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Out Of Control Defense In March 2018, Northern Express carried a column by Jack Segal entitled “Our Defense Budget.” I saved the article because the information needed a response, an action, a protest! At that time, the Pentagon was seeking $639.1 billion, or $1.75 billion per fay, or a mind-boggling $73 million per hour “budget allocation.”

Today, the allocation to defense is $776,000,000,0000. The Senate is poised to debate and vote on its version of the Pentagon budget soon. The defense budget allocation is more than the next eleven largest countries’ military budgets combined. It reflects the values of the USA today! The lion’s share of the money has gone to just five major corporations: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. The $75 billion in Pentagon contracts received by Lockheed Martin in fiscal year 2020 alone is over one and a half times the entire budget for the State Department for that year, which totaled a mere $44 billion.

These merchants of death have completely skewed our country’s priorities.

They hire former congressmen to lobby and promote their interests. Both parties seem to be in lockstep with this budget increase and allocation. Jack Segal stated in 2018, “This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” What is most frightening is our silence, as citizens, on the topic!

Nancy Adadow Gray, Frankfort Alarmed By Racism I was alarmed and saddened to read about the racist incident that happened in Harbor Springs, as described by Mr. Isiah Smith in the Oct. 4 issue. Mr. Smith deserves an apology from the restaurant, at the least, and that establishment should

do some real soul searching and training.

I will definitely be boycotting that place until it gets its act together and informs us what it is doing so that this never happens again. Ashamed of the lack of decency in our community.

Mary Olmsted, Petoskey Inequality By Party As action on Biden’s infrastructure and “Build Back Better” bills stalls, Republicans are again engaging in fear-mongering over the federal deficit – something that never seems to bother them when Republicans hold the presidency. The hypocrisy of this is evident in the record of the last 4 decades: - Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion - Bush 41 took it to $300 billion - Clinton got it down to ZERO - Bush 43 took it from ZERO to $1.2 trillion, largely by fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on the credit card - Obama halved the deficit to $600 billion - Trump increased it to $3.3 trillion, largely through tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy and continued out-ofcontrol military spending.

Meanwhile, Republican legislators have not been willing to deal with the ever-increasing inequality in the United States, with 40 percent in poverty or barely scraping by while the top one percent controls so much wealth they don’t know what to do with it. Even an increase in the minimum wage to a level equivalent in purchasing power with what it was in 1970 seems totally out of reach given the current stalemate in Congress.

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In The Name of Love....................................10 Making Horseless Carriages..........................12 Fresh Coast Film Festival...............................16 Sound Obsession...........................................17

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Alice Littlefield, Omena Shut It Down As if we needed any further evidence to support the shutting down of Line 5, the current catastrophic oil spill in southern California provides it. A comparable accident in the largest source of freshwater in North America would be catastrophic to the environment and to the entire Great Lakes economy, which supports millions.

And we do not have to expose ourselves to that risk. We have avoided a major spill since 1953, and it is time to shut it completely before our luck runs out and we replay the current California disaster.

Governor Whitmer has ordered it to be shut down and it is way past time to follow her lead. Shut down Line 5 now.

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Traverse City’s Newest University No, Michigan Tech isn’t relocating from the UP to TC. But the university has planted a flag in Traverse City, officially opening a research hub on the second floor of the Traverse Connect building. Initial plans call for an expanded partnership with Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) and other area educational partners. But eventually, says Tech’s Jay Meldrum, the Traverse City location could explore renewable energy projects, conduct freshwater research, test autonomous vehicle, help establish a pipeline of tech-centric college-educated talent, and grow i the number of four-year college degrees available locally. “If somebody comes up with a good idea that could be a nationwide innovation – an idea that they could sell – Houghton is probably not the right place to be centered to do that, whereas Traverse City might be perfect,” Meldrum says. One immediate plan is to grow the NMC/Michigan Tech “2+2 program,” which offers a pipeline for students to start their engineering studies at NMC, transfer their credits to Tech after two years, and finish their bachelor’s degrees in Houghton.

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tastemaker Carlson’s Whitefish “Caviar” at MAWBY

With five attractions in one location, you’ll get your share of screams this October! Screams In The Dark is held at the Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds just south of Traverse City through the month on Fridays and Saturdays from 7-11pm and Sundays from 7-10pm. Option 1 ($7) features the haunted wagon ride & trail, including The Mausoleum and corn maze. Or, see all of the attractions with Option 2 ($17 for 12 and up; $12 for 11 and under): haunted wagon ride & trail, Pandemonium, Swamp of Suffering, and Dreadmoore Manor. Find more at evernighthaunt.com

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Hey, read it beautiful world, where are you

The third of bestseller Sally Rooney’s distinctively cerebral novels, Beautiful World, Where Are You?, is a familiar question for many millennials - least of all, the author herself. It’s also the question her characters ask as they struggle to find their place in a world that feels as though it’s approaching its end. Wrapped up in Rooney’s no-nonsense prose, readers follow the plight of college pals Alice Kelleher and Eileen Lydon. On the brink of 30 and a full-blown breakdown, Alice is a successful author seeking escape in a Tinder fling. Eileen, still reeling from a breakup, leans on an old friend in more ways than one. A compendium of human connection, this read reminds us that beauty abounds -- as long as we know where to look.

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Suttons Bay sparkling wine producer MAWBY has teamed with Carlson’s Fishery of Leland to offer a taste of a Great Lakes delicacy available locally for the first time.

Fishmonger Mike Burda explains that typically Carlson’s only processes and ships the golden-orange whitefish eggs (technically the term caviar only applies to fish roe in the sturgeon family) frozen for the European market. “It’s really popular there, and at peak season we ship a couple hundred pounds a week.”

Luckily for us locals, the 5th generation fishery started selling the roe — fresh from the lake — to MAWBY this fall. The winery is serving it in the tasting room as a causal $10 “snack” alongside water crackers, sour cream and fresh chives. “It is a beautiful color, about as local and fresh as you can get,” says Mawby’s Claire Lepine. Don’t sleep on this caviar dream, though: “We basically see whitefish eggs for a short season in the fall when they are ripe — from late September through October,” says Burda. Taste it at MAWBY, 4519 Elm Valley Rd., Suttons Bay, (231) 271-3522 or https://mawby.wine/.

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Jazz at the Circuit

Ever imagine what a raw thrill it would be to — maybe after a particularly bad day at work — take a sledge hammer to few lamps and a home stereo? Don’t feel guilty! And better yet, stop imagining. Northern Michigan’s first and only “rage room” has arrived: Smash Club in Alanson.

Go alone, schedule some time with friends or co-workers, or even plan a team bonding or bachelorette party, but regardless, get ready to take some swings. First, pick your favorite from the “wall of weapons” and maybe some extra things to break. Then head inside and go berserk. They’ll even play your favorite rage music while you swing away to your heart’s content. There are also options for kids’ parties, ensuring people of all ages can let off some steam. Learn more and schedule your smash session at smashclubmi.com.

The Circuit on Fourteenth Street in TC will host two jazz performances this month.

Jeff Haas and his trio – Jack Dryden, Randy Marsh and Laurie Sears – will headline the show. Together, they are welcoming the Northwestern Michigan College Big Band and Lab Band (directed by Sears) Oct. 14 and Oct. 28, respectively. Haas and company held a regular Thursday night fall/spring residency for many years, first at Cambria Suites and then at West Bay Beach (now the Delamar). A lack of staff precluded that this year. Haas says he’s grateful to the audiences who have supported him over the years, and he’s still hopeful he’ll find a venue to continue the tradition. These will be the first shows for the NMC groups since January 2020. Wine from Chateau Chantal (where Haas and company perform Thursdays in the summer) and edibles from the Good Bowl will be available. Donations of $10 are suggested; masks are required.

Yes, Your Pet Can Be A Model!

Hey pet owners! It’s almost time for our annual pet issue, and we’re looking for a few (or a hundred) models! Please send along your photos of you and your furry friend enjoying life together in northern Michigan. We’ll have a special section in our upcoming Pets & Halloween issue October 25 showcasing the best photos — and bonus points if your pet is in a Halloween costume!

Email your pics to info@northernexpress. com. Give your best furry (or feathered, or scaled) friend the fame he/she deserves.

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bottoms up Grand Traverse Brewing Company’s Glen Lake IPA Since moving to Traverse City and opening Grand Traverse Brewing Company in 2018 – bringing over 20 years of brewing experience with him from the Pacific Northwest – Michigan native Pete Bishop has been quietly producing high-quality craft beer at a local production facility on Cass-Hartman Court in TC. Customers can visit by appointment for tastings and a selection of pints, growlers, and kegs. But for those who can’t make it, several of Bishop’s brews are available in 16-ounce tall boys at local stores.

The Glen Lake IPA – with its eye-catching, psychedelic artwork of a bear in a nod to Sleeping Bear Dunes – is hard to miss on the shelf. The American IPA is intended to have notes of “floral citrus, sun, and fun, a beer that’s smooth yet assertive with a diverse arrangement of six hop varieties.” At 6.2 percent ABV, the Glen Lake IPA has bold aromatics but remains flavorful and easy sipping on the palette. It’d make a great accompaniment on a fall hike or that final boat cruise for the season; Bishop promises the beer is “almost as fun as a day on Glen Lake!”

Still relatively under the radar, Grand Traverse Brewing Company is an up-and-coming player on the brewery scene. Find the Glen Lake IPA tall boys and other brews at Tilley’s Party Store in Traverse City – where they’re available in single cans and four-packs – or other locations and info at GTBeer.com or on Instagram at @GT.Beer.

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Thank goodness we have yet another conspiracy theory afloat among the far right. They like to call this one the Great Replacement Theory, allegedly being promulgated by the usual suspects: progressives, the Clintons, the Obamas and the omnipresent George Soros.

Replacement theory goes like this: The far left is encouraging unlimited immigration on the premise those immigrants and their offspring will become Democrat-voting citizens who will then replace “legacy Americans” (seemingly white folks of European descent) as the primary voting bloc and, ultimately, in the seats of power, where they can unleash their Socialist agenda.

This would require considerably more forward thinking than Democrat capabilities even

rhetoric under the guise of this generation’s version of replacement theory, with a conspiracy added as a bonus. It’s no less offensive or as likely than previous iterations of the same unpleasantness.

And that replacement business? That’s going to take some time and real patience on the part of the conspirators.

Once a legal immigrant enters the country on some type of visa, they can work or visit or attend school, but they are a long way from citizenship. They first need a green card, and it will take a couple years just for that to become available, probably another year for processing under the best of circumstances (longer if the applicant is from Mexico, China, India or the Philippines). A green card holder can

The idea that progressives or Democrats have ever been able to plan anything that far in advance is just laughable. make possible, but we’ll get to that in a minute.

This is not the first time we’ve seen immigrants or minorities become the targets of this kind of fear-mongering for political advantage. Call it replacement theory or something else, it’s all cut from the same xenophobic cloth. It usually starts with the old canard that immigrants will be taking the jobs of “real Americans,” though that has hardly ever been the case.

In the early part of the 20th century, when we were encouraging European immigration, we had the nativists who swore immigrants would destroy America as we knew it.

Italians, Poles, Irish, Italians and Asians all took their turns as targets. But they destroyed nothing, helped build our industrial might, and there were plenty of jobs left over.

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In the 1930s in Germany and Italy, it was Jews, intellectuals and others who were the alleged big threat. A popular article written by Benito Mussolini in 1934, “Is the White Race Dying,” helped popularize the notion that “undesirables,” mostly immigrants, were replacing native Italians.

The National Socialist German Workers’ Party meetings occasionally chanted, “Jew

then apply for citizenship after five more years (three if married to a U.S. citizen) if they have jumped through every hoop and avoided any hint of legal trouble.

So, if everything proceeds as quickly as possible, it will be eight years before the political part of the replacement theory comes to fruition, because it will take at least that long for an immigrant to become a citizen eligible to vote.

The part of the conspiracy that involves immigrants, legal and otherwise, reproducing their way to dominance and thereby achieving replacement, will take even longer, because they can’t vote until they’re 18.

The idea that progressives or Democrats have ever been able to plan anything that far in advance is just laughable. They rarely plan five days in the future, much less five years.

Anti-immigrant rhetoric was also popular in the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s after President Ronald Reagan’s amnesty program, and every decade since. There isn’t any evidence those immigrants replaced anybody, because their employment was almost always in addition to -- not as a replacement for -- those already employed.

One need look no further than the current Democrat dysfunction to understand how absurd assigning some sort of organized replacement theory to their devious planners really is. They can’t even figure out how to pass badly needed legislation to start replacing and repairing our deteriorating infrastructure despite overwhelming public support. Why? Because the absolutist progressive wing of the party insists on connecting it to a budget reconciliation bill that includes all kinds of free goodies they want, like free pre-K, free community college tuition, paid family leave, and much more. But they don’t have the votes they need. Moderates want the bills to be decided separately, while progressives insist on connectivity.

They’re too busy fighting each other now to conspire to control the future.

