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Puppet Masters Behind the Wall True allies alienated while foreign dictators appear as puppet masters pulling strings. Against the advice of those with military experience, our armed forces see their missions shifted in a “tweet,” throwing our guiding principles and foreign policy into disarray. Factories closing, markets in free fall, retirement savings disappearing, tariff wars hurting our workforce, farmers, and families.

Over 800,000 government workers furloughed and services cut, just because some talking heads “wall-shamed” this president. Does winning on a (small) wall really offset all this terrible leadership?

A healthy government should be what Americans consider their highest security priority.

The lowest wall estimate from the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan group, states the cost would be $25 billion and admits “key information” is missing from its figures. Other estimates go as high as $70 billion; none includes the hundreds of millions (or billions) of dollars in yearly maintenance. How can one justify these amounts while using seventh-century BC technology that could be thwarted by going to a big-box hardware store? The Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall, and the Berlin Wall had short-lived purposes and are now nothing more than tourist attractions.

Our country is in chaos because of $5 billion. Logic would dictate that only 20 percent of those crossing the border could be stopped. Records show conclusively that if there truly is an illegal immigration problem, it’s by those who fly over walls, then overstay their legally obtained visas.

There are those who actively seek ways to upset your employment, your security, and your life, and they are not these poor souls traveling in any “invading caravan.”

Daily, mounting evidence shows they are already here — and hold our highest offices.

John Hunter, Traverse City Fund Actual Border Security Measures There are reasonable things that can be done to improve border security and immigration enforcement. Building a multibillion dollar wall along our southern border isn’t one of them.

A huge percentage of America’s undocumented immigrants got here by entering legally and then overstaying their visas. So, apparently, we could use

better visa enforcement — perhaps more personnel, and a better method for matching entry/exit data to visa data.

Most of the illegal drugs entering the U.S. are hidden in vehicles that enter through legal checkpoints. Better methods for interdicting them might include more traffic lanes, more personnel, better drugsniffing technology, and better human intelligence, so we know which vehicles to inspect. We need a better process for adjudicating asylum requests in a timely and humane way, and helping successful applicants get settled. (A successful, cost effective pilot — the Family Case Management Program — was shut down

by Trump. That program had a cost of about $36 per day, per family. Warehousing asylum seekers in concentration camps costs around $300 per day, per per person.) And we could make better use of drones and other technologies, especially in places where no wall or fence can be built because of the terrain.

An expensive wall (estimates of total cost range from $20 billion to $70 billion) wouldn’t address these kinds of issues, and wouldn’t be much of a deterrent, either; shovels and ladders are cheap. In any case, current illegal immigration is extremely low by historical standards — a fact you’d never know from listening to Trump. The idea of a wall might sound good, but in reality, it has more to do with political theater than with improving border security.

Why not spend our tax money wisely, on the things that would actually do some good?

Tom Gutowski, Elmwood Township Deport the Natives!

Persons who are very focused on finding the best means of reducing our national crime rate might benefit by taking a look at the Cato Institute’s examination of data provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Criminal conviction rates in Texas for 2015 show that there were 56 percent fewer convictions for illegal immigrants than for native-born Americans, and 85 percent fewer convictions for legal immigrants than for native-born Americans.

This data allows us to identify that segment of our population that is the largest contributor to our national crime rate. That segment should be deported immediately!

But wait. We could not seriously consider the deportation of all native-born Americans, could we? How big of a wall would be needed to keep them out? And who would be left to do any additional necessary deportation?

Bob Ross, Pellston Kudos Pontoni Mark Pontoni (Dec. 31 issue guest column “It’s Not Me. It’s You.”) has said very well what so many of us deeply believe. Let his eloquent words penetrate the hearts and minds of any who are still in denial about the severe damage Trump is doing to our country and the world.

Greta Bolger, Benzonia Ashamed to be an American I would like to comment on the adult Mark Pontoni’s well-thought-out article relating to the shame that should now be felt by those supporting our nut job prez.

Because of the self-admitted lying criminal traitor Trump, who is above the law, morals, and principles of Democracy, I am now ashamed to call myself American.

Are we giving up our country on the promise of a few extra quick bucks that we probably will never see anyway, since all of his statements are lies? Is it only the criminal elite getting rich off of and using up our nation’s resources, scamming our public funds, and taking away all fair play regulations so we aren’t permanently harmed in the future? Don’t we all want a safe, fair, moral, sustainable Democracy that shines for the rest of world?

Where did a nation of example, respect, laws, and good regulations necessary to business and foreign relations go? Are we the only ones to care when we destroy other economies, like we do in Central America with our black market drug needs, and then do nothing to help?

It is hard not to be cynical, laughing, or ashamed at our boastful rich who are, at best, miserable with their ill-gotten gains. Can a leader come out to restore my pride before I further distance myself from this corrupt country of shame that my forefathers fought hard to establish? Blessed be.

CONTENTS features Crime and Rescue Map......................................7 The Road to Health............................................10 The Vape Debate...........................................14 Holistic Help for Addiction Up North.................16 The Death Doula.............................................17 Raduno.......................................................18

dates................................................20-21 music Nightlife.........................................................23 columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................4

Bradford Krull, Traverse City Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Weird...............................................................9 Chef’s Notes...................................................13 Film................................................................19 Please Explain In my 70 years I have seen both a great Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................22 deal of hurtful behavior because of perceived Advice Goddess...........................................24 racial differences and a great deal of progress Crossword...................................................25 through a deeper understanding. It is difficult Freewill Astrology..........................................25 to imagine how anyone could deny either. Classifieds..................................................26 Actions that for most of my life I have seen called biased, bigoted, and prejudiced have been called out, condemned, and we are all the better for these things being named.

My question is this: Now that these same actions are labeled as racist and white supremacist, I wonder why this escalation is necessary? Where once we used adjectives to describe actions, now we use nouns to describe people. My fear is that these choices abandon a path that has brought results for one that will create more resistance. Is this a path that treats our neighbor as we would want to be treated?

Jim Moses, Maple City Andy Griffith or Donald Trump There was a time that the shows and sitcoms on television attempted to inspire the viewers to emulate the attitudes and actions in a good way. It is sad that TV programming is no longer promoted for the purpose of encouraging people to lead good lives and help keep America strong by promoting what is right.

The “news” anymore is full of the fact that our president, and the Republican senators who support him are dishonest, at best, and capable of outrageous acts as a matter of normality. Lies have replaced honor, and the only thing that matters to those who govern our country is profit.

Integrity is a forgotten word, and doing what is right is out the window. We have become a Christian nation in name only.

There is no doubt in my mind that Trump will be re-elected when the time comes because the Electoral College is easily corrupted by re-districting. America is lost if we do not go to the popular vote, outlaw gerrymandering, and find a way to get Democrats to vote in large numbers.

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top ten grand traverse art bomb Grand Traverse Art Bomb 2019 opens on Sat., Jan. 12 and runs through April 6 at Right Brain Brewery, TC. This collaborative art show features talent from around northern MI, giving artists an opportunity to showcase their talents with minimal cost. An opening reception will be held on Sat., Jan. 12, beginning at noon and featuring art, dancing and live musical performances. An encore reception will be held on Sat., Feb. 16, followed by a closing reception on Sat., April 6. Find ‘Grand Traverse Art Bomb’ on Facebook.

4 Old Camp Becomes Nature Preserve A one-time summer camp property and one of the largest remaining intact and undeveloped parcels near Torch Lake has been preserved, thanks to Milton Township and the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy.

The 389-acre property near Kewadin will be open to the public, and plans are underway to develop hiking and biking trails.

The land, home to Camp Maplehurst from 1955 until 2011, includes Lake Maplehurst, a 60-acre spring fed lake. At higher elevations, the plot offers views of Torch Lake, Elk Lake, and Grand Traverse Bay. “We are beyond thrilled to complete the protection of such an important and exciting project,” says GTRLC Executive Director Glen Chown. “I can’t say enough thanks to the hundreds of donors who supported this project and helped us get it to the finish line.”

The conservancy helped the township secure a $1.9 million Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Grant in 2016, then helped fundraise $1.9 million to cover a match to the trust fund grant, the removal of several buildings, and an endowment for the property’s care, among other expenses.

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We almost wrote about a sugarless, cheese-less, nutrient-packed dish this week — this is our annual Clean Living & Health issue, after all — but then we remembered that a critical part of sticking to a healthy diet and losing weight is throwing your metabolism for a spin one meal a week.

Well, a hungry metabolism can do no better than this: the Sunrise Quiche at Warehouse KiTChen + Cork in Traverse City’s Hotel Indigo. Less a quiche and more a fresh spinach, egg, caramelized onion, and swiss nugget nestled inside a (surprise!) square of puff pastry, the Sunrise is topped with perhaps the best, most balanced sweet and savory bacon jam and to ever grace your palate, plus a lux mornay sauce. Fresh greens with a subtly tart side of lemon vinegarette and a few berries offer a punchy complement to the rich dish. It’s worth getting up early for and an ideal reward to a week of working out. Treat yo’self at: 263 W. Grandview Pkwy. (231) 932-0500

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My Sister, the Serial Killer

New year, new read? Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel, “My Sister, the Serial Killer” is just the book to ring in the new year with a literal bang. Fresh off the Indie Next list at Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor, this satirical-slasher noir surrounds Korede, a Nigerian nurse. Homely, resourceful, and hopelessly lonely, Korede spends most of her time lusting after Tade, a doctor who doesn’t return her affections. To make matters worse, her reckless, ravishing younger sister, Ayoola, has a nasty habit of killing off her own boyfriends, and dutiful Korede is caught in her wake. But, when Ayoola sets her sights on Tade, Korede is forced choose between her sister and what she has become. Darkly comic and defiantly raw, “My Sister, the Serial Killer” is femme fatalism at its finest.

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A Healthy Dose of State Funding

$10 million in state funding is headed to northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula to create a regional sports commission — an initiative that dovetails with an effort by Traverse City Tourism to explore opening a year-round indoor sports complex in Traverse City. The regional program will focus on improving or developing high-level athletic and recreational facilities and events across northern Michigan that promote sports, recreation, and tourism across the region,” according to the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce, which aggressively lobbied for the funding. Chambers from Benzie County, Petoskey, Gaylord, Cadillac, Manistee, and Marquette also advocated for creating the sports commission. Leadership of the sports commission, which is expected to be up and running this year, will be made up of community representatives from across northern Michigan and the U.P. They’ll help review grant applications and decide how to distribute the $10 million for projects. TC Chamber Director of Government Relations Kent Wood says that when it comes to spending funds, the focus will be on “infrastructure upgrades that have a likelihood of bringing in high-caliber events and recreational opportunities.” Examples that have been cited include renovating the Pine Mountain Ski Jump in Iron Mountain, Copper Peak in Ironwood, developing infrastructure for the coming Ironman event in Traverse City, and more.

Author Andre Dubus III to Headline Library Gala

stuff we love 70 Hours of Nonstop Shredding Stock up on the Red Bull, skiers and snowboarders. Starting 4pm, Wednesday, Jan. 9, the lifts at Boyne Mountain will spin for 70 continuous hours. And every dollar spent on each $100 four-day lift ticket will benefit Challenge Mountain, an organization that gets kids and young adults with physical and cognitive disabilities outside and enjoying the great outdoors — downhill skiing, sledding, camping, kayaking, and more. Challenge Mountain is close to the heart of the Kircher family; patriarch Everett Kircher founded Boyne Mountain 70 years ago this month and donated the land for Challenge Mountain in 1984. Want to do your part? Join the 70-hour rally by organizing a team of seven, or participate as an individual to raise money. Preregistration is required — see go.rallyup.com/70hourchallenge — and only available until 3pm Jan. 9. Top competitors in many categories will enjoy big prizes — think: custom Shaggy skis, two nights at Boyne, etc. — and all participants will get a Boyne 70th Anniversary swag bag, plus access to special events and entertainment.

Twenty years ago, Traverse Area District Library’s big, beautiful, and Boardman Lake-side Main Library opened to the public. In honor of that anniversary, TADL is throwing open its doors Friday, Jan. 11, for a public gala featuring a literary star: New York Times best-selling author Andre Dubus III. The author of several books, most notably “House of Sand and Fog,” which was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and made into a movie, Dubus will give a brief keynote and book signing. Guests — in cocktail attire, natch Photo by Marion Ettlinger — can also expect hors d’oeuvres, cash bar (beer and wine), live music, a silent auction, raffles, and a short program to honor TADL’s 2018 volunteer of the year, Maryln Lawrence. Always wanted to talk loudly among the storied stacks? Get your tickets, $50 each, at www.tadl.org or the Main Library desk: 610 Woodmere Ave. (231) 932-8500

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LAME DUCK LAME LEGISLATION spectator

by Stephen Tuttle Lame duck legislative sessions, those that occur between the November general election and the start of a new session the first week of January, are typically full of mischief.

For defeated or retiring legislators, it’s a last chance to sneak in some new pet law or project. Or just the last chance to get even with opponents or just be contrary. This year we’ve seen a slightly different scenario: Republican-controlled legislatures attempting to hamstring incoming Democrat administrations by stripping away some of the power their governor just enjoyed. Wisconsin would be Exhibit A. Michigan, never wanting to be left behind, tried to strip away investigative power from the incoming Democrat attorney general and force new limitations on the new secretary of state’s election oversight. They didn’t succeed, but it wasn’t for lack of effort.

They succeeded in passing a mountain of last-minute legislation full of foolishness, most of which outgoing governor Rick Snyder signed in a flurry.

process from legislative intrusions. If an initiative qualifies for the ballot then on the ballot, it should go. If it passes and contains technical glitches, the legislature should be authorized to fix those and only those.

