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Saturday - 10AM
$1 Kids' Matinee
Featuring "Abominable."Saturday - 10AM
Festival of Trains
Runs Dec. 20 - Jan. 3. Santa visits on Sat., Dec. 21 & Sat., Dec. 27 from 1-3pm. Multiple opera…Saturday - 10AM-2PM
Indoor Farmers Market
Browse the Mercato halls every Sat. through April. More than 30 vendors offer a variety of items fr…Saturday - 10AM
Portraits of Place
Presented by CTAC's Kitchen Painters, this is a vibrant exhibition celebrating the beauty, spirit, …Saturday - 11AM
Beneath the Surface: Training Tomorrow’s Water Stewards
The Great Lakes Water Studies Institute at NMC is advancing freshwater, groundwater, & marine s…Saturday - 11AM
Dewey Blocksma: Roundtable
Blocksma's artwork is a gathering of figures & ideas, real & imagined, informed by medicine…Saturday - 11AM
Doug Cannell: "Selections from Backstories"
An introduction to Doug Cannell’s works that merge sculpture, installation, & storytellin…Saturday - 11AM
Ice Into Ocean: Arctic Tracings
This exhibition is the result of a seven year collaboration between Cy Keener & Justine Holzman…What to *SNOW* about the 2025-26 Ski Season
Cool temps, early openings as ski resorts prep for a frosty forecast
No one cheers an autumn … Read More >>Dashing Through the Snow
Your 2026 winter race calendar
How to stay warm this … Read More >>Nocturnal Bloom Is Blooming
Sharing a beer with brewer and owner Justin Rivard
What do you do as … Read More >>26 Ways to Ring in 2026 in Northern Michigan
The NYE countdown is on!
Counting the days, hours, and … Read More >>Climbing Out of the Winter Blues
ELEV8 and Petoskey Field House talk winter climbing
Sixteen years ago, Kevin Vlach … Read More >>
Family Fun Over Winter Break
10 inexpensive ways to keep the kiddos busy
Winter break has arrived, and … Read More >>
Feature
Film Review: Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Even if you watch Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere from the comfort of your own home when it hits video-on-demand starting Dec. 23, (the same way an estimated 75 percent of us now …Dec. 20, 2025 |
Dining
Right Bower’s Bower Breakfast
It’s all about the experience at Right Bower Kitchen & Coffee in Traverse City, from the elevated café classics to boutique shopping (featuring Michigan makers!) in their Seven Hills space shared with Old Mission …Dec. 20, 2025 |
Opinion
The Winter We Don’t Talk About
Winter settles in quietly at first. A gray morning here, an early twilight there, the hum of holiday lights blinking on before most of us are ready. And then suddenly, we’re in it, deep …Dec. 20, 2025 |
Virtual Express
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Christmas Survives Another Year
It’s about that time when a certain president will declare he has once again saved Christmas. Actually, Christmas hasn… Read More >>
A Solo Rattler
Frontman of folk-rock band Michigan Rattlers Graham Young brings his solo performance to Great Lakes Center for the Arts in … Read More >>
GTB Starting the Year with Tradition
The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians hosts the Kchi Wiikwedong Anishinaabek Maawnjidowin Round Dance on Ja… Read More >>