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NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY • OCt 16 - oct 22, 2017 • Vol. 27 No. 41

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46th in the nation in the amount budgeted for highways. It’s past time Michiganders explore what our state doesn’t do.

Coleman W. Cole, Traverse City

The Truth About Refugees

Samaritas is an organization that assists refugees who are forced from their homes and desire to come to America.

This organization is supported by many mainline Christian denominations. The process starts with a United Nations referral that includes an in-depth interview and home-country reference checks. Then these refugees are put through an intense vetting process that includes nine different government agencies and biological screenings such as an iris scans.

These refugees are not terrorists but are fleeing terrorism. Just over 50 percent of the Samaritas applicants pass the screening process. This vetting process takes over two years. It is unlikely that some American citizens from various fringe groups in this country could pass the screening that these individuals are put through. As a country founded by immigrants, we should welcome those folks that want to make a life and a contribution to this country.

Ron Dykstra, Beulah

Seeking Cancer Answers

At What Cost

When I was coming of age, I was mesmerized by the Camelot attitude of the Kennedy presidency. When he was assassinated, the innocent feeling of security was pulled out from under me. I was never involved in politics but somehow came to realize that, though you might be an honest individual when you enter politics, to succeed, you couldn’t stay that way.

My education led me to believe that the whole premise behind our governmental system is to ensure that all citizens benefit from the works of our Founding Fathers. It has been very disappointing to realize that most politicians today have been bought by business interests.

As I watched the mud-slinging of our last election cycle I couldn’t help but wonder why the American people had lost sight of what should be our common goal. It’s the people of America who are supposed to win, not just one political party or one lobbying group or one super PAC. I ask you: What have we won?

The gradual destruction of the foundation of our democratic society.

Keli MacIntosh, Traverse City

signs. I lease to Northport Village a portion of my real property on which the “Welcome to Northport” sign is erected. I receive no fee from the Village or adjustment on the property tax. With my permission, I allow candidates’ campaign signs from both political parties, as well as community organizations, to place their event signs on my property along M-22.

On Sept. 26,2016, Mrs. Von Voigtlander, Northport Village administrator, instructed the DPW to remove two candidates’ signs from my property. I was notified by a candidate that the administrator stated that no political signs, according to our lease, are allowed on that property. Mrs. Von Voigtlander is wrong. No such restriction is in the license agreement. Mrs. Von Voigtlander executed the lease as the Village president. And furthermore, as candidate for Village president, Mrs. Von Voigtlander placed her signs, without permission, on the said property. Her signs were removed.

Mindful of the First Amendment, I contacted my attorney, who contacted Will Davison, Village attorney. Mr. Davison instructed the Village to return the candidates’ signs to my property.

Unfortunately, one of the candidates’ signs were damaged when removed from the property. The intact signs were replaced the next day.

Subsequently, I was informed Mrs. VonVoigtlander contacted Leelanau County Road Commission to complain about the candidates’ signs not complying with Michigan’s roadways published policy regarding political signs placement along state roads. Mr. Dan Wagner, P.E. with the Leelanau Road Commission, suggested the signs be moved back 30 feet from the white line on M-22 to comply with Michigan’s regulations. The signs were moved and were in full compliance.

Barbara Gilmore Weber, Northport

Sign of the Times

In response to Northern Express reporter Pat Sullivan’s Oct. 2 story, “In Northport, the Affordable Housing Debate Got Personal,” it seems Northport’s administrator, Barb Von Voigtlander, offered up some revisionist history regarding Frank Goodroe’s political

Road Rage

Common among those of us that travel is that we know we are back in Michigan because the roads really are just that bad.

A national survey reveals that Michigan is

Cancer! In my lifetime, I lost my mother, wife, son-in-law, father-in-law, brother-inlaw, friends and neighbors. Why? Early in the 1900s, one in 20 people developed cancer. In the 1940s, one in sixteen developed cancer.

In the 1970s, one in ten developed cancer.

Today one in three develop cancer.

Millions of dollars for cancer research over 40 years only to lose ground every year and no official cure. Follow the money; we send astronauts to the moon and to the space station. Why are we letting this happen? Is it the chemicals in our food we eat? It doesn’t look like anyone has the answer.

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

Born to Rock...................................................10 Beyond The Haunted House.............................13 Portrait of the Graffiti Artist.............................18 Elk Rapids’ Cellar 152.....................................21 A Hair Ahead..................................................24 Muse.............................................................26 Ancient Beauty...............................................30 Seen................................................................32

dates...............................................35-39 music FourScore.......................................................40 Nightlife.........................................................43

columns & stuff Guest Opinion...................................................4 Top Five...........................................................5 Weird...............................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................41 The Reel...........................................................42 Advice Goddess.............................................44 Crossword...................................................44 Freewill Astrology.........................................45 Classifieds....................................................46

A.J. Fasel, Traverse City

Nuclear Is Environmental

Cathye Williams (9/18 issue) wrote about Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and their followers and their portent about climate change.

But I noticed that her letter was short on one thing: solutions. We already have one solution that is supplying 20 percent of the U.S.’s electricity and 60 percent of our emissions-free electricity, but I suspect that if I asked her directly she’d declare it anathema. That’s because that solution is nuclear power.

The Chinese are not so reluctant to adopt solutions. The air pollution problems in Beijing and elsewhere from coal burning stoves rival and perhaps surpass the deadly London fogs of the 1950s. The Chinese are rational and are looking to stop burning coal and “burn” uranium instead. Rather than use pressurized reactors to make steam, top scientist Wang Naiyan proposes to use “swimming pool” reactors to generate heat alone. A reactor that never gets hot enough to boil water cannot boil dry and cannot melt down; it is as safe as anything can be, especially compared to the deadly smoke of millions of coal fires.

Or compared to climate change.

When will people who style themselves “environmentalists” realize that the Sierra Club was right the first time, when its motto was “Atoms Not Dams?” Sierra Club is the past; Breakthrough Institute and Environmental Progress are the future.

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STANDING UP TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT opinion

by Mary Keyes Rogers Sexual harassment in the workplace gets our attention when it’s national news. But it happens everywhere. Even Up North.

How well does our community stand up to harassment and criminal sexual conduct in the workplace?

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For any woman who has had their boss put his hand on her knee — or worse — while discussing her possible career advancement, last week was a good week. Maybe.

The firing of Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company was previously unthinkable until the lewd details and sheer volume of paid-off victims came to light in

woman (or man) being sexually harassed in your workplace? Are you teaching your children to do the same? We talk more about bullying with our kids than sexual harassment.

Last November, Michael Cohen, manager of the Dairy Queen at the Grand Traverse Mall food court was found guilty and sentenced to eight months in the Grand Traverse County jail on two charges of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct after sexually touching a teenage female employee. Cohen is listed on Michigan’s sex offender registry through 2041.

I sat in the courtroom during that trial and listened to teenage girls recount their stories

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I see the headline lesson in the Weinstein story to be that a new force is coming to the table: the willingness of coworkers and industry colleagues to support the victims and call out institutions that tolerate the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.

The Weinstein Company board of directors does not deserve an award for defending the rights of men and women against sexual harassment, no, no, no. They made a financial decision, not a moral one.

And that is what it takes for a company to take action: fear of financial losses. It’s one thing to pay off a woman for her silence. But the prospect of losing projects, advertisers, and talent that creates the profits … well, that gets attention.

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The true heroes in this story are the men and women of the entertainment industry who were willing to walk away from earning money through their work with The Weinstein Company, a company that had not only ignored the whispers (and they were pretty loud whispers) about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment but also planned to placate the media, then bring Weinstein back.

It was the working members of the industry who brought Harvey Weinstein down.

They stood up, they spoke out, they risked financial loss.

It just blows my mind to know that, in 2017, this game of powerful men harassing, threatening, and sexually assaulting women who need a paycheck is allowed — until it costs somebody else some cash.

Would you risk your job to stand up for a

of this man’s seemingly chronic perverse behavior and language in the small workspace.

The female assistant manager described her boss’s behavior as “joking around.”

Has the sexualization of teen culture made sexual harassment okay?

Sitting behind me were several of Dairy Queen’s young male and female employees who came to support their boss, making crude comments under their breath about the victim.

During the trial, it was made clear that sexual banter between employees, including Michael Cohen, was the accepted culture of the workplace. From my seat, listening to both the court proceedings before me and the comments from the kids seated behind me, I wanted to stand up and scream, “Don’t you people understand what is happening here?” The general vibe was that this young woman, who stood up for herself, who was brave enough to go to the police and tell her story to the prosecuting attorney, was ruining their fun. Keep in mind that this was a criminal case, not a civil lawsuit.

Quite a contrast to the outraged men and women who stood up to Weinstein’s board, no?

Are we teaching our teenagers what is and is not acceptable behavior? Are we teaching our sons and daughters to stand up and speak out when they see a coworker being sexually harassed? A teenager’s first jobs will teach them how to navigate the culture of a workplace. A teenager’s supervisor will teach them their rights by demonstrating tolerance or intolerance of sexual harassment.

As a community of parents, supervisors, and employers, we need to stand together and teach our younger workers about sexual harassment in the workplace, what it is, and how to report it.

Mary Keyes Rogers is a Traverse City resident.

She is a freelance business consultant, blogger, speaker and host of the Experience 50 Podcast for Midlife. Contact: mary@experience50.com

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Writer Jim Harrison to be Feted at Opera House If you’ve seen Legends of the Fall, the 1994 American epic featuring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, then you know a little of the late Jim Harrison, the Grayling, Michigan, native who wrote the book on which the film was based.

But that movie only scratches the rough-hewn exterior of what Harrison accomplished, as a writer and influencer, and a local and national legend.

His stories have been compared to those of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner; many take place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Harrison’s longtime assistant, Joyce Harrington Bahle, summed up the icon like this: “Jim was northern Michigan’s beloved poet, novelist, journalist, and passionate gourmand.”

Bahle herself, along with a long list of Harrison’s fellow writers and friends will meet up in Traverse City to stage a special night dedicated to Harrison, who died at age 78 in Patagonia, Arizona, last year.

“Jim Harrison: A Really Big Tribute” will be held at the historic City Opera House on Saturday, Oct. 21, at 7pm; the event will be a mix of words, music and images to celebrate Harrison’s life and work.

Tickets for the event ($25–35) are on sale now at cityoperahouse.org, (231) 941-8082, or at the City Opera House Box Office, 106 E. Front St., in Traverse City.

Paul Brown has had a four decade journey through the worlds of pop, R&B and jazz. Starting as a drummer, Brown became an engineer for R&B legends (Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin) before evolving into a twotime Grammy-winning urban jazz producer, and then a popular guitarist and performer. He plays Milliken Auditorium in Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC on Sat., Oct. 21, at 8pm. Tickets: $27 advance, $30 door, and $24 Museum Members, plus a $2 processing fee. dennosmuseum.org

Otsego Club: Private No More The oldest continuously operating private ski club in America, the 1939-founded Gaylord’s Otsego Club and Resort will open to the public this winter for the first time in its history. What’s that mean for snow bunnies? Unfettered access to the resort’s 31 slopes, five chairlifts, over six miles of cross-country skiing, and four outstanding terrain parks — one of which sported a 22-foot halfpipe that Olympic snowboarders from the U.S., Japan, Australia, and New Zealand trained on for the 2010 games.

The Club sits at the highest point in northwest lower Michigan’s famed snowbelt, so expect big snow, beautiful views, and — finally — the chance to say you’re in the Club.

bottomsup Civilized Spirits’ Bourbon Manhattan Maybe it’s the towering 24-plate column that master distiller Mike Hall designed for ultimate purity in his spirits. Maybe it’s the vanilla flavor compounds seeping from the oak barrels in which his whiskey marinates alongside oak wood chips. Whatever the cause, the effect is undeniable: The resulting bourbon makes for a maplesyrupy smooth, vanilla-sweet base for a truly mellow Manhattan, one made bright with a little twist of orange, available upon request. Make your own at home or close a day of leaf peeping on Old Mission Peninsula by sipping one fireside at Jolly Pumpkin or Mission Table — Civilized Spirits’ bourbon is made in their shared backyard. Civilized Spirits’ bourbon Manhattan is $8 at Jolly Pumpkin Restaurant and Brewery, and Mission Table and Tasting Room are located at 13512 Peninsula Dr., Traverse City.

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spectator by stephen tuttle Another day, another massacre, another pile of teddy bears and candles, another candlelight vigil and memorial service, another permanent memorial, another gun debate, another day, another massacre.

We’re good at this because we’ve had plenty of practice.

The FBI defines a mass killing as one in which at least four people are killed with little time interval or distance between the killings. Despite a reduction in most violence in the country over the last three decades, a mass killing rampage happens here, on average, about every 20 days. Unless the body count reaches double figures we aren’t likely to even hear about it.

We’re hearing plenty from politicians these days because of the Las Vegas murders.

They all offered their vapid “thoughts and prayers,” and some have even visited the killing field for a nice photo-op. We know they will do nothing.

could outlaw bump stocks and buy back those already in circulation. They could establish a national registry, stop gun show and online sales without background checks, and limit the number of weapons someone can own. They could expand background checks to include mental health and violence referrals.

They could study the roots that cause us to suffer nearly 35,000 gun deaths annually, more than half of which are suicides.

Instead, they passed a law prohibiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from studying the effects of gun violence because, they said, it isn’t a disease.

Whether or not they should do any of that is an open question, but they aren’t willing to even seriously debate most of it. We’ll never know if new regulations would help because there won’t be any.

And the guns continue to pile up. According to the Congressional Research Service,

There’s no reason to assume Congress will do anything.

The massacre of first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School didn’t spur them to action, so it’s unlikely the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas will.

Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old who murdered 58 concertgoers before killing himself, presents a difficult target for those politicians. It’s so much easier for them when somebody claims to support a terrorist group or is a Muslim. Paddock, a natural-born American, doesn’t appear to have supported or opposed much of anything.

A retired, upper-middle-class real estate investor and gambler, he was about as nondescript as a person can be. As this is being written, authorities continue searching for Paddock’s motive.

We know he had plenty of guns, all purchased legally, as were the dozen bump stocks he had, an unregulated replacement part that uses the natural recoil of a fired shot to convert a semiautomatic rifle into something that’s very close to fully automatic. There’s no evidence he was a hunter, target shooter, or gun sportsman of any kind.

Politicians are now debating whether or not to ban or restrict bump stocks. The National Rifle Association (NRA), whom some politicians fear more than actual gunfire, says it might support some kind of regulation but not a ban.

There’s no reason to assume Congress will do anything. The massacre of first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School didn’t spur them to action, so it’s unlikely the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas will.

There is plenty that could have been done.

Congress could have restricted the sale of semi-automatic long guns. (Assault rifles were once banned, but that expired, and Congress did nothing to renew it.) They

the United States now has more guns in private hands than we have people: 101 guns for every 100 residents. We can legally assemble an arsenal and legally turn semiautomatic long guns into something approaching a machine gun, as Paddock did, and that’s fine. It’s more than a little foolish.

