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“So what?” you say, “It’s not our fault!”

Then who’s at fault? This is not a takeit-or-leave-it drug like Viagra; this drug is life-saving and Mrs. Hypothetical couldn’t afford it. So let’s put the blame where it belongs: on greedy pharmaceutical companies and overpaid executives; insurance companies’ restrictions; high co-pays; and excessive profit motives in the health care industry. Problems include lack of regulation (dreaded “R” word) and our do nothing, dysfunctional, bought and paid for Republican Congress who will not intervene when it comes to obscene drug prices. So to all you anti-regulation conservatives out there: Stray off the trail, get stung, and experience firsthand what it’s all about.

W.D.Bushey, Elmwood Township

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WRC: A Culture of Change

Per the recent article and the letter to the editor, I am concerned about the negativity being spewed about the Women’s Resource Center. Whenever there is a culture of change, there is a negative reaction from people who prefer to remain at the status quo. In this agency, like many other nonprofits, controversy abounds whether the changes are positive or negative.

By bringing in an “outsider” such as CEO Juliette Schultz (i.e., not from the good ol’ boys’/girls’ network), there has been controversy and problems from disgruntled workers and disgruntled community members. But Juliette has done excellent work by focusing on changing this culture and employing quality staff dedicated to the mission.

In order to keep the Center viable, programs not related to domestic violence have been evaluated, as should be. Examining the short-term use of grants as ineffective for long-term survivability, the current

administration is seeking ways to increase funding while keeping the doors open for a Center that has had fiscal problems.

So instead of adding to the dysfunction of victimization, I hope that we can all work together to keep this important agency solvent. And it is beyond time to embrace the culture of change that Juliette, the Board, and employees are focusing on to make this a healthy agency, but more importantly, to help victims of abuse recognize that they need to move beyond surviving (victimization) to thrive.

Dr. Carol Anderson, D.Min., ACSW, LMSW, Traverse City

Yay Profit…Forget Regulation

On an August Saturday in 2015 my wife and I hiked Clay Cliffs. Returning to the car my wife veered off the path to photograph wildflowers. This proved to be a very bad idea as she was swarmed by bees, suffering several stings. Arriving at the car she was getting weak and disoriented. It was 2:30; Urgent Care and Hometown Pharmacy in Suttons Bay closed at 3:00. Both stayed with us 1.5 hours past closing time to help. Very grateful to Dr. Lemak, his staff, and Pharmacist Ned for patiently dealing with the insurance company. If you are wondering where this is going, be patient, and when hiking trails, stay on the path.

We purchased an EpiPen kit for $450, but with insurance, we were “only” $80 out of pocket.

Another scenario: A hypothetical couple was enjoying Clay Cliffs trails. Same bee sting.

Wife went into anaphylactic shock. Both are unemployed and have no insurance; seeking expensive drugs was out of the question.

She went home. Funeral services for Mrs. Hypothetical are Thursday at the Church of the Holy Skeptic.

Earlier this year when I learned of the formation of the Leelanau Peninsula Economic Foundation( LPEF) Technology Committee I jumped at the chance to get involved in helping to develop a broadband plan for our county. I was astonished at hearing stories about students sitting in library parking lots after library hours to finish school assignments because internet was not available at home.

The problem goes beyond the convenience of streaming videos to the necessity of “keeping up” and offering our residents the services we all deserve. Very simply put...Leelanau County is at a disadvantage.

Our businesses suffer and our children and residents don’t have the advantages others enjoy.

There is a critical survey underway to gather data to build a case for enhanced broadband access for the entire peninsula. The more surveys that are completed the richer the data will be and the stronger the business case will be. The survey can be accessed here: http://connectmycommunity.org/Leelanaupeninsula/ Mary Ann Borton, Lake Leelanau

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

WVBI Radio: The Voice of Little Beaver Island....10 Bike Share North...............................................11 Star Light, Star Bright.......................................13 Shrine of the Pines..........................................15 If You Seek A Pleasant Peninsula......................16 Seen.................................................................22

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Spectator/Stephen Tuttle...................................6 News of the Weird/Chuck Shepherd....................8 Style.................................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates.................................24 Advice Goddess..............................................28 Crossword.....................................................29 Freewill Astrology...........................................30 Classifieds......................................................31

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WHAT YOUR POLITICAL LAWN SIGN SAYS ABOUT YOU opinion

By Mark Pontoni Only two months remain until another important election. Soon we will be inundated with mailers, phone calls (from live people and robots), TV ads, and the most ubiquitous election imposition of them all: the yard sign.

In many ways, yard signs are the only honest weapons candidates have during their campaigns. If you see a yard sign, three things happen. First, you now know a name that will be on the ballot (which comes in handy when you show up the voting booth with no idea for

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whom to vote. Just pick the name you remember).

Second, you can see who your neighbors are voting for and decide if you will vote the same or the opposite of them, based on the neighbor.

Finally, if you already know something about the candidates, you now know something about your neighbors you didn’t before.

It’s this final point I find the most intriguing.

When a person displays a yard sign, it’s a public declaration of their political views. Putting yourself out there in these angry times can be very risky. For years we lived on the road leading

into the school where my wife works. She refused to display yard signs in fear of compromising her passion to be viewed as objective in the classroom. So when a person takes the leap and puts signs out, they are willing to convey something to the community. In many cases, however, what a person is trying to convey is not what the neighbors end up thinking.

As a public service to anyone considering putting up a yard sign, I present a handy guide of what you are trying to say versus what you are actually saying.

What you are trying to say

What your neighbors think

Hillary Clinton (D)

Things in our country are not that bad. Clinton will carry on the improvements President Obama has managed to accomplish despite a hostile Congress. I am proud to vote for our first female President (though why in 2016 this is still a big deal is quite the mystery).

I had no idea my neighbor wanted to take my guns. I had no idea they like a woman who kills everyone who gets in her way. Benghazi!

Donald Trump (R)

Our country has gone to hell under our halfblack President. Minorities are taking over everything. Only Donald Trump can restore our rightful place at the top.

Are my neighbors really that stupid? Donald Trump is a one-trick carnival act. No one can seriously think he should be President. I wonder if I need to move?

Jack Bergman (R)

I want my guns. No more taxes. None. Don’t tread on me.

Doesn’t Bergman live in Louisiana?

Lon Johnson (D)

The First was a Democratic district for a long time. Dan Benishek shamed northern Michigan.

It’s time to put a Democrat back in Washington.

Doesn’t Johnson live in Chicago? Or is it Detroit?

Phil Bellfy (D)

We can’t take two more years of Chatfield in the 107th. Phil is so strong on the environment and Native American issues. He will work hard for us.

Phil who?

Lee Chatfield (R)

I love God. Lee loves God. I believe God hates homosexuals. I believe Lee hates homosexuals.

Oh no…another holy roller in the neighborhood. Will our property values tank?

Larry Inman (R)

Michigan is doing great. Rick Snyder has delivered. We need to make sure Snyder can finish what he started.

Inman? Did he really have Snyder campaign for him? Maybe Larry didn’t hear about the Flint water crisis. Can anyone really be that out of touch?

Betsy Coffia (D)

Betsy is amazing. She organized a fantastic Bernie Sanders effort in northern Michigan.

She is the most genuinely dedicated political person I have ever met. Go Betsy!

Sanders? Really?

Wyatt Knight (D)

Education is really important. Wyatt is committed to fixing our broken system that the GOP has created. Enough is enough!

Wyatt who?

Tristan Cole (R)

I want my guns. I need my guns. Guns.

Shouldn’t our rep be able to spell education?

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Get those signs in the ground and let the neighborhood chatter begin.

You can read more of Mark Pontoni’s thoughts on education, politics, sports, and family at www.thegrumblings.com.

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top five 1 HOCKEYTOWN NORTH OPENS Summer’s virtually behind us, and for Traverse City, that means its Red Wings time.

The 2016 NHL Prospect Tournament comes to Centre Ice beginning Friday, Sept.

16 and the Detroit Red Wings will introduce a group of 24 recent draft picks, free agent signees and tryouts who will compete against seven other NHL prospect teams for the Matthew Wuest Memorial Cup. In its 18 years, 522 players who have participated in the tournament have gone on to play at least one NHL game, and 24 of last season’s Red Wings team played in the Prospects Tournament at one time.

Prospects from the Carolina Hurricanes, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues will take part this year. Tickets are available for $10 per day and can be purchased at Centre Ice Arena or at www.centreice.org. Each ticket is good for all four games per day.

bottomsup Bee Well Meadery’s Antrim Apple Pie The VanSice family has lived in the Clam Lake/Lake Bellaire/Torch Lake region for six generations and has a long history of bottling the best out of that area’s beautiful natural resources.

Great-great grandfather Bailey, for one, used to sell water from a natural spring on the banks of Clam Lake.

Today, two VanSice brothers, Chris and Jeremy, carry on the family tradition with their Bee Well Meadery in Bellaire; additional VanSices (maintenance wizard Parker and marketing guru Paige) help keep the business running.

Bee Well Meadery has several highlights among their products, but one in particular stands out as a beverage ripe for fall: their Antrim Apple Pie Spiced Apple Honey Wine.

Bushels of apples from orchards near the Meadery, plus Madagascar vanilla beans, cinnamon from Sri Lanka, and honey harvested in Antrim County combine to create the liquid equivalent of a fresh-baked apple pie.

Find the sweet, sharp, and chilled beverage at festivals and events across the region, any of the 250-plus locations that carry it, or Bee Well Meadery’s new tasting room, which will make its debut within the next few weeks at 3533 Derenzy Rd. in Bellaire. 231-533-6323, beewellmeadery.com.

– Kristi Kates

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A non-competitive kayak event that offers paddlers the option to paddle one or two days, Fri. & Sat., Sept. 16-17, & go anywhere from 7 - 42 miles through Antrim County’s Chain of Lakes. Also included is a Kick-off Party on Thurs., Sept. 15 at the Ellsworth Community Park, a Final Bash at Short’s Brewing Co.’s Production Facility in Elk Rapids on Sat., Sept. 17, & more. This event raises money for the protection of the waterways & increasing accessibility to the waterways for all. paddleantrim.com

HIGHWAY PROJECT COMING TO MACKINAC Mackinac Island may see some horse and buggy detours this fall.

The Michigan Department of Transportation begins a $900,000 project to resurface 1.5 miles of M-185 through the city limits of Mackinac Island beginning Sept. 12. The project is expected to be completed by Nov. 15.

The project means sidewalk ramps in the city will be upgraded to adhere to Americans with Disabilities Act standards.

Pedestrian traffic will be maintained while the project is taking place with signs, detours and temporary sidewalk ramps. Some sections of M-185 will be closed to horse and buggy traffic for limited periods.

M-185 has the distinction of being the Photograph by Michael Barera only state highway in the United States that does not allow motorized vehicles. Residents passed a ban of the “horseless carriage” in 1898 because they were afraid the new machines would scare horses, according to Mackinac Island State Park Commission.

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by stephen tuttle Hurricane Hermine did more damage in Florida and along the eastern seaboard than it should have.

Which, finally, brings us to the second reason for the mounting costs of every storm, large or small. It is a decidedly self-inflicted wound.

There are two reasons, at least.

Nature was kind enough to offer some natural protection against high tides, storm surges and even rising sea levels. Coastal dunes provide a barrier that keeps most ocean water in the ocean and, if overrun, recover quickly.

Swamps and marshes help absorb storm waters and provide a shoreline buffer.

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That sea levels are rising does not seem to be in dispute. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), we’ve experienced an 8- to 10-inch sea-level rise in the last century, but the rate of rise is now increasing rapidly.

Gianturco has appeared on Oprah, CNN, NPR and in a 2014 Ted Talk.

Glaciers and ice caps continue melting, adding to the problem. Rising global temperatures — we’ve just gone through the 15 warmest months in history — expand ocean water, increasing sea levels.

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So, naturally, we drained the swamps and marshes for agriculture and housing. We bulldozed the dunes for condos and resorts.

We jammed all manner of things as close to the shoreline as we could.

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Once again we will see coastal states rebuilding exactly where destruction visits most frequently. Once again we’ll “restore” beaches and boardwalks and coastal highways. Once again people will build as close to the water as possible. And once again it will be wiped away by the next storm.

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Many coastal areas now experience flooding simply from high tides and minimal wind. According to the General Accountability Office (GAO), 31 native villages along Alaska’s coast and on coastal islands are in imminent danger of being inundated.

They will somehow have to move inland.

Sixty residents of a Louisiana island already have become the first official relocation refugees due to rising water.

Low-lying islands in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean are slowly being overtaken.

Areas of the world near or below sea level, like New Orleans or large chunks of the Netherlands, appear doomed over time. The NOAA claims the increasing rise in sea levels will put more than 13 million Americans at risk of being flooded out by 2100.

Internationally, the figures approach 1 billion people.

There is no way to determine if these projections, based on the last century of data and models for the future, will prove accurate. But there is no question that global temperatures are increasing, and sea levels are rising.

The vast majority of climate scientists see this as a human-made catastrophe, a result of our addiction to fossil fuels and the resultant greenhouse gasses. A few believe it is a natural climate cycle. We now have a presidential candidate who has said he believes the entire thing is some sort of plot by the Chinese to take away American jobs.

(Those who claim this is part of a natural cycle should pray they are wrong. We can undo what we’ve done, and slow or halt human-caused climate change. But natural climate cycles, about which we can do absolutely nothing, can last for centuries or millennia.)

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To those people most directly impacted, the cause is far less important than the effect. These rising tides lift all boats, and their homes.

We’ve done the same thing on our freshwater shores. Those closest to the water will see it creeping ever closer. Winter’s ice will be unforgiving.

When storms now come calling, there is little between them and people. Once again we will see coastal states rebuilding exactly where destruction visits most frequently. Once again we’ll “restore” beaches and boardwalks and coastal highways. Once again people will build as close to the water as possible. And once again it will be wiped away by the next storm.

We can believe whatever we want as to causation, but the debate won’t stop the water from rising. Perhaps we should start considering how we’re going to move a lot of people inland. And who’s going to pay for it.

The Biloxi-Chitimache-Choctaw band of about 60 people will be relocated from Isle De Jean Charles, about 50 miles south of New Orleans, to the mainland. Their island, which they farmed for at least a century, covered 15,000 acres as recently as the 1950s. Only 2 percent now remains above ground.

The federal government will spend $48 million to move them through a Housing and Urban Development grant.

The native people of Shishmaref, Alaska, haven’t been so lucky. They recently voted to vacate their island just south of the Arctic Circle on which they have lived for at least five centuries. They have no idea who will pay the nearly $200 million required for the move. It won’t be the 200 or so folks in Shishmaref, who live a subsistence life based on traditional hunting and fishing.

These are the canaries in the sea-level coal mine, not a conspiracy or a myth.

We can choose to ignore the rising water and keep rebuilding foolishly. But eventually it’s going to be plenty expensive moving all those people.

Crime & Rescue “UPSKIRT” PHOTOGRAPHER BUSTED A woman called police after she thought a clerk at a Suttons Bay store snapped photos with a cell phone pointed up her skirt.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies investigated and arrested an employee at Hansen’s Grocery Store, 30-year-old Traverse City resident Brandan James Sawyer.

