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At NMU, Paad free to dance her own dance

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 ...

Superiorland Nightlife

Today 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring open mic at Lakenen Land, Marquette Tuesday 6:30 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring The Wayouts at Summer Concert in the Park Series, Bayshore Park, Munising Thursday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Trailer Hitch at Drifa Brewing Company, Marquette 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Daydreamers at Summer Concert Series in downtown Ishpeming at Ol Ish 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring The Ogeas at Smarty’s Saloon, Negaunee Friday 7:30 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Dylan Trost, Kerry Yost, Brody Rosten ...

‘Snake Eyes’ doesn’t play its cards right

Henry Golding has undeniable screen presence. He’s handsome, sure. Lots of actors are. But Golding also has that effortless charisma that the biggest movie stars possess. It’s no wonder that he was catapulted from relative, travel show host obscurity to film fame with just one role in ...

Local musician entrenched in Upper Peninsula

MARQUETTE — Jimmy Slivensky, a local singer-songwriter-guitarist-studio rock musician, has played throughout the Midwest and East, but is back home in Marquette, making more music, including a recent CD titled “Space Junk.” Slivensky described his music as “uptempo, guitar ...

Val Kilmer on a life in illusion and new documentary, ‘Val’

CANNES, France — Val Kilmer was in movies he wasn’t in. The new documentary “Val,” bursting with footage Kilmer shot himself over his 61 years, includes home videos and backstage glimpses, as you might expect. But the most remarkable thing is seeing Kilmer’s own audition tapes of ...

Court orders shorter sentence for ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic

DENVER — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that “Tiger King” Joe Exotic should get a shorter prison sentence for his role in a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver found that the trial court wrongly treated those two convictions separately in calculating ...