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Let’s Try the Law of Public Perjury Unethical politicians, party hacks, and fake news sources repeatedly refer to the nation’s capital as a swamp. Using such a derogatory name is almost assuredly a result of the toxic self-destructive political partisanship that stains political discourse in the United States.

This isn’t just a family feud; it’s a war between tribes, and unfortunately the first casualty of war is truth.

Using a word like swamp, which brings a slimy image to mind, reinforces an inclination to oppose some poorly defined thing that everyone else seems to be against. But the real issue is this: What can be done to rid ourselves of the image of our political system as a disgusting swamp?

It’s a pretty good bet that getting the liars out of elected office and Washington, D.C. would, at the very least, dry up part of the marsh. However, there currently is an obstacle preventing this from happening. That obstacle is that no criminal sanctions have been established that would make lying to the public a punishable offense for politicians.

Establishing it as a crime of public perjury for any elected official to utter or publish disinformation to the public, while acting in the capacity of their elected office, would attach both risk and solution to this form of behavior. Spoiler alert: Public perjury should also include disseminating fake news as a criminal offence.

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Does GT Bay Have a Plastic Problem?...............10 Wineries continue to add new elements............13 For the Love of Wine....................................14 Live Music Now Amid the Lavender...................17 Tax Refrom Means Break for Winery Industry....18 Sommelier Central...........................................20 The Northport Dog Parade................................23 Blondie to Rock Interlochen...............................24 Florence via Leelanau........................................27 Northern Seen...................................................28

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Spectator/Stephen Tuttle...................................6 Opinion............................................................8 Weird..............................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................33 The Reel..........................................................35 Advice Goddess...........................................37 Crossword...................................................37 Freewill Astrology.........................................38 Classifieds..................................................39 Cover photo by John Robert Williams Photography

David Frederick, Grayling Trump Truckin’ John Hunter’s letter in the June 17 issue of Northern Express is no more insightful than when it ran in the Leelanau Enterprise.

President Trump has not caused or exacerbated any of the alleged evils of America listed. I have no idea what Hunter means by talking of sowing “hate,” which probably means anything with which the Left disagrees, as a big business.

Stating the truth, or just a contrary opinion, about the Left is not preaching hate. President Trump did not cause Parkland; he has never shot or encouraged the shooting of a black. He has never “exploited” an indian. He has stood up for the deportation of illegal aliens, who are a drag on the economy and sometimes a violent danger, as in MS-13. Good for him.

Who are these “tens of thousands” of children who allegedly brush their teeth with dirty water, and, if true, how is that President Trump’s doing? The extremely wealthy contribute nothing? By paying 90 percent of the total federal income tax, expanding business, employing millions, and not being a drag on society, like the welfare class is?

Despite the mindless and dishonest “resistance,” America is rising because of President Trump’s leadership. He triumphs daily over the Russia witch hunt, two-thirds of cable news, and the haters. No president in history has had so many people attacking him for so little, and he just keeps on truckin’.

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4 A group of concerned citizens plans to protest the closure of a road at Elberta Beach.

A concrete barrier recently placed on the trail blocks motorized traffic from heading south of the main parking lot at the beach. Activist Eric VanDussen organized the protest, which will be held at the barrier from 7pm until 11pm Friday, June 22.

“Come assemble with your fellow concerned citizens to protest the barricading of the Elberta Beach access road and the Village of Elberta’s governmental overreach!”

VanDussen wrote in an announcement. “This will be a peaceful protest protected by the First Amendment of the United States’ Constitution and Article 1 § 3 & § 5 of the Constitution of Michigan. The event will feature live freedom of expression by Alfredo and other musical acts.”

Becky Addis, Elberta clerk, said she hadn’t heard about the protest. She said the village is looking for grant money to pave the road and, in the meantime, officials decided it should be closed. She said doesn’t know when it might be paved.

Addis said that the road enabled people to trespass on private property and to camp illegally on the beach.

Hey, watch it Schitt’s Creek

Schitt’s Creek’s season four wrapped recently, and if you didn’t enjoy the latest in the crazy antics of the Rose Family, you’re missing out on one of the funniest and most underrated shows on television.

And with summer TV being slow, now is the perfect time to catch up. Created by SCTV legend Eugene Levy and his son, Daniel, it’s a Canadian import about a wealthy family that loses their fortune and are forced to move to the town of Schitt’s Creek — the town being their only remaining asset, purchased as a joke years ago. So Dad (Eugene Levy), Mom (Catherine O’Hara), and their two adult kids move into a motel and seek the help of the town’s endearingly colorful locals. Rich in loving humor about smalltown life (think Parks and Recreation), Christopher Guest (Best in Show) and favorites Levy and O’Hara have never been better. Inspired, absurd, romantic, and even sweet, you’ll want to get stuck up Schitt’s Creek. Streaming on Netflix, airing on Pop Network.

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It’s a cruel irony that bathing suit season happens to coincide with the absolute best time of year to sit outside and sip wine. (A six-ounce glass will run you about 115 to 150 calories, but let’s be honest: With this scenery, who stops at a single glass?) Luckily, Chateau Chantal makes available in its tasting room snack cooler a healthy low-cal, low-carb snack that pairs immensely well with wine and keeps you from eating an entirely liquid lunch or dinner: Oloves.

Available in fab flavors — we loved the not-tootart lemon and rosemary mix; liked the light zing of the basil and garlic variety — these fat and firm green olives offered a salty, slightly fatty fix that curbed our hunger for real food but didn’t distract a bit from the happiest part of our happy hour, an assemblage of reds and whites.

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Construction Boot Camp Has Openings

Lots of young people need good jobs in Benzie County. And it just so happens that the county also has a construction-worker shortage. Enter the Advocates for Benzie County, which hopes to solve both problems in one fell swoop.

It has created the Skilled Trades Apprenticeship Readiness Training, or START, an intensive, eight-week training program designed to get motivated folks trained to work in the construction trades in eight fast and furious weeks.

The state of Michigan will offer a stipend for students, but the program is no Easy Street: It’ll involve long days and sweaty brows as students help construct a Habitat for Humanity house in Thompsonville.

The rigor is by design, says Richard Lutz, co-director of START: “It’s more or less a boot camp, because it’s as much to show students what a good work ethic is and what’s expected in the industry, rather than just a class that’s several hours a day,” Lutz said.

Ready to bring down the hammer and build a real career? The orientation meeting takes place at 10am June 22 at the Platte River Elementary School in Honor. Spots are limited, so call (231) 409-1254.

things we love Drinking Dog-Lovers Back in April, we noted a lil’ fundraiser planned at Traverse City’s Rare Bird Brewing. It was called Fences for Fido, an effort to raise money to buy and install fencing at Cherryland Humane Society so its shelter dogs could run and play off leash. Well, we’re thrilled to report that attendees tippled enough for $14K worth of pup fun: Kathy Hyland, owner of TC’s Pets Naturally and event sponsor, tells Northern Express that a 65-by-35-foot agility pen and a 100-foot dog run have been installed, and a ribbon cutting is coming up at 3:30pm June 19 at CHS. You won’t find cocktails at this event, but you can count on enough wagging tails to catch yourself a real feel-good buzz.

Amelia Earhart Race Stopping in Cadillac Fresh from our Coolest Things We Never Heard Of file: An all-women transcontinental airplane race started in 1929 by Amelia Earhart and other female pilots is making a pit stop in northern Michigan this year. The Air Race Classic, considered the epicenter of women’s air racing, will land at Cadillac’s Wexford County Airport June 20 and 21. More than 50 race teams consisting of at least two women pilots — ranging in age from 17 to 90 years old — are competing, aiming to fly 2,656 miles, from Sweetwater, Texas, to Fryeburg, Maine, within four days. To celebrate its big get, the Wexford County Airport will host a two-day open house from noon to 6pm on both Wednesday and Thursday, when the racers are scheduled to fly through. At 1 p.m. on Wednesday, the guest of honor will be Michigan’s last surviving World War II WASP pilot, 97-year-old Jane Doyle of Grand Rapids. Learn more: airclassic.org, www.cadillac-wexfordcountyairport.com.

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Florals are definitely the darling of the fashion world this year, but besides dazzling on the runways of Paris, London, and New York, they are also making a splash at your favorite local bar. Brandin Elzinga, manager of the East Park Tavern in Charlevoix, said the trend has found its way into all kinds of beverages lately, including beer, wine, and — perhaps most noticeably — cocktails. “A lot of alcohol has been going for a bit of a floral taste, and people really seem to be liking it,” he said. That would explain the popularity of the Tavern’s Round Lake Refresher. A mix of St. Germain liqueur, prosecco, and blood orange San Pelligrino, served in a tall-stemmed glass garnished with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry, it not only looks inviting with its rosy hue but also tastes like a fresh summer breeze. “St. Germain has of course been around for a long time, but lately it has enjoyed a new league of fans — it has really been catching on as a cocktail ingredient,” said Elzinga. “It’s sweet and flowery tasting but is perfectly balanced in this case by the bubbly and the tartness of the blood orange. The Round Lake Refresher is one of our best sellers. It’s a pretty drink — people will see it being delivered to another table and they’ll say — what is that? I want one of those!” For the ultimate experience, enjoy this cool and lovely sipper on a beautiful summer’s day or evening sitting up on the Tavern’s openair third-level overlooking its namesake: lovely Round Lake. $9 ($8 during the Tavern’s 3–6pm happy hour) at East Park Tavern, 307 Bridge Street, Charlevoix. (231) 547-7540. eastparktavern.net.

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You might recall the War that Never Ends in Afghanistan. It started as an effort to remove the Taliban from control of the country because they were murderous thugs who had given aid, comfort, and safe-haven to al Qaida, the perpetrators of 9/11.

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A relative handful of American special operations personnel, together with tribal leaders we called the Northern Alliance, sent the Taliban scurrying off into the hills. Then we sent more troops and more and more.

The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld troika claimed we were going to bring democracy to Afghanistan and the region.

It’s been nearly 17 years, the longest war in our history, and we still have 15,000 troops and nearly twice that many private contractors on the ground there. (This is the first war in which we’ve had more private contractors than military personnel in theater.) The Taliban now control close to 15 percent of the country. ISIS is still a presence. We’ve spent nearly $80 billion training the Afghan military, and they still aren’t ready to fully defend their own country. The “unity” government is barely functional and at least parts of it are highly corrupt. Their constitution is a mishmash of faux democracy and Islamic law. The official name of the country is now the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, so that whole western democracy thing didn’t pan out.

We did get rid of Saddam Hussein; a quick trial and hanging after we captured him took care of that. The void left by his departure was quickly filled by ISIS. Iraq’s embryonic postHussein government, combined with absolute chaos in the military, left them impotent.

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We still have 5,000 troops on the ground in Iraq. We’ve been there since 2003, making it the second longest combat action in our history. The new Iraqi prime minister would like us to leave entirely, which is probably a good idea.

Then there’s Syria. Oh, my.

No one seems to be able to define victory or exactly what it is we’re trying to win or how we will know we’ve won. Killing every terrorist and creating democracies are not rational objectives.

And the chaos we’ve created is actually the perfect breeding ground for the extremists we’re fighting.

Then we decided Afghanistan was so much fun that we should venture into Iraq to rid them of their weapons of mass destruction.

It was a victory achieved before we started since they had no weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps we should have listened to the U.N. inspector who told us that. Undaunted, we morphed the mission into regime change, another domino in the cascade of Middle East countries turning to democracy we were told.

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Nearly all the previously ISIS-held territory has now been reclaimed though there is little left to govern. The bad guys we didn’t kill — ISIS casualty estimates range from 25,000 to 50,000 dead with civilian casualties many times higher — scurried off to Syria where they can keep fighting somebody. They have vowed to return, a likely scenario since the Iraqi military is spread too thin to protect the territory regained.

At one time, ISIS controlled 34,000 square miles of Iraq and part of Syria and had declared the area their new caliphate. So our little coalition, with total air superiority, went after them from above. The coalition — mostly us France and Great Britain — flew 25,000 combat sorties and turned ISIS held cities and strongholds into rubble.

We would like their murderous dictator, Bashar al Assad, to be gone. The Russians would like him to stay, likely because he’s their biggest arms customer. Russia, Assad, the Free Syrian Army, and we are fighting ISIS. Iran and the terrorist group Hezbollah support Assad and ISIS. Everybody fighting everybody has sent about half the country into oblivion. Infrastructure and nearly every other structure are simply gone.

Meanwhile, Turkey, our NATO ally that has allowed us to use bases in their country for our airstrikes, has started fighting the Kurds in northern Syria. The Kurds, one of our strongest anti-ISIS allies, would like their own country, and Turkey sees them as terrorists. We’re on both sides of that one.

Altogether, there are now 15 different factions fighting with or against each other in Syria. Victory becomes elusive when there’s always somebody else to fight.

That’s the common thread to all of it: No one seems to be able to define victory or exactly what it is we’re trying to win or how we will know we’ve won. Killing every terrorist and creating democracies are not rational objectives. And the chaos we’ve created is actually the perfect breeding ground for the extremists we’re fighting.

Trying to fight a perpetual holding action, as we’re now doing, will only add more to the already $1 trillion cost and more obituaries to the nearly 7,000 we’ve already read. Our national security interests aren’t well served trying to be the neighborhood cop in what is clearly not our neighborhood.

If we can’t define victory, we should simply declare it, and come home.

Crime & Rescue WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH An elderly Suttons Bay woman who was a passenger in a single-car crash died of her injuries.

Karol Ann Butler, 81, died following the crash on M-22 in Suttons Bay Township June 12 at 2:33pm, according to Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies.

The crash occurred near East Murray Court, where investigators determined that a Dodge Durango swerved into the opposing lane, left the road, struck an embankment, went airborne, and crashed into a tree.

Bystanders were performing CPR when deputies arrived and took over, along with volunteer fire personnel who responded. Butler was taken to Munson Medical Center, where she died. The driver, an 82-year-old Suttons Bay man, was in intensive care at Munson following the crash.

Deputies said it is possible the driver suffered a medical emergency before the crash.

POLICE: ARMED ROBBERY STAGED Petoskey Police say an armed robbery report turned out to be a hoax.

Petoskey Department of Public Safety officers were called to a business at 3pm June 7 after a woman had called 911 claiming she’d just been robbed at gunpoint. The first officer to arrive talked to a witness who described a suspect that matched the woman’s description of the robbery.

Investigators soon began to doubt the woman’s claims, however, and determined that the armed robbery had been staged. Warrants were issued for the woman who reported the robbery and her accomplice, a man who allegedly helped the woman stage the robbery.

FENDER BENDER LEADS TO BUST A Porsche driver was arrested for drunk driving after he backed into another car in a parking lot.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies responded at 9:41pm June 8 to Lake Street near Western Avenue in Glen Arbor, where a 51-year-old man told them he had been trying to park when he came upon a Porsche that had its backup lights on but was not moving out of a parking spot.

After a while, the driver decided to park in a different spot and, as he started to move, the Porsche backed up and crashed into his pickup.

The Porsche driver, a 75-year-old Saline man, told deputies that the pickup had struck his vehicle, but they were not persuaded. Deputies suspected the man had been drinking and, after an investigation, arrested him for drunk driving.

GUEST ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT Police were called to the Comfort Inn on Munson Avenue after guests spotted a man fondling a boy at the pool.

Traverse City Police responded at 4:36pm June 9 and interviewed the witnesses, who said a guest appeared to be drunk or high and that he’d removed the three-year-old’s swimsuit and fondled his genitals, Chief Jeff O’Brien said.

As the officers were interviewing the witnesses, they heard screams coming from the upper level of the hotel and a woman yelling, “Let me go.” Officers found the 31-year-old Grawn woman, who was dating the suspect and who is

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the boy’s mother. She told police she’d just been assaulted and she had visible injuries on her neck, O’Brien said.

Hotel staff let officers into the suspect’s room where the man was passed out on the bed with what turned out to be a .264 blood-alcohol content. The 33-year-old Williamsburg man was arrested for second-degree criminal sexual conduct and second-offense domestic violence with strangulation.

WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH An early morning crash claimed the life of a 47-year-old Traverse City woman.

Renee Giannetti died June 12 following a crash that occurred in Green Lake Township at 7:20am.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called after Giannetti pulled her pickup from Pine Tree Road onto US-31 South into the path of another vehicle.

Both drivers were taken to Munson Medical Center, where Gianetti died that evening.

MEN FLEE CRASH SCENE Deputies responded after a driver rolled his car, removed the license plate, and fled the scene.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called to North Putnam Road near Peshawbestown Road in Suttons Bay Township June 6 at 8:08pm to find a Nissan Sentra sitting on its roof and missing a license plate.

Deputies determined that a driver and a passenger had been in the car when it left the road, rolled over and crashed, and that they’d gotten out and fled. Deputies found the suspects, ages 21 and 22, at a home in Herman Road, and they determined that speed and alcohol were factors in the crash. They planned to submit a report to prosecutors.

MAN ACCUSED OF RAMPAGE A woman called police to report that her boyfriend pushed her, attempted to break her phone and was trying to break into her house by smashing a table and chair into a sliding glass door.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a Whitewater Township residence June 10 at 7:05pm after the 28-year-old woman was able to lock out her boyfriend and call 911.

Deputies found the boyfriend outside the house; he yelled obscenities at them as they approached, police said. After the suspect was handcuffed, the woman told deputies that the incident began after she and her boyfriend had argued about his drinking.

The suspect, a 23-year-old Suttons Bay man, was arrested for domestic violence, disabling a communications device, and malicious destruction of property.

officers that Harrison had been found passed out on the porch of the house.

TCPD Chief Jeff O’Brien said the woman and another bystander, a 24-year-old Traverse City man, administered two doses of the overdose reversal drug Naloxone to Harrison before they took him to Munson. O’Brien said the initial cause of death in the case is accidental overdose.