Sawyer confessed in an interview, deputies said, and a forensic search of his phone turned up multiple “upskirt” photos of different victims and a photo of a woman in a bathroom in a Leelanau County home.

Sawyer was arrested Aug. 26 and charged with two felonies -- using a computer to commit a crime and capturing/distributing photos of an unclothed person.

Anyone who believes Sawyer victimized them should call police at (231) 256-8800.

RACECAR CRASHES INTO STANDS A racecar crashed through a fence and into bystanders, one of whom was seriously injured.

Missaukee County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Merritt Speedway after a 50-year-old Cadillac man crashed his racecar into a spectator, a ticket booth and three employees, Sheriff Jim Bosscher said.

A 31-year-old Muskegon woman was pinned inside the ticket booth. She needed to be extricated and was taken to a hospital in Grand Rapids in serious condition.

Two of the other people struck were treated at the scene; the driver was not injured. The driver told police that his accelerator got stuck. Deputies were called at 7:42pm Sept. 4.

EMPIRE BANK ROBBER WANTED Someone robbed an Empire bank at gunpoint.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said Huntington Bank on West Front Street was robbed at 1:33pm Sept. 7.

A man armed with a silver handgun and dressed in black with his face covered walked into the front door and demanded money. He carried an umbrella and a black backpack.

Once he was handed over some cash, the man fled through a back door and headed east on foot.

The man is a white male around 50 years old and six feet tall. Anyone with information should call police at (231) 256-8800.

BABY LEFT IN PARKING LOT A man apparently absent-mindedly left behind his child in a parking lot outside of a Benzie County Secretary of State office.

Employees at the Honor office found the 1-year-old in a car on the pavement seat and were able to identify the father, who was tracked down

by Benzie County Sheriff’s deputies.

The incident happened the morning of Sept.

7 and investigators believe it was an accident, but they nonetheless called Child and Family Services and said they would submit a report for the prosecutor to review.

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SPEEDING LEADS TO ARREST Police pulled over a man for speeding 10mph above the speed limit, arrested him for driving with a suspended license, and discovered he was drunk while he was being booked into the Leelanau County Jail.

Deputies pulled over the 41-year-old Traverse City man Sept. 5 at 8:49am on South Lake Leelanau Drive.

The man was arrested for second offense driving without a license, but at the jail the man’s actions appeared off and deputies determined he was intoxicated and added a drunk driving charge.

MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING A man was struck and killed by lightning while hiking on the North Country Trail through Manistee County.

Deputies said the 71-year-old Texas man was hiking to a cabin in Dickson Township when he was struck Sept. 6 as thunderstorms rolled through the area. He died at the scene.

LOGGER SCREAMS FROM WOODS A woman who called 911 when she heard someone screaming from the woods led police to an injured logger in Cheboygan County.

Deputies were dispatched Sept. 1 at 2:30pm to Mackinac Straits Drive in Benton Township where someone was screaming “help.”

They found a 68-year-old man trapped by a tree trunk.

Sheriff Dale Clarmont said the man was using a chainsaw to bring down a 30-foot-tall hardwood with a 15-inch diameter when the upper part of the tree fell and crushed the man’s foot.

Responders used the chain saw to cut away the tree and the man was taken to McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey.

MAN INJURED IN CRASH A 46-year-old Boyne City man suffered cuts to his face and back pain after he crashed his motorcycle.

Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies said alcohol was a factor in the crash, which happened when the driver lost control on a curve on Jaquay Road in Wilson Township. The man struck a tree and was taken to McLaren Northern Michigan for treatment.

Deputies said the man avoided more serious injury by wearing a helmet.

TIP LEADS TO POT ARREST Members of a Neighborhood Watch group in Cadillac spotted something suspicious and called police, leading police to break up a suspected drug deal.

Someone called police at 8:20pm Sept. 6 to report a suspicious car in an auto dealership.

An officer spotted the vehicle at a gas station and approached. While the officer questioned the occupants, he became suspicious and called in a drug sniffing dog who found marijuana.

Officers arrested an 18-yearold passenger admitted to just having purchased a bag of weed and another 18-year-old who was wanted on unrelated warrants.

TORCH LAKE CLAIMS MAN A 53-year-old man drowned when he swam into deep water to retrieve a toy.

Grand Rapids resident Steven Iwaniw was boating with family on Torch Lake when he struggled after swimming 20 feet into deep water and went under for 30 seconds, Kalkaska County Sheriff Pat Whiteford said.

A 10-year-old relative was able to pull Iwaniw to the surface and others helped Iwaniw back to shallow water and onto the boat where they began CPR, but the man was later pronounced dead at Kalkaska Memorial Health Center.

The incident happened at 5pm Sept. 4.

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These Shoes Weren’t Made for Walkin’ The upscale clothier Barneys New York recently introduced $585 “Distressed Superstar Sneakers” (from the high-end brand Golden Goose) that were purposely designed to look scuffed, well-worn and cobbledtogether, as if they were shoes recovered from a Dumpster. The quintessential touch was the generous use of duct tape on the bottom trim.

Critics were in abundance, accusing Barneys of mocking poverty.

News That Sounds Like a Joke (1) The British food artists Bompas & Parr are staging (through Oct. 30) a tribute to the late writer Roald Dahl by brewing batches of beer using yeast swabbed and cultured from a chair Dahl used and which has been on display at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, England. (2) A 16-year-old boy made headlines in August for being one of the rare survivors of an amoeba -- a braineating amoeba -- which he acquired diving into a pond on private property in Florida’s Broward County. (By popular legend, Floridians are believed to lack sufficient brain matter to satisfy amoebas!)

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Government in Action -- The Drug Enforcement Administration has schemed for several years to pay airline and Amtrak employees for tips on passengers who might be traveling with large sums of cash, so that the DEA can interview them -- with an eye toward seizing the cash under federal law if they merely “suspect” that the money is involved in illegal activity. A USA Today investigation, reported in August, revealed that the agency had seized $209 million in a decade, from 5,200 travelers who, even if no criminal charge results, almost never get all their money back (and, of 87 recent cash seizures, only two actually resulted in charges). One Amtrak employee was secretly paid $854,460 over a decade for snitching passenger information to the DEA. -- Update: In August, the Defense Department’s inspector general affirmed once again (following on 2013 disclosures) that the agency has little knowledge of where its money goes -- this time admitting that the Department of the Army had made $6.5 trillion in accounting “adjustments” that appeared simply to be made up out of thin air, just to get the books balanced for 2015.

(In part, the problem was laid to 16,000 financial data files that simply disappeared with no trace.) “As a result,” reported Fortune magazine, “there has been no way to know how the Defense Department -- far and away the biggest chunk of Congress’s annual budget -- spends the public’s money.”

Wait, What?

-- In August, the banking giant Citigroup and the communications giant AT&T agreed to end their two-month-long legal hostilities over AT&T’s right to have a customer service program titled “Thanks.” Citigroup had pointed out that it holds trademarks for customer service titles “thankyou,” “citi thankyou,” “thankyou from citi” and “thankyou your way,” and had tried to block the program name “AT&T Thanks.”

-- In July in the African nation of Malawi (on the western border of Mozambique), Eric Aniva was finally arrested -- but not before he had been employed by village

families more than 100 times to have ritual sex to “cleanse” recent widows -- and girls immediately after their first menstruation.

Aniva is one of several such sex workers known as “hyenas” (because they operate stealthily, at night), but Malawi president Peter Mutharika took action after reading devastating dispatches (reporting hyenas’ underage victims and Aniva’s HIV-positive status) in The New York Times and London’s The Guardian, among other news services.

-- The July 2012 Aurora, Colorado, theater shooter, James Holmes, is hardly wealthy enough to be sued, so 41 massacre victims and families instead filed against Cinemark Theater for having an unsafe premises, and by August 2016 Cinemark had offered $150,000 as a total settlement.

Thirty-seven of the 41 accepted, but four held out since the scaled payout offered only a maximum of $30,000 for the worstoff victims. Following the settlement, the judge, finding that Cinemark could not have anticipated Holmes’s attack, ruled for the theater -- making the four holdouts liable under Colorado law for Cinemark’s expenses defending against the lawsuit ($699,000).

Weird China -- Misunderstandings: (1) “Mr. L,” 31, a Chinese tourist visiting Dulmen, Germany, in July, went to a police station to report his stolen wallet, but signed the wrong form and was logged in as requesting asylum, setting off a bureaucratic nightmare that left him confined for 12 days at a migrant hostel before the error was rectified. (2) In August at a hospital in Shenyang, China, “Wang,” 29, awaiting his wife’s childbirth, was reported (by People’s Daily via Shanghaiist.com) to have allowed a nurse to wave him into a room for anesthesia and hemorrhoid surgery -- a procedure that took 40 minutes. (The hospital quickly offered to pay a settlement -- but insisted that, no matter his purpose at the hospital, he in fact had hemorrhoids, and they were removed.)

-- Evidently, many Chinese wives who suspect their husbands of affairs have difficulty in confronting them, for a profession has risen recently of “mistress dispellers” whose job instead is to contact the mistress and persuade her, sometimes through an elaborate ruse, to break off the relationship. For a fee (a New York Times dispatch said it could be “tens of thousands of dollars”), the dispeller will “subtly infiltrate the mistress’s life” and ultimately convince her to move on. A leading dispeller agency in Shanghai, translated as the “Weiqing International Marriage Hospital Emotion Clinic Group,” served one wife by persuading the mistress to take a higher-paying job in another city.

Ironies -- Flooding from rains in August tore down a basement wall of the Connellsville (Pennsylvania) Church of God, wrecking and muddying parts of the building and threatening the first-floor foundation, but under the policy written by the Church Mutual Insurance company, flooding damage is not covered, as rain is an “act of God.” (Church Mutual apparently uses a standard insurance industry definition and thus recognizes, contrary to some religious beliefs, that not everything is caused by God.)

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The WVBI team includes (front row) Kevin Boyle, Mo Abele, (back row) Mark Beltaire and Dennis Winslow.

WVBI Radio:The Voice of little Beaver Island

By Kristi Kates The comparisons are many, and vary wildly, in describing WVBI-FM. Radio Beaver Island as it’s known, has been called many things: a mini-National Public Radio, Northern Exposure “without the moose,” an island version of Prairie Home Companion, and a musical take on Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates — because you never know what you’re going to get.

But what everyone can agree on is that this little radio station that could definitely has, and it’s made a huge difference in the way the isolated islanders get their news and music every day.

Mark Beltaire has been in radio and voiceover for years, as a DJ and/or program director for stations in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Cleveland; St. Louis; San Francisco; and currently, Detroit. He and his wife visit Beaver Island often, usually staying with good friend Maureen “Mo” Abele.

When the FCC opened up licensing applications for low-power FM stations, which typically cover a small area about the size of Beaver Island, Beltaire and Abele approached the Preservation Association of Beaver Island about launching a station.

At first, association board members thought that starting a radio station would be too complex and take too much time, so they denied Beltaire and Abele’s request.

Dennis Winslow, another Beaver Islander, who had been in broadcasting for 40 years, took up the initiative and brought it back to the board. He also was turned down.

“I finally sat down with them and explained that they didn’t have to go and build a radio station in three months — they just had to apply for the license while it

was available,” Winslow said. This is where another friend, Kevin Boyle, stepped in.

Boyle is a lawyer who specializes in broadcast law. He knew the right procedure for applying for the license, taking even more off of the association’s shoulders. “With Kevin, needless to say, our application got done correctly, and we got the license,” Winslow said.

Officially WVBI-LV — 101.1 The Voice of Beaver Island — debuted on the air last year. It reached much of Beaver Island but not all of it. Bit by bit, that might change.

“We just got a new antenna that will be going up to 100 feet. With FM, the higher you get, the better,” Winslow explained. “We may never cover the whole island, but with this, we’ll cover most of it, and we’re also on the internet.”

The radio station is located on the main floor of the Beaver Island Community Center, a $2 million facility that also includes an auditorium with a full stage and sound setup. The station pays licensing fees to ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and SoundExchange so that it can play commercially recorded music; the programming is run via software on a PC. With easy access to the community center’s auditorium on site, the station occasionally records plays and performances directly from the stage’s sound booth.

Visitors quickly discover that the programming at the station is as eclectic as the people of the island itself. “I do a top ten list show, record announcements, and a lot of the interviews,” Winslow said. “I’m only on the island in the summer — I’m something of a gypsy — but I have my own studio so I can dial in from anywhere.” The “WVBI Cottage Mix” is one of the most popular regular programs; it’s the station’s “anything

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goes” program where you’ll almost always hear something new.

Beltaire hosts a classic rock show yearround, whether he’s on the island or at his house in Detroit. Abele hosts a show called “Beaver Island Perspectives,” which focuses on local personalities and island happenings. Boyle also functions as the station’s IT guy and de facto station manager. “No one really has titles here, but he’s the only one who’s on the island year-round, so he gets to be manager,” Winslow said with a laugh.

WVBI’s schedule also includes shows from PRX (Public Radio Exchange), national news six times a day, frequent local newscasts, a traditional country music show hosted by country performer Sheri Timsak, and the “Student Winter Almanac” featuring kids from the local school.

“There are seven of us … actively creating programming,” Boyle said. “We even started doing old-timey radio drama shows this year. One of our island residents is a theater producer, and he might help us expand that by writing a script for us.” In this close-knit community, Boyle added, the omnipresent radio station helps keep everyone together, especially in the winter.

“The most fun part of it is being out and about and overhearing people listening to the station,” he said.

Perhaps the most impressive part is how polished the station and its programming are — especially considering its remote location and the fact that the reason the station exists at all is simply because some resident volunteers wanted it to.

The Beaver Island Preservation Association continues to help keep the station and its equipment running with additional fundraisers, but the people whose voices

WVBI radio is located in the Beaver Island Community Center.

you hear are doing it for the sheer fun of it.

“It’s incredibly professionally run,” Winslow said. “I have friends in broadcasting who can’t believe how good it sounds. The difference here is that every single day you bump into people who know you and know WVBI. And because we’re non-commercial and not fighting for ratings, we have a lot of latitude in what we can do. We don’t get paid — we do it as a labor of love.”

Beltaire agreed that it’s all worth it.

“Community radio allows us to be hyperlocal, and I really like that,” he said. “This is the largest inhabited island in the Great Lakes, and this radio station gives the people on the island a voice.”

Find out more about WVBI-FM — and listen online anytime — at voiceofbeaverisland.org or via TuneIn radio (visit tunein. com and search WVBI).

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By Kristi Kates Michelle Rick-Biddick, a Charlevoix spinning instructor and personal trainer, had seen several bike share programs in other cities, and she was impressed by how well they worked.

But it was her own work with WATCH (Water and Air Team Charlevoix), a nonprofit that helps protect the natural resources of Charlevoix County, that inspired her to bring a bike share program home.

WHEEL FUN “It was something I had been thinking about for a long time after seeing these programs at other places,” Rick-Biddick said. “I actually left WATCH in order to exclusively work on the bike share program with the city of Charlevoix. I love fitness, and I especially love cycling!”

