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Munson Medical Center is a wonderful example of the amazing things our community accomplishes together. This has been your community hospital for more than 100 years.

We take very seriously our obligation to care for you and your family in times of need.

Munson Medical Center’s Commitment to You

First-time contract negotiations between Munson Medical Center and the Michigan Nurses Association have recently gained increased visibility. As we move forward through this process, we want our community to know that we are committed to the following principles.

We will continue to: Support and value all members of our health care team. Munson Medical Center invests nearly $310 million in wages and benefits each year, and we remain committed to increasing pay for employees.

Bargain in good faith and remain transparent throughout the collective bargaining process.

Reinvest all of our money back into our patients, our community, and our employees.

Munson Medical Center recently reinvested nearly $130 million into facility and technology upgrades to ensure we deliver the highest quality care and the broad range of specialty services our community has come to expect and appreciate.

Do amazing things together.

Learn more and follow our progress at munsonhealthcare.org/amazingthings.

Share your thoughts via email at voicesandviews@mhc.net.

Our community. Our hospital. Doing amazing things.

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But What About Regarding last week’s letter “But What About … ” Why do you think it’s not possible to be concerned for more than one issue? Infants and children stolen from their parents, who have completed an extremely dangerous and treacherous journey in an effort to save their children from brutal violence and gangs, do not deserve to be the victims of this president’s tough-guy tactics. What have they done?

How are they to blame? I would hardly call it hysteria that they are unaccounted for, being hidden from view, kept from parents, and drugged to prevent “acting out.” Most of the world is horrified. It is unclear to me how anyone with a beating heart is not troubled by this disaster So, judging by your letter, one must choose a subject to be outraged about?

I cannot be concerned for both migrant children and children of deployed soldiers?

What sense does this make? I do not find your letter or your position very courageous, and I have compassion in my heart for ANY child going through a trauma for whatever reason. The best anyone can do is help in any way they can.

If you are so passionate about the causes you list (except, of course, the children at the border) do something about it. I look forward to hearing about the groups you have discovered and joined that help children of soldiers, homeless vets, families of suicide victims. All heartrending causes, and I would love to help, but I’ll still be “hysterical” over the infant torn from his mother’s breast while nursing. I have plenty of space in my heart.

Whitney Allen, Traverse City Munson’s Nurses and Purse The Munson nurses’ labor contract should not be a we-versus-them showdown.

Munson Medical Center does not have an endless supply of dollars, and Munson nurses alone cannot provide the medical services that Munson patients require to meet their medical needs. We all need to

Laurie Mason, Arcadia

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Michael Estes, Traverse City Try Compassion In the July 2 issue of Northern Express, Kelly Cross suggests that people protesting family separations at the southern border should instead be thinking of the children of military families and veterans. Aside from the assumption that compassion is a zero-sum game, Ms. Cross overlooks key differences in these two cases.

The needs of military families and veterans are important. But are children separated from active-duty parents being forcibly removed from the rest of the family, turned over to caretakers who don’t speak their language, put in locked camps, and left with no knowledge of where their parents are or when they will see them again? I think not. Such policies are inhumane and bring shame on our country, no matter to whom they are applied.

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Once More, With Feelings I dislike letters and articles lacking critical thinking observations and feelings.

Actually, it is alarming that this happens as often as it does and is becoming more common. For example, the letter from Charles Knapp in Maple City [June 18 issue, Northern Express].

The immigration situation is beyond comprehension. Children being separated from parents and kept in cages? Can this be happening in the United States of America?

Not my America, for sure, but yes, it is!

Adults and children are suffering from the lack of the American democracy to operate, not just effectively but at all .The immigration situation is a result of our system. The system would function if the people in the system functioned, i.e.,

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politicians. Due to a multitude of reasons that would require pages to discuss, I can only say that what is happening is the failure of American democracy. We need a nonpartisan, compassionate, intelligent review of American’s immigration policy. This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. Tihs is an American issue. We have failed! One can only imagine, or can’t imagine, the damage being done to human beings as we struggle to figure this situation out.

Do unto others as you would have others do onto you. It sounds so simple but obviously isn’t. The black hole is getting wider and deeper. I am really beside myself as to what action can be taken personally, locally, statewide, and across this nation to promote some common sense. What if those people — children — were part of your family, separated, and in cages? There is almost nothing to say except “Save us all.”

How? I have no idea!

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take a step back and try to understand the complex revenue system that Munson and all hospitals must navigate.

Most Munson patients (which likely includes the majority of us) have some form of medical insurance. That means that payments Munson receives for services are set or capped by the insurance provider (either the government or some form of private provider). When nurses provide services for patients, the payment provided by the insurance company does not vary based on compensation paid to nurses. Nurses paid greater compensations do not generate additional payments from insurance providers.

In the cases where patients have no insurance, the amount of payment that Munson will actually receive is likely even less than that provided when insurance is the payer. In some cases, Munson receives nothing for its services as some patients with nothing pay nothing for their care. Yet in all cases, all employees at Munson receive compensation for their services — even when Munson receives nothing. Munson does not ask any of their employees to work for nothing.

Munson and all hospitals play a balancing act on a daily basis to stay financially solvent.

Yes, I support nurses, just like most of us in this community do. We also want to keep Munson open and financially stable so that Munson will be here when we need it.

Munson pays a livable wage for many in our community, and while all of us would like greater compensation for the services we provide, our employers have limitations.

The bottom line: It’s our community and our health care system! Let’s all be reasonable!

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Saturday, July 14, 10am – 12 noon

Two upcoming events seek to bring together people who are interested in sharing memories of Leelanau County’s poor farm.

A group that has set out to preserve the historic barn is looking for memorabilia, photos and recollections of the Maple City farm, which once housed as many as 20 residents who helped operate the what was known at the time as the “county farm.”

This information collected will be Seeking memories, photos and stories of organized, catalogued, stored, and made publicly the Leelanau Society Lifeavailable on the atLeelanau Co.Historical Poor Farm Museum as a part of the Leelanau County Poor Farm Collection.

COME ANDisTELL US WHAT YOU HAVE. Kim Kelderhouse, the museum’s curator, said the farm historically significant because, We want to document experience and memories, and copy for decades, it was the Leelanau’s only socialphotos safety net. for a collection at the Leelanau Historical Society Museum.

“At least across northern Michigan, poor Kasson farmsTowhship were how a county would choose to care Hall • 10988 S. Newman Rd., Maple City for those people who couldn’t care for themselves,” she said.

A collaboration: Empire Museum, Leelanau Historical Society Each event will take place at the Kasson Township HallArea at 10988 S. Newman Rd.Museum, Theand first the Leelanau County Historic Preservation Society is on July 14; the second on July 28. Each event is from 10am until noon. The July 28 event Questions: call Barbara at 231-334-4395 will feature a presentation from relatives of George and Mabel (Ashmore) Coleman, who managed the farm from 1925 until 1960.

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It’s the height of cherry season in cherry country, and frankly, you might have had your fill of those little ruby red berries for now.

Welcome to your mouth then, a tall chilled glass of the North’s other famous fruits — apples and grapes — united of late in Bel Lago’s Chardonnay Cider. Crafted in 2017 from fresh-picked Leelanau Peninsula apples (grown by Cherry Bay Orchards) and chardonnay grape juice that Bel Lago set aside during its grape harvest, this crisp yet slightly white-grape-sweetened stuff is refreshing in more ways than one. It offers just a hint of fall, stripped down and unfussy for summer, without the musky flavor or syrupy mouthfeel you might crave in a cold-weather cider. It’s a drink meant for long days on the beach, on the boat, or in the yard — and much like summer, limited in availability. Get yours now at the Bel Lago tasting room, 6530 S. Lakeshore Dr., Cedar. (231) 2284800, bellago.com.

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Boyne Bike Share

Boyne City has taken a small step … er, pedal toward more public transportation. It just launched its Bike Share program, offering up three bikes (with helmets) — each parked on the north side of the Chamber building at 28 S. Lake St. — for the borrowing. There is no checkout system, just the honor system. And organizers ask only that the bikes be returned each day and not kept overnight.

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Hey, read it what the eyes don’t see

In 2015, government officials admitted that the water flowing through the pipes of Flint, Michigan, was contaminated with lead after the city’s primary water supply shifted from Lake Huron to the Flint River.

Interestingly enough, those very same officials would ultimately turn a deaf ear when residents voiced concern.

Enter, Mona Hanna-Attisha, a Flint pediatrician, activist, and all-around badass. Her critically acclaimed debut memoir, “What the Eyes Don’t See,” which was just released on June 19, meticulously chronicles the events leading up to the crisis in Flint. Written with the intensity of a sci-fi thriller, Hanna-Attisha takes no prisoners as she works to expose the lead-lined time bomb hidden beneath her city. Hot off the bookshelves of of McLean and Eakin in Petoskey, “What the Eyes Don’t See” is a well-timed reminder that even the tiniest of ripples can still become a riptide.

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Missing Statue Returned

A nine-foot statue that mysteriously vanished from the grounds of the Beaver Island District Library just as mysteriously reappeared.

The work by artist John Sauve was part of his Hemingway Sculpture Project and featured three “Man in the City” silhouettes cut into red-coated steel. It was installed in 2015.

It reappeared overnight June 29, said Charlevoix County Sheriff Chuck Vondra.

Investigators still want to know who took the statue. Anyone with information should call (231) 547-4461.

The Sweet Smell of Freedom

Tommy’s Surf Tour Walloon Lake has no salt, no sharks, but lots of surf potential. That’s thanks to Tommy’s watersports shop, which promises to get kids age 5 to 99 on the water and wakesurfing on a “jaw-dropping” wave created by Malibu Boats’ Surf Gate technology. No experience is necessary, and either, apparently, is much advance planning: Simply call or text your surf tour captain through the Tommy’s website, meet at the lake, and surf. tommyswalloon.com

It used to be that you tied a yellow ribbon ’round the old oak tree to show your undying love for your military vet. But these days, you can show some love to those whose past service ensured your present freedoms by picking a bundle of lavender.

For every $8 bundle of French or English lavender you pick, Mike and Amy Parker, owners of the 10-acre Lavender on Old Mission Peninsula garden farm, will donate $2 to the Mid-Michigan Honor Flight. The flight sends veterans, free, to Washington, D.C. on a tour visiting the memorials created to honor their sacrifices. The event, scheduled from 10am to 4pm Saturday, July 14, takes place at 2150 Carroll Road on Traverse City’s Old Mission Peninsula. (231) 642-6341, Lavenderoomp.com

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tastemaker Waffle Dog Uptown Dogs is in Traverse City’s downtown, but the irony ends there. From its simple outpost on the parking lot at the corner of Front Street and Boardman Avenue, this classic walk-up stand hawks a host of humble weenies. Sure, some are spruced up, like the Northerner, which brings asparagus, bacon, caramelized onions, and balsamic ketchup to the dog. Others come dressed to kill, like the Pico Fresco, topped with heirloom tomatoes, radishes, cilantro, candied jalapenos, jalapeno mustard, and Sriracha ketchup. But at the bottom of the bun, all are just plain delicious. None more so, it seems, than Uptown’s most famous, the Waffle Dog, in which a smoked sausage is wrapped in a waffle bun and topped with your choice of whipped cream, maple syrup, and/or caramel, strawberry or chocolate sauce. It’s kinda breakfast, kinda dessert, kinda bad, but also really, really good. Isn’t it ironic? $8, 346 E. Front St. in Traverse City. (231) 633-3955.

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One theory suggests it’s all part of some diabolical strategy to benumb the public to the horrors yet to come. Another claims he actually believes the nonsensical things he says. Yet a third says he’s trying to appeal to his base.

But that isn’t at all what the agreement document says. What it says is that both sides will “ ... work toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.� (Emphasis added.) Nowhere does it say anything about a time table or anybody doing anything immediately. It really doesn’t specifically require North Korea to do anything. In fact, there are already reports North Korea is back to working on another nuclear facility capable of weaponizing material.

It’s not as if there isn’t already plenty of actual good news for his beloved base.

It should have been a nice public relations win with an accompanying caution regarding North

The president has himself an impotent and compliant Congress. His legislative failures have mostly been the result of squabbling Republicans who can never agree on immigration or the budget. Democrats, outnumbered and usually outsmarted, continue to wander around dazed and confused.

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Why does he keep doing it? Why does a president who seems to be winning keep exaggerating and lying? It is bizarre and completely unnecessary.

The president has himself an impotent and compliant Congress. His legislative failures have mostly been the result of squabbling Republicans who can never agree on immigration or the budget. Democrats, outnumbered and usually outsmarted, continue to wander around dazed and confused.

Korea’s long history of breaking agreements. Instead, the exaggerated claims have turned it into a muddled mess. In one of his books, Trump advocated what he called “strategic hyperbole� — some would call it lying — as a sound business tactic. It’s quite a bit less appealing as a method of communicating with the public.

Unemployment continues at extremely low levels, and the economy is still gurgling along despite predictions of bubbles about to burst and corrections about to be made. The dismantling of environmental regulations is on track, as are the nullification of trade agreements. His travel ban has been approved by the Supreme Court. Congress easily passed his tax cuts. He appointed a true conservative, Neil Gorsuch, to the Supreme Court. His nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy will likely be the same.

Sometimes the lies are completely pointless.

Recently, while campaigning for somebody in Wisconsin, Trump grandly announced he was the first Republican presidential candidate to carry Wisconsin since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. Why he’s still trying to rewrite history to elevate his 2016 victory is an ongoing mystery. And his claim wasn’t even close: Eisenhower carried Wisconsin again in 1956 — as did Richard Nixon in ’68 and ’72, and Ronald Reagan in ’80 and ’84.

Trump’s federal appellate court choices have been a group of fairly young, conservative jurists his base must love. His influence on the courts will last for decades.

(Anyone alive and coherent at the time should remember the 1972 election. Richard Nixon won 49 states, and the single state he lost, everyone knows, was not Wisconsin.)

And there isn’t much Senate Democrats can do to stop him. You might recall they unleashed what they called their “nuclear option� during the Obama Administration. In an effort to free a backlog of Obama judicial nominees who had yet to have confirmation hearings, they eliminated the filibuster. Now instead of the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster and force a vote, a simple 51 vote majority confirms nomination. The “nuclear option� has exploded in the Democrats’ faces.

There is now research indicating the president’s support among his base is deepening.

They believe he’s being unfairly maligned by the media and don’t care if he tells lots of whoppers. They have closed ranks.

These are all issues Trump could legitimately tout to his base without the need for his nonsensical exaggerations. His need to make his accomplishments grander than they are seems pathological.

The recent agreement with North Korea is a perfect example. It was good the two leaders met — a necessary starting point to what might be productive down the road. Instead, Trump and his minions declared it was “historic� and “guaranteed� that North Korea would immediately begin “total and irreversible� denuclearization.

But his support is not broadening, and those opposed to him have also deepened their resolve. The president has done little to bridge that divide. His verbal assaults on American institutions, calling the press “the enemy of the people� and some FBI agents “scum,� don’t help much.

We expect and accept a certain amount of “strategic hyperbole� from our politicians; accentuating the positive and ignoring the negative has always been a solid political strategy. We don’t, however, expect them to create their own reality while rewriting history in the process.

The point is that it’s all so unnecessary. The president has a straightforward story to tell that his base would like just fine. In fact, he’s winning, which makes it difficult to understand why he keeps talking like a sore loser.

Crime & Rescue GRIM ANNIVERSARY MARKED Investigators marked the fifth anniversary of the death of Kelly Boyce Hurlbert by announcing a renewed push to solve the case and a total of $75,000 in reward money for information.

Hurlbert was run down July 5, 2013, on Washington Street in Traverse City. The 29-yearold was riding home on a bicycle when a motorist struck her, dragged her hundreds of feet and left her to die on Railroad Avenue.

Traverse City Police and the FBI have received hundreds of tips in the case; around 60 of the leads are open, and a handful are considered serious, Grand Traverse County Prosecutor Bob Cooney said at a press conference. Cooney’s office recently conducted a month-long review of the case that involved re-interviewing witnesses and reviewing leads.

Officials face a countdown to solve the case as a six-year statute of limitations looms for certain charges that could be filed, like manslaughter or negligent homicide. Anyone with information should contact police at (231) 922-4550 or tcpdtips@traversecitymi.gov.

DRIVER BUSTED FOR METH Police who responded to a Benzie County traffic crash suspected the driver was under the influence of crystal meth and searched the man’s car.

Benzie County Sheriff’s deputies responded June 18 to the intersection of Cadillac Highway and US-31, where a driver failed to stop at the intersection and crashed into a yard.

When deputies determined that the suspect, 35-year-old Brian David Johnson, was on drugs, they called in the Traverse Narcotics Team, who found crystal meth, needles, scales, and $400 cash at the scene.

Johnson was arrested for possession with the intent to sell methamphetamine, maintaining a drug vehicle, and operating a vehicle while under the influence of narcotics.

DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER CRASH A driver suspected of being in a road rage incident earlier in the day was arrested for drunk driving following a crash.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a single-car crash on Betsie River Road in Grant Township after someone called 911 when they heard squealing tires and saw that a car had crashed into a tree.

A deputy made contact with the driver, a 41-year-old who smelled of alcohol and slurred his speech. The Cedar man informed the deputy that he had a suspended driver’s license and began shouting profanities.

