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this season? With these manners, this town is going to lose out on gay visitors. A homophobic community is not attractive to any family looking for a no-nonsense, peaceful visit. And that’s opposite of what is desired. Traverse City has a lot to love.

Tom Smith, current local address under siege, Traverse City

Killer Shoes Because of several unsuccessful attempts by shoe bombers to blow up passenger jets (the most recent being in 2009 in Detroit), billions upon billions of innocent Americans have had to remove and place their shoes into airport security bins. If we had a giant organization known as the NSA (National Shoe Association) contributing funds to key politicians, we could put an end to this incredible waste of time and money, because as you well know, shoes don’t kill people, people kill people.

The model the NSA could emulate would be the NRA’s successful protection of the assault rifle, which is arguably a little more dangerous than the shoe.

Bob Ross Pellston What A Dem Wants Some pundits say that Democrats are too busy opposing Trump to say what they’re for. OK, here are a few things this Democrat is for: Job creation, accomplished through strengthening demand by putting money in the pockets of the middle class — not by giving obscene tax cuts to the rich.

Universal healthcare. No one, especially a child, should die because they can’t afford medical care. A minimum wage that enables people with full-time jobs — including food service workers — to pay for basic food, clothing, and shelter. A progressive tax code, where the rich pay their fair share. Properly funded traditional public schools. Keeping Social Security and Medicare intact. Effective border security — not a $25 billion wall. Sanctity of the ballot box — secure and convenient voting procedures, protection of our electoral process from outside interference, and no gerrymandering. A strong but not wasteful military (let’s not spend money just to line the pockets of defense contractors).

An effective but humane immigration

policy: Deport bad guys, but quit deporting veterans and quit ripping families apart by deporting people who’ve been here since age two. A free press. Clean air and water.

An environmental policy informed by peerreviewed science. Job training for workers displaced by globalization, automation, or the changeover to renewable energy.

Getting big money out of politics. And a U.S. representative who — unlike Jack Bergman — is beholden to his constituents, rather than to a few major donors.

Also, I’d like a president who sets a decent personal example, doesn’t cozy up to dictators, doesn’t attack everyone who dares disagree with him, and doesn’t set policy by tweeting.

If you see things differently and want to have a calm, rational discussion, great. But if you just want to shout “Lock her up!” or “Benghazi!” it’s not going to be very productive.

Welcome to the Gun Show, Rogers Mary Keyes Rogers’ column (“Something Surprising,” March 26 issue) was actually interesting and non-hysterical, unlike most columns about guns. The revolt in Cincinnati really happened. It happened because the leadership of the NRA was not listening to the danger signals from the Left about restricting gun rights. The old guard wanted to keep on doing business as usual — doing hunter safety, running shooting matches, helping with the U.S. Olympic team, which we would all like to do if Liberals would leave us alone. John Dingell alerted us to the danger and encouraged us to establish a legislative action department, which was reluctantly done. Cincinnati made it not so reluctant. Anaheim, where I participated in another coup, solidified it.

The idea of having to meet standards to exercise Second Amendment rights and no others is hypocritical at best. Any attempt to establish standards for voting is met with howls of indignation from the Left, for example. Background checks? Why? Nobody with the slightest problem would submit to one, so they accomplish nothing positive. What they do is establish a registry of people who at least inquired about legally buying a gun. Honest people. No one else.

And a registry has one purpose: to facilitate confiscation at some future date. Records of inquiries aren’t supposed to be kept?

Don’t make me laugh. You can bet they’re kept somewhere.

Mandated training? By whom? What kind of training? Who determines when or if the trainee is qualified? What are the qualifications of the qualifiers? If they are Leftists, they could, and probably would, simply flunk everybody and disarm everybody that way.

I’m glad Ms. Rogers looked things up. Now I invite her to the Cedar Rod and Gun Club to find out how much fun shooting sports are.

Charles Knapp, Maple City

Tom Gutkowski, Elmwood Twp. TC Targeting Gays?

I’m a retired man, 66. Former graphics tech for 30+ years. Educated. Homosexual.

You have a f***ed up town. I am targeted and attacked by citizens and city administration.

I am pulling my investments here and going somewhere else. I do this because this city is homophobic.

I’m from Chicago — the part of Chicago that’s in Indiana. I was shot at, ripped off, messed with by cops a lot in Chicago ... but never for being queer. (Usually because I had some money; the two shootings were robberies.) I came here as a refugee from urban violence.

But I’m being run out of this provincial burg by your good citizens.

This town is full of tools. Most willing. This is the persecution that liberals are supposed to reject. Take a look at yourselves. How much rainbow tourism are you anticipating

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

LaSusa v. Antrim County.............................10-11 3 Times a Guinea Pig....................................12 Life, Faith and Drinks....................................13 Security for the Sanctity of Life.......................14 The Cantina....................................................15 Keeping Hope Alive...........................................16 Who is Daniel Wolf?..........................................17 Passion Project..................................................18 Children’s Museum...........................................19 Northern Seen...................................................20

dates...............................................21-24 music FourScore......................................................26 Nightlife.........................................................28

columns & stuff Top Ten........................................................4-5 Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion.............................................................8 Weird...............................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................25 The Reel...........................................................27 Advice Goddess...........................................29 Crossword...................................................29 Freewill Astrology.........................................30 Classifieds..................................................31

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2018 mackinaw raptor fest

2018 Mackinaw Raptor Fest keynote speaker Gene Jacobs will present “Snowy Owl Winter Habitat Use” based on his research using solar-powered transmitters that record owl locations. Held April 6-8 in Mackinaw City, the Mackinaw Raptor Fest features activities that promote awareness and knowledge of raptors and water birds in the Straits region.

Library Gets Green Light

4 For the first time ever, Peninsula Community Library is going to have a home of its own.

Peninsula Township trustees approved a special-use permit to erect a new building, and supporters hope to break ground by August.

Library Director Vicki Shurly said the Friends of the Library group has raised $1.8 million in a little over a year, and she has no doubt they can raise the $2.5 million they need in time to start construction.

“We are very grateful to the community and all they have given,” Shurly said.

The library opened in 60 years ago in the Old Mission Elementary building and it has always shared space with the school. While that’s worked out fine, Shurly said it’s a great time for the library to move to its own home. Some people are confused when they arrive at the library and see that they are entering an elementary school.

“We opened here in 1957, and it was a different world,” she said. “We do have people who question whether they belong here.”

Meanwhile, library supporters are busy selling naming rights in the new building.

If you are interested or want to donate, contact Shurly at (231) 223-7700 or at vshurly@tadl.org.

Read It: Tara Westover’s “Educated”

Tara Westover had no formal education before her 17th birthday. She had never seen a doctor or a dentist.

As far as the U.S. government was concerned, she didn’t even exist. But, exist she has. Throughout her breakout memoir, “Educated”, called “spellbinding” by the staff at Round Lake Bookstore in Charlevoix, Tara Westover details the stiflingly strict upbringing she left behind for the comparative luxe of first-world living. The youngest of seven, Tara’s childhood was spent in rural Buck’s Peak, Idaho, stewing herbal tinctures for “God’s pharmacy” and helping her Mormon fundamentalist father scrap metal. Now, a bachelor’s degree, two guest fellowships — at Harvard and Cambridge, no less — and a Ph.D later, Tara is as educated as they come. But at what cost? In this achingly personal account — I see you, Jeannette Walls — Westover skillfully juxtaposes her new reality with the one she was born into. In a brain-bending wave of Stockholm Syndrome-y introspection, Westover manages to examine the deeply entrenched ties of guilt, loyalty, and even love she still feels for her family, and comes out the other side unscathed. She has crested Buck’s Peak, and she ain’t ever looking back.

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Stiggs’ Roasted Garlic Dip

Back in the late 1800s, it was the White Timber Logging Company. In the early 1900s, it served as an office for the railroads coming in to northern Michigan.

Today, the vintage building — with much of its original flooring still in place — hosts Boyne City’s Stiggs Brewing Company. Here, the bar and tables are artistically bedecked with bottle caps, the beer ingredients are locally sourced, and a vast range of handcrafted brews are on tap, including favorites like Stiggs’ own Avalanche Porter and rotating picks like the Neon Snowsuit lager from Short’s Brewing Company in Bellaire, and Copper Harbor Ale from the Midland Brewing Company in Midland, Michigan.

As many raves as its bounty of beers has earned, it is Stiggs’ uber-popular roasted garlic dip that’s found itself a fan club. To make this appetizing delight, Stiggs blends together a mix of cheeses, roasted garlic, and caramelized onion — plus watercress and brewer’s wheat for a little extra zing — then pairs the creamy schmear with plenty of house-fried pita bread for dipping.

Snag all of the above at Stiggs Brewing Company, 112 S. Park St., in downtown Boyne City. stiggsbrewingcompany.com, (231) 497-6100.

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30 Years of Environmental Awards

Thirty years ago, a bunch of environmentalists got together in Traverse City to honor one of their own.

They handed out just one award: the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council’s Environmentalist of the Year, given to Clarence Kroupa in 1988.

Over the years, NMEAC’s awards have grown tenfold. They are now awarded in categories including student, business, grassroots group, journalism and communications, business, public service/public office, professional, volunteer, general and agriculture.

“The event has added awards that cover many categories and honor many folks working on behalf of the environment and protecting natural resources in the Grand Traverse region,” said Greg Reisig, NMEAC’s chairman. “Over the years we have recognized over 250 individuals and groups doing environmental work.”

NMEAC’s 30th Annual Environmentalist of the Year Awards & Celebration takes place April 13 at 5:30pm at the Dennos Museum and Milliken Auditorium on the Northwestern Michigan College campus. For more information, visit: nmeac.org.

Hit the Hopfest in Petoskey

things we love Caged Dogs Running Free Pups at Cherryland Humane Society don’t want for much: food, water, shelter, and someone to love.

Cherryland provides the first three, and as the pups hope for the latter, Cherryland hopes to give them something else: room to run offleash. To raise funds for the necessary outdoor fencing, the TC-based humane society is hosting Fences for Fido, a jazzy potluck from 4pm to 7pm Sunday, April 8, at Rare Bird Brewpub (229 Lake Ave.). Nosh on high-end edibles from Red Ginger, Taproot, The Cook’s House, Tuscan Bistro, Alliance, Stella, and Rare Bird itself as Jazz North Band backs the scene. Tickets are $50 at the door, $45 in advance from Pets Naturally, 1420 W South Airport Rd., Traverse City.

On April 7, 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, allowing people to buy, sell, and drink beer containing up to 4.05 percent (by volume) in some states. On April 7, 2018, the City Park Grill in Petoskey is honoring the anniversary — since dubbed National Beer Day — by hosting its second annual Hopfest celebration. Expect 16 Michigan breweries pouring nearly 100 varieties of beer, mead, and hard cider for your tasting enjoyment.

The party starts at 5pm and runs until 10pm. Advance tickets, $15, include a Hopfest glass with six 3-ounce pours. $20 tickets will be available at the door. Buy online at wineguysgroup.com/calendar or City Park Grill, 432 E. Lake St. in downtown Petoskey. (231) 347-0101

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Chakradance is a well-being movement practice. It uses spontaneous dance, to specific chakra-resonant music, for the purpose of healing and re-tuning your whole energy system. Think of it as a ‘dynamic moving meditation to music”...or as ‘the musical sister of yoga’ (without the set-piece poses or asannas).

Come connect and dance the rhythm of your soul!

information and class schedules contact Jessica Merwin at Jessicamerwin@live .com www.facebook.com/ChakradanceJessicamerwin

bottoms up Espresso Bay’s Bulletproof Coffee It’s not far-fetched to say this issue was brought to you in part by Espresso Bay’s Bulletproof Coffee, the new addiction of several Northern Express staffers. Based on the concoction made famous by biohacker entrepreneur Dave Asprey, Bulletproof Coffee is said to suppress hunger, improve brain function and focus, and give its imbibers steady, lasting energy without a caffeine crash. Espresso Bay’s version starts with a pour-over made from fresh-ground organic, low-toxin Kalossi beans. That’s blended with organic grass-fed butter and MCT (medium-chain triglyceride) coconut oil — both purported to facilitate fat loss and peak performance of brain and bod — into a creamy, frothy, and truly tasty cup o’ joe. While we honestly can’t say whether Bulletproof’s promises are true (or simply us, hoping they are), the fact remains that on the mornings we chug it, we’re totally focused and cranking all day. $5, 202 E. Front St, Traverse City. (231) 7151856, espressobay.com.

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OF PROTESTS AND PRIVACY

spectator by stephen tuttle Is this their Vietnam?

That’s the question now being asked about the students participating in the recent March for Our Lives protests condemning gun violence and demanding reform.

Protests against the Vietnam War started in earnest immediately after the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. It was the phony rationalization for dramatically increasing our commitment of personnel and equipment in Vietnam. The protest were small, at first, but grew consistently larger over time and continued until we left Vietnam in 1975.

That war cost the lives of 58,220 Americans in a little more than a decade. In the last decade in the United States, there have been more than 280,000 gun-related deaths, including suicides and accidents, so the protesters cause is not without some justification.

But they have a long and bumpy road ahead of them.

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What we’re currently hearing from the protesters, which started with a group of students from Parkland, Florida, is not a cry to ban all guns, despite what the NRA and others on the fringe of the issue claim.

They do want to ban so-called assault rifles, an attractive target given their usage in several recent slaughters. They would also like to require digitized, universal gun registration, including gun shows, and a ban on high-capacity magazines. All three of those notions are supported by a majority of the public but not a majority of elected politicians.

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********** Did you really still believe your social media and other online information was private?

How many more breaches before we all start to catch on?

The latest is the revelation that Facebook gave information about some 50 million members to a professor, ostensibly for private research. All of that information then found its way to third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, a research firm that assisted President Trump’s election campaign. It might also have found its way to Stephen Bannon, the former Trump attack dog (he denies it), and John Bolton, the president’s choice as his next National Security Advisor.

Why would such information help a campaign? Because Facebook, and all social media sites, know almost everything about its members. They know where we eat, where we shop, what we read, where we vacation,

What we’re currently hearing from the protesters, which started with a group of students from Parkland, Florida, is not a cry to ban all guns, despite what the NRA and others on the fringe of the issue claim. staying power and a clear, consistent message.

The other side of that coin is the Occupy Wall Street protests, which had both a garbled message, or many garbled messages, and didn’t last beyond the year they began.

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side of the issue, as well as powerful politicians. They’ve made a good start, but a start is all it was. Now the hard work begins.

They’ve already had some success. Some states are at least considering tougher registration laws and age restrictions. The Department of Justice is likely to ban bump-stocks, an evil tool that converts a semi-automatic rifle into a nearly automatic killing machine.

But they will need to keep at it if they intend to succeed. They have fierce and effective opponents and a country with an embedded gun culture. The big money is on the other

what car we drive, and that’s just the beginning. How? We tell them with our obsessive posting of every detail of our lives. We just never stop blabbing.

That information, though allegedly not your name, can be mined and sold. It’s why we see the online ads we see. And it’s valuable information for a sophisticated political campaign.

Our profile is bundled with other similar profiles, and political ads can then be specifically targeted based on our information.

Our bank account numbers might be protected from hackers, but our lives are an open book to the data miners. We are a monetized commodity and selling every shred of data they can find about us is how they make a lot of money.

You know those little boxes that pop up and tell us that by using the site we agree to their terms and conditions? We should be reading those, crushingly boring as they are. It’s where the ugly secret — that they can harvest us and, in many cases, sell us to second parties — lies.

Using email instead? Our own government keeps tabs on that, and every keystroke is available to them.

There is nothing private in the digital age.

Nothing. And no organization has yet figured out how to change that. Every post, every internet search, every email is being recorded and mined by somebody. It’s what they do. And, so far, there’s nothing we can do to stop it.

Crime & Rescue MISSING COUPLE FOUND DEAD A couple missing since November were found dead in Missaukee County following exhaustive searches.

The couple, Jeff Hurley, 34, of Prudenville, and Alexandria Foust, 19, of Cadillac, were reported missing Nov. 7, prompting a state police search in the 11,680-acre flooding zone known as Dead Stream Swamp.

That same day, hunters found an abandoned vehicle, stuck in mud, in a gas pipeline corridor.

The vehicle contained belongings believed to belong to the couple.

Searches continued for months involving volunteers, search dogs, helicopters, and police amid snow storms, thaws, and freezes.

A March 26 search involving state police search dogs was conducted in the area of the last known location of the couple; it ended upon the discovery of two bodies who appear to match the descriptions of Hurley and Foust, according to a state police news release.

Warm weather allowed searchers access to an area that had previously been inaccessible, police said. The causes of death were not immediately determined.

LOTS AND LOTS OF OUIS The first weekend of spring brought out lots of drunk drivers in Leelanau County. Deputies arrested four drivers over a two-day stretch.

At 4am March 24, a deputy spotted a pickup traveling at 78mph on M-72 near Bugai Road and made a stop. The 19-year-old Traverse City man who was driving was found to be intoxicated and taken to jail.

