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Nothing About Us Without Us While this is the mantra for persons with disabilities, it must also apply to changes and major purchases being considered

by MDOT, the DDA, Grand Traverse County, townships, and the Traverse City Commission. These groups are supposed to represent us, so why don’t they start with our concerns and needs?

Paying big money for consultants would be better spent on surveys and zoom meetings with the residents, or hosted outdoors when possible, because, after all, who knows the city better than the people who live here?

Those closest to the problem are the ones who should be consulted for solutions.

Those who have to live with the results of any study are the ones who should be part of coming up with any and all solutions to be considered. This should happen before anyone who doesn’t live here gets to tell us what we need.

Putting citizens at the start of any new project should be the mantra for building community, gathering ideas, planning, and working together to solve problems.

Who knows what creative ideas may be forthcoming, or what pressing problems may be addressed?

Above all else, trust will be built between the government and its citizens.

Voting for Democracy It is a sad day for our country. We have just observed Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. It was Dr. King who led the effort to pass the 1965 Voting Rights, overcoming the discrimination many states had against allowing minorities to vote. Included in that important bill was the requirement that states and local governments with histories of discrimination against minorities must receive “pre-clearance” from the Justice Department before changing their voting laws.

In 2013, however, the GOP majority on the Supreme Court struck down that particular federal oversight. Ever since, red states have claimed states’ rights to restrict voting rights in a variety of ways.

Many states have claimed voter fraud, which has not occurred. They are committing election fraud in their very open efforts to enact laws to make voting more difficult. They are also manipulating the state systems to make sure their GOP leadership has positions of authority in overseeing the vote count, insuring their party’s victory. How in the world does that become a system to support democracy?

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Kill the Kill Fests I completely agree with Joyce Janicki regarding her letter in the Jan. 17 Northern Express addressing the killing contest sponsored by a Kalamazoo “sports” shop.

I am appalled that there will be a “contest” rewarding cash prizes for those who kill the most native Michigan predators, including coyotes, bobcats, and foxes.

In June 2021, Kalamazoo commissioners passed a resolution to ban these events calling them “wanton waste and that indiscriminate killing is unethical.” I also agree with this statement. However, this “sports” shop in Kalamazoo is forging ahead

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states manipulating the system for their advantage need to be challenged to defend what they are wanting to do. Do people realize a minority vote by the GOP in states where the party holds power can deny the majority vote? They also need to defend their total vote against the voting rights bills. Let them justify their votes against democracy.

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Eight states have banned coyote killing contests, some banning these contests involving other species as well. Why does Michigan allow these killing fests?

As Joyce points out, biologists document how these attempts of predator control are ineffective. Michigan DNR states “(the targeted species) typically display increased reproduction and immigration in response to human-induced population reduction.”

I encourage those against these killing contests of Michigan wildlife to address your opinions to the Michigan DNR.

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top ten Trout Unlimited Adams Chapter Elects First Female President

The Adams Chapter of Trout Unlimited this month elected its first female president.

Elizabeth Petrella McKellar — a dedicated trout fisher, community volunteer, and conservationist — is the first woman president elected in the chapter’s 25-year history.

“The chapter has been working hard to expand our membership base. Liz is going to bring a new perspective to the organization,” says Cory Golden, past president of the chapter. “Electing Liz to the position of president not only will help Liz in her support of our organization but also will positively impact our organization’s ability to appeal to a wider audience of potential members.”

McKellar, who serves as chief of staff for Traverse Connect, has been a resident of Grand Traverse County for 37 years. She lives on the Boardman-Ottaway River with her husband. The Adams Chapter district includes the Boardman, Betsie, and Platte Rivers.

It was chartered in 1996 by 26 concerned locals who shared a common goal: conserving, protecting, and restoring the region’s local cold-water resources. Today, the chapter exceeds 400 members.

Trout Unlimited itself was founded in 1955 on the banks of the Au Sable River in northern Michigan. It grew out of discontent with the state’s practice of stocking Michigan waters with hatchery fish. The early group started an effort to improve the state’s river system to ensure wild and native trout populations were allowed to thrive as nature intended. TU keeps to the tenants of the founders. To learn more, see tu.org.

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tastemaker Lake Street Bakery’s Buckwheat Crepes

Itching to get the heck out of your house? We hear you. Luckily, France — or at least authentic Breton pastries — are only as far away as Boyne City. Owned by classically trained Boulanger Gildas Berrou, Gildas’ Lake Street Bakery has been shamelessly fueling local wanderlust since 2016. But the real crème de la crème (pardon the French) is its buckwheat crepes.

Traditionally crafted from buckwheat flour — though “finding creperies that don’t add white flour is proving more difficult,” his wife, Tara says — Gildas cooks the delicate batter on a flat “bilig” griddle until each crepe hits that distinctive golden hue. Served street style — that is, held in your hand — the most traditional recipe, called the Complete, is stuffed with ham, Swiss cheese, and egg. But Berrou’s impressive array of flavors promises something for every palette. $4.50–$11.50. 110 S. Lake Street, Boyne City. (231) 4976060. www.gildaslakestreetbakery.com

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white pine stampede Northern Michigan’s longest-running point-to-point Nordic ski race, the White Pine Stampede happens Saturday, Feb. 5. Established in 1977, this race features 50K, 20K and 10K distances for both freestyle and classic skiers. Skiers start from Mancelona High School — the 30K at 10am, 20K at 10:30am, and 10K at 11:30am — and all races end at Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire, with a Short’s Cool Down Party at 1pm at the Lakeview Hotel’s, Grand Ballroom.

Register at whitepinestampede.org/index.php/register. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation and the Jack McKaig Social Justice Scholarship.

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Hey, watch it As We See It

No one knows how to make us ugly cry quite like Jason Katims (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights), and the big-hearted producer’s latest series streaming on Amazon Prime will have your grabbing for tissues in the best of ways. Focusing on a trio of young adults on the autism spectrum who are seeking independence and their place in the world, As We See It is heartfelt, heartbreaking, and humorous in equal measure. With sensitivity and nuance, this generous family drama offers an authentic coming-of-age story that makes for beautifully life-affirming viewing.

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Speak two international languages: Love — and Shopping

We are swooning for Higher Art Gallery’s upcoming Love Language exhibit: a group show of more than 20 extraordinary artists alongside an artisan market of goodies you’re guaranteed to go ga-ga over. Think: jewelry from Fina Moon Silver Studio and KKB Designs, organic bath and body products from Happy Homestead Farm, candles from In the Stars, hair tinsel from Fairy Hair Extraordinaire, and much more. Shop art or crafts for your valentine if you must, but honestly, who needs a valentine with this much to love? Go treat yourself to whatever makes your own heart beat faster. The online collector preview starts at noon Feb. 4; the official show opening and pop-up market runs 11am to 5pm Feb 5 at Higher Art Gallery in downtown Traverse City. Learn more at www.higherartgallery.com.

Stuff We Love: Owls Whooooo loves owls? We do. Yet most of us — even the night hikers among us – have rarely seen one in the wild. And that’s exactly why we’re logging on to North Central Michigan College’s upcoming Lifelong Learning Club presentation Owls of Michigan. Professional ornithologist Jamie Platt is leading the presentation and, as his bio says, he “helps people find birds.” The course, which will be held online — at 7pm over two Thursdays, Feb. 3 and 10 — promises to teach us how, where, and when to find and identify by sight and sound the 10 owl species in Michigan. $30. Register at www.ncmclifelonglearning.com/event-4573770.

6th annual broadway on front gala Ready to feel the love? At 8pm Saturday, Feb. 12, City Opera House in Traverse City will host its 6th Annual Broadway on Front Gala. The theme: Love Will Keep Us Together!

Expect exceptional Broadway talent, food, drinks, a live auction, and more. (Want a little teaser of just how amazing the night’s entertainment will be? Check out YouTube to see and hear Broadway star Charity Angél Dawson perform “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess; she’ll be just one of the evening’s knockout performers.) Besides being a fabulous, elegant night out, the star-studded event is a fundraiser that supports City Opera House and its youth arts education programs like Take it From the Top, which brings Broadway stars and industry professionals to City Opera House each August to teach students music, dance and stagecraft. Learn more at cityoperahouse.org/tiftt. Student ticket, $15; others, $50+.

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Highly recommended. Tasting flight of four, $7; of eight, $12. Find Suttons Bay Ciders (and sweet Gordie) at 10530 E. Hilltop Rd. www.suttonsbayciders.com.

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We know, for example, there was neither widespread fraud nor voting irregularities sufficient to change the outcome of local or national elections. We know early voting by mail did not result in massive numbers of dead people or non-citizens voting and did not allow huge numbers to vote twice.

In fact, voting early by mail wasn’t even especially new; more than two dozen states already allowed no-excuse early voting prior to 2020 without apparent issues. Oregon, Washington, and Colorado do all of their voting by mail; they don’t even have in-person polling places.

In states controlled by Democrats, or which have split control, the proposals died quick deaths. But 19 states passed 34 laws restricting voting, 152 bills have carried over into the 2022 legislative sessions in 18 states, and 13 new bills have been pre-filed for 2022.

Most restrict mail-in voting, eliminate or restrict early in-person voting, require elaborate identification proof for mailin ballots, restrict those assisting visually impaired voters, or dramatically reduce the number of polling places.

Here in Michigan, Governor Whitmer has already vetoed three bills that toughened voter ID laws and restricted the mailing of

But 19 states passed 34 laws restricting voting, 152 bills have carried over into the 2022 legislative sessions in 18 states, and 13 new bills have been pre-filed for 2022.

So, we might reasonably wonder why so many Republican legislatures are doing everything they can to hamstring a safe and secure way for people to vote. We already know early voting by mail works without compromising the integrity of our elections.

The 2020 Republican presidential candidate and his most visible acolytes told Republican voters, among other lies, their mail-in ballots were not secure, and they should vote in person at the polls. That appeal worked.

According to Pew Research Center, 54 percent of us voted in person on or before election day, but more than 66 percent of Trump voters turned out in person, compared to only 42 percent of Biden voters.

Republicans eschewed mail-in ballots based on a series of lies about their lack of security.

Now Republican legislators and legislatures, ever willing to perpetuate myths about mailin voting in 2020, conspire to make voting by mail significantly harder because they believe it benefits Democrat candidates.