Three years ago, she launched the program. “After I got approval from the city to try the bike program,” she said, “I got funding from the community foundation as well as private donors. We started with just a few bikes, and this year we have 20.”

The funds from the donors cover the cost of the program coordinator (Rick-Biddick) and the cost and maintenance of the bikes, which are owned by the city.

READY TO GO “We have all Sun Revolution bikes — both male and female bikes —plus a few trikes (three-wheeled bicycles),” Rick-Biddick said. “The city owns the bikes and the program, so you do have to sign a waiver to release liability. But ‘renting’ the bikes is completely free — all you need to check one out is a driver’s license or credit card.”

The Sun Revolution bikes were chosen specifically for their stability, safety and classic design. Each bike borrowed comes complete with a helmet, bike lock and water bot-

tle holder. But the bicycles can’t be reserved, so if you have a cycling day planned, its best to show up early.

“They’re first come, first served, on a dayto-day basis,” Rick-Biddick said.

Five bike depots welcome riders and lend the share bikes in Charlevoix: the Charlevoix City Marina in East Park, the Charlevoix City Airport, Irish Boat Shop on Stover Road, the Charlevoix Community Pool, and Charlevoix Inn and Suites on Petoskey Avenue. When a rider picks up a bicycle, he or she also can snag a map that offers suggested routes bicycle routes and things to do in Charlevoix.

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CITY AMENITY The program runs all summer and into autumn, with the bicycles proving to be a perfect way to cruise both the teachers and the changing leaves around Charlevoix.

“We get the bikes out on Memorial Day and keep them out until the weather turns bad,” Rick-Biddick said. “For now, we’ll probably keep our current roster of 20 bikes, as it’s easy for us to work with.”

The bikes have helped chip away at local car traffic and air pollution, and the program so far has been very well regarded “People say that they can’t believe something like this is happening, and for free, right here in Charlevoix,” Rick-Biddick said.

“The pilots coming in on the airplanes especially love it, as do the boating people, since these people often don’t have bikes along with them, so this is such a good resource for them. But we get people from all over the world visiting Charlevoix and taking advantage of the program. It’s just such a great amenity for the city.”

The bikes of the Bike Share North program are available 10am-5pm, weather and season permitting. For questions or more information, visit bikesharenorth.org or call the Charlevoix City Hall at 231-547-3270.

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Photojournalist Visits National Writers Series

To Show How Grandmas Change the World

By Clark Miller Grandmothers as global agents of change — it’s a notion that runs counter to the stereotype. But Paola Gianturco has traveled the world to gather stories and photos of grandmothers who are determined to improve circumstances for future generations.

Gianturco, author of Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon comes to Traverse City on Sept. 17 to show how grandmothers are doing their part to help the next generation. Gianturco will appear in Milliken Auditorium on the Northwestern Michigan College campus as part of the National Writers Series. Her photos will be exhibited at the adjoining Dennos Museum.

From June 2009 through February 2011, she visited a total of 120 activist grandmothers in places as diverse as South Africa, Peru, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Guatemala, Israel, Argentina, Philippines, Swaziland, Laos, Senegal, Ireland, and India. For a dose of grandmothers dealing with “first-world” issues, she also covered U.S.-based factions of the international environmental activist organization “Raging Grannies” and became inspired by similar women’s groups in Canada that raised $13 million to help grandmothers who are caring for AIDS orphans in 15 African countries.

“Many of these women had lost their own children to AIDS,” she said.

Of course, the problems Gianturco found grandmothers addressing differed greatly from country to country.

Those in Argentina looked for their children or grandchildren who had disappeared during the junta, a bloody war against Marxism that raged from the early ’70s to 1983.

Their counterparts in India worried about their grandkids getting lung disease from kerosene lamps.

Out of concern for livelihoods, community health and, above all, the welfare of family members, grandmothers in Thailand fought the country’s cyanide pollution of cotton fields and groundwater.

In a village in Guatemala, fathers expected to be their daughter’s first sexual partners — a practice that seems unimaginably cruel.

Grandmothers used gentle persuasion and patience to teach the ills of this tradition.

In the Philippines, grandmothers who in their youth had been kidnapped by the Japanese Army and used as sex slaves during WWII sued for reparations and an official government apology, hoping to ensure their suffering will not be repeated.

Senegalese grandmothers learned that many young women were dying during childbirth because of the effects of female genital mutilations, so they fought to end the practice

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and reduce teen pregnancy and child marriage. That battle took years of hard work, but eventually succeeded by gaining the support — and the respect — of local religious and school leaders.

Gianturco said that for all their geographic and cultural differences cited in her book, these grandmother-led movements have a common denominator.

“They’ve all been initiated by grandmothers who have looked at local, national or international problems and have said, ‘This isn’t good enough for my grandchildren.’ That discovery propelled them to do something about it.”

During her travels, Gianturco, a grandmother herself, was surprised that no matter how tough the issues or the degree of poverty, the women she met tended to stick together and find ways to enjoy life.

“There was joyousness they found in working in groups,” she said. “It amazed me how many places I saw where they were dancing, having a good time together. Clearly, they aren’t sitting in rocking chairs. That old image is just not accurate. These are true activists.”

“Grandmothers are gangbusters — they help change the world,” Gianturco said. “I hope that grandmothers everywhere will become activists. That’s my great dream.”

“And they don’t have to go to the other side of the world to do it,” she added.

Grandmothers in the U.S., she said, have demographics on their side.

“The average age of a grandma in this country is 47 now — much younger that many people think. And there are 42 million grandmas in the States. Many of them came of age in the ’60s, so they know they can change the world because they already did.”

Gianturco previous books are “Women Who Light the Dark” (2007), “Viva Colores!

A Salute to the Indomnitable People of Guatamalia” (2006), “Celebrating Women” (2004) and “In Her Hands, Craftswomen Changing the World” (2004).

All author royalties from “Grandmother Power” will be donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign.

Gianturco’s Sept. 17 appearance here is a homecoming of sorts. She has longstanding ties to the Grand Traverse region. Her father built a cabin here in the 1950s. “I still have many friends around the area,” she said.

“Grandmother Power” won the 2012 Book of Year award for Women’s Studies by Traverse City-based ForeWord Reviews and the 2013 International Book Award for Multicultural Nonfiction. It was About.com’s 2013 Readers’ Choice Award in the category of Favorite Grandparenting Book.

Photo by John Hills

By Kristi Kates

T

he Headlands International Dark Sky Park is one of the true gems of northern Michigan.

Located north of Harbor Springs and just south of Mackinaw City, it’s one of only about 40 certified dark sky parks around the world, offering unspoiled views of the landscape and Lake Michigan during the day and, at night, spectacular sky viewing that’s not marred by artificial light.

MAGICAL AUTUMN Mary Stewart Adams is the director of the park. She notes that while summer is often considered peak nightsky viewing season because the weather is so accommodating, fall and winter is magical.

“One of the things you don’t want to overlook at the Headlands, especially with fall color season just around the corner, is that the grounds are beautiful for walking and hiking,” Adams said. “And by night, the richest part of the Milky Way is still overhead in its most beautiful array.” Also at the Headlands, the construction of the Waterfront Event Center is moving right along, with the first stages of its green roof in place and the interior and exterior walls underway.

Aug. 25 was an exciting day for Adams and the Headlands crew, as they oversaw the installation of an 18-foot Ash Dome-manufactured observatory dome for expanded night sky viewing. The dome will be controlled by an ASCOM system that will synchronize to the telescope it will house. “We’ll host our first public events at the new facility in spring 2017,” Adams said.

COSMIC CHALLENGES In the meantime, there are plenty of events to participate in at the park, starting with the new StarLight Trivia

gatherings. “It’s a trivia game about the stars overhead that are visible at the Headlands during the time of play,” Adams explained. “Teams compete with one another to see who can get the most correct answers, and the winning team wins a bag of Headlands swag.”

The Headlands Challenge is another popular happening for park visitors. “That’s our annual ‘walk through the woods’ event that was really the first official Dark Sky program we held at the Headlands back in 2009, when we first started the process to get our International Dark Sky designation,” Adams said. “My idea was to get as many people as possible outside for a walk through the woods in the dark, because too many of us don’t have that experience.

And without that experience, it’s difficult to understand what’s being lost in our over-lit world.”

The team at Headlands is very creative, so you’ll find not just an ordinary forest but also a decorated wood and a walkway lined with softly glowing luminaries. “We’re adding a ‘haunted path’ to this year’s challenge, and we also have ghost stories. Sometimes the story involves an enchanted princess that pops out of an actual coffin,” Adams said.

NIGHT EVENTS The night sky, as always, is cooperating with lots of events of its own for the fall and winter seasons. “The first week of September, the waxing crescent moon will be very pretty as it cascades up the stairway of evening planets and stars,” Adams said.

If you want to learn exactly which planets, you can of course visit the Headlands, but Adams also will narrate an astronomy cruise with Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry service for the Harvest Moon on Sept. 16.

In other sky news: “Venus is going to move past the best-named star in the sky on Oct. 3 — Zubenelgenubi in

Libra — looking west-southwest about half an hour after sunset,” Adams said. “The following morning, the waning crescent moon will be right next to the brilliant planet Jupiter about 40 minutes before sunrise. It may just be possible to keep an eye on Jupiter until after the sun rises, which is always a fun experience.”

And you won’t want to miss what Adams calls “the most super supermoon.” “That will happen … on Monday, Nov. 14. The moon will be at its closest approach to earth in 30 years,” she said.

HARVEST CELEBRATION The last can’t-miss Dark Sky Park event of the fall is the annual Headlands Harvest Festival Dance, which will take place Sept. 17 from 7:30–10pm, alongside the harvest moon’s arrival the night before. “The Harvest Moon is all about celebrating the bounty of the seasons and the work of cultivating a healthy harmony in one’s life, the ‘crop’ that one tends,” Adams said. “And so, we dance to celebrate.”

This year, the park will host the Jill Jack Band under its festival tent near the Headlands entrance. “I expect this to be a popular event, so guests should arrive early with their dancin’ shoes and something to sit on between sets,” Adams suggested. With everything going on, is it tough for Adams to choose a favorite event?

“It is hard for me to pick!” she said. “I love dancing. I love storytelling in the dark. I love chasing meteors and northern lights and picking out stars in the treetops. Can I just say all of it?”

Find out more about the Headlands International Dark Sky Park and its complete events schedule at midarkskypark.org, or call 231-348-1713. The park is free and open 24/7, 365 days a year.

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irror and window frames made of twisted branches worthy of an Edward Gorey tale. A wooden rocking chair so carefully crafted it rocks for minutes from a single push. A 300-pound door made of pine logs that pivots on a wooden ball. And a 700-pound handmade table carved from a single tree root.

These are only a few of the woodsy marvels you’ll find at Shrine of the Pines, a northern Michigan hunting lodge that houses a remarkable collection of handmade 20th-century American craft furniture made by Raymond “Bud” Overholzer, who sourced all of the wood from the forests of Baldwin, Mich.

Ellen Kerans serves as president of the Shrine and oversees the tourist attraction and its associated events. “My family was in the lumber business, so I find it so intriguing and interesting that someone would take all of this fallen wood and leftover lumber and make it into this,” Kerans said.

Overholzer was a fishing and hunting guide

in Lake County back in the early 1920s. He had arrived in Michigan, along with his wife and mother, from Paulding County, Ohio, where he was born in 1890. Overholzer, whose name actually translates from the German as “upper wood,” found inspiration in the pine stumps and roots scattered about his new northern homeland. During his time spent guiding hunters and anglers through the woods, he kept seeing pieces that would lend themselves to his creations, said Kerans.

“He would find leftover pine in the forest from the old lumberjack days, and trees that had fallen over,” she said.

In the late ’30s, Overholzer purchased the property that the Shrine of the Pines stands on today: 28 acres in all, with 1,800 feet of frontage on the Pere Marquette River.

In the spring of 1941, Overholzer, with assistance, built the white pine lodge that would house his works — several hundred

handcrafted items, including furnishings and home accessories. He and his wife lived in a different home; the lodge was Overholzer’s singular dream. He envisioned it as a place that would house 12 guests — perhaps gentlemen hunters up for a weekend — so everything he made was done by the dozens: seating for 12, beds for 12, dinner for 12, game tables that would accommodate 12 hunters.

Accenting the interior were more fantastical pieces: a chandelier precariously incorporating a glass globe, a table with a hidden compartment, quirky candlestick holders, a stairway carved from the trunk of one white pine tree. Everything was made using only hand tools, with wooden dowel joinery, and glue of Overholzer’s own secret formula that was said to include pine pitch (the sap that oozes out of the cut or wound in a pine tree).

“The 700-pound table was carved out of a single root,” Kerans said. “I have no idea how

he transported some of the very large pieces of wood out of the forest, but he did. He just loved northern Michigan so much and kept developing more and more interest in bettering his own work.”

His work impressed those around him, in particular one man of note. “In 1941, Henry Ford came here and saw what Raymond was making,” Kerans said. “Ford offered Raymond $50,000 for the 700-pound table and its 12 chairs, which was a real fortune at that time. Ray looked right at Henry and said, ‘No, I want to keep it. I’m going to make this into a museum.’”

Overholzer’s reverence for his creations is how the Shrine of the Pines got its name.

“It’s not a shrine in a religious sense,” Kerans said. “Lake County and Baldwin are the home of the white pine and the lumbering industry. So this place showcases what one man could do with white pine.”

Shrine of the Pines is located at 8962 M-37 in Baldwin, Mich., 231-745-7892. Admission is $5 per person, which includes a tour and access to the river trails. Light snacks are available. Call ahead for large groups.

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These photos from Preserve Old Mission show the Boursaw Farm property. The photo on the right has been re-touched to show how much forest would be lost in the development.

IF YOU SEEK A PLEA Things might be pleasant on the Old Mission Peninsula, but they’ve been anything but quiet. The past year’s seen a controversial

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braham Lincoln signed the deed to Tim Boursaw’s family farm in 1863. Boursaw’s great great great grandfather had settled that land 20 years earlier.

The Boursaw property on East Bay — perched near the unincorporated community of Old Mission, at the northeast end of the peninsula — was first tapped for maple syrup, and then it became a dairy farm. In the 1930s, along with the other farmers on the peninsula, the Boursaws planted cherry trees. Around 1970, the new generation quit farming, so the family kept the farmhouse at the end of Bluff Road but sold their land. The rich property continued to produce cherries for decades, then was left to lie fallow, growing wild and rugged against its East Bay horizon.

Now those 81 acres are on the brink of development, targeted for total transformation in a project that’s caused uproar among neighbors and precipitated the ouster of the entire township government.

For Tim Boursaw, his family’s one-time property is the last wilderness left on the peninsula’s eastern shore. It’s 2,500 feet of beach that’s been forever untouched. It’s the first break in a string of homes along the shore from Traverse City to the end of Bluff Road, a dozen miles away. For Boursaw, it’s sacred land.

