The 3rd annual Traverse City Film Festival takes place July 31 – August 5th and will screen over 60 films in a variety of categories this year, including American Independent Cinema, New Foreign Cinema, Dangerous Docs, and Overlooked & Outstanding Films. Highlights include dedicated matinee screenings of Children’s and Native American films; Midnight Madness, a […]
Here’s a video of 2 adult otters with their 3 pups in the Leland Harbor from Saturday night.
The Northport Community Arts Center presents The Sound of Music July 26, 27, 28, August 2, 3, 4 at 8:00 pm; July 29, August 5 at 3:00 pm (Sundays). The musical story of the von Trapp family and their escape from Austria just prior to World War II broke all box office records and won […]
The other day Cher Fettes drove from Empire to Northport for the Gallery Walk. Along the way, she stuck her camera out of the sunroof and clicked away. To view the results, click for her Off the top slideshow and then change the speed in the bottom left to fast. It’s just like a summer […]
The Leelanau Community Cultural Center hosts their 15th Annual Benefit Art Sale & Exhibition featuring over 90 Leelanau County artists at the Old Art Building in Leland. The opening night gala is Friday, July 27 from 5 to 8 pm with hors d’oeuvres and refreshments served. The exhibit continues through August 1st (open every day […]
Photo credit: Maggie at Empire Beach by O. Joy News from the Week The week’s news included the visit of the Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall to Leelanau, a video featuring the Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore on Pearl of America by Song of the Lakes and the amazing new Fishtown webcam from the Cove. (seriously, it’s […]
The annual Suttons Bay Jazzfest takes place next Saturday, July 28 at Marina Park in Suttons Bay and features fine wines and food from the Leelanau Peninsula and world-class jazz music. This year’s lineup includes The Interlochen Arts Camp Big Band, the Western Jazz Quartet, The Merling Trio, The Harry Goldson Quintet and headliner The […]
Here’s a video that features a visit to the Sleeping Bear shore and the song Pearl of America by Northern Michigan’s Song of the Lakes. Will it solve major problems or change the world? Probably not, but it might make you walk with a bit more spring in your step! If it doesn’t, then maybe […]
I ran into Sean Wanroy the other day, and he wondered if I’d checked out The Cove’s new Fishtown webcam. When I got a chance to check it out, I was amazed at how cool it was, with pre-set views including Fishtown, the breakwall, the dam, up river towards the Merc, north Lake Street, […]
The Leelanau Enterprise has an article on the Traveling Vietnam War Memorial. The wall is an 80% scale replica of the actual Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington DC. It will be in Leelanau County through Sunday night, also making an appearance at the Junior Royale Parade in TC tonight at the National Cherry Festival. There […]
Leelanau Tarts (fo-lomo) by Andy McFarlane (also see this unmodified photo) News from the Week The week’s stories included a feature on Michigan Surfing from Absolute Michigan (packed full of photos, links and great surfing videos) and a couple of new Leelanau on Location features for the Old Art Building in Leland (site of this […]
Surfing, Leelanau Style, photo by Andy McFarlane Today on Absolute Michigan we have a feature titled Michigan: Great Lakes Surfing Capital that I am pretty sure is the definitive collection of Great Lakes surfing videos that includes clips from Unsalted, the great movie about Great Lakes surfing. I didn’t find a Leelanau County video but […]