They could, instead, simply tell their Republican supporters to safely vote by mail.

They could reassure them there have been more than 250 recounts and audits conducted in various states for the 2020 election and none have found any significant issues with either mail-in or in-person voting. None have found anything that changed any outcome by more than a handful of votes.

(The now infamous and interminable recount of 1.2 million ballots in Arizona’s Maricopa County resulted in a net gain of 99 votes for Joe Biden.) But that runs counter to their election fraud lies. So they have to concoct all manner of restrictive new voting laws designed not to increase election integrity but to shred it.

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making it harder for some people to vote were introduced in 2021 in 49 states.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, which keeps track of such things, 440 bills

absentee ballot applications without requests.

Another 21 restrictive voting bills have carried over from 2021. Additionally, there is a ballot initiative afoot requiring intrusive identification for those requesting early ballots, including sharing the last four digits of our Social Security number.

In Georgia, a bill will reduce the number of polling places in heavily Democrat districts resulting in discouragingly long lines. The bill also makes it illegal to hand out water to those standing in the lines they artificially created.

The same bill requires a recount of the 2020 election in Fulton County — home to Atlanta — despite the fact it has already undergone two machine recounts and one hand recount.

In Pennsylvania, one of the 30 bills moving forward from 2021 would create a fully partisan commission to oversee elections and allow it to overturn election results in some circumstances. A similar bill is moving through the Texas legislature. Additionally, Texas leads the nation in nakedly making it more difficult to vote in heavily Democratic districts by severely reducing in-person polling places, mail-in ballot drop boxes and gerrymandering 12 competitive districts into just one.

Similar legislation is coursing through several other GOP-controlled states. It is not clear all the new laws will pass court tests and tested they will be. The most negative impact of these new restrictions falls most heavily on minority communities, anyone with transportation or mobility challenges, the elderly, at- home caretakers, and the poor, demographic groups that skew significantly Democratic.

Republican leaders now seem unwilling to try and win on the merits of their policies or philosophy. They prefer to simply prevent their opponents from voting at all, keeping elections safe and secure from fairness.

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by Spencer MacLeod With the lack of movement in Congress regarding what our country needs today, there is much we can learn from those 56 men who gathered in that hot summer in Philadelphia, 1787, to draft our Constitution.

We should take lessons from their bold attempt to conceive and form a new government. More importantly, we should learn that “compromise” and “change” are not dirty words, as they seem to be considered today, and that we are, in fact, a government of the people.

These lessons stand out to me because they show our founders’ ability to compromise, their ability to anticipate and allow for change, and the fact that they specified “We the people … ” first and not “We the wealthy and propertied people ... ” All three seem to be lacking in today’s political culture.

The men who gathered in 1787 came to Philadelphia with divergent ideas on what our new nation should look like and how it should be governed. But instead of the “my-way-or-the-highway” style of today’s politics and meetings, they were able to reach something they could all sign on to; they were willing to compromise.

Not getting all you want, but rather, getting something you can live with — for the good of our country — is not so bad. In today’s partisan politics and culture, we have lost sight of doing things for the good of our country and its people as a whole.

Just because something is the way it has been done does not mean it has to be done that way forever. Our founders did this in Philadelphia by scrapping the Articles of Confederation and coming up with a novel idea for a new nation: the Constitution.

Not only did they make a big change, but they did it all in 89 days. Current elected officials need to emulate this efficiency.

By allowing for amendments to our Constitution, the Founding Fathers also recognized that what they created might need to be changed — and it has.

Right off the block, they added the Bill of Rights, our first 10 amendments. Through the years we have continued to amend the Constitution to make our rules of government more egalitarian.

Black men and women have been emancipated and legally made equal citizens with the right to vote. Senators are now elected by popular vote rather than by state legislatures. And women were, albeit belatedly, given the right to vote. Though such things are now enshrined in our Constitution, we as morally upstanding citizens have to enshrine them in our hearts. From all I see happening today, this is not happening.

There was much debate in 1787 about what religious and/or wealth/property rules applied for those allowed to vote or

hold office. What the founders ultimately designed was the world’s most egalitarian system of its day, and we should strive to keep it so.

Starting out the Constitution with “We the People … do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America,” our founders meant we should all have a stake in how things are run.

Also, “We the People … ” means it is the government of every U.S. citizen — not just some partisan clique. We should hold our elected officials to account because we elected them for our own and the country’s good.

This said, today’s “originalists” are straying far from the mark of what our Founding Fathers intended for our country. No official note of record was taken at the Constitutional Convention, though many of the 56 attendees took their own notes. Also, we have the final document itself and The Federalist Papers.

These were interpretations by three of Founding Fathers — Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison — of what the Constitution meant and why it needed to be ratified by all 13 states. So what, of all this material, do originalists use as a basis for their position?

Originalism’s very weakness is its stance against compromise and change, both of which are the very heart of our Founding Fathers’ intention for the nation they established with the Constitution.

If our Founding Fathers could work things out during such difficult times, why can’t we do so today? Sadly, we appear to have lost the ability to pull together for a better tomorrow. As Benjamin Franklin put it at the time of our founding, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” We might not get everything we want, but by coming to a compromise, we should be able to move forward to a better future.

I challenge everyone to read our country’s Constitution — not only to understand the letter of legal arguments about governance but also to absorb the spirit and vision of our founders. They took a leap of faith, trusting that what they were doing would create a nation that “…should not perish from the earth.” All U.S. citizens should learn from what the founders set out to do and respect it by working together to build a better tomorrow.

Stewart MacLeod earned a BA in History at Albion College and an MA in Ottoman History at the University of Michigan. He spent 30+ years as a Turkey area analyst for the U.S. government. Now in retirement in Traverse City, he is indulging his interest in U.S. history, bettering his understanding of where we came from, where we are, and where we might be headed.

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Government at Work In the United Kingdom, as of Jan. 29, flouting a new highway code rule will cost you up to 1,000 pounds, the Mirror reported. The rule requires someone inside a car to open the door with the hand farthest from the door, employing a technique known as the Dutch Reach. In other words, if you’re driving (on the right side of the car), you would use your left hand to reach around and open the car door. (The technique is borrowed from the Netherlands, thus the name.) Rule 239 reads: “This will make you turn your head to look over your shoulder. You are then more likely to avoid causing injury to cyclists or motorcyclists passing you on the road, or to people on the pavement.” If a person in a car injures someone by opening with the wrong hand, a fine will be levied. Cycling UK estimates that more than 500 people are injured every year by car doors.

Wait, What?

Cameron Newsom, 42, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was treated for stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma on her tongue in 2013, the New York Post reported. Removing the tumor meant also removing part of her tongue, which doctors replaced with skin and muscle taken from her thigh. Through all of her experiences in treating the cancer, she said, “The weirdest part ... was when I felt a rough texture on the ‘thigh’ part of my tongue -- and when I looked in the mirror, it had started growing leg hair!” Newsom had to learn to speak again and still finds eating a challenge, but she’s back to being a gymnastics coach, even with her fuzzy tongue.

It’s a Living Xavier Long, 20, of Yerkwood, Alabama, has discovered a way to profit from human jealousy and insecurity, the Daily Mail reported.

Suspicious partners pay Long to flirt on social media with their loved ones as a loyalty test, and Long rakes in the proceeds: In one week alone, he made over $2,000. Long said he receives about 100 requests for help every day and charges a minimum of $10. If a woman he’s paid to flirt with gives him any of her personal contact information, he considers her a “fail.”

“I’m helping people, so I feel like it’s a good thing in a way,” Long said. “Doing these tests has allowed me to stop working a 9-to-5 job.”

When Pigs Swim Veteran surfer Ingrid Seiple was catching a wave on Dec. 18 off Oahu, Hawaii, when she saw something floating like a log in the water, KITV reported. She at first thought it was a Hawaiian monk seal, but, she said, “That’s when I realized it was a pig, and it saw me. It started swimming toward me as fast as it could!

It was very close and getting closer. I pushed the board between the pig and I and it bit my board.” Seiple thinks the wild boar was chased into the ocean by hunting dogs. “It looked like it had an injury on its face,” she said. Seiple escaped the boar without harm, but no word on the pig’s condition.

Don’t See That Every Day Motorists on I-59 in Tennessee on Jan. 12 got a closeup look at the world’s largest castiron skillet as it made its way on a flatbed truck to the future Lodge Cast Iron Museum in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. The big fry pan measures 18 feet from handle to handle and weighs more than 14,000 pounds, United Press International reported. It will be used outside the museum,

which is set to open in late summer. Get your selfie stick ready!

Family Values Teacher Kerry Lyn Caviasca, 36, of Watertown, Connecticut, was arrested on Jan. 15 and charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child and second-degree reckless endangerment, WFSB-TV reported, stemming from an incident in November. According to the arrest warrant, Caviasca’s ex-husband informed police that she had left their two children, both under age 12, home alone for two days while she went on vacation to Florida with her boyfriend. When the father checked one of the children’s phones, he saw texts between the child and Caviasca, including exchanges about what they should eat, to which she replied, “Just eat candy.” She also instructed them to stay in the basement so they wouldn’t be seen.

The children told police they were alone in the house, except for their dog.

Just Rewards Mayor Chen Qimai of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, has ordered a clever punishment for people convicted of drunk driving in his community. Oddity Central reported that offenders will have to clean funeral parlors to give them the experience of being close to death. In January, 11 drunk drivers spent hours cleaning a mortuary, refrigeration unit and crematorium. “I had never been close to death, and it felt disturbing,” one offender said. When they were finished, they reportedly expressed their deep remorse and said they wouldn’t drive drunk again.

Mistaken Identity Police were called to investigate on Jan. 15 after a motorist on the M11 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, spotted what they believed were the sneakered feet of a dead person rolled up in a carpet in another car. A law enforcement spokesperson explained, however, that the feet belonged to “a mannequin dressed as Prince Charming who was on his way to a themed birthday! Thankfully, this was a false alarm.” Metro News reported that the driver was advised to “avoid such circumstances occurring again.”

Undignified Death Newsweek reported that a man in Spain perished on Jan. 20 while he was working in an agricultural warehouse. The unnamed 34-yearold was buried when a large quantity of carrots fell on him, emergency services said. The man died at the scene.