Just before 8pm that evening, a deputy pulled over a car on M-72 near Harry’s Road for driving 70mph. The 31-year-old Traverse City woman admitted she’d been drinking in Glen Arbor, and she was arrested for drunk driving with a high blood alcohol content.

At 10:47pm, a deputy followed a car that was weaving over the centerline on M-22 in Elmwood Township and pulled over that car. The driver, a 32-year-old Ann Arbor man, was arrested for drunk driving.

On March 25, at 2:25am, a deputy pulled over a car for weaving and going 55 in a 40 mph zone in Elmwood Township. The driver, a 25-year-old Lake Leelanau man, registered a blood alcohol level of 2 1/2 times the limit was taken to jail.

LOW-SPEED CHASE ENDS IN ARREST A driver attempted to avoid arrest rather than pull over when Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies attempted to stop him for driving without a license plate.

Deputies attempted to stop the 40-year-old Traverse City man as he headed north on Garfield Road near Boyd Street, but the man drove on at low speeds.

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The vehicle stopped on Eighth Street, and the man bolted from the car, causing deputies to follow.

One of them used a Taser to subdue the man, who was arrested for drunk driving, fleeing police, resisting arrest, and being a parole absconder.

WINTER WEATHER MARCHES ON Black ice caused a Leelanau County rollover crash.

Deputies and Leelanau Township Fire and Rescue were called to the single-car crash on M-22 near Carlson Road at 10am March 28.

Responders found the driver, a 72-year-old Leelanau Township woman, standing outside her car. She was treated at the scene for minor injuries to her head.

Investigators determined the woman was headed south when she lost control in foggy conditions and hit a patch of ice on a shaded patch of roadway. The woman’s Honda slid out of control, ran off the road, and rolled over.

Deputies said that people should remember that even when the temperatures are in the 30s, patches of ice can appear on the road.

HIT AND RUN DRIVER ARRESTED A man who was headed to a state high school basketball tournament was arrested for hit and run after a pedestrian was struck in Glen Arbor.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies and Glen Lake Fire and Rescue were called to the village just before 9am March 22, after a pedestrian had been hit on Western Avenue. Witnesses were able to provide a description of the car and driver that had fled the scene.

National Park rangers soon spotted a vehicle matching that description speeding along Dunns Farm Road. Deputies responded to the area and tracked down the vehicle to Glen Lake High School, where they found the driver on a school bus, headed to the state championship game.

THREE HONORED FOR LIFE SAVING Two civilians and a deputy who pulled a man from a burning car in Cheboygan County in December received a life-saving award.

The three helped when John Stemback, who was on his way to a Burt Lake cottage, drove into a ditch off I-75, flipping his car. The vehicle caught fire while Stembuck was trapped inside.

Another driver, Charles Wollard, who also had crashed on the slippery roads, was able to get out of his car and check on Stemback’s vehicle. Two others, motorist Scott Doherty and Cheboygan County Sheriff’s deputy Jeremy Runstrom were close behind. Runstrom used a tool to break the car’s moon roof, and the men pulled Stemback from his vehicle.

The three received a life-saving award presented by Sheriff Dale Clarmont March 26.

Deputies arrested the suspect, a 64-year-old Glen Arbor man, whom witnesses said had circled back after striking the pedestrian, then drove off.

Deputies said the hit-and-run victim, who was thrown in the air and landed in the road, was a 45-year-old Boyne Falls man who had parked a dump truck and was exiting his vehicle when he was struck. He was taken to Munson Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.

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bY Isiah smith Jr. Currents of change run through my life like a river.

I am the great grandson of a formerly enslaved man whose name I carry. Isaiah Smith I became a well-to-do farmer and minister after “freedom” came. He became a landowner whose acquisitions stretched across the South, the North, and the Midwest.

My early years were spent in the hostile Jim Crow South. By age nine I had lived in five difference places and attended at least that many schools — all legally segregated.

Consequently, I didn’t learn to read and write until two months shy of my 10th birthday.

Not withstanding those unpromising beginnings, I earned a graduate degree in psychology and, later, a law degree. The details my grandfather shared with me about his father’s life convinced me that, with effort and focus, anything was possible. As Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote: “Instruction does much, but encouragement is everything.”

The memory of Isaiah I taught me that, sooner or later, at some point in your life, you have to decide what and who you are, or whom you are going to become. You have to decide whether you are going to chase the light or embrace the darkness. You are going to have to demonstrate

In his new book, “Elastic,” Leonard Mlodinow argues that much of our everyday behavior is “scripted.” By scripted he means programmed or automatic, or initiated by some trigger in the environment.

A lot of what we do and what we think reflects an ancient, outdated script that plays over and over, in an endless, self-perpetuating loop, inside our heads. A conscious decision is the only thing that’s missing. Mlodinow points out that this scripted thinking operates to prevent us from meeting the challenges of novelty and change. In his view, elastic thinking — that is, thinking that’s flexible and capable of seeing infinite possibilities — succeeds where scripted thinking fails.

Elastic thinking leads to finding new approaches to challenging problems. The most powerful tool in the elastic thinker’s toolkit is imagination. Imagination allows one to see beyond what is and envision what is possible.

It is what empowered my great grandfather to reject the tyranny under which he was living and instead create a better world for himself and the Smiths that followed.

There wasn’t a chance in the world that he was going to allow the odds stacked against him to defeat him. I submit that it was some form of elastic thinking that constituted the

Nothing changes unless you are willing to change and take responsibility for your own life. It is we who are the authors of our own destinies. that you are not going to let forces outside yourself hold you back. Every day you will have to fight the powers that be and forge a life for yourself, even if it means fighting the statesponsored odds that are arrayed against you.

most important factor in Isaiah’s ability to not only survive but also to strive. And it was the greatest gift that he passed down (with mixed success) to me and his other descendents, generation after generation.

Nothing changes unless you are willing to change and take responsibility for your own life. It is we who are the authors of our own destinies.

Only with such a mindset can one imagine a future that’s better than the past and a life that exceeds the high tyranny of the low expectations of others.

The late great essayist David Rakoff, in “Half Empty,” applied the late biologist Stephen Jay Gould’s theory of punctuated equilibrium to the vicissitudes of life: The myth of overnight success is just that, a myth. Change and growth in life is not a constant, nor is it a linear march toward development and self-actualization.

Rather than constant change and growth, we experience long stretches of evolutionary stasis (where nothing happens or, alternatively, bad things happen), followed by irregular bursts of rapid, radical change. If you look deeply enough, you will see that, rather than hold you back, the past might actually propel you forward.

For some, life moves in one direction or another with hardly a hitch. For others, like so many who share my history, the path is a bit rougher, the future uncertain and far away.

Our personal histories can blind us to the opportunities standing right in front of us. The past can rise up, confront you with illusory challenges, and convince you that nothing you can do will change the trajectory of your life.

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Yet, as Moses Maimonides, a 12th-century Jewish sage, wrote: “We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly.

No one forces us. No one decides for us. No one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.”

Mlodinow writes that we are living in a world where the ability to adapt is more critical than ever before. Our future depends on an ability to respond effectively to the demands of novelty and change. We have to create new concepts and paradigms. We must cut our ties to the old ideas about how to be and how to live our lives in a way that recognizes the values of every human being and respects the rights of others.

I think this was the key to my great grandfather’s success and ability to rise above his station in life and to throw off the manmade shackles that were insufficient to enslave his mind. He refused to be tied to old ideas like servitude, ignorance, and feelings of inferiority.

And he bequeathed those powerful gifts to his progeny.

Isiah Smith Jr. is a former newspaper columnist for the Miami Times. He worked as a psychotherapist before attending the University of Miami Law School, where he also received a master’s degree in psychology. In December 2013, he retired from the Department of Energy’s Office of General Counsel, where he served as a deputy assistant general counsel for administrative litigation and information law. Isiah lives in Traverse City with his wife, Marlene.

The Weirdo-American Community A co-ed dormitory at Hunter College in New York City has become the site of a dispute between the college and 32-year-old Lisa S. Palmer, who won’t vacate her dorm room despite having discontinued her classes in 2016. Palmer, who works for an architecture firm, has “racked up a staggering $94,000 in unpaid residence hall charges,” a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court noted. The New York Post reported on Feb. 28 that in June 2016 and fall 2017, she received eviction notices, but she won’t budge. Palmer admitted that dorm life is “really lonely. I feel very isolated.” Palmer was moved into a wing of the dorm that’s occupied only by a middle-aged nurse, whom the college is also trying to evict.

In fact, Hunter is working on removing nine nurses, who were given rooms in the building when it was owned by Bellevue Hospital.

Only in Texas Ana Lisa Garza, a Starr County district judge in south Texas, is running for a state House seat in District 31. Garza has received almost $90,000 in contributions to her campaign, but more than $50,000 of that has been in a most unusual currency: deer semen.

Deer breeder Fred Gonzalez, treasurer of the Texas Deer Association, said breeders often donate semen “straws” instead of money: “Semen is a very common way for us to donate. One collection on a buck could lead to 60 straws sometimes. If you have a desirable animal, it’s a way to bring value without breaking the bank.” A campaign finance report valued each straw donated at $1,000.

Gonzalez told the Dallas Morning News that the semen donated for Garza’s campaign went into a tank sold in one lot, the proceeds of which will go to the campaign.

Oops -- Kenny Bachman, 21, had a rude awakening when he racked up a $1,636 Uber fare on Feb. 23 following a night of partying with high school friends in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Charlotte Observer reported that Bachman and the friend he planned on staying with stopped at a convenience store during the evening.

The friend told Bachman to wait outside as he went into the store, but Bachman was gone when the friend emerged. He had summoned an Uber to take him home -- to Gloucester County, New Jersey. Bachman was passed out for most of the nearly 300mile trip, which was subject to surge pricing, doubling the fare. Bachman challenged the charge but ended up paying the full fare; “I feel like there’s very little I could have done to reverse it,” he said.

-- Miami resident Luce Rameau didn’t know what hit her on Feb. 28 as she lay in bed, talking on the phone. She thought a bomb had gone off as wood and debris fell on her bed.

“I kept screaming, ‘What happened? What happened?’” Rameau told the Miami Herald.

It wasn’t a bomb; an 80-pound inflatable raft had crashed through her roof after becoming untethered from a Royal Canadian Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter that had been conducting an offshore training exercise nearby. David Lavallee, a spokesman for the RCAF, said the accident is being investigated and the air force intends to help “the resident with accommodations and other support.”

Rameau suffered only minor injuries.

Least Competent Criminals -- Caught red-handed: Leahman G.R. Potter, 48, neglected to conceal the evidence after he stole a pot of meatballs from a neighbor’s garage in Hazle Township in Pennsylvania. The meatball owner returned home Feb. 26 to find Potter outside his garage, covered in red sauce, and his meatball pot missing, according to United Press International. When Pennsylvania State Police arrived shortly afterward, they found the pot in the street and Potter at his home, where he was charged with burglary, trespass and theft.

-- KTAR News in Phoenix reported that Peoria Police Department officers were called to a gas station Feb. 23 in response to a shoplifting. When they arrived, suspects Marwan Al Ebadi, 28, and Salma Hourieh, 29, set off on foot before hopping over a fence -- directly into a secured parking lot of the Peoria Police Department. Hourieh tried to hide beneath a bench outside the station, while Al Ebadi jumped back over the fence and was stopped in the street. Both were arrested and charged with shoplifting.

“You should never run from the police,” said police spokesman Brandon Sheffert, “and if you do, do not run into a secure parking lot of a police station.”

Awesome!

Name recognition won’t be a problem for the Libertarian Party challenger for eastern Arkansas’ 1st Congressional District seat: Elvis D. Presley. The Associated Press reported that the King impersonator from Star City, Arkansas, who legally changed his name to match the rock ‘n’ roll icon’s (although the “real” Elvis’ middle initial was A), filed campaign paperwork on Feb. 26. Presley works as an auto refinish technician at Camp’s Custom Paint in Star City, but his political ambitions aren’t new: He’s also run for governor, land commissioner and state legislature.

If It Ain’t Broke ...

Republican State Sen. John Ruckelshaus of Indianapolis is the proud sponsor of a new measure in Indiana that bans eyeball tattooing. According to the proposed law, passed by both the Senate and the House, tattooists would be prohibited from coloring the whites of a customer’s eyes, with a fine of up to $10,000 per violation. The Associated Press reported that Sen. Ruckelshaus admitted he’s not aware of any problems with eyeball-tattooing in Indiana. The legislation was on Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk for his signature on March 1.

Unclear on the Concept Even before it opened last year, Apple’s spaceship building in Cupertino, California, presented a transparency problem: Its glass walls couldn’t be distinguished from its glass doors, and since moving in on Jan. 2, several workers have been injured after walking into them. The San Francisco Chronicle reported three people suffered head injuries severe enough to summon emergency responders.

Apple’s vice president of real estate and development, Dan Whisenhunt, told the local Rotary Club in January there hadn’t been any problems with birds flying into the glass. “Now the humans on the inside, that’s a different story,” he said. “That’s a problem we are working on right now.” Architects have added black rectangular stickers to the glass panes, which seem to be helping.

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LaSusa v. Antrim County

A Miami journalist wants the reports from an Antrim County investigation of a decade-old murder-suicide case. Now he’s suing to get them free.

Mike LaSusa

By Patrick Sullivan

life, but her behavior was erratic following Sam’s death, prompting investigators to suspect her.

In their lawsuit, LaSusa and his father argue that police “relentlessly pursued a murder case” against Avery-Miller. They claim she was charged after “rare legal proceedings” that involved a grand jury consisting of a circuit court judge who reviewed the evidence and handed down an indictment.

Avery-Miller was arrested on open murder charges in November 2009, two years after her son’s death. The following May, she was found hanging from a bedsheet in her cell in the Antrim County Jail. She had been placed on suicide watch when she was first jailed, but she’d since been cleared to live among the general population “There’s a pretty strong possibility that perhaps there was some negligence involved in taking care of Anne when she was in custody, or some negligence when they went about the prosecution,” Mike LaSusa said.

“But I’m open-minded. Maybe there’s nothing wrong, and maybe that’s the story.”

Mike LaSusa was visiting family last summer when conversation turned to a decade-old murder and suicide in Elk Rapids.

LaSusa vaguely recalled the sordid details, so he searched online and read news accounts, first of 16-year-old Sam Avery’s death, and then the suicide, two years later, of his mother, Anne Avery-Miller, in the Antrim County jail.

The case stunned LaSusa, who thought the details made available to the public raised more questions than answers. As an independent journalist who has worked for national news organizations, he wanted to look into it. LaSusa filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the Antrim County Sheriff and the state police looking for the investigation reports.

LaSusa, though, was dismayed to learn it would cost hundreds of dollars to process his requests, which he considered to be in the public interest.

LaSusa and his father, Lawrence LaSusa, a Traverse City attorney, decided to take a stand.

They’ve sued Antrim County and the state police in an effort to get the courts to agree with their interpretation of Michigan’s FOI Act — which mandates that police agencies can’t charge for police reports when those reports are released for the common good.

DISCOURAGING FEES In his work as a journalist, LaSusa said he frequently files FOIA requests with federal government agencies and has never been charged for those reports. He expected a waiver of fees from Antrim County and the

A MULTIFACETED MYSTERY LaSusa, a 27-year-old journalist who grew up in Traverse City and now lives in Miami, is a senior editor for InSight Crime, a website that covers organized crime in Latin America. He’s also written for Truthout, Jacobin, Alternet, VICE News, and the Huffington Post.

“The more I read about the [Avery-Miller] case, the more fascinating it was to me,” he said. “To me, when I read the coverage as an editor and a journalist, what was missing was the official story.”

Sam Avery died Nov. 7, 2007 of a single gunshot to the back of his head. The incident happened in the Elk Rapids home where he lived with his mother. Avery-Miller told investigators that her son had taken his own

state police when he filed his requests for the Avery-Miller files in July.

That’s not what he got.

Antrim County’s FOIA coordinator, Prosecuting Attorney Jim Rossiter, informed LaSusa by email that the request amounted to 700 to 800 pages. If LaSusa wanted the documents sent electronically, he could expect to be charged $287 to cover the labor that would go into processing the documents; if LaSusa wanted paper copies, Rossiter said, it would cost more.

LaSusa said he believes that kind of dollar amount is meant to discourage people from digging into the documents that describe how investigations have been conducted.

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His lawsuit argues that a public body may not charge a fee unless providing the information would constitute “an unreasonably high cost” and that, in weighing whether to charge a fee, the body must consider whether the request is in the public interest, according to the Michigan FOI Act. LaSusa said Rossiter never specified how failure to charge a fee would lead to an unreasonable cost for the county, and he never balanced the cost of the request against the public interest in the release of the information. LaSusa said Rossiter failed to seriously consider his request.

