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Ode to a Vet

A few years back I met Lenny. His real name was Charles, but we just called him Lenny. Being veterans, our paths crossed at the Cadillac American Legion. I think for some vets, service organizations such as the legion have become a safe place for them.

I always considered myself a good judge of character, and a first handshake can tell me about the metal you’re molded from. I believe Lenny was a pretty tough character — his hand shake gave that away —but for those lucky enough to know him, he was a genuine, really nice guy with a gentle personality. You just liked him immediately.

Lenny was a Vietnam veteran. We never talked much about his time in Vietnam, that’s just the way it is for many Vietnam vets. It’s just a topic you just don’t ask about. The war in Vietnam ended in 1975, but for many, the ravages continue yet today. For the last 10 years Lenny had been battling the effects of leukemia and on a day in August this year Lenny lost his battle. He was only 68 years old. This should have been the prime time of Lenny’s life. He left a wife, family, and multitude of friends, but I’m sure Lenny had few regrets and would probably do it all over again if asked. Even today many Vietnam vets still struggle with the effects of Agent Orange, and there numbers are really unknown. The Lennys of that war are true American heroes; they gave unselfishly to there country and asked for little in return. I hope we never forget their sacrifice.

Big Red Flag

Donald Trump has displayed little interest in attempting to understand the motivations of the NFL players and coaches who exercised their right to free speech by taking a knee during the pre-game national anthems on Sept.

24, even suggesting that “The S.O.B.s should be fired.” OK. The Donald is a patriot who even attended a private military school, and while there — unlike Senator John McCain — he was able to avoid capture, and he will not tolerate any display of disrespect for our flag. But if you think that the American flag is the only flag that Trump protects, you would be wrong. He obsesses over flags of many different stripes.

He has been a strong supporter and protector of the Confederate flag, and he more recently vigorously supported the right of “the many good people” among the NeoNazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, to display the Nazi flag — a flag representing a regime so evil that thousands upon thousands of true American patriots died in order to defeat it.

So Trump continues to display a consistent respect for flags, but unfortunately in the Charlottesville case, the wrong flag.

Bob Ross, Pellston The Racist Card

In response to Stephen Tuttle’s Oct. 2 Spectator column, “Kneeling Tall,” three points: First, I am not a Trump fan. I didn’t vote for him the first time and won’t the second time. I certainly agree that he added nothing of value

to the issue, serving only to inflame already raw emotions. Second, Kaepernick certainly has the right to voice his opinion regarding police violence (real or perceived) toward African-Americans and racial injustice. He also has the right to protest whenever and wherever he chooses. But when he disrespects the national anthem and the American flag, denigrating all that it stands for, he loses me and, I suspect, many others who would have otherwise been sympathetic to his cause. No, he didn’t create real discussion or advance understanding of his cause. Sadly, because of the stage he chose, his message was lost.

Third, of course I appreciate that you were just exploiting Kaepernick’s issue as yet another excuse to snipe at Trump, but I’m really tired of the charge of “racist” being trotted out any time any person of color is criticized for anything. Surely, you can make a reasoned argument without tossing that bit of divisive red meat to your readers.

Gray Fischer, Indian River

Ronald Marshall, Petoskey

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

Frankfort Beer Week..........................................9 Not for Human Consumption............................10 Terry McDonell...............................................12 Radio Man Ron Jolly........................................13 The (Not So) Nutty Professor............................15 Seen................................................................17

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Top Five...........................................................5 Weird...............................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................22 Jay Richley, Cadillac The Reel...........................................................23 Advice Goddess.............................................25 Crossword...................................................25 No Funds Available Freewill Astrology.........................................26 Our nation’s debt is somewhere between $17 and $20 trillion. An amount that is Classifieds....................................................27 unimaginable to the human mind. It’s like trying to comprehend the universe. This fiscal year, starting Oct. 1, we began paying $300 billion just to service that debt. That amount is almost half of our $700 billion defense budget.

Within 10 to 20 years, servicing the debt will equal our defense budget.

Fifty million baby boomers are retired today, and that number is projected to be 100 million in the next several years. That’s about a third of our nation’s total population. These awesome numbers will require trillions over the next couple of decades to fund Social Security and Medicare.

Both Republicans and some Democrats want to cut taxes literally to the bone this year. Some projections concerning this policy are that the federal government’s revenues will be eviscerated by some $7 trillion over the next decade. It seems as if we are riding insanity’s horse straight into an economic and fiscal catastrophe. It makes no sense. It’s just plain crazy.

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Free Market Climate

Rep. Jack Bergman, I wish to thank you for joining the Climate Solution Caucus and your decision to ask a Florida democrat, Stephanie Murphy, to join with you. Your wise choice reflects your understanding of how climate change threatens the economy of Florida, as well as their way of life. It was so crucial to involve a representative so affected by rising oceans to participate in finding solutions to reduce the threat that global warming presents. Your involvement reflects the growing bipartisan approach to addressing climate change issues and certainly follows in the foot prints of the Republican party, which implemented the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. Perhaps you will introduce to the Climate Solution Caucus a conservative approach to climate change, which uses a free market approach to correct for the market failure.

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Does Not Compute

Orwell yourself beyond the moment and come to terms with what awaits us all on the horizon of touch-screen scholarship. Huxley yourself into the world of tomorrow, when your children will have been programmed and plugged into lifetime situations based not on their passions but on some algorithm burped out by some electronic-Ouija motherboard.

If you are doubting this, examine the last half decade. In the blink of an eye, schools have been systematically transformed, childhood recalibrated, and parents wrongly tattooed as adversaries. Government now dictates to the schools, and politicians have morphed into carnival bankers for every profiteer determined to get their slice of the big education pie.

And all the while, half a generation has already endured this child-abusing gauntlet of educational malpractice as they are guineapigged into blazing trails in the brave new world of scholastic madness.

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by Mark Pontoni Some years ago, when Bruce Springsteen was trying to sort out his life he put out his Tunnel of Love album. It was – as I saw it – an autobiographical, gut-wrenching, and very public attempt to deal with his failed marriage, his new love, and what would be coming next.

Hidden among the many hits from that album is my favorite song: “Cautious Man.” When I feel especially hopeful about things, I listen to that song. When I feel especially uncertain about things, I listen to that song.

Either way, it has a leveling effect that is almost Zen-like.

Getting ready to write this column, I spoke briefly with my editor and moaned that there were 132 problems with our country about which to write, and I was having a real tough time picking one. She chuckled and wished me luck, so I spent the next several days sorting through the many things that divide us.

Flags (both American and traitorous Confederate); Puerto Rico and the big, big ocean it is cursed to be surrounded by; immigration; school finance; racist/ homophobe/Constitution-ignoring Roy Moore; U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos; North Korea; the NFL; the 1968 Olympics; white dudes telling black people how they should feel; white dudes telling black people how they shouldn’t feel; Trump supporters breaking their brains trying to explain how it’s possible they still support him; upcoming indictments on Russia; the kleptocracy of former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price (and undoubtedly others); state reps Tristan Cole and Lee Chatfield falling all over themselves to make the most outrageous and indefensible claims about the First Amendment; Michigan’s “tough nerd” signing into law more dark money for politics; and a hundred other things that clearly show our country is not as great as it was even nine months ago.

It was then that I thought of “Cautious Man,” and how a couple of lines in that song create an apt metaphor for what divides us: “On his right hand Billy’d tattooed the word ‘love’ and on his left hand was the word ‘fear’ And in which hand he held his fate was never clear.”

“Billy” is no longer the restless young man with a young bride. Today he represents our country. He is torn between the love that should unite us as citizens and residents of this nation of dreams and the fear that haunts those who see their days as a privileged majority slipping away.

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For a long time when I looked at the eyes of the young white men whose pictures captured so much attention during the Charlottesville white supremacy demonstrations, I thought I saw hate. Time and again I would look at the photos with tiki torchlight and swastikas

reflecting in their eyes and wonder how it was possible that anyone could be so filled with hate. What could have happened during their short lives that would cause such complete disregard for the dignity of other humans, most of whom they had never met?

And then I went back and looked at video and photos of some of the rallies held during the Trump campaign. I watched angry white men and women with that same look in their eyes screaming at peaceful protestors, beating black men in the aisles, and in a state of hysteria, calling for either the imprisonment or execution of Hilary Clinton. I thought that, too, was hate.

Later, I was looking back over some Facebook comments about Kentucky clerk Kim Davis and marriage equality. I read vile things written by supporters of Davis, who infamously denied same-sex couples marriage licenses in 2015. I wondered what could motivate people to publicly display such horrendous thoughts about people whose only sin seemed to be that they fell in love. Again, I thought I was reading the words of hate.

Finally, while driving through town last week I encountered two different trucks decked out in the Confederate battle flag cruising the streets. I was parked on the side of the road when one drove by, and I looked at the face of the driver as he passed. The same glossed-over look of rage which called to me from Charlottesville was driving in my neighborhood. But why? What would cause someone to voluntarily advertise their affiliation to the treasonous Confederacy in a town which has a monument to the men who died fighting it? This too I chalked up to hate.

We keep hearing how much the alt-right, the neo-Nazis, the KKK, Roy Moore and Kim Davis and their ilk, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, and all the Confederate flag wavers love America. They even want to make it great again.

It was then I realized that our country is Springsteen’s Billy. On one of our hands is tattooed “love,” and I truly believe most of us love our country. But despite how easy it would be to classify the actions of so many as hate, like Billy, our other hand says “fear.”

That is the paradox we face as a country. If we truly love our country, we have to exorcise the fear that is driving us apart.

The demographic changes that we cannot stop (regardless of how high we plan to build a wall), the progress in justice and human rights that we cannot legislate out of existence, and the hope for our future that lies in the hands of the next wave of immigrants are all going to happen. Yes, even if we so fear them that we are willing to put hate on display for all the world to see.

The good news is that fear is much easier to conquer than hate. After all, we always have that other hand to look at.

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top five Freshwater Summit Coming Want to learn about meteotsunamis in the Great Lakes? How about the Boardman River FishPass project?

Green infrastructure restoration at Kids Creek?

Those are some of the topics on the schedule at the 10th Annual Freshwater Summit that will take place at the Hagerty Center in Traverse City Oct. 20 from 9am to 3pm.

“We’re celebrating ten years of freshwater education right here in our community,” said Christine Crissman, executive director of The Watershed Center, which helped organize the event. “We have a strong speaker bench with a range of topics facing our Great Lakes.”

Other sponsors include Great Lakes Water Studies Institute, Michigan Sea Grant Extension, Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inc., Inland Seas Education Association, NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management, and the Grand Traverse Conservation District.

The event costs $35 per person or $15 per student and includes lunch.

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apple festival Charlevoix will hold its 39th Annual Apple Festival, Fri., Oct. 13 through Sat., Oct. 15 in three locations downtown: East Park, Bridge Park and Mason St. More than 30 types of apples will be available, as well as other fall harvest items and baked goods. All three days you can enjoy the Art and Craft Show with over 165 exhibitors. Kids’ activities run Sat. and Sun., including a petting zoo, face painting, balloon artist Twister Joe, interactive miniature trains and more. On Sat. take part in the Apple Fest Family Fun Run 1 Mile and 5K, and see Peter Furler live in concert at the Apple Jam (Charlevoix High School Auditorium). Info: charlevoix.org

Park Needs Winter Interns The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is looking for a couple of winter interns.

You don’t need experience snowshoeing, though it might help. Experience working with elementary-school-age children is preferred.

“Come live and work in a winter wonderland and help rangers lead day-long snowshoe hikes and curriculumbased activities and games for elementary students,” park rangers wrote on their Facebook page. “Head off trail o n snowshoeing adventures with the general public every Saturday. Help us out with social media, special events, and more!”

Applications need to be submitted by Nov. 3.

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tastemakers Mackinaw City Popcorn Factory

YEAR-ROUND QUALITY COSTUME RENTAL • Costume Accessories The Mackinaw City Popcorn Factory specializes in one item: popcorn. And they do it in such an unusual way — so many unusual ways — you’ll be hard-pressed to find a flavor they haven’t already tried.

There are 45+ flavors to choose from at present — the owners collaborate with their “popcorn chefs” to develop new ones on a regular basis) — and there are plenty of standouts. The quirkiest? The Sour Patch popcorn, which echoes the candy of the same name by making each differently colored popped kernel its own sour flavor.

Other must-try varieties include include the dill pickle, which is shockingly garden-fresh; cotton candy; the Chicago style, which blends sweet and salty; Oreo cookie; and Superman (just like the popular Michigan ice cream). Shall we go on?

Nah, you’ll have more fun checking out these treats for yourself. (Hint: the store offers free samples.)

Get your popcorn fix at the Mackinaw City Popcorn Factory at 301 E. Central Ave. in Mackinaw City (231) 818-9914. You can also find them online at michiganbestpopcorn.com.

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Crime & Rescue GT DISPENSARIES CLOSED Police cracked down on medical marijuana dispensaries across Grand Traverse County, shuttering eight businesses and confiscating marijuana and cash.

The operation involved state police, the Traverse Narcotics Team, Traverse City Police, and Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies and shut down four marijuana businesses in Traverse City and one each in Williamsburg, Fife Lake, Interlochen and Grawn. Each business received a cease and desist letter from Grand Traverse County Prosecutor Robert Cooney. No arrests were made.

The Oct. 4 raids followed a month-long investigation that involved undercover officers purchasing medical marijuana despite not being registered patients of caregivers at the dispensaries.

The move comes just months before Michigan enacts new laws to regulate the sale of medical marijuana following widespread frustration over the patient-caregiver model that evolved after Michigan voters approved medical marijuana in 2008.

Traverse City Police Chief Jeffrey O’Brien said the investigation was launched to uncover businesses that were operating illegally in anticipation of the new law going into effect.

As it turned out, none of the marijuana dispensaries operating in the county were complying with the law as it is spelled out in court decisions that have been handed down since the medical marijuana law went into effect. Medical marijuana advocates have long complained that the legal decisions have made it impossible to operate a medical marijuana business.

O’Brien said at a press conference that none of the businesses raided were recording transactions or collecting sales tax.

