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Bottle Rockets Eric Ambel The Surreal McCoys Saturday, June 17 Tickets $27.50, $17.50 Americana, cowpunk and rock n’ roll all rolled into one high-energy alt-rock show. Since the mid-1990s, Bottle Rockets bard Brian Henneman and his shifting ensemble of compadres have been crafting heartland epics within a rock n’ roll framework, that spill beer and stir the heart on impact.

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darling of the AGW crowd until she disputed the “obsessive focus on one atmospheric gas as the main driver of climate variability,” retired from her position because of the “craziness in the climate field.” Dr. Curry also noted that NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) PauseBuster analysis paper disagreed with the raw data from ocean buoys which did not show significant warming — but also with a UK dataset on global sea surface temperature datasets and satellite analysis.

The satellite analysis is done by scientists from University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH), and Remote Sensing Systems, a California-based company. Doctors Roy Spencer and John Christy, Directors of UAH, have stated…“both satellite research groups see virtually the same pause in global temperatures for the last 18 years.”

Man-made global warming is not based on science. It is the religion of extreme environmentalism. Government must return to the U.S. Constitution and not a UN dictum to cure problems that don’t exist. The U.S. must not be held hostage to, nor lead in the subjection of the citizens by the pseudo-science of manmade climate change.

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What Events Do We Want?

I am a lifelong Traverse City resident, born and raised here. I’d like to thank Traverse City commissioners for their uninformed decision in voting down something I’ve hoped for since the Northport Squirt 200 offshore powerboat races were canceled. Never mind the untold tourist dollars this event would bring to our community or the national recognition gained by TV network coverage.

But let’s instead host events that promote and cater to the consumption of copious amounts of alcohol and loud music, not to mention the inevitable DUIs that coincide.

And what about the disenfranchising of an entire segment of our city-dependent seasonal and tourist industry, the local power boating crowd? Come on, we’re known for our beautiful bays and waterways; what better way to promote them? This vote was in no way a fair representation of the majority of our citizens’ views on this potential event. It was more the voice of a jaded few who never considered the many boating enthusiasts, or who are maybe in the pocket of other event promoters afraid of competing events. And for those detractors who cite noise and crowds as reasons for refusal: Can you say Blue Angels? Not to mention a week-long event that attracts several hundred thousand people?

This event even had provisions for

volunteers to clean the beaches after the race, and viewing areas designated alcoholfree. It would be only one weekend of clean wholesome fun and excitement, something akin to a NASCAR race. I guess this type of event doesn’t promote the true values of “Pure Michigan” as much as an alcoholsoaked event like brew or wine fests with their loud music and obnoxious crowds. Is this really what our city has become?

Michael Dost, Traverse City Cole Doesn’t Get It Thanks to [Express columnist] Stephen Tuttle for keeping us updated on the latest foolishness from Congressman Tristan Cole.

Does Cole get it? Does he understand how much northern Michigan residents value the safety of our natural resources? Does he not see Governor Snyder will again shoot down his misguided attempts at industrial development?

This is something the great majority of Michiganders agree on, that we need strict guidelines protecting our air, earth, and water, and trusting oil companies to protect our homes and tourism/natural resource jobs just doesn’t work (see Kalamazoo River).

Mark Contrucci, Boyne City Global Warming Man-Made I believe John Wierenga’s “Real Science” letter, though written to refute an opponent of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), is off his mark in rebuttal and heavy on unfounded allegation, the likes of which could have been cribbed from a New York Times diatribe.

It is standard form, however, to pressure the government-employed climate scientists to tow the party line of alarmism. It seems Wierenga has learned nothing since the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia (CRU) years back that censored and deleted studies done by “the denier” scientists who refute AGW. Dr. Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, once a

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

The Mile-high Subsidy Club..............................10 Patrick Kelly Wise: The Artist’s Way...................13 Hipsters Be Damned......................................14 Rockin’ and Rollin’ in Harbor Springs...............17 Seen.................................................................19

dates...............................................20-23 music Bay View’s Eclectic Summer Sounds.................15 Robin Lee Berry’s Folk Experience....................18 FourScore.......................................................24 Nightlife...........................................................27

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Ed Currier, Honor Top Five...........................................................5 Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................4 Notice The Ice Weird................................................................8 I just celebrated my 50th wedding Modern Rock/Kristi Kates.................................25 anniversary. My wife and I came down to The Reel......................................................26 spend Christmas in Traverse City with her Advice Goddess..............................................28 family that year. There were ice fishing shanties on West Grand Traverse Bay. Come Crossword....................................................29 Easter I saw the great stacks of ice along the Freewill Astrology...........................................30 southern shores of the bay, some as thick Classifieds......................................................31 as my leg. Over the years those stacks of ice grew smaller until the ice got so thin it could not be walked on. And the bay seldom freezes out to Power Island.

Ron Stetson, Traverse City The “Real” Truth About Proposition 3 Since the November election there’s been a lot of misinformation about Traverse City’s Prop 3 issue.

Zoning ordinances have been well defined by the law since the Constitution was written. Today there is a very clear path that leads to property rights for all citizens.

Prop 3 is totally contrary to federal, state and local laws. These laws have been vetted by elected officials and the general public over a long period of time, arguably since the founding of this nation.

Under the law, landowners must present the project to the city for permits. This is not an arbitrary process; it is a process of determining whether a given project meets the requirements articulated in city, state and federal ordinances.

The Prop 3 process as desired by Save Our Downtown (SOD) does not require any vetting whatsoever. Rather, it is a completely arbitrary and capricious process of the voters simply voting on whether they like a project or not. It becomes a “roll of the dice” for anyone wishing to build.

So in the midst of a court case that will ultimately resolve this issue, we find that in the case of Prop 3, the law is very clear: It is not legal. My hope is that all parties will work to be part of the effort to get this issue resolved in an intelligent and honorable manner in the best long-term interest of the people of Traverse City, and in a way that is consistent with the laws of the land. Prop 3 is unlawful, and does not protect the property rights of the citizens of Traverse City.

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FRESH FOOD I FABULOUS VIEW

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BY Carlin Smith Buckle up, folks, it’s about to get busy! The summer tourism season is descending upon us and with it come the rewards of being a choice tourism destination — along with a few challenges.

The challenges? Obviously as people return to their resort cottages and come to the region for vacation, we see an increase in traffic. I have a friend who calls this “the season of no left turns.” It’s also the time of year when parking spots are harder to find, and when I have to wait for the full stoplight cycle before I can walk across Mitchell Street in downtown Petoskey.

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As traffic increases, practice your deep breathing, be patient, and be kind to guests from out of town who happen to be in the wrong lane.

Take your time. Enjoy the views while you’re moving more slowly and remind yourself of the economic vitality that is created by having these guests in our community.

Waits at restaurants will be increasing this time of year, but that’s OK. The bigger crowds inspire new creativity from our culinary artists and add energy to our favorite eateries. Our restaurant scene in northern Michigan has become a calling card. We’re spoiled to have such great dining establishments, so let’s have fun showing them off to our out of town guests.

In fact, let’s put this into perspective. Locals might complain about slower drives, parking challenges, and longer waits. However, for the folks visiting here, these are not concerns. They are coming here to slow down and to get away from their hectic day-to-day lives. Compared to where they come from, the traffic here is easy, the parking is no problem, and “The wait for a table is only a half-hour? Great!” It all depends upon what you’re accustomed to.

Besides, the summer trade-offs are well worth any slowdowns we experience. Best of all are the abundant event and entertainment options that crop up as our guests arrive. In the summer it’s easy to find a concert in the park, or an art fair, a weekend festival, a street party, or an outdoor movie. You can also go to farmers markets and car shows and large-scale festivals. People talk about festival fatigue, but I think the only fatigue we should feel is from being tired after attending these great events.

Our natural beauty also shines in the summer time. If you really need to get away, you can. Bike paths, nature trails, beaches, and lakes can provide refuge from the traffic and the crowds. There will be no waiting at the Petoskey State Park this summer, nor on one of the Little Traverse Conservancy nature trails. Traffic on the Little Traverse Wheelway will be moving at a brisk and comfortable pace. And it certainly will be easy to make a left turn in that kayak you’re paddling on a calm, pristine inland lake.

At the Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce, we are ready for summer. Our leaders at Travel Michigan have once again done an excellent job putting together an enticing Pure Michigan marketing plan that will lure guests to northern Michigan.

And when these folks arrive, we’ll be ready.

Our job at the Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce is to welcome our guests to town and to provide them with the information they need for an enriching vacation experience. We also entertain them when we can with a weekly farmer’s market, Art in the Park and Festival on the Bay. Our friends with the Downtown Petoskey Management Board provide a summer open house, a gallery walk, and Petoskey Rocks every Friday night. The Jaycees are planning another great Fourth of July Celebration, Blissfest will host another great music festival, the Little Traverse Bay Bands will present an enriching Pow Wow, and the Crooked Tree Arts Center will present a summer exhibition of the works of Ansel Adams, not to mention free concerts in the park throughout the summer.

When you think about all of the great summer fun ahead of us, a few extra minutes in your car or waiting for a table at a restaurant don’t seem so bad. Your New Year’s resolutions are long gone, so start a list of your summer resolutions. Which festivals will you be attending? How many ice cream cones will you eat? How many bike rides? Kayak paddles? Beach days? These resolutions might be easier to keep and much more fun.

Carlin Smith is serving his 14th year as president of the Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce. He is an advocate and a cheerleader for all things Petoskey.

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top five Exhaust-free Efforts and Eats The push is on for more public transportation in Emmet County.

A series of meetings dedicated to the cause kicks off during Smart Commute Week, at 5:30pm Wednesday, June 7 at Red Sky Stage, 445 E. Mitchell Street, in Petoskey. (For more information, visit www.smartcommuteemmet.org.)

“Numerous studies have been done over the past 20 years showing a need for expanded public transit in Emmet County,” said event moderator Kendall Stanley. “We want to learn from county residents what types of services they would like and how they would like to see it organized and funded.”

As always for Smart Commute Week, TART Trails in Traverse City has organized a series of events meant to highlight ways of getting to work other than driving alone in a car.

Volunteers will reward smart commuters with breakfast at a different location each morning beginning June 5. They’ve also set up a smart commute challenge, in which teams can earn points by walking, biking, taking the bus or carpooling to work.

For more information, visit www.traversetrails.org.

bottomsup Lucky Bean’s Love Potion #9 With a claim of “the fastest Wi-Fi in town” (a real boon on tiny Mackinac Island), plenty of cool tunes streaming over the cafe speakers, and lots of local artwork to peruse, Lucky Bean Coffeehouse is a favorite hangout spot for both islanders and visitors.

But the real coffeehouse gold lies in the joe itself, mostly notably Lucky Bean’s Love Potion #9, its most popular whole bean coffee — that is, when it isn’t already sold out.

A hearty, complex coffee, #9’s flavor profile arrives in several different phases, first with the rich aroma of the base coffee flavor itself, then with hints of chocolate, the sweetness of cinnamon, and the autumnal earthiness of hazelnut.

If you’re on the island, stop in and get a cup of #9 hot off of Big Red, the shop’s always-cranking crimson espresso machine. Off island? You’re still in luck; you can get 8- or 16-ounce bags of #9 beans via Lucky Bean’s online shop (luckybeancoffeehouse.com).

Lucky Bean Coffeehouse, open early May to the end of October, is located at 7383 Market St. on Mackinac Island. (248) 342-2998.

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With more than 45 years of fame, ZZ Top brings hits ranging from “La Grange” to “Sharp Dressed Man” to Interlochen Center for the Art’s, Kresge Auditorium, on Thurs., June 1 at 8pm. Special guest singer-songwriter Austin Hanks’ music has been described as “rockin’ country soul” and includes “Sucker Punch” and “Alabama Clay.” Tickets start at $48. tickets.interlochen.org

Kid-designed Signs for Overlooked TC Trails Know anything about the Buffalo Ridge and Kids Creek trails in Traverse City’s Garfield Township? Thanks to a group of eighth graders at West Middle School, you’re about to know more. The kids developed and designed four interpretive signs for the trails, each dedicated to an important aspect of the landscape: history, the importance of urban oases for wildlife, stream quality, and biological controls for invasive species. Each sign also features a painting created by a student.

Valarie Handy, vice chair of the township parks and recreation commission, said that part of the objective is to get more people to use the Buffalo Ridge Trail to visit the 20-acre Kids Creek Park. Currently the only trailhead that leads directly to the park is near Kohl’s in the shopping plaza that also contains Michaels and Bed, Bath & Beyond.

“The trail head is in a shopping district, but if you look in the opposite direction, you don’t feel like you’re in a town at all,” Handy said. “Hopefully people will begin parking at West Middle School or the YMCA trailhead and walking to Kids Creek Park.”

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EXPLAINING A PARALLEL UNIVERSE spectator by stephen tuttle Take a moment, please, and think a kind thought for the tortured souls of Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, and any other spokesperson for President Donald Trump. It isn’t their fault.

Theirs has been a bumpy road right from the beginning. Immediately after election day they had to explain Trump’s claims that millions of illegal votes were cast in California and that illegal voters had been brought into New Hampshire by the busload.

That neither of those claims was true made his spokespersons’ jobs especially difficult. Spicer was reduced to saying, “That’s what he believes.” There was nothing else Spicer could say.

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Then there was the nonsense surrounding the size of the inauguration crowd, Washington D.C. Metro ridership, and the Woman’s March. Then he fired National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Then he fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates. Then he fired a federal prosecutor investigating Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign. Then he claimed former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones. Then he claimed reports of Russia’s meddling in the election were “fake news,” fired FBI Director James Comey, and leaked classified information to Russian diplomats.

Somebody, usually Spicer or Conway, had to explain — or at least defend — all of it.

Sometimes the explanations were as daffy as a Trump pronouncement.

Conway, who has a skill set unmatched when it comes to not answering questions, responded to numerical reports of crowd sizes and Metro passengers by saying, “I want to talk about things that are quantifiable, not a bunch of Metro riders and crowd sizes.” Another time she told a baffled press corps, “You want real; I want the truth.”

Spokespeople sell and defend positions and ideas cobbled together by others. Ideally, the message is coherent and consistent.

Trump has been neither, making the press secretary’s job very nearly impossible.

Take, for example, the firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia’s interference in the presidential election.

Whether you agree or not, Trump had every right to make that decision. The FBI Director is a presidential appointee. To keep him or her above the political fray of quadrennial presidential elections, an FBI director’s term is limited to a 10-years term. Only one previous FBI director was fired.

None of that matters. Trump was within his rights for whatever reason. All his team had to say was that he had lost confidence in Comey and felt the bureau needed new leadership. Nothing more.

Instead, they concocted a story.

Trump and crew’s company line was that Comey’s firing stemmed from a critical memo written by Assistant Attorney General Ron Rosenstein, who had then been on the job all of two weeks. It claimed Comey had been unfair to Hillary Clinton during the email and private server investigations.