Congress might ban bump stocks since they’re now an easy target — they’re not protected, and somebody just used them to murder dozens of people. But sales of bump stocks skyrocketed immediately after the shooting and continue to climb as Congress talks without acting.

For those directly impacted in Las Vegas and elsewhere, the shooting will never stop. For the rest of us, it was just another mass killing, albeit with a bigger body count. Death by gunfire is a normal part of American life, happening more than 90 times every single day, according to FBI statistics. We only slow down, briefly, when the horror can’t be ignored.

We aren’t going to ban gun ownership, and no politician is now suggesting, or has ever suggested, such a thing, despite what you might have read. Our Supreme Court has already decided a “well-regulated militia” can be one guy with a bunch of guns, so that debate is over.

But if we actually cared, we’d have forced politicians to at least make some changes around the edges. Making it more difficult for homicidal maniacs to obtain their guns of mass destruction seems a worthy endeavor. Instead, we wait for the candlelight vigil in our town.

Another day, another massacre.

Crime & Rescue HOME INVADER SHOT Cheboygan County deputies were dispatched to a residence in Benton Township at 10:06pm Oct. 8 for a breaking and entering that evolved into a shooting.

Following an argument earlier in the day, an individual gathered several friends and went to a home in Benton Township to confront the other person. When the occupant of the home refused to come out, entry was made into the home. The occupant felt threatened and used the rifle to stop what he perceived as a threat, said Sheriff Dale Clarmont. The case, involving individuals ranging in age from 17- to 29-years-old, his been referred to the prosecutor’s office; no arrests have yet been made. The person who was shot was transported to McLaren Northern Michigan-Petoskey with a non-life threating wound.

ALCOHOL V. TREE ACCIDENT Officers from the Cadillac Police Department were dispatched to the 400 block of W. 13th Street for a single vehicle, personal injury accident, just before 10pm Oct 9. The driver, a 26-year-old Cadillac man had lost control of his vehicle, leaving the roadway and striking a tree. The lone occupant was transported to Munson Medical Center-Cadillac for treatment of his non-life threatening injuries. The accident remains under investigation; alcohol was believed to be a factor.

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BELLY LANDING FOR SEAPLANE Around 1pm Oct. 8, 59-year-old pilot Scott Hoxie, of Grand Rapids, attempted to land his plane at the Beaver Island Township airport. Hoxie failed to put the landing gears down and landed on the belly of the plane, a Searey amphibious aircraft. Although another plane was flying behind Hoxie, no one was injured in the incident. Charlevoix County Sheriffs turned over the crash to the FAA. TEEN CHAT THREATS A social media conversation between two 13-year-old males led to a Grand Traverse Sheriff’s Office investigation Oct. 10. According to the department, two teens had a back-and-forth conversation on social media “laden with vulgar and disturbing language. One shared a screen shot of the conversation via Snapchat, which was showed to a parent, who then contacted police. As a precaution, the Sheriff’s Office sent patrol cars to East Middle School “to ensure the safety of the students and staff while we tracked down the source of the (conversation).”

Authorities reported neither teen were found to have access to weapons, nor did they express any intent to hurt anyone. The investigation is ongoing.

HIGH-SPEED CHASE A 25-year-old Elmwood Township man was arrested around 1am Sunday after leading a deputy on a high-speed chase and then crashing his vehicle. After seeing a truck leave the property of a business at a high rate of speed and attempting to stop the vehicle, a Leelanau County deputy engaged in a vehicle pursuit over 3.4 miles, with speeds reaching 88mph. Despite colliding with a deer, the driver continued on until he rolled his truck making a sharp turn off East Fouch Road into a private road. He attempted to flee on foot but became entangled in his seatbelt and was arrested for fleeing and eluding police, third degree, and operating a vehicle intoxicated, second offense. The man was lodged in the Leelanau County Jail.

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WEED & A WEAPON On Oct. 6, Michigan State Troopers stopped a vehicle for defective equipment in Rapid City. An overwhelming odor of marijuana was detected emanating from the vehicle, and neither of the occupants possessed a medical marijuana card. The driver, a 29-year-old Rapid City man, was requested to step out of the vehicle and admitted to having a pocket knife on him. Just prior to being patted down to perform a vehicle search, the driver admitted to having a loaded 9mm Beretta pistol in his front right pocket, without having a CPL. He was lodged for carrying a concealed weapon and possession of marijuana.

ASSAULT, ETHNIC INTIMIDATION & SPEEDING On Oct. 8, Michigan State Police investigated an assault in the city of Grayling and subsequently arrested a 51-year-old local man for assault and battery and ethnic intimidation. Two days before, troopers stopped a 32-year-old Grayling man in the city of Grayling for speeding and subsequently arrested him for possession of marijuana.

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What’s Old Is Weird Again You may have seen the widely distributed weird news story about the Mad Pooper, a woman who has been seen defecating on lawns in Colorado Springs, Colorado. According to KRDO.com, on Sept. 25, an unidentified man claiming to be a spokesman for the Pooper posted (and has since removed) two videos in which he tried to justify her movements and win sympathy for her. In the videos, the spokesman says the unidentified Pooper is not responsible for her actions because she has suffered a traumatic brain injury and has had gender reassignment surgery, leaving her unable to control herself. He also claims her actions are protected by the First Amendment, in response to which Colorado Springs attorney Jeremy Loew called foul: “Defecating in someone’s yard is definitely not protected under the First Amendment and it is actually a crime.” Loew went on: “People all over the world are talking about this, and police will catch her.”

What’s in a Name?

Death Wish Coffee -- a cold-brewed, canned coffee the company touts as “fiercely caffeinated” (as much as 4 1/2 times more caffeine per fluid ounce than regular coffee), with a skull and crossbones logo -- recalled its 11-ounce cans on Sept. 20 because they could possibly contain the deadly toxin botulin.

Company founder Mike Brown, 37, said no incidents have been reported, but he is very serious about the safety of his product. “I know our logo and name might not seem like it reflects that,” Brown told The Washington Post. Production has been halted, and customers can request refunds from Death Wish’s website.

People Different From Us -- Mermaid Aries, 18, of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, likes to wear her specially made mermaid tail when she swims at local pools. But the Dolphin Centre in Bromsgrove, under new management, has banned her from using the flipper because “they worry I might hit someone with my tail or might get into trouble in the water and drown,” Aries (real name Leia Trigger) told the Worcester News on Sept. 22. “It is my ambition to become a professional mermaid that attends children’s parties and other events. The only problem is that I have nowhere to swim.”

(UPDATE: After the story made headlines, the Perdiswell Leisure Centre stepped up. Aquatic development officer Vanessa Bale welcomed Aries to the pool, offering her “early mornings and late evenings.” Aries is thrilled: “I am absolutely ecstatic. I never thought I’d be able to swim with my tail ever again.”)

-- An anonymous bidder in the United States has purchased a pair of Adolf Hitler’s boxer-style underwear for about $6,700, according to auctioneer Bill Panagopoulos of Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Maryland. The drawers, with a size 39 waist and “A.H.” embroidered on them, apparently were left in the Parkhotel Graz in Austria in 1938, Panagopulos told Metro News on Sept. 24. The seller was the grandson of the people who owned the hotel at that time.

Panagopulos supposes the buyer will frame the underwear and hang them on a wall in his or her home: “It would be the most talkedabout relic in the house.”

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The Farce Is Strong A black-and-white photo depicting the

signing of the Charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945 has prompted the recall and reprinting of Saudi social studies textbooks because it pictures Saudi King Faisal seated next to the Jedi master Yoda. The photograph was created by 26-year-old Saudi artist Abdullah Al Shehri, who mixes pop culture icons into historic photographs. Shehri told The New York Times in September he inserted Yoda into the photo because he reminded him of the king. “He was wise and was always strong in his speeches,” Shehri said. “I am the one who designed it, but I am not the one who put it in the book,” he clarified. Saudi education minister Ahmed al-Eissa apologized for the mistake, but the mystery of how the photo got into the book remains unsolved.

It’s Good to Have Goals Octogenarians Ray and Wilma Yoder of Goshen, Indiana, have finally achieved a goal they set nearly 40 years ago: to visit every Cracker Barrel location in the United States.

On Aug. 31, they checked off the last of 645 stops in Tualatin, Oregon, where they each received a Four-Star apron, the company’s highest honor. The Yoders once stopped at 10 Cracker Barrels in one day as they traveled up the East Coast. “I’ve always walked away feeling refreshed,” Ray Yoder told ABC News.

“For two old people, we’re pretty fast moving.”

Bright Ideas -- The Detroit Red Wings’ new promotion commemorates the Joe Louis Arena, where the team played until this year, when they’re moving to a new rink. The Detroit News reported in September that fans who want to keep the old home ice close to their hearts and contribute to the team’s foundation can buy a small vial of limited edition “melted ice” taken from the arena’s surface (otherwise known as water) for $85. Only 3,000 vials have been produced; they are accompanied by a framed photo of The Joe. -- Even Superman underwear couldn’t protect Nathan French, 19, from Halewood, Merseyside, England, as he climbed to the top of the highest mountain in Wales, 3,600foot Snowdon. French managed to hike to the summit on Sept. 9, but he quickly succumbed to the elements -- perhaps because he was wearing ONLY Superman underwear, shoes and gloves. French, who is studying sport, nutrition and health in college, told The Guardian, “It was when I was at the top I was shaking uncontrollably.” He rode the Snowdon mountain railway back down, but fell ill on the train: “I started to go deaf and my sight started to go funny.” Paramedics said his blood sugar had dropped and he was showing signs of hypothermia. Miles Hill of the Llanberis mountain rescue team noted, “We hope Mr. French is back in the mountains soon, perhaps in the full suit (cape optional), rather than just the underwear.”

-- And police in Cumbria County, England, responded on Sept. 23 to a call for help from 3,210-foot Scafell Pike (England’s highest mountain), where four men ran into trouble while hiking. However, their problems didn’t stem from dehydration or a painful fall. Instead, it seems the group had become “incapable of walking due to cannabis use,” police told The Guardian. A police spokesperson wrote on Facebook: “Now having to deploy rescue, air support and ambulance to rescue them. Words fail us ...” Cumbria police superintendent Justin Bibby reminded hikers that “alcohol or any other substance that could impair your judgment ... has no place on a mountain.”

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WNMC 90.7FM By the Numbers

WNMC was founded in 1967 as a carrier current station broadcast in Northwestern Michigan College dorms to bring rock music to college students. (Carrier current is a method of low-power AMradio transmission; it sends a signal to a relatively small geographic area.)

In 1978, the station became FM, the signal increased to 10 watts, and WNMC could be heard on radios within seven miles of the NMC campus.

The signal increased to 150 watts in 1982.

The signal increased to 600 watts in 1998, making it capable of reaching a 25- to 30mile radius; the signal also changed from 90.9 to 90.7.

Number of volunteers: 90 Number of full-time staff: 1 Annual budget: About $100,000 Money raised from listeners through two annual on-air fund drives: roughly $35,000 Number of albums in the station’s library in 1979: 1,744 Number of those albums categorized as rock: 789 Number of tracks stored digitally on a station server today: 176,915 Number of those tracks that could be categorized as rock: 21,293

By Patrick Sullivan

BORN TO ROCK WNMC celebrates 50 years on the air.

WNMC General Manager Eric Hines

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Shortly after Ben Hamper moved to northern Michigan from Flint in the mid’90s, he and a friend stumbled upon 90.7 WNMC, and he liked what he heard.

“We used to tip a few coldies and listen to the Friday night shows, the weekend shows, and really enjoyed it,” he said. “And I guess after a while I decided to see if I could try my hand at it.”

Now Hamper hosts two shows: “Soul Possession,” a Friday evening rock show, and “Head for the Hills,” a country show on Sunday mornings that’s become a sensation.

On the last Sunday each month, Hamper broadcasts the show live from the Union Street Station.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of WNMC radio. For the past 17 of those years, it’s been led by Eric Hines, the station’s general manager and sole full-time employee.

Hines said disc jockeys like Hamper represent the future of the station as it competes in an increasingly crowded media world with fewer and fewer radios.

RADIOHEAD Hamper, author of “Rivethead,” a bestselling memoir published in 1991 about life on an assembly line, has become a WNMC institution since he got his first show in 2006.

Nowadays, his creative outlet is no longer writing; he expresses himself through his radio shows. He said that even before he became a writer (he was also a columnist for the Michael Moore publications The Flint Voice and the Michigan Voice), he wanted to be a DJ. The live shows started casually as an occasional broadcast from the now-shuttered Inside Out Gallery. Now the monthly live broadcasts Sunday mornings from Union Street help Hamper connect with his audience.

“It really grew legs fast and, you know, we’re always drawing really good crowds,” he

said. “It just seemed to go hand in hand with the music and the comaraderie” Hamper’s use of social media and his other ways of engaging with listeners make him a model for the future of WNMC, Hines said.

“Ben is probably a good example of what the future of our kind of radio looks like,” Hines said. “He’s got a big online following, and he Facebook comments throughout his show.”

Hamper didn’t come to the internet and social media because he wanted to, Hines said.

He’s embraced it because it enhances his show.

“He doesn’t take to computers really quick, but if he sees why he needs to do something, he’ll do anything,” Hines said. “If actually writing a computer program were part of making that show work, he’d probably end up writing a computer program. When he’s determined to do something, he’ll get it done.”

Hamper said he just likes to engage with his audience, and he likes to expose people to music they might not otherwise hear.

“That’s my personal goal, is to just give an illumination into these artists that just somehow fell through the cracks or popular artists that have more [great songs] than the five that they play on the radio,” Hamper said.

A TURBULANT ARRIVAL When Hines arrived at WNMC in 2000, he found a station in turmoil. Many of the long-time DJs had recently left in protest over conflicts with the college administration.

There had been talk of programming changes that created unease among the volunteers. Some at the college thought the station would be more viable if, instead of focusing on obscure alternative artists, DJs played deep cuts from well-known, established acts.

“Some of it was just that incipient paranoia that breeds in that sort of situation, where you have the license holder and the people who actually do the station totally at odds,” Hines said. “I think that there’s a lot of paranoia in a situation like that, so people take things the wrong way, they interpret everything in the least charitable way they possibly can, and no relationships are going to work like that.”

Hines said one of his first tasks was to convince as many DJs as he could to return.

He was able to gain their trust, he said, because he didn’t plan to make drastic changes.

“I wanted the station to fill the same role that it always had,” Hines said. “You know, 85 percent of the people at the station were ideologically for a different kind of station — a station that played acts that nobody had ever heard of, a station that broke acts, and tilled ground that others stations weren’t.”

Hines felt at home navigating the difficult relationship between volunteer DJs and school administrators because he’d been there before. Before he came to WNMC (following a brief stint as a reporter at the Traverse City Record-Eagle), he taught English at Rutgers University, and he volunteered at the radio station there. He understood both sides.

“I really want the radio station to be educational and culturally immersing, which is in our mission statement. I take that seriously,” he said. “And I think that that sort of comports pretty well with the mission of the college, especially in a place like this, where we are far from a lot of big cultural institutions.”

