The ending of “Breaking Bad,” the beloved prestige-TV masterpiece that wrapped up its five-season run on AMC in 2013, didn’t leave many questions unanswered.
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TRAVERSE CITY — It’s not too late to see the summer night sky over a Western landscape nor too early to spot a snowy owl.
This time of year, many moons ago, I was in the middle of my first semester at North Central Michigan College in Petoskey, and taking a drawing class.
Matthew Mansfield can be heard across northern Michigan on any given day. Not only is he a DJ for Z93 radio Monday through Saturday, but he also performs live at several venues throughout the region. To top it off, he has two young boys at home.
Laurel Premo, “The Iron Trios”
Opossums are, in my opinion, the easiest animals to trap, they are slow and if you approach them quickly, they play dead. This is an amazing reaction to fear. Instinctively they understand that most predators will only eat live animals. When opossums feel threatened, they will fall over, the…
DELTON — There was a nip of fall in the air and that, Joe Bednar said, would change things dramatically.
TRAVERSE CITY — Pure Michigan’s evocative ads beckoning discovery of Mitten State experiences may soon be vanquished to history.
It’s that time of year when lots of folks will begin putting up their outboard motors for the season and that means, among other things, adding a gas stabilizer to the fuel tank.
TRAVERSE CITY — Eighth Street’s reopening in September unveiled protected bike paths improving safety for urban cyclists.
Windy conditions continue to hamper fishing effort and very few have been out. Areas in the Upper Peninsula saw their first snow showers last weekend! Higher water levels and wave action have kept anglers off the piers due to dangerous conditions. Boat anglers have not been out on the inland…
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In his review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Twice Told Tales,” Edgar Allen Poe declares that the highest form of literary expression is a rhymed poem that can be read in one sitting.
TRAVERSE CITY — When you approach Paul and Jenny Sparks’ house during the month of October, it’s hard to know where to look first.
A 15-hour journey by car from Traverse City to Wichita, Kansas took 30 years for Bill Burch.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Quilting became popular in America during the 19th century. Today, northern Michigan boasts many quilting groups like Fellowship Quilters of Traverse City.
Humanists meet Oct. 14
October to November form a seasonal corner, our transition between autumn’s cooling and winter’s deep freeze. To turn this corner successfully salads and grilled stuff just won’t do.
TRAVERSE CITY — There is no one “superfood” when it comes to thyroid health.
Church hosts sale
THOMPSONVILLE — As a full-time musician, Grand Rapids’ Patty PerShayla wears many hats.
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Sturgill Simpson and his band recorded most of the new album “Sound & Fury” at McGuire’s Motor Inn in Waterford, just outside of Pontiac. I have no idea why he did that, or what a listener should expect from a record made at a motel in metro Detroit with an average Yelp rating of one sta…
TRAVERSE CITY — It’s difficult to not care about water when you live in Michigan.
Craft show Oct. 12
LANSING — Women who fish have created a new Twitter hashtag to promote awareness of their growing numbers.
LANSING — Invasive sea lamprey are known for sucking the life out of fish, but what about the survivors?
Leelanau Day of Planting is set from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at Ruby Ellen Farm. Tour the farm, learn about tree maintenance and planting tips and enjoy refreshments.
It’s 4:45 a.m. as I sit by the kitchen table writing. The boys already left for work. Their bags are packed and ready for our departure to Kentucky at 1:30 p.m. They will work a half day, come home, shower, and be ready to go.
Fall colors seem a bit slow arriving this year, but the recent cooldown should bring them back to a more normal pattern.
A collection of columns from Record-Eagle Outdoors Columnist Mike Terrell:
A gallery of reader-submitted outdoors photos. Submit your best photo of the week to tcrecordeagle@gmail.com and we'll post it online and pick our favorites to run in our reader-shot roundup in the GO: Great Outdoors section that runs on Thursdays. Please include some information about the p…
TRAVERSE CITY — A Traverse City woman wants bicyclists to add one simple piece of equipment to their gear: a bell.
Planting event
It is fall and change is in the air — more so it seems than usual.
All the big waters are stirred up after the rain and strong winds, so fishing was a little more difficult. The inland lakes are producing bass, pike, panfish and walleye. October is a good time to head out on the inland lakes. Many anglers have now switched to hunting so you could have the w…
If you are over 45, there’s a good chance the phrase, “The Golden Girls,” quickly generates a memory of one of the women from the 1980s hit show — “The Golden Girls.”
There are about as many styles of fishing bobbers as there are anglers, but one of the best panfish anglers I’ve even known, the late Bluegill Bob Miskowski, was sold on torpedo floats.
Our grandson loves to be read to prior to knocking off for an afternoon nap.
Deadlines, busy schedules, taking care of others, dysfunctional relationships, unrealistic expectations for ourselves and others can all bring about feelings of stress.
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They speak a foreign language. The women wear head coverings. They cluster in tight communities and refuse to assimilate—a central tenet of their faith insists they remain separate. And now they are migrating to northern Michigan in growing numbers. I am talking of course, about the Amish.
TRAVERSE CITY — For author Randall Sullivan, the story of Oak Island started in 2003 as a piece for Rolling Stone magazine.
TRAVERSE CITY — A father and son step to the table.
Greetings from Michigan! Son Kevin just left for school. The sky is starting to lighten up. Thermometer is at the 59-degree mark.
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