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NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY • OCt 30 - oct 05, 2017 • Vol. 27 No. 43

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Forty-six percent of all U.S. teens age 15–19 have had sex at least once. In the 1900s, girls reached puberty around age 14. Today the average age menses can begin is much earlier. A nationwide survey shows half of all teens feel uncomfortable talking to their parents about sex, and one-fifth of parents felt the same.

Each state has different requirements for sex education, and some districts might not even offer it. Washington D.C. and 35 states allow parents to opt out on behalf of their children. Only 10 states and Washington D.C. require teaching about contraceptives.

Long-term IUDs and contraceptives have been critical to reducing teen pregnancy.

Studies show that comprehensive sex education is effective and does not promote sexual activity. Currently, various services to tweens, teens, and others are being axed or are at risk. I feel sex education and the accessibility to contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies and infections need be safeguarded. I also believe in Planned Parenthood. They have much to offer with considerate, broad educational tools online, in books, pamphlets, and various programs. Communication and prevention works!

Casperson Wolf Vendetta Ignores Voters’ Will

State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, and his cronies continue their vendetta on wolves.

Senate Resolution 105 has passed through an unelected committee, where Casperson is the chairman, and will very soon be on the Michigan senate floor. This resolution urges the federal government to take wolves off the Endangered Species List (even though the wolf population has declined from 687 in 2010 to 618 in 2016) and leave the population up to Michigan for “scientific” management.

There is nothing “scientific” about the management of wolves in Michigan. It means “hunt,” plain and simple, through any cruel means deemed “scientifically” necessary.All this for the sole purpose of putting wolf heads on walls and fur coats on women.

SR 105 blatantly circumvents Michigan voters, the majority of whom voted against wolf hunting twice in the 2014 election. Is voting redundant when our legislature simply ignores its constituents? It would seem so.

Plus, do we want our taxpayer dollars to continually fund the Casperson vendetta?

Very soon, the state senate will vote on SR 105. Please email and call your state senator telling him to uphold the will of the people and vote no on SR 105 when it comes before them on the state floor.

Sarah Payette, Macomb

Who’s Paying for it?

This city commission election is confusing. The city has $31 million in projects on a $15 million budget. Sidewalks, stormwater, Eighth Street repairs, and development on Garfield Ave. and 14th Street are just a few of the issues facing the City. At the same time, we have some

leaders, and potential leaders, who say we are going to limit downtown building density (where more than 60 percent of the per parcel property tax bills are paid) and not allow residential housing opportunities (ADUs). They also want to spend Downtown Development Authority dollars, generated by downtown property owners, outside the DDA they support. We are also hearing from our neighbors that their personal property taxes are too high and their personal property rights are eroding. There’s a disconnect.

Please … tell me who’s paying for the solutions you propose and be honest about how that burden is distributed between our residential and commercial taxpayers. Be clear about the role government plays in how private property owners develop their own property. We have a plan for the city (the Master Plan) and rules about how we implement that plan (zoning regulations), both created by citizens of TC. Sticking to those rules and regulations get us something approximating our agreed-upon vision for the future. If not, we shake the confidence of new investors (both residential and commercial) in our city. This affects our tax base.

Each citizen of TC remembers a different reason that kept us here. Was it the Bo-GI Club [teen dance club] or Michigan Theater?

Probably not Morgan-McCool [cannery] on the bay? Our elected officials must have an honest vision for our future that can we need and can afford.

In sum, stormwater repairs and connectivity are only possible with tax dollars to pay for them. Eighth Street doesn’t get fixed if we strangle the downtown tax base.

Neighborhoods sidewalks won’t happen if we depend solely on residential taxes to pay for them. Every city, just like people, needs nourishment to survive, or they die. For cities, that nourishment comes in the form of hard work and taxes that pay for progress.

Again I ask: Who’s paying for it?

Scott Hardy, Traverse City

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

Iceman.............................................................9 GT County’s Animal Control..............................10 Set in Stone....................................................12 Modern Masters of Ye Olde Arts......................14 Sugar 2 Salt.....................................................16 Seen.................................................................17

dates...............................................18-20 music Keep it Right Here...........................................13 FourScore.......................................................21 Nightlife.........................................................24

columns & stuff

Linda Hersey, Alanson Guest Opinion...................................................4 Top Five...........................................................5 The Plane Truth Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 In my lifetime, our warplanes have killed Weird...............................................................8 or wounded hundreds of thousands of people Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................22 and played a big role in the displacement of The Reel...........................................................23 millions. It is clear that history is not being kind as it determines the righteousness of Advice Goddess.............................................25 the cause for the devastation these very Crossword...................................................25 effective killing machines have brought to Freewill Astrology.........................................26 countries like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Classifieds....................................................27 and Iraq. Recently, $90 million, on top of one $100 million already spent, was pledged by our previous president to try to clean up some of the unexploded bombs in Laos, where we dropped more tonnage than on Germany and Japan combined during World War II. These live bombs have continued to kill or maim tens of thousands of Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese citizens. Especially frustrating are the many cluster bombs that remain; they resemble small balls that children tend to handle.

The extreme grief that we created on the other side of the world seems to be too far removed for us to fully understand Northern Express Weekly is published by the tragic and long-lasting consequences. It Eyes Only Media, LLC. might partly explain why our warplanes are Publisher: Luke Haase allowed to continue wreaking havoc abroad 129 E Front Traverse City, MI in no-win situations.

Phone: (231) 947-8787 Fax: 947-2425 I used to enjoy military air shows. For email: info@northernexpress.com me, the planes conveyed a feeling of pride www.northernexpress.com and confidence in a perceived mission Executive Editor: Lynda Twardowski Wheatley of protecting us and preserving freedom Finance & Distribution Manager: Brian Crouch around the world. But as I grow older, I Sales: Kathleen Johnson, Lisa Gillespie, Katy McCain, Mike Bright, Michele Young, Randy Sills, Todd Norris wonder how much these horrible tools are For ad sales in Petoskey, Harbor Springs, being used to establish freedom and how Boyne & Charlevoix, call (231) 838-6948 much in pursuit of our own selfish interests.

Our warplanes are technical marvels Creative Director: Kyra Poehlman Distribution: Matt Ritter, Randy Sills, and a very important part of our arsenal.

Kathy Twardowski, Austin Lowe The pilots, as well as all service members Listings Editor: Jamie Kauffold past and present, I hold in high regard. But Contributing Editor: Kristi Kates I believe the planes are something to view Proofreader: Daniel Harrigan more somberly. So before one gets too tearyReporter: Patrick Sullivan eyed at the next military airshow, I hope Contributors: Amy Alkon, Janice Binkert, that person will reflect at least a little on Ross Boissoneau, Rob Brezsny, Jennifer Hodges, the likelihood that someplace on the other Clark Miller, Al Parker, side of the world, someone’s life will soon be Michael Phillips, Steve Tuttle turned upside down by our warplanes.

Pat Pierce, Williamsburg Correction: In the article “What to Wear, Who to Be” (Oct. 23 issue), Frank Foote of Magic Mirror costume shop was incorrectly quoted.

The shop rents but does not sell costumes, and it does not carry a banana costume.

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THE VOID OF PROGRESSIVE LOGIC opinion

by Thomas Kachadurian The City of Traverse City is about to elect new commissioners. There is scarce difference in the candidates’ problem-solving ideas. In a recent forum on traffic problems, the lot of them suggested we could reduce traffic in Traverse City by making traffic move slower through town and narrowing the pathways traffic follows. As far as I know, no one was publicly laughing at them.

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It doesn’t take a genius to know that if you have too much water in your yard, you don’t get rid of it by narrowing its outlet. You might be able to restrict its flow, but if you do, it will never drain — you’ll just have a muddy puddle for eternity. We’ve seen this with the stop signs on S. Union and Cass streets at 10th and 12th streets. They were intended to ease traffic, but all they’ve done is ensure that traffic is always present on those roads and pushed it into the neighborhoods.

The problem in Traverse City is that too many people blindly adopted the theoretical solutions of the left — without ever asking if there is any logic behind those solutions, or if they have ever worked. The fantastical thinking grows more outrageous and divorced from reality every day.

The left believe that the Earth is warming.

For the sake of this argument, let’s assume they are correct.* Their solution is to tax things they don’t like — e.g., You can burn all the energy you want, as long as you atone by paying a carbon tax to the government.

How exactly do higher taxes cool the earth?

Consider mass killings. Anyone who commits murder is breaking the law in almost every legal system, right down to the granddaddy of them all, the Ten Commandments. Yet the left’s answer to any news-grabbing murder is to pass more laws making something new illegal.

More laws will not deter criminals and kooks who are already breaking the law. It’s childish to think they will. And yet, that is exactly the left’s go-to solution. Chicago has more gun laws than any other city this side of California; it also has the highest murder rate in the country.

Trace these illogical measures to the original class envy of Communism. One of the progressive sacraments is that people who make a lot of money should pay a higher percentage of taxes. While the poor might feel schadenfreude seeing the wealthy suffer, those higher taxes have never done anything to benefit people of modest income. Those high taxes have made the counties surrounding Washington D.C. the wealthiest in the country, but they have done nothing for the downtrodden in Traverse City. It sounds good, and it feels fair, but if the wealthy in Traverse City had those tax dollars, they would spend them here. Who is more likely to spend locally: people who live here, or people in Lansing or Washington D.C. who might drop by for a parade once a year? Local spending is good, right?

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Too many of the left’s policies are based on feeling, rather than positive quantifiable results. We have spent trillions in the war on poverty since the 1960s, and in those 50 years, with all that money wasted, the poverty rate is the same. The liberals feel better, but they have not changed anything. It feels virtuous talking about helping the poor, but the results of all this virtue signaling are the wastelands of Detroit and Baltimore.

The roster of flawed thinking goes on and on.

You will not get fewer incidents of terrorism if you allow terrorists to flow into our country.

The left feel that their love and good-natured spirit will magically reform those who have evil as their guiding doctrine. It won’t. Love and compassion aren’t that strong, and they are terrible defensive weapons.

It was easy for the people of Traverse City to adopt the left’s failed policies, because in most cases, the negative consequences of those policies happened somewhere else.

Detroit bore the burden of our good will.

The distance is closing.

Benzie County has a heroin problem because the dealers move freely in T.C. It’s close to home now. Yet the commitment to flawed thinking is so engrained that Traverse Citians won’t give it up even when it hits home. We have seen our homeless population grow rapidly. We have a problem. However, the problem isn’t that we have too many people here losing their homes. We are importing homelessness because T.C. is a nice place to land if you are a vagrant. We see the young able-bodied drifters wandering all over town in the summer. They tarnish our city and use our resources. The community allows it.

The Eighth Street restriping is a proven disaster. We all have seen it push backups onto Woodmere Avenue and into Traverse City’s Central Neighborhood. Rather than Eighth Street getting better, everything that touches Eighth has gotten worse. There are ways to solve traffic problems, but the people of Traverse City do not want to hear them. Things like increasing flow around the city, or designating one main artery through town to flow freely and quickly would reduce traffic everywhere else. You won’t hear that solution from an Oregon think tank, so it won’t happen here.

We don’t have leaders smart enough or courageous enough to try something beyond the approved handbook of liberal thinking. It’s too late for this election season because we have a full slate of “Me Too” politicians. I just hope logical thinking isn’t gone from T.C. for good. * The left’s own experts have recently admitted they were wrong [again], and the signs are reversing: See recent data on polar ice.

Thomas Kachadurian is a photographer, designer, and author. He lives on Old Mission with his wife and two children. He is a member and past president of the Traverse Area District Library Board of Trustees.

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top five Petoskey Welcomes Presley, Perkins, Lewis, and Cash Members of the Crooked Tree Arts Center’s Performing Arts Committee discovered some pseudo-legends at the 2016 Arts Midwest Conference in Milwaukee.

The talented doppelgangers of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash will hit the stage in Petoskey Nov. 4 in a tribute show said to bring back that “new-fangled rock ’n’ roll sound” that careened into Memphis back in 1956.

Victor Trevino plays Elvis, the hip-swiveling Jailhouse Rock singer and actor; Eddie Clendening portrays Sun Records’ rockabilly great Carl Perkins; Lance Lipinsky pays homage to Jerry Lee Lewis, complete with some serious backbends at the piano; and Ben Hale characterizes the legendary Man in Black, Johnny Cash.

Like the original legends, these performers are a musical force to be reckoned with and put on a rockin’ show for anyone who enjoys their groundbreaking music of the ’50s and ’60s.

Presley, Perkins, Lewis, and Cash will take the stage at the Petoskey Middle School Auditorium at 7:30pm, Nov 4; tickets $20/$10 students. See crookedtree.org.

k. jones & the benzie playboys

Traverse City’s Central Methodist Church might never be the same: K. Jones & the Benzie Playboys are bringing their boot scootin’ Cajun and Zydeco sound to the downtown parish at 7pm, Friday, Nov. 3. All proceeds will support Family Partnership of Grand Traverse’s mentoring programs — for kids aging out of foster care, veterans, and struggling families. Tickets are $15 for adults, $7 for kids under 12 at MyNorthTickets.com.

Game Developer Takes Aim at Line 5 An assistant professor at Michigan State University has created a provocative video game that imagines Line 5 at the Mackinac Straits as a villain.

In Thunderbird Strike, a 2D side-scrolling action game, players shoot lightning bolts from a thunderbird to destroy oil infrastructure.

Game designer Elizabeth LaPensée, a Native American who describes herself as Anishinaabe and Métis, said the game is meant to be educational.

“Players use lightning to destroy vehicles, buildings, and pipelines, or they can use it to restore wolf, caribou, buffalo, and people,” she said in an email. “At the end of the game, players battle against a snake.”

That snake is Line 5, the controversial oil pipeline that runs beneath the Straits, one many fear is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen.

“The hope of the game is for players to be inspired to become more aware of Line 5 and related pipelines in an effort to discontinue the use of pipelines,” said LaPensée, an assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Media and Information.

bottomsup Espresso Bay’s Golden Espresso Dan Guy has a small problem. So much so, that he was actually roasting beans during this interview.

“I have a coffee obsession,” the Espresso Bay owner said.

Guy and his wife, Kara, bought the Traverse City coffee shop in 2013, and have kept downtown in espresso drinks ever since. One of Espresso Bay’s most popular — and unusual — offerings is its legendary golden espresso; we wanted to find out why.

“For the golden espresso, we use a special blend of seven different coffee beans from all around the world,” Guy said. “Each growing region gives its beans different flavor notes, so our combination that makes the golden espresso is very robust, yet smooth.”

When a golden espresso shot is pulled from Espresso Bay’s machine, it actually comes out a rich golden color (hence the name), rather than the dark black espresso you’ll find in most coffee shops.

“This makes it taste less bitter than a lot of other espresso you’ll find,” Guy said.

“Also, having the roaster right on site is a huge advantage, because it allows us to serve the most freshly roasted beans possible.”

