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• Upcoming Events

  • 11 February:
    • AN EVENING WITH AMY ALKON – City Opera House - February 11, 2010 (7:00 pm)
  • 12 February:
    • Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival - February 12, 2010 (5:00 pm)

AN EVENING WITH AMY ALKON – City Opera House - February 11, 2010
[ February 11, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] AN EVENING WITH AMY ALKON Doors @ 6:00 p.m | Show @ 7:00 p.m. $15 advance/$20 at door, $10 seniors, $5 students | All ages Buy tickets at the City Opera House or online here Nationally syndicated columnist and author Amy Alkon (“I See Rude People”) is featured in over 100 newspapers across the U.S., including the Northern Express [...]

Shanty Creek - Midweek Specials at Schuss Mountain
4 For $40 Mondays - Get four lift tickets for $40; 9am-4:30pm on Schuss Mtn. 2 For Tuesdays - Two for the price of one lift tickets, rentals, cross country rentals and adult group lessons. (For lift ticket rates, please use the pricing chart for Friday-Sunday non-holidays on the lift tickets page.) $5 KHQ Wednesdays - [...]

Crystal Mountain - WOMEN’S WINTER TOUR WEEKEND February 5-7, 2010
[ February 5, 2010 to February 7, 2010. ] Exhilarating outdoor activities, spa services, grand food, wine, decadent chocolate and friends make this the ultimate women’s weekend getaway. Share accommodations just steps away from all the fun. Saturday features cross-country and downhill ski clinics and demos, snowshoe tour, brownie contest and savings at the award-winning Crystal Spa. The main event begins Sunday at 10am [...]

Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival - February 12, 2010
[ February 12, 2010; 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Lovers of craft beer, world music and winter fun won’t want to miss the first annual Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival taking place under heated tents on the Clubhouse grounds at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa on Friday, February 12, 2010, from 5PM – 10PM. Tickets can be purchased at Oryana, Old Town [...]

Traverse City Wine and Art Festival Winter Wine Wonderland - February 14, 2010
[ February 14, 2010; 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Join the wineries of Leelanau, Old Mission & Traverse City at the Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest for a celebration of wine, gourmet desserts, art & fun this Valentines Day. The Wine Festival will take place Sunday February 14th from 3:00pm-8:00pm as a premier event to ring in the fireworks. Tickets are $20/$35 Couples Tickets include: Souvenir wine glass 5 wine [...]

Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest - February 12 - 15, 2010
[ February 12, 2010 to February 15, 2010. ] The Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest is a four-day winter celebration of music, food, and fun that takes place each year on President’s Day Weekend. There’s so much going on that we couldn’t fit it all into a single location, so there are events and activities happening all around the Traverse City area! Just look: In the “Winter [...]

Crystal Mountain’s Slopestyle Series II - February 21, 2010
[ February 21, 2010; ] This highflying, freestyle series of events is open to both skiers and snowboarders. Compete for awards and prizes in any one, two or all three events. Several age categories for males, plus an open women's division. Show your skills and creativity while riding thru the terrain park! Slopestyle Series I - Sunday, January 31 Slopestyle Series [...]

The Homestead - 10% off lodging and 2 for 1 lift tickets for members of America’s 1st Responders
This winter, The Homestead is offering card carrying members of America’s 1st Responders 10% of lodging and 2 for 1 lift tickets. Men and women all over the US have chosen a profession that is one to protect and serve our country. The Homestead is proud to team up with an organization that honors them called [...]

Nordic Walking Poles Help Wounded Warriors Move
Nordic walking poles from Glen Arbor, Michigan are helping Wounded Warriors move Nordic Walking Poles are radically improving balance, stability, gait, walking posture and walking comfort of Wounded Warriors! Quality Nordic Walking Poles from WWW.SKIWALKING.COM and the American Nordic Walking System have been donated to Wounded Warrior Programs at Walter Reed, Fort Carson, Fort Lewis/Madigan/McChord [...]

Shanty Creek Group Lodging Special
Bring a group of 20 or more to Shanty Creek and receive a FREE nights stay for each room you book! Visit Shanty Creek Website >>>>

Grand Traverse Pie Company
The Food Network looks at the success of the Grand Traverse Pie Co., a bakery and cafe which started in Traverse City, MI, by Mike and Denise Busley, and has grown to more than 16 stores in the Midwest. Visit Grand Traverse Pie Company Website >>>>

AN EVENING WITH AMY ALKON
Doors @ 6:00 p.m | Show @ 7:00 p.m.
$15 advance/$20 at door, $10 seniors, $5 students | All ages
Buy tickets at the City Opera House or online here

Nationally syndicated columnist and author Amy Alkon (“I See Rude People”) is featured in over 100 newspapers across the U.S., including the Northern Express in Traverse City. The ‘Advice Goddess’ will kick off the 2010 TC National Writers Series with an intimate on-stage discussion with hosts Doug & Anne Stanton, an interactive audience Q&A and a post-event dinner reception. For more details, click here.

