BTL Staff
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: Time to Act on Cancer Screening, Prevention
LANSING – January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is urging testing and vaccination to help prevent this disease that will affect approximately 370 Michigan women this year alone. The Pap [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Fossil hunting with Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan You already know Kate Winslet and you're finally figuring out who the staggeringly talented Saoirse Ronan ("Mary Queen of Scots") is, even if you still can't quite pronounce her [...]
Southern Comfort' Auditions at Stagecrafters Second Stage Theatre
Royal Oak's Stagecrafters Second Stage Theatre will be holding auditions for the musical, "Southern Comfort" on Sunday, Jan. 27, and Monday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. at the Baldwin Theatre, located at 415 S. Lafayette in downtown Royal Oak. "Southern [...]
Creep of the Week: Karen Pence
Imagine walking into art class one day in grade school and finding that none other than Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, is your teacher. For a lot of kids, such a thing would be pretty exciting, regardless of how said kid's parents [...]
Alcona County Board of Commissioners Opposes Governor Whitmer's Order to Protect LGBTQ Community
The Alcona County Board of Commissioners is asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to rescind her recent executive directive signed on Monday, Jan. 7 to strengthen protections for the LGBTQ community. According to The Alpena News, the board [...]
Lady of Spain
Across 1 One of the Three Bears 5 Sites for three men in a tub 9 Dave Pallone and others 13 Hertz competitor 14 "A" in radio lingo 15 Witty Coward 16 Lairs of bears 17 Petty of "A League of Their Own" 18 Claim innocence of 19 Miss Spain in this [...]
Creating Change Co-Chair Highlights
Every year, the Creating Change LGBTQ conference selects a different city in which to hold its conference. As it moves from city to city, officials select a group of local co-chairs native to the area where the national LGBTQ conference is being [...]
Don't Wait to File Discrimination Complaints with MDCR During Federal Shutdown
As the federal government shutdown moves into its third week, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights is reminding members of the community that they don't have to wait to file a complaint about discrimination. Michiganders who believe they have [...]
LGBT Refugees More Vulnerable in Trump's America
By Junior Nsamia Mayema Since Donald Trump became president, I have never seen so much hate being meted out against immigrants, let alone LGBT refugees and asylum seekers like me. I am from the Democratic Republic of Congo and fled my homeland to [...]
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday
The MLK Jr. Service Day began in 2017 as a way to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a 'day on' instead of 'day off' and inspire members of the community to get involved with local organizations past January and throughout the [...]