BORN TO ROCK WNMC was created to bring music to northern Michigan that wasn’t otherwise available.

Students started the campus radio station in 1967 because there was no other place to hear rock music.

“In 1967, there was very little rock music up here. I think that there was on Sunday graveyard show or something like that, that was one of the things that rock fans would listen to,” Hines said. “But there was very

WNMC DJ Ellen Murray

little rock music being played on the air here.”

What was on the air? Country, big band, easy listening.

“Tony Bennet. Frank Sinatra. That stuff isn’t bad. You know, I’ll play Tony Bennett every once in a while,” Hines said. “It’s not bad in itself, but the thing is, when you think about what was happening in the musical world in 1967, that’s not on the cutting edge.”

Commercial radio soon caught up to the rock generation, however, and enthusiasm for the college station waned.

“I’ve talked to some people from the early ’70s and it seems as if the station got moribund then, like there was very little activity,” Hines said. “They weren’t on very often, and then, in ’72 or ’73, they got a new wave of people who were really interested in doing it, and they got organized.”

Hines said it was lucky that just as the station was foundering, a group of talented, dedicated people signed up and pushed the station into new era.

“The station could well have died five years into its existence, but these folks got it really going again,” Hines said.

In 1977, the station’s wattage increased from 10 to 150 watts, and it could be heard in a seven-mile radius around the college. It started to attract more attention and become a community radio station.

“They had real plans for it and a vision for it, and the vision was to be this alternative music source and maybe even do some community issues programming and stuff like that,” Hines said. “It’s surprising to me how consistent the vision has been. The details change a little bit, but the vision for the station has been really consistent for a really long time.”

30 YEARS OF JAZZ What started as a rock station has now become home to a diverse array of music.

A lot of the daytime programming today is reserved for jazz.

That’s what attracted DJ Fred Nelson to the station. He’s been collecting albums since he was 11, almost 60 years ago. That’s when he attended a Louis Armstrong concert at the St. Francis gym and was smitten.

“I stood in line for a half an hour to have him autograph the program, and I was a little kid,” Nelson said.

Now the long-time Traverse City public figure — he’s been mayor, commissioner, planning commission chair — plays those records on his Sunday show from noon until 2pm.

He’s had the slot for 15 years, ever since he agreed to help out an old friend and fellow jazz lover, the late 7&4 news anchor Dave Walker.

“When he came to Traverse City in the late ’70s, I was chairman of the planning commission,” Nelson said. “We were down at Modes having a beer, and we discovered that we like the same music for the same reason.”

Nelson’s show is a celebration of the first three decades of recorded jazz, from 1917 through 1947. For him, that music is as vital and alive as when it was first made. But he understands old jazz isn’t for everyone.

That’s why he believes WNMC has a future. It offers a chance for virtually anyone to find music they like.

“You might actually actively dislike some of it, but you know, stick around for a couple of hours, and there will be something,” he said. “It’s a great service.”

PROGRAMMING SHAKEUP One of the significant changes Hines made when he took over the station was to dedicate weekdays to jazz. There used to be an afternoon rock show that Hines thought broke up the continuity of the day.

He wanted people to be able to keep their radio tuned all day to WNMC at their office or in their store or home and know what to expect, at least in the most general terms.

Another big move came in 2004, when Hines started a morning show that includes more talking than had ever been regularly featured on the station before.

“That was one of the calls we would get.

They would say, ‘Why are you guys talking all of the time?’” he said. “NMC had always been an anti-talking radio station, that you should always talk the bare minimum.”

Hines said he hosted the morning show at first because he believed the station needed a morning show, and there was no one else to do it. He didn’t want to be the host, but since it was his vision, he had to start it. Thirteen years later, he’s still on the air with a rotating collection of co-hosts.

“I didn’t want to do it, personally, but it

was like one of those things where I figure, I’ll get this started, and then other people will take it over,” Hines said. “I think I changed a little bit. It didn’t turn out to be as awful, talking about myself. But it’s not something I did very readily.”

He didn’t like talking about his personal life on the air, but over the years he developed his style as an announcer and recognized that people like off-the-cuff commentary.

“It’s kind of weird sometimes that people that I don’t know know things about me, but it really isn’t an awful thing,” he said.

“And it helps people engage with the radio station through sort of a quasi-personal relationship.”

THE NEXT GENERATION WNMC was one of the reasons Will Thomas and his wife moved back to Traverse City.

The 30-year-old said he thought about WNMC when they were trying to imagine what life back home would be like after spending some time on the East Coast. He decided if he moved home, he would get a radio show.

“Within a month of moving back, I emailed their volunteer link, and within a couple weeks I was in there training,” he said.

Beginning in March 2016, Thomas had a show.

Thomas, who every other Sunday evening hosts the free-form rock show Cosmic Slop from 8pm until midnight, said he listened to WNMC in high school and credits the station with broadening his rock horizons.

“I grew up in Traverse City, I listened to the station always — Saturday morning blues with my dad — [and] evening rock shows were an inspiration in high school,” he said.

“Music is my passion, and doing a radio show has always been a fantasy.”

Thomas, a freelance graphic designer, believes that even in the changing media environment we live in, a station like WNMC has a place because it’s connected to the community, and it’s a good way for people to find new music.

“Having 90.7 in the air, actually in the air, is such a huge value, you know,” Thomas said.

“There are many towns of this size that don’t have that.”

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By Kristi Kates Want to experience something a little different than your typical haunted house this Halloween? Spook your spirit with these six unsettling and unusual Halloween events that will chill your bones and send you running in the opposite direction (after you’re done having fun, of course):

GRAND TRAVERSE HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE

Oct. 21–22 only Located within the Leelanau State Park in Northport, the usually inviting lighthouse turns hair-raising for one special spooky weekend that includes activities like outdoor games, hayrides, bonfires, and more. A typical tour of the lighthouse includes a view out of the tower and a look at the museum; the haunted version includes all of the above, but don’t be surprised if you catch a glimpse of a pirate spectre hovering over Lake Michigan. The haunted basement of the lighthouse will also be open for you to explore … if you’re daring enough.

GO: $4 adult/$2 youth. Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum, 15500 N. Lighthouse Point Rd., Northport. (Note: A state park pass is required to enter the park.) For more information and hours see grandtraverselighthouse.com or call (231) 386-7195.

DO: Bring your camera! The views are spectacular. We’re not responsible if a pirate photobombs you.

BOO! Think you’re not scared of heights?

You will be; narrow metal stairs spiral up to the lighthouse tower. Totally worth the view — if you survive the spooky climb.

PETOSKEY HAUNTED PROGRESSIVE DINNER

Oct. 27 Even frequent visitors to Petoskey might not know that the town has something of an uncanny history. What better way to explore it than with this progressive dinner throughout some ostensibly haunted buildings in Petoskey’s historic Gaslight District? You’ll begin at one restaurant, and progress through three, with one course at each (appetizers, entrée, and dessert with coffee). While you’re dining, you’ll be chilled by stories of the restaurant employee who fell in love with a ghost, the mysterious fan, and the woman in the wall. What’s the matter, lost your appetite?

GO: $45 per person, starting time/ location TBA, contact the Petoskey Downtown offices for tickets and more information at 216 Park Ave., (231) 6228501 or petoskeydowntown.com.

DO: Comfortable shoes are a must. (Not for the distance you’ll be walking, but to be ready if something chases you.)

BOO! Tunnels running underneath the downtown area were built to transport spirits to various establishments during prohibition.

We’re not saying which kind of spirits.

MANISTEE GHOST SHIP

Now through Oct. 28 Five decks of frights await ye landlubbers

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on Manistee’s Ghost Ship, known throughout the rest of the year as the S.S. City of Milwaukee. As you clamber up and down the steep, darkened ship stairways from deck to deck, you’ll have to be wary of ghouls, dodge determined vampires, and zip away from zombies looking to borrow your brains. The ship also shifts the scares on each deck, so if you think you conquered the monsters last year, you’re in for a whole new challenge now. This attraction is not for the faint of heart!

GO: $10 adults/$8 youth and seniors; not recommended for kids under 7. The ship is docked off of Arthur Street on Manistee Lake in Manistee. Ghost Ship nights run Friday and Saturday evenings. More information at carferry.com.

DO: Keep your guard up; there are no safe corners on this ship.

BOO! Speaking of which, don’t think you’re safe before you board the ship, either.

The scares start early at this one.

JACOB’S CORN MAZE

Now through Oct. 29 Jacob’s Corn Maze is a fun family experience during the day, but at night, when it’s just you, your flashlight, and an endless maze of corn, the candy-corn-level fun turns into a scenario more reminiscent of the Stephen King movie Children of the Corn. There’s no direct attacks from monsters, but that doesn’t make the maze any less scary; it’s the suspense that will get you. Unless you enjoy being trapped out in the middle of a maze, alone. Just before

Halloween. In the dark.

GO: General admission starts at $10 adults/$8 youth; the maze is open Fridays and Saturdays 10am–9pm, Sunday through Thursday 10am–6pm. Visit jacobscornmaze. com for more information.

DO: Remember your flashlight; it’s the only chance you’ve got after dark.

BOO! If you meet a boy named Isaac in there, run.

DANCE INTO THE LABYRINTH

Oct. 28 NMC iDance instructor Mykl Werth will be bringing guests of this Halloween weekend event into a workshop to learn how to tango — and then the dance itself will be brimming with a wide variety of both music and dance styles including swing, Latin, waltz, blues, and that tango that you just learned. Masks and costumes are not required, but are highly encouraged (try movies like The Maze Runner, Wrath of the Titans, or the David Bowie movie Labyrinth for inspiration); partners aren’t needed either, as you’ll likely meet plenty of dance fans just like yourself!

GO: Tickets for the dance are $15, dance with workshop $20; student prices $8/$10.

The event will take place at the City Opera House, doors open at 5:30pm. For more information call (231) 499-9793.

DO: Dress up! Dancing fantastic, but it’s even better at a Halloween-themed event like this when guests show up in great costumes.

BOO! You might think the scare level is pretty low for this one — until you realize you’ve been bewitched by the dance!

Die-hard traditionalist? We get it. Here are three of the region’s spookiest haunted houses to test your mettle.

NIGHTMARE AT CHALLENGE MOUNTAIN Boyne Falls Fridays and Saturdays in October 7–10pm Scares abound inside and out at Challenge Mountain, where people arrive early to tailgate, and local actors prep for months ahead for their spooky turns in the spotlight.

GO: Adults $10/Kids $5 at Challenge Mountain Lodge, 2205 North Springbrook Rd., (231) 535-2141 or challengemtn. org/nightmare.

SCREAMS IN THE DARK Traverse City Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday now through October 29, 7–10pm Back for its sixth season, this terrifying series of events includes the Swamp of Suffering, Pandemonium (aka “very scary clowns”), a haunted hayride, and new for 2017, the Monster Museum.

GO: Tickets start at $10 for all ages at the Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds, 3606 Blair Town Hall Rd., evernighthaunt.com.

TERROR AT TEE LAKE HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR Lewiston (just east of Gaylord) Open every night in October, dusk to 10pm Ingeniously lit and enhanced with scary music, this Halloween takeover of the Tee Lake Resort haunts everything: cabins, shops, scarecrows, and more — you can even stay overnight in the Witch’s Cottage.

GO: Free to visit, call ahead for rates to stay overnight. Tee Lake Resort, 3987 Tee Lake Rd., (989) 786-2208, terroratteelake.com or facebook.com/teelakeresort.

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By Al Parker Stroll down New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street, and you can’t swing a string of plastic beads without hitting a musical group playing some toe-tapping traditional jazz.

But you don’t need a plane ticket to the Big Easy to enjoy some of those syncopated sounds. A small but dedicated group of music lovers is working to spread the gospel of traditional jazz in northwest lower Michigan.

Traditional jazz — or “jass,” as it was originally known — isn’t bebop. It isn’t even continental, the swing style popular in Europe decades ago. Think earlier and purely American, the styles of New Orleans, ragtime, Dixieland, West Coast, and Chicago jazz — all of which The Cherryland Jazz Society (CJS) keeps alive and kicking Up North.

On Oct. 22, the group, which has about 150 members spread across the region from Traverse City to Petoskey, will host Ray Heitger’s Cake Walkin’ Jass Band at the Grand Traverse Yacht Club.

The Toledo, Ohio-based Cake Walkin’ Jass Band (CWJB), now in its 48th year, is one of the premier bands playing original, traditional Dixieland Jazz in the Midwest and beyond. For decades it played at the famous Tony Packo’s Hungarian Restaurant in Toledo. Packo’s eatery was made famous

by Corporal Max Klinger in the TV series M.A.S.H. Traditional jazz is a musical idiom that originated at the turn of the 20th century in New Orleans and spread rapidly through the country. The music absorbed ragtime, gospel tunes, folk and blues songs, circus band, and marching band styles, and popular tunes.

“People say it’s happy music, and it is that,” said CJS member Pete Clapp.

Almost from the beginning, jazz bands were formed with a front line of wind instruments that played polyphonically — each with an independent but harmonizing melody. Typically the line had a trumpet or cornet, clarinet and/or soprano sax, trombone, and sometimes tenor, alto, or baritone saxes. The front line was backed by a rhythm section, made up of piano, banjo or guitar, tuba or string bass, and drums, or maybe a washboard, too.

When the wind instruments play

different melodic lines simultaneously, it creates a complex ensemble sound that grasps a listener’s attention and offers each instrumentalist opportunity for individual expression within the confines of the tune.

“It’s like a conversation in which everyone is talking at once,” said Clapp. “But together they all make sense. However, almost all traditional jazz bands also give individual musicians a chance to do a solo chorus by themselves — especially the members of the front line. If their solo is good, they are rewarded by enthusiastic applause. If it is mediocre, they get polite applause. If it’s not so good, they get ignored.”

The CJS came into being in 2007 when a group of folks who had been attending the Jazz Vespers at Traverse City’s First Presbyterian Church were bemoaning the fact that they would miss the music featured at those summer programs. The Backroom Gang, a traditional TC-based jazz band for several years, played at those programs.

Bob Core, 89, who grew up listening to jazz legends like Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and Fats Waller, cofounded the local jazz group with Jack and Marge Anderson, Jim and Barb Rowlett, Mary Ellen Byrne, and Eileen Girard.

Together they pulled together a board of directors and began to promote the uniquely American music. CJS’s goal is to promote local jazz bands, build an audience for traditional jazz, encourage young musicians to play traditional jazz, and bring in out-oftown bands to broaden the experience of well-played jazz.

“Jazz is emotional music,” said Clapp.

“While its blues tunes may be deep, sad, and soulful, most traditional jazz is happy music that reflects an upbeat, positive spirit that catches the listener and pulls our feelings upward. The music inspires movement and has spawned several dance crazes. Traditional jazz expresses America’s national conviction that things are good and getting better.”

