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lifestyle choices. When asked about his support for tax cuts that add to the deficit and favor the rich, he deflected to smallbusiness owners. When asked to define what constituted a small business, he had nothing.

His support for taking monies from public school budgets and shifting them to for-profit charter schools was unbelievable. His delaying tactic for discontinuing Line 5 was one of his bigger whoppers of the night. His call for transparency was laughable considering that Enbridge is anything but transparent.

My heart goes out to the many who are facing a health crisis due to Jack’s belief that affordable insurance is somehow a bad idea.

Their unbelievably sad stories did nothing to sway Bergman’s commitment to federalism or the Trump agenda. The citizens of Michigan’s 1st District, the State of Michigan, and America certainly deserve better than the narrow minded, self-serving congressman we currently have.

John Hunter, Traverse City

Bergman Rude, Clueless

No Logic in the Void

It is somewhat surprising that the Northern Express would publish such an extreme, erroneous and biased opinion from Thomas Kachadurian’s Oct. 30 Opinion column, “The Void of Progressive Logic.” It’s ironic that the writer of this piece uses the word “logic” inasmuch as so many of his opinions are illogical.

The writer wanders from stop signs in Traverse City to global warming. His real issue, however, seems to be with those he perceives as different from himself — liberals, progressives, and the left. He chooses to deny the scientific evidence that global warming is real and seems to imply that gun control and background checks do not reduce homicides.

He also maintains that dollars spent to help the poor and disadvantaged are a waste of money. This is certainly not true. I believe and am hopeful that logical thinking and intelligence will indeed prevail in Traverse City, and that we will reject the biased, twisted, and negative opinions expressed by “The Void of Progressive Logic.”

Michael Kearns, Northport

Joy in Misfortune

In response to “The Void of Progressive Logic,” Kachadurian will baffle anyone who honestly tries to understand what he is spouting off about. To start with, why on earth does his believe that the Traverse City trafficflow designs and Eighth Street restriping are the result of “adopting the theoretical solutions of the left”? It’s no surprise that Kachadurian is short on detail and analysis. He ranges all over the map claiming there is a “roster of flawed thinking” pertaining to such concerns as global warming, attempts to alleviate poverty, controlling gun violence, coping with drug addiction, and caring for the homeless.

As usual he offers no constructive advice or intelligent commentary for such issues, only contempt and ridicule for the people involved.

Like a school child showing off in front of adults, he ostentatiously displays the German

word schadenfreude, which means deriving pleasure from the misfortunes of other people.

He uses the word in scourging the poor, whom he asserts enjoy the torment of the supposed harshly taxed wealthy. Does this guy make any sense? It seems some readers feel that he does, and in doing so endorse Kachadurian’s meanspirit and cruelty. Such is the schadenfreude of Kachadurian and those who embrace his views.

Allen McCullough, Interlochen

Poor Thomas

Everywhere Tom Kachadurian. looks, he sees liberals. Believe it or not, Mr. Kachadurian, science is not a liberal conspiracy. Scientists overwhelmingly agree that there is climate change and that it is caused by humans. There is a group of conservative Republicans that not only believe that the earth’s climate is changing but also have an answer for it: The Climate Leadership Council believes that we need to tax carbon at the source and give the money collected back to every American in the form of a monthly dividend.

Mr. Kachadurian wants to know how higher taxes cool the earth. A predictably rising carbon price would end the era of emitting carbon pollution for free, which would unleash entrepreneurs in the cleanenergy economy, create jobs, and reduce emissions to 33 percent below 1990 levels in the first 10 years. Net fees would be returned to American households on an equal, per capita basis. Look up the Climate Leadership Council and Citizens Climate Lobby; both are working for great solutions, both show us that the most meaningful and lasting change happens when we work together.

Bob Eichenlaub, Traverse City

Bergman’s Babbles

Bravery can be found in the most unlikely of places, and there was no shortage of brave souls at the (U.S. Rep. Jack) Bergman town hall meeting Oct. 30 in Traverse City, but they were all in the audience and not on the stage. Standing behind his usual nonanswers, Bergman repeatedly showed how unprepared he was. When asked why he supported cancelling health insurance to 40,000 northern Michigan constituents, he rambled about government intrusions and

Representative Jack Bergman’s Town Hall was attended by a mostly older crowd. Many health and educational professionals spoke and questioned Bergman’s political positions.

Overall, his response was dissatisfactory: He seemed aggravated, even pompous, calling us “kids” and “boys and girls.” Inexplicably, he brought the Cherry Queen (replete with tiara) to serve as moderator. If he had wished to show deference to female leaders, he should have picked an older organizational community leader from the League of Women Voters or The Women’s Resource Center for this occasion. He faced anxious questions about Social Security, Medicare, and health care cuts from understandably angry people. He seemed indifferent, whispering at times into the ear of the young queen beside him. The crowning indignity occurred when I asked him how he planned to help the inordinately large number of poverty-laden women and children in our district, only to see his head divert from the mike, whispering to his young moderator again. Schoolboys in my classes of yesteryear would have faced a tongue lashing for such rudeness. To summarize: Bergman skirted and obfuscated important questions. He should not continue to be our congressperson.

CONTENTS

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

Little Road Lost...............................................10 Bear Down......................................................13 The Storytellers...............................................14 After the War................................................16 Northern Seen...................................................19

dates...............................................20-23 music FourScore.......................................................24 Nightlife.........................................................37

columns & stuff Guest Opinion...................................................4 Top Five...........................................................5 Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Weird...............................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................25 The Reel...........................................................26 Advice Goddess.............................................28 Crossword...................................................29 Freewill Astrology.........................................29 Classifieds....................................................30

Elaine Miller, Kewadin

Climate Threatens Security

Prolonged extreme weather such as drought can contribute to large-scale human migration, unemployment, discontent, and social instability, often leading to conflict.

Extremist groups take advantage of desperate people who are struggling to survive, making the situation a security issue, as well as a moral and ethical one. As climate change enhances the severity and frequency of extreme weather, more people are displaced, global security is threatened, and our troops are put at risk.

Carbon pricing would accelerate a move toward renewable energy. But politicians are unlikely to act until they know that we want them to do so. As constituents, we should encourage our members of congress, such as Rep. Bergman, to support a price on carbon.

Having produced more carbon emissions than any other country in the world, we have a moral obligation to take significant steps to tackle climate change. Not only does inaction put us at a disadvantage economically, but it promotes global instability and becomes a growing threat to our national security.

Nicola Philpott, Traverse City

Carbon Tax Will Pay Off

Contrary to Mr. Kachudurian’s assertions in “The Void of Progressive Logic,” taxes can be used to influence consumer behavior. Taxes on cigarettes significantly reduced smoking. A tax on carbon pollution is one market-based approach that merits consideration. Just like

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we pay to have sewage hauled away, we need to pay for handling carbon pollution.

Mr. Kachadurian might be surprised to learn that a revenue neutral carbon tax is favored by many of various political stripes.

The non-partisan Citizens’ Climate Lobby proposes a carbon fee and dividend policy to levy a steadily rising fee on fossil fuel pollution, correcting the market’s failure to account for their negative impacts. This will send a market signal incentivizing research and implementation of energy production with reduced or zero carbon.

The revenue would be equally distributed to citizens as a monthly dividend to offset higher energy bills. Economic modeling shows that about 2/3 of households would receive more in their monthly dividend than they’d spend on increased energy costs. Returning these monies to the consumer will stimulate local economies and move us toward a carbonfree energy economy.

You can watch a 13-minute video about a similar policy proposed by the conservative Climate Leadership Council at clcouncil.org.

There you will find the names of conservative statesmen, economists, and corporations that see a carbon dividends program as a desirable fix to the problem of climate change fueled by carbon pollution.

Steven Holl, Traverse City

The Humble Kneel

Since when does “taking a knee” show disrespect?

A person will kneel to ask another to marry them. People kneel on one knee or two to pray. Football teams will take a knee when a player has been injured. In England, if one is knighted, one kneels before the queen. Do these gestures show disrespect? No, kneeling shows respect and humility.

Likewise, kneeling on one knee or two is an alternate way of showing respect/humility to the flag and our country, where we are allowed to express ourselves in such a way.

In the case of the NFL and NBA players, kneeling for the national anthem (rather than the customary standing) calls attention to the racial discrimination that continues to plague our society. This is an issue that needs to be in the forefront of discussion and action. It is a public health issue, a mental health issue, an economic issue, a democratic issue, a societal issue, and a personal issue for each of us that needs attention.

That it has been labeled as an un-patriotic or disrespectful act is a means to distract the country from the real issue of discrimination and to divert attention from the government.

Let’s focus on the health care for all Americans, tax improvements that will help all individuals living in the USA and its territories, and environmental efforts that will improve life for all on the planet, instead of pandering to the manipulated distractions.

Nancy B. Meade, Arcadia

Certain to Live Long

In response to Nancy Brimhall’s assertion in the October 23 issue: “If you don’t want to die of cancer, avoid antibiotics and lifeprolonging surgeries, and be sure to die young.” This is one of the most absurd things I have every read, let alone written by a person in the medical profession. Had I not endured several life-prolonging surgeries, I would have died decades ago. A ruptured appendix and emergency surgery whilst I was in the first grade was the first medical procedure that saved my life. To date, I have rebounded from 33 surgeries.

Had I not taken antibiotics for a number

of serious infections, I would have died years ago. Living with two autoimmune diseases all my life, plus multiple “side-effect” diseases, I have become in tune with my body’s resistance to illness and infection. In my 62 years, I have been poked, prodded, and had enough blood drawn to fill a swimming pool. I should glow in the dark from the hundreds of X-rays, radioactive isotope tests, MRIs, CT, ultrasound and cardiac scans, and submitted to a wide variety of testing. I am in medical books at the University of Michigan Hospital pertaining to a unique, one-of-a-kind illness. Illnesses, surgeries, and antibiotics are a part of my life.

Dying young is not in my plans.

Carol Tompkins-Parker, Traverse City

Void of Logic?

Thomas Kachadurian’s flaming screed on “Progressive Logic” defies credulity! What a steaming pile of equine excreta! Blaming “the left” for everything from traffic congestion, to mass killings, terrorism, the opioid epidemic, “class-envy” taxation, or global climate change, at scales from Traverse City to the earth is truly void of logic.

Contrary to his assertion that “the left’s policies are based on feeling, rather than positive quantifiable results,” it’s the right’s mystical fascination with trickle-down economics that are bereft of any provable basis. Objective economists point out that there never has been any credible evidence that tax breaks for super-wealthy plutocrats and oligarchs have ever resulted in job growth, salary increases, or economic benefits for the middle class.

Higher taxes and cap-and-trade can cool the earth — if they provide incentives to reduce carbon emissions. The radical right’s mantra — grow the economy (read: stock market, at the expense of poorer people), shrink government, reduce regulations, and lower taxes — will not solve traffic problems in Traverse City, concerns over high-rises, or any of the any other problems he describes. People working together, rationally and honestly, might.

Dave Newhouse, Cadillac

Facts, Not Feelings

In Thomas Kachadurian’s column “The Void of Progressive Logic,” he describes progressive policies on traffic, global warming, gun violence, and homelessness as ineffective and “based on feeling, rather than positive quantifiable results.” By my reading, his columns are based on feeling rather than quantifiable data. For example, he attempts to cast doubt about global warming by referring to experts (on the left no less) that see signs of global warming reversing, yet provides no source for these experts. The fact is, 97 percent of climate scientists are convinced, based on extensive peer-reviewed evidence going back decades, that human-caused global warming is happening.

This conclusion is accepted by: the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and nine other U.S. medical consortiums, as well as major corporations like GM, Kellogg’s and Pepsico. Additionally, the Pentagon and esteemed retired military leaders who make up the CNA Military Advisory board regard climate change as major threat to our national security.

We should each try to expose ourselves to new ideas and differing points of view, and move away from our echo chambers. But I respectfully ask the Northern Express editor to feature opinion writers who will engage readers with their reasoning, offer solutions to problems rather than just tearing down others, and reference facts rather than baseless and inaccurate information when making their arguments.

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Elizabeth Dell Traverse City

LAWMAKERS BELLY UP TO THE LOBBYIST TROUGH opinion

by Amy Kerr Hardin The elected officials we send to Lansing just love to be wined and dined like royalty, and there’s no shortage of lobbyists vying to pick up the tab. Rich Robinson, the former director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, a nonprofit, non-partisan watchdog organization, sardonically referred to it as food assistance for the legislature. The current director, Craig Mauger, sums up the situation with this: “If you’re a state official who likes free food, 2017 is shaping up to be another good year.”

They’re a peckish lot, our leaders, gobbling up $540,598 in lobbyist groceries in the first seven months of this year. That averages out to around $9,000 per House session day (about 60 of them in all) from the latest reporting period of Jan. 1 to July 31. This is the second highest amount for that period, with 2015 barely edging out 2017’s girthsome totals.

It seems that all that hard lawmaking work, combined with the nearly $72,000 in annual famine-level wages, has left them feeling rumbly in the tumbly. Sixteen chowhound lawmakers in particular can’t seem to get enough lobbyist grub in their growling gullets, having been served-up in excess of $1,000 each in various delectables and libations. Lobbyists prefer to train them to the feedbag early; five of the group are freshman lawmakers. Hungry pups. Eight of those supersize eaters represent northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. Gluttony must be endemic to the region.

Topping the $1,000-plus hungry hippo list we find Republican House member Lee Chatfield, who represents the Tip of the Mitt and the eastern Upper Peninsula. His district can proudly declare they’re No. 1, with their man in Lansing breaking bread with lobbyists at a price tag of nearly $2,600 in just a few month’s time. Sliding in at places sixth, seventh, eighth, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 16th, respectively, are Sen. Jim Stamas, Reps. Scott Dianda, Scott VanSingel, Larry Inman, Daire Rendon, Curtis Vanderwall, and Beau LeFave — Republicans all, save Dianda. Their combined seven-month tab came in at $11,189. That’s a lot of rich fare for those middle-aged guts to tackle.

Perhaps the lobbyists will spring for gym memberships too.

The party’s just getting started folks.

The remaining Up North lawmakers who didn’t score a seat with the elite diners club also added to the total quite handsomely.

Senator Wayne Schmidt of Traverse City, and his fellow Republican to the east, Rep. Tristan Cole, were seated at the children’s table this year, missing the short list by just a hair. Between the two, they gobbled up just shy of $1,500 at the lobbyist buffet. How disappointing. Would it have killed them to order another appetizer? Sorry guys. Better luck next year.

Other regional elected officials added several thousand more to the bill, bringing the tab to around $14,400 for fourteen individuals.

We learn about the gastronomic habits of our lawmakers, not due to some compelling urge to self-report but because registered lobbyists are required to keep detailed records of their spending and, by law, must disclose them twice a year. Yet, the rules governing the reporting process allow for most of the spending to slip through the regulatory cracks, or in this case, chasms.

Lobbyists are obliged to catalogue expenses for large group events, but are not legally bound to report the names of the individual officials attending, unless the amount exceeds $59 per month, per office holder, or $375 per year. All other meals not meeting those thresholds are simply reported as a lump sum.

Here’s how that looks for the latest reporting period: Of the $540,598 total, only $240,463 was fully disclosed, with $171,463 dedicated to group expenses, and $68,679 naming specific officials. That leaves $300,135 of miscellaneous food and drink expenses.

Additionally, it’s only registered lobbyists reporting. If a business tycoon or special interest group takes a lawmaker out for a lavish night on the town, the public will never know about it.

The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average American household spent $3,154 on food away from home last year. A substantial amount of that was undoubtedly procured on a tray or in a drive-through bag — caviar of the masses. Surprisingly, a recent study found that the biggest fast-food spenders are middle-class families, not those struggling to put food on the table.

Feeding America.org calculates that the average cost of a meal in Michigan is $2.75, meaning a person could be nourished for about $3,000 a year. Yet in our state, 1.5 million people struggle to put food on the table. That’s one in seven people, and more shockingly, it’s one in six children.

