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NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY • july 29 - Aug 04, 2019 • Vol. 29 No. 30

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Oh, Donny Boy What’s little Donny boy been up to lately? Aside from the abhorrent treatment of the migrants and their children being detained at the Texas border, the doofus (despicable orange ogre #%@*ing the United States) has gone on another racist tirade telling “The Squad” to get out and go back where they came from. Ignorant!

And still, Lindsey Graham and most of the Republican politicians keep backing him 100 percent.

And we as a society must suffer the humiliation that this doofus and the spineless Republican politicians have bestowed upon us and our country.

There are many who don’t know that Trump is only half the problem. His illinformed base is the other half. Where do these mindless twits come from? They follow him like sheep, eating his bull crap and pleading for more. And he gladly gives it to them. He has them believing that the migrants are here to do us harm and to steal our jobs away. And that our representatives are anti-American because of their skin color. Ignorant!

And the sheep follow and chant with him, not caring that he’s leading them with his racism and lies. The not caring part is truly disturbing.

Is this what you want, America? For you and your children? Is this what we’ve become as a nation? Are we supposed to abandon our beliefs in favor of this orange madman? You might think that the majority of the country do not agree with the orange ogre because he never won the popular vote. Well, a fat lot of good that does. The next time you’re lying awake thinking about these things, try counting sheep.

Clint Chambers, Traverse City Utility Outrage Joe and I are going into our fifth winter, set to be even colder. Like most of the country now, it’s been a very hot, humid summer, but we have no electricity. Could anyone go four springs, four hot summers, and soon our fifth fall and winter with no

Jaime and Joe Chimner, Cheboygan Congressional Lack of Conscience The explanation of U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman’s “no” vote on House resolution 489 condemning President Trump’s racist remarks toward members of Congress missed the overriding challenge to all congressional officeholders. It was a mistake for the GOP caucus to assume a posture of simply defending the Republican president for his fiery rhetoric. Rather, congressman Bergman should have recognized this incident as more significant than simply a partisan personal attack on Democrats who are outspoken minority women.

The President’s assault on duly elected members of Congress was actually a diminishment of stature for all who serve the American people in the halls of Congress and who, from time to time, become prominent advocates on behalf of unpopular people, causes, policies, and laws. Disrespectful, harmful, and racist speech directed at elected members of Congress by the president should not be ignored and go unchallenged. If one cannot respect the person, one should respect the office — at least until the next election.

This should be as true for a congressperson as a president.

POTUS might possess a megaphone, but members of Congress must be afforded the opportunity, authority, and respect that comes with the office and the bully pulpit given officeholders. It is part of their job.

The members of Congress must not forsake their rightful roles by acquiescing to an executive who has repeatedly proven he knows no limits or shame.

Rep. Bergman made the easy choice by hiding among the overtly partisan and cowardly GOP caucus members when a true officer and gentleman would have had the courage to recognize the affront and the not-so-veiled challenge to the role

of Congress. A man of conscience would have defended the status and honor of his colleagues and the institution where he is responsible only to constituents and the Constitution.

Douglas Whitley Northport Boo to Northern Express Your July 22 issue contained some of the most astonishing drivel on both the Letters page and the in editorial columns that I have seen in a long time. Does no one have anything good to say about America?

From the calls for open borders and invasion by hordes of people who are not us and have no interest in becoming so, to the nonsense about the hoax of climate change, to sniveling about “the children” who are being used as pawns for illegals to get in — with the exception of Mr. Deneau’s letter, it’s enough to make me doubt the mental balance of the writers.

To say nothing of another mindless defense of abortion, which, no matter what your position, is the premeditated murder of a totally innocent person. If that’s OK with you, then it’s OK with you, but it’s still murder. It’s not the woman “controlling her own body.” Of all the stupid slogans. If that’s the case, why shouldn’t prostitution, drunk driving, and reckless discharge of firearms in residential areas by women also be legal? That would also be “controlling their own bodies,” wouldn’t it? And don’t yap about rape and incest; it’s still not the baby’s fault.

Trump has not emboldened any white supremacists. If the reference is to Charlottesville, his statement was so misrepresented as to be an outright lie. esides, I believe that Soros etc. are financing all of the extreme groups, BLM, Antifa, the Proud Boys, all of them, to keep the pot boiling. As far as “The Squad” goes, they are vacuous, anti-American, foul-mouthed, under-brained twits whom I hope keep right on being such, because they virtually guarantee a Republican landslide next year.

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

A TCFF Horror Movie........................................10 Filmmaker Brings his Movie Home..................13 Tales from the Green Room............................16 Paying the Rent in Paradise...........................18 Catching Up with Emily Manthei.....................20 Chapo Trap House are coming.......................23 Seen...........................................................26

dates................................................29-34 music Four Score.....................................................36

Nightlife.........................................................39

columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................5

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion..............................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................35 Film................................................................37 Crossword...................................................40 Advice..........................................................40 Freewill Astrology..........................................41 Classifieds..................................................42

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electricity because they need an mechanical analog electric meter?

Two family members, two friends, and a local business have analog electric meters — why not us? I am disabled for many reasons, not by choice. I can’t use my doctor-ordered air conditioner or air cleaner for my asthma, or a fan. It has been dangerously hot this summer. In the winter, keeping all our animals warm or cool is impossible. We’ve lost some of them.

Consumers Energy is responsible!

I’m hot, tired, and just want a fan, thanks, I feel, to Consumers Energy, the Michigan Public Service Commission, and Gov. Whitmer. Her first directive in office was about the health concerns in general, and how each department in Michigan government needs to be accountable for any mistakes that it may have made, on any level. I was ecstatic until I realized that the directive was as empty as everything about this is.

Such a simple solution has been told to me by many: hook up our power at the pole, with a new wire, to the analog meter on our home after Consumers has replaced all the wiring in the old farmhouse that was damaged from the “cut at the pole” order, change my neighbors back to analog meters. I want reimbursement for the expenses you forced us to have and the hell you have put me, my husband, and animals through. This shouldn’t happen in this country, especially to the disabled, but it is.

Please get irritated and call your representatives in Lansing and Washington, D.C. Our situation could very well have been yours.

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Runner’s World magazine named a northern Michigan pathway one of the “Best Running Trails in the U.S.” Traverse City’s Vasa Pathway made the top 25 — the only Michigan trail to do so — for the natural beauty of its 5k, 10k, and 25k trails. Runner’s World also praised the Vasa’s multi-seasonal appeal, which attracts runners, hikers, mountain bikers, and cross-country skiers.

The magazine raved: “The Vasa Pathway puts on a seasonal show, with wildflowers in the spring and summer, fall foliage, and snow-frosted white pines in the winter.”

Other trails that made the list included the Art Loeb Trail, in Asheville, North Carolina; the Awa’apuhi Trail, in Kauai, Hawaii; and famed longer paths like the Appalachian Trail and the Colorado Trail. Only two other trails in the entire Midwest — the Superior Hiking Trail, in northeastern Minnesota, and the Godwin Hill Loop Trail, in Flint Hills, Kansas — landed in the top 25.

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If you grew up swapping DVD box sets of TV seasons with your friends, chances are you were a fan of the cult favorite teen-noir Veronica Mars, starring Kristen Bell as the titular high school private investigator. Following its unceremonious cancellation in 2007 and Kickstarter fan-funded movie in 2014, the good people at Hulu saw fit to give the show a second life — much to the delight of Marshmallows everywhere. And in this revival, not only does pretty much everyone in the cast look way better, the writing is sharper, and the story — involving a series of bombings in Veronica’s hometown of Neptune — darker. Sending up “true crime” fandom and taking aim at “Save Our Downtown” types, the season comes to a controversial ending that will leave you reeling.

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Drive Logs to Raise Funds

Beach reading isn’t the only way to lose yourself in a good murder mystery. This summer, Boyne Highlands is bringing one of the nation’s leading dinner theatre crews north for a series of immersive shows Aug. 11 and 25, and Sept. 15. In addition to taking in a fabulous dinner — think: a buffet with a full salad bar, plus locally harvested seasonal vegetables, savory mashed potatoes, a selection of two entrées and dessert — you’ll also play a part in the mystery and, with luck, solve it. Costumed actors will seat you, explain the rules of the game, and assign character roles. The events is adult-oriented, but kids ages 13 and up are permitted with an adult. Shows are limited to 60 people per event and cost $75 per person, tax and gratuity included. Learn more or get your tickets at www.boynehighlands.com.

A land conservancy that serves the center and eastern tip of northern Michigan is raising money by throwing logs into a river.

HeadWaters Land Conservancy is hosting a log-drive fundraiser on the AuSable River during the Lovells Bridge Walk Aug. 17.

The money raised will go to support the Headwaters operations budget.

Luke Thoms, HeadWaters’ stewardship and program coordinator, said the conservancy took over the log drive from the Lovells Historical Society, which had abandoned the fundraiser.

He said the small logs are marked like raffle tickets and are then poured into the river at the bridge. The first four logs that reach a point downstream are winners.

Logs are $5 a piece or $20 for 5 logs.

The annual bridge walk, in its 28th year, is a fun and novel event, Thoms said.

“It’s basically a couple hundred feet. It’s an event just to get people out there,” he said. “It’s very similar to the Mackinac Bridge walk, but on a lot smaller scale.”

The Boat Show Must Go On So the Boardman River is too high for the annual in-water Boats On The Boardwalk boat show. But the Water Wonderland Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society won’t be sunk: It’s simply moving the whole shebang a few feet over — to the adjacent parking lots along Grandview Parkway in downtown Traverse City.

Fittingly, the gang also made a change to the name. For this year only, it’ll be Boats Above The Boardwalk. Head on over between 10am and 3pm Saturday, August 3, to ogle at the vintage boats (plus two brand new Chris Crafts), shop the Ships Store, chat with vintage boat restorers and owners, and — if you’re moving from dream to reality — find out where you can buy a vintage boat of your own. For more information, contact show chair Bill Manny (231) 313-2888.

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The start of the week just got a lot cooler in Kalkaska, thanks to Trout Town Tavern and Eatery’s Margarita Monday special: $3 margaritas. The punch of tequila is contrasted by the sweet-and-sour citrus of the margarita mix. If not for the tequila, the drink would taste like high-end lemonade in a salted-rim glass. It is most certain one margarita will not be enough.

There are three different flavors to choose from, including regular, strawberry, and raspberry.

“We make our own mix with a hint of orange in it,” owner and chef Dan Bloomquist said. Need more motivation: “It goes with our Mexican entrees that we do for specials on Mondays as well,” Bloomquist said. The Margarita Monday special starts at 4pm and runs until close. Find it at 306 Elm St., in Kalkaska. Open Monday through Thursday 6:30am to 9pm, Fridays and Saturdays 6:30am to 10pm, Sunday 7am to 3pm. (231) 258-2701, www.trouttowntavern.com

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by Stephen Tuttle Lake Ann, Maple City, and Empire have each recently rejected efforts to purchase land by a company associated with Dollar General stores. Fair enough; communities have the right to establish their own zoning and exercise control over their future.

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So, the state with the most freshwater to protect is the only state without statutes mandating inspections of septic systems. Given their purpose, making sure they’re functioning seems quite important.

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It’s the snobbishness of the opposition, accompanied by a demonization of dollar stores, that troubles. These stores aren’t portals to Hell.

General stores than McDonald’s — more than 15,000, in fact, including 530 in Michigan.

They prefer rural and economically depressed urban areas that lack full-service grocers. They believe in saturation coverage so potential customers are no more than a mile away in urban areas and about a 10-minute drive in rural areas. Because they enjoy the economies of scale, they are cheap enough to out-compete local mom and pop stores selling the same products.

Along with all the plastic flowers and other knickknacks, they sell name-brand packaged food and some dairy products. They don’t usually sell fresh foods, though 500 Dollar General stores are starting to do that this year.

They are a long way from being ideal, but they have found a void and are aggressively filling it.

They are accused of contributing to or causing “food deserts,” but most of their new stores are located where fresh, healthy foods are many emission-spewing miles away. A real grocery store would be much better, but that isn’t economically viable; if it were, such stores would already be in place. Instead, communities like Empire, which lost their Deering’s Market in 2018, are left with almost no options.

Some rural and urban communities have welcomed dollar stores, some have not. They can be a valuable convenience, a vicious competitor, or both. But disparaging them is an insult to those who’ve no choice but to patronize them.

Kalkaska County has its own interesting issue. It’s now considering a proposal to rescind the requirement for point-of-sale septic-system inspections. Whatever the argument, this is a bad idea.

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The third parking deck the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) has planned for Front Street — estimated to cost $16.7 million or nearly $20 million, depending on which plan is accepted — can’t be financed

absent an extension of a tax increment financing (TIF) district. That means even more years of property tax money going to the DDA instead of to the city’s general fund.

(In a TIF district, the property tax at the time of its establishment becomes a baseline tax going to the city’s general fund. Any increase in that property tax revenue above the baseline is diverted to the DDA.) One of the proposals even calls for a 68-foot parking deck. Good grief. How many public votes and court decisions are needed before they get the message?

The notion the deck can’t be financed without a TIF extension presumes that only the DDA is entitled to the revenue. But that property tax revenue doesn’t disappear without the TIF, it simply goes to the city’s general fund. Why the city can’t use that revenue to do much of what the DDA does is an ongoing question.

It is also likely that the proposed deck, at up to $43,000 per parking space, won’t be fully available to the general public since many spaces could be reserved, at a discount, for employees of a an office building being constructed across the street.

The DDA has also been invited to a stretch of Eighth Street between Cass and Barlow as part of something they want to call a “health and wellness corridor.” They have not yet requested the area become a new TIF district, but it’s a safe bet they will if property values in that corridor start increasing.

If northern Michigan’s elected leaders do nothing other than protect our surface and groundwater, they will deserve our thanks.

Eliminating septic system inspections does not serve that purpose.

The DDA’s tentacles now extend well beyond anything resembling downtown. Their two TIF districts continue diverting money, which could be used for parks, streets, and police and fire protection, from the city’s general fund. They’ve done an admirable job revitalizing downtown but the City Commission should accept their responsibility and exercise some control over the DDA’s reach, and the seemingly perpetual diversion of tax dollars away from the rest of the city.

The solution here is not to leave the decision up to local governments. Michigan is the

Perhaps they could find something useful to do with that money.

Crime & Rescue BOY DELIVERED AT ROADSIDE Police responded after a woman who was in labor and headed to the hospital ended up stranded in an overheated vehicle on the side of M-72 near Grayling.

Crawford County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the South Branch Township location July 21 just as the woman was giving birth. They helped the mother and father with delivery and care of the newborn until an ambulance arrived.

First responders quickly arrived and took the family to Grayling Munson, where the baby boy was doing well.

KIDS COMPLAIN ABOUT MOM’S DRUNK DRIVING A woman who received a call from two crying children who complained that their mother was driving drunk called police and had the mother arrested.

Dispatchers received the call at 10:40pm July 11 and issued an alert for the vehicle, which was spotted by a Boyne City Police officer on US-131 near M-75 in Melrose Township.

State police arrived and determined that the driver, 44-year-old Kamela Foltz of Ft. Worth, Texas, was intoxicated and drove with her 13-yearold son and 11-year-old daughter in her car. They also found an open container of alcohol inside the Audi A5.

Police said Foltz was uncooperative, and she was charged with felony resisting arrest in addition to drunk driving with passengers under the age of 13.

CRIME SPREE ENDS IN LAKE A string of crimes ended when a suspect drove a stolen pickup truck into Crawford Lake.

The case began at noon July 22 when a bicycle was reported stolen in the Village of Kalkaska.

Around the same time, Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a breaking and entering; while investigating, deputies located the stolen bicycle.

Nearby, another breaking and entering was reported. The suspect had left that scene in a stolen pickup truck.

That evening, police learned the pickup had been spotted in a field in Excelsior Township. As deputies approached the vehicle on foot, however, the suspect drove off.

As deputies and state police searched the area for the vehicle, dispatchers received a call that a pickup truck had just been driven into Crawford Lake. When police responded, the driver attempted to get away from them by swimming around the lake. He eventually came to shore and was arrested.

DOG CAUSES MOTORCYCLE CRASH A dog ran in front of a motorcycle, causing the driver to lose control and crash.

The driver, Donald Ray Schoof Jr, 64 of Charlevoix, was wearing a helmet and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies said.

Deputies responded to the scene at 7:55pm July 21 on Wickersham Road near Ferry Road

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in Marion Township. Schoof was transported to McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey by Charlevoix EMS. GUN PULLED AMID DOG ATTACK Traverse City Police responded after a man pulled a handgun when two dogs attacked his poodle.

The two dogs jumped a fence and attacked while the poodle owner was out walking his dog in his neighborhood. The owner of the other dogs soon emerged and got them under control. The incident happened at 9:22pm July 19 on the 800 block of Kinross Street.

Afterward, the poodle owner holstered his pistol, and the two men “exchanged words,” Capt.

Jim Bussell said.

Bussell said officers learned that the armed man had a valid concealed pistol license and that he never pointed the weapon at anyone other than the attacking dogs. No one was arrested.

THREE ARRESTED ON COCAINE CHARGES A case that started when a woman’s vehicle was stopped and she was found with cocaine has led to charges against three people.

Information police learned in that July 16 traffic stop led them to get a search warrant for a residence in Afton, in southern Cheboygan County, according to a press release. Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement detectives found cocaine, heroin, and other drugs in the home and arrested a suspect who is accused of selling cocaine.

Investigators arrested a third suspect in the investigation at his residence in Indian River.

The suspects are Sarah Marie Jenne, 36, of Cheboygan; Paul Johnathon Roughton Jr., 40, of Afton; and Justin Andrew Idalski, 35, of Indian River. Jenne faces a possession charge; Roughton and Idalski face delivery of cocaine charges.

SIX INJURED IN CRASH Six people were injured when two cars crashed head-on on M-22.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s responded at 5:48pm July 22 to Suttons Bay Township, where they found two heavily damaged vehicles and numerous people with injuries.

Deputies determined that a 74-year-old Traverse City man was headed south when a 78-yearold Northport man who was headed north in a Honda crossed into the opposing lane, causing the crash. The Traverse City man’s Subaru left the road and rolled over.

There were three passengers in the Honda: a 77-year-old Northport woman, and a man and woman from Colorado Springs, ages 72 and 70. The was one

passenger in the Subaru: a 72-year-old man.

Everyone was taken to Munson Medical Center.

Although some of the injuries were serious, none of them were considered non-life-threatening, deputies said.

The driver of the Honda told deputies he may have fallen asleep, causing him to cross the centerline.

DRUG CASE LINKED TO OVERDOSE A Frankfort man was sent to prison for five to 14 years in a case that sprung from an overdose death investigation.

Justin Rice, 27, pled guilty to delivery of Fentanyl, delivery of heroin, and attempted manslaughter, and he was sentenced in Benzie County, according to a July 18 Traverse Narcotics Team press release.

Rice came to the attention of investigators after they were called to the fatal Fentanyl overdose of a 22-year-old man in August 2018. Rice was linked to the death when detectives executed a search warrant at a Forrester Road home and recovered heroin, needles, and firearms.

The co-worker called police, who determined the firearm had been reported stolen from a vehicle in 2011. That discovery led Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies to get a search warrant for Kegley’s home.

In the search, detectives found a sawed-off shotgun and an AR-15 with its serial number removed; the AR-15 had been converted into a fully automatic weapon.

The 64-year-old now faces numerous charges, including receiving and concealing a stolen firearm, a 10-year felony, and possession of a sawed-off shotgun and possession of a dangerous weapon, both five-year felonies. He was arraigned July 22.

