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letters Email info@northernexpress.com and hit send! OUR SIMPLE RULES: Keep your letter to 300 words or less, send no more than one per month, include your name/address/phone number, and agree to allow us to edit. That’s it. Second Amendment Show The Second Amendment sanctuary show played at the recent Grand Traverse County Board meeting. The show is sponsored by ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) and the NRA. An assortment of Proud Boys occupied the first row of seating, busily gathering video on everyone. I guess this will be forwarded to Virginia Thomas (S.C. Justice Thomas’ spouse) for inclusion in the enemies list she is compiling for the president. Center stage was Larry Bishop from Antrim County, who promotes this divisive nonsense. GT Commission Chair Hentschel generously granted Larry 20 minutes of time to speak. Interestingly, tax paying Grand Traverse County residents were cautioned to use only three minutes to present their concerns. Our Antrim County guest handed out some written material to our county commissioners which pertained to the subject. Grand Traverse County residents were not made party to this information. So goes transparency on legislative boards these days. Bishop presented the usual Second Amendment promotional screed of false equivalencies and circular arguments. I was shocked to learn how firearms owners are so threatened by any regulation pertaining to all those innocent guns which don’t kill people. The commissioners were repeatedly reminded that this was the third or fourth divisive, partisan, political cause they have promoted since 2018. This was ignored, as the board passed their version of the sanctuary measure, but removed the word “sanctuary” to make the measure less apparent. Perhaps our board will eventually start paying attention to issues they were elected to address. However, don’t hold your breath, it’s an election year. These commissioners need to burnish their conservative bona fides. John M. Gerty, Jr., Williamsburg Our Vote Is Our Power According to a PEW report, only four out of 10 people voted in 2016. Why did so many not vote? Some would say they didn’t support either candidate. Some may have been disenfranchised by voter purges. Others may feel their vote would not matter. It seems that many Americans have become apathetic. They show little interest in the election process because they think the outcome will make no difference in their lives, that the government does not work for them. Since Citizens United vs FEC, the Supreme Court decision that allows corporations to pour unlimited money into political advertising, it’s become clear that money has an outsized influence on elections and in legislation. Policies are put in place that increase the wealth and power of the elite, while the needs of ordinary citizens and the protection of our vulnerable environment are ignored.

The 2020 election may be the most important in recent history. Unless we act, we could be facing a future of authoritarian rule, where autocracy trumps the rule of law. The “checks and balances” written into our constitution have become unchecked and unbalanced. Failure to act to remove this administration will be viewed as moral weakness or indulgence. Voting is our civic and moral duty. Each of us must participate and use the power of our vote to reclaim our democracy. Maggie Singer. Elmwood Twp Vote Him Out Congressman Bergman, your duty is to oversee the president. Start doing your job. He is a bully and demagogue and wants to run our country single-handedly. You have been put in office to represent the people and not just follow 45 blindly. You have a duty to speak out. His words are atrocious, his tweets are despicable and most of the public is against his policies, especially those harmful to the underserved and our environment. He says we have Covid19 “under control.” Really? And this is just one of his many lies. We should be able to trust our president, not this president. He doesn’t know how to say truths and the Coronavirus is one issue so important. He is steering our country to feel safe. We are not safe. He is only thinking of his re-election and has been since 2017, at our expense no less. Never have I seen anything like this in our WH! Well, this particular lie is going to bite him in the a**. We will be voting him out of our WH! Do your job. Speak up for our democracy. It is your duty. Roberta Meserve, Lake Ann Tuttle And Democratic Socialism I appreciate the generally well-reasoned columns of Stephen Tuttle. His piece in the Feb. 17 issue showed great insight into the irrational thinking of individuals who cling to guns under the illusion that they provide personal security from imagined threats. I must, however, question suppositions Mr. Tuttle made in his column on the Democratic campaigns for the presidency when he calls democratic socialism an oxymoron. Is he not aware of the political systems in place in Denmark, Sweden and Norway? Some members of the British Commonwealth nations that are also inarguably democracies operate with policies that could be deemed socialist in that they levy taxes on the most well off to provide social services to citizens in need. These countries are some of the most prosperous and peaceful on earth and provide their citizens with a very high quality of life. Mr. Tuttle then goes on to question the plausibility of Bernie Sanders’s aspirations on the basis of their costs, after stating that part of Sander’s plans is to reduce the outrageous sums spent on defense and increase taxes on those most able to contribute. I will admit that the current primary competition is chaotic and divisive. It can be painful to witness. Many people are digging deep to find the worst possible transgressions of each candidate. That said, this is a crucial time in our history. The November elections will be a turning point for the survival of democracy. No matter what the flaws, no matter how we disagree with aspects of a candidate’s platform, we must unite behind whichever Democrat wins the nomination. Vote blue no matter who!

Worthless Whenever I’m up here in the 231, I flip through your commie rag. All I would say is…it’s pretty worthless, but maybe good to wrap fish? On second thought, not even good to wrap fish. The Trumpster in a landslide in 2020, and thank God. Oh and PS...no surprise that your commie rag is free. Not cheap enough! Lolololololol. George Peter Block, Jr., Park Ridge, Illinois I Remember At this time in our history we are as divided a country as in at least the last 50 years. On the left, we have some of our leaders who think we should all have free health care and a free education. I’m a liberal and that’s a bit too far for me. On the right, we have a system in place where the largest corporation in the world, Amazon, worth a trillion dollars and made billions in profit and paid no federal taxes! This bothers me much than more than what the Democrats are proposing. I’m among the lower middle class of this great country and I paid over nine percent of my pay to the federal government. So Amazon pays nothing in federal taxes and I pay over nine percent? How does that happen? in 2017 the Republicans & President Trump passed a huge tax cut for the rich. I still remember Republican senators and congressmen standing on the steps of the Senate cheering and laughing and patting themselves on the back for passing that bill. Yes, I remember that well and will remember it in November.

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

Anti Viral..........................................................10 Lucky Streak...................................................13 Strange Brew.................................................16 It Takes Two to Brew..........................................18

dates................................................20-23 music Nightlife.........................................................27 columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................5

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion..............................................................8 Weird................................................................9 Film................................................................25 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................26 Advice..........................................................28 Crossword...................................................28 Freewill Astrology..........................................29 Classifieds..................................................30

Jeff Walker, Petoskey Health Care Costs An Epidemic As the contest for the Democratic nomination goes on, we are hearing from pundits and candidates that we really can’t ever afford universal health care. One wonders how it is, then, that every other wealthy country does it and spends far less than we do. They also enjoy better results, with healthier populations and often greater longevity. One consequence of the pathetic system of health care that we have, with its high premiums, soaring deductibles, network limitations, and huge pharmaceutical costs, is that we are badly prepared for the spreading coronavirus. This is not just a matter of lacking the requisite number of masks or test kits. Far too many people will not seek testing when they have symptoms because they can’t afford a single visit to the emergency room. Lack of paid sick leave (something also guaranteed in many wealthy countries) will also limit their willingness to self-quarantine if symptoms are mild. Some of the people tested and quarantined are already facing thousands of dollars in medical bills. With infectious viruses, the conservative position that health care is a matter of personal responsibility rather than collective responsibility is suicidal. With an estimated death rate from the highly contagious virus of 3.4 percent, the dead will include both rich and poor. We need to get over the idea that rugged individualism is the solution to every problem. Alice Littlefield, Omena

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top ten Bayside Development Proposed

A three-story, mixed-used apartment building and parking deck has been proposed for the edge of downtown Petoskey, overlooking Little Traverse Bay. Petoskey’s city council heard a presentation about the Bay Street Development at its March 2 meeting. The building would include two floors of 650-square-foot, one-bedroom apartments over a ground floor that would include space for a restaurant, an exercise facility and a meeting room. The project would include a two-level parking deck topped with a pedestrian plaza. Mayor John Murphy said city council will take up the proposed development at its next meeting. He said his impression of the project is positive and that he thinks the rental apartments and rooftop plaza – which would be open to the public – would be great for Petoskey.

leapin’ leprechaun Wear your green for the 10th Annual Fifth Third Bank Leapin’ Leprechaun 5K on Sat., March 14 at 9am in TC’s Warehouse District. This fun run/walk includes a post-race party at The Workshop Brewing Co. The race fee is $35. leapinleprechauntc.com

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The Glass Hotel

When we first meet Vincent, she’s an amateur videographer and part-time bartender at Vancouver Island’s haughty Hotel Caiette. Fast-forward three years, and Vincent has vanished — flung from a container ship into the midst of the Mauritanian sea. The root of her ruin? No one knows for sure. Could her stint as trophy wife to New York Ponzi scheme kingpin Johnathan Alkaitis be to blame? Perhaps it was Paul, her eccentric half-brother. Or maybe Leon Prevant, the company account executive, has answers. We sure do, but we’ll never tell! From literary liege Emily St. Vincent Mandel comes modern-day ghost story “The Glass Hotel.” In the long-awaited follow-up to her 2014 bestseller, “Station Eleven,” Mandel’s newest novel skillfully blurs the boundaries of storytelling until real life and literature seem one and the same.

tastemaker Samosa & Aloo Gobi An inviting aroma drifts from an unassuming kiosk in the Grand Traverse Mall food court. Behind the counter, Golam Rabbani and his staff urge passersby to sample a Taste of India. They’ll happily describe the colorful dishes on offer: dal, chana masala, basmati rice, naan, biryani — all the classic staples. “This is the traditional food of the common people,” Rabbani said, but the flavors at Taste of India are uncommonly bold. Originally from Bangladesh, Rabbani and his wife Jina honed their gracious cooking for family and friends years before opening the restaurant this January. Jina is the biryani specialist, offering both a chicken and vegetarian version of the fragrant rice dish. Chefs Sharif and Brent are busy behind the scenes keeping up with orders streaming in from online. On our visit, we chose the Samosa, a flaky crust pocket filled with spiced potato and green peas, served with a tart, sweet tamarind sauce. To accompany, we went for the Aloo Gobi, a cauliflower & potato medley with onion, clove, fennel, turmeric, sautéed in mustard oil. As an entrée, it’s served with basmati rice, naan, and salad for $12. The vibrant yellow cauliflower is beautifully seasoned, gently spicy, and toothsome since it’s cooked fresh throughout the day. Dine beside the food-court carousel or go for takeout. Call (929) 346-2210 or order via GrubHub.com & DoorDash.com for delivery options.

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Traverse City’s Ironman Popular Among Racers

The 2019 Ironman 70.3 Traverse City may have irked some Leelanau County residents who were inconvenienced by road closures during the event, but it scored big in a survey of participants. The Traverse City event was among the top 10 best-scoring events among the year’s 113 Ironman races worldwide, according to the Ironman Group. In the 2019 Athlete Choice Awards, Traverse City ranked first in the category of “would recommend to a friend,” third in “overall swim experience,” sixth in “overall host city experience,” and 10th in “overall venue experience.” The rankings come from surveys completed by athletes after they competed in a race. The second Ironman 70.3 Traverse City is scheduled to take place Aug. 30.

Stuff we love ST. PAT’S POETRY Who doesn’t like a good limerick? And if it celebrates the Irish, even better. That’s the premise of “Create a Limerick for St. Paddy’s Day” at AuSable Artisan Village, 219 Michigan Avenue, in Grayling. Artist, freelance writer, and limericker (limerickist?) Cathy Lester will lead the class in creating humorous fiveline poems. Artisan Village debuted nine years ago, in the former Ben Franklin store space, as an artists’ gallery and resource for the creative economy. Director Terry Dickinson said its success — over $150,000 in sales of art last year — has helped revitalize downtown Grayling. The limerick class takes place March 14 from 1:30pm to 3pm. Cost is $10; go to www. aavart.com and click on classes or call (989) 745-6096.

Luck o’ the Boating Ladies Summer is coming, and the blue waters will beckon. Safety is paramount when out on the lakes and with that in mind, Irish Boat Shop is hosting “Ladies at the Helm: Safety Gear” at its Traverse City location March 19. The company’s monthly program is geared toward introducing, educating, and empowering women in the boating world. Each evening kicks off at 5:30pm with a hands-on knot-tying lesson. It’s followed by a 20–30 minute “chalk talk” and wraps up with time for socializing or more discussion. The company will send attendees on their way with materials and additional resources. Each differently themed event in the series takes place the third Thursday of the month, alternating among the Harbor Springs, Charlevoix, and Traverse City locations. Previous evenings have focused on engines, navigation, and tying (and untying) knots. Snacks are provided, and attendees can BYOB. Find Irish Boat Shop at 2155 US 31 N., Traverse City; learn more at www.IrishBoatShop.com.

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Bottoms up Long Road Grand Absinthe Said to cause hallucinations and possibly violent behavior, absinthe was banned in the U.S. and abroad for nearly 100 years. Kyle VanStrien, co-founder of Long Road Distillers, never gave credence to the tales, and when the anise-flavored liquor was legalized in 2007, one of his distillers came to him with a recipe. He gave it the go-ahead, and the result is available at its Boyne City location, as well Grand Rapids and Grand Haven. He’s even provided a recipe, the Corpse Reviver No. 2, made with the cloudy green spirit. Available at Long Road Distillery, 118 Water St, Boyne City.

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PRETTY GOOD ODDS spectator by Stephen Tuttle We are quick to assume the worst and equally quick to panic.

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SPRING CARNIVAL! March 14th brings live music, lighting up the grill and fun competitions! Enjoy a slopeside DJ dance party and BBQ, plus the always anticipated Cardboard Classic Sled Race, followed by the splash and spills of the Slush Cup. Help us celebrate spring with $10 off window lift tickets if you dress in luau attire! See CrystalMountain.com/Events for details.