“They didn’t engage in that. Right off the bat, they told me they were unable to waive the fees,” he said. “Our argument is really that they should never have assessed these fees in the first place.”

The lawsuit seeks the release of the documents, attorney fees, damages, and a declaration that the county violated FOIA. LaSusa said he believes that since the purpose of the FOIA law is to give citizens the ability to investigate their own government, when an agency charges something like $287 for documents, that’s meant to make the requester go away. That may not sound like much to some people, he said, but to a freelance journalist, it is a lot.

LaSusa said he called editors around northern Michigan who agreed the fees

The more I read about the (Avery-Miller) case, the more fascinating it was to me,” he said.

“To me, when I read the coverage as an editor and a journalist, what was missing was the official story.

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charged would deter them from going ahead with an examination of the documents.

Lawrence LaSusa agreed that the fees discourage people from filing records requests.

“Do you think the average independent journalist, like Mike, would be able to undertake this kind of litigation?” he said.

“They have a chilling effect that was never intended by the legislature.”

PROMOTION AND AGGRANDIZEMENT Rossiter and the county’s attorney, Haider Kazim, did not respond to messages seeking comment.

In their response filed with the circuit

court in Bellaire, Kazim argued that Rossiter did explain why the fee was necessary: The request required employees from three departments to search for records and redact them, work that took 10 hours. The FOIA cost was calculated by using the hourly wage of the lowest-paid employee involved in the search.

Kazim argued that the FOI Act does not entitle citizens to receive public records free of charge and that a fee waiver in this case would have constituted an unreasonably high cost to the county.

Kazim also wrote that the LaSusas’ lawsuit is frivolous and intended to harass and embarrass Antrim County. On top of that, Kazim attacked LaSusa, arguing that the lawsuit is “a thinly veiled attempt at selfpromotion and self-aggrandizement.”

“Plaintiff ’s sensationalization of a tragedy in the context of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case is regrettable,” Kazim wrote.

In a motion for summary disposition, Kazim argued that the lawsuit is improper because LaSusa’s FOIA request was granted, and he could have received the information if he would have paid the fee. (Lawrence LaSusa countered that there was no way to determine how heavily redacted the documents would be prior to paying the fee.)

Kazin argued that Rossiter, as the FOIA coordinator, made a determination that a fee waiver was not in the public interest; Kazim essentially argued that Rossiter determined LaSusa stumbled upon a tabloid-like story and was after a quick buck.

“The County FOIA Coordinator did not consider Plaintiff ’s proclamation of exposing the sordid details behind the suicide of Anne Avery-Miller as ‘primarily benefiting the general public,’” Kazim wrote.

To back up his claim, Kazim cited Mike LaSusa’s own words: In his appeal of Rossiter’s initial refusal to waive the fees, LaSusa argued that there is public interest in delving into a “dark and mysterious, death-filled tale playing out in a part of Michigan famed for its tranquility and natural beauty.”

Kazim argued that Rossiter determined LaSusa’s work would not serve the public interest, but rather, “the person benefiting most would be Plaintiff.”

LaSusa denied that he’s grandstanding in search of personal attention or that he is seeking to sensationalize a traumatic story in the tradition of tabloid journalism “That’s clearly ridiculous. I don’t know how else to respond to it,” he said.

He said he has no interest in sensationalizing the story, and his record as a journalist should back him up. He said his work is thoughtful and analytical. (LaSusa maintains links to his work at mikelasusa. com.)

“You can go and look at every article I’ve ever written. They’re all on the website, because none of them fall into that category,” he said.

LaSusa noted that Rossiter was an assistant prosecutor serving under Charles Koop at the time Koop filed charges against Avery-Miller and when Avery-Miller died, so Rossiter is essentially weighing the newsworthiness of

Anne Avery-Miller

an investigation into his own work.

LaSusa said he believes the public interest of the Avery-Miller case is obvious.

“It’s a situation where something clearly went wrong. This woman killed herself while she was in custody of the County,” he said.

“Whether it’s their fault or not, I guess is a question that could be answered by these documents.”

JOURNALISTS’ FACT OF LIFE The LaSusas also filed suit against the state police in Ingham County. The state police wanted to charge even more than Antrim County to process the request. Lawrence LaSusa said the state wanted around $1,600 to process the order, but he has no idea how many pages make up the reports or how redacted the documents would be.

“The bottom line is that neither one of them should be charging a fee,” Lawrence LaSusa said. “It’s simply not permitted under the FOIA.” Yet, across the state, journalists every day pay police agencies to process FOIA requests, not because they want to contribute to the coffers of law enforcement but because that’s what is required to get the requests processed.

In the lawsuit response, Kazim also argued that local journalists routinely pay fees for documents they request that are deemed to be in the public interest.

“It’s noteworthy that Plaintiff has not cited indigency or inability to pay,” Kazim wrote.

“Instead, Plaintiff has stubbornly refused to pay based only on public interest grounds.”

Lawrence LaSusa said he understands that journalists routinely pay for reports, but he said he doesn’t believe they should have to.

“That may be something that you capitulate to, but I can tell you that they are not permitted to charge a fee unless it results in an unreasonably high cost to the public body,” LaSusa said.

In the case of the Antrim County request, he said he doesn’t understand how waiving a $287 fee could pose an unreasonable cost to a sheriff ’s department with a budget of $3.2 million in fiscal year 2016.

“It’s less than one-one-thousandth of one percent of their budget,” he said.

But if FOIA requests were free, wouldn’t there be more of them filed, burdening small agencies? LaSusa said he doesn’t think there would be too many more requests for documents in the public interest; the purpose of FOIA, he said, was to open up access to government.

“The legislature intended that we’re supposed to have open access to the public documents,” he said.

It would seem that LaSusa’s FOIA request

S P A D AY S | A P R I L 7 - M AY 2 0 could have been filed for reports from a murder case in any county in the state, and the result would have left him wanting to file a lawsuit, but Lawrence LaSusa would not concede that point.

“I don’t know that,” he said. “I’m not going to paint and taint every governmental agency with that brush,” he said.

Anyway, in the Avery-Miller case in Antrim County, the newsworthiness and public interest is clear, he said.

“This is an unsolved mystery of a murdersuicide occurring in our own backyard,” he said. “There were so many irregularities and uncommon occurrences from the inception of that case that I can’t believe that there wasn’t more investigation.”

MEANWHILE, A PROTECTIVE ORDER A hearing over the motion for summary disposition is scheduled before 13th Circuit Court Judge Thomas Power on April 9.

Meanwhile, Antrim County is also seeking a protective order. Officials there don’t want Lawrence LaSusa to be able to take a deposition from Rossiter; they argue that he is a busy official and, anyway, he’s already answered everything he could answer in writing.

The County is also seeking relief from Lawrence LaSusa’s discovery request, which would amount to fulfilling the original FOIA request without the payment of the $287 fee.

Lawrence LaSusa said he planned to file his response to Antrim County’s motions in late March or early April.

As the litigation has unfolded, Lawrence LaSusa said it’s become clear that Antrim County is unwilling to give an inch. The County, it seems, absolutely doesn’t want any questions over whether it is entitled to charge for responses to FOIA requests, even those in the public interest.

“The stonewalling and the level of aggression with their litigation has been unparalleled in my experience,” Lawrence LaSusa said.

He said no matter what happens in Antrim County, he is prepared to take his arguments to higher courts.

Lisa McGraw, public affairs manager with the Michigan Press Association, agreed with the premise of LaSusa’s argument that documents released in the public interest should be free. But she said that, in practice, reporters are routinely charged fees for documents, even when their release serves the common good.

“It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere,” McGraw said.

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Once, Twice,Three Times a Guinea PiG The Northern Express tests three modern-day methods of looking and feeling better — or understanding why you don’t.

By Lynda Wheatley THE CENTER FOR PLASTIC SURGERY, TRAVERSE CITY Halo Fractional Laser Treatment

to explain how I arrived at it. I entered the Center without a clue what I wanted — only complaints about what I didn’t. Before any treatment or product recommendations are made, your face is scanned with a Visia Complexion Analysis System, which takes funky photos and evaluates your skin in six key areas: sun damage, redness, pore size, texture, wrinkles, and spots.

In some ways, my results were startling.

The image’s evaluation of my sun damage, which appeared to suggest my relation to an equator-dwelling lizard, only measured

weekend, I got “the MENDS” — microscopic epidermal necrotic debris — which is a fancy term for “teeny-tiny bronze scabs” that emerge all over your face, indicating that healing is underway. They became a little more dense and dark, and some started peeling away. It looked and felt like I was healing up from a bad sunburn. I went out in public several times. A few second glances, but no frightened stares.

By Monday, much of the MENDS had peeled away, save for some persistent hangers-on around my jaw and hairline. By

controlled storage for the first 40 years of their lives, eventually show signs of wear and tear. And so it’s been for me since I had my first child a little over three years ago.

In addition to joy, she brought me

I laid face up on the scanner table, silent and motionless, while a small rectangle rolled above (but not touching) me, from head to toe. Five minutes.

I’m not a vain woman. But I am a profoundly lazy one. So the idea of any facial treatment, no matter how pricey or painful, that promises I’ll look good without makeup, intrigues me. Fact is, I’m 43 years old. My face sports wrinkles, pimples, unreasonable shades of red on and around my nose, and pores I suspect rival the size of Lake Superior’s basin. The problem? (Besides those aforementioned ones, anyway.) I loathe wearing makeup. The act of putting it on bores me. And frankly, I haven’t yet met a powder or cream that’s fooled anyone into thinking this face is flawless. So why bother?

Enter The Center for Plastic Surgery’s Halo Fractional Laser Treatment.

The Science Promising to improve skin texture and tone, soften wrinkles and the appearance of large pores, and help with sun damage and discoloration. In other words, me. It uses two kinds of light lasers to create micro channels in the epidermis — the top layer of skin — and “create controlled zones of coagulation into the dermis” — the layer below — prompting new collagen production. Or, the Center’s Medical Esthetician Mischelle Fisher said, “You’re basically aerating your skin like a lawn.”

And I won’t lie. It feels like it.

Before I get into the treatment, I need

in at 36 percent. (Zero is best, 100 is the worst. Most folks Up North, Fisher said, clock in under 20 percent.) Its evaluation of my pore size was woefully disheartening yet validating: Three percent. (Like I said, basin.)

My texture? Much like the skin of an orange, Fisher told me — a good thing, because you have to have a thick skin to know this stuff.

Afterward, she recommended two treatment options and detailed what each would — and would not — do. I signed on for the Halo, so named because it’s said to give you an angelic glow.

The Procedure While the treatment doesn’t hurt like hell — you spread a numbing schmear of lidocaine on your face an hour before she rolls the fractionated laser (and a tiny hose of cool air) back and forth across your skin — it feels exactly as she warned me it would: Like a small, nonstop spray of Fourth of July sparklers on your face.

Strangely, my left cheek, which she started with, hurt significantly more than my right cheek or forehead, both of which were barely uncomfortable. Immediately afterward, I looked red-faced and slightly puffy, but more like I had been working out — except for telltale pinpricks of blood on my forehead and above my lips. That night I gently washed my face, applied loads of cream Fisher had given me, and didn’t bother with the recommended Advil; it didn’t hurt.

After The next morning, a Friday, the area around my eyes and my cheekbones were puffier, and my face looked and felt wind-burned. I went to the office; nobody complained about my face. Over the

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the next weekend, I dare say I looked — well, not remotely angelic — but softer. My pores looked less noticeable. My skin tone looked significantly more even. And the texture?

Akin to a baby’s rump.

Two weeks later, I’m pleased with the results, which Fisher said get even better over the next three months. The texture is remarkably soft. Minus my nose, which Halo can’t help, the tone seems even. My pores, while appearing smaller, remain angry little demons albeit less easily irritated. But, in line with my goal, I’m not wearing any makeup on my face, save for what I put on the occasional zit, of which I’ve only had two so far.

The best part, for me, has been something I didn’t expect or even know I’d appreciate: Besides the 10 minutes of morning makeup saved, I don’t worry about the combo of makeup and sweat if I work out at lunch.

Ditto on sunscreen, which I’ve taken to slathering on my face every morning (30 second, tops) and reapplying (almost) as much as doctors recommend.

Final Assessment For $1,350, the cost of the procedure is not something I could afford to do often, if even annually. But for deeper pockets who endure equally deep pores and shallow patience like mine, it’s definitely worth a roll.

PAIN-FREE MICHIGAN, TRAVERSE CITY High-Intensity Laser Therapy There’s something about the promise of being pain-free that seems too good to be true, especially once you’ve started down the road of middle age. Even with decent diet, exercise, and genetics, aren’t some things simply supposed to hurt now? I assume that all humans, unless they’ve been in climate-

sciatica. About 10 weeks of physical therapy at the outset didn’t put a dent in the agony.

And though it’s improved over the years through yoga and the occasional act of getting off my arse during the workday, it still rankles. Her little brother brought to my second pregnancy something else: aching feet, and specifically, a persistent, inexplicable pain under my right big toe if I walk or stand more than 10 minutes. It didn’t go away, as I’d expected, after his birth last year.

It was those two nagging issues I brought to Pain-Free Michigan, which claims to send high-power “laser light energy deep into the body” to reach and repair damaged cells and tissues.

Sound like a bunch of hooey? I know. I kind of thought so too.

The Science Then I read some research and clinical studies. High-intensity laser therapy (HILT), which has only been around for about six years, has shown significant success in relieving pain in many chronic and acute conditions: tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, back pain, rotator cuff strain, and osteoarthritis of the knee and hips, to name a few. The athletic departments at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University use HILT for their athletes, as do professional sports teams. Efforts are even underway for

hospitals to use HILT as an alternative to opioids for post-operative pain relief.

Whereas the more common low-level pain lasers in use today operate up to 500 milliwatts, Pain-Free Michigan’s HILT goes up to 60 watts. If the former are the equivalent of a penlight, said Todd Hall, managing of Pain-Free Michigan, “Ours is essentially a high-beam floodlight.”

That’s not bluster; it’s physics. At 60 watts, Hall’s laser transmits 60 joules of energy per second, enabling it to penetrate more deeply and deliver, with more power and in less time, millions of photons to your tissue.

Photons repair the damaged cells (those cut off from blood and oxygen) but cause no reaction in healthy (fully oxygenated) ones, and stimulate your body’s own response to reduce inflammation.

HILT works — provided you a) apply it to pain that is officially diagnosed, b) follow the recommendations of your laser therapist, and c) support the treatment with a lifestyle that doesn’t aggravate the cause of the pain.

Final Assessment For $175 for three treatments ($80 for a single; per-treatment cost lowers as packages grow), I plan to try HILT again. But maybe not until I’m done hefting chunky toddlers and working nine-hour stretches without moving. Painfreemichigan.com VITAL HEALTH SCORES, TRAVERSE CITY DEXA Scan

The Procedure So where’d that leave me, my sore toe, and aching back? Lying flat with a pair of protective googles on my face while a pain therapist waved a small laser wand a few inches above and around each pain point for about 10 to 15 minutes. The sensation was warm and pleasant. I wanted to nap.

Hall said most people with an average pain condition see improvement within three sessions. I had the lower left quadrant of my back done twice, my toe three times. (Note: The latter was against Hall’s recommendation, who prefers to laser issues that have been diagnosed, such as my sciatica. I hadn’t seen a doctor about my aching toe. Hall told me if the source of the pain were something like a bone spur — not related to cell or tissue damage — the laser wouldn’t be much use.)

After To Hall’s credit, the pain in my toe returned each night, usually after standing or walking about 30 minutes rather than 10. My sciatica, on the other hand, felt immediately, noticeably better after the first treatment.

And its associated pain stayed away for over a week — until I got to a particularly rough week where I sat hunched at my computer all day at work, didn’t do any yoga whatsoever, and then spent the weekend wrangling my chunky one-year-old son and stubborn three-year-old daughter in and out of cars, pajamas, cribs, beds, pajamas, high chairs, bathtubs, etc.

Perhaps not surprisingly, my sciatica reared its hibernating head, and well, I think I can safely say that, per my experience,

The drawback to undergoing back-to-back treatments for your face and body is that you spend a lot more time thinking and talking about your flaws, aches, and pain. A side effect I didn’t anticipate was not only feeling cruddy about my face and body but also becoming moderately obsessive about what I could “fix” next. Which is why I’m glad I saved my visit to Vital Health Scores for last.

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The practice is the brainchild of Medical Director Dr. Douglas Wigdon, a longtime board-certified family practice physician, and Technical Director Mark D. Zemanek, a clinical medical ultrasonographer, who also boasts several board certifications and decades of experience working and teaching in hospitals, clinics, and universities such as Stanford.

The pair makes for a powerful duo of hyper-experienced medical assessment and interpretation. They also offer something few physician practices can afford to these days: comprehensive and data-driven diagnostic exams and health screenings that are uberaffordable and require no prior authorization from your insurance company, plus substantial face-time talking to you about your concerns and results.

