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cut through the heart of the city, demol- ishing 800 19th and early 20th century VOL. 17 City Hall: ‘Key, residences and changing the character of the adjacent neighborhoods. Another 600 were ISSUE 2 historic landmark’ demolished for the state complex west of the Capitol. With an understanding of architec- (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com By SUSAN BANDES tural history and urban development, these ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5061 I feel compelled to respond to Mayor as well as the original city hall might have or email [email protected] Verg Bernero’s August 8 City Pulse column been saved. I hope we do not repeat these PAGE CLASSIFIEDS: (517) 999-5066 regarding the future of Lansing City Hall. mistakes. As the unnamed MSU art historian who Admiring a building and working in it 11 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz has written about mid-Michigan modern, I are quite different things, and I appreciate [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 am, indeed, a cham- that a fifty-year old building needs to be Catch up with Mitch Albom before “Hockey — The Musical.” ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER • Mickey Hirten updated to maintain its integrity but, we [email protected] pion of the city hall ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Eve Kucharski complex. I am not, have excellent examples of rehabilitated [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 however, the only one buildings that assure that they will func- PAGE PRODUCTION MANAGER • Amanda Proscia Opinion as the mayor implies. tion into the future. Many cities including [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 City Hall has been Detroit and Buffalo, are saving their varied 12 STAFF WRITERS • Lawerence Cosentino [email protected] admired by many architecture in ambitious restoration proj- Todd Heywood others and for many ects. No, those aren’t photos, that’s a hyperrealism exhibit. [email protected] Bandes years. In Buildings I would further argue that the architects SALES & MARKETING DIRECTOR • Rich Tupica of Michigan by of Lansing City Hall complex, Lee and [email protected] Katherine Bishop Kenneth C. Black, were highly esteemed PAGE ASSISTANT SALES & MARKETING DIRECTOR as one of the most significant 20th centu- Mandy Jackson • [email protected] Eckert, past State Historic Preservation SALES EXECUTIVE Officer, (University of Virginia Press, 2012), ry Lansing firms. They designed the Auto 23 Cory Hartman • [email protected] it is one of only a handful of Lansing build- Owners’ building (now the Ingham County Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Daniel ings that is signaled out. The others include Courthouse, 1954), and after his father’s Learn how health and beer can be combined. E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill Castanier, the Knapps Building and the former Board death, Kenneth designed the Lansing Public Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence and Water and Light, now the Accident Library (renovated last winter). He designed Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie Pohl, numerous residences including his own on Fund, building. Both are superb examples Cover Dennis Preston, Allan I. Ross, Rich Tupica, Ute Von of recent restorations and repurposings that Cambridge Road. An earlier Lansing archi- Der Heyden, Paul Wozniak won the Governor’s preservation awards and tect, Darius Moon, is now revered but half of Art Distribution manager: Paul Shore • (517) 999-5061 have given the Lansing region two highly his buildings were torn down before histo- Delivery drivers: Frank Estrada, Dave Fisher, Jack lauded examples of saving our architectural rians began to tell his story. I hope the same “Yellow Radio,” by Kimberly Lavon. Sova, Richard Simpson, Thomas Scott Jr. heritage. will not happen to mid-century architect In the National Register of Historic Kenneth C. Black and that in the future, we Places nomination (2009) of the Downtown will be able to point to his important con- Lansing Historic District, City Hall is tributions and witness his stylistic and tech- described as “a highly polished example of nical development in the city’s architectural the International Style and a key historic heritage including the city hall complex. and architectural landmark in Lansing.” As a historian, I think about context The description on the Michigan Modern and how an object- whether a painting, website, the extensive site where the State sculpture or building- fits into its time and Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) pro- gives meaning to it. Lansing City Hall was vides recent research on mid-century archi- built in a modern style using the latest glass tecture, adds that it is “notable for both its and steel construction because then Mayor architecture and for its role as the central Ralph W. Crego wanted to project an image element of Mayor Crego’s urban moderniza- of the future, of the forward thinking city tion plan of the 1950s.” government. Its location across from the In the last 20 years, international interest Capitol was highly intentional. The two in modernism has been growing specifically buildings that form the complex and the to raise awareness of this heritage before too plaza in front were a conscious reference many examples are lost. DOCOMOMO- to recent news-making International-style International and US chapters as well as buildings in New York- Lever House and SHPO are at the forefront of this movement. the United Nations. City Hall used the same Books and exhibitions like the one at the stainless steel curtain-wall construction, a Michigan History Museum (through August first in Lansing. The contrast of transparen- 27) further this effort. cy and opacity, of vertical and horizontal, of The current city hall and police head- varied color and texture inside and outside, quarters buildings, begun in 1956 and com- and the humanizing plaza, are subtle archi- pleted in 1958, replaced an earlier city hall tectural effects. Destroying this building that was to the north designed by prominent and replacing it with a non-descript design Lansing architect Edwyn Bowd. By the will result in the loss of a sense of where we 1950s, its Richardsonian Romanesque style have come from and how the past informs was out of favor and it was torn down. If our present and future. only it still existed, it would be championed (The writer is a professor of art history at as one of the most interesting buildings in Michigan State University and the author of mid-Michigan! Lansing lost many more “Mid-Century Modern: From Frank Lloyd buildings when I-496 was constructed and Wright to Googie.”)

See pages 8 & 9 for Public Notices City Pulse • August 23, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION The address change would affect seven years ago. The OTCA decried the How much? 3 times the charm? around 150 Lansing residents and many name change in a strongly worded press “Just the cost involved, just for my busi- local businesses. It would also require the release, citing a financial burden on local ness, is going to average about $15,000 for Backers of naming Grand River Ave. replacement of 30 street signs on Grand businesses and a perceived erasure of Old an address change, Aura Osburn, owner of after Cesar Chavez win a round River. Town’s current culture. October Moon, 119 E. Grand River Ave., The application states these costs can “Grand River already has its own histo- told the Memorial Review Board. It was July 30, 1973, when César be reasonably absorbed by the committee’s ry and heritage, the association’s executive The Lansing for César E. Chávez E. Chávez visited Lansing’s Cristo Rey own fundraising or by the city itself. director, Vanessa Shafer, wrote in a letter Committee plans to enlist help from City Community Center to support a grape and Councilwoman Jody Washington, who to the Memorial Review Board. “We do Council to address the financial bur- lettuce boycott. Chávez’s den on local businesses. “We’re going to grassroots activism resonat- speak to City Council.” Chairman Enrique ed with migrant farm work- Mendoza said. “We’re going to find out ers across North America, how they were able to resolve the renam- and Lansing was no dif- ing of Logan to Martin Luther King Jr.” ferent. Latin and Hispanic Boulevard. Logan Street was named for Shafer workers in Lansing saw Civil War Gen. John A. Logan. After King’s Chávez as simple and direct, assassination, efforts to change the name but also very powerful. of Logan to honor King were unsuccessful, Those sentiments inspired the Hispanic but King’s name was approved as a second community to seek approval to rename name for the street, and eventually Logan Grand Avenue after him. The City Council was dropped. approved the change in 1994, but a year The OTCA suggests circumventing the later voters reversed the decision. burden on local businesses by honoring Advocates tried in 2010 to reach a Chávez with an archway at César E. Chávez more limited goal: renaming a portion of Plaza. This was idea was originally suggest- Grand River Avenue running through Old ed in 2010, but failed to come to fruition. Town after him. They had to settle for the Photo by Skyler Ashley “We would love to make the archway parking lot at Grand River Signage in Old Town already honors Cesar Chavez, but a new effort is afoot to rename a happen. We have the resources to do it if and Turner Street being stretch of Grand River Avenue after him. Merchants in Old Town are fighting it. we work together. We have been pleading renamed César Chávez for the two groups to again come together Plaza. represents much of Old Town, backed the not believe we should cover it up to honor to figure out how we can work together as Now, in a debate that change at the Memorial Review Board another history and heritage. a community to not have a negative impact echoes the fight seven years meeting. “Old Town and Grand River Avenue on the businesses.” Jamie Shriner-Hooper, Mendoza ago, advocates are trying “I found it insulting that the Latino have a rich and diverse history that president of the OTCA’s board, said. again to rename Old Town’s community was only given a parking lot to includes Native Americans, Germans, the The Lansing for César E. Chávez portion of Grand River Avenue after him. honor such a great man.” Washington said. Latino community, the LGBTQ commu- Committee says an archway is not a true And they’ve won round one. César E. Chávez Avenue has found nity, artists, the Jewish community and compromise. Last week, the Lansing Memorial support from other significant backers, more,” her letter said. “We want to have the street official- Review Board recommended the change including the president of Michigan’s The OTCA estimates a name change ly renamed, and they’re saying we want to the City Council, despite strong opposi- AFL-CIO, Ron Bieber. Bieber and a for- would cost up to 75 different local busi- to work with you,” said Ignacio Andrade, tion from the Old Town business commu- mer mayor of Lansing, Tony Benavides, nesses anywhere from $500 to $3,500 a member of the Lansing for César E. nity. The council must act before the end have written to the City Council urging it each. Chávez Committee. of November. to support the name change. It’s unclear, “It’s basically the fact that every busi- “So we said OK, are you going to help The application drafted by the Lansing though, where At-Large Kathie Dunbar ness is going to have to reprint business us support that? They said no, we’re not for César E. Chávez Committee requests stands. She may be important because the cards, reprint stationery, update websites,” going to support that. that East Grand River Avenue from proposal is likely to end up in the commit- Shafer said. “And some of the businesses “At this point in time, our main goal Oakland Avenue to Washington Avenue tee she chairs, Public Service. Dunbar did on that street have liquor licenses and oth- is to get the street renamed. You say you and West Grand River Avenue from not return repeated phone calls. er licensing through the city and state that want to work with us, that means you’ll Washington to Pine Street be officially The Old Town Commercial Association will all have to be redone. Those costs add help us achieve that goal.” renamed César E. Chávez Avenue. opposes César E. Chávez Avenue, as it did up quickly.” — SKYLER ASHLEY

questions from both City Pulse and the “City Pulse hopes Councilwoman public. Doors open at 5 p.m. A cash bar Brown Clarke will change her mind and An hour with will be available, participate,” said editor and The event was originally scheduled as publisher Berl Schwartz. a debate, but Councilwoman At-Large “But if she does not, this Andy Schor Judi Brown Clarke declined an invitation remains an excellent State Rep. Andy Schor, the odds-on after first indicating she would partici- opportunity to get to know favorite to be the next mayor of Lansing, pate. better the likely next mayor C will appear at the Lansing Brewing Co. The event, which is sponsored by ACD. of Lansing.” WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, to answer net, will be broadcast live on Facebook. — CITY PULSE STAFF Schor 6 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 23, 2017 Summer of terror, 10 years later Matthew Macon: ‘I murdered them all’ The victims The team

Barbara Tuttle Carolyn Kronenberg Ruth Hallman Deborah Cooke

SURVIVOR Debra Renfors Sandra Eichorn Louise Delgado-Yates Linda Jackson The cops The hero The killer

Courtesy Photo The team of law enforcement officers that worked the Matthew Macon serial killer case and brought him to justice. They are pictured at an awards ceremony honoring Det. Dionise Captain Hall Lt. Garcia Cheyenne Matthew Macon their work.

By TODD HEYWOOD women, using whatever was convenient to It all started with a phone call on July 26, explain why. After that, she became unable On Aug. 9, 2007, Lansing police discov- murder them, and, in some instances, sex- 2007, two weeks before Renfors’ body was to rationally answer questions. She died two ered the beaten body of 46-year-old Debra ually assaulting them. Before police caught found At-Large City Councilwoman Carol days later. Hallman, known as a fierce neigh- Renfors in her apartment in the 1000 block him, he had killed five women in just over Wood was sitting down with members of the borhood advocate, had been a fighter to the of North Washington Street. Renfors was the four weeks. A sixth woman would survive. Baker-Denora Neighborhood Association, end. Hall, Dionise and Lt. Noel Garcia recall third woman to be bludgeoned to death in Matthew Emmanuel Macon, then 27, was including its longtime leader, Betty Draher, sitting at Hallman’s kitchen table, being the city in two weeks, and a grim reality was eventually convicted of two of the murders, when Wood’s phone rang. pressured to increase policing in the Genesee beginning to set in. Det. Sgt. Joey Dionise and the assault of the surviving victim. When “It was staff at City Council,” Wood Neighborhood, which was then facing a drug confronted Captain Ray Hall, giving voice to detectives got Macon in an interview room, recalled, “calling me about my mother.” and crime crisis. a fear that had been bubbling for days. it would take three separate sessions for him Neighbors had found Wood’s moth- “She cared very deeply, very genuinely for “Captain,” Dionise said, ”We have a serial to confess to seven killings in all, dating back er, 76-year-old Ruth Hallman, inside her her neighbors and the city,” Hall said. “She killer. to 2004. In his confession, Macon ticked off home on Lapeer Street near Martin Luther was a no-nonsense, ‘You’re gonna do your Years later, Hall still remembers the “sink- the victims with a chilling indifference. King Boulevard in the city’s Genesee job’. I’ve gone through a lot of lectures from ing feeling” that accompanied that moment. ”Let’s see,” Macon said. “One. Two. Three. Neighborhood. Initial reports were that Ruth. But [she] was never self-serving. It was Ten years ago this month, Lansing was Four. Five. There’s six people, you know, that Hallman had cut herself on her lawn mower, always about others.” in the grip of a killer who preyed on single I have murdered. I murdered them all.” then fallen and hit her head. Hallman didn’t hesitate to lend a lawn- Macon’s reign of terror unnerved the city, Wood arrived at her mother’s home just as mower to a neighbor or offer a drink of water and the ensuing case sent aftershocks that emergency first responders were loading her to a passerby. That kindness, police learned, reverberate to this day. It cast suspicion on into an ambulance. She d said the thing that is how her killer gained access to her home. how the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office stuck out to her was the color of her mother’s In his confession, Macon recalled beating operated, with the fallout eventually resulting blouse. It was a brownish, rusty color. Hallman to death with a small hammer he in the dismissal of an assistant prosecutor. It “I kept thinking, ‘I don’t remember her had found in her home. changed the way Lansing’s law enforcement, having that blouse, where did she get that?’” “I pulled the little drawer out and I seen elected officials and neighborhood leaders Wood said. Days later it had dawned on her: the hammer,” Macon told detectives Vern confront crime. It resulted in freedom for a It wasn’t a new blouse, it was soaked in her Read and Ron Syka in his confession a man who had been falsely convicted of mur- mother’s blood. month after Hallman’s death. “And she had der.. And it created an enduring pain still felt That blood, police reports reveal, was her head down and I hit her in her head. by the victims’ family members. spilled as the result of a beating so savage Boom. And when I hit her in the head, she On the 10th anniversary of the killings, that one of Hallman’s fingers was nearly tried to cover her head up and I hit her in the retired police, who worked on the case; one severed in the process. Despite her mortal side of the head, like, and it went in.” of the victims’ family members, and, for the wounds, Hallman was alive and conscious A moment later, Macon clarified:“It went Todd Heywood/City Pulse first time, Macon’s only surviving victim when her neighbors found her. She had in her head and it knocked a hole in it.” Retired Det. Sgt. Joey Dionise stands on talked to City Pulse about what happened crawled to her front door to let them in but The confession was not admitted into North Washington near where he told that frightening summer of 2007. had been unable to open it. Later, during her Macon’s trial months later, so jurors never retired Capt. Ray Hall the city was in the trip to Sparrow Hospital, Hallman had told grips of a serial killer A fighter to the end paramedics to call the police but couldn’t See Summer terror, Page 7 City Pulse • August 23, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 7