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Portrait of the Graffiti Artist as a Young Man Chase Hunt’s quest to bring street art out of the shadows

By Craig Manning When Chase Hunt’s family relocated to Traverse City 20 years ago, he was struck by one thing: the lack of art along the streets of the downtown area. Just 12 years old at the time and a transplant from California, Hunt could hardly believe the contrast between his old home and his new one.

“When you’re in California, you see graffiti all over the place,” Hunt said. “And my stepbrother at the time, he did a little bit of it. Nothing much, but it was enough to catch my eye. When I moved [to Traverse City], I didn’t really see anything. There

was no art on the outside of anything. On buildings, nothing.”

In an otherwise beautiful and picturesque town, Hunt thought the lack of graffiti and street art made Traverse City seem oddly bare. He also thought that he could be a part of fixing the problem. Unfortunately, in those early years, he didn’t exactly go about it in the best way.

“I wanted to start painting these blank walls,” Hunt said. “I’d ride around during the night on my skateboard, and I’d just get idea after idea. That’s how I got into graffiti — just writing my name everywhere.”

Hunt’s career as an amateur fly-by-night

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graffiti artist was short-lived. When he was 14, a police officer caught him scrawling his name on the side of a building. The building owner didn’t press charges, but Hunt had to go back to the scene of the crime to paint over his work — with the building owner standing by, supervising.

For the better part of a decade, that little run-in with the law dissuaded Hunt from his personal mission to give Traverse City a little splash of SoCal attitude. He “retired” from graffiti and traded the sides of buildings for pieces of canvas, developing his style as an artist while falling more and more in love with Traverse City.

Mostly, Hunt’s art remained a hobby. He spent his spare time honing his craft and pouring his street art and graffiti-inspired style into colorful canvas works. If there was an itch he still wanted to scratch, it had to do with visibility. While writing his name on the side of buildings had gotten Hunt into a little bit of trouble, his art was at least out there for everyone to see.

Then, while in his early 20s, Hunt’s dream of finding more visibility for his art — and eventually beautifying the streets of Downtown Traverse City — began to come true. Hunt was working at Brew, and the owners graciously allowed him to start

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hanging some of his finished work on the walls. When patrons started asking about the pieces and even purchasing them, Hunt saw that Traverse City might be ready for his vision.

“I started approaching business owners and building owners in the downtown area, just asking if I could paint their wall,” Hunt said. “At first, I was just like, ‘I’ll do it for free, I’ll do it for whatever,’ because it’s just fun,

Slowly but surely, Hunt says that local businesses are dispensing with the blank brick storefronts and plain white walls that bothered him so much when he moved to Traverse City. and I loved doing it. Eventually, it turned into a paid gig.”

Hunt’s spike in popularity also helped to make street art more popular in Traverse City. If you’ve spent more than a couple hours in the downtown area over the past few years, chances are you’ve seen a handful of Chase Hunt originals. The already-iconic #DowntownTC mural was a collaboration between Hunt and John Jarosz, another local artist. A pair of Hunt’s music-themed pieces hang on the walls at Monkey Fist Brewing Company — the first a depiction of The Grateful Dead’s beloved late leader Jerry Garcia, and the second a purple-hued mural of Prince. Most recently, Brewery

Ferment marked their fifth anniversary by commissioning Hunt to revamp their storefront.

Slowly but surely, Hunt says that local businesses are dispensing with the blank brick storefronts and plain white walls that bothered him so much when he moved to Traverse City. Like Brewery Ferment, other downtown shops and restaurants are starting to see the appeal and value in having murals and street art. The change, he thinks, is being led by the millennial generation.

“I think that as the newer generation gets older, people are pushing for getting art on the outside of places,” he said. “[New business owners] want to have something on the outside of their building that maybe draws customers inside to shop, eat, drink, whatever it may be.”

Locals are even getting interested in the process behind street art. For the past four years, Hunt has been a popular fixture at Friday Night Live, creating live paintings for crowds to observe and enjoy. Two of those paintings — both featuring stenciled wolf heads overlaid with abstract colored squares and rectangles — now hang near the downtown parking garage.

Still, Hunt says that the old stereotypes and misconceptions about graffiti and street art haven’t entirely gone away. In some circles, both forms of art are considered little more than vandalism. While Hunt thinks perceptions are changing, he also thinks those connotations have deep roots — some of which are justified.

“You’ve got a lot of younger kids who don’t understand the art form and its purity,” Hunt said. “To where they’ll just go up and

write swear words and draw stuff we don’t want to see. And that’s the vandalism aspect.

It’s hard to get away from that.”

To this day, Hunt struggles against the bad name that young, reckless graffiti writers have given people like him. Even as an established local artist, he tends to dodge the “G” word when pitching his work to local businesses.

“When you approach a business owner and say, ‘I do graffiti and street art,’ they sometimes are deterred just because you said ‘graffiti,’” Hunt said. “So usually, I don’t even mention it in jobs. I just say, ‘I’m a street artist.’”

Not that Hunt needs to hide his tastes or influences. After 15 years of involvement in Traverse City’s art scene, he’s not lacking for opportunities. Two years ago, he even started his own business — Creative Streetworks — to give his work a consistent umbrella and brand. Creative Streetworks encompasses all the canvas art, murals, street art, and graffiti that Hunt paints — both on his own and with collaborators. It also gives him a chance to work with his dad — a veteran of California’s vibrant 1970s amateur skateboard scene — crafting one-of-a-kind longboards and oldschool cruisers.

“I’m super happy that people have picked up on liking my style and given me the chance to blossom, to where I can make a couple bucks and get to spread my creativity in a town that I love and adore,” Hunt said.

“And I’m glad that the city is starting to appreciate artists like myself and give us a chance. As graffiti writers, ex-graffiti writers, still-current graffiti writers, street artists, and muralists, it’s just a blessing.”

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Elk Rapids’ Cellar 152 AS YOU LIKE IT

By Janice Binkert At some point in the midst of the launch of Cellar 152, owners Mark and Kerrie Wayne might have felt that the name they had chosen for it was perhaps more appropriate — albeit in another context — than they had originally intended. It was August 2, 2015, the same day that straight-line winds raged across northwest lower Michigan, leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Indeed, a day to head to the cellar! And actually, many in the Village of Elk Rapids had done just that — not to take cover, but to celebrate the newest neighbor to set up shop on River Street.

A STRONG START As it turned out, they couldn’t have chosen a better location to ride out the storm. The building in which Cellar 152 is located has withstood every kind of tempest that nature could throw at it — summer, winter, spring, or fall — for over 100 years, since the turn of the 19th century. And it wasn’t about to let this gale dampen the festivities.

“They had a big crowd in here, and everybody just hunkered down,” said Eric Ray, general manager of Cellar 152. “You see that huge stabilizing beam on the west wall back here by the wine bar?” he asked, pointing to it.

“Nothing was going to threaten this building.”

In the end, what could have been an inauspicious start to the fledgling business instead turned out to be a bonding experience for all of those present that day, paving the way for what the owners had originally hoped: that their unique concept — which combines a retail wine shop/wine bar, a deli/ restaurant, a gourmet market, and a carefully curated collection of home accents — would become a community gathering place for locals and tourists alike, including summer boaters from the adjacent marina on East Grand Traverse Bay. Cellar 152 has continued to evolve into just that over the past two years, said Ray, who runs the day-to-day operations at Cellar 152 with Chef Chris Howard. “Since we brought

him on board, the food end of the business has been broadened significantly and has just gotten better,” he said. “When we first opened, we had a much more limited food selection.

Now we have a full-service menu of made-to order sandwiches, small plates, and salads, as well as soups, entrées and desserts.”

EVERDAY GOURMET Sandwiches are always a popular menu choice, and Ray said the big winners these days are the Turkey Rachel (oven-roasted turkey, melted Swiss cheese, tangy slaw and house-made Russian dressing on Stone House Charnuska rye) and the French Dip (shaved prime rib simmered in the jus of the housemade French onion soup, covered with the strained-out onions and served on a soft roll). Ray’s personal favorite is the pastrami sandwich (brushed with a spiced butter called “zip sauce,” slathered with Mab’s Atomic mustard, topped with smoked Gouda, and served on Stone House rye).

In the small plates category, the charcuterie board tops the list of customer favorites. “It comes out on this cold granite slab, and it’s just beautiful,” said Ray. “It has four different kinds of cheeses, a couple of different meats, candied walnuts, pickled vegetables and crackers.” A close second, he adds, is the beer cheese. “It’s served with a giant pretzel that comes out on a banana hanger with the beer cheese in a crock underneath it. I can tell you, when you walk into the dining area delivering either one of those menu items, the response from other customers is usually, ‘What is that?

I want that!’”

Out of the deli case, Ray said the chicken pot pie, the cherry chicken salad, and the Cuban pork tart have become best sellers.

“That last one is really something,” he added.

“We slow roast Cuban-seasoned pork for about 14 hours, until it’s falling off the bones, mix the meat with some smoked Gouda and spicy McClure’s pickles, and wrap the whole thing in pastry dough. Then we hit it with some Parmesan, bake it off, and serve it with sriracha aioli. Oh, it’s good!”

The Cellar 152 menu is just about to be tweaked again, Ray said. “We like to change things up from time to time — seasonally, of course, but also as we have new ideas. Chef Chris and I talk about food all the time, and it’s a nice back and forth. We can really let our creativity flow. In the savory department, we’re going to add things like wraps and lasagna, and we’ll be expanding our dessert menu as well. Chef Chris will be making more cakes and pastries as well as some breakfast Danishes. We’ve got a lot going on!”

WHAT OFF SEASON? Things don’t slow down at Cellar 152 after the high season ends. “We have live music every Friday and Saturday yearround , we do wine tastings every Thursday night, a ‘build your own’ bloody mary bar on Sundays, and pretty soon we’re going to be doing trivia Tuesdays with a taco bar and euchre Wednesdays with gyros,” announced Ray. “We’re not just a wine bar with food — we’re a lot of things wrapped into one. We’re not solely focused on one thing. About 70 percent of our business is wine and freshly prepared food and deli, divided almost evenly. The other 30 percent is grocery, beverages, frozen food, home accents, all of that. Anytime we’re open, you can get food, and not just the kitchen and deli food that’s on the menu — you can go to the cooler and get cheese or pick up some chips or something else from the shelves and bring it to the bar to enjoy it with your wine.

Anything that’s for sale here, you can get.

People ask us, ‘What do you do here?’ and we say, ‘We do everything!’ We try to make it fun and keep our customers happy.”

Cellar 152 is located at 152 River St., in Elk Rapids. Open10am–8pm Monday through Thursday, 10am–10pm Friday & Saturday, and 10am–6pm Sunday. Also offering custom catered meals for groups of all sizes. For more information, call (231) 264-9000, visit cellar152.com, or check them out on Facebook.

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The wine bar at Cellar 152 is definitely a key attraction. For fall and winter, happy hour is all day, every day, with $5 house pours and $6 featured wines, as well as select premium pours. “Our customers also love the ‘pick-abottle-of-wine-off-the-shelf-and-open-it-righthere’ feature,” said Ray. “We don’t charge a corkage fee—you can just crack a bottle of wine open and enjoy it at the bar or one of the tables here inside, or outside on the waterside deck in nice weather—with or without ordering food.” The selection of over 200 hand-selected wines is pretty much split between reds and whites, plus rosés and, as Ray said, “a really good sparkling wine selection.” And for those who would like something other than wine?

Cellar 152 carries over 50 beers in cans and bottles, as well as about 15 different ciders.

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… AND MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME The industrial-chic exterior of Cellar 152 boasts tall, warehouse-like windows that allow a glimpse into the eclectic, modern general-store vibe on the interior. During renovations, removal of drywall in the high-ceilinged space exposed the original yellow brick walls. The vintage dark wood-planked floors were buffed and waxed, and much of the old wood trim and fittings found new applications in the front counter, the restrooms and the wine bar. Spiral ductwork and galvanized metal on chairs, tables, shelves and lamps completed the retro look, creating a casual, inviting atmosphere for wining, dining or shopping for artisan food products (or maybe even a new accessory for your home).

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M.O. Hair and Beauty salon uses a variety of methods to keep their salon environmentally friendly as a partner in the Green Circle Salons program.

A Hair Ahead

Traverse City’s M.O. Hair and Beauty Lounge ends up with one bag of trash per week. So what happens to the dozens of pounds of hair, foil, and other waste the salon’s work generates?

Some of it is helping clean up oil spills.

By Kristi Kates According to Green Circle Salons, a recycling and sustainability program for the beauty industry, North American hair salons reportedly toss out 63,180 pounds of hair clippings, 42,122 pounds of hair color, 109,512 pounds of foil and hair-color tubes and 206,392 pounds of wastepaper, salon bottles and other paper and plastic items in just one day, totaling 421,206 pounds of waste in our landfills.

To some people, these are just numbers. To Whittney Perrault and Niki Novak, longtime friends and co-owners of M.O. Hair and Beauty Lounge in Traverse City, these figures were a wake-up call.

“I’ve been in the industry for 12 years, and it honestly never occurred to me how much waste we create,” Perrault said.

Before opening M.O. Hair and Beauty Lounge, Perrault and Novak co-managed Style North, also in Traverse City. “During that time, we’d opened another business together, Memorable Occasions, to do on-site beauty services — we do hair and makeup on location for weddings, photo shoots, and performances.

We found that we both really share a passion for styling and a passion for sharing the trade,” Perrault said.

They spent some time trying to balance both jobs; both were working full time, Monday

through Friday, as stylists at Style North, and then charging directly into Memorable Occasions events on the weekends.

“We started with just the two of us at Memorable Occasions, then we had six stylists, then 10,” said Perrault. “We realized we were growing, and we were going to need a bigger space. We started looking, but we just couldn’t find the right space, so we both prayed about it. Then, the owner of Style North approached us and said, ‘Can you make this space work for your vision?’”

The friends purchased the business and the building this past March, closing for a month to remodel and hire new staff, and then reopening as M.O. Hair and Beauty Lounge in May. “I wanted to keep working with Whittney because I’d never met anyone who works as hard as I do,” Novak said. “And M.O. is so important to us, because we built it together.”

Also important to both women is, as Perrault put it, “living holistically,” an approach they decided to bring into their salon after attending a training session for Kevin Murphy’s hair products, which featured videos about an environmental movement in the styling world.

“I’d been living as much of a holistic life at home as I could,” Perrault said. “But when you sit and put 150 foils in someone’s hair, you don’t think of all the foils and the leftover dye

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that gets put into a landfill. When we were at that training session, we sat there in awe watching the videos about Green Circle Salons.

We wanted to reduce our ecological footprint.”

Green Circle Salons provides salons and stylists with a method and map to enviro-friendly solutions that include recycling and repurposing.

The network of Green Circle participating salons claims to divert 70 to 90 percent of what was previously sent to landfill; the organization’s goal is to make their partner salons and spas 100 percent sustainable by the year 2020.

