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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER–TR AVERSE CIT Y PRESENTS

a plein air affair

AUGUST 13–18 • ART AS A SPECTATOR SPORT!

Paint Grand Traverse is a new, six-day plein air (outdoor) painting festival featuring top artists from across the country. Seek out the 44 artists as they paint their way around our bays and shorelines; through our vineyards and orchards; and around our quaint villages and vibrant downtowns.

FULL SCHEDULE AT WWW.PAINTGRANDTRAVERSE.COM MONDAY, AUG 13

WEDNESDAY, AUG 15

FRIDAY, AUG 17

Artists painting at Leland Fishtown, Ciccone Vineyards, and 9 Bean Rows Farmstead sunset: Sleeping Bear Dunes

Artists painting at Black Star Farms, Verterra Winery, and L.Mawby

Artists painting on location in TC neighborhoods, downtown, TC Commons, and the waterfront

TUESDAY, AUG 14

Artists painting on location at Wineries of Old Mission— Bonobo Winery, Chateau Chantal, and Grey Hare Inn 10:00 am Painting Demo CTAC-TC

SATURDAY

AUG 18 6:00 PM

VIP PREVIEW HOUR 7:00–9:00 PM

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afternoon:

FOUNTAIN POINT RESORT Watch 100 artists including 56 local artists as they paint from 4:00–6:00 pm.

Buy their art from 6:45–8:30.

Food and drink!

THURSDAY, AUG 16

Artists painting on location at Elk Rapids and East Bay

GALA CELEBRATION AND AWARDS —ALL PAINTINGS FOR SALE— Eat, drink, and shop the night away! This is your ONE opportunity to purchase the paintings created over the course of the Paint Grand Traverse week! More than 200 pieces will be on display, depicting scenes from Leelanau Peninsula, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Old Mission Peninsula, Downtown Traverse City, and Elk Rapids. Enjoy a strolling supper, beer, wine and specialty cocktails, and live music as we celebrate the first annual Paint Grand Traverse! $50 VIP TICKETS (Limited quantity)

VIP tickets include a VIP Preview Hour Have the first opportunity to purchase before sales open to general admission. Early admission with VIP HOUR from 6:00–7:00 pm.

Champagne welcome, two drink tickets, hors d’oeuvres during VIP Hour, and strolling supper. $20 GENERAL ADMISSION 7:00–9:00 pm Strolling supper and one drink ticket. Advance purchase is recommended but can be purchased at the door.

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afternoon:

Pint-Sized Paint Out at CTAC-TC Artists 8–15 compete for awards and younger artists are invited to create masterpieces as well!

5:30–7:30 pm Friday Night Live!

Paint Grand Traverse artists will set up at Traverse City’s favorite block party!

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Rant Rebuttal Normally I don’t get too upset when I read some conservative rant on Northern Express’ Letters page, but a couple from the Aug. 6 issue got me going, so I did a little fact-checking and will rebut David Wittlieff first. Your claim that Australia is in chaos since enacting strict gun control after the Port Arthur massacre couldn’t be further from the truth. Since the 1996 law passed, there has been zero — not one — mass shootings. Homicide rates have fallen by 59 percent and suicide rates by 65 percent. Home invasions have remained at pre-law rates, so the chaos you describe is not happening. It would seem you get your information from a combination of the NRA, Fox “News” and Alex Jones, but it is not the truth. One last thing, do you really think putting a vet with PTSD in a school with an automatic is a good idea?

Now on to John Dezelski. You claim to be educated in geology, and that is great, but you must be the only scientist to claim that climate change is not happening right now. You are the only scientist to say “the predictions fail, and the models don’t work.” Strange how every article in scientific journals reinforces the idea that climate change is happening and is the result of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to burning fossil fuel. I don’t know where you get your information, but it simply contradicts the facts. It would seem that both John and David have a belief system that does not allow for the truth.

Kern Burden, Interlochen

Get the Facts Straight In the Aug. 6 Northern Express, one letter writer said people who favor common sense gun-laws are “ignorant” and “blind lemmings” who don’t discipline their children. He added that if we go down the gun control path the outcome will be chaos, rationing, curfews, and execution of dissidents. At first glance, a letter like that pretty much serves as its own rebuttal by making the anti-gun control crowd look more than a little paranoid.

But contained in the letter was one statement that cannot remain unchallenged.

The writer said of Australia: “They took all the guns; chaos reigns. Crime is at an alltime high. Aussies live in fear of the next gunman.” Sorry, but that’s not true. See factcheck.org, “Gun Control in Australia, Updated” (10/6/17) or “Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010” in the American Journal of Medicine, March 2016. Or just Google the subject and read. But please don’t just watch Fox News and think you’ve got an accurate or complete picture.

The debate over what to do about gun violence in America would be much more productive if we all stuck to the facts.

Tom Gutowski, Elmwood Township Jane Fonda, Peace Activist Jane Fonda was wrong to state that she made a “terrible mistake” by sitting on an anti-aircraft gun in North Vietnam.”

She should not consider what she did as a mistake, and she should have no regrets about doing anything she tried to help stop a senseless war. We should thank her for doing something that likely saved hundreds of thousands of innocent lives and the lives of many American soldiers.

That single photograph of her act gave more publicity to the heinous bombing of dikes and villages than any other statement, report, or newsreel photography could have accomplished. Without that picture, all of her anti-war protesting would not have earned a footnote in history.

Strangely, many of the men who have worn military uniforms still want to crucify Jane Fonda. Maybe that is an old custom we reserve for anyone who speaks truth and preaches peace. The Vets For Peace and many soldiers who sacrificed in wars recognize there were many other incidents where American lives were lost due to incompetent leadership, arrogant commanders, and corruption.

Vets should protest politicians and profiteers who send them to senseless wars, not those who try to bring them home.

David Petrove, Interlochen Film Credit Farce I have been a part of the Michigan film and video industry for 44 years and would like to offer a different viewpoint than those expressed in Patrick Sullivan’s article, “What Might Have Been” [in the July 23 issue]. The auto industry was in a tailspin, then Governor Granholm looked for a new industry to create jobs for the thousands of unemployed auto workers. Instead of looking to lure high-tech industries such as solar panel and wind turbine producers, instead of training people to fill the many vacant and good-paying jobs in the skilled trades, she turned to Tinsel Town. I knew it would be a disaster from day one.

Hollywood knows exactly how to play

to star-struck outsiders and they take full advantage of it. If we were stupid enough to offer that much money, they were willing to take it. But what about all the jobs? Well, they usually brought in their own people for key crew positions and hired locals on a freelance basis for production assistants (go get coffee, go get lunch) and local actors for small parts or extra work. The money to area hotels and restaurants didn’t come near the cost of the incentives. We didn’t get a lot of steady, good-paying jobs. What we did get was the ability to say, “Oh look, there’s Clint Eastwood!” Big deal. I don’t usually agree with conservatives, but the plain fact is, the numbers never added up.

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

We’re Going to Go Big.....................................10 From Interlochen to India...and Back................12 National Writers Series Fall Lineup...................13 Long Lake Culinary Campus.............................14 Adventures in the Unfamiliar............................16 Meatless in Northern Michigan........................21 Craig Handley, Rapid City Northern Seen...................................................22 Arts Junkies, Get Your Fix...................................31

Meet Northern Seen Like nothing you’ve seen before

dates................................................23-28 music FourScore......................................................30

Nightlife.........................................................32

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

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion.............................................................8 Weird...............................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................29 Crossword...................................................33 Advice Goddess...........................................33 Freewill Astrology.........................................34 Classifieds..................................................35

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this week’s

top ten “Burnout” To Be Commemorated

The Burt Lake Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians plans to install a historical marker to commemorate the forcible removal of tribal members from their land in 1900.

“It’s not something that a lot of people know about,” said tribal director Nola Parkey of the event that’s come to be known as the “burnout.” “It’s a pretty awful thing, and it’s not something that you’re going to read about in Michigan history books.”

The idea for the historical marker was conceived by Jeff Sprague and Victoria Vogues, both part of the Nokomis Center in Okemos. They helped raise funds for the marker.

Members of the Burt Lake Band were forced from their log cabin homes on Oct. 15, 1900, and the structures were burned as the residents watched. After the fire, 20 families were removed from 411 acres of ancestral land on the shore of Burt Lake.

The move left the band in legal limbo, making it unable to get recognized as a tribe. The status of the band is the subject of an ongoing case pending in federal court. The dispute was chronicled in the March 22, 2015, edition of Northern Express.

The historical marker will be located on Chickagami Trail, near the Maple Bay State Campground and Burt Lake Band Cemetery, four miles east of Brutus Road.

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Aug. 13-19, Bellaire. Festivities include the Bay Area Big Band, Community Paddle Event, Commission on Aging Picnic & Car Show, Duck & Glow 5K Run Walk & 1 Mile Kiddie Dash, Rubber Ducky Parade & Race, Short’s Glacial Hill Challenge XC & more. bellairechamber.org

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Laura Linney in a dramatic role — she bears any weight, from John Adams’ Abigail Adams to The Squid and the Whale’s Joan Berkman. Heck, we even liked the sincerity with which she introduced Downton Abbey on PBS. But Jason Bateman? He does the flat, dry straight man so well, it’s hard to want him in anything but a zany caper. That is, until he became Marty Byrde, a suit who relocates his wife (Linney) and kids from Chicago to the Ozarks, where he has five years to launder $500 million before a drug cartel takes out him and his family. The story is edge-of-your-seat insane yet totally relatable, thanks to a cast of killers, bodies, totally annoyed teens, and plenty of opportunity for Linney and Bateman to shine. Season one premiered last summer on Netflix.

Start your binge now; season two begins August 31.

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Kaleamazoo Chips

Maybe it’s just us, but baking a batch of consistently tasty kale chips without burning 50 percent of them is a dream we have not yet realized. So when we found a bunch of Michigangrown and made Kaleamazoo Chips at Harbor Springs’ Pond Hill Farm, it was really a dream come true, minus the pillow drool. These light and crispy leaves are dehydrated, dressed with organic coconut and olive oils, and given a kick of organic lemon and lime juices and all-natural spices that your tastebuds won’t soon forget. They sprout from small, local, sustainable farms, and give good green every time you buy some: All profits go to the Kalamazoo-based Fresh Food Fairy Nutrition Education Program, which strives to make eating healthy food fun for kids.

That’s something these adults can get behind. Find them at Pond Hill Farm’s market, 5699 S Lake Shore Dr. pondhill.com.

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An Attempt to Remake US-131

A corridor through the heart of northern Michigan wants to remake itself.

Eight communities along US-131 — Cadillac, Manton, Fife Lake, Kalkaska, Mancelona, Boyne Valley, Walloon Lake, and Petoskey — have teamed up to collaborate on promoting tourism, spurring economic development and, rebranding through an effort called Explore 131 North.

“Petoskey has more of an affluent downtown, and Cadillac is seeing some new investment and redevelopment, but many of the other downtowns are not at that level by any means,” says John Sych of Networks Northwest, a public agency providing assistance to Explore 131 North. “Some of these communities are struggling … they’re in the same boat and experiencing some of the same issues, and so they’re realizing they should work together instead of competing with each other.”

On Aug. 16, representatives from those communities — leaders, residents, nonprofits, and business owners — will meet at a Regional Downtown Summit at the All Seasons Hotel & Resort in Kalkaska from 1pm to 4pm. Rob Bacigalupi, former executive director of the Traverse City Downtown Development Authority and now the principal of consulting firm Mission North LLC, will outline “redevelopment approaches, community programs, and action steps” US-131 communities can take to help revitalize their downtowns.

things we love Kid- and Bug-proof tumblers Breakable glasses and beaches do not a good mix make. A generous splash of local wine, craft beer, or homemade cocktail, however, is meant to meet one of these gorgeous insulated and lidded tumblers now flying off the shelves at Elk Rapids’ Relish store. Pick up yours and never again worry about flies in your Chardonnay or kids in your face. $22, 141 River St., Elk Rapids.

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My Little Polo Match Whether you bleed green or maize and blue, hoof it on over to Flintfields Horse Park in Williamsburg this weekend, and prepare to be wowed: the state’s rival polo clubs — University of Michigan Intercollegiate Polo Club and the Michigan State University Polo Club — will hit the field for the Go Blue/ Go Green Scholarship Polo Match. The second annual polo event hosted by the U of M Grand Traverse Alumni and Grand Traverse Area Spartans, the match will run from 1pm to 4pm, Saturday, Aug. 18. Tickets are $10 per person, with kids age 12 and under free. All proceeds will benefit scholarship programs for GT area students at both universities. Want to make a whole weekend of singing your school fight song as horses gallop and run? You can camp on-site overnight Friday and Saturday for $100. Call 231-342-5085 for camping, visit mynorthtickets.com for tickets, and see gtpolo.com for more info.

8 Swimwear for the Entire Family bottoms up The Red Dragon Swimwear sale:

All Ladies, mens, girls & boys swimwear 30% to 50% Off. 231-946-8810 • 890 Munson Avenue • Traverse City • 49686

The Red Dragon isn’t Red Ginger’s newest cocktail, but it does not suffer the ravages of time or trend. (We’re looking at you, Appletini.) This pretty-in-pink drink has long been a mainstay on the Ging’s cocktail list, and like any trusted friend, it does not disappoint.

Rather, it remains reliably fresh and fruity but never saccharine sweet (except for the raspberry-sugar rim, which, really, is just doing its job), and is only a blend of pomegranate puree and fresh-pressed orange juice with a just-right-dose of raspberry vodka. A simple way to make happy hour even happier. $7.50, 237 E. Front St., Traverse City. 231) 9441733, www.eatatginger.com

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DUMB AND DUMBER spectator by stephen tuttle Whatever became of conservatives and liberals?

Those calling themselves conservatives today bear little resemblance to the philosophy first espoused by William F. Buckley, or Barry Goldwater, their first flag-bearer when he campaigned for president in 1964.

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Liberals have vanished entirely, the word itself having become a pejorative hissed through clinched teeth.

Early conservatism was easy to understand: minimal government, free trade, balanced budget, and though they were fierce coldwarriors, they were pretty close to isolationists when it came to our international adventures. We’d likely call them libertarians today.

(The social issues that permeate today’s political debates were barely a whisper then.

The Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts hadn’t even been passed, Jim Crow laws were still in place, homosexuality was illegal in most states, as were mixed-race marriages, and abortion was illegal everywhere.

Illegal immigration wasn’t an issue because we legally imported temporary workers, and international terrorism was going on someplace else. We were just starting our long misadventure in Vietnam.)

It was the 1964 Republican Convention that nominated Goldwater that also introduced America to newly minted conservative Ronald Reagan. He had previously been a Democrat and union president but was going to be the conservative’s next great hope.

That brand of conservatism was over by 1968 when Richard Nixon was elected. He was an internationalist who helped open the door to China and an environmentalist who helped create both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Endangered Species Act. He had a balanced budget his first year in office but never again. The national debt increased, as did the size of government. He’d surely be considered a moderate Democrat by today’s standards.

Jimmy Carter, then considered a moderate Democrat, took over and ran budget deficits and increased the debt at a time of runaway inflation and hostages in Iran.

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Those still in the fold of Buckley-Goldwater conservatism finally got their chance in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan to the White House. And nothing changed except people’s attitudes. Reagan did cut taxes, a favorite of conservatives, but annual deficits grew, the national debt doubled, and he increased the federal workforce by a higher percentage than Barack Obama. Not very conservative at all.

Finally, in 1992, we elected somebody who eventually ran an actual budget surplus for the last three years of his presidency. It was Democrat Bill Clinton, in cooperation with

Congressional Republicans who controlled both Houses. Back in those days — and some younger readers might find this hard to believe — Republicans and Democrats worked together sometimes. No, seriously, they really did.

Of course the debt still increased during those years because that same Congress chose to spend the surplus rather than use it to pay down debt. It turns out there was quite a bit of interest on what was then about $6 trillion of debt.

The Reagan Revolution was just a vague memory when George W. Bush was elected.

He brought something people called neoconservatism to Washington. It had nothing to do with what we used to call conservatism. The so-called neo-cons didn’t care about the debt or a balanced budget, and they were wildly adventuresome militarily, engaging in two wars simultaneously and promising to export democracy. Deficits, the debt, and the size of federal government all expanded dramatically.

The Republicans, still calling themselves conservatives, then nominated and nearly singlehandedly elected Donald Trump. But his is a completely new kind of conservatism — if it is even a political philosophy at all.

Since he referred to himself during his campaign as “the king of debt” and said “debt is good,” we shouldn’t be surprised he’s already increased it more than $1 trillion with his tax cuts.

We seem to be headed the way of more military activity, too, or maybe we’re just talking about it. Punishing our allies with tariffs is sort of isolationism but not the sort originally envisioned.

Equal time for liberals? Nobody calls themselves that anymore.

Liberals have split off into two groups: There are moderates, who are so darned moderate they can’t seem to get anything of their own passed and can’t stop what they don’t want from being passed.

And there are progressives, who haven’t made much progress because their objectives — single-payer universal healthcare, free college, expanded social programs, tax the rich to pay for everything — are financially and politically impossible.

What happened to conservatives and liberals? The former is now Trumpism, an especially unpleasant form of nationalism marked by the denigration of anyone outside the Trump base. The latter is now anti-Trumpism, which isn’t really a political platform at all, just a sign of sad political impotence.

Conservatism and liberalism as once known are dead, or at least comatose. They’ve been replaced by dumb and dumber. You can pick which is which.

