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Selected Shorts Food Fiction

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Mr. Bergman supports the president, who has promised to reduce the national debt, and I, for one, believe Mr. Trump.

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Cool Your Jets I read Northern Express regularly and enjoy it for both leisure time and dining information, plus political columns, etc.

Though the paper tends to lean left, I note that other viewpoints are presented.

The articles contrasting religion versus atheism are one example, as well as occasional conservative opinion pieces, such as those by Thomas Kachadurian.

Readers often write to disagree with stated opinions of Stephen Tuttle, Kachadurian, and even each other, but I think the degree of animosity and venom leveled at Mr. Kachadurian is excessive. Some of the letters regarding his column on firearms are extremely mean-spirited and almost hysterical. A level-headed exchange of ideas and opinions helps everyone, even if there is disagreement. Staying civil keeps conversation going. Thank you to Northern Express for printing a variety of opinions in your editorials and columns.

Jean Wynn, Petoskey Bergman Bashing Shortsighted As the Bergman bashing continues from the left, (Irene Cotter’s May 14 letter), I am compelled to point out some facts concerning the congressman’s efforts. His work for the district’s veterans are bearing fruit, as new VA offices and health clinics already approved are evident. He has toured the Enbridge facilities to familiarize himself with the current condition and safeguards of Line 5, and he is exploring solutions to alleviate concerns yet maintain a vital resource supply to the Upper Peninsula.

I have been hearing about the necessity of repairing and upgrading the Soo Locks for over 40 years. Lip service has now been replaced with action. Mr. Bergman has been instrumental in securing funds for the repair of the existing locks, and is advocating for the construction of another lock to accommodate heavier shipping traffic supplying a reviving steel industry.

These efforts will not only create highpaying northern Michigan jobs over the next several decades but also are vital to the nation’s strategic steel-producing capabilities.

As to the national debt and budget, Jack Bergman voted for the balanced budget and is an advocate of “zero-base budgeting,” which requires all departments and agencies to justify every dollar they request. Presently, all government budgets

Tom Backers, Alden Don’t Assume I have lived in Cheboygan for nine years.

When I saw the letter to Northern Express from Joanne Cromley in Cheboygan, I was quite shocked and embarrassed. She called out a person driving around the city with a ‘Colbeck for Governor’ sticker on his car.

She wrote in her letter that that person, because of a political sticker, was promoting fear, hate, and intolerance. How dare you accuse someone you probably didn’t know and an issue you didn’t research enough.

I looked up the video where Sen. Colbeck explained why he said what he said, and it didn’t sound like bullying, and I heard Mr. Abdul El-Sayed [who is running for governor of Michigan] say all Muslins hate Colbeck.

That is bullying! Having been bullied in my life, I know that Sen. Colbeck was not bullying anyone. It was refreshing and scary to hear the truth from a politician for a change.

Cheboygan needs to look at the video and read the facts, not just read what a woman with differing views says. Shame on you for putting your own conspiracy theories out there to divide people, Ms. Cromley. This is supposed to be a free country, and you, my lady, have made Cheboygan appear fearful, intolerant, and hateful of people different than us. Thanks.

Jaime Chimner, Cheboygan Shout Down Manton’s Leachate Well I hope that the citizens of Wexford County are all upset that the Wexford County Landfill has requested permission to construct a 3,000-6,000-foot-deep injection well to dispose of leachate waste from American Waste. In light of a recent statement by Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Director Heidi Grether, which essentially says that public opinion doesn’t really matter in the permitting process, it sure sounds like the injection well is already a done deal. So much for any consideration of the future generations who might want to live in and enjoy this area.

Many, I believe, come here for the beauty and solitude, and then want their families and those who are yet to come to also enjoy what they have found here. But, time and time again the ineptitude and short-sightedness of the bureaucrats, and those elected or appointed to office, have sold this beauty and solitude for shortterm profits and personal enrichment. If you don’t believe or agree with this kind of government, then contact those who are running for office in August and November.

Look up “Landfill Violations” at the DEQ website and contact your politicians now.

Michael H. MacCready, Manton Caution and Compassion Patrick Sullivan’s [May 7] article on [Safe Harbor], the emergency homeless shelter in Traverse City demonstrates the need to balance caution with compassion when it comes to the growing indigent population in our town.

I ride the bike path behind the shelter, walk its adjacent streets, and use the library on a near-daily basis and am sorry to report that there is a growing problem in and around the emergency shelter, with many new faces in town. Throughout the spring, I often found knots of druggedout individuals on the bike path bridge over the Boardman River, some of them

quite young. I witnessed a confrontation between about 10 indigents, threatening violence on one of their number, and have also encountered drunken indigents in the library and a fair number who are clueless about keeping quiet. All of this is going on in close proximity to children, teenagers, and people using the bike path.

We have an epidemic in our country that’s not being addressed. On a trip to the American Southwest this winter, I saw hundreds of indigents on the streets of Tucson, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Austin, Texas, living on handouts in hopeless desperation and blighting the parks and downtowns of these communities. One can only imagine that this is partly the result of the opioid crisis and the rising inequality of life in America, but unfortunately, these folks tend to gravitate to the same towns that are popular with tourists, like Traverse City.

These people clearly need help, but that shouldn’t mean a free ride and a place to party. One solution might be to revive the 19th century idea of the work farm, albeit with more humane conditions, where hardcore indigents could volunteer to live, learn agricultural skills, and get clean.

Bob Downes, Traverse City What About Us? I read the recent article about Safe Harbor with much interest. While I support the services and “a hand up” for the homeless, placing these in one location is not without cost to the people who live in the area. I have lived on Boardman Lake for 13 years. The homeless have lived around me the whole time, either on the banks of the river, at the gazebo (now destroyed, ironically, by a drunk driver), or now in the shelter. While I cannot prove a homeless person committed these deeds, I have had my bike stolen and my car broken into for the loose change inside, and witnessed a person who took up residence under a stairwell. I have noticed a distinct increase in homeless persons along the Boardman Lake trail and Hull park this year. A daily walk will always include people loitering along the way and often sleeping at the sail school or on the trail. I have been woken up in the middle of the night by the sounds of partying in the park. I believe the location of Safe Harbor, combined with the fact that alcohol is allowed in Hull Park (unlike the more visible parks downtown), contributes to this. The sale of alcohol so close to the shelter, and the availability of the public library for shelter, as pointed out in the article, also contribute. Decisions made by many affecting those of us who live here.

Enough said.

Elaine Maloney, Traverse City For Shame Hearing that Paul Schmuckal obtained an alcohol license for his Marathon Gas Station less than a block away from the then newly opened Safe Harbor, smacks of elitism, bigotry, and greed. We are a community who care for others, not one that purposely perpetuates sickness like alcoholism. The clients of Safe Harbor are not well. To purposely get a license to sell alcohol practically next door is an illness itself. Some of us care for others. I will no longer buy gas from Schmuckal Oil — Marathon and Shell stations.

Judy Childs, Traverse City Correction: The election results from the May 14 issue’s Top 10 contained an error. Greg Wisner, not Patrice Wisner, survived a recall election in Manistee County’s Arcadia Township.

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

Rehearsal for a Line 5 Failure?.........................10 Bob Carr’s Uphill Climb..................................12 New Improved Mack Island............................15 A Wicked Cool Ride...........................................17 A Story of Service...........................................18 Aerie............................................................21 Master Storyteller.............................................26 Northern Seen...................................................27 Emmet County’s Food Waste.............................36

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Nightlife.........................................................36

columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................4

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle...................................6 Opinion............................................................8 Weird..............................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................33 The Reel..........................................................35 Advice Goddess...........................................37 Crossword...................................................37 Freewill Astrology.........................................38 Classifieds..................................................39

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Take your pick of running races around northern MI! The 36th Annual Bayshore Marathon will be held on Sat., May 26, starting at 7:15am at NMC, TC (the half marathon and 10K races are full). bayshoremarathon.org. The 3rd Annual Top of Michigan Trails Council Festival of Races will also be held on Sat., with a marathon starting in Charlevoix, a half-marathon in Bay Harbor, a 10K in Petoskey, and two 5K events in Charlevoix. trailscouncil.org/top-of-michiganmarathon. The North Mitten Half Marathon happens on Sun., May 27 at 8am at Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville.

There are also 10K and 5K events. crystalmountain.com/event/north-mitten

4 The future of a program established to make small solar projects more affordable for rural homeowners is in question.

Wolverine Power Cooperative recently ended the Buy All/Sell All solar program it started in 2016 after the program reached its 10 megawatt cap.

What’s concerning about that, said Steve Smiley, a project planner at Leelanau Solar, a solar installation company, is that the industry was told earlier this spring that there were seven megawatts remaining in the program.

“All of a sudden, all of the capacity disappeared, so the program was cancelled,” Smiley said. “All of us were trying to figure out how that happened.”

An extension of the program is up for discussion at Wolverine’s May 24 meeting in Cadillac, but that meeting is not open to the public. Wolverine supplies power to Cherryland Electric Cooperative, Great Lakes Energy Cooperative, Presque Isle Electric and Gas Co-op, Home Works Tri-County Co-op, and Midwest Cooperative.

Smiley is worried that Wolverine will extend the program but make the terms more expensive for residential customers.

Joseph Baumann, Wolverine vice president, said the cooperative successfully met its goal of creating 10 megawatts of renewable energy 14 months ahead of schedule.

“Wolverine is proud of the renewable energy growth this program has initiated,” Baumann said in a statement. “As this program has met its goal, we will continue to explore new, different, and exciting ways to make solar energy accessible for rural Michiganders while balancing our mission to provide reliable, affordable power supply to our members.”

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BUTCHER’S LUNCH

Andrea Deibler is the butchery specialist among the highly talented trio of chefowners at Raduno delicatessen and café in Traverse City. “We source locally and humanely raised whole animals, and I make a variety of products from them,” said Deibler.

One of her specialties is the Butcher’s Lunch — but like everything on Raduno’s menu, you can get it any time of day, either to eat in or take out. “What’s included on the Butcher’s Lunch plate changes, depending on seasonality and availability,” Deibler explained, “but there are always two kinds of sausages (right now, blood sausage and Toulouse sausage), a generous scoop of pate (usually silky chicken liver mousse), and a thick slice of a country terrine (pork, rabbit, duck, or lamb).” A few slices of hearty rye bread, made by fellow chef Janene Silverman (Paul Carlson is the third chef-partner), and garnishes like whole grain mustard, fig jam, and varying combinations of house-made pickled vegetables accompany this feast for the eyes and palate. $13 at Raduno, 545 E. Eighth St., Traverse City, (231) 421-1218, radunotc.com

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Kid Gorgeous

Longtime Saturday Night Live writer (he created Stefon!), short-lived sitcom survivor (Mulaney), and Broadway star (Oh Hello with Nick Kroll), John Mulaney is one of the best stand-ups in the game today. And, lucky you, he has a new standup special for Netflix. Touching on topics as varied as his childhood trauma at the hands of stranger-danger seminar leader (the real life J.J. Bittenbinder) and updates on his French bulldog, Petunia (who gets carted around in a stroller), to turkey being served at the Last Supper, Mulaney brings an old-school showmanship and sly vernacular to his act. Sharp, funny, and self- deprecating, he’s really come into his own as a performer in this latest special (his third.

See also: The Comeback Kid, also streaming on Netflix). And his “horse loose in a hospital” metaphor might be the best sendup of our current political situation you’ll yet see. But don’t get the wrong idea — Kid Gorgeous isn’t political satire, just a riotously hilarious hour of observational complaints.

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Mackinac Named Best Value

Just in time for our Mackinac Island issue, (thanks, Trip Advisor!), travel planning and booking site TripAdvisor named Mackinac Island the No. 1 summer travel value in the United States.

The site put the resort at the top of its list of 10 best vacation spots for domestic travelers.

The report highlights the best values among the most popular travel destinations.

Of Mackinac, the website says, “This charming island is a throwback to old-timey seaside leisure with the candy-colored facades of downtown shops. Mackinac is worldfamous for its homemade fudge, and travelers can work off sugar highs by exploring the limestone bluffs of Mackinac Island State Park.”

It notes that the average nightly hotel rate is $347. That sounds expensive, but it’s better than three other destinations on the top 10 list: the average rate in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is $644, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is $481, and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts is $473.

Looking to spend less? The least expensive destination on the list was Lake George, New York, where an average room costs $225.

Roo Kee Roo We hate to brag, but we think this issue’s cover art rocks. And while we credit Northern Express Creative Director Kyra Poehlman for the fantastic find, we bow down to Roo Kee Roo’s Forest and Michael Evashevski, the brothers who created it. Their colorful series of northern woods- and water-inspired objects and icons — think: Boyne Highlands lodge, Fox River canoe paddles, an ice auger, the Round Island lighthouse shown here, and more — are all available as colorful and astonishingly affordable prints. They also offer similarly striking stationary, gear, and apparel. Other states available, too … if you’re into that. Find their wares ($15+) at Canvas & Paddle on Mackinac Island, Lake Affect in Petoskey, and online at Rookeeroo.com.

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With the purchase of a $20 raffle ticket, you just might shove off on an opportunity few landlubbers ever have: a 5(-ish) day cruise upon a Great Lakes freighter. Your accommodations will be none other than the owner’s quarters (and staterooms! and lounge!), overlooking the deck.

You’ll dine at the captain’s table and tour the entire ship from top to bottom, stem to stern. The trip for two — aboard one of three enormous vessels owned by Central Marine Logistics — will depart from Port Inland or Cedarville, Michigan, or Indiana Harbor, Indiana, this summer. The drawing takes place July 4; all proceeds benefit the Icebreaker Mackinaw Maritime Museum. Visit themackinaw.org or call (231) 436-9825 to purchase raffle tickets.

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It’s not vanity that prompted the owners of Trattoria Stella and The Franklin in Traverse City to include the word “perfect” in naming its proprietary negroni cocktail, explained Stella bartender Andy Betka, but rather, the perfect classic balance of strong, bitter, and sweet components in equal parts. In this case, that means two parts Two James gin (made in Detroit), two parts Contratto vermouth, and two parts amari (Campari & Zucca), served on the rocks and garnished with elaborate, intertwined twists of lemon and orange which, Betka noted, add additional sensory elements to what is already a complex cocktail. The original negroni is attributed to Count Camillo Negroni, who in 1919 was inspired to replace soda with gin in a non-alcoholic drink from his favorite watering hole in Florence, Italy.

That original and three variations on it from the 1920s through the 1980s are also on the extensive cocktail list (16 pages!) at Stella. “We even have a ‘create your own negroni’ section, and with the veritable library of ingredients at our disposal — for any cocktail — we can help you choose your strong and your bitter element, depending on which vermouth you want,” said Betka. “It’s the best cocktail in the world, as far as I’m concerned,” said Stella/Franklin co-owner and sommelier Amanda Danielson, “because it can be almost anything you want.” There couldn’t be a more “perfect” time to treat yourself to a negroni, since National Negroni Week — yes, it’s a real thing — is June 4–10! $13.50 at Trattoria Stella, 1200 W. Eleventh St. (For GPS directions, use 830 Cottageview Dr.) Phone (231) 929-8989. Also available at The Franklin (where it is on tap), 160 E. Front St. (231) 9432727. offthemaphospitality.com

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Maybe that will make us stronger. Maybe taxpayers will be on the hook for billions in cost overruns. Again.

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is a case in point. The first of a new generation of carriers, it has every bell and whistle imaginable. It was supposed to be ready for service last May but didn't quite make it. Maybe next year. It's already $1 billion over budget and still

(The Israelis, who have received nine F-35s, managed to get theirs operational in a year. with some upgrades. It is believed their pilots recently flew the first real combat missions in the F-35 against Russian aircraft over Syria. As always, the Israeli government would not comment.)

Sometimes costs actually prevent us from using the weapon we spent billions creating. The USS Zumwalt, the first in its class of spiffy new stealth destroyers, has a cannon that can fire GPS-guided projectiles up to 60 miles. Unfortunately, those projectiles cost $800,000 apiece — so expensive that the Navy canceled future orders and is

Nobody wants a weak military — or at least nobody will say so publicly. But there is now a huge disconnect between needs/costs and some semblance of fiscal responsibility. needs at least $100 million in additional costs for an automated ammunition elevator system that doesn't work and some navigation glitches.

Total projected cost now? $13.2 billion. For one ship. And they plan to build three more.

searching for a cheaper alternative. Even the practice shells cost nearly $400,000 each, so we don't even practice. We're pretty sure it will work if needed, though, because, after all, it's state of the art.

That's more than the entire state budgets of 15 states. The total cost of the four new carriers will exceed Michigan's annual budget. It seems a trifle excessive.

Then there are the programs on which we spent billions for absolutely nothing.

Some would argue carriers are already nearly obsolete, vulnerable as they are from the air, water, and below the water. There isn't likely to be another Battle of Midway anytime soon, so the primary duty of carriers today is deterrence, to serve as a platform for our endless combat sorties in the Middle East, and to deploy based on the president's whims. The current carrier fleet, old though it might be, already serves those purposes.

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The Army's Future Combat System, an amorphous blob of a program created to answer future threats by establishing a magical and lightning-quick network allowing manned and unmanned vehicles to communicate, got off the ground in 2003. It was canceled in 2009, after spending $6.1 billion. There is no network or program.