“I’ve seen where the peninsula started out and where it’s headed,” the 64-year-old said. “All those stretches along East Bay all had cherry orchards on them at one time, and now they’re all subdivisions.”

A SURPRISE DEVELOPMENT The proposal to develop the Boursaw farm sparked 18 months of conflict on the peninsula, though it all began very quietly in January 2015. For months, as the development proposal wound through the township approval process, no one noticed.

Kadee Tseitlin was perhaps the first neighbor to raise an alarm about the proposal — called The 81 on East Bay, a planned unit development that would that would clear forest and flatten a lakeside bluff to Rachel build 41Snyder homes with 40 boat slips at a central PhotoShe

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a summer home next to the property, close enough that the township was required by law to notify her of the request for a special use permit.

Tseitlin said it was a Thursday or Friday in April 2015 when she received a letter, forwarded to her Chicago address, that informed her of a public hearing to take place that next Tuesday. She was alarmed; it looked like a huge project and she’d been given so little notice.

She said she called the township and was told it wouldn’t be worth her time to come Up North for the hearing — that it was just a formality because the project was headed for approval.

“I kind of said, ‘Huh.’ That kind of gave me pause,” she said. “For me, personally, it felt like it was getting passed through in the dark of the night, and no was was watching.

No one was keeping guard.”

She travelled to the meeting anyway — and every meeting after that. She contacted the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council and the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy. She and some neighbors formed a nonprofit, Preserve Old Mission, and they hired Traverse City-based environmental attorney Scott Howard to challenge the proposal.

Tseitlin believes the development would be out of character with the peninsula, even though high-end development has proliferated so much on Old Mission in recent decades that it almost has become the character.

The biggest argument against the project, Tseitlin said, is that the property is the last bit of wilderness left on that side of the peninsula until you reach its northern tip.

“Once [the wilderness area is] gone, it’s going to look cookie-cutter. There’s no going back after it gets approved and [the land] starts to get graded,” Tseitlin said.

TRANSPARENCY AND A NEWSLETTER Uproar over the development — and a perceived lack of transparency in the approval process — led a slate of seven challengers to run for each elected township seat in August. Each one of the challengers won, leading to a complete overhaul of township offices that will take effect in November.

Rob Manigold, the former township

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supervisor, was one. Manigold, who had served for 25 years, retired in 2013 but returned this year and won back his title from his replacement, Pete Correia.

Manigold said the seven challengers were bolstered by concern over the way the township government had been run for the past two years.

“I think the 81 development was probably the catalyst for people to start wondering why they weren’t being heard or didn’t feel like they were being heard in meetings,” Manigold said.

Correia and his fellow trustees didn’t communicate well with residents, Manigold said.

For instance, under Manigold, residents used to receive a township newsletter at least three times a year that updated them on peninsula happenings and alerted them to new developments. That newsletter ceased publication under Correia, who died Sept. 6 at the age of 70.

Manigold said he understands how the decision to cease the newsletter could be made. It cost $3,000 to publish and mail each edition. But he believes it is important for people to be informed about what’s going on. Manigold, who was sworn in to take over for Correia on Sept. 7, said the newsletter will return and residents will be offered the option to opt out of the printed version and receive an email newsletter.

“A lot of our population, as we were going door-to-door — we realized they’re not really going online a lot,” Manigold said.

LAUNCH OF THE GAZETTE The sense that residents were unaware of the developments underway on Old Mission prompted Jane Johnson Boursaw, Tim Boursaw’s wife, to launch an online newspaper.

For a year and a half, Boursaw has published the online Old Mission Gazette. It was the 81 development, however, that caused her to to make the website a priority.

“I think that most people realize that a chunk like this is going to be developed.

It’s just a matter of how it’s developed, you know?” she said. “Do they want to get the maximum number of homes on there that they possibly can? Or do they want to leave some open space? They have to leave some open space, but do they want to make it look

“I’ve seen where the

peninsula started out and

where it’s headed,” the

64-year-old said. “All those

stretches along East Bay all had cherry orchards on them at one time, and now

they’re all subdivisions.” more aesthetically pleasing and not build it up to the max?”

It’s a story that’s played out on the peninsula for as long as people who weren’t farmers wanted to live there: Someone proposes a development; people who live in existing developments don’t like it. How do you measure the degree to which new development diminishes the landscape for the people who live in the the development that already exists?

Jane Boursaw’s own family goes back six generations on the peninsula. She grew up on a cherry farm herself. But she said she’s nonetheless tried to report on the development as objectively as possible.

“I can see both sides of the story, but it’s tough,” she said. “This is my husband’s farm.

It could just as easily be in my family, the Johnson farm.”

Manigold said Boursaw’s Gazette picked up the slack left by the peninsula’s absent newsletter in the last year.

“Jane has done a tremendous job on covering the township,” Manigold said.

Manigold thinks every township would be better off with someone dedicated to objectively distilling what’s going on so that residents know what their township board is up to.

“I think that more citizen activity would be good in all townships,” he said. “Without public input, you’re making the best decision you can, but it may not be the best one.”

THE (ZONING) LAW OF THE LAND Despite all of the furor over the 81 development, Manigold said he believes the approval of the development is a done deal.

“They called a special meeting a week ago and it could have been decided right there, but there was a flaw in the design in

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ASANT PENINSULA…

development proposal, the upheaval of township government, and uncertainty over the future of the community’s elementary school.

“It is hard for a young family to purchase property on the Old Mission Peninsula and pay a mortgage because of the property values,” he said. “I don’t know what we can do to change that. It is harder for a young family out here, if you’re not a professional family.” would be a significant burden for developers; when the township developed the Pelizzari Natural Area and an addition to the Bowers Harbor Park, he said environmental studies were conducted and didn’t prove to be too much of a hurdle.

“They were old farms, and we had to work with the DEQ, but we had a process to deal with it all,” he said.

Jane Boursaw at her husband’s family’s farm.

one of the roads,” Manigold said. “Technically, 81 might be done before the new board takes office.”

Manigold said he’s OK with that because the plans and the process reviewed by 13th Circuit Court Judge Philip Rodgers were upheld.

“I guess if they meet the ordinance, then they should get it,” Manigold said. “It might not be the popular decision, but the zoning is the law of the land.”

Manigold said the experience with the 81 showed him that environmental studies should be required for large developments, and although there might be nothing that can be done about the 81 development at this point, he hopes the township amends its ordinance so that studies are required for future proposals.

It could help ease concerns that historical contamination from farming operations could be unleashed through earth moving and migrate to neighboring properties or the bay.

Manigold said he doesn’t believe that

WHERE THE 81 STANDS NOW Howard, the attorney for the group opposed to the development, doesn’t believe the township should be so quick to approve the 81 development after Rodger’s decision.

Howard believes the challenge raised serious questions about soil erosion control and fire lane access.

He said he believes if the plans change significantly, the project should have to start over and go through the process again, starting with the planning commission.

Meanwhile, Howard has petitioned the Michigan Supreme Court to consider the group’s appeal of the township’s approval.

He argues that the development fails to preserve the land’s natural features “to the maximum feasible extent,” as is required by township ordinance.

“They used the standard ‘it could be worse,’ and that’s not the standard they should have used,” Howard said. “The township decided at one point, ‘We want to have a high bar for protection of natural resources,’ and then they effectively lowered it for this developer.”

Philip Settles, attorney for the developer, pointed to a brief filed by the township attorney, Peter Wendling, that asked the Michigan Supreme Court to reject the request to hear the case.

Wendling argued that the township

board members carefully considered everything that could happen to the property when they made their decision. If the developer would have done what would be allowed by right, rather than asking for a planned unit development that required township approval, what could happen could be much more damaging to the land.

A traditional subdivision would result in a lot more tree removal and bulldozing than what is being proposed, he argued.

“This would result in the entire parcel being carved up for development and not subject to the standards contained in the ordinance with respect to soil erosion and grading, but rather, the whims of individual property owners, which could result in the majority of the wooded areas being cut down,” Wendling wrote.

VINEYARD RIDGE Controversy over the 81 development has turned up the ears of residents to new development proposals in general. Residents also have questioned the next development proposed after the 81, a condominium neighborhood — 47 homes on 28 acres — proposed for the other end of the township, near the Pelizzari Natural Area.

Manigold said his initial impression of Vineyard Ridge is that the proposal looks to be in line with what would be allowed.

“It looks like a good development, actually,” Manigold said.

Manigold believes a traffic study will show that Center Road needs several leftturn lanes: at Mathison Road, at the Underwood Farm development, at Wilson Road, and at the entrance to Vineyard Ridge, if it is developed. He said he wants to work with the Michigan Department of Transportation to install those left-turn lanes.

Jane Boursaw said residents are concerned about traffic volume on Center Road already; Vineyard Ridge would just make it worse.

“It’s already very busy there. I mean, it’s going to add a lot of traffic,” she said. “And again, [the developer] should have a right to do what he wants with that property, but the developers should also think about whether it fits into the rural landscape, even close to town.”

That development has caused complaints that go beyond traffic. Its been proposed as a

neighborhood to be marketed to people over 55. It’s bound to be priced well out of reach for working families.

Manigold said there isn’t much the township can do about that. He said he’s noted in recent years how developments at the south end of the peninsula are more popular for older people because retirees want to live on the peninsula and also live close to the hospital.

“It is hard for a young family to purchase property on the Old Mission Peninsula and pay a mortgage because of the property values,” he said. “I don’t know what we can do to change that. It is harder for a young family out here, if you’re not a professional family.”

SAVING OLD MISSION If Manigold and the six other newly elected officials were swept into office amid uproar over the 81 development, Manigold said they came together in a shared concern over the fate of Old Mission Elementary.

The fate of the school has been up in the air since administrators at Traverse City Area Public Schools put it on a list of schools to close. That decision was prompted by falling enrollment, which was in part caused by lack of affordable housing near the school.

Developments like The 81 on East Bay and Vineyard Ridge are just the latest to price out young families.

Now the school appears much more viable after an anonymous donor offered to donate $800,000 to save it. That could enable the township to purchase the school and to work with the school district or another entity to ensure the building remains a school.

“I’m enthusiastic about what’s happening with the school,” Manigold said. “I think it’s a great opportunity for the Peninsula Township residents to work with the school board and get our school back.”

An open school won’t generate kids to attend it, but Jane Boursaw hopes it will be a start of something.

“I know some young families that drive their kids out to school here. They may not live here, but they drive them out because they love the Old Mission Peninsula school,” she said. “And there are still families that have moved out here to raise their children on the peninsula.”

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sept 10

saturday

SUICIDE PREVENTION WEEK WALK & TALK: 10am registration; 11am walk, Civic Center Pavilion, TC. $5/ person or $20/family. Lunch will be provided. cfsnwmi.org/ suicidepreventionweek

-------------------ROLLER DERBY/FREE HAIRCUTS: Small Town Outlaws vs. Detroit Motown Wreckers.

6-9pm, The Wexford Civic Center, Cadillac. Cuts for Kids will be giving free haircuts for all kids.

Tickets: $10 advance, $12 door. Find ‘Outlaws vs. Motown Wreckers’ on Facebook.

-------------------ADVENTURAMA!: A game of strategy played atop bicycles on the neighborhood streets & trails of TC. Noon, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Course opens at 1pm. Squads are made up of 3-5 adventurers. $50/squad. elgruponorte.org/ adventurama/

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MACKINAC 8 MILE ROAD RACE: 9:30am, in front of Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island.

Kids Fun Run begins 11:30am. runmackinac.com

-------------------JOB WINSLOW CHAPTER, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAR MEETING: 11am, Elks Lodge, TC. Reservations: 946-6337.

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HOPPS OF FUN BEER & WINE FESTIVAL: Food, wine, beer, entertainment & more. 5pm, Mackinaw Crossings, Mackinaw City. mackinawcrossings.com

-------------------“YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND”: The music & legacy of Carole King & James Taylor with Kirsti Manna & Jonathan Birchfield. 7-9pm, Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts, Roscommon.

Tickets, $35. kirtlandcenter.com

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11am-1pm: Author Peggy Creten will sign her book “Betsy Bobcat Chooses Kindess.” 2-3pm: Presentation with Phyllis Bye & John Kilcherman, authors of “Antique Apples.” horizonbooks.com

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SHETLER FAMILY DAIRY ANNUAL OPEN BARN/COW PARTY: Sample different flavors of glass bottled milk & cookies, enjoy a hay maze, petting farm, hay rides, lunch & more. 10am4pm, Shetler Family Dairy, six miles east of Kalkaska. shetlermilk.com

-------------------THE BARN MARKET: 9am-3pm, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Presented by The Red Dresser. 929-8150.

-------------------CIRQUE MOVEMENT: A theatrical cirque-style circus show that includes acrobatics, juggling, stilt-acrobatics, live music & more. 2pm & 8pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 door. thirdspacemovement.com

-------------------BACK PORCH COFFEEHOUSE: Featuring the Peacemeal Stringband wsg Rick Meisterheim. A circle jam will follow the performance, &

there will also be soups, cookies, coffee & tea.

7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center. Suggested donation, $10. 231-622-2944.

AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATER: 10am, Old Town Playhouse, lower level, TC. Readings, rehearsal, & performance planning. 947-7389.

GT INVASIVE SPECIES WORKSHOP & WORKBEE: 9-11:30am, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Learn about common invasive species & then help remove them outside.

RSVP: habitatmatters.org

A PATRIOT & POEMS: With Charlie Brice, who will celebrate the launch of his first full-length poetry collection, “Flashcuts Out of Chaos.” Joining Brice will be his wife, Judy Brice, & Church Pfarrer. 7-8:30pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. petoskeylibrary.org

-------------------10TH ANNUAL TASTE OF BENZIE & BEYOND: 11:30am-3:30pm, Mineral Springs Park, Frankfort. Enjoy this food, wine & beer tasting event. There will also be a Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest & kids’ games & activities. frankfort-elberta.com

-------------------TRI UP NORTH TRIATHLON: Bike, paddle, run. Held in Frankfort, with first wave starting at 9am. Benefits athletic programs like Back-theTrack. tri-upnorth.com

-------------------GOOD ON PAPER IMPROV: 9pm, InsideOut Gallery, TC. Tickets, $8. 231-313-9478. Find ‘Good On Paper Improv’ on Facebook.

-------------------TRIBUTE EVENT: Celebrate the legacy of Tom Kelly, founder of Inland Seas Education Association. 2pm, ISEA parking lot, Suttons Bay. At 3pm head to the schooner dock or out on the waters of Suttons Bay near the schooner dock to take part in an event that will symbolize Tom’s legacy. schoolship.org

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11TH ANNUAL MIKE MCINTOSH MEMORIAL TRUCK & CAR SHOW: 11am-3pm, NMC’s Automotive Services Building, TC. Free admission.

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HARVEST STOMPEDE: Enjoy a 5K walk, 5K run or 7 mile run at 9am at Ciccone Vineyard, Suttons Bay. The Wine Tour runs from 11am6pm at 23 participating wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, $40; includes a souvenir wine glass & wine pour & food pairing from each participating location. Does not include the race fee. lpwines.com/harvest/

-------------------TYPING 101: Cleaning & Care: Learn how to clean & maintain your manual typewriter. Noon, Landmark Books, TC. 922-7225.

