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Local Arts & Entertainment is updated every Friday and occasionally during the week. We post only a few Arts & Entertainment stories. For complete coverage of the area entertainment scene, pick up a copy of the Record-Eagle's print edition every Friday.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Director Kenneth Bloomquist is a former director of bands and of the School of Music at Michigan State University.
'NEVER A DULL MOMENT'
Popular Northport Community Band marks end of summer
NORTHPORT — When musician and Northport resident Kenneth Bloomquist decided to organize a community band 10 years ago, six players showed up — counting him. Most hadn't picked up an instrument in years. Despite that inauspicious start, the band stuck with it. Now it's one of the most popular groups in the area.
Friday, August 24, 2007
In today's print edition
Special to the Record-Eagle
The Allman Brothers will do one show at Boyne Mountain on Saturday. For the full story, pick up the print edition.
THE BLUES
Larry McCray headlines Camp Quality benefit
TRAVERSE CITY — The stage will belong to Larry McCray on Sunday night, but the Davison-based blues artist said this concert is not about him as he headlines a benefit show for kids fighting cancer.
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In today's print edition: Italian and more at Giovanni's in Interlochen
Friday, August 17, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Leo Kottke’s Aug. 23 show at Interlochen is sold out.
Leo Kottke picks at sold-out Interlochen
INTERLOCHEN — Leo Kottke has been performing and recording his brand of acoustic guitar instrumentals since the late 1960s, and will bring his virtuosic style to Interlochen Center for the Arts in a sold-out show on Thursday, Aug. 23.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones play at Interlochen Sunday.
GOOD PICKIN'
Bela Fleck strums his banjo's past at Interlochen
INTERLOCHEN — It's purely coincidence that Interlochen's College of Creative Arts is offering a handmade gourd banjo workshop the same week banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck performs there. But you can bet Fleck is going to check it out.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
The State Theatre in downtown Traverse City is set to open year-round in November.
COMING TO LIFE
State Theatre to open year-round in November
TRAVERSE CITY — Fans of "just good movies” won't have to wait until next summer to see them again. The Traverse City Film Festival plans to open the State Theatre year-round the week before Thanksgiving— traditionally a blockbuster week for movies.
- In today's print edition
- Colvin, Hiatt share double bill at Interlochen
- Particle rejiggers, tweaks; Band plays at Empire's Dunegrass
Friday, July 27, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Customers line up to buy advance tickets for films that will be shown during the Traverse City Film Festival. The ticket office is located at 300 E. Front Street in the Radio Center Building.
THE RUSH TO THE START
Workers, volunteers put on finishing touches; Lahti to receive filmmaker award
TRAVERSE CITY — Oscar award-winning film director, Birmingham native and part-time northern Michigan resident Christine Lahti is the second recipient of the Traverse City Film Festival's Michigan Filmmaker Award.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Tom Czarny (Antipholus of Syracuse), Esme Bloomquist (Luciana) and Scott Bufe (Antipholus of Ephesus) in Riverside Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," opening Saturday.
BARD ON THE BOARDMAN
Riverside Shakespeare troupe opens 'Comedy of Errors' Saturday
TRAVERSE CITY — Twins, togas and ancient Turkey will get the Traverse City treatment when the local Riverside Shakespeare troupe brings its annual outdoors performance to Hannah Park on Sixth Street opening Saturday.
2007 TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Interlochen alumni Jim Stephenson wrote a piece for friend Rodney Mack and his second cousin, Branford Marsalis, pictured.
MUSICAL TIES
Interlochen grad writes piece for Marsalis, Mack
INTERLOCHEN — Rodney Mack and Jim Stephenson met as high school students at Tanglewood's summer program, where they played together in the trumpet section and became fast friends. So when Interlochen was looking for a composer to write a piece for Mack and his famous second cousin, Branford Marsalis, Stephenson was the obvious choice.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
MAKING THE LIST
60-plus choices for 2007
The 2007 Traverse City Film Festival list is out. It's heavy on documentaries. Foreign films are well-represented, as are American independent films. For the first time, there's an animated film.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Bob Dylan performs at Interlochen Center for the Arts Tuesday.
Dylan sells out Interlochen
INTERLOCHEN — The buzz behind this summer's Interlochen Arts Festival concert series is tangled up in Bob. Bob Dylan, who plays at Kresge Auditorium on Tuesday, is one of the biggest names ever to perform at Interlochen Center for the Arts. It's one of two Michigan dates on his current tour.
- In today's print edition: 42 acts make for pure 'Bliss'
Friday, June 29, 2007
The Associated Press
Michael Moore, second from right, poses with volunteer 9/11 rescue workers Bill Maher, left, Reggie Cervantes, second from left, and John Graham following a special screening of Moore's new film "Sicko" last month in New York. Maher, Cervantes and Graham are all the film.
YOU'LL LAUGH, YOU'LL CRY
Michael Moore's latest film opens nationwide today
TRAVERSE CITY — Oscar- winning filmmaker Michael Moore believes his new film, which examines health care in the United States, will do well as it's set to open nationwide today on 440 screens. Locally, it's at Carmike Horizon Cinema 10 in Traverse City and at The Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Tyler Sipe
Dominic Fortuna and cast will present "I Believe in Music," a salute to pop culture to be held at The Williams- burg Showcase Dinner Theater.
BLAST FROM THE PAST
Dinner theater debuts
new pop music revue
WILLIAMSBURG — Dominic Fortuna wants you to take a trip down memory lane with his latest production, "I Believe in Music,” opening tonight at 7. "A lot of Broadway musicals are leaning toward that revue-type show,” Fortuna said. "They blend pop music and pop culture so a whole generation can enjoy looking back.”
- In today's print edition: Zaccaro's opens in Charlevoix
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
DMX, a.k.a. Earl Simmons, brings is Dog Days of Summer tour to Streeters Wednesday.
DMX stopping by Traverse City Wednesday
TRAVERSE CITY — Let's just say that when you're in the middle of interviewing DMX and he barks at you, "How many more questions?” you'd better only have one or two. He'll bring that same biting intensity to Traverse City with him for one stop at Streeters Ground Zero on his Dog Days of Summer tour Wednesday.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Reynolds
TELEVISION
Local TV writer gets project ready for HBO
LELAND — If Rebecca Reynolds has been spending more time in Los Angeles than in Leland lately, it hasn't been to soak up the sun. The Leland-based TV writer-producer has been researching and writing for her new HBO project, "Assume the Position 201 With Mr. Wuhl,” which premieres July 7 at 10 p.m.
Friday, June 15, 2007
In today's print edition
Special to the Record-Eagle
The Wailin' Jennys open the Summer 2007 Interlochen Arts Festival on Monday. For more on the Arts Festival, pick up today's print edition.
THE SWEET SOUNDS OF JAZZ
Trumpeter Sweet Willie, quintet at Northport
NORTHPORT — Trumpeter Sweet Willie Singleton has played with many jazz and pop stars during his career, but he narrowly lost out on chances to play with two of the biggest.
- In today's print edition: On restaurants, realistic expectations
Friday, June 8, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle/Joanie Moore
Bellaire Theater owners Leonard and Elaine Dawson prepare for the June 16 premiere of "Sicko."
PUTTING ON THE RITZ
Bellaire prepares for North American debut of Michael Moore's latest film, 'Sicko'
BELLAIRE — Elaine Dawson has owned the Bellaire Theater with her husband, Leonard Dawson, for 28 years, and she's never seen such an attraction. On May 26, Michael Moore announced that his newest film, "Sicko,” will make its North American debut June 16 in the little theater in Bellaire, a town of roughly 1,000 people.
- In today's print edition: Area chefs find place of their own
Friday, June 1, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Under the direction of choreographer Erin Peck, Brian Cheatom and Megan Madison rehearse their dance steps for "The Wiz."