Guy personally roasts all beans in the shop’s Diedrich roaster, which produces one 15-pound batch at a time; each batch takes about 18 minutes to roast to completion.

Espresso Bay now sells between 4,000–5,000 pounds of golden espresso beans each year.

“The roaster gets up to almost 500 degrees, which is why you’ll see me wearing shorts almost year-round!” Guy said. “The roasting process is fascinating, too. I love showing customers how it all works.”

And the customers love Guy’s golden espresso — especially in drinks like the Bay chai royale, which is a traditional chai tea latte with golden espresso added; or the lavender latte, a combination of golden espresso, lavender flavoring, and steamed milk.

“My wife drinks one of those every day,” Guy said.

Try the golden espresso on its own or in your favorite coffee drink at Espresso Bay, 202 E. Front St., in downtown Traverse City, espressobay.com or (231) 715-1856.

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MORE DYING IN MORE PLACES spectator by stephen tuttle Now we have combat deaths after militants supportive of the Islamic State ambushed four Green Berets in Niger. It’s a good bet you, like several United States senators, didn’t know we had troops in Niger. Or know where it is.

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Our human resources aren’t the only thing that shows up all over the world. We’re the No. 1 arms dealer by a mile, accounting for fully a third of all global sales. It’s a $70 billion-a-

We’ve sold so much stuff to so many countries, we now find ourselves fighting our own equipment in some places.

We have 800 ground troops involved in counter-insurgency activities and training local troops. The “training” apparently involved trying to track down a militant leader.

Niger is not our only surprise outpost. We have troops in almost every country in Africa, 4,000 in all, training up locals all over the place. Many deployments are especially small contingents, fewer than a dozen.

Fully half that number, some 2,000 U.S. troops, are stationed in Djibouti, at Camp Lemonnier, a naval expeditionary base.

That’s right, Djibouti. (Go ahead, use your atlas or globe, if you still have such things, and find it. Using the internet is cheating.

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We’re threatening war with North Korea, which requires additional deployments, particularly of naval assets, and we’ve even threatened military intervention in Venezuela. It all puts enormous pressure on personnel we no longer have time to adequately train and equipment we no longer have time to adequately maintain.

Find the northeast edge of Ethiopia and, tucked away on the coast, between a little strip of Eritrea and Somalia is tiny Djibouti.

It’s said to be a good location for “intelligence gathering,” and it’s at a strategic choke point between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

But we always have really good-sounding reasons for putting our troops everywhere.

We’re so good at it, we have troops — not counting embassy guards — in nearly 150 countries. We have them where they don’t need us, like in Germany, and where they no longer want us, like in Japan. We have 27,000 in South Korea at potential risk from the maniac to their north. We have them in South America, Central America, on tiny islands in the middle of nowhere, and every place in between, except Antarctica.

We’re nearly omnipresent. And nearly stretched to the breaking point. Lindsay Graham, the senator from South Carolina, says the war on terror is “moving to Africa.”

That implies it’s leaving someplace else. It is not. We’re still fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and have our military noses in the mess that is most of the rest of the Middle East. That requires significant resources, human and otherwise, from every branch of the services. Expanding to Africa will require even more.

year business, and we’ll sell you everything from handguns to top-of-the-line fighter jets.

Our top customer? That would be our good friends the Saudis, whose financial support of radical Islamic schools has been the incubator of all that has followed since 9/11.

We’ve sold so much stuff to so many countries, we now find ourselves fighting our own equipment in some places. We’ve inadvertently helped arm the Taliban and al-Qaida, who capture U.S.-made equipment from local armies.

Everywhere equipment is abandoned or stolen, it ends up being pointed back at us.

More than half a century ago, then-president Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell address, warned us about the growing power of what he called the military-industrial complex.

We ignored him.

Politicians and the massive defense industry have now created a state of perpetual war. Arms manufacturers and dealers have cleverly expanded their operations into many states, gaining the support of local politicians. The same politicians demand more and more shiny new toys, including those the military has specifically said it doesn’t need.

We spend a larger portion of our budget on the war machine than any other country in the world, with the likely exception of North Korea, and arm much of the rest of the world while we’re at it.

Vice President Mike Pence recently said we are committed to fighting terrorists wherever they are. That would mean even more troops and more equipment in more places since jihadist militants of one sort or another have been active in nearly two dozen countries. If we’re going to invest blood and treasure in all of them, we’d better reinstate the draft and increase taxes to help pay for it all.

More troops doing more dying in more places with more equipment to fight more enemies using more arms we’ve sold somebody else: It doesn’t seem like a very good plan.

Crime & Rescue BUS DRIVER FACES CHARGES A former school bus driver faces charges after he allegedly had sexual contact with a student.

Larry Gilbert Beutler faces 15 years in prison on charges of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. The 66-year-old Buckley man was jailed in lieu of a $200,000 bond after his Oct. 24 arrest.

Traverse City Police investigated a report that Beutler had inappropriate contact with a Traverse City Area Public Schools student. Beutler worked for Dean Transportation, which was contracted

by Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District to transport students, including some TCAPS students in alternative education programs.

According to TBAISD, the alleged incidents were discovered after school on Friday, Oct. 6, and Beutler was fired the following Monday, prior to the start of the workday the following Monday.

DRIVERLESS PICKUP CRASHES An unoccupied pickup rolled from a driveway onto M-22, causing a rollover accident near Suttons Bay. The crash occurred Oct. 25 at 2:35pm near Send Road when a 78-year-old Traverse City man was headed south, and an unoccupied Ford pickup rolled into his path.

The pickup had been parked at Leelanau Fruit for the previous two weeks and, for an unknown reason, suddenly rolled down a hill and onto the highway, Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said.

The driver was unable to avoid a collision, but he was not injured in the crash.

BURNED OUT CAR DISCOVERED Someone stole a black 2014 Cadillac CTS from a Cadillac car dealership, drove it into the woods, and set it on fire.

Wexford County Sheriff’s deputies said that by the time the car was discovered Sept. 26, the fire had burned out, and the metal was no longer hot.

They determined the car had been stolen from Fox Toyota of Cadillac sometime between Sept. 15 and the day it was discovered on a seasonal road in Haring Township.

Deputies issued a press release about the burned-out car Oct. 24 and asked anyone who knows anything about it to call the sheriff’s department or the silent observer hotline.

MOTORCYCLIST SERIOUSLY INJURED A motorcycle driver who failed to negotiate a traffic circle at the entrance to Camp Grayling suffered significant head trauma when he crashed without a helmet.

State police determined alcohol played a role in the Oct. 22 crash. The 35-year-old Owosso man was taken to Grayling Munson Hospital and transferred to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Saginaw.

While troopers investigated the crash they spoke with a second motorcyclist who was at the scene but who did not crash. After some sobriety tests, the 34-year-old Chesaning man was arrested for drunk driving.

DEALERSHIP THEFT INVESTIGATED Police want to find whoever stole numerous tires and rims from a Cadillac car dealership.

The thefts were discovered at Godfrey Chevrolet on N. Mitchell Street in Haring Township on the morning of Oct. 25, state police said.

Due to the scale of the thefts, investigators suspect that thieves used a trailer to haul away the stolen items sometime overnight.

Anyone with information should call the state police Cadillac Post or the silent observer hotline.

by patrick sullivan psullivan@northernexpress.com

MOM’S CALL LEADS TO ARREST A mother who called 911 because she was worried that her 45-year-old son had been assaulted by his girlfriend prompted police to visit her son’s house, where they arrested him for assault.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Blair Township home at just past noon Oct. 20 because a woman worried that her son, who had injured his arm in a work accident, had his injury aggravated when his 36-year-old girlfriend assaulted him.

The man told police he went into the bathroom while his girlfriend showered to complain that she’d bought too much candy, causing her to strike his face.

The woman, however, told deputies that the couple’s relationship was stressed because he’s been out of work because of his injury. She said he burst into the bathroom, and she told him to get out.

Next, the woman told police, he took her cell phone, called his mother, and after the call, took her by her neck and strangled her for about a minute, making it difficult for her to breathe, and threatening to kill her.

Deputies noted that the woman had red marks across her neck and arrested the man on charges of domestic assault by strangulation, Lt. Brian Giddis said.

MAN ARRESTED AFTER STANDOFF A Petoskey apartment building was evacuated after a man locked himself in his home amid a standoff with police.

Petoskey Department of Public Safety officers were called to the Traverse Woods apartments Oct. 20 to investigate a breaking and entering complaint. At 6pm, they identified a 40-year-old suspect, who became aggressive and pulled what appeared to be a knife from his pocket.

An officer shot the man twice with a taser when he refused to drop the weapon. Despite the officer’s use of the stun gun, the man was able to retreat into his apartment, leading to a standoff. The regional emergency response team responded and worked with the suspect’s family members to negotiate his surrender.

Just after midnight, however, the suspect emerged and attempted to flee. He was quickly surrounded by officers, shot with a taser, and arrested. He was taken to the hospital, then jail. He faces charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest.

HANG UP LEADS TO ARREST Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman after they followed up on a 911 hang-up call.

Deputies visited a home in Suttons Bay Township at 7:08am Oct. 21 where they learned that an assault had occurred following a family argument.

Investigators determined that a 51-year-old woman had struck her 57-year-old husband in the face several times. The woman was taken to jail. The man’s injuries were minor and did not require medical attention.

In another stop that same day, a passenger, a 25-year-old Kalkaska man, attempted to give troopers a false identity. When they determined the man’s true identity, they discovered he was wanted on a drug warrant from Florida. Troopers also arrested the driver, a 20-year-old Kingsley woman, on a Grand Traverse County warrant.

THREE DETAINED IN STOPS Two Kalkaska County traffic stops netted young people wanted for other crimes.

State police made the stops Oct. 20.

In the first, troopers pulled over a car for defective equipment and discovered the car was uninsured. They also discovered that a 16-year-old passenger had been reported as a missing person and had escaped from a juvenile detention facility in Missaukee County.

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Quick-thinking paramedics in Dorset, England, saved the life of a man whose fishing outing went south when a dover sole jumped down his throat and blocked his windpipe on Oct. 5. Sam Quilliam, 28, had just caught the 5 1/2-inch-long fish and went to give it a kiss when it wriggled free and lodged in his throat.

“I ran round the pier like a headless chicken and then passed out,” Quilliam told The Guardian.

When first responders arrived, Quilliam was not breathing, but friends were performing CPR. Paramedic Matt Harrison said: “It was clear that we needed to get the fish out or this patient was not going to survive. ... I was able to eventually dislodge the tip of the tail and very carefully, so as not to break the tail off, I tried to remove it -- although the fish’s barbs and gills were getting stuck on the way back up.” Finally, the fish “came out in one piece,” Harrison said. Quilliam said his brush with death won’t put him off fishing.

“Once I am back at work and fit, I will probably get back at it again,” he said.

What’s in a Name?

Carrie L. Hitt, 42, of Junction City, Oregon, died after her Ford Bronco left the road on Territorial Highway and rolled on Oct. 4. Hitt was ejected from her car and then struck by a second vehicle, driven by Nadine M. Killmaster, 32, of Yakima, Washington. Oregon State Police told The Register-Guard they believe Hitt was using a mobile phone just before the crash.

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-- Lindsey Partridge of Ontario, Canada, booked herself at a pet-friendly Super 8 in Georgetown, Kentucky, for the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover on Oct. 4. At check-in, Partridge asked the front desk clerk if the pet policy included horses, to which the clerk answered, “Aw, I wouldn’t mind. You could do that.” So Partridge returned to her horse trailer and brought Blizz, her retired racehorse, into the hotel. Partridge and Blizz took a video and a few photos in the room, but eventually Partridge took Blizz to the Kentucky Horse Park, where the rooms are more suited to equine visitors. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Blizz took third place in the trail competition during the event.

-- Meanwhile, in Iowa, a pair of women stopped at a traffic light in Altoona in October looked at the car next to them and saw a horse staring back from the back seat. “This is the most Iowa thing that has EVER happened to me,” Hannah Waskel tweeted, along with a video of the miniature horse. “We started laughing and the people driving the horse saw us and waved,” Hannah told UPI. “They even rolled the window down for the horse.”

Questionable Judgment

Tucson, Arizona, firefighters were called on Oct. 15 to a mobile home park after a resident there tried to remove spiderwebs from beneath his trailer using a propane torch, but ended up setting his home on fire. KVOA-TV reported that the unnamed man’s elderly mother, who also lived there, suffered minor injuries while being carried out of the mobile home with the help of neighbors.

Wait, What?

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport made an unusual discovery in the luggage of a traveler arriving from Vietnam in October: 54 illegal bird nests. The nests, which are considered a delicacy in some countries, are built out of solidified bird saliva and are used to make soup and broth, reported UPI. However, they are banned from entering the United States

because they may carry infectious diseases. The nests were destroyed.

What We’ll Do for Love

The Daily World in Centralia, Washington, reported that Rachel A. Deckert, 27, tried to turn herself in at the Lewis County Jail on an outstanding DUI warrant on Aug. 21, but was turned away because she brought along her partner -- literally glued to Deckert by her pinky finger. When Deckert tried again the next day, still attached to her partner, police and firefighters were called. The two women were attached by a copper elbow pipe into which they had each inserted a pinky finger secured with “some kind of epoxy,” a firefighter said. They told authorities they had been that way about a week at the suggestion of a couples therapy counselor. “They haven’t been able to feel their fingers for three days,” said police detective Patty Finch. Efforts to separate the women were unsuccessful, and Deckert was released with advice to seek medical attention.

Timing Is Everything

Eva Pandora Baldursdottir, a member of the Icelandic parliament from the Pirate Party, was scheduled to take part in a debate on Oct. 12, according to UPI, but an unexpected injury lent her an especially jaunty look for the televised event: She had to conduct the debate wearing an eye patch after her toddler daughter scratched her eye. “Sometimes astounding things can happen at the worst time,” Baldursdottir shared on Facebook, along with a photo of her wearing the eye patch.

Awesome!

For the last time, Flight 666, traveling from Copenhagen, Denmark, to HEL (Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport), took off on Friday the 13th of October. A Finnair spokesman said the flight, questionably numbered for the superstitious among us, has been making the trip for 11 years and has flown on Friday the 13th 21 times. “Today will actually be the final time that our AY666 flight flies to HEL,” a spokesman told The Telegraph. Some Finnair flights are getting new numbers, and the infamous route will be renumbered to 954. The flight arrived safely in Helsinki.

Bright Ideas

-- Malcolm Applegate, 62, of Birmingham, England, couldn’t take life with his demanding wife anymore, so 10 years ago he escaped.

Applegate spent five of those years living in the woods near Kingston, until applying to live at a homeless charity called Emmaus Greenwich Center in South London, Fox News reported.

“Without a word to anyone, not even family, I packed up and left ... I went missing for 10 years,” Applegate said. “I enjoyed my life,” he wrote in a blog on the Emmaus Greenwich website, but says he’s grateful to the charity for encouraging him to reconnect with his sister.