tors convicted homeless student Claude in her beating death. In the police report, the wrong lead, the community was meeting Summer terror McCollum for Kronenberg’s murder and the informant was alleged to have said that with law enforcement, demanding action. sent him to prison for life. the “old white lady had seen something she On Aug. 5, Lansing Police Chief Mark Alley from page 6 Hall said that even with the similarities, should not have seen,” so they had “made and political leaders, including Lansing police didn’t have evidence to link the three an example” out of her. Police already had Mayor Virg Bernero, hosted a community heard his detailed descriptions. Two years cases, with Kronenberg’s case considered arrest warrants for the men related to their conversation at the Black Child and Family after his 2008 conviction, the transcript was solved. The early theory behind Hallman’s drug dealing activities, so detectives took the Institute building on Butler Boulevard. released by Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III, attack was that she had been targeted as a informant to the apartment that was being Chad Rathbun, then 22, had been living in but was heavily redacted. The quotes from result of her fierce neighborhood activism, used in the dealers’ operation. The infor- Hallman’s neighborhood for two months. He the confession came from an unredacted which had pitted her against neighborhood mant was directed to call the police when the left the meeting early, according to a report copy of the confession obtained by City Pulse. drug dealers. Some of those dealers had suspected men were there. The informant in the Lansing State Journal, saying the found themselves in jail as a result of her called about 11 p.m. event was “just a song and dance.” He talked A potential target efforts.Hall recalled “a shopping list of indi- At 1 a.m., armed with arrest warrants, of trying to go for a walk and being harassed Hall said when detectives and crime viduals” who were potential suspects. officers from the city’s Special Tactics and by drug dealers, noting that the dealers were scene experts examined Hallman’s home, “Typically in an investigation, those with Rescue Team, or START, raided the apart- so persistent that his housemate actually they noticed similarities between Hallman’s motives are limited to one or two individu- ment, arresting four of the five men on drug paid one to leave him alone. death and the 2004 deaths of Barbara Jean als,” Hall said “We like those cases. We can charges. Detectives interviewed them, but While Bernero and Alley said they were Tuttle and Carolyn Kronenberg. Tuttle, 45, narrow the focus and hold accountable the they denied any involvement in Hallman’s working on a plan to fight crime, they were had been found sodomized and beaten to individual relatively quickly, because of the attack.. The other man also tracked down vague in their ideas and promises. The only death — a week after being raped — in an social network.” that night in a westside hotel, but that arrest concrete offer was to install cameras in apartment on North Washington. Lansing Media and neighbors in the Genesee led to similar dead ends. By that time, high-traffic areas. It was an expensive propo- Community College Professor Carolyn Neighborhood immediately focused on Hallman was no longer an assault victim — sition — $350,000 for just a dozen cameras, Kronenberg, 60, was discovered in a class- revenge as the motive, and police also bought she was dead, and her case was now a homi- and the timing was bad. The city’s budget was room in the downtown campus. She, too, into the story. Hours after Hallman was cide investigation. full of holes, its overall income was declining, had been beaten, and an electronic device found, detectives interviewed a confiden- and crime problems were running rampant had been inserted into her vagina. Tuttle’s tial informant who told them that five drug Mounting pressure murder remained unsolved, but prosecu- dealers in the area may have been involved Even as detectives realized they’d followed See Summer terror, Page 8

Debra Renfore Aug. 9, 2007 N. Washington Ave. between Kilborn St. and Maple St.

Barbara Tuttle Dec. 20, 2004 N. Washington Ave. between Kilborn St. and Maple St.

Ruth Hallman July 26, 2007 MLK Blvd. and Carolyn Kronenberg Lapeer St. Jan. 23, 2005 Genesee Dr. and Capitol Ave. Sandra Eichorn Aug. 27, 2007 Genesee Dr. and Verlinden Ave.

Linda Jackson Aug. 28, 2007 SURVIVOR Jones St. Between Eureka St. and Prospect St.

Louise Delgado-Yates Aug. 28, 2007 Hickory St. between Jones Deborah Cooke St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Aug. 7, 2007 Kalamazoo St. and Holmes St.

Map by Nick Ronnei/City Pulse Macon preyed on women north of 496, brutally murdering them with whatever was handily available. The map shows when and where each victim was found. 8 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 23, 2017

