MARQUETTE — Four Northern Michigan University dance students recently completed a faculty-led trip to the performing arts mecca of New York City. Many shows are still shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the group was able to watch the closing performance of American Ballet Theatre’s ...
They say silence is golden. It’s a silly phrase, really, but it takes on an urgent poignancy for three stunning minutes in “CODA,” Sian Heder’s refreshing, loving and altogether irresistible film about a deaf family with one hearing daughter. In this extraordinary scene, Ruby, 17 ...
MARQUETTE — Former Marquette resident Susan Purvis will discuss her award-winning memoir “Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost - and Myself” at the next U.P. Notable Book Club event on Thursday. The Crystal Falls Community District Library, in partnership with the Upper Peninsula ...
In upside-down simulations, time loops and videogames turned inside out, a growing body of movies trade on the feeling of living in a false reality — of being a glitch in the matrix. Virtual realities turn real (“Ready Player One”), television sets peel away (“The Truman Show”), dream states don’t wake (“Inception”), arcade characters break free (“Wreck-It Ralph”). But if anyone was ever living a lie, Free City resident and banker Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is. Every day he picks a blue shirt and khakis from a closet neatly ordered with them. He orders the same coffee. He ...
Tuesday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Day Dreamers at Bayshore Park, Munising, for the Concert in the Park Series Wednesday 6:30 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Singe at Music in the Park, Erickson Center, Curtis Thursday 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Dan and Harry at Summer Concert Series at Ol Ish in downtown Ishpeming 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring The Ogeas at Smarty’s Saloon, Negaunee Friday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Luke Ogea Band at Dry Dock Tavern, Marquette 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Troy Graham at ...
MARQUETTE — Dorothy Paad dreamed of taking ballet lessons, and courageously defied naysayers who were convinced that was overly ambitious for a woman with cerebral palsy who relies on a wheelchair for mobility. Paad enrolled as a student at Northern Michigan University, where she found an ...
