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!
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Taste the Passion Weekend ~ February 5-6, 2011
Celebrate wine, chocolate and love at the upcoming Valentine’s Day at the Taste the Passion weekend this weekend (February 5 & 6, 2011). The combination of winter’s beauty in Leelanau with the special pleasures of life always makes for wonderful weekend. You can enjoy special pours and tasty chocolate treats or savory pairings at Leelanau wine trail wineries.
To add to the weekend’s festivities, several of the wineries will hold special events and activities exclusively for “Taste the Passion” ticket holders to celebrate the beauty and fun to be had in our winter wonderland!
Art From Michigan’s Wine Country
Great art, wine and food are the main events for Art From Michigan’s Wine Country, Friday, February 4th from 6-8 p.m. in the Mountain Flowers Lodge at The Homestead Resort, Glen Arbor. It’s a special evening that kicks off the Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association’s Taste the Passion weekend. For a third year, this fun winter event features wine from Leelanau wineries, original art by local artists and a fabulous small plates menu designed by The Homestead’s Chef Piombo.
The price is $20 per person, a portion of which benefits the Glen Arbor Art Association, and includes one glass of wine and food stations with delectable small plates. Additional wine available for $4/glass or three glasses for $10. A coffee tasting will be provided by Leelanau Coffee Roasters.
Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival ~ February 10-13, 2011
The 2nd annual Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival 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!
Snowshoe Hikes in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
There’s no better way to stick to your New Year’s Resolution than by joining a Park Ranger at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore every Saturday and Sunday through the month of February. 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 8 – Meet The Winemaker: Black Star Farms (Uncorked)
Feb 8 – LIWDA monthly meeting (LIWDA)
Feb 12 – Family Concert & Carnival (Leelanau Children’s Center)
Feb 12 – Winter Wine and Vine Experience (Leelanau Community Cultural Center)
Feb 12 – Free 50s-60s Sock Hop (Cedar Area Community Foundation)
Feb 13 – Glen Arbor Winterfest (Glen Arbor Chamber of Commerce)
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)
Feb 27 – Fundraiser for Pete’s Place Youth Shelter (Third Level Crisis Intervention Center, Inc.) 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. Next week 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! Other February feasts are India & New England.
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 Scott writes that he got this shot of a pond, in the ice, on the shoreline of Lake Michigan the day after the winter “storm of the century”. See his shot along with many more winter pics (and a few summery pics) in the Leelanau(dot)com Photo Group slideshow!
It’s 28 degrees under cloudy skies at 7:30 PM at Leelanau Coffee Roasting in Glen Arbor. The record high for a February 3rd was 50 degrees in 1922 with the low – a frigid -25 – set in 1996. Expect sunny skies again tomorrow with highs near 30 and southwest winds at 10-20. The weekend outlook calls for partly sunny skies Saturday and Sunday with list snow and highs in the low 30s.
Click for the news & weather from last year!
Winter Wine & Vine Experience ~ Saturday, February 12 
