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What America Giveth, Paul Ryan Taketh Away

a vote. The man is politically unethical.

Unfortunately, he was recently re-elected to a six-year term. This senator does not represent the values of the majority of the United States population.

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Doing it the Mitch Way

My first notice of the king of obstructionism was in the early 1990s.

Mitch McConnell had only been in office about six years, not quite long enough to do the damage to our senate that we are now experiencing. Prior to having any leadership role, he was the minion of big agriculture, protecting the industry any way he could, helping to make sure regulations on the ag industry were kept at a minimum.

Mitch’s personal financial picture was improving; with over $42 million in assets, it currently sits 33rd on the list of the congressional millionaires club (OpenSecrets.org).

This political hypocrite allowed Scott Brown, the newly elected Massachusetts U.S. senator, to immediately assume his seat, no doubt to vote against ObamaCare.

With the recent election of Alabama’s newest senator, Doug Jones, we hear that McConnell will wait to seat Mr. Jones, making sure the tax bill passes before the new Democrat is seated. McConnell’s hypocrisy includes his refusal to allow President Obama’s Supreme Court justice nominee to come to the floor for

In Defense of Science

Now that we have become the only nation that did not endorse the Paris Accord on climate change, we are the enemy. The climate crisis is real, whether you believe it or not.

James Hanson warned us of what was happening to the climate 30+ years ago.

Now over 15,000 world-renowned scientists are sounding the alarm on the fact that changes are happening faster than predicted. This includes the melting of Arctic sea ice, ocean warming, sea level rise, coral bleaching, species extinction, the disappearance of island nations and coastal cities, and more superstorms. Much of this is irreversible.

A new study written by the Carnegie Institute for Science and published in Nature is the latest in a peer-reviewed article that says we are almost at midnight on the climate clock.

Science is not some hocus-pocus pulled out of thin air; it is based on data collected, studied, and analyzed; theories tested and retested; and observations made over long periods of time. Tree rings and carbon cores from glaciers are just some of the long-term measurements.

It is time for all us to pay attention, take the crisis seriously, and make the changes necessary to prevent the collapse of the earth’s natural systems. We will have to learn to work with the earth and not against it. Remember: The earth will be just fine without humans. It is we who cannot exist without the earth.

Ann Rogers, Traverse City

Growing up I was acculturated, primarily by my family and school, that it was important to help and care for those in need. As a young man I developed a set of beliefs, through education and role models, that convinced me that it wasn’t only important but a responsibility to lend a hand to those in need.

But there is a growing consensus, led

by Speaker Paul Ryan, that should concern Americans: Paul Ryan’s guiding light, all of his adult life, is the ideology of novelist Ayn Rand who asked, “Why is it good to want others to be happy, [but not yourself?]” Her basic premise is that the government should not assist those in need.

The American people, in the past, supported social programs (Social Security, Medicare, health insurance, Pell grants, etc.) that were for the common good. But the mood is changing.

For the past 3 decades, Republicans worked to eliminate or privatize most social programs but were unable to succeed because Americans enjoyed the benefits of such initiatives.

This year Republicans developed a new game plan. In spite of the will of the people, they put forth a huge tax cut that will substantially increase the debt for our grandkids and all but said to the disappearing middle class, “Let them eat cake.”

Republicans realize that the crumbling infrastructure is ripe for implementing their new game plan. Since there are no funds for infrastructure (thanks to the huge tax cuts), the funds will be diverted from the social programs — programs essential to many Americans. The Republican politicians grin and clap their hands while praising themselves for furthering Social Darwinism and privatizing government.

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

Make Your Body a Machine................................9 Dr. Ultra Marathoner.......................................10 Benzie County’s L’Chayim.............................12 Treat Yo’Self................................................14 Herbivores, Unite!.........................................15 Northern Seen...................................................17

dates...............................................19-20 music Squirrel Nut Zippers..........................................16 FourScore.......................................................21 Nightlife.........................................................24

columns & stuff Opinion.............................................................4

Guest Opinion.................................................31 Top Five...........................................................5 Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Weird...............................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................22 The Reel...........................................................23 Crossword...................................................25 Advice Goddess.............................................25 Freewill Astrology.........................................26 Classifieds....................................................27

Jack Lee, Traverse City A Roadmap in Three Acts Act 1 was Stanford professor Mark Z. Jacobson’s “roadmap” purporting to show how the United States could go to 100 percent renewable energy. This attracted two very different kinds of responses: dismissal from most energy experts, and fevered praise from people desperate for a “green” future.

Act 2 was a paper by Professor Christopher T.M. Clack et al., doing a scholarly analysis of Jacobson’s “roadmap” and showing that it was based on a bunch of faulty assumptions and included what is hard to call anything other than cheating to make the numbers work out. However, scholarly papers are written in scholarly language and are not easy for general public to make sense of.

We have come to Act 3 of this little play. Mike Conley and Tim Maloney have written a book giving a very accessible analysis of the back and forth. They perhaps give their conclusions away with the title, “Roadmap To Nowhere,” but they give you the chance to read their analysis in language the public is familiar with. Along the way they explain why Germany’s Energiewende is failing to meet its goals for the climate.

Best of all, they put it on the web for free at roadmaptonowhere.com.

Our entire society runs on energy, and any widespread failure would be followed by megadeaths within weeks. It behooves everyone to understand the stakes and the arguments. Read this book; it’s no exaggeration to say your life could depend on it.

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THAT SMALL-TOWN CHARACTER WE ALL WANT? LET IT BE A STATE OF MIND, NOT A GIANT GATED COMMUNITY

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bY Christie Minervini As we move past November’s Traverse City election and look forward to 2018, the close vote totals illustrate that there is no clear mandate for future decisions regarding growth. Like many other communities, Traverse City continues to wrestle with issues of development and change.

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Understanding this, anti-development preservationists disingenuously warn that Traverse City could eventually become the next Grand Rapids, Detroit, or even Chicago.

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Keep in mind, Traverse City currently ranks 133 for population size in Michigan. There are literally 132 other municipalities in our state that are larger than ours. According to the last census estimate, Traverse City has grown only 3.5 percent since 2000.

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Like many, I’m increasingly concerned about embracing public policy where preservation is a hammer, and every development project is a nail. Today, if you want to win an election (or pass a referendum), it’s smart to run on a platform of “preserving small-town charm” or “protecting the neighborhoods.” Savvy politicians know that using the term “slow growth” is really code for no growth.

In my opinion, successful land use policies have a lot less to do with the form of buildings as they do with how they interact with the public sphere. Adding another 50 subdivisions detached from one another and congesting our streets will be far more destructive than building up and filling in our downtown.

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We rail against prospective development projects using “small-town character!” as our battle cry — cleverly co-opting an image that the entire community supports in order to further restrict the policies we originally helped to create. Frustrated, we criticize local government and community leaders who have been tasked with implementing these plans.

So, what exactly do we mean when we say “small-town character?” Spelling it out isn’t that easy. But in a very broad sense, I think we believe small-town character is that which prevents us from experiencing “big city” problems.

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As residents, we care about our history — not only our historic buildings and landmarks but also the generations that designed and built them. We honor the indigenous people who lived on the land before settlers developed it.

Growth doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

It is, however, problematic when residents take the approach of an exclusive gated community.

Letters to the editor, opinion columns, and social media commentary are used to promote the idea of protecting small-town character without actually defining what it is that needs protection.

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I have found that where there is economic growth and prosperity, there are always those of us who want to stop or stall progress.

Maybe because of nostalgia or even parochial interests, we start to question the public planning documents that we had adopted to control and shape how we use our land.

The social fabric of Traverse City is woven with community goals, civic participation, and proximity to close friends and family.

Other elements that contribute to our unique character include opportunities for entertainment, food and culture, clubs and sports, service organizations, and religious activity.

To me, small-town character is less about our density and building heights, and more about our residents and their shared values.

Whether newcomers or multi-generation natives, our people are what make Traverse City special. We care about our city and each other.

We care about our jobs and businesses, our cultural and natural resources, and our downtown and surrounding neighborhoods.

We value our health care and educational institutions, our airport and transit systems, our library and our YMCA. We delight in our opera house and performing arts centers, our parks and open spaces, our marina and our movie theaters.

We also care about our poor and vulnerable.

The same city that raised funds to rehab the historic State Theatre in the span of a few months donated $1.75 million to build an emergency homeless shelter a few blocks away. Both operate with the help of thousands of volunteers, many of whom are retired and looking for a way to give back to the city that they love.

As Traverse City residents, we know that change is inevitable. But we also have a sense of control along with the ability to be heard and influence that change.

Growth doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It is, however, problematic when residents take the approach of an exclusive gated community. A staunch no-growth stance is a dangerous way to confront the pressure that our expanding region is putting on our small city.

I’m not sure we will ever have consensus on the definition of small-town character. And I find it sad that something that should unite us continues to be the subject of divisiveness.

Perhaps a better goal is to agree on what it could be: a state of mind. One in which we behave as if we live in a small city where our actions affect the entire community, and where we work cooperatively to achieve a collective vision for growth.

Christie Minervini is a Traverse City resident who owns Sanctuary Handcrafted Goods in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons. She is passionate about gender equality, community development, and ending homelessness.

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Manistee Approves Marijuana Production The City of Manistee is the latest northern Michigan locality to opt in to medical marijuana, though the city council stopped short of allowing retail sales.

Thad Taylor, Manistee city manager, says the city council approved allowing up to 12 grow operations, two secure transport businesses, two marijuana processors, and two safety compliance businesses. At a meeting Jan. 2, the council did not approve medical marijuana provisioning centers.

“They just weren’t ready to take that leap for a provisioning center,” Taylor says.

He says he believes the city council could revisit that in the future, but for now, what they’ve approved is low-profile. The move comes just as new state law takes effect that transforms how Michigan regulates medical marijuana.

“The licenses that we’re allowing are fairly innocuous,” Taylor says. “There’re going to be no signs saying, ‘This is a medical marijuana facility.’ They’ll be just like any other buildings but with heightened security.”

So far, two groups have indicated they’re interested. One has purchased two industrial lots and has plans to construct six buildings. Another has an option to purchase a building, with six acres, that could be redeveloped.

Celebrate Martin Luther King Day at the State Theatre in Traverse City: Attend an evening of song and prose featuring the soulful sounds of Straight Ahead and the Blessed Hearts Gospel Quartet, two of Detroit’s nationally acclaimed allfemale ensembles, and inspiration from local faith leader Chava Bahle. The free ticketed event happens 6pm, Monday, January 15. Call (231) 947-3446 to reserve your free tickets.

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tastemaker Petoskey Pretzel Co. Follow the sweet and savory scent of baking dough to the tiny shop at the corner of Petoskey and Bay streets in downtown Petoskey, at the mouth of the pedestrian tunnel.

What is that something. Bread?

Pastries? Pizza?

No. It’s better: giant soft pretzels.

Lisa Kaniewski and Dave Reppen recently opened Petoskey Pretzel Co., a specialty snack shop that’s one of the newest additions to Petoskey’s Gaslight District. The pretzel shop makes its own pretzel dough, bakes and butters the pretzels in-house, and features around 10 varieties at once.

Petoskey Pretzel Co.’s savory pretzels are a standout — the classic flaked salt pretzel and jalapeno-cheddar pretzel should not be missed, but if you’re looking for more than just an indulgent carb-lovin’ snack, make your pretzel a meal.