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The latest example is the novel coronavirus now circling the globe. It requires caution and some preparedness – but not the frenzied response we’re now seeing. Ably abetted by attention-seeking politicians and overly dramatic headlines, we’ve decided the end times are nigh. The stock market, now driven more by crises and fear than anything resembling value, was especially panicky. It wasn’t the first time. There are currently about 90,000 worldwide cases of this bug with about 3,000 deaths. It has spread to 64 countries and every continent but Antarctica. At least 92 Americans have been sickened; nine have died. All of these numbers

We’ve done this before. In 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), another coronavirus that started in China, caused grave concern. There were eight cases in the U.S. Then there was the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2012 that started in Saudi Arabia and infected all of two people here. It still pops up occasionally. The Ebola outbreak of 2013 caused some worldwide panic and it was nasty business, infecting more than 28,000 people, mostly in West Africa, and killing more than 11,300. Here? We had 11 cases and two deaths.

Still, the hand sanitizer was a wise purchase; it might help protect you from our annual, real pandemic – the seasonal flu. The U.S. has had 30 million cases this season with 18,000 deaths. The global death toll could exceed 600,000. will have increased, perhaps exponentially, by the time you read this. Still, President Trump is right that the risk is very low. Even if the numbers of U.S. cases balloon into the thousands, the risk will remain low. This isn’t the Spanish flu that had a fatality rate of more than 33%, killing 50 million people, including 675,000 Americans in 1918-1919. Even if you are unfortunate enough to be one of the few that contracts the illness, the survival rate is about 98%. We don’t have an effective anti-viral medication, but we do have all manner of other treatments should hospitalization be required. But Trump was wildly wrong calling it a hoax, his go-to comeback to most everything, nor was it helpful when he claimed we’d come up with a vaccine “very quickly.” He should have listened to the experts telling him a vaccine, under ideal circumstances, takes 12-18 months before it’s ready to be used on the public. Sometimes science comes in real handy in these situations. Some of the criticism now being leveled at Trump can be justified. His repeated attempts to strip away funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) communicable diseases efforts have not been helpful. His elimination of a communicable disease czar position left us less prepared for an outbreak. But the real culprit here is China, which waited nearly a month before taking any action other than punishing those sounding the alarm. By the time they got around to taking action – they now have 65 million people quarantined at home – the virus was already on the loose. Despite the minuscule numbers, Americans were quick to respond to the dire headlines. Stores quickly ran out of hand sanitizers and

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folks stripped the shelves of masks that apparently have little preventative benefit. The overreaction has been impressive.

There was the swine flu epidemic of 20092010. Nearly 61 million people worldwide were infected, including 575,000 Americans, and 12,500 people around the world died. But we have more deaths here every year from garden variety seasonal flu. In each of those examples there was a certain amount of American hysteria despite the very remote possibility of any but a few of us being infected. Politicians are particularly good at fomenting this nonsense by hurling accusations of incompetence at anyone in positions of authority not in their political party. Republicans now crying about Democrats politicizing the current outbreak should go back and take a look at what they said about Barack Obama during the Ebola outbreak. When coronavirus spreads in the U.S. (as it inevitably will) the criticism and complaining about the criticism will just get worse. It’s an election year so somebody has to be blamed for everything. It’s clear we could have had stronger infrastructure in place at the CDC. That’s on President Trump and his ill-advised personnel decisions. It’s not clear if we should have/ could have done more as the outbreak started; it was already spreading before we knew it existed. Better testing, quicker results and immediate quarantine or isolation, usually at home, is how we’ll stop it. There are more than 327 million people in the U.S. and about 100 infected people. Our odds of avoiding it are pretty good. Still, the hand sanitizer was a wise purchase; it might help protect you from our annual, real pandemic – the seasonal flu. The U.S. has had 30 million cases this season with 18,000 deaths and the global death toll could exceed 600,000. Could be we’re concerned about the wrong virus.

Crime & Rescue FACEBOOK FIGHT LEADS TO SHOOTING An argument on Facebook spilled into real life, leading to a fight and shots fired in Cadillac. Cadillac Police officers were dispatched March 3 at 1:30pm to a home on Lynn Street to investigate after gunshots rang out through the neighborhood. Investigators determined that a 36-year-old McBain man was upset over an argument on Facebook and that he had traveled to Cadillac to confront the 33-year-old who lived at the address. The suspect waved around a handgun before he put it away and fought with the younger man; when the fight broke up and the 33-year-old went inside, the suspect shot the tires on the resident’s car before he drove off, Capt. Eric Eller said. Missaukee County Sheriff’s deputies tracked down the suspect in McBain and arrested him after a brief chase through the woods. MAN CUT AMID ARGUMENT ABOUT NAZIS A 24-year-old Traverse City man faces felonious assault charges after he allegedly attacked a man who challenged his Nazi views. Dakotah Gene Tarrant, who is described as homeless in court records, invited a man into his room at a Traverse City motel and began to tell him about the Aryan Nation. When the other man responded by saying, “F--- you and your Nazi agenda,” Tarrant allegedly put a knife to the man’s throat, cutting him, and he told him that if he went to the police, “they” would kill him, according to the charges. Tarrant fled afterward; the other man needed five stitches. The incident occurred Feb. 24. Police later arrested Tarrant, who was arraigned March 4.

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Albrecht, 22, and Darren Andrew Robinson, 19, each faces delivery and conspiracy charges. ‘ORGANIZED’ SHOPLIFTERS BUSTED Two suspects were jailed on “organized retail crime” charges following a sting operation by Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies. Walmart security called police Feb. 29 after numerous electronics were stolen from the Garfield Township store. Detectives tracked down some of the stolen property for sale online and they arranged to meet the suspects in Williamsburg on March 1. Deputies intercepted the suspects on M-72, pulled over their moving truck, arrested two suspects, and recovered a cache of allegedly stolen property. Detectives are still trying to locate the owners of some of the property they recovered. They believe some of the property was stolen from seasonal homes or storage units in Traverse City and Antrim County. The suspects are 35-year-old Michael Steven Magee and 30-year-old Karen Lee Varney, a couple who have recently been living in various motels across northern Michigan. Both suspects face charges of organized retail crime, receiving and concealing stolen property, and possession of methamphetamine. Magee also faces charges of possession of burglary tools and being a two-time habitual offender.

POLICE: MAN DEALT METH FROM MOTEL Police arrested a man accused of selling methamphetamine out of a Petoskey hotel room. Undercover officers from Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement arranged to purchase some of the drug from 20-year-old Michael Charles Martin, who had been staying in a Bear Creek Township hotel room. After the sale, police pulled over Martin’s vehicle and officers seized cash and methamphetamine. More drugs were found in a search of Martin’s hotel room, according to a press release. Martin faces up to 20 years in prison on delivery of meth charges. SIX MILE RUN ENDS IN ARREST State police tracked a fleeing suspect who ran six miles through the snow and arrested him at a gas station near Cadillac. The case began Feb. 28 at 11pm when troopers attempted to pull over a vehicle for an equipment violation on US-131 near M-115, according to a press release. The vehicle pulled into the Clam Lake Rest Area and the suspect fled on foot into the woods.

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WOMAN JAILED FOR BAT ATTACK A 28-year-old Gaylord woman was charged after she allegedly attacked a man with an aluminum bat. Megan Michelle Duby faces felonious assault and domestic violence charges after state police were called August 28 at 10pm to her home in Bagley Township to investigate a fight. The victim told troopers that he got into an argument with Duby. When it escalated, she attacked him with a bat, according to a press release. KNIFE-WIELDING NEIGHBOR ARRESTED Traverse City Police arrested a 61-year-old man after he knocked on a neighbor’s door, demanded some money he said he was owed and waved around a knife. Officers responded to a home on the 200 block of Tenth Street at 1am on March 1 after the 70-year-old homeowner called 911 and the suspect fled, Lt. Erich Bohrer said. Bohrer didn’t know how much money was demanded, but he said none was handed over and no one was hurt. “He demanded money and they did not give him money and he left,” Bohrer said. Officers tracked down the suspect at his home, where he was found to be intoxicated and he was arrested on felonious assault charges. ALLEGED COCAINE HOUSE RAIDED Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement officers raided a home on Alanson where they said cocaine was stored and sold. The February raid followed a four-month investigation and led to the arrests of three Alanson residents, according to a press release. Brett Eric Williams, 21, Adam Nicholas

Police tracked 20-year-old Justin David Atkins for six miles until he was spotted at Beacon and Bridge gas station on M-115. He was arrested after a short foot chase. The Jackson man had alcohol in his system and a suspended license. He was arrested for fleeing and eluding, among other charges.

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THE SPIREA QUESTION For Traverse City area news and events, visit TraverseTicker.com

opinion bY Grant Parsons Someday – hopefully – my spirit will be lounging under a spirea hedge in Sunset Park and a dog will sense it and (as dogs do) lift a leg and water it. Before then, of course, there are two metaphysical predicates (me dying, me having a spirit) and a physical predicate (a spirea hedge in Sunset Park.) Alas … the spirea hedge I would lounge beneath eternal is missing.

It bloomed for decades but was trimmed in the early 2000s. That bothered me but I accepted it. Passing by a few years later, I noticed the spirea was entirely gone. I thought about doing something, but again accepted.

I said, “It’s ash, not corporeal. Legally, cremains are the same sort of stuff that came out of TC Light & Power’s smokestack for years. My kids can spread my ashes like apple seed!”

“I want the spirea back and I want all thunder-boats out of the park!” Pregnant pause. Two days later they called back and admitted cutting the hedge, but insisted it was legal because it was on motel property.

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Unlike politics and religion and other such theoretical human notions, property lines actually do exist. I hired a surveyor to stake the property line between Holiday Inn and Sunset Park, and sure enough, the pinktaped survey stakes confirmed the spirea hedge had been on parkland. Survey stakes! My phone rang. It was the Holiday Inn demanding I take down the pink-taped survey stakes “immediately” because a news reporter had inquired whether the motel was for sale, and the motel didn’t want “that gossip.” Enlivened by his demanding attitude, I replied, “Those stakes are on public parkland, just like that spirea hedge you cut and I won’t remove them!” My phone rang again, city government calling. I do not know why city government – the spirea’s rightful owner and steward – would side with the motel. I told him I was considering a lawsuit to vindicate the spirea. He said, “Aw c’mon!”

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I called my attorney and asked her to add a codicil to my will: “The decedent’s ashes shall be spread under the spirea hedge at Sunset Park.” I called back city government to announce I now had a particularized legal interest in the spirea, because my heirs were required to spread me under the spirea, and if there were no spirea they couldn’t do their duty. Trumpets might have sounded in my voice.

This time I did something. I called the motel to complain.

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How could I create a particularized interest in a non-existent spirea hedge?

The location of the missing spirea hedge – Sunset Park – is a small, oak tree-shaded lot on the approach to downtown, a defiant green postage stamp-sized space between the Holiday Inn and Hagerty Center. As a boy, I waded and swam there; during Cherry Festival I watched the fireworks there. Back then, the luxuriant spirea hedge bloomed brilliant white on the west boundary.

Then one day, there were thunder-boats on trailers backed into the park where the spirea had bloomed. I was shocked at the notion that spirea had been destroyed so motel customers could park thunder-boats on public parkland.

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City government apparently got some legal advice and called again. He said something like, under Michigan law I couldn’t sue for the spirea because I didn’t have legal standing, a particularized interest in the spirea.

He said, “You can’t bury your remains on public property.”

I know you think this is a stupid story: Spirea, survey stakes, law, ashes and apple seed. But this is what I think: Cutting a spirea hedge so idiots can park their thunder-boats on parkland is stupider! Weeks later, driving by Sunset Park, I noticed a thin line of freshly-planted twigish sticks that could only be described as scraggly-ass, where the hedge had been. Was it spirea? No. But city government had planted something someone might call “a possible hedge.” They threw me a bone, and sometimes you take the bone and wag your tail. Years later, in the engloomed winter of 2019, I drove past Sunset Park and notice the twigish plants are dead and gone. There atop that ground where spirea bloomed are huge, dirt-smeared snow piles, pushed from the motel parking lot into Sunset Park. Perhaps due to winter’s gloom, perhaps due to the magnifying effect of time on principles, the memory of spirea unsettles me. Blossoms like spirea are markers of one’s belief. Just think of Whitman’s lilacs! As anyone who’s read The Little Prince knows, belief needs tending. Some people tend belief with fine print on legal paper, some with pussy hats, some with spray paint, some like Greta Thunberg with magic marker signs. Whatever the medium, we know that absent tending, belief is replaced by something scraggly-ass and dies. For me, the spirea question looms like a Russell Chatham landscape, something indistinct but unmistakable. I sit in the winter of 2019, ruminating on the dirtsmeared snow piles where spirea once on parkland bloomed, and I ask myself, “What should I do? Do I dare? Do I dare?” Grant Parsons is an attorney and a native of TC.

