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5 days ago | 
northernexpress.com | Molly Cox |Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ross Boissoneau
A visit to Harper’s Ridge farm on Old Mission Peninsula By Molly Cox | May 10, 2025 Spring is in the air, and we are all eager for visits to northern Michigan’s many farmers markets and farm stands. Our abundance of fresh, local products and produce is one of the many perks of our region, but we rarely take time to understand and appreciate the work farmers do to get our food to the table.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Molly Cox |Art Bukowski |Ren Brabenec |Anna Faller
Bestselling author Leif Enger on subversion, writing, and hope By Molly Cox | April 12, 2025 In the near-future world of Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse, a few ultra-wealthy autocrats control the world, while the majority of people are indentured servants with little autonomy, living in extreme debt and poverty.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Ross Boissoneau |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
Steaks, staff, and old-school drinks make this restaurant a tradition By Ross Boissoneau | April 12, 2025 On April 7, 1975, Bob and Anita Mode opened a bar and restaurant that was to bear their name.
A half century later, Mode’s Bum Steer is still going strong, with their daughter Skylar now running the enterprise. That makes it the longest-running family-owned restaurant in Traverse City.
And it looks the part.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | April 12, 2025 In 1998, the highly respected scientific journal, The Lancet, published a study that sparked the theory that vaccines cause autism. In 2010, the article was retracted after the editors discovered that the conclusions had been based on fraudulent data from a study involving only 12 children.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Stephen Tuttle |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
Spectator By Stephen Tuttle | April 12, 2025 The Hands Off! protests of a couple weeks ago were impressive in their size and scope. According to various media reports, gatherings took place in some 1,400 American communities with nearly 600,000 people signing up in advance (per CNN), and even more participating.
Locally in Traverse City, 4,000 people reportedly showed up to express their displeasure with a variety of issues.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Joseph Beyer |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
5 Stars By Joseph Beyer | April 12, 2025 As a former Angeleno who once spent lazy afternoons at Dodger Stadium watching the groundskeepers (in a time when you could still walk in on game days and sit in the stands with the sports reporters), I was immediately drawn to the new three-part documentary series Fight for Glory: 2024 World Series, now streaming on AppleTV+.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Matt Dursum |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
How Gaylord and Traverse City plan to invest hundreds of thousands of excise tax dollars in their communities By Matt Dursum | April 12, 2025 Cannabis has become a big business in northern Michigan, and local governments are putting tax dollars earned from dispensary sales to good use.
Lawmakers passed the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act (MRTMA) in 2018.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Anna Faller |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
What do know when you’re first trying cannabis products By Anna Faller | April 12, 2025 Michigan is now home to over 1,000 cannabis dispensaries and tenfold more cannabis products. As a newbie, navigating the evolving world of weed can feel, well, hazy. Where do you start? What effects can you expect? Can cannabis really help with sleep and pain, or is it just for fun?
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec |Anna Faller
Bottoms Up April 12, 2025 It’s nearly pink drink season (come on, warmer days!), so to ease ourselves in, we’re sipping on the non-alcoholic Bubbly Rosé from Grüvi this spring. What we liked: just the right amount of bubbles, 60 calories per bottle, and that perfectly pink hue. What we loved: the sweet-meets-tart flavor profile, which first comes across as sugary strawberries then hits you with tart green apple.
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1 month ago | 
northernexpress.com | Ren Brabenec |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Anna Faller
International Affairs Forum to host event featuring NMC student leaders and guest speakers By Ren Brabenec | April 12, 2025 “It’s a physical letter to your representative,” Alex Tank says when asked to define the word “protest.” As the director of the Traverse City International Affairs Forum (IAF), Tank and a group of students on the IAF Student Leadership Team have been working together for months, studying student-led activism and protest movements from the past to the present. On April...
