Before he became general manager of the new East Lansing La Cocina Cubana location, Ariel Rodriguez Peña was a regular at the initial eatery in downtown Lansing. Peña, also senior director of …
“The Furries Are Coming For Me…” reads the subject line of a campaign email sent out two weeks ago by Tom Barrett, the Charlotte Republican currently representing Michigan’s …
About 150 people attended a meeting on Dec. 3 about Lansing’s plan to establish a pod community as transitional housing for residents who are homeless. In a packed room, hitting the Foster …
In the heart of one of Lansing’s most booming districts, one decaying building hovers like a ghost. A look over the boarded-up or missing windows of the former Frank Preuss & Son Star …
The solid foundation, huge arched windows and thick metal vault door of the former Bank of Lansing building in Old Town lends it a sense of permanence. It’s fitting, then, that Thrift …
The windows on the first floor of downtown Lansing’s historic Knapp’s Centre still advertise The Macotta Club as “coming 2024,” but the project is now expected to open …
Colton Hughes learned interior design by crafting the relaxing, classical, element-themed rooms at Element Massage, the downtown Lansing massage parlor he has run for 10 years. His next venture? …
As a semi-proficient home cook, pancakes have always been a tough sell. If I can make a dish quickly, at home and at a negligible ingredient cost, I usually don’t order it when eating out. …
When the Rite Aid across from the University of Michigan Health-Sparrow hospital closed its doors in fall 2024, UM-Sparrow regional pharmacy director Todd Belding wondered where its patients would …
Before it was Gjoni’s, the building at 662 W. Grand River Ave. was Spagnuolo’s Restaurant. In the 1980s, it was the Polo Bar. Many of Gjoni’s regulars have been regulars at the …