That the cover wasn’t believable didn’t matter. Spicer, Sanders, and Conway all parroted the story. Sanders went so far as to claim Comey had committed “atrocities” during the investigation. Vice President Mike Pence, seemingly befuddled but always dutiful to his mercurial boss, repeated the story seven different times.

Then Trump gave an interview to Lester Holt of NBC News, effectively cutting off the legs, arms, and heads of his spokespeople and throwing the body parts under the bus.

It was the “Russia thing” Trump said, and he was going to fire Comey regardless of the Rosenstein memo. Then Rosenstein threatened to quit if his memo kept being used as the reason for Comey’s firing. Rosenstein added that he knew Comey was going to be fired before he wrote it. Then Trump called Comey a “nut job” while talking to Russian diplomats and said his firing would relieve pressure from the Russia investigations.

In the middle of that, Comey said Trump had tried to convince him to stop investigating Michael Flynn.

Oh, dear. Imagine you’re the spokesperson about to step to the microphone.

All you have to do is answer a few simple questions: why you lied the day before when you said Comey was fired because of the Rosenstein memo. Why Rosenstein wrote the memo if he already knew Comey was going to be fired. Why Trump’s comment to Holt isn’t an admission of obstruction of justice. Why Trump’s comments to the Russians aren’t an admission of obstruction of justice. And why Trump’s request to Comey isn’t a direct obstruction of justice.

Perhaps, too, why Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who told Congress he would recuse himself from any Russia-related investigations, wrote a supporting cover letter to Rosenstein’s memo.

Go ahead, explain all that to an eagerly awaiting press corps. Do it with a straight face, and say a little prayer your boss doesn’t change his story. Again.

To be sure, the spokespeople — Trumptrue-believers all — work those jobs willingly. They just didn’t know they were going to have to explain and defend a parallel universe.

Crime & Rescue ARREST IN FAMILY “UN” FARE CASE A Boyne City liquor store owner who used paint to take out his frustration over competition faces vandalism charges.

Mike Long, owner of Par-T-Pac, was arrested May 21 at the Family Fare grocery store, where he’d used a ladder to reach the building’s sign and spray-paint the letters “UN” between “Family” and “Fare.”

Long is upset the state awarded a liquor license to the store and says the move has hurt his business. Long previously protested Family Fare’s liquor license with large and rambling handpainted signs outside of his store.

Long refused to come down when police arrived but surrendered peacefully after a fire department truck arrived on scene later in the afternoon.

Long faces charges of resisting arrest (a two-year felony) and misdemeanor malicious destruction of property.

DEPUTY ATTACKED BY DOG A Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputy was hospitalized after he shot a dog that attacked him in Green Lake Township.

The deputy was called at 4:38pm May 19 after a pit bull bit an elderly woman who was trying to pull the animal away as it attacked a mixedbreed dog and killed it. The pit bull was owned by a 26-year-old woman who was staying with the woman. The older woman suffered a minor injury.

When the deputy arrived and got the pit bull’s attention, the dog charged the officer, biting his hand and causing him to drop his stun gun. The dog bit the deputy’s hands and arms until the officer was able to pull out his revolver and fire; his shot grazed the animal’s head.

“The dog retreated and went and just laid down,” said Lt. Chris Barsheff.

The deputy was hospitalized but expected to be OK, Barsheff said. The pit bull, who survived, is being monitored by animal control for signs of rabies.

CHASE LEADS TO ARREST A motorist who tried to elude state police was found hiding in a house in Cadillac.

The trooper tried to make the stop May 16 after the driver ignored a red light at the intersection of Haynes and N. Mitchell streets; the driver sped off, and the officer ended the pursuit when speeds reached an unsafe high but broadcast the license plate and vehicle description to other law enforcement.

Soon after, the vehicle was spotted in a garage on Pine Street. The homeowner didn’t know the vehicle’s owner, but police identified the man through the vehicle registration and soon tracked him to house on S. Simons Street where he was hiding.

Ronald Allen French, 46, faces charges of third-degree fleeing and eluding, use of methamphetamine, second-offense operating while intoxicated, and being a habitual offender.

FIVE CHARGED IN ROBBERY CASE Four people face home invasion charges after they allegedly burst into a man’s home looking for drugs. A fifth was arrested the next day when police found him — with a set of burglary tools — next to a damaged safe inside the home.

Shawn Andre Joseph Sabourin, 27; Neil Wesley Buck, 21; Shauna Lynn Catoe, 26; and an uncharged fourth woman were arrested

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following a May 15 home invasion on Barlow Street in Traverse City. Sabourin, Buck, and Catoe face multiple felony charges after investigators determined they went to the house armed with knives and brass knuckles looking for drugs from a resident, a recently paroled drug felon.

An alleged co-conspirator, Donald James Bottomley, 42, was arrested after police found him at the home holding a claw hammer and a pry bar next to a badly damaged safe. Bottomley, who had just been released on bond in a methamphetamine case, now faces life in prison on conspiracy and safe-breaking charges. He is charged as a fourtime habitual offender whose convictions date back to 1993 and include receiving stolen property, breaking and entering, and third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

DRIVER HID IN WOODS AFTER CRASH Police arrested a woman who fled a Leelanau County crash scene on foot.

A witness called 911 at 10pm May 21 to report that a Cadillac had crossed the centerline, crashing into an oncoming Subaru on M-22 near East Lakeview Hills Road. The driver of the Cadillac fled on foot.

The driver and a passenger in the Subaru were taken to Munson Medical Center to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Deputies and state police searched the area but there was no sign of the female driver of the Cadillac.

At 1:50am, a deputy patrolling near the crash scene spotted a woman walking along M-22. She was dirty and had scratched lower legs, indicating she’d been in the woods.

The woman was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving.

MAN CHARGED AFTER UNDERAGE PARTY Benzie County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a tip about underage drinkers at a party near Lake Ann found 40 or 50 people in attendance.

Police arrested several people for unrelated warrants at the Reynolds Road residence May 19, and cited numerous minors for being in possession of alcohol.

Robert Hanson faces charges of allowing minors to consume alcohol and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

POLICE: MAN TRIED TO ARRANGE HIT A Mesick man allegedly attempted to hire someone to kill two people.

State police, the Traverse Narcotics Team, and Wexford County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the case after investigators received a tip about a man who was trying to hire someone to commit murder.

Police launched an undercover investigation and got enough evidence to make an arrest. The 28-year-old was arrested in a traffic stop in Mesick at 10:15pm May 18.

PHONY $100 PASSED IN LEELANAU Someone’s been spreading funny money in Suttons Bay and Elmwood Township.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies issued an alert after counterfeit $100 bills were discovered at several businesses.

On May 17, someone tried to pay at an Elmwood Township gas station with a $100 bill that the clerk deemed suspicious. Deputies said that suspect has been identified and is under investigation.

The phony bills are like ones that can be purchased easily on the Internet as “prop money,” deputies said.

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3 Great Foodie Events!

Blues, Brews & BBQ: July 1, 1pm-4pm, Hagerty Center

SPONSORED BY CONSUMERS ENERGY. IN COOPERATION WITH 9&10 NEWS, FOX 32 NEWS AND WKLT RADIO. Watch the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds as they soar high over West Grand Traverse Bay, all while sipping on a cold brew and enjoying finger lickin’ good BBQ! The menu for this year includes Angus Beef Sliders, Sweet Potato Fries, Grilled Cherry Bratwurst, Pesto Macaroni and Cheese, Smoked Pork Loin Carving Board and Cherry Pie with Oat Crumble and Whip Cream.

Great American Picnic: July 2, 1pm-4pm, Hagerty Center

IN COOPERATION WITH 9&10 NEWS, FOX 32 NEWS, 106 KHQ, LITE 96 AND BOB FM. Join us Sunday, July 2nd for the ultimate Great American Picnic. Watch the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds as they perform over West Grand Traverse Bay enjoying cherry inspired picnic food.

Not only will there be excellent food; there will also be games for kids! The menu will feature Cherry BBQ Pulled Smoked Pork, Beef Frankfurter, Marinated Vegetable Pasta Salad with Feta Fingerling Potato Salad with Bacon, Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Dill Dressing and Watermelon Wedges.

WE’RE PROUD TO SAY THAT ALL EVENTS CATERED BY THE HAGERTY CENTER USE AT LEAST 20% LOCALLY SOURCED FOOD!

Red, White & Indigo Blue: July 4, 11am-5pm, Hotel Indigo

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IN COOPERATION WITH HOTEL INDIGO AND LEELANAU PENINSULA WINE TRAIL. Don’t miss the first-ever Red, White & Indigo Blue, a strolling wine and food affair, showcasing delicious wines reflective of the local terroir.

You’ll be welcomed with a high-quality souvenir wine glass with sparkling wine from the renowned L. Mawby Vineyards before making your way to seven wine stations.

Each station features your choice of one of two wines perfectly paired with small-sized gourmet fare. Tickets are $60 per person and can be reserved at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm or 3:00 pm. Additional wine tasting tokens are available during the event for $3 or 4 for $10.

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Breaking News (Rare Fetish!)

Jordan Haskins, 26, was sentenced to probation and sex counseling in May after pleading guilty to eight charges arising from two auto accidents in Saginaw, Michigan.

Prosecutors said Haskins described “cranking,” in which he would remove a vehicle’s sparkplug wires to make it “run rough,” which supposedly improves his chances for a selfservice happy ending. Haskins’s lawyer added, “(Cranking) is something I don’t think we understand as attorneys.”

The Entrepreneurial Spirit!

-- Le Plat Sal (The Dirty Plate) restaurant in the Marais district of Paris features specialties actually containing dirt -- or as Chef Solange Gregoire calls it, “the mud of the earth that caresses our toes, the sand kissed by the sun, and rocks.” Mused a Food Network host in April, “What’s left? People are already eating snout-to-tail, leaves-to-roots....” Gregoire extolled her four-star dishes, including pastry crust a la Mont Lachat rock and a Boue Ragout stew simmered with silt from the River Seine.

(NPR also noted that the founder of The Shake Shack was “quietly” planning a new American chain, Rock in Roll.)

-- Goldman Sachs analyst Noah Poponak’s 98-page paper (leaked to Business Insider in April) touted the wealth obtainable by capturing the platinum reputed to be in asteroids. The costs to mine the stone (rockets, launch expenses, etc.) might have dropped recently to about $3 billion -- a trifle next to the $50 billion worth of platinum Poponak said a single asteroid might contain.

(On the other hand, experts point out, such abundance of platinum might crash the worldwide price.)

-- The Twisted Ranch restaurant in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, saw crowds swell in March after it revamped its menu with more than two dozen items made with ranch dressing (including ranch-infused Bloody Marys). As one satisfied visitor put it, “Ranch is everyone’s guilty pleasure.”

Unclear on the Concept Yale University graduate students (well, at least eight of them), claiming “union” status, demonstrated in front of the Yale president’s home in April demanding better benefits (beyond the annual free tuition, $30,000 stipends and free health care). Some of the students characterized their action as an “indefinite fast” while others called it a “hunger strike.” However, a pamphlet associated with the unionizing made it clear that strikers could go eat any time they got hungry.

Smooth Reactions (1) Police in Cleveland are searching for the woman whose patience ran out on April 14 awaiting her young son’s slow haircut at Allstate Barber College. She pulled out a pistol, took aim at the barber and warned: “I got two clips! I’ll pop you.” (She allowed him to finish up -- more purposefully, obviously -and left without further incident.) (2) Barbara Lowery, 24, was arrested for disorderly conduct in Cullman, Alabama, in May after police spotted her standing on a car, stomping out the windshield and smashing the sun roof. She said it was a boyfriend’s car, that she thought he was cheating on her, and that she had spent the previous night “thinking” about what to do, “pray(ing) about it and stuff.”

(However, she said, “I did it anyway.”)

New World Order -- The Drone Economy: (1) A Netherlands startup company announced in March its readiness to release drones capable of tracking freshly deposited dog poop (via an infrared glow from the pile) and, eventually, be guided (perhaps via GPS and artificial intelligence) to scoop up the deposits and carry them away.

(2) Potentially Unemployed Bees: Researcherinventor Eijiro Miyako announced in the journal Chem in March that he had created a drone that pollinates flowers (though requiring human guidance until GPS and AI can be enabled). Miyako’s adhesive gel lightly brushes pollen grains, collecting just enough to touch down successfully onto another flower to pollinate it.

-- Social critics and futurists suggest that the next great market for computerization (already underway) will be selling “human improvement” (alas, perhaps merely helping already successful people to even greater heights). Some sports teams are experimenting with “transcranial direct current stimulation” as a way to put athletes’ brains into constant alert, and KQED Radio reported in May that about a third of the San Francisco Giants players have donned weak-current headsets that cover the motor cortex at the top of the head. The team’s sports scientist (bonus name: Geoff Head!) said players performed slightly better on some drills after the stimulation. (One the other hand, at press time, the Giants were still next-to-last in the National League West.)

The Aristocrats!

(1) Recent alarming headlines: “UK woman who urinated on Trump golf course loses case” (London). “Fish thief on unicycle busted by DNR (Department of Natural Resources)” (Battle Creek, Michigan). And, from the Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach), all on the same day (516-2017): (1) “Man throws fork at woman in fight over dog poop.” (2) “Senior citizen punches husband for taking Lord’s name in vain.” (3) “Two people busted for creating fake football league, lawmen say.” (4) “Man denies defecating in parking lot despite officer witnessing deed.”

Inexplicable Clearing the Conscience: (1) In February, a 52-year-old man who, arrested for DUI and taken to a police station in Germany’s Lower Saxony state, wound up spontaneously confessing to a 1991 cold-case murder in Bonn.

Police confirmed that, after reopening the files, they found details matching the man’s account, though the man himself was “not quite clear” why he had confessed. (2) A game warden in Titus County, Texas, reported in December arresting a man for possessing a shotgun (the man’s third arrest as a convicted felon with a firearm). The warden had spotted the weapon only because the man “out of the blue” approached him and asked if he wanted to inspect his hunting license (which, it turns out, was in order).

Weirdo-American Community A 22-year-old Los Angeles makeup artist who calls himself Vinny Ohh has, according to his several TV and YouTube appearances and much social media presence, transformed himself into a “genderless,” extraterrestriallooking person via around 110 bodily procedures (so far), costing him at least $50,000. He says his appearance is merely an “all-in” representation of how he feels inside.

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The Mile-High Subsidy Club Will a longtime — and some say unfair — financial boost for small northern Michigan airports finally get grounded?

Michael Poehlman Photography

By Patrick Sullivan Northern Michigan’s 1st Congressional District is vast, spanning the northern lower and entire upper peninsula. It’s also home to more subsidized airports than any other district in the country.

President Donald Trump’s 2018 Budget Blueprint proposes eliminating Essential Air Service (EAS), the program that funds these remote airports. The cut could threaten commercial air service in Alpena, Manistee, Pellston, and across the Upper Peninsula.