Nay-chur In the wee hours of Jan. 19, residents along Hastings Drive in Belmont, California, were awakened by growling and roaring in their front yard, KTVU-TV reported. Two mountain lions were captured by doorbell camera as they fought to the death. The prevailing lion then dragged the dead one across the street to a neighbor’s front porch. “Just keep your head on a swivel,” suggested Kevin Stanford, who is part of the neighborhood’s watch team. Tiffany Yap, an expert at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the attack was just “mountain lions being mountain lions. It’s a common occurrence for mountain lions to kill each other over territory.” Still, Belmont Police urged area residents to be extra cautious, keeping pets and small children inside.

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Grandmothers of America AN ODE TO RADIANCE

By Anna Faller Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so the old adage goes. But for Michigan-based photography duo John Hanson and Joey Schultz, beauty lives in the eye of the camera. “I’m a street photographer,” says Schultz. “I find beauty in everybody.”

Contemporary culture, however, often disagrees. But what society would have us believe is beautiful — especially in how we conceptualize women — Schultz says “can be reprogrammed in our subconscious.”

And that begins with how we see age.

“I was once asked what the most powerful image I could take would be,” says Schultz. “Without question, [that image] would be of my grandmothers.

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I remember them walking hand in hand at my brother’s wedding; it felt like you could get radiation poisoning from how radiant they were.”

Though he didn’t snap the shot at the time, it’s an image Schultz could never quite shake. “I kept on thinking about it,” he says, “and I thought I could make a book of strangers that focused on the profoundness — and the beauty and diversity — of our nation’s matriarchs.”

From there, he proposed the project to Hanson. “I was living in Los Angeles at the time, and he presented this idea to me when we were working on a [film] crew together,” Hanson says. “I have a really close relationship with my own grandmother, so my logistical brain started assembling how we could make this project real.”

The result is “Grandmothers of America.”

Released in January, the book compiles nearly five years of travel, and more than 200 American matriarchs, in an effort to remind our current generation that beauty — and the wisdom it contains — is ageless. “We just felt this cultural disconnect,” Hanson says, “and a generational gap, especially in the age of social media. We thought that this was a way for us

to use our tools to shorten that gap.”

One of those tools was old-school portraiture. “Part of the reason John and I connected in the first place is our love of analog photography,” says Schultz. As such, they scrapped digital gear from the get-go. “[There’s] that screen on a digital camera that can distract someone who might be a little uncomfortable,” says Schultz. “Just the act of taking [each] photograph where [the women] had no way of seeing it was a way of honoring them.”

The pair applied this same authenticity to their search for the women the project would feature. “When John and I first came up with the idea, I thought that meeting the grandmothers at random was the only way to make a book with real integrity,” says Schultz.

So, armed with a car and some filming equipment, the pair set out in 2017, “all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,” he says, “to learn how to convince these ladies to let us photograph and speak with them, and sometimes interrupt their day.”

Not surprisingly, their first few attempts were a bust. “We didn’t know how to do it,” says Schultz. “It took about

three days to figure it out.” In the end, it came down to human interaction. “We’d introduce ourselves,” says Hanson, “and enter into a conversation about what advice [they] would you give to [their] younger selves.”

It was only after that sense of trust had developed that the pair would then broach the photography topic. “Even then, sometimes we’d still get a no,” says Hanson. But they couldn’t let a grandma go unrepresented. “We interviewed around 263 grandmothers,” he says, “and those who declined the portrait [have] their advice included in the back [of the book.]”

With each corner of the country accounted for, the tips that Schultz and Hanson received are just as diverse as the grannies that gave them. “The beauty of [the project] was that it was ever-evolving,” says Hanson.

From the “quintessential American image” that often left the pair lost for words — “just the kinetic power, you’d almost collapse!” says Schultz — to the grannies who gunned for the hardest truths, “you never knew what to expect,” says Hanson.

But one fire-cracker chili empress might

just take the cake: “She looked like David Bowie, with these giant sunglasses on,” says Hanson. “She [ran] a multi-million-dollar chili business and had these wrinkly hands from [working] so hard her entire life.

We never expected to meet a chili-pepper baron, but we did!”

The skepticism they often met with, however, was — unfortunately — no surprise. “It’s a unique and unusual project,” says Schultz, “so especially in conservative areas, people [would ask], ‘What are you doing? Is this a liberal-arts project?’”

Of course, celebrating our Omas, Abuelas, and Bubbies is about as far from political as it gets. “Everyone has a grandmother,” says Hanson, “and everyone knows that nurturing kind of love.”

It’s this inherent ubiquity of the project that Schultz and Hanson most hope to honor. “It doesn’t matter where you’re at on the political spectrum,” says Hanson.

“That’s part of why we knew we needed to do this: It’s part of healing, and something that brings people together.”

To learn more or purchase the book, check out grandmothersofamerica.com

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By Ross Boissoneau Short’s Brewing is iconic in the area.

Whether it’s Soft Parade, Bellaire Brown or Huma Lupa Licious, or slightly more exotic varieties such as Melt My Brain or Double Psychedelic Cat Grass, the company’s beers have received awards, accolades, and affirmation across the state and beyond. They’ve helped put Bellaire on the map.

While you can pick them up at stores across the region, there’s nothing like stopping in at the brewpub in downtown Bellaire. But is there more there than beer?

Yes, absolutely. Sandwiches, pizza, a homey setting, and occasional live music bring life to downtown Bellaire, whatever the season. Christa Brenner, the creative and marketing manager for Short’s, says a large part of the credit for the brewpub’s success goes to General Manager Erin Kuethe. “She’s the head of the pub operation and one of the biggest reasons the experience is so excellent,” Brenner says.

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sets us apart is the atmosphere. It’s cozy and comfortable,” she says.

She says that is not only what draws patrons, but employees as well. “Why do people work here? It’s because of the atmosphere.”

Of course, none of that would matter if the food wasn’t up to snuff. No worries there. “We know people do love our food. It’s simple but from scratch, even the mayo and pizza sauce.”

Ah yes, pizza: staple of bars and brewpubs everywhere. In addition to the usual suspects — pepperoni, peppers, olives, artichokes, etc. — there are a number of specialty items available. They range from sausage made inhouse and pulled pork to shredded chicken, cilantro, and a host of cheeses: feta, blue, pepper jack, smoked gouda.

That leads to a number of specialty pizzas, like Big Jim, with braised beef, roasted peppers and onions, white cheddar, and white sauce. Fall Out, with pulled pork and bacon, with jalapeno, pineapple, BBQ sauce and a maple sriracha drizzle. Or Johnny On The Spot, with bacon, blue cheese, a white sauce and Granny Smith apple slices.

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Kuethe said the menu is several steps above where things started when the pub opened. “When I first started, there was a real small kitchen. It was frozen crust — that was all we had room for. Now we have homemade dough. Pizza is gaining popularity,” she says.

That’s all great, but there’s more. A raft of sandwiches plus almost-sandwiches like quesadilla and pork tacos. Several salads with ingredients like farro, chickpeas, black bean corn salsa, and salami. Shareable small plates, with tempting treats like soft pretzels, spinach-pesto-artichoke dip, and that day’s flavor of mac and cheese.

Kuethe touts the White Pepper Sandwich as the top- selling item. This signature sandwich melds turkey, avocado, roasted red pepper, red onion, and provolone, all of it complemented by that house-made garlic chipotle mayo.

There are also specials, such as potato & bacon tacos, a breakfast blend of bacon, scrambled eggs, seasoned potatoes, scallions, nacho cheese blend & sriracha sour cream.

Or a sweet treat like caramel apple pizza, featuring house-made cider-infused apple-

pie filling, crumb topping, and a salted caramel drizzle.

Kuethe says the forced a lot of changes for the pub, in terms of its business and the way it was handled. “We were lucky because our food was very accessible for takeout,” says Kuethe.

Lucky perhaps, but Short’s moved to take advantage of the situation. It built a pickup window and takeout center, so those who ordered food could stop in and have a beer while waiting for their food. Kuethe says the establishment still provides takeout and curbside service.

And yes, there’s beer. Some 20-plus are available on tap. And come summer, the fun expands into the great outdoors, with picnic tables and a pavilion available.

All of which makes and keeps Short’s a steady presence in downtown Bellaire. It’s where friends meet and enjoy high-end comfort food, plus beer, cider, seltzer, or canned wine, all “made by people who care.”

Find Short’s Brewing Company’s Bellaire Pub at 121 N Bridge St. (231) 498-2300, shortsbrewing.com.

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Dorothy Mae Fischer Uzarski, the grandmother of ARRA chapter member Angie Morthland. Fischer Uzarski took in service men’s laundry during WWII. She is also pictured below.

Angie Morthland (left) with Donna Watkins (center), and Linda Rogers (right).

THE ORIGINAL GIRL POWER Rosie the Riveter Lives on in Northern Michigan

By Geri Dietz The brightly colored WWII poster is an icon of another time: the tenacious, cando American gal pushing up her sleeves and doing her part to save the world from Fascism. Take that, Adolph! But, the history of Rosie the Riveter is a living history as well, and some of it is being lived right here in northern Michigan. To wit, Northern Express tracked down a regional Rosie who is still going strong at 96.

Donna Crandall Watkins, of Carp Lake, was a junior at Petoskey High School when World War ll began, and she and her fellow students rallied to do their part for the war effort, including plane spotting and metal

collection. For her part, Watkins collected quarters from students during study hall to buy war bonds. (When a stamp book was full, it was worth $18.75, or $25.00 upon maturity.)

She also played a role in a significant episode in Petoskey’s wartime history: collecting milkweed to use as buoyant filler for life vests. Before Japan invaded China in 1937, a cotton-like fiber pod, kapok, sourced from Asian rainforests, was used for flotation. But, with that supply cut off, Navy tests determined that milkweed was a comparable substitute, and the plant was designated a wartime strategic material.

Remarkably, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

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discovered that the highest producing area for wild milkweed in the entire country was a 12-county area in northwest Michigan, with Petoskey at the epicenter. Also important, Petoskey had the roads, the rail lines, and the shipping capabilities.

The Preston Feather Lumber Company facility was appropriated by the government to be used as the processing center, making it the world’s first factory of its kind. “We kids picked a lot of milkweed,” Watkins remembers, “and my father took it to the collection point in town.” (Even after the program expanded to include other states, it is estimated that the people of Emmet County contributed over 60 percent of the milkweed used.)

