HOUGHTON — A familiar face at the Rozsa Center is stepping up to become executive director. Kiersten Birondo, who has served as the Rozsa’s marketing manager for the past three seasons, will become executive director Nov. 1. The non-profit center on Michigan Technological ...

CALUMET — The project of installing a new heating plant in the Calumet Theatre building took several strides in the past couple of weeks, with an estimated completion date now in sight. The old boiler, visible in the photograph, At the Annual Calumet Theatre Company Members’ meeting on ...

Last week I mentioned it was Linda Hamilton’s birthday, one of the cosmic signs I needed to write about her most iconic acting role. In contemplating what to write about this week, I wondered how likely it was there would be a viable actor to use on any given day of the year that I had an ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...