Navigating social security disability can be confusing, but Allsup offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to help companies take advantage of the savings that result from properly coordinating employee benefits and workers’ compensation programs with Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Medicare.  With changes coming this October, Mike Stein joins us to discuss how you can be prepared.

Answering your outdoor space questions, Jeanine tackles how to properly plant peonies, battling the vine borer worm, protecting lupine from aphids and more.

Local stories this week include Peninsula Township’s agenda for a new fire station and marijuana ban, Garfield Township looking at Munson daycare, church expansion and housing projects, and an issue you might not have known about the train tracks near the library and the Filling Station. 

Director of the Children’s Garden at the Traverse Area District Library, Emily Kuschell joins us to talk about the power of gardening and discuss the Friendly Garden Club’s upcoming Garden Walk, a “Parade of Homes” style event July 18 in the Holiday Hills area of Traverse City.

It’s an encore presentation of our chat with Jimmy Frederick, new co-owner of the Dairy King.  As a Benzie County girl, I cannot tell you how delighted I was that this Beulah institution, originally opened in 1950, has been given a second life from Jimmy and company.  We talk about reopening and revitalizing this piece of many people’s childhood, the struggles that go along with running a business, and ensuring area folks have cool treats to get them through the hot summer days of Northern Michigan.

Director Kit McKay and cast members Katherine Dillingham Mazer and Rudy Foster for Parallel 45 Theatre’s summer rotating rep productions (“Hair,” “Little Bunny Foo Foo” and “Stupid F*ing Bird”) join us to talk about their new theatre at Civic Center Park in Traverse City and reimagining classic shows for a contemporary context.

An internationally known author and speaker on gender issues, Kelly joins us to discuss a recent decision by Disney/Pixar to remove a controversial scene from the “Toy Story 2” mock-blooper reel, and the larger conversation about if studios should take a second look at their films, especially those aimed at kids.

A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," LESS shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.   Traverse Area District Library’s Michele Howard and Matt Wiliford join us to discuss the latest entry in the CFBC.

Board Members Kelly and Ben join us to preview tonight’s meetup for TC NewTech, highlighting the presenting organizations (Good Market, Lingco Language Labs, SWRT Solutions and Zonder Studios, Inc.) and more.

Singer-Songwriter Miriam Pico and husband Ryan Younce join us ahead of their performance at this week’s Grand Traverse Pavilions’ Concerts on the Lawn, playing two songs and discussing creating musical events for all ages, and collaborating as spouses.