-------------------HIKE CLAY CLIFFS: Join docents in exploring Clay Cliffs Natural Area, Lake Leelanau at 10am. Presented by the Leelanau Conservancy. leelanauconservancy.org

-------------------“THE GUYS”: Play by Anne Nelson is about the

Ladies Night - $1 off

Tues - $2 well drinks & shots OPEN MIC W/HOST CHRIS STERR Wed - Get it in the can for $1

with DJ DomiNate

Thurs - MI beer night $1 off all MI beer w/Oh Brother Big Sister

Friday Sept 16: Happy Hour: WIRED

Then: KUNG FU RODEO

Open Wed - Sun at 5pm

231.334.2530 - glenarborblu.com

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

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drinks & $5 martinis w/ Jukebox

GLEN ARBOR

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Mon -

FINE DINING ON LAKE MICHIGAN

sept

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Saturday Sept 17:

KUNG FU RODEO Sunday Sept 18 :

KARAOKE

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Choose from routes of 20, 40, 65 or 100 miles during the Leelanau Harvest Tour on Saturday, September 17.

Enjoy seeing fall colors in the beautiful Leelanau countryside. 7:30am-4:30pm. Starts at Suttons Bay High School. $30/individual or $90/family. traversetrails.org aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center. 7:30pm, Harvey Theatre, Interlochen Center for the Arts. $25; $10 youth. interlochen.org

-------------------THE MACK SISTERS: This pianist duo performs at The Opera House, Cheboygan at 7:30pm. Info: theoperahouse.org

sept sunday 11

“MURDER AT THE TALENT SHOW”: A Murder Mystery Dinner Production. Produced

by Gaylord Community Productions. Food & beverages from Michaywe In The Woods Restaurant & Bar. 5pm, Otsego County Sportsplex. Tickets, $25 – in advance only at the Sportsplex office.

-------------------GERSHWIN FIREWORKS FESTIVAL – GERSHWIN 1: Presented by TSO with Kevin Rhodes, conductor & Ralph Votapek, piano, & others. 3pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $23.50. traversesymphony.org

FAMILY DAY: Music House Museum, Williamsburg from 12-4pm, tours will focus on the history, science & artistry of music with a hands-on, family & kid friendly style. Musicians, showings of silent movies, & more. Families, $15; adults, $5; & children under 6, free. musichouse.org

-------------------JEFFERY SCHATZER: This award-winning local author is the author of “Fires in the Wilderness: A story of the Civilian Conservation Corps Boys.” 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. 231-331-4318.

-------------------NCMC’S 19TH ANNUAL COOKOUT: 12-3pm, NCMC, Petoskey. Enjoy a picnic-style lunch, bounce houses, carnival games, & much more.

Tickets, $8. 231-439-6225. ncmich.edu

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LEGENDS, LABYRINTHS & LORE: Join Jennifer Eis & Don Ward, authors & lecturers, for an educational walk-about at their 50-acre protected property north of Harbor Springs. Explore the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, walk the largest turf labyrinth in Michigan, & sit in the Talking Circle or the coils of the Great Serpent. Between 2pm & 5pm. Free. Call for directions: 231-347-0991.

HARVEST STOMPEDE WINE TOUR: Tour runs from 12-5pm at 23 wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, $40; includes a souvenir wine glass & wine pour & food pairing from each participating location. Does not include the race fee. lpwines.com/harvest/

sept monday 12

LETR TORCH RUN FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: Meet at Cass & Grandview Parkway parking lot, near the tunnel to Clinch Park, TC. Registration, 5pm; run, 6pm. $25. Register: firstgiving.com/miletr/TC16

-------------------NATIONAL PARKS PRESENTATION: With Paula Kelley, her dog Roxie, & a park ranger from Sleeping Bear Dunes. 7pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

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OTP YOUNG CO. AUDITIONS: For “Elf, The Musical, Jr.” Open to students ages 9-18. 4-6pm, Main Stage, Old Town Playhouse, TC. info: oldtownplayhouse.com

sept tuesday 13

GET CRAFTY: Create a sunflower bird feeder stake.

11am & 2pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. greatlakeskids.org

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CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Meets at the Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC from 6:30-8:30pm. All Central Neighborhood residents welcome. For info email: centralneighborhood.tc@gmail.com

-------------------OTP YOUNG CO. AUDITIONS: (See Mon., Sept. 12)

sept wednesday 14

FAMILY FUN NIGHT: Hosted

by United Way of Northwest MI at Jacob’s Corn Maze, TC from 5-7pm. Get half off admission & learn about the work United Way is doing to help kids. UnitedWayNWMI.org

-------------------GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, The Brook Retirement Communities, Gaylord. 989-732-6200.

7:30pm. A reception will be held at 7pm. Harry has produced nine CDs, his most recently being ‘Let’s Dance.’ Tickets, $20. oldartbuilding.com

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FORUM LECTURE: “Coming to America: The Muslim Experience.” 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, TC. $10 general admission. 995-1700.

-------------------CORK & CANVAS: A Creative Evening of Art & Wine. 6-8:30pm, Stafford’s Gallery of Art & History, Petoskey. $50/guest; includes art supplies, light appetizers & wine tasting. 231-347-0142.

-------------------GT GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING: 1pm, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, TC. Featuring Jessica Harden from the Michigan Archives. 231-275-6671.

-------------------PLASTICS – YESTERDAY’S CONVENIENCE: Today’s Contamination in our Waters: Presented the League of Women Voters of the Grand Traverse Area. Featuring Jeanie Williams, lead scientist & education coordinator from the Inland Seas Education Association. 7-8:30pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. lwvgta.org

-------------------ELK RAPIDS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Fischer Insurance Agency, Elk Rapids.

No charge. 231-264-6161.

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THE O’SCHRAVES: Recently awarded New Emerging Artist Award by liveireland.com & Best New Group from the Chicago Irish American News for 2014, The O’Schraves play a house concert at The Rhubarbary, 3550 Five Mile Creek Rd., Harbor Springs at 7:30pm. 231-499-8038.

-------------------BOOK CLUB/LECTURE: With Rafia Zakaria, author of “The Upstairs Wife.” 7pm, Darcy Library of Beulah. darcylibraryofbeulah.org

-------------------THIRD THURSDAY BENEFIT NIGHTS: 5:308pm, Betsie Bay Furniture, Frankfort. Music by Saldaje, food, art, drinks. Proceeds benefit the Isaac Julian Legacy Foundation. explorebetsiebay.com

-------------------PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: Sept. 15-17.

Tonight features the Kick-off Party from 5:308pm at the Ellsworth Community Park. Featuring live music by Kellerville & food. This event raises money for the protection of the waterways & increasing accessibility to the waterways for all. paddleantrim.com

sept friday 16

LOCAL FOOD ALLIANCE POTLUCK: 6-8pm, NCMC, Student & Community Resource Center, room 550 (upstairs), Petoskey. ncmich.edu

EARTHWORK HARVEST GATHERING: Sept. 16-18, 4399 N. 7 Mile Rd., Lake City.

Featuring live music by Aaron Otto, Arming the Amish, Bigfoot Buffalo, Red Tail Ring, The Accidentals, & many others. There are also many activities for kids, workshops & much more. Info: earthworkharvestgathering.com

WOMEN CAN/WOMEN DO - EMMET COUNTY: A fundraising luncheon to benefit Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI programs & services. 11am-1:45pm, Bay Harbor Yacht Club – Lange Center. Info: 231-347-0067.

BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: Presents northern MI bluegrass with Steel and Wood. 8pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Tickets: $10 advance, $12.50 day of. redskystage.com

-------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6:30-8:30pm, Thirlby Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. 231-499-6747.

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-------------------WOOF WEDNESDAYS: One dollar from each glass of wine & $3 from each bottle of wine sold between 6-8pm at Crooked Vine Vineyard & Winery, Alanson will be donated to Little Traverse Bay Humane Society. You can bring your pet. There will be different entertainers, food vendors, doggy shampooers & more participating each month. 231-347-2396, ext. 6356.

sept thursday 15

HARRY GOLDSON ENSEMBLE: Enjoy live jazz music on stage at the W.T. Best Theater, Old Art Building, Leland at

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THE ART MIXER WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION: 6-8pm, Grand Traverse Regional Arts Campus, TC. Art by Beth Bynum. Featuring local wine & cheese from The Cheese Lady. Free.

Exhibit runs Sept. 13-17. For info, email: TheArtMixerTC@gmail.com

-------------------NORTHERN LIGHTS 5K FUN RUN: Hosted by the Thomas Judd Care Center to raise awareness about its services & role in HIV care & prevention. Begins at 8pm in Parking Lot K at Munson Medical Center, TC. Cost, $20. Register: runsignup.com/northernlights

-------------------LATE NIGHT FILMS: “Little Big Man” (1970) will be shown at The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay

at 10pm. $5. thebaytheatre.com

-------------------“LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS”: Sci-fi horror musical with a 1960’s pop/rock score. 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage Theatre, TC. Tickets: $15-$28. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am: Story Hour – Doggies. 8:30-10:30pm: Music with Songwriters in the Round, Dennis Palmer, Blair Miller & Bill Brown. horizonbooks.com

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NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: Sept. 1620, Centre Ice Arena, TC. centreice.org

-------------------PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: Sept. 15-17.

This non-competitive kayak event offers paddlers the option to paddle one or two days, Sept.

16-17, & go anywhere from 7 - 42 miles through Antrim County’s Chain of Lakes. Also includes live music by Kenny T, outdoor games, & community booths in Bellaire’s Richardi Park from 1:30-4:30pm. This event raises money for the protection of the waterways & increasing accessibility to the waterways for all. paddleantrim.com

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SWINGSHIFT & THE STARS: A dance-off for charity. Star couples dance & there is a live performance by 10-piece swing band SwingShift featuring Judy Harrison. 7pm, City Opera House, TC. General admission, $25; additional $5 at door. cityoperahouse.org

sept saturday 17

EARTHWORK HARVEST GATHERING: (See Fri., Sept. 16)

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STATESIDE WITH CYNTHIA CANTY: The first-ever ‘Up North’ edition of MI Radio’s statewide talk show will be taped live at InsideOut Gallery, TC from 7:30-9pm. Guests include former NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger & live music by TC singer-songwriter Benjamin James. Free. 929-3254.

-------------------MONTHLY DROP-IN CRAFT: 10am-4pm, SCRAP TC. Craft tutorial & all materials provided. Free. scraptc.org

-------------------FORESTRY FIELD DAY: With area forest landowners from 10am-4pm at Misty Acres: The Borwell Preserve. This free workshop includes an indoor presentation & a field tour of two forested properties that present different types of forest management. Register: 231-256-9783.

-------------------FULL STEAM AHEAD: STEAM is science, technology, engineering, arts & math. Explore handson science, and other activities. 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

-------------------AAUW PROGRAM & FALL KICKOFF BRUNCH: “Red Dirt Road” is presented by the American Association of University Women at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC from 9-11am.

Featuring Lin Alessio, director of Women & Village Development for Red Dirt Road, & Pete LaPlaca, EE/MBA. Donation, $10. aauwtc.org

-------------------“LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS”: (See Fri., Sept. 16)

-------------------LELAND HERITAGE FESTIVAL: 10am-4pm.

Featuring the Leland Classic Car Show, 12th Annual Wood Boats on the Wall, live music by Duck Soup (12:30-3pm by the library) & more.

Free. lelandmi.com

AGGRESSIVE PRO-AM3: 7-9pm, Leelanau Sands Casino & Lodge, Peshawbestown. Admission: $25-$50. Info: 231-534-5059.

-------------------BARN DANCE & CHILI SUPPER: Samels Farm, 8298 Skegemog Point Rd., Williamsburg. Arrive early at 5pm to tour the 1900s farm house & buildings before going to the new barn & enjoying chilis, salad & more. The HAMMER’D will start playing music at 6:30pm.

Enjoy line & square dancing. For info email: llsmith3670@hotmail.com

-------------------ELK RAPIDS ART & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am4pm, River St., Downtown Elk Rapids. Featuring over 70 crafters, art, food & more.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S: Includes a 2 mile walk, entertainment, food, activities, a tribute & more.

Held at the GT County Civic Center, TC, registration is at 9am; a ceremony at 10am; & the walk at 10:30am. alz.org

-------------------MICHIGAN ADVENTURE RACE: Sleeping Bear Edition. Experience the grandeur of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Explore Lake Michigan, historic barns, deep forests & inland lakes searching for hidden checkpoints on foot, bike & canoe/kayak. Teams of 1, 2 or 3. Five or ten hours. Start at The Leelanau School, Glen Arbor at 8:30am (10 hour) or noon (5 hour). miadventurerace.com

-------------------MILLENNIUM BRASS: 8pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Adults, $20; students, $5. northportcac.org

-------------------AUTHOR PRESENTATION: With Mau VanDuren, author of “Many Heads & Many Hands.”

4-6pm, Horizon Books, TC. horizonbooks.com

-------------------ART & FARMERS MARKET SHOW: 9am-2pm, Leelanau Studios, Grand Traverse Regional Arts Campus, TC. Free admission. leelanaustudios.org

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NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: Photojournalist Paola Gianturco, author of “Grandmother Power,” with guest host Tony Demin. 7pm; wine & cheese reception/photo exhibit at 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. General public, $20. nationalwritersseries.org

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BLITZ THE BEAR BIOBLITZ: 9am-6pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Empire. Join scientists & other nature lovers to find & record as many species of plants, animals & organisms as possible.

Register: ceruleancenter.org/bioblitz

-------------------NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: Sept. 1620, Centre Ice Arena, TC. centreice.org

-------------------PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: Sept. 15-17.

This non-competitive kayak event offers paddlers the option to paddle one or two days, Sept. 16-17, & go anywhere from 7 - 42 miles through Antrim County’s Chain of Lakes. Tonight includes the Final Bash at Short’s Brewing Co.’s Production Facility in Elk Rapids from 3-9pm.

Includes food by Pearl’s, brews from Short’s Brewing Co., live music by Valentiger & outdoor games. This event raises money for the protection of the waterways & increasing accessibility to the waterways for all. paddleantrim.com

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SAVE THE DATES!

-------------------ADOPT-A-BEACH: Beach Clean Up. 10amnoon, Elberta Lake Michigan Beach. Register with Benzie Conservation District: 231-882-4391.

