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Thursday nights at NanBop Farm combine live music, local vendors, pizza, and open-air views for a laid-back summer evening spent with friends and family.

In 1963, the summer I turned 5—my dad took my older brother and me to hike across the spine of Sleeping Bear: from the Dune Climb to Lake Michigan. As I trailed behind them, my canteen (this was ...

Guinness may be delicious, but these local stouts are just as worthy of a St. Patrick’s Day toast. St. Patrick’s Day is near, and that means a freshly poured pint of stout. These … ...

Who serves up the best slice of pizza? Which food truck has everyone talking? Taste your way across the region with the Red Hot Best 2026 winners for restaurant, burger, pizza and more. Chianti pairs ...

With spring wildflower season a distant memory, there’s plenty still blooming across the Northern Michigan landscape.

Summer means sipping wine as a guitarist strums familiar melodies against a vineyard sunset—and lucky for us, our region’s ...

After more than 63,100 nominations and 177,700 votes, a record-breaking 22,200 people voted in the 2022 MyNorth Red Hot Best Awards to kick off the second From Traverse City to Marquette and beyond, ...

Celebrating the North’s craft beverage scene, across all seven regions.

View of Downtown Traverse City.

The only prehistoric rock drawings in Michigan, located in the Upper Peninsula between Manistique and Escanaba, are fading into oblivion from neglect and vandalization. Can they be saved? As long ago ...

A monastery on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula delivers delightful jam. On a windswept coast of the Upper Peninsula, a small band of devoted monks is carving out a life that balances work and worship.