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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. Email info@northernexpress.com and hit send! Kudos to TC Board of Commissioners I attended the Sept. 23 Traverse City Commission meeting. They rock. First, all are on board with working toward 100 percent renewable energy for Traverse City! Second, they support the On-Bill Financing Program that will provide city residents a chance to upgrade things like their furnace, windows, and gas at a low interest rate and billed through their utilities. This will stretch their payment out and, in the long run, provide them with lower energy bills. Lastly, they all supported the Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act of 2019, HR763. This act, put forth in the U.S. House of Representatives, with much work by the region’s Citizen’s Climate Lobby, proposes requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for the amount of carbon they produce. The money collected will go right back to all U.S. citizens. I applaud the commissioners for their work and decisions made to better this community and decrease effects of climate change. Jane Karel, Lake Ann Dems Are Ruining Us How do we save this country? By getting rid of the Democratic Party. I’ve been a Libertarian since about 1992, and it’s too bad we Americans have to choose the lesser of two evils, but at least Republicans stand up for your right to defend yourself. It’s too bad some of my Navy buddies I smoked dope with in the ’70s might be in jail in their home states. Republicans are bozos on social issues, that’s for sure, but until those wimpy Democrats legalize drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, we must re-elect Trump. These Trump haters are the sorriest people out there. Remember the childhood obesity crisis? Opioids? Plastic waste? Checked the San Diego newspaper the other day, and those people out there are getting hammered by the climate change nonsense. Heard any locker room talk lately? Greg Doornbos, Traverse City Cheboygan’s Big Boom a Bust? “Cheboygan’s Big Boom” was the headline [Sept. 23 issue]. It rang true only to those who use the expression a “Chamber of Commerce summer day.” The Chamber Director claims an average of one new business every month for the last three years and “$500 million dollars in tourism dollars that go through Cheboygan County each year.” Through must be the operative word. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), an entity that promotes itself and Michigan business and
tourism, has another, more believable story. The most recent 2017 Tourism Economic Impact reported by the MEDC reports that Cheboygan County’s total visitor spending — for lodging, food and beverage, retail, recreation, and transportation — is $97.13 million. The $31.47 million dollars reported for lodging is not just money spent for hotel, motels, and camping; it also includes the dollar value of every second home in Cheboygan County. That total of $97.13 million dollars is less than 20 percent of the sunny $500 million reported by the Chamber of Commerce. How did the MEDC, an entity known for self-promotion, miss the other $400 million dollars? The chamber of commerce cannot give you the facts; only the sunny days. What does Cheboygan have going for it? The pluses are woods, trails, big lakes, little towns, friendly people, affordable housing, and a pace of life rooted in procrastination and inaction. What are the minuses? No hospital, no Meijer, no freeway access, no rail access, limited shopping options, high gasoline prices, poorly ranked public schools, limited career opportunities and few living wage jobs. The elected community leaders say, “My grandpa did it this way. It was good enough for him, and it’s good enough for me.” What do the followers say? Nothing. Carl Muscott, Indian River Just the “Facts,” Ma’am It appears that most Northern Express letter writers need to become better informed. People need to know that our president supports and has the support of our police, military and first responders. People need to know that our president did not accuse immigrants of being killers or rapists; he was speaking only of those that have and are coming into our country illegally. Rule of law! People need to know that less than 10 years ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer and former Vice President Joe Biden were totally for building border walls, and the so-called cages and separation of children started under President Obama. People need to know that the media puts the story out and later retracts it because it was always a lie. The people never see or hear the retraction. Good example: U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff has the audacity to read in front of millions what was supposedly the phone conversation with Ukraine and the president. Total lie! People need to know that the so-called climate change is a hoax. There has been climate change since the time of God’s creation. Check how all the global warming people live and open yourself up to reading what real scientists are writing. Facts! Before closing, I am asking the Democrats in the crowd to list those 12,000 lies that you claim the president is guilty of. Please back it up with your sources, and that does not mean Snopes. And do not sniffle that he said Mexico will pay; Mexico is helping with border control, and your elected officials refuse to do it. Cheap labor. Rebecca Carlson, Rapid City. Dems or Commies? With all the great Democrat cure-all’s being professed to their socialist base and worse — communists — let’s start with Beto [O’Rourke] who has now openly confessed to wanting to confiscate your guns like the tyrants of Venezuela and elsewhere. Anybody keeping up with how the Venezuelans appreciate fighting their
tyrannical dictator [Nicolás] Madura without guns or bullets? While that was ongoing, Bernie [Sanders] quite proudly comes out for the killing of third-world babies in the effort to curb them darn CO2s. You see, you got to understand that those evil babies breathe and, in doing, exhale CO2, causing a carbon footprint. That itself in turn causing the evil climate change and pushing their man-made media climate narrative. Now if that didn’t lift an eyebrow, maybe Mayor Pete [Buttigieg’s] tossing arrows at most in America that enjoy a juicy burger or steak. They, too, are guilty of a Mother Earth assault as cows pass gas, causing that same CO2 climate change reaction. By enjoying that juicy burger, you should feel guilty and ashamed. Do you? Do you understand where this is going, America? Note that the leftist United Nations wants us eating more bugs and cockroaches. Doesn’t that sound tasty! Finally, the best of all, an accomplished Swedish professor held in high esteem by such leftist “thinkers” now proposes eating humans and becoming cannibals! Is that where you want our country heading? Is it? If so, out with the burgers and in with filet of Grandpa! Fried, roasted, or grilled, but do we marinate him? God save us. Brian Spencer, Traverse City Vote Yes for Leelanau Kids Leelanau County ranks very high, statewide, in caring for its children — in great part because nonprofits have scraped together funds to provide playgroups, homevisits, and resources for parents. We recognize prevention is more effective and less costly than remediation. We know how to do this. However, current private funding is not sustainable or sufficient. A road map along the lines of the award-winning Parenting Communities exists. A “yes” vote for the Early Childhood Services Millage allows the health department to offer universally available and individually tailored early childhood services to strengthen families that wish to participate. Vote yes on Nov. 5.
CONTENTS features Crime and Rescue Map......................................7 Is Traverse City Ready for FishPass...................10 Old Mission’s Peninsula Grill...........................15 Line 5..............................................................16 Is Hunting and Fishing Dead...........................19 The Right Wine, Right Now.............................20 Seen.......................................................22 “We Are in a War Zone Against this Disease”....24
dates................................................25-30 music Four Score.....................................................31
Nightlife.........................................................35
columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................5
Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion..............................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................34 Film................................................................32 Advice..........................................................36 Crossword...................................................36 Freewill Astrology..........................................37 Classifieds..................................................38
Marian Kromkowski, Suttons Bay You First I read, with interest, the letter blaming most of our social problems on overpopulation. This is not the first time that I’ve read this type of thing; it’s not new. But there is one common thread running through this type of thinking: They always want to start by killing babies, and they always exclude themselves from the solution. R D Johnson, Frankfort Ode to Eighth Street The Eighth Street improvement in Traverse City is such a success, so much that we — friends who ride the No. 2 BATA bus now back on Eighth Street — have started a word game inspired by its “smooth ride.” Join in with appropriate analogies, such as: He is so smooth, as “smooth as Eighth Street.” How is your smoothie cocktail? It is as “smooth as Eighth Street.” How was your airplane flight into Traverse City? It was as “smooth as Eighth Street.” Thank you to the smooth operators of Eighth Street: Traverse City commissioners, staff, and contractors. Happy motoring, bilking, and walking, Traverse City!
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top ten 10 Cents a Meal Program Axed The 10 Cents a Meal program, an effort led by Traverse City-based Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities to get fresh, local food into school cafeterias, has fallen victim to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s budget axe. The program was eliminated from the state budget in a flurry of nearly 150 line-item vetoes handed down by Whitmer in response to a stalemate with Republicans over how to prioritize state spending. As legislators negotiate over how to cobble a budget back together, it is possible the program could be resurrected. Groundwork is lobbying for people to call their representatives to express their support. Groundwork says the program is a win-win for the state’s students, who get healthier food, and its farmers, who get access to an expanded marketplace. The program provides matching grants to schools to purchase Michigan-grown fruits, vegetables and dry beans.
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Charlevoix apple fest Charlevoix’s 41st Annual Apple Fest will be held Oct. 11-13 in three different locations: East Park, Bridge Park, and on Mason Street Area orchards will be set up with more than 30 types of apples, a variety of fall harvest items, and more. There will also be an Art & Craft Show, petting farm, real camel, Pine River Jazz Band, and Apple Fest Fun Run. Info: charlevoix.org
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It’s that time of the year when the broadcast networks launch their new fall TV lineups in a desperate bid for relevancy. And while many of the shows coming from the Big 4 will ultimately prove to be forgettable filler, Stumptown is definitely one of network TV’s new standouts. The perfect blend of procedural formula and gritty, witty storytelling, this detective drama stars Colbie Smulders of How I Met Your Mother and Marvel film fame (definitely the main reason this show works as well as it does). She plays a former Marine with a gambling debt, a drinking problem, and a pretty severe undiagnosed case of PTSD who becomes Portland, Oregon’s, newest private investigator. With a likeable and strong supporting cast (including Jake Johnson of New Girl), wisecracking patter, sharp writing, and hard-boiled noir, this is one to turn the dial for. Wednesdays on ABC.
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Traverse City folks in search of an “Easy like Sunday Morning” breakfast will find no easier return on investment than schlepping their bedheads to the nearest BATA bus stop with Village Loop Service to Suttons Bay (Route 10) for a hands-free, bayside ride to the town’s Village Inn Grill. On a recent Sunday morning, our editor piled her crew into the 9:38am northbound bus, caught at the Cherry Bend/Leelanau Studios stop. With backroom fireplace roaring and breakfast buffet steaming, the V.I. did not disappoint. All enjoyed their meals but the clear winner was the V.I.’s vegetarian tacos: two house-made tortillas loaded with scrambled eggs, onion, tomato, and cheese, with a rich ancho creme, fresh, spicy cilantro salsa, and a hefty spread of just-right crispy-soft hash browns on the side ($11). Not too heavy, but filling enough to spend the rest of the day tooling around town on bikes (the BATA bus will haul you and them for just $3 per person; kids 5 and under are free), then pedaling the flat and paved Leelanau Trail back to Traverse City. Find bus routes, schedules, and buy tickets at www.bata.net; find the V.I. Grill at 201 N. St. Joseph St., in Suttons Bay. (231) 271-3300, www.vigrill.com
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Mountain Bike Trail Coming to Petoskey?
The Little Traverse Nature Conservancy wants to build a mountain biking trail closer to home. They’ve nearly reached a goal to raise $200,000 to construct a 6.29-mile trail just outside of Petoskey. If all goes as planned, construction should start next June or July, and the trail could be open by fall, said Emily Hughes, membership coordinator. Hughes said staff at LTNC recognized that mountain bike enthusiasts in Petoskey often drove to Boyne City to ride, so they started looking for a place to locate a mountain bike trail nearby. They partnered with the Top of Michigan Mountain Bike Association and together developed plans for a trail on the 236-acre Tanton Family Working Forest Reserve. Rock Solid Trail Contracting, LLC, which built the famous Copper Harbor mountain bike trails, has signed on to build the trail. “This is a unique project for us. We’ve never done a mountain bike-specific trail,” Hughes said. “We started to look at properties with that eye, and this checked all the boxes.” LTNC has already raised 98 percent goal. To help get them over the top, visit their website at www.landtrust.org.
Beer and Art … and Food and Film and Deals in Frankfort Do you know what makes a painting of a sublime northern Michigan landscape even more stunning? Just add beer. Trust Frankfort’s Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts — aka Oliver Art Center (OAC) — in Frankfort, which is once again featuring a pop-up exhibition of beerthemed artwork, titled ExhiBEERtion II, during Frankfort’s upcoming beer week, Oct. 7–12. Some pieces are inspired by local brews, a few are made of cans and bottle caps, and several are beautifully rendered landscapes featuring beer. If you’re more into performance art, simply meet up with your muse for any of Frankfort Beer Week’s other insanely artful beer events. We highly recommend the Chefvitational Beer Dinner, a multi-course meal prepared by prominent Michigan chefs who have chosen a Stormcloud beer to pair with each dish (Oct. 7, Rocks Landing); the screening of For the Love of Craft documentary, which features founders of breweries like Bell’s, Union Craft, Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, and Boston Beer Co. (7pm, The Garden Theater); and sampling many beer-infused foods and draft beer specials at multiple area eateries. Learn more and craft your craft beer itinerary at www.frankfortbeerweek.com.
Stuff we love Apple Cannons So far, we’ve got pumpkin carving, pumpkin chucking, and even some pumpkin catapulting in northern Michigan, but the new Nomad Farm Market in Williamsburg has given us yet another fall-fabulous activity with which to test your skills and expel some mild aggression: apple cannons. The latest in autumn-produce artillery, Nomad’s apple cannons enable both kids and adults to fire a bucket’s worth of apples — roughly 12 to 15 of ’em — for just $5. Afterward, you and yours can pick your own kinder, gentler apples and pumpkins on the farm, or treat yourself to the market’s doughnuts, pies, and other baked goodies, plus apple cider and cider slushies. (Note: There’s no hard cider yet; it’ll come later this spring, when Nomad’s on site cidery and tasting room is targeted to open.) In the meantime, plan to fill your day and belly at Nomad’s official grand opening and fall celebration, complete with food trucks, Oct. 26. Find Nomad — formerly Hoxsie’s Farm Market — on M-72, just east of US-31. (231) 267-9087, www.nomadcidery.com.
8 Bottoms up Higher Grounds’ Pumpkin Pie Con Panna Is it dessert? Is it coffee? Is it for morning? Afternoon? Doesn’t matter — Higher Grounds’ Pumpkin Pie con Panna is the taste of autumn Up North we all need in our lives, and exactly what America’s pumpkin-pie-spice-infused everything wishes it could be. Witness: At cup bottom, a robust pool of organic, fair-trade espresso — with an unexpectedly sunny tang we loved — topped with several full-bodied whorls of whipped cream, drizzled with a syrup crafted from real pumpkin puree and real spices (not a scoop of artificial pumpkin-flavored powder), and topped with a “pie crust” of finely crumbled Biscoff cookies. It’s sugar, it’s spice, it’s a rabbit-hole-like depth of flavor that manages to be sweet without being remotely saccharine. And it brightens any time of day with a proper buzz. Our only complaint: It’ll be as fleeting as the season itself. Get yours before winter bumps it off the specials board. $4 at Higher Grounds, 806 Red Dr., in The Village at Grand Traverse Commons. (231) 922-9009, www.highergroundstrading.com.
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MAKE THE INVESTMENT spectator by Stephen Tuttle Democratic presidential candidates touting universal pre-kindergarten and free tuition to state colleges and universities might be on to something. Now, if we could just get the politicians and bureaucrats to be equally interested in K–12 public education.
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Funding for public schools took savage hits during and after the Great Recession. As one of the biggest chunks of spending in every budget, it became a ripe target for the budgetcutters in state after state. Most are still trying to catch up; a dozen states are still funding schools below 2008 levels, and the rest are lagging behind inflation.
The Michigan legislature recently passed a budget with much fanfare and self-congratulations. It included $15.2 billion for public education, including per pupil funding increases of $120 to $250. It’s a tiny step in the right direction but is 25 percent below funding of 15 years ago when you account for inflation. And they still haven’t truly equalized funding.
It doesn’t help one bit our current Secretary of Education, Michigan’s own Betsy DeVos, has been about as helpful to public schools as a chainsaw is to a forest. She’s tried to cut spending for special education, preschool, and after-school programs, as well as meal subsidies. At the same time, she’s touted more spending for charter schools and vouchers. She’s especially fond of a program in Milwaukee that uses taxpayer money to send kids to private schools, including parochial schools. Our approach to public higher education has been equally troubling.
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We’ve also been told, ad nauseum, that a higher education is critical. College, trade school, or technical school are musts. And there’s plenty of research to back it up. People with educations beyond high school live longer, are less likely to be crime victims — they live in nicer neighborhoods — and over their lifetime can earn at least $1 million more than those without post-high school education. (Unions still have apprentice programs that
So, we’re told the very beginning of education and the end are critical to learning and life success. But if that’s the case, why aren’t both part of our free public education?
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doesn’t even support loan forgiveness for students who attended schools now closed, at least in part, because of their predatory loan practices.
Back in the early 1980s, then President Ronald Reagan’s budget director, David Stockman, decided higher education was a privilege that need not be so subsidized by the federal government. The administration made significant cuts. That was the beginning of the endless tuition increases and mounting student debt. Both continue unabated: Tuitions at public universities and colleges increased 64 percent in the last 12 years, and tuition is just part of the cost. Room and board, meal plans, and a blizzard of fees can double costs. Student debt now exceeds $1.5 trillion. Even efforts to relieve some of that debt have been met with resistance from Devos’ Department of Education (DOE). There is a program created to give loan forgiveness to graduates who have worked in public service jobs, like teaching or nursing, for at least a decade. Do a needed job for the community; we’ll help you out. Nearly 80,000 people have applied; 99 percent have been denied. DeVos
actually pay you while you learn an essential trade, but nobody talks about that.) So, we’re told the very beginning of education and the end are critical to learning and life success. But if that’s the case, why aren’t both part of our free public education? If pre-K is essential, then it can’t just be for those who can afford it. That sounds very much like the place where educational inequality based solely on economic inequality begins. That’s a problem that can be fixed with free, universal pre-K as part of public school systems. The same holds true for higher education. If we absolutely, positively must have it, as we’re told, then why are we forcing those students into strangling debt? As currently constructed, it is a remarkably shortsighted system. Public colleges and universities should be part of the free public-school system, too. Eliminating tuition costs isn’t impossible. New York University’s medical school recently eliminated tuition. The state of New Mexico will start offering free tuition to instate students attending public colleges or universities, once those students have exhausted state, federal and scholarship aid. So, how much? Free universal pre-K would cost $25–$30 billion annually, and free tuition would be closer to $80 billion, according to the DOE, which supports neither. It is a great deal of money but represents less than 2.5 percent of the $4.4 trillion federal budget. Simply closing many of the more extravagant tax loopholes would easily pay for both. Politicians claim they’ll do anything to assure every child gets a fair educational opportunity. Most are fibbing. We reserve the best education for those who can afford it at the entry level and for those willing to accumulate huge debt at the other end. If both are critical, we should all make the investment.