Off-season commercial air service at Pellston Regional Airport probably wouldn’t survive without EAS funds, a loss that could be a huge blow to the Little Traverse region’s economy, officials there said.

On the other hand, a Traverse Citybased airline consultant said reconsideration of EAS is long overdue because it props up air service in places it doesn’t belong and creates unfair competition for airports like Sawyer International Airport in Marquette and Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City, which don’t get subsidies.

TEMPORARY BECOMES FOREVER Congress created EAS amid massive airline-industry deregulation in the late 1970s.

Created to ensure far-flung communities had access to the nation’s transportation system, EAS subsidies today support 60 airports in Alaska and 115 in the lower 48 states, including eight in northern Michigan. The program costs $283 million per year.

EAS was meant to be phased out over a decade, but that never happened, said Tom Rockne, former president of Passageways Travel in Traverse City and an airline industry consultant.

“It’s gone from a ‘We want to get you through this transition’ to, like, it’s in there, and it just continues and continues and continues,” Rockne said. “It’s disturbing to the marketplace, it’s disturbing to the taxpayers, and the requirements are minimal

amount that enabled the airport to offer cut-rate fares to Chicago.

“They say, ‘Hey, $200 airfare to Chicago! That’s great!’ But then don’t forget to add $514 that the federal taxpayers paid for that passenger to fly,” Rockne said. “All of a sudden, it’s 700-and-some dollars.

We taxpayers are supporting Manistee, Alpena, Pellston, Sault Ste. Marie, Escanaba, Ironwood, Iron Mountain, and Houghton-Hancock.”

In Pellston, the per-passenger subsidy was roughly $48 for 2016, based on the number of passengers that year and the annual subsidies received through February 2017. Alpena received $269 per passenger. Manistee Blacker Airport got $514, an amount that enabled the airport to offer cut-rate fares to Chicago. in terms of the effort that the city or the airport has to put forth.”

Rockne believes EAS money should come with conditions — that the program should require airports to get together with businesses and pledge a certain amount of use before subsidies are awarded.

The amount of money airports receive to subsidize service varies widely. In Pellston, the per-passenger subsidy was roughly $48 for 2016, based on the number of passengers that year and the annual subsidies received through February 2017. Alpena received $269 per passenger.

Manistee Blacker Airport got $514, an

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“IT’S NOT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD” Subsidized flights from Manistee to Chicago are a bargain compared to flights from Traverse City.

For example, a recent search on Expedia showed that the lowest price for a roundtrip flight from Cherry Capital to Chicago’s Midway Airport for the weekend of June 16 was $398. (The search was conducted one month before the proposed departure date.)

Flights from Manistee to Chicago Midway for that same weekend could be had for as low as $169, according to Flymanistee.com.

It appears those prices are working for Manistee.

According to the minutes from the airport authority’s April 18 meeting, the airport saw 557 passengers, its best-ever numbers for the month of March. That surpassed its second-best March numbers, 553 passengers, a benchmark that was set in 1969.

Manistee Blacker Airport advertises its EAS-subsidized Manistee-to-Chicago flights in Traverse City, an act Cherry Capital Airport manager Kevin Klein sees as evidence that the EAS program has strayed from its mission.

“It’s supposed to ensure communities have access to the nation’s transportation network,” Klein said. “It’s difficult, in the sense that the public doesn’t necessarily understand that those fares are being subsidized. It’s not a level playing field.”

Barry Lind, the Manistee airport director, did not return messages seeking comment.

NEEDED IN SOME PLACES, NOT IN OTHERS Klein said he believes EAS is important in some places. Take Alpena, for example: The Alpena County Regional Airport is located a long distance from other commercial air and train services.

Although Pellston Regional Airport is in a similar situation, Klein believes commercial air service could survive in Pellston without EAS. In fact, he said, freeing up Pellston from EAS might help the airport because EAS requires airlines to offer two flights per day in the winter, when two flights might not be warranted; without that

Pellston Regional Airport

burden, airlines might be able to add more flights in the summer.

“The Essential Air Service program was a great program when it was first developed,” Klein said. “It was intended for about 10 airports, and now there’s something like a hundred-and-some-odd airports in the program. It’s a program that desperately needs some modification.”

Klein believes that the program will not be eliminated but hopes perhaps that discussion will cause it to be reconsidered and improved.

He would suggest one change in particular: Change the definition of a hub airport.

Eligibility for EAS funds is based on an airport’s distance from a small, medium, or large hub airport. In Michigan, an airport’s eligibility as a hub is determined by its distance from Detroit or Grand Rapids.

Traverse City and other airports in the state are not considered hubs.

Klein thinks the law should prohibit subsidies for airports that are a certain distance, say, 90 miles, from any airport that, like Traverse City’s Cherry Capital, provides commercial air carrier service.

An upside to the elimination of EAS, Rockne said, would be increased numbers of passengers and flights in Traverse City and Marquette, which ultimately would enable those airports to offer lower fares.

“Without EAS, more natural traffic would flow there,” he said. “And every time Traverse City gets another flight, it gets more low-fare seats too.”

AN ECONOMIC INFUSION IN PELLSTON Pellston Regional Airport is critical to the Little Traverse area’s economy, said Carlin Smith, president of the Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce.

He pointed to a Michigan Department of Transportation study which found that the airport is responsible for 101 direct jobs and $20 million in economic activity each year.

He said EAS funding for Pellston is critical.

“Being able to have access to local commercial air service — it’s a big deal,” Smith said.

Commercial air service in Pellston makes convention business at Boyne Resorts and Mackinac Island possible, he said. If convention attendees had to fly into Traverse City, Smith believes that business would dry up.

“Is it insurmountable? No. From Pellston, it’s probably two hours to Traverse City. Harbor Springs, two hours. From Petoskey, an hour and a half.” Smith said. “But if you’re catching a 6am flight, and you’ve got to be there at 5, that means an overnight stay in Traverse City to fly out of there.”

Smith said that even though Pellston receives a small subsidy compared to other EAS airports, officials worry that the subsidy could make the difference between having commercial air service and not.

“We don’t know for certain that Delta would leave if we lost Essential Air Service, but we’re certainly worried that they would go if we lost it,” he said.

The EAS subsidies at Pellston help the airport maintain year-round service, said Kelly Atkins, the airport’s manager.

“I think anytime you can help an airline reduce their operating cost at a facility, it boosts your ability to retain service and possibly improve on it,” Atkins said. “Living in a rural area can be very isolating without air service.”

Rockne, the outspoken critic of the subsidies, said Pellston would not lose commercial air service during the busy season if EAS cease.

“Look at the boarding in Pellston. Look what happens in the summer,” Rockne said, noting that passenger volume triples or quadruples in the summer months. “That’s because Delta brings more seats into the market. The same thing would continue to happen. Pellston may not have any service in the winter, but keep in mind, Mackinac virtually shuts down in the winter as well.”

DALLAS TO TRAVERSE CITY NONSTOP Rockne believes EAS could be eliminated, and the government could expand its use of Small Community Air Service Development Awards (SCASDA) grants, which can be used for specific air service improvements and are intended to jumpstart airline business, not subsidize it.

Rockne said most of the EAS airports in Alaska are justified and should remain subsidized, but in the lower 48 states, the smaller grants could be used to improve air service at a lower cost in many places.

This summer’s direct daily flights between Traverse City and Dallas, for example, were made possible through a $750,000 SCASDA

grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Gaylord Golf Mecca (part of the Gaylord Area Convention and Tourism Bu-reau), Traverse City Tourism, and the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce threw in a matching grant of $305,000. The grant acts as a guarantee: In the event that the flights between Traverse City and Dallas aren’t profitable for American Airlines, that money is paid to the airline; if the flights are profitable, the money is returned.

Paul Beachnau, executive director of the Gaylord Area Convention and Tourism Bureau, said the direct flights to and from Dallas have been in the works for five years.

“We had always wanted to go to a warm weather destination for Gaylord, and we just could never really make that happen for any number of reasons,” Beachnau said.

When the Gaylord CTB and chamber initially partnered with Cherry Capital to market Gaylord’s Golf Mecca in Texas, travelers had to arrive in northern Michigan on a connecting flight to Traverse City, then drive on to Gaylord. Though the route wasn’t convenient, the destination made up for it.

“The people that we brought here from Dallas loved northern Michigan, they loved the scenery, they loved the temperatures, and they loved the golf,” Beachnau said.

Now, with direct Dallas-to-Traverse City flights possible, Gaylord is anticipating even more traffic — even if Dallas travelers still have to drive from Traverse City to Gaylord.

Beachnau said it makes more sense for Gaylord to partner with Cherry Capital Airport than to attempt to try to get commercial air service to and from Gaylord.

When Gaylord’s tourism organizations advertise the direct flights to Traverse City, they tell customers that a shuttle will pick them up at the airport and have them at Treetops Resort in an hour.

“We usually say things in terms of an hour’s drive instead of 60 miles,” he said. “Out there, an hour’s drive is nothing. I mean, it literally takes you an hour to get from downtown Dallas to the DFW Airport.”

Daily flights between Dallas and Traverse City begin June 2 and will run through the summer. In late May, a morning radio crew from the largest sports station in Dallas visited Gaylord for a live broadcast to mark the beginning of the nonstop flights.

“It’s exciting for our state,” Beachnau said. “That’s the value of partnerships.”

COULD EAS BE ELIMINATED? Past presidents have tried and failed to eliminate EAS funding: George W. Bush tried three times. Bill Clinton tried and failed. So far in Trump’s presidency, EAS remains untouched. In April, Sen. Gary Peters sent a letter in support of EAS from 20 senators from both parties to the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee. Rep. Jack Bergman, of Michigan’s 1st District, has come out strongly in favor of the funding.

In an emailed statement, Bergman said that because the 1st District is so large, and so many communities are so far away from hub airports, its EAS funding is critical.

“Without EAS, the 1st District couldn’t hope to achieve the traffic volume that it does now, and the impacts on transit, industry, and the economy would be significant.,” Bergman said. “Folks in the 1st District have been unequivocal — EAS funding works for Michigan families, businesses, and communities.”

Rockne said it only makes sense that a politician like Bergman would favor a program that’s heavily relied upon in his district, even if it is wasteful. Bergman’s predecessor, retired Rep. Dan Benishek, was against EAS, until he was for it.

“When Dr. Dan first ran, I remember I saw a little clip on TV of Dr. Dan saying, ‘We’ve got to eliminate waste, we’ve got to eliminate this,’ and he mentioned EAS. And then the next day, he clarified, ‘I mean EAS is an example of a program that is vital to the area,’ because somebody whispered, ‘You have eight EAS airports in your district,’” Rockne said. “It’s tough in that respect.

Everyone wants to do everything for their home district.”

Petoskey’s Smith said he’s gotten used to making arguments about how much his region depends on the program.

Smith said he understands that the EAS program probably needs to be made more efficient, but he said it is money well spent in Pellston.

“I would say that some airports are probably receiving subsidies that don’t need them,” Smith said. “But is it necessary in some areas? I would say yes. Definitely.”

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Patrick Kelly Wise: The Artist’s Way

Wise’s watercolor rendition of the Petoskey State Park.

“Overlook”

By Kristi Kates

“Marjorie”

Harbor Springs-via-Detroit artist Patrick Kelly Wise tried to follow the “sensible” art route — until his own creativity called him elsewhere.

WINDING ROAD “The course to my becoming a fulltime artist was definitely not a straight and narrow one,” Wise said. “Although it was always art-related.” Wise, who was born in Detroit and lives in Huntington Woods in winter and Harbor Springs in summer, started his college life at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies (CCS), where he first planned to major in advertising illustration.

He continued on to Wayne State University, but after a couple of years spent pursuing the more practical commercial art degree, changed his major to painting.

“At first, I was just trying to find a balance of career and the use of my artistic talents,” Wise said. “But in the end, I went back to what was in my heart, which was that I wanted to be the best painter that I could be.”

In Wise’s early days as an artist, he started as many do, with the simplest of pencils and crayons. “I was always, always drawing as a kid,” he said. “I found it was something that I was good at — which of course got me attention in grade school and helped me try to get the girls. Then later on in life, I thought, Well, how can I actually make this into a career?”

STEADY THREAD After Wayne State University, Wise needed to balance his painting aspirations with a regular, income-generating job, so he took a position with the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA), working in their education department as a teacher. “Soon after, I branched out into teaching at several community colleges around Detroit,” he said. “Which was a good choice for me, as I found I like teaching. I’m still doing it.

I’m currently an adjunct college teacher at Oakland Community College in Royal Oak, and also at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn.”

When he moves up to Harbor Springs in summer, Wise’s teaching schedule lightens up; he runs several workshops at Petoskey’s Crooked Tree Arts Center and for the Bay View Association. But no matter where he travels or what the season is, Wise takes no

Wise alternates painting in his studio with time spent plein air, or painting outside.

break from painting.

“It’s half and half, really, as far as where I paint,” he said. “I paint both in Detroit and in Harbor Springs. I do get a better chance for a nice, long run at it in the summer, when I’m Up North. But I never actually stop painting at all.”

CURRENT COURSE Wise’s primary mediums are oil painting and watercolor, although he also dabbles in drawing and a little sculpture. “But mostly oils,” he said. “I just like them — I’ve always enjoyed how oil paints handle, the physicality of the paints and how you move them around on the canvas. I also enjoy the alchemy of the pre-planning process that’s needed with oil paints.”

As for subject matter, he started out in school doing a lot of figurative art; but these days, he’s drawn more toward landscapes.

“But I’m really just using any of those subjects to, I hope, translate human emotions,” Wise said.

A couple of his favorite current works of his own include “Hole #1, Birchwood Golf

and Country Club,” a piece awash in shades of green with a faintly animated feel. “I don’t really golf, but a friend told me I just had to see that spot,” Wise said. “It’s the first hole at the Birchwood course, where the hole drops down, and you can see Lake Michigan out in the distance. It’s a beautiful location.” That work currently hangs in the Olde Sport Club in Harbor Springs, a gallery that specializes in golf-related art.

Another that Wise favors is “Overlook,” an early-autumn hued work with more abstract sensibilities. “That one shows part of the Elmer Johnston Nature Preserve in Harbor Springs,” Wise said. “I did it for a show on Mackinac Island, a contemporary art contest at the The Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum, and I actually won the gold medal, first place, for it.”

CONVEYING EMOTION Plein air, or outdoor, painting is a big part of Wise’s process. “Being Up North has a big effect on my landscape painting,” he said.

“I’m definitely attracted to water scenes, too, as I’m a sailor myself,” Wise said.

Painting in oils, painting in watercolors, drawing, sculpting, and teaching — it all works together to make Wise’s work as an artist a greater whole.

“Art as my career continues to be my plan,” Wise said. “All of the things I do feed each other well.”

Northern Michigan isn’t the only place to take notice of his talents: His “Fabritius’s Fire” painting, inspired by the work 17th century Dutch painter Carel Fabritius, was recently accepted for a show at the Scarab Club in Detroit, one of the Motor City’s oldest art galleries.

