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WAS IT RACISM? The City of Cadillac denies that a brief encounter between a police officer and a 13-year-old African American youth on a bike trail was an act of racism.

But a lawsuit over the incident ended in a $90,000 payout.

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Wanted: Real Leadership Bob Ross [in his Dec. 19 letter, “Pick on Someone Your Own Size] has nailed it in his defense of Time magazine’s Person Of The Year. Still, however powerful Donald Trump might seem to be, his popularity with other world leaders (real ones) is probably less than that of Ms. Thunberg. He is the one who feels threatened.

I further suggest that with her calm determination, her straightforward, challenging manner, and — as the ancient Romans would say — her look of eagles, I cannot imagine that Trump’s ridiculous and childish bullying could, or should, terrorize this amazing young lady.

Yes, child abuse should be added to the impeachment charges. The man owes an apology to Thunberg and much more to all young people who must fix the effects of the world’s climate problem, which he chooses to deny, even in the face of 97 percent of the world’s scientists’ alternate testimony.

Colin Bohash, Honor Time to Get Serious As the new decade dawns, and we begin a new year, it’s increasingly clear that the next 10 years could be our final opportunity to preserve a sustainable planet for our children and grandchildren. Now, each of us must commit to become warriors in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and limit climate change.

Global carbon emissions have quadrupled since 1960. Last year alone, countries spewed 40.5 billion tons of CO2 into the air. And the last five years were the hottest ever recorded.

Sometimes the challenge to reduce emissions seems overwhelming and insurmountable. Those who benefit from the status quo are happy for us to believe nothing can change. So what can we do when Congress remains unresponsive to our pleas?

Well, as the proverb states: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Contact Representative Jack Bergman at (202) 225-4735 and urge him to support the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (HR-763). This is the best first step we have.

This bipartisan legislation places an escalating fee on carbon producers and returns the fee as a dividend to all American households. It will reduce emissions by 40 percent in the first 12 years and 90 percent by 2050, providing a cleaner, healthier environment for subsequent generations.

Next, get involved. Join your local Citizens Climate Lobby chapter by visiting www. citizensclimate.org for more information.

Finally, learn about candidates in the upcoming 2020 election and vote for those dedicated to fixing the climate crisis.

The health and well-being of our children, future generations, and our planet are dependent on every one of us to join the fight against climate change.

Eric Lampinen, Manistee

Issues with Evangelicals I have a problem with evangelicals who give the president a pass on his actions and behavior and callhim a gift from God, or the chosen one. That is ridiculous and blasphemous. They often say God will forgive him for what he says and does. They forgot to mention one very important thing: God forgives the repentant who asks for it.

If you continue the horrific actions or appalling behavior you are involved in, repentance has not occurred, therefore there is no forgiveness. They forget that when he was candidate Trump, he said during an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network that he prays sometimes and would ask for forgiveness if he needed to but doesn’t do anything wrong. To err is human. I think the president of the United States should be someone to look up to and whom Americans would want their children to emulate.

Evangelicals seem to disregard the president’s behavior at all costs.

Saying someone is the chosen one and a gift from God used to be sacrilegious to Christians. I guess their morals and values change according to the president’s behavior?

The man is not angelic in any way. No one is; not even the pope. The New Testament has a great deal of good practices to live by. It has good examples of how to treat people as well.

The teaching of Christ seems like a nice thing to follow. I guess evangelicals will replace “What would Jesus do?” with “What would Trump do?”

Willie Jones Jr., Traverse City Act for Change Americans are distraught by the animosity and ruined friendships that have become commonplace today. We are also concerned about the future of our democracy. Some liken these times to the Vietnam War era and similar divisive times in U.S. history and lament that we will get through this … also.

Well, guess what? Not all of us will get through this. DACA people who have never lived anywhere but here could be deported soon. Refugee and asylum-seeking families are dying, and others are separated — some never to be reunited. Small business owners are going out of business. Distraught farmers are turning to suicide.

If folks like Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of young people hadn’t taken to the streets to protest the Vietnam War, that war might have continued years longer, with thousands more killed. Alternatively, if more of us had protested sooner, thousands wouldn’t have died or been injured.

There are many ways to stop the lies and injustices. Indivisible Grand Traverse, Traverse City, and Leelanau are working for justice and positive change. American Promise Grand Traverse is attempting to get corporate money out of government. Mothers Demand Action Northern Michigan seeks common sense gun reform.

Please choose to get out of your routine and take action. Our next generation depends on us.

Kate Dahlstrom, Traverse City Thoughts on Abortion Jan. 22 marks the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court. I have no interest in re-hashing this debate again; after 46 years it’s been done enough, and the battle lines are clearly drawn, but I have a few concerns.

I find that calling yourself “Right to Life” is for the most part a great misnomer. “Right to Birth” is a far better description, as I

find many RTL’ers having little interest, with perhaps only window dressing, in supporting the social welfare of mothers and children after birth.

Whatever your feelings, abortion dates back past ancient Egypt, so even if the courts were to strike down Roe v. Wade, it’s very unlikely abortion itself is going away any time soon. I also find the forced closing of women’s health clinics or restricting their access to achieve ones perceived abortion goals very alarming! To me this is little more then a campaign to make women into second-class, irrelevant, subservient citizens that I find totally unacceptable!

Adoption — perhaps the key piece to this puzzle but unfortunately rarely promoted or enhanced — is very restrictive in the United States, thus forcing many prospective parents to go outside this country to adopt.

And if you’re a same-sex married couple or single person, good luck; many states are placing laws on their books that restrict same-sex families from adopting. To me, this is hate and religious bigotry in its ugliest form! Loving your neighbor, no matter who, seems to have gone out the window for some.

The abortion issue is becoming almost unsolvable. It’s now morphed from a social issue into a religious issue, and when religion enters the room, freedoms — especially if you’re a women — have a tendency of leaving.

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

Was it Racism?................................................10 Kill Your TV........................................................12 Whose America is This?.................................14 Willy Porter Coming to Cadillac.......................15 Art at the Coffee Shop...........................................16

dates................................................17-19 music Four Score.....................................................20

Nightlife.........................................................23

columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................5

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................21 Film................................................................22 Crossword...................................................24 Advice..........................................................24 Freewill Astrology..........................................25 Classifieds..................................................26

Jay Richley, Cadillac Anti-Woman Politics Women deserve rights, respect, dignity, and opportunities. Democrats understand this. Of the 400 bills that Democrats proposed and passed in 2019 alone, dozens of those bills would treat women with fairness, dignity, and respect and would allow women opportunities for increased financial security and the freedom to make their own healthcare and career planning decisions. Senate Republicans refuse to even vote on these issues.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump and over 20 of his staffers/nominees have been accused or convicted of sexual or physical violence toward women, or of enabling such behavior. The Republican Party has decreased protections for victims of rape while increasing protections for the accused, and it refuse to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Donald Trump and the Republicans refuse to require universal background checks and red flag laws while nearly 1 million women in the U.S. report being shot at by an intimate partner, and 4.5 million women in the U.S. report that an intimate partner threatened them with a gun.

Donald Trump and the Republicans refuse to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and refuse to prioritize access to affordable childcare, healthcare (including contraception), higher education, or livable wages. They continue to cut WIC and food stamps. Donald Trump and the Republicans disrespect a woman’s Constitutional right to make her own healthcare decisions, preferring the government, not her doctor, decides her healthcare needs. They refuse to pass legislation allowing paid family leave following the birth of a child or to care for sick/elderly family members.

The fact that there are 108 female Democrats serving in Congress compared to only 23 female Republicans speaks volumes.

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this week’s

top ten More Impacts from High Water

Preparations were underway this week to temporarily move the Village Cheese Shanty in Leland’s Fishtown to get the structure out of the way of rising water and to shore up and lift its foundation.

It’s just the latest consequence of near-record-high water levels in the region.

On the other side of Grand Traverse Bay, the Grand Traverse County Road Commission announced Jan. 7 the indefinite closure of a section of Bluff Road on Traverse City’s Old Mission Peninsula after high water brought shoreline erosion too close to the road’s foundation.

In Leland, still more work needs to be done to maintain and preserve the historic attraction. Fishtown Preservation Society is in the middle of Campaign for Fishtown with a fundraising goal of $2.5 million. So far, $950,000 has been raised, but there is still a need: The goal is to raise $1,550,000 more to preserve Fishtown’s historical integrity and ensure that the site will continue to be publicly accessible.

grand traverse art bomb The Grand Traverse Art Bomb 2020 Opening Reception will be held Sat., Jan. 18 from 11am-11pm at Right Brain Brewery, TC. Enjoy an art demonstration during the day and music and live performance in the evening.

Art Bomb is a three month show that allows visual artists to hang up their work and sell commission free. Other events include the Art Bomb Art Prom on Feb. 15 and Art Bomb Closing Reception on March 28. gtartbomb.com

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Empire Village Inn’s Ribs and Wings

Our first thought on The Empire Village Inn’s Thursday night rib and wings special: How good can $1 ribs and $.50 wings be? Our second thought, with full mouth: Good. Very, very good. Perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised. The EVI, our go-to stop for beer and outstanding pizza after a summer day spent at the dunes, is no less adept in its approach to winter comfort food. Its own ribs — fat, messy, saucy, and just a bit on the sweet side — and beefy chicken wings offered so much flavor and heft, we thought for a moment the inn’s Mr. Meaty pizza might have to bequeath its name and fame. Pair the ribs and wings with one of 14 on-tap craft brews, or, if you’re really hungry, go for the $10.99 combo basket, with three ribs, six wings, fries, and slaw. We’ll wake you in the spring. Find The Empire Village Inn at 11601 S. Lacore Rd. in Empire, (231) 326-5101, www.empirevillageinn.com.

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Little Gods

As the massacre raged on in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989, a baby girl quietly entered the world. Fast-forward nearly two decades, and that girl is left grieving the loss of the mother she barely knew.

After brilliant physicist, Su Lan, unexpectedly perishes, her daughter, Liya, must bring her ashes back home to China.

But for Liya, an American, her return to the motherland is entirely unfamiliar. Now alone in a land teeming with life, her only guides are the ghosts of Su Lan’s forgotten past.

In her much-lauded debut, “Little Gods,” powerful penwoman Meng Jin spins a multi-layer story of migration, membership, and the infrangible bond between mother and daughter.

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IAF Announces New Season

Traverse City’s International Affairs Forum announced its new season.

Things get kicked off at Milliken Auditorium Feb. 20 with former Singaporean diplomat-turned-activist Eirliani Abdul Rahman and her address, “#FULLSTOP: Protecting children and ending human trafficking in the 21st century.”

Next up, on March 19, is National Public Radio foreign correspondent Frank Langfitt who will talk Brexit.

Michael Davis will be onstage April 16 discussing “Hong Kong at a Crossroads: Understanding China’s ambitions beyond the mainland.” Davis is special advisor to the 14th Dalai Lama and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

On May 21, James B. McClintock, endowed professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama will address climate change with “From Penguins to Plankton: The dramatic impact of a changing climate in the Antarctic.”

For more information visit tciaf.com.

Stuff we love Tricked-out Winter Walks For those who equate forest bathing with navel gazing, the Charlevoix Conservation District is ready to loan you the goods to make those quiet walks a lot more exciting. Its Nature Backpack Program offers borrowers a backpack stocked with area trail maps, magnifying glass, nature activity cards, compass, and even a howto survival guide. No need to wait till the weather warms, either; they also loan out Tubbs snowshoes and walking sticks (to reduce stress on knees). Available for a day, a weekend, or even a week. Contact the Charlevoix Conservation District’s Boyne City office at (231) 582-6193 between 8am and 4:30pm Mondays–Fridays for more information.

mlk: a musical remembrance January 20, 2020, marks an extra special occasion: It’s the 25th anniversary of the day Americans celebrate civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Most schools, banks, courts, and the U.S. stock market and post office shut down to observe the federal holiday, but in Traverse City, the City Opera House is throwing open its doors for a heckuva celebration: “MLK: A Musical Remembrance,” a night of one-of-a-kind interpretations of traditional spirituals and songs from the civil rights era. Expect to be moved and utterly wowed by more than 150 performers, including Steppin’ In It’s Joe Wilson on dobro, Laurie Sears leading Northwestern Michigan College’s Jazz Big Band & Lab Band, Jeffrey Cobb directing NMC’s Chamber Singers & Canticum Novum, and the NMC Children’s Choir. Fittingly, the 7pm show is open to all, but nab your free tickets — available at the COH box office — as soon as possible. This annual production, masterminded by local nonprofit Building Bridges with Music, is always packed, and this year’s bigger-than-ever production (the reason for its move from the State Theatre) promises to be an especially hot ticket. For more information, call the box office (231) 941-8082.

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Celebrating 61 Years!

Bottoms up Copper Queen A Benzie County distillery is offering a taste of Michigan’s Copper Country in a whiskey that’s based on a century-old recipe.

Copper Queen, originally served in the saloons of Red Jacket — now Calumet — when the copper mining industry made the Keweenaw Peninsula an economic powerhouse, has been born again, thanks to a couple of local business owners who found an old bottle and advocated for its reintroduction. Iron Fish Distillery of Thompsonville took up the cause and saved the Copper Queen recipe from obscurity, releasing the classic high-grade whiskey just as it was: made from a blend of corn, rye, and malt barley, and at 86 proof, packing an earthy and smooth bite.

“We carefully sourced and relabeled this timeless elixir as a commemorative whiskey celebrating the splendor and heritage of Michigan’s Copper Country,” said Richard Anderson, a partner at Iron Fish.

In an ode to its origins, Anderson said proceeds from the sale of Copper Queen are donated to the historic Calumet Theater.

Try a taste at the distillery, 14234 Dzuibanek Rd., or find a purveyor near you at ironfishdistillery.com.

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Neither Iran nor their terrorist proxies are likely to be subdued by our missiles and bombs.

It has one and half times the land area and, with nearly 83 million people, twice the population of its neighbors Iraq and Afghanistan combined. It is the 19th largest and 18th most populous country in the world.

There was brief detente during the Obama Administration when they agreed to stop enriching uranium. In exchange, we gave them back the money they had paid us for arms before the Shah was deposed but which we didn’t deliver after their revolution. But the Trump Administration rescinded the Obama Administration’s agreement with Iran, and the rhetorical hostilities resumed.

We could also use the opportunity to involuntarily denuclearize them and set their missile program back to the Stone Age, which might actually be the point.

They do have a military, now about 400,000 strong. Their air force of 350 planes is a combination of updated American jets from the 1970s and more modern aircraft purchased from Russia and China. They have both mobile and stationary anti-aircraft missiledefense systems. Their navy is designed to mostly stay close to home with smaller frigates and armed go-fast boats. We now know they have ballistic missiles that can travel hundreds of miles.

But there isn’t much doubt we could cripple their command and control centers with missile strikes from afar, similarly emasculate their air force, and stay well out of range of their navy. We could also use the opportunity to involuntarily denuclearize them and set their missile program back to the Stone Age, which might actually be the point.