The Continuing Crisis A rider on the New York City subway employed a novel way of protecting his personal space on Feb. 7, Fox News reported. The seated passenger removed a bottle of ketchup from his bag and squirted a squiggly perimeter on the floor around his seat, apparently hoping to keep fellow straphangers away. Twitter erupted with funny comments after one user posted a photo: “Gotta protect yourself from the mustard demons they can’t cross the barrier” and “What brand of ketchup though?” New York City Transit got a taste of the problem and promised to clean it up right away. The Litigious Society Lacie the Norwegian Forest cat is at the center of a heated two-year dispute in Brewerton, New York, that has now gone to state Supreme Court. Original owner Carol Money accuses adoptive owner Danette Romano of refusing to let Lacie sleep in bed with her, a key provision that Money says was in the adoption agreement both parties signed in April 2018. Syracuse.com reported that according to the lawsuit, Money regularly visited Lacie in her new home after the adoption and found the cat to be skittish and fearful, and became very upset after Romano’s husband allegedly admitted, “We don’t let Lacie sleep with us.” By Dec. 20, tensions had increased to the point that Romano complained to the Onondaga County Sheriff ’s office and had her lawyer send Money a letter ordering her to stop contacting Romano. Money’s lawsuit accuses Romano of breach of contract and lying about her intention to let Lacie sleep in her bed, and demands the return of the cat. Unclear on the Concept In a report published on Feb. 18, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reveals school districts struggling to comply with the state’s requirement that every school have “a good guy with a gun” are challenged to find enough qualified applicants. Among recent hiccups: Near Orlando, a safe-school officer sent her husband a nude video she recorded in a school bathroom while on her lunch break. In Hillsborough County, a school guardian thought her gun was unloaded when she shot through a mirror as she practiced in front of it for her firearms certification. Another officer pawned his service weapon and ballistic vest; his supervisor discovered he was carrying a pellet gun in his holster. Bob Gualtieri, sheriff in Pinellas County, remarked: “The reality is there is no perfect in the world.” The Entrepreneurial Spirit The Spanish Civil Guard raided an underground cigarette factory on Feb. 13 and 14 in the southern province of Malaga and found a facility with a complete production line capable of producing 3,500 cigarettes an hour as well as beds and living quarters for the workers, the Associated Press reported. Access to the plant, located 13 feet under a horse stable, was disguised by a cargo container. Twenty people, from the U.K., Ukraine and Lithuania, were arrested, said police, and more than 3 million cigarettes, some hashish and marijuana, as well as weapons, were seized. Clever Vincent Putrino, captain of the crosscountry/track and field team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and his teammates, craved Chick-fil-A for lunch on Feb. 22, but the only location closer than an hour and a half away was at the Albany International

Airport -- beyond the security checkpoint. So, reported News10, the 18 teammates pooled their money (about $5.50 each), bought a oneway ticket to Fort Lauderdale, Florida ($98, the cheapest they could find), and sent Putrino in to collect the bounty. Putrino purchased $227 worth of food, then left the airport and joined his teammates for their midday meal. Old Story, New Twist An Oklahoma City homeowner hearing noises in his attic suspected squirrels might have gotten in, but when he went to inspect, he found instead ... a man, lying on a mattress. KOCO News reported on Feb. 28 the unnamed homeowner called 911 and reported a “stranger in my house. ... I have a gun on him right now.” Police responding to the call told reporters “there was actually somebody that appeared to have taken up residence in (the) attic,” and the home has a staircase “that goes up the side of the house with attic access.” The homeowner escorted the squatter at gunpoint to the driveway, where officers were waiting. Oops! Dylan Bryant found more adventure than he expected on Feb. 23 as he explored a bayou in southwest Houston. Bryant told KTRK his exploration took him about 100 yards down a sewer line before he became trapped. “I can’t go back because of how I had to scooch through,” Bryant said. “I’m in the middle of raw, open sewage in this little bitty box.” From under the street, Bryant yelled for help and a man heard him, then asked a passerby to call 911. Firefighters arrived and pulled Bryant out of his smelly predicament.

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It’s a Mystery The Smith family of Lockport, Illinois, has a perplexing extra feature in their house that has occasionally kept the family up at night for about six years: “There are voices in the wall, and I don’t know what it is,” 9-year-old Brianna Smith told WLS. Music and talk radio emanate from the walls in Brianna’s room in the middle of the night, but the family can’t figure out why. There are no speakers in the walls, Brianna’s father, Richard, said, and attempts by police to uncover the source were unsuccessful. The Federal Communications Commission couldn’t help either. Richard Smith believes something in the wall is receiving a signal from one of the six radio towers near the home, but an engineer sent to the home from one of the stations told him: “I got to be honest with you, I don’t know what is acting as a speaker.” The Smiths have been advised to hire an engineer to pinpoint the signal and block it, but in the meantime, Brianna falls asleep in her parents’ room. Anger Management Ypsilanti, Michigan, police were called to an apartment complex on Jan. 16, where they found a 23-year-old man smoking a cigarette and pressing a bloody towel to his side, MLive reported. The man told officers his partner, 28-year-old Neil Patrick Wasinski, known as Nalla and referred to as “she” in court records, attacked him with a 21-inch samurai sword because he didn’t buy her any marijuana. The attack resulted in multiple stab wounds to the man’s arm and torso, and one of his lungs collapsed, according to police. Tracked down at her apartment, Wasinski told police to “please go away” and later claimed to have no memory of the incident. Police found a blood-stained 21-inch katana on Wasinski’s bedroom floor, according to their report, and she was charged with assault and resisting arrest.

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Health officials in northern Michigan are gearing up for the arrival of COVID-19, a.k.a. coronavirus. As of press time there were still no confirmed cases, but health professionals and others across the region are preparing for it By Patrick Sullivan ‘Prepared, not Panicked’ Many people never have to worry about what a local health department does – until a pandemic is declared. Local health departments are tasked with outbreak prevention and coordinating a response should one arise. They could be the difference between a contained outbreak and a widespread one. Northwest lower Michigan’s health departments include the Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department, the Grand Traverse County Health Department and the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, which includes Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet and Otsego counties. Lisa Peacock, who serves as the health officer for Benzie-Leelanau and the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, said annual preparations for the flu virus made health departments ready for COVID-19. Because there is no vaccine for COVID-19, the first task of health departments is to inform residents about preventative measures they can take to avoid catching the virus. That’s why you’ve already heard so many times – and you will continue to hear for the foreseeable future – about the critical importance of washing your hands, being careful when you sneeze, not touching your

face, keeping a “social distance” from others and staying home when you are sick. Other messages over the past week include preparation and not panicking; about being ready for the worst and hoping for the best. COVID-19 reminds many healthcare veterans of the 2009 H1N1 virus, though COVID-19 has already proven more lethal.

Staff at Munson are busy preparing for the arrival of COVID-19 amid a lot of uncertainty, but they are not panicking. Locals should not panic either, Nefcy said. “We want people to understand that there are things they can do to prepare and that we as a health system are prepared,” she said. “And there is no reason to panic.”

“As a hospital, we have a committee that meets daily to prepare for the inevitable. With coronavirus, we understand that it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.” – Amy Milbrandt, infection preventionist at McLaren Northern Michigan Despite that concern, Peacock said local health officials are not panicking. “I think we have a level of concern that is appropriate. You know, we always hope that it doesn’t happen, but we prepare for the worst,” she said. “The difference between this illness and the H1N1, which was a large pandemic, is that we had a vaccine for that illness and for this one we don’t, and so things like isolation and quarantine will be more important in this scenario than it was during that scenario.” The “don’t panic” sentiment was echoed by Christine Nefcy, MD, Munson Healthcare’s chief medical officer.

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Battling an ‘Infodemic’ at the Library At the Traverse Area District Library main branch, Director Michele Howard said she decided to have staff stringently sterilize surfaces in an effort to keep the building virus-free. TADL will also attempt to sort out true and false information about COVID-19. The virus may not have reached Michigan by press time, but there has already been an outbreak of misinformation. “It’s just everywhere,” Howard said. “The (World Health Organization) is actually calling it an ‘infodemic.’” Viral conspiracy theories that have

proved false include one that COVID-19 spawned after someone ate a bat in China. Another surfaced that the disease was created in a laboratory as a means to control population. Howard said people need to be able to discern falsehoods from the truth as we face a potential pandemic. “We’re just going to put it on our social media and maybe have it sitting around the library,” she said. “We’re educating all the staff about it.” In addition, Howard instituted rigorous surface cleaning throughout the library. Libraries serve as important public spaces, and Howard said she does not want to have to be forced to close. “Actually, a patron said, ‘What are you doing? You have to keep this library open!’” said Howard. “And I said, ‘We’re already there. We’re disinfecting everything.’” What if I Get Sick, But I Don’t Have Insurance? Lack of health insurance should not deter people who get serious COVID-19 symptoms from seeking help, said Peacock. Health departments have resources for people who can’t afford healthcare, she said. “One of the roles of the public health department is to ensure that vulnerable populations have what they need to have good health, and one of those things is

access to health insurance,” Peacock said. “If people are afraid to go to the doctor because they don’t have insurance or afraid to go to the emergency room, absolutely they could reach out to the health departments as well, so that we could assist them with resources or give them direction.” Quiet on the Senior Front The place that serves the elderly segment of the population, which is most at risk from COVID-19, also seems to be one of the most nonchalant. That’s because COVID-19 spreads a lot like influenza, another deadly threat to this population, and visitors and operators at the Grand Traverse County Senior Center in Traverse City already had to be vigilant about the spread of the flu. “We don’t do anything different here than what we do every year for flu season,” said Lori Wells, senior center network manager. “It’s a dangerous time of year every year for us.” That means staff and guests are instructed to wash their hands, cover their coughs, and, perhaps the tallest order, to stay home if they don’t feel well. “Probably the hardest thing for us is getting people to stay home if they don’t feel good,” Wells said. Since COVID-19 appears to pose a threat that is business as usual for the seniors, Wells said she hasn’t sensed that many people have gotten too worried about it. “I’m not hearing anything differently,” she said. “So far, it’s been a pretty quiet season for us, even with the flu virus.” Keeping Safe Harbor a Safe Harbor The beginning of March may mark the beginning of the end of the season at Safe Harbor, Traverse City’s cold-weather homeless shelter. But this year it also marked ramped up efforts to ensure there isn’t a COVID-19 virus outbreak at the crowded facility. Lynn Swan, a doctor and Safe Harbor board member who oversees the shelter’s medical clinic, said ramped up precautionary policies were implemented during the first week in March. “We are in the process right now of going over all of our infection control protocols,” Swan said. “They are common sense things, but we’ve got to make sure all of our staff and volunteers understand.” The stepped-up measures taken at Safe Harbor include protocols designed to prevent the spread of communicable diseases in general, carried out more frequently and with more fervor in the face of COVID-19. Safe Harbor cannot afford to take any chances because its residents often have weakened immune systems and they are crowded into a relatively small space. “The residents are vulnerable,” Swan said.

If someone appears to be sick, they will be given a face mask and will be monitored; if the person appears to have symptoms of COVID-19, someone will help them get to Munson, alerting the hospital that they are coming, so that the staff can take precautions. Much of the precautionary measures amount to basic health instructions for staff and guests, Swan said. “We’re going to be giving talks to our staff and our guests about handwashing, about proper hand-washing technique,” she said. That means scrubbing in hot soapy water for at least 20 seconds and advising people to avoid touching their faces. They’re going to increase the amount of hand sanitizer available and may instruct volunteers to wipe down and sanitize surfaces two or three times a shift instead of just once. They will also urge residents not to share utensils, hygiene items or cigarettes, encouraging them to eat well and to get enough rest. Those last two, however, are things that are not easy to do if you live at a shelter, Swan said. “I think I am concerned, but not panicked. If you look overall at the mortality rate, it’s fairly low,” she said. “I worry about the homeless population because they in general have a lot of burdens of chronic disease and nutrition issues.” Employees: Stay Home if You Are Sick Many public service workers lack paid sick time and cannot afford to call in sick. When it comes to COVID-19, that’s got to stop, said Mike Lahey, emergency preparedness director for the Grand Traverse County Health Department. Letting an employee stay home or work from home if they are suspected to be sick could save the rest of the workforce, Lahey said. Lahey said he was on a conference call with officials from across the state at the end of February and he learned that the sick leave problem is considered an obstacle to stopping the spread of COVID-19. “One thing that really jumped out on Friday’s call was … that if someone’s sick within your workforce, communicating some coronavirus or influenza,” they should stay home, Lahey said. “Rather than your entire workforce becoming ill, be supportive of that one employee.” If You’re Healthy, Take the Trip Kevin Klein said he’s got the same answer no matter who asks him for advice on whether they should travel in the face of COVID-19. “I would give the same travel advice that I’m giving my family – if you’re healthy, go,” said Klein, the director of Cherry Capital Airport who spoke to Northern Express from

a conference he attended in Phoenix. “I am traveling just as I normally would.” Klein said people with compromised immune systems or with other illnesses should reconsider travel plans, but he said healthy people should take care and follow the Centers for Disease Control guidelines and otherwise not worry. At Cherry Capital, Klein said, the appearance of COVID-19 has prompted stepped-up cleaning protocols. There’s more hand sanitizer around the terminal, but otherwise things are running like they would during an ordinary flu season. He said he hopes travelers take the precautions they are supposed to by washing their hands and practicing good “cough etiquette” (coughing into a tissue, for example) and that when people feel sick, they need to stay home. “Overall, if you’re sick, stay home,” Klein said. “You know, don’t impact the public.” How prepared is northern Michigan? COVID-19 is not the flu, but even though there are a lot of unknowns surrounding the virus, it is similar enough to the flu that local health departments have had a head start in preparations. “We have those plans in place, they are up to date, and we ensure that we’ve identified where we have … personal protective equipment, such as masks, and things that would protect the healthcare workforce if needed,” said Peacock, the health officer. “We know where that equipment is at our hospitals, at our health departments, and across the EMS systems.” Another contingency that area health

officials have planned for is the finite number of beds in the region’s hospitals. “That’s a pretty good example of how we continue to plan for and prepare for worstcase scenarios, so that we’re always ready for whatever situation really presents itself,” said Lahey, the emergency preparedness director. “For example, what to do if the hospitals get full and the overflow? … Hopefully we never utilize a lot of our plans.” Officials have been busy identifying locations that could serve as quarantine areas. Planning quarantine areas is basically uncharted territory for the professionals at the health departments. “Isolation and quarantine are something that doesn’t happen all of the time, so we are in the process of discussing, ‘Okay, where could those facilities be and what will this look like? Where can we find the resources to be able to staff something like that?’” Social Pressure is Coming The public information campaign is already having an effect in Petoskey, where hand sanitizer and certain cleaning products have begun to disappear from store shelves. Amy Milbrandt, an infection preventionist at McLaren Northern Michigan, said she has noticed increased social pressure when it comes to handwashing, coughing etiquette and maintaining proper social distances. It’s what she wants to see. “As a hospital, we have a committee that meets daily to prepare for the inevitable,” Milbrandt said. “With coronavirus, we understand that it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.”