The man resisted as he was taken to Munson Medical Center for a blood draw and later to jail, deputies said. He’s expected to be charged with resisting arrest and drunk driving. The man is also suspected of being involved in a road rage incident in Traverse City earlier that day.

LOST BOY FOUND IN PARK Rescuers saved a 5-year-old boy who got lost in the Sleeping Bear Dunes.

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the boy wandered off and was missing for an hour.

The Coast Guard launched an air search with a MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter and the crew spotted the boy at 9:15pm.

A rescuer was lowered to the ground to remain with the boy until Glen Lake Fire Department personnel were directed to the location. The boy was in good condition and reunited with his parents.

TODDLER INJURED IN FALL A toddler is expected to recover after she fell from the first-floor window of a

home.

Cadillac Police, firefighters, and North Flight EMS were dispatched to E. Chapin Street June 28 at 3:16pm after the girl accidentally fell from the window. The responders arrived to find the child in the arms of her mother, crying and responsive.

The 2-year-old was taken to Munson Cadillac and transferred to a downstate hospital for treatment.

Investigators determined a window was left open wide enough for the girl to knock out a screen and fall to the ground.

SUSPICION LEADS TO DRUG CASE Someone thought something was suspicious about a man sleeping in a Volkswagen Jetta parked on the side of a rural road and called police.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies responded at 5:44am June 28 to South Popp Road. Deputies found a 35-year-old Lake Leelanau man passed out in the driver’s seat of the running car. Deputies roused the man and, as he got out of his car, what was later determined to be a BB pistol dropped to the ground from a holster on his hip.

Deputies patted down the man and found illegal pills and a loaded syringe; they also found a large amount of cash in large bills, $1,300 of which was determined to be counterfeit.

The man was arrested for operating under the influence of drugs, possession of counterfeit money, and second-offense possession of methamphetamine.

Meanwhile, on July 1, deputies and the Traverse Narcotics Team investigated after someone reported some suspicious things found at a home on Amore Road. Police found a suspected meth lab in a detached garage and more counterfeit money.

COMMOTION LEADS TO ARREST Someone called police because a man was yelling “I did not fight with her” in Leland at 4:30am.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Falling Waters Lodge June 30 and talked to a 36-year-old man from Bowling Green, Ohio, who was sitting on some stairs with a large amount of clothing and bags scattered around.

Deputies found the man’s room in disarray with items broken and smashed on the floor.

An investigation determined the man and his 32-year-old girlfriend had been out drinking the night before, while the man’s mother, who was also staying at the lodge, watched the couple’s 3-yearold child.

The man told police that he returned to the room but his girlfriend did not; when he woke up later, at 4am, he got angry and threw things around the room.

Deputies soon located the girlfriend, a Swanton, Ohio, woman, laying in a parking lot near the couple’s vehicle. The woman had suffered injuries and said her boyfriend had become angry because she had been talking to another woman and that he had pushed her to the ground and kicked her. Deputies arrested the boyfriend for domestic assault.

The man told deputies that he had seen the stop sign but figured there would be no traffic, so he ignored it.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies and Cedar Area Fire and Rescue responded at 6:52am July 5 and found the man had suffered multiple injuries; he was taken to Munson Medical Center.

The Subaru was driven by a 62-year-old Lake Leelanau woman. She was not injured in the accident.

SKATER DRIVES INTO SUBARU A downstate man was hospitalized after he skateboarded into the side of a Subaru.

The 19-year-old Plymouth man was skateboarding on East Hohnke Road and decided not to stop as he approached the intersection at South Lake Shore Drive despite a stop sign.

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“WE REALLY OUGHT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.” opinion

bY Christie Minervini 2011 was a tough year for me, both professionally and personally. I had purchased a gallery in downtown Traverse City two years prior and was struggling to save it while my marriage was deteriorating.

As a result, I was pretty self-absorbed and unpleasant to be around.

One morning, as I was unlocking the front door of my gallery, I woke a couple of men who were sleeping on the patio benches behind the building. At first, I was annoyed and even felt a little violated. But they were nice enough, even apologetic, and quickly gathered their belongings to get out of my way. And so we went through this routine most mornings from late September to early November.

Day after day, while sliding my key into the lock, I would think, “We really ought to do something about this.”

Finally, as the snow began to fall, an internal switch was flipped. “We is me,” I said to myself. “Get off your butt and do something about it!”

Mind you, I had spent my professional career in marketing, sales, and arts management. I wasn’t a social worker, nor did I have a background with people experiencing homelessness. But I did have a genuine concern for our neighbors, and a sincere desire to be part of a solution.

The next few months were spent researching the root causes of homelessness including adverse childhood effects and external factors like insufficient mental health and addiction treatment services. I was completely shocked to learn that, at any given time, there were nearly 100 people living on the streets of Traverse City. Our community was actually losing housing vouchers because people couldn’t find affordable housing on which to use them.

Safe Harbor was in the news around this time, and I reached out, described my skills, and asked if there was a place for me. The churches had been struggling with growing numbers of people requiring emergency shelter, and they needed a group to study the problem and hopefully secure a larger, centrally located permanent facility from which to operate.

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I found a way to contribute and am proud to say that we made it happen. Safe Harbor opened its new building just in time for the start of the season in late 2017. And looking back, I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity as the past seven years have been some of the most challenging, productive and fulfilling of my life.

Homelessness is truly a community issue, and I believe it will take each of us to end it. Safe Harbor, along with Goodwill Industries of Northern Michigan and many other organizations within the Northwest Michigan Coalition to End Homelessness, simply could not operate without the generosity of donors and volunteers.

They are doing a lot with a little, and I’m

encouraged to think what they could do with more.

When we come forward, not only do social issues get addressed, but our local economies expand, businesses grow, education spreads, and support systems become more efficient.

More engaged communities make more engaging communities.

Being involved makes us feel less alone, keeps us healthier and happier, and contributes to a more vital and interesting life. We feel connected, useful, appreciated, and safe. It brings inspiration, helps us succeed in our relationships, and allows us find our way in life. Most importantly, it provides a sense of purpose.

When you step up, it allows you to sharpen your abilities while making a positive difference. You might even find that you develop more self-confidence, and that you are needed and valued in your community far more than you ever could have imagined.

Ask yourself: “What special skills or talents can I offer? What kind of person am I? Do I enjoy working on my own projects, or do I work better alongside others?”

And consider going outside of your comfort zone. As a non-religious person, I found working with Safe Harbor’s 24 churches and 1,700 volunteers to be intimidating at first. But my life is much richer for the experience, and I’m so glad I did.

So volunteer. If you’re a people person, see whether you can do something that involves interaction like working at a community meal, making food deliveries, or working as a cashier at a charity thrift store. Introverts can help, too. You might contribute by providing accounting help or cleaning and maintaining shelter facilities.

Sit on a board. Write a check. Research.

Advocate. Speak up and speak out. Think about writing an opinion piece or a letter to the editor. Make a public comment at a city commission meeting or at your local community center.

Your involvement might help solve a big problem, or it may just make someone’s day a little brighter — both are critically important.

I’m happy to report that I did manage to turn my business and marriage around, and I give a lot of the credit to volunteerism and community involvement. It sounds cliché, but the more I give, the more I get. The more connected I feel to those outside, the more secure I feel within. I am a happier, healthier, more fulfilled person, and all of my relationships have benefited because of it.

So remember: We is me. Get off your butt.

Your community needs you, and you need your community.

Christie Minervini is a Traverse City resident who owns Sanctuary Handcrafted Goods in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons.

To Absent Friends During the 2014 World Cup, five friends in Durango, Mexico, made a pact to travel to the 2018 tournament in Russia. They saved their money, bought a bus, painted it in Mexico’s colors and booked passage for themselves and the bus on a ship going to Spain, where The Daily Mail reported, the friends planned to drive the bus to Russia.

But just before they boarded the ship in April, one of the five, Javier, told his friends his wife had put the kibosh on his trip. So the remaining four did the next best thing: They made a cardboard life-size cutout of Javier, looking grumpy and wearing a shirt that says, “My wife didn’t let me go,” and set off for Russia. The cardboard Javier has been very popular at the soccer venues, attracting female admirers, appearing on the big screen, crowdsurfing and being photographed with fellow football fans from all over the world.

Anger Management In North Port, Florida, a witness watched on June 17 as 75-year-old Helena Molnar beat an unnamed man with a water jug after he watered her plants. When he emptied the rest of the water in the jug on her plants, she went inside her house and returned with a different weapon, which the witness didn’t see but said “made a different sound” than the water jug. According to WWSB TV, North Port police arrived to find the victim soaking wet, with blood drops on his shirt.

Molnar was charged with battery.

Undignified Death Samen Kondorura was joined by dozens of male relatives mourning his mother’s death in North Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 15, as they carried her coffin to a lakkean, a wooden stilt structure where dead bodies are stored during traditional funeral ceremonies. But as they hoisted the coffin up a bamboo ladder, The Jakarta Post reported, the ladder broke and the coffin fell, striking people in the crowd, including Kondorura himself, who suffered a severe head injury and died on the way to the hospital.

Art Makes a Statement -- At the Royal College of Art’s annual London fashion show in June, one graduate unveiled a unique approach to accessorizing garments: crystallized bodily fluids. Alice Potts displayed a pair of ballet shoes decorated with crystals formed from sweat, along with a fake fur adorned with urine crystals. Potts told Reuters the “more natural materials” could offer environmental benefits not possible with traditional plastics.

-- To kick off an exhibition focused on the opioid crisis at his Stamford, Connecticut, art gallery on June 22, gallery owner Fernando Alvarez and artist Domenic Esposito placed an 800-pound, 11-foot-long steel sculpture of a bent and burned spoon in front of the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin. Purdue has been the subject of lawsuits alleging deceptive marketing and, therefore, responsibility for opioid addiction and overdose issues. “The spoon has always been an albatross for my family,” said Esposito, whose brother has struggled with drug addiction for 14 years. The Associated Press reported police arrested Alvarez for obstructing free passage and confiscated the spoon as evidence.

Awesome!

On June 23, firefighters of Engine 642 of the Henrietta, New York, Fire District went the extra mile after responding to an accident in which the injured driver was a pizza delivery man, according to Fox News.

“Once the patient was cared for and loaded into the ambulance, the crew decided to finish the delivery so the pizza wouldn’t go to waste,” the fire department posted on its Facebook page. “If it’s not delivery it’s Di ...

Fire dept?!”

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-- James J. Rynerson, 38, was being held in the Mesa County (Colorado) Jail in May after being charged with menacing, disorderly conduct and trespass. But on May 21, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported, sheriff ’s deputies at the jail released him, having mistaken him for Marvin March, 35, a different inmate. Jail staff gave Rynerson March’s belongings, and he wore March’s leather jacket as he signed March’s name to the release papers and left the facility. Rynerson’s wife was startled to see her husband in the garage at their home, and after he explained what happened, she convinced him to go back. She “personally drove him back to the Mesa County Detention Facility,” the report noted, and he was back in custody by 11 p.m., with new charges, including escape and forgery, added to his list.

-- A woman in Wenling, China, was so thrilled to be driving the Ferrari 458 she rented on June 21 that she recorded herself while waiting at a stoplight: “First time driving a Ferrari. This truly is the most amazing feeling.” But within minutes, reported the Daily Mail, she swerved out of control, striking a metal traffic barrier and a BMW X3, destroying the front end of the $660,000 Ferrari and deploying its airbags.

Neither the driver nor her passenger was injured in the accident.

Recurring Themes In this week’s installment of foreign objects stuck in body cavities: Mr. Li of China’s Guangdong Province went to the doctor on June 15 at Pingshan Hospital in Shenzhen after feeling discomfort and pain in his ear. Using an otoscope scan, the doctor discovered a live cockroach burrowing into the 52-year-old man’s ear canal. “It’s still alive, still moving,” the doctor can be heard on video saying, according to The Daily Mail. She cut the roach into pieces to remove it and disinfected Li’s ear with alcohol in case it had laid eggs.

News That Sounds Like a Movie When Juan Ramon Alfonso Penayo, 20, of Santa Teresa, Paraguay, failed to return after leaving his home June 14, his family assumed the worst. The town lies on the border with Brazil, reported the BBC, and is a hotbed of illegal drug activity. Police found a charred body three days later and called Penayo’s family, who, despite being unable to identify the remains, accepted that it must be him and proceeded with funeral arrangements. As they mourned over his casket during the wake, Penayo walked nonchalantly into the room. The body in the casket was returned to the morgue, and Penayo’s family celebrated his return.

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By Patrick Sullivan Northern Michigan’s most notorious cold case, the horrific 1968 murder of six members of the Robison family in Good Hart, has seemingly languished unsolved for five decades, a festering open wound amid an otherwise idyllic setting.

For the past decade, retired high school history teacher and self-proclaimed “mythbuster” Richard Wiles has been on a crusade to debunk that notion. The case was not only solved, he argues, but it was almost as openand-shut as a case could be, and the only reason people persist in believing the murders are a mystery is because an Emmet County prosecutor refused to bring charges.

“There was never a mystery of solving it,” Wiles said. “There was a mystery of why it was never prosecuted.”

On the 50th anniversary of the slaughter, Wiles joined some of the few original investigators who are still alive at a forum in Petoskey. More than 300 people packed the Crooked Tree Arts Center’s Ross Stoakes Theater, with every seat full and 50 or so standing in the back.

The three stars of the evening — Ronald Covault, a former Oakland County assistant prosecutor who tried to bring charges in the case in 1973; Dick Smith, the Emmet County prosecutor at the time of the murders, who later became a judge; and Lloyd Stearns, the state police detective who investigated the case along with the late Det. John Flis — had a clear message: One man, Joseph Scolaro, was responsible for the Robison family murders, and he’s long dead.

“They were 100 percent, right down the line — Scolaro, Scolaro, Scolaro,” Wiles said.

“No one equivocated whatsoever.”

A TERRIBLE DISCOVERY When the bodies were found on July 22, 1968, 27 days after the family had been shot down in cold blood, the news was an unprecedented shock in northern Michigan.

The scene was so gruesome that the cabin had to be demolished after the investigation

because the blood and stench could not be washed away. The remains of Richard, 42; his wife Shirley, 40; and their children, Susan, 8; Randy, 12; Gary, 16; and Richie, 19, were discovered by a caretaker sent to the family’s log cabin on Lake Michigan to investigate the stink.

Wiles said the state police detectives quickly zeroed in on Scolaro, an employee of Richard Robison’s who had been running Robison’s Detroit area ad agency that summer while Robison travelled and spent time with his family Up North.

On the morning the killings occurred, Robison had talked to his banker and learned that a lot of money was missing from his account. He called his office, and according to a receptionist interviewed later by investigators, Robison was furious. He demanded to speak to Scolaro — apparently looking for an explanation for the missing funds.

After some shouting, Scolaro left the Southfield office at 10:30am. He was never able to account for his whereabouts between then and 11pm, when he returned to his Birmingham home. His wife told detectives that was the first time in six years of marriage that Scolaro had not called or turned up in time for dinner. That meant Scolaro had no alibi for over 12 hours on June 25, 1967, the day the Robison family was murdered, and he had more than enough time to drive to Good Hart and back.

On top of that, two of the four firearms that investigators determined were used in the murders were almost immediately tied to Scolaro, though he told detectives that he’d given Robison one of the two .25-caliber Beretta pistols and some rare SAKO ammunition, which matched what investigators believed had been used in the crime. Later, the investigators matched shell casings found at the crime scene with shell casings found at a firing range where witnesses had seen Scolaro shoot an AR-7 rifle that looked like the other weapon used in the crime, a rifle which had disappeared.

Scolaro was also one of the few people in the world who could find the Robison’s remote and hidden cabin. He’d been there before.

Scolaro could not provide investigators with an adequate explanation for any of the

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mounting evidence.

That was not all: Scolaro also believed a $200,000 “key man” life insurance policy had recently been taken out on his boss (the policy had not gone into effect; Richard Robison had not yet taken the required physical). A forensic audit of Robison’s companies found that money had started draining from the businesses only after Scolaro was hired on.

Wiles believes the murders were a case of “fraud detection homicide,” violence spurred by a perpetrator getting caught and feeling trapped, causing an otherwise nonviolent person to become overwhelmingly deadly.

because it was a downstate matter. All the parties were from downstate.”

Noggle died in 1978.

Wiles attempted to talk to Noggle’s son, but the son had no interest in revisiting this chapter of his father’s past.

“His son has all his papers, and his son refuses to give them to us for posterity’s sake,” Wiles said.

In the end, Covault brought charges against Scolaro through then-Oakland County Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson’s office. Word of the charges reached Scolaro, however, and he took his own life on March 8, 1973.

A PROSECUTION DEFERRED Despite all of the evidence, the Emmet County Prosecutor at the time refused to bring charges.

Donald Noggle, a retired Harbor Springs attorney, is said to have only reluctantly threw his name in for the county’s prosecutor position and won by a write-in vote in 1968. No one else wanted the job.

“You had a six-count murder case going on and nobody wanted to touch it,” Wiles said. “This would just be a consuming, six-month trial.”

But it wasn’t as if Noggle was the lone holdout, and everyone else wanted him to try the case. The Emmet County Board of Commissioners (and probably a lot of county residents) didn’t want Noggle to take the case either; they simply didn’t want the county saddled with the expense.

“The damn commissioners back then were so frugal they didn’t want to pay for the autopsies,” Wiles said. “We don’t mind taking summer money, but we ain’t paying any money for those people.”