For lunch, we love a pretzel dog dipped in Atomic mustard; for a light brunch, we highly recommend the French toast pretzel with maple dip, or the cinnamon pretzel with rum dip.

You’ll find Petoskey Pretzel Co. at 200 Petoskey St., on Facebook at facebook.com/ petoskeypretzelco, or by phone at (231) 622-8316.

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If you believe the foreign press, and some here, the United States has lost, or is losing, decades-old influence. They have a list.

We are now the only country in the world to refuse to sign the Paris Accords on climate change. Nicaragua was a previous holdout because they didn’t believe the accords were stringent enough, and Syria held out because, well, they don’t really have a government. So we are now the Lone Ranger.

China has taken the lead on climate change regulations, establishing reasonably tough goals for reducing carbon emissions in the next decade. They may or may not meet those goals — they’ve already delayed them once — but they are at least sounding like committed partners for Europeans countries that have been working toward similar goals for years.

More troubling still are recent reports that North Korea has a burgeoning chemical and biological weapons program, including anthrax and small pox. Mere pounds of either could kill thousands if not millions. If we’re doing something about that, the president has not yet notified us by Tweet.

South America, which we typically ignore except for drug interdiction activity, has some real issues. Venezuela’s inflation, already one of the world’s highest, will now get

Those suggesting it’s about time we stopped babysitting seemingly strong European nations might remember the last two times we did just that resulted in two world wars.

Meanwhile, the country with the world’s highest per capita carbon dioxide emissions — us — reduces environmental regulations in order to expand our fossil fuel industry leading to even more carbon dioxide emissions. It’s sort of daffy.

worse after President Maduro announced a 40 percent increase in the minimum wage.

Both Bolivia and Brazil face daunting budget deficits, and the Chinese, always interested in new markets, have made significant business inroads on the continent.

Speaking of Syria, we’re barely in the game there now. The Russians have taken the lead on peace negotiations, relegating the United States to “observer” status. Unfortunately, the Russians have consistently supported Syria’s murderous dictator Bashar Assad (Syria is Russia’s largest arms customer), the very person we want deposed.

The various gangs of murderous thugs claiming to support Islam, having fled from parts of the Middle East, are moving to Africa. Poverty stricken regions of at least a dozen African countries have become fertile recruiting grounds for groups like Boko Haram and Al-Shabab, both mutant offspring of ISIS and al Qaida.

We’re also likely to be sidelined in the endless peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis, now in their seventh decade. Jerusalem — a holy city for Christianity, Judaism and Islam — is the current issue. The U.S. has been the only honest broker in these talk for a very long time, but President Trump’s declaration that we would recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital has driven the Palestinians away from the negotiating table.

They no longer want us involved.

Additionally, China has now spent years cultivating business interests in Africa, securing rights to energy resources in exchange for trade concessions. They’ve established their economic beachhead on the continent simply — with government-backed development loans and better deals than those offered by others.

We’re not doing very well with our NATO allies, either. Reuters reports European nations no longer believe they can rely on U.S. assistance in times of trouble. That’s probably because our president keeps talking about slashing NATO funding and insulting European leaders. Germany now seems to be the NATO headliner.

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they should prepare for war, and the head of the United Nations has put the world on “red alert,” whatever that means. No U.S. president has yet been able to slow North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, and there is evidence both Russia and China are circumventing United Nations’ sanctions.

We’ve allowed our diplomatic endeavors to falter, at least in part, by failing to fill important vacancies within the State Department. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s reorganization and downsizing efforts have had the unintended consequence of leaving us out in the cold instead of on several international stages.

Those suggesting it’s about time we stopped babysitting seemingly strong European nations might remember the last two times we did just that resulted in two world wars.

That’s what the rest of the world seems to be thinking. If it’s true, the fall has been precipitous. It likely makes us less secure, as bad actors on the world stage become more adventurous. It won’t help our economy much either, as longtime trade partners begin to look elsewhere for more stability.

We seem to be preparing for war with North Korea, or at least our leader and theirs are engaged in a schoolyard taunting exercise that could lead to war. The Marine Commandant recently told a gathering of officers

It could all change for the better just as quickly with some rational leadership. But right now our foreign policy seems to be walk loudly and carry a twig. Hard to see how that works.

Crime & Rescue SURVEILLANCE TRAPS SUSPECT A 28-year-old Traverse City man installed a surveillance camera in his condo after he noticed someone had been in his home, and a cell phone and video game were missing.

When he left his home four days later, on Jan. 2, the man received a notification from the surveillance app that someone was inside his house again. The man called police and asked them to respond to his address on Townhouse Lane in Garfield Township, said Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Capt. Randy Fewless.

Deputies responded and used a tracking dog to follow the suspect’s scent to a nearby condo. The victim also had an app that showed the location of his stolen cell phone at the same condo, Fewless said.

Deputies received permission from another resident of the condo to search and they found the cell phone and the video game. The suspect apparently noticed the surveillance camera on his second visit to his neighbor’s home and fled before stealing anything.

Deputies found the 29-year-old Traverse City suspect walking nearby and arrested him on suspicion of second-degree home invasion.

Fewless said investigators determined the man had used a credit card to jimmy open a lock to get inside the condo.

FIRE DESTROYS CHARLEVOIX BUSINESS Fire struck another downtown Charlevoix business.

Fire broke out at the Harbor View Café in the Oleson’s Food Store shopping plaza late Jan. 3. The fire started some time before 8pm, and firefighters extinguished the blaze in around two hours amid frigid temperatures.

Charlevoix recently has been plagued by fires at commercial properties. Two fires struck downtown buildings in late 2016 and the Charlevoix Country Club six months earlier. None of those fires were deemed suspicious.

SEMI CRASH SPILLS LOGS A semi carrying a load of logs overturned on I-75 in Cheboygan County and closed one lane for hours.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to the crash at 9:45am Dec. 29 after a 57-year-old Wolverine man ran off the roadway and struck some trees in Ellis Township. Investigators didn’t know why the truck driver had driven off the road.

The northbound passing lane was closed while deputies investigated the crash and the logs were loaded onto another trailer.

The driver was taken to McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey to be treated for minor injuries.

TWO BUSTED FOR CAR LARCENY Two men face charges after they were arrested for stealing money and a cell phone from a car parked at a Garfield Township apartment complex.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies arrested the Traverse City men Dec. 31 after a man who was visiting the Village Glen Apartments spotted the suspects rooting through his car and called police.

Deputies collected evidence and tracked the suspects — ages 24 and 27 — to a nearby residence.

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WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH State police investigated a fatal Kalkaska County crash.

Troopers from the Houghton Lake post were dispatched to the scene on US-131 in Kalkaska Township at 12:20pm Dec. 29.

Witnesses said a driver who was headed north lost control, crossed the highway, and struck a tree.

The driver, 61-year-old Mio resident Josephine McLaughlin, was pronounced dead at the scene. A lone passenger was ejected from the vehicle and taken to Munson Medical Center in Traverse City.

Troopers determined excessive speed and road conditions were responsible for the crash.

WOMAN DIES IN FIRE A 91-year-old woman died in a Traverse City house fire.

Traverse City police and firefighters were called to the fire at 11pm Dec. 29. The single-family home was engulfed in flames when they arrived.

Firefighters were able to get inside and extract the lone occupant, but she had passed away. Investigators determined that Jacqueline Ann VanDusen died of smoke inhalation. The fire apparently started in the kitchen.

DRUG HOUSE TO BE SOLD A Traverse Heights home that’s been the scene of drug busts and overdose deaths has been sold to an owner who plans to renovate the property.

Grand Traverse County Prosecutor Bob Cooney said in a press release Dec. 29 that because of the sale, he planned to dismiss a nuisance action he’d taken against the property at 1002 Barlow.

Cooney had filed a lawsuit in October seeking to board up and condemn the house after a series of opioid overdose deaths and drug-related crimes took place there over the summer and fall.

Cooney said that for the sake of the neighborhood, he was willing to work with the owner’s agent and a buyer to facilitate a sale rather than condemn the property.

DRUNK DRIVER FOUND IN DITCH A Lake Ann woman who got her car stuck in a ditch was arrested by Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies for drunk driving.

When a deputies responded to the vehicle on South Maple City Road in Kasson Township at 8:50pm Jan. 3, they could smell a strong odor of alcohol and suspected the woman was intoxicated. When she was asked to exit her vehicle, the woman could not stand without assistance, they said.

The 54-year-old was arrested for felony drunk driving because she had five prior drunk driving convictions: two in Texas and three in Louisiana.

“This is the best possible solution to what has been a scourge on this neighborhood and a public safety concern to the families who live here,” Cooney said. “The buyers, who wish to remain anonymous, have a proven track record of investing in and renovating distressed properties. ... Previous renovations by these buyers that I have seen have been high quality and truly transformational.”

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Awwwwwwww When 5-year-old TyLon Pittman of Byram, Mississippi, saw the Grinch stealing Christmas on Dec. 16 on TV, he did what any civic-minded citizen would do. He called 911. TyLon told Byram police officer Lauren Develle, who answered the call, that he did not want the Grinch to come steal his Christmas, reported the Clarion Ledger.

Develle made TyLon an honorary junior officer and had him come down to the station on Dec. 18 to help her lock away the Grinch, who hung his head as TyLon asked him, “Why are you stealing Christmas?” Although the green fiend apologized, TyLon wouldn’t release him from the holding cell. Police chief Luke Thompson told TyLon to come back when he’s 21, “and I’m going to give you a job application, OK?” Wrong Place, Wrong Time In Gilgandra, New South Wales, Australia, on Nov. 29, sheep shearer Casey Barnes was tramping down wool, and her father and boyfriend were working nearby, when her long, curly hair became caught in a belt-driven motor. Horrifically, the motor ripped her scalp off from the back of her head to above her eyes and ears. Barnes was flown to Sydney, where doctors performed an emergency 20-hour surgery to save her scalp, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

Barnes will have artificial skin attached to her head instead, reports The Sun. A GoFundMe page has been established to help with her medical bills.

Self-Absorbent The Tea Terrace in London is offering a new way for customers to enjoy themselves -- literally. On Dec. 16, the shop began selling the “Selfieccino,” an image of the customer’s face in the frothy topping of either a cappuccino or a hot chocolate. Patrons send an photo to the shop via an online messaging app, and the “Cino” machine takes it from there, reproducing the picture with flavorless food coloring in about four minutes. “Due to social media,” shop owner Ehab Salem Shouly told Reuters, “the dining experience has completely shifted. It’s not enough anymore to just deliver great food and great service -it’s got to be Instagram-worthy.”

An Engaged Citizenry Pam Bisanti, a 31-year resident of Mount Dora, Florida, has approached the city council more than once about the speeding traffic along Clayton Street, where she lives.

On Nov. 27, Bisanti made good on her threat to take matters into her own hands if the council didn’t by wielding a handmade sign reading “SLOW DOWN” as she stood next to the roadway during rush hour wearing her pajamas and robe. “The mothers up the street who send their kids down to the bus stop should have every expectation that those kids will be able to cross Clayton without being killed,” Bisanti told the Daily Commercial, saying she plans to continue her protest until the city takes action. “I am frustrated, angry and fed up. There needs to be a solution sooner than later. Remember that vision of me in my pajamas,” she added.