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By Ross Boissoneau Saint Patrick was a fifth-century RomanoBritish Christian missionary and bishop. Legend credits him with teaching the Irish about the doctrine of the Holy Trinity by using a shamrock. He’s also credited with banishing snakes from the island. Saint Patrick is now the primary patron saint of Ireland. He’s celebrated March 17, the supposed date of his death, with the Feast of Saint Patrick, a.k.a. St. Patrick’s Day. It commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. It was made an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century. Historically, Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol were lifted for the day, which has encouraged and propagated the holiday’s tradition of alcohol consumption. Celebrations, parties, Irish whiskey, music. And don’t forget parades. The very first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in the (other) capital of Ireland, New York City, in 1762. It was and is the largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the world, with more than 150,000 participants and three million-plus spectators. Chicago (where the Chicago River is dyed a bilious green) and Detroit also have grand parades – as do Traverse City and Gaylord. PARADES IN TC AND GAYLORD The Traverse City parade, one of the state’s oldest, takes place Saturday, March 14. Irish organizations – Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Northern Michigan Irish Queens – host the family-friendly event. The parade begins at 1:30pm at Kilkenny’s Irish Public House at 400 West Front St. It’s expected to last around 45 minutes and will be followed by post-parade music, Irish and otherwise, by the Wild Sullys and Blue Footed Booby at Kilkenny’s. Gaylord’s parade will likewise be hosted on Saturday, March 14 by its chapter of the Hibernians. Festivities begin at 10am with breakfast at Timothy’s Pub. The parade proper begins at noon, winding from Michigan Avenue to Main Street to Center Street to the

community center, where people can enjoy free Irish stew, beverages and candy. CELTIC CELEBRATION IN KINGSLEY Beyond parades there’s plenty more. The Traverse City Senior Center will host a Celtic celebration on Wednesday, March 11 at noon at The Rock in Kingsley. A traditional corned beef lunch will be followed by a special performance by the Northern Lights Irish Dance Academy. Free BATA rides will be available from Interlochen and Fife Lake to the Rock, located at 115 Blair St. Cost is a $3 suggested donation for those 60 and over; $5 for others. Advanced reservation for the BATA bus is required by March 5; reservation for lunch only is March 9. For more information or to register, email dmikowski@grandtraverse.org or call (231) 922-4911. IRISH SINGING IN ELK RAPIDS Irish singer Karan Casey will perform at Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall at 7:30pm on Tuesday, March 10. Tickets are $22 in advance and are available at Corner Drug in Elk Rapids, Oryana Food Cooperative or online at TCconcerts.com. Casey’s career spans 25 years from her early days as a jazz performer in Dublin to singing with legendary Irish band Solas to her solo career. Casey has won awards for “Best Folk Album” and “Best Folk Female” and been nominated for the BBC Folk Awards and the Danish Grammys. She has appeared at numerous festivals and concert halls, from the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall to the Grand Ole Opry and Hollywood Bowl, even the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as well as appearing on A Prairie Home Companion. CELTIC ROOTS IN MANISTEE Irish Night at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee on Friday, March 13 will feature the music of CrossBow. Now veterans of the Celtic scene, the group started in 2011 as students at Grand Valley State University looking for like-minded musicians. Today they perform at festivals and in concerts across the state and

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John Niedermaier has touched the careers of many big area brewers, but he’s happiest putting out the newest, weirdest flavors possible at Brewery Terra Firma

HUMBLE ORIGINS Niedermaier’s beer story reaches back decades. He caught the craft beer bug early, inspired by a family Christmas gift exchange. The rules for this particular exchange, Niedermaier says, barred anyone from storebought gifts. Instead, each person had to make something for a “white elephant” swap. The gift Niedermaier got was a northern Michigan survival kit from his uncle that included a few bottles of home-brewed beer. For Niedermaier, the home brew was a lifechanging moment. “I said to my uncle, ‘Wait, you can make beer in your kitchen? On your stove?!’ That’s bizarre! I just didn’t know it was possible,” he said. Soon, Niedermaier was embarking upon his own home brewing journey – not that doing so was easy at the time. “I liked it,” Niedermaier said of the home brewing process. “But I didn’t really like the beer very much. It was pretty limited in terms of the materials you could get at the time, and it got me thinking: ‘How come I can’t make beer that tastes like the stuff I can buy at the store?’” Niedermaier quickly abandoned all the books and started looking at commercial brewers. He dug up old textbooks from University of California, Davis and some of the other big brew schools around the country. “And I just got into the nuts and bolts behind the brewing process itself,” he said. “The beer got better real fast.”

first brewery to set up shop in the area since the Prohibition days – his still-local mother started sending him newspaper clippings about the business, encouraging him to apply for a job. He toyed around with the idea, particularly after his Detroit job got transferred to Traverse City. One day, while driving past the Traverse Brewing location – on US-31, between Traverse City and Elk Rapids – he made a snap decision. “I just decided, ‘Well, I want to do something enjoyable with my time on this marble,’” Niedermaier said. “So, I … walked in and I said ‘Hey, I’m a homebrewer; I don’t know much about brewing commercially, but I’d love to learn.’” Traverse Brewing hired Niedermaier on the spot. Over the next 12 years, Niedermaier would go from doing part-time grunt work with the brewery to becoming the full-time head brewer. That leadership position allowed him to mentor some of the bright, up-and-coming assistant brewers who were coming through Traverse Brewing at the time – a list that included eventual brewing superstars like Joe Short (founder of Short’s), Russell Springsteen (founder of Right Brain Brewery) and Sam Sherwood (who now runs the Walldorff Brewpub & Bistro in Hastings). Unfortunately, all good things come to an end and Traverse Brewing Company ultimately closed its doors in the mid-2000s. At the time, Springsteen was just in the early stages of launching what would become Right Brain. He brought in Niedermaier as a consultant to help sort out a few contamination issues in the brewing process. Before the brewery had even opened its doors, Springsteen had offered Niedermaier the brewmaster’s job. Niedermaier ended up staying at Right Brain for three and a half years, working with Springsteen to concoct adventurous beers that helped shape Right Brain’s reputation as an innovator in the craft beer space. But Niedermaier had something else on his mind: his own business venture, built on the concept of agriculture brewing.

THE ROOTS OF TRAVERSE CITY BEER Niedermaier’s friends started drinking his beer at a much faster clip. It was a good sign. “I was always running out,” he said. Still, it would be years before Niedermaier was brewing professionally. When Traverse Brewing Company opened in his native northern Michigan in 1996 – becoming the

AN AGRICULTURAL BREWERY If you don’t know what an agricultural brewery is, you’re probably not alone: There is only one in the state of Michigan and it’s the one Niedermaier started. Terra Firma itself is a bit off the beaten path on 10 acres of land on Hartman Road just south of Traverse City.

By Craig Manning He’s not running the biggest or the oldest brewery, but you can call Brewery Terra Firma’s John Niedermaier the godfather of northern Michigan craft beer. Before he opened his own place in 2013, Niedermaier was playing an important role in shaping Traverse City into the beloved beer town it is today.

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There, the brewery not only makes and serves its beers, but also grows many key ingredients – including hops, barley, pumpkins and honey. Reclaimed water and spent grain from the brewing process are repurposed to irrigate and fertilize the crops, while BTUs generated by the brewery’s fermenters and refrigeration system are harnessed to heat the taproom and brewing facility during the winter months. When asked why agricultural brewing piqued his interest, Niedermaier points to Traverse Brewing Company founder Jack Archiable, who for years let a friend use the back part of the brewery’s lot for gardening. Archiable’s friend, a professional landscaper, started using waste from the brewery to fertilize his plants, explaining that doing so gave the crops plenty of water, nitrogen and phosphorous – all essential for plant growth. “There was no irrigation back there, and we went through a few summers where we had really, really tough droughts,” Niedermaier recalled. “Everything was brown and crunchy ... except for that garden back there. It was like a Tarzan movie. We hadn’t had rain in forever and everything else looked like it was dead, and then we had these lush, 12-foot ornamental grasses.” It took years for Niedermaier to find a property that would work for an agricultural brewery: It had to be farmland, but he also wanted it to be within a 15-minute drive from downtown. In addition, because his concept for a brewery was so novel, he knew he was rolling the dice on whether any township would even approve his proposed use for the land. Luckily, Garfield Township was surprisingly flexible in working with Niedermaier to issue what was essentially an unprecedented special use permit. He hit a few other strokes of luck too. Just as Brewery Terra Firma was breaking ground on construction, the equipment and intellectual property from Traverse Brewing Company hit the market. Niedermaier made what he thought was “an embarrassingly low offer” for all of the above and the bank jumped at the opportunity to make a deal. Terra Firma still uses that same equipment to this day, while the flagship Traverse Brewing Company brands – particularly Manitou Amber Ale, northern Michigan’s first craft beer – remain staples in Niedermaier’s 1,000-plus beer recipe portfolio.

AN ADVENTUROUS PALATE Looking back, Niedermaier’s only regret is that he didn’t find the property for his dream brewery sooner. Mostly, he’s thrilled that the marketplace has embraced craft beer in the way it has – particularly his preferred approach to craft beer. “I’ve never been much for people who take a sip of your beer and say, ‘Yeah, that’s pretty good,’” Niedermaier said of the beer he brews. “I want them to say, ‘Wow, that’s ... huh ... I’m going to have to think about that.’” Some of the beers that stand out as beloved parts of the Terra Firma rotation today – like the Snowbound Chocolate Mint Stout or the Little Italy Honey Basil Ale – were things Niedermaier concocted back in the Traverse Brewing days. Back then, he says he got a lot of raised eyebrows at his more adventurous beers. Most beer drinkers at the time were more interested in “stylistic brewing,” or the practice of taking a traditional beer style – a lager, an oatmeal stout, a pale ale, etc. – and brewing it in a balanced, down-the-middle fashion. Rather than take this “follow the recipe” approach, Niedermaier’s preference has been to throw away the rulebook. “Stylistic brewing is kind of like painting by numbers,” he said. “You have all the figures right there, written down for you and you just have to hit between the marks.” Stylistic brewing is its own discipline, he said. “If you want to brew a beer with chocolate and chili peppers in it, those materials don’t come with data,” he said. “You just have to suck it up and wing it: Start brewing different batches and making tweaks and thinking about different ways to handle the materials. It’s way more involved and it allows you to be more creative, because you can take some materials that work really well together in the food world and translate it to liquid.” These days, Niedermaier says it’s rare to see a beer enthusiast who isn’t willing to go out on a limb. “It’s surprising to say it, but today’s beer clientele is not so interested in drinking something that’s really awesome,” he said. “They want it all to be awesome, of course, but what drives them is to try something new; something weird. We’ve got that.”

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By Alex Tank The only thing better than drinking a cold beer is brewing one with your favorite person. In northern Michigan, four couples are not only committed to one another, they are committed to making quality craft beer together, with all the accompanying challenges and triumphs brewed into every pint. So, how can you get to know these brewing duos? It’s easy: Go taste their beer. Enjoy the spaces they’ve curated. Be curious about their journey. They probably won’t tell you how tough it is to create something that consistently tastes amazing, but they are bound to share their joy with you, one beer at a time.

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Jamie Kidwell-Brix and her husband, Andrew, found one another in Ann Arbor. After years of home brewing together, they opened Earthen Ales, which has entered its fourth year in operation beneath the water tower in the historic Grand Traverse Commons. Jamie says the commitment to marriage and the brewery are similar. “When you run any business as a couple, you’re all in, and for better or worse, there’s no real back-up plan,” she said. “You just know that you are going to make it work and occasionally need to remind each other that you love one another. That’s generally just a good thing to do.” When both partners love beer, the results become a liquid representation of a shared vision. “We love brewing together. From recipe development to tasting, we’re working through that together,” she said. Is it all serious brewing and biochemistry at Earthen Ales? “Sometimes it’s just as fun to work together as to goof off together; sometimes it is one in the same,” she said. Jamie says the couple is thankful to be part of the craft brewing community up north. “The beer community is very inclusive and welcoming and that’s why we love this industry. Our keg washer came in late when we opened, and the Filling Station and Workshop both let us stop by and wash kegs,” she said. And what comes around goes around, with a recent collaboration and being part of a supportive community, Jamie says. “Five Shores (had) just opened in Beulah, and they’ve already stopped by and brewed a collaboration with us … called Shores of Reality,” she said. “Our community of businesses in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons is just as tight-knit and supportive. We are lucky to call Left Foot Charley a neighbor and are aging beer in some of their red wine barrels.” As part of the craft beer community, Jamie says the couple is enjoying the creative process. “Creating a new beer together is probably the most fun. At the end of the day, we open a beer and talk about beer,” she said. “We talk about what beer to make and how to make it. Then, we make that beer together.” It’s a decidedly grounded approach to elevating one of life’s simple pleasures.

