Alyssa Saxton squirted water from a spray bottle onto her hog Lu’s feet, an attempt to keep him cool on a hot, dead-of-summer day.
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Alyssa Saxton squirted water from a spray bottle onto her hog Lu’s feet, an attempt to keep him cool on a hot, dead-of-summer day.
Joe Monroe pushed and struggled with a 200-plus-pound pile of pork, trying to get the animal off its rump and turned toward the show ring. Monroe, of South Boardman, is a volunteer in his eighth year at the Northwestern Michigan Fair in Traverse City.
A record number of speakers took the stage at the City Opera House for the largest discussion panel in the Traverse City Film Festival’s six-year history.
Elsa Frank stood at the front of a line on Front Street with her face illuminated by the lights from the State Theatre’s marquee. She anxiously waited for the Traverse City Film Festival’s midnight movie, where the late-night fare tends to be a little different than other festival offerings — and so do the people.
Actress Elizabeth Guest and student actor Joe Carroll played out a scene in a lecture hall at Northwestern Michigan College, trying to show how film acting comes together from table readings to blocking scenes for the camera.
The lights went down in the Lars Hockstad Auditorium and hundreds of movie-goers wearing 3-D glasses laughed together at the first image of a big, fat cane toad.
A Traverse City Film Festival panel Wednesday bemoaned the lack of audiences willing to immerse themselves in a movie at a theater.
Traverse City Light & Power may not be able to reach its renewable energy goals after its board formally abandoned plans to build wood-burning biomass power plants.
Nicole Best, 23, of Highland, is a show groom working her second year at the Horseshows By the Bay event in Williamsburg, a top-level horse show held each summer along Bates Road. She is among hundreds of grooms who work behind the scenes to keep the horses, riders and trainers ready for the ring.
The president at Traverse City’s community college stands to receive a $16,765 pay and benefits hike under terms of a proposed new contract.