But then what?

Unlike Iraq, which had a corrupt secular government run by an increasingly unhinged and unpopular dictator, Iran is an Islamic theocracy; 90 percent of the country is Shiite Muslim. While there is friction between some younger Iranians and their government due to restrictive laws, particularly those that apply to women, there is no overt hatred of their government or a groundswell of support for revolution.

There is a parliament, though the country is ruled by a group of senior clerics led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenai. And the clerics encourage and financially support the country’s terrorists of choice, Hezbollah, for which there are supportive posters all over the capital city of Tehran. They can’t win a conventional war — a few missiles won’t much deter us — but they can bedevil us with more terrorism.

We should note that we were best buddies with the government of Iran when we were propping up the Shah. He was reliably anticommunist when that mattered, and we ignored his often barbaric and oppressive governance. When, in 1979, he was finally ousted for good — we had orchestrated his return to power the first time he was over-

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thrown — 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days, and our allegiance shifted; our friends were quickly enemies.

Iran’s rulers don’t like us because of our prior support of the Shah, current support of Israel, and our alliance with the Sunni Muslim family running Saudi Arabia.

They are even less fond of us since we killed one of their top generals with a drone attack in Iraq. They felt compelled to respond by lobbing missiles on Iraqi bases housing American military personnel. Now, of course, we’ll have to respond to the response, if we haven’t already by the time you read this. And so it begins, a tit-for-tat of stupidity.

It’s not as if that region isn’t used to this.

There are historical records of invasions, attacks, and various of other forms of bloodshed since 1,000 before Jesus was born and, with three dynastic exceptions, has not gone a decade in the ensuing 3,000 years without more of the same. No invader has stayed long or enjoyed themselves much.

Qasem Soleimani, the general we killed, has already been replaced. Hezbollah, with tentacles already reaching throughout the Middle East, can’t be eliminated. Air strikes that will inevitably include civilian collateral damage will generate more support for the theocrats in charge, not less. The government’s connections to Russia and China will necessarily grow stronger. It will draw that portion of the populace eager for reform closer to their government and further away from us. It will virtually destroy any chance of rational diplomacy forestalling military involvement.

We can beat up Iran militarily, wreak plenty of havoc, and rain down destruction just like President Trump promised. But we aren’t likely to eliminate the militias or terrorist groups they support.

We’re about to spend more American treasure and likely spill American blood for another military engagement for which we have no clear goals and no clear exit strategy in a region where our success rate is, so far, zero.

More war will make no one safer.

Crime & Rescue VAPE THEFT SUSPECTS ID’D Police identified two teenage suspects in a break-in at a Blair Township vape shop.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies responded to GT Vape on US-31 near Chum’s Corners between 2am and 3am Jan. 3 after someone threw a rock through the business’s front window, triggering an alarm.

The two culprits were in and out of the business before deputies arrived, getting away with several hundred dollars in merchandise after causing $1,000 in damage, Capt. Randy Fewless said.

Over the weekend, investigators reviewed surveillance footage from the vape shop and a nearby business. A community police officer identified two suspects in the case, two teenagers from Interlochen whom Fewless said are expected to be arrested soon on charges of breaking and entering and malicious destruction of property.

ONE INJURED IN CAR-BUS CRASH The driver of a car suffered minor injuries after a crash with a Cadillac Area Public Schools bus.

No one else was injured in the crash; there were two students, an aide, and a driver aboard the bus.

The crash occurred at 4:57pm Jan. 6 at 13th and Maurer streets, according to Cadillac Police.

The bus was rear-ended as it made a left turn onto Maurer Street. The driver of the car was taken to Munson Cadillac for treatment of non-lifethreatening injuries.

MONEY DISPUTE LEADS TO ASSAULT A Gaylord man faces charges after he allegedly assaulted his mother amid an argument about money.

Jesse Ruiz-Hopkins faces charges of assault, domestic violence, and resisting arrest.

State police were called to a residence on Birch Run in Charlton Township at 11pm Dec. 30.

When police questioned the 30-year-old about the incident, they said he struggled with them.

TIP LEADS POLICE TO DRUG SUSPECT A Silent Observer tip led police to a home in Cadillac where a woman was wanted on a felony warrant.

When state police arrived at the residence on 27 Road on the afternoon of Jan. 5, they could tell someone was home, but no one would answer the door.

Through a window, troopers saw what they believed was drug paraphernalia and methamphetamine. They called the prosecutor’s office to ask for a search warrant and, over a patrol car’s loudspeaker, told the woman to come out of the house.

While they waited for the search warrant, police reached the suspect, 47-year-old Jennifer Ann Sanborn, over the telephone. She admitted to being inside the home.

Again, troopers told her to come out, and she refused. When they saw her walking through the home and destroying evidence, they went inside and arrested her on charges of resisting arrest and tampering with evidence. The homeowner, 39-year-old Anthony Ranes, was arrested for harboring a felon.

TEENAGERS ACCUSED OF ARSON Three teenagers are accused of

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setting vehicles on fire in a Cheboygan County scrapyard.

In November, state police investigated after vehicles had been set ablaze and windshields were smashed at Kling’s Auto Recycling on Court Street.

Detectives used footprint impressions to track down suspects in the case.

James Edward Charboneau, 17; Evelyn Louise Bergstrom, 17; and a 16-year-old girl, all from Cheboygan, were taken into custody following interviews, police said in a Jan. 3 press release.

Charboneau faces charges of fourth-degree arson and malicious destruction of property.

Bergstrom faces a charge of malicious destruction of property. The third suspect faces charges as a juvenile.

COUNTERFEIT SUSPECTS ARRESTED Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies caught two suspects allegedly in the act of passing counterfeit money, leading to a short foot chase.

Deputies were on their way to Walgreens and Walmart in Garfield Township to investigate phony $50 bills on the morning of Jan. 6 when they got a call about more bills passed at Target at the Grand Traverse Mall.

Deputies identified the suspects and confronted them in the parking lot. The men attempted to get away in a vehicle, but the passenger was arrested as he tried to get into the car, and the driver was prevented from driving away after a deputy shot him with a taser. The man fled on foot, crossed South Airport Road, and was arrested near the Home Depot.

A 9mm pistol was located in the vehicle along with numerous shopping bags of merchandise, which police believe were purchased with counterfeit money. The fake money consisted of $50 bills with the serial number MG48084047B. The suspects, 23-year-olds from Benton Harbor and Kalamazoo, were arrested and are expected to face charges. The passenger was already wanted on a failure to appear warrant from an aggravated assault of a police officer case in Kalamazoo while the driver was wanted in Kalamazoo on counterfeiting charges.

PARKING LOT DEALERS BUSTED Two suspects face charges after they were caught allegedly dealing drugs from a motel parking lot in Manistee.

Manistee County Sheriff’s deputies stopped a car with a burnt-out headlight at 5am Jan. 6 and learned from the driver of that car that he had just purchased drugs from a nearby motel parking lot.

Deputies visited the parking lot and found two suspects sitting in a vehicle.

The driver, a 25-year-old Bear Lake man, was arrested on a probation violation warrant. When the passenger got out of the car, deputies noticed a baggie that contained a white powder in a torn back pocket of his pants.

That turned out to be Suboxone, for which the 17-year-old did not have a prescription.

Deputies also found $2,304 in cash in another pocket after they arrested him.

A search of the car turned up fentanyl and methamphetamine, deputies said. Both suspects are expected to face drug charges.

An employee at D&W Fresh Market had been performing CPR with the help of a dispatcher; Trooper Ryan Zamarron stepped in and used a mobile defibrillator and continued CPR until EMTs arrived.

The man was eventually revived and taken to a hospital. The incident happened at 10pm Dec. 21, according to a Jan. 7 press release.

TROOPERS SAVES A MAN’S LIFE A state police trooper arrived before paramedics when help was called to a Petoskey grocery store where a 40-yearold man had collapsed.

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A WAR ON WOMEN opinion

bY Amy Kerr Hardin On occasion I drive by the local Planned Parenthood office and observe silent protestors, in prayer vigil, holding signs condemning abortion. I like to imagine that these dedicated souls also spend endless hours in service to children in need — tirelessly fostering and advocating. They surely must be fighting Trump’s family separation policy and the caging of babies. They must be passionate about helping the one in five Michigan children living in poverty.

Yet, I can’t help but wonder: Is it a genuine love for children motivating them, or perhaps some of them might be harboring a desire to control women’s bodies?

There does seem to be a war on women, waged largely by evangelicals who are willing to turn a blind eye to the current president’s decidedly unchristian behavior.

They elected him to stack the courts, and if he puts children in cages, brags about assaulting women, pays off porn stars, insults minorities, foments violence, lies with impunity, and tramples on the Constitution on a near daily basis, they don’t care. That’s their deal with the devil.

They’ve been bought.

The Guttmacher Institute, an international reproductive health advocacy group, publishes a state-by-state policy trend report every year. The 2019 review is grim for reproductive rights. States enacted 58 new abortion restrictions, with 25 of those banning virtually all abortions. Many of these laws are currently under judicial review, and that’s exactly the goal of evangelicals: They wish to provoke the Supreme Court to revisit Row v. Wade.

A dangerous misinformation campaign is embedded in the legislative onslaught.

Some states are requiring healthcare experts to disseminate misleading and inaccurate claims about reversing a medication abortion. One Ohio lawmaker introduced a bill that would require doctors to “re-implant” ectopic pregnancies in the uterus, or face a murder charge. The author of this farce happily admits that he did not research the facts. This purported procedure is medically impossible, plus an untreated ectopic pregnancy can result in maternal death.

Last month, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case on a Kentucky law that requires ultrasounds prior to an abortion. The law mandates that a doctor describe to the patient, in detail, the image on the screen.

Guttmacher Institute refers to the Kentucky law as nothing more than a “shaming tactic.”

It forces doctors to perform a medically unnecessary procedure.

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Michigan Republican lawmakers have more than once in recent years attempted to pass a similar law. They have been known to employ covert language that would require women to submit to intravaginal imagery.

One legislative attempt called for the “most advanced” equipment, which means a probe inserted in the vagina — a form of penetration considered medical rape when done against the patient’s wishes.

There’s little doubt that Michigan lawmakers will again take a stab at their vaginal probe law, but Gov. Whitmer will shoot it down.

While southern and Midwestern states are rushing to turn back the clock on reproductive health rights, a number of states are countering with laws and policies that protect choice and promote good medical practices. Four states have enacted laws that affirm abortion rights and — spoiler alert — one is in the Midwest. Illinois, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont all passed legislation that support a woman’s right to choose. These new laws also put the smackdown on unwanted “counseling,” i.e. coercion and misinformation.

Forward-looking states have expanded sex education, contraceptive availability, and have placed limits on insurers’ ability to exercise gender discrimination in reproductive healthcare. Translation: If they pay for boner pills, they must also cover women’s birth control.

Several weeks ago, an anti-reproduction rights group in Michigan submitted signatures for a ballot proposal that would effectively end second- and third-trimester abortions.

First, a word about the procedure. These are almost always wanted pregnancies that have gone terribly wrong. Having to terminate at a late date is devastating to the parents. It’s the height of cruelty to imply otherwise.

The intent of this ballot proposal is decidedly to not put the question to Michigan voters.

The whole idea is to exploit a constitutional loophole that allows lawmakers to enact the proposal without public input; they know they would handily lose at the ballot box. It’s a clear abuse of power, and unfortunately, it’s also veto-proof.

The abortion banning law will spur an avalanche of litigation and will likely be put on ice while it works its way through the courts. Ten other states have been forced to suspend similar laws.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal filed by Alabama, but if enough states are wrestling with the issue, the high court might put it on the docket.

In a call for the removal of the president, the editor in chief of the conservative publication, Christianity Today, recently had some stern words of warning for fellow evangelicals: “Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behavior in the cause of political expediency. If we don’t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come? Can we say with a straight face that abortion is a great evil that cannot be tolerated and, with the same straight face, say that the bent and broken character of our nation’s leader doesn’t really matter in the end?”

It’s the very the definition of a Faustian bargain.

Amy Kerr Hardin is a retired banker, regionally known artist, and public-policy wonk. You can hear and learn more about the state of Michigan politics on her podcast, www.

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Bright Ideas -- A romney ewe living on a farm near Auckland, New Zealand, is getting some relief from an unusual problem, thanks to a clever veterinarian and a brassiere meant for humans.

Rose the sheep had suffered damage to her udders when she produced a high volume of milk during her pregnancy with triplets.

"When this happens," Dr. Sarah Clews told Stuff, "the udder can hang so low that it can be traumatized on the ground." The condition can sometimes be a cause for euthanasia, but Dr. Clews thought a bra might help lift the udders and allow them to heal. Rose's owners eventually located a 24J maternity bra big enough to do the job, and it worked -- after two or three weeks of wearing the bra, Rose's udders recovered enough that surgery was no longer needed.

-- Justin and Nissa-Lynn Parson of McKinney, Texas, were all in when their son Cayden, 12, asked for a magnifying glass for Christmas. "We thought, 'Oh, he wants to magnify something'" to read, Nissa-Lynn told KDFW. Instead, Cayden and his brother, Ashton, used the glass to light a newspaper on fire on the family's front porch, which soon spread to the yard, eventually destroying the lawn and some of the family's Christmas lights. "We ran inside and started screaming," Cayden said. The family doused the fire with "pitchers of water, blankets smothering it, sprinklers turned on, hose turned on," NissaLynn recounted, adding that now Cayden "will definitely have yard work to do once spring comes."

Least Competent Criminal In Jefferson County, Colorado, would-be car thief Todd Sheldon, 36, has finally admitted it's just not the vocation for him, according to police. Fox News reported Sheldon had tried over recent weeks to steal multiple vehicles, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff 's Office, but each time he was caught in the act -first by a homeowner, then by sheriff 's deputies minutes later "just down the street," shocking the deputies by telling them, "I'm trying to steal this truck." He was taken into custody and bonded out, but a week later, deputies responding to a report of someone trying to break into a car again found Sheldon. "I really suck at this," Sheldon allegedly told an officer.

Sheldon remained in jail as of Dec. 27.

Bah, Humbug!

Poppy Leigh, 13, of Manchester, England, hoped wrapping her waist-length hair around an empty plastic water bottle and decorating it with lights like a Christmas tree atop her head would bring good cheer to her mates and teachers at Manchester Health Academy on Dec. 20. Instead, school authorities told her she had to either take the decorations off or go

home. Her mom, Christie, wasn't happy about it: "It's just a bit of fun and Christmas cheer," she told Metro News. But Principal Kevin Green huffed: "The Academy has the highest of expectations around uniform and teaching and learning, and ... whilst it was a remarkably creative hairstyle, it was, unfortunately, inappropriate for school."

