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Watch past episodes at vimeo.com/channels/citypulse City Pulse • August 28, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION at East Michigan Family Care, according for receiving controlled substances, the to the indictment by the Internal Revenue indictment says. In exchange for setting Indicted Service’s Detroit Criminal Investigation up the physical therapist to perform test- Unit. On top of the six counts he faces ing on patients, the therapist “shared the Lansing doctor Shannon Wiggins with Wiggins, which also include fil- proceeds of the claims … with Wiggins and C and husband indicted on several ing false tax returns, Abduljaber is also Abduljaber through referral payments and OF THE WEEK federal charges, including con- alleged to have committed food stamp inflated, non-market rent payments” of, in spiracy to commit health care fraud and giving a false statement to fed- at least one agreement, $1,500 a month, fraud and improperly distributing eral authorities about it. according to the indictment. The penalty controlled substances Abduljaber, who was a subject in a for such a charge is fines and not more than 2007 City Pulse cover story about slum- 10 years in prison. Mohamad Abduljaber allegedly had lords, is listed as owning 35 properties The second count, conspiracy to pay a nice little system going for a few years. in Lansing. The Lansing City Attorney’s and receive health-care kickbacks, spans Abduljaber, a city-identified “problematic Office identified Abduljaber as a “prob- January 2004 to April 2011. It alleges the slumlord” who owns nearly 40 properties lematic slumlord” in 2007. couple would receive payments from the in Lansing, would send his tenants to his The couple faces potential forfeitures physical therapist in exchange for patient wife, physician Shannon Wiggins, for hard of $1.4 million and the properties on referrals, resulting in claims submitted to prescription drugs like OxyContin and Grand River and Michigan, according to Medicare and Medicaid. Over six specific methadone. They’d see her monthly and the indictment. dates in that period, the couple allegedly be billed each time for an office visit, even Wiggins, an osteopathic physician, has received $5,300 in exchange for patient though they didn’t need the medication. been on probation since November 2011 for referrals. The felony carries a fine of not So claims a federal grand jury in an her role in overprescribing pharmaceuticals more than $25,000 or not more than five indictment issued Thursday that charges going back to February 2006. It involved years in prison. the couple with conspiracy to commit eight instances of overprescribing pain As for the third count, conspiracy to health care fraud and receiving kick- medication to patients between February distribute controlled substances outside Property: Arch at Durant Park, 719 N. backs for unnecessary diagnostic treat- 2006 and May 2010. One involved an acci- the usual course of professional practice, Washington Ave., Lansing ments paid for by federal programs like dental overdose. She pleaded no contest. Abduljaber allegedly solicited patients to Owner: City of Lansing Medicaid and Medicare. After an investigation by the state Wiggins’ practice to receive methadone, As if to complete the circle, those ten- Attorney General’s Office, the state Board oxycodone and hydrocodone monthly — ants would turn around and sell the pre- of Osteopathic Medicine & Surgery also even though it served “no legitimate medi- scription pills to pay rent to Abduljaber, issued a $5,000 fine but let her keep her cal purpose” — and get billed for an office Lansing has beautiful parks. No two are according to anonymous sources. license. visit. When patients were discharged for alike in the envious range of civic greens, Wiggins, who owns East Michigan The federal investigation against not needing the substances by other prac- from the pastoral Hawk Island to the artic- Family Care at 2310 E. Michigan Ave. and Wiggins goes back at least until January titioners at the practice, Abduljaber would ulated town-square style of Reutter Park. 4415 N. Grand River Ave. in Lansing, is 2012, when City Pulse reported that the allegedly authorize the patients to come Undulating pathways, tree canopies, acres also charged with nine counts of improp- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration back and be referred to Wiggins. He also of civic space and monuments are found erly distributing oxycodone and metha- had executed a federal search warrant on allegedly removed drug-testing kits from throughout. done — both schedule II substances — the East Side practice and seized seven the office to make it difficult for other prac- Passing under the Durant Park Arch just to a patient over a four-month period guns from the couple’s Jolly Road home titioners to determine whether patients makes you feel grand. It’s simple but effec- in 2008-‘09. Three of those allege she in Okemos. At a probation violation hear- were using or abusing controlled substanc- tive. Arches make everything more special. distributed 2,700 OxyContin and 2,700 ing shortly after the raids, Abduljaber’s es. The maximum prison sentence under Look what the Arch de Triumph did for the methadone pills to a patient named “B.J.” attorney, Gregory Crockett, said the guns this charge is 20 years. Champs-Elysees. Arches and parks are a on Jan. 23, 2009. Each of those nine belonged to Wiggins’ 80-year-old father. Additionally, the couple faces three grand architectural tradition — think of the charges comes with a maximum prison Abduljaber was on probation stemming charges related to filing tax returns. In 2012, Marble Arch in London’s Hyde Park and the sentence of 20 years. from a domestic abuse incident. the couple allegedly reported $910,282 in arch gracing the north end of Washington In all, Wiggins is facing 15 counts and The indictment appears to be a result gross receipts but knew the practice had Square Park in New York City. her husband eight. of the IRS and DEA investigation at that gross receipts “substantially exceeding this The Durant Park Arch was erected in The two-story red structure on the time, which also included the Lansing and amount.” The felony carries a maximum 1924 as a gift from the city to commemorate 2300 block of E. Michigan Ave. was also Meridian Township police departments. $100,000 fine and a maximum three years William C. Durant, the cofounder of General once advertised as a medical marijuana The first count, conspiracy to commit in prison. In 2010 and 2011, the couple Motors after whom the park was named certification clinic. health care fraud, alleges that between failed to file income tax returns, a misde- in 1921. The limestone arch is one of the Abduljaber acted as the office manager January 2007 and April 2011, the cou- meanor, according to allegations. most notable monuments in Lansing parks. ple and an unnamed physical therapist Crockett, Abduljaber’s attorney, said Its cool quotient is increased by the clever City Pulse file photos received payments Monday, “My client is surprised and very minds that thought to illuminate the words, Mohamad Abduljaber (left) from Medicare, unhappy to be indicted. We’re still review- Durant Park. and wife Shannon Wiggins at Medicaid and Blue ing the complaint together and deciding The Arch was restored in 2004. We can Abduljaber’s probation Cross Blue Shield of what steps to take next.” continue to feel that swell of grandeur each hearing Michigan by filing To his knowledge, none of the couple’s time we pass under it for another 90 years. in 2012. claims on unnec- property or money had yet been forfeited. essary diagnostic Attempts to reach Wiggins were unsuc- — Amanda Harrell-Seyburn testing. Abduljaber cessful. An assistant at the East Side clinic allegedly “solic- who answered the phone Tuesday morn- ited his tenants ing said the clinic has stayed open. She said “Eye Candy of the Week” is our look at some of the nic- and other associ- Wiggins was busy seeing patients. er properties in Lansing. It rotates with Eyesore of the Week. ates” to arrange If you have a suggestion, please e-mail eye@lansingcitypulse. com or call Andy Balaskovitz at 999-5064. for the testing and — Andy Balaskovitz 6 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 28, 2013

In an Aug. 19 letter to the association, Joe revenue. “A majority of our budget is not He at some point said, ‘Clarence, maybe you Kylman, an auditor from the AG’s Charitable donation-based,” she said, adding that most ought to go upstairs and try to summarize Tax-exempt Trust Section, asks for an explanation of the of it comes from the annual Hawk Island this so everybody will be on the same page.’” tax-exempt status revocation and the web- Triathlon, fees for services, a weekly farmers Ninety minutes later, Jones reappeared site discrepancy within 20 days. market and grants. with the summary, along with draft lan- status The 501(c)3 revocation does not mean Dunbar said the association lost its tax- guage for beginning the speech. The debate the organization must stop seeking dona- exempt status at a time when hundreds continued over key points of emphasis with- Following up on complaint, state tions as long as it’s still property regis- across the Lansing area also did after chang- out any consensus developing. King finally Attorney General’s Office seek- tered under the Solicitations Act. However, es in reporting requirements from the IRS. ended the meeting, took the notes and went ing more information about City according to an Aug. 22 interdepartmental Bill Gesaman, of the Michigan Nonprofit to his room. Councilwoman Kathie Dunbar’s non- email from Kylman, “the most recent solici- Association, said a “few thousand” across the “The next time I paid any attention to profit. Dunbar says ‘We’re not wor- tation registration expired” on Jan. 31, 2009, state lost tax-exempt status. it was when he was giving it,” said Jones, ried about it.’ and hasn’t been renewed. “Because we have Dunbar said the association board is in who was some 15 yards away as King began never received financial information from the process of reinstating the tax-exempt to deliver his speech. It was only then that The Internal Revenue Service revoked the organization, we cannot determine if status and complying with state requests. Jones realized that words he had written the tax-exempt status of the nonprofit they should have been, and still should be, “We’re not worried about it,” she said. were being delivered to a massive crowd South Lansing Community Development registered to solicit,” he wrote. exceeding 250,000 people. Association in May 2012 for failing to file Joy Yearout, a spokeswoman in the — Andy Balaskovitz “Then, past the seven paragraphs I had annual financial reports. But the associa- Attorney General’s Office, said an organiza- written, Mahalia Jackson (the legendary tion — founded and directed by Lansing tion may be exempt from that requirement if gospel singer) turned to Dr. King, who was City Councilwoman Kathie Dunbar — until it raises less than $25,000 a year. The Aug. speaking from the written text. She said, recently claimed on its website that any 19 letter asks for financial information “so ‘Tell them about the dream, Martin, tell donations are tax-deductible. we can determine whether it qualifies for a them about the dream!’ While Dunbar says the website claim, registration exemption,” she said in an email. Behind the speech “Martin smiled, acknowledged what she which the state Attorney General’s Office The most recent financial report — called said, and at that point he turned the writ- says would be a violation of the Michigan a 990 — available online for the organiza- Five score years ago, a great American, ten text that he had at the podium ... upside Charitable Organizations and Solicitations tion is from 2007-’08. It lists total revenue at in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, down. When I Act, was an oversight and has since been $112,155. However, in an interview Monday signed the Emancipation Proclamation. saw this from a Walt Sorg’s full interview fixed, it prompted a complaint by City Council night, Dunbar said donations only make This momentous decree came as a great bea- distance, I said with Clarence Jones airs on “City Pulse on the Air” at regular Kathi Raffone to the AG’s Office. up a “small” portion of the association’s con light of hope to millions of Negro slaves to whomever was 7 tonight on 88.9 FM The who had been seared in the flames of wither- standing next to Impact. PUBLIC NOTICES ing injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak me something like, ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS-VEHICLE AUCTION: Ingham County is having a sealed to end the long night of their captivity. ‘These people may bid auction for vehicles and other surplus items. Vehicles to be sold “as is”. 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He hardly changed a word.” held on those same steps of the Lincoln At age 82, Jones is one of the last liv- Memorial to celebrate the presidential ing participants from King’s inner circle inauguration the following day of Barack involved in the March on Washington, Obama. For Jones, the symbolism was pow- which happened 50 years ago today. He erful. It brought home to Jones how their sushi & grill lives in California where he is a scholar-in- small group had helped change America. residence at Stanford’s Martin Luther King “It had a profound emotional psychic maru Jr. Institute. consequence,” he said. okemos east lansing grand rapids The process of creating the speech, “There was no question in my mind that Jones said, had begun three weeks earlier without the struggle and the leadership and when King and Jones began to talk about the transformative effect of Dr. King in dis- Free Appetizer what he would say. But the real work on the mantling segregation, institutional racism,