MAN DIES OF HERION OVERDOSE A 27-year-old Kingsley man dropped off at Munson Medical Center by two people who then drove off before identifying themselves died of a suspected heroin overdose, officials said.

Traverse City Police were called to the hospital June 10 at 3:22am where Seth David Harrison was pronounced dead.

Police learned the license plate number of the vehicle that had dropped off Harrison and tracked down the two people at a home on the 800 block of Randolph Street.

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THE BIRDS ARE BACK AND WITH THEM, A PLEA TO PROTECT opinion

bY Kevin Breen Since roughly May 1, the migration and breeding season of birds has been in full swing in our corner of the world. Quite simply, it would be impossible to overstate the beauty and sublimity of this period when the region’s birds are more visible, active, and abundant than almost any other time of year. Our enjoyment of this phenomenon, however, is limited by our finite capabilities: We just cannot grasp all that is going on. If we could, our heads might explode.

For these short 45 or so days, our skies have been filled with millions, perhaps billions, of birds. They filtered through our forests, beaches, shorelines, parks, meadows, and towns, arriving from every corner of the western hemisphere. Most departed from the southern United States, Central America, and the northern portion of South America.

rolls into summer, making them easier to find and identify. (Birdsong adds a whole new dimension of delights. Recently, one clear morning I listened for 45 minutes to the versatile calls of a brown thrasher. This blue jay-sized bird with a long tail boasts a repertoire of over 2,000 songs and calls, making it among the most complex of singers in the world.)

One final thing: warblers. For birders, an old quote says, the coming of warblers is akin to the presence of catnip to a cat.

Warblers are tiny birds that fly hundreds and thousands of miles each spring (and fall). In most cases, they are as small as an apricot and weigh less than your average walnut. Each one is a work of art, painted with bold splashes of reds, greens, yellows, and blues.

There is, of course, a fall migration, but for me this migration is the better of the two. Into the mating season of June, the breeding plumage of the birds is bright, vivid, and fresh. The colors pop out. The beauty is spellbinding.

A few came from even farther away, and, some have even traveled from the eastern hemisphere, blown off course by storms.

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One example of this endurance is the upland sandpiper. This chicken-sized bird with the long thin neck and large dark eyes journeys from the pampas of Argentina to nest in the vivid green grasslands that punctuate the acreage of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Some members of this breed travel even farther north, to the provinces of Canada.

The Arctic tern, a white, elegant bird that is grace personified, travels from extreme southern South America to extreme northern North America, perhaps passing through our region for an hour or two, a day, or slightly longer. This world traveler logs an estimated 60,000 miles a year and, because it follows the sun, sees more sunlight in a year than any other creature on earth. More often than not, remarkable migrants like this pass, literally, right over our heads, unnoticed, as we go about our busy lives.

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If you haven’t looked up lately, do.

Approximately 320 bird species breed in Michigan, and about 175 breed in our area: Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Benzie, Charlevoix, and Antrim counties. Of these, about 150 are migrants, meaning they spend their winters elsewhere, where it is warmer and food more abundant. There are roughly another 150 species that only pass through, some as elusive as shooting stars, that we might see if we are lucky and diligent.

There is, of course, a fall migration, but for me this migration is the better of the two.

Into the mating season of June, the breeding plumage of the birds is bright, vivid, and fresh. The colors pop out. The beauty is spellbinding. Best of all, the warming weather moves the birds to sing as spring

The chestnut-sided warbler is a tiny explosion of color, with a lemon-yellow cap, chestnut sides, and a white breast highlighted with black lines. The black and white warbler is a chiaroscuro of dark and light. If you get a good look at the black-throated green warbler, which usually sings up high in the treetops, you will see a bold black throat set off by a unique and vibrant green. And so on.

If you are not a birder, and you see some of these specimens by serendipity, you might blink your eyes and shake your head, doubting what you have seen.

Here in northern Michigan, we live in a sweet spot for warblers. A greater variety passes through our forests and fields than just about anywhere in the world. The season for migrating warblers is brief, lasting a few days to a couple of weeks at most. The migrants are ephemeral, often here and gone in the blink of an eye. If you capture one in your binoculars at the just the right light, you feel as though you have done at least one thing right in your life.

The good news is that we have dozens of species of warblers that remain during the summer, nesting, singing and going about their inscrutable lives right under our noses.

The lessons of birding are simple enough and prove a great way to welcome summer: Get out in nature as often as you can. Pay attention.

And protect what you can, for it is as fragile as it is beautiful and can be destroyed.

Kevin Breen is a writer and avid birder who retired to northern Michigan from Grand Rapids last year. He believes the diversity, quality of habitat — mature forests, secluded Lake Michigan shorelines and islands, quality grasslands — and the sheer beauty of the landscapes make this region a kind of heaven for birders.

BAHLE’S The Passing Parade Ninety-six-year-old Barney Smith of Alamo Heights, Texas, is known around those parts as the King of the Commode for his life’s work: more than 1,300 decorated toilet seats, all displayed in the retired master plumber’s Toilet Seat Art Museum. But now, he concedes, it’s time to put a lid on it: “I’m beginning to feel like I’d rather be in an airconditioned home in a chair, looking at a good program,” Smith, who is bent with arthritis and uses a cane, told the Associated Press on May 22. Inside the metal-garage museum the collection includes toilet lids decorated with a chunk of the Berlin Wall, a piece of insulation from the Space Shuttle Challenger, Pez dispensers and flint arrowheads, along with the toilet lid from the airplane that carried Aristotle Onassis’ body back to Greece after his death. Smith told his wife, Louise, that he would stop at 500 pieces, but that was 850 lids ago. “If I would have just read my Bible as many hours as I spent on my toilet seats, I’d be a better man,” Smith said. Louise died in 2014, and Smith took a fall recently and broke some ribs. Now he’s looking for someone who will keep the museum intact: “This is my life’s history here.”

Precocious On May 20, as a handful of adults enjoyed the swings at Angel Park in southwest Atlanta, two children walked up and asked to use the swing set. The adults agreed and started to walk away, reported The (Macon, Georgia) Telegraph, when the boys, about 6 and 12 years old, pulled out rocks the size of baseballs and what appeared to be a black handgun. They threw the rocks, hitting one man on the calf and causing an abrasion, according to Atlanta police. The older boy held the gun and pointed it at the adults, who ran away as the boys ran in the opposite direction. Earlier in May, two children were reported for an alleged armed carjacking in the same neighborhood.

Compelling Explanation Claiming the shooting was an accident, Angelo Russo, 55, told police in Tatura, Victoria, Australia, he tripped over an eggplant during a dispute with a man who had run over his dog, which caused the gun Russo was carrying to go off, striking David Calandro in the head and killing him.

Calandro and a friend had gone to Russo’s farm on Feb. 18, 2017, to buy some chilies, 9News reported, but as he drove away, Russo’s dog, Harry, began barking and chasing the vehicle. Calandro swerved toward the dog to “spook him,” the friend told a Victorian Supreme Court jury on May 23, but swerved too far, running over the dog instead. Russo pleaded guilty to manslaughter on May 25.

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Pesky weeds around his garage caused a Springfield Township, Ohio, resident to resort to extreme measures: The unnamed homeowner tried to eliminate them with a torch, and instead set the garage on fire.

Firefighters were called to the scene at 4 a.m. on May 24, where they found the detached garage “fully involved,” according to the Springfield News-Sun. The structure was a total loss, including tools and appliances inside, valued at $10,000 to $15,000.

Crime Report -- Three men were arrested on May 20 after stealing a 25-foot-long shed from a foreclosed property in Lebanon, Maine, and dragging it down the street behind their pickup truck, according to the Portland Press Herald.

Matthew Thompson of Lebanon, Timothy James of Pembroke, New Hampshire, and Robert Breton of Milton, New Hampshire, were spotted in the act by a concerned citizen, who alerted Maine State Police. In addition, Thompson was found to have crystal meth and prescription pills that were not prescribed to him. All three were taken to the York County Jail and held on $5,000 bail.

-- Patrick Gillis, 18, a senior at Highlands High School and a volunteer firefighter for the Pioneer Hose Fire Department in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, told police he “just wanted to respond to a fire” on May 21, when he was arrested for starting a blaze in a vacant duplex where he used to live.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that witnesses told investigators Gillis was seen at the home before the fire started, then returned as a firefighter to help put it out. He admitted to setting a piece of paper on fire and putting it in the microwave, then leaving. The Allegheny County Fire Marshal’s Office estimated damage at $150,000, and Gillis was charged with arson.

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Bright Ideas -- Toronto police constables Vittorio Dominelli, 36, and Jamie Young, 35, had to call for backup in January during a raid on a marijuana dispensary after allegedly sampling some of the evidence. CTV News reported the officers called for help after they began hallucinating, one eventually climbing a tree. In a May 23 press release, Toronto police announced the two officers had been suspended and now face criminal charges in the incident.

[CTV News, 5/23/2018] -- A senior prank went unexpectedly wrong for high school student Kylan Scheele, 18, of Independence, Missouri, when he was slapped with a three-day suspension on May 23 and barred from participating in graduation after putting his high school up for sale on Craigslist. Scheele said it was meant to be a joke. “Other people were going to release live mice ... I thought, let’s do something more laid back,” he told Fox 4. The ad for Truman High School listed attractive amenities such as newly built athletic fields, lots of parking and a “bigger than normal dining room.” A lawsuit filed against the school district by the ACLU of Missouri failed to reduce the punishment.

Still Creepy Before Chuck E. Cheese was a thing, it was ShowBiz Pizza, complete with the Rock-afire Explosion Band, an animatronic combo that is still the stuff of nightmares.

On May 24, the Rock-afire Explosion Band was reunited at a new arcade bar in Kansas City, Missouri, also called Rock-afire. The band’s inventor, Aaron Fechter of Creative Engineering in Orlando, Florida, refurbished the band members with new masks, skin and costumes, and the playlist is set to include old standards as well as more contemporary hits. Bar owner James Bond was a huge fan of the band as a child: “You didn’t know whether they were fake or real,” he told The Kansas City Star.

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Does Grand Traverse Bay Have a Plastic Problem?

Beach cleaning crews say they’ve picked up larger-than-usual loads of plastic trash this year.

All photos feature trash in or washed up from Grand Traverse Bay. Photos by John Robert Williams Photography

By Patrick Sullivan Some seasoned beachcombers noticed an alarming amount of plastic trash washed up along Grand Traverse Bay this spring, fueling worry that’s been building over how so much plastic is getting into the Great Lakes and what the consequences might be.

Photographer John Robert Williams has spent years walking the southeast shore of West Bay and picking up trash; he said he’s never seen as much plastic as he saw this spring.

“Nothing even close,” Williams said.

“This is just crazy.”

Greg Reisig, chairman of the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council, said it’s not just Williams who has noted excessive amounts of plastic in Lake Michigan this spring. He said he’s seen Facebook posts of pictures of washed up plastic from across the region.

“All of us have been doing beach cleanups for a long time,” Reisig said. “This spring, we all noticed a lot more plastics. We’re hearing from beach cleanup squads that they’ve always found a little bit of plastic, but this year they’ve found more and more plastics washing up.”

PLASTIC TRASH MYSTERY One of the biggest questions posed by all the washed-up beach plastic is where it comes from.

Carl Ganter, the Traverse City-based co-founder and director of Circle of Blue, a center for reporting on global water issues, said that’s not an easy question to answer.

“I think there’s a great detective story to figure out where the plastic that we’re seeing on our shorelines is coming from,” said Ganter.

Clearly, a lot of the plastic washes into the water from nearby, Ganter said.

“Storm water flows still go to the bay, so the more plastic we use, the more plastic there is on the side of the road, it all washes downstream.” Ganter said.

Christine Crissman, executive director of the Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay, said she also heard about the plastic piling up on beaches this spring, but she’s not sure what to make of it.

“We’ve had several people tell us that same thing,” Crissman said. “Besides sort

leaving trash behind.

The trash gets blown into snow piles over the winter, and those snow piles are often located near bodies of water so that when they melt, debris washes downstream.

Like Cantor, Crissman noted that trash also accumulates in drains. The first big rain of the season unclogs those drains, and the material washes into the water, she said.

“When you get that big melt or a rain or something like that, it kind of washes them all out,” Crissman said.

Sometimes, plastic waste flows into the bay despite good intentions.

Take a recycling drop-off location near Reisig’s home in Elk Rapids. Large bins were

“They found so much trash in the bay that they couldn’t [fit] back in their boats — so they had to drag them back to the shore.” of anecdotally, I couldn’t tell you whether there was more this year than there was in the past.”

While the exact sources of the plastic trash that ends up in the bay cannot be determined, Crissman said, it is not surprising that people would see more debris in the spring; melting snow and April storms flush all kinds of things from land into the water.

Crissman said the plastic in the bay is probably the detritus of people leading their everyday lives, sometimes inadvertently

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recently switched out with small dumpsters that can be picked up and emptied by a waste-hauling truck, a move made to reduce the amount of energy it takes to haul the material away.

“There is a flaw,” Reisig said. The truck’s claw “lifts the bin straight up in the air and then down, and they expect everything to fall into the truck. Well, when there’s a lot of stuff in there, it gets jammed, and they have to really pump it until everything drops into the truck.”

If there is any wind present, lighter

debris floats away, and much of it floats into a nearby wetland, which drains into Elk Lake, which drains into East Bay. This year, Reisig said, a volunteer donned waders and trudged into the swamp to remove plastic debris that had migrated from the recycling station.

LAKE PLASTICS 101 There are also questions about how much plastic is in Grand Traverse Bay. Since 2014, Suttons Bay-based Inland Seas Education Association has worked with Dr. Sherri Mason of State University New York to collect data that one day could be used to understand how much plastic there is in the Great Lakes.

They are measuring micro-plastics, the product of larger pieces of plastic broken down over time. Samples are collected by students aboard Inland Sea’s Schoolship.

It’s a slow process, though, in part because the SUNY laboratory is backlogged.

Processing samples to determine microplastic content is an expensive and laborious process; it involves researchers in deep concentration, hunched over microscopes.

“Going through each sample takes a long time and, consequently, costs a lot of money,” said Fred Sitkins, Inland Seas executive director.

Each year since 2014, students aboard Inland Seas vessels have collected samples — primarily from Grand Traverse Bay — and that data could one day be the key to understanding plastic-levels in the Great Lakes, but the research is ongoing, and Sitkins said he doesn’t have answers yet.

Sitkins also said he knows that microplastics have gotten into the food chain.

“It’s not only entering the food chain, but it is climbing the food chain,” Sitkins said.

The rise of plastic in the Great Lakes mirrors the what’s happening in the oceans, a disturbing development, considering that the consequences for the food chain and human health are unknown.

Inland Seas isn’t the only organization putting students on the frontline of plastic research.

Science teacher John Prokes recruited 30 students this spring to clean 35 miles of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Prokes, a teacher at Bear Lake Schools, said he and his students found a startling amount of plastic.

Prokes wanted his students to learn about plastic’s durability and the effects humans have on the environment.

The students separated plastic from non-plastic debris and brought the plastic back to school to catalog it, in hopes of determining what it is and where it comes from. The amount and variety of plastic material was a lesson in itself and teaches the students to be more conscientious consumers, Prokes said.

“The nice thing about this is, there’s not one takeaway, there’s multiple takeaways,” he said. “When they see this variety of debris, then they look at the resources they use in their everyday lives, and it’s like, ‘Holy smokes.’”

CONSEQUENCE OF DISPOSABLE LIVES When Williams, the photographer, spotted all that plastic on the beach this spring, he was alarmed enough that he got together with Traverse City Mayor Jim Carruthers, and they organized a beach cleanup.

Carruthers, Williams, and a group of volunteers picked up debris from Sunset Park to Bryant Park. Another group of volunteers picked up trash from West End Beach to the Boardman River. The cleanups took place April 29, Earth Day. Carruthers said what he found on the beach was astonishing, comparable to trash left behind during a busy National Cherry Festival day.

“I’d never seen this much trash before, other than after fireworks,” Carruthers said.

“It seemed to be rolling up in the water as we were picking it up. You could see big chunks of plastic floating in the water.”

Carruthers said he thinks plastic debris — plastic cigar tips, cellophane, straws, cigarette butts, plastic caps, bottles, cups, bags — should be addressed the way

Michigan addressed carbonated beverage containers with a deposit law, though he doesn’t know how that would work.

“Humans are just creating a lot more disposable things with the way we live,” he said.

Williams said he believes an inventory of what he and others found this spring proves that some of the garbage was discarded directly into the bay by fishermen, some of it appears to be broken-down debris that travelled long distances, and some of it is household waste that may have been dumped in the Boardman River.

“Its everything. It’s a lot of fishing tackle, it’s household (products), sandwich bags, Hefty bags — you know those tags that you tear off when you buy a new pair of jeans that’s got the size on it?” Williams said.

Norm Fred has helped clean up the Boardman River since 2004. When he started, his group carried out loads of trash that had accumulated over time.

By returning every year, Fred’s group, Boardman River Clean Sweep, is able to keep on top of it and, moreover, by presenting recreational users with a clean watershed, Fred believes they have encouraged people on the river to pick up trash themselves because what is there looks out of place.

“People who go down the river just for recreational purposes are now picking up trash when they see it,” Fred said.

This year, Fred said, the group found so little trash before they reached the mouth of the river that their dumpsters remained empty. When they ventured out into West Bay, however, it was a different story.

Fred said the volunteers found excessive amounts of plastic trash trapped in vegetation just offshore.