On top of that, Noggle didn’t have experience with murder cases.

“This case came in and would have completely overwhelmed his office,” said Stuart Fenton, who is today the chief assistant prosecutor for Emmet County. “I think he was very conservative in his review of the case and focused on the negatives, like there were no witnesses. … I think there was pressure form the country commissioners at that time

FIFTY YEARS LATER Covault said he is shocked he’s still talking about this case 50 years later, but he said it was such an upsetting and horrific crime that it made that kind of impression.

This isn’t the first time that some of those who were most intimately involved with the case have made public pronouncements that the case is solved; they’ve made them for years.

Covault said he believed upon Scolaro’s death that the investigators had solved the case and people would move on. He is disturbed that all of these years later, conspiracy theories persist.

“I thought that the evidence against Mr. Scolaro was convincing enough that people would eventually say, ‘Yeah, this matter’s been solved,’ and go on to other things, but that’s not the case,” said Covault, who today spends summers in Charlevoix County.

Covault spent 30 years as a prosecutor downstate and prosecuted murder case after murder case, but this one stands out because it’s the only one people want to talk about decades later.

“None of them seem to resurrect themselves like this one does every 10 years,” Covault said.

“But those other cases were actually resolved in court, and this never got there.”

Covault said he believes that over the years that Emmet County prosecutors have been reluctant to close the case out of concern over the remote possibility that Scolaro had an accomplice.

At the forum, Stearns, the retired detective,

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repeatedly counteracted that suspicion, noting that while, yes, there were footprints found in the blood at the crime scene, there was only one set of footprints.

There was no evidence of a second person involved.

Fenton, the current assistant Emmet County prosecutor, also took part in the forum. He was amazed by the attendance and interest the case still holds.

“They were turning people away, and people were standing at the back,” Fenton said.

Fenton said it’s not his call to decide to close the case for good, but he believes the case is solved.

“Detectives Fils and Stearns solved this case many, many years ago,” Fenton said.

He said that had he been prosecutor following the murders, he would have tried the case. He said he’s tried and won other cases with less evidence.

Fenton sits on the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Association of Michigan cold-case review panel, which looks into unsolved homicides and determines which cases warrant a closer look.

The panel has never considered looking into the Robison case because it is considered solved.

“It’s not being actively investigated because we all know who did it,” Fenton said. “I wouldn’t really call it an open case. All the investigators know who did it.”

AN ENDURING MYSTERY So if the Robison case was so open and shut, how did it remain in the popular

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consciousness as an unsolved mystery? Wiles said that was a perception fueled by the media.

“Every year a newspaper person would call it a mystery and, well, after you say that enough, people believe it,” he said.

Wiles said the case was distorted in the media as an unsolved mystery over the years because at first, reporters didn’t pay close enough attention, and later on, because the mystery claim just kept getting repeated. Also, in the beginning, the person who murdered the Robison family was able to control the narrative.

“First of all, the Detroit newspapers were on strike, and they had been for a year, so that meant that they didn’t dig into the case,” Wiles said. “That left the perpetrator, Joe Scolaro, to be the mouthpiece for whatever newspaper reporters did come up. He was managing the whole damn thing. He was acting so aggrieved and so outraged.”

There were other theories that drove the mystery — purported connections between Richard Robison and the Mafia, strange behavior on the part of the caretaker, and partial confessions by some convicts serving time who seemed to know things they shouldn’t about the murders.

For instance, true crime author Mardi Link is more convinced today that Scolaro was responsible than she was 10 years ago, but she isn’t as definitive as Wiles.

Link, who published a book about the case, “When Evil Came to Good Hart,” in 2008, also took part in the Petoskey forum. She’s updated her book for 2018, and she’s also releasing a podcast about the saga, “Up North Cold Case.”

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Link said it was amazing how Covault, Smith, and Strearns could talk about a 50-yearold case as if it happened yesterday. Just as amazing was how rapt the crowd was to hear their accounts.

“I think it was pretty cathartic for the community to have an event like that,” Link said.

“When that crime happened, the innocence of northern Michigan was shattered, in a way, and it took years for that to dissipate at all.”

In the new edition, Link left the body of her book untouched — except for one typo that was corrected — but she wrote a new afterword.

In the intervening years, Link said she’s grown to have a deeper appreciation for the original investigators.

“I think I may have made a common yet faulty assumption that law enforcement is so much more skilled today than it was in 1968, and I don’t think that’s true at all. I think the only change is the technology,” Link said.

“I think it’s common for us today to feel superior to the past, and that feeling is not well grounded at all.”

SUMMERSET SITE FOR SALE Wiles said he believes he was destined to devote part of his later life to investigating this case. His connection to Richard Robison pre-dates the murders. In addition to Robison’s advertising agency, the late entrepreneur published a Detroit arts magazine called Impresario.

As a teenager who lived in the Detroit area, Wiles won a subscription to the magazine when he called in to a WJR radio show.

“I could hardly understand what I was getting every month, but it was interesting to me,” Wiles said. “And the next thing I know, the guy is dead.”

Wiles recalls that he followed the case, and thought about it again after he finished college and moved to Petoskey to look for a teaching job. He was hired as a substitute in 1972 and became a full-time teacher at Petoskey High School two years later.

He spent the next several decades teaching and thought about the murders every now and then. He said he would sometimes drive up M-119, on the stretch known as the tunnel of trees, and get an eerie feeling just north of Good Hart.

Wiles said that as the 40th anniversary of the murders approached, he felt increasingly frustrated that the case remained unsolved and that no definitive book had been written about it. (Link’s book had not yet been published.)

Too many questions and not enough answers, Wiles thought. Although not yet retired, Wiles said that as he began to research, he stumbled upon a vocation he would devote himself to in retirement: myth-busting.

“I just decided I was going to start interviewing people on my own. I knew people were going to die soon,” Wiles said. “I interviewed over 100 people.”

He also used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain every page of every police report he could find about the case.

During his research, Richard Robison’s sister, Elaine Marie Robison, who was wary of researchers and reporters, was won over

by Wiles’ thoroughness and tenacity. She sent him what Wiles believes is the only artifact that remains from the Robison cabin after it was destroyed following the murders — a sign, which used to hang over the fireplace, that reads “Summerset,” the name given to the cabin by its builder and caretaker, Monty Bliss.

In 2009, Wiles completed a 500-plus-page white paper on the murders, which he named Summerset. Wiles submitted his paper to the Petoskey Public Library, and he also donated the Summerset sign, which is now part of the library’s Michigan Room collection.

For five decades, the land where the Robison cottage once stood has been vacant. Wiles said after the murders, a family purchased the property and kept it untouched, almost as though it was a memorial. That’s perhaps soon going to change.

The property recently went on the market.

The one-acre waterfront lot is listed for sale for $425,000.

ONE LAST FORUM There will be one last forum on the Good Hart Robison murders to mark the 50th anniversary of the tragedy.

Researcher Rick Wiles and author Mardi Link will speak about the case Thursday, July 12, from 5:30pm until 7pm at the Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center at 500 N. Spring St. Admission is $10 for anyone who is not a member of the Harbor Springs Historical Society.

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Is Intolerance Crushing Academic Openness?

Scott’s statement There have always been people concerned that teaching institutions, cauldrons where minds are brewed, might be spiked with unwholesome ingredients. (In 399 BC, the teacher Socrates was convicted of impiety and corruption of youth.) Nowadays, there are college activists coached in finding, provoking, or fabricating situations that can be held up in partisan media as evidence that their enemies are Scott Blair poisoning academia.

Blair is a conIn my college days, I had Christian friends who were sultant in the involved in a nationally organized Christian group that was wastewater treatactive on campuses. One of the local leaders sometimes ment field and returned to the dorm after philosophy class recounting his president of the sparing with the instructor in defense of Christianity. His Grand Traverse Humanists. religious commitment seemed to compel him to oppose an ungodly narrative wherever he encountered one. To him it was a righteous battle similar to the absurd plotline of the recent God’s Not Dead film series. Later in life, I became acquainted with my friend’s former philosophy instructor and learned that he is A LOCAL PASTOR actually a Christian.

Another acquaintance, an atheist who teaches college philosophy, surveyed his students at semester’s end and asked them to guess how he identifies with respect to religion. Only a minority pegged him as an atheist.

Both of these instructors are doing their job! Their personal perspectives are not clearly readable by students, let alone foisted upon them. Neither these, nor any other philosophy or religion teachers of my acquaintance, desire to indoctrinate students; rather they are passionate to expose their students to ideas, to elicit meaningful evaluation of those ideas, and to help them become skillful thinkers able to form coherent arguments.

I suspect our colleges are not at risk of being dominated by intolerant ideologues. I think a functional open academic environment exists at depth, even while culture battles rage at the surface. The battles take a toll though; students who take a victim’s posture in class miss a learning opportunity. Also, such culture battles contribute to the loss of public confidence in the higher education system, and by extension, contribute to loss of confidence in intellectual exchange and rationality itself.

Bill’s statement Of what are we afraid? A decade ago, in rural Illinois, I submitted three different course proposals to three different academic deans at my alma mater. Each dean approved the proposal, pending departmental approval. Each time, with no explanation, the religious studies department denied my request.

There were no budgetary implications. I offered to teach the courses as an in-kind gift. There were no quesRev. Dr. William C. Myers tions about my credentials. I had taught in other departSenior Pastor ments, and my evaluations were excellent. The courses at Presbyterian were rejected because of a departmental bias against Church of Christ-centered theology.

Traverse City Last month, Dr. David Gushee, president of the American Academy of Religion, was invited to comment on the story of Dr. Alison Downie and the implications for religious scholars. Dr. Downie, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, was targeted by right-wing and social media attacks for disciplining a student. The student ATHEIST DEBATE believed he was unfairly disciplined for expressing his conservative opinions in class.

Dr. Gushee offers a balanced and insightful reflection on this incident and the challenge of public discourse in an academic setting. While sometimes overstated, there is evidence to support the contention that young people with conservative views are, at times, oppressed and silenced because of their views.

Dr. Gushee could have warned his peers to watch their backs. Instead he called professors and students to be accountable for restoring trust in the educational process. “ … the deeper challenge is this: whether professors of religion can contribute to a bit more trust, a bit more mutual understanding, and a bit of progress toward healing the divisions that are tearing our country apart — and whether their students will give them a chance to do so.”

Intolerance, deceit, and intimidation are but a few of the factors destroying public discourse and the search for truth. Restoring trust would be a good start. Taking our lead from the Apostle Paul and “speaking the truth in love” — even better!

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Bills’s reply Yes, Scott, and a lot of good white folk wonder what this “white privilege” stuff is all about, too! Those in power often don’t see a problem in their exercise of power. I’m not surprised you question whether intolerance for opposing views — which don’t pass the political litmus test on campus, no matter how well thought out they are — is impacting public discourse in the academy. You and I lean a little left on social issues, so appreciate much of what is being taught.

But, I also lean right on theological issues, so can appreciate the concerns being raised, even when I disagree with their political ends. But don’t take my word for it. The President of the American Academy of Religion sees we have a problem. The question is: What will we do about it? “Speak the truth in love”!

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Scott’s reply I don’t assume denial of Bill’s offer to teach at a Presbyterian-affiliated liberal arts college is an example of inappropriate bias. The course might have appeared to proselytize, or might simply not have matched with school needs at the time.

An occasional instructor might allow personal views to color assessments of students’ work. Students registering complaints might come into class primed to see themselves as an ill-treated minority. Instructors are employees; feedback loops exist to keep a college’s staff aligned with the mission of the institution.

A tactic of culture warriors is to find or invent egregious examples, paint them as evidence of a corrupt system, and generate contempt. A more innocent failing of a larger number of us is to allow the vibe from such stories to kindle our own contempt. Let’s all be careful about that.

Agree statement Bill and Scott agree that de-escalation of culture wars in academia, as well as the rest of society, can begin with willfully caring about the feelings and experience of those who see the world differently.

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Your Experience: With a 30-year history of introducing the sport of sailing to over 500 new sailors, plus a private marine facility that includes shoreside amenites like the new boaters’ lounge, all the beginner bases are well covered here, from harbor handling and docking to anchoring, weather tactics, safety, and general seamanship. Over a four-day course, you’ll be taught about a wide variety of gear and hardware found on sailing vessels, and you can even stay aboard the boat each night at no additional cost (limited space available).

Evenings are spent dockside, where you can check out downtown Traverse City and talk about your day’s sailing experience.

Get On Board! The particular course outlined above costs $895 per student at The Great Lakes Sailing School; more courses available. greatlakessailingco.com, (231) 941-0535.

CATCH A CATAMARAN The Boat: The Sunshine II A 40-foot long cruising catamaran built for blue water sailing, the Sunshine II provides a smooth ride and lots of room to enjoy the trip.

The Experience: Captain Josh, Captain Gary, and their crew make sure you have a good time cruising the waters of both Round Lake in Charlevoix and Lake Michigan. Free pop is provided (you’re welcome to bring additional food/ beverages on board), and the captains might even let you trim the sails or steer! Three daily sailing trips are available through Labor Day: morning tours, usually with lighter winds, are recommended for families and groups; afternoon tours offer the best wind, a good mix of people, and the potential for ‘dragging’ (swimming) on lines behind the boat; and evening sunset cruises, most popular with couples and friends, offer a relaxed atmosphere and a slightly longer tour to enjoy the sunset views. Private charters are also available.

Get On Board! Rates start at $25 kids/$35 adults. sunshinecharters.com, (231) 547-0266, or stop by the “Go Sailing” kiosk at 222 Bridge Park Dr. in Charlevoix.

TAKE A TALL SHIP The Boat: The Manitou The 114-foot long Tall Ship Manitou is a replica of a coasting cargo schooner, designed to look like those that sailed the lakes in the 1800s, but with one major difference to benefit you: This New Hampshire- and Vermont-built boat was specifically designed for passenger service.

Your Experience: You can try a variety of sailing experiences on the Manitou.

The Noon Sail and Afternoon Moomers Ice Cream Sail offer light refreshments and gorgeous water scenery, while the Evening Sail includes specially catered meals. You can stay right on the boat with an overnight ‘Floating Bed and Breakfast’ package and (in September only) multi-day Windjammer cruises are also available. Want even more? Check out the Manitou’s section of the website, where you can find specialty cruises ranging from a wine-tasting cruise and entertainment nights to package deals like the “Power Island Package,” where the boat sails to Power Island for a day of hiking, picnicking, swimming, and more (perfect for families)!

Get On Board! Rates vary — starting at $40/ per adult and $20/per kid.

Overnights start at $124/pp. tallshipsailing.com, (231) 941-2000.

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Alpenfest Music Amps up the Alpenstrasse!

By Kristi Kates Gaylord’s Alpenfest is rich in tradition — and poppin’ with music — but not just the kind made by an alphorn. Each year, the summer festival offers up a diverse slate of live performers, with 2018’s roster spanning everything from the crooners and classics to country-pop. Here’s what you can look forward to when the fest hits the Alpine Village July 10–14 for its 54th outing.

1. WE ARE MESSENGERS WITH OPENING ACT BONRAY Tuesday, July 10, 7pm Originally hailing from Monaghan, Ireland, and now based in the U.S., faithbased, Dove Award-nominated band We Are Messengers, led by frontman Darren Mulligan, has enjoyed three top five singles to date. You might have heard the band’s music on the MTV show Coupled (“I Want You”) or in the Octavia Spencer/Sam Worthington movie, The Shack (“I’ll Think About You”). And if you think the members of opening act Bonray all look alike, there’s a reason: This Christian pop outfit consists of three talented brothers and a sister; perhaps appropriately, their track “Good Life” was recently featured on the trailer for the Netflix series Fuller House.

More! wearemessengersmusic.com and bonraymusic.com 2. JEFF GRAINGER (AS FRANK SINATRA) Wednesday, July 11, 12pm Sit down and enjoy the crooning tunes of Jeff Grainger (aka The Miami Crooner) at Alpenfest, and you’ll feel like you were transported directly back to the days of the

Rat Pack, entertaining the crowds along the Las Vegas Strip. Expect to hear some of Sinatra’s most famous tunes, like “Strangers in the Night,” “Luck Be a Lady,” or “That Old Black Magic” — but Grainger’s known to throw in a few stunning surprises, like numbers from Dean Martin, Andrea Bocelli, Andy Williams, Elton John, or even Motown faves The Temptations.

More! miamicrooner.com 3. YOUR GENERATION Wednesday, July 11, 8pm True to its name, no matter what your generation, you’ll almost certainly find something to like about this energetic performance group. Your Generation’s setlist spans a whopping five decades of rock, pop, dance, and soul tunes in a massive tribute show loaded with audio and visual treats.

Keep your ears open for the performers’ versions of songs from Tina Turner, The Who, Journey, Bruno Mars, Pharrell Williams, and Beyonce.

More! yourgenerationinconcert.com

4. DENISE DAVIS AND THE MOTOR CITY SENSATIONS Thursday, July 12, 8pm Soulful diva Denise Davis has the market cornered on vintage tracks. The seasoned Detroit-based singer (whom you might recognize from her former band project, Leilani), leads her backing band through a long list of R&B, funk, ’80s, urban, and Motown tunes, all with a gospel flair and a knack for confident live performance. You’ll hear hints of Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, and Regina Belle in her impressive vocals. And her band keeps the floor cranking underneath Davis’ lead, with guitar, keyboards, drums, and plenty of percussion.