PUMPED UP
Summer theater company returns with two shows
TRAVERSE CITY — Miracle Productions is back with two new musicals at the Dennos Museum Center's Milliken Auditorium this summer. On this year's lineup are "Pump Boys and Dinettes,” opening June 28; and "The Wiz,” starting July 25.
Friday, May 25, 2007
A BLOOMING ADDICTION
Orchid competition, exhibit and sale runs Sat.-Sun.
TRAVERSE CITY — Little did Peg Brace know that the orchid her brother-in-law gave her as a simple gift roughly 25 years ago would turn into an addiction. "I got hooked,” Brace said. "Once you get an orchid to blossom, you want to keep trying.”
Friday, May 18, 2007
Shows make the most of renovated City Opera House
Record-Eagle/
Jan-Michael Stump
New seating at the City Opera House will double its capacity.
Symphony Orchestra honors those who served
TRAVERSE CITY — The Traverse Symphony Orchestra is pulling out all the stops for its season finale, and here's an early warning: Have tissue handy. From its opening to its close, the Memorial Day weekend program is designed to leave no eye dry.
- In today's print edition: Greek flavor coming to Cherryland Center
Friday, May 11, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Jeff Haas and father Karl backstage before a 1994 duet concert.
A LIFE OF GOOD MUSIC
Jeff Haas Quintet pays homage to father Karl
TRAVERSE CITY — Karl Haas taught his son a valuable lesson at a young age. "He taught me the difference between playing the notes right and making music with the notes,” said jazz artist Jeff Haas, who will be performing a tribute to his late father Saturday in Traverse City.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Chris Brubeck was a student at Interlochen Arts Academy from 1965 to 1969. He's one of at least 75 jazz alumni returning this weekend to celebrate a 40-year tradition.
ALL THAT JAZZ
Interlochen alumni return to celebrate 40 years
INTERLOCHEN — Dave Sporny still recalls the first jazz group he put together at Interlochen Arts Academy in 1967. "At the time, the place and the administration were very, very conservative,” noted the then-24-year-old instructor of low brass, who went on to found the now-renowned jazz studies program.
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
By day Ted Forcier sits behind a desk and drives a a Ford Explorer. In the evening he fires up his his VW Rabbit and goes door-to-door selling reflective address signs. "The rabbit cost me about $1,000. and I figure it will save me that much in gas in a year. So in a little over a very I will have paid for it in gas savings," said Forcier.
Now that $3 for gas is the norm, drivers, businesses face a hard road ahead
TRAVERSE CITY — When gas hit $3 a gallon in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, most Americans took a wait-and-see attitude before re-thinking their driving habits. Now that it appears the $3 gallon is here to stay, many of those same people are making lasting changes. And nowhere is that more apparent than in northern Michigan, which saw some of the highest gasoline prices in the country in May.
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
Record-Eagle/ Tyler Sipe
Daniel Rivas, left, and Joelcinei Guimaraes compete for possession of the ball during a Summer Spanish League match on the Old Mission Peninsula.
'ARRIBA!'
Hispanic soccer league attracts families, followers
BOWERS HARBOR — "Tocala, tocala, tocala,” yelled Hugo Reyes, as the soccer players moved the ball down the field. "Pass it, pass it, pass it,” his shout translates. Reyes sat among more than 50 people on the sidelines or in vans or pickup trucks watching the Summer Spanish League game between squads from Lake City and Suttons Bay.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
From left, Japanese exchange student Keisuke Yanagisawa, 12, Sarah Townsend, 8, and brother George Townsend, 12, play a Japanese game similar to chess at the Townsend home on the Old Mission Peninsula.
JAPANESE STORY
Exchange program unites two worlds in four weeks
TRAVERSE CITY — Keisuke Yanagisawa doesn't know a lot of English. But he knows the word "homesick.” And he knows he's not. Whether he's wrestling with his host brother on the family room couch, folding origami paper into shapes on the kitchen counter or bounding through the Old Mission house to retrieve his electronic dictionary, it's clear the Japanese student feels right at home in northern Michigan.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
White Birch Lodge, an all-inclusive family camp on Elk Lake, will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year.
THE FAMILY PLAN
Classic resort bucks trends and is going strong
ELK RAPIDS — Rick Conrad has stewarded the White Birch Lodge with his family for 49 years. The destination is one of an endangered species, an "American Plan” resort where families pay one rate for a week or more of lodging, three meals a day in the dining hall and different activities each night of the week.
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In today's print edition: Here's Carol Duvall — only this time, on paper
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Dave Durdel, of Traverse City, comforts his Ibizan Hound Tango while the 1-year-old dog has threaded stainless steel external fixator pins removed from his once-broken, now-healed leg at the Animal Medical Center in Traverse City.
HEROIC MEA$URE$
Some owners pay thousands to save pets
With advances in veterinary treatment and care, fixing Fido after illness or accident can run in the thousands of dollars — and many owners are willing to pay.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
From left, Pat Long and her husband Ozzie Long, Alina and Tricia Stevens stand at the gate to the Forks State Forest Campground, which is now closed to campers.
Family scrambles to maintain 60-year tradition
After serving in World War II, Tricia Stevens' grandfather returned to northern Michigan and began a family tradition of camping on the Boardman River with his wife and children. Stevens' family has never missed a summer at the Forks State Forest Campground — until now. Due to budget constraints, the DNR unexpectedly closed the campground.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
8-year-old Grace Haynes of Suttons Bay hugs Jane Thomas, left, and Pert Thomas, both of Northport.
YOUNG AT HEART
Visits bring generations together at nursing homes
SUTTONS BAY — Jane Thomas, 88, chuckled as she watched a group of children volleying around a bag filled with red, white and blue balloons. She was one of about 25 "grandmas and grandpas” at Tendercare Health Center of Leelanau participating in an activity that brings together children and those who live there.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Mitchell Johnson, 14, holds a photograph from his royalty days as a National Cherry Festival prince for Bertha Vos Elementary School. Now several years older — and with his two front teeth intact — Johnson is still an enthusiastic participant in festival events.
FUN WITH A CHERRY ON TOP
National Cherry Festival is a playground for kids
TRAVERSE CITY — Lani Bathje can still recall the excitement of festival week, when she and her friends packed in as many events as they could. Now Bathje is helping make memories for new generations as coordinator of its Children's Events.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Florina Ackley gets a ride across the Mackinac Bridge, driven in her own car by Tom Caption of the Mackinac Bridge Authority. "Every time I come and say, 'I can do this,' but I can't," Ackley said. "I just don't like heights."
TROUBLED OVER BRIDGED WATERS
Crew offers rides to those with severe phobia
ST. IGNACE — The Mackinac Bridge gives Florina Ackley the jitters, but she wasn't in dire straits as she drove from suburban Detroit to her home in Wausau, Wis. She just picked up a phone in Mackinaw City and a Mackinac Bridge Authority employee gave her a ride across. She's among more than 1,000 people per year who ask for a lift from one side to the other.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Richard and Kimiko Williams aboard
Riki.
CALL OF THE WATER
Boaters leave land behind
TRAVERSE CITY — Broiling under a hot sun at Clinch Marina's E dock, Bill Hubbell reclined in a deck chair, surrounded by a cooler, a boom box and a jangling cell phone. "You have to have amenities,” said Hubbell, who was getting an early start to the weekend aboard his 24-foot Rinker.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Todd Elsenheimer takes care of twins Aiden and Avery as a single parent after his wife Dhana, pictured above, died nearly two summers ago.
FATHER'S DAY WITHOUT MOTHER
Dads find challenges, rewards in going it alone
TRAVERSE CITY — Todd Elsenheimer was thrust into single fatherhood without warning when his wife Dhana died two years ago while their twin son and daughter were 18 months old. Now, as the twins are 3 and a half, he's raising them while running a business. "It's crazy, but I'm not doing it alone,” he said.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Marta Hepler Drahos
Beth Turner of Maple City at a garage sale where she parted with her childhood collection of Nancy Drew mysteries.