“While they were out in the bay, they saw all of this plastic that had been blown out into the southeast corner, over there near the Holiday Inn,” Fred said. “They found so much trash in the bay that they couldn’t [fit] back in their boats — so they had to drag them back to the shore.”

Fred, however, said he believes that there isn’t more plastic in the bay this year compared to other years, it’s just ended up in more visible locations.

ENTER THE STRAW ACTIVISTS Because the plastic that washed up on the shore of West Bay this spring likely got into the water a thousand different ways and from a thousand different sources, the average person who wants to help reduce the waste could look at their own use of plastic and consider making changes.

Efforts to restrict plastics in Michigan through laws have gone backwards in recent

years, at least from local governments. For example, Michigan’s legislature barred localities from banning plastic bags in 2016.

Amid worry over plastic in the Great Lakes, Ganter said that law sent the wrong message.

“I was talking to somebody who voted for that ban, and he said we need a statewide or nationwide consistency, and my argument was, it starts on the local level,” Ganter said.

“We’re drowning in our plastic; we’re being smothered by our plastic.”

For some, the only way to do something when faced with such an overwhelming problem is to find some specific, manageable goal to work toward.

That’s why Kathy Daniels and a group of three other women (Claudia Demarco, Kristine Drake, Linda Frank) decided to become straw activists.

They want people to think before using plastic straws, and they’ve approached restaurants to ask the owners or managers to consider plastic straw alternatives (like straws made from paper or even pasta) or to at least not automatically hand them out to customers.

Their efforts aren’t going to get rid of all of the plastic in the bay, but it’s a start that could lead to other things, Daniels said.

“The four of us just kept on saying, ‘We want climate, or something related to it,’”

Daniels recalled. “Even though this isn’t per se, ‘climate,’ it is planetary.”

Daniels said that, so far, each restaurant owner they’ve approached has been receptive and listened to their ideas. Some were already considering making changes before the women knocked.

“I think sometimes climate change is so overwhelming, some people think, ‘Gee, I can’t do anything, it’s just too big,’ but that’s so untrue,” Daniels said. “Each of us has personal power in the sense that we can change our habits.”

And who knows, perhaps getting people to rethink plastic straws will cause them to refuse plastic bags at the grocery store and get them to reconsider the packaging of the products they buy altogether, she said.

Daniels said she now asks for alternatives when presented with Styrofoam take-out containers.

Next up, Daniel said her group — which follows the lead of but isn’t officially affiliated with the national group The Last Plastic Straw — plans to take their message to schools and to try to reach as many fifth graders as possible with a half-hour film about the perils of plastic straws.

“There’s going to be a tipping point where everybody is going to look at plastic and say, ‘Oh this is bad. We’ve got to get rid of it,” Daniels said.

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The Latest on the Local Wine Scene

By Ross Boissoneau So many wines, so little time. Each year brings new vintages, new styles, new tasting rooms and events, even new grapes. With some four dozen wineries scattered around the region, how do you keep up with what’s new and exciting?

For starters, the Old Mission Peninsula Wineries and Leelanau Peninsula Wines have teamed up to become the Traverse Wine Coast.

The combined trails have also partnered with Traverse City Tourism to expand the region’s presence in other areas. Traverse Wine Coast is the exclusive provider at Hour Detroit events (the Detroit-area lifestyle magazine), and it is sponsoring the VIP section of The Smooth Jazz Fete in Lansing.

Lorri Hathaway, the executive director at Leelanau Peninsula Wines and Traverse Wine Coast, said the region is continuing to experiment with different grape varieties and wines. “We are seeking many new varietals and an increase in varietals,” she said, “for example, Grüner Veltliner, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Blanc.”

As for the wineries, the offerings are as unique as the settings. You can travel from Benzie County (St. Ambrose Cellars) to Harbor Springs (Pond Hill Farm and Harbor Springs Winery).

For the patriotic, there’s reds, whites, and even blu (Blustone Vineyard in Lake Leelanau). Here are some highlights from individual wineries: Brys Estate, Old Mission New this year is the Estate Tour and Tasting, a.k.a. the Wine Wagon Tour. The twohour tour on an open-sided electric shuttle traverses the entire estate, with a light picnic lunch at the Secret Garden. Oh, and seven wine samples. Hospitality Manager Taylor Lopiccolo said they started the Secret Garden a few years ago because the area was too low to grow grapes. “So we planted lavender, flowers, strawberries and blueberries,” she said. It’s also the second season for Frosé, the frozen slushy version of Brys Estate’s rosé wine.

Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay and Old Mission The winery turns 20 this year, so from July 23 through July 28 it is inviting people to celebrate with a variety of events, some free and some ticketed. Many of the events are

also new, such as wine cocktail classes, the family BBQ, a trail hike led by the innkeeper, seafood paella, and vertical wine tastings. Black Star Farms began offering sunrise yoga in the vines two years ago and is now expanding that to include yoga experiences for Inn guests during their stay. The seafood paella is also being offered Wednesdays, and the culinary team is also taking its Harvest Dinners to the top of the vineyard for the first time in July and August. Oh, and Black Star just planted 4,800 more vines.

Mari Vineyards, Old Mission Mari celebrates its second anniversary this month, and it’s second summer promises to be a doozy. Level One certified sommelier Beryl Striewski will offer deconstructed tasting classes throughout the summer. Attendees will participate in a blind, deconstructed tasting of several Mari Vineyards wines, learning what to look for in wines, from flavor components to colors, new ways to describe tastes and scents, and how to use all this information to make an informed decision about what you’re enjoying.

Other events continuing through the summer are the book club Read Between the Wines and sunrise yoga. You can also catch tunes by area musicians and join in at open mic nights.

Bowers Harbor Wines, Old Mission Bowers Harbor is releasing four new wines, including Big Paw, a 2017 unwooded chardonnay, and Heads or Tailles, a blanc de noir.

Amoritas Vineyards, Lake Leelanau The Wine Club Launch Party is taking place July 6. “We just started the wine club,” said Matt Goodell, the COO. He also noted the winery is also releasing new wines and within the next few weeks it will release several new flavors of ciders.

Chateau Grand Traverse, Old Mission Like most other wineries, the Chateau is getting ready to showcase its 2017 wines, including the Pinot Noir Rosé Vin Gris, which will be the first out of the gate. In the meantime, Chateau Grand Traverse has just finished its 2018 Cherry Festival Wine, a white

wine and cherry wine combo. “We’ve been doing it for 22 years,” said Megan Molloy, the winery’s marketing coordinator. Next up is its 2016 ice wine, which Molly said the winery will introduce later this summer.

Peninsula Cellars, Old Mission Peninsula Cellars recently launched The Honor Roll Wine Club. Benefits include complimentary tasting, invitation-only Honor Roll Ceremony, and more. Also new this year is a selection of ciders, with several rotating flavors on tap. They are all made from estategrown apples on the Kroupa Farm. For those who aren’t nearby, Peninsula Cellars has expanded its shipping to 38 states.

The winery has also been working on historical preservation of its building. The tasting room was originally built in 1896 as a schoolhouse.

Castle Farms, Charlevoix This year sees the debut of the 1918 Cellars tasting room in the Queen’s Tavern. The facility began making its private label wines available for events held at the Castle last year, but as of Memorial Day 2018 visitors can enjoy samples at the tasting room and can purchase bottles of any of Castle Farms’ eight different wines.

2 Lads, Old Mission Operations Manager Mike Hunter said the company is revisiting its tasting methodology.

“Starting in mid-July, we are making a fairly significant change to the way our tasting room operates. We’re going from a bar tasting, where you’d have 15 to 20 minutes, to a seated model with 25 to 30 minutes. That gives you more time to interact, have a better and deeper conversation, a richer experience,” he said. Hunter said seating people around a table and engaging fewer at the bar will make the tasting more personalized. “It’s almost a restaurant-esque style,” he said.

The change doesn’t come without challenges. Hunter said the winery will use OpenTable.com to book parties and manage the program. He said the wait times won’t be any longer, but patrons can now make reservations online. ”We’ve been talking about this for years. Now we’re confident we can implement it,” he said.

Chateau Chantal, Old Mission The winery is offering its “Quaff and Nosh” matching wines with so-called “light Eurofare.”

It includes six wines, six food pairings, and as it says, “one incredible memory.” And it’s not new, but noteworthy: This is the 25th year for Jazz at Sunset, Thursday nights with Jeff Haas and friends.

Pond Hill Farm and Harbor Springs Winery, Harbor Springs One of the northernmost of the region’s wineries offers reasons to take the trip, from beverages (it also operates a brewery) and food to a farm market and trails through the surrounding countryside. Owner Jimmy Spencer cited two new beverages, Lake View Rosé and Somerset Cider. The former is from one of the farm’s newest vineyards, which just began producing fruit last year; the latter is a grape wine/apple cider. Both offer great summertime refreshment, according to Spencer.

Other new news includes the addition of more trails for biking or hiking and new beers on tap. “We have some new elements to the playground, new animals, and expanded the beer garden and the trails. We have new brewing equipment and some new fun beers.

We have six-plus miles of trails. People come here and have some food, explore, and make a day of it,” Spencer said.

Royal Farms, Ellsworth The farm market/cidery/winery is once again showcasing its grounds for wine and yoga, with Vino and Vinyasa on the hill.

“We tried it last year for the first time and are offering a new version this year,” said vintner Sara McGuire. One version will include a farm-to-table luncheon, while another will be offered at sunset. For dates and further information, McGuire said to go to the Royal Farms website under Events. She said Royal Farms is also releasing new vintages and some new cider flavors, including Caramel Apple. “I don’t’ know anyone else who has that. Cider is a growing trend and we’re excited about our hard ciders. We’re growing our own grapes, apples, and cherries,” she said.

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A local writer wrote herself a new story: She commissioned some wines, opened herself a tasting room on a quiet corner in Glen Arbor, and sat back to watch the locals and tourists pour in.

By Anna Faller Local writer and editor Lissa Edwards is a self-proclaimed wine enthusiast. In fact, she’s spent the last 25 years writing about the burgeoning wine industry in northern Michigan. And, with Glen Arbor’s proximity to the nationally recognized Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, she spotted a need not yet filled: a space that could introduce visitors of Leelanau County and the surrounding parks to the ever-expanding area wine country. Thus, the birth of Glen Arbor Wines.

A tasting room located on a tiny, hidey-hole of a side-street — almost kitty-corner from the infamous Art’s Tavern in the heart of downtown Glen Arbor — Glen Arbor Wines has managed to maintain a quaint, “You don’t know it’s there, unless you know it’s there” appeal. But we suspect it won’t stay that way for long.

Open only since July of 2017, Glen Arbor Wines hasn’t even seen a full season yet, but it’s already earned a spot as a favorite among locals.

Edwards’ vision was a space where guests would feel, above all, welcome, a place where families could come to gather, and one that townies and tourists alike would seek out with one common interest in mind: fantastic wine.

Suffice to say, Edwards has succeeded. In fact, the only real indicator of any formality inside the tasting room is the telltale, cherrytopped bar in the center. The rest is a healthy combination of rustic-chic (read: vintage Edison bulb lights) and grandma’s kitchen.

The floors are unfinished wood plank. The entrance is paneled with bright bay windows, and the white-shelved walls are stacked floor to ceiling with retail bottles and empty howlers just waiting to be filled.

For underage friends, there’s a beverage fridge packed with non-alcoholic sips. But the fun doesn’t end at the tasting room. Glen Arbor wines also boasts a backyard spread for its patrons to enjoy. Through the sliding glass door at the rear of the tasting room, guests step

onto a fully enclosed deck, where they have their choice of multiple firepits complete with cozy patio furniture, a spot on the spacious lawn, or a rousing game of bocce ball or cornhole.

And while the tasting room doesn’t offer a menu, save a few cheese and charcuterie plates, outside food of all sorts is welcome.

Guests are actually encouraged to bring a tasty snack from, say, the nearby Riverside Pizza & Deli to accompany their wine, or even a home-packed picnic. And let’s not forget the industrial-sized cooler that’s regularly stocked with local ice cream during the summer months.

The wine doesn’t disappoint, either, but, spoiler alert: Glen Arbor Wines doesn’t actually produce the wines it sells, though the wines are, in effect, Glen Arbor Wines’. Like many young wine sellers before her, Edwards contracts with an unnamed winemaker in the area to create and bottle products specifically for her Glen Arbor Wines label.

Despite the lack of backyard vineyard, the list at Glen Arbor Wines meets the needs of many palettes and preferences, offering effervescent, Champagne-style bubbly, aromatic whites, bodacious and fruit-driven reds, and an ever-changing, seasonally tapped cider. Most recently, the tasting room introduced a brand new, hop-infused apple cider for the summer.

Other standouts on the list include their gorgeously toasty Blanc de Blanc, the singular “Sunset” Rose, and their enormously popular Beaujolais-style “Farmstead Red,” made entirely from the cold-hardy Gamay Noir grape.

One year in, Glen Arbor Wines’ petite tasting list has grown by one. Wine lovers, meet Kerner: a delightfully acidic white that loves the northern Michigan terroir — that’s French for “dirt”— and, according to the crowds rolling in so far this June, it pairs exceptionally well with creamy pastas and empty glasses.

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Crooked Tree Art Center gave the Concert in the Barn’s series an eddi Award in 2014, naming the series one of the best contributors to the northern Michigan arts scene. Lavender Hill Farm (shown here) will carry on the tradition.

The barn will also serve as an event space.

Live Music Now Amid the Lavender Lavender Hill Farm picks up where Aten Place’s perennial favorite concert series left off

By Kristi Kates After 23 years of concerts, Aten Place closed the doors to its legendary Summer Concerts in the Barn series last summer.

The venue’s hosts, Bill and Maxine Aten, had staged two decades’ worth of shows as a labor of love, presenting a wide variety of musical guests in their old post-and-beam barn on the grounds of an old dairy farm near Boyne Falls.

While their beloved barn and property has returned to the rustle and creak of its pastoral roots, the award-winning concert series they created isn’t keeping nearly so quiet. It’s moving on to new pastures — a lavender farm, in fact — taking on a new name, a grand new vision, but keeping a strong tie to the traditions and musicians who helped make it the northern Michigan legend it’s been.

AGRITOURISM ASSETS Credit to the barn-series-turned-farmseries’ revival goes to a trio of friends, all of whom hailfrom cities: Rita Robbins, who lives in New York City, and Bill and Erin Mansfield, who live in Lansing but have long had a summer home Up North.

Bill Mansfield works as a financial advisor; Robbins’ company provides services to financial advisors. The three have known each other for years.

Every summer, Robbins has had a ritual: Come to Michigan, head up to Boyne City, and visit a certain lavender farm near the Mansfield’s place.

Late in the summer of 2015, the Mansfields were having dinner in nearby Charlevoix when they overheard that lavender farm was going up for sale. They teamed up with Robbins, and the three of

them purchased the property — Lavender Hill Farm — in 2016.

“The funny thing is, we grow 24 varieties of lavender here, but we’re basically three non-farmers,” Robbins said with a laugh.

“I mean — I live in Manhattan. I’ve never even had a backyard. But we’re looking at this as a unique opportunity to help expand agritourism Up North and contribute to the local community here.”

UNIQUE FEATURES When they bought the farm, neither Robbins nor the Mansfields had been to Aten Place.

“But a local couple who had been going to the concert series toward the end of its run drove by our farm one day, saw our barn, and stopped to suggest to us that we consider hosting the series,” Robbins said.

So they all went to see some shows at Aten Place during its final season.

“We spent a lot of time talking with Bill and Maxine and their staff, and we felt that it would be a natural fit to transfer the music series over to us,” said Robbins.

Robbins and the Mansfields plan to keep many of the same traditions of Aten Place.

One of the unique features of the Atens’ barn venue was that there were no plastic chairs; instead, they’d installed vintage seats from movie theaters and courthouses.

“We’ve unbolted those chairs from the floor at Aten Place and moved them over here. We’re making a platform to bolt all the chairs to, so we can easily move them in and out of our barn,” Robbins said They also purchased some of the light and sound equipment from Aten Place and made sure there was plenty of room for picnicking outdoors before the shows, just as Aten Place had offered.

“A lot of our musical lineup this first

year are also artists who had played at Aten Place,” Robbins said.

CONCERT CAPACITY Most of the shows are already booked for this first Lavender Hill Farm concert series, but Robbins and the Mansfields are hoping to push the season on into the fall and expand the breadth of offerings.

In addition to opening the barn for weddings and other events, they’re also bringing in Monday movie nights, barn dances, and yoga. “We’re trying to just be a resource, however we can be, to the community for some good entertainment and fun,” said Robbins.

They’re off to a great start already. With a capacity of around 266 people in the new barn venue (Aten Place’s barn held 175 seated), there’s plenty of room for music fans, and Lavender Hill has already sold a substantial number of season tickets.

The concerts will take place rain or shine (concerts start at 7:30; guests are welcome to picnic before each show starting at 6pm), and this summer will include performances from roots/rock band The Lincoln County Process (June 23), New Orleans-style horns outfit The Funky Butt Brass Band (July 28), Celticinspired ensemble Steel City Rovers (Aug. 25), and Chicago Americana band The Way Down Wanderers (Sept. 1), among others.

“I’m so looking forward to having our very first concert here,” Robbins said. “We usually close [the lavender farm] at 5pm, so having people here at sunset, using the farm in a whole new way, is going to be magical.”

Lavender Hill Farm is located at 7354 Horton Bay Rd. North in Boyne City (3 miles south of US31.) General admission tickets for the 2018 concert series are $22.50 each. Seating is first-come, first-served; season passes

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Tax Reform Means Breaks for Wine Industry — For a Few, and For a While At Least

By Ross Boissoneau Death and taxes, and tax breaks in the wine industry … maybe. That’s what we all have to look forward to, though the lattermost is not yet set in stone.