4 For $40 Mondays - Get four lift tickets for $40; 9am-4:30pm on Schuss Mtn.

2 For Tuesdays - Two for the price of one lift tickets, rentals, cross country rentals and adult group lessons. (For lift ticket rates, please use the pricing chart for Friday-Sunday non-holidays on the lift tickets page.)

$5 KHQ Wednesdays - $5 Lift Tickets from 5-9pm. Ski & Snowboard Rentals $12 from 5pm-9pm, $20 from 9am-5pm. Tubing is $5/per hour from 4-9pm, ski all day (9am-5pm) for only $10.

Friends & Family Thursdays - The more tickets you buy as a group, the less they are! Day lift tickets start at $20 each, night lift tickets start at $12 each, rental specials and more!

Visit Shanty Creek Resorts Website >>>>

Exhilarating outdoor activities, spa services, grand food, wine, decadent chocolate and friends make this the ultimate women’s weekend getaway. Share accommodations just steps away from all the fun. Saturday features cross-country and downhill ski clinics and demos, snowshoe tour, brownie contest and savings at the award-winning Crystal Spa. The main event begins Sunday at 10am when the ladies of the Women’s Winter Tour snowshoe & cross-country ski along Crystal’s wooded trails.

Event benefits the nonprofit Active Women Now, dedicated to supporting local women’s resource centers.

HOUSEGUEST SPA SPECIAL (excludes Saturday)
Don’t forget to make time to relax at Crystal Spa! Crystal Mountain Lodging guests receive $25* off spa services of $100 or more at the Crystal Spa. Crystal spa services include massage, body treatment, facial, manicure and pedicure.

*Credit may be applied toward a minimum total purchase of $100 or more, not including the 18% service charge. Excludes Saturdays & Peak Season (Dec. 26, 2009 - Jan. 2, 2010, Jan. 16 & 17, 2010 & Feb. 13 - 15, 2010). Not valid with any other offers, special rates or discounts. Subject to availability. Advance reservations preferred. Offer expires April 4, 2010.

Make it a girls weekend getaway!
For information on Crystal Mountain lodging and packages, call 800.968.7686 ext. 5100 and tell us you are with the Women’s Winter Tour. Be sure to ask about special spa package pricing for this event!

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WEEKEND SCHEDULE - more activitiesTBA

Women’s Winter Tour | Sunday, February 7
Begins at 10am

A unique non-competitive event just for gals. Women of all ages snowshoe and cross-country ski along Crystal’s wooded trails. Demonstrations, great food, wine and chocolate are featured along the trail and at the main staging area! Enjoy a day dedicated to spoiling the inner diva in all of us!

Stay tuned to womenswintertour.com for registration updates.

Visit Crystal Mountain Website >>>>

Lovers of craft beer, world music and winter fun won’t want to miss the first annual Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival taking place under heated tents on the Clubhouse grounds at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa on Friday, February 12, 2010, from 5PM – 10PM. Tickets can be purchased at Oryana, Old Town Coffee, North Peak and the Resort’s Lobby Marketplace beginning Monday, December 21. Tickets will also be available online at tcbeerfest.com and porterhouseproductions.com.

The TC Winter Microbrew & Music Festival will kick off the Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest, a weekend-long festival scheduled for February 12-14 featuring three days of activities at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa, downtown Traverse City and Mt. Holiday Ski & Recreation Area. See www.winterwonderfest.org for more details.

The TC Winter Microbrew & Music Festival will take place outdoors next to the Resort’s Clubhouse. Guests will step out of the lodge into a winter wonderland featuring the main brew tent with live music from Euforquestra, an eight piece “Afro-Caribbean-Barnyard-Funk” dance band from Fort Collins, CO, the rockabilly honky-tonk of Delilah DeWylde and the Lost Boys, local favorites Levi Britton and Rachael Davis & Josh Davis with members of Steppin’ In It, and the bagpipes and drum ensemble of GT Pipes and Drums. Bonfires and free sleigh rides will encircle a frozen winter pond surrounded by three tents showcasing dozens of craft breweries, local & national musicians and special activities throughout the night.