WOMAN FOUND IN RIVER Investigators want to piece together the last days in the life of a 22-yearold woman who was found dead in the Boardman River.

Morgan Victoria Fawn Elmer was found Oct. 3 in the back of a van submerged in the river.

A fisherman called police when he noticed the van underwater as he returned to the boat launch near Park Street and the Grandview Parkway, Traverse City Police said.

Elmer lived in Traverse City and formerly was from Bellevue, near Battle Creek.

Preliminary results of an autopsy were inconclusive, said Traverse City Police Capt.

Jim Bussell. That means no cause of death was determined and Bussell said further tests will be conducted to determine whether Elmer drowned.

Drug paraphernalia was discovered in her vehicle but it could take two to four weeks before toxicology results are returned to show whether Elmer was under the influence of drugs.

Elmer was in the back seat of the minivan and the van was placed in park. There was no indication that the van had been opened before responders arrived to pull it out of the water.

Anyone with information about Elmer’s activities prior to her death should call the detective bureau at (231) 995-5150.

WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH An elderly driver pulled into traffic on a busy stretch of US-31 and was killed.

The woman, 84-year-old Joy Loraine Smeltekop, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which happened Sept. 20 at 2:15pm near Holiday Road.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies closed the highway for an hour and a half while they investigated.

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Smeltekop pulled out of a business driveway into the path of a northbound pickup driven by a 21-year-old Lake City man. The man was hospitalized for minor injuries and a passenger was not injured.

MAN ARRESTED AT SCHOOL Police arrested a man who made threats and carried a box cutter into Suttons Bay High School.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the school Sept. 28 at 1:39pm and they found a 26-year-old Elmwood Township man in the gym and took him into protective custody while the school was on lockdown.

The man had entered the school and ignored directions from staff to check in at the office; he threatened to harm people and announced that he was armed. School officials were able to persuade him to go into the gym where he was separated from students.

The man was found in possession of a box cutter. He was taken to Munson Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation.

MAN ARRESTED FOR CAR THEFT Deputies who helped an intoxicated man get to his Interlochen home later returned and arrested him for car theft.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of an intoxicated man at the Speedway gas station in Greillickville at 11:30am Oct. 3.

That afternoon, after the man had been returned home, deputies received a report of a car stolen from the Leelanau Studios parking lot on Cherry Bend Road. The car was located at the gas station, and surveillance footage revealed the intoxicated man had left the car there. Police arrested the 55-year-old for car theft.

COUPLE’S DEATH INVESTIGATED An elderly couple found dead in their Williamsburg home likely died as the result of a murder-suicide.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the home of Thomas and Sharon Tracy shortly before noon Sept. 30. The couple, ages 75 and 76, were found in the lower level of their home and investigators found a shotgun nearby.

Lt. Chris Barsheff said that while it appears that Thomas Tracy shot and killed his wife before he turned the gun on himself, investigators are still searching for a motive. Family members found the couple Saturday and called police, but investigators were waiting for autopsy results to determined when the couple died.

A 27-year-old Lake Leelanau man told deputies he was headed south when a horse appeared in front of him and he swerved to miss it. He crossed the centerline and crashed into a car driven by a 63-year-old Suttons Bay woman.

The vehicles suffered damage but neither driver was injured. The horse, which was found a half mile away, also escaped injury. Deputies said the animal control officer would investigate how the animal got loose.

LOOSE HORSE CAUSES CRASH Two vehicles crashed when one swerved to avoid a loose horse.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called to S. West Bay Shore Drive near S. Richter Road in Suttons Bay Township Oct. 4 at 6am.

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BODY FOUND IN RIVER An 83-year-old Manistee man found dead in a river died of accidental causes.

The death of Lee Cabot was ruled accidental by a medical examiner, Manistee County Sheriff’s deputies said.

Cabot’s wife called 911 when she found him unresponsive and submerged in the Manistee River near the M-55 crossing Oct. 2 at 3:29pm.

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Mother of the Year Ebony Woody, 34, of Columbus, Ohio, was nothing if not thorough on the morning of Sept. 18 when, following an argument with her daughter, she purposely drove her car onto the sidewalk and struck the 17-yearold, who was walking to school, according to Columbus police. After knocking the girl down and running over her leg, Woody stopped and backed up, driving over the leg a second time. QFM96 reported Woody generously gave the girl a ride to her father’s house, where she dropped her off without reporting the incident. Woody later turned herself in at police headquarters and faces charges of felonious assault, aggravated vehicular assault and endangering children.

The daughter was treated for two fractures to her left leg.

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Animals on the Lam -- Auburn, Massachusetts, police received a number of calls over the weekend of Sept.

15-17 about a wayward goat, but it wasn’t until the wee hours of Monday, Sept. 18, that No. 448 was finally corralled at the La Quinta Inn in Auburn, reported CBS Boston. The “mischievous runaway farm animal” was seen on surveillance video entering the lobby of the hotel and wandering the halls, “presumably to rest a bit,” said police. Peter Blash, No. 448’s owner, said the goat jumped a 5-foot-high fence and “took off like a criminal.” However, Blash said, “I had one that made it all the way to Sturbridge.”

-- Just north of Benton, Kansas, a rancher posted signs promising a reward to anyone who could help him find his missing longhorn cow, Mercedes. The Wichita Eagle reported the 3-year-old black-and-white bovine went missing on Sept. 11 during Cross Trails, a weekly cowboy church service at Greg Johnson’s Prairie Rose Ranch.

Friends, neighbors and family have searched high and low for Mercedes, recognizable by her 5-foot-wide horns, but the only sighting of her has been near the El Dorado, Kansas, Walmart, about 10 miles away. Johnson says this isn’t the first time she’s run off: “She is more of a loner.”

Questionable Judgment Coolidge, Arizona, resident Victor Pratt boasts that he’s played with snakes his whole life. So when a rattlesnake slithered by during a family party at a nearby lake on Sept. 7, Pratt grabbed the viper and showed the kids “how to catch it and I was playing with it like little kids do. I wasn’t thinking. I was showing off,” he admitted to FOX 10 News. The rattler apparently didn’t want to play along and bit Pratt on his face and neck. Pratt’s sons quickly drove him to a nearby emergency room, and he was later airlifted to Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix, where Dr. Steven Curry treated him. “There is a 100 percent chance he would have died if he’d not made it to the hospital within minutes,” Curry noted.

Pratt remained unconscious for several days.

He told reporters he had learned his lesson and would not play with rattlesnakes again.

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-- A family in Coventry, England, are “quite mortified” after calling the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in September to rescue a lizard peeking from underneath a bed in their home. But when officer Vic Hurr arrived at

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the home, she discovered the “lizard” was not a “lizard at all, it was a pink stripy sock.” The dirty imposter sock, about 7 inches long and 2 inches wide, wasn’t moving, Hurr noted.

“I think the family eventually saw the funny side,” an RSPCA spokeswoman told the Independent. “The sock had obviously been there quite a while. It was a typical teenager’s bedroom, I suppose.”

-- The Caving Club at Indiana University explored Sullivan Cave in southern Indiana on Sept. 17, but when they headed back to campus, they forgot one thing: a 19-yearold freshman physics major who had become separated from the group and was trapped behind a locked gate. When the club president realized two days later that a caver had been left behind, members rushed back to save him. “You could tell they were pretty shaken up,” the caver told the Indiana Daily Student. “They did near kill me.” The student reported he licked moisture off the cave walls during the ordeal and wrote goodbye letters to his family on his iPhone until the battery died. (BONUS: The rescued caver’s name is Lukas Cavar.)

The Weird Apocalypse Cable television viewers in Orange County, California, were stunned on the morning of Sept. 21 when an ominous message accompanied by an “Emergency Alert” banner flashed on the screen. At increased volume, a man’s voice boomed: “Realize this, extremely violent times will come,” said viewer Stacy Laflamme of Lake Forest, who was watching HGTV on the Cox Communications cable system. Spectrum customers also received the alert. The warning seemed especially timely given that doomsday writer David Meade had predicted the end of the world “as we know it” to occur two days later. Laflamme told the Orange County Register the message “sounded like a radio broadcast coming through the television.” Dennis Johnson, a spokesman for Spectrum, said: “We have confirmed that we were fed an incorrect audio file,” but neither company could determine where the audio had come from.

Bright Ideas -- Kevin Michael Cook, 24, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, was too drunk to drive on Sept.

3, so he enlisted the help of an 8-year-old girl.

WPXI News reports the girl told Darlington Township police that Cook, a family friend, ordered her into a car at her grandmother’s house and forced her to drive him toward East Palestine, Ohio. The car stopped after nearly wrecking twice, as bystanders called 911. Police tried to give Cook a sobriety test, but he was too impaired to finish it. He was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, driving under the influence and driving without a license.

-- Prosecutors in Geneva, Switzerland, are looking for the culprits who flushed about $100,000 in 500-euro notes down four toilets in the city in May -- one in the vault area of the UBS Bank, and the other three in nearby bistros. While neither throwing money away nor blocking a toilet is a crime, Vincent Derouand of the Geneva Prosecutor’s Office told the Tribune de Geneve, “we want to be sure of the origin of the money.” The cash was confiscated during the investigation, but Derouand said there was no immediate reason to think it was dirty money.

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You Can Drink Beer There: Frankfort Beer Week offers something for just about everyone

By Ross Boissoneau Brian Confer has had some crazy ideas.

There was the one where he turned from his successful gig as a photographer to brewing beer for a living. Then there was the time he enlisted an entire town to tout the virtues of beer.

Welcome to the Fourth Annual Frankfort Beer Week. Stormcloud Brewing Company, owned by Confer and his business partner Rick Schmitt, is ground zero, but you’ll also find beer-related events at restaurants, the theater (owned by Schmitt and his wife with another couple), even the library and bookstore.

The idea stemmed in part from conversations Confer had with the executive director of San Francisco Beer Week, who would stop in at Stormcloud when visiting.

“I said I wanted to start Frankfort Beer Week,” said Confer, “kind of as a joke.”

While beer weeks tend to be in big cities with many breweries, the more Confer thought about it, the more serious he got.

“I said it out loud, and then thought why not?” he said.

Though Stormcloud is the only brewery in the immediate vicinity, he figured there were plenty of other businesses that would embrace the idea.

“That small size is part of the appeal,” he said. “We wanted to get as many businesses to participate and throw together a roster of events.”

Turns out he was right. Workshops, special events, even a parade are on tap.

Retailers like Hull’s of Frankfort and Crystal Lake Adventure Sports will offer beer-themed specials. Area restaurants such as the Cabbage

Steve Tebo of Chimney Corners Resort (Frankfort) and Katy Viswat of 7 Monks Taproom (Traverse City/Boyne City).

“The Cloudvitational is a one-of-its-kind beer and food event in northern Michigan,” says Chimney Corners’ Resort Operations Manager Lisa Schroeder-Confer. “Last year’s

Pint a Picture at Stormcloud Brewing Company; Oct. 11, 5:30pm Participants can enjoy a brew (or two) while learning how to paint an abstract composition. No experience necessary.

Instruction by Brian Iler, associate director of Oliver Art Center in Frankfort. Admission is $35.

“I said I wanted to start Frankfort Beer Week kind of as a joke.” – Brian Confer, owner, Stormcloud Brewing Company

Beer and French Fries Pairing Workshop at FrankZ; Oct. 13, 7:15pm This first-time event features awardwinning French fry creations from Frankfort restaurant FrankZ and a handful of Belgianinspired ales. It will be led by Stormcloud’s Beer Education Coordinator Charla Burgess.

This workshop is a great opportunity to learn what works and why when pairing the unique flavor combinations of beer and French fries.

Organizers call it “hands-on beer education at its finest.”

Shed, Mayfair Tavern, Dinghy’s Restaurant & Bar, The Manitou and Cru Cellars jumped onboard, offering food-beer pairings and beer-infused dishes that feature not only Stormcloud brews but beer from other Michigan brewers. Coffee shop Petals & Perks will craft stout-infused brownies and waffles.

Those latter ideas are music to Confer’s ears, as he said that was one of the things he most wanted to see happen. He says Stormcloud beers are made to enhance food, and he’s especially pleased about the ways in which eateries are embracing Frankfort Beer Week.

“It’s a way to highlight great local food,” he said. “We didn’t want to just make it about us.”

FRANKFORT BEER WEEK HIGHLIGHTS The Cloudvitational Beer Dinner at Chimney Corners Resort; Oct. 9, 6:30pm Guests will enjoy a multi-course meal with each dish prepared by a prominent northern Michigan chef and paired with a specific beer brewed by Stormcloud. This year’s roster of chefs includes Mike Fradette of Bradley’s Pub & Grille (Interlochen); Simon Joseph of Roaming Harvest and Gaijin (Traverse City); Joe Meyers of Stormcloud; Adam Raupp and Devin Shaw of Mission Table (Old Mission Peninsula); Andrew Schudlich of Epicure Catering & Cherry Basket Farm (Omena);

Cloudvitational sold out very quickly and we’re looking forward to another successful kick-off to Frankfort Beer Week with this year’s dinner.”

Tickets are $80 per person. They are only available online and must be reserved in advance. Chimney Corners and Stormcloud will make a donation on behalf of the event to the Benzie County Council on Aging’s Meals on Wheels program.

State of Michigan Hops and Grains Presentation; Oct. 10, 7pm, Garden Theatre A panel of experts will discuss the hops and grain industries in Michigan.

Rob Sirrine, educator for Michigan State University (MSU) Extension; Dean Baas of MSU’s W.K. Kellogg Biological Station at Hickory Corners; and Sarah and Richard Anderson, co-owners of Iron Fish Distillery in Thompsonville will lead a discussion of the current state of the hop and grain growing industry in Michigan. The presentation will include tastings of beers brewed with 100 percent Michigan-grown hops.

Fall Festival in Frankfort, Frankfort Open Space Park, Oct. 14, 11am-4pm The parade and Mutt March kicks off at 11am, and there will be free wagon rides, a giant pumpkin competition, helicopter rides, kids’ games and more. The famed Scottville Clown Band will perform. Other events include a pumpkin baking contest, a home-brew competition at Stormcloud, a pie-eating contest, and – naturally – a beer tent. Rumor has it there will be a nearly halfton pumpkin falling from the sky.