Now, polemicists like Tucker Carlson are promulgating the same anti-immigrant

It’s the theory, now being pushed by cynical fear mongers, that needs replacing.

(Grotesquely, that same chant was heard at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 just before a murderer plowed his car into counter demonstrators, killing a woman and injuring several others.)

TO MASK OR NOT TO MASK

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guest opinion by tom gutowski I hate wearing masks; they tug at your ears, muffle your voice, and fog up your glasses.

But they’re worth the inconvenience.

Masks work, even though they don’t catch every virus particle. Viral load matters; it isn’t just one virus particle and — BOOM, you’re in the ICU. Scientists say that if someone gets sick and if so, how sick, is partly a function of how much of the virus they’re exposed to. During respiration, virus particles an infected person exhales are contained in droplets of varying sizes.

Any decent mask properly worn catches a significant percentage of the droplets, and thus of the virus. Exactly what percentage it catches varies depending on the type and fit of the mask.

The biggest benefit from mask wearing is “source control,” i.e. stopping wearers from spreading the virus to others. People infected with COVID-19 can go weeks without symptoms, and it takes only a few unknowingly infected and unmasked people to put enough virus into the air to spread the disease. So for source control to work, masking has to be nearly universal.

A study in Denmark cited as evidence that masks don’t work didn’t attempt to measure source control, and over half of the participants who were asked to wear masks reported being less than fully compliant, so no one really knows if those who caught the virus did so while masked or unmasked.

The authors of a May 2020 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine also cited as evidence that masks aren’t effective have said their work was misinterpreted, and that their intent “was to push for more masking, not less.” One of the authors of an MIT study complained that those citing it as evidence that masks don’t work were “wildly off base,” adding that, “Our study highlights the fact that efficient mask use provides an extremely effective means of limiting indoor transmission of COVID-19…”

A review of COVID growth rates before and after the implementation of mask mandates in fifteen states and the District of Columbia showed that mandates slowed the daily infection rate and might have prevented 450,000 cases.

Multiple studies have shown that masks don’t harm the wearer. A person in average health or better can wear a mask for hours at a time with no ill effect. The only exceptions are those who for whatever reason are incapable of removing their own masks, and people who have serious trouble breathing even without a mask.

A pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Mayo Clinic wrote: “Studies have unequivocally shown that there are no negative health effects on children from wearing a mask.” A study recently published in the pediatrics section of the Journal of The American Medical Association said masks do harm children by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide they breathe, but was quickly retracted because of “numerous scientific

issues.” The most significant issue was the failure to take into account the fact that when a mask wearer inhales, the large majority of the air they inhale comes from outside the mask.

Mask mandates have not been found unconstitutional despite several challenges.

In rejecting a challenge to state-mandated vaccinations, the Supreme Court noted in 1905 in Jacobson vs Massachusetts that “there are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good.” In 2020, a Florida court cited Jacobson vs Massachusetts in rejecting a mask mandate challenge, saying that the pandemic “is precisely the sort of exigent circumstance that justifies governmental intrusion into individual autonomy.” This August, in Resurrection School vs Elizabeth Hertel et al, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals used similar reasoning to reject yet another challenge.

Despite hopeful developments, the health emergency created by COVID isn’t over.

Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths began increasing again this summer due to the Delta variant. In some areas, ICU wards are at or near capacity. And while the unvaccinated continue to make up the majority of hospitalizations and deaths, breakthrough infections among the vaccinated have become more common. Rural America is getting hit the hardest: In September, the infection rate was 54 percent higher in those areas than in metropolitan areas.

And more young people are getting sick. In September, 27 percent of new infections in Michigan were among those 20 and younger.

The pediatric COVID mortality rate is low, but no one knows if it will remain so as the virus continues to mutate, what the “long haul” effects will be, nor how many others in the community — including teachers -- will catch COVID from infected youngsters.

The Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, the University of Michigan Health System, and Massachusetts General (affiliated with Harvard Medical School) all recommend the wearing of masks, as do the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the American Nurses Association, and the CDC. An article in the September 16, 2021 Scientific American entitled, “Masks Protect Schoolkids from COVID despite What Antiscience Politicians Claim” says “there are multiple lines of evidence from a variety of disciplines — including materials science, infectious diseases, pediatrics and epidemiology — showing that masks can help protect children and teachers from getting COVID in schools.”

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Lisa’s Story

AT HORIZON BOOKS October 8th marked the 28th year of the murder of Lisa Piel, Petoskey’s first and only female police officer, 1978 - 1992.

“I’m glad to be the first woman police officer, and I want to do a real good job.”

- Lisa Piel

(Petoskey News-Review Interview) Read about David Reed, the man with blood on his sleeve present at the scene. Discover how a predetermined suicide ruling precluded any further attempt at sorting out what evidence might have been available had not the officers on the scene disregarded all principles of investigation. A fumbled inspection of a death scene is followed by a policy of silence by all agencies of authority.

Why were there no gunshot residue tests taken from Lisa’s hand or the hand of the man with the bloody sleeve, David Reed? Why was the gun not checked for residue and for fingerprints from Reed or Lisa? Due to the brusing on her thigh, why was there no rape kit or investigation of rape?

Pathologist George A. Krzymowski MD, said in his report, ‘...there were signs of sex...’“In Petoskey if you want justice go to a whore house, if you want to get f***** go to court.”- Art Piel Read Lisa’s Story and decide for yourself.

A law abiding citizen, Man on Fire

Great Art Police in Madison, Wisconsin, are looking for a sculpture that was stolen from the Art Fair on the Square on Sept. 25. The unique piece, titled “Dumpty Humpty,” is a bronze of the nursery rhyme character sitting on a toilet with his pants around his ankles and a book in his hands. It’s worth $1,400, according to United Press International. The vendor told police she’d seen two men loitering around her booth, and when she stepped away, they vanished, along with the artwork. Security camera footage also captured the men leaving with Humpty. Hope they didn’t drop him, because, you know ...

What a Character!

Red Crocs weren’t enough to protect an 11-year-old boy at the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Fairgrounds on Sept. 18 when a haunted house actor took his role a little too far. According to The Washington Post, the boy, his sister and some friends were headed to the 7 Floors of Hell haunted house when Christopher Pogozelski, 22, approached them, trying to scare them. The boy told Pogozelski he wasn’t afraid, that the ghoul’s knife was “fake.” “Oh, it’s real. Trust me, it’s real,” Pogozelski replied, then began poking the boy’s feet with the weapon until he drew blood. Reportedly, the actor was using his own Bowie knife rather than a rubber one, believing it wasn’t sharp enough to hurt anyone. Still, he lost his job over the incident.

After getting bandaged up, the boy returned to be spooked again.

Sign of the Apocalypse In the village of Ust-Tarka in southwestern Siberia, people are wondering what caused several hundred ravens to fall dead out of the sky on Sept. 22, the Mirror reported. Sergei Kuzlyakin, a veterinarian, said the birds are being tested to see if they were poisoned, but called himself “shocked.” “I have been working as a doctor since 1975 and this is the first time I’ve seen this,” he said. A local ornithologist thought the birds might have ingested pesticides, but the mass death event has “caused anxiety among residents,” local officials noted.

Awesome!

Jacob Hansen and his wife, Quinn Kelsey, went looking for a casserole dish at a Goodwill store near their home in Denver, but they discovered a sentimental treasure instead, KUSA-TV reported on Sept. 28. As they browsed, Hansen looked up at a painting displayed in the store and realized he was the artist: He had created the piece 21 years ago as a high school freshman. His teacher entered the piece in a Jefferson County art show, and it sold at the time for $150, Hansen said. “I saw my signature on the bottom and then it was, ‘Wow, this is unbelievable.’ And I immediately FaceTimed my mom.” The couple bought the painting for $20 and plan to sell it online, with proceeds going to breast cancer research.

Armed and Clumsy An unnamed man in Jacksonville, Illinois, went to the hospital on Sept. 25 with a gunshot wound, the Journal Courier reported. The victim told Cass County Sheriff Devron Ohrn that he and family members had been testing bulletproof vests, and he allowed

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another person to shoot him as he wore one.

“Something like this is definitely not a good idea,” Ohrn said. “A bulletproof vest is not a catchall. Also, it is still a crime to shoot another person, even if they tell you to.”

Bright Idea On Sept. 27 at the Imphal Airport in India, Mohammad Sharif, of Kerala, was arrested for trying to smuggle nearly a kilogram of gold to New Delhi. The Central Industrial Security Force told IndiaTimes. com that Sharif attracted their attention because of the way he was walking. When he was examined, officials found more than 900 grams of gold paste, worth roughly $56,000, in his rectum. Cases such as this are reportedly common in Kerala. The CISF watches for people who seem unable to walk properly or are displaying discomfort on their face.

News You Can Use If leaf-peeping is in your plans, you may want to take extra precautions against a fearsome intruder: the spotted lanternfly.

According to WLNY-TV, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets is warning autumn leaf tourists to beware of the beautiful but highly invasive species from Asia. “They can hitch rides in vehicles or on outdoor items such as clothing and easily be transported into and throughout New York,” said NYSDAM Director of Plant Industry Chris Logue. Officials direct people who find one to kill it immediately, then send a photo of it to New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation along with your location.

Looking for a job? David Duffy, coowner of Duffy’s Circus in Northern Ireland, is encouraging people to become clowns. According to the BBC, Duffy says the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a shortage of performers; his circus has been shuttered for more than 500 days, but will resume operations soon with looser restrictions. Duffy’s looking for folks who are “really, really adaptable. ... No matter what sort of mood you’re in, you have to light up that circus ring,” he said.

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Beyhan Mutlu, 50, who lives in the Bursa province of Turkey, was reported missing on Sept. 28 after he wandered away from friends while they were drinking. Later, a search party was convened to look for Mutlu, and he joined the group as a volunteer, not realizing they were looking for him. When volunteers began shouting his name, the lightbulb went on. “I am here,” Mutlu told them, according to Fox News. Police gave him a ride home.

Least Competent Criminal James Kertz, 38, placed an ad on social media on Sept. 28, hoping to sell a catalytic converter (new in the box!), KTLA-TV reported. But the Branson, Missouri-area man didn’t realize that his photo of the car part also included a bag of methamphetamine and a syringe. On Sept. 29, the Stone County Sheriff ’s Office sent detectives to Kertz’s home with a search warrant. “You can imagine his surprise!” said Sheriff Doug Rader. “He still had 48 grams of meth and a pistol that he is forbidden to own! We now have provided him with a new place to stay.”

CLOSING THE BOOKS Bookie Joint to close after 50 years

By Al Parker Jann Norton adjusts her COVID face mask and cheerfully greets some of the first customers of the day at Traverse City’s venerable used bookstore, The Bookie Joint.

“We have several genres here,” the shop owner explains to a visiting couple. “And everything is at least half off, some 75% off.”

The reason for the deep price-slashing is that Norton will be closing the store at the end of the month.

After operating in downtown Traverse City for half a century – the last 15 years under Norton’s ownership – the Union Street landmark is going out of business.

Rumors of the closing have been abuzz for a few weeks, but Norton made it official with a recent announcement on her web page.

“It is with great sadness that, after 20-plus years as Traverse City’s premier used book store, I am closing The Bookie Joint by Oct. 31, 2021,” she writes. “I want everyone to know how much I have appreciated your business and your loyalty. It’s been an honor and pleasure to serve all of you. Many of you have become an important part of my day. Thank you.”

For her customers, Norton worked hard to create a friendly, welcoming atmosphere highlighted by thought-provoking stickers, pithy T-shirts and music of all types.

“People would sing out loud,” she recalls with a laugh. “They were comfortable here, at home here. I really wanted people to be comfortable. I tried to treat everyone the way I would wish to be treated.”

Norton bought the business in 2006 from Shelly Barnes and Bob Hicks, who moved it to the Union Street location from its previous home in the Front Street Arcade building.

“One day I was bringing four bags of books in to trade and started talking with Shelly,” recalls Norton, who grew up in the Ann Arbor area and had visited Traverse City as a teen. “I told her I was looking for a small downtown business to buy.”

Barnes said she and Hicks had just made the decision to sell their business.

“We agreed on a price and I worked for them for a couple of weeks to learn the business,” says Norton.

So, what was it like jumping into a business at which she had only been an “avid” customer with not much working experience?

“Scary,” she says with a smile.

But her father had owned small businesses and she says she was aware of the work involved.

“I knew how hard a single owner had to work to make it a success,” says Norton, who works seven days a week May to September. “I haven’t had a vacation since I owned the store.”

Norton’s decision to close The Bookie Joint comes after about three years when things were “really tight.”

The pandemic prompted her to close the bookstore for three months. But even before that happened, she says book sales were slowing.

Tourist sales dwindle in September. On

the last day of August, she says she had only two sales totaling about $12.

“I was robbing Peter to pay Paul,” she says. “And Peter ran out of money.”

Norton is not alone is seeing slumping sales at bookstores.

According to Statista, there are approximately 4,100 independent bookstores in the nation. A recent study showed that about 20 percent of respondents said they purchase their print books in a brick-and-mortar store, while 22 percent report buying mostly online.

