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Wrong. They are simply the people who bother to show up. They are our neighbors, who do the day-in and day-out work of planning, governing, and building within our representative democracy. Sometimes there are divergent opinions within the community — that’s healthy. However, elected officials do not govern by Survey Monkey. They are required to listen, consider the facts and use their judgment to act within the law and in the best interests of city residents.

And many of these good people are standing in opposition to Traverse City’s Proposal 3. Zoning by city charter violates state law, does an end-run on our local ordinances, and puts future growth at risk.

It would cause administrative turmoil and likely trigger expensive lawsuits. That’s bad lawmaking. If a voter doesn’t want Traverse City to grow within its current lawful limits, fine. Work through legal channels to elect new City Commissioners and amend the zoning. This citizen and Stand Up TC member will be voting “No” on Proposal 3.

Raymond Minervini II, Traverse City

Appealing To The Uninformed

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But some people don’t think you should show one to vote? Really? Join the real world!

A. J. Fasel, Traverse City

Political Football

A man walks into the offices of a professional football team and tells them he wants to be the team’s quarterback, and that he will make the team “great again.” He says that the team will score so often that “your head will spin,” and that they would win every game “bigly.” They ask about his experience and he tells them he learned the game by watching it on TV. Liking what they were hearing, they signed him to a four-year contract. No tryout, no practice, he is put into the game. His teammates and the fans quickly realize he has no clue how to play the game and that management made a huge mistake. The fans revolt and abandon the team, which soon goes out of business.

Sound familiar?

Lee Astrauckas, Mancelona

No To Milliken, Clinton

I support the Grand Traverse County Republican Party’s actions regarding former governor William Milliken. Former Governor Milliken, like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are not ordinary citizens. If Mrs. Clinton was, she might be serving time for lying to Congress. For this reason alone, Governor Milliken should not have recommended her, even if she was a Republican.

I offer these questions for those so-called Republicans who support Hillary Clinton and former governor Milliken. She has stated that she would “double down” on President Obama’s failed economic policies that have added $10 trillion to the national debt. In my opinion, if this happens, we will become Greece. Her Supreme Court appointments will make the Republican Party meaningless when it comes to conservatism. Finally, why would you want to turn your health care over to the same government bureaucrats who run the post office?

Harold Eickholt, Kalkaska

Stay Within The Laws

Traverse City is a beautiful and thriving community. This is by design. Over the years, city staff, citizens and elected officials have drafted and approved the City’s Master Plan and zoning to help shape the physical character of our city. It’s a slow, deliberate, imperfect but very public process in accordance with Michigan law. Within that zoning framework, developers and property owners have made huge investments and assumed great risks to help build the city we have today.

If you believe columnist Thomas Kachadurian (8/27/16), government employees, residents, public servants and private developers — anyone involved in the process — have conspired through “subterfuge” and “slight of hand” to exert their “ruling class” will on Traverse City.

Regarding his column of Aug. 22, “The Bug and The Elephant,” Steve Tuttle knows that leftist ideas will never be successfully accepted by rational persons, so he knows better than to try to delude reasoning minds. He knows he must convince persons of a different mentality, so he looks for opportunities to excite the bigotries in the minds of some of his readers that are, to put it mildly, less reasoning. In order for Tuttle’s writing to succeed, he first has to have readers like the ones I mentioned, but he also must write from a position of open evasion of reality.

In other words, he must find readers ready to accept any lie that confirms their biases, and then lie to them.

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

Happy Anniversary, COH!..................................10 The Breakthrough Acts......................................12 The Old Guard..................................................14 The Next Wave: Local Artists to Watch..............16 Future Sounds..................................................18 The Fall Finale: Autumn’s Music Festivals...........21 It’s a Harvest of Beer and Wine..........................22 Sexual Predator at Strip Club.............................24 The Up North Venues Sampler...........................26 Seen.................................................................27

views Opinion............................................................4 dates..............................................28-31 music FourScore.......................................................32 Nightlife..........................................................34

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Spectator/Stephen Tuttle...................................6 News of the Weird/Chuck Shepherd....................8 Style.................................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates.................................33 Advice Goddess..............................................36 Crossword.....................................................37 Freewill Astrology...........................................38 Classifieds......................................................39

As to the GT GOP delegates he defamed in that piece, there’s no point in defending their intellectual integrity here. Rational persons are able to read Tuttle’s column and understand that it’s an appeal to the minds of the unreasoning and the uninformed.

Jim Rice, Traverse City

Logic At The WRC

I re-read Patrick Sullivan’s article about the Women’s Resource Center as suggested in the letter submitted by the former “downright terrified” employees.

So, Juliette Schultz and Ralph Soffredine are responsibly directing the organization while making operations and services less reliant on government funding and the whims of legislators. That’s being sensible, accountable, and positions the WRC to be sustainable in the future. I’m happy the organization won’t go broke.

Paul Wcisel, Traverse City Correction: In our recent report on the local transgender community, the quote from Seren Aurora, “Being transgendered, for me, never seemed like a choice…” should have used the word “transgender” instead of “transgendered.” We regret this error.

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According to the UN, more than 60 million people are displaced from their homes or are refugees. The numbers grow as the wars in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan drag on. What are we doing about this?

Germany has resettled a million refugees and asylum seekers this year, including 41,000 Syrians. Most Germans are proud of the sacrifices they are making to address this humanitarian crisis. Of course there have been incidents and occasional clashes of cultures, but through leadership from Chancellor Merkel, Germany has set a standard for the rest of the world to emulate.

Similar leadership from Prime Minister Trudeau has allowed Canada to absorb some 30,000 refugees from Syria alone. The United States has been less welcoming, despite the realization that much of the instability in Iraq and Syria was triggered by our 2003 invasion of Iraq.

By late August, the U.S. admitted just over 10,000 Syrians. Refugee applications undergo an extremely stringent review that can take anywhere from 18 to 24 months, with an acceptance rate below 50 percent. Resistance to admitting more Syrians remains strong and has become a central issue in the election campaign. Meanwhile, millions remain in limbo, un-housed, under- or unfed, unschooled, uncared for. We ignore this mass of humanity at our peril.

We all know that none of the intractable conflicts generating these displaced persons is going to be resolved soon. But are we obliged to do more? As if we needed any confirmation beyond the sheer numbers, two photographs we all have seen should persuade us. The most recent is of a dazed Syrian boy, Omran Dagneesh, covered in dirt, staring at the blood on his hand wiped from a head wound. Picture him as your child. Think how it must feel for his parents. He survived.

Now picture Aylan Kurdi, “the dead little Syrian boy on the beach.” You’ve seen the photograph. Red shirt, blue shorts, with a Turkish aid worker tenderly lifting his lifeless form from the waves. Picture yourself as his mother as she lost her grip on him then herself succumbed to the power of the sea. Many of us agree that this is terrible, inexcusable. We want “the government” to do something. A few even make contributions to organizations that are trying to help.

The refugee crisis came up during my recent visit to L.A. when I met a group of young entrepreneurs and executives who have formed a company called GenNext and a foundation of the same name. CEO Michael Davidson describes himself as wanting his children to inherit a better world than what exists today. He’s gathered a number of likeminded, equally successful individuals who, as he puts it, “have done well, and now want to do good.”

GenNext aims to use the Internet to counter the recruitment efforts of those who dream of a world we must not let come to be. The group does this by focusing on what can lead young people to extremism in any form, from Islamist to neo-Nazi. They see economic opportunity,

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education and global security as three key areas that must be tackled simultaneously.

The GenNext team includes an impressive former government official with extensive experience in the Middle East and Asia, and an incredible Afghan woman who’s spent years working in the midst of the current crisis. In the global marketplace of ideas, their goal is to build a counter-narrative to the extreme images and enticements that are attracting young people on the Internet today.

These two threads – preventing extremism from infecting young people, and helping the millions of refugees -- come together when we look at what we as individuals might do to address both. The U.S. is not accepting refugees in substantial numbers because we fear they will bring terrorism to us, even though the domestic terrorism we’ve experienced was perpetrated by home-grown radicals. We are not effectively countering the Internet recruitment by terror groups because we don’t offer an alternative to their message of extremism and glorified death.

But if we could somehow create that counternarrative to stem the flow of recruits, we have a chance to defeat those whom we cannot reach. What we have to acknowledge is that the photographs of little Aylan’s lifeless body or of Omran’s bloodied brow are the recruiting posters for the so-called “Islamic State,” Al-Qaida, Boko Haraam and the like. And we need to acknowledge that the scenes of violence against citizens on our own streets breed violence of another sort right here at home.

Most of all, we need to show that we care enough to want a better future for those whose lives are defined by violence and suffering. And yes, we need to address our own indifference that manifests itself in calls to keep “those people” out of our country and neighborhoods.

Good people like the GenNext members are a vanguard in what one hopes will become a major effort of people “who’ve done well and now what to do good,” who will use their talents and resources to get ahead of this problem of “radicalization by Internet.”

But even those of us who have not done quite so well can still do good. The family next door whom no one seems to know, the kid who’s in need of a Big Brother or Sister, the local police raising funds to refurbish a basketball court…these don’t require millions to address. They require us to want to save the children from hopelessness.

We have a daunting task before us and pretending we can meet it with more soldiers, bombs or police is exactly the wrong answer.

We need to reach the minds of those who would do us harm and do it now. We need to care.

Jack Segal is co-chair with his wife Karen Puschel of the International Affairs Forum. The IAF’s next lecture is September 15 at 6 pm at Milliken Auditorium featuring UofM Professor Sally Howell speaking on “Coming to America: The Muslim Experience.”

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1 Concrete Quilt Coming to Cadillac A “concrete quilt” sounds like a bad euphemism from an old gangster movie.

In Cadillac, a concrete quilt will decorate the downtown farmer’s market planned for Cadillac Commons between Mitchell Street and Lake Cadillac. More than 200 five-by-five-foot acid stained concrete squares will make up the decorative, quilt-like pattern to mark the market’s boundaries.

The idea for a quilt pattern came to Community Development Director John Wallace through his wife, an avid quilter.

“She’s forever laying out squares and asking my opinion and she’s showing me tons of quilts in magazine,” Wallace said. “As I was thinking about the square, it just kind of entered my head.”

The new market is one piece of a project that’s transforming downtown Cadillac. The Commons also features a pavilion that was renovated last year, a plaza to be completed in a couple weeks that will include seasonal attractions like a splash pad, fireplace, and ice rink, and the White Pine Trail trailhead, an area to mark the end of the bike trail between Cadillac and Grand Rapids. To donate to the market project, visit patronicity.com and search for Cadillac Commons.

tastemakers Vernales’ Bruschetta Burrata Summer may be winding to a close, but North Peak Brewing Company hopes to capture the taste of northern Michigan’s favorite season in a bottle for year-round enjoyment.

North Peak will launch its newest beer, Mellow Cherry Hibiscus, in bottles and on draft at locations across northern Michigan beginning Sept. 1. Brewed with Michigan cherries and hibiscus flowers, the tart-sweet ale clocks in at 7 percent ABV and 21 IBU, and it offers an easy-sipping balance of fruit and malt truly worthy of its “mellow” moniker.

As with other North Peak signature beers, Mellow Cherry Hibiscus offers a story and character icon to go with its name — in this case, a mother bear.

“The legend of the Sleeping Bear is one of northern Michigan’s most famous tales,” according to the company. “We brewed Mellow Cherry Hibiscus in honor of the determined mother bear and her lost cubs.” Pick up a couple six-packs for the cold months ahead (visit northpeak.com for locations), and let the fresh taste of cherries — and warm thoughts of the sun-soaked Sleeping Bear Dunes — carry you through until next summer.

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Enjoy beautiful views through the rolling vineyard rows at Ciccone Vineyard, Suttons Bay during the Harvest Stompede on Sat., Sept. 10. Starting at 9am, choose from a 5K walk, 5K run or 7 mile run. The Wine Tour runs from 11am-6pm at 23 participating wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. On Sun., Sept. 11 the Wine Tour runs from 12-5pm. Tickets, $40; includes a souvenir wine glass & wine pour & food pairing from each participating location. Does not include the race fee. lpwines.com/harvest/

Help Wanted: Clean-up Day Planned at Safe Harbor A permanent (and controversial) homeless shelter needs some help sprucing up.

Traverse City’s Safe Harbor shelter at 517 Wellington Street is hosting a work bee on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 9am until 3pm. Bring clippers, trimmers, or a broom, and willingness to help. Tours of the building and lunch will be provided.

The Safe Harbor nonprofit purchased the building from Traverse City in July after 30 months of planning, community discussion and objections by some who are concerned that the shelter will bring trouble to the neighborhood.

Safe Harbor will operate this winter as it has in past years — as a rotating shelter hosted by churches. Construction of the Wellington Street shelter is expected to begin this winter and to be completed in time for the permanent shelter to open in the winter of 2017-’18.

For more information about the work day, visit http://www.gtsafeharbor.org/ cleanup/.

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LAND DEALS AND SCHOOL BUSES: PROCEED WITH CAUTION spectator by stephen tuttle Traverse City’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) would like to consider getting into the land development business.

Such ventures are much easier when using other people’s money.

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What the group is talking about is buying land and selling it at a discount to developers who will then build something to help alleviate an allegedly critical housing shortage.

The basis of this is a “housing target market analysis” LandUseUSA completed in 2014 for Networks Northwest, an organization representing 10 counties in the northwestern lower peninsula. (It used to be called the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments.)

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Then, the developers can get on the real gravy train by requesting brownfield redevelopment money — the payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) program that saves them a small fortune in taxes from which we citizens won’t benefit — and grants aplenty.

Then, finally, we’ll subsidize the resultant housing to make it affordable.

The analysis said Traverse City has the potential for an additional 240 owner-occupied housing units and a whopping 1,302 renter-occupied housing units, annually.

That’s right: 1,542 new housing units every year.

Downtown Development Authorities were created to save and revitalize failing Main Streets, USA. Traverse City’s DDA did excellent work fulfilling that charter in the ’80s. But it’s safe to say our downtown has been revitalized, and the DDA appears interested in empire building well beyond its intended purpose.

Note the use of the word potential. Not need or demand but potential. If that annual potential was realized, Traverse City’ population would double in a decade. If we don’t realize this potential, we were warned, we could lose new residents to Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Detroit.

Traverse City’s population from the 2010 census was 14,674. It is estimated at about 15,100 now. That’s 100 new residents a year, not 1,500. And if you visit a homes-for-sale site online, you’ll find lots and lots of houses for sale in the region, at all price points.

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Next, the DDA will discount the land to developers who will, presumably, build something the DDA likes. Now we’re using what would have been tax revenue to subsidize land developers. There aren’t many who need the help less than millionaire dirt merchants, but no one can blame them for asking for and accepting the gift.

The report included some startling numbers regarding housing, especially in Grand Traverse County and Traverse City. The DDA and others that support the idea Traverse City is desperate for housing refer often to the report as justification for their obsession.

As if.

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Four steps — and all of them involving money that taxpayers have either paid or that somebody else won’t pay. It is very nearly surreal.

It’s time the City Commission reins in the DDA, lest we forget who’s actually running the city.

Those big yellow buses are out and about once again, so it’s time for us to start paying very close attention.

Flashing red lights on a school bus mean you have to stop, whether you’re behind the bus or approaching it. This is not a suggestion; it’s the law.

But what if we had a lot more affordable housing and apartments? Wouldn’t people be flocking here to live? Maybe, but most of the local job openings offer entry level pay, and even cheap housing isn’t much of a draw for low pay.

Yes, it can be aggravating getting stuck behind one of these children transporters.

That’s nowhere near a good enough reason to zoom around them. School bus drivers, the unsung heroes of the public school systems, will move to the side of the road to let you pass as soon as they safely can.

Every study we’ve seen acknowledges the need for additional affordable rental units; that’s not the debate. But our fixation with putting them downtown ignores the rest of the city and close county areas as viable options. That impedes progress instead of furthering it.

If you don’t really care about the safety of the children getting on and off those buses, consider this: The buses have cameras. They will record your foolish impatience, and your friends in law enforcement will come calling.

The DDA would like to solve this challenge itself, or at least consider it. Let’s follow the bouncing tax dollars.

First, to buy land, the organization will use money it has “captured” from its tax incremental financing (TIF) districts. That’s tax money that, absent the TIF district, would

You can be liable for up to $100 in costs, fines ranging from $100 to $500, plus up to 100 hours of community service. As a bonus, you’ll likely receive an unpleasant note from your auto insurer, not to mention the scorn of anyone who ever had a child ride a school bus.

Flashing red lights mean stop. Please.

Crime & Rescue WEDDING HOST FACES CHARGES The owner of a controversial Elmwood Township wedding venue faces charges after Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said he hindered first responders who came to the aid of a possible overdose victim.

Someone called 911 at 10:37pm Aug. 13 to report an emergency at a barn on South Lakeview Hills Road owned by 65-year-old Frank Noverr.

Deputies and Elmwood Fire and Rescue responded and were met by a security guard and confronted by Noverr, who blocked the driveway and prevented the emergency vehicles from proceeding, deputies said.

When the deputy informed Noverr about the medical call, Noverr denied any help was needed and refused to allow the responders to proceed; at the same time, dispatchers confirmed the person who needed help was attending a wedding reception taking place in a barn on Noverr’s property.

Noverr continued to deny access, police said, until a person in a golf cart came from the party, pointed up the driveway, and said someone needed help, causing the deputy to bypass Noverr and rush to the aid of the 33-year-old victim.

Responders managed to reach the woman and get her into an ambulance so that she could be taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment.

The wedding venue has been a matter of contention between Noverr and his neighbors and township officials for several years. Noverr sued when he was refused permission to run a wedding venue on his property in a residential area on Lake Leelanau.

Despite the pending civil lawsuit, Noverr is barred from running a commercial wedding venue, though neighbors have complained that Noverr is running one despite the prohibition. Noverr has denied that allegation and claimed that he only hosts private parties.

Noverr was arraigned Aug. 30 on two felony counts of obstructing or hindering law enforcement or emergency medical personnel.

PILOT FACES CHARGES Police arrested a co-pilot at Cherry Capital Airport after he was found to have a blood alcohol level 15 times the limit for flying.

Hoboken, N.J. resident Sean Michael Fitzgerald faces a misdemeanor charge of aircraft crew member – blood alcohol content .02 or more. The 35-year-old’s bond conditions prohibit him from drinking or piloting a plane, but he is allowed to return to New Jersey.

He was pulled off the charter airplane Aug. 25 after the pilot noticed erratic behavior and suspected he was drunk. Traverse City Police found Fitzgerald had a blood alcohol level of .30.

He flew for Farmingdale, New York-based Talon Air, which fired him after the incident.

WEDDING FIGHT LEADS TO ARREST A drunken husband and wife disrupted a Cedar wedding reception with a fight.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home on Kasson Street at 10:42pm Aug. 27 for a “fight in progress.”

They arrived to find the couple intoxicated and witnesses who said the woman had repeatedly

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struck her husband during the altercation.

When deputies attempted to question the woman, she walked away and got into a vehicle.

The 41-year-old Howell resident was arrested for domestic assault.

CAR ROLLED INTO BOULDER An 18-year-old driver rear-ended another car, causing it to roll over and off of a highway and come to rest against a boulder.

Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the intersection of US-31 and Burgess Road in Hayes Township at 12:49pm Aug. 26.

A 26-year-old Alanson woman, the driver of the car that was rear-ended, was unable to get her 48-year-old mother out of the car because the boulder blocked the way, deputies said.

First responders were able to move the vehicle and get the woman out of the car.

The mother and daughter were taken to McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey for treatment. The 18-year-old was taken to McLaren Charlevoix for treatment. Two minor girls in his car were not injured. Everyone was wearing seat belts.

COMBATIVE WOMAN ARRESTED A man asked Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies to help end a woman’s repeated, harassing phone calls.

It turned out the woman was out on bond on another case and forbidden from drinking, and when police found the woman at a house on Alpine Road in Solon Township, she appeared to be intoxicated.

The 42-year-old woman defiantly continued to drink in front of the deputies after they told her to stop and they arrested her for a bond violation at 9pm Aug. 25.

The woman became combative during the arrest and kicked one in the leg, police said. She was restrained and taken to jail for the bond violation and resisting arrest.

TWO INJURED IN CHAIN CRASH Three cars crashed on M-115 when one driver failed to yield to two others stopped on the road.

Wexford County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Antioch Township near N. 15 Road Aug. 25 at 12:20pm after a 70-year-old driver slowed to make a left turn and the 28-year-old Beulah man driving behind him slowed as well. A third driver, a 35-year-old Ann Arbor man, failed to stop and crashed into the back of the Beulah man, causing a chain reaction crash.