Crime & Rescue WOMAN SAVED FROM BURNING HOUSE A Kalkaska woman was saved when a state police trooper crawled into a burning house and pulled her out. Trooper Adam Whited responded to a house fire at 703 North Coral Street at 4pm Oct. 2. One of the bedrooms was on fire, and the home was filled with smoke when he arrived. Nonetheless, Whited crawled into the house under the smoke and pulled 62-year-old Denise Schroeter to safety, according to a press release. The woman regained consciousness and was taken to Kalkaska Memorial Hospital, where she was expected to survive. Whited was also treated for smoke inhalation. The home’s owner, who was away at the time of the fire, told police that there were five dogs, three pet birds, and two hamsters that perished in the fire. SHOTS FIRED LEAD TO ARREST Police said a 24-year-old Bear Lake Township man fired a gun twice into the ground during an argument with a
woman. Manistee County Sheriff’s responded to a residence near Bear Lake’s Dollar General Store at 10:15am Oct. 1; the man was found in his residence and initially refused to come out, according to a press release. The woman, age 19, told deputies that she feared for her life and for the safety of her children, a 3-year-old and 21-month-old, as they fled from the suspect. The man left his residence and turned himself in peacefully an hour later following negotiations with central dispatch and command staff over the phone, Sheriff John O’Hagan said. The man faces charges of felonious assault and felony firearm. GUNSHOTS REPORTED AT TRAILER PARK Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies received “numerous” reports of gunfire at the Town & Country mobile home park in Garfield Township just before midnight Sept. 28. No injuries or damage were reported, though a bullet fragment was found in the rim of a parked vehicle, Capt. Christopher Clark said. Clark said numerous people called to say they heard gunshots followed by the sound of loud music and a vehicle speeding away. Deputies also received a description of the vehicle, which they tracked down at Carson Square Apartments. They questioned a 21-yearold suspect who didn’t deny firing a weapon that evening but said he did it while target shooting at Hoosier Valley. Deputies searched the man’s vehicle and found spent 9mm shell casings but no handgun. The case remains under investigation. HIT AND RUN SUSPECT QUESTIONED Cadillac Police tracked down a driver who took off after she crashed her vehicle into a 12-year-old boy. Officers were called at 5:14pm Sept. 27 after the youth was struck at the intersection East Pine and North Shelby streets. The boy had been waved across the street by
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the driver of a stopped vehicle but was struck by a second vehicle. The driver of that vehicle initially stopped but then drove away. The child was treated at the scene by EMTs and taken to the hospital by his parents. Police said they found the suspect the following day, questioned her, and turned over the case for prosecutors to review. DOGS REMOVED FROM FILTHY HOME Manistee County Sheriff’s deputies seized 29 dogs from a house after they were found to be living in filthy conditions. The county animal control officers received a tip about dogs living in their own feces and urine at a home in Maple Grove Township. Deputies found the animals — huskies and husky mixes — inside a house and a pole barn; they determined that the conditions the dogs lived in constituted neglect and abuse. They turned over the case to prosecutors. WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH A 71-year-old Williamsburg woman was killed while she rode in a car that was struck by a semi-truck at the intersection of US-31 and M-72 in Acme Township. State police responded to the crash at 12:05pm Oct. 1. They determined that the driver of the car, an 87-year-old Williamsburg woman, was headed south on US-31 when she turned into the path of a semi; her female passenger was pronounced dead at Munson Medical Center. The car driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries; the semi-truck driver – a 63-year-old Grayling man — was not injured. $500 OFFERED IN COW SHOOTING Someone shot a cow, and investigators want to find out who. Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies said there is a $500 reward for information in the case leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible. Deputies were called in July after a Holstein cow was shot. The owner told investigators that he had heard gunshots, possibly coming from a makeshift gun range on Center Street, in the village of Norwood. The shooting occurred at 9:30pm July 16. Deputies said they are now turning to the public because they’ve exhausted all leads in the case.
CHARGES: MAN ATTACKED 3 WOMEN A Kingsley man is accused of sexually assaulting three women in separate incidents. Ryan Patrick Cascagnett faces charges of first-, third- and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and faces life in prison if he’s convicted as a four-time habitual offender. In one instance, a woman told Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies that she socialized with Cascagnett so that her nephew could have a playdate with his son; while at his house in March, she said she drank a glass of water he offered her, then blacked out. When she awoke, according to the charges, Cascagnett was raping her; the woman told investigators she resisted and eventually escaped. In July, a woman who was Cascagnett’s exgirlfriend said Cascagnett convinced her to allow him to stop over at her house for a visit, though she said she made it clear she had no interest in romantic activity. She told investigators that when her back was turned, Cascagnett, who was then naked, attacked her from behind, throwing her on a bed, attempting to remove her clothes and groping her, according to the charges. The woman eventually got away.
In August, a different woman who once dated Cascagnett said he asked her for a ride following an argument he’d had with his wife, and she agreed. She let him sleep on a couch at her home and after she went to bed, Cascagnett snuck into her room, attacking and raping her, according to the charges. The 37-year-old was arraigned on the charges Sept. 30 and ordered held on a $100,000 bond.
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PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME ALMOST KILL YOU opinion bY Mary Keyes Rogers
Vibrant. Elegant. Handcrafted.
I wish I could tell you that on the many occasions when I’ve said, “Oh my God, I almost just killed that person,” that it was simply a figure of speech. But in fact, I do almost kill people on a fairly regular basis. Maybe I almost killed you.
are left dead or seriously injured, who really cares who was right and who was wrong? You know my killing machine is traveling alongside you, and yet you decide to take the gamble that nothing bad will happen to you and your flesh suit.
Countless times, I have been absolutely convinced that I’m going to kill, but through some twist of fate you’re spared, and we go our separate ways as if nothing almost happened.
So, what is the answer to this? What am I asking for here? No idea. I just know that when I encounter a confident bicyclist in these situations, I can’t help but wonder why they take the risk.
Every single time it almost happens, my heart beats out of my chest, and I feel gut-punched. I’m then left with this overwhelming feeling of
In my opinion, the stakes are just too high for bicycles and vehicles to coexist on heavily trafficked roadways. The fact remains that in
As the driver of a vehicle and the rider of a bicycle, you and I have equal rights and equal responsibilities. However, we do not have an equal chance of surviving when something goes wrong. oddly inappropriate guilt mixed with selfish relief that what almost happened … did not. During our brief interaction, I transform from an almost-killer back to a mom, wife, sister, good neighbor, and a basically decent person going about her business. You were lawfully riding your bike on a busy road. I was driving my car. Something quirky happened. I almost killed you.
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Sometimes, it is confusion of both drivers and bicyclists over the laws. Who has the right of way? Do I yield to the bike lane when turning right without a stop sign? State laws differ, but in Michigan, the driver must yield to the bicyclist. Because it is nearly impossible to judge the speed of an approaching bicycle while your vehicle is slowing down, this is a recipe for disaster. It is also just one of a million quirky situations that happen while bikes and cars learn to coexist. When they find themselves at crosspurposes, it’s anyone’s guess: “What is going to happen here?” Drivers and bicyclists usually have about two seconds to mindmeld and decide. I am hyper-aware of you bicycling on busy high-speed roads because I see you as a ridiculously dangerous wild card thrown into the mix of already distracted drivers, tourists unfamiliar with our roads, poor signage, and a threat to my happy life if I kill you.
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Are you in my blind spot? Are you going to stop at that stop sign? Where are you now? Do you know the rules of the road? Am I about to kill you? Again? Maybe you experience a surface change, or I unexpectedly brake to avoid another car that has swerved to avoid a pothole. You were not breaking any laws; neither was I. Here is my point: In these split-second moments where ambiguity rules, if anything goes awry between our differing interpretations of multiple factors, you are up against my one-ton killing machine. If you
these split-second moments of confusion or circumstance, my car will crush you. When I do kill you, the police will be called, and the officer will guide my head with his hand as I am placed in the back seat of the patrol car. Do you think I will be put in handcuffs? Hmm? I’m not sure. I’ve always known this was a possibility. So many close calls, it was bound to happen. Am I really a killer? Almost-killing runs in my family. This summer, my son was driving along Front Street in downtown Traverse City in the righthand lane when he unwittingly placed his killing machine into a perfect storm of bike vs. car. A bicyclist was completely within the rules of the road traveling in the bike lane to my son’s right, two or three car lengths behind him. Vehicle traffic slowed, the bicyclist maintained his speed, now advancing. And then it happened. The driver of a parked vehicle opened his car door into the bike lane. The bicyclist, within his lawful space and maneuvering defensively, attempted to shut the car door with his right hand as he collided and was thrown onto my son’s moving car. It wasn’t the bicyclist’s fault. It wasn’t my son’s fault. When a law-abiding bicyclist gets “doored,” anything can happen, depending on exactly where their body gets thrown. It is every bicyclists’ greatest fear. As the driver of a vehicle and the rider of a bicycle, you and I have equal rights and equal responsibilities. However, we do not have an equal chance of surviving when something goes wrong. Every time I almost kill, I pour my emotional mess in a little jar and place it on a crowded shelf labeled Why I Hate Bikes On Roads. Nothing personal. Mary Keyes Rogers is a Traverse City resident, host of The Experience 50 Podcast for Midlife, and blogger at Experience50.com
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Least Competent Criminals Two football-crazed fans of Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes couldn’t quite pull off a heist in Lawrence, Kansas, on Sept. 16. Pulling up to a McDonald’s, the two ran inside, grabbed a life-size cardboard cutout of Mahomes and ran out, stuffing the promotional piece into their car. Lawrence Police spokesman Patrick Compton told the Lawrence Journal-World that as they received the call about the theft, they were working a car crash nearby -- in which one of the vehicles just happened to have a Mahomes cutout in the back seat. Officers questioned the suspects and ordered them to appear for alleged theft. Flat Pat was returned to the McDonald’s.
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Bright Idea Paul Nixon, 51, is sought in Harris County, Texas, on charges of felony aggravated perjury after taking a novel approach to divorce. Nixon filed for divorce in February but forged his wife’s signature and the name of a notary on the legal papers, the New York Post reported. A judge declared the divorce final in April -- but the wife didn’t find out until May, when she noticed strange spending habits of his. “She started finding things showing that he was spending money on jewelry, so she confronted him and he told her that they were actually divorced,” Constable Mark Herman said. “They are still married. The fraudulent divorce papers have been retracted.” However, Nixon, who could face 10 years in prison, had so far eluded police. Compelling Explanation Kristine, 45, and Michael, 43, Barnett of Lafayette, Indiana, adopted a 6-year-old Ukrainian-born girl, Natalia Grace, with dwarfism in 2010. Nine years later, much to their confusion, they are charged with abandoning her. Within their first few weeks as a family, the Barnetts noticed that Natalia seemed to be older than they had been told, with a sophisticated vocabulary, pubic hair and menstrual periods. A doctor ordered bone density tests to check her age, and results suggested she was at least 14. So they began to treat her like a teenager. Then, the Barnetts claim, Natalia began making death threats against them. At a psychiatric hospital where she was treated, she told doctors she was much older and wanted to kill her family. “She was standing over people in the middle of the night. We had to hide all the sharp objects,” Kristine Barnett told The Daily Mail. In 2012, they legally changed her age (from 8 to 22) and helped her get benefits so she could continue to receive psychiatric care, and in 2013, with Natalia living independently in an apartment, the Barnetts and their son moved to Canada. Soon after, they lost touch with the girl. But inexplicably, a second set of bone density tests, performed in 2010, surfaced, arguing that Natalia was at that time just 8 years old, and she told police herself in 2014 that she had been “left alone” when her parents moved to Canada. Michael and Kristine Barnett surrendered to the Tippecanoe County Sheriff ’s Department on Sept. 18 and 19, charged with abandonment of Natalia. Wait, What? Paramedics responded to a home in Detroit on the evening of Sept. 21 where a man was suffering from a heart attack. But as they worked on the victim, another man took a woman into a bedroom in the home and stabbed her. Then he ran out of the house and, according to Fox2, is still on the loose. The woman died at the scene, and the heart attack victim did not survive. Police are still trying to figure out the relationships between the three people.
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A fish makes a futile attempt to jump through a fence at the Union Street dam.
Is Traverse City Ready for FishPass? The final piece of a decade-long project to return the Boardman River to nature is almost a go. But some residents are raising questions about FishPass, and they might try to stop it.
By Patrick Sullivan
SEA LAMPREY FEARS Grant Parsons, a Traverse City attorney and frequent critic of large development projects in the area, objects to the experimental nature of FishPass. He said he doesn’t want the Boardman River used as a lab experiment because experiments can go wrong.
itself to healthy fish and feeds — must be kept out of the Upper Boardman. Frank Dituri, the director of the Traverse City Department of Public Works who formerly worked for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians on the dam removal project, said concern over the experimental nature of the project is overblown.
Construction of FishPass, an experimental fish sorting lock system, along with the development of a park, a small amphitheater and kayak/canoe portages, represents the culmination of a decade-plus-long project to restore the Boardman River to something closer to its natural state. “This isn’t really experimenting with the river,” Three upstream dams have already been removed and the river that Native Americans Zielinski said. “It’s research that’s call the Ottaway is settling into something like a natural flow from the Brown Bridge going to go on below a barrier.” Quiet Area to Boardman Lake. Construction of the final stage, FishPass, an $18 to $21 million project, could begin FishPass will be a much more effective later next year, replacing the run-down, atIn an email to fellow FishPass critics, the-end-of-its-life Union Street dam while he wrote: “The rub: Nobody has ever barrier against sea lamprey than the existing also freshening up some parkland in the successfully done this and kept the lamprey dam, which needs to be replaced. While center of Traverse City. eels out. Lampreys sometimes climb fish there may be no lamprey upstream today, Or will it? A small but insistent group ladders, and they sometimes parasitically he said lamprey have breached the dam of folks have begun to question FishPass attach to sport fish and get carried upstream numerous times over the years. Indeed, the existing dam has historically and hope to stop the project before it on fish that certainly can jump up fish starts. Objections range from what kind of ladders. … Currently, there are no lampreys done a poor job of halting the sea lamprey. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has had fish will be let upstream to concern over in the Boardman above the Union St. dam.” the experimental nature of the project to One thing everyone on all sides of the to treat the Upper Boardman 17 times to complaints over the park’s design. debate agrees on is that the sea lamprey — stop sea lamprey infestations since 1963, Dana Nessel with Traverse City Mayor Jim Carruthers at a 2018 Pride Week event. an invasive, parasitic creature that attaches most recently in 2016, said Dan Zielinski,
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a computational engineer with the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission. FishPass will keep lamprey and other invasive species out because there are redundant fail safes built into the structure, Zielinski said. He said that the default setting of the dam will be “closed,” and two gates on the upstream side of the fish sorting channel will be equipped with an alarm to prevent that channel from opening up to allow access upstream. “We’ll never have an open pathway on the fish sorting side,” Zielinski said. Also, Zielinski said, the specs of FishPass make it a much more formidable barrier to sea lamprey than an ordinary dam. If the city were to construct its own dam, it would likely be rated to withstand floodwaters from a 25-year storm; FishPass is rated to withstand a 100-year storm. “This isn’t really experimenting with the river,” Zielinski said. “It’s research that’s going to go on below a barrier.” ESSENTIALLY, A FREE DAM Still, critics of FishPass are concerned. Deni Scrudato, a former city commissioner who is a member of the Lower Boardman River Leadership Team, which has been
A view of the Union Street dam from Union Street.