More! tinyurl.com/denise-davis-detroit 5. LAUREN DUSKI Friday, July 13, 8pm Following in the footsteps of singers like Laith Al-Saadi and Joshua Davis, Gaylord’s own Lauren Duski made it to the final round of the 2017 season of The Voice, coming in second on the big NBC-TV singing competition show. The country-pop artist is returning to perform in her hometown for Alpenfest. Now that she’s gained a much

larger audience, due to both her talent and her time on The Voice, her Gaylord stop is only part of a larger tour schedule that will be taking her through Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Chicago, and California. And the Nashville transplant’s new single, “Costume Party,” is set to hit outlets on July 11 — so catch her locally while you still can.

More! laurenduski.com 6. 7 BRIDGES: THE ULTIMATE EAGLES EXPERIENCE Saturday, July 14, 7pm This Nashville-based band pays tribute to one of the most popular bands of the ’70s and early ’80s, The Eagles, in what’s called “The Ultimate Eagles Experience,” a full-blown harmonic adventure that closely replicates the original Eagles’ talent with melodic rock tunes and tight-knit vocal harmonies. If your personal list of favorite songs includes numbers like “Heartache Tonight,” “Funk 49,” “Take It to the Limit,” “Desperado,” “Life in the Fast Lane,” and the longtime classic “Hotel California,” this is your show.

More! 7bridgesband.com Find more information on performances and ticketing at gaylordalpenfest.com.

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Watch the waters

A Great Lakes freighter-spotting primer for boat-nerds-to-be

By Kristi Kates Roger LeLievre was practically born a boat nerd.

The editor and publisher of the “Know Your Ships” field guide to spotting freighters on the Great Lakes got a very early start in the hobby that would become his authorship.

“My grandfather, early on, worked on the coal docks, putting coal on the freighters,” LeLievre said. “And I used to spend my summers up at my grandparents’ cabin on the water, up in the U.P., between Lake Huron and Lake Superior.”

KNOW YOUR SHIPS Watching the freighters pass by quickly became a favorite pursuit.

And one of the tools LeLievre eventually found to help him with his hobby was the earlier edition of the “Know Your Ships” guide, which he actually took over from the original publisher.

The book was started in 1959 by Tom Manse, who had set a goal for himself of capturing at least one photo of all the big ships sailing the Great Lakes. Manse would later publish the original “Know Your Ships,” and he updated the book every single year for his fellow freighter watchers. LeLievre took over the book updates when Manse passed away in 1995.

Freighter-watchers are a tight knit bunch, and this book is an invaluable tool for identifying and enjoying freighters. It includes the essential statistics, including length, capacity, owner, and former names, for hundreds of ships plying the Great

Lakes, as well as additional trivia like what the various boat whistles mean and how to follow the freighters as they travel from port to port.

DOUBLE FLEET “Lake Michigan is a little tricky for freighter-watching, as there aren’t really narrow channels near shore for the boats to pass through, so most of the ships are much farther out in the water,” LeLievre said. “But there are plenty of places to see the ships further downstate if you know where to look.”

Grand Haven, Ludington, and Port Huron are hot destinations LeLievre suggested for Up North watchers to check out, especially Port Huron: “You’ll often find a bunch of boat nerds parked under the Blue Water Bridge there, taking photos as the freighters go by,” he said.

Freighter-watchers are primarily looking for two kinds of ships: Boats from the Great Lakes fleets are American and Canadian vessels transporting to all the Great Lakes ports; many are too big to go out into the ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway, so they only work on the Great Lakes, and their shipping career never extends beyond the freshwater seas and rivers.

The others are the saltwater ships, which LeLievre said are nicknamed simply “salties.”

These boats are coming in from overseas, and generally only deal in a couple of specific types of cargo.

“We say ‘steel in, grain out,’ because the salties usually bring in finished steel, and take out grain,” LeLievre said. “There’s also a brisk trade in windmill parts on the salties.”

COOL CARGO While it might sound like those two types of ships are doing quite the bustling trade on the Great Lakes, LeLievre pointed out that there are actually only a few companies left, and that most of the independent shipping companies are gone.

“A couple of the most familiar sights are the Interlake Steamship Company and the American Steamship Company,” he said.

“But right now, there are only about 50 large freighters working the Great Lakes, primarily hauling raw materials: iron ore pellets, coal, limestone, wheat, soybeans, other grains, sometimes cement, and sometimes oil and other chemicals used in industry.”

Once you get to know the boats, since there are so few, they become “like family,” LeLievre said.

“You end up remembering the ship names, their routes, what they typically carry,” he explained. “You even get to ‘know’ the captains, so you’ll see a ship passing by and you’ll be able to say, ‘Well, there’s Captain Joe — he’s going to Detroit bringing down more iron ore for the auto industry.”

FREIGHTER FANS Most of the 50 or so freighters on the Great Lakes are all diesel now, although a couple of steamships remain. All of the ships have a smokestack (exhaust) where viewers can see the ship’s logo and other markings, and then refer back to a guidebook or online website (see sidebar for suggestions) to decipher what they’re seeing.

Photography might just be the second biggest hobby among freighter-watchers; getting a majestic shot of a big ship on a

sunny day, or a backlit silhouette of a passing one, is an accomplishment all on its own.

As is getting the freighters to acknowledge their “fans.”

“Sometimes, the freighters will see us standing there watching them as they go by, and they’ll blow their horn for us,” LeLievre said. “That’s the best. Then we get to jump around like schoolkids.”

TOP TIPS: o Binoculars, even an inexpensive lowpower pair, are essential for reading ship markings and getting a closer look at what’s going on above deck; the zoom lens of a camera can work as well. o LaLievre’s book has its own website at knowyourships.com. Both are a great place to start when looking for information on how to make freighter spotting your favorite new pursuit. o The community website boatnerd.com is the other online resource suggested most often when inquiring about freighterspotting — and for good reason: The site offers a plethora of details on the hobby and passing ships. o There are often a number of flags on a freighter, but you can tell where each ship hails from by looking at the single flag flying at the very back of the ship.

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BOAT TO DINNER Cruise the blue highway to a memorable summer meal

By Janice Binkert So you’ve been out frolicking on the water in your boat all day, and you’ve worked up an appetite! You’re ready to feel solid ground under your feet again and enjoy some yummy food in a casual atmosphere. We’ve got you covered, with seven unique northern Michigan restaurants (on six spectacular bodies of water) where you can moor your watercraft free of charge right out front or at one of the courtesy slips of an adjacent marina. Wherever you end up, you’ll have your choice of indoor or alfresco dining and quite possibly can also enjoy some musical entertainment while you dine. Remember that it’s high summer, though, and some places don’t take reservations or call-ahead seating, so there may be the occasional wait time. But let’s face it, there’s no reason to hurry in pleasant surroundings like this, so in the meantime, unwind with a signature cocktail (all of these establishments have a full bar), and then settle in for an enjoyable meal, with no side dish of wave action! P.S. It goes without saying that guests arriving by car, motorcycle, bike or on foot will enjoy these places, too!

THE PIER, HARBOR SPRINGS Piedmontese 12-ounce New York Strip Of course it’s not a boat, but you could rightly request “permission to come aboard” when you cross the threshold into the polished wood-clad, nautically themed Pointer Room of this Harbor Springs landmark, since it is literally on the water, having been built on pilings driven into the town’s yacht basin on Little Traverse Bay when the restaurant expanded in 1970. The creatively prepared and presented menu of seafood, premium steaks and classic northern Michigan fare like morel bisque, flash-fried perch and roasted chicken is also served in the Wheelhouse Lounge bar and outside on Dudley’s Deck.

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Courtesy slips and gas dock at Harbor Springs Marina next door (call or radio ahead for availability: (231) 526-5355 or on VHF Channel 16.

Sip: The Pier’s famous Bloody Mary (vodka, housemade Bloody Mary mix, vegetable garnishes, pepperoni straw) Sup: Piedmontese 12-ounce New York Strip with bacon, cheddar and scallion mashed potatoes, balsamic cipollini onions, green beans and garlic herb butter

BARREL BACK, WALLON LAKE Grilled Scottish Salmon A modern, hip, industrial vibe runs through this bright and spacious eatery on the second floor of a warehouse-like building that houses Tommy’s (a water sports shop) on the main level. Start off with appetizers and small plates like Brie flatbread, jambalaya or pesto-smoked chicken dip, and if you’re still hungry, move on to soup or salad, burger, sandwich or pasta dish, a wood-fired pizza, or grilled or smoked meats and fish while you take in the fantastic 180-degree panorama of Walloon Lake through floor-to-ceiling “garage door” windows that are rolled up to let in the fresh air on sunny, warm days. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Courtesy slips available by calling Tommy’s @ 231.535.6039.

Sip: Lavender martini (lavender-infused simple syrup from Lavender Hill Farms in Boyne City, Absolut Citron, lemon juice) Sup: Scottish salmon and summer vegetables from the grill with fingerling potatoes, goat cheese and Romesco sauce 4069 North M-75, Walloon Lake, (231) 535-6000, barrel-back.com

102 East Bay St. Harbor Springs, (231) 526-6201, staffords.com/pier-restaurant

RIVERSIDE INN, LELAND Nestled in an idyllic, park-like setting on the banks of the lazily flowing Leland River, this beautifully restored historic inn and restaurant offers a tranquil atmosphere just steps from the main shopping district, Fishtown and Lake Michigan. In the summer months, locally sourced fruits, vegetables and greens take center stage on the menu along with housemade charcuterie, artisanal local and global cheeses, premium fish, seafood and meats – all prepared with an innovative flair. Make yourself at home in the main dining room and enclosed porch, or

request the outdoor deck on a balmy summer’s eve. Open Wednesday through Monday, closed Tuesdays. Serving dinner and Sunday brunch.

Boat mooring on site.

Sip: Smoked Ginger Rye (High West Rye, bourbon barrel-aged orange bitters, and gingerturmeric simple syrup served over a smoked ice rock and finished with a pinch of smoked paprika) Sup: Fresh pan-seared sea bass with heirloom tomato-barley orzotto, lemon beurre blanc and salsa verde 302 East River St, Leland, (231) 256-9971, theriverside-inn.com

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CAFE SANTÉ, BOYNE CITY Moules & Frites Set your sails for Cafe Santé, and you can satisfy your craving for an Old World culinary experience without ever leaving northern Michigan.

Dine on European classics like escargots a la Bourguignonne, pappardelle Bolognese, Turkish lamb kebabs and Neapolitan pizzas at American prices – either in the cozy, bistro-like dining room or on the wind-protected patio overlooking beautiful Lake Charlevoix. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. Courtesy slips available at Boyne City Municipal Marina (call or radio ahead for availability: (231) 582-7361 or on VHF Channel 16.)

Sip: Treat yourself to the “Three @ 3” happy hour daily from 3 to 6pm with $3 classic cocktails (think Manhattans, Old Fashioneds…) and $3 snacks (six picks, from shrimp cocktail to deviled eggs) Sup: Moules & Frites (PEI mussels with Belgian fries or pasta) in four variations: French (garlic, white wine, shallots, herbs and butter), Italian (white wine, garlic, basil, tomato and olive oil), German (whole grain mustard, sweet cream, leeks and German lager) or Spanish (saffron butter broth, smoked paprika and fennel)

THE LANDING, IRONTON/CHARLEVOIX New England Lobster Roll Diners here have the unique opportunity of watching the quaint Ironton Ferry make its way across the narrows on the south arm of Lake Charlevoix, as it has since 1876. But don’t blink – the 610-foot journey takes less than five minutes! Enjoy the carefree Caribbean groove of this upbeat, attractive destination, which brings the outdoors in and the indoors out all summer long in the dining room and on the deck, both swathed in a cheerful palette of happy colors. The huge rum selection at the wraparound bar adds to the tropical island feel. Serving lunch and dinner with shareables like beach fries and crab cakes, along with greens and grains, sandwiches and burgers, and fresh fish and seafood (lobster flown in fresh from Maine twice a week, along with Maine-style buns).

Boat mooring and gas dock for visitors on site.

Sip: Heck Yeah! (Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum, Meyer’s Dark Rum, pineapple juice, orange juice, tropical syrup, garnished with a slice of orange) Sup: Traditional New England lobster roll, with chilled and hand-picked lobster, lemon-herb mayo and Bibb lettuce on a buttered and grilled brioche bun

1 Water Street, Boyne City, (231) 582-8800, cafesante-bc.com

10231 Ferry Road, Charlevoix (just off M-66 at Ironton Cove on the south arm of Lake Charlevoix), (231) 547-9036, thelandingcharlevoix.com

DOCKSIDE, TORCH LAKE One word: Sunsets! And even if you don’t have a boat, you can still boat to dinner here. The restaurant offers pontoon rentals right from the pier out front. So just get here by any other conveyance, organize your pontoon, take a boat ride around the lake, and boat back to dinner! The Dockside’s ambience is laid-back, Jimmy Buffet-style informal, and the food is just what you’re craving on a sunny summer day, like Brew City waffle fries, jalapeño poppers, a Southwestern chicken wrap, a “super burrito” or an olive burger on a pretzel bun. Join the 1,000 or so patrons who come here daily during the high season and catch some well-earned shade at a table inside, or take in the boating activity on Clam River or Torch Lake from the large outdoor deck. Interesting note: The young seasonal staff members here have a 3.5 grade point average or above – their well-compensated employment is a reward for their hard work in school. Open daily for lunch and dinner.

Boat mooring onsite.

Sip: Torch Lake Lemonade (Stoli Razberi with frozen pink lemonade) Sup: Sunset Salad with fresh greens, Michigan dried cherries, Asiago cheese, pecans, grilled chicken and raspberry pecan dressing

APACHE TROUT GRILL, TRAVERSE CITY Wet your whistle and whet your appetite (there’s a grammar lesson in that phrase, by the way) around one of the high tops or picnic tables outside at the popular – and beautifully landscaped – waterfront Tiki Bar for cocktails, prime views of Old Mission Peninsula, and close-up sailboat race watching on West Bay (the Grand Traverse Yacht Club is right next door). Linger awhile in these mellow surroundings, and then make your way inside to the spacious, yet cozy atmosphere of the lodge-style dining room for tasty and satisfying fare like western BBQ shrimp, smoked whitefish dip, baked French onion soup, wedge salad and Apache’s famous BBQ ribs. On balmy days, the lake-facing accordion windows fold back to afford open-air dining in comfort. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week, plus a Sunday buffet brunch. Boat mooring on site.

Sip: Martini (of any kind) from the Tiki Bar Sup: King crab and prime rib special on Friday and Saturday nights 13671 S. West Bayshore Dr., Traverse City, (231) 947-7079, apachetroutgrill.com

6340 Old Torch Lake Drive, Bellaire, (231) 377-7777, docksidetorchlake.com

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Behold the Dragon Boats First ever Charlevoix Dragon Festival breathing fire into summer 2018

By Ross Boissoneau According to the Chinese zodiac, we have to wait until 2024 for the next year of the dragon. But in Charlevoix, that year is already here: the Charlevoix Circle Of Arts will host the inaugural Charlevoix Dragon Boat Festival on Lake Charlevoix Aug. 4.

The concept of dragon boat races dates back more than 2,000 years to around 200 BC, when teams from separate villages would face off against one another in southern China. Both dragon boat racing and the ancient Oympiad, which began around the same time, included aspects of religious observances and community celebrations along with competition. A happy dragon would protect the people, but an angry dragon could wreak havoc. Dragon boat festivals were a way to honor the dragon and assure a harmonious life.

The history of Dragon Boat races in this country doesn’t date back quite as far. The first ones took place in the 1970s, and it’s only in the last few years that the concept has taken off across the country. According to Gail DeMeyere, the executive director of the Charlevoix Circle of Arts, members of the organization’s board have seen them in different places around the U.S., such as Florida, California and Boston. The board members said they were fun to watch and thought hosting a race and festival in Charlevoix could be a valuable fundraiser for the arts organization while also raising its profile.

The dragon boat races begin just before 9am on Saturday, Aug. 4, at Ferry Beach, when the dragon vessels are “awakened” from a deep sleep by dotting the eyes of the dragon with red paint. A monk will then bless the dragon boats and the race participants. Then

the teams hit the water.

The Dragon Boats are 46 feet long and feature 20 paddlers, one drummer and one steersman. The steersman is provided by the dragon boat company. Yes, there are actually dragon boat companies, which produce the various festivals across the country and supply the boats and accouterments, including the steersman. It is the drummer’s job to synchronize the paddlers, and they typically dress for success: the more outlandish, the better. Often the paddlers do the same.

DeMeyere said several teams are already signed up, representing various businesses and organizations, such as the Charlevoix Public Library team, the Dewey Decimators.

Costs for a business are $1,500; for non-profit organizations, $1,400. She encourages those interested in participating who have fewer

than 21 team members to contact her so she can match them up with others in similar straits and form a team. Cost for individuals is $75. To register or for more information, go to CharlevoixDragonFestival.com.

Of course, it’s not like everyone is born a dragon boat paddler. DeMeyere said the boats are scheduled to arrive Aug. 1, providing a chance for some practice. While it’s not mandatory, it is recommended. The one-hour sessions provide training on the fundamentals of not only becoming an effective paddler but also getting into and out of the long, narrow boats. The training sessions last approximately an hour and will be scheduled during the three days prior to the race.