Ryan Tims, the driver of the middle car, and his passenger, 25-year-old Thompsonville resident Afton Freed, suffered non-life threatening injuries and were taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment.

Officers received a report of an incoherent woman and they arrived to find the woman asleep in an unlocked patrol car. They took her to Munson Medical Center for a mental health evaluation.

The woman returned to the state police lot the following morning. This time when police were called at 3:44am, officers found the woman in the parking lot of the Speedway gas station nearby after she vandalized two patrol cars by ripping off windshield wipers.

O’Brien said it’s unknown what motivated the woman. She was arrested for malicious destruction of property and resisting arrest.

POLICE VISITS LEADS TO JAIL Two early morning visits to a state police post landed a woman in jail.

The 22-year-old Ellsworth woman first appeared in the state police parking lot on 14th Street early Aug. 27, Traverse City Police Chief Jeff O’Brien said.

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Outstanding in Their Fields The recently concluded Olympics included a few of the more obscure athletic endeavors (such as dressage for horses and steeplechase for humans), but U.S. colleges compete in even less-heralded “sports,” such as wood chopping, rock climbing, fishing and broomball. University of Alabama, 2015 national football champions, dominates also in the 280-school bass-fishing competition, and New York’s Paul Smith College’s 5,000-student campus raucously cheers its championship log-splitting team (against seven other schools). And Ohio State whipped another football powerhouse, Nebraska, in ice-based broomball.

Why? Because We Can, That’s Why -- We now have computer or cellphone apps to, for example, analyze the quality of one’s tongue-kissing; alert you when your zipper is inadvertently down; make a refrigerator also be a stereo and photo album; notify you when you need to drink more water; check the malefemale ratio at local bars so, if you’re on the prowl, you can plan your evening efficiently; and reveal whether your partner has had someone else in bed while you were away (via differential contours of the mattress). And then, in August, the creators of the new “South Park” virtual reality game announced that they had figured out how to release a “fart” smell that is crucial to game-players when they put on the VR mask.

-- Inexplicable: Pizza Hut announced in August that it had finally mastered the technology to turn its cardboard delivery boxes into customers’ workable disk-jockey turntables and will make them available shortly in five stores in the United Kingdom.

(Each box has two record decks, a crossfader, pitch and cue controls, and the ability to rewind.) Music stars P Money and DJ Vectra are featured, and the boxes will sync via Bluetooth to phones and computers.

Compelling Explanations -- Lame: (1) Steven Scholz was sued for $255,000 in Oregon City, Oregon, in July after he allegedly fired on a family’s house (15 gunshots) and traumatized their young son inside. Scholz explained that he thought the Biblical Rapture had just occurred and that he was the only survivor. (2) Aman Bhatia, 27, was charged with battery and lewd molestation in July after allegedly groping six women at Disney World’s Typhoon Lagoon water park.

Despite witnesses telling police that Bhatia was positioning himself for furtive groping, Bhatia claimed that his glasses were broken and thus he was not aware that women were in his path.

-- In July, Ryan Bundy (a leader of the Malheur federal land occupation protest in Oregon in January), exercising his philosophy as a “sovereign,” wrote his judge that he rejects the federal court’s jurisdiction over him in his upcoming trial, but that he would agree to co-operate -- provided the government pays him $1 million cash.

Bundy (who signs court documents “i; ryan c., man”) said for that sum, he would act as “defendant” -- or, as a bonus, if the judge prefers, as “bailiff,” or even as “judge.”

(Bundy’s lawyer, not surprisingly, is Bundy.)

Ironies -- Recurring Theme: People with too much money have been reported over the years to have paid enormous sums for “prestigious” license plates, usually the

lowest-numbered. In China, the number 8 is regarded as lucky, and a man identified only as “Liu” obtained Shanghai province’s plate “88888” -- for which he paid the equivalent of $149,000. Shanghaiist.com reported in June that “Lucky” Liu was forced into annoying traffic stops by police eight times the first day because officers were certain that the plate was bogus.

-- Greenland’s first “world-class tourist attraction,” opening in 2020, offers visitors a “stunning view” of the rapidly melting ice sheets from the area’s famous, 250,000-yearold Jakobshavn Glacier. The United Nationsprotected site is promoting a “tourist” vista that some call “ground zero for climate change” -- and which others hope won’t be completely melted by 2020.

Unclear on the Concept -- Third-grade teacher Tracy Rosner filed a lawsuit against the county school board in Miami in July (claiming to be the victim of race and national origin discrimination) after being turned down for a job that required teaching Spanish -- because she doesn’t speak Spanish. (Rosner said “non-Hispanics” like her are a minority among Miami schoolteachers and therefore that affirmativeaction-style accommodations should have been made for her.)

-- An Idaho man took his pregnant daughter, 14, and the man who raped her, age 24, to Missouri last year to get married (because of that state’s lenient marriage-age law) -- asserting that it is the rapist’s “duty” to marry a girl he gets pregnant. The father now says he was wrong, but an Idaho judge nonetheless sentenced him to 120 days behind bars for endangering his daughter.

(The rapist received a 15-year sentence, and the pregnancy ended in miscarriage.)

The Entrepreneurial Spirit The Tykables “baby store for adults” opened in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, recently and so far has outlasted attempts to shut it down (as being, allegedly, inappropriate for the community). Part of the business model is selling adult diapers for medical needs, but a major clientele is adults with a fetish to be treated like helpless babies -- with diapers, clothing, accessories and furniture (oversized high chairs, playpens and cribs).

(Though the owner controls store access and has blocked out window views, critics are still uncomfortable explaining the store to their children.)

Recurring Themes (1) Overenthusiastic Insurance Fraud: A 30-year-old woman, “LTN,” has so far escaped prosecution in Hanoi, Vietnam -- because her insurance fraud caper already cost her a third, each, of her left hand and left foot. Those are the parts police said she paid a friend the equivalent of $2,000 to chop off to claim a $157,000 disability- policy payout, according to an August dispatch by Agence France-Presse.

(2) Husband Who Needs to Believe: Police in Hartselle, Alabama, arrested Sarah Shepard for soliciting a hit man to kill her husband, Richard (after police set up an undercover sting, even working with Richard to stage his fake death to convince her that the job was completed). Now, Richard is trying to help Sarah. In August, he asked her judge to reduce her bail, certain that she had been “entrapped” because, for one thing, she could hardly manage a grocery list, much less a murder.

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Happy Anniversary, COH!

City Opera HOuse Celebrates 125 years

By Kristi Kates Back in the 1800s, you knew a town had grown from mere settlement to a proper city once it acquired its own opera house.

In 1892, Traverse City joined the Michigan branch of that elite club. It cost $50,000 — a fortune at the time — to build City Opera House, one of only 48 opera houses in Michigan at the time.

Behind the project were three Traverse City businessmen: Anton Bartak, Frank Votruba, and Charles Wilhelm, who shared a vision of erecting a structure that would bring the community together to celebrate the arts. The COH did exactly as its founders dreamed, hosting plays, concerts, and operettas illuminated by some of the first electric lights installed in town.

What no one foresaw was that Traverse City’s opera house would live on well into the 21st Century. This year, the venerable COH celebrates its 125th anniversary — a feat made even more impressive by the fact that, today, only seven Victorian opera houses remain open in the state.

Although the Grand Old Lady, as the Opera House is nicknamed, retains much of its original grandeur, it’s endured a number of personality changes over the years. In 1920, the building was leased by a motion picture distributor solely so he could eliminate it as competition for his other movie houses in town. In the 1930s, it was briefly part of a Depression-era project the Works Progress Administration had spearheaded to help local folks find employment. And for the 50 years following the W.P.A., it sat mostly dormant, a dusty moth with every light on its stage extinguished. Despite its decades of closure, the COH was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

In 1980, a small catalyst prompted some

COH momentum: William and Gretchen though the building had finally gotten its Votruba donated the shuttered venue to proverbial toe into the door of change, Traverse City. “Bill was part of one of the it would take the Heritage Association first families that built the Opera House,” 30 more years of effort to raise the $8.5 explained Karen Smith, City Opera House million necessary to complete the major Arts Advocate and former chairperson. “But renovations. it had become so disused, there was just a “It’s been such an unorthodox camlittle office in there and not much else. For- paign,” she said. “We’ve combined things tunately, the Votrubas like grants and calling lohad known enough to cal families like the Dows, hang onto it, and they who were known for dothen gifted it to the city nating to projects like this. for $1.”

Finding funding opporThe transfer put the tunities through Lansing COH back on the city’s with the help of people radar. A group of citizens like former Michigan Sen. formed the City Opera George McManus, and House Heritage Assoholding events. But in the ciation and the City of end, it was that combinaTraverse City granted tion of things that’s made the group a 75-year lease this work, plus we have of the building. Thus bean absolutely wonderful gan a long-term plan to board to support us.”

Movie house, shuttered restore the venue to its To start with, the floor site, grand performance former self, which in its hall, treasured landmark. of the stage area had to be glory days had included completely refinished, and a stunning barrel-vault the crossover (the hallway ceiling and fresco paintthat allows actors to move ings with gold-leaf accents. from one side of the stage to the other side “The city kind of begrudgingly accepted without being seen by the audience) had to the Opera House at first,” Smith said with a be bumped out because people couldn’t fit laugh. “They weren’t really interested in it at through it. “Then we built a new entrance,” all, and it still languished for years after that, Baribeau said, “because you used to have to as it was tough for people to put their arms enter the Opera House on a very steep set of around a project that big.” stairs. And we also added our ticket booth Smith, who is the longest-standing board and offices.” member (she’s been on the board since the Bob Spence of Spence Brothers Conlate ’70s) and has led the COH fundraising struction, also a board member, has been inefforts, said that to get people excited about volved with City Opera House’s renovations renovating it, the association decided to since 2007. “I stepped in just after the first work on the building one chunk at a time, so two phases of renovation that took it from that the results would become visible more completely shuttered, closer to where it is quickly and encourage further work. today,” Spence said. “But it’s been a 35- to Diane Baribeau, City Opera House’s 40-year process.” executive director, pointed out that even While the long fundraising process cer-

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tainly slowed the building’s revitalization, the age of the building and decades of neglect played far bigger roles, Spence said. To reveal the venue’s intricate wall stencils, layers and layers of grime had to be peeled back first. Adding to the complications: working with construction from a completely different time period.

“When you break into a wall or a floor that’s been there since the 1800s, you never know what you’re going to get,” Spence said.

“You have to do a little bit of demolition … see what’s there … and then figure out exactly what you’re going to do next. So it takes a lot of time.” Since COH is now a functioning venue, Spence and his team also have to work around the performance schedule. “We have to be neither seen nor heard,” he said.

“Bob’s put in countless hours,” Smith added. “He loves the place, and he does such great work.”

While the celebrating has been happening since spring, the most recent renovations to COH are nearing completion just in time for the anniversary celebration on Feb. 5, 2017.

“We have completed renovations on the third floor — restrooms and a new community room,” Baribeau said. “We’ll have new dressing rooms on the second floor with backstage access. And we just got approval from the city for a three-sided, cantilevered canopy that will go out front with backlit City Opera House letters — not flashy, but period-appropriate — that we think that will really help people find the venue, as sometimes they walk right by it!”

“The canopy will definitely make the building more identifiable,” Spence agreed.

“And I’ve seen some vintage photos were there actually was a canopy in the old days, so it will be neat to bring that back. We’ve also improved the second floor lobby area — we added a bar and chandelier and made it more inviting.”

Spence said his favorite part of working on the building is the historical nature of the project. “It’s great to watch it be taken back to the way it was when it was a full-fledged opera house, just getting its start,” he said.

“And it’s exciting that 125 years later, not only is the place open, but we’ve improved it.

Year to year, it keeps getting better!”

Smith cites the venue’s acoustics among her favorite features, although she also mentioned that new sound equipment is another thing on their renovations wish list. “Our current system is primarily for spoken word, so whenever we have a big show, we have to rent equipment in,” she said. She also loves

COH’s half-rounded, barrel-vault ceiling. “It looks like waves on the lake, especially if you stand on the balcony,” she said. “Very appropriate for Traverse City!”

Clearly, City Opera House’s idle days have long since passed. The 680-seat venue is a common destination for fans of the arts and cultural happenings, hosting National Writers Series author events, the SwingShift and the Stars dance-off, and portions of the Traverse City Film Festival. In the 2015– 2016 season alone, City Opera House hosted over 60,000 visitors at 260 events.

Additionally, the Opera House has partnered with Michigan State University’s

Wharton Center for Performing Arts in order to offer more quality content and outstanding live shows to the community. And it also hosts private functions like weddings, proms, and conferences, all right in downtown Traverse City.

For the Feb. 5 anniversary date, there’s even more on the way — though Baribeau remains mum on the details. “We’re working on a special event for February that will be free to the community,” Baribeau said.

“More will be announced on that as we get closer to the date.”

Whatever the anniversary event, supporters of the arts have reason to celebrate

COH every day; the space grows more beautiful with each project, and it remains a real center for the community, just as its founders had hoped.

“This project for me is a real passion,” Smith said. “The Opera House offers so much for Traverse City and the surrounding area, for us all to come together in such a space. I think it’s amazing that we have this place from 1892, and we’ve gotten it back to the point we have today. It’s a great source of pride. I never get tired of working on it, and I want to help make sure it goes on for another 125 years.”

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The Breakthrough Acts

By Kristi Kates Breaking out of northern Michigan to achieve a major career in music takes more than talent. While our communities are avid supporters of all kinds of music, and our region’s beauty inspires many a tune, the hard facts are that there are fewer venues, auditions, music managers, record labels, and other resources here than in larger cities. But it can be done, and here are some of the talented musicians from Up North who have proven in.

Andrew Dost

Dost, a graduate of Frankfort High School, attended Central Michigan University in pursuit of journalism but soon found himself spending more time playing in bands, including the indie-rock outfit Anathallo. He’d met musicians Nate Ruess and Jack Antonoff through his musical travels, and with them, the multi-instrumentalist formed Fun., an indie-pop band that broke out quickly from its new base in New York City. Fun.’s 2012 album Some Nights spawned three hit singles: “We Are Young” (featuring Janelle Monáe), which topped Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for seven weeks; the title track, which became Fun.’s second Top Ten single; and “Carry On,” which they’d perform on Saturday Night Live. Two Grammy Awards and loads of touring later, Fun. is taking a break while singer Ruess promotes his solo album, Grand Romantic, and Antonoff works with his side indie band project, Bleachers. Dost, meanwhile, has made an additional music career for himself in television and film scoring. You’ll hear his music in the MTV show Faking It, as well as in the Jack Black/ James Marsden movie The D Train. Fun. reportedly will be back in full force eventually, but in the meantime, Dost’s having plenty of it doing other things.

FROM FRANKFORT

Find Out More: andrewdost.com and ournameisfun.com Fan Sighting Potential: Possible. Dost has spent time living in both Royal Oak and New York City but mentioned in a recent interview that he’ll “always return” to his hometown of Frankfort.

Sufjan Stevens

FROM PETOSKEY

Born in Detroit and transplanted to Petoskey with his family when he was nine years old, singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens attended Petoskey High School, Harbor Light Christian School, and Interlochen Arts Academy, finally ending up at Hope College in Holland, Mich., after high school. But New York City was calling his name. He moved there to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from The New School and began pursuing his own music with a vengeance. In addition to co-founding the boutique record label Asthmatic Kitty Records, Stevens’ own musical career quickly became a critically acclaimed one, even as the musician himself became more elusive, as demonstrated by his cryptic website. His skills on a wide range of instruments — guitar, drums, piano, oboe, and banjo — lend an eclectic feel to his autobiographical folk-pop tracks. Rolling Stone dubbed Stevens’ 2005 album, Illinois, one of the Best 100 Albums of the 2000s; that album would also win a slew of nods from Spin, KEXP, Billboard, and the PLUG Independent Music Awards. Most recently, Pitchfork called his 15th album, 2015’s Carrie and Lowell (named after his mother and stepfather), among the best of the year. Stevens continues to record and tour.

Find Out More: sufjan.com and asthmatickitty.com Fan Sighting Potential: Unlikely. While Stevens is thought to still have relatives in Petoskey, he now lives in Williamsburg, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.

FROM TRAVERSE CITY

Kenny Olson

It’s been said that if you hung out in Traverse City’s nightclubs in the early to mid ’90s, you’ve seen Kenny Olson play. Olson often performed at venues like TC’s Union Street Station, where his guitar-shredding abilities were local legend. With skills like that, it was inevitable that a bigger name would take notice — and that’s exactly what happened when Olson became a founding member of Kid Rock’s Twisted Brown Trucker Band. Olson remained with Rock’s outfit for 11 years (until 2005), snagging praise from such big names as Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers, who called him a “rare talent”; Metallica’s James Hetfield, who said “ … Olson’s guitar-playing speaks for itself ”; and the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, who called him “one of the best rock guitarists on the scene.” (And you can’t really top getting your own animated character on The Simpsons, another of Olson’s accomplishments.) Today, Olson has stepped out with his first full-scale solo album project, The Kenny Olson Cartel, a “loud and proud” rock extravaganza that Olson said he’ll tour with “as long as he’s alive and kicking.”

Find Out More: kennyolson.com Fan Sighting Potential: Possible. Olson reportedly lives in Detroit and also spends time in Nashville but is still spotted in Traverse City on occasion.

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Matt Noveskey

FROM TRAVERSE CITY

A 1994 graduate of Saint Francis High School in Traverse City, bass player Matt Noveskey has been in a number of local bands, including a couple you might recognize: Switch and Botfly. When already-signed alternative rock band Blue October lost their original bass player (Liz Mullally, who quit), Noveskey utilized his musical connections to snag an audition, and he nailed it; his first show as an official Blue October band member was at the Satellite Lounge in Houston, Texas in 1999. After a brief hiatus from the band in the early 2000s, Noveskey returned in 2004, also having formed a second band, (a+)machines, in the interim. Blue October continues to record and tour, and most recently released their eighth studio album, Home, on Up/Down Records this past April.

When the band’s not on the road, Noveskey can most often be found touring solo, or at his own Orb Recording Studios in Texas, where he works as a bassist, songwriter, and record producer, hosting sessions for Justin Bieber, Pentatonix, and Odd Future, among others. He’s also a celebrity endorser of Fender bass guitars and Aguilar bass amplifiers.

Find Out More: blueoctober.com and orbrecordingstudios.com Fan Sighting Potential: Unlikely. Although Noveskey tours, he calls Austin home.

Britta Phillips

FROM BOYNE

Whether or not you recognize the name singer-songwriter Britta Phillips, if you watched cartoons in the mid ’80s, you’ve likely heard her; Phillips performed the singing voice of the character Jem in the animated TV series Jem and the Holograms, which ran from 1985 to 1988. Born in Boyne City, Phillips was perhaps destined for a life of music. Her father, Peter Phillips, was a musician, jingle composer, and former music teacher of Paul Simon. After spending part of her childhood in Boyne City, Phillips moved to Pennsylvania with her family, and then to Brooklyn on her own to pursue her music career. Following her Jem years, Phillips in the ’90s shifted through a series of landmark indie-rock bands, most notably Luna and Belltower. She eventually married her former Luna bandmate Dean Wareham, which led to the acclaimed duo project Dean and Britta, as well as scores for movies like The Squid and The Whale. This year finally sees Phillips stepping out on her own. She released her debut solo album, Luck or Magic, this past spring, a set of five original songs and five covers; the album includes contributions from Wareham as well as from Jeffrey Brodsky of the electronica-rock band Yacht.

Find Out More: brittaphillips.com Fan Sighting Potential: Unlikely. Phillips and Wareham live in Los Angeles and seem to have few ties to the region.

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JEFF HAAS

The Old Guard

By Kristi Kates

“Memories, light the corners of my mind…” – Barbra Streisand Streisand may have been singing about a faded love. But memories of northern Michigan’s early music scene are the ones we want to know about. Much like Streisand herself, our local musical celebs have been making music for decades, but they still have an ageless quality about them. So when we say “old guard,” we’re not referring to age, but to experience and experiences. With that in mind, we asked some of our region’s best-known and longstanding musicians to take a look back for us.

ROBIN LEE BERRY

Traverse City jazz pianist, avant-garde composer, recording artist, and radio show host.