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ARTS & CULTURE ART BOOKS FILM MUSIC THEATER A monumental Concrete art slabs from Lansing's past find a home rebirth in a west-side neighborhood By LAWRENCE COSENTINO England has Stonehenge. Easter Island has heads. Lansing’s Leitram Street, only a block long, has six massive, mysterious concrete slabs, each weighing over two tons. Gently monumental relics of the earthy 1970s aesthetic, and of urban renewal in Lansing, resurfaced in the Genesee Neighborhood this spring after seven years of oblivion. Developer Gene Townsend rescued the funky, textured panels by sculptor W. Robert Youngman from downtown Lansing’s Washington Square Mall when the mall was demolished in 2005. Thanks to a neighborhood-wide effort and a timely grant, the slabs have settled into a permanent second home. Lawrence Cosentino/City Pulse (above); Courtesy Photo (right) “It’s historic to Lansing and it’s public art again,” local resi- Tamiko and Mori Rothhorn (above) cavort among dent Tamiko Rothhorn said. “People walking by really notice it.” the sculptured slabs of concrete rescued from Last fall, a flatbed truck heaved them into place on the Washington Square and planted in a residential corner of Leitram and Lapeer Street. This summer, the cor- garden in Lansing’s Genesee Neighborhood. ner lot has been landscaped and gardened to showcase the Sculptor W. Robert Youngman at work in the 1970s art at full advantage. It’s a second life for heavy art that once carried a on one of his trademark cast concrete projects. heavy load. “Heralding a new excitement — a new vitality for the and where he came from.” heart of downtown Lansing — the new WASHINGTON He followed the big city art world but wasn’t SQUARE,” trumpeted an urban renewal brochure from the drawn to it. When he went back to school, he mid-1970s, “for a community of progressive citizens dedicat- became the first person to get a master of fine arts ed to the betterment of urban life!” degree in sculpture at Southern Illinois University. The wall slabs were part of a major Washington Square The school didn’t have a department, so he did his renewal project with high aesthetic goals. Youngman, a work in the blacksmith’s shop. sculptor based in Illinois, was a natural choice for designer. He got sucked into concrete (figuratively A lot of Youngman’s big Michigan work from the 1970s is speaking) at Ivy Tech in Anderson, Ind., where he still around. He cast 26 concrete columns for Detroit Metro was founder and head of the Art Department. The transition features were in place in Washington Square by 1975, but Airport’s Michael Berry International Terminal, built in 1974, from metal felt natural to him. Concrete mixed nicely with the mall never became the public gathering place city fathers and made a dozen large panels for Manufacturers’ National another Youngman passion — architecture — and opened up hoped for. Retail was almost non-existent. The sidewalks Bank Operation Center in downtown Detroit, now Comerica a new textural canvas. rolled up at 5 p.m. each night. Bank, at 411 W. Lafayette Blvd. “He loved to play around with the casting process,” Taresah For years, Townsend was one of the few after-hours habi- Youngman was big on modern art and architecture, but Youngman said. “Concrete is organic. It’s little, ground-up tues in the mall who wasn’t drinking out of a paper bag. He not the blank and sterile kind. The transplanted Leitram pebbles, kind of like sand.” was fascinated by Youngman’s method of casting sculptured Street panels have a rolling texture that calls to mind stacks Although almost all of Youngman’s best-known work was surfaces by pouring concrete over sculpted sand. of logs, ripples on a lake and abstract, he didn’t shy from figurative art. He taught drawing “I loved to go down there and stand around,” he said. “It other rural sights, seam- at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he was art. There was a fountain, arches, benches, all made "To be a part of that community lessly harmonized with spent most of his career as a professor, and kept sketching from this technique. It wasn’t just some walls. It was outdoor the shafts and linkages of almost every day until he died of Alzheimer’s in 2010. rooms, architecture in the purest, most original sense.” project would have touched him. human industry. A scatter- “He was really good at illustrations,” Youngman said. When the mall was demolished in the mid-2000s to extend Besides, it would be in a landfill ing of concave bubbles and Most of Youngman’s Michigan work was poured in Washington Square north, Townsend persuaded the city to otherwise." convex doughnut shapes Detroit and moved to the site on flatbed trucks. He worked in let him drag the slabs to the Genesee Neighborhood, where add a playful touch. a northwest Detroit warehouse, listening to old-time country he then lived as a member of Genesee Garden Cohousing. -Taresah Youngman, Youngman liked to and gospel or classical music. The setting was urban, but the It wasn’t easy. About 30 cubic feet per slab, at 150 pounds sculptor's daughter work with big, heavy vibe was small-town Illinois smithy’s shop. per cubic foot, adds up to over two tons of concrete for each. things. He worked in his Later in Youngman’s career, Taresah helped her dad on “But there’s holes in them,” Townsend was quick to add. father’s smithy shop from many projects, including his last and most famous work: They sat in a driveway for seven years, where rats loved the age of 7. As soon as he got a degree in graphic design the 228-ton Mall Water Sculpture, known to students as the holes. For a while, the co-housing group listed the slabs at the University of Illinois on the G.I. Bill, he went right the Engineering Fountain, on the main campus of Purdue on Craigslist, but found no takers. back to the blacksmith’s shop, where he began to make University. The fountain became an emblem of campus as Last fall, Genesee Gardens Cohousing scored a grant abstract sculptures. soon as it was built in 1989, and students still run through in the first round of the Michigan Association of Realtors’ “He was drawn to his roots,” his daughter, Taresah its soaring parabolas of ribbed concrete on graduation day. Youngman, said. “He always had strong ties to his childhood Youngman’s Lansing wall sections, a fountain and other See Sculptures, Page 8 8 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 28, 2013