The food-drive season in Michigan is well upon us. Our well-fed elected officials in Lansing are all-in for promoting donations, and that would be about the end of it. Gubernatorial hopeful and current Attorney General Bill Schuette and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson recently did a media blast demonstrating their dedication to combating the problem by offering generic quotes in a press release designed to encourage generosity. They actually cited statistics of the tonnage of food they collected last year. It was 11 tons, for the curious.

The media likes the term “food insecurity.”

An activist friend of mine blasts that characterization. She insists we call it what it is: hunger. A word Lansing just doesn’t understand.

Amy Kerr Hardin is a retired banker, a regionally known artist, and a public-policy wonk and political essayist at Democracy-Tree. com. She and her husband have lived in the Grand Traverse area since 1980, where they raised two children. Both have been involved in local politics and political campaigns.

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top five Petoskey Casino Site to Become Town Square What’s planned for the former site of the Victories Casino isn’t going to be just any ordinary strip mall.

Developers of Victories Square — a 22-acre development located on US-131, just south of Petoskey and across from the Odawa Casino — envision something more akin to a small-town downtown, one with with a village square rather than a parking lot and a row of stores, said Tanya Gibbs, board president of Odawa Economic Development Management.

The project is planned in three phases. The first is expected to begin this fall, with a $21 million project to include a 137-room hotel, a restaurant, and a coffee shop.

“We actually did a groundbreaking years ago when we did the infrastructure,” Gibbs said. “We expect the Starbucks and the Boston’s sports bar to be open in the spring and the hotel in the fall.”

Future phases are expected to include retail stores and apartments.

Bottoms up Dripworks’ Spiced Elderberry Tonic If you’re fortunate enough to stumble across the Spiced Elderberry Tonic at Dripworks Coffee in Petoskey — particularly if you stumble across it on a cold, damp fall day — be sure you snap up this unique drink with its complex flavor and potential health boost.

Based on the fruit of the flowering elderberry plant, the beverage offers a wealth of puported benefits, as the elderberry has been suggested for everything from the flu (it’s said to boost the immune system) to sinus pain or exhaustion. (It’s also used as a food flavoring and to make wine, but those are stories for another article.)

At Dripworks, mixologists blend elderberry syrup with cinnamon, ginger, and a sprig of mint for a drink that’s simultaneously refreshing, spicy, and recharging. The zing of the ginger and mint, combined with the warmth of the cinnamon and the fruitiness of the elderberry, are a complex and welcoming mix for the palate, and who’s going to argue with a little flu defense this time of year?

Try this flavorful mocktail at Dripworks Coffee, 207 Howard St. in downtown Petoskey. dripworkscoffee. com or (231) 881-9227.

toys for tots kickoff Depending on the weather, Santa will arrive at the Great Wolf Lodge in TC by either helicopter or firetruck on Sat. Nov. 18 at noon. This NW MI Toys for Tots Kickoff will run until 2pm and also include children’s activities, tours of the helicopter or firetruck, a choir singing Christmas carols and more. For more info on this free event, visit: traversecity-mi.toysfortots.org

Step Back into Leelanau’s Past Catch a glimpse of Leelanau County 100 years ago when Leelanau Historical Society and Museum hosts a presentation about one of northern Michigan’s iconic postcard makers.

During the golden age of postcards, Edward Beebe documented the resorts, the lumbering industry, and early transportation around the county, said Kim Kelderhouse, curator of collections. Beebe was the bestknown photographer in northern Michigan between 1909 and 1915 and used a large-format camera that produced glass-plate negatives, which developed incredible black and white photographs.

Author Jack Hobey will talk about his book, “Edward Beebe’s Historic Leelanau Photographs,” at 4:30pm Nov. 15 at the historical society at 203 E. Cedar Street in Leland.

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Let’s check in and see how Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt” into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is going.

the Russians, attempted to set up a meeting between Putin and Trump, and was more involved with the campaign than Trump would like us to believe.

We have to start by acknowledging the Russians did interfere. The CIA, NSA, FBI, and all additional intelligence and law enforcement agencies that have investigated agree that’s a fact. They also agree it was an effort to assist Donald Trump’s campaign by attacking Hillary Clinton. Only President Trump and his most mesmerized followers remain doubtful.

We also know Papadopolous and Trump met at least once and chatted for a few minutes. Trump, who has said more than once he has “one of the greatest memories” says he doesn’t remember it. (And, no, holding a grudge doesn’t constitute a great memory.)

We already know who directed the meddling, and even the street address in Moscow from which much of it was done. We know they hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Hillary Clinton, and her campaign manager, then shared what they’d stolen through Wikileaks and other outlets. We know they created false social media accounts and websites through which they dissemi-

None of that constitutes collusion in anything campaign-related, but the cozy relationships are a bit too much for Mueller to ignore.

There is a theory floating that it’s those business deals Trump most fears being exposed. nated anti-Clinton disinformation. We know they took out ads on social media under fake names. We know they planted false stories.

We know all of that to be true. We do not know if the Trump campaign or any of its minions cooperated or colluded with the Russian efforts. That question is the basis of the Mueller investigation.

Collusion requires an agreement between two or more parties — it can be as simple as a nod of the head — to engage in various nefarious activities. In this case it would mean the Trump campaign, or someone in the Trump campaign, made some sort of agreement, tacit or explicit, with Russians to interfere in the election. That would be a felonious no-no.

So far, Mueller’s team of nearly two dozen investigators have zeroed in on the early days of the campaign. They didn’t find evidence of collusion, but they are alleging a host of financial and other crimes were committed by former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and Trump campaign advisor and Manafort business partner Rick Gates.

Manafort and Gates both face a dozen felony charges, including a money laundering charge that alone could result in a 20-year prison sentence. Though the alleged wrongdoing involved Russians, and both had extensive business with Russians, it is not clear there was any connection to the campaign interference.

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Michael Flynn, who was Trump’s choice to be his National Security Advisor for about 15 seconds, is a likely next target. He also has all manner of entanglements with Russia and the Ukraine, and he wasn’t honest about them on disclosure forms. A retired general, Flynn is an unlikely candidate to collude with the Russians, something he would surely see as a treasonous act. His loudmouth son, also in the Mueller crosshairs, might be less careful.

More interesting is the case of little-known George Papadopolous, a minor Trump campaign adviser who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation. It is clear Papadopolous had significant contacts with

This is how these things work, from the fringes inward. Some players get swept up for various shenanigans not always completely related to the original investigation. Maybe one or more of them, like perhaps George Papadopolous, will provide useful information rather than face prison time. The inquiry moves in ever-tightening concentric circles until it either runs out of evidence or gets to the center.

Mueller has enormous power, and if there was collusion, he and his team are likely to find it. They are more likely to find other inappropriate business entanglements with the Russians. Trump, his sons, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, all have done or attempted to do various deals with the Russians, including borrowing significant money to help finance Trump golf courses.

None of that constitutes collusion in anything campaign-related, but the cozy relationships are a bit too much for Mueller to ignore. There is a theory floating that it’s those business deals Trump most fears being exposed.

Trump surely believes something will be exposed because his response to the investigation has been odd. If he has done nothing, he should welcome Mueller and his team by fully cooperating in every way. Likewise, he should be anxious to rid himself of any wrongdoers from his campaign team, swamp drainer that he is. Pretty straightforward, in theory, anyway.

We already know what happened. The Mueller investigation, labeled a “witch hunt” by the president, is trying to discover who was involved — and if any of the witches they’re hunting worked for candidate Trump.

Crime & Rescue RESTROOM GROPER WANTED Police are looking for a man who followed a 16-year-old girl into a restroom at Grand Traverse Crossings and groped her.

The girl told Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies that a man followed her into the restroom the morning of Nov. 7 and waited behind a stall.

When she finished washing her hands, the man grabbed her butt. When she turned and confronted him, the man fled.

Deputies canvassed the area but were unable to find the suspect. He is a white male in his middle 20s, six feet or so tall, with short black, tussled hair.

At the time of the incident, he had several days of beard growth and wore a dark-colored baseball cap, a large hooded sweatshirt with a logo, black shorts, and white tennis shoes.

WEED DEALER SENTENCED A Charlevoix County weed dealer will spend a month in jail and pay $100,000 after he pleaded guilty to drug charges.

Stephen Chandler Benton was sentenced Nov. 6 to nine months in jail, with eight of those held in abeyance. He will spend 18 months on probation. Benton also agreed to forfeit the money that was seized by police during the investigation, Charlevoix County Prosecutor Allen Telgenhof said in a press release.

Investigators determined that the 52-year-old Boyne City man sold marijuana out of a yoga and massage business.

He was investigated by Charlevoix County’s Joint Law Enforcement Team, which also seized 18 pounds of marijuana and 31 plants, worth $125,000, according to price lists Benton maintained.

Benton also faces charges in Emmet County.

MAN KILLED IN CRASH A 27-year-old Cheboygan man was killed when he lost control of his pickup on a curve and struck a tree.

Jeremy Wheeler died at the scene of the crash on South River Road near River Rest Road in Benton Township. Cheboygan County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene at 12:30am Nov. 4.

Investigators determined speed and alcohol were factors in the crash. Wheeler was alone in the car, and he was not wearing a seatbelt.

PAIR OF OVERDOSES REVERSED Two people were revived after each suffered apparent heroin overdoses in a car parked in a Traverse City McDonald’s parking lot.

Someone spotted two people slumped over in a vehicle Nov. 4 and, after knocking on the vehicle’s window repeatedly without response, called police at 7:41am.

Traverse City firefighters arrived to the E. Front Street location and administered an opiate overdose reversal drug, TCPD Chief Jeffrey O’Brien said.

The 23-year-old Traverse City woman and 28-year-old Northport man were taken to Munson Medical Center.

CLEANING FLUID ASSAULT REPORTED A 30-year-old woman told police that her boyfriend dumped cleaning fluid over her head during an argument, burning her eyes.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies investigated Nov. 6 at 5:25pm after the woman fled a home with her three-and-a-half-month-old daughter and called police from Lake Leelanau.

She said her 37-year-old boyfriend from Northport assaulted her at a residence on North West Bay Shore Drive in Leelanau Township.

by patrick sullivan psullivan@northernexpress.com

The woman was taken to Munson Medical Center, and deputies located her boyfriend, who was interviewed and arrested for domestic assault.

ANOTHER VEHICLE DRIVES INTO RIVER Another vehicle plunged into the Boardman River at the site of a reconstructed boat launch that was the scene of a 22-year-old woman’s death a month ago. This time, the two occupants of the vehicle were able to get out of their car and were not injured.

TCPD Chief Jeffrey O’Brien said the car, occupied by a couple from Benzonia, entered the river shortly before 8:30pm Nov. 4. Alcohol was not a factor, he said.

“They just thought it was an on-ramp to the [Grandview] Parkway,” O’Brien said.

Although the boat launch has been there for years, it was improved in a reconstruction project earlier this year. Since the completion of that project, this is the second vehicle that’s gone into the river.

On Oct. 4, Morgan Victoria Fawn Elmer drowned after her vehicle ended up in the river.

O’Brien said city officials will look at whether signs at the ramp need to be improved. He said it would be discussed by the city’s traffic committee.

HALLOWEEN CANDY INVESTIGATED Manistee Police are investigating after a resident turned in a possibly contaminated piece of Halloween candy.

The person turned in a bite-sized Reese’s peanut butter cup that had been collected during trick or treating in the area between 2nd and 4th streets west of US-31. On top of the candy there was “a noticeable green-particulate substance” police said.

The candy was sent to the Michigan State Police crime lab to be tested. Anyone with information should call the department at (231) 723-2533 TC DOCTOR JAILED A Traverse City doctor will spend 10 months locked up after he wrote fraudulent prescriptions for Ritalin.

Edward Brewster, M.D., was sentenced in federal court in Grand Rapids Nov. 6 after he pleaded guilty to charges. He also agreed to pay restitution to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge said in a press release.

TWO MORE CHARGED AFTER SHOOTING Two more suspects were arrested in connection with a home invasion that ended with a self-defense shooting last month in Cheboygan County.

Clifton Shanton Haines, 17, of Indian River, and Robert Alan Rickard, 21, of Cheboygan, face felony charges in connection with a home invasion that occurred in Benton Township Oct. 8.

Earlier, 19-year-old Cheboygan resident Charles Matthew Grimm was charged in the case with home invasion.

The three are accused of bursting into a home following an argument earlier in the day.

A teenage resident of the home defended himself and shot Grimm in the shoulder with a .22 rifle, deputies said.

Federal investigators said Brewster wrote over 150 fraudulent prescriptions for amounts of Ritalin that were five times the recommended dosage between 2006 and 2015. The prescriptions were in the names of seven different people.

Brewster started issuing fraudulent prescriptions before he graduated from medical school, wrote fraudulent prescriptions while he was on state court probation for a domestic violence conviction, and continued writing fraudulent prescriptions after being fired by a hospital for his prescribing practices, officials said.

Brewster’s girlfriend, Nicole Aiello, R.N., also pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting Brewster in illegally obtaining controlled substances. She will be sentenced in January.

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Good-Natured Weirdos Three teenagers from Rahway, New Jersey, who call themselves the Rahway Bushmen, have been discouraged from their signature prank: dressing up as bushes and popping up in Rahway River Park to say “Hi!” to unsuspecting passersby. NJ.com reported in October that the Union County Police Department warned the Bushmen that they would be arrested if caught in action. The high school students started by jumping out to scare people, but decided to soften their approach with a gentler greeting.

“We were trying to be harmless,” one of the Bushmen said. “It’s more or less an idea to try to make people smile.” But Union County Public Information Officer (and fun sucker) Sebastian D’Elia deadpanned: “It’s great until the first person falls and sues the county.” Or puts an eye out.

Animal Troublemakers -- Pilots were warned of “low sealings” at Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport in Utqiagvik, Alaska, on Oct. 23 because of an obstruction on the runway: a 450-pound bearded seal. Meadow Bailey of the Alaska Department of Transportation told KTVATV that the city, also known as Barrow, was hit by heavy storms that day, and airport staff discovered the seal while clearing the runway.

However, staff are not authorized to handle marine animals, so North Slope Animal Control stepped in, using a sled to remove the seal. Bailey said animals such as musk ox, caribou and polar bears are common on the runway, but the seal was a first.

-- About two dozen car owners in the Nob Hill neighborhood of Snellville, Georgia, were perturbed in late October by what they thought was vandalism: Their cars’ side mirrors were being shattered, even in broad daylight. Finally, according to WSBTV, one resident caught the real perpetrator: a pileated woodpecker who apparently believes his reflection in the mirrors is a rival. Because pileated woodpeckers are a protected species, neighbors had to get creative with their solution. They are now placing plastic bags over their side mirrors while the cars are parked.

Undignified Death Nathan William Parris, 72, met his unfortunate end when a cow he was trying to move turned against him at his farm in Floyd County, Georgia, on Oct. 25. Parris was pinned against a fence by the recalcitrant cow, reported the Rome News-Tribune, which caused him severe chest trauma. First responders tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the Redmond Regional Medical Center emergency room.

Ironies -- Workers at a Carl’s Jr. in Santa Rosa, California, were busy filling an order for 165 Super Star burgers for first responders to the Fountaingrove area wildfires on Oct. 26 when a grease fire broke out in the restaurant.

The fire started in the char broiler and then jumped to the exhaust system. Franchise co-owner Greg Funkhouser told The PressDemocrat the building was “completely torn up. ... We made it through the big one, only to get taken out by this.” When the person who placed the order arrived to pick it up, he saw six Santa Rosa Fire Department trucks in the

parking lot and left, so Funkhouser handed out free burgers to “anyone around.”

-- A Henrietta, New York, gifts and oddities store earned its name on Oct. 24 when a garbage truck rolled between two gas pumps and across a road to crash into the 200-year-old building where the store had opened in June. Jeri Flack, owner of A Beautiful Mess, told WHAM-TV that her building is “wrecked in the front so bad that I can’t open back up.” Witnesses say the truck driver pulled into a spot at a Sunoco station across the street and got out to use the restroom. That’s when the truck rolled away and barreled into the business. Sunoco employee T.J. Rauber said, “I see a lot of crazy stuff up here, but I ain’t never seen nothing like that.”