Watkins developed her Rosie the Riveter mechanical know-how when she joined Leonard Murray’s after-school shop class, formed to help girls fill some of the occupations formerly held by men. In that class, she built a small screw jack that she still owns. “My jack started out as a piece of metal. I had to do every step as it went along.” She continues, “It has rarely been used for anything. I just keep it and recall it was once just a piece of metal, and I made it.”

In class, Watkins also learned how to operate and troubleshoot small machines, and her new mechanical skills landed her a position at Lansing’s Nash Kelvinator, previously a refrigerator plant, now retooled to produce war materiel. (Her father was

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employed there as well, working a different shift.) There they mass-produced airplane propeller breather nuts, a small but crucial part that equalized internal and external pressure. Watkins enjoyed an advantage in production because when the machines would shut down and require recalibration, she was able to service her own machine. “I [knew] how to keep my machine calibrated properly, and I did not have to wait for the repairman.

Still, Donna Watkins did not think that she was making history, along with the millions of other women who entered into nontraditional work. “I did not feel like a Rosie when I was working there. I wanted to do what I could for the war effort, and I wanted to earn money to return to college.”

Postwar, Watkins graduated from Central Michigan University in 1947 with an education degree; once her children were of school age, she took a job with Pellston schools, where she taught for 22 years.

Today, she is deep into a very active, productive retirement: quilting groups, Tai Chi, swimming, Bliss Bunch, Carp Lake Woman’s Club, her church board, Heritage Village, and the Cheboygan Opera House fill her days.

Does she see any similarities between the volunteerism and large-scale effort of the World War ll years with civilian life today?

“Times were very different in the 1940s,” she says, “but I think people are basically honest, hard-working, love this country, and would do whatever it takes to protect our democracy. When people are given the facts about a situation, they will do whatever it takes to reach a satisfactory solution.”

Now, that sounds like a Rosie speaking.

Riveter movement has evolved to include all women — millions of them — who did their part, whether through volunteer work or for a wage, in order to further the war effort.

The Cheboygan and Emmett County Chapter of the American Rosie the Riveter Association is tasked with collecting the stories of the surviving Rosies as well as honoring their service throughout the area. Linda Rogers of Cheboygan and Angie Morthland of Mackinaw City, both granddaughters of Rosies, provide the impetus behind the organization. “I didn’t even know my grandmother was a Rosie, because she never talked about it,” Rogers said. Trula McCurry McIntosh, who passed in 1997, was employed at a small electronics company in Detroit, and Rogers discovered the information after her grandmother’s death. Angie Morthland’s grandmother lived in Indiana and helped process laundry for the soldiers.

This chapter of the ARRA means to keep alive the memory of the women who did their part on the home front. “Our young people don’t even know what the movement is about,” Rogers says.

In addition to collecting oral histories of surviving Rosies, the chapter maintains a Memorial Rose Garden at the Cheboygan County Building; is promoting a group photo-op for National Rosie the Riveter Day on March 21; and has partnered with the Icebreaker Mackinaw Maritime Museum to honor women in the Coast Guard with the exhibit “The Women of the Mackinaw: Those Who Built, Those Who Served.”

And in keeping with the spirit of Rosie the Riveter, Rogers explains of this ARRA chapter, “We’re small but mighty.”

Chasing History: Time is of the Essence In Michigan alone, according to the Michigan Labor History Society, more than 60,000 women of all ages and races joined the war production effort. Today, the Rosie the

For more information or to share a Rosie history, visit mackinawmemories@gmail.com, or like them on Facebook at Cheboygan and Emmet Counties American Rosie the Riveter Association.

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Green Girl Kelly Young of Torch Cannabis Co.

By Jillian Manning Kelly Young owns a dispensary, but her goal isn’t to get you high. Instead, at Torch Cannabis Co. in Central Lake, Young promotes a holistic approach to self-care.

“My whole passion has been around helping people get access to [cannabis],” she says. “To learn how it works with their bodies so they can become their own health and wellness advocate.”

Hometown Girl Returns … and Leaves Young was born and raised in northern Michigan — delivered, in fact, at a roadside park at Birch Lake while her parents were on the way to Munson Hospital — and has always considered the area home. Her name is a familiar one north of Traverse City, as her father Richard (Rick) Young has been the proprietor of the Village Market in Elk Rapids since 1974. Young herself did stints in the family business, both in Elk Rapids and at the family’s grocery store in Central Lake.

“In 2011, my brother and I bought the Central Lake grocery store,” Young says. “The footprint size of the store wasn’t big enough to really sustain all that we put into it to make it a good community grocery store, so we knew we needed to expand it to make it bigger.”

The Young family purchased two buildings next door, planning to tear them down and rebuild, but community backlash put the plans on hold and the buildings sat vacant. Then the Dollar General opened down the street and “literally crushed” their business.

Young says the family was left with a tough choice: Let all of their employees go — or let one of the owners go. She decided to depart, which kicked off the new and winding journey she’s found in the cannabis field.

A Pipe Dream At the time, cannabis had not yet been legalized in Michigan, but Young saw promise in the emerging industry and wanted to get a foot in the door. She started researching the market and discovered a unique opportunity: cannabis extraction.

Farmers growing cannabis often only use part of the plant, and extraction experts process the “waste” in a lab environment to separate chemical compounds like CBD (an essential component of medical marijuana) and non-psychoactive TCHA, which has an array of therapeutic uses.

Young acknowledges becoming a cannabis extractor was quite a leap from owning a grocery store, and she laughs as she recounts her decision. “I basically turned in the keys to my Lexus and bought a one-ton pickup truck and a $50,000 piece of extraction equipment and set off to start a new life. I really didn’t know what I was buying or what I was doing other than it was filling a need in the market.”

In those early days, Young was one of only two mobile cannabis extractors in the entire country, traveling to states like Colorado and California with her truck and trailer.

Her work in extraction made her realize the myriad of uses for cannabis, leaning into what she calls “geeky mad-scientist stuff.”

“I found out that when I make oil, I can make it from hemp, or I can make it from marijuana,” she explains. “I did a lot of R&D with CBD products and figured out how to make my own CBD products.” That experimentation was what allowed her to find a way home.

Highs and Lows Young returned to Michigan in 2018 ready to start a cannabis self-care revolution.

She began selling a line of CBD products

called MyTCBD at farmers markets around the region. She launched a nonprofit called Free Relief, which gifted free THCA oil products to cancer patients and veterans with PTSD. And she started wondering what a brick-and-mortar location could look like.

The answer brought her back to her days at the Village Market. Young recalls thinking to herself: “I have these buildings in downtown Central Lake that are old and decrepit, that should be torn down. And I’m going to try to make a marijuana dispensary out of it.”

The path wasn’t as simple as she’d expected. To open a dispensary, Young had to get approval from the Central Lake community. The first time she got her request on the ballot in March 2020, it didn’t pass. The second time, in November 2020, it was on the ticket that sparked the Antrim Country election issues. When the results were finally confirmed, she discovered her measure had passed by a single vote.

Years in the making, Torch Cannabis Co.’s storefront, at 7957 State St. in Central Lake, opened November 17, 2021.

A Growing Business The reception from the community has been warm, Young tell us. Her products offer a unique entry point into cannabis: Rather than being a “pot shop” for folks looking to get high, she’s helping people address health and wellness concerns. Her core customer is over the age of 50 and is often looking for help with sleep or pain.

“They’re tired of the pills that the doctors are giving them, and they’re tired of drinking their way through trying to cope with life,” says Young. “I offer people a one-on-one personalized approach. I’m not a doctor, so I can’t treat, diagnose, or cure … but I can tell you an indica is traditionally known to

help people sleep, and sativa is traditionally known to help people stay awake and be productive.”

She adds that those personal consultations are important since “everybody’s body is different,” and diet, exercise, alcohol or caffeine use, and overall mental health can play a role in how cannabis affects a customer’s body.

As the demand for her services grows, Young has big plans for the next stages of Torch Cannabis Co. Starting in February, Young will offer delivery service to towns like Traverse City and Petoskey, and this summer she’ll launch a new product line.

With all those balls in the air, Young had to make the difficult decision to close down her nonprofit, Free Relief. But that doesn’t mean her outreach to those communities is at an end.

“Anybody who has cancer or veterans with PTSD that were interested in Free Relief can come to the dispensary and get a free bottle of CBD,” she says. “That’s all part of this whole mission. It’s not about what you’re getting: it’s about giving back.”

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Huldah Neal led an interesting life and is shown here in her later years. As the nation’s first female game warden, Neal patrolled Grand Traverse County on foot, horseback and in a rowboat to enforce the state’s fish and game laws. She not only had an immediate impact on the rampant poaching that plagued her area, but also opened the door for future generations of women to serve as conservation officers. (Photo courtesy of the Traverse Area District Library)

These sketches of Huldah Neal accompanied a profile of her in the Aug. 15, 1897, edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Neal’s appointment as the country’s first female game warden made news across Michigan and the nation. Many contemporary reports expressed confidence in her abilities to perform the dangerous work of a game warden, due to her tenacity and outdoor skills.

GRAND TRAVERSE’S HULDA NEAL Michigan’s original trailblazer

By Ken Sifven By all accounts, Huldah Neal was no one to fool with.

That’s not to say she wasn’t liked or respected throughout Grand Traverse County, Michigan, which she called home for 70 years. In fact, her 1931 obituary mourned her loss, describing Neal as a “loved pioneer” who was “highly esteemed by a large circle of friends.

But Neal was the epitome of what contemporary newspapers referred to as “the new woman” of the 1890s. Civicminded and socially engaged, Neal had little patience when problems were ignored and allowed to fester. So, while she probably raised eyebrows outside of Grand Traverse County, those who knew her likely weren’t surprised when she grew frustrated by the rampant poaching of fish and game in her area and requested an appointment as a game warden, so she could handle the problem herself In 1897, with the stroke of a pen by state game warden and future Michigan governor Chase Osborn, Neal became a deputy game warden for Grand Traverse County, cementing her little-known legacy as the first female conservation officer in the United States, according to press reports of the day “Huldah Neal was a trailblazer, literally and figuratively,” says Gary Hagler, DNR Law Enforcement Division chief. “She was fearless in the way she performed her dangerous duties, and in how she broke

free from typical roles that society forced on women at that time. She paved the way for new generations of women who proudly serve as guardians of our natural resources.