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-- As she enjoyed an Aldi mince pie in early December, caterer Angela McGill, 52, of Glasgow, Scotland, thought one bite seemed particularly "rough and really hard -- I thought it was a tough piece of pastry!" she told Metro News. Instead, McGill soon realized she had swallowed her partial dentures with two false teeth. Hospital X-rays confirmed the dentures were caught halfway down her throat, but the staff advised her pulling them out would only cause more harm. It took 72 hours for the plate to pass. "It was ever so funny!" she said. "And I was really enjoying the mince pie, too."

-- Sandra Smith, 59, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was cited for careless driving on Dec. 29, after crashing her 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass into a mausoleum at the Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery, damaging the facades of three above-ground graves, WFLA reported. Florida Highway Patrol troopers said Smith was driving in a grass lot at the cemetery when she "failed to avoid a mausoleum on the property." Her passenger, 63-year-old Betty Strickland, went to the hospital with critical injuries.

A camera-shy celebrity chef tries to launch a TV show, but threats from her agent and spells cast by her gypsy neighbor are no help. Add her husband’s attempts at hypnotism, and the taping turns into a comic nightmare that threatens to end the show as well as her sanity.

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True Love Kelly McGraw, 37, of Portsmouth, England, and her husband, James, 40, have enjoyed playing pranks on each other throughout their 24-year marriage. But before Christmas, as James was plotting a way to get back at Kelly for a "dodgy" haircut she'd given him, he came up with a gloriously permanent idea: He had his thigh tattooed with a less-than-flattering photo of Kelly, asleep on a plane with her mouth gaping open, as James mocked her behind her head. "I'm one up at the moment," James told the Sun, "but I'm also scared because I don't know what she's now planning." Kelly was unforgiving: "I was horrified. I couldn't believe it. ... We do mess about anyway, but this is on another level. ... He needs to watch his back."

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Precocious The newest tattoo artist in the Haji Lane area of Singapore is Lilith Siow, 12. She learned the art from her father, Joseph, who has operated a tattoo business for 20 years, reported Asia One on Dec. 30. In the past year, Lilith has tattooed at least a dozen customers, although she admitted that she was nervous at first, taking 90 minutes to complete her first. "I was afraid at the beginning. ... Once a tattoo sets, it is forever," she said. As her confidence grows, so does her advocacy for the art: She disagrees that people with tattoos are "bad people."

Animal Shenanigans Police in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, were called Dec. 27 to the parking lot of a CVS pharmacy over a "public menace," according to WKYT. The culprit was a "hostile chicken" that "pecked viciously" at the officers and "made some adept use of vehicles for cover" before they were able to corral it in a plastic milk crate, according to the police department's Facebook page. Officers transferred the foul fowl to "someone who can give him more suitable accommodations," then attended to their wounds with "some doughnut therapy."

Sour Grapes Japanese YouTuber Marina Fujiwara has harnessed the pain she feels when she sees couples basking in their love at the holidays and developed a sort of schadenfreudean device: a light that turns on whenever anyone breaks up on social media. Oddity Central reported on Dec. 27 that Fujiwara's device is connected to the internet through a "bridge" and is set to light up whenever a breakup status is posted on Twitter. "I want to celebrate Christmas," she said. "But when you see a couple in the world going on a Christmas date and doing something like that, I am attacked by a huge sense of loneliness." While her machine is not available commercially, Fujiwara says it's easy enough to set one up for yourself. (Check her YouTube channel for directions.)

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WAS IT RACISM?

The City of Cadillac denies that a brief encounter between a police officer and a 13-year-old African American youth on a bike trail was an act of racism. But a lawsuit over the incident ended in a $90,000 payout.

By Patrick Sullivan It was on a warm, sunny summer evening when the 13-year-old Cadillac student bought some cookies at one of the city’s Dollar Generals before heading home on his bicycle via a section of the Fred Meijer White Pine Trail, a 92-mile trail that runs from the southeast end of Cadillac’s Lake Mitchell to Comstock Park outside Grand Rapids.

A few minutes into his ride, the youth became alarmed: A car was trailing him on the non-motorized, pedestrian-only trail.

Nervous, he pedaled faster, but the car soon caught up. He spun his legs as fast as he could, but the proximity of the car — now just a car-length or so behind him — terrified him, he would later recount. When he spotted an opening at the side of the trail, he turned and got out of the way of the oncoming car. It continued on its way.

This brief encounter occurred in 2015, but the nature of what happened and why it occurred has been the subject of an investigation and a lawsuit in the years since.

The youth is an African American who grew up in the overwhelmingly white city of Cadillac.

The car was a Cadillac Police cruiser, driven by an officer who, it would later come to light, had shared racially insensitive memes on Facebook.

TALE OF TWO INTERPRETATIONS Was the encounter, as the City of Cadillac would claim, an unfortunate misunderstanding that occurred when the student crossed paths with an officer who was conducting a search for a missing Alzheimer’s patient, or was it, as the youth and his attorney contend, a menacing act of racism?

There might not ever be a definitive answer to that question.

In December, the city agreed to pay $90,000 to end the lawsuit plaintiff attorney Blake Ringsmuth had filed of behalf of the young man, a result the attorney said amounts to “absolute vindication” for his client.

“This is one of the most important cases of my career,” Ringsmuth said. “It was the proper use of the law to get justice to expose abuse of power against a community member that has no real power. That’s what our justice system, when its being used for its highest purpose, is all about.”

Michael Homier, the attorney who represented the City of Cadillac and its police officer, said Cadillac did not admit any wrongdoing and that the result should not be seen as a vindication for the plaintiffs.

Homier said the result of the case was not a settlement, technically. Rather, the sides agreed to undergo a case evaluation, and the city’s insurance company made the call to accept that evaluation, leading to the $90,000 payout.

“Cadillac didn’t settle the case, and they didn’t pay any money,” Homier said. “Their insurance carrier paid.”

A RACIST ACT OR A ‘NONEVENT’?

After the encounter, the student, who is identified in the lawsuit as John Doe, rushed home and told his mother what happened.

His mother went to the police department and got a meeting with the then-police chief, Todd Golnick. She wanted to file a complaint, but she said that Golnick told her that things would only get worse for her son if he did, Ringsmuth said.

of the difficult circumstance they were about to get into.

Homier also said that the officer didn’t recall seeing the youth on the trail that evening because that encounter was a “nonevent,” at least from the perspective of the police officer.

“You would have to assume that, while on a call looking for an elderly man with dementia, that an officer took time out of his day to harass a young boy on the basis of race,” he said.

Homier said the officer didn’t recall seeing the boy because what happened was like the hundreds or thousands of details that confront people every day but go unnoticed because they have nothing to do with what individuals are focused on.

A WITNESS COMES FORWARD Ringsmuth said Homier might have an explanation for why the officer said he had no recollection of the incident when he was questioned about it the next day — and over

“It was the proper use of the law to get justice to expose abuse of power against a community member that has no real power. That’s what our justice system, when its being used for its highest purpose, is all about.”

The youth was traumatized over the incident and terrified of the police, said Ringsmuth, so he didn’t think he should let it go. The boy and his mother pushed ahead and eventually hired an attorney.

Meanwhile, the officer involved denied that he ever saw a young African American boy on the trail that evening, according to deposition testimony in the case. In fact, for a year and a half the officer would deny seeing the young bicycle rider.

Homier denied that the police chief attempt to intimidate the kid and his mom in order to prevent them from filing a complaint.

Rather, Homier told Northern Express, he told them that if they pursued the case, the youth might have to testify and be cross-examined, and warned that might get complicated for him. Homier said Golnick was giving the teenager and his mom a realistic assessment

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the following months — but that does not explain how the officer suddenly recalled the incident 18 months later.

Ringsmuth said he believes the officer was forced to admit that he remembered the incident when he learned that there was a witness that backed up the teen’s version of events.

“He cannot explain why he was unable to remember this when his chief asked him repeatedly about it at the time, and yet, over a year later, [he] does,” Ringsmuth wrote in a summary of the case.

In his lawsuit, filed in Wexford County in 2018, Ringsmuth alleged assault, intentional affliction of emotional distress, gross negligence, and a violation of the Michigan Civil Rights Act. The allegations in the case stem from the observations of the witness, a woman who, while pulling a car out of an apartment

complex, spotted the youth on his bike apparently being chased by a city police car.

In an affidavit she filed, the woman, who had been in the car with her son at the time, described an alarming scene: “My first thought when I saw the police car going that fast and that close behind [him] was that something was wrong and that the police car was chasing him.

As soon as there was an opening in the trail, [he] quickly pulled off, and the police car kept going,” the woman recounted.

She went on: The boy “seemed to be pedaling for his life and based on everything I saw, I believe that if he had wiped out on his bike he would have been in danger of being run over. It was a scary sight to see, and my son was upset by it.”

The woman said that she could see the officer in the police car and that he appeared to be very agitated and angry.

WHETHER RACE WAS A FACTOR The legal case was complicated and bogged down throughout much of 2019 with the question of whether what transpired could be determined an act of racism on the officer’s part.

The city filed a motion for summary disposition, asking that the case be thrown out on all counts, including the civil rights violation allegations.

At a motion hearing last February in Cadillac, Circuit Court Judge William Fagerman listened to arguments from each side. Ultimately, he decided there was enough evidence to ask a jury to decide whether the what happened was an act of assault, intentional affliction of emotional distress, and gross negligence. Fagerman ruled, however, that there was no indication that incident amounted to an act of racism, and he threw out that part of the lawsuit.

That was a big blow to the plaintiffs, and Ringsmuth, who said he otherwise had always considered Fagerman to be a good judge, said he was flabbergasted by this decision.

Homier said he believed Fagerman made the right decision because there was nothing in the encounter that demonstrated racism.

Homier argued that the officer ended up driving behind the teenager inadvertently because of the search, that the boy soon pulled off of the trail anyway, and that, soon after, the officer located the elderly man.

“He was returned safely to his caregiver, and the city received a note thanking them for finding him,” Homier argued. The youth “was not struck, was not injured. … There’s no allegation that [the officer] even spoke to him. He didn’t hurl any racial epithets towards the minor, nothing; zero, not one fact.”

Homier called the lawsuit frivolous and said the civil rights claim was based on circular reasoning.

“They keep asserting in a circular way that we have met our burden in the allegations because we have alleged that it’s true. And these allegations, I think, Your Honor, are the worst kind. They are vial, reprehensible, baseless, unsupported allegations alleging racial discrimination against both the city” and the officer, he argued.

Later, he argued that it is normal for a youth to feel threatened when followed by a police officer, but that doesn’t make it racist.

“I get nervous when the police pull up behind me. Everybody gets nervous, I think that’s a natural response. Was he scared?

I don’t doubt he was scared. That doesn’t give rise to assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil rights claims, telling the department and the city that they’re racist,” he argued.

“SOMETHING FOUL AFOOT” Ringsmuth argued that Homier’s explanation of the encounter didn’t make any sense and that it was impossible to look at what transpired without considering the role racism played.

“Why would a car be that close, going that fast behind a boy on a bicycle, whether it’s a police officer or not, when there’s no other reason given?” he asked Fagerman. “And the officer says I never saw a boy on the trail. Those don’t add up. And so, I believe those facts certainly give rise to a reasonable inference that there was something foul afoot.”

He noted that to the eyewitness, the encounter appeared to be an aggressive act and that his client ended up traumatized by the incident.

Ringsmuth argued that a jury should be able to decide whether this bizarre encounter between a white police officer and an African American youth was an act of racism.

But Fagerman pushed back at the hearing.

In questioning Ringsmuth, he challenged the notion that the incident could be characterized a civil rights violation simply because of the race of those involved. This led to a back-and-forth between the lawyer and the judge about whether the circumstances of the encounter could be inferred as racist.

Ringsmuth and Fagerman clearly saw the encounter in a completely different light.

According to the transcript: MR. RINGSMUTH: I believe that the conduct that took place gives rise to an inference.

THE COURT: How so?

MR. RINGSMUTH: Because there aren’t any other reasonable explanations, and that is a reasonable explanation.

THE COURT: What, that he was African American, that’s why the officer did it?

MR. RINGSMUTH: Yes. THE COURT: Oh, come on. Are you serious?

MR. RINGSMUTH: Yes, I am.

THE COURT: I doubt it.

“TROUBLING” ATTACKS ON SPEECH Ringsmuth had not had the chance to depose the police officer prior to the summary disposition hearing; he did several days later, and he was able to confirm through that

questioning that the officer, Thomas Wade, had shared links on Facebook that could be considered racist toward African Americans.

One of the posts expressed disdain for Treyvon Martin, an African American youth shot and killed in Florida in what was described as an act of racial profiling.

Ringsmuth filed a motion for reconsideration, and there was another hearing among the same lawyers in April. Ringsmuth again argued that the encounter could be inferred to have been racially motivated.

“So, we have got this conduct [that] happens, and it doesn’t make sense on its face.

It’s reckless, it’s outrageous, it’s assaultive, true.

And so now we have to figure out why that happened,” he argued. “And there has been no offered explanation, and now we know he has exhibited some racial — racially insensitive or racist ideas, and so we now look at what happened on the trail, and what inferences can we draw?”

Homier argued that the officer’s Facebook posts may have expressed political opinions, but they did not add up to racism. Moreover, Homier argued, the Facebook material was stuff Wade found elsewhere and shared — not content he created.

“So if we are now going to evolve, I suppose, to a place where the inference can be made that because you share something, that that makes you a racist, um, then that’s troubling, particularly in light of political speech and the protections afforded to political speech,” Homier argued. “And Mr. Ringsmuth’s idea here is sort of shifting the burden now to the defendant, to show that they’re not guilty or not responsible for any of these claims when he says, well, what other reason could there be? They must be racist.

That’s the response.”

He argued that Ringsmuth still didn’t have any evidence that the encounter was an act of racism.

Ringsmuth countered that some of the posts shared by the officer on Facebook were “very troubling statements.”

Nonetheless, Fagerman upheld his earlier ruling and determined that a civil rights case could not go forward.

In the transcript, Ringsmuth’s astonishment with the ruling was evident.

He asked Fagerman: “This court is saying and is ruling that a reasonable inference from these facts could not be that it was at least in part racially motivated, yeah?”

Fagerman responded: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”

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A HIGHER COURT WEIGHS IN Ringsmuth decided to take the extraordinary step of filing an interlocutory appeal, meaning an appeal that is filed while the case is still pending. Ringsmuth said he knew it was a long shot, but he said he thought he could get Fagerman’s decision reversed, and he didn’t want to wait until after the trial in the case because that would mean his client would have to go through two trials.

He filed with the Michigan Court of Appeals in May, asking them to overturn Fagerman’s disposal of the civil rights claim.

In October, a three-judge court of appeals panel unanimously reversed Fagerman’s decision and ordered that the civil rights claim be allowed to go ahead to a trial.

Soon after that, Ringsmuth said, the defendants agreed to accept the $90,000 settlement.

Depite Homier’s contention that the case was not settled by the city or the officer, Ringsmuth said he believes that the defense could have continued to fight the case if they believed they could win.

“The amount that was awarded was a significant amount,” he said. “Despite their denials, you don’t pay $90,000 when you’ve done nothing wrong, and the city had every opportunity to decline to pay it, and yet, they didn’t.”