GROWING UP WITH NANCY DREW
Teen sleuth influences generations of women
When Nancy Drew makes her 21st-century movie debut Friday, tween girls won't be the only ones in theaters. Their mothers and grandmothers — many of whom grew up on the teenage sleuth — will be sitting beside them. "I loved Nancy Drew because she was adventurous,” said Christine Hauke.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Record-Eagle/Garret Ellison
From left, stepmother Biz Ruskowski, father Jerry Ruskowski Sr., mother Liz Berger and stepfather Mike Kroes wear their support for Jerry Ruskowski Jr., far right, who is graduating from Traverse City West High School this year. His graduation party last weekend had a political theme.
RITE OF PASSAGE
Graduation party season under way for another year
With graduation season already under way, so is the unique cultural tradition called the graduation party. Running the gamut from casual open houses with picnic fare to tented and catered affairs complete with entertainment, the events are in many ways similar to weddings, said one northern Michigan caterer.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
“This was our Thanksgiving house and the Christmas Eve house,” Shannon Lichty said of the home on West 11th Street in Traverse City that’s been in her family since her great-grandfather bought it.
FACING FORECLOSURE
Number of people losing their homes is growing
Seven years ago, Shannon Lichty had it all: a loving family, a small business and a brand "new” home — a 142-year-old Victorian bungalow built by Traverse City founder Perry Hannah in the peaceful Kids Creek neighborhood. Two months after Christmas 2006, the house was foreclosed on. Lichty's plight is a familiar one around the country, especially in Michigan.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Crystal Haase is the director of the Telamon Corporation Michigan Migrant Head Start Center in Bear Lake.
HEAD START ON SUMMER
Migrant programs gear
up for a new season
BEAR LAKE — Located off the beaten path about a mile north of Kampvilla RV Park and its prominent landmark, a giant yellow dinosaur, the Bear Lake center is one of two Migrant Head Start centers in northwest Lower Michigan that are gearing up for the growing season.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Mike and Nicole Bell with their three children, Leah, 4, in front, and 1-year-old twins Paige, left and Michael.
ANOTHER PATH TO MOTHERHOOD
Transferring embryos is
an option for parenting
TRAVERSE CITY — Nicole and Mike Bell have had the entire parental experience with their twins Michael and Paige. They waited out the pregnancy with all of its usual anxieties and joys. They saw the ultrasound images of the babies in the womb. She gave birth by caesarean section and breast-fed the babies for about six months. They've shared everything with the twins except one. Their DNA.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Abby Beale and her husband Chuck have been participating in house-swapping. So far they’ve stayed in homes in North Carolina and Florida. Their home near Frankfort offers a spectacular view of Upper Herring Lake.
HOME SWAP
Exchanges grow as way to take affordable vacations
FRANKFORT — Abby and Chuck Beale want to trade their "fine rustic retreat with beautiful sand beaches” near Lake Michigan and Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, Traverse City and "many fine wineries” for a home or cottage in Greece or Italy. For a few weeks, that is.
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Kateri Walker with documentary-maker Randy Vasquez who is filming “The Thick Dark Fog: Healing From the American Indian Boarding Schools.”
HOPING FOR A MIRACLE
Woman attempts to save Holy Childhood school
HARBOR SPRINGS — A former student of a shuttered Indian boarding school has launched an 11th-hour effort to save it from the wrecking ball. Kateri Walker asked Catholic officials in a recent meeting for a one-year delay in demolition of the building that for decades housed the Holy Childhood of Jesus Christ school in Harbor Springs.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Ken Washburn, left, and Dr. Mark Holley display some of the equipment they are using to survey the Grand Traverse Bay. Holley, an underwater archaeologist, is using Total Station, survey equipment that was donated by Gourdie-Fraser.
IMMERSED IN HISTORY
Local diving group uncovers clues to past
TRAVERSE CITY — There's more under these waters than sand, seaweed and fish. The Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve Council has been looking for new and interesting dive sites since May. Members have already found what they believe are an ancient petroglyph that looks like a mastodon.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
A new Elk Rapids history book covers the years 1850-1950 with more than 800 pictures.
A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
Elk Rapids is revealed
in photo history book
ELK RAPIDS — The village of Elk Rapids has a rich history that dates back to the mid-19th century and even further. Author Glenn Ruggles' new book, "Elk Rapids: The First Hundred Years,” helps reveal to contemporary readers the time period when whites first settled in the Elk Rapids area.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Donna Mikowski will be closing up shop at her family-owned rock business by year’s end.
END OF AN ERA
Old-fashioned rock shop
to close at year's end
TRAVERSE CITY — In less than six months, the folks at Davidson Rock Shop on Randolph Street will be turning off their rock polisher and bidding a fond farewell to the family-owned and -operated business that began as a hobby some 45 years ago.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Steven Shaw, 2, of Tampa, Fla., and James Rochowiak, 2, of Chesterfield Township, check out one of the miniature horses in the petting zoo at Black Star Farms in Suttons Bay. The zoo features miniature goats, lambs, llamas, Vietnamese potbelly pigs and rabbits.
WINE AND SHEEP
Black Star Farms offers petting zoo and more
SUTTONS BAY — Wine tasting may be one of the main attractions at Black Star Farms, but visitors with the inclination can get a taste of farming, too. Tucked away on the Black Star grounds is a petting zoo, farmers market, garden and stables.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Traverse City native Michael Foerster is a NASA Ambassador for the Jet Propulsion Lab and will be leading several astronomy-related programs here soon.
FROM TC TO THE STARS
NASA astronomer comes home to teach at NMC
TRAVERSE CITY — Michael Foerster doesn't think we're alone. Foerster, a Traverse City native, believes there are probably other planets in the universe that support life. An educator for NASA and an astronomer, he will teach three short, non-credit courses for Northwestern Michigan College this summer.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
The Bensley and Roman family show off their high enthusiasm for the popular book and movie series Harry Potter.
WANDS AT THE READY!
Harry's final chapter means party time for fans
TRAVERSE CITY — So, how's it going to end for Harry Potter? Victory over Lord Voldemort? Defeat? Death? Flip to the end and find out if you must at one minute after midnight Friday, when the long-awaited final chapter in the Harry Potter saga goes on sale.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
The Village of Buckley is getting ready to celebrate its 100th anniversary as a village. Sheila Gokey has been leading the organization of the celebration that will take place July 27-29, and Carl Zue, 91, will be the grand marshall.
BUCKLEY AT 100
Community to hold centennial celebration
BUCKLEY — Buckley, which was incorporated as a village in 1907 so that it could receive fire protection, will observe the 100th anniversary of that occasion with a three-day celebration later this month.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
After having an accident while riding his bike, Bill Aten needed help to clean and get his barn ready for summer bookings of bluegrass, country and other types of acts at “Aten Place” near Boyne Falls. His friends pitched in and did the job for him.
MAKING IT HAPPEN
Show goes on with help from caring crew
BOYNE FALLS — After Bill Aten was hit by a car while bicycling, he wasn't able to get his 90-year-old dairy barn ready for the series of country, bluegrass and folk concerts he's been hosting in the summer. That's when a group of friends stepped in to clean and set up Aten Place for the season, also tending to his flower beds and pruning trees and bushes.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Record-Eagle/Emmy Parsons
The historic Holy Childhood School in Harbor Springs will be razed at the end of the summer.
'A THOUSAND WHISPERS'
Historic Holy Childhood School to be razed
HARBOR SPRINGS — It has been decades since any boarding students lived in the Holy Childhood of Jesus School in Harbor Springs, but the halls still echo with the sounds and stories of those who came and went so long ago.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Benzie Area Historical Museum board member Jerry Heiman poses with some of the film from Benzie County’s past that is being transferred to DVD. The archived footage shows businesses, schools, recreation and other slices of life from areas including Elberta, Frankfort and the Platte River.