STOLEN FIREARM LEADS TO CHARGES A firearm that was reported stolen eight years ago led to a slew of charges against a Fife Lake man when it turned up in July.

Karl Wayne Kegley allegedly gave the muzzle loader to a co-worker earlier this month. The coworker had a “bad feeling” and was suspicious because Kegley asked for nothing in return, according to charges.

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A CASE FOR PATRIOTISM

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“Are they talking to us?” Honestly, it took us a moment to figure out why these people were reacting so terribly to us.

The obscene comments came from teenagers who had taken the mental leap, misidentifying patriotic citizens as Trump supporters. You would have thought we were wearing MAGA hats and carrying Vote for Trump signs.

Let me be clear: We were not. Let me be even more clear: We would not.

Ironically, there was a time in this country when my shirt, which is sewn from an actual American flag, would have been construed as disrespecting the Stars and Stripes. This was not the issue, not in the era of “Make America Great Again.”

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I can love my country and deeply oppose the current president, his policies, and his shameless behavior. For me, this is a dark chapter in America’s history. But it is only one brief chapter.

Mark Twain said, “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and supporting your government when it deserves it.”

In America, I can openly oppose the policies and behavior of the elected president. Our rights and freedoms continue to be what this country stands for, even if we strongly disagree with the current resident of the Oval Office.

Yes, I am embarrassed by and feel ashamed of our current president. More troubling to me personally is my utter confusion over the number of my fellow American citizens who excuse his behavior.

Yet I find solace in remembering that we are 243 years strong as a nation, having survived

I hate to think that young people, or any Americans for that matter, confuse Trumpism with patriotism. Our flag is not a logo for a politician.

When Trump adopted “Make America Great Again” as his campaign slogan, a shift occurred in acceptable dialogue regarding patriotism. Love of country became lost in the discourse.

I hate to think that young people, or any Americans for that matter, confuse Trumpism with patriotism. Our flag is not a logo for a politician. Our flag represents a rich, though flawed, history of a people continuously working to create a more perfect union. This work in progress will never be a finished product.

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As a nation, we have much to be ashamed of in our long history. But we move forward.

To say anything positive about America has apparently become a divisive statement, with the implication of support for a white nationalist America. Tiffany Cross, founder of political publication and podcast The Beat D.C. said this on MSNBC last week: “I think that this is something that his supporters — and we have to start calling his supporters racists as well — that MAGA hat, that MAGA symbol, has come to represent something. It is the new Nazi symbol — it is the new hood, the Klan hood.”

We were celebrating Independence Day, the birthday of the country we love. Our country.

Later that same evening, as the fireworks boomed over the bay, I felt the same familiar surge of pride in my country as I did prior to the current administration. I will always stand for the National Anthem with my hand over my heart.

I love my country even when it is in turmoil, when it is suffering, and when it is divided.

a civil war and ongoing challenges. We have always been a work in progress.

There has never been a moment in our history when everything was perfect.

America is not perfect. Our own families are not perfectly harmonious, but we each love our idealized future country, and I am proud to be part of the experiment.

Our government is holding together pretty well through these rough waters. If Trump serves one or two terms, I do believe that, although there will be temporary damage to our country’s spirit, I wholeheartedly believe that our nation can heal. We must continue to believe in the foundation of our country even when the current state of government is testing our limits.

Just as a loyal baseball fan screams at the decisions of the team’s general manager or coach, we don’t bail on our team. One person does not make a nation.

Holocaust survivor and author of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Viktor Frankl, reminds us, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

My attitude remains that America is my country, for better or worse, in sickness and in health. I am not a fair-weather fan.

Mary Rogers is a Traverse City based freelance writer and host of The Experience 50 Podcast for Midlife. mary@experience50.com

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Least Competent Criminal In Shawnee, Oklahoma, Brandon Killian, 29, was already in trouble for brutally beating Jarric Carolina in a June brawl. But as he sat in custody, he told an officer that his face was injured from being “first socked” during the fight. When the officer left the room to get a camera, Killian, who was being recorded, punched himself multiple times in the face (strangely using one hand to propel the other fist into his cheek). Now his charges include preparing false evidence, KFOR reported. “Lying to the police and creating a false report will not be tolerated,” warned District Attorney Allan Grubb. Killian is currently serving time in the Oklahoma County Jail for a separate drug court violation.

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A kindly grandfather, who just wanted to treat nurses at Warrington Hospital in Cheshire, England, for the good care given to a relative, unwittingly gave them a red velvet cake laced with cannabis on May 27. According to Sky News, the man got the cake from his grandson’s 18th birthday party and presented it to staff at the hospital. An unnamed staff member said three or four of the nurses were “off their faces” afterward, and another noted how “relaxed” they were. Cheshire police destroyed what remained of the cake after the incident.

News You Can Use Car rental companies in Japan began noticing last summer that some customers were putting very few miles on their vehicles, so they conducted surveys to find out what renters are using the cars for, reported The Asahi Shimbun, and discovered that one in eight renters were using cars for something besides transportation, to wit: napping (most popular activity), talking on the phone, eating lunch, watching TV, putting on Halloween costumes and doing stretches said to reduce the size of their face. One respondent said she uses rented cars to store bags and other belongings because coin-operated lockers are sometimes all in use.

Renting is cheap in Japan, costing only a few hundred yen (several dollars).

Bird Brain Ted Richards of Bristol, England, isn’t your run-of-the-mill bird lover. He admires parrots so much that he has had his face tattooed with feathers and his eyes colored with tattoo ink, risking blindness. HuffPost reported that Richards, who goes by Ted Parrotman, also had his ears removed, which has impaired his hearing. “Parrots only got little holes anyways, so I had them cut off,” he said. “I didn’t think about the complications, you know? Because if you looked at negative all the time, you’d never do anything.” Well said, Parrotman. Well said.

Blast From the Past A plumber renovating the former Centralia High School in Centralia, Illinois, unearthed a 75-year-old trove of memories in late June.

Inside a bathroom wall heat vent, he discovered 15 women’s wallets, all from students at the

school in the mid-1940s. The cash was missing, but photographs, IDs and other materials were still in the billfolds. “War is ending,” said Seth Baltzell, pastor of the City Hope Church, which is converting the building. “So there are lots of things like pictures of soldiers.” Baltzell posted pictures of the wallets on Facebook, and relatives of 89-year-old Betty June Sissom of Chesterfield, Missouri, saw them. “I remember I lost my wallet,” Sissom told KSDK. “Oh my goodness, look at the boy’s pictures I have ...

They took all the money, huh?” Sorry, Betty.

Inexplicable On the afternoon of July 7, Timothy Smith, 24, and his fiancee returned to their new home in Gresham, Oregon, to find things not quite right. They noted items out of place, others that didn’t belong to them, a mirror ripped out of a bathroom and holes kicked in bedroom walls.

Then they found a cat (wearing a green cashmere shirt belonging to Smith’s chihuahua) hiding in a crawl space, The Oregonian reported, and called police. Fifteen minutes later, officers emerged from the house with Ryan Bishop, 38, wearing the woman’s Christmas onesie. Smith told reporters the man had broken into the home and settled right in, eating a cupcake, making coffee, smoking Smith’s weed, playing video games and collecting a clean, warm onesie out of the dryer.

Bishop was charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief and third-degree theft. Smith is seeking a home for the cat. His fiancee declined the return of her onesie.

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-- Pool maintenance workers in Boca Raton, Florida, were interrupted on July 5 when one of them was shot in the leg with a pellet gun. “I heard him scream at the top of his lungs,” homeowner E-Lyn Bryan told WPTV, “and he had blood coming out of his leg and he was shot by the hunter.” Police responding to the shooting said someone hired to kill iguanas in the neighborhood shot the pool boy instead.

“If neighbors are gonna be like the Wild West and shoot at everything, someone is gonna get killed,” Bryan said. It was unclear whether the shooter was caught or charged.

-- Michael Tam, 40, of Tower, Minnesota, is in fair condition after a freak accident on July 6. Tam was attempting to move a 12-by-16foot wooden cabin at Daisy Bay Resort “when the structure fell off the jacks, trapping him underneath,” St. Louis County Sheriff ’s officials said. According to City Pages, a building of this size may weigh about 6,500 pounds. Tam was taken to a Duluth hospital; no details were reported about his condition.

Ewwww Jung Soon Wypcha, 66, took retail competition to a new level in Indian Shores, Florida, in June, where over several days she sabotaged Lu Lu’s Ice Cream shop, located next door to her Indian Shores Food Mart.

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A TCFF Horror Movie Entry, Filmed Just Down the Street When filmmaking brothers Brett and Drew Pierce wanted to make a movie about a witch, they came to Leelanau County.

Actress Zarah Mahler, who plays Abbie in The Wretched.

By Patrick Sullivan Brothers Brett and Drew Pierce grew up downstate with a father whose interest filmmaking and special effects led him to work with Sam Raimi on the cult classic Evil Dead.

Fast forward nearly 40 years: The Pierce brothers are all grown up and bringing their own horror movie to the Traverse City Film Festival — one that was shot in Leelanau County.

Northern Express reached out to Brett Pierce to talk about the film, becoming a filmmaker, and making movies in Michigan.

Northern Express: Tell me about your film The Wretched.

Brett Pierce: It’s a horror film. It’s basically my brother and I’s kind of new spin on a modern, dark fairy tale. We wanted to update the myth of the witch. We spent a while reading a bunch of “witch” myths, and we cherry picked our favorite little pieces to create a new one. I kind of want to keep everything about the movie a surprise, because I want people to see it and just absorb it.

Express: How did you go about making the film?

Pierce: It’s completely independent, I guess, is the best thing to say about the movie. Drew and I both live in Los Angeles now. We’ve lived here for a while, and we both work in production. My brother is a storyboard artist for a lot of movies, like, fairly big movies, and he’s also designed posters for these movies, and he also designed our poster. I worked as a producer in reality TV for four or five, six years. We just kind of decided again, like we did with [the brothers’ 2011 film] Deadheads, we want to make our own stuff. We tried to get

The Wretched made out here in Los Angeles.

We tried production companies, studios — almost got it moving a couple times with that — but after being disappointed, we just said, “We’re just going to raise the money ourselves, and we’re going to put the production together ourselves. We’re going to find all of the people, and we’re going to shoot it back home.”

Express: Do you have any funny stories about making a film in Leelanau County?

Pierce: Some of the funniest stuff was how helpful everybody was. My producer, who is from Los Angeles coming there and then asking for help from local governments or [from a landowner to shoot on his or her land] and getting a shoulder shrug like, “Yeah, sure go ahead, do it.” It kind of cracked him up because we’re just so used to in Los Angeles, where if you want to shoot anywhere or do anything, it’s such a huge ordeal. You find kind of crabby people because they are so used to people wanting to shoot in their backyards, they are just sick of us being around.

Express: Leelanau is such a serene and picturesque location, kind of the opposite of scary. But I guess if you think about it, paradoxically, that makes it an interesting, compelling place to set a horror movie.

Pierce: Yeah. Yeah. Our opinion was — we love horror films, but here are a lot that are less than great — part of the problem we’ve had with horror movies, I would say in the last 10 years, is they start, and there’s this sense of dread through the whole film where it never lightens up, it never lets you feel comfortable in the environment it’s in. And I think to really scare somebody, the best way to do it is to show them the comfortable

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home, the beautiful northern Michigan woods, the beautiful marina that we shot at, and then slowly let the creep creep into it. During the day, make it look wonderful, make it look beautiful, and then at night, with the long shadows in the hallways and the tall trees, let that make the place feel creepy when you do your horror beats.

Express: That makes a lot of sense. A lot of horror movies are pretty claustrophobic.

Pierce: Yeah. We always joke — we go see these horror films, and they’ll be like, “We’re moving into a new house!” and you’ll be, like, “That house looks like 40 people were murdered and buried in the walls. Why would you go in there?” I want to see a nice house that I want to go into, and then it can be like, “Oh, this place is actually creepy.”

Express: You filmed your earlier movie, Deadheads, also in Michigan, didn’t you?

Pierce: Yeah. We filmed that kind of all over the state. We grew up in Detroit and Royal Oak, and we shot that in the Royal Oak area, kind of bouncing all over the place. It was a much smaller movie; it was our first film.

But it was a great experience. In many ways it was kind of like a film school experience.

Express: So, you came back to Michigan to make The Wretched, which sort of runs against the flow, since Michigan slashed its film incentive program, and moviemaking in the state has dried up. What made you chose the state while so many other filmmakers have decided to go someplace else?

Pierce: Honestly, for Drew and I, we’re comfortable with Michigan. It’s where we grew up. It’s where our stories are, in our brain, all the time. I feel like every time we’ve

written a script, we’re seeing Michigan in our heads. We got the incentive the first time around for Deadheads, and that was great, but with this one we were there for the Traverse City Film Festival with Deadheads, and we just fell in love with the area. We kind of wrote things around the locations there.

It literally started with we were up in Northport, and there is this beautiful marina there, and my brother’s in-laws run the sailing school for the kids there. And that became a big part of the movie. It was, “I love this marina, and I think we could probably use it in a movie, and it’s such a great backdrop, like Jaws.” So, we’re like, “Let’s start there.” Then we started writing the story.

It was a couple of rural houses, kind of a Rear Window situation, where this kid becomes convinced something creepy is happening next door. So, then the goal was just to find two houses that looked good and felt right and were next to each other so we could create those kind of voyeuristic moments. And we just literally drove up and down the peninsula for like a week and a half, just staring out the window, like, “Those two houses look good!” “Those two houses look good!”

We were driving through Omena, and we saw the Sunset Lodge, a bed and breakfast up there, and they have these two big beautiful houses, and they also have two other houses on the property, and we were like, “I think we can make it work.”

Express: So, you were at the film fest in 2011. What was that experience like?

Pierce: Oh, it was the best. I could not compliment the festival more. It’s something we’ve enjoyed more than anything. In truth, I think Michael Moore realizes that, for an independent filmmaker, one of the hardest

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parts is when you’re done, you’re going to have to go to film festivals. And almost all of the film festivals don’t help you out with the cost of getting you there and keeping you there. So, you’re just incurring more costs and going more broke as you try to promote your movie. The nicest thing about the Traverse City Film Fest is when we got there, Michael Moore just said he wanted us there, and he wanted us to stay for as much of the film fest as we wanted to so we could see other filmmakers’ movies and meet other filmmakers and talk to people in town about the films. We went to a lot of film festivals with Deadheads, and my brother still calls Traverse City his favorite one. In a weird way, it was such a relief to just be able to go to a film festival and just enjoy the film festival and not necessarily have to worry about how you’re going to survive and make it to the next one.

Express: That’s awesome. You’ll be back this year?

Pierce: Yes. We’re coming for the whole thing. It’s because we love it so much. We’re going to get there the day before the fest starts, and we’re going to leave the day after it’s over.

Express: From my perspective, you’ve sort of got a connection, through your father, Bart Pierce, to Michigan film royalty.

Pierce: Yeah. Sam Raimi. … He was just kind of a guy who was obsessed with stopmotion animation, basically photographic effects, like the old way they used to do it. And [my dad] was in his late 20s, and he ended up meeting Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell and the Evil Dead crew. At the time, it was funny, because they thought of him as the old man because he was in his late 20s, and they were all like 18 to 20. But they recruited him to basically put together the big finale in Evil Dead with another photographic effects artist named Tom Sullivan.

Express: And I understand that as a boy, as your dad was working on that scene, you walked in on a screening and were traumatized?

Pierce: They kind of took over my parents’ house in Detroit. After they shot the movie in Tennessee, they decided that they needed a bunch of special effects and to do a bunch of pick-up shots. So, my dad and Tom Sullivan started trying to do all of these effects in our basement. And a lot of those guys piled in.

It was, basically, my dad worked all day — I think he was a bank teller — and would come home after work, and then work into the night or all night with Tom, doing the big effects finale. At some point they had thrown up a screen in the basement, and they were projecting the big finale of Evil Dead — which is extremely gory and disgusting, it’s like this demon basically exploding and guts

Actors Zarah Mahler and Blane Crockarell star in The Wretched, a horror tale about a defiant teenage boy who faces off with 1,000-year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door. Michiganbred brothers Drew and Brett Pierce shot the film in Leelanau County.

shooting out and this horrific scream and all of this stuff — and they didn’t realize I had come downstairs into the basement. So, essentially, I just walked down the stairs, and I saw all of this horrific stuff going on on the screen, and all of a sudden, the lights got thrown up, and my dad noticed that his 2or 3-year-old was standing there, completely horrified. And it scarred me. I hated the basement. I would not go down there. We lived there until I was 14 or 15, and I hated the basement the whole time.

Express: And yet you became a horror movie director.

Pierce: I became a junkie. It was weird.

I was a late bloomer because I had this unrealistic vision in my head that horror was so terrifying because of that experience.

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Express: But then you’ve come full circle, because didn’t that scene make it into Deadheads in the background on a drive-in movie screen?

Pierce: It did! Yeah. We did the drive-in scene, and we had this last-minute thought — maybe we could call Sam Raimi. We know Sam, but we see him maybe once every five or six years or talk to him on the phone briefly about something or something, but we were like, “Maybe he’ll let us use a clip from the movie, and wouldn’t it be cool if we used dad’s sequence in the movie?” Nice guy that he is, we call Sam and his assistant, and they made it happen for us.

Express: When you brought Deadheads in 2011, you had a midnight showing. And now that you’re coming back this year, you’ve got the Saturday midnight spot at the State Theatre for The Wretched. That must be pretty exciting.

Pierce: I mean, the State Theatre is so beautiful. It’s just so much fun. We’re trying to let everybody know. We did have a lot of people locally that helped or worked on the movie so we’re trying to let everybody know, “Okay, that movie that you all worked on, it’s playing in the festival down the road.”

Express: It’s so rare for a film to be made in the area. People should be excited.

Pierce: They should shoot more stuff there, though. It’s funny. It’s so beautiful. One of the things we’ve gotten complemented on, because we’ve had to test different edits of the movie and show it to people out here, is just how beautiful our locations are. We always get so many complements about it and I’m just like, “It’s our home state. It’s Michigan.”

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Producer and TC native Lije Sarki

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By Ross Boissoneau Lije Sarki is coming home, and he’s bringing some friends with him: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, and more.

Sarki, who was born in Michigan and spent most of his junior high and high school years in Traverse City, is one of the producers of The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring the above actors, as well as John Hawke, Thomas Haden Church, rapper Yelawolf, and Bruce Dern. The Peanut Butter Falcon will be at the Traverse City Film Festival ahead of its national release Aug. 8. Northern Express caught up with Sarki in advance of his trip home.

“I grew up in Michigan, moved to Kentucky, then moved to Traverse City in seventh grade,” said Sarki by phone from his home base in Venice, California. He had always wanted to live in California, making an (initially futile) attempt to do so while still in high school. After graduating from Traverse City, he went to Michigan State to major in pre-med. “I always wanted to get out. I tried in high school, failed, came back, and then went to college. I thought the only way out was to be an engineer or a doctor or lawyer,” he said.

After graduating from college, he moved to San Diego, eventually ending up in grad school. He began working in the bar and restaurant industry while also doing some modeling and trying his hand at acting. “I was trying to figure it out.

A modeling agency sent me on a couple auditions. I failed at being a movie star, but got in [the industry].”

That was good news for Sarki and, eventually, for The Peanut Butter Falcon. His trip to becoming producer of the film was just as improbable as that of the main character in the film. Sarki began working in the film industry, picking up skills in front of the camera and behind it, then writing,

directing, producing, and eventually landing a gig on this unlikely buddy road story.