The Science The technologies Dr. Wigdon and Zemanek use — among them, a dualenergy X-ray absorptiometry system (aka a DEXA full-body scanner), echocardiogram, A1c blood test, Spirometry lung capacity test, oxidative stress tests (which measure disturbances in the balance between the production of free radicals and antioxidant defenses) — isn’t newfangled, said Dr. Wigdon. They’re available in hospitals around the country. But therein lies the problem, as Dr. Wigdon and Zemanek see it; patients don’t have access to these vital screenings until they’re exhibiting outward symptoms that indicate a problem, their doctor gains permission from their insurance, and/or — worst case scenario — they’re already in the hospital.

The pair aim to remove the barriers to a patient’s preventative health efforts by helping them recognize, through evidence, what’s happening, unseen, inside. That said, I signed on for a DEXA scan, which assesses bone density and body composition.

After I learned I weigh 129.2 pounds. At 63 inches tall, 31.4 percent of me is fat. (Did I mention I had a baby last year?) But I learned something critical: There are different kinds of fat. My subcutaneous fat — the fat under my skin — isn’t a big deal. A typical hallmark of stroke and heart attack, the mass of my visceral adipose tissue (aka the fat surrounding your organs, which visibly thin people can have dangerous amounts of) was only .18 pounds. Zemanek called it “excellent.” Another reason to strut: My bone density was super strong for my age.

For kicks, Zemanek also showed me a few bits beyond the basic DEXA scan: the inside of my carotid artery (no plaque or debris, excellent blood flow) and my heart (ditto).

Final Assessment Getting a detailed breakdown of my body composition feels invaluable. It confirmed I’m doing some things right, and gives me a baseline if I ever find time to improve that body fat v. lean muscle composition, overall, or even if I just want to focus on the weight of my left leg (7.9 pounds of fat and 13.8 pounds of muscle, in case you were wondering). If my results indicated a worrisome direction, Dr. Wigdon and Zemanek would give me an actionable plan for change. The cost? $50, significantly cheaper than the thousands it’d cost me for this in a hospital, if my insurance even permitted it. If I wanted to undergo a screening for everything they offer, the comprehensive two-hour Executive Package, it’d top out at $500. Every other screening runs between $25 and $225.

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The Procedure I laid face up on the scanner table, silent and motionless, while a small rectangle rolled above (but not touching) me, from head to toe. Five minutes.

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Colby Taylor (left) demonstrates defensive tactics with his training partner and mentor Craig Gray (with gun and on floor)

Security for the Sanctity of Life

A local Krav Maga master readies schools and churches for worst-case scenarios

By Craig Manning “I’m always armed. Sometimes I carry a weapon.”

That saying has become something of a motto for Colby Taylor, a local Krav Maga black belt and founder of Covenant Defense, a faith-based security organization in Traverse City. The company — which offers consulting, self-defense training, firearms training, and the like — does work with businesses and even families, but Taylor says the focus is on a niche typically left underserved by the professional security market: churches and schools.

That factor makes what Covenant Defense does particularly timely given the current political climate. The past year has seen violent tragedies on both fronts. A Nov. 5 shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, resulted in 26 deaths. On Valentine’s Day, a teenage gunman brought an AR-15 into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17.

It was, in fact, a school shooting that prompted Taylor to pursue a career in security and defense. Shortly after moving to Traverse City to become a youth minister in 2000, Taylor saw a presentation given

by Darrell Scott, the father of a Columbine shooting victim. Taylor’s deep religious faith and his passion for helping young adults made him feel connected to the victims of that tragedy, even though he’d never met them personally. Slowly, he began sifting through what he calls the “pieces of the puzzle,” trying to figure out a solution to the problem of violence in schools.

That path led to Covenant Defense. The business opened in 2013, with a focus on schools and churches and a faith-driven

mindset that was decidedly different from other security companies. Citing security risks and client privilege, Taylor will not reveal the names of any schools, churches, or organizations with which he has consulted.

“We do what we do because we believe life is a gift from God, and it’s something that should be protected,” he said. “We are doing what we do, not because we like violence, not because we want to shoot bad guys, not because we’re interested in trying to dominate over a human being and make ourselves feel validated and powerful. We do what we do because we want to protect the innocence of children, so they can go to school and learn — so people can go to church and worship as freely as they want to worship.”

Taylor says that security, in many cases, is driven by ego. From private security contractors to security guards in schools, he thinks many of the people working in his industry are “tough guys who get a charge from the adrenaline rush of combat.” He starts every seminar by talking about faith — not to proselytize, he’s quick to point out — but to be transparent about the core mission of Covenant Defense: protecting the sanctity of life.

“If ego is part of the motivation [for a protector], we try to help them out of that,” Taylor said. “Because ego means you are going to make decisions based on you: What makes you look good, what keeps you from being afraid. And that’s not what you’re there to do. You’re there to protect the people.”

This focus on mindset and motivation is at the core of what Covenant Defense does.

By eliminating the “action hero” delusion, Taylor prepares his trainees to make smarter, safer, and more sensible decisions in

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dangerous situations.

Taylor’s expertise is grounded in Israeli methods, which he describes as the best in the world for security and defense applications.

He did his Krav Maga training in Israel, with the founder of Israeli Krav International.

He also underwent extensive training in counterterrorism, VIP protection, and closequarters shooting. He brings those skills to Covenant Defense, teaching everything from counterattacks to defensive firearm tactics.

In Taylor’s view, equipping people in schools, churches, and other vulnerable spaces with these skills is vital to preventing the next wave of shootings and attacks. His courses, seminars, and training programs focus on helping protectors identify threats and respond to a variety of security situations: What are the tells or threat indicators that might give an attacker away? How can you confront and interview a potential threat to reveal motives? What do you do if the person goes for a gun or tries to hit you? Covenant Defense’s training model is designed to answer these questions.

Especially in schools and churches, where attackers have large numbers of potential victims, Taylor says it’s important to have someone with these skills who can engage the threat immediately. The common model for dealing with an active shooter is “Run, hide, fight.” In other words, initiate lockdown protocol, call the police, and hope for a quick response time. Taylor’s question is “How much damage can an attacker do before the police get there?” In most cases, the answer is simple: too much.

As shootings become more common, more schools and churches are starting to see the need for extra on-site defense capabilities. Many, said Taylor, are trying

to solve the issue in the simplest, cheapest way. Often, that means “throwing guns at the problem,” whether in the form of armed security guards or individuals with CPLs (concealed pistol licenses).

“Simply giving guns to people and saying, ‘You’re good’ is ludicrous,” Taylor said. “Simply putting a church security team together based on who has CPLs, and that’s their only training, is a recipe for disaster. To handle a situation in a crowded environment with a gun, when you don’t understand how you need to use that tool to protect life, is only going to make things worse.”

Covenant Defense, Taylor says, is not anti-gun. The company does provide firearm training as part of its security programs.

Taylor also doesn’t believe that gun laws and restrictions are going to solve the problem, which he thinks is rooted in human behavior rather than easy access to firearms.

What Covenant Defense does do is try to get protectors to the point where they can adopt Taylor’s “I’m always armed” motto. In fact, the company won’t even offer firearm training until after an organization has gone through at least 20 hours of training on how to address threats and solve problems without guns. The key, Taylor says, is making sure that a gun isn’t the only tool in someone’s toolbox if or when a threat arises.

In addition to security consulting and training for schools, churches, and business, Covenant Defense offers monthly seminars, standalone training courses, human trafficking and sexual assault prevention presentations, and other events that are open to anyone. Learn more at covenantdefense.com.

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By Kristi Kates Evan Chappuies’ evolution through the local restaurant industry started early.

As in, really early.

“I started working in restaurants when I was 14,” Chappuies said. “I had a job washing dishes at the Villager Pub (in Charlevoix). Since then, I’ve worked pretty much every restaurant role that there is. I never went to culinary school, so I’ve learned on the job, including managing several restaurants in the area.”

The East Jordan native’s most recent venture is The Cantina, also in Charlevoix, in which he partners with local developer Luther Kurtz.

Kurtz is aiming to make one particular section of property in downtown Charlevoix into what he’s dubbed “The Mercado” — a northern Michigan take on a Mexican market square, with a variety of businesses and social venues, including Chappuies’ own.

HIDDEN FIND

“We want The Mercado to be a little destination dining and shopping area, with a fun, vibrant, casual atmosphere,” Chappuies said. “Right next to The Cantina, you’ll also find a flower shop, a fullservice salon, an ice cream shop, and an antique store. Luther rents to all of them.”

The Cantina can be thought of as a “hidden find,” due to its location down The Mercado’s alley.

“We’re really off the beaten path,” said Chappuies. “Luther actually brought the initial idea to me two winters ago. We saw this little building back there that was just a garage. It didn’t even have running water. And he said, ‘Wouldn’t this be the perfect spot for a little Mexican restaurant, like a cantina?’ I took that idea and ran with it!”

The men revitalized the building, adding an addition, a kitchen, and a patio.

“And I brought my good childhood friend Luke Meredith on as chef,” Chappuies said.

SUPER STAPLES

Chappuies and Meredith’s joint goal was to do a quick-service restaurant, similar to Mexican street food but in a more concrete atmosphere.

“All the usual things you’d think of as the staples of ‘authentic Americanized Mexican food — tacos, burritos, tostadas,” Chappuies said.

“But we do try and follow Mexican traditions in working with the food. And Luke had actually worked in San Francisco for a while, so he told me all about his favorite taco trucks and taquerias out there.”

The menu, Chappuies insists, is all Meredith’s work; it’s anchored by those aforementioned tacos, but expands to include a wide range of Mexican dishes, sides, and even a classic dessert.

“The tacos are our staple item, and the most popular item is the Super Burrito,” Chappuies said.

The tacos, on white corn tortillas, can be purchased as singles or multiples.

Guests can choose Margarita from the pollo, featuring green chili-braised chicken; slow-roasted pork carnitas; slow-roasted pulled beef barbacoa; chorizo sausage; or the grilled shrimp camaron. The Papas features crispy fried potatoes, pickled red onion, and salsa verde.

All tacos include veggies like shredded cabbage and chopped onions, salsa, and cotija or chihuahua cheese; the tostadas menu offers similar combinations of ingredients.

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SOUTH OF THE BORDER

As for that Super Burrito, it lives up to its super-duper name. The flour tortilla-rolled extravaganza includes your choice of chicken, pork, beef, spicy sausage, or shrimp, with rice, beans, avocado, shredded cabbage, chihuahua cheese, and pico de gallo, plus your choice of salsa on the side.

“For the vegetarians, we offer our spicy potato burrito, which includes shredded cabbage, avocado, and the chihuahua cheese,” Chappuies added. “Our Mexican chopped salad is also very popular — we get raves over it! It mixes black beans, chihuahua cheese, and crispy fried tortilla chips with romaine lettuce and our homemade cilantro-lime vinaigrette.”

Other savory menu items include nachos; the torta (a Mexican grilled sandwich); posole soup, a traditional Mexican soup with roasted pork, hominy, and peppers; and the queso fundido, a blend of melted cheeses with chorizo and roasted poblanos, served with tortilla chips.

If you’re only up for a small snack, try the chicharrones — fresh-fried pork rinds dusted in dry rub and served with chili-lime mayo — or the elote, The Cantina’s take on grilled Mexican street corn, brushed with chile-lime mayo and covered with cotija cheese.

A wide range of soft drinks — including Mexican sodas — tequilas, margeritas, beer, and other mixed drinks are offered as well.

And for dessert, you can enjoy The Cantina’s churros, which arrive with caramel or chocolate dipping sauces.

It’s all served up in a south-of-the-border atmosphere unique to the area.

COLORFUL CHOICES

“The interior is purposefully very colorful and rustic at the same time,” said Chappuies. “All of the furniture was handmade by myself and my brother, Matthew, out of pallet wood. And much of the interior décor the light fixtures and wall sconces and such — were made by Karen Brennan of Deer Creek Junk. She repurposes all kinds of things into furniture and decorative items.”

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The Cantina seats about 40–50 people indoors, and once the warmer months arrive, another 50 or so outside on a large outdoor patio.

“We also just bought a food truck, which we’ll actually use pretty often right in our own alley way, so that we can increase the amount of people that we can serve,” Chappuies said. “And we’ll be adding even more outdoor seating this summer.”

“During the summer season here in Charlevoix, there can be a two-hour wait or more for tables at the restaurants in the evenings, which can be especially frustrating for people on vacation. So we just want to be a welcoming place, and we’re busy now getting everything ready for summer.”

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By Clark Miller It’s 2009, and Drew Philp is about to graduate from the University of Michigan. He has no interest in a corporate gig. He sets his sights instead on something more tangible – moving to inner city Detroit and doing his small part to make life better there. He is 23 years old.

He buys a completely rundown Queen Anne-style house for $500, cleans out five tons of detritus (including needles, human waste, and half of a Dodge mini-van), then starts a three-year remodeling project on a nonexistent budget .

Philp discusses his book, “A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City,” when he appears on Wednesday, April 11, at City Opera House in Traverse City as part of the National Writers Series. The event begins at 7 p.m.

The on-stage host will be Ron Jolly, host of WTCM’s NewsTalk 580 and author of The Northern Michigan Almanac.

Not the Easy Way Philp starts his adventure with something to prove. Not to others, but to himself. He asks tough questions about social economic injustices in Detroit and elsewhere, then chooses an especially hard way to find the answers he needs.

Working on the unheated house during winters takes a toll on him. Plywood, not glass, fills the window frames. His writing pens freeze every night.

Keeping Hope Alive “ A $500 House in Detroit”

Detroit is a place where we’ve had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep. ~ Mitch Albom, journalist and musician

Paradoxically, some of the richest passages in “$500 House” arise out of these travails.

“The cold created a frantic animal insanity,” he writes. “It’s like being deep underwater, the pressure everywhere.”

He hunkers down, takes work wherever he can find it, and uses every spare moment and dime on making his house livable.

One day he notices that spring has finally come: “When I woke up I couldn’t see my breath and couldn’t remember how long it was since that had happened.”

A New World Philp, a white kid from Adrian, Michigan, is intrigued by the post-industrial landscape that surrounds his house. Deer, fox, and packs of wild dogs roam through miles of empty land, all within sight of Downtown.

The dirt is full of “Detroit Diamonds,” dangerous shards of glass that litter the landscape.

Gangs of “scrappers” sneak into abandoned houses and take anything of value.

Spent shell casings are strewn about on the streets.

While he’s asleep one night, someone tries to break into his house. He’s been warned this moment will come. It’s a test of his resolve to protect himself and his home. Philp, an otherwise gentle soul, reaches for a shotgun, aims it at his front door, swears loudly at the would-be intruder, and waits until the danger is over.

There’s no reason to call the police; they rarely respond.

“I knew that man outside wasn’t my enemy,” he writes. “My enemy was the poverty that drove him to it.”

Only the neighborhood firefighters can be relied upon to show up, and only then if

they’re not stretched too thin, which often happens. In 1984, for example, the city had 800 fires in three days.

Eviction: A Constant Threat Philp knows the city has long given up on the vast swaths of land where former auto workers, most (but not all) of them African Americans, have resided for generations. A few are still hanging on because they either have no other option, or because they hope things will someday get better.

All of them are in a constant battle to keep their homes.

Philp describes some of the bureaucratic hurdles that seem designed to favor land speculators who can afford to buy property then wait for economic “progress” and the weapon of eminent domain to clear out whole neighborhoods.

Acceptance It’s not a particularly friendly neighborhood, at least at first, and Philp slowly begins to understand why. These are people who for decades have seen their community infrastructure collapsing, their friends and family evicted from their homes, and many of the most vulnerable among them killed.

But Philp stays the course, improves his home when he has cash, and maintains a low (but friendly) profile. He shovels snow so neighbors can drive in winter. He lends a hand in other small ways and shows he cares about his house and intends to stay. Just as important,

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he is neither nosy nor judgmental .

That turns out to be the right approach.

Gradually, he makes friends here and there.

He is invited to cookouts, attends makeshift art openings, and makes friends.

“One of the first things I learned was to add my voice to the chorus, not overwrite what was already happening — because the neighborhood hadn’t died, just transformed in a way that was difficult to see if you didn’t live there.

“Community happens like falling in love,” he writes.

“You can’t plan it, or force it, or dissect it like a frog.”

Step by step, he realizes the people of his neighborhood, Poletown, have become his tribe. “… I was the most broke, hungry, and cold I’d ever been, but no one on that block ever let me go without.

They never let me forget I was part of something larger than myself, an organism made of many people, and that I would have the chance to pay it forward someday.”

Adversity But Hope Philp notes that Detroit has already had two great migrations — first African Americans coming to the city to escape the Jim Crow South between 1910 and 1930, then, right after World War II and following the 1967 rebellion, when (mostly) white Detroiters took flight to the suburbs. He says the next great change, gentrification and re-industrialization, seems to be right around the corner.

Until that happens, tourists continue to drive through the neighborhood to gawk at “ruin porn.”