M.O. either recycles or composts all of the salon’s waste — everything from paper, plastic, and metal right down to the hair dyes, foils, and the leftover hair itself. The latter is the most intriguing part of the program. Hair clippings from M.O. haircuts and trims are sent to the Green Circle Salons program to be stuffed into what look like long stockings, or “booms” — temporary floating barriers used to contain oil spills. “They used to use cotton strips to make booms, but those could only be used once,” Novak said. “The tubes of hair clippings can be washed and reused.”

“We also have our customers take ownership of the program along with us,” Novak said. “They’re charged a $1.50 service fee per guest, per salon visit — an ‘eco charge tax’ — that helps power the recycling company and the program. And we encourage our guests to be part of the program at home.”

“First they ask questions about it, then they get excited about it, then we can see them becoming part of it, doing a lot of the same procedures for recycling at their own homes,” Perrault said. We have signs around the salon explaining everything as well, and it’s fun to see people come in and get educated on all of this — asking questions like ‘Can I throw my chewing gum into the compost?’” (Answer: No, gum doesn’t break down like most foods and organic matter will.)

“One of the biggest things is that we were throwing out six bags of garbage per day, on average,” Novak said. “Now we throw out one

A much smaller example of how a “boom” — or stockinglike tube filled with hair trimmings — can contain an oil spill (the oil can be seen on the left side of the bin.)

bag per week.”

Other salons in the area do offer environmentally thoughtful products; but M.O. Hair and Beauty Lounge is the only salon north of Grand Rapids taking part in the Green Circle Salons program. While Perrault and Novak are proud to be a leader Up North, they’re hoping to inspire other like-minded local salons to take bigger steps to benefit the environment.

“We had no idea that there was a company that provided these services — to help the environment in this way — so we hope that this article brings awareness to the fact that other salons in northern Michigan can do this too,” Perrault said. “I can’t wait to see other salons hop on board.”

“And the thing is, our daily routine isn’t suddenly difficult because of Green Circle,” Novak added. “The program is friendly and easy to use. I just like that we’re not sending out all of that waste — we both feel a real connection to the style industry, but now it feels even more like we’re working with a purpose.”

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Muse

By Al Parker Being “Busted” is a good thing at the Michigan Artists Gallery.

That’s the title of one of the most popular exhibits ever offered at the popular Traverse City art gallery, according to owner Sue Ann Round.

An impressive grouping of seven busts created by sculptor Leanne Schnepp, “Busted” is a spin-off from the gallery’s May show “Channeling Picasso” in which more than 40 artists created their interpretation of Picasso’s 1939 painting “Woman with Green Hat.”

Schnepp’s Picasso homage bust was a huge hit, so Round invited her to follow up with a series of 21-inch stoneware clay busts inspired by the works of other artists: Van Gogh, Grant Wood, Picasso, Gauguin, Modigliani, and Klimt.

The show focuses on the women who posed for the famous artists, many who were creative talented artists in their own right but often went unacknowledged, according to Round. “Unfortunately women were allowed to model but not allowed to be the artist,” she said. “You could be in the painting, but not paint.”

For example, there’s Jeanne Hebuterne,

The women who inspired the artists who inspired Leanne Schnepp Modigliani’s common-law wife, who studied at the Academie Colarossi to pursue a career in the arts. Very little is known about her, but her bust is one of Schnepp’s favorites. “I love her,” she said.

“She is straight forward, just staring you down.”

Another favorite is Nan Wood Graham, who modeled for her brother Grant Wood’s iconic “American Gothic.”

“That one reminds me of my grandmother, who was a farmer,” said Schnepp, who lives in East Lansing, but spends a lot of time in northern Michigan at her family’s cabin in Central Lake. “I

changed her expression to include my grandmother’s wry smile.”

Perhaps the most difficult piece for Schnepp to capture was Dora Marr, a photographer and painter who was Picasso’s most famous muse.

“Oh my goodness, that cubist piece was difficult,” said Schnepp with a laugh. “I was taking a two-dimensional object and turning it into a three-dimensional object.

And at the same time I was challenged to make sure it still looks like the person with her personality. It was really tricky.”

The exhibit continues through the fall at 317A East Front Street in Traverse City.

“American Gothic” by Grant Wood Grant Wood painted “American Gothic” to symbolize the steadfast farmers of Iowa.

Schnepp said the painting had always reminded her of her grandparents and their farm in upper Michigan. “I changed the expression on the face of the woman from worry to begrudging humor to better capture my grandmother and her sense of humor. She is one of the strongest women I have ever known.”

Agostina Segatori (Italian Woman) as seen by Vincent van Gogh The proprietress of the Café Tambourin in Paris, Agostina Segatori encouraged and hosted Vincent Van Gogh’s first exhibition of his paintings in her cafe. The two had a brief relationship that resulted in several paintings of her — many of which Agostina Segatori kept in her café after they parted. She also served as a model for Edouard Joseph Danton, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Jean-Léon Gérome, Eugéne Delacroix, Vincent van Gogh, and Edouard Manet.

Dora Maar as seen by Pablo Picasso Henrietta Theodora Markovitch — aka Dora Maar — was a photographer and painter with strong ties to the Surrealist circle. She photographed many of the Surrealist artists and exhibited with them throughout the 1930s and 40s. She also was Pablo Picasso’s most famous muse.

Tehamana as seen by Paul Gauguin After Gauguin left his wife and five children in Paris, Tehamana served as one of several companions/native wives (some claim sex slave) Gauguin took on during his stay in Tahiti.

Schnepp chose to recreate Tehamana in three-dimensions not because of Gauguin’s painting but because of Tehamana herself. “She was a beautiful 14-year-old young lady with her own identity, although it is difficult to find any information about her. In the painting she sits tall, wearing her Christian missionary gown, but looks away.” Schnepp decided to create her with her eyes leveled straight at her viewer.

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Jeanne Hébuterne as seen by Amedeo Modigliani With a talent for drawing, Hébuterne chose to study at the Parisian art school Académie Colarossi. Soon after, she met Amedeo Modigliani and became his common-law wife. Very little can be found about Hébuterne, her loves, passions, or friendships, but it is said she was utterly destroyed when Modigliani died of tuberculosis. “Although we know little about her, you can see this passion in her stare. It draws you in. She seems to dare us to get closer, and she is not looking away,” said Schnepp.

Adele Bloch-Bauer as seen by Gustav Klimt Adele Bloch-Bauer and her husband, Ferdinand, were close to the artists of the Vienna Secession movement, which Klimt helped establish in 1897. Adele would often hold court for musicians, artists, and writers in the salon of her huge house near the Vienna State Opera house. The world came to know Adele as Klimt had painted her in 1907, in the painting “Woman in Gold,” and she became the epitome of Vienna’s Golden Age.

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Actress Theda Bara replicated the Egyptian makeup look in the 1917 movie Cleopatra.

Nefertiti was just one ancient Egyptian who helped establish a beauty legacy.

Ancient Beauty The Origins of Gorgeous

By Kristi Kates Nefertiti. Hatshepsut. Sobekneferu.

Cleopatra. While you might think of these women as ancient Egyptians — and you’d be correct — they were also style icons of their time.

But it wasn’t just about the ladies; men in ancient Egypt wore makeup, too. The culture as a whole maximized the use of facial embellishments — aka makeup — and left behind an intriguing legacy of beauty ideals, some of which stick with us today. In honor of our Too Beautiful issue (and, OK, an upcoming autumn holiday where you can make yourself up to be anyone you please) the Northern Express delves into one of the world’s earliest beauty routines.

CLEAN START The best makeup application, as modern beauties know, starts with a clean face, and the ancient Egyptians followed that same plan.

Each morning all Egyptians washed their face, hands, and feet (many Egyptians walked barefoot), repeating that ritual at night and often before and after meals as well. Their soap was called swabu, a paste made of scented clay or ash, rinsed from water poured in wooden or clay basins; most ancient Egyptians didn’t have full-sized tubs as we know them today.

And some Egyptians were just fine using the nearby river as a bathtub.

Even their teeth were properly cared for; one Egyptian toothpaste recipe included rock salt, pepper, mint, and dried flowers.

It was applied with a frayed stick, and fresh breath was assured throughout the day with “breath mints” — a mix of pine seeds, melon, cinnamon, cashews, and honey that was heated over a fire, cooled, and broken into small candies.

After washing up, creams were worked

into the skin with brushes. The creams were made from a wide variety of ingredients that were thought to prevent wrinkling and keep the skin smooth, including papyrus oil, ground-up flowers, honey, and animal fats; certain plants were also thought to function as insect repellent.

MAKING SCENTS Flowers were also important components in another daily ritual highly valued by ancient Egyptians — the application of scents and perfumes.

Flowers like roses, lilies, and iris were most often used in combination with woods like sandalwood, plus a myriad of additional ingredients utilized to negate sweat odor and surround the Egyptians with fragrance.

The most popular perfume was called kyphi, an extremely strong, sweet, overwhelming scent that blended pine resin, mastic, cinnamon, cardamom, saffron, juniper, mint, frankincense, myrrh, and sometimes other spices. But not all Egyptians could afford this complex concoction; many of the ingredients were rare in Egypt and were imported from Pwenet, or “Punt,” another ancient kingdom that often traded with the Egyptians.

Smelling good was said to put the Egyptians in better favor with the gods; those who smelled bad were the equivalent of the unpopular kids in class.

HAIR-RAISING Next up was the hair — but not as you might expect. The hairstyling of Ancient Egyptians is an intriguing subject with many layers of preparation; one exhibit in Grand Rapids offers a closer look.

“For thousands of years, ancient Egyptian culture has inspired great fascination,” said Andrea Melvin, curator at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. “Central to our current exhibition, Egypt: Be Curious, is the

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mummy of a young woman named NakhteBastet-Iru, dating back as far as 946 B.C.E.” Nakhte-Bastet-Iru’s coffin shows a painted image of her on its exterior. A recreated clay model nearby shows how she might have looked and is indicative of the style at the time: thickly-outlined eyebrows and lush, braided hair, which might have been a wig.

While some Egyptians tinted their natural hair with henna, most — both male and female — shaved their heads to avoid lice.

When they wanted the look of hair, they wore elaborate woven wigs made of both human and horse hair. (Wigs were also thought to be more comfortable in the dry climate.)

Ancient Egyptians had different styles of wigs for different occasions: elaborate ones for celebrations or festivals, and plainer ones for the usual daily family gatherings.

The wealthy had the best wigs, which could also include embellishments like gemstones; the “common folk” might weave a wig from papyrus plants, or just wear a fabric head-wrap instead.

THE EYES HAVE IT To start their makeup routine, royalty or upper-class Egyptians would often first pale their skin with powders, as lighter skin meant they were spending leisurely time indoors as opposed to their lower-class counterparts, whose skin was darkened by working in the fields.

Dried red ochre (derived from clay) was applied to Egyptian cheeks and lips to add color, and henna was used to dye nails, but it was the cosmetics applied to Egyptian eyes that gave them perhaps their most distinctive facial feature, and the one that today best represents the “Egyptian look.”

A term you might be familiar with is kohl, the thick black eyeliner that Egyptians used to draw an almond shape around their eyes. In ancient times, kohl was made

by grinding galena — a blue-black metalliclooking mineral consisting of lead sulfide — and green malachite into a powder and mixing them with nut oil to make a thick cream.

Kohl was another cosmetic that was expensive and usually only available to the rich; the peasants made their own version, but researchers have yet to determine what they used. Either way, the black around the eyes helped reduce the damaging effects of sun glare — and the ancient Egyptians believed that the power of their cosmetics was magical and would help protect them and ward off illness.

Today’s kohl isn’t really kohl; real kohl has never been FDA-approved for cosmetics, because it contains lead, so when you buy a kohl eyeliner, the name is only referring to the color.

SINGULAR BEAUTY All of these practices and rituals were particularly interesting as the ancient Egyptian culture is thought to be one of the first to place such a high focus on visual appearance. But their cosmetics, wigs, salves, and scents go even deeper than that.

“The ancient Egyptian’s view of life after death was similar in many ways to life before death,” said Melvin. “Death was the point of entry into renewed life, where the deceased continued to live forever in his or her tomb.”

Central to this was the process of mummification. “This was done in order to keep the body as intact and recognizable for the ba and ka, a life force that resided in the body,” Melvin said. These ancient Egyptian burial traditions were a central part of their culture and lasted for well over 3,000 years.

Along with other highly-valued objects, cosmetics and cosmetic cases have been found in tombs.

“This indicates just how important cosmetics were to Egyptian culture and religion,” Melvin said.

Egyptian god Osiris is part of the inspiration for this year’s storytelling theme at the Dark Sky Park’s Headlands Challenge.

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An Egyptian Adventure in Harbor Springs Every October, the Headlands International Dark Sky Park, just north of Harbor Springs, hosts the Headlands Challenge, a one-mile walk by candlelight through the dark woods.

The destination: The park’s event center, where program director and star lore historian, Mary Stewart Adams, leads seasonal storytelling under autumnal skies.

The 2017 Headlands Challenge runs from 8pm to 10pm on Saturday, Oct. 21, to coincide with the Orionid Meteor shower, a celestial event that also inspired this year’s storytelling component.

“Orion is the mighty hunter to the Greeks, and winter maker to the Native Americans — but for the ancient Egyptians he was related to Osiris, Egyptian god of the dead,” Adams said. “So we’ll have storytelling of the season and the stars, featuring spooky tales on topics like mummies and the curses of the kings.”

With the meteor shower visible overhead (provided the sky isn’t cloudy), and telescopes available for public viewing, guests are encouraged to add to the ambiance by arriving in Egyptian costume.

Before and after the Headlands Challenge, take advantage of the two other to-dos making up the area’s Triple Fright Night festivities: Go trick-or-treating at Mackinaw City’s Heritage Village (6–8pm), and visit the McGulpin Lighthouse (also at the Headlands; open 9am–11pm), which will be specially “haunted” for the evening.

Road-trip Like an Egyptian

Visit a little slice of ancient Egypt at one of these downstate destinations: Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) African Arts Collection 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, (313) 833-7900 Located conveniently in midtown Detroit, the DIA’s Egyptian Collection includes detailed manuscripts, striking jewelry, a wide variety of familiar objects from daily life, mummies, and well-preserved tomb wall fragments, all covering 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian civilization.

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan 434 S. State St., Ann Arbor, (734) 764-9304 In addition to their other permanent exhibitions, the Kelsey also displays Egyptian statuary, jewelry, and a brightly-painted coffin. It also hosts temporary exhibits that often feature Egyptian art, such as the recent Death Dogs, which explored the history of Egyptian jackal gods like Anubis.

“Egypt: Be Curious” at the Grand Rapids Public Museum 272 Pearl St. NW, Grand Rapids, (616) 929-1700 The Grand Rapids Egyptian exhibition highlights the importance of Egyptian artistic objects, which include statuettes, masks, and jewelry, as well as the exhibit’s main attraction, the mummy Nakhte-Bastet-Iru, alongside a clay reconstruction of how she might have looked centuries ago.

