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Benishek’s Forgotten Flint

Once again, our savior Rep. Dan Benishek wants to remind us how much he cares about us. In his latest newsletter, Benishek cries about the “abuse of power and disregard for the Constitution” by President Obama’s administration and the burdensome regulations imposed by unelected bureaucrats that have made life harder for northern Michigan families.

Seems Dan has forgotten that Gov. Rick Snyder also had unelected bureaucrats impose burdensome regulations on citizens of Michigan. Can you say “Flint emergency managers?”

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Regarding last week’s column about why schools close, Grant Parsons speaks truth to power! He speaks for me. I say Grant for President!

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The Benefits Of Medical Marijuana

I recently attended a free showing of “Ride With Larry” film at the Bay Theatre, which was sponsored by Parkinson’s Network North and Leelanau County Senior Services.

It was a film about an amazing man with Parkinson’s who biked 300 miles across South Dakota to raise awareness about living with Parkinson’s.

There was a two- or three-minute segment showing the effects of medical marijuana on his symptoms and the results were nothing short of miraculous. Unfortunately for him, medical marijuana has not yet been legalized in South Dakota, though it has in Michigan, and I strongly urge anyone who has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s to take advantage of this fact and seek help… and to please be vocal about the positive effects it can have. There are so many diseases and illnesses with symptoms that can be alleviated and reduced with the use of marijuana in its varied forms.

Patients should not be embarrassed or self-conscious about this as an option for treatment. Nature has provided us with this wonderful medicine and it should be exalted, not discouraged or stigmatized.

My heart goes out to anyone diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and thank you to the people who brought the film to the Bay Theatre.

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1 SMALL TOWN, BIG HISTORY Artifacts large and small will celebrate a northern Michigan town’s working history.

Items ranging from an (empty) uranium oxide fuel bundle and control rod blades from the now-decommissioned Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant to a piece of Charlevoixmanufactured ultra fine metal thread that was used to stitch space suits for the 1969 Apollo mission, the objects are part of “The Working World — Business & Industry in Charlevoix,” a exhibit that opens May 12.

Charlevoix Historical Museum Curator David Miles said it’s the biggest show ever staged at the museum and will include dozens of photos and artifacts demonstrating Charlevoix’s history as a fishing port, lumber town and tourist destination.

The museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon until 4pm.

Tony & Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play Rent hits Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts on Friday, May 13 at 7:30pm, & Saturday, May 14 at 2pm & 7:30pm. This highly acclaimed & popular musical centers around a group of friends & artists struggling with addiction, poverty, AIDS & love. Tickets: $29 adult, $26 senior & $10 youth. interlochen.org

4 A COOL HALF MILLION TO STOP STORMWATER The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay received a half million dollars to stop stormwater from flowing into the bay in Northport.

The grant is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which funds projects that address threats to the Great Lakes.

Runoff during storms is one of the greatest threats because it washes sediments and nutrients into the water, said Sarah U’Ren, Watershed program director. U’Ren said that’s a serious problem in Northport, where the grant money will fund the construction of green infrastructure like pervious pavement and rain gardens to stop rainwater before it reaches the bay.

bottomsup Bell’s poolside ale Traverse City cherries take center stage in an array of summer culinary confections, from pies to jams to marinades to ice cream. But a recently announced addition to Bell’s Brewery’s lineup of specialty beers puts a new creative twist on the region’s agricultural star.

This month Bell’s debuts its limited-edition Poolside Ale in 12-ounce cans, six-packs and drafts. The Belgian-inspired wheat ale is fermented with Montmorency cherry juice made from cherries grown near — you guessed it — Traverse City (the company’s Cherry Stout beer also features TC cherries.)

“Poolside is a beer we haven’t seen for a while,” said Bell’s Vice President Laura Bell said. “It was incredibly well received, and we thought it was the right time to bring this seasonal favorite back.”

The 5 percent ABV beer adds a “subtle tartness and bright counterpoint to clove and other fruit aromas” created by the specialty yeast street used to ferment the beer, according to the company. “It’s very drinkable and a great addition to our summer can lineup,” Bell said. Find a six-pack near you at www.bellsbeer.com.

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Crime & Rescue CHARGES: MAN ABUSED INFANT A Fife Lake man is accused of seriously assaulting an infant.

Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies received a call about possible abuse the morning of April 23 and deputies determined that 32-year-old Rodger Anthony Nesto assaulted a two-month-old girl.

The infant was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment of a possible head injury, bruising and what appeared to be past abuse, Sheriff Pat Whiteford said.

Nesto faces a preliminary exam May 9 on charges of first-degree child abuse and being a four-time habitual offender. He was held on $1 million bond.

FIVE ARRESTED IN KALKASKA Eight arrest warrants were issued in Kalkaska County after an investigation into medical marijuana dispensaries.

The warrants were issued May 4 following search warrants that were executed in December, according to a Traverse Narcotics Team press release.

Five arrests were made -- three men ages 29, 57 and 69 and two women ages 37 and 63 -and additional arrests were expected, police said.

Those arrested were expected to face charges of criminal enterprise, delivery of marijuana, maintaining a drug house and racketeering.

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FACEBOOK POSTS LEAD TO ARREST Police arrested a 34-year-old woman after she posted photos of children online.

The woman posted photos and made disturbing comments on Facebook in an apparent attempt to harass a family, investigators said.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies investigated after the mother of the girls, an Interlochen woman, called police. They expected the suspect, a Traverse City woman, would be charge with posting an unlawful message online.

The woman could face up to 2 years in prison if convicted.

MARIJUANA BUST IN CADILLAC A woman faces charges for allegedly selling marijuana in Cadillac.

The 35-year-old was arrested after officers from the Traverse Narcotics Team served a search warrant at her house, according to an April 27 press release.

In the search, officers found marijuana, cash, packaging materials and scales. Two minor children found in the home were turned over to family members.

The woman faces charges of delivery of marijuana, possession with intent to deliver, conspiracy and maintaining a drug house.

FLEEING SUSPECT CHARGED A man who led police on a chase across northern Michigan faces fraud charges here and in Minnesota.

Christopher John Larsen faces charges in Missaukee County of malicious destruction of police property, resisting arrest, fleeing police, and a fraud charge involving a $100,000 check.

The 42-year-old Fife Lake man is also wanted on fraud charges in Stearns County, Minn., police said.

Missaukee County Sheriff’s deputies approached the suspect in April when he rammed their patrol car and sped off.

The man led police on a chase that went into Wexford County and then, along US-131, into Grand Traverse County, where the suspect was stopped by deputies and arrested.

BARC EMPLOYEES BUSTED Police say more than scrap metal was recycled at Bay Area Recycling for Charities last summer – two employees diverted thousands of dollars from the nonprofit’s coffers to their own, according to charges.

Manager Adam Richard Bolton and Larry Jan Olson face felony charges of embezzlement between $20,000 and $50,000 after an investigation by the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s office.

PATROL CAR INVOLVED IN CRASH A sheriff’s deputy pulled into traffic while attempting to make a traffic stop.

The Cheboygan County Sheriff’s deputy pulled into the path of a car driven by a 57-year-old Boyne City woman, Sheriff Dale Clarmont said.

Both vehicles suffered extensive damage and the drivers suffered minor injuries. The deputy had a bump on his head and the woman complained of side pain but she refused treatment. The crash occurred at 7:41am May 2 on M-68 near Old M-33.

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TEENAGER BUSTED FOR BOOZE A teenager’s attempt to hide a case of beer under a coat failed during a traffic stop.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over a 19-year-old Maple City man in Cleveland Township April 29 at 11:38pm for an equipment violation and while the deputy was talking to the teen he noticed the case of beer and suspected the driver had been drinking.

The deputy arrested the teen for driving after drinking while underage and possession of alcohol in a vehicle by a minor.

ALCOHOL AND SPEED CAUSE CRASH Alcohol and speed were factors when a driver rolled over as he lost control, struck a building and crashed into a tree.

The driver was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment of serious injuries suffered in the crash, which occurred May 3 at 2:55am in the Village of Boon, Wexford County Sheriff’s deputies said.

The driver’s age and hometown were not included in a press release about the crash.

The recycler reported the embezzlement in October and detectives investigated the allegations for months, Lt. Christopher Barsheff said. The 28-year-old Bolton and 56-year-old Olson had payments for recycled materials made out to a third-party company that they controlled between July and October last year, Barsheff said BARC donates money it earns through recycling to charity; they’ve been instrumental in helping numerous northern Michigan events reduce waste through recycling.

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It’s wedding season in northern Michigan. Unless you live under a rock — a really big one — you know that our culture has been engaged in a furious debate over who should and should not be allowed to marry. Those who read my words regularly might expect me to wade hipdeep into the fray. Not today. I’ve been happy to see marriage revived as something desirable, and not just because couples might hire me to photograph some of those weddings.

It wasn’t that long ago that popular culture had declared the concept of marriage outdated.

We hear all sorts of data about the high failure rate of marriage. It’s commonly thought to be a fact that 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. But missing from that statistic is how many of those divorces were executed so one of the parties could marry someone else, not a rejection of the institution at all. We also don’t know how many of those marriages are the same small segment of people getting married and divorced multiple times. If 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce, each person divorced three times requires three lasting relationships to balance the statistics. In reality, most marriages do last.

Marriage also has gotten a bad wrap as being oppressive for women. It’s unclear how two people deciding to commit and share their lives can

school with a GPA of at least 2.5 and without either becoming a parent or getting a criminal record. Two out of three adolescents with mothers married throughout their childhood clear this hurdle, compared to 42 percent of those with mothers married for some but not all of their childhood and just 28 percent of those raised by never-married mothers.”

In short, 72 percent of kids from unmarried mothers will not graduate high school, get pregnant, or go to jail before they finish high school. Oddly enough, the authors try to suggest married parents’ children are more successful primarily because of the higher incomes that married parents enjoy (they don’t deny that married families have higher incomes.) They call it the “income effect.” They are wrong. It turns out marriage itself is a factor in the higher income and better outcomes for children.

A British study, “Cohabitation, Marriage, Relationship Stability and Child Outcomes” done

by The Institute for Fiscal Studies found that the benefits of marriage on families don’t transfer to two adults living together out of wedlock.

“Married couples enjoy far greater wealth and health than those who cohabit.” The study showed that married couples were 32 percent more likely to own a home than those who co-

A British study, “Cohabitation, Marriage, Relationship Stability and Child Outcomes” done by The Institute for Fiscal Studies found that the benefits of marriage on families don’t transfer to two adults living together out of wedlock. “Married couples enjoy far greater wealth and health than those who cohabit.” be bad for one gender but great for the other.

Oddly, it seems that today’s social justice warriors decrying marriage are making the assumption that women will naturally allow themselves to be victims, which underestimates women and doesn’t reconcile with reality.

Marriage is good for society. If we accept the idea that a society is well-served when children are well educated and become successful adults, we are wise to support marriage. In The Atlantic, W. Bradford Wilcox cites a range of studies that show that children raised with married parents have more success in life and will earn more income than children from single parents or families with divorced parents. He notes, “The intact, two-parent family seems to be particularly important for children hailing from less privileged homes and a powerful force for economic mobility.” In short, kids growing up in lower income homes will do better if they have married parents. In one study, John Gruber found that adults who came from divorced families are less well educated, have lower family incomes, marry earlier yet separate more often, and even have higher suicide rates.

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In an article from the Brooking Institute, Kimberly Howard and Richard V. Reeves attempt to suggest marriage itself doesn’t lead to all of these benefits, but that any two adults living together will gain the advantages. As we find so often in our culture, they write to placate unmarried parents, but even in their conclusions they outline the benefits of marriage and find children are significantly better off with married mothers. This is a direct quote: “Our adolescent success measure, for example, is to graduate high

habitate, and that married fathers had professional occupations twice as often as men who are cohabitating. They also noted that children from married families are less likely to smoke or take drugs and score better on intelligence tests than their counterparts from homes where parents cohabitate.

There was a time when pregnancy outside of marriage was a social disgrace because it was evidence that the woman had engaged in sexual intercourse. It was a religious violation, a sin.

That shame led to all sorts of terrible outcomes including illegal (and legal) abortions and deceptions that tore at families. Even today, in some cultures, out of wedlock birth can lead to pride killings. Those outrageous reactions have led us to abandon a tradition that otherwise served culture well — keeping children inside married families. We need to clarify why it’s better to only have kids after marriage, but we need to get the social convention of having children only after marriage back into our culture. The religious prohibition of sex out of wedlock is outdated for most people.

It’s none of our business. But it is simply too easy to avoid pregnancy today for us to blindly condone young women having children out of wedlock. Those women aren’t sinners, but they are making a bad decision. It doesn’t serve our culture well to ignore the benefits of marriage, particularly when children are involved.

Thomas Kachadurian is a photographer, designer and author. He lives on Old Mission with his wife and two children. He is a member and past president of the Traverse Area District Library Board of Trustees.

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... spectator by stephen tuttle A couple weeks ago, President Obama visited Saudi Arabia. The usual diplomatic gibberish about “strategic allies” and “friendship” and the rest was much in evidence.

In truth, Saudi Arabia is not now — nor has it ever been — our friend, and our alleged alliance with them has been decidedly one-sided.

Saudi Arabia is more of a family business than anything we would recognize as a country. It’s actually named after the ruling Saud family.

Nearly all government officials are part of that gigantic extended family.

Our relationship with them began long before our supposed alliance following 9/11.

They had lots of sweet crude oil that required minimal refining and we needed some of it.

As long as that need existed we were happy to play the role of oil serf to their monarchy. In doing so, we overlooked much that has led us to the quagmire that is now our involvement in the Middle East.

erty in their own name, can’t go out in public without a male chaperon, can’t expose any part of their body in public other than their face and hands, can’t swim... it’s a long list.

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Two years ago, a young woman was gangraped in Riyadh, the capital city. There was no doubt it happened; the men involved admitted it. At “trial” it was revealed the woman was out in public without a chaperon. The rapists received lashes for their brutality. The young woman? Twice as many lashes for having “lured” the men into their crime.

It doesn’t get much better for women when they marry, oftentimes selected by the groomto-be’s family. Men are allowed four wives, women one husband. Men decide whether or not their wives can work, with whom they can socialize, whether daughters can go to school

Petoskey, Lansing, Mt. Pleasant, Gaylord and two locations in Traverse City.

It’s not just that the Saudis are in bed with those trying to destroy us. They are also among the most repressive and oppressive government regimes on earth.

Whether or not the Saudis were involved in somehow supporting the 9/11 murderers as is now being speculated is moot. They were most certainly complicit in aiding and abetting the atmosphere that has led to jihadist extremism. They continue to do so even now.

Saudi Arabia finances madrasas (schools) that teach Wahhabism, the most extreme and oppressive form of Sunni Islam. It is the foundation of jihadi hatred and violence we’re now witnessing in too many parts of the globe.

It’s not just that the Saudis are in bed with those trying to destroy us. They are also among the most repressive and oppressive government regimes on earth.

There are no freedoms in Saudi Arabia as we would recognize them here. There is no freedom of speech, no free press, no freedom of religion. You can be imprisoned just for criticizing the royal family. You won’t do especially well in court, either. For many crimes you are allowed no defense at all; you’ll be dragged into court where you will join the other 99 percent of defendants found guilty.

If you’re a Saudi woman, things become exponentially worse.

Women were finally allowed to vote, in municipal elections only, for the first time last year.

Some women were even elected to local governing councils. That was considered real progress.

But women still can’t drive, can’t own prop-

and they legally control the family’s finances.

Men can obtain a divorce simply by saying “I divorce you” three times. Seriously. If they change their minds, which they can do up to three times, their wife is compelled to stay with them. A woman, on the other hand, must go to court where she will face an all male tribunal that does not typically consider violent abuse a legitimate cause for divorce.

Last year, a woman was publicly stoned to death for the heinous crime of adultery.

Bound, covered in a white cloth, and put in a hole up to her waist, people then threw rocks the size of baseballs and softballs at her head until she was dead. Her male lover was not prosecuted. Her husband approved of her execution.

These are our “friends” in the Middle East.

They want us to fight their battles for them despite their having $100 billion in military hardware they bought from us. They want us to solve the Sunni vs. Shia ugliness in their favor, a more than five-century-old blood feud we should not and cannot fix.

Everything about their government is antithetical to our beliefs.