The Audience Award winner at South By Southwest, The Peanut Butter Falcon tells the story of Zak, a man with Down Syndrome (played by Zack Gottsagen) who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Saltwater Redneck (Church). Events conspire to pair him with LaBeouf ’s character, a small-time outlaw on the run, who becomes his unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Johnson, playing a nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey.

Sarki can’t find enough good things to say about the film and the people who made it. “It was a really good script,” he said of the film, which was written and directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson specifically for Gottsagen, whom they met at a camp for actors with disabilities. “Everybody was doing it for Zack. There was no room for selfishness or ego. We were all there for the right reason.”

That includes LaBeouf, who was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct while on location for the film. At the police station, he was filmed making racist remarks to the police officers. The incident blew up in the media, and according to an interview in Esquire, led to Gottsagen confronting LaBeouf about his behavior.

“Zack called him on it. Zack was disappointed,” said Sarki. He chose not to go into any other details, though in the Esquire interview, LaBeouf said Gottsagen’s disappointment in him changed the course of his life.

The Peanut Butter Falcon is not Sarki’s only credit. He’s produced more than 10 other feature films, directed two of them, and wrote one of them. He’s also created a short

that went viral, a music video, and produced/co-directed a skateboarding docu-series, which took him back to his roots as a teenage skater. “I was a skate rat. To be doing this is such a leap,” he said.

While awaiting the next steps on The Peanut Butter Falcon — he says there is always a lot of hurry up and wait in filmmaking — Sarki filmed the movie Concrete Kids. It follows two nine-year-old boys on one adventurous night in Los Angeles. Sarki wrote, directed, and produced it over 17 nights on a budget of $25,000 — quite a departure from the multi-million dollar budget of Falcon.

“I got really lucky. It’s an anomaly of a movie,” Sarki said of The Peanut Butter Falcon. “Usually you have to beg people [to be in a film]; everybody wanted to be in it. It was such a group effort.”

He first met writer/directors Schwartz and Nilson a few years ago at another film festival. They found out they lived close to one another and hit it off personally — especially when they showed Sarki the proof of concept video the duo had shot with Gottsagen. “It got a lot of attention,” Sarki said.

Sarki said he enjoys the various facets of movie-making.

“The different jobs take different parts of my brain,” he said.

“When I write, I dig deep for six weeks and grind it out.

Production takes forever. A producer has to be selfless, be of service to every part of the film.”

He is looking forward to returning to Traverse City, where his mom and several siblings still live. “I make it back every couple of years. One Christmas I was back, and it snowed a ton. I took one of my nephews to Holiday Hills. It seemed a lot smaller.”

He is currently working on several other projects, including a television show now at Sony he wrote with Will Arnett. “I keep filling the shelves up,” Sarki said. “I’m grateful to be in the position I’m in.”

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Well, there’s no Superdome here, so we’re not exactly attracting a ton of artists prone to prima donna behavior, but that’s not to say their rider requests — or expectations — have been simple.

TRIPLE TIPPLE TIME Gene Jenneman, the recently retired head of the Dennos Museum Center, said that as a whole, most performers who’ve appeared on the Milliken stage haven’t been very demanding — though he said there has been a request common to many: a range of alcoholic beverages in excess of what a single person or band might drink before or after a concert.

Diane Baribeau, of the City Opera House (and prior to that, The Wharton Center in Lansing), and Rory Baker, of Interlochen Center for the Arts, share similar experiences — and are equally ready to respond.

“If they want a bottle of wine, OK. But if they want Patrõn and a bunch of expensive liquor, we tell them there’s a bar out front, and we can give them a discount,” said Baribeau.

“In every single rider, there’s a request for alcohol. Some are very particular. If they insist on taking it onstage, it has to be in a cup,” Baker said.

LIMOS, NIXON PICS & MARLBORO REDS While most performers are gracious and pleasant, that’s not always the case.

Baribeau told of an opera singer who was the definition of a diva. Not only did she request — er, demand — a certain color of limousine, she found her first hotel room unacceptable, and made Baribeau personally escort her to another one. That one wouldn’t suffice either, and when the third hotel didn’t pass muster, an exasperated Baribeau told the diva she could stay at the Townsend in Detroit — but she would have to pay for her own transportation back and forth to East Lansing.

Other requests ran the gamut. “We had a pop group in East Lansing who specifically requested 8-by-10s of Richard Nixon and Mao Tse-Tung. We had a well-known tap dancer, who specifically asked for drugs and alcohol, and posted a note on his dressing room door saying, ‘The party’s in here.’ That was not acceptable. You can’t be inviting students in.”

When Liza Minelli performed at Wharton, she asked that a carton of Marlboro Reds be placed in her dressing

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room every day. But Baribeau said Minelli offered something in return: “She actually had a little dog, Lillie, who was a direct descendant of Toto. That was the best part of her visit.”

Sometimes the requests could take a comedic turn. “I recall one concert with a blues artist who was playing a great show, and the audience was asking for more,” recalled Jenneman. “The artist said something to the effect, ‘I would play longer if I had a sixpack.’ I asked one of my staff to run across the street to 7/11 and get a six-pack, and then I took it down to the stage and placed it in front of him. He never opened it, but they still played on. It was all somewhat of a joke that made the evening even more great fun.

“In the early days of the jazz series at Milliken, we had one jazz artist who had not arrived for the concert a few minutes before he was to be onstage. Turns out, he was at the bar at the Park Place, perhaps drinking the courage he needed to get on stage,” said Jenneman. “We had to hold the rest of the band from going on until he arrived.”

One performer requested a room for their gym equipment; another wanted space for their psychiatrist.

DRUGS, PREGNANCY TESTS & OXYGEN TANKS Pre-show prep isn’t always limited to off-site activity. Take it from Chris Ludwa, artistic director at Bay View. “Last year a certain well-known blues/rock band had its lead singer in the green room preshow, and we were told that even the road manager didn’t open the door to see what drugs were going down in there. He even told the security guard not to look in there,” said Ludwa.

Artist food requests often include special provisions, such as gluten-free, vegetarian, or vegan. Baribeau said that’s now just a matter of course, though some can get more specific. One of the children of frequent guest Natalie MacMaster is extremely allergic to peanuts. So Baribeau had to make sure the entire backstage area was cleaned and disinfected before her and her family’s arrival.

Other requests? “One performer asked us to get a pregnancy test,” said Baribeau.

And, yes, it turned out she was pregnant.

“One artist wanted us to drape all the leather furniture — it was not the right color.

We also freshly painted the room white,” said Baker. One performer requested a room for their gym equipment; another wanted space for their psychiatrist.

“For one band, we had to bring in medical-grade oxygen equipment” for the lead singer to take a hit from offstage.

“Several want massage therapists before they go back on the bus. It’s always something crazy. For OK Go, we had to buy a ridiculous amount of confetti. They had it going the whole time. It was a great show, but our housekeeping staff was not happy.”

Baker said the biggest challenge the venue faces is typically not a request by the artist, but with their audience interaction onstage. “What we struggle with the most is when the artist invites the audience to come up by the stage,” he said. The patrons paying the big bucks for the seats up front suddenly find their space invaded by dancing audience members singing along with the music, making it difficult to see or hear the performers. “We ask them to hold off till the show is three-quarters over,” Baker said.

BETTER TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE Above and beyond the requests are what some guest artists offer, in their interactions during the show and prior to or after it.

“Harry Connick Jr. wants to spend time with the students. He’ll do master classes, after the show invite them back stage. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones are amazing to work with. Vic Wooten spent time with the bass players in the jazz program and the string bass players. They attended sound check, which is typically closed.

Another really special one was B.B. King.

He’d single out a student, play with him on his bus after the show, give him advice.

That gives our students something they don’t get anywhere else.

“Jay Leno was very giving of his time,” Baker continued. Leno talked with students about their goals and dreams.

He also would have one of the student ensembles open the show for him. “He was very gracious.”

Baribeau said actor John Amos was one of the most affable artists she’s ever dealt with, as was the late Rip Torn. Both would sit down and chat with people, including the accounting department staffers whose offices were just outside the dressing rooms.

There is the other extreme, to be sure.

Baker recalled one act where, unbeknownst to anyone from Interlochen, the road crew for one act put a line of cocaine on a band member’s harmonica, which he snorted just before he played. “We had no idea that was happening,” Baker said.

Jenneman recalled hosting a performer who made a request that was not part of the rider, but was made privately — for some female “company” for their hotel room following the concert.

“Of course, this was all before the Internet and the accompanying websites for procuring such services,” he said.

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Paying the Rent in Paradise Low wages, long waiting lists, and a dearth of supply — what it costs to live, work, and rent in northern Michigan.

By Todd VanSickle Faith Mulholland is a single mother who is an assistant manager at Wendy’s in Interlochen. Her commute to work is about 10 minutes from Grawn, where she pays $650 a month for a two-bedroom manufactured home, but she hasn’t always been so fortunate.

“The trailer is about as old as I am,” Mulholland said. “But it’s worth it to be closer to work. … If I was to move back to Mancelona or Kalkaska, what I would be saving on rent, I’d be spending on gas getting to work.”

Almost all of her coworkers commute a long distance to get to work. For the most part, they can’t find affordable housing in Traverse City.

Prior to working at Wendy’s, Mulholland worked at McDonalds in Acme, and still found it financially difficult.

“The situation was ridiculous,” she said.

“I wasn’t even making enough money to make the drive from Grawn to Acme to support myself. I decided enough is enough, and I got a job at Wendy’s making more money, and I’m closer to work.”

Mulholland’s situation isn’t unique.

According to the Housing and Transportation Index, Grand Traverse County residents spend 28 percent on housing and 27 percent on transportation,, for a total of 55 percent of their income. Boyne City residents spend a total of 54 percent of their income for housing (26 percent) and transportation (28 percent), while Kalkaska residents spend 18 percent on housing and 25 percent on transportation for a total of 43 percent of their income.

Mulholland’s situation was even worse four years ago, when she was living at home with her ailing parents in Mancelona. At the time, she decided to work in Traverse City because the pay was better. But when it came time to move, she struggled for years to

find affordable housing close to her job. She considered low-income housing but found herself on a long wait list.

“That list is like a couple years long,” Mulholland said. “And they really aren’t places you want to live. They are drug pits.

God knows what is going in those places.”

Mulholland is like many others in northern Michigan who have struggled to find affordable housing as wages remain stagnant, and rent and home prices continue to rise. And Traverse City is not the only community that is grappling with the situation.

IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID Traverse City Housing Commission Executive Director Tony Lentych said the shortage and cost of housing all over the region is a “significant problem.”

He said it is a “structural problem with how our economy works.” Traverse City and other northern Michigan communities rely on two economic engines: tourism and agriculture. Most often, these areas of the economy set costs and prices for things like food and lodging based on other markets and how the area is perceived.

“What people will pay is largely based on a function of a market elsewhere,” Lentych said. “This often translates to the inability to pay a wage that fits our local housing market.”

To compound the situation, the housing market is often set by people who are not necessarily participating in those two areas of the economy.

“They are often attracted here by those two parts of the economy, but they are usually retirees or investors,” Lentych said.

He added that a large portion of these properties are used exclusively as vacation homes or rented on a short-term basis through services like Airbnb, which raises the cost of rent for short- and longer-term stays and the price of real estate.

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“That is what you call a market failure in economics,” he said. “The supply and demand is not meeting the needs of the local economy.”

So what’s keeping builders and investors from capitalizing on the market’s need by building more affordable housing?

Lentych said it’s a complicated question.

“Builders are building high-end homes and condos — that’s where the market is at,” Lentych said. “I don’t blame them — that is what is natural for them.”

Of course, he said, high-end homes and condos are not solving the housing problem.

GROWING PAINS According to the 2010–2016 American Community Survey, seasonal housing growth outpaced all housing in the region, with the exception of Emmet County, which experienced only 1 percent growth for all housing and -3 percent for seasonal housing.

In Grand Traverse County, seasonal housing growth was the largest in the region, with 16 percent growth but only 3 percent growth for all housing.

In 2016, the estimated median value of a Traverse City house or condo was about

$241,722. In 2000, it was $123,800. The average for the state is about $147,100.

In Traverse City, there are about 7,645 houses. Of those homes, 6,867 are occupied: 4,298 owner-occupied, and 2,573 renteroccupied, according to City Data.

Lentych has served as the Traverse City Housing Commission executive director for the past four years. Since taking the job, there has been a conscious decision to do something about the current housing situation, he said.

One of the projects that the commission has taken on: East Bay Flats, a 67-unit workforce housing project about two miles east of Traverse City’s downtown.

“It has a target market of people who make about $17 bucks an hour,” Lentych said. “There are just not enough of those [types of] units.”

He said there is a “huge market” for people who want to rent for about $600 to $700 a month.

“That is what they can afford; that is what they are comfortable with,” Lentych said.

“And they are indifferent to what it’s like. We had a few units at East Bay Flats just over 300 square feet [renting for] $695 a month — and we have a wait list for them.”

According to Networks Northwest, the median rent in Grand Traverse County is $872. Leelanau County is $865 per month; Emmet County is $774; Manistee is $619; Kalkaska is $692; Antrim is $699 and Wexford is $718.

In Kings Court, a manufactured home community near South Airport Road, about 4 miles southwest of downtown Traverse City, a 1,600-square-foot manufactured home rents for $1,449 a month. There is also a $500 move-in fee that covers the security deposit and a closing fee.

As expected, apartment complexes in the area have waiting lists.

Lake Pointe Village Apartments in Traverse City receives requests for rentals daily, but hopeful renters experience an average three-month waiting period. In fact, the only Lake Pointe apartment available when Northern Express enquired was a two-bedroom unit; it won’t be ready until September.

According to the property manager, Susan Tompkins, when a unit does become available at the 260-unit apartment complex, it will be offered to the next person on the complex’s wait list. The cost of rent ranges from $860 to more than $1,300 per month, depending on the apartment’s size and what updates have been done. Waiting out the waiting list is only the first hurdle. Renters are approved if they pass a credit check, and

they must show proof that they earn three times the amount of the rent in a month.

“The workforce people are the ones having the issues. They are the ones coming to us the most,” Tompkins said.

The median household income for Grand Traverse County is $55,597; Leelanau is $59,018; Emmet County is $51,096; Antrim is $50,803, Charlevoix is $48,694, Kalkaska is $42,612 and Manistee is $42,530, according to Networks Northwest.

Lentcyh said officials must actively pursue ways to create more affordable housing in their communities if they are going to solve the problem.

BOYNE CITY FOCUS In Boyne City, Michelle Cortright sits on the Boyne Area Chamber of Commerce board and is part of the Boyne Housing Solutions group. “[The chamber] did some strategic planning, and we came up with areas that

House Publishers, has experienced firsthand how the shortage of affordable housing challenges not only working-class employees but also employers.

“I no longer interview people from outside of the area, because I would make a job offer, and they wouldn’t be able to find a place to live,” Cortright said. “I no longer can bring people in. I know of an employer in town who has 89 positions available — they can’t find the workforce; the workforce can’t find the housing. It’s a horrible situation.”

Charlevoix County ranks fourth in the region’s employment rates, with 731 employers and 8,652 jobs. Grand Traverse County is by far the leader when it comes to employment, with 45,408 jobs and 3,244 employers, while Emmet County is second in the region, with 15,220 jobs and 1,344 employers, according to Networks Northwest.

“All of us middle-class people are struggling.

We are a resort community, and the housing is taken up by Airbnb and VRBO. The owners can get a lot more money doing that than renting to the middle class.” we were going to focus on,” she said. “One of the areas was a community forum and the No. 1 goal was to find housing. Out of that initiative came the Boyne Housing Solutions.”

The group meets about every two to three weeks to “keep moving the needle ahead” on housing issues, according Cortright, who added that there have been five to six forums held so far. The educational topics have featured speakers from the local land bank, as well as area developers.

“We are making progress,” Cortright said. “Word is out about what we are doing here. Check back with us in five months.”

In the fall, a new project, Lofts on Lake Street, will break ground in Boyne City.

Cortright is optimistic that the project, which will offer 46 income-adjusted units, will make a difference in the community.

“It’s downtown, and people will be able to walk to work. It is not subsidized; it’s based upon income,” Cortright said. “All of us middle-class people are struggling. We are a resort community, and the housing is taken up by Airbnb and VRBO. The owners can get a lot more money doing that than renting to the middle class.”

Cortright, also the owner of Harbor

VICTORIAN MANISTEE’S STRUGGLE Even areas with less developed downtowns and waterfronts, like Manistee, aren’t exempt from the affordable housing crisis.

There are 2,758 occupied housing units in the city of Manistee. Of those, 1,727, or 62.6 percent, are owner-occupied, while 1,031, or 38.4 percent, are renteroccupied. The average home value in the city is $146,592, compared with $175,084 in Manistee County. Unlike many of the waterside towns on northern Michigan’s west coast, there isn’t a significant amount of even high-end residences being built; 77 percent of the houses in the city were built before 1980, while nearly 41 percent were built before 1940, according to the Census Bureau.

Recently, Manistee officials held a public meeting to inform residents and officials about housing facts and issues there. The Housing Matters presentation attracted about 50 people from the community and was conducted by Sarah Lucas from Housing North.

“We definitely need more housing options for everyone,” said Manistee Area Chamber of Commerce President Stacie Bytwork, who attended the meeting. “We are currently

working with developers trying to bring more housing opportunities here. That is something we are currently actively working on and looking at a bunch of potential state programs to help increase that.”

According to the 2014 report Framework for Our Future: A Regional Prosperity Plan for Northwest Michigan, rentals in Manistee County are unaffordable for the average renter; extremely low-income households — those earning $20,000 or less per year — confront shortages of rentals that they can afford, forcing them to rent more expensive homes and in turn reduce the availability of affordable housing for other income groups.

With about 900 rental households in this income range, only about 550 of the county’s rentals are affordable to those households.

Housing agencies report long waiting lists and wait times for those seeking housing assistance from rental voucher programs.

BOOMER HOUSING A BUST, TOO Lentych said it’s not only the working force and low-income renters that are finding housing markets around the North challenging but also retirees.

“The Baby Boomer generation is retiring at massive amounts,” said the Traverse City Housing Commission executive director.

He added that retirement has changed dramatically in the last 30 years, with fewer people receiving pensions and not as many saving as much money for their golden years.

“If we want to address something, we should address senior housing,” Lentych said. “If we can help get seniors out of their current homes that are too large for them and too much of a burden, and give them a really great place to live, those homes would be open to young families.”

But, he acknowledges, the price of those homes would most likely still be out of reach of many homebuyers or renters.

“You have to ask yourself, is that because of scarcity or is that the way it is here,” Lentych said. “I am sure it is a combination of both, but we don’t really know for sure.

One of those two things is very fragile. That is what everyone is always afraid of: ‘How is it going to affect my price point?’ They don’t want to lose their investment.”

Overall, he said the Traverse City area is in a good position.

“We have problems, but they are good problems,” Lentych said. “There are communities out there that don’t know what to do to even start. … We could have it all here. We have a desirable place to live, plenty of nature and beauty. And, we have a potential workforce that can do all kinds of diverse work. It wouldn’t be hard to make room for everything.”

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By Ross Boissoneau Emily Manthei was hooked at an early age.

Growing up with an interest in classic films, she fell in love with movies: film noir, Hitchcock, Star Wars — it didn’t matter.

But the northern Michigan native wasn’t satisfied to simply watch and appreciate films.

She began making her own while in middle school, then went on to create her own film festival while still in high school.

“I spent my entire senior year at Petoskey High School making movies — I think we made around a dozen, including narrative shorts, commercials, music videos, anything I could get my hands on,” she told Northern Express back in 2006.