As for his wife, there has been no reaction from her to Applegate’s reappearance.

-- Residents of Rogersville, Missouri, are protesting a high school fundraising plan to convert an abandoned funeral home into a haunted house, according to KY3.com, calling the idea distasteful and insensitive. The PrestonMarsh Funeral Home had been scheduled for demolition, but the owner gave permission to students from Logan-Rogersville High School to use it at the end of October to raise money for a safe graduation celebration for seniors. Students said they would use leftover equipment such as gurneys to enhance the spooky experience. But one Rogersville resident said doing so is “akin to opening a strip club in an old church.”

27 YEARS IN, THE ICEMAN STILL COMETH

By Ross Boissoneau Even the name sounds foreboding: The Iceman Cometh. Kind of gives you the shivers. And while participants may warm up on the 30-mile race from Kalkaska to Timber Ridge RV & Recreation Resort on the eastern edge of Traverse City, the weather might not be especially cooperative. Over the years the temperature has ranged from highs in the 60s with plenty of sunshine, to rain, sleet, and snow, and highs – highs – in the 20s.

No wonder it’s called the Iceman.

The race is the brainchild of longtime bike enthusiast Steve Brown. In 1989, he and some friends were bemoaning the local race scene. “We said we need a good mountain bike race,” he said.

The following summer Brown began exploring trails between Kalkaska and Traverse City and cobbled together a route for a proposed race. “It was really a matter of stringing all the two-tracks and overgrown railroad beds together,” said Brown.

In the fall of 1990, 35 men and one woman took part in the initial Iceman Cometh. A year later, more than 10 times as many took part in the race. Last year, the race, now named the Bell’s Beer Iceman Cometh Challenge, attracted 5,393 participants.

That’s not the only indication of its phenomenal growth. That first year, the purse was — well, there wasn’t one. By 1996, the purse was up to $7,000, jumping to $20,000 the next year. Last year, the combined men’s and women’s prize purse totaled over $63,000 in cash for the professional and amateur riders, with more than 250 individual cash prizes awarded. More than $10,000 worth of merchandise was also awarded to Meijer Slush Cup competitors.

All this for the privilege of pedaling madly through woods, trails, and bogs, slipping, sliding, crashing, getting up, and doing it some more. Great fun. At least for Brown and the participants. “I don’t know what I was thinking,” he said.

Over the years the trail that the race takes has changed, due to a number of factors: increased traffic, logging activities, new sponsors. The finish line has been moved from Jellystone Park to the corner of Bartlett and Bunker Hill, to Mt. Holiday, to the VASA trailhead, and back to Jellystone Park, which today is Timber Ridge RV & Recreation Resort.

Traffic on the roads is also a factor.

While wipeouts on the trails are common, in 2003 things took an unexpected turn when a snowstorm caused a number of automobile accidents prior to the race. The

most problematic was when a semi-trailer jackknifed on M-72, closing the road for an hour and creating a massive traffic jam six miles long. That caused the race to be delayed for an hour, as many of the riders and the timing crew missed the original starting time. Many took the delay in stride: A number of those stuck in traffic simply jumped on their bikes and pedaled to the starting line.

The weather is not the only thing that’s bedeviled the race over the years. While Brown waxes poetic about an app called Strava that is used to record a racer’s information and then use that information both to register and seed him or her, technology hasn’t always been his friend.

In 2009, the server for registrants crashed — twice.

“We were trying to use a new system, and it crashed. Then we tried the old system, and it crashed,” said Brown. Ultimately, Brown and company resorted to the oldfashioned route, and all riders submitting their paper entry forms by the following Saturday were accepted.

Brown is clearly pleased if somewhat dumfounded by the explosive growth of the event. “My personal takeaway — I would never have believed it. It’s flattering how much notoriety the race has received due to

the riders’ enthusiasm. They’ve stuck with the event through all the mistakes I’ve made,” Brown said. “One year I hired the sound guy to do the results, and they were screwed up. At nine that night I told everyone to go home. That didn’t go over well, but they came back.

“Traverse City has become a big cycling community. That’s gratifying.”

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

This year’s Bell’s Beer Iceman Cometh Challenge takes place Nov. 4. Registration for it and its “half-frozen” version, the 8-mile Meijer Slush Cup, are sold out. At press time, registration openings for the quartermile Meijer Sno-Cone race for kids remain.

Sideline viewing of all races is available at the finish venue at Timber Ridge. For more information, visit iceman.com.

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THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE

OF GT COUNTY’S ANIMAL CONTROL Underfunded, poorly equipped, and charged with covering 600 square miles, the Grand Traverse Animal Control Department has only 1.5 officers to field up to 600 calls per month about abused, neglected, and potentially dangerous animals.

By the end of November, if the county doesn’t act, the department will shrink to one officer working 25 hours a week.

By Patrick Sullivan Deb Zerafa is the person who checks on someone suspected of hoarding cats. She’s the officer police call if they find sickly dogs locked up in cages in a house. If you’re walking down a trail and get bitten by a dog, it’s Zerafa who comes to investigate.

“A lot of [my job] is just trying to diffuse a situation that could become volatile between neighbors,” Zerafa said. “There’s a lot of neighbor-to-neighbor issues.”

On Oct. 17, Zerafa was working on one of those neighbor disputes in East Bay Township. Several weeks earlier, a woman had been bitten by a neighbor’s dog and required a rabies quarantine. Zerafa needed to follow up because the at-fault dog owner continued to let her dogs run loose. Zerafa knocked on the woman’s door, and while the cars outside and lights on inside suggested otherwise, no one was home — at least no one who would come to the door.

“I’ve got to talk to the owner,” Zerafa said.

“I’ve gotten four calls since last week. This has got to stop.”

PART-TIME TO FULL-TIME That’s the kind of case — one after another — that makes up Zerafa’s day.

After a year on the job, however, the future of funding for Zerafa’s department is uncertain.

Zerafa is one of Grand Traverse County’s one-and-a-half animal control officers, the lone occupiers of a department that’s been at the center of the firestorm over the county’s legacy pension-debt shortfall and consequent tight budgets.

Until recently, Grand Traverse County had two full-time animal control officers.

But in late 2015, under direction of former county administrator Tom Menzel, county commissioners voted to end its animal control services, ostensibly shifting what is technically labeled a “non-essential” service to the sheriff ’s department.

But saddling law enforcement with the

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additional and unwanted responsibility of managing the county’s loose and neglected animals spurred frustration from the sheriff ’s department — and the public.

In response, officials concocted a workaround to fund a stripped-down but dedicated animal control department: It would use funds collected from the dog license fees (starting at $15 per year for spayed or neutered dogs) to establish a part-time position for animal control in the health department. Zerafa started the job on Oct. 17, 2016.

In May 2017, officials went one step further. They determined the money that had been collected for dog licenses during the period the county had stopped funding its own animal control — when it had shifted responsibility to law enforcement — could be used to make Zerafa full-time, plus allow them to hire a part-time second officer in June. This enabled the department to operate near the same strength it operated at before the 2015 cuts.

The problem? The move was a temporary stopgap. That money is about to run out. And if the county doesn’t approve additional funding by the end of November, the department will revert to one employee working 25 hours a week to respond to every animal control issue in Grand Traverse County’s 600 square miles.

A TYPICAL, EXTRAORDINARY DAY Every morning, Zerafa arrives to the office on Lafranier Road and checks voicemail.

There might be a handful of messages. There might be 30. Some of those cases are easy to resolve. Others might take days or weeks and dozens of site visits.

“You have to go on-site because you cannot issue a citation unless you personally hand it to them,” she said.

In some cases, Zerafa has to refer callers elsewhere.

Zerafa recently got a call about a bear and cubs roaming in the Boardman River valley near a subdivision. That kind of call is beyond her expertise, so she refers those to the

Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Some people get referred to cat rescue organizations. Sometimes Zerafa passes along the number for Critter Control.

The animal control voicemail message attempts to triage callers: Wildlife calls are referred to the DNR, calls about stray dogs that need shelter go to the Cherryland Humane Society, and calls about dogs in Traverse City go to the Traverse City Police Department.

Zerafa doesn’t like the message and said she wishes that animal control officers could just take all the calls. When people call Traverse City police to complain about a lost dog, for example, they just get referred back to Zerafa anyway.

Zerafa and her part-time fellow officer handle dozens of complaints each week and visit strange places across Grand Traverse County, yet they are not law enforcement officers. It’s not uncommon for dog-law scofflaws to try to skirt them.

“So these people have my number now, and they don’t answer the door,” Zerafa said of a long-lasting case in Fife Lake. “They will not answer the door. And so I am very determined to get them. If I have to do a stakeout, I will get them.”

THE COUNTY WANTS YOU: TO GET YOUR DOGS LICENSED There are an estimated 20,400 dogs in Grand Traverse County; only 4,519 of those dogs were licensed in 2016, according to county estimates. If all of those dogs were licensed, the animal control budget could be a half-million dollars a year. The 2016 animal control budget, however, was about $133,000.

Zerafa thinks there are more dogs living in the county, perhaps as many as 30,000 to 40,000 dogs, and estimates that 10 percent of them are licensed. No one knows for sure.

County Commissioner Cheryl Gore Follette said she and other commissioners were waiting to see the proposed county budget for next year to determine whether they can find some money to maintain one full-time and one part-time officer.

“I think that, from what I’ve heard from the citizens, that there is a desire for us to have animal control,” Gore Follette said. “So the question is, do we have the room in the budget?”

Gore Follette didn’t know whether any action could be taken by the end of November to preserve the level of animal control the county has seen this summer, however.

“Therein lies the rub,” she said. “Again, I have absolutely no idea what the next cycle’s proposed budget is going to look like. We have a new administrator — we have a lot of changes coming up.”

Officials hope to encourage more people to buy dog licenses in order to increase the money available to fund the department.

Earlier this year, they commissioned a public service announcement filmed by Brauer Productions to encourage dog owners who have neglected to license their pets to pay for a license.

Gore Follette hopes the animal control dilemma is solved next year with the passage of a millage. She believes the people want it. And she said it would be more fair for all citizens in the county to shoulder the cost of animal control rather than just dog owners.

Animal control officers, after all, deal with problems caused by all kinds of animals, not just dogs.

“I have heard from people who are not animal owners who want animal control,” she said.

Gore Follette doesn’t believe the county could fund animal control through its general fund because the budget is just too tight.

“We just don’t have a lot of fat in the budget,” she said. “If there’s a way that I can find $200,000 — problem solved for right now.”

WHEN DOES A FEE BECOME A TAX? TJ Andrews, a Traverse City attorney, wrote the county prosecutor’s office this summer with an objection to the use of dog license fees to fund animal control.

Andrews, who said she was writing as a county resident and taxpayer, wrote that she believes state law does not allow counties to raise revenue through fees because fees are meant to serve a specific purpose. Revenue to run something like animal control, Andrews argued, should come from taxes.

“I am curious how a dog license fee that is apparently being used explicitly to generate revenues to fund the County animal control department is not a tax,” she wrote.

“Animal control is obviously addressing many problems unrelated to licensed dogs — such as rescuing gulls off rooftops (also dealing with stray cats, removing wild animals from the residential neighborhoods, and so on).”

Andrews said she supports animal control and believes that it is a county service that should be supported by all residents.

Gore Follette said she doesn’t believe Andrews’ objections are valid.

“So, my understanding is that some on this board would like us to take an operation that is underfunded, understaffed, undermanaged, and make a miracle out of it. That’s not going to happen.”

“One person has raised that issue, and I’ve spoken with our counsel, and he doesn’t believe that’s an impediment,” Gore Follette said.

Asked whether she thought Andrews was wrong or whether the objection merely didn’t need to be taken seriously, she referred the question to the county’s attorney, Christopher Forsyth, who referred the question to his boss, Prosecutor Robert Cooney, who didn’t respond to a request for comment.

UNCERTAINTY AMONG OFFICIALS It’s unclear whether there is any consensus in the county over what should happen to animal control.

At a study session in June, commissioners discussed putting the service back under the control of the sheriff ’s department.

That proposal did not please Sheriff Tom Bensley. He made a curt comment at the meeting: “So, my understanding is that some on this board would like us to take an operation that is underfunded, understaffed, undermanaged, and make a miracle out of it.

That’s not going to happen.”

In an interview, Bensley said he believes the county needs to determine the level of service they want from animal control and then find a way to fund it. He’s sent out a survey to counties across the state to learn how animal control is funded and under what jurisdiction it’s placed to better inform what happens in Grand Traverse County.

Zerafa hopes that a well-funded animal control can be added to the sheriff ’s department because she believes that animal control officers need to have police powers.

She said her work often brings her into dangerous situations and there isn’t always a

deputy nearby to back her up.

After Bensley spoke at the meeting, Zerafa told the board: “I have worked diligently, tirelessly, and all alone to resurrect a dying program for these dying animals. I put my life at risk every day. I’ve gone out with a bulletproof vest on. I have a CPL license that I cannot carry. I’m not allowed to carry a taser, a baton, or pepper spray,” she said. “So I don’t know why I am doing what I am doing, and it’s only — I will stand here and tell you — it’s only for the love of the animals.”

Bensley said Zerafa should be able to carry a weapon; if she can’t, that’s likely due to health department policy, and that could change. He said deputies can back up animal control officers no matter which department they are a part of.

Bensley said he’s not ready to say he would be willing to negotiate taking animal control into his department; the way it was thrust upon him in early 2016 without any discussion or notice still stings.

“THIS STUFF BREAKS MY HEART” Despite some progress over the past year, ambivalence to even address the issue is evident among some commissioners.

Earlier in that June study session, commissioner Dan Lathrop, who was among the commissioners who voted in late 2015 to eliminate animal control, seemed to wonder why the topic was even being discussed again.

“Why are we having this meeting?”

Lathrop said. “Is there something big that came up?”

Lathrop did not respond to a message seeking comment.

At the meeting, Lathrop’s comment prompted Gore Follette to explain that she called for the study session because she is an animal lover, and she’s worried about animal abuse and neglect and increased dog bites in the county.

“I mean, this stuff breaks my heart, OK? And if it doesn’t break yours, shame on you,” Gore Follette said. “I met with the animal control officer, and she showed me pictures from animals that she had to deal with this year. It would break your heart.

And she’s trying to deal with it 25 hours a week with a truck that’s a piece of crap — it’s an embarrassment to the county — with a budget that’s a joke. So yeah, I called for a meeting.”

Toward the end of the discussion, Lathrop seemed to change his mind. He proposed an ad hoc committee to try to solve the problem, and he joined the committee.

THE ANIMALS AND THE LAW Dan Thorell, director of environmental health, said Zerafa had been a great asset to his department because other employees are not trained to deal directly with animals as Zarafa is. Zerafa also has decades of experience as a paralegal, so she understands the law.

During the period when there was no animal control officer, some of the old responsibilities shifted to the sheriff ’s department, some to health department, and some were simply unattended.