But the world's most expensive ship is just a symptom of a much larger problem in the military procurement and spending system: Wirtually every weapons program involves delays and cost overruns.

Nobody wants a weak military — or at least nobody will say so publicly. But there is now a huge disconnect between needs/costs and some semblance of fiscal responsibility. Congress doesn't even listen to the military when it comes to combat-system needs because canceling an unnecessary program might cost their district jobs and them votes and contributions.

The billion-dollar Virginia class submarines actually cost about $2.3 billion apiece. The $800 million B-2 stealth bomber? About $1.3 billion each. Our new class of $220 million littoral ships, designed to operate in shallower waters closer to shore, are now $478 million apiece and don't really work.

There certainly are needs beyond fancy new killing machines. The Navy is short of personnel to the point that they have severely curtailed some training. The result is untrained and sleep-deprived sailors, the cause of at least two recent deadly collisions.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, supposedly the world's most advanced aircraft — and with capabilities for the Navy, Marines and Air Force — is now projected to cost more than $400 billion for the planes themselves and more than $1 trillion to keep them operational. The aircraft has been in development for 17 years and has yet to complete combat testing, which it will not do until next year.

And one hopes the newfound budget increases will be used for some serious upgrades to our country's cyber security. The Russians interfere in our elections with abandon and, allegedly, China uses hackers to steal intellectual property. We can safely assume neither country stops there.

Fancy new ships and jets aren't likely to stop them.

The F-35 was supposed to be fully operational by July 2015, then was declared ready a year later, and then again a year after that.

Still, the F-35 has never flown a combat mission for the U.S. military.

Having a strong military isn't really a question; we have one. Wasting tens of billions on cost overruns and program delays doesn't help. Neither do priorities marooned in the Cold War.

Crime & Rescue COUPLE ARRESTED AFTER STOP A driver sped off and then tried to escape in the woods to avoid a traffic stop with police.

Troopers attempted to stop a vehicle for a lane violation at 6:30pm May 12 on a county road near Mesick. The driver sped away, ran a stop sign, made a sudden turn, and then parked in the middle of the road and bolted from the car.

A trooper chased the driver on foot but looked back and noticed that the female passenger in the vehicle had moved into the driver’s seat. The officer managed to catch up to and arrest the fleeing man, but upon return, the car and the woman were gone.

The driver, a 50-year-old Mesick man, was arrested for drunk driving, driving on a restricted license, and obstructing police. The passenger, a 30-year-old Mesick woman, was located at a home by Wexford County Sheriff’s deputies and arrested for obstructing police.

MAN ARRESTED FOR KNIFE THREAT A woman doing landscape work was threatened by a deranged man with a knife.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies responded at 5pm May 15 to a business in Garfield Township near the Grand Traverse Commons, where a man had appeared from the woods and threatened a 50-year-old Traverse City woman with a knife. The woman was not attacked, and the man fled toward the Meijer store.

Deputies searched the area and, at 5:40pm spotted a 22-year-old Traverse City man walking near Fitzhugh Drive and US-31 South. They determined he was the suspect and arrested him for felonious assault and a probation violation.

WOMAN ABDCUCTED AND RAPED Police are looking for two men who abducted and raped a 33-year-old woman in Cheboygan.

The woman told Cheboygan County Sheriff’s deputies that while she was walking on Main Street, just south of the city limits, near Mickey’s Mini Mart at 3:34pm May 13, a van pulled up, and two men pulled her inside.

The woman told deputies she was taken to the end of a dead-end road and sexually assaulted.

The woman managed to escape from the van and fled to a nearby residence to ask for help.

The woman said the vehicle was a dark blue full-sized 1990s-era van with shelving but no seats in the back.

The driver was a white male in his 50s with short, balding gray hair. He stood 5 feet 7 inches tall with a slender build. The other was in his 40s, slender and taller, with dark, shaggy hair that covered his ears. Anyone with information should call investigators at (231) 627-3155.

ASSAULT SUSPECT FOUND IN CRASH Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies found a man seriously injured in a car crash just minutes after a woman reported him as a suspect in a sexual assault.

The man allegedly entered a Garfield Township home of a female acquaintance without permission, and said he had taken his pants down and rubbed against her at 1:15am May 12, Lt. Chris Barsheff said. The man fled the house.

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Barsheff said deputies were on the way to the woman’s home when they learned of a nearby crash at 1:28am.

As the investigation unfolded, deputies discovered that the sexual assault suspect was also the driver of the vehicle involved in the crash. He was seriously injured and admitted to Munson Medical Center’s intensive care unit. He is expected to face home invasion and criminal sexual conduct charges.

MASKED ARMED ROBBER WANTED A masked man robbed a Cadillac payday loan store at gunpoint.

Police were called to Allies Cash Advance at 1:50pm May 12 in Haring Township.

The robber threatened a clerk and made off with some money. Investigators didn’t know whether the man fled on foot or had a vehicle waiting, state police said.

Troopers searched the area soon after and, based on witness statements, questioned and released two suspects. Investigators were reviewing surveillance camera footage.

The suspect is a white male, about five feet nine inches tall with a medium to heavy build, and he wore a green vest over a long-sleeved shirt. He appeared to have been armed with a silver and black semiautomatic handgun.

Anyone with information should call state police.

CHASE LEADS TO CHARGES Prosecutors allege that a 31-year-old Traverse City man went to great lengths to run from police and then cover his tracks.

A Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputy attempted to pull over a pickup for a busted headlight in Traverse City at 2am July 22. The driver sped off, driving through stop signs and exceeding 100mph, according to charges.

The chase ended at the Oak Ridge subdivision near Bass Lake, where a deputy found the truck abandoned and saw its lights flash as it was locked with a remote key.

The truck’s license plate was registered to a used car dealer who informed police he’d lent it to Charles Thomas Alexander II, a mechanic who worked for him. Deputies interviewed Alexander’s uncle, who told them Alexander had called to ask to be picked up from the Bass Lake area at 3am July 22. Investigators also obtained cell tower data that placed Alexander’s phone in Traverse City at the beginning of the car chase and near Bass Lake at the end, according to the charges.

Alexander, who lives near Grawn, insisted he was innocent in interviews with police. At first he said he was in bed, and the vehicle was stolen; when confronted with evidence, he told deputies that for reasons he could not explain, he had gone to the Bass Lake area that night.

Alexander faces charges of third-degree fleeing and eluding, a five-year felony; and lying to a police officer, a two-year felony. He was charged May 10 as a two-time habitual offender.

He was convicted of attempted fleeing and eluding in 2008.

On May 10, a 50-year-old Frankfort man was able to provide details and claim the money. He told deputies that he’d accidentally dropped the bag as he boarded a BATA bus.

“A tremendous amount of credit needs to be given to the woman who found the money for her honesty and integrity,” deputies said in a press release. “Where many people would be tempted to keep the money as it was a rather large sum, she did the right thing.”

CASH RETURNED TO OWNER A woman who found a bank deposit bag that held thousands of dollars in cash turned it over to police so they could find its rightful owner.

The 25-year-old Traverse City woman found $3,167 in the parking lot of the Grand Traverse Mall May 2. Deputies issued limited information to the public and asked the owner to come forward.

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A SHEW OF ILLUMINATION opinion bY mary keyes rogers For anyone with an overactive love for snow, they can still find a dirty pile of winter stubbornly refusing to melt. But there is reason to believe that this seemingly neverending season is in fact behind us. I ask you to look ahead a bit, I ask that you think about where you will find yourself on the Fourth of July? What will we all be talking about on that day?

supporting or contributing organizations could no longer pull it off. They had more pressing concerns. Fireworks are very expensive and very short lived.

I remember arguing, “But it’s the fireworks!”

Not having fireworks on the 4th of July would be like sleeping in separate bedrooms on your wedding night.

It doesn’t matter who you voted for, if you live in a big city or a small town, if you were born here or became a citizen, the concept (and conception, for that matter) of our nation is symbolically celebrated with the tradition of community fireworks.

“What time do they start? How long do they last?’

Fireworks. Love them or hate them, Fourth of July fireworks are as American as, well, the Fourth of July fireworks.

It doesn’t matter who is in the White House or how high taxes are, the Fourth of July is not a celebration of our country’s current state of affairs. No, on this day, we celebrate the bravery of the colonists led by our founding fathers who declared independence from the British Crown. The freedom fighter colonists, who without an army said, “Hell no!”

In 1776, the colonists celebrated their revolutionary spirit, shooting muskets into the air. Yes, that would make a tidy tale of history. But no, that is not why we have fireworks on the Fourth. You can thank funloving (actually not a real party kind of guy) John Adams.

While waiting for the final document to be formally written as voted upon, Adams sent word from Philadelphia to his wife, Abigail, in Boston of the grand news. Not knowing that the Declaration of Independence would actually be dated July 4, 1776, he refers to the significance of the day of the vote, July 2nd: “(This) the Second Day of July 1776 will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty.

It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

I can’t tell you what a “Shew” is, but I know my “Illuminations”: Fireworks! Actually yes, I can tell you, “Shew” is goofy colonist talk for a Show. A fireworks show, indeed!

On each and every July 4, the aforementioned succeeding generations put aside their politics and celebrate our independence and the birth of our nation with parades and fireworks and picnics and cherry pie. Boom! Boom! Pomp!

In 2011, Traverse City’s Fourth of July fireworks show was in serious peril. It would, in fact, be discontinued. The majority of

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And so, it was a small but mightily pissed-off group (Have you seen my fife anywhere?), in late June 2011 that said, “Hell no!” Today, that group is the Traverse City Boom Boom Club. Each and every town across northern Michigan with a Fourth of July fireworks display struggles to keep it going because, it is a darn expensive Shew of Illumination.

But it is important. It doesn’t matter who you voted for, if you live in a big city or a small town, if you were born here or became a citizen, the concept (and conception, for that matter) of our nation is symbolically celebrated with the tradition of community fireworks.

And so I ask that you consider where you will watch the Big Shew this year. Frankfort?

Northport? Traverse City? I suggest you find out who organizes them, how they are paid for, and how you can help out.

For the last seven years, I have watched fireworks with the contributing members of the TC Boom Boom Club from our party at the Open Space. Honestly, I’m not really much of a fan of fireworks. I appreciate them, but during the show, I’m not even looking to the sky much.

I’m watching men discretely wipe away the tears they unexpectedly shed. I’m watching the illuminations reflected in the large eyes of small children. I’m watching the old man sneak a smooch as he pulls his wife close and smiles.

I’m watching members of the crowd realize they still have their hands over their hearts from the opening notes of The Star Spangled Banner ten minutes ago. And I cry, sloppy-snotty style.

This weighty moment, on a hot July night, catches you by surprise. You think you’re at a summertime festival, but the patriotic spirit moves through the humid air, and it just happens. We choke up. It is my favorite moment of the entire year, my personal Christmas morning: seeing my neighbors fall in love, as deeply as they have ever felt love, with their country and countrymen.

Worth. Every. Dollar.

Mary Keyes Rogers is a writer, blogger and podcaster with Experience50.com. As a public speaker, she always asks to be introduced as “a founding member of the Traverse City Boom Boom Club, because it is important.” www. tcboomboom.org

The Naked Truth Letitia Chai, Cornell University class of 2018, arrived at her "Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life" class on May 2 ready to present a trial run of her senior thesis wearing a button-down shirt and cutoff denim shorts. Professor Rebekah Maggor was displeased, however, and asked Chai, "Is that really what you would wear?"

She referred specifically to Chai's "too short" shorts and told Chai that her clothing choices would distract "men's attention" from the content of her presentation. Chai left the room, but soon returned wearing just her bra and panties and delivered the entirety of her presentation. On May 5, she returned to the classroom to officially present her thesis and stripped down again, with more than two dozen others in the room joining her in bras and panties or boxers. Chai posted on Facebook about the incidents, telling The Cornell Daily Sun she wanted to raise awareness about this "huge societal issue."

Try the Decaf In Hudson, Florida, Brandon Donald McCray, 47, came unglued on May 1 after discovering two of his socks missing. When suspicion fell on his roommate, Frank Smith, 53, McCray attacked him with a sword, according to WTVT. The attack continued as McCray also struck and injured two women living at the home. Pasco County Sheriff 's deputies said Smith nearly lost several fingers trying to defend himself. Deputies arrested McCray at a neighbor's house on charges of attempted homicide and battery.

Cliche Comes to Life Dimitri the Husky can thank a Good Samaritan for reporting that someone was abusing a dog in Lantana, Florida, on May 10. Palm Beach County Sheriff 's officers arrived at the apartment home of Patrick Shurod Campbell, 27, where two roommates said Campbell "beat the hell" out of Dimitri, the Palm Beach Post reported. Officers found the 2-year-old dog locked in a dark closet, shaking and submissive, with a bloody ear.

Campbell told police he had bitten the dog to "establish dominance." Campbell was charged with aggravated animal cruelty; Dimitri was turned over to Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control for treatment and re-homing.

It's Good to Be a Millennial As finals were ramping up at the University of Utah at the end of April, one student's class project went viral: Senior Nemo Miller created a stand-alone closet, placed in the J. Willard Marriott Library, where stressed-out students could go for a good cry. KSL TV reported The Cry Closet (#cryclosetuofu) caught on quickly; even with a suggested 10-minute limit, @Gemini tweeted, "I stayed 11 mins but feel so much better thank you to whoever built this. Can we add a box of tissues please?" Miller filled the closet with stuffed animals and soft materials. "I think everyone just needs a safe space sometimes," she said, "even if it's in a very public place."

Make Art Great Again!

A French museum dedicated to the work of painter Etienne Terrus announced April

27 that more than half of its collection from the 19th-century artist are forgeries. The Terrus museum in Elne, where Terrus was born, gathered a group of experts to inspect the works after a visiting art historian noticed some of the paintings depict buildings that were not constructed until after Terrus' death. In all, 82 paintings were determined to be fake. BBC News reported that the town's mayor, Yves Barniol, called the situation "a disaster" and apologized to museum visitors.

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High on the Hog On Yaji Mountain in China, hog farmers are experimenting with high-rise hog breeding facilities that house 1,000 head of sows per floor. Xu Jiajing, manager of Guangxi Yangxiang Co. Ltd., told Reuters the "hog hotels" save "energy and resources.

The land area is not that much, but you can raise a lot of pigs." The buildings range from seven floors to 13, with elevators to move people and pigs, and air circulation and waste management systems designed to reduce the risk of spreading disease.

Armed and Clumsy Fort Dodge, Iowa, may not exactly be the Wild West, but tell that to Balew, the pit bull-lab mix belonging to 51-year-old Richard Remme. As Remme and Balew roughhoused at home on May 9, Balew bounded back up onto the couch, where, according to The Messenger, he managed to shoot his owner in the leg. "I carry in a belly band, under my bib overalls," Remme told the newspaper. "And apparently he bumped the safety one time, and when he bounded back over one of his toes went right down into the trigger guard," he explained.

Remme didn't realize he'd been shot until his pant leg started to turn purple. Balew, however, "thought he was in trouble for doing something wrong," Remme said. He "laid down beside me and cried."

Bright Ideas -- The grandmother of a 7-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, became alarmed May 7 when a stranger started following her and the little girl around a Kroger store. WXIATV reported that Einodd Samimi had earlier approached the grandmother at a nearby Walmart and asked if he could "have" her granddaughter for $100. He upped the ante at Kroger, offering to purchase her for $200 and commenting on the little girl's pretty hair. The grandmother confronted Samimi, drawing a large crowd of shoppers who chased him through the store and to his car. Police arrested Samimi at his home on charges of enticing a child and criminal solicitation.

-- In the Indian village of Upparahal, a mother dying of an unknown condition feared that her husband, whom neighbors say is an alcoholic, would neglect her 13-year-old son and their other children. To ensure there would be an adult woman in the family capable of performing domestic chores, she married the teenager to a 23-year-old woman on April 27. However, according to the local tahsildar, or tax collector, Srinivasa Rao, "The marriage will be canceled as it is not valid as per law."

Metro News reports that both the bride's and groom's families have disappeared since the wedding became public.

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REHEARSAL FOR A LINE 5 FAILURE?

Did the April oil leak from an electrical transmission line at the Straits of Mackinac teach us anything about the threat posed by Line 5?

A view of a barge at work in the Straits of Mackinac following damage caused by anchor strikes to underwater pipelines. (Courtesy Lynn Fraze)

By Patrick Sullivan When an anchor strike punctured an underwater pipe in the Straits of Mackinac on April 1, releasing an estimated 600 gallons of a petroleum-based fluid into the Great Lakes from an electrical transmission line, the response was hampered by extreme weather.

Opponents of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 oil pipeline fear the incident shows that responders aren’t ready for a catastrophe; meanwhile, Enbridge and U.S. Coast Guard officials say the reaction proved they are prepared to staunch an incident before it becomes dangerous.

Whichever side is right could one day be critical to Michigan’s economy; a Michigan State University professor just released a study that concluded a Line 5 oil spill at the Straits of Mackinac could cost the state more than $6 billion.