Since then, Manthei has gone on to make films in Hollywood, Bangladesh, Central America, Romania, and other locations around the globe. Currently based in Berlin, she spends time in Los Angeles, but is most often on the road, finding and following her passion: stories. Perhaps not surprisingly, she’s also a writer. In addition to her screenplay work, her journalism has appeared in the Huffington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Medium, the Daily Beast, and more.

Catching Up with Emily Manthei

Northern Express: Berlin, Bangladesh and South Africa are worlds away from Petoskey.

What do you get from traveling abroad that influences your filmmaking? And why those particular locations?

Manthei: Actually, it’s not that I love traveling so much, it’s more that I follow stories.

I am a curious person, and if someone invites me to Dhaka to follow an NGO and tell their story, I’ll go. And I might end up going back five more times because the people I’m making the films with are even more interesting, and they have their own inspiring and comical and devastating and manic lives that I want to follow up with.

If you asked me a list of places I’ve traveled, I wouldn’t tell you the cities and countries. I would tell you the stories I discovered. I once interviewed an ex-gang member who went to prison for murdering someone as a teenager in El Salvador, and came out training to become a priest. He inspired a script I wrote about how gangs in Los Angeles fueled the Central American refugee crisis on the country’s southern border.

After meeting an adopted Bangladeshi woman on the streets of Dhaka who almost got kidnapped, I started writing about adoptees returning to their birth countries to seek out their families. The first time I traveled to Berlin, I stumbled into a 1920s party, and then went back, only to hear a dozen people say they were sick of talking about the past. This inspired a story about the mental time warp of the mind of any German born in the 20th century. And of course there’s Los Angeles, the home of storytellers. It’s hard to tell an original story there, because it’s just a place made up of storytellers. So. Maybe I don’t have that much imagination after all.

Express: Technology has grown to the point where you can almost make anything from anywhere. So why not Michigan? Why not Petoskey? Or why not Hollywood?

Manthei: Why not Hollywood? See above.

I lived there for 14 years and, although Los Angeles has visually dynamic architecture and art to recommend it, making films there is kind of a slog. If you don’t have a healthy amount of ruthless narcissism in you, or an agent or manager that has that kind of narcissism for you, it’s pretty hard to do anything, full stop. I found myself enjoying filmmaking a lot less in “Hollywood.”

And why not Petoskey? The answer is, really, I’m a city person. I love the way cities pack so much diversity into such a small space, and really just force such chaotic, random, spontaneous interactions. Urban solutions are incredibly inspiring, too. Any city is made up of its own special atmosphere that draws

a certain type of person there. The city has a meaning to each person who lives there, but it also takes on a collective belonging. In Berlin, that capacity for collective solution-making is so creative and powerful and strong, [this] city’s story is one of survival instinct, built out of solidarity.

That’s true of the creative community, too. There are loads of collectives who create work together, nurture each other’s art, and are actually building self-sustaining communities.

Instead of competition, collaboration is the backbone of the Berlin artist community, and that’s what I really love about living in Berlin and making films here. Technology is really only a small part of filmmaking, and, yes, it’s widely available. What isn’t always so easy to find is meaningful collaboration. Cities, which draw a lot of people with common values, are great for finding the right artistic synergy for filmmaking. Because it’s not something you can do on your own.

Express: What do you seek to tell in your films?

Manthei: I’m always looking to expose myself — and viewers — to a different point of view, or some sort of change or reversal of the status quo. I think by seeing people who are different from us, we learn more about ourselves and our own motivations. And ultimately, we can learn compassion, and empathy: “Maybe if I was in that circumstance, I would do that too.” Maybe we could also learn some critical thinking.

I’m also seeking connections (maybe even clashes) between people, places, cultures, values, viewpoints. A great danger is to believe that you are really alone, really independent, because in the end we’re all connected to each other, and one person’s self-limiting beliefs will spiral into chaos for those one is connected to as well. While that makes for great stories, it can have devastating consequences if we live like that in reality.

Manthei’s films showcase some quirky sensibilities. In the debut episode of her 2015 noir/comedy web series, Just Plain Dead, the overacting is intended and obvious. So obvious, in fact, that the female detective lead calls her potential client on it. In Manthei’s most recent work, 2018’s Voice Over, which she co-wrote and directed with Jörn Linnenbröker, an American

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actor’s voice is being dubbed in German. But the actor in the film doesn’t take kindly to it, reacting against the dub work, while the voice actor doing the overdubbing is seemingly the only one who sees and hears the comments. Voice Over has been featured in several film festivals since premiering at Boddinale, a community film festival in Berlin.

Express: What are the commonalities in your work?

Manthei: I am really interested in loneliness and community. I think a lot of my characters are isolated, or different, or “fish out of water” in some way, and I’m interested in the way someone who feels different can find a way to connect or to create a different reality. So there’s always a little bit of a magical reality in my films, whether it’s a stylized world with a rather mundane scenario, or an ordinary world that someone just a little out of place steps into. I’m trying to create a tone that has a sense of humor about it, but you don’t have to laugh out loud.

Visually, I like to introduce action into a frame rather than use cuts to create action. My favorite thing to do is build scenes with one shot. I think that very classic mise en scéne is a pretty specific stylistic choice that I’ve been using for a long time, and I really admire filmmakers who do that exceptionally well.

Express: What are your favorites among the 20+ films you’ve made?

Manthei: It really depends on what mood I’m in, but these days I really like comedy. I made a film last year called Instant Family, inspired by a story I read about how you can rent a family in Japan. So I made a little film about it as a 48hour challenge. It’s not the best film I’ve ever made, but I do think it turned out very cute and sweet. I also really love a film I made in university, As If It Were Nothing, about a woman who goes out searching for an autistic man she met in a coffee shop. I think it’s really special to make these small connections with people. I am also still obsessed with the former gang member from El Salvador, whom I made a documentary about. That one will always be close to my heart.

Express: What is your end goal?

Manthei: End goal? I don’t have an end in mind.

Above: Manthei says that seeing Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back when she was a kid was a pivotal moment for her as a film watcher — and as a young girl. “I knew I wanted to be involved in telling stories. I suppose when you have the curiosity of a creative person, it’s never enough to watch — you always want to be involved in the story, flip it around, ask ‘What if?’ Particularly, my curiosity wondered why all the heroes I saw on screen were men, and all the people responsible for making these great movies I loved were men.

Why are there no women doing that? What if … ?

Follow Manthei’s filmwork, writing, and travels at: www.emilymanthei.com

Watch List

We asked Manthei to share some of her favorite films made by others. Here’s what she told us: • Paris, Texas • Notebook on Cities and Clothes • Salt of the Earth • Wings of Desire (“The ultimate Berlin film.”)

• Most Wes Anderson’s films (“[Most] fall short in some emotional way, [but] I still love his style of filmmaking and I would say he’s a pretty big influence for me.”)

• Lost in Translation • Girlhood • Anima • I See Red People • Vertigo • Touch Me Not • Magnolia • 13 Conversations about One Thing • The Lives of Others • Casablanca • Chinatown Don’t Look Now • Alaska is a Drag • Primer • Berlin Calling • Family Plot • Rear Window • Call Me by Your Name • Nairobi Half-Life • The Edge of Heaven • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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By Patrick Sullivan A group of leftist Twitter users founded the political and humor podcast Chapo Trap House in 2016, and in just a couple of years it’s become a surprising runaway success.

Now it’s been invited to the Traverse City Film Festival for two special performances. On July 31 at 8:30pm, Chapo hosts Will Menaker, Matt Christman, and Virgil Texas will showcase what’s billed as a “Democratic Presidential Debate Stream,” an event that promises to be a critical look at the field of candidates from emissaries of what’s been dubbed “the dirtbag left.” Two nights later, the Chapo trio will return for an evening with Michael Moore.

The group is bombastic, irreverent, funny, and, perhaps more than anything, challenging to categorize.

Northern Express talked with two of the show’s hosts, Texas and Christman, about whether they’re ready for northern Michigan — and whether northern Michigan is ready for them.

Northern Express: Where are you guys on the political spectrum?

Virgil Texas: I’d say a little to the left. I think we lean left. But honestly, I don’t like left or right. I think we lean forward.

Express: Who should come to your show, and who should not come to your show?

Texas: Ooh. That’s a good question. Let me think about that for a second. I think that anyone who wants to have a reasonably priced and moderately entertaining good time should come to our show, and anyone who is opposed to having a good time, opposed to good vibes, should not come to the show.

Express: That’s a good answer. I’ve listened to your podcast, and I have to say it’s a lot of fun, and I enjoy it. … One of the things I notice is it seems like when you guys are talking about things, a lot of the criticism goes to moderates more than the far right. Would you say that’s fair?

Texas: I think it’s pretty evenly spaced out.

You know, that’s a very simplistic view of things.

But not because these particular strands of thought are equally malignant or equally vile.

I would argue that both of them are equally worthy of criticism and contempt because one leads to the other — and that, in most people’s analysis, what you call moderates, what you call centrism, is some kind of fantasy hypothetical compromise that everyone might agree with, which could govern and create policy and not veer too far to a violent extreme. But the reality of the matter is, we’ve had compromise, we’ve had moderates in power. And, in practice, that necessarily scrubs our politics of any sort of material conflict to the point where most people tune out, and it engenders a vicious reaction from the right wing, which propels them to power. We saw that from the Democrats having a huge majority in Congress, having a president, in the first two years of the Obama administration, to a right-wing reactionary congress — the House of Representatives after 2010 — and ultimately culminating in the election of Donald Trump. We also saw a similar thing happen in the Clinton years, leading to the election of George W. Bush. … My contention is — and this is Virgil speaking, it’s just me — my contention is that the center cannot hold.

Express: OK. … So, tell me the story of how you guys got invited to the Traverse City Film Festival.

Texas: We were invited. Michael Moore recommended us as people who might want to perform there. Sorry, it’s not that much of a story. He just passed our name along, and we thought it would be a very cool idea. None of us, to my knowledge, have been to Traverse City, and it sounds like a very beautiful, cool place, and the film festival sounds like — I’ve never been to a film festival myself, and it sounds pretty neat. So, you know, that’s pretty much it.

Express: It’s a nice place and the film festival has a very cool vibe. So, do you think, is Michael Moore a listener? Is he a fan?

Texas: I don’t think Michael Moore listens

to any podcasts. But we have interacted with him in the past. And you know, he’s a very nice guy. We talked about working together on a show he was doing for PBS, and as well we hosted a panel with him, a screening of his most recent film, Fahrenheit 11/9, and he’s a fascinating guy. For a long time in this country, he was the face of anti-capitalism. And I think he has done more that any individual figure in the past few decades to bring an anti-capitalist message to millions and millions of people.

Express: So, what will the show be like?

Matt Christman: There’ll be spoofs, goofs, gags. … I think we’re going to be talking to Michael at some point, right?

Texas: Yeah. We’ll be interviewing him.

Christman: Probably a lot of it will be a sort of state of the race and what we see happening in 2020, I imagine.

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Texas: Our observations about lovely Traverse City. You know, it damn well better live up to its reputation. The lake must be gorgeous, the shorefront, the craft beer bars, and the films that we view, they all must be popcorn classics. And if they’re not, these will all get roasted on stage.

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Express: So, when you come to Traverse City, these shows will become episodes of the podcast?

every Thursday 5-9pm

Texas: Potentially, unless we bomb, in which case we will probably cut the most listenable five minutes of it and release that. I mean, the thing is, the live show, it’s not like a play or anything; it’s just us hanging out and bantering and improvising, doing comedy, for the enjoyment of the general podcast-listening public. It’s nothing that complicated.

Express: OK. All right. It sounds like it will be fun.

Texas: That’s what we hope to maintain is an atmosphere of well-regulated amusement.

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NORTHERN MI FLYWHEELERS ANTIQUE TRACTORENGINE & CRAFT SHOW: Flywheelers Show Grounds, Boyne Falls, July 25-28. Featuring a working blacksmith & tractor scales, basket shop & veneer mill, old machinery in operation, steam engines & antique autos, the Huddleston oneroom schoolhouse, arts & crafts, music & more. $7 donation; under 12, free. walloonlakeflywheelers.com

---------------------89TH ANNUAL CHARLEVOIX VENETIAN FESTIVAL: July 20-27. Includes Aquapalooza, Beach Bash Basketball, Venetian Swim Meet, Main Street Monday with Dorthy Gerber Strings, Miriam Pico & more, Junior Sailing Regatta, Sailing Regatta, Venetian Rhythms with Mitch Ryder, Gin Blossoms & more, fireworks, Drenth Memorial Footrace, Ryan Shay Mile, Street Parade, The Bridge Street Block Party, Boat Parade & much more. venetianfestival.com

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54TH ANNUAL DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY SIDEWALK SALES: 9am-6pm.

---------------------59TH ANNUAL CROOKED TREE OUTDOOR ART FAIR: 9am-4pm, GT County Civic Center, TC. Over 100 artists & artisans from across the country will exhibit & sell their work. Free. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-traverse-city/outdoor-art-fair

---------------------ALDEN DAYS RUN: 9am, Downtown Alden.

---------------------59TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY REGATTA: 10am-4pm. Held in Harbor Springs on Lake Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay. The Ugotta Regatta begins with “one-design” racing on Friday followed by a “tour-of-the-bay” course on Saturday & windward-leeward racing on Sunday. ltyc.org

---------------------BALD EAGLES COUNT: 10am, Saving Birds Thru Habitat, Omena. Retired MI DNR biologist Jerry Weinrich will bring you up to date on the numbers of bald eagles in MI. Jerry is the official bald eagle counter for the federal & state governments. 231-271-3738.

---------------------FREE CAR SEAT CHECK: 10am-1pm, Dave Kring Chevrolet-Cadillac, Petoskey. Certified car seat technicians from Emmet County Sheriff & Michigan State Police will be on site providing education & inspection for open recalls, proper fit, & installation.

---------------------UPPER HERRING LAKE & CREEK WATER TOUR: 10am-noon. Paddle the Upper Herring Lake & Creek with the Benzie CD. Register by contacting John: 231-882-4391; john@benziecd.org. Meet at public access site on Herron Rd. Free, please pre-register. benziecd.org

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mons, Historic Front Lawn, TC. There will be a break for a potluck picnic-style lunch & Italian sausage BBQ, accompanied by Italian music. $15/person or $60/team. Register. 941-1900, ext. 118. thevillagetc.com/12th-annual-boccetournament-2-2

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TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DOWNTOWN TOURS: 10:30am, Downtown TC. Meet at the Perry Hannah statue at the corner of Sixth & Union streets. These tours are conducted by guides with a special interest in TC history & provide an experience of TC’s past. Find ‘TAHS Downtown Walking Tours’ on Facebook. Suggested $10 donation.

---------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11am-1pm: Author Anne Hawley will read from her book “The Magic Sock Drawer.” 1-3pm: Linda Hughes will sign her book “Secrets of the Summer.” 3-5pm: Chaz Osburn will sign his book “At the Wolf’s Door.” 5-7pm: “Never Stop Driving: A Better Life Behind the Wheel” is the first book by Hagerty.

It features essays on the driving life by the nation’s leading automotive journalists & an array of celebrity car fans, including Patrick Dempsey & Jay Leno. Talk cars with author & editor Larry Webster. Free. horizonbooks.com/event

---------------------LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO: A PLAY FOR SMALL PEOPLE: 11am, Civic Center Park Amphitheater, TC. The new outdoor venue will have food trucks, ice-cream & more. $25-$45. parallel45.org

---------------------ROCKIN’ RIVERTOWN RIDE: Downtown Cheboygan. The Poker Run begins at noon. The Rolling Thunder Parade takes place on Main St. at 4pm, followed by the Bike Show at 5pm. cheboyganmusicfest.com/motorcycle-event

---------------------ALDEN DAYS PARADE: 1pm, Downtown Alden.

---------------------BELLAIRE HISTORICAL HOME TOUR: 1-4pm. Visit five historical places/homes in Bellaire. Tickets available at the Bellaire Historical Museum or Bellaire Chamber of Commerce. $10.

---------------------DOWNTOWN CHEBOYGAN MUSIC FESTIVAL: Featuring High Speed at 5pm & Serita’s Black Rose at 8pm. Free. cheboyganmusicfest. com/music-fest

---------------------THE SOUNDS OF TORCH: 5:30-9pm, Alden Depot Park.

---------------------“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING”: 6pm, Hannah Park, TC. Presented by Riverside Shakespeare. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Picnic dinners encouraged. Free; donations appreciated. Find on Facebook.

The Jordan River Arts Council presents “Fantasy Figures” at the Jordan River Art Center in East Jordan daily from 1-4pm through Aug. 9. This show features 2 and 3 dimensional work based on human or animal forms taken into the realm of pure imagination. jordanriverarts.com

AUSABLE RIVER FESTIVAL: Grayling, July 19-28. Includes the 8th Annual Car & Truck Show Cruise Night, Great Northern Art Explosion, 34th Annual Classic Car & Truck Show, C-1 Race, C-2 Race, Junior & Fledgling Races, Mentor Races, H.U.P. Race, Grayling’s Got Talent, live music by A Brighter Bloom & Oh Brother Big Sister, GRA’s 10K/5K, AuSable River Canoe Marathon & much more. ausableriverfest. com/2019-events-draft-only

---------------------“THE TWO GENTLEWOMEN OF VERONA”: 7pm, Tank Hill, Frankfort. Presented by Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre. Free; suggested $15 donation. lakesideshakespeare.org/lst/ performances

---------------------FREAKY FRIDAY - THE MUSICAL: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. When an overworked mother & her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again. $10 advance at ticket outlets; $11 online; $12 door. cadillacfootliters.com

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Ensemble Intercontemporain Music Director Matthias Pintscher joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as they return to Interlochen for the first time since 2006. $66 platinum, $61 gold, $56 silver, $49 bronze. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------20TH ANNUAL BAY HARBOR ARTS FESTIVAL: 10am-6pm, Village at Bay Harbor. Featuring live music, dance performances, speed painting, sip & paint events, theater groups performances, children’s face painting & much more. bayharbor.com/event-detail/20th-annual-bay-harbor-arts-festival

---------------------HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVEROCK MUSICAL: 7:30-10pm, Civic Center Park Amphitheater, TC. Presented by Parallel 45 Theatre. This production features an era “when the thrill of rebellion became a powerful force against intolerance, subjugation and war.” $48-$60. mynorthtickets.com

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MANITOU WINDS PRESENTS SUMMER SAMPLER: 7:30pm, Congregational Summer Assembly, just north of Frankfort off M-22. Free. manitouwinds.com/upcoming-performances

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THE SERIES @ LAVENDER HILL FARM, BOYNE CITY: 7:30pm. Bluesy country by Brian Ashley Jones. $15-$25.50. lavenderhillfarm.com/ series-lineup

7TH ANNUAL NORTHPORT ARTS ASSOCIATION PLEIN AIR WEEKEND: 6-8pm, The Village Arts Building, Northport. Artists will be painting July 27-28 in Northport village, marina & into the countryside. A reception will be held tonight at 6pm where paintings can be purchased. Tickets: $16 online or $20 door. northportartsassociation.org

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TC TRIATHLON: 8am, Bowers Harbor Park, TC. The Olympic- & sprint-distance races start in the waters of Bowers Harbor on West GT Bay for a loop swim. The bike courses point athletes past orchards & vineyards & over a few tough climbs. Heading out on the run, racers follow Neahtawanta Rd. along the water before turning up a dirt road into the Pyatt Nature Preserve. Finishes at Bowers Harbor Park. enduranceevolution.com/traverse-city-triathlon

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---------------------59TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY REGATTA: (See Sat., July 27)

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“STUPID F’ING BIRD” PRESENTED BY PARALLEL 45 THEATRE: 2pm, Civic Center Park Amphitheater, TC. Sort of adapted from Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ By Aaron Posner. The new outdoor venue will have food trucks, wine & more. Complimentary post-show talk back will follow. $38-$50. parallel45.org

---------------------HOME/PLACE: MAPPING HOME: 2pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center. Scott Mills moved back to his childhood home of Maple City in 2014 after spending 10 years away. He quickly realized he needed to get reacquainted with his home turf.