We no longer need their oil, we can move our military bases out of their country, and we should stop tolerating their horrible human rights performance.

With friends like this, we don’t need enemies.

In fact, these friends are our enemies.

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a local pastor and a local atheist debate the upcoming presidential election — prophecies fulfilled?

Rev. Dr. William C. Myers

Gary Singer

Senior Pastor at Presbyterian Church of Traverse City.

Gary helps businesses with their Internet marketing.

He was raised a Catholic.

Twenty years ago I’d watch the “Jerry Springer Show” and laugh. Not a healthy laugh; more a “shaking the head in disbelief ” smirk, the kind reserved for carnival midways. A mix of amusement and disdain.

Today I no longer laugh. The world of Jerry Springer is our world!

The primaries have made this clear. Regardless of who is on the ballot, this year’s presidential election will be a choice between two evils. The most dominant candidate to date bears a remarkable resemblance to President Snow of The Hunger Games with the hair of Caesar Flickerman.

Some believe the rise of “The Donald” signifies the implosion of the Republican Party. For them, a Trump nomination means the end of a moderate conservative voice.

While John Kasich comes closest to such a voice, his inability to capture the widespread

support of the party suggests they are right.

Many Democrats and Republicans would agree. This is a sad state of affairs.

While I share their immediate concern, I also wonder… Could this be part of God’s prophetic act of redemption? The Hebrew Scriptures are filled with examples of national decline arising whenever God’s people ignored God’s will. “How the faithful city has become a whore! She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her — but now murderers!” (Isaiah 1:21-22) The good news is the judgment these prophecies foretell leads to redemption!

“You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her…for the LORD delights in you…”

(Isaiah 62:4)

GARY’S RESPONSE What Bill and other religious people view as prophecies fulfilled appear to me as nothing more than the natural outcome of human behavior. It doesn’t require a prophetic skillset to foresee that a civilization will decline when its leaders ignore the needs of its people.

Moreover, when we elevate those with superior financial status to positions of authority and demand that candidates raise hundreds of millions of dollars in order to contend, we eliminate 99 percent of the population from consideration. Odds are we will be left with poor choices, and here we are.

Having witnessed presidential elections since the Eisenhower years, I firmly believe this nation has finally reached the tipping point. Along with the increase in social stratification toward extremes throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world (85 men on Earth now control as much wealth as half of the world’s population) has come a corresponding increase in social unrest. It’s about time.

It’s time we recognize that the only way there is going to be a return to a more prosperous and evenly distributed economy is with radical adjustments in our leadership.

You might be able to pray or meditate your way to a positive outlook, serenity, and personal relaxation; but no amount of prayer or biblical consultation can help here. What is needed supersedes any of that. I despair for my children’s future in a way that my parents never could have imagined.

The enormous attention being paid to “outsider” candidates such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders should serve as a warning that we are closer to upheaval than at any time since the Vietnam War. Our government, a substantial and powerful machine, is a locomotive in overdrive heading directly toward a mountain with no tunnel. Furthermore, we did this to ourselves. Collectively, we have all enabled the rise of big money while government services such as education and health care continue to be reduced.

I wish the solution was as easy as convincing some god to intercede. That is fantasy, pure and simple. Those of us who truly want change must become active and help support it. The alternative is anarchy, an outcome that should not be surprising.

BILL’S RESPONSE Prophesies from thousands of years ago are worth little. Some correlations will come to fruition simply from dumb luck. Most will fade into oblivion as they naturally avoid coincidental occurrence. If anyone who predicts future social trauma resulting from inept political leadership is to be considered a prophet, I suspect most of us would qualify.

I would advise those who want to see change to become active and not rely upon hope, scriptures, or the intercession of a supernatural force. When has that ever worked?

Gary and I agree that what is occurring in the current electoral process is a sign of increasing social unrest which, if left unchecked, will result in increasing cultural upheaval and human suffering. Gary is right. “We did this to ourselves.”

What Gary doesn’t see is biblical prophets have made similar predictions for generations. When the people listened, repented,

and returned to God, they were redeemed.

No one is calling for mystical hocus pocus.

Cultural change won’t come easy. But it won’t come at all unless we return to God. “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.” (Isaiah 55:6-7)”

Though Gary and Bill do not agree on the source, both believe that the current political situation, with its inherent inequalities, is a sign that social change is necessary and forthcoming.

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN GAYLORD Northern Michigan city is at the center of the latest flare up over Michigan’s Medical Marijuana Act

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omething strange happened after authorities signaled stricter enforcement of medical marijuana laws with May 2015 raids in Gaylord. Afterward, the number of dispensaries went up, not down. There were seven dispensaries operating before the raids and there were nine operating this March when police returned for another round of enforcement.

Part of that is owed to pot purveyors’ belief that they found a way around a prosecutor’s strict reading of the law; part of it was a zoning ordinance that some believed gave them a green light; and part of it is a nascent culture of civil disobedience in Gaylord over marijuana rights.

in Otsego County, said Witt was punished for taking a political stand on medical marijuana and taking his case to trial.

The sentence was six times what was recommended by sentencing guidelines, Covert said.

“I have done a hundred marijuana cases and I have never seen a judge go beyond recommendations,” Covert said.

Covert said he believes Witt was punished, not for violating the marijuana law, but because he fought the charges against him. People who were charged in the same

TROUBLE AT TINCTURETOWN Even as jail time loomed for one medical marijuana seller facing trial on felony charges for providing product to patients with medical marijuana cards, other pot dispensers set up shop, in seeming defiance of the crackdown.

Partners Beth Kuhle and Ron Smith believed the City of Gaylord’s move earlier this year to include medical marijuana provisioning centers in their zoning ordinance signaled it was safe to open a dispensary.

“I was watching the news one morning and it says Gaylord passed an ordinance for medical marijuana dispensaries,” Kuhle recalls. “I said, ‘Hey, we’re on.’”

They went to the city to find out where they could operate and they went to the county to register their business. They opened Tincturetown in a former law office on Main Street on Feb. 3. The couple was surprised how fast business took off — but it didn’t last long. They were open 32 days before they were raided by police.

Smith and Kuhle said they believed that, as long as they maintained detailed paperwork about clients, their doctors, their conditions and their dosages, they would be in the clear. Police and prosecutors disagreed.

“The next thing we know, there’s police coming around saying patient-to-patient sales are illegal, and then here we are today,” Kuhle said.

Dispensaries have lived in legal limbo for several years, ever since a state Supreme Court decision found that the Michigan’s 2008 medical marijuana law does not legalize storefront sales of marijuana, but only sales of small amounts from licensed caregivers to no more than five licensed patients.

A TRIAL AND TRIBULATIONS Twenty-seven-year-old Alan Witt has become a sort of folk hero for the northern Michigan pot community. He chose to risk his freedom for the political fight over medical marijuana and he’s inspired demonstrations, a Facebook group and a visit from a former Detroit Red Wing.

Along with a group of medical marijuana operators, Witt faced felony charges when he was snared in the May 2015 police sweep. Everyone else pleaded guilty to reduced charges. Witt took his case to trial, was convicted of a felony (he was acquitted and the jury was hung on two additional counts) and he was sentenced to 180 days in jail in April.

East Lansing–based attorney Joshua Covert, who represented Witt and represents two defendants in pending marijuana cases

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sweep of dispensaries who pleaded guilty were sentenced to probation.

“It would appear to be a trial tax,” Covert said.

Otsego County Prosecutor Michael Rola disagreed with that characterization of the sentence. He said other defendants recognized they had violated the law and they pled guilty to lesser offenses that carry more lenient sentences. Witt, on the other hand, was found guilty of a more serious offense, and therefore faced a harsher punishment.

LEGALIZE IT Covert said Otsego County stands out in the state for its aggressive pursuit of medical marijuana providers.

“I would certainly say that their enforcement of the act is strict,” Covert said.

(Rola also disagrees with Covert’s assessment of marijuana enforcement in Otsego County; he said he is merely enforcing the law.)

Covert hopes backers of a legalization measure can get a state initiative on the ballot in November. He believes legalization would be the best solution to enable people to get access to medical marijuana.

“Legalize recreational marijuana,” he said. “Do away with criminal penalties; allow for local control. I don’t think we can wait in the legislature to correct this problem.”

Indeed, the legislature was supposed to clarify how dispensaries could operate in 2014. The state House of Representatives passed a resolution that would have made dispensaries legitimate, spelled out rules for their operation, and allowed for local control of where or whether they could operate.

That measure fizzled amid opposition from law enforcement groups, even as some police and prosecutors said they needed clarity in order to do their jobs.

Covert said he might consider a new strategy in the latest round of Otsego County cases, since Gaylord passed an ordinance that spelled out where dispensaries could be located.

It’s not fair for one part of government to signal a green light while another part levels criminal charges, he said.

“I think prosecuting attorneys do have to keep in mind ordinances,” Covert said.

Rola said the Gaylord ordinance has nothing to do with state marijuana law and the city merely made accommodations for dispensaries in the event that the law changes.

A GRASSROOTS FIGHT OVER GRASS Ben Horner, of the Flint-based Cannabis Stakeholders Group, helped push for the Gaylord zoning amendment and helped organize an event in April when former Red Wing Darren McCarty visited town to demonstrate for medical marijuana rights. The event was held at Witt’s former dispensary.

“About a hundred people showed up over the course of the afternoon and, considering all of the fear that’s out there, I thought that was pretty impressive,” Horner said.

Horner believes there are ways dispensaries can operate legally in Michigan, even though authorities in Otsego County don’t share his opinion.

“We feel as though the dispensaries were operating in accordance with the act, and yet there is some confusion as to what the act allows,” Horner said.

Others, even some within the medical marijuana community, disagree and say that, given the way Michigan courts have interpreted the law, police and prosecutors can shut down dispensaries if they want to.

Horner believes that, because of inaction from the legislature, the political fight over medical marijuana should play out countyby-county, and citizens should encourage local officials to enable dispensaries to operate.

“The important part is people Up North aren’t giving up; they are going to keep re-

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opening,” he said.

Gaylord City Manager Joseph Duff said the city council’s zoning ordinance amendment was not an endorsement of medical marijuana and it wasn’t meant to encourage would-be dispensary owners.

“You’ve got to realize that what the city council was reacting to and what the community was reacting to was a group of citizens who approached us, and they had petitions,” Duff said.

The ordinance merely defines which zoning districts would allow provisioning centers, he said. It doesn’t speak to state or federal law.

NOT GOING TO LOOK AWAY A half-dozen people have been charged since March, when those nine dispensaries were raided by officers working for the Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement (SANE) team.

SANE’s Detective Lt. Kenneth Mills said the regional drug squad doesn’t look for medical marijuana cases to bust, but they don’t turn their heads either. Indeed, amid raids by the Traverse Area Narcotics Enforcement team throughout Wexford County two years ago, Otsego County appeared to be a sort of safe haven at the time.

That sense of well being came crashing down last May when plain-clothes and uniformed police officers fanned out across the city, armed with search warrants based on confidential informants who had purchased medical marijuana from the dispensaries.

The informants had medical marijuana cards, but the dispensaries were not registered as their caregivers.

It was the proliferation marijuana business that raised suspicion, Mills said. Detectives came to wonder, how are all of these places staying in business? How many medical marijuana patients can there be?

“Any common sense makes you think they have to be operating illegally,” Mills said.

Mills said that, in the latest round of raids, Gaylord’s dispensaries also violated state law by selling patients edible or oil-based marijuana products. The legality of edibles and oils for medical marijuana patients is another hotly disputed aspect of the law.

ENFORCING THE LAW Mills said SANE is merely enforcing the law.

“We’re enforcing the laws that are out there and, until things change, we will continue to do that,” he said. “Marijuana is not our priority. Heroin and opiates and methamphetamine are our priorities.”

Even if a dispensary became a hub for patients and caregivers to get together, that would have to happen literally, Mills said.

Caregivers could only provide to their five patients. And they would have to be together in the same room.

Mills said he recalls hearing about a plan like that in Gaylord when the law first went into effect, and he said he thought that would comply with the law.

“He talked about having marijuana that was available for patients, each person having it locked in a safe or container so that nobody else had access to it in there,” Mills said.

“That would work.”

Through the investigation, Mills said he found that people had come to see Gaylord as a friendly zone for medical marijuana compared to some other parts of the state.

He learned during the raids that, in many cases, these were businesses that were operated by out-of-towners.

“We had people from all over, people that were living all over the place, were operating in Gaylord,” Mills said. “I asked them those questions, ‘So, how come you didn’t open one in your own home?’ They just thought it was viewed differently in that area.”

A BUSINESS IN LIMBO Smith and Kuhle decided to open a dispensary after they spent several years as caregivers. They live in Charlevoix, where there aren’t any medical marijuana businesses, and they also run a window cleaning business.

“When we were looking for a building, our real estate agent was bragging about how Gaylord was going to be the Up North medical marijuana Mecca,” Smith said.

Dispensaries are necessary for the law to work, they said, because, without them, most people who qualify for medical marijuana cards would not be able to find a supply of the drug.

“If everybody’s closed and you don’t know how to grow it and you don’t have a caregiver, you can’t get your medicines,” Kuhle said.

That’s left Kuhle and Smith considering reopening, despite the heat. Another dispensary in Gaylord opened a day before Smith and Kuhle talked to the Northern Express: D&L on Otsego Avenue. An employee there said he was not permitted to sit for an interview, though he said things were going alright so far.

Kuhle said she wants to reopen because she believes it’s the right thing to do.

“I still say they’re wrong. They’re wrong,” she said. “They’re human beings, so they can be wrong.”

Still, Kuhle said she wasn’t sure if opening again would be worth it. They still didn’t know if they would face charges. They lost thousands of dollars in the raid when police seized cash and marijuana and equipment.

“What I’d really like to do is go down to Mike Rolo’s offices and say, ‘Here I am. Are you arresting me or what?’” Kohl said.

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Food Trucks On The Radar Throughout Northern Michigan

Elk Rapids, Charlevoix, Frankfort among Towns Kicking the Tires

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ood truck revenue has grown nationally by nearly 13 percent in recent years — and mobile dining is a red-hot trend throughout northern Michigan, anchored by a strong food truck scene in Traverse City. Now other communities are tackling the issue, deciding to embrace the concept, put rules in place, or forego food trucks altogether.

ELK RAPIDS

Elk Rapids is one of the latest cities making a community-driven effort to attract food trucks, aiming for a trial period beginning Memorial Day. The town’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) has made their recommendations to the Village Council, which will determine specific implementation plans. The council is expected to have a final decision by May 16, said Village Manager Bill Cooper, with food trucks likely to be parked in certain areas during summer 2016.

Elk Rapids DDA Chairman Andy LaPointe said he sees food trucks as a plus to the community, noting they bring another level of variety and overall interest in Elk Rapids.

After the DDA’s due diligence, which entailed getting input from businesses and residents, it’s clear food trucks are wanted, said LaPointe.

Yet it’s not without controversy. Michael Peterson said he has seen “not welcome” signs inside Elk Rapids businesses depicting a food truck inside a red circle

with a slash. Yet Peterson is in a unique position to see both sides of the issue. He’s the owner of Elk Rapids’ Siren Hall restaurant and two food trucks. Ultimately he said he believes food trucks will add to the Elk Rapids community.

“I get it,” he said about opposition, but added that people might not understand that food trucks don’t just park and make money.

“People don’t realize — it’s a lot of work,” noting fees, labor and food costs, and the expense for propane. “It’s not cheap,” he added.

Cooper said there are three to four locations under consideration by the Village Council, including Memorial Beach, the industrial park by Short’s Brewery, and the “Dam Beach,” a beach parking lot by the hydroelectric dam. Fees have not yet been determined. LaPointe said the current recommendation is for food trucks to be 150 feet away from current food establishments.

Cooper acknowledged “we don’t know a lot about the history and impact on local businesses,” and said it’s not a surprise some local businesses aren’t happy about the decision, but that Elk Rapids will “try it and see what happens.”

“We want to be fair to both food trucks and local business,” he said, noting that food truck operators will “figure out fairly quickly if this is a market for them.”

He also cited Harbor Springs’ limited number of spaces and tight controls as being a potential guide to follow.

committee of restaurant and business owners and began “incrementally.”

It’s been going well, said Richards, who hasn’t heard concerns about food trucks taking business away from other local establishments.