Least Competent Criminal Burglary suspect and career criminal Shane Paul Owen, 46, of South Salt Lake, Utah, was on the run from police on Oct. 24 when he dashed into a vacant church. A Salt Lake City SWAT team held a standoff at the church for more than six hours -- until Owen called 911 to say that he was locked in the church’s boiler room and couldn’t get out.

“Can you hurry?” he asked the dispatcher.

“I need to talk to them first so they don’t ... shoot me,” Owen pleaded. The Deseret News reported he was booked on outstanding warrants for retaliation against a witness, drug distribution and identity fraud.

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Two doctors from the University of Florence in Italy have documented the case of a woman who has been sweating blood from her face and the palms of her hands for about three years. Roberto Maglie and Marzia Caproni wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that the unnamed Italian woman couldn’t identify a trigger for the bleeding, but said times of stress would intensify it for periods of from one to five minutes. After ruling out the possibility that she was faking it, the doctors diagnosed her with hematohidrosis, a rare disease that causes blood to be excreted through the pores. They were able to treat her, but couldn’t completely stop the bleeding. The cause remains a mystery.

Thinning the Herd In Paris, a 21-year-old “train surfer” was killed on Oct. 24 when he fell to the train tracks after hitting an overhead obstacle.

His two friends, who were riding atop a train on Metro Line 6 with him, ran away from the scene, according to The Sun. The three had been attempting the stunt at the Bir-Hakeim Bridge during rush hour. The unnamed victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Katarian Marshall, 24, of New Orleans, Louisiana, apparently hit her limit of “fun” at a Chuck E. Cheese in Metairie on Oct. 29 and began “indiscriminately” spraying pepper spray on nearby patrons during an altercation that got out of hand. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff ’s Office told The TimesPicayune that five adults and two children were treated for exposure to the spray at the scene. Marshall was charged with disturbing the peace by fighting.

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Nichole Jones stands on the road after the improvment.

The road before the improvement.

LITTLE ROAD LOST Did Benzie County pave paradise? Or simply make a small patch of road safer and in line with today’s standards?

Some residents say a local road improvement project was no improvement at all.

By Patrick Sullivan A scenic rural road lined with sugar maples drew Nichole Jones and her husband to make their home in an out-of-the-way spot between Lake Ann and Interlochen.

She and her husband bought a onebedroom cabin there in 2010, improving and enlarging it over the years to make room for the two children that have since joined the family.

Recently, however, the Joneses’ small piece of tranquility was invaded. The thick stands of trees on each side of the road were clear cut, the road was widened, and segments of it were paved.

In the grand scheme of life Up North, it’s just a single stretch of road, and a small section at that, among thousands of miles of paved, dirt, and two-track roads that spider across the region. But for the residents who live along the once-picturesque track, it’s their road home.

TUNNEL OF TREES If you look at before-and-after photos of Fewins Road between Lake Ann and Reynolds roads in Inland Township, the stretch is unrecognizable after it was improved in 2016 and 2017.

“It just had this beautiful canopy,” Jones said. “My kids used to call it the ‘tunnel of trees.’ It was absolutely stunning. Gorgeous.

Senior pictures were taken on this hill.”

Jones vividly recalls the day in February 2016 that she arrived home and saw that dozens of the maple trees along the road, on their property and that of their neighbors had been marked for cutting.

“We were housesitting in Lake Ann, and

I came home, and all the front trees were marked, and we had no information about this,” she said. “And I instantly called my husband and I’m like, ‘What are you doing?’

Because he oftentimes actually cuts down trees to make things with them. And he was just like, ‘What are you talking about?’”

Upon closer inspection, the couple realized that all of the trees up and down the section of the road were marked to come down.

The couple quickly contacted the township and the road commission, but they learned that the decision to improve the road had already been made: The trees

trees had to be cut for safety; that section of Fewins Road didn’t meet the minimum standards to be a road, which must travel through a 30-foot-wide clearing and have a 20-foot-wide road bed.

Some residents who live on that stretch of the road showed up at the meeting to oppose the project.

One presented a petition signed by people who live on the road who were opposed to the tree clearing. Twenty people had signed, a number the presenter estimated to represent 90 percent of his neighbors. Another resident said he hadn’t

“If we’re going to improve a road, we have certain standards that we have to follow. It’s not as easy as making the road wider. We have to remove the trees, and we have to provide for storm water.” were in the road right-of-way. They would be coming down. And there was nothing the couple or their neighbors could do stop it.

NEIGHBORS OPPOSED THE PROJECT The Fewins Road project first appeared on the Inland Township board meeting agenda in February 2016, when, according to the minutes, Supervisor Paul Beechraft informed the board that he was working with the road commission to repair that section of Fewins Road with $14,000 the township had in its budget for road repairs.

The tree cutting came up at the next meeting, on March 14. Beechraft said the

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heard of the petition, and if he would have, he’d have signed it too.

Yet another said she was worried that there was no plan in place to finish the road, and she wondered why property owners weren’t given more notice about the tree cutting. She said she wasn’t given enough time to have the value of the timber on her land surveyed so that she could know what to do with it.

The fact that many residents along the road opposed the project didn’t matter, Beechraft said, because the road commission had deemed the road unsafe, so the township had no choice but to widen and grade the road.

Beechraft said in an interview that he thought that the petition presented at the meeting represented maybe half of the residents who lived on that section of road, not 90 percent.

Another meeting about the road project was convened in July, but by then all of the trees had been removed.

That August, the road commission needed a favor from the residents. To properly grade the road, it would need to ensure rainwater could drain into ditches at the roadside, which would require encroachment into the yards of 10 property owners. It requested easements from each of them. The Joneses and four of their neighbors refused to sign the easement agreements. Because only half signed, Beechraft said the road commission had to abandon the plan for ditches and go with an alternative: paving and creating curbs that would allow for water drainage.

Today, two sections of the road are paved while other parts of the road remain gravel.

SCENIC BUT DANGEROUS How did a picturesque country road become a patchwork of pavement, dirt, and denuded land? Matthew Skeels, Benzie County Road Commission manager, said the project started because the township asked the road commission to identify road projects, and the road commission identified that section of Fewins Road as a priority.

What the residents loved about the road made it a liability.

“It was a very narrow — really wasn’t even a gravel road, it was kind of almost a two-track. The trees were very close on either side of the road. It was basically a onelane road,” Skeel said.

Fire trucks and ambulances would have trouble getting to residents in an emergency, and road commission equipment had trouble operating there, he said.

And once the road was designated for improvement, it had to conform to modern standards for a road, Skeels said. That meant the grade had to be engineered, and the right-of-way had to be cleared.

“If we’re going to improve a road, we have certain standards that we have to follow,” Skeels said. “It’s not as easy as making the road wider. We have to remove the trees, and we have to provide for storm water.”

Skeels agrees that the project completely changed the character of the road, but he said the road commission and the township did attempt to inform residents and prepare them for the change as the project developed.

Beechraft also said the township surveyed area residents between 2008 and 2012 about what road projects people wanted to see happen in the township.

“That [road] was No. 1,” he said.

Beechraft said there was no choice but to go ahead with the project once the money was available.

“We as a township were given some projects that were labeled ‘safety projects,’ and that was one of them,” he said. “When funds became available, we contacted the road commission. Once the road commission labeled it a safety project, it becomes a liability issue.”

Beechraft agreed that the road had become a safety hazard; the top of the hill was a dangerous blind spot where there was barely room for two vehicles to pass.

“That hill was very, very bad,” he said.

Jones disagrees. She said she believes the safety issue was overblown.

“There was never any problem,” Jones said.

“The buses got down just fine. The Benzie County bus comes down here twice a day.

Before the trees went away, we never got stuck.”

She said the road only really deteriorated after the trees were removed, because then there was nothing holding the hill together, and it got rutted. Now, she is afraid that snow drifts will be much worse because the wind break created by the trees has been removed.

A SIGN OF GROWTH Beechraft said that as the population of eastern Benzie County increases, there is more traffic, and more traffic is hard on dirt and gravel roads. They become more expensive to maintain. They deteriorate and become more dangerous.

That section of Fewins Road is in an area that faces increasing development pressure because, as real estate prices in Traverse City have gone up, eastern Benzie County has become a bedroom community for commuters.

Inland Township’s population grew from 1,587 to 2,070 from 2000 to 2010, according to U.S. Census data. The Joneses live in the Interlochen zip code, which grew from 5,002 residents in 2000, to 6,253 in 2010, to an estimated 6,552 in 2015.

Susan Wilkinson, who lives across from the Joneses, doesn’t believe there’s been much of an increase in traffic on Fewins Road in the 11 years she’s lived there, however. She said she and other neighbors were completely caught by surprise by the project and were frustrated that by the time anybody learned about it, it was a done deal.

Wilkinson said the road looks OK now that the project is complete, but it’s nothing like it used to be.

“They did a nice job. As far as now that it’s done, it looks nice,” she said. “But it’s not the picturesque road that it used to be.”

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BEAR DOWN Northwest lower Michigan’s black bear population has grown 50 percent since 2000, and 29 percent in the last five years alone. With reports of bear-human conflict growing in kind, the DNR offered more bear-hunting licenses this season than the region has seen in years. But is its effort the right answer?

By Craig Manning Earlier this year, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced plans to make 7,140 bear hunting licenses available across the state.

That number marked a 244-license increase from 2016. The jump overall wasn’t huge, but it was significant compared to minor fluctuations in the state’s license totals over recent years.

It did, however, represent a substantial leap for one area in particular: the swath of land stretching south from Leelanau County to Muskegon.

The region, aka the Baldwin bear management unit, made 155 bear-hunting licenses available in 2017 — nearly double the 80 licenses it made available for the area in 2016, and more than 30 percent of the total increase in bear licenses this year.

In recent years, the region covered by the Baldwin bear management unit has increasingly become become a bear problem area — instances of bluff charges, dogs being killed, farms and beekeepers’ apiaries being raided, and more.

It isn’t that the bears in the unit’s counties — which include Benzie, Grand Traverse, Manistee, and Wexford — are particularly unruly, of course. It’s simply that the bear population is growing in lower Michigan, and fast. Statewide, the Department of Natural Resources estimates that there are about 12,500 black bears in Michigan — 10,000 in the Upper Peninsula and 2,500 in the Mitten. But unlike the Upper Peninsula, the Lower Peninsula’s bear population is up a reported 50 percent since 2000.

Along with the growth has come a spike in human-bear conflicts in northwest lower Michigan in particular. And for the DNR, hunting is the primary means of preventing these kinds of incidents.

“In Michigan, we use hunting as a method to control population and distribution of animals,” said Katie Keen, a wildlife communications coordinator with the DNR. “We use it not only to lower the

number in the landscape out in the woods but also to target specific areas.”

For any type of animal, “targeting specific areas” means establishing management units and allocating a certain number of hunting licenses per unit. Michigan’s bear hunting territory is split into 10 management units, each of which gets its own license allotment and bear hunting season dates. (The Baldwin bear management unit had its bear hunting season in mid-September; as of press time, the total number of bears taken by hunters statewide and in the Baldwin unit were not yet available.) The units are determined by two primary factors: animal population and what Keen calls “social considerations.”

To start, the DNR looks at how many people live in an area to assess the risk of human-animal conflicts. Agriculture is another consideration. Areas with lots of farming might have more hunting license allowances, as a means of protecting fruit trees and other crops that could be damaged.

Keen says the DNR has been keeping an eye on Michigan’s bear population for the past several years, knowing that 2017 was the year marked for proposed changes to bear-hunting regulations. The DNR’s research involved tracking population growth, listening to reports from multiple parties (including hunters, land owners, and sportsman groups), and more. When the DNR went to adjust bear tag quotas, Baldwin was an area of focus.

In Baldwin and beyond, the increased bear hunting quotas generated a considerable amount of interest. Throughout the state, the DNR received more than 56,000 bear hunting license applications this year — 4,000 more than in 2016.

The question is whether the extra bear hunting will help prevent human-bear conflicts going forward. The DNR’s reliance on hunting as the primary population control strategy for animals suggests it thinks the increase will be beneficial.

Others, meanwhile, aren’t so sure.

According to Wendy Keefover, Carnivore Protection Manager with the Wildlife

Department of the Humane Society of the United States, the claim that increasing hunting will decrease human-bear conflicts is a fallacy. In fact, she said that there are no fewer than nine separate studies indicating that hunting bears does nothing to prevent these conflicts.

The biggest problem, Keefover said, is bear baiting: setting up buckets or piles of food in the woods to attract bears — usually weeks before bear hunting season begins.

The idea is to lure bears into certain areas and get them accustomed to feeding there.

That way, when a hunter comes along, the bears are easy targets. Unfortunately, this process has unintended consequences.

“Baiting habituates bears to human scents and can stimulate negative bearhuman interactions,” Keefover said. “Bears that become habituated to human foods become less shy and more unpredictable.”

Keefover cited other problems with bear baiting, too. For instance, many bear baits use candy donuts, and other junk foods that are toxic not only to bears, but also to dogs, foxes, rabbits, and other animals. Other baits are left to rot and spoil, making them even more hazardous for wildlife. And bear baits also concentrate animals in one area, increasing the risk of disease or parasite transmission.

“Michigan is one of only 13 states that allows baiting of bears, and it is a practice that is fundamentally contrary to the principles of ‘fair-chase’ hunting,” Keefover said. “In addition, baiting bears increases the bear population, which is often against an agency’s objective [of reducing black bear populations]. By baiting bears, more bears survive and more pregnant females gain enough calories to birth more cubs in springtime.”

Keefover hopes that Michigan will at very least prohibit bear baiting and bear hounding — another commonly outlawed practice that is legal here but controversial because it’s considered cruel to both the dogs “hounding” the bear and the bear itself. Progress toward such goals might be

underway. Earlier this year, the National Resources Commission approved a DNR proposal to ban bear baits that use chocolate and cocoa derivatives because they contain theobromine, which can poison bear, raccoons, dogs, and other animals. Of the states that allow bear baiting, only New Hampshire beat Michigan to the punch banning these types of baits.

Ultimately, though, Keefover would prefer to see Michigan employ entirely different methods of bear control. The Humane Society holds that by educating the public about black bear benefits, enforcing codes concerning humans and bears, managing trash, and using aversive conditioning (or “hazing”), wildlife agencies could prevent human-bear conflicts without hunting. Yosemite National Park reportedly decreased human-bear conflicts by 92 percent by implementing these types of strategies.

To discuss the future of state bear policy, there will be a Michigan Bear Forum meeting on December 16 at the Little Bear East Arena in St. Ignace. Brought together by the DNR, the Michigan Bear Forum is “a group of individuals representing various sportsmen’s clubs, the U.S. Forest Service, the agricultural community, and nonaffiliated bait and hound hunters throughout the state.” Topics will include 2017 bear harvest statistics, population estimates, management strategies, and state regulations. DNR representatives will also be on hand to discuss the Michigan Bear Management Plan, which has not been formally updated since 2008. The meeting runs from 10 am to 4 pm and is open to the public.

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The Storytellers Preserving the art of the spoken word Up North

Long before there were books, plays, television, or movies, there was storytelling — stories shared while traveling, tales told around campfires, legends and myths passed from generation to generation.

Though electronic devices and technology have long since taken center stage as most of the world’s primary means of entertainment, there remains a small contingent who have held fast to the primordial art of storytelling. Here, we profile three people in northern Michigan who have found success weaving only words and voice to ignite the imaginations of their audiences. By Kristi Kates

TERRY WOOTEN The Stone Circle, Elk Rapids

Terry Wooten says he’s a little different than the average storyteller.

“I call myself a ‘poet-bard,’ although I do also do stories around my poems.”

He’s entitled to self-title; the Marion, Michigan-raised poet-bard has committed over 560 poems to memory, word for word.