The races will find two boats will facing off against one another throughout the day on the 250-meter course. Each team is guaranteed two races. Plans call for the last

race concluding around 2pm. “We have six boats coming in. Two will race at a time, while two are getting loaded and two are unloaded. All six get awakened,” she said.

While the races are the focus of the festivities, there are plenty of activities scheduled throughout the day around the theme. The festivities kick off first thing with a Dragon Boat Festival Parade, complete with a dancing dragon and team representatives.

There will be a children’s tent with crafts and dragon boat-related activities, vendors will be selling dragon boat merchandise, and the Charlevoix Brewing Company will host a beer tent featuring a special Dragon Brew ale.

The arts organization believes the fun and excitement will be a boon to the community while charming any dragons that live around the area. “Be nice to dragons and dragons will be nice to you,” said DeMeyere.

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SMOKE AND FIRE: BBQ 101 Pulled pork, Spark’s

BBQ Sampler Platter, Iron Pig Smokehouse

Brisket, Spark’s

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By Janice Binkert Barbecue is cooking at its most elemental, dating back to early humans’ discovery of fire.

It’s something people all over the world have in common, from the Far East to the Middle East, from the South Pacific to South America, from Asia to Africa, and of course right here in the USA. As a quote from the late, great Anthony Bourdain reads: “BBQ might not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.”

Northern Express talked with some of the best BBQ experts in northern Michigan to get their insights into the art and science of BBQ: Chef Bob Rodriguez from the Great Lakes Culinary Institute (GLCI) in Traverse City, Adam Kline from Pigs Eatin’ Ribs in Charlevoix, Edward Perkola from Ray’s BBQ, Brews and Blues in Gaylord, Kellen Moore from the Iron Pig Smokehouse in Gaylord, and Dean Sparks from Sparks BBQ in Traverse City.

Although there are far too many variations to justify one simple definition, BBQ can loosely be described as cooking something — usually a protein like meat or fish — low and slow over indirect heat, usually with some smoke. This is in contrast to grilling, which means cooking something — almost any food — quickly over moderate to high heat, with little or no smoke. Are you ready to up your BBQ game? Read on to learn from the masters — pitmasters, that is!

JUST THEIR STYLE Northern Express: BBQ styles are as diverse as the people and places behind them.

What’s yours?

Kline: Southern style, but we mix it up a bit.

Our brisket is definitely Texas style — just salt, pepper, smoke and time. Our BBQ ribs and pulled pork are St. Louis-style: dry rubbed and then smoked. We sauce only if the guest asks — otherwise they’re served dry. Our half-chickens and whole wings are smoked, then crisped in the fryer, and served with either Alabama white or Nashville hot sauce.

Moore: A little bit of everything, which is

kind of like Kansas City style, an amalgamation of regional flavors. We do Texas-style brisket, and our pork is a little bit more Carolina-inspired, with a sauce that mixes sweet and savory.

Perkola: Texas style. The seasoning is mostly just salt and pepper, especially for brisket. Let the meat speak for itself.

Sparks: Southern-style authentic pit BBQ Rodriguez: I like North Carolina style, a little bit on the vinegary side or a cross between that and Kansas City style, because I like the sweetness, too. Sweet and sour are really complementary.

MAKING THE CUT Express: What are the best cuts for BBQ? Perkola: At Ray’s, we do a giant beef plate rib that’s almost as long as your forearm and weighs in at about 1½ pounds after smoking. It’s fun to do and fun to eat. Pork shoulder is always a go-to. And as far as fish goes, a smoked salmon or smoked trout is good. And I am very partial to brisket because of the flavor that’s in there, the kind of cuts I get from it, and the beautiful way it looks on a plate. But that may be the hardest kind of meat to get right, as far as smoking goes.

Kline: Brisket is easy to mess up, and it’s an expensive cut of meat, so I would only recommend that if your comfort level with BBQ is high. If it’s lower, go with ribs — everybody’s got “the world’s best rib recipe.”

And chicken is easy to play around with – whole or half chickens, beer can chicken, even chicken breast.

Moore: We do a lot of chicken (legs, thighs and wings), sausage, ribs, salmon, brisket and corned beef in our smoker. Customers say our corned beef Reuben is the best they’ve ever tasted.

Rodriguez: You can BBQ almost anything, but pork is the king of BBQ, because of its moisture (fat) content, and also because its taste is neutral, it works with a lot of different spices and flavors. It’s easy to cook, too.

Sparks: If budget is not a concern, beef

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Beef plate ribs, Ray’s BBQ, Brews & Blues

Brisket, Ray’s

Ed Perkola from Ray’s BBQ, Brews & Blues slicing brisket

ribs and brisket, if done right, are the best.

But you can BBQ almost anything — chuck roast, meat loaf, you name it.

SMOKIN’ (OR NOT) NE: Is smoke a must for BBQ? Kline: Not at home. A backyard BBQ should be about having a good time with friends and family — maybe around a grill — drinking your beverage of choice, and sharing something to eat. Smoke is always a bonus, of course, as is cooking with real wood or real hardwood charcoal.

Moore: I think so, yes. We use cherrywood for everything. It has to be a hardwood, to burn low and slow.

Rodriguez: In my opinion, no. A lot of people who like BBQ don’t like a lot of smoke, so it can be done with gas, charcoal, or even in the oven, as long as you do it with indirect heat.

Sparks: If I can’t taste smoke, it’s not BBQ for me.

Perkola: For us, as a smokehouse, smoke is a must — everything we do is kind of centered around that. The long smoking process allows you to take tough pieces of meat and make them tender by relaxing the connective tissue and letting it melt and flow back into the meat to make it juicy.

CHOOSING SIDES NE: What are the best accompaniments for BBQ meats and fish?

Kline: My grandma’s potato salad recipe, baked beans, coleslaw, and cornbread Sparks: We’re partial to mac ’n’ cheese, coleslaw, and Grandma’s baked beans Moore: Quick pickled cukes and onions are a great palate cleanser for rich BBQ. Rodriguez: Slaw — that’s the best. I love a good slaw with pulled pork.

Perkola: For a backyard BBQ, it’s classic homemade picnic fare — a good coleslaw, bread or biscuits, mac ’n’ cheese, baked beans, even your aunt’s surprise Jell-O dish!

INSIDER TIPS NE: Any quick tricks of the trade?

Rodriguez: Make sure your meat is dry before you cook it. With chicken, you should wash it first, then dry well with paper towels, and refrigerate it uncovered overnight so it can form a pellicle.

Perkola: Let the meat rest for several minutes after cooking. Otherwise, when you cut into it, all of the juices just run out instead of flowing back up into the meat and keeping it moist.

Sparks: An easy and good tip is CYP — cheap yellow mustard. Rub a thin film of it over your meat before cooking. You won’t even taste it, but it will help seasonings stick, tenderize the meat, and thicken the bark.

Kline: We use a ‘mop’ of cider vinegar, sugar, spices, and sweet tea on our meat toward the end of the cooking cycle to keep it from drying out.

Moore: You can make your own basic BBQ sauce with ketchup or tomato puree, apple cider vinegar, mustard, molasses, and brown sugar, and then add whatever else you want to make it more sweet or spicy.

FIRED UP NE: Can someone who doesn’t have a wood-fired grill or a smoker still BBQ? Perkola: Oh, yes. BBQ has been around forever, and it’s been done in advanced kitchens with every piece of the latest equipment and every tool you could imagine. But the basics are heat, time, smoke and protein. You don’t need to get fancy with it. Some of the best smoked and BBQ meats I’ve had have been done on something extremely simple.

Rodriguez: At one place I worked in West Texas, their BBQ equipment was an old (cleaned) oil barrel that had been sawed in half and hinged for the cover. It worked great.

Kline: You really can turn anything into a smoker — it just depends on how creative you are and your experience level.

Sparks: You just need live fire — and patience. BBQ is not a fast-action sport.

SMOKED SALMON

Recipe from Wayne Appleton Appleton is the writer’s nephew from Austin, Texas. Like most Texans, he is mildly obsessed with his home smoker (a Bradley). His friends and family can’t get enough of his smoked salmon.

1 approximately 4-pound, skin-on whole salmon filet (choose the one with the fattiest belly) ½ cup kosher salt ½ cup organic sugar 2 tablespoons cracked black pepper, plus more for coating salmon ¼ cup coarse granulated garlic powder Special equipment: 2-quart plastic pitcher for the brine, plastic container (Rubbermaid works great) large enough to hold the fish and brine, smoker Cut salmon into 2-inch wide pieces (portioning allows more surface area for browning) and put them into the large plastic container. In the 2-quart pitcher, combine the salt, sugar, pepper and garlic powder. Fill with warm water and stir until all ingredients are dissolved. Pour brine over salmon and refrigerate for 24 hours.

Take salmon pieces out of brine, rinse off, and pat dry with paper towels until they feel tacky.

Pat cracked black pepper all over tops.

Add maple and mesquite wood (the Bradley’s automatic feeder uses compressed hardwood “pucks” called bisquettes) in a 3:1 ratio to the smoker. Do not preheat.

Put salmon pieces on racks and smoke at 150–175 degrees for 4 hours (or until it flakes). When done, remove salmon pieces from smoker, allow to cool, and then wrap individually in foil. May be refrigerated for up to 10 days. (“It never lasts that long in our house,” said Appleton.)

Serve smoked salmon over a Caesar salad, on crackers, in a dip, in scrambled eggs or quiche, in pasta dishes, in chowder, or any way you like it.

BBQ PULLED PORK

BBQ RIBS

Pulled pork for a crowd! Fruit wood is recommended for the smoker.

No smoker needed for these ribs — only your oven and a grill!

5 pounds pork shoulder (also called pork butt) with blade bone in I cup Spice Rub (see below) 2 cups mopping sauce (see below) Beer or fruit juice, optional

Full rack of peeled ribs 4 tablespoons brown sugar 2 teaspoons of freshly ground coriander 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 tablespoon kosher salt ½ teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon granulated garlic ½ tablespoon granulated onion

Recipe from Chef Bob Rodriguez, Great Lakes Culinary Institute

Wash and dry pork shoulder. Rub generously with spice rub, cover and refrigerate overnight.

Preheat smoker to 250 degrees. After the first hour, baste with mopping sauce every half hour or so. If you have a dry smoker, you could put a pan of beer or juice inside to help keep up the moisture (very important).

Hot smoke for 6–8 hours to an internal temperature of 185 degrees. The blade bone should pull out easily. If not eating right away, wrap meat snugly in clear wrap and then foil as soon as it comes out of the smoker.

Otherwise, lightly cover it and allow to rest for 10–15 minutes before enjoying.

Spice Rub: 5 cups chili powder 1 cup cumin 3 cups granulated garlic 3 cups granulated onion 1 cup crushed red pepper flakes 1½ c. kosher salt 2 cups sugar ½ cup mace ½ cup mustard 1 cup oregano leaves Mopping Sauce: Combine 1 cup of white vinegar with 1 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce.

Recipe from Chef Bob Rodriguez, Great Lakes Culinary Institute

Combine sugar and spices to make rub and thoroughly coat all ribs.

Cover a sheet pan with foil and place ribs on it. Add about ½ inch of apple cider to pan and cover with additional foil. Place in a preheated 250-degree oven and cook for approximately 1½ hours, then remove foil and cook for another hour, or until meat is coming off of the bone.

Remove ribs from oven and allow to cool.

Place ribs on a hot grill and baste with your favorite barbeque sauce until thoroughly hot.

READ ALL ABOUT IT Every pitmaster we talked to agreed that anyone who wants to learn or improve their BBQ skills needs to do their homework. And when it comes to the top pick for what to read, we got the same answer over and over: multi-award winning chef Aaron Franklin’s comprehensive tome, “Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto.” There are also lots of forums and blogs online. Or you can get up close and personal: “Just come into Pigs Eatin’ Ribs and grab me, because I love talking about BBQ!” said Kline. And Sparks seconded that emotion: “Don’t be bashful in asking for help from people who know BBQ. We love to share. It’s a brotherhood.”

CUKES AND ONIONS

Recipe from Kellen Moore, Iron Fish Smokehouse A quick refrigerator pickle is a great palate cleanser, especially when you’re trying different kinds of BBQ, like the Iron Fish sampler platter.

Amounts are less important than the ratio for brine ingredients in this recipe. Make as much as you think you’ll eat!

Fresh cucumbers and onions Sugar Water White vinegar Salt For a nice presentation, make alternate vertical peels on the cucumber skin. Then thickly slice cucumbers and onions. In a bowl large enough to hold the cucumbers and onions with plenty of head room, make a brine by combining a 3:1 ratio of water to vinegar and the same ratio of sugar to salt.

Stir to dissolve. Add cucumbers and onions, making sure they are completely covered with brine. Refrigerate for a few hours or overnight.

IT’S THE PITS Sparks BBQ: New location (since June 29) is at 201 East Front St., Traverse City, (231) 6337800, eatsparksbbq.com.

Pigs Eatin’ Ribs: 1418 Bridge St., Charlevoix, (231) 547-7447, pigseatinribs.com Ray’s BBQ, Brews & Blues: 204 Ingham St., Grayling Iron Pig Smokehouse: 143 West Main St., Gaylord, (989) 448-2065, ironpigsmoke.com

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july 07

july

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NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: June 30 - July 7. Today includes the Meijer Festival of Races, Hole in One Shootout, Ultimate Air Dogs, DTE Energy Foundation Cherry Royale Parade, Cherry Idol Finals, ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer, TC Swing!, Festival Fireworks Finale & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

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send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: Flintfields Horse Park, TC, July 4 - Aug. 12. Six weeks of equestrian competition, featuring jumpers, hunters & equitation with riders from around the country competing for prestige & prize money. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

---------------------LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST: 8-10am, Park Place Hotel Conference Center, TC. Showcase of Republican candidates for statewide offices in MI. Meet & greet & presentations.

Call 946-3333 for ticket reservations.

---------------------PETOSKEY ANTIQUES SHOW: 9am-5pm, Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey. Featuring 170 dealers. $5; good for both days. antiquesatthefairgrounds.com

---------------------APRÈS HOLIDAY BEACH CLEAN UP: 1011:30am, Elberta Beach, Elberta. Sponsored by the Benzie Conservation District & The Cabbage Shed. Please pre-register: 231882-4391; aime@benziecd.org. benziecd. org/home/apres-holiday-beach-clean-up

---------------------MOUNT MANCELONA MUSIC & FOOD FESTIVAL: Mt. Mancelona, Mancelona, July 6-8. Featuring live music by Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas, Harper & Midwest Kind, Trending Classic & local & regional bands; kids art & outdoor activities, silent disco, camping, paella, food trucks & more. Tickets: $10 youth, $20 adult per day or $15 youth & $30 adult for a weekend GA ticket. mountmancelona.com

---------------------SCOTTVILLE CLOWN BAND: 2pm. Enjoy a free concert at the Cherry Festival Beer Tent in the Open Space, downtown TC, following the Cherry Royale Parade.

---------------------MANISTEE NATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL: Today includes the Jaycees Beach Bash. manisteeforestfestival.com

---------------------UP NORTH VOCAL INSTITUTE: 7pm, Harbor Park, Harbor Springs. This summer young artist training program focuses not only on training the voice, but the mind & body as well. Free. crookedtree.org

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LAVENDER HILL SERIES: 7:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Enjoy “genre-melding indie-folk” with The Accidentals. $22.50. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, UptonMorley Pavilion. $33. tickets.interlochen.org/ arts-festival

---------------------GRAND OPENING GALA: RAISING THE CURTAIN!: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Featuring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Camp’s World Youth Honors Choir, & other surprise guests. 231.439.2606. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------KORESH DANCE COMPANY: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium.

Enjoy these internationally renowned dancers. $41, $36. tickets.interlochen.org

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Ride Around Torch during a 26, 40, 63 or 100 mile bicycle tour on Sun., July 15 at 7am. Take in the scenic shores of Torch Lake with its beautiful turquoise waters. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club. Info: ridearoundtorch.org

july 08

sunday

CHERRYMAN & TC CHERRY TRIATHLONS: 7:15am, Greilick Outdoor Recreation Center, TC. 3disciplines.com

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GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

---------------------PETOSKEY ANTIQUES SHOW: 10am-4pm, Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey. Featuring 170 dealers. $5; good for both days. antiquesatthefairgrounds.com

---------------------MANISTEE NATIONAL FOREST FESTIVAL: Today includes a party at Douglas Valley Winery with live music by Awesome Distraction. manisteeforestfestival.com

---------------------MOUNT MANCELONA MUSIC & FOOD FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

---------------------UP NORTH VOCAL INSTITUTE: 3:15pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. This summer young artist training program focuses not only on training the voice, but the mind & body as well. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------SUNDAY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7-10pm, Elk Rapids Harbor Pavillion at the Edward C. Grace Memorial Harbor. Featuring The North Carolines.

---------------------BENJAMAN JAMES: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Enjoy this singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist with roots in funk, jazz, R&B & soul. $15/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

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LAVENDER HILL SERIES: 7:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Enjoy “genre-meld-

ing indie-folk” with The Accidentals. $22.50. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, GUILLERMO FIGUEROA, CONDUCTOR: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Enjoy such masterpieces as Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini Overture; Cordero’s Mariandá; & Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1. $22, $19, $12. tickets. interlochen.org

july 09

monday

GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

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“MOVIE MONDAYS: ART & DESIGN FILMS”: 5:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Featuring “Georgia O’Keeffe.” Local artist Elizabeth FergusJean, PhD, will host this movie, followed by leading a discussion about the film. crookedtree.org

---------------------JOHN ORPHEUS: 7pm, Alden Depot Park & Museum, Alden. Enjoy this Torontobased pan-African hip-hop group. 231-3314318. Free.