For tickets and more information on Frankfort Beer Week, go to frankfortbeerweek.com.

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NOT FOR HUMAN

CONSUMPTION A Traverse City businessman’s years-long crime spree ends with a year in jail.

By Patrick Sullivan In June 2014, Natalie, a former clerk at the Traverse City adult entertainment store Fantasies Unlimited, testified before a grand jury in Grand Rapids about the day she quit her job.

Natalie said she got a telephone call from someone who screamed at her repeatedly, “What did you sell us?” She said she didn’t understand. The woman identified the product she was calling about. Natalie responded as she’d been trained to respond: “That’s not for human consumption.”

“The woman screamed again,” wrote Christopher Forsyth, an assistant Grand Traverse County prosecutor, in a motion to get Natalie’s testimony admitted in the criminal case against 46-year-old Brad Jason Vannatter, Fantasies’ owner. “She then stated her brother hung himself after he took the substance. The woman ended the call.”

INADMISSABLE TESTIMONY The testimony was deemed inadmissible hearsay, and Forsyth’s motion was denied; investigators were not able to track down the out-of-state caller.

Meanwhile, Vannatter cooperated and took a plea deal. Originally facing a dozen felony charges that ranged from drug dealing to pandering prostitution to money laundering, Vannatter pled guilty to one count of conducting a criminal enterprise.

“The defendant was cooperative, he did provide us with some information, he did work with us and the Department of Homeland Security and gave us a statement,” Forsyth said at Vannatter’s sentencing.

On Sept, 26, Judge Michael Haley sentenced Vannatter to one year in jail, or the maximum sentence recommended by state guidelines, based on Vannatter’s clean criminal history.

Vannatter and his attorney, Michael Naughton, asked for house arrest, which

would have also been allowed under the guidelines, but Haley said the crime deserved punishment.

“The elephant in this room is the seriousness of this offense,” Haley said. “It’s a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison, and that cannot be understated.”

Naughton described his client as a businessman who walked too close to the edge.

“Without question, he walked too close to the line,” Naughton said. “In 2012 and 2013, he crossed the line, there’s no question about it. The law as it was in Michigan was something that he broke, and he has come to grips with that.”

2011 and 2013 as synthetic drugs were shipped to northern Michigan by the kilo in exchange for thousands of dollars wired to China. Those drugs were then packaged and shipped to retail customers across the country.

As investigators zeroed in on Vannatter, they determined that one of his businesses, Garage T.C., was actually a moneylaundering front. Prosecutors estimated he had laundered a half-million dollars through the phony business, disguising drug sales as auto-detailing services on invoices.

While Vannatter used his businesses in Garfield Township to distribute the synthetic drugs online, U.S. drug laws

Natalie said she got a telephone call from someone who screamed at her repeatedly, “What did you sell us?” She said she didn’t understand. The woman identified the product she was calling about. Natalie responded as she’d been trained to respond: “That’s not for human consumption.”

A VERY LARGE INVESTIGATION The investigation spanned years and involved at least 24 detectives and other police officers, according to the charges.

The case was led by the Homeland Security Investigations resident agent in Sault Ste. Marie and the Traverse Narcotics Team.

Detectives determined that Vannatter created a Traverse City-based online distribution center for synthetic drugs imported from China. The drugs mimic the effects of methamphetamine, ecstasy, or cocaine.

They raided Vannatter’s businesses and used records to create a timeline of hundreds of drug transactions that took place between

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caught up with him — in October 2011, the synthetics Vannatter bought wholesale from China were deemed controlled substances by the DEA; months later, they were among 26 synthetics made illegal by the Synthetic Drug Abuse Protection Act. RAZOR’S EDGE OF THE LAW Forsyth, at the sentencing hearing, said Vannatter was not an unwitting business man who had inadvertently crossed the line.

“What matters is he knew he was selling these drugs,” he said.

Forsyth recounted the time agents raided his warehouse on Sybrandt Road, which is now an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting center. Investigators asked Vannatter if

he was familiar with some of the specific substances that investigators by then knew he was selling.

“This is the kicker: He lies there. He says, ‘No, I’m not familiar with that. I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ when clearly he did,” Forsyth said.

Indeed, deception and dishonesty were central to Vannatter’s business model, according to records.

Another former Fantasies employee, Brittany, who worked at the store from 2011 through 2013, told police she was instructed to use euphemisms.

Brittany, whom, like others mixed up with Vannatter, the Northern Express will not identify because she was not charged with a crime, said she was trained to call pipes “spoons” and bongs “bubblers.”

There were other items in the store which arrived in packages shipped from China and labeled “not for human consumption.”

Brittany told investigators that she was instructed to handle the sale of those items even more delicately. Something labeled “Incredible Hulk,” for example, was supposed to be called “laundry detergent.”

VISIT FROM AN UNDERCOVER COP Brittany was 21 when she testified before a grand jury in Grand Rapids about Vannatter’s operation. She was 18 when she was hired to work at Fantasies; before that, she’d been a waitress at Hooter’s.

Following police raids of other stores Vannatter owned near the end of 2011, Brittany said that Vannatter emailed her and told her to pull all of the “Incredible Hulk” from the shelves.

After that, Brittany told police, Vannatter’s business model changed. He still operated his Fantasies store on Cass Road, but he also launched “Fantasies World Wide,” a website that would from then on handle the sale of those other items that were “not for human consumption.”

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Brittany was told that she was to refer all customers who inquired about those products to the website, fantasiesworldwide.com.

The drug dealing apparently ramped up around that time. Between February and December 2012, the business shipped to 4,320 customers from the Traverse City warehouse, according to a police report.

Brittany said she received packages with Chinese lettering at the Cass Road store and that she was told not to open them. A pair of brothers who worked for Vannatter collected them and took them to the warehouse across the road.

That’s where Vannatter opened Garage T.C., an auto detailing place that never detailed any autos.

Brittany testified that she was visited by an undercover officer in June 2012.

Her account is backed up by an affidavit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York in a related case. That affidavit describes a visit to Fantasies in Traverse City on June 11, 2012, by an undercover Homeland Security officer who visited a clerk named “Britney” and asked about “bath salts,” another name for one of the kinds of synthetic drugs.

“Britney said the high from ‘bath salts’ is at a different level (more potent or worse) and is not like smoking incense (i.e. spice),” according to the affidavit. She gave him a business card and referred him to the website.

At the grand jury hearing two years later, Brittany said she was cautious in dealing with that customer because Vannatter had warned her that she might be visited by undercover police.

“I thought he was an undercover cop,” she testified.

“BETTER TRAINED GIRLFRIEND” Vannatter’s former wife and girlfriend, Taylor, provided investigators more details about Vannatter’s business. She also described some disturbing behavior.

Taylor told police she had wired money through Western Union to China and helped design business cards and the website for Fantasies World Wide, but that she didn’t know Vannatter was a drug dealer.

Taylor, who is 26 today, said in a meeting with her attorney and a detective last year that at first she thought he was selling “male enhancement pills.” But she said she gradually recognized that his business was suspicious.

“Other employees started leaving the business, including another female named Brandi and one named Natalie. When people started leaving, (Taylor) started to put it together that something was going on,” according to a police report. “(Taylor) never confronted Vannatter about her suspicions because she was afraid he would lock her up

in the basement.”

She also told police that while she lived with Vannatter at his home on the Old Mission Peninsula, he gave her written instructions every day demanding specific behaviors and tasks.

Once, according to court documents, Vannatter wrote, “When you are doing laundry, cleaning dishes, etc., you are to be naked except for your new collar … this is a reminder that I am in full control of you, and you need constant training.”

Another time, he wrote to her that he would allow her to have lunch with her mother that day, but he warned her that he would not be so lenient in the future: “After that, you are no longer allowed to make a decision. I have a very well-trained dog, and I expect a better trained girlfriend in every respect.”

Copies of the letters — allegedly in Vannatter’s handwriting — are included in his court file.

The charges against Vannatter also alleged that he forced Taylor into prostitution and advertised her services on backpage.com, a site for classified advertising, beginning in December 2011 for 18 months.

A GRAY AREA OF THE LAW The prostitution allegations were dismissed in the plea deal, and they were not raised during Vannatter’s sentencing hearing.

Vannatter’s lawyer, Naughton, did not return a message seeking comment. Taylor and Vannatter later married and, by the time she made the allegations to police, the couple had gone through an acrimonious divorce.

At his sentencing hearing, Vannatter described himself as a family man. He expressed regret about the drug dealing, but not directly enough to satisfy the judge.

“I hope the court can consider myself as a person, my being a 46-year-old man, single father, raising two teenage daughters. I’m their sole provider,” he said. “I also would like the court to really be aware that I am sorry for what had happened.”

“You’re sorry for ‘what had happened?’

What does that mean, exactly?” Haley asked.

Vannatter replied: “At the time I did not know that the substance was illegal —” “You’re still going with that? You actually did not know what you were doing was wrong? You’re going with that?”

“No, no, I, I — not that I didn’t know it was wrong, I’ve always …”

“Well, that’s what you stated in your emailed written statement,” Haley said. “ …

Simply, ‘I did not know I was committing a crime nor was it my intention.’”

“Yes. I understand your honor. At the time, with the substances at the online business that we had, we took great steps to make sure that we were on the correct side of the law. We never set out to break

the law or mislead by any stretch. It was, it was obviously a gray area of the law, and I met with an attorney on a regular basis to make sure that we were on the up and up.

I never want to jeopardize my livelihood and years of what I’ve worked for and, most importantly, my children.”

In addition to the year in jail, of which Vannatter served 34 before he posted bond, Haley sentenced him to serve five years of probation.

A LONG HISTORY IN TC Even before he faced sensational criminal charges, Vannatter was featured in northern Michigan media more often than the average businessman.

In 2009, he and an earlier wife were profiled in the Northern Express after they had made a deal to purchase the entertainment center Streeters. Vannatter announced that he wanted to transform the venue into a new kind of nightclub with “new atmosphere.”

By then, his chain of adult entertainment stores had spread across Michigan, and he’d opened the Traverse City Fantasies location, but he said he wouldn’t turn Streeters into an adult club.

Whatever his plans, they didn’t last long. The purchase agreement dissolved in a lawsuit in 2010, and the property was returned to its original owners.

Vannatter next had run-ins with officials in Traverse City and Garfield Township over operation of the Tabu Lounge, a membersonly “showgirls” nightclub. It operated in early 2011 in a building behind Union Street Station and was the subject of complaints and zoning violations.

Vannatter claimed the Logan’s Landing lounge was actually a “private film studio” for his fiancé and adult film actress (whom he would later be accused of forcing into prostitution.)

It operated for two months next to a children’s music store.

Once Garfield Township officials launched an investigation, Vannatter agreed to shutter the business.

Just after the Homeland Security raids in December 2012, Vannatter opened the Laughing Buddha in early 2013 on East Front Street. It is a smoke shop that would also sell adult novelty items, but it also raised concern among neighbors and city officials because of Vannatter’s track record.

He vowed to keep the stock of adult items to less than 35 percent of the total inventory in order to avoid more rigid regulation as an adult-oriented business.

On a recent afternoon, the back of the store was stocked with hundreds of colorful sex toys while the front was filled with pipes, bongs, and incense. A clerk had no comment when asked about Vannatter, who had been sent to jail that morning.

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By Clark Miller Journalist, photographer, novelist and, above all, editor extraordinaire Terry McDonell has lived large with some big names.

He paddled the Montana backwaters with naturalist Peter Matthiessen (of Snow Leopard fame). He edited and hung out for years with authors like Jim Harrison, Kurt Vonnegut and George Plimpton. Along the way, he also helped usher in the era of New Journalism as an editor at Rolling Stone, Esquire, Outside and The Paris Review.

Now, with his new book, The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers (Vintage Books), he has disproved the tall tale that those who can’t write become editors.

McDonell appears at City Opera House at 7 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 13, as part of the National Writers Series. He will discuss his long career, the art and business of writing and the colorful characters he has met.

The Guy Can Actually Write: In his new book, legendary editor Terry McDonell disproves a tall tale

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION The event will include a unique twist: Local writers can submit their own one-page story ideas to the National Writers Series.

McDonell will then select a few of the best “pitches” to be read aloud to the audience.

Entries must be sent to nws.astanton@ gmail by close of business on Wednesday, Oct. 11. Judging from The Accidental Life, the tone of the pitches can be anything but straight-laced.

THE STORIES Accidental Life offers behind-the-scenes vignettes of writers at dinner parties, slogging through long pub crawls and liquid “working” lunches from New York to Montana and on to Los Angeles.

His best portrayals are of the most truculent characters.

He plays golf (stoned) with Hunter Thompson, the “gonzo” journalist who, when asked by the actor Don Johnson to explain the Zen riddle about the sound of one hand clapping, slapped Johnson across the face. Point made.

We ride along to a Denver dive as McDonell eats pickled eggs, drinks boilermakers and talks radical environmentalism with Edward Abbey, whose go-it-along brand of anarchism produced such quotes as, “One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ that can beat teamwork.”

Northern Michiganders are likely to be drawn to the sections about late novelist, gourmand and poet Jim Harrison who was famous, among other things, for his resistance to editors.

As his peace-making editor, McDonell developed his own counter strategy. “ … I learned to tread lightly,” McDonell wrote, “or risk being told, as I once was by him, ‘You lynched my baby.’”

After an enormous lunch with the rotund Orson Welles, Harrison, no light eater himself, remarked he had to “brace his boot on the limo’s doorsill to hoist the great director to the curb.”

Kurt Vonnegut, abruptly leaving a table of fawning young editors, remarks, “I think you are all moderately gifted.”

DIGGING DEEPER But McDonell also digs deeper, well past the fun anecdotes, when he concludes that Harrison’s novella Legends of the Fall, written in 10 days and published in Esquire magazine, “seemed to have invigorated American fiction.”