The health department still had to handle dog bite cases, Thorell said, so that work shifted to nurses who work in the communicable disease section of the health department. Since Zerafa took over, and since the funding has been elevated this summer, many of those cases have returned to animal control.

Zerafa is confident that a millage could pass in 2018, and she hopes that commissioners can figure out a way so that she’s not a lone part-time officer until then.

“I don’t think our commissioners are going to let that happen right now,” she said. “I say that with optimism because they’ve given me a voice at their meetings, which I think was kind of absent.”

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Set in Stone Tribal architect Steve Feringa transforms 4.6-billion-year-old rock into tools for today.

By Al Parker Steve Feringa grips a deer antler tool in his right hand and presses down hard against a piece of ancient rock held in his left until there’s an audible snap. A a quarter-inch sliver of the novaculite chips off and falls to the floor.

He’ll do it dozens of times until he’s fashioned an arrowhead … or a knife … or a cutting tool out of this stone, a sharp piece of sedimentary rock formed in the precambrian age and unearthed from deep deposits in the Ouchita Mountains of Arkansas.

That’s the essence of flintknapping, the age-old art of making stone tools by patiently chipping rocks apart with force.

“I like making smaller arrowheads to hunt with,” said Feringa, a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who got started in flintknapping in 1998 in his hometown of Grand Rapids.

But it wasn’t other tribal members who sparked Feringa’s interest in creating arrowheads and other stone tools.

“As a kid I was always outdoors, hunting or fishing. I was making homemade bows and arrows when I was seven or eight years old.

In ’98, I saw an article in a magazine about flintknapping, and it had a phone number. I called and got in touch with other guys who were doing this.

“I hung out with these guys a couple of times a year,” said Feringa, who now lives in Suttons Bay. “And they would show me their techniques and give me tools and materials to get started. Ironically, they were mostly older, non-native guys who I was learning my own culture from.”

In 1999 Feringa moved to northern Michigan and now works as a corporate architect for the GT Band. And he continued in his hobby of flintknapping, staying active in the Michigan Flintknappers, a statewide group of stone chippers. Each year the group meets at locales around the state, including an annual September gathering in northern Michigan.

Feringa passes on the flintknapping tradition through sessions with Leelanau County youngsters, teaching students in Suttons Bay Schools and at some informal gatherings.

Feringa said the best stones for making arrowheads include flint, chert, obsidian, jasper, and quartzite — stones that are somewhat brittle and have a fine-grained,

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uniform texture that is free from cracks, fissures, and fractures.

“One of the best stones to work with is novaculite,” said Feringa. “It’s fairly easy to work and chips predictably, and that’s important. You just hit it and hit it, shaping as you go.”

Feringa’s arrowheads are not just decorative.

He uses them on the 28-inch handmade arrows that he crafts for deer hunting. Using sinew and hide glue, pine pitch, and charcoal, he carefully attaches the arrowheads. The fletchings are made of turkey feathers.

Feringa coats the arrow shafts in bear oil that has been rendered from fat given to him by a friend who took a black bear in another state.

The bear oil protects and conditions the shaft.

When he’s not out hunting or working on his flintknapping, Feringa does other artwork, including leather works and drawings, all of which reflect his love of the outdoors and his heritage.

Flintknapping takes practice and requires decent motor skills. But even the most experienced knapper can make mistakes and — after a lot of work — ruin a piece when it’s near completion. With almost two decades of experience, it takes him only 15 or 20 minutes to make a small arrowhead, a couple of hours for something bigger. He works on his hobby sporadically, sometimes taking a week or two off, then resuming. “It’s really relaxing, and I get a lot of satisfaction out of it.”

Feringa said that beginning flintknappers can practice on an old sink or a porcelain toilet.

Some experienced flintknappers can tap a stone and listen carefully to the pitch it gives off. Stones that produce a higher pitch when tapped are generally better for knapping.

To break apart and shape his material, Feringa uses an assortment of simple tools.

The bigger tools are hammer stones, fashioned from elk antler. Smaller tools used for delicate work are made of antlers from pronghorn deer or whitetail deer. Some have hard stone tips; others feature a copper tip.

All are stored in a handmade leather valise gifted to Feringa years ago, a gift from one of his flintknapping mentors. It’s well-stocked, akin to a fisherman’s tackle box with a jumble of tools.

“And there are Band-Aids in there, too,” said Feringa with a laugh. “You get cut doing this.”

To learn more, visit michiganflintknappers.com.

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Michigan natives and musicians Jeff Daniels and son Ben Daniels to play City Opera House

By Kristi Kates Actor, musician, storyteller, voice-over artist, playwright, theater founder, Broadway performer, Emmy Award winner.

Shall we go on? Jeff Daniels is a man of many hats, not the least of which is his musicianship.

We chatted with him in advance of his upcoming concert at City Opera House in Traverse City, where he’ll take the stage with his son Ben, of the Ben Daniels Band.

SOLITARY PURSUITS If you’re not familiar with Daniels’ music, you’ll certainly recognize him from his films, which include the wacky Dumb and Dumber movies with Jim Carrey as well as a number of more thoughtful roles in big-screen epics like The Martian, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Looper, Good Night and Good Luck, and Gettysburg.

But right now, it’s music that’s taking center stage for Daniels, who most recently collaborated with Michigan singer-songwriter Brian Vander Ark (formerly of The Verve Pipe) on the new album Simple Truths.

“Jim Fleming, my music agent, also works with Brian,” Daniels said. “He suggested that Brian and I might enjoy writing together. So Brian sent me part of a song called ‘My Little Town.’ I threw him some stuff back for that song, and another song called ‘Overboard,’ which I helped him finish in a darker way than I think he expected.”

Both men then spent six months in 2016 writing back and forth on songs, a process that would become the start of Simple Truths.

It was initially a process that Daniels didn’t expect to work.

“I don’t collaborate well with others,” he said with a chuckle. “And I don’t collaborate often. As you know, songwriting is a solitary pursuit. So writing with someone else was interesting. But it was also a lot of fun.”

FAMILY TREK One person Daniels has long collaborated with on music is his son, Ben Daniels. His Ben Daniels Band is a folk-rock outfit that’s been playing shows throughout the Midwest.

“When I write songs, I usually start with an audio memo in iPhone. Sometimes I’ll put the song into GarageBand to add a few things,” Daniels said. “But then I just hand it over to Ben; he records and engineers at our recording studio in Chelsea. Otherwise, the songs I

record on my own pretty much always just sound like demos.”

Daniels has recorded a full-length album with his son, Days Like These, but he’s especially enjoying his current trek, the one he and Ben will bring to Traverse City.

“This is an acoustic tour, which I’ve looked forward to doing a lot,” he said. “I’ve been writing a lot of stuff in particular for this tour, and the acoustic approach really lets the instruments sing. It’s also very family-friendly, a very fatherson kind of show. As a matter of fact, my other son, Lucas, is the tour manager.”

BACK TO THE SCREEN After Traverse City, Daniels’ tour dates will continue throughout the Midwest. He’s pondering releasing some of the audio from the tour as well.

“We might specifically record it as a live album, or we might come off the road and go right into the studio, so we can record the songs as they’re fresh,” he said. “I haven’t really decided on that one yet.”

Part of that decision might depend on how busy he gets with the other side of his career: acting. Daniels just wrapped work two weeks ago on a Hulu series called The Looming Tower (based on the 2006 book by Lawrence Wright.)

“It’s about the lead-up to 9/11,” Daniels said. “I play John O’Neill, an FBI agent working with the counter-terrorism unit. He’s worried about Bin Laden long before Bin Laden is really a thing.”

Is anyone listening to O’Neill?

“Not really,” Daniels said. “The book and the series are based on a true story. It’s really a pretty exhaustive study of how al-Qaida came to be.”

Also just wrapped for Daniels is the limited series Godless, a dark western that’ll hit Netflix on Nov. 22. Godless will co-star Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey, Thomas Brodie Sangster from Game of Thrones, and English actor Jack O’Connell.

“I play the bad guy, Frank Griffin,” Daniels said. “He’s a man with a lot of issues. The series may take place in the 1880s, but what Frank really needs is a shrink.”

DREAM DIVERSITY Daniels admitted that he quite liked playing a less sympathetic part, after taking on so many roles where he’s either entertaining, leading, or holding down the proverbial fort.

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The sets and costume design for Godless also immersed Daniels firmly in the middle of the 19th century, right down to, well, his face.

“For playing Frank, I’ve got a beard on me that took six months to grow,” he said. “It was great, too, because this kind of story, a Western like this, is something I hadn’t done yet. It’s so interesting to go from Will McAvoy (of the HBO series The Newsroom) to the 1880s; from Dumb and Dumber to Gettysburg. I try to do as many diverse roles as possible.”

So has he portrayed his dream role yet? He paused thoughtfully when asked … and then seemed to realize that he’s right in the middle of it.

“There’s not really a dream role project out there, I don’t think. Well, wait — you know, the music thing is kind of it, really. It’s the trip of a lifetime, with your kid who actually wants to be up on stage in front of people playing guitar with you. So I get to do that. And I get to write plays. And work on Broadway. And make movies and TV shows. Well. It’s all part of it — it’s just a creative life I’ve got.”

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It’s a given that work, like life, was far more difficult in the past than it is today. With a long list of modern equipment and refined tools to help us complete tasks and create products, it’s a wonder that some of our age-old arts have survived. Here in northern Michigan, however, there’s a number of artisans ushering their classic crafts into the modern age. Here’s a look at four talented local craftsmen and their work then and now. By Kristi Kates

KNIFE SHARPENING: Curt Regentin, Harbor Springs

BLACKSMITHING: David McConnell, Kalkaska

Curt Regentin of Shopcraft in Harbor Springs takes on knife sharpening in the modern age with a penchant for research and an eye for detail.

The Olde: In ancient and medieval times, craftsmen used coarse whetstones to sharpen knives, usually using rectangular ones for small knives; large circular whetstones were turned with a handle to sharpen larger items like swords.

When abrasive stones weren’t available, some cultures sprinkled sand onto a flattened piece of wood and used that to sharpen a blade edge.

The New: Regentin’s draw to knife sharpening started as a change of pace. After teaching English for 26 years (24 of them in Harbor Springs), he decided he needed to try something different, and joined the industrial arts teaching staff at Harbor Springs High School as a woodworking and drafting instructor.

“That’s where I first learned about knife sharpening,” Regentin said.

Now retired from teaching, Regentin has been expanding his home workshop, gardening, and working in his small orchard, favorite features of his Harbor Springs home with his wife Jeanne.

“But when doing those activities, I’m alone a lot of the time,” Regentin said. “So I thought I needed a little extra human contact.”

Enter Cyndi Kramer and the Harbor Springs Farmers Market. Regentin asked Kramer if she’d be interested in a knife sharpener at the market, and she was; he started four years ago, and is now a big hit.

“Curt has been incredibly successful at the market, with everyone from chefs to home cooks, gardeners, fishermen and hunters using his services. We are super proud that he is a vendor with us,” Kramer said.

After starting on a simple work table at the market and finding it inadequate, Regentin built his own knife-sharpening cart from scratch, equipping it with his Tormek sharpening machine and other gear. He utilized online videos to hone his knife-sharpening skills.

“I had to learn more about angles, bevels, and burrs (on the knives),” he explained. “I’m constantly trying different techniques, so there’s a fair amount of experimenting happening.”

His motorized, water-cooled sharpening machine is a far cry from the typical whetstone, although it uses the same principle of utilizing an abrasive surface to sharpen. “The Tormak can be changed from one grit to another, but I typically sharpen on the fine grit,” Regentin said. “A 10-inch diameter wheel lasts for about 1,000 knives, so by the end of a summer farmers market season, that 10-inch wheel has been ground down to about 7-and-a-half inches”.”

Regentin starts by looking at the shape of the knife, noting that various styles of knives and serrated blades have to be handled differently.

“I’ve done it enough now where it takes just a look, and I can even tell if they’re washing the knife in the dishwasher, which I

At North Woods Forge in Kalkaska, David McConnell brings blacksmithing into the modern age by adapting some traditional techniques that he’s literally forged in fire.

The Olde: From the medieval period onward, most towns had a village “smithy” where the local blacksmith would make and fix iron tools, weapons, and accessories. The usual fuel to fire up the blacksmith’s forge was charcoal or coal; today it’s most often natural gas or acetylene. But the blacksmithing methods themselves are very close to the same.

The New: McConnell’s road to blacksmithing literally started in a car. He and his dad were on their way back home to Alba from a trip downstate when they spotted a sign on the side of the road that simply said “Event.” On a whim, father and son followed the sign to Hartwick Pines State Park and logging museum, and found themselves in the middle of an event called Black Iron Days, a gathering of several dozen blacksmiths (among other artisans). “I was instantly hooked,” McConnell said.

McConnell, by trade a machine repairman who fixes industrial machinery, said he has always enjoyed “making stuff ” on his time off.

“So to see these guys taking something as strong and as unwilling to move as metal, heating it up, and bending into whatever they wanted was really inspiring,” he said.

His first task was to find an anvil. “That was a long search,” he said. “Anvils are so expensive, and if you do find one, chances are an antiques collector has already snatched it up.”

When he finally got a hold of one, he next needed to build a forge. His initial forge was fueled with coal. He still uses it today. “I prefer it, actually — you can take your time and let the coal do the work.”

But he also has a propane gas forge to supplement his work, crafting a wide range of items out of steel.

“I can make knives and knick-knacks, axes, hatchets, and ornamental items like handrails for staircases — I actually like those best, as there’s so much you can do with them,” he said.

His blacksmithing skills have snagged him some national attention, too. He was featured as one of the competitors on the History Channel’s blacksmithing show, Forged in Fire.

His episode aired earlier this year.

“You know, I’d never been out of Michigan, but because of the show, I got to go stay in Manhattan, filming the show in a warehouse in Queens, New York,” he said. “The intensity was crazy. Once they started filming us, with all the forges fired up, there were no breaks.”

McConnell was one of two finalists. The Talwar sword (a curved sword originating in India) that he crafted out of high-carbon steel didn’t win, but he said that being on the show was a remarkable experience regardless.

“Forged in Fire marked a lot of firsts for me,” he said. “First time flying in an airplane, first time in a big city. The judges were awesome guys. And being on TV didn’t bother me — I

discourage,” he said.

He also ends up repairing knives fairly often. “Some people use the tip as an impromptu screwdriver, so I have to fix that, or maybe they’ve put a serious nick in the knife,” he said. “Cleavers are also a challenge.”

Even more challenging was what he called his “most interesting” customer to date.

“A woman found a sword at a yard sale, and she bought it for a relative of hers who was getting married,” said Regentin. “She wanted this 36-inch-long sword sharpened to cut the cork off of the end of a champagne bottle,” said Regentin. “So I’ve met some really interesting people. But it’s the craft itself that is most satisfying. Every time I’ve finished sharpening and buffing a knife, and see that I’ve achieved that nice, sharp edge — that’s the goal.”

