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DOWNTOWN EAST LANSING | Elartfest.Com | FREE FREE May15-21, 2019 A Newspaper for the rest of us • www.lansingcitypulse.com TOP OF THE TOWN ROUND 2 STARTS NOW! VOTE ON Project1_LayoutLANSINGCITYPULSE.COM 1 4/1/19 10:44 AM Page 1 see page 17 -Nevin ‘19 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 15, 2019 City Pulse • May 15, 2019 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 Favorite Things Garage owner Tony Schep and his 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner 2019 CONTEST VOTE FOR US! When I got out of the Marines, I Today, when people talk about found out everybody started selling Chrysler it is all about the Hemi. But their cars because of the gas prices this is a special engine Chrysler used during the oil crisis. from around 1960 to 1965. In the These things only got eight or five ‘50s, they had a small group of cra- miles to a gallon. I only drove this a zy people like me who wanted to go couple of years, but it was too much fast and Chrysler turned them loose. of my life to sell it. So, I parked it for This engine was called the Maximum about 35 years and only got it out Performance Wedge, and this car was around three years ago. the end of the Wedge. MEGA-BEV This car was $2,800 brand new. They only made a few thousand Beer • Wine • Liquor I was 17 when I went to the North- of these. I have not seen another one 3630 South Cedar Street • Lansing land Chrysler Plymouth dealer and like this in 10 years. 517-657-2105 • www.megabev.com bought it. My second wife was not part of the Store Hours: Mon-Thurs 8 am to 10 pm It had a lot of racing scars I had scene when we went to a cruise a few Fri 8 am to 12 am • Sat 9 am to 12 am to clean up when I took it out. I did years ago. The first year of the cruise, Sun 9 am to 10 pm some major drag racing around De- you could pull whole hot shots down troit at the Detroit Dragway, Milan there, but now they give you a $500 Dragway and Motorcity Dragway. ticket for squealing the tires. Wines from Around the World When I lived in Detroit, it was nuts I came up to a light and there had down there. I lived around Telegraph to be more than a 100 people yelling Craft Beer • Ciders • Kegs and Ford Road. All along Telegraph, at me to light up the tires. I let it have there would be drive-in restaurants it, the car didn’t move and all the Premium Liquors & Prepared Cocktails with 50 to 60 cars wanting to race smoke started coming up. Mixers • Bar Supplies and we would. My wife said “Tony, I’ve never seen Later, we’d go on to I-696 with this side of you before.” Unique Gifts • Michigan Made Products around 50 cars late at night. All the We were down there all night go- cars would stop traffic on the freeway ing nuts until I finally got pulled in every lane to race. We would do over at 5 a.m. The cop said, “Sir, NOBODY HAS A LARGER about five races and by the time the don’t you think it is time to take this police got there, we were gone. thing home?” I said “Yeah, I probably BEER SELECTION! The detail I enjoy the most is its should.” big V8 with dual carburetors. This (This interview was edited and is my artwork. I basically took the condensed by Dennis Burck. If you VOTE FOR US! whole thing apart, made it a bigger have a recommendation for “Favorite BestBest Beer Liquor Selection Store engine with more cubic inches put- Things,” please email dennis@lan- 2019 Best Wine Shop CONTEST in a Retail Store! ting in twice the fuel. singcitypulse.com.) 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 15, 2019 VOL. 18 ISSUE 41 (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5061 or email [email protected] PAGE CLASSIFIEDS: (517) 999-6704 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz 10 [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Audrey Matusz Margarita Fest returns to Lansing [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 EVENTS EDITOR/OFFICE MANAGER • Suzi Smith [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 DIGITAL CONTENT/PRODUCTION MANAGER • Skyler Ashley PAGE [email protected] (517) 999-5066 42 STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino [email protected] • (517) 999-5065 How does the restaurant Sansu stack up? Kyle Kaminski • [email protected] (517) 999-6715 Dennis Burck • [email protected] (517) 999-6705 PAGE SALES EXECUTIVE Lee Purdy • [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 FREE May15-21, 2019 10 Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Daniel E. Bollman, Jeffrey Billman, Capital News Service, A mother'sA Newspaper fordedication the rest