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Boyne City singer-songwriter, music mentor, and co-owner of Freshwater Gallery and Concert Series. Robinleeberry.com

When Jeff Haas moved to northern Michigan, he was a social worker. Growing up with music, though, meant it was always in his blood; he even studied music in Germany as a teenager. “I had maintained my development as a musician, but I wasn’t performing at the time,” he said. In 1989, his father —accomplished pianist, conductor, and musicologist Karl Haas — asked his son to perform a duet show in Corson Auditorium. “He sent me a stack of music a foot high and said to learn as much as I could,” Haas said, laughing. “The performance was sold out, and I absolutely loved it. I got bit by the jazz bug after that and started working with some local performers.”

But Haas’ connections with the local scene had actually started even earlier. “When I first started coming Up North in the ’70s, I used to go to the Holiday Inn to see Dave Sporney,” Haas said. “He had a 17-piece Big Band that played every Sunday night. I also used to go see the Traverse City Jazz Quartet every Thursday.” The jazz and folk scene then, Haas recalled, wasn’t unlike what it is now, with a range of venues and plenty of hanging out after the shows. “The Sawmill on Front Street had folk music six days a week; the basement club Shields on the east side had variety music. People like Josh White and Arlo Guthrie would pass through Traverse City and play at these great small venues,” he said.

One definite similarity between then and now is the flow of music through the region.

“Even back then, there were two entertainment seasons — summer, and the rest of the year,” Haas said. “To a large extent, that’s still true.”

Haas worked to expand on what the region had to offer by booking for a Dennos series called Jazz at the Museum, and adding a twist. “As I was booking musicians, I’d write into their contract that, after the Dennos show, they had to play a second set over at Park Place,” Haas said. “Because of that, Park Place hosted shows

by Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Elling, and Ellis Marsalis, so people got to see these nationally breaking artists in a small, intimate setting.”

Through it all, Haas said that the musicians in Traverse City have always been supportive of each other. “The reason Traverse City is a good place to be for me, personally, is because my career has been a collaboration with this community. They come out for everything I do, whether it’s a jazz classic or something completely edgy and avant-garde. It’s a real symbiotic relationship. The audiences here are less about ‘prove yourself,’ like they would be in a big city — they’re more about being part of the development of original musicians.”

Back in the ’80s, at the beginning of Robin Lee Berry’s career, she definitely felt like she was in the minority in northern Michigan.

She’d been playing music in Lansing and had moved to Charlevoix to be part of a band that played at the Weathervane. “There were only a handful of women playing music here at that time,” Berry said. “I was trying to make a living doing what I felt was my true calling, and I mostly played solo and had my own gear, which helped. It’s wonderful to see so many women now embracing the lifestyle!”

The best memories of those early years for Berry were the open mic shows in the area. “It was a great way to enter the scene, so I attended as often as possible,” she said. “Eventually I was asked to host Tuesday nights at the Sawmill, and then later at JRR’s Warehouse, where I met a lot of wonderful musicians.” She also released her own Wait for the Rush album during this time. “Back then, cassettes were the new medium for recordings, so I was being state of the art to cut a cassette!”

Disco was still big when Berry arrived Up North, but she remembers a wider diversity of sounds here, from acoustic groupings and country to rock bands and piano bars. “Union Street Station was where it was at, and I was drawn to the horn bands and jazz groups like Newt and the Salamanders, and Bob James and Equinox,” Berry said.

“Sitting in with Equinox was a real ‘moment’ — I became their singer and also started working with The Reef Petroleum Big Band. Exciting times!” She also performed at the very first Blissfest and has worked with the festival ever since. It’s one of her favorite memories of her beginnings in music here, but there are many more.

“Being a folk musician can seem so romantic,” Berry said. “But I remember going to a gig after a deep snow here, having to drag my gear on a sled for a quarter mile. Some of the best moments were playing music for friends, being on stage at the Dennos, opening for Rory Block and Garnet Rogers and Greg Brown, and sneaking into the green room at the Traverse City Film Festival and eating their cookies before our pre-film performance. That was all fun! But most of all, it’s always best when the audiences were kind. And they still are.”

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DON JULIN

Traverse City alternative folk artist and virtuoso mandolin player and instructor. Donjulin.com His parents, who wanted to avoid raising their growing family in an urban environment, escaped Detroit for Elk Rapids when Don Julin was nine years old. As a young adult, Julin found his way to Traverse City and edged into the local music scene with his first band, The Microtones, which he said created quite a stir in town in the early ’80s. “We were one of the first rock-ish bands to play ‘alternative’ music, which by today’s standards doesn’t seem very radical at all — Talking Heads, The Clash, Bob Marley, The Specials — hardly offensive,” Julin said.

Early on, he just wanted to be accepted as one of the hometown boys who could play music. “Drinking and driving was still popular back then, so the bar scene was thriving,” he said. “I remember a large variety of musical styles in Traverse City. Rock was big, and many touring acts — like REO Speedwagon, Todd Rundgren, and Styx — played at the Glacier Arena, which is now an auto parts warehouse on Barlow Street.

During that era, Julin said, there were many venues around town that had live music, from The Sawmill to Union Street Station, JRR’s Warehouse, and Tanz Haus. “There were at least a dozen places that had stages and dance floors, and where people paid cover charges to see and dance to live music,” he said.

“There was even a teen dance club called the BOGI that had a stage for live bands. You could actually play in a weekend band and make enough money to pay rent on a cheap apartment!”

Some of Julin’s best friends today are musicians that he met through the music scene back in the ’80s. “It was competitive in that each band wanted to sound better than the other bands, but we all supported each other going to each other’s shows,” he said. Some of his favorite personal memories include having a No. 1 record on WNMC Radio in 1983 with The Microtones (he achieved this again in 2013 with Billy Strings) and meeting Bob Seger at Legs Inn in Cross Village.

“Later that same year, Seger came out to see us play in Dearborn and bought us all drinks,” Julin said.

So how does he feel the local music scene has changed since he first became part of it?

“One thing that has changed is that it is much more acceptable to play your own music in Traverse City these days than it was 30 years ago. Back then, ’70s and ’80s cover bands were all the rage.”

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Born in Detroit and raised in the Motor City’s northwest suburbs, Janice Keegan arrived in Traverse City after college, having secured a graphic design job in town. “When I first arrived, I sang at the open mics and often had other musicians take an interest in my singing,” Keegan said. “Unfortunately, they wanted me to sing music I had no interest in.”

But in 1989, she met a fellow musician who would help turn that situation around. “Glenn Wolff had an office across the street from my office in Front Row Center,” Keegan said. “Once we realized we shared a love of music, we tried jamming in his office space, and it clicked.”

From there, Keegan joined Wolff and another guitarist, David Poinsett, and formed The Janice Keegan Band. “I could finally sing music I loved!” Keegan said. They began performing live, the first time at the Power House Tavern in Lake Leelanau. “The place was jam packed,” Keegan recollected. “People lined up outside as they wanted to know what we were up to.” Soon, the trio added Laurie Sears on saxophone and Hank Dempsey on drums. They’d go on to play jazz, blues, and original music in Traverse City for the next five years.

Blues and rock were the mainstays at most every venue at the time, Keegan said.

The Janice Keegan Band didn’t really fit either description, “but we were happy with the number of gigs we had,” Keegan said. Keegan would reconfigure her trio several times and eventually focused more on jazz music. One of her favorite moments was when her band played to a sold-out house in the Milliken Auditorium. But by the mid ’90s, she was watching karaoke take over. “It became part of pop culture everywhere and seriously cut into the number of venues offering live music,” she sald. “When they did begin hiring musicians again, they leaned toward solo or duo acts to keep costs down, and they still do.”

In spite of that, Keegan said she’s noticed that there are far more musicians on the local scene now than 20 years ago, and they’re starting earlier. “There seem to be a greater number of young people interested, willing, and determined to make music their primary source of income. This is very different than what I observed in the past,” she said. She said she’s seeing a similar change in people’s attitude toward music as a career. “My parents came from a place of post-Depression scarcity and so encouraged us to find ‘secure and legitimate’ sources of income. Now there doesn’t seem to be the same fear about sustenance as there once was. Instead of a parent ranting, ‘You’d better find a real job that you can support yourself with,’ I think they are more likely to say, ‘Music.

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Kirby Snively grew up near Good Hart, north of Harbor Springs. He left to travel the world with his music and then returned, built a house in Good Hart, and continued his career in northern Michigan. “I basically went full circle,” he said. Snively started playing music when he was eight years old; his first instrument was the baritone ukulele. “Which is funny, because now there’s a revival of that instrument,” he said. He soon switched to guitar and has played guitar ever since. He’s a literal music fixture in the Harbor-Petoskey area, playing its festivals, local venues, private parties, and street music events.

“At the ripe old age of 56, I’m still doing it,” he said. “These days I play what I like to call Americana music — lots of story-based originals of my own, plus covers that I wish I’d written.” Playing Up North started around 1985 for Snively, when he first took gigs on Mackinac Island at the Chippewa Hotel, Horn’s Bar, and the Pink Pony after leaving college in 1982. “I also played at Legs Inn back then. Today I still play there once a week, and I’ll do so until my hands fall off!” he said.

Back then, he said, much of what he and the other singer-songwriters in the region relied upon in their setlists were songs from the ’70s — tunes by bands like The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Warren Zevon, Jimmy Buffett. “Funny thing is, a lot of songs people play here haven’t changed that much,” Snively said. “We still play a lot of those exact same songs now. So I try to learn more obscure songs by those artists — not just, for instance, ‘Margaritaville’ by Jimmy Buffett, but other tunes from deeper into his albums.”

Karaoke made an impact on Snively when it arrived on the scene in the ’90s, and not in a way that he particularly liked. “I remember when karaoke came into northern Michigan,” he said. “All the bar owners were saying, no, don’t worry, it won’t replace you guys. But for a while, it did. It really did. Everything was karaoke, and we folk singers were left in the dust.”

He felt that the scene Up North changed after that, as venues became more hesitant to hire in performers once they’d found out how cheap entertainment could — even if the entertainment was just karaoke. “I think a lot of places don’t have live music here anymore because they can’t afford it,” Snively said. “And karaoke kind of set that precedent. A lot of things have changed over the years. But in the end, people do appreciate live music, so I don’t think it will ever completely go away.”

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The Next Wave:

By Kristi Kates Who’s poised to break out of the region next? With this much talent and ambition taking the stages across the North by storm, it could be every one of the distinctive artists and bands featured here:

Local Artists to Watch

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Biomassive

If you dig jam bands and electronic music in equal measure, then you’ll be glad to hear Biomassive, because this group combines both genres so smoothly you’ll never find the seam. They’ve actually been knocking around the scene since 2012, but with a brand new self-produced album and aims outside the state, they’re headed for bigger things.

The Sound: Disco Biscuits and Lotus both spring to mind just as much as Biomassive’s own self-proclaimed influence, STS9. What Biomassive seems to share with these artists is a similar ability to take funky themes and apply a mechanical edge without ever compromising accessibility and danceability.

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A Brighter Bloom Lauren Onica and Todd Aldrich make up the duo A Brighter Bloom, a folk-pop pair from the middle of Michigan who blend ’60s sensibilities with the brighter, less earth-toned sounds of today’s anti-AM soft rock. Their songs are emotional numbers that also pull from the best elements of their previous regional band, The Stand Ins. The Sound: Their own compositions, like “Photographic Memory” and “Dialogue” recollect Milk Carton Kids or Shovels and Rope, or perhaps the sound you might get if Ben Harper teamed up with Laura Cantrell: earnest, harmonic, but not overly intense.

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This four-piece outfit keeps things simple with a roiling stew of tunes that consistently rock whatever house they play. They’re inspired by classic rock, and the lyrics stick to Everyman topics, but their own sound is anything but dated, offering up jagged twists and crisp arrangements.

The Sound: Progressive rock á la The Black Keys or Jack White’s solo work with hints of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in a contemporary mix that includes bright piano lines, swinging horns, bluesy bass, and call-and-response backing vocals. Standout track “Trouble” is impossible to listen to while sitting still.

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Pistil Whips

Thanks to their multicultural stew of influences and instrumentation, Pistil Whips — named after the flower part, not a weapon — sound like far more than two guys on stage. Eric Dane Jaqua plays Farmer foot drums (drums operated only with the feet) and guitar while singing; William LaTournuea adds in rich layers via saxophone, clarinet, and keys.

The Sound: A mix of The Specials (modernized) and Better Than Ezra, their “unorthodox funky music” is jazzed up with woodwinds and given extra depth with faint gypsy and Spanish influences on tunes like “Re-Animator.” Jaqua’s raspy vocals recall Dave Matthews, but with more emotional range.

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Oh Brother Big Sister While bands often adopt quirky names that have little to do with their sound or members, in this case, the moniker is quite literal. Penny Rosin and Radel Rosin are a talented brother-sister pair who have developed their own acoustic-pop sound and original songs with an eclectic twist. Also on their side: the fact that brother-sister pairings are rare in the music world.

The Sound: With their foundation firmly set in acoustic music, the Rosins are free to experiment as they build up their tunes, stacking harmonies in that super-close way that only siblings can execute on both their carefully selected ’70s covers and originals like “Keeps on Raining” and “The Wait.”

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Northern Express: How do you think the music scene around northern Michigan has changed since you first started. What’s different now?

Brian Chamberlain, musician, recording engineer, and owner of Studio Anatomy in Traverse City: “Over the past few years, this area has seen a huge growth in the singersongwriter/folk/indie folk scenes. Anyone looking through the weekly Nightlife section of Express can easily see the local staples making the rounds. With all the new craft breweries, wineries, and cider houses, solo musicians and acoustic acts have a great environment for performing. Unfortunately, all other ‘electrified’ bands performing original music have very few places to book a gig. A lot of people in the area may not realize there are many altrock, punk, indie, and hip-hop groups in town trying to get their name out there, but they’re rarely discovered unless they get a Studio Anatomy or InsideOut show.”

Sam Porter, owner of Porterhouse Productions and TentVenue in Traverse City: “History is still a factor of how great the music scene is here. That has created the venues for all of the new arts and music to play in. But the right venues are still in flux … and it will take leadership and gusto to leap into building the next spaces that will be more conducive for the arts.”

Marty Scott, musician, artist, and founder/ owner of Red Sky Stage in Petoskey: For the 20 plus years I have lived here, northern Michigan has had a great assortment of local musicians.

In the last few years, many of those artists have started to move beyond northern Michigan and expand their audience across the region, and even from coast to coast. We have at the same time been exposed to a growing field of musicians from around the country and beyond who are looking for opportunities to bring their music to northern Michigan, venturing more and more into an area that was generally viewed as too remote and sparsely populated.”

Seamus Shinners, founder of Connemara Concerts and artist booker/liaison for Sleder’s Family Tavern On the Porch Series in Traverse City: “Today, there are many more venues presenting music, especially in the summer.

What’s different is that there are a wide range of venues to choose from, which allows for greater opportunities to hear music in a wide range of styles. Ideally, this means that artists

have a chance to hear and creatively engage other musicians who might be in the area.”

Express: Is it a better scene these days?

Chamberlain: “Most definitely. But there’s still a need to expand the kind of venues that are open to more diverse genres of music on a proper stage. I think the City Opera House or other larger venue should entertain the thought of putting on all-ages shows—no alcohol—featuring original music — sounds funny maybe, but I’m serious.”

Porter: “Well — it’s grown more than it’s changed, in massive ways. I think the old days are missed by those that remember the shows.”

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patrons. I’d love to see the growth of larger venues where music is the primary objective.

By having venues capable of handling at least 300-1000 people, we might become a new tour stop for touring bands.”

Porter: “We are missing a key space: a 350-to600-capacity all-arts, all-genre community venue. I tried seven years ago in Old Town, but the market and my investors were not ready.

We’re saturating many festival concepts and patio gigs, and we’re outcompeting ourselves.

We need to focus on our arts with huge support, including rooms for artists, sponsorships for festivals, and keeping the place authentic and approachable so people can also enjoy our local culture and traditions.”

“We are missing a key space:

a 350-to-600-capacity all-arts,

all-genre community venue.

Scott: “Yes. As a result of both of the trends I mentioned, northern Michigan audiences expanding their range and new musicians venturing here, I think the local music scene has become much richer and more varied.”

Shinners: “All of the new venues, plus all of the festivals such as Blissfest, Manitou Music Fest, and Aten Place have created a musical galaxy of opportunities for audiences to savor. And the supportive nature of the music community is the best element of the music scene here.”

Express: Where do you think the future of the music scene here is going — has it leveled out, is there still room for expansion — or is this just the beginning?

Chamberlain: “There’s a ton of music happening here. Unfortunately, it seems to consist of mostly the same genres. But in order to expand the diversity of our music scene, we need more music venues. What we have now are either breweries and/or restaurants, and the music is nearly background entertainment for the

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Scott: “The structure of the music scene all over northern Michigan is dominated by bars and festivals — that is as true of Petoskey as it is of Traverse City. It feels to me that we are creating a bit of a change here in Petoskey by adding the experience of a more intimate environment — at least, I hope so. There is an increasing desire for something more in the style of coffee-house venues, spaces with great sound and no distractions between the musicians and the audience. I think the most important trend is to increase opportunities for local musicians to reach a wider audience, and for musicians from around the world to find access to audiences in northern Michigan.”

Shinners: “It’s more a process of change, of evolving, of artists trying to find a sound that captures the heart of both artist and audience alike. The venues, presenters, and promoters have to work to maintain a commitment to providing the settings that allow for artists and audiences to share in a performance together.

Some don’t realize that artists rely on the people to sustain them through a performance,

and that can be difficult when a venue doesn’t share that commitment.”

Express: Let’s look ahead 10, maybe 20 years.

What will the music scene in northern Michigan be like in the near future?

Chamberlain: “Robots making a never-ending supply of EDM! But seriously, if I have anything to say about it, there will be a greater number of artists in the area performing a diverse mix of music in a mix of small and large venues. Local acts on the bill, opening for out-of-town bands; local independent record labels; a local music and art media publication; and a few more record shops selling local music by means of high resolution 24-bit audio files tapped directly into the auditory cortex … and of course, good old-fashioned vinyl.”

Porter: “Well, some major players might just develop camping-based experimental festivals by then that will have massive economic and cultural impacts. As many know, the nature surrounding us here is the ultimate focus, so we just need to protect that balance and keep investing. I see a food and arts festival, a solid small venue, more city policies waived for more food vending opportunities, TART trail growth, and more celebratory events.”

Scott: “I expect northern Michigan will continue to grow in population and in diversity of all types. At the same time, I expect we will retain and possibly increase our affection for the beautiful place we live. Growth in diversity is always good for art, including music, so I think our music scene will become richer and more complex in the next 20 years and, thus, more enjoyable.”

Shinners: “There will always be music being made and shared by artists for an audience. But the looming concern that impacts artists’ careers is downloading songs from the internet.

If this isn’t resolved, then downloading songs with little or no compensation for the artist will remain an area of concern for all of us. I see the quiet and slow rebirth of record stores in our community. And house concerts will be the new favored norm to hear a show, because they will afford a more intimate listening experience where the shared musical moments are easier to achieve.”

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“I think the sound is what emanates from the bands that infuse their music with the flavor of the city they live in.

I’d say it’s a small town meets urban vibe, a really sincere kind of sound.”

SAM PORTER “Undefined, maybe — and that’s okay. It’s a young melting pot of Michigan roots meeting independent art forms. Jazz and blues and folk are grandparents to the current tourism-driven pop that seems to rule the airwaves.”

“People have asked me about Traverse City and ‘what is in the water.’ I don’t know what the sound is, but I think WNMC and Eric Hines are a big part of it, as they’ve supported the music of genres from here to Africa since the ’80s.”

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The Fall Finale: Autumn’s Music Festivals

By Kristi Kates

Whether you’re planning to waltz on down to Wheatland or express yourself at Earthwork, this fall offers a pair of major annual music festivals set to showcase the best in both Michigan-made music and imported acts.

Wheatland Music Festival SEPTEMBER 9–11

Michigan is fortunate to have not one but two major folk and world music fes-tivals every year: Blissfest in Bliss, and Wheatland in Remus. Blissfest got its start in 1981, via a dozen area folk musicians and dancers who staged the first event in a fallow field. Wheatland had similar beginnings but was already well underway by 1975; it had started as a benefit for the Mt. Pleasant Food Co-Op in 1974, a one-day event that also was held on a farm.

Several hundred people attended the first Wheatland. Today, the fest draws over 10,000. Many of the original founders are still active in the Wheatland organization, all of them passionate about preserving traditional music. Wheatland’s focus remains on folk and world music with sprinklings of country and pop; this year’s lineup is no exception to that approach.