---------------------MACKINAW AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY LECTURE SERIES: 7pm, Heritage Village, Heritage Chapel, Mackinaw City.

“The Torch Has Been Passed: Birth Pangs of the Peace Corps.” John M. Dwyer will present an account of the events leading up to John F. Kennedy’s creation of the Peace Corps, as one who participated in those events. Free.

MONDAY NIGHT CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 7pm, Onekama Village Park. Enjoy mellow moods & classic tunes with Barefoot. Free.

july 10

tuesday

ALPENFEST: Gaylord, July 10-14. Featuring a parade, carnival, kids games & contests, Alpenfest Run: 10K, 5K & 1 Mile, pancake breakfast, ethnic food, stages with live entertainment, including Lauren Duski, & the World’s Largest Coffee Break. gaylordalpenfest.com

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

---------------------BAY VIEW COTTAGE WALK: 10am-4pm.

Featuring seven historic cottages in the Victorian summer community just north of Petoskey on the shores of Little Traverse Bay. There will also be live music, educational presentations & more. Park at Petoskey High School & have a free shuttle to Bay View. $31.50 advance; $36.50 day of. bayviewassociation.org

---------------------KIDS SUMMER READING CLUB EVENT: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Make a colorful music maker & learn the Mexican Hat Rock. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

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Petoskey. Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion at Ferris State University Dr. David Pilgrim will speak about “Holding Difficult Dialogs about Race.” Donations welcome. bayviewassociation.org

---------------------SUMMER WRITERS SERIES W/ AUTHOR AARON STANDER: 7:30pm, Leelanau Township Library.

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

---------------------INTERLOCHEN COLLAGE: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium.

Showcasing a sampling of student performances in music, dance, theatre, creative writing, motion picture & visual arts. $30 adults, $15 youth. tickets.interlochen.org/ summer-arts-festival

---------------------STRAITS AREA CONCERT BAND: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City.

july 11

wednesday

ALPENFEST: (See Tues., July 10)

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BIRDS & BUTTERFLIES HIKE: 8am, Arcadia Marsh.

Meet at the parking area for the trail at Arcadia Marsh. Presented by the GT Regional Land Conservancy. gtrlc.org

HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 1-3pm: Lindsey McDivitt will sign her book “Nature’s Friend: The Gwen Frostic Story.” 5-7pm: Book Launch Party with Mandy Toomey, author of “Good Night, Traverse City.” horizonbooks.com

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FAMILY CONCERT: THE STORYTELLERS: 2pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Featuring interactive stories, music, audience participation & hands-on fun with musical instruments. Free. tadl.org/events

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---------------------FREE SUMMER KIDS MOVIE SERIES: 3pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Featuring “Smurfs, The Lost Village.” facebook. com/thebaytheatresuttonsbay

---------------------TCNEWTECH MEETUP: 6pm, City Opera House, TC. A free monthly networking meetup for tech enthusiasts. Every month five presenters highlight new business ventures underway. cityoperahouse.org

---------------------FREE BEGINNER BELLYDANCE CLASS FOR ALL AGES & SIZES: 6:30pm, 2020 W. South Airport Rd. (formerly Boomerang), TC. Taught by Amira Hamzar, certified Bellydance instructor. Reserve your spot: 231.313.5577.

AmiraHamzar@gmail.com AmiraHamzarRaks.com

---------------------GTHC - TUESDAY NIGHT TREK: 6:30pm, GT Commons Natural Area, TC. Two mile hike (loop trail). Meet at the North Long Lake Rd. Trailhead.

---------------------AN EVENING WITH AUTHOR RICHARD BACHUS: 7pm, Little Traverse Historical Museum, Petoskey. Richard will speak about his novel, “Into No Man’s Land,” based on his grandparents’ experiences around World War I. Free.

GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

---------------------NONPROFIT EXCHANGE MONTHLY COFFEE BREAK: 8am, Otsego County Community Foundation, Gaylord.

THE WOMEN’S CLUB ANNUAL ART FAIR: 9:30am-4pm, Nub’s Nob ski area, off Pleasantview Rd., Harbor Springs. This event draws more than 100 artists. $3; 12 & under free.

---------------------19TH ANNUAL GARDEN WALK: 10am4pm. “Beauty and Balance.” Presented by the Charlevoix Area Garden Club. Featuring five gardens, including one at Castle Farms. $10 advance; $15 door. charlevoixareagardenclub.org

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Springs. Featuring 15 participating galleries.

Enjoy an array of mediums including oils, precious metals, gemstones, pearls, acrylics, clay, bronze, glass & more. harborspringschamber.com

---------------------AN EVENING WITH TOM BAILEY: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

Enjoy a wine & cheese reception for this local author & his new book, “A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World.” Reserve your spot: 231-347-1180. Free. mcleanandeakin.com/event/tom-bailey

---------------------EVENING ON RIVER STREET: 6-9pm, River St., Downtown Elk Rapids. Enjoy live music

by Drew Hale, food, kids activities & more.

---------------------BENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY BAND CONCERT: 7pm, Benzie Area Historical Museum, Benzonia. Free.

---------------------SEA SHANTY SING-A-LONG: 7pm, Maritime Heritage Alliance, TC. maritimeheritagealliance.org

---------------------UP NORTH VOCAL INSTITUTE: 7pm, Old City Park, Boyne City. A summer young artist training program that focuses not only on training the voice, but the mind & body as well.

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July 6 & 7 Much Ado About Nothing Interlochen Shakespeare Festival

NATALIE DOUGLAS & BRIAN J. NASH CABARET PERFORMANCE: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. oldtownplayhouse.com

GEORGE CLINTON PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC & ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Recording both as Parliament & Funkadelic, funk forefather George Clinton revolutionized R&B music during the ‘70s, twisting soul music into funk.

Parliament/Funkadelic had over 40 R&B hit singles (including three number ones) & recorded three platinum albums. $55, $50, $45, $38. tickets.interlochen.org

july 12

thursday

ALPENFEST: (See Tues., July 10)

------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

SOLID GOLD STORIES: 11am, Traverse Area District Library, Children’s Garden, TC. Enjoy classic & musical stories. tadl.org/ events

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CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. Enjoy blues with Blair Miller. crookedtree.org

---------------------FREE SUMMER KIDS MOVIE SERIES: 3pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Featuring “Smurfs, The Lost Village.” facebook. com/thebaytheatresuttonsbay

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LIVING ARTFULLY: CREATIVITY WITH THE GRANDKIDS: 9:30am-noon, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Featuring local artist Edy Stoughton. Free. crookedtree.org

BABY’S BREATH WORKBEE: 10am-noon, Elberta Beach, Elberta. Help the Northwest MI Invasive Species Network & the GT Regional Land Conservancy remove invasive baby’s breath. Dress for the weather & bring water & sunscreen. habitatmatters.org

---------------------MEN DIG GARDENING & ART: 10am-4pm, Farr Center, Onekama. Hosted by the Portage Lake Garden Club. A self-guided tour featuring six gardens designed & maintained by men, as well as art work created by four male artists. $10. onekama.info/portagelakegardenclub

CONCERT ON THE LIBRARY HILL: 7-9pm, Elk Rapids District Library. Sarah Riegler & John Orpheus present an acoustic family concert. elkrapidslibrary.org

FOX ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE PRESENTATION: 4pm, Leelanau Historical Society, Leland. Cathy Allchin, vice president of the Fox Island Lighthouse Association, will share the history of the station, highlighting recent projects. leelanauhistory.org

MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE SERIES: 7pm, Douglas Park, Rotary Park Pavilion, Manistee. Jazz/swing with Paul Keller’s Sundown Quintet.

TEENS & TWEENS CREATE!: 4pm, Interlochen Public Library, Conference Room. Make ice cream in a mason jar. Ages 10-19. Sign up. tadl.org/interlochen

STORY TIME WITH LINDSEY MCDIVITT: 11am, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Free story time & signing with Lindsey McDivitt, author of “Nature’s Friend: The Gwen Frostic Story.” mcleanandeakin.com

A NIGHT OF THE ARTS IN HARBOR SPRINGS: 6-9pm, Downtown Harbor

CHILDREN’S HEALING GARDEN: 11:30am, Michael’s Place, 1212 Veterans Dr.,

---------------------------------------------------------------“BRIDGES: CROSSING CULTURAL DIVIDES”: 7:30pm, Bay View, Voorhies Hall,

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Wednesday, July 4 The Glenn Miller Orchestra Thursday, July 5 Sarah Cahill, pianist

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Tuesday, July 3 The Capitol Steps

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KIDS’ CRAFTS: 10am, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. 3D Printing: Design & print a simple object. Ages 6-11.

231-331-4318. Free.

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---------------------ART FOR KIDS: 10:30am, Leelanau Township Hall. Featuring Tom Woodruff. For pre-K to elementary kids.

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Saturday, July 7 Koresh Dance Company Tuesday, July 10 Interlochen “Collage” Wednesday, July 11 George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic and Robert Randolph and the Family Band Thursday, July 12 Creedence Clearwater Revisited Friday, July 13 An Evening With Lindsey Stirling Tuesday, July 17 The Beach Boys Wednesday, July 18 Brentano String Quartet Saturday, July 21 THE PEKING ACROBATS

july Tuesday, July 24 06 Reba McEntire

Saturday, July 28 Friction Quartet

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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TC. Growing Through Grief: Grieving children & teens in the community can plant flowers & create memorial projects for the memorial garden. Picnic lunch included. Register: 947-6453 or goodgrief@mymichaelsplace.net Free. mymichaelsplace.net

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AUTHOR PRESENTATION: 12-2pm, Horizon Books, TC. Dan Egan presents his book, “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------“LIBRARIES ROCK”: 1pm, Bellaire Public Library. “Bookstock”: Music of Woodstock with Peter & Leslee & face painting. 231-5338814.

---------------------EXOTIC ZOO: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. This program will explain unusual characteristics, habits & mannerisms of each wildlife species, & there will be live animals. 231-331-4318. Free.

---------------------AUTHOR DAN EGAN BOOK SIGNING & DISCUSSION: 5:30pm, Marina Pavilion, Elk Rapids Harbor. Egan is the author of “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.” Free; donations appreciated. greenelkrapids.org

---------------------HARBOR HISTORY TALK: 5:30-7pm, Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. The Robison Crime. Presented by the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society. Featuring speakers Rick Wiles & Mardi Link. 231-5269771. $10; free for current Historical Society members.

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KIDS CREEK GUIDED WALKING TOUR - FOCUSED ON GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE: 5:30pm. Learn about Green Infrasture on this walking tour along Kids Creek. Wear hiking boots & bring bug spray.

Daylighted section of Kids Creek at Sixth St. & Beaumont Place, TC. Suggested donation: $5. gtbay.org/kidscreek

---------------------COMMUNITY MEETING: WATERSHED PROTECTION PLAN: 6pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Hosted by the Watershed Center GT Bay to discuss updating the GT Bay Watershed Protection Plan with a focus on shoreline communities in Antrim, Grand Traverse & Leelanau counties. gtbay.org

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MUSIC ON MAIN: 6-8pm, Main St., Village at Bay Harbor. Featuring Erik VanHorn. bayharbor.com

“JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT”: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. This musical features a cast of over 30 actors, full orchestra, Elvis-like Pharoah, children’s choir & more. $15-$28. bayviewassociation.org/ performing-arts

Sweet Chaos. A compilation of stories meant to be told & music meant to be heard. The Helplink Laundry Project’s mission is to help provide dignity through clean clothing for the nearly 10,000 seniors, adults & children experiencing poverty in the community. $36. littlecollaborative.org/laundry-project

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVISITED: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Creedence Clearwater Revival founding members & Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Stu Cook & Doug “Cosmo” Clifford will perform with newer members. They have been on world tours & have a platinum selling album, “Recollection.” $42, $49, $54, $59. tickets.interlochen.org

DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR DAN EGAN : 6pm, Petoskey High School Auditorium. This author of “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” will discuss his book with Caroline Keson, water resource specialist with the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council. Reserve your spot: 231.347.1180. Free. mcleanandeakin. com/event/dan-egan

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july 13

friday

ALPENFEST: (See Tues., July 10)

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BEAR LAKE DAYS: July 13-15. Featuring a parade, fireworks, food, 5K walk/run, fishing contest, puppet show, live music by the Scott Clown Band, Distant Brothers & others, & much more. visitmanisteecounty.com/event/bearlake-days

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

---------------------38TH ANNUAL BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS FESTIVAL: 3695 Division Rd., Harbor Springs, July 13-15. Featuring Bruce Cockburn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Blue Moon Marquee, Erin Coburn, Kinobe & Global Junction & many others. blissfest.org

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NMAG FINE ARTS SHOW & SALE: 10am, First United Methodist Church, Gaylord.

NMAG 22nd Annual Alpenfest Fine Arts Show & Sale. Paintings, jewelry, woodwork, pottery, photography & more. gaylordarts.org

---------------------15TH ANNUAL BOYNE THUNDER POKER RUN: See high performance boats, both on land & in the waters of Lake Charlevoix & Lake Michigan. Lakeside viewing of the parade lap of these boats starts at 10am on Sat. in Boyne City. Proceeds benefit Camp Quality, Challenge Mountain & the Boyne City Main Street Program. Free. boynethunder.com

---------------------- ---------------------ARTS FOR ALL SUMMER DANCE: 6:30pm, Elk’s Lodge, TC. $5 admission for teens & adults with disabilities & their peers (16+).

Contact grace@artsforallnmi.org for more info. artsforallnmi.org

---------------------LOCAL AUTHOR VISIT: 6:30pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Nancy Tucker & Trilby Plants will discuss writing stories & their book, “Double Danger.” peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------“THE MERCHANT OF VENICE”: 7pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Free; donations accepted. Find on Facebook.

CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. Featuring Maya Story & Owen James. crookedtree.org

---------------------“WHY UNIFORMS WERE THE WAY THEY WERE”: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Part 2 of a 3 part summer series. Part 2 is about the War of the Wilderness (Revolutionary War) including Butler’s Rangers. The speaker is a professional reenactment clothing maker who was one of the professionals selected to create uniforms in “The Last of the Mohicans.”

Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------- ---------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions, lawn, TC. Featuring The Petoskey Steel Drum Band. Free. gtpavilions.org/2018concerts-on-the-lawn

---------------------STREET MUSIQUE: 7-9pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs. “Tour de Bliss” with Nathan & Jessie, Turbo Pup, Ani & Kora, Siamese Sound Club, Blue Moon Marquee, face painters & Magic by Jania.

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MULEBONE: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. A night of traditional blues with multi-instrumentalist John Ragusa & roots music specialist Hugh Pool. $15/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

EAGLE RUN: Mount Mancelona, July 13-15.

Motorcycle/auto/side-by-side poker run to benefit Forgotten Eagles Homeless Veterans. Featuring The Insiders: A Tom Petty Tribute Band, Big Dudee Roo, a car show, arm wrestling, Mountain Top Race, 70s & 80s throwback silent disco & more. $22-$94. mountmancelona.com

---------------------“THE MERCHANT OF VENICE”: 7pm, The Old Art Building, Leland. Free; donations accepted. Find on Facebook.

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A CONVERSATION WITH ADRIANA TRIGIANI: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Presented by National Writers Series. This New York Times bestselling author will talk about her two newest books “Kiss Carlo” & the brandnew edition of “Cooking With My Sisters: One Hundred Years of Family Recipes from Bari to Big Stone Gap.” Joining Trigiani will be guest host Benjamin Busch. Also enjoy live music & sweet treats from Morsels. $15.50, $25.50. nationalwritersseries.org

---------------------MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, Marina Park, Northport. Featuring Igor & The Red Elvises (Russian Beach Boys).

---------------------SUMMER SOUNDS: 7pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Featuring soulful classic rock with Nina & The Buffalo Riders. $10; kids free. michlegacyartpark.org

UP NORTH VOCAL INSTITUTE: 7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. A summer young artist training program that focuses not only on training the voice, but the mind & body as well. crookedtree.org

---------------------MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7:30pm, East Jordan Memorial Park Band Shell. Enjoy rock & blues with the Jon Archambault Band.

“JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT”: (See Thurs., July 12)

---------------------AN EVENING WITH LINDSEY STIRLING: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. This violinist has albums that have received critical accolades including the Billboard Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Album. $35-$52. tickets.interlochen.org

july 14

saturday

SOUTH ARM CLASSICS: 7am-3pm, East Jordan.

Annual car & boat show. southarmclassics.com

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: Maggie Pill will sign her book “Peril, Plots & Puppies” & Vickie Fee will sign her book “Til Death Do Us Party.” 12-2pm: Annis Pratt will sign her book “The Battle for the Black Fen.” 2-4pm: R.J. Fox will sign his book “Awaiting Identification.” 4-6pm: Daniel Abbott will sign his book “The Concrete” & Brooks Rexroat will sign his book “Thrift Store Coats.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------FIRST DISCOVERY DAY - LEELANAU POOR FARM: 10am-noon, Kasson Township Hall, Maple City. 231-334-4395.

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LAVENDER U-PICK EVENT TO BENEFIT MID-MICHIGAN HONOR FLIGHT: 10am4pm, Lavender on Old Mission Peninsula.