other victims, so police missed the connec- lure her to her death. He said he offered her Summer terror tion. After his arrest, Macon had cleared up money for sex, but she wanted more than he ‘Serial killers are rare’ that discrepancy when he talked to detec- was willing to pay, so he walked away. Cooke The body of Renfors was found just two from page 7 tives. Cooke, he told them, was a “crackhead” followed him until he agreed to pay her what days later. She had been sexually assaulted and a crackhead had testified against one of she wanted: $20. and beaten to death. But it was where she in other Lansing neighborhoods. his brothers, Melvin Eugene Hobbs, which Cooke’s body was found leaning against was killed that triggered Dionise to declare “We began knocking on doors and check- had landed him in prison. a tree, about 50 yards from Hunter Park’s the city was dealing with a serial killer. It ing on people,” Draher said. “It was import- “I wasn’t going to let that happen again,” public pool, which was empty and undergo- was the same location where Tuttle had been ant.” he told the detectives. ing renovations that summer. Joan Nelson, raped and beaten to death nearly three years Nancy Parsons Mahlow, a longtime Ironically, when on trial, Macon’s attor- executive director of the nearby Allen before. Her murder was unsolved, as was the Eastside Neighborhood Organization mem- ney tried to convince the jury Hobbs was Neighborhood Center, said in an interview sexual assault she suffered the week before ber and leader, said that same active response her death. Hall said other detectives also blossomed in the many neighborhoods that started noting the similarities, but he was made up her organization. still skeptical. “We took the initiative that, ‘OK, we’re “Serial killers are very rare, fortunately,”. going to check on our seniors a little bit more Hall said. “[But] certainly the strength of that than what we used to do,’” Mahlow said. possibility became apparent with Renfors.” Both Draher and Mahlow said they were Wood, an avid police scanner listener, angry that Hallman may have been tar- heard the traffic about the Renfors discovery geted for her work. Mahlow said she even and rushed to North Washington from her faced pressure at home from her husband, city hall office. who encouraged her to back away from her “I had been racking my brain, because neighborhood work.She said it felt like the [investigators] kept asking me if I had seen criminals were trying to take away the neigh- anything or anyone suspicious,” she said. “I borhood groups that had been forged over was feeling guilty that I might know some- decades of struggle, but she was determined thing. I needed to know if this was connected to not give up. to my mom’s case.” When she arrived, Wood Mahlow told her husband, “I won’t let said was informed by an officer that there was them do this.” no connection to the Hallman case, which she said relieved some of her guilt But even Gruesome discovery as she was being told there was no connec- In the early morning hours of Aug. 7, tion, detectives were telling each other there just days after Hallman’s funeral, the body of was one indeed. Hall ordered detectives to 36-year-old Deborah Kaye Cooke was found Courtesy Photo put together a war room, and he leaned on in Hunter Park on the city’s east side. She Joey Dionise and Andy Kilpatrick, officers in the Lansing Police Department, served as law enforcement partners, including the too had been brutally beaten. She was half pallbearers for the funeral of Ruth Hallman, 74. Hallman, mother of Councilwoman Carol Michigan State Police and the FBI, to assist. Wood, was beaten to death by Matthew Macon. nude and a stick had been inserted into her A task force was born. vagina. She had had a history of prostitution. responsible for the murder of one the victims with the Lansing State Journal at the time With four dead women on their hands, Again, there were similarities. She was sin- and the assault of another. that Hunter Park “was a different place” at detectives began the slow, meticulous pro- gle, she was beaten, and she had been sex- Macon said he met Cooke at the night, a haven for prostitution and drug cess of looking back at earlier attacks that ually assaulted with a foreign object placed Marathon Gas Station on Kalamazoo Street deals. She noted the neighborhood was may not have been fatal. Their research inside her. But Cooke was younger than the and had immediately formulated a plan to working to change the atmosphere in the uncovered a string of unsolved sexual park, having recently added a hoophouse to assaults of older women on the city’s west PUBLIC NOTICES grow vegetables and a paved walking path. side in 2003. These women had also been The murder, she said, “may prod us to move beaten and raped, but it was the eerily simi- NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS East Lansing Historic District Commission a little faster.” Nelson declined to be inter- lar methodology of the attack that interested See Summer terror, Page 9 Notice is hereby given of the following public hearings to be held by the East Lansing Historic District viewed for this report. Commission on September 14, 2017 at 7:00 p.m., in the 54-B District Court, Courtroom 2, 101 Linden Street, East Lansing. 1. A public hearing will be held for the purpose of considering a request from Clay Folsom, PUBLIC NOTICES for the property at 300 Wildwood Drive, to add a deck. CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF LANSING 2. A public hearing will be held for the purpose of considering a request from Liz and Nate SYNOPSIS OF PROPOSED MINUTES Johnson, for the property at 1041 West Grand River Avenue, to remove and replace the roof. The applicant is also seeking to replace the existing windows on the back of the home. A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF LANSING WAS HELD AT THE TOWNSHIP OFFICES LOCATED AT 3209 WEST MICHIGAN 3. A public hearing will be held for the purpose of considering a request from Maren Friesen, AVENUE, LANSING, MICHIGAN ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. for the property at 1014 Huntington Road, to remove and replace the front steps and walkway with concrete instead of brick. MEMBERS PRESENT: Supervisor Hayes, Clerk Aten, Treasurer Rodgers Trustees: Harris, McKenzie, DeLay 4. A public hearing will be held for the purpose of considering a request from Jim Woodend, MEMBERS ABSENT: Trustee Broughton for the property at 208 and 210 Orchard Street, to demolish a two-car garage in the back of the property. ALSO PRESENT: Michael Gresens, Attorney Call (517) 319-6930, the Department of Planning, Building and Development, East Lansing City Hall, ACTION TAKEN BY THE BOARD: 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, for additional information. All interested persons will be given an Meeting called to order by Supervisor Hayes. opportunity to be heard. Minutes of the meeting held on July 25, 2017 approved. Agenda approved as amended. The City of East Lansing will provide reasonable auxiliary aids and services, such as interpreters Request for sidewalk waiver, SW-17-8 approved. for the hearing impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered at the meeting, to Authorized Clerk to sign audit service transition paperwork. individuals with disabilities upon request received by the City seven (7) calendar days prior to the Authorized payment of initial invoices regarding WSW’s USDA bond. meeting. Individuals with disabilities requiring aids or services should write or call the Planning Approved equipment purchase for fire department.Claims approved. Department, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI 48823. Phone: (517) 319-6930. TDD Number: 1-800- Executive session held to discuss attorney-client privileged communication. 649-3777. Board returned to regular session. Meeting adjourned. Marie E. Wicks Diontrae Hayes, Supervisor City Clerk CP#17-229 Susan L. 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in a bowl of spaghetti that Eichorn had been to murder her during the incident as well. Summer terror eating was a business card to a computer However, in January 1985, she recanted that repair place on Saginaw Street. testimony and the charges were dismissed. from page 8 Macon said in his confession that he Eleven years later, he was convicted of feloni- offered Eichorn the card, pretending it was ous assault for pulling a gun on the woman’s the investigators. The victims reported that his own as a way to contact him if she or brother. their attacker had initially come to their door her friends knew of yard work he could do. While conducting surveillance of offering to do yard work, then gained access When she reached for it, he grabbed her and Hallman’s home on Aug. 14, about two weeks to the home after asking for a glass of water dragged her inside her home. During the tri- after her death, LPD officer Larry Klaus saw or the use of their phone. al, then Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor a black man, who he estimated to be in his “That’s when the red flags came up,” Hall Katherine Emerson told the jury in closing mid-50s, walking by the home. said. “And we knew somebody was out there remarks the card was Macon’s way of signing “I observed him to be looking north doing this. I remember [thinking] ‘this could his crime. “She had a plate of spaghetti out,” towards [Hallman’s house] and he began to get ugly if we don’t stop this now.’” Emerson said, and he put the card “where erupt in laughter,” Klaus wrote in a report. As part of the task force, detectives no one would put anything. No one puts a That man was identified as the father, James were each interviewed by criminal profil- business card or any other item on their fork Macon. ing experts from the Michigan State Police. on their food.” The hunt was on. Those experts specialized in serial criminal In an interview with the company’s own- behavior. They consumed mass quanti- er, detectives learned that a black male had Cheyenne the hero Courtesy Photo ties of documents, police reports, tips, and been to the shop a week earlier asking to Linda Jackson was the daughter of a Cheyenne, a chow-shepard mix, gave a interviews with law enforcement. They were have “the password unlocked/changed” on Methodist minister. She grew up in Lansing new meaning to rescue dog when she scared off Matthew Macon as he was building a specific mental composite of the a laptop. He got the latptop from a friend, and ran off to California during a self-de- attacking Linda Jackson a decade ago. killer — what made him tick and, more he told the store owner. The owner said the clared “hippie phase,” but she returned to be important, how to get him talking if they did man was suspicious, and after initially refus- near family, particularly her father. She land- would pass his information on to her friends capture him. For two weeks, police cobbled ing to leave his name, eventually did. He also ed a job at Michigan State University, and in case they were looking for help. As she together information, followed leads and gave his phone number and address. The she said she paid attention as the number of got a pad of paper and pen, she warned him kept their noses to the ground, but with the man was Matthew Macon. women brutally murdered began to add up not to come in because she had a dog “that killer apparently lying low — no new attacks That was a name law enforcement was that summer. wouldn’t like him.” He waited outside, and were reported — police were no closer to familiar with: Macon was on parole for theft “That seemed like a thing, right?” Jackson when she returned, he gave her a name, an identifying a suspect. and breaking and entering in 2000. He’d said, as she recalls reading about Hallman’s address and a phone number. He told her his “You just hoped nothing else happened,” also been convicted, at age 14, of sexually murder nearly a decade later. “ As the sum- name was Chilly Smith. She didn’t trust him, said Dionise. “That’s what you were hoping assaulting a girl and putting a stick in her mer wore on … it started to get scary.” but she said she didn’t feel threatened — she for.” vagina. An Ingham County Juvenile Court Her fear, however, did not stop her from could, after all, hear the neighborhood kids referee noted when he was 16 and under- trying to help Matthew Macon when he playing and her neighbors doing yard work A Lead going sex offender treatment that he would came to her backdoor on Aug. 28, 2007, nearby. So Jackson let her guard down, and Sandra Eichorn was a fan of NASCAR require lifelong monitoring. asking for handyman work. She’d given odd in an instant, everything changed. racing and playing Keno at Harry’s Place, It wasn’t just Macon who was known to jobs to people before, but she always told “When I turned around to go put the pad a popular bar on the city’s west side. The law enforcement — there was his brother, them she would have to go to the store to get back on the counter, that’s when he came in,” 64-year-old General Motors retiree was Hobbs, as well as another brother, James cash. She wanted to be clear, there was no she said. Macon grabbed a beer bottle and renting a house on the 1800 block of Henry Macon Jr., who had been involved money in her home “to stop them from rob- proceeded to beat her with it, and Jackson Genesee Drive, just around the corner from with the courts. Their father also had a bru- bing me.” Macon, however, was giving her began screaming. Those screams woke up the bar. On Aug. 27, she was found stabbed tal history of violence, according to Ingham clues that this was a dangerous situation. As her dog, Cheyenne, who had been asleep to death in her home. Testimony at Macon’s County Court Records. In March 1984, he stood at her back door, Jackson remem- upstairs. trial trial showed she’d been stabbed 36 the boy’s mother, Earlene Macon, sought a bers he turned away to look up the street at “At first I didn’t think she was going to times by a knife from her own kitchen. One restraining order against the elder James least twice. She also recalls noticing that his come,” Jackson recalled. “And then she came of the wounds went through a rib and sev- Macon. out of fear that he would beat her. jaw was tight. She said she told him that she flying down — growling barking and snap- ered a major artery. She had some wounds In October of that year, Macon Sr. was liv- didn’t have any work for him, but that she See Summer terror, Page 10 consistent with being beaten as well. The ing with his pregnant 17-year-old girlfriend murder site was less than a mile from where when she accused him of beating her with Hallman had been killed. a baseball bat for refusing to prostitute her- PUBLIC NOTICES But this time the killer left a clue: sitting self. She alleged he had a knife and intended NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING East Lansing Planning Commission Notice is hereby given of the following public hearing to be held by the East Lansing Planning PUBLIC NOTICES Commission on September 13, 2017 at 7:00 p.m., in the 54-B District Court, Courtroom 2, 101 Linden Street, East Lansing: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING East Lansing City Council A public hearing will be held to consider a Site Plan and Special Use Permit application from Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity, for the property at 217 Bogue Street, to establish a fraternity. The Notice is hereby given of the following public hearing to be held by the East Lansing City Council property is zoned EV, East Village District. on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 7:00 p.m., in the 54-B District Court, Courtroom 2, 101 Linden Street, East Lansing. Call (517) 319-6930, the Department of Planning, Building and Development, East Lansing City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, for additional information. All interested persons will be given A public hearing will be held to consider a Special Use Permit application from AKC, Inc. d/b/a an opportunity to be heard. These matters will be on the agenda for the next Planning Commission Charlie Kang’s Restaurant, for the property at 109 East Grand River Avenue, to serve and sell meeting after the public hearing is held, at which time the Commission may vote on them. The alcohol. The applicant is proposing to obtain a Class C and SDM License (which includes a Planning Commission’s recommendations are then placed on the agenda of the next City Council Sunday Sales Permit). The property is located in the B-3, City Center Business District. meeting. The City Council will make the final decision on these applications. 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going to kill again.” by the entire task force. That tribute hangs in Hall now serves as the police chief for the Summer terror Garcia cuffed Macon, and by then back- Wood’s office on the 10th floor of City Hall. University of Michigan-Flint campus. He up officers arrived, flooding the corner with “It felt right to go back to Carol and give said his department is assisted by hundreds from page 9 flashing red and blue. this to her,” Hall said. “And talk about hugs. of cameras, which has “opened his eyes to “You don’t forget things like this. When I don’t think she let me go for a while. But it the possibility of technology” in fighting ping, lunging.” they put the handcuffs on him, he looked wasn’t me she was hugging, it was all all the crime. Lansing continues to operate with the Macon, terrified of the dog, took off run- up,” Dionise said. “He didn’t say much, but officers that were there.” same number of cameras as approved by the ning, and Jackson immediately called 911. he just, it was like relief on his face.” But the next afternoon, on Aug. 29, ela- council a decade ago. When “at least 10 police cars” arrived shortly Garcia’s recollection of that moment dif- tion gave way to dread: Another victim was Macon’s confession led to the release of afterward, Jackson began to believe this had fers. found by a Realtor showing an empty home Claude McCollum, a homeless student who not been a run-of-the-mill robbery attempt. Garcia said his eyes “[looked like] I was on Hickory Street, just blocks from where had been wrongfully convicted of killing Her suspicion that was confirmed when, looking into nothing. It looked like this guy Jackson had been attacked. The woman was Kronenberg in 2004. He sued LCC police while at the hospital, Lansing Mayor Virg was just evil.” identified as Louise Delgado-Yates, and she’d and county officials and ended up with a $2 Bernero showed up. They told Macon he was being arrested been sexually assaulted and beaten with the million settlement. An investigation by the “I thought, is that the mayor?” she said. on a parole violation warrant. As Lansing’s top of a toilet tank. She was still alive when Michigan Attorney General’s Office discov- “And it was. He kept saying they were going only known serial killer sat in handcuffs she was found, but succumbed to her inju- ered video evidence that cleared McCollum to get the guy.” on the street, taking in the spectacle of law ries on the way to the hospital. had not been turned over to defense. enforcement Despite knowing Dunnings fired the lead prosecutor, but the Connecting the dots arrayed before they had their kill- incident created a crack in his veneer as a A search of databases of known aliases him, he had er in custody, police tough-as-nails, unassailable prosecutor. revealed Macon used Chilly as a street name, one question: couldn’t release During the confession, Macon told detec- tying Macon to the attack on Jackson.The “All this for any information on tives that he had met McCollum and was address he provided was a place he had for- a warrant?” Macon yet. He still relieved that the other man had been con- merly lived; the phone number was bogus. hadn’t confessed, victed of his crime. Macon went on trial The task force had their chief suspect. The final and this new victim in May 2008, facing two charges of first They found a work address for Macon victim could complicate the degree murder for the killings of Eichorn in Holt, so about 40 officers from various With whole case — Macon and Dalgado-Yates, as well as one count departments, including the FBI, were dis- Macon in cus- had been in custody each of torture, because, home invasion and patched to the location. But Macon never tody, all three since the night before. assault with intent to murder in Jackson’s showed up. Hall then called for a grid search LPD officials Police needed to delay case. His defense counsel, Michael O’Briant of the city. said there releasing information of Okemos, challenged the prosecution’s With assistance from area agencies and were hugs, on Delgado-Yates case, but rested without presenting a single the task force members, officers spread out high fives and until the medical witness. After only two hours of delibera- across Metro Lansing looking for Macon. tears among examiner could give tion, Macon was convicted on all counts. In Garcia and Hall were in a vehicle togeth- enforcement Todd Heywood/City Pulse them a timeframe June 2008 he was sentenced to life in prison er, coordinating the manhunt when Read’s officers. Councilwoman Carol Wood holds a framed of when the assaults without the possibility of parole. Macon cur- voice rattled across the radio. He had found “We were thank you from law enforcement to her mother, happened. To divert rently resides at the St. Louis Correctional an individual who matched Macon’s descrip- all emotion- Ruth Hallman, for her work. the media from the Facility near Alma. declined an interview tion in Lansing Township. ally drained,” new assault, Hall request through a Michigan Department of Garcia and Hall were in the area but got Garcia said. “We were all emotionally tied to came up with a plan: Corrections spokesman. lost en route. Read lost sight of Macon.For Ruth and the other victims and [their] fam- “I asked the detectives to give me the Despite promising to charge Macon a minute, it seemed the suspect had slipped ilies It wasn’t just the end of a day of police name of [Jackson’s] dog” in the Jackson in the other murders he confessed to, away, but then Hall and Garcia spotted him. work —it was [the relief that] we finally got attack. “And a picture of the dog. And let’s Dunnings announced he would not seek They stopped their vehicle, jumped out and this guy.” talk about the dog protecting its owner,” Hall further charges when Macon lost his appeals pounced on Macon. Hall went to Wood’s home to inform her said. “We needed a few more hours to put in 2010. Dunnings argued it was too costly “I didn’t want to give him a chance to that they had Macon in custody. He brought this case together. I had a high degree of like- and that Macon would make a “mockery” run,” said Garcia. with him a framed tribute as a present for lihood that this was the suspect, that he was of the justice system by representing him- “And he would have,” said Hall. “ This was Wood. It was a dedication to her mother’s in custody, and that the community was safe. self and harassing survivors, only to “end up a guy that if he got away, you knew he was support for law enforcement. It was signed But it wasn’t 100 percent.” in a prison cell” at the end of the proceed- Detectives went and got pictures of ings. Dunnings resigned last year after being Cheyenne and returned to Hall’s office. charged with numerous charges related to “And they said yep, the dog’s name’s paying women for sex. Hitler,” Hall recalled. “And they, in that Without a trial to provide closure, Wood moment of time, they thought that was fun- has struggled for the last decade to under- ny. And I noticed that there was grins on stand why her mother, her best friend, their face. For all summer the only emotion was brutally murdered. But nearing the was focus.” 10th anniversary of Macon’s capture, the The detectives laughed and shared the Councilwoman thinks she finally has an dog’s real name and Hall’s plan worked. answer. As law enforcement was dealing with “It came to me in the middle of the the Hickory Street crime scene, Lansing night, whether McCollum would have been City Council Committee on Public Safety released if my mother hadn’t been mur- approved spending $350,000 on cameras dered,” Wood said. “I felt like I found an for high crime areas in the city. Hall said answer. She wouldn’t have wanted to see the cameras have been invaluable resourc- somebody put away for something he hadn’t es in fighting crime, a sentiment echoed by done. Is that the answer to all answers? No. Alley and current Chief Michael Yankowski. But at least it’s giving me a little bit of solace.” City Pulse • August 23, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 11

ARTS & CULTURE ART BOOKS FILM MUSIC THEATER Q & A with Mitch Albom ‘Hockey - The Musical’ hits the road By EVE KUCHARSKI After a succesful run in Detroit, “Hockey - The Musical” will make its way to Lansing and across the state. We caught up with Mitch Albom, Michigan musician turned sports journalist turned playwright, about his inspiration for the musical and what he sees next in its future.

What is “Hockey - The Musical” about? It’s a ridiculous premise, it’s all come- dy. So even to lay it out if it’s some kind of serious plot is kind of silly, but it starts with a big cartoon much along the lines of Courtesy Photo Monty Python plays and episodes, which explains in the Some of the cast of “Hockey - The Musical” is pictured here mid-scene. The play’s backdrop allows for real-life hockey players to beginning, God make cameos during the performance. Pictured left to right is Shane O’Connor (Stevie Why), JJ Hoss (Stanley/Terry Chuck) and “Hockey - The Taurean Hogan (Duwayne Gretzky). Musical” created heaven and Earth and Thursday, Aug. 24 – They throw octopuses on the ice, and erase that song and write a new song to Saturday, Aug. 26 then man, with Are you surprised by the show’s 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Fri., Sat. if you do something wrong you have either a different melody or an original all this beauty success? 2 p.m. Sat. to go and sit in a little box behind glass one or whatever. So it’s a bit like if you Tickets start at $15 around him, cre- Honestly, I’m always surprised if any- and they lock you in. There’s Russians write a 100-page play but every four pag- Wharton Center for ated sports. And one shows up for anything I do. I’ve never Performing Arts and Finns and Swedes all on the same es, they take out two pages and then you 750 E. Shaw Lane, East then, it shows all gotten past that. Maybe because I started team together, people can’t even speak have to go over it again. Lansing the millions of in music and I wasn’t successful. I was a (517) 432 - 2000 the same language on their own team. sports that man flop. I tried to sell songs, I tried to perform, www.whartoncenter.com Of course, it gets no respect compared to ended up cre- Besides the subject matter, I tried to produce things and I did not baseball or basketball, so it’s always trying ating, and God decided that sports were what do you think makes this succeed. When you go through that kind to garner an audience and fight against not good, there were too many sports dis- of stuff when you’re young — I was in my being moved or wiped out. I thought all play unique? tracting mankind, so he sends an angel early 20s— even if later on you have suc- those elements together made for a fun- There’s really almost no props and down to destroy a sport to teach mankind cess in life, there’s always a part of you that ny backdrop for a sport and of course, we no set, it’s just this massive screen that’s a lesson about getting distracted. fears that rejection and fears that failure are Hockeytown, so we’re going to like it the backdrop, and the screen just keeps The angel just arbitrarily picks hock- because it was your first experience. The and of course Michigan is a hockey-crazy changing like a movie set. Because of that, ey, and a fan jumps out of the stands and light turned red for you at first, not green state. we were able to go out and film a num- out of the audience and he just begs him, ber of players who agreed to be in the and so you’re always afraid of the red light ‘Please don’t destroy hockey, anything show, including Steve Yzerman, Brendan again, even though I’ve been very blessed to but hockey!’ And he basically gets on his What was your biggest strug- Shanahan, Don Cherry Joey Kocur and have some success in other areas. knees and he asks if he can find 100 pure gle in making this musical? Darren McCarty. They recorded these bits So anytime I put out a show or a new hockey souls, will God save his sport? Getting the rights to certain songs, and the way it works in the show, they book or anything, I always cringe and because I think there are about 16 or 17 actually talk to the actors. So along their worry and get nervous and say, ‘OK, this Is hockey your favorite sport? songs in there, and I wrote about half of journey as they’re trying to save hockey, is a thing that nobody is going to come I’ve been a sportswriter for 35 years the songs myself. So that wasn’t a prob- Yzerman and Shanahan come say, ‘No, out for. There will be zero people, we just ,so I’m as much of a hockey fan as I am a lem because I wrote the music as well as you’re doing it wrong, go over here, do it won’t sell a ticket.’ That’s how I begin, and baseball, basketball, any of the sports that the words, but the other half were songs like this, I don’t want to be obliterated I then eventually if it works out I start to I cover. I do really like hockey and know by other people that I just rewrote the don’t want my records wiped out!’ relax a little bit, but I never expect that a lot about it, obviously. I’ve worked in it words to. We make the joke that this is the per- anything will be a big success. The fact for 35 years, but I thought as a sport for In writing the play, I would write fect couples musical, because if the wom- that we’re coming back for a second sea- a play or a musical, it was funny. There the lyrics to the song, because in order an is a theater fan and the guy hates musi- son or that we’re going on the road and aren’t any that I’m aware of, musicals or to know how the play’s going to go you cals, the guy will go for the sports, but the taking it to Lansing and other places is plays ever done about hockey, so it’s nice have to put the songs in place but then woman will go because of all that sing- a huge surprise to me. I didn’t know if to do something original, and it’s a funny we would find out they would deny us the ing and dancing. It’s much cheaper than this would work for a week, let alone two sport if you really think about it. use of the song, so I’d have to go back and going to a couples therapist. years. 12 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 23, 2017