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Unclear on the Concept Melissa Allen, 32, was arrested on Dec. 19 after attempting to shoplift more than $1,000 in merchandise from a Framingham, Massachusetts, Target store, reported the

Boston Globe. On hand to help in the arrest were more than 50 police officers who were at the store to participate in the annual “Shop With a Cop” holiday charity event.

Unintended Consequences Stephen Allen of Tukwila, Washington, moved in with his grandmother years ago to help care for her. When she died last year, he invited his brother, a convicted drug dealer, to move in, but along with him came drug activity, squatters, stolen property and debris.

Allen eventually asked police to raid the home, but when they did on Dec. 15, they evicted Allen as well, leaving him homeless.

“It’s all legal, but it’s wrong,” Allen told KIRO7 News. “I can’t do anything about it.”

The Call of Nature Tracy Hollingsworth Stephens, 50, of Alachua, Florida, answered nature’s call on Nov. 25 by stopping her car in the middle of County Road 232 and stepping outside. An officer of the Florida Highway Patrol soon took notice as he had been searching for Stephens following her involvement in a twocar collision in the parking lot of a nearby T.J. Maxx store earlier that day. Stephens subsequently underperformed on a field sobriety test, according to The Independent Florida Alligator, and was arrested for driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.

The Sunshine State -- Workers at Captain Hiram’s Sandbar in Sebastian, Florida, resorted to calling police on Nov. 17 when customer William Antonio Olivieri, 63, refused to leave the bar after a night of drinking. Olivieri told Sebastian police he had arrived by boat, but when a quick walk down a nearby dock failed to uncover the boat, he said perhaps he had driven himself to the bar in a black Hyundai. Throughout the interview with police, reported the Sebastian Daily, Olivieri also maintained that he was in downtown Melbourne, Florida, where he lives. Finally, he was arrested on a charge of disorderly intoxication and taken to the Indian River County Jail.

-- Sumter County, Florida, sheriff ’s deputies were dispatched to The Villages on Nov. 19 where resident Lori Jo Matthews, 60, reportedly barked at her neighbor’s dogs, then entered her neighbor’s yard, yelling at the neighbor and finally slapping the neighbor after being told to leave. Deputies caught up with Matthews as she attempted to enter her own home, where she was handcuffed and arrested on charges of battery and resisting arrest. Alcohol, reported Villages-News.com, may have been involved.

Alarming Animal North Fort Myers, Florida, homeowner Joanie Mathews was terrorized for hours on Nov. 14 by a large pig that wandered into her yard overnight and spent the day destroying the lawn and biting Mathews three times before trapping her in the cab of her truck.

“She would circle the truck ... and I would jump in the back seat and I was like ‘Go away, pig!” Mathews told NBC-2 TV. Mathews finally called law enforcement, and it took three Lee County sheriff ’s officers to wrangle the testy porker. “It was just hilarious because the pig fought them every which way,” Mathews said. No one, at press time, had stepped forward to claim the pig.

Carin Nielsen

Whitney Goulas

Mark Mattis

MAKE YOUR BODY A MACHINE

Three experts, three different approaches. Find your way of getting — and staying — fit Up North.

If you’re like most of America, one of your 2018 resolutions is to get in shape. The hard part — well, besides sticking to a program — is finding a program you can stick to. Northern Express tapped into three of the much-talked-about diet and fitness approaches Northerners are loving right now. By Kristi Kates and Beth Milligan Carin Nielsen’s Integrative Medicine Board-certified medical doctor Carin Nielsen went to school in Seattle, fulfilled her residency in Grand Rapids, then launched her family medicine and primary care practice in Petoskey. But after nearly a decade practicing, she found a different branch of medicine calling her.

“I left primary care eight years ago,” Nielsen says, “and pursued extra training in integrative and functional medicine, as well as bariatrics.”

(Integrative medicine combines western medicine with complementary alternative therapies, spanning nutritional detoxification, hormonal balance, emotional health, and more; bariatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity.)

Now also boasting certifications from the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and the Institute for Functional Medicine, the MD enables her patients to participate in a 12week diet and lifestyle change program that starts with a thorough investigation into the root of an individual’s weight struggles.

“One of the things that sets what we do apart as a weight loss program is that I spend an hour with the client on the first visit to talk and get a detailed medical and health history right back to childhood,” she says. “They then get a physical and a lab workup, and we take all that information and combine it to make a program that fits their specific needs. It’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all program.”

It’s also not a quick fix.

“This program isn’t solely to drop pounds,” Nielsen adds. “We’re looking for lasting, healthy results. Integrative medicine is rooted in western medicine, but we work outside of the box to treat the whole person, to find the root cause of weight gain. We don’t just throw prescriptions at you — we dig underneath to find the problems, whether it’s hormones,

stress, emotional issues, or inflammation.”

Two key concepts form the start of each healthy weight loss program for Nielsen’s clients.

“We first instruct them on how to start each day with protein and fiber,” she says. “Our typical American breakfasts are more like desserts now, with muffins and pastries. We suggest something like eggs with vegetables or a protein shake — we do a lot of protein shakes.”

On the opposite side of each day, the plan prevents evening snacking and its subsequent weight gain by employing what Nielsen calls “stacking the deck.”

“Rather than to be constantly thinking about what they shouldn’t be having — ‘I shouldn’t eat those chips, I shouldn’t have that candy’ — we guide people to focus on eating more throughout the day, but more of the right things: appropriate amounts of protein, fiber, and quality fats. You’ll be more full, and it will reduce cravings.”

She says that’s a big part of integrative medicine’s approach: do what you can do, and don’t dwell on mistakes.

“It’s the new year, so you want to focus on the positive, instead of focusing on the negative,” she says. “People may come here initially because they want to lose weight, but once they start feeling better, they want to stay with the program because it improves their quality of life so much.”

For more information, visit carinnielsenmd.com.

Whitney Goulas’ LUXBODY Being a highly competitive gymnast for 15 years set the foundation for Saginaw native Whitney Goulas, who pursued gymnastics all through school, and then became certified as a personal trainer while in college, later taking those skills out to California where she worked for several years.

“California is where I developed the initial concept for LUXBODY,” Goulas says. “And

strangely, we never came Up North here as kids when we lived in Saginaw, but my parents eventually bought a home in Northport, and I ended up falling in love with the area. So I thought here was the perfect place to launch my business.”

She founded LUXBODY in Traverse City in December 2014, aiming the gym at people who were looking for a different, challenging workout experience.

“At our facility, you can unplug and just let one of our professionals safely guide you through your workout,” said Goulas. “You come in, get your butt kicked, and get out.”

The carefully-structured speed is part of LUXBODY’s appeal — it’s a HIIT (highintensity interval training) gym, with each full workout only taking 30 minutes. The structure of each workout is circuit-based, and takes place over five rounds, round of which might incorporate a minute-long set of squats, then a minute of push-ups, a minute of sprints, then a minute of jumping jacks. The pattern is constant, but the specific workout exercises change every time, so it’s always different.

And, say some dedicated goers, it’s over before you know it.

“Our 30-minute workout only takes up 2 percent of your day, so there’s no excuse not to get in here,” she says.

The 30-minute sessions are populated by all fitness levels and ages, from teens to 30-somethings, off-season competition athletes to middle-aged folks, to people in their late 60s.

“The biggest reason people come in here is for fat loss, and you really do lose weight with this program and see effective results,” Goulas says. “It’s a very intense workout. The awesome thing is the fat loss that we see. In six weeks, the average person loses 10 to 15 pounds, up to 40 pounds.”

Bonus: It’s also a green workout.

LUXBODY’s gym is 100 percent motor-free.

“Any equipment that we have — treadmills, rollers — you are the engine,” Goulas says.

“Using your own body as the motor really helps you shed fat and results in amazing body awareness, core strength, and balance. It’s very inspiring when you have all different ages and ability levels doing this workout, and seeing results.”

For more information, visit luxbodyfitness.com.

Mark Mattis’ fit20 Another fitness studio in Traverse City is promising an even shorter workout — but without the sweat. fit20, part of a popular European franchise, promotes one 20-minuteper-week workout session that is focused on six different exercises and completed in slow motion to train all main muscle groups.

Traverse City franchise owner Mark Mattis says the workout is ideal for business professionals, stay-at-home mothers, retirees, and more. It fits anyone, but especially people who have busy schedules and really don’t have the time to get in multiple workouts a week,” he says.

Sessions are either one-on-one with a personal trainer or one other training partner and are by appointment only. The studio is set to 63 degrees; the cooler temperature combined with the slow-motion nature of the exercises means participants don’t usually sweat and so don’t need to change clothes or take showers after sessions, Mattis said.

Mattis, a Suttons Bay native, has been a personal trainer locally for the last 11 years and was approached by business partner Roger Karsten about bringing the fit20 franchise — which has 113 locations worldwide — to the U.S. The studio’s grand opening date is set for Jan. 18. For more information, visit the fit20 Facebook page.

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By Patrick Sullivan

DR. ULTRA MARATHONER Geoff Burns grew up running the roads and trails of Leelanau County. Now he’s one of the best ultramarathoners in the world.

At times, even Geoff Burns has to force himself to run in the snow and cold.

That’s strange for a kid who grew up in Leelanau County and went on to become an ultramarathon champion.

But since Burns lived for a year in Southern California, winter running in Michigan has become significantly tougher.

“I will say I love it, and I hate it,” Burns said. “One of the reasons I hated Los Angeles was because there were no seasons. And I come back here, and I’m the guy, when I’m out training with my friends, I’m the one cursing the footing and the snow. Why are we running through this? This is awful! The weather is so bad! But at my core, I really, really love it, and it kind of connects me to my childhood.”

Burns, a Traverse City West grad, found his stride after undergrad at University of Michigan, when he discovered his passion — and his strength — was running extremely long distances.

Today, Burns is pursuing a PhD in running biomechanics at Michigan, and he’s on a winning streak: He’s won the 50k and 100k national championship races in recent years, and he won the Chicago 50-mile ultramarathon race last September.

The Northern Express sat down to chat with Burns while he was home in Traverse City over the holidays.

Northern Express: I know you grew up in a running family. Your dad, Bryan Burns, who is an assistant principal at Traverse City Central, organized the Bayshore Marathon for years. Tell me how you got so into running.

Burns: Totally by diffusion. My dad is a running — I don’t want to say ‘running nerd,’ because that doesn’t do justice to his level of enthusiasm for it — but he grew up with it. He started running from a young age and fell in love with it. When I was growing up, my sisters and I … we saw him doing it and loving it. And he included me in it. His passion was just contagious, and I latched onto it. I don’t think my sisters did. He never pushed me at all. It was never, “You should do this, you should run this.” It was always like, I wanted to go for a run as well. He was going out for a run; I wanted to go out for a run.

He was doing these races; I thought, These races are cool. He’s following these races on TV, and I’m getting excited following it too.

So, like I said, it was diffusion.

Express: In high school and college you weren’t doing really long distances. How did you go from being a regular runner to being an ultrarunner?

Burns: I think it’s something that maybe I had always been predisposed to, or what suited me best. I just never was exposed to that opportunity until after college, or even that idea. In high school, the longest you could race is five kilometers in cross-country. That’s what a standard high school competition is. But I ran far more miles in training that most high schoolers do. My training in high school was pretty big. I mean, I was going out for hour-and-a-half, two-hour runs, three times a week in high school. Which is more than a lot of college kids do. So at that point, without realizing I was doing it, I was doing training that suited me. I ran at the University of Michigan — I walked on there.

