks, 7-10 7/7 -- Looking Forward, CSN&Y Tribute, 7-10 LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Fri & Sat -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 MISTWOOD GOLF COURSE, LAKE ANN 6/30 -- Unusual Suspect, 6:30 ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 7/3 -- Cousin Curtiss, 9 7/5 -- Open Mic Night, 6-10 7/6 -- Bayou in the Barn w/ Billy Da-

vis Duo, Kathy Guillen & the Girls, & K Jones & The Benzie Playboys, 5-11 7/7 -- Dale Wicks, 6 STORMCLOUD BREWING CO., FRANKFORT 7/2 -- Lynn Thompson, 8-10 7/3 -- Awesome Distraction, 8-10 7/5 -- Blake Elliott, 8-10 7/6 -- Kyle White, 8-10 THE 231 BAR & GRILL 7/7 – Levi Britton THE CABBAGE SHED, ELBERTA 6/30 -- Scotty Butters, 5-9; Kung Fu Rodeo, 9-12 7/1 -- Scotty Butters, 5-9 7/2 -- Barefoot, 5-9; Ben Daniels Band, 9-12 7/3 -- Cousin Curtiss, 9 7/5 -- Open Mic Night, 8 7/6 -- Levi Britton, 5-9; Tell Yo Mama, 9-12 7/7 -- Evan Burgess, 9 TUCKER’S OF NORTHPORT 6/30 – Broom Closet Boys 7/7 – Soul Patch

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Halloween Party, 10 7/3 – Jesse Ray & The Carolina Catfish, 9-12 7/6 – Charlie Don’t Surf, 10 7/7 – The Mainstays, 10

SHORT'S BREWING CO., BELLAIRE 6/30 -- Jesse Ray & The Carolina Catfish, 8:30-11 7/1 -- Escaping Pavement, 7:30-10 7/2 -- Brett Mitchell, 7:30-11 7/3 -- Charlie Millard Band, 8-11 7/4 -- Turbo Pup, 8-11 7/5 -- Olivia Mainville & The Aquatic Troupe, 8-10:30 7/6 -- The Mainstays, 9-11:30 7/7 -- Cold Tone Harvest, 8:30-11 7/8 -- The Pistil Whips, 8-11 THE BLUE PELICAN INN, CENTRAL LAKE

6/30 -- Doug Murand, 7-10 7/6 -- Tim Thayer, 6-9 THE LANDING, EAST JORDAN 7/5 -- Nelson Olstrom, 1-3 TORCH LAKE CAFÉ, CENTRAL LAKE 1st & 3rd Mon. of mo. – Trivia Tues. – Bob Webb, 6-9 Weds. – Dominic & Lee Thurs. – Open mic Fri. & Sat. – Live bands Sun. – Pine River Jazz, 2-5

the ADViCE GOddESS Fade Diet

: I got ghosted — dumped by a guy who just disappeared on me, no explanation — after three months of lovey-dovey dating. Clearly, he isn’t a great person, yet I’m unable to stop thinking about him and wondering why he left. How do I accept that it’s over so I can start dating again? — Plagued

: It’s hard on the ego to learn why somebody’s leaving you, but it beats needing a Ouija board.

It’s the mystery that’s causing the problem. Typically, when rotten things happen to us, our feel-bad emotions (like anger and sadness) rise up — driving us to take a wiser course of action the next time so we’ll keep those bad feelings from popping by again: “Wassup? Got any beer?” Knowing the wiser course starts with knowing what to avoid. But all you’ve got is a terrible itch -- the itch of uncertainty about why this guy vanished — and little hope of yanking him in to give you answers: “Wanted/Reward — ex-boyfriend who ghosted me, last seen on 3/11/2018 carrying the remains of my dignity in a green reusable bag.” However, you can probably dupe your mind into believing it has the answer. Research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests our mind is quick to create stories to fill in and make sense out of incomplete information — and then we tend to go right ahead and believe our stories. To take advantage of this, imagine a possible reason the guy vamoosed on you — and then just decide to accept it as THE reason. What might also help is transforming your thoughts of the guy into a material object — a piece of garbage, in fact — and throwing it away. And yes, I get that this sounds absurd, but there’s a growing area of social science research — embodied cognition — that finds taking action is a highly efficient way to change our feelings. Accordingly, social psychologist Pablo Brinol had research participants write a negative thought on a piece of paper and then rip the paper up and throw it into a nearby trash can. This actually led to participants “mentally disposing” of their disturbing thinking to a great degree. Should the guy sneak back into your thoughts, don’t worry; just widen the shot. Shift your focus from him to yourself — looking at how you maybe crossed your fingers that you had a keeper instead of seeing whether that actually was the case. Understanding what you should do differently is the first step

toward expanding the male companionship in your life — amusing as it can be to spend your nights watching your current partner get loaded on catnip and try to make sweet love to your throw pillows.