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — aka the Trump tax cuts — is impacting virtually all areas of the economy, and northern Michigan’s wine industry is not exempt.

But what initially seemed like a gift to small producers when the federal excise tax legislation was signed into law just before Christmas has since revealed itself to be somewhat more complicated.

Here’s what happened: The Trump tax cuts took the 1991 Small Producer Tax

Credit, which lowered the rate winemakers were taxed from $1.07 to 17 cents per gallon, and promised to lower it even further, to 7 cents per gallon.

“When it passed, everyone was excited,” said Karel Bush, head of the Michigan Grape and Wine Council. “But [it excluded] certain business models.”

That’s because on March 2, the Tax and Trade Bureau released guidelines creating a totally different scenario: Wineries that totally control their production and sales from start to finish would get the full benefit (an effective rate of 7 cents per gallon on the first 30,000 gallons produced), while those using custom-crush or remote bonded wine cellars would have to pay the full excise tax

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rate ($1.07 per gallon) on the wines subject to those scenarios.

According to an open letter sent to wine producers from Jim Trezise, president of WineAmerica, the trade association of wineries across the country, that was not the intent of the 2017 legislation; all American wineries were supposed to benefit from reduced federal excise taxes, he said.

But with the new guidelines, wineries that depend on outside sources to make their wine would be precluded from sharing in the tax breaks. That’s particularly devastating for many small and medium-sized wineries. For many smaller wineries, and especially for those just entering the business, purchasing their own equipment is a huge financial

challenge; relying on other sources and their equipment to fulfil some steps in the winemaking process enables smaller producers to get in the game with a smaller investment.

“In Michigan and elsewhere, many have someone else making their wine under their direction. Then they transfer to the licensee who sells it with their label. That goes on all over the country. Most start out that way because [purchasing equipment] is a huge capital expense. It’s a way to get started without that huge outlay,” Bush said.

In particular, there was a problem with disallowing wines that employ custom crush services to take advantage of the tax credit, said Bush. “That was a huge burden on small wineries, especially startups.”

Wineries that produce 250,000 gallons of year or less, which is a majority of the industry, can take some form of tax credit.

The biggest benefits are reserved for wineries producing 100,000 gallons or less annually.

“The small producer credit is extremely helpful to many wineries. They all will benefit to some level; the higher the production, the greater the benefits,” said Bush.

Nevertheless, smaller wine producers are hoping they can now exhale. Although it hasn’t happened yet, it looks likely the tax law will be amended to ensure that all the wine producers will get a tax break. What’s still unclear is when, and how long the benefits will remain in place, as they are scheduled, at this point, to end Dec. 31, 2019.

Bush said that craft alcohol organizations across the country are trying to work together to ensure that the benefits are put in place, if not permanently, at least on a longer-term basis. “WineAmerica distilling and brewing organizations — a beverage and alcohol coalition — are trying to get something more permanent in place,” she said.

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Pictured left to right: Paul Brady, Charles Schneider, Rebekah Mahru, Matt Citrigila, Amanda Danielson, and Mick DesCamps. Photo by Cathy Boissoneau.

SOMMELIER CENTRAL

Becoming a Certified Sommelier is no small feat. Lucky for us, Michigan’s pinkie finger boasts a passionate handful who are pushing our wine world — and our access to other great wines of the world — further, with every ounce.

By Ross Boissoneau Police are here to serve and protect. It’s all about the law. Sommeliers are here to serve and educate. For them, it’s all about the wine.

The source of all knowledge, Wikipedia (ahem), calls a sommelier “a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service, as well as wine and food pairing.”

That’s true to a point, but if one is really dedicated to wine service and knowledge, one can explore the levels of the Court of Master Sommeliers. It offers four levels of study and advancement: Introductory, Certified, Advanced and Master Sommelier.

Each requires depth of knowledge, study, and both written and field tests.

Why would someone go through what is a very rigorous examination process? It has to come from a passion for wine, not simply a desire for advancement in business. “If you have a passion for food, wine, travel, your hobby becomes your business,” said Matt Citriglia, a Master Sommelier who was in Traverse City for the recent City of Riesling.

On the other hand, he said if you gain the knowledge but lack the passion, you won’t make a good sommelier, no matter your level of expertise.

For Marie-Chantal Dalese, the passion was there practically from birth. Her parents founded Chateau Chantal in 1991. After spending her childhood in and around the vineyard, she serves today as president and CEO, and is a certified sommelier.

“The certification was the most nervewracking testing experience of my life, and I’ve

gone to grad school,” she said with a laugh.

Like Dalese, Ryan Rozycki recently earned the title of Certified Sommelier.

He now works at The Blue Goat Wine & Provisions. He took the introductory exam in 2014 and has been working toward a Certified Sommelier since. “I’ve been interested in it for years. Wine is an allencompassing field of study. You’ve got geology, [the soil]; geography, where it comes from; chemistry, how fermentation works, compounds and flavors; and history,” he said.

After working in restaurants during school in Ann Arbor, he began working at Stella’s before working at Lucky’s, then moved on to the Blue Goat. He said he enjoys the retail side, especially developing relationships with customers. “The Blue Goat has a tasting license, so I can pull a sample and say, ‘Try this one.’ That’s huge.”

Mari Chamberlain is the co-owner of Blu restaurant in Glen Arbor with chef and husband, Randy. “For me it was such a process,” she said of earning her title of Certified Sommelier. “I started in the restaurant business 21 years ago in Newport, Rhode Island, by a fluke. It gets in your blood,” she said.

After working at a four-star French restaurant in Monterey, California — “I had no business there,” Chamberlain said with a laugh — she made her way to way to northern Michigan, having learned a valuable lesson: “The better you were, the more money you could make. I started reading about wines, then had to taste them. The more I knew, the more doors opened.”

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manager for the restaurant when it opened.

“Amanda’s a real education promoter. We studied and took the test together. Then I stopped.”

Danielson didn’t. She continued to study, earning the title of Advanced Sommelier. She’s co-owner of both the reborn Blue Goat Wine & Provisions and Off the Map Hospitality (restaurants Trattoria Stella and the Franklin, as well as catering and special events), and cofounder of City of Riesling, which took place in Traverse City June 10–11.

There she hosted a brief sommelier roundtable at Left Foot Charley, where it was clear that the six sommeliers not only represented a cross-section of careers, but all had a passion for wine and for service.

It included Charles Schneider, GM and wine director at Webster’s Wine Bar, and Rebekah Mahru, beverage director at City Winery, both of Chicago; native Michigander Paul Brady from New York City; Mick Descamps, wine director for Red Wagon Wine Shoppes in southeastern Michigan; and Citriglia, Director of Education at Southern Glazer Wine and Spirits in Miami, Florida.

And while they all admit that attaining their level of certification is hard work, whatever it is, they all say there is still more to learn about wine and service. Citriglia downplays his accomplishments as he’s now working in wine education. “I’m not on the floor. I look up to and respect all these people,” he said.

It’s also clear that it is a mutual admiration society. “These are the most amazing people,” said Schneider, who noted that if he hadn’t gone into the field, he’d have never met people who are equally passionate

about wine and who are now his friends.

“It’s been so good to see all these people. It’s cool to appreciate what we all do,” he said, whether it is in bars, wineries, restaurants or retail.

All agreed that it’s both their job and their passion to share the joy and intricacies of wine with others. “It all goes back to teaching. Parts of it are not glamorous — it’s a business,” Danielson said, noting that they’ve all hauled unweildy cases of wine up and down stairs, toiled in cellars or other less-than-desirable locations, all in the name of wine.

So there’s retail, perfect for people like Rozycki and Descamps. Citriglia’s gig is now education, while Danielson, Brady, and Chamberlain work in restaurants.

Mahru and Schneider work in wine bars and Dalese at a winery. Another outlet is at the wholesale level, where Jennifer Laurie works for Imperial Beverage. “I did retail for 22 years,” she said, before a job opened up in northern Michigan, where she and her husband wanted to be.

“In restaurants, you get instant gratification. In retail, you have to wait till they come back,” she said. In her present role, she said she has to determine what each outlet’s niche is. “Now I’m selling to someone like Ryan, (saying) ‘This would be good for your shop, great for your restaurant,’” she said.

No matter the outlet, it’s about engaging the senses and finding new, exciting wines, and passing that love on. “It’s like you go on a journey with them,” said Laurie. “It’s always changing, there are new trends, new styles, different grape varieties. When it comes to a love of wine, the more you get into it, the more you can get out of it.”

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Plan On It: The Northport Dog Parade

By Kristi Kates Cherry Capital Airport’s K-9, Piper — the talented border collie who worked daily to chase birds and other wildlife from the airport’s runways — passed away earlier this year, after patrolling 1,907 miles and working a whopping 6,206 hours at the airport, clad in his custom goggles and vest.

The pup, a popular local and national canine figure, will be celebrated again at this year’s Northport Dog Parade via the parade’s 2018 theme, Dogs to the Rescue! Furrrr-st Responders.

Carly Campbell is this year’s event chair for the 22-year-old parade; she participated last year with her own dog, a husky/lab/shepherd mix named Cody, and they won Best Team for their depiction of The Princess and the Pea, with Campbell dresses as a princess and Cody up as

a pod of peas — in line with last year’s theme, Hairy (aka Fairy) Tales.

“I had such a fun experience last year, so I’d been watching for this year’s theme, but I wasn’t seeing anything,” Campbell said. “Next thing I heard was that they needed an event coordinator, and I’m all about ‘all things dog,’ so I volunteered.”

She brainstormed with her friend Will Harper (of North Shore Outfitters and the Northport village council) come up with a new theme that would offer lots of costume options.

“We finally hit upon ‘first responders,’” said Campbell. “We thought that way, the dogs could be firefighters, police, EMTs, Coast Guard — anything a service dog could do, anything protective or helpful. Then we also realized this would be such a good way to pay tribute to Piper.”

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Interested in walking the route with your furry best friend? You have time to plan your costume: The Northport Dog Parade will take place on August 11. You can register the day of, at 9:30am, at Mill Pond on Third Street.

Prefer to watch? It’s a not-to-be-missed summer tradition. The parade begins at 11am; pick your place on the curb along Third Street.

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to participate in the parade; proceeds go to benefit area animal helpers like Black Sheep Crossing, the Cherryland Humane Society, and Silver Muzzle Cottage.

Although the parade isn’t a long one — “This town isn’t very big,” Campbell said with a laugh — about 40 to 50 dogs are expected, so from nose to tail, as it were, the parade is expected to last about 30 minutes. It’s scheduled to start near Northport Public School, and end at Haserot Park, where everyone will get to enjoy a friendly mingle and some additional activities.

“After the parade, there will be a dog agility course, which will be lots of fun,” Campbell said.

“And then a little later after that, our local wine festival will start, so the humans get to play too.”

Campbell’s Cody will be in the parade again as well, “Although we haven’t decided on a costume for him just yet,” she added.

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An Evening with YES • June 28 The pioneers of progressive rock celebrate their Golden Anniversary with an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is the band that brought you “Roundabout,” “Owner of a Lonely Heart,” “I’ve Seen All Good People,” “Starship Trooper” and many more. Experience the expansive songs and cultural significance of one of rock’s most influential bands.

Blondie to Rock Interlochen Expect classic hits alongside the band’s latest

By Kristi Kates Blondie came together in Manhattan in the mid-’70s, first snagging popularity in Australia and the U.K. before generating U.S. acclaim with its 1978 album, Parallel Lines.

Eleven studio albums later, the band is still cranking out its disco-inspired new-wave jams, tracks so fresh you’d never know that this band’s history spans four decades.

Blondie • June 30 From “Call Me” to “Rapture” to “Heart of Glass,” the sound of Blondie is the sound that helped form a whole new way to rock.

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TOUR TIME Debbie Harry, the unmistakably whiteblonde vocalist who fronts the band, is joined in Blondie by her longtime bandmates, guitarist Chris Stein and drummer Clem Burke. The band has gone through some personnel changes over the years — and, in fact, was broken up entirely from 1982 to 1997 while Harry pursued a solo career — but currently the rest of the outfit is made up of Matt Katz-Bohen on keyboards, Tommy Kessler on guitar, and Leigh Foxx on bass.

When Northern Express reached Burke last week, he had just returned to Los Angeles from Rochester, New York, where he was working on his side project band, The Empty Hearts, with Cars’ guitarist Elliot Easton.

“And now I’m getting ready to do some more Blondie stuff,” he said. That includes a concert this month at Interlochen, where Blondie will bring fans not only the classic tracks that made it famous — “Rapture,” “Heart of Glass,” “The Tide is High,” “Call Me,” check — but also some audio treats from its more recent recordings.

The band’s last album, 2017’s Pollinator, really got the band’s proverbial wheels moving again, said Burke, and serves as a great example to how the band works to

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revitalize its sound every few years, never allowing it to stagnate.

“Live, we play about a half-dozen songs from Pollinator, along with all the back catalog favorites, of course,” said Burke.

The touring schedule, however, is going to be less extensive of an affair this time around.

“Last summer we toured with Garbage behind Pollinator (the 2017 Rage/Rapture Tour), and we were really all over the place,” Burke said. “This time we’re going to be playing shows in between working on our next album, so it won’t be as straightforward a tour as the last one. The dates are more staggered, and we’re mostly doing big festivals and outdoor shows.”

DEEP CUTS The recording portion of their summer will take place in both L.A. and NYC, primarily in the bandmates’ home studio setups, to recapture what Burke called “that live band chemistry.” The last few albums were primarily recorded with the bandmates sending their individual musical parts back and forth using computer recording programs like Pro|Tools.

“We haven’t really started the formal recording process yet,” Burke said. “We really wanted to record at The Magic Shop in NYC — that’s where we recorded Pollinator, and it’s also where [David] Bowie and Lou Reed and so many others recorded — but that studio unfortunately closed down.”

They did, however, tag former The Magic Shop owner Steve Rosenthal to remaster a stack of their older albums.

“Yeah, we’ve got Steve on it, and we’re going to re-release our first six albums on vinyl,” said Burke, “not so much as a marketing thing as for DJs — we’ve had a lot

of requests for 12-inch remixes of tracks like ‘Heart of Glass’ and ‘Rapture.’”

“Plus we just felt that the audio on the first releases of those wasn’t how we wanted it to sound. So the vinyls will be out soon, probably mid-summer. The new album won’t be out until December of this year or early next year. We might also dig up some deep cuts from our older albums, and redo those as a bridge to the newer songs. We’ll see.”

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NEW TERRITORY If all of the above sounds like a lot of ambition, that’s pretty much always been Blondie’s modus operandi whenever the bandmates have worked together.

While many retro bands opt to just throw out another greatest-hits set, Blondie has consistently aimed new territory, calling on songwriting peers like Sia, Nick Valensi (The Strokes), Charli XCX, and David Sitek (TV on the Radio) to contribute tracks to Pollinator, with several more tunes cowritten by Blondie band members.

The album was produced by John Congleton, who’s worked with such current indie outfits as Future Islands and Sigur Ros. (No word on who’s going to be behind the boards for the band’s next effort, as that’s still in the planning stages.)

“Chris, Debbie, and I have been working together for 40 years, and even the ‘new’ guys to the band aren’t so new anymore, so they’re contributing more,” said Burke. “This is really the best version of the band in a long time, I think.”

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FLORENCE VIA LEELANAU Experience Bella Fortuna

By Kristi Kates What do you do when you travel and end up falling in love with a place? If you’re Dr. Jane Fortune and Dr. Robert Hesse, you do your best to bring that sense of place right back home with you.

ARTS AND CULTURE Fortune and Hesse, who were together for 26 years before Dr. Hesse passed away at the end of 2016, had traveled frequently to Italy, and were also longtime advocates of the arts.

Among their projects were the Joffrey Ballet, for which Hesse was executive director; the Indianapolis City Ballet, which the couple founded together; and a quest by Fortune to rescue the artworks of female artists that were trapped in storage in museums across Florence, Italy. (That quest was later turned into a book and a PBS documentary special.)

Perhaps it’s not surprising that a couple who devoted their work to perpetuating art and culture developed a love for the food they tasted along the way. It was Florentine food, in particular, and the culture surrounding it, however, that spurred the idea for another project near their summer home in northern Michigan, the restaurant Bella Fortuna.

“The owners really wanted to reproduce the dining and cultural experiences that they had over in Italy, and bring those back to Lake Leelanau,” said the restaurant’s manager, Katie Sharpe.

Bella Fortuna opened in 2012; Dr. Hesse’s half of this labor of love still lives on with

Dr. Fortune right in the heart of Leelanau County at this seasonal dining destination.

DINE LIKE A FLORENTINE Open from Memorial Day to midOctober, Bella Fortuna invites their dinner guests to “dine like a Florentine.” Florentine cuisine is considered to be one of the most sophisticated in Europe, as it combines both delicate and hearty flavors and approaches them with a “slow-food” method, meaning you take your time dining so as not to rush the experience.

Located in an historic building that includes a Belgian mahogany bar dating back to the late 1800s, the restaurant’s interior space includes a fireplace and comfortable seating, plus two banquet rooms for private events and a beautiful landscaped terrace for outdoor meals.

There’s a traditional Italian bocce ball court so you can enjoy a refined game or two before your meal. And near the restaurant’s entrance, you can even purchase Italian pottery.

“Our guests say that being here is like walking into a little piece of Italy,” said Sharpe. “They say that it really captures that Italian feel, especially out on the terrazza [terrace].”

CENTURIES OF CHEFS What the environment doesn’t replicate, the food certainly does, seasoned by herbs from the restaurant’s own herb garden, and overseen by Chef Mario Deruda, who hails from Sardinia, Italy.

“Every region in Italy has a particular

The beautifully landscaped terrazza (terrace) at Bella Fortuna is open for outside dining.