And I could just hang in there on workouts, and I’d get my butt kicked on the really fast stuff by the guys who were All-American milers and whatnot, but I could recover fast enough that I could keep coming back for more.

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Express: And that eventually led you to ultramarathons.

Burns: After college, once I had control over my own training, I actually went back to the stuff that I was doing in high school, in the off-season, when I was writing my own training plans — longer mileage. I started doing it with my friends. And I had a friend who had just run the [USA Track and Field] 50 kilometer national championships. And I at the time had thought that sounded kind of crazy. I hadn’t run a marathon even at that point. I had been doing runs that were 20, 22, 24 miles at pretty quick clips. He was just like, “Man, this is your thing. You’ve got to give this a shot.” So he kind of planted the seed, and I started thinking about it.

Express: And soon you weren’t just thinking about it …

Burns: He won that race and qualified to represent the national team at the 50 kilometer world championships that were being held in Qatar that year. And the last qualifying race to also earn a place on the national team was a race in Madison, Wisconsin. And it was the last day you could sign up for the race. It might have been a week out. And I was just sitting there, like, 10 or 11 o’clock at night, the registration is about to close, the race is like a week away, or two weeks away, and I was thinking, Should I do it? Should I pull the trigger? All right. I’ll give it a shot. So I did it. Took a vacation day off work. I ran it and was just thinking, Well, I’ve never even run close to this far, I’ve never run a marathon. Let’s see what happens. If I get to 20 miles and I have to drop out, it was a good long run for the day.

Express: But not only did you finish that race …

Burns: I won and set the course record, and that got me a spot on the national team.

Express: And so then you were suddenly an established ultrarunner.

Burns: That kind of opened up the realm of possibility. It’s funny. I used to work at Running Fit in high school. Jeff Gaff, the manager there, was a big ultrarunner. And we’d get Ultra Running magazine there, and nobody would ever buy them. Like, they’d always sit there, and we’d get issues — if I was working in 2008, we’d have issues that were from 2001 that were still on the shelf. I just remember thinking, Who does this? Why would you run this far?

Express: It sort of does sound crazy.

Burns: It never dawned on me that it’s a similar but different physiologic challenge.

Express: And you returned to Wisconsin a year later, ran twice as far, and became national champion in the 100k race.

Burns: I set the course record, and I think it’s the No. 3 American time, in my debut, and I think I was fortunate in going into it blind. I’d been training for it and gearing for it, and that went really well. It qualified me then to represent the U.S. in the 100 kilometer world championships and that’s — the hundred kilometer race is kind of the bread and butter of the ultramarathons.

Other distances operate in the periphery. This is kind of the classic ultra. So it was good to jump up to that, but the competition is much deeper in that event.

Express: What is your goal right now?

Burns: I definitely want to set the American record. I’d love to get on the podium at the

world championships this year. The world championships happen every other year, and they didn’t have them last year, which is good, because I spent most of last year injured. They’re [happening] this year in September. I’d love to set the American record and get on the podium there.

Express: I read somewhere that another ultimate goal you have is to run the most famous ultrarace, the Comrades in South Africa.

Burns: Have you read about the Comrades?

It’s insane. It was something that actually had been on my radar long before I had even started ultrarunning because one of my seminal running books that I read growing up was the “Lore of Running” by Tim Noakes, and it’s this encyclopedia of everything related to the science of running.

It’s a scientific bible for running. He talks a lot about Comrades. He’s South African.

And it really is a running event that transcends the sport of running. It’s unbelievable. It’s bigger in terms what it occupies for the country — it’s beyond the Boston Marathon or the New York Marathon. It’s a 56-mile race that not only do 20,000 people [run] — which is insane in its own right — but there are between 500,000 and a million people on the course.

The entire course is point-to-point, feels like a Tour de France stage. People come out, people bring lawn chairs, people come from all over the country. It’s this massive party for 56 miles. For ultramarathoning, especially on the roads, that is the most competitive one in the world.

Express: And you plan to run that this June?

Burns: So, last year I was set. I’d had a good debut the year before at the 100k national champions, ran well at the world championships against some of the South African guys who won Comrades and whatnot, so I thought last year, Okay this is it. I’m going to give it my first shot.

And I was injured leading up to it. I tried to get in shape and ended up having to scratch it. But I went over and ran the first part of it just to learn the experience. And so this year I’m going to go back with much more fight in my heart.

Express: Something I find interesting about you is that you don’t just run, you’ve dedicated your life to running. You are getting a PhD in running mechanics. How do you explain what you are studying in simple terms? How do you go about improving the way people run?

Burns: That’s exactly what I’m trying to figure out, and the goal with the PhD is I’m trying to develop a way to help people monitor their biomechanics from a system level and give them a template to improve.

Right now, with running biomechanics, a lot of work goes into the component level.

What I mean is, it’s like, ‘Lift your arms up.’

Or ‘Increase your stride rate.’ ‘Run at 180 steps per minute.’ ‘Change this one thing.’

I want to find a way to be able to measure how your whole body is working together, because people, the more they run, have an amazing ability to self-optimize — find the lowest energetic cost to complete this task.

So, studying running mechanics, it becomes really tough to tell people to change one thing, because if they change one thing, 10 other things change to compensate for that.

So I am trying to figure out a way to look at a very simple framework for everybody to use to start to improve the system level.

Express: Will your work have much to offer people who aren’t elite runners?

idea is, you know those runs that are totally magical, that you just lose yourself, and you just feel on top of the world, just cruising along, you’re oblivious to everything? The thought is, I suspect our bodies, when they do that, they are functioning optimally. If you could help not just runners, but if you could give any person on the street who doesn’t run that feeling, and they could start feeling that magical feeling of just total cohesion when they are running, it will get more people addicted to running. And like, if we get more people addicted to running, the world would be a way better place. It would solve a lot of problems. Humans are hardwired to be addicted to so many things that are bad for us, and running is the one thing that’s good. Let’s harness that.

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Express: Since your dad has experience directing the Bayshore Marathon, now that you are a world-class ultramarathoner, do you think you two will ever team up to organize an ultrarace around Traverse City?

Burns: I would love to at some point. I have all these dreams of what you could do.

Especially, I have a passion in my heart for ultramarathons on the road. There’s actually a big dichotomy: people who do them on trails versus the roads. I think if you involve towns and cities, they can be incredibly cool. Much like a big cycling race. That’s what it’s like in South Africa, where ultramarathoning is like a king’s sport. Whether it’s out in Leelanau County or out on the Peninsula, start and finish in town, it could be this incredible journey that would just be beautiful. I would love to do that someday. But there are all these ideas, and I have to focus on running well right now and finishing up that whole grad school thing.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Burns’ Top Three Favorite (Relatively) Short Runs in TC 1. Hickory Meadows. Head up Randolph Street and run the trails around the prairie.

“Every time I do that, especially in the summer, I think I could lay down and die here and be happy,” Burns says. “Hickory Meadows is one of the true gems of Traverse City that makes this a special place, because it’s this massive, open meadows that feels like you’re just totally in a different world but is right in the heart of downtown.” For a longer run, throw in a loop around Building 50 at the Grand Traverse Commons.

2. Front Street. “I love running down Front Street. There’s a special place in my heart for looping around downtown,” Burns says.

“You just feel the vibrancy of the city.” Go along Front Street from where it splits from Grandview Parkway west to Division Street, head north and come back on the TART trail along the water.

3. The Old Mission base loop. Start at Northwestern Michigan College, head out along East Bay, cut over McKinley hill and come back along West Bay. That’s a six-mile run. To make it nine or so miles, cross over at Wilson Road. “I love the college area,” Burns says. “A great run is just to go out, hitting both bays, going up and over.”

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Benzie County’s L’Chayim

Where Lox and Mazel Tov meet Chicken Shawarma and the Gaza Strip

By Ross Boissoneau “To Life, to life, l’chayim,” goes the refrain of the song from “Fiddler on the Roof.” And celebrating that theme — “To life!” — is what Jonathan Clark and David Scott do everyday at their deli in downtown Beulah, and during summer months at their second location in Frankfort.

“I love my job,” says Clark as he prepared to create some bagels. “We have a lot of fun.

I wouldn’t do this if I wasn’t having fun,” echoes Scott from behind the counter in the cozy dining area of the deli.

The two lifelong friends, who met as pre-teens in Benzie County, say their partnership has borne fruit — and also feta spread, hummus, cream cheese, and a host of meats and vegetables they use to make their delicious sandwiches, soups, and quiches.

Not to forget the cookies, scones, and other baked goods. And bagels, of course bagels.

They came to the business through a circuitous route. After graduating from Western Michigan University, Clark headed east; Scott, west. The former moved through the ranks of corporate America, eventually becoming a regional supervisor for a solid waste disposal company, while the latter entered the restaurant industry. When Clark’s father became ill, he returned to his hometown, and in 1993 opened a small deli in the back of a building his parents owned in Beulah.

“I was on the East Coast, and they had Jewish delis all over,” says Clark. So he took

that as his inspiration. “I had 300 square feet in the back of my mother’s storefront.”

About three years later, his mother told him she wanted to sell another building she owned in Beulah. He decided that would be a better location for the business, and that’s when Scott came onboard as an investor to purchase the building. In 1998, they decided to expand to another location, and took a space on Munson, near NMC, recently vacated by a franchised bagel operation.

Though located in the plaza near both the college and Traverse City Central High School, they discovered there was virtually no walk-in business like they had in Beulah. Plus the space was far larger than they needed. “There was no foot traffic, and it was a huge facility. We didn’t need that much space,” says Clark.

So after three years they closed that location. But they’d gained some needed equipment, which was to come in handy when they next looked for additional exposure. They opened the Frankfort location in 2010, which was when Scott left the silent partnership behind to take on an active role running that store. In the offseason, the Lake Michigan town loses most of its population, and L’Chayim is among the businesses that close till spring.

That’s when Scott joins Clark at the Beulah location, which stays open all winter.

So with two successful locations, are the two partners satisfied? “I’d like to add one more. Dave’s not sure,” says Clark. If they do, he says it’s important it be the right location:

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A small town within easy driving distance and a location that’s going to get good foot traffic. “We have the equipment to supply one more. It would have to be a location that’s relatively close,” Clark says.

The menu is extensive within its parameters. It features a variety of sandwiches, served on a bagel or bread of your choice. There are five different flavors of feta spreads, lox, meats, cheeses and veggies, and as mentioned, quiche, homemade soup, and a host of baked goods. Clark says they evaluate it every year but don’t change it for the sake of change. They did add the chicken Shawarma a couple years ago, which has proven to be popular.

Most popular? Clark says it’s the everything bagel, while the next most requested item is its polar opposite, the plain bagel. And tastes differ from store to store.

Scott says his partner proposed dropping the Goyim, which sells very little in Beulah. “I sell the heck out of it” in Frankfort, he says.

Oh, about those names. Scott pointed to the Sinai, Mazel Tov, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip. “Jonathan came up with all those,” he says, noting the Mideastern theme.

Clark takes up the tale. “I think a lot of people wonder why there’s a Jewish deli in Beulah. So they come in — and then we’ve got them,” he says.