Crime & Rescue CHILD FOUND IN ROAD A 24-year-old mom faces child abuse charges after someone nearly ran over her 3-year-old daughter with a car at 2am on a Saturday morning.

Boyne City Police investigated after a home healthcare worker returning from work downstate found the child in the roadway Aug. 4. The worker picked up the child and called 911.

Officers found the girl’s legs covered in scratches; the girl was dressed in pajamas and shivering in 56-degree weather. The child also had difficulty telling officers her mom’s name and location.

Officers eventually determined the mother’s identity, and Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies checked an apartment where they suspected she might be staying, but no one answered the door.

Investigators determined that the child had been brought by her mother to the apartment for the first time and that, unfamiliar with her surroundings, the girl left, wandered down and hill and through some woods, and ended up on the road, where she was nearly struck.

The mother called police nearly six hours after the child was found and after officers left several messages on her phone. Meanwhile, Boyne City EMS checked out the child and found a person to watch her while the investigation took place.

POLICE: MAN DRAGGED DAUGHTER Police in Cadillac arrested a man after witnesses said he was dragging a teenage girl, who turned out to be his daughter, down a sidewalk.

Officers were called to South Mitchell Street near West Cass Street, where they arrested a 46-year-old Lake City man without incident.

It turned out the alleged victim was the man’s 17-year-old daughter, and he was attempting to force her to come with him. The man also had a handgun stuck in his pants.

Police arrested the man for domestic violence and carrying a concealed weapon.

BIZARRE DEATH PROBED A man who mysteriously walked away from his car at a Maple City gas station in the middle of the night was found dead in a lake, miles away.

Gilbert B. Druja, a 34-year-old Chicago man, was found dead in Lime Lake at 7:30am Aug. 5, state police said.

Two days earlier, Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies had investigated a suspicious vehicle found at the MC Short Stop gas station in Maple City at 6am. The abandoned vehicle was running with the gas pump nozzle inserted into the gas tank.

Video surveillance captured the vehicle pulling up to the closed pump at 3am that morning, and the driver walking away.

Later that day, state police received a report about a missing man. A man told police that he had last seen his friend at the Leelanau Rustic Resort in Cedar at 2am, when he left to drive back to Chicago. Investigators determined the missing man was Druja.

BURGLAR CAUGHT ON CAMERA A Garfield Township business owner called police as he watched live surveillance

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footage of a man rummaging through his office.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a commercial building on Cass Road at 11pm Aug. 1, spotted a suspect inside who was carrying a flashlight, and ordered him outside.

They arrested Derrick Jon Holmquist on charges of safe-breaking, breaking and entering, possession of burglary tools, and being an habitual offender.

The 46-year-old told investigators that he had entered the building looking for money. He faces a safe-breaking charge because he allegedly used a crowbar to pry open a cash box.

CRASH LEADS TO ARREST A driver who was travelling too fast to make a right turn and instead crashed into another car was arrested for drunk driving The crash happened at the intersection of West Eitzen Road and South Good Harbor Trail in Centerville Township, Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said. No one was injured in the crash.

Deputies were called at just past midnight Aug. 5 after a 26-year-old Traverse City man attempting to turn crashed into a car, driven by a 25-year-old Lake Leelanau woman, that was stopped at the intersection.

Deputies said the male driver appeared confused and was arrested after they determined he was intoxicated.

DEPUTIES SOLVE FRAUD CASE Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Latvian man in Florida in a case of an alleged car-sale scam.

On Aug. 6, 29-year-old Karlis Vitols pleaded guilty in Charlevoix to obtaining $1,000 to $20,000 through false pretenses, Prosecutor Allen Telgenhof said. Vitols faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced in September.

Vitols was arrested in Miami on the Charlevoix County warrant as he was preparing to leave the country.

That extraordinary move followed an investigation into a complaint from someone who had arranged to purchase a classic car online for $18,000. Vitols conducted the transaction through a website that appeared to represent an actual car dealership in Kansas, but that dealership had gone out of business a year earlier. Vitols admitted he pocketed the $18,000, and the buyer never received the vehicle.

Telgenhof said the sheriff’s department investigation into the scam led to fraud investigations across the country involving numerous suspects.

MAN ARRESTED AFTER OVERDOSE A 27-year-old Frankfort man was arrested following an overdose that left another man in intensive care.

Benzie County Sheriff’s deputies were called Aug. 6 after a 22-year-old man who apparently overdosed on heroin was found unresponsive. The man was taken to Munson Medical Center.

Deputies and Traverse Narcotics Team officers executed a search warrant at a house on Forrester Road in Frankfort, where they found heroin, needles and firearms. They arrested 27-year-old Justin Scott-Wallace Rice on felony drug charges, according to a press release.

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SAVE THE DOOM AND GLOOM. EMBRACE THE FACTS opinion bY gary l. howe Quite possibly, the world is getting better.

Unfortunately, we aren’t that inclined to accept the promising results. This is because our views are muddled by instincts that distort how we see the world. And it is this distorted understanding that stifles progress and leads to poor decisions of great consequence — or so argues the authors of “Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong about the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.”

are also prone to negativity, which explains why quiz takers tend to grossly underestimate the progress we have made in lifting people out of poverty (Negativity instinct). Further, we are fearful beings and tend to overestimate risks from all the negative news surrounding us (Fear instinct). Interestingly, the higher the testtaker’s education accomplishments, the more frequently the wrong answers tend toward the negative. As Rosling writes, “Almost everyone thinks the world is more frightening, more violent, and more hopeless than it really is.”

“There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.” — Hans Rosling Before you read further, please take this miniquiz about the state of the world: 1. Where does the majority of the world population live? (a) Low-income countries (b) Middle-income countries (c) High-income countries 2. There are 2 billion children in the world today aged 0-15 years old. How many children will there be in the year 2100? (a) 4 billion (b) 3 billion (c) 2 billion 3. The UN predicts that by 2100 the world population will have increased by another 4 billion people. What is the main reason? (a) There will be more children aged below 15 (b) There will be more adults aged 15–74 (c) There will be more very old people aged 75 and older After you review the answers at the end of this column, the chances are that you will find yourself in an elite majority. The lead author of “Factfulness,” the late physician, academic, and statistician Hans Rosling, asked the same 13 questions, including the three above, for over a decade across the globe. He asked teachers, journalists, and economic, and political leaders. He asked Nobel laureates. Everyone consistently scored less than 33 percent correct. Or, as he playfully liked to say, people who have taken this test seem to statistically know less about the world than chimpanzees.

Personally, the first time I took the quiz I was surprised that I scored 6 out of 13. I thought for certain that a geography teacher who had actually spent 10 years using Rosling’s datarich Gapminder World tool in the classroom would fare better. Instead, my brain led me astray, even if I scored slightly higher than the average chimp choosing bananas.

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In “Factfulness,” Rosling and his co-writers — his son, Ola, and daughter in-law, Anna Rosling Rönnlund — organize the book of world development and health data into chapters that are focused on 10 instincts they believe hinder our ability to see the world clearly. For example, we tend to focus on extremes instead of more truthful middles (Gap instinct). We

I understand that a book about global health and development facts isn’t everyone’s idea of a relaxing summer read. However, swaying in my hammock and escaping into a world of indisputable facts offered me a well-needed balance and perspective counter to the hyperactivity of news and blather of current affairs. It was refreshing to be guided through factual data with compelling anecdotes and insightful contexts.

The story of the world over the last 200 years is one of undeniable improvement. We are living in a time when a higher percentage of the world than ever is living wealthier, healthier, and with more opportunities.

In fact, in the last 20 years alone, extreme poverty has been cut in half.

The world’s development is unbalanced, and the wide gaps between the world’s 1 billion people living in extreme poverty — those earning less than $2 a day, cooking over an open fire, sleeping on a dirt floor — and the 1 billion who are wealthy enough to own cars and spend over $32 a day is a source of much strife. In between, however, there are 5 billion of us struggling and living middle-income lives that are at a similar level as most of the world’s richest countries were in the 1950s: There is running water, a refrigerator, a washing machine, and a stove in the home.

We are certainly in an era of truthiness. It is a time when what we know as facts are routinely challenged by those in positions of power, if not prestige. It can be downright depressing.

However, when we take a breath, slow down, and sit with the facts, we will see a world of possibilities and uplift. That’s some welcome good news for a change. We’d be wise to remind ourselves of it from time to time.

Answers: 1) b. Middle-income countries; 2) c.

2 billion; 3) b. There will be more adults ages 15–74. You can take the full 13 question quiz at gapminder.com.

Gary L. Howe taught in the social science department at NMC for 13 years. He encourages readers to visit the websites Gapminder and Gapminder World, the latter a bubble-graph tool that compares countries’ development since 1800. Begin by watching life expectancy against income per person, then move on to other data comparisons.

Suspicions Confirmed Among the gazillion other products and services available from Amazon is the behemoth’s facial recognition software, Rekognition, marketed as providing extremely accurate facial analysis. But when the American Civil Liberties Union gave it a go, the results were startling. Using Rekognition, the ACLU scanned photos of every current member of the U.S. House and Senate and came up with 28 matches to a mug shot database of people who had been arrested for crimes. The ACLU announced its findings July 26 and admitted it used Amazon’s default settings, to which Amazon responded, “While 80 percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of hot dogs, chairs, animals or other social media use cases,” Amazon would advise customers to set the threshold at 95 percent or higher for law enforcement. The ACLU told NPR that the legislators who were falsely matched were men, women, Republicans and Democrats of all ages. However, the software did misidentify people of color at a higher rate.

Weird Science You thought you were old? You’re just a twinkle in a nematode’s eye. Russian scientists have revived two ancient, frozen roundworms, or nematodes, from samples collected in Siberian permafrost, The Siberian Times reported on July 26. The worms, which were found in cores taken from 30 meters and 3.5 meters deep, are believed to be female and 41,700 and 32,000 years old, respectively. After collecting the samples, scientists slowly thawed out the worms, which eventually started eating and moving. Scientists from the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Moscow believe the nematodes have some adaptive mechanisms that may be of scientific importance.

Florida. Need We Say More?

During a July 23 debate among mayoral candidates in Key West, Florida, Sloan Bashinsky, a perennial contender, took a minute to answer a call from God. “Hello?

What? God?” Bashinsky said, speaking into his cellphone. According to FLKeys News, it wasn’t the first time he’s heard from a higher power: “I have said every time I ran, I ran because God told me to run,” Bashinsky explained. “I think anyone who wants this job is insane.” Bashinsky has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and was once among the island’s homeless. He joins six other candidates on the ticket.

Sign of the Times Just after midnight on July 22, a couple in Palo Alto, California, were awakened in their bedroom by a 17-year-old burglar with a garment obscuring his face. Instead of demanding money or jewelry, though, the intruder asked for their Wi-Fi password.

According to the Sacramento Bee, the homeowner forced the teen out of the home and called police, who tracked him down a block away and arrested him for felony residential burglary. Police later determined it wasn’t the teen’s first attempt at connectivity.

Less than an hour earlier that night, a prowler had summoned a woman from her home to ask for access to her Wi-Fi network also.

She told him to go away, and he rode off on a bicycle -- which she realized the next day he had stolen from her backyard. She called police, who recovered the bike near where they had arrested the teen.

Bright Ideas -- Jeffrey Jacobs, 37, thought he had a great thing going. Last year, when a tree fell on his

White Plains, New York, home, he told the owner of a tree service (and big hockey fan) that he was the owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, reported The Hour. Impressed, the tree service owner sent a crew in the midst of a storm, then billed the actual club owner, 78-year-old Jeremy Jacobs, $5,100 for the service. Police in nearby Wilton, Connecticut, heard about the deception when they received a call in May from security officials at a company chaired by the Bruins’ owner. The story sounded familiar: In November, Jacobs had been pulled over in Wilton, and he told officers he owned the Bruins in an effort to get out of the ticket. On July 20, Jacobs was pulled over for using his phone while driving in Poughkeepsie, New York, sent back to Wilton and charged with criminal impersonation.

-- Diamonds are SO 20th century. In Japan, Warp Space is offering newlyweds the chance to make their union universal with wedding plaques launched into space. According to United Press International, the startup company, founded by faculty members from the University of Tsukuba, will print a titanium plate with the names of the betrothed and put it, along with a few hundred other plaques, in one of a series of small cubes to be released into space from the International Space Station.

Astronauts will memorialize the launching by taking photographs, which will then be sent to the newlyweds. The service costs $270.

Awesome!

Painesville (Ohio) Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti has a reputation for serving up unusual sentences, and he delivered again on July 24 when 18-year-old Bayley Toth appeared in his courtroom. Toth was convicted of two misdemeanor criminal mischief charges for toppling a portable toilet at Painesville Township Park in June, among other things. Cicconetti sentenced him to 120 days in jail, but suspended it in lieu of Toth shoveling ... manure at the Lake County Fair. “You act like an animal, you’re going to take care of animals,” Cicconetti told Toth. The News-Herald reported Toth will also have to perform 40 hours of community service and pay restitution for damage to the park.

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Just Say No Brody Tyler Young, 25, was arrested in a Nashville, Tennessee, McDonald’s on July 23 after spending “all day” locked in the women’s restroom, dancing naked, doing jumping jacks and hitting the wall. According to WFFA TV, when officers managed to enter the restroom, they found Young locked in a stall, smelling of “chemical fumes, as if he had been huffing.”

Young was taken into custody and charged with public intoxication and public indecency.

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A weird in-air experience for passengers traveling from the Canary Islands in Spain to the Netherlands on May 29 ended tragically.

The Transavia flight was forced to land in Faro, Portugal, after passengers began fainting and vomiting in reaction to the overpowering smell of another passenger, 58-year-old Russian rocker Andrey Suchilin.

“It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks,” Belgian passenger Piet van Haut said. CBS News reported that Suchilin had sought medical attention in Spain and was given antibiotics for an “ordinary beach infection.” Taken to a hospital in Portugal, his condition deteriorated, and he was diagnosed with tissue necrosis. Doctors induced a coma and performed several surgeries, but his wife reported on his Facebook page that he died on June 25. The airline assured fellow passengers that “there has been no risk of infection.”

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— I would call her the leader of the group — she was attending one of my physical fitness classes, and that’s how she got to know me and then decided to approach and see if I’d be willing to run.

By Patrick Sullivan Harley Wales is an unlikely person to have become the president of the Village of Kalkaska.

Wales won a landslide election in May against his predecessor, Jeff Sieting, a controversial figure who made national news last year with hateful Facebook posts targeting Islam and Black Lives Matter.

Tension between peace activists and rightwing Sieting supporters peaked in June 2017, when opposing sides rallied and potential violence simmered.

Wales, an openly gay 46-year-old who was selected to run against Sieting because he is about as different a person from Sieting as anyone could find, said he was inspired to run because he wanted to help repair Kalkaska’s image. Wales will appear on the ballot unopposed in November.

Since he’s been in office, Wales has helped settle a lawsuit over retiree healthcare that threatened to bankrupt the village, he’s overseen the introduction to Kalkaska of a fledgling marijuana industry (a development that was in the works long before Wales took office), and he’s helped free up funds to ensure the village police department can be fully staffed.

In addition to transforming Kalkaska’s reputation, Wales said he also wants to oversee the physical transformation of the village, beginning with the construction of a town square that, he hopes, could drive people to Main Street and be the catalyst for the rebirth of downtown. Tax revenue from medical marijuana licenses could be used to make public improvements that would rejuvenate the village, Wales said.

Wales, who grew up in Kingsley, has lived in Kalkaska for a dozen years. He works as a concierge CNA at Kalkaska Memorial Health Center. Northern Express met with Wales at the Trout Town Tavern & Eatery to talk about his unlikely rise to prominence in an unlikely place.

Express: What was the campaign like?

Wales: Getting in the race was pretty scary.

Like you said, you’re totally putting yourself out there. Your social media, your life history.

Anything that’s gone on. Get into politics, and they really dig. But I really don’t have anything in my past. My team that was put together — a couple writers, a couple researchers — they did a lot to go through my social media and scrub my social media prior to even announcing, to get rid of anything Democratic or gay or anything off of the mainstream. About the only thing left on there were my fitness class pictures and my CPL class pictures. We kept that on there so everyone knows I have a gun.

I didn’t have any experience, so the local group of Democrats kind of took me under their wing, and they sent me to candidate training in Gaylord for a day, where you learn what to say and what not to say and how to put your stump speech together. And then I went to work.

Express: Can you give me a highlight and a lowlight from you campaign?

Wales: Highlight would have to be when we first announced. Just waiting for the initial feedback. Social media just absolutely blew up. People were asking where to send donations. Where can they get signs. I got a phone call from senior management at the hospital. They wanted me to come in for a sit-down, and everything was positive. Every single interaction was positive at that point.

And that was the boost that I needed to really think that it’s possible. Lowlights, hmmm …

Express: I know you had some campaign signs go missing …

Northern Express: How did this happen?

How did you end up president of the village?

It couldn’t have been an easy decision to get involved.

Harley Wales: No. I was actually approached by the Kalkaska for Peace group back in December. They were looking to see if anybody would be willing to run if they went forward with the recall and were successful — “There needs to be a candidate to run against him.” So they had approached a few people and, as the time got closer and closer and they had collected all of the signatures, they came back to me and said one of the candidates had backed out, and the other decided that I would be the better candidate, just because I was the antithesis of Jeff. If we were going to do something that was really going to make a difference and repair the town, it had to be someone totally different. The other candidate was kind of a similar person, kind of a country boy, someone who had been in town and in public service for a while. So they decided “We’re going to go big.”