The current process of the legislature — claiming there’s no need for a public vote because they’ve taken care of it, all the while knowing they will vivisect it later — defrauds the spirit and intent of the initiative process.

Unfortunately, our lame duck legislature has made any new initiative drive much more difficult, to the point of near impossibility.

Getting anything on the Michigan ballot by initiative drive was already challenging enough. In 2020, qualifying to put an amendment to the state constitution on the ballot will require more than 425,000 valid signatures and a statutory initiative of more than 340,000. It is time consuming and expensive since most of the petition circulators are now paid.

The current process of the legislature — claiming there’s no need for a public vote because they’ve taken care of it, all the while knowing they will vivisect it later — defrauds the spirit and intent of the initiative process.

They managed to steal away $174 million intended for public schools that will now instead go to something called Restore Michigan, which will, presumably, fix up everything. The lost money, Snyder and others claimed, will be replaced by the new online sales tax revenue. Money that was there now replaced by money that might be there in the ongoing robbery of public education.

They also gutted minimum wage and paid sick leave legislation. Both issues qualified as ballot initiatives, one raising the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2022 (including for employees who rely on tips), and the other mandated 72 hours of paid sick leave per year.

Due to a quirky Michigan law, the legislature was able to hijack the initiative by claiming they would enact it themselves, which they dutifully did as required. The trick, of course, is that once it became legislation, they could change it, which they did dramatically during their lame duck session.

Now the $12 an hour minimum wage need not go into effect until 2030, paid sick leave has been cut in half, and tipped workers did even worse: Their minimum wage will rise only to $4 per hour by 2030.

The dismembering, a Republican spokesperson said, was in keeping with the “intent and spirit” of the original initiative. Sure, in the same way a decapitation is in the spirit of a haircut.

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What Michigan really needs is a constitutional amendment protecting the initiative

Thanks to the legislature, those petitions may now contain no more than 15 percent of their signatures from any one of Michigan’s 14 congressional districts. The Republican legislature apparently decided there was too much of that pesky citizen involvement in their business, so they found yet another way to discourage it.

It means those seeking signatures will no longer be able to focus on the most logical places to get them: population centers. The law’s clear intent is to prevent citizen initiatives from reaching the ballot. It’s a big step backward.

The only good news about this is it probably runs afoul of the U.S. and state constitutions; the right to petition the government is pretty clear in both. But unless you’re one of the lucky 15 percent in your congressional district, you might well be precluded from petitioning the government in Michigan. That sounds like an abridgment of a guaranteed right.

What we really need, most everywhere, is an end to lame duck legislative sessions now so full of spite and cynicism. Legislatures should adjourn the day before the general election and not return until the new session begins in January. We’ll call it the Dead Duck Session. (No offense to the living duck community intended.)

It’s a time of bad intentions and bad legislation and bad results for the rest of us.

They should just go home and start fresh with the new legislature. It would be a good ballot initiative, if only that were still reasonably possible.

Crime & Rescue RESPONDERS REVIVE MAN State Police and paramedics intervened to save the life of a downstate man suffering from a heart attack.

Troopers and Emmet County EMS were called to a Resort Township residence on Mini Drive at 11pm Dec. 28 where a 61-year-old Greenville man was unconscious, not breathing, and without a pulse.

The responders worked together to begin chest compression, clear the man’s airway, and administer air from a bag-valve mask.

Paramedics used a defibrillator to administer three shocks, which re-started the man’s heart.

The man regained consciousness and was taken to McLaren Northern Michigan.

THEFTS REPORTED IN GRAWN Several Blair Township residents woke up one recent morning to discover someone had ransacked their car, mailbox, or garbage can.

Grand Traverse Sheriff’s deputies investigated several reports of theft early Dec. 30.

Deputies soon tracked down four suspects — three juvenile boys and a male 17-year-old; deputies recovered multiple sets of car keys, vaping devices, backpacks, and a GPS unit.

The suspects are believed to have struck cars, mailboxes, and trash cans in Grawn, along several streets and roads: Sunrise, North and East Brentwood, Vance, Sadie Lane, Labrador Lane, Sawyer, North and South Flamingo, Hansen Circle, and Kymbria . Anyone who suspects a theft and has not yet reported it should contact police at (231) 922-4770, ext. 5943.

DEADLY CRASH ON BEAVER ISLAND One person died when a plane crashed near an airport on Beaver Island.

Witnesses heard a loud explosion at 7:45pm Dec. 30 near the Beaver Island Airport, prompting a search, which led to the discovery of a Piper fixed-wing multi-engine plane that had crashed in the nearby woods off Buff Kett Road.

The deceased was identified as Donald Stuart Falik, 72, of Charlotte; Falik was the plane’s pilot and sole occupant.

POLICE PROBE GAS THEFT Investigators want to find whoever drove off with stolen gas from a Fife Lake business on Christmas morning.

State police are investigating after two people were captured on surveillance video at Midwest Outdoor Supply. They were seen drilling holes in a plow truck’s gas tank and then using a gas can to put the fuel into their own vehicle, a black Jeep Cherokee, which looked to be a 2000-2002 model.

The suspects also took a 20-pound propane tank from the front of the building.

They are described as a white male with a thin build, 30 to 40 years old, wearing a black sweatshirt and camo pants, and a second person who wore a brown vest and bright red winter hat.

Anyone with information about the pair should call police at (231) 779-6040.

by patrick sullivan psullivan@northernexpress.com

BUSY CHRISTMAS IN LEELANAU Christmas day was an eventful one in Leelanau County.

The day began with a complaint about a barking dog. Deputies who responded to the North Shore Drive residence in Leelanau Township at 10:50am discovered the body of a 74-year-old woman. The dog had been barking throughout the night, apparently in response to the death of its owner.

At 3:18pm, deputies responded to a home on Natures Trail in Solon Township, where an intoxicated woman was waving around a handgun, threatening suicide. Deputies defused the situation and took the woman to Munson Medical Center for evaluation.

At 4pm, deputies were called to South Lake Leelanau Drive, north of East Fouch Road, where a 19-year-old driver had crashed and rolled his car. The Traverse City man was not injured.

The calls ended at just past midnight, when deputies responded to a domestic violence complaint at a home on South Lee Point Road in Suttons Bay Township.

MAN INJURED IN SNOW PLOW CRASH A man suffered serious injuries when he drove into the back of a snow plow.

At 3:48am Dec. 30, Wexford County Sheriff’s deputies responded to 13th Street, near S. 37 Road in Haring Township, where a 42-year-old Cadillac man crashed his pickup into the back of a snow plow.

The man, who was wearing a seatbelt and whose airbag had deployed, was trapped in the vehicle and needed to be extracted by first responders. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

The plow driver, a 47-year-old Tustin man, was not injured.

DRIVER JAILED FOLLOWING CRASH A driver was jailed following a drunken crash in Leelanau County.

Deputies and Glen Lake Fire responded to a rollover crash at 10:30pm Dec. 28 in Empire Township.

The accident happened on West Glenmere Road near Benzonia Trail.

A 38-year-old Honor man had lost control of his 2002 Ford pickup, crossed the center line, drove off the road, and rolled over.

Deputies determined that the man had been consuming alcohol and was intoxicated.

CHARGES: MAN HELD EX-WIFE CAPTIVE A 63-year-old Benzie County man is accused of holding his ex-wife captive at gunpoint for six hours.

Michael Eugene Johnson faces charges of unlawful imprisonment, assault with a dangerous weapon, and felony firearm.

Johnson’s ex-wife told Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies that he had contacted her and asked to meet so that he could return some personal items. They met Dec. 27 at the parking lot of the Family Dollar in Kingsley, according to the charges.

The woman came out of the store and found Johnson sitting in the passenger seat of her vehicle. When she got in, Johnson told her to drive, investigators said, and the woman refused.

That’s when Johnson allegedly pulled out a handgun, forced the woman to drive to a nearby location, and held her captive for six hours. The woman was not physically injured during the incident.

Johnson was arrested following an investigation and was held in jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond.

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There is a reason why Trump proudly proclaimed, “I love the poorly educated.” It’s why he obsessively watches and promotes Fox News. The exploitive power of mass ignorance is a potent weapon in the hands of an aspiring autocrat. He understands that with just the right concoction of manipulative lies and fear mongering, his confidence game can take in seemingly smart people by toying with their latent prejudices. If you dexterously put the scare in them, then tell them you can protect them, you will own them — and their vote.

Among the myriad insecurities of Trump supporters is a feeling of intellectual inferiority. This president gives them a pass on their insufficiencies by demonstrating, multiple times per day, that it’s OK to publicly revel in their cerebral incapacity, as if it’s some moral asset to be celebrated.

Trump champions their mental ineptitude.

They look in the mirror and see a little bit of Trump in themselves. As Fran Leibowitz so sardonically put it, “He’s the poor man’s idea of a rich person.”

Offended? Let’s take a dive into the numbers.

Several years ago, Fairleigh Dickinson University found that people who exclusively watched Fox News were less informed than those who consumed no news at all — and it’s worth noting, this survey predates the radical paradigm shift the network took when it went 24/7 pro-Trump. The analysis determined that the most informed were those that listened to NPR and watched Sunday morning political shows.

Another study out of PEW Research discovered certain key characteristics were present among those able to correctly distinguish fact from opinion. The wellinformed respondents in their survey shared a keen sense of political awareness, digital acumen, an interest in the news, and a trust in the media. The latter item requires the ability to suss-out reliable sources found in solid journalism. That category does not include a bunch of blonde ladies in short dresses, sporting significant décolletage, crossing and uncrossing their legs while telling their viewers Trump is a magnificent masculine beast of a patriot.

Out of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is even more concerning news: Americans know precious little about their Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Thirty-seven percent of our ranks can’t name a single right protected by the First Amendment. Onequarter of those who walk among us can’t identify all three branches of government,

and one in three can’t peg a single one. As if that isn’t bad enough, among the most disturbing findings is that over half of our fellow citizens believe the Constitution does not afford undocumented immigrants any protections. Au contraire; they are entitled to due process and the ability to seek justice in the courts — something the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. doesn’t seem to understand or care about. Against the backdrop of the border wall and immigration policy battle, this is deeply disturbing.

Any discussion of America’s civic ignorance wouldn’t be complete without mention of conspiracy theorists. They are found on the left and the right, but overwhelmingly they capture the imagination of larger numbers among conservatives. There’s a new theory everyday, and the old ones never seem to die. It’s safe to bet that every reader knows someone who promotes one or more of these hare-brained notions: the Holocaust never happened, 9/11 was staged by some nefarious group, Sandy Hook families and Parkland survivors are paid actors, the moon-landing was a hoax, Hillary is a child-sex trafficker, and the perennial classic, President Obama is a secret Muslim born in Kenya. Contrails?

Don’t get me started. Fashion yourself a nice tinfoil hat for that!

Most recently, a dangerous conspiracy theory has taken hold on the right. They are promoting the idea that the Mueller probe is some “deep state” effort to unseat Trump.

Republican lawmakers are riding the wave of this bogus claim for their own craven purposes.

Why are Americans so deficient in their reasoning? Turns out, we are not unique.

The root of the problem is not solely due to overactive fear centers in the brain, inherent prejudices, nor our country of origin.

It’s a condition termed the DunningKruger Effect — a common cognitive defect wherein individuals who are intellectually incompetent are unable to recognize that fact.

They lack the intelligence to understand what they don’t know. Bluntly put, stupid people are relieved of the burden of knowing they are stupid. Armed with the false knowledge that they have mastered a subject, they are unmotivated to further inform themselves.

This seems so very bleak. But it’s not. We will power through the stupid-storm. Starting with ourselves, let’s make sure we exhibit best practices by exploring more than one source of reliable information before shaping and speaking an opinion on a topic. Encourage family and friends to do the same. If they offer an opinion, ask them to source it, as reputable journalists do everyday.

We won’t be able to improve the cognitive skills of everyone, ’cuz as the saying goes, you can’t fix stupid. Still, it’s worth trying.

Amy Kerr Hardin is a retired banker, a regionally known artist, and a publicpolicy wonk and political essayist at www. democracy-tree.com.

Special Delivery Staff at the Martin County (Florida) Correctional Institute spied some suspicious activity on the morning of Dec. 16. Around 1:30 a.m., a drone was spotted hovering over an inmate housing center, while at the same time, a black pickup truck rolled slowly in front of the center. The Tampa Bay Times reported officers stopped the truck and questioned Concetta Didiano, 22, and her mother, Cassanra Kerr, 40, who said they had driven the 200 miles from their home in Tampa so Didiano could learn how to drive the truck.

But Kerr’s husband is an inmate at the facility, and after a drone and a package of contraband -- tobacco and mobile phones -- turned up near the front gate of the prison, Kerr came clean: “I did it. The remote and iPad are in the backseat.” Both Didiano and Kerr have been charged with introducing contraband into a correctional center.

Anger Mismanagement -- H.W. Taylor III, 51, of Chatfield, Texas, was charged Dec. 12 with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a parking dispute escalated outside a Domino’s pizza shop in Jerrell. Determined to park his tractor-trailer in a restricted area, reported the Austin American-Statesman, Taylor removed a chain blocking the area and parked his truck there, even as store employees told him not to. Williamson County sheriff ’s deputies were called after Taylor pointed a gun at the chest of one the employees and then shot a 9mm round into the ground nearby, causing a small piece of the bullet to strike the employee in the ear. Having lost his appetite for pizza, Taylor returned to his truck and drove away, but officers soon caught up to him in another county. The Domino’s worker had a small cut to his ear and is expected to survive.