And every summer for the last 34, audiences from around the region — and around the world — have flocked to hear those words and countless others at The Stone Circle, Wooten’s outdoor amphitheater 10 miles north of Elk Rapids.

The Stone Circle amphitheater, essentially 88 large boulders that Wooten gathered on the south end of property he shares with his wife, Wendi, draws storytellers, musicians, poets, and listeners every Saturday night in the summer.

“So often, performers try to perform at a bar or restaurant where there’s talking, and people just aren’t paying attention,” Wooten says. “I wanted to make a place where the words are the focus. I believe that wanting to listen to stories is in our DNA, especially around a fire at night. The Stone Circle captures the atmosphere of ancient cultures that gathered in family and community groups to entertain and exchange stores of everyday life and lore.”

Wooten has been a poet since he was a teenager and has been traveling around the country since then to perform his works at everything from festivals and arts conferences to universities.

“But schools don’t want what I do as much as they used to,” he says. “I do think I’ve accomplished something in this day and age that’s unusual — making a living at poetry without being attached to a university. But I guess I’m also a little backwards — I’m on Facebook, and I email, but other than those, I don’t do much on the internet. I seldom even use my phone.”

Probably because he’s busy creating poetry. A lot of his early poems, he says, were in his own voice, speaking of his own experiences. Then he started a long-term collection called “The Elders Project,” which snagged him the 2013 State History Award in Education from the Historical Society of Michigan.

“I taught people, mostly kids, how to record interviews with elders — folks 80, 90, even 100 years old,” he says. “I then taught them how to turn the elders’ words into poems. Most recently, I’ve been interviewing some WWII vets and a Vietnam vet as part of The Elders Project, also writing poems from the words of the vets.”

Wooten’s own words have also been the subject of plenty of attention.

A book of his works, “Stone Circle Poems: The Collected Poems of Terry Wooten,” was selected by the Library of Michigan as one of their 2016 Notable Books of the Year. Just prior to that, his longtime friend, director and producer Patrick Pfister, filmed a documentary about Wooten’s life and about The Stone Circle.

“Patrick grew up in Detroit, but he’s lived in Barcelona, Spain, for years, and he decided to bring a film crew here several years ago,” Wooten says.

“They stayed for a month, and 32 poets and storytellers came back to perform at the venue and talk on the film, which was mixed later out in Los Angeles.”

The resulting movie, “The Stone Circle,” is being entered in American and European film festivals, including the 2018 Traverse City Film Festival, which would put Wooten’s intimate fireside gatherings and poetry on the big screen.

Learn more: terry-wooten.com, (231) 264-9467.

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“We’ve been storytellers for 11 years,” says Jim Couling, in reference to himself and his wife, Mary, who is also a vocalist. “And we even have storyteller names — I’m Wood Smoke Jim, and she’s River Lark.”

The couple, who live in Traverse City, first became interested in storytelling 11 years ago through a challenge placed by their daughter Emily.

“We’d gone to a storytelling event in Ontario, Canada, and the storyteller was so bad that she said, ‘Hey, if he can do this, then you can do it,’” Couling says.

“I love the thought of ‘when does an idea begin?’” he said. “When is that moment?

What if I could be a doctor? Have an antique shop? Make my grandmother’s famous fudge? A lot of people have a lot of great ideas, but don’t know where to begin.”

The Coulings began by observing walking tours in their travels to places like Wisconsin, Florida, and Scotland. “We watched how other people did it, and being a theater family, we took notes,” Couling said. (The Coulings have six children. One daughter is an actor, director, and vocalist, living in Chicago; a son, also in Chicago, runs a theater company.)

Today, they offer a variety of different storytelling tours on topics like voyageurs, lumbermen, Native Americans, women of the North, and more; one of their most popular local jaunts is their Ghost Walk, a 90-minute walking tour in which they share reported tales about paranormal phenomena in four-minute sets staged at different locations around Traverse City.

“Perhaps you don’t know that there are ghost ships on the Great Lakes, or that all lighthouses are haunted,” says Couling. “I’ve also been exploring the City Opera House and some of the basements in downtown Traverse City — and of course, everybody loves a prohibition story.”

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The walks start at the Bijou Theater and wind around through downtown as Couling and his wife tell a wide variety of tales along the way.

“It’s interesting,” Couling says about their paranormal tour. “People don’t realize that almost everyone has experiences that aren’t easily explainable. It’s a wonderful human experience to have something unusual happen to you, and to have people to talk to about it.”

The tours, he said, aren’t merely a storytelling venue for himself and his wife,

but also a way to give people a place to talk and to share their own stories.

“We really need to communicate verbally more with each other,” he says.

“Storytelling hits a deeper part of us. When I say I’m ready to embrace the mysteries and listen to yours as well — well, that’s an experience that is lost in this modern age’s maze of the internet.”

Learn more: (906) 440-5910.

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JENIFER STRAUSS Story Be Told, Traverse City

Jenifer Strauss ended her teaching job and started her own unique version of a storytelling career because of a bunch of sixth graders.

“I taught for 10 years,” she says, “and it was in my last year of teaching a sixth grade classroom that I learned the power of storytelling to inspire kids to write. I had them tell their story out loud, edit it out loud, and revise it out loud — and that process helped them lose their fear of writing.” That class inspired Strauss to quit teaching in 1993, and launch her business, Story Be Told, that same year.

“I’m so grateful I can make a living doing this,” she says.

Strauss, while in many ways a classic storyteller, sees the art as more valuable than just entertainment; she utilizes it as a learning tool and works as a narrative consultant.

“I started as a performing business, running writing workshops,” Strauss said.

“And I do coach storytellers and public speakers to help them fine-tune their skills of content and delivery. But I also help people use stories to achieve their personal or business goals, or to sell their products.”

The human brain, she said, accepts stories better than straightforward marketing. So part of her job is to help companies put together banks of stories they can utilize when discussing deals with clients.

“Most of my storytelling is personal narrative,” she says. “I developed my own process called The Turning Points Narrative Process, via which I help people find and

tell their own personal stories. It’s a series of searching activities that helps people hone a story from their own life and write it.”

That’s not to say she’s not showcasing her own storytelling skills, though.

“Oh, I still perform all the time,” she says. “At spoken word events, conferences, luncheons, schools — a whole variety of things.”

Places you might have seen her speaking include Here:Say, the storytelling event that takes place at the Workshop Brewing Company in Traverse City, where she performs regularly. She’s a featured performer at the Leelanau Outdoor Center and works with additional organizations like Arts for All and the Old Mission Peninsula School. She’s offering a class at NMC this fall and winter called “Change Your Story, Transform Your Life.”

“I’ll guide participants through my Turning Points Process to help them identify pivotal events that have changed the course of their life, change the ‘telling’ of stories from their past, and create or intend the future story they wish to live,” she says.

In her own stories, she speaks of life experience, family, mistakes, heartaches, and overcoming obstacles, all with an aim to inspire and entertain.

“I have close to 500 stories in my repertoire,” says Strauss. “So I can put together a program using anything from personal experiences to folk tales. Sometimes I get hired for a specific theme, so I’ll research specific stories for that as well, to inspire people. All stories need to be told.”

Learn more: storybetold.com (269) 838-8361

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AFTER THE WAR National Writers Series brings two of the nation’s renowned war writers to Traverse City; retired U.S. diplomat and Vietnam vet Jack Segal to host.

Sebastian Junger’s non-fiction work “The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea” was later adapted to film. He is also a filmmaker whose 2010 documentary Restrepo was nominated for an Oscar.

By Clark Miller Why do so many returning soldiers now fall into depression when they return from war?

Bestselling authors Sebastian Junger and Philip Caputo tackle this question when they appear on stage together this Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 7 pm at City Opera House as part of the National Writers Series. Doors open at 6pm.

Host for the event will be Northern Express columnist and retired U.S. diplomat Jack Segal, who served as an Army officer in Vietnam.

Junger, a war journalist, filmmaker, and author of “Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging,” postulates that for a vast number of veterans, a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) reflects what happens to them after war as much — if not more — than their direct experience of wartime violence.

He in no way diminishes the severity of deep-seated, chronic PTSD. But those cases represent a relatively small minority of reported diagnoses. He focuses mostly on how we might better understand and support veterans with lesser, more easily treatable symptoms.

THE GREAT DIVIDE In this era of multiple deployments and seemingly endless conflicts, a big part of the problem with reintegrating into civilian life for that large group of returning soldiers, Junger argues, is that modern society “has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary” — and that feeling is the exact opposite of the wartime experience.

He says that, at a minimum, we need to give vets the opportunity to make their stories part of the fabric of American life. They need to be able to contribute to the country for which they have fought. Most urgently, they need jobs that pay a living wage.

RELYING ON THE TRIBE Junger says veterans re-entering civilian life face another problem: During war they have become members of a close-knit “tribe.”

For many, that bond is hard to give up.

Junger knows without doubt that war is hell, but it is also life (or at least the struggle to stay alive), writ large. Soldiers have a clear role to play, and even those who gripe about it, know that it is more than just a job.

They live in cramped quarters with members of their unit, with whom they share the drudgery and dangers of war. Respect is earned through service and sacrifice — values that define daily life in a war zone.

Close personal bonds arise, generally most intensely at the small-unit level.

Like those who have preceded them in countless other wars, today’s warriors might start out fighting for country and flag. But as Junger points out, priorities change. In the end, most simply want to do everything in their power — including, if necessary, giving up their lives — to keep their buddies safe from harm.

To understand that level of commitment, consider what happens when a “tribe” member goes rogue, as happened with Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who, of his own accord, abandoned his post in Afghanistan.

“Any of us would have died for him while he was with us,” said former platoon mate, Sgt. Josh Korder. “And then for him to just leave us like that, it was a very big betrayal.”

(Korder has a tattoo on his back. It lists the names of the three soldiers who died trying to rescue Bergdahl.)

THE CRASH The flip side of this intense loyalty to the tribe is all too often a psychological crash upon returning home. There is nothing

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to replace that closeness, that feeling of belonging. It seems that everything has suddenly changed. As Junger has written, “In combat, soldiers all but ignore differences of race, religion, and politics within their platoon. It’s no wonder many of them get so depressed when they come home.”

A RUMOR OF WAR Junger’s perspective on war is rooted in his experiences as a journalist in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere, and is backed up by extensive research. By comparison, Philip Caputo’s 1977 classic, “A Rumor of War,” comes from his harrowing service as a young Marine lieutenant in the early days of the Vietnam War. “A Rumor of War” is a visceral, personal tale of war — just the sort of book Caputo felt was needed at the time. In a postscript to the latest edition, he writes, “I did not want to tell anyone about the war but to show it.”

His underlying purpose was to “make people uncomfortable — in effect, to blow them out of their snug polemical bunkers into the confusing, disturbing emotional and moral no-man’s land where we warriors dwelled.”

Fast forward to today, and Caputo believes the societal fissures made apparent during the Vietnam era still plague America.

“It would be inaccurate, dangerously so, to say that that disruption has ended,” he writes, adding that the social divisions “between hawk and dove, black and white, have spread and spiderwebbed, so that now the great American tribe is split into subtribes: Hispanic or Anglo, gay or straight, feminist or antifeminist, prochoice or pro-life.”

To that list, Junger has added the problems of widening income disparities between rich and poor, ever more frequent shooting rampages and a trend toward making false

After Vietnam, Philip Caputo joined the Chicago Tribune, where he was a member of a Pulitzer prize-winning team of journalists that uncovered election fraud in Chicago.

He has written five books of nonfiction and eight novels.

His latest work, the novel “Some Rise By Sin,” will be published this year.

accusations against political rivals.

In short, both authors seem to agree that America’s social ills make for a sharply divided country, and that creates special challenges for veterans as they try to reintegrate into civilian life.

Tickets to the National Writers Series can be purchased online at cityoperahouse.org, by phone at 231-941-8082 or by visiting the City Opera House box office at 106 East Front St., Traverse City.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. Robin Bunker, Ashley Kamp, and Lori Thomas stopped for a cocktail at the new Mammoth Distilling tasting room in TC. 2. Mixologists Loki and Robert are doing their thing at 123 W. Front, the Traverse City speakeasy.

3. The Lake Leelanau Rowing Club poses during their home regatta, The Leelanau Chase.

4. Andy, Dan, Dani, Kyle, and Irma enjoying the seen at Recess at Great Wolf Lodge.

5. KK of Pond Hill Farm shows off his veggies to Ingrid Day at the (indoor) Boyne City farmers market.

6. Leelanau County farmer Jim Bardenhagen got into the apple mood at the “Apple Crunch Day” event celebrating farm-to-school foods at Glen Lake School.

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nov 11

saturday

FREE VETERANS BREAKFAST: 8-10am, NCMC, cafeteria, Iron Horse Café, Petoskey. Held for veterans & their families. ncmich.edu

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THISTLE & THREAD ART SHOW AND SALE: 8am-4pm, TC VFW Post. Free.

VASA TRAIL RUN 5K, 10K & 25K: 9am1pm, Vasa Trail Head, Williamsburg. runvasa.com

-------------------HOLIDAY ART MARKET: 10am-4pm, The Children’s House, TC. Featuring a wide array of local artisans & craftspeople. traversechildrenshouse.org

-------------------HOLIDAY BOOK SALE & CRAFT SHOPPE: 10am-3pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. Featuring gently used books & puzzles plus crafts. Friends members get one free book. Proceeds benefit BPL programs. 231-882-4111. benzonialibrary.org

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10amnoon: Bill O. Smith will sign his book “4 AM December 25.” 12-2pm: Kim G. Overton will sign her book “Nathan and Father: A Walk of Wonder.” 2-4pm: Sue McVey will sign her book “A Guide to the Traverse City Area Craft Beer Scene.” 4-6pm: Book Launch Party with Karen Anderson, author of “Gradual Clearing: Weather Reports from the Heart.” horizonbooks.com

-------------------JORDAN RIVER ARTS COUNCIL HOLIDAY ARTS FAIR: 10am-4pm, East Jordan Middle/High School.

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SHOP YOUR COMMUNITY DAY: Shop Downtown TC & 15% of your purchase amount will be donated to the charity of your choice. 922-2050. downtowntc.com

-------------------THE GREAT BEERD RUN: 10am, GT Resort & Spa, Pavilion Tent, Acme. This 5K fun run features on course beer tastings from Beards Brewery, Short’s Brewery & Right Brain Brewery. There will also be a post-race beer tent featuring a Best Beard Contest, race grub & music. For ages 21+. thegreatbeerdrun.com

-------------------TRAVERSE CITY CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL: 10am-2pm, City Opera House, TC. A celebration of literacy & family.

Featuring a sampling of books for the entire family from a variety of Michigan & national publishers. There will also be kid-friendly activities & crafts. Free. tcchildrensbookfestival.com

-------------------ARMISTICE/VETERANS DAY: 11am, The Open Space, TC. Veterans for Peace will honor those from Michigan who died in war in Afghanistan and Iraq; also civilian war casualties and military suicides. Taps will be played. The reading of the names of those fallen follows. vfp50.org

-------------------BAY VIEW WINE TRAIL HARVEST CRUISE: 11am-6pm, Bay View Wine Trail wineries. Enjoy wine paired with small plates of homemade delights at each of the wineries—including Crooked Vine, Harbor Springs Winery at Pond Hill Farm, Mackinaw Trail Winery, Maple Moon Sugarbush & Winery, Petoskey Farms Vineyard & Winery, Resort Pike Cidery, Royal Farms, Rudbeckia Farm & Winery, Seasons of the North & Walloon Lake Winery. $30. bayviewwinetrail.com

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: Nov. 10-18. Stop by each ‘Suds Spot’ & receive three 4 oz. brew tastes when you turn in a ticket. Suds Spots include Right Brain, Jolly Pumpkin, Blue Tractor Barbecue, The Mitten Brewing Co., Northport, North Peak, Sleder’s, The Filling Station & The Workshop Brewing Co. $25. mynorthtickets.com

FLAPJACK & FLANNEL FESTIVAL: 1-7pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Presented by Create TC. Wear your flannel & drink brews paired with flapjacks. Live music by Jack Pine and Hot N Bothered. $25. mynorthtickets.com

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FESTIVE HOLIDAY TREATS-COOKING DEMO: 2pm, Mills Community House, Lower Level Home of Benzonia Public Library. With Audrey & Anna. Participants will enjoy appetizer & dessert trays following the program. Info. & sign-up: 231-882-4111.

