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From Big Sur, a prolific Lansing-based rock ‘n’ roll band, just went full-Lansing and released a new album recorded live at Horrocks Farm Market. The live record, fittingly titled …
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Rich Tupica
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8/18/22
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The last Eye for Design (below) was not identified by our readers. Sand-colored brick and blue panels of sheet metal intersect on the façade of BWL’s Wise Road Water Conditioning Plant. …
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James Knarian
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8/11/22
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By TIM RETZLOFF
We have only glimpses of earlier generations of same-sex couples because for so long society forced those we today understand as LGBTQ+ people to live largely in secrecy. …
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Tim Retzloff
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8/11/22
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After being canceled in the pandemic year of 2020 and downscaled in 2021, Lansing’s Smooth Jazz Fête, an afternoon-long revue of national smooth jazz luminaries in the shade of the east …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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8/11/22
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In the summer of 1987, in honor of its sesquicentennial, the State of Michigan was front and center in Washington for the Smithsonian Folk Festival.
Ninety Michiganians showcased, spoke …
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Bill Castanier
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8/11/22
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How does one come to terms with a fantastically imaginative father who’s painted a world of witches and giants? That’s a key conflict in the upcoming Riverwalk production of “Big …
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Todd Heywood
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8/4/22
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With the recent death of Kathryn Anne Omoto, the Mitten State lost one of its true architectural history buffs. The author died at her home in Elk Rapids, Michigan, this past week. She was 86.
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Bill Castanier
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8/4/22
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In the summer of 2000, I was 22 and newly arrived to Lansing, trying to figure out life while attempting to turn a few acquaintances into friends. Days after arriving, I was driving my 1994 …
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Sean Madigan Hoen
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8/4/22
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'The Realistic Joneses' is a refreshingly deep plunge into the reality of long-term love as told through two couples who happen to have the same last name. Although the show has serious themes the …
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Chelsea Lake Roberts
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7/29/22
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Joan Bambery:
Fish Fighters Lansing
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Bill Cosentino
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7/28/22
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It’s 5 p.m. Friday at Harry’s Place. A group of customers in their 30s and 40s are having a nice long chat with their waitress.
“Did you miss me?” she says, …
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Chelsea Lake Roberts
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7/28/22
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In Lansing, auto pioneer Billy Durant gets little recognition. His contemporary the late Ransom E. Olds, founder of REO Motors and Oldsmobile, dominates local automotive history discussions, has the …
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Bill Castanier
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7/28/22
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“The Hat Box” reminds audiences we need to block out the noise of the world and focus on what really matters: family.
But wait … how much do we really know about our …
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Mary Cusack
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7/28/22
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This weekend, it’ll get loud at The Avenue Café when Bloody Butterflies close out a night of heavy, Michigan-made bands. Sharing the roster is Warhorses, a Detroit-based outfit …
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Rich Tupica
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7/28/22
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(Because of COVID’s impact on area theater during the 2021-’22 season, the Pulsar Awards are impossible to determine. But City Pulse didn’t want local theater talent to go …
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David Winkelstern
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7/21/22
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No summer walk in downtown Lansing is complete without taking in the varied stimuli of Lansing ArtPath, a multi-media outdoor art display organized by the Lansing Art Gallery along three miles of the …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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7/21/22
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Lansing’s own Locust Point debuted with a brilliant self-titled LP in 2018, an LP stocked with undeniable, Thin Lizzy-caliber guitar riffs and rock ’n roll hooks.
Last month, …
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Rich Tupica
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7/21/22
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Thanks to the Capital Area District Library, Ingham County parks have morphed into literary jungles where parents can take their children on a reading safari — far from smartphones and video …
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Bill Castanier
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7/21/22
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This month, The Wild Honey Collective unveiled “Volume 2,” another collection of rustic original and traditional music. Over the past year, the newly formed local outfit has made a …
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Rich Tupica
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7/14/22
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When Kenneth G. McIntyre entered Michigan State University in 1956, he had his heart set on being a sports writer. After working two summers for a local newspaper, though, he took a constitutional …
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Bill Castanier
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7/14/22
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