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MQT Social Scene to return Monday June 2

5/28/2014

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After roughly a month of inactivity, MQT Social Scene will return to regular publication on Monday, June 2.

MQT Social Scene will return with a brand new website with features never seen before on an Upper Peninsula website. It will include new formats for tags, social media interaction and reviews.

Delays in publication have been due to this web construction and other hosting issues.

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MQT Social Scene going through some changes

5/12/2014

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MQT Social Scene is currently in the process of changing our website layout, design and functionality. This has taken much longer than expected and is why we haven't put up any new articles on the page.

Until then, please check out our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages as we look to complete this process quickly.

Thank you,
Brice Burge
Owner, Editor in Chief
MQT Social Scene
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Man arrested after shooting in MQT

4/6/2014

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The arrested man sits in the back of a police car after a shooting at the corner of Third Street and Bluff Street. (Brice Burge)
By Brice Burge
Editor in Chief

Shots were fired before 3 a.m. in MQT. One is in custody and at least one other person was sent to the MQT General Hospital for gunshot-related wounds.

An eyewitness account said that multiple shots were fired and that 911 was called. Residents around the house were evacuated.

MQT Social Scene arrived at 202 Bluff Street at approximately 3 a.m.. A crowd of roughly 20 people were standing across the street. Officers were still inside the house, while another was treated for non-gunshot issues on the street.

A Caucasian male was removed from the house by the police in handcuffs. Members of the group ran into the street as the male was being placed in the vehicle, shouting that was the person responsible for the shooting.

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PHAT Closet opens in MQT

3/19/2014

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PHAT Closet offers name brand clothes in MQT after opening last Monday (PHAT Closet Facebook page)
By John Becker
Managing Editor

For fashionistas living in MQT, it can be difficult and costly having to travel to places like Green
Bay or Duluth to find hip name-brand clothing labels. The Internet may have eased the burden slightly, but many ladies would rather try to find the perfect fit instead of blindly ordering jeans, dresses or blouses.

Never fear ladies; there’s a new fashion boutique in MQT, located at 2168 U.S. 41 West, that’s
going to keep young ladies trendy while keeping their purses laden with dollar bills. PHAT Closet opened in Marquette on Saturday, March 15, 2014, and the business owner Tara Kelgar said she is here to make sure all the ladies stay fashionable.

“PHAT means pre-owned hip and trendy. We decided to start a business where we could make resale clothing cool for the young and young at heart. I’m really big on finding that positive aspect of a woman and accentuating it, and making her feel good,” Kelgar said.

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Connections, community improve through 40 below

3/17/2014

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40 Below meets for a mixer event at Blackrocks Brewery in February (Justin Carlson)
By Sarah Carstens
Staff Writer

In an attempt to better connect young professionals, the group 40 Below has been working to improve the MQT area.

"It is vital to a thriving community to bring young people together to economically stimulate the community in a positive manner for years to come, as they represent the future.” said 40 Below President Ryan Nummela.

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CRUNCH TIME: Updates on Baby Isaiah, Dia de los Tacos, Royales playoffs and more

3/14/2014

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By MQT Social Scene staff

MQT Social Scene is recapping and updating the biggest stories of the week, all stories that readers can greatly influence if they wish. Make it happen MQT.

Baby Isaiah's health has worsened

According to the Baby Isaiah Facebook group, Isaiah had signs of an intestinal blockage on March 12. Mother Erica Kaye posted the information and said that due to the earlier intestinal issues caused by the necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), surgery was necessary.

More tests were done earlier this morning to determine what would be the best type of tube to insert into Isaiah, according to another post by Kaye.

Both Kaye and Joe Gatiss, father of Isaiah, are with the child at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor. Kacie Hanford is leading the aid efforts in MQT. She can be found for more information through the Facebook group or can be found at the Ore Dock Brewing Company.

READ: MQT supports local infant

Dia De Los Tacos needs more votes before deadline

Dia de los Tacos (DDLT), the only independent food truck in the area, was nominated for Food Truck Taco of the Year on the website mobile-cuisine.com. Voting ends tonight at 1 a.m. MQT time.

MQT Social Scene first broke the story after it was posted on the DDLT Facebook page. Since then, TV6 and ABC5&10 have both covered the contest. What was originally a three-horse race,
Box of Chacos of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla took a commanding lead, with less than 24 hours to go.
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Above: Screenshot from mobile-cuisine.com from March 9 with 11,092 total votes.
Right: Screenshot from March 14 with 18,017 total votes.

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DDLT is owned by Mike and TeriLynn Walker, who have overcome permit issues, laid off of their jobs and infrastructural challenges since starting their business. Now they operate a food truck five days a week during the Michigan Winter, while also providing food for weekends and special events at different bars throughout MQT.

Voting is still available on the mobile-cuisine.com website on the lower right-hand corner of the page. An earlier link from MQT Social Scene was used so many times, it started preventing people from voting, so manually type in the website name to vote.