In addition, the two offer catering services for offsite locations, with a complete menu that offers a span of options from picnic lunches, burgers and brats, to prime rib dinner and a selection of desserts. But it’s the deli and its

Clockwise from top left: Jonathan Clark and David Scott, partners at L’Chayim. The quiche of the day at L’Chayim’s Beulah location. Clark and Scott working the bagel machine.

A selection of cookies in the display case, made fresh daily.

Photos by Cathy and Ross Boissoneau.

offerings that draw their customers.

And they do plenty of business. While the offseason finds Clark and Scott working with a skeleton crew, in the summer there are some two dozen employees on payroll.

“We keep things fresh,” says Clark of the deli’s enduring appeal. That pertains to both the offerings and the ingredients. He notes the importance of sourcing the best products available: “It’s working, so there’s no need to change.”

L’Chayim is located at 274 Benzie Blvd. in Beulah, and is open Mondays through Saturdays from 8 to 3. From May through October, both Beulah and Frankfort are open 8–5 Mondays through Saturdays, 10–4 on Sundays. $

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Treat Yo’Self

By Daniel Harrigan We’ve rounded the corner to the start of a new year. Millions of people have set new resolutions and are already finding out that change is hard. But unlike introducing a tough daily workout regimen, an allnew diet, or commitment to write the great American novel, self-care doesn’t have to be a shock to your system — or your schedule — to create positive, healthy change. Here are a few simple ideas for self-care that you can add to your life as gradually as you like.

Feed Your Brain Consider community education classes at your local college. Classes are small, affordable, and can be a great way to meet new people and learn a new hobby or craft. Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City lists lots of fun, mind-expanding options for your new challenge.

Looking at their Extended Education classes online, you’ll find Aikido (and many other martial arts), beading, photo editing, golf techniques, and more. View the catalog online at nmc.edu/resources/extendededucation, or call (231) 995-1700 for a schedule of classes.

Stretch Your Bod Not only does traditional Hatha yoga afford many physical and mental benefits, Bikram yoga, aka hot yoga, is a great way to get through the winter, thanks to the 105-degree room in which you practice the 26 postures that make up the Bikram system. Two to try: Bikram Yoga in Traverse City, 845 South Garfield Ave., (231) 392-4798, bikramyogatc. com. Yoga Roots in Petoskey and Harbor Springs, celebrating ten years in business, is a great option if you’re keen on giving yoga a try — but without the 105-degree intensity. (231) 838-8992, yogarootspetoskey.com.

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many single people out there have eaten a bag of microwave popcorn for dinner? Having a healthy dinner to look forward to without the planning, shopping, prepping, or waste is one way to create more free time for yourself.

In Traverse City, whiskTC offers meals that are prepped, portioned, and labeled with recipe cards. Most meals take only 15 minutes to fix.

If you’re outside of the Traverse City area, you can look for a larger company like Freshly (freshly.com), which delivers fully cooked meals that require only reheating. whisktc.com or (231) 342-0391.

De-stress Your Self Himalayan sea salt relaxation therapy, an alternative wellness option said to emulate the Eastern European practice of sitting in old salt mines to relax, de-stress, and detoxify your lungs, has arrived Up North.

“Our main goal is total relaxation,” said Carol Saxton, who co-owns Urban Oasis Salt Spa with her husband, David. To that end, the spa offers a quiet room, reiki, foot scrubs, yoga, and more. Guess what, parents? They also have a children’s room, so you get to relax, for real. Find it at 1545 S. Division St. in Traverse City. (231) 938-602, facebook.com/UrbanOasisSaltSpa. Give Your Best Volunteering is a reward unto itself. The right match can help you to focus beyond yourself, learn new skills, and deeply connect with people you might not otherwise have known. Opportunities abound regardless of where you live. The Father Fred Foundation in Traverse City is almost always searching for drivers to help with donation pickups. There’s also Meals on Wheels in most cities, and Habitat for Humanity in Traverse City, Cheboygan, Gaylord, and Harbor Springs.

Father Fred Foundation (231) 947-2055. fatherfred.org.

Meals on Wheels (800) 632-7334. nmcaa.net/meals_on_wheels.asp.

Habitat for Humanity (855) 422-6424. habitatmichigan.org.

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Herbivores, Unite!

A New Plant-based Lifestyle Group has taken hold in Traverse City

By Kristi Kates Humans are, by nature, omnivores; for food, most of us rely on both plants and animals. But is this dietary lifestyle the best choice for us?

Ryan and Leigh Kennedy of Traverse City cut out the animal part of their diets and decided it was the best choice for them. Now they’re bringing together like-minded folks in the region to connect, inspire each other, and learn more about a plant-based diet — and so far, the response has been significant.

FOOD FOCUS “About a year or so ago, I started doing some research about nutrition,” Leigh Kennedy says. “I just wanted to learn more.”

Kennedy read books like “How Not to Die” by Gene Stone and Michael Greger, “The China Study” by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, and “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease”

by Caldwell Esselstyn; she also watched documentaries like Forks Over Knives and What the Health.

“I’d say Ryan and I have always been a healthy couple in what we consume and exercise,” Kennedy says, “but after all of my research, I decided to try a plant-based diet.”

Kennedy focused on eating a meatand dairy-free diet that was rich in fruits, vegetables, and legumes, and limited in oils and canned and packaged foods.

“What I can say from that experience is that, at 43 years old, I’m happier than I’ve ever been my entire life,” she says. “I have decreased inflammation, have better digestive health, my complexion is clear, I feel stress-free, calm, and in good balance.”

She attributes her “whole body and spirit happiness” to the change in diet.

“I feel that all of that is a direct result of changing what I ate,” she says.

EDUCATED EATING Ryan Kennedy had a similar experience.

He joined his wife in trying a plant-based lifestyle and found that not only did he lose 18 pounds without trying (which wasn’t even an active part of his goal), he also had way more energy for his favorite sports, mountain biking, and triathlons.

“I took that experience and started looking for local resources for people on a plant-based lifestyle diet,” he says. “And I found there was a real lack of resources up here.”

So the Kennedys reached out to a group out of Detroit, the Plant-Based Nutrition Support Group (PBNSG/pbnsg.org), which boasts 4,400 members and a half-dozen affiliate physicians.

“We wanted to start a similar group in northern Michigan, so we reached out to their founder, and we ended up kind of affiliating with them — they let us tap into

their resources, which is a great help,” Ryan Kennedy says. “We want to provide tools to our community here to help them learn more about a plant-based lifestyle.”

With that information in hand, the Kennedys started hosting meetings for PBLTC, their new plant-based lifestyle organization in Traverse City. So far, they’re self-funding the gatherings (there was no fee required to attend), and have held two already, which drew about 50 people each.

“At the meetings, we have guest speakers, share plant-based tasting menus, answer questions, all to educate people about how to do this,” Leigh Kennedy says. “One of our first guest speakers was actually Paul Chatlin, who founded the Detroit group.”

DELICIOUS DINING One of the most popular things about the meetings are the menus shared. Everyone enjoys food that tastes good; that may be one of the biggest make-it-or-break it components of sticking to any diet. The Kennedys point out that, just because there’s not meat included, doesn’t mean the food isn’t delicious.

“Pretty much anything you can think on in a ‘traditional’ American diet can be transformed into a flavorful, satisfying, and healthy plantbased version,” Ryan Kennedy says.

You might be surprised by some of these plant-based dishes. Suggested breakfasts

include a Southwestern tofu scramble with sautéed vegetables, served with guacamole and salsa, or protein muffins flavored with maple syrup and applesauce and stuffed with oats, dates, and raisins.

For lunch, try whipping up a chickpea — and cranberry-salad sandwich with tahini, plant-based mayonnaise, celery, cranberries, scallions, and walnuts, all on sourdough bread.

Dinner suggestions include roasted tempeh chili (tempeh is a fermented soybean meat substitute) with smoky black beans, roasted red peppers, carrots, and apples; or a sweet potato lasagna with sautéed greens and a cashew cheese sauce.

There are desserts, too — how about a double-decker carrot cake with flame raisins, or petite chocolate-glazed donuts? All of the above dishes are part of the plant-based diet that the Kennedys enjoy.

“We’d love to see plant-based diets and lifestyles adopted more regularly throughout northern Michigan, and we’d like to encourage restaurants to offer plantbased menu items too,” Ryan Kennedy says.

“Really, there are a lot of opportunities for plant-based lifestyle growth up here.”

For more information on Plant Based Lifestyle Traverse City and its upcoming events, visit pbltc.org. Free registration for PBLTC events takes place at eventbrite.com.

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By Kristi Kates The swing craze of the late 1990s spawned a lot more than just a bunch of jazzy couples dolled up in cuffed khakis and swing-skirt dresses.

It also shot a shortlist of swing revival bands to the top of the charts, including The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue, Merchants of Venus, and Squirrel Nut Zippers, the latter featuring frontman James “Jimbo” Mathus.

Squirrel Nut Zippers had one massive single hit, 1996’s quirky, droll “Hell.” It’s shifted around some of its members over the subsequent years. But the band’s unique brand of hot swing has persisted, and this year SNZ celebrates the 20th anniversary of its album Hot, after a long December spent touring the country with its “Christmas Caravan Tour.”

LOST AT SEA “We released a Christmas record 20 years ago called Christmas Caravan, but we’d never performed any of it live before — it was just a studio project,” Mathus tells the Express.

“But it’s become part of a lot of people’s holidays, so we’re really proud of that and wanted to take it on the road.”

The band’s last non-Christmas album was 2009’s Lost at Sea, which among fans had become something of a reference to the band being fairly quiet, record-wise, for the past half-dozen years or so (the group tours extensively).

“It has been a while, but I’ve been so busy playing and recording [my own solo albums] that it just flew by,” Mathus says.

Lately, SNZ has been adding some different instrumentation to the lineup. For the

holiday season, it expanded its sound with a glockenspiel and harmonica; lately, Mathus has been playing mandolin on a few songs — “The ‘mountain hillbilly’ tunes,” he says.)

But mostly, the group sticks to the same template — a reliably successful “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach.

BEASTS OF BURGUNDY “We’ve always been a blend of hot jazz, cabaret, calypso, swing, and New Orleans small-band jazz,” Mathus says. “And we’re pretty theatrical about it. That’s just what we do, what we’ve always done.”

Next up — lost at sea no longer — the band has a brand new record coming out this March, recorded in SNZ’s favorite stomping grounds, New Orleans.

“We’re going to be calling the new album Beasts of Burgundy, pronounced Bur-GUNdy, like Burgundy Street in New Orleans, where we made a lot of music,” Mathus says, “and ‘beasts’ for our revival.”

Opening up for Squirrel Nut Zippers at its upcoming concert in Traverse City will be jazz-blues outfit Davina and the Vagabonds, which is making quite a bit of racket of its own, thanks to frontwoman Davina Lozier’s dancehall vocals and the band’s dynamic horn section. Davina and the Vagabonds’ tour is in promotion of its new 18-track album, Nicollet and Tenth.

The Squirrel Nut Zippers with opening act Davina and the Vagabonds will take the stage at the City Opera House in Traverse City at 8:00pm on Jan. 19. For tickets, visit cityoperahouse.org. For more information on the bands, visit snzippers.com and davinaandthevagabonds.com.