Wise, quietly proud of this accomplishment, said that the Scarab Club nod was a coup for him, as well as another step in his growth as an artist. More than accolades and advancement, however, Wise’s wish is simply to show the humanity in his art. “Ultimately, no matter what the medium or subject, I’m always after conveying a feeling or emotion,” he said.

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Hipsters Be Damned.

Here’s how real lumberjacks roll.

By Kristi Kates At its most basic definition, a lumberjack is “a person who fells trees, cuts them into logs, and/or transports them to a sawmill.”

Not only were lumberjacks a critical important part of America’s growth from the 1600s onward, they were the backbone of northern Michigan’s own logging industry in the mid-to late 1800s. These brave men were required to call upon a unique and often risky set of skills, wielding sharp saws and axes among tumbling timber of all sizes and weights.

Dan McDonough grew up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where he said the lumberjack culture was just “natural history” for him.

McDonough owns and runs Mackinaw City’s Jack Pine Lumberjack Shows a business venture that, for him, is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

ROLLING, ROLLING, ROLLING …

“I started log rolling when I was 9 years old,” McDonough said. “A man started log rolling in our town, and he needed a place to store his logs. We lived on Little Bay de Noc in Escanaba, and our neighbors said, Well, sure, you can store your logs here — but the one condition is that you have to teach the neighborhood kids how to logroll!”

Soon, logrolling in McDonough’s neighborhood became a summertime tradition, just like jumping rope or skateboarding in other parts of the country.

“There’d be a dozen or so of us down at the water rolling every summer,” he said.

“After a while, we started going en masse up to Hayward, Wisconsin, to enter logrolling competitions.”

Logrolling most often involves two

competitors, each taking opposite ends of a single log floating in water. The pair battle to see who can stay on the log the longest, with each trying to maintain their own balance while spinning and kicking the log to knock off their opponent.

“I’ve won nine world championships in logrolling,” McDonough said. “And I still get out there and do it today.”

LOGGER LAUNCH Bolstered by his logrolling achievements, McDonough began performing in as a lumberjack at county fairs, sport shows, and other special events.

“It’s the only long-term job I’ve ever really had,” he said. “But it got tiring being on the road year after year. I always wanted a permanent home for a lumberjack show.”

As he aged, he looked around for the perfect spot to launch his own lumberjack extravaganza. He soon narrowed his choices to Wisconsin Dells, Door County (also in Wisconsin), and Mackinaw City.

“In the end, I’m a Michigan boy, so I wanted to be here,” he said.

Now, he lives in Milwaukee in the winter, where he runs a home improvement business, but in the summer months, it’s all about Mackinaw City, where the Jack Pine Lumberjack Shows are a popular tourist attraction.

SHOWCASING SKILLS The shows take place in an enclosed arena with a grandstand that seats 400 people.

“We have an in-ground pool for logrolling and boom running [running across a string of floating logs], which gets really exciting in the spring when the water’s really cold,” McDonough said. “I tell the guys all about how, when I was training in the U.P., I used to

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have to actually break the ice to train!”

The lumberjack arena also features climbing poles, chopping stands — everything needed to present the eight different events that showcase lumberjack skills.

“Our lumberjacks compete in the different events, and we then do a final relay to determine that show’s champion,” McDonough said. “Four lumberjacks work here, and all live here in the summer. The four I have right now are all in forestry programs in college. If a college has a forestry program, there’s a good chance you’ll also find a competing lumberjacks program.”

The guys form a quick camaraderie over their unusual skill set, McDonough said.

“Each guy usually comes up every summer for three or four summers until they’re done with college, then they move on,” he said, “although some stay on longer, as they love doing the shows so much.”

COMPETITION AND CONNECTIONS With axes swinging, logs rolling, and high climbing, there’s certainly an element of danger at the shows.

“But these guys are truly “iron jacks” — that’s the term for a lumberjack who’s good at all of the skills,” McDonough said. “I’m more of a specialist/ I’m best at the logrolling, although I can do the other stuff. But those guys — it’s impressive to watch them.”

At each show, the audience is divided into two sides, each representing a “rival” logging camp: the Mill Creek camp versus the Mackinaw City camp. McDonough, the show’s master of ceremonies, explains some history and then hypes up the crowd, taunting each side.

“The winning champion is then crowned Bull of the Woods — that’s what the best guy in a logging camp was called,” McDonough

said. “Afterward, the audience is invited down to talk to the lumberjacks and ask questions, and the kids can take the wood chips as souvenirs … those kids pick the place clean!”

But most of all, he said, he likes being part of keeping the U.P.’s logging history alive through the Jack Pine Lumberjack Shows.

“There are so many connections. So often people come up to us and say, “My uncle logged,” or “My grandfather logged,’” McDonough said. “It really is Americana — we needed wood to build this country. So lumberjacks are an important, accomplished part of our history.”

Jackpine Lumberjack Shows run at 7:30pm daily, with 2pm matinees every Wednesday and Saturday June 21–Aug. 12. Tickets are $17 adult, $11 students/seniors. jackpinelumberjackshows. com, (231) 436-5225.

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Bruce Hornsby and Noisemakers

Home Free

Ansel Adams, A Capella & Bruce Hornsby Founded in the late 1800s by a group of Methodists looking to create an idyllic Up North retreat for their religious gatherings, Bay View is perhaps best known today for two things: Its picturesque Victorian cottages, and an unflagging embrace of the performing arts.

As you’d expect for a place where vesper concerts and handbell choirs are staples of its summer roster, the community’s 2017 Bayview Music Festival has lined up a diverse set of performances.Chris Ludwa, the festival’s artistic director, fine-tunes the schedule to appeal to a wide range of age groups, both from Bay View proper and from the surrounding communities. “Everything is looking great again this year,” he said, “but there are three shows in particular I’m super excited about — Bruce Hornsby, Home Free, and Logan Brill.”

Bruce Hornsby and The Noisemakers – July 21 You’ll probably best recognize Hornsby from his 1986 multi-platinum piano-rock hit, “The Way It Is.” But after his accompanying band, The Range, disbanded in 1991, Hornsby evolved. He did a stint with The Grateful Dead, pursued several solo efforts, then formed a new band, The Noisemakers, with whom he’ll perform at Bay View and bring a definitively different sound — one rich with sound effects, sound loops, and post-electronica beats.

“Hornsby is one of those crossgenerational artists,” Ludwa said. “He keeps reinventing himself as he gets older, much

Bay View’s Eclectic Summer Sounds like Paul Simon; his music spans so many decades and different genres.”

Home Free – July 27 An American a cappella group, Home Free is perfectly positioned to capitalize on the current a cappella craze that’s drawing the teenage demographic in droves: The quintet won the fourth season of NBC’s singing show, “The Sing-Off,” in 2013, signed with Sony Records, and just released their album “Crazy Life” in 2014.

“Home Free performed at Lakeside, our sister Chatauqua, in Ohio, and sold out the house,” Ludwa said. “A cappella music is so huge right now with groups like Pentatonix, so as part of our goal to showcase where musical society is going, it made sense to get Home Free here.”

Logan Brill – July 29 Bay View doesn’t shy away from much, but country music isn’t a genre the festival usually showcases. Ludwa made an exception for Logan Brill. “We’re launching our new emerging artists series this summer, and she’s an incredible singer-songwriter tearing it up from Nashville,” Ludwa said.

“We decided to feature her as she’s just so talented. She’s reminds me of Alison Krauss mixed with Norah Jones. So we’re excited to bring her up here for her first engagement in northern Michigan.”

Musical Theater – July & August Bay View also will bring two musicals to the stage, each with a different, contemporary spin. “Pippin” (July 13–15) will draw the audience into the action.

“Instead of it being all jazz hands and typical Fosse, we’ve got the lead character of Pippin engaging with the audience while he’s on his journey, kind of like a chatty Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon. He’ll even be talking about communications in the digital age, how we’re all more connected than ever before, yet more disconnected from each other.”

Pippin will be directed by George Cederquist, who worked with Bay View eight years ago when his career was in its early stages. “Now George is emerging in Chicago as a director to watch,” said Ludwa.

“He’s also directing our Carmen opera [Aug. 2–Aug 5], which will also be a more modern production than you might expect.”

Orchestral Ansel Adams – July 5 Love Ansel Adams’ work? Imagine the master’s images projected on a giant screen as an orchestra plays Chris Brubeck’s “Ansel Adams’ America” composition. The artmusic fusion comes courtesy of the festival’s collaboration with Petoskey’s Crooked Tree Arts Center, which is hosting an Ansel Adams exhibition. And it’s just the beginning of what’s in store.

“In addition to Chris Brubeck’s piece of music, we wanted to portray more of what America looks like now, so instead of just the one composer, we wanted to additionally represent four different elements of culture and society through music.”

The plan: The Bay View orchestra also will perform the works of Leonard Bernstein, the New York City-based conductor, composer, and pianist; groundbreaking female composer Amy Beach; American “pioneer music composer” Aaron Copland; and William Grant Still, the standout AfricanAmerican composer from Mississippi.

Sunday Night Pops – July & August Filling out the rest of the summer 2017 festival schedule are Bay View’s Sunday night pops concerts, each one different and each with its own dedicated theme. A sampling includes “Sailing, Sunsets and Show Stoppers” (July 2); “Heroes and Villians: Caped Crusaders, Comics and Cartoons” (July 16); New Orleans Gumbo, with songs from Harry Connick and the Big Easy (July 23); and “Bach, Rock, and The Mamas and the Papas” (August 6).

The 2017 Bay View Concert Series, which is open to the public, kicks off on June 18; tickets are available now. For a full schedule and more information, visit www.bayviewfestival.org.

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Original Club Manitou 1929-1952

Rockin’ and Rollin’ in Harbor Springs T H E H I STO RY O F C LU B P O N Y TA I L

By Kristi Kates It started as a rollicking secret speakeasy venue called Club Manitou, founded by a guy named Abe. Its second life was as a teen gathering spot called Club Ponytail, where kids would pour in to hear big-name pop acts of the ’60s. Today, it’s nothing but memories of a very different kind of nightlife scene in northern Michigan.

“The whole thing started with a 1920s mobster outfit called The Purple Gang, bootleggers from Detroit who would sneak alcohol across the Detroit River from Canada into Michigan and elsewhere in the Midwest,” explained local historian and Petoskey “history detective” Richard Wiles. “The mob’s leader was named Abe Bernstein. He liked to summer Up North, and he’d noticed a lot of money being made at the Ramona Park Casino in Harbor Springs.” Wiles said Bernstein decided that he wanted his own place, so he enlisted one of the few people he trusted — his driver, Al Gerhart, aka Detroit Slim — to run his new venture.

Built just in time for a July Fourth opening in 1929, Bernstein’s new club was located on Pleasantview Road near today’s West Traverse Township Hall and on the way to Harbor Springs’ ski resorts. Keeping with the region’s resort feel, the building was essentially a large log cabin with a dining room on the main floor and a big basement below that concealed a kitchen, illegal bar, and dance floor.

Legend has it that air ventilation grates, ostensibly installed to help get rid of any smoke in the basement, were made big enough for guests to crawl through on hands and knees in case of raids.

By 1945, Bernstein added on another structure, tripling Club Manitou’s size. The guests at Club Manitou dined on the finest of food prepared and served by professionally trained chefs and waiters imported from New York City, and then those in the know would walk around the back of the building and down the stairs to extend their evening.

“There was a jail-like door with a doorkeeper,” said Wiles. “If he knew them or they knew the password,

he would let them in to what was called Slim’s Lounge.

Once in, they could then dance, drink, and gamble.

These were the high-rollers of the time in northern Michigan — and these were times when $50,000 could be lost gambling in one night, which was considered an excessive amount of money back then.

“Only the very wealthy resorters of Harbor Springs and Petoskey were allowed to go to Club Manitou,” Wiles said. “Abe carefully regulated it to keep the local people out so he wouldn’t be accused of taking advantage of them.” Bernstein’s logic was that this would keep the police at bay, and it worked … for a while. “If he had just kept it to drinking and not gambling, the police might’ve turned a blind eye,” Wiles said. “But Abe wanted all of their money.”

Prohibition had ended in 1933 in Michigan, so the bar was no longer a concern. But the gambling that took place downstairs was Club Manitou’s downfall.

“They had card tables, slot machines, everything — it was quite the scene,” Wiles said. “The police raided them for gambling, and that was how they were closed, in 1952.”

After Club Manitou was shut down, it sat dormant from 1952 to 1962. Bernstein moved on, and Gerhart went on to run another illegal gambling establishment in West Virginia. So when a young, wide-eyed couple named Stan and Jean Douglas inquired about buying the Manitou, there were no obstacles in their way, save one: “They wanted to make it back into an adult nightclub, but no one would give them a license,” Wiles said. “Alcohol was banned for life on that property. But teen clubs were big at that time, so Stan and Jean regrouped quickly and came up with the idea of a northern Michigan teen dance club.”

Officially named The Club Ponytail Teen and Collegiate Nite Club — aka Club Ponytail — the hot spot served Green River Soda as the house drink, and Poni’s Pizza was a favorite menu item. The club maintained a strict no-smoking, no-drinking policy, and it boasted chaperones aplenty, so parents had no problem letting their kids go to Club Ponytail.

“That’s not to say the kids didn’t try to sneak,” Wiles said. “But Stan and Jean knew that parents

wouldn’t allow their kids to the Ponytail if it became a den of iniquity, so they kept a tight rein on the place.”

Although strict, Stan Douglas knew how to draw crowds. He met up with an agent in Detroit who booked bands into a big Motor City venue called The Roostertail, and somehow convinced the man to send those acts north. The agent did, and many of the bands that toured Detroit trekked up to Club Ponytail — impressively big names for a little club in Harbor Springs.

“They put on concerts by Roy Orbison, the Four Tops, The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Del Shannon, The Animals, and The Turtles,” said Wiles. In fact, club Ponytail’s house band for the summer of 1965 was an Ann Arbor outfit called the Iguanas, featuring singer Jim Osterberg, who would later become Iggy Pop. “The only band they couldn’t get were The Beatles,” Wiles said. “These were unbelievable acts to have in northern Michigan!”

Stan and Jean were also some of the first big advocates of local music, hosting a battle of the bands to give local acts more exposure. They added an outside patio with a large stage, and found that kids were coming from all over lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. “They all came to Club Ponytail,” Wiles said. “Fridays and Saturdays, the place was packed. Everything was going very well.”

Until March of 1969. A gas heater in the wall is thought to have exploded and engulfed Club Ponytail in flames. Stan and Jean bravely aimed to rebuild, but they couldn’t get enough insurance money, so Club Ponytail was abruptly over. Wiles thinks the club was probably nearing its final days anyway — “By the ’70s, kids weren’t into small clubs like the Ponytail anymore. After Woodstock, it was all about the large music festivals,” he said — but the loss was still a blow to the scene.