Wheatland favorite and Voice contestant Joshua Davis, who ran a songwriting workshop at the fest last year, won’t appear this year (see below), but the lineup is chockfull of other standouts. Nine-time Grammy Award winners and Texan country outfit Asleep at the Wheel are at the top of the headliners list. With over 20 Billboard singles, you can be assured their setlist will be loaded with hits. Right behind them are esteemed bluesman Charlie Musselwhite, compatriot of such legends as Muddy Wa-

ters and Howling Wolf. Keep an eye on the briefcase that Musselwhite carries onstage — that’s where he keeps all of his best harmonicas — and an eye out for up-and-coming bluegrass group The Gibson Brothers.

Rounding out this year’s Wheatland is a multifarious list that lives up to the term “something for everyone.” You’ll hear Gaelic fusion from the Irish-American band Solas (celebrating their 20th anniversary this year); the meet-ing of Cuban and Canadian sounds via singer-songwriter Adonis Puentes; Appalachian-inspired folk from Red Tail Ring; pop-folk by Frank Allison; and a lively mix of rockabilly, surf, and twang from Delilah DeWylde.

If you’re looking for world music, you’ll find it on the Rhythm Stage, which will offer sounds from Africa, Brazil, Japan, and more. And if listening to all this gets your feet moving, you’re in luck, because Wheatland is also known for its extensive schedule of dancing — square dancing, Cajun, clogging, and salsa included.

IF YOU’RE GOING: Food, beverages, and crafts will be available for purchase on site. Primitive camping is also available on site, but there are no reserva-tions, so get there early if you want a good spot. Wheatland encourages recy-cling and carpooling. If you’re interested in exploring Remus during your stay, a shuttle bus to town is available.

Tickets and more information at wheatlandmusic.org

Earthwork Harvest Gathering SEPTEMBER 16–18

Compared to Wheatland and Blissfest, the Earthwork fest is the new kid on the proverbial block but with no less enthusiasm.

Held on the family farm of musician Seth Bernard (the festival’s founder), Earthwork’s event has been running for 15 years as an annual happening, with heavy roots in folk music and singer-songwriters but sporting an equally welcoming attitude toward rock, pop, hiphop, and more.

Earthwork welcomes over 2,500 attendees every year to see over 90 bands in a setting enhanced by the farm’s mix of open lands and hardwood forests. Be-ing set on a farm also lends itself well to Earthwork’s philosophies of educating people about agriculture, artisan crafts, and other arts.

This festival offers a long list of diversions in addition to the music, from workshops and meditation events to whiffle ball and basketball games, a midnight square dance, roving troubadours, and an all-festival water blessing.

But the music takes center stage. There’s always a much-anticipated perfor-mance from Seth Bernard and his latest project; this year, it’s his newest band, the psychedelic roots-rock collective, Airborne or Aquatic? Bernard’s set serves as the an-

chor for over 90 performers and bands from across the coun-try. Among the 2016 lineup, you’ll find gypsy-roots-rock melting pot Red Sea Pedestrians; Grand Rapids indie-folk band The Crane Wives; DJ and music col-lector Zukas; Michigan jam-grass band Bigfoot Buffalo; Bernard’s long-time collaborator, May Erlewine, and The Detroit Hip-Hop Showcase.

You’re also hear sets from some of northern Michigan’s best performers, in-cluding Blake Elliott, Charlie Millard, Milo Birch, Brotha James, and Turbo Pup. And if you’re wondering exactly why Joshua Davis isn’t performing at Wheat-land this year, it’s because he’s going to be performing at Bernard’s fest in-stead. (Davis has an equally long history with his pals at Earthwork.) If you’re talented and brave, you can even hop up onstage yourself at the festival’s popular morning open-mic shows.

IF YOU’RE GOING: Food from over 40 local farms means plenty of choices in the dining department. Handmade art from local artisans also will be availa-ble for purchase. Parking, camping, and water are all free if you buy a week-end ticket, but if you decide to go off site, be warned: Gates close at midnight sharp each night.

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With the Mackinac Bridge towering in the background, and everything from savory pasties to fudge just around the corner, the annual Hopps of Fun Beer and Wine Festival in Mackinaw City helps stretch out summer just a little bit longer, offering attendees a last chance to sample a long list of unique microbrews and wines from right here in the Great Lakes State.

Mackinaw Crossings is the center of all this vibrant activity, as Hopps of Fun has finally settled into a location befitting its popularity. Sarah Grant, property manager at the Crossings, explained. “The festival has actually been going on since 1996,” she said. “It was at the Crossings, then was moved across to Conkling Heritage Park, and last year it was back here — problem being we had it inside the Crossings, which ended up being way too small and chaotic for that many people.” The event now has been moved out into the parking lot, which Grant said is a much more suitable space for the nearly 6,000 people expected to attend. “This will give people a lot more room to have fun!” she said.

If you keep a beer or wine journal, this tasting event is a good opportunity to fill up several pages; over 100 microbrews and wines from Michigan’s own beer brewers and wine regions will be offered. Grant claimed the festival is aiming to host the largest variety of tastings in northern Michigan. The price is right, too: $5 gets you in to the fest and includes a complimentary Hopps of Fun beer or wine glass. “Then, you buy tokens for

$1 each. One token buys you a taste or, if you find something you really like, you can buy a full bottle of beer or full glass of wine for four tokens,” Grant explained.

Entertainment both nights of the event will feature plenty of music from a rotating roster of live bands, including the rockin’ country outfit Billy Jewell and His Bad Habits; “rock with a twist” from local favorites Heavens to Betsy; the vintage sounds of The Brewhouse Band; and classic rock from The Whitmore. To further complement the beverages, the festival has planned a giant pig roast “with all the fixings,” as Grant described it. “It will be $12 for a full plate of freshly cooked pork, potato salad, baked beans, and coleslaw,” she said.

And don’t miss the Crossings’ laser-light show, a regular treat during the summer and fall months and a fun flourish to this evening of beverage exploration. You can also take a break for a stroll through downtown Mackinaw City and still return to Hopps of Fun for more beverage tastings with your paid admission. “Hopps of Fun gives everyone an opportunity to try such an amazing variety of beer and wines,” Grant said. “It really is quite an experience to take part in — and it also just serves as a great end-of-the-summer party!”

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Was a Sexual Predator Employed at a Strip Club?

A criminal case and a civil lawsuit suggest sexual assault at Fantasy’s in Grawn.

By Patrick Sullivan Ten days passed before the exotic dancer told police she’d been violently raped on the men’s room floor inside Fantasy’s strip club. The lawyer for Christopher Kingsland, the man accused of the sexual assault, wanted to know why she waited so long to contact police.

The woman testified that she waited because she wasn’t sure whether she wanted to go through the process of filing a complaint and assisting a prosecution, namely because she didn’t want to go through what she was in the middle of right then — sitting in a witness box, reliving what happened, and enduring a cross-examination.

“Why do so many women not go to the police at all?” she asked by way of an answer.

“Because they don’t want to got through this.”

THREE CHARGES AND A LAWSUIT At the Aug. 23 hearing, 86th District Court Judge Michael Stepka bound over Kingsland to face trial on charges of firstdegree criminal sexual conduct, assault by strangulation, and being a four-time habitual offender. Kingsland has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he faces a minimum of 25 years and up to life in prison. He remains in jail in lieu of $250,000 bond.

Kingsland’s accuser, whom the Express will refer to as Dancer A, is one of three former Fantasy’s employees who have accused the 44-year-old of sexual assault.

Dancer A also has filed a civil lawsuit against Kingsland, as well as Fantasy’s owner Leon Quigley, and his son, Ryan Quigley, who was Kingsland’s supervisor. She is seeking over $25,000 in damages and alleges the Quigleys were negligent when they hired Kingsland because he had a lengthy and violent criminal record.

Kingsland was convicted of bank robbery in 1988, breaking and entering in 1989, and three counts of kidnapping in 1998. He was convicted of the assault of a police officer in 2005.

The Quigleys deny the allegations of the civil lawsuit, though in an answer to the complaint, Leon Quigley admitted he knew about the bulk of Kingsland’s criminal past before he was hired to manage the strip club.

Leon Quigley initially agreed to speak to the Express but then did not respond to telephone messages. His attorney, David Berkal, did not return a message seeking comment. Mark Dancer, who filed the suit against the club, also did not respond to a request for comment.

ty who in-vestigated the case, Matt Karczewski. She said Kingsland had called her a “bitch” and used vulgar language as he raped her.

She testified that Kingsland had demanded that she turn over and face him, and as she kept begging him to stop, he continued to repeat “Look at me.” When she finally turned and their bodies separated, she scooted backward, and it was over, she said.

“The last thing he said was, ‘I cannot believe you’re not going to let me finish,’” she testified.

SMOKING IN THE MEN’S ROOM Dancer A admits that she drank on the job, but she said she wasn’t intoxicated the night of the incident and that she hasn’t used drugs since she went to rehab in 2008.

At the preliminary hearing, the 28-year- REVENGE AND A PAYDAY old mother of two said the ordeal began when Kingsland’s attorney said the woman’s she had attempted to step into a heated argu- emotional testimony belies what he believes ment between Kingsland and another dancer. is the truth of the case: that the woman made “She was young, and up the whole story for revenge I was trying to help the and profit. younger girls,” Dancer A “I believe nothing haptestified. pened,” Stephen Kane said.

“Why do so many She said Kingsland There’s no physical evihad pushed her violentdence that proves his client women not go ly, so she tried to punch and Dancer A had sex, he him, a blow that Kingsaid. Kane said Kingsland to the police at sland deflected. That was a tough manager, and he made him angry, she all?” she asked by believes Dancer A retaliated said, and he put her in a against a boss she didn’t like way of an answer. in a manner that would enbear hug.

Dancer A said she able her to collect damages in “Because they feared she was going to a civil lawsuit. lose her job, so when “It gets back at a boss she don’t want to got hated, Kingsland had asked and it puts money in her her into the men’s room pocket from the owners of the through this.” to have a cigarette, she company,” Kane said. followed; in the winter He discounted the statemonths, the restrooms ments of two other dancers were used for smoking, so it didn’t seem like who told Karczewski that Kingsland had an odd place to go. sexually assaulted them; those statements did Once inside, however, instead of reaching not become the basis of criminal charges, and into his pocket to get cigarettes, Kingsland the women have not joined in the civil lawhad un-zipped his pants and exposed him- suit. Kane said those women also might have self, she said. been motivated to make allegations because Suddenly they were struggling over of their dislike for Kingsland. her pants, and she testified that before “I also believe the evidence will show they she knew it, she was on the ground, being didn’t particularly like my client any more raped. Next, she said through tears, he had than [Dancer A],” he said. strangled her from behind, pinching her Kane believes the case will go to trial untrachea so that she couldn’t breathe. She less there is an unexpected development. It’s said she thought she wouldn’t make it out unclear whether Kingsland’s criminal history of the restroom alive. would be introduced; Kane said he doesn’t “It got violent very fast,” Dancer A had believe it is relevant, and he will argue it is told the Grand Traverse County Sheriff depu- inadmissible.

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Prosecuting Attorney Robert Cooney said he didn’t want to comment on a pending case.

DRINKING AND DRUGS Dancer A started working at Fantasy’s a decade ago, when she was 18 years old, around the time the club opened. She took extended leaves following the birth of her children, and it was upon returning the second time that she met Kingsland, who became manager of the club in May 2014.

Based on Dancer A’s testimony and statements from witnesses in police reports, Fantasy’s, though not a bar, was a place where alcohol and drama flowed freely among the dancers.

In cross-examination, Kane asked Dancer A about times she was disciplined or suspended from the club.

She said she took time off twice for disciplinary reasons — both incidents occurring while Kingsland was manager.

“I had never been kicked out before by another manager,” she said.

She said she was disciplined for “starting drama” with the other girls.

She denied that she had been disciplined for drugs, prostitution or drinking — she said she’s long been free of drugs, didn’t solicit customers, and was allowed to drink in the club under Kingsland and only was reprimanded if she drank too much.

Although there was a rule barring drinking at the club, Dancer A testified that drinking was not only commonplace but also that Kingsland looked the other way or even facilitated drinking at the club.

“If I got too drunk, he would reprimand me,” she testified. “He was not bad when it came to that because Chris was an alcoholic himself and drank a lot himself.”

Kane denied that there was rampant drinking at the club.

“I think that was one of the bones of contention, that he was pretty tough on that,” Kane said. “He certainly didn’t allow them to be drunk.”

ANOTHER DANCER’S ALLEGATIONS The case against Kingsland was not instigated by Dancer A. The police called her only after they interviewed another woman, Dancer B, who called police to report that she had been sexually assaulted by Kingsland.

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Dancer B, a cousin of Dancer A, called police from an apartment in Acme and, when an officer contacted her, she told the investigators that they had better get her statement soon, because she wasn’t sure her resolve to report the matter would last.

That was on Jan. 23. Ten days earlier, Dancer B said, she was waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up behind the club after closing when Kingsland appeared, grabbed her from the side, ripped a cigarette from her mouth, forced her into an office, and raped her.

In Dancer B’s several months as a Fantasy’s dancer, she learned to watch out for Kingsland, she told Karczewski. Although she wasn’t attracted to Kingsland, Dancer B said she could tell he was interested in her. He often would slap dancers’ butts, kiss them and aggressively pursue them, she said.

She said she had gone along with sex acts with Kingsland in the past in order to keep her job. One time, maybe a month earlier, she had wanted to end a shift early because she wasn’t feeling well. She said Kingsland had offered to wave the $150 fine for leaving work early if she would perform oral sex. She told Karczewski that she had complied.

Dancer B’s account of what happened might have been problematic to bring to court.

After the alleged assault, the woman exchanged text messages with Kingsland in which he asked her why she told her boyfriend that he had raped her; she texted Kingsland that she didn’t say that, that she only had told her boyfriend about “us” to “make him upset,” according to the police report.

Dancer B told police that when Kingsland learned that she was thinking about going to the police, he fired her.

“IT HAPPENED AGAIN. IT HAPPENED AGAIN” Karczewski, the department’s Blair Township community police officer, interviewed more than 20 dancers, employees and witnesses in the case.

One bouncer told him that Kingsland was known “to be having sex with the girls who worked there.”

That man told police that he had run into Dancer A on the night of her alleged assault, and that they had sat in a car and talked for two hours in a Walmart parking lot. What she had told him that night, according to the police report, roughly matched her testimony.

He said Dancer A told him that Kingsland had given her an ultimatum — either have sex with him or be fired for trying to hit him.

At first she had agreed but then had changed her mind during sex, she told the bouncer, according to the police report.

Karczewski asked the bouncer if he thought she’d been raped. “I’d have to say [yeah],” he replied.

The boyfriend of Dancer B told Karczewski that he didn’t want to learn a lot about what had happened, but he said that she had told him that night that she’d been sexually

assaulted. He said he didn’t need to learn the details; he could tell that his now former girlfriend had suffered and was changed.

“She was a different person after that night,” the man told Karczewski.

Another anonymous employee told Karczewski that Kingsland is a “horrible person” who targeted “weak girls.” Another said he was “an angry little dude” and “not to be trusted.” Another said Kingsland treated dancers like a pimp treats prostitutes.

One described Kingsland as an abusive predator and described the suspected sexual assault of Dancer C, who often was seen crying in the club and, according to the police report, reportedly said, “It happened again. It happened again. He raped me.”

Karczewski had difficulty tracking down Dancer C, who by then had moved out of town. She broke down crying when she learned the person on the phone was a detective who wanted to talk about what had happened at Fantasy’s.

Karczewski finally arranged a meeting with Dancer C, and the woman said she didn’t remember much about what happened. She said she was almost always drinking while she danced at Fantasy’s and that there were two unwanted sexual encounters with Kingsland.

“It was easier just to let him than to fight about it,” she said.

Karczewski wrote in the police report that he thought Dancer C was holding back information.

SOMEONE TO TAKE CARE OF IT A Fantasy’s DJ who also worked with Kingsland at a strip club in Flint told Karczewski that Kingsland had left that job in handcuffs after he was accused of “some type of assault.”

The DJ, who had moved to Traverse City with Kingsland, said Kingsland frequently spoke about having sex with Dancer C. He told the detective that he didn’t think Kingsland “straight up” raped women but instead would hold things over their heads to pressure them to have sex with him.

Kingsland was fired from Fantasy’s by Feb. 1. He initially agreed to cooperate with police but once he called a lawyer, he opted to remain silent. The day after he cancelled an interview with police, he left a voicemail for Karczewski saying that two of the women who accused him of sexual assault had been fired from the club for prostitution.

A dancer also called Karczewski out of the blue and told Karczewski that Kingsland was a jerk, but that he was the best manager for whom she’d ever worked. She echoed what Kingsland said; she claimed that many dancers were fired for prostitution, including the three who made allegations against Kingsland.

The detective interviewed Leon Quigley on March 1. Quigley said called Kingsland “a weird bird” but said he didn’t know anything about Kingsland being a sexual predator. He said that if dancers were having problems with the manager, they should have called him, and he would have taken care of it.

However clear the hindsight of those that knew the accused and his accusers, the future for Kingsland is, for now anyway, unclear. His criminal and civil cases are both pending before Judge Thomas Power in the 13th Circuit Court. While a trial date has not been set in the criminal case, the civil case is scheduled for a settlement conference on Feb. 14, 2017, and trial is scheduled in March. Meanwhile, the women who used to work for him have moved on. Today, Dancer A lists herself as a “stay at home mommy” on her Facebook page. Dancer C, also a mother, now works at a northern Michigan fast food restaurant.

Dancer B remains a dancer — but no longer at Fantasy’s. She performs at a strip club in another town.

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the two most people know best are Kresge Auditorium, an open-sided amphitheater full of fresh air from the shores of Green Lake, and Corson Auditorium, an indoor space with a striking architectural interior.

The Shows: As would be expected from an acclaimed school of the arts, Interlochen’s production values and sound are always top-notch, and its audiences are appreciative — just two more reasons why some of the biggest names in music, dance, and theater perform here.

Past Performances: Prairie Home Companion live with Garrison Keillor, nine-time Grammy Award-winning rock singer Sheryl Crow, legendary folk artist Loudon Wainwright III, indie ukulele artist Jake Shimabukuro.

Find Out More: interlochen.org or 231-276-7200

Ramsdell Theater

While many northern Michigan restaurants, coffeeshops, bars, and nightclubs showcase the occasional musical act, there are also some venues that make concerts and big music shows their major focus. So if you’re looking for some places to hear new sounds and standout headliners, get these hot spots on your radar: Boyne City Performing Arts Center 1035 Boyne Ave., Boyne City The Place: Fairly new to the list is the Boyne City Performing Arts Center, opened in the fall of 2002 and featuring a sloped seating design, pro lighting and sound systems, and a commons area for after-show events.

The Shows: When the auditorium was completed, 620 seats were eagerly anticipating the arrival of concerts in the Boyne Region — and the venue has delivered with a schedule that balances local performers and imported major-label acts.

Past Performances: The Voice country singer Morgan Frazier, Footloose the Musical, southern rockers Confederate Railroad, the Great Lakes Orchestra.

Find Out More: boyne.k12.mi.us/District/ Department/10-Performing-Art-Center or call 231-439-8190 City Opera House 106 East Front St., Traverse City The Place: Celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, Traverse City’s “Grand Old Lady” was built in 1892 and has been lovingly restored by a board of local citizens. It’s quite a sight to see on its own, but taking in a show underneath its vaulted barrel ceiling is even more spectacular.

The Shows: Music, poetry, theater, comedy, variety shows, benefits, film events, and writers’ conferences have all graced this stage, but hosting a diverse menu of musicians is the COH’s specialty.

Past Performances: Actor/musician Jeff Daniels, modern trumpeter Bria Skonberg, Irish dancing and singing troupe Celtic Nights, gypsy jazz artist Cyrille Aimee.

Find Out More: cityoperahouse.org or 231-941-8082

The Up North

Venues Sampler

Crooked Tree Arts Center 461 East Mitchell St., Petoskey The Place: Art exhibitions, classes, lectures, and other special events are hosted in the elegant 1890 United Methodist Church the CTAC committee purchased in 1978. The building smoothly combines a vintage feel with modern equipment to make for a unique visiting experience.

The Shows: CTAC is well known for its performing arts series that features everything from ballet to rock. In addition to a near-annual staging of The Nutcracker for the holidays, CTAC seek out the less traditional with world and regional music of all genres.

Past Performances: The Dirty Bourbon River Show, ragtime blues musician Woody Pines, the New Reformation Jazz Band, gypsy outfit Harmonious Wail.