Though still considered to be on a trial basis with no laws on the books, food trucks must abide by a set of requirements. These include submitting menus for review, agreeing to rules about trash upkeep and signage, and having the necessary permits from the health department. Fees are $35 per day per parking space, or $350 per month for food trucks to park in the spaces on Bay Street, near the waterfront and one block from Harbor Springs’ main downtown district.

CHARLEVOIX

Charlevoix will test a pilot food truck policy this summer, according to City Manager Mark Heydlauff. Trucks will be allowed downtown all day on Thursdays, which is when the Charlevoix farmer’s market and summer concerts are held. The policy would also allow trucks at city beaches on Tuesdays, and every day at the airport, Depot Beach, and the city golf course.

“We have had a committee comprised of restaurant owners and food truck owners studying the issue for the last several months and we believe this is a good starting place for a policy in Charlevoix,” said Heydlauff.

“Council has been looking to strike a balance between the restaurants and the food trucks. Hopefully this policy achieves this and gives us a chance to see how food trucks work in Charlevoix,” he added.

“We want to be fair to both food trucks and local business,” said Bill Cooper

HARBOR SPRINGS

Harbor Springs City Manager Tom Richards said the decision allowing two food trucks in the city “seems to have been fairly successful,” and supports the continuation of food trucks in the city. Trucks came to Harbor Springs in 2014 after requests first surfaced.

After what he says was quite a bit of research — including meetings with the Michigan Municipal League and looking at other communities — Harbor Springs formed a

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PETOSKEY

In Petoskey, Downtown Director Becky Goodman said food trucks will not be in the city in summer 2016, adding that there have been very few inquiries.

“Neither City Council or the Downtown Management Board have ever discussed the topic, however our current ordinance does

not allow commercial activity in parks or rights of way unless it is in conjunction with a community event,” added Goodman.

“In my experience the true value of food trucks is to bring vitality to downtowns that lack food service...downtown Petoskey has over 26 restaurants, coffee shops, bars, and other eateries. There is not really a need for added food facilities from a temporary truck,” she said.

BOYNE CITY

Boyne City Main Street Executive Director Lori Meeder said food trucks are not allowed on public property, though some city events do have them. “We do have an annual food truck rally that is a fundraiser for our farmers market.

That takes place in July,” she added.

Across northern Michigan in Frankfort, the topic was the focus of a community forum discussion led by the DDA and City Council over the winter. A proposal to allow a designated public food truck space was turned down, keeping the current policy in place, which allows trucks only on private property within commercially zoned properties.

City Superintendent Joshua Mills said, “We are currently reviewing the fee schedule and the possibility of allowing food trucks at the farmers market and at special events being conducted in public space.”

TRAVERSE CITY

Meanwhile in Traverse City, food trucks continue to be on the rise. The Little Fleet on East Front will offer eight trucks this summer: Anchor Station, Pleasanton Pizza, Roaming Harvest, White on Rice, Happy’s Tacos, Daily Blends, Big Dipper, and Pigs Eatin’ Ribs.

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BOYNE CITY HAPPY’S TACO SHOP

Focusing on locally-sourced ingredients and house-made sauces and sausages, Happy’s goal is to offer fun, Mexican-inspired food for all, via their ever-shifting menu of unique ingredient pairings.

Two to try: The fried avocado taco with Cotija cheese, radish sprouts and tomato jam; the kimchi quesadilla with caramelized kimchi, Chihuahua cheese and sesame verde.

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A spinoff of Charlevoix’s popular restaurant, The Landing, The Landing Craft offers up a mixed menu from their custom-designed “mobile kitchen” that features summer favorites, plus selections from the restaurant’s main menu.

Two to try: The Beach Fries with Old Bay seasoning and fry sauce; chicken salad sliders.

Frequently found at: Local summertime events around Charlevoix.

Other locations /more info: thelandingcharlevoix.com PIGS EATIN’ RIBS

Chef Adam Kline knows barbecue, so much so that he built a smokehouse right into the Pigs Eatin’ Ribs food truck. Known for the rich, dark barbecue flavors of their meat, smoked over 100 percent fruit wood, everything here is made from scratch.

Two to try: The BBQ beef brisket sandwiches; BBQ pork sliders.

Frequently found at: Their own brick-andmortar locale in Charlevoix; The Little Fleet’s food truck lineup in Traverse City.

Other locations /more info: pigseatinribs.com

MOBARISTA This new mobile artisan grilled cheese shop crafts all their sandwiches on fresh, Parmesan-crusted bread to offer up the most cheese consumption possible per bite, with a Bonnaroo-like flair; liquid refreshments include coffee, hot or iced, and green tea or chai.

Two to try: The Cherry Goatcia with goat cheese, cheddar, mozzarella, red onions, and dried cherries; The Grilled Cheese Incident with cheddar, mozzarella, grilled tomato, and sunflower kernels.

Frequently found at: The Charlevoix Farmers Market; East Park in Charlevoix.

Other locations/more info: Ask at the truck.

PITA CRUISER With a seasonally rotating menu that takes advantage of available ingredients and allows catering to different crowds, the Pita Cruiser offers up localized Mediterranean-influenced fare including baklava for dessert.

Two to try: The chicken shawarma; gyros with tomato, onion, feta cheese and tzatziki sauce.

Frequently found at: Local festivals; Boyne Mountain events; Petoskey Farms Vineyard and Winery.

Other locations /more info: pitacruiser.com WINGIN’ IT With a menu revolving around chicken and a flair for seasonings, Betty Frain’s Wingin’ It offers up a changing menu of wings, including buffalo, cajun and mesquite with lime, plus a range of chicken tacos and more.

Two to try: The “Famous” chicken noodle soup; cherry BBQ wings.

Frequently found at: Local farmers markets and special events (summer only.)

Other locations /more info: facebook.com/bettyswinginit

EAST JORDAN LITTLEMAN BITES

Named after David Johnston’s beloved dog Little Man and inspired by the legendary

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cheese steaks of Philadelphia, this food truck thinly slices ribeye steak for their sandwiches resulting in authentic Philly flavor.

Two to try: The Philly cheese steaks; the hand-cut Idaho potato French fries with cheese.

Frequently found at: Boyne City Farmers Market; Deer Creek Junk; corner of US-31 and Bells Bay Road.

Other locations /more info: littlemanbites.com

that cooks up your pizza order in less than two minutes. These are rustic pizzas with great chew, generous toppings and big flavor.

Two to try: The classic Margherita pizza; new BLT pizza.

Frequently found at: Bay Street in downtown Harbor Springs; Crooked Vine Vineyard and Winery in Alanson; festivals.

Other locations /more info: woodfiredup.com

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Specializing in food made daily from scratch (their slogan is “Food That Makes You Happy”), the Mmmm Truck is a gourmet venture run by two local home cooks, husband and wife, focusing on breakfast items and sandwiches.

Two to try: vegetable quiche with tomato, spinach, caramelized onions, and raclette; fried chicken chop salad with spiced corn and beans.

Frequently found at: Various locations (spring/summer/early fall only.)

Other locations /more info: mmmmtruck.com

ETTA’S FOOD TRUCK Owner Steve Erber brings his grandmother Henrietta’s recipes back to life via this popular local truck featuring homegrown recipes that focus on local ingredients, plus fresh, inspired twists on nostalgic cooking.

Two to try: The Meatloaf sliders with potato salad; homemade German chocolate cake.

Frequently found at: Bay Street in downtown Harbor Springs; local events. Etta’s also has a restaurant, Etta’s Diner, on Conway Road.

Other locations /more info: facebook.com/ettasfoodtruck WOOD FIRED UP Pizza from a food truck? You bet. This truck is actually a mobile wood-fired pizza oven

It’s all about what’s new and funky at this globally-inspired food truck, as they mix up eclectic ingredients including lox, flatbread, tzatziki sauce, local ramps and asparagus to craft layers of flavor in each unique dish.

Two to try: The Viet Num-Num, with chicken-lemongrass sausage, carrotscallion slaw, and peanut-coconut curry sauce; The Kid Roquefort burger.

Frequently found at: Northport Brewing Company; special events.

Other locations /more info: facebook.com/earthwindandfryer

Fresh fish is served up here by Desmond Berry and his family, counting more than 20 years of commercial fishing experience among them.

Grab a fried fish basket deal and enjoy fish that’s as fresh as it gets, caught daily.

Two to try: The perch tacos; chowder fries, featuring fresh-cut French fries smothered in FISH Wagon’s own chowder.

Frequently found at: Peshawbestown near Eagletown Market; various events.

Other locations /more info: facebook.com/DLBfreshfish

TRAVERSE CITY A’S FOOD WITH AN ACCENT

Head to this truck for Portuguese-inspired food served up by owner Antonio Simão, including special Portuguese sausage made

from his own recipe. Enjoy everything from snacks to sandwiches, plus fries with a twist.

Two to try: The cod fritters; Mia’s fries tossed in truffle oil, garlic salt and Parmesan cheese.

Frequently found at: The Little Other locations /more info: facebook.com/foodwithanaccent

The Little Fleet.

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ANCHOR STATION This truck keeps things simple in a good way, with just a few interesting ingredient change-ups brought to you by Michael Peterson, owner of popular Elk Rapids restaurant Siren Hall.

Two to try: Killer Nachos with queso blanco; The grilled Anchor Burger.

Frequently found at: The Little Fleet; festival events.

Other locations /more info: facebook.com/AnchorStation CURBIE Part of Porterhouse Productions’ lineup, Curbie is a restored 1946 Ford Flathead truck serving up sweets from gumballs and popcorn to soda fountain treats; the truck is reportedly being repaired and updated for the 2016 season.

Two to try: Moomers ice cream; floats made with local Northwoods Soda.

Frequently found at: Local festivals including Microbrew & Music and Paella in the Park;

EZ CHEESY Housed in a 1964 Fleetwing camper, EZ Cheesy offers playful grilledcheese sandwiches and salads via a simple menu with locally-sourced ingredients and gourmet flair.

Two to try: The EZ Cheesy Classic; the Honey Bee My Ham with Gruyere, thick-cut ham, dijon and local honey.

Frequently found at: The Little Fleet.

Other locations /more info: ez-cheesy.com FRESH START It’s not just a food truck; it’s also a community movement from Goodwill Industries that utilizes the truck as a food-service training tool while serving up delicious locally-sourced sandwiches, tacos and desserts.

Two to try: The chicken tacos with pickled cabbage slaw; Bratwurst with Pimento cheese.

Frequently found at: Goodwill stores, local events, The Little Fleet.

Other locations /more info: facebook.com/mifreshstart ROAMING HARVEST Committed to the Eat Local movement in Traverse City, RH snags ingredients from local farms and businesses right in northern Michigan to craft their

fresh and eclectic mobile menu.

Two to try: The Korean beef tacos with sambal slaw and Sriracha mayo; flash- fried Street Beets.

Frequently found at: The Little Fleet.

Other locations /more info: roamingharvest.com SOMBRERO VERDE Chef Spencer Boyles cooks up homegrown authentic burritos and more Latin-influenced cuisine from SV’s Airstream trailer, plus experimental eatsturned-hits like dessert empanadas and sweet potato tacos.

Two to try: The Mayan street corn; chorizo chicken chimichanga (rumored to be Deadpool’s favorite.)

Frequently found at: InsideOut Gallery; various events.

Other locations /more info: facebook.com/homegrownchefs SPARKS BBQ What better name for a barbecue pitmaster than Dean Sparks? That’s the guy who runs this truck and prepares top of the line barbecue dishes over a live fire powered by northern Michigan hardwoods.

Two to try: The BBQ sundae with layers of pulled pork, beans, coleslaw and BBQ sauce, topped with a beef jerky stick; BBQ nachos.

Frequently found at: 439 E. Front Street in downtown Traverse City Other locations /more info: traversecityfoodtruck.com

WHITE ON RICE “Sushi That Rolls,” ramen noodles and tempura dishes are the order of the day at this Asianinspired food truck offering both favorite sushi dishes and flavorful departures from tradition.

Two to try: The hamachi wasabi sushi roll with yellowtail, green onion and wasabi mayo; ginger salad.

Frequently found at: The Little Fleet.

Other locations /more info: facebook.com/whiteonrice

New Kids On The Block Scott and Erica Pierson will soon open The Lot in the vacant land between Twin Bay Glass and Wellington on Eighth Street in TC. The food truck lineup is still being finalized, but those sure to be found there now include: Betty’s Hot Dish: Betty’s is half retro and half today, specializing in well-seasoned thick soups, stews and spicy chilis, plus hearty sandwiches layered with ingredients.

Cordwood BBQ: This BBQ purveyer harvests northern Michigan wood for smoked meat flavors that “are truly characteristic of the region.”

Wingz & Thingz: Try wings with more than a dozen types of sweet and spicy sauces, plus pizza, pasta and salads.

Uptown Dogs: Bringing hot dogs to another level using locally-sourced goods and farm style mustards.

Norma’s Tamales: Authentic homestyle tamales.

La Tropicana Fruit Cup: A variety of styled, fresh fruit arrangements.

Did we miss any? Drop us an email at info@ northernexpress.com and we’ll look into it for a future issue of Express!

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TOP MUSHROOM-HUNTING TIPS FROM TONY WILLIAMS, LOCAL MOREL EXPERT 1. “Listen to what people are saying and gather info on where other people are picking. If you have all kinds of time to go out into the woods and scout, that’s great, but otherwise I wait until I hear the morels are out; I wait until I hear that my friends and colleagues are finding them.”

2. “Always, always pick with a friend or a group, or at least have a cell phone on you and let someone know where you’re going. More often than you’d think, people get focused on the mushrooms and get lost.”

3. “Never pick with plastic bags. Morels are full of water and need to breathe; in a plastic bag, they get slimy fast. Line a tote with a paper grocery bag and shake off the dirt and leaves before you put them in, otherwise you’ll get your entire bag of mushrooms covered in dirt.”

4. “In the early season, hunt underneath the mature poplar trees. That’s where you’ll find the black morels, which are the first ones out. In the crossover season, you’ll be able to find both black and white morels under old apple trees, and then the white morels [at the] end the season.”

5. “Don’t soak your morels in salt water! I can’t state this one enough. For me, it ruins the flavor. People are so worried about bugs and dirt; just cut open the morels lengthwise and use a light butter brush to brush them off. If you see a little bug, just pick it out. You can give them a quick rinse in water if you want, but I put mine directly in the pan for cooking.”

Celebrating the Mighty Morel!

Boyne City Fest Returns for 56th Year

By Kristi Kates

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MORE MUSHROOM TIME

The festival has traditionally run Thursday through Sunday, but with the event’s growing popularity, they’re changing things up a bit for 2016.

“It’s such a cool event all on its own, all we really try to do is fine tune it from year to year,” explained Jim Baumann of the Boyne Area Chamber of Commerce. “This year we’re trying something new by adding on Wednesday our open mic contest. It was really popular last year, so we’re moving it to Wednesday to welcome those arriving to the festival early.”

Tony Williams, who also oversees the fest and is known as a local morels expert, agreed. “This is more of a kickoff for the locals,” he said. “And a lot of the mushroomers traveling in don’t get here until Friday, so it’s also for those really early arrivals.”

CULINARY MUSHROOMS

The Taste of Morels is a major highlight of the Morel Festival. Local chefs and restaurants present dishes made with morel mushrooms as a main ingredient. Last year’s winners included morel chicken brie and a morel mushroom risotto cake by Boyne Mountain Resort, a morel tartlet by the Barrel Back Restaurant, and morel meatballs from Cafe Sante.

“We’re expecting even more restaurants

at this year’s Taste,” Baumann said, “including Lake Street Market and Red Mesa. And Boyne Mountain will have three tables this year, one for each of the three different restaurants at Boyne: Everett’s, the Forty Acres Tavern, and The Beach House.”

DO THE MUSHROOM DANCE

The other must-do event will be the block party on Thursday night, during which the festival will close down one of Boyne City’s downtown streets to allow pedestrians to fill the block with dancing feet.

“We’ll have 20 craft breweries and two wineries offering beverages,” explained Williams, “and we’re bringing in the Thornetta Davis Band. She’s been getting a lot of recognition as the ‘blues queen of Detroit’ and has performed with everyone from B.B. King to Robert Cray.”

The block party debuted just last year, when it welcomed 800 people; this year, the fest is expecting more than 1,000.

