We’re halfway to Halloween already as the month of October continues to fly right by. This is a month that ends with a spooky bang on Halloween and I have a lineup of scary movie suggestions ready for perusal on that very day. The month itself isn’t really known to be thematically scary, ...

Friday, Sept. 27, 2004, less than three weeks after the passing of James Earl Jones, Dame Maggie Smith passed away at the age of 89. I can’t even pretend to have known the famed actor in any meaningful way, and yet I felt a great sadness reading the news. Similar to Jones, the reports that ...

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 ...