Find Out More: crookedtree.org or 231-347-4337

Freshwater Gallery 217 South Lake St., Boyne City The Place: Yes, the space is an art gallery, and it’s chock full of pieces selected and created by artist Tony Williams. But as one of the coowners is Williams’ wife, regionally-acclaimed singer-songwriter Robin Lee Berry, Freshwater Gallery is also a well-respected venue that draws unusually important performers for such a small space.

The Shows: Throughout fall and winter, Freshwater hosts concerts from a wealth of musicians whose back catalogs run deep and thick with folk music history. The intimate venue allows for upclose contact with the performers and a familial feel, with mingling encouraged and appetizers often served during intermission.

Past Performances: Folk/blues standout Chris Smither, “new folk” artist Antje Duvekot , Jewel collaborator Steve Poltz, Lone Star state icon Fred Eaglesmith.

Find Out More: freshwaterartgallery.com, 231582-2588

Dennos Museum Center’s Milliken Auditorium 1701 E. Front St., Traverse City The Place: An extension of the Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium seats over 350 people, and you’ll hear every note via the Milliken’s state-of-the-art sound system. Bonus: A T-Coil Hearing Loop System is available so hearing-impaired patrons can enjoy the shows too.

The Shows: There’s a reason Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist Bob James recorded an album here; the room sounds that good. And the lineup of artists borrows from the cultural diversity of the museum itself with world music, jazz, classical, and pop all included on the schedule.

Past Performances: Brazilian-bluegrass fusion band Matuto, blues harmonica master Billy Branch, punk percussionists Street Drum Corps, Celtic group Dervish.

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Gopherwood 4320 East 46 Rd., Cadillac The Place: As befits a small but friendly town like Cadillac, Gopherwood Concerts shares its space with the Elks Lodge and has transformed its 200-capacity room with a professional sound and lighting setup. Michigan Tech grad Dan Wilson oversees the soundboard, and a beverage bar allows for light refreshments during the concerts.

The Shows: Thirty years of shows and a collaboration with Earthwork Music mean that Gopherwood knows its audience, and it celebrates regional music often with a mix of Earthwork’s artists, up-and-coming northern Michigan singer-songwriters, and blues favorites.

Past Performances: Americana band Roosevelt Diggs, New Orleans jazz-blues fusion artist Luke Winslow King, Ann Arbor world-beat band The Ragbirds, Grammy Award-winning harmonica player Peter “Madcat” Ruth.

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Find Out More: Facebook.com/gopherwoodconcerts or 231-846-8383 Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center 500 North Spring St., Harbor Springs The Place: This fairly new facility to Harbor Springs boasts the familiar look of red theater seating in an arrangement that ensures there’s not a bad seat in the house, plus such performerattracting amenities as a Yamaha grand piano, a projection system, and stellar sound equipment.

The Shows: Thanks to 470 seats, the Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center is able to host sizable crowds and big musical extravaganzas.

Past Performances: Irish band Beoga, The Young Americans, Broadway singer Franc D’Ambrosio, Seussical the Musical Find Out More: www.harborps.org/community/ performing-arts-center or 231-526-4842 InsideOut Gallery 229 Garland St., Traverse City The Place: Tucked into Traverse City’s warehouse district is InsideOut, a passion project of its owner that was, in fact, constructed from a 7,000 square foot warehouse. It’s loaded with avant-garde art (no watercolors of cherries allowed) and has its own dedicated concert stage.

The Shows: This destination is a little more rough ’n’ tumble than some of the other venues on our list, but it’s a fun diversion made even better by the colorful interior and the owner’s keen ear for breaking bands and edgy new performers.

Past Performances: Ska legends Mustard Plug, jam band Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, pandemic dance band One Hot Robot, Chicago singersongwriter Dick Prall Find Out More: facebook.com/insideoutgallerytc or 231-929-3254 Interlochen Center for the Arts 4000 Highway M-137, Interlochen The Place: Interlochen technically has seven different venues on its beautiful campus, but

John M. Hall Auditorium 1725 Encampment Ave., Bay View (Petoskey) The Place: Opened in 1915, the John M. Hall Auditorium well suits its setting in Bay View, the Victorian-era resort community that’s been designated a National Historic Landmark.

The Shows: With its pipe organ and proscenium curtain featuring artwork of Little Traverse Bay, the John M. Hall Auditorium is a classic space to see a show. Enormous windows on both sides of the audience slide open to let in the Little Traverse Bay breezes during shows.

Past Performances: Irish ensemble Moxie, swing rockers Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, indiepop band Blind Pilot, progressive bluegrass outfit The Punch Brothers.

Find Out More: bayviewassociation.org, bayviewfestival.org or 231-225-8877 Ramsdell Theater 101 Maple Street, Manistee The Place: The remarkable Ramsdell was built in 1903 and is as much a historical destination as it is a destination for the arts. While modern touches like an elevator have been added, much of the original theater has been preserved, from the wooden armrests to the dome painting and lunettes in the lobby.

The Shows: The theater seats 467 in an oldfashioned configuration that includes four boxes — two on each side of the stage and two in the lower balcony — plus an exhibit hall and ballroom that offer extra space for after-show events, art events, and more.

Past Performances: Celtic band Finvarra’s Wren, rockers The Ben Daniels Band, folksinger Joel Mabus, pop vocalists Three Men and a Tenor.

Find Out More: manisteemi.gov/259/RamsdellTheatre or 231-398-9770 Red Sky Stage 445 East Mitchell St., Petoskey The Place: Conveniently located across the hall from the northern Michigan Artist’s Market in downtown Petoskey, Red Sky Stage pays homage to the town’s million dollar sunsets.

The Shows: Converted from a building that used to house an old Montgomery Ward store and a Studebaker garage, the venue has an acoustic-friendly sound, thanks to high ceilings and a wooden stage. It seats 150 people, all with great sight lines.

Past Performances: The Up North Big Band, harmonica virtuoso Todd Parrott, East Indian music trio Ananda, Tennessee folk music duo Sparky and Rhonda.

Find Out More: redskystage.com or 231-487-0000 Studio Anatomy 140 E. Front Street, Traverse City The Place: The newest kid on the block is Studio Anatomy, fashioned out of the old Good News music store in downtown TC. It offers a modern venue complete with performance area, production studio, sleek hangout lounge, and eclectic lighting and artwork.

The Shows: Keeping the venue alcohol-free also keeps the audience’s ears on the music, which ranges from open jam sessions in a variety of genres to fully staged concerts with a heavy emphasis on local projects and indie bands.

Past Performances: Folk-rock singer Sarah Brunner, buzz duo Oh Brother Big Sister, Detroit dynamic-rockers Undesirable People, country diva Missy Zenker.

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4 Matt Hausler and wife Kristi wind down at Legs Inn during the Annual Regional Business After Hours.

5 Shelley Keeney, Jenny and Kyle Sasena are all smiles at a morning Elk Rapids farmers market.

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saturday

AUTHOR/PHOTOGRAPHER VISIT: Phyllis Kilcherman

& Diane Burdick, author & photographer of “Antique Apples from Christmas Cove Farm” will speak at Dog Ears Books, Northport at 7pm. dogearsbooks.net

-------------------BRETHREN DAYS: Sept. 3-4, Village of

BRETHREN DAYS: Sept. 3-4, Village of

-------------------BOYNE CITY ANNUAL DRAG RACE: Noon-

5pm, Main St., Boyne City. General admission, $10. bcpddragrace.org

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Brethren. Featuring a cardboard boat race, 5K run/walk, Peace Love Music performing from 12-4pm, co-ed softball & cornhole tournaments, games for the kids, arts & crafts show & Grand Parade. facebook.com/ BrethrenDays2013/

Harbor, 10am-6pm. bayharbor.com/events

SKY & SIGNAL BARN CONCERT & POTLUCK: Enjoy this northern MI indie dream-

GLEN ARBOR SIDEWALK SALES: Sept.

-------------------folk trio at Bluestem Farm, East Jordan from 7-9pm. Bring a dish to pass & place settings. Donation. bluestemfarm.net

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BAY HARBOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND SIDEWALK SALE: Sept. 2-5, Village at Bay ALDEN SIDEWALK SALE DAYS: Sept. 3-5,

Downtown Alden, 10am-5pm.

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-------------------25TH ANNUAL SALMON CLASSIC FISHING TOURNAMENT: Held on East & West GT

Bays, Aug. 31 – Sept. 4. Today features the Salmon Classic Main Event, Sweet 16, & Big Fish events. Fish-TC.com

HARBOR SPRINGS STREET SALES & CELEBRATION: Begins at 9am.

FINE ART FAIR: 10am-5pm, Historic Old Art Building, Leland. Featuring work by northern MI potters, sculptors & artists. oldartbuilding.com

Harbor, 10am-6pm. bayharbor.com/events

-------------------ALDEN SIDEWALK SALE DAYS: Sept. 3-5,

Downtown Alden, 10am-5pm.

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GLEN ARBOR SIDEWALK SALES: Sept.

JIGJAM IRISH BAND CONCERT: This young quartet from Ireland will perform a mix of bluegrass & Irish folk music at Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall from 8-11pm. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 door. herthhall.com

4TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY: 3-11pm,

MARK TWAIN’S “DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE”: Presented by Armchair Theatre at

DOWNTOWN ELK RAPIDS SIDEWALK SALES: Sept. 2-3. elkrapidschamber.org

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-------------------Petoskey Brewing. Featuring bands, 30+ beers on tap, food, & more. Tickets, $25. petoskeybrewing.com

-------------------USED PAPERBACK BOOK SALE: 9am-

3pm, Central Lake District Library’s activity room. 231-544-2517.

-------------------25TH ANNUAL SALMON CLASSIC FISHING TOURNAMENT: Held on East & West GT

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Charlevoix Circle of Arts at 2pm. Suggested donation, $5. charlevoixcircle.com

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BRIDGE WALKS: - LABOR DAY MACKINAC BRIDGE WALK: 7am. Info:

Art Building, Leland. Featuring work by northern MI potters, sculptors & artists. oldartbuilding.com

mackinacbridge.org - LAKE LEELANAU LABOR DAY BRIDGE WALK: Begins at 9am at Pedaling Beans, Lake Leelanau.

- LELAND LABOR DAY BRIDGE WALK: Meet a little before noon in the parking lot at the Bluebird Restaurant to walk the Leland Bridge.

- GLEN ARBOR LABOR DAY BRIDGE WALK: Walk across the Narrows Bridge that passes over the two Glen Lakes at noon.

- 2ND ANNUAL COLD CREEK BRIDGE WALK: A walk across this 23.5 ft. bridge in Beulah will begin at 10am, followed by games, drawings & more in the Beulah Village Park.

- BARBARA ROBERTS MEMORIAL BRIDGE WALK: Starts at the gazebo in Richardi Park, Bellaire at 10am, & includes the three bridges in Bellaire. Presented by Friends of the Bellaire Library. 231-533-8814.

BOAT IN MOVIE: 8-11:30pm, Village Green

MACKINAC BRIDGE LABOR DAY RUN:

Bays, Aug. 31 – Sept. 4. Today features the Salmon Classic Main Event, Sweet 16, & Big Fish events. Fish-TC.com

-------------------CONCERT ON THE LAWN: K. Jones & the

Benzie Playboys bring the roots of southwest Louisiana’s creole, Cajun & zydeco music to the Old Art Building, Leland at 7pm. Tickets: $15 adults, $5 students. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------SOUSA CONCERT: With the Northport

Community Band. 8pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Tickets, $15; $5 students. northportcac.org

-------------------FINE ART FAIR: 10am-5pm, Historic Old

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Non-competitive run of about 4.3 miles over the Mackinac Bridge before the annual Bridge Walk. 7am. michiganfitness.org

the Manistee Library. manisteelibrary.org

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Park, Walloon Lake. Featuring “Field of Dreams.” Free.

MANISTEE COUNTY LIBRARY SUMMER’S END SALE: 10am-4pm, Book House, behind

sept sunday 04

BLUEBERRY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: 8am-noon,

Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Donations benefit Rainbow of Hope. rainbowofhopefarm.weebly.com

-------------------TEAM LUCKY 7 BOYNE CITY TRIATHLON: 8am, Peninsula Beach, Boyne City.

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

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BAY HARBOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND SIDEWALK SALE: Sept. 2-5, Village at Bay

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Brethren. Featuring a cardboard boat race, 5K run/walk, Peace Love Music performing from 12-4pm, co-ed softball & cornhole tournaments, games for the kids, arts & crafts show & Grand Parade. facebook.com/ BrethrenDays2013/

-------------------GLEN ARBOR SIDEWALK SALES: Sept.

-------------------FIND YOUR PARK CONCERT: Rachel B will

perform her “soulful empowerment pop” at the Platte River Campground Amphitheater, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore at 8pm. Free. nps.gov/slbe

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PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH EVENING SUPPORT GROUP: 6pm,

MCHC, room E, TC. Annual

Cirque Movement comes to the Old Art Building, Leland on Saturday, September 10. A theatrical cirque-style circus show that includes acrobatics, juggling, stilt-acrobatics, live music & more is made up of dynamic duo Maggie Racich & Jimmy Linenberger. Shows are at 2pm & 8pm. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 door. thirdspacemovement.com picnic: bring a dish to pass & own table service. parkinsonsnetworknorth.org

-------------------PATIO PICNIC CONCERT: Enjoy folk with a

hint of old jazz & blues with E-Minor. 5:307pm, Oryana Community Co-op, TC. Free. oryana.coop

sept wednesday 07

MICROPLASTICS IN THE GREAT LAKES: Opportu-

nity for Stewardship. This League of Women Voters Leelanau County program will be presented by Jeanie Williams. Noon, lower level public meeting room of the Leelanau County Government Center. LWVLeelanau.org

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BOOMERS & SENIORS EXPO: 2-6pm, Otsego County Sportsplex, Gaylord. Featuring over 100 businesses & service agencies. Free. Presented by Otsego Memorial Hospital. 989-731-3546.

-------------------CLEARWATER SIERRA CLUB MEETING:

Re. state representative & congressional candidate platforms. 7pm, La Senorita, 1245 S. Garfield, TC.

-------------------ADAPTIVE CYCLING: Held at Interlochen

State Park at 6pm. Free. Cycles provided.

231-263-1350, ext. 350

sept thursday 08

RESEARCH RENDEZVOUS:

Brett Fessel will present the program “Otter Creek Brook Trout Restoration” at 9:30am at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center Auditorium, Empire. nps.gov/slbe/

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GLEN LAKE LIBRARY PROGRAM: Featuring a presentation about native bird species by photographer Wayne Pope. 7pm, Kasson Township Hall, Maple City. glenlakelibrary.net

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BENZONIA LECTURE: “The History of Waterdale.” 7pm, Mills Community Center, Benzonia. benziemuseum.org

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PANEL DISCUSSION: On the needs of & services for the incarcerated, & their families & friends. Featuring local law enforcement, service providers & government agencies.

7pm, Central United Methodist Church, TC. 231-649-0930.

-------------------ELK RAPIDS WOMEN MEETING: 6pm,

Music House Museum, Williamsburg. Cost, $10. Following a tour, meet for dinner at Mr. C’s Pub, Williamsburg. Find ‘Elk Rapids Women’ on Facebook.

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BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30pm, Hearth & Vine, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. leelanauchamber.com

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GT MUSICALE PROGRAM: Featuring the Celebration Trio. 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. gtmusicale.org

sept friday 09

HOPPS OF FUN BEER & WINE FESTIVAL: Food,

wine, beer, entertainment & more. 5pm, Mackinaw Crossings, Mackinaw City. mackinawcrossings.com

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GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT: Featuring a fashion show,

cooking demonstrations, music by Jim Akans & more. 6-9pm, Otsego County Sportsplex, Gaylord. Tickets, $5. ocsportsplex.com

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THE BARN MARKET: 9am-3pm, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Presented by The Red Dresser. 929-8150.

-------------------WAREHOUSE DISTRICT RISING: The

Workshop Block Party. 4-10pm. Music by The Accidentals, Brotha James & Turbo Pup. Tickets, $15 advance & $25 day of. Proceeds benefit BARC & FLOW. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------CIRQUE MOVEMENT: A theatrical cirque-style

circus show that includes acrobatics, juggling, stilt-acrobatics, live music & more. 2pm & 8pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 door. thirdspacemovement.com

HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am:

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the Peacemeal Stringband wsg Rick Meisterheim. A circle jam will follow the performance, & there will also be soups, cookies, coffee & tea. 7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center.

Suggested donation, $10. 231-622-2944.

Story hour – Creepy Crawlies. 8:3010:30pm: Live folk rock with Jim Macniece. horizonbooks.com

TC PATRIOT GAME: This annual crosstown

football game between TC Central High School & TC West Senior High School takes place at Thirlby Field, TC. Game starts at 7:15pm with Veterans being recognized & honored before. T-shirts will be sold with proceeds benefitting Veteran to Veteran. TCPatriotGame.com

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NEW ART STUDIO OPENING: 6-9pm, Tinker

BACK PORCH COFFEEHOUSE: Featuring

-------------------AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATER: 10am, Old Town Playhouse, lower

level, TC. Readings, rehearsal, & performance planning. 947-7389.

-------------------GT INVASIVE SPECIES WORKSHOP & WORKBEE: 9-11:30am, Boardman River

Studio, Old Mission Peninsula, TC. Featuring the work of local & national artists. facebook.com/tinkerstudioTC

Nature Center, TC. Learn about common invasive species & then help remove them outside. RSVP: habitatmatters.org

DOWNTOWN ART WALK: Enjoy art, wine,

A PATRIOT & POEMS: With Charlie Brice,

-------------------food & music at participating galleries in Downtown TC from 5-9pm. downtowntc.com

-------------------“THE GUYS”: This play by Anne Nelson is

about the aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center. 7:30pm, Harvey Theatre, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets: $25; $10 youth. interlochen.org

-------------------COMMUNITY DANCE: Live music by the

Jordan Valley All-Stars Band, Pine River Jazz Band, & Maggie Dickson. 7-10pm, East Jordan Civic Center. General admission (for listening), $5. Dancers, $10.

sept saturday 10

ADVENTURAMA!: A game

of strategy played atop bicycles on the neighborhood streets & trails of TC. Noon, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Course opens at 1pm.

Squads are made up of 3-5 adventurers. $50/squad. elgruponorte.org/adventurama/

-------------------MACKINAC 8 MILE ROAD RACE: 9:30am,

in front of Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island. Kids Fun Run begins at 11:30am. runmackinac.com

-------------------who will celebrate the launch of his first fulllength poetry collection, “Flashcuts Out of Chaos.” Joining Brice will be his wife, Judy Brice, & Church Pfarrer. 7-8:30pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. petoskeylibrary.org

-------------------10TH ANNUAL TASTE OF BENZIE & BEYOND: 11:30am-3:30pm, Mineral Springs

Park, Frankfort. Enjoy this food, wine & beer tasting event. There will also be a Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest & kids’ games & activities. frankfort-elberta.com

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TRI UP NORTH TRIATHLON: Bike, paddle, run. Held in Frankfort, with first wave starting at 9am. Benefits athletic programs like Back-the-Track. tri-upnorth.com

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GOOD ON PAPER IMPROV: 9pm, InsideOut Gallery, TC. Tickets, $8. 231-313-9478.

Find ‘Good On Paper Improv’ on Facebook.

-------------------TRIBUTE EVENT: Celebrate the legacy of

Tom Kelly, founder of Inland Seas Education Association. 2pm, ISEA parking lot, Suttons Bay. At 3pm head to the schooner dock or out on the waters of Suttons Bay near the schooner dock to take part in an event that will symbolize Tom’s legacy. schoolship.org

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THE MACK SISTERS: This pianist duo performs at The Opera House, Cheboygan at 7:30pm.

Info: theoperahouse.org DOWNTOWN TRAVERSE CITY

sept sunday 11

“MURDER AT THE TALENT SHOW”: A Murder

Mystery Dinner Production.

Produced by Gaylord Community Productions. Food & beverages from Michaywe In TheSUNDAY Woods Restaurant Otsego - TUESDAY 1&• Bar. 3:30 •5pm, 6 • 8:30 PM County Sportsplex.

Tickets, $25 – in advance WEDNESDAY 1 • 3:30 • 8:30 PM only at the Sportsplex office.

corner of Eighth St. & Steele 15 minutes before start time. 941-8440.

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STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Poetry, storytelling & music every Sat. at 9pm through Sept. 3. Featuring a unique outdoor setting around a fire. Ten miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. $5 adults, $3 kids. terry-wooten.com

- - -“Where - - - - -Friends - - - - -Gather” -------

DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: 12 Step Meeting.