“It was a surprising style,” he wrote, “Fast and clear, that suggested moving water that one reviewer said, ‘You could see through to

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the bottom of his meaning.’”

He captures Peter Matthiessen’s descriptions as “beautiful in their harshness.”

THE MUNDANE McDonell tackles everyday issues like writer’s block: “As an editor, I want to make quick work of this. There is no such thing.”

On the topic of money woes, he observed, “Hunter Thompson turned getting paid into theater, stopping just short of sending dead cats in the mail.”

WRITERS VERSUS EDITORS? McDonell also deals with the often contentious relationship between editors and writers. The New Yorker’s Harold Ross, he reports, defined editing as “quarreling with writers” while writer George Higgins made it personal: “Only a seriously disturbed person would sincerely wish to have an editor for a friend.”

Then there’s the feigned optimism of John Cheever: “My definition of a good editor is a man I think charming, who sends me large checks, praises my work, my physical beauty, and my sexual prowess, and who has a stranglehold on the publisher and the bank.”

By comparison, McDonell, who seems to

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have a knack for getting along with people, told the Northern Express that as a writer, he works well with editors.

“I have never had a bad relationship with an editor – probably because I was an editor for so long. It’s always situational,” he said.

“Some relationships are based on sharing irony and humor; others have more to do with the simple solidarity of just going out for drinks; but the subtext always has to be mutual respect.”

THE NEW JOURNALISM As editor at Rolling Stone and other magazines, McDonell was on the front lines as the “New Journalism” emerged in the 60s and 70s. No longer was the reporter simply a supposedly objective bystander and collector of facts but instead was expected to add an active, colorful voice in the narrative.

He bemoans that in some quarters, that style is considered to have run its course.

“I believe there is nothing stronger in journalism than the combination of immersive reporting and original voice,” he said. “If you think about it, that’s really the combination that made the early work of Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese and Mailer and Mike Herr so powerful and riveting.

And there are lots of young writers with

distinctive voices coming up all the time. It just doesn’t feel like they’re as appreciated because magazines as platforms to showcase them are in decline.”

CURRENT PROJECTS Asked what books he would grab if the Great Deluge came and he had only a small boat, McDonell said, “There is a deluge and it is digital. I read so much on my phone now I don’t have to worry about the size of the boat.”

McDonell is currently reading Mary Dearborn’s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography; Man of the Hour by Jennet Conant and Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden.

“And, of course, Doug Stanton’s The Odyssey of Echo Company, which I read in galley,” McDonell said. “Doug is a gifted, complicated writer and brilliant interviewer, which is why I look forward to being on stage with him at the National Writers Series.”

McDonell continues to build LitHub (lithub.com), a showcase for literary fiction, non-fiction and criticism. He also has two book projects underway.

Terry McDonell will appear at the National Writers Series on Oct. 13, 2017 at 7pm at the City Opera House in Traverse City. For tickets, call 231-941-8082.

Ambition on the Airwaves: RADIO MAN RON JOLLY

By Kristi Kates In 1983, an ambitious young man named Ron Jolly walked in the doors of the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts in Southfield, Michigan. That same man has been the 7am10am host at WTCM in Traverse City for the past 22 years, with just one short break in the middle. He’s also the subject of an incredibly long and storied history that took place between then and now.

“My first ‘real’ radio job was in the early ’80s at a Top 40 station, WTWR Tower 98 in Monroe, Mich.,” said Jolly.

His job coincided with the launch of the music video era, controlled mainly by MTV. “I didn’t see it as competition at the time,” he said. “MTV was just another way to expose people – mostly young people – to music.”

Nerves hit Jolly a bit the first time he was on air.

“Yeah, I was a little [nervous], for that first show,” he said, “especially when the guy walking out, the DJ who’d been on-air before me, said, ‘This is your first time on the air? You’d better take that sweater off, you’re gonna sweat!’ But I’d been trained well, so you just open up the mic and do it.”

Jolly’s first radio job was pretty low-tech, compared to today’s radio stations.

“Today, everything’s automated, but back then, we had two turntables, and you had to cue up vinyl records, getting one set up as the other one played on-air,” he said.

The physicality of it sometimes created memorable moments.

“You had pretty much three minutes to get things ready from song to song; a couple of times I got mixed up and lifted the needle right off the record people were listening to on-air,” he laughed. “So you were pretty busy as a DJ back then, even though it didn’t pay much of anything.”

It wasn’t all about the pay, though. Jolly said his favorite part was digging into what really made radio tick.

“I liked the insider’s view – hearing music

before anyone else,” he said. “I liked learning about the radio business, the music industry, programming … it didn’t actually really matter to me whether or not I was even on the air.”

His gig at Tower 98 was also the gateway to a long succession of radio jobs for Jolly. He moved to Traverse City in 1983, working at The Cove Restaurant in Leelanau while he waited for a radio job to open up.

He ended up at WMZK (now WCCW): first as a DJ, then as music director. He’d arrived with a plan in mind: building his resume.

“The goal was to put in time in a smaller radio market, then go to a bigger market like Ann Arbor or Lansing,” said Jolly. “But I fell in love with it up here.”

He also got fired.

“In radio, they say you’re not really ‘in radio’ until you get fired, so I got fired from WMZK and got that part of my career over with,” he laughed.

Next up, he headed back downstate to WSGW in Saginaw, as part of a four-man morning team show.

“My job was to be out in the van – the ‘Rolling Radio’ – doing crazy things like fishing and pinbox car racing out in the community,” he said.

But popular music was starting to wear on Jolly.

“Eventually, I kind of soured on all of it for a while,” he said. “I thought, ‘Why am I playing the same music over and over?’ So I got into the news game.”

This began another rapid fire round of media gigs. First, he returned to Traverse City in 1986 for not one, but two jobs – doing afternoon news at WTCM, and at the same time doing morning news for northern Michigan ABC TV affiliate 29 & 8.

“Then I got tired of that, and thought, ‘Well, the salespeople look like they’re having fun,’” he said.

To WKHQ in Charlevoix he went, where he worked in sales for a year.

“It was a great education – but not my bag,” he said.

In 1991, it was back downstate, to do newscasts and a talk show with guests on WJIM

JimRadio in Lansing.

And then – are you dizzy yet? – he moved back up north.

“I just couldn’t stay away. I really wanted to live up in Traverse City,” Jolly said.

He took a temporary job selling advertisements on cable TV, but radio still had a hold on him. And all his experiments in other facets of the radio business were pointing him right back to one conclusion.

“I decided I wanted to be back on the air,” said Jolly.

He went to Lite 96 FM in Petoskey and became one half of the Jim and Jolly morning show, with fellow local radio personality Jim Scollin. In 1995, he returned to WTCM do their talk radio program.

“In 2000, I took a little break and joined the Michigan Talk Radio Network in Charlevoix for about 10 months, then went back again to WTCM – and I’ve been there ever since,” he said.

Somewhere in the middle of that circuitous route, Jolly got married to his wife Laura, and realized again how much he liked Traverse City and had no desire to leave.

“I decided that I was ready to settle here, and that I liked being on the air. WTCM is a great company, and my job now combines so much of what I’ve done – music, and news, and business,” he said. “So it’s a great fit.”

Talk radio fits Jolly like a well-tailored suit jacket. Precise yet warm, polite but pressing, his conversational style has graced more than 10,000 interviews to date: musicians Rosanne Cash and Bob James, as well as Ken Kragen, the man who put together the famed “We Are the World” recording in 1984; authors Mary Karr, Bruce Cameron, Lee Child, and Jack Driscoll; sports figures like former University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler and NHL All-Star captain John Scott; public figures like former astronaut Jerry Linenger, former Secret Service officer Clint Hill, former Navy Seal-turned-author Chuck Pfarrer, and Mt. Everest climber Lou Kasischke; politicians like former President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, former United States

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Sen. John McCain, former Gov. Mitt Romney, and, yes, President Donald Trump.

“I interviewed Trump back when ‘The Apprentice’ was on TV,” said Jolly, “and I jokingly said to him, ‘You know, our producer Brandon McAfee isn’t doing too great a job – could you fire him for us?’ So Trump said, ‘Brandon, this show is terrible because of you. You’re fired!’ and we kept that sound bite and played it whenever Brandon messed something up.”

But while he’s loathe to choose a favorite interview, or even a particular “bucket list” person he’d like to interview in the future, he admitted that on occasion, drawing out a good conversation is tougher than it might sound on-air.

“Some of the famous people, especially politicians, aren’t that memorable,” Jolly said.

“But talking to Laura Bush was neat – she’s a big book geek and stopped by the studio back in 2000, so it was neat to interview her in person. I also especially like talking to authors, since I’m a book geek myself.”

While it might seem that the next logical goal for this determined broadcaster would be another step up the radio ladder, he said his next plan is to simply find more time to read.

“I do have some ideas to freshen up my WTCM show – I used to do a feature called ‘Northern Michigan Trivia’ that people really liked, so I might bring it back – and of course what keeps the show fresh for me, personally, is the music element, playing segments of all kinds of music and talking about it,” he said.

With so much under his broadcasting belt, Jolly said his next big goal is to retire in four or five years.

“I plan to stay in Traverse City, read a lot more, do some volunteer work, and just enjoy having more time to relax,” he said.

In looking back at his storied career, Jolly says he has no regrets about any of it.

“Life is too short for regrets,” he said. “I just followed the road where it led.”

Listen to Ron Jolly weekday mornings from 7am10am on WTCM NewsTalk 580 Radio.

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By Al Parker It could be the setup for a corny joke: A former monk, an English professor and an advocate for senior citizens walks into a radio station.

It’s a joke that only word geeks attached to a long-running radio show would get.

“Words to the Wise” focuses on the foibles of the English language. It is co-hosted by former monk Michael J. Sheehan, who is also an English professor and member of the state Commission on Services to the Aging.

Affectionately known as “The Professor,” Sheehan has co-hosted the show with NewsTalk 580 WTCM morning host Ron Jolly for more than 16 years, for some 815 shows, airing each Tuesday at 9am.

It’s believed to be the only word-oriented show on commercial AM radio in the country, though there are similar shows on public radio, according to Sheehan.

Each Tuesday, for just less than an hour, callers light up the radio station’s switchboard to ask questions about quirks in the English language.

“Why do I park on a driveway, but drive on a parkway?”

“Where did the phrase ‘the whole nine yards’ come from?

“Why is there a “P” in pneumonia?”

And the most common question he gets: “Do I use affect or effect?”

These questions and more are usually answered on the spot by Sheehan, who taught English for 26 years in the City Colleges of Chicago.

Sometimes he’ll have to do some research and bring the answer back to listeners the following week.

“Tuesday from nine to 10am is the highlight of my week on the radio,” said Jolly, who has been on air in the 7am-10am time slot since 1995.

“I become a listener and understand why so many people look forward to the prof ’s program. He has a terrific sense of humor, a vast knowledge of English, Latin and language history, and a photographic

memory,” he said. “His golf game could use some help.”

So what makes the show so popular?

“Insecurity,” said Sheehan, who lives in Cedar with his wife Dona. “People want to know if they’re saying the word right; using it right.”

The radio show draws phone calls from listeners all over the WTCM broadcast area, who sometimes recognize him when he talks.

“I was walking through Munson [Medical Center] recently and talking with my wife,” Sheehan said. “All the sudden a nurse stopped me. ‘I recognize your voice,’ she said. ‘I love your show.’”

Sheehan is the author of several books on language and is working on the third edition of his dictionary, The Word Parts Dictionary, first published in 2000. He also has a language-related blog – verbmall. blogspot.com - that he updates regularly.

The 78-year-old grew up in Chicago reading the city’s vibrant newspapers of the 1950s and ’60s. It was the glory days of such Chicago-based writers as Mike Royko and Studs Terkel. At the age of 14, Sheehan joined the Order of St. Augustine. After 13 years as a monk, he was ordained as a priest in 1965.

Chicago in the 1960s was a turbulent cauldron of social change. In 1966, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of marchers into the all-white housing areas near Marquette Park, Sheehan was one of the marchers.

A crowd of some 4,000 Marquette Park residents gathered to watch the march and jeer, some throwing bottle, bricks and rocks at the marchers.

“I didn’t walk alongside Dr. King, but I was part of the march,” Sheehan said.

Church officials did not look kindly on Sheehan’s social activism and assigned him to a mostly black parish. After serving for another year or so he made a career shift.

“I left the order in 1967 because of the racism and sexism I had to deal with,” he said.

Sheehan soon landed a job teaching English at the City Colleges of Chicago’s Olive-Harvey College on the city’s south side.

“It’s a blue-collar community with a Sherwin-Williams paint plant, the Ford plant, other factories,” said Sheehan, who taught grammar and Shakespeare along with basic English classes.

Sheehan, who retired in 1994, has been married four times, losing two previous wives to cancer. He and Dona, an artist, searched the nation for the perfect retirement spot.

“We looked at Amherst, Mass., Park City, Utah and all over, but settled on Leelanau County,” he said.

They live quietly near Cedar, along with their 130-pound Bouvier des Flandres, Boo, whose formal moniker is Bucephalus, named after the prized horse of Alexander the Great.

In retirement, Sheehan quickly went to work looking for something besides his golf game to keep him busy. He soon got involved in myriad issues important to senior citizens. Recognizing his service on the local level, Gov. Jennifer Granholm appointed him to the state commission on services to the aging. He was reappointed by Gov. Rick Snyder.

“It’s very satisfying,” said Sheehan, whose job it is on the 15-member panel to give final approval to the senior citizens budget, involving $101 million a year.

“Region 19, our 10-county region, gets $14 million of that,” he said.

He’s able to schedule those duties around the radio show, which imparts knowledge not only to listeners, but to his co-host, too.

“He’s been a great friend and radio partner,” said Jolly, who says he’s “learned a lot from him.”

“Like the ‘T’ in often should not be pronounced and you ‘take’ something with you, but you ‘bring’ something home,” Jolly said. “There are a lot of awful puns out there.”