OLD HOME MOVIE NIGHT
Group preserves Benzie area's history on DVD
BENZONIA — Films that sat in a stack of lifeless reels for years have finally been freed to move, breathe and tell their stories. They're movies of life in Benzie County in the 1930s to the '60s. The Benzie Area Historical Museum has put the films on DVD to let the images survive beyond the fragile life expectancy of deteriorating celluloid. The group will show about an hour's worth of highlights to the public on Saturday, June 30.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Gypsy, a border collie, was rescued after Hurricane Katrina, and adopted by Barbara Peters and her husband John.
'THAT TAIL NEVER STOPS'
Dog owners, lovers to converge on Civic Center for annual show
TRAVERSE CITY — With just a week to go before the Grand Traverse Kennel Club Dog Show, Barbara Peters put Southern Gypsy Belle through her paces Friday on the standard-size agility-obedience course adjacent to her Dyer Lake home.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Tyler Sipe
From bottom left going counter- clockwise, Bill Letsche, Bob Rosso, Ned Ver Hagh and Bernie Schmitz play a hand of bridge in Elk Rapids.
TUESDAYS WITH THE GUYS
Bridge club brings together longtime pals
ELK RAPIDS — Each of the 12 men arriving at Ned Verhage's house plunk down a $1 bill and head straight for one of three tables. They mostly ignore the counter where the snacks and drinks are until after the first round. They don't waste time chatting before they quickly get to the cards. "That's what the ladies do when they play,” Larry Flowers said, chuckling.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
This 28-by-32-foot log home with a loft and full basement is being raffled off by the Missaukee Conservation District. It's the third time the organization has held such a fund-raiser to make up for budget shortfalls.
FOR SALE BY DISTRICT
Conservation group to raffle off new log cabin
LAKE CITY — Less than 10 miles from Lake City, a brand new, cozy log cabin sits on five-and-a-half acres. And it can be yours for just $50. The Missaukee Conservation District is raffling the cabin as a fund-raiser to offset budget shortfalls. During a time of state budget cuts, conservation district funding is unstable through 2009.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Alexis Floyd holds up a piece of rhubarb to show classmates while practicing her docent speech on farming practices at Samels Farm in Williamsburg.
DOCENTS FOR A DAY
Students learn by
teaching at farm museum
WILLIAMSBURG — Courtney Isenhart wasn't yet born when the Samels brothers gave up farming on their century-old homestead. But the Elk Rapids eighth-grader knows as much about their lives as subsistence farmers in 1920s Williamsburg as many of the Samels Family Farm's current neighbors.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Travis Hanson, in driver's seat, and father Terrance Hanson, riding shotgun, tour together on the rally racing circuit.
FATHER & SON TEAM
Despite crash, Hansons cruise to national goals
WILLIAMSBURG — Every young boy wants to be a race car driver at some point. Luckily for Travis Hanson, his father never outgrew that desire, either. "Dad is the right person to have in the right hand seat,” said 22-year-old Travis, the man behind the wheel of Team Hanson Racing, a Williamsburg father and son combo.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Special to the
Record-Eagle
Mike Zernow is pursuing an inter-
national career as a traceur, or practitioner of the emerging sport of parkour.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Local men finding international success in emerging sport of parkour
TRAVERSE CITY — Mike Zernow and Levi Meeuwenberg are busy bouncing off walls and getting paid for it. But they didn't drink too much coffee and aren't hopped-up on sugar. Rather, the two 20-year-olds are finding international success as traceurs, or practitioners of the emerging sports of free running and parkour.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Longtime Traverse City-area summer visitor Anni Macht Gibson is making the permanent move to northern Lower Michigan.
BEAUTY IS THE ATTRACTION
Area, small-town atmosphere inspire writer
TRAVERSE CITY — Anni Macht Gibson has only been coming to northern Michigan for 25 years, compared to the century or so that her husband's family has been putting down roots in the region. But her adopted summer home — soon to become a more permanent residence — inspired many of the poems in her first collection of poetry, "Unfinished.”
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Education
The Education section runs every Tuesday in the Record-Eagle.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Marsha Myles works with her two co-founders Dave Hendrix, left, and Lauren Chapple as they make plans for offering online courses. The three were meeting in the basement of Horizon Books in downtown Traverse City.
TEACHERS IN (CYBER)SPACE
Three institute online courses as graduation requirement resource
TRAVERSE CITY — The future looks bright for learners who are willing to give online education a try. Three Traverse City school teachers have recognized that and launched CyberEdSchools.com where students can sign up for courses that have been developed by certified and qualified teachers.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Sara Baumann with one of the children from a village where she was conducting a women’s meeting.
SHARING THE LOVE
Student devotes time to helping people in India
Sara Baumann, a senior at the University of Michigan and a 2004 graduate of Suttons Bay Schools, has her whole life in front of her. She could pretty much choose to do anything with it. But what rocks the 21-year-old's world and makes her feel alive is helping others —especially women and children — in Chennai, India.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Traverse City Film Festival box office manager Bryn Lynch leans on a barrier at the festival’s box office. Lynch teaches at Traverse City Central High School.
'A' FOR EFFORT
Teachers make strong showing at film festival
TRAVERSE CITY — As the office manager of the film festival for a second year, everything from printing schedules to organizing volunteers falls under Pam Forton's jurisdiction. And that is just what she does on her summer vacation.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Molly Hohman, 6, and Abby Trudeau, 6, talk about what's on the cover of a book they’re reading with Bobbi Ross of Traverse City during the CMU Summer Reading Clinic at Lakeland Elementary in Elk Rapids. Certified teachers in Central Michigan University’s Master of Arts degree in Reading and Literacy Program K-12 are helping 28 students from kindergarten through high school with their reading skills this summer.
CMU PROGRAM
What did they do on their summer vacation? READ
ELK RAPIDS — Her parents made her do it. Quite frankly, Kristen White wasn't too keen on the idea of going to school during her summer vacation, especially more than 1,500 miles from home. White's family, from North River Shores, Fla., has vacationed in Traverse City since she was 5. This year, her parents decided the 11-year-old could use some brushing up on her reading skills at Central Michigan University's reading clinic hosted by Lakeland Elementary School.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
SUMMER STOCK WITH A TWIST
Bay View offers singers, musicians a chance to polish skills
BAY VIEW — Hallie Silverston is on the fast track to a professional singing career, but it's the life of a millworker that drew her to Bay View. "I'd seen that they had planned on doing 'Carousel' this summer, and Julie Jordan is a role I have always wanted to play,” said Silverston, a student at the Bay View Conservatory of Music from Grenada, Calif.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Five interns at Northwest Michigan Health Services are continuing with migrant outreach by conducting further health surveys and studies in Project Puente.
INTERNS HIT THE FIELDS
Study helps identify needs of seasonal farm workers
TRAVERSE CITY — With an ever-changing population coming to the region from diverse locations and backgrounds, Northwest Michigan Health Services Inc. staff needed more information about the region's farm workers. And so began Project Puente, or "The Bridge Project,” in 2006.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
William Barnes of Traverse City attempts to break a pinata during his 8th birthday celebration at Bryant Park in Traverse City.
REST EASY WITH SLEEPOVERS
Follow instincts in setting up overnight gatherings
After working from dawn to dusk to grow and harvest cherries, you might think that coming into the kitchen and cooking with them would be the last thing a farmer would want to do. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Five-year-old Katherine Hopkins makes a face while handling glue to create a sculpture she titled ‘fireplace’ at NMC’s College for Kids in Traverse City. Dozens of summer classes are offered for youth of all ages including studies in art, science, music, technology, dance and adventure. Hopkins was participating in “Art, Art and More Art.”