A STRAITS OF MACKINAC OIL SPILL A tugboat — the Clyde S. VanEnkevort — allegedly caused the April 1 failure of the American Transmission Company line. It had dragged an anchor that punctured underwater pipes carrying power cables, prompting a leak of the fluid used to insulate those cables into the Straits. The fluid has been variously described as anything from the seemingly harmless “mineral oil” to the more toxic-sounding “dielectric fluid.” Either way, everyone hopes that by now the substance has dissipated into the lake and vanished as a threat to human and

animal health.

The leak was discovered April 1 and reported to the Coast Guard the following day, a lag that concerns Line 5 opponents. In the days that followed, severe winter weather that persisted through early April made it difficult for responders to assess and address the spill.

Perhaps more alarmingly, the same vessel’s anchor apparently struck and damaged one of the two Line 5 pipelines, too. Each of those lines carries as much as 11 million gallons of oil across the Straits per day.

The anchor strikes occurred just weeks before the Traverse City-based For Love of Water released the results of a study it had commissioned to estimate the impact a Line 5 failure would have on the state’s economy.

Michigan State University ecological economist Dr. Robert Richardson conducted the study.

FLOW’s executive director, Liz Kirkwood, said she was grateful to be talking about the hypothetical impact of a Line 5 failure rather than an actual catastrophe.

“That an anchor potentially struck and hit Line 5 and didn’t cause a rupture, I think, is miraculous,” Kirkwood said.

Kirkwood said that when FLOW commissioned Richardson’s report last year, they consider an anchor strike to be among the tops threats to Line 5’s integrity. At the time, that seemed odd to some observers, Kirkwood said, because conventional wisdom had it that a combination of corrosion and human error were the biggest threats to the pipeline.

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“I remember people’s reaction, which was, ‘Well, that’s odd. I mean, why aren’t they talking about corrosion?’” she said.

That the ATC pipeline was struck and leaked into the Straits should serve as a warning shot, she said.

“I think it drives home the reality of what a catastrophic spill could look like,” she said. “It’s the precursor of what would happen.”

WHAT WE LEARNED What the ATC spill taught us, Kirkwood said, is that responding to an environmental emergency in the Straits of Mackinac can offer unexpected challenges.

It took a day for the ATC rupture to be reported and by then, due to weather and the passage of time, there was apparently little that could be done to clean up the spill.

“I think we learned that, number one, the reporting time can be very significantly delayed,” Kirkwood said. “In this particular case, it took ATC almost 24 hours to report.”

Another ominous lesson learned from ATC, Kirkwood said, is that in the event a Line 5 failure were to occur during extreme weather conditions, response to the spill could be crippled.

After the ATC spill, days went by before a boat could be launched to survey the area, she said. “There were no boats that were able to go out to assess and contain this spill, and so you had 600 gallons that ended up just diluting into the Great Lakes, and that’s sort of the best that

we can hope for,” Kirkwood said.

Kirkwood said she heard ATC executives describe the early April weather following the spill as “extraordinary,” and she said she found that disturbing because extreme weather events around the Straits of Mackinac are not extraordinary — they are commonplace throughout the year. For example, the Mackinac Bridge is routinely closed to traffic during periods of high winds.

Kirkwood recalls hearing an anecdote from a Line 5 researcher who said that while he was working in the field, his team split up on each side of the bridge.

“He said, ‘We couldn’t even cross the bridge to communicate with the other part of our team,’” Kirkwood said. “High wind conditions could prevent responders from crossing the bridge.”

More ominous yet, the FLOW/MSU study did not take into account how severe weather and ice cover could hamper the response.

Kirkwood said the cost of a Line 5 failure amid harsh winter conditions could be far worse than what the study imagined.

“Everything that you think is going to be easy could be the opposite and could be very, very difficult,” Kirkwood said. “Presumably, the price tag would go up, because the longer that you have oil in the open waters without it being contained, the more likely it is to actually come to shore. When you look at the cost of an oil spill, once you hit land, the cost goes up very significantly.”

Estimates of oil contamination from the FLOW/MSU Line 5 failure study.

An Enbridge photo of a Line 5 anchor strike.

RESPONSE FROM ENBRIDGE The FLOW/MSU study estimates that a Line 5 failure might release 2.5 million gallons of oil into Lake Michigan and Lake Huron in a better-than-worse-case-scenario. The cost of cleanup and the economic effects of the loss of tourism, damage to drinking water infrastructure and fisheries, and reduction in property values could cost Michigan billions.

“If a rupture were to occur, it is possible that automatic response valves would be triggered, and a release of oil could be of a lesser magnitude,” Robertson wrote in the report. “However, it is also possible that a failure of those valves and an extended delay in response, such as those experienced in pipeline ruptures, could lead to a release of oil of a far greater magnitude than this scenario, with economic damages well in excess of the estimates in this report.”

Ryan Duffy, a Lansing-based Enbridge spokesman, said the FLOW study is “fundamentally flawed.”

“It is based on an unrealistic volume of product potentially released. Enbridge has done extensive safety and risk planning on Line 5,” Duffy said in an email. “Our analysis indicates a potential worst-case discharge at the Straits of Mackinac is approximately 5,000 barrels, which is less than one-tenth the volume assumed in this study.”

Moreover, automatic shut-off valves would stop the flow of oil once there is a drop in pressure in the line caused by a leak, he said.

There are automatic shut-off valves located on both sides of the pipelines that are capable of shutting off the line within minutes.

“We would immediately activate containment and clean-up equipment and crews,” Duffy said.

Duffy said Enbridge is working with the state of Michigan to find ways to mitigate the risks posed by anchor strikes, including using a tunnel underneath the Straits to move the line away from where it can be hit by anchors.

The tunnel plan, worked out between Enbridge and Gov. Rick Snyder, is considered a betrayal by many Line 5 opponents, who want the pipes removed from the Straits entirely.

Asked what he thinks the response to the ATC spill demonstrated about how prepared Enbridge and the state and federal responders would be in the event of a Line 5 failure, Duffy wrote: “Our focus, 24/7, is on spill prevention.

In the unlikely event of an incident we have the training, the people and resources to respond quickly to a release in the Straits of Mackinac.

We have equipment positioned near the Straits to enable access, containment, and removal of oil. We have also practiced our winter spill

response plans in real-life winter conditions in the Straits of Mackinac. That experience will help us in the event of a spill.”

A message left at ATC inquiring about the apparent day-long lag between when the April 1 spill occurred and when it was reported to authorities was not returned.

In a press release, the Coast Guard described the Unified Command’s ATC response as a success: “‘Since the beginning of this response, the Unified Command, together with the many federal, state, local and tribal partners, worked diligently to mitigate any pollution threat to our Straits and precious wildlife, and to be transparent in our efforts,’ said Cmdr. Shaun Edwards, Incident Commander. ‘Although our mission is complete, we all remain committed to learning the cause this incident and doing our best to eliminate any threat of something like this happening again.’”

an annual festival in Mackinaw City on the weekend following that spill. The spill also unfolded in front of a beach where an MSRW bird watcher had been stationed to count birds since late March.

The bird watcher, Adam Bradley, wrote on his blog that he learned of the spill when officials began to visit the beach and started asking him pointed questions.

Fraze, who was the photography coordinator for the festival, believes that Bradley saw evidence of wildlife harmed in the spill.

“Adam was saying that there had been 50 red-breasted mergansers there a couple days before that had been out on the ice and came in as a group and did excessive preening for over an hour, just in one area, trying to clean their chest area,” Fraze said. “He said in his 20-some years of observing wildlife, he’s never seen that.

“I think all of us are wondering, why are we trying to prepare for Enbridge’s disaster, and why is the public being burdened with this risk that is absolutely avoidable?” she said. “We will never be as prepared as we want to be, given the age, given the track record, given the extraordinary risk.”

INJURED BIRD REPORTS

Wildlife photographer Lynn Fraze first learned about Line 5 when she attended a meeting about it at Petoskey High School in 2011, long before “Shut Down Line 5 Pipeline” yard signs proliferated across northern Michigan.

Fraze said she was alarmed when she approached the building and found it secured by police officers. They were apparently there in case there was trouble from people wanting to protest the Enbridge Kalamazoo oil spill, a 2010 event that saw nearly a million gallons of oil flow into the regional river system and cost more than a billion dollars to clean up.

“There was a couple that stood up at the end of the meeting, and they tried to talk about the Kalamazoo spill and they said, ‘If you don’t do something about this pipeline, you’re all going to be really sorry,’” Fraze recalled. “And the police officers came in and escorted them out.”

Today, Fraze said she is disturbed by her perception that authorities are downplaying and minimizing the severity of the ATC spill.

Fraze is a member of Mackinac Straits Raptor watch, which happened to be holding

And so he reported that to the authorities.”

A couple days after the festival, Fraze found what she considered evidence of the oil spill — a clear ice that was stained yellow, a sight she’d never seen before over decades of visiting the Mackinac Straits.

“It looked to me like Vaseline, a little lighter tint than Vaseline, but it was completely clear,” she said. “I called and tried to report it to the Coast Guard. It took me over an hour. They transferred me around, ‘This is the command number you should call’; ‘No, this is the command number you should call’; ‘Oh no, you should call this number in Washington, D.C.’” She said she was finally connected to someone who took her report.

Yet, in a May 8 press release, the Coast Guard said: “During the response, the Coast Guard and other agencies continually surveyed the Straits from the water, the air, and from the shoreline. There have been no reports of pollution or injured wildlife.”

Petty officer Brian McCrum of the Coast Guard public affairs office in Cleveland insisted that no one reported injured wildlife

to the agency.

It’s possible that Bradley’s report of birds preening excessively and Fraze’s report of discolored ice were deemed inconclusive observations and therefore were not counted as reports of wildlife injury or pollution. Fraze said she remains concerns about what the spill’s long-term impact on wildlife will entail.

LOWER CONSEQUENCES FOR BIRD KILLS

It just so happens that whether or not wildlife was destroyed as a result of the ATF spill is a moot point, at least as far as federal penalties are concerned.

Days after the spill, the Trump administration fulfilled a pledge to gut the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, a law that was enacted in concert with other countries amid concern over several bird species that had gone extinct over a century ago.

On April 11, the Interior Department issued an order that the law would no longer be used to punish the killing of birds when birds are killed as a result of any activities that are not undertaken for the purpose of killing birds.

For example, unless a company caused an oil spill with the intent to kill birds, they can no longer face penalties under the MBTA for birds that are killed in an oil spill. It was a reversal of years of consensus over what is considered to be one of the county’s first environmental laws.

According to the The Washington Post: “The new interpretation reverses decades of action by Republican and Democratic administrations to protect the animals as they navigate the globe.”

Fraze hopes that this change in policy will not turn out to be relevant for the Straits of Mackinac bird populations. She hopes that Line 5 is decommissioned and shut down before any wildlife is threatened.

“It’s common sense that they have a backup plan (to transport the oil elsewhere). Would a billion-dollar company not have a backup plan to keep the flow of oil moving?” Fraze said. “I don’t want to, as a wildlife photographer, take pictures of animals, birds primarily, covered in oil. I don’t.”

Even if we did learn from the ATC spill that there are trained and competent responders ready to react at the Straits of Mackinac to a Line 5 failure, Kirkwood said, that shouldn’t be acceptable.

“I think all of us are wondering, why are we trying to prepare for Enbridge’s disaster, and why is the public being burdened with this risk that is absolutely avoidable?” she said.

“We will never be as prepared as we want to be, given the age, given the track record, given the extraordinary risk.”

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BOB CARR’S UPHILL CLIMB No stranger to struggle, the former state ward and longtime TC and Mackinac Island preservationist is vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate, standing on a platform of community revitalization, and hoping to bring a little decorum back to politics. But first, he’s got to get back on that pesky primary ballot.

By Craig Manning By all accounts, Bob Carr is an underdog.

The Mackinac Island native seeking a seat in the United States Senate looks to be up against some heavy hitters in August’s primary race — John James, both a combat veteran and the president of supply chain management company James Group International; and Sandy Pensler, a former economics professor at Harvard and Yale, and the owner of private equity firm Pensler Capital.

Even if he wins the GOP primary in August, come November, he’d face incumbent Debbie Stabenow — who has represented Michigan in the U.S. Senate since 2001 — for one of Michigan’s two Senate seats.

Complicating Carr’s mission: His contention for the primary race has been called into question.

Sites like Ballotpedia list him as withdrawn from the race, while the Detroit Free Press does not have him listed on the ballot. Carr claims there was “interference” with his nominating petitions, which has created some confusion about whether or not he is running. Nevertheless, he said his campaign is working to resolve the confusion and ensure he’s on the ballot August 7.

Still, Carr is staying positive. He thinks the polls aren’t telling the full story — especially given the confusion surrounding his candidacy. He also thinks Stabenow has lost some of her focus on Michigan, at a time when many of the cities and towns throughout the state are downtrodden and tired. Someone who connects with the people, he thinks, might have a shot at an upset.

Carr knows a thing or two about being dealt a bad hand. As a child on Mackinac Island, he had a mother who was addicted to pain pills, and he and his sister were left malnourished and neglected. They became wards of the state, and Carr ended up living in 22 foster homes before he reached high school age. Sometimes, he got to live with his sister. Other times, he said, they passed each other “like ships in the night.”

Eventually, Carr ended up at boarding high schools, first in Illinois and then in California.

He worked for his keep and education at both schools — and also in college — learning the ways of agriculture on beef, cattle, poultry, dairy, and fruit farms. After college, with his farming and foster care days behind him, Carr discovered a philosophy that is still driving him to this day: “It only takes one person to change a life.”

Case in point: “When I got out of college, my number was too high, so I didn’t get drafted,” Carr said. “So five of us decided to go into the inner city of east Los Angeles and take over a great big house that didn’t even have glass in the windows. We cleaned it all up and started a house for runaways. I also chose to run the telephone hotline [for troubled teens] from midnight to eight in the morning. What I learned was that I had 10 seconds to turn somebody’s life around.”

That discovery sent Carr in a few different directions. Back in his home state of Michigan, he helped launch a soup kitchen in Benton Harbor — one that he says has only missed three meals in 37 years. Later, on a trip back home to Mackinac Island in 1974, he saw a derelict lighthouse from the ferry. The landmark — the Round Island Lighthouse — had only half its foundation and hadn’t been painted in decades, he said. Carr was so struck by the sight that he

drafted a letter to the editor of the Mackinac Island Town Crier, listing out 14 ways to save the lighthouse. Before long, he’d been recruited to lead the preservation campaign.

In the years since, historic preservation has become Carr’s calling. He’s helped save antique rail cars, wrought iron bridges, and ruins of old, historically significant churches. The project to save the City Opera House, meanwhile, brought Carr and his wife to Traverse City, where they now spend half their time. (The other half is spent on Mackinac Island.)

Carr was also instrumental in rescuing Building 50 and the rest of the Traverse City State Hospital from demolition. After the hospital officially closed its doors in 1989, debates raged about whether to keep the buildings — already listed on the National Register of Historic Places — or tear them down to make way for more green space. The night the vote to demolish the hospital took place, Carr stood up and passed out a letter he’d written to the editor of the Traverse City Record Eagle. The piece urged for the restoration and use of the state hospital buildings, and it ignited a conversation among community members that stopped the demolition vote from ever being taken.

As most know, the hospital eventually became the home of The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, a micro-community within Traverse City that is both a thriving spot for businesses and an in-demand residential destination. Carr says the key was finding an identity and theme for The Village that would make it unique.

Carr wants to apply a similar strategy to Michigan cities and towns. His platform revolves around revitalizing the downtown areas in economically distressed communities throughout Michigan. By creating unique places where people want to live, work, and visit — not unlike The Village at Grand Traverse Commons — he thinks he can help rebuild communities that have been marginalized and forgotten.

“I’m traveling around seeing these towns, and they’re tired,” Carr said. “They’re just boarded up. But here’s what we can do: We can take these old towns and come up with a theme. Every one of them is unique. So let’s establish these themes, and let’s decide to move back into the downtown areas.”

Carr has never been elected to public office. In 1996, he mounted a campaign for U.S. Representative in Michigan’s First Congressional District. He won the Republican primary but lost to Democratic incumbent Bart Stupak in the general election.

Still, Carr contended that when the Republican party approached him about running for Senate last year, his ’96 race was part of the reason why. They liked that he’d gotten so far with limited funds and no negative campaigning. He’s using a similar strategy for this election: spending next to nothing on advertising and playing nice with his fellow candidates. Instead, he and his wife have been traveling to communities across Michigan, meeting voters in the cities that Carr wants to save.

“When I go to these towns, and I get to speak, I always try to have a story to illustrate something about that town, and about what we can do [to make things better],” Carr said. “I make it very personal to where those people are. And so, you take 300 people here, and 500 people there, and suddenly, you’ve got votes.”

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You are invited to the reception and sale of “fresh off the easel” paintings

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Plein Air painting at the harbor in Fishtown ca. 1920

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The New and Improved Mackinac Island

By Kristi Kates Haven’t been to Mackinac Island in a while? While most things (thankfully) stay the same on this little gem in the middle of the Straits of Mackinac, the island also works to stay current and to offer new fun to their many guests. We chatted with Mackinac Island Tourism’s executive director, Tim Hygh, to get a sneak peek at what’s new on the island for the 2018 summer season.

