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CAN SUPPORT OLD TOWN COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION 1 Volunteer 2 Individual Membership We count on at least 1,000 All proceeds go directly to the volunteers committing revitalization and historic preservation almost 6,000 volunteer of Old Town. As an individual supporter hours to help us organize you can receive anything from an Old over 111 events each year. Town Discount Card to an Old Town Hoodie and festival tickets.

Committee There are 5 committees that make up OTCA: the organization 3 committee, ROOT group, economic restructuring committee, design committee and promotions committee. These committees meet monthly and are the basis of our revitalization e orts in Old Town.

Business Membership Sponsorship 4 Preserve Lansing’s only historic 5 Reach thousands of festival commercial district, inuence patrons, while supporting the economic development Old Town community and linking & planning, attract more your business with Old Town’s customers, improve Old Town’s growing popularity and success as a appearance and atmosphere and commercial and cultural district. have a direct say in the future of the neighborhood.

To get involved, or for more information, please visit iloveoldtown.org, email us at [email protected] or call 517-485-4283.

8 Old Town Board of Directors Meeting 10 Girl Scouts Centennial Sing-Along 13 Economic Restructuring Committee Meeting �arc� 15 ROOT Group Meeting EVENTS 26 Organization Committee Meeting Pickin’ In the Park…Every Tuesday night at Sir Pizza

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Eyesore of the week

Property: 500 S. Fairview Ave., Lansing Owners: Bobbie and Claudia Pelfery Assessed: $38,100 Courtesy Photo Owner says: Unable to be reached for comment Some houses flake away quietly at the edges, The Advocate, then a newspaper and now a magazine, reports in 1972 on East Lansing’s claim to fame in the gay rights movement tucked among better cared for neighbors, without drawing a second glance. Unfortunately, in 1971. That fall, a registration drive this dark, looming, two-story house commands added about 10,000 MSU students to a prominent corner lot, so its losing battle with A gay rights first entropy is on vivid display. The sagging roof has the rolls. crumbled into fine fragments. Brown cedar shake East Lansing led the nation in local legislation that protected gay Although the race was nonpartisan, shingles are detaching from the exterior, the employees against discrimination. Forty years later, the city celebrates. “the two Georges” openly identified with the Democratic Party. Colburn, 72, window frames are rotting, and ice is prying the Two score years ago, after hear- in our community, but I had no idea it recalled that an unsuccessful write-in gutters away. A grand front porch, with a stately ing from an angry resident who didn’t was breakthrough legislation.” candidate, Chuck Wills, who “looked peaked roof, still shades a hibachi, a side table with want to pay the city $11 for mowing his But several sources back up the city’s like a hippie,” was added to the slate to an ashtray and plastic flowers, attesting to good vacant lot and before taking up the mat- claim. attract “alternative lifestyle people” to times before you could look up through a hole in the porch roof at the sky. The attached garage in ter of an abandoned easement, the East The May 10, 1972, issue of The the polls. back is partially caved in and a tree is growing out Lansing City Council made national Advocate, then a newspaper and today “People were living and breathing of what’s left. A free-standing shed in the back human rights history. a magazine, called the rule “the kind politics,” Colburn said. “It was a very yard looks too rotten to chop up and burn. Thick On March 7, 1972, the Council voted of breakthrough long sought by Gays active campaign against the people that vines and animal burrows ring the house on all to “employ the best applicant for each in more sophisticated metropolitan ran City Council for years.” sides as nature tightens its slow stranglehold. vacancy on the basis of his qualifica- areas.” Griffiths, 82, was to receive a copy tions for the job and without regard to “Move over, San Francisco,” trumpet- of the 40th anniversary proclamation — Lawrence Cosentino race, color, creed, national origin, sex or ed the lead to the story. “That ‘first’ you Tuesday. homosexuality.” were claiming wasn’t.” “The early ‘70s was a sea change of Architecture critic Amanda Harrell-Seyburn The modest personnel rule became a The national Parents, Friends and things that happened, especially in East says: A damaged roof can really detract from the national landmark in the history of gay Families of Lesbians and Gays, or Lansing,” Griffiths said. “Soon before I attractiveness of a house. But it goes deeper than and lesbian rights. PFLAG, recognizes East Lansing as “the was elected, the city got rid of its policy aesthetics. A new roof is one of the single most At a ceremony Tuesday, East first city to ban discrimination against that only whites could own homes in important improvements to any house. It is the first Lansing’s City Council was scheduled to gay men and lesbians.” Frank Kameny, East Lansing. Then the issue came up layer of protection from the elements. Neglecting proclaim itself as “the first community a leading figure of the gay rights move- about gays and lesbians, and I was hap- to fix a roof is one of the quickest ways to destroy in the United States to ban discrimina- ment, credited East Lansing for enact- py to introduce [the personnel rule].” a house. A good sound roof is the best way to pro- tion based on sexual orientation.” ing “the first anti-discrimination law Longtime area activist William tect a house—particularly an unoccupied one. A The notion that East Lansing is the protective of gays, ” as he put it in a 2007 Beachler, an officer in LGBT Alumni short-term solution would be to repair the roof national birthplace of gay rights made public letter criticizing Tom Brokaw for Association of MSU, was a volunteer with matching asphalt shingles. A long-term, cost- George Colburn, one of four Council leaving the gay rights movement out of East Lansing city commissioner in the effective and energy efficient-solution would be a members who voted for the rule in 1972, his book on the 1960s. early 1970s. Getting “the two Georges” new roof that is either metal or recycled rubber. laugh out loud. (The vote was 4-1 with The East Lansing milestone became on Council, Beachler said, was the key Robert Wilcox casting the no vote.) possible when two new City Council to the rule’s passage. “Eyesore of the Week” is our look at some of the “Being the first to make it happen members, Colburn and George Griffiths, “East Lansing was very conser- seedier properties in Lansing. It rotates each week with Eye Candy of the Week. If you have a suggestion, please was not a driving force,” he said. “I felt were swept into office in November vative prior to that,” Beachler said. e-mail [email protected] or call Andy Balaskovitz we were being progressive at the time, 1971, the first general election after the at 999-5064. and representing a majority viewpoint national voting age was lowered to 18 See Gay rights, Page 6 6 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • March 7, 2012

later, the country, coming out of the closet. Gay rights People had never dealt with these matters before.” from page 5 Nathan Triplett, mayor pro tem of East Lansing, helped draft Tuesday’s proclama- “When I was a student in the 1960s, blacks tion and anniversary tribute. The procla- weren’t even allowed to move off campus.” mation was to be presented to Griffiths Student involvement was fueled by a and Mark Doebler, chairman of MSU’s welter of issues, from the Vietnam War to Alliance of LGBTQ Students, the succes- “frustration with city government trying to sor organization to the Gay Liberation isolate the student community rather than Movement. accommodating them,” Colburn said. “East Lansing has been so supportive The March 7, 1972, meeting was toward LGBT residents that people don’t jammed with students supporting a pro- even think about it,” Triplett said. “You’d posal to make $1 the maximum fine under be shocked at the number of residents I’ve the city’s misdemeanor marijuana ordi- spoken with — even folks who have been nance. (The Council didn’t get around to involved in LGBT advocacy — who have the item that night.) no idea they’re living in a community that “Everybody became very politicized by was a pioneer.” civil rights, the Vietnam War,” Colburn said. Today, 21 states, the District of Prominent in the mix was the Gay Columbia and over 140 cities in the United Liberation Movement, a vibrant student States, including 18 in Michigan, prohibit group led by charismatic, openly gay law- employment discrimination based on sex- yer Don Gaudard, who lobbied hard for the ual orientation. personnel rule and its May 1973 follow- While planning Tuesday’s proclama- up, a comprehensive anti-discrimination tion and ceremony, Triplett’s pride in East ordinance covering employment and public Lansing’s 40th anniversary was mixed in accommodations. his mind with “a terrible irony.” “We’d come in for City Council meet- A bill introduced in the state Legislature ings and there would be flowers next to our by state Rep. Tom McMillin in October microphones with personal notes,” Colburn 2011 would limit local ordinances to pro- recalled. “There weren’t pickets outside the tecting only those categories covered under doors or anything, but there were a lot of the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights act. people willing to express their views — good, Gays and lesbians are not protected by the democratic principles at work.” law. Both East Lansing and Ann Arbor can Triplett said the bill, if passed, would legitimately claim national firsts in 1972. void the East Lansing ordinance and 17 In July, Ann Arbor passed the nation’s first others in the state. City Pulse’s James Sanford comprehensive non-discrimination ordi- “Here we are, marking a historical mile- talks entertainment news nance covering employment, housing and stone of taking a stand against discrimi- every Friday around 7:50 am public accommodations. nation, while our state Legislature is con- In May 1973, East Lansing passed its own sidering passing legislation that in effect anti-discrimiation ordinance, but housing would legalize discrimination in these And hear Berl Schwartz of City Pulse was excluded, at the urging of East Lansing communities,” he said. call Tim an Ignorant Slut — or worse! Mayor Wilbur Brookover. Colburn lives near Petoskey, Mich., and Brookover and moderate Republican heads Starbright Media, a national pro- Every Wednesday at 8:30! Councilwoman Mary Sharp (Ingham County ducer of documentary films, but he is still chairwoman of Republicans for McGovern) a fan of local politics. After leaving City frequently sided with “the two Georges” on Council in 1973, he went on a globe-trot- hot issues, but Brookover had a squeamish ting career, writing and producing a large streak about gays. body of work, including a Disney Channel Beachler attended the May 1973 meet- documentary on Dwight D. Eisenhower for ing and heard the debate over the scope of which he interviewed Presidents Nixon, the East Lansing ordinance. “I can still hear Bush, Reagan and Ford. Colburn still looks Brookover justifying his position on housing fondly on his time in East Lansing. that he was in the Navy, and he was stationed “Those couple of years doing something on a submarine, and just didn’t want to be meaningful — more meaningful than I had forced in those kind of close quarters with realized — to properly register the com- those kind of people,” Beachler recalled. munity as a good and progressive entity, It wasn’t the first time Brookover hedged was probably one of the highlights of my his gay rights stand. After voting for the his- life,” he said. toric March 1972 personnel rule, Brookover While on the Council, “the two Georges” Birthday pushed for a supplemental rule making became friends as well as colleagues. Registered homosexual solicitation on the job “miscon- “It was a close relationship,” Colburn &Patient duct.” The rule was adopted, even though said. Discounts swing vote Sharp later regretted her “yea.” There were many wee-hour discus- Colburn cut Brookover, who passed sions at Beggar’s Banquet, the unofficial away in 2003, some slack. hangout for Council members and student 517.487.9090 “The whole sexual orientation debate activists. Serving the Lansing Area Since 1974 was very avant-garde at the time,” Colburn “I was on Council at an exciting time,” 1041 N. Cedar • Lansing, MI said. “People at meetings were truly Griffiths said tersely. “I can claim credit for www.sucasajewelers.com shocked when these matters were brought very little of it.” up. This was basically the community, and, —Lawrence Cosentino City Pulse • March 7, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 7