Owners Tyler and Anna Bier opened Bier’s Inwood Brewery just two years ago and they’ve cultivated a loyal following – even in the off-season. Located just off US-31 behind Bier Art Gallery, wintry views of Lake Michigan hint at impending days of glorious summer. A wide lawn for barefoot sipping and a gazebo for live music lie beneath a snowy crust for now, but the beer continues to flow inside the renovated white farmhouse. Anna covers marketing, design work, social media and bartending. Tyler is the brewer and self-proclaimed “miscellaneous man.” Together they serve some 200 “Monk Club” members from individualized mugs, handthrown by Tyler, who is also a skilled potter. All the mugs are personalized by Anna’s custom designs. The vessels embody their partnership as a couple and as colleagues. Along with a crosssection of popular styles like IPAs and Witbier, they pour beers like Monkin’ Around, a malty Belgian Dubbel, and The Raven, a chocolaty porter, all brewed on a 2.5-barrel system on the brewery’s lower level. Tyler and Anna also stay busy raising two kids under three years old. Tyler notes that worklife balance requires unending energy. “The brewery is a living organism that needs constant thought and attention to keep it running smoothly,” he said. “A toddler and a baby require the same.” He’s quick to note the benefits and joys of working with Anna. “We think about problems differently,” he said. “Usually, a combination of each other’s ideas is the best solution. If there’s a disagreement, I still have to go home with Anna.” So, what’s the best part about running the brewery together? Tyler and Anna enjoy sampling and sharing the fruits of all that work. “It’s most fun to taste the end product … and to see people do the same and enjoy it,” he said. When they hit unexpected costs in the early building stages, Tyler and Anna relied on momentum and grit. “All we could say is ‘We’re in too deep to turn back now!’” he said. “We always found a way to make it happen.” Indeed, they’re making it happen to delicious effect, day in and day out.

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Scott Stuhr and Leah Tyrell Stuhr are fairly recent transplants from Asheville, North Carolina, where they had met at Asheville Brewing Company and found they shared a passion

Travis and Jean Krebs have been sharing beers since 2006, when they met as students at Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo was already a hot spot for craft beer, long before the big boom in the rest of the country. Jean studied sociology and was a highly focused undergrad. Travis was more interested in art and home brewing. He mentions that he’d been sketching the image of a “dead” teddy bear, with the x’s for eyes and then began to carry the image around with him each time he shared his homebrew with friends. “It developed into a concept,” said Travis. “When I brewed a batch of beer, I’d make a dead teddy bear in the style of that beer.” Jean, originally from Rochester Hills, is the general manager of the bustling brewpub. She and Travis have also been busy growing the family. Their son is a toddler and he’s part of an intense dance of juggling daily responsibilities. The couple went into business with a partner in 2013, renovated a former steakhouse, and re-opened as Dead Bear Brewing Co. in 2014. In 2015, they purchased a home; their son was born in 2017. “Now we’re switching. I work the morning,” said Travis. “Then we trade off. She works the nighttime.” Recently, the pair bought out their former partner. The whirlwind continues; the couple mentions that President’s Day weekend was one of their busiest in operation, with vacation traffic flowing in from nearby I-75 and dozens of snowmobiles zooming up to the brewery for beers and food — no doubt including Dead Bear’s renowned baked mac and cheese. Offered alongside other Michigan craft beers and a full bar, Dead Bear’s house beers rotate often. Highlights include the EZ PZ IPA, a low-gravity session IPA with a floral hop signature, and Fresca de Pepino, a wheat beer with juiced limes and 40 lbs. of juiced cucumber. The return of a strong ale called Sugar Bear is always highly anticipated and the Krebs say the batch never lasts long on tap.

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for craft beer. Now, with a two-year-old daughter along for the ride, they’ve traded the Appalachian Mountains for the Great Lakes, founding Silver Spruce Brewing Co. in late 2018. “Our kitchen table has become an office, every meal together tends to become an impromptu work meeting, and that can be tough for any relationship,” she said. The upside of working with a spouse is knowing your co-worker better than anyone. “We already understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses when it comes to work,” she said. Despite the lack of true down time, the couple is tremendously proud of the realization of long years of planning. “We both get to share the good times and the tough times,” said Leah. “It’s a great feeling that we are open and get to share this journey.” The daily reality is where the challenges arise, she says. “Some days we laugh because the task list – just to maintain – is so long, and almost none of it has to do with actually brewing,” she said. As for the beer, Silver Spruce is about to start brewing even more of it, including a sour. An expanded Silver Spruce will take over the former Family Video store next door and feature an events space, more cold storage for aging beer and a home for specialized, oversized oak barrels, called foeders, currently en route to Traverse City. Foeders are the perfect vessels for the true sour beers that brew master Scott Stuhr says he has in mind. Aged sours are tricky to execute, but the traditional beer styles Scott already prefers to brew take time to mature. A prime example is a bourbon-barrel aged Märzen – a toasty, malty beer – which will be released for St. Patrick’s Day. Leah and Scott say they picked a prime location to establish their dream together. “We are happy to be a small part of the craft beer scene up here, and have already met a lot of wonderful people,” said Leah. “We enjoy being right in the heart of it.”

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MARDI GRAS ON THE MOUNTAIN: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Today includes an On-hill Bead Search, DJ Dance Party, BBQ & Seafood Boil, Stylin’ on the Slopes Costume Contest, Mardi Gras Open Jam, live music by TC Knuckleheads & more. crystalmountain.com/ event/mardi-gras

---------------------SPRING BIRDING AT OTTER CREEK: Join the Grand Traverse Audubon club as Tom Ford leads an early spring birding walk at Otter Creek. Meet at the west end of Esch Rd. (beach parking lot) at 9am. Text Tom Ford: 231409-9203 to confirm attendance. Free.

---------------------GAYLORD RV SHOW: 10am-6pm, The Ellison Place, Gaylord. $5 adults; $2 ages 6-15. Find on Facebook.

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GLCO’S YOUNG CHILDREN’S LIBRARY SERIES: String musicians will teach Melody & Harmony at Petoskey District Library at 10:30am & Boyne District Library at 1pm. The 45-minute sessions with Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra musicians include story-telling, directed listening, movement & dance, imitation & rhythm games. Best for ages 4-10. glcorchestra.org

---------------------“THE LEGEND OF KNOCKGRAFTON” BALLET PREVIEW: 11am, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Presented by the Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre. Seating is limited. Free. tadl.org/event/northwest-michigan-ballettheatre-the-legend-of-knockgrafton

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: Feb. 28 - March 8. Enjoy special menus at each participating restaurant.

---------------------TC FIGURE SKATING CLUB PRESENTS “MAGICAL KINGDOM ON ICE”: 11:30am & 4:30pm, Centre Ice Arena, TC. Featuring a mixed bag of favorite characters from Aladdin, Frozen, The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Moana, Star Wars, Toy Story & more as presented by the local club’s figure skaters. Bleacher seat tickets: $18 adults; $15 11 & under. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------HUMA LOOPA LICIOUS FAT BIKE RACE: Noon, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. The last race of the Short’s Brewing Fat Bike Series plays out in front of 1,000 spectators at the 14th Annual Suds & Snow. Featuring a short race loop (nearly 2 miles) & a long race loop (nearly 4 miles). nmmba.net/hoomalupalicious-fat-bike-race

---------------------14TH ANNUAL SUDS & SNOW: 1-6pm, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. For 21+. This 70’s themed event includes a 1/2 mile hike through the backwoods of Timber Ridge Resort where there will be two live music stages featuring Nicholas James & The Bandwagon, Medicinal Groove, The Daylites, and 2BaysDJs; 20+ craft breweries serving beer, wine, & cider, & local food vendors. $35 advance. sudsandsnowtc.com

---------------------“DISNEY, DESSERTS & BROADWAY!”: 2pm, TC Central High School Auditorium, TC. Presented by TC Central High School Vocal Department. Student entertainers perform favorites from Disney movies & family-friendly Broadway shows. Audience children (& adults) are encouraged to dress as their favorite Disney characters. Dessert reception after show. 933-6984. $12 adults, $6 children, $30 family bundle of 4. Find on Facebook.

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“PETER & THE STARCATCHER”: 7pm, TC West Senior High School Auditorium, TC. A prequel to “Peter Pan,” based on the children’s book by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson & freely adapted for stage by Rick Elice. Presented by TC West Senior High School Theatre Department. $12 adult, $8 student. mynorthtickets.com

“SILENT SKY”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. A century ago women who worked in astronomy weren’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. But that didn’t stop one woman from making a groundbreaking discovery. $18 adults; $15 (plus fees) youth under 18. tickets.oldtownplayhouse.com/TheatreManager/1/online

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---------------------BLISSFEST COMMUNITY DANCE: 7:30pm, Petoskey Presbyterian Church. Featuring contras, circles, squares & more. Music by the Hannah Harris Trio. All dances taught. $5/person, $7/couple, $10/family.

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LIMERICK: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This quartet from Lansing performs a blend of traditional Irish & folk music including bluegrass & Americana. $25 CTAC members; $35 non-members; $10 students. crookedtree.org

---------------------MUSIC OF LIN HUA: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Free. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------HELL ON HEELS PRESENTS 90’S DRAG REVIVAL: 8pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. This lip syncing, dancing & singing adventure is full of comedy & crassness. $10 advance; $15 door. redskystage.com/event-schedule-4

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GAYLORD RV SHOW: 10am-4pm, The Ellison Place, Gaylord. $5 adults; $2 ages 6-15. Find on Facebook.

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HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., March 7)

---------------------BEEKEEPING SERIES: 1-3pm, NCMC, Room 536 SCRC, Petoskey. Session One: March 8: Learn about the advantages of keeping bees, the equipment, costs & sources for beekeeping gear, & bee biology. Session Two: March 15: Will walk participants through their first year of beekeeping, covering hive management & bee health topics. Session Three: March 22: Will cover bees in winter, processing products of the hive, & an overview of maintaining a sustainable apiary. Free. ncmich.edu

---------------------“SILENT SKY”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. A century ago women who worked in astronomy weren’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. But that didn’t stop one woman from making a groundbreaking discovery. $18 adults; $15 (plus fees) youth under 18. tickets.oldtownplayhouse.com/TheatreManager/1/online

---------------------BAND CONCERT: 3pm, TC Central High School Auditorium, TC. Encore Winds presents “Swinging into Spring.” This concert will feature Sun Radius Big Band. $15. encorewinds.org

---------------------CHARLIE MILLARD BAND: 5pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. This trio plays numerous festivals & venues across the Midwest & Canada & has its own sound with tones of an indie-Americana style that is reminiscent of a 60s/70s folk/rock singer/ songwriter. 947-9213. $20 advance; $25 door.

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COFFEE HOURS WITH SEN. CURT VANDERWALL, R-LUDINGTON: 9am, Manistee County Government Center, Manistee. Open to residents of the 35th Senate District to express their opinions or concerns about state government or to request assistance with a state issue. 1-855-347-8035.

---------------------OTP YOUNG COMPANY AUDITIONS FOR “DISNEY’S FROZEN, JR.”: 4-7pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage, TC. Open to students ages 9-18. To audition, students must have ful-

The Juggler’s World Cup VII will be held on Sat., March 14 at 2pm on the slopes behind Otsego Resort Lodge, Gaylord and feature special guests The Passing Zone, as seen on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ along with Tuey Wilson, Clark Lewis, Da Fly’n Zambonis and Tommy Tropic. Free. A world class stage show takes place on Fri., March 13 at 8pm in the Otsego Resort Convention and Event Center. Watch The Passing Zone attempt to break the Juggler’s Cup record for 2-man chainsaw juggling! otsegoclub.com/event/jugglers-world-cup-ski-race filled the prerequisites for the Young Company Broadway Junior Musical or have equivalent experience. oldtownplayhouse.com/young-co/ auditions

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ARTIST RECEPTION: CHASING JOY BY AMY LYNN SPITZLEY: 5-7pm, City Opera House, TC. Meet the artist. Featuring a collection of Spitzley’s works in various mediums, including pencil art, colored pencils, acrylics, watercolors, & collage. Find on Facebook.