of us • www.lansingcitypulse.com to youth arts education Bill Castanier, Ryan Claytor, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie Pohl, Dennis Preston, Allan Cover I. Ross, Nevin Speerbrecker, Dylan Tarr, Rich Tupica, Ute Von Der Heyden, David Winkelstern, Paul Wozniak Art Distribution manager: Paul Shore • (517) 999-6704 Delivery drivers: Dave Fisher, Dale Gartner, By Nevin-Nevin ‘19 Speerbrecker Thomas Scott Jr., Jack Dowd, Gavin Smith NOW AT 10:00 A.M. SUNDAYS on 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 15, 2019 VOL. 18 ISSUE 41 (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5061 or email [email protected] PAGE CLASSIFIEDS: (517) 999-6704 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz 10 [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Audrey Matusz Margarita Fest returns to Lansing [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 EVENTS EDITOR/OFFICE MANAGER • Suzi Smith [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 DIGITAL CONTENT/PRODUCTION MANAGER • Skyler Ashley PAGE [email protected] (517) 999-5066 42 STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino [email protected] • (517) 999-5065 How does the restaurant Sansu stack up? Kyle Kaminski • [email protected] (517) 999-6715 Dennis Burck • [email protected] (517) 999-6705 PAGE SALES EXECUTIVE Lee Purdy • [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 FREE May15-21, 2019 10 Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Daniel E. Bollman, Jeffrey Billman, Capital News Service, A mother'sA Newspaper for thededication rest of us • www.lansingcitypulse.com to youth arts education Bill Castanier, Ryan Claytor, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie Pohl, Dennis Preston, Allan Cover I. Ross, Nevin Speerbrecker, Dylan Tarr, Rich Tupica, Ute Von Der Heyden, David Winkelstern, Paul Wozniak Art Distribution manager: Paul Shore • (517) 999-6704 Delivery drivers: Dave Fisher, Dale Gartner, By-Nevin Nevin ‘19 Speerbrecker Thomas Scott Jr., Jack Dowd, Gavin Smith NOW AT 10:00 A.M. SUNDAYS on OF THE WEEK City Pulse • May 15, 2019 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Flexibility key to performing arts center OF THE WEEK Consultant: No slam dunk but no pipe dream either Whoever is in charge of raising the curtain on a downtown performing arts center in Lansing can sit back and take a smoke break. It’s going to take some serious researching and soul-searching to come up with a design that works. And there might not even be a curtain. Waverly Golf Course shacks That’s the takeaway from the first These decaying shacks along Sagi- round of findings, which were pre- naw Highway will soon be razed as a sented Friday by a national consultant mixed-use development heads to the hired to shepherd the city through a former Waverly Golf Course. But it complex and multi-faceted process. certainly doesn’t make them any less “We think this is possible, but it’s of an eyesore in the meantime. going to take an innovative approach,” Most of the windows are boarded Michele Walter, lead consultant for up, but their moss-covered interiors Connecticut-based AMS Planning & can still get plenty of sunlight from Research, told the facilities committee the gaping holes in their rooftops. The of the Mayor’s Art and Culture Com- front doors can sometimes be found mission Friday. The city retained AMS Courtesy photo wide open. They’re eye-catching for all for a $105,000 study, paid for with SoundBox in San Francisco is a flexible, multi-use hall where the San Francisco the wrong reasons. private funds —$40,000 in cable fees Symphony and other groups perform in a technological "sonic paradise." The developers agree. That’s why from the Lansing Public Media Center. met at the Lansing Center, whether it with a growth rate projected at 2 per- they are tearing them down “in the Walter reported on the findings of a comes from a dedicated percentage of cent over the next five years. very near future,” said Jay Parnes, vice survey of potential users that drew 86 a hotel or convention tax, a millage, “Performance space is the primary president of Florida-based Northern responses from 77 organizations, from parking fees or some combination. need, by far,” Walter said. “In terms of Capital Investments, the company individual artists to regional promoters “It will not break even on its own,” building form, we’re talking about a that bought 120-acre swathe of land to major players like the Capital City Walter said. “It’s going to require a sub- music venue.” last September.
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