Find out more: Find Shopcraft on Facebook, or visit Curt Regentin at the Harbor Springs Farmers Market — in downtown Harbor Springs in summer and at the Harbor Springs Middle School through fall and winter.

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just focused on what I was doing.”

Thanks to the publicity from the show, he’s selling a lot more of his handcrafted knives and tools these days. But in talking with him, it seems he would’ve been just as happy doing the same kind of work back in the 1800s.

“We have so much better technology now,” he said, “it’s easier to pick a skill up and learn it on your own, on the internet. Back then you’d have to find the opportunity to apprentice under a master blacksmith, which would’ve been a feat in itself. But in the ‘good old days,’ I’d still be doing this, just in a much more utilitarian way — making hinges, eating utensils, fire pokers, chains and nails. Really, I can make anything under the sun.”

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GLASS BLOWING: Jay Bavers, East Jordan Longtime local craftsman Jay Bavers of Jordan Valley Glassworks has fine-tuned this vintage skill to a beautifully high level with a focus on color.

The Olde: Glass itself has a long and unusual history, from its natural occurrences via lightning strikes and volcanic eruptions to the first glass blowing techniques invented by the Phoenicians in 50 B.C. Fortunately for today’s glass blowers, they’re not prevented from traveling as Venetian artisans were back in the late 1200s, so that their glassblowing knowledge would be safely kept within their home city.

The New: Jordan Valley Glassworks was founded back in 1911 in Brooklyn, New York,

by Jay Bavers’ grandfather, Nathan. “I am the one who brought it here to northern Michigan,” said Bavers, who grew up out east but had Midwestern ambitions.

“I told my grandmother when I was eight years old that when I grew up, I’d set up my own glassblowing shop in the country, by a lake,” he said. “And that’s exactly what I did.”

Bavers, who attended the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit, would travel Up North on his time off and ended up settling in East Jordan. Glassblowing moved north with him, and since then he’s established himself and his crew as award-winning artisans.

“I’ve always loved the furnaces and the molten glass,” he said. “There’s just something magical about blowing glass.”

Bavers and his fellow glassblowers make their own glass out of a mixture of sand, soda, and lime cooked at 2,600 F degrees. What makes his glass especially stand out is its use of color, which Bavers said is derived from metal oxide powders.

“We use gold to get red color, copper to get green, cadmium for yellow, cobalt for blue, and aluminum for white,” he said. “And once you have those prime colors, you can make any color.”

To craft a blown glass piece, a bit of molten glass is attached to the end of the glassblowing pipe. More molten glass is added as needed, and then the colors are picked up from a steel table, where the powders are carefully arranged.

“We roll the hot glass in the powders, and then melt in the color in the furnace,” explained Bavers. “Next, we use tools like awls and tweezers to twist and design the glass. Once we have the color and design where we want it, we blow it up, and shape it as we go.”

The hot pieces rest overnight, and are then brought into a cold room to be cut, drilled, and wired together to complete the designs that Bavers and his team have designed.

“We make cups, oil lamps, Christmas ornaments, sun-catchers, garden items, and rondels [flat, circular glass artworks], all the way up to large items like wall sculptures and chandeliers,” he said. “We probably do four or five huge chandeliers — 450 pounds each— a year, mostly for private homes, banks, and businesses.”

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FURNITURE MAKING: Steve Montero, Rapid City Not content with modern mass-market goods, Rapid City’s Steve Montero keeps the natural appeal of wood intact in his handcrafted furniture at Torch River Rustics.

The Olde: Outside of primitive times, ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen were the first to properly utilize wood to craft furniture much as we know it today. They used familiar techniques and components like carving, mitres, and joints, as well as tools like saws and chisels in their woodworking, often decorating pieces with ivory inlays and gold leaf.

The New: Before his current life as a woodworker, Steve Montero was a software engineer. But after fulfilling the dream of his wife, Lori — to build a log home — the couple needed furniture that looked right in the rustic space, and that’s where Montero’s life took a turn.

“We looked at how expensive complimentary log furniture was, and I thought, well, I can make it myself,” he said.

“After I’d made a few pieces, some of our friends wanted me to make furniture for them. Then friends of friends wanted furniture. And it snowballed from there.”

Montero found making furniture much more relaxing than the computer business. He left the computer industry and started crafting furniture full-time in 2003. He’s not formally taught, but instead pulls his woodworking knowledge from lessons taught by his dad, Francis, and from his own experiences.

“My dad could fix or do anything,” Montero said. “I can do shoestring mechanics, building, plumbing, and electrician work today because of my dad, and from him I also learned how to not be afraid to do anything. Plus when I was a teenager, I worked in a hardware store, so I learned a lot from the customers there, too.”

He sources his wood — mostly white cedar — from swampland on his own property and that of neighboring friends in the Rapid City area. Then, in his home workshop (built in his garage), he transforms the wood into everything from night lights, lamps, and chairs to bookshelves, desks, benches, picnic tables, and dining sets. Many of his specialty headboards even have twigs carefully woven in to the design.

“The biggest challenge is in finding the right wood,” he said. “Most of the stuff I make is custom made, specific to what the customer wants. For instance, one person wanted a 14-foot-long picnic table, so I had to find wood that would cut into 14-foot lengths. That kind of thing.”

The tools of his trade are similar to the tools of yore. Two of his favorite tools are the tenon cutter, used to cut tenons, or little connecting dowels, out of the ends of logs, and a draw knife, a woodworking hand-tool that he utilizes to peel the bark off of the exterior of the logs.

“I also use saws, sanders, various drills to drill holes for the tenons, and a lot of glue,” Montero said. “The phrase I always use is ‘screwed and glued.’ I use both screws and glue so that the pieces fit tightly together without gaps.” His wife assists by using her artistic skills to help stain and finish the pieces, adding engravings as needed.

And much like the good old days, no two pieces of furniture are the same. “They’re all definitely unique, because I’m not a mass producer,” he said. “And I focus on a very rustic style of furniture. If I was an old world woodworker, I’d still be making the same stuff I do now, and actually using similar tools — but the biggest difference is that now, all of our tools are made out of metal.”

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The Most Important Meal of the Day, Reinvented Traverse City’s Sugar 2 Salt

By Kristi Kates Sugar 2 Salt co-owner Stephanie Wiitala knows the value of teamwork. Not only between her and her partner and co-chef/ co-owner Jonathan Dayton but also with the entire crew at her and Dayton’s new breakfast and brunch spot at the Village at Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City.

BLACK STAR START “Jonathan and I are quite a team,” Wiitala said. “But we also have a great staff and we couldn’t do this without them — restaurants are not run by just two people!”

Not even if the two people are as creative and ambitious as Wiitala and Dayton.

Wiitala, who graduated from the Great Lakes Culinary Institute in Traverse City with an associate degree in culinary arts, also has a chemistry background.

Dayton initially went to school for graphic design. “So every plate he puts together is a work of art, color, texture, and balance,” Wiitala said, “but he didn’t follow through on doing graphics. He got into the restaurant industry and never left.”

The pair met while working at Black

Star Farms, an inn and winery that boasts an on-site farm-to-table cafe in the heart of Traverse City’s wine country. Dayton worked as executive chef; Wiitala was the Farms’ events manager and pastry chef.

Wiitala credits Black Star with their shared penchant for working with local food artisans and farmers — “[It] was such a great training ground for us,” she said — but there was something else fortuitous about their time there: “We met while making breakfast.”

OUT OF THE BOX Breakfast, Sugar 2 Salt’s specialty, isn’t like you typically taste it. “We offer breakfast entrees unlike anything you’ve seen!”

Wiitala said. “We use all the same breakfast ‘characters’ — eggs, bacon, waffles — but we make them in a unique, out-of-the-box way.”

One popular example: Sugar 2 Salt’s signature root vegetable waffle. It looks like a traditional breakfast waffle and is cooked in a waffle iron, but it’s crafted of par-cooked and cubed carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rutabaga, and other in-season vegetables, then covered with house-cured smoked bacon, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce.

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You’ll also find on the S2S breakfast menu savory pudding: beef brisket and forest-mushroom bread pudding topped with an egg and oregano pesto.

Another standout is the five-grain porridge with quinoa, wheat berries, farro, oats, and barley, served with apples, pears, candied walnuts, farmer’s cheese, and local honey and buttermilk.

“We’re also located next to Earthen Ales Brewery, so we use their spent grain to make pancakes, which we serve with lemon and chocolate mint syrups,” Wiitala said.

DINING DIFFERENT Wiitala and Dayton’s goals for Sugar 2 Salt are simple: They just want to be themselves and offer the best food possible to their guests.

“Before we opened, we kind of polled the city, and it kept coming back that Traverse City doesn’t have enough breakfast options.

We thought, well, that’s easy — we’d been making breakfast together at Black Star Farms for years!” Wiitala said.

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EXPERIENCE INTERLOCHEN

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PETOSKEY SKI TEAM’S ANNUAL SKI SWAP: 8amnoon, Central Elementary School, cafeteria, Petoskey.

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Drop off equipment to be SOLD on Fri., Oct. 27, 5-8pm. Pick up unsold equipment on Sat., Oct. 28, 2-4pm. facebook.com/petoskeyskiteam

-------------------ZOMBIE RUN: 9am, Right Brain Brewery, TC. A zombie themed 5K run/walk. Proceeds benefit TART Trails. Medals will be awarded to the overall top male & female runners & age group winners. There will also be prizes for best costumes. $15 - $35. tczombierun.com

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BOOS, BREWS & BRATS: 10am-11pm, Downtown Manistee. Includes a Halloween kids movie at The Vogue Theatre, pumpkin painting at Happy Owl, Kids Halloween Costume Contest, trick or treating on River St., .5K Zombie Pub Crawl, Monster Bash & more. visitmanisteecounty.com/event/boos-brews-brats

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HOLIDAY ART FAIR: 10am-5pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Featuring fine arts & crafts from 45 MI artists, Christmas & Chanukah gifts, arts & crafts kits & more. dennosmuseum.org/news/2017/10/holiday-art-fair.html

-------------------Nov. 3-4 Streetcar Named Desire Arts Academy Theatre Co. Nov. 9 Artists at Kirkbride Hall: Singer-Songwriter Courtney Kaiser-Sandler and guests Nov. 16-17, Dec. 1-2 Tuck Everlasting Arts Academy Theatre Co. Dec. 7-9 The Nutcracker Arts Academy Dance Co.

DRAW NOMI: TRICK-OR-TREAT-OR-DRAW: 10am-5pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Wear your Halloween costume, pick up some drawing-themed goodies & add to the collaborative drawing. Free. dennosmuseum.org

-------------------DOWNTOWN HALLOWEEN WALK: 1011:30am. Downtown TC hosts costume clad children & their parents to trick or treat at participating stores throughout the Downtown area. downtowntc.com

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DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY TRICK OR TREATING: 10am-noon, Downtown Petoskey.

All area children are invited to the Children’s Costume Parade beginning at Central Elementary School at 10am.

-------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 12-2pm: Carey F. Whitepigeon will sign her book “Daughter of Dawn & Darkness.” 2-4pm: Evelyn Allen Harper will sign her book “Essence.” horizonbooks.com

-------------------SPOOKY TRICK-OR-TREAT WALK: 2pm, Ghost Farm of Kingsley. Children can come in costume & trick-or-treat through the spooky farm’s woods. A mad scientist will bring his weird science, & there will be a maze with games, a photo booth, & Ghost Town Farm animals. 231.645.1447 or Facebook.com/ GhostFarm $5 per person. GhostFarm.net

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FUNDRAISER FOR COMMUNITY CATS OF BENZIE COUNTY: Stormcloud Brewing Co., Frankfort. 50% of all pub sales at Stormcloud from 4-6pm will be donated to Community Cats of Benzie County. stormcloudbrewing.com

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42ND ANNUAL COMMUNITY HALLOWEEN PARTY: 5-8pm, Whitewater Township Park, Williamsburg. Featuring a Spook-Takular Haunted Hayride, crafts, cake walk, free photo booth & pinata smash. facebook.com/discoveracme

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HALLOWEEN BASH BENEFIT: 5pm, Ethanology, Elk Rapids. Featuring live music by Benjaman James & The Pistil Whips, a BBQ & costume contests. Tickets, $10; half of the ticket proceeds benefit the Antrim Co. Animal Shelter. ethanologydistillation.com

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Airstream honors great rockabilly artists like Carl Perkins, Elvis & Edie Cochran at Blissfest Folk & Roots Mini-Concert Series on Fri., Nov. 3 at Red Sky Stage, Petoskey at 7pm. Tickets: $10 advance; $15 door. $8 students, $5 12 & under. redskystage.com

workshop at 6pm, taught by Mykl Werth. Open dance runs from 8pm-midnight. Workshop/ dance ticket combo: $20; dance ticket only: $15. Students: $10/$8. cityoperahouse.org

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ANNUAL HALLOWEEN DANCE & COSTUME PARTY: 7-10pm, The Rock Youth Center, Kingsley. For 6th-12th graders. Win prizes for best costumes. Featuring a DJ, dancing & treats. $3.

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C.S. LEWIS FESTIVAL: 7pm, Petoskey United Methodist Church. “Narnia: The Musical” will take place today. This fun & dramatic telling of “Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” features area children. Tickets available at door. cslewisfestival.org

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NIGHTMARE AT CHALLENGE MOUNTAIN: 7-10pm, Challenge Mountain, Boyne Falls. $10 adults; $5 12 & under or three children for $10. challengemtn.org

-------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK 6: 7-11pm, Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds, TC. Featuring The Family Friendly Haunted Wagon Ride, Haunted Trail, Monster Museum, Swamp Of Suffering, Pandemonium & Grimfell Manor. Trail & Hayride Combo: $5 any age. All Attractions Combo: $10 11 & under; $15 12 & up.

“MOM’S GIFT”: 7:30pm, Historic Elk Rapids Township Hall. Presented by the ER Players. $15. mynorthtickets.com

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“REMEMBERING PATSY CLINE”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Featuring country/classic rock band Rebooted with Judy Harrison. $32 standard seating; $50 VIP seating, which includes a reception afterwards in the Mary Schmuckal theatre where you will meet Judy & the band & enjoy free food & drink. oldtownplayhouse.com

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

-------------------DEATHTRAP: 7:30pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. $18-$27. mynorthtickets.com

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GRAND BRIDAL EXPO: 10am-3pm, Castle Farms, Charlevoix. Featuring displays by wedding service providers, workshops, Grand Finale Fashion Show & more. $5 advance; $6 door; Castle brides & grooms free. castlefarms.com/grand-bridal-expo

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FISHTOWN COMFORT & JOY PARTY: 1-3pm, Fishtown, Leland. Tastes of pasties made by Joy Lang Anderson, fish chowder

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-------------------HOLIDAY ART FAIR: 1-5pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Featuring fine arts & crafts from 45 MI artists, Christmas & Chanukah gifts, arts & crafts kits & more. dennosmuseum.org

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

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

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C.S. LEWIS FESTIVAL: 2pm, Petoskey United Methodist Church. “Narnia: The Musical” will take place today. This fun & dramatic telling of “Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” features area children. Tickets available at door. cslewisfestival.org

-------------------DEATHTRAP: 2pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. $18-$27. mynorthtickets.com

THE FITZGERALDS: 2pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. These three-time Canadian Grandmaster Fiddle Champions & Ontario Open Step Dance Champions bring high-energy fiddling & step dancing. 947-9213. $20 advance; $25 door.

