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Ruth Conklin Gallery hosts tenth annual Sticks Trunk Show
Business Feature, Upcoming EventRuth Conklin Gallery, Glen Arbor, is celebrating a decade of Sticks trunk shows Wednesday, August 3 through Friday, August 5, with guest artist Sarah Grant, Sticks creator/owner, and design staff from Des Moines.
Blu Chef demos at Farmers Market
Business Feature, Food/Organic Living, Upcoming EventA chef demonstration featuring Randy Chamberlain, chef and owner of Blu in Glen Arbor, will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the Glen Arbor Farmers Market. The chef demo is free, and everyone is welcome to watch Chef Randy prepare a meal using fresh produce and products from the farmers market.
Mulberries are ripe in the land of Sleeping Bear
Business Feature, Historical FeatureIf a tree could be a person, then the mulberry tree shading the grassy bank behind Riverfront Pizza & Specialties in Glen Arbor would be a kindly grandmother, offering shelter beneath her outstretched arms, inviting children to climb in her lap, and giving treats to her visitors — at least for a couple of weeks each year.
Manitou Music Festival welcomes Goitse and RFD Boys
Upcoming EventThis August the Manitou Music Festival continues its 21st season of exciting and diverse concerts featuring jazz, classical, blues, folk, country, celtic, bluegrass and world music in some of Michigan’s most idyllic settings.
Dunegrass Festival moves to Benzie County
Investigative Article, Upcoming EventAt the close of its second decade, the Dunegrass Music Festival now has a new home. The popular northern Michigan folk and bluegrass festival is leaving Leelanau County, where it was born to the late Mike Vanderberg in Empire in 1993 and exploded last decade to feature nationally known acts.
Greg and Wanda Sobran’s bold strokes
Business Feature, Local PersonalityOver the past 20 years, Greg and Wanda Sobran of Sobran Studios, have become fixtures of the Glen Arbor arts scene — if two inveterate, peripatetic adventurers could be described in such stationary terms.
Ann Arbor Film Fest, Keith Taylor headline Arts Collage
Upcoming EventThe Lake Street Studios’ free annual Arts Collage, on Sunday, July 31, at 8 p.m. welcomes back the Ann Arbor Film Festival tour for the third year running. The Film Fest tour this year will emphasize innovative experimental documentaries and visual pieces, according to Arts Collage organizer Harry Fried, who promises a show that will be “both challenging and aesthetically captivating.”
Duane’s Brats: More Fun in the Bun
Business Feature, Food/Organic Living, Local PersonalityDuane Campbell, a civil engineer turned brat entrepreneur, serves up these delicacies at the Foothills Café in Burdickville on Thursday through Saturday evenings. “I try to make inspired brats. Anyone can go to the store and buy a package of Johnsonville Brats,” he says. “Compare those to a handcrafted raspberry chipotle brat, or one with turkey, feta, tomato and fresh basil.” Duane often uses local ingredients, and always a better grade of meat than run-of-the-mill bratwursts.
Paintings by Day at Glen Arbor Art Association
Upcoming EventThe Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) continues its Summer Gallery shows with artist Mary Beth Day’s work. In this full gallery show, Mary Beth will present her newest landscape paintings. Featured will be scenes of the Leelanau area and other northern locations.
Leelanau landscape through Burian’s eyes
Upcoming EventPaintings of Leelanau County’s landscape — at least the landscape as processed through the imagination of Grand Rapids artist Margo Burian — are on display next at Center Gallery/Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A public reception opens the show July 29, 6 p.m.