Vitello al Tartufo Chocolate Flourless Cake Fettuccine alla Salvia e Zucchini.

cuisine and a particular way that they use food,” Deruda explained.

“Many of the villages were isolated from each other for centuries, so they developed food specialties based on what ingredients were available in their own villages. So Tuscan cuisine — while you might see similar dishes from other regions — is very much its own thing.”

Two of the most popular dishes at Bella Fortuna involve pasta — namely, their fresh fettuccini and potato gnocchi.

“Both are made right here, fresh. You can’t do much better than that!” Sharpe said.

“We even have guests who come in for the pasta once a week like clockwork once we’re open, because they can’t get pasta that fresh anywhere else out here in the winter.”

— one in Leland and one, of course, in Florence, Italy.

The best way to enjoy all of the above, is, of course, to do as they would do in Florence, so take a tip from the staff, and plan out a good long visit to Bella Fortuna for your dinner.

“When you dine like a Florentine, you dine course to course,” explained Sharpe.

“So while you can order single dishes, the best way to experience this particular way of dining is to eat all of the courses in order: appetizer, salad, pasta, and then an entrée.

Pasta is not generally an entrée in Italy, so your entrée is actually your protein, like chicken or veal.”

And then, of course, in true Italian style, you must enjoy one of those desserts.

LEISURELY DINNERS The fettuccini — Salvia e Zucchini — is served with parmesan cheese, pressed sage, and zucchini; the gnocchi is available with either pomodoro (tomato) sauce or a gorgonzola cheese sauce. Another popular dish is their Vitello al Tartufo, a savory veal scaloppini.

For appetizers, Sharpe recommends the summer flavors of Proscuitto E Melone, seasonal melon topped with Italian cured meats, or the calamari served with marinara sauce and lemon.

“It’s the best around, just very lightly flash-fried,” said Sharpe.

Desserts include house-made tiramisu and chocolate flourless cake. And the restaurant also offers a full wine cellar that includes wines from their own vineyards

$$$ Bella Fortuna restaurant is located at 104 W. Main St., in Lake Leelanau (just south of M-204). Dinner hours are 5pm to 9pm Monday through Saturday. bellafortunarestaurant.com, (231) 994-2400.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. Jacob Stone and Justin Davenport crack open cold ones at the Downtown Charlevoix Craft Beer Festival.

2. Chris and Debby Collins joined Matt and Jen Mazur at the 21st Annual OMH Foundation Golf Outing Dinner Reception at Treetops Resort.

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3. Susi, Autumn, Jane, and Veronica at their MSU booth at the Traverse City Wednesday Farmer’s Market.

4. Bill and Robbin Bustance celebrating the opening of their new Trigger Boxing location inside the Kaliseum in Kalkaska.

june 16

saturday

7TH ANNUAL GLEN ARBOR SOLSTICE HALF MARATHON & 5K: 7am, Downtown Glen Arbor. enduranceevolution.com

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MICHIGAN MOUNTAIN MAYHEM SPRING CLASSIC: Choose from The 50K Teaser,

100K Metric Century, 160K (A Full 100 Mile Century) or The 200K Double Metric. Starts near the backside of Boyne Mountain. Not a race. michiganmountainmayhem.com

---------------------ELLSWORTH 5K PIG ROAST FUN RUN: 9am, 9467 Park St., Ellsworth. runsignup.com

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE AREA PARADE OF HOMES: 9am-7pm, TC. Presented by The Home Builders Association, Grand Traverse Area. Tour new & remodeled homes. $15 advance; $18 day of. hbagta.com/parade-of-homes

---------------------TAKE A GIRL MOUNTAIN BIKING DAY: 9:45am, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. All abilities welcome. Five distances available. Info: elgruponorte.org

---------------------16TH ANNUAL BAY HARBOR LAKE MARINA IN-WATER BOAT SHOW: 10am-8pm, Bay Harbor Lake Marina.

---------------------A MOVIE ON THE BIG SCREEN: 10am, Villa at Traverse Point, TC. Enjoy a showing of COCO. Free.

---------------------BABY’S BREATH WORKBEE: 10am-noon.

Help the Northwest MI Invasive Species Network & GT Regional Land Conservancy at Elberta Beach to remove invasive baby’s breath. Dress for the weather & bring water & sunscreen if needed. habitatmatters.org

Featuring fun activities & snacks for ages 7+. Reserve your spot: 231-347-1180. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

june

---------------------38TH ANNUAL TASTE OF THE NORTH: 11am-2pm, Little Traverse Historical Museum, Petoskey. Featuring food samples from 20+ area restaurants. There will also be activities for children & historic displays. petoskeymuseum.org

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---------------------INTERLOCHEN FAMILY FUN DAY: 11am4pm, Green Lake Township Field of Dreams Park, Interlochen. Enjoy music, free outdoor activities, food, games, Story Walk, jewelry making & more.

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------THUNDER AT THE RIVER: 11:30am, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Pure Thunder: Escorted Veterans Memorial Ride, departing at noon. Blessing of the Bikes prior to departure. Recommended $25 donation/person. rollingthundermichigan1.com

---------------------AUTHORS SIGNING: Horizon Books, TC. 12-2pm: Chad Boles will sign his book “Blinded Authority.” 2-4pm: Thomas Bailey & Katherine Joslin will sign their book “Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life.” 4-6pm: Steven Harms will sign his book “Give Place to Wrath.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------FIFTH ANNUAL REZ FEST: 4950 West Elder Rd., Mancelona. Two stages, three days of music spanning MI, from Detroit’s Feral Ground to the U.P.’s Not Quite Canada & Stormy Cromer... as well as Northern MI favorites like The Brother’s Crunch, Biomassive & Turbo Pup & special guests from Mankato, Minnesota - Useful Jenkins. Also featuring local artists, creators, healers & more. Weekend camping included with your weekend ticket. $40 pre-sale; $50 at gate. therezfest.com

Fountain Point Resort in Lake Leelanau starts out their Summer Concert Series with The Accidentals on Sun., June 17 at 7pm; Hot ‘n Bothered on Thurs., June 21 at 7:30pm & The Barbarossa Brothers (pictured) on Sun., June 24 at 7:30pm.

Concerts happen every Thurs. & Sun. through Aug. 12. Tickets: mynorthtickets.com

projects, stories & a hike to the Fort. michlegacyartpark.org

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PICNIC WITH THE BENZIE DEMS: 12-2pm, Burnett Park, Lake Ann. Food, games, voter registration. Meet candidates for local offices.

Free. benziedemocrats.com

SUDS & SUN: 2-8pm, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Featuring live music by benjaman james, Hell in a Bucket, G Snacks & 2 Bays DJs; more than 20 vendors including local breweries, cideries & wineries, & food trucks. $35 advance; $45 door. mynorthtickets.com

JAPANESE BARBERRY TRADE-UP DAY: 10am-2pm. If you have invasive Japanese barberry in your landscape, dig it up & bring it to the Boardman River Nature Center, TC. In return receive a $5 coupon for a non-invasive alternative - up to $50. Free. habitatmatters.org

SPIRIT OF THE WOODS FOLK FESTIVAL: 12-10pm, Dickson Township Park, Brethren.

Featuring the Raion Taiko Drummers, Peace Love Music, Dominic & Rachael Davis, Betse & Clarke, Drive South Band & others. There will also be an art & craft fair. Free; donations accepted. spiritofthewoods.org

FUN RIDE/WALK FUNDRAISER: 3pm. For each person who joins in this ride/walk, Stormcloud Brewing Co. will donate $5 to Friends of the Betsie Valley Trail. Meet at the Betsie Valley Trail trailhead in Elberta for a free hot dog, beverage & express bike tune-up. stormcloudbrewing.com

THE LEELANAU ARTISTS’ ANNUAL EXHIBITION: 10am-5pm, Old Art Building, Leland.

This exhibition represents the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly to paint at the Old Art Building. oldartbuilding.com

MEET THE ARTISTS: 1-3pm, Oliver Art Center, Fisher Classroom, Frankfort. Featuring 10 artists who offer work in the OAC gift shop who will demonstrate & discuss their creative processes. kfort.org

---------------------BIRDS, BEES & BLOOMS: 10am, Louis M. Groen Nature Preserve, Johannesburg. Learn about how important pollination is. Free.

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------------------------------------------WINGS OVER NORTHERN MICHIGAN AIRSHOW: Gaylord Regional Airport. Opening ceremonies are held at noon. The Airshow includes The Aerostars Aerobatic Team, Canadian SkyHawks, Precision Exotics & B-17 Flying Fortress. $10-$20. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------BRAIN QUEST PARTY FOR KIDS: 10:30am, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

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------------------------------------------“JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, JR.”: 2pm & 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented

by OTP Young Company. $15 adults; $8 youth under 18 (plus fees). oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------FAIRIES & FORTS: 2pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Featuring free admission all day, a family concert with singer-songwriter Miriam Pico & storyteller Jennifer Strauss, art

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---------------------CHARLIE LEDUFF: 6pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Auditorium, Petoskey. Charlie will present his newest book, “Sh*tshow! The Country’s Collapsing...and the Ratings Are Great.”

Reserve your spot: 231.347.1180. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

---------------------“THE PRODUCERS”: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------“DIRTY BLONDE”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. A salute to Mae West. $17 plus fees. oldtownplayhouse.com

ELI YOUNG BAND: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy hits like “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” from country music’s rising stars. $50-$65. lrcr.com

june 17

sunday

16TH ANNUAL BAY HARBOR LAKE MARINA IN-WATER BOAT SHOW: 10am-3pm, Bay Harbor Lake Marina.

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THE LEELANAU ARTISTS’ ANNUAL EXHIBITION: 10am-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland.

This exhibition represents the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly to paint at the Old Art Building. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------WINGS OVER NORTHERN MICHIGAN AIRSHOW: Gaylord Regional Airport. The Airshow includes The Aerostars Aerobatic Team, Canadian SkyHawks, Precision Exotics & B-17 Flying Fortress. $10-$20. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE AREA PARADE OF HOMES: 11am-4pm, TC. Presented by The Home Builders Association, Grand Traverse Area. Tour new & remodeled homes. $15 advance; $18 day of. hbagta.com/parade-of-homes

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FIFTH ANNUAL REZ FEST: (See Sat., June 16) STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: 12-4pm, Alden Depot. Celebrate Father’s Day & enjoy strawberry shortcake. visitalden.com

---------------------GT MUSICALE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS: 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. The 2018 Scholarship Winners, 7-8 Grades will perform at 1pm. 9-12 Grades will perform at 7pm. Free. gtmusicale.org

---------------------“JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, JR.”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Presented by OTP Young Company. $15 adults; $8 youth under 18 (plus fees). oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------“VIOLET PINES” & “ROCK CASHMERE SWEATER”: 2pm, The Provincial, Kaleva.

“Violet Pines” is a 3 person show of Brooklyn, NY artists Talia Shulze, Pamela Sabroso & Katrina Fimmel. “Rock Cashmere Sweater” is collaborations by MI artists Carol C. Spaulding & Angela Saxon. View the exhibitions & meet the artists. theprovincial.net

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

---------------------ZEKE GOODWIN MEMORIAL RIDE: 6:30pm, Norte Clubhouse at the Civic Center, TC. Celebrate & honor Zeke, who loved to ride his bike. Bring your bike & helmet, or walk around the Civic Center. Wear royal blue, orange or lime green. elgruponorte.org

---------------------THE ACCIDENTALS: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. This genre-bending group brings music from their Sony Masterworks debut album, ODYSSEY. $25/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------OPENING NIGHT: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. Dozens of resident & faculty artists return from across the U.S., for eight weeks of classical, contemporary, jazz, musical theatre & popular music. $17.50 adult; $13.50 member; $25 family. bayviewassociation.org

june 18

monday

BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: 9am, Brunson barn, 3 miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22. June 18-23.

Hosted by the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

The workshop will address repairing “stone masonry walls & wood barn floor repair.” Wear boots & gloves & bring a sack lunch. Register: 231-326-4771. Free. facebook.com/sbdnl

---------------------ROLLING RIVER RAMPAGE VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL: The Presbyterian Church of TC. June 18-22, 9-11:45am. Kindergarten through 6th grade welcome. Register: www. tcpresby.org & click on the VBS icon. Free. rrr. cokesburyvbs.com/tcpresbymi

---------------------MAKER SPACE MONDAY: KITES: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Between 1-3pm the Great Lakes Room will be open & full of recycled supplies for kids to experiment & design with. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------“YOUNG HEMINGWAY & HIS ENDURING EDEN”: 7pm, Bay View, Voorhies Hall, Petoskey. This film focuses on Ernest Hemingway’s youthful summers in northern MI. $10.

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE 2018: TC’s Official LGBT Pride Celebration is presented by The Michael Chetcuti Foundation, June 18-24 in downtown TC. Tonight features Here:Say Storytelling from 7-9:30pm at The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Free. upnorthpride.com

june 19

tuesday

BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 18)

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COFFEE @ TEN, PETOSKEY: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey. Hearing the Art that We See with Cynthia Rutherford. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------WILDFLOWER WALK: 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Catch a glimpse of some short-lived June wildflowers with wildflower enthusiast Julie Hurd as you walk along GRNA’s boardwalks, & learn about delicate wildflowers. Donations. grassriver.org

---------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create a summer seaside decoration. Held at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------NORTHERN MI RED CROSS ANNUAL BOARD MEETING: 11:45am, TC Chamber, TC. Will induct the 2019 Board Chair. A catered lunch is provided. RSVP 6/13/2018: 947-7286, x7415. Free.

---------------------VEGETARIAN COOKING FOR YOUR DOG: 5:30pm, Oryana Community Co-op, TC. Join Oryana & Dr. Lisa Melling, DVM CVH of Good Harbor Holistic Veterinary Care as she teaches you how to share healthy plant-based meals with your dog. All proceeds will be donated to the Cherryland Humane Society. Meet at the gazebo outside the cafe. Register at eventbrite.com or call 947-0191. $10. oryana.coop/events

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING: 6-8pm, Northwest MI Community Action Agency, TC. This month’s topic will be Insurance. A light meal is provided prior to the meeting. 947-3780. Free.

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE 2018: TC’s Official LGBT Pride Celebration is presented by The Michael Chetcuti Foundation, June 18-24 in downtown TC. Tonight features LGBT+ Shorts at 6pm at the State Theatre, TC. upnorthpride.com

---------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6:30-8:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. Hear about the DC Lobby trip. If you’re new, come at 6pm for an introduction to CCL. citizensclimatelobby.org

---------------------GTHC - TUESDAY NIGHT TREK: 6:30pm, Boardman River Trail to Sabin Dam Hike.

Length: 2.6 – 4 miles (out and back). Featuring a 900’ boardwalk that passes fruit trees planted by settlers. Meet at the old YMCA off South Airport Rd., TC.

---------------------“PARENTING A GROWN CHILD WITH ASPERGER’S SYNDROME”: 6:30pm, TC. The exact TC location will be provided when the neurotypical family member joins the NW Michigan NT Support private Meetup group at: www.meetup. com/NW-Michigan-NT-Support/ or contacts Nan Meyers at: 231-631-8343 or nwmints@gmail. com before noon on the meeting day.

---------------------MANISTEE SHORELINE SHOWCASE SERIES: 7pm, Douglas Park, Rotary Park Pavilion, Manistee. Enjoy pop, jazz & show tunes with Mary Rademacher Reed & Tom Hagen Trio. Free.

---------------------RANDOM HOUSE REP NIGHT: 7pm, Glen Arbor Town Hall. Bridget & Laura, representatives from Penguin Random House, will discuss the latest & greatest in the publishing world. Reception & book sales will follow the program at Cottage Book Shop. Register: 231334-4223. cottagebooks.indielite.org

---------------------SWEETWATER EVENING GARDEN CLUB MEETING: 7pm, Acme Township Hall, Williamsburg. Guest speaker Cindy Roach of the GT Butterfly House & Bug Zoo presents “Pollinators’ Homes & Habitats.” 938-9611. Free.

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june 20

wednesday

BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 18)

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A CHANGING CLIMATE: MANAGING WATER FOR HEALTH: 9:30am, Leelanau County Government Center, Suttons Bay. This open community forum will be hosted by Beckett & Raeder, the MI Department of Health & Human Services, & FLOW (For Love of Water).

RSVP: 231-649-1065. Free. managingwaterforhealth.org/

---------------------IPL CHILDREN’S SUMMER READING CLUB: 10:30am, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Kick-off & registration. Acting Up Theatre Co. will present “The Library of Rock.” newinterlochenlibrary.org

---------------------100 YOUTH WHO CARE: Noon, Jay’s Sporting Goods, Headwaters Room, Gaylord. For ages 10-19 who are looking to make a difference in the community. Presented by the Youth Advisory Committee of the Otsego County Community Foundation. Register. otsegofoundation. org/100-youth-who-care-membership

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring Michelle Chenard. crookedtree.org

---------------------LUNCH & LEARN: Noon, Petoskey-Bay View Country Club. Sponsored by the U of M Alumni Spirit Group of Little Traverse Bay, Jon Falk will share his tales & insights on U of M football. Falk is the author of “If These Walls Could Talk” & “Forty Years in the Big House.”

231-487-0750. $50, includes lunch.