For More Information Click Here >>>>

Join the wineries of Leelanau, Old Mission & Traverse City at the Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest for a celebration of wine, gourmet desserts, art & fun this Valentines Day.

The Wine Festival will take place Sunday February 14th from 3:00pm-8:00pm as a premier event to ring in the fireworks.

Tickets are $20/$35 Couples

Tickets include:
Souvenir wine glass
5 wine tasting tickets
5 dessert bar tickets
Entry to the winter wine wonderland tent where you will find 5 local wine tasting niches scattered throughout a large outdoor heated tent showcasing the work of select regional artists.

to purchase tickets please visit
http://www.lpwines.com/wine/traverse-city-wine-art-festival-winter-wine-wonderland/

You must be 21+ to attend this event.

Other activities taking place at the Grand Traverse Resort that you can enjoy during the Winter Wine Wonderland are…
free sleigh rides
snowshoe hikes
snowmobile rides
carnival of rides
petting zoo
and much, much more.

Visit the official Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest Website for a complete list of activities throughout the weekend. http://www.winterwonderfest.org

Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010
Time: 3:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:Grand Traverse Resort and Spa

For More Information Click Here >>>>

The Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest is a four-day winter celebration of music, food, and fun that takes place each year on President’s Day Weekend. There’s so much going on that we couldn’t fit it all into a single location, so there are events and activities happening all around the Traverse City area!

Just look:

In the “Winter Fun Zone” at the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa you can choose from rides on ponies, dogsleds, snowmobiles and horse-drawn sleighs, sledding, ice skating, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and a selection of competitive events that range from the familiar (the Running Fit Frosty 5K foot race and a kid’s snowshoe race) to the unlikely (a “frozen fish toss” and a “Polar Plunge” event where daring swimmers jump into an icy pond to raise money for charity). There are bonfires, films, live music, fireworks, and lots of festive food and beverages.

Nearby at the Mt. Holiday Ski Area, there’ll be such offbeat competitions as a snowboarding “rail jam” event, a Downhill Dash race down the ski hill (on skis, snowboards, even bikes), a “Big Air” Championship, and the Cardboard Bobsled-o-Rama in which competitors must use sleds made only with cardboard, tape and paint.

Meanwhile, in charming Downtown Traverse City, there’ll be ice carving and snow sculpture displays, a “frozen bed race” through the streets and the popular “Soup’r Bowl” competition where you’ll get to slurp up soups created by our best local chefs and cast ballots for your favorite. Later in the day, there’ll be more fun competitions – like the Brain Freeze ice cream eating contest and the Monster Dog Pull, where your canine pal can show just how strong he is!

A portion of the Winter WonderFest proceeds goes to support the programs of Special Olympics Michigan and the TCCVB Education Foundation Scholarship Fund.

Visit Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest Website >>>>

An art and wine event held at The Homestead’s Mountain Flowers Lodge as a kick-off to the Leelanau Peninsula Vintner’s Association event, Taste the Passion. Art will be on display for viewing and purchase from several local artists. Entrance fee of $20 per person includes tickets for two glasses of wine and food from multiple food stations. Additional wine tickets are available for purchase ($4/ticket or 3 tickets for $10). 6pm to 8pm.

$5 of the entrance fee will be donated to the Glen Arbor Art Association to benefit their 2010 Scholarship Fund.

Visit The Homestead Resort Website >>>>

Join other Telemark skiers for a weekend of freeheeling at the resort and in the adjoining Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. There will be clinics for all ability levels, a NASTAR race and fun!

Clinics available from 10am to 4pm. NASTAR race at 2pm.

Visit The Homestead Resort Website >>>>

This highflying, freestyle series of events is open to both skiers and snowboarders. Compete for awards and prizes in any one, two or all three events. Several age categories for males, plus an open women’s division. Show your skills and creativity while riding thru the terrain park!

Slopestyle Series I - Sunday, January 31
Slopestyle Series II - Sunday, February 21

Ride the rails and hits in Tuck’s Terrain Park. Open to all boarders and skiers. Register prior to the day of the event at the Snowsports Desk in the lower level of the Crystal Center. (Helmets required for particpants under 18 years of age.)

Race Day Itinerary (Jan. 31 & Feb. 21):
9am-Noon: Registration
Noon-1:30pm: Practice
2pm: Event Begins - Tuck’s Terrain Park

Awards Ceremony - Lodge Deck - immediately after competition
Entry Fee: $20 per event.
Discounted Lift Ticket (with proof of registration) - Adult (16+) - $40, Junior (9-15) - $25.