“It was very, very popular,” Baumann said.

MUSHROOM MANIA

Capping off the weekend are a wide range of activities with something for everyone, from the opening of the Schmidt Amusements carnival on Thursday night to the morel seminar and guided morel hunt on Friday (The Cookies also perform Friday night at 8pm.) On Saturday, start your day with the Humane Society 5K run at 8am and get an early start on the big National Mushroom Hunt (buses depart at 9am sharp), and keep an eye on the “morel pole” where the mushrooms will compete for prizes. Saturday night offers more live music, while Sunday continues with more morel happenings, plus the craft show.

“This year, the music is what I’m most looking forward to,” Baumann said. “We re-

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ally stepped it up this year with Thornetta and we’ll also have The Cookies, the most popular dance band in northern Michigan, and Skarcasm, a good old rock and roll band. It’s all such a great time.”

For a complete schedule and more information on the 2016 National Morel Mushroom Festival, visit bcmorelfestival. com or call the Boyne Area Chamber of Commerce at (231) 582-6222.

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shleigh and Ken Harris started hunting mushrooms the way many other people in northern Michigan have: looking for morels as kids.

Years later, after the couple had kids of their own, they’d hunt as a family.

“One of our friends mentioned that morel season always goes so fast,” Ashleigh Harris said. “And we thought, you know, there are a lot of other edible mushrooms out there.”

Ken and his friends started going out to see what he could find, bringing new mushrooms back.

“I’d cook them and they were so good.

It was like, whoa, we never knew,” Ashleigh said. “At first, we were just picking recreationally. Then one friend said, ‘you should take these to the farmers markets.’”

And so the Michigan Mushroom Market was born.

MUSHROOM VISION Once the Harrises got the idea, they sent Ken to one of the local markets and quickly found there was definitely a demand.

“Ken literally went just one day to — I think it was the Petoskey or Boyne City market — with a basket of chanterelles,” Ashleigh said.

“He was sold out by 11am and had $300 in his pocket! And that was the light bulb; we thought we could really do something with this.”

Ken Harris picking mushrooms

Ashleigh Harris harvesting Chicken of the Woods

A Fine Fungi Life

Carefully utilizing a combination of guide books, learning from mushroom experts and cross-referencing with online photos, Ken was welcomed into the markets, and his wife wasn’t far behind.

EXPERT HUNTERS In October 2014, the Harrises expanded from farmers markets to a storefront just north of Petoskey on US-31. Things were going well until they were hit with a fire in August 2015, but they regrouped quickly.

“We now have a new location, also on US-31, about a quarter-mile north of Oleson’s,” Ashleigh said.

The Michigan Mushroom Market store will feature more than 15 varieties of wild

Maitake

Michigan Mushroom Market

Chanterelles

PICKING POTENTIAL “I went to the markets with Ken after he’d been going for a while, and I saw the other farmers with their beautiful canopies and nice setups and I said, ‘we need business cards, we need a table cloth, we need, need, need,’” Ashleigh laughed. “So we got everything customized, picked a business name, and got a dba and a website. The next three years was a whirlwind as we got more and more into it.”

As their Mushroom Market was getting started, Ken was working as a painter and Ashleigh ran a property management company.

“It was pretty good money for northern Michigan, but our hearts weren’t in it,” she said.

Once they thought they could make a living at something they loved, they both let their jobs go in favor of the mushrooms.

“Now our income is… a little different,” Ashleigh said. “We’re not quite there yet. But we know the potential!”

they have a lighter texture and an apricot-like Harris-recommended aroma.” Another mushroom, found in the fall, is the maitake.

“It’s also known as a medicinal mushroom,” she said, “but it’s one of the most versatile; it goes with anything and has a nice, strong, typical mushroom flavor, much like button mushrooms.”

By Kristi Kates Ashleigh’s personal favorite is a wildlyshaped bracket fungi that grows on trees and logs called chicken of the woods.

“That’s the one that even if you say you don’t like mushrooms, you’ll like it!” she said.

“You can cook it like you would poultry and, yes, it literally tastes like chicken.”

Morels

mushrooms that grow in northern Michigan, picked spring through fall, starting with morel season.

“We’re fortunate that we have so many state lands we can pick on here,” she said.

“We stick to those unless we have permission to hunt mushrooms on private property.”

Ashleigh said they also stick carefully to regulations, since mushrooms can be tricky at times.

“In Michigan, you have to follow Department of Agriculture food codes and you must be certified to sell wild mushrooms to the pub-

lic, which we are,” she explained. “It took us a year to prove to them that we knew what we were doing, but ultimately we got certified.”

FAVORITE FUNGI Now working with additional pickers, the Harrises are promoting mushrooms well beyond morels in the hopes of educating foodies about the bounty our region has to offer.

“Morels are like the red meat of mushrooms,” Ashleigh said. “They’re earthy, meaty and strong. Chanterelles are the opposite. They’re like a white meat mushroom;

FUTURE MARKET While the Harrises plan to continue participating in the farmers markets as long as they can (“we have to be there personally, as we get so many questions about the mushrooms, so we can’t just send anyone,” she said), much of their focus is now on their store: a place to buy wild mushrooms, as well as cultivated and dried mushrooms, plus a wild mushroom-based deli.

“We will have a licensed kitchen, so we’re going to have soups, pastas, pizza by the slice,” she said. “You’ll be able to come in and get hot takeout foods.”

Because they now own the property where the new Michigan Mushroom Market is located, they’ve got plenty of plans to expand, too. “We’re going to have a mini mushroom farm and we also plan to add lectures and classes,” Ashleigh said. “There’s just so much you can do with mushrooms!”

To learn more about the Michigan Mushroom Market, their farmers market schedule and their new store (opening soon), visit michiganmushroommarket.com or call (231) 838-0858.

They can also be found on Facebook (facebook. com/michiganmushroommarket)

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MEET THE WINE GUYS

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ou might think Wine Guys Restaurant Group sounds like something big and corporate; but it’s actually just a bunch of friends who run local businesses. And you might think it sounds like a group of men, or a collection of wine shops. No, and no.

Bob: So in May of 1997 we bought this [City Park Grill] building and completely changed the place, including the name. It had been the Park Garden for a long time [since 1888] and had a long history.

Wine Guys is the “umbrella name” for the owners of City Park Grill, Palette Bistro, and Roast & Toast Coffee & Café in Petoskey.

Bob: Not initially, no. There were letters to the editor, people were not really excited about it. It took some time.

Dick: Initially we were looking at a storefront bistro with maybe 50 seats. We drew up plans, but that evolved.

Mary: Back then we all did everything around here.

We sat down with Bob and Mary Reedy; Dick and Laura Dinon, Patrick Faylor and John Norman to talk about the origins of their business and its name, what’s to come in downtown Petoskey, and the challenges of running restaurants in northern Michigan. We gathered inside City Park Grill before it opened for lunch one weekday, and what became immediately clear was that this group is more than a collection of business partners – they’re close friends.

Northern Express: So the story began in 1993 with Roast & Toast, correct? Which honestly seems like ancient history now…like the place has been there forever.

Mary: Roast & Toast brought us to Petoskey.

Bob and I were living in Georgia and wanted to move back.

Bob: We looked at more than one location before we settled on the current one. In fact we started by looking in Traverse City and didn’t find an appropriate space. The coffee thing then was still pretty early.

Mary: We also looked in metro Detroit.

Bob: Yes, but eventually we wanted to live up north but needed a location that would be success. And Roast & Toast did well from the beginning.

It took a while to get the revenue there, but honestly the town embraced it from the beginning. Of course, that first winter was a little scary for more than one reason… moving from Georgia…it was a leap of faith and quite and undertaking for us. But I think we came at a really good time. Originally our vision was a lot more coffee oriented; we now do a lot more food…

Express: So Roast & Toast is up and running.

And then how did this whole restaurant group story begin?

Laura: Bob and Mary, Dick and I had moved here from bigger cities and we were disappointed in the restaurant scene. We just wanted a place where we could take our kids, enjoy a good dinner at a reasonable price, and have a nice wine selection. That’s why we did it, right?

Mary: Right. There were just very few options back then, and they were not kid friendly.

Mary: Dick and Laura were regular customers at Roast & Toast and I had eavesdropped about their wine conversations. We became friends and our kids were close to the same age. We also had a common interest: wine.

Bob: Certainly wine was going to be part of any restaurant we did. We wanted causal dining made from scratch, and at that time there were some corporate restaurants on the lower end and a lot of high-end places. There really weren’t a lot in the middle.

Laura: Pretty much nothing.

Express: And that was a popular move, or…?

differentiating our roles within the company because the staff we had. So Chef John and I opened Palette as operators and we promoted a chef here.

Express: What are the roles today?

Bob: I’m currently the GM here. I also handle the P&L, the advertising, and whatever else needs to be done.

Patrick: I’m the GM of Palette Bistro, but I can float, too. I was the GM at City Park. My role is to be developing managers, and help bring those people up.

Laura: I’m a partner but I also make all the cheesecake at Palette…and handle any employee issues.

I had never lived in a small town.

Huge change. One thing you notice

right away is that people are

very involved and giving….

you just naturally do it.

Bob: Oh, yes. Everybody did shifts and then eventually John and Pat came on.

Laura: It wasn’t the primary job for me and Dick. We were and are practicing lawyers.

Dick: Right, so it was different from what I do during the day. It was fun, exciting, new…and dealing with kitchen staff was so much different than dealing with judges and lawyers all day.

John: Really? [Laughs].

Express: OK, so how did John and Pat enter the picture?

John: Actually these two [Dick and Laura] used to come to my restaurant back then in Charlevoix as frequent guests. When I closed my restaurant and they decided to open this, they got ahold of me. Laura gets the props for that!

Patrick: I started waiting tables here that first summer. And then it might have been ‘98 or ’99 when I became a manager.

Bob: Pat’s such a great operator. Great attention to the guests and the staff. And he just worked his way up. He said, ‘I want to be an owner,’ and so we put together a path to that.

Express: And how did Palette [Bistro] come to be?

Bob: Palette really was these two [pointing to Pat and John]. Like this [City Park], it was just a tremendous opportunity. We had been offered that property in the past…it just got to the point in I think 2010 that we couldn’t say no. And once we got in there and really looked at the place we saw it wasn’t setup for what it could become. It was really underutilized. We right away talked about a Mediterranean concept.

Pat: And that’s really when we started

Dick: I handle insurance, most of the legal and liquor license issues. I also work a couple shifts at Palette.

John: I’m the culinary director and executive chef, and I handle development of both menus and also develop staff.

Mary: I pretty much do accounts payable, taxes and then of course run Roast & Toast.

Express: And business is good, even given much more competition now?

Bob: It’s great, and there’s never been a real sag.

We have experienced periods where one place is more on a roll than another. But Palette had a great year, up big in sales last year. City Park is strong, and with the bar tends to be more cyclical; we’ve had some ups and downs here.

Roast has been extremely consistent.

Mary: Every time something new opens in town you say, ‘oh, boy.’ But I do think it’s been reputation for us. Food’s always fresh and good.

Bob: But yes, it is much harder now. In the summer you don’t really notice, but in November and April, it’s just much harder.

So you listen to marketing ideas, you stay driven to be better, you maintain a great staff by making sure they’re learning and being paid enough. It’s hard. People like these restaurants in the middle that are innovative at a price they can afford, and there are way more of those today.

Patrick: I also absolutely think we raised the bar here. People would look and say, ‘what’s City Park Grill doing?’

Bob: Another thing that’s changed is that the surrounding markets have have improved.

You think about Harbor Springs, Boyne…

Traverse City is this food mecca now. Around here Petoskey was always clearly the dining leader, and we are still in the leadership position, but not like it was.

Express: Do you still see holes in this market, though? Opportunities?

Bob: I don’t think there’s necessarily one thing, but I know on thing we’re going to be more involved in is catering. I think we did a great job of keeping these places very different. We always look and if something presented itself we would think about it; you never can tell. But we’re pretty focused on this catering arm right now.

Patrick: We have lots of ideas, but everything bob said; you have to make sure you don’t cannibalize what you’re already doing, and that’s tough to do.

Express: What do you make of Petoskey as a whole and its future?

Bob: It continues to move forward. A few things like Petoskey Pointe would be helpful.

More parking would always be good. But this town has so many tremendous assets…

Crooked Tree, Bay View, Bliss…

Laura: And we have some issues with a shortage of young professionals, but the Chamber is trying to address that with their Thrive 45 program, and I’m hearing tons of positives about that.

Mary: And there remains such a sense of ownership here. Everyone is so vested in local businesses and causes, even if they only live here for three months or less a year.

Bob: I had never lived in a small town. Huge change. One thing you notice right away is that people are very involved and giving…. you just naturally do it.

Laura: It’s who we are.

Express: And what about your own relationships? Partners? Friends? How does that work?

Patrick: It’s a combination, but professional first. We have pretty clearly defined roles, as we said. And just having worked together so long there’s a real camaraderie.

Bob: [Being in business together] changes relationships, but I’m amazed really at how well it has worked out. First I had to get used to working with my wife. I hadn’t done that before.

Mary: Thank goodness we opened City Park so we were apart! [Laughs] Bob: Everybody brings something to the table. I’m sure we drive each other crazy from time to time, but we bring things that make the places better.

Laura: Bob, Dick and I are probably better friends than we were before.

Mary: Well, we basically raised our kids together and took vacations together. Throw in Pat’s kids, and it’s basically family. We all respect each other’s opinions and approaches.

Express: How did the name “Wine Guys” come to be?

Laura: That was our corporate name when we first opened City.

Bob: It was time to put more emphasis on a corporate name when we opened Palette, too.

Mary: I remember at one point early on we just needed to come up with something for a name!

Bob: There was probably some wine involved in the name’s development…

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Join us for Morel Dinners

Crab Stuffed Morels • Potato, Leek & Morel Salad w/Truffle Oil Vinaigrette Filet Mignon w/Morel Bordelaise & Béarnaise • Coconut Almond Roulade ...to name a few!

Wednesday, May 11 thru Sunday, May15 st 7pm • $75 per person

Enjoy a comfortable and inviting setting Share in our love of food and wine Your table is ready Reservations: 231.588.7351 • 6303 East Jordan Road, Ellsworth • Or visit our website: www.roweinn.com to tour our wine cellar and view upcoming special menus & events

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Please be seated for these abbreviated versions of the restaurant profiles we’ve featured since our last Restaurateur issue. Bon Appetit!

J&S HAMBURG

Traverse City This unassuming little gem serves anything on the menu any time of day and, despite its name, is perhaps best known for breakfast.

On the menu: Home-style breakfast selections, classic salads and soups and yes, of course, sandwiches and burgers.

Signature Dishes: On the breakfast side, The Farmer’s Omelette (three eggs loaded with sausage, hash browns, onions, mushrooms, cheddar cheese and tomatoes) and the Irish Omelette (corned beef, American fries, green peppers, onions and Swiss cheese, with a side of sour cream.) Later in the day, it’s the mushroom-Swiss burger, smothered with grilled onions, and a Reuben, piled high with corned beef on grilled rye with sauerkraut or coleslaw, melted Swiss cheese and Thousand Island dressing.

Contact: J&S is located at 302 West Front Street in Traverse City. Visit Facebook.com/ JShamburgdowntown or call (231) 947-5500.

skiers and other resort guests.

On the menu: The bison and beef meatloaf is wrapped in bacon and The Senator features corned beef, pastrami, Muenster, a sweet chili dressing and watermelon kraut all on light rye bread. The wings have a mapleSriracha glaze. Sandwiches, salads and freshmade guacamole are among the choices.

Signature Dishes: Standouts include the Loaded Grilled Cheese, with provolone, aged cheddar, feta, cherrywood-smoked bacon, caramelized onions, avocado and sundried tomato aioli on Texas toast, and the Goat Cheese Croquette on mixed greens with pine nuts, tomato and balsamic vinaigrette. On tap are 40 beers, one for each acre of that early Boyne property. Many are Michigan-made craft brews.

Contact: Forty Acres Tavern is located at 1 Boyne Mountain Road (Boyne Mountain Resort) in Boyne Falls. For more information, visit boyne.com/boynemountain/dining/forty-acres-tavern or call (231) 549-7270.