Huldah Neal left a positive legacy for our state. On behalf of all conservation officers, it’s a privilege to nominate her for induction to the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.”

preservation. The appointment is a good one, and Mrs. Neal will wage an aggressive campaign against violators of the law; and offenders in her locality will find that Mrs. Neal will stand no fooling.”

Neal’s appointment generated statewide and national attention, including an extensive write-up in the Aug. 15, 1897,

Mrs. Neal is an ardent supporter of the state game and fish laws, and takes much interest in their preservation.

The appointment is a good one, and Mrs. Neal will wage an aggressive campaign against violators of the law; and offenders in her locality will find that Mrs. Neal will stand no fooling THE BEGINNING Born circa 1855 in Ohio, Huldah Jane Valleau moved with her family to Grand Traverse County in 1861. She married Warren Neal in 1872, and the couple raised two children on their farm near Long Lake. She shared her husband’s love of the outdoors, a passion that didn’t go unrecognized by newspapers reporting on her appointment as deputy game warden.

“Mrs. Neal is a woman of determined character, and has excellent qualifications for such a position,” the Traverse City Record-Eagle wrote in a June 6, 1897, article.

“She is an active woods-woman, a good shot, and can give cards and spades to any man in the manipulation of the fishing rod. Besides being an expert in these respects Mrs. Neal is an ardent supporter of the state game and fish laws, and takes much interest in their

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Philadelphia Inquirer. After all, “The duties of game warden are of such a nature that many men would not care to undertake to fill the position,” the Inquirer said.

News coverage in that era was quite a departure from the social and journalistic norms of today, as evidenced by descriptions of Neal as a “plucky little woman” and the expressed amazement that she “wears pantaloons just like those of men and can handle the rifle like a veteran marksman.”

SHAPING MICHIGAN Press accounts also credited Neal for having an immediate impact on fish and game law violations. “She is energic and watchful, and already poaching has begun to diminish. The worst gang of law violators have ceased operations,” a Jackson, Michigan, newspaper reported in March 1898.

Hagler said Neal faced many of the same risks that confront today’s DNR conservation officers.

“Patrolling remote areas without nearby backup assistance always has been an occupational hazard of being a conservation officer,” Hagler says. “It’s still true today, even with modern vehicles, weapons and communications. The fact that Huldah Neal carried out her duties on horseback, in rowboats and without communications equipment makes her accomplishments even more impressive.”

In addition to her game warden’s duties, Neal was a community fixture, even delivering mail three times a week to Traverse City. Today, after leading a productive life that bettered her community and raised the ceiling for other women, Neal rests with her husband in Long Lake Township’s Linwood Cemetery. In 2018, the Michigan Environmental Hall of Fame named Neal a Legacy award recipient for her commitment to protecting natural resources.

It would be 80 years before Michigan hired its next female conservation officer.

Marquette native Kathryn Bezotte became Michigan’s first of the modern era when she began her duties in 1977. Today, more than 25 women patrol Michigan’s woods and waters as conservation officers.

Neal and Bezotte were pioneers in their own right. They opened the door for subsequent generations of women who have served their state by earning the right to wear the badge and uniform of a Michigan conservation officer.

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BIGFOOT 5K & 10K SNOWSHOE RACE: 9am, Timber Ridge Campground, TC. Cost is $27 before noon on Jan. 27. Snowshoe rental: $20. Register. runsnow.

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9TH ANNUAL IRON FISH DISTILLERY FAT CHANCE FAT TIRE BIKE RACE: 10am, Crystal Mountain, Otter Trail Loop, Thompsonville.

The new 90 Minute Category Trail Loop course is 3 miles of high speed wide trail & a new single track section. The 45 Minute Category Trail Loop will be wide open beginner friendly trails. $50/rider. Online registration closes at noon on Fri., Jan. 28. No day-of registration. crystalmountain.com/event/fat-chance-fat-tire

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4TH ANNUAL ICE WINE FESTIVAL: 11am5pm, Chateau Chantal, TC. Ice wine is made from grapes frozen naturally on the vine & fermented into a viscous & complex dessert wine. Sample various ice wines, dessert wines, & food pairings while enjoying outdoor fire pits with s’mores & winter activities. There will be an ice wine vineyard tour, ice wine production show & tour, & explore the Founder’s Trail - bring your snowshoes!

Free; a charge for wine samples.

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8TH ANNUAL CARLY’S HILL CARDBOARD CLASSIC SNOW FUN DAY: 11am-3pm, Springfield Park & Recreation Area, Fife Lake. Free family fun, make & bring cardboard sled contest with prizes, warming building, hot drinks, lunch available, fire, toddler sledding hill, safety games, helmet fittings & more. 11am-noon: Registration of sleds. 1pm: Distance runs. Info: 231384-0406.

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SOUP & SKI: 11am-5pm, Shady Lane Cellars, Suttons Bay. The Cross Country Trail is open & groomed regularly. Enjoy a stroll through the vineyard, or link up with the Leelanau Trail for an extended journey. Afterwards, head to the Tasting Room to enjoy locally made soups for $5 a bowl & Shady Lane Cellars wine. facebook.com/ShadyLaneCellars

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SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: 12-5pm, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. Explore easy to moderate trails, & then warm up with a beverage on the Terrace Patio. Snowshoe rentals will be available. blackstarfarms. com/snowshoes-vines-wines

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WINTER WINE WALK: 12-3pm, Otsego Resort, Gaylord. Walk from the River Cabin to the bonfire at the Beaver Dam. Along the trail, visit three wine tasting stations that are paired with light food. $38. otsegoclub.com/ event/winter-wine-walk-11

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FAMILY FUN DAYS: MOVIE MATINEE: 1pm, Glen Lake Library, Empire. Featuring “The Jungle Book,” rated PG. Popcorn provided. glenlakelibrary.net/events

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SNOWSHOEING & S’MORES: 2-4pm, Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park, Mackinaw City. Guests will meet Kyle Bagnall, MSHP’s Park Naturalist, at the main entrance parking area (near US 23) where the hike will begin. On the two-mile trek, traverse the trails in search of signs of wildlife, flocks of winter songbirds & more. Along the way, the hike will make a stop at the Forest Clearing to enjoy s’mores & hot chocolate over a campfire. Must provide your own snowshoes. Free.

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BEARCUB OUTFITTERS TORCHLIGHT SNOWSHOE: 5-9pm, Camp Daggett, Petoskey. Free snowshoe rentals, cookies, hot cocoa, fires, torchlit trails & more. Reg-

Everyone’s favorite flesh-eating giant, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, along with a Giraffatian, Microraptor, Segnosaurus and Triceratops, will be at the City Opera House, TC on Fri., Feb. 4 at 7pm. Dinosaur World – Live is a family show for ages 3+ that introduces Miranda, daughter of palaeontologists, who grew up surrounded by dinosaurs on a faraway island off the coast of South America, and who wants you to meet her prehistoric pals. Tickets: $32, $20. cityoperahouse.org

ister. Donations encouraged. campdaggett. org/bearcub-snowshoe-for-daggett

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COMEDY WITH DEREK RICHARDS: 7pm, TC Comedy Club, TC. A regular on the Las Vegas strip, Richard’s comedy features tales of his blue-collar upbringing, his divorce, the holidays & his child-free existence. A veteran of several USO tours, he was chosen as one of the first performers at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after the base began guarding jailed Al-Qaeda terrorists. He has been the opening act for The Temptations & The Four Tops. $20-$25. traversecitycomedyclub.com/derek-richards

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BLISSFEST PRESENTS BARBARO: 7:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. The Minneapolis-Winona based rising stars have created their eclectic sound through original songwriting craft, with inspiration derived from bluegrass, jazz & chamber music. Their newest album, “Dressed in Roses,” was released in January 2020. $25 member; $30 GA. blissfest.org

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TSO MAESTRO SERIES FEATURING YEVGENY KUTIK ON VIOLIN: 7:30pm, Historic Barns Park, Cathedral Barn, TC. World caliber soloists Yevgeny Kutik on violin & pianist Dr. Ya-Ju Chuang join TSO Maestro Kevin

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Rhodes at the piano for a fun performance.

Main floor, $45.50. traversesymphony.org/concert/maestro-series-yevgeny-kutik

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WINTER AT THE ZOO: 7:30pm, The Opera House, Cheboygan. A concert to benefit The Opera House, Cheboygan. An evening of classic rock hits from The Animals, The Birds, The Turtles & more. Featuring: Dale Rieger, Nathan Towne, Kyle Frazier, Will Engleman, Evan Archambo, Lori Cleland, Ben Dratnol & Brett Mallory. Masks required. For tickets call 231-627-5841. $15/adults; $10/ students & vets. theoperahouse.org

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HEAD OLYMPIC DOWNHILL: The Highlands at Harbor Springs. Juniors will race down Leprechaun to NASTAR starting at 10am. Adults will race down Olympic starting at noon. Featuring overall awards from HEAD & Boyne Country Sports, including a cash prize to the top racers in the open class division. $39-$60. highlandsharborsprings.com/head-downhill

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NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES POETRY WORKSHOP: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, Thirlby Room, TC. Enjoy a 3-hour workshop on the art of poetry. Instructor & poet Ari Mokdad will walk students through different poetry styles, demonstrate techniques to strengthen their writing & add greater depth & meaning to their poetry, & give advice on further development or publication for aspiring writers. Bring your own poetry to workshop with the group. Open only to fully vaccinated participants. Registration closes when the maximum number of students (15) register, or

by Jan. 28. A wait list may be available. Open to students throughout northern MI. Free. nationalwritersseries.org/writing-workshops/ poetry-workshop-2022

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TSO MAESTRO SERIES FEATURING YEVGENY KUTIK ON VIOLIN: (See Sat., Jan. 29, except today’s time is 3pm.)

jan 31

monday

STATE REP. JOHN DAMOOSE OFFICE HOURS: 11am-noon, Harbor Springs City Hall.

Damoose will meet with constituents individually to hear their con-

cerns & discuss his work in the Legislature.

517-373-2629.