Express: I imagine it’s hard enough just to get into politics in the first place, to put yourself out there like that. This must have been so much harder, given the tone of things.

Wales: I had followed it since the beginning, just living here in the village, and I was here the day that the rally happened. That kind of struck the fear into everybody, and that’s kind of when the town really realized what was going on. Since moving to Kalkaska, I haven’t had any problems with interactions with people, the hospital’s been great.

However, I won’t hang out in my front yard.

“WE’RE GOING TO GO BIG” Kalkaska’s gay, liberal village president reflects on his first three months in office.

I won’t hang out in my backyard. That’s just how it’s been. It’s not comfortable. And that’s how other people have felt too, just not comfortable, because you don’t know who’s going to drive by or whatever. And that was the thing that I really wanted to nix. The fear was pretty real. I had my CPL [concealed pistol license] so I could carry all the time.

But, truly, coming up against a weapon would be my fear.

Express: You mean you used to be afraid to hang out in your own front yard?

Wales: Just being a gay man in Kalkaska, I didn’t want to hear anything, I didn’t want people screaming out their windows as they went by. It was just a fear in the back of my head. I mean, I grew up in a small town, so I know what’s out there, and I just didn’t want to be subjected to it.

Express: The rally on Main Street sounds like it disturbed a lot of people. What did it look

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like from your perspective?

Wales: It looked that bad. I actually thought it was going to escalate. I went and hunkered down at my house. My neighbor next door, she went, and she hung out the whole time.

She was just hanging out down there with her pit bull, but I didn’t. I went back to my house and just hunkered down because I really thought there was going to be some gun shooting or some brawling. It was really, really intense. It got very verbal, physical — not more than just pushing, but it certainly had potential.

Express: So that was a turning point for you, when you realized that something needed to change.

Wales: Yeah. Completely. I had that in the back of my mind all last year. What is going on? How on earth is this happening? I had no idea that this group [Kalkaska for Peace] had formed. I didn’t know any of the people in the group before this. Elizabeth Dunham

Wales: That wasn’t really a big huge deal. They were pretty cool signs. I made a post about it: “I know some of the signs are missing. And I understand they are pretty cool signs. Just ask — I’ll give you one.” [Laughs.] I had two of the signs that were missing actually put back after that post. So that was kind of neat. But I got a lot of positive feedback from that as well because I didn’t make a negative post, and I wasn’t accusing anybody. I just made it a funny thing. And people really reacted to that. They were like, “Wow, well, if you can be in office and not be a jerk, that would be amazing.”

Express: In the end, you were not just elected, you were elected by a two-to-one margin.

Wales: The plan laid out in my mind was to get elected and get elected with quite a slide, and then make it as public as possible, go on the national news. In the same way that the town was reflected in a bad light, to try to change it, and reflect it in a good light. And I was really able to do that.

Express: Did the results surprise you?

Harley: Leading up to it, I was really feeling good, really feeling positive. A couple days before the election, lots of the opposition signs popped up all over the place, which was kind of intimidating, thinking that they were laying low, like Trump voters, how nobody expected the turnout that they had.

That was the fear we were having. And then the day of the election, the first phone call I got was, “I just went and voted, and there was 20 cars there, and it’s seven o’clock in the morning.” And they had traffic through there all day long. And we got a phone call from the township clerk when it was getting

close and she said, “I’m not going to have the results for you right away at 8:05 like I said, because there’s still a line.” Then I was like, “Oh, this is going good, because there wouldn’t be that many people coming out voting for hate.”

Express: What does that say, that the vote for you was so overwhelming?

Harley: I think that that proves that the light that was reflected on Kalkaska wasn’t a true reflection of how the town really is. It was projected as a town full of hate-mongers — and nothing wrong with a redneck, but a hate-filled redneck there’s something wrong with — and that’s how the town was being projected. People were afraid. We were getting messages from downstate that people weren’t going to drive through the town anymore. They’re going to go up [I75] to the next stop and nobody was going to come up [US-31] anymore. The corridor was dying. The town was already oppressed as it was, with a blighted downtown, so to not have any traffic coming through for the restaurants that have survived, you could just see the end in sight.

Express: How are things going now that you’re part of the system?

Harley: It’s been extremely successful. The council has banded together behind me. Every initiative that we’ve put up, we’ve passed. We’ve passed many ordinances, some that people understand, some that people don’t, but it’s all for future growth. We passed an ordinance about lighting, and people were really confused, because it states that you cannot have any light that shines horizontally. It has to be vertical lighting, and it can’t encroach upon your neighbor. What it’s actually for is for our medical marijuana and industrial park. There have been issues in other areas where their lights shine out. That’s really what the ordinance was for. We’re not going to go around turning everybody’s floodlights off.

Express: What happened with the lawsuit against the village over health benefits for some retirees?

(When Wales came into office, the village faced financial uncertainty because of a lawsuit filed by six former village employees over healthcare benefits. The benefits were undoubtedly very generous, and there were questions about how the benefits were approved in the first place, but the Sieting-led village council’s cancellation of the benefits in 2014 prompted a lawsuit that threatened to bankrupt the village.)

Wales: For years, the healthcare lawsuit has been looming over everyone’s head.

Originally, we were looking at owing about between $5 and $6 million if they were going to go forward with the healthcare, and they ended the healthcare in 2014.

Well, our insurance carrier said that it was not in good faith because they had let it go on for so long, even though the contract itself was pretty sketchy and it wasn’t put in place properly. Therefore, rescinding it was not in good faith, and our insurance didn’t cover it. The village was completely exposed. So it was all up to the then-council, and they went to court and lost, and went to court and lost, and as I was coming in, they had decided to put the six retirees into one suit and go into mitigation. So I came in when they were right in the middle of that. So my first day in office, I signed in, and I went to the manager’s office and had a two-and-halfhour conversation about everything and was told, “Well, you’re president now, and

you have a $2 million bill. How are you going to pay for it?” Yikes.

Express: How did that get resolved?

Wales: We still had six or eight weeks of negotiations, but we kind of knew what direction it was going; it was just finetuning and details. And so together with the manager and my president pro tem, Damion White, we were meeting with two lawyers, a financial advisor, a bond agent, and the auditor for the village, the state auditor, trying to figure out how we were going to take care of this. We determined that, unlike a normal lawsuit judgement, which comes out of the general fund, because these people worked in different parts of the village, their healthcare, if we would have paid it forward, percentages would have come out of different funds. So we were able to scoop out an extra two or three-hundred-thousand dollars from the other funds, so we were able to pay down the front end of the loan to $975,000. We passed a bond initiative last week just to cover the $975,000, pushed it out over 15 years — that was the maximum we could do — so that leaves the payment well under $100,000, which is very manageable for a village this size. We went from a prediction of bankruptcy for the village, with an emergency manager, and now it’s been turned around, and the lawsuit’s resolved.

Express: What’s next?

Wales: I would like to see Kalkaska become a recreational mecca, with quiet recreation, hiking trails, horses. Cycling is huge. We are in the process with the Downtown Development Authority to bring the hiking and biking trails across the road, into town, to Railroad Square, which is going to be our focus.

Express: Now that you’ve been in office for three months, do you feel like you’ve corrected the message that Kalkaska sends to the world?

Wales: On the day of election, social media and everybody’s phones that were involved blew up. I got text messages and messages on Facebook from representatives and Congress people and laypeople all the way out to California and back. It was amazing — literally the phone blew up. Across Michigan.

Across the country. A lot of the Dems had been following the race to see how it went as a Trump town with a gay middle-aged guy running for village president. They really had their eyes focused on not only how my campaign was going, but how we were campaigning. What we were doing. Some of them actually contacted my staff afterwards to pick their brains as to what we did and how we did it. Just staying above board and plowing through was how we did it. That’s a big secret apparently.

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Express: I saw comments on Facebook referring to a conspiracy you are involved in to oversee the liberal destruction of Kalkaska. How is that going?

Wales: So far, the liberalization of Kalkaska has just been letting liberal Kalkaska residents go out on their front porch and enjoy their life. And surprisingly, there’s a lot of them. I have not protested a single church or a single straight marriage in town at all. I haven’t made a stance on anything.

I’m really more focused on the industrial park, the downtown district, the Railroad Square project, and getting the trails rerouted to downtown.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Will Marsh and Josh Mellinger are looking forward to returning to their hometown of Traverse City from their adopted homes in California. But this isn’t just a chance to touch base with family and friends. Marsh, a guitar major when he attended Interlochen, and Mellinger, who studied percussion there at the same time, will be performing — but not on guitar and drums.

Since moving to California to attend college at California Institute of the Arts, Marsh has fallen in love with the sitar, the multi-stringed instrument popularized (to a degree) by Beatles influence Ravi Shankar in the ’60s. Sitar? Really?

“I was taking Indian music classes, and it just hit me. It just clicked,” said Marsh.

He’ll be accompanied by Mellinger on tabla, the Hindustani hand drums.

Mellinger followed Marsh west to Cal Arts, captivated by his friend’s description of the world music program there. “Will got me listening to Indian music,” said Mellinger.

After attending a concert the first day there, he was sure he’d made the right choice. “It blew everyone away. It was the coolest thing I ever saw.”

Marsh and Mellinger will perform Aug. 18 at First Congregational Church. Though Marsh still plays guitar, and Mellinger plays drums as well as other types of percussion, this concert will feature Indian classical music exclusively.

The sitar is notoriously difficult to play. It has between 18 and 21 strings (Marsh’s has 20), though only six or seven are actually played by the performer.

The rest run underneath the frets and vibrate sympathetically with the ones that are plucked or strummed. Plus the frets themselves are movable. Marsh has gone to India several times to study and perform.

That all lends to the instrument’s unique sound, as well as the inherent difficulty of leaning how to play it with any degree of facility. Which only added to Marsh’s fascination with the instrument.

“There’s a beauty to its uniqueness,” he

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said. “It is such a resonant instrument — it’s the physics and design. It is gorgeous, and the music is deep and profound.”

While sitar may look challenging, anyone can bang out a rhythm on drums, right? Not so fast. The playing technique for tabla is also complex; it involves extensive use of the fingers and palms in various configurations to create a wide variety of different sounds and rhythms. Plus the musician presses the heel of the hand to stretch the head of the drum and change the pitch and tone color during the performance. “Six years of percussion gave me a start, [but] I found the rhythms to be extremely demanding,” said Mellinger of studying tabla.

So now that they’ve both studied their instruments extensively, at least they can read the notes they’ll be playing and practice the music over and over until they get it down, right?

Again, no, not really. While Marsh and Mellinger will perform what is considered the classical music of India, they can’t study the music they’ll be playing, nor can they listen to other recordings of it. That’s because it’s never really existed. Classical Indian music is heavily improvised, so not only has the audience never heard it before, technically neither have Marsh or Mellinger.

The general flow of the melody may be mapped out, but it’s up to the performers to take the tunes wherever they go. Marsh isn’t worried, as the two have played together several times over the years. “We have guide points but will be exploring together,” he said.

“It’s all improvisation based on a certain scale. There are certain rules to follow,” added Mellinger.

Despite its uncommonness, the sitar has fans worldwide. The Beatles and Rolling Stones both dabbled with the instrument on songs such as “Norwegian Wood” and “Paint It Black,” respectively. Today, locales as disparate as Japan, Europe and Canada have large music communities which have embraced Indian music. “You can go to Austin, Texas, and there’s a great sitar player living there,” said Marsh.

Or if you’re in southern California, and

you need sitar for your movie, TV show or special event, you can just call Marsh. He recently did a shoot for Nickelodeon and has played for film soundtracks as well. He’s performed in museums and art galleries, and just recently at a birthday party for a Jewish author. “If you’re into sitar and in San Diego, you’re going to find me,” Marsh said.

With the reach of the internet, what was once a curiosity is now available to anyone with the click of a mouse. If it was considered esoteric and available only to the few — and it was — the sitar has greater visibility and accessibility than ever before.

“If you’re intrigued by it, you can order one and take online lessons. It’s a global culture,” said Marsh, who himself has embraced technology in advancing the instrument and the music. “I give lessons via Skype and continue my lessons in India via Skype.”

Both musicians still listen to other music and perform on other instruments. “I still love the blues,” said Marsh. He’s even managed to combine his sitar with other styles: He’s playing the sitar in an Americana group. “It takes the place of pedal steel,” he said.

Mellinger plays drum kit and other percussion instruments, such as Arabic and Brazilian music on instruments such as darbuka or berimbau. “It’s all rhythm,” he said.

While the two have been friends since junior high school and both studied at Cal Arts, they don’t get to perform together as often as they might like, so they are looking forward to this show. “We’ve only gotten to play a couple times together as he’s in LA and I’m in the Bay area,” said Mellinger.

So yes, they are excited about the opportunity to perform locally. “I like to come back to Traverse City at least one time a year,” said Mellinger. “When Will wanted to do a concert, I was absolutely honored.

We’re hoping some music enthusiasts will come out. I think it will be a cool thing to see two kids who started playing music in TC.” Tickets for the Aug. 18 show at First Congregational Church, 6104 Center Rd. in Traverse City, are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Go to EventBrite.com for tickets.

National Writers Series Unveils Fall Lineup Plant closings, the national drug epidemic, marriage, and cybersecurity take center stage when eight best-selling authors visit the National Writers Series this fall. By Clark Miller

Beth Macy, “Dopesick” Aug. 29

Joe Hill, “Strange Weather” Oct. 10

Tayari Jones, “An American Marriage” Oct. 21

Journalist Beth Macy shares her wideranging research into the social costs of America’s drug addiction epidemic. Her new book, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America,” goes back 20 years to the introduction of Oxycodone products, which are believed to have set into motion the country’s downhill spiral toward widespread drug dependency.

Returning to some of the hard-pressed communities in Central Appalachia and other locales that appear in her earlier work (and well-received) book, “Factory Man,” Macy gives concrete examples of the many ways drug addiction affects not only users but their families, friends, and whole communities. She also reports on the efforts of many addicts to free themselves from drug dependency.

Macy is also the author of “Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South.”

“Strange Weather,” the latest work of best-selling American horror writer Joe Hill, challenges conventional reality at every turn.

This collection of short novels starts simply but soon snares the reader with the mounting complexities hidden by our everyday expectations of life. Kirkus Review calls the book “a four-pack of mayhem.”

The son of author Stephen King, Hill took his first name and part of his middle name, Hillstrom (a name inspired by Joe Hillstrom, the famous labor organizer martyred in Utah in 1916), to build his professional identity free from the long shadow cast by his famous father. The tactic seems to have worked. Hill/King has earned the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Eisner Award for Best Writer for the comic series Locke & Key.

What happens to a strong marriage when the husband is unfairly found guilty of rape?

Novelist Tayari Jones’ bestseller (and an Oprah’s Book Club selection), “An American Marriage,” tackles the question head on in what Kirkus Reviews calls, “at its heart a love story, but [one] warped by racial injustice.”

The author of four novels, including “The Silver Sparrow,” Jones’s books exhibit a deep understanding of human struggles large and small. Jones’ first novel, “Leaving Atlanta,” has as its backdrop the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979–81, a story she experienced as a child.

“Leaving Atlanta” won the 2003 Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and has been optioned for film rights.

Hanna Attisha, “What the Eyes Don’t See” Sept. 30 Even the casual observer of Michigan current events knows a bit about the Flint water crisis. But the behind-the-scenes tale told by pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna Attisha in “What the Eyes Don’t See” shows how science and the stubbornness of activists ultimately established the irrefutable fact that high lead levels had become an extreme public health crisis in the city.

Once she realized the extent of the problem and began to lobby for change, “Dr. Mona,” as she is now widely known, faced political backlash. She stood her ground, continued to collect data, and became the voice of protest.

Time Magazine voted her among its Most Influential People in 2016, and she was named Michiganian of the Year by the Detroit News.

Amy Goldstein. “Janesville: An American Story ” Oct. 20 Stories of U.S. plant closures are common — so much so that they tend to disappear quickly from news cycles. But journalist Amy Goldstein decided to stick with one town’s story to study the longterm after-effects. “In Janesville: An American Story,” Goldstein describes in detail the ways the 2008 closing of the General Motors’ facility in Janesville, Wisconsin, affected workers, their families, and the community at large. In the process, she uses Janesville (home to Rep. Paul Ryan) to illustrate the broader struggles of America’s working class.

During her 30 years as a staff writer at The Washington Post, Goldstein has often focused on social policy. In 2002 she shared a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. “Janesville: An American Story,” her first book, was Named Best Book of 2017 by the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, The Economist, and Business Insider.

Richard Clarke, “Warnings: Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes” Nov. 15

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Adviser to four presidents and one of the few people to warn of an impending attack before 9/11, security expert Richard Clarke served as a cybersecurity expert for the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence community, and the State Department.

Along the way, he’s established a reputation as an outspoken advocate for government transparency and accurate assessments of threats to the homeland. For example, he was ordered by the George W. Bush White House to find a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 but concluded there was no evidence of Iraqi involvement. Another event illustrates his belief in transparency: In 2004, he publicly apologized to the American people for the failures of government agencies to prepare for 9/11.

In his latest work, “Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes,” co-authored by R.P. Eddy), Clarke ponders why those who warn of imminent public danger are so often dismissed.

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Alice Walker, “An Arrow Out of the Heart” Oct. 22 One of the America’s best-known writers, Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” will discuss her novels, nonfiction work, and latest book, a collection of poems titled “An Arrow Out of the Heart.”