That’s not the only insult to the community: Water service has become a political weapon.

Philp notes that in 2016 alone the number of water shutoffs equaled almost one-sixth of residential accounts in the city, and that the United Nations terms the practice a violation of human rights. He says the shutoffs are “not a crisis of personal responsibility, it is systemic.”

“A lot of resources are coming into the city.

It’s true we’re having a resurgence, but it’s not necessarily touching the majority of people.”

Instead of staking his hopes on politicians or developers, Philp’s view of Detroit’s future is rooted in “radical neighborliness” and the possibility that the labor unions might regain strength.

“It is your sacred duty to find hope somewhere, anywhere, and keep trying to make that world in you wish to live.”

A Busy Guy Philp still lives in the house he renovated.

Since writing “A $500 House in Detroit,” he has published articles in the Guardian newspaper, gone on book tour through America, and will soon travel to India to discuss journalism with students there. Last September, on assignment with the Guardian, he and a photographer hitchhiked through the Rust Belt to document how the drop in traditional blue-collar work is affecting American ideas about masculinity.

For tickets to the Wednesday, April 11, National Writers Series event with Drew Philp, go to cityoperahouse.org, call (231) 941-8082, ext. 201, or visit the City Opera House box office at 106 E. Front St., Traverse City.

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THE CALUMET MASSACRE, BOB DYLAN, WOODY GUTHRIE, AND ONE ANGRY TEEN AUTHOR DANIEL WOLFF REVISITS HISTORY AND HIS ROCK ’N’ ROLL YOUTH, THEN BENZONIA

By Ross Boissoneau When Daniel Wolff discovered Bob Dylan in 1965, he was immediately smitten by one trait: Dylan’s anger. As a 13-year-old in the mid-’60s, Wolff shared that emotion. He began tracking down Dylan’s previous albums and was led to one of Dylan’s forebears, Woody Guthrie.

Wolff was fascinated in particular with one song of Guthrie’s, about a tragic event in Calumet in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

A half-century later, Wolff ’s book “Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre Of 1913” ties together these various strands in a book that’s a curious combination of two biographies and a historical document.

On April 11, Wolff will appear at Mills Community House to discuss “Grown Up Anger,” named a Michigan Notable Book for 2018. The event is part of Off the Page, the Benzie County author series. In the spirit of both Wolff ’s collaborative nature and the subjects of the book, he will be accompanied by Chris Buhalis, a folk musician from Ann Arbor.

“It’s a twist that works for this,” said Wolff.

“I blab a little bit, Chris plays a song, I blab some more, Chris plays, then there’s a question and answer.”

Wolff has done similar appearances with other musicians in the northeast (he’s based in New York state). When in Michigan, he’s frequently appeared with Detroit musician Stewart Franke and rock critic Dave Marsh.

The subject of Guthrie’s song and one of the subjects of Wolff ’s book is a tale of striking Calumet copper mine workers celebrating Christmas with their families and friends in the second-floor ballroom of the Italian Hall on Christmas Eve 1913. The 400-plus people were presumably having a fun and festive time — until someone yelled “Fire!”

There was no fire, but the false cry sent attendees into a panic, and a stampede down the hall’s only stairway ensued, crushing to death 73

or 74 people (depending on the source). Most of the dead were children of the mine workers.

Whether the stairway’s bottom doors opened out or in, or if they were locked or somehow blockaded are questions that to this day are unanswerable. But the fact that the deaths of the partygoers were caused by management supporters has mostly gone unchallenged; accounts of the incident suggested that the man who had spurred the panic was a member of an

anti-union ally of mine management. Guthrie’s song claims the doors were held shut on the outside by “the copper boss’ thug men.”

Wolff said he started backtracking to Calumet when he found that Dylan’s ode to his hero, “Song to Woody,” borrowed the melody from Guthrie’s “1913 Massacre.” Wolff was

off and running. “I decided this was a clue to something. I researched the massacre and found 73 people died, 60-some of them kids.

Dylan, Guthrie, and a sad piece of Michigan’s history, which many are aware of only peripherally, if at all, are all twined together in Wolff ’s book. Yet it’s more than that. It serves as a lens through which to view the history of labor, politics, and the protest song — the lattermost of which Wolff said continues today, albeit often in a different form.

“Hip-hop has political content. Steve Earle, Jason Isbell — they make music that asks questions,” he said.

Wolff said his personal journey to the book took him some 50 years, from first hearing Dylan, to Guthrie, to learning about the Calumet disaster. “There’s a lot of background you have to understand to understand the story. I alternated chapters — Calumet, Woody Guthrie, Dylan — there are a lot of connections that way. It took me a while to assess and then come to the structure,” he said.

Wolff posits there is more to both the book and his upcoming appearance than simply folk fandom or a history lesson. “Why come?” he said, repeating the question. “If you’re angry, this puts the anger in context. If you care about Dylan and Woody Guthrie, or if you want to hear some good music.

“The last line in the [Guthrie] song is ‘See what your greed for money has done.’ It’s what we do about the situation, to get involved in some way.”

Wolff ’s 7pm appearance on Wednesday, April 11, takes place at the Mills Community House, 891 Michigan Ave (US-31) in Benzonia, home of the Benzonia Public Library. Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30; hospitality and booksigning following the presentation. The program is hosted by Benzonia Public Library and Darcy Library of Beulah with assistance from the Library of Michigan. (231) 882-4111 or visit benzonialibrary.org.

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By Kristi Kates Filmmaker and Kingsley native Jeffrey Morgan has been passionate about social welfare since he was a child; he grew up in a large family that spent much of its time and energy caring for kids who had nowhere else to go.

“I had over 40 ‘brothers and sisters,’ over the course of my childhood,” Morgan said, “and growing up that way put into my head just how much the world is full of people dealing with challenges.”

As an adult, Morgan decided that, like his parents, he would strive to help people facing challenges. He started assisting at local Traverse City organizations like Community Mental Health, Child and Family Services, and Goodwill.

But alongside Morgan’s charitable intentions percolated his other passion: filmmaking. After attending Northern Michigan University for two years, he moved to Los Angeles, working in the independent film industry for two years.

“But it became obvious that I wasn’t patient enough,” he said. “It’s hard to be beholden to someone else when you have a film project of your own that you want to work on.”

He returned to Traverse City, confident with that independent film experience under his belt, he could succeed with his own film company, Prometheus Motion Pictures.

“I’m a big believer in the fact that filmmaking now is a have-gun-will-travel industry,” he said. “With the internet, you can send media anywhere. I mean — I do like L.A., and I still travel there or to Europe if needed — but for my base, I chose Traverse City, because I wanted to be in a place where I actually want to live long-term and raise my kids.”

HORSE PEOPLE

After the dust settled from his move, Morgan got back to work. His company focuses primarily on commercials, documentaries, and both short and full-length films. One of the latter is The Horse Dancer (currently available on Netflix), a fictional story he filmed in Croswell, Michigan, at the real-life Black River Horse Camp for girls.

Morgan, his collaborator, Amber Elliott, and his cast and crew were at the camp getting ready to shoot equestrian-vaulting scenes — vaulting is best described as gymnastics performed on the back of a horse — when a couple of women arrived on the set: champion vaulter Mary Garrett, and Karin Schmidt.

Schmidt runs Karin’s Horse Connection at Legacy Stables in Grand Rapids; she brought her vaulting horses for the day’s shoot.

“I went over to greet Karin, and I’m short, so I had to look straight up at these huge draft horses that she brought with her,” Elliott said.

“She simply handed me a lead for one of the horses, and that was it. Karin and I hit it off right from the beginning. We’re both the same type of ‘horse people.’”

Elliott, who’s loved horses her entire life — “even as a kid, I always chose My Little Pony over Barbie, every time,” she said — was immediately impressed with her new collaborator.

“The more we talked to Karin, the more the surprises kept coming,” Elliott said. “Turned out she was one of the first successful female jockeys in history when she was in her teens; she’s spent most of her life traveling around the world, riding famous horses.”

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“Karin works in the Grand Rapids area out of her own stables, teaching riding and vaulting lessons and also therapeutic horse riding,” explained Morgan. “The horse therapy was something we just found so inspiring.”

“We learned that equine therapy and adaptive vaulting have so many possibilities,” Elliott said. “Riding in general helps build core muscles and balance. Add in the vaulting — where people kneel on the horse, or stand up, or ride backwards — and the challenges you

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“After talking to Karin, we really wanted to help spread the information, to help this become more recognized as an alternative therapy, and to let others who own horse stables know that they can offer these therapies to people, too,” she continued. “Karin is also a facilitator, and will go and train stable owners on how to do the therapies.”

“Amber and I talked and said, ‘We just can’t leave here without figuring out how to do something on film with her,’” said Morgan.

“Karin mentioned that a video might help (raise awareness), so we ended up going out to her stables,” Elliott said. “The first time we visited, Kelsey was there. And of course, being filmmakers, we have camera gear on us at all times, so we started filming right away.”

DELICATE MOMENTS

“Kelsey” is Kelsey Secor, a young woman who was in a car accident that had severed her spine.

“She had been in a coma, and she wasn’t supposed to walk again,” said Morgan. “Before the accident, she used to ride horses, so they thought this therapy might help her. We actually ran into Kelsey on her first day out of the hospital.”

“When something is supposed to be, all the chips fall into place,” Elliott added. “We ended up following Kelsey’s story for a year and a half.”

The result: a documentary called Healing with Horses, which is now serving as a pilot for a potential series of episodes about this unique therapy method.

“Filming something like this, you have to be very sensitive to the subject,” Morgan said.

“You’re working with delicate moments. You do have to get the shots, but you also have to let the subject get to know us and be comfortable with us; Kelsey was very quickly on board with letting us tell her story.”

The biggest part of the power of equinebased therapies are the unique connections that form between person and horse. Another part, especially for people like Kelsey who can’t walk, is the “flying” feeling you get riding on horseback.

For other patients — those who have emotional difficulties, at-risk teenagers who feel little joy in their everyday lives, the elderly — it’s the very simple process of being around the horse and its calming environment that are the healing factors.

“You get people out at the stables with these big, powerful animals. it’s a warm day, there’s a nice breeze blowing, they start to build trust

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with the animal, and you can literally watch the growth and change in the patient in just an hour,” Morgan said.

“I think the limitless expectations and the connection with the animals in such a freeing environment allows you to do things you never thought you’d do.”

DIVERSE CHARACTERS The first episode, featuring Kelsey, is the one they’re using to pitch the series to various networks.

“We already have some interest from Netflix, Amazon, and HBO,” Morgan said.

“But we need to build up the episodes so that we have more to offer them. If we get enough interest and financial support, we can tell all of the additional stories we have planned out.”

So far, plans and subject matter have been outlined for up to two dozen episodes of Healing with Horses, covering a range of different ailments, struggles, and backgrounds that are affecting the main subjects or characters of each episode.

The next three episodes after Kelsey’s are slated to take place at an senior home, a classroom of autistic boys, and with a group of at-risk teenagers.

The horses, too, are characters in their own right. Animals like Habakkuk, a calm draft horse used by Schmidt for vaulting therapy, and Peanut, a miniature horse who loves to play dress-up and is favored by the senior citizens in the program, already have their own fan clubs.

ALL ABOUT HOPE “We really just want to get the message out about equine therapy and what Karin’s doing,” Elliott said. “It’s a very inspirational thing for

Above and below, scenes from the documentary.

everybody to see. It is definitely about the horses and the connection with the horses — but here’s the thing: it’s not JUST about the horses. It’s about even more than that — it’s about hope, and it’s about rising above obstacles.”

What’s often said about documentary filming is that the filmmakers are supposed to “stay out of the way” and let the story tell itself.

But this particular pair of film collaborators are letting their passion for this story guide their work.

“The heart of the matter is that when someone is having a hard time, being told they can’t do things, that sets them on a course of predetermined limits,” Morgan said. “Seeing someone exceed expectations and overcome problems is the most rewarding thing, and if I do my job well, we’re capturing that moment and sharing it in the world.”

By Kristi Kates

Spotlight on:

Scientists, water researchers, explorers, structural engineers, lighthouse keepers, even actors. You can find — and be — all of the above and more (albeit in miniature, non-certified form) at the Great Lakes Children’s Museum (GLCM), where kids mix playing and learning.

INSTRUCTIVE PLAY Anne Drake is museum educator at the GLCM, which has been open since 2003. The one-story facility has been at its current location since 2006.

“The Great Lakes Children’s Museum is all hands-on, at every exhibit,” Drake said. “Our main focus is what we call ‘instructive play,’ where kids learn through play and also learn how to be self-directed.

Kids will find a wide range of colorful, friendly diversions around every corner of the museum, from simple activities like a magnetic ball wall, an arts and crafts table, and The Hatchery, a safe space of enrichment toys for toddlers, to more detailed, immersive fun like the museum’s indoor lighthouse.

LIGHTHOUSE LEARNING “You can actually walk into the lighthouse, which has living space and even a kitchen inside,” Drake explained. “We recently renovated it in an effort to make it more historically accurate — that’s something we’re very proud of — and we’ve added a garden with imitation vegetables that the kids can ‘pick’ and then bring inside to ‘cook.’”

Drake added that the lighthouse’s setup is especially correct in that most lighthouses were located away from towns, so keepers had to learn how to garden and how to keep chickens for food.

STAGE SCENES The museum also offers its very own puppet theater, a well-equipped affair that includes over a dozen puppets — kings, queens, animals, and pirates — plus adjustable lighting and easily changeable ‘window-shade’ scene backdrops like castles, forests, and caves.

“The kids can make up whole plays and stories

GLCM’s water table (left) and sail boating exhibit teaches kids about the flow of water and wind.

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and informally present them to the other kids, parents, and guests,” Drake said. “What’s even cooler is that there’s a TV screen as well, so [kids] can watch (their) performance on a monitor.”

WATER WORLD The most popular exhibit at the GLCM is its Water Table, a six-foot-wide, fifteen-foot-long elevated table of flowing water that’s especially meant for guest interaction.

Moveable partitions and pegs are available for guests to manipulate, so young and old alike can shift the water’s flow to create features like waterfalls, harbors, and rivers for water toys like boats and sharks to navigate.

NEW AND COOL With their local neighborhood on the cusp of new community growth as of late, the Museum is staying on track with its plans to

keep the facility inviting by continuing to bring in fresh new exhibits relevant to the local area.

“Right now, we’re working on our brand new cherry exhibit, A Cherry Tree Is Like Me,” Drake said. “We’ll have a marketplace, a stationary cherry orchard transport truck that the kids can ‘ride’ on, and a representative display of a cherry tree with detailed graphics and even a crawling tunnel underneath to show kids what it’s like beneath an orchard, with all the roots, insects, and other critters. The ‘like me’ part will be relayed through components like the sap of a tree is like the blood in my veins — that kind of thing.”

ALWAYS FUN A Cherry Tree Is Like Me is expected to open by late summer 2018. Opening even sooner (early summer) will be the museum’s revamped (dry) Water Cycle slide, newly updated with a spiral staircase and two long slides for the kids to use.

“The slide shows the cycle of water,” Drake explained. “When you’re on top, you’re ‘in the clouds’ — that’s condensation. Sliding down, you ‘become’ precipitation. And at the bottom is ‘collection,’ where the water returns to our lakes and rivers.”

All of the new attractions will likely bring even more traffic to the Great Lakes Children’s Museum, which welcomes 50–75 guests per day in the winter months, and up to 200 per day in the summer.

“We’re the perfect place to bring kids, especially on bad weather days,” Drake said. “No skiing, boating, or beach available? No problem — come see us and have some fun!”

The Great Lakes Children’s Museum is located at 13420 SW Bay Shore Drive, Traverse City, greatlakeskids.org or (231) 932 4526.

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3. Alison Hubbard and Tony Cutler catching up at the 8th annual Charlevoix Business Expo.

4.Kyle Heid and Adam Kline were serving up goodies at the Taste of Charlevoix at Castle Farms.

5. Darrin Van Loo, Kathy Bardins and Caroline Heitzman in front of the NCMC booth at the Charlevoix Business Expo.

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Learn more at our Health Care Programs Showcase!

Saturday, April 21 – 10 a.m. to noon Northwestern Michigan College Health Science Building 1705 E. Front St, Traverse City

Looking for your dream job in the health care industry? Attend our Health Care Programs Showcase on Saturday, April 21 in Traverse City to learn more about programs that can help you achieve your goal!

RSVP: (231) 995-1785

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BREAKFAST WITH THE EASTER BUNNY: 9am-noon, GT Resort & Spa, Governors’ Hall, Acme. Includes a kid-friendly buffet, balloon artists, a caricature artist, strolling magicians & more. Photos with the Easter Bunny, $5. Info: mynorthtickets.com grandtraverseresort.com

---------------------ANNUAL EASTER EGG HUNT & VISIT WITH EASTER BUNNY: 10am, Mineral Springs Park, Frankfort. Find on Facebook.