-- In Mesa, Arizona, diverging tastes in music led to a fatality on Dec. 14, reported the Arizona Republic. Officers responded to a call of shots fired at an apartment complex, where Sheldon Sturgill, 41, told them he shot his roommate after an argument and fistfight over the type of music they were listening to.

Sturgill and his roommate had been drinking shots and beer before the altercation. He was held on suspicion of second-degree murder. It is unclear what the offensive music choice was.

Alternative Medicine Havana, Cuba, resident Pepe Casanas, 78, has discovered a tried-and-true way to treat his rheumatism pain: Once a month for the last 10 years, Casanas seeks out a blue scorpion, which is endemic to Cuba, and lets it sting him. “I put the scorpion where I feel pain,” Casanas told Reuters. After the sting, “It hurts for a while, but then it calms and goes and I don’t have anymore pain.” In fact, researchers have confirmed that the scorpion’s venom has anti-inflammatory and pain relief effects.

It may even delay cancer growth in some patients. A Cuban pharmaceutical company has been selling a homeopathic pain remedy called Vidatox, made from the scorpion venom, but Casanas, a former tobacco farmer, takes the simpler route. He sometimes keeps a scorpion under his straw hat for luck, where he says it likes the shade and humidity.

Foul Fetish The Daily Mail reported on Dec. 14 that a Chinese man identified only as Peng, 37, was hospitalized in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, after he complained of a cough and chest pains. As doctors examined him, Peng

admitted that he is “addicted to smelling his socks that he had been wearing.” The pain in his chest, it turns out, was a fungal infection he had inhaled from his socks. While Peng is expected to make a full recovery, other people ‘fessed up on Chinese social media that they have the same habit: “The reason I smell my socks is to know if I can continue wearing them the next day!” one commenter said. Another pledged to “wash my socks every day now.”

Creative Currency Maybe it was the Triple Breakfast Stacks McGriddles that lured Anthony Andrew Gallagher, 23, to the drive-thru lane at a Port St. Lucie, Florida, McDonald’s to satisfy his hungries on the morning of Dec. 16. But when it came time to pay, the Associated Press reported, Gallagher offered the dude in the window a bag of weed instead of cold, hard cash. The worker declined the payment, and Gallagher drove away, returning a while later. McDonald’s staff called police after the first attempt, and Gallagher was apprehended for marijuana possession and driving under the influence.

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Retired hospitality executive Rick Antosh, 66, of Edgewater, New Jersey, was enjoying a plate of oysters at Grand Central’s Oyster Bar in New York City when he felt something hard in his mouth. “I just all of a sudden felt something like a tooth or a filling, and it’s terrifying,” Antosh told PIX11 News. But when he looked at it, he realized it was a pearl.

Antosh called over the floor manager to ask how often such a discovery happens and was told he’d never heard of it before. Antosh has not had the pearl appraised, but early estimates say it could be worth $2,000 to $4,000.

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Unusual Tastes Karen Kaheni, 42, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, is a heavy smoker, puffing on 60 to 80 cigarettes a day. But as she watches TV in the evening, Kaheni also eats eight cigarette butts. And, as a side dish, she eats about 9 ounces of chalk every week. Her odd addictions are related to Pica, she told the Mirror, a condition that involves eating things that aren’t really food. “I have no idea what triggered it,” she said. “It isn’t so much the taste of the cigarette butts or the chalk that I like -- it’s more the texture and the crunch.”

When she runs out of either item, “I get quite agitated and my mouth begins to water.”

Kaheni hasn’t consulted a doctor about her addiction, claiming she is too embarrassed, but she has discovered a Facebook page for others who suffer from Pica: “It makes me feel like less of a weirdo -- less like I’m going mad,” Kaheni said.

Redneck Chronicles Call it a dangerous case of mistaken identity: The Helena (Montana) Independent Record reported that a 27-year-old man was shot at multiple times on Dec. 16 after being mistaken for Big Foot. The unidentified man told police he was setting up targets for shooting on federal land when bullets struck the ground nearby. He ran for cover, then confronted the shooter, who said the first man “was not wearing orange and thought he was Big Foot,” said Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton. The cryptid impersonator described the shooter’s vehicle to police but didn’t want to press charges, asking only that the shooter be lectured about safe shooting.

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The Road to Health How do you make an entire region of people healthier? According to the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, you start with a couple of blocks on Eighth Street.

By Patrick Sullivan There’s a movement afoot to improve the health of the Grand Traverse region, and it might begin by reimagining Traverse City’s Eighth Street, between Boardman and Railroad avenues, as a “health district” — an area designed to promote walking, biking, and connections to the outdoors and healthy activities.

Reconstruction of the highly travelled east-and-westbound corridor will begin later this year; the city is re-engineering that section of road to make it narrower for vehicle traffic while adding room for bikes and trees and constructing well-marked crosswalks.

The larger vision of turning the corridor into a health district, which is being spearheaded by the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, is more abstract and part of a larger effort to give the region a national reputation as a healthy lifestyle oasis.

PROJECT A HEALTHY IMAGE At a December town-hall-style meeting at Raduno, on Eighth Street, about the “health district” plans, U.S Robotics co-founder and philanthropist Casey Cowell revisited comments he’d recently made about the health of people in Traverse City. Those statements, reported in the Traverse City Ticker (a daily online sister publication to Northern Express) the month before, unfavorably compared the health of Traverse City to other small communities that are also trying to attract tech companies and young employees.

“When we bring people here, and they’ve just been to Boulder, and we take them down Front Street, it’s not a pretty comparison,” Cowell had told The Ticker. “Our people aren’t as healthy. They’ll say, ‘Where are all the bike riders? Where are the cool groups I can hang out with?’”

Cowell began his December talk before a crowd of 60 or so business, government, and nonprofit leaders by counting himself

among the less healthy locals and recounting the litany of health problems and serious accidents he’s had in the last decade that have made it difficult for him to stay fit.

“I gained a lot of weight, and I lost a lot of conditioning,” the 66-year-old Cowell said.

His point, he said, is that despite individual personal challenges, Traverse City and the region — with its natural resources, beauty, and countless opportunities for recreation — are well positioned to become known as healthy

walking and riding bikes, we can’t store cars everywhere,” he said.

Jean Derenzy, executive director of the Downtown Development Authority, said another part of the Eighth Street Health District vision is to extend the DDA zone to the Eighth Street corridor, so that tax incentives can be more readily used to spur redevelopment.

Currently, the vehicle-dominated route is lined with a hodgepodge of old and new storefronts and homes.

“We think of that healthcare component as our health,” he said. “But 80 percent of that is outside of those clinical walls. Forty percent, essentially, is your behavior — things that you actually can control to some extent — and then your zip code, where you live, is 40 percent.” oases; they’re just not there yet. As Cowell sees it, reframing the area’s reputation would require a real improvement to the overall health of the community, and the Eighth Street Health District could be not only a symbolic start but also a model that could be replicated in other communities.

“We have a lot of stuff, and we know about it, but the population at large … they don’t know about it,” Cowell said. A health district would “project a different attitude as a people and a culture about our place to live. … We can just do that, and most places are never going to do it.”

ENTHUSIASM FOR REDEVELOPMENT Russ Soyring, Traverse City’s planning director, said the goal for Eighth Street’s immediate redevelopment is to reduce curb cuts — or the number of driveways that open onto the road — and to reduce the amount of parking as the corridor is developed.

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While the DDA can point to accomplishment after accomplishment in the redevelopment of parcels throughout downtown, Derenzy said Eighth Street would be different and more ambitious.

“This is really the first corridor that we’re focused on redeveloping. Corridors are hard,” she said.

Debra Graetz M.D., whose medical office is already in the corridor, is an enthusiastic supporter of the plans. She says a health district doesn’t mean there’s going to be a lot of doctor’s offices; rather, it means it will be a good place for biking, walking, and safely crossing the street, and there will be lots of trees and greenspace.

“Right now, Eighth Street is like a dead-end barrier — children can’t get across,” Graetz said.

FOR BETTER HEALTH: AFFORDABLE HOUSING To implement the vision for a healthier region, Cowell helped bring Jesse Wolff to the GTRCF. Wolff successfully led a similar project in Colorado.

A lot goes into health and well-being, Wolff says, and improving the health of a community means a lot more than just improving access to medical care, which he said accounts for just 20 percent of a person’s health profile.

“We think of that healthcare component as our health,” he said. “But 80 percent of that is outside of those clinical walls. Forty percent, essentially, is your behavior — things that you actually can control to some extent — and then your zip code, where you live, is 40 percent.”

That’s why Wolff believes solving the region’s affordable housing problem should be one of the first steps taken to improve the region’s health; it’s also why the Eighth Street Health District should include affordable housing, he said. It may be counter-intuitive, but without good, affordable housing, achieving other health goals becomes very hard.

“It starts with housing,” he said. “If you don’t have consistent housing, if you’re moving, if you’re housing situation is tenuous, then it’s hard to hold a job, it’s hard to keep your kids in a good school, it’s hard to be part of a community.

These are called social determinants of health.

And if they don’t exist where you live, your health is going to be affected by that.”

Another priority in addressing health in the region will be looking at the lifestyle end of the equation. Statistics show some northern Michigan counties suffer from high rates of substance abuse and obesity.

There is no magical or simple way to solve these problems, but the creation of a health district would be a start, because it would be a place that through its design and composition would encourage people to lead healthier lives by walking and biking more and having better access to parks and trails, Wolff said.

“If a health district was created, if we were able to make it a showcase destination, as a symbol of our community commitment to health and well-being, that would be really cool,” Wolff said.

The health district, he said, would ideally

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DOING SOMETHING ABOUT A “HEALTH GAP” There are some encouraging and some alarming signs in the health statistics for the region, and some indications that, in the five counties around Traverse City (which is the GTRCF’s service area), there is a severe health gap across the area.

That means if a program can be found to work in, say, Grand Traverse County (which already ranks fourth out of 83 counties in Michigan for length and quality of life), there has to be a way to get that program to also work in Kalkaska County (which ranks 75th in that same survey).

“Figuring out what’s going on in Kalkaska will be a priority,” Wolff said. “A healthy economy improves your health — there’s no question about it, right? So, from a strategic standpoint, how can the region and its leadership improve economic conditions in Kalkaska to help lift health outcomes?”

On the other end, just because Grand Traverse County ranks fourth (and Leelanau County ranks fifth) is not a reason to be complacent and believe that a healthy community has been achieved. All those high rankings mean, Wolff said, is that Grand Traverse and Leelanau rank high in a state that ranks very poorly in health outcomes.

“When you look at Michigan itself, 32nd or 34th in the country, in terms of overall health, being a top 10 county in Michigan, it’s

good on an absolute basis, but on a relative basis to the rest of the country, you’re still not doing very well in some pockets,” he said.

COMING UP WITH A MEASUREMENT How, then, can Traverse City or the region’s overall health best be measured?

One useful metric would be the Gallup Well-Being rankings, which compare metro areas on an index of factors that go into health and happiness. (Overall, Michigan’s well-being score ranks 32nd among states.)

There’s a problem, though. Traverse City is too small to be considered a metro area, Wolff said.

“I’ve asked Gallup if they would include us, and they won’t,” Wolff said. “They said, We would calculate a score for you, but it would cost, like, a hundred thousand dollars.”

Wolff, though, said he knows the data Gallup collects to come up with a score, and he believes that GTRCF can conduct its own survey in order to figure out where Traverse City would rank compared to metro areas like Boulder or Portland, Oregon.

“We’re going to do a survey, a well-being survey. We’re going to use Michigan State, and we will get pretty close. I know what questions they ask, I know how they score things. We’ll get close. But then we’ll have a baseline wellbeing measurement, that’s correlated to Gallup for this region, and then we’ll come back next year and do the same well-being survey again and see if the needle moves. And it doesn’t move a lot. Like, a good year would be a three percent change in your well-being scores.”

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HEALTH OUTCOMES In a measure of overall length and quality of life in 83 Michigan counties in 2017, northwest lower Michigan counties ranked as follows: Grand Traverse ..................................4 Leelanau...............................................5 Emmet..................................................6 Charlevoix...........................................11 Missaukee...........................................21 Antrim.................................................23 Benzie.................................................26 Cheboygan........................................28 Manistee.............................................33 Otsego................................................52 Wexford.............................................65 Crawford............................................71 Kalkaska.............................................75 Roscommon.....................................76

INACTIVE The percentage of the population that is without any physical activity during leisure time: Missaukee......................................24.1 Antrim.............................................23.7 Michigan.........................................22.1 Leelanau.........................................21.7 Kalkaska..........................................21.7 Manistee.........................................21.5 Region............................................19.9 Wexford.........................................19.6 Benzie.................................................19 Grand Traverse ............................18.8 Charlevoix......................................18.7 Emmet.............................................16.8 United States................................16.2

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THE VAPE DEBATE

How bad is vaping? And whose responsibility is it to keep kids from doing it? School administrators, students, a vape store owner, and others weigh in.

Christine Brown started smoking cigarettes when she was about 15 years old. At the age of 24, she was using e-cigarettes from the gas station. “I didn’t like them much though, so I still smoked,” she said. “Now at 27, I use a mod and tank, and it helps curb the cravings. Fighting the good fight to quit for good.” Photo by Todd VanSickle

By Todd VanSickle I have never smoked a cigarette.

Not even one puff.

I think it was the smell that turned me off.

At an early age, the stench was burned into my memory.

I can’t think of one family member who didn’t smoke cigarettes.

On the weekends, I grew up going to smoky bowling alleys and BINGO halls with my grandparents. Road trips meant driving with the windows open just enough so my mom or dad could flick their ashes outside the vehicle. Sometimes the red hot embers would blow back into the car and lightly burn my sister and I. “Dad,” I would yell, as I quickly extinguished the burning ash.