In 2018, according to market and consumer data company Statista, bookstore sales were $10.2 billion, compared to almost $17 billion a decade earlier.

Even though Norton is closing The Bookie Joint, she plans to stay involved in the book business selling selected publications online.

“First of all, I’ll miss the people,” she says.

“All the loyal friends over the years, I really appreciate their support. And we’re not leaving town.

“Traverse City is very special to me.”

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IN THE NAME OF LOVE Up North Pride Celebration coming Oct. 13

By Harper Haase In the past, the month of June was a beacon for queer people everywhere as shops, streets and social media pages fill up with rainbows for Pride month … but in 2020 everything paused.

This year, Traverse City’s beloved Up North Pride celebration has been moved to October to keep queers and allies healthy and safe, with plenty of time for COVID vaccinations.

The event will be a festive, fun-packed week starting Wednesday, Oct. 13 and wrapping up with the Big Gay Brunch on Oct. 17.

Up North Pride organizers have been working hard to celebrate Traverse City’s queer community with a beautiful celebration of love that no pandemic could squash.

Here’s a quick look at our three must-do events of the week.

Visibility March Whether you’re watching from your window or parading down the street, the Visibility March at 5:30pm on Saturday, Oct. 16 will be impossible to miss. Vibrant colors of the rainbow queer flag will soar down Front Street from F&M Park to the Open Space as the Traverse City Symphony

Orchestra plays music. People of all ages and identities are encouraged to join the love parade on bikes, wheelchairs, skateboards, scooters or on foot. For allies, closeted queers and open members alike, this event will be an inclusive celebration of the diverse LGBTQ+ community in Traverse City. Bring yourself, your kindness and all the rainbows you can find!

Pride Picnic Fuel up for the parade at the Pride Picnic at F&M Park from 1-4pm on Saturday, Oct. 16! This is a BYOB (bring your own blanket) event with food and drink for purchase.

With live music and various activities for families, this picnic will be a calm precursor to the parade and other events. Gather with members and allies of the Traverse City LGBTQ+ community to share love, pride and delicious food in celebration of our diverse community. The march will start at the same park shortly after, making it easy to participate in the parade!

Comedy Show Some of the funniest comedians are borne from the LGBTQ+ experience, so the three nationally recognized queer comedians Kristin Key, Arlo Weierhauser and Brooklyn Jones will be performing at Short’s Brewing Co. in Elk Rapids at 8pm on Friday, Oct. 15

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will be a 90-minute event you can’t miss.

About the performers: Kristin Key is a musical comedian, combining crossover talents to give creatively hilarious comedy shows. On top of hosting her own podcast and starring

in various shows and specials, Key tours regularly across the United States. Her show will be cheery, upbeat and funny.

Arlo Weierhauser brings a different type of comedy show with truth-bombs-turnedjokes. Their history lies in acting, most recently starring in the 2020 movie “Timmy

Failure: Mistakes Were Made.” As the coach of their own shows, Weierhauser keeps audiences engaged with witty remarks on relevant topics, finding humor in everything.

Brooklyn Jones, our only P.O.C. comedian, started her career in entertainment as a rapper from New York. She won BET’s “106 & Park” music video show twice at the beginning of her career as a rapper. As her focus shifted from music to comedy, she

made song parodies of Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love” called “Chunky Love” and Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” called “Lazy.” She soon moved to Los Angeles where her comedy career grew exponentially.

For comedy show tickets and schedule, visit upnorthpride.com.

For Traverse City area news and events, visit TraverseTicker.com

Comedian Brooklyn Jones Performing for UP north Pride Despite Brooklyn Jones’ East Coast roots, she has only visited Michigan once when she was young.

With her big city history and various accolades including being named “Funniest Female Comedian” at the Pasadena, California-based Ice House Comedy Club and being featured on Oprah Winfrey Network’s “Flex & Shanice” show, Traverse City is on the smaller side of her normal venues.

She was introduced to the northern Michigan town through fellow performer Kristin Key and says she expects a fun and energetic crowd.

Though Pride events typically take place in June, Jones isn’t concerned about the October date. “We’re proud all year, so it doesn’t really matter,” she explains through a Zoom call from California. “We shouldn’t hold our pride for just one month.”

October is an especially fun month for Pride, Jones points out, because Halloween is her favorite holiday and fall her favorite season.

“The more festivities the better!” she says.

Jones says she feels she empowered by being queer.

“The most empowering part of being queer is just living my truth and not caring what other people think,” she says.

Through her comedic platform she can share that confidence and inspire others to do the same.

Along with nationally recognized queer comedians Kristin Key and Arlo Weierhauser, Brooklyn Jones will be performing a 90-minute show at Short’s Brewing Co. in Elk Rapids at 8pm. Tickets are $20 and available at upnorthpride. com/ticketed-events/comedynight.

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MAKING HORSELESS CARRIAGES IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN For a time, northern Michigan was an automotive manufacturing hotspot

By Al Parker Early in the 20th century, automakers like Henry Ford, the Dodge Brothers and Billy Durant dominated the industry in Detroit and Flint.

But there were a handful of optimistic, energetic entrepreneurs in northern Michigan who dreamed of launching their own motor car enterprises.

Here’s a look at some of those efforts.

The Gaylord Motor Car Company The launch of the Gaylord Motor Car Company was proudly introduced in the Otsego County Herald and Times in May 1910. The community was hoping to challenge Detroit and Flint as a major maker of horseless carriages.

Some $50,000 in stock was issued to local residents and the company launched on May 19.

Ironically, however, the first Gaylord Utility Car was built miles away from Otsego County in Detroit.

“Mr. Guy Hamilton, general manager and engineer, has been designing successful motor cars since 1904,” the company announced.

“He designed and built the first Gaylord Utility Car in Detroit.”

In August 1910, with no freeways to follow, Hamilton drove the motor car on a route from Detroit to Lansing, Grand Rapids, Alma, Saginaw, Bay City, Clare, Lake, Reed City, Cadillac, Kalkaska and then to Gaylord.

Once in town, Hamilton oversaw construction of the cars, with parts coming from a variety of sources. Motors and transmissions came from New York state.

Detroit firms provided radiators and wheels, while fenders, hoods and tanks were from a Saginaw company.

During its first year, about 50 cars were built. “(The car is) one that would meet the requirements of the merchant and farmer who must have a car that can be used for business as well as pleasure,” reads company literature.

From 1910 to its demise in 1913 at its

factory at 1075 S. Wisconsin St., the company built about 350 vehicles.

The models included a Gaylord 30 Touring Car, a Gaylord 20 Utility Car and – possibly – a high wheel roadster.

In 1912, a fully equipped new Utility Car would cost $1,500. That was about three times the annual income of a lumber worker ($530) or rural school teacher ($507), according to a 1912 article in the Ladies Home Journal.

“Our president (local hardware dealer A.B.C. Comstock) and the members of the board of directors are all men of the Northern country, where the survival of the fittest is the rule,” announced the company. “All of them being successful business men, they are in the habit of getting what they go after ... ” Despite that energy and optimism, the Gaylord Motor Car Company’s operation stalled in 1913.

An inability to raise cash and compete price-wise with Henry Ford’s Model T were cited for the Gaylord’s demise. The firm was dissolved six years later.

These days, a 1911 Gaylord 30 is lovingly displayed at the Gaylord Chamber of Commerce. It’s the only known model to exist. It was found and restored by Gaylord local Ivan Polus.

Each year since 1982 the restored Gaylord 30 appears during the Alpenfest Grand Parade, where it carries the parade marshal.

“I see the Gaylord Car having three important stories,” says local historian Philip Alexander. “The first was in 1910 when local residents came together in an attempt to create a better future. They pooled their money and formed the GMC. Success was short-lived, but they tried, and it was exciting.”

The second story, says Alexander, took place in 1963 when Polus found, purchased and beautifully restored the only known surviving Gaylord Car. “Part three was when the Gaylord Car returned home in 1981 as part of the city’s centennial celebration,” adds Alexander.

“Purchased by locals who again pooled their resources for the good of the greater community.”

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1911 Gaylord 30

The Traverse City Motor Car Company In 1916, while much of Europe was engaged in World War I, a handful of businessmen launched The Napoleon Auto Manufacturing Company, based in Napoleon, Ohio.

They planned to produce two models – a five-passenger and a seven-passenger touring car, both on the same chassis with a 30-horsepower engine.

It was powered by a four-cylinder, watercooled engine.

Soon after the opening, the company was in trouble. Orders flooded in. The public clamored for the motor cars and the firm didn’t have enough machinery to produce the cars in Ohio. Officials decided to relocate.

Meanwhile, Traverse City was trying to attract new industry because they were about to lose a key employer. The Oval Wood Dish Company was heading to New York.

So, a deal was struck, and the Napoleon carmakers rolled into town after receiving $75,000 in working capital and a promise of free rent for three years.

Company offices were at 531-533 West Front St., near Maple Street. The factory was at 505 Riverine Dr., where the Riverine Apartments now stand.

In August 1917, the firm was reorganized

into the Traverse City Motor Car Company.

Three months later it began producing vehicles: a four-person roadster, a sixpassenger model and a five-passenger, sixcylinder touring car.

A few months later, Rennie Auto Sales on the corner of State and Union streets advertised a 1918 Napoleon touring car “just like new and equipped with four brand-new non-skid tires” for $725.

In 1919, the company decided to shelve the car sales and focus solely on producing two trucks: a one-ton and one-and-a-halfton model.

Ads touted the durable one-ton Model 9 for $1,385 while the larger Model 11 carried a price tag of $1,660.

Ads praised the trucks as “The truck of a thousand uses,” and “Conqueror of the Highways.”

As the company grew, it sold stock to raise capital. In 1920 it announced plans to raise $2.5 million in stock and relocated its business offices to the towering Traverse City State Bank Building on the corner of Union and Front streets.

Later that year, a new model was introduced.

The Napoleon Speedwagon was a

lightweight truck with an open body, flare board sides, a drop tailgate and pneumatic tires.

But as quickly as business boomed, by mid-1921 an economic recession hit and money started to run out.

One theory is that an abundance of trucks were available after the end of World War I, which sped up the Napoleon’s downfall. A few trucks were produced into 1923, but later that year the company went bankrupt.

The company produced approximately 210 cars and 2,000 trucks. One of its elegant red-and-black trucks is owned by Hagerty Insurance and is occasionally displayed at its Traverse City headquarters.

Acme Motor Truck Company The Cadillac Board of Trade, a group of area businessmen, met in August 1915 where the talk turned to building and selling trucks.

The Alma-based Republic Truck Company was doing a booming business, employing 300 workers and turning out 300 trucks a month, a fact noted by Cadillac industrialist Walter Kysor.

By the end of the month, $100,000 in stock was sold and on September 1, Kysor organized the Cadillac Truck Company.

In December, he received a letter from the Cadillac Motor Car Company in Detroit demanding he stop using the word Cadillac in the name of his vehicles.

Not looking for a court fight, Kysor changed the name to the Acme Motor Truck Company. Its first truck was turned out in December 1915 at a plant on Haynes Street.

That first Acme Truck, complete with a floor-mounted shift and brake levers operated by the driver’s hand, was bought by the Charles J. Foster Storage and Crating Company.

In 1917, a new factory was built. Expansion was rapid. Sales branches were opened in Cleveland, Philadelphia New York and Toronto, plus outlets on the West Coast. Acme trucks were prominently displayed at major auto

shows, including New York City and Chicago.

Three years later the company produced “Pointers to Profits,” a multi-colored catalog for dealers that listed the models. Prices ranged from the one-ton Model B for $2,175 to the five-ton workhorse at $5,150.

Some early customers included the Cadillac Fire Department, which bought two to use as firetrucks, and Consumer’s Energy.

A customer in Minneapolis had high praise for his Acme Truck.

“We have been operating one Acme 5-tonner for practically a year, and it has been hauling over all kinds of roads, gravel and cinders,” wrote George G. Cranbrook. “Our trucks have been on the job every day, and we have found them always able to perform any work which it would be reasonable to ask of any 5-ton truck.”

Kysor had been president and general manager of the company since its beginning.

But in 1923 he stepped down and was succeeded as GM by C.J. Helm, who had been Acme’s secretary and sales manager.

Kysor gave no reason for his resignation.

Acme’s peak years were 1926 and ‘27, when the company had 500 workers and produced 2,000 trucks a year.

They also began producing buses, known for safety features such as warning lights and over-sized headlights.

But prosperity didn’t last.

Sales began to slump and it’s believed that the market for heavy trucks dried up.

In 1929 a receiver was appointed to the company to try and keep it afloat. Soon after, the company was sold to a group made up of Acme creditors. Operations resumed, but in 1932 the Acme Truck Company closed its doors for good.

It’s unknown exactly how many Acme Trucks were produced from 1915 to 1932. At least two are still in existence, one being at the Wexford County Historical Museum at 127 Beech St. in Cadillac.

