Black Shirt Beer Review is paired with Peanut Butter Disaster, a combination of other review shows on the internet, but BSBR runs on MQT Social Scene in syndication. Do you have a YouTube show of things focused on MQT or created by people from MQT? Let us know about syndication on our website.
Black Shirt Beer Review (BSBR) is a beer review show on YouTube created and produced by people who live and work in MQT.
Black Shirt Beer Review is paired with Peanut Butter Disaster, a combination of other review shows on the internet, but BSBR runs on MQT Social Scene in syndication. Do you have a YouTube show of things focused on MQT or created by people from MQT? Let us know about syndication on our website.
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By Brice Burge
Managing Editor The website of Marquette Board and Light and Power (BLP) was hacked on Sunday, December 22. MQTSocialScene first learned about the hack through a Facebook post at approximately 4:30 p.m.. By Brice Burge
Managing Editor Aubree’s Pizza won the second annual NMU Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) Hometown Taste-Off on Monday, Nov. 25 at NMU’s Jacobetti Commons. Aubree’s roughly doubled up second place finisher Toarmina’s-Butchie Boys in a battle of Michigan-based franchises. The MQT stores are the only Upper Peninsula locations for both franchises. Local franchise Main Street finished in third. National chains Domino’s and Pizza Hut came in fourth and fifth respectively. MQT’s newest franchise Jet’s Pizza also competed. By Brice Burge
Managing Editor From 4-8 p.m., women can expect the very best from MQT businesses during the 17th annual Ladies Night. Organized by the MQT Downtown Development Authority, over 60 local businesses will be running special giveaways, contests and discounts during the event. Four custom gift baskets stocked with local goods and gift certificates for those women participating in the Ladies Night Passport promotion. The passports can be picked up at either the Masonic Center or the MQT Convention & Visitors Bureau for a $1 donation to the MQT Women's Center. The baskets are valued between $400-600. By Brice Burge
Managing Editor The latest edition of the “Goat Rodeo” Senior Bar Crawl has been scheduled for Thursday, December 12 Featuring nine different MQT locations, crawl participants will receive a t-shirt, a Dr. McGillicuddy’s shot at each bar and transportation through longer parts of the trip. The event is one of the biannual bar crawls sponsored by Double Trouble DJ’s, Checker Cab and Dr. McGillicuddy’s. The crawls traditionally line up with the Thursday of Northern Michigan University’s finals week for the fall and winter semesters as a way for outgoing graduates to have one last hurrah in MQT. However, all members of the community over 21 are able to buy a ticket and join in on the fun. By Lizzie Corser
Marquette Downtown Development Authority The Marquette Downtown District will once again be providing a safe and fun opportunity for children to trick or treat. On Saturday, October 26, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., families can bring little ghosts and goblins door to door collecting goodies from downtown businesses. Participating locations will have orange "Welcome Trick or Treaters" signs in their windows. Last year, more than 1,500 children and parents visited the district. Following trick or treat, the City of Marquette and Downtown Development Authority will host the second annual Halloween Spectacle, a large-scale community outdoor performance of giant puppetry, percussion and theatrical dance. This year's theme is Heroes versus Villains and the community is encouraged to dress as their favorite character and pick a side. As the evening grows dark, the community is invited to join in processions throughout the City starting at 6:40 p.m. and converging in the Marquette Commons at 7 p.m. For more information, contact the Marquette Downtown Development Authority at 906-228-9475 or visit www.downtownmarquette.org. Lizzie Corser is the Marketing and Administrative Assistant for Marquette Downtown Development Authority. She can be reached at lizzie@downtownmarquette.org. This was sent to MQT Social Scene as a press release. The Northern Naturally banners (left) hang on a light pole near the Forest Roberts Theater while a newer sign on Seventh Street (right) welcomes people to campus . The university will go under a new branding campaign, as leaked by a NMU student. (Brice Burge) By Brice Burge
Managing Editor Northern Michigan University will change its branding campaign from the popular long-running Northern Naturally to Fearless Minds. This is expected to take place in January 2014. The first news of the change came through a single-article blog called Long Live Northern Naturally on October 20. The site was shared through social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter and sparked a Change.org petition with over 500 signatures at time of publishing. MQTSocialScene talked with the blog creator, NMU junior Chandler Countryman, about why she created the website. Margaret Boyle
Programming Coordinator Peter White Public Library Northern Michigan University’s Human-Centered Design student work is on display in October in the Huron Mountain Club Gallery on the main floor of the Peter White Public Library. This collection of design concepts is the work of current junior and senior level students within the Human-Centered design program at NMU. The emphasis of the program focuses on the development of concepts for products, systems and services that we encounter on a daily basis. Students work through a creative process in order to identify appropriate solutions to the problem at hand. Whether in collaborative or individual exercises, the students explore a range of possible solutions that are developed through research and then visualize concepts through design sketching, computer modeling, three-dimensional printing and crafting physical models or fully functional prototypes. For more information on the NMU program visit www.art.nmu.edu. The exhibit is available for viewing during regular library hours through October 30. For more information call the Peter White Public Library at 226-4318 or visit www.pwpl.info. Press release was sent to MQT Social Scene courtesy of the Peter White Public Library. MQT Social Scene is on the mailing list for different MQT organizations about some of the things going around the city. We don't always get a chance to cover these opportunities, but we still want to share them with you.
By Brice Burge
Managing Editor MQT's biggest music fest is the Hiawatha Music Festival, a 35-year traditional music gathering happening this weekend (July 19-21) at Tourist Park. The festival is one of the largest of its kind in the Midwest and brings in people from all over the country, but locals still have ways to impact the most unique festivals in MQT. Three main local acts are taking various stages at the festival. The Door Cats, Sparrow Tree and Corrinne Rockow will be spread out among the main stage, teen scene and children's stage respectively, but all three acts are from the greater MQT area. |