Free. benzonialibrary.org

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

-------------------VETERANS DINNER: 5pm, Cheboygan Knights of Columbus Hall. Free for vets; donations will be accepted for family & friends.

-------------------“ROBIN HOOD”: 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company. $6-$15. mynorthtickets.com

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BACK PORCH COFFEEHOUSE SERIES: 7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center building. Featuring Roger Brown, whose songs span the roots of American music from folk to country to blues. Brown has also written music for Ringo Starr. There will be a circle jam at 8:30pm. $10 per person suggested donation.

-------------------TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: 7pm, Central High School Auditorium, TC. $15-25. mynorthtickets.com

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SWEET DREAMS & HONKY TONK: 7:30pm, The Opera House, Cheboygan. $20 adults, $10 children. theoperahouse.org

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Depending on the weather, Santa will arrive at the Great Wolf Lodge, TC by either helicopter or firetruck on Sat., Nov. 18 at noon. This NW MI Toys for Tots Kickoff will run until 2pm and also include children’s activities, tours of the helicopter or firetruck, a choir singing Christmas carols and more. For more info on this free event, visit: traverse-city-mi. toysfortots.org

HIP HOP, A NORTHERN MICHIGAN HIP HOP SHOW: 8-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring local hip hop artists including Dreeb, Noemad, Braedon the Faded, King RAYN, LiL Luke, Nick Spencer and Nauseous. $8. redskystage.com

GREAT HOUSES & GARDENS OF YORKSHIRE: 1-3pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. With Karen & Kurt Schmidt. A sampling of English desserts will follow the presentation. Register. Free. thebotanicgarden.org/events

LAMBS RETREAT SONGWRITERS CONCERT: 8pm, Birchwood Inn, Harbor Springs.

Featuring Laurie McClain, Severin Browne, Karen Mal, David Stoddard & Michael Kelsey. Hosted by John D. Lamb. 231-5262151. $15. springfed.org

“ROBIN HOOD”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company. $6-$15. mynorthtickets.com

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MAY ERLEWINE: 8pm, The Elk’s, third floor, Cadillac. Presented by Gopherwood Concerts. Although Erlewine’s music includes traditional folk roots, old time country swing, soul & rock & roll, it’s mostly about feeling & telling life’s stories. Advance tickets: $15 adults, $7 students, free for 12 & under. Door: $18; $9. gopherwoodconcerts.org

nov 12

sunday

VETERAN’S SUNDAY: Fresh Wind Christian Community, Interlochen.

Honoring all area veterans.

Featuring guest speaker Congressman & retired three-star general Jack Bergman. Services at 9am & 11am. freshwindchristiancommunity.org

-------------------BAY VIEW WINE TRAIL HARVEST CRUISE: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

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HUNGER & HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS WEEK: FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION: 11am-1pm, State Theatre, TC. The Homeless Youth Initiative & Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project are screening the film, “Wendy and Lucy,” followed by a panel discussion with the Youth Advisory Board. Free. facebook.com/fighthungerandhomelessnesstc

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

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--------------------------------------INSIGHTS ON CUBA: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Tom & Sarah Juntune will present this program on their recent Road Scholar trip to Cuba. 231331-4318.

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TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: 2pm, Central High School Auditorium, TC. $15-25. mynorthtickets.com

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MOZART + MENDELSSOHN - TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium.

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gold medalist Ralph Votapek returns to the Symphony stage. Tickets start at $25.50. traversesymphony.org

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LAST THINGS WITH THOMAS LYNCH: 4-6pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. This poet, funeral director & author of “The Undertaking, Bodies in Motion and at Rest” & “The Good Funeral” will be speaking about death, grief, burial & cremation. Free. petoskeylibrary.org

-------------------HOLIDAY WINE MARKET SWIRL: 5-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Galleries, Petoskey. Hosted by Symons General Store. This event will pair 30 wines & appetizers. Live music by Chris Koury. $20 advance; $25 day of. crookedtree.org

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NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. An Evening with Murray Howe. This author of “Nine Lessons I Learned From My Father” is a son’s intimate account of all that lies behind the towering legacy of Gordie Howe. Featuring guest

host WTCM’s Ron Jolly. Tickets start at $15.50; $5.50 + tickets fees for students. cityoperahouse.org/nws-murray-howe

nov 13

monday

VETERAN’S DAY TRIBUTE: NMC, TC. Free breakfast for veterans in West Hall at 8:30am. Walk of honor, 9:10am. Flagraising at main campus flag poles, 9:30am. nmc.edu

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: (See Sat., Nov. 11) -------------------GLIMMERS OF HOPE, ACME: 6pm, Samaritas Senior Living Facility, Acme. Presented by Anne Bodnar with Munson Home Health. Find ways to cope with the loss of a loved one through the holiday season.

Register: 922-4911. Free.

-------------------AUDITIONS FOR “ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: 7-9pm, OTP Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. This classic comedy has roles for three to eight women & six to eleven men. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: 7pm, McLaren Northern Michigan, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. Featuring “Meal Planning for One or Two.” mclaren.org

-------------------GT HUMANISTS PROGRAM: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Featuring “The Ottaway: A River Reborn,” followed by a Q & A with the filmmaker. This documentary explores the history & future of the Boardman River. 231-392-1215. Free. gthumanists.org

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

nov 14

tuesday

COFFEE @ TEN, PETOSKEY: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey. Decorating for the Holidays with CJ Zondervan. Free. crookedtree.org

-------------------COFFEE @ TEN, TC: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Featuring artists who will be in the Merry Makers Marketplace holiday art fair. Free. crookedtree.org

-------------------LET’S PLAY!: 10am, Petoskey District Library, Children’s Program Room. With Andrea Donahoe, early childhood educator.

For ages 0-5. Caregivers can ask questions about their child’s development. petoskeylibrary.org

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CONNECTING WOMEN IN BUSINESS LUNCHEON: 11:30am-1pm, NCMC, Library Conference Room, Petoskey. Liz Ahrens of Crooked Tree Arts Center will lead a panel discussion about “The Business of Art,” & will include area artists Margaret Tvedten, Penny Kristo & Heidi Amenda Marshall. $17 CWIB members; $22 not-yet-members. petoskeychamber.com

-------------------FRIENDLY GARDEN CLUB MEETING: The Bluewater Hall, Greilickville. Help make Thanksgiving centerpieces that will be distributed to area churches for Thanksgiving dinner. Lunch will be held at 11:30am & the program at 12:15pm. Lunch reservations: 231-360-6755. Free.

-------------------WRITERS GROUP: 1pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Review a member’s writing sample. 231-331-4318.

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

-------------------FREE CPR CLASS: 6-7:30pm, McLaren Northern Michigan, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. Presented by McLaren Northern Michigan Stroke & Brain Injury Support Group & Emmet County EMS. mclaren.org

-------------------GRATITUDE GATHERING & DINNER TO BENEFIT DANN’S HOUSE: 6-8pm, Blue Tractor Barn, TC. Dann’s House provides interim & supportive housing for people who have been experiencing chronic homelessness & also suffer from severe alcohol use disorder. 231-883-5105. $40. dannshouse.org

-------------------CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: 6:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. The Traverse City Central Neighborhood Association will meet. The agenda includes a TCAPS representative discussing Thirlby Field activities & CNA northeast boundary.

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CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY TC MEETING: 6:30-8:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new, come at 6pm for an introduction to CCL. citizensclimatelobby.org

-------------------THE LEGEND LIVES ON...: 6:30pm, Charlevoix Public Library Community Room. Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Bruce Lynn takes a look at the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald. Free. charlevoixlibrary.org

-------------------‘THE PROTEIN MYTH; ANIMAL PROTEIN VS. PLANT PROTEIN,’ ‘HOLIDAY’ TASTING THEME.: 6:30-8pm, Timber Ridge Conference Center, TC. Presented by Plant-based Lifestyle Traverse City. Regis-

ter: eventbrite.com pbltc.org

-------------------AUDITIONS FOR “ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Mon., Nov. 13)

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PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY PROGRAM: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, Harbor Springs. Learn about Local American Kestrel Conservation Efforts with Cacia Lesh & Jim Bean.

nov 15

wednesday

LIVING ARTFULLY LECTURE SERIES: 11am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey. The Creative Life - Seeing with New Eyes. With local artist & author Edy Stoughton. Free. crookedtree.org

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: (See Sat., Nov. 11) -------------------MAKER AFTERNOONS: LEGO BUILDING “WhereLeland Friends Gather” CHALLENGE: Township Library.

Featuring Super Greek Foodkids ages Each Thursday from 3:30-4:30pm, in a to Relaxed Atmosphere 9+ are invited drop by & explore a different S.T.E.A.M.-based activity. A healthy snack TUESDAY NIGHT will be provided. Free. lelandlibrary.org

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HOPE FOR THE HOLIDAYS: 10:30am, Kalkaska Civic Center. Learn how to prepare for & survive the holiday blues, for those grieving the loss of a loved one. Hosted by Heartland Hospice. Free.

BENZIE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 012 5-7pm, 2Hotel Frankfort. starts at 8pm - - - - - - - - - - - -WIN - -GIFT -----ELK RAPIDS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: CERTIFICATES! 5-7pm, Riverside Title, Elk Rapids. Free.

214 E Front St • Downtown Traverse City business.elkrapidschamber.org

ZONTA CLUB OF TC PROGRAM: Noon, Hagerty Center, TC. Executive Director of Norte & TED Talk presenter Ty Schmidt will be the guest speaker. Reserve your seat: rhondal.estes@gmail.com $16. zontacluboftraversecity.org

PETOSKEY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Beards Brewery, Petoskey. $7 members; $12 not-yet-members. In honor of No Shave November, attendees are encouraged to make a donation to the Cancer Assistance Program for McLaren Northern Michigan. petoskeychamber.com/businessafter-hours

AUTHOR PRESENTATION & SIGNING: 4:30pm, Leelanau Historical Society, Leland. Jack Hobey presents “Edward Beebe’s Historic Leelanau Photographs.” leelanauhistory.org

IAF LECTURE: 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. “Russia 2018: Putin’s Last Act?” Free admission for current students & educators. $15 others.

995-1700. nmc.edu

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-------------------CHARLEVOIX BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Villager Pub, Charlevoix.

Free for Chamber members; $10 non-members. charlevoix.org

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LADIES’ NIGHT OUT: 5-8pm, Downtown Harbor Springs. Shop & enjoy dinner specials.

-------------------DEER CAMP WIDOW CRAFT NIGHT: 5:30pm, Leland Township Library. Bring your sense of humor & join artists Laura Sprout, Sarah Mead Wall & Michelle White for an evening of craft (crap) making & wine. Sponsored by Good Harbor Vineyards. Free. lelandlibrary.org

-------------------THE CONSTANT READER BOOK GROUP: 5:30pm, Leland Township Library.

A book group for people who love to read & read a lot, 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

-------------------AUTHOR TALK WITH ROBERT DOWNES : 7-8:30pm, Higher Self Bookstore, TC. Downes is the author of “Windigo Moon, Life in the Great Lakes 400 Years Ago.” $20. higherselfbookstore.com

-------------------AUTHOR, HISTORIAN & GENEALOGIST CHRIS CZOPEK: 7pm, Otsego County Library, Gaylord. Chris will share his vast knowledge of Michigan’s Civil War soldiers.

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NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. An Evening with Sebastian Junger & Phil Caputo. These two writers talk about war & peace in a fractured America. Featuring guest host Jack Segal.

Tickets start at $15.50; $5.50 for students. cityoperahouse.org/nws-sebastian-junger

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thursday

NOVEMBER GEEK BREAKFAST: 8am, Bubba’s, TC. A casual monthly community-driven 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.

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TC BEER WEEK: Mon (See -Sat., Nov. 11) Night - - - - - - - - - - drinks - -Ladies -& $5- martinis - - -- $1-off- NCMC LUNCHEON LECTURE: 11:30am, with Jukebox NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Dr. Dennis & Lindsey TuesMcGeath - $2 well drinks & shots Griffes, Petoskey High School’s certified open mic w/host Chris Sterr athletic trainer, will talk about the growing understanding of the brain injuries that Wed -can Get sustain it in the can forvariety $1 w/ DJofRyan Zuker& athletes in a sports the potential lifetime impacts that can result.

Thurs - $1 off all required: drinks w/Chris Sterr & Ron Getz Band Reservations 231.348.6600. $12; includes lunch.

- -Fri- Nov - - 17 - ---Happy - - -Hour: - - -Jazz - -North ---MERRY MAKERS MARKETPLACE: 2-6pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Buckets 30 of Beer starting at $7 from 2-8pm Featuring artists & artisans.

Free. crookedtree.org

then: The Lucas Paul Band

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HOLIDAY MARKET RECEPTION: 5-7pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring food, Sun Nov 19 : shopping.(10pm-2am) beverages & holiday The Holiday Market opens 19. oliverartcenterfrankus out at unionstreetstationtc.net 941-1930 downtownNov. TC check fort.org

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-------------------LADIES OPENING NIGHT: 5-10pm, Downtown Petoskey. Start your holiday shopping & create your wish list. Doe Camp at Stafford’s Perry Hotel at 8:30pm where you can win prizes off the buck pole. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------DEER WIDOWS WEEKEND: 6-8pm, The Village at GT Commons. Enjoy shopping, giveaways & more. thevillagetc.com

-------------------TALK WITH & TASTE CULINARY CREATIONS OF THE AUTHOR: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. With Chef Jim Voltz. Taste soups from Voltz’s newest book, “Soup on the Porch.” Reserve your spot: 231-347-1180. mcleanandeakin.com

KOMBUCHA HOME-BREWING 101: 6pm, Cultured Ferments, Co., 1610 Barlow, Suite 108, TC. Donation based for each class member that will be donated to a local charThe Way Back -Home ------------------ity. drinkcultured.com 16 at 7:30pm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Thursday, - - - -November - “THE BARN RAISERS”: 7pm, Empire BUGS AND BIRDS: 7pm, Boardman River County Township This Join Leelanau residentHall. & NBC’s Thedocumentary Voice finalist film Nature Center, TC. Featuring local expert explores Midwest barns through the lens of Joshua Davis for an evening of story and song commemorating Sharon Benjey. Free. grandtraverseauduarchitecture, building methods, barn styles the release of his new album: The Way Back Home. bon.org & materials. Question & answer session - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - with Steve Stier will follow. Presented by the TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESGlen Lake Community Library. Free. docuENTS “LES MISERABLES”: (See Sat., blogger.typepad.com/barn_movie -------------------Nov. 11) Tour & THE STARS: 7pm, City - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 35th - - -Anniversary - SWINGSHIFT Sunday, November at 2pm TC. and 7pm “TUCK EVERLASTING”: 7:30pm, InterloOpera19House, This dance-off is prechen Center for the Arts, Harvey Theatre.

by High Impact Productions.

The fall-downsented funny musical roast of Broadway targeting Donate Presented by Arts Academy Theatre Co. to the organization of your choice. Nov. over 30 shows you know – Annie, Hamilton, Pippin, $18 full, $16 senior, $11 youth. tickets. includes GT Pavilions/PACE, GT WaterKinky Boots, shed, Les Miz,Michael’s Wicked andPlace, more. Peace Ranch, Single interlochen.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MOMM & Young Life. TC Comissioner RichJOSHUA DAVIS: 7:30pm, City Opera ard Lewis & Holly Provenzano will dance House, TC. Join Leelanau County resident to “Suds in the Bucket” to coincide with the Joshua Davis for his only Traverse area theme of Wild, Wild West. $35, $30. citySaturday, November 25 at 11am and 1:30pm concert celebrating the national release of operahouse.org/swingshift-nov Just $9 | Best - - for- ages - - 4+ --------------his new record “The Way Back Home.” JoinCENTRAL ing Joshua will be his quintet & “Way Back A rockingTCAPS new musical based on HIGH the PeteSCHOOL The Cat PRES“LES MISERABLES”: Home” studio musicians: Michael Shimmin, series of ENTS books by Kimberly and James Dean.(See Sat., Nov. 11) Mike Lynch, Drew Howard, & an appear-------------------ance by Dominic Davis. $30. cityopera“TUCK EVERLASTING”: (See Thurs., Nov. house.org/joshua-davis 16)

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Christmas Songs and - - - -with - - - John - - - - Berry --------Stories 30’S & 40’S SWING & BIG BAND DANC-

Sunday, November 26 at 7pmRed Sky Stage, ING: 7:30-10:30pm, NMC LIFELONG LEARN- Mention John Berry’s name just aboutBig Band.