The daughter of Georgia sharecroppers, Walker is known for her feminist perspective and the power and lushness of her writing style.

She received the Pulitzer Prize for “The Color Purple,” making her the first AfricanAmerican woman to receive the honor. The book was adapted into an Academy Awardwinning film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover.

Each of these NWS events will be held at the City Opera House in Traverse City and begin at 7 pm. Doors open at 6 pm. Tickets can be purchased at www. nationalwritersseries.org, by calling at 231941-8082, ext. 201, or in person at The City Opera House.

A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism” Nov. 29 Well-known Michigan sportswriter and commentator John Bacon strays far from his typical subject to bring readers “The Great Halifax Explosion,” a dramatic account of the massive explosion of the Mont-Blanc, an ammunitionsladen vessel loaded with 3,000 tons of explosives and bound for France from NYC. The scale of the disaster is hard to overstate.

It remained the largest man-made explosion in history until atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Some 2,000 people died and 9,000 were injured — many of them blinded when the blast wave shattered windows. J. Robert Oppenheimer studied the Halifax explosion to understand the extent of damage future weapons of mass destruction might cause.

Bacon, who has authored five New York Times bestsellers, often comments on ESPN and other media outlets. Among his other works is “Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope,” a memoir of ESPN’s John Saunders.

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The last student walked out of Traverse City’s Long Lake Elementary for the final time in 2012. But the school deemed too old, outdated, and expensive to keep open for area school kids wasn’t done fulfilling its mission — at least, not as Timothy Fitzgerald Young saw it.

Under that crumbling roof, Young saw potential: to house Food for Thought — his organic and wild-gathered gourmet foods company that he built, in part, to educate consumers about sustainable sourcing.

“Since Food for Thought has a solid ethos and founding value of walking softly on the planet — I even built our first building myself, out of recycled materials — remaking the school was a perfect fit for us,” said Fitzgerald.

But it wasn’t only “us” Young saw moving into the vacant school. He envisioned the 12,000-square-foot structure becoming a collective for other food artisans working toward similar goals. He dubbed the project the Long Lake Culinary Campus.

And next month, it’s letting the hungry public in for its first glimpse, with an open house and tours scheduled for Sept. 27.

Although the campus’ tenant list isn’t yet finalized, Young said he envisions the campus as not only a working space for food artisans but also a destination for foodies, where they can partake in tastings, perhaps grab meals at onsite food trucks, or enjoy or host special events.

“There’s just so much we can do,” he said.

And he’s quick to point out that he couldn’t have done any of it without John “Chip” Hoagland, owner of Tamarack Holdings and Cherry Capital Foods, a local and Michigan foods distributor. Hoagland got on board with Young’s idea and is the facility’s owner.

“Chip is awesome,” Young said. “I like to call him the ‘regional Bill Gates of food’ here in northern Michigan. He’s always willing to invest in local food projects. He saw and understood our vision, and he bought the building and paid for the refurbishments on it so we could rent it from him and use it for our business plan.”

Food for Thought is the largest and primary tenant on the campus, with Young overseeing as project manager.

“It took us a year to refurbish the building and move in,” Young said. “It’s a building of concrete, brick and steel, so it gave us a good shell to work with. But it was also originally built in a different time, so we had to do some removal of things like asbestos and lead paint.

We basically stripped the interior down, added on a loading dock and a production room for Food for Thought, and then turned our thoughts to what to do with the rest of it. There were over 20 classrooms, and our business didn’t need a bunch of smaller rooms.”

Employing the shared-services model, food artisans will be able to rent space in the Long Lake Culinary Campus in a variety of configurations; additional amenities are also on-site and can be purchased (for a fee) along with the rental space.

“You rent the space and outfit it for whatever you need — as a kitchen, fermenting space, baking space — and then we’ll make available things like our freezer, cooler, and dry-storage warehouses, use of the loading dock, shared facilities like our conference room and workout room, and even gardening and farming land if you’d like to grow some of your own ingredients for your products right here on-site.”

“It’s all on the ‘cafeteria plan,’ though — so if you don’t need something, you don’t pay for it.”

Young envisions the entire campus being a small, close-knit network of entrepreneur food artisans, building a culture of supporting each other. With little over a month until the open house, he’s off to a strong start.

“We moved Food for Thought here in May, so now we’re finally getting to reach out and see who else might like to join us on the campus,” he said. “So far, we’ve had cheesemakers, chocolatiers, and some other small food artisans expressing interest.”

The Long Lake Culinary Campus is located at 7738 N. Long Lake Rd., Traverse City. The open house is scheduled for Sept. 27. For more information, email timothy@foodforthought.net or see www.tamarackholdings.com/llcc

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ADVENTURES IN THE UNFAMILIAR The dirt on uncommon produce

By Janice Binkert If you’re anything like me, you’ll agree that here in northwest Michigan, this is the best time of year to “veg out.” No, I don’t mean sit inside at home and vegetate in front of the TV — I mean rush out to your local farmers market and get in on the bounty of fresh vegetables that are in season right now. All of your favorites are there: sweet corn, green beans, zucchini, tomatoes, bell peppers, potatoes, fennel, Swiss chard, Japanese eggplant …

Wait, what’s that? Fennel, Swiss chard, and Japanese eggplant aren’t your favorites?

You wouldn’t even know them if they walked up and said “hello” to you (in English, no less)? Or maybe you know what they are, but you haven’t a clue what to do with them?

Well, take heart — you’re not alone. Those particular vegetables, and scores of others, are strangers to many people. And we’re here to change that.

I can’t tell you the number of times that people have approached me at the farmers market (or at the produce department of the grocery store) to ask me about some type of produce I’m buying: “What is that, and what do you do with it?” Sometimes they might be sorry they asked, because if there’s anything I never tire of talking about, it’s food and cooking. Want a short — or long — lecture on how to choose a bulb of garlic?

What to do with celeriac? I’m always more than happy to oblige.

So sit back and prepare to be introduced to a bunch of new friends — friends who

will help you stay healthy and trim, who are known for their good taste, and who will add some new ingredients and new interest to your everyday (and special occasion) meals.

Who wouldn’t want friends like that?

GET TO THE ROOT OF IT Who doesn’t love potatoes in some form?

And carrots, and beets? But what about their lesser-known cousins? Root vegetables of all kinds are generally inexpensive, tasty, versatile, nutritious (fiber, vitamins, and minerals) and play well with other vegetables.

One of my personal favorites is celery root, or celeriac. Granted, this is one vegetable that won’t win any beauty contests.

A gnarly, hard-as-a rock, green-and-brown orb with Medusa-like “tentacles” for roots, it’s no wonder some people are scared off.

But when its unsightly exterior is stripped away (no small task — but doable), its real attractiveness is revealed. Whether it is sautèed, roasted, pureed, added to soups or shredded raw for salads (soak in lemon water to keep it from turning brown), it’s delicious, creamy, earthy taste is irresistible. One of my favorite ways to prepare it is mashed and served with red-wine braised short ribs.

Parsnips look like big carrots, and indeed, their taste is similar, but they lack the pretty colors that carrots boast (parsnips are a dull, yellowish white). Like other root vegetables, they, too, can be used in soups and stews, roasted, or pureed. Or shred them in a food processor with potatoes and make hash browns with them! Smaller is better for

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these tasty tubers — relegate the really big ones to your compost pile.

Through the ages and all around the world, turnips have often been considered a lowly vegetable — only good enough for animal feed or at best, peasant dishes. Jokes are made about them, usually involving a comparison with simpletons. But turnips deserve more respect. If eaten young and at the peak of their freshness, they are sweet tasting and have a pleasant texture. Boil or steam them to make a turnip mash, julienne and use like cabbage in a slaw, roast with other vegetables for a side dish, and add to soups or stews instead of potatoes for more flavor. Turnip leaves — especially those from younger plants — are edible, often being sautéed like spinach or other greens.

THE HEAT IS ON Ask anyone to name five different types of chile peppers, and — unless they are a chile head — I’ll bet they can’t do it. And yet there are thousands of varieties growing around the world. We could probably all come up with jalapeños and habaneros and maybe serranos, but have you ever had shishito peppers? They are sweeter than a jalapeño, and usually milder, with bright green, somewhat wrinkly looking skin. One of the best (read: most fun) ways to prepare them is to sauté or grill them to char and blister their thin skins, drizzle with some olive oil and salt, and serve as an appetizer (order me a margarita with that). But shishitos are also good for stir-fries, or tempura-battered and deep fried).

Clockwise from top left: leeks; patty pan squash; radicchio; fennel; eggplants; cayenne, Hungarian wax, and shishito chili peppers; turnips; celery root.

Another chili pepper you’ll find at local markets in our region is the Hungarian wax pepper, which is significantly hotter than the jalapeño. But its waxy yellow skin could fool you into thinking it is a banana pepper, which would be quite a shock if you bit into it (banana peppers are much milder).

Use Hungarian wax peppers in salsas and dips; in stews, soups and marinades; or pickle it for use as a condiment with a charcuterie platter.

And then there is the cayenne pepper.

This one has considerably more kick either the shishito or Hungarian (measuring between 30,000 and 50,000 heat units on the Scoville scale). It can be the basis of a homemade cayenne pepper sauce, or dried on a string for crushed pepper to sprinkle on certain dishes when you want some heat (pizza, pastas, chili, seafood bisques, salsas). Cayenne peppers are also a common ingredient in curries. Whatever your favorite chile pepper is, it’s probably wise to handle it with plastic gloves.

Remove the seeds and ribs if you want the flavor but not a lot of heat.

TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF (OR FROND) You’ll probably do a double take when you first see rainbow chard at the market; it’s a wonder of nature. No, those multicolored stalks did not all come from one plant. They are bundled after they are picked, but the

variety of hues chard can display is still very impressive — everything from ruby to gold, pink, orange, or white. The only difference between Swiss chard and rainbow chard is the color. I love using chard in lentil soup along with celery root (see recipe). Otherwise, chard can be used almost interchangeably in any recipe that calls for dark, leafy greens like spinach or kale.

Many people are hesitant to try fennel because they have heard that it tastes like licorice, but for its fans — and I am one of them — that distinctive anise flavor is the very thing that is prized about it. I’ll admit, I was suspicious at first, too, but then a friend of mine made a fennel gratin — fennel loves cheese, especially gorgonzola, goat, Gruyere, parmesan, or pecorino — and I was hooked.

Then I found out how well it complements the taste of fish and seafood. Now one of my go-to meals when we have dinner guests is fennel and leek risotto (see recipe), which I serve with seared salmon or scallops.

During the winter holidays, raw, thinly shaved fennel makes a festive salad when combined with blood oranges and a blood orange vinaigrette, and then garnished with its own fronds. Oh, and you can make tummy-soothing fennel tea with the fronds and/or stalks.

Leeks are truly one of my favorite vegetables, and for good reason. There is hardly a savory dish that couldn’t benefit from the addition of some leeks. It pairs well with so many other vegetables — carrots, celery, cauliflower, tomatoes, potatoes (Bien sûr, vichyssoise!), garlic, fennel, as well as bacon, any kind of white meat, eggs, fish, mussels … Chef extraordinaire, food writer and cookbook author David Tanis nailed it when he wrote in an article for Fine Cooking: “The flavor of a leek is like onion but more herbaceous, though not like any herb in particular, and in fact it marries well with nearly all herbs. But while onions add a single-edged sweetness, leeks add both sweetness and vegetable flavor.”

Although radicchio is in a category called bitter greens, it is actually not green at all, but an attractive reddish-purple and white.

Originally from Italy, where it is hugely popular, the most common varieties of radicchio found in our area are the round Chioggia and the elongated Treviso, which taste quite similar. A refreshing salad combining three bitter greens with a fruity

dressing is an almost surefire way to convert skeptics to radicchio lovers (see recipe).

Trust me, I’ve seen it happen! Grilling radicchio mellows its bitterness somewhat and gives it an appealing smoky flavor.

SHINY OBJECTS ATTRACT Patty pan squash is easy to love. Its gracefully scalloped edges and brightly contrasting, shiny yellow and green color make it almost too pretty to eat. You just want to put a bunch of them in a bowl on your table for a centerpiece so you (and others) can admire it. And that’s just what many people do at this time of year. But eat it you should — because it looks equally attractive on a plate, whether it’s sliced in half horizontally and sauteéd, cut vertically like little wedges of pie for roasting, or used whole (the smallest ones) and slid onto wooden skewers with onions, zucchini and eggplant for grilling. Patty pans, like other summer squashes, are also a key ingredient in ratatouille, vegetable lasagna, and pasta primavera.

Another shiny object is eggplant, especially the large dark purple variety that is most familiar in the U.S. The origin of its strange name can be traced back to the egglike shape and white color of the type of it that was first brought to England from India via France in the 1800s. The Brits eventually took to calling it by its French name, aubergine. Many varieties look nothing like an egg, however, either in color or shape.

There’s the long, slender Japanese eggplant (also dark purple); the rosa bianca Italian eggplant, and many others. What to do with it? Grill it, roast it, stew it, make Italian eggplant parmigiana or caponata, Middle Eastern baba ghanoush, Greek moussaka, or French aubergine gratin. For a vegetable with such an unsophisticated moniker, it sure has a worldly background.

There are so many other wonderful, but underappreciated vegetables (and fruits and herbs, by the way) out there — kohlrabi comes to mind, as well as cipollini onions, jicama, several varieties of garlic, crazy looking garlic scapes, and the list goes on. So the next new friends you want to make are the vendors at your local farmers’ market.

They love telling you about what they have grown and harvested with hard work and care, and you can bet they will have lots of suggestions on what you can do it!

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GOING TO THE SOURCE

Besides the Internet, which has an almost limitless supply of information on both familiar and unfamiliar vegetables, including how to choose them, store them, clean them, prep them and cook them, there are many extremely useful cookbooks and reference books on the subject. Here are a few of my favorites: “The Flavor Bible”, by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg. The ultimate guide to hundreds of ingredients, as well as herbs, spices and other seasonings, included detailed lists of what goes well with what, all alphabetized for easy referencing. I reach for this book almost daily.

“Chez Panisse” – Vegetables, by Alice Waters. Over 250 recipes from the kitchens of this iconic Berkeley, California restaurant. Hey, if you can’t go there in person, this is a nice consolation prize.

“Vegetable Literacy”, by Deborah Madison. An indispensable reference cum recipe treasure by a Chez Panisse alumna, food writer, cookbook author, teacher and sustainable agriculture advocate.

Simple Green Suppers: A Fresh Strategy for One-Dish Vegetarian Meals,

by Susie Middleton. The fourth cookbook by this nationally recognized vegetable expert and editor at large for Fine Cooking magazine, whose website (sixburnersue.com) is also worth checking out.

1 medium onion, small dice 1 medium or two small fennel bulbs (stalks removed, fronds reserved), medium dice Two large leeks, white and light green parts only, halved and cut into ¼-inch slices 2 cups uncooked arborio, carnaroli or vialone rice ¾ cup dry white wine Freshly ground pepper, to taste 1 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese Bring broth or stock to a boil in a large saucepan. Reduce heat to a low simmer and keep hot.

Heat olive oil and butter in a deep skillet or stockpot over medium heat and sauté onions, fennel and leeks until translucent and softened, about 5 minutes. Add rice and stir until white spots appear in the center of the grains. Add wine and cook, stirring constantly, until almost fully absorbed. Add broth a ladleful at a time, stirring frequently, until each ladleful is absorbed, until rice is al dente and mixture is creamy, about 20-25 minutes longer. The consistency should be loose, but not runny. Stir in half of the grated cheese. Serve in warmed pasta bowls and garnish with a few of the reserved fennel fronds. Serve extra cheese on the side.

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Cook another 10 minutes or so, until lentils and greens are tender. The chard should be tender but still bright. Adjust seasoning and stir in apple cider vinegar if desired.

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By Ross Boissoneau According to The Washington Post, the number of vegetarians and vegans in the United States has remained fairly consistent over at least the past 20 years, at around five to six percent. In northern Michigan, the number of dedicated vegetarian restaurants has pretty much remained constant as well — zero.

But fear not, plant eaters. While vegetarianism might not be increasing, flexitarianism is. The term was coined in the early 2000s and is one of several that refer to the practice of reducing the amount of meat in one’s diet. The Post noted that a recent British study found that fully onethird of all dinners in the U.K. are meatless, while the market research firm Mintel noted that the number of new vegetarian products introduced to the market doubled between 2009 and 2013.

Why try going vege or flex? There are a number of reasons: health, the environment and/or personal philosophies are typically factors. There’s no denying the positive effects of a vegetarian — or, if that’s just too much, a flexitarian — diet. Studies have found that semi-vegetarian diets have a positive impact on weight loss, diabetes prevention, and blood pressure. It is also a net positive for the environment, as growing vegetables is typically less harmful than raising cattle.

While vegetarian-only restaurants are near impossible to find in this region, flexitarian restaurants are everywhere.

That’s right, vegetarian options are available at practically every restaurant, some more (much more) than others.

Unsurprisingly, places like Edson Farms and Oryana in Traverse City and the Grain Train Natural Foods Market in Petoskey lead the way. All three stores offer connected eateries, which feature a variety of foods for both the carnivore and the herbivore.

“Our Burrata, Potato Burrito, Tomato Jam Tartine, Tempeh BLT, and Roasted Vegetable Wrap are all tasty vegetarian options,” said Mindy Taylor, the events and outreach coordinator at Grain Train. No. 1 on the shop’s popularity scale is probably the Power Lunch — a bowl featuring curried cauliflower, roasted sweet potato, black beans, and fresh avocado — that she said finds favor among all the customers, even the meat-eaters.