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KID’S CRAFT LAB: SNOW BIRD COLLAGE: 1pm & 3:30pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. With a little paint & paper scraps, you can create your own “handy,” snowy, birdie scene. Sign up when you reserve your attendance at the Museum. greatlakeskids.org

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AUDITIONS FOR [TITLE OF SHOW]: 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, lower level, TC. There are roles for one woman & one man who will join the two performers already cast before the onset of the pandemic. Auditionees must prepare a 16-bar memorized solo, do some movement, & read from the script. Performances will be March 31 to April 10. oldtownplayhouse. com/get-involved/auditions.html

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STORYTIME ADVENTURES: 10:30am, 1pm & 3:30pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring “Who Will See Their Shadow This Year?” by Jerry Pallotta. Sign up when you reserve your attendance at the Museum. greatlakeskids.org

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TCNEWTECH: VIRTUAL: 6pm. Up to 5 presenters each month will take the stage to highlight the new tech product or business venture they are working on. Each presenter will be allowed 5 minutes to present & 5 minutes of Q&A. Register. Free. cityoperahouse.org/node/416

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AUDITIONS FOR [TITLE OF SHOW]: (See Mon., Jan. 31)

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GRAND TRAVERSE KENNEL CLUB MONTHLY MEETING: New location: Incredible Mo’s, 1355 Silver Lake Crossings Blvd., Grawn. 6pm dinner & social; 7pm meeting.

Speaker will be Sandy Bower with Freedom Service Dogs of America. Public is welcome.

Free. Grandtraversekennelclub.com

feb 02

wednesday

LOONS & AVIAN BOTULISM: ICE BREAKER SPEAKER SERIES: Noon.

Held via Zoom. Damon McCormick of Common Coast Research & Conservation will discuss his long-term research project on loons & avian botulism, which causes bird deaths from the botulinum toxin. Register. Free. watershedcouncil.org/attend-an-event.html

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FREE SCREENING OF “THE GREEN BOOK: GUIDE TO FREEDOM”: 1pm, Dennos Museum Center, Dutmers Theatre, TC. In the 1930s, a black postal carrier from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that was part travel guide & part survival guide. It helped African-Americans navigate safe passage across America well into the 1960s. shop. dennosmuseum.org/product/green-book/4914

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AN EVENING WITH JOHN MURILLO: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, The Writing House. John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections “Up Jump the Boogie” & “Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry,”; finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award & the Pen Open Book Award; winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award & the Poetry Society of Virginia’s North American Book Award; & finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry & the NAACP Image Award, plus much more. Free. interlochen.org/events/ evening-john-murillo-2022-02-02

feb 03

thursday

KID’S CRAFT LAB: SNOW BIRD COLLAGE: (See Mon., Jan. 31, except today’s times are 10:30am, 1pm & 3:30pm.)

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2ND ANNUAL INTERLOCHEN SINGERS & SONGWRITERS: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Singer-songwriters from Interlochen Arts Academy perform original works in a variety of styles & genres. $25, $20; students, $10. cityoperahouse.org/node/408

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friday

STORYTIME ADVENTURES: (See Tues., Feb. 1)

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VIRTUAL LUNCHEON LECTURE: PUBLIC HEALTH: Noon, held via Zoom. Health Officer Lisa Peacock, RN, MSN, will explain the mask mandate that was issued for K-12 schools in Emmet, Charlevoix, Antrim & Otsego counties in Aug. 2021, & will give an update on current steps to keep you safe through the pandemic with its growing number of variants. Free. ncmclifelonglearning. com/event-4628537

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DINOSAUR WORLD - LIVE: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. Using puppetry to bring remarkably life-like dinosaurs to the stage, Dinosaur World Live presents a host of prehistoric creatures including the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Giraffatian, Microraptor, Segnosaurus & Triceratops. Ages 3+. $32, $20. cityoperahouse.org/node/402

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NWS: MICHAEL SCHUR (VIRTUAL): 7pm.

Schur is the creator of “The Good Place” & the co-creator of “Parks and Recreation.” He will discuss his first-ever book, “How To Be Perfect.” Join on Zoom for a virtual discussion of this book that brings fresh, funny, inspiring wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day. Guest host is Ed Helms, actor, writer, producer, & comedian who had his start on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & The Office. $10.50. nationalwritersseries. org/product/michael-schur

feb 05

saturday

HIKE AT GREEN POINT DUNES: 10am-noon, Green Point Dunes Nature Preserve, Frankfort. Join a Land Conservancy volunteer for this moderately strenuous hike. The terrain will be steep at times. Bring your own winter gear, snowshoes, water & snack. You must pre-register. Free. gtrlc.org/recreationevents/events

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WHITE PINE STAMPEDE: Mancelona High School. This point-to-point cross-country race is skied on professional groomed trails.

End at Shanty Creek Resort. 30K: 10am; 20K: 10:30am; 10K: 11:30am. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation & the Jack McKaig Social Justice Scholarship for a Mancelona High School graduate. A Short’s Cool Down Party will take place at 1pm at the Lakeview Hotel, Grand Ballroom. Register. whitepinestampede.org/index.php/register

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SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: (See Sat., Jan. 29)

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LANTERN-LIT SKI & SNOWSHOE: 6-9pm, Grass River Natural Area trails, Bellaire.

Enjoy an evening ski on GRNA’s groomed ski trails, or snowshoe the boardwalk to the river. There will be a campfire at the Center pavilion & the heated building will be open.

Come any time during the three-hour, selfguided, open-house style ski or snowshoe.

Bring a flashlight or headlamp. Skis & snowshoes are available for rent at the Grass River Center for an additional $5 rental fee during the program, or bring your own. $5/ person. grassriver.org

feb 06

sunday

GAYLORD ALL OUTDOORS TRI-45 WINTER TRIATHLON: 10am, Treetops Resort, Gaylord. Featuring a 5K cross-country ski, 10K fat tire bike, & 5K run. Individual, $60; team, $80. gaylordalloutdoorswintertriathlon.com

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JIGSAW PUZZLE TOURNAMENT TEAMS ONLY: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Grab a couple of friends & sign up for this TEAM puzzle tournament. Your team of 2-4 players (of your choice) will have two hours to assemble a puzzle. The team who is the closest to finish at the end of two hours wins.

Register your team before the event. Masks required. Free. tadl.org/event/puzzle-tournament-teams-only

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JAZZ (LATE) BRUNCH: 3pm, GT Circuit, TC. Jeff Haas Trio wsg Nancy Stagnitta.

Chateau Chantal wine & food from the Good Bowl. Proof of vaccination & masks required. $20 donation. gtcircuit.org

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FATHER FRED’S ANNUAL FROSTBITE FOOD DRIVE: Runs Jan. 29 - Feb. 6 with the main drop-off location at Team Bob’s on the corner of Park & S. Airport, TC. Other locations include: Tom’s West Bay, Tom’s East Bay, Tom’s 14th St., Tom’s Interlochen, as well as Oleson’s on 3 Mile & Oleson’s on Long Lake. Best items to donate that are healthy, flexible & hearty: 5 oz. canned tuna, soups, dried beans 1lb. bags, rice, pasta sauce, 5 oz. canned chicken, oatmeal, peanut butter, spaghetti or pasta, & canned fruits, packed in juice. fatherfred.org

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BELLAIRE WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 9am-1pm, Downtown Bellaire. Held at two locations: Bee Well & Terrain. Produce, eggs, meats, honey, maple syrup, baked goods, local artists, crafts, & more.

INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 10am-2pm, The Village at GT Commons, The Mercato corridor in Building 50, TC. thevillagetc.com

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LOVE LANGUAGE - GROUP SHOW OPENING & ARTISAN MARKET DAY: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Enjoy a one day, one stop market event on Feb. 5 which not only marks the Opening Day of the Group show “Love Language,” but will offer several local makers to browse from. Exhibit runs through March 14. higherartgallery.com

Laura Earle, Dawson Moore, Paul Rytlewski & Richard Small. charlevoixcircle.org/exhibits-2022 NATHALIE MIEBACH EXHIBITION: Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Miebach’s exhibition, “Stay Healthy and Strong,” features new installations & sculptures that she completed during a 2021 residency at the Ucross Foundation in Sheridan, Wyoming.

It explores climate data & Covid trends through art. Runs Jan. 23 - May 29. Open Tues. through Sun. from 11am-4pm. dennosmuseum.org/?utm_source=cision&utm_ medium=email&utm_campaign=DMC-Nathalie-Miebach

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WOOD CARVINGS BY BOB AYALA: Alden District Library. Runs Jan. 3-29. Closed on Sundays. 231-331-4318. aldenlib.info

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - PUNK DREAMSCAPE: GARCIA + MARTIN + NEMEC: Jan. 15 - Feb. 19 in Atrium Gallery. Through a combination of symbolic, illustrative & figurative imagery, midwest artists Esteban Garcia, Nick Martin & Aaron Nemec create abstract narratives that verge on the surreal. Mixed media paintings, drawings & sculptures will be on display. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey/ punk-dreamscape-garcia-martin-nemec - OPEN DOORS: A JURIED EXHIBITION: Jan. 15 - March 5 in Gilbert Gallery. This juried exhibition invites artists across the nation to consider themes related to openness & accessibility. crookedtree.org/event/ctacpetoskey/open-doors-juried-exhibition - THIS IS HOME: A REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION: Jan. 15 - March 5 in Bonfield Gallery. This juried exhibition invites artists working throughout the Great Lakes region to consider themes related to the concept of home. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey/ home-juried-exhibition

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - 2022 GUILD MEMBER SALON SHOW: Jan. 18 - Feb. 26, held in Gallery. A diverse assortment of work in a variety of media will be on display. crookedtree.org/event/ctactraverse-city/2022-guild-member-salonshow - TRAVERSE AREA CAMERA CLUB COMPETITION SHOW: Runs through Feb. 26 in Carnegie Rotunda. This recurring exhibition highlights award-winning photographs produced by members of the Traverse Area Camera Club (TACC). crookedtree.org/ event/ctac-traverse-city/traverse-area-camera-club-competition-show

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GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: - “PAPERWORK”: Jan. 14 - March 24.

This exhibition focuses on works on paper, & works made of paper. It features the work of 21 artists from throughout Michigan, Massachusetts, Missouri, & the nation of Chile.