two notorious hotbeds of purism. “If you Courtesy Photo like anything from rock ‘n roll to folk to Delilah All-American country, you’ll be very happy.” DeWylde The festival is produced by the and The Michigan Institute for Contemporary Lost Boys mutt music Art, an Old Town nonprofit organization got the Lansing's Mosaic Music Festival is no that also puts on JazzFest and BluesFest. kids up and The Greater Lansing Labor Council is a dancing at purebred, but this hound can hunt major underwriter. last year's One thing at the festival is pure. Mosaic By LAWRENCE COSENTINO All of its sights and sounds, from the Festival. Purity, in breeding or music, isn’t an Texas twang to the Aztec dancing to American thing. We like to mix it up and the Brazilian beats, will be produced by guess whose child is whose 10 years later. Michigan artists. Lansing’s Mosaic Music Festival, this “It’s not like we had to bring in some weekend at Adado Riverfront Park, has a big name from Nashville,” Smith said. unique formula for showcasing all-Amer- “Nothing against Nashville. I know a lot ican mutt music in its ever-changing grit of great artists from Nashville, but that and glory. wasn’t the focus here.” At night, there’s a varied slate of You wouldn’t guess it from the after- country, rock, roots and Americana noon lineups of multi-cultural ensembles bands. In the afternoon, there’s a smor- Saturday and Sunday. The far-flung home- afternoon with wild Irish-rock pioneers thing to the Motor City. The North gasbord of ethnic- lands of Fantasia Ballet Folklorico (native The Lash. Country Flyers are mid-Michigan guys Mexican dance), El Ballet Folklorico Michigan Mosaic flavored music, “I tried to slowly transition into more who grew up on Motown and Bob Seger including Indian, Estudiantil (Aztec dance) and Sumkali American-sounding music, whatever that — what lead singer Brian Cole calls “stur- Music Festival Celtic, Klezmer and (Indian music) are unpronounceable only means,” he said with a laugh. dy stuff.” All their influences pile into an Aug. 31-Sept. 1 if you can’t say “Lansing,” “Ann Arbor” Adado RIverfront Park Brazilian ensembles. Most of the ethnic ensembles at Mosaic Alabama-meets-Eagles country-rock ride Michiganmosaic.org The fun is in the and “Grand Rapids.” mix things up a bit too much to play at a lubricated by yearning harmonies a la (517) 371-4600 blending. The rock- The Klezmer group (Slivovit) and the carefully curated folk festival, but Houwat Crosby, Stills & Nash. ers (North Country Brazilian troupe (Bridges to Choro) are said that’s the way the world is going. Jen Sygit, arguably Lansing’s premier Flyers) go country. The Celts (The Lash) based at MSU. “America was always a melting pot, singer-songwriter, will play Sunday with rock out. Even the Indian group (Sumkali) Igor Houwat, a Lansing-area musi- but even in the rest of the world, there’s longtime collaborator Sam Corbin, but fuses traditional music with jazz and funk. cian who booked the afternoon acts, no such thing as a pure tradition where she’s more than a performer at Mosaic. Don’t dress up. This is going to get messy. knows a lot of people in Michigan’s world somebody in Afghanistan decides, ‘This Knowing many of this year’s Mosaic “If you’re a metalhead or a jazz aficio- music community. Houwat plays the oud is the music we’re going to play for centu- bands aren’t familiar to Lansing audienc- nado, you’re not going to be very happy,” (Middle Eastern lute) in his own band, ries,’” Houwat said. es, Smith cited Sygit’s appeal as a touch- festival booker Smitty Smith said, naming Wisaal. By design, he closed Sunday Mosaic’s evening slate plops down stone for the whole festival. a deep bucket of music from Detroit’s “You can use Jen as the barometer,” Americana-country scene this year. “That Smith said. “If anybody’s into her music, MICHIGAN MOSAIC MUSIC FESTIVAL SCHEDULE scene is pretty vibrant but not well known they’re going to be into all these bands.” to a lot of people,” Smith said. After hear- It’s Sygit’s first time at the Mosaic fes- SATURDAY, AUG. 31 SUNDAY, SEPT. 1 ing them, some folks may want to head to tival, and she’s pleased with its focus on Detroit’s Park Bar or Corktown for more. local musicians. MULTI-CULTURAL ACTS MULTI-CULTURAL ACTS It’s a varied bunch. John Holk’s coun- “I don’t need to listen to a national pop Noon-12:50 p.m. Sumkali – (Indian music) Noon-12:50 Community Dance Project (Happendance) try rock blend includes the sad twang of star,” she said. “There’s plenty of good stuff 1-1:20 p.m. El Ballet Folklorico Estudiantil (Aztec dance) 1-1:50 p.m. Silvovitz (Klezmer music) Hank Williams and the euphoric jangle going on right in my neighborhood that is 1:30-2:20 p.m. Karisa Wlson (indie folk) 2-2:50 p.m. Bridges to Choro (Brazilian music) of The Byrds. Lewis writes and sings with just as good, and maybe a little better.” 2:30-2:50 p.m. Fantasia Ballet Folkorico (Mexican dance) 3-3:20 p.m. Malhar Dance Group (Indian dance) a forthright, tolling urgency that recalls Sygit said music festivals like Mosaic 3-3:50 p.m. An Dro (world music) 3:30-4:30 p.m. The Lash (Celtic rock) Bob Dylan on an articulate night. She are also great for gathering new ideas and 4-4:30 p.m. Glen Erin Pipe Band (Scottish/Irish music) came up in Detroit coffeeshops, bars and striking up new collaborations. flea markets and also has a strong pres- “I definitely want to check out some of COUNTRY & AMERICANA BANDS COUNTRY & AMERICANA BANDS ence in Chicago. Another Motown main- the other acts,” she said. “I’m actually not 5-5:50 p.m. John Holk & The Sequins 5-5:50 p.m. Lost Jukebox stay, Ryan Dilliha, deploys a nasal honk familiar with some of them, and if you’ve 6:20-7:10 p.m. Drive South 6:20-7:10 p.m. Lincoln County Process lifted from Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” period been playing for a long time, it’s kind of 7:40-8:30 p.m. Alison Lewis and String of Ponies 7:40-8:30 p.m. North Country Flyers to sing a hybrid country rock he calls exciting to find stuff you haven’t checked “Detroit Americana.” out before.” And that’s how the next litter 9-10 p.m. R yan Dillaha & The Miracle Men 9-10 p.m. Kari Lynch Band Even the non-Detroit acts owe some- of all-American mutts is born.

ture professor at Michigan State University, respect the history, the aesthetics of what it relocation when she first heard about it. Sculptures volunteered her time for two half-day plan- means, but it’s seen and used in a new way.” “My dad was very much a designer in how ning sessions. The neighbors decided that Lynn Orta, an enthusiastic neighbor and he thought about the site where his piece from page 7 the duplex at 528 Leitram, at the corner of architect of an elaborate parking-lot garden would be,” she said. She was worried that the Lapeer, was the only lot in the co-housing on nearly West Saginaw Street, helped with project was taking the sculptures out of con- Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper challenge grants group that could showcase the sculptures. the gardening. Several other neighbors had text, but when she saw a few photos of the for “placemaking” to improve neighbor- Rothhorn and her husband, M.C., own the a hand in the landscaping, including the slabs in a garden setting and saw the neigh- hoods. Realtor Nancy Kelly sponsored the house and rent it out. Rotthorns, Donny Comer, Zhe-wei Dai and borhood’s appreciation for her father’s art, she project. (He liked the sculptures right away, while Michael Hamlin. Zhe-wei’s parents, Nai-nai quickly changed her mind. A plaque explain- The panels went into place the first she is still warming to them.) and Yei-Yei, pitched in as well. ing the history of the slabs will go up soon. week in October, in the pouring rain. Cook “They did a very good job of balancing Karen White, another cohousing resident, “I think he would have liked it and felt Brothers Excavating discounted the cost of the realistic constraints of the site and show- took an interest in the sculptures and their good about it,” Youngman said. “To be a the work from over $4,000 to $2,500, the casing the stones so that the larger Lansing creator and even contacted Youngman, the part of that community project would have amount of the grant. community can enjoy them,” Crawford said. sculptor’s daughter. touched him. Besides, it would be in a Patricia Crawford, a landscape architec- “It’s adaptive re-use at its purest form. You Youngman said she was “torn” about the landfill otherwise.” City Pulse • August 28, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 9

musicians With “The Last Refrain” put to bed, while he Abbott is doing just that. Between reading Sex, drugs taught guitar and teaching, Abbott is well into the sec- and from a ond draft of his next novel. Again, a family former pro- is at the center of the story and mysteries fessor who are involved, but the emotional dynamics and family toured with a are quite different. well-known A man dies suddenly and leaves his estate A rock ‘n roll bus tour heats up in John band. jointly to his former wife, a new lover and a Abbott’s “The Last Refrain” “I was daughter. They all have to come together to fascinated settle matters. By BILL CASTANIER by the life- “They learn a lot they didn’t know about John Abbott taught guitar at Marshall style and the man in their life,” Abbott said. Music before he became a writer. He how the per- Abbott eases from one project to the melds his two loves in his debut novel, formance next with admirable smoothness. His “The Last Refrain,” about a family musical aspect of working method is summed up in his group that is on the cusp of either break- music ener- advice to young writers: “Try to develop a ing out or breaking up. gized people at concerts,” he said. routine, but still have fun.” Abbott, 32, who lives in Kalamazoo, The novel also centers on deception Adopting that simple advice, Abbott grew up in the Lansing area. His last and secrets that gradually emerge as the took a page from one of his favorite writers, Courtesy Photo name was Wilensky until he changed it tour winds down and the family gets more Elmore Leonard, who died only last week, when he married. Abbott graduated from John Abbott, author of The Last Refrain’ bound up in its peccadilloes. on Aug. 20. Leonard, who turned out more East Lansing High School before get- One key deception drives the tour: Does than 45 books, said much the same thing ting degrees in English and writing from a butt-busting summer-long tour of county the band have a recording contract or did about his prolific career: “It’s fun.” Michigan State University and Western fairs, beginning in Lake Odessa, Mich. We Ken fabricate it to persuade the group to Michigan University. soon learn that Griff has a history with one take one more stab at stardom? It doesn’t “I learned in writing that more than any- of the family members, Brianna. Ken, the seem to matter at first. A few weeks into the thing else, you have to have a distinctive father, drinks too much. Teenagers Dana tour, the band catches on and the buzz fills voice — sort of like music,” he said. and Lucas are perplexed, not only about the the stands. One song, written by Ken, gets The title “The Last Refrain” sounds omi- future, but about their own sexuality. attention from Rolling Stone magazine. The nous, but readers should enjoy a bumpy bus “I wanted to write about country folk and band’s weaknesses seem to provide the edge ride behind the scenes of the rock ‘n roll life. reflect the values of a working-class back- that may push them to the top. MYsteRY tRiple Abbott admits that his own band experi- ground of family,” Abbott said. The fictional When everything seems to be going ence is limited to a few minor gigs, but that family hails from Hammond, Ind. well, the old snare of sex and drugs, often HeaDeR has not kept him from writing an imagina- Abbott’s sensitivity to music suffuses taken in combination, threatens to knock Featuring tive novel about the trials of a rock family. the book on more than just the plot level. them off the track. It’s the same old music “The Last Refrain,” published by In many scenes, he is careful to note the business cliché. William Kent Krueger Sweatshoppe Publications, follows the music playing in the background, as in Abbott teaches writing at Western and Cara Black misadventures of the fictional folk-rock this interlude in a barn where Griff and Kalamazoo Valley Community College. He & Libby Fischer Hellman band Shiloh Red, a one-hit wonder with Brianna try to repress an upwelling of still keeps in mind one of the first lessons he hopes for one more run at the top of the mutual attraction: learned in his writing classes at MSU: “Read Join us as we welcome three best selling charts. Four of the five band members are “The radio station had gone to a more than write, at least at first.” mystery authors for one exciting event! family, while the fifth member, Griff, is an commercial, and Griff walked over to He gives a lot of credit to noted author Friday, September 6. 7pm outlier in more ways than one. it and turned the dial until Creedence Stuart Dybek and National Book Award Okemos Location Abbott insisted that he didn’t model Clearwater Revival was singing winer Jamie Gordon, two of his teachers at the story after any particular group, but ‘Midnight Special.’ He picked up the Western. the Cash and Partridge families come to radio and came toward her again…” “They forced me to expand my writing Girls’ Night Out mind right away. The sometimes — OK, always —tawdry horizon,” he said. “When writing, you can’t help but soak in county fair circuit makes a good setting for Debut Ann Arbor novelist different references in history,” he allowed. tubulent family drama. Slowly, inevitably, and UofM professor That might be Abbott’s way of signaling the bus heats up and becomes a rolling oven to the reader to expect sex and drugs along of emotions as the tour heads into fall. with healthy doses of rock ‘n roll. Abbott said he was able to capture the Natalie We join Shiloh Red at the beginning of gritty reality of tours from hanging around Bakopolous We have something for everyone - at half the price. Commerical & Residental Fully Insured

