All Blog Posts Tagged 'City' (75)

Traverse City Film Festival suing Traverse City Short Film Festival for trademark infringement is a whole lot of stuff and nonsense if not down right bullying. Here's how it works in the the big city where people don't seem to be confused by such trifles:

Los Angeles Film Festival

Los Angeles Arthouse Film Festival

Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival

Los Angeles…

Sept. 28 - Presented by Bob Moler and the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society

Dinner at 7:00pm $30/person

Desserts Only at 8:00pm  $10/person

Presentation/Night Skys at 8:30pm $5/person

Traverse City Events: If the calendar isn’t telling us summer is over, the weather is blowing up a roaring North wind sea on Lake Michigan that is so wild I can hear it from my house a block away from Sleeping Bear Bay. It’s Labor Day 2011, and okay universe, we hear you: time to turn our thoughts inside…

The Grand Traverse Bay area abounds with possibilities. There are endless miles of beaches alongside quaint towns with unique shops and galleries, wineries and breweries galore, and an array of culinary destinations. There is certainly something for everyone. Here we have compiled 5 days of itineraries filled with activities that will delight your senses and leave you with the most memorable experiences.

Day One:

Start your tour in the village of Suttons Bay.…

It's almost noon on Sunday, two days before the start of the 7th Traverse City Film Festival.  The New Foreign Jury has just watched the French film Queen to Play.  Leave it to the French to make chess sexy.  Queen to Play makes my jury's eighth foreign film so far. We've been ensconced in the cozy 35-seat Dutmers Theatre at the Dennos Museum on the southwest edge of NMC's campus since Friday morning.  All in all we'll have seen eleven films by the end of tonight.  After a…

Sometimes the gods smile. Or god. And maybe it was more a wink, but Bacchus was definitely playing me yesterday evening. I’d arranged to meet friends at Burritts Fresh Markets on West Front in Traverse City for a lift home to Glen Arbor after work. Early, I figured to buy a half-pound…

Caption: Sarah Brokaw and old friend and Traverse City resident Stephanie Long

I want to think that the couple I watched slinking out soon after Sarah Brokaw took the stage at the City Opera House in Traverse City last night didn't leave because it was the man's idea. If it was, she should have…

Time was, February in Northern Michigan was for hibernation. Those days are over. Blink nowadays and you've missed an incredible event. Here are some snapshots of a month of fun:

Feb. 3: New York Times bestselling author Doug Stanton takes to the City Opera House stage for the kickoff of the Traverse…

Okay Northern Michigan. Here's your chance to sound off about what you love best about our people, places, food, wine and events. Click to vote for the Red Hot Best of Northern Michiganand we'll be announcing the top three winners in each category in the June 2011 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. You'll find nominations on the ballot—but if you think you…

Traverse City Comedy Festival kickoff party number two is freshly tucked under my (still quaking from belly laughs) belt, and I’m declaring these parties must-do’s. Great food, drink and a buzz that starts climbing as Michael Moore and Jeff Garlin walk in and climaxes when they take the stage for a cameo stand up…

As we settle into the new year, plans for the 51st Annual Artcenter Traverse City Outdoor Art Fair are coming together.  The fair, which features 100+ fine artisans on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College, is always held the last Saturday of July.  This year, on Saturday, July 30, 2011, the Outdoor Art Fair will share the campus once again with the Traverse City Film Festival.  Each of these amazing events bring both Traverse City residents and visitors into the town.

If you…

On Sunday, Jan. 9, a team of American runners (most with northern Michigan roots) will leave the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on a 250-mile run. For 10 days they’ll jog through the ancient Rift Valley, sleep in highland villages and raise awareness with folks back home about rural poverty and lack of…

The VASA has been groomed and the skiing is great!

The groomers worked for over ten hours yesterday (Monday December 6, 2010) and their work really paid off. They rolled the entire system in the morning, and by the…

It’s odd to sit in a dark movie theatre and cheer for a woman who set her father on fire and likes to terrorize and tie up people, and tattoo things like “sadistic pig” on their stomachs while they are unconscious.…

I had heard quite a bit about this film: interviews with the stars, Catherine Keener and Amanda Peet; discussions about a moment in the film when Keener’s character, Kate, tries to give a man she thinks is homeless her

doggie bag from a New York restaurant, but it turns out he’s a customer waiting

in line. I had also heard about a controversial scene in which Keener’s

character and her husband buy

their daughter a pair of 230 dollar bluejeans. I was…

The premise is so simple. The story seems so small: an unemployed, dirt-poor writer with no business experience decides to open an eco-friendly organic vegetarian food stand in a park in Austin and finds meaning, love and success in the process. But there is nothing small about this

film at all. It was the first standing ovation I experienced at the Traverse City…

Headed from Lars Hockstad to the The Opera House for the 3:00 show of “The Tillman Story.” The mood of the crowd seemed to change as we entered the auditorium, which was more stately and formal than the previous theatre. Perhaps it was an instinctive sense of needing to switch from the frivolity of the first full day of the Traverse City Film Festival morning, and

the lighter and more humorous films most of us had seen thus far, in…