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jan 06

Mon -

saturday

BOYNE HIGHLANDS’ WINTER TRAILS DAY: Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. Featuring a free half-hour lesson, complimentary rental, & free daylong pass for 35 km of cross country trails & snowshoe-only trails. Reservations required: 231.526.3029. boyne.com/boynehighlands

---------------------BOYNE MOUNTAIN RESORT’S WINTER TRAILS DAY: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Those new to snow sports can try snowshoeing & cross country skiing for free. Includes a half-hour group lesson, trail pass & rentals. Reservations required: 231.549.6088. Free. boyne.com/ boynemountain

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send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 2-4pm: Laura Lee will sign her book “Oscar’s Ghost: The Battle for Oscar Wilde.”

4-6pm: Sam Flamont will sign his book “Hustle ‘Til It Happens.” horizonbooks.com

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BLISSFEST SATURDAY NIGHT COMMUNITY DANCE: 7:30-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. All dances are taught & there is a live band & caller. $3/person, $5/couple or $7/family. redskystage.com

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RODNEY WHITAKER QUINTET: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Theatre, Petoskey. Professor of Jazz Bass & Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University, Rodney Whitaker will perform, along with drums, sax, piano & vocalist. $10 students, $25 members & $35 non-members. crookedtree.org

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FRANKIE BALLARD: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy hearing this rising star perform country hits mixed with rock ‘n roll soul. Tickets start at $50. lrcr.com

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sunday

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

---------------------PETOSKEY IMPROV TROUPE COMEDY SHOW: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey.

Tickets: $10 advance, $15 night of. $8 students, $5 12 & under. redskystage.com

jan 08

monday

COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: amical, TC. “The Slanted Door” by Charles Phan. Charles has integrated the culture of San Francisco into classic Vietnamese recipes. amical.com/cookbookdinnerseries

Tues - $2 well drinks & shots Wed - Get it in the can for $1 w/ 2 Bays DJs Thurs - $1 off all drinks w/Project 6

Fri Jan 12 - Happy Hour: Jazz North

then: DJ Prim (no cover)

Sat Jan 13 : DJ Prim (no cover) Sun Jan 14 : KARAOKE (10PM-2AM)

941-1930 downtown TC check us out at unionstreetstationtc.net

TIMBER RIDGE RESORT’S WINTER TRAILS DAY: 10:30am-2pm, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. TART Trails is teaming up with the Record Eagle, Vasa Ski Club, NMMBA, local bike shops & Timber Ridge Resort to offer free trail access, introductory ski lessons, fat bike demos, guided snowshoe hikes & use of equipment rentals for those new to winter trail sports. Must register in advance: traversetrails.org. Info: 941.4300 or kate@traversetrails.org.

CROSS COUNTRY WINTER TRAILS DAY: 1pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville.

Enjoy a free 2-hour trail pass & rentals available from: 1-3pm, 2-4pm & 3-5pm. crystalmountain.com/events/cross-countrywinter-trails-day

with Jukebox - Closing at 9pm

Buckets of Beer starting at $7 from 2-8pm

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Ladies Night - $1 off drinks & $5 martinis

Everything you need for a A 5K/10K snowshoe race fundraiser, Grass River Shiver will be held at & also benefit Grass River Natural Area in Bellaire on Sat., Jan. 13. Registration is at 9am & the race is at 10am. $20 pre-registration & $25 day of. grassriver.org

jan 09

known figures, followed by facilitated discussions. Find on Facebook.

tuesday

GET CRAFTY: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create a Kids Owl Calendar. Held at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: (See Mon., Jan. 8)

---------------------AAUW GAME NIGHT: 5:30pm, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. The American Association of University Women, TC Branch’s annual Game Night will feature food, fellowship & board games. Free. aauwtc.org

---------------------BEEKEEPING 101 WINTER POTLUCK: 6pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. The Benzie Area Beekeepers Guild will talk about bees in Northern MI & the steps to start beekeeping. Held on Tues. evenings throughout the winter. Free. Guests are encouraged to bring a dish to pass. Find on Facebook.

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OAK WILT & OTHER TREE DISEASES ON THE HORIZON: 6-8:30pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Presented by the Master Gardener Association of Northwest MI & the Grand Traverse Conservation District. The speaker will be District Forester for Leelanau, Benzie & GT Conservation Districts Kama Ross. Potluck, 6pm; presentation, 6:30pm. Free. natureiscalling.org

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HEROIN & OPIOID EPIDEMIC: 6:30-8pm, Charlevoix Public Library, Community Room. Tpr. Hebner will discuss why Northern MI has a heroin/opioid epidemic, & what Northern MI communities are going through. charlevoixlibrary.org

jan 10

wednesday

LIFETREE CAFÉ: 8pm, The Rock, Kingsley. “Make the Most of Your Life” is the first Lifetree Café program.

Weekly one-hour sessions will feature short films about ordinary people with extraordinary stories, or nationally

---------------------POINT, ZOOM, CLICK: 11am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey.

Learn the fundamentals of photography in this free workshop. Bring your camera or smart phone. crookedtree.org

---------------------ISEA CAFE: 1-3pm, ISEA - Great Lakes Education Sails, Suttons Bay. Talk about water, the Great Lakes & more. Also watch a short film & join in a discussion. Free. schoolship.org

---------------------“WHAT, ME WORRY?”: 2:30-4:30pm, The Presbyterian Church, TC. A Discussion About Anxiety with the Grand Traverse Bay Area Stroke Club. Featuring Jodi Stinnet, L.M.S.W., a consultant with Catholic Human Services. munsonhealthcare.org/strokeclub

---------------------DIY HOME SPA: 3:45-4:30pm, Charlevoix Public Library. Make spa treats to indulge yourself at home during the winter months.

Free. charlevoixlibrary.org

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SENIOR ODYSSEY TEAM MEETING: 4pm, Senior Center, TC. Senior Odyssey encourages older adults to use their lifelong skills & knowledge in new ways. Free, but advanced reservations required: 922-4911. grandtraverse.org/712/Senior-Centers

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delicious organic produce, unique local products, and free personal health tours available at your co-op

LET’S BUILD & CREATE: 4pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. With LEGOS & other building toys. tadl.org

COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: (See Mon., Jan. 8)

---------------------GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Gaylord Regional Airport. Food & drinks provided by Alpine Tavern & Eatery.

Live music by A Brighter Bloom.

jan 11

thursday

INTERACTIVE STORY TIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Snow” by Uri Schulevitz. greatlakeskids.org

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“MICHIGAN DURING THE GREAT WAR & THE GREAT MIGRATION”: 4pm, Benzie Area Historical Museum, Benzonia. The Migration from the South to the North after WWI will be presented by Brian McCall, history professor at NMC & Interlochen, during the Academy Lecture Series. Donation. info@benziemuseum.org

TSO TOTS @ TADL: 11am, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Join members of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra for an hour of music & movement. Explore rhythm & instruments of the orchestra with hands-on musical fun. Instrument petting zoo, story reading, movement & crafts. Ages 5 & under. traversesymphony.org

COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: (See Mon., Jan. 8)

A SHAKESPEARE AUDITION WORKSHOP: 12-3pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. Join professional actress & Shakespeare super-fan Shelby Lewis for an afternoon of learning about & speaking the verse of William Shakespeare.

You’ll have a chance to meet the director of the Playhouse’s upcoming production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Free. oldtownplayhouse.com

------------------------------------------IDENTITY THEFT TRAINING: 5pm, Mills Community House, Upper Level Home of Benzie Public Library, Benzonia. Presented

by Honor Bank & Benzie County Sheriff’s Office. Info: 231-882-4111 or www.benzonialibrary.org. Free.

---------------------JANUARY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30pm, Leelanau Studios, Greilickville.

Presented by the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail.

---------------------ARTS FOR ALL NEW YEAR’S DANCE: 6:30-8:30pm, Elks Lodge, TC. For ages 16+. $5. eventbrite.com

---------------------THE ART OF: BREWING, PART 2 - “ENGAGING YOUR RIGHT BRAIN (BREWERY)”: 6:30-8pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Taste some of Right Brain Brewery’s beers while exercising your creativity & making connections between craft brews & fine art. General admission applies; free for Dennos members (ages 21+ only). dennosmuseum.org

---------------------BINGO FOR BOOKS: 7pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. With Mary Morgan. tadl.org/ event/bingo-for-books

jan 12

friday

COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: (See Mon., Jan. 8)

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“MORNING’S AT SEVEN”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. This classic comic play is presented by Aged to Perfection.

Goodwill donation. oldtownplayhouse.com

jan 13

saturday

ANNUAL DOWNTOWN CHILI COOK OFF: Downtown TC’s only fundraiser.

Sample many chilis & vote for your favorites. Area restaurants will cook their special recipes as they compete in different categories: 1 & 3-alarm, white, vegetarian, seafood & ethnic as well as the “people’s choice” award.

Tickets: $10 for a sampler of 8. 922-2050. downtowntc.com

---------------------15TH ANNUAL YOUTH FREE THROW CHAMPIONSHIP: 9-11am, Cherryland Middle School Gym, Elk Rapids. For ages 9-14. 231-631-0259.

---------------------ARTS IN ACTION: 10am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring professional music producer & audio engineer Aaron Wolinski. A presentation will follow. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------GRASS RIVER SHIVER: 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. A 5K/10K snowshoe race fundraiser. Benefits Grass River Natural Area. $20 pre-registration; $25 race day. grassriver.org/grass-rivershiver-5k.html

---------------------WINTER WARM UP: 10am-5pm, Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula. Enjoy comfort food creations paired with wine. $30 advance/$35 day of. wineriesofomp.com

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---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB 2018: 1211pm, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Enjoy an art display featuring artists, musicians & artisan vendors who have roots from the Grand Traverse region. Includes the Fuze Zine.

Help support this event that allows networking opportunities to uprising artists. Free. facebook.com/GrandTraverseArtBomb

---------------------LEGO SATURDAY @ BPL: 12-2:30pm, Benzonia Public Library, lower level, Benzonia. Enjoy creative LEGO fun. For ages 6 to 106. Info: 231-882-4111. Free. benzonialibrary.org

---------------------CBG MINDED MICHIGAN’DERS: 1-5pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. A Michigan based movement of musicians, instrument builders, hobbyists, fans & just plain folks with an interest in cigar box guitars, ukuleles & related creations. Free. redskystage.com

---------------------AUTHOR TALK: 3-5pm, Horizon Books, TC. Featuring Tim Rappleye, author of “Jack Parker’s Wiseguys: The National Champion BU Terriers, Blizzard of ‘78, & Road to the Miracle on Ice.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------YOUNG PEACEBUILDERS SUMMIT: 4-6pm, TC West High School, Library, TC. Special guests Dr. Michael McGill, founder of Young Peacebuilders, & local author Tim Keenan will present, & local youth club leaders will share info on their club projects.

231.499.0300.

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: (See Mon., Jan. 8)

---------------------BACK PORCH MUSIC SERIES: 6:30pm, Charlevoix Senior Center building. Enjoy music infused with folk, blues, jazz & country with Under The Moon. Featuring free soups & desserts & a circle jam following the concert. 231-622-2944. $10 per person suggested donation.

