First Comes Love
Saturday - 7AM
Glen Lake Winterfest
Featuring a perch fishing contest & chili cook-off.Saturday - 8AM
17th Annual Young Writers Juried Exposition: Call for Young Writers
Elementary, middle & high school students who attend schools served by the Char-Em ISD (or home school students in Charlevoix ...Saturday - 8AM
Call For Artists
The call is open now through Mon., March 4 for the American Impressionist Society’s third annual “AIS Impressions Small Works ...Saturday - 8AM
Call for Artists: Ceramics Exhibition
Apply through March 23 for "Bodies of...", a juried ceramics exhibition.Saturday - 8AM-1PM
Frozen Torch 5K Snowshoe Race & Winter Carnival
YMCA Camp Hayo-Went-Ha's annual snowshoe race will be followed by the Winter Carnival. The carnival is free & includes a ...Saturday - 8AM
Interlochen Chamber of Commerce Breakfast
Proceeds help fund projects throughout the year for the Chamber.Saturday - 9AM
2019 Juried Photography Exhibition
Juried by John Fergus-Jean, this exhibition includes 43 photographs by 34 exhibiting photographers of local & regional acclaim. An opening ...Saturday - 9AM-12PM
Boyne City Indoor Farmers Market
Lost in the Lake
A mother dedicates herself to a nonprofit that recovered her son’s body long after the search was called off.
Losing a loved one to drowning is one kind of terrible tragedy. Not knowing where their body is, except that it’s out there in a certain section ... Read More >>Grocer’s Daughter Chocolates
Tastemaker
Doesn’t matter if your love is a pint-sized peanut, a vegan, or an ultra-picky chocoholic — Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate in Empire has the last-minute Valentine’s Day treats ... Read More >>Love & Basketball
Boyne City’s Nick and Julie Redman
Go to a Boyne City High School basketball game, and you’ll see something rarer than a Detroit Pistons victory parade. The Ramblers’ Nick and Julie Redman have ... Read More >>Wild at Heart
This Valentine's Day, bring your A-game with a homemade wild-game meal
Want to kick things up a notch this Valentine’s Day? Forget the predictable chocolates, flowers, wine, or jewelry — even the fancy restaurant dinner. A beautifully presented ... Read More >>Loss of Finger Doesn’t Stop Pianist
Concert for Left Hand Feb. 17
For Dr. Michael Coonrod, Memorial Day weekend 2014 was looking like any other. He went camping with the scout troop he sponsors, and after dinner they decided ... Read More >>
Cheboygan Brewing Co.'s Chocolate Covered Cherry Stout
Bottoms Up
Forrest Gump says life is like a box of chocolates, but if you ask us, it should be a lot more like Cheboygan Brewing Co.’s Chocolate Covered ... Read More >>
Feature
Sturgeon Fishing
Lake sturgeon, the prehistoric bottom-dwelling fish that roams only a select few Midwestern waters, is a threatened species[LW1] [LW2] . The sheer quantity of eggs an adult lake sturgeon carries makes the ...Feb. 2, 2019 | COMMENTS
Dining
Grand Traverse Sauce Co.’s DD214
Mark Baker was a Michigan State University public health graduate with a dream: He imagined he’d be fighting Ebola outbreaks in Africa. Instead, he ended up watching out for salmonella in northern Michigan. No ...Feb. 2, 2019 | COMMENTS
Music
Mix It Up With Some ’80s Babies
A massive 53-city schedule has been announced for The Mixtape Tour, an ambitious retro-music tour set to launch a little later this year. The tour will focus on ’80s music via headliners New Kids ...Feb. 9, 2019 | COMMENTS
Opinion
Running, Exploring, Lurking
Democrats are circling, posturing, and positioning themselves for 2020. At least 13 of them — there might be more by the time you read this — are running, exploring, or lurking about for a ...Feb. 9, 2019 | COMMENTS
Virtual Express
Trending
Bullies, Bots, and Trolls, Oh My!
In this turbulent political climate, internet harassment is clearly on the rise, largely due to a president who can’t make it through his first BK Whopper of the day without trolling anyone who disagrees with his half-baked public policy schemes. On Trump’s lead, online bullying of women, ... Read More >>
What if you hold a Gamblers Anonymous meeting and no one comes?
For the handful of people who regularly attend Traverse City’s twice-weekly Gamblers Anonymous meetings, something is amiss: New people rarely show up, and when they do, they almost always drop out after just a meeting or two.“So many people come for a week or month and then ... Read More >>
Locked & Loaded
Despite larger and louder movements against guns and gun violence, gun ownership in Michigan is on the rise, and with it, lots of new ranges and gunshops. Northern Express sends an amiable (and non-gun-owning) reporter to see what all the fuss is about. The 9mm pistol fit in ... Read More >>