The educational benefits were also at Democrats can’t wait until November the top of City Council lists. City Council “It’s hard to walk away from afford- Salivating over are stoked anyway. ing kids the opportunity for a four-year a scorched earth AFSCME and its urban activists degree at a public university anywhere Republican primary appear to have the signatures they need in the state,” said At Large Councilman here a week ago, to put a repeal of the state’s new emer- & the casino Derrick Quinney, referring to the to fund Michigan Democrats gency manager law on the ballot. If scholarships for Lansing high school are moving all of passed, Wall Street predicts the credit As a vote nears, members are still lis- grads. their chips to the ratings of distressed communities will tening and making up their minds. Houghton, Washington and Quinney middle right now. In drop and the state will still have an EM all said they liked the fact that the casi- March. Let’s go. law. The difference will be that an EM If Jody Washington were speaking only no would create jobs, provide money for On Saturday, couldn’t break labor contracts to find as a constituent, and not the 1st Ward the educational fund and help bring new the Dems will hold its second-straight savings, which is a win for unionized City Councilwoman, she said she would energy to downtown. early endorsement convention, at which government workers. be thrilled to bring a casino to downtown Council President Brian Jeffries and they’ll give a head start to most, if not Democrats feel Snyder & Co. went Lansing. Quinney said they are awaiting answers all, of their lower-ballot candidates. way too far in ’11. Had the voters known Washington, along with other mem- on how many Lansing residents would be All the while, sympathetic interest the full extent to their agenda, the ’10 bers, say they need to hear more public hired for the construction and operating groups are pushing not one, not two, but Election would have turned out much comment and have a few more questions process. as many as five different ballot propos- differently. The ballot proposals immedi- answered before they’ll make their deci- Crime and gambling addiction associ- als. ately correct the situation. sion. A vote on the Bernero administra- ated with the proposed casino have been Organized labor, good government The Michigan Democratic Party is tion’s tribal casino proposal is expected some of the chief concerns from the com- types, environmentalists, liberals and the hoping the feelings will have coattails for March 19. munity. Council members don’t seem urban segment are going all in with their lower ticket races on the ballot. “If I were just speaking as a constituent, too worried about crime rates shooting own ballot measure. The highest stakes are on the I would be very excited about this proj- through the roof or gambling addiction The purpose is twofold. First, they’re , where the ect, very excited becoming rampant. trying fight back against the screwing Republicans have a 4-3 edge and the Community Forum to bring some “[Gambling addiction is] a small per- they took in 2011 by Gov. Rick Snyder, Democrats are losing incumbent Marilyn Lansing City Council listens life and busi- centage, and is it really our job to legislate to the public’s views on the Attorney General Bill Schuette and their Kelly, who has hit the constitutional age proposed Kewadin Casino. ness into town,” and protect everybody from themselves? Republican legislator allies. But second, limit. Having a Dem-majority Supreme 6 p.m. today W a s h i n g t o n I don’t know,” Washington said. “I under- the efforts are designed to drive election Court as a backstop is critical to the par- Foster Community Center, said following stand those fears, but there’s also many, turnout, galvanize Michigan for Barack ty as legal challenges to the ’11 laws work 200 N. Foster St. Monday’s meet- many people that have it as a form of Obama and possibly win back the state their way through the courts. ing. “But I have entertainment and it’s not an addiction.” House for the Democrats. But the Republicans have two office- to consider everybody’s wishes as a “By and large when you look at oth- On Tuesday, a UAW-bankrolled coali- holders on the ballot. Stephen Markman Councilperson.” er municipalities or other communities tion announced it was trying to spike the won in 2000 after being appointed by The casino could be the final piece that have casinos in them, they too are never-ending Right to Work debate by former Gov. John Engler in 1999. He to help create a “draw” for convention not reporting any large spikes in crime baking into the constitution collective won re-election, despite the best efforts goers and visitors that Lansing lacks, rates,” said Quinney, although he did say bargaining right guarantees for workers. of attorney Geoffrey Fieger. Washington said. he would like to see more data on the It’s a high-stakes gamble. If the bal- Recently appointed Brian Zahra lost “A casino, and the ballpark, and the issue. lot proposal doesn’t get on the ballot or in ’06 to Kelly, but now has the advan- restaurants — and maybe we could really No Council members would say how gets on the ballot and loses, Republicans tage of having the title “Supreme Court get a draw, because right now we don’t they were going to vote. Those inter- will see a failure as entrée into pass- Justice.” have it,” she said. “We don’t have the viewed expressed the need to hear more ing a labor-lethal Right to Work law in The Democrats will need to knock warm weather, we don’t have the beach, from the community. Michigan. off one or both of the two to succeed, and we need to diversify our economy.” “All in all, I feel kind of positive about Also this week, former Secretary of something they feel is obtainable after a Tina Houghton, who represents the it, I do. But I’m still listening,” Houghton State nominee Jocelyn Benson is hoping previously unknown local judge named 2nd Ward, agreed with Washington that said. “I haven’t made a decision by any to push the envelope on public disclo- Diane Marie Hathaway beat incumbent the casino could make Lansing “more of stretch of the imagination.” sure in the corporate donation world Chief Justice Cliff Taylor when Obama a destination.” — Sam Inglot through her own ballot proposal. was last on the ballot. Both are going have circulators at the On Saturday, the trial lawyers, orga- PUBLIC NOTICES Democrats’ endorsement convention nized labor and the various other inter- Saturday at Cobo Hall in Detroit. est groups that take part in the screening NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Meanwhile, the environmentalists are of qualified and electable candidates are EAST LANSING PLANNING COMMISSION excited about a constitutional amend- giving the tentative OK to Ann Arbor Notice is hereby given of the following public hearing to be held by the East Lansing Planning ment to raise renewable energy portfolio attorney Bridget Mary McCormack Commission on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 7:00 p.m., in the 54-B District Court, Courtroom 2, standards by 25 percent by 2025. How and Wayne County Circuit Court Judge 101 Linden Street, East Lansing. that proposal clashes with the segment Connie Marie Kelley. A public hearing will be held for the purpose of considering Ordinance 1276, a City- of the Democratic Party that enjoys the The third spot hasn’t been nailed initiated ordinance to amend the RM-54 District, University Oriented Multiple-Family financial support of DTE Energy and down — yet. Portia Roberson, who Residential, of the Zoning Code to modify allowed building heights. Consumers Energy — a pair of entities President Barack Obama appointed Call (517) 319-6930, the Department of Planning and Community Development, East Lansing City opposed to the ballot drive — is some- as the public liaison for the U.S. Hall, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, for additional information. All interested persons will be given thing to keep an eye on. Department of Justice, is a possibility, as an opportunity to be heard. These matters will be on the agenda for the next Planning Commission meeting after the public hearing is held, at which time the Commission may vote on them. The With Schuette and the courts essen- is Southfield District Court Judge Sheila Planning Commission's recommendations are then placed on the agenda of the next City Council tially recriminalizing medical marijuana, Johnson. Maybe the Ds will wait until meeting. The City Council will make the final decision on these applications. marijuana advocates want to end the August to fill that last spot. The City of East Lansing will provide reasonable auxiliary aids and services, such as interpreters debate by just legalizing the substance. Whatever they decide, Democrats are for the hearing impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered at the meeting, to The effort isn’t as broad or as orga- playing like they have four aces, hop- individuals with disabilities upon request received by the City seven (7) calendar days prior to the nized as the 2008 medical marijuana ing Republicans don’t come back with a meeting. Individuals with disabilities requiring aids or services should write or call the Department of Human Resources, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI 48823. Phone: (517) 319-6854. TDD Number: drive. It certainly isn’t as well financed, straight flush. 1-800-649-3777. making its odds of getting on the ballot (Kyle Melinn is the editor of the quite long. If it does gets on, the odds of MIRS Newsletter. He can be reached at Marie McKenna passage are even longer, but supporters [email protected].) City Clerk 8 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • March 7, 2012

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NOTICE TO PUBLIC payment assistance and creation of a one-stop housing resource and education center. High priority AVAILABILITY OF ACTION PLAN FOR 2013 is given to acquiring foreclosed homes for rehabilitation, resale or demolition. High priority is given CITY OF LANSING to voluntary acquisition of flood plain properties for demolition. Moderate priority is given to providing low income households with special needs assistance through construction or rehabilitation of PURPOSE: To provide citizens the opportunity to examine and comment on the Action Plan for housing units for rent or ownership; including barrier free improvements and supportive services. FY 2013 (7/1/12-6/30/13). An annual action plan approved by the City must be submitted to the Moderate priority is given to addressing the housing and supportive service needs of the homeless. Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the Consolidated Planning Process, Moderate priority is given to historic preservation. Low priority is given to developing newly and as part of the application for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Program constructed affordable rental units in the city. Moderate priority is given to providing additional low- and Emergency Solutions Program (ESG) funds for Fiscal Year 2013. Programs and activities to be income rental units through rehabilitation. undertaken to meet goals and objectives established in the Action Plan for the City are described below. The primary objectives of Lansing's Action Plan for 2013 are based on the Five Year PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES Consolidated Strategy and Plan Submission (CSPS) and are as follows: Economic Development a. Provide standard housing in a suitable living environment through rehabilitation, new High priority is given to continued support of a loan program, training, and technical assistance construction and improvement of the housing stock primarily in CDBG eligible neighborhoods for microenterprises, defined as businesses having five (5) or fewer employees, one or more of and in specifically designated housing target areas. whom owns the enterprise. High priority is given to funding a computer training, employment and technology enterprise program. High priority is given to supporting business development and façade b. Provide housing counseling and assistance that will benefit low and moderate-income improvement activities in commercial districts and neighborhood retail districts, including through the households. use of Section 108 loans.

c. Promote home ownership for low and moderate-income households and promote Human Services deconcentration of poverty. High priority is given to developing new permanent supportive housing options to continue implementation of a "continuum of care" for the homeless and to support the 10-year plan to end d. Maintain at current levels the number of public and assisted housing units available to low and homelessness. moderate-income households. Public Safety and Community Services e. Provide assistance to develop housing and supportive human services for people with special High priority is given to youth recreation and neighborhood improvement programs including needs and who are homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless. community gardening and neighborhood strategies for reuse of vacant parcels. High priority is given to increasing public awareness and involvement in emergency preparedness and public safety f. Provide assistance to rehabilitate housing and deliver supportive human services to low and activities. Low priority is given to Crime Prevention through Community Policing. moderate income households with special needs.

g. Promote economic opportunity for low and moderate-income individuals by facilitating Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Improvements economic development, providing employment opportunity, sponsoring job training, supporting High priority is given to improving recreational facilities, neighborhood service centers, and programs. business development, micro-enterprise and educational programs and initiatives. Moderate priority is given to undertaking public improvements in selected target areas, including h. special assessments, beautification, tree planting, recreational improvements and lighting. Promote economic development to provide jobs, business services and shopping opportunities for residents located in CDBG eligible areas. Environment and Energy Conservation Activities High priority is given to weatherization of renter and owner occupied housing units for low-moderate i. Provide community and neighborhood services, recreational opportunities and public facilities income households. to improve the quality of life in CDBG eligible neighborhoods. Moderate priority is given to activities which enhance the appearance and quality of life in CDBG eligible neighborhoods including community gardens, street makeovers and neighborhood clean-ups. j. Increase security and safety in neighborhoods by supporting public safety and crime prevention initiatives, public educational programs and citizens’ awareness in CDBG eligible PROPOSED OBJECTIVES, GOALS AND PROJECTED USE OF COMMUNITY areas. DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES k. Improve the city’s transportation, public facilities and infrastructure systems in CDBG eligible The budget included in the Proposed Objectives, Goals and Use of Community Development areas. Resources as recommended by the Lansing Planning Board subsequent to a Public Hearing held on February 21, 2012. The proposed funding allocations will be provided in the summary of the draft FY l. Protect and improve the city’s physical environment, including preventing or eliminating blight, 2013 Action Plan during the comment period. removing lead or other safety hazards, preserving historic resources, promoting healthy housing and improving energy fitness in housing occupied by low and moderate-income The City will support applications by other entities who wish to participate in Federal and State households. programs for housing and community development improvement and assistance provided proposed projects are consistent with the priorities established in the Five Year CSPS. The comment period for m. Promote fair housing objectives. the Action Plan for 2013 will commence March 8, 2012 and expires April 6, 2012.

SUMMARY OF PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Copies of the document and the proposed use of Community Development funds are available for ACTIVITIES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 review at the City Clerk's office, Ninth Floor, City Hall, 124 W. Michigan Ave.; the Capital Area District Library, 401 South Capitol; the Department of Planning and Neighborhood Development, Planning The Five Year CSPS for the City of Lansing sets forth programs, activities and priorities based Office, 316 N. Capitol, Suite D-1, Lansing, MI or the City of Lansing, Department of Planning and on needs identified for the community. The CSPS describes strategies and activities that city Neighborhood Development, Development Office website at: www.lansingmi.gov/pnd/development will undertake to provide affordable housing, supportive services and community development opportunities to benefit low and moderate-income households. All written comments submitted by citizens of Lansing will be considered and reviewed for possible inclusion in the final Action Plan for FY 2013 to be submitted to the Department of Housing and The Action Plan for 2013 is the second year of the five-year plan and sets forth activities to be Urban Development no later than May 14, 2012. A summary of all comments received will be carried out in the period July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013 with CDBG, HOME and ESG funds. attached to the final document. Activities may also be funded in part through other federal, state, local and privately funded programs including NSP grant funds. Activities will generally be located in CDBG eligible neighborhoods and For information regarding the Action Plan for FY 2013, please contact: in specifically targeted areas, although programs may be applied and carried out anywhere in the city as noted in the Plan. Doris Witherspoon, Senior Planner City of Lansing, Michigan PROPOSED HOUSING ACTIVITIES Department of Planning and Neighborhood Development 316 North Capitol, Suite D-1 High priority activities related to housing include home repair and lead remediation. High priority Lansing Michigan 48933-1236 is given to providing rehabilitation assistance to low-moderate income homeowners. High priority Telephone (517) 483-4063 is given to activities which will result in partnerships with nonprofit housing corporations, other government entities and private businesses to provide home ownership opportunities to low and This document is officially dated March 1, 2012. moderate-income homebuyers including housing counseling, housing rehabilitation and down City Pulse • March 7, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 9

Photo by Jennifer Dale-Burton A sculpture depicting the myth of Romulus and Remus sits in sedate downtown Ste. Sault Marie, while less than two miles away the lights are bright at the Kewadin Casino, which its owner, the Chippewa Indian Tribe, hopes will become a big brother of one in downtown Andy Balaskovitz/City Pulse Lansing. There, like here, concerns and political divisions over the project abound. Up North with the tribe that wants to adopt Lansing A look inside the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians: How tribal gaming is modernizing the Sault Tribe and how politics is tearing it apart

By ANDY BALASKOVITZ at once embarrassed and angry at their outside parties known. They don’t want to Batchewana First Nation. Sault Ste. Marie — Outside the own leaders for the Detroit Greektown live through another Greektown. Tribes today function as a result of historic Chippewa County Court House, Casino debacle that sent the tribe head-first After all, among the casino developers, several federal and state agreements a statue depicting a Roman legend greets into bankruptcy, $268 million later with the city of Lansing and the Sault Tribe, you dating back to the late 1700s. The Jay visitors near the north entrance. Two small nothing to show for it. Lansing officials could argue the tribe has the most to lose Treaty of 1794 was the first to distinguish children, Romulus and Remus, are feeding are dealing with a skeptical lot in Sault — and the most to gain — in the Kewadin tribes as their own entities from American off a she-wolf, which raises the children Tribe rank-and-file members. Last week, Lansing idea. According to the agreement citizens. The 1836 Treaty of Washington who were abandoned by their mother. As a former Sault Tribe chairman turned in between the tribe and the developers, established boundaries for the Chippewa the legend goes, Romulus later killed his a petition for a referendum that will allow Lansing Future LLC will be out of the and Ottawa nations in much of southeast brother and founded the city of Rome. registered Sault Tribe voters to vote up picture seven years after (or if) it’s built. Michigan and the northwest portion of What does this have anything to do with or down on the development agreement The tribe will have paid off everything it the Lower Peninsula and eastern Upper the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa with Lansing — a vote that has current owes to them and the developers will ride Peninsula. Indians, whose home reservation is 4,500 Chairman Joe Eitrem concerned the deal off into the sunset. Lansing will get a few- The Sault Tribe was federally recognized miles away from the original statue in in the south will go south (see City Pulse million-dollar payout for students and in 1972 and passed its constitution in 1975 Rome? Early 20th-century Gov. Chase Feb. 29 issue). cops. Yet Sault Tribe leaders have the trust — that’s relatively young when considering Osborn, the Michigan’s only Upper Meanwhile, tribal gaming as economic of its members at stake, and if it all ends the tribe as a sovereign entity with its own Peninsula-born governor, saw something development is evident in The Soo. It’s up failing in court, what then? government and political system. in it: An Ojibwe legend depicting the hardly a ticket to lavish decadence, but to The Sault Tribe is the largest federally founding of Bawating — Sault Ste. Marie improved health care, education and public ‘Adversarial people’ recognized tribe east of the Mississippi — tells the story of brothers rescued by a services. Children at the local charter Most of my knowledge about the River, made up of more than 40,000 crane after their mother abandons them. school work from laptops during class. Upper Peninsula was handed down by members. Roughly 11,000 of them live One of the boys goes on to found the Crane The tribal health center is modernizing friends from Marquette and Escanaba; within the “service area,” or the seven Clan and Bawating. thanks largely to proactive grant writers Joshua Davis and Greg Brown songs; eastern counties in the U.P. The tribe’s Today, the Sault Tribe is by no means but also from gaming revenue. Even non- and Jim Harrison books. I keep a bottle size is largely due to its liberal rules for expanding into an empire, but it does have tribal leaders at the city of Sault Ste. Marie of Ray’s Polish Fire hot sauce — made at accepting members: It does not admit its eyes set on some land nearly 300 miles say the city’s relationship with the tribe the Keewenaw Co-Op — in the cupboard. based on “blood quantum,” or requiring a southwest of its home reservation in The — whose main reservation is a short drive I’ve crossed the Mackinac Bridge probably minimum percentage of Native American Soo. It’s election season up here and added from downtown Sault Ste. Marie — is fewer than a dozen times. I’m what Yoopers blood. In the city, nearly 18 percent to the political fodder is a little casino you better than it’s ever been. call a “troll,” from downstate beneath the identified themselves as American Indian may have heard about involving the Sault The promise of economic self- bridge. in the 2010 census. In Michigan, it’s .6 Tribe and the city of Lansing. sufficiency — indeed, the ultimate goal of Sault Ste. Marie is situated along the percent and slightly more throughout the If you want to understand how locals feel the Sault Tribe — is very much relevant St. Mary’s river in the northeast corner of U.S. (.9 percent). about the idea, the question of “Are you for when discussing tribal casinos. But with the Upper Peninsula. Today, four Native I bone up on my indigenous peoples the Lansing casino or against?” is a far too promise comes skepticism. Members not American tribes call the region home: the history with Phil Bellfy on the Saturday of simple and trite conversation-starter. The fully on board yet with a Lansing casino Sault Tribe, Bay Mills Indian Community, Sault Tribe are a people with bruised egos, want their concerns about working with Garden River First Nation and the See Tribe, Page 10 10 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • March 7, 2012