-------------------PETER, PAUL & MARY REMEMBERED: 3pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. Proceeds benefit the Outreach Ministry of Central United Methodist Church. Free will offering.

-------------------TCHAIKOVSKY + VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Pianist Claire Huangci debuts with the TSO to perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Tickets start at $25.50. traversesymphony.org

-------------------AUTUMN: MEDICINAL HERBS GUILD: 7pm, Oryana Café, TC. Learn about the benefits of the guild & the projects available to beginning herbalists & herb growers. Registration required. 947.0191. Free. eventbrite.com

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SCOTT BRADLEE’S POST MODERN JUKEBOX: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. PMJ brings a vintage twist to modern pop songs. They have performed on “Good Morning America,” topped iTunes charts with all 14 of their releases since 2014, & much more. $45.50, $35.50. cityoperahouse.org

oct 30

monday

TRICK OAR TREAT: 6:30pm, The Filling Station Microbrewery, TC. Join current & future rowers for Devils Night fun.

Try an indoor rowing machine & engage in a 500 meter competition. Pries awarded for fastest times & best costumes. Suggested donation: $10. tacrowing.com

oct 31

tuesday

GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create a Gooney Ghoul by dripping paint on a pot.

Offered at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------TRUNK ‘R’ TREAT: 4-5pm. Trick or treat on Main St. in Bay Harbor. Stop in the Village stores & at the cars with trunks open to gather candy & other Halloween goodies.

-------------------HALLOWEEN AT MILTON TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPT., KEWADIN: 5-8pm. Treats for kids, sit in the fire truck, fire prevention info for all & more.

-------------------OVERDOSE RECOGNITION & RESPONSE CLINIC: 6pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirby Room, TC. Learn to recognize & respond to an opioid overdose with the immediate antidote Naloxone/Narcan. Presented by Harm Reduction MI. Includes a free emergency rescue kit. 231-486-5441. Free. harmreductionmi.org

nov 01

wednesday

LOCAL CONSEQUENCES OF WORKER SHORTAGES IN LEELANAU COUNTY: Noon, Leelanau County Government Center, lower level community meeting room, Suttons Bay. The League of Women Voters Leelanau County will host this forum. Panelists include Bob Sutherland from Cherry Republic; Skip Telgard of The Bluebird Restaurant & Sam Simpson from the Leelanau Peninsula Economic Foundation. Info: 231-271-0072.

LWVLeelanau.org

-------------------HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN HOSTS FLY & REMEMBER: 1-3pm, The Maples Medical Care Facility, Frankfort. Those who have lost a loved one can share happy memories while personalizing a kite in their honor. Register: 231.845.3423. Free.

“GLACIAL HILLS 101”: 4pm, Bellaire Public Library. Presented by Bob Holtzman. bellairelibrary.org

designed to promote joy & growth in literacy.

Children ages 0-6 & their caregivers welcomed. Free. lelandlibrary.org

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WORKSHOP: 4pm, Leland Township Library. Join Leelanau County’s Director of Emergency Management Matt Ansorge for a discussion on emergency preparedness, including how to develop an emergency supply kit & an emergency plan. Free. lelandlibrary.org

FIRST FRIDAYS FOR FOODIES: GRAIN TRAIN: 11am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Kitchen, Petoskey. Enjoy this free cooking demonstration. Free. crookedtree.org

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NOVEMBER RECESS: AUTUMN HARVEST: 5-7pm, Great Wolf Lodge, White Pine Ballroom, TC. Join The Ticker for socializing, cider & donuts, hot appetizers, Cranberry Moscow Mules & Chateau Chantal’s Naught Apple Hard Cider, & prizes including an overnight stay at GWL, four water park passes & more. Live music by Mitch McKolay. Presented by Remax Bayshore Properties. Admission, $10. traverseticker.com

-------------------TC NEIGHBORHOOD CANDIDATE FORUM: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. The Boardman & Central Neighborhood Associations are sponsoring a candidate forum for Traverse City Mayor/City Commission 2017. Questions submitted by other neighborhood associations as well as questions solicited from those in attendance.

nov 02

thursday

DOCENT ENRICHMENT LECTURE SERIES: CONCEPTUAL ART: 1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey.

Free. crookedtree.org

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STORY-CENTERED INTERVIEWS: A FRESH APPROACH TO ORAL HISTORY: 3pm, Leelanau Historical Society, Munnecke Room, Leland.

In this workshop, interviews will be seen as ways to find out who people are, instead of finding out what people know. There are two parts to this workshop. The second will be held on Thurs., Nov. 9 at 3pm. RSVP: 231-256-7475. Free.

-------------------MAKER AFTERNOONS: POP ART: 3:30pm, Leland Township Library. Each Thursday from 3:30-4:30pm, kids ages 9+ are invited to drop by & explore a different S.T.E.A.M.-based activity. A healthy snack will be provided. Free. lelandlibrary.org

-------------------OFF THE WALL MOVIE NIGHT: 6pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Dinner, 6pm; movie, 7pm. Sign up for potluck at the Alden District Library. aldenlib.info/calendar.html

-------------------“THE ART OF: EXPLORING – WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT THE GREAT LAKES?”: 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Join representatives from Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, NMC Great Lakes Water Studies Institute, Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve, & Grass River Natural Area for a conversation about the history & future of Great Lakes exploration. dennosmuseum.org

-------------------OLD MISSION PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING: 7pm, Peninsula Township Hall, TC. “Forks in the Road: A Trip Up the Peninsula in 1944, and Now” will be presented by Tim Carroll & Barbara Berthelsen. A brief business meeting will also take place. 231-223-7400.

-------------------RE-RELEASE PARTY (THE GOLDEN RECORD): 7:30pm, Mancelona High School.

Detroit-based theater company A Host of People’s original show is rooted in a project led by Carl Sagan & a team of scientists & artists in 1977. $15 general, $10 students/seniors. ahostofpeople.org

nov 03

friday

STORYTIME AT LELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARY: 10:30am. Stories & play

--------------------------------------FREE PUBLIC WORKSHOP: 6:30pm, Ruby Tuesday, TC. Presented by the Grand Traverse Democratic Party. “Ten Steps for Effective Advocacy” will be presented by Jon Hoadley. chair@gtdems.org

-------------------ANNUAL DAY OF THE DEAD PARTY: 7-10pm, Somebody’s Gallery, Petoskey. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called ofrendas, honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, & the favorite foods & beverages of the departed.

Offerings will be donated to Women’s Resource Center or Brother Dan’s Food Pantry.

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BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey.

Rockabilly Band Concert & Dance featuring Airstream. Tickets: $10 advance; $15 door. $8 students, $5 12 & under. redskystage.com

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FAMILY PARTNERSHIP BENEFIT CONCERT W/ K. JONES & THE BENZIE PLAYBOYS: 7pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. Enjoy cajun/zydeco music at this concert for Family Partnership, who helps families & individuals in the Grand Traverse area who are struggling with low-resources & seek the support of a mentoring relationship. $15/adults, $7/children under 12. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------“A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Phoenix Theatre. This play written by Tennessee Williams centers around the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions. $16 full, $14 senior, $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

-------------------80S PROM AT STREETERS - BENEFIT FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS IN HOUSTON & PUERTO RICO: 8pm, Streeters, Ground Zero, TC. Enjoy a night of dancing with 2BaysDJs & help raise money to support those in Houston & Puerto Rico impacted by floods. Includes appetizers, beer, wine & 80s surprises. Dress to impress. $50 per person. eventbrite.com

nov 04

saturday

MOVING AHEAD - A JOURNEY INTO ADULTHOOD: 8am-1:30pm, TBAISD Career Tech Center, TC. A free informational fair & workshop for communities supporting individuals with disabilities. Featuring more than 45 organizations & agencies. Best selling author & motivational speaker Ron Sandison will talk about his life experience growing up with autism & the path that has led to his life being full. movingaheadjourney.wix.com/movingahead

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30TH ANNIVERSARY DICKENS’ CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: 9am, First Congregational Church, TC. All proceeds benefit the community. 100 artists, book signings by local authors, blacksmith demonstration, carolers & more. One piece of pearl jewelry will be given away, donated by Becky Thatcher Designs. Info: fcctc.org

-------------------DENTAL HEALTH DAY: 9am, State Theatre, TC. Dedicated to children’s dental health. In addition to a showing of the movie “ToothFairy,” dental assistants from NMC will perform a dental-themed skit & hand out free dental care kits. Doors open at 9am; show at 10am. 9956129. 25 cents.

-------------------ICEMAN COMETH CHALLENGE: 9am-4pm, Downtown Kalkaska. A 29-mile mountain bike race from Kalkaska to Traverse City. The Meijer Slush Cup (shorter version of this race)

takes place from 9am-4pm at Timber Ridge, TC; the Meijer Sno-Cone for ages 10 & under also takes place at Timber Ridge at 3pm; Junior Iceman starts at noon at Kalkaska County Civic Center; & Sunset on the Season After Party takes place at Union Street Station, TC at 9pm. iceman.com

-------------------PLACEMAT PALOOZA: 9:30am, TC Senior Center. A benefit for Meals on Wheels.

Volunteers are needed for making placemats, walker bags. Includes a potluck lunch. Participants are asked to bring their sewing machine & basic tools. You can also help with cutting & pressing. Info: 231-276-9100 or tawni@ interquilten.com. interquilten.com

-------------------AC PAW CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOW: 10am4pm, Williamsburg Event Center, Acme. Featuring 50+ local craft vendors, pet photos with Santa Paws, pet microchipping, mega holiday bake sale & more. Free. acpaw.org

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ARTS IN ACTION: 10am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring Michael Sincic, who lost his sight two decades ago due to a brain tumor, & is now a popular local artist who paints watercolors from memory or description. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR: 10am-3pm, Bellaire High School. Featuring over 60 regional artisans. 231.533.6023.

-------------------INTERLOCHEN PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENTS: 10am-noon: Mason Jar Art Class. For adults.

Materials provided. Sign up: 231-276-6767.

2-4pm: Game Day at Golden Fellowship Hall.

All ages. Free. tadl.org/interlochen

-------------------TRAINING A SEARCH & RESCUE DOG: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Featuring Paula Kelly & her pup Henry. Free. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

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TREETOPS TRIFECTA: 10am, Treetops North Resort, Gaylord. Today features the 5K at 10am & Hill Climb at 4pm. greatlakesendurance.com

-------------------ZONTA FASHION SHOW: 11am-2pm, Odawa Casino, Petoskey. The Fashion Show, themed “Women Rock the World,” will highlight the latest fall & winter fashions from more than 30 retailers in the Petoskey-Harbor Springs area, & include an elegant lunch, entertainment by Michelle Chenard & Meg Kehoe, a silent auction & more. $60. eventbrite.com

-------------------AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 122pm: Jane Sheffer will sign her book “Behind the Barn Door.” 2-4pm: David Story Allen will sign his book “Off Tom Nevers.” horizonbooks.com

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TIPS & TRICKS FOR IPHONES & IPADS: 1-3pm, Cadillac Library. Steve Stanton, Leelanau Computer Repair, will educate on iphone/ipad techniques & apps. This is not for beginner user. Please bring fully charged device. This class is provided by Friends of the Library. For more info call 231-510-9047. Free.

-------------------“A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”: 2pm & 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Phoenix Theatre. This play written by Tennessee Williams centers around the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions. $16 full, $14 senior, $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

-------------------TRIVIA NIGHT FUNDRAISER WITH QUOTA TC: 5:30pm, VFW Post 2780, 3400 Veterans Dr., TC. Join Quota of Traverse City to benefit GT Metro Fire & Life Safety + Safe Kids North Shore as they supple local in-home smoke alarms & child safety seats. The FUNdraiser ticket includes pizza, snacks, your first beverage & 8 Rounds of FUN Trivia. $30 advance/$35 at the door. facebook.com/quotatraversecity

-------------------HARVEST BANQUET: 6pm, The Rock, Kingsley. Enjoy food, fellowship & fun. A home-cooked meal is provided & all proceeds benefit The

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Rock’s life-skills programs planned for 2018. Tickets: 231-263-7000 or stop by The Rock. Adults $10; students $8; 5 & under free.

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SALDAJE IN CONCERT: 7pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Featuring music, dance & performance for “Shadow Song.” Donation. higherartgallery.com

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BLISSFEST CONTRA & SQUARE DANCE: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring music by Peacemeal with Jan Fowler & Cynthia Donahey calling. $3/person, $5/couple, $7/ family. All dances taught. redskystage.com

-------------------PRESLEY, PERKINS, LEWIS & CASH: 7:30pm, Petoskey Middle School Auditorium.

Hear these rock & roll stars from the past! $10 students, $20 adults. crookedtree.org

-------------------BEAUSOLEIL AVEC MICHAEL DOUCET: 8pm, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. This Cajun group’s sound is derived from New Orleans jazz, blues rock, folk, swamp pop, Zydeco, country & bluegrass. $24-$27. mynorthtickets.com

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LAMB’S RETREAT SONGWRITERS CONCERT: 8pm, Birchwood Inn, Harbor Springs.

Featuring Pierce Pettis, Jenny Bienemann, Rod Picott, Justin Farren & Emily Rose. Hosted by John D. Lamb. 231-526-2151. $15. springfed.org

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UNCLE KRACKER W/ JOCAINE & TOWNE: 8pm, Streeters, Ground Zero, TC. Singer, lyricist, former rapper & guitarist Uncle Kracker is known for his singles “Follow Me” & “Drift Away.” $25 + handling. groundzeroonline.com/events

-------------------3RD ANNUAL CITY OPERA HOUSE GALA: 8:15pm, City Opera House, TC. “Broadway On Front, Musical Legends.” Enjoy a revue of music legends with performances by several of Broadway’s top performers, direct from NYC. Tickets start at $25. cityoperahouse.org/gala

nov 05

sunday

CLEAN UP & GREEN UP: 9am-3pm, TC West Senior High School. This event provides an opportunity for locals to divert, from area landfills, items that have salvageable components or further use. Info: cleanupgreenup.com

$20 per person or $75 for 4. goodwillnmi. org/2017/01/emptybowls

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FOR ANIMALS VEGAN POTLUCK & MOVIE: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Featuring “The Champions.” Feel free to being a vegan dish & a friend. Free. foranimalstc.org

-------------------FREE VETERANS DINNER: 2-6pm, Elks Lodge, TC. Free buffet dinner for all veterans & active duty military. Non-veteran family or guests pay $10.

