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The Arts Council of Greater Lansing is teaming up with the city to announce the recipients of the first round of FY2021 City of Lansing Arts and Culture Arts Projects Grants.
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Staff
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12/16/20
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Lansing 5:01, a networking group that encourages young professionals to live in the Lansing area and invest in its communities, has acquired fellow Greater Lansing networking organization, Grand River Connection.
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STAFF
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12/16/20
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This Christmas season why not start — or continue — a tradition of reading classic stories to your children?
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BILL CASTANIER
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12/10/20
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Let me preface this week’s column by noting that I’ve always been more into smoking joints than blunts.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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12/10/20
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Visual art can end up lingering in museums or galleries, seen only by those who seek it out. Six lucky Lansing artists were just awarded the opportunity to have their artwork displayed on billboards all across the city.
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COLE TUNNINGLEY
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12/10/20
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Does the over-reliance on single-use plastic products trouble you? Alexa Hecksel has the exact same concern; so she started Clean Refillery, a small business that replenishes bottles of laundry detergent, dish soap and other cleaning supplies.
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SKYLER ASHLEY
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12/10/20
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Beginning life in 2017 as a proposal by At-Large City Councilwoman Kathie Dunbar that received a $75,000 grant by the Lansing Economic Area Partnership and the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, the Southwest Lansing Arts Impact Project is finally coming to life.
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SKYLER ASHLEY
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12/10/20
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Sick of hearing the same Christmas tunes but don’t have time for a deep dive into the abyss of often abysmal holiday tunes?
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Rich Tupica
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12/10/20
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Keeping up with the holiday spirit might be a tough gig this season, but a wintery walk through a labyrinth of brightly shining Christmas lights and decorations could help.
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SKYLER ASHLEY
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12/4/20
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Peppermint Creek Theatre’s “Hear Our Cry” was originally shown in late October as a drive-in “movie” in the parking lot at the corner of Capitol Avenue and Ionia Street. Now, until Dec. 31, the same compelling Zoom medley is available on YouTube.
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DAVID WINKELSTERN
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12/4/20
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The houses may be little, but they’re not made of “ticky-tack” and they definitely don’t all look the same — with hats off to songwriter Melvina Reynolds.
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BILL CASTANIER
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12/4/20
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Holiday events happening in Lansing.
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Cole Tunningley
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12/4/20
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Since its inception, Homegrown Cannabis Co. has made quite a name for itself in Lansing. In February, it became the first pot shop in the city to open its doors for recreational sales. And it has continued to stock some of the most diverse, potent and affordable products on the market.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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12/4/20
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“Southeast of Saturn,” a new compilation LP, pressed up by Jack White’s Third Man Records, embarks on a reverb-soaked journey through Michigan’s spacey past. One of the 19 bands featured on this already acclaimed collection of ’90s-era shoegaze and dream pop tracks is Lansing’s own Calliope.
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Rich Tupica
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12/3/20
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One line in Kyle Kaminski’s resume says a lot. It declares his reporting at the Traverse City Record-Eagle emphasized “hard-hitting stories that serve a watchdog-type service for our readers.”
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Berl Schwartz
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12/3/20
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While the main event is still postponed for 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Capital City Film Festival is hosting two days of free drive-in screenings on Dec.18-19 to help tide film fans over.
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Staff
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12/3/20
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Lansing Poet Laureate Laura Apol is joining EVERYbody Reads bookstore for an online fundraising event to benefit the Greater Lansing Food Bank’s Garden Project.
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Staff
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11/27/20
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C3 Industries is based in Ann Arbor and its retail brand, Cloud Cover Cannabis, is building a growing cultivation “campus” in a secluded industrial park off I-96 in Webberville.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/26/20
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Depending on which Michigander you talk to, Bob Seger is either Michigan-rock royalty or a mainstream pop icon
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Rich Tupica
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11/26/20
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In an effort to help out independent artists and their fans, DIY musicians Tommy McCord, Raymond Strife, Jim Graz and Tim Hoh have created a Facebook group to act as a virtual venue.
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Skyler Ashley
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11/26/20
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