Required Release Forms: All participants (18 and over) are required to sign a Snowsports Release Form before participating in the event. A parent or guardian must sign for minors (under 18). Print Release Form

For more information, call the Snowsports Desk at ext. 2000.

Visit Crystal Mountain Website >>>>

Group of local citizens organize Cherry-T Ball Drop New Years Eve

Downtown Traverse City will have yet another exciting event this winter. The Cherry-T Ball drop is scheduled on New Years Eve 2009. “It will be like Times Square, just bit smaller with a Northern Michigan feel,” jokes Brian Sweebe, one of the organizers of the event. “We are going to have a giant Cherry drop from the sky as the clock strikes midnight,” says Brian.

The 200 block of Front Street, downtown Traverse City will be blocked off at 6:00 pm New Years Eve. The street will be cleared and a stage and tents will be erected. A live band will take the stage at 10:30pm. “We believe this will be a great thing for the restaurant and other businesses downtown,” says Pam Marsh, owner of Red Ginger restaurant. “We normally have a real busy New Years Eve, but the patrons tend to leave downtown early,” continues Pam, “this is a great idea to keep the town exciting throughout the evening.”

The local group of citizens fortunately include Thom Darga, from DargaWorks, the company that is building the structure on the corner of Park and Front streets. “We wanted to drop a giant cherry, much like times square, and we happen to have a very large crane downtown right now,” states Thom. The crane can reach over to the middle of front street and the cherry will drop to the timing of the end of 2009.

“It will be exciting,” says Christal Willcox, promotions director from Classic Rock the Bear and Real Rock 95.5 & 105.1, the radio sponsor for the event, “the biggest hurdle was the dropping of the cherry and with the crane already here, it worked out perfectly.”

Although there is no admission for the event, Goodwill Industries will be onsite collecting can goods and personal hygiene items for the local needy. “We wanted to make sure this was totally a non-profit event and that it will help a local charity,” states Brian, “everything we are doing will be run by volunteers and paid for from donations from the community and sponsors.”

If anyone is interested in helping, donating or just want more information please contact Brian Sweebe at 231-360-8552.

Visit Cherry-T Ball Drop Website >>>>

Crystal Mountain’s Mountain Report for December 23, 2009. Skiing and snowboarding video with information about snow conditions, holiday events and more!

Visit Crystal Mountain Website >>>>

Chef-Educator Nancy Krcek Allen
Chef Lynne Brach

Anyone can learn the basics of chop, sauté and simmer—the true art of cooking lies in creating memorable flavor. Learn how to bring your seasoning techniques forward from past days of salt and pepper into the 21st century.

Discover umami—the Japanese term for a fifth taste—the “tastiness factor” and the ten secrets to developing big flavor. Both are guaranteed to improve your kitchen success. You’ll master many seasoning devices like caramelized onions, as well as big-flavored dishes like Italian roasted tomato and porcini soup, Marinated flank steak, Smoky rice pilaf, Spice-roasted shrimp, Bacon-Miso chips and Macerated fruit.

Class is $125 per person, weekend stay packages available. Reservations required.

Saturday, January 23, 2010
12:30pm - 5:30pm

Visit Chateau Chantal Website >>>>

Join us for a fun-filled Snowshoe Photo Scavenger Hunt. You’ll enjoy a 2-mile trek from the resort’s Village through the woods, over the Crystal River and back with snacks and beverages along the way. Bring your digital camera…you’ll snap shots of things along the way that are on the scavenger hunt list. You’ll leave with a goodie bag and a day full of memories.

Brick Wheels of Traverse City wil be on-site to offer snowshoe rentals and sales.

Registration is $20 per person. Call 231.334.5160 to sign up for a 10am, 10:30am or 11am start time.

Visit The Homestead Website >>>>

A Winter celebration of craft brewed beer.

Sample up to 12 brews from Shorts Brewing, Co., The Livery, Magic Hat and Bell’s Brewery.

Specialty Brats from Traverse City’s Bayside Market and live entertainment from the Younce Guitar Duo will also be featured.

5 oz. pours…4 for $10, 10 for $20. Then on Sunday, ski with the brewers.

Lodging deals at Shanty include lift ticket and 10 pour beer ticket!

Saturday, January 23, 2010
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Ivan’s at Schuss Mountain, Shanty Creek Resorts

Visit Shanty Creek Website >>>>

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