Adam Engel

  • As I walked into the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center on Thursday, I had to smile; Dean Martin’s “That’s Amore” was playing over the doors. Fitting, since I had come to attend the second-annual “Best Pizza on the Bay,” a community gathering of pizza-makers raising money for a mural being painted at the center.

  • A group of Northland College students on Friday performed the annual Northland Drag Show, a campus tradition celebrating gender equality, diversity, and freedom of expression for more than a decade.

  • When it comes to symbols of the winter season, very few are quite as classic as horse-drawn sleighs. On Saturday, the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center played host to the Northwoods Harness Club’s 26th annual Sleigh and Cutter Rally, a celebration of that very symbol.

  • Every Friday, wizards congregate on Ashland’s main street to battle for supremacy, hurling spellfire and summoning monsters in furious clashes to determine who is best.