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UP musical event slated for Friday night

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 ...

Chandelier Society receives $15,000 from KHF

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 ...

Annual indie music fest returns to Keweenaw

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 ...

Watch2Watch: Goodbye, James Earl Jones

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 ...

MI poet laureate visits Houghton

HOUGHTON — Michigan’s first poet laureate in more than 60 years stopped at the Portage Lake District Library Friday night, reading poems and answering questions with Houghton poet M. Bartley Seigel, a past Upper Peninsula poet laureate. The Library of Michigan and Michigan Department of ...

Theatre boiler project starts

CALUMET — After more than two years of planning and delays, the Calumet Theatre’s boiler replacement project started Monday with the order of new boiler unit. Calumet Theatre Company President Dan Jamison said that he and Marty Travathan, owner of Marty’s Heating Services, signed the ...