tiful and almost as rare as the natural a two-dimensional painting.” phenomenon we’d just observed: Saper But don’t just take Saper’s endorse- Reality captured Galleries’ newest collection of hyper-re- ment — even the U.S. government thinks alistic oil paintings. Bruscianelli is a world talent. Saper Galleries displays hyperrealistic artwork “They’re just like the eclipse: you just “Carlos Bruscianelli has been attempt- look at them and marvel,” said Saper ing to emigrate to the United States from about the paintings of Manuel Higueras, Caracas, Venezuela, to paint,” said Saper, skylight to watch the solar eclipse. He By DYLAN TARR Carlos Bruscianelli, Almunia de Miguel, refencing the recent turmoil in the paint- welcomed me, and for about 20 min- When I walked into Saper Galleries Juan Carlos Ospina Ortiz and John- er’s home. utes, we sat there and watched the moon on Monday, Roy Saper, the gallery’s own- Mark Gleadow, the five hyperrealist art- “After many months of negotiation, pass across the sun. Then he suggested er, was wrestling with an elegant Eames ists on display at Saper Galleries. Bruscianelli has Lounge Chair, positioning it under a we look at something almost as beau - “It’s that exacting level of preci- “Hyperrealism” just obtained sion that makes hyperrealism so amaz- Through November a work visa 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. ing,” said Saper as we looked at one of Monday - Saturday to come and Higueras’ oil paintings entitled “A Bunch Saper Galleries and Custom paint for Saper of Grapes Plus One,” depicting a group Framing Galleries,” 433 Albert Ave., East Lansing of grapes so realistically that it could be (517) 351-0815 Saper said. “In a photo. fact, our federal “It highlights every little detail, even government has the imperfections,” said Saper, and those said he’s so good that we want him in imperfections are exactly what makes our country,” he said, producing a copy these paintings so realistic. of Bruscianelli’s emigration papers say- “One might say, ‘just do a photo- ing just that. graph,’” said Saper, “but it’s not a matter We walked on and examined the of if you can paint something that looks paintings of Gleadow that depicted like real life, but can you make it feel like faux-photographic oil renditions of book real life? It’s a level of realism that goes spines arranged neatly in a row. beyond a photograph.” “These are so good that a lady was in As we made our way deeper into the the gallery and she said she wanted this gallery, Saper stopped at a painting by painting,” said Saper, pointing to a piece Bruscianelli depicting a glass vase full of depicting ragged, used book spines. “And fruit. she said that this one had a flaw in it.” Courtesy Photo “It feels like you could reach into the Of course, there was no flaw, just an Roy Saper stands next to Saper Galleries’ new hyperrealism exhibit. The exhibit pitcher and grab a piece of fruit,” mar- features the work of five different artists. veled Saper. “But then you realize this is See Reality, Page 13 City Pulse • August 23, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 13

of Expressionism. Paintings like those Reality Saper is highlighting, paintings that har- Meet the artist ken back to the High Renaissance when realism reigned supreme, seem to be out Printmaker Kimberly from page 12 of fashion today. “But now we’re seeing artists that Lavon debuts new projects illusion created by paint and brush. were trained in this classical style say it’s But still-life paintings have been okay to paint like this again,” said Saper. and enhances old ones around forever, it’s a near ancient tradi- “Now we revere these hyperrealistic tion, with origins in ancient Egypt and paintings as something new, but people Greece. Still, Saper said that artists are By EVE KUCHARSKI were painting like this in the 1400s and revamping this age-old tradition. Kimberly Lavon grew up in an artistic 1500s. There are ebbs and flows in a lot “Artists are kind of doing a circle; household. She has musicians in her fam- of aspects of culture, this being one of Courtesy Photo they’re coming back,” said Saper. “In the them.” ily on her mother’s side, her father is an last 70 years, we’ve been moving away “Bacon & Eggs” by Kimberly Lavon. As I finished up my tour of Saper artist, and her parents even met at an art from still-life, hyperrealism and classi- Galleries, Saper made a joke about how class. That’s why it wasn’t a surprise when cal painting — there’s more abstraction eclipses are rare, but finding artists with as a child, Lavon was drawn to creating her or California. However, her dabbling into today.” this sort of extraordinary talent is even own artwork. She called it a “natural pro- multiple forms of art is how she got into And as Saper pointed out, much of harder to come by. gression” of things. linocut prints and Chine-Collé — a method art history had been dedicated to real - “I drew and made art as that allows an artist to print on especially ism, with abstraction only becoming a kid, graduated from high delicate materials. That is also the medium popular in the late 1800s. Today, realism school and then became a of the artwork on this week’s cover, called often takes a back seat to different forms Lavon tattoo artist’s apprentice,” “Radio,” which will be donated to the Arts Lavon, 36, said. “I did that Council of Lansing to be auctioned at for a while, stopped, went to college at the organization’s annual Holiday Glitter Kendall College of Art and Design and then fundraiser. graduated. Did an apprenticeship as a tat- “That particular radio I believe my too artist again and then during that time, grandmother had somewhere, and I also opened my gallery and print shop, and thought it was really cool looking, so I I also do graphic design.” wanted to encapsulate that particular time As if she weren’t busy enough, Lavon is frame, that era, with that radio,” Lavon also working toward a master’s degree that said. she hopes to pursue in London, Atlanta See Artist, Page 15

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The college’s discrimination and harassment policies are available at lcc.edu/policy. 14 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 23, 2017 And the nominees are … City Pulse announces 2016-‘17 Pulsar nominees The scores have been tabulated and City Pulse is egories, including four (of the six) nominees for Best Kathy Helma, Tom Helma, Meegan Holland, Paul ready to announce the nominees for the 2016-17 Pulsar Play: “1984,” “A Painted Window,” “Summer Retreat” Wozniak, David Winkelstern, Sue Winkelstern and awards, recognizing the best in Greater Lansing the- and “Taking Shakespeare.” Ute Von Der Heyden; a show must have been seen ater. The winners will be announced Monday in a cer- Also performing well in this year’s nominations and scored by at least three Pulsar judges to qualify. emony at the Lansing Brewing Co. are Owosso Community Players (25 nominations), All of the Lansing area’s community, professional or The top nomination-getter this season is Riverwalk Theatre (21 nominations) and the MSU college theater groups were in contention. Pulsars do Peppermint Creek Theatre Co., which pulled in 31 Department of Theatre (20 nominations). not cover children’s theater, high school theater, gala nominations across 20 categories. Standout shows Monday’s award ceremony, at Lansing Brewing Co., presentations, student showcases or workshop shows. “Heathers,” Eurydice” and “Luna Gale” all garnered is free and open to the public; a cash bar and limited The season ran from July 1 last year to June 30 this multiple nominations. Not far behind is Williamston food menu are available. year. Theatre, which scored 29 nominations across 12 cat- Pulsar judges are Erin Buitendorp, Mary Cusack, Best Play Jane Falion — “Catch Me If You Can,” Riverwalk Best Properties “1984” — Williamston Theatre Theatre Lynn Culp — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso Community Best Make-up/Hair “A Painted Window” — Williamston Theatre Brad Willcuts — “Urinetown,” MSU Department of Players Shannon Bowen, Erin Hoffman — “Matt & Ben,” Over “Burn This” — Riverwalk Theatre Theatre Mary Matzke, Bob Fernholz — “None of the Above,” the Ledge Theatre Co. “Eurydice” — Peppermint Creek Theatre Co. LCC Theatre Program Sadonna Croff — “The Amazing Jesus,” Ixion Theatre “Summer Retreat” — Williamston Theatre Best Musical Direction Greg Pratt, Amanda Kennedy — “Burn This,” Rebecca Street — “Catch Me If You Can,” Riverwalk “Taking Shakespeare” — Williamston Theatre Jillian Boots — “Sister Act,” Owosso Community Riverwalk Theatre Theatre Players Michelle Raymond — “1984,” Williamston Theatre Anna Szabo — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Best Musical Cole DeVilbiss — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso Michelle Raymond — “Summer Retreat,” Williamston Co. “Title of Show” — Community Players Theatre Meredith Wagner — “Urinetown,” MSU Department Peppermint Creek Yasmin Gewirtz — “Peter and the Starcatcher,” Madi Shank — “American Hero,” LCC Theatre of Theatre Pulsars XIII Theatre Co. Owosso Community Players Program Monday, Aug. 28 “Heathers” — John Dale Smith — “Catch Me If You Can,” Riverwalk Best Original Script 6 p.m. cocktail/dinner hour Peppermint Creek Theatre Best Sound Graham Farrow — “Every Breath You Take,” Ixion 7 p.m. award ceremony Theatre Co. Dave Wendelberger — “Urinetown,” MSU Will Myers — “Summer Retreat,” Williamston Theatre FREE “Catch Me If You Can” Department of Theatre Theatre Christy Hall — “A Painted Window,” Williamston Lansing Brewing Co. — Riverwalk Theatre Jason Painter Price — “The Tempest,” MSU Theatre 518 E. Shiawassee St., “Urinetown” — MSU Best Choreographer Department of Theatre Lisa Konoplisky — “Askew Askance A Squirrel!” Ixion Lansing Department of Theatre Bradley Duffield, Erica Duffield — “Rock of Ages,” Jason Painter Price — “1984,” Williamston Theatre Theatre “Rock of Ages” — Owosso Community Players Jason Painter Price — “A Painted Window,” Annie Martin — “Summer Retreat,” Williamston Owosso Community Erica Duffield — “Sister Act,” Owosso Community Williamston Theatre Theatre Players Players Bryan Ruhf — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Creek Theatre O.G. Ueberroth — “The Amazing Jesus,” Ixion Theatre Karyn Perry — “Catch Me If You Can,” Riverwalk Co. Joseph Zettelmaier — “Pulp,” Williamston Theatre Best Director, Play Theatre Tony Caselli — “1984,” Williamston Theatre Karyn Perry — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek Best Lighting Best Artistic Specialization Michael Hays — “Burn This,” Riverwalk Theatre Theatre Co. Heather Brown — “The Tempest,” MSU Department Rachael Cupples, Vocal Director — “Sister Act,” Mary Job — “Taking Shakespeare,” Williamston Shayla Woodward, Brad Willcuts — “Blood at the of Theatre Owosso Community Players Theatre Root,” MSU Department of Theatre Richard Chapman — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Creek Alison Dobbins, Media Design — “The Tempest,” Mary Matzke — “None of the Above,” LCC Theatre Theatre Co. MSU Department of Theatre Program Best Set Design Alex Gay — “Summer Retreat,” Williamston Theatre Curran Jacobs, Fight Choreography — “Heathers,” Suzi Regan — “Summer Retreat,” Williamston Theatre Jeff Boerger — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Michael Jordan, Carl Ludington — “Rock of Ages,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Co. Frannie Shepherd-Bates — “A Painted Window,” Co. Owosso Community Players Matt Ottinger, Media Design — “Grease,” Riverwalk Williamston Theatre Kirk Domer — “Summer Retreat,” Williamston Shannon Schweitzer — “Pulp,” Williamston Theatre Theatre Theatre Chris Stowell — “Urinetown,” MSU Department of Best Director, Musical Bob Fernholz — “American Hero,” LCC Theatre Theatre Best Lead Actor, Play Blake Bowen — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek Program Daniel Walker — “A Painted Window,” Williamston Michael Banghart — “Burn This,” Riverwalk Theatre Theatre Co. Lee Jones — “Urinetown,” MSU Department of Theatre Joe Dickson — “The Hemingway Play,” Riverwalk Garrett Bradley — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso Theatre Theatre Community Players Dirk Rennick, Dan Wenzlick — “Peter and the Best Costume Design Michael Hays — “The Hemingway Play,” Riverwalk Garrett Bradley, Anna Owens — “Peter and the Starcatcher,” Owosso Community Players Morgan Bowen, Shannon Bowen — “Heathers,” Theatre Starcatcher,” Owosso Community Players Peppermint Creek Theatre Co. Michael Lopetrone — “Taking Shakespeare,” Lisa Bradley, Alissa Britten, Cathy Johnson, Mistie Williamston Theatre Jordan — “Sister Act,” Owosso Community Players Zach Riley — “Burn This,” Riverwalk Theatre Lark Burger — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Co. Best Lead Actress, Play Karen Kangas-Preston — “A Painted Window,” Shannon Bowen — “Matt & Ben,” Over the Ledge Williamston Theatre Theatre Co. Cathy McHargue-Johnson — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso DANCE CLASSES NOW FORMING! Community Players See Nominees, Page 15 FALL CLASSES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 11TH! TAP JAZZ BALLET LATIN BALLROOM TODDLER PROFESSIONALS REGISTER BEFORE AUGUST 31ST AND RECEIVE $20 OFF TUITION!