LEARNING FOR FUN
NMC's College for Kids offers another kind of summer school
College comes early for hundreds of area kids this summer with the start of another year of Northwestern Michigan College's College for Kids program. With classes ranging from "Break a Leg” acting to "Brush, Blow and Splatter” art and "Space Kids,” area children have the chance to learn about countless subjects in intensive one-week programs.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Reuters Photo
2003 Grayling graduate Charley McNamara addresses the crowd, with Bill Gates smiling up at him, during Harvard's recent graduation cerem- onies.
Grayling grad wows Harvard crowd with 'Star Wars' Latin speech
Can you say "Star Wars” in Latin? Charley McNamara can. In fact, the 2003 Grayling High School graduate was a Latin-speaking Jedi knight when he addressed the crowd at Harvard University's 356th graduation ceremonies recently. An audience of 35,000 listened to him deliver an eight-minute speech — written by him, and entirely in Latin, no less — on the subject of Harvard and ... "Star Wars”?
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Katelyn Vestrand, 15, foreground, and Kelly Adamson, 15, spread mulch as they work to clean up the Traverse Area District Library grounds.
BROADENING THEIR HORIZONS
Students participate in People to People ambassador program
TRAVERSE CITY — Words couldn't express how Meghan Karriger felt when the People to People program acceptance letter arrived in the mail. The sophomore at Petoskey High School joins a coalition of northern Michigan students, ranging from fifth through 12th grade, as People to People ambassadors when they travel to Europe in July.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Record-Eagle/Garret Ellison
Gabi Whaley, 10, left, Brianna Holden, 9, center, and Graceanne Tarsa, 9, transplant Anise Hyssop herbs in the greenhouse at the The Children's House Montessori school in Traverse City.
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD
School teaches children
to grow their own food
To say that Gabi Whaley's schoolyard is unique would be an understatement. Not only does her class make a snack for the whole school every week, but the fourth graders planted, tended, harvested and prepared that food in their classroom, which boasts a kitchen, commons area, greenhouse and outside garden plots.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Record-Eagle/Garret Ellison
Adam 'NiXOn' VanBerlo, 23, of Traverse City, plays Call of Duty 2 on a modified personal computer at home. VanBerlo is the administrator of the annual FragFest LAN party at the Grand Traverse County Civic Center.
WHEN PLAYING GAMES PAYS
Locals using FragFest to plug into lucrative careers
TRAVERSE CITY — Jasen "Pip” Hutchens can attribute the eighth-floor desk in downtown Chicago and more than $30,000 annual salary at JP Morgan Chase, in part, to video games. Hutchens, 23, is one of a handful of locals who have plugged into success in the information technology field on the laurels of an annual Local Area Network (LAN) party called FragFest.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Douglas Tesner
Ann Bardens- McClellan works with Robbie Dohm during a first-grade writer’s workshop at Old Mission Elementary.
FUN-DAMENTAL
Authors, teachers drum up enthusiasm for writing
The first-graders at Old Mission Peninsula School did something their teacher, Connie Thompson, rarely sees. They decided to end free time early. What prompted such unheard-of behavior? The kids saw their special friend, Dr. Ann, walking down the hallway. And three minutes later they had cleaned up their play area.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Christian Johnson, 9, listens to instructions. Third graders participated in a dance and visual arts project focusing on the so-called Trail of Tears.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
Project brings dance to every Benzie third-grader
FRANKFORT — Third-graders at Frankfort Elementary School could have learned about the so-called Trail of Tears the old-fashioned way — through social studies books. Instead they explored the forced relocation in 1838 of the Cherokee Native American tribe to the Western United States through a dance and visual arts project aptly titled "Mosaic.”
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Lois Beardslee teaches a Native American literature class for Northwestern Michigan College. The class is designed to help readers interpret the ways that Native Americans are portrayed in books.
BEYOND WORDS
Course focuses on portrayal of Native Americans in books
TRAVERSE CITY — Lois Beardslee is teaching for the first time this semester at Northwestern Michigan College. Her class is intended to help readers determine which books portray aboriginal people realistically, and which ones misrepresent them.
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June 5, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
East Jordan High School English teacher and journalism adviser Roxanne Zell, front center, won the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s Golden Pen Award after being recommended by the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Alice Perrault, 17, right, and Tynel Starr, 18, left, and through the hard work of the rest of the school newspaper’s staff.
STAR FOR TEACHER
East Jordan students deal with 'prior review'
What started out as an innocent question soon turned into a whole lot more. On April 17 at the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association conference in Lansing, the staff of The Devil's Advocate at East Jordan High School waited to see if our adviser, Roxanne Zell, had won the Golden Pen.
May 1, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Douglas Tesner
Jodi Simmer, her son, David, 19, and her daughter, Hali, 16, all attend NMC.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Mom and her two children attend NMC at same time
I am a home-schooled sophomore, and for the last two years I have had the privilege of taking classes at NMC. It's been great to have the classroom experience, and I am so thankful for the opportunity to be dual-enrolled. What is unique this year is that my brother and my mom are also taking classes there.
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Food
The Food section runs every Monday in the Record-Eagle.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Clayton McPherson, 20, of Traverse City transports cherry tanks at Gallagher’s Centennial Farm near Traverse City. Gallagher’s re-opened its doors this past spring after being closed for nearly 20 years.
ROAD FOOD
Farms along Long Lake offer makings for dinner
The scenery just a few minutes west of Traverse City is idyllic, and even better is that three small family farms along Long Lake Road in Grand Traverse County are selling the food they raise or grow at their farms. Motorists soon will be able to pick up all of the makings for dinner on the drive home — the meat, the milk and the veggies — and know exactly where it came from.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Old Mission Peninsula resident Julie Finch prepares chicken pasta with hollandaise sauce. Finch keeps a list of five to seven potential meals on her refrigerator and crosses them off as they are prepared.
BACK TO COOKING
Almost time to get back into a routine for school
Heather Perkette works full-time and has three busy elementary school-age children. But when the lazy days of summer end and school starts next month, she won't be worried about what they'll be eating for dinner. The key, she says, is planning.
- In today's print edition: Pleasanton Bakery opens at GT Commons
Monday, August 13, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Douglas Tesner
Emmy Parsons learns from her grand-
mother, Sue Garthe, a recipe for Garthe’s homemade doughnuts.
COOKING WITH GRANDMA
A lifetime in the making
There's an old family story that the reason my Grandma Garthe's baked goods are so light is because the flour was sifted by angels. We, the grandchildren, played in the flour bin and sifted the flour with our tiny hands. And over the years, we ate the countless goodies. But we never learned how to make any of them. I decided the time had finally come to learn.
Monday, August 6, 2007
In today's print edition
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
This December, Mike Skarupinski, a chef and instructor at NMC’s Culinary Institute, will take his teaching skills aboard a ship for a seven-day cruise where he will teach a class on chocolate. For the full story, pick up today's print edition of the Record-Eagle.
For the recipes from this article, click here »
GRANDMA'S KITCHEN
Of surprise birthdays and traveling grandsons
I'm having a terrible time staying on task; the beautiful outdoors keeps calling my name. I was up this morning in time to wake the birds, anticipating my drive through the country roads to church. It was downright inspiring.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle/
Joanie Moore
Katie Hinds with her homemade jam. Hinds is among area young people who submit food for fair compe- titions.
COOKING IS FAIR GAME
Kids enter foods in fairs for fun, ribbons
Katie Hinds, at the ripe old age of 12, can whip up a batch of brownies or a cake without any adult help. There are still many northern Michigan families like Katie's that are carrying on the tradition of baking and cooking from scratch. Like dozens of other children, Katie will have the opportunity to showcase her culinary talents at the county fair in August.