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MEREDITH PARSONS MCCOMB: CLASSIC SONGS & STORIES ABOUT THEM: 4pm, Leelanau Community Cultural Center, Leland. This Metropolitan Opera artist will present a program that will include live music & storytelling from her career on stages from Traverse City to Paris and Tel Aviv. $15. mynorthtickets.com

CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET, PETOSKEY: Fridays, 10am-1pm, upper level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

This market has moved back inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

-------------------DOWNTOWN GAYLORD FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9:30am, Downtown Gaylord Pavilion. Find on Facebook.

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FALL FARM & CRAFTERS MARKET: Fridays, 9am-1pm through Nov. 3. Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall.

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SUNDAY SERIES: GLCO’S WOODWINDS QUINTET: 4pm, Castle Farms, Charlevoix.

(231) 487-0010. Free will donation.

NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE CIRCLE: 4:456pm, Higher Self Bookstore, TC. Play or listen.

Free. higherselfbookstore.com

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FARR FRIENDS IN ONEKAMA: Thursdays, 2:30-4:30pm, Farr Center, Onekama. Get together with friends & neighbors for an afternoon of fun, games & lectures. Onekama.info

-------------------FREE COMMUNITY CLASS: Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Bikram Yoga, TC. Find on Facebook.

-------------------FREE HEALTHY AGING WORKSHOP: Mondays, 5:30-7:30pm through Nov. 6. Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Michigan, TC. Creating Confident Caregivers Workshop: A six-session, evidence-based program that provides caregivers with information & skills for effective caregiving of their family member residing at home with memory loss. Register: 1-800-442-1713. aaanm.org

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KNITTING GROUP: Tuesdays, 1-3pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. Knit simple, fun projects or work on your own projects. benzonialibrary.org

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TREETOPS TRIFECTA: 9am, Treetops North Resort, Gaylord. Today features the Half Marathon at 9am. greatlakesendurance.com EMPTY BOWLS: 11am-2pm, Hagerty Center, TC. Presented by Food Rescue of Northwest Michigan. Every dollar raised equals five pounds of food delivered to 48 food pantries.

Featuring a soup luncheon, silent auction, entertainment & handmade bowls. Tickets:

VASA DOMINGOS: Sundays, 11:45am, Timber Ridge RV & Recreation Resort, TC. A weekly group ride for families where you ride bikes on dirt, explore the woods, build confidence & more. Choose from 2, 4, 7 or 15 mile routes. elgruponorte.org

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MUNSON HOSPICE GRIEF RECOVERY: Mondays, 1pm. Join a friendly environment where grief & loss is understood. Call 800-252-2065 or send an email to hospicebereavement@mhc.net to reserve your spot. munsonhomehealth.org

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BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April. Main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City. boynecitymainstreet.com/farmersmarket-welcome

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INDOOR FARMERS MARKET, THE MERCATO, THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Saturdays, 10am-2pm, Nov. 4 through April. 941-1961.

SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET, TC: Saturdays, 7:30am-12pm; Wednesdays, 8am-12pm. Lot B, across from Clinch Park, TC. downtowntc.com

art

“BUSTED”: Michigan Artists Gallery, TC. Artist Leanne Schnepp has created a series of busts of women from famous paintings. Runs through the fall. michiganartistsgallery.com

-------------------“COLOR CATCHERS”: Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan. Five photographers examine the wonders & mysteries of color through abstract images – compositions of shape, form, line & color. Runs through Nov. 12. jordanriverarts.com

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A CHARLES CULVER RETROSPECTIVE: Runs through Nov. 4 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix. Open Mon. - Sat., 11am-5pm. charlevoixcircle.com

-------------------ELISABETH CONDON EXHIBIT: Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dow Center for Visual Arts gallery. This painter’s works will be on display through Nov. 16. interlochen.org

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THE CATS-ON THE PROWL: A SUPERIOR ADVENTURE: City Opera House, TC. An exhibit of landscape paintings of the eastern shore of Lake Superior, Canada by five artists from Leelanau County: Jane Ditri, Mary Fuscaldo, Candace Petersen, Sue Quinlan & Barbara Reich. Exhibit is open 10am-5pm, M-F through Oct. 30. Call 941-8082 for more info.

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - 2017 JURIED FINE ARTS & FRESH AIR EXHIBITIONS: Runs through Jan. 6.

- “REFRAME!: THE CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER KITCHEN PAINTERS”: Held in Atrium Gallery. Over 20 area artists were challenged to use standard picture frames as their point of departure for creating unique works of art. Runs through Nov. 20. crookedtree.org

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: ART OVER EASY: TWO TOWNS, TWO DECADES, TWENTY-TWO ARTISTS: Two distinct groups of artists that meet for breakfast in the communities of Ann Arbor & Empire come together for this exhibition. Runs through Dec. 2. crookedtree.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: Mon. - Sat., 10am-5pm. Sun., 1-5pm.: - 2017 CAPE DORSET PRINT COLLECTION: Consists of 30 images by 15 artists. Runs through Nov. 26.

- CORY TRÉPANIER’S “INTO THE ARCTIC”: The Canadian North on Canvas and Film.

Runs through Dec. - WILLIAM ADOLPHE BOUGEUREAU AND EDOUARD MANET: Visitors to the Sea Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Runs through Dec. - “MYTHS, LEGENDS AND STORIES: SCULPTURE BY ABRAHAM ANGHIK RUBEN”: Through Dec. dennosmuseum.org

-------------------HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - “GIVE THE GIFT OF ART HOLIDAY EXHIBIT”: An opening reception will be held on Fri., Nov. 3 from 11am-7pm. The exhibit runs through Jan. 2.

- “LUMPY SWOOSH”: Runs through Oct. Featuring the work of Mary Zeran.

- MARY ZERAN EXHIBIT: Runs through Oct. 30. higherartgallery.com

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OLIVER ART CENTER, FRANKFORT: - DELBERT MICHEL, BART INGRAM & GAIL INGRAM EXHIBIT: Runs through Nov. 24.

Featuring painting, sculpture & fiber art.

- “FROM FRANKFORT TO PERU WITH LOVE” & “MACHU PICCHU, THE LOST CITY OF THE INCAS”: A collaborative effort with Dr. Anibal Pepper, Frankfort-Elberta Schools, OAC, the Frankfort Rotary & the Benzie Sunrise Rotary. Runs through Nov. 3.

- “DRAW NOMI”: Using the theme of NoMI (Northern Michigan) - students, art center visitors, & Benzie Library patrons will create works of art inspired by their memories, interpretations, & experiences of Northern Michigan. This is an ongoing installation of these works throughout Oct., as well as work

by Frankfort-Elberta Schools. Hours: Mon.-Fri.: 10am-4:30pm; Sat.: 10am-4pm; Sun.: 12-4pm.

A reception for the work on display will be held on Weds., Nov. 1 from 4-6pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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FOURSCORE by kristi kates

Kelly Clarkson – Meaning of Life – Atlantic

Clarkson is already on her eighth album, an impressive accomplishment considering she only won American Idol in 2002. Her latest effort gathers together an equally notable team of industry songwriters and producers, including Grammy fave Greg Kurstin, to generate another soul-pop collection destined for the charts. Tracks like “Don’t You Pretend,” “Didn’t I,” and “Medicine” don’t veer at all from Clarkson’s usual musical formula. For her fans, these catchy tunes will be more than enough, but for her growth as an artist, let’s hope her next album finds her stretching a little more.

Miley Cyrus – Younger Now – Sony Legacy

The tough thing about Cyrus is that she worked so hard to separate herself from her prior Disney persona that her personal pendulum swung way too far in the other direction, alienating a lot of listeners who might otherwise have appreciated her vocal talent.

This more mature, nicely balanced album strives to correct that misstep and does it well via tracks like the thoughtful, folksy “Malibu,” the encouraging “Inspired,” the country-quirk of “Bad Mood,” and the retro-fied “Week Without You,” which kicks off a triple run of vintage-inspired love songs.

Kesha – Rainbow – RCA

Kesha’s had a tough personal run in the industry so far, so this album could be seen as part comeback, part statement against the industry (see: Track one, “Bastards.”) But while the music business has given her plenty of trouble, her supporters will likely rally around songs like these, which include the Ryan Lewis (of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis) co-penned single “Praying,” the companion give-’em-someencouragement track “Hymn,” and the standout, perfectly twangy collaboration with Dolly Parton on “Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You).”

Pink – Beautiful Trauma – RCA

With a visual reminiscent of Madonna’s early ’80s bleached-blonde look and a sound that throws back to P!nk’s own early days, the singer’s latest throws a lot of ingredients into the pot for a stew that’s chunky in rhythm and spicy in lyric, if, on occasion, a little over the top. Her romance-gone-wrong collaboration with Eminem isn’t as gimmicky as one might expect; better picks are the title track and the electronicainfused “I Am Here,” with its extra punch of gospel backing vox.

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AUTOMATICALLY A R.E.M. SPECIAL FOR THE PEOPLE R.E.M. will release a 25th anniversary edition of its smash 1992 album Automatic for the People next month, with four discs included in all. The special edition, in addition to the main multi-platinum album itself, will also feature a Blu-ray with two different mixes of the album plus all its accompanying music videos; a collection of rare demos and previously unreleased tracks; and a raucous live album recorded at one of R.E.M.’s favorite stomping grounds, the 40 Watt Club in the band’s hometown of Athens, Georgia. The set will be available on vinyl, digitally, and streaming Nov. 10 …

On Nov. 1, fans of reggae legend Bob Marley will be treated to an all-star concert in Los Angeles featuring a host of musicians from Tom Morello, Gary Clark Jr., and Aloe Blacc to Marley’s own sons Ziggy Marley and Stephen Marley. Called Exodus 40, the show will take place at L.A.’s Orpheum Theater. The event follows hot on the heels of the special reissue of Marley’s ninth studio album, Exodus, which featured added outtakes, ad-libs, and more from the original Exodus recording sessions …

Rapper Ty Dolla $ign has a new album heading out this week. The full-length set, Beach House 3, is the follow-up to $ign’s 2015 album, Free TC, and features guest

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collaborations with Skrillex, R&B singer Jeremih, hip-hop artist Lil Wayne, and yet another of Bob Marley’s sons, Damian Marley …

The Ramones is prepping a deluxe edition of its third album, Rocket to Russia, which is set to hit outlets next month.

This 40th anniversary three-disc version will include piles of previously unreleased material, including alternate and early versions of songs, plus tracks featuring different lyrics than what was released on the actual album. Also included: the band’s full concert at the Apollo Center in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1977. Pick it up on Nov. 24 …

LINK OF THE WEEK The Rock and Rock Hall of Fame has announced the nominees for its class of 2018, which includes nominations for Radiohead, Kate Bush, The Moody Blues, Rage Against the Machine, Eurythmics, and LL Cool J. The top five vote-getters will be revealed in December; induction ceremonies take place next spring. Check out past classes at the Hall of Fame’s official website, rockhall.com …

THE BUZZ Happy birthday, Eminem; Detroit’s best-known rapper turned 45 last week …

In other Eminem news, his Shady

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Records will celebrate his 2002 movie, 8 Mile, with a Nov. 8 screening at Detroit’s Bel Air Luxury Cinema, which hosted the movie’s Detroit premiere 15 years ago …

Janet Jackson returns to Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena for a concert on Nov. 1 …

Also coming to Grand Rapids: Regina Spektor. She’ll bring a show to 20 Monroe

Live on Nov. 4 …

Detroit band Sweat is releasing its new album, Gloom Pride, on Antimagic Media … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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

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elieve the hype. The highly-anticipated, 30-years-in-themaking continuation of Ridley Scott’s absolute cult classic returns with visionary director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) taking the helm, and the results are simply staggering. The year is now 2049, and Agent K (Ryan Gosling) works retiring (i.e., killing) older model replicants (bioengineered android slaves upon whose backs humanity has progressed and been able to thrive off). On his latest assignment, he stumbles upon something with farreaching implications that could “break the world” and is tasked with making sure this info doesn’t get out. So Agent K has his case, and each move and reveal and twist is exquisitely deliberate and endlessly captivating, eventually taking him face-to-face with Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard. So while expectations could not have been higher, Blade Runner 2049, somehow seems to exceed them, giving us a film cut from the same cloth as 1982’s Blade Runner, but entirely of its own design. This is not some reboot that cheaply trades on your nostalgia, but rather pushes the film’s universe and its ideas deeper. And you also don’t need to be a committed fan who has journeyed through all five versions of the original to enjoy this. This is a cinematic experience created for the big screen, where you get to live in its world for nearly three hours, and it still doesn’t seem like enough. Because to paraphrase Agent K, this isn’t a movie that was just made, it was born with a soul.

The Snowman is bad. Like, so bad, it makes other movies I thought were bad seem good by comparison. I might even need to re-evaluate my entire rating system after this.

But it’s not a “How did this get made?” situation, ’cause with and a cast and crew of A-listers and even Oscar winners, it’s more of a question of “How did it go so very wrong?”

Adapted from Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo’s international bestselling crime novels, this film is clearly designed for the The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo or The Girl on a Train audience.

But unlike those films, The Snowman has no thrills, no chills, no suspense, no emotion, and copious amounts of unintentional laughter.

It’s hard to understand what happened to take a project from one that Martin Scorsese was at one point going to direct and eventually executive produce, to something this terrible.

But let me try to explain with just a few of its missteps. First, there’s the pesky feeling that entire scenes were cut. Or that, for a film set in Norway, no Norwegian was spoken, but rather, all the actors did one of my biggest pet peeves and took on confounding vaguely “European” accents. (Gah! You might as well speak normally!)

Then there’s the jaw-dropping moment of a nearly unrecognizable Val Kilmer popping up with Don Corleone-style jowls. And even in a film where every character walks around the arctic setting with legs bare and coats open, it’s somehow one of the least distracting things.

Or there’s my favorite: the film’s propensity to make dramatic (dun dun dun) cuts to snowmen that could not be less menacing.

Let’s dive a little more into the plot and its perplexing mix of flashback and development.

We meet Detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender), a man who apparently needs no introduction, and we certainly don’t get one.

What you will be able to infer is that he is as about as clichéd as a detective can get — a drunk, tortured individual who mopes around with supposedly legendary murder-solving skills, despite the fact that, throughout the film, we get no real evidence that he is capable of investigating, or really even working.

Fassbender seems to find his character just as tedious as we do, and he walks through the entire film giving minimal effort as we watch the light in his eyes dim.

So Hole finds himself “working” on a case with an equally clichéd newbie cop (Rebecca Ferguson) who’s clearly hiding something. The case involves a killer, but all the pair seem to know is that the killer is murdering mothers, perhaps when it is snowing (it seems to snow

all the time), and writing messages to Hole. A snowman is the calling card he leaves outside each victim’s home.