Fappy Gilmore

: My husband and I are both 70, and we have a good, satisfying sex life. I found out recently that he masturbates now and then. I was puzzled and hurt, but he said he just doesn’t want to bother me all the time. Should I be worried that he’s masturbating? — In The Dark

: You really want your husband to hit you up for some sex whenever the urge strikes him? Imagine the call: “Hi, honey…I’m in the golf course bathroom. How quickly can you get down here?” As long as your husband isn’t ditching sex with you for his knuckle-love sessions, his masturbating isn’t something you should take personally. People masturbate because they’re bored, they’re tense, they can’t sleep, or their phone needs to recharge before they can continue their Facebook flame war over whether “Saved by the Bell” was a vehicle for the Illuminati. Also, there are times when a person just wants to get off solo — maybe because they’re short on time and maybe because they’re low on emotional energy (and their hand doesn’t get miffy if they don’t cuddle it afterward and tell it it’s beautiful). Still, maybe you’re thinking, “Well, why can’t he just wait till I’m around?” And it’s understandable that you’d think that — maybe because you’re just fine with waiting. And if you are, that may be because you’re a woman. It turns out that there are sex differences in sexual desire. Social psychologist Roy Baumeister and his colleagues, surveying piles of studies, explain that men tend to have a far stronger sex drive, with “more frequent and more intense sexual desires than women.” That’s surely why it’s primarily men (and probably single men) who show up in emergency rooms with embarrassing sex-for-one-related injuries — like wiener-in-the-vacuum-cleaner lacerations. (Since penis-in-vagina sex is fun, why not penis-in-the-Shop-Vac?!) So, back to your question: Should you be worried that he’s masturbating? No, you should be celebrating! Bake his penis a cake! (That’s what we do for people who are still alive at 70. Why not for their sex parts?)

“Jonesin” Crosswords "Free To Say It"

--a freestyle puzzle with something to say. by Matt Jones

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1 Game with eagles and albatrosses 5 Lag from a satellite broadcast, e.g. 14 Kind of history or hygiene 15 2014 hashtag campaign against gun violence 16 “99 Luftballons” singer 17 They’re said verbatim 18 It’s sometimes used in making feta cheese 20 Overflow 21 “Everything’s being handled” 22 Tubular pasta 23 Last Oldsmobile model produced 26 Signs of healing 28 Train stop (abbr.) 29 Western watering hole 31 Delphic prophet 33 Indicate 35 Wallet ID 39 Just ___ (a little under) 41 Grammy winner Twain 42 Barker succeeded by Carey 45 Islands, in Italian 47 Latin phrase usually abbreviated 48 Go for ___ (do some nature walking) 50 Camera brand that merged with Minolta 52 Erato’s instrument 53 Feature of some roller coasters 57 1980s “Lovergirl” singer 60 Ride before ride-sharing 61 2007 Stephen Colbert bestseller subtitled “(And So Can You!)” 62 Bakery fixture 63 Singer/actress Kristin with the memoir “A Little Bit Wicked” 64 Basmati, e.g.

1 Chuck Barris’s prop 2 Cookie with a “Thins” version 3 Singer Del Rey 4 Old pressing tools 5 Targets of pseudoscientific “cleanses” 6 Type used for emphasis 7 It looks like it contains alcohol, but doesn’t 8 Treebeard, for one 9 PepsiCo product, slangily 10 Act theatrically 11 Sophia and family 12 Vehement 13 Sycophants 15 Dory helped find him 19 Drink that needs a blender 22 They’ve already seen it coming 23 Cleopatra’s nemesis 24 Chinese philosopher ___-tzu 25 Inventor Whitney 27 Baseball stats 30 Some Congressional votes 32 One who might get top billing 34 Exercised caution 36 Dir. from Providence to Boston 37 “Pretty sneaky, ___” (Connect Four ad line) 38 Take in 40 Step on the gas 42 Sea west of Estonia 43 Kool-Aid Man’s catchphrase 44 Two-tiered rowing vessel 46 Add vitamins to 49 Thompson of “SNL” 51 Big-box store with a meandering path 54 Sitarist Shankar 55 Business bigwig 56 Drink with legs 58 “I love,” in Spanish 59 Pet sound?

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JULY 2 - JULY 8

BY ROB BREZSNY

CANCER (June 21-July 22): An open letter to Cancerians from

Rob Brezsny’s mother, Felice: I want you to know that I played a big role in helping my Cancerian son become the empathetic, creative, thoughtful, crazy character he is today. I nurtured his idiosyncrasies. I made him feel secure and well-loved. My care freed him to develop his unusual ideas and life. So as you read Rob’s horoscopes, remember that there’s part of me inside him. And that part of me is nurturing you just as I once nurtured him. I and he are giving you love for the quirky, distinctive person you actually are, not some fantasy version of you. I and he are helping you feel more secure and well-appreciated. Now I encourage you to cash in on all that support. As Rob has told me, it’s time for you Cancerians to reach new heights in your drive to express your unique self.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Allergies,

irritants, stings, hypersensitivities: sometimes you can make these annoyances work in your behalf. For example, my allergy to freshly-cut grass meant that when I was a teenager, I never had to waste my Saturday afternoons mowing the lawn in front of my family’s suburban home. And the weird itching that plagued me whenever I got into the vicinity of my first sister’s fiancé: If I had paid attention to it, I wouldn’t have lent him the $350 that he never repaid. So my advice, my itchy friend, is to be thankful for the twitch and the prickle and the pinch. In the coming days, they may offer you tips and clues that could prove valuable.