Photo Destination Redevelops Happily, for the thousands of fans who don’t consider an island trip complete without donning vintage costumes and props in a sepia-toned photograph, Mackinac Island’s Old Time Photo is back. After nearly a decade away, the favorite tourist stop is returning this summer, and it’ll have not one but two downtown locations, said Hygh.

“But visitors ask about it all the time, so it’s really great that it’s back!”

Bistro Reboots Mary’s Bistro is one of the popular dining spots on the island, in large part due to its choice location on Haldimand Bay downtown — the perfect place to watch the waves and ferries while enjoying delicious food. This year, the décor of the outdoor portion of the Bistro — the Bayside BBQ and Bar — is being nautically redesigned to better reflect its location.

Find It! 7463 Main Street, (906) 847-9911; marysbistromackinacisland.com.

Windermere Celebrates This vintage hotel on Mackinac Island’s Main Street has been welcoming guests to the island since 1917, and it’s currently celebrating its 100-year anniversary. To celebrate, the hotel is offering a host of special packages all summer long.

Find It! 7498 Main Street, (906) 847-3301; windermerehotel.com.

Lilac Festival Celebrates Too! The island’s landmark summer event — the Lilac Festival — is celebrating its 70th this year, and offers a host of activities from the Taste of Mackinac culinary event to the Lilac Festival 10K run, the Grand Parade, and the Lilac Queen coronation.

“Our mayor, Margaret Dowd, is a former queen, and she’ll be at Lilac Fest this year,” Hygh said. “We’re inviting all of the former Lilac Queens back for this special 70th event. 70 years is pretty cool — we’ve been doing this a long time!” The festival will also be doing a special live broadcast on TV 9&10.

Find It! Activities take place in different locations around the island; for more information, visit mackinacisland.org/ mackinac-island-lilac-festival Dock Welcomes Diners The Star Line’s Dock No. 1 is prepping to be a barbecue destination this summer, bringing in new restaurant, Smokey Jose’s.

Its tag line: “Where barbecue and bourbon meet tacos and tequila.” Hygh said the eatery is getting plenty of attention. “The first thing

you can smell when you step off the ferry is the scent of Smokey Jose’s smoking their ribs right outside,” Hygh said. “Barbecue is actually really big on the island right now, so I think they’re going to do very well.”

Find It! 7263 Main Street, (906) 847-0466; also on Facebook.

Barbecue Opens The Harbour View Inn has expanded its BBQ venue into a permanent structure that will be open Memorial Day through Labor Day from 11am to 3pm, plus some weekends into the fall. New seating and picnicking spots are available starting this summer season.

Find It! 6860 Main Street, (906) 847-0101; harbourviewinn.com.

Kites Flying Higher Great Turtle Toys has always been the place for toys and games, but this summer, Great Turtle is bringing some extra fun to Windermere Point, hosting daily kite shows (weather permitting) and offering stunt and power kite demonstrations and lessons.

“That’s going to be so cool!” Hygh said.

Find It! 7372 Main St., (906) 847-6118; greatturtletoys.com.

Ferries Simplify Several updates are happening at the island’s ferry companies this summer. Star Line Mackinac Island Ferry is adding an additional boat in Mackinaw City, which will allow them service to run on a 15-minute schedule during peak season. And Shepler’s

Mackinac Island Ferry is launching a new ‘Scan and Go’ ticketing system, so guests can purchase discounted ferry tickets online and proceed directly to the vessel for boarding to have their ticket barcode scanned right on their phone. Shepler’s parking has also been improved.

Find It! Star Line - mackinacferry.com or (800) 638-9892, Shepler’s - sheplersferry.com or (800) 828-6157.

Mission Point Renovates Mission Point’s been busy renovating 108 of its Main Lodge hotel rooms and suites, the completion of one of the main milestones in its planned $5 million of upgrades. In addition to the new lodgings, the resort has also added a full-service spa and wellness center, in addition to several new dining and retail amenities.

Find It! One Lakeshore Drive, (231) 331-3419 or missionpoint.com.

Grand Hotel Gets Even Grander Two new suites have been completed at the Grand Hotel. Both suites offer wide views of the Straits of Mackinac and join the hotel’s list of over 40 named rooms celebrating historical figures and events. The two suites have been dubbed The Lilac Suite and The Prentiss M. Brown Suite — the former after the island’s trademark bloom and the latter in honor of the St. Ignace-born Democratic U.S. representative and senator.

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By Kristi Kates You expect to see boats around Mackinac Island in summer. Sailboats, power boats, cruisers, and the ubiquitous ferries that run residents and guests back and forth across the Straits of Mackinac, sure. But there’s a more unusual vessel visible these days — an all-wooden Down East lobster boat, tourists included.

Before we get into the wicked cool “Mainah” boat, let’s back up to its captain, Chris West, a northern Michigan resident who grew up in Saginaw and moved up north about 20 years ago. Fascinated by the lighthouses in the region, he started a lighthouse preservation society for the Waugoshance Lighthouse, and first started boating on the Straits basically because, well, as founder of a lighthouse preservation society, he had to.

“I needed to get out to the lighthouse to do work on it, so of course boating was the only way,” West said. He also spent some time working for Arnold Transit, as a dock worker, deckhand, and later as a captain after he got his certification through the Coast Guard. Another stint as assistant director of the Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau further solidified his growing interest in promoting tourism on the lake waters around Mackinac Island.

But his northern Michigan plan didn’t solidify until he moved to Maine.

“I had my degree, a masters in tourism and marketing from Michigan State University,” he said, “and I took a job as director of downtown revitalization in Gardiner, Maine.

And in Maine — Portland, to be exact — is where I eventually found the boat.”

“The boat” is the Ugly Anne, the aforementioned lobster boat, crafted in 1975, and a turning point for West in his life out East.

“My wife, Heather, and I had started thinking about moving back to Michigan. And we were also talking about doing something on the water with boats, but something other than another ferry boat,” he explained. “When I found the Ugly Anne, I thought it was really unique and would stand out among the other boats here. I just knew it would work in a Great Lakes setting.”

But there was a small catch: The woman who owned the Ugly Anne was hesitant to sell it, even though it had been on the market for quite some time.

“The gentleman who had it built had named it Ugly Anne after his wife,” West said. “It wasn’t because she was ugly — she wasn’t at all — it was because she could be grumpy at times, so when she said she wanted the boat named after her, he said, Sure, OK — here you go!”

According to the yacht broker who’d found it for West, the wife (her husband had died) had already turned down a dozen offers by the time he came into the picture.

West decided to meet up with her anyway.

“I told her I was from Michigan, and she said the only place she knew of in Michigan was Mackinac Island. I said, Well, that’s exactly where the Ugly Anne would be going. And she said, Then I think that’s a good place for my baby to retire. We still talk to her once a month or so, and we send her photos of the progress that the boat’s making.”

West got the boat recertified by the Coast Guard and had it shipped to Michigan, towed behind a truck.

Once the boat arrived Up North, West did some updating to the boat to make it ready for tourist season.

“We had to do just a few things, to take care of some wear from the saltwater in Maine,” he said. “To make it less charter fishing boat, and more tourism boat.” The Ugly Anne started her first season as a tour boat in 2011. “Every year since then, we’ve done a little better, as more people find out about the boat,” West said.

Today, the Ugly Anne offers a fun shortlist of different water tours. The Mackinaw City/ Mackinac Bridge History Cruise runs at 5pm daily all summer, treating guests to information about the maritime history of the area, local shipwrecks, and local Native American lore while cruising underneath the Mackinac Bridge ($24 adults/$12 kids). “We have a set script for that tour for all the pertinent information, then we open up for a little question and answer session,” said West.

The Mackinaw City Sunset Cruise departs 45 minutes before sunset every day of the week except Tuesday, and brings guests once again under the Mackinac Bridge for a front row seat to the sunset show complete with recorded music in the background ($24/all ages; cash bar available).

The Ugly Anne is additionally available for special tours and private charters for small individual groups. Guests can customize their own charter trip or try something like the Around the Island Cruise (1.5 hours, $500 per group) or the Bois Blanc Island Cruise, where local residents will pick guests up from the Ugly Anne at the Bois Blanc Marina and bring them inland to the Boblo Tavern for cocktails and a meal (4.5 hours; $850 from Mackinaw City, $900 from Mackinac Island per group; food/cocktails extra).

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A STORY OF SERVICE From his halcyon days as a Traverse City kid to his time as a WWII sailor in the South Pacific and a decorated cop patrolling some of the Michigan’s toughest streets, retired MSP Capt. Walter Anderson, age 90, is a local legend and real-life action hero.

By Al Parker With a thunderstorm approaching, the sky over Flint was splashed with ominous shades of black, yellow and green on the evening of June 8, 1953.

It had already been a busy Monday for troopers at the city’s Michigan State Police post and at all other law enforcement agencies in the area. An outbreak of deadly tornadoes had touched down in southeastern Michigan and northern Ohio, and first responders were bone-tired dealing with the dead and dying left in the wake of the killer storms.

Traverse City native Walter Anderson had been a state trooper for just over a year; he’d enlisted January 1952. He and a partner were patrolling in Flint, and he carries vivid memories of that day: At 8:30 p.m., a monstrous F5 tornado roared out of the Genesee County sky and ripped along a 27-mile path, causing 116 fatalities, ranging from a five-month-old to an 80-year-old.

Twenty families suffered multiple deaths.

It remains the single deadliest tornado in Michigan history and was the deadliest in U.S. history until it was surpassed by the Joplin, MO tornado in 2011.

Anderson and his partner raced from call to call, caring for injured storm victims and their families.

“We were the only (MSP) patrol car on the road when the tornadoes hit,” recalled Anderson, now 90 years old and living in Traverse City. “All the other cars had been sent south because of tornadoes down there.”

Witnesses later recalled hearing the tornado’s terrible roar and seeing the black funnel as it shredded its way through residential neighborhoods. The immense

funnel cloud stayed on the ground for more than seven miles, leaving a wake of death and destruction. Beecher High School was directly in the storm’s path and was heavily damaged. Patrons at the North Flint Drivein Theater scrambled to evacuate the theater, some inadvertently steering into the path of the storm, others getting involved in serious crashes in the ensuing panic.

The huge storm ripped large trees from the ground by their roots. Vehicles were mangled and tossed like toys. Some 340 homes were destroyed and another 260 damaged. Sixty-six farm and commercial buildings were wrecked.

But it was the loss of life that Anderson remembers vividly. “We worked 41 hours straight [caring for victims],” he recalled.

“It’s an experience I’ll never forget.”

Anderson went on to serve 28 years with the Michigan State Police, eventually rising to the level of Second District Commander, where he oversaw the running of nine MSP Posts.

Anderson was recently presented an oversized plaque/display that featured highlights of his career, including awards, photos, badges, and even a police whistle.

“Your compassion for your fellow man called you to enlist in the United States Navy at the age of 17 to fight in WWII to protect your country and its citizens,” reads the award. “That same compassion called you to be a Michigan State Trooper dedicated to protecting and serving the citizens of Michigan. You have used your skills to meet every challenge with courage and resolve.

You have a presence that is calming and exudes confidence from those you encounter … you have led by example. The men and women of law enforcement knew, ‘The buck stopped with you.’”

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Another plaque on his wall notes his 70 years of service to the American Legion. It’s from Traverse City’s Legion Post 35, where Anderson is a longtime member.

Having a father who was a police officer was not always easy, but it was educational, according to Anderson’s son, Greg.

“When I was young, Dad would take me around to visit the different posts,” said Greg, who followed his father into the MSP, serving 11 years, including 8 years in undercover operations. “He taught me very important lessons like discipline, integrity, respect, compassion, professionalism, and leadership — things I didn’t quite understand at the time but learned how important they are later.”

FLINT, A VIOLENT PLACE Anderson’s first six years with MSP were spent in Flint, which in the early ’50s had a reputation as a violent town. “We had more murders per capita than Detroit,” said Anderson, who earned a Meritorious Service Award — his second — in November 1956.

“Troopers Walt Anderson, Bert Poza, and Detective Walt Barkell investigated the armed robbery, kidnapping and rape of a female victim,” reads the award. “Troopers located and arrested the two suspects (brothers) who drove by the scene. The victim recognized their voices and the suspects were arrested. Troopers obtained confessions from the suspects. Troopers seized the shotgun from a closet at the suspect’s residence located near the crime scene. The barrel was still cold and had moisture on it from being outside, revealing further evidence of the crime.”

He earned another Meritorious Award when he conducted a traffic stop on I-496 in the Lansing area.

“Trooper Anderson found 12 precut lengths of rope and a .32 caliber handgun in the wheel well area of the trunk,” reads the award. “Through his further investigation, three suspects were linked to bank robberies and a drug store robbery in the Madison Heights area. The victims at the robbery scenes had been tied up with the same type of rope that was found by Trooper Anderson in the suspects’ vehicle. Additional robberies were planned by the suspects and prevented.”

Along the way Anderson handled a widerange of duties, including training recruits in combat, judo and defensive tactics and working on the MSP Racket Squad in the early 1960s. In 1961 he was cited for playing a key role in cracking a case involving police corruption and payoffs to Detroit Police officers by mobsters who were running illegal gambling joints.

“One time we busted an illegal gambling hall on the east side of Detroit,” said Anderson. “Even after we got the guys, it took 10 years to put ’em in jail. One of the guys died during that time.”

Throughout his MSP career — including several clashes with suspects and raids on dangerous drug dens — Anderson, a member of the Flint post’s pistol team, fired his weapon only once in the line of duty.

“I was chasing a stolen car suspect, pulled my weapon, and fired up in the air once,” he said with a smile. “The guy didn’t stop, so I holstered my weapon and chased him down.”

In the ’60s and ’70s, Anderson served as a detective sergeant with the Detroit Intelligence Section, earning a citation for using tips and surveillance to arrest four suspects in a series of bombings in the Motor City. All four eventually pleaded guilty to the blasts.

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In 1971, Anderson was promoted to command that unit as it targeted drug traffickers and organized crime.

Three years later he was again promoted, this time to commander of the MSP’s Second District, with responsibility for posts in Northville, Romeo, St. Clair, New Baltimore, Flat Rock, Ypsilanti, Pontiac Erie, and the Detroit Freeway Post.

“My phone never stopped ringing,” he remembered.

One of the high-profile cases he was involved in was search for the elusive Oakland County Child Killer, believed responsible for the deaths of at least two boys and two girls in 1976 and ’77. According to Anderson, one key suspect was killed in a motorcycle accident in Arizona. At the time of the fatal crash, the suspect was wearing a necklace that once belonged to one of the young female murder victims.

TC WAS ‘LIKE PARADISE’ Anderson’s career in some of Michigan’s biggest cities was a far cry from his childhood spent enjoying the woods and waters of Grand Traverse County.

“Growing up in Traverse City was like paradise,” recalled the former Trojan, who played basketball, baseball, and football and ran track at Traverse City High School.

“We lived at 256 East 9th St., and Lake.

There was a metal casket factory on the other corner. I was always physically active, riding my bike to deliver the Record-Eagle and the Grand Rapids Herald, which we picked up at the Rennie Oil station at the corner of Union and State.”

After graduation in the spring of 1945, the 17-year-old immediately joined the U.S. Navy, just as World War II was winding down. He had committed to a two-year hitch, so even though the war was soon over, Anderson continued to serve, allowing other sailors to return home. His first duty

station was aboard the USS Lenawee, a 385foot long attack transport that carried troops into battle. He served as a Machinist Mate, 3rd Class, and throttle man, spending eight months on the ship visiting several islands in the South Pacific.

Then he was ordered to land duty on Guam, where he spent 13 months, four of them as a teenaged guard for battle-worn Japanese prisoners. “They only knew two words of English — ‘Smoke, Joe’ — asking for cigarettes,” recalled Anderson with a laugh.

In 1947 he was honorably discharged and returned to Traverse City, landing a job at Michigan Bell. After four years there, a friend encouraged him to join the MSP. “I went to the post on 14th Street to apply and met with the captain,” he said. “Then in January 1952 I joined the 35th Recruit School in Lansing.”

Anderson went on to serve nearly three decades with the state police, eventually rising to rising through the ranks to oversee nine MSP posts as Second District Commander.

In 1975, Anderson was involved in the high-profile disappearance of longtime Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. The crime has never officially been solved, but Anderson strongly suspects that mobsters kidnapped Hoffa from a Bloomfield Township restaurant, drove him to a residence in Southfield, shot him to death, then incinerated the body.

Though retired, Anderson remains as alert as ever, keeping in close contact with MSP operations and personnel still today. He said he “couldn’t believe it,” when, in an effort to cut the budget in 2011, the state reduced the number of MSP posts from 62 to 29.

He has high praise for current MSP Director, Colonel Kriste Kibbey Etue, the first female director in the 101 years of the state police.

“She’s been very good,” said Anderson.

“Her father worked for me.”

Greg noted that his father holds a special status concerning Etue.

“Dad is the only captain to kiss a director of the Michigan State Police,” he laughed.

Anderson’s eyes brighten when he thinks back over his long career of public service with the U.S. Navy and Michigan State Police.

“It was wonderful,” he said. “I enjoyed every minute. I’d do it again.”