Petoskey.

With the to Up North ING CAMPUS DAY: Dancemusic lesson: $10 adults; $5 any country lover6:45-7:30pm. and the response 9:45am, NMC, TC. Campus students with ID. redskystage.com will likely be, “What a voice!”

This year Day lets you create your - - - - - - - - - - - - - -marks -----his 21st consecutive concert series.7:30pm, own day of learning by seFILM SERIES Christmas @ THE CARNEGIE: lecting from several options Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Featuring in each of the three sessions. $29 or $39 “Manda Bee Kee Dance Troupe Documentawith box lunch. nmc.edu/life-academy ry.” Free. petoskeylibrary.org/mandabeekee

-------------------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

-------------------SENIOR CENTERS THANKSGIVING DINNERS: 11am-1pm at Charlevoix Senior Center, Boyne Area Senior Center & East Jordan Senior Center. $3 donation for ages 60+ & $6 donation for ages 59 & younger. charlevoixcounty.org/Commission_on_Aging

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Thursday, December 21 at 7:30pm NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHORALE HOLIThe holiday rock event7:30pm, for the whole DAY CONCERT: Crooked Tree family featuring Petoskey. original members Arts Center, $12, of $15. nmchorale.org The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Alice -Cooper, - - -Ted- Nugent - - -Band - - and - -more.

-------GIRLS NIGHT OUT THE SHOW: 9pm, Streeters, Ground Zero, TC. With Magic Mike. $20 advance; $28 door. groundzeroonline.com/events

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COFFEE @ TEN, PETOSKEY: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey. Decorating for the Holidays with CJ Zondervan. Free. crookedtree.org

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-------------------AUDITIONS FOR “ARSENIC AND OLD LACE”: (See Mon., Nov. 13)

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PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY PROGRAM: 7pm, Northern Lights Recreation, Harbor Springs. Learn about Local American Kestrel Conservation Efforts with Cacia Lesh & Jim Bean.

Puerto Laurie wednesday nov Rico - - - - -Sears --------------15 fundraiser & NMC Miriam - - - - Vocal ---------------- -------------------Pico -------------------- -------------------Jazz & Ensemble Younce Mike - - - - - - - - - Guitar ----------Davis, Duo - - - -director ---------------COFFEE @ TEN, TC: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Featuring artists who will be in the Merry Makers Marketplace holiday art fair. Free. crookedtree.org

LIVING ARTFULLY LECTURE SERIES: 11am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey. The Creative Life - Seeing with New Eyes. With local artist & author Edy Stoughton. Free. crookedtree.org

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MAKER AFTERNOONS: LEGO BUILDING CHALLENGE: Leland Township Library.

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

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LET’S PLAY!: 10am, Petoskey District Library, Children’s Program Room. With Andrea Donahoe, early childhood educator.

For ages 0-5. Caregivers can ask questions about their child’s development. petoskeylibrary.org

HOPE FOR THE HOLIDAYS: 10:30am, Kalkaska Civic Center. Learn how to prepare for & survive the holiday blues, for those grieving the loss of a loved one. Hosted by Heartland Hospice. Free.

TC BEER WEEK: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

TC BEER WEEK: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

CONNECTING WOMEN IN BUSINESS LUNCHEON: 11:30am-1pm, NCMC, Library Conference Room, Petoskey. Liz Ahrens of Crooked Tree Arts Center will lead a panel discussion about “The Business of Art,” & will include area artists Margaret Tvedten, Penny Kristo & Heidi Amenda Marshall. $17 CWIB members; $22 not-yet-members. petoskeychamber.com

ZONTA CLUB OF TC PROGRAM: Noon, Hagerty Center, TC. Executive Director of Norte & TED Talk presenter Ty Schmidt will be the guest speaker. Reserve your seat: rhondal.estes@gmail.com $16. zontacluboftraversecity.org

PETOSKEY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Beards Brewery, Petoskey. $7 members; $12 not-yet-members. In honor of No Shave November, attendees are encouraged to make a donation to the Cancer Assistance Program for McLaren Northern Michigan. petoskeychamber.com/businessafter-hours

AUTHOR PRESENTATION & SIGNING: 4:30pm, Leelanau Historical Society, Leland. Jack Hobey presents “Edward Beebe’s Historic Leelanau Photographs.” leelanauhistory.org

IAF LECTURE: 6pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. “Russia 2018: Putin’s Last Act?” Free admission for current students & educators. $15 others.

995-1700. nmc.edu

FRIENDLY GARDEN CLUB MEETING: The Bluewater Hall, Greilickville. Help make November 16th that will be disThanksgiving centerpieces tributed to area churches for Thanksgiving dinner. Lunch will be held at 11:30am & the program at 12:15pm. Lunch reservations: 231-360-6755. Free.

- - - - - - - - November - - - - - - -30th ----CHARLEVOIX BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Villager Pub, Charlevoix.

Free for Chamber members; $10 non-members. charlevoix.org

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LADIES’ NIGHT OUT: 5-8pm, Downtown WRITERS GROUP: 1pm, Helena Township Harbor Springs. Shop & enjoy dinner specials.

Community Center, Alden. Review a mem-------------------ber’s writing sample. 231-331-4318.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -7-9:30pm - DEER CAMP WIDOW CRAFT NIGHT: 5:30pm, Leland Township Library. Bring MUNSON HOSPICE GRIEF SUPPORT your sense of humor & join artists Laura GROUP: 3pm, Samaritas Senior Living Sprout, Sarah Mead Wall & Michelle White Facility, Acme. Join a friendly environment for an evening of craft (crap) making & where grief & loss are understood. munsonwine. Sponsored by Good Harbor Vinehomehealth.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - yards. Free. lelandlibrary.org -------------------FREE CPR CLASS: 6-7:30pm, McLaren THE CONSTANT READER BOOK Northern Michigan, John & Marnie DemGROUP: 5:30pm, Leland Township Library. mer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, A book group for people who love to read & Petoskey. Presented by McLaren Northern read a lot, but don’t have time or the inclinaMichigan Stroke & Brain Injury Support tion to read a book club pick each month & Group & Emmet County EMS. mclaren.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - want to discover new authors & genres, & get recommendations from other Constant GRATITUDE GATHERING & DINNER TO Readers. Free. lelandlibrary.org • unique venue BENEFIT DANN’S HOUSE: 6-8pm, Blue -------------------Tractor Barn, TC. Dann’s House provides • easy planning AUTHOR TALK WITH ROBERT DOWNES interim & supportive housing for people who : 7-8:30pm, Higher Self Bookstore, TC. • catering available have been experiencing chronic homelessDownes is the author of “Windigo Moon, ness & also suffer from severe alcohol use Life in the Great Lakes 400 Years Ago.” disorder. 231-883-5105. $40. dannshouse.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $20. higherselfbookstore.com -------------------CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIAAUTHOR, HISTORIAN & GENEALOGIST TION: 6:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, CHRIS CZOPEK: 7pm, Otsego County TC. The Traverse City Central NeighborLibrary, Gaylord. Chris will share his vast hood Association will meet. The agenda knowledge of Michigan’s Civil War soldiers. includes a TCAPS representative discuss-------------------ing Thirlby Field activities & CNA northeast NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City boundary.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Opera House, TC. An Evening with Sebastian Junger & Phil Caputo. These two CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY TC MEETwriters talk about war & peace in a fractured ING: 6:30-8:30pm, Central United Methodist America. Featuring guest host Jack Segal.

Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new, come Tickets start at $15.50; $5.50 for students. at 6pm for an introduction to CCL. citizencityoperahouse.org/nws-sebastian-junger sclimatelobby.org

Now bookiNg small groups, private tastings, & holiday gatherings

-------------------THE LEGEND LIVES ON...: 6:30pm, Charlevoix Public Library Community Room. Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Bruce Lynn takes a look at the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald. Free. charlevoixlibrary.org

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NOVEMBER GEEK BREAKFAST: 8am, Bubba’s, TC. A casual monthly community-driven network-------------------ing event for tech-minded ‘THE PROTEIN MYTH; ANIMAL PROTEIN people to discuss topics like Make yourPROTEIN,’ private reservation today!

VS. PLANT ‘HOLIDAY’ TASTsocial media, programming, digital marketing, ING THEME.: 6:30-8pm, Timber Ridge 231-995-0500 | wine@leftfootcharley.com design, & more over bacon, eggs & coffee.

Conference Center, TC. Presented by Free + cost of breakfast. Find on Facebook.

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BENZIE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Hotel Frankfort.

-------------------ELK RAPIDS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Riverside Title, Elk Rapids. Free. business.elkrapidschamber.org

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-------------------KOMBUCHA HOME-BREWING 101: 6pm, Cultured Ferments, Co., 1610 Barlow, Suite 108, TC. Donation based for each class member that will be donated to a local charity. drinkcultured.com

-------------------BUGS AND BIRDS: 7pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Featuring local expert Sharon Benjey. Free. grandtraverseaudubon.org

-------------------TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

-------------------“TUCK EVERLASTING”: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Harvey Theatre.

Presented by Arts Academy Theatre Co. $18 full, $16 senior, $11 youth. tickets. interlochen.org

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JOSHUA DAVIS: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Join Leelanau County resident Joshua Davis for his only Traverse area concert celebrating the national release of his new record “The Way Back Home.” Joining Joshua will be his quintet & “Way Back Home” studio musicians: Michael Shimmin, Mike Lynch, Drew Howard, & an appearance by Dominic Davis. $30. cityoperahouse.org/joshua-davis

nov 17

friday

NMC LIFELONG LEARNING CAMPUS DAY: 9:45am, NMC, TC. Campus Day lets you create your own day of learning by selecting from several options in each of the three sessions. $29 or $39 with box lunch. nmc.edu/life-academy

-------------------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

-------------------SENIOR CENTERS THANKSGIVING DINNERS: 11am-1pm at Charlevoix Senior Center, Boyne Area Senior Center & East Jordan Senior Center. $3 donation for ages 60+ & $6 donation for ages 59 & younger. charlevoixcounty.org/Commission_on_Aging

TC BEER WEEK: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

-------------------NCMC LUNCHEON LECTURE: 11:30am, NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Dr. Dennis McGeath & Lindsey Griffes, Petoskey High School’s certified athletic trainer, will talk about the growing understanding of the brain injuries that athletes can sustain in a variety of sports & the potential lifetime impacts that can result.

Reservations required: 231.348.6600. $12; includes lunch.

-------------------MERRY MAKERS MARKETPLACE: 2-6pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Featuring 30 artists & artisans. Free. crookedtree.org

-------------------HOLIDAY MARKET RECEPTION: 5-7pm, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring food, beverages & holiday shopping. The Holiday Market opens Nov. 19. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

-------------------LADIES OPENING NIGHT: 5-10pm, Downtown Petoskey. Start your holiday shopping & create your wish list. Doe Camp at Stafford’s Perry Hotel at 8:30pm where you can win prizes off the buck pole. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------DEER WIDOWS WEEKEND: 6-8pm, The Village at GT Commons. Enjoy shopping, giveaways & more. thevillagetc.com

-------------------TALK WITH & TASTE CULINARY CREATIONS OF THE AUTHOR: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. With Chef Jim Voltz. Taste soups from Voltz’s newest book, “Soup on the Porch.” Reserve your spot: 231-347-1180. mcleanandeakin.com

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“THE BARN RAISERS”: 7pm, Empire Township Hall. This documentary film explores Midwest barns through the lens of architecture, building methods, barn styles & materials. Question & answer session with Steve Stier will follow. Presented by the Glen Lake Community Library. Free. docublogger.typepad.com/barn_movie

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SWINGSHIFT & THE STARS: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. This dance-off is presented by High Impact Productions. Donate to the organization of your choice. Nov. includes GT Pavilions/PACE, GT Watershed, Michael’s Place, Peace Ranch, Single MOMM & Young Life. TC Comissioner Richard Lewis & Holly Provenzano will dance to “Suds in the Bucket” to coincide with the theme of Wild, Wild West. $35, $30. cityoperahouse.org/swingshift-nov

-------------------TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

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“TUCK EVERLASTING”: (See Thurs., Nov. 16)

-------------------30’S & 40’S SWING & BIG BAND DANCING: 7:30-10:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. With the Up North Big Band.

Dance lesson: 6:45-7:30pm. $10 adults; $5 students with ID. redskystage.com

-------------------FILM SERIES @ THE CARNEGIE: 7:30pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Featuring “Manda Bee Kee Dance Troupe Documentary.” Free. petoskeylibrary.org/mandabeekee

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NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHORALE HOLIDAY CONCERT: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. $12, $15. nmchorale.org

-------------------GIRLS NIGHT OUT THE SHOW: 9pm, Streeters, Ground Zero, TC. With Magic Mike. $20 advance; $28 door. groundzeroonline.com/events

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NW MI MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS KICKOFF: 12-2pm, Great Wolf Lodge, TC. Santa arrives by helicopter or firetruck. Includes children’s activities, tours of the helicopter or firetruck, a choir singing Christmas carols & more. Free. traverse-city-mi.toysfortots.org

-------------------11TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY CRAFTS, ART & GIFT SHOW: 9am4pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey. Proceeds benefit Brother Dan’s Food Pantry in Petoskey. 231.348.5479. $2 or non-perishable food item.

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HOLIDAY BAZAAR: 9am-6pm, Historic Holy Rosary Church, Cedar. Crafts, baked & canned goods, holiday items & more. Free.

-------------------TRAVERSE CITY TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION CRAFT SHOW: 9am-3pm, VFW Post, 2780 Veterans Drive, TC. 231342-0875.

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CHRISTMAS IN ONEKAMA: 10am, Onekama Consolidated School Cafetorium & gym.

10am-3pm: Craft show, PLA silent auction & raffle & baked goods sale. 11am-2pm: Chili Cook-off. onekama.info

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sunday

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: 9am2pm, Historic Holy Rosary Church, Cedar. Crafts, baked & canned goods, holiday items & more. Free.

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7TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFT & GIFT SHOW: 11am-5pm, Odawa Casino, Petoskey. Free. odawacasino.com

-------------------BAY VIEW WINE TRAIL HARVEST CRUISE: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

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DEER WIDOWS WEEKEND: 11am-4pm, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Enjoy shopping, giveaways & more. thevillagetc.com

-------------------MEET THE AUTHOR: 1-3pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Leelanau County author & bioregionalist Stephanie Mills will read excerpts & lead a discussion on “In Service of the Wild.” This will be followed by a Q&A. grassriver.org

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STEM EXPLORATION DAY: 11am-3pm, NMC, Parsons-Stulen building, TC. Free event, but has a suggested entrance fee of $5 or 10 non-perishable food items per person. Help fill local food pantries. Featuring interactive booths with robots & gadgets.

There will be a chance to win prizes like an Xbox & a one night stay at the Great Wolf Lodge. nmc.edu

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AUTHOR SIGNING: 12-2pm, Horizon Books, TC. Michael Patrick Shiels will sign his book “I Call Him Mr. President: Stories of Golf, Fishing, & Life with My Friend George H.W. Bush.” horizonbooks.com

-------------------TRAVERSE CITY SHOP & SIP CRAFT MARKET: 1pm, GT Resort & Spa, Michigan Ballroom, Acme. VIP Preview, 1-3pm; open to all, 3-8pm. 60+ makers, 2 full bars, valet parking & more. 231.499.9627. Free. tcshopandsip.com

-------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHORALE HOLIDAY CONCERT: 3pm & 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. $12, $15. nmchorale.org

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DANCE STARRING THE PINE RIVER JAZZ BAND: 7-9:30pm, Alba Public School.