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OTHER EARLY NORTHERN MICHIGAN CAR MAKERS Other early car makers produced vehicles on a very limited basis in northern Michigan communities.

Kalkaska: Elmer F. Johnson built four cars, including the steam-powered The Elmer at his cycle works. It was started in 1898, completed in 1905 and is displayed at the Kalkaska County Historical Museum.

Petoskey: The Bump & McCabe Auto Truck was built in 1915. The running gear and engine came from a Ford, but the body was made by George Bump, George McCabe and workers at their hardware store. The truck was assembled at the blacksmith shop of William McDermott. It’s believed only one truck was made.

Manistee: In 1899, brothers Henry and Otto Brugman began work on The Manistee.

It had a two-cylinder steam engine under the seat and a top speed of 25 mph. It’s uncertain how many cars the brothers actually produced, but they did sell other brands at their Auto Garage Company.

In addition, the Manistee Motor Car Company was incorporated in March 1912 with Charles Elmendorf as president and general manager. The company produced two models: the Autoette and Wolverine. Up to 35 motor cars are thought to have been produced, but none are known to exist. The cars didn’t sell and the company folded in March 1913.

Charlevoix: Inventor Robert W. Elston built his car on the second floor of his home on Main Street (now Park Avenue) between Bridge and State streets. In 1895 he started work on The Elston, a four-passenger carriage designed to be electrically powered, but later changed to gas.

The fate of the Elston is unknown, but its inventor went on to operate the Hotel Elston, where the Oleson’s parking lot now sits.

Cheboygan: The first Flagler Cyclecar was built in 1913 in Chicago, but the company soon relocated to northern Michigan. As part of the move, Flagler guaranteed to employee at least 200 workers at $2.50 per day. In 1914, a new four-cylinder Flagler would sell for $375.

By October of that year the company was in receivership and would fold in 1915. It’s believed that only 13 vehicles were produced and none are known to exist.

In 1919 Frank Klingensmith and son ran a car dealership and repair shop on Main Street and planned to build a car out of spare parts. It was to be a cross between a Flagler and a Pierce Arrow. But there’s no evidence the car was ever produced.

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Lighting Up the Marquee in Marquette Fresh Coast Film Festival celebrates the best of northern Michigan’s outdoors

By Ross Boissoneau The Upper Peninsula, like this region, has always attracted people to its natural beauty.

It has also inspired filmmaker Aaron Peterson, store owner Bill Thompson and U.P. influencer Bugsy Sailor to create the firstever Fresh Coast Film Festival in Marquette, devoted (mostly) to documentaries telling tales from around the Great Lakes.

“Not Marquette, not Michigan – we wanted to highlight the Great Lakes, build a culture of storytelling,” says Sailor, who also owns U.P. Supply Company, a Marquettebased store.

All three say their love of the outdoors prompted them to pool their talents and interests. The Fresh Coast Film Festival has been held every year since the first event in 2016, with the exception of last year.

Sailor says this year’s return will be scaled back slightly but will still feature more than 100 films, mostly shorts, organized by category.

“They could go from birdwatching to surfing the Great Lakes to mountain biking,” Sailor says.

He says the films’ broad range of themes and subject matter engage audiences in adventure, humor, sympathy, reflection and more.

“There really is something for everyone,” he says.

While documentaries focus on, around

and about the region, that’s not a hard-andfast rule.

For example, one of the films included in this year’s festival comes from Frankfort filmmaker Emily Hopcian, a writer, editor and content producer.

It’s the story of Durga Rawal, one of the only female guides in Nepal and the only guide from her village in northern Nepal.

“I’m excited and incredibly honored to have a film screening at this year’s festival, as it’s a festival that feels like home in so many different ways to me,” she says.

Also hailing from this region are films by professional skier Mike King of King Orchards of Central Lake and one about the Leelanau Conservancy by brothers Nick and Chris Loud (see sidebar).

Despite the documentary focus, particularly from and on the Great Lakes region, Sailor says the organizers always have a plethora of potential entries from which to choose.

“We never have a shortage of content,” says Sailor.

In spite of last year’s cancellation, the festival continues to grow.

“It’s become a marquee weekend in Marquette,” Sailor notes, estimating there were more than 1,000 in attendance for the 2019 version.

He says he would like to bring a wider range of people to town.

“We want to bring in (more) people from

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Duluth, Green Bay and Traverse City,” he says.

And, he says, there’s more to come in terms of ideas and events.

“We have lots of ideas yet to be unboxed,” he says. “One dream is to do a traveling show, go to places like Traverse City with a night of Fresh Coast. “(Doing) things year-round throughout Marquette is a big goal.”

Virtual content is also in the works, with the online version of the festival available Oct. 17, he says.

One of the festival’s hallmarks is the fact many of the filmmakers are in attendance.

“We try to get as many as we can in town,” he says, adding there may be 60 this year.

Organizers have included outdoor activities, so that attendees can interact with the landscapes they see on screen.

Rock climbing, yoga, waterfall hikes and mountain bike rides will all be offered as part of the Fresh Coast weekend, which takes place in venues throughout the city.

“Breweries, the Masonic lodge; this year we’ll have a tent at the harbor,” says Sailor.

Sailor says the volunteer-run festival takes a huge commitment from a number of people, and that he and the other founders are grateful to the community for its support.

There are no stars in attendance, but there might be the U.P. version of a red carpet, he says.

“We joke it would be hunter orange,” he says.

The Fresh Coast Film Festival in Marquette runs Oct. 14-17. For schedule, tickets and more information, visit freshcoastfilm.com.

LOCALS SHOW THEIR STUFF AT FRESH COAST They may be familiar with it, but Nick and Chris Loud don’t ever take appearing at the Fresh Coast Film Festival for granted.

“We’ve been lucky enough to go up the last four times,” says Nick Loud. “We’ve fallen in love with the town (and) the festival.”

The brothers are the creative brain trust behind The Boardman Review journal but can now call themselves film producers.

Together, they produced the four-minute film Leelanau Conservancy – Farmland Protection. It tells how the conservancy works with farmers to preserve their land, the environment and a way of life that has defined the region for over a century.

The film explains the Conservancy’s purpose, which is putting conservation easements on certain farms to protect them from development.

“Tom Nelson (the Leelanau Conservancy’s executive director) highlights what it means for farmers to protect something that has been part of their lives for decades and know it will continue,” says Nick Loud, who highlights a couple of local farms in the film. “We tried to capture their hearts and thought process.”

Nick Loud says the brothers’ films are typically part of a block of similar short films.

Following the showing, the filmmakers usually take part in a Q&A session. Then they’re able to become part of the audience for the other presentations.

“We go see a film, go for a hike, go for a beer,” he says. “The colors should be at their peak.”

As the festival has grown, Nick Loud says he’s pleased to see a growing contingent of attendees from this region.

“It’s an opportunity to share, especially with more Traverse City folks,” he says.

The Louds are not alone in sharing their film talents as they pertain to the natural world. Mike King – of the King Orchard family– has a film that also takes a close look at the environment.

A professional skier, he’s worked with numerous film companies and sponsors to create video content for marketing.

His film, Feast or Famine, takes a different tack, exploring how climate change impacts everything.

“If I was going to make my own film, I was going to make it about what I think is most important: climate change,” he says.

King says what humans do for pleasure, work, food and water are all affected by a changing climate.

After some time away, King is now full-time in Michigan.

“I think it took some time away to realize how special it was,” says King.

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By Ross Boissoneau

Sound Obsession Guitarist Trevor Gordon Hall bringing original hybrid instrument to Traverse City

How do you define the music of Trevor Gordon Hall? There are folk influences for sure – and some New Age-y sounds and textures.

A bit of worldbeat, what with the kalimba and all. There are some jazzy chords, but it’s not jazz.

And while he performs Bach and Satie, it’s not classical.

Hall isn’t sure what to call his music either.

“I don’t know. Folk is a path for distribution,” he says with a laugh.

“But my approach to rhythm is from death metal drumming.”

Perhaps that’s to be expected of someone who plays the kalimbatar, an acoustic guitar with an African thumb piano grafted on.

And yes, Hall plays them both at the same time.

“It was born out of my obsession with sounds,” says the Philadelphia-based musician. “I keep my ears peeled for anything.”

Hall will be performing at Building 50’s Kirkbride Hall on Saturday, Oct. 16 at 8pm. Tickets are $25; the show is a fundraiser for WNMC. Hall first heard the kalimba – popularized by Earth, Wind & Fire – at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

“I fell in love with the sound,” he says. “It resonated with me.”

So, he ordered one and in 2007 began experimenting with it.

Then came the epiphany: He attached one to his guitar and began using the instrument to expand his musical palette.

“It’s the mix of two acoustic instruments, the steel strings with the steel tines resonating through the same sound chamber,” he says.

He says it’s important to actually make music with the combo instrument, rather than just use it as a novelty. “’It’s cool sounds but is it musical?’” he says he asked himself. “It’s something that looks like a Frankenguitar, (but) I wanted to make it last longer than a 10-second TikTok video.”

So, he continued to experiment, eventually building his own kalimba, a two-octave chromatic instrument with color-coded keys.

He worked with Canadian luthier Sheldon Schwartz to craft the instrument.

“I worked hard on the shapes and keys,” he says. “I wanted to get one with more range.”

Hall admits it could easily turn into what he calls “a circus sideshow,” but he’s determined not to let that happen.

“It’s all about the music and the musicality. For me, my project has been self-discovery through music,” he says. “That’s what brought me to this.”

His turn to becoming a musician began in childhood, listening to his parents’ music. “My mom loved Windham Hill: Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, George Winston … it all seeped in by the time I was 10 and picked up a guitar for the first time,” he says.

Over the years he’s performed across the country and the world, from Carnegie Hall to the Union Chapel in London.

He’s received plaudits from heavyweights like John Mayer, Steve Miller, Graham Nash, Will Ackerman, Pat Martino, Tommy Emmanuel, Phil Keaggy and Pierre Bensusan.

His recordings have included working with Ackerman, the founder of Windham Hill Records, on the album Mind Heart Fingers, which peaked at #4 on the World International Music radio charts.

He’s also made a series of EPs, Kalimbatar Classics, featuring arrangements of classical piano standards reimagined on the kalimbatar.

Hall has performed with bands, but his show here will be solo.

“I’ve been in bands, done collaborative projects,” he says. “I always find them fun, but it’s like I’m on vacation, so then I come back to solo acoustic.”

He says that’s a natural outgrowth of growing up without a lot of friends who were musicians.

“When I was a kid, I didn’t have a ton of musicians around. I had a love of solitude and was an introvert,” he says. “I was spending time with the instrument.”

While he plays mostly solo acoustic, he composes and arranges using sophisticated musical software. The ability to connect through the internet has also opened him up to other musical connections around the world.

This show is also a collaborative event. Besides supporting WNMC, concert promoter Seamus Shinners is working with Bryan Galloup and Galloup Guitars of Big Rapids.

The company will be handling the sound for the show as well as sponsoring it, along with Susan Batdorf Realty and Tom and Carrie Walker.

“Because I deal with these guys, I know what they need,” Galloup says.

Galloup says it’s a natural outgrowth of his and his company’s work creating guitars and becoming immersed in the world of acoustic guitars and fingerstyle guitarists. With shows and conventions all around the world from Memphis to Montreal, Italy, Germany and elsewhere, Galloup is able to connect with performers.

He says he typically looks to do shows in Big Rapids and Grand Rapids and is looking forward to bringing more to this region.

Tickets for Trevor Gordon Hall on Saturday, Oct. 16 at Building 50’s Kirkbride Hall are $25 and available at Traverse City Guitar Company and Oryana, as well as online at tcconcerts.com.

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ART BEAT: Mullaly’s 128 Studio & Gallery in downtown Elk Rapids, Blue Heron Gallery on the east side, & Twisted Fish Gallery, just south of town, will celebrate their long history of serving the arts by offering a fun, “Eight Days of Art” promotion, Oct. 2-9. Visit each gallery during these eight days to experience art demonstrations & creative offerings. You will also be invited to enter a drawing for a $100 gift certificate at each gallery. facebook.com/ARTBEAT-107006318385379

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GALLERY CRAFT SHOW & BAKE SALE: 9am-4pm, TC VFW Post. This show features many one-of-a-kind hand-crafted items.

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HARBOR SPRINGS SKI BOOSTERS HOSTS SKI SWAP: 9am-2pm, Nub’s Nob, Harbor Springs. Held during the Nub’s Nob Open House. Clean out that unwanted & unused ski & board gear & retain 80% of the selling price. Drop off gear on Thurs. or Fri., Oct. 7-8, from 12-6:30pm. Benefits the Harbor Springs ski teams. hsskiteam.com

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MUD, SWEAT & BEERS CLASSIC FAT TIRE & MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE: FULL: 9am, Mt. Holiday, TC. All races start & finish at Mt. Holiday Ski & Recreational Area overlooking Grand Traverse Bay; in between riders will travel through the VASA trail system.