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The 16th floor of the Grand Traverse Resort’s tower is a perfect place to enjoy the changing scene that spring is bringing — and not just outside the 360-degree sweep of windows that afford panoramic views of East Grand Traverse Bay and the surrounding countryside from every seat in the resort’s premier restaurant, Aerie. Exciting changes are also taking place inside these days: Aerie is rolling out a new website, new events, a newly remodeled and redesigned bar/lounge area, and the major makeover Chef Bryan Petrick is most looking forward to: “We’re transitioning into a brand-new menu, and I can’t wait to roll it out,” he said. In fact, the only dish remaining from the former menu is the signature Aerie salad (organic field greens, cherry vinaigrette, cucumber ring, pickled red onion, candied pecans, Maytag blue cheese, dried cherries), which is a perennial customer favorite.

CHANGE IS GOOD DELICIOUS A sneak peek at the rest of that new menu shows some definite spring leanings in the mix. There’s creamed pea and leek soup (English peas, charred leeks, crispy potatoes, bacon lardons, focaccia croutons, pea shoots, fresh herbs, and olive oil), tempura asparagus (crispy fried asparagus, lemon pepper aioli, grated parmesan, preserved lemon, olive oil and smoked black pepper), wild mushroom risotto (with freshly foraged wild mushrooms, cippolini onions, Shetler’s dairy cream, shaved grana Padano, fresh herbs and garlic scapes), and roasted rack of lamb (with tabbouleh salad, coriander tomato sauce, house-made merguez sausage, smoked yellow pepper coulis and fresh tomato-mint vinaigrette), as well as intriguing riffs on artichokes, mussels, seabass, filet mignon, ahi tuna, and more.

“I take classic dishes and just give them my own kind of flair,” said Petrick.

So what prompted the redo? “I like to change things up now and again, and I feel like diners want new things, too,” he

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When the conductor says, “Take it from the top,” proficient orchestra members know to go back to the beginning of the musical score and start again, aiming for an even better performance. This month, Chef Bryan Petrick, who deftly conducts the kitchen at Aerie, high atop the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, just northeast of Traverse City, is orchestrating a similar move — in culinary terms — with his own team of virtuosos.

explained. “They don’t want to go to the same restaurant and see the same menu all the time. They’ll get bored with it and stop coming in. It keeps me on my toes and keeps me creative — writing the recipes, using different ingredients and techniques, and teaching the chefs in the kitchen to help them become better and more well-rounded.”

Petrick, who came to Aerie five years ago, has always incorporated global influences into his cooking, including French, Italian, Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian flavors.

After earning his culinary degree from the Art Institute of Michigan in Novi, he did an internship at a local Japanese restaurant there and, when it ended, was invited to stay on in a full chef ’s position. “It was probably the hardest job I’ve ever had,” he said, “because I was the only American in the restaurant, and everything was really traditional. All of the tickets came written in Japanese, so I had to pick up the language quickly — at least all of the culinary terms.

My mentor had trained in Japan for about 30 years before coming over here, so he knew a lot and taught me a lot.”

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL On Thursday, May 24, Petrick will get to show off his expertise in another unique arena. Aerie is hosting a Chef ’s Table for a limited number of guests (call early for reservations). That evening, a mobile kitchen will be set up in a private space next to the eatery’s windows to capture the beautiful views during the eight-course dinner, which was wholly designed by Petrick. The intimate setting allows participants not only to watch while he preps, cooks and plates the various dishes but also to comment and ask him questions at any time. Aerie manager Max von Bauer and assistant manager Alex Truck are doing sommelier duty for the event, and pairing wines, cocktails or beers to complement each course. They will also stand by to answer any questions guests might have.

The philosophy behind Petrick’s cuisine — whether for a themed event or Aerie’s nightly menu — is simple: “I want the best

peak-of-season ingredients to work with, locally or Michigan sourced wherever possible. All of the products we use come in fresh, raw, unprepared — it takes time and care to transform them before we put anything on the plate. But that’s the way I like to cook.” Weighing in on this same topic, von Bauer notes, “Farm to table was such a big movement over the last 10 years, but if you’re a quality restaurant, it’s no longer a focus that you promote yourself with — it’s the golden standard from which you start.”

BE OUR GUEST No question, Aerie is a place for a memorable dining experience. Still, it’s at least a small distance from almost anywhere in the region; you don’t just pass by it walking on the street and spontaneously decide to drop in. What makes it worth the trip?

“There are a lot of wonderful restaurants in this area — we’re very conscientious of that,” said von Bauer, “but Aerie is unique in that it can tie this incredible vantage point, 200 feet above the bay, with an elegant yet relaxed dining atmosphere, a Wine Spectatorawarded wine list, and a real dedication to craft cocktails and craft food.”

Truck added, “Our staff is professionally trained, so we’re very well polished in our service from the time you arrive. Basically we want to say, ‘You’re our guest, and we’re going to take care of you, so sit back, relax and enjoy.’

We love celebrating special occasions with people, but we also want to make any meal a special occasion for them, whether they have something to celebrate or not. We’re family friendly, business friendly, and a great place for friends to meet or couples to have a romantic night out. Although it has been around for a long time, Aerie is still a hidden gem in some ways, but it’s one worth seeking out.”

Aerie Restaurant and Lounge is located inside the Grand Traverse Resort at 100 Grand Traverse Village Blvd, Williamsburg, (231) 534-6800. For reservations or more information (also on special events), visit grandtraverseresort.com/aerie.

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Every weekend, year-round, Aerie serves a casual Sunday brunch buffet from 10am to 2pm featuring a rich array of offerings that include an omelette station, several side dishes, pastries, desserts, and a glass of champagne for adults. Reservations are encouraged but not a must, and there is no dress code. On all major holidays (Father’s Day is coming up on June 17), the chefs kick up the brunch menu another notch, which usually means perks like an added carving station, an even greater selection of side dishes, an expanded dessert display, and a separate kid-friendly buffet.

MICHIGAN WINE MONTH TIME FOR TASTING

“In our efforts to support the local community, and to celebrate Michigan Wine Month, we’ve created a wine flight for each week during May, focusing on local wineries,” said Aerie manager Max von Bauer. “It’s a wonderful opportunity not only for local residents but also for visitors who come Up North to do a wine tour. We can help them start charting out where they would most like to go by offering a little preliminary wine tasting right here with us.” There are still two weeks to get in on the fun and boost your oenology IQ! Enjoy three 3-oz. pours for just $20.

May 17–23 M. Lawrence Mawby: Sex Sparking Rose (Leelanau Peninsula) Chateau Chantal: Reserve Chardonnay (Old Mission Peninsula) Black Star Farms: Arcturos Merlot (Leelanau Peninsula) May 24–June 2 Bowers Harbor Vineyards: Block 2 Dry Riesling (Old Mission Peninsula) Brys Estate: Sauvignon Blanc (Old Mission Peninsula) Round Barn Winery: Cabernet Sauvignon (Baroda, MI)

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Watch watercolorist Lisa Flahive work her magic!

H&L Social - the rooftop space at the Hotel Indigo - opens Friday, May 25th for the season.

Serving a full, fresh menu and a wide array of beverages.

Sunday - Thursday 11:00 am to 11:00 pm Friday & Saturday 11:00 am to 12:00 am

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The summer music season gets underway with the Round Lake Music Festival in downtown Charlevoix May 25–27. Three bands each on Saturday and Sunday will provide the festivities, with the Jelly Roll Blues Band kicking things off with a special Friday evening performance starting at 5pm.

Jellyroll has long been one of northern Michigan’s favorite bands, playing its lively blend of blues and boogie across the area, from longstanding gigs at Legs Inn in Cross Village, Horn’s Bar on Mackinac Island, and the Sportsman Bar in Boyne City to showcase performances at Rick’s American CafÊ in East Lansing, the Royal Oak Music Theatre, even the MSU Auditorium.

Now a trio consisting of drummer Bill Riesenbeck, bassist Bob Crosser, and guitarist Johnny Storm, Riesenbeck said the group is slowly winding down its performance schedule. “I don’t want to work and hope people will like us,� he said, noting that the band prefers now to play private parties and engagements where they know they’ll be welcome. “We were so fortunate to be on the cusp of things,� said Riesenbeck. “We’d play four nights a week at the Sportsman, and on our first break we’d go see who was playing at the Dilworth. On our second break we’d go to the Tannery and see who was playing. It’s all different now.�

On Saturday, things get rolling at 1pm with the hypnotic rhythms of Universal Xpression, who’ll take you on a trip to the Caribbean without ever leaving Michigan, as the band assays reggae, soca, zouk and dancehall music. The Detroit-based outfit has been grooving for 20 years and has shared the bandstand with the likes of Percy Sledge, Shaggy, Luciano, Calypso Rose, Mighty Sparrow, Burning Spear, The Manhattans, and Maxi Priest.

The Shelagh Brown Band takes the

Sounds of Summer

stage at 4pm. Brown brings to mind country performers from Loretta Lynn to Carrie Underwood, sharing her personal songwriting prowess on tunes such as “Sunflower,� “Dang, Boy,� and “What I Believe� as well.

At 7pm it’s time to take a journey back to the hits of the ’70s and ’80s with the Journey Tribute Band. Don’t stop believin’ that the festivities end there, though, because it all starts up again Sunday with the Jared Knox Band. The Louisiana native now calls South Haven home, and he and his crack quartet blend the sounds of contemporary country with some Louisiana hot sauce. Knox and the Hagar Bombs crank it out starting at 1pm.

At 4pm it’s the Donny Hartman Band. A member of the Detroit Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Hartman mixes and matches rock, pop, country and R&B, much like the Motor City itself does.

Finally, the festival concludes with the 7pm performance by the McCartney Project. A loving tribute to Sir Paul, this fivepiece band from Columbus, Ohio, performs Macca’s music from the Beatles to Wings to his solo career.

Performances are free of charge, and you can even listen from the beer tent. It opens at noon and, like the music, closes up shop at 10pm. For more information go to LiveFromCharlevoix.com.

Featuring four delicious dinner specials that are here for a limited time only! Price includes a cold pint of Michigan brewed craft beer!

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Master Storyteller Richard Russo Coming to National Writers Series

By Clark Miller Richard Russo, Pulitzer prize-winning author of a dozen widely read novels and eight screenplays, comes to the National Writers Series stage at City Opera House on Friday, June 8, with his first book of essays in hand. In “The Destiny Thief,” Russo discusses how he struggled many years to find his authentic writer’s voice, which, once found, enabled him to create full casts of memorable characters.

Northern Express interviewed Russo about “The Destiny Thief ” and the topics it addresses.

Northern Express: You grew up in a small upstate New York, working class town. Your stories return often to small towns. Why? Is it just easier to spot a good story there? Or is there something special that draws you to them?

Russo: I think it has something to do with my interest in class. I can bring [characters] together easily because their paths cross. I know how small towns work because I spent my first 18 years in one.

Northern Express: So the old adage holds true for you — write what you know?

Russo: Some writers tell people what they know, others write about what mystifies them their entire lives. The latter, that’s me.

Small towns still mystify me.

Northern Express: The films you’ve written or co-written star some amazing actors, some of whom I suspect have taken over a character you created. True?

Russo: The most obvious example is Paul Newman playing Sully [in the 1995 movie, Nobody’s Fool]. On the first day of filming, he came to the set limping. My first thought was he’s hurt himself. But in fact he was already in character. He was already Sully.

He completely owned that character. And that’s why the movie was so wonderful.

Years later, I wrote a sequel [the book, “Everybody’s Fool”]. By then, Sully was only half mine. The rest was Newman’s. He had an understanding of the character that I didn’t have.

Northern Express: In “The Destiny Thief ” you reveal a lot about yourself. Ever think that might have a negative effect on your creativity?

Russo: [laughs] Call me up this time next year. By then I’ll know the extent of the damage. Right now, it seems OK. I’ve gotten used to the difference between the writer, the public me who goes on book tours, and the more private one who’s a husband and father.

The writerly one is the best of the three.

Northern Express: In “The Destiny Thief ” you speak often about the pace of the creative life.

Russo: The writer in me demands that I slow down, listen very carefully, that I see clearly.

It’s mostly a matter of going slow, slow, slow.

These days we all try to be quick-witted.

I think the artistic endeavor is essentially about slowing down.

Northern Express: Why does humor, as you have said, only look easy to write?

Russo: I wish I had Cary Grant here with me, he’d be able to tell you why humor only looks easy. We writers work real hard to make it look difficult.

Northern Express: Reading you makes me think of storytellers.

Russo: I got that from my dad. He’d tell a story and improve upon it every time. The funny thing is, he’d either forget I was there when it happened, or he did remember, and it just never bothered him a bit.

Northern Express: One of the threads running through The Destiny Thief is the struggle to break free of imitation and find your own voice. So once you’ve achieved that, and become so popular, do the expectations of your readers ever start to creep into you head?

Russo: For me, that happens fairly regularly.

[After some success] I worried that my readers, such as they were, would pigeonhole me in a certain way, writing about working class, upstate New York. Then my agent basically said, “You are who you are.” When you pick up a Dickens novel, you fully expect it to be a Dickens world. Whenever I become anxious about readers’ expectations, I remember the truth is, they expect me to be me.

those two things — humor and empathy — are related. I could have discovered either one and not been a good writer. It was a combination of both that was absolutely essential. And once I went there, there was a lot of funny sh*# going on! [laughs] It dawned on me I was closer to my old man, the one who loved to improve on his stories.

That was also my way.

Northern Express: In your essay, “The Gravestone and the Commode,” you say that, to be funny, writing has to be true to the way people really are.

Russo: It’s false otherwise. If you report the way you actually see it and don’t try to put something over on the world and its inhabitants, you’re writing.

Northern Express: Two quotes from “The Destiny Thief ” — just a few pages apart — seem to fit together well. The first one is, “Discovering who I was as a writer might be the final piece of the puzzle, but it also sent me back to the beginning.” The second one is, “And so, with no one left to impress, not even myself, I began, finally, to write.”

Russo: Writers learn different things at different times. I’ve known writers who have an understanding who they are, what they are, what they fear — and they seem to know that from the start. Wouldn’t I have loved that to be true for me!

Northern Express: What was it like for you, then?

Russo: I don’t know why I was so stupid so long. In my case, I got the craft stuff easily enough. I was writing pretty good dialogue by my second workshop. But for me to admit to myself who I was, what I loved most in the world, and what sorts of people interested me, I just couldn’t seem to get that in my head. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be Raymond Chandler, but finding my true voice came to me very, very late.

Northern Express: The terms “humor” and “empathy” are often used to describe your writing. Are the two terms related?

Northern Express: Are you a writer who is happiest when a book is done, or happiest during the writing of the book? And if the word, “happy,” is too superficial, which term would be better?

Russo: They are for me. I’d say writing itself is a study in empathy. It’s about forgetting yourself while you put yourself in someone else’s mind and in their shoes. So yeah,

Russo: There’s something wonderful, magical about the discovery process. There’s that glorious sense of letting your characters speak to you, learning things about them you didn’t

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know. So, I love the process. Once it’s done, though, that’s the least interesting part of it. I kind of get over my books really quickly. When it comes out, it’s mostly just gone to me. When people ask me today about a book I’ve written years ago, sometimes they have to remind about the names and everything else. I just move on to people whose lives I’m still trying to find.

Northern Express: What are you working on these days?

Russo: I’ve just finished the first draft of a new novel and made the turn toward home with it.

Northern Express: Care to tell us about it?

Russo: What I’ll tell you is that there are three main characters, all the same age. It takes place over two long weekends almost 50 years apart. When we first meet them, they’re gathered around a grainy black and white TV to get their draft numbers.

Northern Express: Maybe you’d be willing finish this sentence: “If one of my daughters decided to write a novel based on me … ” Russo: [laughs] I have two daughters. Until recently I thought I was pretty safe from either one of them turning her gaze on her poor old father. But Kate, who is a painter, injured her wrist and can’t work long hours painting. She wrote a full screenplay and put on my desk the other day. And it’s good.

Northern Express: There’s a study showing that some 60 percent of college grads never read a book once they graduate. What role does avid reading have for aspiring writers?

Russo: [moans] Yes, I’ve heard that, too. Fifty years ago, if you’d asked a class [of would-be writers] if they’re big readers, every hand would have gone up. Now, maybe, not so much. That mystifies me. But stories come to them in so many ways today. I know a lot of people still want to be writers. It’s odd that they can have a great love of storytelling without a great affection for language. But I think, ultimately, they will learn that.

Tickets For tickets to the Friday, June 8 National Writers Series event with Richard Russo, go to cityoperahouse.org, call (231) 941-8082, ext.

201, Monday-Friday, or visit the City Opera House box office at 106 E. Front St., Traverse City. The event begins at 7 pm. Doors open at 6 pm.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. Author Samantha Irby (left) is interviewed on stage at a recent National Writers Series event by Elon Cameron.

2. David Hricik and Jennifer Swanborough Hricik join Marina Call at Call’s book launch party at Left Foot Charley in Traverse City.