---------------------SOUP & BREAD: 6-8pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Local chefs donate soup. You eat soup & donate what you can. Benefits the Women’s Resource Center. thelittlefleet.com/events

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G.T. HUMANISTS PRESENT LOREEN NIEWENHUIS: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. This author & adventurer has written three books about her exploration of the Great Lakes region, the latest of which is “A 1000-Mile Great Lakes Island Adventure.” Free. gthumanists.org

mar 10

tuesday

3D PRINTING @ THE LIBRARY: 10am, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Learn about the new 3D printers at TADL. Watch the printer in action, receive general information about how to search for 3D printables, & find out how to submit your file for printing. Free. tadl.org/ event/3d-printing-program/2020-03-10

---------------------PEEPERS PROGRAM: BUSY BEAVERS!: 10-11:30am, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. For ages 3-5. All children must be accompanied by an adult. This 90 minute nature program includes stories, crafts, music & discovery activities. It ends with an outside portion. Pre-register. $5. natureiscalling.org/event/ peepers-program-busy-beavers

---------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Decorate a rain stick & create the

sound of falling rain. Held from 11am-noon & 2-3pm. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------OTP YOUNG COMPANY AUDITIONS FOR “DISNEY’S FROZEN, JR.”: (See Mon., March 9)

---------------------ELECTION RANT FOR TEENS: 4:30pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Today adults will be voting in the primary election to choose who will represent their party in the general election. Do you have an opinion you would like to share? Do you think you should have a vote too? Talk about politics from your point of view. Free. tadl.org/event/election-rant-for-teens

---------------------POWER! BOOK BAGS FRIEND RAISER: 6-8pm, Hop Lot Brewing Co., Igloos, Suttons Bay. Bring a kid’s book or a box of 24 crayons to donate, & learn how you can help spread literacy throughout 9 counties & 20+ assistance sites & schools. powerbookbags.com

---------------------CONSIDERTHIS: POLITICAL IDENTITY VS. IDEOLOGY: 6:30pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Participate in a civil discussion about how people identify politically. Free. tadl.org/ event/considerthis-political-identity-vs-ideology

---------------------“NEW & NOTEWORTHY PLANTS FOR 2020”: 7pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. The Cherryland Garden Club March meeting features Robin Smillie of Garden Goods. There will be a special emphasis on pollinator friendly plants & deer resistant plants. Houseplants trends will also be covered. Reservations: 231-499-6283. Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------DANÚ: ST. PATRICK’S CELEBRATION: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. A musical journey to Ireland. For over two decades, Danú’s players on flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki & vocals (Irish & English) have performed around the globe & recorded seven critically acclaimed albums. $43, $35; students: $15. cityoperahouse.org/danu

---------------------KARAN CASEY: 7:30pm, Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall. Karan was the lead singer in the

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original lineup of the Celtic supergroup, Solas. Since embarking on her solo career Karan has released 6 solo albums, a duo album (with John Doyle), an album for children & much more. $22. tcconcerts.square.site

mar 11

wednesday

SCHEDULING YOUR TIME & BUILDING BETTER BOUNDARIES: 9-11am, NMC University Center, Classroom 7, TC. With Colleen Masterson-Bzdok. Free. eventbrite.com

---------------------JUST BEE YOGA: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, TC. For 3-5 year olds. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------SENIOR CENTER - INTERLOCHEN CELTIC CELEBRATION: 11am, The Rock of Kingsley. Enjoy a corned beef lunch & a performance by the Northern Lights Irish Dance Academy. Free BATA ride available from former Ric’s parking lot at 11am to The Rock. Estimated time of departure from the Rock for return trip is 1:30pm. Cost for noon lunch is a $3 suggested donation for those 60 & over; $5 all others. 922-4911.

---------------------HEN INFORMATIONAL MEETING: 11:30am12:15pm, Interlochen Elementary School. Local homeschool community launches new non-profit to provide support & activities for families. An open house will be held to introduce local homeschoolers to the Homeschool Enrichment Network (HEN). 231-421-3218. Free. mihen.org

---------------------GT BAY AREA STROKE CLUB MEETING: 2:30-4:30pm, The Presbyterian Church, TC. An open discussion of disability disclosure topics. 935-6380.

---------------------WINTER WALK TO TIKI NIGHT: 4pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Proceeds benefit Norte. Find on Facebook.

---------------------“MARSH” MADNESS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Bill Marsh Ford, Gaylord. Live music by Sandy Muzyl, door prizes, a grand prize of 2 years free maintenance, food provided by The Pine Squirrel. Wear your favorite sports gear. 989-732-6333.

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS CHAMBER’S OFF THE CLOCK BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:307:30pm, State Road Provisions, Harbor Springs. $10 chamber members; $15 not-yet members.

---------------------PLANTING WORKSHOP: BALANCE YOUR BACKYARD WITH TREES, BEES & EXPERTISE!: 6:30pm, Benzie Conservation District, Beulah. Presenters include Tom Ford, naturalist & wildlife artist; Maddy Baroli, forest conservationist; & Kama Ross, district forester. Program includes introduction of ATREP: Assisted Tree Range Expansion Project. Please pre-register by contacting the Benzie CD: 231.882.4391. Free. benziecd.org

mar 12

thursday

MORNING MINGLE: 7:30am, Arts for All of NMI Studio, 1129 Woodmere Ave., Unit A, TC. A continental breakfast will be provided. Free. eventbrite.com

---------------------INTERACTIVE STORYTIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss, followed by an activity. greatlakeskids.org

PETOSKEY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Bring your best 80’s look. $10 chamber members; $15 not-yet members.

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SPRING CARNIVAL: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. March 13-14. Tonight includes a Cardboard Sled Building Workshop (6pm) & live music by Scarkazm. crystalmountain.com/ event/spring-carnival

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PROTECT YOUNG EYES: 6:30pm, TC Christian School. Equip your kids to discern digital threats & thrive in an increasingly hostile online world. All parents in the area are invited. Childcare will be provided. A Q&A period will follow the presentation. Free. Find on Facebook.

LADIES OF THE LIGHTS: 6pm, Elk Rapids District Library, Meeting Room. Learn about 40 women who tended to the beacons that protected the shoreline, all the way back to the 1840s. Free. elkrapidslibrary.org/news-events/ ladies-of-the-lake IRELAND: THE SOUL OF EUROPE: 7pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. Join Seamus Norgaard, NCMC professor, for a slideshow, storytelling & poetry event. petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------“ANNIE GET YOUR GUN”: 7:30pm, Cheboygan Opera House. Presented by Cheboygan Area High School. Annie Oakley once performed live on the Cheboygan Opera House stage! $13 advance, $16 door. Find on Facebook.

---------------------“NAVAJO CODE TALKERS”: 7:30pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. A documentary about six Native American heroes of World War II. Movie intro & after movie discussion with filmmaker Dr. George Colburn. $10. thebaytheatre.com

---------------------“SILENT SKY”: (See Sat., March 7) ---------------------OF GREEN GABLES: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Phoenix Theatre. Presented by Parallel 45 Theatre. A contemporary twist on L.M. Montgomery’s novel, “Anne of Green Gables.” Featuring Interlochen Arts Academy theatre students. Free. interlochen.org

mar 13

friday

KIDS’ FESTIVAL WEEKEND: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Games, stories, ziplining, movies & more. boynemountain.com/ upcoming-events/kids-festival-weekend-new

---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Fascinate your fingers in the spring-themed sensory table. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------43RD ANNUAL NORTHERN MI HOME SHOW: 11am-7pm, NCMC, Petoskey. Presented by Home Builders Association of Northern Michigan. A family-friendly event with a kid’s scavenger hunt, games, food options & more. $5; free for 5 & under. hbanm.com

---------------------WINTER LUNCHEON LECTURE: REDISTRICTING THE NEW WAY: NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Featuring Sally Marsh, director of special projects for Michigan’s Secretary of State. Lunch begins at 11:30am & the program at noon. Reserve your spot: 231-348-6600. $12.

---------------------GVSU PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT PREVIEW DAY: 1-3pm, NMC University Center, Room 07 (lower level), TC. Tour the TC campus & meet the faculty. Perfect for anyone who has an interest in the Physician Assistant Program. Free. gvsu.edu/traverse

---------------------VETERAN INFORMATION COFFEE TALK: 2-4pm, Interlochen Public Library. Drop by for coffee & info about Veteran benefits. interlochenpubliclibrary.org

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ANNUAL TC BOAT SHOW: 3-8pm, GT Civic Center, TC. Featuring pontoons, ski boats, cruisers, personal watercraft, docks, boat lifts, paddle boards & more. $7 adult, $2 6-15, free 5 & under.

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“DOLING” OUT HEALTH INFORMATION: HEART HEALTH: 3:30pm, TC Senior Center. Featuring a presentation by Beth Dole from Fyzical Therapy & Balance Centers. Registration required: 922-4911. Free.

VOLUNTEER OPEN HOUSE - INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: 3:306:30pm, 100 Dame St., Suttons Bay. schoolship.org/volunteer CURSIVE WORKSHOP: 4pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. Registration required. Free. petoskeylibrary.org

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---------------------“PETER & THE STARCATCHER”: (See Sat., March 7)

---------------------11TH ANNUAL BREW-SKI FESTIVAL: Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. Tonight features the Battle of the Breweries in the Zoo Bar at 7pm. Ore Dock vs. Midland Brewing will be battling it out. boynehighlands.com/events/ brewski-festival-x15472

---------------------“ANNIE GET YOUR GUN”: (See Thurs., March 12)

---------------------“SILENT SKY”: (See Sat., March 7) ---------------------IRISH NIGHT 2020: 7:30pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. Featuring live music by CrossBow, Celtic with a twist. Also enjoy small bites to eat throughout the event & a cash bar. $20. ci.ovationtix.com

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THE MONKEY BUSINESS WORLD-CLASS STAGE SHOW: 8pm, Otsego Resort Convention & Event Center, Gaylord. Watch The Passing Zone attempt to break the Jugglers Cup record for 2-man chainsaw juggling. Free. otsegoclub.com/event/jugglers-world-cup-ski-race

mar 14

saturday

DOODLE DAY: Held every second Sat. of the month at Twisted Fish Art Gallery, Elk Rapids from 1-3pm. Express your creativity. Anyone is welcome. Supplies are available, but guests can bring their own if they prefer. Free. twistedfishgallery.com

---------------------KIDS’ FESTIVAL WEEKEND: (See Fri., March 13)

---------------------43RD ANNUAL NORTHERN MI HOME SHOW: 9am-5pm, NCMC, Petoskey. Presented by Home Builders Association of Northern Michigan. A family-friendly event with a kid’s scavenger hunt, games, food options & more. $5; free for 5 & under. hbanm.com

---------------------CRAFT FAIR & BAKE SALE: 9am-3pm, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Interlochen.

---------------------LEAPIN’ LEPRECHAUN 5K: 9am, TC’s Warehouse District. Wear your green! Afterwards enjoy the Post-Race Party at The Workshop Brewing Co. $35. runsignup.com/Race/MI/TraverseCity/LeapinLeprechaun5K

---------------------SHANTY CREEK RESORT’S SLUSH CUP: 9am-4pm, Shanty Creek Resort, Bellaire. Skiers & riders attempt to cross an icy 60’ pond. Some even wear costumes. Other events include a frozen fish toss, snow shovel racing & a seal slide. Find on Facebook.

---------------------SPRING CARNIVAL: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville, March 13-14. Today includes the Cardboard Classic Creative Sled Contest, Cardboard Classic Race, DJ Dance Party & BBQ, Slush Cup, live music by Scarkazm & more. crystalmountain.com/event/spring-carnival

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ANNUAL TC BOAT SHOW: 10am-8pm, GT Civic Center, TC. Featuring pontoons, ski boats, cruisers, personal watercraft, docks, boat lifts, paddle boards & more. $7 adult, $2 6-15, free 5 & under.

MAKE-A-GIFT SERIES: PAPER WEAVING CLASS: 10am-noon, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. For adults. Sign up: 231-276-6767. Free.

---------------------TC LOCAL WINTER MARKET: 10am-2pm, 801 E. Front St., TC. This once-a-month market features local vendors offering food items & crafts. There is also a raffle drawing for a basket of goodies. Trade a non-perishable food item for donation to charity in exchange for five raffle tickets.

---------------------THE OPARK SLOPE STYLE EVENT: 10am, Otsego Resort, Winter Sports Center, Gaylord. $5 entry fee per competition. otsegoclub.com/ event/the-opark-slope-style-event-2020-03-14

---------------------11TH ANNUAL BREW-SKI FESTIVAL: Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. 12-5pm: Hit the slopes & enjoy snow bars with more than 285 brews from around the world. Live music by Distant Stars & Galactic Sherpas. There will also be food from Happy’s Tacos food truck, Cheese and Co., & a pig roast from Country Club of Boyne. $2 for each four ounce sample. $15 cover charge. 4:30pm: Zoo Bar After Party. boynehighlands.com/events/brewski-festival-x15472

---------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 12-2pm: Brian Ursu will sign his first book, “Now What?”, a practical guide to figuring out your financial future. 3-5pm: Leslie Lee will sign her latest book, “Leslie’s Field Guide to Ireland.” horizonbooks.com/event

---------------------GREAT LAKES SCALE MODELERS: 1-4pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. For those who enjoy the hobby of building Plastic Model kits. Members share tips & ideas to improve their modeling skills. Contact fjunruh@charter.net for more info.