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

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FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Frankfort & Elberta, Oct. 9-14. Featuring a “Cloudvitational,” a Chef Invitational Beer Dinner, State of Michigan Hops & Grains Presentation, Paints & Pints, Beer & Food Pairing Workshops, & much more. frankfortbeerweek.com

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Oct. 19 Juilliard String Quartet

TRITOFINISH: 8am, Otsego County Park, Gaylord. Half marathon, 10K, 5K & 1 mile. tritofinish.com

-------------------VOLUNTEER TREE PLANTING: 8:45am, Richardi Park, Bellaire. Help plant 50 trees to enhance tree canopy in Bellaire. Experts will be on hand to teach you how to properly plant a tree, & then the group will split up to do the plantings. releafmichigan.blogspot.com/p/treeplantings.html

Nov. 3-4 A Streetcar Named Desire Arts Academy Theare Co.

-------------------5K FARM DAY: 9am, PEACE Ranch, TC. This family-friendly fall fundraiser will start with a 3.1 mile run/walk or wagon ride through the Pere Marquette forest that surrounds Hoosier Valley. Featuring a pumpkin patch, wagon rides, ranch tours, lunch, & horse demonstrations from 10am-2pm. Benefits the needs of the PEACE Ranch horses. Race registration, $20. peaceranchtc.com/events/5kfarmday

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

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

-------------------CADILLAC HORIZON BOOKS’ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Oct. 10-14. 10am9pm, Horizon Books, Cadillac. Today is Celebration Day with author signings & presentations all day. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

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

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

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

-------------------INTERLOCHEN PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENTS: 10am-12pm: Make a Gift Series: Napkin Folding & Hors d’oeurvres. Sign up: 231-276-6767.

2-4pm: Game Day. Free. tadl.org/interlochen

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

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

Learn about dyslexia.

-------------------ONEKAMA FREE FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL: 10am-4pm, Onekama Village Park. Featuring an arts & crafts show, pet parade/costume

Join Midwest funnyman Geoff Tate at Sips ‘n Giggles: An Evening of Wine and Comedy on Sat., Oct. 21 in Leelanau Studios at GT Regional Arts Campus, TC. Start with a pre-show pour from 6 to 8pm, featuring local wine from Shady Lane Cellars, Chateau Fontaine, Chateau de Leelanau Tractor Pull Hard Ciders, brews from Right Brain Brewery and snacks.

The comedy show starts at 8pm. Special guest comedians Jeff Horste and Joshua Paul join Tate. $20. lpwines.com/

contest, hay rides, bull train, & much more. onekama.info

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

Agencies represented: Poverty Reduction Initiative, Help Link, Goodwill, Department of Human Services, Disability Network, Love Inc, Father Fred, & more.

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

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

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

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

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

HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 122pm: Author Signing & Legacy Workshop with Carol Paukstis, author of “The Sun is Awake.” 2-4pm: David Q. Hall will sign his book “Death Comes to the Rector.” 4-6pm: Brooke Shaffer will sign her book “Time to Kill.” horizonbooks.com

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

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

-------------------FAMILY PUMPKIN CARVING: 2pm, Elk Rapids District Library. elkrapidslibrary.com

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

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ROCK N JAM COMMUNITY PLAY-ALONG: 4:30-8pm, The Rock, Kingsley. Bring an instrument or listen in. therockofkingsley.com

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

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

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

-------------------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.

-------------------MEMORIAL 5K “GLOW RUN”: 7:15pm, 410 Bridge St., Elk Rapids. Benefits Hospice of Michigan. Festivities begin at 6pm with check-in & “Best in Glow” awards. There will also be an after-glow party. $35 adults, $20 12 & under. hom.convio.net/site/TR?fr_ id=1160&pg=entry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

mile bike ride, two mile paddle & six mile run. tri-upnorth.com

-------------------CHARLEVOIX APPLE FESTIVAL: (See Sat., Oct. 14)

-------------------TC COOKIE RIDE: 11:45am, Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC. For all kids & their families.

Featuring 1, 3, 6, 7, & 15 mile routes. Presented by Norte. elgruponorte.org/cookie

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

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

-------------------HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER: 2pm, Torch Lake Café, Eastport. BBQ on the porch, burgers & hotdogs, door prizes, live music & entertainment. Free will offering. Runs from 2pm until sundown. Proceeds benefit The Salvation Army Hurricane Disaster Relief efforts.

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-------------------ENCORE WINDS PRESENTS “THE SPIRIT OF THE LAND”: 3pm, First Congregational Church, TC. Experience melody, harmony & rhythm with Encore directed by Dr. Tim Topolewski, featuring Anne Bara, clarinet.

Adults $15; seniors & students $10; 12 & under free. encorewinds.org

-------------------HISTORY OF FOOD EVENT: 3-5pm, Raven Hill, Evolving Technology Building, East Jordan. Includes fare from a variety of time periods featured in the ET exhibit, including bread & water in the Depression, tea cakes in the American Victorian & foods from ancient Greece, Rome & Egypt. Catered by A Matter of Taste of Ellsworth & proceeds will help support Raven Hill programs for the 2017-18 school year. 231-536-3369. $28. mynorth.com

-------------------MARK MANDEVILLE & RAIANNE RICHARDS: 4pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. This folk duo has shared the stage with Garnet Rogers, Melanie Safka, Eric Brace & Peter Cooper, John Gorka, & many others. 9479213. $20 advance; $25 door.

-------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK 6: 7-10pm, 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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BOYNE APPÉTIT! RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 16-22.

Participating restaurants, cafés & eateries in Boyne City, Advance, Horton Bay & Walloon Lake offer two for one pricing or multi-course meals - all under $35. boyneappetit.com

-------------------TC CIDER WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 14) -------------------MANISTEE CIVIC PLAYERS AUDITIONS: 6:30pm, Manistee High School. For “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” & Community Singa-long. manisteecivicplayers.org

-------------------PAJAMA JAM KIDS MUSIC CLASS: 6:307:15pm, The Dish Cafe, TC. Children’s music class with Miss Christy from Music Together. Free. thedishcafetc.com

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oct 17

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PUMPKIN FESTIVAL & MOONLIGHT MADNESS: 5-8pm, East Jordan. Costume contest, music, food & vendor booths, special sales in participating businesses, early trickor-treating, balloon artist Twister Joe, EMS, fire truck & police car display, plus much more. ejchamber.org

-------------------THE CONSTANT READER BOOK GROUP: 5:30pm, Leland Township Library. A book group for people who love to read, but don’t have time or the inclination to read a book club pick each month & want to discover new authors & genres, & get recommendations from other Constant Readers. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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INAUGURAL PLANT-BASED LIFESTYLE TC EVENT: 6:30-8pm, Timber Ridge Conference Center, TC. Plant-based Lifestyle 101: “Autumn” tasting theme. Featured speaker & founder of PBNSG, Paul Chatlin, will share his journey from cardiac disease to health.

Register. Free. eventbrite.com

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LECTURE SERIES: 7pm, NCMC, gymnasium in Student & Community Resource Center, Petoskey. Featuring Grammy-Award winning producer/engineer/director Mark Johnson.

His topic will be “Playing for Change.” Tickets required. Email: willcall@ncmich.edu Free.

WRITERS GROUP: 1pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. The group will review a member’s writing sample. Sponsored

by Alden District Library/Friends of the Library.

231-331-4318.

HEALTHY LIVING FOR YOUR BRAIN: 3:30pm, TC Senior Center. Learn about a healthy brain by attending this presentation given by Maggie Hardy, regional director for the Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Michigan Chapter. Must register in advance. 922-4911. Free.

IMPACT 100 AT BLACK STAR FARMS: 5pm, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. A short presentation will start at 5:30pm. Find membership forms online or learn more at www.impactTC.org Free.

-------------------PRESENTATION: PROTECT YOUR TREES FROM OAK WILT: 6-8pm, Petoskey City Hall, 2nd floor. Presentation topics will cover the disease, how it affects oak trees, & how it is transmitted via sap beetles to fresh wounds & through root grafts. Free. releafmichigan. blogspot.com/p/events.html CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6:30-8:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new, come at 6pm for an introduction to CCL. 231-4996747. citizensclimatelobby.org

-------------------MANISTEE CIVIC PLAYERS AUDITIONS: (See Mon., Oct. 16)

-------------------NW MICHIGAN NT SUPPORT SPOUSES GROUP: 6:30pm, TC. This group focuses on self-care, understanding the often frustrating & isolating life of loving an adult with Asperger’s & developing an appreciation for their partner.

Meetings are open to neurotypical members who have joined the organization’s private Meetup group at www.meetup.com/NW-Michigan-NT-Support/, & the exact location of the meeting will be given at that time.

-------------------GTHC PRESENTS: HUT TO HUT HIKES IN EUROPE: 7pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Join Sara Cockrell as she shares her adventures from this summer on 3 UTracks hut-to-hut treks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy & France. Free. facebook. com/GTHikers

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BUILD A SCARECROW: 10:30am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Make a real scarecrow to take home.

Bring an old shirt & a pair of pants. Reserve your spot: 932-4526. $2 materials fee. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------BOYNE APPÉTIT! RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 16)

-------------------TC CIDER WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 14) -------------------ENHANCED BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Castle Farms, Charlevoix. Featuring wine & food pairings. Meet & greet the new businesses of Charlevoix. $5 members; $10 not yet members.

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OCTOBER GEEK BREAKFAST: 8am, Bubba’s, TC. A casual monthly communitydriven networking event for tech-minded people to discuss topics like social media, programming, digital marketing, design, & more over bacon, eggs & coffee. Free + cost of breakfast. Find on Facebook.

-------------------BOYNE APPÉTIT! RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 16)

-------------------9TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL: The Garden Theater, Frankfort, Oct. 1922. Featuring 19 International Award-Winning Films. frankfortgardentheater.com

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OCT. MEETING OF THE GT GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: 1pm, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, TC. Katherine Willson will speak on “Little Known & Rarely Used Google Resources & Search Tips.” 231-275-6671 or olsen@lakenpineslodge.com Free. gtags.org

-------------------TC CIDER WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 14) -------------------MAKER AFTERNOONS: 3:30pm, Leland Township Library. Each Thursday afternoon from 3:30-4:30pm, kids ages 9+ are invited to explore a different S.T.E.A.M.-based activity. A healthy snack will be provided. Free. lelandlibrary.org

-------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS, ELK RAPIDS: 5-7pm, Elk Rapids District Library. Free. elkrapidschamber.org

-------------------OCTOBER SWIRL - PETOSKEY: 5:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Galleries, Petoskey.

Enjoy live music by Oh Brother Big Sister & sample wines & appetizers by Petoskey Cheese while checking out the latest exhibits.

Swirl & A Show will be offered for $25. This includes admission to Little Traverse Civic Theater’s production of “The Lady’s Not for Burning.” The show will follow Swirl at 8pm. $15 advance; $20 day of. crookedtree.org

-------------------INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FORUM LECTURE: 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. “Meeting America’s Global Education Challenge: Why Our Kids Need Passports and Should Use Them!” Free admission for current students & educators. $10 others. 995-1700.

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“UNDERSTANDING THE SURGICAL OPTIONS & OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH BREAST CANCER”: 6-7:30pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center’s Basement Conference Room, TC. Presented by the Young Survival Coalition Support Group. Speakers are plastic surgeons Christopher LaFond, M.D., & Christopher C. Jefferies, M.D. Young survivors with breast cancer will share their personal journeys with surgery.

Free. munsonhealthcare.org

-------------------OVERDOSE PREVENTION & RESPONSE CLINIC: 7pm, The Foothills Motel & Cafe, Maple City. Presented by Harm Reduction MI. Naloxone, the immediate antidote/life-saver, will be demonstrated & donated to attendees.

Registration: www.harmreductionmi.org or harmreductionmi@gmail.com Free.

-------------------DEEKSHA BLESSING & MEDITATION: 7:309pm, Higher Self Bookstore, TC. With Jane Hale. By donation. higherselfbookstore.com

-------------------JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Widely known as “the quintessential American string quartet.” $32. tickets.interlochen.org

oct 20

friday

ANNUAL FRESHWATER SUMMIT: 9am-3pm, Hagerty Center, TC. Presentations include meteotsunami’s in the Great Lakes, the Boardman River FishPass project, swimmer’s itch, & lightening sessions. $35; $15 students. Includes lunch. gtbay.org/our-programs/ freshwater-summit

-------------------DRAW NOMI: Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Writing & Drawing with Author-Illustrator Brianne Farley, who will show students her latest picture book & talk about finding inspiration, making mistakes, & how someone makes a book. Held at 9:30am & 11:30am. Reserve your seat: 995-1029. $6/seat. dennosmuseum.org

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11TH ANNUAL FALL FINALE ART & WINE WALK: 5-8pm, Downtown Suttons Bay. View work from local artisans & sample local fare & refreshments from area wineries & breweries. suttonsbayarea.com

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-------------------MEMBER NIGHT BOO BASH: 5:30pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Members only Halloween Party. Come in costume & create some creepy crafts, play some ghostly games & enjoy snacks & cider. greatlakeskids.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.

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SWINGSHIFT & THE STARS: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Dance-off for charity. This month’s charities are: Addiction Treatment Services, Charlevoix Humane Society, Community Campaign for Easling Pool, Inland Seas, Interlochen Public Library, & Old Town Playhouse.

Cumulative audience votes combined with the judges’ scores will determine the season dance team winner. $35, $30. highimpactnow.com/ swingshift-the-stars

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

“ON GOLDEN POND”: 7:30pm, Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, Burdickville.

Presented by the Glen Arbor Art Association Readers’ Theater. For reservations email: gaaareaderstheater@gmail.com. Info: 231334-6112. Free. glenarborart.org

BOYNE APPÉTIT! RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 16)

AN ADULT EVENING OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN AT THE DEPOT: (See Sat., Oct. 14)

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COMFORT FOOD COLOR CRUISE: Presented by Comfort Keepers. Visit all of the Senior Center Network’s locations. There will be a 3:30pm pickup in Kingsley, 115 E. Blair St.; & Interlochen, 9700 Riley Rd., to bring participants to the TC Senior Center for the kick off program at 4pm. Featuring a progressive style dinner: appetizers & drinks in TC; rolls & salad in Acme; entrée in Kingsley; & dessert in Interlochen. Free. Advanced registration required. 922-4911. grandtraverse.org/712/ Senior-Centers

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 2027. Restaurants in Petoskey & Harbor Springs offering three-course menus for $25 for dinner & $15 for lunch with some establishments offering two for one pricing. petoskeyrestaurantweek.com

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9TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL: (See Thurs., Oct. 19)

-------------------LIFE LUNCHEON: GARBAGE BAG SUITCASE: 12pm, NMC, University Center Rm. 215/217, TC. A Foster Care Survivor’s Guide.

Featuring author Shenandoah Chefalo. Bring a sack lunch; beverages & dessert provided. $10. nmc.edu/life-academy

-------------------ARTY PARTY: 1-7pm, Old Art Building, Leland. 16 area artists will present original works at this Invitational Show. Also runs on Sat., Oct. 21 from 10am-6pm. 231-955-5430. Free.