Donation.

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CELEBRATION OF LIGHTS: 6pm, Farr Center, Onekama. Lighting of Community Tree and reading of memorial names & carol sing. onekama.info

-------------------MERCHANT SHIPPING ON THE GREAT LAKES IN THE TWENTIETH & TWENTYFIRST CENTURIES: Presented by the Traverse Area Historical Society. Featuring guest speaker John Brian. 1-3pm, McGuire Community Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Free. traversehistory.org

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NW MI MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS: Begins Nov. 20 at Fox Motors, TC. Incredible Mo’s certificates will be given for toys that are brought into the dealership. For various drop off locations & info, visit toysfortots.org. Runs through Dec. 22.

-------------------OLESON’S DOLLAR DRIVE FOR SAFE HOME: Dollars raised at the Petoskey Oleson’s Food Store, 2000 US-31 North, & in Charlevoix at 112 Antrim St., will help purchase food for domestic abuse survivors & their children utilizing services at the Women’s Resource Center of Northern Michigan’s Safe Home. Runs Nov. 12-23. wrcnm.org

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AUSTRALIA’S THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Tickets start at $25. lrcr.com

SOCKS FOR TROOPS: Petoskey Shoe Sensation, 910 Spring St., Petoskey is collecting socks for active duty military or local veterans around the community. Customers receive a 20% off coupon to use on the socks donated. You can also bring in new socks to be donated. Runs through Dec. 24.

DMC CONCERT: THE BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET: 8pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. $24 members, $27 advance, $30 door (additional fees apply). 995-1055. nmc.edu

SAFE HOME HARVEST FOOD & SUPPLY DRIVE: Help support survivors of domestic abuse & their children utilizing Safe Home services by bringing non-perishable foods, household supplies, paper products, per-

TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

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ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS (ACA): Thursdays, 5:30-7pm, basement of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. For those who seek to address the residual effects of having been raised in dysfunctional household. adultchildren.org

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TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: 2pm, Central High School Auditorium, TC. $15-$25. mynorthtickets.com

BAY VIEW WINE TRAIL HARVEST CRUISE: (See Sat., Nov. 11)

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DANCE STARRING THE PINE RIVER JAZZ BAND: 2-5pm, Torch Lake Café, Eastport. Donation.

MERRY MAKERS MARKETPLACE: 10am-4pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Featuring 30 artists & artisans. Free. crookedtree.org

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NMC FOOD PANTRY: Available to all active students. This operates out of the basement of the Osterlin Building, NMC, TC, but students don’t have to physically access the shelves.

Instead, they’ll fill out an online form stating their household size & needs. nmc.edu

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DEER WIDOWS WEEKEND: 10am-7pm, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Enjoy shopping, giveaways & more. thevillagetc.com

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

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: 2pm & 7pm, City Opera House, TC. From the pen of Gerard Alessandrini comes the funny musical roast of over 30 Broadway hits featuring outrageous costumes, rewrites of the songs, & impressions by the cast. $32.50, $22.50. cityoperahouse.org/forbidden-broadway

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sonal care items & financial contributions to the Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI offices in Cheboygan, Gaylord & Mancelona. wrcnm.org

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

COMMUNITY MEDITATION & SATSANG: Tuesdays, 7pm through Nov. 28. Higher Self Bookstore, TC. higherselfbookstore.com

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

-------------------BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April.

Main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City. boynecitymainstreet. com/farmers-market-welcome

-------------------CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET, PETOSKEY: Fridays, 10am-1pm, upper level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This market has moved back inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

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

941-1961.

Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Sponsored by Northern Lakes Community Mental Health, this show celebrates the resiliency & healing power of people. Runs through Nov. 29.

-------------------4 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Runs through Nov. 18. The artists are connected through their work & involvement with Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. They are: Mike Coltman, Joan Gerigk, Bob Scudder & Ron Theisen.

Their introduction to Twisted Fish Gallery will celebrate their varied topics, techniques & treatment depicting people, places & things inspired by our northern seasons & scenery. twistedfishgallery.com

-------------------DELBERT MICHEL, BART INGRAM & GAIL INGRAM EXHIBIT: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring painting, sculpture & fiber art by these artists. Runs through Nov. 24. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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

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

Runs through Nov. 26.

- CORY TRÉPANIER’S “INTO THE ARCTIC”: The Canadian North on Canvas and Film. Runs through Dec. - WILLIAM ADOLPHE BOUGEUREAU AND EDOUARD MANET: Visitors to the Sea - Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Runs through Dec. - “MYTHS, LEGENDS AND STORIES: SCULPTURE BY ABRAHAM ANGHIK RUBEN”: Through Dec. dennosmuseum.org

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

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

NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN BESTSELLERS

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For the week ending 11/5/17

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

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

-------------------“GIVE THE GIFT OF ART HOLIDAY EXHIBIT”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Runs through Jan. 2. higherartgallery.com

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“INSPIRED: ARTISTIC IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAND TRAVERSE COMMONS”: The Village at GT Commons, Sanctuary, TC. A reception & awards ceremony will be held on Fri., Nov. 17 from 6-8pm & run through Jan. 20. thevillagetc.com

-------------------“JUST GREAT ART”: City Opera House, TC. Eight artists from the Plein Air Painters of Northwest Michigan will exhibit their oil, pastel, watercolor & acrylic paintings. Runs through Jan. 2. cityoperahouse.org

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11TH ANNUAL “ART OF RECOVERY: THE HUMAN JOURNEY”: Traverse Area District

HARDCOVER FICTION Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Dutton Books $19.99 Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly Little Brown $29.00 Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate Ballentine Books $26.00 PAPERBACK FICTION Alice Network by Kate Quinn William Morrow Paperbacks $16.99 Missing Persons by Stephanie Carpenter Press 53 $14.95 Windigo Moon by Robert Downes Blank Slate Press $17.95 HARDCOVER NON-FICTION Odyssey of Echo Company by Doug Stanton Scribner $30.00 Nine Lessons I Learned From My Father

by Murray Howe Viking $24.95 Tribe by Sebastian Junger Twelve $22.00 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 360 Degree Leader by John C. Maxwell Thomas Nelson $16.99 Of Things Ignored & Unloved by Richard Fidler Mission Point Press $15.95 Isadore’s Secret by Mardi Link University of Michigan Press $22.95

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FOURSCORE by kristi kates

Niall Horan – Flicker – Capitol

Anyone who’s heard Horan’s acoustic cover of Julia Michaels’ “Issues” knows that he’s more than just an ex-boy bander. From One Direction to his solo career, his distinctively understated voice is best heard on more pensive numbers like the bittersweet “This Town” and the quixotic title track.

But he’s showing his potential to stretch, as well, on tunes like the uber-danceable “On the Loose,” with its carbonated bass line and the faintly eccentric “Paper Houses.” A solid solo debut.

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David Archuleta – Postcards in the Sky – Archie Music

Archuleta headed into the studio to work on Postcards after two years spent doing volunteer missionary work in South America, and the experience he gained there shows through on this set. The music itself is anchored in heartfelt pop, but there are dashes of both country (“Say Me”) and synth (“Up All Night” and the title track) in varying measures, and the album digs deep into inspirational lyrical explorations — namely, believing in yourself and seeking a higher purpose.

Jets to Brazil – Orange Rhyming Dictionary – Epitaph

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R E A L T Y

Indie rock fans will dig this project that brings together Jeremy Chatelain (formerly of Handsome), Chris Daly (Texas is the Reason), and Blake Schwarzenbach (Jawbreaker) to form this eclectic and ambitious punk-pop outfit, for which this reissue is a decent enough introduction. The lyrics are introspective if faintly dark, as the band prettifies its subject matter on tracks like “Hate Thyself,” “Peace Love and Empathy,” and “I Typed for Miles” with memorable, often haunting melodies.

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Nope, it’s not a paean to the Lady herself, but a worthy reissue celebrating the original album’s 10th anniversary. Spoon fans will be thrilled to see that this special edition features the studio set on one disc, and the band’s rare Get Nice! EP on another; the artwork’s been updated for this release as well. Best of all are those tunes, among them “The Underdog,” “Don’t You Evah,” “1975,” and “I Summon You (Cool),” some of Spoon’s most renowned tracks to date.

TIMBERLAKE IS READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL Justin Timberlake will again headline the 2018 Super Bowl halftime show. Fans found out during a hilarious video featuring JT and his pal Jimmy Fallon; JT tweeted the video to his nearly 63 million followers last Sunday.

Super Bowl LII, which will air on NBC, is set to hit the U.S. Bank Stadium field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Feb. 4. Timberlake said that he wants to put together “a performance that unifies” and one that will get everyone dancing.

The soulful pop singer and adept actor is working on a new album rumored to arrive in the first quarter of 2018 as well …

Sorry, Taipei, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo, and Hong Kong — Ed Sheeran won’t appear for his previously scheduled concert dates in your cities, but he’s got a darned good reason: The looping guitar player-slash-singer fractured his right wrist and left elbow in a bicycle accident, leaving him unable to perform live concerts for the near future. Sheeran posted a photo of his bandaged arms on Instagram, with a note that someone else was typing because he couldn’t even manage that task yet. The rest of Sheeran’s upcoming tour dates are in limbo until docs can determine how quickly he’ll safely heal …

Singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes recorded his recent show at The Theater at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, where he also helped kick off the reboot of MTV’s wildly popular Unplugged performance series. Now Mendes is releasing that performance as a live album

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BY KRISTI KATES

called Shawn Mendes: MTV Unplugged. It’s out this week and comes complete with Mendes’ hits like “Stitches” and “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back,” as well as his cover of a Kings of Leon track. Mendes is wrapping up his North American tour and prepping to visit Australia and Asia in November and early December …

Queens of the Stone Age are smack in the middle of supporting its newest album, Villains, and has just announced a new slate of North American tour dates for 2018. The trek will begin up in Canada — Victoria, British Columbia, to be exact — on Jan. 22 and will wrap up in Los Angeles on Feb. 17. In the meantime, outside of a small holiday break, you’ll find QOTSA on the road throughout November, touring overseas …

LINK OF THE WEEK

Minimalist composer Ryoji Ikeda put on an unusual performance in L.A. last week, outfitting 100 cars with cassette-sized synths that would play the musical note of A at different octaves when the cars revved their engines; the resulting sounds were part of an “auto symphony” that was staged at dusk, and you can watch (and listen) at www.instagram. com/p/BaS3nv7ndvk …

THE BUZZ

Did you guess that it was just a joke all along? It’s now confirmed that Kid Rock’s U.S. Senate run was just a publicity stunt to help sell

campaign-themed merch for his national tour …

Detroit roots singer Jill Jack has just unveiled her 12th album, These Days …

Check out Michigan rapper Tee Grizzley’s breakout single, “First Day Out,” at a media outlet near you …

Grand Rapids band Conrad Shock and The Noise has won the Walk the Beat music competition in Albion, Michigan, snagging the top prize: recording studio time, plus a new

website, music video, photo shoot, and tour …

The White Stripes’ Jack White was the keynote speaker at last weekend’s Making Vinyl conference at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit … 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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The reel

by meg weichman

THOR: RAGNAROK suburbicon

S No matter how much you can count on a Marvel movie being entertaining, fun, and well done, 17 films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe I think we can all agree that the formula is starting to wear a little thin. That is until they go and hire a Kiwi to direct — New Zealander Taika Waititi — and give us a whole new reason to get genuinely excited about superhero movies.

See, Waititi comes from an eccentric and offbeat corner of the indie film word. He’s best known for the cult comedy film What We Do in the Shadows and the crowd-pleasing charmer Hunt for the Wilderpeople (which, if you haven’t seen yet, you seriously should).

But it’s clear the world of blockbusters was waiting for him, taking the dullard “Thor” movies and infusing them with his quirky sensibilities, making not only the best of this particular series but also one of the best films of the entire franchise. It’s as much a Marvel movie as it is a work of Maori cinema.

Freewheeling, improvisational, and self-aware, Thor: Ragnarok would perhaps feel downright radical were it not for the boundary-stretching work of Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool. But to compare it to those works is almost to belittle the achievement here, because the true feat is not just how hilarious and entertaining the film is, but how — within the confines of such a behemoth corporate franchise — Waititi was able to make such a genuine film that is true to himself and his own unique voice (figuratively and literally, he also voices the film’s gentle giant, Korg, whom you better believe I fell for, hard).

And Marvel doesn’t exactly have a strong track record of being a fertile ground for auteurs (see Ava DuVernay passing on Black Panther). But shot all the way in Australia, it feels as though the powers that be at Walt Disney pretty much left them alone (see: some of the perhaps too sharp jokes for the PG-13 world of Marvel). And off on their own so far away, you can feel the creativity and camaraderie of the group in every frame — the fun they’re having on screen is infectious.

This is a movie with personality, and it’s a gloriously giddy and sublimely silly one.

Take the opening, for example. Waititi immediately sets the cheeky and irreverent tone when Thor breaks the fourth wall as he talks to the audience about the latest mess he’s gotten himself in. And don’t worry if you’ve never seen Thor 1 or 2, or are like myself and can never really remember any of the details about where we left off with the Avengers, and friends, you truly don’t need to be an MCU devotee to jump right in and enjoy yourself.

So as the title suggests, a thing called Raganrok is on the agenda for this outing, and it’s some sort of apocalyptic prophecy that Thor, the god of thunder, is trying to prevent his home of Asgard from succumbing to. And with his father, the great Odin (Anthony Hopkins), spending

his final days on earth in a nursing home, it’s up to Thor and Thor alone.

Thor brings his sweet but doltish “fight for what’s right” charm, but with a new haircut, a broken hammer, and a newfound spot-on comedic timing (which Hemsworth previewed in last summer’s Ghostbusters), it’s safe to paraphrase Taylor Swift and proclaim the old Thor dead.

Things in Asgard take a turn for the worse when Thor’s long-lost evil older sister Hela (Cate Blanchett), the goddess of death, returns and stages a coup. Here Blanchett is finally the supreme villain I’ve always wanted her to be, leaving the travesty of “Indy IV” behind and, in her fierce black antler headdress, brings a bravura and delicious malevolence to the role.

So even though there’s a big baddie to face and the world, you know, to save for the umpteenth time, the film is clever enough to place the heart of the story in a gonzo detour when Thor takes to the hedonistic planet of Sakkar. There he finds himself a prisoner forced to compete in a gladiatorstyle “Contest of Champions” run by the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum). Goldblum gets to do his thing (trademark stammering included), and you’ll love every strange and wonderful second of it. It’s worth the price of admission alone.

So to escape Sakkar and defeat Hela, Thor has to put together a ragtag team including his narcissistic trickster of an adopted brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston); his coworker, the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo); and a flawed fellow Asgardian drinking her time away on Sakkar, Valkyrie (Creed’s Tessa Thompson). With the group together, the action on Sakkar zips along in a delightful buddy comedy/Bing Crosby and Bob Hope “Road” movies kind of way. The smallest of comedic moments and the tiniest of character beats dazzle the most — not the action set pieces. But this isn’t to say anything bad about the action sequences, which are handled more than ably.

Thor: Ragnarok has a breezy and campy retro vibe that feels like its was inspired by an Electric Light Orchestra album cover. And emblematic of this film’s distinct tone is that the notoriously bland Marvel score has been replaced by synth music from none other than Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh, and boy, does it ever make a difference. My only major complaint is my main complaint with most movies these days: It’s a hair too long.

Pure of heart, kooky and lively joy runs throughout Thor: Ragnarok. It’s about as far from the ponderous, serious superhero fare you can get. And it’s a film so inviting and exhilarating, I hopefully don’t need to hit you over the head with Thor’s hammer to convince you to see it.