Monday, July 23, 2007
In today's print edition
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Asian Coleslaw topped off with sesame seeds makes for a light summer dish. For more on summer slaws, pick up today's print edition of the Record-Eagle,
or view the recipes here »
DESSERTS
Fruit sweetens summer
Thanks to the abundant fruit of orchard and bramble, pies we make at this time of year can be a glorious blend of flavors — honey-sweet apricots and winy cherries together under one flaky-crisp crust, a trio of berries thickened into a jam-like filling in another, the rich fruit flavors of nectarine and blackberries playing off each other in a third.
Monday, July 16, 2007
In today's print edition
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Cindy Ruzak, who owns the Grey Hare Inn Bed & Breakfast with her husband Jay, is known for her Crepes du Nord, or "Up North Egg Crepes." The dish is made with scrambled eggs, sauté
ed green onions and mushrooms and 7 grain wild rice folded in a crepe.
For the full story, pick up the print edition of today's Record-Eagle.
TRADITIONS
Festivals are celebrations of food
TRAVERSE CITY — Cherries seem pretty ho-hum when you take a look at some of the other festival themes that are included in a soon-to-be-released book, "The Best Recipes from America's Food Festivals.”
Monday, July 9, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Leelanau County resident Nita Send with her cherry cashew cookies.
CHERRIES JUBILEE
Farmers bring cherries from field to kitchen
After working from dawn to dusk to grow and harvest cherries, you might think that coming into the kitchen and cooking with them would be the last thing a farmer would want to do. That couldn't be further from the truth.
- In today's print edition:
- From tree to tabletop: Steps along the cherry trail
- Polish, proud and prolific in the kitchen
Monday, July 2, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Plenty of cherries, including dried, will be used by students enrolled in the Great Lakes Culinary Institute at Northwestern Michigan College in the preparation for the National Cherry Festival.
SWEET AND SAVORY CHERRIES
Traverse City's favorite makes for D'Vine dishes
Whether you like them slightly sweetened, paired with a buttery pastry or chopped into a savory chutney, the cherry is a versatile powerhouse in the kitchen. Now is the time to celebrate this tiny tart fruit, grown on hundreds of northern Michigan acres, by sampling the array of cherry culinary delights that will be available during the upcoming National Cherry Festival.
Monday, June 25, 2007
In today's print edition
Special to the Record-Eagle
Good crust and filling make the difference between a ho-hum cherry pie and one that those who taste it will remember for a long time. Pick up today's print edition of the Record-Eagle for the full story, and
view recipes from the article here »
FOODIE WITH FAMILY
Slow cookers, Sloppy Joes to the rescue
Today, I was working at my computer for five minutes when my 5-year-old, Ty, hollered down the stairs, "Mom! I'll be good now!” That was his way of asking me whether his banishment for sitting on his brother and poking him in the eye with a pickle could end. The pickle is a favorite torture device around here. The pickle-as-weapon preference is probably owing to the fact that there are so many, since I canned 70-something quarts of them last summer.
- Also in today's print edition: Recipes from Michigan restaurants
Monday, June 18, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Douglas Tesner
Author Marie LaPointe Hanis cooks up a batch of Roasted Red Pepper Curry Sauce for dinner at home. The sauce will be placed over rice.
TELLING STORIES WITH RECIPES
New cookbook includes reflections on life
Marie LaPointe Hanis of Williamsburg has penned a new book that is several parts recipes to one part essay. According to the introduction of "The Rustic Gourmet: Earthy Elegance from the Woods of Northern Michigan” (Golightly Press, $19.95), Hanis started compiling material for the book in the 1980s when she was cooking and caretaking at Beaverdam, a hunting and fishing club near Vanderbilt.
- In today's print edition: Author passionate about words behind food
Monday, June 11, 2007
In today's print edition
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Elizabeth Pahl, 6, and her father, John Pahl, make pancakes from scratch for breakfast. In today's print edition, Nancy Krcek Allen profiles dads who know their way around a kitchen. Pick up today's paper for the full story, and
view the recipes in the articles here »
FRESH COOKING
Summer recipes that are as cool as a cucumber
Who doesn't love a cucumber? Picklers, slicers, green or yellow, smooth or bumpy, thin- or thick-skinned, chubby Kirbys, little cornichons, English, Japanese, Persian. Good thing then that with the impending heat comes cucumber season.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Taylor Peek, an eighth-grader at Traverse City West Junior High School, samples fresh asparagus recipes.
ABCs OF FRESH FOOD
Schools, farmers bring produce to students
Eighth-grader Anton Chekhovskiy was a little hesitant about sampling the roasted asparagus at a taste-testing event at Traverse City West Junior High last week. He was one of more than 125 students in seventh through ninth grades who lined up to not only taste a locally grown vegetable, but give their feedback about it as well.
Monday, May 28, 2007
In today's print edition
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Jonathan Chupp, an Amish resident from Manton, tends to broad-breasted white turkeys. Consumers have taken notice of Amish agriculture and farming practices because of their mitigating environmental impact compared to their giant commercial counterparts.
For the full story, pick up today's print edition, or view the article's recipes here »
THE UPPER CRUST
There's nothing like a recipe you can trust
Can a pie crust recipe really change your life? I guess it depends on how much you like eating pie — and how much you hate making crust. I really hated making crust, at least until I found the perfect recipe.
Monday, May 21, 2007
The Washington Post/ Marvin Joseph
Paula Deen proves that she has a way with grits — and, of course, butter.
TRUE GRITS
Paula Deen's memoir is
an instant smash hit
It might as well have been a scene from "Paula's Party,'' one of Paula Deen's two Food Network shows. While on a book tour for her bestselling new memoir, "Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin','' she stirred, tasted, seasoned and served while fielding compliments.
Monday, May 14, 2007
In today's print edition
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Sandor Ellix Katz has a glass of kefir, a fermented milk drink, at the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa. The author advocates a fermented food revolution.
For the full story, pick up today's print edition. Get the fermented food recipes from the article here »
SEASON'S EATINGS
Vegetables take center stage in new cookbook
Just in time for spring produce and the opening of farmers markets comes "Vegetables: Recipes and Techniques from the World's Premier Culinary College.”
Monday, May 7, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Tyler Sipe
Chris Courtright spent eight years in the culinary business before becoming an insurance agent.
FROM KITCHEN TO OFFICE
When chefs turn in aprons for other professions
Long hours and late nights, holidays at work rather than home, high stress: this was anything but a recipe for the good life for former working chef Chris Courtright. "It's a hard career. It's great in many aspects, but it has huge drawbacks,” said Courtright, a Culinary Institute of America graduate.
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Well-Being
The Well-Being section runs every Wednesday in the Record-Eagle.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Molly Bridges Williams recently walked 60 miles over three days in Chicago as part of the Breast Cancer 3-Day Benefitting Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Williams trained all summer for the event, which she completed in memory of her sister, Theresa Bridges Price, who died April 8, 2006.
A WALK TO REMEMBER
Woman goes the distance for breast cancer, sister
TRAVERSE CITY — Nobody could blame Molly Williams for wanting to give up. Her feet hurt. The heat was topping 90 degrees. She was drenched in sweat — 60 miles of walking through metropolitan Chicago takes endurance. But every time she thought about quitting, Williams remembered why she was there, and her sister, Terri Price.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Ginny Loomis, a nurse for Munson’s spine and nerve pain treatment center, uses a library computer.