THE TRIBUNE Northport

FORTY ACRES TAVERN Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls The name pays homage to Boyne founder Everett Kircher’s original 40-acre purchase that became Boyne Mountain, and the food is elevated pub fare designed to please the palates of

Once home to the Northport Tribune newspaper, the restaurant echoes the past with framed historic photos lining the new whitewashed tongue-and-groove walls and a menu featuring high-quality, approachable food for breakfast and lunch — and an ice cream window.

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On the Menu: Burgers, sandwiches and salads — like roasted beet with bacon, sliced almonds, feta and lemon vinaigrette — are all made in-house, from scratch, with ingredients from the area.

Signature Dishes: Specialties include fluffy house-made biscuits, which make the biscuits and gravy a big hit, and Eggs Bennie (Benedict) with house-made hollandaise and house-cured lox, ham or asparagus in season; signature sandwiches include club, turkey Reuben, chicken BLT and meatloaf.

Contact: The Tribune is located at 110 East Nagonaba Street in Northport. Visit northporttribune.com or call (231) 386-1055.

THE NOGGIN ROOM

Petoskey The Perry Hotel dates from 1899 when it was one of 20 luxury resort hotels in Petoskey; it’s the only one still in operation and it includes the relaxing pub The Noggin Room.

On the Menu: Casual pub fare including burgers, the Italian pesto grinder sandwich, a French dip, a Reuben, and fish tacos with pineapple mango salsa, key lime ranch and cheddar-jack cheese.

Signature Dishes: The Loaded and Truckin’ burger is stacked with bacon, blue cheese, sport peppers and a hot dog on top; Pigs DO Fly is the pub’s signature oven-roasted BBQ pork “wings” served with red onion and pickled vegetables; Sunday’s pizza and beer special can give patrons entry into the Hall of Foam, with a mug inscribed with their name after

sampling some 40-odd international brews.

Contact: The Noggin Room is located in the lower level of the Perry Hotel in downtown Petoskey at 100 Lewis Street. For more information and a complete menu, visit staffords. com or call (231) 347-4000.

TERRY’S RESTAURANT

Charlevoix Terry Left owns Charlevoix’s popular Villager Pub, but the Culinary Institute of America graduate says he is actually more in tune with formal dining, like what is offered at Terry’s Place, a gourmet destination inspired by what he learned at upscale eatery Cafe Chauveron in Miami.

On the Menu: Classics like filet mignon and shrimp Provençale, as well as starters like escargot baked in garlic butter and mussels steamed in white wine, are popular choices, though Left and his executive chef Paul Bradley take advantage of Charlevoix’s proximity to the lakes by centering most of the menu around fish.

Signature Dishes: Whitefish from local John Cross Fisheries, plus walleye and perch, arrives fresh and is pan-sautéed to order, served up four ways: meuniere (with lemon beurre blanc sauce), almondine (lemon beurre blanc and almonds), Robinson (olive oil, garlic and parsley) and Grenoblois (lemon beurre blanc and capers.)

Contact: Terry’s Place is located at 101 Antrim Street in downtown Charlevoix. For more information, visit terrysofcharlevoix.com or call (231) 547-2799.

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TUCKER’S TURNS TWO

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May 13-15 Friday, 6-9 p.m. - Complimentary strolling buffet, free bowling, music Saturday & Sunday - Food, bowling and drink specials

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Our Regional Answer to Cancer Munson Healthcare’s Regional Cancer Network offers the hope of healing and recovery through coordinated cancer care.

Experts at the Cowell Family Cancer Center provide and guide your care so you can stay close to home, family, and friends.

For a comprehensive list of cancer services, visit munsonhealthcare.org/cancer or call 231-392-8400.

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Great Music in The Village Cello, Piano & Clarinet Crispin Campbell, cello; Nozomi Khudyev, piano; & Emil Khudyev, clarinet:

Thursday, May 12 at 7:30PM NEXT UP: Faculty Classical Flute Recital

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Indulge your senses at Crystal Mountain’s Thistle Pub & Grille. On select dates, the Thistle will be serving local farm-to-table threecourse meals, starting at $32. Pair your farm-fresh dinner with a local wine or beer and savor the taste of northern Michigan.

Thursday, May 19 at 7:30PM TICKETS.INTERLOCHEN.ORG or 1-800-681-5920

World class music, food and wine, with quaint Traverse City-original boutiques.

The Village at Grand Traverse Commons.

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Breakfast Items

Bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, American fried potatoes

Lunch Entrées

Chicken du jour, fish du jour, pasta du jour

Sides

Nana’s tomato pudding, vegetarian quiche, fresh fruit, chilled soup, cheese spreads, smoked whitefish, salads, garden variety vegetables

Sweets

Stafford’s famous sticky pecan buns, buttery Danish rolls, warm bread pudding, fruit topped with farmer’s cheese blintzes, Bay View Inn mini sweets

Homemade Waffle Station Eggs Benedict Station Many of our items are gluten-free friendly! $21.95 per adult, $12.95 per child Reservations are recommended, 231-347-2771.

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World Class Music: May 12 & May 19 Go to tickets.interlochen.org!

Left Foot Charley:

Open Mic Night Mondays 6-9pm

Just over one mile from Downtown Traverse City: W. 11th St. at Cottageview Dr. , 2 blocks West of Division/US31 Visit thevillagetc.com or call The Minervini Group: 231-941-1900 R E TA I L E R S , E AT E R I E S A N D W I N E R I E S I N T H E V I L L A G E Christmastide - 231.645.6469 Cuppa Joe Cafe - 231.947.7730 Elf - eat·learn·frolic - 231.715.1730 Fridrich Furs - 231.421.1738 Gallery Fifty - 231.932.0775 Harp Village Market - 231.590.5090 High Five Threads - 231.384.0408 Higher Grounds Trading Co. - 877.825.2262 Joice Salon - 231.933.9897 Landmark Books - 231.922.7225 Left Foot Charley Winery - 231.995.0500 Mi Farm Market & Underground Cheesecake - 866.544.1088

Liana’s Boutique - 231.421.8869 Notably Natural - 231.929.1100 PepeNero Mediterranean Cafe - 231.929.1960 Pleasanton Bakery - 231.941.1964 Premier Floral Design - 231.947.1167 Pup North - 231.942.4787 Raven’s Nest – 231.360.9658 Silver Fox Jewelry - 231.935.1701 Spanglish Cafe - 231.943.1453 TASTES of Black Star Farms - 231.944.1349 To Have & To Hold Bridal - 231.922.9333 Trattoria Stella - 231.929.8989 Vintage Du Jour - 231.943.2222

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Restaurant week June 6-12

A fabulous kick-off to summer! This is your chance to try new restaurants and food products.

Eateries and food retailers in the Boyne City area are preparing amazing menu specials and offers.

Two-for-one lunches and/or dinners for $35 or less.

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6. Noah and Nick pause for the camera at the City Opera House Auto-Owners Performing Arts Series Season Launch Party

3. TC’s Gabriel “Gabby” Sniff won the Michigan Golden Gloves Woman’s 147lb State Championship held in Grand Rapids on April 30. She defeated Vianca Lazoya of Bay City on a 5-0 decision. She’s joined here by trainers Bill and Robbin Bustance of Trigger Boxing.

4. Katarina Steinbach and Lola Kalchik at the most recent show at the Freshwater Art and Concert Venue in Boyne City.

7. Former Sheriff Dave Israel was crowned “King of of the Kalkaska Trout Festival” this year.

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S NEW & USED BOOKS ‘N’ BAGS SALE: Held in The Mercato, Building 50, GT Commons, TC from 10am5pm. Also held on Fri., May 6 at the same time.

-------------------KENTUCKY DERBY BENEFIT: Held at Langley

Vineyard Clearing at Bowers Harbor Vineyard, TC from 4-8pm. Your $100 ticket benefits Food Rescue & includes food, drinks, live music, games & of course watching the Kentucky Derby amidst the vineyards of Old Mission Peninsula. www.goodwillnmi.org/derby/

-------------------MUD, SWEAT & BEERS: Fat Tire Fest & Moun-

tain Bike Race. Mt. Holiday, TC. Info: mudsweatandbeers.com

-------------------GLEN LAKE RESTAURANT WEEK: April 29 –

May 7. Participating establishments will offer their own three course prix-fixe special dinner menus for $25. Some may offer $15 lunch specials as well. facebook.com/eatglenarbor

-------------------RED GREEN – I’M NOT OLD, I’M RIPE: After

20 years on TV from the infamous “Possum Lodge,” the handyman is back! 7-9pm, Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts, Roscommon. Tickets, $49.50. kirtlandcenter.com

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 12-2PM:

Cindy Brubaker Allen will sign her book “I Thought I Heard the Lion’s Roar”. 2-4pm: Jim Stamm will sign his “Guide to the Rivers & Lakes of Grand Traverse & Leelanau Counties”. 4-6pm: Chuck Pfarrer will sign his book “Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country”. horizonbooks.com

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NMC’S CANTICUM NOVUM: 8pm, Kirkbride Hall, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Singers will perform “in the round”. General admission, $25. kirkbridehall.com

-------------------MESICK MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 6-8.

Celebrate the tasty but elusive morel mushroom with a parade, carnival rides, games, a 5K, softball tourney, contest & more. mesickmushroomfest.org

-------------------“BULLSHOT CRUMMOND”: 7:30-9pm, Histor-

ic Elk Rapids Town Hall. Presented by the Elk Rapids Players. Tickets, $15. ertownhall.org

-------------------SUE DEYOUNG/JUDY EDGER MEMORIAL BREAST CANCER WALK & RUN: Starts at

Charlevoix’s East Park at 9am; registration at 8am. walkruncure.org

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EARTH WEEK PLUS ADVENTURES: The working

of the Cheboygan Water Treatment Plant. See how today’s waste water is being recycled to provide clean, usable water for our future. 1pm, 975 N. Huron, Cheboygan. 231-224-4196.

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at TC West Senior High. Proceeds benefit STEP – Students in Transition Empowerment Program.

Register: https://events.bytepro.net/ctc10k

-------------------MARCH FOR BABIES FUNDRAISER WALK:

This four mile downtown walk includes music, family friendly activities, lunch & more. Starts at Howe Arena, Civic Center, TC at 9am; registration is at 8am. 231-421-6468.

send your dates to: Jamie@Northernexpress.com

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19TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER & SHOW: Held at The Redheads Café & Tasting Room, Lake Leelanau. Dinner will be served between 5:30pm & 7pm, & Half Past Tree will perform at 7pm. Tickets: $35 for dinner & show; $15 for show only. redheadsinc.com/64/events

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3RD ANNUAL MACKINAW CITY MAGICAL COLOR FUN RUN: 9am, trail head behind Burger

King, Mackinaw City. mackinawchamber.com

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CROSSHATCH BENEFIT: Help support Crosshatch, which explores the intersections of art & ecology. A raffle, live music & more at Short’s Brewing Co., Bellaire at 4pm. crosshatch.org

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CHRIS SMITHER: This American original has been honing a combination of folk & blues for 50 years. He plays Freshwater Art Gallery, Boyne City at 8pm. Call for ticket price: 231-582-2588.

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25 CENT KIDS MATINEE: “Holes” will be shown at The State Theatre, TC at 10am. Law Day! stateandbijou.org

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SHANTY 2 SHORT’S 5K/10K/FUN RUN: Lakeview Hotel & Conference Center, Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire, 10am-2pm. shantycreek.com

-------------------GARDEN PARTY: “Every Garden has a Story”.

Featuring speakers, including local children’s author Jeffery Schatzer, local story teller Jenifer Strauss, kid’s activities, & much more.

Free. Pine Hill Nursery, Torch Lake. 10am4pm. pinehill-nursery.com

-------------------“CALENDAR GIRLS”: This play is based on the

true story of 11 members of one of the British Women’s Institutes who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund. 7:30-10pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND HIKE: 2pm, Clay

Cliffs, Lake Leelanau. Presented by the Leelanau Conservancy. leelanauconservancy.org

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BLISSFEST PRESENTS HEYWOOD BANKS: This

one-of-a-kind songwriter/comic/singer/poet/ musician brings his show that appeals to all types. 8pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

Tickets for members: $20 adults, $10 students.

Non-members: $25 & $13. blissfest.org

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S BAGS SALE: Held in The

Mercato, Building 50, GT Commons, TC from 1-3pm.

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The National Writers Series presents David Ebershoff, author of “The Danish Girl” & #1 bestseller “The 19th Wife,” on Thursday, May 12 at 7pm at City Opera House, TC. General admission, $15. cityoperahouse.org TIFFANY FERGUSON MEMORIAL RUN: 8am, Kalkaska High School Track. Featuring a half marathon, 10K & 5K. runfree4tiffany.com

-------------------MOTHER’S DAY SPRING WILDFLOWER WALK: Presented by Little Traverse Conservancy at Goodhart Farms Nature Preserve, Good Hart from 1-3pm. Free. landtrust.org

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“CALENDAR GIRLS”: This play is based on the true story of 11 members of one of the British Women’s Institutes who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund. 2-4:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. oldtownplayhouse.com

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MERCURY TRANSIT: Visit the transit of Mercury

MOHAWKS FOR MUNSON: North Peak, TC

SALLY ROGERS & CLAUDIA SCHMIDT: 4pm,

will host this fundraiser to support the new Cowell Family Cancer Center at Munson.

After you get a mohawk shaved, enjoy a parking lot community celebration including bands, a Silent Disco, & more. Mohawks will be shaved from 3-5pm. Family festivities run from 12-5pm. Adult festivities, including bands, a 3 Stage Silent Disco Dance Party,

-------------------Sleder’s Family Tavern, TC. Schmidt passes between folk & jazz musical genres, in addition to her theater performance. Rogers is well known for her folk music & children’s music.

Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door. 947-9213.

-------------------THE MOTHER’S DAY 5K: 9am, Hickory Hills,

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-------------------PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY PROGRAM: North Huron Birding Trail. 7pm,

Northern Lights Recreation, Harbor Springs.

Speaker Elliot Nelson. petoskeyaudubon.org

-------------------LOU KASISCHKE: This author of “After the

Wind: Tragedy on Everest – One Survivor’s Story” will be at McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey at 6pm. mcleanandeakin.com

7-9pm, Boyne District Library, community room, Boyne City. Writers, photographers, artists & musicians welcome. Open mic. 231-675-2253.

MESICK MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 6-8.

Celebrate the tasty but elusive morel mushroom with a parade, carnival rides, games, a 5K, softball tourney, contest & more. mesickmushroomfest.org

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Bay View Country Club from 5-8pm. Benefits the Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI. Tickets: $12 adults, $8 children 6-11, & free for ages 5 & under. wrcnm.org

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nal Michigan Fiddlers Association at Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Fiddlers perform at microphones from 1-4pm; open mic from 4-5:30pm; & old time square & round dancing begins at 5:30pm. 231-633-9130.

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Us. Featuring a program of celebration & a brunch. Open to the public, but GT County residents 90 years of age & older get a free ticket. $15. 10am, Hagerty Center, TC. 922-4911.

FIDDLERS’ JAMBOREE: Hosted by The Origi-

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“NANEEK”: The GT Humanists present this documentary film

by Tim Keenan which chronicles Tim’s return to Vietnam forty years after his service in the Vietnam War. 7pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. 231-392-1215.

at Leelanau School, Glen Arbor from 11am-2pm. $15 adults, $10 ages 5-12, & free for under 5.

Proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity, Grand Traverse Region. www.habitatgtr.org

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across the sun with a solar telescope. 7:15am2:45pm, Dune Climb parking lot, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. nps.gov/slbe/

-------------------MERCURY TRANSIT VIEWING: 8am, Guest

House, Headlands International Dark Sky Park, Mackinaw City. midarkskypark.org

-------------------CLAY CLIFFS GARLIC MUSTARD WORKBEE:

Meet at the Clay Cliffs NA parking lot, Lake Leelanau at 1pm. Learn about garlic mustard & spend a couple hours pulling the plant to help improve habitat. Presented by the Leelanau Conservancy. leelanauconservancy.org

COFFEE @ TEN: Photographer Judith Kal-

ter will talk about older photo processing methods, & how to date old photos. 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. crookedtree.org

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SCORE WORKSHOP: “Power-up Your Social Media Marketing: Advance Techniques.” the Traverse Area District Library, TC from 6:30-8:30pm. Free.