Choose one of four races: a 25 mile (Stout), 12 mile (Pale Ale), 2 mile (Ginger Ale), or the kids’ mini-loop (Mud, Sweat & Root Beer). mudsweatandbeers.com

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13TH ANNUAL BREEZEWAY FALL COLOR CRUISES: Color tour participants pick up goodie bags filled with trip tips, color tour maps, coupons & other surprises at Royal Farms Winery in Atwood between 10amnoon. Participants then proceed at their own pace along C-48 The Breezeway, stopping, shopping, dining or enjoying a nature hike at one of the three preserves along the route.

End the experience at Boyne Mt. in Boyne Falls with a complimentary chair-lift ride for a breathtaking view atop the mountain.

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42ND ANNUAL CHARLEVOIX APPLE FEST: 10am-6pm, Downtown Charlevoix: East Park, Bridge Park, Mason St., Oct. 8-10. Food booths, art & craft show, farm market, balloon artist Twister Joe, orchards, kids’ activities, Apple Fest 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run, petting zoo, face painting, Music in the Streets & more. charlevoix.org

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FOCUS ON FIBER: 10am-4pm, Old Art Building, Leland. This event focuses on hand spinning, weaving, & basketmaking. Drop by to interact with the artists. Learn how sheep are sheared & how their wool is processed, dyed, & handspun into yarn. Watch a demonstration of how yarn is used to thread & dress the loom for handweaving on a floor loom. Participating artists include Sue Ann Carpenter, Nancy Doughty, Linda Good, Catherine Siterlet & Christie Trout. Free. oldartbuilding.com/events/focus-on-fiber

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M22 ART2ART COLOR TOUR: 10am6pm. Presented by Suttons Bay Art Festival.

A multi-venue art tour. Paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, fiber art. Over 40 artists will have their art for display & sale. Venues include Cleveland Township Hall on M22 & Bohemian Rd., Village Arts Building in Northport, Old Art Building in Leland, & Glen Arbor Township Hall in Glen Arbor. m22art2art.com

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Ric Mixter will present “Cutter Rescues,” a tribute to powerful cutters that protect our inland seas, on Thurs., Oct. 14 in the NCMC Library Conference Center, Petoskey at 6:30pm. It features the stories of the Escanaba, Mackinac, Hollyhock, and Sundew. Ric was invited to break out the Soo Locks aboard the Mighty Mac and also toured on the Sundew during its final winter run near Duluth. This lecture also chronicles the amazing rescues of the shipwrecks Cedarville, Nordmeer, Henry Cort, and Carl D. Bradley. Registration, $15. ncmclifelonglearning.com

verse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. For 11th & 12th graders. Screenwriter, author & journalist Andrew Lewellen brings writing to the silver screen with this 2-day workshop. Whether you’re drawn to movies or TV, this course will teach you how to turn your idea for a story into a script. You’ll learn the technique, structure, & storytelling skills that enable you to write a script that brings your story to life. This workshop is open only to fully vaccinated participants. Registration closes when the maximum number of students (15) register, or by Sept. 28. Free. nationalwritersseries.org/writing-workshops/ screenwriting-workshop-2021/?utm_sourc e=National+Writers+Series+Email+Audien ce&utm_campaign=01ecad78ce-EMAIL_ CAMPAIGN_2021_09_19_04_25&utm_ medium=em

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8TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT BEER WEEK: Oct. 4-9. Celebrate all that is great about Michigan craft beer & the food scene in the coastal city of Frankfort & neighboring village of Elberta.

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FRANKFORT FALL FESTIVAL: 11am5pm, Open Space Park, Frankfort. Enjoy the

Fall Festival Parade featuring The Scottville Clown Band, giant pumpkins, locally built floats, the Mutt March, games, a corn maze, craft fair, pumpkin decorating & much more. facebook.com/events/597080751699817?re f=newsfeed

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IN STORE BOOK SIGNING: Noon, Horizon Books, TC. Mike Terrell will sign his book “On the Trails of Northern Michigan.” horizonbooks.com/event/store-book-signingmike-terrell-trails-northern-michigan

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GLEN LAKE LIBRARY’S 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY: 1-3pm, Glen Lake Community Library, Empire. Celebrate the first birthday of the new & improved Glen Lake Community Library, with an open house. The festivities will include live music by Jim Dufford, cider & donuts, a Friends of the Library used book sale, & more. Free. glenlakelibrary.net/events

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MIDDLECOAST OKTOBERFEST: 1-10pm, Middlecoast Brewing Co., neighborhood parking lot behind, TC. Live music by BLT, StoneFolk, Broom Closet Boys, & Zeke.

Food, beer. Tickets: $25; includes two drinks. eventbrite.com/e/middlecoast-oktoberfestparty-tickets-170302241589

AUTHOR MARY AGRIA: 2pm, Little Traverse Historical Museum, Petoskey. Mary will speak about her latest book, “An Itinerant Gardner’s Book of Days.” petoskeymuseum.org/calendar-of-events.html

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zoo, face painting, Music in the Streets & more. charlevoix.org

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COMEDIAN MIKE GEETER: 7pm, TC Comedy Club, TC. As an Ivy League dropout & community college graduate from Pontiac, MI, Geeter brings a pointed look at life, family & relationships. From his upbringing in a family with 17 children to discussing his life as a father, Mike’s comedy is jagged wit mixed with a smooth delivery. He has worked with mainstream comedians such as Kevin Hart, Hannibal Burress, Jim Norton, Artie Lange & many others. $15-$25. traversecitycomedyclub.com

GUIDED LEGACY ART PARK FALL COLOR TOUR: 10am, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville.

Michigan Legacy Art Park is offering a special guided tour with Naturalist & Tour Guide Caitlin Chism to experience fall colors in the Art Park. In addition to viewing the 50+ sculptures along the trail, hikers will appreciate Chism’s expert insight on the natural environment of the park, including tree identification. Meet at the Art Park trailhead by 10am. $5/adults, children free. michlegacyartpark.org/fall-tour-2021

INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY DANCE COMPANY FALL DANCE PERFORMANCE: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Enjoy a wide variety of classical & contemporary dance works including ballet excerpts, modern masterpieces, & student & faculty-choreographed works. $12 adult, $9 student. interlochen. org/concerts-and-events

M22 ART2ART COLOR TOUR: 10am4pm. Presented by Suttons Bay Art Festival.

A multi-venue art tour. Paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, fiber art. Over 40 artists will have their art for display & sale. Venues include Cleveland Township Hall on M22 & Bohemian Rd., Village Arts Building in Northport, Old Art Building in Leland, & Glen Arbor Township Hall in Glen Arbor. m22art2art.com

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---------------------LAUREL PREMO IN CONCERT: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage, TC. Laurel Premo celebrates the release of her new solo album, “Golden Loam.” Enjoy an evening of both original & traditional music as Laurel sings & plays finger-style electric guitar & lap steel guitar, exploring the rhythms, melodies, & intonations of America’s musical roots. Tickets: $20 (plus fees). tickets. oldtownplayhouse.com/TheatreManager/1/ login&event=366

---------------------B.B. KING BLUES BAND: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. For over half a century, B.B. King and his band defined blues to the world. Now, the B.B. King Blues Band members continue touring in remembrance of B.B. King along with additional seasoned blues musicians: James “Boogaloo” Bolden, Claudette King, Russell Jackson, Wilbert Crosby, Darrell Lavigne, Myron Jackson, & Brandon Jackson. $57, $47, $42, $37. greatlakescfa.org/events/detail/bb-king-blues-band-with-claudette-king

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42ND ANNUAL CHARLEVOIX APPLE FEST: 10am4pm, Downtown Charlevoix: East Park, Bridge Park, Mason St. Oct. 8-10. Food booths, art & craft show, farm market, balloon artist Twister Joe, orchards, kids’ activities, Apple Fest 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run, petting

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MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK FALL COLOR TOUR:10am, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville.

A guided tour with Naturalist & Tour Guide Caitlin Chism to experience fall colors in the Art Park. In addition to viewing the 50+ sculptures along the trail, hikers will appreciate Chism’s expert insight on the natural environment of the park, including tree identification. Free with park admission: $5 per adult & free for children. Meet at the Art Park trailhead. crystalmountain.com/event/mlapfall-color-tour

---------------------ANNUAL HARVEST GATHERING: 1-4pm, Samels Farm, Williamsburg. Enjoy music, food, farm building tours & more. Watch demos of historic farm activities & take a horse-drawn wagon ride to Lake Skegemog.

Archaeology & games will also be part of the fun. Free. samelsfarm.org/events.html

---------------------LIVE CLASSICAL MUSIC AT THE LIBRARY: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Held the second Sunday of every month through a partnership between Classical Interlochen Public Radio & the library. Free. tadl.org

---------------------COMMONGROUNDS REAL ESTATE COOPERATIVE PRESENTS NEST FEST: 3-7pm, Iron Fish Distillery, Thompsonville.

For community owners, tenants, & investors.

Featuring music from May Erlewine and the Motivations, food, kids activities, hands-on public art, & more. RSVP. commongrounds. coop/nestfest

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KID’S CRAFT LAB: LEAF WINDOWS: 1pm & 3:30pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Choose your own fall leaves in all the colors of autumn. Arrange them on a laminate sheet to make a collage of long lasting fall fun. Register. greatlakeskids.org

oct 13

---------------------GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5pm, Preston Feather, Gaylord. Live music

by Todd Aldrich, food, beer & wine catered

by Big Buck Brewery, Grand Prize Giveaway, door prizes, desserts from Sugar Me Sweet, & donuts & cider. 989-732-6333. $5 members; $10 non-members.

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: TC, Oct. 1317. Today includes the Pride Ride, a short bicycle ride through downtown TC - starting at F&M Park at 5pm; & the Sign Making Party at The Little Fleet from 6-8pm, for Saturday’s Visibility March. Free. upnorthpride.com/events

---------------------SEA SHANTY SESSION: 7pm, 13268 S. West Bayshore Dr., TC. Presented by the Maritime Heritage Alliance. Held the second Weds. of every month. Bring your voice or instrument, or just sit & enjoy. Free. maritimeheritagealliance.org/shanty-sessions

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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS ACADEMY CAFE: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Stone 2. Produced by interdisciplinary arts students, this casual event will feature performances & artwork by students of all majors, disciplines, & genres. interlochen.org/events/interdisciplinary-arts-academy-cafe-2021-10-13

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KID’S CRAFT LAB: LEAF WINDOWS: 10:30am, 1pm, 3:30pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Choose your own fall leaves in all the colors of autumn. Arrange them on a laminate sheet to make a collage of long lasting fall fun. Register. greatlakeskids.org

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STORYTIME ADVENTURES: 10:30am, 1pm & 3:30pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Fall Is Not Easy” by Marty Kelly. Register. greatlakeskids.org

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UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: TC, Oct. 13-17. upnorthpride.com/events

---------------------BENZIE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S OCTOBER ACADEMY LECTURE: 4pm, Mills Community House, Benzonia. Featuring “Growing up on a Nugent Farm in Benzie County in the 1940’s, ‘50’s, and 60’s.” Presented by brothers Duane, Neil & Jim Nugent. benziemuseum.org

---------------------BACKPACKS, BOOKS & BIKES FUNDRAISING DINNER: 5:30-8:30pm, TC Golf & Country Club. This event will raise funds for Sunrise Rotary Club’s three major annual service projects. Includes a strolling dinner, live music by Goodboy, live & silent auctions & raffles. $125. tcsunriserotary.org/event/traverse-bay-sunrise-rotary-fundraising-dinner

---------------------BELLAIRE READS: 6pm, Bellaire Public Library. Enjoy a presentation with T. Marie Bertineau, author of “The Mason House.” bellairelibrary.org

---------------------RIC MIXTER PRESENTS “CUTTER RESCUES”: 6:30pm, NCMC Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Featuring the stories of the Escanaba, Mackinac, Hollyhock, and Sundew. Ric was invited to break out the Soo Locks aboard the Mighty Mac and also toured on the Sundew during its final winter run near Duluth. Register. $15. ncmclifelonglearning.com/event-4464149

---------------------MEET THE AUTHOR: CHARLES KRAUS: 7pm, Weldon Township Hall, Thompsonville.

This area resident will tell about the research he did for his book, “Thompsonville in Time,” & answer any questions. crystalmountain. com/event/meet-the-author

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---------------------NWS FALL SERIES: ANTHONY DOERR: 7pm. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of “All the Light We Cannot See,” Doerr will share “Cloud Cuckoo Land.” Guest host is Lysley Tenorio, author of the novel “The Son of Good Fortune” & the story collection “Monstress,” which was named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. Virtual event. $10 donation to NWS. nationalwritersseries.org

---------------------“GODSPELL”: Old Town Playhouse, TC. A small group of people help Jesus tell different parables by using a wide variety of games, storytelling techniques, & hefty doses of comic timing. With songs ranging in style from pop to vaudeville, this story of kindness, tolerance, & love dances across the stage. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays from Oct. 14-23 starting at 2pm on Sun., Oct. 17, & 7:30pm on all other days. Adults: $28, youth under 18: $15 (plus fees). tickets.