Exemplifying how much language means to him, Sheehan signs off each show with a nugget of wordy wisdom for listeners: “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”

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ALDEN HARVEST DAYS: Includes a pancake breakfast, kid’s scavenger hunt, cider & donuts being served, farmers’ market & more. visitalden.com

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MACKINAW FALL COLORS BRIDGE RUN: The 5.06 mile run will begin at Bridgeview Park at the north end of the Mackinac Bridge at 7am & end at Race Headquarters in Mackinaw City. mackinawcity.com/events/9thannual-fall-colors-bridge-run

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

-------------------SLEEPING BEAR MARATHON: Empire.

Featuring a marathon, half marathon & 5K. Different events have various starting times.

All events FULL. enduranceevolution.com/ sleeping-bear-marathon-half-marathon-5k

-------------------LEIF ERIKSSON DAY ROW & RUN: 9am, Depot Beach/Ferry Beach, Charlevoix. A 1 mile boat race & 5K foot race to celebrate the life of Leif Eriksson & the viking way. Benefits F.A.C.E.S. Orphan and Foster Program. $25. facebook.com/rowandrun

-------------------24TH TCTC ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE RUN: 10am, Timber Ridge RV Recreation Resort, TC. Registration: 8-9:30am; Health Fair: 8-11am; Silent Auction: 8-11:15am; 5K & 1-mile Race/Run/Walk: 10am. Benefits The Women’s Cancer Fund. $35 advance; $40 day of. remembrancerun.com

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Oct. 14 Broadway’s Next Hit Musical Broadway’s Next Hit Musical is the world’s only unscripted theatrical awards show.

Improvised on the spot from beginning to end, the talented professional cast gathers song suggestions from the audience and creates a spontaneous series of songs based on those suggestions. The audience then votes for their favorite song and watches as the cast turns it into a full-blown improvised musical - complete with memorable characters, witty dialogue and plot twists galore.

DRAW NOMI: DRAW ER: 10am-4pm. A day of drawing together anywhere in Elk Rapids.

Artists are welcome to use supplies provided

by Art Rapids, or they may use their own materials. Pick up info & drawing supplies at 113 River Street, next to Stoney Cabin Toys. Free. dennosmuseum.org/events/draw-nomi.html

-------------------ELK RAPIDS ART BEAT: 10am-5pm, Elk Rapids. Three of northern Michigan’s award winning galleries will be participating in this open house gallery walk. Featuring guest artists & demonstrations. Galleries include: The Blue Heron Gallery, Mullaly’s 128 Studio & Gallery & The Twisted Fish Gallery.

-------------------FALL SALE & HAPPY APPLE DAYS: Downtown TC. Merchants will have bushels of local apples to share with their customers. downtowntc.com/event/happy-apple-days-fall-sale

-------------------MICHIGAN MOUNTAIN MAYHEM GRAVEL GRINDER: Rotary Park, Boyne City. Featuring 18 mile, 40 mile & 60 mile races. Different races have various starting times. michiganmountainmayhem.com/mmmgravelgrinder

-------------------SKITOBERFEST: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Featuring a Winter Expo with speaker Karly Shorr; Kids’ Zone with pony rides, art projects & more; live music & performances, free chairlift rides, mSnow Tubing Lane; KHQ Pond Pedal, Biergarten; Rail Jam; Pray for Snow Bonfire; Parade; & Afterparty.

Free. boyne.com/boynemountain

-------------------8TH ANNUAL GREAT LAKES GLASS PUMPKIN PATCH DAY: 11am-7pm, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. Co-sponsored with Boyer Glassworks. threepinesstudio.com

-------------------CHATEAU CHANTAL 18TH ANNUAL HARVEST FESTIVAL: 12-4pm, Chateau Chantal, TC. 1pm: Mini Slurpin’ Seminar – Learn the basics of wine tasting. 2pm: Grape Stompin’ – Crush grapes the old-fashioned way; with your feet! 3pm: Mini Distillation Seminar. Plus much more. Free. goo.gl/P2PvXE

-------------------tickets.interlochen.org 800.681.5920

DRAW NOMI: LINDA O’MEARA DAY OF THE ARTS: 12-4pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Local partners & artists will be on hand to help inspire your work, whether it’s a drawing, painting, dance, or performance. Free. dennosmuseum.org/events/draw-nomi.html

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Multiple Grammy Award winner Olivia Newton-John, Grammy nominee Beth Nielsen Chapman, and SOCAN Award winner Amy Sky share their journeys at the City Opera House, TC on Thurs., Oct. 12 at 7:30pm when they perform songs from their album, LIV ON. This concert is a journey of remembrance, inspiration and hope. Tickets start at $35.50. cityoperahouse.org

EMPIRE HOPS & HARVEST FESTIVAL: 12-10pm, Downtown Empire, big tent on Front St. Featuring northern MI food & drinks, live performances & more. $15. empirechamber. com/event/empire-hops-festival

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 12-2pm: W.B. Weber will sign his book, “A Planet Called Wormwood”. 2-4pm: Poetry Reading with Zilka Joseph, author of “Sharp Blue Search of Flame”. 4-6pm: Dave Hendrix will sign his book, “The Fifth Finger”. 6-8pm: Patricia Batta will sign her book, “A Death in Cactus City”. horizonbooks.com

-------------------FREE COMMUNITY FALL FESTIVAL: 12:30pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Free hay rides to the pumpkin patch, where children can pick their own pumpkin free of charge, along with games, crafts, face painting, a bounce house, hotdogs, cider, donuts & more. Free. fcctc.org/promo/2.php

-------------------HARBOR SPRINGS BREW FESTIVAL: 1-5pm, Harbor Springs Waterfront. Featuring 25 breweries with nearly 100 different types of craft beers, hard ciders & mead beverages. There will also be live music by Jelly Roll Blues Band & more. $10; includes 2 drink tickets & a commemorative drink cup. harborspringsbeerfest.com

-------------------PADLE ANTRIM COMMUNITY PADDLE: 1:30pm, Bradford St. Boat Launch, South Thurston Park, Central Lake. Bring your own craft/boat, paddle, & pfd (life jacket). Free. paddleantrim.com/events-calendar

tary. Writer/producer George Colburn will be present to introduce the program with Q & As to follow. General admission, $10; students & seniors, $5. Free to Bay View residents.

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HARVEST AT THE COMMONS: SOLD OUT: 5pm, Grounds of GT Commons, TC. Featuring a three-course family-style meal prepared by TC’s Harvest Restaurant & NMC Culinary Institute, as well as a selection of regional wine, beer & cocktails. There will also be live music

by Grupo Ayé. Presented by the Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities. groundworkcenter.org/events/harvest-thecommons

-------------------BASEMENT ART SHOW: 6-10pm, Studio Anatomy, TC. Showcasing art typically not seen in the community. The group art exhibition is featuring 6 Traverse City artists: Jenni Marion Manian, Jen Culberson, Savannah Rae, Steve Cattin, Dana Stepke, & Nick Walsh. Free.

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“THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE”: 7pm, TC West Senior High School. Featuring an eclectic group of kids competing for the spelling championship of a lifetime, the tweens disclose stories from their home lives while they spell their way through a series of words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing “ding” of the bell.With Music Theater International (MTI). 933-7509 or tcwestchoirs@gmail.com $15. mynorthtickets.com

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ANNUAL ELK RAPIDS ROTARY SHOW: 7pm, Elk Rapids High School, Peterman Auditorium.

A Saturday Night Live show featuring The Blues Brothers, Cone Heads & more SNL characters, along with the chorus & Steve Stargardt & the Elk Rapids Rotary Band. The Elk Rapids Lions Club will be serving dinner both evenings in the Elk Rapids High School Cafeteria from 5-7pm for $11. $10 per person. elkrapidsrotary.org

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MEREDITH WILSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium.

Presented by The Cadillac Footliters. There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. $12 advance; $15 door. cadillacfootliters.com

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BOOK SIGNING WITH STEVE PAUL: 2-4pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Author of “Hemingway at Eighteen”. mcleanandeakin. com/event/author-event-steve-paul MEREDITH WILSON’S “THE MUSIC MAN”: 2pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium.

Presented by The Cadillac Footliters. There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. $12 advance; $15 door. cadillacfootliters.com “YOUNG HEMINGWAY & HIS ENDURING EDEN”: 3-5pm, Bay View Association, Voorhies Hall, Petoskey. A new feature documen-

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-------------------REVOLUTION WHERE YOU LIVELUTION: 7pm, Trinity UCC Church, Northport. Belko

Peace Lecture features Sarah Van Gelder, cofounder of Yes magazine & author of “Revolution Where You Live Will”. She will speak about her 12,000 mile trip throughout the U.S. where she explored how local communities are bringing climate justice, economic justice & racial justice to their communities. Free.

-------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK 6: 7-11pm, Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds, TC. Featuring The Family Friendly Haunted Wagon Ride, Haunted Trail, Monster Museum, Swamp Of Suffering, Pandemonium & Grimfell Manor.

Trail & Hayride Combo: $5 any age. All Attractions Combo: $10 11 & under; $15 12 & up.

-------------------ANDREAS KLEIN - SOLO PIANIST: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. $10 students; $25 members; $35 non-members. crookedtree.org

-------------------MARTIN & SUSANNE : 7:30pm, The Rhubarbary, 3550 Five Mile Creek Rd., Harbor Springs.

Enjoy American roots, early blues, old time & honky tonk music with this duo. 231-499-8038. $20 donation or whatever you can afford. martingrosswendt.com/martin-and-susanne

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sunday

ALDEN HARVEST DAYS: Includes a farmers market, Vintage Car Show, sales & more. visitalden.com

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BRIDAL EXPO: 12-3pm, Mackinaw Reception & Conference Center, Mackinaw City. Presented by NorthernMIWeddings.com To register or for more info, email: cwing@petoskeynews.com or call 231-330-6833.

-------------------CAMP DAGGETT FALL FESTIVAL: 12-5pm, Camp Daggett, Walloon Lake. Featuring pumpkin painting, stone painting, live music, nature hikes, boat color tour & much more. $5 per carload entrance fee. campdaggett.org

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PUMPKIN FEST: 12-4pm, Jolly Pumpkin Restaurant, Brewery & Distillery, TC. Featuring live music, sack races, apple bobbing, a harvest buffet & more. $15 adults, $5 kids. jollypumpkin.com/jp/traverse-city-brewery

-------------------VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS COLLEGE FAIR: 1-3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dennison Center for Recreation & Wellness. interlochen.org Free. tickets.interlochen.org

-------------------AUTHOR READING/TALK: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. With Steve Paul, author of “Hemingway at Eighteen”. horizonbooks.com

-------------------SHANTY BOYS, SWAMPERS & RIVER HOGS: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Lumbering in the Alden/Torch Lake Area, 1860 to 1910. Presented by Jim McClurg. 231-331-4318.

-------------------AN AFTERNOON WITH AN AUTHOR: 3-5pm, Cellar 152, Elk Rapids. Featuring Cynthia Williams. elkrapidslibrary.org

-------------------BENZIE AREA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT: 4pm, Benzie Central High School Auditorium, Benzonia. Featured artist will be Dr. Angela Lickiss Aleo, principal oboe. $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students. benziesymphony.com

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MUSIC HOUSE FALL FUNDRAISER: 6pm, Music House Museum, Williamsburg. “Hitting the High Notes” with Miriam Pico & David Chown.

Also includes food, a silent auction & more. $65 each or $120/couple. musichouse.org

oct 09

monday

FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Frankfort & Elberta, Oct. 9-14. Featuring a “Cloudvitational,” a Chef Invitational Beer Dinner, State of Michigan Hops & Grains Presenta-

tion, Paints & Pints, Beer & Food Pairing Workshops, & much more. frankfortbeerweek.com

her sightseeing tour among fjords, waterfalls, volcanoes, glaciers, sheep & puffin. Free.

2017 THIRLBY EXPO-MARCHING BAND EXHIBITION: 5pm, Thirlby Field, TC. Presented by TC Central High School Marching Band.

Local students & bands from around northern MI show off their musical talent & marching skills on the field. Tickets are available at the gate. Info: TCAPS Music Office: 933-7570. $3 children/student w/ID, $5 adults, $10 family.

COMMUNITY MEDITATION & SATSANG: 7-8:30pm, Higher Self Bookstore, TC. Free. higherselfbookstore.com

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-------------------HEMINGWAY DINNER @ RADUNO: 7pm, Raduno, TC. Hemingway At Eighteen, Dinner & Book Signing with author Steve Paul. Includes a three course, family style meal featuring fish, game meats & produce native to northern MI & a signed copy of Steve’s book, “Hemingway At Eighteen, The Pivotal Year that Launched an American Legend”. $85 plus tax. eventbrite.com

-------------------MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: 7pm, McLaren Northern Michigan, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey.

Virtual Grocery Store Tour: Tour a grocery store, read labels, & pick out healthy food choices from the comfort of the meeting room. mclaren.org

-------------------REIKI SHARE: 7-8:30pm, Higher Self Bookstore, TC. Free. higherselfbookstore.com

oct 10

tuesday

FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 9)

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CADILLAC HORIZON BOOKS’ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Horizon Books, Cadillac, Oct. 10-14. Today is Children’s Day. Mayor Carla Filkins will read a story; children’s authors will present their books with games, drawings & activities; & there will be a scavenger hunt with prizes, as well as DARE children’s fingerprinting. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

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LIVING LIFE AFTER CANCER TREATMENT: 11am, Munson Community Health Center, Rm. A&B, TC. Hosted by the Munson Community Health Library. Featuring Kelley Nash, PT, DPT & Jill Slagal, PT, MS. Register: LibraryMCHCCommunityHealth@mhc.net or 9359265. Free. munsonhealthcare.org

-------------------R.C. ROBOTHAM, “FROM THE ASHES”: 1pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. Join author & Benzonia native R.C. Robotham as he discusses his second book. benzonialibrary.org

-------------------MUNSON HOSPICE GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: 3pm, Samaritas Senior Living Facility, Acme. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss are understood. Share your story & learn from others. munsonhomehealth.org

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NATIVE LANDSCAPING WITH THE MASTER GARDENERS: 5-7pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Help the Master Gardeners prepare the woodland gardens for planting.