“I interviewed a lot of people [while I was] researching this story, and so many of them just cried when telling me about the place closing, because they had so many good memories attached to Club Ponytail,” Wiles said. “It may be a cliched term, but it truly was the end of an era.”

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Robin Lee Berry’s Introspective

Folk Experience

By Kristi Kates Robin Lee Berry is an in-demand collaborative musician around the local Boyne City/Petoskey/Traverse City music scenes. So you’ve most likely heard about her in relation to a wide variety of bands, other peoples’ musical projects, and the concert venue she co-runs with her husband Tony Williams, the Freshwater Gallery, in Boyne City.

But this Boyne-based singer-songwriter is also a folk-music force to be reckoned with all on her own.

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MEET THE MUSICIAN Berry got her musical start in East Lansing in the late 1970s. She sang in a variety of clubs, making the rounds with fellow musicians and working at the Lansing Sound Recording Studio, where she did voiceover work for ads.

One year, she took on a New Year’s Eve singing gig up in Charlevoix, and that was when Berry fell in love with northern Michigan. In 1981, she returned to play a summer-long gig and decided to figure out a way to stay Up North.

These days, she keeps herself centered herself in Boyne City’s SOBO Arts District, where she works with her husband to oversee other musicians’ gigs at Freshwater Gallery while writing songs for her own upcoming solo album.

Her sound is folk with hints of jazz, blues, and rock — heavy on the guitar and seasoned with melancholy.

CREATING HER CATALOG To anchor her musical feet in northern Michigan, Berry joined up with the local jazz quartet Equinox, eventually transitioning from them to sing for the 45th Parallel Big Band. Since then, she’s collaborated with a wide range of wellknown regional musicians, including Crispin Campbell, Norm Wheeler, Don Julin, and frequent collaborator and friend Glenn Wolff.

She’s performed at most of the most popular venues and resorts across the region, as well as a wide range of festivals and other special events, but her real passion lies with her own original music, including her most recent full-length acoustic solo album, Ahna Kick a Hole in the Sky, on which she led a pack of local talent in interpreting her songs.

Her prior releases include the solo albums A Man Like My Guitar, Reap the Bounty, and Wait for the Rush; her duo album with Glenn Wolff (Tea and Orange Peels); and the single “Hey Baby Hey,” her contribution to the Red House Records compilation album Going Driftless: An Artist’s Tribute to Greg Brown.

HER INSPIRATION Introspection, observations, and her own interpretations of things that she experiences, sees, and reads — even local newspaper columns — inspires Berry to write.

“An excerpt from the horoscope column

right in Northern Express kept following me around for years, and it finally found its way into a song called ‘Weave Me a Parachute,’” Berry said. “It’s about taking all of the broken things in your life and weaving a parachute away from the negative emotions so you can break free of them.”

Paramount to her process, she said, is to always recognize what she’s feeling, and to channel that into her musical work.

“I’ve really been in that introspective state of mind lately,” she said. “I hope with each song of mine that people hear, they will enter into the song as it plays, and then depart as it ends with something shifted in them, something thoughtful.”

CURRENT PROJECTS Berry is working on her latest solo album with Patrick Niemesto at Holy Wah! Recording Studio in Maple City.

“He has such good ears, and I love what he does!” she said.

Berry’s fellow local singer E Minor is also in the process of making an album there, as are several other musical peers. “There are lots of musicians going in and out of this place, so I’m hoping to grab some of them and get them on this album,” she said.

The album, yet untitled, is due out the end of June. Berry’s aiming at eight or nine songs total, and while she said she hasn’t yet planned out a touring schedule in support of the set, she will likely book a slate of regional shows.

FUTURE BERRY This summer, while the release of her new album starts filtering its way out to local outlets, radio, and streaming media, fans will be able to catch Berry live at the Indigo Hotel in Traverse City with Glenn Wolff, as well as at the Pine Hill Nursery just north of Elk Rapids on US-31, where they serve up drinks and outdoor pizzas along with the live music.

She also sings on occasion with the band Jazz North, also out of Traverse City and was recently tapped to write the theme song for an upcoming documentary about Ernest Hemingway. The documentary will be out on July 21, and Berry will perform the theme song at Freshwater Gallery on June 2 with the Hemingway Society showing clips of the film.

“Dr. George Colburn has a documentary film company, and is making a movie about the young Hemingway’s time here in Michigan, and how being here affected his writing,” Berry said. “The theme song will be called ‘Gone Wild,’ and it was co-written by George and myself. We picked through a bunch of Hemingway’s letters and wrote the song about him living and growing up here.”

To find out more about Robin Lee Berry and her music, visit robinleeberry.com.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. Kristi Hausler and husband Matt shared a laugh at Duffy’s in Petoskey.

2. Robyn, Karin, Juliet, Chris, Abbey, Shelly, and Lee represented Harbor Brenn Insurance and Bay Harbor during Business After Hours at Duffy’s in Petoskey.

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6. Misty Youngson, John Sohacki and Dr. Ramona Pleva showed up for the grand opening of Dickey’s Barbecue Pit in TC. 7. Mike Swain gets a taste from Cathy Goforth and Taylor Huntman of Petoskey Farms Winery while the guys from Roak Brewing photobomb during the Boyne City Block Party.

8. Jeff Ruch and Brittany Vanatta of Mt. Pleasant’s Mountaintown Brewing braved the weather for the Boyne City Block Party during the 57th Annual Morel Festival.

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may 27

saturday

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FORT MICHILIMACKINAC HISTORICAL REENACTMENT PAGEANT: May 27-29.

Featuring more than 400 cast members taking part in this pageant that brings to life the 1763 Fort Michilimackinac battle between the French, British, and Native Americans. Info: visitmackinawcitymichigan.com

-------------------MACKINAW MEMORIAL BRIDGE RUN: 6am, Bridgeview Park at the north end of the bridge, Mackinaw City. Will have staggered start times.

The first half of the race is a steady incline with a slope of 5º. The total length of the course is 5.06 miles. mackinawcity.com/events/14th-annualmackinaw-memorial-bridge-run

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BAYSHORE MARATHON, HALF MARATHON & 10K: 7:15am, NMC, TC. The half marathon & 10K are FULL. An annual spring run up the Old Mission Peninsula that attracts more than 7,000 runners. The marathon starts at 7:15am. Different starting times & locations for half marathon & 10K. See web site. bayshoremarathon.org

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STAFFORD’S TOP OF MI COMMUNITY MARATHON, HALF MARATHON & 10K: Various starting locations. Also featuring a marathon team relay. Marathon: 7:30am, Charlevoix. Half Marathon: 8am, Bay Harbor.

10K: 8:30am, Top of MI Trails Council offices, M119. trailscouncil.org/community-marathon

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NORTHERN MI HEARSE CRUISE: 8am-5pm.

Taking donations for the Charlevoix Humane Society. Featuring cars from New York, Ohio, Indiana & all over MI. Today it travels from Gaylord to Boyne City. Stopping for two hours in the towns of Boyne Falls (Boyne Mtn.), East Jordan, and Boyne City. hearseshow.com

-------------------FREE BIRD WALK: 8:30am, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Hosted by the Petoskey Regional Audubon Society. Meet at the drying shed of Lavender Hill Farm. 231-675-7222.

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Mullaly’s 128 Studio & Gallery, Blue Heron Gallery & Twisted Fish Gallery will make up Elk Rapids Art Beat, an open house gallery walk from 10am-5pm on Sat., June 3. Guest artists will be demonstrating their work, refreshments will be served & three $100 gift certificates will be drawn from entries by those visiting all three galleries. elkrapidschamber.org

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GLEN HAVEN DAYS: 10am-4pm, Glen Haven Village. Bring the early 1900s to life with the help of park rangers and volunteers at Glen Haven and the Maritime Museum. Watch a blacksmith forge metal, try your hand at timber-framing, learn about shipping and shipwrecks, & much more. Free.

by local comedian and cancer survivor Marti Johnson. Also featuring David Graves, Ben Macks, Abby Veitengruber, Jeremy West and more. Proceeds support Relay For Life of Grand Traverse County. Doors open at 7pm with performances at 8pm. Come early to bid on silent auction items. $15/person. 231.409.3900.

13TH ANNUAL BOARDMAN RIVER CLEAN SWEEP: 9am. Meet at Hull Park, TC to clean up the river downtown or meet at Brownbridge Landing to clean up the river upstream. Bring your canoe or kayak. Liability waivers and signup is required. A picnic at the Nature Center will follow. 231-392-2023.

SMALL TOWN OUTLAWS VS. EAST LANSING MITTEN MAVENS: 7pm, Kalkaska Kaliseum. Veterans & active military personnel will be admitted for free to this roller derby match. Find ‘Memorial Day Weekend Salute!” on Facebook. $10 advance/$12 door.

12TH ANNUAL ANTRIM COUNTY PETOSKEY STONE FESTIVAL: 9am-4pm, Barnes Park Campground, Eastport. Featuring 40 vendors of MI Petoskey stones, jewelry, food, music, kid’s fish pond, Petoskey Stone Hunt, U.S. Coast Guard presentation over the waters of Lake Michigan, & more. Find ‘12th Annual Antrim County Petoskey Stone Festival’ on Facebook. Free.

Thursday, June 1 ZZ Top with special guest Austin Hanks

GREAT LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY BARN SALE: 9am-3pm, 7246 E. Harrys Rd., TC. Help the animals & find deals on antiques, books, holiday decor, lawn furniture & much more. greatlakeshs.com

-------------------SPRING PLANT & FLOWER SALE: 9am3pm, Ric’s Corner, US-31 & M-137, Interlochen. Proceeds support the Friends of Interlochen Public Library & children’s programs at the Library. 231-649-2943.

-------------------WILDFLOWER RESCUE PLANT & NATIVE PERENNIAL SALE: 9am-4pm, On the Village Green, Leland. Presented by Leelanau Conservancy. 231-256-9665. leelanauconservancy.org

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“LELAND AIR”: Leelanau Community Cultural Center at the Old Art Building, Leland. A one-day Plein Air Painting Event and Exhibit. From 10am to 4pm artists will be seen painting in and around picturesque Leland capturing images of historic Fishtown, views of orchards and vineyards, terrain, and beaches. A reception & sale of the paintings will take place from 6-8pm. Artists will donate forty percent of art sales to the Old Art Building. 231-256-2131. $10. mynorthtickets.com

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ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am-4pm, Downtown Elk Rapids. Featuring more than 70 artisans.

-------------------CHERRY CAPITAL COMIC CON: 10am-6pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Northern MI’s largest comic book & pop culture expo. cherrycapitalcon.com

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-------------------NORTHPORT CARS IN THE PARK: 10am3pm, Haserot Park, Northport. 20th Anniversary Show. Free.

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AUTHOR SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 11am-1pm: Peg Jonkhoff & Fred Hoisington will sign their book “Perry Hannah’s Gifts: Then & Now, 2nd edition.” 1-3pm: Tracie BartonBarrett will sign her book “Buried Deep in Our Hearts.” horizonbooks.com

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12TH ANNUAL MICHIGAN BEER & BRAT FESTIVAL: 4-8pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Enjoy Michigan’s microbrews, local hard cider and mead, and gourmet brats from northwest Michigan markets. Held slopeside.

Tickets: $25 through April 30; $30 May 1-26; & $35 day-of. crystalmountain.com/events/beerfest

-------------------COUNTRY DANCE: Summit City Grange, Kingsley. 6pm hot dog dinner; 7-10pm dance.

Live music. 231-263-4499. Donation.

-------------------COMEDIANS AGAINST CANCER: TC Elks Lodge. Join the American Cancer Society for a night of comedy. The show will be headlined

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-------------------“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------MUSIC SPEAKS: 7:30pm, Grace Episcopal Church, TC. This eclectic concert featuring chamber music, poetry, and prose spanning centuries and genres is presented by Manitou Winds. Free. manitouwinds.com/performances

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FORT MICHILIMACKINAC HISTORICAL REENACTMENT PAGEANT: (See Sat., May 27)

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NORTH MITTEN HALF MARATHON, 10K & 5K: 8am, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. All racers receive free entry into Micros on MountainTop from 12-4pm. crystalmountain.com/events/north-mitten

-------------------RED, WHITE & BLUE 5K FUN RUN: 10am, GT Resort & Spa, Health Club, Acme. Free.

grandtraverseresort.com/memorialday CHERRY CAPITAL COMIC CON: 11am-5pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Northern MI’s largest comic book & pop culture expo. cherrycapitalcon.com

-------------------MICROS ON MOUNTAINTOP: 12-4pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Hop on the first chairlift ride of the season and enjoy Michigan microbrews, your barbecue favorites and live music from Refurbushed. $5 through May 26; $10 day-of. Participants of the North Mitten Half Marathon, 10K or 5K receive free entry. crystalmountain.com/events/micros-onmountaintop

-------------------“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 2pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------JAZZ AT SUNSET: 3-5:30pm, Chateau Chantal, TC. Featuring student musicians from TC Central, West and Kingsley High Schools performing with the Jeff Haas Trio and watercolorist Lisa Flahive. Great panoramic views of West & East Grand Traverse Bays. Enjoy wines & lemonade for the kids. chateauchantal.com

-------------------WRITING WORKSHOP: PENNING POETRY: 4pm, Horizon Books, TC. Writers can improve their skills and be shortlisted for a local publishing opportunity with a new literary journal, “Northern Wildes,” for writers and artists exploring gender and sexuality. horizonbooks.com

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HERE COMES THE SUN PARTY: 1-5pm, The Cove, Leland. Doors open at 11am.

Featuring the Hidden Agenda Band. thecoveleland.com

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-------------------ROTARY CLUB OF CADILLAC 19TH ANNUAL STRIDE FOR STRIVE 5K: 8:30am, Veterans Memorial Stadium at Cadillac High School.

-------------------LOCAL APPRECIATION DAY - CASTLE FARMS: 9am-5pm, Castle Farms, Charlevoix.

Free tours for locals all day. $5 all others. castlefarms.com

-------------------MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES/PARADES TRAVERSE CITY Flag raising in Memorial Gardens starting at 7am Sat., May 27 & repeating on Sun., May 28 & Mon., May 29.

5/29: Memorial Park, 10am: Tribute to fallen veterans with Coast Guard Air Station TC, the 182nd Reserve Unit, the National Guard and members of the Kingsley High School Choir.

-------------------BOYNE CITY MEMORIAL SERVICES: Memorial Park, Boyne Falls: 8am; Memorial Park, Walloon Lake: 8:25am; Evangeline Cemetery, Evangeline Township: 8:50am; Dyer Cemetery: 9:15am; Maple Lawn Cemetery, Boyne City: 10:45am; Veterans Park, Boyne City: noon.

PARADE: American Legion, Boyne City: 11:45am. LOST AT SEA REMEMBRANCE: Veterans Park, Boyne City: 9:40am.

-------------------CHARLEVOIX MEMORIAL SERVICES: Veterans Park, Charlevoix: 9am; Brookside Cemetery, Charlevoix: 10am.