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By Ross Boissoneau From shows that have never been performed before to those that have stood the test of time, the region raises the red velvet curtain on an astonishing number of stage productions each winter. Make a date to unpeel from the couch and take in some ultra-high-definition (i.e., in-person) performances this season. There’s a host of shows to choose from.

BAY HARBOR Never before seen? Yes, and never again — that’s the nature of improvisation, taken to extremes at Great Lakes Center for the Arts Jan. 18. “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” is an entirely improvised evening: half mock awards show, half musical. The cast from New York City takes audience suggestions for song titles, then chooses four at random.

After they’ve made up and performed the songs, the audience chooses one, and the second half of the show becomes an instamusical based around that song, with characters, plot, and dialogue all made up on the spot. For tickets, $22+, or more information, go to www.greatlakesCFA.org.

TRAVERSE CITY Later this spring, the City Opera House will host the 2019–2020 Young Playwrights

Festival. High school students from around the area submit one-act plays, and six finalists are chosen in February. The finalists are paired with national theater mentors, and their plays are produced and performed for the first time on the City Opera House stage April 19. Free.

Traverse City’s Parallel 45 spent its first summer under the tent at the Grand Traverse County Civic Center and will do so again this summer. Before that, though, it will be working in partnership with Interlochen Center for the Arts on a residency program that runs for six weeks, from February through mid-March, culminating in a public performance at Interlochen’s Harvey Theatre March 12–14. Tickets are free. In the spring of 2020, P45 artist Shelby Lewis will devise a new production based on L.M. Montgomery’s book, “Anne of Green Gables.”

The company will once again collaborate with Crooked Tree Arts Center to present a series of free play readings featuring daring playwrights produced around the country and the world.

This year’s plays include The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse in February; Lungs by Duncan Macmillan in March; Admissions by Joshua Harmon in April; The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe and Dance Nation by Clare Baron, both in May.

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All except The Thanksgiving Play will take place Crooked Tree Arts Center on Sixth Street; The Thanksgiving Play will take place at Interlochen Center for the Arts and Glen Arbor Arts Center.

Before we get to all of that, Old Town Playhouse has a full slate of community theatre performances, starting with “Indecent,” opening Jan. 17. A play within a play, it tells the story of the controversial Yiddish play “The God of Vengeance,” which resulted in the original Broadway cast being charged with obscenity. It’s followed by “Silent Sky – She Touched the Stars,” about the Victorian-era astronomer Henrietta Leavitt’s work at the Harvard Observatory.

“Silent Sky” opens March 6. On April 24, “Chicago – Yeah, All That Jazz!” tells the tale of two rival murderesses in Cook County Jail during the Roaring Twenties. Tickets are $28 adults, $15 youth under 18.

Meanwhile, OTP’s Studio Theatre will present “Love, Loss and What I Wore” in February, the aptly named “[title of show]” in April, and “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” the follow-up to Ibsen’s classic play, in May. For tickets, $17+, or more information, go to www.oldtownplayhouse.com.

INTERLOCHEN The student-directed One-Act Festival at Interlochen Center for the Arts features

four performances Jan. 23–25. The alwaysimpressive shows will feature 12 studentproduced one-act plays — one lineup Jan. 23 and 25, and a second Jan. 24 and 25. The plays encompass comedy, drama, experimental theater, and more. Students manage every aspect of production, from selecting the scripts to casting and directing.

Performances take place at Harvey Theatre and admission is free.

Also at Interlochen, the Q Brothers will be onstage at Corson for a show Feb. 18. The group takes familiar material and reimagines it in what it calls “add-RAP-tations,” blending theatre classics with hip-hop rhymes to create original, fast-paced comedic performances, similar perhaps to Broadway hit “Hamilton” — though the group’s work actually predates that blockbuster. The Q Brothers will present “Othello, the Remix” Feb. 18. For tickets ($28 adults, $14 students) or more information, go to www.interlochen.org BENZONIA To the west, the Benzie County Players will perform their first show of the season, “Boeing Boeing,” at the Mills Community House Jan. 24–27. It is a 1960s French slapstick comedy that has been adapted for the English-speaking stage. The 40-yearold community theater group is currently fundraising to cover the production costs of

Othello

three shows annually, while also working to raise scholarship funding for local students, donate show proceeds to local charities, and hosting theater workshops. Tickets are available at the door: $12 for adults and $6 for students. To reserve tickets, to ask any questions, or to join the Players, call (231) 409-6686.

at Tucker’s of Northport will present “Cookin’ With Gus,” which opens Jan. 31, with additional dates Feb. 1, 2, 7, 8 & 9. Camerashy Chef Augustine is trying to make a pilot for a TV show, amid threats from her agent, spells by her Gypsy neighbor, and her husband’s attempts at hypnotism. For tickets, $60, call (231) 386-5001.

SCOTTVILLE Further south still, West Shore Community College presents the ABBA musical Mamma Mia, opening Feb. 21.

Tickets are $25 at www.mynorthtickets.com.

PETOSKEY The Little Traverse Civic Theatre will perform “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” April 16–19 and 23–25 at Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey. For tickets or more information, go to www.ltct.org.

ROSCOMMON Especially for the younger set, Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts in Roscommon will present “Chicken Dance: A Barnyard Musical” on March 6. The show tells the story of two barnyard chickens, Marge and Lola, on a mission to win the barnyard talent contest: two tickets to see the great Elvis Poultry in concert! But first, they must present a performance that will score higher than a flock of very talented ducks, led by Mac, who loves to play the bully.

It’s followed in April by “Frindle!” a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words. For tickets ($4-$6) or more information, go to www. kirtlandcenter.com.

CADILLAC The Cadillac Footliters will also present “Boeing Boeing.” Show dates are Jan. 17-18 and 24–25. Junior Players will present “The Lion King Jr.” April 3–4 and 10–11. For tickets, $10+, or more information, go to www.cadillacfootliters.com.

MANISTEE The Manistee Civic Players will present “You Can’t Take It With You” later this year.

For tickets or more information, go to www. manisteecivicplayers.org.

LEELANAU The Leelanau Players are looking forward to presenting several comedies by Alice Gerstenberg, including “Overtones.”

Performance dates have not yet been scheduled but will be posted on the group’s (search “Leelanau Players”) Facebook page.

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• Parallel 45’s schedule includes musicals “The Sound of Music” July 2-Aug. 1 and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” July 22-Aug. 1, a fresh take on Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” July 16-July 25, and YouthQuake, a new project involving its apprentice company performing a new play for younger audiences, July 18-Aug. 2.

Tickets start at $45 for “The Sound of Music,” $38 for “Hedwig,” $28 for “The Crucible” and $15 for Youthquake; go to Parallel45.org.

• Also keep on your radar Interlochen’s annual Shakespeare Festival the weekend before and after the Fourth of July, as well as touring groups and performances by its campers. Dates and ticket information will be released later this year.

• Lakeside Shakespeare in Frankfort will present “Julius Caesar and The Merry Wives of Windsor” July 21-26 and 28-31. A suggested donation of $15 is taken.

• The Glen Arbor Players will have two shows this summer, original plays “Tidal Shifts” and “My Weekend in the Catskills.”

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Readers, Save the Date!

Looking for some good books and intelligent conversation with the folks that wrote them? Check out whom the National Writers Series is bringing to Traverse City next: Steve Luxenberg, Feb. 6 “Separate: The Story of Plessy v.

Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation” A study of the landmark 1896 Supreme Court ruling that enshrined the concept of separate but equal treatment along racial lines. Luxenberg is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

Peter Heller, March 5 “The River” Outdoor writer Heller returns to the NWS, this time with the tale of an anything-but-peaceful canoe trip in northern Canada.

Whose America is This?

Pulitzer-winning journalists to discuss their book and the rise and fall of America’s middle class.

By Clark Miller Has America become more concerned with Wall Street than Main Street? Journalists (and married couple) Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn tackle the question in their forthcoming book, “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.”

Shortly after their book is released on Jan. 14, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writing team will make their way to Traverse City’s City Opera House on Friday, Jan. 31, to kick off the winter/spring season of the 2020 National Writers Series. The writers will take the stage at 7pm to discuss their work and the economic state our nation is in.

THEIR PREMISE Kristof and WuDunn argue that the GI Bill and other social “escalators” helped bring many Americans into the middle class. But around 1970, priorities shifted.

That’s when labor unions came under attack, leaving clear the path for capitalists to invest more in machinery than in workers.

That trend, the authors say, has been especially tough on unskilled workers.

Kristof and WuDunn point out that if the federal minimum wage had kept pace with inflation over the past 50 years, the current rate would be $22 per hour; not $7.25. At the same time, insurance rates have skyrocketed, and, without the type of strong health safety net most other developed countries provide, many Americans find themselves one health crisis away from economic ruin.

The authors point out the irony that a vibrant middle class first took root in the U.S. but now there is “a brittleness to life for about 150 million Americans, with a constant risk that sickness, layoffs, or a car accident will cause everything to collapse.”

They cite some chilling statistics: • Life expectancy continues to rise in most of the industrialized world, but in the U.S., it has dropped for three years in a row.

• Suicide rates are at a 30-year high.

• Opioids and other drugs now kill more Americans each month than guns or car crashes.

IS THERE A SOLUTION? The question is, how can we turn this around? Kristof and WuDunn quote billionaire businessman Ray Dalio, who says the problem “is that capitalists typically don’t know how to divide the pie well, and socialists typically don’t know how to grow it well.” Even such economic “winners” as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have publicly stated that the rich should pay more taxes. At the other end of the policy spectrum is President Trump, who stated during a 2016 campaign debate by bragging that not paying income taxes makes him “smart.” A champion of deregulation, he said his money would otherwise be “squandered.”

To put a human face on the dilemma, the authors show how families in Kristof ’s mostly working-class hometown of Yamhill, Oregon, and other hard-hit areas have fared.

Just before the holidays, Northern Express briefly interviewed Kristof about “Tightrope” and give a sample of what readers — or attendees of his and WuDunn’s NWS event — can expect to learn more about.

moral failure. That has made it harder for people struggling to start to recover. And I think that’s a factually wrong approach.

Express: You describe our country as “divided.”

Kristof: On the right, there’s a deep hostility toward regulation, and a deep hostility toward various social support systems, for fear of building dependency. Intellectuals and elites did, to some extent, neglect working folks [in recent decades]. I think both parties helped Wall Street over Main Street.

Express: Could that explain why the polls got it so wrong in the last presidential race?

Express: You call for a “grace of morality.”

What does that mean?

Kristof: I think politicians and intellectuals and journalists tend to hang out too much with people like themselves.

They stay in a bubble. I don’t think we were aware of how much distress and anger there was. And as a country, I think we’re still not completely aware of it. Problems like drug overdoses [and] high suicide rates seem kind of distant from the discussions we’re having.

The purpose of our book is to face up to these challenges. The people we wrote about were struggling. They voted for Trump to rescue them. I think he spoke to them, reflected their anguish. Traditional politicians had ignored them. When you’re struggling, you can become vulnerable to a demagogue who comes along, especially someone who blames immigrants. FDR warned about that.

Kristof: It means not pointing fingers when people get in trouble but instead extending a helping hand. For years, we’ve taken a harsh approach to those who fail economically. Too often, we’ve seen it as a

The Jan. 31 event starts at 7pm. Doors open at 6pm. For tickets, go to www.cityoperahouse. org; call (231) 941-8082, ext. 201, Monday– Friday; or visit the City Opera House box office at 106 E. Front St.

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Terry McMillan, April 9 “It’s Not All Downhill From Here” The author of bestselling novels, like “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” McMillan is known for her strong female characters. Her latest work tackles personal themes such as friendship, healing, and finding new approaches to life.

Pam Houston, April 22 “Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country” At loose ends after a book tour, the author uses her royalties to buy a ranch in Colorado and is surprised by the kindness of neighbors, friends, and firefighters.

Anthony Kronman, June 28 “The Assault on American Excellence” The former head of Yale Law School asks if colleges have the right approach to prepare students for life’s tests.

Elaine Weiss, June 11 “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote” Award-winning journalist and writer Weiss honors the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment in her book, which is being adapted for television by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, with Hilary Rodham Clinton as an executive producer.

Mark Nepo, July 10 “Drinking from the Rivers of Light” A poet and spiritual advisor explores how to become more attuned to the creative process.

By Ross Boissoneau He’s received accolade upon accolade.

“A dazzling acoustic guitarist with a moody baritone,” according to The Washington Post. “A genre-defying maverick,” says Frets magazine. “A relaxed and fearless performer who’ll entertain you as well as move you,” according to Acoustic Guitar Magazine. The Boston Globe is perhaps most flattering: “An acoustic picker with the Olympian speed of Leo Kottke, bolstered by rootsy vocals and twisting, offbeat lyrics that evoked John Hiatt.”

And he’s available to play at your house.

Well, maybe not your house. But Willy Porter will be performing a house concert Jan. 23 as part of the Gopherwood concert series.

While he typically performs in smaller theaters and performing arts centers — he’ll be at Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan for two nights the end of this month — he said the chance to get up close and personal at house concerts is something he treasures. “I like people a lot. I like chatting with people I don’t know.

“House concerts build community. To be in on that as a traveler is an amazing gift,” he continued. Especially compared with the transactional experience of a concert.

“It’s an amazing gift versus the one-to-one economic relationship. I want more out of the equation.”

Porter is mostly self-taught on guitar. “I grew up in a house with a lot of music. When I discovered guitar it opened up a different universe to me. It had a lot of magic in it, like six separate pianos.”

After falling in love with guitar, he continued to explore the instrument and began writing songs. In 1990, he released his first album, The Trees Have Soul, followed by 10 more, the last several on his own Weasel Records. He said he named it that in honor of the disreputable characters who inhabit the music industry.

“It was cute at the time. It’s stuck with us,” Porter said with a laugh.

He has logged millions of miles across America, Canada, the UK, and Europe. As a solo act and with various incarnations of the Willy Porter Band, he’s been both a headliner and opened for artists such as Tori Amos, Paul Simon, Jethro Tull, Sting, and Jeff Beck. Porter said regardless of the situation, he approaches every show as a unique opportunity to play just like …

Willy Porter.

“I try to stay authentic to me, try to do what I’m going to do,” he said. “As you age, you have less time for BS. I’m striving toward my authentic self.”

Porter has built his career on the fruits of his songwriting as much as his guitar prowess. He said the best way to write songs is to do just that. “You’ve got to show up. Be available to the song. You’ve got to put the time in.”

He said it’s important to him that he go with the flow. “Some people can write at a specific time,” he continued. “For me, morning is the best time. Play, sing, emote.

You’ll catch a moment, catch a thread. The main thing is, don’t judge anything before it happens.

“You don’t have to write the next great song. Just the next song.”

With the explosion of the internet, streaming has overtaken the industry, shunting aside both radio play and physical recordings. Regardless of the vagaries of the industry, Porter said he has remained true to his chosen vocation. “The industry has changed, [but] music has always been the destination for me. I had to adapt, look ahead.”