“Sorry, son,” he would apologize snuffing out his cigarette in guilt, but it wasn’t long and he would light up another one.

In high school, I despised my peers who smoked.

After school they would take refuge at McDonalds in a booth just out of sight of the cashier. Puffing away and flittering their cigarette into a golden, tin ashtray supplied by the restaurant.

Before school, they would gather at a vacant wooded lot a couple blocks away named the “AT,” which stood for “Ash Tray,” out of sight from from any patrolling policemen.

Stale cigarette smoke clung to their clothing and couldn’t be masked by cheap perfume in the sterile hallways and classrooms. Teachers quickly passed judgment and it was easy to identify the smokers with a quick sniff.

Despite never smoking, school officials thought I was a smoker because I lived with my grandfather who was a three-packs-a-day guy. No matter how many precautions I took to keep my clothing smoke-free, I still wreaked of unfiltered Pall Malls.

It is no surprise I hated smoking and avoided it throughout high school.

But things are different today, and kids are not smoking like they used to.

From 2011 to 2017, smoking declined

among middle and high school students, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

However, vaping is on the rise, and so are the concerns.

STATE OF THE VAPE The 2018 Monitoring the Future survey conducted by the University of Michigan found vaping among high school seniors increased from 27.8 percent in 2017 to 37.3 percent in 2018.

Unlike cigarettes, vaping is a lot easier to conceal, and it’s almost odorless and mess free — no butts to dispose of or ashes to contend with. Also, there are no laws prohibiting minors from the act of vaping; only to prevent them from purchasing.

and smoking cigarettes as the same kind of drug. I think most of them know cigarettes have nicotine, but I don’t think they realize vaping has nicotine, and they believe it’s just water and not a problem.”

She added that there isn’t a lot of data about vaping because it is relatively new.

“As we continue to learn more, we need to educate them as well. It is not just water, it is really an aerosol in there that is being released,” Pulaski says. “I would like to get away from using the word vapor, because it is really aerosol. Aerosol has more of a meaning to them.”

Pulaski adds that the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t required companies to label ingredients on vaping products until recently.

“These kids are vaping from the time they get up in the morning.

They are vaping in hallways, they are vaping in the bathrooms, they are vaping in the classrooms. Their bodies aren’t getting that break.

Compared to cigarettes, many teens today see vaping as more appealing, discrete and innocuous, a mentality that has many northern Michigan school and health officials concerned.

They disagree that vaping is harmless and have taken several steps to educate parents and students. Many parents and students believe there is too much unknown about vaping, including its long-term effects and its ingredients, while others say is a safer alternative than smoking cigarettes.

“For the youth, it has become a huge problem,” says Susan Pulaski, community health coordinator with the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, who is also the project coordinator for SAFE in Northern Michigan.

“Most of the youth that are vaping have never smoked cigarettes. I don’t think they see vaping

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“For a while, I think the youths were being misled,” she says.

Pulaski is unsure if vaping will lead to an increase of cigarette smokers.

“It is possible, but I think that they like all the flavoring of the vaping,” she says. “Besides them being addicted to the nicotine, they are very addicted to the flavoring. I think they will continue to vape. I think the issue is that these kids were never smokers.”

Steven Haselton is the owner of All about Vapor on South Airport Road in Traverse City.

His store carries 164 different flavors of vape juices and an assortment of vaping devices.

Blueberry vape juice is a popular seller. Starter packages run around $70 but can cost as much as $200. All about Vapor does not carry any tobacco products. Haselton said parents

should take more responsibility when it comes to kids vaping.

“I feel the press is really beating up the vape industry and not the parents of the children that have the products in their hands,” Haselton says. “I have parents come in here, and I know damn well that they are not buying it for themselves. They are buying it for their kids. They come in with stuff written on their hands — a wish list.”

He says he takes several precautions to keep minors out of his store, including a sign on the front door that says, “No one under 18.”

“I card each and everyone that walks through this front door,” Haselton said. “If you don’t have a valid ID, get the fu** out of my store. If you show me a high school ID, I’m going to kick your ass out of my store.”

Haselton is adamant that his store only sells American-made products that do not contain any carcinogens. He says the vape juices he carries contain only nicotine, flavoring, vegetable glycerin, and propylene glycol.

“There is not a single solitary thing in vape juices that is harmful,” Haselton said.

“Anything you get out of a gas station, like MarkTen by Marlboro, Vuse by RJ Reynolds or Juuls — those juices are made in China.

They send toys with lead to the United States — what makes you think that the e-juices they are sending don’t have lead?”

Haselton grew up in the late ’70s and smoked cigarettes for 37 years until he started vaping.

“If vaping wasn’t around right now, what would those kids in high school be doing? They would be smoking. It is a nasty, dirty habit, and it kills you,” says Haselton. “I really don’t want teenagers vaping, but I would prefer that they vaped than smoke.”

Vaping as a safer alternative is a hard sell for Pulaski. She said there is too much that remains unknown about vaping. One of her main concerns is the frequency that kids are doing it.

“These kids are vaping from the time they get up in the morning. They are vaping in hallways, they are vaping in the bathrooms, they are vaping in the classrooms. Their bodies

aren’t getting that break. So, when we do see some of that research, it is going to affect their health, because it is nonstop,� Pulaski said. “It is kind of like a repeat of the 1950s. It’s like we didn’t learn from it, and it’s happening all over again.�

Theresa Rowell, a respiratory therapist at Kalkaska Memorial Health Center, agrees that the effects of vaping are largely unknown but sees the long-term effects of cigarettes among patients every day, and that it raises a lot of red flags for vaping. “We see a lot of smokers who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,� Rowell said. “The scary part of vaping is the addictive component of nicotine; what is even more scarier is all the chemicals. What we’re seeing with people with chemical exposure, like people who have never smoked who have worked in factories and have been exposed to chemicals, is that they develop an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or scarring of the lung tissue. I think that is what we are going to see with vaping, because we don’t know what they are adding to [vape juice].�

Janet is a Kalkaska High School sophomore who agreed to speak anonymously about vaping. Her name is changed because she didn’t want to get in trouble or be perceived as a narc by her peers. The 15-year-old tried vaping one time and has been reluctant to try it again. She vaped for the first time last summer, at a friend’s house. She said the flavor was something “fruity� and her friend got the vape device by having an older friend buy it for them. “They asked me if I wanted a hit, so I did.

I didn’t like it,� she said. “It made my head feel dizzy, and I threw up all over the place.�

Although vaping isn’t for her, she believes the appeal is the flavors and the buzz it gives the user. “Some people might want to feel cool, but I think what brings them back for more is the flavors,� she said. “And the way it makes them feel. Some people like that feeling — not me.�

She adds that vaping is convenient because of its smell, which can easily be masked with perfume or even be mistaken as perfume. “Smoking cigarettes or weed has a very strong distinctive smell,� Janet says. “With vaping, there are so many different flavors and smells. It’s something pleasant and not rank.�

She said vaping is rampant at her school, and students do it in between classes or in the bathrooms constantly. “Everyone is doing it,� she said. “The jocks, the popular people, the emos, and stoners. I even know honors kids that do it that are in AP classes.�

The Kalkaska school district is well aware that vaping is widespread and a growing problem among its student body. Anti-vaping signs are posted in the halls, and a community meeting —billed as The Great Vape Debate — was held on Dec. 4.

The meeting, however, was poorly attended; rather than parents and teens, most of the attendees were a few school officials and law enforcement officers.

At the meeting, Regan Foerster, a deputy with the Kalkaska County Sheriff ’s Department, said he spends about two to four hours a day at Forest Area Community Schools speaking about vaping with students in small groups and in one-on-one sessions. He has had some success with creating dialogue and informing students about the dangers of vaping. He gains their trust by starting off the discussion by outlining the law. “I tell them there is nothing illegal with what they are doing,� Foerester says. “There are no laws saying they can’t vape. If they are walking down the street and vaping, there is nothing I can do.�

It only becomes a problem, when students bring it to school, he adds. “That is where they are going to answer for it — at school,� Foerester says, who has conducted searches at Forest Area schools.

Most schools in Northern Michigan have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to vaping: all vaping paraphernalia is banned from

school grounds, and students found with any face suspension, and their vaping devices are confiscated and not returned.

The Boyne City High School handbook classifies vaping devices like marijuana pipe; vape juices are considered to be a “look alike� and are treated the same as a drug. “We have a taken a strong stance,� Boyne City High School Principal Karen Jarema says. “We don’t do random searches, but we will do searches when there is reasonable suspicion.

More searches are being done, because we know vape devices are being possessed.�

At Boyne High School, a first offense carries a five- to 10-day suspension, which is a violation of the school’s co-curricular policy making a student ineligible for co-curricular activities for 90 days.

Traverse City Area Public Schools have launched a pilot program that has vape detectors in various locations at Central High School and West Senior High. The detectors are connected to school WiFi, and monitors detect vapor in the air. The detectors have the ability to notify school officials when vapors reach a certain level. School officials say the technology is meant to deter students from vaping at school. If the program is successful, more detectors will be installed throughout TCAPS. Other school districts will most likely be keeping an eye on the program’s success.

Another line of defense against vaping has been students themselves. SAFE in Northern Michigan has about 75 students from Antrim, Emmet, and Charlevoix counties. The students create public service announcements that are aired on television, online, and radio. “They work on helping kids make good decisions,� Jarema said. “SAFE kids are spreading the word that not everyone is doing it. There needs to be a climate in their school that is saying it is not OK and is promoted by [all of] our students, because there are [some] students saying it is OK.�

Caitlin Williams is a Safe student at Harbor Springs High School. “I do believe vaping is an issue with my peers, because vaping is seen as a safer alternative than smoking cigarettes,� said the high school junior. “Teens don’t look into statistics and don’t care about the logistics.

That’s what SAFE youth is trying to do — make teens aware, and parents, about the consequences of vaping.�

Pulaski has been coordinating town hall meetings about vaping at several high schools, including Charlevoix, Ellsworth, East Jordan, and Harbor Springs. One of the most recent meetings was held on Nov. 27 in Boyne City.

Michigan State Police Trooper Corey Hebner and Pulaski gave presentations to about 25 attendees. “It is a problem, and it is growing problem,�

Pulaski said. “Parents are concerned and are coming out. They want to know about it. They don’t know what to look for.�

At the meetings, the presenters have several vaping devices on display to help educate parents to know what to look for.

Depending on the company, vaping devices come in all shapes and sizes. They no longer look like traditional cigarettes, like some of the first e-cigarettes. Instead they are similar to a gadget that you might find in the electronic department at a store. To confuse things even more, a whole new vocabulary and lingo have developed around vaping, including words like mod, drip tip, and juice, to name a few. “[Vapes] have got very small and slim and look like a USB drive,� Pulaski said. “Unless parents know what they were looking for, they probably wouldn’t recognize it. They probably would think it was a flash drive in their backpack.�

More town hall meetings are scheduled in the coming year, but more needs to be done to combat vaping, according to Pulaski. “There is just not enough long-term research that has been done,� she said. “And there probably won’t be for another 10 years.

The parents need to do some research as well, because the schools can’t do it all.�

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HOLISTIC HELP FOR ADDICTION UP NORTH Opioid abuse has reached its deadly tentacles into all corners of the nation, including the charming towns and villages of northern Michigan.

Here’s what we’re doing about it.

By Al Parker There’s no way to assess the exact number of opioid abusers in northern Michigan, but the region’s public health officials and law enforcement agree: The menace is dangerously large and growing.

Benzie County, for example, led the state in its population’s portion of opioid overdose deaths, with 2.9 deaths per 10,000 residents in 2015 (the most recent year for which data is available). Close behind were Antrim and Crawford counties, with 2.2 deaths per 10,000 people. Grand Traverse County reported 1 death for every 10,000 residents.

But regional agencies are reacting to the crisis by developing new, more extensive recovery programs to assist to those trying to break the chains of addiction and restore their physical and mental health.

One of the latest is the Traverse Health Clinic’s Opioid Health Home (OHH), a program that offers a comprehensive “whole person” recovery program for adults experiencing drug addiction. Since its October opening, the program has taken on six patients.

What’s different about it? A multipronged approach, said Jennifer Strange, the clinic’s behavioral health program manager.

“It integrates care for the person’s overall physical health, including chronic and shortterm health issues,” she said. “It also provides behavioral health interventions, including individual and/or group counseling.

And it helps with other aspects of daily life, including things like transportation, employment and nutrition.”

Each patient who enters the program is supported by a five-member recovery team, which includes: • A certified alcohol and drug counselor who acts as the patient’s therapist to provide individual and/or group counseling.

• A nurse care manager who oversees the patient’s personalized recovery plan and helps him/her deal with other life issues.

• A peer recovery coach, who has dealt with addiction personally, to help the patient access community-based services and work with them and their family to navigate the often thorny path through recovery.

• A primary care physician to prescribe medications used in Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and help the patient manage their chronic and short-term health issues.

• The patient plays a key role in the plan that is designed to reflect his or her personal values and health care priorities.

Since the OHH program has only been operating for a few months at the clinic, it’s hard to gauge its success yet, but it offers great possibilities, according to staff members.

“It’s very exciting to have all of this in one location,” said Roger Gerstle, a long-time Traverse City physician who serves as the team’s medical director. “Having the Health Home program brings it all into one place, offering multiple pathways of recovery.”

It took about a year of planning to get the clinic’s OHH program up and running. To pay for it, the clinic secured federal funding, plus a vigorous fundraising program that targeted local donors.