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EARTHWORK HARVEST GATHERING: (See Fri., Sept. 16)

“LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS”: Sci-fi horror musical with a 1960’s pop/rock score. 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage Theatre, TC. Tickets: $15-$28. mynorthtickets.com

LEELANAU HARVEST TOUR: Enjoy this biking adventure with four different routes to fit every skill level, along with fall colors in the CONCERT FOR CONSERVATION: Presented Leelanau countryside. 7:30am-4:30pm. Starts at “Celebrating the culture of books in a beautiful part of the world” by the Little Traverse Conservancy. 5-8pm, Aten Suttons Bay High School. $30/individual or $90/ Place, Boyne Falls. Featuring live music by The family. traversetrails.org

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HARVEST STOMPEDE WINE TOUR: Tour runs from 12-5pm at 23 wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, $40; includes a souvenir wine glass & wine pour & food pairing from each participating location. Does not include the race fee. lpwines.com/harvest/

Traditional Chinese Massage

sept monday 12

An ancient practice that can help relieve:

• Numb Fingers • Neck/Shoulders, LETR TORCH • Knees RUN FOR Back & Body Pain SPECIAL OLYMPICS: • Sprained Ankle Meet • Relax Sore Muscles • Noninvasive • Increase Circulation at Cass & Grandview Parkway • Effective & 100% Safe • Sciatica/Lower Back parking lot, near the tunnel to Clinch Park, Registration, $25 / 40 minutes - footTC. massage $45 / hour full bodyrun, relaxation massage 5pm; 6pm. $25.

Register: $55 / hour full body repair massage firstgiving.com/miletr/TC16

- - - - - -Happy - - - - - Feet --------NATIONAL PARKS PRESENTATION: With Zhou Andersen Paula Kelley,Susan her dog Roxie, & a park ranger 620 2nd St. Dunes.

TC • 231-360-4626 from Sleeping Bear 7pm, Peninsula www.chinesemassagetc.com Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

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OTP YOUNG CO. AUDITIONS: For “Elf, The Musical, Jr.” Open to students ages 9-18. 4-6pm, Main Stage, Old Town Playhouse, TC. info: oldtownplayhouse.com

7:30pm. A reception will be held at 7pm. Harry has produced nine CDs, his most recently being ‘Let’s Dance.’ Tickets, $20. oldartbuilding.com

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FORUM LECTURE: “Coming to America: The Muslim Experience.” 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, TC. $10 general admission. 995-1700.

-------------------CORK & CANVAS: A Creative Evening of Art & Wine. 6-8:30pm, Stafford’s Gallery of Art & History, Petoskey. $50/guest; includes art supplies, light appetizers & wine tasting. 231-347-0142.

-------------------GT GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING: 1pm, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, TC. Featuring Jessica Harden from the Michigan Archives. 231-275-6671.

-------------------PLASTICS – YESTERDAY’S CONVENIENCE: Today’s Contamination in our Waters: Presented the League of Women Voters of the Grand Traverse Area. Featuring Jeanie Williams, lead scientist & education coordinator from the Inland Seas Education Association. 7-8:30pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. lwvgta.org

-------------------ELK RAPIDS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Fischer Insurance Agency, Elk Rapids.

No charge. 231-264-6161.

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Apples, Blueberries, tuesday sept Sweet Corn Peaches, Blueberries, 13 Apples, Canning Tomatoes

Pears, Canning Tomatoes, GET CRAFTY: Create a sunflower feeder stake.

Winter Squash bird & Mums

11am & 2pm, Great Lakes Home Children’s Baked Bread & Pies TC. Museum, Home Baked Bread Pies Homemade Jams && Jellies greatlakeskids.org Homemade Jams & Jellies

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CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIA~ Cherry Local Honey, Maple Syrup~ Products & Wines TION: Meets at theProducts Crooked & Tree Arts~Center, Cherry Wines TC from 6:30-8:30pm. All Central Neighborhood On West (231) 947-1689 On M-72 M-72 West •info (231) 947-1689 residents welcome.

For• email: centralneigh331/2 Traverse City City 1/2 Miles Miles West West of Traverse borhood.tc@gmail.com

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OTP YOUNG CO. AUDITIONS: (See Mon.,

Starting Fri.,Fruits Oct 20 & Nov., 3rd Fresh &Closing Vegetables Sept. 12)

sept wednesday 14

FAMILY FUN NIGHT: Hosted

by United Way of Northwest MI at Jacob’s Corn Maze, TC from 5-7pm. Get half off admission & learn about the work United Way is doing to help kids. UnitedWayNWMI.org

-------------------GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, The Brook Retirement Communities, Gaylord. 989-732-6200.

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THE O’SCHRAVES: Recently awarded New Emerging Artist Award by liveireland.com & Best New Group from the Chicago Irish American News for 2014, The O’Schraves play a house concert at The Rhubarbary, 3550 Five Mile Creek Rd., Harbor Springs at 7:30pm. 231-499-8038.

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-------------------BOOK CLUB/LECTURE: With Rafia Zakaria, author of “The Upstairs Wife.” 7pm, Darcy Library of Beulah. darcylibraryofbeulah.org

-------------------THIRD THURSDAY BENEFIT NIGHTS: 5:308pm, Betsie Bay Furniture, Frankfort. Music by Saldaje, food, art, drinks. Proceeds benefit the Isaac Julian Legacy Foundation. explorebetsiebay.com

-------------------PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: Sept. 15-17.

Tonight features the Kick-off Party from 5:308pm at the Ellsworth Community Park. Featuring live music by Kellerville & food. This event raises money for the protection of the waterways & increasing accessibility to the waterways for all. paddleantrim.com

sept friday 16

LOCAL FOOD ALLIANCE POTLUCK: 6-8pm, NCMC, Student & Community Resource Center, room 550 (upstairs), Petoskey. ncmich.edu

EARTHWORK HARVEST GATHERING: Sept. 16-18, 4399 N. 7 Mile Rd., Lake City.

Featuring live music by Aaron Otto, Arming the Amish, Bigfoot Buffalo, Red Tail Ring, The Accidentals, & many others. There are also many activities for kids, workshops & much more. Info: earthworkharvestgathering.com

WOMEN CAN/WOMEN DO - EMMET COUNTY: A fundraising luncheon to benefit Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI programs & services. 11am-1:45pm, Bay Harbor Yacht Club – Lange Center. Info: 231-347-0067.

BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: Presents northern MI bluegrass with Steel and Wood. 8pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Tickets: $10 advance, $12.50 day of. redskystage.com

-------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6:30-8:30pm, Thirlby Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. 231-499-6747.

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-------------------“LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS”: Sci-fi horror musical with a 1960’s pop/rock score. 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage Theatre, TC. Tickets: $15-$28. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am: Story Hour – Doggies. 8:30-10:30pm: Music with Songwriters in the Round, Dennis Palmer, Blair Miller & Bill Brown. horizonbooks.com

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NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: Sept. 1620, Centre Ice Arena, TC. centreice.org

-------------------PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: Sept. 15-17.

This non-competitive kayak event offers paddlers the option to paddle one or two days, Sept.

16-17, & go anywhere from 7 - 42 miles through Antrim County’s Chain of Lakes. Also includes live music by Kenny T, outdoor games, & community booths in Bellaire’s Richardi Park from 1:30-4:30pm. This event raises money for the protection of the waterways & increasing accessibility to the waterways for all. paddleantrim.com

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SWINGSHIFT & THE STARS: A dance-off for charity. Star couples dance & there is a live performance by 10-piece swing band SwingShift featuring Judy Harrison. 7pm, City Opera House, TC. General admission, $25; additional $5 at door. cityoperahouse.org

sept saturday 17

EARTHWORK HARVEST GATHERING: (See Fri., Sept. 16)

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STATESIDE WITH CYNTHIA CANTY: The first-ever ‘Up North’ edition of MI Radio’s statewide talk show will be taped live at InsideOut Gallery, TC from 7:30-9pm. Guests include former NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger & live music by TC singer-songwriter Benjamin James. Free. 929-3254.

-------------------MONTHLY DROP-IN CRAFT: 10am-4pm, SCRAP TC. Craft tutorial & all materials provided. Free. scraptc.org

-------------------FORESTRY FIELD DAY: With area forest landowners from 10am-4pm at Misty Acres: The Borwell Preserve. This free workshop includes an indoor presentation & a field tour of two forested properties that present different types of forest management. Register: 231-256-9783.

-------------------FULL STEAM AHEAD: STEAM is science, technology, engineering, arts & math. Explore handson science, and other activities. 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

-------------------AAUW PROGRAM & FALL KICKOFF BRUNCH: “Red Dirt Road” is presented by the American Association of University Women at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC from 9-11am.

Featuring Lin Alessio, director of Women & Village Development for Red Dirt Road, & Pete LaPlaca, EE/MBA. Donation, $10. aauwtc.org

-------------------“LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS”: (See Fri., Sept. 16)

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WOOF WEDNESDAYS: One dollar from each THE ART MIXER WINE & CHEESE RECEPglass of wine & $3 from each bottle of wine sold TION: 6-8pm, Grand Traverse Regional Arts Weekly Specials! between 6-8pm at Crooked Vine Vineyard & Campus, TC. Art by Beth Bynum. Featuring local Winery, Alanson will be donated to Little TraHappy Hour: Monday - wine Friday (3 PM 6 Cheese PM) Lady. Free. & cheese from The verse Bay Humane Society. You can bring your Exhibit runs Sept. 13-17. For info, email: TheArtpet. There will be different entertainers, Monday: $10food Burger &MixerTC@gmail.com Pint (6 PM - 9 PM) vendors, doggy shampooers & more participatTuesday: $2 Tacos (6 PM - 8PM) & $2 Pints (6 5K PM - Close) ing each month. 231-347-2396, ext. 6356.

NORTHERN LIGHTS FUN RUN: Hosted by the Thomas Judd Care Center to raise Wednesday: Progressive Pint Night (6 PM) awareness about its services & role in HIV care & prevention. at 8pm in Parking Lot K at Thursday: $2 Pint Night (6 PMBegins - Close) Munson Medical Center, TC. Cost, $20. RegisHARRY GOLDSON ENSEMter: runsignup.com/northernlights Sunday:BLE: Right Brain Brunch Enjoy live jazz music on & Beer Cocktails (11 AM - 1 PM) stage at the W.T. Best Theater, LATE NIGHT FILMS: “Little Big Man” (1970) 225 E. 16th St.,atTraversewill City • 231-944-1239 Old Art Building, Leland be shown at The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay

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LELAND HERITAGE FESTIVAL: 10am-4pm.

Featuring the Leland Classic Car Show, 12th Annual Wood Boats on the Wall, live music by Duck Soup (12:30-3pm by the library) & more.

Free. lelandmi.com

-------------------ADOPT-A-BEACH: Beach Clean Up. 10amnoon, Elberta Lake Michigan Beach. Register with Benzie Conservation District: 231-882-4391.

-------------------LEELANAU HARVEST TOUR: Enjoy this biking adventure with four different routes to fit every skill level, along with fall colors in the Leelanau countryside. 7:30am-4:30pm. Starts at Suttons Bay High School. $30/individual or $90/ family. traversetrails.org

AGGRESSIVE PRO-AM3: 7-9pm, Leelanau Sands Casino & Lodge, Peshawbestown. Admission: $25-$50. Info: 231-534-5059.

-------------------BARN DANCE & CHILI SUPPER: Samels Farm, 8298 Skegemog Point Rd., Williamsburg. Arrive early at 5pm to tour the 1900s farm house & buildings before going to the new barn & enjoying chilis, salad & more. The HAMMER’D will start playing music at 6:30pm.

Enjoy line & square dancing. For info email: llsmith3670@hotmail.com

-------------------ELK RAPIDS ART & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am4pm, River St., Downtown Elk Rapids. Featuring over 70 crafters, art, food & more.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S: Includes a 2 mile walk, entertainment, food, activities, a tribute & more.

Held at the GT County Civic Center, TC, registration is at 9am; a ceremony at 10am; & the walk at 10:30am. alz.org

-------------------MICHIGAN ADVENTURE RACE: Sleeping Bear Edition. Experience the grandeur of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Explore Lake Michigan, historic barns, deep forests & inland lakes searching for hidden checkpoints on foot, bike & canoe/kayak. Teams of 1, 2 or 3. Five or ten hours. Start at The Leelanau School, Glen Arbor at 8:30am (10 hour) or noon (5 hour). miadventurerace.com

-------------------MILLENNIUM BRASS: 8pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Adults, $20; students, $5. northportcac.org

-------------------AUTHOR PRESENTATION: With Mau VanDuren, author of “Many Heads & Many Hands.”

4-6pm, Horizon Books, TC. horizonbooks.com

-------------------ART & FARMERS MARKET SHOW: 9am-2pm, Leelanau Studios, Grand Traverse Regional Arts Campus, TC. Free admission. leelanaustudios.org

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NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: Photojournalist Paola Gianturco, author of “Grandmother Power,” with guest host Tony Demin. 7pm; wine & cheese reception/photo exhibit at 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. General public, $20. nationalwritersseries.org

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BLITZ THE BEAR BIOBLITZ: 9am-6pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Empire. Join scientists & other nature lovers to find & record as many species of plants, animals & organisms as possible.

Register: ceruleancenter.org/bioblitz

-------------------NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: Sept. 1620, Centre Ice Arena, TC. centreice.org

-------------------PADDLE ANTRIM FESTIVAL: Sept. 15-17.

This non-competitive kayak event offers paddlers the option to paddle one or two days, Sept. 16-17, & go anywhere from 7 - 42 miles through Antrim County’s Chain of Lakes. Tonight includes the Final Bash at Short’s Brewing Co.’s Production Facility in Elk Rapids from 3-9pm.

Includes food by Pearl’s, brews from Short’s Brewing Co., live music by Valentiger & outdoor games. This event raises money for the protection of the waterways & increasing accessibility to the waterways for all. paddleantrim.com

sept sunday 18 -----------EARTHWORK HARVEST GATHERING: (See Fri., Sept. 16)

“LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS”: Sci-fi horror musical with a 1960’s pop/rock score. 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage Theatre, TC. Tickets: $15-$28. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------CONCERT FOR CONSERVATION: Presented by the Little Traverse Conservancy. 5-8pm, Aten Place, Boyne Falls. Featuring live music by The

Muteflutes, a bonfire, game of ladder golf, & potluck; bring a dish to pass & your own placesettings. For info email: emily@landtrust.org

-------------------AUTUMN FESTIVAL & CAR SHOW: IACC/ Tom’s Food Market Parking Lot, M-137, Interlochen. interlochenchamber.org

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FAMILY FUN & MUSIC AT THE MUSEUM: 1-4pm, 19440 Maple St., Lake Ann. Featuring live music, children’s games, & snacks. Presented by the Almira Historical Society. 231-275-7216.

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NHL PROSPECT TOURNAMENT: Sept. 16-20, Centre Ice Arena, TC. centreice.org

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GERSHWIN FIREWORKS FESTIVAL – GERSHWIN 2: Presented by the Traverse Symphony Orchestra featuring Kevin Rhodes, conductor; Laquita Mitchell, soprano; Kenneth Overton, baritone; & Robert Mack, tenor. 3pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $23.50. mynorthtickets.com

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YOGA 1-2: With Kelly Stiglich 500-ERYT at GT Circuit, TC on Tuesdays at 5:30pm. $10 suggested donation. gtcircuit.org

-------------------OM GENTLE YOGA: With Kelly Stiglich 500-ERYT at GT Circuit, TC on Saturdays at 10:30am. $5. gtcircuit.org

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CLUB ONE’S “LOSS & GRIEF” SERIES: This free program is sponsored by East Bay Family Dentistry & is composed of 12 different sessions divided into a variety of fitness classes, from yoga to cycling. “Work It Out” at Club One, TC. Runs Sept. 7 – Oct. 15. Robin@clubonetc.com

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DOWNTOWN HISTORIC WALKING TOURS: Presented by the Traverse Area Historical Society every Sat. in Sept. Tours start at 10:30am, but meet in front of Horizon Books, TC 20 minutes early. Cost, $10. Benefits the TAHS. Reservations: 995-0313. traversehistory.org

-------------------MCLAREN NORTHERN MI DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: Meets the second Mon. of each month from 7-8pm at the John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. northernhealth.org/wellness

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CEMETERY TOURS: The Traverse Area Historical Society will conduct these walking tours of Oakwood Cemetery, TC at 4pm on Sundays in Sept. & on Oct. 2 & 9. Cost, $10; proceeds benefit the Historical Society. Meet on the sidewalk outside the cemetery at the corner of Eighth St. & Steele 15 minutes before start time. 941-8440.