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CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE BIENNIAL CELEBRATION 2017: 3-6pm, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. Celebrate nearly 50 years of stewardship. Share stories from the fields & streams of northern MI. Todd Ambs, campaign director, Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition will speak on the future of Great Lakes Restoration. $20/person. rivercare.org/events/335

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

-------------------PHIL OLSON’S “MOM’S GIFT”: 7:30pm, Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall. The Elk Rapids Players present this comedy with a heart, featuring a ghost on a mission. $15. mynorthtickets.com

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VOLUNTEER TREE PLANTING: 8:45am, Chalker Park, Kalkaska. Help plant 50 trees to restore the canopy in Kalkaska. Experts will be on hand to teach volunteers how to properly plant a tree & then the group will split up to plant the remaining trees. releafmichigan.blogspot.com

-------------------ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: 9am-3pm, Trinity Lutheran, TC. Featuring a variety of vendors, plus a bake sale, silent auction & lunch cafe. tctrinity.org/craftfair

-------------------ARTY PARTY: 10am-6pm, Old Art Building, Leland. 16 area artists will present original works at this Invitational Show. Free.

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-------------------MULTIPLE AUTHORS SIGNINGS: 10am6pm, Horizon Books, TC. horizonbooks.com STAR WARS READS: 10am-12pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Celebrate Star Wars Read Day with DIY crafts & activities. Free. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

-------------------TC IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS SUPPORT GROUP MEETING: 10am, MCHC, Community Room, TC. Presented by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. RSVP: ldtalb@ gmail.com/608-234-0554.

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TC CIDER WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 14)

-------------------BATTLE OF THE BOOKS INFO SESSION: 4pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Learn about this free reading program. It is a book-based quiz competition for fourth & fifth graders living in the Grand Traverse County area. Every student—home-schooled, private or public—is eligible. battleofthebooksgt.com

DINNER & AN EVENING WITH LEVI BRITTON: 6pm, Yiaya’s, 328 E. Front St., TC. Enjoy a 3 course dinner & an evening with featured performer Levi Britton. Call TC Guitar Co. @ 943-1211 or Yiaya’s @ 231-421-5782 for reservations & tickets. Sponsored by TC Guitar Co. $40.

-------------------FRIGHT NIGHT: 6-8pm, Heritage Village, Mackinaw City. Costumed docents greet trick-or-treaters who will walk the ‘frightfully’ decorated grounds from building to building in this historic park. mackinawhistory.org/triplefright-night.html

BOO-TI-FUL ART DRAW NOMI: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Help paint a spooky mural on the museum’s front windows.

Make ink blot paintings & use your own creativity to turn them into ghosts, ghouls & monsters. greatlakeskids.org

GRAND TRAVERSE AUDUBON ANNUAL DINNER: 6pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. BBQ dinner followed by Tom Ford, a local artist & naturalist, talking about making your yard bird friendly. Register. grandtraverseaudubon.org

-------------------BOYNE APPÉTIT! RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 16)

-------------------DRAW NOMI: LEAF & SPICE PLAQUE: 11am-1pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Featuring artist Marionette Kubicz. Create a leaf plaque using spices to animate your leaf design. Bring a favorite leaf for your outline or use one of the library’s. Free.

-------------------FALL FAMILY DAY: 11am-4pm, Rove Estate Vineyard & Tasting Room, TC. Children can make their own apple cider while adults wine taste. Also enjoy pumpkin donuts, outdoor games, wagon rides, a short hike & more. $20 adults, $10 children. Reserve your spot. roveestate.com

-------------------JOB WINSLOW CHAPTER, NSDAR MEETING: 11am, Elks Lodge, TC. Featuring “DAR Dazzling Daughters.” Come in costume as your favorite dazzling daughter. Reservations required. 946-6337. jobwinslow.michdar.net

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Fri., Oct. 20)

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WOMEN’S HISTORY PROJECT OF NW MI ANNUAL MEETING: 11:30am, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Linda Woods, member of the GT Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians, will speak about the “Blessings & Challenges of Becoming a Native American Elder” at this meeting.

Lunch catered by Centre Street Cafe. $15 for WHPNM members; $20 others. Reservations required by Oct. 18. Contact sansep19@earthlink.net or 703-597-7925. whpnm.org

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SIPS ‘N GIGGLES COMEDY SHOW: 6pm, Leelanau Studios at GT Regional Arts Campus, TC. Start with a pre-show pour from 6-8pm, featuring local wine from Shady Lane Cellars, Chateau Fontaine, Chateau de Leelanau Tractor Pull Hard Ciders, brews from Right Brain Brewery & snacks. The comedy show starts at 8pm. Featuring Geoff Tate wsg comedians Jeff Horste & Joshua Paul. $20. lpwines. com/events/sips-n-giggles-comedy-show

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SHOW ER: 1-4pm, Up North Center. Celebrate the creations from Draw ER at an informal reception & show of the artwork. The show will be up for one week. artrapids.org

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BIRTHDAY STAR PARTY: 8-10pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Observe the night sky, Mars, star clusters, nebulae, & distant galaxies from the Dune Climb. Park in the row furthest from the dunes with your headlights facing M-109. Free. nps.gov/slbe/ index.htm

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DMC CONCERT W/ PAUL BROWN: 8pm, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Paul has had a four decade journey through the worlds of pop, R&B & jazz. $24 members, $27 advance, $30 door. 995-1055. nmc.edu

-------------------GHOST WALK TC: 8pm. Enjoy a stroll through the city, in the dark, with Wood Smoke telling you ghost stories. Meet in front of Bijou

By The Bay. $10. Find on Facebook.

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-------------------JIM HARRISON - A REALLY BIG TRIBUTE: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Jim Harrison, Northern Michigan’s poet, novelist, journalist & passionate gourmand, reminds us that “Death steals everything except our stories.” Writers, friends & fellow travelers gather to honor Jim’s spirit in a celebration of art, life & stories. $25, $35. cityoperahouse.org/jim-harrison

-------------------NIGHTMARE AT CHALLENGE MOUNTAIN: (See Fri., Oct. 20)

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ORCHARD TOURS & CIDER TASTING: 1-4pm, Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center, TC. Featuring orchard tour rides, info on cider fruit, cider apple tastings, & a cider tasting. $30. mynorthtickets.com

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TRACY BYRD: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy this country star & multi-platinum recording artist. Tickets start at $30. lrcr.com

HEYWOOD BANKS: 7pm, Streeters, Ground Zero, TC. Enjoy this songwriter-comic-singerpoet-musician. $22. groundzeroonline.com/ event/heywood-banks

SCREAMS IN THE DARK 6: (See Fri., Oct. 20)

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9TH ANNUAL HEADLANDS CHALLENGE - WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN: 8-10pm, Headlands International Dark Sky Park, Mackinaw City. The Headlands International Dark Sky Park dares visitors to take a one-mile walk through the woods along a candlelit path to the shoreline, where mischief & storytelling await, no matter the wind & weather. The Egyptian theme was chosen because of the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower the same night.

Meet at the park entrance. midarkskypark.org/ programs-events

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COMMUNITY DANCE: 7-9:30pm, Alba Public School. Presented by the Pine River Jazz Band. Donation.

-------------------GLEN ARBOR’S 2ND ANNUAL PUMPKIN FEST: 12-4pm, Township Park, Downtown Glen Arbor. Carve pumpkins, enjoy live music by the Jack Pine Band, activities, contests & a pumpkin lighting. $5 donation. visitglenarbor. com/event/glen-arbors-pumpkin-fest

PHIL OLSON’S “MOM’S GIFT”: (See Fri., Oct. 20)

GOPHERWOOD CONCERT: 8pm, Elks building, 3rd floor, Cadillac. Featuring Americana roots band Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys.

Advance tickets: $15 adults, $7 students, free for 12 & under. Door: $18 adults, $9 students. mynorthtickets.com

RENOWNED ORGANIST, JOHN LEDWON, IN CONCERT: 7pm, Music House Museum, Williamsburg. Ledwon will perform on the ‘Mighty’ Wurlitzer Theater Organ. Featuring a variety of music from classics to contemporary. $20. musichouse.org

9TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL: (See Thurs., Oct. 19)

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VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING: 10am, Horizon Books, lower level, TC. All peace lovers welcome to join the discussion of Cost of War & the menace of war machine demonstrations. Walk for Peace at noon. wwwvfp50.org

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University of Michigan Alumni Spirit Group of Little Traverse Bay will host a football watching party. Featuring a tailgate buffet, door prizes & a chance to meet with alumni & friends. Reserve your spot: 231-347-5678 or hgdeery@ gmail.com Free.

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AGED TO PERFECTION’S COMEDIES: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. The Old Town Playhouse’s senior readers’ theater group, Aged to Perfection, presents five short comedies featuring trick-ortreat characters. Free. oldtownplayhouse.com

--------------------------------------STANDUP COMEDY FEATURING BRAD WENZEL: 9pm, Studio Anatomy, TC.

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BOYNE APPÉTIT! RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 16)

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PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Fri., Oct. 20)

-------------------9TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL: (See Thurs., Oct. 19)

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AGED TO PERFECTION’S COMEDIES: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. The Old Town Playhouse’s senior readers’ theater group, Aged to Perfection, presents five short comedies featuring trick-or-treat characters. Free. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------AN ADULT EVENING OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN AT THE DEPOT: (See Sun., Oct. 15)

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

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PHIL OLSON’S “MOM’S GIFT”: 3pm, Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall. The Elk Rapids Players present this comedy with a heart, featuring a ghost on a mission. $15. mynorthtickets.com

AN ADULT EVENING OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN AT THE DEPOT: (See Sat., Oct. 14)

MICHIGAN SPIRIT GROUP FOOTBALL PARTY: 7:30pm, Camp Michigania, on Walloon Lake, at 3006 Camp Sherwood Rd. The

Congregational Church. Manitou Winds NEO Trio (flute, clarinet, piano, harp) will perform as a fundraiser for ShareCare of Leelanau.

Suggested donation is $20; a freewill offering will be taken. manitouwinds.com/performances

-------------------GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS “HARRY POTTER COMES TO PETOSKEY”: 4pm, Petoskey Middle School.

Costumes encouraged. Surprise appearance by the Petoskey Middle School Drama students. $10; 18 & under, free. glcorchestra.org

-------------------JANICE KEEGAN CONCERT: 4-6pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Presented by the Leelanau Community Cultural Center. Singer Keegan will be accompanied by Steve Stargardt, piano; Laurie Sears, saxophone; Jack Dryden, bass; & David Collini, drums. $20. oldartbuilding.com

-------------------FALL FOR DANCE: 7pm, Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. A dance concert in recognition of the choreographic voices of CTAC’s pre-professional dancers. This event is a fundraiser for the Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. $15 adults; $5 students. crookedtree.org

-------------------GHOST WALK TC: (See Sat., Oct. 21) -------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK (See Sun., Sept.

15)

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It’s probably impossible at this point for the younger of the two Gallagher brothers to disassociate himself with the band (and brother, Noel) that made him famous, the Brit-rock outfit Oasis. Not helping that cause is the fact that this solo set by Gallagher sounds like Oasis revisited, from the ’60s–’70s influences right down to his vocal stylings. Which is perfectly cool, since that means you get to hear those vocals once again on songs like the fiery “Wall of Glass” and the grooving “It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way.”

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Luna – A Sentimental Education – Double Feature

Thirteen years ago, Luna effectively went into radio silence, so for this comeback the band is taking the soft approach: a double album — half covers, and half Luna instrumentals. For the covers portion, it takes on songs by Mercury Rev, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, YES, and the Rolling Stones, among others, inbuing the tracks of others with Luna’s own unhurried pace and thoughtful audio treatments.

The instrumentals are treats all their own, blending synthesizers with influences ranging from Spanish pop to EDM.

Jake Bugg – Hearts That Strain – Mercury

We weren’t the only ones drawn in by Jake Bugg’s confessional-lite style of singer-songwriter performance. So was The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, who teamed up with the English musician for the single “How Soon the Dawn,” plus two additional tracks — this album’s first indication that it’s going to be a good one. Recorded in Nashville with second guest Noah Cyrus dueting on “Waiting,” the album is, as might be expected, more bluesy/rootsy than Bugg’s previous works, and that approach works pretty well for him.

SHUT UP, DANCE, AND WALK THE MOON You’ll probably best recognize ’80s-inspired Cincinnati synth band Walk the Moon from its massive hit “Shut Up and Dance,” but that isn’t the only move this quartet has. It’s returning with a brand new album, What If Nothing, on Nov. 10 and will kick off a North American tour in Washington D.C. on Jan. 12. The band worked with Dr. Dre collaborator Mike Elizondo and The 1975 producer Mike Crossey to add rock and hip-hop elements to the new set’s dancefloor mix. The album’s first single, “One Foot,” is on radio and streaming services now …

Yeah Yeah Yeahs is back, too, to release a deluxe edition of its much-lauded debut album Fever to Tell. The special versions will hit outlets on Oct. 20, with one edition arriving on vinyl as a single album release, and another as a limited-edition deluxe box set that will be autographed and limited to 2,000 copies. The box set also will include posters, a USB drive with all the tracks in digital format, and a bonus disc of demos and rarities. Yeah Yeah Yeahs will play two big shows in support of the release: one in L.A. on Oct. 25, and another in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 7 …

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X: Brooklyn, which will take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Oct. 17. Angie Martinez will host the event, a charity effort to help benefit the victims of recent hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.

Performers will include Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, DJ Khaled, Kaskade, Iggy Azalea, Joey BadA$$, Fifth Harmony, Fat Joe, and Mack Wilds. Current TIDAL subscribers will get first dibs on tickets …

Ed Sheeran — whose hit track “Shape of You” recently notched a victory as the most-streamed Spotify song to date, with 1,318,420,396 streams — has announced the dates for his first ever North American stadium tour, but there will be a long wait for Sheeran fans. The trek will kick off in the summer of 2018 in Pasadena, California, on Aug. 18, with additional shows in Toronto (Aug. 30), Philly (Sept. 27), Minneapolis (Oct. 20), New Orleans (Oct. 31), and Atlanta (Nov 10.) Sheeran has partnered with Ticketmaster to use the #VerifiedFan system for ticket sales; presales will only run through Oct. 19, 2017, so buy ’em while you can …

LINK OF THE WEEK Katy Perry fans will get a gigantic sneak peak behind the scenes of both Perry’s professional efforts and her personal life with the YouTube Red documentary special, which brings fans into the depths of Perry’s

96-hour live-streaming event, Witness World Wide, which originally aired in June. In it, you’ll see Perry with her pals, celebs, and dog while she opens up about a wide range of (sometimes NSFW) topics. Check out the trailer at https://youtu.be/Kz-3PgnD1vM …

THE BUZZ Imagine Dragons will rock out at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Oct. 19 …

Fall Out Boy will be at Caesars, too, but not until Oct. 24 …

Eminem is taking a unique track to promoting his music: He’s putting his entire catalog of tunes onto the investment market

as a public offering, so people can buy stock in his hits …

Lansing Dollar General “singing cashier” Lucas Holliday, who performed on stage with Maxwell during his recent Detroit show, made it through the first round of NBC TV’s The Voice, singing “This Woman’s Work” for the four Voice coaches …

The Crofoot Ballroom will welcome Wolf Parade for a live concert on Oct. 25 … 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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by meg weichman

The mountain between us battle of the sexes

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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.