---------------------“MORNING’S AT SEVEN”: (See Fri., Jan. 12)

---------------------SUMKALI: 8pm, Cadillac Elks Club. Presented by Gopherwood Concerts, this group includes members from North & South India & the American Midwest. Their music is a mix of Indian classical music, American jazz & more. Advance tickets: $15 adults, $7 students 13-18. Door: $18 & $9. webpages. charter.net/pnbrown/schedule.htm

jan 14

sunday

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

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THE WEDDING SHOWCASE: 12-3pm, The Talcott, Village of Walloon Lake. A wedding planning event presented by Northern MI Weddings. 231-439-9361.

---------------------RACIAL PROFILING IN EASTPORT IN 1870; A FAMILY STORY: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Norton Bretz’s family has been living in Eastport for 140 years; the retired Princeton research physicist will be the speaker. Sponsored by Alden District Library/Friends of the Library.

231-331-4318.

---------------------SUNDAY SERIES: STRING TRIO: 4pm, First Presbyterian Church, Harbor Springs.

Presented by the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra. Featuring Libor Ondras, David Lockington & Dylana Jenson performing Bach, Beethoven & Mozart. 231-487-0010.

Free will donation.

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES: (See Mon., Jan. 8)

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SUNDAY FAMILY FUN SKI: Sundays, 2-3:30pm, Jan. 14 - Feb. 11. Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Rent cross country skis by donation & sign up for an instructor to guide you through the trails. Enjoy a fire & hot cocoa afterwards. 231-533-8576. grassriver.org

---------------------BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April.

Main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City. boynecitymainstreet. com/farmers-market-welcome

---------------------CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET, PETOSKEY: Fridays, 10am-1pm, upper level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This market has moved back inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

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

941-1961.

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS: The National Writers Series is inviting all area fourth & fifth graders to sign up for Battle of the Books, a free reading contest for kids living in the Grand Traverse County area. For more info & to sign up, visit: www.battleofthebooksgt.com

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: OPEN SPEAKER MEETING: Saturdays, 8pm, Munson Medical Center (basement), TC. district11-aa.org

“NEW GALLERY/NEW WORK” EXHIBITION: Jan. 12 - Feb. 22, Glen Arbor Art Association. An opening reception will be held on Fri., Jan. 12 from 6-8pm. This invitational show includes the work of 25 visual artists from Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau & Manistee counties. Two “Talk About Art” interviews with two different sets of “New Gallery/ New Works” exhibitors will be held on Jan. 21 & Feb. 11 at 2pm in the gallery. Gallery hours are 9am-2pm during the week, & 12-4pm on Sun. 231-334-6112. glenarborart.org

------------------------------------------ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: YOUNG PEOPLE’S MEETING: Fridays, 8pm, Grace Episcopal Church (basement), TC. district11-aa.org

---------------------ART PARK SNOWSHOE TOUR: Sundays, 2:30pm through Jan. 28 at Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Guided tour through Michigan Legacy Art Park to see sculptures, scenery, & maybe even some wildlife along the way. Bring your snowshoes. Free with $5 adult park admission (kids free). michlegacyartpark.org

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

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

---------------------OLD MISSION SNOWSHOE, WINE & BREW: Sundays, 11am through March 4.

Starts at Jolly Pumpkin, TC & then shuttles to Brys Estate, followed by snowshoeing to Bowers Harbor Vineyards & Jolly Pumpkin. tcbrewbus.com/events

---------------------RANGER-LED SNOWSHOE HIKE: Saturdays, 1pm through March 17. Meet at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Empire.

Snowshoes will be loaned at no charge to participants who do not have their own.

Reservations required: 231-326-4700, ext.

5010. nps.gov/slbe/index.htm

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

---------------------STORY TIME: Horizon Books, Cadillac.

Held on Wednesdays from 4-5pm. Hear a story & participate in an activity. Find on Facebook.

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

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---------------------“THE LYRICS OF BOB DYLAN”: Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. Nobel Laureate 2016. This all media exhibition runs through March. threepinesstudio.com

---------------------BLACK & WHITE WITH A LITTLE RED EXHIBIT: Jan. 9 - March 3, Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. A reception will be held on Sat., Feb. 10 from 5-7pm.

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

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Steven Spielberg is our most reliable historical interpreter. As a filmgoer, you can count on him for solid, engaging storytelling of important events that really happened.

Sometimes it’s a fictional story set inside a larger epoch (Saving Private Ryan); other times it’s a loving, interpretive look inside the mind of a singular mythic figure (Lincoln).

And he’s also the director who most speaks to our collective imagination and dreams. No one, and I do mean no one, does transportive blockbuster entertainment (Indiana Jones, E.T, Jaws) better. And with The Post we get the perfect melding of his populist adventures and historic dramas — it’s like a superhero movie for thinking adults.

And the latest McGuffin surrounding his heroes’ journeys? The Pentagon Papers.

The film is set in 1971, when the Washington Post was a respected but struggling provincial newspaper that reported on the governmental goings on in our nation’s capitol but also leaned more toward lighter gossip and society fare.

At the paper’s helm is Katherine Graham (first-time Spielberg collaborator Meryl Streep, can you believe it?), who, after being passed over by her own father, inherited the mantle upon her husband’s untimely death. Graham is preparing for the paper’s initial public offering and is besieged by doubting advisors who question her resolve at boardroom tables, where she is the only woman who gets a seat.

In the thick of Nixonian obfuscation, the Post’s executive editor Ben Bradlee (Spielberg’s most trusted herald, Tom Hanks) senses something afoot. There hasn’t been a peep heard in months from the star investigative reporter at the Post’s chief rival, The New York Times.

Sure enough, while Bradlee and his editors squabble over their paper’s lack of access to Richard Nixon’s daughter’s wedding (a harbinger of what’s to come), a bomb is dropped on The New York Times’ front page: leaked documents of an official Defense Department history of American involvement in the Vietnam War, obtained from a secret source, showing that the U.S. government has been lying to the public about our ability to win that war for decades.

These documents, and their exposure, collectively known as the Pentagon Papers, forever changed the way the American public felt about Vietnam. Hugely embarrassed, Nixon orders a federal injunction on the Times, stopping them from publishing any more of the documents.

Meanwhile, Post editor Ben Bagdikian (unsung hero Bob Odenkirk) has tracked down the leaker, Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys), and obtained over 4,000 pages of documents.

Faced with the potential destruction of her family’s legacy, possible imprisonment, and the potential death of American journalism in the face of a Supreme Court decision that

could go either way, Graham must decide whether to publish these pages or not.

And her decision is essentially what the whole film boils down to, but don’t let that make you think there’s not a lot going on here.

This is a film that trades in multitudes. There’s the timely (to say the least) parallels to today, its rousing exploration of the basic tenants and struggles of the free press, and the fact that the fate of the First Amendment hangs in the balance. Yet, the most powerful aspect of the proceedings might surprise you: It’s a woman finding her power.

Yes, it’s the arc of Katherine Graham that is the most resonant. And Streep gives her best performance in years. Diffident and anxious about her abilities in such an important role and moment, Streep brilliantly portrays a woman struggling to tap into her inherent confidence in such a vulnerable, real, and nuanced way that watching her is an utterly fulfilling and empowering experience. Plus, did I mention she rocks a mean caftan?

This is a film that practically sight unseen you might give Best Picture. (Streep! Hanks!

Spielberg! The First Amendment!) ’Cause even if it’s not the best piece of filmmaking I’ve seen this year, it’s hard to argue that there is none more vital to this moment. And that it’s also so dynamic, moving, thrilling, and suspenseful, well, it just feels like moviegoers got impossibly lucky this January.

Spielberg knows the power of his art and the strength of his platform, and responded incredibly quickly to bring this story to the screen, starting work while in post-production on his upcoming Ready Player One. When all was said and done, he went from receiving the script to final cut in fewer than nine months.

It is this sense of urgency that permeates every moment, and there’s an everyonecoming-together spirit to the film that sheds light on how he assembled such a crackerjack team that includes DP Janusz Kaminski, John Williams (score), and an incredible supporting cast featuring prestige TV luminaries like Sarah Paulson, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, and Jesse Plemons. I mean, who wouldn’t have wanted to be a part of this?

So yes, Spielberg certainly makes his intent clear and is never subtle, heading into some exceedingly on-the-nose territory, but gosh darn it, he uses that to his advantage. It never feels like a tiresome civics lesson, but rather, like exactly what we want — and need — to hear. The Post overcomes its expected tendencies with sheer exhilaration to leave you with a stirring reminder of not only of the power of journalism, but of storytelling, to inspire and ignite action.

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

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

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

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irector Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) combines his penchant for dark horror with sentimental romance in this fantastical and strange retro fable. It’s a fairy tale about a “princess without a voice,” aka mute custodian Elisa (Sally Hawkins), who falls for an amphibious man (think Creature from the Black Lagoon) being held captive at the secret government facility where she works in 1960s Baltimore. Erotic and even a little kinky, if you are at all creeped out by the thought of human-creature love, this may not be the film for you. Cause as much as you might want to be taken away by the film’s grand romance and heartrending longing, something just doesn’t click. Perhaps the film is just too gruesome, perhaps it is that as splendid as Hawkins’ performance is (you completely forget she isn’t communicating with words), it also is little too simplistic. Or that despite its heavy political and social overtones, the story is pretty thin and the water the film treads in is never as deep as it might think. It fails to deliver the transportive movie magic it so openly seeks to imitate and inspire. No, rather than being a ravishing, wondrous romance, it ends up feeling more like kissing a cold fish.

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his is not, as I had originally thought, a biopic about former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. No, the Lady Bird in question here is a Sacramento high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) preparing to take the next steps in life and butting heads with her mother (Laurie Metcalf). Yet while this film might not carry the weight of history, in the hands of Ronan and first-time solo director Greta Gerwig, this story of an everyday girl feels nothing less than monumental. Radiantly resonant and achingly relatable, the pitch perfect world of Lady Bird, is not the cutesy indie you might expect from one of our leading hipster ingénues (Gerwig being the star and co-writer of Frances Ha). Certainly indie tiny in pedigree and budget, it manages to emulate big Hollywood entertainment with just the thrill of discovering who you are. Hitting all the familiar high school notes — first love, queen bees, tests, teachers, loss of virginity, drifting away from a best friend, parties, and, yes, even prom — there is nothing revelatory about the territory covered here, yet in no way does it feel like your standard angsty coming-of-age fare. Lady Bird is riding a wave of critical praise, breaking Rotten Tomatoes’ record as the website’s best-reviewed movie of all time. And this hype has its drawbacks. It might leave you going “Oh, huh, that’s it,” and you might not find it to be the masterpiece you’ve been promise. But if you temper your expectations and allow yourself a little distance to let its unassuming magic work on you, you’ll be able to savor its simple and rich rewards.

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the ADViCE GOddESS Sleep Actually

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We have sex about once a month, if that. I’m worried that this isn’t healthy for our marriage.

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: The good news: You two are still like animals in bed. The bad news: They’re the sort on the road that have been flattened by speeding cars.

This is something to try to change, because sex seems to be a kind of gym for a healthy relationship. Clinical psychologist Anik Debrot and her colleagues note that beyond how sex “promotes a stronger and more positive connection” between partners, there’s “strong support” in the research literature for a link between “an active and satisfying sexual life and individual well-being.”

Of course, it’s possible that individuals who are happy get it on more often than those who hate their lives and each other. Also, rather obviously, having an orgasm tends to be more day-brightening than, say, having a flat tire.