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THEATER VISUAL ART MUSIC VENUES And we’re back... ids’ maps of Michigan put a deer up north, a bear way up north, a cherry in Traverse City, a Where to find culture in greater Lansing chair in Grand Rapids and a car in Detroit. K We know the cliché. When it comes to culture, Ann Arbor is high-minded Lansing gets a tiny Capitol. Not good enough. Athens and East Lansing is testosterone-driven Sparta. Over there, scholars Put a cap on that Capitol, wrap it in a shimmery gown and you get a better idea of what spend all day on the steps of Angell Hall, strumming lyres and philosophizing, really goes on here. Lansing and East Lansing exist in the long shadow of Michigan State while we throw our unfit babies and old people from the top of the skyboxes at University, the ninth largest in the country. Cooley Law School, the nation’s biggest juris doc- Spartan Stadium. tor program, is a downtown anchor. Lansing Community College’s two campuses train tens of Let’s take a closer look at that one. thousands of students in the practical fields that keep things running every day. Davenport Which town offers cheap wall-to-wall concerts and recitals from some of the University, an import from Grand Rapids, opened a new facility earlier this month, with the world’s top jazz and classical musicians, many of whom perform, teach and capacity to enroll thousands more in business, health and technology fields. record locally as well as internationally? Higher education is also the index finger of the region’s strong economic hand, along with state Which town is loaded with vibrant, chance-taking theater companies? government, insurance, health and manufacturing. This section looks at the four big players in Lansing, Which town has a world class contemporary art museum, designed by one of with an overview of each school’s history and programs. From the turnip days of Michigan Agricultural the world’s leading architects? FIND THE CULTURE FINDER College to this month’s ribbon cutting at Davenport University, Lansing is a college town to the core. The answer isn’t “A-squared.” THROUGHOUT THE SECTION From turnips to quarks Michigan State University enriches the heartland and goes global

By LAWRENCE COSENTINO ichigan State University almost got plowed under shortly after sending out its first tender shoots in M1855. In a near-fatal turnip scandal, an early alum- nus of Michigan Agricultural College overplanted and spoiled his crop in a highly visible spot along Grand Riv- er Avenue. Farmers across the state snorted at the evils of book-larnin’ and tried to cut the college’s funds off in the Lawrence Cosentino/City Pulse state’s Legislature. The MSU marching band gathered to gird themselves for another Spartan football season last week. Now weighing in with an enrollment just shy of 50,000 students, MSU is the snorting Holstein bull in greater Lan- to offer more than 200 academic programs. The most popu- to Old Town to do 150 service hours of community cleanup. sing’s pen of higher lar are in social science, business, natural science, engineer- Sports culture is dominant at MSU, to be sure, but even education and the ing and education, each with thousands of majors. Dr. Beal would tell you that a monoculture isn’t healthy. ninth largest uni- Several programs have an international reputation. There are plenty of cultural gems to go along with the Broad versity in the United These include the arcane (to many) supply chain man- Art Museum, including the College of Music, with a growing States, but size is agement program and its parent unit, the Eli Broad Col- roster of world-class jazz and classical profs. Concerts and only part of the story. After a century of growth, MSU is fo- lege of Business. Packaging and hospitality business also recitals at MSU have become a major point of pride for the cusing like a laser on high-end programs with a global reach. get a lot of international recognition. Graduate-level el- university and a source of pleasure for local music lovers. It would singe the sideburns of Theophilus Abbot, MSU’s ementary and secondary education programs have been Nineteenth-century haters who wanted to pull the turf president in the 1860s and 1870s, to behold wonders like the ranked first in the nation by U.S. News and World Report from under the agricultural college would be particularly Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, an atom-smashing research for 19 years in a row. shocked at MSU’s growing international reach. More stu- tool for one of the world’s top programs in nuclear physics, The world is seeded with high-profile MSU graduates, dents study abroad as part of their MSU career than at any now going up on the south side of campus. Or the Eli and from “Evil Dead” director Sam Raimi to the school’s most other U.S. university. In all, MSU hosts about 7,000 interna- Edythe Broad Art Museum, a stainless steel shark of a build- renowned ambassador, basketball great Earvin “Magic” tional students from 130 countries. ing cruising Grand River Avenue, designed by ultra-chic ar- Johnson. A lot of MSU grads stick around to make a big This year, for the first time, MSU will have someone at chitect Zaha Hadid. mark in Michigan, like lusty author Jim Harrison, gritty Detroit Metro Airport to greet international students as The quarks in the cyclotron and the cutting-edge art baseball great Kirk Gibson, Quicken Loans founder Dan they arrive. Also new this year is an on-campus hostel for share a venerable campus dotted with century-old oaks and Gilbert, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and former Michigan international students that charges $16 a day until they get sycamores. As new buildings like the glassy Wells Hall ad- governors Jim Blanchard and John Engler. residence hall assignments. dition go up every year, it’s easy to forget how much history MSU’s medical colleges — the College of Human Medi- The residence halls themselves, one by one, are being is here. None of the school’s first graduates in 1861 got their cine and the College of Osteopathic Medicine — have a pres- renovated and festooned with major works of public art. degree in person because they were off fighting the Civil ence throughout the state. MSU has 10 campuses, from De- The latest halls to get the deluxe treatment are in the Brody War. MSU horticulture pioneer William Beal got pointers troit to the Upper Peninsula, and extension offices in every complex. Brody Hall, with its ultramodern orange atrium, is from Charles Darwin. Some of Beal’s handiwork is still in county in Michigan. among MSU’s newest emblems of modernity, but the ven- flower at Beal Gardens, centerpiece of a sprawling, gor- MSU interns, volunteers and researchers fan out into erable West Circle dorms, among the oldest buildings on geously landscaped campus. Lansing and the surrounding area via dozens of programs campus, are scheduled for a careful restoration this fall. As Since its salad days, MSU has gone way beyond turnips and partnerships. This month, MSU sent 51 MBA students it happens, turnips and quarks go together just fine. City Pulse • August 28, 2013 ANNUAL BACK TO SCHOOL SECTION 11

THEATER Lawrence Cosentino/City Pulse BEGIN WITH THEATER. Anyone LCC’s busiest who comes to Lansing building, expecting to find a provincial Arts, Arts & capital where hydrangea- Sciences, got club ladies run the show is in a $31 million for a surprise. renovation Lansing’s theater community, including MSU’s sciences this fall, with own Department of Theatre, specializes in lively interactive subjects and innovative productions. MSU’s displays, high- theater department is planning a season of and access tech labs and genre-bending riffs that include a Shakespeare- a starship-like zombie mashup and a stage version of the 1970s’ lobby, among Lansing Community College many other musical “Xanadu” with the Lansing Roller Derby improvements. Vixens. MSU’s production of the searing drama keeps up with the competition “Widows,” co-written by “Angels in America” writer By LAWRENCE COSENTINO Tony Kushner, will accompany a speaking hey’ve taken your pulse, fixed your appearance by Kushner himself. landing gear, trouble-shot your soft- Lansing’s Peppermint Creek Theatre Co. eats Tware, remodeled or built your house, cutting-edge material for breakfast. The coming maybe written you a ticket or two. season includes a blues-gospel-rockabilly version Lansing Community College gradu- of “Bonnie and Clyde” and the Pulitzer-winning ates make everyday life roll on in greater drama of racial tension, Lansing. Last year, about 30,000 students were ing, re-opened last week after a $31 million “Clybourne Park.” If you’ve been healed, rescued or resus- enrolled at LCC’s two main campuses: a 32- renovation. There’s a lot citated lately, you may owe it to an LCC acre downtown campus and LCC West, a Almost every student ends up taking a more, but grad. About 75 64-acre technical and education center near class at “A & S” sooner or later. Now they’ll see next percent of the re- Delta Township. be bombarded by glitzy art and informa- Students come from next door and from week’s City gion’s health pro- tional displays that make the whole building fessionals, and 70 very far away. LCC is the college of choice for an interactive learning experience. Pulse for a percent of the ar- about one-third of Lansing School District The entrance and elevators of the reno- complete ea’s cops and fire- graduates, but there are also 210 interna- vated building look like the nave of a star- look at the fighters, got at least some of their training tional students from 41 countries. ship, with angled ceilings, stripes of light drama season at LCC. About half a million LCC grads The big news at LCC this year is that and life-size images of top LCC teachers in greater Lansing. are out there, and many of them stayed in the school’s well-worn hub of activity since the Lansing area. its birth in 1957, the Arts & Sciences Build- See LCC, Page 12 NOW OPEN