We drove casino opens. “The adversarial climate is that disagree all the time — one side for, Tribe around in not really our way. It’s about time we gave one against” that are relevant when talking h i s l i g h t it up.” gambling. from page 9 blue Toyota Bay Mills is in the middle of its own “It’s a slippery slope on one hand. On 4Runner for casino controversy: when Kewadin the other, it’s helped our people,” he said. my stay. Bellfy, who bought the 220-acre a b o u t s i x Lansing was first proposed, experts pointed “Good people are trying to make it work, property he lives on south of the Sault hours. Bellfy to Bay Mills’ situation in Vanderbilt as a then you’ve got your Jack Abramoffs and Tribe reservation in 1973, reminds me is of the White reason the Sault Tribe probably couldn’t lawyers — adversarial people. Bay Mills of a sober Jim Harrison. He emphasizes Earth Band open in Lansing. Bay Mills purchased was the first to do things, why not be the “fuckin’” and “shit” — which is fairly often of Minnesota land in Vanderbilt in the northern Lower first to clean it up?” — in his sentences, but he’s never drunk (it’s Chippewa and Peninsula with Michigan Indian Land not traditional for Native Americans to do Bellfy has no personal Claims Settlement money. (The Sault Where revenues go: so, he says) or smoked. He’s grizzled, with a interest in Tribe is doing something similar, except Education and healthcare ponytail and beard. Bellfy was my American Lansing’s casino proposal, except that he’s it wants to buy Lansing property with The Joseph K. Lumsden School near Studies professor at Michigan State against it. “I have a big problem with the interest accrued from the settlement act the Sault Tribe reservation on Marquette University. He wrote a book called “Indians whole system” of gambling as economic money.) Competing tribes like the Little Avenue is promising. Native and non- and Other Misnomers.” He’s officially development, he says. “I don’t approve of Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians native students can attend (more than retiring in September. He spends his breaks gambling, but I’ve seen what it’s done to were successful in getting an injunction to half are Native American) and admission and most weekends at his Sault Township develop this community,” which has made close the Vanderbilt casino, which is being is based on a lottery system. There’s a home. He remembers Nov. 10, 1975, clearly, a “vast, vast improvement” since he moved appealed in the U.S. Court of Appeals. waiting list to get in. It’s a K-8 charter when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank not far here in 1970. Soon, Mike Willis comes into the coffee school and falls under three governing from Whitefish Bay and Sault Ste. Marie. We take the back roads west to the shop. Willis served on the Bay Mills Tribal agents: Northern Michigan University, “That was a strange fuckin’ night,” he said. Bay Mills reservation about 30 minutes Council from 2005 to 2009. He’s also the the Michigan Department of Education “I lost nine big ones (trees). You could lean away. Bay Mills has two casinos within 20 director of Native American studies at Bay and the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. back and the wind would hold you up.” minutes of each other, one of which was Mills Community College in Brimley. He There’s talk of expanding JKL, but since He grew up in Livonia and spent some the first casino to open in Michigan — says gaming is slowly bringing Bay Mills it was built on wetlands, doing so at the of his younger years in Detroit, but moved Kings Club. out of decades of economic depression. current site is unlikely. north because the city was “literally driving We arrive at the Dancing Crane Coffee “Tribal gaming has been a savior for us, The school is technically independent me crazy.” He wrote a poem about it. House and visit with 61-year-old owner it has made us a lot more self-sustaining. from the tribe. It includes 472 students, Jim LeBlanc. We talk tribal casinos for a Without it, there would be so much more 102 staff members and 40 classrooms. The WHAT’S A NICE INDIAN GUY LIKE bit. of a burden on us,” Willis said. “It’s ironic average classroom size is 20 students. JKL YOU DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS? “We started this thing in the right spirit. that we may have started Indian gaming is a “feeder school” for the Sault Ste. Marie De- I think we should be talking with each yet we’re one of the poorest tribes in the School District. Students walk through Troit, other about how to do it better,” LeBlanc United States.” the halls carrying Dell laptop computers De- said referring to the tribes sparring with LeBlanc, who lived in Lansing in the See Tribe, Page 11 Part. each other semingly whenever a new early ‘70s, says he has “two spirits in me City Pulse • March 7, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 11

may not” be able to link crimes to the Tribe casino’s existence, he added. For concerns about crime and gambling from page 10 addiction problems, take it in context with the economic benefits afforded by casinos, and also work from them in class. While the two officials say. “Sault Ste. Marie went the advanced technology comes largely through an extended, true depression,” from grants, JKL also sees Sault Tribe Nebel said, referring to the closing of gaming revenues and is offered space at three major manufacturing plants and the casino for talent shows and other large an air force base in the 1970s. “Sault Ste. functions. Marie had unemployment as high as 20 “We have a great relationship with percent.” So, what happened? One was the Dale Bouschor the tribe,” said Carolyn Dale, director of Payment expansion of prisons at the old Air Force curriculum at JKL. Like all schools in film x-rays to digital and from paper Nebel has a good view from his office in base, a second was “significant growth” communities where the Sault Tribe has medical records to electronic. Health care a 101-year-old federal building. Nebel, in Canadian traffic, while the third was a casino, JKL receives a portion of “2 is free for tribal members at the center, the city manager of Sault Ste. Marie for the introduction of tribal gaming. “Those percent” payments from gaming revenues. whose 130 staff members handle about 20 years, is joined by Mayor Anthony are three pillars that helped pull this That amount varies each year, Dale said. 52,000 visits a year. Bosbous. community out of a two-decade long Giving revenues back to the schools is Operations manager Joel Lumsden The city started getting 2 percent depression,” Nebel said. not unique to the Sault Tribe, she added. explains the center’s aggressive efforts for payments from the tribe’s Sault Ste. Marie Bosbous is in his 11th year as mayor. “Such a low rate of tribal kids goes to seeking federal grant money to expand its casino almost 20 years ago, which has Ultimately, he’s impressed by Lansing’s college. There’s always some kind of profit services. Along with grants, there’s also amounted to about $8 million, Bosbous pursuit of a casino. “I give Mayor Virg sharing. I think it’s a great idea.” casino revenue: “That definitely helps said. That money, roughly $300,000 Bernero a lot of credit for pursuing this. Dale said a casino represents more bolster funding for health activities. It’s a year, goes to roads and other public I think it’s a great idea for Lansing, a than just gambling to some, particularly been huge for that.” services. The city’s general fund is about tremendous idea.” in Sault Ste. Marie, where the facility When it was built in 1994, the facility $10 million. “We consider them a major includes a hotel, restaurants, an art gallery wasn’t big enough to accommodate what player in the city and the surrounding area. Election season and the and a 1,500-seat theater for national growth it has seen. “No one could predict They’re definitely the largest employer. Greektown hangover touring acts. “It’s a place to go for things, the growth this place has had,” Lumsden The tribe itself is the second largest Aaron Payment is not shy about a place to eat. We’re kind of a small place. said. “We’ve been pretty progressive as far taxpayer in the county,” Bosbous said. painting a stark political division within It still generates jobs and revenue . … It’s as a tribal health center goes. It adds a Nebel pointed to three specific the Sault Tribe. Payment is the man behind not all about, ‘Oh my gosh, gambling’ — a whole new level of complexity, but it does agreements between the tribe and the city a referendum giving tribal members an lot goes on there.” offer a better health environment.” that he said has moved the parties from up or down vote soon on the the Kewadin The JKL school opened in 1992. When On the reservation, tobacco use, alcohol a contentious to a good relationship: A Lansing development agreement. she started working there 13 years ago, and drug dependency and diabetes are mutual law enforcement agreement in Payment is seriously considering running Dale said it was a different place. Fewer the three big issues plaguing Sault Tribe 1983; a land trust agreement in 1998 that for Sault Tribe chairman in this summer’s than 200 students attended and and fewer members. “It’s much more askew than “basically outlines the area where the city election if he can raise enough money, a than one in five had passing MEAP scores. the rest of the population,” Lumsden would not object to areas being taken into post he held from 2004 to 2008 but lost Today, it’s at 100 percent, she said. “We said. A “multitude of factors” explains trust”; and a 2001 agreement about how in re-election. He also served on the tribal were struggling. Discipline problems, no this, including genetic pre-dispositions funds are distributed to the city. “It took board for eight years before being elected textbooks, huge teacher turnover rate — it and health disparities between Native us a decade or two to get through those chairman. was just sort of a private tribal school… Americans on reservations and the rest of agreements,” Nebel said. Payment describes himself as a “U.P. The tribe has been a big player in bringing the population. Indeed, as the Sault Tribe applied to the Democrat” with a strong libertarian bend. back schools where they need to be, just Sarah Willey, a nurse and manager of the federal government to put trust into land He served as tribal chairman from 2004 with the revenue.” diabetes program, says Native Americans within the city over the years, “the city to 2008, when he lost a re-election bid. My guide on Friday is Jennifer have the “thrifty gene.” After generations fought it,” Nebel said. In one instance, the A recurring theme in Payment’s Dale-Burton, editor of the Sault Tribe of living in tough winter conditions, “they city fought the tribe up to the U.S. Court referendum campaign, aside from having newspaper. The paper, Win Awenen got good at conserving energy. Nowadays, of Appeals to block a land acquisition more member input, is excluding board Nisitotung, is circulated to 19,600 tribal the diet is a lot higher in calories and they deal. The Supreme Court didn’t hear the member and former chairman Bernard households across the U.S. and military don’t hunt for food anymore. It’s a definite case and the city ended up losing. “The Bouschor from a role in the casino. bases. She’s also Carolyn Dale’s sister. tie-in to diabetes,” she said. issue was the federal government taking Bouschor was CEO of the Greektown Later in the afternoon, we swing through Up in the health services director’s blocks of land without the city’s input,” Casino from 2002 to 2004. Payment and the tribe’s Health and Human Services office, we discuss what role a Lansing Nebel said. “In retrospect, it’s one of the Boushour are not only political enemies, center, where a story similar to the JKL casino would play in funding this center. best things that’s happened for the city, they’re also cousins. Over coffee at Frank’s school is unfolding. “Additional money the tribe has having the tribe right in the city.” Place in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, I ask Physical health among tribal available could be put in areas where we “We’ve come a long way since then,” Payment what he’d do if Bouschor walked populations throughout the country is still have gaps,” said Bonnie Culfa, health Bosbous added. How ironic, I thought: a through the front door. “Would you say notoriously poor. Diabetes, obesity, heart services director. “What we provide we are U.S. city making a fuss about having its hello?” I ask. He shook his head. disease and alcoholism run rampant. paying for it well, but there is so much more land taken away by Native Americans. Payment accuses Bouschor of being “Our population has problems with the we’re not able to provide” like an expanded As for policing, each provides backup unable to separate governing and European diet and sedentary lifestyle,” dentistry program. “You do with what you for the other, depending on if an incident business. He suspects Bouschor was the Dale-Burton says as we drive through the have. We have an unmet need and if the happens on the reservation or off. He key component behind the Sault Tribe’s Chi Mukwa (Big Bear) Recreation Facility, tribe had a lot more revenue coming in, I said “fairly complex laws” apply when losing its stake in Greektown. But media a place for youth sports and general would be over there after some. We have prosecutors take cases, depending on the reports and outside sources say more exercise. large unmet needs.” nature of the crime. “Whether it’s taken in was at play than a single politician, even The 50,000-square-foot health center tribal, federal or local court is sorted out though Bouschor was CEO of Greektown built in 1994 is for tribal members only and after the fact,” Nebel said. “We don’t think from 2002 to 2004. Too much borrowing offers a combination of traditional healing The city and the tribe Downtown Sault Ste. Marie in February about it — it’s not an issue.” and liabilities eclipsed the amount of and modern western medicine. Dentistry, isn’t a particularly lively place. Yes, it’s a People in Lansing are concerned about revenue Greektown brought in while optometry, radiology, a pharmacy, basic tourist town, but it’s also seen its share of increased crime after opening a casino. under part ownership of the Sault Tribe. health care and behavioral health services sprawl, leaving the downtown with several What have you learned? “I think I’d like to Leadership turnover within the tribe also are all housed in the center. In the past two vacancies. Overlooking the St. Mary’s have casinos and deal with these problems years, the center has gone from developing River, the Soo Locks and Ontario, Spencer individually,” Bosbous said. You “may or See Tribe, Page 12 12 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • March 7, 2012

divisive,” Bouschor said. “It’s not normal political side is not a positive thing for the Tribe in tribal communities. Everything he does community to have to deal with over and is political.” over again.” from page 11 While Greektown is still fresh in many Tribal elections are like City Council members’ minds, Bouschor reminds elections in Lansing. There’s even didn’t make the case for a clear vision for them that the Sault Tribe’s investment primaries now, which wasn’t the case 10 the future: The Sault tribe has had four is miniscule compared to Greektown: years ago, Dale-Burton, of the Sault Tribe different chairmen since 2000. $280,000 for the parcel of land to basically newspaper, said. Bouschor has served on and off in test the legal theory and, if successful, “Election time can get pretty crazy,” Sault Tribe government for more than another $900,000 for the rest of the land. Dale-Burton said. “Economic development 30 years. When asked about separating In Greektown, land acquisition alone for is always an issue. It’s probably the biggest business and government, Bouschor three different parcels cost $100 million. — not just making more money, but what said when the two are blurred, things “It’s a considerable difference,” he said. we do with it and our priorities.” get messy and contentious. “At times it “There were so many demands made Given its relative youth, outside Andy Balaskovitz/City Pulse becomes more of about political issues. by the city (of Detroit), revenue sharing observers say the Sault Tribe is still That creates problems in business and covenants placed upon the tribe. We are coming of age when it comes to politics St. Sault Marie City Manager Spencer can create problems on the government starting a tribal-owned facility.” and governance. Discourse at the lively Nebel (left) and Mayor Anthony Bosbous side.” He suggested Payment’s populist At tribal forums in Dearborn and meetings is often blunt and direct. And, have seen the city’s relationship with referendum campaign is Payment “out to Okemos nearly two weeks ago, several as could be said of most government the tribe go from being contentious to a get votes. I don’t think it’s the best way to tribal members who live downstate asked bodies, the tribe’s business activities and partnership. get them. Unfortunately in elections, a lot how those who live outside the seven- governmental duties clash. Who knows of promises are made that aren’t real.” county service area in the U.P. would how the tribe will progress in time? “The tribal board itself plays a greater role He called Payment’s attempt to have benefit from the casino revenue. City officials next door to the reservation than it did 20 years ago. It’s very much a 100 percent of the tribe’s potential “You can’t make promises to something have an optimistic outlook. Nebel, city democratic body.” revenue from Kewadin Lansing allocated on the outside when there’s not enough manager of Sault Ste. Marie, suggested: Mayor Bosbous agrees: “They’re much “not real.” resources on the inside,” Bouschor said, “The tribe is really maturing into a fairly more sophisticated in the continuity from “He, in my opinion, tries to divide adding that the highest concentration stable organization in terms of electoral one leadership to the next and the overall the community. He’s saying, ‘You having of Sault Tribe members live in the Sault changes, but it doesn’t dramatically philosophy of trying to maintain growth something, we don’t have anything.’ That’s Ste. Marie area. “What you see on the change the tribe’s direction.” He added: for that entity.”