While, like most delis, the bulk of Edson Farms’ includes meat, but it also offers a healthy selection of non-meat items, too: Southern Wrap, Very Veggie Wrap, a portabella sandwich, and veggie burger, even a falafel wrap. And its cold-pressed juices and smoothies offer engaging takes on healthy flavors, with ingredients including apple, zucchini, fennel, celery, spinach, parsley and lemon — and that’s all in one juice. Throw in some kale, banana, apple, pineapple, chia powder, coconut water, and Hail to the Kale indeed.

Across town at Oryana, the offerings

expand as the space does. Its standing menu includes sandwiches, burgers, burritos and wraps, and staff will also modify menu items on the fly. The hot bar varies daily, with staples like Thai Curry Tofu Stir Fry, soups, and various root vegetables (try the ciderroasted). It also offers breakfast items from 7:30am (9am on Sundays) until 10am, when it switches over to lunch.

You’ll also find a host of vegetarian items in the grab-and-go cooler. Wild rice and smoked tofu, tempeh reuben, tabouleh and hummus, oh my.

So we’ve got the health food places. But where else to go? For flavorful, creative twists for lunch, it’s hard to beat Centre Street Café in Traverse City. Chef Pete Boothroyd and crew craft wraps, sandwiches, soups and salads using an amazing array of ingredients.

While many include meat of one sort or another, the crew is more than happy to accommodate with plenty of substitutions.

Those looking for lunch and dinner can try places like Poppycock’s in downtown Traverse City, which features large salads like Greek Quinoah, the Harvest Salad with pumpkin bread croutons, or the Warm Artichoke Salad. A quartet of entrees include Acorn Squash Pot Pie and the Fawaffle (Chick pea quinoa falafel waffle).

More options come courtesy of Devin Moore, the education and outreach coordinator at Oryana. She touts places such as Spanglish, Taproot, the Daily Bowl Food Truck, and the Benzie Food Truck.

Elsewhere in Benzonia, the Road House is famed for its Mexican fare, perhaps especially Barb’s Legendary Empanadas.

NORTHWARD If you’re traveling northward, Calypso Grill and Red Mesa on US-31 offer flavorful variations on their themes — Mediterranean and Tex-mex, respectively. Zucchini Pasta Ribbons, Green Tomatillo Alfredo, and a totally delicious Veggie Wrap are highlights at Calypso, but No. 1 with a bullet has to be the Tava. It’s got to be tasted to be believed.

Red Mesa offers zesty vege items like Roasted Pineapple Quesadillas (did we mention yum?), Tequila and Lime-Marinated Fajitas, and Flatbread Gorditas.

If you’re already north, Red Mesa’s namesake in Boyne City and its sister operation, Café Sante, offer more themed suggestions, like frittata with eight vegetarian suggestions and wood-fired pizzas.

PETOSKEY Head to Petoskey and opportunities increase.

“There are some really tasty vegetarian options out there,” said Taylor, “but you typically find them in ones and twos on a menu. Happy’s [Taco Shop] usually has really tasty vegetarian options.” She also cited Drew’s Delight at Julienne Tomatoes and the Wild Mushroom Pizza and Red Curry at Beard’s Brewery as other favorites.

If you’re hankering for Oriental-themed foods, it’s nearly impossible to do any better

than Thai Orchid. Most of the menu items are build-your-own in terms of protein. So eschew the chicken or shrimp and go for tofu or simply vegetarian, whether fried rice, stir-fry or curry.

CADILLAC In Cadillac, Clam Lake Beer Company offers delicious pizzas, large creative salads, and quesadillas bursting with ingredients.

All of them are also bursting with flavor.

Head west on M-55 to Manistee and try the Blue Fish, where you can eat Honey Goat Crostini, French Montrachet chevre baked with Michigan apple chutney, overlooking the Manistee River while you peruse the menu. North to Frankfort, and you can again partake of flavorful vegetarian Thai and Chinese dishes at the Fusion — and here too you can sit on the deck overlooking the waters of Betsie Bay. Yum. LEELANAU Even those eateries which don’t have a number of vegetarian options on their menu are often happy to provide alternatives. They range from diners like Pegtown Café in Maple City to fine dining options like Blu in Glen Arbor. The former can easily swap out sliced tomato for Canadian bacon in Eggs Benedict, while chef Randy Chamberlain at Blu is happy to whip up a specialty vegetarian dish.

That’s true at many places, especially if you give contact the restaurant ahead of time. Most every restaurant will do whatever they can to please the customer. And if you happen to stop in at one of the few that won’t, there are greener pastures elsewhere.

So it’s not hard to find vegetarian foods.

Even if you’re not committing to going completely meatless, you can enjoy the bounty of the earth, prepared in countless flavorful ways in many restaurantsUp North.

VEGE COMMUNITY MAKES INROADS If you are looking into becoming a vegetarian or vegan (or you already are), you know it can be a little lonely out there.

But you’re not alone. Jodi Havens can help.

Havens is a librarian at the Petoskey District Library. And she’s a vegetarian, with her own preferred eateries. “Julienne Tomatoes probably has the best service, and has gazpacho every day. But its only open for breakfast and lunch,” she said.

She also touted Thai Orchid (“so many different options — they’ll even make fresh rolls with tofu rather than chicken”).

Not only that, but her library hosts a vegan support group. Yes, there is such a thing, and she’s even visited the group’s meetings, though as a vegetarian she doesn’t quite qualify. “I went, and I wasn’t shunned,” she said with a laugh.

If you don’t live in Petoskey or if you’re planning to travel and you want to find options before you arrive, you have other options. Sure, you can just google “Vegetarian Restaurants,” but try happcow. net. While it is ostensibly a vegan group, it also allows you to search for vegetarian restaurants or vege options.

Yelp and Zomato (formerly Urban Spoon) also provide info on vegetarian eateries, along with consumer reviews.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. Deb Allen and Peg Jonkhoff at the celebrity shuffleboard tournament at the Grand Traverse County Senior Center Network.

2. Sarah, Nina, and Ashlae enjoy the festivities at Short’s Fest in Elk Rapids.

3. Chris Alsatian and Liz Ahrens at the annual D’art for Art fundraiser at Irish Boat Company in Harbor Springs.

4. Julie Moskal, Mary Rapin, and Laura Diedrich enjoying a summer northern Michigan night at Bliss Gardens in Cross Village.

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38TH ANNUAL CRYSTAL LAKE TEAM MARATHON: Downtown Beulah. Marathon starts at 7am; Team Marathon starts at 8am. events.bytepro. net/crystal-lake-marathon

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SWIM FOR GRAND TRAVERSE BAY: 7am.

Celebrate clean, healthy water in Grand Traverse Bay with a 2-mile point-to-point open water swim.

The Swim benefits The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay, a non-profit that works to protect the Bay & its 1,000-square-mile watershed.

Begins at Greilickville Harbor Park in Elmwood Township. $45/swimmer plus fundraising requirement; $20/support paddler. swimforgtbay.com

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send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------ALANSON RIVERFEST: Alanson, Aug. 9-12.

Featuring a night teen dance, lighted boat parade, Petoskey Steel Drum Band, rubber duck race & much more.

---------------------ANTRIM COUNTY FAIR & 5K RUN: 8am, Bellaire. Aug. 9-11. antrimcountyfair.com

---------------------NORTHWESTERN MI FAIR: Northwestern MI Fairgrounds, TC, Aug. 5-11. Featuring harness racing, livestock auctions, a carnival on the midway, food, demonstrations, exhibits & more. northwesternmichiganfair.net

---------------------SUTTONS BAY SIDEWALK SALES: 8am, Downtown Suttons Bay.

---------------------ANTIQUE AUTO SHOW & SALE: 9am-4pm, Veterans Memorial Park, Boyne City.

---------------------BOYNE CITY SIDEWALK SALES: 9am, Downtown Boyne City.

---------------------CHARLEVOIX WATERFRONT ART FAIR: 9am-6pm, East Park, Downtown Charlevoix. charlevoixwaterfrontartfair.org

---------------------TOP O’ MICHIGAN BOAT RACE: 9am, Inland Waterway. Outboard Marathon Nationals. Navigates through 87 miles, starting in Indian River. tomorc.org

---------------------ALS RACE OF PETOSKEY: 10am, 101 E. Lake St., Petoskey. Run for a Cure - 5K. $25. runsignup.com

---------------------HOOF ‘N SLOSHIN: 10am, Mt. Holiday, TC. A Bavarian-themed 2 mile race where participants form a team of four or compete individually. Hoof it up the backside of Mt. Holiday’s running trail. Then slosh down a series of four slip n’ slides, finishing at the bottom of the ski area where you join spectators to celebrate with Bavarian-themed food, beer & more entertainment. hoofnsloshin.com

---------------------LEELANAU WOMEN ARTISTS’ ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW: 10am-5pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Glen Arbor. Featuring paintings, jewelry, fused glass & furniture. leelanauwomenartists.org

---------------------MICHAYWE ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: 10am4pm, 1535 Opal Lake Rd., Gaylord. Featuring more than 100 booths, free kids’ zone, food & more. michayweartfair.com

---------------------NORTHPORT DOG PARADE: 10am, Downtown Northport.

---------------------PORT ONEIDA FAIR: 10am-4pm, Port Oneida Rural Historic District, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. Experience life as it was in the late 1800s & early 1900s. Featuring over 100 demonstrators. Horses mowing in the fields while artists create paintings inspired by the cultural landscape. Learn about basket weaving, soapmaking, buttermaking, spinning, fur trapping & much more. phsb.org

---------------------TRAVERSE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DOWNTOWN WALKING TOURS: 10:30am.

Start at the Perry Hannah statue on the corner of Sixth St. & Union St., TC. Free; donations appreciated. traversehistory.wordpress.com

---------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 12-2pm: John Robinson will sign his book “Johnny’s Vintage Rock ‘N’ Roll Q & A.” 2-4pm: Jamie Harrison will

The Petoskey Steel Drum Band heads to Petoskey’s Festival on the Bay on Fri., Aug. 17 at 7pm at Ed White Ballfield in the entertainment tent, Petoskey. This band is made up of about 30 students who perform a blend of Caribbean steel drum music with contemporary tunes. The festival runs Aug. 16-18 and includes several other bands, activities and more. Info: petoskeyfestival.com

read from her book “The Widow Nash.” 4-6pm: Marie Helena will sign her book “The Night Blooming Jasmine in Your Heart.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------27TH ANNUAL ODAWA HOMECOMING JIINGTAMOK (POW WOW): 1pm, LTBB Pow Wow Grounds, Harbor Springs. Enjoy singing, dancing, a drum contest, & Miss Odawa contest. Free.

---------------------DOODLE ART DAY: 1-3pm, Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Free. twistedfishgallery.com

---------------------NORTHPORT WINE & CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL: 1-6pm, Haserot Park, Northport. MI’s only dog-friendly wine festival. Enjoy wine, beer & cider from 14 area wineries & breweries. Live music by Troll for Trout. $15 pre-sale includes a souvenir tasting glass & four drink tickets. $20 door. northportomenachamber.org/northport-wine-festival

SUMMER SOUNDS: NASHON HOLLOWAY CONCERT: 7pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. $10 adults; kids free. michlegacyartpark.org/events/summer-sounds

---------------------“BIG FISH”: 7:30pm, Alan L. Gornick Auditorium, Gaylord. A musical about a father who tells his son bedtime stories from his job as a traveling salesman. $15 adults; $12 students, seniors & active & former military. gaylordcommunityproductions.com

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BAY VIEW MUSIC FESTIVAL OUTREACH CONCERT: 8pm, St. Francis Xavier Church, Petoskey.

Spectrum Brass and Students Present: Bernstein at 100. Free. bayviewassociation.org

ROCK N JAM: 4:30-8pm, The Rock, Kingsley.

Bring an instrument or listen in. Free. facebook. com/pg/therockofkingsleyMI/events

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BOYNE CITY PIRATE FEST: Aug. 9-12. Includes the Pirate Sail, Buskermania! Real Street Theater, A Pirate Musical, pirate fire jugglers, sword swallowers, & much more. boynecitypiratefest.com PRESERVATION CELEBRATION: 6-9pm, City Opera House, TC. Talk about achievements in the past year, as well as what lies ahead. gtrlc. org/recreation-events/events

MUSIC IN MACKINAW CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. Enjoy high energy Celtic & world music with Nessa.

------------------------------------------27TH ANNUAL ODAWA HOMECOMING JIINGTAMOK (POW WOW): 7pm, LTBB Pow Wow Grounds, Harbor Springs. Enjoy singing, dancing, a drum contest, & Miss Odawa contest. Free.

---------------------BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Fatherdaughter duo Bob & Susan Fawcett bring original & cover tunes spanning musical genres from waltzes to the blues. $10 advance; $15 night of; $8 students; $5 12 & under. redskystage.com

---------------------BROADWAY & BROADWAY DISNEY: 7pm, Music House Museum, Williamsburg. Red Wings organist Dave Calendine will perform Broadway Classics & Broadway Disney on the ‘Mighty’ Wurlitzer theater organ. $5-$15. musichouse.org

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---------------------HAPPY TOGETHER TOUR 2018: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy 60’s & 70’s music with The Turtles, Chuck Negron formerly of Three Dog Night, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Association, Mark Lindsay (former lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders), & The Cowsills. $45, $55, $60. lrcr.com

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THE ACCIDENTALS: 7:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Yahoo Music’s “Top 10 Bands to Watch in 2017.” $25; $5 students. northportcac.org

“DEATH”: 8pm, Little Traverse Civic Theatre, Petoskey. A maniacal killer is at large & Kleinman is caught between conflicting factions with plans on how to catch him. $13. ltct.org

DISNEY’S “THE LION KING,” KIDSS: 2pm & 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company. $15 adults, $8 under 18 (plus fees). oldtownplayhouse.com

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------------------------------------------STEVE MARTIN & MARTIN SHORT: SOLD OUT: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. “An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life with The Steep Canyon Rangers & Jeff Babko.” $78-$96. tickets.interlochen.org

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ALANSON RIVERFEST: (See Sat., Aug. 11)

------------PETOSKEY TRIATHLON: 8am, 101 West Lake St., Petoskey. 3disciplines.com

---------------------TC - RUN MI CHEAP: 8am, Harringtons By The Bay, TC. 13.1, 10K & 5K. runmichigancheap.com

Jeff Daniels & Ben Daniels Band Acoustically Speakin’ Summer ‘18 • Aug. 24

BATA shuttle available for all major Kresge events. Reservations required.

Visit BATA.net/Interlochen for more info.

THESE AND MANY MORE

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18TH ANNUAL ALDEN CLASSIC SPORTS CAR SHOW: Downtown Alden. Presented by the Twin Bay British Car Club. Featuring sports cars from all over the world from 1929 - present.

Highlighting over 100 classic & unique sports cars. Registration runs from 9am-noon, with awards at 3pm. Free.

---------------------ANTIQUE AUTO SHOW & SALE: (See Sat., Aug. 11)

---------------------TOP O’ MICHIGAN BOAT RACE: (See Sat., Aug. 11)

---------------------CLASSIC BRITISH CAR SHOW: 10am-3pm, Downtown Alden.

---------------------27TH ANNUAL ODAWA HOMECOMING JIINGTAMOK (POW WOW): Noon, LTBB Pow Wow Grounds, Harbor Springs. Enjoy singing, dancing, a drum contest, & Miss Odawa contest. Free.

---------------------“BIG FISH”: 2pm, Alan L. Gornick Auditorium, Gaylord. A musical about a father who tells his son bedtime stories from his job as a traveling salesman. $15 adults; $12 students, seniors & active & former military. gaylordcommunityproductions.com

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“DEATH”: 2pm, Little Traverse Civic Theatre, Petoskey. A maniacal killer is at large & Kleinman is caught between conflicting factions with plans on how to catch him. $13. ltct.org

---------------------AUTHOR SIGNING: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. Kevin Del Principe will sign his book “I Animal.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------BAY VIEW MUSIC FESTIVAL OUTREACH CONCERT: 3pm, First Congregational Church, Charlevoix. Chamber Brass Presents: Brass Showcase IV. Free. bayviewassociation.org

---------------------12TH ANNUAL JUNE JANS MEMORIAL CONCERT: 5pm, First Congregational UCC Church, Gaylord. Rokko & the Hat Band brings cabaret rock from the 70’s to today. A freewill offering will be taken for Harbor Hall - inpatient addiction facility serving northern MI.

Fresh. Flavor. Fun.

---------------------BOYNE CITY PIRATE FEST: (See Sat., Aug. 11) ---------------------OLIVIA MAINVILLE & THE AQUATIC TROUPE: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Featuring gypsy swing & baroque pop. $20/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

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Rubber Ducky FESTIVAL August 18, 2018

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WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT NIGHT SKY VIEWING: 10pm, Raven Hill Discovery Center Moonbase (next to the School House), East Jordan.