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popular programs. Booming majors include Lawrence Cosentino/City Pulse LCC computer graphics, veterinary technology, Davenport therapeutic massage — anything to do with University health care and computers. Did we mention from page 11 Professor Karen computers? New programs in several IT Daley (right) and inscribed with their teaching philosophies. fields, including mobile apps and conver- Renee Freeman, Attention-grabbing art, historical artifacts gence technology, were introduced this year. a Davenport and science displays are going up all over LCC’s programs don’t stop at the two- grad and city the building. Soon there will be an artful ar- year associate degrees. The University of Lansing rangement of 15 deli-style slices of human Center, a partnership between LCC and employee, brain, meant as a symbolic harmonization six four-year Michigan universities, opens check up on of art and science. the door to junior and senior level courses a simulated Image consciousness, if not a mid-life cri- leading to over 30 bachelor’s degrees and patient at an sis, clearly drives many features of the reno- beyond. Many combinations are possible, open house at vation, like the life-size light-up teachers but a student might take 90 or so credit the university’s and the salt-water aquariums. But there’s hours at LCC and 30 at Ferris State, say, new Lansing substance in the project as well. After 50 and get a four-year degree at about one campus years of wear and tear, LCC’s hub has been fourth the cost of a resident student at Fer- Thursday. kicked into the keenly competitive arena of ris. (LCC’s other partners in this program 21st-century high-tech education. are Western Michigan University, Univer- The study area has writable walls and so sity of Michigan-Flint, Siena Heights Uni- long term. The new building can accommo- do the classrooms. The science labs in the versity, Northwood University and Law- date up to 2,000 additional full- and part- renovated building are designed to compete rence Technological University.) time students. Doing it Statewide, Davenport is a growing con- with those at top university facilities. Stu- At the other end of the scale, the Early dents can walk into the building’s common College at LCC, a program for high school cern, with 12 campuses and about 11,000 area and request tutors in dozens of areas. juniors, helps low-income students get students. It boasts it is the second-largest Another new feature at LCC this year is started early in college classes. private, nonprofit institution of higher learn- new school ing in Michigan, following Baker College. the Aviation Maintenance program’s newly Last year, LCC addressed two challeng- renovated complex at the Mason Jewett Air- es at once — integrating military person- Career-focused Davenport University Like Meijer, Davenport is an import from port in Mason. LCC aviation graduates zip nel into civilian life and filling a shortage Grand Rapids. Its precursor, the tiny Grand all over the world in many support roles. of health care professionals — with its plants its big “D” in downtown Lansing Rapids Business College in 1866, almost In 2004, a curvaceous new Health and Military Medic to Paramedic Program. Pi- closed in 1910 due to low enrollment. A Human Services Building went up to ad- loted last year, it is the first in the country By LAWRENCE COSENTINO hard-charging teacher, Michael Davenport, dress the shortage of health-care workers in to offer credit for experiential learning. ne of the best things about a new took over as president, turned the school the United States. This fall, 40 veterans from around the building is that everything works. around, and remained president until 1959. Students at career-focused Dav- The average student age at LCC is about country will enroll in the program, named O See LCC, Page 12 26, but there’s no set age or income profile a national model by the U.S. Department enport University’s new downtown Lan- sing campus may find that some things MUSIC of an LCC student. Over 60 percent of stu- of Defense. The next time you stick your ART IS ONLY PART OF THE BROAD’S dents are part time. Pre-nursing, business hand under a lawn mower, a veteran from work too well. The nursing practice dummies cough, MISSION. The museum also hosts administration, psychology, criminal justice LCC’s civilian medic corps may come to frequent, eclectic music events and early education are among the most the rescue. complain, vomit and die. The female that ranged this summer from a unit even gives birth. guy who played guitar with VISUAL ART THE VISUAL ART SCENE IN GREATER LANSING CHANGED (She wasn’t allowed insects (it was splendid) to dance drastically last November, when billionaire MSU to demonstrate that parties with bargain-bin DJs to the alumnus Eli Broad endowed a new contemporary ability at a ribbon principal flutist of the Moscow Symphony. art museum. Where is it? Just walk down Grand Great music flows freely — and almost obscenely River Avenue until your eyeballs are bisected by a cutting and open house last week, because she screams a lot.) cheaply — in and around MSU, thanks in large part to huge, thrusting stainless steel wedge. There’s no frequent concerts and recitals by faculty and These days, to train professionals in the structure like it in the world. And it’s free. students at the College of Music. three fastest growing job fields — technol- So far, exhibits at the Broad have gone in many different directions, from Bassist Rodney Whitaker, among the world’s top ogy, business and health — you have to pre- international exhibits like “Blind Field,” featuring 21 young artists from jazz musicians, has turned MSU’s Jazz Studies area stress students like concrete. At a realistic Brazil, to single-channel video arrays to gallery-wide spectaculars like “Pattern: Follow the Rules” to pocket shows by into one of the top programs in the nation. Whitaker “hospital” on the Lansing campus’ eighth individual artists. In September alone, three new exhibits will open at the Broad, including “Irma Vep, the last breath,” a and his fellow Professors of Jazz perform around town floor, teachers can watch students treat “pa- mind-bending multi-channel video by Michelle Handelman. Watch future issues of City Pulse for previews of fall exhibits. throughout the year, while a growing stable of MSU tients” from behind one-way glass. jazz alumni like drummer Jeff Shoup hold forth at In the second-floor Cisco network restaurants and bars all over town. administration-training center, banks of The endless variety of faculty, student and ensemble SPEND $10 ON phones and computers have simulated recitals, both jazz and classical, at the Cook Recital Hall MERCHANDISE, breakdowns students have to fix in real are the most underpriced cultural gems around, GET 10% OFF time. The disembodied limbs in the phle- especially after last year’s renovation sharpened its botomy lab squirt red stuff if you mishan- acoustics from “eh” to “stunning.” A lot of MSU’s top dle them. God only knows what goes on in faculty double as mainstays of another Lansing gem, the the accounting classrooms. Lansing Symphony Orchestra, which is enjoying a golden era There’s a library in the new building, these days under dynamic music director Timothy Muffitt. too, but hands-on experience is integral to Davenport’s $12 million, 55,000-square- foot Lansing campus at 200 S. Grand Ave. The capstone went on the nine-story edi- fice last month, when a big “D,” visible as a Bat-signal on the city’s night skyline, was hoisted on top. facebook.com/therecordlounge TSHIRTS POSTERS LOCAL MUSIC & MORE About 800 students are enrolled at the #thebestallvinylshopinmichigan Lansing campus this fall, but the university Rodney Whitaker Shop Downtown east lansing! 111 Division st. east lansing [email protected] plans to expand its programs in the near and City Pulse • August 28, 2013 ANNUAL BACK TO SCHOOL SECTION 13 VENUES Davenport THE AREA’S PREMIER PERFORMING ARTS VENUE, THE WHARTON CENTER, has MSU Student Housing Cooperative a full slate of Broadway, dance, from page 12 classical, jazz and In the 1970s, the college grew into a uni- international acts in the versity, offering undergraduate and gradu- coming year. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the FOR PEOPLE, ate degrees, and started adding campuses St. Petersburg Philharmonic and jazz across the state. The university had another diva Diana Krall are all on the slate. big growth spurt in the 2000s, when the Or you can ignore all that highfalutin stuff and NOT PROFIT Detroit College of Business and Great Lakes follow any number of promising cultural rabbit holes. College were consolidated under the Daven- Head to Old Town, the odd little enclave north of port umbrella. downtown where the buildings still have gargoyles on There aren’t any frills on the fall class top. True, the oldest part of Lansing, once a haven for BECOME A PART OF schedule at the Lansing campus. Courses artists, is getting a bit gift-shoppy, but that can be fun, cluster around job-rich fields like health-care too, and there are still straight-up art shows at places reimbursement and coding, information se- like Gallery 1212 and the Creole. There are other YOUR COMMUNITY curity, criminology, finance and accounting. districts in Lansing where you can comb for culture. The new building is a significant invest- Downtown has the Lansing Art Gallery. REO Town, an old ment and a boost to Lansing’s growing factory district south of downtown, is having a revival Fifteen Historic Houses downtown bustle, but Davenport is looking of its own, with one gallery so far. beyond infrastructure to develop academic Lansing also has a rich folk music scene, with a Democratically Run pipelines that soak into the real world as fast wealth of indie singer/songwriters, and a growing as possible. spoken word/poetry slam movement. There’s a lot Some of the new programs at Davenport more to explore, but you get the idea. If you search Student Owned and Operated won’t rely on classroom space at all. Next and search and don’t find anything you like, Ann Arbor year, Davenport will launch a new College of is still only an hour away. It’s a nice place to visit, but Great Locations Urban Education, designed to face the chal- we hear it’s pretty expensive. lenge of teaching in troubled cities. When the program is up and running, Davenport students will fan out into school districts across the state, Lansing’s included, to get first-hand experience working in urban ar- FOR MORE INFO: eas. “It’s a new world,” declared Andre Perry, msu.coop | (517) 355-8313 dean of Davenport’s College of Urban Edu- 541 E Grand River Ave Shop Downtown cation. “We are re-conceptualizing what it [email protected] means be a college campus.” Yo-Yo Ma East Lansing!