“Seeing this program in action, seeing it impact lives, is a beautiful thing,” said Gerstle. “It’s something that makes a patient feel supported. The patient is very much involved. We’re seeing people who are motivated (to change their lives). Those deep in addiction — we’re not seeing them yet.

We’re seeing people who are eager people to make changes in their lives, to get things under control and get their lives back.”

What’s the reaction so far?

“It’s gratitude and disbelief,” said Courtney Whinnery, who serves as the team’s licensed counselor. “The patients in the program understand there’s no judgment going on, and they come back.”

The Traverse Health Clinic, originally the Community Health Clinic, was founded in 1975 by a small group of physicians who began volunteering their services to people who couldn’t afford healthcare. It’s expanded over the decades as more practitioners have become involved, but it’s core mission remains the same: “We never turn anyone away because of inability to pay,” said Strange. Today, the clinic accepts Medicare, Medicaid, Healthy Michigan Plan, and private insurance, plus offers a sliding scale for the uninsured.

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Traverse City’s Addiction Treatment Services, which has long offered recovery programs for people coping with alcohol and drug abuse, will launch its own OHH program in the first quarter of 2019, according to CEO Chris Hindbaugh. “For years we’ve been advocating for a public health strategy that looks at the whole person, instead of just addiction,” he said.

“This will allow us to do that, to put the person’s whole health into focus.”

The new OHH program follows on the heels of a medical clinic that ATS opened last summer, a step that allowed it to offer some patients medication-assisted treatments for addiction — specifically, prescriptions to buprenorphine, also known by the commercial name Suboxone.

“It allows us to provide health care to all of our clients,” Hindbaugh says. “It’s been very well received and has been successful in getting people to manage addiction and manage acute medical needs … . Our scale is small, but we’re trying to get people on the proper medications.”

Buprenorphine, which is also an opiate, relieves the symptoms of opiate withdrawal.

It is similar to methadone, another drug used in recovery, but less potent, and doctors are finding that not all patients addicted to heroin or narcotic pain medications are ideal candidates for buprenorphine.

For those who do better with methadone, the outlook is grim, but there is hope.

While there are only two clinics in northern Michigan where methadone is available for addiction treatment — Michigan Therapeutic Consultants and Northern Michigan Substance Abuse Services Recovery Center, both in Gaylord — Hindbaugh told Northern Express last summer that its new medical clinic could be a first step toward an eventual methodone clinic in Traverse City.

Nevertheless, regulation needs to catch up with the data, which shows that MAT creates better recovery outcomes than simply trying to abstain. Hindbaugh says that many people who end up in treatment at ATS come through the court system, and in Traverse City, the court system opposes MAT for drug abuse.

So what are opioids and why are they so widespread?

Opioids are highly addictive drugs that include heroin, as well as legal pain relievers that are often prescribed by physicians, like oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine, morphine, fentanyl, and more. Opioids work by attaching to specific proteins found on nerve cells in the brain, spinal cord, gastrointestinal tract, and other organs, reducing the perception of pain, and producing a sense of well-being or euphoria.

Law enforcement officials note that opioid use varies in different regions of northern Michigan. In the Traverse City/Cadillac area, it becomes heroin use, while further east, Gaylord up through the Straits, it’s more of a prescription drug use. Other areas further east in the Lower Peninsula are dealing with cocaine prevalence.

UNITED STATES OF ADDICTION

According to the Department of Justice, on an average day in the United States: • At least 78 people die from an opioidrelated overdose.

• 3,900 people will use a prescription opioid outside of legitimate medical purposes and supervision. These prescription drugs are usually obtained through theft or fraud, or otherwise diverted from people with legitimate prescriptions.

• 580 people in the U.S. will try heroin for the first time.

• Heroin overdoses have increased 244 percent between 2007 and 2017. Many of these new heroin users are youths, with an average age of just over 24 years old for first-time users.

The Death Doula

Traverse City doula Krista Cain guides people in … and out of the world

By Molly Korroch

“The human brain learns from stories,” says Traverse City birth and death doula, Krista Cain. As she sits with a mug of hot herbal tea at Cuppa Joe in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, she explains her own story and the not-so-strange duality of her business, Sweetwater Doula, this way: Everyone experiences birth and death. Whether you’re experiencing them directly or through someone close to you, they’re an inevitability.

They’re both also mammoth experiences marked by extreme emotion, hospital visits, and ceremony. Each of these experiences, she says, is a wave that smacks our bodies and minds repeatedly back down into the fray.

Each is exhausting. But, she asks, “Why not ride [that experience] and let it take you in the direction you want to go? I want my teaching to be a surfboard.”

A doula is not a medical practitioner. A person working as a doula is not a doctor or a midwife; he or, more commonly she, is a guide.

Doula is a Greek word that was appropriated in the ’80s to describe a female assistant,” says Cain, but the definition has since expanded to describe someone who helps others during intimate emotional and physical events. Becoming a doula isn’t something with a hard start or stop, like a medical degree or a teacher certification.

It’s common life experiences. “Walking people through life is a softer line,” she says.

Cain’s own line toward becoming a doula wasn’t a direct one. She originally hails from Southern California. She has a background in education and worked as a high school math teacher before coming to Michigan. But when she and her husband, who grew up in Traverse City, moved to northern Michigan in 2011, Cain, who was pregnant at the time, had a jarring resolution: “I’m not here to teach math.

I’m here to teach people.”

Her transition into teaching about birth and death began with a certification in the Lamaze technique, which she still teaches alongside her workshops in birth and death.

As she taught, she began to see that there were some holes in her personal experience with birth: She had never attended a birth other than her own children. Her training as a birth doula began from a desire to offer even deeper knowledge and empathy to her clients.

Likewise, another life experience led her to expand her business to include not only guidance in birth but also in death. In particular, experiencing the death of her young goddaughter showed her how helpful it is to approach death in whatever way makes most sense to the person experiencing it. Death is certain, yet always feels unexpected.

Cain began training as — what she calls — a “death doula” in 2016, with an organization based in California called Bridging Transitions. The mother of one of its founders lived on the Leelanau Peninsula before she passed away in 2016.

Cain was able to participate and assist the family .

Funeral Director and owner of Life Story Funeral Home, Vaughn Seavolt, worked directly with Cain during the funeral for a family who wanted to participate in all aspects

of their father’s death. He said he sees a lot of value for both the person passing and the loved ones left behind.

“Having a death doula participate made it very meaningful for the family,” says Seavolt, “I think that it’s very rewarding and very healthy for families who want to participate as much as they want to.”

Cain says birth and death are extremely social experiences, and a doula helps with the social needs and pressures surrounding these major life transitions.

“A doula is a person who is skilled to walk beside you — your family, your partner — to meet your needs as you go through these changes,” says Cain. She will help you and your family in whatever way you need, from deciding what sort of service you want (do you even want a ser-vice?) to finding a place in the refrigerator for all the casseroles you’ve received.

“It’s not all about green burials,” says Cain.

“You can do this with a body preserved in formaldehyde. You can do this with someone who’s been cremated.” On her website, Cain talks about how the ceremony surrounding the death of a loved one can be exactly what you make of it. It can take place at a funeral home, the hospital, a loved one’s home — whatever makes most sense for your situation. It can have as much or as little religion as is right for you and your family and friends. “There are religious traditions that guide the day, and there are ways you can walk along side those traditions to serve the needs of the people who are carrying them out,” says Cain.

Most importantly, she provides both information and validation for your personal choices. In birthing and dying, what is right for one person might not be right for another, and that’s OK, Cain says.

Explains one of Cain’s birth clients: “It’s refreshing to hear people talk openly and without judgment about ‘taboo’ topics like postpartum depression and mental health counseling, miscarriage and infertility.”

Cain is adamant about empowering her clients through education. “We have a right to know about this stuff,” she says, “[both the] transformative experience of it and the nuts and bolts.”

A quick internet search reveals that endof-life doulas are on the rise. There are lots of names for it: “end-of-life transition guide” or even “midwife of the veil,” but Cain prefers to keep things simple and bypass the poetry.

“Right now I straight up say ‘Death Doula.’

The reason I say that is because it’s really, really clear. I don’t want to have to be that blunt, but we’ve done such a good job at covering it up.”

She’s working to uncover these topics, though she recognizes that it takes a fair amount of bravery to approach them openly.

Cain often hosts workshops in both life and death. Who are they for? “Anyone with a life span!” she says, laughing. “If you’ve got a life span, you might at some point want to consider thinking about these things.”

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RADUNO

Left to right: Cheese ravioli with prosciutto and kale Janene Silverman (left) and Andrea Deibler (right) Tagliatelle with butternut squash and walnuts

Gather and eat, European-style, on Traverse City’s Eighth Street

When they first met several years ago, Janene Silverman and Andrea Deibler could not have imagined how their very different lives, in places thousands of miles apart, would someday converge through their love of food and community. Through they didn’t discover it until much later, they had a common dream — one that came true in July 2017 with the opening of Raduno, their European-style delicatessen and café in Traverse City, where they now invite their customers to “Gather and Eat.”

By Janice Binkert Chef/butcher Andrea Deibler and chef/ baker/pasta maker Janene Silverman are both strong, smart, funny, independent women who were inspired early in life to pursue their culinary passions, taking some unconventional paths along the way.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO TC California native Silverman is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, an intrepid world traveler, and a former Italian restaurant owner. On her fifth trip to Italy — this time to the Piedmont region to further hone her pasta skills — she met her future husband, Beppe Canavero, and ended up staying 20 years, all the while continuing to delve into the finer points of Italian cookery.

“After our daughter was born, we came to Michigan every summer to visit my parents, who had a vacation home in Omena,” said Silverman, “and I would teach cooking classes and work in area restaurants while we were there. Andrea and I met years ago when we were both employed at the same farm-to-table restaurant in Suttons Bay. Then in 2016, my husband and I decided to move to Traverse City permanently to be closer to my family.”

Deibler, who hails from Kansas City, Missouri, graduated with a degree in English from the University of Missouri but shortly thereafter changed gears and enrolled in culinary school. After earning her chef ’s credentials and gaining some experience in the fine dining arena, the former vegetarian decided to specialize in whole-animal butchery — which is not as paradoxical as it sounds: She had always respected farm animals and believed that they should be raised responsibly and treated humanely.

Wanting to learn from the best, she moved to Chicago and apprenticed without pay under legendary nose-to-tail butcher Rob Levitt at

Mado. Charcuterie and butchery positions at a prominent Windy City deli and gastro pub followed. During that time, Deibler met her future husband, Michigander Ben Miller, and the couple eventually settled in Traverse City — right around the same time Silverman and her family had relocated there. And with their mutual culinary connections, it wasn’t long before the two chefs reconnected.

GREAT MINDS …

In Italy, Silverman had become enamored with the local food culture, which embraced the neighborhood gastronomia (a delilike establishment selling freshly made and prepared foods), pastificio (a pasta shop with various types of freshly made pasta and sauces), and macelleria, (butcher shop). “That’s what I wanted to do here,” said Silverman, “but all in one place. And it turned out that Andrea had the same idea. That’s when we knew we would do it together.”

The name Raduno, which was Beppe’s idea, means “a gathering,” Silverman explained. “It could be gathering your food, a gathering of friends, a gathering of ingredients — it just seemed like a good match for what our vision was.” She and Deibler also wanted to be part of a neighborhood.

“The crazy thing is that, for a long time, I’d been telling Ric at Bon Vin [an Eighth Street wine shop] that I’d like to open up something next to him,” she said. “Later I learned that Andrea had been telling him the same thing for quite a while!

And then, just when we needed it, this space, just a few steps from Bon Vin, became available. It seemed like it was all meant to be.”

Their neighbors and the community at large have made them feel welcome from the start, said Deibler. “The support has been great — our customers are really wonderful people.

Those who live downtown walk or bike here, and for those who have to drive, we have plenty of free parking.”

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PASTA MANIA “I can’t remember when I wasn’t making and cooking pasta,” said Silverman. “I’ve just always loved doing it.” She offers four to five types of fresh pasta daily on Raduno’s rotating menu and in its take-out deli case, as well as at least two house-made sauces. A recent menu listed tagliatelle (with classic tomato sauce), rigatoni (with pork ragu), lasagna (with beef ragu, béchamel and parmesan) and potato gnocchi (with gorgonzola cream sauce). The deli case might contain fresh ravioli (with varying fillings), fettuccini, bucatini and pappardelle, or a fanciful extruded pasta like creste di gallo (ribbed macaroni-shaped with a cockscomb ridge). Gluten-free pasta is also an option.

When she’s not up to her elbows in pasta, Silverman also loves making desserts, pastries, and breads (she does the ciabatta for the menu sandwiches). Recent pastry offerings included cream cheese and sour cream-crust turnovers filled with apple butter, a pistachio and orange tart, and oatmeal-white chocolate cookies. Her dense, rich dark chocolate torte is a customer favorite.

Taking advantage of the region’s rich food sources, Deibler buys her beef and pork from Hampel Farms, chicken from Double L Farm, lamb from Sweetgrass Farms and rabbit through Cherry Capital Foods. “But my butchering and charcuterie-making occupies only about 10 percent of my time now,” she said. “Our menu isn’t only about meat. In fact, most of the things that we make are very vegetarian friendly.”

Like Silverman, Deibler also loves other types of cooking. “While I of course like making the sausages and hams and pates, that’s more like baking, because there is a recipe, and you can’t really stray from it,” she said. “So I really enjoy making things like stews, pot pies, and salads, because I can get creative. And our customers trust us, so we

pretty much have the freedom to do whatever we want to do.”

