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(From left) Dimondale Arts Commission chair Camron Gnass; Eaton County Commissioner Jacob Toomey; Village trustees Lori Conarton, Bill Bower and Andrea Tardino; artist Richard Tanner, commission members Scott Pohl and Sharon Novasel; and Village Manager Denis Prisk pose with Dimondale’s second publicly funded sculpture, Tanner’s “The River (Runs Through Us)”.
Greater Lansing is a state leader in funding the arts
“It’s a sleepy little town on a river bend,” Dimondale native Camron Gnass said of his lifelong home. “It’s more of a bedroom community than it is anything with real commerce. There’s just kind of one main blinker-light there, and other than that it’s a kind of off-the-beaten path.” more
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Tyrrell Winston’s wall of discarded basketballs, gathered from ditches, driveways and neighborhood courts, bursts with a love of the sport.
Champions on and off the field
Antsy types who usually skip the video art at Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum might want to slow down, sit on a bench for six minutes and lose themselves in a deeply moving video by South African-American artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. more
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“American Idol” alumnus Jacob Moran headlines day one of the Sun Dried Music Festival in downtown Mason, taking the stage 9:40 p.m. Friday (Aug. 25).
Fun for the whole family
It’s the last weekend of summer before classes begin at Michigan State University, and it seems some local organizations have been waiting for students to return before offering their biggest events of the season. more
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MSU clubs and organizations are ready to greet potential new members at Sparticipation, running 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday (Aug. 27).
Back in the saddle
Welcome back, Spartans! I hope you’ve had a relaxing and fun-filled summer. Now that the school year is ramping up, East Lansing is ready to greet you with plenty of fun events, both at Michigan State University and in the community beyond. Before we get to that, however, let’s look at some updates on the city’s landscape. more
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Tennant Performance Shell Concerts in the Park
The Clinton County Arts Council and City of St. Johns’ free outdoor concert series has four shows left to go before the summer wraps up. Bill Tennant, one of the founding members of the arts … more
Formerly known as Young O, Jurell is a quadruple-threat artist.
Lansing hip-hop artists taking the scene by storm
Last year, when I wrote about the state of Lansing hip-hop, I said I felt that a collection of the greatest voices ever to represent the genre was born in Lansing. While that remains true, I also … more
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The Verve Pipe’s July 15 show at Grewal Hall at 224 was rescheduled for Dec. 9, but singer and guitarist Brian Vander Ark still chatted with City Pulse about the band’s history and its next album.
Pipe dream
Looking back on his band’s platinum-selling success, the Verve Pipe’s Brian Vander Ark quickly pointed to his most surreal moment from the group’s peak. more
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Courtesy photo St. Joseph and Main streets were “ground zero” in the I-496 construction project. The state Capitol dome is visible at left. Construction lasted from 1963 until December 1970.
‘They even took the dirt’
It took over five years, including a pandemic pause, to bring one of Lansing’s least known but important and wrenching stories to the screen, and now it’s here. more
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Author Chris G. Thelen wrote the first draft of his new novel, “Islands of Deception,” more than 30 years ago, but it sat on the shelf until his retirement three years ago, when he finally had time to make the necessary rewrites.
A thriller more than 30 years in the making
If you’re looking for a summer read that will get your pulse racing, Chris G. Thelen’s new book, “Islands of Deception,” is a safe bet. There are car, boat and plane chases; two secret staircases; and corrupt ... more
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The Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, North America’s largest classical repertory theater company, is performing Shakespeare’s “Richard II” throughout July, August and September. The company is also producing three other Shakespeare plays and a host of modern shows this summer.
Summer theater just a short road trip away
The Lansing area offers an extraordinary amount of talented theater companies. So much so that during the fall, winter and spring, theatergoers find themselves choosing between … more
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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor opens the groundbreaking ceremony this morning for the city's downtown performing arts center at the corner of Washington Avenue and Lenawee Street. In the background are the new City View Apartments.
City breaks ground on a downtown performing arts center
WEDNESDAY, June 28 — City of Lansing officials broke ground this morning on the Ovation downtown performing arts center and announced a $1 million, five-year partnership with Michigan State … more
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The Broad Museum’s 2022 retrospective, “History Told Slant: 27 Years of Collecting Art at MSU,” celebrated the museum’s permanent collection, and the history of the Broad’s predecessor, the Kresge Art Museum. The Center for Object Research and Engagement, now under construction at the Broad, will provide a permanent space where some 270 objects from the collection will go on display.
‘The core of who we are’
Two weeks ago, workers began tearing out drywall and dismantling cinderblock partitions in the lower level of MSU’s Broad Art Museum. The lower-level renovation of a campus building … more
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Local artist Dennis Preston poses with his trusty sketch pad and a figurine of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Rat Fink caricature, a major inspiration for his own art.
Two decades of napkin doodling
Dennis Preston has been painting on unusual surfaces and materials since he was a little kid. He’s produced thousands of posters and caricatures; painted guitars, ukuleles and drums; and even … more
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Attendees enjoy an evening of music and dancing at the 2022 517 Juneteenth Festival.
Juneteenth events honor local Black history and culture
Juneteenth, a national holiday since 2021 and a state holiday in Michigan since 2020, honors the official end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, hundreds of thousands of African … more
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MSU trombone professor Michael Dease took DownBeat’s Critics’ Poll Award in trombone two years in a row, in 2021 and 2022.
‘I found the formula’
How hot is Michael Dease? The MSU jazz trombone professor with the frictionless, ductile tone, rippling rhythmic drive and unquenchable zest for life is at the very top of his game. ... … more
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Any interesting thing, place or person in greater Lansing is fair game for celebration and reflection in the "My Secret Lansing" writing contest, from gorgeous Art Deco portable toilets near Mt. Hope cemetery to a jaw-dropping beaver chew on the Grand River downtown.
Arts Council, poetry club launch 'My Secret Lansing' writing contest
There’s a perfectly positioned tree stump near the Potter Park Zoo, equipped with an accidental backrest, where you can watch the river flow, the grass sway and deer quietly graze. … more
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Lady Seduca charges the audience during a performance at St Johns’ Pride Fest on Saturday. Lady is the creation of Neil Monté Alexander, a recent MSU graduate.
‘Terrified’ but courageous
Two blocks of downtown St. Johns were festooned with rainbows. A vendor was making bubbles that wafted in the wind under the blue sky. Children laughed and squealed as they romped in a bouncy house. … more
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Lowell held its 3rd annual Pride festival on Saturday, an example of the plethora of hyperlocal Pride events that have begun popping up throughout the state in recent years.
The evolution of Pride in Michigan
In the late 1970s, Lansing’s first Pride celebration didn’t include any parade floats, performances or other festival-like aspects attendees have come to expect over the years. … more
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With the onset of summer, Lansing is once again awash with free concerts at parks across the region. Pictured above is a concert at Lake Lansing Park South in Haslett.
Park it: Greater Lansing is once again stacked with free park concerts
Now that Michigan is fully defrosted and the summer sun is burning hot, music fans can once again experience live tunes under blue skies at local parks and plazas. These shows are a longtime fixture … more
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Ken Beachler
Ken Beachler, who helped birth the Wharton Center, dies
Ken Beachler, the founding executive director of the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts and a leading member of the Lansing theatrical community, has died. He was 87. The cause of his death … more
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