Help give veterans their own memorable, safe & rewarding Tour of Honor for free. For every lavender bundle picked on July 14, $2 will go directly to Mid-Michigan Honor Flight.

Each u-pick bundle will cost $8. For more info contact Michele Young: myoung@tcbusinessnews.com

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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 MAGIC TREE HOUSE CELEBRATION: 11am, Horizon Books, Cadillac. Games, crafts, prizes & more. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

---------------------15TH ANNUAL BOYNE THUNDER POKER RUN: (See Fri., July 13)

BREWFEST EAST JORDAN: 2-9pm, Memorial Park, downtown East Jordan. Featuring craft & domestic beer, wine, live music by Lou Thumser, The Mickeys, & Full Circle; entertainment by Tommy Tropic & Just Us Four, & food trucks. Hosted by the Rotary Club of East Jordan. $5; under 12, free. Find on Facebook.

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FIND YOUR PARK AFTER DARK SUMMER STAR PARTY: Dune Climb, Glen Arbor. Held from 4-6pm & 9-11pm. Safely examine the sun up close with solar telescopes during the afternoon & then come back later to observe Venus, Jupiter & Saturn. Park in the row furthest from the dunes with your headlights facing M-109. facebook.com/nationalparkservice

---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “THE MERCHANT OF VENICE”: 6pm, Veterans Memorial Park, Elk Rapids. Outdoor BEAR LAKE DAYS: (See Fri., July 13) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - performance; please bring a lawn chair or ALPENFEST: (See Tues., July 10)

GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

blanket & a picnic dinner. Free; donations accepted. Find on Facebook.

SWEATY YETI RUN: 5K & 1 MILE: 8am, Boswell Stadium, East Jordan High School. sweatyyetirun.com

AUTHOR RECEPTION WITH STEPHEN MACK JONES: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Stephen will discuss his book “August Snow.” RSVP: 231.347.1180.

Free. mcleanandeakin.com

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21ST ANNUAL ARTISTS’ MARKET: 10am5pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Featuring over 80 art booths on the lawn, on Cedar Street & inside the building. 231-256-2131.

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50TH ANNUAL CHARLEVOIX ART & CRAFT SHOW: 10am-6pm, East Park, Downtown Charlevoix. Featuring over 150 exhibitors from around the country. charlevoix.org

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DIRTY LAUNDRY MONOLOGUES: 6pm, Streeters, TC. A fundraiser for Helplink &

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10TH ANNUAL KAYAK FOR A CAUSE ON WALLOON LAKE: 8:30am-4pm. $50 for one or two days. campdaggett.org/joinkayak-cause

TEENS & TWEENS CREATE!: 4pm, Interlochen Public Library, Conference Room.

Painting with stencils craft. For ages 10-19. newinterlochenlibrary.org

38TH ANNUAL BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS FESTIVAL: (See Fri., July 13)

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---------------------UP NORTH VOCAL INSTITUTE: 6pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. A summer young artist training program that focuses not only on training the voice, but the mind & body as well. crookedtree.org

---------------------“JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT”: (See Thurs., July 12)

#MEET MACKINAW SHOWCASE EVENTS: 8pm, Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City.

Featuring the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band.

---------------------STARS OF THE JOFFREY BALLET: SOLD OUT: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. $40-$110. greatlakescfa.org

---------------------TIM ALLEN: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. An iconic comedian & actor. $75-$100. lrcr.com/event-calendar/concerts/ tim-allen

july 15

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10TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE TRIATHLON: 7am, Zoll Street Beach, Harbor Springs. 600 yard swim, 19.6 mile bike ride & 4 mile run. littletraversetri.com

---------------------RIDE AROUND TORCH (RAT): 7am, Elk Rapids High School. Rolling through the scenic heart of Antrim County, this event features routes that include 26, 40, 63 & 100 miles. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

---------------------BEAR LAKE DAYS: (See Fri., July 13) ---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 7)

---------------------MILITANT’S NATURE TRAIL RUN: 13.1, 10K, 5K: 9am, Hanson Hills Recreation Area, Grayling. runsignup.com

---------------------10TH ANNUAL KAYAK FOR A CAUSE ON WALLOON LAKE: 9:30am-1:30pm. $50 for one or two days. campdaggett.org/joinkayak-cause

---------------------38TH ANNUAL BLISSFEST FOLK &

ROOTS FESTIVAL: (See Fri., July 13)

---------------------50TH ANNUAL CHARLEVOIX ART & CRAFT SHOW: 10am-4pm, East Park, Downtown Charlevoix. Featuring over 150 exhibitors from around the country. charlevoix.org

---------------------EAGLE RUN: (See Fri., July 13) ---------------------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

---------------------“THE MERCHANT OF VENICE”: 6pm, Hazerot Park, Northport. Outdoor performance; please bring a lawn chair or blanket & picnic dinner. Free; donations accepted. Find on Facebook.

---------------------SUNDAY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, Elk Rapids Harbor Pavillion at the Edward C. Grace Memorial Harbor. Featuring the Petoskey Steel Drum Band. Free.

---------------------ABIGAIL STAUFFER & DAVE HAUGHEY: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Folk siren Abigail Stauffer & cellist Dave Haughey bring their acoustic, pop & neo-soul music. $15/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES: 8pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center.

Featuring Brooklyn blues duo Mulebone. $18 GAAC members, $20 non-members, free under 18. glenarborart.org

---------------------WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, LARRY RACHLEFF, CONDUCTOR: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. $22 full, $19 senior, $12 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

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ALDEN EVENING STROLL: Downtown Alden. Featuring live music & street entertainers every Thurs. through summer, 6-8pm.

Shops & restaurants stay open late.

---------------------BEACH BARDS BONFIRE: Featuring By Heart poetry, storytelling & music. Fridays at 8pm, through Aug. 3, on the beach at the Leelanau School. One dollar per being. 231334-5890.

---------------------GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR OF TRAVERSE CITY: 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

---------------------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, facepainters & balloon-twisters. boynecitymainstreet.com

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY BAND: Mondays, 8pm through Aug. 20, on the lawn next to The Pier Restaurant, Harbor Springs.

Performances include show tunes, pop, standards, folk, classical, marches, jazz & more.

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JORDAN VALLEY COMMUNITY BAND: Thursdays, 7:30pm, through July 26. East Jordan Memorial Park Band Shell.

---------------------LOCAL AUTHOR BOOK SIGNINGS: Saturdays, 11am through July 28, Horizon Books, Cadillac. Meet & greet new MI authors. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

A Whole New Life

- Katie Zemsta, 36 and Kyle Zemsta, 34

“Katie and Kyle have had great success. Doing all of the followup steps and having the full support of a spouse really helps achieve and maintain long-term good health. It’s been very rewarding to watch the Zemstas become healthy and active.”

- Steven E. Slikkers, MD Grand Traverse Surgery PC

Deadline for Dates information is Tuesday for the following week.

---------------------MONDAY EVENING OLD MISSION PENINSULA RIDE: Mondays, 6pm, TC Central High School. Presented by Cherry Capital Cycling Club. Choose from 15, 20, 35 & 40 miles. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

---------------------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

---------------------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 3550 miles. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

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

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

---------------------PETOSKEY ROCKS!: Fridays, 6pm through Aug. 10. Featuring free carriage rides throughout downtown, an eerie Ghost Walk, Music in the Park, & a Movie in the Park at Dark. petoskeyarea.com/event-detail/petoskey-rocks

---------------------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

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Kyle Zemsta was so impressed by his wife’s weight loss results one year after surgery, he decided to have the procedure, too. Now they both have much more energy, stamina, and enjoy outdoor activities together.

“It’s been absolutely wonderful,” Katie said. “I’ve lost 120 pounds.

My health is excellent and my sleep apnea is gone. My new addiction is shopping. I can’t find anything I can’t fit into.”

MINI/JUNIOR SPEED OF LIGHT: A laidback race series. Ride bikes on dirt, explore the woods & more. Held every Thurs. this summer at 6pm. Meet at the Vasa parking lot off Bartlett Rd., TC. elgruponorte.org

Bariatric procedures are not for everyone. People qualify for weight loss surgery only if it is the best choice for their health and they demonstrate the required commitment, motivation, education, and medical history. Munson Medical Center’s nationally accredited program provides long-term support and thorough follow-up care. To learn more, join us for a free, informational seminar.

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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 around the fire. Located 10 miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr., & then follow signs. $5/adults, $3/ kids. 231-264-9467. stonecir@aol.com terrywooten.com

---------------------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.

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

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

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

---------------------ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-noon through Aug. 31. Elk Rapids Chamber, 305 US 31, Elk Rapids.

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

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

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

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OUTDOOR BOYNE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Veteran’s Park, Boyne City. Held every Weds. & Sat., 8am-noon. Featuring over 70 vendors. Dede & The Dream will perform live music on Sat., July 7, & Owen James will perform on Sat., July 14. 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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“PORTRAITS IN MICHIGAN”: The works of 27 artists will be on display representing different approaches to the fine art of portraiture. Runs through July 14 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.com

---------------------100-DAY PROJECT EXHIBIT: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Runs through July 7. Hours: Tues. - Fri.: 11am-3pm; Sat.: 11am-1pm. gacaevents.weebly.com

---------------------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 July 8 - Aug. 28. The gallery is open on weekends from 12-7pm, & on weekdays by appointment. Call 231-378-3474 to schedule.

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---------------------INNER LIGHT: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. The art of Katarzyna Korytowska, Mark Mehaffey & William Sievert will be featured in this exhibit through July 29. twistedfishgallery.com

---------------------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. An opening reception will be held on Weds., July 11 from 5-7pm. cityoperahouse.org

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---------------------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

---------------------OAC EXHIBITION: Artists Beth Bynum, Cynthia Foley & Sarah Innes will display their multi-media work through July 13. Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.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/ SOLO SHOW FEATURING THE ART OF MELONIE STEFFES: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Steffes features “Nature & Nurture,” Magical Realism, Oil Paintings, that runs through July 20. higherartgallery.com

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---------------------CENTER GALLERY, GLEN ARBOR: - MARGO BURIAN: Painter Margo Burian breaks with her tradition of landscape painting, & for the first time shows a group of mixed media abstracted paintings on panel.

Runs through July 12.

- JOSEPH LOMBARDO: Painter Joseph Lombardo revisits some of his favorite & signature motifs — Glen Arbor night scenes, Lake Michigan beaches, & up-close looks at some of the region’s historic barns. This exhibition opens Fri., July 13 with a 6pm sundown reception. Runs through July 19.

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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. Over 20 area artists capture the beauty & spirit of Northern MI in their original paintings. Runs through Sept.

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BON IVER, NATIONAL, STAPLES, HEADLINING MO POP The Mo Pop Music Festival is heading back to Detroit, specifically to West Riverfront Park for this year’s outing (July 28–29), where they’ll be cranking out the jams right across the river from Canada. In a festival setting full of a wide variety of food and beverages — plus free arcade games — you’ll be able to catch standout live sets from the likes of Bon Iver, Portugal. The Man, Vince Staples, The National, and many, many more …

West side Grand Rapids venue 741 (formerly known as Kuzzins Lounge, 741 Leonard St. NW) has been in business since the 1950s, and it was recently taken over by Kevin Farhat and Third Coast Development. Farhat and his crew started the process of revamping and amping up the venue late last year, with the intention to give more stage time to local bands. Live music nights started at 741 a couple of months ago, featuring such local GR performers as The Westside Rebellion, Feral Frankensteins, and Maggie May. They’re planning to continue live music all summer on Fridays and Saturdays at 10pm …

The Grammy Salute to Music Legends will be happening later this week (July 14) at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. Presented

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by The Recording Academy, these are live acknowledgements of the 2018 Special Merit Awards recipients via an awards ceremony and live tribute concert. This year’s honorees are Emmylou Harris, The Meters, Queen, Tina Turner, Neil Diamond, Louis Jordan, and Hal Blaine. Also being honored are John Williams, Bill Graham, and Seymour Stein; Technical Grammy Award winners Richard Factor and Tony Agnello; and Music Educator honoree Melissa Salguero …

Death Cab for Cutie is set to return with its ninth studio album, Thank You For Today, on Aug. 17 on Atlantic Records. The set, which includes singles “Gold Rush” and “When We Drive,” was produced by Muse/ Fiona Apple collaborator Rich Costey (who also produced the band’s last album, Kintsugi), and includes DCC’s newest band members, Zac Rae and Dave Depper, who joined the touring version of the band in 2015 after founding member Chris Walla departed. Death Cab is getting its summer festival appearances underway now, and will then embark on a fall tour of North America, and then a trek through Mexico and South America in November …

LINK OF THE WEEK Apple has purchased the worldwide rights to the new Ed Sheeran documentary,

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Songwriter, with plans for the doc, which includes footage of recording sessions and recorded/live versions of songs like “Perfect,” “Galway Girl,” and “Shape of You,” to be screened in theaters as well as on Apple’s digital platforms …

THE BUZZ Grand Rapids band Olivia Mainville and The Aquatic Troupe is in Los Angeles recording at EastWest Studios, known for sessions by the likes of The Mamas and The Papas and Nancy Sinatra …

Shows are getting booked for the Wharton Center in East Lansing, including

November shows by The Dustbowl Revival (Nov. 1), Steve Martin and Martin Short (Nov. 4) and the Soweto Gospel Choir (Nov. 18) …

The Common Ground Music Festival is happening this week in Lansing, with performances from Halsey, Gucci Mane, Logic, and more …

Jessie J will be in concert Oct. 14 at the Royal Oak Music Theater … 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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What do you do after releasing a Grammy-nominated debut album? You go seek out a top-notch mixer and try to top your last collection of tunes, of course — and that’s exactly what TRC did on this sophomore set. Digging further into its bluesy, rootsy rock sound, the band leans on Fleetwood Mac/Imagine Dragons mixmaster Mark Needham to present a set of tracks inspired by life lessons supplied by its fans over the past two years. It’s an interesting premise and presented well by this evolving band.

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Damon Albarn, the non-cartoon face of the otherwise animated UK band Gorillaz, recorded this album in something of a hurry, in anticipation of the band’s 2018 tour, so they’d have some new material to play live. That accelerated schedule proved to be zero detriment to the set, which is chock-full of catchy electro-pop numbers directly from Gorillaz’ usual wheelhouse.

“Lake Zurich” is probably the best, with its cranking beat and lively synths. Other highlights include the contemplative “Idaho” and the smoothly looping “Humility.”

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Hailing from the same Las Vegas environs as The Killers, Panic! offers similar glam-rock sounds to some degree, but unfortunately not with the same sharp sense of lyricism and melody that The Killers offers. Now primarily consisting of frontman Brendon Urie (the other bandmates have departed), the band’s sound has shifted to more of an emo-Broadway feel, which doesn’t really appeal.

Album closer “Dying in L.A.” is at least a little less melodramatic, but by the time it arrives, you’ll be more than ready for intermission.

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by meg weichman

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ag is a perfectly serviceable comedy you’ll probably enjoy. You’ll get a few chuckles out of it, and you’ll come to like the characters. You won’t love it, but you certainly won’t hate it. You’ll most likely just forget it. It’s sort of the film equivalent to an OK sandwich from a so-so restaurant you stopped at while passing through an unremarkable town. “Did I eat lunch today? Oh right, I ate at that one place … ” That’s Tag. But really, when it comes down to it, sometimes, what more do you really want? Based on a true story, the film centers on five friends who have engaged in the same game of tag — you know, the game of “you’re it” from our childhood playgrounds — for basically their whole lives. The game is only in effect for the month of May, and it’s ongoing. The object isn’t to win, per se, it’s just to not be “it.” But something is afoot this year, as reigning never-been-tagged-ever player Jerry Pierce (The Avengers’ Jeremy Renner) says he’s quitting after this round, his perfect record intact. This injustice will not stand, so Hoagie Malloy (The Office’s Ed Helms) rounds up the gang (Mad Men’s Jon Hamm, New Girl’s Jake Johnson, and Broad City’s Hannibal Buress) for an especially crucial month of play. What makes Tag stand out is the heartwarming reality of the true story it’s based on. For this alone it’s worth a shot. Just don’t be too worried if you don’t run to see it.

WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Tennis shoes. A sweater. Our great secular saint. There’s only one man I could be describing, and it’s Fred Rogers. He’s the subject of a new documentary that traces his life, work, and incalculable legacy. And going into the film, I was looking to commune with the man who has become so much more than a fond memory of childhood.

such frankness and tenderness. All the puppets in the Land of Make Believe were voiced by Rogers, but as the film theorizes, of all the puppets, Daniel Tiger was his surrogate. And the film goes as far as to include animations that try to convey just how Mr. Rogers put his life and experiences into the character, which was not altogether successful for me.

And by the end of its 90-some touching minutes, you’ll not only find your face streaked with tear and snot (pro tip: bring tissues) but also washed clean of the anguish of modern adult life, and wanting to be the person Mr. Rogers thought you could be.

Ooof, it will do a number on you.

But these minor shortcomings — along with how the interviews with Fred Rogers’ wife and sons could’ve gone just a little more in depth, because darn, I can’t even fathom that he had kids, let alone what it must’ve been like to have Mr. Rogers as your dad — are almost beside the point.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is an altogether rare experience, an empathetic tearjerker that could not be more deeply felt. A film of quiet heroism and sincere goodness, that makes you feel more connected to your fellow man. And in producing these powerful feelings, this is not some mere nostalgic trip down memory lane that looks back on a beloved pop culture icon, but rather a moving treatise on nothing less than the human condition.