---------------------SUMMER STEAM: NANO SCIENCE: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Between 1-3pm the Great Lakes Room will be open for fun related to Science, Technology, Engineering & Math activities. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------BIG TICKET FESTIVAL: Otsego County Fairgrounds, Gaylord, June 20-23. Community Night is Weds., June 20. Doors open at 3pm & concerts will play until 11pm. Pick up free tickets at Jays Sporting Goods. Performers include Lecrae, Matthew West & Tenth Ave, Michael w Smith, Toby Mac & others. bigticketfestival.com

---------------------KICK OFF FOR THE LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S: 4-6pm, Harbor Watch Dr., Petoskey. Participants can register & grow their teams, pick up fundraising supplies, share fundraising & team recruitment ideas with other walkers & more. The Walk will be held on Sat., Sept. 15. act.alz.org

---------------------LEELANAU HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRO GRAM: 4pm, Leelanau Historical Society, Leland. “Jens C. Petersen: From Bricklayer to Architect: The Life and Works of a Visionary Michigan Architect,” based on Julie Schopieray’s newly-published book. leelanauhistory.org

---------------------AUTHOR SIGNING: 5pm, Horizon Books, TC. Alfredo Corchado will sign his book “Homelands.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------FREE CONCERT: 5pm, The Music House Museum, Williamsburg. Featuring World Renowned Artist Jim Vogelman. For active retirees who have always wanted to play a keyboard instrument. Pick up your free tickets. musichouse.org

---------------------GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, The Iron Pig Smokehouse, Gaylord. Dress in your AlpenBEST for a chance to win prizes.

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE 2018: TC’s Official LGBT Pride Celebration is presented by The Michael Chetcuti Foundation, June 18-24 in downtown TC. Tonight features the Pride Ride, Sign Making Party & Pride Karaoke. upnorthpride.com/events

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EVENING ON RIVER STREET: 6-9pm, River St., Downtown Elk Rapids. Featuring food, kids activities & live music by The Plumville Project.

---------------------LIGHTHOUSE REHABILITATION CENTER ADAPTIVE CYCLING CLINIC: 6-8pm, Interlochen State Park. Individuals with disabilities can enjoy a ride around the park & will be assisted with adapting & modifying cycling to meet their abilities. Cycles, helmets & adaptive equipment will be provided. Pre-registration required. A recreation passport is required for every vehicle. Free. lighthouserehab.com

---------------------EVENINGS AT THE GAZEBO: 6:30pm, Old City Park, Boyne City. Featuring the Jordan Valley Community Band.

---------------------FREE SUMMER PROGRAM: 7pm, Fife Lake Library. “Michigan State Capital: Construction, Evolution, Restoration, Renewal.” Valerie Marvin, Michigan State Capital historian & curator, travels through nearly 150 years of Capital building design & construction history.

231-879-3940. Free.

---------------------PLANT IT WILD PRESENTS “POLLINATORS STATE OF AFFAIRS”: 7pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, Frankfort. Featuring Carolyn Thayer. Free. plantitwild.net

---------------------WORLD REFUGEE DAY: A LOCAL RESPONSE TO A GLOBAL ISSUE: 7pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. Presented by Bethany Christian Services & Justice for Our Neighbors. Stories from local refugees will be shared with info from each agency on how community members can help refugees in the area.

june 21

thursday

BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 18)

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FRANKFORT48 FILM CONTEST: June 21-23.

Filmmakers have 48 hours to create a short film celebrating northern MI. There will be prizes for the top three films, including screenings at the 2018 Frankfort Film Festival. All films will be presented & judged during a public screening at The Garden Theater, Frankfort on Sat., June 23. frankfortgardentheater.com/frankfort48

---------------------CAR SHOW: 10am-2pm, Harbor Springs waterfront. About 50 rare antique autos will be on display. beta.wokr.org

---------------------DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC AT BENZONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: 11am-2pm. Advice on solving garden & landscape problems including plant, weed, bug & disease identification. Free clinic offered by MSU Extension & Local Master Gardeners. benzonialibrary.org

---------------------INTERACTIVE STORY TIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Raccoon Tune” by Howard Fine. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------SUMMER SOLSTICE ART JOURNAL: 11am1pm. This children’s summer arts & crafts workshop will be held at Mackinaw Pavilion behind Mackinaw City Public Schools. Bring a snack & wear clothes to paint in. Free. facebook.com/mackinawartscouncil

LEARN HOW TO DE-CLUTTER YOUR LIFE: 12:30pm, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen.

Featuring TC Fire Chief Jim Tuller who will discuss how to overcome the emotional aspect of letting go of years of accumulated & unneeded items, & provide info about organizations that can help & places that pick up your discarded items. Register. 922-2080.

---------------------TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP: 1:30pm, Leland Township Library. Join Leland Township Library Director Mark Morton for a technology workshop on how to download eBooks

& Audiobooks with the new Libby App from Overdrive. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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RACHEL MAY BOOK SIGNING: 2-4pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Assistant Professor of English at Northern Michigan University Rachel May will sign her new book “An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery.” Free. mcleanandeakin.com

---------------------BIG TICKET FESTIVAL: (See Weds., June 20)

---------------------17TH ANNUAL TASTE OF GREECE DINNER: 3:30-7pm, St. Francis High School, TC. Hosted by Archangel Gabriel Greek Orthodox Church. $15. tcorthodoxchurch.com

---------------------37TH ANNUAL CEDAR POLKA FEST: June 21-24. Enjoy games, a parade, tribute to vets, dancing, Polish food & more. cedarmichigan. biz/polkafestival.htm

---------------------BENZIE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. $5.

---------------------DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY’S GALLERY WALK: 5pm-9pm. Free. crookedtree.org

Lake Michigan. Donations to benefit Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes. By donation. Find on Facebook.

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Resort, Lake Leelanau. Enjoy bluegrass & folk tunes along with some of their own originals. $10/adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

GREAT LAKES PHOTOGRAPHER: 5:30pm, Tinker Studio, TC. As a sailor on the Great Lakes, Michael’s photography captures the beauty in isolation, the grandeur of the shipping vessels & the ever-changing moods of the sky & water. An evening reception will be held on Fri., June 22. Meet Michael & hear about his experiences sailing the Great Lakes. The trunk show will also be held on Sat., June 23, 10am-5pm & Sun., June 24, 12-4 pm. Find on Facebook.

37TH ANNUAL CEDAR POLKA FEST: (See Thurs., June 21)

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june 22

friday

FARMER FIELD DAY: 8:45am-4pm, Maple Bay Farm. Soil, Stewardship & Longevity. Register: 9410960, ext. 22. Free. gtrlc.org

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BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 18)

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“THE PRODUCERS” : 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. A Musical by Mel Brooks. Presented by Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

--------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOK TOUR: JOEL FRANKFORT48 FILM CONTEST: (See Thurs., June 21)

---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Between 10am-noon in the Great Lakes Room, have fun with toys that push & pull. greatlakeskids.org

STONE: 7pm, Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building. Joel will present “Detroit67: Looking Back to Move Forward.” petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, East Jordan Memorial Park Band Shell. Featuring contemporary folk with Jenny Thomas.

---------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am: ELK RAPIDS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, MD Heat, Elk Rapids.

---------------------SUMMER SOLSTICE PUMPKIN PADDLE & DECK PARTY: 5-8pm, Jolly Pumpkin, TC. Donations welcome for FLOW for Water. Find on Facebook.

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE 2018: TC’s Official LGBT Pride Celebration is presented by The Michael Chetcuti Foundation, June 18-24 in downtown TC. Tonight features Prism > A Pop-up Gallery Experience from 5-9pm at Warehouse MRKT, TC. upnorthpride.com

Story Hour: Audrey Wood’s Books. 6-8pm: Authors Signings. Amy Eckert will sign her book “100 Things to Do in Detroit Before You Die.” Kim Schneider will sign her book “100 Things to Do in Traverse City Before You Die.” Kath Usitalo will sign her books “100 Things to Do on Mackinac Island Before You Die” & “100 Things to Do in the Upper Peninsula.” horizonbooks.com INAUGURAL PARADE OF HOMES: June 2224. Various locations throughout the Petoskey area. $15 advance; $20 day of. hbanm.com/ paradeofhomes

IAF LECTURE: Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. “U.S.-Mexico: A Border in Turmoil” presented by Alfredo Corchado & Angela Kocherga, award-winning journalists who call the border home. The lecture begins at 6pm & is preceded by a reception in the Dennos Museum Sculpture Court at 5:15pm. $15; free for current students & educators. dennosmuseum.org

CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring the Northern Michigan Chorale. crookedtree.org

BELLAIRE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:307pm, Woodmasters, Bellaire. RSVP: 231-5336023. $3/person.

“POEMS ARE WHERE WE FIND THEM”: 2pm, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. Join poet, professor & Leelanauenthusiast Mary Ann Samyn for this poetry workshop. Please bring paper & your favorite writing implement. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------LIVE PAINTING DEMONSTRATION: 1-3pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Visual Arts Classroom, TC. By John Michael Carter, OPAM. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------- ---------------------HARBOR HISTORY TALK: 5:30pm, Harbor Springs History Museum. Presented by the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society. Explore the family business of Van Dam Custom Boats with Steve Van Dam. Reserve your spot: 231-526-9771. $10; free for current Historical Society members.

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NORTHLAND WEAVERS & FIBER ARTS GUILD MEETING: 5:30pm, TC Senior Center.

Featuring a demonstration on rainbow dying as well as samples of rainbow dyed warp. Members will showcase their latest creations. Free. northlandweaversguils.com

---------------------MUSIC ON MAIN: 6-8pm, Main St., Village at Bay Harbor. Featuring The Plumville Project.

CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions, lawn, TC. Featuring Grand Traverse Pipes & Drums. Free. gtpavilions.org/2018concerts-on-the-lawn

LATE PLEISTOCENE FAUNA & EXTINCTION: 7pm, Betsie Valley District Library, Thompsonville. Dr. David Penny, PhD will share his knowledge on diverse animal life that existed in the Great Lakes region during the Pleistocene Era. He will explore the lifestyles of the Paleo-Indians who also inhabited this area, plus more. 231-378-2716. Free. betsievalleydistrictlibrary.org

---------------------SUMMER SOLSTICE YOGA ON THE BEACH: 7pm, Glen Haven Beach, Glen Arbor.

All levels welcome to this 60 minute class on

A SPRING EVENING OF WINE, SWEETS & SONG WITH CANTICUM NOVUM: 7:30pm, Dennos Museum Center, Zimmerman Sculpture Court, NMC, TC. Fresh off performances at Carnegie Hall & collaborations with the TSO. Also enjoy light hors d’oeuvres, featuring treats from Morsels. $25 advance, $30 at door. mynorthtickets.com

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LIVE PAINTING DEMONSTRATION: 9-11:30am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Visual Arts Classroom, TC. A free, live demo by OPA awards juror Roger Dale Brown. crookedtree.org

---------------------LEELANAU WOMEN ARTISTS’ ART SHOW: 2-7pm, Northport Arts Association. Featuring paintings, jewelry, handwoven clothing, home accessories, fused glass & basketry. An opening reception with the artists will be held from 5-7pm. Free. leelanauwomenartists.org

Wolverine, June 22-24. This festival is held on the banks of the Sturgeon River & celebrates the town’s appreciation of the lumber trades. Featuring live music by the Brewhouse Band, Remedee, & Sneaky Pete; a parade, horseshoe tournament, Sturgeon River Paddlesports Kayak Race, Duck Race & more. wolverinelumberjackfestival.org

---------------------GEOFF TATE CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF BEST-SELLING ROCK CONCEPT ALBUM: 8pm, Streeters, TC. Advance tickets: $25 + $4.50 handling fee. groundzeroonline.com

---------------------FREDERIC MUSIC FESTIVAL: 4pm, Eagle Park, next to the Frederic Township Office.

Performers range from Oh Brother, Big Sister to Rachel Brook to Junkyard Revival. Free. fredericmusicfest.org

---------------------“MY TIME IS YOURS”: Old Art Building, Leland. By 2018 Ann Hall Artist in Residence Megan Hildebrandt. This is an exhibition that will explore autobiography, the passage of time, illness narrative & recovery from trauma via repetitive marks, abstracted drawings & paintings, & animation. An opening reception will be held on Fri., June 22 from 5-8pm. The exhibit will continue Sat., 10am-5pm & Sun., 12-4pm. oldartbuilding.com

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RUN FOR SHELTER: 9am, Willow Hill Elementary School, TC. Goodwill’s Run For Shelter 5K Run & Walk will benefit the Goodwill Inn, northern MI’s largest homeless shelter. $35/person; kids 10 & under, free. goodwillnmi.org/runforshelter

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“MY TIME IS YOURS”: 10am-5pm, Old Art Building, Leland. By 2018 Ann Hall Artist in Residence Megan Hildebrandt. This is an exhibition that will explore autobiography, the passage of time, illness narrative & recovery from trauma via repetitive marks, abstracted drawings & paintings, & animation. oldartbuilding.com

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS/PRESENTATION: Horizon Books, TC. 10am-noon: Christine Shreve will sign her book “I Saw Heaven in My Dog’s Eyes.” 12-2pm: Virginia Johnson will sign her book “Ira’s Farm: Growing Up on a Self-Sustaining Farm in the 1930’s and 1940’s.”

2-4pm: Presentation with Richard Fidler, author of “How the Good Times Rolled.” 4-6pm: Angela Crandall will sign her book “Seeking Justice.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------BAY HARBOR VINTAGE CAR & BOAT FESTIVAL: The Village at Bay Harbor. Featuring the Parade of Cars at 10am, Steel Drum Band at 12:15pm & Awards Ceremony at 2:30pm. bayharborfoundation.org/events/vintage

---------------------CHARLEVOIX SUMMER ART SHOW: 10am5pm, East Park, Charlevoix. 231.547.2101.

--------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LEELANAU WOMEN ARTISTS’ ART SHOW: UP NORTH PRIDE 2018: TC’s Official LGBT Pride Celebration is presented by The Michael Chetcuti Foundation, June 18-24 in downtown TC. Tonight features Up North Pride Drag Night & Chicago: Celebrating Diversity Through Broadway. upnorthpride.com/events

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saturday

CHARLEVOIX MARATHON, HALF MARATHON, 10K & 5K: 6:30am, Bridge Park, Charlevoix. charlevoixmarathon.com

---------------------- ---------------------BIG TICKET FESTIVAL: (See Weds., June 20) PARALLEL PADDLE FESTIVAL: 8am, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 45TH Suttons Bay Beach. Featuring a 6 mile race, MONTHLY MEETING OF THE GT GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: 3-5pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Daniel Earl will present “Becoming a Genealogy N.I.N.J.A.” & “A New Look at Research Methodology & Brick Walls.” gtags.org

R3 ADVENTURE TRIATHLON: 9am, East Jordan Tourist Park. The race starts with a 19 mile road bike ride. Then run two miles on trails through Little Traverse Conservancy land, along the Jordan River to the Rogers Bridge Jordan River Access site. Participants then paddle down the Jordan River, under the East Jordan bridge & into Lake Charlevoix. Paddlers can use a kayak, canoe or stand up paddle board for this segment.

Racers finish on the beach of Lake Charlevoix at the Tourist Park. Details: facebook.com/R3TriathlonEastJordan $85. adventuresportsnorth.com

recreational 3 mile race & Universal Duathlon.

Lunch, awards & after party at Hop Lot Brewery. racetc.com/45th-parallel

10am-5pm, Northport Arts Association. Featuring paintings, jewelry, handwoven clothing, home accessories, fused glass & basketry.

Free. leelanauwomenartists.org

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE 2018: TC’s Official LGBT Pride Celebration is presented by The Michael Chetcuti Foundation, June 18-24 in downtown TC. Today features Yoga at The Open Space, Pride Picnic, Up North Pride March, Block Party & Unofficial After Party. upnorthpride.com/events

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

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INAUGURAL PARADE OF HOMES: (See Fri., June 22)

--------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -AUTHORS SIGNINGS: 11:30am-1:30pm, BLACK MOUNTAIN BLAST 5K/10K: 8am, 10905 High Bluffs Dr., Cheboygan. Find on Facebook.

---------------------BARN RESTORATION WORKSHOP: (See Mon., June 18) BRANDON’S BREAKFAST: 9-11am, Fellowship Church, TC. This breakfast fundraiser will honor a nephew of a family attending Fellowship Church. Brandon died by suicide a decade ago.

His family & friends want to bring awareness to suicide prevention in the community. Enjoy food, help raise money for the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, & honor the life of Brandon.

Donations accepted. fellowshipchurchtc.org

Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord. Amy Eckert will sign her book “100 Things to Do in Detroit Before You Die.” Kim Schneider will sign her book “100 Things to Do in Traverse City Before You Die.” Kath Usitalo will sign her books “100 Things to Do on Mackinac Island Before You Die” & “100 Things to Do in the Upper Peninsula.” saturnbooksellers.com

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FREDERIC MUSIC FESTIVAL: (See Fri., June 22)

---------------------TYPE-IN V: Noon, Landmark Books, TC. Bring your typewriter for a day of typing fun. Free. landmarkbookstc.com

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FRANKFORT48 FILM CONTEST: (See Thurs., June 21)

“THE PRODUCERS”: 2pm, Cadillac High

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Presented by Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

---------------------37TH ANNUAL CEDAR POLKA FEST: (See Thurs., June 21)

---------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: 3pm-5pm, Artisan Village, Grayling. Amy Eckert will sign her book “100 Things to Do in Detroit Before You Die.” Kim Schneider will sign her book “100 Things to Do in Traverse City Before You Die.” Kath Usitalo will sign her books “100 Things to Do on Mackinac Island Before You Die” & “100 Things to Do in the Upper Peninsula.” aavart.org

---------------------BIG TICKET FESTIVAL: (See Weds., June 20)

---------------------FIND YOUR PARK AFTER DARK SUMMER STAR PARTIES: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. From 4-6pm focus on the sun using solar telescopes. From 9-11pm will be an 85% gibbous moon; offering a chance to view celestial objects, as well as Venus & Jupiter.