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Arts& Culture art • books • film • music • theater From cabaret to ballet Royal Winnipeg Ballet puts its 'Rouge' on at Wharton

By ROBERT SANCRAINTE The Moulin Rouge was the most famous Parisian cabaret of them all, creating such a legacy that it was immortalized on the big screen mul- tiple times, including 2001’s epony- mously titled musical starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor. The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has found a new way to tell the story. “Moulin Rouge — The Ballet” fol- lows Matthew, an artist traveling to Paris in order to expand his world- view. He visits the famous Moulin Rouge and is immediately dazzled by Nathalie, the caba- ret’s up- Courtesy Photo and-coming This will be the first Lansing performance for Phillippe Bianconi, who won the Silver star. The two Medal at the 1985 Van Cliborn International Piano Competition. quickly begin a romance, but Zidler, the man ‘Love is very mysterious’ in charge of the cabaret, becomes Guest pianist Philippe Bianconi plunges into a sea very possessive of Brahms with Lansing Symphony Orchestra of Nathalie. The attention Courtesy Photo By LAWRENCE COSENTINO Symphony maestro Timothy Muffitt to per- Zidler pays For a globe-trotting pianist with some form the grandest and most symphonic of The ladies are still to Nathalie top-shelf awards on his mantel, Philippe piano concertos, Johannes Brahms’ Second. saucy, but star Jo-Ann causes the Bianconi seems to have a pronounced The concerto is often called a “symphony Sundermeier (above) rest of the Buddhist streak. He loves nothing more with piano,” very different from the star says "Moulin Rouge veteran danc- than to dissolve into something greater vehicles many soloists relish. — The Ballet" is only ers to become than himself. “Even though the piano part is really loosely based on the envious of “When I’m here in France, I love to go big and difficult, it’s still part of the whole popular 2001 film. her mete- to the Brittany coast,” he said in a phone orchestral architecture,” Bianconi said. “It’s oric rise. interview from his Paris apartment. “I love a wonderful feeling when you’re up there The ballet is only loosely based walking on those cliffs and breathing the playing it, to be part of that rich symphonic on the 2001 film, so many elements of air. Sometimes I just sit and look at the texture. I feel like I’m playing in a Brahms the show are different (in other words, ocean for hours.” symphony.” don't expect to hear “Lady Marmalade” or Bianconi can Bianconi loves to play intimate chamber “Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend”). Lansing Symphony take a quicker music as well as big orchestral works. For Jo-Ann Sundermeier, who stars as Orchestra: break from prac- him, the Brahms concerto hits both sweet Nathalie, laughed while recalling how some Brahms Piano ticing at home by spots. audience members standing at his “There are wonderful moments of inter- have found the show Concerto No. 2 piano and looking action between the piano and some solo to be too dance-ori- ‘Moulin Rouge — The Ballet’ Philippe Bianconi, piano over a sea of roof- instruments,” he said. “The beginning of the ented. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 8 p.m. Saturday, March 10 tops in the City of slow movement, with the solo cello — you “The steps are the Wharton Center Wharton Center 819 Abbott Road, East Lansing $15-45 Light. His piano are there, sitting on the stage, and you hear words that tell the $25-$38; $15 MSU students (517) 487-5001 is on the second this music, you just cry. It’s so incredibly story,” Sundermeier (800) WHARTON www.lansingsymphony.org floor of a duplex, beautiful.” said in a phone www.whartoncenter.com with his quarters Bianconi has never played in Lansing interview. below, so he can before, but he and Muffitt worked together While the bal- dive into the music without splashing any- twice with Muffitt’s other orchestra, the let choreography was written by Jorden one. Baton Rouge Symphony. In 2002, they Morris, the interpretation of the steps is a “As I’m talking to you, I can see the performed both Ravel piano concertos and collaboration between the choreographer (basilica) Sacre Couer, and it’s illuminated,” reunited in 2010 for the Tchaikovsky piano and the dancers. he reported. “It’s pretty nice.” concerto. “I was very pleased,” Bianconi According to Sundermeier, Morris “lets Bianconi merges into another kind of you feel how you feel and develop a char- sea Saturday when he teams with Lansing See Bianconi, Page 14 acter in your own way.” 14 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • March 7, 2012 Something to talk about In Riverwalk's ‘Becky’s New Car,’ it's up to you to help out a chatty heroine who's juggling a husband and a new suitor

By JAMES SANFORD onstage,” Hinds said, and before long, that graduate student If you attend “Becky’s New Car” at “fourth wall” separating the cast and the who’s still liv- Riverwalk Theatre, you shouldn't expect crowd is all but demolished. ing at home and to spend the evening passively sitting “Audience members get invited to come doling out dubi- around. There's up onstage and help Becky dress, she asks ous diagnoses 'Becky’s New Car' work to be done. them to do some tasks — which they may for his parents' According to or may not do — and she even asks them supposed condi- Through March 25 director Addiann to vote at one point on whether she should tions. Riverwalk Theatre 228 Museum Drive, Lansing Hinds, viewers do something or not.” So who can 7 p.m. Thursdays; 8 p.m. have their say After all, the middle-aged Becky Foster blame Becky if Fridays and Saturdays; 2 in determining (Gini Larson) could use some assistance. she allows a love- p.m. Sundays how the comedy Her job as the office manager at a Lexus/ sick millionaire $14; $12 for seniors and students unfolds. Saturn/Mitsubishi dealership is demand- (Jeff Boerger) to (517) 482-5700 “The actress in ing, her marriage to roofer Joe (Wayne believe she’s a www.riverwalktheatre.com the leading role of Tagg) is not exactly a thrill a minute, and lonely widow? Becky starts talk- she’s had more than enough of her psy- “It’s not so ing to the audience the minute she walks chology-crazy son, Chris (Joseph Mull), a much a mid-life crisis (story) as it is a mid-life Photo by LkeAnthony Photography situation,” Hinds Should a car dealership office manager stay with her husband or said, adding that become a millionaire's mistress? Joe (Wayne Tagg), Becky (Gini Larson is well- Larson) and Walter (Jeff Boerger) wind up in a comic love triangle in suited to her Riverwalk Theatre's "Becky's New Car." character. “She’s very up on the stage and try to interact, I don’t comfortable talking to the audience. It’s know what we’re gonna do about that,” fun. The key, of course, is to find the natu- Hinds said. ralness — it can’t look like it’s scripted.” So “Becky’s New Car” might turn out to But what happens if an audience mem- be the first Riverwalk show to have its own ber enjoys his or her time in the spotlight bouncer standing by? “Yeah, right!” Hinds a little too much? “I don’t know. If they get said, with a laugh.

drawing a keyboard on a piece of paper and Bianconi writing the names of the notes on the keys. “When I was home, I practiced on the from page 13 paper,” Bianconi said. “When I actually got the piano, it was like magic.” said. “For most of the concerto, we had He has never looked back since, although similar ideas.” he admits he’s had some ups and downs. The same way mountain climbers get “There were times I had to cope with around to talking about Everest sooner nerves,” he said. “Am I good enough to or later, the maestro and the pianist first give justice to the pieces I’m playing? broached the topic of Brahms at their 2010 Sometimes you feel it’s too difficult, but meeting. deep inside there is something that tells “I didn’t know what he was thinking you that this is your life and you’re not then, but when I got the invitation I was going to stop.” really thrilled,” Bianconi said. “I never say He feels winning the silver medal, not ‘greatest,’ but I place the Brahms concertos the gold, in the seventh Van Cliburn in above anything else.” 1985 competition was “the best thing that Concerto gigs come in streaks. Bianconi could have happened.” (He also won first last played the Brahms Second in 2009, fol- prize at the Cleveland International Piano lowing a cluster of performances between Competition in 1981.) After the Cliburn, 2000 and 2005. This June, he’ll play it again Bianconi was offered 50 concerts a year with the Sydney Symphony in Australia. for the next three years, “enough to keep “With any great masterpiece, after you me busy.” haven’t played it for a while, you discover “The gold medalist (José Feghali of new things, details that make you so happy Brazil) got 100 concerts, and I’m not sure I when they come out of the score suddenly.” could have coped with that,” he admitted. Although Bianconi grew up listening to But why was he drawn to the piano in his parents’ LPs, nobody pushed him into the first place? Bianconi’s answer is more music. There was no piano in the house. Parisian than Buddhist. Bianconi said his parents were puzzled “Maybe it was something from — who when he simply announced at age 7, “I want knows, God, if you believe in God, or in me, to play the piano.” that attracted me to that instrument,” he While Mom and Dad scrambled to find said. “There is definitely something myste- him an upright piano, he studied with a rious in anybody’s relationship with art. It’s private teacher who assigned homework by like love. Love is very mysterious.” City Pulse • March 7, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 15

sticking out over a growing pot- has but moments to reflect and, after a Slam-dunk belly. Breathing seems to be short intermission, these same two actors an effort, and those beers are reappear on stage in a Woody Allen con- Jerry and Isaac Sprague essential to his daily existence. coction about score in a double feature Emotion is contained, effort Death knocking ‘Two Beers and a constrained — he intends to on one’s door. Hook Shot’/‘Death By TOM HELMA resolve long-buried issues but Talk about a Knocks’ The two one-act plays could not be possesses none of the requisite channel-chang- more different. Bill Helder, who selected skills to do so. Teenage Randy ing experience. Through March 11 Riverwalk Black Box Stage and directed these two plays, has given his is resolutely oppositional, Neither actor 228 Museum Drive, Lansing two actors — who appear in both — vastly fiercely determined to beat the seems to be the 7 p.m. Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. different roles to play. crap out of his father one last same person. Sundays In “Two Beers and a Hook Shot,” we time on the basketball court, Jerry Sprague, as $12; $10 seniors, students, have serious relationship drama presented giving no ground, yielding not Nat Ackerman, military personnel in a naturalistic style: dark, one compassionate inch. has channeled (517) 482-5700 www.riverwalktheatre.com Review painful-to-experience mate- There is a painful sense of a silk-robed, rial. This is a play about the reality to the efforts of these smart-assed ver- challenge in a father-son rela- two warriors. It doesn’t feel sion of what looks like Woody Allen him- tionship to transcend past sins, to over- like acting. Randy’s fiery dia- self, a full-of-himself character who argues come sufferings and a raging emptiness, tribes are met with shoulder- that he still has everything to live for and and to transform hatred to love through shrugging impotence by Dexter bargains with Death for just one more the magic of basketball. until finally both warriors real- day. “Death Knocks,” on the other hand, is ize they cannot keep up their Isaac Sprague, now dressed in requi- a lighthearted confectionary delight, pure defenses. The resulting emo- site black robe and whiteface makeup as vaudeville at its best. tional breakthrough comes Death, evokes the attitude and accents of Actors Jerry Sprague and his grandson about more from a sense of res- Groucho Marx. He is crisp and funny and Isaac are thrown together in the first play as ignation, that fighting one last gets plenty of laughs. In “Death Knocks,” Dexter and Randy Jackson. They meet late time will not clear anything there are a few pauses when one can Photo by LkeAnthony Photography at night at a pay-for-lights-by-the-quarter up. Dexter’s seeming patience almost hear the vaudevillian snare drum urban basketball court to play one last The Grim Reaper (Isaac Sprague) comes to call on Nat is not so much patience, as ka-popping in the background. game, to say what might be final goodbyes Ackerman (Jerry Sprague) in Woody Allen's "Death much as world-weary despair. These plays are, allegedly, Helder’s after years of neither connecting deeply nor Knocks," directed by Bill Helder. He hopes for Randy’s even- directorial swan song. When someone like seemingly caring about each other. tual return, but quietly so, and Helder steps out of the spotlight, however, Both wear heavy armor in these roles. been there, done that, done it all. He is weeps openly only when Randy is on the he still casts a large shadow. One can only Dexter, the father, has been through life’s worn-down. Jerry Sprague portrays Dexter bus pulling out of town. hope that another play will come along to mill, is divorced and down and out; he has effectively, with a slow, tired swagger, chest The lights fade to black, the audience entice Helder to continue on.