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INDIAN RIVER PARADE: Straits Highway: 1pm. Following will be reading of names at VFW Post.

-------------------MACKINAW CITY SERVICE: Marina lawn near cannon: 10am; ceremony at Lakeview Cemetery at 10:30am.

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PETOSKEY 8:45am ceremony at Greenwood Cemetery, followed by 9am ceremonies at World War II and Korean War monument off Mitchell Street and 9:15am ceremony at World War monument near city hall. Parade: 10am along Mitchell St., followed by service in Pennsylvania Park at gazebo. Luncheon follows at American Legion Hall.

-------------------BENZIE 7:15am: Flag raising at Legion Post; 8am: Arcadia Lutheran Cemetery; 8:30am: Blaine Township Cemetery; 8:50am: Gilmore Township Cemetery; 9:10am: Crystal Lake Cemetery East; 9:30am: Crystal Lake Cemetery North; 10:15am: Platte Township Cemetery; 11am: Lake Ann Almira Veterans’ Memorial; 12:30pm: Thompsonville Cemetery - Service to honor Joseph William Dilley & all others who have served. 12:45pm: Mineral Springs Park, Frankfort; 4pm: Potluck dinner at Frankfort American Legion Post.

-------------------CADILLAC PARADE: Mitchell St., downtown: 10am; service following at Veterans Memorial Stadium at 11am.

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ANTRIM COUNTY PARADE: Downtown Mancelona, 9am.

Parade: Starts at Helena Township Community Center, Alden at 1pm.

may 30

tuesday

“GOVERNMENT 102”: 5:30pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. Presented by Dr. Scott LaDeur, political science professor at NCMC. A reception will follow. RSVP. (231) 758-3100. Free. petoskeylibrary.org

-------------------FREE OVERDOSE RECOGNITION, RESPONSE & PREVENTION TRAINING:67:30pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Presented by Harm Reduction MI. Includes a NALOXONE rescue kit--the antidote and life saver. Reservations encouraged. eventbrite.com

may 31

wednesday

RIDE BATA DAY: 10am, TC Senior Center. Learn about how to use BATA to go shopping, get to doctor’s appointments and visit friends. Includes a short ride on BATA to the Hall Street Transfer Station for a presentation, snacks and a prize drawing. Advanced registration required. 922-4911. Free.

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NATIONAL SENIOR HEALTH & FITNESS DAY: 12:30-3:30pm, John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center of McLaren Northern Michigan, Petoskey. Offering free select classes and tours of wellness programs.

Includes Balance Testing, Aqua Fitness Class, Strength Training for 50+ & more. (800) 2486777. mclaren.org

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EAST JORDAN PARADE: GAR Park, 10:45pm; Service follows in Memorial Park.

WINE DOWN WEDNESDAY: 5-7pm, Chateau Grand Traverse, TC. Featuring live music by Miriam Pico & Younce Guitar Duo, vineyard views, CGT wine & food. cgtwines.com

HARBOR SPRINGS BREAKFAST: American Legion: 7-9am; 5K: Waterfront, 8am; Parade: 10am; ends at Zorn Park for a service.

“HOW TO LOOK AT ART”: 6-8pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. An entertaining and interactive lecture from 4 different perspectives on how to not only look at art, but have a better

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understanding of it. Hear points of view from: Joe DeLuca, Rufus Snoddy, Shanny Brooke and Andrea Gerring. Suggested donation: $5. higherartgallery.com

june 01

thursday

PLATTE RIVER CLEAN SWEEP: 9am, Veterans Memorial State Forest Campground, US-31, Honor.

Enjoy a free picnic lunch after the cleanup. Register: john@benziecd.org; 231-882-4391.

people with disabilities through arts & culture.

Find more information at artsforallnmi.org. $35/person.

-------------------BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI CONCERT SERIES: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring Kelly Shively and AnnMarie Rowland, who write and sing about the things they know; love, loss, family, friendship, home, and dirt. And they still sing “Across the Great Divide” to remind them of where they started. $10 adv; $15 door. Students, $8. Kids 12 & under, $5. redskystage.com

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GLACIAL HILLS GARLIC MUSTARD PULL EVENT: 10am-12pm, Glacial Hills Pathway and Natural Area: Orchard Hill parking lot, Bellaire. Please bring a water bottle, and wear weather appropriate clothing, boots & gloves.

Short’s Brewing Company will be extending a 25% lunch discount for all the volunteers directly following this event. 231-533-8363.

“HOMETOWN HABITAT: STORIES OF BRINGING NATURE HOME”: 7pm, Empire Township Hall. This documentary film examines current landscaping and gardening practices and how they impact the very existence of native animals, insects and plants. The film visits “hometown habitat heroes” from around the country. A Q&A session will follow.

Presented by the Glen Lake Library and Glen Lake Garden Club. Free. glenlakelibrary.net

ELK RAPIDS WOMEN MEETING: 6-9pm, Torch Lake Café, Eastport. ER Women will wrap up their 2016/17 season & kick-off the summer. RSVP by May 30: 231-633-0305.

“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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PRIDE MONTH KICK-OFF: 6-9pm, The Filling Station Microbrewery, TC. Hosted by Up North Pride, The Filling Station Microbrewery & Pour For More. May Erlewine will perform on The Platform from 7-10pm. The Filling Station is donating 25% of proceeds from five featured pizzas & is matching all Pour For More donations just for Up North Pride. ‘Find Pride Month Kick-off’ on Facebook.

-------------------“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------JOHN GORKA PERFORMS W/ AMILIA K SPICER: 7:30pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Gorka’s songs & stories capture life’s moments with great perspective. Spicer recently celebrated the release of her new CD “Wow and Flutter.” $25 advance; $35 door. thebaytheatre.com/john-gorka-concert

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ZZ TOP WSG AUSTIN HANKS: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium.

With more than 45 years of hit songs, ZZ Top brings hits ranging from “La Grange” to “Sharp Dressed Man.” Singer-songwriter Austin Hanks’ music has been described as “rockin’ country soul” & his hits include “Sucker Punch” & “Alabama Clay.” Tickets start at $48. tickets. interlochen.org

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DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Imagine and pretend with games and activities focusing on summer. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY SUMMER OPEN HOUSE: 5-9pm, Downtown Petoskey. Enjoy music by the Petoskey Steel Drum Band & activities in Pennsylvania Park, & other fun around town, including the Taste of Downtown & a fashion show. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------LEELANAU ARTISTS EXHIBITION: Old Art Building, Leland, June 2-4. Representing the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly to paint at the Old Art Building. The opening reception will be held tonight from 5:30-7:30pm. oldartbuilding.com

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ARTS FOR ALL NIGHT @ PAINTING WITH A TWIST: 7pm, TC. Paint for a purpose! Featuring a LOVE Michigan sign & local wine & beer.

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GAAA READERS’ THEATER: 7:30pm, Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, Glen Arbor. Presents two plays by British playwright J.M. Barrie: “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals” & “The Twelve-Pound Look.” Make your reservation: Email gaaareaderstheater@gmail. com Free.

-------------------“YOUNG HEMINGWAY & HIS ENDURING EDEN”: 8pm, Freshwater Art Gallery, Boyne City. A sneak peak of George Colburn’s new documentary, “Young Hemingway & His Enduring Eden,” about young Hemingway’s summer days in northern MI & the premiere performance of Robin’s theme song, “Gone Wild,” with the Boyne City Hemingway Youth Choir. 231-582-2588. $25 advance; $35 door. freshwaterartgallery.com

-------------------GOPHERWOOD CONCERTS PRESENTS JOHN GORKA & AMILIA K SPICER: 8pm, The Elks, third floor, Cadillac. Gorka’s songs & stories capture life’s moments with great perspective. Spicer recently celebrated the release of her new CD “Wow and Flutter.” Advance tickets: $15 adults, $7 students (13-18), & free for kids 12 & under. Door: $20 adults, $10 students. mynorthtickets.com

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saturday

FISH-TC.COM TROUT DERBY: 6am, TC. This fishing tournament is held on East & West GT Bays. fish-tc. com/troutderby-1

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31ST ANNUAL BOAT AUCTION & NAUTICAL GARAGE SALE: 9am, Discovery Center, TC. Presented by the Maritime Heritage Alliance. Proceeds benefit the Schooner Madeline, the Champion S.A.I.L. youth program, the MHA Restoration Shop and many other MHA projects. maritimeheritagealliance.org

-------------------7TH ANNUAL RECYCLE-A-BICYCLE BIKE SWAP: 9am-2pm, Old Town Parking Garage, TC. Check-in items to sell Fri., June 2 from 5-8pm. If sold, you receive 75% of sale price.

25% supports the Recycle-A-Bicycle program.

Pick up unsold bikes from 2-4pm.

-------------------GT HIKING CLUB’S NATIONAL TRAILS DAY: 9am-1:30pm, Baxter Bridge State Forest Campground, Manton. There will be two hikes at 9am on the North Country Trail. A 5 mile hike from the Campground to the 29 1/2 Rd. (Baxter Bridge) trailhead, then up to High Banks Rollway & back, or take a shuttle to High Banks Rollway, and hike 2.5 miles back to Baxter Bridge. From noon until 1:30pm

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enjoy a potluck picnic at Baxter Bridge SF Campground. You will need to bring your dish to share, table service, beverage & a camp chair. (231) 620-3543.

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THE CHEESE CUP WARM WATER SLAM: Third Level Crisis Center, TC. Held in memory of Alexander M. Hawke. This event will encompass carp, bass, bluegill & pike. At 9am anglers meet at the Shop for coffee & breakfast treats, & then head to the Bay to fish. Meet back at the Shop at 4:30pm for social hour & judging; includes silent auction & raffle. Benefits Third Level Crisis Center. Register: 933-4730.

-------------------SPEAKER ATTORNEY MARK BREWER: 9:30am, NMC, Scholars Hall, TC. “Ending Partisan Gerrymandering in Michigan: Reform Through the Courts and By Ballot Question.”

Sponsored by the GT County Democratic Party.

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CONCERT - JUNE 1 @ 7:30

ART BEAT OF ELK RAPIDS: 10am-5pm, Elk Rapids. An open house gallery walk. Includes Mullaly’s 128 Studio & Gallery, The Blue Heron Gallery, & the Twisted Fish Gallery.

-------------------ELMWOOD FIRE DEPARTMENT PARTNER PROGRAM: 10am-1pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Elmwood Fire Department will share info on fire safety. An informative class will be offered along with exploration of the firefighter uniform and their big red truck. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------John Gorka with Amilia K Spicer Tickets: $25 Advance / $35 Door

MyNorthTickets.com, Bahles, Oryana, Leelanau Books

Sunday, June 4 - CinemaSports at The Bay! Sign up to make a short film. www.CinemaSports.com

Congratulations to our patient of the month, Kary Pleva for excellent oral hygiene and good cooperation throughout treatment.

LEELANAU ARTISTS EXHIBITION: The Old Art Building, Leland. June 2-4. Representing the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly to paint at the Old Art Building. Today’s hours are 10am-5pm. oldartbuilding.com

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THIS BEACH PARTY GIVES KIDS A SHOT AGAINST DISEASE: 10am-4pm, Pediatric Specialty Clinic, TC. Featuring a glow hand washing station, presentation by Norte on bike safety, the Traverse City Police Department’s K9 unit, first aid and hands-only CPR training, & more. Young participants will enter the Pediatric Specialty Clinic building and meet the pediatric child-life specialist in the Teddy Bear Clinic where they will be walked through the process of receiving a vaccination using a teddy bear. Then they will receive vaccinations. munsonhealthcare.org/immunize

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INSECT EXPLORATION WALK WITH BUG EXPERT DR. DUKE ELSNER :10:30am12pm, GT Conservation District, TC. Presented

by GT WildOnes. 231-357-0911. Free.

-------------------8TH ANNUAL DIRTY DOG DASH: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Covering 5 km of mountainous terrain with a bunch of obstacles thrown in along the way. The first wave starts at 11am, with each successive wave estimated to start every 20 minutes. Noon-4pm: Live music by Chris Calleja Band. boyne.com/ boynemountain/events/dirty-dog-dash

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11am-1pm: Author Kristy Kurjan will sign her books “Dream Sweet Dreams” & “The Many Ways to Say I Love You.” 1-3pm: Author Evelyn Harper will sign her book “Essence.” 3-5pm: Book Launch for “Inside Upnorth” by Heather Shaw, Bob Butz, Jodee Taylor, Tom Carr, Gabrielle Shaw, Mike Delp, Glen Wolff & Duncan Spratt Moran. horizonbooks.com

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KINGSLEY ADAMS FLY FESTIVAL: 12-6pm, Kingsley Branch of the Traverse Area District Library. Featuring a display of AuSable River boats, rods, reels, flies & more. There will also be fly tying demonstrations & the opportunity to learn fly casting, & much more. Special guests will be Joseph Lunkas, Outdoorsman author, & Jon Lyle, editor/publisher. Free. Microbrew tent admission, $20. Proceeds benefit the Kingsley Friends of the Library. tadl.org/kingsley

-------------------FAIRY FEST: 2-4pm, The Village at GT Commons in the green space (piazza) across from Left Foot Charley, TC. Featuring a kids craft table & live music by Pete Farmer of Farmer Foot Drums at 2pm. At 2:30pm will be a musical march back to the Fairy Trails, where you

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GAAA READERS’ THEATER: 7:30pm, Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, Glen Arbor.

Presents two plays by British playwright J.M. Barrie: “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals” & “The Twelve-Pound Look.” Make your reservation: Email gaaareaderstheater@gmail.com Free.

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THE CHANCEL CHOIR: 7:30pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. The Chancel Choir from St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana will be presenting a concert of sacred music. Free. tccentralumc.org

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DARK SKY PARK RENDEZVOUS: 8:30pm, Headlands International Dark Sky Park, Mackinaw City. Explore the night sky with photographer Bill Schwab and Dark Sky Park Program Director Mary Stewart Adams. Following the presentation participants will venture out under the stars to photograph the sky. Pre-register. Free. crookedtree.org/event/dark-sky-park-rendezvous

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CHARLEVOIX CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL: 12-6pm, Bridge Park, Charlevoix. Featuring 20 MI breweries & cideries & a local food court. $10, includes two tastings. visitcharlevoix.com/ Charlevoix-Craft-Beer-Festival

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LEELANAU ARTISTS EXHIBITION: The Old Art Building, Leland, June 2-4. Representing the work of a group of visual artists who meet weekly to paint at the Old Art Building. Today’s hours are 11am-4pm. oldartbuilding.com

-------------------CHERRY CAPITAL CYCLING CLUB ANNUAL SPRING PICNIC: 12-3pm, VASA Trailhead, 4450 Bartlett Road, Williamsburg.

Featuring bike rides before the picnic, bike demos, music, food, & more. Free. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

-------------------“VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE”: 2pm, OTP Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC. A comedy play about gloomy people. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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AUDITIONS: “THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL”: 2-4pm, Manistee Senior Center. For five women & two men, 16-60 years of age. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. 231-723-7188.