3. LJ and Ken Kuvon about to enjoy a delicious dinner during the grand opening of the new Crave restaurant in Gaylord.

4. Bruce and Barb Brown with Karin Beyer at the Crave grand opening.

5. Carol Sienko, Karen Rybicky, Deb Berger, and Jenny Geiger enjoy a laugh at the grand opening of Crave in Gaylord.

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2018

may 19

saturday

THE ROYAL WEDDING: HARRY AND MEGHAN: State Theatre, TC. Watch the wedding of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle, live from Windsor Castle. Doors open at 6am & wedding is at 7am. Uniform, morning coat or lounge suit, please. Every English lady wears a hat or a fascinator. There will be tea, scones, crumpets, & more. Invitations are available now at the box office or by calling 947-3446. Free. stateandbijou.org/ movies/royal-wedding-harry-meghan

may

19-27 send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: Boyne City, May 17-20. Today includes the Morel Breakfast, “Run for Their Lives” Humane Society 5K, The Saturday Competitive Hunt, Taste of Morels, Open Mic Competition & much more. bcmorelfestival.com/events

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29TH ANNUAL ZOO-DE-MACKINAC BIKE TOUR: May 18-20. The bike ride (not a race) takes place today, starting between 7:30am10:30am at Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs & spans 51 miles along Lake Michigan on a paved road with very little automobile traffic. Riders enjoy beautiful views of Lake Michigan from 400’ high bluffs. Stop at Legs Inn for lunch, & then the ride continues to Mackinaw City where there is a post ride party at The Crossings. zoo-de-mack.com/zoo-de-mack-info

---------------------JOPPA 5K: 8am, Michigan Beach Park, Charlevoix. runsignup.com/Joppa

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BOATING & FISHING GEAR SWAP: 9am6pm, Elmwood Township Marina. Bring your gear, boat equipment, parts, old boats, & anything fishing & lakes related. Free for Elmwood Twp. Marina slip owners; $10 per booth for non-slip owners; $20 for a double booth for non-slip owners. eventbrite.com

---------------------BUCKLEY OLD ENGINE CLUB’S SPRING SWAP MEET: 9am, Buckley Old Engine Show Grounds. Antique tractor, engine, steam, car & truck parts. Antique farm equipment & farm primitives. Free. buckleyoldengineshow.org

---------------------The Avett Brothers • Aug. 10

EMPIRE ASPARAGUS FESTIVAL: May 1820. Today includes the 5K Kick Yer Ass-paragus Fun Run/Walk, Asparagus Recipe Contest & & Cook-Off, “Ode to The Asparagus” Poetry Contest, live music by Keith Scott, Andre Villoch, 5th Gear Band, & The Benzie Playboys, the Children’s Magic Show with Gordon Russ & more. empirechamber.com/event/asparagus-festival

A Plein Air Painting Event will be held on Sat., May 26. From 10am-4pm artists will be seen painting in and around Leland, capturing images of Fishtown, views of orchards and vineyards, terrain, and beaches. A reception and sale of paintings “fresh off the easel” will take place at the Leelanau Community Cultural Center, Old Art Building, Leland from 6-7:30pm. Artists will donate forty percent of art sales to the Old Art Building. mynorthtickets.com

goods. There will also be workshops, live music, fiber arts, sheep dog & sheep shearing demos, & more. Free. facebook.com/mittfiberfair

---------------------TOGETHER WE GROW CHILDREN’S EXPO: 9:30-11:30am, Grand Traverse Academy, TC. Created especially for preschool & elementary aged children & their parents. Kids will enjoy science, music & art activities, face painting, balloon animals, a bounce house, story time & more. Parents can learn about local organizations that offer programs & activities for children. Free. mygta.us

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 10am, Northport Community Arts Center. facebook.com/northportcommunityartscenter

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Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life with The Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Babko • Aug. 11

ENHANCE EAST JORDAN: 9am-3pm.

Northern MI’s Russ Mawby Signature Service Project. Join AmeriCorps members for a day of service in & around the community of East Jordan. Register. 231-547-9947. surveymonkey.com/r/DDNZ7X3

---------------------GARLIC MUSTARD WORKBEE: 9am-noon.

Help the Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network remove invasive garlic mustard from Clay Cliffs Natural Area in Leland. Meet at the Leland Public Library & carpool to Clay Cliffs.

Dress for the weather. Free/includes lunch. habitatmatters.org/eventsworkbees.html

---------------------SPRING STEWARDSHIP DAY: 9am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Do some spring cleaning. Lunch is provided. RSVP: stewardship@grassriver.org.

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Jim Gaffigan • Aug. 16

THESE AND MANY MORE

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TART TRAILS’ TAILS TO TRAILS 5K: 9am, Vasa Trailhead, Williamsburg. Mingle with other dog owners & enjoy the trails with your canine friend. All proceeds benefit TART Trails. Includes a dog goodie bag with treats & photos of you & your dog(s). $20 - $50. traversetrails.org

---------------------TIP OF THE MITT FIBER FAIR: 9am-5pm, Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey. Celebrating MI’s natural fiber, farmers, processors & skilled artisans with 40 vendors from around the state selling spinning fiber, yarn & finished

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GLCM’S PARTNER PROGRAM: 10am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Elmwood Fire Department will share info on fire safety, including a firefighter uniform & big red truck. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------GIRLS TAKE OVER THE STATE THEATRE: 10am, The State Theatre, TC. Join Norte & GT Pie for a “strong girls” celebration. Watch “Moana,” talk about riding bikes, & smash the “Most Girls at the State Theatre” record. elgruponorte.org

---------------------GLOBAL 6K FOR WATER: 10am, Medalie Park, TC. Join thousands of people from around the world in bringing clean water to communities in developing nations. $50; 18 & under, $25. teamworldvision.org

walk for peace follows at noon. vfp50.org

---------------------WINERIES OF OLD MISSION PENINSULA BLOSSOM DAY: 10am-5pm, Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula. Enjoy wine tastings & spring-inspired food pairings at each winery & a commemorative wine glass. $30 advance; $35 day of. wineriesofomp.com

---------------------MEETING OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: 11am, Elks Lodge, TC. A regular meeting of the Job Winslow Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be held with lunch to follow. Reservations required. 946-6337.

---------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: May 18-25. Select restaurants of Petoskey & Bay Harbor have joined forces to bring you three course menus for $25 for dinner & $15 for lunch with some establishments offering two for one pricing. petoskeyrestaurantweek.com

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 122pm: John Garavaglia will sign his book “Dorian Gray.” 2-4pm: Dean Smith will sign his book “The Lumper.” 4-6pm: Keith Gave will sign his book “The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery & Courage.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------COMMUNITY PARTY: 12-4pm, Advent Lutheran Church, Lake Ann. Enjoy hot dogs, games & prizes, music from Northern Lower Brass Ensemble, a fire truck to explore (122pm), a bounce house for kids & more. Free.

Find on Facebook.

---------------------- ---------------------MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS SPLASH OF COLOR FUN RUN: 10am, Festival Park, Petoskey. 5K run & 1 mile walk. Presented by North Country Community Mental Health. $15$20. eventbrite.com

---------------------USED BOOK SALE AT BENZONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: 10am-4pm. Info: 231-882-4111. benzonialibrary.org

---------------------VETERANS FOR PEACE: 10am, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. This group will meet to plan the annual yard sale on June 8-9. A silent

MOHAWKS FOR MUNSON: 12-4pm, North Peak Brewing Co., TC. Help Munson Medical Center raise $30,000 for its Cowell Family Cancer Center. Besides watching mohawk shaving & faux-hawk styling for kids, also enjoy a BBQ, live music, bounce house, free Moomer’s ice cream, face painting & crafts for kids. Donations. northpeak.net

---------------------UP NORTH BEER WEEK: May 11-19. Beer lovers in Boyne City, Petoskey, Gaylord, Harbor Springs, Wolverine & Mackinaw City will find events, tastings, food pairings & beer

classes to enjoy. Passports are $15 & include a souvenir pilsner glass & discounts at all 20 stops along the way. upnorthbeerweek.com

---------------------4TH ANNUAL IPL’S MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS & FRIENDS TEA: 1-3pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Light fare, sweets & tea will be served. Little House on the Prairie theme. Featuring crafts & entertainment. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------ORYANA COMMUNITY BLOCK PARTY: 1:305pm, Oryana Community Co-op, TC. A celebration of community featuring live music (including Katie & Sav of The Accidentals), food from local vendors, art & more. Find on Facebook.

---------------------REGIONAL BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30-7:30pm, Antrim Dells, Ellsworth. $10.

---------------------CHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS SPRING CONCERT OF THE DOROTHY GERBER STRINGS PROGRAM: 5:40pm, Charlevoix High School. charlevoixcircle.com

---------------------SIPS N’ GIGGLES COMEDY SHOW FEATURING MARK POOLOS: 6pm, Streeters, Ground Zero, TC. Enjoy Leelanau wine paired with a nationally touring comedian. Free wine tasting, dinner packages and VIP tables available. $20 advance; $25 door. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------TOXIC CHERRIES ROLLER DERBY HOME OPENER: 6pm, GT County Civic Center, TC. Toxic Cherries versus Central Michigan Mayhem. Fundraising will benefit Disability Network/Northern Michigan. Tickets available from Brown Paper Tickets. $10. Find on Facebook.

---------------------FREE TETHERED HOT AIR BALLOON RIDES: 7-9pm, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. By Above Traverse Balloon Rides.

---------------------HIP HOP CONCERT WITH PUG LOOP & FRIENDS: 7-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey.

A benefit for the Petoskey Public Library. $5 at door. redskystage.com

---------------------“YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN”: 7:30-10pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. In Mel Brooks’ musical comedy based on his film parody of horror movies, the grandson of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein inherits his family’s Transylvania estate. $15-$28. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------SPECIAL EXHIBITION & SALE OF WORLD ARTS & CRAFTS: May 18-20 at Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. See work from six countries representing media of wood carving, textiles & painting. Sale hours: Fri. & Sat.: 10am5pm. Sun.: 11am-5pm. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------CLEARANCE, OHMME, FIONA DICKINSON: 8pm, GT Circuit, TC. Three Band Triple Header. $10 suggested donation. Find on Facebook.

---------------------NIGHT RANGER: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Catch these platinum-selling hard rock favorites on their 35th Anniversary Tour. $40, $50, $55. lrcr.com

may 20

sunday

TWIN BAY TRAIL RIDERS DRUMLIN RUN: Heeres Farm, Ellsworth. Round 3 of The D14 Hare Scramble Series. 2 hrs. + 1 lap XC race. Sign up: 7:30-11am.

Mini parade lap: 9:30am. Mini race: 10am. 50cc race: 11am. Big bikes: No parade lap race: noon. 231-590-8330. $10/ person. Find on Facebook.

---------------------SPECIAL EXHIBITION & SALE OF WORLD ARTS & CRAFTS: (See Sat., May 19)

---------------------EMPIRE ASPARAGUS FESTIVAL: May 18-20.

Today includes an asparagus breakfast. $10. empirechamber.com/event/asparagus-festival

---------------------TIP OF THE MITT FIBER FAIR: 10am-4pm, Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey. Celebrating MI’s natural fiber, farmers, processors & skilled artisans with 40 vendors from around the state selling spinning fiber, yarn & finished goods. There will also be workshops, live music, fiber arts, sheep dog & sheep shearing demos, & more. Free. facebook.com/mittfiberfair

---------------------63RD ANNUAL NMC BARBECUE: 11am-5pm, NMC, main campus, TC. Help fund projects at NMC. $6 advance; $8 day of. nmc.edu

---------------------BLESSING OF THE BLOSSOMS: 11am-5pm, Chateau Chantal, TC. This non-denominational service is the origin of the Cherry Festival.

Complimentary cherry pie, refreshments & musical entertainment will be on hand after the half hour service. Free. chateauchantal.com/ events/blossom-day-womp

---------------------NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: Boyne City, May 17-20. Today includes a craft show, the M.O.R.E.L. Outdoor Show & more. bcmorelfestival.com/events

---------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., May 19)

---------------------PLOW DAY: 11am-3pm, The Rex Dobson Ruby Ellen Farm, 5946 S. Center Hwy., Bingham Township, Leelanau County. Featuring horse-drawn plowing demonstrations, horsedrawn wagon rides, a harnessing demonstration, obstacle course run, & much more. Free. rubyellenfarm.org

---------------------TRADITIONAL WATER CEREMONY: 11:30am, Veteran’s Memorial Park, Elk Rapids. With special guest Josephine Mandamin, Anishinaabekwe water walker. The ceremony will be followed by storytelling, music & drumming. Hosted by Green Elk Rapids. 231-2640618. Free. greenelkrapids.org

---------------------TAHS LOCAL HISTORY PROGRAM: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Featuring a series of short local history presentations. Free. traversehistory.wordpress.com

“YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. In Mel Brooks’ musical comedy based on his film parody of horror movies, the grandson of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein inherits his family’s Transylvania estate. $15$28. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 2pm, Northport Community Arts Center. facebook.com/northportcommunityartscenter

---------------------BOOK LAUNCH: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. With Lynne Rae Perkins, author of “Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------BOOK SIGNING: 2-5pm, Chateau Chantal, TC. Author Kim Schneider will sign her book “100 Things to Do in Traverse City Before You Die.” chateauchantal.com

---------------------JACK FINDLAY: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. This local author will discuss his new book “UnCollared: Confessions of a Nonconformist: A Memoir.” aldenlib.info

---------------------CROOKED TREE YOUTH ORCHESTRAS SPRING CONCERT: 2:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------SPRING BEAUTIES: A WOODLAND WILDFLOWER WALK: 2:30-4pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Featuring TC native Caitlin Chism. Free. michlegacyartpark.org/ tours-workshops

---------------------ENCORE WINDS SPRING CONCERT: 3pm, First Congregational Church, TC. $15 adults, $10 seniors, kids free. encorewinds.org

---------------------BACH FAMILY FESTIVAL: 4pm, First Presbyterian Church, Harbor Springs. Presented by the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra. A preconcert talk with Libor Ondras will be held at 3pm. General admission, $25. glcorchestra.org

---------------------CAMERON BLAKE: 7pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. This singer/songwriter’s new album is “Fear Not.” He will be joined by Ethan Lucas on drums & Max Brown on guitar & bass. $20 advance; $25 door. sleders.com

may 21

monday

PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., May 19)

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SUNSET COAST BIRDING HIKE: 1-3pm, St. Clair - Six Mile Lake Nature Preserve.

Featuring GTRLC Land Stewardship Specialist Jake Bournay, who will bring his binoculars & spotting scope. gtrlc.org

---------------------LEARN MORE ABOUT PROBATE COURT: 1:30pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen.

Presented by the Senior Center Network.

Judge Melanie Stanton will provide insight into such topics as being unable to care for one self & removal from the home. Free, but ad-

vance registration required. Email: dmikowski@grandtraverse.org or call: 922-2080.

---------------------RECYCLE ART: 6:30pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Teens (ages 12 & older) are invited to create a work of art from odds & ends. Also enjoy pizza & pop. Prizes awarded. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------VILLAGE COUNCIL MEETING: 6:30pm, HERTH, Elk Rapids. Today’s focus is environmental programs with host GT Regional Land Conservancy Executive Director Glen Chown. greenelkrapids.org

---------------------HERE:SAY PRESENTS: TOE TO TOE: 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Scheduled performers will tell true stories of having to put up their dukes. Suggested $5 donation at door. Find on Facebook.

---------------------WINGS OF WONDER PROGRAM: 7-9pm, Boyne District Library, Boyne City. Presented by the Sunset Coast Birding Trail. $5 donation encouraged. sunsetcoastbirdingtrail.org

may 22

tuesday

WILDFLOWER WALK: 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Join wildflower enthusiast Julie Hurd to walk along GRNA’s trails & learn about wildflowers.

Donations. grassriver.org

---------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create a red, white & blue star mobile. Held at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., May 19)

---------------------ANTRIM AREA WOMEN DEMS & FRIENDS MAY MEETING: Noon, Torch Riviera, Rapid City. The speaker will be Officer Jennilyn Oster of the TC Police Dept. She will discuss the opioid crisis in northern MI. RSVP: chrisandglennh@gmail.com Buffet luncheon: $13.’

---------------------FRIENDLY GARDEN CLUB MEETING: 12:15pm, Bluewater Hall, TC. Brad & Amanda Kik, founders of Crosshatch, will speak about how food, farm & gardening help build a community. thefriendlygardenclub.org

---------------------NEW CARDIAC REHAB SUPPORT GROUP: 2pm, MCHC, rooms A&B, TC. Share, learn, support & connect with others experiencing the effects of cardiovascular disease. 9358560. munsonhealthcare.org

---------------------EL BARRIO BIKE FIX: 4-7pm, La Plaza, next to Norte Clubhouse, TC. Bring your bike & El Barrio Bike Fix will bring the tools, space & knowledge. Then you can fix your own bike.

Free. elgruponorte.org

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MAY 18-25 Friday to Friday

Here’s how it works:

Three course menus for $25 for dinner and $15 for lunch with some establishments offering two for one pricing.

Restaurant Week happens twice a year - save the date!

Friday to Friday October 19-26, 2018 Beards Brewery 215 East Lake St. Petoskey 231-753-2221

Pour Public House 422 East Mitchell St. Petoskey 231-881-9800

City Park Grill 432 East Lake St. Petoskey 231-347-0101

Roast & Toast 309 East Lake St. Petoskey 231-347-7767

Duffy’s Garage & Grille 317 East Lake St. Petoskey 231-348-3663

Sage 1760 Lears Road Petoskey 231-344-4420

Mim’s Mediterranean Grill 1823 US 31 Petoskey 231-348-9994

Side Door Saloon 1200 US-31 Petoskey 231-347-9291

LEARN MORE ABOUT PROBATE COURT: 4pm, TC Senior Center. Presented by the Senior Center Network. Judge Melanie Stanton will provide insight into such topics as being unable to care for one self & removal from the home.

