Woven fabric fascinates me. The art of creating intricate patterns and pictures into a piece of fabric on a loom is still baffling, even though I’ve taken several weaving classes through the Finnish American Folk school, and have woven some of these patterns myself. So a few times I visited ...

CALUMET — If the past year is an indication, the Calumet Theatre is once again bringing people to the village that bears its name. In addition, while the theater is reaching out to the community, the community is responding. Over the theater’s past fiscal year, it has seen significant ...

My wife and I have been watching the show “Monk” and recently there was an episode called, “Mr. Monk and the Three Julies” where two women named Julie Teeger were killed on the same day, minutes apart from one another. The third Julie is the daughter of one of the main characters. ...

CALUMET — Bands and music lovers from the Keweenaw and throughout the Midwest congregated for two days of music at the Calumet Theatre for Yoop! Fest. The festival is put on by Kitschy Spirit Records in Calumet. Now in its fourth year, the festival started at the Houghton skatepark “on a ...

HOUGHTON — The Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw will be hosting a music event featuring Yooper musicians at the Orpheum Theater on Friday. An Evening of UP Songs by UP Musicians is an event put together by the Carnegie Museum board that showcases music artists of various levels of experience ...

Come Thanksgiving, the “Wicked” movie will hit theaters which is a movie adaptation of a musical/play adaptation of a book, all of the same title. Well, technically the movie releasing this November is part one of a two part movie, so I guess it is actually “Wicked: Part One” (which is ...