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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CALUMET — The Calumet Theatre Chandelier Society’s project to replace a large chandelier that once hung in the auditorium of the theater received a generous donation on Thursday that puts the project a giant leap closer to completion. The Keweenaw Health Foundation provided a $15,000 ...

Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, marked the passing of one of film’s most iconic actors, James Earl Jones, who died at the age of 93. Most all of the articles I saw mentioning this news had in the title that Jones was the voice of Darth Vader. While this is true, and while he was more than willing to ...

CALUMET — The Yoop Fest is returning to the Keweenaw for its fourth straight year, this year at the historic Calumet Theatre. The event will run Friday, Sept. 20 and Saturday, Sept. 21. Friday’s line up runs from 3 p.m. to midnight and from noon to midnight on Saturday. Food and drink will ...