Park in the row furthest from the dunes with your headlights facing M-109. nps.gov/slbe

Traverse CiTy

231-929-3200 • 4952 Skyview Ct.

Charlevoix

231-237-0955 • 106 E. Garfield Ave.

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---------------------COUNTRY DANCE: Summit City Grange, Kingsley. 6pm hot dog dinner; 7-10pm dance.

Live music. 231-263-4499. Donation.

---------------------SARAH MILLER AUTHOR RECEPTION: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

Sarah presents the paperback release of “Caroline” for an in-conversation style event.

231-347-1180. Free. mcleanandeakin.com

---------------------“THE PRODUCERS” : 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. A Musical by Mel Brooks.

Presented by Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

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A SPRING EVENING OF WINE, SWEETS & SONG WITH CANTICUM NOVUM: 7:30pm, Dennos Museum Center, Zimmerman Sculpture Court, NMC, TC. Fresh off performances at Carnegie Hall & collaborations with the TSO. Also enjoy light hors d’oeuvres, featuring treats from Morsels. $25 advance, $30 at door. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------THE SERIES AT LAVENDER HILL FARM: 7:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Featuring Lansing roots/blues band The Lincoln County Process. $22.50. lavenderhillfarm. com/the-series

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---------------------WOLVERINE LUMBERJACK FESTIVAL: (See Fri., June 22)

---------------------SUN & MON 12:30 • 3:15 • 6 • 8:30 PM TUESDAY 12:30 • 3:15 • 7:30 PM WEDNESDAY 12:45 • 3:30 • 6 • 8:45 PM THURSDAY 12:30 • 3:15 • 6 • 8:45 PM •••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••

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TUE, THU & SAT 10 AM - 25¢ Kids Matinee

THE UGLY DACHSHUNDNR

WED 10:30 AM - Dog Days of Summer - 25¢ Matinee

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION

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FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKS - $3 or 2 for $5 - Holiday Road!

DOWNTOWN

IN CLINCH PARK

ANDRE DRUMMOND OF THE DETROIT PISTONS: CLUB HOST W/ LIVE PERFORMANCE: 8pm, Streeters, TC. With DJ Ricky T. Advance tickets: $15 + handling fee. groundzeroonline.com

---------------------STEVE LEAF & THE EX PATS: 8-11pm, Ethanology, Elk Rapids.

june 24

sunday

LAKE LEELANAU MONSTER RACE: Point to point relay race. 16 mile downwind paddle & 48 mile road bike ride. Free. racetc.com/register

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CHARLEVOIX SUMMER ART SHOW: 10am3pm, East Park, Charlevoix. 231.547.2101.

OLD TOWN ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: 10am5pm, Union St., TC. Featuring more than 90 artists & crafters.

---------------------COFFEE, CARS & COCKTAILS: 11am-4pm, Ethanology, Elk Rapids. ethanologydistillation.com

---------------------SUN - THU 1:30 • 4 • 6:30 • 9 PM 231-947-4800

INAUGURAL PARADE OF HOMES: (See Fri., June 22)

---------------------LOG CABIN DAY: 11am-3pm, Lighthouse

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Park, Hessler log cabin, Old Mission Peninsula. Featuring music, historic crafts & demonstrations. Hosted by the Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society. 231-223-7400. Free.

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THE HONOR RIDE: Mondays, 9am. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club. Meet at Honor Village Park, across from the Honor Plaza. Choose from 25-30 miles or 35-50 miles. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

UP NORTH PRIDE 2018: TC’s Official LGBT Pride Celebration is presented by The Michael Chetcuti Foundation, June 18-24 in downtown TC. Today features the Big Gay Brunch + Founder’s Party at 11am at The Little Fleet. upnorthpride.com/events

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“MY TIME IS YOURS”: 12-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland. By 2018 Ann Hall Artist in Residence Megan Hildebrandt. This is an exhibition that will explore autobiography, the passage of time, illness narrative & recovery from trauma via repetitive marks, abstracted drawings & paintings, & animation. oldartbuilding.com

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---------------------37TH ANNUAL CEDAR POLKA FEST: (See Thurs., June 21)

---------------------A MAD HATTER’S TEA PARTY: 1-3pm, Elk Rapids Town Hall. An afternoon of Barbershop music, food & tea, in the style of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Come dressed as your favorite Alice in Wonderland character. Listen to the Grand Traverse Show Chorus. $30/person. grandtraverseshowchorus.org

---------------------31ST ANNUAL CANCER PREVENTION & SURVIVORS PICNIC: 2-4pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center parking lot, TC. Also featuring a wellness fair. Enjoy food from the Sprout Café, learn how to reduce one’s risk of cancer, take a yoga class, & more. munsonhealthcare.org/ cancer-events

---------------------AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MINUTES OF MUSIC: 2pm, Northport Community Arts Center.

Featuring Northport Community Band & The Village Voices. $15; $5 students. northportcac.org

---------------------STORY & ART TOUR: 2:30pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Enjoy MI legends & lore with storyteller Jenifer Strauss. michlegacyartpark.org

---------------------THE BARBAROSSA BROTHERS: 7:30pm, Fountain Point Resort, Lake Leelanau. Enjoy “a unique blend of harmony-laden Americana, folkrock & knee-slapping, acoustic-driven fun.” $15/ adults, $5/under 16. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------WOLVERINE LUMBERJACK FESTIVAL: (See Fri., June 22)

---------------------SUMMER SUNSETS VESPERS CONCERTS: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. Featuring Living Legacy: A Celebration of Kelly Hale. $17.50 non-members. bayviewassociation.org/vesper

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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., 6pm-9pm, Downtown Boyne City. Featuring traditional folk, bluegrass, jazz & rock music. Special activities include magicians, caricature artists, facepainters & balloon-twisters. boynecitymainstreet.com

---------------------THE HONOR RIDE: Mondays, 9am. Presented by the Cherry Capital Cycling Club. Meet at Honor Village Park, across from the Honor Plaza. Choose from 25-30 miles or 35-50 miles. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

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

“EARTH, WIND, WATER”: Twisted Fish Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Elk Rapids. Artist Jerry Gates, who has spent his life studying the texture, shape & composition of natural surroundings, will be the focus of this exhibit.

Runs through June 24. twistedfishgallery.com

“PORTRAITS IN MICHIGAN”: The works of 27 artists will be on display representing different approaches to the fine art of portraiture. On Mon., June 18 there will be a gallery talk by curator Sam Knecht on “The Strange Case of Ernesta”

by Cecilia Beaux, & a portrait demo will take place in the gallery at 1pm. Runs through July 14 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.com

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

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

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

---------------------ARTIST OF THE MONTH: MARY KAY BURBEE: The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. This exhibit runs through June. Mon. - Sat.: 9a-5pm; Sun.: 12-5pm. thebotanicgarden.org/events

---------------------OAC EXHIBITION: Artists Beth Bynum, Cynthia Foley & Sarah Innes will display their multi-media work through July 13. An artists’ talk will be held on Sat., June 23 at 1pm. Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.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

---------------------MONSTER FISH: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST RIVER GIANTS: A Major Exhibition of National Geographic. Runs June 17 - Oct. 7 at Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Dennos Museum hours: Mon.-Sat.: 10am-5pm; Thurs.: 10am8pm; & Sun.: 1-5pm. The Museum Members opening will be held on Sat., June 16 at 7pm; Dr. Zeb Hogan will speak about the exhibition at 8pm. $15. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA JURIED SUMMER SALON SHOW: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gallery, TC. Featuring about 230 pieces by many top oil painters. An opening reception will be held on Fri., June 22 from 5-7pm. Runs through Sept. 1. crookedtree.org/

---------------------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. 8. crookedtree.org

CHRISTINA AGUILERA RETURNS TO THE ROAD Hot off of the heels of her duet with Demi Lovato at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards, Christina Aguilera is returning to the road for her first big tour in over a decade.

Aguilera will support her upcoming album, Liberation (Lovato and Aguilera performed “Fall in Line” from that album at the awards show), with a tour kicking off on Sept. 25.

Tickets are on sale now; each one purchased will include a copy of the album, which was partially produced by Kanye West. Aguilera will hit 22 cities this fall, with more expected; already confirmed are stops in Washington, D.C. (Sept. 30), NYC (Oct. 3–4), Boston (Oct. 8), Detroit (Oct. 13), Chicago (Oct. 16–17), and Denver (Oct.19) …

Bumbershoot is bumber-back this year in Seattle with its 2018 lineup mostly announced. This year’s fest will take place over Labor Day weekend (Aug. 31– Sept. 2) with headliners including The Chainsmokers, Portugal. The Man, J. Cole, and SZA, plus additional sets from Cold War Kids, Phoenix, Ludacris, and Blondie. Also returning is Dana Point, California’s Ohana Festival, which will run Sept. 28–30 this year with performances from Norah Jones, Amos Lee, Mumford and Sons, Beck, and Eric Church …

Pharrell Williams and Camila Cabello

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have teamed up for a new duet called “Sangria Wine,” a summery, salsa-inspired number that features vocal banter and Cabello singing in both English and Spanish. Cabello initially debuted the track live during her headlining tour earlier this spring, and the pair then performed the tune together, live, at the recent Billboard Music Awards. Cabello is back on the road as one of the opening acts on Taylor Swift’s current Reputation tour …

Interview Magazine, the publication founded by Andy Warhol and known for its in-depth interviews with actors, celebrities, and musicians like Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Fleet Foxes, Solange Knowles, and Ed Droste (Grizzly Bear), has gone through its troubles over the years, relaunching itself in 1990 and 2008, but now it appears to have shut down for good after its former editorial director resigned and filed a lawsuit against the magazine and its company …

LINK OF THE WEEK P!nk has added more dates to her big Beautiful Trauma world tour; she’s now tacked on nearly 40 more dates across the U.S. and Canada for the first quarter of 2019, including a two-night stand in Detroit as a makeup date for her postponed 2018 shows. Check out all the dates and the latest on P!nk at her official website, pinkspage.com …

THE BUZZ Detroit rapper/producer Tony Khnanisho, aka Tony K, has just released a new single called “Run,” which Tony said was inspired by the likes of J Dilla and Eminem …

Detroit indie-rock band JR JR (formerly known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.) has returned; it hosted a free concert in Detroit’s Beacon Park June 16 …

Detroit native Michael Jackson has had a street named after him in the Motor City.

The stretch of Randolph Street between

Madison Street and Gratiot Avenue will now be known as ‘Michael Jackson Avenue’ …

Grand Rapids’ St. Cecilia Music Center’s Royce Auditorium Jazz Series starts in November, with performances from Arturo Sandoval, Kenny barron, Joey DeFrancesco, and the Benny Green Trio … 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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11TH ANNUAL ABOVE THE BRIDGE SONGWRITERS RETREATS Curtis, Michigan - Where Songs Are Waiting To Be Written By You! Workshops | Electives | Open Mic Time | Song Circles | Consultations Beautiful Lodging & Delicious Food Session One June 14-17 Workshop Leaders: John Latini, Jen Sygit, Siusan O’Rourke, Jamie-Sue Seal, and Ken Hardley

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FOURSCORE by kristi kates

Trampled by Turtles – Life is Good on the Open Road – Banjodad

All six members of TBT took a trek out to a cabin in the woods of Minnesosta to construct this album, which leans heavily on their bluegrass roots and doesn’t really make any strides toward growth or change.

Their fans are more than likely fine with that, as they’re of a different audience segment than say, that of the Avett Brothers, so these reassuring sounds are exactly as expected. Still, it can’t be denied: The stoic same-old-same-old of tracks like “The Middle� and “I Went to Hollywood� simply mean that they’re keeping themselves — and their fans — at the status quo.

The Sea and Cake – Any Day – Bighit Thrill Jockey

Guitars weave and bob like miniature boxers throughout The Sea and Cake’s songs, a thread that the Chicago band has pulled across each of its 11 albums. Floating on top are delicate melodies and subtle arrangements that draw the ear in, in layers. Back in fine form for this set, The Sea and Cake delivers calm, even progression and hushed cymbals in the arresting “Paper Window,� jazz flourishes on “Day Moon,� and carefully messy stanzas of the ubercatchy single “I Should Care.�

Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed – Secretly Canadian

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Jurado shares a remarkable amount of detail with listeners on his latest collection of songs, simultaneously a very personal effort and one in which he outlines a series of characters shuffled across additional storylines.

It’s his first self-produced set, so that’s perhaps why he invites these “others� along with him for the trek.

Either way, they make for striking presences in this collection of acoustic folk-rock, from the soulful vibe that welcomes in “Dear Thomas Wolfe� to the namesake bandleader in “Percy Faith.�

Horse Feathers – Appreciation – Kill Rock Stars

Indie folk outfit Horse Feathers, fronted by singer Justin Ringle, gets soulful on its latest collection of tracks, the band’s fifth album and perhaps the one on which its shown the most growth. Appreciation is still rooted in the folk sound that Horse Feathers started with, but unlike the static unmovement of TBT (see above) it seems to be reaching outward, seeking more upbeat elements to add a touch of glamour to tracks like “Don’t Mean to Pry� with its whirling violins, “Evictions� with its dancefloor fourbeat, and “On the Rise� with its self-assured melody.

The reel

by meg weichman

HEREDITARY american animals

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I don’t speak the language of horror movies.

Horror has never been my thing, and I usually avoid it at the theaters. But after Hereditary’s premiere at this year’s Sundance, where it was hailed as a game-changing and ultra-terrifying take on the genre, I had to see for myself not only what the hype was about but also just what could be so scary.

So was it scary? Well, not as much as I would’ve thought. But was it traumatic?

10/10. And was it brilliant? Completely.

This is not some disposable and formulaic genre exercise. Not the kind of horror film that relies on jump scares (though there were a few moments that caused me not only to jump but also to scream). No, this is something far more unsettling, something you won’t be able to shake — the cerebral horror of existential dread.

And for the horror-reticent, it also helps that that this is a film that is just as much a compelling portrait of family dynamics.

While you’re waiting for all the truly bizarre and creepy stuff to unfold, it slowly builds your fear by detouring into the realm of the prestige domestic drama, complete with Oscar-caliber performances. Think The Exorcist meets In the Bedroom.

Now what exactly is it about? It’s hard to say without destroying the film’s terror. But we meet the Graham family on the occasion of the funeral of their deeply private grandmother. Seems matriarch Annie (Toni Collette) let her formerly estranged mom back into their lives upon the birth of her second child, and dear Grandma took a very strange interest in raising the baby. And it’s made very clear she wasn’t the bakingcookies and squeezing-cheeks type.

That baby, daughter Charlie (Broadway’s Milly Shapirp), is now 13 and socially withdrawn. Something’s off about her, and the creepiness you instinctively feel is more than confirmed after Charlie cuts off a bird’s head and carries it around in her pocket.

Older brother Peter is your standard high schooler, wanting to smoke pot and get with the girl who sits in front of him in class. And then there’s father Steve (Gabriel Byrne), a well-intentioned guy who just wants to keep everything on an even keel.

So when tragedy unexpectedly strikes the family again, it’s not a question of bad luck but something more sinister. Then harbinger of evil, Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, The Leftovers), shows up at Annie’s support group, and that’s when you know stuff is gonna get dark.

he bored college kids in American Animals (which is a true story) planned and executed a heist, and it was a pretty daring one at that. In December 2004, they stole and then tried to fence rare books raided from a university library, but the plan went south, and they all ended up doing time in federal prison. Their story, one of hubris and overconfidence and the insatiable need to do something extraordinary, is an incredibly compelling one told incredibly well. Director Bart Layton wisely uses a cast of basically unknowns to tell this story. American Animals is a sort of docu-narrative, one where the real people involved provide talking-head interviews and even interact with the actors portraying them to provide context to a scene. It’s a wonderfully sly way of getting us to understand where each of these young men were coming from and why they made the choices they did. At first they tell their stories like they’re catching up an old friend, but as the film goes on, their contriteness becomes palpable. You’re never quite rooting for them, but you can sort of see where they’re coming from.

American Animals links traditional storytelling and whip-smart narrative touches to a truly bizarre (but not all that unsurprising) American crime. Presented as a straight documentary, the “Transy Book Heist” would make for compelling viewing. But told the way it has been here, blending voices and styles in ways you’ve likely never seen before, makes it one of the best movies you’ll see in some time.

I will clue you in that there are séances and spirits, but the scariness is ultimately more psychological than supernatural. Dark family secrets come to light, surreal waking nightmares unfold, and people with deep pain and hurt express it in profoundly true and upsetting ways.

At the center is Toni Collette’s astounding performance. Annie is an acclaimed miniature artist, and throughout the film she crafts some truly disturbing tableaus as she processes the death of her mother and their complicated relationship in ways we can only interpret as a representation of her memories and deteriorating mental state. And the miniatures are used to haunting visual and symbolic effect. These doll houses, along with the film’s use of doll house framing, gives us a very deliberate perspective as all-knowing observers of the characters’ powerlessness to avoid their fates.

And while Collette is deservedly getting the bulk of the acclaim (just watch her talk about a particular incident involving paint thinner, and you’ll understand), Alex Wolff (previously best known for Nickelodeon’s The Naked Brothers Band) is also phenomenal, and his work in the film’s final, devastating moments, brings it all home.

In one heck of a stunning debut feature, director Ari Aster’s detailed and deliberate stylization is never style over substance.

The cinematography is a marvel, and every shot, every camera move, is exquisitely and meticulously controlled.

When you first experience the Graham’s home, it seems like the kind of perfectly decorated craftsman dream you’d like to move into. But then atmosphere takes hold, the dread weighs on you, and you wonder where this is all going.

And where it goes in its closing act will not only leave you with questions but also leave you breathless (literally and figuratively — your heart rate will soar). You’ll want to watch again to unravel all of its mysteries but at the same time, you also never ever want to watch or think about it again.

