No bikes, no weddings CHALLENGING TIMES FOR Marquette Mountain. First, biking on the Mountain, which was to take a major step forward this summer, hasn't happened. COVID restrictions have basically ruled out using shuttles to bring bikers up the mountain. And the rules aren't likely to loosen up. Second, weddings on ... Continue Reading
A Theater Dilemma in Marquette, and a Loss for the Farmer’s Market
An abundance of groups and plays leads to problems A COLLABORATION AMONG all the theater groups in Marquette? Maybe. A meeting's been set up for January 14th to see if something can be worked out. The problem is this: We have a ridiculous wealth of theater in this town--seven theater groups. Namely, NMU, Lake ... Continue Reading
Theatre with a Bite, a Literate Community, and a Stimulating Mix of Coffee and the Blues
"WE NEED TO raise funds if we're going to sustain our growth." The words of Jamie Weeder, the cofounder and director of Upper Peninsula Shakespeare Festival and Wolf's Head Theater Company. So begins a campaign to identify arts-loving individuals and businesses who will put the two relatively new theater groups on ... Continue Reading
Springtime in Marquette: Golf, Snow, Art, and Theater
HUGE HONOR FOR Marquette's Greywalls Golf Course. It's now ranked by the prestigious Golf Digest magazine as the 54th best public course in the nation. It had never been ranked in the Top 100 until this year. So why the sudden, dramatic change? "We've never been able to qualify for ratings with Golf Digest because ... Continue Reading
StraightTalk: Jamie Weeder
Brian Cabell sits down with the 34-year-old cofounder and artistic director of the Upper Peninsula Shakespeare Festival and the Wolf's Head Theater Company. BC: Where were you born and raised? JW: Primarily downstate. Westland, Michigan, the Detroit metro area. I was raised there with my mom and my dad, my brother and ... Continue Reading