---------------------EAST JORDAN LION’S CLUB EASTER FUN & GAMES: 10-11:30am, East Jordan Elementary School.

---------------------EASTER EGG HUNT: 10am, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. crystalmountain.com

---------------------FAMILY EASTER EGG HUNT: 10am, Fellowship Church, TC. Free. fellowshipchurchtc.org

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CHARLEVOIX EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA: 11am-1:30pm: Easter Bunny Luncheon at Stafford’s Weathervane Restaurant. Get your picture taken with the Easter Bunny. 2pm: 26th Annual Easter Egg Hunt, downtown in East Park. There will also be face painting & balloon animals by Twister Joe. Free for children up to 10 years old. charlevoix.org

---------------------DROP-IN CRAFT: EGGS IN A BASKET: 11am-2pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Ages 3-12. tadl.org

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EASTER EGG HUNTS: 11am, Pond Hill Farm, Harbor Springs. Hunts start at 11am & 3pm.

There will also be a gnome scavenger hunt. pondhill.com/public-events

---------------------BOWLING DOWN MAIN STREET: 12-2pm, Downtown Harbor Springs. Watch children compete for a strike down Main Street.

SCALE GRAPHIC DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY: 6pm, Studio Anatomy, TC. Featuring 5 artists: Molly Thompson, Steve Cattin, Savannah Rae, Paulino Cecilio Jr. & Nick Walsh.

Free. studioanatomy.com

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: 7:3010pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Enjoy Shakespeare’s comedy as his characters learn to distinguish true love from “fancy.” $15-$28. mynorthtickets.com

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sunday

---------------------AUTISM AWARENESS WEEK: April 1-7.

Enjoy a sensory-friendly week at Leelanau State Park & the Grand Traverse Lighthouse.

Activities include a scavenger hunt, fur pelts & animal tracks, rock painting, sensory tables & more. Adults: $5; 6-12: $3; & 5 & under: free. $5. Find on Facebook.

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monday

2ND ANNUAL MACKINAC MELTDOWN CELEBRATION: (See Sun., April 1)

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---------------------SPRING BREAK EASY AS PIE PROGRAM: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Learn how to make pictures & collages using only colorful paper circles. greatlakeskids.org

CHARLEVOIX EASTER EGG HUNT: 2pm, East Park, Charlevoix. Featuring 7,500 prize filled eggs, face painting, Twister Joe Balloon Artist, The Easter Bunny, cookies & cocoa.

FREE INTRO TO BURLESQUE DANCE CLASS: 6:30pm, Bodies in Motion Studio, TC. Register: 231.313.5577. AmiraHamzarRaks. com

EASTER POOL-OOZA: 3-5pm, East Jordan Community Pool. Open swim & dive for prizes.

231-536-2250.

HERE:SAY OPEN MIC STORYTELLING: 7-9pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Be prepared to tell a six minute story & put your name on the list. Free. Find on Facebook.

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The Schuss Mountain Snow Challenge at Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire transforms the late season slopes into sideby-side uphill truck racing on Sat. and Sun., April 7-8. Modified trucks, jeeps and more race to the top. A portion of the proceeds is donated to MI’s Disabled American Veterans. griztekusa.com/SnowChallenge

AUTISM AWARENESS WEEK: (See Sun., April 1)

LINDA ALICE DEWEY ART SHOW CLOSING OPEN HOUSE: 1-4pm, Laurentide Winery, Lake Leelanau. See over 25 original paintings by pastellist Linda Alice Dewey, along with many giclee prints. Free. Find on Facebook.

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2ND ANNUAL MACKINAC MELTDOWN CELEBRATION: Mackinaw City, April 1-9. Includes the 2nd Annual Mackinaw Spring Meltdown Gala, Mackinac International Bridal Expo, Spring Break Splash at Pirate’s Adventure Waterpark, Taste of Mackinac, Midwest Roller Derby Tournament & more. mackinawcity.net

NMRPOA MEETING: Elk’s Lodge, TC. Northern Michigan Rental Property Owners Association (NMRPOA), a non-profit organization assisting landlords & real estate investors, will meet at 6pm. Please arrive by 5:30pm to order dinner. Guest speaker will be Sarna Salzman, executive director of SEEDS. For more info email: gkroush48@outlook.com. Free; purchase dinner.

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tuesday

2ND ANNUAL MACKINAC MELTDOWN CELEBRATION: (See Sun., April 1)

------------AUTISM AWARENESS WEEK: (See Sun., April 1)

---------------------GET CRAFTY: Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Create a Pet Treat Jar. Decorate a jar & take home some treats for your pet. Held at 11am & 2pm. greatlakeskids.org

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HOBBIES IN THE LOBBY: SPINNING DEMO: 3:30pm, Petoskey District Library Lobby. Learn about wool with Abbie Deloria. petoskeylibrary. org

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MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS & BREATHING: 4pm, TC Senior Center. Join Naomi Sophia Call as she shows you how to incorporate simple breathing techniques into meditation. Advanced registration required: 922-2080.

Free.

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NEW GRAPE VARIETIES: 6-8pm, NCMC, room 536 SCRC, Petoskey. Instructor Matt Killman will teach about the newest cold-hardy grape varietals available on the market. Must register: 231-348-6613. Free.

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TCNEW TECH: 6pm, City Opera House, TC. Five presenters are allowed 5 minutes to present & 5 minutes of question & answer.

Between presenters, the audience is allowed to make brief announcements for things such as job openings, persons seeking employment, & more related to technology. cityoperahouse. org/tcnewtech

---------------------GROWING & COOKING WITH HERBS: 6:30pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. “Herbs: Propagation, Culinary, & Medicinal Uses” with guest speaker Julie Krist of Herbal Renewal of Omena. Free. mganm.org/upcoming-events

---------------------TC CHARITY JOKE JAM: 7:30pm, GT Distillery Tasting Room, TC. Benefits FLOW. Free. traversecitycomedy.com

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INTERACTIVE STORY TIME: 11am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Stella Fairy of the Forest” by Marie-Louise Gay. greatlakeskids.org

2ND ANNUAL MACKINAC MELTDOWN CELEBRATION: (See Sun., April 1) AUTISM AWARENESS WEEK: (See Sun., April 1)

---------------------BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: Presents award-winning multi-instrumentalist, performer & educator Aaron Jonah Lewis & singer/songwriter duo Escaping Pavement. 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 night of. $8 students; $5 12 & under. redskystage.com

---------------------INTERLOCHEN WOMAN’S CLUB SPRING LUNCHEON: Noon, Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Monthly meeting of the Interlochen Woman’s Club welcomes new members & guests. Lunch is provided. Please bring your own table service. Program follows after lunch: “Spring Bird Migration” by Joe Brooks. Free.

---------------------PROMOTE THE VOTE: Noon, Leelanau County Government Center, Suttons Bay. The League of Women Voters Leelanau County will host this public forum that secures voting rights by putting them into the State Constitution. Featuring Sharon Dolente of the ACLU. A LWVLC business meeting will follow the forum.

231-271-0072. Free. LWVLeelanau.org

---------------------HISTORY OF BOATING: 3:30pm, TC Senior Center. Learn about passenger service on northern Lake Michigan from 1850-1950 by joining the Maritime Heritage Alliance’s presentation by author Steve Harold. Advanced registration required: 922-2080. Free.

---------------------APRIL RECESS: 5-7pm, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail, Leelanau Studios, Studio 1, TC. Join The Ticker for networking & enjoy wine & cider tastings from Ciccone Vineyards, Black Star Farms, Mawby, Aurora Cellars, Blustone Vineyards, Willow Vineyards, & 45 North Vineyard & Winery; plus two drink tickets & appetizers by Tribune & Grand Traverse Events.

Prizes include Leelanau Wine gift packages & two tickets to Sips and Giggles on April 21 & two tickets to any event along the wine trail & dinner for two during the Tribune dinner series. Entrance is $10. Presented by Remax Bayshore Properties. traverseticker.com

---------------------GO BEYOND BEAUTY SPRING MEETING: 6-8pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Join the Northwest MI Invasive Species Network & learn about ornamental invasive species & native gardening. Featuring local plant expert & artist Tom Ford. Free. habitatmatters. org/eventsworkbees.html

---------------------RAMEN RUMBLE! THE COOKS’ HOUSE VS. GAIJIN: 6pm, Gaijin, TC. Whose cuisine will reign supreme? $30/person includes popcorn, a craft cocktail or Asahi, Battle Ramen, dessert, karaoke, & a vote for the Ramen champ.

Find on Facebook.

---------------------DEMYSTIFYING THE MYSTERIOUS BONSAI: 7-9pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Featuring Linda Schubert & Janet Kivell. Advanced registration required.

Free. thebotanicgarden.org/events

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DINNER AND COOKING CLASS SERIES Piemonte-April 21st • Umbria-May 19th • Sicily-June 9th Regional dinners include: variety of antipasti, 2 pastas, entree, and dessert Cooking Classes on Sunday the 22nd, 20th, 10th $60 for dinner, $50 for classes, $100 together Call or visit for more information 231-421-1812 • 545 E Eighth St

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LIFETREE CAFE: 8pm, The Rock of Kingsley.

This one-hour event features a film about the struggle to forgive, along with a discussion.

Free. Find on Facebook.

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2ND ANNUAL MACKINAC MELTDOWN CELEBRATION: (See Sun., April 1)

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CREATIVE KIDS DAY: 1011:30am, Charlevoix Public Library. Featuring art projects, face painting, healthy snacks, movement & music, & a story.

AUTISM AWARENESS WEEK: (See Sun., April 1)

------------------------------------------10 CENTS A MEAL: COMMUNITY TO THE CAPITOL: 4-6pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Hosted by Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities. Share stories from school districts across MI participating in the innovative Farm to School state pilot program, 10 Cents a Meal for School Kids & Farms.

Free. tencentsmichigan.org

---------------------“UNHAPPY HOUR”: 6-8pm, Ethanology, Elk Rapids. Presented by ER Women. Held to recognize National Equal Pay Day & to raise awareness of pay equity & wage discrimination. facebook.com/elkrapidswomen

---------------------OFF THE WALL MOVIE NIGHT: 6pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Dinner, 6pm; movie, 7pm. Sign up for the potluck at the Alden District Library. 231-331-4318. aldenlib.info/calendar.html

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Admission by donation to benefit Academic WorldQuest team. nmc.edu

OLD MISSION PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING: 7pm, Peninsula Township Hall, TC. John Bailey, noted Native American historian, will present a program on Indian trade & migration routes in northern MI. 947-0947. Free.

STEVE REICH FESTIVAL FEATURING ARTS ACADEMY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Showcasing the cuttingedge music of contemporary composer Steve Reich. $18 full, $16 senior, $11 youth. tickets. interlochen.org

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MACKINAW RAPTOR FEST: Mackinaw City. Join bird enthusiasts & experts to observe & learn about hawks, eagles & owls.

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---------------------DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Small Moves with Me. Enjoy multiple stations designed to keep small hands busy & engaged. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------FIRST FRIDAYS IN HARBOR SPRINGS: 5-8pm, Downtown Harbor Springs. Eat, drink, shop, local. 231-881-1022. Find ‘Downtown Harbor Springs’ on Facebook.

---------------------3RD ANNUAL WINE LABEL SELECTION EVENT: 6pm, Bowers Harbor Vineyard, TC. Cast your vote for the label art for the Bowers Harbor Lighthouse Pinot Grigio to be issued this spring. A $10 entry fee includes a wine & cheese reception & an opportunity to vote for the art of your choice.

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A TASTE OF SUCCESS: 6:30pm, NMC’s Great Lakes Campus, TC. A student chef showcase founded by Tasters Guild. $100/ ticket. nmc.edu/taste-of-success

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“12 ANGRY JURORS”: 7pm, Cadillac High School Auditorium. Presented by Cadillac Footliters. cadillacfootliters.com

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------------------------------------------FOFA PRESENTS: DREW HALE: 7pm, Suttons Bay High School Auditorium. Friends of the Fine Arts at Suttons Bay Schools bring you Drew Hale, who is influenced by Texas roots & artists such as Reckless Kelly & Eric Church.

The Drew Hale Band’s latest album is “Roots and Wings.” Enjoy music that bridges the gap between country, roots rock & blues. $16 adult, $12 student. brownpapertickets.com/ event/3319987

---------------------THE TOMB OF CHRIST: 7pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. National Geographic’s archaeologist-in-residence Fredrik Hiebert will share his insider view of the restoration of the Edicule of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, under which it is believed, lies the Tomb of Christ. $10. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------STEVE REICH FESTIVAL FEATURING EIGHTH BLACKBIRD & THIRD COAST PERCUSSION: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Eighth Blackbird, a Grammy-winning sextet, & Third Coast Percussion, a Grammy-winning quartet, play the cutting-edge music of composer Steve Reich. $18 full, $16 senior, $11 youth. tickets. interlochen.org

---------------------LE VENT DU NORD: 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Featuring catchy songs & tunes, some taken from the Québec traditional folk repertoire while others are original compositions. Tickets: $27 advanced, $30 door & $24 museum members. dennosmuseum.org

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CHUBBY CHECKER: Mr. Twist will perform his hit songs that topped the charts.

8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Tickets: $30, $40, $45. lrcr.com

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---------------------MACKINAW RAPTOR FEST: (See Fri., April 6) ---------------------2ND ANNUAL MACKINAC MELTDOWN CELEBRATION: (See Sun., April 1)

---------------------AUTISM AWARENESS WEEK: (See Sun., April 1)

---------------------JUST FOR THE HEALTH OF IT: 10am-3pm, Grow Benzie, Benzonia. Offering classes focusing on women’s health & wellness. $20 includes lunch & four classes. 231-882-9510. growbenzie.org

---------------------THE SCHUSS MOUNTAIN SNOW CHALLENGE: Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire. This event transforms the late season slopes into side-by-side uphill truck racing. shantycreek. com/event/schuss-mountain-snow-challenge

---------------------TASTE OF INSPIRATION: 11am-3pm, Suhmthing, TC. Hosted by Arts for All of Northern Michigan. Enjoy a taste of the signature Inspiration Blend. Free. Find on Facebook.

CTAC SCHOOL OF MUSIC STRINGS SHOWCASE: 1-2pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Theater, Petoskey. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------CHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS STEINWAY CONCERT: 4pm, Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix. This concert to introduces to the community the new (to the Circle of Arts) Steinway Grand Piano. Featuring Dorothy Vogel, performers from The Cummings Quartet & Traverse Symphony. 231-547-3554. Donations

at door. charlevoixcircle.org

HOPFEST: 4-10pm, City Park Grill, Petoskey.

Featuring about 100 different beers from 16 MI breweries. $15 advance; $20 door. wineguysgroup.com/product/hopfest-ticket NMC I-DANCE SPRING OPERA HOUSE DANCE: City Opera House, TC. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Waltz workshop at 6pm, taught

by Mykl Werth. Open dance then begins at 8pm, ending at midnight. Workshop & dance, $19. Dance only: $15. Senior/student: $10 or $8. cityoperahouse.org/nmc-i-dance

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Filipino Dinner

“YOUNG HEMINGWAY & HIS ENDURING EDEN”: 7pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. A pre-broadcast screening & discussion of a new documentary by George Colburn, focusing on the experiences of a young Ernest Hemingway coming of age in northwest lower MI. Free. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------THE TOMB OF CHRIST: (See Fri., April 6) ---------------------BLISSFEST COMMUNITY DANCE: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring live music

by Bliss Township Band. All dances are taught & come from around the country, including squares, contras, lines, circles & waltzes. $3/ person, $5/couple, $7/family. blissfest.org

---------------------IN CONCERT WITH PETER, PAUL & MARY REMEMBERED: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Honoring the legend of Peter, Paul & Mary with 60s hits & more. $20 advance; $25 door. mynorthtickets.com

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MACKINAW RAPTOR FEST: (See Fri., April 6)

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SPRING HIKE: 10am-2pm, Upper Manistee Headwaters Preserve (former Camp Tapico), Kalkaska County. Join the GT Regional Land Conservancy staff for an in-depth look at this proposed preserve. Hike up to five miles for this event. Bring your own bag lunch & drinks. gtrlc.org

---------------------THE SCHUSS MOUNTAIN SNOW CHALLENGE: (See Sat., April 7)

---------------------A MILE OF THE NILE INTERACTIVE ART PROJECT: 1-5pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. A family-friendly art project that will celebrate the river Nile, the waterway Tut knew well. $6 adults; $4 under 17. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------FENCES FOR FIDO: 4-7pm, Rare Bird Brewpub, TC. A fundraiser for exterior fencing at the Cherryland Humane Society. Featuring a potluck with food from area restaurants, live music from the Jazz North Band, & a raffle.

Tickets are $50 at the door or $45 in advance at Pets Naturally. Find on Facebook.

---------------------21ST ANNUAL POETS’ NIGHT OUT: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Celebrating original poetry by residents of Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee & Wexford counties.