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He’s about to get some company on the school’s letterhead. Last month, Cooley an- nounced that it will become Western Mich- Laying down the law igan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School, owing to an affiliation agreement approved by WMU trustees July 18. Cooley Law School shrinks — but casts a long shadow Cooley is a major presence in Lansing’s downtown, from the Roman columns of By LAWRENCE COSENTINO common touch, where generously broad one of its main buildings on Capitol Avenue ou’re kicking back with a beer and admission standards funnel into a tough to the airy new Thomas E. Brennan Law Li- some friends at the Nuthouse, the winnowing machine that demands — and brary a block away. (The library is so good YTin Can or some other downtown rewards — diligence. that researchers from the nearby Michigan Lansing bar. One member of your party Founded in 1972 by Michigan Supreme Supreme Court use it.) Cooley Law School somehow manages Court Justice Thomas E. Brennan, Cooley Stadium, just around the corner on Michi- to laugh at every Law School is still a fairly well kept Lansing gan Avenue, is one of the school’s many links joke and keep up secret, despite its surprising size. Enroll- to the community. How many law schools the drinking with- ment is down from its 2010 peak of 4,000- underwrite a minor league baseball park? out lifting her nose plus, owing to a glut in law school gradu- Cooley is no ivy tower of theoretical from a very thick ates, but the school is still a force to reckon debate. Students can get externships in book with no pic- with, with campuses in Lansing, Auburn more than 3,000 clinics, projects and firms tures and lots of Hills, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor and a new around the world. There are several spe- Latin in it. campus in Tampa Bay, Fla. cializations, including homeland and na- Chances are, Cooley boasts the nation's largest Ju- tional security. The emphasis on real prac- that person is a student at Thomas M. ris Doctor program, with over 3,000 tice and professional standards dovetails

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28 >> ‘WHITEWASHING’ MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.? This month marks the 50th anniversary of the famous March on Washington, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The X Foundation will host a dialogue in the Capital Area District Library downtown branch to discuss the current economic climate and racial relations in the United States, focusing on the “Santa Clausifying” of Dr. King and how it has contributed to the “whitewashing” of his messages. FREE. 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Auditorium of the Capital Area District Library, 401 ON THE South Capital Ave., Lansing. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28 >> MSU PROFESSORS OF JAZZ The MSU Professors of Jazz come in roaring with a season kickoff concert that will also warm them up for the Detroit TOWNListings deadline is 5 p.m. the THURSDAY BEFORE International Jazz Festival. The Professors are a seven-piece publication. Paid classes will be listed in print at the cost ensemble that has played locally, nationally and internationally of one enrollment (maximum $20). Please submit them to the events calendar at www.lansingcitypulse.com. If you since 2000. Directed by bassist Rodney Whitaker, the group need help, please call Dana at (517) 999-5069. Email has played with internationally famous jazz performers Wynton information to [email protected]. Marsalis, Vanessa Rubin, Buster Williams, Jon Faddis and many more over the years. This year, they start the new academic Wednesday, August 28 year with special guest vocalist Mardra Thomas. 7:30 p.m. Classes and Seminars Meditation. For beginners and experienced. 7-9 Pasant Theatre, 750 West Shaw Ln., East Lansing. $10 for p.m. FREE. Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, 3015 S. adults, $8 for seniors, FREE for students. Washington Ave., Lansing. (517) 351-5866. Family Storytime. Ages up to 6. Stories, rhymes WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28 >> THE HATCHING & activities. 10:30 a.m. FREE. CADL South Lansing Library, 3500 S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 272-9840. Each month, a group of people with fresh ideas gathers at Beggar’s Banquet. They compete for a $1,000 Drawing Class. All skill levels, with Penny Collins. prize and the chance to have their idea turned into reality. Ideas are submitted online and then voted on by Pre-registration required. 6-8:30 p.m. $50 for 4 weeks. Gallery 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., the people of East Lansing. The five finalists for every month are notified the Saturday before the event takes Lansing. (517) 999-1212. place. If they win this round, they earn the chance to win it all in December: a $10,000 investment in their LinkedIn Advanced. Registration & LinkedIn brainchild. FREE. 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Beggar’s Banquet, 218 Abbot Road, East Lansing. To vote on future ideas or profile or LinkedIn Basics required. 6:15-8:15 p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. submit your own, visit thehatching.org. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 367-6346. cadl.org. Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. First WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28 >> LET FREEDOM RING PARADE Congregational United Church of Christ, 210 W. Saginaw Highway, Grand Ledge. (517) 256-6954. fcgl.org. The residents of East Lansing are invited to join the children of the Bailey Community Center in their Let Freedom Ring parade to celebrate and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Events march on Washington. The Michigan Department of Civil Rights is asking schools and churches around Practice Your English. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East the community to ring their bells at 3 p.m. The parade will begin at the Bailey Community Center and Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. will end at East Lansing City Hall on Abbot Road. 3 p.m. FREE. Bailey Community Center, 300 Bailey St., Strategy Game Night. Learn & share game favorites. East Lansing. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 ext. 4. dtdl.org. SUNDAY, SEPT. 1 >> OLD TOWN FARMERS MARKET Watershed Wellness Center Farmers Market. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Watershed Farmers Market, Unlike weekly farmers markets around the greater Lansing area, the Old 16280 National Parkway, Lansing. (517) 886-0440. Town Farmers Market only meets once a month, so catch it when you Allen Street Farmers Market. 2:30-7 p.m. FREE. Allen Street Farmers Market, 1619 E. can. All members of the community are welcome to visit Burchard Park Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 999-3911. in Lansing to browse the fresh fruits and vegetables and homemade Park Cart at Hunter Park. Buy nutritious items. The Old Town Farmers Market coincides with the Sunday Gallery snacks. 1-4 p.m. Hunter Park, 1400 E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 999-3917. Walk in Lansing. The Gallery Walk gives Lansing residents a chance to allenneighborhoodcenter.org. slow down and appreciate local artists. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Corner of Art from the Lakes. Exhibit dedicated to lakes. Turner Street and East Grand River Avenue, Lansing. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Lansing Art Gallery, 119 N. Washington Square, Suite 101, Lansing. (517) 374- 6400 ext. 2. lansingartgallery.org. TUESDAY, SEPT. 3 >> PICKIN’ IN THE PARK Transitions: Spring, Summer and Fall. Exhibition Anyone would stop and watch a train wreck, but the trains don’t go through Old Town anymore. How about a by Rebecca Case. Noon-4 p.m. FREE. Absolute Gallery, 307 E. Grand River Ave., Lansing. (517) 482-8845. semi-circle of nice people playing fiddles, guitars, basses and mandolins? Every week, people gather in Old Marriage Equality Discussion. Affirming effects Town to create and listen to music. Join Lansing residents and spend your Tuesday night absorbing the sweet of same-sex marriage on society. 6-7 p.m. FREE. sounds of local artists and musicians. A community event, Pickin’ in the Park draws a variety of people to Turner-Dodge House & Heritage Center, 100 E. North St., Lansing. (517) 484-7434. pilgrimucc.com. meet. The event takes place in Burchard Park this time around, but when it gets too cold, Pickin’ in the Park Sculptures in the Park. Interactive tours. FREE. moves inside to Sir Pizza Grand Café to shelter from the elements. 6 p.m.-8 p.m. FREE. Turner Street and See Out on the Town, Page 18 East Grand River, Lansing. (517) 485-4283. City Pulse • August 28, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 17

Free outdoor concert at Broad Museum Broad Museum MSU, 547 E Circle Drive, East Lansing, FREE, turn it all ages, 6 p.m. MSU’s Broad Art Museum and City Pulse co-host a free concert on the grass outside the museum, at the corner of Grand River Avenue and Collingwood Street. Show starts promptly at 6 p.m. Co-headlining the event are local rock/in- die bands The People's Temple and Wayne Szalinski. The People's Temple has spent Down most of 2013 touring the country and releasing 7-inches. The band’s upcoming single on Trouble in Mind Records sounds like a hybrid of Big Star and the Rolling A survey of Lansing's Stones. This free show is sponsored by Fusion Shows, Music Manor, Message Mak- musical Landscape FRI. SEPT ers, Impact 88.9-FM and The Record Lounge. This concert also marks the opening of an exhibition featuring paintings by designer/artist Hope Gangloff, who will talk By Rich Tupica 6TH with Broad MSU curator Alison Gass.

Wisaal at The Loft Saliva at Uli's What The Folk Is Folkstep? At Mac's Bar Ten Pound Fiddle 2013-2014 opener

FRI. AUG SAT. SEPT SAT. SEPT FRI. SEPT 30th 7TH 7th 13TH The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., Lan- Uli’s Haus of Rock, 4519 S. Martin Lu- Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Unitarian Universalist Church, 855 sing. All ages. $10, $8 adv. ther King, Lansing. 18+, $30, $20 adv., Lansing. 18+, $5, Grove St. East Lansing. All ages, $15, 8pm. 7 p.m. 9:30 p.m. $5 students, $12 member. 8 p.m. Wisaal is a local Mediterranean fusion sextet Rap rock is still alive, and it’ll be in the Haus Michigan-based songwriter and producer The Ten Pound Fiddle Concert & Dance that formed on the campus of Michigan State — Uli’s Haus of Rock — when Saliva headlines Dave Samano, aka KEEPLOVE?, headlines a night Series just announced its 2013-2014 lineup. As University. The band headlines The Loft with a night of heaviness. Opening the show are of experimental music at Mac’s Bar. The show is always, the series will showcase traditional and openers Karisa Wilson, Kim Vi & The Siblings Anarchy, Purgatory Grove and Oeno. Saliva is presented by the Detroit Folkstep collective. Sa- contemporary folk, world, blues and bluegrass, and Karma Bellydance. Since early 2010, Wisaal’s a Gold-selling band known for modern rock mano, the former guitarist for the Detroit-based humorists and fiddlers. The season launches repertoire has included classical Arabic instru- hits like “Click Click Boom” and “Always.” The reggae/metal band Souldub, plays a laid-back with a performance by Claudia Schmidt & Dean mental pieces, contemporary fusion pieces, Memphis-based band’s former singer Josey Scott mix of dubstep and folk music, a genre he refers McGraw. Other upcoming shows include: Birds original compositions and improvisations. The also scored an international hit with “Hero” in to as “folkstep.” Think Bassnectar mixed with Of Chicago (Sept. 20), Anne Hills & Michael Arabic word Wisaal means “links, connections, 2002. The ballad was a duet with the loved/hated Mumford and Sons. His setup is pretty scaled Smith (Sept. 27), James Keelaghan & Jez Lowe or unities.” Wisaal lives up to the name by Nickelback vocalist Chad Kroeger and appeared back: “minimal recording equipment, minimal (Oct. 4), Big Bad Gina (Oct. 11), Andy Cohen & mixing the Mediterranean musical heritage with on the “Spider-Man” soundtrack. However, after live equipment and minimal guitars,” according Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton (Oct. 18), Joel Mabus klezmer, Indian and American influences. The 15 years with Saliva, Scott left the band in 2011 to his bio. His new single “OhMyMy” is available (Oct. 25), The Tia Imani Hanna Project (Nov. 1), band includes Igor Houwat (oud, bandleader), to pursue a solo Christian music career. Bobby on iTunes and Spotify. Warming up the stage at David Francey (Nov. 15) and Lansing Unionized Will Cicola (clarinet), Ben Fuhrman (mandolin), Amaru took over as lead vocalist and appeared Mac’s are Carthief, Basschoir and Bennydoom. Vaudeville Spectacle (Dec. 6). For the complete Tim Patterson (bass), and percussionists Ty on the 2013 Saliva album, “In it to Win It.” Fans of EDM, folk, or electronic music might schedule, visit: www.tenpoundfiddle.org – The Forquer and Mike List. want to check out this show. season continues through early May 2014.