following the FishPass project but has not taken a position on it, said proponents of the plans have not done a good enough job explaining the safety measures. “Even the engineers are saying, ‘If this works, it will ‘blah, blah, blah,’” she said. “What if it doesn’t work?” she said. “This FishPass idea just seems to have come out of nowhere, and it’s superseded everything else. … There’s more questions right now than there are satisfactory answers.” Parsons said he agreed that the failsafe measures have not been well explained. “When can the public know what the intended method of screening is for all species?” Parsons asked. “I’m primarily against it because they will not tell us what the science is.” Scrudato said she is also unclear about how FishPass has been or will be approved by the city. Has the city already approved FishPass? Do commissioners still need to vote to approve the project? She said she doesn’t know. “It’s almost like everyone’s just taking the position that it’s a given, and that’s it’s just going to happen,” Scrudato said. Scrudato said she believes opponents should be able to demand that the project is put up for a popular vote. Since FishPass is slated to be built on land that is a city park, Scrudato said she thinks the project represents the taking of parkland from the city. “Isn’t this essentially disposing of park land, which requires a three-fifths vote of citizens?” she asked. “They are taking what is now a park and going to make it something completely different.” FishPass supporters consider the project to be a new and improved park. The question could lead to an interesting political/
philosophical debate: What is a park? In the meantime, Dituri didn’t have an answer when asked whether the city still needed to approve the final plans before they move ahead. He said city commissioners have been repeatedly updated about the status of FishPass. In other words, Dituri said, commissioners know how far along this project is. “Not only have they been updated, they understand that this is in continual design process,” Dituri said. “The point is, what this project will create is a better barrier.” What’s more, Dituri said, is that FishPass will be paid for with funding arranged by the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission. If Traverse City turns that down, the Union Street dam will still need to be replaced, and that will cost Traverse City taxpayers millions of dollars. “I believe that what we are doing on this river is the best thing for the river,” Dituri said. “We’re essentially giving them a free dam, a brand-new dam that will last for 50 years. … It will stop lamprey, and the deteriorating Union Street dam will not.” THE GREAT FISH SORTING DEBATE Parsons said even if designers are able to address all of his concerns about the science and engineering of the dam and fish-sorting system, he’s still worried that the project represents an attempt to build a means for letting certain fish upstream and keeping others out. He said he’s not against allowing native fish like sturgeon, pike, or bass to head upriver, but he doesn’t want to see steelhead or salmon invited into the Upper Boardman, and he thinks that’s where FishPass is headed. Zielinski said it is the ability to sort fish that will particularly enable this project
to achieve the outcome envisioned over a decade ago: to return the Boardman to its natural state while maintaining native fish species and keeping invasive species out. “This is the only solution to be able to complete the Boardman River dam removal project,” he said. Indeed, if FishPass goes ahead as planned, the focus of the debate around it will shift to what fish species should be allowed up, and which should be kept at bay. Ted Wendling, board secretary for the Brook Trout Coalition, a group formed over concerns about what fish are allowed upstream into Blue Ribbon trout fishing waters, said he is worried the Michigan Department of Natural Resources plans to let steelhead into the Boardman and that the result will be the decimation of the brook trout population. Wendling said from his perspective, the DNR tipped their hand in early 2018 and made their intention clear. “’There’s an insatiable appetite for steelhead’ — those were their words,” he said. “I would say they’ve tried to make a big show of being open and transparent, etc., but this has not been an open and transparent process.” The main concern over steelhead is that they will depredate and out-compete smaller trout for food. Wendling’s group is also concerned that the presence of steelhead will cause a stampede of fishermen to the river every fall, luring more anglers than there is space for them to fish. Wendling said he has already seen mayhem at some other popular steelhead spots on northern Michigan rivers. “In some cases, they’re actually fistfighting over space,” he said. Wendling said that he doesn’t believe it’s
debatable whether steelhead and brook trout can co-exist. He believes the science has been settled, and it shows that steelhead will decimate the brook trout population. “I don’t think it’s an open question,” he said. Joe Cruzen, president of the Traverse City Area Steelheaders, disagrees, and said he’s confident that FishPass will enable scientists to study whether steelhead and brook trout can co-exist before the river is opened to the larger fish. “I think the science needs to prove out that different species are compatible in the same body of water. Sometimes they are, sometimes they’re not,” Cruzen said. “The science needs to prove that out first.” FishPass will be implemented in a scientific, careful way, he said, adding that Traverse City is lucky to have been selected to be its home from among sites across the Great Lakes; if successful, FishPass could be a model for sorting fish in rivers around the world. “I think it’s an excellent plan, it’s a scientific plan, and the whole world is waiting to see what we do with it,” Cruzen said. DNR Fisheries biologist Heather Hettinger said it will be more than a decade before a final decision is made over whether to allow steelhead into the Upper Boardman. That’s how long she said she expects the FishPass experimentation stage to last. After that, data from the experiments and public input will be used to determine whether steelhead — and, for that matter, other species like walleye or lake sturgeon — will be allowed upstream. She said the experiment stages will “not necessarily” involve periods of upstream steelhead migration. On the other hand, she said if steelhead are let up, and negative
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consequences are observed, FishPass will allow the dam operators to halt the flow of steelhead. “I think the big thing is that this is a really long-term project. I think in a lot of our initial meetings, folks thought we were going make a decision right now, and that was the gospel,” she said. Members of the Brook Trout Coalition have noted that Hettinger may be biased because she is a member of the steelhead group. Hettinger said that’s not so. She said she joined because she supports fishing of all kinds. “If it would have been a bass group, I would have joined it too,” she said. “I would counter with the fact that a number of the members of the brook trout group are also members of the steelhead group. … My job is to represent anglers of the state.” WHAT IS A NATURAL RIVER? Kathleen Stocking, a long-time Traverse City writer and environmentalist who lives in an apartment at Riverview Terrace, overlooking the Lower Boardman, said that she believes it is important to understand the history of the river in order to know how to treat it today. Once, the river flowed naturally, and its shores were home to Native American people; the arrival of European settlers saw the native people displaced and the river abused. “It was 200 years ago that Native Americans were living on the banks, right where I’m living today,” Stocking said. “I want people to know that this was not always something that belonged to people who own SUVs.” She sees FishPass as just another potential scar on the river. “These manmade installations involve more hardening of the riverbanks, which means fewer places for the insects that feed the fish,” Stocking said. “I believe Traverse City needs to revisit [this], … do some serious research and reconsider what to do with the river. This is an opportunity to think about how to protect and save the natural river, one that will not come again.” Christine Crissman, executive director of Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay, said that while her nonprofit advocacy group has not taken a position on FishPass, they’ve been following it and have asked for modifications to absorb stormwater runoff and reduce its impact on the river. She said there are aspects of the project that represent improvements for the river. Crissman said the kayak portage areas might raise concerns about how the river is used, but what’s proposed in the FishPass plan is preferable to what’s there now.
Proponents say the FishPass will be a more formidable barrier to the parasitic sea lamprey than the existing dam, which has been breached by the toothsome invader in the past (Upper Boardman infestations have been treated 17 times since 1963). But critics worry that the sea lampreys will attach themselves to the larger sport fish that FishPass will allow upstream, putting the river and its natural inhabitants at risk.
“Right now, it’s grass and dirt, and folks are going in anywhere in there and dragging their stuff across,” she said. “My thought is that anything is better than the way it is now.” Another frequent criticism of FishPass is that it will require the removal of 63 mature trees; but the project also includes plans to plant 120 new trees. The two-to-one tree replacement plan should be okay, Crissman said, as long as the newly planted trees are large enough to have an impact. “If the trees are fairly large, and the canopy is replaced in a few years, that’s bestcase scenario,” she said. Another concern, one raised by the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council, is the amount of sediment that’s built up behind the dam over the years, and its potential release when the dam is removed. Many worry it could be a toxic stew ready to migrate downstream and into Grand Traverse Bay. Crissman said she understands that the project engineers will remove as much of the sediment as is possible, meaning they should be able to get 80 percent of it. She is more concerned about the historic buildup that’s been there for decades than she is about the sediment that’s flowed downstream since the dam removal project began. Most of the newer sediment, she said, has been captured in Boardman Lake. Greg Riesig, chairman of NMEAC, said he believes that an environmental impact study should be conducted before FishPass can go ahead. Nonetheless, plans are moving steadily ahead. FishPass designs are currently under review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Once that is complete, probably later this month, Dituri expects that the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy will issue a permit for the project. That should clear the way for bids to go out in January so that construction can begin later in the year. “I believe that what we are doing on this river is the best thing for the river,” Dituri said. “It’s a gift. It’s an amazing opportunity.”
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Old Mission’s Peninsula Grill A food, wine, and deli destination — and bartending institution — in the middle of Traverse City’s prettiest wine trail.
By Craig Manning Located almost smack-dab in the middle of Traverse City’s 19-mile-long Old Mission Peninsula, the Peninsula Grill can fairly be described as “off the beaten path” for the majority of Traverse City residents — let alone for those around northern Michigan. From the base of Old Mission, Peninsula Grill is a 10-mile drive north along M-37. According to co-owner Jennifer Davies, though — who runs the restaurant with her husband, Mark Davies — the drive has come to be less of an obstacle for customers over time. “In the early years, it was hard to get people out here,” Davies said. “Even living where we were at the time [near the base of Old Mission], everyone would just go to town for dinner. They wouldn’t think to make that northward turn and head up the peninsula.” That was 2001, when Davies and her husband had left their corporate jobs in Detroit to open a restaurant Up North. The establishment they purchased, the site’s predecessor, was called Molly’s By Golly, but they rebranded it Peninsula Grill just in time for a Memorial Day weekend grand opening — perfect timing, considering the number of summer tourists who make the drive up Old Mission Peninsula to see the views and find themselves hungry along the way. The off-season, however, was tougher. Back then, the peninsula — and nearby Traverse City, for that matter — had far fewer residents and fewer year-round walk-in businesses to attract tourists. A RISING TIDE A few things have changed since. First, major housing development activity on Old Mission has brought a substantial piece of Traverse City’s population considerably closer to Peninsula Grill’s front door. But even more significant, Davies says, has been the explosion of wineries on the peninsula. As Old Mission Peninsula has morphed into a destination for wine tours and bachelorette parties, Peninsula Grill has ramped up its day-to-day traffic, too. “Our location, being in the middle of the wineries — which have tripled in number since we got here — has been really lucky,” Davies said. “A lot of the wineries are serving food now, small plates and things like that, so they compete, but they also don’t compete in terms of us being a full-service restaurant.” The result, Davies says, is that many wine enthusiasts who make the pilgrimage to Old Mission Peninsula will stop by Peninsula Grill
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when they inevitably need a bit to eat. The peninsula’s rising-tide-lifts-all-boats growth isn’t an accident, either. On the contrary, Davies says that the peninsula has become its own mini wine and food scene, where all the proprietors know one another and actively work to funnel customers each other’s way. Peninsula Grill has always done that, at least until they couldn’t anymore. “We used to be able to feature every local winery on our menu,” Davies said. “Now, we definitely can’t, just because there are so many. But I still feel that the restaurants and the wineries out here all work together and help each other. We send people to all the wineries, and the wineries send people to us, so it’s a nice working relationship we all have out here.” While Old Mission’s growing stock as a wine and food destination has certainly changed some things for Peninsula Grill, though, other things have stayed the same. Longstanding customer favorites — like the cherry chicken salad, the chicken penne pepper-jack soup, and the fried pita chips served with artichoke dip — have stuck around despite the restaurant’s twice-annual menu refreshes. The signature beer — the Motorboater, an IPA brewed in partnership with Right Brain Brewery — remains on tap. But perhaps most significantly, Johnny Rokos is still tending bar. A BARTENDER & INSTITUTION Davies says that Rokos is his own kind of institution among Peninsula Grill regulars. He’s worked at the restaurant for 25 years, dating back to its Molly’s By Golly days. When the Davies bought the restaurant, Rokos decided to stay on.
“We like to joke and say that Johnny came with the business,” Davies said. “It’s like an extension of his living room here. He loves to come to work. And if he doesn’t remember your name, he’ll definitely remember what you drink.” Rokos hearkens back to a different era of bartender, one where the job was just as much about forging long-lasting customer relationships as it was about mixing quality cocktails and hustling to get patrons their drinks quickly. He’s an X-factor that helps Peninsula Grill continue to thrive in the offseason, even when the winery traffic dies down for the year. “This is a local watering hole,” Rokos said. “And even with as good as the restaurant and the food here are, they’re made even better by the people we have as regulars here. It can be middle of winter, and the bar will be full.” If you do happen to find yourself at the Grill as the days get shorter and the temperatures outside get colder, Rokos certainly has the drink for you. Called the Johnny Java, the coffee-themed cocktail is Rokos’ own invention. It’s a mix of coffee, Bacardi 151 rum, Kahlua, and Godiva chocolate liqueur, topped with whipped cream and served in a sugar-rimmed glass. Rokos sets the 151 on fire as part of the preparation process, making it just as fun to watch him craft the cocktail as it is to drink it. It’s become a signature of the Peninsula Grill bar, in part because patrons will see the pyrotechnics from the dining room and request their own Johnny Java out of pure curiosity. “It can be 90 degrees outside, and people will still order that drink,” Rokos said.
In the same building as Peninsula Grill is another one of Old Mission’s most beloved culinary destinations: Bad Dog Deli. Known for its made-to-order sandwiches, which come stacked with premium ingredients like Boar’s Head deli meats and out-of-this-world chipotle mayo, Bad Dog Deli has established its own following over the years. In the early days, Jennifer Davies says that the deli “wasn’t the deli.” In fact, it wasn’t much of anything. When she and her husband bought the building, they weren’t sure how to use the space. “It was just this odd extension of the building,” Davies said. “There were arcade games, and I think we maybe had a pool table, but that was about it. A lot of kids would go back there to play, or we’d host private parties, but it was underutilized.” Eventually, the idea for the deli came to mind. Since then, Bad Dog has been serving the carryout dining niche in the Old Mission food scene. While customers can dine in if they choose, Manager Ardy Huey notes that most Bad Dog Deli patrons treat it as an express dining option. They call in their sandwich orders and pick them up 15 or 20 minutes later, usually taking them to go. It’s an especially popular option in the summertime, when customers are looking for an easy lunch to take to the beach or out on the boat. It’s not just sandwiches, either. Bad Dog also serves homemade pizzas and sells beer, wine, and other beverages to go. It’s the perfect spot to stock up on supplies for an impromptu picnic.
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The filmmaker behind the Line 5 documentary series By Ross Boissoneau Barton Bund couldn’t take it anymore. To be more precise, his dad couldn’t take it anymore. He decided it was time to — in his words — “make some noise” about the dangers posed by Enbridge, Inc.’s Line 5 beneath the Straits of Mackinac. “My dad was staying Up North [at the family home in the Harbor Springs area] and explained his idea to make some noise, get the attention of [former Gov. Rick] Snyder and [former Attorney General Bill] Schuette,” said the Ann Arbor-based actor and filmmaker. So, he began researching, writing and ultimately filming Line 5: A Complete Series, a three-part documentary about the dangers facing the state of Michigan should the oil- and natural gas-bearing Line 5 develop a leak or rupture. The film explores the ways the unpredictable currents around the 65-year-old pipeline (already 15 years beyond its expected life) would send oil throughout Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, fouling coastlines and devastating the environment. Bund is an actor and filmmaker based in southeast Michigan. He has numerous film and television credits, including featured roles in Chicago Fire, Low Winter Sun, Age of Ice and Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. His original film, Glenda, is also available online. Line 5 is his first documentary film. He originally went into the project seeking to arm himself and others with knowledge. He said like a lot of people he thought the Great
Lakes were established, well-protected and not going anywhere. To his chagrin, when he looked into things, he found they were indeed at risk, from everything from pollution to the waters being stolen. That started when he met with Beth Wallace from the National Wildlife Association. “Beth Wallace blew up the story for us, set it into motion,” Bund said. He began meeting with people and soon came to believe that not only was Line 5 dangerous, it wasn’t needed. “We try to dispel the myths the oil company had been feeding us,” he said. “The idea Michigan needs Line 5 is a fabrication.” For example, he said enough natural gas goes through the pipeline in a day and a half to provide all the fuel Michigan would need in a year. Bund began filming interviews and interactions with scientists, environmentalists and other sources, such as elected officials and those running for office. “We continued to contact lawmakers. A number of state representatives and senators became aware (of Line 5),” he said. “We learned Schuette saw it, but he did not respond.” Among the officials who supported the removal of Line 5 is Senator Gary Peters. “Senator Gary Peters is one of our heroes. He’s been right there,” said Bund. He said that is especially important as he sees himself and others fighting against the pipeline in the state at a disadvantage. “We’re up against the federal government,” he said.
Among those who did appear on camera were Abdul El-Sayed and Shri Thanadar, who ran against eventual Democratic gubernatorial nominee, now governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and Patrick Colbeck, who was defeated by Schuette for the Republican nomination, as well as Dana Nessel, who in her role as Michigan’s attorney general has filed suit to shut down Line 5. Public statements from Schuette, Whitmer and former Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley are also on camera, as well as underwater footage from the National Wildlife Federation. Bund said his decision to post the documentary on Youtube came down to wanting as many people as possible to see it. If he’d put it on Amazon Prime, for example, the potential audience would have been greatly decreased. “I wanted to arm activists,” he said. He came to believe that Line 5 was not simply dangerous, but a ticking time bomb, and the company ostensibly in charge of it wanted nothing more than to continue to use it. “Enbridge has no incentive to change,” Bund said about the Canadian entity. “This is not a company we should be trusting.” He doesn’t believe the idea of replacing the pipeline tunnel to is a good one either, though he acknowledges it might be possible and might be safer than the current pipeline. However, he is against the proposal to continue using the pipeline while a tunnel is built. “If we get the pipeline out, I would entertain the proposal for a tunnel,” he said, though he doubts its practicality. “I believe a tunnel
is impossible. It would be a world-record structure. It would be like a hotel on the moon.” Bund also takes to task the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. “PHMSA is not doing anything. If you’re not overseeing the most dangerous pipeline in America, what are you doing?” he asked rhetorically. Interested in learning more? Head to www. line5film.com, where you can watch the documentary in three parts and sign up to receive updates on Line 5 developments and notice of public screenings happening Up North.
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Two of the North’s favorite pastimes are on a steady decline. Why? And what’s that mean for our fish, game, woods, and waters? By Al Parker An avid hunter, Kevin Endres loves spending time in the woods and fields, maintaining a northern Michigan tradition of stalking deer and waterfowl. But that centuries-old pastime may be changing, The number of firearm deer-hunting licenses sold to Michiganders has dropped more than 20 percent in two decades, from a peak of 785,000 in 1998 to only 621,000 in 2017, according to a recent analysis from Michigan Technological University. “That sounds about right,” says Dan Doherty, owner of Jack’s Sport Shop in Kalkaska. “I don’t know if it’s 20 percent, but it’s definitely decreased in the past few years.” Doherty sells hunting and fishing licenses, mostly as a service to his customers since he doesn’t really make much money from the sales. On a national basis, more than 103 million Americans, some 40 percent of the U.S. population 16 years and older, participated in some form of fishing, hunting or other wildlife-associated recreation such as birdwatching or outdoor photography, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The data is from 2016, the most recent report available. In doing so, Americans spent over $156 billion on equipment, travel, licenses, and fees. That represents almost 1 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, creating and supporting thousands of jobs across the nation. More than 35.8 million (14 percent) of us went fishing in 2016, while 11.5 million (4 percent) hunted and 86 million (34 percent) watched wildlife. It seems as Michigan’s Baby Boomers slow down, interest in hunting and fishing is waning in younger generations. Other activities, it seems, are taking up their free time. “It’s youth sports,” says Endres, a Traverse City resident. “Every sport seems to have a travel team, and they go all over the state. Kids — and their parents — are not hunting as much. And with all that travel, it keeps Mom and Dad out of the woods, too… It’s a scheduling thing.” Endres is the youngest of four brothers who all hunted small game and went deer hunting in the fall over decades. He now has four sons of his own and three of them enjoy hunting, but between football and
cross country, they are kept very busy in the autumn. A duck hunter, Endres notes that the cost of hunting licenses has been rising too. “It’s not cheap. A duck stamp is $25 on top of the license. It’s easy to be $120 out of pocket.” Doherty, who has operated the popular Kalkaska hangout for outdoor sports enthusiasts for some 35 years, thinks the reduction is due to several factors. “It’s a combination of things,” he notes. “For one, the family structure isn’t there in a lot of cases. Families don’t do things together. And there’s computer and online games. And it’s not just hunting and fishing (with young people). You can’t get ’em to work, a lot of guys tell me.” Doherty notes that the threat of chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological disease that attacks the brains of deer, elk and moose, has kept hunters some from going after whitetails. Michigan has tested tens of thousands of deer for the disease since 2015 when it was first detected in the state and the Department of Natural Resources has found it in more than five dozen animals. Doherty doesn’t believe the price of the license is really a factor, noting that a small game basic hunting license for a Michigan resident is only $11, while a year-long residential fishing license is $26. On a national basis, hunting participation fell by about 2 million participants to 11.5 million hunters, according to USFWS. They spent 29 percent less on gear, from $36.3 billion to $25.6 billion. “Hunters and anglers are at the backbone of American conservation, so the more sportsmen and women we have, the better off our wildlife will be,” said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke in a prepared release. “Some of our wildlife refuges have great mentored hunting programs. I’d like to see these programs replicated and expanded across the country and reach into areas where kids don’t traditionally get the opportunity to hunt, fish, and connect with wildlife.” “In my opinion, most of this comes down to mentorship,” says Chris Butz, owner and head guide at Leelanau Fin & Feather, an outfitter shop for the sporting lifestyle in Leland. “Many sporting organizations have tried to bring mentorship and its importance to their membership in hopes of getting those of us that are lifelong hunters and fishermen
to take more young people out in the woods and on the water. However, as the cost of licenses has gone up, I fear that many aren’t buying licenses for their children because of the cost and trying to rationalize this with the few times that a child might actually go out hunting.” “I think that a second issue is the continued migration to the cities and metropolitan areas where hunting and fishing are not seen as ‘cool’ and the opportunities are more limited,” offers Butz. “There definitely is, in my experience, a difference in the mentalities between the rural lifestyle, where hunting and fishing are common and more a way of life, and the metropolitan areas where other sports and activities compete for our kids’ time.” Butz also believes that social stigmas might be affecting the drop in license sales, as society doesn’t advocate the advantages of hunting and fishing as time well spent with family or even the therapeutic nature of time spent afield. Fewer Michigan residents are legally fishing, too, as license sales went from a peak of 965,000 in 2009 to only 880,000 in 2014, according to a separate MTU analysis. Department of Natural Resources records show less of a clear pattern in fishing license purchases since it includes sales to residents of other states. Nationally, more Americans are going fishing, according to the USFWS. Its most recent report indicates an 8 percent increase in fishing since 2011, from 33.1 million anglers to 35.8 million in 2016. And total expenditures by anglers rose 2 percent from $45 billion to $46.1 billion. Michigan is second only to Florida in attracting out-of-state anglers, according to Dennis Eade, executive director of the Michigan Steelhead and Salmon Fishermen’s Assocation. “Hunters and anglers foot virtually the entire bill of conservation in Michigan and other states,” says Eade. “That’s because hunting and fishing license fees and surcharges are used to pay for the majority of wildlife management and habitat restoration in Michigan and across the nation.” That’s roughly $62 million a year in Michigan. “A continued decline of that base has huge implications for how we manage conservation of our forests and wildlife, our lakes, rivers, and streams,” notes Eade.