Mills talks about the tracking & mapping project he created to do that. Offered in conjunction with the GAAC exhibition “New Views: Home/ Place,” June 7 - Aug. 8. Free. glenarborart.org

---------------------WINDS BY THE BAY WITH THE GROSSE ILE QUINTET: 3pm, Oliver Art Center, galleries, Frankfort. Featuring Beethoven, Blue Moon & Bohemian Rhapsody. Donation. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org/welcome

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GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY: 4pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Music Director Marcelo Lehninger leads the orchestra in a concert of music including Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, & George Gershwin’s Concerto in F. $80, $65, $50, $30. greatlakescfa.org

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TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY OAKWOOD CEMETERY TOURS: 4pm. Meet at the main entrance of Oakwood Cemetery off of Eighth St., directly across from the intersection of Fair St. & Eighth St., TC. Find ‘TAHS

Oakwood Cemetery Tours’ on Facebook.

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---------------------AUSABLE RIVER FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 27) ---------------------“THE ROVER”: 7pm, Tank Hill, Frankfort. Presented by Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre. Free. lakesideshakespeare.org/lst/performances

---------------------SUNSET CONCERT SERIES: 7-9pm, Grace Memorial Harbor Pavilion, Elk Rapids. Live music by Lazer Lloyd.

---------------------GREAT BALLS OF FIRE: PROLIFIC PIANISTS: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. An evening of entertainment that spans two hundred years of musical history. $18.50; members, $13.50. bayviewassociation. org/all_performances

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC: MAY ERLEWINE: 8pm, Lake Street Studios, Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. May is a contemporary folk singer & songwriter based in MI who has a rich variety of musical influences, including blues, traditional folk, R&B, & bluegrass.

Tickets: $20 nonmembers, $18 GAAC members, free for under 18. glenarborart.org

---------------------SPECIAL ALL AGES HELL ON HEELS SHOW: 8pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. redskystage.com

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MI PADDLE STEWARD WORKSHOP: 9am, Clearwater Township Hall, Rapid City. Paddlers 18+ years are invited to join Michigan Sea Grant & partners for a program about protecting water trails from aquatic invasive species. Then head out for an hour paddle on a nearby water trail. Kayaks, gear & lunch provided. Free. paddleantrim.com/event/ mi-paddle-stewards-workshop

---------------------MAKER SPACE: 1-3pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. What will you do with an empty box? Image & create something the world has never seen before. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------ELEMENTAL BOOK TALK WITH ANNEMARIE OOMEN: 6pm, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. Anne-Marie & several other contributors to the Michigan Notable Book, “Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction,” will read their essays aloud & sign copies of the anthology. Free. lelandlibrary.org HOWIE HAWKINS MEET & GREET: 6pm, Horizon Books, TC. Meet the original Green New Dealer, Howie Hawkins. Find out about his vision for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal, & how his people-powered 2020 run is different than many corporate Democrats who will be in MI for the debates. howiehawkins.us/event-directory

---------------------SLIDESHOW HISTORY: 6pm, Harbor Springs Library. Director Amelie Dawson will give a slideshow presentation on the history of the Harbor Springs Library. Free. Reserve a seat: 231-526-2531. harborspringslibrary.org

---------------------TC TRACK CLUB FUN RUN: 6:30-8:30pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Reflective gear encouraged. Open to anyone. Offering 3 & 5 mile routes for runners. Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------MONDAY MOVIE NIGHT: Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Bonfire at 7pm; movie at 8pm.

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TCFF FREE OPEN SPACE MOVIES: 7-11pm, The Open Space, TC. Find ‘TCFF Free Open Space Movies’ on Facebook.

---------------------AN EVENING WITH JAKE SHIMABUKURO: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, UptonMorley Pavilion. This ukulele virtuoso became an overnight sensation after his unique take on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral on YouTube. He draws inspiration from jazz, blues, funk, rock, folk, flamenco & more. $39. tickets.interlochen.org

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COFFEE @ TEN: “PLEIN AIR PAINTING”: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey. A lecture with Elizabeth Pollie, AIS Small Works Showcase & Paint Grand Traverse artist. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------GET CRAFTY: 11am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Scrappy Little Boats: Use your imagination to create little boats from construction paper shapes & scraps. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------HAWK HILL RAPTORS: 11am, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. This children’s program allows you to get up close with various raptor species & learn about them. Free. petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------“ART: UP CLOSE”: 4-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. A new program that brings works of art by historically significant artists into contemporary spaces. Featuring an original oil painting by Theodore Robinson: “The Bridge Near Giverny.” Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------FREE LADIES NIGHT OUT: 5-7pm, Aliferous Beauty Lounge, TC. Free margaritas, toxin-free makeup to sample, handmade jewelry for sale & more. AliferousBeautyTC.com

---------------------LIVE ON THE BIDWELL PLAZA: 5:30-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Bidwell Plaza, Petoskey. Featuring Aunt Vicki, a duo who performs music that floats between psych rock & folk. There will also be complimentary summer fare & children can participate in art projects. crookedtree.org

---------------------INTRODUCING THE PRACTICE: 6pm, Ecco Event Space, TC. Annie Clark, host & creator of “Lifelines” on Z93 Today’s Best Hits, walks you through an intro of “The Practice,” a realistic process to sustain lifelong happiness. For ages 21+.

Free. facebook.com/pg/annieclarkpage/events

---------------------LIGHTHOUSE ADAPTIVE KAYAK CLINIC: 6pm, Interlochen State Park. Hosted by the Lighthouse Neurological Rehabilitation Facility. People of all abilities & skills welcome. Preregister by contacting Olivia Jacques: 231-2631350; ojacques@lighthouserehab.com Free. lighthouserehab.com

---------------------THE BORGEN PROJECT: 6pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. A nonprofit organization that fights global poverty & hunger. Learn how to help the world’s impoverished through Congressional leader contact.

231-570-2000.

---------------------WINE & CHEESE WITH KATHERINE REAY: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Katherine will discuss her latest book, “The Printed Letter Bookshop.” RSVP: 231.347.1180. Free. eventbrite.com

---------------------GTHC GROUP HIKE: 6:30pm, Brown Bridge Quiet Area. A 2-3 mile hike. Meet at first parking area on the right just after turning onto Ranch Rudolph Rd. Optional meetup afterwards at Peegeos. Questions: Jill Nordin @ detour42@ gmail.com Free. facebook.com/GTHikers

---------------------DETOX YOGA FLOW: 6:45pm. Held in the café space at Press on Juice, TC. This one hour

class involves twists & poses that are focused to help eliminate toxins from the body through movement & breath. Bring your own mat. 9445694. Donation based. eventbrite.com

---------------------“THE TWO GENTLEWOMEN OF VERONA”: (See Sat., July 27)

---------------------HARM REDUCTION MICHIGAN: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. Free monthly overdose clinic. Learn to recognize & properly react to an opiate overdose.

Naloxone/Narcan kits will be used & gifted to those who may be in a position to save a life.

Free. harmreductionmi.org

---------------------SUMMER WRITERS’ SERIES: 7:30pm, Leelanau Township Library, Northport. Author Dennis Turner presents “What Did You Do in the War, Sister?” This fictional memoir is inspired by real letters & courageous acts by a group of nuns in Nazi-occupied Belgium. Free.

---------------------TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: July 30 Aug. 4. Tonight is the Opening Night Party on Front St. Join filmmakers & film lovers for live music, dancing, food & more. $50. Free Open Space movies will also be shown from 7-11pm. traversecityfilmfest.org

july 31

wednesday

“ART: UP CLOSE”: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

A new program that brings works of art by historically significant artists into contemporary spaces. Featuring an original oil painting by Theodore Robinson: “The Bridge Near Giverny.” On view from 9am - 4pm. Art Martin, director of collections & exhibitions/senior curator at the Muskegon Museum of Art, will give a talk about the historical significance of Robinson’s work at 10am. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: July 31 - Aug. 3. Today features Evening on River Street, live music by “Great Scott!”, Opening Ceremonies, Evening Paddle with Paddle Antrim & more. elkrapidsharbordays.org

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Enjoy guitarist & singer Jeff Pagel. Free.

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TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: 12-3pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. July 30 - Aug. 4. Today includes Shorts by Interlochen Students & much more. traversecityfilmfest.org

PADDLE ANTRIM ELK RAPIDS COMMUNITY PADDLE: 7pm, Rotary Park, Elk Rapids.

Free. paddleantrim.com/events

---------------------TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: 7pm, Rare Bird Brewpub, TC. July 30 - Aug. 4. Today includes Movies on Tap: Rare Bird & much more. traversecityfilmfest.org

---------------------GREAT LAKES MUSIC FESTIVAL: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor.

Featuring The Crane Wives, who bring you music about love, life, fear, hope, pain, & the occasional natural disaster; & the Michigan Rattlers who play “heavy-hearted folk-rock with an aching dose of Midwestern nice.” $25 all seats. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC: RÉALTA: 8pm, Lake Street Studios, Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. Enjoy Irish music with Réalta, who performs on dueling uilleann pipes, whistles, bodhrán, guitar, bouzouki, double bass & vocals. Tickets: $20 nonmembers, $18 GAAC members, & free for under 18. glenarborart.org

---------------------NEXUS: A SPECTRUM BRASS RECITAL: 8pm, Bay View, Voorhies Hall, Petoskey. Enjoy Bay View’s resident brass quintet. $15. tickets. vendini.com

aug 01

thursday

SENIOR APPRECIATION DAY: 9am, Mackinaw Trail Middle School, Cadillac. Seniors can enjoy workshops, lunch, a style show, door prizes & more. Free. wexfordcoa.org

---------------------ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: July 31 - Aug. 3. Today features Yoga on the Beach, Let’s Learn Pickleball, the documentary “Straws,” Cherry Bake-off, Harbor Days Car Show & more. elkrapidsharbordays.org/events-schedule

---------------------PLEIN AIR WEEKEND: THE SUNDOWNER EXHIBITION: Presented by Glen Arbor Arts Center. This event is highlighted by three outdoor painting competitions that offer participants both daytime & sundown events; & two exhibits of original work. The Sundowner, an evening painting event, gets the Plein Air Weekend started. Finished Sundowner paintings will be on view & for sale at the Glen Arbor Town Hall on Aug. 2 from 5-6:30pm. glenarborart.org

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AUTHOR TALK WITH CHARLES EISENDRATH: 1pm, Charlevoix Public Library. Charles is the author of “Downstream from Here.”

37TH ANNUAL TOUR OF INTERESTING PLACES: 10am-4pm. Hosted by Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. Six unique private homes on Crystal Lake, Lake Michigan bluff & in town, & the new Stormcloud Brewery on M-115 will be open to the public. Tickets: $20 at Hull’s of Frankfort & Crystal Crate & Cargo, Beulah. Info: 231-889-4234.

SUMMER STEAM: 1-3pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. M is for Math. Make an array & explore the fun side of multiplication. greatlakeskids.org

INTERACTIVE STORYTIME: 11am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Enjoy “Big Chickens” by Leslie Helakoski & a handson activity. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------------------------------------------------“WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, SISTER?”: 2pm, Leland Township Library. Join author Dennis Turner as he discusses his book, a fictional memoir based on actual events.

Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------WINE & CHEESE WITH JOHN SMOLENS: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

John will discuss his latest novel, “Out.” RSVP: 231.347.1180. Free. eventbrite.com

---------------------YOGA IN THE PARK: 6pm, Hull Park, TC. Vinyasa flow session. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------EVENINGS AT THE GAZEBO: 6:30pm, Old City Park, Boyne City. Featuring live music by Full Cord. Free.

---------------------“THE ROVER”: (See Sun., July 28)

------------------------------------------LIFELONG LEARNING: BEGINNER CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS: 11am-noon, Petoskey District Library Classroom, Petoskey.

Randy Evans will introduce participants to various creative writing forms in fiction & poetry.

Free. petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO: A PLAY FOR SMALL PEOPLE: (See Sat., July 27)

---------------------ARTIST SARAH TULE HOLDS BENEFIT ART SHOW: 3-8pm, Pellston Regional Airport, second-floor observation deck. A portion of proceeds from all sales will be donated to Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch. Featuring nature-inspired art by herself & many other area artists. Free. sarahtuleart.com

---------------------45TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 1-4. Tonight features Oldies Night in the Polka Tent, the Car Show, 50’s &

60’s Best Dressed Awards & more. boynefallspolishfestival.com/schedule-of-events

---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: Aug. 1-5. Fireworks, parade, live music & dancing, beer tasting, food, 5k race, tennis tournament, car show, road rally, demolition derby, magic show, kids fishing & much more. onekama.info

---------------------MUSIC ON MAIN: THE REAL INGREDIENTS: 6-8pm, Village at Bay Harbor.

---------------------STREET MUSIQUE: 6-8pm, Downtown Harbor Springs & waterfront. Live music by Buskers, children’s activities, local dining & shopping.

---------------------YOGA IN THE PARK: 6pm, Hull Park, TC. Vinyasa flow session. Bring your own mat. Donation. eventbrite.com

---------------------“9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL”: 7pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Presented by the High School Musical Theatre Co. Nominated for 15 Drama Desk Awards & 4 Tony Awards, the musical adaptation of “9 to 5” features a book by Patricia Resnick & a score by the “Backwoods Barbie” herself. $31 full, $28 senior, $16 student. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------“THE TWO GENTLEWOMEN OF VERONA”: (See Sat., July 27)

---------------------ALDEN EVENING STROLL: 7-9pm, Downtown Alden. Enjoy live music by Kenny Thompson. Find on Facebook.

---------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions Campus, Grand Lawn, TC. Featuring Cool Lemon Jazz. Find on Facebook.

---------------------LEE DYER, ERIN CAMPBELL & FRIENDS: 7-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. $15. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: July 30 - Aug. 4. Today features Movies on Tap: The Little Fleet & much more. 7pm, The Little Fleet, TC. traversecityfilmfest.org

---------------------“PETER PAN”: 7:30pm, GHS Alan L. Gornick Auditorium, Gaylord. Presented by Gaylord Community Productions. $15 adults; $12 students/seniors. gaylordcommunityproductions. com/tickets.html

---------------------FREE SHOWING OF “LOVING VINCENT: AN ANIMATED MASTERPIECE”: 7:30pm, Garden Theater, Frankfort. Presented by Oliver Art Center. An oil painted animated film by Dorota Kobiela, Huch Welchman & Jacek Dehnel.

Free. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------LIVE THEATER! “THE PILLOWMAN”: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Presented

by North Star. $15. ltct.org/season-events

---------------------THE MAGIC FLUTE: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. $28, $30. tickets. vendini.com

---------------------2ND ANNUAL MOVIES IN THE PARK: 9:30pm, Alanson Community Park, Alanson.

Featuring “Ralph Breaks the Internet.”

aug 02

friday

ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: July 31 - Aug. 3. Today features an Art & Craft Show, Diaper Derby Race, Toddler Trot Race, Cornhole Tournament, Swan Race, Interactive Musical Performance & Family Talent Show with “Brotha James” & much more. elkrapidsharbordays.org/events-schedule

---------------------45TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 1-4. Today includes the Youth Bike Parade, Horseshoe Tournament, family movie & more. Bands include DynaBrass, Jimmy K & Derailed. boynefallspolishfestival.com/ schedule-of-events

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DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Drip watercolors on a paper filter to create a rainbow. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------MOUNT MANCELONA PICK-A-CHEW MUSIC & FOOD FEASTIVAL: Mount Mancelona.

Live music by Yonder Mountain String Band, Heatbox Arkansauce, Harper & The Midwest Kind, Appleseed Collective, Les Older and Ganja Gang, Honorable Spirits, Loftteez, Birds Of Prey, Trent Breithaupt & Flower Island, Pete Schumann, Silent Disco led by DJ Dominate, DJ Ladybird, & many more. Hike around Mount Mancelona, feast from “Super Kitchen” Paella Chefs, enjoy Sunday Blessing of The Mountain Brunch & much more. Proceeds benefit Mount Mancelona’s historic T-Bar repair & Youth Programs. Held Aug. 2-4, 10am-1am. mynorthtickets.com/events/pick-a-chew-feastival

---------------------CHILDREN’S SUMMER PROGRAM: LUUNAPPI: 10:30am, Leland Township Library.

Join Patrick Niemisto & Norm Wheeler for a morning filled with songs, stories & poems for families. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO: A PLAY FOR SMALL PEOPLE: (See Sat., July 27)

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Under the Moon blends folk, country, jazz & blues. Free.

---------------------THE LIFE OF THE LAKES WITH DR. DAN O’KEEFE: 2pm, Leland Township Library. Explore the history of fishing on Lake Michigan & learn how the productivity of the lake has changed in recent years. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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LEELANAU WOMEN ARTISTS’ ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW: Northport Arts Association.

Featuring basketry, paintings & jewelry. Runs from 3-8pm with an opening reception from 5-8pm. leelanauwomenartists.org

---------------------AN EVENING WITH CASEY CEP: 4-6pm, Between the Covers, Harbor Springs. Casey will present her debut, “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.” Joining her will be Glen Young. Reservations required: 231-526-6658. $5.

---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: (See Thurs., Aug. 1) ---------------------PLEIN AIR WEEKEND: THE QUICK DRAW EXHIBITION: Artists paint their impressions of “Life Around the Glens” during the Quick Draw.

Finished Quick Draw paintings will be on view & for sale at the Glen Arbor Town Hall from 5-6:30pm. Free. glenarborart.org

---------------------CRYSTAL LAKE WOODIES & MI BOATBUILDING PROGRAM: 6pm, Peele’s boat barn, Center St., Beulah. Presented by the Benzie Area Historical Society. View Jon Peele’s collection of vintage racing & wooden power boats dating back to the 1930s, as well as accessories, books, & memorabilia.

231.882.5539. Admission by donation.

---------------------PETOSKEY ROCKS!: 6pm, Downtown Petoskey. Featuring street musicians, free carriage rides, Music in the Park with Crosscut Kings, a Ghost Walk, & “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” will be shown in Pennsylvania Park.

---------------------STROLL THE STREETS: 6-9pm, Downtown Boyne City. Enjoy music, children’s activities & much more.

---------------------“9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL”: (See Thurs., Aug. 1) ---------------------“THE ROVER”: (See Sun., July 28) ---------------------EAST JORDAN MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, Memorial Park Bandshell, East Jordan. Enjoy classic rock with Full Circle.

---------------------FREAKY FRIDAY - THE MUSICAL: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. When an overworked mother & her teenage daughter magi-

cally swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again. $10 advance at ticket outlets; $11 online; $12 door. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------MUSIC IN THE PARK, TC: 7-9pm, Bowers Harbor Park, TC. Live music by Levi Ebnit with headliner Tracy Bonham. Donation proceeds benefit the Old Mission Peninsula School & Carters Kids.

---------------------TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: July 30 - Aug. 4. Today features Movies on Tap: The Parlor & much more. 7pm, The Parlor, TC. traversecityfilmfest.org

---------------------“PETER PAN”: (See Thurs., Aug. 1) ----------------------

“STUPID F’ING BIRD” PRESENTED BY PARALLEL 45 THEATRE: 7:30pm, Civic Center Park Amphitheater, TC. Sort of adapted from Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ By Aaron Posner. The new outdoor venue will have food trucks, wine & more. $38-$50. parallel45.org

---------------------A SPECIAL EVENING WITH TERRY BARBER: INTERNATIONAL COUNTERTENOR: 7:30pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee.