---------------------SILLY SLALOM: 1-5pm, Otsego Resort, Gaylord. Get creative & wear your best costume. otsegoclub.com/event/silly-slalom

---------------------42ND ANNUAL ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE: 1:30-3pm, Downtown TC. Starts at Kilkenny’s on West Front St. & makes a loop through downtown, finishing back at Kilkenny’s where a postparade party will feature music & more. Presented by the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

---------------------“THE LEGEND OF KNOCKGRAFTON” BALLET: 2pm & 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. An original ballet based on an old Irish legend about Lusmore, a poor hunchback from the Knockgrafton region. Tickets can be purchased through mynorthtickets.com. $20 adults, $12 students & seniors. ballet-etc.com/northwest-michiganballet-theatre

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JUGGLER’S WORLD CUP VII: 2pm, Otsego Resort, Gaylord. With special guests The Passing Zone, as seen on ‘America’s Got Talent.’ Other featured acts are Tuey Wilson, Clark Lewis, Da Fly’n Zambonis & Tommy Tropic. Jugglers hit the slopes at 2pm behind the Otsego Resort Lodge. Free. otsegoclub.com/ event/jugglers-world-cup-ski-race

---------------------OF GREEN GABLES: 2pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Phoenix Theatre. Presented by Parallel 45 Theatre. A contemporary twist on L.M. Montgomery’s novel, “Anne of Green Gables.” Featuring Interlochen Arts Academy theatre students. Free. interlochen.org

---------------------SPLASH DOWN: 2-5pm, Otsego Resort, River Cabin, Gaylord. otsegoclub.com/event/ splash-down

---------------------STUFFED ANIMAL SLEEPOVER: 3:30pm, Petoskey District Library, Children’s Area. Bring a stuffed animal or doll you are willing to leave over the weekend for their own library adventure—after hours! Drop off your stuffed animal, read them a good night story, & tuck them in for their weekend visit. Pick up your stuffed animal on Mon., March 16 after 2pm. petoskeylibrary.org

PENNING TALES OF TERROR: 5-10pm, Higher Grounds Trading Co., TC. Write 3,0008,000 words of your scariest story - to be shared at a later date if you wish. This must be a new piece started & finished that night. Participants who finish will receive small door prizes. $10 reserves the space & goes toward a free drink & unlimited drip coffee. Presented by the local NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) group (TC WriMos). eventbrite.com

---------------------â&#x20AC;&#x153;PETER & THE STARCATCHERâ&#x20AC;?: (See Sat., March 7)

---------------------MADE IN MICHIGAN FUNDRAISER: 7-9:30pm, Cadillac Elks Lodge. A night of local music & silent auction items that help Gopherwood continue to bring you world class musical entertainment. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Ralson Bowles Family Medical Relief Fund. Concert attendees may get a 10% discount at Raven Brewing & BBQ in downtown Cadillac. Present your ticket anytime on the day of the show. $7-$15. mynorthtickets.com/events/made-in-michigan-fundraiser-3-14-2020

---------------------â&#x20AC;&#x153;ANNIE GET YOUR GUNâ&#x20AC;?: (SEE THURS., MARCH 12)

---------------------â&#x20AC;&#x153;SILENT SKYâ&#x20AC;?: (See Sat., March 7) ---------------------OF GREEN GABLES: (See Thurs., March 12) ----------------------

FRESHWATER CONCERT: THORNETTA DAVIS: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery & Concert Venue, Boyne City. Thornettaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cryâ&#x20AC;? was featured on the HBO series â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sopranos.â&#x20AC;? She has opened & shared the stage with Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, B.B. King & many others. $35 advance. facebook.com/ FRESHWATERARTGALLERY

mar 15

sunday

KIDSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; FESTIVAL WEEKEND: (See Fri., March 13)

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ANNUAL TC BOAT SHOW: 10am-4pm, GT Civic Center, TC. Featuring pontoons, ski boats, cruisers, personal watercraft, docks, boat lifts, paddle boards & more. $7 adult, $2 6-15, free 5 & under.

---------------------DUNGEONS & DRAGONS FOR TEENS: 1-3pm, Traverse Area District Library, Teen Services, TC. Play using fifth edition rules & a few adaptations. Dice, rule books & snacks will be provided. New & experienced players welcome. Free. tadl.org/event/dungeons-dragonsfor-teens-2/2020-03-15

---------------------TC FAMILY EXPO: 1-4pm, Hagerty Center, TC. For people starting & growing their families in Grand Traverse County. Free. tcfamilyexpo.org

---------------------â&#x20AC;&#x153;ANNIE GET YOUR GUNâ&#x20AC;?: 2pm, Cheboygan Opera House. Presented by Cheboygan Area High School. Annie Oakley once performed live on the Cheboygan Opera House stage! $13 advance, $16 door. Find on Facebook.

---------------------â&#x20AC;&#x153;SILENT SKYâ&#x20AC;?: (See Sun., March 8) ---------------------BATH SCHOOL DISASTER OF 1927: 2pm, Alden District Library. The history of the oldest & deadliest school bombing in the U.S. will be presented by George Robson. 231-331-4318. Free.

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BATTLE OF THE BOOKS CHAMPIONSHIP & ALL-TEAM FINALE: 2pm, City Opera House, TC. The top two Battle of the Books Grand Traverse teams compete for the championship. Bent Hatke, New York Times bestselling cartoonist & childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book illustrator (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mighty Jackâ&#x20AC;? & â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zita the Spacegirlâ&#x20AC;?) will hand out awards & talk about his heroes joining forces to save the world.

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR â&#x20AC;&#x153;MAMMA MIAâ&#x20AC;?: 3:30-7pm,

Cadillac High School Auditorium. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------CANADIAN BRASS: 4pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Canadian Brass has earned the distinction of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous brass group.â&#x20AC;? $60, $47, $42, $32. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/canadian-brass

---------------------KENNEDYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KITCHEN: 4pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Irish Kitchen Music from the home, the hearth, and the heart.â&#x20AC;? $25. thebaytheatre.com

---------------------BLISSFEST CONCERT SERIES: 15TH ANNUAL IRISH HOOLIE: 6pm, Staffordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Perry Hotel, Petoskey. The Hoolie is an annual fundraiser to benefit the Robert Emmet Society Scholarship fund. Enjoy an evening of Celtic music featuring the band AnDro. Also appearing will be local Irish artists including The Hooligans and Simple Gifts. Staffordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will provide their Irish themed menu. $20 advance; $25 door; RES & Blissfest members, $15; students, $10. blissfest.org

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ACORN ADVENTURERS: Fridays, 10am through March 27. Boardman River Nature Center, TC. For ages 0-4. A mix of guided & self-guided outdoor activities that allow young explorers & their grown-ups to explore, engage with, & experience the outdoors. Register. natureiscalling.org/acorn-adventurers

Sun. through March at 11am. Bring your snowshoes or cross-country skis. These are not guided tours.

---------------------SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES!: Saturdays, noon, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. Explore the easy to moderate trails & then warm up with a glass of mulled wine on the heated Terrace Patio. Snowshoe rentals will be available. blackstarfarms.com/snowshoes-vines-wines

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---------------------STORYTIME: Fridays, 10:30am, Leland Township Library. Stories & more designed to promote joy & growth in literacy. Children ages 0-6 & their caregivers welcome. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------TEEN WRITING GROUP: Thursdays, 4pm through March 26. Traverse Area District Library, TC. Get together with other teen authors to discuss creative writing. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to bring small pieces of their work for others to critique. tadl. org/event/teen-writing-group-5/2020-03-05

---------------------TRAIL TUESDAY: Held Tuesdays through winter at noon. Antrim Conservation District Office, 4820 Stover Rd., Bellaire. Enjoy a hike through the Cedar River Natural Area. 231-533-8363. .

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CHILL - PEACE OF MIND MONDAYS FOR TEENS: Mondays, 4pm through March 16. Traverse Area District Library, TC. Take an hour to relax. Enjoy coloring, crafts, classical music, snacks, hot cocoa & tea. tadl.org/event/chillpeace-of-mind-mondays-for-teens/2020-03-09

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---------------------COMMUNITY YOGA FOR EVERY BODY: Saturdays, 9am, 206 S. Oak St., TC. Love your body through gentle breath/body movement. Some mats & props are available. Find on Facebook.

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---------------------CORNHOLE LIVE!: Tuesdays through March, State Street Market, TC. Cornhole tournament with live commentary by ref Chwaz. Registration starts at 6:45pm; games begin at 7:05pm. The first 12 teams will be registered for places in the double elimination bracket. Find on Facebook.

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KIDS ON SKIS IN THE WOODS EVERY SUNDAY: Sundays, 11:45am, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. Presented by Norte & Vasa Ski Club. A group ski for families. The use of Timber Ridge Resort will be free for the entire Winter Vasa Domingos Ski Season. elgruponorte.org

---------------------LIFELONG LEARNING: SCIENCE FICTION: Wednesdays, 5:30pm, Petoskey District Library, lower level classroom. Join Diane Cookinham to discover & discuss major themes in science fiction, their evolution over time, & their impact on societal norms. Registration is not required. petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------NEW SNOWSHOE HIKES: Saturdays, 1pm. Choose from two ranger-led snowshoe hikes to explore the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore park. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snowshoe Saunterâ&#x20AC;? is for beginners & â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snowshoe Trekâ&#x20AC;? is for more experienced snowshoe hikers. Meet for an introduction at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Empire. These hikes are free, but participants do need a park entrance pass or have an annual pass to participate. Reservations are required whether participants borrow snowshoes from the National Lakeshore or have their own. facebook. com/sbdnl

---------------------SNOWSHOE WEEKENDS: Rove Estate Vineyard & Tasting Room, TC. Held every Sat. &

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION 2020 F R I DAY, M A R C H 1 3 T H – T U E S DAY, M A R C H 1 7 T H

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Our Mint Shake and Mint Concrete Mixer® made with cookies taste even better this time of year.

Come on in to your local Culver’s restaurant:

Culver’s of Cadillac, Gaylord and Traverse City (Two Locations) © 2020 Culver Franchising System, LLC. Limited time offer. At participating Culver’s restaurants. The Wisconsin Cheese Logo is a registered trademark of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.

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Tuesday, March 10 playing to standing-room-only concerts throughout ireland, Danú delivers high-energy performances and a glorious mix of ancient irish music and new repertoire.

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by meg weichman

THE CALL OF THE WILD Brahms: the boy II

Can you hear that? It’s the call of a dubiously computer-generated dog beckoning you to a mediocre film that still manages to get the job done – largely in thanks to the greatness of a gruff, grizzled and oh-so-lovable Harrison Ford. Jack London’s classic – and frequently adapted – 1903 novel The Call of the Wild gets a sunnier, Disney-fied treatment (peep the PG rating) that’s low on the original story’s inherent violence and racism and high on the sentimentality. The film follows a St. Bernard-Scotch collie named Buck and his journey from an exceedingly comfortable life as a house pet in California to working dog in the 1890s Alaskan Yukon. The first film for the newly monikered 20th Century Studios, née Fox, Disney’s influence is even more apparent in the film’s decision to use CGI to bring Buck to life. And while Disney’s policy to not use real animals on set is for sure a responsible one for a lot of admirable reasons (though, I think Disney’s own Homeward Bound, which did use real animals, is the ideal template of how to handle a dog movie), the technology is still not totally there and we enter the classic CGI pitfall of uncanny valley. And – get this – apparently a motion capture/ Cirque du Soleil performer, Terry Notary, actually stood in for the digital doggie on set. While at first CGI Buck and his animal friends prove to be very distracting, by about halfway through you grow to accept the dog for what it is and let him into your heart. In exchange, the film very effectively anthropomorphizes Buck and his fellow dogs/wolves. Buck is incredibly expressive, showing himself to be brave, strong, obedient, loyal, smart and thoughtful. Stolen from his home in California and shipped to the Alaskan Yukon, Buck is sold and joins a mail delivery sled team. It’s not an easy transition for Buck, but with sweet and good-natured new owners — played by Omar Sy and Cara Gee, who add a great deal of heart and humor — Buck learns to mush, work with others and become a leader. He even faces off against the team’s cruel alpha male; the mushing scenes are some of the film’s most thrilling. But after the mail route is canceled, he and his team learn how different life can be at

the hands of a cruel owner when a spoiled dandy of a gold-seeking brother and sister duo (Dan Stevens and Karen Gillam) take ownership, cruelly pushing the dogs to their limits, blinded by the promise of riches. The suffering of the dogs perhaps stings more than the Disney/Fox intended, but it is significantly scaled back from what is depicted in London’s original work. Throughout the film, Buck crosses paths with outdoorsman John Thorton (Harrison Ford, who also narrates the film). John left his old life and wife behind following the tragic death of his young son. Now living alone as a bit of a hermit in the wild of the Yukon, he tries to drink away the pain. Enter man’s best friend Buck, who opens John up to the joys of truly living again. The two embark on an adventure beyond the lines of a map, just like John’s son had once dreamed. The relationship between Buck and John is real and healing and leaves you genuinely touched. Ford is so compelling and soulful in a world-weary way, you honestly will believe their bond, even when Buck gets a little overly anthropomorphic in his urging to John to lay off the sauce. I mean if Ford could make his relationship with Chewie become one of film’s most iconic bromances, the believability of this CGI dog is certainly no problem for him. Shot by Steven Spielberg’s frequent director of photography, Janusz Kaminski, the film delivers all the classic adventure feels you want, with impressive visuals and vistas. The Call of the Wild taps into the style of Disney’s live-action family adventure films of yore, and while that may make it a little sappy (with a villainous subplot that doesn’t totally work and feels like tacked-on drama), it also makes it very enjoyable. This is an exceedingly accessible film that goes down very easy. It has its share of moving moments. As Buck discovers his true destiny, it becomes a satisfying experience. Despite what you may think of the way Buck is rendered from trailers or TV spots, he proves himself to be a very good boy indeed.

o one asked for this sequel: The first film pretty conclusively wrapped things up (with a stellar twist at that). But that didn’t stop Hollywood from granting The Boy, a very minor horror film, a follow up in Brahms: The Boy II. The first film, The Boy, while not a good film by any means, followed a nanny hired to care for a creepy doll named Brahms as though he was a real boy. It proved to be a campy delight. And with a change in the title that puts the enduring charms of Brahms at the forefront, it seemed as though the sequel was going to really lean in to the ridiculousness of all that is Brahms. But the film actually does the exact opposite, taking a more serious approach and suffers as a result. So, while there are still mysteriously flipped tables and impaled bullies, there was a serious shortage of Brahms antics (give me more shifting gazes, outfit changes, and childrearing pantomime please!) This more austere approach focuses on a family recovering from a home invasion that left mother Liza (Katie Holmes, heads above the rest of the cast) in the hospital and son Jude (Christopher Convery) selectively mute. As part of the family’s ongoing recovery, dad Sean (Owian Yeoman) suggests they pack up and move to an old English estate. This isn’t any old estate, though: It’s where the events of The Boy took place. Young Jude finds Brahms on the grounds and becomes possessed by his new little friend. We all know where this is headed … but the film tries to duplicate the effect of the first film’s satisfying twist by essentially retconning the entire mythos of Brahms to a completely underwhelming effect.

sonic the hedgehog

o they actually did it. Those animators who slaved over a rushed redesign (following the Twitter outcry over the film’s trailer release) successfully transformed a very creepy, and very human looking Sonic into something far more cuddly. Yet all that work was seemingly for naught, because while they might have fixed the CGI animation, it was too much to ask that a similar amount of attention be put on the actual story: We have a more palatable Sonic, sure, but we’re still left with a video game adaptation that is nearly unwatchable. It is unremarkably bad and bland, from its lame Uber jokes to its painful product placement (Olive Garden! Zillow!). The plot, if you can call it that, reveals that Sonic is an alien on earth who is hiding out from those after his speedy powers. But when his cover is blown and crazed genius Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) comes after him, through a series of ridiculous plot happenstance, the film becomes a boring road trip buddy comedy in which Sonic convinces a small-town cop (James Marsden) to drive him to San Francisco. ’Cause, yeah, for a film supposedly about a super fast and inherently dynamic creature who could get to San Francisco in an instant, it seems natural that the story is instead focused on two guys in a truck — one a babbling unlikeable alien hedgehog, the other a lame white guy — making strained conversation in a truck.

birds of prey

hile DC Comic’s Suicide Squad was a film I think we all would rather forget, we can also probably agree that the only thing worth saving from that cinematic disaster was Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn. And that she’s become such an overly sexualized, omnipresent pop culture icon also means that she’s ripe for her own expanding spinoff — especially one with a female gaze (courtesy of director Cathy Yan). The film finds Harley broken up from the Joker, and without his protection, all of Gotham is now coming after her. This leads to Harley coming together with a very alternative girl gang of crime fighters. With a madcap energy, this goofy girl’s movie combines a nutso appeal with gory violence, and perhaps flies in the face of what DC devotees want from their Harley Quinn, but at the same time, I think that is precisely why it will be so enjoyable for everyone else.