Register: traversecity.score.org

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“TEDXTRAVERSE CITY”:

9am-4pm, The State Theatre, TC. Free. stateandbijou.org

-----------6TH ANNUAL HEALTH & WELLNESS FAIR: 1-5pm,

Ovation Hall, Odawa Casino, Petoskey. Featuring cooking demos, over 50 booths with wellness vendors & more. Free. odawacasino.com

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THE VILLAGE BLOCK PARTY: 5-7pm, The Village

at GT Commons, TC. Enjoy appetizers & drinks, specials, live music & much more. thevillagetc.com

-------------------CRAFTING FOR A CAUSE: Spark In The Dark

craft team in creating gifts for community members in need. 1-3pm, SCRAP TC. scraptc.org

-------------------LEELANAU BUSINESS AFTER HOURS:

5:30pm, The Leelanau Enterprise, Lake Leelanau. leelanauchamber.com

-------------------ABRA BERENS: The Northwest MI Food &

Farming Network will host local farmer, Chicago chef, blogger & columnist Abra Berens at a panel discussion following the free screening of “In Defense of Food” at The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay at 6pm. foodandfarmingnetwork.org

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Campbell, cello; Nozomi Khudyev, piano; & Emil Khudyev, clarinet will perform at Kirkbride Hall, GT Commons, TC at 7:30pm. Tickets: $30 adults, $10 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

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& Peace Advocacy Center. 6pm, The State Theatre, TC. Free. stateandbijou.org

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ARTIST TALK: Featuring Ron Gianola at 5pm at Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Ron’s work is contemporary, sensitive to the effects of light expressed through color. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: Featuring Rustic Heart at Red Sky

Stage, Petoskey from 8-10pm. Tickets: $10 advance, $12.50 door. redskystage.com

-------------------“OFF THE PAGE”: Angela Flournoy, author of

“The Turner House,” will speak at Mills Community House, Benzonia at 7pm. benzonialibrary.org

“LIFE ON A NATIVE AMERICAN MISSION”:

Presented by Bob Holtzmann at the Bellaire Public Library at 1pm. 231-533-8814.

-------------------MAY GT MUSICALE PROGRAM: Featuring

the vocal students of Jayne Sleder. 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. gtmusicale.org

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RESEARCH RENDEZVOUS SPEAKER SERIES:

Featuring “Investigating the Importance of Deer for Lyme Disease Ecology: A Natural Experiment Presented by Lake Michigan Islands” by Erik Foster & Dr. Jennifer Sidge.

9:30am, Philip A. Hart Visitor Center Auditorium, Empire. Free. nps.gov/slbe

-------------------AIR PRESENTATION: During his two-week

residency at GAAA, painter Robert Ross created a series of paintings that explore abandoned Port Oneida farmsteads. Hear him speak about them at the Glen Arbor Art Association at 7:30pm. glenarborart.org

-------------------NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: Presents David

Ebershoff, author of “The Danish Girl,” which is also a movie, based on David’s book, & was nominated for four Academy awards; & #1 bestseller “The 19th Wife”. 7pm, City Opera House, TC. General admission, $15. cityoperahouse.org

-------------------“CALENDAR GIRLS”: This play is based on the

true story of 11 members of one of the British Women’s Institutes who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund. 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. oldtownplayhouse.com

-------------------56TH NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 11-15, Boyne City. Today features the Schmidt Amusements Carnival & Craft Beer Block Party: 100 block S. Lake St. Live music by the Thornetta Davis Band. bcmorelfestival.com

“GOOD ON PAPER” IMPROV SHOW: 9pm, InsideOut Gallery, TC. Enjoy comedy scenes based entirely from audience suggestions.

Tickets, $8. Find ‘”Good on Paper” Improv Show on Facebook.

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-------------------AN EVENING OF UNDERSTANDING: Featuring

poetry with Terry Wooten & local poets, the film “Through Our Eyes, Living with Asperger’s,” & the North Country Community Mental Health staff will be on hand to answer questions & provide info. 6-8pm, ASI Community Center & Park, Bellaire. norcocmh.org

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members; $12 not-yet members. petoskeychamber.com

5K RACE TO BENEFIT CAMP QUALITY: Presented by Serra of TC, to celebrate the grand opening of their local dealerships, the race starts at their North Campus location – on the corner of Garfield Ave. & Boon St. at 9am.

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Traverse Area District Library, TC at 10am. traversesymphony.org

14TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT ROTARY REVUE:

-------------------“CALENDAR GIRLS”: (See Thurs., May 12) -------------------FUNDRAISER SWING DANCE: Hosted by

the Pine River Jazz Band at The Round Lake Center Gym, Charlevoix from 7-10pm. Helps support a student Cuban Cultural Exploration Trip. Tickets, $10. 231-675-0855.

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56TH NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 11-15, Boyne City. Today features a craft show, M.O.R.E.L. Show, Guided Morel Hunt, Morelfest Wine & Dine, live music

by The Cookies, & more. bcmorelfestival.com

may 14

saturday

TC WALK TO CURE ARTHRITIS: Held at West Bay Beach

Resort, TC, registration is at 9am, followed by the opening ceremony at 10am, & then the walk (1 or 3 miles). walktocurearthritis.org/traversecity

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1ST ANNUAL SPRING FAIRYTALE BALL: 2-4pm, The GT Circuit, TC. For girls ages 2-8.

Includes dancing, treats, crafts, & Elsa, Anna, Cinderella & Belle. Tickets: $20/$25. For info, email: wonderandwhimsytc@gmail.com

-------------------LEELANAU COMMUNITY CHOIR: Perform-

ing a variety of choral arrangements, such as “Shenandoah” & “The Heavens are Telling”.

7:30pm, Leland Community United Methodist Church. 231-271-6091.

-------------------NATIVE PLANT SALE: 8am-3pm, Boardman

River Nature Center, TC. Featuring over 60 species of native plants. Presented by the GT Conservation District. natureiscalling.org

-------------------“WE GOT THE BEAT!”: Move to the beat with

TSO Principal Percussionist Robert Sagan & Kindermusik while exploring percussion & rhythm with hands-on musical fun at the

-------------------LIDS FOR KIDS: 10am-noon, F&M Park, TC.

Children can get fitted with a free bicycle helmet, learn bike safety tips & enjoy familyfriendly activities. Sponsored by Agevix, Sinas Dramis Law Firm & the Brain Injury Association of Michigan. lidsforkidsmi.com

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“AWAKEN THE FAERIES!”: 11am-5:30pm, Sacred Sparks, East Jordan. Free, but please bring donations for the Petoskey Women’s Resource Center Safe House. Featuring live music, art, crafts, psychic readers, massage therapy & much more. sacredsparks.com

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Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC. Admission, Free. grassriver.org $32.50. runtheridgerelay.com HAWKS ABOVE MACKINAW: Includes a slide TC ROLLER DERBY HOME OPENER: Against program about hawks at the Mackinaw Area Cheboygan’s River City Renegades. 6pm, GT Public Library at 1pm, followed by searching Civic Center, TC. Benefits the Disability Network. for hawks near the Recreation Complex.

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SPLASH OF COLOR: 19th Annual 5K Fun Run 7TH ANNUAL TAILS TO TRAILS: Enjoy this 5K & 1 Mile Walk. Meet at Festival Park, Petoskey. fun run/walk on the Vasa Pathway at 9am. ProLate registration, 9am; 5K at 10am on Little ceeds benefit TART Trails. traversetrails.org Traverse Wheelway; 1 mile walk at 10:15am in town. Proceeds benefit the Consumer Council FREE DENTISTRY: 7am, Beacon Dental Care, Special Needs Fund. norcocmh.org Charlevoix. Find ‘Beacon Dental Center’ on Facebook.

AUTHOR SIGNINGS: 10am-6pm, Horizon Books, TC. Info: horizonbooks.com MOTHER DAUGHTER TEA: 1-3pm, Interlochen Public Library. Ages 7-107 will enjoy light fare, “CALENDAR GIRLS”: (See Thurs., May 12) sweets & tea, as well as a craft. $1/minute chair massages & $7 mini nail care sessions will be 56TH NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM available. RSVP: 231-276-6767.

FESTIVAL: May 11-15, Boyne City. Today features the Morel Breakfast, “Run for Their 6TH ANNUAL EMERGENCY SERVICES DAY: Lives” Humane Society 5K, National Mushroom 11am-3pm, Tom’s Interlochen Marketplace.

Hunt, Morel Pole, Taste of Morels, live music by Featuring a cooking fire safety demo, Smokey Scarkazm, & much more. bcmorelfestival.com Bear, Michigan State Police K-9 & much more.

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PLOW DAY: 11am-3pm, The Rex Dobson Ruby Ellen Farm, Suttons Bay. Featuring horsedrawn plowing demos & horse-drawn wagon rides. Free-will donations. rubyellenfarm.org

-------------------GT DEPUTIES BASKETBALL GAME: Current

Detroit Lions will play local deputies at TC West High School at 7:30pm. Sponsored by the Grand Traverse Deputy Sheriff’s Association. 946-7002.

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ADULT SPELLING BEE: Just

for the Spell of It. For ages 50+. 2pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. tadl.org/spellingbeeevent

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ing a variety of choral arrangements, such as “Shenandoah” & “The Heavens are Telling”.

3pm, Suttons Bay Congregational Church; & & The Retros. 7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center.

7pm, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Glen Arbor.

A circle jamNOR follows THWESTER the concert. Suggested N MICHIGAN COLLEGE 231-271-6091. donation: $5-$10. 231-622-2944.

Sunday, May 22, 11am-5pm

BACK PORCH CONCERT: Presents Ruby John

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WOMEN BREWING BEER: Fermenta, Michinmc.edu/bbq gan Women’s Craft Collective, & Stormcloud Brewing Co. invite women who are interested in learning more about brewing beer to join them

SUNDAY SERIES – OBOE & STRINGS: Presented by the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra at First Presbyterian Church, Harbor Springs at 4pm. Free will donation. 231-487-0010.

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56TH NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 11-15, Boyne City. Tonight features the Open Mic Competition from 5pm – midnight in Veterans Park. bcmorelfestival.com

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ARTIST TALK: Featuring Ron Gianola at 5pm at Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Ron’s work is contemporary, sensitive to the effects of light expressed through color. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

Plath’s Meats THE VILLAGE BLOCK PARTY: 5-7pm, The Village

at GT Commons, TC. Enjoy appetizers & drinks, specials, live music & much more. thevillagetc.com

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CRAFTING FOR A CAUSE: Spark In The Dark craft team in creating gifts for community members in need. 1-3pm, SCRAP TC. scraptc.org

BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: Featuring Rustic Heart at Red Sky

Stage, Petoskey from 8-10pm. Tickets: $10 advance, $12.50 door. redskystage.com

-------------------“OFF THE PAGE”: Angela Flournoy, author of

“The Turner House,” will speak at Mills Community House, Benzonia at 7pm. benzonialibrary.org

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-------------------LEELANAU BUSINESS AFTER HOURS:

5:30pm, The Leelanau Enterprise, Lake Leelanau. leelanauchamber.com

“RENT”: This Broadway play hits Corson

Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts at 7:30pm. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical & the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this highly acclaimed & popular musical centers around a group of friends & artists struggling with addiction, poverty, AIDS & love. Tickets: $29 adult, $26 senior & $10 youth. interlochen.org

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Farming Network will host local farmer, Chicago chef, blogger & columnist Abra Berens at a panel discussion following the free screening of “In Defense of Food” at The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay at 6pm. foodandfarmingnetwork.org ARTISTS FROM INTERLOCHEN: Crispin

Campbell, cello; Nozomi Khudyev, piano; & Emil Khudyev, clarinet will perform at Kirkbride Hall, GT Commons, TC at 7:30pm. Tickets: $30 adults, $10 youth. tickets.interlochen.org “THE HARVEST”: Presented by the Justice

& Peace Advocacy Center. 6pm, The State Theatre, TC. Free. stateandbijou.org

OUR TIME TO SHINE: Bellaire Chamber’s

Annual Dinner & Auction. 5:30pm, Grand Ballroom, Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire. Tickets, $35. bellairechamber.org

HARBOR SPRINGS BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Vernales. Admission: $7

members; $12 not-yet members. petoskeychamber.com

-------------------“LIFE ON A NATIVE AMERICAN MISSION”:

Presented by Bob Holtzmann at the Bellaire Public Library at 1pm. 231-533-8814.

-------------------MAY GT MUSICALE PROGRAM: Featuring

the vocal students of Jayne Sleder. 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. gtmusicale.org

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RESEARCH RENDEZVOUS SPEAKER SERIES:

Featuring “Investigating the Importance of Deer for Lyme Disease Ecology: A Natural Experiment Presented by Lake Michigan Islands” by Erik Foster & Dr. Jennifer Sidge.

9:30am, Philip A. Hart Visitor Center Auditorium, Empire. Free. nps.gov/slbe

-------------------AIR PRESENTATION: During his two-week

residency at GAAA, painter Robert Ross created a series of paintings that explore abandoned Port Oneida farmsteads. Hear him speak about them at the Glen Arbor Art Association at 7:30pm. glenarborart.org

-------------------NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: Presents David

Ebershoff, author of “The Danish Girl,” which is also a movie, based on David’s book, & was nominated for four Academy awards; & #1 bestseller “The 19th Wife”. 7pm, City Opera House, TC. General admission, $15. cityoperahouse.org

-------------------“CALENDAR GIRLS”: This play is based on the

true story of 11 members of one of the British Women’s Institutes who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund. 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. oldtownplayhouse.com

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34TH ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT: With

Northern Michigan Chorale. 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Tickets: $12 adult, $7 ages 10-17, & $3 under 10. nmchorale.org

AN EVENING OF UNDERSTANDING: Featuring

poetry with Terry Wooten & local poets, the film “Through Our Eyes, Living with Asperger’s,” & the North Country Community Mental Health staff will be on hand to answer questions & provide info. 6-8pm, ASI Community Center & Park, Bellaire. norcocmh.org

14TH ANNUAL FRANKFORT ROTARY REVUE:

6:30pm, Benzie Central High School Auditorium, Benzonia. Featuring an eclectic mix of performances by students & non-student entries. Tickets, $5. 231-383-1600.

-------------------“CALENDAR GIRLS”: (See Thurs., May 12) -------------------FUNDRAISER SWING DANCE: Hosted by

the Pine River Jazz Band at The Round Lake Center Gym, Charlevoix from 7-10pm. Helps support a student Cuban Cultural Exploration Trip. Tickets, $10. 231-675-0855.

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56TH NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 11-15, Boyne City. Today features a craft show, M.O.R.E.L. Show, Guided Morel Hunt, Morelfest Wine & Dine, live music

by The Cookies, & more. bcmorelfestival.com

EBT Cards accepted

may 14

saturday

TC WALK TO CURE ARTHRITIS: Held at West Bay Beach

Resort, TC, registration is at 9am, followed by the opening ceremony at 10am, & then the walk (1 or 3 miles). walktocurearthritis.org/traversecity

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1ST ANNUAL SPRING FAIRYTALE BALL: 2-4pm, The GT Circuit, TC. For girls ages 2-8.

Includes dancing, treats, crafts, & Elsa, Anna, Cinderella & Belle. Tickets: $20/$25. For info, email: wonderandwhimsytc@gmail.com

-------------------LEELANAU COMMUNITY CHOIR: Perform-

ing a variety of choral arrangements, such as “Shenandoah” & “The Heavens are Telling”.

7:30pm, Leland Community United Methodist Church. 231-271-6091.

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5K RACE TO BENEFIT CAMP QUALITY: Presented by Serra of TC, to celebrate the grand opening of their local dealerships, the race starts at their North Campus location – on the corner of Garfield Ave. & Boon St. at 9am.

Cost, $25; proceeds benefit Camp Quality, an organization that serves children with cancer & their families. https://www.raceentry.com/ races/serra-traverse-city-5k/2016/register

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Heartland: Free live play for the National Parks Centennial. 10am, The State Theatre, TC: stateandbijou.org; & 6pm at the Mills Community House, Benzonia: millscommhouse.org

-------------------LIDS FOR KIDS: 10am-noon, F&M Park, TC.