Join local astronomer Patrick Stonehouse & discover the River of Stars & enjoy the meteor showers. Donations appreciated. miravenhill.org

aug 13

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PAINT GRAND TRAVERSE: Aug. 13-18. Presented by Crooked Tree Arts Center. Forty-five artists will participate & compete in the masters competition for major cash awards. A quick draw competition will be held on Weds., Aug. 15. The Gala Preview Hour will be held on Sat., Aug. 18 at 6pm, followed by the Gala Celebration & Sale at 7pm. paintgrandtraverse.com

---------------------RUBBER DUCKY FESTIVAL: Aug. 13-19, Bellaire. Festivities include the Bay Area Big Band, Community Paddle Event, Commission on Aging Picnic & Car Show, Duck & Glow 5K Run Walk & 1 Mile Kiddie Dash, Rubber Ducky Parade & Race, Short’s Glacial Hill Challenge XC & more. bellairechamber.org

---------------------MOVIE MONDAYS: ART & DESIGN FILMS: 5:30-8:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Theater, Petoskey. Featuring “Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides.” Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------“HISTORY OF POWER ISLAND”: 6pm, GT County Senior Center, Acme. Presented by local author Kathy Firestone. Free; optional buffetstyle dinner at 5pm for $5 (must register). 9222080. grandtraverse.org

AN EVENING WITH NICK PETRIE: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. This author brings his new book, “Light it Up,” the latest installment of the Peter Ash series. Reserve your spot: 231.347.1180. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

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U OF M CLUB STUDENT SEND-OFF & SUMMER PICNIC: 6-8pm, F&M Park, TC. For all new & returning U of M students, families, fans & alumni TRAVERSE CITY. Find on Facebook. Free.

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------------------------------------------GT HUMANISTS PRESENT GOLAM RABBANI: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Human rights activist Golam Rabbani will speak about his own experience as a refugee. He’ll also talk about the Rohingya people. Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------MACKINAW AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S LECTURE SERIES: 7pm, Mackinaw Area Public Library, Mackinaw City. Dr. Charles Cleland will present “Beyond the Far Horizon: Adventures of a Fur Trader.”

---------------------MONDAY NIGHT CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 7pm, Onekama Village Park. Miriam Pico & David Chown bring pop, light rock, show tunes & blues. Free.

---------------------THE TELEGRAPH QUARTET: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Enjoy both standard chamber music & a mix of contemporary & non-standard repertoire. They are recipients of the 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award. $29.50. tickets.interlochen.org

aug 14

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PAINT GRAND TRAVERSE: (See Mon., Aug. 13)

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39TH CHARLEVOIX COUNTY SENIOR PICNIC & HEALTH EXPO: 9am, Harvest Barn Church, East Jordan. Dress in Hawaiian apparel. Featuring over 27 vendors. Live music by John Slough. $5 60+; $8 non-seniors. charlevoixcounty.org

---------------------COFFEE @ TEN, TC: 10am-1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Carnegie Rotunda, TC. Painting demo with Steve Stannard, artist, illustrator & landscape architect. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------WILDFLOWER WALK: 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Free, donations appreciated. grassriver.org

---------------------GT REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY EVENTS: Arcadia Marsh. 4-6pm: Learn about plans for a Universally Accessible trail at this location, & learn why this place is significant for birds, fish & animals. 6:30-8:30pm: Enjoy a hike & learn about the Overlook Trail. gtrlc.org

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT SPEAKER SERIES: TITANIC: 6-8pm, Raven Hill Discovery Center Main Museum, East Jordan. David Kaplan will share his interest & research on the Titanic.

Donations appreciated. miravenhill.org

---------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY TC MEETING: 6:30-8:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new to CCL, arrive at 6pm for an introduction. 231-499- 6747. citizensclimatelobby.org

---------------------MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE SERIES: 7pm, Douglas Park, Rotary Park Pavilion, Manistee. Enjoy St. Louis blues with the Jeremiah Johnson Band. Free.

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, Glen Arbor. Featuring the Summer Singers, an all-volunteer group of 50 voices with a wide variety of vocal music. Free. glenarborart.org

---------------------TC AUTHORS GROUP: 7pm, Hotel Indigo, rooftop patio, TC. Topics include marketing & distribution of books by northern MI authors. Traverse City Authors Facebook page for more info.

---------------------CHARLEVOIX CITY BAND CONCERT: 8pm, East Park, Odmark Pavilion, Charlevoix.

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PAINT GRAND TRAVERSE: (See Mon., Aug. 13)

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Reservations required. Meet at Chamber of Commerce parking lot 15 minutes before tour starts & be prepared to walk 10 blocks. In case of rain, meet at Gaylord Area Council for the Arts. Free. gaylordarts.org

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT SPEAKER SERIES: MACKINAC BRIDGE: THEN & NOW: 6-8pm, Raven Hill Discovery Center, East Jordan. Kim Nowack of the Mackinac Bridge Authority shares the history of the bridge. Donations appreciated. miravenhill.org

---------------------BELLAIRE EVENING COMMUNITY PADDLE: 6:30-8pm, Richardi Park, Bellaire. All ages & paddle crafts can join in this slow paddle. Begins at Bellaire’s Intermediate River. Free. paddleantrim.com/events

---------------------PLANT IT WILD PRESENTS “INSECTS, THE GOOD AND THE BAD”: 7pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, Frankfort. Featuring Dr. Nathaniel Walton, entomologist, MSU Extension. Free. plantitwild.net

---------------------THE ARCHITECT WHO DESIGNED THE FIFE LAKE BRICK SCHOOL: 7pm, Fife Lake Library. Author Julie Schopieray will travel back in time to tell you about TC resident Jens C. Peterson, northern MI’s first licensed architect.

231-879-3940. Free.

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DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC: 11am-2pm, Benzonia Public Library. Advice on solving garden & landscape problems including plant, weed, bug, & disease identification. Free clinic offered by MSU Extension & Local Master Gardeners. Info: 231-882-4111. benzonialibrary.org

---------------------FREE COMMUNITY CPR: 11am-1pm, McLaren Northern Michigan, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. mclaren.org

---------------------LECTURE WITH JEROME RAND: 11:30am1:30pm, NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Jerome will be talking about his 271-day non-stop sail around the world aboard the Westsail 32, “Mighty Sparrow.” Reservations required: 231-348-6600. $12; includes lunch.

GTAGS AUGUST MEETING: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Karen Krugman presents “Colonial Research in America.” Free.

---------------------REGIONAL DOWNTOWN SUMMIT: 1-4:30pm, All Seasons Hotel & Resort, Kalkaska. US-131 community leaders, businesses, non-profits, residents, & other stakeholders are invited to learn about redevelopment approaches, community programs, & action steps in forming downtown revitalization efforts. RSVP: 929-5083. Free.

---------------------ELK RAPIDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Samels Farm, Williamsburg. 231-264-8202. samelsfarm.org

---------------------16TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL ON THE BAY: Petoskey, Aug. 16-18. Featuring live music by The Easy Picks, Petoskey Steel Drum Band, The Galactic Sherpas, Owen James Duo, The Pistil Whips, Tell Yo Mama & many others; The BIG Art Show; kayak & canoe rides; Celebration of the Sunset & much more. petoskeyfestival.com

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MUSIC ON MAIN W/ HOLLY AUGUST: 6-8pm, The Village at Bay Harbor, Main St..

51ST ANNUAL BUCKLEY OLD ENGINE SHOW: 7am, Buckley Old Engine Show Grounds, 2 1/2 Rd., Buckley. Over 1,000 antique tractors, 600+ antique gas & oil engines, 400 lot flea market, 1918 steam train rides, 1948 Spirit of Traverse City steam train rides, hands on farming exhibits & much more. $10 adults; 15 & under, free. buckleyoldengineshow.org

---------------------AUGUST GEEK BREAKFAST: 8am, Bubba’s, TC. A networking event for tech-minded people to discuss topics like social media, digital marketing, design & more over bacon, eggs & coffee. Free plus cost of breakfast. Find on Facebook.

---------------------RUBBER DUCKY FESTIVAL: (See Mon., Aug. 13)

---------------------CHARLEVOIX SUMMER SIDEWALK SALES: Downtown Charlevoix & throughout area. Most merchants will be on the sidewalk from 9am6pm, & then inside after 6pm. charlevoix.org

---------------------“SONG FOR HOPE”: This fundraiser for Buckets of Hope will be held Aug. 16-18 in front of Horizon Books, TC. Join the song circle & sing “This Land is Your Land” from 10am-10pm, Thurs. through Sat. Funds raised will be used to rekindle hope in struggling neighborhoods through urban gardening projects. 231-883-7213. bucketsofrain.org

---------------------FRIENDS SUMMER BOOK SALE: 10am-4pm, Bellaire Public Library.

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sushi & Japanese favorites take-out delivery dine-in call/text 231.633.RICE 510 w 14th street Food Truck open 7 days at The Little Fleet

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AN EVENING WITH DR. MONA HANNA-ATTISHA: 6pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Auditorium, Petoskey. Mona will discuss her book “What the Eyes Don’t See.” Reserve: 231.347.1180. This is the story of the Flint water crisis - a tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

THE TELEGRAPH QUARTET: (See Mon., Aug. 13)

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CHILDREN’S SUMMER ARTS & CRAFTS WORKSHOP: 11am-1pm, Mackinaw Pavilion, behind Mackinaw City Public Schools. Painting butterfly magnets. Bring a snack & clothes to paint in. Free. facebook.com/mackinawartscouncil

------------------------------------------SECOND ANNUAL ST. JUDE SUNSET IN THE VINES: 6pm, Rove Estate Vineyard & Tasting Room, TC. Benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This event will feature dinner, artisan wine, live music, entertainment from Ben Whiting, a silent auction & sunset overlooking the Rove Estate Vineyard & Tasting Room. Your contributions ensure that families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food. $100/ ticket. stjude.org/sunsetinthevines.com

---------------------SMALL PLATES: A progressive dinner along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Seatings at 6pm, 7:10pm & 8:20pm. Enjoy a glass of wine & a gourmet tapas dish in the tasting rooms of up to three wineries. $20 per seating. lpwines.com/ events/small-plates

---------------------WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: WELD A FISH WITH MAX SASSO: 6-8pm, Raven Hill Discovery Center Maker Space, East Jordan. Use odds & ends of metal to create a fish. Let Max do the welding for you or try your hand at welding. Donations appreciated. miravenhill.org

---------------------AUTHOR READING: 7pm, Dog Ears Books, Northport. Bill Smith, author of “Chickadees at Night,” will read from his two most recent books, “4 a.m. December 25” & “Chickadeeland.” dogearsbooks.net

---------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions, lawn, TC. Featuring Jim Hawley: Remembering Dan Fogelberg. Free. gtpavilions. org/2018-concerts-on-the-lawn

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NORTHPORT FOLLIES: 7pm, Northport Auditorium. 231-386-5001.

51ST ANNUAL BUCKLEY OLD ENGINE SHOW: (See Thurs., Aug. 16)

STREET MUSIQUE: 7-9pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs. “World Musique Week” with Murphy’s Bow, From West Africa to India, Mike Bass, Saldaje, Tommy Tropic, face painters & others.

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CHURCHILL CLASSIC TRAIL RUN: 13.1, 10K, 5K, 1 MILE RUN: 7:30am, North Central State Trail Trailhead, corner of Western & Taylor streets, Cheboygan. everalracemgt.com

JEFF GAFFIGAN: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Enjoy “the King of (Clean) Comedy.” $83, $78, $71. tickets.interlochen.org

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---------------------RUBBER DUCKY FESTIVAL: (See Mon., Aug. 13)

---------------------“PATH TO PEN” HILLY WRITING WORKSHOP: 9am-1pm, Olsen Farm/Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center, Glen Arbor. Join Elise DeBuysser & Nancy McKay on a three-mile writing tour of Port Oneida farms, gardens & landscapes. Bring a journal, pencil or pen, water & lunch or snacks. phsb.org

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---------------------“SONG FOR HOPE”: (See Thurs., Aug. 16) ---------------------EAST JORDAN SIDEWALK SALE: 10am-5pm.

---------------------FRIENDS SUMMER BOOK SALE: 10am-4pm, Bellaire Public Library.

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CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. Featuring Lara Fullford. Free. crookedtree.org

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RED DRIVE CONCERT SERIES: 6-9pm, the grounds of The Village at GT Commons, TC. Featuring live music by SlowTaKo, food trucks, growlers, glass pours & more. thevillagetc.com

------------------------------------------A CELTIC SUMMERTIDE: 7pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Enjoy Manitou Winds, an eclectic ensemble featuring harp, guitar & voice. Free. manitouwinds.com/performances

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BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY: 8-10pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. This musical depicts the short life of Buddy Holly & his rise to recording fame, only to end tragically in 1959 in a plane crash. $90, $60, $45, $30. greatlakescfa.org

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DREW KOSTIC MEMORIAL 5K OBSTACLE RUN: 8am, Copemish. 222none.org RUBBER DUCKY FESTIVAL: (See Mon., Aug. 13)

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---------------------CHARLEVOIX SUMMER SIDEWALK SALES: (See Thurs., Aug. 16)

---------------------DUNE DASH: 9am. A 4-mile run/walk that showcases the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail located in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Starts & finishes at the base of the Dune Climb.

Proceeds go to the continued construction & maintenance of Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail.

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WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: PHIYO—YOGA & MEDITATION: 9am-noon, Peninsula Beach, Boyne City.

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ANTRIM CREEK: NORTHERN MI HISTORY: 10am-noon, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire.

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: Tom Daldin will sign his book “Under the Radar Michigan: The Next 50.” 12-2pm: Barbara Carney-Coston will sign her book “To The Copper Country: Mihaela’s Journey.” 2-4pm: Michael J. Thorp will sign his book “The Great Great Lakes Trivia Test.” 4-6pm: Daniel Tollefson will sign his book “Financial Sense: A Guide to Financial Freedom.” horizonbooks.com

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---------------------KIERSTEN’S RIDE: Chandler Hills Campground, Boyne Falls. 10am Horseback Trail Ride/ Noon Walk/2pm ATV Ride for suicide prevention programs in northern lower MI. 231-675-5047. kierstensride.org/index.html

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KINGSLEY LIONS CLUB CAR, TRUCK & MOTORCYCLE SHOW: 11:30am-3:30pm, 215 S. Brownson St., Kingsley. RESCHEDULED! Live music by Steven D and the Keys. All entry fees will be donated to the GT Area Veterans Coalition. 231-313-1837. $10 per vehicle.

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---------------------FUNDRAISER FOR WINGS OF WONDER: Stormcloud Brewing Co., Frankfort. Fifty percent of all sales in the pub today from 4-6pm will be donated to Wings of Wonder. Rebecca Lessard, the organization’s founder & director, along with a couple raptors. stormcloudbrewing.com

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FRANK SINATRA LIVE AT THE LIBRARY: 5pm, Bellaire Public Library. Featuring Billy McAllister (as Old Blue Eyes) performing all his biggest hits.

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STUFF THE BUS DRIVE: Help “Stuff the Bus” for all of the TCAPS elementary schools. August 7-27 you can drop off school supplies at Shift Chiropractic & help fill the TCAPS classrooms this school year. Find on Facebook. theshifttc.com/events

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FITNESS WITH A FRIEND: Current Y regular members can bring a friend for free over the summer months, through Sept. 3. Effective at any GT Bay YMCA facility. gtbayymca.org

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GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: Flintfields Horse Park, TC through Aug. 12. Six weeks of equestrian competition, featuring jumpers, hunters & equitation with riders from around the country competing for prestige & prize money. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

---------------------ALDEN EVENING STROLL: Thursdays, 6-8pm through Aug., Downtown Alden. Featuring live music & street entertainers. Shops & restaurants stay open late.

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BOYNE CITY’S STROLL THE STREETS: Fridays through Aug., 6-9pm, downtown Boyne City.

Featuring traditional folk, bluegrass, jazz & rock music. Special activities include magicians, caricature artists, face-painters & balloon-twisters. boynecitymainstreet.com

---------------------FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE: Fridays, 5:30-9pm, Aug. 3-24. A community block party featuring live music, entertainment, food, demonstrations & family activities along the 100 & 200 blocks of East Front St., TC.

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GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR OF TC: Perry Hannah Plaza, corner of 6th & Union, TC. A 2 1/2 hour, 2 mile walk around the city & through its historic neighborhoods. Held at 2pm on Mondays & Tuesdays. walktchistory.com

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MUSIC IN MACKINAW CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Roth Performance Shell, Mackinaw City. Great Lakes World Music with Song of the Lakes.

---------------------SCOTT MCCREERY: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. This country music superstar will perform his chart topping tunes including “Five More Minutes.” $50, $60, $65. lrcr.com

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THE TELEGRAPH QUARTET: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Enjoy both standard chamber music & a mix of contemporary & non-standard repertoire. They are recipients of the 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award. $29.50. tickets.interlochen.org

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RUBBER DUCKY FESTIVAL: (See Mon., Aug. 13) TC TRIATHLON: 8am. The Olympic- & sprint-distance races start in the waters of Bowers Harbor on West GT Bay for a loop swim. enduranceevolution.com/ traverse-city-triathlon

---------------------PESHAWBESTOWN TRADITIONAL POW WOW: (See Sat., Aug. 18)

CEMETERY WALKING TOURS: 4pm, TC. Will start just inside the cemetery off Eight St., across from the fire station. Free; donations appreciated. traversehistory.wordpress.com

---------------------BENZIE AREA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT: 7pm, Benzie Central High School Auditorium, Benzonia. “Imported from France.”

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---------------------MUFFIN RIDE: Fridays, 9am. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club. Pick from 30, 38 or 44 miles. Leave from the parking lot behind Subway, Greilickville. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

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THE HONOR RIDE: Mondays, 9am. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club. Meet at Honor Village Park, across from the Honor Plaza.