A MEDICAL RESOURCE
Munson library is available to public as well as staff
TRAVERSE CITY — Sandy Cartwright began searching for information about Celiac Disease as soon as she was diagnosed in 1991. But aside from what the doctors told her, she could find little information about the autoimmune intestinal disorder. Then the hospital created the Munson Community Health Library.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
By Lauran Neergaard
The Associated Press
Glimpse into new frontier of rehabilitation
A weird treadmill is pushing people at a Baltimore research hospital into sloppy versions of Michael Jackson's moonwalk, in hopes of training stroke survivors and others with brain injuries to walk normally again. The custom-built treadmill hides a split belt — one side can move one foot backward while the other moves forward, and at different speeds.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Los Angeles Times
Hormone replacement therapies such as Prempro typically contain estrogen or estrogen and progestin combined. Single and combination therapies also had different effects in the study.
HORMONE THERAPY
New studies show younger women have less risk
Hormones seemed like the answer for Nancy Adams when hot flashes began disrupting her sleep seven years ago. The little pill that she got from her doctor solved the night sweat problem and she slept like a baby once again. All went well — "until,'' the Los Angeles resident says, "the study came out.''
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Mary Lou Williams, Safe Haven coordinator at Child And Family Services of Northwestern Michigan, sits in a room that has a one-way mirror for supervised parental visits.
NEUTRAL TERRITORY
Agency provides 'Safe Haven' for visitations
TRAVERSE CITY — Michelle was going through the dying stages of a bad marriage. Pending child visits by her ex-husband made her extremely nervous and stressed. She needed a secure site where her former husband could visit his child without all the tension that cast a dark shadow over every contact between the couple. Then she found Save Haven.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Special to the
Record-Eagle
Gaylord nurse practitioner Mary Seger has published a new book for women.
KEEPING MAMA HAPPY
Women urged to take time for themselves to find joy
Need help to beat the blues? If you're a patient of nurse practitioner Mary Seger, you may get a prescription to go home, find a comfortable chair, put it in a cozy spot, and tell every else to keep off!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
In today's print edition
The Washington Post
Last month, scientists at Clemson University in South Carolina determined that applying the five-second rule to dropped food will not prevent the food from gathering bacteria. Full story in today's paper.
LAURAN NEERGAARD
Fish oil might protect preemies' sight
Perhaps nowhere in the body is the adage "you are what you eat” so true as in your eyes, a link scientists are banking on in a novel bid to save premature babies' vision. Doctors are about to begin testing whether fish oils could prevent a disease that can silently attack behind preemies' tiny eyelids, one that strikes about 16,000 U.S. infants a year and blinds hundreds.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The Washington Post
CLOSE TO THE BONE
Middle-age exercise not
as effective as drugs
If you're looking for evidence that diet and exercise can match the effectiveness of drugs in staving off osteoporosis in middle age, you're going to be disappointed.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Harrison Franklin, 6, smiles for the camera while his mother, Marlowe Franklin applies sunblock before a trip to the beach with his brother and sister. Harrison, who is autistic, typically can only stay at the beach for short periods of time because he gets overstimulated, his mom said.
ADDRESSING AUTISM
Diagnosis is just the beginning for parents
TRAVERSE CITY — About one in every 150 children in the U.S. has autism, the most common condition in a group of developmental disorders called autism spectrum disorder. Yet learning where to turn after getting the diagnosis can be frustrating for many parents.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
In today's print edition
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Traverse City resident Kathryn Gray went on a two-month mission trip aboard a ship functioning as a ward physician just off the coast of Monrovia, Liberia. For the full story, pick up today's print edition of the Record-Eagle.
COLUMNIST LAURAN NEERGAARD
Looking for the earliest signs of Alzheimer's
Tiny motion sensors are attached to the walls, doorways and even the refrigerator of Elaine Bloomquist's home, tracking the seemingly healthy 86-year-old's daily activity. It's like spying in the name of science — with her permission — to see if round-the-clock tracking of elderly people's movements can provide early clues of impending Alzheimer's disease.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Thomas Dunfee and Barb LeJeune look over some computer records. Dunfee has been practicing medicine for more than 42 years and now volunteers his time at the Traverse Health Clinic.
CARE FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Clinic relies on goodwill
to provide free care
TRAVERSE CITY — The excitement is obvious in Dr. Leslie Heimburger's voice when she talks about her volunteer role at the Traverse Health Clinic and Coalition. "I get to provide quality health care to people who are underserved,” said Heimburger, who has been voluntarily caring for patients at the clinic every other Monday since 2004. "It's very different from private practice. I probably get much more out of it than the patients get out of it.”
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Los Angeles Times
Some new sun protection products fall into two categories: those that help repair cellular skin damage and those that make the skin less sensitive to the sun.
SPOTLIGHT ON TANNING
Science turns protection from the sun inside out
Constant worrying about the sun and its power to burn, wrinkle and mottle the skin — or worse, cause cancer — comes with the summer territory. But what if there was an extra level of protection, say a pill or a lotion, that helped prevent the most common effects of too much ultraviolet light? Researchers are working on it.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Gretchen Murray studies a map of the TART bicycle trails. She was plotting the logistics of a bike commute from her home in Garfield Township to the Record-Eagle's offices on Front Street.
GRETCHEN MURRAY
Adventures getting there from here on two wheels
Way back when gas was only $2.50 a gallon, I would sit at the traffic light at Hannah and Garfield in Traverse City while a parade of wheels crossed the TART Trail in front of me. Bikes, strollers pushed by moms on inline skates, kids wearing backpacks and riding skateboards — even then, I admired their fuel-free independence. Even more, I envied their healthier lifestyle.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
BRIDGING THE DIABETES DIVIDE
Gap in diabetes care found
between haves and have-nots
LOS ANGELES — Jack Perkins, 28, has lifestyle choices middle-class people take for granted. From his home in Valencia, it's a quick walk to the grocery or health foods store. He exercises daily, lifting weights in his condo's workout room or jogging through safe, quiet, meandering streets.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The Washington Post
Among women's shoes, fashion has truly trumped function. Shoes can put stress not just on feet, but on ankles, knees and backs, contributing to the apx. $3.5 billion spent annually in the United States for women's foot surgeries.
IF THE SHOE FITS
Footwear function
clashes with fashion
They're made for walking, jogging, hiking, even dancing. But in the centuries since our ancestors first wrapped their feet in woven grasses and animal skins to protect them from rough surfaces, function has clashed with fashion in the design of our shoes. The crocodile-hide loafers and cowboy boots that cross paths with dress oxfords on today's city streets are often chosen for what they say about their wearer rather than for comfort.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Traverse City resident Lori Tylutki was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2004. The syndrome left Tylutki in bed for nearly three years and was often mobile only using a wheel chair. Tylutki and other speakers will take part in a one-day conference at the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa.
TIRED OF FEELING ILL
Conference focuses
on Chronic Fatigue
TRAVERSE CITY — Lori Tylutki was an energetic, experienced nurse in Munson Medical Center's intensive care unit when she developed an illness that changed her life forever. "It first began as an intestinal bacterial infection,” recalled the 48-year-old Traverse City resident. "But I never fully recovered from it and grew weaker and weaker. Eventually I was bedridden for 3½ years.”
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Special to the
Record-Eagle
Asianne Imani leads students in stretches designed to ease them into her Middle Eastern dance class.
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
Instructor turns to
dance to get healthy again
TRAVERSE CITY — Asianne Imani studies with some of the world's top ethnic dancers, performs as a soloist around the country and leads workshops in authentic dances from the near East, far East and Middle East. But eight years ago, she could barely lift her head off the pillow.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Postpartum depression, a hormonal problem that can prompt new mothers to be overcome by feelings of despair, should not be ignored.
FROM HAPPY TO SAD
Postpartum depression
can be debilitating
TRAVERSE CITY — Nicole had struggled with depression and anxiety in the past. But when she became pregnant with her first child, she was determined not to have problems with "the baby blues.” "I didn't think much of it until I went back to work,” said the Traverse City woman, whose daughter is just about to turn a year old.
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
The Rev. Mike Maurer stands with other members of Norwood United Methodist Church outside the church and its new steeple, which was replaced last year.
