a newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com August 28 - September 3, 2019 CityCity Pulse Ads_LayoutPulse’s 1 8/15/19 Summer 9:01 AM Page of 3 Art: “Beautiful Lakes,” by Emily Frushour. See page 14 for story. 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 28, 2019 City Pulse • August 28, 2019 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 2019-2020 SEASON: ORCHESTRA, JAZZ, OPERA, CHORAL, BAND, AND MORE! Favorite Things Christine Fronczak and her A SEASON OF CELEBRATIONS vintage stereo ‘suitcase’ A season of spectacular music presented on an intimate scale. Multiple events every week, starting at $12 for adults and free general admission for students. Tickets and more info at: music.msu.edu/newseason or 517-353-5340 I have a really strong affinity for really fabric. This goes back to some- items that look like one thing but are thing not really being what it looks WHARTON CENTER | FAIRCHILD THEATRE | COOK RECITAL HALL | DEMONSTRATION HALL actually something else, like book like. boxes. It entertains me a lot. When This particular one I found after I’m casting my eyes about anywhere sourcing these for Sean. This guy had from yard sales to thrift stores to es- a bunch of great stuff in his garage, tate sales, what grabs me often times and I picked up a lot of neat things are those funny little things. like Lucky Strike cigarette tins as This repurposed vintage suit- well. case stereo is one of those things. It Putting in a stereo is really great has a 200-watt sound system with because there isn’t much more you high-end Aiwa speakers in it. It was can do with a suitcase that has a a collaboration between artist Sean stained interior. People don’t want it. Hansen and me. He came into the Sometimes they get rebuilt as furni- store and asked me about some of the ture like coffee tables or shelving. luggage I have because I collect it like My love for vintage things came mad. from my grandmother, who had an He asked me if I was able to find antique store when I was growing up. some with specifications on them. I now have a tattoo of Great Depres- They had to be a certain width to fit sion glass because of her. She would things the sound system in and had give me a quarter and say, “Go ask to be in excellent condition. that nice lady for the plate” because When someone comes to me with a she knew it was Depression glass and grand idea on how to use something didn’t want people to know it was in an unexpected way it’s really excit- valuable. ing. It’s my point to keep things out Now I’m running this vintage suit- of landfills and have them take on a case stereo with my tablet. I hope new life. people are as psyched about these as I chose this suitcase because it I am. looks like if I were running away (Community Finery is located at from home in 1934, I could be drag- 1027 S. Washington Ave., Lansing. ging this along with me. My favorite This interview was edited and con- movie is “Paper Moon” and this looks densed by Dennis Burck. If you have like it walked out of it. a recommendation for “Favorite I always like these sort of Things,” please email dennis@lan- tweed-looking suitcases that aren’t singcitypulse.com.) 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 28, 2019 VOL. 19 ISSUE 3 (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. 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Two witnesses reportedly identi- fied the man in that liaison as retiring 54-A District Judge Hugh Clarke Jr. The woman, witnesses said they were Property: told, was speaking to Lansing attorney 1452 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing Edwar Zeineh — and she was Zeineh’s Owner: SMTS Real Estate Group, East employee. Lansing City Pulse has obtained a police re- port through a Freedom of Information The 21st century has not been Act request containing the two witness kind to the printing business, and statements, which allege Clarke had a the abandoned storefront at 1452 E. drunken sexual encounter in a bath- Michigan Ave. in Lansing seems no room stall near the Waterfront Bar & exception. Grill. The alleged incident occurred The opening page of the Lansing Police Incident Report, which alleges 54-A The storefront housed Rapid more than two-and-a-half years ago, in District Judge Hugh B. Clarke Jr. engaged in sex in the bathroom of the Lansing Printing, Rapid Publications & Ad- December 2016. City Market with a woman who worked for attorney Edwar Zeineh. City Pulse vertising and finally Michigan Ave- After taking their statements, police received the report from the City Attorney’s Office in June after filing a Freedom nue Printing. Its last Facebook post handed the case off to federal authori- of Information Act request. After learning the investigation into the alleged inci- dates from January 2014 and the ties. Lansing’s former police chief, Mi- business seems to have collected dust chael Yankowski, said the police turned dent was no longer active, City Pulse asked for and received a second, less since then, with printing equipment the matter over to the FBI to avoid any redacted version. visible from the window. The sign has conflict of interest in a case involving they were at the bar on a night shortly the female witness followed them into been taken off the front of the build- a local official. Though the FBI may before Christmas 2016. They were vis- the women’s restroom and took two ing and the remaining facade is cov- have investigated the alleged incident, iting with a friend of the male witness brief videos of the alleged encounter ered in grime. Detroit field office special agent Mara at the bar when the friend “mentioned from a nearby stall. The female witness Lansing City Assessor records Schneider said the agency isn’t now. to him that a girl had told him that a said she followed them because she was show Rapid Publications owes “The matter was referred to us but judge up at the bar was making sexual “nosey.” Little is identifiable in the vid- $1,290 in delinquent taxes stemming there is no ongoing FBI investigation,” advances at her and another girl.” eos aside from two sets of shoes, and from 2011 to 2014. Schneider said, citing FBI policy for her The friend, a shop owner, knew a lot in one video an individual is kneeling. The abandoned business sits in inability to comment further. of people “due to the location of his busi- Other areas of the video were pixelated a row of historic brick commercial Though rumors have circulated in lo- ness,” the male witness said. He identi- by police. fronts that date from 1923, two doors cal government circles about the alleged fied Clarke and Zeineh to the witnesses According to the statement, after the down from the Jerusalem Bakery, a incident, with Clarke leaving the bench, and reportedly told them the woman couple left the bathroom, Zeineh ap- shop selling Middle Eastern foods. it seems they may remain just that. No worked for Zeineh. The witnesses pro- proached and spoke with them briefly. The other two stores have two stories charges were ever filed, and Clarke has vided dates for the incident in their sep- Zeineh reportedly then went to use the while the old print shop has just one not been publicly punished or sanc- arate statements one day apart but oth- men’s bathroom and the woman joined and 2,700 square foot of floor space. tioned, but questions remain about erwise generally told the same story.