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The Right Wine, Right Now
Our trio of wine experts direct your palette and pocketbook, and offer the insights to arm you for your next wise wine buy. What’s the best wine to drink in the fall? How can you get the most bang for your buck at the local wine shop? What trends or challenges are currently shaping the world of wine? Northern Express tapped three wine experts to find out what’s tasty, trending (and a steal!) locally and internationally, which varietal is making a major comeback, and why canned wine is cooler than the average wine connoisseur might think. By Craig Manning Crooked Vine Vineyard & Winery in Alanson’s Petite Pearl Reserve — a dry red with notes of fresh dark fruits, a little spiciness and an extremely well-balanced mouthfeel — was bottled this June after spending more than 16 months in Hungarian oak barrels.
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OUR EXPERTS Our panel of wine experts includes three certified sommeliers from different segments of the Michigan wine industry. Ryan Rozycki is the sommelier at Traverse City’s Blue Goat Wine Shop. Travis Tache serves the northern Michigan region as part of Woodberry Wine, a well-regarded wine distributor. Finally, Cortney Casey is onehalf of the husband-and-wife duo that runs Michigan By The Bottle — which is both a website “devoted to exploring Michigan wine” and a series of three tasting rooms in the Detroit area. Here’s what the experts had to tell us: Fall is the ideal season for drinking Michigan red wines. As summer ends and winter approaches, most wine drinkers start moving away from white wines or rosés and toward more fullbodied reds. Autumn, the in-between, is the perfect time to enjoy a Michigan red. “It’s a common syndrome for people to brush off Michigan red wines and say that they don’t like them, that they’re too thin, that they’re too light,” Tache said. “But the types of really aromatic, delicate red wines that grow well here — pinot noir or cabernet franc, especially — are kind of perfect for this time of year. When it’s February, and it’s 30 degrees below zero outside, you are probably going to want something really robust, like your California cabernet or something from Bordeaux. But this time of year is a really beautiful transition. It’s not freezing out, but it’s also not 80 degrees. So, something that fits in between the whites or rosés and the full-bodied reds is a good bet. That’s when I generally see northern Michigan reds thrive.” The wine trend of the year? “Wines that are the wrong color.” Rozycki is in the process of planning a wine tasting event at Blue Goat that spotlights what he sees as the wine trend of the year: “Wines that are the wrong color” — aka wines made from red wine grapes that appear white. “Contrary to popular belief, the juice from a straight red grape is actually not going to be red,” Rozycki said. “There needs to be ‘skin contact’ with the red grape skins to make a truly red-colored wine.” Enter the “white pinot noir” or “pinot noir blanc,” two styles that Rozycki says
have become particularly popular among northern Michigan winemakers this year. The concept isn’t entirely new, but it’s mostly been seen in sparkling wine styles like blanc de noir. Now, the trend is creeping into still wines. “What’s going on there is that the winemakers are taking only the juice from the red grapes and discarding the skins,” Rozycki said. “Up here, Black Star Farms has what they call a ‘white pinot noir’; Big Little has a wine called Treehouse that is also a white pinot noir style; Chateau Grand Traverse has a version that they call vin gris. So it’s just a style of wine that is coming to light at the moment. It allows our producers up here to do something with pinot noir grapes that maybe aren’t all the way ripe. So it’s a reasonable alternative and a way to make a wine that people are still going to enjoy.” Wine consumers are getting more adventurous. All three wine experts say customers are getting more accustomed to venturing outside of their usual comfort zones when it comes to wine. Tache says he’s seen many of his customers shift away from the “staunch traditionalism” of familiar grapes like cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay, in favor of unfamiliar varietals or emerging wine regions like Slovenia. Casey agrees, noting that many of her customers have even gotten into the habit of requesting more obscure grapes. “I’m finding a lot of our guests are becoming more familiar with lesserknown grapes grown in the state, such as Blaufrankisch, gruner veltliner, Marquette and Petite Pearl,” Casey said. “This is truly thrilling to me. It seems not too long ago, all anyone wanted was cabernet sauvignon because they were so familiar with Napa.
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Now many of our guests are asking for these grapes by name. They’re great grapes, and they deserve the attention. I also hate to see anyone pigeonhole themselves into just one varietal or just one style of wine. I’m excited to see people venturing outside of their comfort zone and finding new things to enjoy.” Climate change is bad news for the planet but maybe good news for wine drinkers. Rising temperatures could spell disaster for the planet in the long run, but they also mean better wine in the meantime. Rozycki says that top growing regions like Bordeaux or the Rhone have had “hot vintages” every year since 2014 — and have produced consistent 100-point wines as a result. That same shift is lengthening the growing season in northern Michigan and improving the quality and quantity of the wine produced here. “We are definitely seeing hotter and hotter vintages here,” Rozycki said. “We’re seeing better and better fuller-bodied wines, with a little less manipulation. Usually, to make a solid red wine here, we’d have to have it in a barrel for a long time so that evaporation could occur. Then we’d add more wine in. Eventually, you end up adding a significant amount of wine, and as it evaporates away, it’s holding onto a lot of those important flavor characters. That’s what we’ve needed to do in the past to make, say, a merlot blend that would resemble similar wines from other parts of the world.
We’re not seeing that quite so much with the warmer temperatures. What that means is it should be easier to make those wines up here, and we should start seeing a little break in prices on some of those high-priced reds made in the area.” Rosé is still a hot commodity (and merlot is making a comeback). For years, it was hard to get consumers to drink pink wine. “People associated pink with sweet,” Rozycki says, a barrier that prevented rosés from gaining traction for a long time. Not anymore. Tache notes that Woodberry Wine has tracked 30-60 percent increases in rosé sales for each of the past few years. The only caveat is that most of those sales happen in the summer: Tache says that rosé distribution drops off by about 95 percent heading into the fall months. For the summertime, though, no wine order is complete without some pink wine. “25 years ago, rosé really didn’t exist on the market,” Tache said. “Now, it’s something you really just can’t go without on a [restaurant] wine list or retail placement.” At the same time, merlot — long the most scorned of the red wine varietals — seems to be making a comeback. Casey says that Merlot took a beating in the years following the release of the wine-centric 2004 film Sideways. In the movie, Paul Giamatti’s character famously proclaims: “If anyone orders merlot, I’m leaving. I am not drinking any [expletive] Merlot.”
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Now, enough time has passed since the film for wine enthusiasts to give merlot a second look. “I know, personally, when I get a guest who claims to hate merlot, I urge them to try it again without preconceived notions,” Casey said. “And I find that, a lot of times, if people don’t know they’re drinking merlot, they love it. It’s really an odd psychological thing. I always try to urge our guests to set aside what they think they like mentally and let their actual palate do the heavy lifting.” Wine in cans is here to stay — and keeps better than bottled. Wine drinkers tend to be split on the concept of wine in cans. Some appreciate the convenience. Others assume that wine in cans is of lesser quality than wine in a bottle. Rozycki says canned wine can be both convenient and high-quality. “The quality of the wine is always going to be a winery thing,” he said. “You could, if you wanted to, put extra, extra good wine in a can. With the first few years of canned wine, that’s not what we saw. Now, though, we’re starting to see both premium cans and premium boxed wine. Since the Blue Goat is right by all of the beaches, cans are something that we definitely keep in stock for the entire summer. We’ll have that request a lot. People who would rather drink wine than beer on the boat or at the beach will get a can of wine. And storagewise, believe it or not, the can is actually a nice thing, because you’re not going to have any light degradation. There are certain things that direct sunlight can do to a bottle of wine; the can prevents that. Plus, if you don’t want to drink the wine straight out of the can, there’s nothing that says you can’t pour it into a glass.” Price is the biggest challenging facing the wine industry. When the Blue Goat hosts wine tastings, Rozycki says he will often have an $80 or $90 bottle of wine “kicking around” among several other less expensive options. “I’ll pour samples for people, and what I’ve realized is that people who have never tried something in that price range before, they kind of have their mind blown. They say something like ‘Wow, that’s really good!’” Therein lies what Rozycki thinks is the biggest challenge currently facing the wine market: an “ever-increasing divide between wines people can afford and the actually good wines.” “It’s getting to the point where you really have to spend the money to find something that truly gets you,” he said. “Most of the wines at the grocery store are meant ‘not to offend.’ And so that’s the experience that a
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lot of people have had with wine. The ‘It’s not bad, but it’s also not incredible’ wines. And I think that turns a lot of people away from wine. They say, ‘Oh, well I’ve tried wine on numerous occasions, and I’ve never really liked it.’ And I always tell people that’s partially because these wines aren’t distinct enough for you to be surprised by them.” Rozycki’s solution isn’t to push everyone to spend $100 per wine bottle but to focus more on stocking and recommending wines that deliver a lot of value. “There are certain countries and certain regions that are either up and coming, or they’re places where it’s just not as expensive to make wine,” he said. “That’s where you can find your value. Spain, Portugal, Argentina, and Chile: Those four countries have the best value in wine right now. Instead of a $10 bottle that got marked up to $20, you’re maybe going to find an $18 bottle that got marked up to $20. So these countries are punching above their weight class, making better wine than they need to make, and selling it for less than they might need to sell it for. And the result is that I’ve had some $20 Spanish wines that are absolutely mindblowing, whereas the $20 French wines — not so much.”
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Fire blight on an apple tree. Photo by Todd VanSickle
“WE ARE IN A WAR ZONE AGAINST THIS DISEASE” Climate change is fueling fire blight, and northern Michigan’s apple orchards are at risk. What is this contagion? What does it mean for the future of our fruit and orchards? And what — if anything — can we do about it?
By Todd VanSickle In southwest Lower Michigan in 2000, a disease called fire blight ripped through a large portion of the region’s apple orchards. The hot, moist spring weather helped the contagioncausing bacteria spread and resulted in the death of 400,000 fruit trees. In the end, the epidemic resulted in $42 million of losses, crippling that region’s apple industry. While Up North apple farmers empathized with their Lower Michigan counterparts, they were — back then at least — fairly safe from fire blight; our cold winters and springs traditionally kept the bacteria that causes fire blight, Erwinia amylovora, at bay. Climate change is changing that. Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center Coordinator and District Horticulturist Dr. Nikki Rothwell works with about 500 farmers from around northern Michigan. She said the bacteria is a real — and increasing — concern. Until recently, fire blight has been scarce in northern Michigan due to the cooler weather. But warmer, wetter temperatures — exactly what we saw during the heavy rains of late spring and early summer 2019 — is making fire blight more prevalent in the region. “These bacteria can crank up to huge numbers in a relative short amount of time,” Dr. Rothwell said. “It is driven by temperature. The higher the temperature, the quicker the bacteria can reproduce.” “Now that the climate is changing, and things warm up often earlier, it’s like a petri dish. We are seeing fire blight more often than we have in the past,” she added. “… Michigan has always had issues with fire blight, but
northern Michigan really hasn’t had to worry about it.” FIRE BLIGHT: SCIENCE & HISTORY There are two different types of fire blight: blossom and shoot. In both cases, the infected tree begins to turn brown, limb by limb, shriveling any fruit in its path and eventually killing the entire plant. Shoot blight occurs primarily in trauma events, such as hailstorms that rip up tree leaves, allowing the bacteria to enter through the damaged area of the plant. To make things worse, researchers and growers have seen a new type of shoot blight this season. The new version occurs when shoots grow so fast that the tender tissues of the tree are left vulnerable to the bacteria. Blossom blight affects trees in the spring when the flowers bloom and the bacteria colonize in the flower. The rain or heavy dew then washes the bacteria into the plant. Although it’s been gaining traction in northwest Lower Michigan Fire blight has been in America longer than apple trees themselves. Unlike dutch elm disease or chestnut Blight, which both came from somewhere else, fire blight is thought to have evolved on native trees in the Rosaceae family in North America long before apple trees arrived with European settlers in the 1600s. The fruit trees, which evolved in central Asia, had no defense against the North America born fire blight; the trees became infected by the disease, which gave them the appearance that they were on fire. “It is an invasive in reverse,” said Dr. George Sundin, a professor and tree fruit pathologist with Michigan State University.
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“In this case, we brought a new host, and the pathogen was here, and it jumped on the apples and pears. It was worse on those trees than the native species.” IN THE LAB For the past 10 years, Dr. Sundin has been ramping up his fire blight research. He has made breakthroughs with a plant growth regulator, which prevents the plant from growing excessively — something that could combat the newest version of shoot blight. The method mimics a hormone that not only controls the growth but also thickens the plant’s cell walls, making it more resistant to the bacteria. “We are in the war zone against this disease,” Dr. Sundin said. “It is not necessarily trial and error — it is things we know are effective, but they need to be more effective. If the disease takes off, it can spread so quickly.” Some other approaches include spraying a copper treatment on the tree, which has been effective but makes the apples russet in color — not ideal for the market. “Russet doesn’t hurt anything, but consumers are used to perfect fruit,” Dr. Rothwell said. Researchers are also exploring ways to deploy phages — naturally occurring viruses — to prey on the bacteria. “We have been looking at what kind of different phages are out there,” Dr. Rothwell said. “These are naturally out there, and they are naturally going to kill the fire blight bacteria.” Right now, growers typically combat blossom blight by applying an antibiotic to the tree to fight the infection, but time might be running out on that remedy; the bacteria
is becoming resistant to some antibiotics, like Streptomycin. There has been some success with other antibiotics but spraying also can be ineffective if it rains too soon after application and is washed off the plant. Note to worried consumers: The antibiotics, are used on a limited basis and sprayed on during bloom, which is three to four months before harvest. Any remnants of the application is gone by time the apples reach market. “There is no antibiotic residue on the fruit when it is harvested,” Dr. Sundin said. “It doesn’t impact what the consumer eats.” MONITORING BY THE HOUR Growers use an online weather map hosted by Michigan State University (enviroweather. msu.edu) that gives Epiphytic Infection Potential models on an hourly basis and measures the potential of how fast bacteria can grow. The weather stations that collect the data are located in farms throughout the state. “Consumers should know that growers aren’t just spraying for the heck of it,” Dr. Rothwell said. “They are spraying according to a model that is driven by research.” Fire blight isn’t new for farmer Travis Bratschi, who owns and operates Bratschi Orchards on Elk Lake Road between Williamsburg and Elk Rapids. But there is more of it this year. “It seems like every year we get a little bit of it,” Bratschi said. “Some years are worse than others. This year we have had it more extreme than what we have had it in the past.” Bratschi follows the MSU online weather model to determine when to spray. “We very much rely on that,” the grower
Dr. Nikki Rothwell points out fire blight on an apple tree at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center. Photo by Todd VanSickle
said. “We spray when the model tells us to. That is really our option to combat it.” The farmer uses a couple of different spraying applications including an antibiotic and a preventive chemistry that helps turn the plant’s defensive mechanisms on. Bratschi said this year’s wet conditions left most farmers spraying twice as much as they normally do. During a typical drier season, he estimates that he would spray about three times in a season. “Fire blight is among one of the biggest concerns from a spray perspective,” Bratschi said. “You have to be diligent. … It is better to be proactive than reactive.” COST AND LOSS Depending on the spraying application, the cost ranges between $25 and $50 per acre per each spray. “I wouldn’t necessarily say we are pushing
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those costs into the final product, because we aren’t setting the final product price, but from a grower’s perspective, it is decreasing our return because we have to spray more,” Bratschi said. According to the American Phytopathological Society, fire blight cost United States farmers $100 million in losses each year. Bratschi’s crops were infected more by shoot blight than the blossom blight, he said. “We are used to it coming in on a bloom,” Bratschi said. “It came in on that tender vegetative growth. I think we controlled it though.” He estimates that about 200 to 300 of his trees have been damaged by fire blight. Ultimately, Bratschi pulls the trees out of the ground and burns them. “In an older tree, there are some theories that you can prune it back, but with a
younger tree, it isn’t even worth battling it,” Bratschi said. A lot of Bratschi’s trees come from Washington state. It cost about $10 per tree to replant, but there are other costs, including the time and labor associated with replacing the tree. Bratschi’s crop primarily consists of Honey Crisps and Galas. All told, he has about 25 acres of apple trees. He said that fire blight is more consistent in the Galas, than the Honey Crisps. However, he doesn’t have any intentions of eliminating Galas from his orchards, but he will consider a different approach when setting up his next orchard. Bratschi started farming in 2011 when he planted blocks of apples in alternating rows by variety — four rows of Crispin apples, two rows of Gala, and so on. Moving forward he plans to have larger blocks of one variety, like eight to 10 rows of the same apple. He believes this could help contain the fire blight more effectively. Fire blight also comes in the form of cankers on the trees that ooze and attract bugs that then spread it to other trees. The closer the trees are to each other, the faster the bacteria spreads. “Each one of those ooze droplets have millions and millions of bacteria,” Dr. Rothwell said. Bratschi, like many other growers in the area, use high-density trellis systems. The fruit trees are very close together and produce high quality apples at a high rate. From an economic standpoint, growers prefer this system because the return on their investment is very good. However, the close proximity of the trees in the high-density trellis system comes at a high risk; it’s also very conducive to spreading fire blight. “The return on investment is not good if you get fire blight,” Dr. Rothwell said. “Those high-density systems make you money faster, and they pay you back faster, but the problem is the fire blight issue, which has the potential to cause an epidemic.”