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LIVE & LOCAL Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat u r day The Avenue Café, 2021 E. Michigan Ave. DJ Cattie, 8 p.m. Awesome Jazz, 9 p.m. DJ Jimmy, 8 p.m. Indie Alex, 9 p.m. Classic Pub, 16219 S. US 27 Karaoke w/ DJ Sassy, 8 p.m. DJ Sassy, 8 p.m. Steven Wes Band, 8 p.m. Connxtions Comedy Club, 2900 E. N. East St. Michael Malone, 8 p.m. Michael Malone, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Michael Malone, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Grand Café/Sir Pizza, 201 E. Grand River Ave. Kathy Ford Band, 7:30 p.m. Karaoke w/Joanie Daniels, 7 p.m. Green Door, 2005 E. Michigan Ave. DJ McCoy & Scratch Pilots, 9:30 p.m. Pat Zeneka Project, 9:30 p.m. Phumk Shway, 9:30 p.m. Smoth Daddy, 9:30 p.m. The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave. Karisa Wilson, 8 p.m. Fried Egg Nebula, 8 p.m. Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave. Temple of Void, 9 p.m. Lunar Child, 9 p.m. Michael’s Pub, 210 S. Washington Square Knowlyfe, 5 p.m. Moriarty’s Pub, 802 E. Michigan Ave. Open Mic, 10 p.m. The Scratch Pilots, 9:30 p.m. Zydecrunch, 9:30 p.m. Zydecrunch, 9:30 p.m. Spiral, 1247 Center St. Strippers from Manwatch, 9 p.m. DJ Thor, 9 p.m. Green & White Party, 9 p.m. Unicorn Tavern, 327 E. Grand River Ave. Frog and the Beeftones, 8:30 p.m. Lady Luck, 9 p.m. Lady Luck. 9 p.m. Waterfront Bar & Grill, 325 City Market Drive Suzi and the Love Brothers, 6 p.m. Rhythm on the River, 6 p.m. Joe Wright, 6 p.m. Dan MacLachlan, 6 p.m. Whiskey Barrel Saloon, 410 S. Clippert St. DJ., 9 p.m. DJ, 9.p.m. Jacob Martin Band, 9 p.m. DJ, 9 p.m. play in a band? book shows? To get listed just email us at [email protected] or call (517) 999-6710 What to do: Submit information by the Friday before publication (City Pulse comes out every Wednesday.) Be sure to tell us LivE & Local lists upcominG gigs! the name of the performer and the day, date and time of the performance. Only submit information for the following week's paper. 18 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • August 28, 2013

Concert in the Park Series. Matt King performs Meeting, 6:30 p.m. FREE to visit. St. David’s Episcopal Art from the Lakes. Exhibit dedicated to lakes. Out on the town as Elvis. 7 p.m. FREE. St. Johns City Park, located off Church, 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. (517) 882-9080. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Lansing Art Gallery, 119 N. Morton and Park streets, St. Johns. (989) 224-2429. stdavidslansing.org. Washington Square, Suite 101, Lansing. (517) 374-6400 from page 16 MSU College of Music Presents Professors of Family Storytime. Ages up to 6. Stories, rhymes & ext. 2. lansingartgallery.org. Wentworth Park, 100 N. Grand Ave., Lansing. (517) 374-6400. Jazz Kick-off Concert. 7:30 p.m. $10 adults, $8 activities. 10:30 a.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing Sculptures in the Park. Interactive tours. FREE. Capital Area Crisis Men's Rugby Practice. seniors & FREE for students. Wharton Center, MSU Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 367-6363. Wentworth Park, 100 N. Grand Ave., Lansing. (517) 374-6400. Weather Permitting. All experience levels welcome. Campus, East Lansing. (517) 353-9958. Computer Training. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Faith United Household Hazardous Waste Collection. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Marshall Park, corner of E. Saginaw Methodist Church, 4301 S. Waverly Road, Lansing. (517) 393-3347. Collecting hazardous waste items for disposal. 2-6 & Marshall St., Lansing. crisisrfc.com Theater Take Root Garden Club. Ages 5-10. 10:30 a.m.-Noon, p.m. FREE. Ingham County Health Department, 5303 S. “Orphan Trains” Auditions. Mid Michigan Family FREE. Hunter Park Community GardenHouse, 1400 Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 887-4312. Music Theatre production. 6:30 pm, FREE. Alfreda Schmidt block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 999-3918. Michigan Beer Show Podcast: Tap Takeover. Tap Sam Winternheimer Quartet. 7-10 p.m. Midtown Southside Community Center, 5825 Wise Road, Okemos Community Education: Drama Camp. Takeover with home brews, open to public. 8-9 p.m. Beer Co., 402 S. Washington Square, Lansing. Lansing. 517-483-6686. mmft.net. Teaches participants improvisation tools. 9 a.m.- FREE. Midtown Beer Co., 402 S. Washington Square, Marshall Music Ukulele Play-A-Long. Bring your Noon. $75. Edgewood Elementary, 1826 Osage Drive, Lansing. (517) 977-1349. own ukulele or borrow one. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Marshall Thursday, August 29 Okemos. (517) 349 2209. Harvest Basket Produce Sale. All produce grown Learning about Healthy Living: Tobacco and Music, 3240 E. Saginaw St., Lansing. (517) 337-9700. Classes and Seminars naturally on the Smith Floral Property. 3-7:30 p.m. Smith You. Free quit-smoking classes. 2-3 p.m. FREE. marshallmusic.com. Take Off Pounds Sensibly. Weigh in, 6 p.m. Floral and Greenhouses, 124 E. Mount Hope Ave., Lansing. Community Mental Health Building, 812 E. Jolly Road, Lansing. (517) 887-4312. hd.ingham.org. Music Meditation. For beginners and experienced on Marshall Music Drum Circle. Drum circle by Ian Thursdays. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. Quan Am Temple, 1840 N. Levine, instruments provided. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Marshall { HLS } College Ave., Mason. (517) 853-1675. quanamtemple.org. Music, 3240 E. Saginaw St., Lansing. (517) 337-9700. Live Music at P Squared. Live music every Thursday, Hude Legal Services, PLLC Events 8 p.m. FREE. P Squared Wine Bar, 107 S. Washington Spanish Conversation Group. Both English and Square, Lansing. (517) 507-5074. Katharine M. Hude - Attorney at Law Spanish spoken. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Hude Legal Services, PLLC Euchre. Come play Euchre and meet new people. No Friday, August 30 partner needed. 6-9 p.m. $1.50. Delta Township Enrichment Classes and Seminars Legal Counsel & Support Center, 4538 Elizabeth Road, Lansing. (517) 484-5600. Oil Painting. For all levels with Patricia Singer. Services for Individual, Karaoke. With Atomic D. 9 p.m. LeRoy’s Classic Bar & Preregistration required. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $50 for 4 Business, & Nonprofit Needs Grill, 1526 S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 482-0184. weeks. Gallery 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., Lansing. South Lansing Farmers Market. 3-7 p.m. FREE. Okemos Community Education: Drama Camp. 5:00-7:00p South Lansing Farmers Market, 1905 W. Mount Hope Teaches improvisation tools. 9 a.m.-Noon. $75. Edgewood Traditional legal services and Ave., Lansing. (517) 374-5700. Elementary, 1826 Osage Drive, Okemos. (517) 349 2209. support service to nonprofits Park Cart. Buy nutritious snacks. 1-4 p.m. Hunter Alcoholics Anonymous. A closed women’s meeting. and small businesses such as: Park, 1400 E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 999-3918. allenneighborhoodcenter.org. Nonprofit Consulting See Out on the Town, Page 19 Strategic Planning Board Training and Development SUDOKU BEG INNER Bookkeeping TO PLAY See Out on the Town, Page 39 Fundraising Plans Fill in the grid so that every row, col- Practices in the areas of: umn, and outlined 3-by-3 box contains Nonprofit Law the numbers 1 through 9 exactly once. Business Formation & Compliance No guessing is required. The solution is Contracts & Licensing Agreements unique. Copyright & Trademark To avoid erasing, pencil in your pos- Probate and Estate planning sible answers in the scratchpad space Real Property beneath the short line in each vacant Family Law & Criminal Defense square. DOWNTOWN LANSING, INC. Answers on page 21 P 517-487-3322 403 Seymour Ave, Suite 301 www.hudelaw.com downtownlansing.org Virg Bernero, Mayor Lansing, MI 48933 (517) 930-6857