Check web site for hours. glenarborart.org/ events/paperwork-exhibition - “WOODLAND STUDIES”: A small exhibition of black & white photographs by Grand Rapids photographer Rodney Martin. It runs Jan. 7 – April 13 in the Lobby Gallery. Martin focuses his lens on the landscape. For the images in “Woodland Studies,” he zeros in on rivers, woods & orchards in Benzie, Grand Traverse & Leelanau counties. See web site for hours. glenarborart.org/events/ exhibit-woodland-studies

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WOOD + METAL: Charlevoix Circle of Arts.

Runs Jan. 28 - Feb. 26. Contemporary fine art meets functionality with Michigan artists:

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The best performance of the year — nay, perhaps the best performance of the decade so far, is also one of the most unexpected.

It comes from forgotten 1990s heartthrob Simon Rex, who plays Mickey Saber, a washed up porn star using his ex-wife to get by while also grooming a teen girl on the side. He’s one of the most despicable and narcissistic characters you’ll encounter on screen but also one of the most magnetic and charismatic. And in nearly every single scene of Red Rocket’s two-hour plus runtime, you simply won’t be able to your eyes off him.

Focusing on a user and abuser with some serious sociopathic tendencies is a tricky proposition to say the least, and it is a testament to both Rex’s performance as well as director Sean Baker’s singular brilliance that this thorny material works at all, let alone in such hypnotic fashion.

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An utterly original character study, Red Rocket presents a uniquely American hustler. And in this follow-up to the naturalistic wonders of Tangerine and The Florida Project, Baker returns his lens to the downtrodden underbelly, to a part of America most people aren’t comfortable with or willing to look at, and one we rarely, if ever, see in media. And even then, it’s a look at life on the margins you never see presented in such an unpatronizing and also hilariously entertaining way.

It is important to note that Red Rocket, despite the bleak realities facing the characters, is very much a comedy. And it is also very much OK to laugh. Baker makes it clear you’re never laughing at the characters. It doesn’t romanticize nor does it condescend. While weirdly warmhearted in its embrace, there’s no nobility in the poverty or romanticizing of the characters’ distress. Baker doesn’t try to moralize their decisions or lives. It’s an absurd screwball comedy with notes of bitter tragedy.

So instead of Los Angeles’ trans community, or the impoverished children growing up in Disney World’s backyard, this time, Baker’s portrait of the fringes of society takes us to a tiny Texas town on the Gulf Coast and into the world of a sex worker who returns home from the San Fernando Valley broke and without anywhere to go.

And so he turns to his ex-wife, Lexi, who left the porn business and came back to their hometown long ago. And despite literally everything she has ever known about Mickey, she lets him back in to her house and then, later, her bed.

Turned down for work everywhere in town because of his XXX resume, Mickey starts selling weed. He takes the neighbor boy (who conveniently — wink wink — has a car) and who, under Mickey’s wing, becomes infatuated with a high school girl known as Strawberry (Suzanna Son), who he not only sees as a love interest but also his next meal ticket.

Yet for all of his heinous actions, Rex’s Mickey Saber possesses an irresistible and unrelenting optimism, always making a plan, always moving on to his next big play.

And as the 2016 election coverage subtly plays in the background, allowing you to arrive at your own conclusions, it’s easy to see how one could become so enraptured by such a liar, a coward, and a cheat. This is a film you can’t take at face value. There’s so much going on and no easy answers, Baker let’s us wrestle with the characters, their choices, and their circumstances.

Complex and knotty in its realism, it’s no small feat that you’ll find yourself rooting for Mickey. It’s also impossible to tell exactly what you’re rooting for: for him to change, for him to be brought down — or not actually rooting for him at all but invested nonetheless — is what makes this film so enthralling and special.

And Rex not only gives a virtuoso performance, he’s got a story that’s as hard to resist as Mickey. Part of what makes his casting so inspired is that before getting a random cold call from Baker in absolute secret, mid pandemic, Rex had all but given up on his Hollywood career. A B-list to C-list celeb at his height, Rex’s most notable credits prior to Red Rocket included being an MTV VJ, his work in the Scary Movie franchise, a four episode arc on Felicity, a stint as a rapper known as Dirt Nasty, and yes, even some soft-core film jobs.

Marvelously rich, riveting, and real, even if you don’t think you liked Red Rocket, you won’t be able to stop talking about it.

Grand Traverse & Kalkaska FRESH COAST BEER WORKS, TC 2/4 -- Dags Und Timmah!, 6-9 GT CIRCUIT, TC 2/6 -- Jazz (Late) Brunch w/ Jeff Haas Trio wsg Nancy Stagnitta, 3 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC THE BARREL ROOM: 1/31 -- Barrels & Beats w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 LIL BO, TC Thurs. – Jazz w/ Larz Cabot, 6-9 Fri. – Live music Sun. -- Karaoke - Shooting Star Entertainment, 8 MAMMOTH DISTILLING, TC 1/29 -- Chris Smith, 6-9 2/2 -- Eric Clemons, 7:30-10:30

TC COMEDY CLUB, TC 1/29 -- Comedy with Derek Richards, 7

2/5 -- Charlie Millard Band, 7 THIRSTY FISH SPORTS GRILLE, TC Tues. -- Trivia, 7-9

THE PARLOR, TC 8-11: 1/29 -- Jim Hawley & Friends 2/1 -- Jesse Jefferson 2/2 -- Wink Solo 2/3 -- Jimmy Olson 2/4 -- Chris Sterr 2/5 -- Blair Miller THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 1/29 -- DJ Ras Marco D, noon2pm; Jesse Jefferson, 7 1/31 -- Vinyl Lovers w/ Eugene’s Record Co-op, 7 2/1 -- Open Mic, 7 2/2 -- Live Jazz Show, 6-8:30 2/4 -- Chillsonic, 7

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UNION STREET STATION, TC 1/28-29 -- Scarkazm, 10 1/30 & 2/6 -- Karaoke, 10 1/31 -- Jukebox, 10 2/1 -- Open Mic Comedy, 8-9:30; Electric Open Mic, 10-2 2/4-5 -- Soul Patch & Bob Marley Birthday Bash, 10

Antrim & Charlevoix HELLO VINO, BELLAIRE 1/29 -- Doc Woodward, 7-9

SHORT’S BREW PUB, BELLAIRE 1/29 -- Blair Miller, 8-10:30 1/30 -- Reggae Sunday w/ DJs, 2-5

2/1 -- Open Mic Night, 7-10 2/4 -- Birds of Prey, 8-10:30 2/5 -- Randy Reszka, 8-10:30

Otsego, Crawford & Central BIG BUCK BREWERY, GAYLORD 6-9: 2/4 -- Nelson Olstrom 2/5 -- Pete Kehoe

SNOWBELT BREWING CO., GAYLORD 2/4 -- Radel Rosin, 6-9

Radel Rosin of Oh Brother Big Sister, which he formed with his sister Penny, plays Snowbelt Brewing Co. in Gaylord on Fri., Feb. 4 from 6-9pm. Rosin layers rhythm, melody, harmonies and originality into each song with a looping pedal, along with his soulful voice and down-to-earth personality, bringing an energetic blend of music.

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Emmet & Cheboygan BEARDS BREWERY, PETOSKEY 1/29 -- Owen James, 6 1/30 -- Celtic/Tradition Irish Session, 5 2/5 -- Elizabeth Landry, 6 2/6 -- Drawbridge Uke Band, 5

BOYNE VALLEY VINEYARDS, PETOSKEY 2-6: 1/29 -- Chris Calleja 2/5 -- Lou Thumser

NOGGIN ROOM PUB, PETOSKEY 7-10: 1/29 -- Holly Keller 2/4 -- Mike Ridley 2/5 -- Dogwood Rhythm

MAMMOTH DISTILLING, BAY HARBOR 1/29 -- Eric Jaqua, 7-10

THE BEAU, CHEBOYGAN 2/5 -- Sam Schneider, 7-9

CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, THOMPSONVILLE SLOPESIDE TENT, NEAR CRYSTAL CLIPPER CHAIRLIFT, 3-5: 1/29 -- Luke Woltanski 2/5 -- Brady Corcoran VISTA LOUNGE: 1/29 -- Dave Barth, 2-5; TC Knuckleheads, 8-11 2/4 -- Project 6, 8-11 2/5 -- Jim Hawley, 2-5; Scarkazm, 8-11

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the ADViCE GOddESS How Do I Shove Thee?

Q

: I’m a 31-year-old gay man. I have these intrusive lusty thoughts about my ex, like daily. I’m extremely physically attracted to him, but we just don’t work as a couple and never will. Despite knowing this, I’m having a hard time stopping myself from thinking about him. It’s more of a mental habit than anything else, but I just don’t know how to break it.

— Tormented

A

: We are selective forgetters, readily deleting from memory the things we really, really need to remember. This can be amusing in retrospect — like, after we go all Israelites 2.0: wandering for 40 years around the Mall of America parking garage — or until we file a false report that our car’s been stolen, whichever comes first.

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The things we long to evict from our thoughts — like your recurring waking sex dreams of your unsuitable Donny Adonis — squat in our mental attic like codependent ghosts. It doesn’t help that you can’t just decide to find him sexually repellant. We have a mental template for what we find hot — shaped by evolution, genetics, and individual experience.

There’s no little cartoon trash can you can drag it into because you’re hyperventilating over the wrong himbo.

Adding to the fun, social psychologist Daniel Wegner finds that “thought suppression” — trying to forget, ignore, or shove away thoughts — makes those thoughts come back with a vengeance. Wegner and his team instructed research participants, “Try not to think of a white bear.” This is a big fail right from the start, because the mind sweeps around to check whether you’re thinking of a white bear -- which means you’re thinking of the damn bear.

BY Amy Alkon obvious downsides of your next best option: a bathroom mirror DIY lobotomy.

Pouter Struggle

Q

: My girlfriend will say she’s okay with things when she really isn’t. But then she spends days pouting and making cutting remarks, never saying what the real issue is -like that she really wanted Chinese, not Thai.

Is our relationship doomed, or can I get her to be more direct?

— Beaten Down

A

: Telling people what you want is necessary under certain circumstances, like when a woman at the diner says, “Hi, I’m Madge, and I’ll be your waitress,” and not, “Hi, I’m a mindreader, here to guess what you want for lunch.”