WHAT’S NEXT UP NORTH Knowing how many trees have fallen victim to fire blight in northern Michigan is difficult to quantify. “We don’t really have good numbers in Michigan. It’s hard to do when a grower is amidst a situation where they are losing all these trees,” Dr. Sudin said. “It is kind of hard to say, ‘I would like to go and count all your dead trees.’ It is such an emotional thing for a grower, because it is their livelihood. We are mostly working with them to save the rest of their trees.” Locating hot spots is a little easier. Dr. Rothwell said the area east of Traverse City has been hit the hardest. Despite challenges with controlling fire blight, researchers remain optimistic in their fight against the bacteria. Rothwell said she doesn’t believe the region will see anything like the southwestern Michigan epidemic in 2000 but admitted there might be years where five to 10 percent of the trees Up North might have to be removed due to fire blight. “I think we are going to be able to manage this,” Dr. Rothwell said. “I don’t think this is going to be to the point where we aren’t planting apples in northern Michigan any more. … Technology will solve some of our issues, but I think fire blight is just something we will have to deal with. “Some years will be worse than others,” she added, “but climate is not on our side.”
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Michigan is the nation’s third largest producer of apples. There are more than 11.3 million apple trees covering 35,500 acres on 825 family-run farms in Michigan, according to the Michigan Apple Committee.
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SLEEPING BEAR MARATHON, HALF MARATHON & 5K RACES: 6:30am, Lake Michigan Beach Park, Empire. All races take runners past dunes, Little Glen Lake & the village of Glen Arbor. Enjoy views of the Manitou Islands & Sleeping Bear along the way. enduranceevolution.com/ sleeping-bear-marathon-half-marathon-5k
---------------------AAUW USED BOOK SALE: 9am-noon, United Way Building, Gaylord. At 11am on Sat., books are $1 a bag or by donation. Proceeds go to scholarships & educational programs for local girls & women. Free. gaylord-mi.aauw.net
---------------------EAGLES IN THE LOWER PENINSULA: 9am, Marina Pavilion, Elk Rapids. Jerry Weinrich, official bald eagle counter for state & federal agencies, & retired DNR biologist, will speak about the status of bald eagles in MI, the recovery of America’s avian symbol, nesting pairs in northern MI & more. Free. greenelkrapids.org
---------------------GIRLS IN AVIATION DAY: 9am, NMC Aero-park Campus, TC. For girls ages 8-17... join them as they learn about the aviation industry. Tickets are free but limited to 50 girls. eventbrite.com
---------------------LEIF ERIKKSON DAY ROW & RUN: 9am, Ferry Beach/Depot Beach, Charlevoix. A 1 mile boat race & 5K foot race fundraiser to celebrate the life of Leif Eriksson & the Viking way. This is a fundraiser for Charlevoix Schools Rayder Den. You can compete in the row & the run, or just one of the events. $25 advance; $30 day of. active.com
---------------------SKI & SNOWBOARD SWAP, HARBOR SPRINGS: 9am-2pm, Nub’s Nob, Harbor Springs. Downhill skis, cross country skis, snowboards, boots, goggles, race skis, & more.
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YMCA ART & CRAFT SHOW: 9am-2pm, GT Bay YMCA, 3700 Silver Lake Rd., TC.
---------------------10TH ANNUAL GREAT LAKES PUMPKIN PATCH DAY: 10am-7pm, Boyer Glassworks, Harbor Springs & Three Pines Gallery, Cross Village. Wander through an array of hand-blown glass pumpkins crafted by local artists Lynn Dinning & Harry Boyer.
---------------------ALDEN HARVEST DAYS: 10am-5pm, Downtown Alden. Store sales, scavenger hunt & more.
---------------------ELK RAPIDS ART BEAT: 10am-5pm. Open house gallery walk at Blue Heron Gallery, Mullaly’s 128 Studio & Gallery & Twisted Fish Gallery. Three $100 gift certificates will be drawn from those visiting all three galleries during the day. Festivities include guest artists & demonstrations.
---------------------FALL SALE & HAPPY APPLE DAYS: 10am6pm, Downtown TC. Merchants will have bushels of local apples to share with their customers.
FOOTHILLS 25, 10 & 5K: 10am, Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Run the single track, ski slopes & bike paths of Boyne Mountain. All races begin & end in the courtyard area, slope side from the Mountain Grand Lodge and Spa, close to the Hemlock & Mountain Express lifts. runsignup.com
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---------------------FRISKE’S FALL FESTIVAL: 10am-5pm, Friske’s Farm Market, Ellsworth. Enjoy the orchard, food, wagon ride & more.
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LEELANAU WOMEN ARTISTS’ ANNUAL FALL SHOW: 10am-5pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Featuring basketry, fused glass, jewelry & painting. leelanauwomenartists.org
send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com
---------------------SKITOBERFEST: 10am, Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls. Celebrate the coming winter with everything from ski gear, craft beer, food trucks, live music & performers, chairlift rides, bonfires & more. boynemountain.com
---------------------VASA SKI CLUB NORDIC SKI SWAP: Drop off your used (good condition) xc ski equipment on Fri., Oct. 4 during a happy hour at Brick Wheels, TC from 4-7pm. Accepting skis, poles, boots, bindings, roller skis, ski racks & ski bags. 75% of your sale proceeds go back to you. Go back on Sat., Oct. 5 from 10am-2pm to purchase from a selection of used cross country ski equipment. Free food & beverages both days. 933-1264. vasaskiclub.org/nordic-ski-swap
---------------------LIVE ANIMAL PROGRAM: 11am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Join Grass River Natural Area’s naturalist & meet live animals up close & personal, including reptiles, amphibians & insects. $5 per person or $15 per family. grassriver.org
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Cross the finish line with an unsquashed pumpkin on Sun., Oct. 13 at The Great Pumpkin Dash at Mt. Holiday, TC at 10am. While on woodsy terrain, you will venture through four fun obstacles. The Halloween Dog Parade will follow, with awards given for creativity, look-alikes and more. Proceeds benefit Mt. Holiday and Cherryland Humane Society. $25 for each event. greatpumpkindash.com
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VALLEY VIEW BREW FEST: 3-8pm, Valley View Farm, East Jordan. Live music by Full Circle, farmto-glass brews, food, yard games & children’s movie in barn. $10-$25. valleyviewbrewfest.com
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FORT FRIGHT: 6:30-9:30pm, Colonial Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City. Hosted by Mackinac State Historic Parks. Last admission at 8:30pm. $10 adult, $6 ages 5-12. mackinacparks.com
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EMPIRE HOPS & HARVEST FESTIVAL: 1210pm, Downtown Empire. Today features food, beer & live music by Wild Horse Music, Stellar Association, Jackpine, 5th Gear & The Benzie Playboys. $25. mynorthtickets.com YOUNG HEMINGWAY PORTALFEST: 12-4pm, Freshwater Art Gallery, Boyne City. A guided walking tour featuring street theater performers. After Glow, 4:15-5:30pm. 231-582-2588.
---------------------AUTHOR SIGNING: 1-3pm, Horizon Books, TC. Joyce Hicks will sign her book “One More Foxtrot.” horizonbooks.com
---------------------OMFA FIDDLERS JAMBOREE: 1pm, Kalkaska Senior Center. Open mic for all nonelectric instruments at 4pm. Round & square dancing (open to musicians, callers, dancers) at 5:30pm. 231-534-4377. Free.
---------------------65TH ANNUAL ELK RAPIDS ROTARY VARIETY SHOW: 2pm, Peterman Auditorium, Elk Rapids High School. Steve Stargardt & the Elk Rapids Rotary band, cast & chorus will team up with area groups including the Fitch Dance Company of Kalkaska, the TC Swing Club, Ballet Etc. and GUSTO. Benefits Rotary Good Works. $10. brownpapertickets.com
------------------------------------------CLASSICAL OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH IPR & HORIZON BOOKS: 7pm, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. Classical IPR’s Amanda Sewell will emcee the event. Hear classical music performed by your friends & neighbors in a relaxed atmosphere. Sign up by sending an email to: ipr@interlochen.org or calling (231) 276-4403. Please give the performers’ names & instruments as well as what pieces they’re going to play. Free. interlochenpublicradio.org/ post/classical-open-mic-night-ipr-and-horizonbooks-october-5-2019-0
---------------------GOPHERWOOD CONCERTS: ESCAPING PAVEMENT: 7pm, Cadillac Elks Lodge. Enjoy
folk, roots & Americana with this duo. $7-$15. mynorthtickets.com
POND HILL FARM CONCERT: 7-10pm, Pond Hill Farm, Harbor Springs. Live music by Last Exit, who rocks everything from The Animals to The Dave Matthews Band, plus more. Free.
SCREAMS IN THE DARK: 7-11pm, Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds, TC. From the Swamp of Suffering to The Mausoleum, there’s something to terrify everyone. $5-$15.
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THE STORYTELLER’S NIGHT SKY: 7pm, J.H. Rogers Observatory, NMC, TC. Join TADL & NMC’s Astronomy Department for a starry night sky viewing & storytelling presentation featuring Star Lore Historian Mary Stewart Adams, host of the weekly radio segment “The Storyteller’s Night Sky.” tadl.org
---------------------AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATRE PRESENTS “HARVEY”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage Theatre, TC. This is the story of an affable man whose only seri-
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ous flaw is that his best friend is a six-foot-tall invisible rabbit. $8 plus fees. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------FREE BELLYDANCE SHOWCASE: 7:30pm, NMC, Scholars Hall Theater (room 217), TC. The School of Rak Presents: The RAKtoberFest 2019 Global Bellydance Showcase: Chrysalis Featuring Sabah Saeed & other Michigan global Bellydance artists. Tickets: eventbrite.com Free ($5 suggested donation). RAKtoberFest.com
---------------------GREAT LAKES HARMONICA CONCERT: SANDY WELTMAN & TODD PARROTT: 7:3010pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. Having gained international recognition in the World Harmonica Competitions, Sandy is equally skilled on the banjo & ukulele. Todd’s soulful, gospel harmonica can be heard in churches & other events across the nation. $20 advance; $25 night of. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------DAMN TALL BUILDINGS: 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. The Damn Tall Buildings’ music stretches beyond bluegrass & American roots music. Before the show, ticket holders can visit the museum. Afterwards, meet the artists & enjoy light refreshments. $25-$30. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------“GO WITH THE GLO!” 5K/1 MILE: 9pm, The Trailhead, Mackinaw City. There will be prizes for the most glowing man, woman & team, as well as the biggest team. There will also be an “After-Glo Party” downtown. $25. mackinawchamber.com/event/glorun
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RAINBOW OF HOPE BLUEBERRY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: 8am-noon, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. $8 adults, $5 ages 5-10, free for under 5 years. Benefits Rainbow of Hope Farm. rainbowofhopefarm. weebly.com
---------------------CLASSIC CAR SHOW: 10am-3pm, Downtown Alden.
---------------------PETOSKEY - RUN MICHIGAN CHEAP HALF MARATHON, 10K & 5K: 10am, East Park, Petoskey. The courses will follow the Little Traverse Wheelway. runmichigancheap.com/ petoskey-edition-106.html
---------------------13TH ANNUAL HARVEST FESTIVUS: 12-6pm, Left Foot Charley, TC. Featuring winemakers in lederhosen, German Oompah music, horse drawn wagon rides, fresh cider & wine tasting. There will also be hot dogs from Uptown Dogs. Free. thevillagetc.com/13th-annual-harvest-festivus
---------------------26TH ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE RUN 5K: Noon, 4050 E. Hammond Rd., TC. Recognize the many friends & family remembered & celebrate those who have been challenged with cancer. $35. runsignup.com/Race/MI/TraverseCity/RemembranceRun
---------------------CAMP DAGGETT FALL FEST: 12-5pm, Camp Daggett, Walloon Lake, Petoskey. Pumpkin painting, stone painting, kids crafts, hay rides, live music, nature hikes, pontoon boat color tour on Walloon Lake & more. $5 per carload entrance fee. Find on Facebook.
---------------------PUMPKIN FEST X: 12-4pm, Jolly Pumpkin, TC. Live music by Levi Britton, games, crafts, sack races, cider press & growler fills, harvest buffet in the Peninsula Room. $18 adults, $7 kids. Find on Facebook.
---------------------RUBY ELLEN FARM FALLTIME SOCIAL/ PIG ROAST: Noon, Ruby Ellen Farm, 5946 S. Center Hwy., Leelanau County. Two museums open, horse drawn wagon rides, rope making, wood turning, blacksmithing, cider pressing, music in the barn & more. 2pm roast pig lunch with sides, beverage & dessert (adults, $20; 6-11, $5). rubyellenfarm.org
ANNUAL HARVEST GATHERING: 1-4pm, Samels Farm, Williamsburg. Enjoy music, food & farm building tours. Watch demos by blacksmiths, rope makers, cider pressers, quilters, food preservationists & woodworkers. Meet the draft horses & take a horse-drawn wagon ride to Lake Skegemog. Free. samelsfarm.org
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---------------------AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATRE PRESENTS “HARVEY”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage Theatre, TC. This is the story of an affable man whose only serious flaw is that his best friend is a six-foot-tall invisible rabbit. $8 plus fees. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------BOOK DISCUSSION & SIGNING: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Local author Dick Ault will discuss & sign his new novel, “Dismissal: Business, Politics, The Seventies and Sex.” 231-331-4318.
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FIBER WITHOUT BORDERS: CONTEMPORARY FIBER ART 1960 TO PRESENT: 2pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center. Facilitated by Sarah Bearup-Neal, GAAC gallery manager & studio fiber artist. The “Fiber Without Borders” exhibit continues through Nov. 7. Free. glenarborart.org
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FALL FEST: 3-5pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Enjoy a tractor ride to the pumpkin patch where children through age 12 can choose one pumpkin. Then stop by the tent, where you can decorate your pumpkin & enjoy a coloring table, along with free hotdogs, donuts & cider. Plus much more. Free. fcctc.org/events/fall-festival
---------------------GREAT LAKES CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE: 4pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Featuring a group of vocalists from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music who will perform classical vocal selections – from opera arias to art songs. $25; $10 students. greatlakescfa.org
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LIGHTSABERS AND QUIDDITCH: 4pm, Benzie Central High School Auditorium, Benzonia. Hear the sounds of the Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Tom Riccobono, & the collaboration of the Benzie Voices under the direction of Michael Beery. Enjoy selections from John Williams, Duel of the Fates, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, & Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. $15 adults, $10 seniors, free for 18 & under. benziesymphony.com
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Thursday, October 17
NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Aarti Namdev Shahani will talk about her memoir, “Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares.” Reception at 6pm. $15 general admission, $5 students. cityoperahouse.org/nws-aarti-shahani
Barenaked Ladies founding member and former frontman, Steven Page’s distinctive and powerful tenor is
---------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK: 7-10pm, Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds, TC. From the Swamp of Suffering to The Mausoleum, there’s something to terrify everyone. $5-$15.
among the most instantly recognizable voices in popular music.
---------------------GHOST WALK: 8pm, 181 E. Grandview Parkway, TC. Take a stroll around town & hear cool & creepy stories of the Great Lakes & the Grand Traverse area. $10. mynorthtickets.com
oct 07
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6TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Oct. 7-12. Featuring Michigan craft beer, beer themed events & special offers at area restaurants & businesses. These include an ExhiBEERtion at Oliver Art Center, “For The Love of Craft,” a short documentary film being shown at The Garden Theater, an Empire Malting Company presentation at Stormcloud Brewing Co., Chefvitational Beer Dinner at Rocks Landing & more. frankfortbeerweek.com
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Thursday, October 24 A master storyteller, pianist Keiko Matsui crafts passionate and emotive songs with lush harmonies and global rhythms to create timeless musical anthem. In the words of Duke Ellington, Keiko Matsui is “beyond category.”
---------------------SEPT. COFFEE HOURS W/ STATE SEN. WAYNE SCHMIDT: 11:30am-12:30pm, Cheboygan City Hall. For constituents throughout the 37th Senate District. Free. senatorwayneschmidt.com
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GROUNDWORK’S HARVEST AT THE COMMONS: 5-10pm, The Village at GT Commons, Historic Front Lawn, TC. A farm to table community feast. Featuring a three-course familystyle meal prepared by Harvest Restaurant & NMC Culinary Institute, as well as regional wine, beer & cocktails. Also featuring AfroCaribbean salsa band Grupo Ayé. thevillagetc. com/groundworks-harvest-at-the-commons
---------------------MI BAD: MICHIGAN MAYHEM WITH LOCAL AUTHOR TOM CARR: 5:30pm, Kingsley Branch Library, Community Room. This author will share stories of murder, robbery & mayhem through the ages in the Great Lakes state. 231263-5484. Free. tadl.org/event/mi-bad-michigan-mayhem-with-tom-carr
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NMRPOA: 5:30pm, Elks Lodge, TC. Northern Michigan Rental Property Owners Association, a non-profit organization assisting landlords & real estate investors, will have their dinner meeting. The guest speaker will be Mike Rybicki, CPA. For more info, contact Kathy at: gkroush48@outlook.com.
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FREE EDUCATION WORKSHOP: “NATURAL BEEKEEPER”: 7-9pm, NCMC, Library Conference Room, Petoskey. Join beekeepers from across the Tip of the Mitt to hear from renowned bee expert Ross Conrad. He will discuss Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture. ncmich.edu
---------------------GHOST WALK: (See Sun., Oct. 6) ---------------------LOUISE BICHAN & ETHAN SETIAWAN: 8pm, Acoustic Tap Room, TC. This fiddler & mandolinist explore fiddle traditions from Scotland to Appalachia, via Scandinavia & Canada. 231-275-2041. $20 advance, $25 door.