Featuring Super Greek Food Held on Tuesdays from 7-8pm at Munson CommunityinHealth Center, east door, Room a Relaxed Atmosphere G, TC. For info, email: tcdajp34@gmail.com

- - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY - - - - -NIGHT -----

TRIVIA

GERSHWIN FIREWORKS FESTIVAL – GERR with Kevin

by TSO SHWIN 1: Presented SHAMPOO

ADOPTION SATURDAYS: Pets Naturally, TC hosts one dog & one cat from the Cherat 8pm from ryland Humane Society starts on Saturdays 2012 11am-2pm. www.petsnaturallytc.com WIN GIFT - - - - - - - - - - -CERTIFICATES! ---------

- -Community - - -Mental - -Health - -for-National - -R Suicide - - Prevention - - - Week ---

from 5:30-8:30pm through Sept. Enjoy the 231-946-8932 outdoor patio with food & wine available to purchase & live music. petoskeyfarms.com

- •••••••••••••••••••••••••• - - - -THURSDAY - - - - -1-• 3:30 - -•••••••••••••• -9 PM -----Rhodes, conductor piano, WED 10:30 AM - Election&FilmRalph Fest 2016Votapek, - 25¢ Classic Matinee & others. 3pm, Corson Auditorium, PG InterDEADforPOET'S SOCIETY lochen Center the Arts.

Tickets start at THURSDAY 6 PM - FREE! - Presented by Northern Lakes $23.50. traversesymphony.org

FAMILY DAY: HeldKEANU at the Music House Museum,FRIDAY Williamsburg from NIGHT FLICKS - $312-4pm, or 2 for $5 tours will focus on the history, science & artistry of •••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••• music with a hands-on, family & kid friendly style. Featuring musicians, showings of silent movies, & more. Families, $15; adults, DOWNTOWN IN CLINCH $5; PARK& children under 6, free. musichouse.org

-------------------JEFFERY SCHATZER: This award-winning

local author is the author of “Fires in the Wilderness: A story of the Civilian Conservation Corps Boys.” 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. 231-331-4318.

-------------------NCMC’S 19TH ANNUAL COOKOUT: 12-3pm,

NCMC, Petoskey.

Enjoy a picnic-style lunch, SUNDAYWEDNESDAY bounce houses, carnival games, & much 1:30 • 4 • 6:30 • 9 PM ncmich.edu more. Tickets, $8. 231-439-6225.

- - - - - - - -THURSDAY -----------1:30 • 4 • 6:30 • & 9:15 PM Join JenLEGENDS, LABYRINTHS LORE:

nifer Eis & Don Ward, authors & lecturers, for 231-947-4800 an educational walk-about at their 50-acre protected property north of Harbor Springs.

Explore the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, walk the largest turf labyrinth in Michigan, & sit in the Talking Circle or the coils of the Great Serpent. Anytime between 2pm & 5pm.

Free. Call for directions: 231-347-0991.

-------------------HARVEST STOMPEDE WINE TOUR: This

tour runs from 12-5pm at 23 participating wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, $40; includes a souvenir wine glass & wine pour & food pairing from each participating location. Does not include the race fee. lpwines.com/harvest/

PETOSKEY FARMS VINEYARD & WIN214Open E Front St • community Downtown Traverse City to the every Thurs.

ERY:

- - - - - - - - - - -Mon - - -- CLOSED -----BOCCE E DEROCHE: Try your hand at

authentic Italian Bocce while listening to InterTues on - $2guitar well drinks & shots lochen’s Brad DeRoche on Fridays OPEN at MICBella W/HOST CHRISNorth, STERR & Saturdays, 7-10pm Fortuna Lake Leelanau. bellafortunarestaurant.com

- - - - -Wed - - --Get - -it-in -the- can - -for - -$1 - - THE VILLAGE OUTDOOR MARwith 2 BaysFARMERS DJs KET: On the Piazza at The Village at GT

- MIMondays beer nightthrough $1 off Oct. Commons,Thurs TC on MI beer w/DJ FASEL from 12-4pm.allwww.thevillagetc.com

-------------------Fri Sept 9: Happy Hour: Wink SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS

then: Dragon Wagon

MARKET: Farmers & gardeners from around the local region bring their fresh produce, flowers & baked goods Saturday Sept 10: to this Downtown Farmers Market located between Cass & Union streets, across from Clinch Park, TC. HeldSept on Wednesdays from Sunday 11: 8am-noon, & Saturdays from 7:30am-noon KARAOKE through Oct. www.downtowntc.com

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941-1930 downtown TC check us out at unionstreetstationtc.net DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays through Sept. 30, 8:30am-

1pm. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------GROW BENZIE FARMERS MARKET: Mon-

days through Oct. 3, 3-7pm, 5885 Frankfort Highway, Benzonia. growbenzie.org

-------------------ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays,

8am-noon, Rotary Park. Over 40 local vendors offer fresh produce, plants & baked goods. elkrapidschamber.org

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ALDEN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, Tennis Court Park, 4-8pm. visitalden.com

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CLUB ONE’S “LOSS & GRIEF” SERIES:

This free program is sponsored by East Bay Family Dentistry & is composed of 12 different sessions divided into a variety of fitness classes, from yoga to cycling. “Work It Out” at Club One, TC. Runs Sept. 7 – Oct. 15.

For info email Robin@clubonetc.com

FRANKFORT FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, Main St., Frankfort, 9am-1pm. 231-325-2220.

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KALKASKA FARMERS MARKET: Held at SPECIAL PRICING Railroad Square in downtown Kalkaska on JOB WINSLOW CHAPTER, NATIONAL SOTuesdays through Oct. 11, 2-6pm. 231& FINANCING CIETY OF THE DAR MEETING: 11am, Elks NMC’s Automotive Services Building, TC. 384-1027.

-------------------Lodge, TC. Reservations: 946-6337.

Free admission.

AVAILABLE ON -------------------- -------------------INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Interlochen Shopping Center, big parking HOPPS OF FUN BEER & WINE FESTIVAL: HARVEST STOMPEDE: 5K walk, 5K run or DOWNTOWN HISTORIC WALKING TOURS: (See Fri., Sept. 9) 7 mile run at 9am at Ciccone Vineyard, Sutlot behind Ric’s, Interlochen Corners, 9amSELECT MARTIN Presented by the Traverse Area Historical - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - tons Bay. The Wine Tour runs from 11am2pm, every Sun. through Oct. facebook.

Society every Sat. in Sept., beginning Sept.

“YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND”: The music & leg6pm at 23 participating wineries along the com/interlochenfarmersmarket 3. Tours start at 10:30am, but meet in front - GUITARS - - - - - - - - - NOW ---------acy of Carole King & James Taylor with Kirsti Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, of Horizon Books, TC 20 minutes early.

25 CENT COMMUNITY WALK: Held every Manna & Jonathan Birchfield. 7-9pm, Kirtland $40; includes a souvenir wine glass & wine IN STOCK Cost, $10. Benefits the TAHS. ReservaTues. through Sept. 27 starting at the BelCenter for the Performing Arts, Roscommon. pour & food pairing from each participat-

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Tickets, $35. kirtlandcenter.com

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11am-1pm: Author Peggy Creten will sign her book “Betsy Bobcat Chooses Kindess.” 2-3pm: Presentation with Phyllis Bye & John Kilcherman, authors of “Antique Apples.” horizonbooks.com

-------------------SHETLER FAMILY DAIRY ANNUAL OPEN BARN/COW PARTY: Sample different fla-

vors of glass bottled milk & cookies, enjoy a hay maze, petting farm, hay rides, lunch & more. 10am-4pm, Shetler Family Dairy, six miles east of Kalkaska. shetlermilk.com

11TH ANNUAL MIKE MCINTOSH MEMORIAL TRUCK & CAR SHOW: 11am-3pm,

ing location. Does not include the race fee. lpwines.com/harvest/

-------------------TYPING 101: Cleaning & Care: Learn how

to clean & maintain your manual typewriter.

Noon, Landmark Books, TC. 922-7225.

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HIKE CLAY CLIFFS: Join docents in exploring Clay Cliffs Natural Area, Lake Leelanau at 10am. Presented by the Leelanau Conservancy. leelanauconservancy.org

-------------------“THE GUYS”: (See Fri., Sept. 9)

tions: 995-0313. traversehistory.org

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laire COA parking lot at 4:45pm. Walk the trails from 5-6pm. There will be beginner & advanced groups. 231-533-8703.

each month from 7-8pm at the John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. northernhealth.org/wellness

BLISSFEST JAM SESSIONS: Every Sun.,

MCLAREN NORTHERN MI DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: Meets the second Mon. of

-------------------CEMETERY TOURS: The Traverse Area

-------------------1-4pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Bring your instruments or just sing along or listen. www.redskystage.com.

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Historical Society will conduct these walking COLORING CLUB FOR GROWN-UPS: Held tours of Oakwood Cemetery, TC at 4pm on 231.922.9503 on Wednesdays from 12-1pm, Crooked Tree Sundays in Sept. & on Oct. 2 & 9. Cost, $10; Arts Center, TC. Free. crookedtree.org/tc proceeds benefit the Historical Society. Meet 1197 W South Airport Road on the sidewalk outside the cemetery at the

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HOPPS OF FUN BEER & WINE FESTIVAL: Food,

THE BARN MARKET: 9am-3pm, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Presented by The Red Dresser. 929-8150.

-------------------WAREHOUSE DISTRICT RISING: The

wine, beer, entertainment & more. 5pm, Mackinaw Crossings, Mackinaw City. mackinawcrossings.com

Workshop Block Party. 4-10pm. Music by The Accidentals, Brotha James & Turbo Pup. Tickets, $15 advance & $25 day of. Proceeds benefit BARC & FLOW. mynorthtickets.com

cooking demonstrations, music by Jim Akans & more. 6-9pm, Otsego County Sportsplex, Gaylord. Tickets, $5. ocsportsplex.com

circus show that includes acrobatics, juggling, stilt-acrobatics, live music & more. 2pm & 8pm, Old Art Building, Leland. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 door. thirdspacemovement.com

For Traverse City area news and events, visit -------------------- -------------------TraverseTicker.com CIRQUE MOVEMENT: A theatrical cirque-style GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT: Featuring a fashion show, -------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10-11am:

Story hour – Creepy Crawlies. 8:3010:30pm: Live folk rock with Jim Macniece. horizonbooks.com

-------------------TC PATRIOT GAME: This annual crosstown

football game between TC Central High School & TC West Senior High School takes place at Thirlby Field, TC. Game starts at 7:15pm with Veterans being recognized & honored before. T-shirts will be sold with proceeds benefitting Veteran to Veteran. TCPatriotGame.com

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NEW ART STUDIO OPENING: 6-9pm, Tinker

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BACK PORCH COFFEEHOUSE: Featuring the Peacemeal Stringband wsg Rick Meisterheim. A circle jam will follow the performance, & there will also be soups, cookies, coffee & tea. 7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center.

Suggested donation, $10. 231-622-2944.

-------------------AGED TO PERFECTION READERS THEATER: 10am, Old Town Playhouse, lower

level, TC. Readings, rehearsal, & performance planning. 947-7389.

-------------------GT INVASIVE SPECIES WORKSHOP & WORKBEE: 9-11:30am, Boardman River

Studio, Old Mission Peninsula, TC. Featuring the work of local & national artists. facebook.com/tinkerstudioTC

Nature Center, TC. Learn about common invasive species & then help remove them outside. RSVP: habitatmatters.org

DOWNTOWN ART WALK: Enjoy art, wine,

A PATRIOT & POEMS: With Charlie Brice,

-------------------food & music at participating galleries in Downtown TC from 5-9pm. downtowntc.com

-------------------“THE GUYS”: This play by Anne Nelson is

about the aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center. 7:30pm, Harvey Theatre, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets: $25; $10 youth. interlochen.org

-------------------COMMUNITY DANCE: Live music by the

Jordan Valley All-Stars Band, Pine River Jazz Band, & Maggie Dickson. 7-10pm, East Jordan Civic Center. General admission (for listening), $5. Dancers, $10.

C

sept saturday 10

ADVENTURAMA!: A game

of strategy played atop bicycles on the neighborhood streets & trails of TC. Noon, Right Brain Brewery, TC. Course opens at 1pm.

Squads are made up of 3-5 adventurers. $50/squad. elgruponorte.org/adventurama/

featuring

-------------------MACKINAC 8 MILE ROAD RACE: 9:30am,

in front of Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island. Kids Fun Run begins at 11:30am. runmackinac.com

chris barnes

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AND brent terhune

JOB WINSLOW CHAPTER, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAR MEETING: 11am, Elks

-------------------who will celebrate the launch of his first fulllength poetry collection, “Flashcuts Out of Chaos.” Joining Brice will be his wife, Judy Brice, & Church Pfarrer. 7-8:30pm, Carnegie Building, Petoskey. petoskeylibrary.org

-------------------10TH ANNUAL TASTE OF BENZIE & BEYOND: 11:30am-3:30pm, Mineral Springs

Park, Frankfort. Enjoy this food, wine & beer tasting event. There will also be a Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest & kids’ games & activities. frankfort-elberta.com

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TRI UP NORTH TRIATHLON: Bike, paddle, run. Held in Frankfort, with first wave starting at 9am. Benefits athletic programs like Back-the-Track. tri-upnorth.com

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GOOD ON PAPER IMPROV: 9pm, InsideOut Gallery, TC. Tickets, $8. 231-313-9478.

Find ‘Good On Paper Improv’ on Facebook.

-------------------TRIBUTE EVENT: Celebrate the legacy of

Tom Kelly, founder of Inland Seas Education Association. 2pm, ISEA parking lot, Suttons Bay. At 3pm head to the schooner dock or out on the waters of Suttons Bay near the schooner dock to take part in an event that will symbolize Tom’s legacy. schoolship.org

-------------------11TH ANNUAL MIKE MCINTOSH MEMORIAL TRUCK & CAR SHOW: 11am-3pm,

Lodge, TC. Reservations: 946-6337.

NMC’s Automotive Services Building, TC. Free admission.

HOPPS OF FUN BEER & WINE FESTIVAL:

HARVEST STOMPEDE: 5K walk, 5K run or

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(See Fri., Sept. 9)

-------------------“YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND”: The music & leg-

acy of Carole King & James Taylor with Kirsti Manna & Jonathan Birchfield. 7-9pm, Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts, Roscommon.

Tickets, $35. kirtlandcenter.com

09.14.16

-------------------HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 11am-1pm:

Author Peggy Creten will sign her book “Betsy Bobcat Chooses Kindess.” 2-3pm: Presentation with Phyllis Bye & John Kilcherman, authors of “Antique Apples.” horizonbooks.com

-------------------7 mile run at 9am at Ciccone Vineyard, Suttons Bay. The Wine Tour runs from 11am6pm at 23 participating wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, $40; includes a souvenir wine glass & wine pour & food pairing from each participating location. Does not include the race fee. lpwines.com/harvest/

-------------------TYPING 101: Cleaning & Care: Learn how

to clean & maintain your manual typewriter. doors open @ Noon, Landmark Books, TC. 922-7225.

- - -starts - - - - - - - - -7:00PM -------- - - -dinner - - - -service - - - -available - - - - -until - - the - show HIKE CLAY CLIFFS: Join docentsFROM in explorSHOWS Cocktail service all night, vip bottle service SHETLER FAMILY DAIRY ANNUAL OPEN ing Clay Cliffs Natural Area, Lake Leelanau 9:00PM andPARTY: room packages Sample differentavailable flaBARN/COW at 10am.

Presented byTO the10:30PM Leelanau Convors of glass bottled milk & cookies, enjoy a hay maze, petting farm, hay rides, lunch & more. 10am-4pm, Shetler Family Dairy, six miles east of Kalkaska. shetlermilk.com WESTBAYBEACHRESORTTRAVERSECITY.COM

servancy. leelanauconservancy.org

- - - - - - -OR- $10 - - -AT- -THE - -DOOR ----RESERVE TICKETS $8.38 AT EVENTBRITE.COM “THE GUYS”: (See Fri., Sept. 9) 615 EAST FRONT STREET | TRAVERSE CITY, MI 49686

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THE MACK SISTERS: This pianist duo performs at The Opera House, Cheboygan at 7:30pm. Info: theoperahouse.org

sept sunday 11

“MURDER AT THE TALENT SHOW”: A Murder

Mystery Dinner Production.

Produced by Gaylord Community Productions. Food & beverages from Michaywe In The Woods Restaurant & Bar. 5pm, Otsego County Sportsplex. Tickets, $25 – in advance only at the Sportsplex office.

-------------------GERSHWIN FIREWORKS FESTIVAL – GERSHWIN 1: Presented by TSO with Kevin

Rhodes, conductor & Ralph Votapek, piano, & others. 3pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $23.50. traversesymphony.org

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FAMILY DAY: Held at the Music House Museum, Williamsburg from 12-4pm, tours will focus on the history, science & artistry of music with a hands-on, family & kid friendly style. Featuring musicians, showings of silent movies, & more. Families, $15; adults, $5; & children under 6, free. musichouse.org

-------------------JEFFERY SCHATZER: This award-winning

corner of Eighth St. & Steele 15 minutes before start time. 941-8440.

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STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Poetry, storytelling & music every Sat. at 9pm through Sept. 3. Featuring a unique outdoor setting around a fire. Ten miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. $5 adults, $3 kids. terry-wooten.com

--------------------

DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: 12 Step Meeting.

Held on Tuesdays from 7-8pm at Munson Community Health Center, east door, Room G, TC. For info, email: tcdajp34@gmail.com

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ADOPTION SATURDAYS: Pets Naturally, TC hosts one dog & one cat from the Cherryland Humane Society on Saturdays from 11am-2pm. www.petsnaturallytc.com

-------------------PETOSKEY FARMS VINEYARD & WINERY: Open to the community every Thurs.

from 5:30-8:30pm through Sept. Enjoy the outdoor patio with food & wine available to purchase & live music. petoskeyfarms.com

-------------------BOCCE E DEROCHE: Try your hand at

authentic Italian Bocce while listening to Interlochen’s Brad DeRoche on guitar on Fridays & Saturdays, 7-10pm at Bella Fortuna North, Lake Leelanau. bellafortunarestaurant.com

-------------------THE VILLAGE OUTDOOR FARMERS MARKET: On the Piazza at The Village at GT

local author is the author of “Fires in the Wilderness: A story of the Civilian Conservation Corps Boys.” 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. 231-331-4318.

Commons, TC on Mondays through Oct. from 12-4pm. www.thevillagetc.com

NCMC’S 19TH ANNUAL COOKOUT: 12-3pm, NCMC, Petoskey. Enjoy a picnic-style lunch, bounce houses, carnival games, & much more. Tickets, $8. 231-439-6225. ncmich.edu

around the local region bring their fresh produce, flowers & baked goods to this Downtown Farmers Market located between Cass & Union streets, across from Clinch Park, TC. Held on Wednesdays from 8am-noon, & Saturdays from 7:30am-noon through Oct. www.downtowntc.com

--------------------------------------LEGENDS, LABYRINTHS & LORE: Join Jen-

nifer Eis & Don Ward, authors & lecturers, for an educational walk-about at their 50-acre protected property north of Harbor Springs.

Explore the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, walk the largest turf labyrinth in Michigan, & sit in the Talking Circle or the coils of the Great Serpent. Anytime between 2pm & 5pm.

Free. Call for directions: 231-347-0991.

-------------------HARVEST STOMPEDE WINE TOUR: This

tour runs from 12-5pm at 23 participating wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail. Tickets, $40; includes a souvenir wine glass & wine pour & food pairing from each participating location. Does not include the race fee. lpwines.com/harvest/

-------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Farmers & gardeners from

-------------------DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays through Sept. 30, 8:30am-

1pm. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------GROW BENZIE FARMERS MARKET: Mon-

days through Oct. 3, 3-7pm, 5885 Frankfort Highway, Benzonia. growbenzie.org

-------------------ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays,

8am-noon, Rotary Park. Over 40 local vendors offer fresh produce, plants & baked goods. elkrapidschamber.org

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ALDEN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, Tennis Court Park, 4-8pm. visitalden.com

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FRANKFORT FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, Main St., Frankfort, 9am-1pm. 231-325-2220.

This free program is sponsored by East Bay Family Dentistry & is composed of 12 different sessions divided into a variety of fitness classes, from yoga to cycling. “Work It Out” at Club One, TC. Runs Sept. 7 – Oct. 15.