SPOILED FOR CHOICE Raduno’s deli case almost always offers four salads. Chock full of vegetables and greens from Leelanau Peninsula’s Loma Farm, these are healthy, hearty dishes, like gigante bean salad (with kale), fingerling potato salad (with radicchio, scallions and capers), and roasted parsnip salad (with pine nuts, balsamic and mint). Deibler also provides a selection of three different kinds of fresh sausage (such as bratwurst, andouille and Italian), as well as meatballs, one or two pates, and her irresistible -chicken liver mousse (mild, intensely flavorful, and smooth as silk).

Best-sellers from the menu include the butcher’s lunch (a showcase of Andrea’s talent), the Cuban sandwich (house-smoked ham, pickles, melted Gruyere and Dijon aioli on house-made ciabatta), the deli salad trio (choice of three salads from the deli case, served with fresh bread), and, of course, the pasta dishes, especially the variations on tagliatelle and rigatoni.

“We really emphasize being fresh and wholesome, and as organic as possible,” said Deibler, “and Janene and I work the line every day. A lot of thought, care, skill and labor goes into our food. Even with a sandwich, the meat has been smoked here, the bread has been made that morning, the peppers have been pickled, and the aioli is made to order.”

The bond between the two women is obvious.

“It has turned out really well partnering with Andrea,” said Silverman. “She’s wonderful to work with.” To which Deibler added, “I trust Janene completely, and she trusts me.”

Raduno is located at 545 E. Eighth St. in Traverse City. Open 11am–7pm Monday through Saturday. Note: Raduno, closed for a brief winter break, reopens Jan. 10. (231) 4211218, radunotc.com.

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pitch-black tragicomedy from the bracingly inventive mind of Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster), the early 1700s set is the polar opposite of a stuffy period piece. Based in true history, the key word being based, The Favourite takes us inside the reign of England’s Queen Anne (Olivia Coleman). But unlike your adaptations of your Elizabeths or your Victorias, this queen wails and flails, is constantly in pain, often confused, always craving attention, has 17 pet rabbits, and sits around eating cake, despite being terribly afflicted with gout. But she has Sarah Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) — her closest confidante, lifelong friend, and maybe something more — to keep her in check and make sure she doesn’t go out looking like a badger.

And for all intents and purposes, the Duchess of Marlborough is basically running the country, stepping in for Queen Anne when it counts. Sarah is in about as perfect a situation as can be, masterminding a war with France and enjoying the Queen’s near undivided affections. But all that changes upon the arrival of her fallen cousin Abigail (Emma Stone) at court, and through some cunning happenstance, Abigail soon makes herself indispensable to the queen. Both vie for Queen Anne’s love, and what transpires between the two is savage, spewing venomous insults and trading biting barbs. They can be petty, jealous, and treacherous, and while their schemes often sting, it is a wickedly wonderful thing.

HOLMES & WATSON I truly believe that Will Ferrell is the greatest actor of his generation, that what he does to make us laugh is infinitely harder to do than what any so-called serious actor does to make us cry. And I would watch him in just about anything. Even a film that has a 0% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

I mean it couldn’t possibly be as bad as people were saying. It’s just Will Ferrell doing his man-child thing! He’s even reuniting with John C. Reilly, and the last film they made together, Step Brothers, is maybe the greatest film of this century. Not to mention their majestic recreation of Bing Crosby and David Bowie’s famous “Little Drummer Boy” debut.

(YouTube it!)

And as someone who’s never connected with any iteration of Sherlock Holmes, be it deadly serious crime solver or sexy stylized action hero, the detective seems due for a sendup. So I went to see Holmes & Watson, making good on my words that I will watch Will Ferrell in literally anything — but you know, maybe this one wasn’t his best. Yet it’s definitely not his worst.

The film begins with a bit of an origin story, showing a young Holmes bullied at school.

When the kids trick him into kissing a donkey’s rear, something in Holmes breaks, and he wills himself to not only stop crying but actually reverses his tears back into his eyes. From then, on he becomes emotionless, focusing on reason and intellect to take down his peers one by one. His only friend is a lovable little chap named Watson, who is in awe of Holmes’ brilliant mind.

We then fast-forward to Holmes and Watson all grown up. Stepping into the role of our most famous literary sleuth is, of course, Ferrell, who plays Holmes in a way that walks a very fine line between absolute genius and complete idiot.

And the sweet-natured Reilly is a great fit for the loyal and devoted Watson. They still have their winning bromantic chemistry, and the premise really does make sense. Unfortunately the setup really is the only thing about the film that was well thought out.

The mystery at the center of the film’s “plot,” certainly was not. See, Sherlock is already known as the world’s greatest detective, and a new nemesis, or perhaps someone pretending to be Holmes longtime rival, Professor James Moriarty, has given Sherlock the ultimate challenge: Crack the case in two days, or the Queen of England will die.

The mystery here couldn’t matter less. It’s in no way intriguing or suspenseful, and most of its solving doesn’t even happen on screen. It’s merely a vehicle for lots of infantile antics and weak jokes. And too many jokes of too many different kinds — political, raunchy, gross

out, and period gags. They hope something, anything, will stick.

Take the “Make England Great Again” fez Sherlock dons, or mutterings of “fake news.”

These are such low-hanging fruit with no wit behind them, it seems utterly beneath the cast. And the Victorian England setting is used for a lot of vaguely “old-timey” jokes and gags like a “self photograph” (read: selfie) or “drunk telegram” (read: drunk text) that are particularly painful.

Some jokes do land, but the success rate is low.

I wanted more of their freewheeling slapstick improv or, really, just a little more direction of any sort. While there’s a rumor on reddit that the film lost its way because the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle estate demanded changes, and the filmmakers had to dub and re-edit the film, for me, what took this film down was not having Step Brothers director Adam McKay behind the camera; he served only as a producer here. After winning an Oscar for The Big Short, it seems he’s too busy with his prestige productions like Vice to come play in this deeply silly pond. Which is a shame.

Holmes & Watson assembles quite the heavyweight cast of British actors, including Ralph Fiennes as criminal mastermind Moriarty, Kelly MacDonald as Holmes, and Watson’s secretary, Hugh Laurie, as Holmes’ brother, Steve Coogan as a one-armed tattoo artist, and Rebecca Hall as an American electroshock therapy pioneer Lauren Lapkus is her mute, feral companion who eats raw onions. But for some reason, most of them are hardly given anything to do. Fiennes’ “Napoleon of Crime” actually going head to head with Ferrell’s Holmes — now that’s a film I would like to see!

After many nonsensical diversions, Holmes & Watson does rally a bit toward the end.

There’s an absurd musical number that was actually written by Alan Menken (he of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Enchanted, etc.) that breathes a little life into the affair. It’s always a good time to hear Will “voice of an angel” Ferrell sing. And then there’s a finale that happens on the Titanic and features a great cameo. Pay no mind to the fact that Queen Victoria died several years before the Titanic ever sailed. Holmes & Watson habitually plays with anachronism, and occasionally it yields some inventive results.

So yeah, I don’t think Holmes & Watson was as bad as it has been made out to be. Just mostly forgettable and a huge disappointment. I guess it goes to show you that, even when putting two amazing comedic talents together, there’s nothing elementary about making a great comedy.

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

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scar-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) is the director of Roma, and you’re probably familiar with his varied filmography that spans fantasy franchise fare, art-house hits, and space blockbusters, moving through styles and genres with the most magical of ease. And Roma is the culmination of his remarkable and masterful career, a film that embodies both his intimate, artistic storytelling with his epic and wondrous filmmaking. A true quotidian epic, Roma is a domestic drama that follows the everyday lives of a fairly average upper middle class family in Mexico in the 1970s and becomes something extraordinary — an exquisite and deeply felt look at relationships and the human experience, and a masterpiece of technique, vision, and emotion. Most of the story focuses on Cleo (sublime newcomer Yalitza Aparicio), one of the live-in maids for the family.

You see this young indigenous woman’s rhythmic routine, her duties (cleaning up Borras the dog’s excrement in the too small garage, doing the laundry, etc), the love she gives the family’s four kids (tucking them in at night), and how she spends her day off. And you realize she is the quiet force that the family revolves around and relies on, especially as their seemingly easy lives and her own are thrown into tumult. With some of the most beautifully cinematography ever put to screen (the depth of field at work is truly wild), you could throw every grandiose adjective you can think of at this film and it earns them all. And when it’s all over, you might cry, not necessarily because you’re sad, but because all that emotion has to go somewhere when you’ve just been given a piece of a person in cinematic form.

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ometimes a film comes along that, while not without it’s shortcomings, is so heartfelt in its charms, so enjoyable in its journey, and so needed in this moment, you give yourself over to its irresistible pleasures. Green Book is such a film. And with its rich characters, fantastic performances, and classic storytelling, I’d be hard-pressed to name a more purely pleasant film this year. A mix of a buddy comedy, a road movie, fish-out-of water antics, and old school Hollywood “message movies,” it’s based on a true story so tailor made for Hollywood, the dream factory couldn’t have even made it up. It follows two diametrically opposed men turned unlikely friends on a 1962 road trip through the Jim Crow-era South. Set to embark on a concert tour in the deep South, the black, classically trained pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), was in need of driver who could also double as bodyguard of sorts. The man for the job? Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), a rough-around-the-edges, Bronx born and raised, Italian American. Touching, sweet, and inviting, Green Book is a crowd-pleaser. It’s unabashedly feel-good. And those needn’t be dirty words. This is a film that was a joy to watch. It’s humanity made me feel more connected, and in a world of so much cynicism (myself included), watching this felt like its own little weird act of rebellion. Bottom line: You’ll definitely laugh, you might cry, and you’ll enjoy the ride.

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Mon - Ladies Night - $1 off drinks & $5 martinis with Jukebox Tues - $2 well drinks & shots 8:9:30 TC Comedy Collective

Wed - Get it in the can for $1 w/DJ JR Thurs - $1 off all drinks & $2 Coors Lt. pints

with Three Hearted w/Real Rock 105/95.5

Fri Jan 11 - Buckets of Beer starting at $8 (2-8pm)

Happy Hour: Chris Smith then: DJ Deacon Jonze (no cover) Sat Jan 12 -DJ Deacon Jonze (no cover)

Sun Jan 13- KARAOKE (10PM-2AM)

jan 05

saturday

WINTER TRAIL DAYS, BOYNE MOUNTAIN RESORT, BOYNE FALLS: Offering those new to snow sports the chance to try snowshoeing & cross-country skiing for free. There will be a half-hour group lesson. Everything is free. Reservations required: 231-549-6088. boynemountain.com

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WINTER TRAILS DAY, TIMBER RIDGE: Timber Ridge Resort, TC. Free trail access, introductory ski lessons, fatbike demos, guided snowshoe hikes & use of equipment rentals for those new to winter trail sports. All levels welcome. Warm up fireside after with cocoa & cookies. Register. traversetrails.org/event/wintertrailsday

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send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------25 CENT FAMILY FAVORITES: 11am, Harbor Springs Lyric Theatre. Featuring “Charlotte’s Web.� lyricharborsprings.org

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SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: 12-5pm, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. blackstarfarms. com/snowshoes-vines-wines

---------------------BASEMENT ART SHOW: VIDEO/FILM ART: 6pm, Studio Anatomy, TC. Featuring a free screening from participating videographers with some Q&A. a-peeldesign.com

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MADCAT MIDNIGHT BLUES JOURNEY W/ PETER “MADCAT� RUTH: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Theater, Petoskey. “Bringing seasoned stage presence & improvisational exuberance to standard & obscure blues tunes, folk & jazz melodies, & original music.� $25 member, $35 non-member, $10 student. crookedtree.org

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3 FACES OF THE KING: 8pm, Leelanau Sands Casino, Peshawbestown. Celebrate the Birthday of the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley. Starring Elvis Tribute Artists Shawn Klush & Cody Ray Slaughter. $35, $25, $15.

jan 06

sunday

WINTER TRAIL DAYS, BOYNE MOUNTAIN RESORT: (See Sat., Jan. 5)

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CANCER FREE-DOMS SUPPORT GROUP: 12:15pm, West Side Community Church, TC. For all of those affected by cancer. Learn about individual resources, emotional support, treatment research & review, hugs, recipes, love & support. Held every other Sun. Free. Find on Facebook.

jan 07

monday

THREADS FIBER ARTS GROUP: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Local patrons are invited to bring their own needlework project & work among friends. Meets on Mondays. Free. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS BANGKOK: amical, TC. Author brings the vibrant food scene of the city into our world with these classic Thai recipes & preparations that have been handed down through generations. Call 941-8888 for reservations. amical.com/bangkok

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PLANT-BASED TASTING, LEARNING & NETWORKING EVENT: 6:30-8pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Dr. Johnson, FACC presents “Healthy New Year: Eating for Health, Happiness & Vitality.� $5. eventbrite.com

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HERE:SAY OPEN MIC W/ UP NORTH PRIDE: 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Throw your name in the basket & get a chance to tell a 7-minute story. $7 suggested donation. Find on Facebook.

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Strap on your snowshoes and run through snow-covered Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire during the Grass River Shiver 5K/10K Snowshoe Race on Sat., Jan. 12. Registration is held at 9am and the race begins at 10am. $20-$25. grassriver.org/ grass-river-shiver-5k.html The Grass River Winterfest is also taking place from 12-2pm. Enjoy outdoor and indoor activities and a fire to keep you warm. Reflect on 50 years of conservation, stewardship and outdoor education. Free.

jan 08

tuesday

TC AUTHORS GROUP: 7pm, Hotel Indigo lounge, TC. Open to all area authors & writers who have book projects in the works. This week’s meeting will discuss recording audiobooks, among other topics. See the Traverse City Authors Facebook page for more info.

