‘Gbenga Adeoba was born and raised in Akure, Nigeria. In an interview, he said,

I follow Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility Project. Recently, Alice posted a piece by Emily Wolinsky, president of NMD United, a nonprofit organization connecting adults living with neuromuscular disabilities. Emily and her family live in Texas. They lost power during the recent storms. In …

My dog is the exact color of a sweet potato.

TRAVERSE CITY — On March 1, most libraries in the Traverse Area District Library network, formerly closed because of the pandemic, reopened their doors to the public.

It’s the last week of February … time does not stand still.

The emergency alert sirens were blaring as we drove into town. People were hurrying to find shelter and the sky had turned to shades of violet, gold, and chartreuse. I was unable to process my surroundings, couldn’t put these things together in a way that would explain what was happening. My…

As a nation, we just wrapped up the 51st Black History Month celebrations this February, and we move into the 34th Women’s History Month.

An early scene in “Judas and the Black Messiah” shows FBI director J. Edgar Hoover describing the Black Panther Party as “the greatest threat to our national security.” He’s played by Martin Sheen, nearly unrecognizable under ghoulish facial prosthetics, as if to put a literal, sneering face…

TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City singer-songwriter Joshua Davis has called the training and national television exposure he received in 2015 as a third-place finisher on NBC’s “The Voice” a “great experience” and a “golden” opportunity to expand his audience.

INTERLOCHEN — Joseph Morrissey calls it the snow globe of dance.

As the thoughts of spring start to appear I cannot help but get excited. It has been a rough winter. Actually, its been a rough past year for all of us. Somehow the thought of new sunlight and warmer air seems like the stress relief we all need. Let’s face it, we all need a little more excit…

Luddites, supposed followers of General Ned Ludd, a fabricated name for their movement, were skillful cloth manufacture artisans in England, who in the early 1800s resorted to violence against the newly developed mechanized looms that threatened their livelihood. The term has evolved to deno…

When we think of politicians, the typical descriptors are of the “one word” or “one issue” variety — Democrat, Republican, pro-this, pro-that, anti-another thing, Whig, Bull Moose, or whatever.

It was 2005. My daughter was nearing the end of high school and — I think it may have been her birthday present — I took her to get her bellybutton pierced.

TRAVERSE CITY — After four decades of hearing stories from survivors of sexual assault, Barbara Cross summarized what she’s learned about the people of northern Michigan with three words.

TRAVERSE CITY — Area snowfall is running at about half its yearly average.

The mercury dipped down below-0 degrees this morning. Brrr! It is cold outside and even colder with the wind chill. Yesterday we woke up to more than 10 inches of snow, which canceled work for everyone.

Maybe you have been dreaming of spending springtime in Italy, but circumstances just don’t allow it. Take my advice and console yourself by cooking real Italian food. I’m not talking the ubiquitous pizza and spaghetti. It’s the rich, pure tastes of Italy I’m after.

When last I wrote, I was getting anxious to kick things off and begin moving back to normal. Hah! I don’t even know what the “new” normal is or will be. Apparently, my optimism about re-opening the Old Town Playhouse this spring for performances is still a way off. Meanwhile, it’s February. …

After a gypsum plant in Empire, Nev. closed in 2011, the town emptied so quickly that its ZIP code was discontinued. Apparently, the US Postal Service does this all the time, but I had no idea. And in a lot of cases, the reasons are mundane: post offices close, municipalities are reconfigure…

TRAVERSE CITY — For many Michigan artists who’ve released new recordings over the past year, February is usually a very special time.

LELAND — Mike Rizik likes to go ski and fly fish.

When the winter weather gets brutal — as it has recently — ice fishing outside of a shack becomes nearly impossible as the holes freeze up quickly.

LINWOOD — If you’ve fished Saginaw Bay for walleyes much in the last decade or so, you’ve probably had those days when it was over just as you were getting started. They’ve become less common since the limit was raised from five fish to eight, but the walleye fishing has been, in a word, out…