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Ability is not as precious as the inspiration. 8 PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz For example, I put a number of my paint- To restrict and control imagination is like [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 ings on the ground next to the wall of the trying to make animals in the wild behave. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER • Mickey Hirten museum the week of the ArtPrize festival, a Without complete freedom there is only a sham Head to head, Michigan voters deserve more gubernatorial debates [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 security guard came by and told me I could not semblance of culture. Art Prize merely dupli- EDITOR • Belinda Thurston leave them there. It was the private property of cated art that was done decades ago – exercises, [email protected] • (517) 999-5065 a public museum, he said. So I left them there displaying facility – with a complete lack of PAGE ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Allan I. Ross and walked away. He followed me, saying, that inspiration, scales and arpeggios according to [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 if I left them there they would be thrown in the formula, a festival should be fun to attend. 14 PRODUCTION MANAGER • Angus McNair [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 trash. Pictures and poems chalked on the sidewalk. CALENDAR EDITOR • Jonathan Griffith “Then throw them in the trash.” I replied. Banners and decorated walls, music. Costumed [email protected] • (517) 999-5069 Local music production company gears up for annual DIY music fest So please don’t pretend that ArtPrize is a people. Culture is a declaration of life. Not con- STAFF WRITER • Lawrence Cosentino cultural event when objects are banned and fused, tired and bored people wandering the [email protected] • (517) 999-5063 others trashed. To be a true cultural event it city streets of banality. 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Charlotte (517)997-6093 thestockyardbbq.com facebook.com/thestockyardbbq PULSE NEWS & OPINION Michael Gerstein / for City Pulse Protesters at the "Weekend of Resistance" Saturday C morning in OF THE WEEK downtown St. Louis. The event drew protesters from across the country to stand up in solidarity against racial oppression. The weekend offered offered a chance We pass rows of abandoned, derelict for the city to heal. But it also held the businesses that look like they've long since Road trip potential for violence. folded on our way to the family apartment “Is this really worth dying for?” I asked. of Mike Brown for a late-night vigil on “Yes,” she said, almost immediately. Saturday. Metal bars cover the windows of to resistance She grew up in Cincinnati while the the shops that are still open. Gause is sing- 2001 race riots were in full bloom. She ing snippets of that old Johnny Cash song: Reflections from Michigan students grew up fearing the police. “I keep my eyes wide open all the time … ” who joined protests in Ferguson “If this isn't, then what is?” she said. I wonder why they wanted to go to this She's fed up with racist and homo- vigil. How could they possibly identify with phobic institutions. She's fed up with the the death of someone they never knew, By MICHAEL GERSTEIN “Israeli occupation of Palestine.” someone so seemingly far removed from Property: 551 Beech, East Lansing ST. LOUIS — In a questionable Denny's She's fed up with oppression. Period. their own social situation? Owners: Julianne and James Rosinksi somewhere outside of Michigan City, Ind., Ferguson was her way of fighting back. Especially Noah. Crystal Gause told me she was ready to die. All of our parents were worried about us Gause is black. And the threat of police Shortly after buying this home, its own- We made a pit stop for a cheap lunch on coming here. Gause's mother asked her to harassment always plagued her mind. She ers located a 1933 photograph of the house our way to Ferguson. It must have been on do whatever necessary to not be arrested. felt like she had to go. taken soon after its construction in 1925. The her mind for a while; a The ride had felt more like a road trip But Noah, 22, is a short Jewish kid who photo shows the house on the western edge of thought like that tends to Chicago with friends before the weighty grew up in the “boojie 'burbs of Detroit.” what was the city’s newly platted Strathmore to sit like oil on water. Denny’s death statement. His parents own a steel yard. (Full dis- Addition. To the east, the streets of this plat Gause, 20, of I had to rent the car because the others closure: Noah and I were roommates for shift off the typical Jeffersonian grid and Lansing, was among didn't have credit cards, proof of bills in two years at a student co-op and I've seen continue diagonally until reaching the city’s the thousands of oth- their name or pay stubs on hand. None of Gause at a number of punk shows around Avondale subdivision. With the exception of a er protesters flood- us would call ourselves children. But I can't Lansing.) small building in the photo’s background, all ing into the city for say we're exactly adults.