Finnish group to play on July 16 at Ishpeming Elks Club

July 3, 2023

ISHPEMING — A dance will be held 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, July 16, at the Ishpeming Elks Club. It is open to the public. Music for the dance is being provided by musicians from Minneapolis who call themselves Lauluaika in Finnish, or Song Time in English. Their leader is Ralph Tuttila, who grew up in Ishpeming. They play all kinds of music for dancing, including many Finnish tunes, Nordic music, waltzes, polkas, schottisches and more. Ralph has asked local performer Tanja Stanaway to sing a couple of songs with the group. The dance is sponsored by the Lake Superior Chapter of the ...

Celebrating a quarter century: Lake Superior Theater looks for the light

July 1, 2023

Twenty five years ago, a group of Marquette residents decided to make a boathouse on Lake Superior into a theater. The first show to debut on that stage was an original musical written by Northern Michigan University professor and playwright Shelley Russell called ‘Beacon on the Rock.’ ...

FRESH DESIGN: ‘Hamlet’ to be performed at the Marquette Regional History Center

June 26, 2023

By CAROLINE RAY Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The pop-up stage for the Upper Peninsula Shakespeare Festival’s Hamlet will never fade to black. But for the Marquette crew of performers, artists and historians this is only one of many exciting challenges they hope to overcome before ...

Nightlife

June 26, 2023

Tuesday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Luke Ogea at Blackrocks Brewery, Marquette 6:30 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Papa Jphn and Black Mirage at Concert in the Park, Bayshore Park, Munising 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring open mic/jam with Joe Patrick and Warren Hantz at Flanigan’s, Marquette Thursday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Jim and Ray at Blackrocks Brewery, Marquette 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Conga Se Menne at Summer Concert Series at Old Ish, downtown Ishpeming Friday noon. — Live entertainment featuring Toni ...

Chris Hemsworth returns in ‘Extraction 2,’ a gun-for-hire who pulls you completely in

June 20, 2023

Tyler Rake was clinically dead when we last saw him at the end of “Extraction,” tumbling over a bridge in Bangladesh with a fatal, burbling bullet wound to his neck. But death is no match for Netflix. Chris Hemsworth returns as the sad-sack, gun-for-hire Rake in “Extraction 2” and ...

Superiorland Nightlife

June 12, 2023

Tuesday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Alex Teller at Blackrocks Brewery, Marquette 6:30 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Tuesday Jones at Summer Concert in the Park, Bayshore Park, Munising 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring open mic/jam with Joe Patrick and Warren Hantz at Flanigan’s, Marquette Thursday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Jim and Ray at Blackrocks Brewery, Marquette 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Swampberry Moonshine at Thursday Night Summer Concert Series at Old Ish, Ishpeming 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Music ...