Children can get fitted with a free bicycle helmet, learn bike safety tips & enjoy familyfriendly activities. Sponsored by Agevix, Sinas Dramis Law Firm & the Brain Injury Association of Michigan. lidsforkidsmi.com

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“AWAKEN THE FAERIES!”: 11am-5:30pm, Sacred Sparks, East Jordan. Free, but please bring donations for the Petoskey Women’s Resource Center Safe House. Featuring live music, art, crafts, psychic readers, massage therapy & much more. sacredsparks.com

-------------------WINERIES OF OLD MISSION PENINSULA, TC BLOSSOM DAY: Old Mission winemakers

invite you to their tasting rooms to give you a sample of unreleased wines, starting at 10am.

Tickets: $25 advance, $30 day of; includes a souvenir glass & food & wine tastings at all eight wineries. wineriesofoldmission.com

-------------------RUN THE RIDGE 10K TEAM RELAY: 5pm,

Timber Ridge RV Resort, TC. Admission, $32.50. runtheridgerelay.com

-------------------TC ROLLER DERBY HOME OPENER: Against

Cheboygan’s River City Renegades. 6pm, GT Civic Center, TC. Benefits the Disability Network.

Find ‘Traverse City Roller Derby’ on Facebook.

-------------------7TH ANNUAL TAILS TO TRAILS: Enjoy this 5K

fun run/walk on the Vasa Pathway at 9am. Proceeds benefit TART Trails. traversetrails.org

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FREE DENTISTRY: 7am, Beacon Dental Care, Charlevoix. Find ‘Beacon Dental Center’ on Facebook.

-------------------MOTHER DAUGHTER TEA: 1-3pm, Interlochen

Public Library. Ages 7-107 will enjoy light fare, sweets & tea, as well as a craft. $1/minute chair massages & $7 mini nail care sessions will be available. RSVP: 231-276-6767.

-------------------6TH ANNUAL EMERGENCY SERVICES DAY:

11am-3pm, Tom’s Interlochen Marketplace.

Featuring a cooking fire safety demo, Smokey Bear, Michigan State Police K-9 & much more.

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PLOW DAY: 11am-3pm, The Rex Dobson Ruby Ellen Farm, Suttons Bay. Featuring horsedrawn plowing demos & horse-drawn wagon rides. Free-will donations. rubyellenfarm.org

-------------------GT DEPUTIES BASKETBALL GAME: Current

Detroit Lions will play local deputies at TC West High School at 7:30pm. Sponsored by the Grand Traverse Deputy Sheriff’s Association. 946-7002.

& The Retros. 7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center.

A circle jam follows the concert. Suggested donation: $5-$10. 231-622-2944.

& rhythm with hands-on musical fun at the

“GOOD ON PAPER” IMPROV SHOW: 9pm, InsideOut Gallery, TC. Enjoy comedy scenes based entirely from audience suggestions.

Tickets, $8. Find ‘”Good on Paper” Improv Show on Facebook.

LIFT EVERY VOICE: The Black Experience in the

River Nature Center, TC. Featuring over 60 species of native plants. Presented by the GT Conservation District. natureiscalling.org

GOT THE BEAT!”: Move 2200 East Mitchell “WE Rd., Petoskey, MI to the beat with TSO Principal Percussionist Robert Sagan p. 231-348-8100 & Kindermusik while exploring percussion

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34TH ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT: With Northern Michigan Chorale. 3pm & 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Tickets: $12 adult, $7 ages 10-17, & $3 under 10. nmchorale.org

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NATIVE PLANT SALE: 8am-3pm, Boardman

at Stormcloud Brewing Co., Frankfort at 8am, where they will brew a Hibiscus Tea IPA with Stormcloud’s brew team. Free, & includes lunch.

Register: charla@stormcloudbrewing.com

BLOSSOM 5K RUN/WALK: Run through the blossoms of local cherry & apple orchards in rural Benzie County. A fundraiser for the boy scouts of Troop 10 in Arcadia. 9am, Blaine Christian Church, Arcadia. https://events. bytepro.net/blossom-5k

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56TH NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 11-15, Boyne City. Today features the Schmidt Amusements Carnival & Craft Beer Block Party: 100 block S. Lake St. Live music by the Thornetta Davis Band. bcmorelfestival.com

Traverse Area District Library, TC at 10am. traversesymphony.org

BACK PORCH CONCERT: Presents Ruby John

-------------------WOMEN BREWING BEER: Fermenta, Michi-

gan Women’s Craft Collective, & Stormcloud Brewing Co. invite women who are interested in learning more about brewing beer to join them

-------------------Held at Twin Lakes – Gilbert Lodge, TC, there will be live music by Fog Harbor Plus.

7-7:45pm: Intro to Contra-dance; free lesson. 8-11pm: Contra dance. $11 adults, $7 students with ID; & $9 members. dancetc.com

-------------------“RENT”: This Broadway play hits Corson Audi-

torium, Interlochen Center for the Arts at 2pm & 7:30pm. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical & the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this highly acclaimed & popular musical centers around a group of friends & artists struggling with addiction, poverty, AIDS & love. Tickets: $29 adult, $26 senior & $10 youth. interlochen.org

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RIDE THE WARBLER WAVE: Enjoy this hike at Lighthouse West Natural Area, Northport at 8am. The annual spring migration should be near its peak at this time. Presented by the Leelanau Conservancy. leelanauconservancy.org

-------------------AGED TO PERFECTION: OTP Senior Readers

Group. 10am, lower level of Old Town Playhouse, TC. 947-7389.

-------------------BIRDING SERIES: Birding by Song: 9am,

Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Learn to identify the birds of spring by their songs.

Free. grassriver.org

-------------------HAWKS ABOVE MACKINAW: Includes a slide

program about hawks at the Mackinaw Area Public Library at 1pm, followed by searching for hawks near the Recreation Complex.

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SPLASH OF COLOR: 19th Annual 5K Fun Run & 1 Mile Walk. Meet at Festival Park, Petoskey.

Late registration, 9am; 5K at 10am on Little Traverse Wheelway; 1 mile walk at 10:15am in town. Proceeds benefit the Consumer Council Special Needs Fund. norcocmh.org

-------------------AUTHOR SIGNINGS: 10am-6pm, Horizon

Books, TC. Info: horizonbooks.com

-------------------“CALENDAR GIRLS”: (See Thurs., May 12) -------------------56TH NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 11-15, Boyne City. Today features the Morel Breakfast, “Run for Their Lives” Humane Society 5K, National Mushroom Hunt, Morel Pole, Taste of Morels, live music by Scarkazm, & much more. bcmorelfestival.com

may 15

sunday

ADULT SPELLING BEE: Just

for the Spell of It. For ages 50+. 2pm, McGuire Room, Traverse Area District Library, TC. tadl.org/spellingbeeevent

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LEELANAU COMMUNITY CHOIR: Perform-

ing a variety of choral arrangements, such as “Shenandoah” & “The Heavens are Telling”.

3pm, Suttons Bay Congregational Church; & 7pm, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Glen Arbor.

231-271-6091.

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SUNDAY SERIES – OBOE & STRINGS: Presented by the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra at First Presbyterian Church, Harbor Springs at 4pm. Free will donation. 231-487-0010.

GARNET ROGERS: This Canadian singer/

songwriter who was hailed by the Boston Globe as a “charismatic performer & singer,” plays InsideOut Gallery, TC at 7:30pm. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 door. 929-3254.

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56TH NATIONAL MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: May 11-15, Boyne City. Today features a craft show, M.O.R.E.L. Outdoor Show, Northern MI Cancer Crusaders sponsor live music, auction & food, & more. bcmorelfestival.com

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34TH ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT: With Northern Michigan Chorale. 3pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Tickets: $12 adult, $7 ages 10-17, & $3 under 10. nmchorale.org

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the third Thurs. of every month from 7-10pm at InsideOut Gallery, TC. traversebayblues.com PETOSKEY FILM THEATER: Showing international, indie, art house & documentary films on Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays. Carnegie Building, 451 E. Mitchell St., next to Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Donations welcome.

For schedule find ‘Petoskey Film Theater’ on Facebook.

231-758-3108.

DEPOT COFFEEHOUSE: Fridays from 6-7:30pm at After 26 Depot Café, Cadillac. Enjoy coffee with dinner or dessert while listening to live entertainment. 231-468-3526.

BLISSFEST JAM SESSIONS: Every Sun., 1-4pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Bring your instruments or just sing along or listen. www.redskystage.com.

“LOCALLY GROWN VII”: Cadillac Area Symphony Orchestra Concert. 3pm, Cadillac Community Auditorium. Featuring four “locally grown” artists: Soprano Kathy Wheeler, violinists Sarah Catlin & Ryan DeKryger, & percussionist Sgt. Gabe Filkins. Tickets: $12 adults, $6 students. cadillacsymphony.org

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“CALENDAR GIRLS”: This play is based on the

“CREATIVE MINDS, CHANGING MINDS TRAVELING ART SHOW”: Featuring about 25 pieces of art created by people who use community mental health services statewide. Runs May 5-11 in the Antrim County Building, Bellaire.

true story of 11 members of one of the British Women’s Institutes who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund. 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, TC. Tickets start at $15. oldtownplayhouse.com

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YOGA AT THE NATURE CENTER: Every Thurs. in May at Boardman River Nature Center, TC at 5:30pm. 18 years & older. Taught by YouthWise Yoga instructors. Suggested donation, $5. Register: 941-0960, ext. 31.

SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Farmers & gardeners bring their fresh produce, flowers & baked goods to this Downtown Farmers Market located between Cass & Union streets, across from Clinch Park, TC. Held on Saturdays, May 7 through Oct. www.downtowntc.com INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET: Interlochen Shopping Center, big parking lot behind Ric’s, Interlochen Corners, 9am-2pm, every Sun. through Oct. facebook. com/interlochenfarmersmarket CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET: Located in the Carnegie Library Building, & on the Bidwell Plaza, Petoskey when weather permits, the market is held on Fridays through June 3 from 10am-1pm. Featuring local produce, preserves, & handmade gift items. There will also be art, live music & a kids craft table. crookedtree.org WEDS. AFTER WORK BIRDING: Presented by the Petoskey Regional Audubon Society. Held on private property at 9502 Burgess Rd., Charlevoix on Wednesdays through May 18 at 5:30pm. petoskeyaudubon.org MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN GATHER: On the new moon or the Weds. prior to one, to share seeds, plants, stories & medicines. May 4 – third week of Oct. Info: wisewomengather@gmail.com 25 CENT COMMUNITY WALK: Held every Tues. through Sept. 27 starting at the Bellaire COA parking lot at 4:45pm. Walk the trails from 5-6pm. There will be beginner & advanced groups. 231-533-8703.

“MANAGE YOUR MONEY” & “POWERFUL PARENTING”: Free classes held at Faith Reformed Church, TC from 6-8pm for eight weeks beginning Tues., April 5 through May 24. There will be free on sight childcare & a free meal before class each week from 5:155:45pm. Presented by Love In the Name of Christ.

Register: 941-5683.

DADDY-O MEET-UP: Both experienced & new dads can share successes & offer support with those tricky “dad” issues. Meets at ELF, GT Commons, TC every Thurs. at 4pm & Sat. at 10am. eatlearnfrolic.com BRAND NEW MEET-UP: Meet with new & expecting parents & trade stories. Meets at ELF, GT Commons, TC every Sun., Weds. & Fri. at 10am. eatlearnfrolic. com TRAVERSE BAY BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION: Held

NATURE’S PALETTE: May 2-30, Visitor Center at the Botanic Garden in Historic Barns Park, TC. Paintings of 14 local artists. An opening reception will be held on Sat., May 7 from 1-3pm. thebotanicgarden.org

“IN CELEBRATION OF NATIVE PEOPLE”: Featuring a collection of native artifacts that tell a story of people from cultures in Africa, Central America, South America, New Guinea & beyond. Runs through May 22 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.org “IMAGES FROM HISTORIC BENZIE COUNTY”: Featuring paintings, oil pastels & pencil drawings by 8th-12th graders. Takes place at the Benzie Area Historical Museum, Benzonia through June 11. benziemuseum.org THE ART MIXER: Featuring works by local artists Beth Bynum, Savannah Burke, Cherie Correll, Royce Deans, Jesse Jason, Mark Meyer & Elizabeth Paxson at Grand Traverse Distillery, TC through June 5. www.grandtraversedistillery.com TRAVERSE AREA CAMERA CLUB’S MEMBER & STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Held at the Traverse Area District Library, TC. Runs through May. 231-883-1588.

HAVANA 2015: Comprised of street photos & video three northern MI photographers & one writer/videographer took in Cuba last fall. Runs through May 28. Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. twistedfishgallery.com BRUSHWORK: The Art of Charles R. Murphy: An exhibition of the artist’s work in oil, acrylic & watercolor. Held through May 31 at City Opera House, TC. 947-6285.

2016 REGIONAL STUDENT EXHIBITION: Through May 14 at Oliver Arts Center, Frankfort. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - Images of Up North: Oil paintings by Kurt Anderson, Joan Gerigk & Robert Scudder. Held in the Atrium Gallery through June 10. - Youth Art Show: Showcasing the artwork of students in the Charlevoix-Emmet County School District.

Through May 7. - “Northwood Awakening”: This 2015 ArtPrize People’s Choice Award winner by Ann & Steve Loveless is on display through May 14. crookedtree.org CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - Wildhearted: This art exhibit includes installation, mixed media, sculpture, painting, graphic design, video & photography.

Runs through May 14. crookedtree.org DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld & Beyond: Illuminates & contextualizes the important historical & ongoing work of The Guerrilla Girls, highly original, provocative & influential artists who champion feminism & social change. Runs through May 29.

- The MI League of Handweavers 2016 Biennial Fiber Show: This juried exhibition will chronicle the current state of hand weaving in MI & showcase the work of MI fiber artists including home décor, fashion accessories, garments, yarn, fabric, handmade paper, wall pieces & more. Runs through May 29. dennosmuseum.org

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FOURPLAY by kristi kates

hans zimmer with junkie xl – batman v. superman: dawn of justice original motion picture soundtrack – water tower

Zimmer is often called upon to craft big, bombastic instrumental soundtracks, and with good reason: he knows how to fit the music to the scene. There’s plenty of bombast in this poorly-reviewed superhero movie and the tracks fit the ruckus, from the battle-weary “Their War Here,” which combines Batman’s classic theme with the theme from Man of Steel, to Junkie XL’s contributions to “Is She With You?” — a rallying cry for Wonder Woman.

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While most videogame soundtracks are instrumental, many leaning heavily toward synth-based music, electronica or chiptune, Ragan took a completely different approach to his collection for “The Flame in the Flood,” a single-player game that takes users through a devastated backwoods America.

His tunes completely work for the game with their acoustic, picked sound and storytelling vocals.

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In contrast with his secondary role on the Batman v.

Superman set, XL takes the lead on this collection accompanying the anti-hero Deadpool on his solo movie outing. The album is heavy on XL’s score for the movie (a good thing; “Maximum Effort” is a gritty standout) and also tacks on some of the vintage radio hits heard in the movie, including Salt N Pepa’s “Shoop,” Neil Sedaka’s “Calendar Girl” and George Michael/Wham’s “Careless Whisper.”

various artists – vinyl: music from the hbo original series vol. 1 – atlantic

While this soundtrack is, ironically, not available on vinyl — at least, not yet — this ‘70s-era collection perfectly suits the show, set in that same era’s downtown rock n’ roll scene as seen through the eyes of series producers Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese. Vinyl’s theme song by Sturgill Simpson is, of course, included (“Sugar Daddy”), as are a plethora of thematic classic singles, from Otis Redding’s “Mr. Pitiful” to Mott the Hoople’s “All the Way from Memphis.”

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MODERN

WALK THE MOON ARE WORKIN’ THEIR BODIES

ROCK

BY KRISTI KATES

Pop-rockers Walk the Moon are working on their upcoming Work This Body tour (named after the song from Walk the Moon’s third album, 2014’s Talking is Hard) and will be making a slew of festival appearances on the trek, including playing sets at the BottleRock and Hangout fests. Other stops include San Diego (May 26), Rochester, Mich.