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world a better place is huge, is officially a thing of the past More than and we're still doing that.” with a revamping of the pro- At any time in their edu- gram this past year. cookies cation, girls can join a troop Outside of regular troop in their area. The program meetings, a catalog of pro- The Girl Scouts has begins with Daisies in kin- grams and events is provid- a 100-year history of dergarten, then Brownies ed each year for Michigan community involvement, in first through third grade, troops. Events in Saginaw, Juniors in fourth and fifth Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor and activism and acceptance grade, Cadettes in sixth more cities throughout both through eighth grade, Seniors peninsulas are available By ALYSSA FIRTH in ninth and 10th grade, and to all troops. Whether it’s Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Samoas, Do-Si- finally Ambassadors for 11th a visual arts workshop or Dos: The annual sale of Girl Scout cook- and 12th grade students. learning about the “Wonders ies is one of the few times of the year that Barker said it’s most com- of Water,” girls are provided communities pay attention to the organi- mon for girls to stay with with a variety of learning zation, which is turning 100 years old this the program for at least five experiences. March. years, which still has a strong “We have more than 300 But a $9 million organization can't live impact that girls may or may Courtesy Photo programs that a girl can on cookies alone. not realize in the future. attend. Most people think Growing up with the Girl Scouts begins with Daisies for kindergarteners, “We find it really interesting that often “Girls are learning while that a girl is in a Girl Scout then Brownies in first through third grade, Juniors in fourth and fifth people do think Girl Scouts is just cookies, having fun and being with troop and that's the only way grade, Cadettes in sixth through eighth grade, Seniors in ninth and 10th camping, crafts and don't think of it as a their friends. These skills are she can participate,” Barker grade, and finally Ambassadors for 11th and 12th grade students. leadership organization,” said Janet Barker, going to carry with them for said. CEO of Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan. the rest of their lives,” she Girls are welcome to par- Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan serves said. stay within our council — Girl Scouts ticipate in any program, whether they’re in roughly 80,000 Girl Scouts throughout Heart of Michigan — to support local Girl a troop or not. the state, and while selling cookies does Controversies and misinformation Scouts and volunteers. No money from the Christal Renaud, of Troy, a troop leader teach young girls the “Five Skills in Daily Outside of cookie sales, the only other sale goes to Girl Scouts of the USA or any of 16 years, took her troop of Senior Girl Life” — goal setting, decision making, time the Girl Scouts finds itself in the media other organization.” Scouts to try fencing this year. money management, people skills and is when it's faced with criticism. CNN But Barker says it's easy to see how “One mom said, ‘My daughter would business ethic — being a Girl Scout means reported last month that Indiana State these rumors have spread. have never been able to do this without much more. Rep. Bob Morris is refusing to acknowl- “Unfortunately, since the advent of Girl Scouts.’ It gets girls to get out there In the past century, Girl Scouts vol- edge the organization’s 100th anniversary the Internet, misinformation about Girl and experience things they never would unteered at hospitals, collected clothing, due to their “radical” agenda. Scouts has proliferated, unchecked, for have done,” made toys and quilts and gathered food In January, CNN reported on a several years,” she said. “While it is under- Renaud said. Girl Scouts Parade for the poor during the Great Depression. Colorado troop’s decision to allow a 7-year- standable that Internet articles may be of Although 11 a.m. Saturday, March 10 During World War II, Girl Scouts collect- old transgender child to join the troop last concern, it is important to note that the they’re still avail- Parade begins on W. Allegan St. ed 1.5 million articles of clothing to send October. Since then, the website www. information is either false or a gross exag- able, it’s not all and ends at the Capitol around to refugees overseas, among other efforts. honestgirlscouts.com has campaigned to geration.” about the badges. noon, with a singalong and afternoon activities. There will They embraced diversity, fought for civil boycott the sale of Girl Scout cookies until As far as approaching issues like sexu- A list of 15 differ- be a celebration and fireworks rights, joined the war on drugs and grew its “issues are addressed.” The site is also ality and birth control, Barker says the Girl ent traits to help at Cooley Law School Stadium, into an organization of 3.2 million girls claiming that incomes and donations from beginning at 6 p.m. Scouts has always been consistent. girls learn lead- www.gshom.org and adult volunteers. the sale of cookies help pay for associa- “Our policy on sensitive issues remains ership — includ- “(It’s been) 100 years of helping girls tion and membership fees to participate as it as always been: Parents must give ing developing a become confident and courageous and 100 in abortion and homosexual advocacy their prior written permission before any strong sense of self, promoting cooperation years of girls doing community service," groups, partnerships between Girl Scout discussion of sensitive issues may take and team building and identifying commu- Barker said. “Taking action to make their Councils and Planned Parenthood clinics, place in a Girl Scout setting,” she said. nity needs — was developed last year. salaries for Girl Scouts of the USA execu- “Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan believes “They become more confident, become tive staff “who are leaders in the homosex- that decisions on sensitive issues such as more secure with who they are, and give m Drive, across from Lansi Museu ng Cen 228 ter ual rights movement, and the movement sexuality, birth control and abortion are back to the community," Renaud said. of inclusion,” which states that they have best left to girls, their families and their Girls now go on individual “journeys” Riverwalk Theatre been “hiding” transgender boys in groups. religious advisers. GSHOM takes no posi- through their years of Girl Scouting to GSUSA’s current position on the trans- tion on such issues. combine with earning badges. Journeys gender issue is that if a child considers “Be assured that Girl Scouts Heart of focus on discovering skills and talents, Two Beers & a Hook Shot herself a girl and is regarded as a girl by Michigan teaches girls to make decisions connecting with others and taking action Drama by Kent R. Brown her family, she is welcome in a troop. with the guidance of their own families to make the world a better place. Last week, Yahoo! News reported that and religious advisors. Parents have con- “You learn more about how your actions & DEATH KNOCKS St. Timothy Catholic Church in Virginia trol over what their daughters are learning really do help the community around you, Comedy by has banned all troop meetings and prohib- in Girl Scouts.” which is something that’s harder to grasp Woody Allen ited the wearing of uniforms in its school as a younger Girl Scout,” said Renaud’s Directed by Bill Helder because of the erroneous belief that the Not your grandmother's Girl Scouts daughter, Michelle. She participated in Featuring Jerry & Isaac Sprague Girl Scouts are affiliated with Planned Hilary Clinton, Gov. Girl Scouts through high school until she Parenthood. and Sen. are former Girl graduated in 2009 and has been a troop 2 BEERS: This basketball drama plays “Girl Scouts supports one organization: Scouts, and First Lady Michelle Obama is leader for three years for a group of sec- out years of family friction. Girl Scouts,” Barker said. “Our sole pur- now the National Honorary President of ond-grade Brownies. She has taken her ADULT LANGUAGE AND SITUATIONS. pose is to build girls of courage, confidence the Girl Scouts. troop caroling at a senior service center DEATH: In Woody Allen’s world, the and character who make the world a better According to Barker, 70 percent of and had them make Build-a-Bears for Grim Reaper’s not much at cards. place. As the world’s premier leadership women in a leadership role in the Lansing children in the hospital. March 2-4 and 9-11 development organization for girls, Girl area were once Girl Scouts. Overall, 30 “With Girl Scouts, I got the opportunity $12/$10 student/senior/military Scouts does not support any other orga- percent of women in the area were Girl to experience so many different things and 8 pm Fridays & Saturdays; 2 pm Sun. nization. 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Stanton said he rienced personally. research for the book. ‘God’s in carefully dissected the In “In Harm’s Both “In Harm’s Way” and “Horse article about Ol' Blue Way,” he follows Soldiers” are being developed as movies. the details’ Eyes to piece together the men of the During his visit to MSU, Stanton will how Talese wrote it. USS Indianapolis, talk with two classes about writing and his ‘Horse Soldiers’ author “I asked myself which was sunk by experiences, in addition to giving the World Doug Stanton shares what questions Talese a Japanese subma- View Lecture sponsored by the Residential insights at MSU lecture would have had to rine after delivering College of Arts and Humanities on March ask to write the story,” components of the 19 at the Wharton Center. He said for Stanton said. “That’s atomic bomb during today’s young people something doesn’t By BILL CASTANIER how I learned how to World War II. More exist “unless it’s on Facebook or Twitter.” Doug Stanton was just outgrowing his do an interview. You than 800 men per- In the class on mythic heroism taught by “Cat in the Hat” stage when the author Gay can learn everything ished, mostly from Residential College of Arts and Humanities Talese, one of the progenitors of the “new you need to know about shark attacks and Dean Stephen Esquith, Stanton will talk journalism” movement, wrote a seminal interviewing from that exposure, before about his experiences writing about the article for Esquire on Frank Sinatra that single article.” rescuers were able World War II and Afghanistan veterans still influences the Traverse City writer. Stanton also gives to reach the 316 sur- and explore what it means to be a hero When Stanton talks about writing he credit to his spouse, vivors. in modern times. “Very broadly, heroism often circles back to Talese’s 1966 gem of Anne, who was a news- The story was is the name they put on tragedy after the reporting, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” and paper reporter at the originally a maga- shooting stops,” Stanton said. how that single article was instrumental in Traverse City Northern Courtesy photo zine piece, but after His message to them will be something his writing career. Express. attending a reunion he learned while writing “In Harm’s Way”: Don't be afraid of looking clueless in an Stanton, the author of “In Harm’s Way” He also learned of the survivors, “Heroism is doing the right thing when no interview, says journalist and author and “The Horse Soldiers,” is a chronic that serendipitous Stanton decided one is looking.” Doug Stanton: "Asking a dumb question multi-tasker, and Sunday was no excep- local connections — in the piece could be can be disarming." tion as he talked about his upcoming visit this case, author Jim expanded into a to Michigan State University while mak- Harrison — can help book. The story of ing a dry ice delivery to his father. launch a career. Harrison, a novelist who the Indianapolis sinking had been told A graduate of Hampshire College and was living in the Traverse region, was also before in detail, but he decided to look at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, a contributor for Esquire and introduced it from a personal viewpoint of survivors. Stanton still talks with amazement that Stanton to an editor, which helped him However, when he decided to look into Talese wrote the land some assignments, including celeb- the early war in Afghanistan very little was Doug Stanton 16,000-word article rity profiles of Woody Harrelson, Harrison known about the small group of Special 7:30 p.m. March 19 without ever inter- Ford and George Clooney. Forces that rode horses into battle. Lon� Liv� Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center viewing Sinatra, One article Stanton is especially proud He would do hundreds of interviews $20 basing everything of is a profile he did on rock star John to piece together the military action. The (800) WHARTON on interviews Mellencamp for Men’s Journal. “It wasn’t only way he could do that was to talk to th� Indi�! www.whartoncenter,com with his friends, about music. It was about larger issues, the participants, who are normally reti- a c q u a i n t a n c e s , such as identity. It was about how a man cent about talking to writers. business associates and “blonde” admirers does his work and who they are when no Recognizing his lack of knowledge SCHULER BOOKS (who today we would call groupies) to cre- one is looking.” about the military, Stanton said you can’t ate a very intimate, almost cinematic por- Stanton followed Mellencamp on tour underestimate “the power of a dumb ques- is celebrating 30 trait of the performer. and recalls noticing what he called the tion. 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Advice Goddess © 2011 Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. The spinster cycle To read more of Amy's advice and Q: I’m a 32-year-old Coontz is wrong again in deeming hyperga- er, poorer, and not that intellectually exciting guidance, please visit our Web site at www.lansingcitypulse.com woman with a Ph.D. my — women’s preference for men of a higher but who’s emotionally present and willing to I’m beyond happy with socio-economic status — a cultural construct. be appointed vice president of diaper rash. my career path, but The preference for the alpha male is biologi- Problem solved — if you can keep from seeth- I’m not meeting men cal, an evolutionary adaptation that exists in ing with contempt for his lack of ambition and Amy alkon [email protected] I’m impressed with or women across cultures — and species. (Do we intellect. A lack of respect for one’s spouse is inspired to see again. A really think the lady peacock wants the alpha definitely not the ground happy marriages are girlfriend sent me a New York Times op-ed by male peacock because she’s been watching way built on. That’s why settling is most wisely dis- a historian named Stephanie Coontz, who said too much “Desperate Housewives”?) cussed not as some blanket policy for women, that highly educated women can find a man if Some feminist academics claim that wom- but in terms of what an individual woman they drop “the cultural ideal of hypergamy — en only want big bucks/high status men wants and what she’s willing and able to give that women must marry up.” Coontz advises because they lack those things themselves. up to get it. Realistically assessing that for women to “reject the idea that the ideal man But, a number of studies by evolutionary yourself is how you find your happiest medium is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, more psychologists have found that women with — between possibly being in a panic to find renowned or more powerful.” She claims a big bucks and big jobs want men with bigger a sperm donor at 42 and trying to make it woman’s marital happiness is predicted not by bucks and bigger jobs. Even women who are work now with some guy who watches the how much she looks up to her husband, “but feminists. Dr. Bruce J. Ellis writes in “The soaps after dusting a few surfaces and drink- how sensitive he is to her emotional cues and Adapted Mind” that when 15 feminist lead- ing a few too many glasses of blush wine. how willing he is to share the housework and ers described their ideal man, they repeat- child-care. And those traits are often easier to edly used words like “very rich,” “brilliant,” find in a low-key guy than a powerhouse.” She and “genius” (and they didn’t mean “genius Jonesin' Crossword By Matt Jones then adds, “I’m not arguing that women ought with a baby wipe!”). to ‘settle.’” Really? Sounds that way to me. So, if you’ve become the man you would’ve “You Missed!”— he —Dismayed married in the ‘50s, don’t be surprised if your shoots, he mating pool starts to seem about the size doesn’t score. A: Yes, you can have it all — a high-pow- of the one that comes with Barbie’s Dream by Matt Jones ered education, a high-powered career, and House. Biology is neither fair nor kind. What Across the perfect high-powered man to go with. Of those pushing feel-good sociology don’t want 1 Prescription figures course, it helps if you’re willing to relax your to believe or tell you is that you increase your 6 Frenemy, in part standards a little, like by widening your pool of options by being hot — or hotting yourself up 9 Tenth-grader, for short 13 Sportscaster Shaquille acceptable male partners to include the recent- the best you can. Obviously, looks aren’t all 14 Not real, like some crab ly deceased. that matter, but while your female genes are meat: abbr. I respect Stephanie Coontz as a historian, urging you to blow past the hot pool boy to 16 Shade darker than but as a forecaster of economic and romantic get to the moderately attractive captain of eggshell possibilities for women, I have to give her industry, men evolved to prioritize looks in 17 “Spiffy!” a thumbs-down. Coontz claims that “for a women, so powerful men will date powerfully 18 1958 Best Picture winner woman seeking a satisfying relationship as beautiful waitresses and baristas. As evolu- 19 Summers abroad? well as a secure economic future, there has tionary psychologist Dr. David Buss writes, 20 Add atop a refuse never been a better time to be or become “Women’s physical attractiveness is the best pile, after aiming out and highly educated.” Actually, as doctorate hold- known predictor of the occupational status of missing? ers “Occupying” sleeping bags outside city the man she marries and the best known pre- 23 Good, in Guatemala 24 Room where church halls will tell you, that depends on what you’re dictor of hypergamy.” records are kept becoming highly educated in. Ph.D. in financial There isn’t a person on the planet who 25 “Isn’t that somethin’?” engineering? Hedge fund, here you come. Ph.D. doesn’t have to settle. (Maybe Brad Pitt farts 26 Abbr. at an airport in Tibetan gender studies? You’ll be lucky to be in bed.) Want kids? You’re more likely to find terminal do after eating his way 5 Like molasses certain way) teaching the merits of pulverized lavender in yourself a husband to have them with if you do 27 Cave under weight through your linen closet, 6 Square cookie 35 “Letters to a Young the body oils section of the food co-op. as Coontz suggests — go for a man who’s short- 28 Placing, at the track after aiming in and missing? 7 Leaves out Contrarian” author 30 Strikes, in Biblical 56 Actor Jon of “Homi- 8 This clue’s number Christopher Interested in placing a classified ad in City Pulse? terms cide” 9 Fortune teller 36 Freeze again, like slush City Pulse Classifieds Call (517) 999-5066 or email [email protected] 33 It’s inside an env. 57 Marcia and Felicity’s 10 Linoleum pattern to ice 34 Sports uniform for an co-star shapes, sometimes 37 Rapper with the 2011 hit Searching for a seasoned event manager City Pulse is seeking candidates to join its all-out brawl, after aiming 58 Electronic bracelet site 11 Just being there “Work Out” to work on site at our non-profit organization on a full-time sales team. 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Listings deadline is 5 p.m. the THURSDAY BEFORE publication. Paid classes will be listed in print at the cost of one enrollment (maximum $20). Please submit them to the events calendar at www.lansingcitypulse.com. If you need help, please call Jessica at (517) 999-5069. E-mail information to [email protected]. March 8 A night of wine, cheese & celebrities This Thursday, guests attending the Lansing Board of Water & Light’s “Wine and Cheese Extravaganza” will get more than a tasting. Not only will attendees be able to sample several Michigan-made wines and beers, as well as locally made cheese, but they will also have the opportunity to determine the winners of a live Dancing with the Stars competition. Guests can expect to see local celebrities such as former Michigan State University quarterback Bobby McAllister; Kristen Taylor, Membership and Grants Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Michigan; and WLNS- TV 6 morning news anchor Evan Pinnsonault, along with many more participating in the dance competition. “The Wine & Cheese Extravaganza will raise money to help thousands of people who struggle to pay their utility bills,” said BWL General Manager J. Peter Lark. 5:30-8 p.m. Tickets are $35 each, or $100 for four, and can be purchased at the door or at the BWL Customer Service or Executive Office, 1232 Haco Dr., Lansing. Courtesy Photo The event is at Capitol City Grille, in the Radisson Hotel, 111 N. Grand Ave., Lansing. (517) 702-6377 or (517) 702-6033.