Then there’s the subplots that take us away from this not-so-riveting investigation, including Hole struggling to make time for Oleg, the troubled teen son of his exgirlfriend, Rakel, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg. (The bizarro concert Hole and Oleg go to really brings the lolz). Another subplot: Oslo’s bid to host the “Winter Sports World Cup,” aka the royalty-free version of the Olympics. The bid is helmed by some captain of industry played by JK Simmons, who is clearly an uber creep and might also be involved in sex trafficking. I dunno; he’s there, and then he’s not.

Then there’s flashbacks with another detective, the aforementioned Kilmer, appearing with a strange voice that could not be less synced to his lips. It’s maybe the worst instance of ADR I have ever seen and such a failure of filmmaking that it’s practically a marvel.

The scenes are stilted, the story boring, the hilarity inadvertent, and the performances universally terrible. (Hey, is that Chloë Sevigny chopping off a chicken’s head and playing identical twins?) It’s amateurish and unpolished. Yet even when you have a bad movie like this, you still expect some kind of basic adherence to the rules of narrative, storytelling, and cinema, but The Snowman seems to openly defy them.

The director, Tomas Alfredson, has skills, with widely acclaimed films like Let the Right One In and the Oscar-nominated Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to his credit. In a case like this, I’d usually then place the blame on the editor, but heck, freaking Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull), one of our greatest living artisans, edited the damn thing.

It’s since been revealed that Alfredson has blamed the fact that they didn’t have enough time filming in Europe and that a lot was cut out. This does to some degree explain its convolutedness, but not its ridiculousness. One of the only other positive things that can be said is how impressed I was with just how crazy cool Norwegian roads are, and there was some pretty scenery and architecture, but even that grew dull with the amount they relied on it.

Like being out too long in the snow, this film, for me, was the cinematic equivalent of numbness. It had all the excitement and reward of watching ice melting.

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he Mountain Between Us is an honest-to-god story about love and relationships and how they grow and deepen, yet this hardly came across in any of the marketing. No, they had to go and amp up the action quotient with a “thrilling” and preposterous survival story about two people who find themselves stranded following a plane crash. It results in a complete generic mess. So despite the stellar star power of actors Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, two extremely beautiful people I usually wouldn’t mind watching make goo-goo eyes at one another for a couple of hours, the film proves to be a middling waste of their talents.

Director Hany Abu-Assad has twice been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film (Omar, Paradise Now), and I’m not quite sure exactly what brought a director of this caliber to the project, but the visuals are certainly all the better for it. Yet when working from a script as weak as this, the incline proves too steep, and Abu-Assad does not successfully summit Mount Memorable. The tonal discord between epic survival and intimate romance cannot be overcome, and this is a film destined to become filler on your at-home streaming service.

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ne of the most watched sporting events of all time, the famous 1973 tennis match between self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) and “women’s libber” Billie Jean King (Oscar Winner Emma Stone) gets the big-screen treatment in the aptly, if unimaginatively, named Battle of the Sexes. And with a script from Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire), and the team that brought you Little Miss Sunshine behind the lens, it proves to be a breezy, polished, and exceedingly enjoyable film with some great performances. This is a message movie wrapped in an inspirational sports drama, a real crowd-pleaser. Yet at a time when Title IX protections are threatened — protections King herself championed — the film could come off as more timely and important, but it mostly doesn’t seem like enough. This is a genial, uplifting, and again, very enjoyable biopic that wants to offer warm and fuzzy feminist inspiration. Sure, we could use some of that right now, but it’s hardly the grand slam one could hope for.

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

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1 Honolulu’s island 5 One dimension of three 11 Late Playboy founder, familiarly 14 Closing ___ (surrounding) 15 Escapee’s shout 16 Dir. of this entry 17 Musician Wainwright fully understandable?

19 Greek letter after pi 20 Cozy reading corner 21 Schadenfreude, for one 23 Streamed service, often 25 Actor Quinn in the act of helping?

27 Totals (up) 28 Covetous feeling 29 Peat ingredient 30 Also 31 Former U.N. secretary general Kofi ___ Annan (because “___girl” is so cliche) 32 Bambi’s mother, e.g.

34 Baseball’s Dwight prepared?

38 Big T-shirt sizes, for short 39 Hit the horn 40 Fuel economy org.

43 Potent opener?

46 Start up a computer 47 Self-involved 48 Composer Franz Joseph’s search?

51 Rick’s TV grandson 52 Anybody 53 Some pet hotel visitors 54 Frost in the air 55 CEO Buffett’s time of quiet?

60 Oar wood 61 At least 62 Hunchback of horror films 63 Some ice cream containers, for short 64 Thelonious Monk’s “Well You ___” 65 “Can’t say I’ve seen it”

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1 Canola, for one

2 “I’ll take that as ___” 3 Elvis classic of 1956 4 Nullifies 5 Clickable text 6 Letters associated with Einstein 7 Org. with Lions and Jaguars 8 Covetous 9 First side of a scoreboard, generically 10 Everglades wader 11 Manufacturer of Gummi Bears 12 Repeats 13 Outward appearances 18 “Hollywood Squares” win, perhaps 22 Made docile 23 Distillery tank 24 Altar reply, traditionally 25 Poker pot part 26 Sir Walter Scott novel 28 Approx. takeoff hrs.

31 They’re retiring AIM at the end of 2017 32 Body shop removal 33 Charter ___ (tree on Connecticut’s state quarter) 35 Nitrous ___ 36 Piece for Magnus Carlsen 37 Way in the past 41 Poe’s “The ___ and the Pendulum” 42 By ___ means necessary 43 Response to an impressive put-down 44 Little Red Book follower 45 Oreads, naiads, etc.

46 “Cold one, over here” 47 Elect 49 From ___ (henceforth) 50 Drum kit drum 51 Treasure hunter’s assistance 53 Online tech news resource 56 Fishing pole 57 Directional ending 58 Police officer 59 Before, in old poems

: I’m a newly divorced woman trying some online dating sites. Because I read your column, I understand how men prioritize beauty. I’m an attractive woman, but I often photograph terribly, and I’m thinking of spending some money and having a professional photographer shoot some pix in a studio. Would this be a good investment?

I feel like I’d have a better shot if I had really great photos.

--Unphotogenic

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: Being somewhat vain, I fear the candid camera. In fact, I not only favor the posed photo but tend to stick (rather aggressively) to a single pose — the one that doesn’t make people wonder whether I eat oats out of a burlap bag.

On online dating sites especially, appearance drives whom we choose or lose. Not surprisingly, marketing researcher Jonah Berger reports that “most online contexts,” including dating sites, “are dominated by posed photos,” as opposed to the candid kind -- to the point where the main leisure activity in North America appears to be standing in a bathroom making duck lips for the camera.

Berger notes that people tend to assume that others will find them more likable and worth getting to know if they present “a curated, polished version of the self.” Yet in his research, it was the candid pix that made people more interested in “being friends with or going on a date” with the person pictured.

Those he surveyed also reported feeling “more connected” to those in the candid photos and liking these people more overall.

“Candid photos made photo targets seem more genuine,” Berger explains. They “seem to provide a glimpse into what someone is truly like, an unvarnished perspective on how they look and behave when others aren’t looking.” However, there are times when candids are less advisable. For example, Berger found that employers on LinkedIn were more interested in hiring someone who used a posed photo. Sadly, it seems the candid “Here I am at 1 in the morning drinking my sixth glass of chardonnay” does not scream, “Hire MEEEEE!” But getting back to online dating, let’s temper Berger’s findings with what we all know: The hotter you look the more replies you’ll get on a dating site. So, because you’re somebody

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who often photographs “terribly,” your best bet is getting photos taken that appear to be candid. You do this by having a photographer or friend shoot you “in action” -- in other words, appearing not to notice the big honking lens or the iPhone right in your face. Plan to shoot a ton of photos and at least a few will catch you looking babe-alicious. This should help you bridge the photogenic fairness gap -- how there are those the candid camera loves and those it loves to make look like ringers for Winston Churchill.

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: I’m happily married. My wife is beautiful.

She used to put a lot of effort into her appearance, but she now wears sweats and T-shirts everywhere and she never wears makeup or does her hair. I felt really bad about this on our recent date night, when she just put her hair in a ponytail and wore a slouchy army jacket. I want her to keep making an effort to put herself together for me. How can I offer her constructive criticism without making her mad?

— Bummed

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: You come up behind a ragged, disheveled person standing on the corner and put a dollar in the Starbucks cup they’re holding —and then you realize your error: “Oops! Hi, honey!”

I suspect the term “constructive criticism” was coined by someone who went through life without ever encountering another human being. As I explain in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” here in the real world, “criticizing people doesn’t make them change; it makes them want to clobber you.” That’s because our ancient fight-or-flight system is a little one-note — juicing us to respond to a verbal attack as if it were an attack by some dude running at us with a bloody spear.

So, though it isn’t unreasonable to want your wife to make an effort on date night, you should focus on what you do want to see rather than what you don’t. For example: “Honey, you’re so beautiful, and when it’s date night, it would make me so happy if you did your hair and wore a dress. And I’ll wear whatever you want.” And to get her to make more of an effort day to day: “I love you so much, and I want to be sure we keep the romance alive.” Make clear that you aren’t expecting her to do the dishes in an evening dress and a tiara. You’d just be thrilled if, from time to time, the thigh-highs could be fishnets instead of, well, hip waders.

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the early stages of Johnny Cash’s development as a musician, his mother hired a coach to give him singing lessons. But after a few meetings, the teacher counseled him to quit. Johnny’s style was so unique, the seasoned pro thought it better not to tamper with his natural sound. I hesitate to offer you comparable advice, Scorpio. I’m a big believer in the value of enhancing one’s innate talents with training and education. On the other hand, my assessment of your destiny between now and October 2018 impels me to offer a suggestion: It may be useful for you to give some credence to the perspective of Johnny Cash’s voice coach. Make sure you guard and revere your distinctiveness.

able to pass for normal, but it will be better for your relationship with yourself if you don’t. You could try to tamp down your unusual urges and smooth your rough edges, but it will be smarter to regard those urges and edges as fertile raw material for your future happiness. Catch my drift? In the coming weeks, your main loyalty should be to your idiosyncratic intelligence.

Halloween costume suggestion: the beautiful, interesting monster who lives in you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): America’s Civil

War ended in 1865. A veteran from that conflict later produced a daughter, Irene Triplett, who is still alive today and collecting his pension. In the coming months, I foresee you being able to take advantage of a comparable phenomenon, although it may be more metaphorical. Blessings from bygone times, perhaps even from the distant past, will be available to you. But you’ll have to be alert and know where to look. So now might be a good time to learn more about your ancestors, ruminate exuberantly about your own history, study the lives of your dead heroes, and maybe even tune in to your previous incarnations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): ”I wasn’t in

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the market to buy a Day-Glo plastic fish from a street vendor,” testified a witty guy named Jef on Facebook, “but that’s exactly what I did.

The seller said he found it in someone’s trash. He wanted fifty cents for it, but I talked him up to a dollar. The best part is the expression on the fish’s face. It’s from Edvard Munch’s The Scream.” I bring this testimony to your attention, Taurus, because I feel it’s good role-modeling for you. In the coming days, I bet you won’t know exactly what you’re looking for until you find it. This prize may not be highly valued by anyone else but you. And it will amuse you and be of use to you in just the right ways.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Where are Chinese

gooseberries grown? In New Zealand. What is a camel’s hair brush made of? Squirrel fur. When England and France waged their Hundred Years’ War, how long did it last? 116 years. When do Russians celebrate their October Revolution? In November. Trick answers like these are likely to be a recurring theme for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. That’s why I advise you to NOT be a Master of the Obvious.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In accordance

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PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): You might be

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with the astrological omens, I recommend you indulge in any or all of the following exercises. 1.

Dedicate an entire day to performing acts of love.

2. Buy yourself flowers, sing yourself a song, and tell yourself a story about why you’re so beautiful. 3. Explain your deeply-felt opinion with so much passion and logic that you change the mind of a person who had previously disagreed with you. 4. Make a pilgrimage to a sacred spot you want to be influenced by. 5. Buy a drink for everyone in a bar or cafe.

Home,” but it does describe the role I’m hoping to play for Leos.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time for your tribe to clarify and cultivate your notion of home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Clarissa

Pinkola Estés encourages us to purge any tendencies we might have to think of ourselves as hounded animals, angry, wounded victims, leaky vessels aching to be filled, or broken creatures yearning for rescue. It so happens that now is a perfect time for you to perform this purgation. You have maximum power to revise your self-image so that it resounds with more poise, self-sufficiency, and sovereignty.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I used to scoff

at people who play the lottery. The chance of winning big is almost nil. Why not invest one’s hopes in more pragmatic schemes to generate money? But my opinion softened a bit when the planet Jupiter made a lucky transit to an aspect in my personal horoscope. It really did seem like my chances of winning the lottery were unusually high. I started dreaming about the educational amusements I’d pursue if I got a huge influx of cash. I opened my mind to expansive future possibilities that I had previously been closed to. So even though I didn’t actually get a windfall during this favorable financial phase, I was glad I’d entertained the fantasy. In alignment with current astrological omens, Libra, here’s the moral of the story for you: Meditate on what educational amusements you’d seek if you had more money.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I used to

nurture a grudge against Tony Pastorini. He was the high school math teacher who kicked me out of the extracurricular Calculus Club because my proofs were too “intuitive and unorthodox.” The shock of his rejection drove me away from a subject I had been passionate about. Eventually, though, I came to realize what a good deed he had done. It would have been a mistake for me to keep specializing in math -- I was destined to study literature and psychology and mythology -- but it took Pastorini to correct my course. Now, Sagittarius, I invite you to make a similar shift of attitude. What debt of gratitude do you owe a person you have thought of as a source of frustration or obstruction?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the

lore of ancient Greek mythology, the god Prometheus stole fire from his fellow deities and sneakily gave it to us humans. Before our patron provided us with this natural treasure, we poor creatures had no access to it. As I gaze out at your possibilities in the coming months, Capricorn, I foresee you having Promethean inclinations. Your ability to bestow blessings and spread benevolence and do good deeds will be at a peak. Unlike Prometheus, however, I don’t expect you’ll get into trouble for your generosity. Just the opposite!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here’s a

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob: I saw a photo

of you recently, and I realized that you have a scar on your face. I hope you don’t mind me telling you it resembles an ancient Mayan hieroglyph that means ‘Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home.’ Did you know this? If so, do you think it’s an accurate title for what you do? - Renegade Leo Scholar.” Dear Scholar: Thanks for your observation. I don’t know if I fully deserve the title “Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking

parable you may find useful. An armchair explorer is unexpectedly given a chance to embark on an adventure she has only read and dreamed about. But she hesitates on the brink of seizing her opportunity. She asks herself, “Do I really want to risk having ragged reality corrupt the beautiful fantasy I’ve built up in my mind’s eye?” In the end she takes the gamble. She embarks on the adventure. And ragged reality does in fact partially corrupt her beautiful fantasy. But it also brings her unexpected lessons that partially enhance the beautiful fantasy.

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