A concert to benefit The Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts & Michigan Legacy Art Park. Barber’s playlist will include selections from Queen, Hamilton, Leonard Cohen, Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Candide, Requiem and Irish, American, French & Australian folk songs. $20 - $75. mynorthtickets. com/events/TerryBarberConcert

---------------------INTERLOCHEN CHAMBER PLAYERS: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Featuring ensembles of Interlochen’s acclaimed faculty & World Youth Symphony Orchestra students. $24. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------LIVE THEATER! “THE PILLOWMAN”: (See Thurs., Aug. 1)

---------------------THE APPLESEED COLLECTIVE: 7:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Ann Arbor’s progressive string-swing band. $23.50. app. arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=lhf

---------------------SIPS & GIGGLES COMEDY SHOW FEAT. DAVE LANDAU: 8pm, Leelanau Sands Casino Showroom, Peshawbestown. Comedian Dave Landau has been featured on Comedy Central & AXS TV, was a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing Season 8, a regular on Bob & Tom Radio, the new co-host of the Anthony Cumia Show in NYC & more. $20 advance; $25 door; $125 VIP Table for 4. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------THE MAGIC FLUTE: (See Thurs., Aug. 1)

aug 03

saturday

ELK RAPIDS HARBOR DAYS: July 31 - Aug. 3. Today features the Harborun Fun Run, Harborun 5K Run/ Walk & 10K Run, Grande Parade, Civilian Ops Laser Tag, Pet Show, Paddle Harbor Days Paddle Board Races, fireworks & much more. elkrapidsharbordays.org/events-schedule

---------------------45TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 1-4. Today includes the 5K Race, Grand Royale Parade, Bump-N-Run, live music & more. boynefallspolishfestival. com/schedule-of-events

2ND ANNUAL DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: 8am-3pm, Ferry Beach Park, Charlevoix. Put a team together: 20 paddlers, 1 drummer & 1 steersman. Charlevoix Circle of Arts’ largest fundraiser. charlevoixcircle.org/dragon-boat

---------------------NORTHPORT LIONS CLUB FLY-IN: 8amnoon, Woolsey Airport, 5 miles north of Northport. Enjoy a pancake breakfast & car show. $8 adults, $4 kids.

---------------------PORT ONEIDA RUN: 8:25am. Featuring a Kid’s Schoolhouse Dash 1/4 mile, 10K, Homesteaders 5K & Farmers Flat & Fast 5K. Proceeds help preserve over 200 historic buildings & landscapes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. phsb.org

---------------------BEAR RIVER CLEANUP: 9am-1pm, Bear River Shelter, Petoskey. Join Watershed Council staff & community members as you clean up trash & debris from the Bear River & its surrounding area. Register. watershedcouncil.org

---------------------PETOSKEY ANTIQUES SHOW: 9am-5pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey.

Featuring nearly 170 dealers from around the country. $5; under 15 free.

---------------------40TH ANNUAL SUTTONS BAY ART FESTIVAL: 10am-6pm, Marina Park, Suttons Bay. Featuring 100 artists, community groups, community library book sale, food vendors, pancake breakfast with live music by Lenora & Steve, children’s area & more. suttonsbayartfestival.org

---------------------5TH ANNUAL DEPOT MUSIC FEST: 10am, Rotary Pavillion @ Cadillac Commons, Cadillac. Enjoy live music, food, beer & wine tent, arts & crafts vendors & more. Free; donation.

---------------------BOATS “ABOVE” THE BOARDWALK: 10am-3pm, Boardman River, downtown TC. Featuring vintage boats, a Ships Store, vendors of nautical theme merchandise, vintage boat restorers & two new Chris Craft’s on display. 231-313-2888. Free. wwcacbs.com

---------------------CHERRY ROUBAIX GRAN FONDO: 10am.

Choose from 90, 60, 40 or 20 miles. Line up on Front St., TC. The first 5 miles of the race are neutral & each group will have a lead & follow car. When the riders get between 4 & 5 miles on Cherry Bend Rd., the lead car will alert the riders that the race is starting. The after party will be at Herman Park, Suttons Bay. cherry-roubaix.com

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LEELANAU WOMEN ARTISTS’ ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW: 10am-5pm, Northport Arts Association. Featuring basketry, paintings & jewelry. leelanauwomenartists.org

---------------------MOUNT MANCELONA PICK-A-CHEW MUSIC & FOOD FEASTIVAL: (See Fri., Aug. 2)

---------------------5TH ANNUAL WOOFSTOCK: 12-5pm, Mackinaw Trails Winery, Petoskey. This music & pet festival is presented by the Charlevoix Area Humane Society. Featuring several bands, an open mic stage, animal agility demonstrations, a pet contest, the Doxie Derby & more.

---------------------FREAKY FRIDAY - THE MUSICAL: 2pm & 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. When an overworked mother & her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again. $10 advance at ticket outlets; $11 online; $12 door. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------“9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL”: (See Thurs., Aug. 1) ---------------------SUMMER SOUNDS CONCERT SERIES: 7-9pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Featuring The Bootstrap Boys, a four-piece Grand Rapids band with a fresh take on the classic country sound. $0-$11.25. mynorthtickets.com/events/summer-soundsbootstrap-boys-2019

---------------------“PETER PAN”: (See Thurs., Aug. 1) ----------------------

“STUPID F’ING BIRD” PRESENTED BY PARALLEL 45 THEATRE: (See Fri., Aug. 2)

---------------------MICHAEL ON FIRE HOUSE CONCERT: 7:30pm, 2972 Wild Juniper Trail, TC. $20 suggested donation. michaelonfire.com

---------------------THE APPLESEED COLLECTIVE: (See Fri., Aug. 2)

---------------------SECOND CITY: IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey.

This show takes shots at heartbreak, missed connections & the mire of human relationships.

General admission, $22. tickets.vendini.com

aug 04

sunday

BLUEBERRY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: 8am-noon, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Benefits Rainbow of Hope Farm. Donation or $8; $5 kids 5-10; under 5 free. rainbowofhopefarm.weebly.com

---------------------26TH ANNUAL COASTAL CRAWL: 8:30am, Zorn Park Public Beach, Harbor Springs.

1/2, 1, 2, 3 mile open water swim & kids 1/2 mile swim. Register. webscorer.com/ register?raceid=169429

---------------------MICHIGAN RUNNER GIRL 5K & 10K RACES: 8:30am, 45 North Vineyard & Winery, Lake Leelanau. 10K: $60; 5K: $45. runsignup.com/ Race/MI/LakeLeelanau/MRGHalfMarathon

---------------------45TH ANNUAL BOYNE FALLS POLISH FESTIVAL: Aug. 1-4. Today includes the 4-Wheel Drive Mud Run, live music by Judy & Her Suchie Brothers & Full Circle & more. boynefallspolishfestival.com/schedule-of-events

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5TH ANNUAL DEPOT MUSIC FEST: 10am, Rotary Pavillion @ Cadillac Commons, Cadillac. Enjoy live music, food, beer & wine tent, arts & crafts vendors & more. Free; donation.

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TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: July 30 - Aug. 4. Today features Movies on Tap: The Workshop Brewing Co. & Mammoth Distilling, 4-8pm, & TCFF Filmmaker Party at 8:30pm. traversecityfilmfest.org

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PLEIN AIR WEEKEND: THE PAINT OUT EXHIBITION: Presented by Glen Arbor Arts Center. Featuring three outdoor painting competitions that offer both daytime & sundown events; & two exhibits of original work. The Paint Out Sale features work by 65 artists. The evening viewing & sale is from 5:30-7:30pm at the Glen Arbor Town Hall. Admission is $15 (before July 31); or $20 at door; children ages 10 – 15, $10; children under 9 are free. glenarborart.org

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13TH ANNUAL HARRIETTA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: 8am-3pm, 108 S. Davis St., Harrietta. Includes a blueberry pancake breakfast, ice cream social, parade, classic car show, pie eating contest & much more. Luke Winslow King performs live music.

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40TH ANNUAL SUTTONS BAY ART FESTIVAL: 10am-5pm, Marina Park, Suttons Bay. Featuring 100 artists, community groups, community library book sale, food vendors, pancake breakfast with live music by Lenora & Steve, children’s area & more. suttonsbayartfestival.org

LIVE THEATER! “THE PILLOWMAN”: 2pm & 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

Presented by North Star. $15. ltct.org/seasonevents

WALK-A-THON: Frankfort’s Bellows Park on Crystal Lake. Walk, run, bike. Benefits Benzie Senior Resources. Register & begin between 7:30am & 9am. benzieseniorresources.org

ing Co., Bellaire. Featuring Short’s Brews, Starcut Ciders, live music, local food trucks, production facility tours & more. $30. shortsbrewing.com/shortsfest

---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: (See Thurs., Aug. 1) ---------------------SHORT’S FEST 2019: 5-11pm, Short’s Brew-

------------------------------------------MOUNT MANCELONA PICK-A-CHEW MUSIC & FOOD FEASTIVAL: (See Fri., Aug. 2)

---------------------PETOSKEY ANTIQUES SHOW: 10am-4pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey.

Featuring nearly 170 dealers from around the country. $5; under 15 free.

LEELANAU WOMEN ARTISTS’ ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW: 12-4pm, Northport Arts Association. Featuring basketry, paintings & jewelry. leelanauwomenartists.org

areas & please ride single file in these areas, especially Center Rd. along East Bay & Peninsula Dr. along West Bay south of Bowers Harbor. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

“9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL”: 1:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium.

Presented by the High School Musical Theatre Co. Nominated for 15 Drama Desk Awards & 4 Tony Awards, the musical adaptation of “9 to 5” features a book by Patricia Resnick & a score by the “Backwoods Barbie” herself. $31 full, $28 senior, $16 student. tickets.interlochen.org

DIXIELAND CONCERT SERIES: Wednesdays, 7pm through Aug. 7 at The Presbyterian Church, TC. Featuring The Backroom Gang band. The concerts include singing, jokes, refreshments & a freewill offering to support local nonprofit organizations. For info call 946-5680. tcpresby.org

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12. Veteran’s Park, Boyne City.

---------------------CHEBOYGAN FARMERS MARKET: Festival Square, Downtown Cheboygan. Held every Weds. & Sat. from 8am-1pm through Oct. 30.

THE MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS SUMMER SHOW & SALE: City Opera House, TC. Runs through Aug. Enjoy over 100 works of original art in oil, pastel, acrylic & watercolor. Hours are weekdays from 10am-5pm. A special feature this year is “Art Takes Flight,” a nod to the beauty of birds in northern MI. cityoperahouse.org

it’s worth it to stay

---------------------EAST JORDAN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 9am-1pm, Memorial Park, East Jordan.

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ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-1pm, 305 US Highway 31.

“YOU ARE HERE: MAPS & ROADS OF

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Munson Home Health, 618 S. Mitchell St., Ste. A, Cadillac. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss are understood. Info: 800-2522065. munsonhealthcare.org

“STUPID F’ING BIRD” PRESENTED BY PARALLEL 45 THEATRE: (See Sun., July 28)

STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Performance poetry, storytelling & music are featured at this outdoor amphitheater every Sat. through Labor Day weekend at 9:15pm. Poet bard Terry Wooten will host the gatherings around the fire.

Stone Circle is located ten miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr., then follow the signs. There is a $5 donation for adults; $3 for 12 & under. 231-264-9467.

------------------------------------------COMMUNITY DAY FEATURING THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD BAND: SOLD OUT: 4pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Wait list open. Free; tickets required. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: (See Thurs., Aug. 1) ---------------------TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: July 30 Aug. 4. 7-11pm, The Open Space, TC. Today features Free Open Space Movies. traversecityfilmfest.org

---------------------LIVE THEATER! “THE PILLOWMAN”: (See Thurs., Aug. 1)

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WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & “LES PRELUDES,” JUNG-HO PAK, CONDUCTOR: 7:30pm, Interlochen Bowl. Free. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC: CHATHAM RABBITS: 8pm, Lake Street Studios, Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. Tickets: $20 nonmembers, $18 GAAC members, & under 18 are free. glenarborart.org

---------------------THE FAB FOUR: BEATLES & OTHER FAMOUS QUARTETS: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. $18.50 adult; $13.50 member. tickets.vendini.com

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GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: Flintfields Horse Park, TC. Equestrian competition, featuring jumpers, hunters & equitation with riders from around the country competing for prestige & prize money. Runs every Tues./ Weds. through Sun. each week through Aug 11. Every Sun. is family day, offering a variety of activities for the whole family, including autograph sessions, face painting, shopping, dining, the horseless horse show, farmers market & more. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

---------------------BLOOMS & BIRDS: WILDFLOWER WALK: Tuesdays, 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. A relaxing stroll on the trails with Grass River Natural Area docent Julie Hurd to find & identify wildflowers. Along the way listen & look for the birds that call Grass River home. grassriver.org

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---------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Tuesdays, 8pm through Aug. 27.

Roth Performance Shell, Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City. Featuring the Straits Area Concert Band.

---------------------FREE ALL-AGES WORKSHOPS AT THE ART PARK: Fridays & Saturdays, 9:30am-12:30pm through Aug. 2 at Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Interpretive programs offer children & adults activities to develop a more personal relationship with art & nature. michlegacyartpark.org

---------------------FREE PROGRAM FOR THOSE WITH MEMORY LOSS: Peace Ranch, TC. Hosted by the Evergreen Experience. This farming & gardening program for those with memory loss is held on Saturdays through Aug., 9-11am. Register.

810-299-1479. mievergreenexperience.com

---------------------GENTLE YOGA FOR ADULTS: Interlochen Public Library. Held on Tuesdays during the summer, 9:30-11am. Bring your own mats, water & towels. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------TEEN HANGOUT: Tuesdays, 1-4pm through July 30. Traverse Area District Library, TC. Play games & make things. Meet in the children’s garden area next to the wooden train. tadl.org/ event/teen-hangout/2019-07-09

---------------------THURSDAY NIGHT MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE: Thursdays, 6pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Open to all, but geared for intermediate level riders & new racers. You’ll get a chance to ride a lap of the Peak2Peak Mountain Bike Race Course including the Crystal Climb. Meet at the Park at Water’s Edge. Rental bike with helmet: $19. Helmet only: $10. crystalmountain.com/ event/thursday-night-mountain-bike-ride

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BLUE MONDAYS: Freshwater Art Gallery, Boyne City. Open mic held every Monday, 7-9pm through the summer. freshwaterartgallery.com

GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOURS OF TC: Mon., Tues., Weds. at 2pm. The tours begin & end at Perry Hannah Plaza - 6th & Union streets. Each tour is about two & a half hours of slow walking over a two-mile route, with a rest stop at the TC Visitors Center.

BOYNE CITY’S STROLL THE STREETS: Fridays at 6pm through Labor Day, downtown Boyne City comes alive as families & friends gather to “stroll the streets” listening to music, enjoying entertainment, children’s activities & more. boynecitymainstreet.com

TUESDAY BIKE NIGHTS & CAR CRUISEINS: Tuesdays, 6-9pm, Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Bring your favorite roadster, hog, or coupe. There will also be free chairlift rides, a weekly raffle to benefit local charities & giveaways. boynemountain.com

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---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY BAND: Mondays, 8pm through Aug. 19. Next to The Pier Restaurant, Harbor Springs.

---------------------CHERRY CAPITAL CYCLING CLUB MON. EVENING PENINSULA RIDE: Mondays, 6pm, TC Central High School, west side parking lot.

Old Mission Peninsula ride out along East Bay & return along West Bay. Beware of high traffic

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---------------------SUNRISE YOGA FLOW: Tuesdays, 7am through July 30. Vinyasa Flow session on the East Bay beach of TC. eventbrite.com YOGA + BEER AT SILVER SPRUCE BREWING COMPANY, TC: Sundays, 11am through Aug. 25. eventbrite.com

---------------------BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays & Wednesdays, 8am-noon through Oct.

EMPIRE FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, 10234 W. Front St., Empire.

---------------------GLEN ARBOR FARMERS MARKET: Tuesdays, 9am-1pm, 6374 Western Ave., Glen Arbor.

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS FARMERS MARKET: Held on Saturdays & Wednesdays through Aug. from 9am-1pm in Downtown Harbor Springs.

---------------------“FANTASY FIGURES”: Runs through Aug. 9 at Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan. Featuring 2 & 3 dimensional work based on human or animal forms taken into the realm of pure imagination. Open each day from 1-4pm.

---------------------GREAT NORTHERN FINE ART EXPLOSION: An outstanding fine art—fine craft open to all MI artists 18 & older, offering eight juried category awards - $500 each, & a grand award determined by the People’s Choice: $1,500. Downtown Grayling becomes an art gallery during the fifteen days of voting: July 19-Aug. 3. Artists’ demos & the Performing Arts Music Competition will take place on Sat., Aug. 3, concluding with the awards gala at 5pm at Paddle Hard Yard, Grayling. artisanvillage.org/ call-for-entries.html

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---------------------KINGSLEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 3-7pm, 205 S. Brownson Ave.

---------------------LAKE LEELANAU FARMERS MARKET: Sundays, 9am-1pm, M204 & Lake Leelanau Dr.

---------------------LELAND FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 9am-1pm, River St. at North First St., Leland.

---------------------NORTHPORT FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 9am-1pm, 105 S. Bay St.

---------------------OLD TOWN EMMET FARM MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, corner of Emmet & Fulton streets, Petoskey.

---------------------PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8:30am-1pm, Downtown Petoskey.

---------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Weds., 8am-noon & Sat., 7:30amnoon, parking lot “B,” at southwest corner of Cass & Grandview Parkway in downtown TC.

---------------------SUTTONS BAY FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, intersection of M22 & M204, Suttons Bay.

---------------------THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 2-6pm, The Village Piazza.

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---------------------NEW VIEWS: HOME/PLACE - AN EXHIBITION: Glen Arbor Arts Center. A juried show of 27 2D & 3D works that explores home & place identity from original & unexpected perspectives. The exhibition runs through Aug. 8. There will also be a full range of programs – from author interviews to panel discussions -- that explore the exhibition’s theme from a wide variety of perspectives. Glen Arbor Arts Center is open Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm; & noon – 4pm on Saturday & Sunday. glenarborart.org

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - “LOCAL COLOR”: This exhibition series highlights outstanding examples of art, design & craft created by artists in the region. July & Aug. feature the work of Martha Landis & Connie Landis.

- “FRESH WORKS”: Held in Atrium Gallery.

Crooked Tree Arts Center Painters’ Studio exhibit. Runs through July 27.

- “IMPRESSIONS SMALL WORKS SHOWCASE”: Runs through Aug. Presented by the American Impressionist Society. Nearly 200 original paintings from artists across the nation will be on display for this showcase. crookedtree.org

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“HARBOR SPRINGS: THEN & NOW”: Shay Hexagon House, Harbor Springs. Each piece of art from this exhibition is a snapshot of the people, events & landscapes which make up the heritage of Harbor Springs. Open on Fridays & Saturdays, 11am-3pm, July 26 - Oct. 12. harborspringshistory.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - “ARMAND MERIZON: HIS LIFE AND ART”: Armand was a lifelong Grand Rapids painter remembered for his detailed landscapes & brilliantly colored abstractions. Runs through Sept. 8.