Free, but advance registration required. Email: dmikowski@grandtraverse.org or call: 922-2080.

---------------------WRITERS ROUNDTABLE: FROM PEN TO PRINT: 4pm, Leelanau Historical Society, Leland. For history writers, researchers, genealogists, publishers & authors. Four local professionals will share their tips, tricks, firsthand experience & advice in a casual panel style format. RSVP: 231-256-7475.

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CTAC SCHOOL OF MUSIC SPRING COLLAGE CONCERT: 5:30-8pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Featuring members of the Chamber Orchestra, Adult Strings, Jazz, Ukulele, & Rock Programs. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------REGIONAL BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30-7:30pm, Antrim Dells, Ellsworth. $10. charlevoix.org

---------------------MOVIE NIGHT: 6:30pm, Bellaire Public Library.

Featuring “The Finest Hours.” bellairelibrary.org

may 23

wednesday

MEN IN GRIEF SERIES: 9am, Hospice of Michigan Office, TC. A series examining issues that are unique to men who have lost a loved one. Led by a male counselor, it will compare expectations of men versus the reality of men dealing with grief. Register. Free. hom.org

---------------------PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH DAY SUPPORT GROUP: 10am, TC Senior Center.

Featuring “Parkinson’s, A Personal Journey” & group discussions. 947-7389.

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---------------------BOTANICAL HIKE: 1-3pm. Join Angie Lucas, staff ecologist at the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, on a botanical hike along the trails at Antrim Creek Natural Area. Meet at the south entrance to the Natural Area. gtrlc.org

Twisted Olive 319 Bay St. Petoskey 231-487-1230

Palette Bistro 321 Bay St. Petoskey 231-348-3321

Vintage Chophouse | Wine Bar The Inn at Bay Harbor Bay Harbor 231-439-4051

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Enjoy your favorite restaurants and discover new ones at an affordable price. The best restaurants of Petoskey and Bay Harbor have joined forces for this special culinary event!

INTERLOCHEN BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30pm, Bouwman Realty, 2515 M-137, Interlochen. interlochenchamber.org

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS LEELANAU COUNTY ANNUAL DINNER & MEETING: 5:30pm, Homestead Resort, Glen Arbor. Peter Payette, executive director of Interlochen Public Radio, will address “Preserving Quality Journalism & Maintaining a Free Press.” The cost for the Tex-Mex themed buffet is $30 a person or only $15 for attending the 7pm speaker presentation. 231-271-0072. LWVLeelanau.org

---------------------LIFETREE CAFE: 8pm, The Rock of Kingsley.

Featuring a film about the effects of teen suicide & a discussion. Free. Find on Facebook.

may 24

thursday

INTERACTIVE STORY TIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “I Lost my Sock” by Anne Drake.

Solve the mystery of the lost sock. greatlakeskids.org

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THE RELICS CONCERT: 6pm, Crawford County Commission on Aging & Senior Center, Grayling. A country, 50’s & 60’s, rock & roll band. 989-348-7123. Free.

---------------------“YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN”: (See Sat., May 19)

may 25

friday

NORTHPORT PHOTO EXHIBITION: Village Arts Building, Northport. Photographers will exhibit & sell their work in this Northport Arts Association sponsored event. An opening reception will be held tonight from 6-9pm. The exhibition & sale will be held on Sat., May 26 from 10am-4pm & Sun., May 27 from 12-4pm. northportartsassociation.org

---------------------SIDEWALK SALES: The Village at Bay Harbor. bayharbor.com

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am: Story Hour: Flowers. 8:30-10:30pm: Live Music with the Jim Crockett Trio. horizonbooks.com

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---------------------UPNORTH SCORE WORKSHOP: Noon, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Email Marketing (Part 2): Designing an Effective Campaign Free. upnorthscore.com

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---------------------FIELD GUIDE TO NORTHWEST MICHIGAN BOOK TALK: 3pm, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. With author James Dake.

The field guide, which covers over 400 species, was designed to help readers explore everything from the local trails to their own backyards. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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CHERRY CAPITAL COMIC CON (C4): 5-8pm, GT Resort & Spa, Governors’ Hall, Acme.

Northern MI’s largest comic book & pop entertainment expo. dev.cherrycapitalcon.com

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Noggin Room Stafford’s Perry Hotel 100 Lewis St. Petoskey 231-347-4000

SUMMER THEME BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Knot Just a Bar, Bay Harbor.

Coincides with Music on Main, featuring The Real Ingredients from 6:30-8pm. 231-3474150. $7 members; $12 not-yet members.

“MIND INTO MATTER” & “SEEING & BEING SEEN” EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION: 6-8pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, galleries, Petoskey. crookedtree.org

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BLACK ROSE TOUR: 7-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring local hip hop artists including Drebb, Noemad, Markavelli, King Rayn, Blissful, Trouble, Lil Luke & Nick Spencer. redskystage.com

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may 26

saturday

NORTHPORT PHOTO EXHIBITION: (See Fri., May 25)

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36TH ANNUAL BAYSHORE MARATHON: The marathon starts at 7:15am at NMC, TC. The Half Marathon starts at 7:30am on Devils Dive Rd., TC. The 10K starts at 7:30am at NMC, TC. The Half Marathon & 10K are FULL. Presented by the TC Track Club. bayshoremarathon.org

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10K Run/Walk: Petoskey to Harbor Springs, 8:30am. Two 5K Run/Walk events: Charlevoix, 8am; Harbor Springs, 8:30am. trailscouncil.org/ top-of-michigan-marathon

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ANTRIM COUNTY PETOSKEY STONE FESTIVAL: 8:30am-4pm. Featuring the 5k Fun Race, 13th Annual Commissioner’s Kids’ Stone Skipping Contest, Coast Guard Search & Rescue Demonstration, 13th Annual Petoskey Stone Hunt & much more.

---------------------BOARDMAN RIVER CLEAN SWEEP: 9am3pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Spend a day riverside with other volunteers working to clean the Boardman River of trash.

Afterwards enjoy a picnic at the Oleson Pavilion at the Nature Center. natureiscalling.org

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FAMILY FUN DAY: 9am-4pm, Lake Ann Camp, Lake Ann. Featuring free camp activities including visiting animals, playing laser tag, exploring the bog, disc golf, foot golf, a climbing tower & more. Lunch, $5. lakeanncamp.com

---------------------FORT MICHILIMACKINAC REENACTMENT PAGEANT: Fort Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, May 26-28. Featuring a Grand Parade, 18th Century Mackinac Fashion Show, Memorial Day service, reenactments & much more. crazycrow.com

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SIDEWALK SALES: The Village at Bay Harbor. bayharbor.com

FIND YOUR PARK AFTER DARK 2018 STAR PARTY: 9-11pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. Featuring park rangers & members of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society. Park in the row furthest from the dunes with your headlights facing M-109. leelanauchamber.com

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MICHIGAN BEER & BRAT FESTIVAL: 4-8pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Enjoy live music by the Drew Hale Band and The Rock Show Band while sampling a big selection of MI’s microbrews, local hard cider & mead, & gourmet brats from northwest MI markets. $30 advance; $35 day of. crystalmountain.com

may 27

sunday

NORTHPORT PHOTO EXHIBITION: (See Fri., May 25)

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NORTH MITTEN HALF MARATHON: 8am, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville.

Featuring a half marathon, 10K & 5K. Races start & finish at the white slope side tent near the Crystal Clipper chairlift. crystalmountain. com/event/north-mitten

---------------------FORT MICHILIMACKINAC REENACTMENT PAGEANT: (See Sat., May 26)

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CHERRY CAPITAL COMIC CON (C4): 11am5pm, GT Resort & Spa, Governors’ Hall, Acme.

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CHERRY CAPITAL COMIC CON (C4): 10am6pm, GT Resort & Spa, Governors’ Hall, Acme.

Northern MI’s largest comic book & pop entertainment expo. dev.cherrycapitalcon.com

---------------------GLEN HAVEN DAYS: 10am-4pm, Glen Haven Historic Village & U.S. Life-Saving Service Station at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. Featuring hands-on activities & costumed reenactments. There will be blacksmith forge demonstrations, visits to the general store, timber-framing, a handson “shipwreck rescue,” & more. Free w/ park pass. nps.gov/slbe/index.htm

---------------------GUIDED PUBLIC HIKE: 10am, Maplehurst site, 12055 Warring Road, Elk Rapids. Presented by GT Regional Land Conservancy & Green Elk Rapids. greenelkrapids.org

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TASTE OF BAY HARBOR: 12-3pm. Renowned chefs from each of the eating establishments in Bay Harbor will provide a tasting menu featuring specialties from their restaurants. Tastings will take place on the Marina Lawn in the Village at Bay Harbor, with wine pairings & music. VIP experience ($100) is available to the first 100 guests. 231.439.2700 or info@bayharborfoundation.org General admission, $25. bayharbor.com

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “THE WIZARD OF OZ”: 2pm, Northport Community Arts Center. facebook.com/northportcommunityartscenter MUSIC ON MAIN: 6-8pm, The Village at Bay Harbor. Featuring The Galactic Sherpas.

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HORIZON BOOKS OF CADILLAC STORYTIME: Wednesdays, 4pm. Listen to a story & create a take-home craft. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

---------------------MORNING BIRD WALKS: Tuesdays, 9am; Thursdays, 7:30am, through May 29. Pond Hill Farm, Harbor Springs. Presented by the Petoskey Regional Audubon Society. facebook.com/PetoskeyAudubon

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SUNDAY FUNDAY GENTLE YOGA: Sundays, 10:30-11:30am, Bodies in Motion, TC. Open to all levels, this class is for anyone looking for an unhurried soothing practice & will introduce postures & breathing techniques. bodiesinmotiontc.com

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MACKINAW CITY MEMORIAL DAY PARADE: Parade at 1pm; fireworks at dusk.

VASA DOMINGOS: Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC. This mountain bike group ride meets every Sun. at 11:45am. Starts at noon. elgruponorte.org

MEMORIAL WEEKEND COUNTRY DANCE: Summit City Grange, Kingsley. 6pm hot dog dinner; 7-10pm dance. Live music. 231-2634499. Donation.

CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET, PETOSKEY: Fridays, 10am-1pm, upper level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. crookedtree.org

MIRIAM PICO & DAVID CHOWN: 7pm, Music House Museum, Williamsburg. These musicians will perform classics & originals to benefit Music House Museum programs. $35. musichouse.org

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

“YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN”: (See Sat., May 19)

SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 7:30am-noon through Oct. 27. Sara Hardy Farmers Market Lot, TC.

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Local produce, baked goods, flowers & plants.

Wednesday markets start the first Weds. in June & run through Oct. downtowntc.com

---------------------OUTDOOR BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Weds. & Sat., 8am-noon, starting May 19, through Oct. Veteran’s Park, Boyne City.

Featuring over 70 vendors. boynecityfarmersmarket.com

---------------------EAST JORDAN FARMERS MARKET: Sportsman’s Park, East Jordan. Held on Thursdays from 8am-noon. Featuring local organically grown fruits & vegetables, baked goods, jewelry, crafts, flowers & more. Free coffee.

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paintings. Runs through Sept. 8.

-MIND INTO MATTER - CYNTHIA RUTHERFORD: Runs May. 26 - Aug. 18 in Gilbert Gallery. Cynthia’s paintings include textures, images, graffiti, glazes, & washes of paint.

-SEEING & BEING SEEN - THE WORKS OF SUSAN OFFIELD: Runs May. 26 - Aug. 18. Susan enjoys painting the human being & standing before an inspiring object. crookedtree.org

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: Mon. - Sat., 10am-5pm; Thurs., 10am-8pm; Sun., 1-5pm - NMC JURIED STUDENT ART SHOW: Featuring the work of NMC & local high school students. Runs May 16-27. dennosmuseum.org

ART IN THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM: Michigan Artists Gallery & Higher Art Gallery, TC. Two galleries, 70+ artists interpreting Edward Hicks’ 1833 “Peaceable Kingdom.” Runs through mid-June. michiganartistsgallery.com

---------------------“MARGIE GUYOT, A NOT SO STILL LIFE”: Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix. Known for her plein air paintings & still lifes, Guyot’s exhibit will run through May 26. charlevoixcircle.com

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“THE JOY OF GREAT WORKS OF ART”: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Learn about significant artists of the past few centuries & the influence they’ve had on our lives, architecture, fashion & design. Professor Emeritus Paul Welch of NMC will speak on Sat., May 19 from 3-5pm. Runs through May 27. twistedfishgallery.com

---------------------“TWO SISTERS”: Bella Galleria, Old Mission Tavern, TC. This exhibit features artwork by Theresa Youngman & Catherine Ufer. It runs through June 24. Hours: 11:30am-8pm, Mon.Thurs.; 11:30am-9pm, Fri. & Sat.; & 11:30am7pm on Sun. oldmissiontavern.com

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“WELCOME MAY WITH ART”: Runs through May at City Opera House, TC. Local artists Annie George & Margaret Weeks are exhibiting paintings. Hours: 10am-5pm, M-F, & in the evening during events. cityoperahouse.org

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AIKIDO AT LIFT YOUTH CENTER - AN ADAPTIVE ARTS FOR ALL EXPERIENCE: Mondays, 4pm at LIFT Youth Center, Suttons Bay. Registration required. Free. artsforallnmi.org

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------------------------------------------CENTER GALLERY: CELEBRATING RURAL LIFE: Center Gallery, Glen Arbor. As seen by painters Barbara Cochran & Margie Guyot. An opening reception will be held on Fri., May 25 from 6-8pm. The exhibit runs through June 28. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com

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FIBER ART EXHIBIT: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Runs through June 2. gacaevents.weebly.com HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBIT: Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Featuring sculptural work by four schools: Frankfort High School, Interlochen Arts Academy, The Leelanau School, & Brethren High School. Runs through May. michlegacyartpark.org

---------------------SUMMER MEMBER EXHIBITION & RETROSPECTIVE: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort.

Celebrating OAC’s 70 Years. Featuring a multimedia presentation on the history of OAC going back to 1948 & works by former members, instructors & volunteers of OAC. Runs through June 1. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: -”SEEDS” EXHIBIT: Runs through May 19 in the Atrium Gallery. Featuring the artists & faculty of NCMC. -”NORTHERN MICHIGAN, LIVING IT, LOVING IT!”: This CTAC Kitchen Painters Exhibit opens in the Atrium Gallery on Fri., May 25 from 6-8pm. Over 20 area artists capture the beauty & spirit of Northern MI in their original

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Paul Simon Tunes, remixed Eleven EDM/DJ and dance music artists are teaming up to revamp songs from Paul Simon’s classic Graceland album for a new remix album simply called Graceland: The Remixes. The album, which will be out June 1 on Legacy Recordings/Sony Music, will include new versions of Simon’s songs by Paul Oakenfold (“Crazy Love, Vol. II”), Richy Ahmed (“The Boy in the Bubble”), Thievery Corporation (“Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes”), MK (“Graceland”), and Photek (“All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints”), plus two versions of “Homeless” by Joris Voorn …

Blissfest is heading back to Bliss, Mich. for its 38th year, this year featuring headlining sets by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, and Nahko and Medicine for at the festival farm north of Petoskey. Running July 13–15, the event will also welcome in a variety of regional Michigan acts, including Seth Bernard, Ben Daniels, The Red Sea Pedestrians, May Erlewine, Mark Lavengood, and many more. Cockburn is a particular coup for the fest; much of his work focuses on environmental, human rights, and social

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issues, causes all supported by many of the artists and attendees of Blissfest. For tickets and more information, visit blissfest.org …

Thirty Seconds to Mars is returning with its fifth album, It’s America, a more electronica-focused album than previous efforts, and a set that also includes a whole lot of pop elements via guest contributions from Halsey, A$AP Rocky, and Zedd. The set is thought to be frontman Jared Leto’s first “concept album.” The band will tour the U.S. throughout summer …

More festival news on the opposite coast: The 2018 Outside Lands Festival is hitting San Francisco July 21–22, featuring headliners The Weeknd, Florence and the Machine, and Janet Jackson, plus additional performances from Chvrches, James Blake, Odesza, DJ Snake, Bon Iver, and the always-entertaining Beck. Also out West July 21–22 will be the 15th Annual FYF Fest in Los Angeles, also featuring Florence and the Machine and Janet, plus sets from Future, My Bloody Valentine, and The xx …

LINK OF THE WEEK Jack White’s new album, Boarding House Reach, is already cranking up the

indie charts. Check out the video for one of the album’s first singles, “Over and Over and Over,” in which White careens through a variety of themed rooms, now on Vevo: https://tinyurl.com/jackover …

THE BUZZ As part of her Rainbow Tour 2018, pop performer Kesha will appear at Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena on July 6 …

West Michigan singer-songwriter Jacob Bullard and his band, Major Murphy, are prepping to release their first full-length album, titled No. 1 …

Frankenmuth rock outfit Greta Van Fleet will perform at this year’s Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago …

The Fillmore in Detroit is temporarily closing this summer to undergo restoration, primarily on the auditorium ceiling. The famed venue is slated to reopen Oct. 27 with a show from Wayne Kramer and The MC5 … 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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Alvvays – Antisocialites – Polyvinyl

Like some not-so-distant Canadian cousin of Belle and Sebastian, Alvvays is now on its second album of indie-pop — heavy on the guitars and festooned with frontwoman Molly Rankin’s slightly-thisside-of-wrong pitch and wistful phrasings. There’s not really a hit like “Marry Me Archie” here (the band’s first real breakthrough), but there are several interestingly direct slow burners that might appeal, among them “Not My Baby,” “Forget About Life,” and “Your Type.”