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A deposit of $1,000 is required to receive a bid card. Theatre John Bippus, John Bippus, Adam Woolsey — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek things encapsulating everythingAARE CAI CES that GRI they AARE CAI CES GRI Broker/Auctioneer Broker/Auctioneer Nominees Theatre Co. Artist wanted conveyed, as well as making it in a Adam Woolsey — “Peter and the Starcatcher,” Detailed Info 888-481-5108 Detailed Info 888-481-5108 Owosso Community Players way that madeor Visit sense Our Website! — it was a lot,” Lavon or Visit Our Website! from page 14 from page 13 said. “It’s still there, it just hasn’t been fully Best Lead Actress, Musical Ruth Crawford — “A Painted Window,” Williamston Isabella Abuan — “Peter and the Starcatcher,” Owosso Charlottefleshed out Shopping yet.” Guide & Charlotte Shopping Guide & Theatre Community Players Lavon created this piece originally as For now, Lavon is focused on printmak- Terry Heck — “Taking Shakespeare,” Williamston Mandy Bashore — “Sister Act,” Owosso Community Grand Ledger Independent, Grand Ledger Independent, Theatre Players a promotional series for the Common ing, and a new project that will combine Erin Hoffman — “Matt & Ben,” Over the Ledge Meghan Corbett — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso Ground Music Festival, but the one on the 2x3printmaking color with and photo food. 2x3 color without photo Theatre Co. Community Players Dominique Lowell — “A Painted Window,” Bethany Heinlein — “Urinetown,” MSU Department cover has a few added tweaks. August“I absolutely 13 love food to pieces and a lot August 20 Williamston Theatre of Theatre “The whole collection was objects that of my friends are professional chefs from Sarah Lynn — “Luna Gale,” Peppermint Creek Ellie Weise — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Theatre Co. Co. make music,” Lavon said. “So, for Common around the United States and beyond, and Danica O’Neill — “None of the Above,” LCC Theatre Ground, we have country to rap and every- I thought, ‘What does everybody love?’” Program Best Supporting Actor, Musical Brian Farnham — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek thing in between, and the only unifying Lavon said. Theatre Co. Best Supporting Actor, Play factor was things that make music or music But much like her other project about Grant Cleaveland — “Punk Rock,” MSU Department Jonathan Hamilton — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso EATON COUNTY REAL ESTATE of Theatre Community Players generally. A phonograph, a radio, a micro- sexual trauma, there will be a serious edge Jonathan Hamilton — “Urinetown,” MSU Department Mark Colson — “Pulp,” Williamston Theatre phone — things that are all related to music to this piece as well, which fans of Lavon’s Aral Gribble — “Pulp,” Williamston Theatre of Theatre AUCTION Lukas Jacob — “Punk Rock,” MSU Department of Joe Quick — “Peter and the Starcatcher,” Owosso is all part of that collection. I didn’t want work can look forward to in the future. Community Players By order of the County Treasurer of Eaton County Theatre the art to be only for that event, so I started “I’m thinking about making correlations Lynch Travis — “A Painted Window,” Williamston Zach Riley — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Thursday, September 7, 2017 Theatre Co. experimenting with things and used some from objectifying women’s bodies to food,” Holden Santi — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso Community Auction: 6:00pm / Registration: 5:00pm Best Supporting Actress, Play Players paper that was left over from another proj- Lavon said. Angela Dawe — “Superior Donuts,” Riverwalk Best Supporting Actress, Musical ect, and kind of combined everything to AUCTION LOCATION: Theatre County Administration Bldg, Angela Dill — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Anna Birmingham — “Urinetown,” MSU Department make that piece.” Co. of Theatre Lavon’s body of work is broad and also EATON COUNTY REAL ESTATE Board of Commissioners Room, Ja’Nay Duncan — “Disgraced,” Peppermint Creek Emma Callis — “Urinetown,” MSU Department of 1045 Independence Blvd., Charlotte, MI 48813 Theatre covers more difficult topics. Recently, Theatre Co. Detailed information on parcels to be offered Anna Szabo — “Goodnight Desdemona (Good Kylie Densmore — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek Lavon began to work on a project geared Morning Juliet),” Over the Ledge Theatre Co. Theatre Co. AUCTION & terms of sale can be obtained Teriah Fleming — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek toward helping the survivors of sexual on the internet at www.BippusUSA.com Anna Szabo — “The Hemingway Play,” Riverwalk By order of the County Treasurer of Eaton County Theatre Theatre Co. Emma Kron-Deacon — “Heathers,” Peppermint trauma. A deposit of $1,000 is required to receive a bid card. Best Featured Actor, Play Creek Theatre Co. “I was trying to tell the stories of a few Thursday, John Bippus, Grace Rosen — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso Community AARE CAI CES GRI Justin Brewer — “Explorers Club,” Over the Ledge friends who had experienced some incred- Theatre Co. Players Broker/Auctioneer ible hardships, and they didn’t have a September 7, 2017 Brennan Hattaway — “Disgraced,” Peppermint Creek Best Featured Actor, Musical Detailed Info 888-481-5108 Theatre Co. strong enough voice themselves to com- or Visit Our Website! Jeff Magnuson — “Superior Donuts,” Riverwalk Grant Cleaveland — “Urinetown,” MSU Department Auction: 6:00pm / Registration: 5:00pm Theatre of Theatre municate said trauma or ask for help, and I Brennan Hattaway — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso Heath Sartorius — “Goodnight Desdemona (Good was using that, to kind of be their voice for Morning Juliet)” Community Players AUCTION LOCATION: Lansing State Journal, 1x3 Heath Sartorius — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Creek Connor Kelly — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek them,” Lavon said. “To shed some light on County Administration Building, Theatre Co. August 13 & 20 Theatre Co. Board of Commissioners Room, Chad Swan-Badgero — “Luna Gale,” Peppermint Mike Merluzzi — “Urinetown,” MSU Department of their experiences in hopes of helping them Creek Theatre Co. Theatre and people who had similar experiences.” 1045 Independence Blvd., Joe Quick — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Best Featured Actress, Play Co. The two-year project is something that Charlotte, MI 48813 Laura Croff — “Wonder of the World,” Riverwalk Lavon hopes to finish soon, but she admit- EATON COUNTY Theatre Best Featured Actress, Musical Eve Davidson — “Superior Donuts,” Riverwalk Angie Bradley — “Rock of Ages,” Owosso Community ted that it was an “emotionally draining” Players REAL ESTATE AUCTION Theatre process. Angela Dill — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Creek Theatre Laura Croff — “Catch Me If You Can,” Riverwalk By order of the County Treasurer of Eaton County Co. Theatre “I kind of just put it on the backburner Veronica Gracia-Wing — “Eurydice,” Peppermint Laura Croff — “Heathers,” Peppermint Creek Thursday, September 7, 2017 Theatre Co. for the moment, because telling someone Creek Theatre Co. Auction: 6:00pm / Registration: 5:00pm Danica O’Neill — “Luna Gale,” Peppermint Creek Sarah Hayner — “Grease,” Riverwalk Theatre else’s story via art and the nuances and Theatre Co. Kathy Kowalski — “Sister Act,” Owosso Community 5306 Durfee Road Players AUCTION LOCATION: Best Lead Actor, Musical County Administration Building, Board of Commissioners Room, DJ Shafer — “Urinetown,” MSU Department of Best Ensemble, Play 1045 Independence Blvd., Charlotte, MI 48813 Theatre “1984” — Williamston Theatre Martin Underhill — “Man of La Mancha,” Starlight “Blood at the Root” — MSU Department of Theatre Dinner Theatre “Every Breath You Take” — Ixion Theatre Adam Woolsey — “Catch Me If You Can,” Riverwalk “Serious Money” — LCC Theatre Program S. Main Street 5306 Durfee Rd. 114 W. Caroline St. S. Main St. A deposit of $1,000 is required to receive a bid card. Detailed information on parcels to be offered & terms of sale can be obtained on the internet at www.BippusUSA.com Detailed Info 888-481-5108 John Bippus, or Visit Our AARE CAI CES GRI 40 Broker/Auctioneer Website!

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is a “threat to the order and security of on officials and then, if it is turned down Prison reads and restraints the institution,” and some classic Elmore at that level, it goes to the Department of An overview of available Leonard books like “Out of Sight” which Corrections for a final review. in addition to threatening the order of the Despite the list of banned books, reading material for inmates institution ,“advocates insurrection and inmates have no shortage of reading mate- escape.” rials, according to Gautz. By BILL CASTANIER To ensure inmates aren’t receiving Each prison has a library where Inmates Inmates at Michigan’s more than 30 banned content, every piece of mail com- can check out books and have access to the penal institutions won’t be reading the ing into a prison is examined for contra- LexisNexis database for legal research. acclaimed jail break book “Papillon” by band. Gautz also said that the Department Henry Charriére, or “Junky: Confessions of First, books can only be mailed from recently made a rudimentary tablet avail- an Unredeemed Drug Addict,” by William approved vendors like Amazon, Barnes able for inmates to purchase. S. Burroughs, any day soon. & Noble and, locally, Schuler Books, to “Obviously, without Wi-Fi,” Gautz said. Those books, along with thousands of avoid tampering. Then, books are carefully Inmates can use the tablet to purchase others, are on the Michigan Department screened for content. Some of the banned and download pre-approved e-books, of Corrections’ banned book list. The list books are obvious, others less so. games and music from third-party pro- is 60 pages long and filled with books that The “Fifty Shades” series makes the for- vided kiosks. Count on games from the have been deemed unsuitable for inmates bidden list because “it describes or depicts “Grand Theft Auto” franchise not being to read. acts of sadism, masochism or bondage.” one of the selections. There are 22 reasons books can A variety of textbook-like books make Gautz said the list has been maintained make the list according to Department the list because Inmates may gain exper- since at least 1996 and it enables all insti- Courtesy Photo of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz. tise in picking locks, hacking or learning tutions to apply the same standards. The list of banned books in U.S. prisons is Included are books like “Papillon” which how to make poisons. For example, “the “There’s one list across the board,” he lengthy, including Dawkins’ “The Graybar Encyclopedia of Electric Circuits,” by said. Hotel.” Rudolph F. Graf is on the list because “it Books aren’t the only form of commu- SCHULER BOOKS provides specific and detailed information nication that comes under close scrutiny. release. Six weeks after his release Abbott USIC about the circuitry and operation of elec- The Department of Corrections recently who was born in Oscoda, Michigan, mur- &M tronic security systems.” issued a comprehensive set of restrictions dered a waiter and was returned to prison. THE CANNING DIVA Generally, any book that describes on inmate mail that prohibits such things Other interesting banned books of note aberrant sex scenes or advocates sex with as stickers of any type, including address by Detroiter Donald Goines, including presents Canning Full Circle minors is an easy call for the censors. Yes, labels; stains of any type, including from “Black Girl Lost” and “Dopefiend,” are on “Lolita,” by Vladimir Nabokov, is on the lipstick, and crayons. the list. Gautz said Inmates are encour- Thursday, August 24 @ 7pm list. Gautz said books depicting sex with Mail cannot have any glue or non-trans- aged to write, including journaling, but it Meridian Mall location “two consenting adults” are likely to pass parent tape and all mail must be sent in appears that books by current inmates are the censor’s eye. white envelopes only. Meet Grand Rapids banned despite content. If a specific book has been mailed to The reason for the clamp-down is con- author Diane A 1916 book, “Peaches: The Wee Hours an inmate and been disapproved, there cern over drugs like Suboxone, an FDA- Devereaux, the II,” by W.D. Burns was banned in 2016 is a two-step appeal process. First, the approved drug used to treat heroin addic- Canning Diva, a because the author is a “currently incarcer- decision is reviewed by the specific pris- tion and withdrawal, which can easily be nationally-syndicated ated inmate, pressure could be exerted to concealed under an address strip accord- food preservation have the book purchased or distributed by expert, radio host, ing to Gautz. other inmates as a means of compensation, television presenter It is important to point out that the communication or influence peddling.” and culinary 60-page list is not all-inclusive. Books only Likely, the book “The Graybar Hotel,” instructor! make the list when they are sent to inmates by lifer Curtis Dawkins which recently gar- and refused because of content. nered a front page story in the New York Michigan Author Vic Foerster One notable book on prison life by Times, will be subject to the same fate. the infamous jailhouse writer Jack Henry The National Institute of Corrections’ presents Hidden in the Trees US 127 & Lake Lansing Rd Abbott, is also not on the list, but would website states that there isn’t one official undoubtedly make it. “In the Belly of the list of banned books, but it provides a list Thursday, Sept. 7 @ 7pm www.NCGmovies.com Beast,” by Abbott is a collection of his let- of resources on its website to find out Meridian Mall location (517) 316-9100 ters from prison that caught the attention more. There is however, a more inclusive of celebrities, including Norman Mailer Meet Vic Foerster, author of the 2017 Student Discount with ID record, that was first made available by the in late 1979, who then advocated for his Great Lakes Reads Selection Naked in ID required for “R” rated films online news site MuckRock. the Stream: Isle Royale Stories, as he presents his newest publication, Hidden in the Trees: An Isle Royale Sojourn! Welcome Home: Adoption Anthology Panel Event Tuesday, Sept. 12 @ 7pm Eastwood Towne Center location Commercial & Join us for an author panel featuring contributors to Welcome Home, a Residential new anthology featuring a diverse on se Books, ines range of celebrated Young Adult n Coics Fully Insured authors. Featured authors will be Erica Chapman, Stephanie Scott, and Darcy Woods. Call Joan at: for more information visit www.SchulerBooks.com (517) 881-2204 City Pulse • August 23, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 17 An odyssey of swing