However, when Debrot and her colleagues surveyed couples to narrow down what makes these people having regular sex happier, their results suggested it wasn’t “merely due to pleasure experienced during sex itself.” It seems it was the affection and loving touch (cuddlywuddlies) in bed that led couples to report increased “positive emotions and wellbeing” — and not just right afterward but for hours afterward and even into the next day.

The researchers found a longer-lasting effect, too: In a survey of 106 couples (all parents with at least one child younger than 8), the more these partners had sex over a 10-day period the greater their relationship satisfaction six months down the road. (The researchers did report a caveat: For the bump in relationship satisfaction, the sex had to be “affectionate” — as opposed to, I guess, angry sex, breakup sex, or “You don’t mind if I tweet while we’re doing it?” sex.)

My prescription for you? Have sex once a week — a frequency that research by social psychologist Amy Muise finds, for couples, is associated with greater happiness. Make time for it, the way you would if your kid needed to go to the dentist. Also, go easy on yourselves.

Consider that some sex is better than, well, “sex marathon or nuthin!”

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And then, seeing as affection and loving touch — not sexual pleasure — led to the improved mood in individuals and increased relationship satisfaction in couples, basically be handsy and cuddly with each other in daily life. Act loving and you should find yourself feeling loving — instead of, say, feeling the urge to sound off to strangers in checkout lanes that the last time anyone took an interest in your ladyparts, your health insurance company sent you a bill for the copay.

Head Over Heals

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: My boyfriend broke up with me last month. We still talk and text almost every day. We’re still connected on social media.

We’ve even had dinner twice. I feel better that he’s still in my life, even just as a friend, though we don’t work as a couple. Is this healthy, or am I prolonging some sort of grief I’m going to have to feel down the road?

--Clinging

A

: Your approach to a breakup is like having your dog die and then, instead of burying it, having it taxidermied and taking it out for “walks” in a little red wagon.

Note the helpful key word — “break” — in breakup. It suggests that when someone tells you “It’s over!” the thing you say isn’t “Okeydokey! See you tomorrow for lunch!” As painful as it is to stare into a boyfriend-shaped void in your life, continued contact is the land of false hopes — fooling you into thinking that nothing’s really changed (save for your relationship status on Facebook).

In fact, research by social psychologist David Sbarra finds that contact offline after a breakup amps up feelings of both love and sadness, stalling the healing process. Staying in touch online — or just snooping on your ex’s social media doings — appears to be even worse. For example, social psychologist Tara Marshall found that “engaging in surveillance of the expartner’s Facebook page inhibited postbreakup adjustment and growth above and beyond offline contact.”

This makes sense — as your brain needs to be retrained to stop pointing you toward your now-ex-boyfriend whenever you need love, attention, or comforting. Tell your ex you need a real break, and stick to it. Block him on social media. Drawbridge up. No contact of any kind — no matter how much you long to hear, “Hey, whatcha up to tonight? How ‘bout I come over and slow down your healing process?”

“Jonesin” Crosswords "The Somethingest of 2017"

--not good, not bad, just...something. by Matt Jones

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1 “___ Drives Me Crazy” (1989 hit) 4 Curvy letters 8 Took off on two wheels 13 Edinburgh resident 14 And nothing more 15 Lawn straightener 16 “No way” 17 Binary digits 18 Oath-taker’s prop 19 St. Vincent album on a lot of “Best of 2017” lists 22 Whitman of TV’s “Parenthood” 23 Abbr. for someone who has just a first and last name 24 Actress Sissy of “The Help” 28 ___-Lorraine (area in northeast France) 30 Thor Heyerdahl’s “___-Tiki” 32 Half of CXII 33 2017 movie that could be Daniel Day-Lewis’s last, if he sticks with retirement 37 Fuel-efficient Toyota 39 365 billion days, in astronomy 40 “Can you give me ___?”

41 Toy fad that caught on in 2017 44 Olympic gold medalist Sebastian 45 ___ moment (epiphany) 46 Depletes 49 Casual walk 52 Took in dinner (but not a movie) 53 “There ___ no words ...”

54 Major 2017 event that required special glasses 58 Parrot’s cousin 61 1998 baseball MVP Sammy 62 Fasten, in a way 63 Got up 64 Unrestrained way to run 65 RR stops 66 Tropicana’s locale 67 Cartoon skunk Le Pew 68 Go with ___ grain

1 Kristen of “The Last Man on Earth” 2 Common eight-legged pest 3 Suffixes after “twenti-”, “thirti-,” etc.

4 There were “A Few” in a 1992 film title 5 Boredom 6 Util. measured in kWh 7 Part of DOS, for short 8 Charlie Parker’s genre 9 Menzel who sang in “Frozen” 10 Soviet org. dissolved in 1991 11 Sushi selection 12 Beats by ___ (headphones brand) 13 ___ cum laude (with highest honors) 20 Protect, as with plastic 21 Ceases to exist 25 Scythes through the underbrush, perhaps 26 “Dear ___ Hansen” 27 Pirate executed in 1701 29 “I think somebody needs ___” 30 Turtle-ish enemy in Super Mario Bros.

31 Prefix meaning “all” 34 John of “Entertainment Tonight” and new age music 35 He followed a trail of breadcrumbs 36 First South Korean president Syngman ___ 37 Certain GIs 38 Laugh-out-loud type 42 6’11”, say 43 Dessert made with pecans or almonds, maybe 47 Bear-ly?

48 Clementine coats 50 Industrial city of Japan 51 Home Depot competitor 52 “The Ant and the Grasshopper” storyteller 55 “Get on it!”

56 Setting for “Julius Caesar” 57 Part of MIT 58 Dallas player, briefly 59 Overwhelming wonder 60 Gearwheel tooth

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BY ROB BREZSNY

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Three centuries ago, Capricorn genius Isaac Newton formulated principles that have ever since been fundamental to scientists’ understanding of the physical universe. He was also a pioneer in mathematics, optics, and astronomy. And yet he also expended huge amounts of time and energy on the fruitless attempt to employ alchemy to transform base metals into solid gold. Those efforts may have been interesting to him, but they yielded no lasting benefits. You Capricorns face a comparable split. In 2018, you could bless us with extraordinary gifts or else you could get consumed in projects that aren’t the most productive use of your energy. The coming weeks may be crucial in determining which way you’ll go.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Kalevala is

a 19th-century book of poetry that conveys the important mythology and folklore of the Finnish people. It was a wellspring of inspiration for English writer J. R. R. Tolkien as he composed his epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. To enhance his ability to steal ideas from The Kalevala, Tolkien even studied the Finnish language. He said it was like “entering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Pisces, in 2018 you will have the potential of discovering a source that’s as rich for you as Finnish and The Kalevala were for Tolkien.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m happy to inform

you that life is giving you permission to be extra demanding in the coming weeks -- as long as you’re not petty, brusque, or unreasonable. Here are a few examples that will pass the test: “I demand that you join me in getting drunk on the truth;” “I demand to receive rewards commensurate with my contributions;” “I demand that we collaborate to outsmart and escape the karmic conundrums we’ve gotten ourselves mixed up in.” On the other hand, Aries, ultimatums like these are not admissible: “I demand treasure and tribute, you fools;” “I demand the right to cheat in order to get my way;” “I demand that the river flow backwards.”

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): ): Are you familiar with the phrase “Open Sesame”? In the old folk tale, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” it’s a magical command that the hero uses to open a blocked cave where treasure is hidden. I invite you to try it out. It just may work to give you entrance to an off-limits or previously inaccessible place where you want and need to go. At the very least, speaking those words will put you in a playful, experimental frame of mind as you contemplate the strategies you could use to gain entrance.

And that alone may provide just the leverage you need.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If I were your mentor

or your guide, I’d declare this the Leo Makeover Season. First I’d hire a masseuse or masseur to knead you firmly and tenderly. I’d send you to the nutritionist, stylist, dream interpreter, trainer, and life coach. I’d brainstorm with the people who know you best to come up with suggestions for how to help free you from your illusions and infuse your daily rhythm with twenty percent more happiness.

I’d try to talk you out of continuing your association with anyone or anything that’s no damn good for you. In conclusion, I’d be thorough as I worked to get you unlocked, debugged, and retooled.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “It takes an

extraordinary person to carry themselves as if they do not live in hell,” says writer D. Bunyavong.

In accordance with the astrological omens, I nominate you Virgos to fit that description in the coming weeks. You are, in my estimation, as far away from hell as you’ve been in a long time. If anyone can seduce, coax, or compel heaven to come all the way down to earth for a while, it’s you. Here’s a good way to get the party started: Gaze into the mirror until you spy the eternal part of yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In accordance with

the astrological omens, I encourage you to move the furniture around. If you feel inspired, you might even want to move some of that old stuff right out the door and haul it to the dump or the thrift store. Hopefully, this will get you in the mood to launch a sweeping purge of anything else that lowers the morale and élan around the house: dusty mementoes, unflattering mirrors, threadbare rugs, chipped dishes, and numbing symbols. The time is ripe, my dear homies, to free your home of deadweight.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When he was 16

years old and living in New York, Ralph Lifshitz changed his name to Ralph Lauren. That was probably an important factor in his success.

Would he have eventually become a famous fashion designer worth $5.8 billion dollars if he had retained a name with “shitz” in it? The rebranding made it easier for clients and customers to take him seriously. With Ralph’s foresight as your inspiration, Scorpio, consider making a change in yourself that will enhance your ability to get what you want.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While thumping

around the Internet, I came across pointed counsel from an anonymous source. “Don’t enter into a long-term connection with someone until you’ve seen them stuck in traffic,” it declared.

“Don’t get too deeply involved with them until you’ve witnessed them drunk, waiting for food in a restaurant for entirely too long, or searching for their phone or car keys in a panic. Before you say yes to a deeper bond, make sure you see them angry, stressed, or scared.” I recommend that you take this advice in the coming weeks. It’ll be a good time to deepen your commitment to people who express their challenging emotions in non-abusive, non-psychotic ways.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My high school

history teacher Marjorie Margolies is now Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in law. She shares two grandchildren with Hillary Clinton. Is that something I should brag about? Does it add to my cachet or my happiness? Will it influence you to love me more? No, nah, and nope. In the big scheme of things, it’s mildly interesting but utterly irrelevant. The coming weeks will be a good time for Cancerians like you and me to renounce any desire we might have to capitalize on fake ego points like this. We Crabs should be honing our identity and self-image so they’re free of superficial measures of worth. What’s authentically valuable about you?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1956,

the prolific Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The award committee praised his “high spirit and artistic purity.” The honor was based on his last thirteen books, however, and not on his first two.

Waterlilies and Souls of Violet were works he wrote while young and still ripening. As he aged, he grew so embarrassed by their sentimentality that he ultimately tried to track down and eradicate every copy. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because I think it’s a favorable time for you to purge or renounce or atone for anything from your past that you no longer want to be defined by.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A rite of

passage lies ahead. It could and should usher you into a more soulful way of living. I’m pleased to report that this transition won’t require you to endure torment, confusion, or passiveaggressive manipulation. In fact, I suspect it could turn out to be among the most graceful ordeals you’ve ever experienced -- and a prototype for the type of breakthrough that I hope will become standard in the months and years to come. Imagine being able to learn valuable lessons and make crucial transitions without the prod of woe and gloom. Imagine being able to say, as musician P.J. Harvey said about herself, “When I’m contented, I’m more open to receiving inspiration.

I’m most creative when I feel safe and happy.”

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