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The reel

by meg weichman

TULLY

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n a brave and unglamorous performance, Charlize Theron stars as Marlo, a mother of two young children about to give birth to her third (and unplanned) child. Authentically middle class, the struggling mom is gifted an extravagant gift by her well-to-do brother: a nanny who comes only at night so mothers can sleep. Despite her initial reluctance to accept, after the baby is born (and a sequence that drives home just how many diapers Marlo’s changed, just how much her nipples hurt, and just how sleep deprived she is), she accepts and forms a bond with Tully, the nanny who comes and makes everything better. A mature and generous piece of filmmaking that is low-key marvelous, it takes you somewhere different, somewhere surprising, somewhere real, and somewhere very rewarding. Its sly ending, which I won’t say too much about other than it has a questionable nature, is not simply a slight-of-hand gimmick but something that enriches the film in unexpected ways. Trading in the messiness of motherhood more than the beauty, and confronting how we live with the decisions we make and the fraught expectations of modern parenthood, this a film that is so unbearably honest, it is incredibly refreshing and even profound.

LIFE OF THE PARTY Sometimes when you’ve had a week — like, I mean a week — you want nothing more than to just let go and let yourself laugh at what you can already tell is going to be a pretty uninspired comedy.

And that’s certainly the situation I found myself at Life of the Party. Watching a film I basically willed myself to enjoy despite feeling like no one else in the theater was laughing with me.

But it wasn’t just my need to laugh that gave me the willpower to overcome the flimsy material and be entertained. It was also the immense goodwill star Melissa McCarthy has generated. When she gives as much heart to a part as she does here, you can’t help but want her to succeed and believe that she and her husband/director, Ben Falcone, finally will make a film deserving of her talents.

But as their previous pairings on Tammy and The Boss make clear, McCarthy is better left in the hands of the more discerning direction of someone like frequent collaborator Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Spy, Ghostbusters, The Heat).

Here, McCarthy plays Deanna, a stay-athome mom who, immediately after dropping off her daughter for a final year at college, is informed by her husband (Matt Walsh) that he wants a divorce. Deanna is completely blindsided but takes the shocking news as an opportunity to find her purpose in life and finish that archaeology degree she halted to have and raise her daughter.

This being a comedy, Mom enrolls in Decatur University, moves into the dorms, and starts hanging out at her daughter’s sorority house.

Even if the premise already sounds clichéd to you, you still won’t believe how stale it is.

It’s like the script sat on a shelf for decades — that’s how outdated it seems. Sure, it adds some cursory lines about female empowerment, but the rest is pretty tone-deaf and underdeveloped.

Take the “mean girls” of the film. Despite literally everyone on campus loving Deanna, two young women are cruel to her for absolutely no reason. They’re totally out of place and as one-dimensional as ’80s teenmovie villains.

But Deanna’s girls have got her back. And while her daughter is initially resistant to her mom hanging out, she soon gets over it, and Deanna is welcomed into her circle of friends like a mascot/mother hen/honorary sorority sister. They love having around to bake them

lasagna and bring treats, and they actually want to party with her, too.

So Deanna, newly christened Dede and/or Glenn (one of the girls really likes Glenn Close — I don’t get it either), trades the bedazzled sweatshirts for a chic college coed makeover and what follows is a predictable mix of term papers and frat-house ragers.

There’s no satisfying conflict, and the obstacles on Deanna’s journey are pretty much nonexistent (well, other than a bad case of stage fright when giving a midterm presentation that goes on far, far too long).

Heck, she even snags a veritable hottie at a party, less than half her age, who wants a relationship with her, something that is simultaneously empowering and distasteful (but mostly just ridiculous).

But there are some heartfelt moments that make you believe in all the absurdity. It’s a film about sisterhood, the mother-daughter bond, and finding self- fulfillment. If you saw McCarthy’s recent drop-in to Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” where she played Michael Che’s proud stepmom, Deanna is pretty much that same character: sweet, loving, genuine, endearing. And while it worked brilliantly over the course of that sketch, stretched over a feature film and an already thin script, there just isn’t enough.

avengers: infinity war

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en years. 18 movies. And it’s all come to this: the superhero movie to end all superhero movies. A star-studded action extravaganza where the stakes (supposedly) have never been higher. Yes, the culmination of Disney’s carefully plotted Marvel Cinematic Universe has arrived. And it’s The Avengers on steroids, a super-stuffed supersized spectacle designed to break the internet. I’m not going to try to do a super in-depth recap of where things stand in a world inhabited by playboy geniuses, arachnid enhanced teenagers, Norse gods, African princes, WWII soldiers, interdimensional sorcerers, and alien mercenaries, but let’s say the Avengers are still on the outs.

Bringing all these disparate worlds and characters together is the looming threat of Thanos (Josh Brolin), who seeks to collect all six “infinity stones” so he can wipe out half of humanity, and for moral reasons at that. You just can’t deny the sheer delight of seeing all these characters on screen together. The new pairings — think Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and the Guardians of the Galaxy coming face to face or Thor (Chris Hemsworth) taking a real shine to Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) — make for a lot of truly satisfying comedic moments.

The banter has never been better, the action sequences are good (if not a tad unrelenting), the film is too long, but it will leave you shook, and it’s gonna make a ton of money. All in all, pretty successfully executed blockbuster entertainment.

But per usual, nothing is going to stop McCarthy from shining when it comes to the physical comedy. Just give me one reaction shot or a dance-off, and I’m golden.

Her supporting players face their own challenges. Jacki Weaver and Stephen Root are criminally underused as Deanna’s parents.

The core group of Deanna’s college friends are incredibly bland and only artificially funny. Take the stellar Gillian Jacobs, whose character was randomly in a coma for eight years and is known as coma girl (which is really all we know about her — well, that, and she has 3 million Twitter followers).

And for maybe the first time in the history of ever, I didn’t love Maya Rudolph, who plays Deanna’s biggest supporter and best friend.

Then there’s a doozy of a celebrity cameo at the film’s conclusion that is just painful in its irrelevance (adding to the dated feeling).

This is a movie that is what you make of it.

And if you’re down to party with Melissa McCarthy, sure, just do it.

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

chippaquiddick

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ate one night in the summer of 1969, Massachusetts Senator Edward Moore Kennedy accidentally drove his car, drunk, off a narrow bridge. And while the senator managed to escape, a young staffer named Mary Jo Kopechne, who was in the car with him, did not. She died of suffocation rather than drowning, waiting hours for a rescue that would never arrive.

Kennedy left the scene of the accident and didn't formally report it for a further 10 hours, choosing instead to begin to try and construct a narrative wherein he was absolved of as much of the blame as possible. Chappaquiddick aims to explain why, and presents a nuanced portrait of a deeply flawed man burdened with ambition but also touched with a chilling streak of narcissism and entitlement. Watching it play out, you can hardly believe something so heinous and so clearly bumbled could be so cleanly swept away. Director John Curran (The Painted Veil) has masterfully captured and firmly anchored those five days in July surrounding the incident. This is an astounding, well-done film, shedding light on a shadowy story that can only really told objectively nearly 50 years later. You’ll leave the theater dumbstruck that such a brazen act could be pulled off, that Americans could be so thoroughly hoodwinked.

But then you’ll look around and think, well … here we are.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise.

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: I’m a single dude in my 30s, and I really want a girlfriend, but I keep striking out with women. My female co-worker says that if I want a relationship, I need to upgrade my shoes. I wear a pair of super-comfy New Balance sneakers that I’ve had since college…yes, even wearing them on dates. In the summer, I wear Crocs sandals. What’s the problem? Are girls really that shallow?

— Footloose

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: Sadly, the CDC has been remiss in informing men of the exceptional protection against sexually transmitted diseases that open-toe shoes can provide.

Men’s shoes speak to women. They are a form of what anthropologists and zoologists call “signaling” — communication between organisms. In the mating realm, signals advertise quality in a potential partner — or sound the alarm when it’s lacking. Wearing bad shoes (like your stanky, hobo-ready sneakers) suggests you lack the social intelligence to dress like a grown-up and/or the interest in taking care of more than your own needs — like for the five basic bachelor-dude food groups: beer, Hot Pockets, pizza, Doritos, and pot edibles.

Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller surveyed women — straight single American women, ages 20-35 — on what they like and loathe in footwear on a potential partner. The women were asked to imagine going on a casual lunch date with guys wearing 32 different types of men’s shoes, from Birkenstocks to chukkas to leather Oxfords.

Women’s preferences were “strong” and “consistent” and point to the following advice: Wear leather shoes — nice leather shoes, like Oxfords or loafers — that cover your feet.

(Women hated every single sandal, from Crocs to Birkenstocks to flip-flops.) Your shoes don’t have to be expensive. You can probably do just fine with a stylish loafer you get on sale for $50.

(Passable sneakers, scoring okay but not so well as the leather shoes, were the classics: Vans and Converse All Stars.)

Finally, it isn’t enough to just buy the right shoes; you have to take care of them. (Another important detail that ladies notice.) Learn how to polish and clean them. Take them to a shoemaker for resoling and other upkeep.

These might seem like little things but they are actually part of a whole of living like a

man instead of a manchild. Admittedly, living the man way isn’t “super-comfy,” but consider where your priorities lie: more in the realm of Dr. Scholl or Dr. Kinsey?

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: I’m in love with my male best friend and unfortunately, I’m pretty sure he’s never been attracted to me. This is very painful, and trying to stop thinking about him so much isn’t working. To be fair, he isn’t emotionally available right now, as he’s still mourning his divorce (a little too long for it to be healthy, I think). I’m thinking that if I stay close and stay available, he may pick me once he becomes emotionally ready again. Is that crazy? I really want a relationship and am willing to wait for him.

--Tormented

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: Nothing says “your welfare means the world to me” like clocking a man’s mourning with a stopwatch.

Beyond how the guy isn’t up for a relationship right now, you seem pretty sure that you’re just the girl next door to the girls in his wank bank. So mooning over him is not the road to a relationship but the equivalent of trying to get from New York to California by doing endless doughnuts in a Walmart parking lot.

If unrequited love isn’t the point — offering you protection from heartbreak and distraction from pursuing a guy who’s a real possibility — you need to disengage. But the answer isn’t trying to stop thinking about him. Thought suppression actually seems to backfire. For example, social psychologist Jennifer L.S. Borton found that asking research participants to suppress a specific thought led to their experiencing it “more frequently” and led to “a more anxious and depressed mood.”

Because of this, when you have a thought of the guy, don’t try to shove it away. Instead, shift how you think of him. Focus on how he isn’t emotionally available and then on how he probably never will be for you. Next, take action. You could opt for a thought-occupying distraction like watching a movie — or, better yet, make an effort to shift your circumstances by going on dating sites to look for men who might be possibilities for you. This ultimately allows you to be there for this guy as a friend, offering him a Kleenex to dry his tears — as opposed to mentioning that you happen to be wearing a very soft and super-absorbent pushup bra.

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at the shrine of your own intuition. It's a ripe moment to boost your faith in your intuition's wild and holy powers. To an extraordinary degree, you can harness this alternate mode of intelligence to gather insights that are beyond the power of your rational mind to access by itself. So be bold about calling on your gut wisdom, Gemini. Use it to track down the tricky, elusive truths that have previously been unavailable to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Some

books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle," said author Franz Kafka. I suspect this idea will be especially relevant to you in the coming weeks, Aquarius. And more than that: In addition to books, other influences may also serve as keys to unfamiliar rooms in your inner castle. Certain people, for instance, may do and say things that give you access to secrets you've been keeping from yourself. A new song or natural wonderland may open doors to understandings that will transform your relationship with yourself. To prep you for these epiphanies, I'll ask you to imagine having a dream at night in which you're wandering through a house you know very well.

But this time, you discover there's a whole new wing of the place that you never knew existed.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Just for now, let's

say it's fine to fuel yourself with comfort food and sweet diversions. Let's proceed on the hypothesis that the guardians of your future want you to treat yourself like a beloved animal who needs extra love and attention. So go right ahead and spend a whole day (or two) in bed reading and ruminating and listening to soul-beguiling music. Take a tour through your favorite memories. Move extra slowly. Do whatever makes you feel most stable and secure.

Imagine you're like a battery in the process of getting recharged.

Anna Kamienska described the process of writing as akin to "the backbreaking work of hacking a footpath, as in a coal mine; in total darkness, beneath the earth." Whether or not you're a writer, I'm guessing that your life might have felt like that recently. Your progress has been slow and the mood has been dense and the light has been dim. That's the tough news. The good news is that I suspect you will soon be blessed with flashes of illumination and a semi-divine intervention or two. After that, your work will proceed with more ease. The mood will be softer and brighter.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): Do you know

what you are worth? Have you compiled a realistic assessment of your talents, powers, and capacities? Not what your friends and enemies think you're worth, nor the authority figures you deal with, nor the bad listeners who act like they've figured out the game of life. When I ask you if you have an objective understanding of your real value, Taurus, I'm not referring to what your illusions or fears or wishes might tell you. I'm talking about an honest, accurate appraisal of the gifts you have to offer the world. If you do indeed possess this insight, hallelujah and congratulations! If you don't, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to work on getting it.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is a favorable time to worship

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Aries poet

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): "A poem is never

finished; it is only abandoned," wrote poet W. H. Auden, paraphrasing poet Paul Valéry. I think the same can be said about many other kinds of work. We may wish we could continue tinkering and refining forever so as to bring a beloved project to a state of absolute perfection. But what's more likely is that it will always fall at least a bit short of that ideal. It will never be totally polished and complete to our satisfaction. And we've got to accept that.

I suggest you meditate on these ideas in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Paradoxically, they may help you be content with how you finish up the current phase of your beloved project.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I highly recommend that

you spend the next three weeks hanging out on a beach every day, dividing your time between playing games with friends, sipping cool drinks, reading books you've always wanted to read, and

floating dreamily in warm water. To indulge in this relaxing extravaganza would be in maximum alignment with the current cosmic rhythms. If you can't manage such a luxurious break from routine, please at least give yourself the gift of some other form of recreation that will renew and refresh you all the way down to the core of your destiny.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Contemporaries

of the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras told colorful stories about the man. Some believed he was the son of a god and that one of his thighs was made of gold. When he crossed the Casas River, numerous witnesses testified that the river called out his name and welcomed him. Once a snake bit him, but he suffered no injury, and killed the snake by biting it in return. On another occasion, Pythagoras supposedly coaxed a dangerous bear to stop committing violent acts. These are the kinds of legends I expect you to spread about yourself in the coming days, Virgo. It's time to boost your reputation to a higher level.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My counsel may

seem extreme, but I really think you should avoid mildness and meekness and modesty.

For the immediate future, you have a mandate to roar and cavort and exult. It's your sacred duty to be daring and experimental and exploratory.

The cosmos and I want to enjoy the show as you act like you have the right to express your soul's code with brazen confidence and unabashed freedom. The cosmos and I want to squeal with joy as you reveal raw truths in the most emotionally intelligent ways possible.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French novelist

Honoré Balzac periodically endured intense outbreaks of creativity. "Sometimes it seems that my brain is on fire," he testified after a 26-day spell when he never left his writing room. I'm not predicting anything quite as manic as that for you, Scorpio. But I do suspect you will soon be blessed (and maybe a tiny bit cursed) by a prolonged bout of fervent inspiration. To ensure that you make the best use of this challenging gift, get clear about how you want it to work for you. Don't let it boss you. Be its boss.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ancient

civilizations waged war constantly. From Mesopotamia to China to Africa, groups of people rarely went very long without fighting other groups of people. There was one exception: the Harappan culture that thrived for about 2,000 years in the Indus River Valley, which in the present day stretches through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Archaeologists have found little evidence of warfare there. Signs of mass destruction and heavy armaments are non-existent. Art from that era and area does not depict military conflict. One conclusion we might be tempted to draw from this data is that human beings are not inherently combative and violent. In any case, I want to use the Harappan civilization's extended time of peace as a metaphor for your life in the next eight weeks. I believe (and hope!) you're entering into a phase of very low conflict.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Every

human being I've ever known, me included, has to wage a continuous struggle between these pairs of opposites: 1. bad habits that waste their vitality and good habits that harness their vitality; 2. demoralizing addictions that keep them enslaved to the past and invigorating addictions that inspire them to create their best possible future. How's your own struggle going? I suspect you're in the midst of a turning point. Here's a tip that could prove useful: Feeding the good habits and invigorating addictions may cause the bad habits and demoralizing addictions to lose some of their power over you.

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