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EventsTOWN must be entered through the calendar at lansingcitypulse.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Wednesdays for the following week’s issue. Charges may apply for paid events to appear in print. If you need assistance, please call Eve at (517) 999-5066. Photo Credit Shown above is the World Class City Band. The 12-piece group includes: Conductor/Pianist John Dale Smith, Jerry Krause Wednesday, August 23 (Bass & Vocals), Don Sovey (Guitar& Vocals), Richard Cote (Drum Kit), Jonathan Smith (Percussion), Will Cicola and Bronnie CLASSES AND SEMINARS Alcoholics Anonymous. 6 p.m. Donation welcome. Brown (Sax), Kyle Tilstra and Thomas Snider (Trombone) and Jim Kaspyrzak and Steve Rentschler (Trumpet) who are not Pennsylvania Ave. Church of God, 3500 S. Pennsylvania pictured. Ave., Lansing. (517) 882-4114 Mindfulness. Meditation for beginners and experienced. 7 - 9 p.m. Chua Van Hanh Temple, 3015 S. Washington, Lansing. (517) 420-5820. ow.ly/3aWI30crcLc. [email protected] August 26th LITERATURE AND POETRY Stories in the Garden. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. FREE. MSU Children's 4-H Garden, located on the corner of Wilson You’ll be able to travel back to Smith said, referring to a former “The first set will be your Road and Bogue Street on the MSU campus East Lansing. the ‘30s and move all the way to local TV broadcaster active in traditional big band tunes; the MUSIC present day this Saturday with theater. “Evan and I were good second set evolves into another Habibi Dancers at Allen Farmers Market. Come a one-night only performance friends, so we sort of modeled it group. It’s the same people enjoy a live performance. 5 - 6:30 p.m. FREE. Allen Market Place, 1629 E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. allenneibhborhood. by the World Class City Band at after David Letterman. I had an performing but it’s more of center.org. Over The Ledge Theatre Co. The eight-piece band, and we called what I call J&J Sounds, Jerry Tavern House Jazz Band. From 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 a.m. 12-piece group is led by local big that band, for the purpose of Krause, who is the bass player Tavern and Tap, 101 S. Washington Square, Lansing. Vintage Music from the 20s with the Roaring band music staple, John Dale the show, the World Class City and vocals, and I are co-leaders Twenties Band. Fan favorites. Rain or shine. 7 - 9 Smith. Band.” of this other group called J&J p.m. FREE/ Donations accepted. William E. Tennant Smith said that this Though Pinsonnault’s show Sounds. We do Performance Shell, 805 W. Park St., Saint Johns. (989) Blues Brothers, 224-2429. performance is a way for the didn’t last, Smith’s chosen "World Class City group to head back to its roots. moniker did. Smith said he Chicago, Detroit Band" EVENTS “In 2000, we did a show, actually got the name from kind of music,” Saturday, Aug. 26 Allen Farmers Market. From 2:30 to 7 p.m. FREE. Allen Smith said. 8 p.m. Market Place, 1629 E Kalamazoo St Lansing. 5179993911. a musical revue, called Mayor Virg Bernero, who always $12/$10 Seniors/$7 Cirque AmongUs Workshop and Summer Reading wanted Lansing to be a “world “So, what we ‘Sophisticated Ladies,’ featuring are doing is Big Students Party (All ages). Try out circus skills. 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. four singers and we had a class city.” The Ledges Playhouse FREE. Capital Area District Libraries Aurelius Branch, 1939 14-piece 'little' Big Band,” Smith Fast forward a few years to Band, take an 137 Fitzgerald Park South Aurelius Road, Mason. intermission, Drive, Friends of the Library Book Sale (All ages). Get said. 2017, and the World Class City and we all come Grand Ledge bargains at the book sale. 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. FREE. Band has grown from eight (517) 230-9593 Capital Area District Libraries Aurelius Branch, 1939 South That 14-piece group was back and we do members to 12. Smith said he’s overtheledge.org Aurelius Road, Mason. similar to today’s incarnation of those charts Lunch and Learn with Brookdale Senior Living. the World Class City Band, but stuck with groups that play Big but it’s with seven horns rather Discuss hydration and its benefits. Lunch provided. 11:30 Smith wouldn’t lead a group by Band and swing music because a.m. - 12:30 p.m. FREE. Meridian Senior Center, 4406 of his love for it. than the normal three. It’s a Okemos Road, Okemos. that name for some time. First, huge sound, it’s really rather Practice Your English. Practice speaking in friendly, he’d go an alternate route. “You don’t get to hear it exciting.” environment. 7 - 8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, much,” Smith said. “So now 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. “Several people in the That second set will include audience who were at this show we’re going to go back to Over such tunes as “Brown Eyed Girl,” ARTS said, ‘You know, that ought to The Ledge’s now. Joe Dickson is “Pretty Woman” and “Can’t Take Conscience of the Human Spirit: The Life of Nelson now in charge, and he wanted Mandela. Art show from African-American quilters. 12 - 2 be something that the Lansing My Eyes Off You.” p.m. FREE. Lookout! Gallery, 362 Bogue St., MSU campus, Symphony should incorporate,’” something different to present East Lansing. Smith said. up there, rather than just Thursday, August 24 Incorporate them they did, theater.” — EVE KUCHARSKI CLASSES AND SEMINARS and for a decade, Smith would The upcoming show almost (TOPS) Take Off Pounds Sensibly. At 6 p.m. First lead the Lansing Symphony Big didn’t happen. It was originally meeting FREE.. Haslett Middle School, 1535 Franklin St. booked for July, but delays Haslett. Band. Even after that stint, his A Course in Miracles. From 7 to 9 p.m. Unity Spiritual love for the genre didn’t waver. pushed it back to the end of Center of Lansing, 230 S. Holmes Lansing. 517-371-3010. August. Now however, Smith is Capital Area Crisis Rugby Practice. We accept all skill “Evan Pinsonnault and others decided to form a variety show,” confident about his lineup and See Out on the Town Page 19 set list. 18 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 23, 2017

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The Dirtball of Kottonmouth Kings at Mark Dvorak at the Pump House A Night for Nate Mac's Bar Saturday, Aug. 26 @ Pump House Concerts, Sunday, Aug. 27 @ Moriarty’s Pub, 802 E. Thursday, Aug. 31 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. 368 Orchard St., East Lansing. All ages, $15 Michigan Ave., Lansing. 21+, 3 - 7 p.m., $10 Michigan Ave., Lansing. All ages, $15, 7 p.m. suggested donation, 7 p.m. suggested donation. Mark Dvorak, who performs Saturday at the Pump Local bands from Big Sur and Atomic Boogaloo celebrate David Alexander, better known as the Dirtball, is an House, was born to a working class family on Chicago's the life of Nathan Wardell, a local man who died last year Oregon native best known for his lyrical work in the southwest side when he discovered Bob Dylan and slipped at 35 following complications stemming from spina bifida. Kottonmouth Kings, the California-based band known for into the folk-music rabbit hole. Soon, he was saving for “I decided to hold the Night for Nate just as a way to blending psychedelic sounds with hip-hop and punk rock. an acoustic guitar while tracking down LPs by Woody honor his memory as he was a huge fan of music,” said The Dirtball is the newest member in the group, joining Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Lead Belly. By 1981, he was on his brother, and event organizer Christopher Wardell. The in early 2010, but he’s also worked with fellow members the local folk circuit and opened the Old Quarter Coffee show at Moriarty’s Pub celebrates what would’ve been of the Kottonmouth Kings in X Pistols, a West Coast-style House. He also promptly learned the banjo and mastered his 37th birthday, but also is a benefit for the Michigan punk side project. This tour, Dirtball performs his hip-hop the claw-hammer stroke. In the following decades, he’s Disability Rights Coalition. “His issues began when he was solo works at Mac’s Bar. Openers are KnowledgeDaMC, been recording, gigging in the Chicago acoustic scene, and forced to use a loaner wheelchair while his was being S.O.P., Bake Lo, Primo and 6leggz. The Dirtball’s rapid-fire touring the country while simultaneously teaching music repaired,” Christopher recalled. “The repairs took forever, delivery has been compared to Chicago-based Twista, while – including a faculty position at Chicago's prestigious Old and he soon gained a pressure wound.” Christopher said his off-color lyrics mirror Detroit’s own Eminem. AllMusic Town School of Music, where he is an artist-in-residence. this show is aimed at drawing attention to such issues. Guide called him “a West Coast rapper with a passion for In December 2013, Dvorak published his first collection Midwestern hip-hop.” of essays and poems, “Bowling for Christmas and Other Tales from the Road.” vv Contact [email protected]

LIVE & LOCAL Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday The Avenue Café, 2021 E. Michigan Ave. Service Industry Night, 3 p.m. '80s Karaoke FREE From Big Sur FREE Glam Dance Party FREE Black Cat, 115 Albert Ave. Alistair Beerens, 8 p.m. Buddies - Holt, 2040 N Aurelius Rd Mike Cooley, 6:30 p.m. Paulie O., 6:30 p.m. Jon Persico, 6:30 p.m. Buddies - Okemos, 1937 W Grand River Ave Rush Clement, 9 p.m. Claddagh Irish Pub, 2900 Towne Centre Blvd. Steve Cowles, 7 p.m. Crunchy's, 254 W. Grand River Ave. Jeremy Kratky, 10 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Coach's, 6201 Bishop Rd DJ Trivia, 8 p.m. Pool Tourny, 7:30 a.m. Alskn "walleye" AYCE DJ, 9 p.m. Dublin Square, 327 Abbot Road Cheap Dates, 10 p.m. Eaton Rapids Craft Co., 204 N Main St. Chris Laskos, 6 p.m. Alistair Beerens, 6 p.m. Joe Burt, 6 p.m. Esquire, 1250 Turner St. Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Exchange, 314 E. Michigan Ave. Live Blues w/ The Good Cookies, 8 p.m. Mike Skory & Friends, 8:30 p.m. Be Kind Rewind, 9:30 p.m. The Knock Offs, 9:30 Green Door, 2005 E. Michigan Ave. "Johnny D" Blues Night, 9 p.m. Karaoke Kraze!! Sloan Carnival party Icy Dicey Harpers, 131 Albert Ave. Bobby Standal, 6 p.m. Sarah Brunner, 6 p.m. Mikey Cooley, 6 p.m. Harrison Roadhouse, 720 E. Michigan Ave. Mike Cooley, 5:30 p.m. Lansing Brewing Company, 518 E. Shiawassee Mikey Cooley, 7 p.m. The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave. Freakabout, 8 p.m. Bubba Sparxxx, 9 p.m. Tribute to grateful dead/phish, 8 p.m. Bassdeaf Locl DJ, 7 p.m. Mac's Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave. Marina City, 6:30 p.m. Able baker Fox, 7 p.m. A Daydream Away, 6 p.m. Moriarty's Pub, 802 E. Michigan Ave. Open Mic w/ Jen Sygit, 9 p.m. Smoothy Daddy, 9 p.m. Freddie Cunnhingham Blues Band, 9 p.m. Reno's East, 1310 Abbot Road Don & Rush, 6 p.m Alistair Beerens, 6 p.m. Bobby Standal, 6 p.m. Kathy Ford - Duo, 6 p.m. Reno's North, 16460 Old US 27 Chris Laskos, 6 p.m. Mikey Cooley, 6 p.m. Life Support, 6 p.m. Rush Clement, 6 p.m. Reno's West, 5001 W. Saginaw Hwy. Steve Cowles, 6 p.m. Tom & Sean, 6 p.m. Kathy Ford - Duo, 6 p.m. John Persico, 6 p.m. Ryan's Roadhouse, 902 E State St. Chris Laskos, 6 p.m. The Robin Theatre, 1105 S. Washington Ave. RTCA Public Meeting, 6 p.m. James Gardin, 8 p.m. Elder, nameless art collective, 5 p.m. Watershed Tavern and Grill 5965 Marsh Rd. Bryan Schaffer, 7 p.m. Mark Sala, 7 p.m. Waterfront Bar and Grill, 325 City Market Dr Open Mic. Night Stan Budzynsky HenderSeth City Pulse • August 23, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 19 ages.Lansing Community College East Campus, 2827 Eyde read to certified therapy dog. Call ahead. 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Family Friendly Picnic and Concert. From 3 - 9 p.m. Parkway, East Lansing. (517) 483-1860. [email protected]. Learn Grand Ledge Area District Library, 131 E. Jefferson St., FREE. Alfreda Schmidt Southside Community Center, 5825 Out on the town Foundation Directory Online Professional database. Grand Ledge. Wise Road, Lansing. Library Boot Camp. Learn Foundation Directory Online Summer Music Series at henry's Place. Final musical Atheists and Humanists Dinner Meeting. Lecture Professional database and other related resources. 12 - 1 Saturday. Blues, jazz, acoustics. 9 p.m. - 12 a.m. Henry's on Atheists and Humanists Activism.5 - 8:30 p.m. $10.99 from page 17 p.m. FREE. MSU Library, 366 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing. Place Neighborhood Gastro Sports Bar, 4926 Marsh Road, - Buffet includes hot tea. Asian Buffet, 4920 Marsh Road, levels. 6 - 8 p.m. FREE. St. Joseph Park, 2125 W. Hillsdale (517) 353-8700. Okemos. ow.ly/j9PZ30cINgv. Okemos. (517) 914-2278. Lansing. crisisfrc.com. Lansing Area Sunday Swing Dance. At 6 p.m. $8 dance, Celebrate Recovery. For all types of hurts and hang-ups. MUSIC $10 dance & lesson. The Lansing Eagles, 4700 N. Grand 6 p.m. Donations welcome. Trinity Church (Lansing), 3355 Lansing Flow Fest (Hip-Hop Festival). Hip-hop Festival Sunday, August 27 River Ave. Lansing. (517) 321-0933. Dunckel Road Lansing. http://ow.ly/p9iv30cQGgi. with FREE food, FREE raffles. Clean, kid-friendly lyrics. CLASSES AND SEMINARS One Book, One Community Kick-Off Event: An Lansing Area Codependents Anonymous. At 5:45 p.m. 6 - 10 p.m. FREE. Adado Riverfront Park, 531 N. Grand Ave., Charlotte Yoga Club. Beginner to intermediate. 11 a.m. - Evening with Saroo Brierley. Meet Saroo Brierly, of "A FREE. Everybody Reads Books and Stuff, 2019 E. Michigan Lansing. (517) 333-8628. 12:15 p.m. $5 annually. AL!VE, 800 W. Lawrence, Charlotte. Long Way Home." 7 p.m. FREE. Hannah Community Center, Ave. Lansing. (517) 346-9900. charlotteyoga.net. (517) 285-0138. 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing. NAMI Class for Caregivers. 12-class structured course. EVENTS Juggling. Learn a life-long skill from Mike, the Juggler. 6:30 - 9 p.m. FREE. McLaren-Greater Lansing Education Michigan Sierra Club Annual Retreat. Weekend retreat Call/Text ahead. All skill levels welcome. 2 - 4 p.m. FREE. ARTS Building, 401 W. Greenlawn Ave., Lansing. at historic Camp Miniwanca. 5 - noon Camp Miniwanca, Orchard Street Pumphouse, 368 Orchard St., East Lansing. Meridian Artisan Marketplace. 30 artisans/crafters 8845 W. Garfield Road, Shelby. (517) 484-2372. ow.ly/ (517) 371-5119. from Mid-Michigan show jewelry, woodwork and more. 11 THEATRE Zb3h30eupX7. [email protected]. a.m. - 4 p.m. Prices vary. Central Park Pavilion, 5151 Marsh Hockey- The Musical! Hockey fans save their sport in EVENTS a play by Mitch Albom. 7:30 p.m. $35. Wharton Center for ARTS Alfreda Schmidt Southside Community Center See Out on the Town, Page 21 Performing Arts, 750 E. Shaw Lane, East Lansing. (517) Twice-Loved Art Sale. Original art at must-have prices. 353-1982. 5 - 8 p.m. Grove Gallery and Studios, 325 Grove St. East Lansing. (517) 333-7180. grovegalleryandstudios.com. EVENTS 12-Step Meeting. AA/NA/CA all welcome. Every Tuesday and Thursday in room 209. 12 - 1 p.m. FREE. Donations Saturday, August 26 welcome. Cristo Rey Community Center, 1717 N. High St., CLASSES AND SEMINARS Lansing. Lean In Lansing. Professional development group for Current Events. Get in "the now" by joining our current women. Check web for location. 9 - 11 a.m. Grand Traverse events club. 11 a.m. to noon FREE. Meridian Senior Center, Pie, 1403 E. Grand River Ave., East Lansing. laurie@ 4406 Okemos Road Okemos. (517) 706-5045. laurimorsedell.com. Drop-in LEGO Club (Age 4 and up). Kids love getting Prerana Yoga Twerkout. Helps endurance, back, core, creative with our LEGO collection. Noon -4:00 p.m. FREE. glutes and thigh strength. Knee-pads recommended. 6 - 7 Capital Area District Libraries Downtown Lansing Branch. p.m. $5. American Martial Arts & Fitness Academy, 402 E. 401 S. Capital Ave., Lansing. Saginaw St., Lansing. Ear Acupuncture Detox. Learn about detox and Q&A. Full treatment included. Arrive early. 6 - 7:30 p.m. $10. LITERATURE AND POETRY Willow Stick Ceremonies & Healing Arts, 335 Seymour Ave., Social Justice Reading Group (Ages 4-11). ELPL Suite D, Lansing. librarians/volunteers read on topics. Register ahead. 10:30 Ladies Silver Blades. Skating club. Rink 1. 9:30 a.m. - a.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East 11:20 a.m. Suburban Ice 2810, Hannah Blvd., East Lansing. Lansing. (517) 351-2420. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 - SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 >> GREATER LANSING BALLOON FESTIVAL ladiessilverblades.com. Lunch at the Meridian Senior Center. From 12 to 1 p.m. MUSIC More than 20 hot air balloons will fill the air this weekend at the Greater Lansing Balloon Festival. The $5.75/$3 suggested for ages 60+. Meridian Senior Center, World Class City Band Concert. A one-night concert festival comes to lansing through RE/MAX Real Estate Co., and it's no coincidence that it's logo is a hot 4406 Okemos Road Okemos. directed by John Dale Smith. Big band and blues music. 8 - air balloon. According to Jody Leatherberry, one of the representatives of the event and the Michigan Movers and Readers Playtime (0-3). Activities/stories 10 p.m. Over the Ledge Theatre Co., Fitzgerald Park Grand corporate hot air balloon pilot for RE/MAX, it's a decades-long tradition. The event will span the entire for children and their caregivers. 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. FREE. Ledge. (517) 318-0579 Capital Area District Libraries Mason Branch, 145 W. Ash weekend, and visitors will see hot air balloons rise into the air three times over that span, weather St., Mason. EVENTS permitting. Although visitors will not be able to get a balloon ride, the fesitval will have everything from Antique Sale and Classic Car Cruise-In at the Party Bridge. Weekly activity at Meridian Senior Center. face painting, walks inside balloons and inflatables. 1 - 4 p.m. $1 Members/$2 Public. Meridian Senior Center, Turner-Dodge House. Live music, antique vendors, tours 4406 Okemos Road, Okemos. and classic cars. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Turner-Dodge House, 100 $10/Car Hope Sports Complex, 5801 N. Aurelius Road, Lansing. RJ Scheffel Memorial Toy Project Open House. Light N. East St., Lansing. (734) 476-1451. lunch served/tour Jennifer Diebel speaks. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Band Against Bullying. Benefit for bullying victims. R.J. Scheffel Memorial Toy Project, 16991 Old U.S. 27 Suite Schools/instructors to be gifted depends money raised. 5 A. Lansing. p.m. - 1 a.m. Donations accepted. Homespun, 9265 Mulliken THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 >> WALKING TOURS AT BEAL BOTANICAL GARDEN Spanish Conversation. Practice speaking Spanish in a Road, Mulliken. comfortable setting. 7 - 8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Drop-in LEGO Club (Age 4 and up). From 12 to 4 p.m. The Historical Society of Greater Lansing hosts a tour of Beal Botanical Garden located on Michigan Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. FREE. Capital Area District Libraries Downtown Lansing Branch, 401 South Capitol Avenue Lansing. 517-367-6363. State University’s campus Thursday. Established in 1924 and named after William James Beal, an MSU Lansing Pagan Pride 2017. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. FREE. Valhalla professor in the late 1800s and prolific arborist, the tour will focus on the historical aspects of the Friday, August 25 Park, Keller and Pine Tree Roads Holt. lansingppd.org/index. garden. The tour will include stories of Beal’s work and that of his successors who reimagined and php/ppd. [email protected]. CLASSES AND SEMINARS redesigned the garden in the mid-20th century, inspiring the American Society of Horticultural Science in LCC East Expo. Explore the East Campus of LCC. For all Paws for Reading. Preschool - high school ages can 1955 to pronounce the then newly organized garden the finest teaching facility in the country. Attendees are asked to meet at W.J. Beal Botanical Garden. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 >> ANTIQUE SALE AND CLASSIC CAR CRUISE-IN AT TURNER-DODGE HOUSE 6:30 p.m. FREE. W.J. Beal Botanical Garden, 40 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing. (517) 282-0671, lansinghistory. The Turner Dodge House proudly presents their Antique Sale paired with a Classic Car Cruise-In Saturday. org Free and fun for the whole family, the antique sale will offer myriad wares and a plethora of vendors. In conjunction with the REO Olds Transportation Museum, the Classic Car Cruise-In will attract car-lovers and motor-heads from Lansing and beyond, providing an eclectic mix of old and new cars. Tours of the event’s historic backdrop, the Turner-Dodge House, will also be available all day. To top it off, the event will host live music as a real-time soundtrack for the day of classic cars, antique picking and history. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Turner-Dodge House, 100 E. North St., Lansing. (734) 476-1451.