Why can’t Hollywood make more romances? Unless it’s got the Nicolas Sparks name attached to it, it feels we rarely see a true adult romance at the multiplex these days, let alone one with some really talented A-list stars.

And that brings us to the rub with The Mountain Between Us. At its heart, it really 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 that results in a complete generic mess.

So despite its stellar star power, 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.

Elba plays Ben, a neurosurgeon with a very important emergency brain surgery the next morning on a child! Winslet plays Alex, a photojournalist who (taking a page straight from the Hallmark movie playbook) is getting married tomorrow! But they’re both in Idaho and both headed back to the East coast, when an incoming storm grounds their travel plans. Desperate to get home — please see the aforementioned WEDDING and surgery on a CHILD — these two highly motivated strangers come together to charter a plane.

Thanks to their quick thinking and resourcefulness, it seems as though their travel nightmare will soon be over, but it’s only just beginning when the pilot (a very brief yet memorable Beau Bridges) suffers a stroke somewhere over the Rockies, and they crash in essentially the middle of nowhere. The pilot dies, Alex sustains injuries to her leg and Ben his ribs, yet the pilot’s dog — yes, of course there’s also an adorable dog — seems completely unscathed.

Anyway, wounded and stranded on a mountain in a blizzard with no means of communication, Alex and Ben have to figure out a way home. Working together doesn’t exactly come naturally. See, Ben is much more conservative in his thinking, wanting to stay put and wait for someone to rescue them, while Alex is more headstrong and a risk-taker; she wants to make the treacherous journey back.

It’s a classic opposing pair of the head vs. the heart variety — the mountain between

them is metaphorical, get it? But with lots of alone time, you can really get to know someone, and wouldn’t you know it, maybe opposites really do attract.

So as they grow closer over the course of their expedition some more unexpected challenges are certainly going to come their way — like a laughably bad CGI cougar for example. And while I seriously love a survival movie (it’s exciting watching smart people work their ways out of impossible situations), here the film never really convinces us of the gravity of the situation.

The stakes never seem high, like they’re never in true jeopardy because you know that with two big marquee names as pretty much the entire cast, both or either of them won’t die until at least 95 percent of the movie is over.

Speaking of those marquee names, the film never climbs to the actors’ levels. You like them, and they round out their slight characters as much as they can. It’s great to see Elba in a leading role that doesn’t involve superheroes or sci-fi or The Wire, and this is, in fact, his first romantic lead. But his inexperience shows, and his chemistry with the always-magnificent Winslet is either hit or miss throughout the film.

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. The beautiful sights and scenery are stunning to behold — well, when you’re not thinking about the bitter cold and hellish conditions that come with them (kudos to Abu-Assad for really making you feel the misery). And when the plane goes down, it’s a very compelling and impressive bit of action sequencing.

But when working from a script as weak as this one, 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. Clichéd and ordinary, let’s just say the only romantic/ travel disaster movie I want to see Kate Winslet surviving is one set on a doomed Edwardian ocean liner.

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

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kingsman: the golden Circle

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

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

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

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

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: My boyfriend unplugs my laptop when it’s charging and plugs the charger into his, despite knowing that I need my computer charged for work. This is actually part of a pattern — a general lack of consideration, from constantly being late to always leaving messes for me to clean up to knocking the shower door off the track and then just leaving it leaning against the tub. Recently, my dad emailed him three times without hearing back — in response to a favor he’d asked of my dad!

— and I had to bug him to reply. How can I get him to be more considerate?

--Disturbed

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: There are people who go all crazybiscuits if you don’t immediately email them back — confusing the ability to reply nearly instantly with a mandate to do that. Still, there’s a middle ground between frantically responding to every message and taking so long that somebody sends the cops around to peer in the windows for a body.

When you’re romantically involved with someone, it’s kind of a problem if the most reliable thing about them is their unreliability.

Granted, we all fail in the follow-through department every now and then — like when my car got ticketed because the registration sticker I’d paid for remained in a pile of unopened mail that had gradually migrated under my bed.

But when somebody has a pretty pervasive pattern of carelessness — when they’re basically an entitlement-infused, corner-cutting slacktastrophe of a person — it points to their coming up short on what psychologists call “conscientiousness.” This is one of the five core personality dimensions (along with openness, extroversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability), and it reflects a person’s level of selfcontrol and sense of responsibility to others.

Personality researcher Brent Roberts explains that people who are “high in conscientiousness” “tend to write down important dates, comb their hair, polish their shoes, stand up straight, and scrub floors.” That last one is an unexpected plus if you have dingy grout; however, there’s such a thing as too much conscientiousness — which is cool if your “type” is a rigid, perfectionistic miniMussolini.

Meanwhile, on the perennially chillaxed end of the spectrum, people “low in conscientiousness” tend to break promises, cancel plans, watch more TV, oversleep, and see credit limits as credit suggestions. The

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plan-canceling and promise-breaking reflect something noteworthy -- self-centeredness and a lack of concern for how their behavior affects others. (Essentially, they tend to do things halfway — but only when they can’t get away with doing them a third of the way or less.)

Not surprisingly, researchers find that people’s lives work better if they keep their promises, don’t go around with yesterday’s sloppy Joe on their shirt, and get to work at an hour that does not require an explanation that opens with “you’ll never believe what happened this time!”

However, it isn’t just your own level of conscientiousness that impacts your life.

Psychologists Brittany Solomon and Joshua Jackson find that having a partner high in conscientiousness makes you likely to have higher income and job satisfaction and a better shot at getting promoted. They suggest that having a more conscientious partner makes for a more satisfying and supportive home life, allowing a person to focus more on their work.

Personality traits are, to a great extent, genetic and are largely stable because of that.

However, Roberts finds evidence that people can increase their level of conscientiousness.

This starts in the smallest ways, like making the bed and tidying the house in the morning so it looks more “lived in” than “ransacked.”

Repeated behaviors become habits, and collectively, our habits form who we are.

Of course, changing starts with wanting to change — valuing conscientiousness enough to be motivated to make it an integral part of everything one does. This sometimes happens when a person gets a tragedy-driven wake-up call. Absent that, your best chance for inspiring your boyfriend to want to live more conscientiously is by using empathy as a motivator — gently explaining to him how unloved you feel and how disrespected other people must feel in the wake of his constant sloppy disregard for anyone but himself.

If he says he wants to change, give yourself a deadline — perhaps two or three months down the road — to see whether he’s making meaningful improvement. If you decide to break up, you might want to make conscientiousness one of the “must-haves” on your “What I Need In A Man” list so your next relationship feels more like a romantic partnership than a remedial finishing school for one. Lesson 36: One should email the girlfriend’s dad back in less time than it would take to deliver the message by pony express — if you first had to get the mare and the stallion to hook up to make the pony.

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ACROSS 1 Maker of the CR-V 6 Fork’s place 10 Summer in Saint-Tropez 13 Woodwind section members 14 Studio 54, for one 15 “On the Road” narrator ___ Paradise 16 Kept track of time in boredom 19 Downbeat music genre 20 Discourage from acting 21 Inflatable co-pilot in “Airplane!”

22 Mac Web browser named for an expedition 25 Grab ___ (eat on the run) 27 Mixed-breed pups 30 Openings 33 Comment of sudden confusion 37 Bitter bar brew, for short 38 Number before zwei 39 IM giggle 40 Cake decorator 41 Dolphins’ org.

42 Return message?

46 Chewy chocolate candy brand from Germany 48 Roguish guy 49 Ward (off) 51 “___ Weapon” (Mel Gibson film) 55 Pot payment 57 Put in a seat?

60 Peyton’s brother 61 Heated drink that traditionally helps you fall asleep 65 MPG rating group 66 Dick who coached the Washington Bullets to a 1978 NBA Championship win 67 Comedian Izzard 68 Director Guillermo ___ Toro 69 Caricatured 70 Like some cavefish

DOWN 1 Gordie and Elias, for two 2 Time’s Person of the Year for 2008 and 2012 3 “___ This Earth” (1957 sci-fi film)

4 12th of 12, briefly 5 Briquette remnant 6 “Stanley & Iris” director Martin 7 “Straight Outta Compton” star ___ Jackson, Jr. 8 Bitterly harsh 9 Grumpy companion?

10 Really specialized knowledge 11 Diplomatic quality 12 Nevada city on the Humboldt River 14 Ike’s monogram 17 Archie Bunker’s wife 18 Former Senate Majority Leader Trent 23 Qts. and gals., e.g.

24 Monotonous routine 26 Publicity, slangily (and presumably before computers) 28 Fail to keep a secret 29 Big surprise 31 Oil cartel since 1960 32 Cutty ___ (Scotch brand) 33 Day-to-day deterioration 34 “New Adventures in ___” (1996 R.E.M. album) 35 Like a family tree’s roots?

36 Tesla founder Musk 40 “Likely story!”

42 “Isn’t it rich / Are ___ pair” (“Send in the Clowns” lyric) 43 Wrap completely around 44 ___-Meal (longtime hot cereal brand) 45 December 24th or 31st, e.g.

47 Mushroom stalk 50 Bring joy to 52 “America’s Got Talent” judge Klum 53 Maximum poker bet 54 Gave props on Facebook 55 Blown away 56 Scruff of the neck 58 Abbr. before a cornerstone date 59 Jefferson Davis’s gp.

62 Daytime ABC show, for short 63 It’s a few pages after 4-Down 64 1550, on some hypothetical cornerstone

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LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A woman I know, Caeli La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn. She journeyed across country and visited a prime neighborhood in her potential new headquarters. Here’s what she reported on her Facebook page: “In the last three days, I’ve seen three different men on separate occasions wearing sundresses. So this is definitely the right place for me.” What sort of signs and omens would tell you what you need to do to be in the right place at the right time, Libra? I urge you to be on the lookout for them in the coming weeks. Life will be conspiring to provide you with clues about where you can feel at peace, at home, and in the groove.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): What’s your top

conspiracy theory? Does it revolve around the Illuminati, the occult group that is supposedly plotting to abolish all nations and create a world government? Or does it involve the stealthy invasion by extraterrestrials who are allegedly seizing mental control over human political leaders and influencing them to wage endless war and wreck the environment? Or is your pet conspiracy theory more personal? Maybe you secretly believe, for instance, that the difficult events you experienced in the past were so painful and debilitating that they will forever prevent you from fulfilling your fondest dream. Well, Pisces. I’m here to tell you that whatever conspiracy theory you most tightly embrace is ready to be disproven once and for all. Are you willing to be relieved of your delusions?

ARIES (March 21-April 19): ”I am my own

muse,” wrote painter Frida Kahlo. “I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” Would you consider trying out this perspective for a while, Aries? If so, you might generate a few ticklish surprises. You may be led into mysterious areas of your psyche that had previously been off-limits. You could discover secrets you’ve been hiding from yourself. So what would it mean to be your own muse?

What exactly would you do? Here are some examples. Flirt with yourself in the mirror. Ask yourself impertinent, insouciant questions. Have imaginary conversations with the person you were three years ago and the person you’ll be in three years.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Louisa May Alcott

wrote a novel entitled A Long Fatal Love Chase, which was regarded as too racy to be published until a century after her death. “In the books I read, the sinners are more interesting than the saints,” says Alcott’s heroine, Rosamund, “and in real life people are dismally dull.” I boldly predict that in the coming months, Virgo, you won’t provide evidence to support Rosamund’s views. You’ll be even more interesting than you usually are, and will also gather more than your usual quota of joy and self-worth -- but without having to wake up even once with your clothes torn and your head lying in a gutter after a night of forlorn debauchery.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Simon &

Garfunkel released their first album in October 1964. It received only a modest amount of airplay. The two musicians were so discouraged that they stopped working together. Then Bob Dylan’s producer Tom Wilson got permission to remix “The Sounds of Silence,” a song on the album. He added rock instruments and heavy echo to Simon & Garfunkel’s folk arrangement. When the tune was re-released in September 1965, it became a huge hit. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect you’re now at a point comparable to the time just before Tom Wilson discovered the potential of “The Sounds of Silence.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): “Happiness

comes from getting what you want,” said poet Stephen Levine, whereas joy comes “from being who you really are.” According to my analysis, the coming weeks will bear a higher potential for joy than for happiness. I’m not saying you won’t get anything you want. But I do suspect that focusing on getting what you want might sap energy from the venture that’s more likely to thrive: an unprecedented awakening to the truth of who you really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sigmund Freud

was a medical doctor who laid the groundwork for psychoanalysis. Throughout the twentieth century, his radical, often outrageous ideas were a major influence on Western culture. When Freud was 50, he discovered a brilliant psychiatrist who would become his prize pupil: Carl Jung. When the two men first met in Vienna in 1907, they conversed without a break for 13 consecutive hours. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience a comparable immersion sometime soon: a captivating involvement with a new influence, a provocative exchange that enchants you, or a fascinating encounter that shifts your course.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the next

twelve months, I hope to help you track down new pleasures and amusements that teach you more about what you want out of life. I will also be subtly reminding you that all the world’s a stage, and will advise you on how to raise your self-expression to Oscar-worthy levels. As for romance, here’s my prescription between now and October 2018: The more compassion you cultivate, the more personal love you will enjoy. If you lift your generosity to a higher octave, there’ll be another perk, too: You will be host to an enhanced flow of creative ideas.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you interested

in diving down to explore the mysterious and evocative depths? Would you be open to spending more time than usual cultivating peace and stillness in a sanctuary? Can you sense the rewards that will become available if you pay reverence to influences that

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Consider

how hard it is to change yourself,” wrote author Jacob M. Braude, “and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Ninety-nine percent of the time, I’d advise you and everybody else to surrender to that counsel as if it were an absolute truth. But I think you Sagittarians will be the exception to the rule in the coming weeks. More than usual, you’ll have the power to change yourself. And if you succeed, your self-transformations will be likely to trigger interesting changes in people around you.

Here’s another useful tip, also courtesy of Jacob M. Braude: “Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1969,

two earthlings walked on the moon for the first time. To ensure that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there and returned safely, about 400,000 people labored and cooperated for many years. I suspect that in the coming months, you may be drawn to a collaborative project that’s not as ambitious as NASA’s, but nevertheless fueled by a grand plan and a big scope. And according to my astrological calculations, you will have even more ability than usual to be a driving force in such a project. Your power to inspire and organize group efforts will be at a peak.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict

your ambitions will burn more steadily in the coming months, and will produce more heat and light than ever before. You’ll have a clearer conception of exactly what it is you want to accomplish, as well as a growing certainty of the resources and help you’ll need to accomplish it. Hooray and hallelujah! But keep this in mind, Aquarius: As you acquire greater access to meaningful success -- not just the kind of success that merely impresses other people -- you’ll be required to take on more responsibility. Can you handle that?

I think you can.

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