We’re talking traffic this week — including many new roundabouts and a median coming to the area, a new light for M-72 and an update on the Front and Madison 4-way stop.

Director of Dance for Interlochen Center for the Arts, Joseph Morrissey joins us to discuss this year’s production of the classic ballet “The Nutcracker,” December 12 - 14th at Corson Auditorium on the Interlochen campus.

Owners of Design Dance Studio in the Cherryland Center in Traverse City, Veronica Woods and Madelaine Mitchell-Ward join us to talk about “Frost, A Winter Show of Dance” happening December 14th at TC Central High School, as well as discussing the birth of their business and why their classes are about much more than just learning how to dance. 

’Tis the season for giving — and Mike Kent from the Northwest Michigan Toys for Tots joins us to talk about assuring every child in our region has a Christmas. 

Ahead of tonight’s monthly meetup and “Bar Napkin Pitch Night,” TC NewTech Development Director Sarah Hunt, along with board member Ben Marshall, talks about the presenters and upcoming events from this exciting tech and entrepreneurial event. 

A review of the all-ages interactive play “The Alphabet Experience,” continuing this weekend at City Opera House; new research that says our bodies do begin to breakdown at age 40, and that divorce can be “contagious”; and the continuing saga of Dollar General vs. the Village of Empire.

Headlines this week include Snoop Dogg’s lullaby album, Pete Townsend trying to get the Who into the hip-hop game and the new musical that talks about aliens and Michael Jackson from the perspective of a sequined glove.

It’s a Thanksgiving tradition for 12 years now — the annual TC Turkey Trot!  We talk with Amy and Brian about what to expect and how you’ve still got a chance to get in on the fun!

It’s time to talk turkey — specifically, the the cost of your turkey dinner after the latest Farm Bureau Survey revealed the cost of Thanksgiving dinner only increased by a penny.  We talk to our favorite farmer, Ben LaCross of LaCross Farms and Leelanau Fruit Company, about these figures.

Parallel 45 Theatre has teamed up with City Opera House for the upcoming production of “The Alphabet Experience,” a fun-for-the-whole-family 60 minute tour-de-force, where the actors perform 26 micro-plays — one for each letter of the alphabet — and you, the audience, chooses the order!  Director Noah Fried and City Opera House’s Kristi Dockter join us to talk about this exciting collaboration.