For info email Robin@clubonetc.com

KALKASKA FARMERS MARKET: Held at Railroad Square in downtown Kalkaska on Tuesdays through Oct. 11, 2-6pm. 231384-1027.

CLUB ONE’S “LOSS & GRIEF” SERIES:

-------------------DOWNTOWN HISTORIC WALKING TOURS:

Presented by the Traverse Area Historical Society every Sat. in Sept., beginning Sept.

3. Tours start at 10:30am, but meet in front of Horizon Books, TC 20 minutes early.

Cost, $10. Benefits the TAHS. Reservations: 995-0313. traversehistory.org

-------------------MCLAREN NORTHERN MI DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: Meets the second Mon. of

each month from 7-8pm at the John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. northernhealth.org/wellness

-------------------CEMETERY TOURS: The Traverse Area

Historical Society will conduct these walking tours of Oakwood Cemetery, TC at 4pm on Sundays in Sept. & on Oct. 2 & 9. Cost, $10; proceeds benefit the Historical Society. Meet on the sidewalk outside the cemetery at the

--------------------------------------INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET:

Interlochen Shopping Center, big parking lot behind Ric’s, Interlochen Corners, 9am2pm, every Sun. through Oct. facebook. com/interlochenfarmersmarket

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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.

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

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COLORING CLUB FOR GROWN-UPS: Held on Wednesdays from 12-1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Free. crookedtree.org/tc

BOXING FOR PARKINSON’S: Parkinson’s Network North meets at 10am every Mon. at Fit For You, TC for these free sessions. gtaparkinsonsgroup.org

month from 6:30-8:30pm at the McLaren Northern MI John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey.

800-248-6777.

- A Passion for Painting: This CTAC’s Kitchen Painters exhibit takes place in the Atrium Gallery through Sept. 6.

- The Art of Seeing Birds: Original Paintings

by Glen McCune: Held in Gilbert Gallery through Sept. 3. Featuring over 20 paintings, each depicting MI birds & their habitat.

- “Twenty Years in Retrospect: Paintings” & “Tales Lost to the Wind”: The Works of Kevin Barton: Held in Bonfield Gallery through Sept. 3. crookedtree.org

SONG OF THE MORNING, VANDERBILT:

CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC:

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“JUST FOR US” BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Meets the first Tues. of every

-------------------Free yoga classes, Tues. – Fri., 7:308:30am. songofthemorning.org

month from 7-10pm at InsideOut Gallery, TC. traversebayblues.com PETOSKEY FILM THEATER: Showing in-

DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC:

TRAVERSE BAY BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION: Held the third Thurs. of every

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ternational, 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.

art

STUDIO ONE 6: Sept. Artists of the Month in the upper level of the Visitor Center at The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. Artists include Sue Bowerman, Ann Robinson, Ruth Kitchen, Laura Swire & many others. thebotanicgarden.org

-------------------A PRJCT OMNI & WAREHOUSE MRKT EXHIBITION: Selected artists’ work from

around the world will be shown & sold in the halls of Warehouse Market, TC through Nov. 30. warehousemrkt.com

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LISA FLAHIVE EXHIBIT: Lisa paints the imme-

diacy of local streets, beaches, cafes & jazz clubs. Her paintings will be on display through Sept. 15 at Center Gallery, Glen Arbor. Flahive will conduct a painting demonstration on Sat., Sept. 10 at 1pm. 231-334-3179.

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“A RURAL PERSPECTIVE”: Paintings by Alan Maciag, who is known for his landscape & plein air paintings. Runs through Sept. at Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. twistedfishgallery.com

-------------------OLIVER ART CENTER, FRANKFORT:

- Pop-Up Exhibit: Work created in or inspired by artists’ time in Members’ Open Studio or Ceramics Open Studio. Runs through Sept.

5 in the new Fisher Classroom.

- Neil W. Ahrens Exhibit: Lake Michigan & the lakes of northern Michigan have had a great influence on Ahrens’ work. Runs through Sept. 9. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

-------------------THREE PINES STUDIO, CROSS VILLAGE:

- “Fellow Travelers: Large & Small”: Sculptures by Doug Melvin.

- Three Village Arts XI, Summer Plein Air Paintings 2016: Runs through Sept. 5.

- Letters: Words with Friends: This all media exhibition is held in support of the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book. An opening reception will be held on Sat., Sept. 10 from 2-7pm. Runs through Nov. 1. threepinesstudio.com

-------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY:

- Summer Artisans Market: Fridays through Sept. 30, 9am-1pm on the Bidwell Plaza.

Artisans will sell their work & provide demonstrations.

-------------------25th Anniversary Exhibitions: Through Sept. 4: - Soo Sunny Park: Unwoven Light: Park will recreate a version of her Unwoven Light that will be suspended as a sculptural composition of chain-link fencing & iridescent Plexiglas formed in organic shapes within the Schmuckal Gallery of the Dennos, transforming it into a shimmering world of light, shadow & color.

- Ilhwa Kim: Seed Universe: Artist Ilhwa Kim of Seoul, Korea hand-dyes, cuts, & rolls thousands of sheets of Korean mulberry paper to form colorful, three-dimensional works of art that form vibrant patterns & shapes.

- Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds: This exhibition consists of large helium-filled, pillow-like forms made from silver plastic film. The clouds will float in a confined space of the Binsfeld Gallery space where the heliumfilled clouds will move gently on fan-propelled wind, allowing visitors to experience an interactive walk through a pop interpretation of the heavens.

- Exhibited & Acquired: 25 Years of Exhibitions that added art to the Dennos Collections.

- Looking Back to the Beginning: Clifton McChesney – Painting / Dale Chihuly – Glass.

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Morgan Delt – Phase Zero – Sub Pop

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Delt’s debut album for the Sub Pop imprint was recorded completely in his own Topanga Canyon, Calif., studio and surfaces as a half DIY, half shoe-gaze effort that does plenty of justice to his psychedelically inspired tracks with effects-laden production and careful tracklisting. Opener “I Don’t Wanna See What’s Happening Outside” perfectly suits the current American mindset with its deceptively pop, suspicious tone; other highlights include the redolent-with-reverb “Some Sunsick Day” and the drone-y “Escape Capsule.”

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Like a fantastically corny sci-fi B-movie translated to sound, this album is an entertaining mix of horn-laden lounge music and the echoes of ’60s TV show themes, thanks to the Barcelona, Spain band’s combination of funk, pop, jazz, and Afrobeat into an fusion worthy of alien landscapes. The best part is that on tracks like “Gamma Ray Bursts,” “Coma Cluster,” and “Ether,” you can easily picture the music accompanying the march of a lost aliens across a sepia-toned desert, which makes this listen a whole lot of fun.

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Milemaker – Overseas – Lovitt Records

It’s been 10 years since synth-punkers Milemarker have delivered … well, much of anything, really.

So it’s surprising that this album is as unified and catchy as it is. A couple of new members — Kena Kilkka on vocals and synths; Ezra Cale on drums — are perhaps part of the reason behind the refreshed sound, which features spiky guitars contrasting nicely with elevated keyboard runs on tunes like “Recognition” and highlight “Supercomputer.” This is still one of those bands that’s always better in live performance, but this album is a very solid addition to their catalog.

Dinosaur Jr. – Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not – Jagjaguwar

Also returning after 10 years are Dinosaur Jr., who are now on what could be considered their … third? Maybe fourth run at indie-rock immortality? While the band itself has been on and off over the years, their music has retained enough of a fan base that the set is sure to do just fine. And it is a steady effort that offers all of the Dinosaur Jr. puzzle pieces you’d expect: chugging guitars, indulgent guitar solos, familiar-sounding bass lines. But what there aren’t are any musical revelations; tracks like “Left/Right” and “I Told Everyone” simply sound like the Dinosaur that came before.

ESCAPE THE MICHIGAN WINTER WITH MONSTERS OF ROCK Seeking a truly rockin’ fall or winter vacation this year? A trio of upcoming cruises will most definitely fit the bill. If you want to get an early start on the season, catch the Monsters of Rock cruise, embarking from Long Beach, Calif., and heading for Mexico Oct. 1–5 with heavy rockers Loudness, Pretty Maids, The Winery Dogs, Kix, and Mr. Big on board.

Fast forward to February, and you’ll have two more trips to choose from: the winter version of Monsters of Rock, departing from Tampa, Fla., with Night Ranger, Saxon, Stryper, and Vince Neil; and the Cruise to the Edge Feb. 7–11, which sails to Mexico on a more ’70s prog-rock route with performers including Kansas, Yes, Steve Hackett, Mike Portnoy, and Patrick Morazz …

You might remember last year’s Global Citizen concert, broadcast from Central Park with highlights including performances from Ed Sheeran and Beyonce. This fall, Global Citizen is back for its fifth iteration on Sept.

24 with sets from Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer, and Rihanna. But that’s not all folks — this year also marks the first-ever Canadian version of Global Citizen, which will take place a week earlier in Montreal, Canada, as presided over by Bill Gates and Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau. With 10,000 tickets available for fans of performers Usher,

MODERN

ROCK

BY KRISTI KATES

Metric, and Grimes, the Canadian version will happen on Sept. 17, so get those tix via the Global Citizen website now …

Lady Gaga hasn’t been sitting around on the beach this summer; she’s been pursuing a trio of new projects, the first of which is a brand new single called “Perfect Illusion,” making its way to radio now. (It’s thought that the track is a sneak preview of what will be her upcoming fifth album.) Gaga also has been cast in a much-delayed remake of the 1976 Barbra Streisand version of the oftenremade film A Star is Born. Finally, she’s penned the introduction for a cookbook written by her father, Joe Germanotta, the owner of Joanna Trattoria in NYC …

Dawes report that they’ve pretty much wrapped work on their new album, with the theme of the set, titled We’re All Gonna Die, focused on overcoming obstacles and accepting difficulties. The album includes contributions from Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, and Jess Wolfe from the band Lucius. We’re All Gonna Die is set to hit outlets on Sept. 16.

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: Time to get happy, Shins fans! Frontman James Mercer has confirmed via a radio station interview that the band has a new album on the way early in 2017. The set is

reportedly already recorded and mixed — the band’s just tweaking it to make sure it sounds its best. Be first to hear about the release date and catch up on The Shins at their official site, theshins.com …

MINI BUZZ: A rare Michigan appearance by Adele will include not just one but two shows at The Palace of Auburn Hills on Sept. 6 and 7 …

Perry Farrell will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Lollapalooza next month with a special concert at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in California, where the very first Lolla happened in 1991 …

Andy Grammer will appear at The Intersection in Grand Rapids on Sept. 7 …

The Medicom company has released an awesome pair of brand new Daft Punk action figures with light-up helmets — but you’ll need

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Rihanna snagged the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard lifetime achievement award at the MTV VMAs last week …

The Make America Rock Again Tour is making a Michigan stop on Sept. 11 at the Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo with Trapt, Alien Ant Farm, Crazy Town, 12 Stones, and more …

And these artists are hoping to make a stop in your music collection via this week’s new releases … Wiley’s Godfather …

Eluvium’s False Readings On … Jamie T’s Trick … and The Divine Comedy’s Foreverland … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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

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Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee

• 522 - MANISTEE Tues. -- Karaoke Thurs., Fri., Sat. -- DJ • BUCKLEY BAR - BUCKLEY Fri. -- DJ Karaoke/Sounds - Duane & Janet • CADILLAC SANDS RESORT Porthole Pub & Eatery: Thurs. -- Live music

SandBar Niteclub: Fri. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs Fri. -- Karaoke/linedancing, 8:30 Sat. -- Dance videos, 8:30 • COYOTE CROSSING HOXEYVILLE Thurs. -- Open Mic Sat. -- Live Music • DOUGLAS VALLEY WINERY -

MANISTEE Sun. -- Live music, 1:30-4:30pm • HI-WAY INN - MANISTEE Wild Weds. -- Karaoke Fri.-Sat. -- Karaoke/Dance • LOST PINES LODGE HARRIETTA Sat. -- Karaoke, dance videos

Grand Traverse & Kalkaska • ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM - TC Sat. -- Jam session, 6-10 • BOONE'S LONG LAKE INN - TC The Big Deck, 6-9: 9/3-4 -- Matt Foresman 9/5 -- Greg Seaman • BUD'S - INTERLOCHEN Thurs. -- Jim Hawley, 5-8 • FANTASY'S - GRAWN Adult Entertainment w/ DJ • GT RESORT & SPA - ACME Lobby: 9/2-3 -- Blake Elliott, 7-11 9/9-10 -- Blake Elliott, 7-11 • HAWTHORNE VINEYARDS TC 9/11 -- Larry Perkins, 3-5 • HAYLOFT INN - TC Thurs. -- Open mic night by Roundup Radio Show, 8 Fri. - Sat. thru Sept. -- The Cow Puppies • HORIZON BOOKS - TC 9/9 -- Jim Macniece, 8:3010:30 • LEFT FOOT CHARLEY - TC Mon. -- Open mic w/ Blake Elliott, 6-9 • LITTLE BOHEMIA - TC Tues. -- TC Celtic, 7-9 • NOLAN'S CIGAR BAR - TC 9/9 -- Blues Boy Stanton, 9:3011:30 • NORTH PEAK - TC Deck, 5-9: 9/3 -- Matt Phend Kilkenny's, 9:30-1:30: 9/3 -- Cousin Curtiss 9/9-10 -- Honesty & the Liars Mon. -- Team Trivia Night, 7-9; karaoke, 9-1 Tues. -- Levi Britton, 8-12

Weds. -- The Pocket, 8-12 Thurs. -- 2 Bays DJs, 9:301:30 Sun. -- Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7-9 • PARK PLACE HOTEL - TC Beacon Lounge: Mon. -- Levi Britton, 8:30pm Thurs. - Sat. -- Tom Kaufmann • PARKSHORE LOUNGE - TC Fri. - Sat. -- DJ • RARE BIRD BREWPUB - TC Tues. -- Open mic night, 9 • SAIL INN - TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs, karaoke, dance videos • SIDE TRAXX - TC Weds. -- Impaired Karaoke, 10 Fri.-Sat. -- DJ/VJ Mike King • STATE STREET GRILLE - TC 9/7 -- Nate Vasquez 9/8-9 -- Joe Babcock 9/10 -- MoJo Hammer • STREETERS - TC Ground Zero: 9/3 -- Big Glow Foam Party w/ DJ DomiNate & Redburn, 10 9/10 -- Drew Hale Album Release Party wsg Val & The Southern Line & Audrey Ray, 8 9/11 -- Anthrax w/ Death Angel & Dead In 5, 8 • STUDIO ANATOMY - TC 9/9 -- Petty Crime, The Droogs, The Good Die Young, 8 • TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE TC Mon. -- Levi Britton, 7-9 Weds. -- Open mic, 7-10 Thurs. -- Acoustic G-Snacks, 7-10 Fri. -- Rob Coonrod, 8-10 Sat. -- Christopher Dark, 8-10

Sun. -- Kids open mic, 3 • THE FILLING STATION - TC 9/3 -- Big Foot Buffalo, 8-11 • THE LITTLE FLEET - TC Weds. -- Vinyl Night, 7-9 • THE OL' SOUL - KALKASKA Weds. -- David Lawston, 8-12 • THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO. - TC 9/3 -- ATMIG, 8-11 9/6 -- Strum Ukulele Sing-ALong Night, 6-8 9/9 -- Blair Miller, 8-11 9/10 -- The Workshop Block Party w/ Brotha James, Turbo Pup & The Accidentals, 4-10 Mon. -- Rotten Cherries Comedy Open Mic, 8-9:30 Weds. -- WBC Jazz Society Jam, 6-10 • TRATTORIA STELLA - TC Tues. -- Ron Getz, 6-9 • UNION STREET STATION - TC 9/3 -- G-Snacks 9/4 -- DJ Fasel 9/6 -- Open mic w/ host Chris Sterr 9/7 -- 2 Bays DJs 9/8 -- DJ Fasel 9/9 -- Happy hour w/ Wink, then Dragon Wagon 9/10 -- Biomassive 9/11 -- Karaoke • WEST BAY BEACH RESORT - TC Tues. -- Blues night, 7-10 View: 9/8 -- Jeff Haas Trio w/ Claudia Schmidt & Laurie Sears, 7-9:30 Fri. -- DJ Veeda, 9-2 Sat. -- DJ Motaz, 9-2

Antrim & Charlevoix • BRIDGE STREET TAP ROOM - CHARLEVOIX 9/3 -- Dane Tollas, 8-11 9/4 -- Chris Calleja, 7-10 9/6 -- Sean Bielby, 7-10 9/9 -- Eric Jaqua, 8-11 9/10 -- Josh Hall, 8-11 9/11 -- Pete Kehoe, 7-10 • CELLAR 152 - ELK RAPIDS 9/3 -- Drew Hale, 6:30-9:30 9/9 -- The Pistil Whips, 6:309:30 • JORDAN INN - EAST JORDAN Tues. -- Open Mic w/ Cal

Mantis, 7-11 Fri. & Sat. -- Live Music • LAKE CHARLEVOIX BREWING CO. - CHARLEVOIX 9/3 -- Owen James, 5-8 Weds. -- Trivia, 7 • MURRAY'S BAR & GRILL - EJ Fri. & Sat. -- Live Music • PEARL'S - ELK RAPIDS 9/3 -- The Pistil Whips • QUAY RESTAURANT & TERRACE BAR - CHARLEVOIX Weds. -- Live jazz, 7-10

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• RED MESA GRILL - B.C. 9/6 -- Charles Madison, 6-9 • SHORT'S BREWING CO. BELLAIRE 9/3 -- Jig Jam, 8:30-11 9/9 -- Turbo Pup, 8:30-11 9/10 -- Steve Leaf & The Ex Pats, 9-11:30 • VASQUEZ' HACIENDA - ELK RAPIDS Acoustic Tues. Open Jam, 6-9 Sat. -- Live music, 7-10

TC's The Accidentals will help celebrate the renaissance of the neighborhood - Warehouse District Rising - with The Workshop Block Party on Sat., Sept. 10 from 4-10pm. The Workshop Brewing Co., TC will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony, along with more music by Brotha James & Turbo Pup, & food & drinks. Steve Mack Photography

Leelanau & Benzie • AURORA CELLARS - L.L. 9/7 -- Drew Hale, 6:30-9 • BELLA FORTUNA NORTH - L.L. Fri.-Sat. -- Bocce e DeRoche, 7-10 • BLACK STAR FARMS - SB Third Weds. of ea. mo. -- Jazz Café w/ Mike Davis & Steve Stargardt, 7-9 • BOATHOUSE VINEYARDS - L.L. 9/4 -- Jim Hawley, 3:30-6 • DICK'S POUR HOUSE - L.L. Sat. -- Karaoke, 10-2 • HOP LOT BREWING CO. - SB 9/3 -- Soul Patch, 6-9 9/4 -- Oh Brother Big Sister, 7-9 9/9 -- Drew Hale, 6-9 • JODI'S TANGLED ANTLER BEULAH Thurs. -- Open mic, 9 Fri. -- Karaoke, 9-1 • LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 6:30:

9/6 -- John Kumjian & Dave Viswat • LAUGHING HORSE -THOMPSONVILLE Thurs. -- Karaoke, 9 Fri.-Sat. -- Band or DJ, 9 • LEELANAU SANDS CASINO PESHAWBESTOWN 9/10 -- Peshawbestown Polka Fest w/45th Parallel Polka Band w/ Frank Moravcik, 3 Tues. -- 45th Parallel Polka Band, 12-4p • LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL - HONOR Thurs., Fri., Sat. -- Phattrax DJs, karaoke, dance videos • MARTHA'S LEELANAU TABLE - SB Weds. -- The Windy Ridge Boys, 6-9 Sun. -- The Hot Biscuits, 6-9

• ROADHOUSE - BENZONIA Weds. -- Jake Frysinger, 5-8 • ST. AMBROSE CELLARS BENZONIA Tues. -- Cheryl Wolfram hosts open mic, 7-9 • STORMCLOUD BREWING CO. FRANKFORT 9/3 -- Small Time Napoleon, 8-10 9/4 -- Blake Elliott & The Robinson Affair, 8-10 9/5 -- Summer's End Party w/ Cousin Curtiss, 6-9 9/10 -- Cold Country, 8-10 • WESTERN AVE. GRILL - GLEN ARBOR Fri. -- Open Mic Sat. -- Karaoke

Emmet & Cheboygan • BARREL BACK RESTAURANT - WALLOON LAKE VILLAGE Weds. -- Michelle Chenard, 5-8 • BEARDS BREWERY PETOSKEY Weds. -- "Beards on Wax" (vinyl only night spun by DJ J2xtrubl), 8-11 • CITY PARK GRILL - PETOSKEY 9/3 -- Brotha James, 10 9/4 -- Too Much of a Good Thing, 10 9/6 -- Nelson Olstrom, 10 9/9 -- Sprout & the Orange, 10 9/10 -- The Sleeping Gypsies, 10 Sun. -- Trivia • DIXIE SALOON - MACKINAW CITY Thurs. -- Gene Perry, 9-1 Fri. & Sat. -- DJ • KEWADIN CASINO - SAULT STE. MARIE DreamMaker's Theater: 9/10 -- Grand Ole Opry of the North Series wsg Jeff Carson, 8

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espected comedy director gets serious with a satirical story based on you-won’t-believe-it recent events. I’ve just described War Dogs, the latest from director Todd Phillips, he of Old School and The Hangover franchise, but I may also have been describing Adam McKay’s Oscarwinning The Big Short. Both films share many qualities that make them such smart, funny, informative, and audacious films. Ultimately though, Phillips doesn’t aim quite as high as McKay. War Dogs is like The Big Short lite: not as brilliant, and certainly not as damning (maybe even a little toothless), but it’s still an entertaining joy ride that marks a major step forward for the Frat Pack director. Phillips turns his camera on the economics of war, specifically the gold rush of mid 2000s defense contract bidding, in this stranger-thanfiction tale adapted from the Rolling Stone article “Arms and Dudes” about two Miami stoners (Miles Teller and Jonah Hill) and their unlikely journey to becoming international arms dealers. Moving from stoner bro comedy to darkly absurdist action to menacing psychodrama, Phillips does a solid job of handling the tricky tonal shifts. And even with the pairing of Teller and Hill (Hill alone makes the film worth seeing), it’s not the pure buddy comedy that you might expect. But its irreverence and giddiness, coupled with cynicism and seriousness, makes for a stimulating experience.