Wednesday, March 7 March 12 Classes and Seminars Meditation. For beginners and experienced. 7-9 Have a Heart for Salsa p.m. FREE. Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, 3015 S. Washington Square, Lansing. (517) 351-5866. This Sunday, the group Mid-Michigan Salsa is hosting an event for dancers of all Community Yoga. Power yoga class. 6:30-8 p.m. levels — whether you’re new to salsa dancing or an expert spinner. There will FREE. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Lansing. (517) be classes for beginner and intermediate dancers starting at 5:30 p.m., followed 488-5260. by a performance by local professionals. This event doubles as a fundraiser for Drop-in figure drawing. Easels and drawing boards provided, bring other supplies. 7:30-10 p.m. the American Heart Association. Mid-Michigan Salsa is a nonprofit, community- $5, $3 students. Kresge Art Museum, located at based organization that was created to spread awareness about the area’s Physics and Auditorium roads, MSU Campus, East growing salsa dancing community. Perspective 2, 319 E. Grand River Ave., Old Lansing. (517) 337-1170. Town Lansing. 5:30 to 10 p.m. $10 at the door. For more information, (517) 749- Knee High Naturalist. Ages 2-5 for a playgroup 0922, or midmichigansalsa.org. featuring a different nature theme each week. 1-2 p.m. $5. Fenner Nature Center, 2020 E. Mount Hope Courtesy Photo Ave., Lansing. (517) 483-4224. Christian Mysticism. How has it impacted traditional and modern Christianity? 6-7 p.m. FREE. March 14 Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, 125 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-7434. www. PilgrimUCC.com Poets applaud Events In recognition of the National Education Association’s Read Across America Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. Grand Ledge Baptist Church, 1120 W. Willow Hwy., Grand Day Schuler Books and Music hosts a Dr. Seuss storytime and photo Ledge. (517) 256-6954. opportunity with the Cat in the Hat. March 2 is Dr. Seuss’s birthday and Practice Your English. Speaking and listening to the occasion for a nationwide reading celebration. Schools, libraries and English in a friendly, relaxing atmosphere. 7-8 p.m. bookstores from across the country will bring together kids, teens and FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, books. Schuler also plans a reading of “The Cat In the Hat” and “The Lorax,” East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Jelly. Participants range from designers, develop- in honor of the release of the “Lorax” film this weekend. Attendees are ers, internet types and more. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. encouraged to bring a camera to get their photo with one of Dr. Seuss’s Gone Wired Cafe, 2021 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. favorite characters. 11 a.m. FREE. Schuler Books and Music, Towne Centre (517) 853-0550. workatjelly.com. Blvd., Lansing. (517) 316-7495. www.shulerbooks.com. Youth Service Corps. Help east side youth grow Photo courtesy of Francis Levine See Out on the Town, Page 23 - - LAWN CARE - - March 14 MOWING - Vacation Mowing Eavestroughs Cleaned - Fall Cleanups - Rolling - Garden Tilling Bushes Lessons from leaders Trimmed - Sidewalks Edged Tree & Brush Removal - Hauling Stump The Niagara Foundation of Michigan encourages women to attend “Celebrating Women as Community Builders; Grinding - Bush Pulling Seeding, Snow Perspectives from Three Women Leaders." In celebration of Women’s History Month, the evening has several removal and salting panelists sharing their opinions on the role of women as community builders, the contributions of women and Commercial/Residential challenges that they encounter. Panelists include Amy Timmer, Associate Dean of Students and Professionalism, Free estimates Thomas M. Cooley Law School; , Democratic Leader; and Dr. Ushasree R. Knott Chamarthy, Director of Medical Oncology/Hematology at Sparrow Regional Cancer Center. There will be a LAWN • LANDSCAPE • SNOW reception beginning at 6 p.m., and refreshments from Turkish cuisine will be served. 6-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing (517) 694-7502/ (517) 993-2052 Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing. www.niagarafoundation.org/michigan. 22 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • March 7, 2012

Smoking Jackets at Green Door turn it With a set list that ranges from Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” to Naughty by Nature’s “OPP,” The Smoking Jackets, a Lansing-based cover band, emphasize diversity. The band, which performs Friday at the Green Door, plays some ‘80s tunes Down along with newer pop hits by Justin Timberlake, A survey of Lansing's Franz Ferdinand, Weezer, Kid Rock and Cake. Mixed into the set are classics from Steely Dan, Led musical Landscape Zeppelin and Stevie Wonder, to name a few. By Rich Tupica Friday, March 9 @ Green Door, 2005 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, 21 and over, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Vintage rockin' Mic Club showcases The Loft local female artists Courtesy Photo Courtesy Photo Man Overboard John Holland of Salem For over three years the Mic Club, hosted by local rapper SINcere, has been showcasing hip-hop Lansing Vinyl Record & CD Black Mass hosts John Holland events in Mid-Michigan. show hits Frandor Since it formed in April 2011, Black Mass Sunday, a On Friday the event returns with an all-female ros- weekly showcase and collective, has become a staple ter, including Kiah, Lady V (aka Jane Jett), Satin For those interested in digging through thousands in the local experimental/industrial/electro scene. Doll and Trinell Harris. DJ Enyce will also be spin- of vinyl records and CDs, a good place to start Each week it hosts local and touring acts. This ning throughout the evening. The show is fittingly might be Saturday at the Lansing Record & CD Sunday will feature a DJ set by John Holland, who is titled “Ladies First Pt. 2.” Show at the University Quality Inn in Frandor. The best known for his work with Salem, a buzz-worthy Friday, March 9 @ Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge, 6810 huge show, which opens at 11 a.m., sets up shop industrial-goth band. Holland will spin some rave, South Cedar, Lansing, Lansing, 21 and over. $7 at every couple of months and features 60 tables of trance and footwork music. Also making some door, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. vinyl 45s and LPs. Aside from records, collectors noise is a cast of locals, including Ein Sof Goyle Pop-punk wunderkinds can also browse through rare music DVDs, band (electro-industrial, aggrotech, witch house), Jaysen posters, CDs, T-shirts, vintage magazines and all Craves (aggrotech, industrial, harsh EBM), Andy go overboard at Mac's sorts of music memorabilia. From rock ‘n’ roll, soul, Lynch (juke, footwork, house, techno) and Crackula Man Overboard, a pop-punk band from New and jazz, to country, funk and folk — all genres are (witch house, chopped and screwed). Courtesy Photo Jersey, plays an all-ages show Friday at Mac’s Bar. represented. For more information visit www.face- While this particular night showcases “darker dance The Dolphins Warming up the stage are Handguns, Seahaven, book.com/lansingrecordshow. music,” event organizer Jay Fellows said Black Mass The Dolphins are an East Lansing-based Daytrader and Way to Fall. Saturday, March 10 @ University Quality Inn, 3121 Sunday changes from week to week. “We are exposing rock 'n' roll band with a love for ‘60s tunes Man Overboard specializes in melodic emo-pop, E. Grand River Ave., Frandor. FREE admission. people to genres they may not be as familiar with in and vintage psychedelic sounds. The four- with energetic, hardcore-influences from other Show runs from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Lansing — such as witch house, minimal synth, cold piece features Chris Smith (guitar, vocals), Garden State bands like Midtown. wave, post-punk and grave wave,” Fellows said. For Uli's Haus of Rock Alex Ovenhouse (bass), Josh Guysky (drums) The group formed in 2008 after childhood friends those looking for an avant-garde dance party or just and guitarist Ryan Guysky. The band, which Nik Bruzzese (vocals/bass) and Wayne Wildrick From Blue to Gray, a progressive-metal band from exploring the darker side of music, this event may be formed in 2010, plays The Loft on Thursday. (guitar) began writing songs together. Since then, Mt. Pleasant, headlines Saturday at Uli’s Haus of worth checking out. Opening the show is another local outfit, the band has released a pile of recordings and Rock. Opening the show is Cell Block Earth, a Sunday, March 11 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan The Unguarded Moment. The “progressive signed to Rise Records. Last fall, the band per- Detroit-based thrash-metal band. Rounding out Ave., Lansing, 18 and over. $10 cover, 9 p.m. pop-punk” band has been gigging since 2006 formed on the “Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour” along- the lineup (and making for a diverse night of live and includes Isaac Sprague (guitar/vocals), side New Found Glory; last September, the band’s music) is Seinhart, a Grand Rapids-based four- Stefan Wiseman (bass/vocals), and drummer self-titled album landed on the Billboard 200, piece with a sound reminiscent of Blink-182 and Samuel Sprague. Top Hard Rock Albums, and Top Independent other early 2000s pop-punk acts. Thursday, March 8 @ The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Albums charts. Saturday, March 10 @ Uli’s Haus of Rock, 4519 S. Ave., Lansing, $5 for 21 and over, $7 for 18 and over, Friday, March 9 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Martin Luther King Blvd., Lansing. $5, 18 and over, Post it at Doors 8 p.m. Lansing, all ages. $10 advance, $12 day of, 5 p.m. 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. www. facebook.com/turn it down

To be listed in Live and Local, e-mail your information to [email protected] by Thursday of the week before publication. Wednesday THursday FRIday saturday Colonial Bar, 3425 S. MLK Jr. Blvd. DJ, 9 p.m. Avon Bomb, 9 p.m. Avon Bomb, 9 p.m. Brannigan Brothers, 210 S. Washington Square Jammin' DJs, 9 p.m. Jammin' DJs, 9 p.m. Jammin' DJs, 9 p.m. Crunchy's, 254 W. Grand River Ave. Cloud Magic, 10 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dublin Square, 327 Abbot Road DJ Juan, 10 p.m. Avon Bomb & DJ Donnie D, 10 p.m. Global Village & DJ Donnie D, 10 p.m. Charger & DJ Beats, 10 p.m. The Exchange, 314 E. Michigan Ave. Tryst Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. The Firm, 227 S. Washington Square DnW Sound DJs, 9 p.m. Various DJs, 9 p.m. DJ Donnie D, 9 p.m. Grand Café/Sir Pizza, 201 E. Grand River Ave. Driver & Rider Show, 7 p.m. Kathy Ford Band, 7 p.m. Karaoke, 7 p.m. Aimcriers, 8 p.m. Green Door, 2005 E. Michigan Ave. Cedar Baker Boys, 9:30 p.m. Hidden Agenda, 9:30 p.m. Smoking Jackets, 9:30 p.m. Root Doctor, 9:30 p.m. The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave. The Dolphins, 8 p.m. X'aos, 9 p.m. T.O.K.I.N., 6 p.m. Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave. Glitter Magik & Ferior, 9 p.m. Jimi Kankles, 9 p.m. Man Overboard, 5 p.m. Friends of Neon, 9 p.m. Moriarty's Pub, 802 E. Michigan Ave. Bad Gravy Blues, 10 p.m. The Waxies, 10 p.m. The Waxies, 10 p.m. Rick's American Cafe, 224 Abbott Road I.C.E DJ's, 10:30 p.m. I.C.E DJ's, 10:30 p.m. Rookies, 16460 S. US 27 Sea Cruisers, 7-10 p.m. Water Pong DJ with Ryan, 9 p.m. Karaoke with Bob, 9 p.m. Karaoke with Bob, 9 p.m. Rum Runners, 601 East Michigan Ave. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 9 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 7 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 7 p.m. Whiskey Barrel Saloon, 410 S. Clippert St. DJ, 9 p.m. Centerfold, 9 p.m. Bullhonkey Deluxe, 9 p.m. Bullhonkey Deluxe, 9 p.m. Unicorn Tavern, 327 E. Grand River Ave. Frog & the Beeftones, 9 p.m. Head Band, 9 p.m. Head Band, 9 p.m. Sunday Open Jam with Bad Gravy, 9:30 p.m., Green Door; Karaoke, 9 p.m. Drag Queens Gone Wild, 11 p.m., Spiral Dance Bar; DJ Mike, 9:30 p.m., LeRoy's Bar & Grill; Open Mic, 5 p.m., Uli's Haus of Rock. Monday Steppin' In It, 9:30 p.m., Green Door: Easy Babies funk trio, 10 p.m., The Exchange. Open-Mic Mondays, 6:30 p.m., Michigan Brewing Company-Lansing. Tuesday Tommy Foster & Guitar Bob, 9 p.m., The Exchange; Neon Tuesday, 9 p.m., Mac's Bar. Jazz Tuesday Open Jam, 9 p.m., Stober's Bar, 812 E. Michigan Ave. City Pulse • March 7, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 23