(July 19 at the 93.9 Riverfest at Meadow Brook Amphitheater), Toronto (July 20), Boston (July 29) and Chicago (Aug. 19 at the Aragon Ballroom). Opening act Misterwives are scheduled to accompany the band on all headline dates…

Truck Festival is back on Hill Farm in the U.K., a great reason to snag a July vacation in England if we ever heard one. This year’s Truck will feature headliners Manic Street Preachers, taking the main stage on Saturday night; additional performers on this year’s roster will include Circa Waves, buzz act Rat Boy, We Are the Ocean, The Magic Gang, Everything Everything, DJ Q and many more…

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Regine Chassagne have opened a restaurant

in Montreal called Agrikol and, so far, reviews are mixed. While The Talking Heads’ David Byrne stopped by and apparently gave it a thumbs up, other reviews on Yelp and similar dining sites claim that customers of Agrikol are experiencing long waits for seating and that the restaurant itself, with a menu focused on Haitian cuisine, often runs out of food. Once the food does arrive, though, the plantains and griot are said to be great…

And in other Canadian news, the Festival d’été de Québec has finalized its 2016 festival dates as July 7–17, with the 11-day-long festival welcoming live performances from opening headliners Sting and Peter Gabriel to additional acts The Lumineers, Bryan Ferry, The Decemberists, Sheryl Crow, Duran Duran, Keys N Krates, Kaskade and Yael Naim, among others…

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK:

What do you get when you mix traditional Irish music with West African sounds, plus modern EDM? You get Afro Celt Sound System, the awesome multi-cultural fusion outfit that just released their first studio album in 10 years. It’s called The Source and you can learn more about it and all about this

Old Town Playhouse AND Miner’s North present

unusual group on their official website afroceltsoundsystem.com…

MINI BUZZ:

Sonic Youth has been reissuing their albums on vinyl, with Experimental Jet Set, NYC Ghosts and Flowers, Murray Street and Rather Ripped all having hit outlets so far…

Ben Folds will be in concert at The Fillmore in Detroit on May 12…

Moderat, the collaborative project of German electronica guru Apparat and Berlin DJs Modeselektor, has just dropped its new album III with lead single “Reminder”…

Norah Jones will be making her first solo appearance at the Newport Jazz and Folk Festival this July…

Detroit native Jack White is utilizing his Third Man Records label to release

a vinyl pressing of Ennio Morricone’s score for the Quentin Tarantino film The Hateful Eight…

Rapper A$AP Rocky will be the voice of superhero Falcon in a new Marvel Comics game, alongside John Cena as The Hulk and Alison Brie as Black Widow…

And these artists are looking to have their voices and instruments running through your music player via this week’s new releases… Corinne Bailey Rae’s The Heart Speaks in Whispers…

DevilDriver’s Trust No One… Meghan Trainor’s Thank You… and J Dilla’s The Diary… 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.

Laid back, local stuff.

Calendar Girls

BY TIM FIRTH

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Sat. -- The Billy P Project, 7 • TREETOPS RESORT - GAYLORD 5/14 -- Randy Reszka

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Ever since the sudden departure of Dave Chappelle, they are the only two comedians of color who tackle social issues like ethnic stereotyping and racial identity with a relentless and graceful tenacity.

It’s a very fine line to walk, and by combining their deft satire with approachable pop culture references they walk it very well.

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But at least there’s a kitten.

As the film begins, Rell (Peele) is reeling from a terrible breakup when that kitten, the titular Keanu, announces himself at his door. Now alive with renewed purpose, Rell’s world becomes about Keanu — the star of some epic movie-themed calendar tableaus — much to the relief of his cousin, Clarence (Key).

But in the first case of mistaken identity (of which there are many), hoodlums ransack Rell’s apartment and make off with Keanu, and our two heroes set out to reclaim him.

They aren’t the only ones, though. Two steps behind are a pair of silent, terrifying assassins (also K&P but in heavy makeup) who want the kitten, too. We aren’t really told why, though. Part of the film’s appealing lunacy is the underlying acceptance that Keanu is just so adorable that even the hardest gangland thug can’t resist his meowing siren song.

After a tip from a clueless drug dealer (played by the impeccable Will Forte doing his best take on rapper Riff Raff), the nerdy Rell and uptight suburban dad Clarence suddenly find themselves masquerading as the two assassins

in order to win a do-rag sporting and gold chain–wearing Keanu back from gang leader Cheddar (Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man) — uncovering new (and more badass) parts about themselves in the process.

Painted into a corner, the two accompany Cheddar’s henchmen on a drug deal that starts off tongue in cheek but gets real dark real fast. With this fairly brutal shift in tone, the film starts to slip. Key and Peele aren’t sure if they want to make a comedy about two black men who don’t identify with black culture and prevailing ideas of African American masculinity, or just a regular buddy action caper (the title is no coincidence; the spirit of Keanu Reeves’ Speed and Point Break runs deep). If they had only picked one avenue, the film would be stronger for it.

Don’t get me wrong; this is a very funny film.

But knowing Key and Peele’s pedigree, it’s too tempting to think of what-ifs. What if the two played more than just the two leads?

They are their best when inhabiting multiple characters from a myriad of backgrounds.

What if they had allowed for deeper exploration of just what compels a person to change their identity, to code to different situations?

What if Keanu was treated as more of a developed plot point than just a McGuffin?

What if the intensity and seriousness of their escalating situation didn’t ebb and flow in such a strange way? What if they could’ve sustained the transcendent giddy glee of their amazing exploration into the solo career of George Michael?

Maybe Key and Peele are just better at thinking and working in sketch format. Yet for as much as they get out of the film’s one-note concept, I don’t think that will always be the case. One would think that with their pop savvy and adroit observations they could have delivered a film that entertains the masses and also matches their nimble brilliance.

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

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irector Jon Favreau’s take on Rudyard Kipling’s classic story The Jungle Book is a technical marvel. A visually audacious achievement and lush fantasy adventure, it seamlessly creates a world where rhinos, crocodiles, porcupines, wolves, monkeys — the whole dang menagerie — have never looked so startlingly real. And they talk! But to what end? The mindboggling special effects conflict with a story that doesn’t know what it wants to be. The story is ostensibly one you know; Man-cub Mowgli, raised in a wolf tribe by mother Raksha (Lupita Nyong’o), finds his life suddenly in danger when the villainous tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba) basically puts a death sentence on his head. And so it then falls to the protective paternal figures, serious-minded panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley) and fun-loving bear Baloo (Bill Murray), to safely shepherd him to the man village. So even though this version is basically a carbon copy of Disney’s 1967 take on the story, by retaining Disney’s original framework and adding extensive action set pieces that make it darker and scarier, it strips the story of its wonder. It lacks fun and warmth. Too scary for little kids, too straightforward and uninvolved for adults, it hits a sweet spot for kids of a certain age raised on bombastic CGI creations.

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porting flamboyant red hair, remarkably shiny fabrics, and gaudy jewelry, Melissa McCarthy is back. And in her latest, she’s Michelle Darnell, the 47th richest woman in the U.S. — a self-made impresario who retains that trademark McCarthy arrogance, but a little more of the old Sookie St. James (of The Gilmore Girls) sweetness we’ve been missing.

The Boss is a funny, occasionally raucous, occasionally flat comedic conquest that is as successful as it is thanks to the McCarthy’s inexhaustible gifts for physical comedy, some wellplaced ad-libbing, and sheer willpower. One moment Michelle Darnell is on top of the world, flying into a packed arena, a gold phoenix rapping with T-Pain, and the next she’s doing five months in the slammer for insider trading. Penniless and homeless upon returning to society, Michelle’s journey to cinematic redemption comes in the form of a brownie salesgirl empire, Darnell’s Darlings, she starts with the help of her former beleaguered assistant (Kristen Bell). McCarthy is reteamed with her husband, co-writer/director Ben Falcone, and this is a vast improvement on their previous effort, the incoherent Tammy.

But for as enjoyable as The Boss is, you can’t help but wonder what McCarthy could’ve accomplished working with someone in possession of a little more finesse. One can dwell on the imperfections and missed opportunities, yet this is a film where not a single joke came at the expense of McCarthy’s body or appearance and that is largely what made it feel so refreshing and also what makes it worth your while.

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Simon didn’t just point out the decisionmaking problem; he came up with a solution — his concept of “satisficing.” This combo of “satisfy” and “suffice” means making a “good enough” choice — as opposed to incurring the costs of endlessly searching for the best choice. (Think of somebody who spends an hour looking for the primo parking space by the store entrance — in order to save time walking to and from their car.)

To decide what’s “good enough,” figure out the minimum stuff (good sex, etc.) that you absolutely must have to be satisfied in a relationship, and keep searching until you find somebody who has it. Forget about what you “should” need. If your life is not complete unless a woman will, say, wear a doorbell on each nipple, well, ring on, bro.

As for breaking up, this means telling somebody it’s over, not that their sexual technique is a ringer for hibernation. Give

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her only as much info as she needs to make her way to the door, like “I love you, but I’m not in love with you, and I need that.”

Though she won’t be happy to hear it, what’s cruel isn’t telling her; it’s waiting to tell her.

As that mildewed saying goes, “if you love something…” don’t hang on to it until its uterus sends you to the drugstore for a box of mothballs.

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: Last week, I went out with a guy I met on a dating site. He was very attentive and affectionate, and he even texted me the next day. Well, I think I screwed up, messaging him at the same frequency and intensity as before our first date, which was quite a lot, and mentioning seeing him again before he suggested it. His responses were infrequent and short. I haven’t heard from him for five days, and he hasn’t made plans for a second date. Is there any way to remedy this? Should I message him with some witty banter?

— Faux Pas?

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: Sadly, our genes have not been introduced to Gloria Steinem.

As I frequently explain, there’s a problem with a woman overtly pursuing a man, and it goes back millions of years. It comes out of how sex leaves a man with about a teaspoon less sperm but can leave a woman “with child” (an adorable term that makes pregnancy sound like a quick trip to the drugstore with someone under 10). From these rather vastly differing costs, explain evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt, come differing sexual strategies.

Women evolved to be the choosier sex — looking for men to show signs they’re willing and able to commit themselves and their resources — and men coevolved to expect to work to persuade them. So, when women turn the tables and act like the, well, chaseier sex, it sends a message — of the “FREE!!!

Please take me” variety you’d see taped to a toaster somebody’s put out on the curb.

In other words, no, do not contact him.

Not even with “witty banter.” Seeming amusingly desperate is not any more of a selling point. The way you “remedy” this is by turning it into a learning experience. In the future, sure, go ahead and be flirtatious — just not with the, um, eagerness of that guy in the hockey mask chasing people through the woods with a machete.

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1 Jacket style named for an Indian prime minister 6 Impala, to a lion 10 Scoring advantage 14 “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” e.g.

15 “Game of Thrones” actress Chaplin 16 Safe contents?

17 “All that over your fireplace--are you trying to put Hummel out of business?”

19 Fails to be 20 Courtroom fig.

21 Beethoven wrote just one 22 Detective’s lead 23 Life sentences?

24 Yiddish interjections 26 Sweet suffix 27 Crumpled into a ball 32 “Hello, I’m ___” (recurring ad line from Justin Long) 34 Sans-serif Windows font 35 Unteach, in a way 39 It immobilizes 40 Rock venue 41 A couple of gossip columns 42 Aim 44 When infomercials start running, sometimes 45 Wavy lines, in a comic strip 46 “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” songwriter 48 Visit Vail, perhaps 50 Talk and talk 52 Machine to watch “RoboCop” on, way back when 53 Didi of “Grease” and “Grease 2” 55 Astronomical flareups 57 Automaker headquartered in Bavaria 61 Make a clickbait list, e.g.

62 “Your hair looks like it was styled by kittens” 64 Brews that may be Scotch or pale 65 Early Nebraskan 66 Lisa, to Patty and Selma 67 Stamp inkers 68 “Cleanup in aisle four” tools 69 To-do list items

1 Zippo 2 Theater sign 3 Much of soc. studies 4 Michele’s “High School Reunion” friend 5 “Pulp Fiction” actress Thurman 6 Mishmash of a “Jeopardy!” category 7 Play thing?

8 First month on a Mexican calendar 9 “And so on” 10 Majestic 11 “You couldn’t even find your own butt on a Waze app” 12 Trivial Pursuit edition 13 Cosmetics mogul Lauder 18 Pizza destroyer of old Domino’s ads 23 “The Fresh Prince of ___-Air” 25 Home of the Mustangs, for short 27 1993 Texas standoff city 28 Speedy breed of steed 29 “Buying your weed wearing a pot leaf T-shirt?

Like that’s original” 30 Went out with 31 “Pet” irritation 33 ___ di pepe (tiny pasta variety) 36 Sucks the strength out of 37 Blue-green hue 38 Model with a palindromic name 40 How lottery numbers are chosen 43 Gear tooth 44 Text-interpreting technology, briefly 47 Champagne bucket, e.g.

48 Piece of paper 49 Australian leaf-eater 51 “Otello” librettist 54 Loch ___ Monster 56 Abbr. on a bottle of Courvoisier 57 Where the Himalayas are 58 Partakes of 59 Pack of playing cards 60 Bad time for Caesar 63 “Lord of the Rings” tree creature

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Some things

need to be fixed, others to be left broken,� writes poet James Richardson. The coming weeks will be an ideal time for you to make final decisions about which are which in your own life. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are either too damaged to salvage or undeserving of your hard labor? Consider the possibility that you will abandon them for good. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are cracked, but possible to repair and worthy of your diligent love? Make a plan to revive or reinvent them.

Auntie Meme tells us that many commonlyheld ideas about history are wrong. There were no such things as chastity belts in the Middle Ages, for example. Napoleon’s soldiers didn’t shoot off the nose of the Sphinx when they were stationed in Egypt. In regards to starving peasants, Marie Antoinette never derisively said, “Let them eat cake.â€? And no Christians ever became meals for lions in ancient Rome’s Colosseum. (More: tinyurl.com/historicaljive.) In the spirit of Auntie Meme’s exposĂŠ, and in alignment with the astrological omens, I invite you to uncover and correct at least three fabrications, fables, and lies about your own past.

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When I return home on leave, I will take possession of the trunk. You will be rewarded handsomely for your assistance.

If you can be trusted, send me your details. Best regards, Captain Jonathan Orances.� You may receive a tempting but risky offer like this in the near future, Leo. I suggest you turn it down. If you do, I bet a somewhat less interesting but far less risky offer will come your way.

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nubial relationships in late 18th-century England. One publication at that time declared that of the country’s 872,564 married couples, just nine were truly happy. I wonder if the percentage is higher for modern twosomes. Whether it is or not, I have good news: My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you Scorpios will have an unusually good chance of cultivating vibrant intimacy in the coming weeks. Take advantage of this grace period, please!

SaGITTaRIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Some

days I feel like playing it smooth,� says a character in Raymond Chandler’s short story “Trouble Is My Business,� “and some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.� I suspect that you Sagittarians will be in the latter phase until at least May 24. It won’t be prime time for silky strategies and glossy gambits and velvety victories. You’ll be better able to take advantage of fate’s fabulous farces if you’re geared up for edgy lessons and checkered challenges and intricate motifs.

CaPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author

Rebecca Solnit says that when she pictures herself as she was at age 15, “I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.� Let that serve as an inspiration, Capricorn. Now is an excellent time for you to celebrate the heroic, messy, improbable victories of your past. You are ready and ripe to honor the crazy intelligence and dumb luck that guided you as you fought to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. You have a right and a duty to congratulate yourself for the suffering you have escaped and inner demons you have vanquished.

AQUARIUs (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear.� The poet James Richardson wrote that wry advice, and now I’m passing it on to you. Why now? Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty, and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities. You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude, and deepen your gravitas. So I hope you will invite and welcome the lumpy and the dappled, my dear. I hope you’ll seek out the tangy, the smoldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty, and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance.

PISCEs (Feb. 19-March 20): “A thousand

half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.� That’s from a Coleman Barks’ translation of a poem by the 13th-century Islamic scholar and mystic known as Rumi. I regard this epigram as a key theme for you during the next 12 months. You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacrifice the mediocre in service to the sublime?

ARIEs (March 21-April 19): Russian writer

Anton Chekhov was renowned for the crisp, succinct style of his short stories and plays.

As he evolved, his pithiness grew. “I now have a mania for shortness,� he wrote. “Whatever I read — my own work, or other people’s — it all seems to me not short enough.� I propose that we make Chekhov your patron saint for a while. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are in a phase when your personal power feeds on terse efficiency. You thrive on being vigorously concise and deftly focused and cheerfully devoted to the crux of every matter.

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