While vinyl has given way to cassettes, then compact discs, and now online music, Porter said there’s one thing that hasn’t changed: The connection a musician can make with an audience. He said the live experience is something that cannot be duplicated. “You can’t replace humans in a room,” he said.

Or humans traveling together, apparently. In what may be a first, Porter is inviting fans to come along with him on a couple different trips: One to Ireland and another on the Salmon River in Idaho. He took the latter trip last year, and found it to be so enjoyable and renewing he wanted to share it with friends and fans. “I went, and it was extraordinary. During the day you’re on the water, you can kayak or float. The water is clean and clear. Cellphone don’t’ work, you’re off the grid. There’s campfire music at night. There’s nothing like it.”

Porter’s skill on guitar includes using tapping, the method of playing with both hands on the neck, popularized by the likes of Steve Hackett, Stanley Jordan and Eddie Van Halen. “Michael Hedges was the master of that,” he said of the late great acoustic guitarist.

It’s not simply about technique with Porter. “My first guitar teacher was a folk musician. He taught me how to play songs,” Porter said. For him at least, that was and is the best way to approach music. “The instrument is a blast to play, but I’m trying to find something that speaks (to the audience).

I’m on that quest. I need a song, some sort of emotional currency.”

Seems he has found it. Al Kooper, founder of Blood, Sweat and Tears and acclaimed session musician (Bob Dylan, Stephen Stills, etc.) may have said it best: “I found Willy on iTunes six years ago. Went to see him live and joined the converted.”

This is the fourth show of the season for Cadillac’s Gopherwood Concerts. The organization originally started as a film guild in the early ’80s, showing independent films around the area. The rise of the VCR forced the group to change its focus to music, resulting in the formation of the Gopherwood Folk Society in 1983.

The name was changed to Gopherwood Concerts in the ’90s to combat the perception that the shows it presented were open only to members. It has hosted concerts at homes (such as this show) as well as various venues, including the Cadillac Country Club and Elks Club.

Upcoming shows include Emilee Petersmark (from the Crane Wives), Feb. 22 at the Elks Lodge; the Made in Michigan FUNdraiser March 14 at the Elks; the Schrock Bros. BIG Band April 11at the Elks; and the season’s final show, a house concert

by Robbie Schaefer May 16.

For more information, go to www. gopherwoodconcerts.org. To purchase tickets, see www.mynorthtickets.com.

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Art & the Average Joe

By Ross Boissoneau How many people enter an art gallery each day? Is that number greater or smaller than the number of patrons who visit a coffee shop?

Carol Spaulding knows the answer. That’s why she her friend and fellow artist Angela Saxon create a monthly art show at BLK\ MRKT in Traverse City’s Warehouse District.

Within the cozy confines of the coffee shop, the walls showcase art by a variety of visual artists, typically a different one each month.

“It started like a pop-up gallery,” said Spaulding. That was a couple years ago, when artist Richard Kooyman was running it. It’s since evolved into a carefully curated rotating exhibit, one that adds to the coffee shop’s ambience but doesn’t disturb its customers.

“Gallery owners have to get people in,” said Spaulding. “It [BLK\MRKT] has built-in patrons.”

Beyond the continuous stream of people, exhibiting art in a non-gallery setting is refreshing; it brings art to people who might not otherwise seek it out. Said Saxon, “I think it’s nice for people to experience art in other places.”

There are some challenges. Because one wall of BLK\MRKT is almost fully taken up with windows the open to the street, another wall has shelves, and there are two entrances — one is the main entrance, and the other connecting to the lush plant and floral shop Darling Botanical next door — there is not a lot of room for art or anything else.

But that challenge has become a benefit. It affords artists the opportunity to create or show pieces on a more intimate scale than usual.

For example, Joan Richmond is best known for her sublime landscape paintings.

But December’s show focused on the original

abstract paintings of Madonna and Child she creates every winter for her holiday card.

EVOLUTION Spaulding and Saxon first collaborated on their own art projects. They passed their artistic creations back and forth for the other to modify as she saw fit. Handing off a creation to someone else with no rules as to what she can or cannot do to it takes great faith in the other — and a willingness to see one’s own efforts changed, sometimes even destroyed in the creation of new art.

That they managed to do that while remaining friends and respectful of one another as artists convinced them they should work together again. This was a way to continue their collaborative artistic efforts on another front. “We realized how well we work together,” said Saxon.

They’ve since added a third element to their BLK\MRKT project: Northwestern Michigan College professor Jackie Shinners interviews each artist and provides an indepth perspective of the exhibition, which is shown at the gallery and promoted on social media, making the art and its artists more accessible and contextual for any viewer.

“Part of having Jackie involved is to step up the educational aspect. She’s well qualified to do that,” said Spaulding.

COMING SHOWS The January show features landscapes of Traverse City in oils by Claud Mills.

“Must Love Blue,” where 10 different artists focus on and interpret the color blue, will exhibit in February and March.

Artists include Saxon and Spaulding, as well as Kooyman, Richmond, Shanny Brooke, Margo Burian, Royce Deans, Melanie Parke, Lynn Uhlmann, and Harvey Gordon.

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April’s artist will be Rochelle Stark; May, Susan Thompson; Spencer McQueen/ William Riker in July; Denise Samuels in October; Tim Nielsen in November; and Micah Middaugh in December. Korson curates the show in June, while Spaulding has August and Saxon is featured in September.

The two take no money from Korson or the artists, so having their own art on exhibit is their only compensation.

Each show has an opening reception. “It’s a gathering time, a time to meet the artist. It’s after coffee-shop hours,” said Spaulding. And each show is open whenever the coffee shop is: Monday through Saturday from 7am to 5pm and Sundays from 9 to 3.

Find BLK\MRKT at 144 Hall St., in Traverse City. (231) 714-5038, www.blkmrkt. coffee CATCHING THE BUZZ On the other end of town, Morsels Espresso + Eatables is showcasing the art of Michael Barile Jr. Morsels owner Misha Neidorfler said Barile is the father of one of her best friends, whose own art was shown at the coffeeshop last year. It decorates the walls of the shop at 321 E. Front.

That is not the only art on display.

Neidorfler has begun a new program, bringing in local artists to decorate, not the shop’s walls, but its merchandise. First up was local artist and illustrator Ryan Lee. “I asked him to create something with the [Morsels] brand. He draws comics, and creates these crazy characters, really cool stuff,” Neidorfler said.

Lee offered her six different characters, and she chose two. One is on a hoodie, the other on a travel tumbler. “We sell them pretty well. They’re both original designs.”

Neidorfler said she anticipates switching out

Far left: Claud Mills’ landscapes are at BLK\MRKT through the end of January.

Center: A travel tumbler from Morsels’ first coffee and art collaboration, with artist Ryan Lee. Far right: February and March will bring “Must Love Blue” to BLK\MRKT. Shown here are two works that will be in that show: Joan Richmond’s “Bye-Bye Blues” (top) and Shanny Brooke’s “Show Pony.”

artists two or more times a year. It just depends on how quickly the merchandise sells.

In Frankfort, Chris Mekas, who owns the Petals and Perks with his wife, Victoria, said he’s happy to provide art for customers to look at and purchase. His shop displays works on the walls, as well as pottery, paintings on driftwood – a variety of works and media.

“We’ve been doing it since we opened in 2013,” said Mekas. He said any artists are welcome to stop in to see if they want to take advantage of the display space. Mekas said he sells the work on a 50/50 basis.

In Gaylord, Lady Latte is an offshoot of Crossroads Industries, the non-profit providing opportunities for adults with disabilities. It has one whole wall displaying works by local artists, many of which were created by employees of the shop. “We work with them, train them with employment skills,” said Elizabeth Palmer, of Lady Latte’s client employees.

Some of those artworks were created next door. While the shop is both a coffeeshop and retail market, it is connected to Studio 45, an art studio. It too is open for both adults with disabilities and the general public, who can take classes and create artwork. “Anybody can come in and do art,” said Palmer, who manages the coffeeshop.

Art is sold on a 70/30 percent breakdown, with the artist receiving the larger share and the rest going back to Crossroad Industries.

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GRASS RIVER SHIVER SNOWSHOE RACE & WINTERFEST: Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. A 5K/10K snowshoe race fundraiser will be held at 10am. Registration includes a soup voucher for a free soup lunch at Short’s Brewing Co. on race day. $25 advance; $30 day of. The Winterfest will be held from 12-3pm & will include outdoor & indoor activities that include snowshoeing & x-country skiing weather permitting, crafts, games & nature story time.

There will also be s-mores, hot chocolate, & other snacks. Free. grassriver.org/grass-rivershiver-5k.html

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------TSO TOTS @ TADL - STRINGS: 11am, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Join members of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra for an hour of music & movement. Explore rhythm & the instruments of the orchestra with hands-on musical fun. Instrument petting zoo, story reading, music & crafts. Ages 5 & under. Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------FIRST ANNUAL CHILI COOKOFF: 12-3pm, Stiggs Brewery & Kitchen, Boyne City. All entry fees are donated to the Good Neighbor’s Food Pantry of Boyne City. stiggsbrewingcompany. com/chilicookoff

---------------------WINTER TRAILS DAY: TIMBER RIDGE RESORT, TC: 10:30am-2pm. Featuring free trail access, introductory ski lessons, fat bike demos & guided rides, guided snowshoe hikes & free equipment rentals for those new to winter trail sports. All participants must register. traversetrails.org/event/wintertrailsday/

---------------------WISH NECKLACES: 1-3pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom. Join Dan & Janada Chingwa to create a beaded wish necklace. petoskeylibrary.org

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “LION KING, JR.”: 2-4pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. For students ages 8-13. Presented by Cadillac Footliters.

---------------------AMICAL’S COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS “JAPANESE SOUL COOKING”: amical, TC. The story of how Western eating habits fused with traditional Japanese cooking techniques & created a new style of cuisine: hearty, flavor-packed comfort food. Call: 9418888 for reservations. amical.com/soulcooking

---------------------BAYSIDE TRAVELLERS CONTRA DANCE: Cedar/Solon Township Hall, Cedar. Live music by Rigs & Jeels. 7pm: Intro to Contras & Squares. 7:30-10:30pm: Contra dance &

Wed - Get it in the can night - $1 domestic, $3 craft w/DJ Coven

Thurs -$2 off all drinks and $2 Labatt drafts W/Chris Michels Band

Sunday Jan 19 - 10pm-2am

KARAOKE

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MUFFINS HAND-CRAFTED

TRAVERSE CITY LOCAL WINTER MARKET: 10am-2pm, GT County Senior Network, TC. Raffle drawing for a basket of goodies & drawing for “local market bucks” to the first 1015 people in the door. Find on Facebook.

SIPS & SOUPS: 11am-5pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Enjoy soups & chilis paired with Pinot Noirs, Rieslings, Chardonnays & more.

Tickets to this event include a souvenir wine glass & soup & wine pairings at 20 wineries.

Ages 21+. $35. lpwines.com/events/sips-soups

8-9:30 TC Comedy Collective

Sat Jan 18- DJ JR

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Tues - $2 well drinks & shots

Happy Hour: Chris Sterr Then: DJ JR

MAKE-A-GIFT SERIES: MAKING SUGAR SCRUBS: 10am-noon, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. For adults. Register: 231-276-6767. Free.

WINTER TRAILS DAY: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. This day offers children & adults new to snow sports the chance to try snowshoeing & cross country skiing for free. Enjoy a free 2-Hour Trail Pass & rentals available from: 1-3pm, 2-4pm & 3-5pm. crystalmountain.com/ event/winter-trails-day

beer pitcher, $10 craft beer pitcher.

Fri Jan 17- Buckets of Beer starting at $8 (2-8pm)

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Mon Jan 13- $5 martinis, $5 domestic

january

COMMUNITY YOGA FOR EVERY BODY: 9am, 206 S. Oak St., TC. Love your body through gentle breath/body movement. Donation based class. eventbrite.com

O N LY A T Y O U R N E I G H B O R H O O D B I G A P P L E B A G E L S ®

Old Town Playhouse, TC will open Michigan’s first production of Paula Vogel’s Tony Award-winning play, “Indecent,” on Fri., Jan. 17 at 7:30pm. This play with music tells the moving story of the production of a controversial Yiddish play. Topics explored include the treatment of immigrants, LGBTQ rights, censorship, the survival of an art form and the fortitude of the human spirit. It features a cast of seven actors and three musicians, playing between them a total of 45 characters.

Performances include Jan. 17-18, 23-24, 25, 30-31 and Feb. 1 at 7:30pm and Jan. 19 and 26 at 2pm. Tickets range from $15-$28. oldtownplayhouse.com square dancing. $11 adult, $7 student, $9 member. dancetc.com

---------------------KITTY DONOHOE: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. This Ann Arbor singer-songwriter calls her music “American, Irishy, Canadianish.” She also plays guitar, cittern & piano. $15. mynorthtickets. com/events/kitty-donahoe-1-11-2020

---------------------TRICKS AGAINST HUMANITY MAGIC & MIND READING SHOW FEATURING BEN WHITING: 7:30pm, Turtle Creek Casino, Williamsburg. Enjoy an hysterical evening of inappropriate magic & mind reading. Don’t bring the kids! $25. turtlecreekcasino.com/explore/tricksagainst-humanity

---------------------JONNY LANG: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. This singer, songwriter & guitarist is a Grammy Award winner & has platinum record sales. $35, $45, $50. lrcr.com/eventcalendar/concerts/jonny-lang

jan 12

sunday

FAT CHANCE FAT TIRE BIKE PRE-RIDE: Biking, snacks, drinks & fun. Meet at Iron Fish Distillery, Thompsonville at 11am & ride to Crystal Mountain to complete a few laps on the Fat Chance race course. After, ride back to Iron Fish Distillery for food & drink specials. No charge for the pre-ride unless you need to rent a Fat Tire bike (2-hour rental is $25). crystalmountain.com/event/fat-chance-pre-ride

---------------------SIPS & SOUPS: 12-5pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Enjoy soups & chilis paired with Pinot Noirs, Rieslings, Chardonnays & more.

Tickets to this event include a souvenir wine glass & soup & wine pairings at 20 wineries.