As Mick Jagger points out, “You can’t always get what you want” — but asking for it is a major start. Your girlfriend, however, has what clinical psychologist Randy Paterson describes as a “passive” style of communication. It’s driven by fear (often “a profound fear of being rejected”) that leads a person to keep their needs on mute. In contrast with healthy assertiveness — explaining “Here’s what I’d like” in a timely way — your girlfriend’s approach is basically: “I’m a woman with needs!...but I won’t tell you what they are, and then I’ll go all funeralface for a week because you didn’t meet them.”

Her passive style is relationship poison. You can’t really know her when she’s always hiding who she is and what she wants. And because needs that go unexpressed are needs that can’t be addressed, she’s probably filled with anger and resentment — including sexual resentment from expecting you to be all “Fifty Shades of ‘Guess!’”

There does seem to be a way out using two obsession-reducing steps from psychologists Jens Forster and Nira Liberman. First, admit that it’s hard to keep from thinking about him, which alleviates the pressure to succeed at it. And my take: It might also help to find the funny in it when your hottieloop goes on repeat: “Really, Self? Again with the futility TV?”

Had your girlfriend written me to ask how she might change — that is, start asserting herself — I’d offer her advice on how to do that (and why she should). Your issue is different: inspiring her to want to change. Present this not as her problem but a relationship issue: You love her and want to make her happy, but that takes knowing what she wants. Ask her to go to couples therapy with you. (Chances are she’ll go whether she actually wants to or not!)

Second, crowd out thoughts of him with substitute thoughts. Say the alphabet backward or read a book aloud. Repeatedly, if necessary. (The underlying principle: You can’t hold two thoughts in mind or say two things at once.) Keep this up, and you should eventually (mostly) extract yourself from this mental torture loop — without the

This could be the beginning of a beautifully healthy relationship -- possibly with her, if she’ll do the work to risk being honest with you. Of course, the first step is being honest with herself when answering the question, “Why does he always ignore what I want?!”: “Um, because I communicate in a language used by ferns.”

lOGY

JAN 31 - FEB 06

BY ROB BREZSNY

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “All things are inventions

of holiness,” wrote poet Mary Oliver. “Some more rascally than others.” I agree. And I’ll add that in the coming weeks, holiness is likely to be especially rascally as it crafts its inventions in your vicinity. Here are the shades of my meaning for the word “rascally”: unruly, experimental, mischievous, amusing, mercurial, buoyant, whimsical, and kaleidoscopic. But don’t forget that all of this will unfold under the guidance and influence of holiness. I suspect you’ll encounter some of the most amusing and entertaining outbreaks of divine intervention ever.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else,” counseled poet and activist Maya Angelou. Author Toni Morrison said, “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” Author and activist Nikki Giovanni wrote, “Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.” I hope the wisdom of these women will be among your guiding thoughts in the coming weeks. As your own power and freedom grow, you can supercharge them—render them even more potent—by using them to help others.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself,” testified Miles Davis, one of the most unique and talented jazz trumpeters and composers who ever lived. Popular and successful author Anne Lamott expressed a similar sentiment: “I’m here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.” If those two geniuses found it a challenge to fully develop their special potentials, what chance do the rest of us have? I have good news in that regard, Scorpio. I believe 2022 will be a very favorable time to home in on your deepest, truest self—to ascertain and express more of your soul’s code. And you’re entering a phase when your instinct for making that happen will be at a peak.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the

course of human history, three million ships have sunk to the bottom of the Earth’s seas. At one extreme have been huge vessels, like the Titanic and naval cruisers, while at the other extreme are small fishing boats. Many of these have carried money, gems, jewelry, gold, and other precious items. Some people have made it their job to search for those treasures. I believe there could and should be a metaphorical resemblance between you and them in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Now is a favorable time for you to hunt for valuable resources, ideas, memories, and yes, even treasures that may be tucked away in the depths, in hidden locations, and in dark places.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It is

astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods,” wrote author Margaret Fuller. That’s the bad news. The good news is that your capacity for exposing and resisting falsehoods is now at a peak. Furthermore, you have a robust ability to ward off delusions, pretense, nonsense, inauthenticity, and foolishness. Don’t be shy about using your superpowers, Capricorn. Everyone you know will benefit as you zero in and focus on what’s true and genuine. And you will benefit the most.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): The year 1905

is referred to as Albert Einstein’s “Year of Miracles.” The Piscean physicist, who was 26 years old, produced three scientific papers that transformed the nature of physics and the way we understand the universe. Among his revolutionary ideas were the theory of special relativity, the concept that light was composed of particles, and the iconic equation E = mc squared. With that information as a backdrop, I will make a bold prediction: that in 2022 you will experience your own personal version of a Year of Miracles. The process is already underway. Now it’s time to accelerate it.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries actor Bette

Davis said that if you want to improve your work, you should “attempt the impossible.” That’s perfect advice for you right now. I hope to see you hone your skills as you stretch yourself into the unknown. I will celebrate your forays into the frontiers,

since doing so will make you even smarter than you already are. I will cheer you on as you transcend your expectations and exceed your limits, thereby enhancing your flair for self-love. Here’s your mantra: “I now have the power to turn the impossible into the possible and boost my health and fortunes in the process.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ancient Chinese

philosopher Sun Tzu wrote, “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” You’ll be wise to make that your motto during the next five months, Taurus. Life will conspire to bring you more and more benefits and invitations as you take full advantage of the benefits and invitations that life brings. The abundance gathering in your vicinity may even start to seem ridiculously extravagant. Envious people could accuse you of being greedy, when in fact, you’re simply harnessing a crucial rule in the game of life. To minimize envy and generate even more benefits and invitations, be generous in sharing your plenitude.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “’Because there

has been no one to stop me’ has been one of the principles of my life,” wrote Gemini author Joyce Carol Oates. “If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere,” said Gemini actor Marilyn Monroe. “Play the game. Never let the game play you.” So advised Gemini rapper and actor Tupac Shakur.

“Who I really am keeps surprising me,” declared Gemini author Nikki Giovanni. I propose that we make the previous four quotes your wisdom teachings during the next four weeks.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Your animal symbol is usually the crab. But I propose we temporarily change it to the tardigrade. It’s a tiny, eight-legged creature that’s among the most stalwart on planet Earth—able to live everywhere, from mountaintops to tropical rainforests to the deepest parts of the sea. In extreme temperatures, it thrives, as well as under extreme pressures. Since it emerged as a species half a billion years ago, it has survived all five mass extinctions.

I believe you will be as hardy and adaptable and resolute as a tardigrade in the coming months, Cancerian. You will specialize in grit and resilience and determination. PS: Tardigrades are regarded as a “pioneer species” because they take up residence in new and changed environments, paving the way for the arrival of other species. They help create novel ecosystems.

Metaphorically speaking, you could be like that.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I regularly ask myself

how I can become more open-minded. Have I stopped being receptive in any way? What new developments and fresh ideas am I ignorant of? Have my strong opinions blinded me to possibilities that don’t fit my opinions? In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to adopt my attitude in the coming weeks. For inspiration, read these thoughts by philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin: “If things speak to us, it is because we are open to them, we perceive them, listen to them, and give them meaning. If things keep quiet, if they no longer speak to us, it is because we are closed.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Like all the

rest of us, Virgo, you have limitations. And it’s important for you to identify them and take them into consideration. But I want to make sure you realize you also have fake limitations; you wrongly believe in the truth of some supposed limitations that are, in fact, mostly illusory or imaginary. Your job right now is to dismantle and dissolve those. For inspiration, here’s advice from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”

“Jonesin” Crosswords "Wordle Has It" -when _everyone_ is posting results. by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1. West African amulets (and bad word to open a certain game with) 6. Smoke detector noise 10. Frozen waffle brand 14. Backspace over, maybe 15. Pac-12 powerhouse 16. “Moonraker” villain Hugo 17. Entry at the top of some crossword grids, or a good description of the game’s dimensions?

19. Spice Girl who got a 2022 honor from Queen Elizabeth 20. Phobia 21. “Except ...”

23. Chess rating system 24. Make a choice 25. “You don’t have to tell me” 27. “In Living Color” acting family 31. Malfunctions, like a printer 34. “Easy On Me” singer 35. Radiant glow 36. Light bulb unit 39. Advanced H.S. math class 40. Blend thoroughly (and bad word to open with) 41. Highlight at The Met 42. Norway’s largest city 43. “Sorry, can’t” 44. Snarly kitten, maybe 45. “The Gift of the Magi” writer 47. Goat-legged revelers 48. Shows signs of tiredness 50. Complete collection 51. City area, briefly 52. Spirited gathering?

56. 1% alternative 60. It’s protected by a pad 62. Representation of a synthesizer sound, or the onslaught of game solutions people are posting on social media?

64. “To ___ a Mockingbird” 65. Door word 66. Ending with way or sea 67. Cryptozoological giant 68. “The Lion King” lioness 69. Wood-related isomer derived from coal tar used to make tear gas and dyes (and a *terrible* word to open with)

DOWN 1. “Survivor” host Probst 2. “Ugly Betty” actor Michael 3. Morning mugful 4. Operator 5. Coral or Caspian, e.g.

6. In the toaster for too long 7. Earth sci.

8. Contrarily 9. “Yeah, I’m out this round” 10. Dubstep or techno, e.g., for short 11. Eco-friendly bloc also seen when you win the game?

12. Ernest or Julio of winemaking 13. U-shaped bend in a river (and bad word to open with) 18. Baking measures 22. “Pretty sneaky, ___” (Connect Four ad line) 24. Free throw value 26. Iraq neighbor 27. Home of Baylor University 28. “Law & Order” figures, for short 29. Beginner’s karate wear, or clump you may see when letters are in the wrong places?

30. Tenor sax player who worked with Zoot Sims 31. Nervous from caffeine (and bad word to open with) 32. Indy champ Luyendyk 33. “Mad ___: Fury Road” 35. Love, in a telenovela 37. Stadium section 38. Road materials 40. Tavern 44. Mammal in a cave 46. Snaky letter 47. Fortune teller 48. Bad-tasting (a variant spelling ... and worse word to open with because of that) 49. Schwarzenegger, informally 50. Milan’s Teatro alla ___ 53. “2 Minute Drill” channel 54. Bluish color 55. ___ and void 56. Move back and forth 57. Designer Lagerfeld 58. Judith of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” 59. Jerry Garcia collaborator Saunders 61. Peyton’s brother 63. Das ___ (1990s hip-hop group)

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