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FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Oct. 7-12. frankfortbeerweek.com
oct 08
tuesday
START-UP FUNDAMENTALS: 9:30am-noon, NMC University Center, Room 209, TC. This workshop is intended for those in the beginning stages of starting a business, in need of accessing capital, or considering self-employment. Free. clients.sbdcmichigan. org/workshop.aspx?ekey=21390042
---------------------COFFEE @ TEN: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. With “Michigan Now: Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition” juror Juana Williams. Free. crookedtree.org
---------------------MILL POND PARK SHORELINE PROJECT: 10am-1pm, Mill Pond Park, Kalkaska. Help plant 300 feet of shoreline of native plants to protect shoreline health & water quality. Please bring your favorite shovel, hand trowel, or garden gloves. Register: 231-258-3307.
---------------------6TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 7)
---------------------GET CRAFTY: SHAVING CREAM LEAVES: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Held at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org
---------------------AN EVENING WITH GARTH NIX: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. This New York Times bestselling author will talk about his latest book, “Angel Mage.” Reserve your spot: 231-347-1180. Free. eventbrite.com
---------------------TC AUTHORS MEETING: 7pm, Hotel Indigo, lounge, TC. Members will plan the year ahead. The group is open to all published authors & those who have a book in the works. facebook. com/TraverseCityAuthors
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GHOST WALK: (See Sun., Oct. 6) FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Oct. 7-12. frankfortbeerweek.com
oct 09
wednesday
HOMETOWN HEROES VETERANS APPRECIATION: FULL: At 9:30am BATA buses will depart the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station, TC for a guided bus tour of the monuments & memorials in the area that have been built to remember those who have served our country in the armed forces. Following will be a ceremony at Veterans Memorial City Park, GT Commons. A lunch for the veterans & program at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station will then be held. To be added to the waiting list, call: 922-4911.
---------------------HABITAT MATTERS: INVASIVE SPECIES IN NORTHWEST MICHIGAN: 10am, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Featuring Emily Cook, outreach specialist with the Invasive Species Network. Register. Free. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------6TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 7)
---------------------LET’S TALK ABOUT GREAT WRITING WITH NORM WHEELER: 2pm, Leland Township Library. Enjoy a conversation on Teresa Scollon’s essay “Earth” from the award-winning book “Elemental: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction.” Stop by the front desk at Leland Township Library to pick up a copy of the essay. Free. lelandlibrary.org
---------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS HARVEST: 5-7pm, Bennethum’s Northern Inn, Gaylord. Happy hour, food, door prizes & grand prize drawing: MSU football tickets. $5 members.
---------------------LIFELONG LEARNING: MODERN MYTHS: 5:30pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. Join Dr. Suzanne Rosenthal Shumway on an investigative journey into the nature of myths that influence our culture. Some of the works considered will be “The Lord of the Rings,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” & “Star Wars.” Free. petoskeylibrary.org
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“HOW SEX & PORNOGRAPHY IN MEDIA IMPACTS WOMEN”: 6pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Featuring Amy Bonomi, PhD, MPH, professor at Michigan State University. Free.
---------------------FREE BEGINNER BELLYDANCE CLASS WITH AMIRA HAMZAR: 6pm, Traverse Wellness Center, TC. All ages, sizes, shapes & levels welcome. Bellydance demonstration to conclude the class: see how the moves are put together to music. RSVP to reserve your spot: 231.313.5577. Free. AmiraHamzarRaks.com
---------------------AMERICAN WASTE PRESENTATION: 7pm, Empire Township Hall. Deb Lake will discuss the company’s regional recycling program, its impact on waste reduction in northern MI, & the various issues & trends in the recycling world. glenlakelibrary.net
---------------------BRILLIANT BOOKS PRESENTS: AN EVENING WITH GARTH NIX: 7pm, Corner Loft, TC. Internationally acclaimed author of The Old Kingdom Series, Garth Nix will celebrate the release of his newest novel, “Angel Mage.” $30/ticket. brilliantbooks.net/event/evening-garth-nix
---------------------GALILEO AND HIS UNIVERSE: 7pm, Benzonia Public Library, Mills Community House, upper level. By Maureen Esther, HistoryTeller. Meet the man who is called “The Father of Modern Science.” Info: 231-882-4111. Free. benzonialibrary.org
---------------------HOUSEPLANTS IN OUR HOMES: 7pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Presented by Jeanine Rubert, local gardening expert & co-owner of Pine Hill Nursery & Pine Hill Village Gardens. Jeanine will discuss the benefits of adding houseplants to our homes, as well as best practices & tips for plant selection & care. Free. mynorthtickets.com
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NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Explore the long, strange history of Oak Island with author Randall Sullivan & Marty Lagina, co-star of the TV show “Curse of Oak Island.” Guest host is Pat Livingston, news director at UpNorthLive. Doors open at 6pm with Morsels & music. $18 general admission, $5 students. cityoperahouse.org/nws-randall-sullivan
dio, 1129 Woodmere Ave., Unit A, TC. A benefit for Food Rescue’s Empty Bowls fundraiser. Join artist Phil Wilson. Each person will create two bowls—one hand built from clay & the other, premade that you paint. You choose which one to keep & the other gets donated to Empty Bowls. A chef created soup & bread dinner will be provided. Register. $25/person. secure.givelively.org
TONIC SOL-FA IN CONCERT: 7pm, Harbor Springs High School. This a cappella ensemble has Emmy Award-winning arrangements & multi-million selling compositions. The pop vocal group has shared the stage with Jay Leno, Jeff Foxworthy & Weird Al Yankovic. 231-5267999. $15 advance; $20 door. tonicsolfa.com
INDY LENS POP-UP: “DECADE OF FIRE”: 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. In the 1970’s, fires raged through the South Bronx. Abandoned by landlords & city officials, nearly a half million residents were displaced from their beloved neighborhood. Free. dennosmuseum.org
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---------------------REVEREND JUSTIN HYLTON: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. Reverend Hylton brings his songs of relatable tales of life experiences, heartbreak, addiction & traveling. $15. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------SIR JAMES & LADY GALWAY: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Known as the “supreme interpreter of the classical flute repertoire,” Sir James Galway will perform with his wife & duet partner Lady Jeanne Galway, a flute soloist & chamber musician. Also joining them will be IAA flute faculty Nancy Stagnitta & the IAA Flute Choir. $44. tickets.interlochen.org
---------------------GHOST WALK: (See Sun., Oct. 6) --------------------FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Oct. 7-12. frankfortbeerweek.com
oct 10
thursday
THE PATHFINDER SCHOOL BE EXCITED ABOUT READING DAY!: 7am, Horizon Books, TC. A portion of all proceeds from the day (online, over-the-phone, or in-person, 7am-11pm) go to support the school library & classroom book collections. Featuring several community activities: Ask a Children’s Literacy Consultant; Children’s Music & Story Time; Painting with Duncan Moran; Ask a Children’s Literacy Consultant & more. Free. Find on Facebook.
---------------------6TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 7)
---------------------INTERACTIVE STORYTIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Fall is Not Easy” by Marty Kelley, followed by a craft or activity. greatlakeskids.org
---------------------VIVE LE JAZZ!: 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Presented by Grand Traverse Musicale with Melanie Still & Diane Clark. Free.
---------------------“LIFE IN NATIVE AMERICA 400 YEARS AGO”: 4pm, Benzie Area Historical Museum, Benzonia. Presented by Robert Downes, author of the historical novel “Windigo Moon,” which covers 31 years in the life of an Ojibwe Indian couple, beginning in 1588. $5 suggested donation. benziemuseum.org
---------------------KIDS EVENT WITH BETHANY BARTON: “I’M TRYING TO LOVE MATH”: 5pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. RSVP: 231.347.1180. This party is perfect for kids ages 4-8. Free. eventbrite.com
---------------------BATTLING THE BOGUS NEWS BUZZ: 5:30pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. This program will help teens & adults differentiate between quality, factual information, & the fake stuff. Featuring a panel discussion with special guests Professor Scott LaDeur, Petoskey News-Review Executive Editor Jeremy McBain, & IPR News Director Noelle Riley. Free. petoskeylibrary.org
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---------------------MOVIE SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION OF “RESILIENCE”: 7-9pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Must register. “Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope“ chronicles how toxic stress wreaks havoc on brains & bodies of children & the therapists, educators & communities who are using cutting edge science to disrupt cycles of violence, addiction & disease. Free. miace.org
---------------------“THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE”: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Presented by Little Traverse Civic Theatre. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Novella of the same name. $15 adults; $12 students. ltct.org
---------------------SIR JAMES GALWAY WITH ARTS ACADEMY ORCHESTRA: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Internationally acclaimed Irish flutist Sir James Galway joins the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra for this performance. $34 full, $14 student. tickets.interlochen.org
---------------------GHOST WALK: (See Sun., Oct. 6) ---------------------MAY ERLEWINE & FRIENDS: 8pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Featuring the release of Erlewine’s record, “Second Sight.” $20 advance; $25 door. oldartbuilding.com/may-erlewinesecond-sight-record-release
---------------------FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Oct. 7-12. frankfortbeerweek.com
oct 11
friday
41ST ANNUAL APPLE FEST: 10am-6pm, Downtown Charlevoix. Oct. 11-13. Held in East Park, Bridge Park & on Mason St. Area orchards will be set up with more than 30 types of apples & a variety of fall harvest items & more. There will also be an Art & Craft Show, petting farm, real camel, Pine River Jazz Band, Apple Fest Fun Run & much more. Free.
---------------------ACORN ADVENTURERS: 10-11am, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. For ages 4 & under. Presented by the GT Conservation District. A mix of guided & self-guided outdoor activities that allow young explorers & their grown-ups to explore, engage with, & experience the outdoors. Free. natureiscalling.org/acorn-adventurers
---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Listen to Me – Special Me: Kids & caregiver together exploring ways of developing social & emotional health. greatlakeskids.org
---------------------6TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 7)
---------------------MUNSON HEALTHCARE HOSPICE GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: 11am, Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital, 2nd floor conference room, Frankfort. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss are understood. Free. munsonhomehealth.org
---------------------MUNSON HOSPICE GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: 11am, Meadowbrook Nursing Home, Bellaire. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss are understood. Free.
LUNCHEON LECTURE: ADDICTION & TRIBAL JUSTICE: 11:30am, NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Featuring Hon. Allie Greenleaf Maldonado, chief judge for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Lunch begins at 11:30am; program at noon. Reservations required: 231-348-6600. $12; includes lunch.
---------------------ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE TALK: ELYSE BUFFENBARGER: Noon, Glen Arbor Arts Center. This poet will discuss the poems she developed during her 2019 artist’s residency with the Glen Arbor Arts Center. Elyse will be editing a collection of short stories from her book “What We Have To Lose,” a love story & a tragedy. Free. glenarborart.org
---------------------VETERAN INFORMATION COFFEE TALK: 2-4pm, Interlochen Public Library. Get info on veteran benefits while enjoying coffee. tadl.org/ interlochen
---------------------19TH ANNUAL FIBER FESTIVAL: 5:30-7:30pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Artists with original fiber art will exhibit & sell their work in mediums of wearable art, textiles, weaving, art quilts, fiber sculpture, knits & yarns. oldartbuilding.com
---------------------ARTISTS FOR FLOW: 6-8pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Enjoy art, culinary delights, wine & live music by Allie Kessel. Benefits FLOW: For the Love of Water. 19 fine artists from the region who have been invited to create a work of art which is in the theme of water. $30. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------GALA EN POINTE - NORTHWEST MICHIGAN BALLET THEATRE: 6pm, Kirkbride Hall, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Featuring an exclusive preview from the ballet “The Legend of Knockgrafton,” food from The Cooks House & The Franklin, local wines & beer, & live music with dancing & a silent auction, all to support young dancers from Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre. $35 per person. ballet-etc.com/ northwest-michigan-ballet-theatre
---------------------M22 ART2ART POPUP ART TOUR: Five venues featuring award-winning artists, all along M22 in Leelanau County. These include Glen Arbor Township Hall, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Cleveland Township Hall, Northport Arts Association Gallery, & Old Art Building. An opening reception will be held tonight from 6-8pm. Free. m22art2art.com
---------------------FORMER TIME FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT CHARLES EISENDRATH: 6:30pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, TC. Former Time Magazine foreign correspondent & East Jordan summer resident Charles Eisendrath will take the stage with New York Times bestselling author Doug Stanton to talk about his new book, “Downstream from Here,” a series of essays that span four decades. Eisendrath’s essays reflect his many travels as a foreign correspondent, including to a near-fatal plane crash in Costa Rica, & to witnessing an assassination.
---------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK: (See Sat., Oct. 5) ---------------------“THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE”: (See Thurs., Oct. 10)
---------------------BEN WHITING’S “TRICKS AGAINST HUMANITY”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. An hysterical evening of inappropriate magic & mind reading with new material. For 18 & up. $25 plus fees. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------HANNAH HARRIS & JOHN WARSTLER: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. This local fiddle/guitar duo specializes in Irish traditional music. $15. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------TONIC SOL-FA: 8pm, City Opera House, TC. This a cappella ensemble has Emmy Awardwinning arrangements & multi-million selling compositions. The pop vocal group has shared the stage with Jay Leno, Jeff Foxworthy & Weird Al Yankovic. Tickets: $33, $26; students: $15. cityoperahouse.org/tonic-sol-fa
---------------------FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Oct. 7-12. frankfortbeerweek.com
oct 12
saturday
19TH ANNUAL FIBER FESTIVAL: 10am-4pm, Oct. 1213, Old Art Building, Leland. Artists with original fiber art will exhibit & sell their work in mediums of wearable art, textiles, weaving, art quilts, fiber sculpture, knits & yarns. oldartbuilding.com
---------------------ART & CRAFT SHOW: 9am-3pm, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. Featuring 50 Michigan handcrafted artists & crafters. Free.
---------------------ARTS & CRAFTS FOR OUR PARKS: 9am4pm, Solon Township Hall, Cedar. Proceeds benefit the Solon Twp. parks. Free.
---------------------COFFEE BREAK BIRDING: Benzie Audubon members & friends will meet at Petals and Perks Coffee Shop on Main St. in Frankfort at 9am, & then carpool to local birding hotspots. Doug Cook leads the group. Free. benzieaudubon.org
offering medical, optical, chiropractic, physical therapy screenings & care; haircuts, family photos, a warm meal, manicures & spiritual counseling; winter outerwear. tccaresday.weebly.com
---------------------PEDAL FOR POLIO: 10:30am, Little Traverse Historical Museum, Petoskey. Presented by Sunrise Rotary Club of Petoskey. Everyone is encouraged to participate for a minimum donation of $25.
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TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DOWNTOWN TOURS: 10:30am, Downtown, TC. Meet at the Perry Hannah statue at the corner of Sixth & Union streets. These tours are conducted by guides with a special interest in TC history & provide an experience of TC’s past. Find ‘TAHS Downtown Walking Tours’ on Facebook. Suggested $10 donation.
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---------------------6TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 7)
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LEELANAU DAY OF PLANTING AT RUBY ELLEN FARM: 9am, Ruby Ellen Farm, 5946 S. Center Hwy., Leelanau County. Learn about & participate in proper planting methods, tree maintenance, seedlings, farm tours & more. Free.
FALL INTO MACKINAW: 11am-10pm, Downtown Mackinaw City. Featuring the Monster Mash Street Bash, Fudge Prowl, live music by Will Springsteen & Billy Jewell, Creepy Critter Pet Parade, “Top Dog” Hot Dog Eating Contest, Headlands Challenge, Trunk or Treat Old School Park & more.
VA CRAFT SHOW: 9am, VA, Veterans Dr., TC. All proceeds go to veterans emergency funds. Enjoy crafts, bake sale & lunch.
15TH ANNUAL CHILI COOKOFF: 11:30am2:30pm, Charlevoix United Methodist Church. All you can eat. $8.
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11TH ANNUAL AUTUMN BREEZEWAY FALL COLOR CRUISES: Participants pick up bags filled with trip tips, color tour maps, coupons & other surprises at Royal Farms Winery in Atwood between 10am & noon. Next they proceed at their own pace along C-48 The Breezeway stopping, shopping, dining, enjoying a nature hike at one of the three preserves or a special event along the route. End the experience at Boyne Mt. in Boyne Falls with a complimentary chair-lift ride for a view atop the mountain. ridethebreezeway.com
---------------------41ST ANNUAL APPLE FEST: (See Fri., Oct. 11) ---------------------COMMUNITY PRINTMAKING DAY: 10am2pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Enjoy printmaking activities & touring printmaking exhibits. The driveway at CTAC will be turned into a giant printing press. Team Elmer’s will help print with an asphalt roller. Free. crookedtree.org
---------------------EMPTY THE SHELTERS: 10am-5pm, Little Traverse Bay Humane Society Shelter, West Conway Rd., Harbor Springs. An adoption event sponsored by the BISSELL Pet Foundation. Adopt a dog for $25. Cats & kittens are free. ltbhs.com
---------------------FRANKFORT FALL FEST: Downtown Frankfort. Enjoy a parade featuring the Scottville Clown Band, wagon rides, scavenger hunts, pie eating contests & pumpkin fun including the Weight Contest, Giant Pumpkin Drop & pumpkin carvings by Mr. Moody.
---------------------FRISKE’S APPLE FEST: 10am-5pm, Friske’s Farm Market, Ellsworth. Featuring an Apple Pie Pancake Breakfast, wagon rides, giant apple slingshot, big apple balloon, kiddie corn maze, & much more.
---------------------M22 ART2ART POPUP ART TOUR: Five venues featuring award-winning artists, all along M22 in Leelanau County. These include Glen Arbor Township Hall, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Cleveland Township Hall, Northport Arts Association Gallery, & Old Art Building. Today’s hours are 10am-6pm. Free.