---------------------4:45 CLUB: 4:45pm, Belle Iron Grille, Gaylord. Held for entrepreneurs in Otsego County.

Share ideas, network & more.

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COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS BANGKOK: (See Mon., Jan. 7)

---------------------AAUW GAME NIGHT: 5:30pm, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. The American Association of University Women, TC Branch’s annual Game Night includes food, fellowship & board games. Free. aauwtc.org

---------------------“INTRO TO FLY TYING, A THREE PART SERIES�: 6pm, Elk Rapids District Library, Meeting Room. Learn to tie a nymph, dry fly & streamer. Open to the first 10 people who register: 231-264-9979. Free.

---------------------FREE FARMING WORKSHOP: 6-8pm, NCMC, Petoskey. 5S Your Farm the Lean Way. ncmich.edu

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STATUS: INVASIVE SPECIES IN NORTHWEST MICHIGAN: 6-9pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Presented by Outreach Specialist for the Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network Emily Cook. Held at the meeting of the Master Gardener Association of Northwest Michigan. Suggested $5 donation. Find on Facebook.

---------------------SIERRA CLUB MEETING: 6:30pm, Horizon Books, TC. Clearwater Sierra Club Quarterly meeting along with the monthly Steering Committee meeting.

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“THE BIRDS OF BARRY COUNTY�: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, conference room, Harbor Springs. This Petoskey Audubon program features Doug Klein. Free.

PETER BERGIN - RAGTIME CONCERT: 7-9pm, 123 Speakeasy, TC. Free. mynorthtickets.com/events/live-music-with-peter-bergin

jan 09

wednesday

“REBUILDING BALANCE AFTER STROKE�: 2:304:30pm, The Presbyterian Church, TC. This presentation will be given to the GT Bay Area Stroke Club by Fyzical Therapy and Balance Center owner Rex Holden, MSPT, along with clinical exercise physiologist & certified athletic trainer Beth Dole. 935-6380.

---------------------70 YEARS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls, Jan. 9-12. The 70 Hour Mountain Challenge to benefit Challenge Mountain. Also includes the Vintage Party, Mountain Challenge Party & more boynemountain.com

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SENIOR ODYSSEY TEAM MEETING: 4pm, TC Senior Center. Advanced registration required. 922-2080.

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T ‘N’ T CREATE! LINE DANCING: 4pm, Interlochen Public Library. Teens & tweens (10-19 years old) learn line dancing with instructor Barb Chapman. tadl.org/interlochen

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COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS BANGKOK: (See Mon., Jan. 7)

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GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Lowes, Gaylord. “New Year... New Projects!� Featuring food by Otsego Grand Event Center, demonstrations & prizes. $5 members.

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WINTER GETAWAY RECESS: 5-7pm, Cherry Capital Airport, TC. Featuring a chili bar, beer, wine & soda. Prizes include: $500 United Airlines gift card; one night stay & two lift tickets at Crystal Mountain; & gift certificate for 50 min. facial, professional skincare products, etc., value $150 to TC Studio. Bring in your parking ticket for free parking validation. Sponsored by Caliber Home Loans. $10. traverseticker.com

---------------------FREE FARMING WORKSHOP: 6-8pm, NCMC, Petoskey. The Waste in Farming and the Lean Approach. ncmich.edu

---------------------FREE NEW YEAR BEGINNER BELLYDANCE CLASS: 6pm, Traverse Wellness Center, TC. With certified instructor Amira Hamzar. All ages, sizes, shapes & genders welcome. Reserve your spot: 231.313.5577 AmiraHamzarRaks.com

jan 10

thursday

ICEBREAKER SPEAKER SERIES: “AMAZING ADAPTATIONS OF AQUATIC MACROINVERTEBRATES”: Noon, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, Petoskey. 231347-1181. Free.

---------------------70 YEARS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: (See Weds., Jan. 9)

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS BANGKOK: (See Mon., Jan. 7)

---------------------DETOX YOGA FLOW: 6pm, Press On Juice Cafe, TC. This class involves a lot of twists & poses that are focused to help eliminate toxins from the body. Bring your own mat. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------FREE FARMING WORKSHOP: 6-8pm, NCMC, Petoskey. The Lean Kaizen Approach. ncmich.edu

---------------------NEW YEARS DANCE: 6:30-8:30pm, Elks Lodge, TC. For TC teens & adults with disabilities & their peers. $5. eventbrite.com

---------------------INDIE LENS POP UP FILM: “RUMBLE”: 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Free. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------INNER CIRCLE GALLERY TALK: Star Lore Historian Mary Stewart Adams will present “The Compass Rose of Wind & Stars as a Meditation on the Cosmic Harmony of the New Year” at Charlevoix Circle of Arts at noon. Free. storytellersnightsky.com

jan 11

friday

70 YEARS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: (See Weds., Jan. 9)

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COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS BANGKOK: (See Mon., Jan. 7)

---------------------PREMIER HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY: 7pm, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. “History Between the Lakes: How Interlochen Came to Be.” Free. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------“FUN HOME”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. A musical adapted from Alison Bechdel’s memoir of the same name. The story takes you through Alison’s discovery of her sexuality, relationship with her closeted gay father, & attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding her life through three different time periods. $28 adults, $15 for 18 & under. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------HEIKKI LUNTA PARTY: 7:30pm, Treetops Resort, Gaylord. Party of the Snow Gods. The weekly celebration carries on the tradition of asking for abundant snowfall. Enjoy a bonfire, entertainment, a tube-pulling contest, & more. Free. treetops.com

jan 12

saturday

AUDITIONS FOR “A TIME TO SHINE”: 10am-noon & 1-5pm, Petoskey United Methodist Church. “A Time to Shine” is a talent showcase being put on by Voices Without Borders. Open to all ages. This showcase will be held on Feb. 9 at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts. littletraverseyouthchoir.org

---------------------GRASS RIVER SHIVER 5K/10K SNOWSHOE RACE: Strap on your snowshoes & run through snow-covered Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Registration is held at 9am; race at 10am. $20-$25. grassriver.org/grass-river-shiver-5k.html

25 CENT MOVIES: 10am, The Lyric, Harbor Springs. Featuring “The Secret Life of Pets.”

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WINTER MUSIC JAMS: 3-5pm, Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Held every Sun. Musicians of all skill levels are welcome. Bring your instrument, music & a friend. Free. gaylordarts.org

MAKE A GIFT SERIES: ROCK ART: 10amnoon, Interlochen Public Library. For adults. Sign up: 231-276-6767. Free. tadl.org/interlochen

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DOWNTOWN CHILI COOK-OFF: 11am, Downtown TC. Local restaurants compete in chili categories such as 1 Alarm, 2 Alarm, 3 Alarm, White, Vegetarian, Ethnic, & Seafood. Attendees vote for their favorite in each category & their overall favorite for the People’s Choice Award.

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---------------------GRASS RIVER WINTERFEST: 12-2pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Enjoy outdoor & indoor activities & a roaring fire to keep you warm. Reflect on 50 years of conservation, stewardship & outdoor education. Free. grassriver.org/classes-and-programs.html

---------------------SIPS & SOUPS: 12-5pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Sip soups & chilis paired with Pinot Noirs, Rieslings, Chardonnays & more. Tickets include a souvenir wine glass & soup & wine pairings at 20 wineries. $5 for each ticket sold is being donated to local food banks coordinated by Leelanau Christian Neighbors. Ages 21+. $20. lpwines.com/events/sips-soups

---------------------AUTHOR & SUBJECT SIGNING: 1-3pm, Horizon Books, TC. Karen Wiand & Eddie will sign their book “A Course in Fun with Fast Eddie.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------70 YEARS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: (See Weds., Jan. 9)

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS BANGKOK: (See Mon., Jan. 7)

---------------------TAKE THE LEAP RECEPTION: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Take the Leap into the 100-Day Project at a reception tonight from 5-7pm. Join others who plan to commit to at least 10 minutes of creating per day from January 20 - April 30. Free. gaylordarts.org

---------------------“FUN HOME”: (See Fri., Jan. 11) ---------------------BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: 7:30-10:30pm, Solon Township Hall, Cedar. Enjoy dancing to live music by Bowhunter. $7-$11.

---------------------COMEDY NIGHT - GOOD ON PAPER: 8pm, West Bay Beach Holiday Inn Resort, TC. $10.

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GOPHERWOOD CONCERTS: THE WAY DOWN WANDERERS: 8pm, Elks Club, Cadillac. A high energy folk/bluegrass experience. Advance tickets: $15 adults, $7 students, free for 12 & under. At the door: $18, $9. mynorthtickets.com

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

Community play-along for music lovers of all ages. Free. Find on Facebook.

jan 13

sunday

COMMUNITY APPRECIATION DAY: FREE SKIING/ SNOWBOARDING & MORE: Held at Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs today. For residents of Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet & Otsego counties. boynehighlands.com

---------------------YOGA + BEER: Noon, Silver Spruce Brewing Co., TC. Bring your own mat. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------“FUN HOME”: (See Fri., Jan. 11, except today’s time is 2pm.)

---------------------“GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF TORCH LAKE”: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Kalkaska Conservation District Manager Mark Randolph will present a historical perspective on geological features of Torch Lake, & some of the glacial landforms.231-331-4318.

GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SUNDAY SERIES RECITAL: 4-6pm, Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Petoskey. Featuring duo pianists Michelle Mitchum & Robin McCarty. Free will donation. glcorchestra.org THE WAY DOWN WANDERERS: 4pm, Little Theater of Scholars Hall (room 217), NMC, TC. Enjoy this high energy, youthful Americana/bluegrass/ roots band. $20 advance, $25 door. 995-1090.

---------------------COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS BANGKOK: (See Mon., Jan. 7)

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ART PARK SNOWSHOE TOUR: Sundays, 2:30pm, Jan. 6-27 at Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Bring snowshoes & wear layers. $5 per adult. Complimentary for 17 & under with paying adult. Snowshoe rentals are available at Crystal Mountain at the Park at Water’s Edge.

231-378-2000, ext. 7000. michlegacyartpark.org

---------------------SNOWSHOE SUNDAYS: 12-5pm, Rove Estate Vineyard & Tasting Room, TC. Bring your snowshoes or skis. roveestate.com

---------------------THE VILLAGE @ GT COMMONS, TC INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 10am-2pm.

Held inside the Mercato. Enjoy local fresh produce, farm fresh cheese, local meats & more.

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---------------------DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: A twelve step program for those with money problems. Held on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30pm at Cowell Family Cancer Center, room 3002, TC. debtorsanonymous.org

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FRESH CUTS: THE ART OF PAPERCRAFT: Runs Jan. 12 - Feb. 16 at Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. An opening reception will be held on Sat., Jan. 12 from 2-4pm. crookedtree.org

---------------------NORMAN KLINE PAINTINGS: Martha’s Kitchen, Suttons Bay. Runs through Jan.

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---------------------HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - LOCAL ARTIST SPENCER MCQUEEN: Spencer presents his show “You’re So Yourself.” Runs through Feb. 8.

- BIG GROUP / SMALL WORKS ART SHOW: Runs through Jan. Over 40 artists, with nearly 200 small, affordable original works to choose from. higherartgallery.com

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - PANGNIRTUNG WEAVINGS FROM THE DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER’S COLLECTION: Runs through Jan 20. Featuring weavings from the Inuit art collection, by the artists of the Pangnirtung Weaving Cooperative.

- HOMAGE: INSPIRED BY OUTSTANDING CANADIAN WOMEN: Runs through Jan. 20. This exhibition features 40 framed neckpieces created as a celebration & tribute to Canadian women, past & present by jewelry artist Donald Stuart.

- THE ART OF: THE OTHER TRAVERSE CITY: Runs through Jan. 20. Local photographer Alan Newton will focus his lens on the opioid crisis affecting the TC region & beyond. 11 portraits of people who are addicts in recovery, emergency responders, judges, families who have lost children, & others, along with their written stories based on interviews conducted by Newton.

- VISIONS OF AMERICAN LIFE: PAINTINGS FROM THE MANOOGIAN COLLECTION, 1850-1950: Through Jan. 20. From the Detroit Institute of Arts, this exhibition 40 works by late-19th & early-20th century artists capturing American life, culture & identity in that time. Here:Say Storytelling & the Front Street Writers have produced & recorded short stories to accompany these artworks. Hours: 10am-5pm, Mon.-Sat.; 1-5pm, Sun.; & 10am-8pm, Thurs. dennosmuseum.org

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ARCTIC MONKEYS GO WARP SPEED

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Arctic Monkeys

ROCK

BY KRISTI KATES

Arctic Monkeys has released a brand new short rockumentary called Warp Speed Chic. Directed by Ben Chappell, the doc features a mini selection of live performances from the band’s recent tour dates, plus some studio and behind-the-scenes clips. The film closely follows the band’s latest single, “Always,” which serves as a B-side from the vinyl pressing of yet another single, “Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino,” the title track from the band’s latest (sixth) full-length album. The band is prepping now to head to Australia, Mexico, and South America next month to kick off its 2019 tour …

A new compilation album called A Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper features 12 contemporary jazz artists taking on jazz interpretations of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Among the artists: pianist Cameron Graves, trumpeter Keyon Harrold, and saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings. All of the musicians shift and challenge the original rhythms and inspirations for the Beatles’ tracks, adding interesting components like different beats, funk elements, and even current pop, jazz, and R&B countermelodies …

Joy Division will be the subject of an oral history book outlining the band’s evolution and demise. Jon Savage, former writer for Britian’s fabled New Musical Express (NME) and author of “England’s Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock” and “Teenage: The Creation of Youth” author, collected and authored the book, tracking the band across the years via a complex combination of newsreel footage, three decades worth of interviews, archival clips, and other cuttings. Former bandmates Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Peter Hook all spoke to Savage about the book, “This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division, a History,” which will be available in April in the U.S. (March in the U.K.) Following 2018’s mania for ’90s bands, 2000-era boy band B2K is reportedly set to reunite for what will be The Millennium Tour, coming to the U.S. in March. The four orginal bandmates will perform together for the first time in over 10 years, bringing back tracks like “Gots Ta Be” and “Badaboom.” They’ll be joined by more ’00-founded opening acts such as Mario, Lloyd, and Pretty Ricky …

LINK OF THE WEEK A worthy “holiday leftover” is this performance from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, who shared a little festive spirit during

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THE BUZZ Holland singer/guitarist Diego Morales has embarked upon a new collaboration project, Dalmatian Stone, with a plethora of his fellow local musicians …

Ariana Grande is adding more dates to her Sweetener World Tour. You’ll now be able to catch her in nearby Chicago on April

8, and in Toronto on June 26 …

Fiona Dickinson and her dark folk music will take the stage at the Grand Rapids Public Museum’s concert series on Jan. 17 …

The Way Down Wanderers and the Charlie Millard Band will share a bill at the Tri-Cities Historical Museum for a special show on Jan. 11 … … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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: My friend just joined a dating site for elite creative professionals. Unfortunately, it grabs your age from Facebook, so you can’t shave off years. At 50, she’s outside of most men’s search parameters — even older men’s. What gives?