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

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uburbicon is a mess, and a lazy, meandering mess at that.

Directed by the increasingly scattershot George Clooney from a script written and rightly abandoned in the 1980s

by Joel and Ethan Coen, it’s an insipid film that refuses to fully commit to either of its main stories, and the result is a confusing malaise. Is it a black comedy about suburban crime?

Or is it an awkward morality fable intended to play on the current national mood? An animated brochure introduces us to Suburbicon, the eponymous suburb outside an unnamed American metropolis in the immediate post-war era. We meet Gardner Lodge (a wooden Matt Damon), who lives with his young son, Nicky (newcomer Noah Jupe); his wheelchairbound wife, Rose; and her twin sister, Margaret (both played

by Julianne Moore) in one of Suburbicon’s neat little houses.

But after a break in leaves Rose dead, we come to find not everything is so neat in Suburbicon and something very fishy is afloat. Clooney was foolhardy to think he could polish such a clearly half-finished idea. And if the response and box office for this are any indication, Hollywood would be wise to set George Clooney’s directing duties aside too.

the snowman

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he Snowman is bad — like, so bad, it makes other movies I thought were bad seem good by comparison. But it’s not a how-did-this-get made situation, ’cause with and a cast and crew of A-listers and even Oscar winners, it’s more of a question of “how did it go so very wrong?” Adapted from Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo’s international bestselling crime novels, this film is clearly designed for the “The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” audience. But unlike those films, The Snowman has no thrills, no chills, no suspense, no emotion, and copious amounts of unintentional laughter. I mean, the murder that the film’s clichéd detectives (Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson) are trying to track down leaves snowmen as the calling card outside his victims’ homes; they’re dramatically cut to, and they could not be less menacing. The scenes are stilted, the performances universally terrible, the story boring. Yet even when you have a bad movie like this, you still expect some kind of basic adherence to the rules of narrative, storytelling, and cinema, but The Snowman seems to openly defy them.

The director, Tomas Alfredson, has skills, with widely acclaimed films to his credit. In a case like this I’d then usually place the blame on the editor, but heck, freaking Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull), edited the damn thing. It’s since been revealed that Alfredson blamed the fact that they didn’t have enough time filming in Europe and a lot was cut out. This does to some degree explain its convolutedness but not its ridiculousness.

blade runner 2049

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

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Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee LITTLE RIVER CASINO RESORT, MANISTEE 11/18 -- Australia's Thunder from Down Under, 8

Grand Traverse & Kalkaska GRAND TRAVERSE & KALKASKA 7 MONKS TAPROOM, TC 11/16 – Mike Moran, 7:30-10:30 ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM, TC 11/11 — Ken Scott 11/17 – Live music 11/18 -- Les FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close GT DISTILLERY, TC 11/17 -- Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 HAYLOFT INN, TC Thu -- Open mic night by Roundup Radio Show, 8 KILKENNY'S, TC 11/10-11 -- Sweet J Band, 9:30 11/17-18 -- Soul Patch, 9:30 Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 Thu -- 2 Bays DJs, 9:30 Sun -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia , 7-9 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 11/13 – Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 11/17 – Sons of Brothers, 6-8 LITTLE BOHEMIA, TC Tue -- TC Celtic, 7-9 Thu -- Robert Abate, 6:30-9 MONKEY FIST BREWING CO., TC 11/11 -- G Snacks, 8

PARK PLACE HOTEL, BEACON LOUNGE, TC Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30 RARE BIRD BREWPUB, TC 11/11 — Soul Patch, 8-11 11/15 – Ben Pervier, 8:30-11 11/18 – Mark Lavengood & Seth Bernard, 9-11:30 ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 11/12 — Dennis Palmer, 2-4 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 STREETERS, GROUND ZERO, TC 11/11 -- A Family Affair w/ Tell Yo Mama, The Brothers Crunch, brotha James & Oh Brother Big Sister, 8 11/17 -- Girls Night Out The Show, 8 STUDIO ANATOMY, TC 11/11 -- Comedy Night, 9 TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 11/11 -- The Agains, 7-9 11/18 -- Arianna Wasserman, 7-9 THE DISH CAFE, TC Thurs. – Nick Foresman, 6-8 Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7

THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 11/11 -- BCB , 8-11 11/13 -- Rotten Cherries Comedy Open Mic, 8 Wed -- The Workshop Live Jazz Jam, 6-10 11/17 -- DJ Clark After Dark, 8 11/18 -- Barbarossa Brothers, 8 UNION STREET STATION, TC 11/11 -- 1000 Watt Prophets, 10 11/12,11/19 -- Karaoke, 10 11/13 -- Jukebox, 10 11/14 -- Open Mic w/ Host Chris Sterr, 10 11/15 -- DJ Ryan Zuker, 10 11/16 -- Chris Sterr & Ron Getz Band, 10 11/17 -- Happy Hour w/ Jazz North, then The Lucas Paul Band, 5 11/18 -- The Lucas Paul Band, 10 WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN, TC 11/11,11/18 -- DJ Motaz @ View Nightclub, 9 11/16 -- Jeff Haas Trio & Laurie Sears w/ the NMC Vocal Jazz Ensemble, 7-9:30 11/17 -- Fifth Gear, 7-9:30; DJ Shawny D @ View Nightclub, 10

KNOT JUST A BAR, BAY HARBOR Mon,Tues,Thurs — Live music

LEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN, PETOSKEY Thurs — Karaoke w/ DJ Micheal Williford, 10 Fri — TRANSMIT, Techno-Funk-Electro DJs, 10 Sun — DJ Johnnie Walker, 9 NORTHERN LIGHTS RECREATION, HARBOR SPRINGS 11/11 -- North 44, 9:30 11/17 -- Sonder, 9:30 11/18 -- Strobelight Honey, 9:30

Antrim & Charlevoix CELLAR 152, ELK RAPIDS 11/11 – Elizabeth Sexton Rivers & Al Jankowski, 7:30-9:30 11/17 – Jeff Brown, 6:30-9:30 11/18 – Mitch McKolay, 7:309:30 ETHANOLOGY, ELK RAPIDS 11/11 -- Turbo Pup, 8 11/18 -- Sons of Brothers, 8

SHORT'S BREWING CO., BELLAIRE 11/11 — Nora Jane Struthers, 8-11 11/17 – Brett Mitchell & The Giant Ghost, 8:30-11 11/18 – Wire in the Wood, 8:3011 TORCH LAKE CAFE, EASTPORT Mon — Bob Webb, 6-9 Tues — Kenny Thompson, 7:30

RED MESA GRILL, BOYNE CITY 11/14 -- Keith Scott, 6-9

Wed -- Lee Malone, 8 Thu -- Open Mic w/ Leanna Collins, 8 Fri,Sat -- Torch Lake Rock & Soul feat. Leanna Collins, 8:30 TOWNLINE CIDERWORKS, WILLIAMSBURG 11/11,11/17 -- James Dake, 6-8 11/18 -- Brett Mitchell, 5-8 11/19 -- Open Mic, 5-8

Leelanau & Benzie DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 11/14 -- The Jameson Brothers, 6:30-9:30 LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Fri & Sat -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9

Emmet & Cheboygan CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY 11/11 -- DJ Franck, 10 11/18 -- The Bad NASA, 10

The 12-member NMC Vocal Jazz Ensemble directed by Mike Davis joins the Jeff Haas Trio and Laurie Sears for an evening of jazz classics on Thurs., Nov. 16 from 7-9:30pm at West Bay Beach Holiday Inn, TC.

ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 11/11 -- Alex Mendenhall, 6-9 11/17 -- Alfredo Improv, 6-9 11/18 -- Dale Wicks, 6-9 SPICE WORLD CAFÉ, NORTHPORT Sat -- The Jeff Haas Trio plus Laurie Sears & Anthony Stanco, 7-10

THE CABBAGE SHED, ELBERTA 11/11 -- Alfredo Improv, 8:3011:30 VILLA MARINE BAR, FRANKFORT Fri,Sat -- DJ & Dance Party, 9

THE GRILLE, BAY HARBOR Wed -- Chris Calleja, 6-9 Sun -- Plumville Project, 6-9 UPSTAIRS LOUNGE, PETOSKEY 11/11 – The Marsupials 11/18 – Anchors For Reality

STORMCLOUD BREWING CO., FRANKFORT 11/11 -- Adrian + Meredith, 8-10 11/12 -- Storm the Mic - Hosted

by Blake Elliott, 6-9 11/17 -- Chris & Patrick, 8-10 11/18 -- Evan Burgess, 8-10

Otsego, Crawford & Central ALPINE TAVERN & EATERY, GAYLORD 11/11 – Mike Ridley, 7-10 11/17-18 – Jim Akans, 7-10

BENNETHUM’S NORTHERN INN, GAYLORD 11/14 – Randy Reszka SNOWBELT BREWING CO., GAYLORD 11/11 -- DeDe, 6-9

Tue -- Open Jam Night, 6-9 11/15 -- Kellerville, 6-9 TREETOPS RESORT, GAYLORD Hunter's Grille: Thurs. - Sat. -- Live music, 9

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the ADViCE GOddESS Reign Of Terrier

Q

: I know humans are typically your subject, but this is a relationship question, so I hope you’ll consider answering it. I have a new puppy (an 8-pound terrier mutt).

I eventually want her to sleep in bed with me. However, she’s not toilet-trained yet, so I “crate” her at night in the laundry room (in a small dog cage). She cries all night. It’s heartbreaking. Please help!

— Sleepless In Dogtown

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: We call dogs “man’s best friend” and treat them just like our human best friends — if at 11 p.m. you say to your BFF, “Wow — wouldja look at the time,” gently remove her beer from her hand, and usher her to her cage in your laundry room.

Crate training, recommended by vets, breeders, and the American Kennel Club, involves confining a dog to a “den” — a cage or gatedoff area — with her bed and her favorite toys to dismember. However, the crate is not supposed to be used for punishment — as a sort of Doggy San Quentin — but, say, for times you can’t watch her to keep her from using the $3,000 leather couch as a chew toy or the antique Persian rug as an opulently colored hand-knotted toilet.

The problem you’re experiencing in crating your dog at night comes out of doggy-human coevolution. Anthrozoologist John W.S. Bradshaw explains that over generations, we humans bred dogs to be emotionally dependent on us. Not surprisingly, dogs miss their owners, sometimes desperately, when they are separated from them -- and other dogs don’t seem to fill the emotional void. In one of Bradshaw’s studies -- of 40 Labrador retrievers and border collies -“well over 50 percent of the Labs and almost half of the collies showed some kind of separation distress” when left alone.

Fortunately, puppies can be trained to understand that your picking up your car keys isn’t human-ese for “Goodbye forever!”

Bradshaw’s advice in “Dog Sense”: “Pick up keys, go to door, praise dog.” Next: Pick up keys. Go out door. Come right back in. Praise dog. Next: Go out for increasingly longer intervals — and “go back a stage” (timewise) if the dog shows anxiety.

And good news for you: You probably don’t have to spoon with your dog to keep her from feeling separation distress at night. My tiny Chinese crested now sleeps (uh, snores like a cirrhotic old wino) on my pillow, resting her

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tiny snout on my neck. However, back before she had her bathroom business under control, I went through the crying-at-night-in-the-crate thing (actually a gated alcove by my office).

I felt like the second coming of Cruella de Vil. Then I remembered something about dogs: They have a sense of smell on the level of superhero powers. Maybe my dog didn’t have to be in bed; maybe near bed would do.

I snagged a big see-through plastic container (maybe 4 feet long and 3 feet high) that my neighbors were tossing out. At bedtime, I put it next to my bed and put my dog in it with her bed and a pee pad. She turned around three times, curled up, and went to sleep — after giving me a look I’m pretty sure said, “Hey, next time you’re gonna throw me in ‘the hole,’ gimme some notice, and I’ll menace the mailman and chase the neighbors’ bratty children with a sharpened Nylabone.“.

Fur Wheelin’

Q

: I keep seeing men pushing dogs in baby strollers and carrying dogs as women do.

What’s going on? An epidemic of sissified men? If I ever did this, I’d hope my family would have me committed.

— Disturbed

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: “Release the hounds!” does lose some of its punch when it’s followed by “…as soon as you can unzip them from their polkadot stroller.”

Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control lists no reports of an outbreak of Pomeranians poking their little heads out of man purses.

However, you’re right; dog strollers are increasingly becoming a thing. As for why this is, think “Field of Dreams”: “If you build it…” and sell it at Petco, people will buy it so they won’t have to leave their old, tired, and/or disabled doggy home alone.

As for what pushing a doggybuggy says about a man, anthropologists and zoologists would call this a “costly signal.” This is an extravagant or risky trait or behavior that comes with a substantial price — which suggests that the quality being displayed is for real. An example of this is conspicuous waste — signaling vast wealth by using $100 bills as birdcage liners.

Accordingly, it takes a man with masculinity to burn to not fear putting off all those women who previously announced to their friends, “We want sensitive men! — though not, you know, ‘put their Shih Tzu in a baby stroller’ sensitive.”.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything that can be invented

has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899. “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past.” 19th-century composer Tschaikovsky. “Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.” - filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Thomas Edison

was a prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies, and much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture low-cost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement. Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that starting

today and during the next ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself wth devotion and ingenuity?”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Many people go

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1 Lumber mill equipment 5 Frittata ingredients 9 Datebook abbr.

13 Defendant’s response 14 Turing played by Benedict Cumberbatch 15 “___ directed” (prescription phrase) 16 Somewhat 17 First-choice 18 “The Hunchback of ___ Dame” 19 No-frills hair stylings to look like a breakfast mascot?

22 Hall who followed McMahon on “The Tonight Show” 23 Teensy 24 “Fighting” NCAA team 26 “King” bad guy in Super Mario Bros.

28 Barbershop offering 31 Article for the Brothers Grimm 32 1040 recipient 34 Swelling reducer 35 “NFL Live” network 36 Injuries from your book on the beach?

40 Mark Harmon military series 41 Smartphone program 42 ___ La Table (kitchen store) 43 Hockey legend Bobby 44 PC drive insert, once 46 Result of a three-putt, maybe 50 Basketball Hall of Fame sportscaster Dick 52 “Quite so,” in Quebec 54 Channel skipped on old TV dials 55 Sparring with a punching bag for only half the usual time, e.g.?

59 President born in 1961 60 Kristen of “Bridesmaids” 61 Laila and Tatyana, for two 62 Saucer-steering creature 63 Former education secretary Duncan 64 Actress Garr of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” 65 Houseplant with fronds 66 Cribbage markers 67 Old Internet suffix for Friend or Nap

1 “In the Bedroom” Oscar nominee Sissy 2 Reflectivity measure, in astronomy 3 Creep 4 Fill fully 5 Flyer with exceptional sight 6 World representations?

7 Cat, in Colombia 8 Cold shower?

9 Not ___ (nobody) 10 Most trifling 11 Pale carrot relatives 12 “The Waste Land” writer’s monogram 15 Mom’s brother 20 Cup, maybe 21 Sources of bile 25 Word after Days or Quality 27 Alley targets 29 Zoo attraction with a big bite 30 Do superbly on 33 “The Blacklist” star James 35 100 cents, in some places 36 Doodle 37 High-altitude type of missile 38 Letters in a car ad 39 Noah’s Ark measurement 40 Election Day mo.

44 Tidied up 45 Providing some “Old MacDonald” sounds, maybe 47 Crooner Robert portrayed by Will Ferrell on “SNL” 48 Complete 49 Compliant agreement 51 History Channel show about loggers 53 Impulses 56 Make a trade

57 Add to the payroll 58 They’re good at landing on their feet 59 Fumbling person

fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau. The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people.

But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): I predict that

during the next ten months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may be

entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no . . . a tender revelation or a radical revolution . . . a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon -- but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend? Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide! I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to

storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

the most miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days. Here’s your sweet mess of oracles.

1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next ten months

will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfortloving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the

signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable.

Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

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

of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.”

While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn.

In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991,

Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses.

It had taken him eight years to compose it.

Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

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