-------------------COLLEGE & CAREER NIGHT: 6-8pm, Hagerty Conference Center, TC. Hosted by Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District & NMC. High school students of all ages & their families are invited to attend this free event to explore college & military service options. Pre-register. gotocollegefairs.com

-------------------UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGES OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER: 6-7:30pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center’s Basement Conference Room, TC. Speakers Lisa Hughes, D.O. & Jacki Lasich, L.M.S.W., CTP, OSW-C.

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TREKKING & RING ROAD SIGHTSEEING IN ICELAND: 6:30pm, Backcountry North, US 31, TC. Sara Cockrell will share her slideshow presentation. Featuring adventures from her trek with Icelandic Mtn Guides from Landmannalaugar to Dorsmork & Skogar, in addition to

--------------------------------------WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY EVENT: 7-9pm, West Side Community Church, TC. “No More Faking Fine: Ending the Pretending.” Featuring Goodwill Street Outreach Coordinator & Lead Moderator - All Star Community Panel Ryan Hannon. Joining Ryan are Chris Hindbaugh, Cynthia Petersen, Randie Clawson, Grant Porteous, Brandalyn Morris & Diana Kendros. heartofhopeevent.com

-------------------“GROWING VEGGIES, BEES, & COMMUNITY 52 WEEKS A YEAR AT BEAR CREEK ORGANIC FARM”: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, Harbor Springs. Presented by the Petoskey Regional Audubon Society. Brian Bates, owner of Bear Creek Organic Farm, will share Bear Creek’s journey as Petoskey’s first USDA Certified Organic Farm & more. Free.

oct 11

wednesday

FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 9)

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HOMETOWN HEROES VETERANS APPRECIATION: 9:30am. Buses will depart from the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station, TC for a guided tour of the monuments & memorials in the area that have been built to remember those who have served our country in the armed forces. There will also be a ceremony at 11:15am at Veterans Memorial City Park, located in the GT Commons. The event closes with a lunch for the veterans & a program at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station. Free for veterans & one guest, but advance registration is required. 922-4911.

-------------------CADILLAC HORIZON BOOKS’ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Horizon Books, Cadillac, Oct. 10-14. Today is Outdoors Day. Featuring author presentations & displays depicting MI outdoors. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

-------------------PICKY EATERS TIPS & TRICKS: 11am, Munson Community Health Center, Rm. A&B, TC. The Munson Community Health Library is hosting the program, “Helping Our Young Picky Eaters & Problem Feeders,” with Patty Flynn, MS, OTR/L. Register. 935-9265. Free. munsonhealthcare.org

oct 12

thursday

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CADILLAC HORIZON BOOKS’ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Horizon Books, Cadillac, Oct. 10-14. Today is Poetry Day & features a poetry contest. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

-------------------ARTS FOR ALL FALL LUNCHEON: 12pm, Historic Barns Park, TC. Enjoy a catered lunch & find out about A4A programs & updates. Free. eventbrite.com

-------------------GT MUSICALE PERFORMANCE: 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Cheryl Knight & the Elk Rapids Music Makers & a scholarship winner will perform. Refreshments follow the program. Free. gtmusicale.org

-------------------THE QUIET MOOSE’S CARING FOR THE ARTS COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER: 5-8pm, The Quiet Moose, Petoskey. Enjoy an evening of food, wine & inspiration for the upcoming holiday season while meeting caterers, florists & designers. Twenty percent of the night’s sales will benefit Crooked Tree programming. $25 suggested donation.

OCTOBER BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:307:30pm, Leelanau Christian Neighbors, 7322 E. Duck Lake Rd., Lake Leelanau.

-------------------WINTER WEATHER TRAINING 101: 6:308pm, Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Empire.

Learn more about winter weather in the Great Lakes at this presentation by meteorologists from the National Weather Service. Free. nps. gov/slbe/index.htm

-------------------“THE ART OF CHASING TRANE”: 6:45pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. The John Coltrane Documentary by John Scheinfeld.

Set against the social, political & cultural landscape of the times, “Chasing Trane” brings saxophone great John Coltrane to life, as a man & an artist. Presented by Indy Lens Pop-Up. The NMC Jazz Quintet will perform a brief set & discuss Coltrane’s influence on the genre. Free. dennosmuseum.org

-------------------SOCIAL MEDIA 101: 7pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. Featuring Jean Hardy, social media researcher from the University of Michigan & former researcher at Facebook. benzonialibrary.org

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ARTISTS FROM INTERLOCHEN AT KIRKBRIDE HALL: 7:30pm, Kirkbride Hall, GT Commons, TC. Faculty Chamber Music - “Constellations.” Featuring a collection of emotive chamber music by Stravinsky, Takemitsu & more. $25 full; $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

-------------------LIV ON: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN & AMY SKY: 7:309pm, City Opera House, TC. Featuring songs such as “Stone In My Pocket” & “My Heart Goes Out To You,” this concert is a journey of remembrance, inspiration & hope. Tickets start at $35.50. cityoperahouse.org/liv-on

oct 13

friday

FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Man., Oct. 9)

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CADILLAC HORIZON BOOKS’ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Horizon Books, Cadillac, Oct. 10-14. Featuring author signings/talks/presentations & book drawing. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

-------------------CHARLEVOIX APPLE FESTIVAL: Downtown Charlevoix, Oct. 13-15. Featuring more than 30 varieties of apples, a fall farmers market, food booths, art & craft show, kids activities & more. visitcharlevoix.com/Apple-Festival

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am: Story Hour: Pumpkins. Hear stories & do some activities & a craft. 5-8pm: Local Authors.

Marina Call, author of “Eastbound, I Think,” will be giving chess lessons. Lisa Maxbauer Price, author of “Squash Boom Beet,” will lead a community pumpkin carving event. A.V. Walters will be a gypsy fortune-teller, mining futures through Cartouche cards. horizonbooks.com

-------------------STORYTIME AT LELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARY: 10:30am. Stories & play designed to promote joy & growth in literacy. Children ages 0-6 & their caregivers welcomed. Free. lelandlibrary.org

-------------------FALL LUNCHEON LECTURE: 11:30am, NCMC’s Library conference room, Petoskey.

“Thriving Petoskey”: Carlin Smith, Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce president, will explain how businesses can enhance the quality of life while improving their bottom line.

Reserve your spot: 231-348-6600. $12.

-------------------TRUNK SHOW WITH FIBER ARTIST CHRIS TRIOLA: 1-5pm, Michigan Artists Gallery, TC. Using a variety of artistic techniques, including drawing, painting & collage, Chris creates the fabric designs & garment patterns for her cotton knit jackets. michiganartistsgallery.com

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ATS TAILGATE & FUNDRAISER: 3pm, 1010 Garfield, TC. To kickoff the upcoming Swingshift and the Stars fundraising event, there will be an ATS Tailgate BBQ Fundraiser. Food, refreshments, tours of the new facility & a dunk tank. Free. Find on Facebook.

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COSTUME CREATION LAB: 3-7pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. Kids can create their own costumes & accessories out of second hand clothing, cardboard, fabric, beads, & more. Free. benzonialibrary.org

-------------------5TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY PARAFEST: 4:45pm, The Terrace Inn, Petoskey. littletraversebayparafest.webs.com

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FIBER FESTIVAL: 5-7:30pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Sponsored by the Leelanau Community Cultural Center. Artists with original fiber art will exhibit & sell their work in mediums of wearable art, textiles, weaving, art quilts, fiber sculpture, knits & yarns. Free admission. oldartbuilding.com

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BRAS FOR A CAUSE TC: 5:30pm, Streeters, TC. The recipients of the funds raised at this year’s event will be the Munson Healthcare Breast Care Assistance Fund and Single MOMM. $20 advance; $25 door. brasforacausetc.com

-------------------“THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE”: (See Sat., Oct. 7)

-------------------BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINICONCERT SERIES: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring Kelly Shively & AnnMarie Rowland, who write & sing about the things they know: love, loss, family, friendship, home & dirt. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 night of. Students, $8; 12 & under, $5. redskystage.com

-------------------NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. A Conversation with Terry McDonell & Guest Host Doug Stanton. An ‘Accident’ Worth a Thousand Words. General admission, $15.50. nationalwritersseries.org

-------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK 6: (See Sat., Oct. 7) -------------------AN ADULT EVENING OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN AT THE DEPOT: 7:30-9:30pm, Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre & The Depot, TC. A collection of short plays with the gleeful & sometimes ghoulish grown-up humor of Shel Silverstein. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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saturday

5TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY PARAFEST: The Terrace Inn, Petoskey. littletraversebayparafest.webs.com

------------------FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 9) -------------------TRITOFINISH: 8am, Otsego County Park, Gaylord. Half marathon, 10K, 5K & 1 mile. tritofinish.com

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5K FARM DAY: 9am, PEACE Ranch, TC. This family-friendly fall fundraiser will start with a 3.1 mile run/walk or wagon ride through the Pere Marquette forest that surrounds Hoosier Valley.

Featuring a pumpkin patch, wagon rides, ranch tours, lunch, & horse demonstrations from 10am-2pm. Benefits the needs of the PEACE Ranch horses. Race registration, $20. peaceranchtc.com/events/5kfarmday

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FREE TRAINING IN RAPE AVOIDANCE & SELF-DEFENSE: 9am-3pm, The Rock, Kingsley. For ages 15 - college age. Conducted by black-belt instructors from Covenant Defense.

Sponsored by Zonta Club of TC. Free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis to those who reserve a spot by calling 231-263-7000.

-------------------CADILLAC HORIZON BOOKS’ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Horizon Books, Cadillac, Oct. 10-14. Today is Celebration Day

with author signings & presentations all day. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

-------------------CHARLEVOIX APPLE FESTIVAL: (See Fri., Oct. 13)

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FALL COLOR WALK: 10am, Louis Groen Preserve, Johannesburg. Also enjoy cider, donuts & crafts for kids. 989-731-0573. Free.

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FIBER FESTIVAL: 10am-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Sponsored by the Leelanau Community Cultural Center. Artists with original fiber art will exhibit & sell their work in mediums of wearable art, textiles, weaving, art quilts, fiber sculpture, knits & yarns. Free admission. oldartbuilding.com

-------------------MAY FARM PASTURE WALK: 10am-2pm, May’s pasture on the corner of Graves & Lobb roads, Frankfort. “Transforming Landscapes with Livestock.” Presented by the Benzie Conservation District & the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Learn about practices such as grass-fed genetics; holistic management; multi-species grazing for sustainable farming & much more. Lunch will be provided. Pre-register: 231-882-4391. Suggested donation: $5.

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OCTOBER-DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH EVENT: 10am-12pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Parent/child interactive outreach.

Learn about dyslexia.

ment or listen in. therockofkingsley.com

-------------------“THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE”: (See Sat., Oct. 7)

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BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: 7pm, Solon Township Hall, Cedar. Contra-dance lesson for beginners from 7-7:30pm; contra & square dancing from 7:30-10:30pm. $11 adult, $7 student, $9 member. dancetc.com

-------------------ROCK ‘N ROLL BENEFIT FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS: 7-9pm, East Jordan United Methodist Church. The Stale Crackers Band will play 50’s & 60’s music during this evening of dancing & socializing. Free will donation.

Michigan. Festivities begin at 6pm with check-in & “Best in Glow” awards. There will also be an after-glow party. $35 adults, $20 12 & under. hom.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1160&pg=entry

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AN ADULT EVENING OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN AT THE DEPOT: (See Fri., Oct. 13)

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ONEKAMA FREE FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL: 10am-4pm, Onekama Village Park. Featuring an arts & crafts show, pet parade/costume contest, hay rides, bull train, & much more. onekama.info

TC CARES DAY 2017: 10am-2pm, Sojourn Church, TC. A FREE one-day health & wellness clinic offering medical, optical, chiropractic, physical therapy screenings & care; haircuts, family photos, a warm meal, manicures & spiritual counseling; winter outerwear.

MARK MANDEVILLE & RAIANNE RICHARDS: 7:30pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. This folk duo has shared the stage with Garnet Rogers, Melanie Safka, Eric Brace & Peter Cooper, John Gorka, & many others. 231-8829510. $15 advance; $20 door.

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TRUNK SHOW WITH FIBER ARTIST CHRIS TRIOLA: 11am-5pm, Michigan Artists Gallery, TC. Using a variety of artistic techniques, including drawing, painting & collage, Chris creates the fabric designs & garment patterns for her cotton knit jackets. michiganartistsgallery.com

-------------------13TH ANNUAL CHILI COOK OFF: 11:30am1:30pm, Charlevoix United Methodist Church.

Seven of the area’s favorite restaurants vie for the title of “Best Chili”. All you can eat.

-------------------16TH ANNUAL PUMPKIN PATCH: 12-3pm, Gaylord Area Elks Lodge. For ages 0-12.

Children receive a pumpkin, cider, doughnuts, hotdogs, hayrides, face painting, coloring contest & more. 989-732-2793. Free.

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 12-2pm: Author Signing & Legacy Workshop with Carol Paukstis, author of “The Sun is Awake”. 2-4pm: David Q. Hall will sign his book “Death Comes to the Rector”. 4-6pm: Brooke Shaffer will sign her book “Time to Kill”. horizonbooks.com

-------------------MACKINAW TRAIL WINERY HARVEST FESTIVAL: 12-7pm, Mackinaw Trail Winery & Brewery, Petoskey. Featuring a pig roast, a grape stomp, live music, & wine, beer, & cider. mackinawtrailwinery.com

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TC CIDER WEEK: Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC, Oct. 14-21. The 2nd Annual Cider & Sausage Salon takes place on Sun., Oct. 15 from 1-5pm. $30 advance; $35 door. mynorthtickets.com FAMILY PUMPKIN CARVING: 2pm, Elk Rapids District Library. elkrapidslibrary.com

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3RD ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET 5K & FUN RUN: 4-7pm, Gregory/Miezio Farm, Suttons Bay. Proceeds benefit Leelanau Montessori’s Capital Campaign to raise funds to purchase & renovate the Connie Binsfeld Building in Lake Leelanau. leelanaumontessori.org

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ROCK N JAM COMMUNITY PLAY-ALONG: 4:30-8pm, The Rock, Kingsley. Bring an instru-

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THE OUT’N’BACK: 8:45am, Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC. There will be two groups: one doing the course in 2 hours & the other planning to complete the course in 2:30-2:50, with a regroup at Williamsburg Road.