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

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Eilish. Billie Eilish.

MODERN

ROCK BY KRISTI KATES

Grammy-winner Billie Eilish (along with her writer-producer brother Finneas, who’s a solo artist in his own right) will be the featured artist for the theme song to the next James Bond movie, No Time to Die. The movie and song will hit theatres and outlets in November in the U.S.; the song was co-written by Eilish and her brother. Both musicians say they’re still “in shock” over being chosen to contribute the theme track… The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, a popular destination for northern Michigan music fans, is now set for June 11-14 this year in Manchester, Tennessee, and most of the lineup has been confirmed. Topping the bill are Tame Impala, the Grand Ole Opry featuring special guests, and Tool. Additional performers include The 1975, Vampire Weekend, Run the Jewels, Bassnectar, Flume, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Subtronics, Dermot Kennedy, Lana Del Rey and more. Tickets for Bonnaroo 2020 are on sale now at bonnaroo.com… Coachella’s prepping their 2020 event, too, which will run over two weekends this year – April 10-12 and April 17-19. The rumored headliners have proved accurate: Travis Scott, Rage Against the Machine, and Frank Ocean. A full bill of

performers will round out the weekends, with additional sets from Calvin Harris, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Run the Jewels, Disclosure, Fatboy Slim, Lana Del Rey, Rex Orange County, and Oingo Boingo’s Danny Elfman, who’s primarily been working as a film composer and promises both music from his prior band and his movie work. Get tickets and all the info at coachella.com… The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced this year’s inductees for their class of 2020. Among them are Whitney Houston, The Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex, and music industry notables Jon Landau and Irvin Azoff. Ceremonies to induct the new artists will be held at Cleveland’s Public Hall on May 2 and will air on SiriusXM’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame radio station. You’ll also be able to watch the proceedings live on HBO… LINK OF THE WEEK Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has released an unexpected EP called Acoustic Sessions, and with it a oneshot video featuring French soccer athlete turned actor Eric Cantona. The video, for Gallagher’s new song “Once,” is available now at https://youtu.be/MDhiQfekdxo… THE BUZZ Squirrel Nut Zippers will bring their

energetic jazz-pop blend to The Magic Bag in Detroit on March 12… Protomartyr will be performing at Bell’s Eccentric Pub in Grand Rapids on March 13… Michigan singer/guitarist Bob Rowe’s music has just been featured in a February compilation radio release from Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour of Lexington,

Kentucky… Little Big Town will be doing a very big concert at the Fox Theater in Detroit on March 12… and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock. Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ‘em to Kristi at modernrocker@gmail.com.

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the ADViCE GOddESS Not OK, Cupid

: A gay male friend set me up on a date. The man was HORRIBLE. He spent the entire date talking about himself. Everything was a brag. He didn’t ask one question about me. Now I’m wondering whether my “friend” knows me at all. Why would he set me up with someone so wrong for me?

— Seething Woman

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: The road to good intentions is sometimes Apaved with hell.

It’s understandable you feel bad, considering your friend’s idea of the guy you’d like was a mismatch on par with inviting the vegan neighbors over for a baby seal roast. However, there are probably a number of misperceptions at root here — yours as well as his. We’ll start with yours: We tend to believe our minds — our emotions, desires, and intentions — are more transparent and readable by others than they actually are. We also tend to believe others are better at reading our minds than they actually are. To get a little perspective on this, consider the parallels this fix-up fail has with failures in gift-giving. I used to sneer at gift registries for weddings as cheat sheets for the lazy to buy presents for the greedy. Boy, was I ever off base. Research by business school professors Francesca Gino and Francis Flynn found that married people who’d received gifts they’d listed on their registry appreciated them more than the off-list gifts their guests slaved away finding or making. In fact, spouses they surveyed saw these registry gifts (which could take all of four minutes to pick, click, and ship) as more thoughtful and — get this —even more personal! This is the exact opposite of what we giftgivers think will be the deal. “Gift givers expect unsolicited gifts will be considered more thoughtful and considerate by their intended recipients than is actually the case,” explain Gino and Flynn. Our refusing to buy from the registry — feeling confident that off-list gifts we toil to buy or make will be more appreciated than the stuff our friends ask for — reflects a failure in “perspective-taking.” Psychologist Nicholas Epley explains perspective-taking as imagining another person’s psychological point of view. It’s basically the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoes, to see the world from their perspective, to sense what they want and need.

BY Amy Alkon

In contrast, when we give our friends getting married some weird gargoyle-faced decanter (instead of the solar-powered garlic press they asked for), we’re answering the question, “What would I want?” rather than, “What would they want?” (which they’ve helpfully laid out in a big online list). Epley’s research suggests our tendency to fail at perspective-taking comes out of mental shortcuts we are driven to take. The brain is energetically “expensive” to run, and just like those energy-saving refrigerators, it’s engineered to avoid sucking up power unnecessarily — like by keeping us from doing a lot of thinking when we can get away with just a little. Accordingly, Epley finds that in perspectivetaking, we’re prone to come up with a quick and dirty guess about what another person wants and just run with it. But even in making this guess, our mental laziness tends to be pretty epic. We typically don’t even start by considering what they might want. We start with what we’d want, make a few minor adjustments, and tell ourselves it’s what they’d want. Helpfully, all of this goes on subconsciously; we don’t step back from the tepid whirrings of our mind and realize that we’re short-shrifting our friends. We might catch our errors before we sent a friend off into the jaws of a helldate if we did the responsible thing and checked our mental work — “Hmmm, is he really the sort of guy she’d want?” — and then made any necessary adjustments. However, we aren’t about to put our precious cognitive resources into adjusting judgments we’ve already settled on. So, Epley explains, “insufficient adjustment” — a failure to look closely at our judgments of others’ perspectives and make corrections — is “the rule rather than the exception.” In other words, the sort of man your friend fixed you up with probably has less to do with how he appraises you than how mentally lazy we all evolved to be. It’s generally wise to expect others to be pretty bad at figuring out what you want. Telling somebody what works for you can sometimes be helpful (if they don’t just nod their head and give you what’d work for them). Accordingly, you should prepared for fixups to be horror fests — killing seasons for your psyche. However, you might just get lucky — get matched with somebody great. So, consider whether getting fixed up might be worth it, despite the risk of evenings spent biting your lip to keep from blurting out: “Dude. The line isn’t, ‘If you love something, make its ears bleed.’”

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MARCH 9 - MARCH 15 BY ROB BREZSNY

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): I suspect your fantasy life will

be especially potent in the coming weeks. Your imagination will have an enhanced power to generate visions that could eventually manifest as actual events and situations. On the one hand, that could be dicey, because you can’t afford to over-indulge in fearful speculations and worried agitation. On the other hand, that could be dramatically empowering, because your good new ideas and budding dreams may start generating practical possibilities rather quickly.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A traditional astrologer might say that you Sagittarians typically spend less time at home than any other sign of the zodiac. Some of you folks even rebel against the idea that having a stable home is a health-giving essential. You may feel that you can’t be totally free unless you always have your next jaunt or journey planned, or unless you always have a home-away-from-home to escape to. I understand and appreciate these quirks about your tribe, but am also committed to coaxing you to boost your homebody quotient. Now would be a perfect time to do that. You’re more open than usual to the joy and power of cultivating a nurturing home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The more

crooked the path, the faster you’ll get to where you’re going. Every apparent detour will in fact be at least a semi-valuable shortcut. Any obstacle that seems to block your way will inspire you to get smarter and more resourceful, thereby activating lucky breaks that bring unexpected grace. So don’t waste even a minute cursing outbreaks of inconvenience, my dear, because those outbreaks will ultimately save you time and make life easier. (P.S.: During the coming weeks, conventional wisdom will be even more irrelevant than it usually is.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was a young adult, I was unskilled and indigent. Many restaurants exploited my feeble prowess at washing pots and pans and dishes, but the meager wage they paid me barely kept me fed and housed. You will perhaps understand why, now that I’m grown up, I am averse to cleaning pots and pans and dishes, including my own. That’s why I pay a helper to do that job. Is there an equivalent theme in your own life? An onerous task or grueling responsibility that oppressed you or still oppresses you? Now is a good time to find a way to declare your independence from it.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Giacomo Puccini’s

famous opera Tosca premiered in 1900. It featured a heroine named Tosca. In 1914, Puccini’s favorite Tosca, a soprano singer named Maria Jeritza, was performing in a production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. As she got ready to sing an aria entitled “I Live for Art,” she stumbled and fell. Rather than struggle awkwardly to rise, she pretended that this was all quite natural—called for in the script. She sang the entire piece while lying on the floor. Puccini loved it! Ever since then, most of the singers who have played the role of Tosca have sung “I Live for Art” while prone. I suggest you regard this as an inspirational teaching. What lucky accidents could you make into permanent additions or enhancements?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet Gary

Snyder said, “Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.” Personally, I think that many of us, not just philosophers and writers, do the same thing. Are you one of us? Your first assignment during the next four weeks will be to explore whether you do indeed tend to convince yourself that you like the cage you were tricked into entering. Your second assignment: If you find that you are in a cage, do everything you can to stop liking it. Third assignment: Use all your ingenuity, call on all the favors you’re owed, and conjure up the necessary magic so that you can flee the cage.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Your body is not

a temple,” declared author and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. “It’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” I half-agree with him. I’m deeply devoted to regarding the body as an amusement

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park. It should be a source of endless fun and enjoyment. We have the right—indeed, I’d say a duty—to wield our bodies in ways that immerse us in the mysteries and miracles of pleasure. But here’s where I disagree with Bourdain: I believe the body is also a temple that deserves our reverence and respect and protective tenderness. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Gemini, is to raise your commitment to treating your body as both an amusement park and a holy temple.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Early in his

career, Cancerian painter Jean-BaptisteCamille Corot (1796–1875) sold only a few paintings. But eventually his luck improved. Once he was financially successful, he became very generous. He wielded his influence to get jobs for other artists, and mentored many artists, as well. Sometimes he added a few dabs of paint to the finished works of younger, struggling painters, then signed the canvases with his own name so that the works could more easily be sold. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to adopt your own version of Corot’s approach toward those around you who could benefit from your help and support. (P.S. It’s in your selfish interest to do so, although the reasons why may not be clear for a while.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Composer Brian Eno

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has testified that African music underlies and influences much of his work. He exults in the freedom and unpredictability it encourages. Why? Here’s one reason: In African songs, there are often multiple rhythms. And they’re not locked together; they float freely in relationship to each other. Eno says this is different from Western music, whose salient quality is that all the rhythmic elements are contained “in little boxes”—locked into a tyrannically mechanical clockwork pattern. According to my reading of the astrological omens, dear Leo, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to experiment with Eno’s insight. How? Escape mechanical clockwork patterns and activate the “multiple, free-floating rhythm” metaphor in everything you do.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you interested

in enhancing your mastery of togetherness? Are you open to my suggestion that you should seek out practical education about the arts of intimacy? Would you be willing to meditate on how you might bring additional creativity and flair into your close alliances? If you answered yes to those questions, the next six weeks will provide you with ample opportunities to dive in to all that fun work. “Collaboration” and “cooperation” will be words of power for you. “Synergy and symbiosis” should be your tender battle cry.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As you come to the climax of your Season of Good Gaffes and Lucky Bloopers, I’ll remind you of folk singer Pete Seeger’s definition of a “productive mistake.” He said it had these five qualities: “1. made in the service of mission and vision; 2. acknowledged as a mistake; 3. learned from; 4. considered valuable; 5. shared for the benefit of all.” Let’s hope, Libra, that your recent twists and turns fit at least some of these descriptions!

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

consider making one more push, Scorpio? Can I coax you to continue your half-confusing, half-rewarding quest? Are you willing to wander even further out into the frontier and take yet another smart risk and try one additional experiment? I hope so. You may not yet be fully convinced of the value of these forays outside of your comfort zone, but I suspect you will ultimately be glad that you have chosen what’s interesting over what’s convenient. P.S. In the coming weeks, you could permanently expand your reservoir of courage.

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