AUGUST 25-27 >> SUN DRIED MUSIC FEST AT DOWNTOWN MASON

Packed into just three days, Sun Dried Music Fest hosts 13 bands and musicians on two stages this weekend in downtown Mason. With a line-up too long to list, this year’s eighth annual festival hosts hitmakers like Brian Lorente and the Usual Suspects, Root Doctor, Blue Haired Betty’s and a whole slew of other Michigan acts to keep the party going all weekend long. While the tunes are free, attendees 21 and over can pay $5 on Friday and Saturday to peruse a beer and wine tent. Food, games and other activities will all be on hand for an additional costs as well. On Sunday, the festival will start its last day run with a community worship Service facilitated by the Mason Ministerial Association. 6-11 p.m. Friday; noon-midnight Saturday; 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Sunday. FREE. Downtown Mason. sundriedfestival.com. 20 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 23, 2017

Jonesin' Crossword By Matt Jones Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny August 24 - 31

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Welcome to Swami Hansell stated his opinion of psychoanalyst Sigmund "Evenly Spaced"--it Moonflower's Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some Freud: "He was wrong about so many things. But he was matches up. mystical cleansing? Hint #1: To remove stains on your wrong in such interesting ways. He pioneered a whole Matt Jones attitude, use a blend of Chardonnay wine, tears from new way of looking at things." That description should a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before provide good raw material for you to consider as you Across dawn. Hint #2: To eliminate glitches in your love life, pol- play with your approach to life in the coming weeks, 1 Prefix before "feasance" ish your erogenous zones with pomegranate juice while Libra. Being right won't be half as important as being 4 Give a head signal to you visualize the goddess kissing your cheek. #3: To get 9 Father of Beau and Jeff willing to gaze at the world from upside-down, inside-out 14 Historical time period rid of splotches on your halo, place angel food cake on perspectives. So I urge you to put the emphasis on for- 15 Historical time period your head for two minutes, then bury the cake in holy mulating experimental hypotheses, not on proving defini- 16 Having a roof overhang ground while chanting, "It's not my fault! My evil twin's a tive theories. Be willing to ask naive questions and make 17 Colorado national park jerk!" #4: To banish the imaginary monkey on your back, educated guesses and escape your own certainties. near the Four Corners whip your shoulders with a long silk ribbon until the mon- SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You're entering a phase region key runs away. #5: To purge negative money karma, burn of your astrological cycle when you'll be likely to receive 19 Coeur d'___, Idaho a dollar bill in the flame of a green candle. 20 Where Starbucks gifts at a higher rate than usual. Some gifts could be big, TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A reader named Kameel stores used to pop up, complex, and catalytic, though others may be subtle, hyperbolically Hawa writes that he "prefers pleasure to leisure and cryptic, or even covert. While some may be useful, oth- 22 Dress seen in Bol- leisure to luxury." That list of priorities would be excel- ers could be problematic. So I want to make sure you lywood movies lent for you to adopt during the coming weeks. My know how important it is to be discerning about these 23 "___ Nutsy's Club- analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will offerings. You probably shouldn't blindly accept all of house" (kids' show in be the recipient of extra amounts of permission, relief, them. For instance, don't rashly accept a "blessing" that "UHF") approval, and ease. I won't be surprised if you come would indebt or obligate you to someone in ways that 25 Electrifying fish into possession of a fresh X-factor or wild card. In my feel uncomfortable. 28 Calgary's prov. opinion, to seek luxury would be a banal waste of such 30 Hamburger's home? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are currently precious blessings. You'll get more health-giving benefits 32 Fictional TV locale you under the influence of astrological conditions that have that will last longer if you cultivate simple enjoyments can actually visit in Mount led to dramatic boosts of self-esteem in laboratory rats. and restorative tranquility. Airy, N.C. To test the theory that this experimental evidence can GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks will be 36 Bowler's target be applied to humans, I authorize you to act like a char- 37 Like the river, in an 64 Brewer's supply 15 CBS procedural that 43 Cloud layers an excellent time to cruise past the houses where you ismatic egomaniac in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDNG! Olivia Newton-John song 65 Hardtop substance ran for 15 seasons 44 Cheesy grew up, the schools you used to attend, the hotspots I lied about the lab rats. And I lied about you having the title 18 "Letters from ___ 45 Points toward where you and your old friends hung out, and the places authorization to act like an egomaniac. But here are the 38 Morgan Freeman, in Jima" (2006 film) 47 One small sip where you first worked and had sex. In fact, I recom- "Bruce Almighty" true facts: The astrological omens suggest you can and 22 Maguire who played 49 "Ten Summoner's mend a grand tour of your past. If you can't literally visit 39 Business management Down Spidey Tales" singer should be a lyrical swaggerer and a sensitive swash- the locations where you came of age, simply visualize plans involving Internet 1 D.A.'s group 23 Held a session 50 Dolphins' habitat? buckler. platforms, e.g. them in detail. In your imagination, take a leisurely 2 Do some House work? 24 Old Toyota compact 51 Exeunt ___ (Shake- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to elimi- 42 Neck of the woods excursion through your life story. Why do I advise this 3 Over the top model spearean stage direction) nate all of the following activities from your repertoire 43 Queen ___ (Jay-Z's 4 Had a big laugh 28 Ride an updraft 52 Figure out exercise? Because you can help activate your future spouse, to fans) in the next three weeks: squabbling, hassling, feuding, 5 Parisian negative 29 Alamogordo experi- 55 Many a charitable gp. potentials by reconnecting with your roots. 44 Superman's symbol, in confronting, scuffling, skirmishing, sparring, and brawl- 6 Against (which appears ments, for short 56 Some members of CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of my favorite crosswords ing. Why is this my main message to you? Because the amidst the five long 32 "Bed-in for Peace" the fam Cancerian artists is Penny Arcade, a New York perfor- 45 Tortilla chip condiment astrological omens tell me that everything important you Across answers) activist 60 "Aw, hell ___!" mance artist, actress, and playwright. In this horoscope, 47 Elton John/Tim Rice need to accomplish will come from waging an intense 7 "The Walking Dead" 33 Geog. high points 61 Altoids container I offer a testimonial in which she articulates the spirit musical crusade of peace, love, and understanding. The bicker- 51 Yellow, blue, and red villain 34 "Ay, dios ___!" you'd be wise to cultivate in the coming weeks. She says, ing and grappling stuff won't help you achieve success national symbol flown 8 Spiner who played Data 35 Empowered "I am the person I know best, inside out, the one who over Quito 9 ___-surface missile 37 1945 meeting place best understands my motivations, my struggles, my tri- even a little -- and would probably undermine it. 57 ___ Martin (British car 10 Author Beverly who for Churchill, Stalin, and umphs. Despite occasionally betraying my best interests AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stockbrokers in company) created Ramona and Roosevelt to keep the peace, to achieve goals, or for the sake of Pakistan grew desperate when the Karachi Stock 59 People, collectively Beezus 38 Article accompanier, beloved friendships, I astound myself by my appetite for Exchange went into a tailspin. In an effort to reverse the 60 Granola bar variety 11 Food you're asked how often life, my unwavering curiosity into the human condition, negative trend, they performed a ritual sacrifice of ten 61 3501, to Nero you like? 39 It only requires one my distrust of the status quo, my poetic soul and abiding goats in a parking lot. But their "magic" failed. Stocks 62 Imagine Peace Tower 12 Source of the line "The to ride love of beauty, my strength of character in the face of continued to fade. Much later they recovered, but not creator Yoko meek shall inherit the 42 "Do ___ Diddy Diddy" unfairness, and my optimism despite defeats and loss." in a timely manner that would suggest the sacrifice 63 Unfinished statue? earth" (1964 #1 hit) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Witwatersrand is a series worked. I urge you to avoid their approach to fixing of cliffs in South Africa. It encompasses 217 square problems, especially now. Reliance on superstition and ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords • For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to miles. From this area, which is a tiny fraction of the wishful thinking is guaranteed to keep you stuck. On the your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Ans wers Page 22 Earth's total land surface, humans have extracted 50 other hand, I'm happy to inform you that the coming percent of all the gold ever mined. I regard this fact weeks will be a highly favorable time to use disciplined as an apt metaphor for you to meditate on in the next research and rigorous logic to solve dilemmas. SUDOKU BEGINNER 12 months, Leo. If you're alert, you will find your soul's PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming days, equivalent of Witwatersrand. What I mean is that you'll maybe you could work some lines from the Biblical TO PLAY have a golden opportunity to discover emotional and "Song of Solomon" into your intimate exchanges. The spiritual riches that will nurture your soul as it has rarely moment is ripe for such extravagance. Can you imagine been nurtured. saying things like, "Your lips are honey," or "You are a Fill in the grid so that every VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What I wish for you is a fountain in the garden, a well of living waters"? In my row, column, and outlined toasty coolness. I pray that you will claim a messy gift. opinion, it wouldn't even be too extreme for you to mur- I want you to experience an empowering surrender mur, "May I find the scent of your breath like apricots, 3-by-3 box contains the and a calming climax. I very much hope, Virgo, that and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly numbers 1 through 9 exactly you will finally see an obvious secret and capitalize on to welcome my caresses." If those sentiments seem some unruly wisdom and take an epic trip to an intimate too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda's once. No guessing is required. turning point. I trust that you'll find a barrier that draws love sonnets. How about this one: "I want to do with you The solution is unique. people together instead of keeping them apart. These what spring does to the cherry trees." Here's another: "I wonders may sound paradoxical, and yet they're quite hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of possible and exactly what you need. a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in Answers on page 22 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Psychologist James your beauty."

