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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski |Geri Dietze
Bottoms Up March 22, 2025 It’s hard to decide whether health or whimsy is the main goal of The Grove Beverage Café in Petoskey, but we’ll take a shot of both. From the café’s menu names—think characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream—to their ethos of real fruits, veggies, and ingredients, it’s a win-win. Since it’s spring break week, go a little tropical and try The Falcor smoothie, which features passionfruit, dragonfruit, and bananas.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski |Geri Dietze
March 22, 2025 The Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre brings a new classical interpretation of The Sleeping Beauty to Dennos Museum’s Milliken Auditorium in Traverse City. Follow the life of Princess Aurora, from her christening to her 16th birthday, along with the curse placed on her, all the way to her big wedding celebration.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Geri Dietze |Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski
The ethos behind BeeSmooth Cafe (and the coming-soon Buzz Cafe and Bakery!) By Geri Dietze | March 22, 2025 A conscious effort to provide healthy, flavorful food is what drives BeeSmooth Café, Manistee’s light, bright, and eclectic eatery.
Operating since 2023, the café serves fresh and tasty traditional café fare, including vegan, gluten-, sugar-, and allergen-free options.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski |Geri Dietze
Stuff We Love March 22, 2025 More than 132 years ago, a 300-foot steel steamer called Western Reserve sank in Lake Superior following an August storm, tragically claiming the lives of 27 crew members and part of the captain’s young family, leaving only one survivor. After searching for the ship for several years, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) made an initial discovery of Western Reserve this past summer.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Art Bukowski |Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Geri Dietze
Five years after COVID hit, what has our community learned? By Art Bukowski | March 22, 2025 It’s been just over five years since the world was turned upside down by the full onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, which by March of 2020 had led to widespread and major restrictions on work, socialization, and much more.
While this may feel like a distant memory for some, the effects of both the virus itself and resulting lockdowns are still very much felt by many people.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski |Geri Dietze
March 22, 2025 Those who love to walk laps at Traverse City’s Civic Center will see some disruptions on their path in the coming months as the walking track gets a much-needed overhaul. This starts with the removal of the bridge over W. Civic Center Drive, which will begin the week of March 24. The crossing is expected to be unavailable until mid-June as the new bridge is installed. Meanwhile, work on the paved track itself will begin as soon as the ground is snow-free.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Anna Faller |Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski
Tastemaker By Anna Faller | March 22, 2025 Does it get better than a frosty craft beer paired with a killer slice of pizza? We’re all in on the Black Truffle Cheese Pizza at Silver Spruce Brewing Co., the star of a new menu in collaboration with Francisco’s Market & Deli in Traverse City. The magic of this unparalleled pie starts with the Neapolitan-style crust, which Francisco’s chefs form using a biga (a fermented dough starter) and bake to wood-fired perfection.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Stephen Tuttle |Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski
Spectator By Stephen Tuttle | March 22, 2025 In an essay in The Wall Street Journal, he said he wants to “... drive a dagger through the heart of climate change religion and usher in America’s Golden Age...”
Of course, that was a CEO of a fossil fuel or petrochemical conglomerate, right? No, that was Lee Zeldin, the new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and he made those comments after he accepted the position.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Joseph Beyer |Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski
2 Stars By Joseph Beyer | March 22, 2025 With a $320 million budget (the largest single content investment in Netflix history); the multi-hyphenated creative duo Joe and Anthony Russo behind it, alumni of directing four Marvel Cinematic Universe hits; a storyline with ROBOTS ROBOTS ROBOTS, and a cast with more stars than the Milky Way…what could go wrong?
It turns out, a lot.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Kierstin Gunsberg |Todd VanSickle |Abby McKiernan |Art Bukowski
How (and why) schools are dialing down distractions for young learners By Kierstin Gunsberg | March 22, 2025 The human brain is a magnificent thing, capable of unconsciously processing millions of bits of stimuli every second—the cool glow of overhead fluorescents, a teacher’s shoes clicking against linoleum, and the woody aroma of a freshly sharpened pencil.
What the brain isn’t so great at is consciously handling all that stimuli at once.