Mr. Rogers liked us “just the way we are,” and the same can be said of this film. While certainly following the template of a standard biography, it transforms into a much-needed salve to these troubled, embittered times that seem to grow crueler and more contentious by the moment.

Using archival clips and interviews with friends, family, and co-workers to tell Fred Rogers’ story and his path from seminary school to writing, producing, and starring in that staple of youth, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, this is pretty simple and straightforward filmmaking. But as we are reminded while watching clips of the low-fi magic of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which didn’t need fancy sets or puppets, simple doesn’t make something any less impactful.

Sure, there’s nothing groundbreaking here.

Whatever “revelations” there were about Mr. Rogers the man, and not Mr. Rogers the TV personality, the ultimate takeaway is that he really was exactly what he seemed, a man who believed so sincerely that all children are special and who wanted the best for them. But that’s not to say he isn’t shown to be complex; he was. And as much as we hold him up as a saint, he was also human — getting into mischief on set, making dirty jokes, and yes, even swearing.

The film focuses a great deal on his interest in the study of child development, and how, after understanding the burgeoning power of television, his instinct was to create a show and use it for good. That show eventually became Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, starting in Pittsburgh and then going national after being picked up by PBS. Even in the earliest days of his program, it’s startling to see how he tackled subjects like the Vietnam War and the assassination of RFK with

Yet, hearing Fred Rogers speak so passionately about the importance of making children feel safe and loved and seeing how he helped give that to so many children, your mind can’t help but drift from the comfort of the film to the children separated from their families at the border, and think, Boy, am I glad he wasn’t here to see this. There are some things the heart just cannot take.

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lease do not lump in Incredibles 2 in with other superhero movies. Sure it’s about a bunch of superheroes doing daring deeds, but it’s really about a loving family (and may I remind you they don’t even wear capes!). So for these reasons and so many more, please don’t think for a moment this is just another superhero movie, or even just another quick cash grab of an animated sequel. Cause after 14 years coming, what it is is a film filled with rich and wonderful characters, inventive whiz-bang action, quick-witted humor, heartfelt storytelling, empowering and thoughtful messages, and exhilarating family fun. We pick up right where the previous film left off. Superheroes are outlawed, but that can’t stop the Parr Family — father Bob “Mr. Incredible” (Craig T. Nelson), mom Helen “Elastigirl” (Holly Hunter), daughter Violet (Sarah Vowell), son Dash, and baby Jack-Jack – from doing their thing.

Enter superhero superfan Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk), a billionaire mogul with a plan to get supers back into the public’s good graces, a plan that involves Elastigirl fighting crime on the streets and Mr. Incredible staying home and folding the sheets.

A total delight from start to finish, Incredibles 2 is here to do nothing less than save the summer movie season.

The question of “What would Mr. Rogers do or say?” about current events hangs over the entirety of the film, but the film also makes clear that is not the question worth answering, because what matters most is what we’ll do.

In light of where we are today, whether it’s the state of affairs or of children’s media, it’s almost hard to believe Fred Rogers was real.

And that all the things that have made him such an easy target for parody and meanspirited comments were truly and beautifully radical. Because in the end, his goodness wins. And the film serves as a rallying cry sung in the softest and sweetest of sing-songy voices, stirring things you have long lost touch with or forgotten — those formative lessons he shared with us and the power of being warm, loving, patient, and kind.

Mr. Rogers told children it’s OK to feel, and as you sit there crying, remember it’s the most beautiful expression of what he would want you to do: to feel those feelings. So let yourself cry, and you’ll come out better on the other side, ready for the days and fight ahead. It’s such a good feeling, indeed.

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

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he hype surrounding Hereditary has hailed it as an ultra-terrifying take on the horror genre and perhaps the scariest thing to hit screens since The Exorcist. So was it scary? Well, not as much as you would’ve thought. But was it traumatic? 10/10. And was it brilliant? Completely. This is not some disposable and formulaic genre exercise. And not the kind of horror film that relies on jump scares. No, this is something far more unsettling, something you won’t be able to shake: the cerebral horror of existential dread. The story surrounds a family, led by mom Toni Collette, and the dark family secrets that come to light following the death of their grandmother, and you don’t need to know more than that. It’s a setup found in many an indie drama, and at many points the slow-moving terror could pass as a prestige domestic drama, complete with Oscar-caliber performances and stunning cinematography, but then the creepy stuff and haunting atmosphere begins to take hold. Disturbing and intense, by film’s end you’ll want to unravel all the mysteries of the chilling tragedy of Hereditary, but you know, also never want to watch or think about it again.

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ACOUSTIC DRAFT MEAD, TC 7/7 -- Rob Conroy, 7 7/13 -- Les, 7 7/14 -- Andre Villoch, 7

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BONOBO WINERY, TC 7/13 -- Mitch McKolay, 6-8

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I’m fine with that, but I don’t want him smoking in the house. He says it’s his house, too, so I’m not being fair. Plus, it is cold in the rural area where we live and rains a lot, so he’d have to put on a jacket, go on the porch, etc., to smoke. I get it, but I hate the smell, and I don’t want to go to 12-step meetings smelling like weed. That’s just not right. Help.

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A

: Surprisingly, the road to respect and good standing in the 12-step world does not involve strolling into meetings smelling like you live in a one-bedroom bong.

Your taking care not to show up all “I just took a bath in Chanel No. 420!” at 12-step meetings — lest you trigger any recovering potheads — is what I call “empathy in action.” I write in my science-based manners book, “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” that empathy — caring about how your behavior affects others — is “at the root of manners.”

Rudeness, on the other hand, is the lack of consideration for what one’s behavior does to another person. I explain it in the book as a form of theft — theft of “valuable intangibles like people’s attention (in the case of cell phone shouters who privatize public space as their own).” In this case, there’s the theft of your reputation in a group that’s an integral part of your life (and maybe even of your sobriety).

Somebody reading this might make the argument, “Ha, dummy — wouldn’t empathy involve her caring about how her ‘no toking in the house’ thing affects her boyfriend?”

Well, yes. But generally speaking, the person whose behavior changes an environment — in negative ways for others in it — is the one who needs to bear the burden of whatever they’re doing. (This is why considerate people have long asked others, “Mind if I smoke?” — rather than expecting others to ask, “Mind if I breathe?”)

And let’s have a look at the level of “burden” here: Oh, boohoo, might your boyfriend sometimes have to put on a parka to smoke some weed? Put both arms into the sleeves and everything? You could try to fire up some empathy in Pol Pot-head by explaining that coming into 12-step meetings smelling like you just smoked a bowl is embarrassing on the level of strolling in swigging from a big bottle of Jim Beam. (Of course, it’s also

completely understandable to want to live in a place that doesn’t reek of reefer.)

You might also consider whether his stubbornness on this points to a bigger issue — a general lack of generosity and/or interest in your happiness. We are self-interested mofos, but when we love somebody, we’ll often set aside our immediate self-interest and do what’s best for them. And because we love them, it ultimately benefits us to benefit them. This is why you see people do extraordinary things for the ones they love: Give a kidney! Build the Taj Mahal!

Move to the jungle for a year so they can do their anthro fieldwork! And then there’s your boyfriend, all “Honey, you’ll just need to stand outside a window and participate in your meeting from there: ‘Hi, my name is Belinda, and I’m an alcoholic...who’s about to be mauled by a bear.’”

Angry Bards

Q

: I’m tired of being angry at my exboyfriend. My best friend suggested I write an email to him, saying everything I want to say, but send it to her instead. It seemed like a bad idea, delving into those feelings even more, but I did it anyway. Miraculously, I felt much better afterward. A fluke?

— Puzzled

A

: I get it: You were all, “Write a letter he’ll never read? Um, I wasn’t dating Santa.”

However, psychologist James Pennebaker finds that writing about upsetting events in our lives can act as a sort of mental crime scene cleanup — in a way that simply thinking about these events or venting emotions does not.

Pennebaker theorizes that the process of organizing your thoughts to write them down coherently leads you to reinterpret and make sense out of what happened, thus diminishing the power of the events to keep upsetting you.

Accordingly, Pennebaker’s research suggests you could speed your healing by using what I’d call “explainer” words, such as “because” or “caused” — as well as insight words (like “understand” and “realize”).

The research also suggests it may help to do this writing thing more than once — even repeatedly. So you might want to keep hammering out those emails about him as long as you continue to have, um, strong feelings about him — like, say, the recurring idea that he should part his hair down the middle. Ideally with an ax.

“Jonesin” Crosswords "You Are Correct"

--some well-known pairings. by Matt Jones

ACROSS

DOWN

1 “Silicon Valley” co-creator Mike 6 Bacon portion 10 Duck out of sight 14 “News” site with “Area Man” headlines, with “The” 15 Military assistant 16 Cain’s brother 17 Sudden shocks 18 Shred 19 Film spool, back when that was still a thing 20 Capital served by Gardermoen Airport 21 Classic Nickelodeon game show with a 2018 reboot 23 Redolence 25 Delivery people made obsolete by refrigeration 26 With 44-Across, getting punished for one’s actions 31 Singer/actress Grande 32 Anise-flavored liqueur 33 Z, in New Zealand 36 Wilder’s “Young Frankenstein” costar 37 One of the Kardashians 38 Dungeons & Dragons equipment 39 Brewhouse brew 40 Unfavorable audience reaction 42 “I Would Die 4 U” singer 44 See 26-Across 46 Attack 49 No greater than 50 Fleetwood Mac’s last Top 10 song 53 NFLer Warren who competed on “Dancing With the Stars” 57 Designer Cassini 58 High-quality 59 Hidden stash 60 “___, Brute?”

61 Ego-driven 62 Disney film set in China 63 Pt. of CBS or CNS 64 Ambulance team, briefly 65 Word that’s considered an alternative to the last word of each theme phrase

1 Mojo ___ (“Powerpuff Girls” villain) 2 Ones, in Juarez 3 Salmon seasoning 4 Overdo it 5 Funny duo?

6 Enlightenment, to Zen Buddhists 7 “In ___ of flowers ...”

8 Just ___ (small amount) 9 Language instruction company with a “Method” 10 Fast-food chain founder Wilber 11 Letter-shaped girder 12 Big name in farm machinery 13 Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy” 21 She has a singing backpack 22 Canyon effect 24 Relaxation room 26 “Beowulf,” for one 27 ___ Mountains (dividers of Europe and Asia) 28 It may be created in a pit 29 Background distraction 30 Candy aisle stuff that’s not actually eaten 33 Element in electrodes 34 “Behold!” to Caesar 35 Deejay Rick 37 Bout enders, for short 38 “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” extra 40 Fix eggs, in a way 41 Away for a while 42 Itty littermates 43 Out of commission (abbr.)

44 Tennis racket string material, once 45 Borough for JFK Airport 46 Sunburn-relieving plants 47 Overly sedimental?

48 Rescinds a deletion, in proofreading 51 Claylike soil 52 J.K. Rowling attribute, for short?

54 Rights-defending org.

55 ___ Farm (clothing line founded by Russell Simmons) 56 Phnom ___, Cambodia 59 Network that airs reruns of “Reba”

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lOGY

Jim and Tori Mullan met at an art show in the mid-1980s and discovered that they shared the same interest in old watches, jewelry and antiques. Soon after, they combined their individual talents to form a partnership in work and in life.

“Our work is modeled after vintage decoys, long-forgotten toys and other unique objects. The combination gives each piece its own personality with a hint of nostalgia.”

courage, you wise fool. I stage-whisper “Congratulations!” as you slip away from your hypnotic routine and wander out to the edge of mysterious joy. With a crazy grin of encouragement and my fist pressed against my chest, I salute your efforts to transcend your past. I praise and exalt you for demonstrating that freedom is never permanent but must be reclaimed and reinvented on a regular basis. I cheer you on as you avoid every temptation to repeat yourself, demean yourself, and chain yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Reverse

psychology” is when you convince people to do what you wish they would do by shrewdly suggesting that they do the opposite of what you wish they would do. “Reverse censorship” is when you write or speak the very words or ideas that you have been forbidden to express. “Reverse cynicism” is acting like it’s chic to express glee, positivity, and enthusiasm. “Reverse egotism” is bragging about what you don’t have and can’t do.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to carry out all these reversals, as well as any other constructive or amusing reversals you can dream up.

Dickinson once revealed to a friend that there was only one Commandment she ever obeyed: “Consider the Lilies.” Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki told his English-speaking students that the proper Japanese translation for “I love you” is Tsuki ga tottemo aoi naa, which literally means “The moon is so blue tonight.”

In accordance with current astrological omens, Pisces, I’m advising you to be inspired by Dickinson and Soseki. More than any other time in 2018, your duty in the coming weeks is to be lyrical, sensual, aesthetic, imaginative, and festively non-literal.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your key theme

right now is growth. Let’s dig in and analyze its nuances. 1. Not all growth is good for you. It may stretch you too far too fast -- beyond your capacity to integrate and use it. 2. Some growth that is good for you doesn’t feel good to you. It might force you to transcend comforts that are making you stagnant, and that can be painful. 3. Some growth that’s good for you may meet resistance from people close to you; they might prefer you to remain just as you are, and may even experience your growth as a problem. 4. Some growth that isn’t particularly good for you may feel pretty good. For instance, you could enjoy working to improve a capacity or skill that is irrelevant to your long-term goals. 5. Some growth is good for you in some ways, and not so good in other ways. You have to decide if the trade-off is worth it. 6. Some growth is utterly healthy for you, feels pleasurable, and inspires other people.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): You can’t sing with someone else’s mouth, Taurus. You can’t sit down and settle into a commanding new power spot with someone else’s butt.

Capiche? I also want to tell you that it’s best if you don’t try to dream with someone else’s heart, nor should you imagine you can fine-tune your relationship with yourself by pushing someone else to change. But here’s an odd fact: You can enhance your possibility for success by harnessing or borrowing or basking in other people’s luck. Especially in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You wouldn’t

attempt to cure a case of hiccups by repeatedly smacking your head against a wall, right? You wouldn’t use an anti-tank rocket launcher to eliminate the mosquito buzzing around your room, and you wouldn’t set your friend’s hair on fire as a punishment for arriving late to your rendezvous at the café. So don’t overreact to minor tweaks of fate, my dear Gemini. Don’t over-medicate tiny disturbances.

Instead, regard the glitches as learning opportunities. Use them to cultivate more patience, expand your tolerance, and strengthen your character.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’m feeling a bit helpless

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): I pay tribute to your dizzying

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as I watch you messing with that bad but good stuff that is so wrong but right for you. I am rendered equally inert as I observe you playing with the strong but weak stuff that’s interesting but probably irrelevant. I fidget and sigh as I monitor the classy

but trashy influence that’s angling for your attention; and the supposedly fast-moving process that’s creeping along so slowly; and the seemingly obvious truth that would offer you a much better lesson if only you would see it for the chewy riddle that it is. What should I do about my predicament? Is there any way I can give you a boost? Maybe the best assistance I can offer is to describe to you what I see.

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

Paul Ekman has compiled an extensive atlas of how emotions are revealed in our faces.

“Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions,” he has written, “much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because your assignment in the coming weeks -- should you choose to accept it -- is to explore and experiment with your entire repertoire of smiles. I’m confident that life will conspire to help you carry out this task. More than at any time since your birthday in 2015, this is the season for unleashing your smiles.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Lucky vibes are

coalescing in your vicinity. Scouts and recruiters are hovering. Helpers, fairy godmothers, and future playmates are growing restless waiting for you to ask them for favors. Therefore, I hereby authorize you to be imperious, regal, and overflowing with self-respect. I encourage you to seize exactly what you want, not what you’re “supposed” to want. Or else be considerate, appropriate, modest, and full of harmonious caution. CUT! CUT! Delete that “be considerate” sentence. The Libra part of me tricked me into saying it. And this is one time when people of the Libra persuasion are allowed to be free from the compulsion to balance and moderate. You have a mandate to be the show, not watch the show.

ScORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Emily Dickinson wrote 1,775 poems -- an average of one every week for 34 years. I’d love to see you launch an enduring, deep-rooted project that will require similar amounts of stamina, persistence, and dedication. Are you ready to expand your vision of what’s possible for you to accomplish? The current astrological omens suggest that the next two months will be an excellent time to commit yourself to a Great Work that you will give your best to for the rest of your long life!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What’s the

biggest lie in my life? There are several candidates.

Here’s one: I pretend I’m nonchalant about one of my greatest failures; I act as if I’m not distressed by the fact that the music I’ve created has never received the listenership it should it have. How about you, Sagittarius? What’s the biggest lie in your life? What’s most false or dishonest or evasive about you? Whatever it is, the immediate future will be a favorable time to transform your relationship with it.

You now have extraordinary power to tell yourself liberating truths.

Three weeks from now, you could be a more authentic version of yourself than you’ve ever been.

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

then you go through phases when you don’t know what you need until you stumble upon it. At times like those, you’re wise not to harbor fixed ideas about what you need or where to hunt for what you need. Metaphorically speaking, a holy grail might show up in a thrift store. An eccentric stranger may provide you with an accidental epiphany at a bus stop or a convenience store. Who knows? A crucial clue may even jump out at you from a spam email or a reality TV show. I suspect that the next two weeks might be one of those odd grace periods for you.

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