By Sarah Carstens
Staff Writer

Join Andrea Scarpino at Ore Dock Brewing Company Thursday, March 20, from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. for her first big release party of Once, Then. There will be a 15-20 minute reading of poetic works, as well as music. Dia De Los Tacos will be set up inside the Ore Dock which is located at 114 W. Spring St. in MQT.

Scarpino talked about the intense nature of poetry and how it can be off-putting to newcomers, but she said if listeners sit back and relax, they will enjoy themselves.

“People seem so intimidated by poetry; it’s just another way to process the world. Come and take a listen at this celebration to embrace what I’ve been working on for so long,” she said.

MQT Social Scene went to the UP Builders Show on March 8. Instead of writing another article to be lost in the traditional coverage of the event, MQT Social Scene took to social media and put all of our pictures on our new Instagram account. The pictures were autoposted through the app to our Twitter account. This was all done in real time, meaning it was the most immediate coverage of the UP Builders Show ever across two different social media platforms. #Instagramming should be a regular feature of MQT Social Scene in an attempt to use emerging technology in the media market to more efficiently share the stories of MQT. (Photos, captions by Brice Burge)

By Brice Burge
Editor In Chief

The MQT community is rallying around Baby Isaiah.

T-shirts, benefit dinners and monetary donations have all been compiled to help offset the increasing medical bills and aid for parents Erica Kaye and Joe Gatiss as they stay in Ann Arbor to stay with the embattled infant.

By Brice Burge
Managing Editor

A multifaceted cultural event will ask people to love the life around them in the MQT Love show, tonight at Ore Dock Brewing Company.

"I want this event to bring the all the amazing people of our Marquette community together in a loving, spiritual way," said event creator Kira Treloar. "I want it to inspire more art in our community, more conscious living in the way of respect for our beautiful planet earth, and more love among community members of all walks of life."

By Brice Burge
Managing Editor

A new exhibit of Paul Grant art is on display at the City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center. The exhibit titled "Revisiting People and Places" is his first exhibit of his work in over four years.

Black Shirt Beer Review (BSBR) is a beer review show on YouTube created and produced by people who live and work in MQT.

This episode has MQT Social Scene's Brice Burge and Wild Rover front house manager Alex Palzewicz sit down and try a mystery beer that debuted last Friday at the downtown bar and restaurant.

By Brice Burge
Managing Editor

UP Mosaic, an exhibit at the Beaumier Heritage Center, ends this weekend.

The exhibit examined the relationship between the culture of Upper Peninsula residents with the environmental factors of the area, like climate and mineral resources.

Mosaic is stocked with multiple artifacts from multiple donors covering anything from ice climbing to the logging industry.

There were some availability problems with the exhibit. After starting later than the original date, the exhibit also ran through NMU's Winter break between semesters. However, fans of the history museum located in the Cohodas Building on 1401 Presque Isle, came and interacted with the exhibit.

After UP Mosaic comes down, a traveling exhibit from the Canadian War Museum will come to Beaumier. The exhibit will focus on the War of 1812 from four different points of views: Americans, Canadians, Native Americans and the British. The opening reception will be on Thursday, January 23 at 6 p.m..

Brice Burge is the Managing Editor of MQT Social Scene. He can be reached at [email protected].

By Brice Burge
Managing Editor

The tentative course for the 2014 Run or Dye 5K run has been announced.

The course, starts at Mattson Lower Harbor park and takes the bike path through Eastern MQT. Traveling past the Coast Guard base and Maritime Museum, the course follows the path past McCarthy's Cove, through Shiras Park near Picnic Rocks towards the intersection of Pine Street and Lakeshore. The course then returns on the same route to the Lower Harbor, but finishers will finish on the concrete walkway near the water.