Disturbing and intense, the chilling tragedy of Hereditary will forever change the way you hear a person make a cluck noise with their mouth. And there’s really no higher praise than that.

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

solo: a star wars story

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an Solo was the never the golden boy of Star Wars, and this certainly isn’t going to be the best film to ever war in the stars. But Han was always the fan favorite, the roguish, devil–may-care dreamboat who got all the best lines and got to have fun. And this is a film that is entirely for the fandom.

Anyone who know anything about Star Wars knows Han made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, and now, for whatever it’s worth, we not only can understand what the heck that means, but actually see it. Set after the events of Revenge of the Sith and before A New Hope, this is ostensibly Han’s origin story, but thankfully it doesn’t spend too much time in boring origin territory. Because for such a beloved character, his origins prove pretty underwhelming. Instead we get what is essentially a classic heist film, as Han joins up with a criminal crew that includes the hometown girl that got away (Emilia Clarke), to steal a bunch of coaxium (needed for hyperspace) for an evil space mobster (Paul Bettany). And of course there are lots of familiar faces to be found. We see Han and Chewie’s meet-cute, and Han crosses paths with the notorious gambler and cape-wearer Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover). Director Ron Howard brings us old fashioned storytelling and fun B-movie flair. It’s totally competent and enjoyable, and there’s something comforting in that. Yet, it doesn’t entirely convince us that this film needed to exist. But when places next to the rest of this summer’s uninspired blockbuster offerings, it’s hard to argue against it.

Book club

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mainstream Hollywood film staring actresses well over 40 (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen) that acknowledges their sexual desires and inner lives, well, that’s something that should be celebrated.

And that it’s also a film that frankly addresses concerns about aging in such an entertaining way, well, that’s practically a miracle. It’s the story of four lifelong friends who get their proverbial grooves back after selecting "50 Shades of Grey" for their book club. Sure there’s requisite Viagra jokes, but what it’s really about is how the book stirs something in the women that inspires them to make changes, take risks, and go after things. And it’s also smarter than you think, a film where there’s a brilliant Werner Herzog joke of all things. While this is by no means great cinema, I can’t even tell you what a hoot it was and how much the audience enjoyed themselves. The script is a little stilted at times, but when these grand ladies are allowed to do their thing despite the formulaic and clichéd proceedings, just try and not be utterly charmed by this most pleasing of crowd-pleasers.

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska BAYVIEW INN BAR & GRILL, WILLIAMSBURG 6/16 -- Tim Thayer, 7 CHATEAU CHANTAL, TC Thu -- Jazz at Sunset w/ Jeff Haas Trio, Claudia Schmidt, Laurie Sears & Watercolorist Lisa Flahive, 7-9:30 CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE, TC 6/20 -- Lighting Matches, 5 FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close GT DISTILLERY, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 HOTEL INDIGO, BAY BAR, TC 6/16 -- Matthew T. McCalpin, 7-10 6/22 -- Chris Sterr, 7-10 6/23 -- Clinton Lake, 7-10 KILKENNY'S, TC 6/15-16 – One Hot Robot 6/22-23 – Honesty & Liars Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 Sun. -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 6/18 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 6/22 -- PPM, 6-8 LITTLE BOHEMIA FAMILY TAVERN, TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 Weds. – Rock ‘n Rides w/ Blair Miller, 6-8 Thurs. -- The Duges, 7-9

PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30 ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 6/22 -- Miriam Pico, 6-9 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 STREETERS, TC 6/22 -- Geoff Tate: 30th Anniversary of Best-Selling Rock Concept Album, 8 6/23 -- Andre Drummond of The Detroit Pistons: Club Host w/ Live Performance w/ DJ Rickey T, 8 LOUIE LOUIE: Fri,Sat -- Dueling Pianos, 7 STUDIO ANATOMY, TC 6/16 -- Comedy Night, 9 TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 6/16 -- Arianna Duo, 8-10 6/19 -- Turbo Pup, 8-10 6/22 -- Rob Coonrod, 8-10 6/23 -- E Minor Trio, 8-10 THE DISH CAFE, TC 6/18 – Open Mic Music w/ Chris Michels, 6:30 Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7 THE PARLOR, TC 6/16 -- Jim Hawley & Co., 8 6/19 -- Clint, 8 6/20 -- Wink Solo, 8 6/22 -- Dave Crater, 8 6/23 -- John Sanger, 8

Emmet & Cheboygan BEARDS BREWERY, PETOSKEY 6/16 -- Adam Hoppe, 9 6/17 -- Charlie Millard, 6-9 6/20 -- Timothy Monger, 8-11 6/22 -- Charlie Millard Band, 9 6/24 -- Celtic & Traditional Irish Players, 6-9

THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 6/16 -- Charlie Millard Band, 8 6/20 -- Jazz Society Jam, 6 6/22 -- Bigfoot Buffalo, 8 6/24 -- The Steel Wheels, 8 DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2

UNION STREET STATION, TC 6/16 -- Groovement, 10 6/17 -- Karaoke, 10 6/18 -- Jukebox, 10 6/19 -- TC Comedy Collective, 8-9:30; then Open Mic w/ Host Matt McCalpin 6/20 -- 2 Bays DJs, 10 6/21 -- The Brothers Crunch, 10 6/22 -- Happy Hour/ Harvey Wallbangers, then The MacPodz & Soul Patch, 5 6/23 -- DJ DomiNate, 10 6/24 -- Head for the Hills Live Show, then Karaoke, 5

HOP LOT BREWING CO., SUTTONS BAY 6/16 -- Chris Michels Band, 6-9 6/22 -- E Minor Trio, 6-9 6/23 -- New Third Coast, 6-9

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WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN RESORT, TC 6/16 -- Wild Sullies on The Patio, 6-10; DJ Motaz at View, 10-2 6/19 – Sweetwater Blues on The Patio, 7-9:30 6/20 -- David Chown at View, 5-7; Jeff Haas Trio on The Patio, 7-9:30 6/21 -- Ron Getz & Chris Sterr on The Patio, 6-9 6/22 -- Funkamatic on The Patio, 6-10; DJ Keller at View, 10-2 6/23 -- Weekend Comeback on The Patio, 6-10; DJ Motaz at View, 10-2

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“Jonesin” Crosswords "Triple 8"

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ACROSS 1 Came up 6 Minor argument 10 Die spots 14 Cholesterol drug with the generic version Simvastatin 15 Animal in two constellations 16 Mental concoction 17 One-eighty 18 Boxing Day baby, astrologically 20 Defunct newspaper from North Carolina’s state capital 22 Pencil end 23 ___ el hanout (North African spice mix) 24 Distorted 27 Leb. neighbor 28 Greek column style 31 You, to Shakespeare 32 Crankcase component for engine fluids 34 Get a little froggy?

35 Certain Winter Olympics squad, as spelled in some countries 38 City with a Witch Museum 39 The great outdoors 40 “Toy Story” kid 41 Try to buy 42 Work at a grocery store, perhaps 45 Music collection often stored in a tower 46 Directional suffix 47 Place to change before swimming 50 Compare pros and cons 53 Easy swimming target, slangily 56 Word before paper or metal 57 Charismatic glow 58 Reverberation 59 City between Jacksonville and Tampa 60 Seasonal employee 61 Put a halt to 62 Pied ___ (“Silicon Valley” company)

DOWN

1 Sky-blue shades 2 Hub traffic circle 3 Eye-related 4 Tender spots 5 Basement apartment resident at 123 Sesame Street 6 “No ___ luck!”

7 Backside before a fall?

8 Having as a goal 9 Airport runway 10 “___ or it didn’t happen!”

11 Altar-ed statement?

12 Part of MPG 13 ___ Jacinto 19 -y, pluralized 21 Bobby Flay’s milieu 24 Exclamation often misspelled with the second letter at the end 25 Be nomadic 26 ___ it up 29 Show starter 30 Water nymph, in mythology 31 Yew, for example 32 Mind 33 Philosopher’s suffix 34 Midpoint, for short 35 Group in the pit 36 Carmaker Ransom 37 Intuition 38 Alveolus, e.g.

41 Pays off 42 Undeserved reputation 43 “Hurry up!,” in Spanish 44 He brought the frankincense 46 Startled sound 48 Storyteller with morals 49 Italian lawn bowling 50 Make a present presentable?

51 “___! Cherry-O” (kids’ board game) 52 Corvette roof option 53 Took a load off 54 Shade 55 Robotic factory piece

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Fort Noxious

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: My friend is obsessed with dating models.

Of course, because he’s dating mostly based on looks, these relationships rarely last. He says that he’s trying to move up in the business world and that being seen with a beautiful woman makes a difference in how he’s perceived. Wouldn’t businesspeople be more impressed if he could keep a relationship going, even if it were with a plainer woman?

— Discerning Dude

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: The problem with dating largely based on looks is that you tend to end up with the sort of woman who’s frequently hospitalized for several days: “I was thinking so hard I dislocated my shoulder.”

However, your friend isn’t wrong; arm candy appears to be the Prada handbag of male competition. Research by social psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues suggests that a man’s being accompanied by a modelicious woman functions as a “hard-to-fake” signal of his status, as beautiful women “have the luxury of discriminating among a plethora of suitors.”

In the Winegard team’s experiments, men paired with attractive women were consistently rated as higher in status than the very same men when they were paired with unattractive women. In one part of the study, some men were assigned an attractive female partner.

The men were told that they’d be conducting a survey out on campus with her and that they “were to act as if they and their assigned partner were in a happy relationship.”

These men were forced to choose between a group of men and a group of women to survey (and thus flaunt their hot female partner to). Interestingly, almost 70 percent of these guys chose to flaunt to other men. This isn’t surprising, considering how, as the researchers note, men are “largely” the ones who determine one another’s status (within a group of men).

Of course, a man’s being seen as high-status by other men is ultimately a path to mo’ better babes -- so your friend may basically be getting a twofer by showing off to other dudes.

The reality is, once he’s more established, his priority may shift from needing a signal to wanting a partner. At that point, he may come to see the beauty in the sort of woman who has something on her mind -- uh, besides a $200 double-process blond dye job and $600 in hair extensions.

: I’m a straight guy in my 30s with pretty strong body odor. I saw your column about how more men are doing body hair trimming.

I remember you saying not to remove all the hair, and I don’t want women to suspect I’m gay.

However, I’m wondering whether shaving my pits would help with my BO. — Pepe Le Pew

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: When a woman you meet can’t stop thinking about you, ideally her thought isn’t, “Could there be a small dead animal making its home in his armpit?”

Underarm stink comes from a specialized sweat gland. Your body has two kinds of sweat glands, eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine glands are the air conditioners of the body, producing sweat that’s pretty much just salty water to cool us off. Apocrine glands, on the other hand, are scent glands, found mostly in the armpits and groin and around the nipples. And sorry, this is gross: Any smelliness emanating from the apocrine areas comes not from the sweat itself but from bacteria that move in to lunch on it.

So -- intuitively -- it seems like shaving that pit hair (removing it entirely versus just trimming it) would make a difference, giving the bacteria far less of a, um, dining area. Unfortunately, the studies on this are problematic -- with too-small sample sizes (meaning too few participants to know whether the findings reflect reality or are simply due to chance). One of the studies was done not by independent researchers working out of a university lab but by five researchers employed by a multinational company that sells razors and shaving products. This doesn’t necessarily mean their results are skeevy.

However, a finding like “Let that armpit hair grow wild and free and wave in the wind like summer grain!” is probably not the stuff career advancement is made of at a company selling hair removal products.

Also, as you suspect, shaved pits on a straight man (one who isn’t an Olympic swimmer or a serious body builder) may lead women to suspect he is gay or some body-obsessed narcissist. If you do decide to try pit-shaving, in summer heat, you might forgo tank tops and wear shirts with loose short sleeves. And when you’re about to get naked with a woman, see that you pre-allay her fears. Explain that the shaving thing is merely about getting the hideodorousness under control -- not getting into a skin-tight dress, a ginormous platinum wig, and a 14-foot boa in “don’t f*ck with me!” fuchsia.

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(May 21-June 20): Playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Four of his works were essential in earning that award: the play Waiting for Godot, and the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. Beckett wrote all of them in a two-year span during the late 1940s. During that time, he was virtually indigent. He and his companion Suzanne survived on the paltry wage she made as a dressmaker. We might draw the conclusion from his life story that it is at least possible for a person to accomplish great things despite having little money. I propose that we make Beckett your role model for the coming weeks, Gemini. May he inspire you to believe in your power to become the person you want to be no matter what your financial situation may be.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the

Georgian language, shemomechama is a word that literally means “I ate the whole thing.” It refers to what happens when you’re already full, but find the food in front of you so delicious that you can’t stop eating. I’m concerned you might soon be tempted to embark on metaphorical versions of shemomechama. That’s why I’m giving you a warning to monitor any tendencies you might have to get too much of a good thing. Pleasurable and productive activities will serve you better if you stop yourself before you go too far.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Please do not

send me a lock of your hair or a special piece of your jewelry or a hundred dollar bill. I will gladly cast a love spell in your behalf without draining you of your hard-earned cash. The only condition I place on my free gift is that you agree to have me cast the love spell on you and you alone. After all, your love for yourself is what needs most work. And your love for yourself is the primary magic that fuels your success in connecting with other people. (Besides, it’s bad karma to use a love spell to interfere with another person’s will.) So if you accept my conditions, Pisces, demonstrate that you’re ready to receive my telepathic love spell by sending me your telepathic authorization.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my

analysis of the astrological omens, you have cosmic permission to enjoy extra helpings of waffles, crepes, pancakes, and blintzes.

Eating additional pastries and doughnuts is also encouraged. Why? Because it’s high time for you to acquire more ballast. You need more gravitas and greater stability.

You can’t afford to be top-heavy; you must be hard to knock over. If you would prefer not to accomplish this noble goal by adding girth to your butt and gut, find an alternate way.

Maybe you could put weights on your shoes and think very deep thoughts.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): ): You’re slipping into the wild heart of the season of discovery. Your curiosity is mounting. Your listening skills are growing more robust. Your willingness to be taught and influenced and transformed is at a peak. And what smarter way to take advantage of this fertile moment than to decide what you most want to learn about during the next three years? For inspiration, identify a subject you’d love to study, a skill you’d eagerly stretch yourself to master, and an invigorating truth that would boost your brilliance if you thoroughly embodied it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest you

ignore the temptation to shop around for new heroes and champions. It would only distract you from your main assignment in the coming weeks, which is to be more of a hero and champion yourself.

Here are some tips to guide you as you slip beyond your overly modest self-image and explore the liberations that may be possible when you give yourself more credit. Tip #1: Finish outgrowing the old heroes and champions who’ve served you well. Tip #2: Forgive and forget the disappointing heroes and hypocritical champions who betrayed their own ideals. Tip #3: Exorcise your unwarranted admiration for mere celebrities who might have snookered you into thinking they’re heroes or champions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A waterfall would be

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more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Normally, I would dismiss an idea like this, even though it’s funny and I like funny ideas. Normally, I would regard such a negative assessment of the waterfall’s true nature, even in

jest, to be unproductive and enfeebling. But none of my usual perspectives are in effect as I evaluate the possibility that Wilde’s declaration might be a provocative metaphor for your use in the coming weeks. For a limited time only, it might be wise to meditate on a waterfall that flows the other way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stage magicians

may seem to make a wine glass hover in midair, or transform salt into diamonds, or make doves materialize and fly out of their hands. It’s all fake, of course -- tricks performed by skilled illusionists. But here’s a twist on the old story: I suspect that for a few weeks, you will have the power to generate effects that may, to the uninitiated, have a resemblance to magic tricks -except that your magic will be real, not fake. And you will have worked very hard to accomplish what looks easy and natural.

And the marvels you generate will, unlike the illusionists’, be authentic and useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks

will be a favorable time to accentuate and brandish the qualities that best exemplify your Libran nature. In other words, be extreme in your moderation. Be pushy in your attempts to harmonize. Be bold and brazen as you make supple use of your famous balancing act. I’ll offer you a further piece of advice, as well. My first astrology teacher believed that when Librans operate at peak strength, their symbol of power is the iron fist in the velvet glove: power expressed gracefully, firmness rendered gently. I urge you to explore the nuances of that metaphor.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If I were your

mom, I’d nudge you out the door and say, “Go play outside for a while!” If I were your commanding officer, I’d award you a shiny medal for your valorous undercover work and then order you to take a frisky sabbatical. If I were your psychotherapist, I would urge you to act as if your past has no further power to weigh you down or hold you back, and then I would send you out on a vision quest to discover your best possible future. In other words, my dear Scorpio, I hope you will flee your usual haunts. Get out of the loop and into the open spaces that will refresh your eyes and heart.

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

education classes at some high schools employ a dramatic exercise to illustrate the possible consequences of engaging in heterosexual lovemaking without using birth control.

Everywhere they go for two weeks, students must carry around a 10-pound bag of flour. It’s a way for them to get a visceral approximation of caring for an infant. I recommend that you find or create an equivalent test or trial for yourself in the coming days. As you consider entering into a deeper collaboration or making a stronger commitment, you’ll be wise to undertake a dress rehearsal.

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

of the Dull Men’s Club celebrate the ordinary.

“Glitz and glam aren’t worth the bother,” they declare. “Slow motion gets you there faster,” they pontificate. Showing no irony, they brag that they are “born to be mild.” I wouldn’t normally recommend becoming part of a movement like theirs, but the next two weeks will be one of those rare times when aligning yourself with their principles might be healthy and smart. If you’re willing to explore the virtues of simple, plain living, make the Swedish term lagom your word of power. According to the Dull Men’s Club, it means “enough, sufficient, adequate, balanced, suitable, appropriate.”

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