READ: Dia de los Tacos nominated for food truck taco of 2014

READ: Love of tacos prevails as Dia de los Tacos hits the streets

Royales host home playoff series this weekend

The MQT Royales have already accomplished a lot in their first season of existence.

They won 22 games in a row earlier in the season to help bring a Minnesota Junior Hockey League (MnJHL) Great Lakes Divisional championship. The team has partnered with two charities to raise money for organ donation awareness and youth hockey programs across the Upper Peninsula.

Now they will play in their first home playoff game in franchise history.

The Royales should have spent last weekend beating the St. Louis Frontenacs in a lopsided 1-8 matchup, but St. Louis was excused from the playoffs by the divisional general managers. Instead, MQT played the Portage Lake Pioneers in an exhibition game.

Tonight, March 14, the Royales will play the Wooster Oilers. The sixth-seeded Oilers won just one of six games in the season series, but are fresh off an upset sweep of the Central Wisconsin Saints. The Oilers and Royales will play a best-of-three-series.

If the Royales win, they will go onto the MnJHL round robin championship, where the top two teams in the pool will move onto the USA National Championships. The Royales, rival Illiana Blackbirds, Maple Grove Energy and the Wisconsin Dells Ducks are the favorites to advance to the round robin.

The Royales will be the only home event in a busy athletics weekend for MQT. The NMU Wildcats play in the first round of the WCHA tournament in Mankato, Minnesota. against the Minnesota State Mavericks. Also the women's basketball team will make their first NCAA Division II Tournament appearance since 2010 as the fourth seed in the Midwest Regional. They will play Quincy of the Great Lakes Valley Conference in Springfield, Missouri.

READ: Portage Lake drops MQT in exhibition game

READ: Royales get controversial bye in MnJHL playoffs

MQT Social scene makes major social media moves

Earlier this morning, MQT Social Scene was added to the news section of the Marquette Mobile app. The app, available for most smartphones, is locally developed and covers many aspects of the MQT area, including news sources, online menus, a blog and more.

Also MQT Social Scene now has an Instagram and will be using it as a source for different styles of reporting. MQT Social Scene Instagrammed the UP Builders Show and attached the pictures to the Twitter account to give real-time reports of the show. We also took those pictures and added them to our blog, so those that did not have the social media platform could still view the pictures.

We also have a Twitter and live tweeted the Pigs and Heat hockey game on Wednesday, March 12. MQT Social Scene took a different approach to the coverage, focusing on the game instead of just another charity event. Live tweeting helped further that journalistic concept and added details that were not found elsewhere. MQT Social Scene will continue to use social media in new ways to add depth of local coverage.

READ: #INSTAGRAMMING- UP Builders Show

READ: Pigs torch Heat in annual charity game
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Breakwall Comedy returns to Ore Dock

3/11/2014

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By Brice Burge
Editor in Chief

Returning to the community room of the Ore Dock Brewing Company, Breakwall Comedy will have their monthly show tonight, March 11, at 8 p.m..

Each show has a headliner, a featured act and locals that will have various lengths of standup. Headlining this show will be Nathan Timmel, a national-touring comedian showcased on the Bob and Tom Show, Sirius satellite radio and Raw Dog Comedy. Featured will be Tucker Diedrich, a comedian from Northern Wisconsin.


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Dia De Los Tacos nominated for 2014 food truck taco of the year

2/25/2014

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Mike Walker, owner of Dia De Los Tacos, hands out a taco at the opening of the truck in 2013. (Brice Burge)
By Brice Burge
Managing Editor

Dia De Los Tacos (DDLT) is a finalist in the Mobile-Cuisine.com 2014 Food Truck Taco of the Year. As of publication, DDLT was tied for first place with 895 votes, 25 percent of the total voting population.

According to Mike Walker, who owns the truck with his wife Teri Lynn, he is confident that fans of the truck will give DDLT the edge.

"It's hard to mess with the people that consider themselves our fans. We've had people stand outside in negative 20 wind chills for our tacos," Walker said. "If any of the other trucks can claim that, we'd be surprised."

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Samuel Adams commits to MQT area

2/4/2014

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A tap handle for Samuel Adams' Rebel IPA (left) leads a line of craft brews at the Wild Rover (Brice Burge)
By Brice Burge
Managing Editor


The nationally-distributed beer Samuel Adams has said that they will be focusing in on the greater MQT area this upcoming year, according to a national representative for the beer.

“Sam Adams is excited to be up here full time,” said Carmine Polisei, Market Manager for the company. “MQT is a lot of fun. There is no reason to think Sam Adams won’t grow up here.”

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MQT Businesses closing in 2014

1/29/2014

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With the recent closing of Bonanza, MQT has lost a handful of businesses just one month into the year. Here are some of the businesses that MQT has lost. - Brice Burge, Managing Editor

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