Find on Facebook.

-------------------TRI UP-NORTH: 9am, Frankfort Open Space.

Featuring 10 or 22 mile options. The 10 mile includes a six mile bike ride, one mile paddle & three mile run. The 22 mile involves a 14 mile bike ride, two mile paddle & six mile run. triupnorth.com

-------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK 6: (See Sat., Oct. 7) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHARLEVOIX APPLE FESTIVAL: (See Fri., MEMORIAL 5K “GLOW RUN”: 7:15pm, 410 Oct. 13) Bridge St., Elk Rapids. Benefits Hospice of --------------------

BROADWAY’S NEXT HIT MUSICAL: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. An unscripted theatrical awards show.

Improvised on the spot from beginning to end, the professional cast gathers song suggestions from the audience & creates a spontaneous series of songs based on those suggestions. $33. tickets.interlochen.org

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-------------------COMEDY FOR COMMUNITY: 8pm, Horizon Books, TC. Featuring Cassandra Chase, Dave Basey, Matt Verilli, Chava Bahle, Ben Macks & Ellen Wesley. horizonbooks.com

-------------------FRESHWATER CONCERTS: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery & Concert Venue, Boyne City.

Featuring The Chenille Sisters. $35 advance; $40 door. freshwaterartgallery.com

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TERRI CLARK: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. This eight-time CCMA Entertainer of the Year will perform her platinum-selling country hits. Tickets start at $25. lrcr.com

TC COOKIE RIDE: 11:45am, Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC. For all kids & their families. Featuring 1, 3, 6, 7, & 15 mile routes. Presented by Norte. elgruponorte.org/cookie

-------------------TC CIDER WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 14) -------------------AN ADULT EVENING OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN AT THE DEPOT: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre & The Depot, TC. A collection of short plays with the gleeful & sometimes ghoulish grown-up humor of Shel Silverstein. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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HUMAN NATURE SCHOOL’S ANNUAL HOEDOWN FUNDRAISER: 2-7pm, Twin Lakes Park & Gilbert Lodge, TC. Music from Ruby John & Sue Wood with contra dance instruction by Patricia Reeser; $10/person; $15/family. humannatureschool.org

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ENCORE WINDS PRESENTS “THE SPIRIT OF THE LAND”: 3pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Experience melody, harmony & rhythm with Encore directed by Dr. Tim Topolewski, featuring Anne Bara, clarinet. Adults $15; seniors & students $10; 12 & under free. encorewinds.org

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HISTORY OF FOOD EVENT: 3-5pm, Raven Hill, Evolving Technology Building, East Jordan.

Includes fare from a variety of time periods including bread & water in the Depression, tea cakes in the American Victorian & foods from ancient Greece, Rome & Egypt. Catered by A Matter of Taste of Ellsworth & proceeds will help support Raven Hill programs for the 2017-18 school year.

231-536-3369. $28. mynorth.com

-------------------MARK MANDEVILLE & RAIANNE RICHARDS: 4pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. 9479213. $20 advance; $25 door. 947-9213.

FOURSCORE by kristi kates

THURSDAY

Trivia nite • 7-9pm

FRIDAY FISH FRY

All you can eat perch $10.99

Hiss Golden Messenger – Hallelujah Anyhow – Merge

FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS for all Home Team Sporting Events.

The title says it all, especially in our current turmoiled times. For M.C. Taylor, it’s all about making the best of things, perhaps being even a little celebratory in spite of them at times. So what better to craft than this album of determined audio approaches to hope? “Lost Out in the Darkness” lets its guidepost be the late ’60s coffeehouse sounds of harmonica, while “Gulfport” sways its way through its own version of optimism; each track looks for its own road through all of this, unified by the stories behind them.

231-941-2276 121 S. Union St. • TC. www.dillingerspubtc.com

The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful – Island

The Vegas indie-rock outfit is on its fifth studio album, which the band has been hyping up this year with key headlining spots at Lollapalooza, Voodoo Fest, and more, but that’s not the only reason there’s a buzz around the set. The real reason are these songs, catchy slices of Talking Heads-inspired confection (e.g., “The Man”) that make the best of singer Brandon Flowers’ penchant for overthe-top vocal lines and the band’s way with a dramatic hook, most glaringly gleeful on the title track and “Life to Come.”

231-922-7742 121 S. Union St. • TC. www.dillingerspubtc.com

Fall Fling Jazz Concert Sunday, October 22

Cherryland Jazz Society Brings The Cakewalkin’ Jass Band From Toledo to The Grand Traverse Yacht Club Admission $15 • Food $14 • Open Bar Doors Open at 2:30pm, Music From 3 to 5:30pm

Reservations Necessary • Call 231-223-4193 or 231-947-9334 or online cherrylandjazzsociety.org

29th Annual

Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017 | 8:30 am - 2 pm

Cut Copy – Haiku from Zero – Astralwerks

Traverse City Elks Club 625 Bay Street, Traverse City, MI 49684

Back after four years with nary a studio album in the interim, the Australian quartet offers up both a witty album title and a collection of whip-smart pop compositions. Although a couple of them skew a little too far off the rails, the majority of the album coalesces nicely, from the danceably faint OingoBoingo echoes of “Living Upside Down” to the set’s energetic first single “Airborne,” with its rubbery bass line, cooperative ’80s-disco drumbeats, and the perfectly contrasting grit of the guitar riffs.

Recovery Plus is an annual conference for women who have had or who are currently living with breast cancer.

Participants will enjoy a continental breakfast, special “pampering” session, informative presentations, lunch, and a fashion show.

Circa Survive – The Amulet Import – Hopeless

Prog-popsters Circa is walking that ever-elusive tightrope between retaining a signature sound and continuing to be resourceful in chasing new versions of that sound — and it succeeds ably with this album.

With equal hints of Paul Simon’s folkiness and Bjork’s weirdness (both cited as influences by the band itself), you’ll find yourself drawn to repeated listens of tracks like “Tunnel Vision,” “Stay,” and “Never Tell a Soul” to try and listen more closely to the alien hums and cryptically apocalyptic lyrics.

Guest speakers include: Leah A. Carlson, MD Updates in Breast Imaging — Indications, Pros, and Cons of 3D Tomosynthesis and Screening Breast MRI

Mary Raymer, LMSW, ACSW, DPNAP Why it Really Should be All About You — Fighting Breast Cancer in Your Mind The event is sponsored by the Zonta Club of Traverse City and Munson Healthcare’s Breast Cancer Navigator Program.

Cost is $30. Register by Oct. 11 online at munsonhealthcare.org/RecoveryPlus2017event or call 800-533-5520.

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PITBULL’S PRIVATE PLANE HELPS PUERTO RICO Pitbull has joined the list of celebs stepping up to help our neighbors in Puerto Rico as the island tries to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Maria and Irma. THe rapper has sent his own private plane to the island to help move cancer patients to the U.S. so they can continue their chemotherapy.

Pitbull said he’s “blessed to help, and is just doing his part.” Other entertainers who are helping the cause include Jennifer Lopez and “Despacito” singer Daddy Yankee, who have donated $1 million each to the cause. A long list of other musical talents have been working on fundraising efforts, including Ed Sheeran, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bruno Mars, Ricky Martin, and Marc Anthony …

Lollapalooza Chile (lollapaloozacl.com), Lollapalooza Argentina (lollapaloozaar.com), and Lollapalooza Brasil (lollapaloozabr.com) are set to return in 2018, with all three being expanded to three-day festivals. Chile’s fest will take place March 16–18 in Santiago; Argentina’s will happen on those same dates in Buenos Aires; and Brasil’s will take place March 23–25 in São Paulo. THe headliners will be similar among the three events, with several already announced, including The Killers, Imagine Dragons, LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Rey, Chance the Rapper, The National, and more.

Sounds like a pretty good trio of excuses for a

MODERN

Pitbull

ROCK

BY KRISTI KATES

spring vacation to South America …

DJ Khaled has been tapped as the host for this year’s 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards, in what will be his second year hosting the big event; Khaled, Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Chance the Rapper, Future, and Migos are among those topping the nominations list for the ceremonies, which will take place in Miami at the Jackie Gleason THeater in THe Fillmore Miami Beach. Want to see who gets which award, whether you’re rooting for Single of the Year, Best Hip Hop Video, or MVP? You can tune in to BET on Oct. 10 to watch the presentation and the performances …

Graham Parsons, best known Up North as Graham Parsons and The Go Rounds in addition to his solo music work, has purchased a house he has rented in Kalamazoo from his prior landlords. He is now raising funds to make improvements and additions to the property to utilize it as a community resource and education center, a hub for emerging professional musicians, and a “safe space” for youth to work on music and other endeavors with the help of pro mentors. Dubbed “THe Walnut House” after the street the house resides on, the property has already hosted the likes of Fiona Dickinson, Luke Winslow King, Billy Strings, the Kansas Bible Company, and all the members of The Go Rounds over the years as the musicians have passed through town for various gigs …

Lucky Since 1882

Smooch the moose at the oldest restaurant in Michigan!

SLEDER’S FAMILY TAVERN 717 Randolph St. | Traverse City, Michigan sleders.com website 231.947.9213 info TWEET WITH RANDOLPH!

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LINK OF THE WEEK The Voice is back for its brand new season on NBC TV every Monday and Tuesday night, with a whole new round of contestants vying for the attention of Voice coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Miley Cyrus, and new coach Jennifer Hudson — so what better time to check out the coaches getting bamboozled by none other than Neil Patrick Harris? Check out the hilarious Voice audition that wasn’t, at http://tinyurl.com/y8thpsu6 …

THE BUZZ Detroit Public Television will present its 3rd Annual Celebration of Motor City Music on Nov. 3 at the Fillmore, with performances from The Motor City Horns, jazz flutist Alexander Zonjic, and American Idol winner Ruben Studdard …

Also at THe Fillmore, don’t miss the return of Gov’t Mule on Oct. 12 …

“I Don’t Wanna Wait” singer Paula Cole (that was the Dawson’s Creek theme tune, by the way) will be performing at the Meyer THeater in Monroe on Oct. 13 …

Queens of the Stone Age and Royal Blood are teaming up for a big show at the Fox THeater in Detroit on Oct. 17 …

Grand Rapids hip-hop artist Lady Ace Boogie is setting things up to release her sophomore album, Don’t Box Me In, later this year, with further plans to break out of the regional market … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ’em to Kristi at modernrocker@gmail.com.

The reel

by meg weichman

BATTLE OF THE SEXES kingsman: the golden Circle

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One of the most watched sporting events of all time – the famous 1973 tennis match between self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig Bobby Riggs and “women’s libber” Billie Jean King – gets the big screen treatment in the aptly, if unimaginatively, named Battle of the Sexes.

And with a script from Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and the team that brought you Little Miss Sunshine behind the lens, it proves to be a breezy, polished, and exceedingly enjoyable film with some great performances and even more star power.

This is a message movie wrapped in an inspirational sports drama – the kind of crowd-pleaser that plays out like a Hidden Figures for the feminist movement. Yet at a time when Title IX protections are threatened, something King herself championed, it doesn’t seem like enough.

There are some eye-opening moments to be found, however, as we get to know Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) better and what led her to that showdown at the Houston Astrodome. We first meet her in 1973; she has just become the most successful women’s player in history.

Using that platform to advocate for pay equal to her male tennis-playing counterparts, she presents her case to U.S. Lawn Tennis Association’s head, Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman). Her argument? Female players receive an eighth of the prize money but don’t draw an eighth of the crowd. She is dismissed with offensive remarks about how the men have families to support, and are better players.

And so we come to what I most appreciated learning from this film, that Billie along with business partner Gladys Heldman (Sarah Silverman) struck out on their own to form the Women’s Tennis Association, a DIY effort where she and her fellow players’ hard work promoting tickets and running the tour really paid off.

Then we get to know more about Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell). A world champion in the 1940s, he’s now 55, working a desk job at his father-in-law’s company, and betting on recreational tennis matches that have him taking on his country club cronies while wearing flippers or walking dogs.

Riggs is a hustler and craves attention, so when his wealthy wife (Elizabeth Shue) kicks him out for his gambling, he devises a plan that will bring him recognition again: challenging the top female tennis player to an exhibition match to prove male superiority with $100,000 on the line.

While it’s pretty much all comedy on the Riggs/Carell end, that he also gets such a sad sack and sympathetic treatment definitely turned me off. Attempting to do a bit more with the Stone/King side, the film focuses on King confronting her sexuality as the married woman finds herself attracted to a hairdresser

(Andrea Riseborough) she meets on tour.

There are vulnerable moments and introspection, but it never goes deep enough, particularly with Marilyn, the hairdresser.

Their budding romance is simply too chaste and boring. You practically end up resenting Marilyn, and rooting for King’s husband Larry.

It killed me to feel this way, but the characters were drawn so that loyal, understanding Larry definitely came out on top.

When it finally comes down to the match itself, directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris do a solid job at keeping up the suspense even if you already know the outcome. While the match itself wasn’t that exciting, all the hoopla surrounding the match is another story.

It’s a complete circus – King comes out carried by men wearing feathers. The filmmakers even use archival footage of Howard Cosell from the broadcast, computer generating in the actress playing commentator Rosie Casals, and the way he put her arm around her truly made my skin crawl – the cherry on top of bizarre and upsetting sundae.

Shot on 35mm, the film captures the era with lots of fun retro touches from the costumes to the music. Carell is a hoot, Silverman is a delight, it’s always great to see Elizabeth Shue, and Stone combines her likable sweetness with a steely confidence to aplomb. Carell and Stone are a match made in heaven, it’s too bad they don’t get more screen time together.

See things get disjointed as Battle of the Sexes volleys between their two stories and all the additional ground it covers (feminism, LGBTQ rights, sports drama, self discovery, romance). And it all comes together so neatly that there’s little room for nuance. The film’s coda, meant to send you off on a continued high, glosses over things too egregious to ignore.