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FREE GENEALOGY WORKSHOP: 2-4pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Room, TC. Job Winslow Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution are co-hosting this workshop with GT Area Genealogical Society, Sons of the American Revolution & Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. jobwinslow.michdar.net

-------------------“AMERICANA JUBILEE” CONCERT: 4pm, Bellaire High School auditorium. Presented by the Antrim County Community Choir. 231-3316587. Free-will offering.

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FRESHWATER CONCERTS: 7pm, Freshwater Art Gallery, Boyne City. Presents John Gorka & Amelia K Spicer. Gorka’s songs & stories capture life’s moments with great perspective. Spicer recently celebrated the release of her new CD “Wow and Flutter.” $35 advance; $40 door. freshwaterartgallery.com/concertCalendar.php

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EARLY MORNING BIRD WALKS: Pond Hill Farm near Harbor Springs. Hosted by Petoskey Regional Audubon Society on Tuesdays in May. For info, email: tadatl@live.com.

EVENING BIRD WALKS: 9502 Burgess Rd., near Charlevoix. Hosted by Petoskey Regional Audubon Society on Wednesdays in May. Begins with a potluck, followed by a stroll along the property. Info: 231-330-4572.

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JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF: Tuesdays through June 13, 6:30-8:30pm, Hospice of Michigan office, TC. This free to any adult, four week grief support group focuses on how to express feelings and experiences related to the loss in a supportive, caring and non-judgmental environment. 929-1557.

-------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET, TC: Saturdays through Oct. 28, 7:30am-12pm. Lot B, across from Clinch Park, TC. downtowntc.com

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THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 12-4pm through Oct. 9. On The Piazza, The Village at GT Commons, TC. thevillagetc.com/events-attractions/ farmers-market

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CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET: Upper Level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Fridays, 10am-1pm through June 9. crookedtree.org

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“FRESHLY PICKED”: Twisted Fish Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Elk Rapids. Premiering the artwork of five new artists to the gallery, exploring themes of color, light, energy and beauty. The five artists are Lindy Bishop, Ginnie Cappaert, Anne Corlett, Mimi Prussack & Lynn Uhlmann. The opening reception will be held on Fri., June 2 from 6-8pm. The exhibit runs through July 2. twistedfishgallery.com

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SUMMER MEMBERS EXHIBIT: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Runs through June 16. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

-------------------THROUGH THE LENS: ANSEL ADAMS - HIS WORK, INSPIRATION & LEGACY: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Bonfield & Gilbert Galleries, Petoskey. Featuring 47 iconic images of Ansel Adams and 1 portrait of Ansel Adams by James Alinder. Runs June 1 - Sept. 30. crookedtree.org

-------------------VISUAL ODES: A TRIBUTE TO PABLO NERUDA: May 27 - June 27 at Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. A reception will be held on Sat., May 27 from 2-7pm. threepinesstudio.com

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Craig Finn – We All Want the Same Things – Partisan

It’s always tough to develop a sound when you’re away from your main band, but Finn’s side venture from his band, The Hold Steady, works.

He’s approaching things from a minimal, subtle direction, which gives his songs room to exhale — something that THS’s busy sound rarely does.

The immediate track of note is “God in Chicago,” on which Finn combines spoken word and a piano melody; beyond that near-gimmick is a lot of depth, from the slim sonic layers of “Jester and June” to the desperate entreaties on “Ninety Bucks,” each carrying their own story.

Ásgeir – Afterglow – One Little Indian

Ásgeir’s acoustic-electronica compositions are always a remarkable blending of the two genres, now with an additional layer of interest since he decided to bring in the talents of lyricist John Grant to decipher his Icelandic words for Englishspeaking fans. The faintly lostin-translation parts are actually a good segment of what make this particular release even more compelling. Simple phrases are shifted into more wraithlike imagery, although whether they’re Ásgeir’s own words or Grant’s is anybody’s guess. Standouts include “Fennir yfir” with its metallic beat and the synthy “Unbound.”

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Nicole Anderson

Paramore – After Laughter – Fueled by Ramen

The ’80s new-wave cover is much like ’80s makeup itself: a heavy cover over what lurks beneath. In the actual ’80s, it was probably a zit; on this new musical excursion from Paramore, those pastel colors mask what’s actually a pretty dark collection of songs. Tight, sometimes brittle production blends with pop sensibilities to belie the resentment and regret of “Forgiveness,” the repentant “Caught in the Middle,” and the sheer fatigue of the main character in “Rose Colored Boy.” It’s a juxtaposition that works quite well and gives heft to the album.

Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog – Captured Tracks

Also more somber than expected is this release from DeMarco, who seems finally to have realized on his latest set that it’s time to grow up. That’s not meant as a criticism but as an observation of where DeMarco seems to be via this-is-real-life tunes like the title track, which refers to his own aging process, and “Dreams from Yesterday,” a ballad of lost goals. The interesting thing is that DeMarco’s public-musician persona is the opposite of this album; he’s known for being a jokey, light-tempered guy in interviews. So it’s intriguing to see that he’s consciously chosen to showcase this much personal growth at such a pivotal time in his music career.

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MUSIC FANS MOURN LOSS OF CHRIS CORNELL

Chris Cornell

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BY KRISTI KATES

The music scene was shocked last week at the loss of one of Seattle’s best-known and most accomplished musical exports, Soundgarden/Audioslave singer and solo artist, Chris Cornell, who died in his hotel room at Detroit’s MGM Grand after performing a concert with Soundgarden at the Fox Theater, also in Detroit. Cornell, who struggled with depression and substance abuse, was a mainstay of the ’90s grunge scene and a powerful performer, with a nearly four-octave vocal range and a commanding stage presence. His last solo release before his death was the charity single “The Promise,” written for the ending credits for the movie of the same name … ’90s alt-rockers Third Eye Blind are celebrating the 20-year anniversary of their self-titled debut album with their Summer Gods Tour, which will keep the band crisscrossing North America all summer, including a stop at the DTE Energy Music Theater in Detroit on July 7. TEB will bring along Silversun Pickups and newbie band Ocean Park Standoff as opening acts, and also will release an expanded version of the aforementioned album, including several unreleased tracks. It will be available as a two-CD set, a three-LP vinyl edition, and a digital edition …

One Direction singer-turned-solo artist Harry Styles just spent a week on James Corden’s late night show in a musical residency to promote his debut solo album, Harry Styles, and now he’s hitting the road on an extensive tour that will include stops in Los Angeles (Sept. 20), Boston (Sept.

30), Toronto, Ontario (Oct. 4), and Austin, Texas (Oct. 11). Styles already has booked additional concert dates in the UK, Europe, Australia, and Asia, which will keep him on the road most of this fall and winter …

Beyoncé is launching a scholarship program in honor of the one-year anniversary of her album extravaganza Lemonade; Bey’s scholarship is aimed at women studying creative arts, music, literature, or African-American studies.

Four Formation Scholar awards will be passed to young women who are “unafraid to think outside the box and who are bold, creative, conscious, and confident.” The scholarships will be applicable at Parsons School of Design, the Berklee College of Music, Howard University, and Spelman College …

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK Speaking of Beyonce, she’s topping the list of nominees for the upcoming 2017 BET Awards, along with fellow nominees Bruno Mars, Migos, Chance the Rapper, and Solange. The 17th annual BET Awards will

air live from L.A. on June 25, and you can get a sneak preview of all the nominees at www.bet.com …

THE BUZZ Detroit native Madonna is set to be the subject of a film biopic about her life and career in the early ’80s in New York City. Blond Ambition has been picked up

by Universal …

Grand Rapids’ Garage Bar is kicking off its summer series of Wednesday block parties on June 21 with a show from In the Red. The concerts continue through Aug. 30 ...

Rapper Kendrick Lamar has updated his schedule of tour dates, which will include a

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Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys bandmate Mark Lavengood just released his new solo album, We’ve Come Along, following a successful $15,000 Kickstarter campaign in Grand Rapids …

And Detroit blues legend Thornetta Davis is touring this summer to promote her own new album, Honest Woman … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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

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by meg weichman

ALIEN COVENANT king arthur

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After reviving the Alien franchise five years ago with the panned prequel Prometheus, director Ridley Scott, at the age of 79, tries his hand at getting it right with the next chapter in the saga, an origin story that marks a return to basics.

As much as I might have enjoyed the boldly esoteric headiness of Prometheus, which dared to explore the very meaning of it all, that film ultimately proved an unsatisfying and trying endeavor.

Watching Alien: Covenant’s opening sequence, which features stark Kubrickian tableaus like Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce) talking about the nature of creation to his synthetic android “son,” David (Michael Fassbender, in a skin-tight jumpsuit — never a bad way to kick things off), it seems as though we’re in for yet another highly cerebral rumination.

But after this brief prologue, while Scott might continue down a philosophical vein (e.g., the film quotes the likes of Byron and Shelly), he also tones down the reaching mythology and amps up the thrills. The result: a film with decidedly more slasher vibes. But in trying for a middle ground between the profound and the cheap scare, Scott gets a mix that doesn’t come naturally — making for a tonally muddled but still pretty entertaining franchise entry.

We pick up 10 years after the Prometheus spacecraft has gone missing, and while we’re on a new ship with new characters, I’d still say Prometheus is a must watch (or at least a must Wikipedia) before seeing this one.

Anyway, this new ship is the Covenant, a colonizing ship still seven years out from its destination, carrying some 2,000 souls and a whole lotta embryos. Everyone is in hypersleep, save for android Walter (Fassbender, in a dual role), who keeps things running.

But then a freak accident takes out what seems to be a pretty crucial ship component, and the crew must awaken. Only the captain (James Franco in a distracting uncredited cameo) doesn’t make it out of his hypersleep pod alive.

A new captain, the unsure Oram (Billy Crudup), is tasked with not only fixing the ship but also helping the crew grieve this unexpected loss, one felt all the more deeply since the crew is composed of husbands and wives, and Daniels (Katherine Waterson) is suddenly a widow.

Just like in last year’s ill-fated Passengers, I immediately want to know more about these deep-space travelers, the world they are leaving, and their motivations to become

pioneers. But not only do we not get any of that, we barely get any characterization at all. It’s mentioned that Oram is a man of faith, but as to how that influences anything in the film remains a mystery. I guess there was some Internet-released short film that shared the crew’s backstories, but that seems like a cop-out.

So the crew makes the necessary fixes, and while doing so, intercept a recording that leads them to a planet that appears to be even more inhabitable than the one they’re headed for — and it’s close by. With no one wanting to return to their sleep pods, all but an objecting Daniels agree to head for this new, totally too-good-to-be-true planet, and the stupid decisions of ostensibly smart people start piling up from there.

The crew is composed of a pretty eclectic cast that also includes Oscar-nominee Demián Bichir (A Better Life); Carmen Ejogo (Fantastic Beasts); and comedian Danny McBride, but their talents are never put to use. And even the ostensible heroine, Daniels, with her painfully bad mop-top haircut, proves to be a nothing more than a poor Ripley facsimile. The only exception to underwritten characters is Fassbender, doing double duty as both Walter and his android predecessor, David, a passenger on the Prometheus. The crew finds David on the new planet, and guess what? He hasn’t just been twiddling his thumbs.

Watching Fassbender go head-to-head with himself is truly a thing of wonder. He delivers a spectacularly unnerving performance, one of Darwinian meditation and god complexes, and the scenes between the two androids are by far the most haunting and rewarding.

When there’s no Fassbender to be found, this is a gruesome outing, one that trades heavily in silly horror tropes (there’s a sex-inthe-shower kill scene for Chrissake). There’s so much blood and so many xenomorphhuman eruptions (ones that make that iconic scene in 1979’s Alien seem like child’s play) that it doesn’t build its suspense to anything.

No, it gives of its gore too freely and openly for that kind of payoff.

Yet, despite the repetitiveness, the heavyhanded messaging, and general predictability, Alien: Covenant is still pretty scary. This is a fact that has a lot to do with the masterful visuals and set pieces that communicate austere moodiness and claustrophobia so well.

Scott’s definitely not breaking a sweat here, but the dark and ominous cinematography is something worth seeing, and when you get double the Fassbender, it’s more than bang for your buck.

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n these original-story-averse, and Game-of-Thrones-loving times, King Arthur actually seems about due for a reboot — a canonical work where someone could leave a mark. And this time around that someone could be director Guy Ritchie, whose reboots of properties like Sherlock Holmes brought something new to the table in an enjoyable way and who has an innovate and unique visual style — facts together that seem to practically prophecize, Hey, at least this will probably be fun. But, as is turns out, Guy Ritchie will not be the one to pull the sword from the stone and bring the satisfying Arthur of every “The-Onceand-Future-King” reader’s dreams to the screen. Worse yet, you won’t even get to have much fun. Because while there are glimmers of the cheeky delight found in Ritchie’s gangster films like Snatch, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is never enough of a romp. In this, the first of supposedly six planned films (yeah, that kind of optimism is almost endearing), the focus is on a streetwise Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) getting Excalibur, discovering his true heritage, and going from reluctant hero to taking back the throne from his power-hungry uncle, Vortigern (Jude Law). While I can certainly appreciate that this doesn’t go down the expected Guinevere-and-Lancelot-love-triangle path, without Guinevere, women are only here to get stabbed. And you can’t take away the thoughtful and melancholy Arthur while failing to offer any significant female presence. They needed to make a little more room at the (round) table.

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veryone’s favorite misfit band of intergalactic mercenary heroes are back in a sequel that equals or maybe surpasses the original. It has just as much heart, the soundtrack is just as rocking, it’s still laugh-out-loud hilarious, and though it trades heavily in snark, the feelings you’ll develop for these characters grow even deeper. There’s the verdanthued assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana), that genetically-altered talking raccoon Rocket (Bradley Cooper), deadpan literalist Drax (Dave Bautista), and of course Star-Lord (everyone’s BFF Chris Pratt), the abducted Missourian turned space bandit.

And joining them is Star-Lord’s long lost father Ego, played by none other than Kurt Russell with a swagger that trades on his legendary status in the most delightful of ways. And of course, the irresistible, adorable, Baby Groot, who truly steals both the film and your heart. Star-Lord and Gamora do their “unspoken” thing, enemies become allies, and family takes a focal point. It’s about sisters, fathers and sons, and the surrogate families we create – it’s a beautiful thing. Returning director James Gunn knows this world. He’s one of the misfits, and while not every bit lands, he has made a visual and verbal feast with a sincerity of spirit that speaks to us all.