- “LEE SUNG KEUN: INTERCONNECTED”: S. Korean artist Lee Sung Keun creates sculp“PENCIL AND PAPER”: This summer is deditures of primordial shapes that, at first sight, cated to the fine art of drawing, a fundamental evoke human cells or since the notion • BLACK CHERRY the original 1964of fertility. building block of which most other forms of art Runs through Sept. 22. are created. This exhibit will highlight works • CHOCOLATE CHERRY bestTHE seller since 1975Featur- “MINGLINGS: MIGRATION”: from three regional artists: Paul VanHeest, ing internationally recognized fiber artist GerJames Johnson & Erwin P. Lewandowski, & Knodel. Inspired by a 17th century Ming Sugar-free Fudge, Old Fashionhardt Peanut & Cashew Brittle, two Charlevoix-based artists: Paul Andrzejewdynasty textile fragment that traveled in its day The Finest Products ski & Steve Toornman. Runs through Aug.line 10 of Cherry from China to Portugal. Runs through Sept. 8. at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.org - “TRANSFIGUREMENT II”: MI ceramic artist Downtown Traverse CitySusanne - 116 Stephenson E. Frontpresents Streetthis retrospec“SEA TO SKY”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Solo The Original Location 1964 Runs through Sept. 8. Open tive Since exhibition. show of MI artist Edward Duff. Featuring recogdaily 10am-5pm & Sundaays from 1-5pm. den• Acme 4500 N US-31 nizable scenes of the East region &Bay beyond.

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1. higherartgallery.com GAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, OPEN 7 DAYS AND EVENINGS GAYLORD: SMALL WORKS, BIG IMPACT: COMMUNITY - FIBER ART EXHIBIT: Runs through Aug. 31.

COLLEGE PROJECT: Over 100 community - CREATIVE CROWD: Fridays, 11:30ammembers, ages 3 to 80+ created work for this 2:30pm through Aug. 30. Bring your own supexhibition. It is a fundraiser & as the work sells, plies to work on any type of art or craft project it is taken off the wall. Runs through Aug. 16 you choose. gaylordarts.org at Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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LEELANAU WOMEN ARTISTS’ ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW: 12-4pm, Northport Arts Association. Featuring basketry, paintings & jewelry. leelanauwomenartists.org

areas & please ride single file in these areas, especially Center Rd. along East Bay & Peninsula Dr. along West Bay south of Bowers Harbor. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

“9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL”: 1:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium.

Presented by the High School Musical Theatre Co. Nominated for 15 Drama Desk Awards & 4 Tony Awards, the musical adaptation of “9 to 5” features a book by Patricia Resnick & a score by the “Backwoods Barbie” herself. $31 full, $28 senior, $16 student. tickets.interlochen.org

DIXIELAND CONCERT SERIES: Wednesdays, 7pm through Aug. 7 at The Presbyterian Church, TC. Featuring The Backroom Gang band. The concerts include singing, jokes, refreshments & a freewill offering to support local nonprofit organizations. For info call 946-5680. tcpresby.org

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---------------------“PETER PAN”: 2pm, GHS Alan L. Gornick Auditorium, Gaylord. Presented by Gaylord Community Productions. $15 adults; $12 students/seniors. gaylordcommunityproductions.com/tickets.html

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“STUPID F’ING BIRD” PRESENTED BY PARALLEL 45 THEATRE: (See Sun., July 28)

---------------------COMMUNITY DAY FEATURING THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD BAND: SOLD OUT: 4pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Wait list open. Free; tickets required. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------ONEKAMA DAYS: (See Thurs., Aug. 1) ---------------------TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: July 30 Aug. 4. 7-11pm, The Open Space, TC. Today features Free Open Space Movies. traversecityfilmfest.org

---------------------LIVE THEATER! “THE PILLOWMAN”: (See Thurs., Aug. 1)

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WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & “LES PRELUDES,” JUNG-HO PAK, CONDUCTOR: 7:30pm, Interlochen Bowl. Free. tickets.interlochen.org MANITOU MUSIC: CHATHAM INTELLECTUAL DIALOGUE RABBITS: 8pm,GREAT Lake Street Studios, LAKES Studio Stage, Glen Arbor. Tickets: $20 nonmembers, $18 GAAC LEADERSHIP members, & under 18 areFORUM free. glenarborart.org

- - -Thursday, - - - - - - August - - - - - -15- - - - - - THE FAB FOUR: BEATLES & OTHER FA8:00PM MOUS QUARTETS: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. $18.50 adult; $13.50 member. tickets.vendini.com BLUEGRASS BAND

THE DEL McCOURY BAND Saturday, August 17 GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: 8:00PM

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Flintfields Horse Park, TC. Equestrian competition, featuring jumpers, hunters & equitation PRODIGY RECITAL with VIOLIN riders from around the country competing for prestige & prizeSOPHIE money. Runs every Tues./ YESONG LEE Weds. through Sun. each week through Aug IN RECITAL, 11. Every Sun. is familyVIOLIN day, offering a variety of activities for the whole family, including auWednesday, August 21 tograph sessions, face painting, shopping, din8:00PM ing, the horseless horse show, farmers market & more. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com BALLET BLOOMS & BIRDS: WILDFLOWER WALK: THE 10am, JOFFREY BALLET: Tuesdays, Grass River Natural Area, BelMOVING laire.BEAUTIFULLY A relaxing stroll on the trails with Grass River Natural Area docentAugust Julie Hurd 24 to find & identify Saturday, wildflowers. Along the way listen & look for the birds8:00PM that call Grass River home. grassriver.org

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---------------------MUNSON HOSPICE GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Tuesdays, 11am through Sept. 17.

Munson Home Health, 618 S. Mitchell St., Ste. A, Cadillac. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss are understood. Info: 800-2522065. munsonhealthcare.org

---------------------STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Performance poetry, storytelling & music are featured at this outdoor amphitheater every Sat. through Labor Day weekend at 9:15pm. Poet bard Terry Wooten will host the gatherings around the fire.

Stone Circle is located ten miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr., then follow the signs. There is a $5 donation for adults; $3 for 12 & under. 231-264-9467.

---------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Tuesdays, 8pm through Aug. 27.

Roth Performance Shell, Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City. Featuring the Straits Area Concert Band.

---------------------FREE ALL-AGES WORKSHOPS AT THE ART PARK: Fridays & Saturdays, 9:30am-12:30pm through Aug. 2 at Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Interpretive programs offer children & adults activities to develop a more personal relationship with art & nature. michlegacyartpark.org

---------------------FREE PROGRAM FOR THOSE WITH MEMORY LOSS: Peace Ranch, TC. Hosted by the Evergreen Experience. This farming & gardening program for those with memory loss is held on Saturdays through Aug., 9-11am. Register.

810-299-1479. mievergreenexperience.com

---------------------GENTLE YOGA FOR ADULTS: Interlochen Public Library. Held on Tuesdays during the summer, 9:30-11am. Bring your own mats, water & towels. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------TEEN HANGOUT: Tuesdays, 1-4pm through July 30. Traverse Area District Library, TC. Play games & make things. Meet in the children’s garden area next to the wooden train. tadl.org/ event/teen-hangout/2019-07-09

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---------------------CHEBOYGAN FARMERS MARKET: Festival Square, Downtown Cheboygan. Held every Weds. & Sat. from 8am-1pm through Oct. 30.

---------------------EAST JORDAN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 9am-1pm, Memorial Park, East Jordan.

---------------------ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-1pm, 305 US Highway 31.

---------------------ELLSWORTH FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon, Ellsworth Community Square.

---------------------EMPIRE FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, 10234 W. Front St., Empire.

---------------------GLEN ARBOR FARMERS MARKET: Tuesdays, 9am-1pm, 6374 Western Ave., Glen Arbor.

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS FARMERS MARKET: Held on Saturdays & Wednesdays through Aug. from 9am-1pm in Downtown Harbor Springs.

---------------------INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET: Sundays, 9am-2pm, 2112 M 137, Interlochen.

---------------------KINGSLEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 3-7pm, 205 S. Brownson Ave.

---------------------LAKE LEELANAU FARMERS MARKET: Sundays, 9am-1pm, M204 & Lake Leelanau Dr.

---------------------LELAND FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 9am-1pm, River St. at North First St., Leland.

---------------------NORTHPORT FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 9am-1pm, 105 S. Bay St.

---------------------OLD TOWN EMMET FARM MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, corner of Emmet & Fulton streets, Petoskey.

---------------------PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8:30am-1pm, Downtown Petoskey.

---------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Weds., 8am-noon & Sat., 7:30amnoon, parking lot “B,” at southwest corner of Cass & Grandview Parkway in downtown TC.

---------------------SUTTONS BAY FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, intersection of M22 & M204, Suttons Bay.

---------------------THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 2-6pm, The Village Piazza.

THURSDAY NIGHT MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE: Thursdays, 6pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Open to all, but geared for intermediate level riders & new racers. You’ll get a chance to ride a lap of the Peak2Peak Mountain Bike Race Course including the Crystal Climb. Meet at the Park at Water’s Edge. Rental bike with helmet: $19. Helmet only: $10. crystalmountain.com/ event/thursday-night-mountain-bike-ride

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BLUE MONDAYS:LEGENDS Freshwater Art Gallery, BROADWAY Boyne City. Open mic held every Monday, 7-9pm McARDLE McKECHNIE through the summer. & freshwaterartgallery.com

GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOURS OF TC: Mon., Tues., Weds. at 2pm. The tours begin & end at Perry Hannah Plaza - 6th & Union streets. Each tour is about two & a half hours of slow walking over a two-mile route, with a rest stop at the TC Visitors Center.

BOYNE CITY’S STROLL THE STREETS: & HAMLISCH Fridays at 6pm through Labor Day, downtown Saturday, 31 & & friends Boyne City comes August alive as families gather to “stroll the streets” listening Sunday, September 1 to music, enjoying entertainment, children’s activities & 8:00PM more. boynecitymainstreet.com

TUESDAY BIKE NIGHTS & CAR CRUISEINS: Tuesdays, 6-9pm, Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Bring your favorite roadster, hog, or coupe. There will also be free chairlift rides, a weekly raffle to benefit local charities & giveaways. boynemountain.com

“PENCIL AND PAPER”: This summer is dedicated to the fine art of drawing, a fundamental building block of which most other forms of art are created. This exhibit will highlight works from three regional artists: Paul VanHeest, James Johnson & Erwin P. Lewandowski, & two Charlevoix-based artists: Paul Andrzejewski & Steve Toornman. Runs through Aug. 10 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.org

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FALL - SPRING HARBOR SPRINGS 2019/2020 COMMUNITY BAND: SUNRISE SEASON YOGA FLOW: Tuesdays, 7am Mondays, 8pm ANNOUNCED through Aug. 19. Next to The July 30. Vinyasa Flow session on the AUGUST 1through at greatlakescfa.org Pier Restaurant, Harbor Springs.

East Bay beach of TC. eventbrite.com YOGA + BEER AT SILVER SPRUCE BREWFOR TICKETS ANDMON. MOREING INFORMATION VISIT 11am through CHERRY CAPITAL CYCLING CLUB COMPANY, TC: Sundays, EVENING PENINSULA RIDE: Mondays, 6pm, Aug. 25. eventbrite.com greatlakescfa.org or call the Box Office at 231.439.2610 TC Central High School, west side parking lot.

BOYNE CITY tickets@greatlakescfa.org FARMERS MARKET: SaturOld800 Mission ride out along East Bay BAYPeninsula HARBOR DRIVE BAY HARBOR, MI 49770 days & Wednesdays, 8am-noon through Oct. & return along West Bay. Beware of high traffic

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“HARBOR SPRINGS: THEN & NOW”: Shay Hexagon House, Harbor Springs. Each piece of art from this exhibition is a snapshot of the people, events & landscapes which make up the heritage of Harbor Springs. Open on Fridays & Saturdays, 11am-3pm, July 26 - Oct. 12. harborspringshistory.org

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---------------------“SEA TO SKY”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Solo show of MI artist Edward Duff. Featuring recognizable scenes of the region & beyond. Show runs during gallery hours through Sept. 1. higherartgallery.com

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SMALL WORKS, BIG IMPACT: COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROJECT: Over 100 community members, ages 3 to 80+ created work for this exhibition. It is a fundraiser & as the work sells, it is taken off the wall. Runs through Aug. 16 at Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

THE MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS SUMMER SHOW & SALE: City Opera House, TC. Runs through Aug. Enjoy over 100 works of original art in oil, pastel, acrylic & watercolor. Hours are weekdays from 10am-5pm. A special feature this year is “Art Takes Flight,” a nod to the beauty of birds in northern MI. cityoperahouse.org

---------------------“YOU ARE HERE: MAPS & ROADS OF LEELANAU”: Leelanau Historical Society Museum, Norbert Gits Family Gallery, Leland.

Featuring maps ranging from 1850-1960 & a display of early surveying equipment. leelanauhistory.org

---------------------“FANTASY FIGURES”: Runs through Aug. 9 at Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan. Featuring 2 & 3 dimensional work based on human or animal forms taken into the realm of pure imagination. Open each day from 1-4pm.

---------------------GREAT NORTHERN FINE ART EXPLOSION: An outstanding fine art—fine craft open to all MI artists 18 & older, offering eight juried category awards - $500 each, & a grand award determined by the People’s Choice: $1,500. Downtown Grayling becomes an art gallery during the fifteen days of voting: July 19-Aug. 3. Artists’ demos & the Performing Arts Music Competition will take place on Sat., Aug. 3, concluding with the awards gala at 5pm at Paddle Hard Yard, Grayling. artisanvillage.org/ call-for-entries.html

---------------------NEW VIEWS: HOME/PLACE - AN EXHIBITION: Glen Arbor Arts Center. A juried show of 27 2D & 3D works that explores home & place identity from original & unexpected perspectives. The exhibition runs through Aug. 8. There will also be a full range of programs – from author interviews to panel discussions -- that explore the exhibition’s theme from a wide variety of perspectives. Glen Arbor Arts Center is open Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm; & noon – 4pm on Saturday & Sunday. glenarborart.org

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - “LOCAL COLOR”: This exhibition series highlights outstanding examples of art, design & craft created by artists in the region. July & Aug. feature the work of Martha Landis & Connie Landis.

- “FRESH WORKS”: Held in Atrium Gallery.

Crooked Tree Arts Center Painters’ Studio exhibit. Runs through July 27.

- “IMPRESSIONS SMALL WORKS SHOWCASE”: Runs through Aug. Presented by the American Impressionist Society. Nearly 200 original paintings from artists across the nation will be on display for this showcase. crookedtree.org

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - “ARMAND MERIZON: HIS LIFE AND ART”: Armand was a lifelong Grand Rapids painter remembered for his detailed landscapes & brilliantly colored abstractions. Runs through Sept. 8.

- “LEE SUNG KEUN: INTERCONNECTED”: S. Korean artist Lee Sung Keun creates sculptures of primordial shapes that, at first sight, evoke human cells or the notion of fertility.

Runs through Sept. 22.

- “MINGLINGS: THE MIGRATION”: Featuring internationally recognized fiber artist Gerhardt Knodel. Inspired by a 17th century Ming dynasty textile fragment that traveled in its day from China to Portugal. Runs through Sept. 8.

- “TRANSFIGUREMENT II”: MI ceramic artist Susanne Stephenson presents this retrospective exhibition. Runs through Sept. 8. Open daily 10am-5pm & Sundaays from 1-5pm. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------GAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, GAYLORD: - FIBER ART EXHIBIT: Runs through Aug. 31.

- CREATIVE CROWD: Fridays, 11:30am2:30pm through Aug. 30. Bring your own supplies to work on any type of art or craft project you choose. gaylordarts.org

SHEERAN IS BACK WITH A STACK OF FRIENDS Ed Sheeran’s latest album, No. 6 Collaborations Project, finds the English singer-songwriter bringing in a host of friends and musical colleagues for a 15-track set of team-ups with nearly two dozen musicians. The album was released last week and includes first single “I Don’t Care” (with Justin Bieber) as well as “Cross Me” with Chance the Rapper; “Beautiful People” with Khalid; “Take Me Back to London” with Stormzy; and “Way to Break My Heart” with Skrillex. Sheeran actually started working on the album on his laptop computer while he was on tour last year …

Before “Hamilton” — even before his earlier musical drama “In the Heights” — Lin-Manuel Miranda performed across New York City with a freestyle hip-hop group called Freestyle Love Supreme. Now he’s revived that collective and will present it in a wildly eclectic, improvised live show that opens at New York City’s Booth Theater this fall, with a rotating cast every night. Miranda himself might even show up, but you’ll have to just cross your fingers, as the cast won’t be announced until each show starts …

Belle and Sebastian are back with a new single called “Sister Buddha,” which will be featured in the band’s score for the new movie Days of the Bagnold Summer (in theaters this

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upcoming September). The soundtrack for that same movie also features some of Belle and Sebastian’s older tunes, including “Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying” (1996) and “I Know Where the Summer Goes” (1998).

Prior to the movie’s release, though, the band will stay busy on the road; the pair just kicked off a summer tour in England, and will rock through several stateside shows as well, including a stop at Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival …

If you’ve ever bellowed “Sweet Caroline!/ bomp-bomp-bah!” during the halftime of a sporting event, then you at least know a little about the music of vintage singer-songwriter Neil Diamond. Now, Diamond’s life and career are being turned into a Broadway musical by Oscar-nominated writer Anthony McCarten (who most recently worked on the screenplay for the big-screen movie about the band Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody) and Tony winner Michael Mayer. The asyet-untitled musical will follow Diamond’s life from his youth in Brooklyn to his success on the concert stage …

LINK OF THE WEEK Singer-songwriter Julia Michaels (“Issues”) has just released a new EP called Inner Monologue Part 2, and she just appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to showcase the EP’s single “Hurt

Again.” Check it out at https://youtu.be/ XUVuJpZDvGw …

THE BUZZ Dawes and Margo Price will perform at Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids this week.

Catch both acts on July 31 …

The day after, vintage pop fans can stick around for An Evening with The Beach Boys (Aug. 1), also at Meijer Gardens …

Grand Rapids local band How to Live Together, a synth-pop outfit comprised of

Steffanie Rosalez and Jesse Kaczmarczyk, recently released its new album, Resister, in outlets now …

Also hailing from Grand Rapids is former Vox Vidorra frontwoman Molly Bouwsma Schultz. She just released her own new solo EP, which was recorded at Goon Lagoon in GR … 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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Various Artists – For the Throne– Columbia

While most of the definitive music from HBO’s Game of Thrones series has been of the instrumental/ orchestral variety (most notably, the show’s main title theme by Ramin Djawadi), there are plenty of music celebrities among GoT’s massive fan base, so it’s a worthwhile experiment to see how modern pop/rock artists might interpret the show’s themes. The result: a success. The whole set is very evocative of the show and its settings, but the real standouts are “Turn on Me” by The National, the booming “Pray (High Valyrian)” by Muse’s frontman Matthew Bellamy, Mumford and Sons’ “Devil in Your Eye,” Ellie Goulding’s pensive “Hollow Crown,” and The Lumineers’ “Nightshade.”

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While the album title sounds like some sort of psychedelic ’60s reference, it’s actually way more literal, referring to the Hollywood record store (Amoeba Music) where McCartney played an unannounced free gig a few years ago. The vibe captured is warm and enthused, as unsuspecting customers were suddenly treated to a couple dozen Beatles and McCartney hits, plus the likes of Ringo Starr and Woody Harrelson, who were hanging out with the regular folks. Good sound quality and, of course, all of those familiar tunes (“The Long and Winding Road,” “Blackbird,” “Get Back,” “Let It Be”) make this a fun and nostalgic listen.

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50 years after Bowie’s original “Space Oddity” single was released, the track remains relevant, even in our current times of reduced space travel, thanks in part to a dedicated fan base, new generations finding Bowie’s music, and a cover of the song by actual astronaut Chris Hadfield. This special boxed set, which boasts two edits of “Space Oddity” and lesser-known B-side “Wild Eyed Boy,” also includes standout photos of Bowie and a double-sided poster.

