If you’ve got a Leelanau event, you can add your information (for free) to the Leelanau Calendar. Not only will it be listed in this newsletter every week, but we may do a feature story on your event on Leelanau.com!
FEATURED EVENT
Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival ~ February 10-13, 2011
The 2nd annual Traverse City Comedy Arts Fes
tival is bringing some of America’s top comedic talent to Northern Michigan February 10-13. Bob Saget’s opening night show is on standby, but Friday and Saturday night feature performances by some of comedy’s most respected and well-known faces including Patton Oswalt, Jeffrey Ross, Caroline Rhea and Aubrey Plaza and festival hosts Jeff Garlin and Michael Moore. There will also be family-friendly performances by Comedy 4 Kidz and ComedySportz, free late-night events, surprise guest performers and some of the funniest movies ever made showing in the historic State Theatre.
For more information and to buy tickets for all of this year’s performances visit comedyfesttc.org!
Leelanau Children’s Center Carnival ~ Saturday, February 12
The annual Leelanau Children’s Center Carnival kicks off at NOON this Saturday (Feb 12) with a concert by Twang, Bang, Fiddle in the Leland Performing Arts Center. The Carnival begins at 12:30 in the gymnasium at Leland Public School and lunch will be served in the cafeteria. It features great family fun for all ages with games, raffle (including an iPad!), prizes, music, cake walk, fun and food! Click for more information!
Leelanau Winter Festivals in Glen Arbor, Empire & Northport!
February is the time to celebrate winter in Northern Michigan and Leelanau County has three great festivals that do exactly that with broomball, ice fishing, chili cookoff, sledding, polar bear dip and much more winter fun!
Click to the Leelanau Blog for information about the Glen Arbor & Empire Winterfests (next weekend) and Northport’s Winter Festival on February 26th.
Just a thought for the folks in Glen Arbor & Empire: Why don’t you call up the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and do a big old “Sleeping Bear Winterfest”??
Snowshoe Hikes in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Join a Park Ranger at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore every Saturday and Sunday through the month of February for a guided snowshoe hike. Read more from the Glen Arbor Sun and even if you don’t do the guided hikes, DO get out and ski or snowshoe in the Dunes and on other trails around the county!!
| MORE EVENTS FROM THE LEELANAU CALENDAR Feb 10 – Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival (Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival)
Feb 12 – Winter Wine and Vine Experience (Leelanau Community Cultural Center)
Feb 12 – Family Concert & Carnival (Leelanau Children’s Center)
Feb 12 – Free 50s-60s Sock Hop (Cedar Area Community Foundation)
Feb 13 – Glen Arbor Winterfest (Glen Arbor Chamber of Commerce)
Feb 16 – Insight and Inspiration Speaker Series (Leland Educational Foundation)
Feb 17 – City Opera House Volunteer Orientation (City Opera House)
Feb 17 – Desiree Vaughn-Talk About Art (GAAA)
Feb 18 – Talk about Art (Glen Arbor Art Association)
Feb 18 – Lewis Black: In God We Rust Tour (n/a)
Feb 20 – City Opera House Volunteer Orientation (City Opera House)
Feb 24 – The Aluminum Show (Castle Carpet Care and David and Jill Hall)
Feb 26 – Northport’s Seventh Annual Winter Carnival (Northport Omena Chamber of Commerce) Advertise on Leelanau.com – call us at 421-1172! | Support these and other sponsors of Leelanau.com!
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Did we mention you could add your events forfree? Get busy folks!
Ethnic Nights at the Bluebird in Leland happen every week on Wednesday & Thursday nights. Tonight you can celebrate Valentines Day with the food & wine of France featuring appetizers and entrees including Tarte Five Provencal, Terrine de Maison, Salmon Wellington and Cinnamon Poached Squash w/Calvados Pork! Next week is the exotic, aromatic cuisine of India paired with some delicious & bracing wines.
Now Playing at the Bay Theater in Suttons Bay: Now playing is True Grit (PG-13) by the Coen Brothers and starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin. Coming soon is The King’s Speech. The Bay Film Series 2011: Another year of great world cinema available right here in Suttons Bay, MI is now underway! The next presentation, ‘Women Without Men’ (R) Iran, will be held on 2/13-15. Mid-Week Specials are available!! Tuesdays – Free Popcorn (one medium corn with ticket purchase), Wednesdays – $5.50 for all seats (Specials are not valid for special events or film series). Bay Theatre Gift Certificates: ‘Say it with a Movie’ gift certificates provide a memorable and enjoyable experience all year ’round. Check the web site for details!
The Weather
Ken titled this Mt. Leelanau … erupts II and writes: Here is the next eruption following this one … notice the chunk of ice in the middle, the airborne one?! The chunk missed me, but I got a good soaking and new respect for the cone fields ; )
It’s 16 degrees (windchill of 4) under partly sunny skies at 3:15 PM at Leelanau Coffee Roasting in Glen Arbor. The record high for a February 10th was a scorching 57 degrees (2009) – a far cry from the mind, body and likely soul-numbing low of -33 set in 1899. They had a long run of double digit lows – that had to be hellish! The forecast for today calls scattered snow (no accumulation with highs in the mid teens and west winds at 10-15. There’s a chance of snow overnight and tomorrow with highs in 20s and southwest winds at 10-20+ on Friday. The weekend outlook calls for light snow, southwest winds at 15-25 and temps in the low 30s on Saturday. For Sunday, expect some sun and temps in the mid 30s!
Click for the news & weather from last year!
Happy Valentine's Day, Leelanau Lovers! 