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Following the real-life exploits of British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, and archaeologist Percy Fawcett, The Lost City of Z takes us back to the days when honest-to-god explorers were a thing. Adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name by David Grann, this is an old-fashioned, nay, old-world adventure in the most classical of senses — which means that even though there are cannibals, shrunken heads, flesh-chomping piranhas, and spear-throwing natives, this is not an Indiana Jones-style throwback. No, it’s much more Merchant Ivory than anything Spielbergian, combining an adventurous expedition with chamber drama. The film’s quixotic quest follows Fawcett’s (Charlie Hunnam, Sons of Anarchy) obsessive search deep into the Amazonian jungle for a lost city he calls Z (pronounced zed), the needs of his growing family be damned. The motivations for his search prove complex, his relationships compelling, and Hunnam is spectacular in the role, radiating appeal, confidence, and the perfect amount of melancholy.

Stylized in the lavish manner of Visconti, with the natural lighting and sensibilities of Kubrick in Barry Lyndon, this is a breathtakingly detailed film with profound sense of time and place that delivers devastating and haunting moments. And that ending, with its speculative bit of magic, will linger.

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM, TC 5/30 -- Open & un-mic'd w/ Ben Johnson, 7-9 Fri -- Andre Villoch, 7-9

LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC Mon -- Open mic w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 6/2 -- Escaping Pavement, 6-8

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LITTLE BOHEMIA, TC Tue -- TC Celtic, 7-9

CHATEAU CHANTAL WINERY & INN, TC 5/28 -- Jazz at Sunset w/ Jeff Haas Trio & TC Area Jazz Bands Students, 3-5:30

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RARE BIRD BREWPUB, TC 5/31 -- The Pistil Whips, 8:30-11 SIDE TRAXX, TC Wed -- Impaired Karaoke, 10 6/2-6/3 -- DJ/VJ Mike King, 9 TC WHISKEY CO. 5/31 -- Mitchell McKolay, 6-8 TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC Tue -- Turbo Pup, 7-9 Wed -- Open Mic w/ E Minor, 7-9 Thu -- G-Snacks, 7-9 Fri -- Rob Coonrod, 7-9 Sun. -- Kids Open Mic, 3 THE FILLING STATION MICROBREWERY, TC 5/27 -- Steve Leaf & The Ex Pats, 8-11 5/28 -- Clint Weaner, 1-4pm 6/1 -- May Erlewine, 7-10 6/2 -- Sweetwater Blues Band, 8-11 6/3 -- Railroad Depot Blues Fest, 8-11

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Detroit's Hidden Agenda Band returns to the 10th Annual Here Comes the Sun Party at The Cove in Leland on Memorial Day from 1-5pm; doors open at 11am. Influenced by The Motown Sound, R&B & smooth jazz, the Hidden Agenda Band plays a variety of music.

Antrim & Charlevoix BOYNE CITY TAPROOM 5/27 -- Yankee Station , 8 BRIDGE STREET TAP ROOM, CHARLEVOIX 5/28 -- Chris Calleja, 7-10 5/30 -- Sean Bielby, 7-10 6/2 -- Jabo Bihlman, 8-11 6/3 -- Eric Jaqua, 8-11 6/4 -- Owen James, 7-10

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RED MESA GRILL, BOYNE CITY 5/30 -- Blake Elliott & The Robinson Affair, 6-9 6/4 -- Live Jazz, 6-9

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I’ve had relationships with (masculine) gay men, but I’m often attracted to masculine straight men. I’m not looking to “turn” them, and I’m ready for a relationship, so I’m concerned that I’m so frequently attracted to men who won’t be interested in me. What is this about? Do I need therapy?

— Worried Gay Guy

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: Like you, I happen to like men who look like their hobbies are chopping down trees and going to war with foreign powers.

I am not attracted to femmy men in body glitter with My Little Pony haircuts. Luckily for me, the sort of people I am attracted to did not require me to come out to my parents (“Mom and Dad…I-I-I’m straight”), nor are my preferences considered reason for suspicion that I might be a self-loathing heterosexual.

As for you, because of the ugly views and behaviors toward gays, sure, it’s possible that your being attracted to straight men is some sort of internalized version of those camps for “praying away the gay.” (If that seems to be a possibility, yes, you should look into that — perhaps with a therapist’s help.) But if you were really so self-loathing and in denial about being gay, wouldn’t you just be sneaking glances at all the manly men on your way to marrying a woman and buying a house with a lot of closet space?

Your being a manly man who’s into boyfriends who wield power tools not intended for hairstyling might be explained by research on “assortative mating.” This basically means “like mates with like” — reflecting how we seem motivated to choose mates who are similar to us on various levels, from age to looks to race to personality. In the gay world, psychologist J. Michael Bailey’s research finds that masculine gay men tend to prefer masculine partners (Conan the Barbarian versus Conan the Featherboa-tarian).

Increased similarity between partners is associated with happier, longer-lasting relationships. This makes sense, considering that more similarity means more compatibility — from shared beliefs to shared interests and activities. So, it’s good news you’re eyeing the manlier men, even if many are ultimately “for display purposes only.”

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Of course, it is possible that you’re telling yourself you want a relationship but picking people totally unavailable for one. (For straight women, this often involves a onesided affair with a member of the British royal

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family.) If that isn’t the case, why worry that your ideal relationship is basically a nature preserve for chest hair and testosterone? Just accept that it might take a little more effort to find a boyfriend for whom “contouring” is not skillful makeup application but helping you get the back of your head with the Weedwhacker before your welding group arrives.

Bleachable Moments

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: I went through a crazy party girl period in my 20s. My boyfriend recently asked me how many men I’d slept with before him. I told him, and he freaked out at the number — despite his having his own wild past. Now I wish I hadn’t been honest. What should I have said instead?

— Glum

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: It’s usually best to keep mum if the number of men is something like “I’m not exactly sure because the census takers keep fainting from exhaustion while they’re tallying up my total.”

There is a sexual double standard, though it doesn’t come from men wanting to keep women’s sex drives in park (which wouldn’t exactly serve their interest). What’s telling, however, are sex differences in jealousy — specifically, jealousy over infidelity.

Evolutionary psychologist David Buss finds that men across cultures are most distressed by sexual infidelity — the sex acts themselves.

Though women aren’t exactly “yeah, whatevs” about their partner’s doing the nudie tootie with another woman, women are substantially more distressed by his being emotionally gaga about someone else. (A woman’s first question is inevitably: “But do you luvvvv her?!”)

These differences in freakouts dovetail with men’s and women’s differing evolutionary concerns. Women evolved to worry that their partner would divert his investment of time, energy, and resources in her and her children to a rival. Men, however, have a different worry. Because a man can never really be sure whether a child is his (“paternity uncertainty”), any sex act his partner has with another man could lead to his spending decades feeding and caring for some other dude’s genetic offspring.

The thing is, having a crazy party girl period doesn’t mean you’re unethical. It’s possible that pointing that out to your boyfriend might help. If, in the future, another boyfriend asks for your sexual tally, be generally honest — you were a bit of a party girl — but avoid giving any specific number that suggests that this involved much of the Democratic Party (and a few straggling Greens).

“Jonesin” Crosswords

"Snappy Comebacks"--get your return on investment. by Matt Jones ACROSS 1 Horseshoe-shaped fastener 6 Center of attraction, so to speak 11 Like some answers 14 Judge’s place 15 Kazakhstan range 16 Marriage starter 17 Gloss over, vocally 18 Grab a belief?

20 Pizza ___ (2015 meme) 21 Disturbance 23 Low tattoo spot 24 Bar tests?

26 Holes in Swiss cheese 27 “M*A*S*H” character’s cutesy Disney Channel series?

31 Four-award initialism 32 Charmed 36 The whole thing 37 Airwaves regulatory gp.

40 Planetarium depiction 41 Call for Lionel Messi 42 Northern California draw 45 One of four on a diamond 46 Brothel owner on a pogo stick?

50 Word in multiple “Star Wars” titles 53 Neighbor of Morocco 54 Acid in proteins, informally 56 ___ District (Lima, Peru beach resort area) 57 Maggie Simpson’s grandpa 60 Queen of paddled boats?

62 Injured by a bull 64 Ginormous 65 The first U.S. “Millionaire” host, to fans 66 Bring together 67 Part of IPA 68 Having lots of land 69 Ford Fusion variety

DOWN 1 Lyft competitor, in most places

2 Bauhaus song “___ Lugosi’s Dead” 3 “Don’t bet ___!”

4 ___ Soundsystem 5 Stanley Cup org.

6 Sailors’ uprising 7 “A Little Respect” synthpop band 8 They get greased up before a birthday 9 A.L. Central team, on scoreboards 10 Schnauzer in Dashiell Hammett books 11 Swear word?

12 “Hello” singer 13 Completely, in slang (and feel free to chastise me if I ever use this word) 19 Calendario starter 22 Slick stuff 24 Frequent chaser of its own tail 25 Mt. Rushmore loc.

27 Make a mad dash 28 Give creepy looks to 29 Tattled 30 “Snatched” star Schumer 33 Word before kill or rage 34 “Let It Go” singer 35 Consider 37 “Learn to Fly” band ___ Fighters 38 Barry Manilow’s club 39 Increasingly infrequent dashboard option 43 Full of complaints 44 Political placards in your yard, e.g.

45 Sheep’s sound 47 Made out 48 Miracle-___ (garden brand) 49 “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” bassist Charles 50 Brand name in the smoothie world 51 Server piece 52 Morose song 55 Gumbo veggie 57 Uninspired 58 B in Greek Philosophy?

59 Genesis setting 61 DOE’s predecessor 63 It comes after twelve

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aSTRO

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BY ROB BREZSNY

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): “The most intense moments the universe has ever known are the next 15 seconds,” said philosopher Terence McKenna. He was naming a central principle of reality: that every new NOW is a harvest of everything that has ever happened; every fresh moment is a blast of novelty that arises in response to the sum total of all history’s adventures.

This is always true, of course. But I suspect the phenomenon will be especially pronounced for you in the near future. More than usual, you may find that every day is packed with interesting feelings and poignant fun and epic realizations.

This could be pleasurable, but also overwhelming. Luckily, you have the personal power necessary to make good use of the intensity.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): “If you want a

puppy, start by asking for a pony,” read the bumper sticker on the Lexus SUV I saw. That confused me. Would the owner of a Lexus SUV be the type of person who didn’t expect to get what she really wanted? In any case, Pisces, I’m conveying a version of this bumper-sticker wisdom to you. If you want your domestic scene to thrive even more than it already does, ask for a feng shui master to redesign your environment so it has a perfect flow of energy. If you want a community that activates the best in you, ask for a utopian village full of emotionally intelligent activists. If you want to be animated by a focused goal that motivates you to wake up excited each morning, ask for a glorious assignment that will help save the world.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Life is in the mood

to communicate with you rather lyrically. Here are just a few of the signs and portents you may encounter, along with theories about their meaning. If you overhear a lullaby, it’s time to seek the influence of a tender, nurturing source. If you see a type of fruit or flower you don’t recognize, it means you have a buried potential you don’t know much about, and you’re ready to explore it further. If you spy a playing card in an unexpected place, trust serendipity to bring you what you need. If a loud noise arrives near a moment of decision: Traditionally it signifies caution, but these days it suggests you should be bold.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your body is

holy and magic and precious. I advise you not to sell it or rent it or compromise it in any way -- especially now, when you have an opening to upgrade your relationship with it. Yes, Taurus, it’s time to attend to your sweet flesh and blood with consummate care. Find out exactly what your amazing organism needs to feel its best. Lavish it with pleasure and healing. Treat it as you would a beloved child or animal. I also hope you will have intimate conversations with the cells that compose your body.

Let them know you love and appreciate them. Tell them you’re ready to collaborate on a higher level.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Nobody likes

to be scrutinized or critiqued or judged. But we Crabs (yes, I’m one of you) are probably touchier about that treatment than any other sign of the zodiac. (Hypersensitivity is a trait that many astrologers ascribe to Cancerians.) However, many of us do allow one particular faultfinder to deride us: the nagging voice in the back of our heads. Sometimes we even give free rein to its barbs. But I would like to propose a transformation of this situation. Maybe we could scold ourselves less, and be a bit more open to constructive feedback coming from other people. Starting now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The lion’s potency,

boldness, and majesty are qualities you have a mandate to cultivate in the next three weeks.

To get in the righteous mood, I suggest you gaze upon images and videos of lions. Come up with your own version of a lion’s roar -- I mean actually make that sound -- and unleash it regularly. You might also want to try the yoga posture known as the lion pose. If you’re unfamiliar with it, go here for tips: tinyurl.com/lionpose. What else might help you invoke and express the unfettered leonine spirit?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “What does

it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan posed that question. I invite you to put it at the top of your list of hot topics to meditate on. In doing so, I trust you

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won’t use it as an excuse to disparage your companions for their inadequacies. Rather, I hope it will mobilize you to supercharge your intimate alliances; to deepen your awareness of the synergistic beauty you could create together; to heighten your ability to be given the universe by those whose fates are interwoven with yours.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): From my study of

the lost prophecies of Nostradamus, the hidden chambers beneath the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and the current astrological omens, I have determined that now is a favorable time for you to sing liberation songs with cheeky authority . . . to kiss the sky and dance with the wind on a beach or hilltop . . . to gather your most imaginative allies and brainstorm about what you really want to do in the next five years. Do you dare to slip away from businessas-usual so you can play in the enchanted land of what-if? If you’re smart, you will escape the grind and grime of the daily rhythm so you can expand your mind to the next largest size.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “On some hill

of despair,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell, “the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky -though it’s true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in.” You may not exactly feel despair, Scorpio. But I suspect you are in the throes of an acute questioning that makes you feel close to the edge of forever. Please consider the possibility that it’s a favorable time to find out just how much light and heat are hidden inside you. Your ache for primal fun and your longing to accelerate your soul’s education are converging with your quest to summon a deeper, wilder brilliance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re

in a phase when you have the power to find answers to questions that have stumped you for a while. Why? Because you’re more openminded and curious than usual. You’re also ready to be brazenly honest with yourself. Congrats! In light of the fact that you’ll be lucky at solving riddles, I’ve got three good ones for you to wrestle with. 1. Which of your anxieties may actually be cover-ups for a lazy refusal to change a bad habit? 2. What resource will you use more efficiently when you stop trying to make it do things it’s not designed to do? 3. What blessing will you receive as soon as you give a clear signal that you are ready for it?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A typical

Capricorn cultivates fervent passions, even to the point of obsession. Almost no one knows their magnitude, though, because the members of your tribe often pursue their fulfillment with methodical, business-like focus. But I wonder if maybe it’s a good time to reveal more of the raw force of this driving energy than you usually do. It might humanize you in the eyes of potential helpers who see you as too strong to need help. And it could motivate your allies to provide the extra support and understanding you’ll need in the coming weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In accordance

with the astrological omens, I invite you to carry out a flashy flirtation with the color red.

I dare you to wear red clothes and red jewelry.

Buy yourself red roses. Sip red wine and savor strawberries under red lights. Sing Elvis Costello’s “The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes” and Prince’s “Little Red Corvette.” Tell everyone why 2017 is a red-letter year for you. For extra credit, murmur the following motto whenever a splash of red teases and pleases your imagination: “My red-hot passion is my version of high fashion.”

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