Free. tadl.org

A CELEBRATION OF THE CUISINE AND CULTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Saturday, April 14 5pm-10pm | $35.00* * plus tax & gratuity

Traditional Filipino food & cocktails Prepared by our Filipino Culinary Team

---------------------STEFANO BARONE: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. The MI Fingerstyle Guitar Society presents this contemporary acoustic guitarist from Rome Italy. $15 advance; $20 door. redskystage.com

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C3: CHARLEVOIX CREATIVES COLLABORATIVE WEEKLY BREAKFAST GATHERING: Fridays, 10:30am, Smoke on the Water Cafe,

For reservations, call 231-534-6800. aerierestaurant.com Owned & Operated by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians

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Charlevoix. Info: alexis @ 503.550.8889. Find on Facebook.

---------------------C3: CHARLEVOIX CREATIVES COLLABORATIVE WRITE ALONG GROUP: Sundays, 2:30-4pm, Charlevoix Public Library, 2nd floor Trustees Rm. Info: alexis @ 503.550.8889.

Find on Facebook.

JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Runs through Apr. 28 at Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Enjoy the work of nature & wildlife photographer Kristina Lishawa.

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MARCIA K. HALES SOLO SHOW: Runs through Apr. 27 at Higher Art Gallery, TC. Marcia’s new exhibit, “Cycle of Duality,” contains new abstract works. higherartgallery.com

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Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey: - “ART OF NCMC STUDENTS”: Featuring 29 NCMC student artists. Runs through April 21. crookedtree.org

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Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC: -YOUTH ART SHOW: Runs through March 31.

Featuring the next generation of visual artists & their teachers.

-“HAND IN HAND: CRAFT & NEW TECHNOLOGIES”: An opening reception will be held on Sat., April 7 from 2-4pm. Runs through May 5. crookedtree.org

HORIZON BOOKS OF CADILLAC STORYTIME: Wednesdays, 4pm. Listen to a story & create a take-home craft. facebook.com/horizonbookscadillac

HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN WRITING THROUGH LOSS: Thursdays, 10-11:30am through April 12. Michael’s Place, 1212 Veterans Dr., TC. This grief support program focuses on the use of writing as a healing process. Facilitated by Kathryn Holl, MA, LPC & Melissa Fournier, MSW. To register or for more info, call Kathryn Holl: 929.1557. hom.org

BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April. Main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City. On March 31 Dolph Cwik will perform live music. On April 7 Something Great will perform. boynecitymainstreet.com/farmersmarket-welcome

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CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET, PETOSKEY: Fridays, 10am-1pm, upper level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

This market has moved back inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

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INDOOR FARMERS MARKET, THE MERCATO, THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Saturdays, 10am-2pm through April. 941-1961.

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“COLOR CATCHERS”: Runs through Apr. 25 at The Old Art Building, Leland. Five photographers examine the wonders & mysteries of color through abstract images. Join photographers Kathy Silbernagel, Kathie Carpenter, Marilyn Hoogstraten, Babs Young & Dana Vannoy for the opening reception on Fri., April 6 from 6-8pm. oldartbuilding.com

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Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC: Mon. Sat., 10am-5pm; Thurs., 10am-8pm; Sun., 1-5pm.

- “LINES OF LIGHT: CRAIG TANDY - MONOFILAMENT SCULPTURE”: Runs through April 29 at Zimmerman Sculpture Court. Canadian artist Craig Tandy constructs complex sculptures with monofilament nylon that illustrate the properties of projected light, with an interest in creating a space through which the viewer can move.

- TUTANKHAMUN: “WONDERFUL THINGS” FROM THE PHARAOH’S TOMB: Runs through May 6. From the artisans of the Pharaonic Village in Egypt & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibit features about 100 replicas of the pharaoh’s possessions & artifacts from the period surrounding Tutankhamun’s reign. It reconstructs the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter & the life of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------Glen Arbor Arts Center, Glen Arbor: “IN BLOOM”: An exhibition exploring the different ways five local artists interpret the subject of flowers in paint, mixed media & porcelain.

An artists’ reception will be held on Fri., April 6 at 6pm. “In Bloom” runs through May 17.

---------------------- ---------------------“NATIVE TREATIES: SHARED RIGHTS”: Runs through April 10 at NCMC, Library, Petoskey. An educational exhibit about treaties, land ownership, rights & more. Hours: Mon.Thurs., 8am-7pm & Fri., 8am-5pm. cmich.edu

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MOLLY PHINNY: WORKS IN CLOTH 20152017: Runs through Apr. 8. A small survey of fiber constructions by Leelanau County artist Molly Phinny. 231-334-6112. glenarborart.org

“THE LYRICS OF BOB DYLAN”: Nobel Laureate 2016. Three Pines Studio, Cross Village.

This all media exhibition runs through March. threepinesstudio.com

---------------------ANNUAL REGIONAL STUDENT EXHIBITION: High school works are juried by guest artists for display in the Beck Gallery, & area elementary & middle school works are accepted for display in the Borwell & Entrance Galleries. Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Runs through April 13. The Exhibition Opening will be held on Fri., April 6 from 5-7pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org DRINK & DRAW: Tuesdays, 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. traversecityworkshop. com

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GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB: Runs through Apr. 7 at Right Brain Brewery, TC. This collaborative art show featuring talent from around northern MI gives artists an opportunity to showcase their talents with minimal cost. A Closing Reception will be held on Sat., April 7. gt-artbomb.wixsite.com/2018

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GREAT LAKES PHOTOGRAPHY: A SAILOR’S PERSPECTIVE: Runs through Apr. 14 at Tinker Studio, TC. Featuring work by photographer & sailor on the Great Lakes, Michael Diduch. Gallery is open Weds.-Sat., 10am-5pm & Sun., 12-4pm. Find on Facebook.

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donna the buffalo headlining buttermilk The 2018 Buttermilk Jamboree is just a couple of months away — good news for roots music fans who especially enjoy this family friendly music festival held every spring just south of Grand Rapids.

Headlining Buttermilk this year is Donna the Buffalo, the reggae/zydeco/bluegrass/ folk mix ensemble, which will be joined on the bill by an impressive lineup of Michigan musical acts including Joshua Davis, Mustard Plug, May Erlewine, Luke Winslow King, and more. The fest will also feature an appearance from Latin folkrockers Radio Free Honduras, who will be making the short trek up from Chicago …

Pop singer Meghan Trainor is ramping up to release her third full-length album, which she worked on with members of her family. Trainor reportedly had her family singing background vocals on every song, calling them “the best choir.” Her first single from the upcoming set is “No Excuses,” a women-first anthem that Trainor called her modern version of the Aretha Franklin classic “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” Accompanying “No Excuses” is a pastel-shaded music video

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featuring several different Trainors (often all on screen at the same time) in a range of quirky fashionista ensembles. No 2018 tour dates have been announced yet …

Will Bates has been tapped to compose the original score for a new upcoming original series on Starz. Bates will contribute the music for the show Sweetbitter, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by author Stephanie Danler. The show follows actress Ella Purnell’s character as she tries to navigate New York City’s cutthroat and chaotic restaurant world. The first episode of Sweetbitter will premiere on May 6 on Starz …

LINK OF THE WEEK Just an eight-hour drive from northern Michigan is the setting for this year’s 2018 Forecastle Festival — Louisville, Kentucky — and you can snag tickets now for the July 13–15 event, which will include performances from Arcade Fire, Jenny Lewis, Vance Joy, The War on Drugs, and many more. Get all the info and those tix (going fast!) at forecastlefest.com …

Heading west this summer? If you’ll be anywhere near Pasadena, California, in late June, make sure you snag yourself a ticket to the second Arroyo Seco Weekend, ’cause it’s going to be a big one. At the top of the bill is Detroit rocker Jack White, along with his fellow co-headliners Kings of Leon, Alanis Morrissette, and Neil Young. Also on the roster are Belle and Sebastian, Los Lobos, Kamasi Washington, ’80s standouts The Bangles and The Pretenders, and Nashville singer-songwriter Margo Price. The 2018 Arroyo Seco Weekend will happen June 23– 24 at Brookside, near the Rose Bowl …

THE BUZZ Post Malone has just announced its summer tour dates for this year, and among them is a stop in Detroit on May 29 at the Freedom Hill Amphitheater …

Jackson, Michigan, alternative rock band LVRS is making a big buzz in Grand Rapids and beyond with its edgy-pop sound, so catch the band while you can …

Musicians Angela Gail Mattson and Jeffrey Jacob Mendel have teamed up to make the duo In the Valley Below, an indiepop outfit also based in Grand Rapids …

And one more piece of Grand Rapids news this week: Popular music venue The Intersection is opening a brand new concert space called Elevation, along with a new VIP room nicknamed “The Mint” … 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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Wed - Get it in the can for $1 w/DJ PRIM Thurs - $1 off all drinks w/DJ 1000 Watt Prophets

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the oh hellos – eurus – toh music

The second of a short series of albums about Greek gods that The Oh Hellos is releasing about Greek gods pushes the focus onto strings and banjo, the latter of which might seem like a strange choice. But it’s actually not that unusual, as the overall feel of the album is that of a fall harvest festival, an alternating playlist of energetic, celebratory stompers and pretty audio intermissions (“Dry Branches”). Siblings Maggie and Tyler Heath alternate vocals throughout to great effect.

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Taking plenty of risks on his latest solo effort is just another walk in the park for Byrne, who’s known for pushing the musical and artistic envelope on a regular basis. The experience he’s collected smoothly ushers this album into Byrne’s next step as a musician: infusing components of today’s EDM into his ’80s-rooted art-rock extravaganzas.

Highlights of that blend include the android-ish flair of “I Dance Like This” and the club-kid horns, big beats, and sarcasm of “Everybody’s Coming to My House.”

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We’re bringing some of our 2018 models to Traverse City, Michigan for demo rides.

If you’ve wanted to test a BMW motorcycle, now is your chance. Call the dealership today to reserve your time. The spots fill up fast, so don’t wait!

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With those rumbling, perfectly spaced vocal harmonies and warm, folky guitars, Darlingside at first recollect bands like The Lumineers or Strumbrellas. Yet with added little touches, like eightbit samples or Phil Spector-worthy washes of thick sound, the band sets itself apart. “Indian Orchard Road” is perhaps the most neo-Americana track of the bunch; elsewhere, the ’60s-inflected “Old Friend” and the electronica-sprinkled “Eschaton” are mustlistens, albeit for completely opposite reasons.

pianos become the teeth – wait for love – epitaph

Full of all the profundity and emotion that fans regularly anticipate from PBTT, this latest album continues along the same conduit the band has been following for a while — that of refining its sound. On this set, the move is best expressed through audio choices on the various songs, from the surprisingly delicate instrumentation on the thoughtful tune “Blue” to the melodically challenging “Fake Lighting.”

There are still some emo/scream-o components in place, but they’re being shifted out of the predictable as the band matures.

The reel

by meg weichman

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Oh, to be post-retirement Steven Soderbergh, to simply get an idea into your head for a feature film and simply … make it. I get the feeling he’s just working his way through genres, experimenting along the way.

who explains she might be the victim of an insurance scam. But when a new orderly arrives on the floor, Sawyer identifies him as her former stalker, David Strine, now going by the name George.

His latest experiment? A psychological horror film, with decidedly pulpy B-movie vibes, shot entirely on an iPhone (an iPhone 7 Plus, to be exact). And yeah, it’s surprisingly good, though I don’t quite know why I continue to be surprised by him. (See his last film, the surprisingly delightful chicken-fried caper Logan Lucky.) After all, he is one of our greatest working auteurs.

George (Joshua Leonard) is creepy, but in a friendly, “m’lady” kind of way, which makes him all the more unsettling. Soderbergh taps into what every woman knows: There’s nothing more dangerous than a “nice guy” who, despite his demeanor, isn’t nice at all.

Maybe that’s because there’s so little fanfare surrounding his releases. Flying under the radar, he enjoys a certain freedom and looseness with these films, and there’s a certain enjoyment that comes with seeing such a gifted director at work when the stakes feel so low.

Unsane is a tight and effective thriller with something on its mind — a work of metaphorical resonance for the #metoo era and something worth your time.

We meet Sawyer Valenti (The Crown’s Claire Foy) just as she’s started a new job in a new city. She doesn’t have many friends, works for lecherous creep, and looks for meaningless hookups on a dating app, letting the suitor know right off there will be no hope for a future.

But that’s certainly not the story she tells her mom (Amy Irving) back home. See, Sawyer didn’t take a new job in search of opportunities but to escape the stalker that made her life unbearable. Clearly suffering from the effects of PTSD, Sawyer, after an encounter with a man goes painfully awry, realizes that beneath her meticulously crafted exterior she might not be keeping it together as well as she thought.

So Sawyer seeks out a support group, and ends up talking to a sympathetic therapist whose listening skills helps Sawyer process her trauma.

Wanting to continue seeing the therapist, she signs documents deemed “boilerplate,” only to accidently commit herself to the psych ward for a 24-hour voluntary hold.

And so begins a nearly unbearable cycle (and an all-too familiar one for far too many women) of watching Sawyer speak up and out against men and not being heard. Doctors, orderlies, the police, all dismiss her claims, and the more she sets out to prove to herself that she doesn’t belong here with patients like Violet (Juno Temple), who throw tampons at her, the more she ends up acting out and making it worse for herself.

She does have one friend on the inside, Nate (SNL’s Jay Pharoah), a guy with a cell phone

And so you begin to start questioning what’s real and what isn’t. Is the stalker really there, or is she actually crazy? The guessing game is played up for sure, and it’s utterly compelling, but to the film’s advantage, it eventually settles on a side; I’m not saying which.

Now, that iPhone cinematography. I know, I know, but I’m serious when I say that it’s not just a gimmick. Though initially distracting with its harsh and unforgiving aesthetics and drab-looking visuals, it ends up suiting the material very well. The bizarrely tight aspect ratio adds to the claustrophobic feel, and the low angles and wide-angle lens lends such a perfect voyeuristic feel that it helps the clichéd premise feel new.

Another thing that sets the film apart from its trodden territory is the brilliance of Foy’s performance. I was worried about her taking on the role of Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming The Girl in the Spider’s Web, but now I totally see it. Commanding and self-aware, there’s a weariness in the way she confronts how she’s treated that is exceedingly relatable — and also a powerful sharpness in the way she fights back.

Unbearably tense at times, the most disturbing thing about it is not the violence or fact that the insurance scam is at least partially based in reality, but as Sawyer is told in a flashback by a consultant (a serial Soderbergh cameo-ist) she meets, it’s the lengths she has to go to to avoid the unwanted advances of a man. Infuriating doesn’t even begin to cover it.

So yes, there is clearly a social issue undercurrent to the film’s horror, and no, it’s not as smart as it could be (Get Out it’s not). Yet, while it isn’t a complete revelation, it doesn’t need to be. An indie with the entertaining soul of a studio film, there’s something interesting here, something special. So keep doing your thing, Soderbergh, and although the public might not be as dialed in to this film as if it were the next Ocean’s film, that it might completely escape people’s attention is what’s insane.

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

ove, Simon is a coming-of-age coming-out story that is universally, beautifully, and even painfully relatable. The first mainstream film about a closeted teen, this is a huge milestone for Hollywood inclusivity, and with its sharp script, solid soundtrack, and endearing characters, it’s so good, it was almost worth waiting for (but mostly totally overdue).

Simon (Nick Robinson), as he narrates, is a teenager “just like you.” He’s got a great family and great friends; he’s living the suburban dream. And it is this mix of idealism and realism that makes the film’s point all the better. Simon is a kid who has it so good, and yet his story is still so hard. See, Simon’s got a “big-ass secret,” one that prevents him from living the honest life he deserves. So when a classmate anonymously posts to the local gossip blog that he’s gay, Simon reaches out to the online alias, Blue. With neither knowing the other’s identity, the two trade emails and forge a unique connection that Simon hopes will end with them finally meeting. Exuberantly and intelligently told, the magic of Love, Simon is that something so “groundbreaking” feels so normal, so familiar. Gay stories are not just “indie” stories, and gay love stories don’t have to be tragic, and there is incredible value in that. Sincere and meaningful, this is not just a teen or a coming-out movie, it’s the kind of generous and heartfelt filmmaking we all deserve.

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va Duvernay’s adaptation of the classic Newbery-medal winning novel is a beautifully intentioned, wears-its-hearton-its-sleeve, feminist-flag-flying work of empowerment.

And for that alone, this is a film worth celebrating and sharing with the young people in your life. The story concerns Meg Murray (Storm Reid), a stubborn, angry, and withdrawn teenager who hasn’t been living up to her potential since her father (Chris Pine) disappeared four years ago. Her NASA scientist parents had been researching tesseracts when he went missing. The family had all but given up on his return when her child prodigy younger brother, Charles Wallace, brings home a trio of celestial guides (Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon, and Oprah Winfrey) along with Meg’s dreamy but dull classmate Calvin (Levi Miller), and together they all begin a journey across space and time to find Mr. Murray. For all its epic adventure, trippy candy-colored worlds, and star-powered appeal, this is, at its heart, a family film — a sweet and gentle one, where the underlying message of wanting to make young people feel understood and important resonates loud and clear. You can tell just how much Duvernay and the entire cast believe in the movie’s message of love, self-acceptance, imagination, and discovery. And to surround yourself in those feelings for a few hours is a heartening experience.