Choose from 25-30 miles or 35-50 miles. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

---------------------MONDAY MOVIE NIGHT: Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Held every Mon. through Aug. 20 at 8pm. Bonfire at 7pm. lavenderhillfarm.com/ movie-nights

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ROCK ‘N RIDES: Wednesdays, 6-8pm through Sept. 12, Little Bohemia Family Tavern, TC. Presented by Northwestern MI Regional Antique Automobile Club of America. Blues music host Blair Miller on The Cruise Brothers Stage. Enjoy cars, trucks, motorcycles, music, food & more. nwmraaca.com/events

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STONE CIRCLE: Held on Saturdays through Sept.

1 at 9pm. Featuring poetry, storytelling & music in an outdoor amphitheater. Poet bard Terry Wooten will host the gatherings. Located 10 miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr., & then follow signs. $5/adults, $3/kids. 231264-9467. stonecir@aol.com terry-wooten.com

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VASA DOMINGOS: Sundays, 10am, Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC. elgruponorte.org

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FAMILY, FOOD & MORE OFTEN THAN NOT FODOGRAPHS - FIBER ART OF MARIE WOHADLO: Traverse Area District Library, TC. This exhibit runs through the summer. tadl.org

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YOGA ON THE BEACH: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8:30am; Fridays, 10am through Aug. 14.

Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. All levels. facebook.com/yogaonthebeachNMI ALDEN FARMER’S MARKET: Thursdays, 4-7pm through Aug. 30, Downtown Alden.

BELLAIRE FARMERS MARKET: Held on Fridays, 8am-noon, ASI Community Center & Park, Bellaire. areaseniorsinc.org

---------------------DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8:30am-1pm, 400 block of Howard St., Petoskey.

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---------------------MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS SUMMER SHOW & SALE: Runs through Aug. at City Opera House, TC. Featuring nine artists with over 100 pieces of original art. A special feature is “Seeking Van Gogh.” Each artist has painted a local scene as Van Gogh might have painted it. cityoperahouse.org

---------------------MONSTER FISH: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST RIVER GIANTS: A Major Exhibition of National Geographic. Runs through Oct. 7 at Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Dennos Museum hours: Mon.-Sat.: 10am-5pm; Thurs.: 10am-8pm; & Sun.: 1-5pm. dennosmuseum.org

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HARBOR SPRINGS FARMERS MARKET: Weds. & Sat., 9am-1pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs.

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

RUFUS SNODDY: “TEXTURES & ALLUSIONS”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. An Artist Talk will be held on Sun., Aug. 12 from 12-1:30pm.

Runs through Aug. higherartgallery.com

------------------------------------------MANISTEE FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 8am-1pm, Washington St. & Memorial Dr., Manistee. mifma.org

---------------------OUTDOOR BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Veteran’s Park, Boyne City. Held every Weds. & Sat., 8am-noon. Featuring over 70 vendors. For SAT., AUG. 11 ONLY: The Market will move to Peninsula Park. Featuring live music by Annie & Rod Capps. Sat., Aug. 18 will feature live music by Darby O’Bell. boynecityfarmersmarket.com

---------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Weds. & Sat., 7:30am-noon through Oct. Sara Hardy Farmers Market Lot, TC. Local produce, baked goods, flowers & plants. downtowntc.com

---------------------THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mon., 12-4pm. Held on the South Historic Front Lawn. Overflow parking will be available on the front lawn adjacent to the market. thevillagetc.com

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“MEMORIES AND ART IN THE MAKING: CELEBRATING THE COMMUNITY WE SHARE”: Aug. 17 - Sept. 28, Ephraim Shay Hexagon House, Harbor Springs. Presented by the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society. Runs on Fridays & Saturdays from 11am-3pm through Sept. 28. 231-526-9771.

“WHERE WE LIVE” ART EXHIBIT: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Runs through Sept. 1 during gallery hours of 11am-3pm, Tues. through Fri. & 12-2pm, Sat. gaylordarts.org

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OAC EXHIBIT: Oliver Arts Center, Frankfort.

Join Higher Art Gallery owner & artist Shanny Brooke, along with artists Joe De Luca & Daniel Heron in a group show. Runs through Aug. 30. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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---------------------ART WALK WEDNESDAYS: Petoskey/Bay Harbor. Every Weds. through Aug. 15 from 4-6pm, participating galleries, including the Northern Michigan Artists Market, will have events like artist meet & greets, artist demos, music, appetizers & more. redskystage.com

---------------------COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS EXHIBIT: The Gallery at Iron Fish Distillery, Thompsonville.

Featuring the art of Barbara Webb & Jane Smeltzer, who work together to create paintings in a style they call “rustic/contemporary works of art which emerge from a combination of wood, metal & paint.” Runs through Aug. 28. The gallery is open on weekends from 12-7pm, & on weekdays by appointment. Call 231-378-3474 to schedule.

---------------------EXHIBIT: 2018 MEMBERS SHOW: Glen Arbor Arts Center, Glen Arbor. A showcase of GAAC

------------------------------------------RURAL INSPIRATIONS BY ALAN MACIAG: See how light transmits from eye to hand to canvas. Runs through Aug. at Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. twistedfishgallery.com

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WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT SPLASH: Jordan River Art Center, East Jordan. Art exhibit celebrating Northern MI’s rivers, lakes & aquatic inhabitants.

Runs Aug. 12-31. miravenhill.org

---------------------OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA JURIED SUMMER SALON SHOW: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gallery, TC. Featuring about 230 pieces by many top oil painters. Runs through Sept. 1. crookedtree.org

---------------------CENTER GALLERY, GLEN ARBOR: - JUDITH TUMMION: Painter Judith Tummino puts her love for Leelanau’s landscape on display, Aug. 10-16.

- LINDA BEEMAN: Linda looks “at nature through the eyes of mokuhanga” — an ancient form of Japanese woodblock printing. Her work will be displayed Aug. 17-30. An artist’s reception will be held on Fri., Aug. 17 from 6-8pm. Center Gallery is open daily from 11am-5pm. 231-3343179. lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - MIND INTO MATTER - CYNTHIA RUTHERFORD: Runs through Aug. 18 in Gilbert Gallery.

Cynthia’s paintings include textures, images, graffiti, glazes, & washes of paint.

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

- “NORTHERN MICHIGAN, LIVING IT, LOVING IT!”: This CTAC Kitchen Painters Exhibit runs in the Atrium Gallery through Sept. 8. Over 20 area artists capture the beauty & spirit of Northern MI in their original paintings.

---------------------RAVEN HILL DISCOVERY CENTER, EAST JORDAN: - WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT - CHARLEVOIX SPINNERS & WEAVERS GUILD: Aug. 11 - Aug. 17. Members will share their interpretations of all aspects of water through their spinning & weaving.

- SMITHSONIAN WATER/WAYS EXHIBIT: Featuring model ships & water technology models, ongoing Power Point presentation of early water technology, a Call for Citizen Scientists Display

by National Science Foundation, School of Fish Art “swimming” & more. An opening will be held on Sat., Aug. 11 from 10am-4pm. Runs through Sept. 23. miravenhill.org

ICE CUBE TAKING OVER DETROIT A big night for hip-hop is set to take place at The Takeover in Detroit on Sat., Sept. 29: Ice Cube is coming, and bringing withhim performers Too $hort and Spice 1. Ice Cube hasn’t been to Detroit since 2016, but with his 10th album, Everythang’s Corrupt, heading out way this year, he’s hot on the promotional road. The 97.9 WJLB event will be hosted by Detroit Goon Sqwad founder and hip-hop artist Trick-Trickw …

Dance-pop artist Billie Eilish is kicking off a North American tour this fall, launching on Oct. 23 in Portland, Oregon, and staying on the road through the end of November.

Eilish’s latest single, her collaboration with Khalid, has been included on the soundtrack for season two of 13 Reasons Why. Eilish is also currently working on her first fulllength album, which will serve as the followup to her debut EP, Don’t Smile at Me. On the trek, she’ll headline dates at the Metro in Chicago and Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theater …

In what’s reportedly an Orbison-estateapproved production, a hologram of the legendary late Roy Orbison is set to embark on a 28-date concert tour through North America. Using digital laser technology and live theatrical stagecraft, Orbison’s vocals

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have been digitally remastered for a set of 16 songs, and his hologram image will be accompanied by live musicians. The trek, called In Dreams: Roy Orbison in Concert will make music history as the first worldwide hologram tour. The show starts Oct. 1 in Oakland, California, and will make a stop at Detroit’s Fox Theater on Oct. 20 …

Another late legend, Tom Petty, will be the subject of a box set from Reprise Records. The set was put together by Petty’s wife, Dana, and his daughter, Adria. Its four CDs will include 60 tracks — a mix of previously unreleased studio tunes, live tracks, and alternate visions of his hits with the Heartbreakers. One single, “Keep a Little Soul,” has already been released to radio.

The box set, An American Treasure, will arrive Sept. 28 …

LINK OF THE WEEK Photographer Anthony Norkus has long been a fixture in the pit of Michigan stages, having shot The Pixies, Jack White, Mustard Plug, Jesse Ray, and dozens more.

Now, you can see what he sees: Check out his band and solo artist photography at his official Facebook page, facebook.com/ anthonynorkusphotography …

THE BUZZ Another Wheatland Music Festival is

heading your way this fall, with the 2018 edition slated for Sept. 7–9 in Remus. wheatlandmusic.org …

Also in September, check out the Michigan Bluesfest in Lansing, running Sept. 15–16.

More details at michiganbluesfest.com …

Kalamazoo singer-songwriter Brian Koenigsknecht has just released a new uptempo album, Roswell, which features contributions from members of The Crane Wives and other well-known West Michigan musicians …

The Tuesday Evening Music Club has begun at Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, with coming performances from Grand Rapids rock/funk/jazz fusion band Desmond Jones (Aug. 21) and G.R. O.G. Ralston and Friends (Aug. 28) … 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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While a couple of the tracks are a bit overwhelming to listen to due to sheer component overload (see “Pour It Out”), for the most part, these are snappy compositions that merge psychedelic folk with West Coast pop, best executed on tunes like “Compass Pass” and “Chilli,” and they’re especially fun listens for the pop-nostalgia fan.

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Hailing from Cardiff, Wales, this edgy blend of soul, psychedelia, indie-rock, and club crankers starts with solid beats and builds upon them via the multitalented Davey Newington, who hails from a long line of musicians and shows off his skills on a range of sounds and instruments. Disco rhythms surface on tunes like “Loner Boogie” and “Jerry.” More lush arrangements take center stage on tracks like “Walking Thompson’s Park” and “Face Behind Her Cigarette”. the contrast between styles is part of what makes this set so listenable.

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Another duo — this one made up of Nicholas Frampton and Evelyn Taylor — takes serious sound inspiration from the ’60s and early ’70s. Ranging from folk rock to shoegaze, this emotive set was recorded while the pair was on the road and co-produced with Midlake’s McKenzie Smith. It’s an assured sequel to their 2014 EP Reverie State and includes tracks like the acutely contemplative “Lately” alongside more uptempo tunes like “River in Reverse” and “Stay.”

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By Ross Boissoneau UNDER THE BANDSHELL & AT THE CAFE Acclaimed jazz flutist Ali Ryerson will perform two shows during a brief sojourn to northern Michigan. She’ll be at the Torch Lake Café in Eastport on Wednesday, Aug. 15, with fellow woodwind players Chris Bickley and Nancy Stagnitta, and East Park in Charlevoix the following evening. “I love it in northern Michigan,” said Ryerson. “The band shell in Charlevoix is magical.”

Ryerson has been performing for four decades. She grew up in a musical family and first gravitated to trumpet, like two of her three brothers (the other plays trombone). Her mother suggested flute would be a better choice. “I don’t remember why, but I do remember I fell in love with it,” said Ryerson.

Since then she has performed both classical and jazz in various settings, from duos with the late guitarist Joe Beck to symphony orchestras. Her most recent recording, Game Changer, is an all-flute big band, with piccolos, C flutes, alto flutes, bass flute, even contrabass flute. She said she would hear the same story over and over from fellow flutists: There was no place for them in most bands, especially big bands. So she decided to do something about it, and after years of gathering arrangements performing with various groupings, she finally recorded her vision in 2013.

The concert in the park is part of Charlevoix’s continuing summer series.

Ryerson will play a selection of some of her favorite jazz standards with a rhythm section from Ohio, which includes her cousins Bob and Sue Grossman on bass and keyboards.

The Torch Lake Café date will feature a rhythm section plus Stagnitta and Bickley,

who put the date together. “It’s rare to get two world-class flutists together,” said Bickley of Ryerson and Stagnitta, principal flute for the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and a regular guest at jazz sessions across the area. “I thought it would be really cool.”

At the same time, he didn’t want to dilute the audience for the show in the park.

He said they are two independent shows, with different repertoire, personnel and approaches. “We’ll wing it like a jazz session.

It’s relaxed and intimate, not a concert date.”

IN THE WOODS When the weekend beckons, it brings with it the sounds of folk, bluegrass, rock and country. This year’s Hoxeyville festival takes place Aug. 17–19. Leftover Salmon, Dawes, the Infamous Stringdusters, Billy Strings, Luke Winslow-King and a Steppin’ In It reunion will be among the 30-plus performers at the three day Americana-based festival in the Manistee National Forest near Wellston.

The festival started in 2003 when luthier (aka guitar maker) Jake Robinson of Kalamazoo decided he wanted to honor and engage musicians in a location removed from the hustle and bustle of downstate cities. Hoxeyville was so successful that Robinson himself moved north nine years ago. The site offers 150 acres with camping, trails, access to the nearby Pine River, and music, music, music.

Performances begin at 2:30 Friday and noon Saturday and Sunday. For tickets and more information, including a complete lineup, go to Hoxeyville.com.

ON THE HARBOR Speaking of complete lineups, the Great Lakes Center for the Arts has announced its next slate of performers, speakers and events.

It kicks off with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra on Sept. 8 and goes on to present a dynamic and diverse array of performances.

Among the must-sees: • Former Senator George Mitchell, who led the peace negotiations that ended the longstanding conflict in Northern Ireland, served as a special envoy to the Middle East, and whom Time Magazine, in 2008, named one of the most 100 influential people in the world (Oct. 7) • Black Violin, an American hip-hop duo made of classically trained string instrumentalists (Oct. 13) • The Second City, the Chicago-founded comedy crew will showcase its “Dysfunctional Family Review” (Dec. 28) • The Capitol Steps, the satirical Washington, D.C.-formed sketch comedy group that’s been making fun of politics since 1981. (Feb. 16) • Vienna Boys Choir (March 10) In addition to concerts by the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, performers hailing from the region and elsewhere in the state include the Northern Michigan Chorale, Crooked Tree Arts Center (performing “The Nutcracker”), Interlochen ballet (performing “Swan Lake”), and Laureates of the Sphinx Competition (dynamic solo and chamber works performed by winners of Detroit’s Sphinx Competition).

The center, located in Bay Harbor, just south of Petoskey, will also host a cinema series, beginning with the trilogy The Lord of the Rings. The three films will be shown on consecutive nights, Sept. 28–30. Alexandra Myers, the marketing manager, said more films and more live events will also be added throughout the year. For a complete list of the current schedule, go to GreatLakesCFA.org.