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7:30 p.m. St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 6500 Amwood Saturday, August 31 Drive, Lansing. (517) 882-9733. Classes and Seminars Tai Chi in the Park. Taught by Bob Teachout. 9 a.m. Events FREE. Hunter Park Community GardenHouse, 1400 Art from the Lakes. Exhibit dedicated to lakes. block of E. Kalamazoo St. Lansing. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Lansing Art Gallery, 119 N. Wheel of Life: Single Mothers Working Together. (between the former Washington Square, Suite 101, Lansing. (517) 374-6400 25 and older. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. FREE. Women’s Center Cadilac Club and Art Alley) ext. 2. lansingartgallery.org. of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) Sculptures in the Park. Interactive tours. FREE. 372-9163. womenscenterofgreaterlansing.org. Wentworth Park, 100 N. Grand Ave., Lansing. (517) 374-6400. Domestic Violence Support Group. Noon-1:30 Lansing Bike Party. Bike ride with TGIF stop. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Women’s Center of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. p.m. FREE. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, 547 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 372-9163. Circle Drive, MSU Campus, East Lansing. Okemos Community Education: Drama Camp. Singles TGIF Patio Party. Slice Band and DJ Ricky Teaches improvisation tools. 9 a.m.-Noon. $75. Edgewood perform. 8 p.m.-Midnight, $12. Hawk Hollow Golf Elementary, 1826 Osage Drive, Okemos. (517) 349 2209. Course, 15101 Chandler Road, Bath. SinglesTGIF.com. Events Music Watershed Wellness Center Farmers Market. 9 Grand River Radio Diner/WLNZ 89.7. Featuring See Out on the Town, Page 20

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Capital Area Crisis Men's Rugby Practice. Out on the town Weather Permitting. All experience levels welcome. Free Will Astrology Classic By Rob Brezsny Aug 28-Sept 3 6:30 p.m. FREE. Marshall Park, corner of E. Saginaw & from page 20 Marshall St., Lansing. crisisrfc.com ARIES (March 21-April 19): Strange but true: To pave perfect time for you to carry out your own Unhappy Hour, Resource Center, near Collingwood entrance, East the way for your next liberation, you will have to impose Libra. For inspiration, listen to my version here: http:// Lansing. (517) 927-8260. Music some creative limitation on yourself. In other words, bitly.com/UnhappyHour. Sam Winternheimer Quartet. 7-10 p.m. Midtown Lansing Area Codependents Anonymous. 5:45- there's some trivial extravagance or unproductive excess SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Age of Mythology" is Beer Co., 402 S. Washington Square, Lansing. in your current rhythm that is suppressing an interest- 6:45 p.m. Everybody Reads Books and Stuff, 2019 E. a computer game that invites participants to strategi- Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 346-9900. ing form of freedom. As soon as you cut away the faux cally build up their own civilization and conquer others. "luxury" that is holding you back, all of life will conspire to There are of course many "cheats" that help you to bend give you a growth spurt. Events the rules in your favor. For instance, the "Wrath of the TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Using two tons of color- First Day of School Chapel. Starting the school Gods" cheat gives you the god-like powers of lightning ful breakfast cereal, high school students in Smithfield, year with a prayer for the students. 8:15-9:15 a.m. storms, earthquakes, meteors, and tornadoes. With FREE. Lansing Christian School, 3405 Belle Chase Way, Utah helped their art teacher create a gymnasium-sized replica of Vincent van Gogh's painting "Starry Night." After "Goatunheim," you can turn your enemies into goats, and Lansing. (517) 882-5779. admiring it for a few days, they dismantled the objet d'art "Channel Surfing" allows you to move your armies over Tea & Talk. Salon Style discussions. 8 p.m. FREE. Triple and donated it as food to a farm full of pigs. You might water. But the cheat I would recommend for you right Goddess New Age Bookstore, 1824 E. Michigan Ave. benefit from trying a comparable project in the coming now, whether you're playing "Age of Mythology" or the Lansing. (517) 883-3414. triplegoddessbookstore.. days, Taurus. What common everyday things could you game of your own life, would be Wuv Woo, a flying purple Art from the Lakes. Exhibit dedicated to lakes. use in novel ways to brighten up your personal palette? hippopotamus that blows rainbows out its back end and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Lansing Art Gallery, 119 N. What humdrum part of your routine could you invigorate blasts lovey-dovey hearts from its mouth. (P.S. Using it will Washington Square, Suite 101, Lansing. (517) 374-6400 through the power of creative nonsense? It's high time to make other good cheats easier to access.) ext. 2. lansingartgallery.org. try some experiments in play therapy. 37 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the tribes of GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "The energy you use to the zodiac, Sagittarius is most skilled at not trying too Wednesday, September 4 read this sentence is powered, ultimately, by sunlight," hard. That isn't to say that you're lazy or lax. What I mean Classes anD Seminars says science writer K.C. Cole, "perhaps first soaked up by is that when it's time for you to up the ante and push Meditation. 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It's as if you'll be glimpsing pos- sibilities that won't fully ripen for a while; as if you'll be what the oracle had specified. And the truth is, his empire stumbling upon prophecies that will take months, maybe fell apart quickly. The moral of the story, as far as you're even years, to unveil their complete meaning. concerned, Aquarius: Untie the knot, don't cut through it. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I periodically perform a PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "If you don't become the public ritual called Unhappy Hour. During this focused ocean, you'll be seasick every day," sings Leonard Cohen binge of emotional cleansing, participants unburden in his song "Good Advice for Someone Like Me." I think you themselves of their pent-up sadness, disappointment, already know that, Pisces. Of all the signs of the zodiac, frustration, and shame. 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Laura Johnson/City Pulse Ben Tirrell of Tirrell Centennial Farm in Charlotte greets one of his pastured lambs. A seventh-generation farmer, Tirrell raises sheep and cattle, providing natural meat and cheese products at area farmers markets, specialty shops and for farm-to-table restaurants.

Animals at the farm are pasture-based, meaning they have a large, grassy area to roam and graze, rather than being con- No-secrets fined in feedlots, as is the case for most industrially raised meat. The animals eat grass, their natural diet, instead of the grain that has been deemed economically meat efficient and elicits the use of antibiotics. “We try and raise them in a natural By LAURA JOHNSON way. It’s kind of old-fashioned stuff,” Tir- Don’t put Ben Tirrell or his rell said. “We take care of them and give family farm in a box. them a good, natural life and plenty of “Everybody’s big on space. … We raise something that people labeling things,” he said, can enjoy and feel good about the life seated at a shaded picnic ORGANIC that animal had.” table at his farm in Char- Tirrell Centennial Farm is one of the lotte. He’s talking about food local meat options increasingly avail- labels like “organic” and “grass able at Lansing-area farmers markets, fed.” “We’re just trying to sell who we are as well as specialty shops and farm-to- and make a name for ourselves. This is table restaurants. how we do things, and it’s not necessarily “There’s a growing demand for locally such and such certified. That all seems a produced meat and better meat because TIM BARRON little bit gimmicky to me.” the system doesn’t facilitate getting good EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING Tirrell is a seventh-generation farmer quality meat,” Tirrell said. “We’re trying to of Tirrell Centennial Farm, which pro- meet that demand.” duces varieties of meats and cheeses. Hav- Most people are used to seeing produce 6AM-9AM ing done a little bit of everything over the and crafts at farmers markets, but not years, he and his family now raise sheep meat, said Christine Miller, market man- and cattle, direct-marketing meat and ager of Meridian Township Farmers Mar- cheese at Meridian Township Farmers ket. “Customers are almost kind of scared Market and their on-farm shop. at it. They’re not used to being able to find Rather than a certified organic farmer, that kind of product here,” she said. Tirrell is a realistic and fairly simple one, At the Meridian market, though, meat abiding by tradition, quality for his cus- vendors have been around for years. Cus- tomers and respect for his land and ani- tomers “are very used to seeing that, and mals. The key, he said, is transparency: we’ve expanded,” Miller said. “We have “There are some really big (livestock) fish, shrimp, beef, lamb, chicken, pork. I farms that do some things that the public think the only thing we don’t have right And hear Berl Schwartz of City Pulse would find distasteful,” he said. “So we try now is goat.” to show people what we’re doing and be Miller is a meat vendor herself. Spartan call Tim an ignorant slut — or worse. transparent. If somebody wants to come Country Meats in Webberville sells chick- out and walk all the way down and see the en, turkey, rabbit and pork products at the Every Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. cows, that’s fine. Let’s go.” See Organic, Page 23 City Pulse • August 28, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 23

“We’re not trying to sell the cheapest convince, an egg’s an egg.” Organic beef, we’re trying to sell sustainable beef,” Those who are curious, though, he in- McLaughlin said. He added that they use vites to see his animals and operations from page 22 the whole animal — tongue, heart and all, for themselves. which appeals to different nationalities “People can see what I’m doing,” he said. Meridian market and the East Lansing with different culinary tastes. “No secrets. We feel good about it.” Farmers Market. Like Tirrell, for Miller it’s “I have people comment about” the cost, about a quality product. Miller said. “But they also realize it’s gonna For more information, check out your “It’s producing a product that is good be a lot better for them in the long run.” local farmers market or vendors like Lan- for people to eat,” she said. “It doesn’t have “It’s not for everybody,” Tirrell acknowl- sing City Market or Mert’s Specialty Meats, all the other stuff in it that’s in what big- edged. “There are some people you can’t and ask about meat options. box stores carry, so it gives us a niche and also an opportunity to share our product and to educate people about what kind of things we have and what we do, instead of having no clue how products are raised.” Her family’s pigs are raised without hormones or antibiotics and are pro- cessed organically in Rosebush without any additional nitrates or MSG. Her ani- mals all eat grass and non-GMO grain, and the chickens are free-range and pro- cessed right on the farm. Miller’s customers most often comment on the taste, she said. “Their big thing is, you know, ‘It actually tastes like chicken!’ And the same thing with turkeys because we do fresh turkeys for Thanksgiving, and they’re like, ‘It actually tastes like turkey, oh my goodness!’” John McLaughlin of McLauglin Farm Ltd. in Jackson concurs, referring to his customers’ reactions to his naturally raised, grassfed and dry-aged beef. “It re- minds people of beef from their parents or their grandparents,” he said at his booth at the Meridian market. McLaughlin said he and his wife, Cath- ie, gain customers through referrals from friends as well as doctors: Many are seek- ing a healthier product. “We’re not certified organic, but we don’t feed hormones, we don’t use antibiotics or any of that stuff.” One factor that dissuades carnivores from seeking more sustainable meat op- tions is cost, and it’s true: Small-scale, hu- manely raised and processed meat is usu- ally going to cost more.

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