---------------------MAKE A GIFT SERIES: HAMMERED FLOWER ART CLASS: 10am-noon, Interlochen Public Library. For adults. Register: 231-2766767. Free. tadl.org/interlochen
---------------------TC CARES DAY: 10am-2pm, Traverse Heights Elementary School, TC. Not affiliated with TCAPS. A free one-day health & wellness clinic
City fire truck “La France” or rise high above the crowd in the basket of the Ladder Tuck. Enjoy a game of tug of war against the BC Fire Department. Watch trained professionals perform live fire extinguisher demonstrations. There will also be live music by Erik Vanhorn, Under the Moon, & The Lavender Lions, & kids activities. Proceeds benefit the BC Fire Department. stiggsbrewingcompany.com
------------------------------------------AUTHOR EVENT: 11:30am-1:30pm, Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord. Featuring R.J. King, author of “Detroit: Engine of America.” saturnbooksellers.com
---------------------AFTERNOON WITH LIVE RAPTORS: Noon, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Presented by the Wildlife Recovery Association. Register. $10 adult, $5 12 & under, free for 2 & under. natureiscalling.org/event/afternoon-with-live-raptors
---------------------LINDA O’MEARA DAYS OF THE ARTS: 124pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Enjoy drawing, printing, dancing & playing your way through the galleries, kicking off the annual DRAW NoMI programs. Free. dennosmuseum.org
---------------------AUTHOR SIGNINGS: TOM MCGUIRE & CHARLES EISENDRATH: Horizon Books, TC. 1-3pm: McGuire will sign his book “Steller’s Orchid.” 4-5pm: Former Time M agazine foreign correspondent & East Jordan summer resident Charles Eisendrath will sign his book, “Downstream from Here,” a series of essays that span four decades. Eisendrath’s essays reflect his many travels as a foreign correspondent, including to a near-fatal plane crash in Costa Rica, & to witnessing an assassination. horizonbooks.com
---------------------HOPS ‘N HIGHLANDS: 1-6pm, Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. This microbrew festival will feature 45+ MI breweries & 175 microbrews. There will also be live entertainment, food trucks, complimentary chairlift rides from 11am-5pm, & more. $10 cover charge for 21+. boynehighlands.com
---------------------MODEL RAILROAD MEETING: 1pm, Otsego County Library, Gaylord. National Model Railroad Association North Central Region Division 2 Monthly Meeting. Includes a presentation on model railroading & a Show & Tell. For info, email: info@ncrdivision2.groups.io Free.
---------------------SIERRA CLUB FALL HIKE: 1:30pm, Cedar Run Creek Natural Area. You will hike about a 2.5 mile loop. Wear comfortable hiking shoes. Bring your binoculars, camera, water & snack. Free. facebook.com/ClearwaterConservationCommittee
---------------------GAME DAY: 2-4pm, Interlochen Public Library. Many board games to choose from, plus toys for the little ones. tadl.org/interlochen
---------------------STIGGTOBERFEST: 3-8pm, Stiggs Brewing Company, Boyne City. Take a ride on the Boyne
POP-UP CIDER MILL AT THE SHED: 4-7pm, The Shed Beer Garden, TC. Featuring pumpkin carving (BYOP - bring your own pumpkin), activities for kids, donuts from Peace, Love and Little Donuts, hot apple cider & live music by Rhett & John. Bring non-perishable food items for the Father Fred Foundation. Free. Find on Facebook. ORCHARDS AT SUNSET 5K & FUN RUN: Gregory/Miezio Farm, Suttons Bay. Fun Run, 4:30pm; 5K, 5pm. $35; $10. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------AN EVENING WITH SARAH MILLER: 5pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. This author will talk about her latest YA book, “The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets.” RSVP: 231-347-1180. Free. eventbrite.com
---------------------BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: Empire Township Hall. There will be a basic skills workshop from 7-7:30pm & the dancing will run from 7:30-10:30pm. The live band will be Dag Nabbit. $11 adult, $7 student, $9 member. dancetc.com
---------------------POVERTY: WHAT YOU CAN DO: 7pm, Trinity Church, Northport. Annual Belko Peace Lecture. Dr. Donna Beegle: Her journey from poverty to possibility. Free will offering. combarriers.com
---------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK: (See Sat., Oct. 5) ---------------------“THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE”: (See Thurs., Oct. 10)
---------------------BEN WHITING’S “TRICKS AGAINST HUMANITY”: (See Fri., Oct. 11)
---------------------FRESHWATER CONCERT: LAITH AL-SAADI: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery/Concert Venue, Boyne City. Enjoy a blend of blues, soul & classic rock. In 2016 Laith Al-Saadi won a spot in the finale of NBC’s “The Voice.” 231-582-2588. $35 advance, $40 door.
---------------------FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Oct. 7-12. frankfortbeerweek.com
oct 13
sunday
19TH ANNUAL FIBER FESTIVAL: (See Sat., Oct. 12)
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41ST ANNUAL APPLE FEST: 10am-4pm, Downtown Charlevoix. Oct. 11-13. Held in East Park, Bridge Park & on Mason St. Area orchards will be set up with more than 30 types of apples & a variety of fall harvest items & more. There will also be an Art & Craft Show, petting farm, real camel, Pine River Jazz Band, Apple Fest Fun Run & much more. Free.
---------------------M22 ART2ART POPUP ART TOUR: Five venues featuring award-winning artists, all along M22 in Leelanau County. These include Glen Arbor Township Hall, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Cleveland Township Hall, Northport Arts Association Gallery, & Old Art Building. Today’s hours are 10am-5pm. Free.
---------------------THE GREAT PUMPKIN DASH & PUPKIN COSTUME PARADE: 10am-2pm, Mt. Holiday, TC. You & your pumpkins have one goal: crossing the finish line unsquashed. Prizes for best costume, heaviest lug & more. The Dash rolls through Mt. Holiday’s woodsy terrain, taking you through four fun obstacles. You have to carry a pumpkin; pick one from the patch before the dash begins. The Halloween Dog Parade
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follows right after the dash. Awards given for creativity, look-alikes & more. Proceeds benefit Mt. Holiday & Cherryland Humane Society. $25 for each event. greatpumpkindash.com
---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE TAKES A GIRL MOUNTAIN BIKING: Timber Ridge Resort, TC. Presented by Norte. Meet at 11:45am; rolling at noon. Five distances available. Free. elgruponorte.org
---------------------ELITE WEDDING EXPO: 12-4pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Featuring a wide array of wedding planning professionals to help you with your wedding. There will also be food samples & prizes. $10 advance; $15 door. eliteweddingexpo.com
---------------------BRUCE CATTON’S BENZONIA: A WALKING TOUR: 1pm, Mills Community House, Benzonia. Presented by the Benzie Area Historical Society. The tour will highlight places mentioned by Catton in his reminiscence “Waiting for the Morning Train,” the story of his childhood & adolescence in Benzonia. Led by historian & Benzie Area Historical Museum Curator Jane Purkis. The tour will end at the Benzie Area Historical Museum with a discussion about Catton’s significance as a writer of popular Civil War histories. RSVP: 231.882.5539. Free/donations accepted. benziemuseum.org/events
---------------------LINDA O’MEARA DAYS OF THE ARTS: 1-4pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Enjoy drawing, printing, dancing & playing your way through the galleries, kicking off the annual DRAW NoMI programs. Free. dennosmuseum.org
---------------------“MICHIGAN’S HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSES”: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Join author & Promote Michigan Founder Dianna Stampfler as she recounts the tales of over a dozen of Michigan’s ghostly beacons. 231-331-4318.
---------------------“THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE”: 2pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Presented by Little Traverse Civic Theatre. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Novella of the same name. $15 adults; $12 students. ltct.org
---------------------BOOKS, BABES & BOOZE: 2pm, Willowbrook Mill, Northport. Five authors writing in genres including urban fantasy/murder mystery, historical romance, rom/com, contemporary fiction & contemporary romance come together for lively discussion. Enjoy a cocktail reception where you will meet the authors, followed by a panel discussion on books, genres, writing techniques, funny stories & insights on the world of novel writing. $15. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------GARDEN STORYTELLER SERIES — HARVEST TALES TO TELL TOGETHER: 2pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Experience the magic of the autumn season with Michigan Humanities Touring Artist & Storyteller Jenifer Strauss. Enjoy stories & songs about the cycles of nature & a pumpkin craft. Free. mynorthtickets.com
---------------------GUIDED ART PARK COLOR TOUR: 2:30pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Join Michigan Legacy Art Park interpreter Caitlin Chism as she takes you on a tour of the fall foliage. You will learn why & how trees prepare for winter, as well as how to identify the more commonly found trees within the park. Free with $5 admission. michlegacyartpark.org/ tours-workshops
---------------------ARGENTINE TANGO IN THE AFTERNOON: 3pm, Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts, Frankfort. Presented by The Traverse City Tango Club. Short instructional class followed by time for dance. Free. tangointraversecity.com
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TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FANTASTIQUE NIGHT WITH NANCY STAGNITTA: 3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. TSO Principal Flutist, Nancy Stagnitta, demonstrates her versatility & artistry in David Amram’s jazz-inspired musical
love letter to the Beat Generation, Giants of the Night. $25.50-$61.50. traversesymphony.org/ concert/fantastique-night
---------------------YOUTH OPEN MIC: 3-5pm, The Shed Beer Garden, TC. For kids 18 or younger. The Beat Lab will provide a sound system. All you need is a guitar, piano or backing music tracks. Free. Find on Facebook.
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TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY OAKWOOD CEMETERY TOURS: 4pm. Meet at the main entrance of Oakwood Cemetery off of Eighth St., directly across from the intersection of Fair St. & Eighth St., TC. Find ‘TAHS Oakwood Cemetery Tours’ on Facebook.
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OLD TOWN EMMET FARM MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-1pm through Oct. 5, corner of Emmet & Fulton streets, Petoskey.
---------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Weds., 8am-noon & Sat., 7:30amnoon, parking lot “B,” at southwest corner of Cass & Grandview Parkway in downtown TC.
---------------------SUTTONS BAY FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, intersection of M22 & M204, Suttons Bay.
---------------------THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 2-6pm, The Village Piazza.
A NORTHERN MICHIGAN SINGER/SONGWRITER TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF JOHN PRINE: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. Singer/songwriters Kevin Johnson & Kirby, with special guests Sean Miller & Claire Bates, share some of their favorite music from Mr. John Prine. $15. mynorthtickets.com
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GHOST FARM OF KINGSLEY HAUNTED ATTRACTION PRESENTS SCARY TALES HAUNTED TRAIL: Open every Fri. & Sat., 7-11pm through Oct. 26. GhostFarm.net
---------------------FREE ‘WRITING THROUGH LOSS’ WORKSHOPS: Thursdays, 9-10:30am through Oct. 17, Michael’s Place, 1212 Veterans Dr., TC. Presented by Hospice of Michigan. Open to adults grieving a loss & interested in writing. 947-6453.
---------------------GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOURS OF TC: Mon., Tues., Weds. at 2pm. The tours begin & end at Perry Hannah Plaza - 6th & Union streets. Each tour is about two & a half hours of slow walking over a two-mile route, with a rest stop at the TC Visitors Center.
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“HARBOR SPRINGS: THEN & NOW”: Shay Hexagon House, Harbor Springs. Each piece of art from this exhibition is a snapshot of the people, events & landscapes which make up the heritage of Harbor Springs. Open on Fridays & Saturdays, 11am-3pm through Oct. 12. harborspringshistory.org “STILL LIFE WITH SOUP”: This juried show at Charlevoix Circle of Arts celebrates artist interpretations of the prompt, “Still Life With Soup.” Over 20 works will be on display along with a selection of handmade Soup Bowls by area potters. Runs through Nov. 2. charlevoixcircle.org
---------------------ANIMAL SAINTS & STRANGE ANGELS: Michigan Artists Gallery, TC. New works by artist Char Bickel. Runs through mid-Oct. michiganartistsgallery.com
---------------------FIBER WITHOUT BORDERS: Glen Arbor Arts Center. A juried exhibition of 2D & 3D work exploring fiber materials in fresh, original ways. Runs through Nov 7. Hours: Mon. - Fri.: 9am4pm. Sat. & Sun.: 12-4pm. glenarborart.org
---------------------JURIED FINE ART EXHIBIT: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Runs through Nov. 1 during gallery hours of 11am-3pm, Mon. through Fri. & 12-2pm on Sat. gaylordarts.org
GENTLE YOGA FOR ADULTS: Tuesdays, 10am through Oct. 29, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. Focus on breathing, gentle repeated movements & stretches. Bring your own mats, water & towels. tadl.org/interlochen
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SOUL SOOTHING YOGA: Sundays, 9am, Table Health, GT Commons, TC. Weekly donation-based community yoga class. Gather for a guided, uplifting, all-levels yoga practice. tablehealthtc.com
RAVEN HILL GENERATIONS: Raven Hill Discovery Center, East Jordan. Inspired by the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street exhibit, “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” Raven Hill’s exhibit is a chance to highlight for the community the importance of northern lower MI’s history through a collection of stories, artifacts, exhibits & structures. Runs through Oct. 12. miravenhill.org
------------------------------------------THURSDAY NIGHT MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE: Thursdays, 6pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Open to all, but geared for intermediate level riders & new racers. You’ll get a chance to ride a lap of the Peak2Peak Mountain Bike Race Course including the Crystal Climb. Meet at the Park at Water’s Edge. Rental bike with helmet: $19. Helmet only: $10. crystalmountain.com/event/thursdaynight-mountain-bike-ride
---------------------BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays & Wednesdays, 8am-noon through Oct. 12. Veteran’s Park, Boyne City.
---------------------CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 10am-1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Featuring a wide variety of locally grown & handmade goods. NO MARKET ON NOV. 29. crookedtree.org/ petoskey/market
---------------------CHEBOYGAN FARMERS MARKET: Festival Square, Downtown Cheboygan. Held every Weds. & Sat. from 8am-1pm through Oct. 30.
---------------------ELLSWORTH FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon, Ellsworth Community Square.
---------------------INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET: Sundays, 9am-2pm, 2112 M 137, Interlochen.
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MEANDER: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Featuring the works of Lindy Bishop, Mark Mehaffey & Lynn Uhlmann. Runs through Oct. 12. twistedfishgallery.com
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---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - “MICHIGAN NOW: ANNUAL JURIED FINE ARTS EXHIBITION”: Artists throughout the state of Michigan were invited to submit work of all media & subject matter. A total of 58 artists are represented in the exhibition of 79 works of art. Runs through Nov. 9. - “THE CTAC INSTRUCTORS SHOW”: Held in Atrium Gallery, this exhibit highlights the creative work of CTAC visual arts instructors. Course instructors for both CTAC-Petoskey & CTAC-Traverse City locations were invited to participate. A variety of styles & media will be on display, including watercolor, oil, pastel, photography & fibers. Runs through Oct. 26. crookedtree.org
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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - ORIGINAL: JURIED EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY PRINTS: Featuring all forms of printmaking by artists from across the U.S. Runs through Nov. 14. - THE FLOATING WORLD: TRADITIONAL JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS: Held in Carnegie Rotunda. A select assortment of prints by Japanese artists of the Edo & Meiji periods, including Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–
1858) & Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), will be on display. On loan from Purdue University’s permanent collection. Runs through Nov. 14. crookedtree.org DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - EXPLORATIONS IN WOOD: SELECTIONS FROM THE CENTER FOR ART IN WOOD: Runs through Dec. 29. Curated by Andy McGivern, this exhibition features 74 objects, a small sample of the work in the collection of Philadelphia’s Center for Art in Wood, gathered over a forty-year period. - CAROLE HARRIS: ART QUILTS: This fiber artist extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textures, materials & objects. Runs through Dec. 29. dennosmuseum.org
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HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - ARTISTS FOR FLOW: Oct. 12 – Nov. 5. Twenty artists in the region created a work based on the theme of or inspired by the Great Lakes. Proceeds from this show benefit the local organization, FLOW. - OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS - “BIG GROUP/ SMALL WORKS”: Higher Art Gallery is currently accepting submissions for consideration to the “BIG GROUP/small works” show. Deadline to apply is Oct. 10. higherartgallery.com/ calls-for-art - MODERN FEMALE ARCHETYPES-GROUP SHOW: Featuring more than 20 female artists in a variety of mediums exploring the idea of archetypes & how they connect us all, often regardless of age, geography & social status. Runs through Oct. 6. Hours: Wed.-Sat.: 11am6pm; Sun.: 11am-4pm. Closed on Tues. Call on Mon. (sometimes closed). higherartgallery.com
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Ad Astra: The title of a new film starring Brad Pitt. Or what any Latin scholar can tell you means “to the stars.” And it’s at a moment like this I finally feel like the esoteric knowledge that comes from high school Latin has paid off. (Thank you, Fred Partlow.)
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And it is also with a title like this that director James Grey (The Lost City of Z) gives you a clue not only to the ambitious nature of the film but also its more esoteric approach to the exploration of the cosmos. So while this is very much a poetic, existential, and ruminative space odyssey, it’s also mesmerizing, thrilling, and suspenseful. This is a movie for those of us who like our astronauts sad and contemplative. Think Interstellar, First Man, and yes, even 2001 — not the crowd-pleasing standup-and-cheer fare of a Gravity or The Martian. It’s basically Apocalypse Now, in space, with Pitt’s Roy McBride journeying into the “heart of darkness” to find his Kurtz — his father. And while it is greatly indebted to and references nearly all of these above films, it never comes across as derivative (which can’t be said for Joker’s Scorsese homage). Ad Astra is pretty much solely focused on Roy McBride, an astronaut in a near but very different future in which we have colonized the moon and Mars. Roy is the definition of stoic. Famous for his heartbeat never rising above 80 on any of his missions, he is hauntingly hardened, having compartmentalized his life at the expense of his relationships (like with his wife, played by Liv Tyler, who appears in fleeting, mostly symbolic glimpses). He is a straight-asan-arrow astronaut archetype that feels anachronistic in today’s world. But that stoic facade begins to crack when he gets shocking (top-secret) news about his long-missing father. See, Roy followed in his old man’s footsteps. Dad Cliff McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) was a legendary astronaut, considered to be “the best of us.” When Roy was only a kid, his dad embarked on a deep space mission in search of extraterrestrial life. Cliff was never heard from again. Then authorities inform adult Roy that his father might still be alive — and that Cliff might also be the cause of the electrical
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surges having devastating and potentially civilization-ending effects back on earth. Roy’s mission: travel to the moon, then to Mars, to convince his dad to stop whatever he might or might not be doing. The world of Ad Astra offers a very realistic take on futurism, and the world-building is truly outstanding, with memorable scenes that take you to the moon and an underground lair on Mars. When Roy has to travel “commercial” to the moon, you’ll chuckle when his Virgin flight requires $125 for a pillow and blanket. And when he arrives at the spaceport, there’s of course an Applebee’s and a Hudson News. These are unexpected and needed comic touches in this austere and bleak world, one that’s also defined by gripping, heart-stopping sequences like a Mad Max-style race with moon pirates (yes, you read that correctly: moon pirates). Director of Photography Hoyte van Hoytema (Dunkirk) crafts a cool, spectacular galaxy. While other characters stop by — notably Ruth Negga as a Mars base administrator, and Donald Sutherland as a old friend of Cliff ’s — these are but mere cameos within the scale of the film. It truly belongs to Pitt. His icy coolness, understated voiceover, and soulful eyes as Roy’s journey of self discovery confronts tropes of masculinity and its lack of vulnerability as he tries to reconnect with a father who was never really there. There’s something about the scope of the infinite that brings the innermost issues of the human heart into focus, and that is what this film does so poignantly and vividly: how being so distant from humanity, and in that solitude and isolation, staring into the great beyond, we see that you can run so far, yet what you’re running from will always catch up with you. The lump-in-the-throat ending of Ad Astra gracefully reveals a profound truth: that out of the grandest of tragedies can come the freeing hope through the realization that we really are all each other has. Elegant, dreamy, and unrelenting in its vision, this heady scifi is concerned with things far more human than extraterrestrial. Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.