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BONOBO WINERY, TC 8/17 -- Sam & Bill, 6-8

PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30

CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE, TC 8/15 -- Plain Jane Glory, 5

RIGHT BRAIN BREWERY, TC 8/11 -- TC Celtic feat. Dane Hyde, 8-10 8/17 -- Ben Kolk, 8-10

CICCONE VINEYARD & WINERY, SUTTONS BAY 8/15-16 -- Elena Zelinko, 5:30-8 FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close GT DISTILLERY, FRONT ST. TASTING ROOM, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 KILKENNY'S, TC 8/10-11 – Sweet J 8/17-18 – Brett Mitchell Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 Sun. -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 8/13 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 8/17 -- Red Drive Concert Series w/ SLowtaKo, 6-9 LITTLE BOHEMIA FAMILY TAVERN, TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 Weds. – ROCK ‘n’ RIDES ‘n’ BLUES w/ Blair Miller, 6-8 Thurs. -- The Duges, 6:30-8:30

ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 8/17 -- Miriam Pico, 5-8 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 8/11 -- Chelsea Marsh, 8-10 8/14 -- Turbo Pup, 8-10 8/15 -- Open Mic, 7-10 8/16 -- Jack Snacks, 8-10 8/17 -- Rob Coonrod, 8-10 8/18 -- The Lofteez, 8-10 THE BAYVIEW, WILLIAMSBURG 8/18 -- Tim Thayer, 7 THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7 THE FILLING STATION MICROBREWERY, THE PLATFORM, TC 8/11 -- The Go Rounds, 7:30-10 8/12 -- Andy Evans Trio, 1-3:30 8/16 -- Breathe Owl Breathe, 7-9:30 THE LITTLE FLEET, TC 8/17 -- Bluegrass Association,

SNOWBELT BREWING CO., GAYLORD 8/17 -- The Sleeping Gypsies, 7 THE LOON RESTAURANT, GAYLORD 8/11 – Doug Thomas, 7-10 8/17 – Adam Hoppe, 7-10

THE PARLOR, TC 8/11 -- Dave Crater, 8 8/15 -- Rob Coonrod or Wink, 8 8/17 -- Matt Mansfield, 8 8/18 -- Melissa Lee, 8 THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 8/14 -- Jazz Society Jam, 6-10 UNION STREET STATION, TC 8/11 -- Jocelyn & Chris Arndt, 10 8/12,8/19 -- Karaoke, 10 8/13 -- The Retrovales, 10 8/14 -- TC Comedy Collective, 8-9:30; then Open Mic w/ Matt McCalpin, 8 8/15 -- DJ Prim, 10 8/16 -- Warrior Soul, 10 8/17 -- Happy Hour w/ Blue Footed Booby, then Kwame Binea Shakedown, 5 8/18 -- Kiwame Binea Shakedown, 10 WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN RESORT, TC 8/11 -- DJ Motaz @ View, 10 8/14 -- Sweetwater Blues on The Patio, 7 8/15 -- Piano w/ David Chown on The Deck, 5; Jeff Haas Trio on The Patio, 7 8/17 -- Fifth Gear on The Patio, 6-10; DJ Shawny D at View, 10-2 8/18 -- DJ Motaz @ View, 10

TREETOPS RESORT, TOP OF THE HILL, GAYLORD 8/11 -- Dos Hippies, 7:30-10:30 8/16-17 -- A Brighter Bloom, 7:3010:30 8/18 -- Darby O'Bell, 7:30-10:30

Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee LITTLE RIVER CASINO RESORT, MANISTEE 8/11 -- Happy Together Tour w/ The Turtles, Chuck Negron, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Association,

Mark Lindsay, & The Cowsills, 8 8/18 -- Scott McCreery, 8

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CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY 8/11 -- DJ Franck, 10 8/14 – Sean Bielby, 9 8/17 – Charlie Don’t Surf, 10 8/18 – Reggie Smith & The After Party, 10

KNOT JUST A BAR, BAY HARBOR Mon,Tues,Thurs — Live music LEGS INN, CROSS VILLAGE Fri -- Kirby, 6-9

LEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN, PETOSKEY Thurs — Karaoke w/ DJ Micheal Williford, 10 Fri – TRANSMIT, Techno-Funk-Electro DJs, 10 Sun — DJ Johnnie Walker, 9 THE GRILLE AT BAY HARBOR Nightly Music

6:30-9:30 Fri -- Turbo Pup, 6:30-9:30

Otsego, Crawford & Central ALPINE TAVERN & EATERY, GAYLORD Sat -- Live Music, 6-9

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Leelanau & Benzie BELLA FORTUNA, LAKE LEELANAU 8/14 -- Robin Connell & Chris Bickley, 6-9 BLUSTONE VINEYARDS, LAKE LEELANAU 8/11 -- Special Consensus, 7 BOATHOUSE VINEYARDS, LAKE LEELANAU 8/12 -- Rhett Betty, 3:30-6 8/15 -- Jim Hawley, 5:30-8 8/19 -- Miriam Pico, 1:30-4 DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2 HOP LOT BREWING CO., SUTTONS BAY 8/11 -- Zak Bunce, 6-9 8/17 -- Plain Jane Glory, 6-9 8/18 -- Roosevelt Diggs, 6-9 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 8/11 -- Niemisto/Skellenger/Villoch, 7-10 8/14 -- New Third Coast, 6:30-9:30 8/15 -- Andre Villoch, 6:30-9:30 8/16 -- Cousin Curtiss, 6:30-9:30

8/17 -- The North Carolines, 7-10 8/18 -- Hot n' Bothered, 7-10 LEELANAU SANDS CASINO, PESHAWBESTOWN 8/11 -- Pete 'Big Dog' Fetters, 8 LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Fri & Sat -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 MISTWOOD GOLF COURSE, LAKE ANN 8/11 -- Barefoot, 6:30 8/17 -- Sweet Charlie, 6:30 PLATTE RIVER INN, HONOR Tue -- Open Mic, 7 8/17 -- John & Sandy Stout w/ Dale, 7 ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 8/11 -- Flipside, 6 8/16 -- Open Mic Night, 6-10 8/17 -- The Lofteez, 6-9 STORMCLOUD BREWING CO., FRANKFORT 8/12 -- Storm the Mic - Hosted by Blake Elliott, 6-9 8/13 -- Abigail Stauffer, 8-10

8/14 -- Ted & Fred, 8-10 8/15 -- Olivia Mainville, 8-10 8/16 -- The King Rains, 7-10 8/17 -- Melissa Lee, 8-10 THE 231 BAR & GRILL, THOMPSONVILLE 8/11 – Levi Britton THE CABBAGE SHED, ELBERTA 8/11 -- Clint Weaner, 5-9 8/15 -- Vinyl Vednesday, 4-8 8/16 -- Open Mic Night, 8 8/17 -- Jake Frysinger, 6-9 THE HAYLOFT INN, TC Thu -- Roundup Radio Show Open Mic Night, 8 TUCKER’S OF NORTHPORT 8/11 – Broom Closet Boys 8/18 -- Risque VI GRILL, SUTTONS BAY 8/15 -- The Duges, 6:30-9:30 VILLA MARINE, FRANKFORT Sat -- Raptured Melody Karaoke, 9:30

Antrim & Charlevoix CELLAR 152, ELK RAPIDS 8/12 -- Drew Hale, 6:30-9:30 8/17 -- Levi Britton, 7:30-9:30 8/18 -- Turbo Pup, 6:30-9:30 ETHANOLOGY, ELK RAPIDS 8/11 -- Abigail Stauffer, 8-11 8/17 -- Watching For Foxes, 8-11 8/18 -- Younce Guitar Duo, 8-11 GREY GABLES RESTAURANT, CHARLEVOIX Weds. – Sun. – David Collini, 6-10

MAMMOTH DISTILLING, CENTRAL LAKE Thu -- Clint Weaner, 7-10

THE BLUE PELICAN INN, CENTRAL LAKE 8/17 -- Tim Thayer, 6-9

RED MESA GRILL, BOYNE CITY 8/14 -- Brett Mitchell, 7-10

THE LANDING, EAST JORDAN 8/12 -- David Cisco, 2-5

SHORT'S BREWING CO., BELLAIRE 8/16 -- 3 Hearted, 8:30-11 8/17 -- Reggie & The After Party, 8:30-11 8/18 -- The Marsupials, 8:30-11 8/19 -- The Pistil Whips, 8-10:30

TORCH LAKE CAFÉ, CENTRAL LAKE 1st & 3rd Mon. of mo. – Trivia Tues. – Bob Webb, 6-9 Weds. – Dominic & Lee Thurs. – Open mic Fri. & Sat. – Live bands Sun. – Pine River Jazz, 2-5

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: I’m a 41-year-old married lesbian. My wife and I used to work from home together. She recently got an important job, and she’s now gone all day, five days a week. I’m happy for her, and this is good for us in the long run, but I’m really sad and lonely.

— Isolated

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: Avoid any temptation to kidnap strangers lingering in your building’s lobby. “Are you going to cut me up and put me in your freezer?” the terrified UPS man will ask. You: “Uh, I thought we’d just hang out and have coffee, but whatever works for you.”

Healthier (and less felonious) forms of coping start with unpacking what loneliness is. The late neuroscientist John Cacioppo explained loneliness as a painful feeling of “disconnection” from others. He differentiated loneliness — the aching longing for human connection — from a desire for solitude, “the pleasures of sometimes being by yourself.” And he and his wife and research partner, psychologist Stephanie Cacioppo, noted that loneliness has been associated with serious negative effects on not just emotional well-being but also physical health — including an increased risk of heart attacks. (It seems heartbreak isn’t just a metaphor.)

However, as you’re staring gloomily into the void (the indentation in the couch where your wife used to sit during the day), it might help to understand that our emotions are actually our watchdogs. They rise up in us to motivate us to engage in the sort of behaviors — like connecting with other people — that would help us survive and pass on our genes.

For example, we humans evolved to be cooperators — interdependent — which is to say we’re “people who need people.” Take author Henry David Thoreau, an icon for hermitude and self-sufficiency who put in big chunks of alone time out by Walden Pond. What few people realize, notes Thoreau expert Elizabeth Witherell, is that he was also a huge people person. In fact, Thoreau wrote in “Walden,” “I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way.”

As for you, it’s possible that some of the feelbad you’re experiencing is the discomfort we often feel about change. But chances are, you’d feel a good bit better if you could replace at least

some of the level of daily human engagement you’re used to. You could, for example, go out to a coffee shop for part of your workday — the same coffee shop every day so you can connect with other regulars there. You could also invite work-at-home friends over to your place to be coworkers. Volunteer work could be helpful, too.

No, it isn’t the same as having your wife there with you all day. But it should dial down your separation distress — perhaps even substantially. This should allow you to let your wife know you really missed her — but maybe just with a sexy kiss at the door. No guilt tripping, sadwifeface, or going man’s best friend-style — spending your day shredding all the paper products in the house with your teeth and then moving on to the drywall.

Love You Faux Ever

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: How do you know when a man’s “I love you” is for real? I’ve had men express their love to me with great sincerity, only to vanish not long afterward. Are all men this fickle?

Manipulative?

— Upset

A

: Why does a man say “I love you”? Sometimes because “Look, a ferret in a top hat!” doesn’t do much to get a woman into bed.

To parse whether a man’s “I love you” is just the later-in-the-relationship version of “You related to Yoda? Because yodalicious,” you need to consider context. The exact same statement can have different meanings depending on the context — the situation, the circumstances in which it’s made.

Not surprisingly, research by evolutionary social psychologist Joshua Ackerman and his colleagues suggests that men’s I-love-yous “are likely to be more sincere (i.e., less colored by the goal of attaining initial sexual access) after sex has occurred.” They also find that men, on average, start thinking about “confessing love” 97 days into a relationship — so just over three months. Of course, an individual man may know sooner or take longer.

All in all, the best lie detector you probably have is context — racking up a good bit of time and experiences with a man and seeing how well the walk matches the talk. You might even wait till the three-month benchmark before concluding that the I-love-yous are likely to be for real — and aren’t, say, the best possible air bag for what might come shortly afterward: “I got you a little something on my work trip. It requires a short course of antibiotics.”

“Jonesin” Crosswords "Even Chances"--the odd one's out. by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 Worker’s compensation 5 “M*A*S*H” actress Loretta 9 Wilson of “The Office” 14 Have ___ in the oven (be preggers) 15 “What ___ God wrought” (first official Morse code message) 16 Muppet wearing a horizontally striped shirt 17 2000 movie with the quote “What we do in life echoes in eternity” 19 Box lunch?

20 Relative that might be “once removed” 22 Wood for baseball bats 23 Removed 27 Mustard sometimes mixed with mayo 31 “Out of the Cellar” glam rockers 33 ___-de-France (Paris’s region) 34 1998 skating gold medalist Kulik 35 In-between feeding time invented for a Taco Bell ad campaign 38 Olympus ___ (Martian volcano) 39 Come together 40 90 degrees from norte 41 Intuitive power 43 “Don’t change” 44 Suffix similar to -let 45 Painters’ mediums 46 Lunar cycle segment 47 Present-day 49 Act like an old-timey suitor 51 Honorific for landmarks like the Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal, or Empire State Building 58 Cable movie channel owned by Lionsgate since 2016 61 Lou Gehrig’s nickname, with “The” 62 TV input or output component 63 Appellation 64 Johnny of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” 65 Color for rolls of dimes 66 Actress Natalia of “Stranger Things” 67 “Undertale” character named for a derided font

DOWN 1 Tail movements 2 Skilled 3 Burrito bar side, for short 4 Prefix with plasm 5 Sardine cousins 6 Look after 7 “Was ___ harsh?”

8 “No ___ Traffic” 9 Renaissance 10 Bowl game venue, maybe 11 Roadside rest stop 12 Insect egg 13 Keanu, in the “Matrix” series 18 “___ ever-changing world ...”

21 Living room piece 24 Short nap 25 Makes happy 26 Leave out 27 Chinese restaurant style 28 Repetitive-sounding province of the Philippines 29 Brought bad luck to 30 Brewer’s dryer 31 Archaeological site 32 The “A” that turns STEM into STEAM 35 Joining with heat 36 Harvard-set Turow book 37 Fit together 42 Range of perception 46 “Christopher Robin” character 48 Like feelings from ASMR videos, for some 49 Mock-innocent reply 50 Team VIP 52 Golden ___ (Sir Francis Drake’s flagship) 53 Airplane seat attachment 54 Head bobs 55 De Matteo of “The Sopranos” 56 Channel with a “Deportes” version 57 Sales force members 58 Succumb to gravity 59 NBC News correspondent Katy 60 Ending for Power or Gator

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will never really be elegant,” wrote French author Honoré de Balzac.

I think that’s an exaggeration, but it does trigger a worthwhile meditation. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to raise your appreciation of elegance, understand how it could beautify your soul, and add more of it to your repertoire. So here are your homework meditations: What does elegance mean to you? Why might it be valuable to cultivate elegance, not just to enhance your self-presentation, but also to upgrade your relationship with your

my reading of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to vividly express your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care about most. I urge you to show them why you love them. Reveal the depths of your insights about their true beauty. Make it clear how their presence in your life has had a beneficent or healing influence on you. And if you really want to get dramatic, you could take them to an inspiring outdoor spot and sing them a tender song or two.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book Yarn:

Remembering the Way Home, Piscean knitter Kyoko Mori writes, “The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches.” The idea is that the mistake “is a crack left open to let in the light.” Mori goes on to testify about the evil spirit she wants to be free of. “It’s that little voice in my head that says, ‘I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.’”

I’ve quoted Mori at length, Pisces, because I think her insights are the exact tonic you need right now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The prettier the

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garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener,” writes aphorist B. E. Barnes. That’ll be especially applicable to you in the coming weeks. You’ll have extra potential to create and foster beauty, and any beauty you produce will generate practical benefits for you and those you care about. But for best results, you’ll have to expend more effort than maybe you thought you should.

It might feel more like work than play -- even though it will ultimately enhance your ability to play.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author and

theologian Thomas Merton thought that the most debilitating human temptation is to settle for too little; to live a comfortable life rather than an interesting one. I wouldn’t say that’s always true about you, Taurus. But I do suspect that in the coming weeks, a tendency to settle for less could be the single most devitalizing temptation you’ll be susceptible to. That’s why I encourage you to resist the appeal to accept a smaller blessing or punier adventure than you deserve. Hold out for the best and brightest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I’ve learned

quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.” So says the wise and well-educated novelist Margaret Atwood.

Judging by your current astrological omens, I think this is an excellent clue for you to contemplate right now. What do you think? Have you been half-avoiding any teaching that you or someone else thinks you’re “supposed” to be learning? If so, I suggest you avoid it even stronger. Avoid it with cheerful rebelliousness. Doing so may lead you to what you really need to learn about next.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sometimes you

make it difficult for me to reach you. You act like you’re listening but you’re not really listening.

You semi-consciously decide that you don’t want to be influenced by anyone except yourself.

When you lock me out like that, I become a bit dumb. My advice isn’t as good or helpful. The magic between us languishes. Please don’t do that to me now. And don’t do it to anyone who cares about you. I realize that you may need to protect yourself from people who aren’t sufficiently careful with you. But your true allies have important influences to offer, and I think you’ll be wise to open yourself to them.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of us

imagine medieval Europe to have been drab and dreary. But historian Jacques Le Goff tells us that the people of that age adored luminous hues: “big jewels inserted into book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches, and the colored magic of stained glass.” Maybe you’ll be inspired by this revelation, Virgo. I hope so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you can activate sleeping wisdom and awaken dormant energy by treating your eyes to lots of vivid reds, greens, yellows, blues, browns, oranges, purples, golds, blacks, coppers, and pinks.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An astrologer on Tumblr named Sebastian says this about your sign: “Libras can be boring people when they don’t trust you enough to fully reveal themselves. But they can be just as exciting as any fire sign and just as weird as any Aquarius and just as talkative as a Gemini and just as empathetic as a Pisces. Really, Librans are some of the most eccentric people you’ll ever meet, but you might not know it unless they trust you enough to take their masks off around you.” Spurred by Sebastian’s analysis, here’s my advice to you: I hope you’ll spend a lot of time with people you trust in the coming weeks, because for the sake of your mental and physical and spiritual health, you’ll need to express your full eccentricity. (Sebastian’s at http://venuspapi.tumblr.com.)

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A blogger who

calls herself Wistful Giselle has named the phenomena that make her “believe in magic.”

They include the following: “illuminated dust in the air; the moments when a seedling sprouts; the intelligence gazing back at me from a crow’s eyes; being awaken by the early morning sun; the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with plants; the ever-changing grey green blue moods of the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.” I invite you to compile your own list, Scorpio.

You’re entering a time when you will be the beneficiary of magic in direct proportion to how much you believe in and are alert for magic. Why not go for the maximum?

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

1969, eight-foot-two-inch-tall Big Bird has been the star of the kids’ TV show Sesame Street. He’s a yellow bird puppet who can talk, write poetry, dance, and roller skate. In the early years of the show, our hero had a good friend who no one else saw or believed in: Mr. Snuffleupagus.

After 17 years, there came a happy day when everyone else in the Sesame Street neighborhood realized that Snuffy was indeed real, not just a figment of Big Bird’s imagination. I’m foreseeing a comparable event in your life sometime soon, Sagittarius. You’ll finally be able to share a secret truth or private pleasure or unappreciated asset.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Activist and

author Simone de Beauvoir was one of those Capricorns whose lust for life was both lush and intricate. “I am awfully greedy,” she wrote.

“I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.” Even if your longings are not always as lavish and ravenous as hers, Capricorn, you now have license to explore the mysterious state she described. I dare you to find out how voracious you can be if you grant yourself permission.

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