Ages 21+. $35. lpwines.com/events/sips-soups

---------------------KITTY DONOHOE: 5pm, Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. This Ann Arbor based songwriter & Michigan Emmy recipient draws from her Irish/ Celtic heritage, as well as her American roots, as an artist. She is currently touring in support of her latest album, “The Irishman’s Daughter.” $20 advance; $25 door. tcconcerts.square.site

AMICAL’S COOKBOOK DINNER SERIES PRESENTS “JAPANESE SOUL COOKING”: (See Sat., Jan. 11)

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jan 13

WIFI

monday

SOUP & BREAD: A monthly winter charity event featuring local chefs & bread bakers donating soup. This month benefits Justice and Peace Advocacy Center. Donate what you can for all the soup you can eat. 6pm, The Little Fleet, TC. thelittlefleet.com

DOWNTOWN

TRAVERSE CITY

---------------------COFFEE HOUR WITH STATE SEN. WAYNE SCHMIDT, R-TRAVERSE CITY: 9am, Harbor Springs City Hall. For constituents throughout the 37th Senate District. SenatorWayneSchmidt.com

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JANUARY SERIES OF CALVIN UNIVERSITY - JONATHAN HAIDT: 12:30pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions & Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.” Free. calvin.edu/januaryseries/2020-speakers

---------------------G.T. HUMANISTS PRESENT BILL RAPAI ON THE KIRTLAND’S WARBLER: 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. “The Kirtland’s Warbler: From the brink of extinction to a secure future.” Free. gthumanists.org

jan 14

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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER?NR WEDNESDAY 10:30 AM - 25¢ Classic Matinee

SENSORY FRIENDLY FAMILY SURPRISE FRIDAY 10:45 AM - 25¢ Kids Matinee

CLUEPG FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKS $3 or 2 for $5 DOWNTOWN

IN CLINCH PARK

tuesday

INTRO TO SOCIAL MEDIA (THEORY & BASICS): 9amnoon, Shanty Creek Resort, Bellaire. RSVP. Members, free; non-members, $5. bellairechamber.org

---------------------BRAIN HEALTH & BODY-TALK: 10am, Oryana Community Co-op, TC. Understanding & Eating for the Nervous System. Tastings: chia pudding, turmeric tea & fermented foods.

Free. eventbrite.com/o/oryana-community-coop-14555885921

Best Picture and Best Director Winner

SUNDAY - THURSDAY 12:30 • 3:15 • 6 • 8:45 PM 231-947-4800

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COFFEE @ TEN, TC: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Carnegie Rotunda, TC. Artist Royce Deans will discuss how his work has been influenced by master painters & movements, & upcoming workshops that will incorporate those influences. Free. crookedtree.org/event/ctactraverse-city/coffee-ten-royce-deans

---------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Snowflake Art Collage: What will you put together to form a snowflake in 3D? Held from 11am-noon & 2-3pm. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------A CONVERSATION WITH NATE ALGER & MARTY COLBURN: Noon, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Presented by the League of Women Voters Grand Traverse Area, the topic is: New Voting Rights & Citizens Independent Redistricting Commission. 932-4112.

---------------------SNOWSHOE HIKE AT COY MOUNTAIN: Bring snowshoes, if you have them. Meet at the Coy Mountain parking lot at noon. Coy Mt. Preserve is located on Valley St., two blocks south of downtown Alden. Free. antrimcd.com/ snowshoe-hike-at-coy-mountain-preserve.html

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JANUARY SERIES OF CALVIN UNIVERSITY - CATHY O’NEIL: 12:30pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality & Threatens Democracy.” Free. calvin. edu/january-series/2020-speakers

---------------------AUTHOR EVENT WITH S.A. HUNT: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey. Celebrate the release of S.A. Hunt’s latest book, “Burn the Dark.” Reservations requested: 231347-1180. Free. eventbrite.com.au/e/authorevent-with-sa-hunt-tickets-83280286579

---------------------CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING: 6-8:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, third floor, TC. If you’re new to CCL, please arrive at 5:45pm to learn about advocacy for national policies to address climate change. citizensclimatelobby.org

---------------------POWER! BOOK BAGS FRIEND RAISER: 6-8pm, Hop Lot Brewing Co., Igloos, Suttons Bay. Bring a kid’s book or a box of 24 crayons to donate, & learn about how you can join to spread literacy throughout 9 counties & 20+ assistance sites & schools. powerbookbags.com

---------------------TRAVEL SERIES - OUR MAJESTIC GREAT LAKES: 6:30-8pm, Charlevoix Public Library, Community Room. Travel with Loreen Niewenhuis as she takes you to the edges of all five Great Lakes & many of the waterways connecting them. charlevoixlibrary.org

jan 15

wednesday

ADVANCED SOCIAL MEDIA (LAPTOP & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED): 9amnoon, Shanty Creek Resort, Bellaire. RSVP. Members, free; non-members, $5. bellairechamber.org

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JANUARY SERIES OF CALVIN UNIVERSITY - DEBORAH & JAMES FALLOWS: 12:30pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. “Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America.” Free. calvin.edu/january-series/2020-speakers

---------------------ISEA CAFE - SHIP CULTURE, HISTORY, AND THE WAY OF THE SHIP: 1pm, Capt.

Thomas M. Kelly Biological Station, Suttons Bay. Free. schoolship.org/news-events/isea-cafe

---------------------EYES ON THE FOREST: 2pm, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. How to be the Best Steward of Your Trees & Forest. District Forester Kama Ross will share some of the major forest stresses facing our trees. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------TREE PRUNING WORKSHOP: 2-4pm, Antrim Conservation District Office, 4820 Stover Rd.,

Bellaire. Learn the science of trees & terminology at the Antrim CD office before taking a walk to practice the art of pruning at the Cedar River Natural Area in Bellaire. Pre-registration required & limited to 20 people. $5/person. antrimcd.com/tree-pruning-workshop.html

CANNABIS: NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Professors Benjamin Southwell & Steven Johnson will explain their cannabis chemistry program at Lake Superior State University. Lunch begins at 11:30am, & the program at noon. Reserve your spot: 231-348-6600. $12.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONNECTION ADULT ED: ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACE): 6:15pm, 701 Westminster Rd., TC. Featuring Mary Gruman, LPC with Birchbark Counseling. For ages 16+. Wednesday Night Connections family buffet meal: 5:30-6:15pm. Free.

JANUARY SERIES OF CALVIN UNIVERSITY - BOB FU: 12:30pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. “When Caesar Demands to be God: Religious Freedom in China.” Free. calvin.edu/january-series/2020-speakers

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MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SUPPORT GROUP MEETING: 6:30pm, Foster Family Community Health Center, Rooms A & B, TC. 248-930-7140.

---------------------TIMBER & TAXES WORKSHOP: 6:30pm9pm, Boardman River Nature Center, GT Conservation District Community Room, TC. This workshop is designed for forest land owners, foresters, loggers & tax preparers. Presented

by Susan Metcalfe, co-owner of Metcalfe Forestry LLC & Burns Timber Tax Service. Register: 231-256-9783 or kama.ross@macd.org. $5/person. leelanaucd.org

jan 16

thursday

INTERACTIVE STORYTIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats, followed by a craft or activity. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------JANUARY SERIES OF CALVIN UNIVERSITY - THE 5 BROWNS: 12:30pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. “The 5 Browns in Concert.” Free. calvin.edu/januaryseries/2020-speakers

---------------------BEGINNERS KNITTING SERIES: 2pm, Elk Rapids District Library. A three class series. New knitters will learn how to knit & purl to complete a washcloth. Needles & yarn provided. Call 231264-9979 to register. Free. elkrapidslibrary.org/ news-events/beginners-knitting-series

---------------------BENZIE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 4:306:30pm, Benzie County Chamber of Commerce Office, Benzonia. Help welcome the new Benzie County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rick Coates. $5 donation. benzie.org

---------------------NORTHLAND WEAVERS & FIBER ARTS GUILD MEETING: 5:30pm, TC Senior Center.

Featuring a presentation on felted Alpaca fiber rugs. Members will display their latest projects.

Free. northlandweaversguild.com

---------------------“EATING UP EASTER”: 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC.

By Sergio Mata’u Rapu. This documentary film will be followed by discussion with community leaders & scholars. Free. dennosmuseum.org/ events/films.html

jan 17

friday

COFFEE HOURS WITH STATE SEN. WAYNE SCHMIDT, R-TRAVERSE CITY: 9am: Park Street Café, TC. 11am: Elk Rapids District Library. For constituents throughout the 37th Senate District. SenatorWayneSchmidt.com

---------------------27TH ANNUAL WINTER FEST: Mackinaw City.

Today includes the MCAAC Art Exhibit from 3-5pm at Mackinaw Clothing, downtown Mackinaw City, & snow sculptures located on Marina. mackinawcity.com/events/26th-annual-winter-fest

---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Small Moves with Me: The room will be set up with multiple stations designed to keep small fingers interested & busy. greatlakeskids.org LUNCHEON LECTURE: THE CHEMISTRY OF

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---------------------GREAT LAKES WATER LEVELS: A WILD RIDE IN 2020?: 1:30pm, Leland Township Library, Munnecke Room. Join Mark Breederland, extension educator for Michigan SeaGrant’s Northwest District. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------2ND ANNUAL BOURBON & BACON BASH: Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. Tonight includes a Welcome Reception in Main Lodge Lobby from 5-9pm: Candied Bacon, Bacon Wine, Toss the Pigs. Also sign up for Saturday “The Sizzler” Slope Style Competition or Boarder Cross. boynehighlands.com/ events/2nd-annual-bourbon-and-bacon-bash

---------------------NEW PRESIDENT RECEPTION: 5-7pm, Hagerty Center, Great Lakes Campus, NMC, TC. Meet NMC’s 11th president, Nick Nissley at a welcome reception.

---------------------“BOEING BOEING”: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. This comedy is presented by the Cadillac Footliters. $11. cadillacfootliters.com/calendar

ty Headquarters, 9930 Honor Hwy., Honor.

9:30am: coffee klatch; 10am community announcements, followed by featured speaker. benziedemocrats.com

---------------------55TH ANNUAL MOOSE JAW SAFARI: This snowmobile ride starts at Harbor Springs Snowmobile Club Groomer Barn (3151 Kernow Lane) at 10am. Ride your vintage sled. Will ride scenic trails on the way to Larks Lake. The Famous Bean Soup will be ready at noon at Center Township Hall at Larks Lake. Free. harborspringssnowmobileclub.com

---------------------OMP WINE TRAIL’S WINTER WARM-UP: 10am-5pm. Winter wine pairings & comfort food. Tickets include a wine pairing at each of the 10 wineries, a food pairing at each winery, & a souvenir wine glass. Designated Driver tickets are available for $25. When you purchase your ticket, you will choose your starting winery location. This event is self-guided. $30. ompwinetrail.com/event/winter-warm-up

---------------------THE SLEEPING BEAR HIBERNATION FESTIVAL: 10am-4pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. The National Lakeshore’s 50th anniversary activities start with a kick-off celebration at the Dune Climb. Build a snow sculpture, sled down the dunes (remember to BYOS (Bring Your Own Sled)), try snowball target practice, borrow snowshoes to enjoy the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, sip hot chocolate by a fire, & more. nps.gov

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VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING: 10amnoon, Horizon Books, TC. horizonbooks.com/ event

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2ND ANNUAL BOURBON & BACON BASH: Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. Today includes Bourbon & Bacon inspired dining specials, the On Hill Cookout, The Sizzler - Slope Style Competition, cookie decorating & Bourbon Pairing Dinner. boynehighlands.com/ events/2nd-annual-bourbon-and-bacon-bash

LANTERN-LIT SNOWSHOE: 7pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Join a naturalist on a guided snowshoe through Grass River’s forests at night to look for signs & sounds of nocturnal animals. Snowshoes are available for rent for an additional $5. Meet at the Grass River Center & bring a flashlight or headlamp. $5. grassriver.org “INDECENT”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. This play with music tells the moving story of the production of a controversial Yiddish play. Adults: $28; youth: $15 (plus fees). mynorthtickets.com

---------------------TRICKS AGAINST HUMANITY MAGIC & MIND READING SHOW FEATURING BEN WHITING: (See Sat., Jan. 11) SOLD OUT!

---------------------A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD”: MEET MR. ROGERS’ NEIGHBOR, TOM SKINNER: 4:30pm & 7:30pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. After Movie Discussion with Mr. Rogers’ neighbor & personal friend, Tom Skinner, four time Emmy award-winning producer & former executive vice-president of WQED. https://thebaytheatre.com/a-beautifulday-in-the-neighborhood/

jan 18

saturday

27TH ANNUAL WINTER FEST: Mackinaw City. Includes an amateur Snow Sculpting competition, sleigh/wagon rides, Outhouse Races, Poker Walk, Art Show, Chili Cook Off, Ice Fishing Tournament & more. mackinawcity. com/events/26th-annual-winter-fest

---------------------COMMUNITY YOGA FOR EVERY BODY: 9am, 206 S. Oak St., TC. Love your body through gentle breath/body movement. Donation based class. eventbrite.com/e/communityyoga-for-every-body-tickets-87381782263

---------------------TC TRACK CLUB’S FROZEN FOOT RACE: Eastern Elementary School, TC. Presented

by Running Fit. 1-mile kids fun-run at 9am & 5-mile race at 9:30am. Free to all 2020 TC Track Club members; $5/$20/$30 for others. tctrackclub.com

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BENZIE COUNTY DEMOCRATS MONTHLY MEETING: Benzie County Democratic Par-

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---------------------DOWNTOWN CHILI COOK-OFF: 11am3:30pm, Park Place Hotel, TC. downtowntc. com/downtown-chili-cook-off

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB 2020 OPENING RECEPTION: 11am-11pm, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Art Bomb is a three month show that allows visual artists to hang up their work & sell commission free. The Opening Reception is held today. Enjoy an art demonstration during the day & music & live performance in the evening. Free. gtartbomb.com

---------------------MODEL RAILROAD MEETING: 1-4pm, Peninsula Township Hall, TC. National Model Railroad Association North Central Region Division 2 Monthly Meeting. Will include a presentation on model railroading & show & tell. info@ncrdivision2.groups.io Free.

---------------------WOMEN’S MARCH TC 2020: Gather at The Workshop Brewing Company, TC & march through downtown TC at 1pm. End at the Parkway, where you will stand for an hour, & then gather back at The Workshop for speakers, community building & conversation. Donations will be accepted for Justice for Our Neighbors TC. Brings signs, drums & dress for the weather. 231-325-6812 for more info. Free.

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SPIRE & ICE FEST: 3-7pm, The Village at GT Commons, The Piazza, TC. Featuring bonfires, live music by Finster in the Morning on North FM, hot chocolate, mini tunnel tours & a frozen bocce ball tournament. thevillagetc.com/spire-ice-fest

---------------------AUTHENTIC CREATIVE EXPRESSION THRU INTERPLAY: 4-6pm, New Moon Yoga, Studio #4, TC. Explore yourself, life & the joy of creativity, using drama, movement, sound, storytelling & connection. 231-774-6146. $10-$20 suggested donation. soulwayshealing.com/interplay.html

---------------------5TH ANNUAL CAPS ADULT SPELLING BEE: 6-9:30pm, Cherry Grove Event Center, Cadillac. info@cadillacfootliters.com

“BOEING BOEING”: (See Fri., Jan. 17)

---------------------“INDECENT”: (See Fri., Jan. 17) ---------------------BROADWAY’S NEXT HIT MUSICAL: 7:30pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor.