PIScES

(Feb. 19-March 20): Are you somehow growing younger? Your stride seems bouncier and your voice sounds more buoyant. Your thoughts seem fresher and your eyes brighter. I won’t be surprised if you buy yourself new toys or jump in mud puddles. What’s going on? Here’s my guess: you’re no longer willing to sleepwalk your way through the most boring things about being an adult. You may also be ready to wean yourself from certain responsibilities unless you can render them pleasurable at least some of the time. I hope so. It’s time to bring more fun and games into your life.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Twentieth-century

French novelist Marcel Proust described nineteenth-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a trottoire roulant, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to an “electric generator” from which flows a “powerful current always ready to shock not only our morality but our very sense of humanity.” In the coming weeks, I encourage you to find a middle ground between Flaubert and Proust. See if you can be moderately exciting, gently provocative, and amiably enchanting. My analysis of the cosmic rhythms suggests that such an approach is likely to produce the best long-term results.

wasn’t gone forever, after all. I foresee a comparable revival for you in the coming weeks, Leo. An interesting influence or sweet thing that you imagined to be permanently defunct may return to your life. Be alert!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Greek

poet Sappho described “a sweet-apple turning red high on the tip of the topmost branch.” The apple pickers left it there, she suggested, but not because they missed seeing it. It was just too high. “They couldn’t reach it,” wrote Sappho. Let’s use this scenario as a handy metaphor for your current situation, Virgo. I am assigning you the task of doing whatever is necessary to fetch that glorious, seemingly unobtainable sweet-apple. It may not be easy. You’ll probably need to summon extra ingenuity to reach it, as well as some as-yet unguessed form of help. (The Sappho translation is by Julia Dubnoff.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Is there any prize

more precious than knowing your calling? Can any other satisfaction compare with the joy of understanding why you’re here on earth? In my view, it’s the supreme blessing: to have discovered the tasks that can ceaselessly educate and impassion you; to do the work or play that enables you to offer your best gifts; to be intimately engaged with an activity that consistently asks you to overcome your limitations and grow into a more complete version of yourself. For some people, their calling is a job: marine biologist, kindergarten teacher, advocate for the homeless. For others, it’s a hobby, like long-distance-running, bird-watching, or mountainclimbing. St. Therese of Lisieux said, “My calling is love!” Poet Marina Tsvetaeva said her calling was “To listen to my soul.” Do you know yours, Libra? Now is an excellent time to either discover yours or home in further on its precise nature.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You remind

me of Jack, the nine-year-old Taurus kid next door, who took up skateboarding on the huge trampoline his two moms put in their backyard. Like him, you seem eager to travel in two different modes at the same time. (And I’m glad to see you’re being safe; you’re not doing the equivalent of, say, having sex in a car or breakdancing on an escalator.) When Jack first began, he had difficulty in coordinating the bouncing with the rolling. But after a while he got good at it. I expect that you, too, will master your complex task.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): From the day

you were born, you have been cultivating a knack for mixing and blending. Along the way, you have accomplished mergers that would have been impossible for a lot of other people. Some of your experiments in amalgamation are legendary. If my astrological assessments are accurate, the year 2019 will bring forth some of your all-time most marvelous combinations and unifications. I expect you are even now setting the stage for those future fusions; you are building the foundations that will make them natural and inevitable. What can you do in the coming weeks to further that preparation?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The ghost orchid is a

rare white wildflower that disappeared from the British countryside around 1986. The nation’s botanists declared it officially extinct in 2005. But four years later, a tenacious amateur located a specimen growing in the West Midlands area. The species

entertained any high-quality fantasies about faraway treasures lately? Have you delivered inquiring communiqués to any promising beauties who may ultimately offer you treats? Have you made long-distance inquiries about speculative possibilities that could be inclined to travel in your direction from their frontier sanctuaries? Would you consider making some subtle change in yourself so that you’re no longer forcing the call of the wild to wait and wait and wait?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If a

down-to-earth spiritual teacher advised you to go on a five-day meditation retreat in a sacred sanctuary, would you instead spend five days carousing with meth addicts in a cheap hotel? If a close friend confessed a secret she had concealed from everyone for years, would you unleash a nervous laugh and change the subject? If you read a horoscope that told you now is a favorable time to cultivate massive amounts of reverence, devotion, respect, gratitude, innocence, and awe, would you quickly blank it out of your mind and check your Instagram and Twitter accounts on your phone?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A typical

working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day to focused conversation with each other. And it’s common for a child and parent to engage in meaningful communication for just 20 minutes per week. I bring these sad facts to your attention, Capricorn, because I want to make sure you don’t embody them in the coming weeks. If you hope to attract the best of life’s blessings, you will need to give extra time and energy to the fine art of communing with those you care about.

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