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---------------------FUTURE OF CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, DeRoy Center for Film Studies. Join the Interlochen Arts Academy Film & New Media Division for their annual celebration of film.

Featuring film screenings, guest artist lectures, hands-on demonstrations, & more. interlochen.org/events/future-cinema-filmfestival-2021-10-14

---------------------INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY ORCHESTRA - MASTERWORKS #1: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Under the direction of Dr. Leslie Dunner, the orchestra will perform classical favorites alongside acclaimed contemporary selections. $12 full price; $9 student. interlochen.org/events/arts-academy-orchestramasterworks-1-2021-10-14

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S T O R Y T I M E ADVENTURES:10:30am, 1pm & 3:30pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Fall Is Not Easy”

by Marty Kelly. Register. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------LEELANAU UNDERWATER WITH CHRIS ROXBURGH: 4pm, Leland Township Library, Leland. Join underwater photographer & technical diver Chris Roxburgh as he shares his underwater photos exploring Leelanau & the Manitou Passage. Roxburgh has photographed 20 shipwrecks in Leelanau County & many more in the Mackinac Straits & beyond. His book “Leelanau Underwater” is in its third printing. Free. lelandlibrary.org/ programs-events

---------------------VILLAGE ARTS BUILDING ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT & AUTUMN HARVEST: Northport Arts Association, Northport. Exhibit Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 15, 6-8pm.

Exhibit runs Oct. 16-24, Weds. through Sun., 12-4pm. A multi-media show. Free. northportartsassociation.org

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INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY CHORAL CONCERT: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Conductor John Bragle will lead the ensemble in a diverse selection of vocal works from both the classical & contemporary repertoire. $12 full price; $9 student. interlochen.org/events/artsacademy-choral-concert-2021-10-15

---------------------FRANC D’AMBROSIO BROADWAY: BEYOND THE CHANDELIER: 8pm, City Opera House, TC. Best-known for his portrayal of the lead role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning musical, “The Phantom of the Opera,” Franc D’Ambrosio performed as the famed masked man more than 2,100 times. Revisit some of his favorite songs from the Broadway stage in his new show’s Midwest Debut, Broadway: Beyond the Chandelier, as well as recent musical hits, including selections from Hamilton, Wicked, & The Book of Mormon. $15, $27, $37. cityoperahouse.org

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: TC, Oct. 13-17.

Today includes a Comedy Show with three nationally touring professional LGBTQ+ comedians: Kristin Key, Arlo Weierhauser, & Brooklyn Jones. 8pm, Short’s Brewing Co., Bellaire. Tickets start at $20. upnorthpride. com/events

WILLIE NILE IN CONCERT: 8pm, The Boat House on Lake Charlevoix, East Jordan. Singer-songwriter Willie Nile has toured across the U.S. with The Who & has sung with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. This is a benefit concert for Helping Hearts of East Jordan to be able to continue assisting families dealing with cancer. Tickets: 231-582-2588. $35 advance.

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THE VINEYARD AT SUNRISE FUN RUN & 5K: French Valley Vineyard, Cedar. Fun Run: 8:30am.

5K: 9am. Proceeds benefit Leelanau Montessori Public School Academy. $10-$30. mynorthtickets.com/events/vineyard-at-sunrise-10-16-2021?fbclid=IwAR2Rt_ffEacu_ fOTpLFykBSURBAoDIntkAEdJnj8iZzsLMSchcGBwhAetiw

---------------------CANNA INDUSTRIES PRESENTS NORTHERN MICHIGAN CANNABIS CONFERENCE & MASQUERADE BALL: 10am, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Provisioning tours, exhibits, Ganja Grappler & more. For tickets & more info visit the web site. cannaindustries.com

---------------------CLAY CLIFFS NATURE HIKE: 10am, Clay Cliffs Natural Area, Lake Leelanau. Fall...

How is Nature Preparing for Winter? Find out with Conservancy Docents Ann McInnis, Bert Thomas, & Gloria Garrett. Free. leelanauconservancy.org/events/fallhow-isnature-preparing-for-winter

---------------------MODEL RAILROAD ZOOM MEETING: 10am-1pm. National Model Railroad Association North Central Region Division 2 Monthly Zoom Meeting. Includes a presentation on Model Railroading & a Show & Tell. For login & password contact: superintendent.nmra. ncr.div2@gmail.com Free.

---------------------OUTDOOR CRAFT & VENDOR SHOW: 10am-3pm, The Village at GT Commons, Historic Front Lawn, TC. Featuring over 40 vendors. Free. thevillagetc.com/outdoorcraft-vendor-show-4-2-2

---------------------SIT-N-SIGN WITH GAYLORD HERO JON TURNBULL: 11:30am-1:30pm, Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord. Gaylord native Army Capt. Jonathan Turnbull’s book, “Zero Percent Chance,” is a memoir of the account of an American special operations team leading the fight to remove ISIS from Manbij & the surrounding region in Syria. Free. saturnbooksellers.com/event/sit-n-sign-gaylord-hero-jon-turnbull

---------------------UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: TC, Oct. 13-17.

Today includes a Pride Picnic from 1-4pm at F&M Park. This family-friendly event includes live music, fun activities for kids, food vendors & more. Bring a blanket & snacks. Visibility March: Gather at F&M Park at 5:30pm for a rally, & then march down Front St. to the Open Space for the Drag Night Celebration followed by Silent Disco. Bring your posters, rainbow flags & Pride spirit. The Traverse Symphony Orchestra will provide music as you march. The Drag Night will be headlined

by BenDeLaCreme of RuPaul’s Drag Race & will run from 6-10pm. The Silent Disco runs from 10pm-midnight. Attendees will be given headphones specially designed to keep the party going after hours. 2 Bays Productions will be hosting 3 DJs competing for your dance moves. upnorthpride.com/events

---------------------FALL FINALE ART & WINE WALK: 4-7pm, Suttons Bay. Stroll from store to store & view the work of many different artists while sam-

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pling local fare & refreshments from area wineries & breweries. Have your walking guide stamped by merchants, leave it at your last stop & you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a $200 village shopping spree. suttonsbayarea.com

---------------------“GODSPELL”: (See Thurs., Oct. 14)

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UP NORTH PRIDE WEEK: TC, Oct. 13-17. Today features the Big Gay Brunch at The Open Space from 11am-2pm. Enjoy brunch from Oryana, S2S & more. Food & drink tokens will be available for purchase on site. The Traverse Symphony Orchestra will provide cabaret music. upnorthpride. com/events

---------------------BATS AT THE LIBRARY: 1pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. James Dake, education director of Grass River Natural Area, will discuss the lives & habitats of bats & clear up myths about them. After the presentation, join library staff for bat crafts, pumpkin painting, story time & take-home treats. Register by 4pm on Oct. 14. Free.

---------------------“GODSPELL”: (See Thurs., Oct. 14) ---------------------ARTS FOR ALL OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN OUTING: 2-6pm, Jacob’s Farm, TC. Enjoy a corn maze adventure & pumpkin painting. Pumpkins to paint will be available for purchase. All other materials provided. $5. artsforallnmi.org

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NORTHPORT PRIDE TEA DANCE: 2-6pm, Northport Pub & Grille. Featuring Scarlet Envy, American drag queen, reality T.V. personality, singer & performer, & DJ Jace, resident DJ for Friday’s Pride nights at Necto in Ann Arbor. GA, $15. mynorthtickets.com/events/michael-chetcuti-foundation-presents-northport-pride-a-teadance-10-17-2021

---------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN PREMIERE SCREENING: “MISSION MT. MANGART”: 7pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. A co-produced fundraising cinema event in support of the Harbor Springs & Petoskey ski teams as well as the Great Lakes Center’s & Chris Anthony’s youth initiatives. “Mission Mt. Mangart” follows the 10th Mountain Division’s trailblazing efforts by this experimental infantry unit made up of world-class athletes, mountain men, & cowboys during WWII. $25 adults, $15 youth. greatlakescfa.org/events/detail/mission-mtmangart

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GHOST FARM OF KINGSLEY HAUNTED TRAIL: Fridays & Saturdays, 7-11pm through Oct. 30. 5010 Pierce Rd., Kingsley. hauntedtraverse.com

---------------------SCREAMS IN THE DARK: Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds, TC. Runs Oct. 1-30 on Fridays & Saturdays from 7-11pm & Sundays from 7-10pm. There are two tour options: Option 1 includes a wagon ride, haunted trail, The Mausoleum & corn maze while Option 2 includes all the attractions including the wagon ride, haunted trail, Panemonium, Swamp of Suffering & Dreadmoore Manor. evernighthaunt.com/index.html

---------------------THE HUNT FOR THE REDS OF OCTOBER: Held on weekdays in October. The Leelanau Peninsula hosts this event that allows consumers to indulge in many of the red

wines available on the Leelanau Peninsula, along with taking in beautiful landscapes.

Tickets are $35 & include a pour of selected red from each of the participating wineries. $5 of each ticket goes to the American Red Cross Association. lpwines.com/the-huntfor-reds-of-october

---------------------GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR OF TRAVERSE CITY: Perry Hannah Plaza, TC. A two mile, 2 1/2 hour walking tour through the historic neighborhoods & waterfront of TC. Every Sat. & Sun. at 2pm. walktchistory.com

---------------------FREE MONEY MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP: Interlochen Public Library. Takes place every Weds. for five weeks, starting Oct. 6 from 5:30-7:30pm. The workshops will cover a variety of different topics to help you get on track with managing your finances. nmcaa.net/financialmgmt.asp

---------------------NORTE SUNDAY TRAIL RIDES: Sundays, 11:45am, Timber Ridge, TC. Open to mountain bikers of all ages & abilities, with three different levels & distances (5K, 10K & 25K) to choose from. elgruponorte. org/sundays/?mc_cid=95b5b3048c&mc_ eid=df24b9efb4

---------------------TWEEN TUESDAYS: Interlochen Public Library. Tweens will share interests & ideas whilst exploring media in a positive & safe space. Held every Tues. through Oct. from 3:30-4:30pm. interlochenpubliclibrary.org

---------------------GAYLORD FARMERS MARKET: Held under the Pavilion, 100 South Court St., Gaylord on Wednesdays & Saturdays, July through Oct. from 8am-1pm.

---------------------OUTDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 2-6pm, The Village at GT Commons, on the piazza, in front of Left Foot Charley, TC. thevillagetc.com

---------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 7:30am-noon; Wednesdays, 8am-noon. Held in parking lot “B” at the southwest corner of Cass & Grandview Parkway in Downtown TC. dda. downtowntc.com/farmers-market

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VILLAGE ARTS BUILDING ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT & AUTUMN HARVEST: Northport Arts Association, Northport. Exhibit Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 15, 6-8pm.

Exhibit runs Oct. 16-24, Weds. through Sun., 12-4pm. A multi-media show. northportartsassociation.org

---------------------“IN THE SHADE OF TRILLIUM, A MOTHER-DAUGHTER SHOW”: Jordan River Arts Center, East Jordan. Featuring painters Pat Tinney & Cayla Tinney Zellers. The title of this exhibit comes from Pat’s tradition of creating a trillium painting every Mother’s Day & Cayla’s memories of painting together as mother & daughter with “our feet tucked under their broad leaves.” Starts on Oct. 10.

Open Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, 1-4pm through Nov. 5. jordanriverarts.com

---------------------WOMEN OF THE NIGHT: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Nocturnes by Heidi Amenda Marshall - pastels; Mara Manning - oil & cold wax; Cynthia Marks - ceramic. The opening reception will be held on Sat., Oct. 16 from 6-8pm. Meet the artists, enjoy music & more.

The exhibit runs through Nov. 15. higherartgallery.com

---------------------ACRYLIC PAINTINGS BY ERICA LARSON: Alden District Library. Runs through Oct. 30. aldenlib.info

NATURE THROUGH PASTELS: Glen Lake Community Library, Empire. Four regional artists exhibit their pastel paintings through Oct. 29. Leelanau artists Julie Avery, Chris Nettleton & Jan Price; & Lesa Seefled of Grand Traverse County have each worked in the arts for some time & have more recently moved into painting with pastels through both individual & group explorations. Closed on Sundays. glenlakelibrary.net

---------------------THE ART OF LORI SIKKEMA: The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Stop by the Visitor Center & view the fabric collage artwork of Lori Sikkema, on display through Oct. thebotanicgarden.org/events

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“PRESENCE”: Charlevoix Circle of Arts. A contemporary figural exploration with local artists Paul Varga & Steve Toornman. These artists explore the figure each with a distinct approach. Varga is a sculptor who works primarily in wood & bronze & Toornman is an oil painter. The exhibition will run through Oct. 30. Closed on Sundays. charlevoixcircle.org

---------------------DELBERT MICHEL: “SIXTY YEARS OF MAKING ART”: Grand Traverse Art Campus - Gateway Center, TC. Celebrating six decades of creative expression, artist & retired art professor Delbert Michel hosts a retrospective of his collection. The exhibition runs through Oct. 20 at both Delbert’s Studio #5 & the GT Art Campus - Gateway Center. Partial proceeds of art sales will be donated to Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse.