Holt Performing Arts Complex presents FREE. MSU Community Music School, 841 Timberlane Events Out on the town St., East Lansing. (517) 355-7661. Karaoke. Every Thursday night with Atomic D. 9 BILLY DEAN Lansing Matinee Musicale. Hear the Earl Nelson from page 21 p.m. LeRoy's Classic Bar & Grill, 1526 S. Cedar St., An Acoustic Evening with Billy Dean Singers, directed by Verna Holley. 1 p.m. FREE. Plym- Lansing. (517) 482-0184. food, develop leadership skills. Ages 11-17. 3:30-5:30 outh Congregational Church, 2001 E. Grand River Euchre. No partner needed. 6-9 p.m. $1.50. Delta p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community Garden House, Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-9495. Township Enrichment Center, 4538 Elizabeth Road, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 999-3910. Literature and Poetry Lansing. (517) 484-5600. Meeting on Proposed Casino. Give your input Lansing Area Science Fiction Association Kids Time: Ages 5-11. Help east side youth grow and get information on the proposed Lansing Kewa- Meeting. New location. Informal dinner and lively food, develop leadership skills. 4:30-5:30 p.m. FREE. din Casino. 6 p.m. FREE. Foster Community Center, conversation every week. 7 p.m. FREE. Buddies Grill, 200 N. Foster Ave., Lansing. (517) 483-4234. 2040 Aurelius Road, #13, Holt. (517) 402-4481. See Out on the Town, Page 24 Market Lansing Luncheon. On brand re- alignment at Impression 5 Science Center. Noon-1:30 Thursday, March 8 p.m. $35, $25 members, $15 students. Country Club Classes and Seminars of Lansing, 2200 Moores River Drive, Lansing. www. Yoga XL. Learn to move with confidence. 7:15-8:15 realignwithmarketlansing.eventbrite.com. p.m. $8 suggested donation. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Music Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Arlene McDaniel. With Ian LeVine, celebrating the Eating Disorders Annonymous Meeting. A Jewish Holiday Purim. 6:45 p.m. FREE. Congregation group of people recovering from eating disorders Shaarey Zedek, 1924 Coolidge Road, East Lansing. who talk about recovery. 7 p.m. FREE. CADL Mason www.shaareyzedek.wordpress.com. Library, 145 W. Ash St., Mason. (517) 899-3515. Jazz Wednesdays. Live entertainment. 7-10 p.m. Computer Class. Learn basic computer skills. 7 FREE. ENSO, 16800 Chandler Road, East Lansing. p.m. FREE. Community of Christ, 1514 W. Miller Road, (517) 333-1656. www.enjoyenso.com. Lansing. (517) 882-3122. 8 p.m. Saturday, April 14, 2012 Jazz Wednesdays. Featuring the Jeff Shoup Trio. MAEAP Phase 1 Meeting. MAEAP is a voluntary Margaret Livensparger Theater 7-10 p.m. FREE. Gracies Place, 151 S. Putnam, Wil- program that helps farmers prevent or minimize at Holt High School 5885 West Holt Road, Holt, MI liamston. (517) 655-1100. pollution. 8:30 a.m.-3:330 p.m. FREE. Williams Farm Together, Let's Jam. For teen and adults of all Machinery, 1115 Lansing Road, Charlotte. 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Lattes are traditional The historic building, built through a convenient drive- size. And we kind of stick to in 1923, inspired Miller and thru window in the winter; our guns: We don’t offer any his fiancé, Amelia Marschall, counter service and outdoor sweetener for coffee, except east main to turn it into one of Old seating will available in the for a flavored latte. What’s on summer. our menu is on our menu — apartments Town’s newest additions, a apartmentsforcooley.com (517) 372-1770 coffee shop known as Artie’s Besides serving coffee, we don’t really alter it.” Filling Station. 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I think that is our only unique. inside out.” What sets Artie’s apart concern,” Miller said. D espite ongoing from other local coffee To avoid erasing, pencil in your pos- Artie's Filling Station sible answers in the scratchpad space construction, Artie’s Filling shops in Lansing is its 127 W. Grand River Ave., Lansing beneath the short line in each vacant Station celebrated its “soft effort to keep the coffee as traditional as the building Monday-Friday 6:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. square. For solving tips, visit opening” last month (the grand www.SundayCrosswords.com opening is expected to take they serve it in. (517) 797-5582 Sunday Open Jam with Bad Gravy, 9:30 p.m., Green Door; Karaoke, 9 p.m. Drag Queens Gone Wild, 11 p.m., Spiral Dance Bar; DJ Mike, 9:30 p.m., LeRoy's Bar & Grill; Open Mic, 5 p.m., Uli's Haus of Rock. “With the coffee, everything Monday Steppin' In It, 9:30 p.m., Green Door: Easy Babies funk trio, 10 p.m., The Exchange. 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Music a.m.-9 p.m. $5. (Please See Details March 9) Events Out on the town 3rd Annual Evening of Jazz. Featuring William- Salsa Dancing. Singles welcome. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $5. Salsa Dancing. DJ Mojito spins salsa, merengue, ston Middle School and High School Jazz Bands. 7-10 Gregory's Bar & Grille, 2510 N. Martin Luther King Jr. bachata. 7 p.m.-Midnight, $5 21, $7 under 21. Fahren- from page 23 p.m. $10 at door, $8. Williamston High School, 3939 Blvd., Lansing. (517) 323-7122. heit Ultra Lounge, 6810 S. Cedar St., Lansing. Hunter Park Community GardenHouse, 1400 block of Vanneter Road, Williamston. [email protected]. Girl Scouts 100th Birthday Celebration. Mu- Occupy Lansing Meeting. Followed by general E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 999-3910. Theater seum exhibit, activities for children, a parade, a giant assembly. 5 p.m. FREE. Gone Wired Cafe, 2021 E. Michigan Women's Hall of Fame Raffle. Win the "Two Beers and a Hook Shot" & "Death sing-along, and fireworks. 9 a.m. $20. Downtown Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 853-0550. Grand Prize of $2,000 or one of three fabulous trips. Knocks." A drama about a man meeting his father Lansing, Washington Square between Michigan and Alcoholics Anonymous. Closed meeting for those 5-7 p.m. $20. Wharton Center, MSU Campus, East for a farewell game, and a comedy by Woody Allen. Washtenaw avenues, Lansing. (800) 497-2688. who desire to stop drinking, with American Sign Lan- Lansing. (800) WHARTON. 8 p.m. $12, $10 seniors and students. Riverwalk The- Saturday Supper. Baked chicken with mashed guage interpretation. 9 a.m. FREE. Alano Club East, Wine Tasting. 5:30-8 p.m. $35. Capitol City Grille, atre, 228 Museum Drive, Lansing. (517) 482-5700. potatoes and gravy, green beans and more. 5-6:15 220 S. Howard St., Lansing. (517) 482-8957. 111 N. Grand Ave., Lansing. (517) 702-6377. "Murder Me Always." A murder mystery with p.m. $8. Mayflower Congregational Church, 2901 W Capital Area Singles Dance. Meet new friends Mount Hope Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-3139. Music hors d'oeuvres and a choice of desserts. 7 p.m. with door prizes. 6:30-10:30 p.m. $8. Ramada, 7501 Goat Day. For those thinking about adding goats to W. Saginaw Hwy., Lansing. (517) 819-0405. Jazz Thursdays. Various artists featured each $20. Mid Michigan Family Theatre, 440 Frandor Ave., their farm. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $5, $15 per family. Anthony 501 W. Saginaw Hwy. Lansing. (517) 819-0405. week. 6:30-9:30 p.m. FREE. Mumbai Cuisine, 340 Lansing. (517) 339-2145. www.mmft.net. Hall, MSU Campus, East Lansing. 517) 543-5848. Crafting for kids. Ages 3 and up can make a Albert St., East Lansing. (517) 336-4150. Saturday, March 10 Music table-top construction project at DIY workshop. Friday, March 9 Classes and Seminars The Aimcriers. Americana music. 8 p.m. FREE. 2-4 p.m. FREE. CADL Okemos Library, 4321 Okemos Grand Cafe/Sir Pizza, 201 E. Grand River Ave., Lan- Road, Okemos. (517) 347-2021. www.cadl.org. Classes and Seminars Relics of the Big Bang. 8 p.m. $3, $2.50 students sing. (517) 974-9663. www.sirpizza-mi.com. Woodpeckers. Families can learn about woodpeck- Relics of the Big Bang. Emphasizes research cur- & seniors, $2 kids. (Please See Details March 9) Brahms Piano Concert No. 2. With Philippe ers and connect with nature. 3 p.m. $7 per family. rently underway at CERN. 8 p.m. $3, $2.50 students Beginner Tai Chi. Can build strength and reduce Bianconi, Piano. 8 p.m. $15-45. Wharton Center, MSU Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Meridian & seniors, $2 kids. Abrams Planetarium, 400 E. stress. 8-9 a.m. $8. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Campus, East Lansing. 1-800-WHARTON. Township. (517) 349-3866. Grand River Ave., East Lansing. (517) 355-4676. Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Uptown Praise Band. A worship band. 7-9:30 p.m. Prayer Meditation. Dedicated to those dis- Candlelight Yoga. With the cellist Suren Petrosyan Tai Chi in the Park. Meditation at 8:45 a.m. fol- FREE. Coffee and Friends Cafe, 5100 Marsh Road, tressed because of economic situation. 11:30 a.m. performing. 7-8:15 p.m. $15. Hannah Community Center, lowed by Tai Chi. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Hunter Park Com- Okemos. (517) 347-0962. FREE. Bharatiya Temple of Lansing, 955 Haslett 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 333-2580. munity GardenHouse, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo Dave Nachmanoff. Live music. 8 p.m. $27, $17 Raod, Haslett. (517) 339-6337. Events St., Lansing. Contact Bob Teachout (517) 272-9379. Overeaters Anonymous. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Spar- students. Charlotte Performing Arts Center, 378 Music Annual Cosmic Connection Convention. With row Professional Building, 1200 E. Michigan Ave., State St., Charlotte. (517) 541-5691. Hobert Studio Recital. The students of CMS something for everyone & the best way to navigate Lansing. (517) 485-6003. Theater instructor Debra Hobert will perform. 2:30 p.m. your life and decisions this year. 5-10 p.m. $5. Hamp- Journey to Adpotion. Meeting on domestic infant Fairy Dust Theatre. Kellie Stonebrook performs FREE. MSU Community Music School, 841 Timberlane ton Inn, 525 N. Canal St., Lansing. (810) 631-6887. and international adoption information. 10 a.m. FREE. stories as Wanda the witch. 2 p.m. Price varies. Storm- St., East Lansing. (517) 355-7661. Howl at the Moon.Walk through moonlit woods. 7 Adoption Associates, Inc. 800 E. Thomas L. Parkway, field Theatre, 201 Morgan Lane, Lansing. (517) 488-8450. Navy Concert Band. The Navy's premier musical p.m. $3. Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Lansing. (517) 327-1388. "Two Beers and a Hook Shot" & "Death organization. 3 p.m. FREE. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Meridian Township. (517) 349-3866. Homebuyer Seminar. Learn what steps to take Knocks." 8 p.m. $12, $10 seniors and students. Center, MSU Campus, East Lansing. (800) WHARTON. Alcoholics Anonymous. Open meeting for family and which to avoid when buying a home. 9:30 a.m.-5 (Please See Details March 9) Theater and friends with American Sign Language interpreta- p.m. FREE. Center for Financial Health, 230 N. Wash- "Murder Me Always." 7 p.m. $20.(Please See "Two Beers and a Hook Shot" & "Death tion. 8 p.m. FREE. Alano Club East, 220 S. Howard ington Square, Lansing. (517) 708-2550. Details March 9) Knocks." 2 p.m. $12, $10 seniors and students. St., Lansing. (517) 482-8957. Cooking with Home-Grown Herbs. With Katie Literature and Poetry (Please See Details March 9) McCarver, a MSU horticulturist. 1-3 p.m. $5. Smith InsaniTEA Party. Launch for "A touch morbid," by Floral & Greenhouses, 1124 East Mount Hope Ave., Leah Clifford. 3 p.m. FREE. Schuler Books & Music, Monday, March 12 Lansing. (517) 484-5327. www.smithfloral.com. 2820 Towne Centre Blvd., Lansing. (517) 316-7495. Classes and Seminars Discover Local Parks. Explore one of Ingham Writing Your Memoirs. With author Henry J. Divorced, Separated, Widowed Conversation County's most beautiful parks with a naturalist guide. Flandysz. 1-3 p.m. FREE. Everybody Reads Books and Group. For those ready to move on with their lives. 10 p.m. $3. Williamstown Township Park, 525 E Grand Stuff, 2019 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 346-9900. 7:30 p.m. FREE. St. David's Episcopal Church, 1519 River Ave., Williamston. (517) 349-3866. Elmwood Road, Lansing. (517) 323-2272. Parenting Group. Lecture and group discussion Sunday, March 11 GriefShare Seminar. With small support group each week. 10-11 a.m. Call to Register. Women's Classes and Seminars discussion. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Grace United Method- Center of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing Area Codependents Anonymous. ist, 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing. (517) 490-3218. Lansing. (517) 372-9163. Meets on the third floor. 2-3 p.m. FREE. CADL Down- Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. St. David's Events town Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. Episcopal Church, 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. Annual Cosmic Connection Convention. 9 (517) 367-6300. www.cadl.org. (989) 587-4609. www.stdavidslansing.org. Overeaters Anonymous. 2 p.m. FREE. Every- Chronic Pain Support Group. At any level of body Reads Books and Stuff, 2019 E. Michigan Ave., chronic physical pain. 4-5:30 p.m. FREE. Women's Lansing. (517) 485-8789. Center of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. Michigan Ave., Relics of the Big Bang. 4 p.m. $3, $2.50 students Lansing. (517) 372-9163. & seniors, $2 kids. (Please See Details March 9) Events Gardener's Roundtable. Discuss various garden Euchre. Play euchre and meet new people. 6-9 topics, seed catalogs and garden books, and drink p.m. $1.50. Delta Township Enrichment Center, 4538 tea. 12:30-1:30 p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community Elizabeth Road, Lansing. (517) 484-5600. GardenHouse, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Social Bridge. Play bridge and socialize. 1-4 p.m. Lansing. (517) 999-3910. $1.50. Delta Township Enrichment Center, 4538 Annual Cosmic Connection Convention. 9 Elizabeth Road, Lansing. (517) 484-5600. a.m.-5 p.m. $5. (Please See Details March 9) Reading & Math Help. For adults help provided by the Capital Area Literacy Coalition. 3 p.m. FREE. YARD OR GARDEN Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., ASSIST THIS SPRING? Lansing. (517) 672-4072. www.cadl.org. Sewing Guild Lansing Clippers Meeting. On home decorating. 6:30-9 p.m. FREE. UAW Local 652, 426 Clare St., Lansing. (517) 699-8062. JAMM Meeting. Jazz Alliance of Mid-Michigan, Experienced and Conscientious open to all. 7:30 p.m. FREE. 1267 Lakeside Drive, East Fair Rates with Free Consultation Lansing. www.jazzjamm.com Challenging Projects Welcomed Mother & Son Dance. Dance to a DJ, refresh- ments, photo memento. For ages 2 and older. 7-9 Fertrell Natural Soil Amendments, Fertilizers and Animal Health Products p.m. $10. Lexington Lansing Hotel, 925 S. Creyts !.*0"/-1&).+0hk!.*0"/-2&110) Road, Lansing. 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update your resume, and more. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Out on the town Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny March 7-13 from page 24 Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 ext. 4. www.dtdl.org. Community Organizing. And direct action for ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Controlled hysteria than getting together for intensive interludes of fooling Music nonprofits. 2-4:30 p.m. FREE. 5303 S. Cedar St., is what is required," said playwright Arthur Miller in around and messing around and horsing around. Open-Mic Mondays. Sign up to play solo, duo, Lansing. [email protected]. speaking about his creative process. "To exist con- LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "When we are no longer with your band. 6:30-10:30 p.m. FREE. Michigan Events stantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But able to change a situation, we are challenged to change Brewing Company, 402 S. Washington Square, Lansing Area Codependents Anonymous. everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take ourselves," said Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. Lansing. (517) 977-1349. 5:45-6:45 pm, FREE. Everybody Reads Books and my agony home and teach it to sing." I hope this little His advice might be just what you need to hear right Faculty Recital. Kurt Civilette, horn. 7:30 p.m. $10, Stuff, 2019 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 346-9900. outburst inspires you, Aries. It's an excellent time for now, Libra. Have you struggled, mostly fruitlessly, to $8 seniors, FREE students. MSU Music Building Audito- Theatrer you to harness your hysteria and instruct your agony change a stagnant situation that has resisted your best rium, MSU Campus, East Lansing. www.music.msu.edu. Irish Comedy Tour. Takes place in a Dublin pub in the fine art of singing. To boost your chances of suc- efforts? Is there a locked door you've been banging on, Auditions. Performers can try out to be a part of and combines it with a trio of comics. 7:30 p.m. cess in pulling off this dicey feat, use every means at to no avail? If so, I invite you to redirect your attention. Sounds & Sights. 5-8 p.m. FREE. First United Meth- $28.50, $15 students. Wharton Center, MSU Cam- your disposal to have fun and stay amused. Reclaim the energy you have been expending on closed- odist Church , 128 Park St. Chelsea. (734) 433-2787. pus, East Lansing. (800) WHARTON. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Cherokee down people and moldering systems. Instead, work on the Picking and Jamming. Bluegrass and acoustic Heritage website wants people to know that not all unfinished beauty of what lies closest at hand: yourself. Country jam. 7:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. VFW Club Post Wednesday, March 14 Native American tribes have the same traditions. In SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In this passage from the Cherokee belief system, it's Grandmother Sun 6132, 3104 W. St. Joseph St., Lansing. (517) 337-1517. Classes and Seminars Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins provides a and Grandfather Moon, which is the opposite of most hot tip you should keep in mind. "There are essential Meditation. For beginners and experienced. 7-9 tribes. There are no Cherokee shamans, only medicine and inessential insanities. Inessential insanities are Tuesday, March 13 p.m. FREE. (Please See Details March 7) men and women and adawehis, or religious leaders. a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and Classes and Seminars Community Yoga. Power yoga class. 6:30-8 p.m. They don't have "pipe carriers," don't do the Sun pre-adolescent anxiety — garbage that should have Schizophrenics Anonymous. A self-help support FREE. (Please See Details March 7) Dance, and don't walk the "Good Red Road." In fact, been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those group for those affected by the disorder. 10 a.m. Drop-in figure drawing. 7:30-10 p.m. $5, $3 they walk the White Path, have a purification ceremony impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and cor- Room 215-F, Community Mental Health Building, 812 students. (Please See Details March 7) called "Going to Water," and perform the Green Corn rect, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo." E. Jolly Road, Lansing. (517) 485-3775. Knee High Naturalist. 1-2 p.m. $5. (Please See ceremony as a ritual renewal of life. I suggest you do I'll add this, Scorpio: Be crazily wise and wisely crazy in Yoga 40. For those in their 40s, 50s, 60s and be- Details March 7). a similar clarification for the group you're part of and the coming weeks. It will be healthy for you. Honor the yond. 7:15 p.m. Suggested $7. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Celebrating Women. A panel discussion on the traditions you hold dear, Taurus. Ponder your tribe's wild ideas that bring you joy and the odd desires that Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. women as community builders. 6-8 p.m. FREE. unique truths and ways. Identify them and declare them. remind you of your core truths. Take Off Pounds Sensibly. Anyone wanting to Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, East GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the coming weeks, SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I don't think you lose weight is welcome. 7 p.m. FREE to visit.. Eaton Lansing. www.niagarafoundation.org/michigan. the activity going on inside your mind and heart will be will need literal medicine this week. Your physical vigor Rapids Medical Center, 1500 S. Main St., Eaton Events especially intense and influential — even if you don't should be good. But I'm hoping you will seek out some Rapids. Judy @ (517) 543-0786. Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. (Please explicitly express it. When you speak your thoughts spirit medicine — healing agents that fortify the secret Schizophrenics Anonymous Self-help Sup- See Details March 7) and feelings out loud, they will have unusual power to and subtle parts of your psyche. Where do you find port Group. For persons with schizophrenia and Practice Your English. 7-8 p.m. FREE. (Please change people's minds and rearrange their moods. spirit medicine? Well, the search itself will provide the ini- related disorders. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Sparrow Profes- See Details March 7) When you keep your thoughts and feelings to yourself, tial dose. Here are some further ideas: Expose yourself sional Building, 1200 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) Youth Service Corps. 3:30-5:30 p.m. FREE. they will still leak all over everything, bending and to stirring art and music and films; have conversations 485-3775. (Please See Details March 7) shaping the energy field around you. That's why I urge with empathic friends and the spirits of dead loved Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. Pres- Music you to take extra care as you manage what's going on ones; spend time in the presence of a natural wonder; byterian Church of Okemos, 2258 Bennett Road, Jazz Wednesdays. 7-10 p.m. FREE. (Please See within you. Make sure the effect you're having is the fantasize about a thrilling adventure you will have one day; Okemos. (517) 505-0068. Details March 7) effect you want to have. and imagine who you want to be three years from now. On the Way To Wellness. Barb Geske provides CANCER (June 21-July 22): Artist Richard Kehl CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Each of us is the nutrition and wellness coaching in a positive, Theater "Chicago." Performed by Everett High School. 7 tells the story of a teenage girl who got the chance star of our own movie. There are a few other lead and informative, and motivational format. 9:30 a.m. & to ask a question of the eminent psychologist Carl p.m. $7. Mid Michigan Family Theatre, 440 Frandor supporting actors who round out the cast, but everyone 5:30 p.m. $10. Presbyterian Church of Okemos, 2258 Jung. "Professor, you are so clever. Could you please Ave., Lansing. (517) 339-2145. else in the world is an extra. Now and then, though, peo- Bennett Road, Okemos. (517) 349-9536. tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a ple whom we regard as minor characters suddenly rise "Moulin Rouge: Royal Winnipeg Ballet." Ballet Mindful Motivator. For those seeking weight loss, moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour!" I invite to prominence and play a pivotal role in our unfolding set in the famed Parisian cabaret. (See story on stress management and healthy goal achievements. you to consider the possibility that Jung's answer might drama. I expect this phenomenon is now occurring or Page 13.) 7:30 p.m. $35, $32, $25. Wharton Center, 9:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. FREE. Presbyterian Church be meaningful to you right now, Cancerian. Have you will soon occur for you, Capricorn. So please be willing MSU Campus, East Lansing. (800) WHARTON. of Okemos, 2258 Bennett Road, Okemos. (517) been churning out overcomplicated thoughts about to depart from the script. Open yourself to the possi- 930-4265. Literature and Poetry your mission? Are you at risk of getting a bit too gran- bility of improvisation. People who have been playing bit Advising Day. For University of Michigan-Flint in Lansing Area Science Fiction Association diose in your plans? Maybe you should at least dream parts may have more to contribute than you imagine. Lansing. 2-6 p.m. FREE. Lansing Community College Meeting. 7 p.m. FREE.(Please See Details March 7) about taking a shortcut that looks like a detour or a AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The "cocktail party University Center, 422 N. Washington Sqruare, Sir Ken Robinson. "Out of Our Minds" book discus- detour that looks like a shortcut. effect" refers to your ability to hear your name being Lansing. (517) 483-9727. sion. 6 p.m. FREE. MSU Library, 100 Main Library, LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): An old Chinese proverb spoken while in the midst of a social gathering's Farm to Table. Small spaces can produce fresh, MSU Campus, East Lansing. (517) 884-6454 . says: "My barn having burned to the ground, I can see cacophony. This is an example of an important prac- savory herbs. 6:30 p.m. FREE. CADL Foster Library, Celebrating Philip Levine. Open mic poetry the moon." The speaker of those words was making tice, which is how to discern truly meaningful signals 200 N. Foster Ave., Lansing. (517) 485-5185. reading. 7:30 p.m. $5, $3 students. Creole Gallery, an effort to redefine a total loss as a partial gain. The embedded in the noise of all the irrelevant information Job Seekers Club. Share experiences, network, 1218 Turner St., Lansing. (517) 487-9549. (517) 267- building may have been gone, but as a result he or that surrounds you. You should be especially skilled at 0410. she had a better view of a natural wonder that was doing this in the coming weeks, Aquarius — and it will previously difficult to observe. I don't foresee any of be crucial that you make abundant use of your skill. As SUDOKU SOLUTION CROSSWORD SOLUTION your barns going down in flames, Leo, so I don't expect you navigate your way through the clutter of symbols From Pg. 23 From Pg. 20 you'll have to make a similar redefinition under duress. and the overload of data, be alert for the few key mes- However, you have certainly experienced events like sages that are highly useful. that in the past. And now would be an excellent time to PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Shunryu Suzuki was revise your thinking about their meaning. Are you brave a Zen master whose books helped popularize Zen enough and ingenious enough to reinterpret your his- Buddhism in America. A student once asked him, "How tory? It's find-the-redemption week. much ego do you need?" His austere reply was "Just VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "You can discover enough so that you don't step in front of a bus." While more about a person in an hour of play than in a year I sympathize with the value of humility, I wouldn't go of conversation." Numerous websites on the Internet quite that far. I think that a slightly heftier ego, if allege that Greek philosopher Plato made this state- offered up as a work of art, can be a gift to the ment, which I regard as highly unlikely. But in any case, world. What do you think, Pisces? How much ego is the thought itself has some merit. And in accordance good? To what degree can you create your ego so that with your current astrological omens, I will make it your it's a beautiful and dynamic source of power for you motto for the week. This is an excellent time to learn and an inspiration for other people rather than a greedy, more about and become closer to the people you care needy parasite that distorts the truth? This is an excel- for, and nothing would help you accomplish that better lent time to ruminate on such matters.