-------------------DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: 12 Step Meeting. Held on Tuesdays from 7-8pm at Munson Community Health Center, east door, Room G, TC. For info, email: tcdajp34@gmail.com

-------------------ADOPTION SATURDAYS: Pets Naturally, TC hosts one dog & one cat from the Cherryland Humane Society on Saturdays from 11am-2pm. www.petsnaturallytc.com

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PETOSKEY FARMS VINEYARD & WINERY: Open to the community every Thurs. from 5:30-8:30pm through Sept. Enjoy the outdoor patio with food & wine available to purchase & live music. petoskeyfarms.com

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BOCCE E DEROCHE: Try your hand at authentic Italian Bocce while listening to Interlochen’s Brad DeRoche on guitar on Fridays & Saturdays, 7-10pm at Bella Fortuna North, Lake Leelanau. bellafortunarestaurant.com

-------------------THE VILLAGE OUTDOOR FARMERS MARKET: On the Piazza at The Village at GT Commons, TC on Mondays through Oct. from 12-4pm. www.thevillagetc.com

-------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Farmers & gardeners from around the local region bring their fresh produce, flowers & baked goods to this Downtown Farmers Market located between Cass & Union streets, across from Clinch Park, TC. Held on Wednesdays from 8am-noon, & Saturdays from 7:30am-noon through Oct. www.downtowntc.com DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays

through Sept. 30, 8:30am-1pm. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------GROW BENZIE FARMERS MARKET: Mondays through Oct. 3, 3-7pm, 5885 Frankfort Highway, Benzonia. growbenzie.org

-------------------ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-noon, Rotary Park. Over 40 local vendors offer fresh produce, plants & baked goods. elkrapidschamber.org

-------------------ALDEN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, Tennis Court Park, 4-8pm. visitalden.com

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FRANKFORT FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, Main St., Frankfort, 9am-1pm. 231-325-2220.

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-------------------KALKASKA FARMERS MARKET: Held at Railroad Square in downtown Kalkaska on Tuesdays through Oct. 11, 2-6pm. 231-384-1027.

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INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET: Interlochen Shopping Center, big parking lot behind Ric’s, Interlochen Corners, 9am-2pm, every Sun. through Oct. facebook. com/interlochenfarmersmarket

-------------------STUDIO ONE 6: Sept. Artists of the Month in the upper level of the Visitor Center at The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Artists include Sue Bowerman, Ann Robinson, Ruth Kitchen, Laura Swire & many others. thebotanicgarden.org

-------------------A PRJCT OMNI & WAREHOUSE MRKT EXHIBITION: Selected artists’ work from around the world will be shown & sold in the halls of Warehouse Market, TC through Nov. 30. warehousemrkt.com

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-------------------“A RURAL PERSPECTIVE”: Paintings by Alan Maciag, who is known for his landscape & plein air paintings.

Runs through Sept. at Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. twistedfishgallery.com

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16 – Oct. 15 at Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. A reception will be held on Fri., Sept. 16 from 5-7pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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THREE PINES STUDIO, CROSS VILLAGE: - “Fellow Travelers: Large & Small”: Sculptures by Doug Melvin.

- Letters: Words with Friends: This all media exhibition is held in support of the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book.

An opening reception will be held on Sat., Sept. 10 from 2-7pm. Runs through Nov. 1. threepinesstudio.com

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CENTER GALLERY, GLEN ARBOR: - Lisa Flahive Exhibit: Lisa paints the immediacy of local streets, beaches, cafes & jazz clubs. Her paintings will be on display through Sept. 15. Flahive will conduct a painting demonstration on Sat., Sept. 10 at 1pm.

- Artist-made Holiday Ornament Exhibition: Created by eight area makers. Held Sept. 16 – Oct. 9 with a reception on Fri., Sept. 16 from 6-8pm. 231-334-3179.

-------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - Summer Artisans Market: Fridays through Sept. 30, 9am-1pm on the Bidwell Plaza. Artisans will sell their work & provide demonstrations. crookedtree.org

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - A Walk Through Michigan Seasons: Featuring landscape artists Alan Maciag, Margie Guyot & Lori Feldpausch. Runs Sept. 15 – Dec. 3. An opening reception for members will be held on Weds., Sept. 14 from 7-9pm. crookedtree.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - Permanence & Impermanence: Iceland – a Land of Temporal Contrasts. By Jean Larson. Runs Sept. 18 – Dec. 31.

- Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon: The works of renowned photographer Paola Gianturco. Runs Sept. 18 – Dec. 31. dennosmuseum.org

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1 Maggie, Melissa, Lindy, Jordan, Marya and Michele pose in the City Opera House at the most recent Traverse City Ticker’s Recess event in TC. 2 The gang at the new Olives and Wine Craft House on Front Street in Traverse City welcomes you!

3 Stephen and Anna Anderson spend some time with Michelle Denhartigh and Aaron Burch at the Right Brain Brewery vintage market in TC. 4 Ben Tanner, Walt Woods, Pam Woods, and Shannon Woods enjoy a brunch at Harvest.

5 Sweetwater Blues Band performs during “Stroll the Streets” in Boyne City. Remember summer?

6 David Radoy & Rick Knight dine on the deck at Duffy’s in Petoskey at the end of a busy Labor Day weekend.

7 It was a 60s throwback at a vintage fashion show at Crooked Tree Arts Center Traverse City, as Christie Dompierre, Kyle Ensley, and Bonnie Skurda were looking groovy.

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8 The River Outfitters on Traverse City opened their new Logan’s Landing location last week. On hand were Mike Sutherland (right) and his son Fisher.

FOURSCORE

Shop, saunter, sip, savor

by kristi kates

Mandolin Orange – Such Jubilee – Yep Roc Suffused with the sounds of the Carolinas (their home state) and the traditions of the Appalachian mountains, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz make up the duo behind this purposeful and understated effort. The pair shuffle Americana instruments like playing cards — guitars, banjos, fiddles, mandolins, and more — on songs like the lead track “Old Ties and Companions,” which highlights Marlin’s wonderfully melancholic vocals.

Elsewhere, “Rounder” sprinkles in country to great effect. Nothing’s groundbreaking here, but sometimes simple is best.

Chris Staples – Golden Age – Barsuk

The Village at Grand Traverse Commons: History, music, food and wine, with quaint Traverse City-original boutiques.

Seattle singer-songwriter Staples is perhaps best known for his lyrics, which skew closer to poetry while still retaining a genuine sense of conversation and realism. On his latest tracks, he finds himself sifting through the detritus of a recent rough period in his own life involving relationships and medical concerns; the result are these nostalgic, pensive songs that cling beautifully to regret (“Dog Blowing a Clarinet”), romance lost (“Always on My Mind”), easier and more naïve times (“Cheap Shades”), and finally, a little hope (“Diary.”)

James Vincent McMorrow – We Move – Faction

It’s often tough to pinpoint Dublin singer-songwriter McMorrow’s sound; he himself doesn’t seem to be willing to settle on one thing. And this is good.

The first we took real note of him stateside was during a track he recorded for Game of Thrones that showcased vocals and a near-invisible backing track. Here, he expands upon that foundation and crafts an amalgam of electronics, soulful guitars, and fleeting harmonies underneath his singing.

Standouts include “One Thousand Times,” the fidgety “Last Story,” and the abstruse but affecting layers of “Rising Water.”

SHOP Locally-owned stores with unique products and excellent service.

TASTE Some of the best foodie stops in Traverse City: fine food, coffee, bread, sweets, award-winning local wines and Monday Farmers Market.

EXPLORE Music at Left Foot Charley

Beautiful parks and hiking trails, and guided historic tours, including NEW PHOTO TOURS: click to www.thevillagetc.com/tours!

Open Mic Night Mondays 6-9pm Live Music Fridays 6-9pm

Outdoor Farmers Market Mondays Noon-4pm

LFC Harvest Festivus

10th Annual! Sunday, Oct. 2, Noon-6pm

Just over one mile from Downtown Traverse City: W. 11th St. at Cottageview Dr. , 2 blocks West of Division/US31 Visit thevillagetc.com or call The Minervini Group: 231-941-1900 R E TA I L E R S , E AT E R I E S A N D W I N E R I E S I N T H E V I L L A G E

River Whyless – We All the Light – Roll Call

Another band that’s always been tricky to pigeonhole are Whyless, a quartet that is frequently thought of as Americana but is actually more World-ana, if there could be such a classification. The band’s roots may be in domestic folk-rock, but it’s apparent that the bandmates dig a lot farther than that for their songwriting, as evidenced by tracks like “Falling Son” with its acoustic guitar-turned-sitar; “Blood Moon” and its layered string sounds; “All Day All Night” with a faintly African influence; and “Kalangala,” which seems to borrow inflections from somewhere in South America.

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To help increase awareness of the issues of violence and gun control worldwide, the Black Eyed Peas have brought in some of their musical friends to record a new version of their classic hit “Where is the Love”. This is the first recorded effort from the group since their The Beginning set in 2010. Along with the original BEP bandmates (Fergie, will.i.am, Taboo, and apl.de.ap), guest vocalists include Justin Timberlake, Usher, Ty Dolla $ign, Mary J. Blige, Andra Day, Tori Kelly, DJ Khaled, Jessie J, and more; the track is only currently available to hear and watch via Apple music …

Suede are releasing a big 20th anniversary edition of their third album, Coming Up, the first album to feature thennew guitarist Richard Oakes. The special set will include a DVD of nine television performances by the band, plus new notes, lyrics, tape-box images, and photos from the band’s collections. In addition, you’ll get an hour-long mini rockumentary of Suede discussing with producer Ed Buller the process that went into the making of that album. Suede: Coming Up 20th Anniversary Edition will be in stores soon …

While Suede are looking back, Madness are looking forward, with their first album of

new music since 2012’s Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da. Their latest set, recorded in East London and produced by Liam Watson, is called Can’t Touch Us Now and will include tracks “Mumbo Jumbo,” “Mr. Apples,” and the title tune. In classic quirky Madness form, the band announced the album’s Oct. 28 release not at a venue or festival but at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, England, during which they answered questions from fans and retirees …

Grammy Award-winning drummer and music expert Questlove (of The Roots and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) is teaming up with Pandora to curate a threehour show that will present conversations with musicians and entertainment figures, plus musical selections from Quest himself.

The show recently premiered on the Pandora network’s unique Questlove station and will air every Wednesday at 1pm, to be replayed for 48 hours afterward. Guests scheduled so far include singer Kimbra, producer/engineer Bob Power, and SNL alum Maya Rudolph …

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK The MTV Video Music Awards passed out all of their statuettes last week, alongside performances from Nick Jonas, Ty Dolla $ign, Britney Spears, Rihanna, and more.

If you missed it, you’re in luck, because this is the first year that MTV has teamed up

with VEVO to publish videos of the award show’s performances. Just go to YouTube. com and search “Topic – MTV Video Music Awards,” and you’ll be linked up to every act from this year’s show …

MINI BUZZ September 23 will see The Smithereens performing live at The Magic Bag in fashionable Ferndale …

The Allegan County Fair is welcoming live concerts from X Ambassadors and A Great Big World on Sept. 13 …

Aussie electro-duo Empire of the Sun’s new album, Two Vines, now has a release date and will be in outlets Oct. 28 …

Drake leads the nominations for the 2016 BET hip-hop awards, along with DJ Khaled, Kanye West, Jay Z, and Desiigner …

Of Montreal will perform at Ann Arbor’s Michigan Theater on Sept. 16 and at The Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids on the Sept. 17 …

Billy Talent will be at The Pyramid Scheme on Sept. 16th …

And these new album releases are looking to grab your attention now …

Against Me!’s Shape Shift with Me …

AlunaGeorge’s I Remember … Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine … Usher’s Hard II Love ... Taking Back Sunday’s Tidal Wave … and Trentemøller’s Fixion …and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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R Southside with You is an enchanting bit of romantic fantasy that recreates and reimagines an idealized version of the first couple’s first date.

And it’s not just a gimmicky setup cashing in on our nostalgia for the last days of the Obama White House. It’s a sweet, soulful, sexy, and smart rom-com that that lets you be the ultimate third wheel as Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) get together one hot summer day in Chicago.

Second-year corporate lawyer Michelle thinks she’s meeting up with one of her summer associates to attend a community meeting at a neighborhood church, but Barack has other plans. After insisting to the “smooth-talking brother” that this is not a date (that would be “tacky”), she agrees to continue on with the day he’s planned.

They browse records, visit an exhibit at the Art Institute, have lunch in the park (she buys her sandwich), attend the meeting (where we see natural-orator Barack in action), and see a movie (Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing — this, my friends, is historical fact). She lets down her guard to reveal things about herself, and he tries to hide the fact that he smokes.

They talk about their “folks,” their careers, their plans, and their mutual love of Stevie Wonder, and you are drawn into the intoxicating high of good conversation.

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Southside with You has many distinct pleasures, foremost of which is seeing two incredibly likable and engaging people fall in love, but there’s also the unique window into seeing a young man and woman, without the weight of history upon them, becoming who they were meant to be.

The film relies on your affection for this couple

— that you know, or feel like you know these people, makes the experience all the richer.

And, with a focused “Before Midnight”-style approach, in some ways it reveals more than a traditional biopic could. It’s only unfortunate this talky film’s dialogue doesn’t quite measure up.

But it’s really about the performances. This is nuanced acting, never an impression. Sawyers is certainly an uncanny Barack Obama lookalike, but it’s only when he brings out the effortless eloquence during his speech at the community do you realize just what an incredible slight of hand he’s done with role.

Sumpter has less of an expectation to replicate or imitate, and she has more freedom to create a character that carries the emotional center of the film. Her brilliance and formidableness pours out of her.

In the end though, with such a breezy and easygoing approach, it does all feel a bit slight, even though it does exactly what it set out to do — nothing more, nothing less. There’s no agenda, no politics, just love. Love for these people, the love they have for each other, and the love we all can remember from special first dates of our own.

It’s the perfect antidote to the current political climate. It makes us feel good and reminds us that politicians were once human too.

So while the intent is to leave you charmed and delighted by the miracle that these two people somehow found each other and went on to make history (and you will be), I couldn’t help but also leave a little wistful, sad that we soon will lose two such decent people, and realizing that we might never again have anyone so grounded (and so cool) in the White House.