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---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - KINDRED: TRADITIONAL ARTS OF

THE LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY BANDS OF ODAWA INDIANS: Held in Gilbert & Bonfield galleries. Historic & contemporary examples of Odawa arts & crafts will be on display, including quill boxes, beadwork, regalia, basketry, & ceramics. Through these finely crafted objects, thematic threads are woven together to explore the economic drivers, environmental factors, & challenges inherent in sustaining tradition, creative practice, & identity. Runs Sept. 20 - Nov. 27. There will be a free educational program connected with the exhibition every Thurs. at 10am. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey/ kindred-traditional-arts-little-traverse-baybands-odawa-indians - THROUGH OUR EYES: CROOKED TREE PAINTERS’ STUDIO EXHIBITION: The Crooked Tree Painters’ Studio meets weekly at CTAC in Atrium Gallery to share their love of painting. This year’s exhibition features original paintings by 18 artists. Runs Sept. 20 - Dec. 18. crookedtree.org/event/ ctac-petoskey/through-our-eyes-crookedtree-painters-studio-exhibition

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - FOREWORD: SOLO EXHIBITION BY PATRICK EARL HAMMIE: Held in the Gallery. Through portraits & allegories, Hammie explores the complexities of identity, emotion, & family. Hours: Tues. - Fri.: 11am-5pm; Sat.: 10am-4pm. Closed Sundays & Mondays. Runs through Nov. 13. crookedtree. org/event/ctac-traverse-city/foreword-soloexhibition-patrick-earl-hammie - LUSTRON STORIES: AMERICANS AT HOME: Held in the Gallery. The subject of the “Great American Dream” is explored through photographer Charles Mintz’s series, “Lustron Stories.” Lustron Corporation

manufactured porcelain-baked, enamelcoated, all-steel houses between 1948-1950 in Columbus, Ohio. The kit homes were shipped-to-site & assembled by local contractors. Many of the homes are still in use today. This project set out to discover who lives in these homes now. Runs Sept. 27 - Nov. 13. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-traverse-city/lustron-stories-americans-home

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - AWAY FROM HOME: AMERICAN INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL STORIES: This exhibition explores off-reservation boarding schools in its kaleidoscope of voices. Visitors will explore photographs, artwork, interviews, interactive timelines, & immersive environments, including classroom & dormitory settings. Objects such as a period barber chair & a young Seminole girl’s skirt, as well as reproduction elements poignantly illuminate first-person accounts. Runs through Oct. 20. dennosmuseum.org - BIRDS FLY IN: A HUMAN REFUGE: Runs through Jan. 2. A cross-cultural art collaboration focusing on themes related to Migration & Intuition. Artist Ellie Harold was surprised by birds who “flew” onto her canvas after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. As intuitive messengers, they brought not only an entirely new way of painting, but comfort during confusing times. Later, as migration issues came to the fore, she felt birds were a metaphor for the universal human desire to move toward greater freedom & love. Following her intuition, Ellie met Mexican composer David Mendoza, creator of the soundtrack music, & German architect Wilfried Schley who designed the Refuge Space. dennosmuseum.org

- CLOSE TO HOME: CONTEMPORARY ANISHINAABEK ARTISTS: Runs through Oct. An exhibit of works from Anishinaabek artists in the region, supplemented by objects in the Dennos Museum Center’s collection. Artists include Kelly Church, Reneé Dillard, Jamie John, Yvonne Walker Keshick, & Jenna Wood. Represents current trends & connections to traditional practice by contemporary, working artists. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER, GLEN ARBOR: - PAPER CONSTRUCTIONS: DENISE SAMUELS: Held in the Lobby Gallery. Samuels exhibits sculptural, geometric constructions with recycled papers – cereal boxes, common cardboard & other heavier fibers she sometimes paints & alters – & stitches each hand-cut piece together with wire.

Runs through Dec. 17. glenarborart.org/ events/exhibit-denise-samuels - “EVERYDAY OBJECTS”: This juried exhibition asks exhibitors to reexamine & explore new & unexpected aesthetic possibilities in mundane objects. Runs through Oct. 28.

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lOGY

OCT 11 - OCT 17

BY ROB BREZSNY

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond,” declared novelist Marcel Proust. I wouldn’t normally offer that counsel to you Libras. One of your strengths is your skill at maintaining healthy boundaries. You know how to set dynamic limits that are just right: neither too extreme nor too timid.

But according to my analysis of the astrological potentials, the coming weeks will be one of those rare times when you’ll be wise to consider an alternative approach: that the most vigorous truths and liveliest energies may lie beyond where you usually go.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author William S. Burroughs claimed his greatest strength was a “capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant.” But he added a caveat to his brag: Although he recognized his mistakes, he rarely made any corrections. Yikes! Dear Scorpio, I invite you to do what Burroughs couldn’t. Question yourself about how you might have gone off course, but then actually make adjustments and atonements. As you do, keep in mind these principles: 1. An apparent mistake could lead you to a key insight or revelation.

2. An obstruction to the flow may prod you to open your mind and heart to a liberating possibility. 3. A snafu might motivate you to get back to where you belong. 4. A mess could show you something important you’ve been missing.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In her novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Sagittarian author Shirley Jackson wrote, “Today my winged horse is coming, and I am carrying you off to the moon, and on the moon we will eat rose petals.” I wonder what you would do if you received a message like that—an invitation to wander out on fanciful or mysterious adventures. I hope you’d be receptive. I hope you wouldn’t say, “There are so such things as flying horses. It’s impossible to fly to the moon and eat rose petals.” Even if you don’t typically entertain such whimsical notions, the time is favorable to do so now. I bet you will be pleased with the unexpected grace they bring your way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn

author Susan Sontag wrote about people who weren’t receptive to her intensity and intelligence.

She said she always had “a feeling of being ‘too much’ for them—a creature from another planet—and I would try to scale myself down to size, so I could be apprehendable and lovable by them.” I understand the inclination to engage in such self-diminishment. We all want to be appreciated and understood. But I urge you to refrain from taming and toning yourself down too much in the coming weeks. Don’t do what Sontag did. In my astrological opinion, it’s time for you to be an extra vivid version of yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I am

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diagnosed with not having enough insanely addictive drugs coursing through my body,” joked comedian Sarah Silverman. Judging from current cosmic rhythms, I’m inclined to draw a similar conclusion about you. It may be wise for you to dose yourself with intoxicants. JUST KIDDING! I lied. Here’s the truth: I would love for you to experience extra rapture, mystic illumination, transcendent sex, and yes, even intoxication in the coming weeks.

My analysis of the astrological omens suggests these delights are more likely and desirable than usual. However, the best way to arouse them is by communing with your favorite non-drug and non-alcohol inebriants. The benefits will last longer and incur no psychological cost.

PISCES

(Feb 19-March 20): “The truth is,” writes cartoonist Bill Watterson, “most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.” I sense this will describe your life during the next six weeks. Your long, strange journey won’t come to an end, of course. But a key chapter in that long, strange journey will climax. You will be mostly finished with lessons you have been studying for many moons. The winding road you have been following will end up someplace in particular. And sometime soon, I suspect you’ll spy a foreshadowing flash of this denouement.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my

understanding of the upcoming weeks, life will present you with unusual opportunities. I suspect you will find it reasonable and righteous to shed, dismantle, and rebel against the past.

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Redefining your history will be a fun and worthy project. Here are other related activities I recommend for you: 1. Forget and renounce a long-running fear that has never come true.

2. Throw away a reminder of an old experience that makes you feel bad. 3. Freshen your mood and attitude by moving around the furniture and decor in your home. 4. Write a note of atonement to a person you hurt once upon a time. 5. Give yourself a new nickname that inspires you to emancipate yourself from a pattern or habit you want to leave behind.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet

Donte Collins’ preferred pronouns are “they” and “them.” They describe themself as Black, queer, and adopted. “A lover doesn’t discourage your growth,” they write. “A lover says, ‘I see who you are today, and I cannot wait to see who you become tomorrow.’” I hope you have people like that in your life, Taurus—lovers, friends, allies, and relatives. If there is a scarcity of such beloved companions in your life, the next eight weeks will be an excellent time to round up new ones. And if you are connected with people who delight in your progress and evolution, deepen your connection with them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini author

Lisa Cron advises her fellow writers, “Avoid exclamation points! Really!! Because they’re distracting!! Almost as much as CAPITALIZING THINGS!!!” I’ll expand her counsel to apply not just to writers, but to all of you Geminis. In my astrological opinion, you’re likely to find success in the coming weeks if you’re understated, modest, and unmelodramatic. Make it your goal to create smooth, suave, savvy solutions. Be cagey and cool and crafty.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu told us that water is in one sense soft and passive, but is in another sense superb at eroding jams and obstacles that are hard and firm. There’s a magic in the way its apparent weakness overcomes what seems strong and unassailable. You are one of the zodiac’s top wielders of water’s superpower, Cancerian. And in the coming weeks, it will work for you with even more amazing grace than usual. Take full advantage of your sensitivity, your emotional intelligence, and your empathy.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author James Baldwin told us, “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to [Russian novelist] Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This is a great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone.” In that spirit, Leo, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to track down people who have had pivotal experiences similar to yours, either in the distant or recent past. These days, you need the consoling companionship they can provide. Their influence could be key to liberating you from at least some of your pain.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Poet Octavio Paz

described two kinds of distraction. One is “the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.” The other is “the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy.” In my astrological opinion, you Virgos should specialize in the latter during the coming weeks. It’s time to reinvigorate your relationship with your deep inner sources. Go in search of the reverent joy that comes from communing with your tantalizing mysteries. Explore the riddles at the core of your destiny.

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK The original -- and some would say still best -- show of the Peak TV era, The Sopranos, starts building a “cinematic universe” all its own with The Many Saints of Newark. Billed as a “a Sopranos Story,” the appointment TV mainstay that dominated cultural discourse gets the same treatment as the Star Wars or Harry Potter franchises, with this motion picture prequel (that leaves the door open for more) to the series playing in theaters and on HBOMax. As a Sopranos viewer, it took me nearly the entire first season to really understand the hype surrounding the storied series.

And therein lies the rub with this film: In comparison to what made The Sopranos so brilliant, Newark simply doesn’t have enough time to develop these characters, or really even make you care. Plus, the entire thing really depends not only on your familiarity with the series, but your downright preexisting passion for it.

As a viewing experience, this is not a film that you can go into blind. I mean it gives a pretty major spoiler from the series in the first few minutes. Although since it has been more than 20 years, I guess the statute of spoiler limitations has probably expired.

This is a film that purports to exist to give us an understanding of how mob boss Tony Soprano became the frustrating, fascinating character we know and love/hate. But it doesn’t even focus on Tony’s rise to power ala De Niro in The Godfather Part II. Instead, Tony’s awkwardly held at the wings, and this is really the story of Dickie Moltisanti, a formative figure in Tony’s youth.

Dickie Molisanti, played by Alessandro Nivola, is Tony’s uncle, and later becomes the father of Christopher Moltisanti, played

by Michael Imperioli, in the series. And it is Imperioli who narrates the film. Now Dickie Moltisanti is one heck of a charismatic player.

And when his father (Ray Liotta) brings home a young, new Italian wife, he begins to covet her to almost Oedipal heights, resulting in a monstrous action that changes his life. The guilt from this act sets Dickie on a path of “good deeds” that, in addition to coaching a blind youth baseball team, leads him to reconnect with his estranged, imprisoned uncle (also played by Liotta).

Aptly played by Nivola, there just isn’t a lot there when it comes to Dickie’s psyche.

His interior life is not that compelling. And despite the abundance of side plots, this is very much a by-the-numbers mob movie with the film hitting all the familiar beats of organized crime violence and domestic abuse and drama. The only area where the film really establishes itself and tries to lay any new ground is a plot line that attempts to unpack race relations in Newark in the late 60s and early 70s that is never successfully integrated.

The Newark race riots of 1967 is the viewer’s entree into the racial tensions of the era through Harold McBrayer (Leslie Odom Jr.), an enforcer for Dickie who wants a piece of his own action in the running numbers game. As much as I would like to explore more of the Black side of organized crime, this never goes anywhere compelling.

featuring the

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and the

NMC Jazz Big Band Then we have little Tony. For nearly half the film, he is a straight-up child. But then we get teenage Tony, and in a bit of genius and heart-tugging casting, he’s played by Michael Gandolfini, the son of the deceased Tony Soprano originator, James Gandolfini.

And as much as I liked some of the details of Tony coming into his own -- like a scene where he steals an ice cream truck only to distribute free cones to the neighborhood kids -- Gandolfini doesn’t do all that much.

The rest of the casting is exquisite, with a stacked list of players uncannily playing younger versions of characters you are familiar with, but also underutilized and underwritten. Take the incredible Vera Farmiga, who plays Tony’s mom Livia. Despite her performance that so embodies the physicality and personality of the character Nancy Marchand, she is left with a one-note role. There are no new insights into the character, one of the most complex females on the show, other than yes, she really was always that vile.