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month: "The Perfume Collector" by Kathleen Tessaro. 11 Moriarty's Pub, 802 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 485- a.m. - noon FREE. Capital Area District Libraries Haslett 5287. EVENTS Out on the town Branch, 1590 Franklin St., Haslett. The Scratch Pilots Present: Turntable Tuesdays. Bingo, Bridge, and Euchre. Weekly activities at the Social Bridge. Weekly activities at the senior center. Classic Rock 'n' Roll with hip-hop. 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. FREE. The senior center. 1 - 4:30 p.m. Cost Varies . Meridian Senior 1 - 4 p.m. $1.50. Delta Township Enrichment Center, 4538 Green Door, 2005 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 482-6376. Center, 4406 Okemos Road, Okemos. from page 19 Elizabeth Road, Lansing. Biology on Tap - Professors, researchers, and biologists THEATRE discuss world around them. 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. FREE. The Loft, Road, Okemos. (517) 643-2707. ARTS Auditions: The Government Inspector. Cold readings (At Harem Urban Lounge) 414 E. Michigan Ave. Lansing. Monday Movie Matinee. For adult audience. Popcorn from script. Perusal scripts are available at the LCC. 7 - 10 Crafternoons (Adults). Bring your craft project and join Monday, August 28 while it lasts. "Allied," Rated R, 124 minutes. 1 p.m. FREE. p.m. Dart Auditorium, Lansing Community College, 500 N. CLASSES AND SEMINARS East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. Capitol Ave., Lansing. See Out on the Town, Page 22 A Course in Love. Weekly group dedicated to the study (517) 351-2420. of the spiritual pyschology. 1 - 2 p.m. Unity Spiritual Center Monday Night Life Drawing. Draw from a nude model. of Lansing, 230 S. Holmes Road, Lansing. (517) 371-3010. 7 - 9 p.m. $10 per session ($5 for students) to cover the unitylansing.org. model and studio.. O'Day Studios, Suite 115, 1650 Kendale REAL ESTATE AUCTIONCaregivers Connection Support Group. Hope and help Blvd., East Lansing. By order of the Countyfor caregivers. 6 - 7 p.m. FREE. Haslett Library Building, 1590 Franklin St., Haslett. [email protected]. Treasurer of InghamSupport County Group. For the divorced, separated & widowed. Tuesday, August 29 Room 9. 7:30 p.m. St. David's Episcopal Church, 1519 CLASSES AND SEMINARS August 29, 2017 -Elmwood Registration: Road, Lansing. 8:30 (517) 323-2272.AM; Game Night at UrbanBeat. 5 to 8 p.m. FREE. UrbanBeat Auction: 10 AM Event Center, 1213 Turner St. Lansing. LITERATURE AND POETRY Capital City Toastmasters Meeting. Learn speaking Location: LansingCelebrate Center, 20 Years of Harry Potter: Cassette and leadership skills. 7 p.m. FREE for visitors. CADL 1st Floor, Room 101-104Wallet. Create wallet out of HP cassettes. 6 - 7 p.m. FREE. Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 367-6300. 333 E. Michigan Ave,(517) 351-2420. Lansing, elpl.org. MI Duplicate Bridge. Weekly activities at the senior center. Out of This World Book Club. "Too Like Lightning" by Ada 1 - 4 p.m. $2 members, $3 non members . Meridian Senior Eric Schertzing, Treasurer,Palmer. 7 Inghamp.m. FREE. CountyEast Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Center, 4406 Okemos Road, Okemos. 341 S. Jefferson St,Road, Mason, East Lansing. MI, (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. Take off Pounds Sensibly. Have a support system, lose weight. Wheelchair accessible. 6 p.m. FREE first visit. St. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 >> COLD TONE HARVEST AT CONCERTS IN THE COURTYARD (517) 676-7220. MUSIC Therese Parish, 102 W. Randolph St., Lansing. (517) 487-3749. Detailed info on parcelsNew Horizons and Community terms at Band. Learn to play a Banded together by their affinity for honest songwriting, Michigan natives Cold Tone Harvest play new instrument, or pick up an old one. 6 - 8 p.m. MSU LITERATURE AND POETRY Concerts in the Courtyard at the Old Town General Store Thursday. Formed in 2008, Cold Tone Harvest www.BippusUSA.comCommunity Music School, 4930 Hagadorn Road, East The Poetry Room Presents: Summer Love Open Lansing. (517) 355-7661. Mic. Bring original poems. Email to register. 7:15 - 9:45 serves up a frank plate of midwest bluegrass that’s a little bitter, a little sweet and full of harmonic p.m. FREE/ Donations accepted. Robin Theater, 1105 S. satiation. With Andrew Sigworth on guitar and vocals, Daniel Ozzie Andrews on bass, Brian Williams on EVENTS Washington Ave., Lansing, MI 48910 Lansing. 989-878-1810. drums and banjo and Tony Pace on lap steel and electric guitar, Cold Tone Harvest delivers emotion with Ask the Lawyer at the Meridian Senior Center. Poetry Room: Summer Love. Come dressed up with a signature raw feel. Co-sponsored by Elderly Instruments and the MICA Gallery, all proceeds go to the Legal Notice LineWeekly Ad activities at the senior center. 9:30 a.m. - noon poems. To sign up email thepoetryroomfolks@gmail. FREE. Meridian Senior Center, 4406 Okemos Road, Okemos. com. 7:30 to 9 p.m. FREE/Donations accepted. The Robin artists and local nonprofit, Music is the Foundation. 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City Pulse, 1/2 page, August 16 & 23 22 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 23, 2017 Out on the town from page 21 us in the library Community Room. 1 - 3 p.m. FREE. Capital Area District Libraries Haslett Branch, 1590 Franklin St., Haslett. Early Literacy Playtime (Ages up to 5). Stories and easy-to-make activities to help prepare children for reading. 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. FREE. Capital Area District Libraries Williamston Branch, 201 School St., Williamston. LCC West Toastmasters. Leadership and speaking skills. 5 - 6:30 p.m. LCC West Campus, 5708 Cornerstone Drive, Lansing. 5174831314. Overeaters Anonymous. Hope and support to lose weight. 7 p.m. Presbyterian Church of Okemos, 2258 Bennett Road., Okemos. (517) 349-9536. Speculative Book Discussion (Adults). This month: "Caves of Steel" by Isaac Asimov. 6:30 - 8 p.m. FREE. Capital Area District Libraries Downtown Lansing Branch, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. Trending Topics. Discuss local, state and national headlines. 7 - 8:30 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. The Crafted bean Wednesday, August 30 Eve Kucharski/City Pulse MUSIC The Willis, a mixed-use development near downtown Lansing, will soon be transformed into the second location for the Crafted Bean, a third wave Doc Howard Operation at Allen Farmers Market. coffee café in downtown DeWitt. The building was recently renovated by the Gillespie Group. Come enjoy a performance from Doc Howard Operation. 5 - 5:30 p.m. FREE. Allen Market Place, 1629 E Kalamazoo St Lansing. allenneighborhoodcenter.org. By ALLAN I. ROSS February at 116 N. Bridge St. in downtown said. “I may go with a ‘90s theme, or do The Great Matt King - Elvis Impersonator DeWitt, the drinks were instant hits. The something in the ‘80s, when hip-hop was Extraodinare! 7 - 9 p.m. FREE/Donations accepted. idea soon caught on at the other third still underground. That sense of counter- William E. Tennant Performance Shell, 805 W. Park St., Saint This week, DeWitt café owner Justin Johns. (989) 224-2429. Hartig signed a lease to open a second wave shops around town, and a new culture is something I’ve always liked. And location for his 6-month-old coffee house, trend was born. No more ordering double it’s really been our niche. Everyone has a the Crafted Bean, near downtown double skinny venti frappuccinos with soy little rebel in them.” Lansing. It will be the latest addition to mid- milk and no whip; at the Crafted Bean, you The new store will have pastries, but Michigan’s blooming “third wave coffee” order a Johnny & June, a locally roasted no waffles or burgers for now; Hartig has movement, which infuses a farm-to-table Columbian French-pressed coffee blended to wait and see what kind of zoning issues ethos into the espresso bar model. with Sleeping Bear Dunes raw honey, he’ll face that close to downtown. And if he “Without question, our number one grass-fed butter and organic peanut but- goes for late-night hours, he’ll have a built- focus is on quality,” Hartig said. “Having a ter. in audience spilling over from Moriarty’s high quality bean that’s been roasted to “I didn’t know coffee could be this Pub next door. That location also puts him perfection and ground and brewed right good,” Hartig said. “It really gets me think- precisely halfway between Strange Matter SUDOKU SOLUTION before you drink it completely changes the ing about what we can do next.” on the east side and its second location, From Pg. 20 coffee-drinking experience. It’s great to Hartig, who says he has “entrepreneur- which opened last month downtown. see how popular it’s becoming.” ial disease,” applied that adventurous spirit Hartig said he’s gotten to know the other Over the last few years, the third wave to food, and over the summer launched third wave owners, including Strange of coffee has flipped the script on what Press, a food truck in Traverse City. The Matter’s owner Cara Nader, and he says no Lansing-area coffee lovers traditionally menu has 10 types of specialty waffles, one seems to afraid of oversaturation. think of as grabbing a cup of joe. Now including the I Got Wasted Last Night, “I met Cara at the Specialty Coffee Expo instead of seeing how fast they can get made with jalapenos, cheese and hash in Seattle this year as a complete accident, in and out of a coffee shop, third wave browns. The “avocado fries” — fresh-sliced and her knowledge blew me away,” Hartig customers happily wait four minutes or avocado tossed with crushed tortilla chips said. “Part of the reason I picked this loca- longer for their barista to heat filtered water — also became another popular favorite. tion was so that I wouldn’t be too close to to a specific temperature before gently Then, two weeks ago, he drove the truck her, but still take advantage of the Lansing pouring it over freshly ground beans and down to DeWitt and incorporated it into traffic. The market craves it.” into a cup. Strange Matter Coffee Co. in the Crafted Bean’s patio. Hartig will also spearhead the area’s “We had to build out the cooking area Lansing’s Eastside neighborhood, Bloom first craft coffee tasting event, which he’s so we make more waffles faster, and that Coffee Roasters in Old Town, and the calling Caffeine. It’s set for Saturday, Sept. extra space is going to allow us to add 23, in a park near his original location in Blue Owl Coffee Co. in REO Town have burgers soon,” Hartig said. “I’m not a chef, downtown DeWitt. And of course, he’s all added their respective interpretations but I’ve gotten lucky to have an incred- to the concept, but Hartig’s contribution invited the other third wave store owners CROSSWORD SOLUTION ible staff who takes my ideas and run with to participate. is perhaps the most distinctive: coffee them. Their ideas and contributions have From Pg. 20 cocktails. “It’s really going to be cool getting really made the Crafted Bean what it is.” all these roasters and brewers together,” Hartig said that when he first got the Hartig gave the Crafted Bean a wild, idea for a coffee shop, it took a while for Hartig said. “I think this event is going to ‘50s rockabilly look, complete with a mural be great for all of us. We’re all a little differ- him to find a concept he liked. of Johnny Cash flipping the bird and a “I went to hundreds of cafés around the ent, but we’re still all focused on the craft. I hip-shaking Elvis plastered on one wall. It cant wait to see what’s we can do with this country to get ideas, but I didn’t see any- suits the space, a former bank, but the new thing like what I had in mind,” Hartig said. energy.” Crafted Bean location inside the “Coffee is a way of life for me, and I knew Willis that there were so many opportunities out building, 800 E. Michigan Ave., will have a Do you know of a new Greater Lansing business there to do something new with it. I’m a different look. Developer Pat Gillespie spent that should be featured in New in Town? Send an bit of a drugstore chemist, so I just started $1 million last year to renovate the space on email to [email protected]. experimenting.” the corner of Hosmer Street and Michigan Ingredients like freshly picked mint, Avenue, as well as the six Craftsman-style lavender and imported vanilla were used apartments above it. Hartig will spend the to build a coffee cocktail menu. And next two months customizing his space to when Hartig opened the Crafted Bean last fit the Crafted Bean’s personality. “I like to embody outlaw spirits,” Hartig City Pulse • August 23, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 23 Spicy Baked Kibbee Sandwich Field beers Combo – Woody’s Oasis This beer trend might be the I was feeling the urge for some beginning of healthier beers Mediterranean food and found myself in East Lansing. Woody’s Oasis on By MEGAN WESTERS Trowbridge Road seemed like a great Beer and health aren’t typically thought option. of together, but the relatively new trend of Upon arrival, I realized exactly how vegetables used in beer production might hungry I was. I didn’t think twice about change all that. Who could have thought getting a side salad with my sandwich. Courtesy Photo that getting your servings of veggies could This made my order more expensive, come from your daily brew. For years, Though vegetables and beer don’t seem $10.06, but I was ravenous. Party like a match, field beers are changing that fruit has been a common addition to beer I opted for the Mediterranean blend every attitude. night, because the flavor of hops and fruit, par- salad, filled with Persian cucumbers, 7 days ticularly berries and citrus, tend to work beer” is Clobberskull by Bear Republic tomatoes, scallions and a light, zingy R a week! well together. But as brewers begin to Brewing Co. Some field beers try to mimic dressing. For my sandwich combo, I experiment and put their stamp on the food pairings like tomatoes and herbs for debated over chicken or steak shawarma, industry, rather unconventional pairings a “pizza beer.” but eventually chose Woody’s spicy baked are starting to emerge. Here in Lansing, veggie beers haven’t kibbee sandwich — a cooked combination A vegetable beer is classified as such made their debut on the scene quite as of bulgur, onions and finely ground meat. Serving American and Mexican food when the brewer uses veggies as an heavily as in other cities across the U.S., but For a drink, I decided against tradi- adjunct, added to either the mash or our city has certainly dabbled. Midtown tional soda blends and filled my cup up during the primary or secondary fermen- Brewing Co. seems to be leading the pack with Woody’s house blend of iced tea, a tation stages in brewing. The vegetable with its Imperial Pumpkin Cream Ale. perfectly refreshing choice. flavor within a veggie beer can range from Using the flavors from pumpkin and spice Overall, that kibbee was chewy with a subtle to strong, but most beers in this cat- from other flavors of the season, Midtown delightfully crunchy addition of pickled egory don’t have an overpowering vegeta- claims that this brew is the closest thing to turnips and flavorful hummus. And on ble taste or aroma of the used vegetable, getting pumpkin pie in a bottle. top of that mountain of food, I got a piece as to not outshines the hop flavors within As fall approaches, be on the lookout of flatbread. I hoovered up every last bite. the beer. for other local breweries and brewers cre- Cool o this this summer summer with with a One event that defined and expanded ating their own concoctions. -EVE KUCHARSKI the use of vegetables within the beer mak- frozen Margarita! ing process was the 2010 Great American Tuesdays $2.25 Small Margaritas Beer Festival in Denver. A new style of beer was added to the competition callled Wednesdays $5.50 Grande Margaritas field beer, or beer with veggies added. SATURDAYS AT Thursdays $6.25 Ultimate Margaritas Breweries across the nation experimented Fridays $10.50 Liter of Margaritas with beers and brewing styles specifical- Saturday $5.75 Cuervo Gold Arriba ly to enter this new category. While fruit Magaritas beers often have their own category in competitions and shows, the use of fruit, OPEN MON-THURS: 11 am - 11pm FRI-SAT: 11 am - 12am vegetables, herbs and spices in brewing GROWLERS OF can put a beer into the field category. 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