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ennifer Lawrence teams up again with her Hunger Games series director, Francis Lawrence (no relation), for this sexy spy thriller that explores similar themes of their previous work together but takes it to a much more disturbing and brutal place (which is saying something, considering The Hunger Games was about forced child-on-child killing). An extremely dark film that features everything from nudity, torture, and rape to murder and incest, Lawrence plays Dominka, a prima ballerina for the Russian Ballet living out her dream. But when an unexpected injury kills her career, Dominka’s situation becomes desperate and takes her own Uncle’s offer to attend “Sparrow School,” where she will be instructed on how to use her body and sex as a weapon for Mother Russia. Her first assignment? Getting the identity of a Russian mole from their CIA handler (Joel Edgerton).

They do a completely uninspired will-they or won’t-they dance and over the course of its near 2.5-hour (sheesh!) runtime, the tension never really builds, and the thrills never really add up. This is definitely not the grand espionage thriller — think Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — that it so clearly aspires to be, but Lawrence’s charisma at least makes it not a complete waste of time.

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska ACOUSTIC BREWING CO., TC 4/6 -- The Duges, 7-9 4/7 -- Ron Getz, 7-9

MONKEY FIST BREWING CO., TC 4/6 -- Matt Mansfield, 7-10

3/31 -- Eric Engblade Trio, 8-11 4/6 -- Chris Smith, 8 4/7 -- Charlie Millard Band, 8

FANTASY'S, TC Mon. - Sat. -- Adult entertainment w/ DJ, 7-close

PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9

UNION STREET STATION, TC 3/31 -- 1000 Watt Prophets, 10 4/1,4/8 -- Karaoke, 10 4/2 -- Jukebox, 5 4/3 -- Jukebox, 10 4/4 -- DJ Prim, 10 4/5 -- DJ 1000 Watt Prophets, 10 4/6 -- Happy Hour w/ Harvey Wallbangers, then DJ DomiNate, 5 4/7 -- DJ Fasel, 10

GAIJIN, TC Wed -- Karaoke, 8

GRAND TRAVERSE DISTILLERY, TC Fri -- Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 KILKENNY'S, TC 3/30-31 – Off Beat Band 4/6-7 – Lucas Paul 4/8 -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9 Tue -- Levi Britton, 8 Wed -- The Pocket, 8 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 4/2 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 4/6 -- Jim Moore, 6-8

TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 4/6 -- Rob Coonrod, 7-9 4/7 -- Gregory Evans, 7-9 THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues,Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7 4/2 -- Chris Michels, 6-8 4/4 -- Kaydee Swanson, 6-8 Thu -- Open Mic, 7:30-9 THE PARLOR, TC 4/5 -- Chris Smith, 8 4/7 -- Comedy Night, 8:30 THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC

WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN RESORT, TC THE BISTRO: 4/2 -- Levi Britton, 5-6 4/3 -- David Chown, 5-6 THE VIEW: 3/31,4/7 -- DJ Motaz, 10 4/5 -- Jeff Haas Trio wsg Miriam Pico, Chris Bickley, & Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30 4/6 -- Jon Archambault Band, 7-9:30; DJ Shawny D, 10-2

Leelanau & Benzie DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 4/6 -- Alex Mendenall, 6:30-9:30 LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Fri & Sat -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9

PLATTE RIVER INN, HONOR Tue -- Open Mic Night, 7:30 Sat -- DJ/Karaoke, 8 ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 3/31 -- Unabunner, 6-9 4/5 -- Open Mic Night, 6-10 4/6 -- Lena Maude, 6-9 4/7 -- Jen Sygit, 6-9

STORMCLOUD BREWING CO., FRANKFORT 3/31 -- Keith Scott, 8-10 4/6 -- Unabunner, 8-10 4/8 -- Tango Tango Tango Dance Party, 4-6 THE CABBAGE SHED, ELBERTA 4/5 -- Open Mic Night, 8 4/7 -- Alfredo Improvisational Trio, 9

The Cabbage Shed, Elberta has reopened and brings some acoustic, blues and folk music with Alfredo Improvisational Trio, who is inspired by the landscapes, communities and people of the Leelanau Peninsula. Catch them on Sat., April 7 from 9pm-midnight.

Emmet & Cheboygan CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY 3/31 -- For the Love of Hip-Hop w/ DJs Franck & Moses, 10 4/6 – Annex Karaoke, 10 KNOT JUST A BAR, BAY HARBOR Mon,Tues,Thurs — Live music LEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN, PETOSKEY

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the ADViCE GOddESS Hipster Replacement

Q

“Jonesin” Crosswords "go to sleep"-- bewar3e of snoring. by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Apple variety 4 Researcher’s room 7 Pea’s place 10 December drink 13 Bob Hope’s WWII gp.

14 Gran finale?

15 Map-providing org.

16 Dye containing a nitrogen compound 17 Can, to a Londoner 18 Motel room perk, as promoted years ago 20 Novelist DeLillo 21 ___ Mahal (Indian beer brand) 22 Be familiar with a Danube-based Austrian town?

24 Bend’s state 26 Cookie crumbled in a fro-yo toppings bar 27 “This is prophetic,” from the opera “Nixon in China,” e.g.

29 Existent 32 Make barbs about trip data?

40 Blocks in the freezer 41 Would rather not 42 ___ Lingus (Irish airline) 43 Chores for Superman’s general nemesis?

46 Paris-area airport 47 Theatrical sigh 48 Milky gemstone 51 Some Oscar Wilde works 55 Recorded by jazz saxophonist Stan?

59 Happy hour order 62 Christmas tree type 63 Curl of hair 64 Smoked salmon on a bagel 65 CPR specialist, maybe 66 Change two fives into a ten?

67 The night before 68 Kimono sash 69 “The Crying Game” star Stephen 70 “That’s right” 71 “Hang on just a ___!”

72 Pay stub amount

DOWN

1 Mixed-breed dog 2 About 30% of the world’s land mass 3 Stuck together 4 17th-century philosopher John 5 “Git ___, little dogie” 6 “The Jungle Book” bear 7 Leave 8 Swearing-in formality 9 Author Eggers 10 Lowest point 11 Triatomic oxygen molecule 12 “The Muppet Show” daredevil 19 Have a title to 23 1970 hit for the Kinks 25 Makeshift windshield cleaner 27 “Master of None” star Ansari 28 Puerto ___ 29 Board game of world conquest 30 90 degrees from norte 31 Stub ___ 33 Chris Hemsworth superhero role 34 Schlep 35 DIY crafter’s site 36 Dennis’s sister, on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” 37 Place for filing and polishing 38 Wrestler John with an “unexpected” internet meme 39 Rowing machines, casually 44 “Chariots of Fire” actor Sir Ian 45 Take care of the bill 48 Auction bid 49 Like 2 or 3, but not 1 or 4 50 The body’s largest artery 51 Poacher’s need?

52 Tennis star Monica 53 Main character of Minecraft 54 Coyolxauhqui worshiper 56 Serving platter 57 Keep from view 58 Loaf heels, really 60 Brain segment 61 Way out

: I’m a 57-year-old lesbian, and I’m only attracted to much younger women (very early 20s). We’re obviously in very different places in our lives, and these “relationships” don’t last very long. I also get a lot of grief from my friends. I can’t change whom I’m attracted to, but I would like a long-term relationship.

— Seeking

A

: Your previous girlfriend probably remembers prom like it was yesterday — because, for her, it kinda was.

Making matters worse, millennials and postmillennials (generally speaking) are the most overprotected, overparented generations ever — to the point where university administrators probably have stern talks with at least a few parents: “Your son is a freshman in college. You can’t be sneaking into the dining hall to cut his food for him.”

Sure, there are probably some precociously mature 20-somethings out there. However, it usually takes a chunk of life experience — and relationship experience — for a person to grow into who they are and figure out what they want in a partner. So, as a 57-year-old woman, you’re probably as well-paired with the average 22-yearold as you are with the average head of lettuce or desk lamp.

been all my life?” shouldn’t be “Um…waiting for my parents to meet so I could do the fun stuff fetuses do, like kickboxing in the womb and giving my mom gestational diabetes.”

the Customer Is Always Frightened

Q

: I’m a 36-year-old single woman. I’ve noticed that the more I like a guy the more nervous I get and the louder, more irreverent, and more inappropriate I become. I’m actually a really sweet girl. How can I stop doing this?

— Unintentionally Brash

A

: Your cocktail party conversation shouldn’t translate to “I mean, come on…do I really seem like a danger to myself and society?!”

To calm down so you can talk like a person instead of a scary person, it helps to understand — as I explain in my new “science-help” book, “Unf*ckology” — that “emotions aren’t just thinky things.” They have a basis in the body. For example, in the case of fear, your heart pounds, you breathe faster, and adrenaline surges — whether what you’re afraid of is physical death or just, say, dying onstage while giving a talk — as you watch 43 people simultaneously yawn and pull out their phone.

But say — one day while you’re cruising the aisles at Forever 21 — you find the 20-something lady Socrates. There’s still a problem, and it’s the way society sneers at a big age gap between partners.

The thumbs-downing comes both from a couple’s “own social networks” and from “society at large,” finds social psychologist Justin Lehmiller.

However, “perceived marginalization by one’s social network” appears to be most damaging — “significantly” predicting breakups.

The human brain is a marvel, but we can take advantage of how it’s also about as easily tricked as my dog. Take that bodily reaction of fear — pounding heart and all — which also happens to be the bodily reaction of being excited. Research

by Harvard Business School’s Alison Wood Brooks finds that you can “reappraise” your fear as excitement — by repeatedly saying aloud to yourself, “I am excited” (to talk with some guy, for example) — and actually shift yourself from a “‘threat’ mind-set” to an “‘opportunity’ mind-set.”

Granted, it’s possible that you have some rigid age cutoff in the regions of your brain that do the “hot or not?” calculations. If that’s the case, simply finding a woman who’s young-looking is a no-go.

(When she starts to get those little laugh lines around the eyes, will you put her out on the curb with that aging TV from the guest room?)

Also, assuming the current weather isn’t “nuclear holocaust with a chance of rain,” some dude you’re flirting with probably isn’t the last man on the continent. Keeping that in mind, reframe your interaction as a mere opportunity for something to happen with him — and an opportunity to figure out whether it’s a good idea.

But ask yourself whether you simply prefer the springier chickens and are actually just afraid of the emotional risks (as well as the emotional adulthood) required in being with somebody closer to your age. That’s something you can work to correct. Ultimately, if you want a relationship, the answer to your “Hey, babe…where have you

You do that not by selling yourself like it’s 4:56 p.m. on Sunday at a yard sale but by asking him about himself. Counterintuitively, you’ll probably be at your most attractive by leaving a man guessing about you — as opposed to leaping to conclusions, like that you were the little girl who beheaded all the other little girls’ Barbies.

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aSTRO

lOGY

Ellison has had a long and successful career. In the course of publishing hundreds of literary works in seven different genres, he has won numerous awards. But when he was in his thirties, there was an interruption in the upward arc of his career. The film production company Walt Disney Studios hired him as a writer. During his first day on the job, Roy Disney overheard Ellison joking with a co-worker about using Disney characters in an animated pornographic movie. Ellison was fired on the spot. I am by no means predicting a comparable event in your life, Aries. On the contrary. By giving you this heads-up, I’m hoping you’ll be scrupulous and adroit in how you act in the early stages of a new project – so scrupulous and adroit that you will sail on to the next stages.

Palace is the home and office of the Queen of England. It has been the main royal residence since Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837.

But in earlier times, the site served other purposes.

The 17th-century English lawyer Clement Walker described the building occupying that land as a brothel, a hotbed of “debauchery.” Before that the space was a mulberry garden where silkworms tuned mulberry leaves into raw material for silk fabrics. I see the potential for an almost equally dramatic transformation of a certain place in your life, Aquarius. Start dreaming and scheming about the possibilities.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Carolyn

Forché is a role model for how to leave one’s comfort zone. In her early career, she earned writing degrees at placid universities near her childhood home in the American Midwest. Her first book mined material about her family; its first poem is addressed to her grandmother. But then she relocated to El Salvador, where she served as a human rights advocate during that country’s civil war. Later she lived and wrote in Lebanon at the height of its political strife. Her drive to expand her range of experience invigorated her poetry and widened her audience. Would you consider drawing inspiration from Forché in the coming weeks and months, Pisces? I don’t necessarily recommend quite so dramatic a departure for you, but even a mild version will be well rewarded.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Eighty-three-year-old author Harlan

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Buckingham

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APR 2 - APR 8

evolving Taurus or an unevolving Taurus? Are you an aspiring master of gradual, incremental progress or a complacent excuse-maker who secretly welcomes inertia? Will the theme of your next social media post be “The Smart Art of Compromise” or “The Stingy Glory of Stubbornness”? I’m hoping you will opt for the former rather than the latter in each of the three choices I just offered. Your behavior in the coming weeks will be pivotal in your long-term ability to animate your highest self and avoid lapsing into your mediocre self.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you fly in a

passenger jet from New York to London, the trip usually takes more than six hours. But on January 8, 2015, a powerful jet stream surging across the North Atlantic reduced that time significantly. With the wind’s extra push, several flights completed the trip in five hours and 20 minutes. I suspect you’ll have comparable assistance in the course of your upcoming journeys and projects, Gemini. You’ll feel like the wind is at your back.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Actor Keanu

Reeves’ career ascended to a higher level when he appeared as a lead character in the film Speed. It was the first time he had been a headliner in a big-budget production. But he turned down an offer to reprise his starring role in the sequel, Speed 2. Instead he toured with his grunge band Dogstar and played the role of Hamlet in a production staged by a local theater company in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I admire him for being motivated more by love and passion than by fame and fortune. In my estimation, Cancerian, you face a choice that in some ways resembles Keanu’s, but in other ways doesn’t.

You shouldn’t automatically assume that what your ego craves is opposed to what your heart yearns for and your soul needs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A Leo sculptor I know

is working on a forty-foot-long statue of a lion.

Another Leo friend borrowed $30,000 to build a recording studio in her garage so she can pursue her quixotic dream of a music career. Of my other Leo acquaintances, one is writing a memoir of her time as a black-market orchid smuggler, another just did four sky dives in three days, and another embarked on a long-

postponed pilgrimage to Slovenia, land of her ancestors. What about you? Are there any breathtaking challenges or smart gambles you’re considering? I trust you can surf the same astrological wave.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How sexy

is it possible for you to be? I’m referring to authentic soul-stirring sexiness, not the contrived, glitzy, counterfeit version. I’m alluding to the irresistible magnetism that wells up in you when you tap in to your core self and summon a reverent devotion to your life’s mission. However sexy it is possible for you to be, Virgo, I suggest you unleash that magic in the coming weeks. It’s the most reliable strategy for attracting the spiritual experiences and material resources and psychological support you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my

analysis of the cosmic omens, your impact is rising. You’re gaining influence. More people are tuning in to what you have to offer. And yet your stress levels also seem to be increasing. Why is that? Do you assume that having more power requires you to endure higher tension? Do you unconsciously believe that being more worried is the price of being more responsible?

If so, banish that nonsense. The truth is this: The best way to manage your growing clout is to relax into it. The best way to express your growing clout is to relax into it.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The immediate

future will challenge you to revisit several fundamental Scorpio struggles. For best results, welcome these seeming intrusions as blessings and opportunities, and follow these guidelines: 1.

Your control over external circumstances will increase in direct proportion to your control over your inner demons. 2. Your ability to do what you want will thrive to the degree that you stop focusing on what you don’t want. 3. Your skill at regulating and triumphing over chaos will be invincible if you’re not engrossed in blaming others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m about

to say things that sound extraordinary. And it’s possible that they are in fact a bit overblown.

But even if that’s the case, I trust that there is a core of truth in them. So rejoice in their oracular radiance. First, if you have been hoping for a miracle cure, the next four weeks will be a time when you’re more likely than usual to find it or generate it. Second, if you have fantasized about getting help to address a seemingly irremediable problem, asking aggressively for that help now will lead to at least a partial fix. Third, if you have wondered whether you could ever retrieve a lost or missing part of your soul, the odds are more in your favor than they’ve been in a long time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The French

government defines books as an “essential good,” along with water, bread, and electricity.

Would you add anything to that list of life’s basics? Companionship? Stories? Deep sleep?

Pleasurable exercise and movement? Once you identify your “essential goods,” I invite you to raise the level of reverence and care you give them. Take an oath to treat them as holy treasures. Boost your determination and ability to get all you need of their blessings. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to enhance your appreciation of the fundamentals you sometimes take for granted.

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