Created by a group of New York City based improv veterans, Broadway’s Next Hit Musical takes audience suggestions to create an improvised musical theater award show. $37, $32, $27, $22. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/ broadways-next-hit-musical

---------------------TRICKS AGAINST HUMANITY MAGIC & MIND READING SHOW FEATURING BEN WHITING: (See Sat., Jan. 11)

---------------------BLISSFEST PRESENTS HARPER & MIDWEST KIND CD RELEASE SHOW: 8pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. Award winning Australian singer/songwriter/virtuoso harmonica player Peter D. Harper creates a mix of roots music through his harp & didgeridoo. He is backed by his American Midwest based touring band Midwest Kind. $15 Blissfest members; $20 GA. showclix.com/event/ harper-and-midwest-kind/listing

---------------------LIVE FROM CHARLEVOIX - THREE MEN AND A TENOR: 8-10pm, Charlevoix Cinema III. Enjoy pop vocal music with quick-witted humor.

This group has a national touring schedule & has opened shows for national legends like Jay Leno and The Beach Boys. $25. livefromcharlevoix.com

---------------------THE DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery/Concert Venue, Boyne City. Enjoy roots rock & Americana music with this group. $35 advance; $40 door. freshwaterartgallery.com/concertCalendar.php

jan 19

sunday

FAT CHANCE FAT TIRE BIKE RACE: 10am, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. The race will be held on the Otter Trail loop. Choose from the 90 Minute Category Trail Loop course or 45 Minute Category Trail Loop course. Also includes a brew ticket & post-race chili bar. $50 per rider. crystalmountain.com/event/fat-chance-fat-tire

---------------------WORLD SNOW DAY: 10am-4pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Featuring a variety of free activities geared to introduce first timers

to the world of snow. Includes presentations on cross-country, snowshoeing & adult & kids ski & snowboard; a bonfire, the Art of Snowmaking, ice skating, Fat Tire snow bikes & more. crystalmountain.com/event/world-snow-day

---------------------2ND ANNUAL BOURBON & BACON BASH: Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. Today includes Bourbon & Bacon inspired dining specials, Bourbon Tasting, & the Boarder Cross. boynehighlands.com/events/2nd-annual-bourbon-and-bacon-bash

---------------------“INDECENT”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. This play with music tells the moving story of the production of a controversial Yiddish play. Adults: $28; youth: $15 (plus fees). mynorthtickets.com

---------------------COLOR IN THE GARDEN: 2pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center Gallery. Featuring Brian Zimmerman, a third-generation landscaper from TC, who will discuss ways to bring more color to home gardens with native plants & pollinatorfriendly blooms. Offered in conjunction with the GAAC exhibition COLOR, Jan. 10 - March 26.

Free. GlenArborArt.org

---------------------LIGHT OF DAY ORGANICS TEA: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Angela Macke, founder of Light of Day Organics, will present an interactive program on the art of tea drinking & its healthful benefits. Register: 231331-4318. $5.

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LEARN TO SKI & SNOWBOARD MONTH: Offered at Nub’s Nob, Harbor Springs & Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs, Jan. 2-31.

Cost: $20 to learn to cross-country ski & $35 for downhill & snowboarding lessons. Includes rentals & lift ticket or cross-country pass.

---------------------FAMILY YOGA: Saturdays, 10am, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Jan. 11: Inside Out Theme. Jan. 18: Ninja Warrior Day. Jan. 25: Superheroes. Free. Must register in advance. thebotanicgarden.org/events

---------------------GENTLE YOGA FOR ADULTS: Tuesdays & Fridays, 10am, Interlochen Public Library.

Free. Focus on breathing, gentle repeated movements & stretches. Bring your own mats, water & towels. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------KIDS ON SKIS IN THE WOODS EVERY SUNDAY: Sundays, 11:45am, Timber Ridge Resort,

TC. Presented by Norte & Vasa Ski Club. A group ski for families. The use of Timber Ridge Resort will be free for the entire Winter Vasa Domingos Ski Season. elgruponorte.org

---------------------NEW SNOWSHOE HIKES: Saturdays, 1pm, Jan. 4 - Mar. 14. Choose from two ranger-led snowshoe hikes to explore the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore park. “Snowshoe Saunter” is for beginners & “Snowshoe Trek” is for more experienced snowshoe hikers. Meet for an introduction at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center, Empire. These hikes are free, but participants do need a park entrance pass or have an annual pass to participate. Reservations are required whether participants borrow snowshoes from the National Lakeshore or have their own. facebook.com/sbdnl

---------------------SNOWSHOE WEEKENDS: Rove Estate Vineyard & Tasting Room, TC. Held every Sat. & Sun. through March at 11am. Bring your snowshoes or cross-country skis. These are not guided tours.

---------------------TRAIL TUESDAY: Held Tuesdays through winter at noon. Antrim Conservation District Office, 4820 Stover Rd., Bellaire. Enjoy a hike through the Cedar River Natural Area. 231-533-8363.

YOGA + BEER: Sundays, 11am, Silver Spruce Brewing Co., TC. A one hour flow class. Register. eventbrite.com

art

CALL FOR ENTRIES--INSPIRED BY THE MASTERS: Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Inspired by the Masters Exhibit will run March 4 - April 11, 2020. All Michigan artists 16 years old or older (including part-time residents) may enter this exhibit. Entries can be of any medium but must be in good condition & of the artist’s own creation. Art work will be accepted from Feb. 5-29 during normal business hours (11am-3pm, Tues.-Fri. & 12-2pm, Sat). Maximum entries: 4 pieces due to space limitations. gaylordarts.org

---------------------FURNITURE, FIBER, PHOTOGRAPHY & SCULPTURE EXHIBITION: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring a multi-media Pop-Up Exhibition from the Benzie Area Historical Society. Runs through Feb. 7. Also includes the 5th Annual Cabin Fever Artist Talk Series on Fri., Jan. 24 with Carol Irving (fiber) & David Moehle (sculpture); & Fri., Jan. 31 with Susan Tusa (photography) & Bill Perkins (furniture), both at 5:30pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org/welcome

STAY WARM IN STYLE THIS WINTER!

THE IRON FISH WINTER BLIZZARD ART INVITATIONAL: Iron Fish Gallery, Thompsonville. Featuring artwork from Benzie Central & Frankfort High School students. Runs Jan. 12-30. An opening reception will be held on Sun., Jan. 12 from 2-4pm. Featuring live music & hors d’oeuvres. ironfishdistillery.com

---------------------WINTER PAINTINGS AT BLK\MRKT: BLK/ MRKT, TC. Claud Mills presents Traverse City area winter scenes in oil on canvas. Runs through Jan 31. blkmrkt.coffee

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - 40 CHANCES: FINDING HOPE IN A HUNGRY WORLD: Featuring the photography of Howard G. Buffett. Forty photographs document the world hunger crisis as part of a global awareness campaign. Runs Jan. 19 - April 26.

---------------------- ERGO SUM: A CROW A DAY: On Aug. 1, 2014 artist Karen Bondarchuk set out to mark the passing time that her mother – diagnosed with dementia in 2010 – no longer could. For 365 days, she produced a crow a day on a hand-cut, hand-gessoed panel, remembering her mother as she once was & grieving her loss. Runs Jan. 19 – May 24.

---------------------- PULPED UNDER PRESSURE: THE ART OF HANDMADE PAPER: With traditional hand papermaking at its core, this exhibit underscores important contemporary issues steeped in history & craft. Runs Jan. 19 - May 24. Hours are 10am-5pm daily & 1-5pm on Sundays. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - “LOVE LOCALLY” - CALL FOR ARTISANS: Higher Art Gallery is looking for artisans of handmade goods for their Valentine’s Day Pop Up Shop. The deadline to apply to Love Locally is Jan. 25. Searching for jewelers, candle makers, handbags/clutches, cards, journals & small art objects. higherartgallery.com/calls-for-art - OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “CITIZEN’S COPING” - ARTISTS RESPOND TO 4 YEARS OF AN ADMINISTRATION: Higher Art Gallery is the incubator to new Non-Profit Art Organization: Project Civilization which is having its first Open Call to All Artists for its Annual Juried show. Deadline to apply & enter submission is: 9/1/2020. Show Opens: 10/9/2020. higherartgallery.com/calls-for-art

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Mixing up folk/bluegrass/Americana with a hint of pop, The Milk Carton Kids have snagged Grammy nominations and plenty of critical acclaim for their twisty-turny musicianship and powerful harmonies.

While they dallied with a full band setup last album, here they return to their duo format, which always serves them well — especially on pretty tracks that vacillate between melancholy and, well, more melancholy. The standouts of same include the vintage-sounding “I Meant Every Word I Said” and the faintly Western “I’ll Be Gone.”

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Wolfgang Voigt — aka Mike Ink, aka Gas — is back for a third album, and he’s stepped out of the darker tone of his past works to embrace a lighter, more sanguine sound. Delicate pieces of musical flotsam are sprinkled over each track in a different way, adding just enough audio seasoning to keep things unexpected and slightly off-kilter. The first three untitled tracks sweep by with oxymoronically similar variations, but as the album progresses, some of Gas’ heavier sounds creep in to add a nice texture.

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Petoskey native-turned-Brooklynite Stevens is back, but not with what you might expect (i.e., another quirky album of indie underground hitsin-waiting). Instead, he offers up yet another score he composed in collaboration with dancer/ choreographer Justin Peck for the New York City Ballet. The work, as written by Stevens and performed by Timo Andres on solo piano, is quiet yet reminiscent of a blended, pop-i-fied version of Bach and Chopin’s sounds, with romanticism at its core. A pretty effort.

Walk Off the Earth – Here We Go! – WOTEE

Blending pop with folk, a few dashes of EDM, and a heavy dose of world music, Walk Off the Earth’s latest is a true melting pot of instrumentation, cramming in everything from kazoos to didgeridoos.

That’s probably a good thing; the lyrics here aren’t anything groundbreaking, so all the complex instrumentations helps to cover up the fact that they’re relying heavily on cliché. Case in point: “Addicted to You,” “I Do It All For You,” and “Lost In You.” Yes, all on the same album. Unless you truly enjoy repetition, this one will wear thin quickly.

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Eilish and White Team Up for Live Record Singer-songwriter and acid-green-haired diva Billie Eilish recently hung out with former Detroiter Jack White, at White’s own Third Man Records’ Nashville outpost. Eilish performed a short live show in the Blue Room, and the set, like most performances in the tiny venue, was recorded direct-to-acetate on the premises by a team of recording engineers. Eilish, whom White calls “innovative,” performed alongside her brother, multi-instrumentalist Finneas O’Connell, for 40 minutes. The set will be released as a Third Man Records live LP at a future date …

As if Talking Head David Byrne wasn’t busy enough with his current Broadway show and other musical projects, he’s reportedly already planning another theatrical art installation for next summer. Called “Theater of the Mind,” the latest of Byrne’s off-stage escapades will be presented by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts next August.

The “Theater of the Mind” installation will take place in a warehouse that’s divided into a series of rooms, allowing people to walk room to room to experience art inspired by sensoryand-perception events and historical and lab research, all translated through lighting and other visual narratives Angels and Airwaves headed back out onto the road in early December for another series of North American shows. After a short break for the holidays, they’re back at it through the end

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of this month. The trek started right after the release of the band’s music video for new single, “Kiss and Tell,” a standalone track that’s thought to precede what will be their first studio album together since 2014. Upcoming Angels and Airwaves tour dates include stops in Toronto on Jan. 16; Montreal on Jan. 17; Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, on Jan. 19; and Norfolk, Virginia, on Jan. 26 …

Cherry Festival favorite (and Beatles drummer) Ringo Starr has announced the dates for his 2020 tour with his All Starr Band. The jaunt will launch May 29 from the Casino Rama in Ontario, Canada, and will wrap up a month later in Florida. Along with Starr will be his distinctive bandmates: Colin Hay (Men at Work), Steve Lukather (Toto), Hamish Stuart, Gregg Rolie, Warren Ham, and Gregg Bissonette. It’s all in promotion of Starr’s latest solo album, What’s My Name, which includes a cover of John Lennon’s “Grow Old with Me” and a song that Starr penned with Lukather called “Magic.” Starr’s tour dates will include a show in Boston on June 10, Philly on June 21, and Clearwater, Florida, on June 28 …

LINK OF THE WEEK

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon collaborated with Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette for a recent stealth performance in a New York City subway station, where the two wore disguises to busk before revealing their actual identities. Watch the

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Michigan musician May Erlewine’s new album, Second Sight, recorded at The Barber Shop in Ann Arbor, with engineer Tyler Duncan, is in outlets now …

Planning to escape Michigan’s cold for spring break in Las Vegas? Snag tickets for Kelly Clarkson’s new Las Vegas Residency at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, where she’ll showcase a full range of her pop hits …

Country singer Reba McEntire will perform at Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena on May 9; tickets are on sale now …

Speaking of Grand Rapids, the city’s GRandJazzFest is canceled for 2020, due to renovations at its usual venue, Rosa Parks Circle. The fest will return in 2021, but at Calder Plaza … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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

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by meg weichman

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Few things growing up had as profound of an impact on me as my favorite literary heroines.

I’m talking about “Anne of Green Gables,” Laura Ingalls Wilder of “Little House on the Prairie,” and of course, Jo March of “Little Women.” And while these novels that had such an influence on me are considered celebrated works, the praise has always seemed qualified by its genre — a work primarily for young girls.

It’s something that’s always frustrated me — as though, because these books were targeted at young women, they were somehow less important. And after seeing Greta Gerwig’s sublime adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s enduring “Little Women,” I think this is perhaps a frustration Gerwig and I share.

Because following the success of her Oscarnominated sensation Lady Bird — with the doors of Hollywood open wide — she chose to return to a 150 year-old story that many would agree has been done to death (over seven film adaptations alone, not including TV!).

Yet at the same time, it’s a story that has obviously meant so much to so very many. A story that continues to resonate deeply with audiences as it continues to be discovered anew.

A story that, despite the use of a diminutive in its own title, deserves so much more than to be isolated as the domain of little women.

And Gerwig’s take on “Little Women” isn’t just the very best adaptation of the novel in a long line of adaptations, it’s also one of the very best movies of the year, a masterful directorial achievement by any gender. Big, little, for men, for women — the only modifier that really needs to be applied here is wonderful!

Gerwig takes this familiar story of the four March sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy) growing up in a middle-class family in Concord, Massachusetts, during the Civil War and gives us a faithful retelling that is as fresh as it is timeless, as nostalgic as it is modern.

One of the main ways Gerwig innovates to bring the story alive is by establishing a flashback structure that moves between their present — where the sisters are grown and the scenes cooled by blue tones — and their childhood, warmed by a golden haze. This makes not only brilliant use of transitions to allow for powerful comparisons and contrasting but also adds a great deal of depth and richness to the characters.