THE CONGREGATION THAT COULD
Small church raises $60,000 to repair steeple
NORWOOD — For more than 120 years, the little white church has stood resolute at the corner of Gennett Road and Fourth Street in Norwood. Since 1884, Norwood Church has been offering comfort and support to the generations of faithful who crossed its threshold to baptize, marry, mourn and pray.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
By Gretchen Murray
Local columnist
FUN WITH FAITH
Programs nurture spirituality in children
Forget the hot summer week of scripture memorization, coloring books and the proverbial orange drink, Protestant churches have stepped into the 21st century by ramping up their summer Vacation Bible School offerings. With the lure of names like "Avalanche Ranch: A Wild Ride Through God's World” and "Great Bible Reef: Dive Deep Into God's World,” they're getting kids' attention — and participation.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
By Gretchen Murray
Local columnist
A wake-up call in the checkout lane
I was tossing groceries from the cart on to the conveyer belt in the checkout lane at the supermarket, when, next to the supermarket tabloids' blaring headlines of alien babies and Hollywood breakups, my eyes caught the title of a little pamphlet tucked on the news stand, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Faith.” I didn't resist the impulse purchase. In fact I saw it as a personal message. As efficient as I was trying to be at keeping things running normally and making extra time for activities, there was this little wake up call that my priorities were still skewed.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Iakovos Olechnowicz began working at the Traverse City Orthodox Mission on July 1. He relocated from Vestel, New York.
GRETCHEN MURRAY
Answered Prayers: Orthodox congregation welcomes its new pastor
TRAVERSE CITY — Fans of "just good movies” won't have to wait until next summer to see them again. The Traverse City Film Festival plans to open the State Theatre year-round the week before Thanksgiving— traditionally a blockbuster week for movies.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Record-Eagle/Gretchen Murray
Christina Biancardi of St. John, Ind., and Angela Weimer of Cleveland hold a discussion on faith with Corina Fessler of Traverse City.
GRETCHEN MURRAY
Students spend spare summer time evangelizing
On warm summer evenings people head for the Traverse City beaches. Some go to relax, some to exercise, and some to spread the word of God. This summer, 29 college students from across the Midwest have hit the town's beaches in an effort to share their faith and the mission of their organization, Campus Crusade for Christ.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Dance instructor Jennifer Howard is offering classes in religious-themed music at The Dance Center located at 225 E. 14th St.
GRETCHEN MURRAY
Art form moves out of the studio, into churches
Ask Jennifer Howard what inspires her dancing, and she'll likely say the spirit moves her — the Holy Spirit, that is. The Kalkaska County resident, who has been dancing for 18 years, realized early on that her talent was a gift. It's a gift that she's been willing to share with her own congregation and the community.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Douglas Tesner
Dave Ramage during an open session at the NMC gym.
BLESSINGS AND BASKETBALL
Pastor creates camaraderie on court
INTERLOCHEN — Rodney Mack and Jim Stephenson met as high school students at Tanglewood's summer program, where they played together in the trumpet section and became fast friends. So when Interlochen was looking for a composer to write a piece for Mack and his famous second cousin, Branford Marsalis, Stephenson was the obvious choice.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Special to the
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Zosia Petrowski receives Holy Communion from Bishop Cooney during the 2006 Mass with Polka Music.
GRETCHEN MURRAY
Polka Mass is integral
part of Cedar festival
Who says making a joyful noise unto the Lord can't include a polka band? Surely not the residents of Cedar where, for longer than anyone can recall, a Eucharistic celebration with polka music has been a part of the town's four-day polka festival.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Mark Tafelsky, left, director of the Christ the King Parish Choir, plays the piano and leads choir members during their last rehearsal before departing for Italy. The group is singing at various locations, including the Vatican.
GRETCHEN MURRAY
Choir goes on the road
If the singing at Christ the King Catholic Church sounds a little off key Sunday, it's due to the absence of the choir. On Tuesday, 18 members of the Acme church choir along with 34 parishioners left Traverse City for a 10-day singing tour through Italy that culminates with a performance at the Vatican and an audience with Pope Benedict XVI before they return home.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Congregation Beth El's synagogue, built a century ago, resembles the architecture of small, rural synagogues in Eastern Europe at that time. The congregation is celebrating its 120th anniversary this weekend and a public open house is scheduled here from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday.
SMALL BUILDING, BIG HERITAGE
Beth El observes
milestone anniversary
TRAVERSE CITY —The story of Congregation Beth El is as much about the settling of the American frontier as it is about faith, community and the Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to escape oppression and injustice.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Special to the Record-Eagle
Left, START NEW participant Ruth Ann Turner of Cadillac, left, takes part in a hands-on cooking demonstration led by nutritionist Traci Nietling.
MISSION: GOOD HEALTH
Cadillac church promotes wellness for its members
Many in northern Michigan are enjoying the benefits of better health thanks to a new outreach program of the Cadillac Seventh-day Adventist Church. According to George Corliss, facilitator of the church's START NEW Series for Healthful Living, participants are making healthy inroads into losing weight and reducing symptoms of chronic lifestyle diseases.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
By Gretchen Murray
Local columnist
A LASTING LEGACY
Ministry videos fast becoming treasures
Every so often a new idea revolutionizes the way we see things, and in local religious circles, the new Faith Legacy Ministry is quickly becoming one of those ideas. Still in its infancy, the ministry that got its start in Petoskey is on the cutting edge of a new approach to addressing end of life issues and holds the potential to change the way we view death and funerals. In its few, short months, Faith Legacy Ministry has gained a foothold in northern Michigan and is quickly spreading across the country.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
The Associated Press
The Rev. Danny Fleming, right, and the congregation recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the United Methodist Church in Big Isaac, W.Va. Fleming is one of two part-time pastors who visit five rural churches in the area. The churches pool resources to save money.
SURVIVAL OF THE SMALLEST
Rural faithful struggle to keep churches vital
BIG ISAAC, W.Va. — It's an idyllic setting for Sunday worship: a small, white church on the slope of a gentle hill. Outside the sanctuary, two dogs lie in the shade. The only problem is there are just 20 worshippers inside, a situation that's become common in rural America as small churches struggle with dwindling memberships, aging congregations and less money to keep the lights on.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Jan-Michael Stump
Donna Beegle, a poverty reduction expert from Oregon, spoke to a group at The Presby-
terian Church of Traverse City.
GRETCHEN MURRAY
Partners in
fighting poverty
Where would you turn if you found yourself homeless? What if you tried hard, but couldn't find a job? Would you know where to turn for shelter, food or medical care? National poverty expert Dr. Donna Beegle on Monday offered representatives from area churches some frank answers
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Religion News Service
Yale scholar Willie Ruff is convinced that American Indians helped shape today's gospel music.
ROOTS MUSIC
Scholar finds American Indian origins to gospel
Jazz musician and Yale music scholar Willie Ruff, who uncovered the links between 18th-century Scottish singing and black gospel music, has connected another group to the style: American Indians.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Record-Eagle/
Gretchen Murray
Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is considered to be a master in the art of Jewish storytelling.
BEST OF THE BESHT
Brooklyn man is master of thousands of tales
Storytelling has long been used as an effective way of passing down religious tradition. Judaism is one faith that thrives on telling the stories of its rich heritage. No one loves a good story as much as the Jewish people, and as Jewish storytellers go, Yitzhak Buxbaum ranks at the top.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
The Associated
Press
The Rev. Will Bowen poses with the bracelets that his Kansas City, Mo., congre-
gation, Christ Church Unity, distributes worldwide.
THE 21-DAY CHALLENGE
Church spearheads effort to curb complaining
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Rev. Will Bowen tries not to complain. He wants everyone else to stop carping, too — all six billion of us on the planet. And his message, first preached in a sermon at his small suburban church, has caught on — even though some critics note complaining serves an important function.
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