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o film this year has electrified me and won me over quite like Hustlers. Yes, this scrappy flick is an unexpected knockout. Hot damn, it was entertaining. So toss your notions of this being “The Stripper Movie” aside, ’cause this ain’t no Showgirls; it’s a seriously sharp crime thriller that’s also funny, emotional, and a beautiful story of sisterhood and empowerment. And it’s honest to God no joke when I say Jennifer Lopez deserves some serious Oscar consideration for her masterful work in the film. Based on a true story chronicled in the New York Magazine article “The Hustlers at Scores,” we move back and forth in time as Destiny (Constance Wu) relates her tale of going from naïve stripper to the successful protégé of Lopez’s character, and then on to something much more dastardly in nature following the 2008 Wall Street crash. This perfectly and furiously plotted film comes flying at you and will make you want to hoot and holler.
The Chief of Police Crouse did not want Lisa in his police department and launched the department’s largest investigation at the time. Lisa had drugs planted on her and was pulled from her cruiser for surprise blood tests, but would not have her skin cleaned with alcohol prior to testing. She faced verbal and mental abuse from the corrupt Brotherhood of Law Enforcement because she was a woman, and was forced to resign by threats after thirteen years of service as a police officer. Two years after, she was found dead in her home from a gunshot wound. The night of her death, an acquaintance of hers, David Reed, called Lisa’s sister and told her he was worried about Lisa. Lisa’s sister called me, and told me that Reed had called her and was worried. I went to Lisa’s house but didn’t have a key. I walked around the house, but couldn’t get in. I left to look around town to see if she was in a restaurant or bar.
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t always seems like film sacrilege when Hollywood remakes a foreign-language favorite — a lazy and derivative cashin on someone else’s achievement made palatable for audiences at home. But with this remake of Susanne Bier’s (Bird Box) Oscar-nominated Danish film, After the Wedding, the remake offers a reinvention of sorts that manages to create something distinct. Director Bart Freundlich flips the genders of the original film’s two leads from male to female, and creates two rich characters for actresses to really sink their teeth into, one being Freundlich’s wife, Julianne Moore. And so the film becomes a gripping showcase for two of our most gifted screen talents (joining Moore is Michelle Williams) who have eight Oscar nominations and one win between them. It’s an old-fashioned melodrama about two women — Isabel (Williams), who works at an orphanage in India, and Theresa (Moore), a self-made advertising mogul — and how their lives cross in an unexpected way. When Theresa becomes interested in making a large donation to the orphanage Isabel runs, Isabel flies to NYC to meet with her, but then Theresa’s polite invite to her daughter’s wedding unleashes long-held secrets from Isabel’s past. The chance to see these two incredible actresses go head to head in this intriguing story of family and strength is the reason to see this film.
Meanwhile, Reed was watching me walk around. After I left, he went home and got a sledgehammer. He smashed his way into Lisa’s house, sat on her bed and listened to her telephone messages. He had blood on his clothes and claimed he had to shake her to see if she was alive. Then he called the police. The first officer on the scene was Officer Rice. By that time, I was back home, Reed called me and told me that I should get over to Lisa’s house right away. When I arrived, the house was full of police. I wanted to see Lisa, but Rice said I couldn’t go in there, because they had to treat the scene as a homicide. Yet standard operating procedure was not followed. Reed was not searched and nobody knew how long he was in Lisa’s room listening to her telephone messages. After pushing and shoving he let me go in and told me not to touch anything. Tim Roth took over the investigation; he told the pathologist to write the report as if it were a suicide. A few days later, friends of Lisa’s talked to David Reed and taped the conversation to see if Reed would make a mistake. The girls gave me the tape and I had it analyzed by an FBI friend. Reed said in his report that there were only two bullets left in the chamber. Lisa’s death was ruled a suicide despite lots of questions. Why didn’t Tim Roth check Reed or Lisa for gun residue and Reed for prints on the gun? Why were there so many people allowed in and out of her room? A law abiding citizen,
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IGGY POP ROCKS OUT WITH THE ROOTS Detroit vintage punker Iggy Pop collaborated with The Roots, guitarist Novelle (Sarah Lipstate) and jazz trumpeter Leron Thomas to perform a track from Pop’s new (18th) solo album, Free, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The musicians played Pop’s tune “James Bond,” an appropriately spy-like track full of dark guitars and a solid, ticking beat (performed on this occasion by Questlove.) Also on Free are additional singles “Sonali” and “We Are the People,” the latter including lyrics authored by Lou Reed back in the ’70s … Irish singer Glen Hansard (The Frames/ the movie Once) has teamed up with singersongwriter-guitarist Robbie Robertson on a new track called “Dead End Kid,” which appears on Robertson’s new album, Sinematic, just out last week. The track, which blends blues, psychedelia, and folkrock, is about growing up in the big city and showcases Hansard’s strong backing vocals, a perfect complement to Robertson’s raspy tones. A second single from Robertson’s album, “Let Love Reign,” also features Hansard; another tune, “I Hear You Paint Houses,” features Van Morrison … R.E.M. has gone into its back catalog of songs and is giving fans the opportunity to download its previously unheard tune
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“Fascinating” (via Bandcamp) for $2, with proceeds going to aid victims of the recent Hurricane Dorian disaster in the Bahamas (via Mercy Corps hurricane relief effort). The track was originally recorded for R.E.M.’s 2001 album, Reveal, but didn’t make the tracklist; it was later re-recorded for the band’s 2004 set, Around the Sun, but again didn’t make the final lineup for that album. So this is a rare piece of music for fans, and one that will help others, too … Hot Southern rock band The Marcus King Band has announced a headlining winter tour for the guitar guru and crew; their El Dorado Tour will start Oct. 31) in Kansas City, Missouri, and will continue across the Midwest, ending up in New York City at the Beacon Theater for a closing show right before the end of the year. The band will tunes from its latest album, Carolina Confessions, and the tour itself will include stops in Grand Rapids (Nov.19 at The Intersection), Detroit (Dec. 12 at St. Andrew’s Hall), and Chicago (Dec. 14 and 15 at Thalia Hall) … LINK OF THE WEEK Vampire Weekend is on the road for its Father of the Bride Tour and just stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to play new single “Sympathy.” Check out the funkrock performance (complete with dual
drummers) at https://youtu.be/mEZLc6iB_ v8 … THE BUZZ Catch The Black Keys with opening act Jessy Wilson Oct. 5 at Little Caesers Arena in Detroit … Listen to some pre-Halloween tunes from Mystery Skulls Oct. 13 at the Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids …
And from Ghost Oct. 14 at Grand Rapids’ Deltaplex … The Head and the Heart will take over The Fillmore in Detroit on Oct. 15 … 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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ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM, TC 10/5 -- Rob Coonrod, 8 10/7 -- Louise Bichan & Ethan Setiawan, 8 10/11 -- Andre Villoch, 8 10/12 -- T.C. Celtic’s Dane & Rick, 8 BONOBO WINERY, TC 10/11 -- Sean Miller, 6-8 GT DISTILLERY, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 JOLLY PUMPKIN, TC 10/6 -- Pumpkin Fest X with Levi Britton, noon KILKENNY'S, TC 10/4-5 -- Soul Priority, 9:30 10/10 -- 2Bays DJs, 9:30 10/11-12 -- Risque, 9:30 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 10/6 -- 13th Annual Harvest Festivus w/ Live Oompah Music, 12-6 10/7 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 10/11 -- Jeff Brown, 6-8 MARI VINEYARDS, TC Tue -- Open Mic, 5:30-7
PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat -- Tom Kaufmann, 8:30 RIGHT BRAIN BREWERY, TC Wed -- Traverse City Backgammon, 6-9 ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 10/11 -- Ben Traverse, 5-8 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 SPARKS BBQ, TC 10/5 -- A Night to Remember with Frank Bang and The Secret Stash, 7 TC WHISKEY CO. 10/10 -- Paul Livingston, 6-8 THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7 THE PARLOR, TC 10/5 -- Chris Sterr, 8 10/8,10/11 -- Matt Mansfield, 8 10/9 -- Wink, 8 10/10 -- Chris Smith, 8 10/12 -- Jim Hawley & Co., 8
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: About six weeks ago, I started dating the nicest guy. I have some intimacy issues (basically, fear of abandonment), and having somebody be nice to me is new and uncomfortable. I freaked out one night and had sex with somebody else. I know this guy I’m dating isn’t sleeping with other women, but we haven’t had the official talk. I don’t plan on doing this again, but I really want to confess. The guilt is terrible. — Disgusted With Myself
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: The only man in your life with whom you should be discussing your recent sexual history is Dr. Maury Finkelbaum, your 7,000-year-old gynecologist. You and Neighbordude might be all kinds of fond of each other, but you have no agreement for sexual exclusivity, and you can’t violate a treaty that doesn’t actually exist. Still, assuming that he isn’t getting it on with anyone else, it’s natural that you’d feel guilty about an apparent asymmetry in sexual grazing. Human psychology evolved to have a sort of inner accounting staff monitoring the fairness level of our behavior — calculating whether we’re giving as much as we’re getting. However, unlike everybody’s grandma, evolution doesn’t care whether we’re nice people. It just wants us to survive so we can pass on our genes. Accordingly, this fairness monitoring system safeguards our physical survival through safeguarding our social survival. (In ancestral times, slackers or freeloaders booted from the ancestral band markedly increased their chances of becoming some sharp-fanged thing’s Sunday brunch entree.) Even today, when we perceive that we’re getting more than our fair share of something — whether it’s cake or sex with hot strangers — our behavioral accounts payable team pings us in the form of feelbad: the noxious, gutchurning feeling of guilt (and/or its poisonous BFF, shame). Research by evolutionary psychologist Daniel Sznycer and his colleagues deems guilt a “recalibrational emotion.” Translated from the Professorese, this means that our wanting to stop the feelbad from guilt motivates us to even the balance between ourselves and somebody we’ve shorted in some way. The thing is, emotion, which rises up automatically, with no effort from us, needs to be fact-checked by reason. Unfortunately, reason has to be dragged out of bed and forced to work. And that’s what you need to do with
BY Amy Alkon
yours. Again, remember that you and this guy had no exclusivity agreement that would have barred you from venturing into other men’s beds, back seats, or sex dungeons. Also, let’s get real on why you’re longing to tell. It isn’t to make the guy feel better but to make yourself feel better — to rid yourself of the psychological tension that comes from holding back information. (It’s basically the emotional version of a really bad need to pee.) Next, consider the view from psychiatrist and evolutionary researcher Randolph Nesse that painful emotions are important motivational tools — just like physical pain, when you, say, lean back at a party, all apex of cool, and rest your palm on a hot stove. Just as the searing pain gets you to lift your hand pronto, you can use your guilt-induced discomfort in a positive way: as reinforcement against your stepping out on the guy once you two do have a relationship. Other helpful insight comes from research on “attachment.” The “attachment behavioral system,” explain social scientists Mario Mikulencer and Philip Shaver, motivates human beings, from infancy on, “to seek proximity to significant others (attachment figures) in times of need.” A person’s “attachment style” indicates the degree to which a person “worries that a partner will not be responsive in times of need” (including the worry that one’s partner will flee the relationship entirely). However, Mikulencer and Shaver note that “a growing body of research shows that attachment style can change, subtly or dramatically.” One way to change it is through asking your partner to be very physically and emotionally expressive with you in loving, cuddly-wuddly ways. Research by psychologist Brooke C. Feeney finds that the more an insecurely attached person sees their partner is there for them — like with touch that “conveys acceptance, warmth, and intimacy” — the more independent (that is, the less clingoramous) they can be. Finally, there’s something you can do to help yourself feel more secure, per Mikulencer and Shaver’s research: Turn on the TV in your head and run helpful programming -- mental video of warm, fuzzy “attachment figures.” The researchers explain that “thoughts of an available and supportive attachment figure” lead people with a lot of attachment insecurities “to behave more like secure people.” Or, putting this another way, your response to a man being really loving to you would be to give love in return -- as opposed to giving excuses like “I was so freaked out by how nice you were to me that I tripped and fell on somebody else’s penis.”
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope you are embarking on a
vigorous new phase of self-redefinition. I trust you are excited about shedding old ways of thinking about yourself and eager to revise and re-imagine the plot of your life story. As you do, keep in mind this helpful counsel from physicist Richard Feynman: “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):In 2005,
Facebook was a start-up company barely on the map of the internet. Its president asked graffiti artist David Choe to paint murals on the walls of its headquarters. Choe asked for $60,000, but the president convinced him to be paid with Facebook stock instead. Years later, when Facebook went public, Choe became a multi-millionaire. I suspect that in the coming months you will be faced with choices that are less spectacular than that, Capricorn, but similar and important. My conclusion: Be willing to consider smart gambles when projects are germinating.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Experiment
is the sole source of truth,” wrote philosopher and polymath Henri Poincaré. “It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.” He wasn’t merely referring to the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct in laboratories. He was talking about the probes and explorations we can and should carry out in the course of our daily lives. I mention this, Aquarius, because the coming days will be prime time for you to do just that: ask provocative questions, initiate novel adventures, and incite fun learning experiences.
PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): In my opinion,
Piscean singer, poet, and actor Saul Williams produces high-quality art. So he has earned a right to critique mediocre art. In speaking about movies and TV shows that are hard to enjoy unless we dumb ourselves down, he says that “we have more guilty pleasure than actual f------ pleasure.” Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to cut back on your “guiity pleasures”—the entertainment, art, and socializing that brings meager returns—as you increase and upgrade your actual f------ pleasure.
you to read some wonder tales. Hopefully, as you do, you’ll be inspired to re-imagine your life as a wonder tale; you’ll reframe the events of the “real world” around you as being elements in a richly entertaining wonder tale. Why do I recommend this? Because wonder tales are like waking dreams that reveal the wishes and curiosities and fascinations of your deep psyche. And I think you will benefit profoundly in the coming weeks from consciously tuning in to those wishes and curiosities and fascinations.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suspect that
in the coming days you’ll be able to see into everyone’s souls more vividly than usual. You’ll have a special talent for piercing through the outer trappings of their personalities so as to gaze at the essence beneath. It’s as if your eyes will be blessed by an enhancement that enables you to discern what’s often hidden. This upgrade in your perception may at times be unsettling. For some of the people you behold, the difference between how they present themselves and who they actually are will be dramatic. But for the most part, penetrating to the depths should be fun, enriching, even healing.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “This heart is rusty,”
writes poet Gabriel Gadfly. “It creaks, it clanks, it crashes and rattles and bangs.” Why is his heart in such a state? Because he has been separated from a person he loves. And so he’s out of practice in doing the little things, the caring gestures and tender words, that a lover does to keep the heart well-oiled. It’s my observation that most of us go through rusty-heart phases like this even when we are living in close proximity to an intimate ally. We neglect to practice the art of bestowing affectionate attention and low-key adoration. We forget how important it is for our own welfare that we continually refresh and reinvigorate our heart intelligence. These are good meditations for you right now, Leo.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “All the effort in
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love is when
you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself,” wrote poet André Breton. I think that’s an excellent principle to put at the top of your priority list in the coming weeks, Aries. To be in maximum alignment with cosmic rhythms, you should seek input from allies who’ll offer insights about you that are outside your current conceptions of yourself. You might even be daring enough to place yourself in the paths of strangers, acquaintances, animals, and teachers who can provide novel reflections. There’s just one caveat: Stay away from people who might be inclined to fling negative feedback.
the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired,” writes novelist Chuck Palahniuk. I agree! And that’s a key meditation for you right now. Your assignment is to enhance and upgrade the inspiration you feel about the activities that are most important to you—the work and the play that give you the sense you’re living a meaningful life. So how do you boost your excitement and motivation for those essential actions you do on a regular basis? Here’s a good place to begin: visualize in exuberant detail all the reasons you started doing them in the first place.
ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve probably
TAURUS
(April 20-May 20): Constantine P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” imagines the imminent arrival of an unpredictable agent of chaos. “The barbarians are coming today,” declares the narrator. Everyone in town is uneasy. People’s routines are in disarray. Faces look worried. What’s going to happen? But the poem has a surprise ending. “It is night, and the barbarians haven’t come,” reports the narrator. “Some people have arrived from the frontier and say that there aren’t any more barbarians.” I propose that we use this scene as a metaphor for your life right now, Taurus. It’s quite possible that the perceived threat isn’t really a threat. So here’s my question, taken from near the end of the poem: “What are we going to do now without the barbarians?”
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some folklorists
prefer the term “wonder tales” rather than “fairy tales.” Indeed, many such stories are filled with marvelous events that feature magical transformations, talking animals, and mythical creatures like elves and dragons and unicorns. I bring this up, Gemini, because I want to encourage
heard the saying, “Genius is 99 percent perspiration and one percent inspiration.” It’s often attributed to inventor Thomas Edison. Sixteenth-century artist Michelangelo expressed a similar idea. “If you knew how much labor went into it, you would not call it genius,” he said about one of his masterpieces. I’m guessing that you Scorpios have been in a phase when these descriptions are highly apropos. The work you’ve been doing may look productive and interesting and heroic to the casual observer, and maybe only you know how arduous and exacting it has been. So now what do you do? I say it’s time to enjoy the fruits of your efforts. Celebrate! Give yourself a thrilling gift.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “The
universe is under no obligation to make sense to you,” declared astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. If that’s even a little bit true, I bet you won’t believe it in the coming weeks. According to my analysis, the universe will make a great deal of sense to you—at times even exquisite, beautiful, breathtaking sense. Life will be in a revelatory and articulate mood. The evocative clues coming your way about the nature of reality could tempt you to believe that there is indeed a coherent plan and meaning to your personal destiny.
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