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Then you have young Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri (Billy Magnussen), Silvio Dante (John Magaro), “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero (Samson Moeakiola), and an almost too onpoint Corey Stoll as Junior Soprano, all in near blink-and-you-miss-them fan service roles.

There are the briefest of flashes of the series’ excellence, but mostly you are left with the impression that this was a cheaply licensed offshoot made by someone looking to make a little extra cash, versus something that was co-written by Sopranos creator David Chase.

But I guess even David Chase has got to eat.

Frequent Sopranos director Alan Taylor also returns to helm. But he brings a generic cinematic sheen to the period movie, relying too heavily on costumes, sets, and jukeboxperiod music to draw you in. Only when “Woke Up This Morning,” the iconic theme song of the series, blasts over the end credits did I really feel at all energized by what I was watching.

Perhaps as a limited series this would’ve been more successful, with more time to establish these characters and dive into the many threads. Because with the ubiquity of streaming and more and more people only just discovering The Sopranos, the show truly does feel as relevant as ever. It’s just a shame that I’ve experienced more interesting and compelling Sopranos related content in memes and on TikTok (Christopher Malisanti to the tune of “Eleanor Rigby,” anyone?) than anything presented here.

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nitelife

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska

BONOBO WINERY, TC 10/15 – Bekah Brudi, 6-8

ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 10/15 -- Drew Hale, 5-8

FANTASY’S, TC DJ LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC BARREL ROOM: 10/9 -- Jim Moore, 4-6

TC COMEDY CLUB, TC 10/8 -- Comedian Mike Geeter, 7:30 10/9 -- Comedian Mike Geeter, 7

MAMMOTH DISTILLING, TC 7:30-10:30: 10/10 -- Chris Smith 10/13 -- Eric Clemons

THE PARLOR, TC 10/9 -- Blue Footed Booby, 7-10 10/13 -- Wink Solo, 6:30-9:30 10/14 -- Jimmy Olson, 6:30-9:30

MIDDLECOAST BREWING CO., TC NEIGHBORHOOD PARKING LOT BEHIND: 10/9 -- Oktoberfest w/ BLT, Stone Folk, Broom Closet Boys, & Zeke, 1-10

THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 6:30 Weds. -- Jazz Show, 6 10/16 -- Stonefolk, 7-9

THIRSTY FISH SPORTS GRILLE, TC PATIO, 6:30-9:30: 10/14 -- The GTOs 10/15 -- The 4 Horsemen UNION STREET STATION, TC 10/8-9 -- Chris Michels Band, 10 10/10 & 10/17 -- Karaoke, 10 10/11 -- Jukebox, 10 10/12 -- Open Mic Comedy, 8-9:30; Electric Open Mic, 10-2 10/13 -- DJ Ricky T, 10 10/14 -- Old School 80s w/ DJ Franck, 10 10/15-16 -- The Brothers Crunch, 10

Antrim & Charlevoix HELLO VINO, BELLAIRE 10/12 -- Doc Woodward, 6:30-8:30 10/15 -- Rick Woods, 6-9 MAMMOTH DISTILLING, BELLAIRE 10/9 -- Clint Weaner, 7:30-10:30

SHORT’S BREW PUB, BELLAIRE 8:30-11:30 10/9 -- Creature of One 10/15 -- Blair Miller 10/16 -- The Be Colony SHORT’S BREWING PULL BARN TAPROOM, ELK RAPIDS 10/9 -- Randy Reszka, 6:30-9:30

THE BOATHOUSE, EAST JORDAN 10/15 -- Willie Nile - Benefit Concert, 8 TORCH LAKE CAFÉ, EASTPORT (US 31/M-88) 10/10 -- Wendy Barnes, 11am 10/15 -- Rhett & John, 8pm 10/17 -- Charlie & Jamie, noon

Fort Wayne, Indiana’s The Be Colony has a sound known as “the culmination of five fullyimmersed music lovers’ tastes.” They’ve crossed paths with artists like The Flaming Lips, Canned Heat, Best Coast, and Amy Helm. Find them at Short’s Brew Pub, Bellaire on Sat., Oct. 16 from 8:30-11:30pm.

Leelanau & Benzie

Otsego, Crawford & Central ALPINE TAVERN & EATERY, GAYLORD 10/16 -- Nelson Olstrom, 6

BENNETHUM’S NORTHERN INN, GAYLORD 10/12 -- Randy Reszka, 5-8

BIG BUCK BREWERY, GAYLORD 6-9: 10/9 -- Nelson Olstrom 10/15 -- Lou Thumser 10/16 -- Bill Oeming

Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee NORTHERN NATURAL CIDER HOUSE & WINERY, KALEVA 10/9 -- Chief Day Featuring Ted Bounty & The Bounty Hunters, Earth

Radio & The Go-Rounds, 1-10

BEL LAGO VINEYARD, WINERY & CIDERY, CEDAR Tue -- Live Music, 5-8 DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. -- Karaoke, 10-1 FRENCH VALLEY VINEYARDS, CEDAR 10/9 -- Larry Perkins, 3-6 IRON FISH DISTILLERY, THOMPSONVILLE 10/16 – Jack Pine, 6-8

LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 10/9 -- Chris Skellenger & Paul Koss, 2:30-5:30; The Dune Brothers, 7-10 10/15 -- New Third Hip, 6:30-9:30 10/16 -- The Menchacas, 2-5; Snacks & Five, 6:30-9:30 ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 5-8: 10/9 -- Ted & Ron’s Excellent Jazz Adventure 10/15 -- Elia Burkhart 10/16 -- The Feral Cats

Emmet & Cheboygan

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BEARDS BREWERY, PETOSKEY 6-9: 10/9 -- Two Track Mind 10/10 -- Owen James BOYNE VALLEY VINEYARDS, PETOSKEY PATIO: 10/9 & 10/16 -- Chris Calleja, 2-6 10/15 -- Michelle Chenard, 4-7:30 HIVE NORTH, CHEBOYGAN 10/9 -- Lara Fullford, 7:30-9

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MAMMOTH DISTILLING, BAY HARBOR 10/14 -- Tic-Tac-Go, 7:30-10:30 ODAWA CASINO RESORT, PETOSKEY MUKWA BAR & GRILL, 9: 10/9 -- Sean Bielby 10/16 – Dennis Verrett VICTORIES, 9: 10/8-9 -- Jabo Bihlman’s Family Jam 10/15-16 – Blue Water Kings Band

STORMCLOUD BREWING FRANKFORT 7-9: 10/9 -- Sturtz 10/14 -- Blake Elliott 10/16 -- Rhett & John

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BY Amy Alkon

Foresee Sick

Bed Over Backward

: I’m good friends with an ex. She’s a great person, but we just don’t work romantically. For two years, I’ve been seeing a woman I love and want a future with. She initially said she was fine with my friendship with my ex. Two months ago, she said she was uncomfortable with it and it might even be a deal breaker. How is it fair for her to decide this now?

— Don’t Wanna Dump A Friend

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: There are a number of things absent from straight men’s friendships with other men — namely how two dudes boozing it up together on the couch never leads to anyone’s bra being yanked off and flung onto the ceiling fan.

Two years ago, your girlfriend did say she was okay with your friendship with your ex.

So, your feeling like you’ve been played is understandable — but probably driven the (very common!) tendency to overestimate our ability to engage in reliable “affective forecasting.”

“Affect” is researcher-ese for emotion, and affective forecasting involves predicting how some future event will make us feel. Research by psychologists Daniel Gilbert and Timothy Wilson suggests we’re pretty bad at foreseeing what we’ll ultimately want and how happy or unhappy it will make us down the road.

Our guesses about how we’ll eventually feel are colored by our circumstances and preferences at the time we’re making a prediction. For example, before your girlfriend was very attached to you, she might’ve believed your friendship with your ex was (and would keep being) no biggie. As her love for you grew, the stakes of losing you loomed large in a way they didn’t back in the cool light of “Mmmkay, let’s see where things go with Mr. (Possibly) Right.”

Tell her you want to understand her feelings — and do something few people do when they have a goal of their own in mind: Listen fully and open-mindedly (as opposed to giving the appearance of listening while mentally cataloging all the fantastic points you’ll make). Hearing her fears could help you empathize with her — which should make her feel understood. Explain why she has nothing to worry about (uh, assuming that’s the case). You might also actively reassure her: regularly do stuff to show how much you love her. Ultimately, however, you might have a big ugly choice to make if you can’t get your girlfriend to stop seeing your friendship with your ex as something along the lines of Wile E. Coyote getting the night watchman gig at KFC.

:I’m a female college freshman. I was always told that college was the ideal place to find a partner. Disappointingly, there are many more women than men in my year. I want to date a guy and get to know him before having sex, but most of the women seem to hook up right away. I worry that I can’t compete with them, as I’m not comfortable with that trend of behavior.

— Old-Fashioned : Your body is your temple! Unfortunately, much of your female competition on campus sees theirs that way, too — only their temple’s Angkor Wat, where there’s a dude outside admitting the crowds with a clicker.

Colleges have become degree-granting hookup-aterias. There are a number of reasons for this, but you point to a biggie in your email: Over the past 40 years, there’s been a growing imbalance of women to men on campus. At the end of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students — “an all-time high” — to men’s 40.5% (per The Wall Street Journal).

That’s almost three women for every two men...on average. Some campuses have an even worse guy-girl gap.

Though we’re all walking around with pocket supercomputers (which women can use to click their way to home delivery of reliable birth control), our psychology is still tuned for an ancestral world. For ancestral men, hooking up was evolutionarily optimal in a way it was not for our prehistoric lady ancestors. (Guys only get pregnant from sex in creepy sci-fi movies.) The ancestral Adonis with all the notches in his spear handle would likely have left more surviving descendants to pass on his genes.

Sexual “economics” work like the monetary kind. An oversupply of women to men gives men the upper hand: transforming the mating “market” into one where men’s evolved preferences rule. In short, women respond to the campus man famine (or more technically, the biased “sex ratio”) “by offering sex without requiring high levels of commitment,” explain evolutionary social psychologists Justin Moss and Jon Maner.

Assuming you continue to give hooking up the thumbs down, you might shop for potential partners off-campus (at events or via dating sites), where male-female ratios are less imbalanced. This should keep you from needing to make certain sacrifices to compete for men — like offering really great sex and throwing in a kidney.

“Jonesin” Crosswords "Uncommon Bonds--spy thrillers with something missing. by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Wheat byproduct 6 Australian boots 10 Ensemble 14 Burj Khalifa locale 15 It comes before a fall?

16 Italian volcano that has been erupting through most of 2021 17 Opinion that the ordinal suffix from 4 onward is the worst of the group?

19 They may rehabilitate injured animals 20 Turn into 21 Songs to Wear ___ To (early 2000s website with humorous music) 22 Jason’s mythical vessel 25 Drive into hard 26 Highly decorated 27 Personal notification that nothing but dense, flavorful bread is available?

30 A little off 31 Soothing ointment 32 The color of money (if that money is a Brazilian 10 real note) 33 “___ Doubtfire” (movie turned into an upcoming Broadway musical) 36 Louis XVI, once 37 Sunscreen letters 40 South American mammal that looks like a raccoon 42 Like some roof panels 44 The physics of a Spanish bear tying its shoes?

48 Figures on some Valentine’s Day cards 49 Pantone selection 50 Added color to white canvas shoes, maybe 51 Lounges around 52 Formidable 54 Leaning type (abbr.)

55 Request for Garfield’s canine pal to hurry up?

59 Self-referential 60 Actor Steve of “Superstore” 61 Person from Malmo 62 Maverick of “Maverick” 63 Plays like Diz 64 Garden creeper

DOWN 1 It ends in Chicago in Nov. 2 “Wait, what?”

3 “Aladdin” monkey 4 Some Comic-Con attendees 5 Bona ___ 6 Hoo-ha 7 23 so far for Jay-Z, e.g.

8 7 to 10, on the Beaufort Scale 9 2011 World Series winners, for short 10 Degas contemporary 11 Like many group renditions of “Happy Birthday,” to music students?

12 Condescending 13 Cup, in France 18 Beige-like shade 21 Qualifying clause 22 Distant 23 Capital on the Tiber 24 Graph paper pattern 26 World capital where parts of “Tenet” were filmed 28 Pop music family from Utah 29 Daith piercing locale 34 “Peanuts” expletive 35 Poker Hall of Famer Ungar 37 Kill it on the runway 38 Treasure hunter’s step 39 Mister Rogers 40 “Try” singer Colbie 41 Egyptian considered to be history’s first architect 43 “___ Road” (Lil Nas X song) 44 One making citations 45 Still awake 46 They might not retain lint as well 47 Give the appearance of 48 Reach new heights?

52 Walt Kelly comic strip 53 Mike of Social Distortion 55 Apprehend 56 “Breaking Bad” org.

57 Despot Amin 58 Migratory swimmer

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