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

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aptain Fantastic is, for lack of a better word, fantastic.

Wise, wonderful, and true, it’s the kind of film that’s so richly emotional it defies preconceptions and transcends demographics. It really is for anyone who craves good storytelling and vivid characters, and it’s one of the most profoundly human experiences you can have at the movies this year. It helps that the unconventional family at the story’s center resists categorization. They’re survivalists, intellectualists, and nonconformists, but most importantly, they’re as committed to each other as they are to their ideals. Living in their version of Eden in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife, Leslie (Trin Miller), are raising their six kids to be “philosopher kings.” But when tragedy forces them to load up their Merry Pranksters-style bus (affectionately named Steve) and go out into the world to visit Ben’s sister and her family (Kathryn Hah and Steve Zahn), as well as his estranged in-laws (Frank Langella and Ann Dowd), the results of their culture clash are both humorous (hello, video games, processed foods, and girls) and poignant. Captain Fantastic is a road movie, a family drama, a comedy. It’s a work of cultural criticism but only subtly so. This is an indie through and through, yet, with just the right amount of Hollywood heart to make it the crowd-pleasing crossover surprise of the summer.

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espected comedy director gets serious with a satirical story based on you-won’t-believe-it recent events. I’ve just described War Dogs, the latest from director Todd Phillips, he of Old School and The Hangover franchise, but I may also have been describing Adam McKay’s Oscarwinning The Big Short. Both films share many qualities that make them such smart, funny, informative, and audacious films. Ultimately though, Phillips doesn’t aim quite as high as McKay. War Dogs is like The Big Short lite: not as brilliant, and certainly not as damning (maybe even a little toothless), but it’s still an entertaining joy ride that marks a major step forward for the Frat Pack director. Phillips turns his camera on the economics of war, specifically the gold rush of mid 2000s defense contract bidding, in this stranger-thanfiction tale adapted from the Rolling Stone article “Arms and Dudes” about two Miami stoners (Miles Teller and Jonah Hill) and their unlikely journey to becoming international arms dealers. Moving from stoner bro comedy to darkly absurdist action to menacing psychodrama, Phillips does a solid job of handling the tricky tonal shifts. And even with the pairing of Teller and Hill (Hill alone makes the film worth seeing), it’s not the pure buddy comedy that you might expect. But its irreverence and giddiness, coupled with cynicism and seriousness, makes for a stimulating experience.

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he latest film brought out of the Disney Vault finds Disney delving into more obscure territory. Sure, the original 1977 animation/live action hybrid Pete’s Dragon might hold a dear place in people’s hearts, but in choosing a lesser work from the canon, the filmmakers were liberated to make something wonderfully new that also manages to be marvelously timeless. Director David Lowery captures the innocence and wonder of childhood with this warmhearted and genteel throwback to family adventure films about a young boy who survives a tragic accident in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, only to be saved and raised by a dragon. It’s all a bit dorky and predictable, but that is what makes it so darn charming. There’s not an ounce of cynicism here, nothing hip or flashy, no hyperactive comedic relief, no frenetic pop culture references. But there’s spectacle, thrills, majesty and, yes, fire (this is the story of a dragon, after all). Yet even so, it’s the quiet moments — like those between the ever-exceptional Robert Redford and Bryce Dallas Howard as the father and daughter who find him — that prove most bewitching. Pete’s Dragon is so squarely beautiful, tenderly wise, and imaginatively earnest that for 90 minutes you can cast aside modern life, give into the sentimentality, and just truly believe. Sweet and simple, this character-driven story with strong values makes for one incredibly well-made family film, a sighting at the Cineplex almost as rare as a dragon these days.

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: A friend of mine, bioethicist Alice Dreger, tweeted, “True story: I was on Oprah for a show about how appearance doesn’t matter and there was a whole guy tasked with doing just her eyelashes.”

A whole lot of us are in some denial about makeup. And sure, there are men who really do like women better without a drop of the stuff. And then there are those who just think they do — like the men on Reddit who posted all of these supposed “no makeup!” photos of female celebs. I particularly loved one of Jenna Jameson that a guy captioned “before all the surgeries and without makeup.” Meanwhile, tiny type below the photo lists the makeup and hair goo she actually has on. My other favorite was one of Rihanna, who also very clearly was not sans maquillage. Guys, sorry, but cat-eye liquid eyeliner does not appear naturally on the female eye in the wild.

Biological anthropologist Douglas Jones finds that men are attracted to women with somewhat “neotenous” features — meaning somewhat babylike ones like big eyes, full lips, a small jaw and chin, and clear skin -- which correlate with health and fertility. So, basically, what we call “beauty” is evolution’s version of a street-corner sign spinner: “Genes passed on here!!! Best babies in town!!!”

In other words, makeup is fake-up — a woman’s way of making herself out to have more neotenous features and thus a higher mate value than she actually does. (The male version of this is leasing a top-of-the-line Tesla while living in a tent in Grandma’s backyard.)

So, a man will think he has an aversion to makeup, but it’s really an aversion to being deceived by it. This doesn’t mean you have to stop wearing it. Just keep in mind that — except for special occasions and those special dudes who are into your looking like your office is a pole — men generally prefer the “natural look.” Of course, the reality is, this sort of “natural” is about an hour and a dozen products away from being “au naturel.” What ultimately matters is that you don’t look so dramatically different in makeup that when

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: Friends-with-benefits arrangements are, to some degree, replacing dating.

Unfortunately, trying to turn an FWB thing into a relationship can be like trying to return a shirt. One you’ve worn. For a while. You march straight up to the counter and lay the thing out. The guy at the register frowns: “Ma’am, Macy’s closed six years ago. This is Chipotle now.”

It’s helpful to understand what anthropologist Helen Fisher and her colleagues have discovered — that lust, love, and attachment aren’t just emotions; they are motivational systems (ultimately for the purpose of reproduction and child rearing). Lust eventually wanes (which makes sense, because “Ohhh, baby” needs to give way to feeding the baby). The neurochemistry behind lust “can trigger expressions of attachment,” Fisher explains. However, in men, high testosterone — in general or from having sex — “can reduce attachment.” This is probably more likely if a man has a “high baseline level of testosterone,” which is typically reflected in a strong jaw and chin, a muscular body, and dominant behavior.

Because you two were friends first and seem to care about each other, maybe you can be more than sex friends. Tell him you really enjoy hanging with him, and ask whether he’d be up for more than FWB. But take the low-pressure approach: You don’t want an answer on the spot; you’d just like him to think about it. This should make you seem less desperate and possibly let him feel like having more was his idea. If he wants less, you should probably stop seeing him — at least naked — for a while. He may end up missing you, which could energize his interest in you in a way FWB tends not to do.

(They call it “the thrill of the chase,” not the thrill of “you can text any day at 2 a.m. and she’ll let you come over.”)

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"Your Daily Allowance"--some ration-al terms. by Matt Jones ACROSS 1 “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” topic, presumably 4 Dance in a pit 8 Chickens, ducks, and such 13 Org. which still has not detected any signals from outer space 14 “My mistake!”

15 In a whirl 16 Like a centaur or mermaid 18 Pastime requiring careful movements 19 Abbr. in a military address 20 Like many trollish comments 21 Flora and fauna 22 Qualifies to compete in a tournament 25 Beehive St. capital 27 “American Horror Story: Freak Show” enclosure 28 Steaming mad 30 “Waterfalls” group 32 Company shares, for short 33 Mandarin hybrid used in Asian cuisine 34 Facebook meme often paired with a non-sequitur image 39 Gardener’s gear 40 Pioneering filmmaker Browning 41 ___-mo 42 Common soap opera affliction 44 Marooning spot 47 “Amazing!”

48 Assistance 53 Trivial Pursuit edition 55 Elvis’s disputed middle name 56 “I Ching” philosophy 57 Hardly happy with 58 Bygone lemon-lime soda 60 “Next to Me” singer ___ Sande 61 Rice from New Orleans 62 “Lord of the Rings” creatures 63 Passenger car 64 Insects with a waggle dance 65 “___ & Oh’s” (Elle King hit)

DOWN 1 Attack, tiger-style 2 Drive or putt 3 Short pulse, in Morse code 4 Hood or Washington 5 Extra somethin’-somethin’ 6 Word after parking or safe 7 Buying channel on TV 8 Marinated meat in a tortilla 9 Dunkable dessert 10 Fell apart, as a deal 11 Allow 12 Kidnapping gp. of the ‘70s 13 Email folder that’s often automatically cleared 17 Move swiftly 21 Dick in the Pro Football Hall of Fame 23 Soup follower 24 Roman called “The Censor” 26 You’re looking at it 29 “Heavens to Betsy!”

31 Austin and Boston, for two 32 Late Pink Floyd member ___ Barrett 34 “Austin Powers” verb 35 “Jeopardy!” in a box, e.g.

36 How some medicines are taken 37 Baby bronco 38 Adjusts, as tires 43 Naomi Watts thriller set for November 2016 45 Gender-neutral term for someone of Mexican or South American heritage, say 46 Establishes as law 49 “Common Sense” pamphleteer 50 “Fame” actress Cara 51 A and E, but not I, O, or U 52 “Easy ___ it!”

54 “The Lion King” lioness 57 “Au revoir, ___ amis” 58 Arm-raised dance move that some say looks like sneezing 59 “Brokeback Mountain” director

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to outbreaks of peace, intelligence, and mutual admiration. Sweet satisfactions might erupt unexpectedly. Rousing connections could become almost routine, and useful revelations may proliferate.

Are you prepared to fully accept this surge of grace? Or will you be suspicious of the chance to feel soulfully successful? I hope you can find a way to at least temporarily adopt an almost comically expansive optimism. That might be a good way to ensure you’re not blindsided by delight.

if your allies get bogged down by excess caution or lazy procrastination? Here’s what I advise: Don’t confront them or berate them. Instead, cheerfully do what must be done without their help.

And what action should you take if mediocrity begins to creep into collaborative projects? Try this: Figure out how to restore excellence, and cheerfully make it happen. And how should you proceed if the world around you seems to have fallen prey to fear-induced apathy or courage-shrinking numbness? My suggestion: Cheerfully kick the world’s butt -- with gentle but firm good humor.

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TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): ): For the foreseeable future, your main duty is to be in love. Rowdily and innocently in love. Meticulously and shrewdly in love. In love with whom or what?

Everyone and everything -- or at least with as much of everyone and everything as you can manage. I realize this is a breathtaking assignment that will require you to push beyond some of your limitations and conjure up almost superhuman levels of generosity. But that’s exactly what the cosmic omens suggest is necessary if you want to break through to the next major chapter of your life story.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What do you hope

to be when you are all grown up, Gemini? An irresistible charmer who is beloved by many and owned by none? A master multi-tasker who’s paid well for the art of never being bored?

A versatile virtuoso who is skilled at brokering truces and making matches and tinkering with unique blends? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to entertain fantasies like these -- to dream about your future success and happiness. You are likely to generate good fortune for yourself as you brainstorm and play with the pleasurable possibilities.

I invite you to be as creative as you dare.

CANCER June 21-July 22): “Dear Soul

Doctor: I have been trying my best to bodysurf the flood of feelings that swept me away a few weeks ago. So far I haven’t drowned!

That’s good news, right? But I don’t know how much longer I can stay afloat. It’s hard to maintain so much concentration. The power and volume of the surge doesn’t seem to be abating. Are there any signs that I won’t have to do this forever? Will I eventually reach dry land? - Careening Crab.” Dear Careening: Five or six more days, at the most: You won’t have to hold out longer than that. During this last stretch, see if you can enjoy the ride more. Re-imagine your journey as a rambunctious adventure rather than a harrowing ordeal. And remember to feel grateful: Not many people have your capacity to feel so deeply.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If there can be such a

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): ): Caution: You may soon be exposed

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thing as a triumphant loss, you will achieve it sometime soon. If anyone can slink in through the back door but make it look like a grand entrance, it’s you. I am in awe of your potential to achieve auspicious reversals and medicinal redefinitions. Plain old simple justice may not be available, but I bet you’ll be able to conjure up some unruly justice that’s just as valuable. To assist you in your cagey maneuvers, I offer this advice: Don’t let your prowess make you overconfident, and always look for ways to use your so-called liabilities to your advantage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Brainwashing” is

a word with negative connotations. It refers to an intensive indoctrination that scours away a person’s convictions and replaces them with a new set of rigid beliefs. But I’d like to propose an alternative definition for your use in the coming days.

According to my astrological analysis, you now have an extraordinary power to thoroughly wash your own brain -thereby flushing away toxic thoughts and trashy attitudes that might have collected there. I invite you to have maximum fun as you make your inner landscape clean and sparkly.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My astrological

divinations suggest that a lightning storm is headed your way, metaphorically speaking. But it shouldn’t inconvenience you much -- unless you do the equivalent of getting drunk, stumbling out into the wasteland, and screaming curses toward heaven.

(I don’t recommend that.) For best results, consider this advice: Take shelter from the storm, preferably in your favorite sanctuary. Treat yourself to more silence and serenity than you usually do. Meditate with the relaxed ferocity of a Zen monk high on Sublime Emptiness. Got all that? Now here’s the best part: Compose a playfully edgy message to God, telling Her about all the situations you want Her to help you transform during the next 12 months.

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

Tom Robbins said this about my work: “I’ve seen the future of American literature and its name is Rob Brezsny.” Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei testified, “Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.” Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz declared, “Rob Brezsny writes everybody’s favorite astrology column. I dig him for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry and his humor.” Are you fed up with my boasts yet, Sagittarius?

I will spare you from further displays of egomania under one condition: You have to brag about yourself a lot in the coming days -- and not just with understated little chirps and peeps.

Your expressions of self-appreciation must be lush, flamboyant, exultant, witty, and sincere.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): By normal standards, your progress should be vigorous in the coming weeks. You may score a new privilege, increase your influence, or forge a connection that boosts your ability to attract desirable resources. But accomplishments like those will be secondary to an even more crucial benchmark: Will you understand yourself better? Will you cultivate a more robust awareness of your strengths and weaknesses, your needs and your duties? Will you get clear about what you have to learn and what you have to jettison?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I’m confident

that you would never try to sneak through customs with cocaine-laced goat meat or a hundred live tarantulas or some equally prohibited contraband.

Please use similar caution as you gear up for your rite of passage or metaphorical border crossing. Your intentions should be pure and your conscience clear. Any baggage you take with you should be free of nonsense and delusions. To ensure the best possible outcome, arm yourself with the highest version of brave love that you can imagine.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should you be

worried if you have fantasies of seducing a deity, angel, or superhero? Will it be weird if some night soon you dream of an erotic rendezvous with a mermaid, satyr, or centaur? I say no. In fact, I’d regard events like these as healthy signs.

They would suggest that you’re ready to tap into mythic and majestic yearnings that have been buried deep in your psyche.

They might mean your imagination wants to steer you toward experiences that will energize the smart animal within you.

And this would be in accordance with the most exalted cosmic tendencies. Try saying this affirmation: “I am brilliantly primal. I am wildly wise. I am divinely surprising.”

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