There’s a scene though where King confronts Kramer (the film’s true villain), laying out that it’s the misogyny of guys like him, perfect gentlemen, that are the most dangerous, lobbing “it’s when we want a little bit of what you’ve got that’s what you can’t stand,” and boy, does it strike a chord.

There were definitely lots of times I was astounded and disgusted this was all only 40 some years ago, but to what end? If the past year has shown me anything, it’s that the misogyny on display so unmistakably in this film is still out there, it’s just not as in the open.

The film takes a lively “we’ve come a long way baby” approach, but it feels a year (and an election) too late. This is a genial, uplifting, and again, very enjoyable biopic that wants to offer warm and fuzzy feminist inspiration.

Sure we could use some of that right now, but it’s hardly the grand slam one could hope for.

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

irector Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class) returns to the James Bond-ish world of the Kingsmen with another film based on the comic book series ... except this time it’s goofier and more violent. We find that our intrepid hero Eggsy (Taran Egerton) has gone from plebe to gentleman and is now a full-fledged field agent for the private British intelligence agency Kingsman. But when the Kingsmen are attacked and in dire need of resources and assistance, the remaining two agents find help from their newly discovered American counterparts: the Statesman, which brings Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry, and Pedro Pascal into the fold. Together they go up against a sadistically chipper drug lord (Julianne Moore), dead set on legalizing her empire. Vaughn seems to have taken the influx of Americans to heart, supersizing the film (at nearly 2.5 hours it’s far too long.) But Vaughn’s take on gunslinging theatrics and a turbo-charged whip that would make even Indiana Jones blush are worth seeing. The humor is there, the hyper-stylization is there, and so are the thrills. More imaginative and original than most of the blockbusters out there, keep your expectations tempered and you’ll be golden.

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movie you’ll watch with a furrowed brow and that’s constructed like a fever dream of loosely strung together WTF moments, mother! is definitely the most polarizing film to be released in recent memory. If one were to see it at a festival, that would be one thing, but that mother! got a mainstream release with marketing that flaunted its big stars like Jennifer Lawrence and gave very little other detail, well, it almost feels dishonest. mother! is challenging, it’s uncomfortable, it’s uncompromising, and it’s also getting a lot of praise from very well-respected critics for its supposed depth. Director Darren Aronofsky and team went to pains to keep the “plot” under wraps, and it certainly isn’t the home-invasion thriller Paramount is selling us. It can best be surmised as an allegory filled with biblical symbolism about a woman (Lawrence) and a man (Javier Bardem), and a lot of unexpected visitors (Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer included).

This is a film you will either love or hate — there’s no in between.

There are all sorts of arguments to be made for the film, like how great it is that a major studio would give a wide release to a film as bold as this. I’m all in favor of artistic conversation and studios taking risks, but let’s not hold this up and act like it took some act of bravery, not self-indulgence, to make it. Because for all its formal audacity, mother! doesn’t advance the art of cinema, it didn’t reinvigorate my interest in the art form, it didn’t further my understanding of the human experience or move me, and it certainly didn’t entertain. Call a spade a spade.

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eese Witherspoon makes a glorious return to her romcom roots in this warm, witty, and inviting movie that wraps you in its embrace. It’s written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, and while this is her first film, I’d hardly call her a newcomer, what with her being the daughter of the high priestess of the romantic comedy, Nancy Meyers (The Intern).

And it’s clear that Meyers-Shyer is the heir apparent, picking up her mother’s mantle while also taking the genre to slightly more modern places. Witherspoon plays Alice, a newly separated mom who has moved back to L.A. and into the home of her late father (a John Cassavetes-esque auteur director). After a night out to celebrate her 40th, she uncharacteristically opens her guest house to a trio of 27-year-old filmmakers (Pico Alexander, Nat Wolff, Jon Rudnitsky) on the verge of their big break. A genuinely beautiful surrogate family forms, and as Alice tries to make it as an interior designer, the guys prove invaluable.

They’re like having live-in tech support, childcare, and cooking assistance and help her find her groove. With its impeccably appointed interiors and fabulous dinner parties, this is lifestyle escapism at its finest. So while the setup is implausible, and there might not be much conflict, the stakes here never pretend to be anything but low. Bright and breezy, affecting and sweet, Home Again is where I want to be.

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65 Story element 66 Inventor of the first electric battery 67 Some deodorants 68 Pianist Dame Myra 69 Fundamental principle

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: An older male friend keeps paying for me — buying me meals and clothes. Am I making a mistake in accepting? I’ve repeatedly made clear that I have no romantic interest in him. I’m a struggling artist, and he’s highly successful. We’re basically BFFs, talking and laughing every day. He occasionally jokes that I should be “giving up the sugar to the sugar daddy,” but I roll my eyes and say, “Hush!” I think he’s teasing me, but could he be playing the long game?

— Worried

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: Welcome to the “never say never” school of hope. My Chinese crested, Aida, is also enrolled — hoping with all her tiny pursedoggy might that rare metal-eating termites will make the kitchen table leg collapse, causing her to be caught in a brief but intense hailstorm of bacon.

There are some asymmetries between men and women in the effort required to get some action out of the opposite sex. Some men will engineer elaborate plots to try to wear a woman’s “nuhuh, never gonna happen” into a “maybe just this once.” A woman, on the other hand, doesn’t have to plot. Assuming she’s reasonably attractive, she can probably just make extended eye contact with a man while eating a banana.

This difference reflects what evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains as men’s and women’s conflicting evolutionary goals. It’s in a man’s evolutionary interest to, as they say, shoot and scoot (possibly passing on his genes without putting out any further time, energy, or resources). However, because women can end up all “baby on board,” they evolved to look for emotional commitment and the ability and willingness to “provide.” (A woman’s psychological bottom line: “Can this wild man be turned into a minivan purchaser with a dad bod?”)

Buss notes that these sex differences in evolved mating psychology show up in the different ways men and women try to deceive each other. Scammy men tend to exaggerate their “resources” (probably a sizable chunk of the Ferrari rental business) in hopes of suckering the ladies into the sack. Scammy women, on the other hand, tend to feign “willingness to have sex in order to secure nonsexual resources” -as in, “Sorry, Bob. I had my knees welded shut recently. I guess I forgot to mention that. But thanks for the $300 dinner!”

In your situation, however, nobody’s deceiving anybody. You’ve repeatedly made clear that

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there will be no sexcapades. He’s got an amusing dining companion and a dear friend.

When we care about people, we do nice things for them — offer them a bite of our sandwich or our disposable income.

Sure, he’s probably still clinging to wisps of hope. But in time, he should accept that if the day comes when you suddenly grab him in your arms, it’ll be because he’s got a small piece of chicken caught in his windpipe and he’ll die unless you give him the Heimlich maneuver.

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: I’m a 28-year-old guy, and I read your column on how men and women are clueless about who’s supposed to pay and when. I’ve had dates be insulted when I wouldn’t take their money and others insulted when I did. Is there an optimal strategy for the first few dates?

— Lost

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: Meet the flexible feminist. She can do an hour and a half straight on why we need to “smash the patriarchy,” but when the check comes, she reaches in her purse and pulls out a tube of lip gloss.

As I pointed out in that column you mention, sociologist Janet Lever and her colleagues find one striking commonality between men and women: intense confusion about who should pay and when. For example, nearly 60 percent of women said they “always” offer to help pay, even on the first date. Meanwhile, 39 percent of women wish men would reject their offer to pay -- but 40 percent say it bothers them when men don’t accept their money. Argh, huh?

Because female emotions evolved to push women to feel bad when they’re with a man who shows no signs of being a “provider,” I think it’s wise for a guy to pick up the tab on the first few dates. The researchers concur, explaining that “men who fail to pay risk being viewed as lacking economic resources or as being uninterested, unchivalrous, or — worse yet — cheap.”

That said, your investment should be more symbolic than substantial, and you keep it that way by following my three-point advice for the first few dates: Make them cheap, short, and local. This means, for example, getting to know a woman over happy-hour drinks -- as opposed to the kind poured by a sommelier (flanked by his two assistants) who comes to your table right after the team of loan officers helps you finalize your paperwork.

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He says we dream all the time, not just at night.

Our subconscious minds never stop churning out streams of images. During the waking hours, though, our conscious minds operate at such intensity that the lower-level flow mostly stays subliminal. At least that’s the normal state of affairs. But I suspect your dream-generator is running so hot right now that its stories may leak into your waking awareness. This could be disconcerting. Without the tips I’m giving you here, you might worry you were going daft.

Now that you know, I hope you’ll tap into the undercurrent to glean some useful intuitions. A word to the wise: The information that pops up won’t be logical or rational. It will be lyrical and symbolic, like dreams.

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Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner discusses the visionaries who built the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Their efforts brought an abundance of cheap electricity to millions of people. But the planners didn’t take into account some of the important effects of their innovation. For example, the Nile River below the dam no longer flooded its banks or fertilized the surrounding land every year. As a result, farmers had to resort to chemical fertilizers at great expense. Water pollution increased. Marine life suffered because of the river’s diminished nutrients. I hope this thought will motivate you to carefully think through the possible consequences of decisions you’re contemplating. I guarantee that you can avoid the logic of failure and instead implement the logic of success. But to do so, you’ll have to temporarily resist the momentum that has been carrying you along. You’ll have to override the impatient longing for resolution.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): Are you primed

to seek out new colleagues and strengthen your existing alliances? Are you curious about what it would take to infuse your best partnerships with maximum emotional intelligence? From an astrological perspective, the next nine weeks will be a favorable time to do these things. You will have opportunities to deepen your engagement with collaborators who cultivate integrity and communicate effectively. It’s possible you may feel shy about pursuing at least one of the potential new connections. But I urge you to press ahead anyway. Though you may be less ripe than they are, their influence will have a catalytic effect on you, sparking you to develop at an accelerated rate.

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with haiku until I met you,” Dean Young tells a new lover in his poem “Changing Genres.” But Young goes on to say that he’s no longer content with that terse genre. “Now I want a Russian novel,” he proclaims, “a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring out a window.” He yearns for a story line about “a fallen nest, speckled eggs somehow uncrushed, the sled outracing the wolves on the steppes, the huge glittering ball where all that matters is a kiss at the end of a dark hall.” I bring Young’s meditations to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that you, too, are primed to move into a more expansive genre with a more sumptuous plot.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Too much propaganda

and not enough real information are circulating through your personal sphere. You’re tempted to traffic in stories that are rooted more in fear than insight. Gossip and hype and delusion are crowding out useful facts. No wonder it’s a challenge for you to sort out the truths from the half-truths! But I predict that you will thrive anyway. You’ll discover helpful clues lodged in the barrage of bunkum. You’ll pluck pithy revelations from amidst the distracting ramblings. Somehow you will manage to be both extra sensitive and super-discriminating.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A journalist

named Jenkin Lloyd Jones coined the term “Afghanistanism,” which he defined as “concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues.” I want to urge you Virgos to avoid engaging in a personal version of Afghanistanism. In other words, focus on issues that are close at hand, even if they seem sticky or prickly.

Don’t you dare let your attention get consumed by the dreamy distractions of faraway places and times. For the foreseeable future, the best use of your energy is HERE and NOW.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio actress

Tara Reid told the magazine Us Weekly about how her cosmetic surgeries had made her look worse than she had been in her natural state.

“I’ll never be perfect again,” she mourned. I bring this up in the hope that it will inspire you.

In my astrological opinion, you’re at a tuning point when it’s crucial to appreciate and foster everything about yourself that’s natural and innate and soulfully authentic. Don’t fall sway to artificial notions about how you could be more perfect than you already are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I didn’t

go to work today. I woke up late, lingered over a leisurely breakfast, and enjoyed a long walk in the autumn woods. When I found a spot that filled me with a wild sense of peace, I asked my gut wisdom what I should advise you Sagittarians to attend to. And my gut wisdom told me that you should temporarily escape at least one of your duties for at least three days. (Escaping two duties for four days would be even better.)

My gut wisdom also suggested that you get extra sleep, enjoy leisurely meals, and go on long walks to spots that fill you with a wild sense of peace. There you should consult your gut wisdom about your top dilemmas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A snail

climbed to the top of a big turtle’s shell as it was sleeping under a bush. When the turtle awoke and began to lumber away in search of food, the snail was at first alarmed but eventually thrilled by how fast they were going and how far they were able to travel. “Wheeee!”, the snail thought to itself. I suspect, Capricorn, that this little tale is a useful metaphor for what you can look forward to in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Statistical

evidence suggests that Fridays falling on the 13th of the month are safer than other Fridays.

The numbers of fires and traffic accidents are lower then, for example. I find this interesting in light of your current situation. According to my analysis, this October’s Friday the 13th marks a turning point in your ongoing efforts to cultivate stability and security. On this day, as well as the seven days before and seven days after, you should receive especially helpful clues about the future work you can do to feel even safer and more protected than you already do.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “If these years

have taught me anything, it is this,” wrote novelist Junot Díaz. “You can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.” That’s your plucky wisdom for the coming weeks, Aquarius. You have arrived at a pivotal phase in your life cycle when you can’t achieve liberation by fleeing, avoiding, or ignoring. To commune with the only kind of freedom that matters, you must head directly into the heart of the commotion. You’ve got to feel all the feelings stirred up by the truths that rile you up.

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Northern Express Weekly • October 9, 2017 • 27

LAUREN DUSKI from Gaylord, MI ~ Runner-up on The Voice

2 SHOWS Friday, Dec 29 6PM & 9PM

After hitting the national stage as a finalist on The Voice, this Gaylord, MI native singer/songwriter makes her debut at Ovation Hall.

Tickets On Sale Now.

25

Tickets

$

Must be 21 and older Purchase tickets online at .com, by phone 800.585.3737 or in-person at the Quill Box, located inside Odawa Casino.

Pure Rewards Ticket Discounts All Players Club Members receive a discount when tickets are purchased at the Quill Box. Pure Rewards membership is FREE!

SAV E $4

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SAV E $5

SAV E $10

2 FREE TICKETS