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Closely trailing that wine, with 12 votes, But sometimes there is a direct correlation was the Morgan wine from Garys’ Vineyard. between price and quality. Garys’ is one of the most renowned Pinot A recent Greater Lansing Vintners Noir vineyards in California, from one of Club blind tasting of ultra-premium Pinot the best regions for growing Pinot Noir — Speaker Terry Lemerond Noirs proved to be extremely enlightening, the Santa Lucia Highlands. For my palate, is passionate about health and nutrition while also determining some clear favor- it had a bit more tannin and a slightly tart- and has over 40 years of experience. He has helped thousands of people find a way to ites among the wines that were sampled. er edge, contrasted with the Patz and Hall. better health. For more information on Terry, Eight Pinot Noir wines were tasted, It had a beautiful nose, notes of caramel see his website www.TerryTalksNutrition.com ranging in suggested retail price from and cherry and good balance. Yet for seven $29.79 to $64.89. The wines were from tasters it was the least favorite. around the globe, including California, Next in line was Domaine Serene, from All Natural Cleaning Supplies Oregon, New Zealand and France. The one of Oregon’s best producers (as is Ken Better For You ~ Better for Enviornment! 54 tasters were asked to vote for a favor- Wright). This wine had sweet tannins, ite wine, a least favorite wine and a most hints of chocolate, broad flavors and per- $ave Money Too! unique wine. fect balance. Mix: 50% white Favorites seemed to reflect a more typi- Closely trailing was the other wine from cally American palate, which leans toward Willamette Valley, the 2009 Ken Wright, distilled vingar & richer, riper wines, contrasted with an old which presented with a nice acid back- world palate of more restrained but com- bone, a bit of herbal edge, delineated fruit 50% water plex flavors. flavors and a cleansing finish. An excellent 49¢/lb. Wines tasted (in order of price) were food wine. for cleaning surfaces 2009 Ken Wright Willamette Valley The Ken Wright was tied with the Dog in our bulk ($29.79), 2009 Melville Estate Santa Rita Point, followed by 2009 Hirsch and 2009 Hills ($35.89), 2002 Domaine Rollin Melville. Yet for some of the most experi- section Pernand Vergelesses “Les Fichot” 1er CRU enced tasters, the Hirsch and the Melville ($35.99), 2006 Dog Point Marlbourough were in the top three. Both showed nice Year ($39.99), 2008 Morgan Santa Lucia tones of red berry and cherry fruit, soft of the 2012 United Nations Cooperative Highland Garys’ Vineyard ($49.89), mouth feel, modest tannins and overall 2007 Domaine Serene Evenstat Reserve good balance. Lansing's newest specialty food, beer and wine store. “Willamette” ($56.89), 2008 Patz and Interestingly, every wine received at Hall “Chenoweth Vineyard” Russian River least one vote as “favorite” and seven of Valley ($59.99) and 2009 Hirsch San eight received at least one vote as “least Andreas Sonoma Coast ($64.89). favorite.” Six of eight received a “most The least favorite — with a whopping 21 unique” vote. All of which goes to show votes — was the Domaine Rollin Pernand that in the world of wine appreciation, Upcoming Events Vergelesses. It was the oldest wine and there are few absolutes; it is all about per- had clearly lost a bit of fruit. Some tasters sonal preference. Sampling of Goose Island beers thought it was thin and getting tired and Saturday, March 10th from 2:00 to 4:00 that it seemed to evaporate on the tongue. MSU Wine Tasting Benefit March 30 That being said, some of the Francophile Meanwhile, another favorite local wine tasters loved it and gave it a top grade: and food appreciation opportunity is just Sampling of Irish beers Wine is a very subjective beverage. around the corner. The annual Michigan Saturday, March 17th from 2:00 to 4:00 The top vote getter for “most unique” State University Museum Wine Tasting wine was the 2007 Dog Point Pinot Noir Benefit will be held at the Kellogg Center On Jolly Road, west of Okemos Road from the Marlborough region of New at 7:30 p.m. March 30. Zealand, which is on the northeast portion 2311 Jolly Rd., Okemos | www.vineandbrew.com | 517.708.2030 | M-Th 10-7, F/Sat 10-8, Closed Sun. of the south island. Interestingly, that wine See Pinot, Page 27 City Pulse • March 7, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 27 serious about fundrasing? See’s the moment! Food Finder listings are rotated each week based on space. 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