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Gomez – Liquid Skin: 20th Anniversary – V Records

Also in the “let’s reissue one of our landmark albums” club is English band Gomez, which is re-releasing its sophomore set on its 20th anniversary. This two-CD set will include the original album’s tunes, plus a whopping 19 unreleased tracks, both alternate versions and a short stack of live versions recorded at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

You want the band’s first hit “We Haven’t Turned Around”? It’s here, along with equally worthy tunes like “Blue Moon Rising,” “Someday,” and “Revolutionary Kind.”

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THE LION KING the art of self-defense

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In the circle of life, The Lion King has come back around to write Disney another kingsized check. Thanks to the uber successful Broadway adaptation, The Lion King has longbeen Disney’s most profitable property. But why stop there? This new “live-action” (I guess that’s what you call a bunch of CGI animals with creepily moving mouths and celebrity voices?) adaptation of the beloved film, has already had the ninth-largest global debut of all time.

Yet, while it’s another undeniable financial success, of all the recent remakes of the Disney renaissance films, The Lion King is the mostly likely to set Disney back. Sure, there will always be those Disney evangelizers, but let’s get real here: Fans of the 1994 original — and also fans of movies in general — should be more than a little upset with the House of Mouse.

An announcement of a new Disney remake seemingly arrives every other month, and each one perhaps too brazenly promises not only that the final product will entertain but also provide every other audience member with a euphoric sense of nostalgia. Still, the announcement of The Lion King was the Tiffany-blue box in a pile of packaged diamonds. The original 1994 film is indisputably one of Disney’s most treasured films.

While the recent Aladdin suffered from early fan criticism of Will Smith’s CGI blue genie, not even an early pan from critics could keep audiences from showing up to The Lion King and hoping for the best. I mean Beyoncé is voicing Nala — how can I not want to believe in something touched by Queen Bey? So, although I walked into The Lion King with cautiously low expectations, I still managed to leave the theater feeling disappointed. Directed

by Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book, Elf, Chef), the film begins on a discouragingly low note. Though it seemed impossible, Favreau’s nearly shotfor-shot remake of the classic opening scene — originally the most stirring part — is emotionally lackluster. And while I can appreciate the decision to make this particular scene mirror the original, the painstaking homage (think Gus Van Sant’s Psycho remake but for the kiddie set) does not end there.

When it became time for “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King,” I felt a sense of excitement for the sentimental, nostalgic chills the scene could potentially deliver (JTT 4ever, amirite?).

But this time around it’s more difficult to get in on any of Simba’s fun when the lion cub on the screen is devoid of any youthful joy.

While visually impressive, the hyper-realistic animation of the animals ultimately hurts this adaptation, stripping the film of the creativity and imagination that gave the original so much heart. The visuals are an achievement, no doubt, but I also have Disneynature docs, so …

his wasn’t a film I enjoyed. I think it’s for a very particular type of person. And it’s perhaps not without merit but was definitely not for a wide audience. A dark satire — satire I say, because it is supposed to be funny — Jesse Eisenberg stars as Casey, a meek, mild-mannered milquetoast kind of guy who works as an accountant in a bland office and lives a lonely life in a drab apartment with his dachshund in Anywhere, USA. After being attacked by a roving gang of motorcyclists, fate takes him to a mini-mall dojo to be trained in the art of karate. There, he comes under the spell of the sensei, played by Alessandro Nivola, and the sensei’s hypermasculine pseudo spiritualism, as a new and disturbing “Fight Club”-esque world of testosterone displays opens up to him. From its stilted and awkward dialogue to its painfully deadpan approach, The Art of Self-Defense takes a humorous approach but is never really that funny. Attempting a fairly obvious critique of toxic masculinity, the film takes you on some very dark, twisted, and bizarre turns, but ultimately it doesn’t really go anywhere.

The extreme reverence for the original scenes only serves as a constant reminder of this adaptation’s failings. As an audience who has already witnessed this story visually and brilliantly adapted on Broadway, we are vaguely reminded of the magic within the scenes of the original, but the reminder alone isn’t enough for the film to produce any real feels of its own. I do wonder if kids far enough removed from the nostalgia and raised on uncanny-valley CGI, however, might feel differently.

I think I knew this wasn’t going to be for me, but I was still drawn in by the star-studded cast, and I was all about taking the voice of Simba away from preppie murderer Matthew Broderick and given to someone with African heritage. As the grown-up Simba, Favreau cast Donald Glover, the charismatic star of the FX series Atlanta and the musical performer behind Childish Gambino.

As mentioned, playing opposite him as Nala is the larger-than-life Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, whose recognizable voice is a bit unsettling to hear when coming out of a soulless-appearing lion. Neither of these multi-talented performers are naturals as voice actors, but that still isn’t the crux of the problem. Sure, John Oliver is almost perfect as Zazu, and we already knew only James Earl Jones could voice Mufasa, but neither of these performances is enough to save the day. Because it’s just impossible to believe these digitally lifelike creatures could talk the way they do behind their dead-eye expressions.

When we’re forced to watch the animals speak to one another, The Lion King begins to feel like a foreign film in which all of the dialogue is dubbed by English-speaking voice actors.

The film tries to redeem itself by bringing in the treasured dynamic between a meerkat and a warthog. With fine voice work from Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, respectively, Timon and Pumba are easily the best part of this film. During my screening, I experienced a distinguished moment of joy and laughter in an unforeseen flashback of a baby Pumba. This brief scene is the true reason to see this movie.

Yes, if it was Favreau’s agenda to just make a stunning moving portrait of animals, I’ll admit that The Lion King is pretty. But too much screen time is devoted to a pathetic-looking but spirited-sounding animals to appreciate the visual beauty. And while the visuals are, I guess, theoretically stunning, this hyperrealistic savannah is also drab and desolate, and never seems to truly come alive. If you really want to enjoy the majesty of the natural world, just skip these visuals and go watch the sunset from Traverse City’s Bryant Park.

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

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ark Phoenix (the latest and penultimate film in the 20th Century Fox X-Men saga) is a film that feels both rushed and sluggish. Advancing the overall arc (and setting up the final installment) is pretty much all this film accomplishes, which is disappointing considering all it has to work with. Set roughly 10 years after the events of the previous film in the series (2016’s X-Men: Apocolypse), Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy, bald telekinesis guy in wheelchair) has finally seen his life’s dream accomplished: a world of respect and tolerance of mutants. But then one of his do-gooders, Jean Grey (Game of Throne’s Sophie Turner, normal-looking telekinesis lady) absorbs a weird energy field on a mission in space that amplifies her powers to an uncontrollable degree.

So what happens? Fightin’, of course, and lots of it. There are a few decent set pieces where everybody gets in their licks and we get to see the full suite of everyone’s powers and abilities. And for those few minutes of action, you sort of forget how boring the rest of the film has been. But just when you’re feeling warmed up, it all ends rather abruptly. I honestly can’t tell if that’s due to the story itself or that we’ve all been conditioned to expect superhero films to last upwards of three hours.

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esterday, from director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and screenwriter Richard Curtis (Love, Actually) — talk about a Brit dream team! — imagines a world where the Beatles never existed. It follows struggling singer-songwriter Jack Malick (fab newcomer Himesh Patel), who wakes up after an accident caused by a freak global power outage to discover he’s the only person who remembers the Beatles. Poof! It’s like they never existed, and so Jack sets out to rewrite their songs and share them once again with a world that has never had the privilege of experiencing the words and music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. But, from such a compelling setup, where does it go? Well, I wouldn’t say it completely succeeds in where it takes us from there, following a pretty straightforward and familiar romantic comedy path wherein the film becomes about Jack finally realizing that what his life is really missing is not fame, fortune, or acclaim but the love of his long-suffering best pal and de facto manager Ellie (Lily James). So while it might never truly surprise (except for one jaw-dropping moment to the end that rides the line of taste very closely) or interrogate many of the questions its fascinating premise presents, it is ultimately an endearing film. Bright, breezy, and buoyant, this heartfelt love letter to the Beatles is also a whole lot of fun. And as summer bops go, what really could be better?

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BONOBO WINERY, TC 8/2 – Miriam Pico, 6-8

SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9

CHATEAU CHANTAL, TC 8/1 -- Unplugged on the Terrace w/ Joy Zimmerman, 5-7 CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE, TC 7/31 -- Wine Down Wednesday w/ Olivia Millerschin, 5-7

STATE STREET MARKET, TC THE MARKET BAR: Tue -- Karaoke Night Hosted by Ben Eaton, 9 Thu -- Open Mic Thursdays Hosted by Gregory Evans, 7-9

FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close

TC WHISKEY CO. 7/28 – The Groove Suns, 4-6 8/1 -- Sam & Bill, 6-8

GT DISTILLERY, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30

THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7

KILKENNY'S, TC 7/27 – Strobelight Honey, 9:30 8/2-3 -- 5th Gear, 9:30

THE LITTLE FLEET, TC 7/27 -- Funk Cake, 7-9 8/2 -- The Pistil Whips, 6:30-9:30

LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 7/29 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 8/2 -- Blue River, 6-8

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THE SHED BEER GARDEN, TC 7/27 – Chris Sterr, 5-9 8/1 – Levi Britton, 5-9 8/2-3 – The Lofteez, 5-9

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19 “Blue Rondo ___ Turk” (Brubeck song) 20 Safe desserts?

21 Massage therapist’s subj.

22 Tuber in a sack 24 Adult ed. course 25 Before, to Longfellow 26 Provide diversion 28 Brazilian currency to be unearthed years later?

33 Dunderhead 34 Bus. alternative to a partnership 35 Sea on the border of Kazakhstan 36 “She Blinded Me With Science” singer Thomas 39 Run, old-style 40 Spray brand 41 Troupemate of John, Terry, Terry, Michael and Graham 42 Hot tub sigh 43 “Green Acres” prop 44 South Korean currency exceeding in frequency?

50 Not live 51 Exclamation of pain 52 Neither’s companion 53 Naomi of “Vice” 55 Tar’s tankardful 57 ___ Cat! (cat food brand that’s somehow still around) 58 Gas station offering 59 Multi-country currency sprung at the last minute?

62 Lupino of “Beware, My Lovely” 63 “If I Had a Hammer” singer Lopez 64 Brunch beverage 65 One complete circuit 66 Antique photo tone 67 Beyond full

DOWN 1 Logic, for one 2 Plaza Hotel girl of fiction 3 Grandma, in Granada 4 Microscope component 5 ___ school 6 Artist who originated the term “stan” 7 “Sonic the Hedgehog” company 8 Octopus arm 9 “Just ___ suspected” 10 All out of shape, like a wrecked bike frame 11 Open mic participants 12 End of the world?

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47 Have a hunch about 48 Formal informer 49 Chowed down on some grass 53 Sing the blues 54 Title girl of a Verdi opera 56 Pasta suffix, commercially 57 Blue-green hue 60 Ending for past or post 61 Night wear

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: A guy I don’t know well sent me a creepy Facebook message with pervy language.

Next, he messaged me a bunch of tantra memes — sex as a celebration, blah, blah, blah.

It grossed me out. Why would a guy think he can be so blatantly sexual out of nowhere?

What should you say to a guy who does this?

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: When a guy messaging you starts sounding like Rumi or some other ancient elder, it’s usually for good reason — like that he’s short on hookup partners and the market’s way behind in building realistic washable sex robots.

It would be instructive for men who do this to consider sex differences in the appeal of unsolicited genital selfies — sent, for example, by strangers on dating sites. The Kinsey Institute’s Justin Garcia reports that only 5% of women are aroused by unsolicited penis selfies; the vast majority are just grossed out by them.

As for the reception vagina selfies get, a Los Angeles woman sent 37 men on a dating site an unsolicited vagina pic (not hers, one she found on the internet). Three men replied with shirtless pix; seven sent messages about what they’d like to do to the pictured vagina; eight asked for more pix; nine sent penis selfies; and one sent a video that the woman told Metro UK included “a, um, happy ending.”

The difference in men’s and women’s responses to “down there” selfies from strangers makes sense in light of how female emotions seem to have evolved to protect women from becoming single mothers — getting knocked up and then ditched. Research by anthropologist John Marshall Townsend suggests that female emotions push women to look for signs of commitment from a man, even when they know they want nothing more than casual sex with him. This, in turn, probably leads many or most women to be put off by overt sex talk from a man — before there seems to be an emotional connection.

Yet, perhaps due to what anthropologist Donald Symons calls the human tendency “to imagine that other minds are much like our own,” many men whip out the sex talk and the zipperwurst pix for women they barely know.

If a guy who does this is some Tinder rando, you can just block him. But when it’s a male friend or other guy you’d rather not cut off

BY Amy Alkon

entirely, you need to be straight with him — like, “Dude, from now on, you gotta keep any messages totally platonic” — and be straight with him again if he tries again. (I mean, come on...if you wanted gross unsolicited sexual comments, you’d wear a halter top and booty shorts to 7-Eleven.)

Having A Bawl

Q

: My best friend just got dumped by her boyfriend, and she’s totally devastated. I always thought he was a jerk, but I know saying that won’t help her feel any better. I want to be there for her but don’t know how.

What’s the best thing to say to somebody who’s heartbroken?

— Lost

A

: Assuming she isn’t all “I wanna be alone!” you really just need to show up. You might even bring a little something: “I’m here, and I’ve got dinner. Very low-carb, too — your ex’s head on a spike.”

The thing is, for many of us, watching somebody sob is uncomfortable along the lines of walking in on them having sex. We are clueless about what to say to the weeping person, and we often use that as reason to bolt or to not show up at all.

To be a better friend than that — to stick around when the going gets sobby — it helps to understand that sadness isn’t some pointless emotional ailment. Like a tire jack, sadness has a function. In evolutionary terms, it’s “adaptive,” meaning that over evolutionary history, it helped solve some of humans’ recurring survival and mating problems.

Psychiatrist and evolutionary researcher Randolph Nesse points out in “Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry” that sadness slows us down and often leads us to ponder our choices, which can help us avoid putting our mistakes on endless repeat.

One way you might help your friend is by encouraging her to find meaning in what she went through — that is, to learn from the experience so she can make better romantic choices in the future. However, it may be too early for that. So your immediate job could be pretty simple: You’re an ear that hands her Kleenex and occasionally dispenses cheery thoughts, like the wish that a giant wandering reptile bites off his penis or a hit man dissolves him in lye in a motel bathtub.

“Peace ’n’ love, gurl!”

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JULY 29 - AUG 04

BY ROB BREZSNY

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let’s check in with our psychic

journalist, LoveMancer, who’s standing by with a live report from inside your imagination. What’s happening, LoveMancer?

“Well, Rob, the enchanting creature on whose thoughts I’ve been eavesdropping has slipped into an intriguing frontier. This place seems to be a hot zone where love and healing interact intensely. My guess is that being here will lead our hero to breakthrough surges of love that result in deep healing, or deep healing that leads to breakthrough surges of love— probably both.”

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

soon I suspect you will arrive at a crossroads in your relationship with love and sex—as well as your fantasies about love and sex. In front of you: a hearty cosmic joke that would mutate your expectations and expand your savvy. Behind you: an alluring but perhaps confusing call toward an unknown future.

To your left: the prospect of a dreamy adventure that might be only half-imaginary. To your right: the possibility of living out a slightly bent fairy tale version of romantic catharsis. I’m not here to tell you what you should do, Capricorn. My task is simply to help you identify the options.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How many

handcuffs are there in the world? Millions. Yet there are far fewer different keys than that to open all those handcuffs. In fact, in many countries, there’s a standard universal key that works to open most handcuffs. In this spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’m designating August as Free Yourself from Your Metaphorical Handcuffs Month. It’s never as complicated or difficult as you might imagine to unlock your metaphorical handcuffs; and for the foreseeable future it will be even less complicated and difficult than usual for you.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): People who sneak

a gaze into your laboratory might be unnerved by what they see. You know and I know that your daring experiments are in service to the ultimate good, but that may not be obvious to those who understand you incompletely. So perhaps you should post a sign outside your lab that reads, “Please don’t leap to premature conclusions! My in-progress projects may seem inexplicable to the uninitiated!” Or maybe you should just close all your curtains and lock the door until your future handiwork is more presentable.

P.S. There may be allies who can provide useful feedback about your explorations. I call them the wounded healers.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Dear Diary:

Last night my Aries friend dragged me to the Karaoke Bowling Alley and Sushi Bar. I was deeply skeptical. The place sounded tacky. But after being there for twenty minutes, I had to admit that I was having a fantastic time. And it just got better and more fun as the night wore on. I’m sure I made a fool of myself when I did my bowling ball imitation, but I can live with that.

At one point I was juggling a bowling pin, a rather large piece of sweet potato tempura, and my own shoe while singing Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”—and I don’t even know how to juggle. I have to admit that this sequence of events was typical of my adventures with Aries folks. I suppose I should learn to trust that they will lead me to where I don’t know I want to go.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his poem “Wild

Oats,” poet W. S. Merwin provided a message that’s in perfect alignment with your current astrological needs: “I needed my mistakes in their own order to get me here.” He was not being ironic in saying that; he was not making a lame attempt to excuse his errors; he was not struggling to make himself feel better for the inconvenience caused by his wrong turns. No! He understood that the apparent flubs and miscues he had committed were essential in creating his successful life.

I invite you to reinterpret your own past using his perspective.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Even if you’re an

ambidextrous, multi-gendered, neurologically diverse, Phoenician-Romanian Gemini with a fetish for pink duct tape and an affinity for ideas that no one has ever thought of, you will eventually find your sweet spot, your power niche, and your dream sanctuary. I promise. Same for the rest of you

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): What would

a normal, boring astrologer tell you at a time like now? Maybe something like this: “More of other people’s money and resources can be at your disposal if you emanate sincerity and avoid being manipulative. If you want to negotiate vibrant compromises, pay extra attention to good timing and the right setting. Devote special care and sensitivity to all matters affecting your close alliances and productive partnerships.” As you know, Cancerian, I’m not a normal, boring astrologer, so I wouldn’t typically say something like what I just said. But I felt it was my duty to do so because right now you need simple, basic, no-frills advice. I promise I’ll resume with my cryptic, lyrical oracles next time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo figure skater

Scott Hamilton won an Olympic gold medal and four World Championships. He was a star who got inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and made a lot of money after he turned professional. “I calculated once how many times I fell during my skating career—41,600 times,” he testified in his autobiography. “But here’s the funny thing: I also got up 41,600 times. That’s the muscle you have to build in your psyche— the one that reminds you to just get up.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, I’ll be cheering you on as you strengthen that muscle in your psyche during the coming weeks.

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And why is this effort to decode your biography so important?

Because your soul’s health requires you to cultivate curiosity and excitement about the big picture of your destiny. If you hope to respond with intelligence to the questions and challenges that each new day brings, you must be steadily nourished with an expansive understanding of why you are here on earth. I bring these ideas to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to illuminate and deepen and embellish your conception of your life story.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Artists are

people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide,” wrote psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. I think that description fits many people born under the sign of the Scorpio, not just Scorpio artists. Knowing how important and necessary this dilemma can be for you, I would never glibly advise you to always favor candid, straightforward communication over protective, strategic hiding. But I recommend you do that in the coming weeks. Being candid and straightforward will serve you well.

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

poet Aracelis Girmay writes, “How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & strangely rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered. We exist as phantom, monster, miracle, each a theme park all one’s own.” Of course that’s always true about every one of us. But it will be extraordinarily true about you in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be at the peak of your ability to express what’s most idiosyncratic and essential about your unique array of talents and specialties.

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