— Concerned

A

: Aging is especially unkind to straight women on dating sites. At a certain point (usually age 46 on), women find their options narrowed to men who wear jewelry -- the kind that sends the message, “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!”

A study by psychologist Jan Antfolk and his colleagues looked at sex differences in the preferred age of romantic partners. They found — as have other researchers — that “women are interested in same-aged to somewhat older men” throughout their lives. Men, on the other hand, “show a tendency to be sexually interested in women in their mid-twenties,” a preference that emerges in their teen years and (sorry, ladies!) remains consistent as men age. And age. And age.

Men’s continuing attraction to 20-something women makes evolutionary sense, as, the researchers note, “the highest fertility” in women “has been estimated to occur in the mid-twenties.” However, when older men are asked to think practically — when asked not which women are running naked through their mind at the checkout stand but whom they’d have a relationship with — women more similar in age have a shot. For example, research led by evolutionary social psychologist Abraham Buunk found that “men of 60 years old would marry a woman of 55.”

Unfortunately, the online dating world — with the seemingly endless stream of hot 20-something women — is not exactly fertile ground for practicality and realism. It isn’t that men on dating sites who are aging into the grandpa zone could necessarily get the 20-something chickies. But I suspect that these women’s mere presence — hordes and hordes of them — has what’s called an “anchoring effect.”

This is a term from research on decisionmaking by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. They found that a person’s “initial exposure” (to a particular price, for example) “serves as a reference point and influences subsequent judgments about value.”

Accordingly, in online dating, I suspect there’s a reference point that gets set — and it is 22 and bombshellicious and has yet to have a whole lot of meaningful contact with gravity.

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BY Amy Alkon

Putting this in a less depressing way, in seeking male partners, context matters. Your friend will have more interest from men when she’s in a room — in real life — where the female competition is limited in number and is around her age. She might have better luck in online dating at a site specifically for older people.

Sites that aren’t for the over-50 crowd only are likely to be a continuing disappointment — along the lines of “Hmm...could it be that I accidentally set my preferences to ‘wants to die alone in an avalanche of her own cats’?!”

Debt Valley

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: I’m a single chick in my early 30s, and I’m having financial difficulties. I got laid off, and depressingly, it’s really hard to find work. Though I want to talk to my friends about it, I’m afraid they’d think I was trying to borrow money, so I’ve been keeping to myself.

— Unemployed

A

: When you’ve been unemployed for a while, it becomes awkward to propose gettogethers: “Hey, wanna go out on Friday night for a glass of air?”

However, avoiding your friends is probably making things worse — or at least keeping you from feeling better — because social relationships seem to buffer stress, including stress from one’s currently grim “socioeconomic status.” This term, explains social psychologist Emily D. Hooker, refers to “an individual’s relative rank in society based on their income, education, and employment.” Hooker notes that lower socioeconomic status — whether measured by such things as income and occupational prestige or mere perception of one’s own status — is associated with higher mortality and poorer health. (Great, huh? You’re not only short on cash; you’re being rushed into an urn.)

But there’s good news from Hooker’s research.

When participants were exposed to social stress in a lab situation, those who perceived themselves to have lower socioeconomic status but felt they had social support from others in their lives had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol (as compared with those with a more “Eek! I’m all alone!” orientation).

As for you, guess what: People who care about you want to know what’s going on with you.

Ask your friends to join you in activities that don’t cost money, like gallery openings, and they’ll get that you’re just looking for company, not moocher-tunities. You really can have both the support and fun of friendship and a bank account that resembles one of those shells of a building in the Old West with a few tumbleweeds blowing through it.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1984, singer-songwriter John

Fogerty released a new album whose lead single was “The Old Man Down the Road.” It sold well. But trouble arose soon afterward when Fogerty’s former record company sued him in court, claiming he stole the idea for “The Old Man Down the Road” from “Run Through the Jungle.”

That was a tune Fogerty himself had written and recorded in 1970 while playing with the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The legal process took a while, but he was ultimately vindicated. No, the courts declared, he didn’t plagiarize himself, even though there were some similarities between the two songs. In this spirit, I authorize you to borrow from a good thing you did in the past as you create a new good thing in the future. There’ll be no hell to pay if you engage in a bit of self-plagiarism.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rudyard

Kipling’s The Jungle Book is a collection of fables that take place in India. Three movies have been made based on it. All of them portray the giant talking snake named Kaa as an adversary to the hero Mowgli. But in Kipling’s original stories, Kaa is a benevolent ally and teacher. I bring this to your attention to provide context for a certain situation in your life. Is there an influence with a metaphorical resemblance to Kaa: misinterpreted by some people, but actually quite supportive and nourishing to you? If so, I suggest you intensify your appreciation for it.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Virginia Woolf

thought that her Piscean lover Vita SackvilleWest was a decent writer, but a bit too fluid and effortless. Self-expression was so natural to Sackville-West that she didn’t work hard enough to hone her craft and discipline her flow. In a letter, Woolf wrote, “I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out.” I invite you to meditate on the possibility that Woolf’s advice might be useful in 2019. Is there anything in your skill set that comes so easily that you haven’t fully ripened it? If so, develop it with more focused intention.

ARIES

(March 21-April 19): Computergenerated special effects used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park may seem modest to us now. But at the time they were revolutionary.

Inspired by the new possibilities revealed, filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, and Peter Jackson launched new projects they had previously thought to be beyond their ability to create. In 2019, I urge you to go in quest of your personal equivalent of Jurassic Park’s pioneering breakthroughs. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may be able to find help and resources that enable you to get more serious about seemingly unfeasible or impractical dreams.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): I’m a big proponent of authenticity. I almost always advise you to be yourself with bold candor and unapologetic panache. Speak the truth about your deepest values and clearest perceptions.

Be an expert about what really moves you, and devote yourself passionately to your relationships with what really moves you. But there is one exception to this approach. Sometimes it’s wise to employ the “fake it until you make it” strategy: to pretend you are what you want to be with such conviction that you ultimately become what you want to be. I suspect now is one of those times for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The students’

dining hall at Michigan State University serves gobs of mayonnaise. But in late 2016, a problem arose when 1250 gallons of the stuff became rancid. Rather than simply throw it away, the school’s Sustainability Officer came up with a brilliant solution: load it into a machine called an anaerobic digester, which turns biodegradable waste into energy. Problem solved! The transformed rot provided electricity for parts of the campus. I recommend you regard this story as a metaphor for your own use. Is there anything in your life that has begun to decay or lose its usefulness? If so, can you convert it into a source of power?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you grow

vegetables, fruits, and grains on an acre of land, you can feed twelve people. If you use that acre to raise meat-producing animals, you’ll feed at most four people. But to produce the meat, you’ll need at least four times more water and twenty

times more electric power than you would if you grew the plants. I offer this as a useful metaphor for you to consider in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should prioritize efficiency and value.

What will provide you with the most bang for your bucks?

What’s the wisest use of your resources?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Modern kids don’t

spend much time playing outside. They have fun in natural environments only half as often as their parents did while growing up. In fact, the average child spends less time in the open air than prison inmates. And today’s unjailed adults get even less exposure to the elements. But I hope you will avoid that fate in 2019. According to my astrological estimates, you need to allocate more than the usual amount of time to feeling the sun and wind and sky. Not just because it’s key to your physical health, but also because many of your best ideas and decisions are likely to emerge while you’re outdoors.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): NASA landed

its robotic explorer Opportunity on Mars in January of 2004. The craft’s mission, which was supposed to last for 92 days, began by taking photos and collecting soil samples. More than 14 years later, the hardy machine was still in operation, continuing to send data back to Earth. It far outlived its designed lifespan. I foresee you being able to generate a comparable marvel in 2019, Virgo: a stalwart resource or influence or situation that will have more staying power than you could imagine. What could it be?

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde invented the equals sign: =. Historical records don’t tell us when he was born, so we don’t know his astrological sign. But I’m guessing he was a Libra. Is there any tribe more skillful at finding correlations, establishing equivalencies, and creating reciprocity? In all the zodiac, who is best at crafting righteous proportions and uniting apparent opposites? Who is the genius of balance?

In the coming months, my friend, I suspect you will be even more adept at these fine arts than you usually are.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a

modest, one-story office building at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware. More than 285,000 businesses from all over the U.S. claim it as their address. Why? Because the state of Delaware has advantageous tax laws that enable those businesses to save massive amounts of money. Other buildings in Delaware house thousands of additional corporations. It’s all legal. No one gets in trouble for it. I bring this to your attention in the hope of inspiring you to hunt for comparable situations: ethical loopholes and workarounds that will provide you with extra benefits and advantages.

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

in the Solomon Islands buy many goods and services with regular currency, but also use other symbols of worth to pay for important cultural events like staging weddings and settling disputes and expressing apologies. These alternate forms of currency include the teeth of flying foxes, which are the local species of bat. In that spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’d love to see you expand your sense of what constitutes your wealth. In addition to material possessions and funds in the bank, what else makes you valuable? In what other ways do you measure your potency, your vitality, your merit? It’s a favorable time to take inventory.

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6 Not yet decided, briefly 9 Club counterpart 14 NBA venue 15 Regret 16 “Citizen Kane” director Welles 17 Extremely annoying kids’ song (“doo doo doo doo doo doo”) which also featured in themed clothing like a pajama set or graphic T 19 Greek goddess trio, with “the” 20 Action sequel called the worst movie of 2018 by multiple critics (with hastily-edited ads ending in “Rated R”) 22 They use toner 25 Abbr. for some low-income shoppers 26 Goes outside of coverage 27 Grass or weed 29 Network bringing back “Temptation Island” in January 2019 32 One of 30 on a dodecahedron 33 Words in an infomercial disclaimer 35 Collectible disk for ‘90s kids 36 Stout relative 37 College football team ranked 121st out of 129 by CBS Sports (between New Mexico and Kent State U.) 38 AAA map abbr.

39 To be, in Toledo 40 Receipt figure 41 “The Shape of Water” director Guillermo del ___ 42 Curve in a figure eight 43 Chicken, pejoratively 44 Moving day rental 45 Corney key 46 Paid no heed to 48 Entertainer criticized for a racially insensitive tweet in October--not a good look for the Divine Miss M 52 Chip in a Mexican dish named for its inventor 53 Canceled Fox sitcom with a first episode aptly titled “Pilot” (that’s Pilot with a capital “P”) 57 Western film, slangily 58 “Let’s call ___ day” 59 You are here 60 Great honor 61 Laze, with “out” 62 Nine, in some “Sesame Street” episodes

DOWN 1 Apprehend 2 “Been Lying” singer Rita 3 Civil War soldier, for short 4 Day or night 5 Some Morse code symbols 6 Links hazards 7 “Perry Mason” star Raymond 8 Apollo astronaut Slayton 9 Convertible furniture for sleeping 10 Chris of “The Lego Movie 2” 11 On the subject of 12 Active type 13 Funny duo?

18 “On ___ Majesty’s Secret Service” 21 Leave the airport 22 Origami step 23 A bunch 24 Cellphone forerunners 27 Excavate 28 Greg who missed the entire 2007-08 season after his #1 NBA draft pick 29 Commotion 30 “I totally agree” 31 Dating from time immemorial 33 Pedicurist’s stone 34 Cartoon crimefighter ___ Ant 37 Progressive online news site since 2004 41 “Walden” author 44 Lopsided 45 Early anesthetic 46 Item on a dog collar 47 Day-___ (fluorescent) 48 Deity worshiped by Canaanites 49 ___ Cooler (“Ghostbusters”-themed Hi-C flavor) 50 1054, in Roman numerals 51 “Must’ve been something ___” 52 December drink 54 Ph.D. hopeful’s exam 55 Off-road ride, briefly 56 “___-Ra and the Princesses of Power”

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Located in the heart of Old Mission Peninsula’s rolling vineyards and cherry orchards, The Peninsula Room offers affordable casual elegance and features an indoor fireplace, outside firepit, patio, perennial gardens and sunsets over West Bay. Award-winning Chef Paul Olson and a professional staff that anticipates your every need ensures that you will have a great experience.

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