Business as usual at the Rice Paddy Change is inevitable. It’s also scary, especially when it involves one of your favorite take-out restaurants. It was last May when Aoy Lachapelle handed the spatula over to employee Nang with the assurance to her faithful following that nothing would change. If recent comments ... Continue Reading
Entrepreneurs, Remote Workers, and Marquette 2.0
IT'S A LITTLE LESS obvious in the darkness of winter, when walking the kids and dogs is more labor than love, but if last summer was any indication, the demographics of the old Queen City are changing. Our quiet neighborhoods were teeming with young professionals, who found their way to Marquette either through ... Continue Reading
A feel good fish tale… that’s true!
After a pretty rough 2020, it seemed hopeful, and reasonable to expect, that 2021 would get us back on track. And though a lot of things opened up, to various degrees of success, it's hard to say that this past year has been everything we'd hoped it would be. Generally speaking, we're not a lot better off today ... Continue Reading
‘Tis the Season
Slip Sliding Away There’s no feeling quite like the one you get when you hit the top of the 4th Street hill, heading south, down towards West Washington when you realize, too late, that light snow and a temperature right around freezing have turned one of the city’s busiest streets into a sheet of ice that would make ... Continue Reading
Smoking? Or… NO Smoking!
The old "smoke 'em if you got 'em" maxim isn't heard much anymore, mainly because there are very few places that will allow you to smoke 'em, whether you've got 'em or not. One exception is the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community's Ojibwa Casino in Chocolay Township. Along with the tribe's other facility in Baraga, ... Continue Reading