PETE’S DRAGON

T OK, I’ll get it over with. Captain Fantastic is, for lack of a better word, fantastic. Wise, wonderful and true, it’s the kind of film that’s so richly emotional it defies preconceptions and transcends demographics. It really is for anyone who craves good storytelling and vivid characters, and it’s one of the most profoundly human experiences I’ve had at the movies all year.

It helps that the unconventional family at the story’s center resists categorization. They’re survivalists, intellectualists, and nonconformists, but most importantly they’re as committed to each other as they are to their ideals.

No one could be more turned off by the off the grid lifestyle explored in this this film than consumerism-loving me, but it’s such a complex and touching portrayal of their insular world (how and why they got here is never fully explained) that they worm a way into your heart.

Living in their version of Eden in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife, Leslie (Trin Miller), are raising their six kids to be “philosopher kings.”

The kids can kill a deer, handle weapons, and not only can recite the Bill of Rights but also understand what it means. They analyze Lolita, celebrate the birthday of Noam Chomsky, and when they sit around the campfire at night eating the food they gathered and prepared themselves, they not only make beautiful music together, they discuss quantum theory.

But when tragedy forces them to load up their Merry Pranksters-style bus (affectionately named Steve) and go out into the world, visiting Ben’s sister and her family (Kathryn Hah and Steve Zahn), as well as his estranged in-laws (Frank Langella and Ann Dowd), the results of their culture clash are both humorous (hello video games, processed foods, and girls) and poignant.

Adding to the conflict are the two eldest sons, who start to chafe at the domineering influence of their father as the family’s safety and principals are put into questions.

The film’s conclusion falters a little; it doesn’t live up to what has been laid forth. But by then you already will have experienced a handful of moments so heartrending you won’t even care.

Director Matt Ross is best known for his acting work shows like Silicon Valley and Big Love, and it is that background that is so very key to the film. Each role, big or small, is so well casted, and so well acted. The performances he manages to get out of each of the kids alone is worthy of staunch praise. They are eccentric but never whimsical; they are small people and never just children and give performances as such.

Then you add heavy hitters like Langella, who nails his role, and scene-stealers like Hahn, who never does seem to get the credit she deserves), but this is without a doubt Mortensen’s show.

There is no one like Mortensen. No other actor on the silver screen today works with the same intoxicating combination of sexiness, intelligence, manliness, and sensitivity. Ben could’ve easily come off as hippie scum, and his uncompromising beliefs could’ve quickly grown tiresome. But Mortensen plays him with such compassion, understanding, and grace that it’s as much about his faults as his principals, and that makes all the difference.

Captain Fantastic is a road movie, a family drama, a comedy. It’s a work of cultural criticism but only subtly so. This is an indie through and through, yet with just the right amount of Hollywood heart to make it the crowd-pleasing crossover surprise of the summer.

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

he latest film brought out of the Disney Vault finds Disney delving into more obscure territory. Sure, the original 1977 animation/live action hybrid Pete’s Dragon might hold a dear place in people’s hearts, but in choosing a lesser work from the canon, the filmmakers were liberated to make something wonderfully new that also manages to be marvelously timeless. Director David Lowery captures the innocence and wonder of childhood with this warmhearted and genteel throwback to family adventure films about a young boy who survives a tragic accident in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, only to be saved and raised by a dragon. It’s all a bit dorky and predictable, but that is what makes it so darn charming. There’s not an ounce of cynicism here, nothing hip or flashy, no hyperactive comedic relief, no frenetic pop culture references. But there’s spectacle, thrills, majesty and, yes, fire (this is the story of a dragon, after all). Yet even so, it’s the quiet moments — like those between the ever-exceptional Robert Redford and Bryce Dallas Howard as the father and daughter who find him — that prove most bewitching. Pete’s Dragon is so squarely beautiful, tenderly wise, and imaginatively earnest that for 90 minutes you can cast aside modern life, give into the sentimentality, and just truly believe. Sweet and simple, this character-driven story with strong values makes for one incredibly well-made family film, a sighting at the Cineplex almost as rare as a dragon these days.

SUICIDE SQUAD

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uicide Squad, the latest misguided super hero extravaganza from DC Comics and Warner Bros., is entirely terrible. That being said, if you go in with no expectations as to storyline, continuity or character development, you may not feel like you just wasted two hours of your life you’ll never get back. While Marvel Comics (and its parent company, Disney) have crafted fun, accessible cinematic worlds with their beloved properties, DC is still not sure what it wants to say. WB/DC has turned Batman and Superman into brooding killjoys that patrol a world far too severe for you and I. They craft films and stories desperate for your attention but that have nothing relatable to latch onto. And those lauded DC villains? Yawn. Even when you make them team up, the result is lackluster, and that’s just what happens here. After the death of Superman, the U.S. Government is concerned that the next “metahuman” that arrives on earth may not be as friendly as the Man of Steel was. Thus a conniving intelligence officer named Amanda Waller (played by the normally outstanding Viola Davis) decides our best defense is our most feared enemies: captured super-villains blackmailed into doing her bidding. These anti-heroes include the amiable hit man Deadshot (Will Smith) and the psychotic sex kitten Harley Quinn (Margo Robbie), the only characters you’ll actually remember. Save for the diehard DC fans, Suicide Squad is destined to languish forgotten in pop culture prison and no amount of do-gooding will ever grant it reprieve.

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— Lovey-Dovey

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: There’s being cuddly at the supermarket, and then there’s being cuddly in a way that says, “We usually do this with whipped cream.”

Even if what you’re publicly displaying is affection, not foreplay, there are a number of reasons it may make onlookers uncomfortable: It’s them. (They were raised to think PDA is not okay.) It’s their relationship. (The more warm, cuddly, and adorbs you two are the more you remind them that their relationship temperature is about 3 degrees above “bitter divorce.”) It’s the wrong time and place.

(They’re watching you do huggy headlocks at Granny’s funeral.)

You’re actually onto something by being so physically demonstrative. Charles Darwin observed that expressing the physical side of an emotion — that is, “the outward signs,” like the red-faced yelling that goes with rage — amps up the emotion. Modern research finds that he was right.

For example, clinical psychologist Joan Kellerman and her colleagues had total strangers do something lovers do — gaze deeply into each other’s eyes. Subjects who did this for just two minutes “reported significantly more feelings of attraction, interest, warmth, etc. for each other” than subjects in the “control” condition (who spent the two minutes looking down at each other’s hands). Research on touch has found similar effects.

The upshot? Act cuddly-wuddly and cuddlywuddly feelings should follow.

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Maybe you can science his mom into feeling better by explaining this. Consider that she may just be worried that you two are going to burn yourselves out. If you think that’s part of it, you might clue her in on what the greeting cards don’t tell you: Love is also a biochemical process, and a year and a half in, you’re surely out of the hormonal hurricane stage.

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You also might dial it down a little around her (not because you’re doing anything wrong but because it’s nice to avoid worrying Mumsy if you can). The reality is, we all sometimes get in other people’s way when we’re trying to find something at the supermarket — organic Broccolini…grape kombucha…precancerous polyp in the girlfriend’s throat.

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: I love my girlfriend, but the other night on the phone, I said something that really hurt her feelings. I was out with my guy friends, and one said, “Get her flowers.

Girls love that stuff.” I ran around in the middle of the night looking for them. Obviously, there were no florists open. I had to hit a slew of 7-Elevens. I came home with a rose and told her about my treasure hunt to find it. She loved it, and all was forgiven. For a flower? I don’t get it.

— Temporary Jerk

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: It is a little crazy that when you love a woman, you’re supposed to express it with a handful of useless weeds -- that is, “Say it with flowers” and not something nice and practical, a la “Say it with a repeating stapler.”

“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” wrote Gertrude Stein. Sorry, Gertie. It’s actually not. A rose can also be a form of information — one that anthropologists call a “costly signal.” A costly signal is a message that’s more than just words — meaning it involves an investment of time, effort, risk, and/or money, which tells the recipient that it’s more likely to be sincere. So, the pointless extravagance of buying a woman flowers is exactly the point. To be willing to burn money on something so intrinsically useless suggests you’re either a naturalborn idiot or so in love that it makes you droolingly dim.

But — as you might argue — you only spent a few bucks on that rose. Well, context counts. Research by evolutionary social psychologist Yohsuke Ohtsubo and his colleagues points out that buying just one flower will make you look cheap — but only when “a more costly option (is) available” (like if you’re at a florist). Otherwise, effort counts. In other words, if you only bring your woman a single rose, casually mention that you got it by crawling over broken glass to 7-Eleven while dodging gunfire from the Albanian mob. (Or that you at least tried Rite Aid, CVS, and 12 other 7-Elevens first.)

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1 ___ de gallo (salsa variety) 5 Home of the Bills and Chargers, for short 8 Extinguishes birthday candles 13 Federal org. that inspects workplaces 14 Day-___ colors 15 Canadian dollar coin nickname 16 Identical online message, but sent backwards?

18 Fragrant evergreen with starlike flowers 19 “Gangnam Style” performer 20 Did some tricks at a skate park?

22 Biter on the bayou 24 Get out of debt 25 Three-dimensional figures 27 Competes on eBay 29 “A Boy Named Sue” songwriter Silverstein 30 “F¸r ___” (Beethoven dedication) 32 Misfortune 35 Do some drastic wardrobe reduction?

39 She’s your sibling 40 Die-___ (people who won’t quit) 41 Chichen ___ (Mayan site) 42 ___ mojado (Spanish side of a “wet floor” sign) 43 Drop it already 45 Be in the driver’s seat 48 Hollow-centered muffin 51 With 57-Across, what was always covered with a sock until just now?

53 Org. with lots of clubs 56 Portugal’s part of it 57 See 51-Across 59 Firming, as muscles 60 Suffix for the extreme 61 Choral voice range 62 Benny Goodman’s genre 63 “Dude ... your fly” 64 Bust’s counterpart

1 “___ and Circumstance” 2 Spy agency on “Archer” 3 LeBaron and Pacifica, for two 4 Rower’s blade 5 Concurs (with) 6 City with a contaminated drinking supply 7 Count in French?

8 Chef on cans 9 Actor Peter and TV producer Chuck, for two 10 Ready to drink 11 Pebbles Flintstone’s mom 12 Oozing 15 K-O combination?

17 Carried a balance 21 Trips for Uranus, e.g.

23 Narc’s weight 25 Mach 2 fliers, once 26 “Fancy meeting you here!”

28 Somewhat, in suffixes 30 “The Final Countdown” band 31 British version of Inc. 32 Olympic team game with a goalkeeper 33 Granular pasta 34 “Voice of Israel” author Abba 36 Sounding like a ceiling fan 37 ___ in “Oscar” 38 Buckle under pressure 42 Look through a window, maybe 43 “Kick-Ass” star Chloe Grace ___ 44 Kitchen unit 45 Fits of pique 46 Quarterback known for his active knee 47 “___ wouldn’t do that!”

49 “Masters ___” (Showtime drama since 2013) 50 Verse-writing 52 Reusable grocery purchase 54 Visit 55 Infinitesimal bit 58 Awesome

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Signposts on the Road to Becoming a Compulsive Debtor 1. Becoming unclear about your financial situation; not knowing account balances, monthly expenses, loan interest rates, fees, etc.

7. Living in chaos and drama around money; using one credit card to pay another, bouncing checks.

2. Frequently “borrowing” items, such as small amounts of money and failing to return it.

8. A tendency to live on the edge; living paycheck to paycheck, writing checks hoping money will appear.

3. Poor savings habits. Not planning for taxes, retirement or other predictable items.

4. Compulsive shopping; being unable to pass up a “good deal,” making impulsive purchases.

5. Difficulty in meeting basic or personal obligations.

6. A different feeling when buying things on credit than when paying cash.

9. Unwarranted inhibition and embarrassment in what should be a normal discussion of money.

10. Overworking or under-earning; working extra hours to pay creditors, using time inefficiently.

11. An unwillingness to care for and value yourself; living in self-imposed deprivation in order to pay your creditors.

12. A feeling of hope that someone will take care of you; someone to always be there to rescue you.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): ): Is “Big Bang” the best term we can

come up with to reference the beginning of the universe? It sounds violent and messy -- like a random, accidental splatter. I would much prefer a term that suggests sublime elegance and playful power -- language that would capture the awe and reverence I feel as I contemplate the sacred mystery we are privileged to inhabit. What if we used a different name for the birth of creation, like the “Primal Billow” or the “Blooming Ha Ha” or the “Majestic Bouquet”? By the way, I recommend that you consider those last three terms as being suitable titles for your own personal life story in the coming weeks. A great awakening and activation are imminent.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two seven-year-

old girls showed me three tricks I could use to avoid taking myself too seriously and getting too attached to my dignity. I’m offering these tricks to you just in time for the letting-go phase of your astrological cycle. Trick #1: Speak in a made-up language for at least ten minutes. Example: “Groftyp hulbnu wivgeeri proot xud amasterulius. Quoshibojor frovid zemplissit.” Trick #2: Put a different kind of shoe and sock on each foot and pretend you’re two people stuck in a single body. Give each side of you a unique nickname. Trick #3: Place an unopened bag of barbecue-flavored potato chips on a table, then bash your fist down on it, detonating a loud popping sound and unleashing a spray of crumbs out the ends of the bag. Don’t clean up the mess for at least an hour.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): In accordance

with the astrological omens, I suggest you spend less energy dwelling in profane time so you expand your relationship with sacred time. If that’s of interest to you, consider the following definitions.

PROFANE TIME happens when you’re engulfed in the daily grind. Swarmed by a relentless flurry of immediate concerns, you are held hostage by the chatter of your monkey mind. Being in SACRED TIME attunes you to the relaxing hum of eternity. It enables you to be in intimate contact with your soul’s deeper agenda, and affords you extra power to transform yourself in harmony with your noble desires and beautiful intentions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): About 1.7 million

years ago, our human ancestors began using primitive hand axes made from rocks. This technology remained in use for over 60,000 generations before anyone invented more sophisticated tools and implements. Science writer Marcus Chown refers to this period as “the million years of boredom.”

Its slow pace contrasts sharply with technology’s brisk evolution in the last 140 years. In 1880, there were no cars, planes, electric lights, telephones, TVs, or Internet. I surmise that you’re leaving your own phase of relatively slow progress, Gemini. In the coming months, I expect your transformations will progress with increasing speed -- starting soon.

CANCER June 21-July 22): Prediction #1: You

will attract truckloads of good luck by working to upgrade and refine the way you communicate.

Prediction #2: You will tickle the attention of interesting people who could ultimately provide you with clues you will need to thrive in 2017. #3: You will discover secrets of how to articulate complicated feelings and subtle ideas that have been locked inside you. Prediction #4: You’ll begin a vibrant conversation that will continue to evolve for a long time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You know you have

a second brain in your gut, right? (If not, read this: http://bit.ly/secondbrain.) During the past three weeks, I have been beaming telepathic instructions toward this smart part of you. Here’s an edited version of the message I’ve been sending: “Cultivate your tenacity, darling. Build up your stamina, sweetheart. Feed your ability to follow through on what you’ve started, beautiful.

Be persistent and spunky and gritty, my dear.” Alas, I’m not sure my psychic broadcasts have been as effective as I’d hoped. I think you need further encouragement. So please summon more fortitude and staying power, you gutsy stalwart. Be staunch and dogged and resolute, you stouthearted powerhouse.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The last few

weeks have been fraught with rich plot twists, naked dates with destiny, and fertile turning points. I expect there will be further intrigue in the near future. A fierce and tender decision at a crossroads? The unexpected arrival of a hot link to the future?

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A karmic debt that’s canceled or forgiven? In light of the likelihood that the sweet-and-sour, confusing-and-revelatory drama will continue, I encourage you to keep your levels of relaxed intensity turned up high. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the magic and the opportunity to transform what needs to be transformed.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming

days, you will have more than your usual access to help and guidance. Divine interventions are possible. Special dispensations and charmed coincidences, too. If you don’t believe in fairy dust, magic beans, and lucky potions, maybe you should set that prejudice aside for a while. Subtle miracles are more likely to bestow their gifts if your reasonable theories don’t get in the way. Here’s an additional tip: Don’t get greedy. Use the openings you’re offered with humility and gratitude.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When

my daughter Zoe was growing up, I wanted her to be familiar with the origins of ordinary stuff that she benefited from. That’s why I took her to small farms where she could observe the growth and harvest of organic food crops. We visited manufacturing facilities where cars, furniture, toys, and kitchen sinks were built. She saw bootmakers creating boots and professional musicians producing songs in recording studios. And much more. I would love it if you would give yourself comparable experiences in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time to commune with the sources of things that nurture you and make your life better.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Unless you were brought up by a herd of feral donkeys, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to embark on your second childhood. Unless you’re allergic to new ideas, the foreseeable future will bring you strokes of curious luck that inspire you to change and change and change your mind. And unless you are addicted to your same old stale comforts, life will offer you chances to explore frontiers that could expose you to thrilling new comforts.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) These days,

my dear, your eccentric beauty is even more unkempt than usual. I like it. It entertains and charms me. And as for your idiosyncratic intelligence: That, too, is messier and cuter and even more interesting than ever before. I’m inclined to encourage you to milk this unruly streak for all its potential.

Maybe it will provoke you to experiment in situations where you’ve been too accepting of the stagnant status quo. And perhaps it will embolden you to look for love and money in more of the right places.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m giving you

an ultimatum, Pisces: Within the next 144 hours, I demand that you become at least 33 percent happier. Fifty percent would be even better. Somehow you’ve got to figure out what you can do to enhance your sense of well-being and increase your enjoyment of life. I’m sort of joking, but on the other hand I’m completely serious. From my perspective, it’s essential that you feel really good in the coming days. Abundant pleasure is not merely a luxury, but rather a necessity. Do you have any ideas about how to make this happen? Start here: 1. Identify your four most delightful memories, and re-enact them in your imagination. 2. Go see the people whose influences most thoroughly animate your self-love.

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Ne-Bo-Shone Ranch Membership. Luther, MI. Bids due: 10/5 ï 2 PM Preview: 9/18 ï 1-5 PM MILandAuction.com UC-Michigan Lifestyle Properties. David Kreager 269-352-1381 SAWMILLS†from†only†$4397.00MAKE†&†SAVE†MONEY†with†your†o wn†bandmill- Cut†lumber†any† dimension. In stock ready to ship! FREE Info/DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800-578-1363 Ext. 300N PIONEER POLE BUILDINGS- Free Estimates-Licensed and insured-2x6 Trusses-45 Year Warranty Galvalume Steel-19 Colors-Since 1976-#1 in Michigan-Call Today 1-800-292-0679.

MOVING SALE!- Northport (9563 North Carlson Road) - 9/3/- 9/4, SatSun, 9 to 5

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