We first meet Jo (Saoirse Ronan) when she is already a writer, running through the streets after selling a story. It’s reminiscent of another favorite Gerwig scene from Frances Ha, and it powerfully conveys what it feels like to be a woman making her way in the world.

o the deal with “Cats,” other than it has mindbogglingly grossed over $3 billion during the course of its thousands of stage runs, is that there is basically no story, and the film adaptation certainly doesn’t go very far toward offering any more narrative. The songs are loosely tied together by the idea that a tribe of cats, known as the Jellicles, gather annually to see what cat will be the “Jellicle Choice” and ascend to the Heavenside Layer, where they will be given a new life. Other than a few standouts, “Mr. Mistoffelees” and “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” (mostly for the tap dancing), the songs in this film feel boring, tedious, and forgettable. There are glaring technical issues aplenty, from the cats’ human hands to the distracting and inconsistent use of scale. The way it renders the human performers into cats with fur is so artificial looking that it’s a struggle to appreciate the dancing and artistry. In trying to make the cat/humans look as realistic as possible, it ends up achieving the exact opposite effect. Everyone knew this film would be bad, but I don’t think they realized it would be so irredeemable.

Eldest sister Meg (Emma Watson) is married with two children, and having married for love, still struggles with desires to have the niceties they cannot afford. Middle sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen), having taken ill, remains at home, while the youngest of the family, Amy (Florence Pugh), is studying painting in Paris.

Seeing them as adults and then as children, you get to see each sister more fully, you know them, and feel a part of their inner worlds. You can feel mother Marmee’s (Laura Dern) tenderhearted embrace, feel the wrath of Jo’s temper, and understand the sisters’ desires to find love without giving up their own ambitions.

All the March sisters get their own turn in the film’s sun, but the biggest beneficiary from this version is Amy. Often considered the brattiest and most unsympathetic of the family, she is deliberately structured as an equal and opposing force to her determined sister Jo. And her romance with a certain suitor, which used to feel rushed and strange, actually feels fulfilling.

Even though Amy and Jo are at the film’s forefront, all of the sisters’ ambitions are given equal weight. Gerwig makes apparent a modern feminist message but never anachronistically so.

The cast is a dream. Ronan is a perfect Jo. Pugh remarkably and seamlessly takes Amy from an overindulged kid to a forthright young woman.

As their wealthy neighbor and friend, Timothée Chalamet is the Laurie to end all Lauries, with a floppy devil-may-care coif and dreamboat stare. I absolutely want Laura Dern to be my mother, and Chris Cooper will break your heart as Laurie’s grandfather Mr. Laurence. I could go on to say how each member of the cast perfectly embodies their characters (save for Bob Odenkirk as Mr. March, who kind of takes me out things), but there isn’t enough space here. (I mean, I didn’t even touch upon Meryl Streep!)

The lighting is gorgeous, the costumes are stunning, and the cinematography is so full of life. Exhilarating, imaginative, and beguiling, you can feel the love in every frame. A profoundly effecting work, I shed tears not only at the sad parts any reader is familiar with, but in their moments of joy and the tender exchanges.

I was simply overtaken by the sheer beauty of this film’s gentle spirit and generous filmmaking, and also by the feeling of being so seen by a filmmaker who deeply understands and values the rhythms of girlhood, of sisters, of family.

With a dreamlike and very meta ending that delivers a magical catharsis, this is an utterly joyous film to be cherished and to hold close to your heart.

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

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knives out

A

caffeinated jolt to a sleepy genre, Knives Out is a gloriously old-fashioned whodunit that very much belongs in the here and now. Think of an ensemble cast and a manor-set murder mystery, like the recent remake of Murder on the Orient Express, but actually really good and exceptionally fresh. It’s rare to see something so sublimely enjoyable across so many demographics. It’s one big delightful romp that tells a suspenseful story of biting class conflict with crackling wit. Subversive and smart, absolutely nothing is predictable. But it all begins traditionally enough. A wealthy old patriarch, Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead the morning after his 85th birthday party, seemingly a victim of an unexpected suicide. The police are brought in to look further into his suspicious death at Thrombey’s lavish estate and interview the family members, all of whom seem to have a reason to want Thrombey dead. Everyone in this stellar all-star cast (Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, to name only a few) is working at full capacity and clearly having a blast. Satisfying beyond measure, not only in the way it so deviously comes together but also in what it has to say, Knives Out is truly a cut above.

frozen II

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013’s Frozen was more than a movie, it was a phenomenon. It was the song that you couldn’t get out of your head. The dress your daughter wouldn’t take off.

It brought the world the gift that was John Travolta’s “Adele Dazeem” meme and even a new queer icon. It was also the movie that for some parents may have felt like an eternal winter of its own reigning over their homes. A sequel was inevitable. And while sequels are rarely as good as the original, this enchanting tale does have quite a lot to offer.

It’s a darker story, but more insightful and mature. It grows with its fans a bit, confronting change and personal growth in a touching fashion as Anna and Elsa venture north to an enchanted forest and toward a voice that is calling Elsa. But try as they might, the songs this time around just felt like pale imitations, i.e., “Let it Go” wannabe “Into the Unknown” is fine but forgettable. It’s the stunning landscapes – dusted in a golden fall palette of beautiful jewel tones – and pivotal action sequences that leave the lasting impression here. With its mix of pluses and minuses, this likeable sequel certainly won’t disappoint its legions of fans or any families looking for quality entertainment.

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33 Go fast 34 Protein for some sushi rolls 36 Communication where K and V differ only by a thumb 38 "Silent All These Years" singer Tori 42 Thomas who drew Santa Claus 44 Knock down ___ 48 Unvaried 49 Sucker 50 Kind of base or reserve 52 Ukraine capital, locally 53 He presided over the O.J. trial 54 At the location 55 "Open 24 hours" sign material 57 Turns used materials into something better 59 Missing comment?

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: Yesterday, my roommate picked up some household supplies (toilet paper, sponges, etc.) and asked me to split the cost. I’ve bought plenty of household supplies in the two years we’ve lived together without ever asking for any money. It feels weird and cheap that he’s suddenly doing this. Am I being unreasonable in feeling this way, or is he being seriously petty?

— Annoyed

A

: Weird conflicts like this make you start seeing your roommate differently, and not in a good way — kind of like Joan of Arc on horseback, brandishing an empty bottle of Lysol.

As for what might’ve gotten your roommate so testy about the division of expenses, the human mind seems to have a built-in bookkeeping department. This is the force at work when an irate 8-year-old announces —“J’Accuse!” — that her sister’s slice of cake is a full three-hundredths of a millimeter bigger than hers. We seem to expect 50-50 splits (which we perceive as “fair”) and get unhinged when another person gets a bigger share.

Our emotions are an essential part of our mind’s accounting staff, driving us to take action to correct imbalances. Neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman has found that fairness seems to read as emotionally “rewarding” to us — that is, feelgood. Unfairness, on the other hand, leads to “aversive” emotions (the feelbad kind), motivating us to even out the balance of things so we can feel better.

The sort of scorekeeping your roommate’s engaging in seems to be triggered when people perceive they’ve been treated unfairly.

Their perception may be wrong — and that may actually be beneficial for them. Though we tend to assume we evolved to perceive things accurately, research by evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss suggests that we make self-protective errors in perception — sometimes seeing things as greater than or less than they actually are. It seems we evolved to err in whichever direction would be least costly to us in terms of our ability to survive and mate.

In harsh ancestral times, for example, letting somebody take advantage of us, like by freeloading, would likely have posed a greater threat to our survival than perceiving (perhaps incorrectly) that they weren’t pulling their weight. Putting them on notice that we wouldn’t just roll over for their slackerhood showed them (and others) that we’d stand up for ourselves, telling them that we’d make a poor choice of victim.

BY Amy Alkon

Even if your roommate is wrong in perceiving you as some rubber-gloved, Drano- and dish soap-poaching freeloader, as long as he feels the cleaning supplies split is unfair, it’s likely to make for a toxic living situation. You could suggest using an app like Splitwise to tally up what you each spend on household supplies and then reimburse each other. (This might even show him that you are spending more or that things are close to equal.) What’s important is that it makes the spending transparent and, ultimately, transparently 50-50. Because people cling to injustice (or perceived injustice), this, compassionately, allows him to have something a little more commemorative on his tombstone than “Shared living quarters with a leech.

Moving on to the maggots.”

To The Better End

Q

: My boyfriend and I just ended it. We had fun together and sex was great, but we’re bad for each other. He’s emotionally withholding, and I want love and openness in a relationship. Breaking up was the right thing, but I miss him horribly. Are there any hacks to make a breakup less devastating?

— Miserable

A

: You say it yourself: “We’re bad for each other.” Staying together on these terms is like being lactose intolerant and going on a fondue cleanse.

Unfortunately, understanding this probably doesn’t make amputating your partner any less devastating. But research by psychologist Lauren C. Howe suggests your perspective on the breakup matters: whether you see the breakup as an indictment or an opportunity.

Howe finds that emotional recovery after a breakup comes out of treating it “as a learning experience ... embracing rejections as opportunities for growth.” Contrast this thinking — seeing a breakup as opportunity for self-improvement — with seeing a breakup as “self-defining,” a sort of confirmation of some ugly “core truth” about oneself. Howe explains that this belief can cause the breakup to have a lingering impact, making people fear rejection and even “feel haunted by their past.”

In other words, using your breakup as a conduit to the sort of relationship you want should dial down its negative effects. Focus on what you’ve learned and figure out what you need to do differently, like, say, quickly identifying and weeding out men who can’t give you the openness and affection you’re looking for. This, in turn, should help you land a man whose emotional expressiveness suggests his location on the Great Chain of Being is not directly above pictures of a cinder block and moss.

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JAN 13 - JAN 19

BY ROB BREZSNY

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "I love to be surprised by

something I have never thought of," declares Capricorn actor Ralph Fiennes. According to my analysis of the astrological aspects, you'll be wise to make that one of your top mottoes in 2020. Why? First, life is likely to bring to your attention a steady stream of things you've never imagined. And second, your ability to make good use of surprises will be at an all-time high. Here's further advice to help ensure that the vast majority of your surprises will be welcome, even fun: Set aside as many of your dogmas and expectations as possible, so that you can be abundantly receptive to things you've never thought of.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Because

of the onslaught of the internet and social media, lots of people no longer read books. But in 2020, I highly recommend that you *not* be one of that crowd. In my astrological opinion, you need more of the slow, deep wisdom that comes from reading books. You will also benefit from other acts of rebellion against the Short Attention Span Era. Crucial blessings will flow in your direction as you honor the gradual, incremental approach to everything.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "I love fools’

experiments. I am always making them." So said one of the most famous and influential scientists who ever lived, Aquarian-born naturalist Charles Darwin. In accordance with upcoming astrological factors, I invite you to draw inspiration from his approach. Allow yourself to explore playfully as you conduct fun research. Just assume that you have a mandate to drum up educational experiences, and that a good way to do that is to amuse yourself with improvisational adventures.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): "How do you

get your main pleasure in life?" That question was posed to Scorpio author Evelyn Waugh and Piscean social reformer William Beveridge.

Waugh said, "I get mine spreading alarm and despondency." Beveridge said, "I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it." I hope you will favor Beveridge's approach over Waugh's in 2020, Pisces—for two reasons. First, the world already has plenty of alarm and despondency; it doesn't need even a tiny bit more. Second, aspiring to be like Beveridge will be the best possible strategy for fostering your mental and physical health.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Comedian John Cleese has an insight I hope you'll consider. He says, "It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent.

It’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about." I hope you'll make this advice a priority in the coming weeks. You'll be wise to prioritize important tasks, even those that aren't urgent, as you de-emphasize trivial matters that tempt you to think they're crucial. Focus on big things that are challenging, rather than on little things that are a snap.

attention because I want to ask you: What role will commitment and duty and devotion play in your life during the coming months?

(I suspect it'll be a good one.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian-born

painter Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) didn't align himself with any artistic movement. Early on, his work was an odd blend of French PostImpressionism and 14th-century Italian painting.

I appreciate his stylistic independence, and suggest you draw inspiration from it in 2020. Another unique aspect of Spencer's art was its mix of eroticism and religiosity. I think you'll enjoy exploring that blend yourself in the coming months. Your spiritual and sexual longings could be quite synergistic. There's one part of Spencer's quirky nature I don't recommend you imitate, however. He often wore pajamas beneath his clothes, even to formal occasions. Doing that wouldn't serve your interests. (But it will be healthy for you to be somewhat indifferent to people's opinions.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Johannes Gutenberg

invented the printing press in the 1440s. In subsequent decades, millions of mass-produced books became available for the first time, making their contents available to a far wider audience than ever before. The printing press caused other changes, too— some not as positive. For instance, people who worked as scribes found it harder to get work. In our era, big culture-wide shifts are impacting our personal lives. Climate change, the internet, smart phones, automation, and human-like robots are just a few examples. What are doing to adjust to the many innovations?

And what will you do in the future? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these issues.

Balzac (1799–1850) was born with sun and Mercury in Taurus and in the tenth house.

Astrologers might hypothesize from these placements that he was ambitious, productive, tenacious, diligent, realistic, and willful. The evidence supporting this theory is strong. Balzac wrote over 80 novels that displayed a profound and nuanced understanding of the human comedy. I predict that 2020 will be a year when you could make dramatic progress in cultivating a Balzac-like approach in your own sphere. But here's a caveat: Balzac didn't take good care of his body. He drank far too much coffee and had a careless approach to eating and sleeping. My hope is that as you hone your drive for success, you'll be impeccable in tending to your health.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Before he was 21

years old, William Shakespeare and his wife had birthed three kids. When he was 25, while the brood was still young, he started churning out literary masterpieces. By the time Will became a grandfather at age 43, he had written many of the works that ultimately made him one of history's most illustrious authors.

From this evidence, we might speculate that being a parent and husband heightened his creative flow. I bring this to your

NEW LISTING!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You're skilled at the art of self-editing. When bright new ideas well up in you, you understand they are not yet ready for prime time, but will need to be honed and finessed. When your creativity overflows, tantalizing you with fresh perspectives and novel approaches, you know that you'll have to harness the raw surge. However, it's also true that sometimes you go too far in your efforts to refine your imagination's breakthroughs; you over-think and over-polish. But I have a good feeling about the coming weeks, Virgo. I suspect you'll find the sweet spot, self-editing with just the right touch.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thomas Love

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Honoré

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Peacock was a Libran author whose specialty was writing satirical novels that featured people sitting around tables arguing about opinions and ideas.

He was not renowned for cheerful optimism. And yet he did appreciate sheer beauty. "There is nothing perfect in this world," he said, "except Mozart." So much did Peacock love Mozart's music that during one several-month stretch he attended six performances of the genius's opera Don Giovanni.

In this spirit, Libra, and in accordance with astrological indicators, I encourage you to make a list of your own perfect things—and spend extra time communing with them in the coming weeks.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Jean-Michel

Basquiat started his career as a graffiti artist.

When he evolved into being a full-time painter, he incorporated words amidst his images. On many occasions, he'd draw lines through the words. Why? "I cross out words so you will see them more," he said. "The fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them." In the coming weeks, you might benefit from discreetly using this strategy in your own life. In other words, draw attention to the things you want to emphasize by downplaying them or being mysterious about them or suggesting they are secret. Reverse psychology can be an asset for you.

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