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say the movement is not about staying recently. She argued that occupying the ‘Civil obedience’ in parks, which seems to be the group’s park is a “nonverbal” form of protest well focus. It’s led to frustration for the mayor, within their First Amendment rights. Eye Is Occupy Lansing losing sight of who now says they should take organiz- But City Attorney Brig Smith told what it means to protest? “Get a ing efforts more seriously if they plan on MLive.com recently that the park cur- candy! damn office!” the mayor says. influencing any change. few in no way infringes upon anyone’s “Get a damn office!” Bernero shouted First Amendment rights. Because the law of the week On Saturday, five members of Occupy during a recent phone interview. “It doesn’t doesn’t unfairly target one group or activ- Lansing attempted to “reoccupy” Reutter make you a corporation to have an office. ity, it’s not unconstitutional, he said. Park past what they called the “unconsti- We’re dealing with big, big issues. Get real. Occupiers hold steady to the idea that a tutional” 10 p.m. curfew. One person was You’re battling huge corporate interests.” constant presence in the park “is not camp- ticketed for taking down the sole tent in the The Occupy movement was supposed ing, it is an occupation,” Zarebski said. She park too slowly. The group disbanded by 11. to develop locally and tackle issues unique compared it to other forms of civil disobe- “In my opinion, civil disobedience is civil to each community, said Steve Hudson, a dience, like hunger strikes and sit-ins. disobedience, and you’ve gotta prove your retired city worker who was active in the Hunger strikes have been used by polit- point,” Norma Bauer of Occupy Lansing original Occupy Lansing. For instance, ical prisoners to continue protesting while said after the citation was giv- incarcerated. Sit-ins were en to fellow occupier Raphael used to fight for civil rights Adley. It was Adley’s second and fair use of public trans- Occupy-related citation in a portation. Both were forms of month for being in the park what’s called direct action. past curfew. Violating such Hudson said that in order a city ordinance is a misde- to tackle the issues highlight- Property: 611 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing meanor. At the Lansing Police ed by the Occupy movement Owner: 611 South Capitol Properties LLC Department’s discretion, they — corporate influence over Assessed value: $58,900 could haul you to jail, rather government, wealth disparity than issue a ticket. LPD Capt. and predatory mortgage and Gateways are points of entry and depar- Mike Yankowski said Adley foreclosure practices — it will ture from the community. Much like the New pleaded not guilty to his May take more than standing in a Cross Road in Georgian London, Lansing’s 13 citation and requested a park, waving signs and chant- South Capitol Avenue is a gateway to the mid- trial by jury. A trial date has ing, “We are the 99 percent!” Michigan region via Interstate 496. not been set. Hudson believes that there All too often, modern urbanism has dimin- Bauer said she has to keep has never been anything civ- ished the significance of entry points in and a clean record for her job illy disobedient about Occupy out of communities. It’s not uncommon to so she can’t risk arrest. She Lansing, and the fact that the see gateways marked by non-descript build- wasn’t alone. mayor gave permission to stay ings, uninspiring signage or simply nothing. Significant architecture should greet visitors “I can’t afford to get arrest- Sam Inglot/City Pulse in the first place — and that ed,” added Chris Lamere. “I Occupy Lansing members Linda Zarebski (left) and Chris Lamere the group is actively request- and citizens alike as they pass by. feel like if we at least make the (right) sing protest songs and hold signs outside of the Capitol ing waivers from City Council The latter is underway on South Capitol. effort, we’re at least making during the group’s “Laugh Riot” on May 18. — speaks to that fact. When you combine the vision of a local busi- the effort. No one in Occupy What Occupy Lansing is ness owner and a local architect, you get Lansing thinks we shouldn't involved in is “civil obedience,” great things. Mayor Virg Bernero’s initiative be here.” Occupy Detroit might have different goals Hudson said. “Not civil disobedience.” inspired Roger Thornburg, owner of Investors Last year, Mayor Virg Bernero waived and actions than Occupy Lansing. The The most recent events coordinated by Equity Group, and David VanderKlok of the city’s overnight camping in parks ordi- early energy of Occupy Lansing revolved the group include three “picnics” in the park Studio Intrigue Architects, to recognize this nance from October to December before around the establishment of the Reutter and a protest sing-along session in front of property’s role in improving the aesthetics of Occupy Lansing went online for the win- Park camp where people “basically hung the Capitol. “We’re a lot more involved with this gateway by restoring the beautiful four- ter due to the cold. He’s not granting such out, slept and talked to people,” he said. the community if we’re there all the time, square house — including the original wood a waiver this year, citing costs to the city. That focus continued to dominate the not just during the day,” Lamere said dur- siding — and updating it with amenities that But since the winter hiatus from the organizing efforts of the group. This frus- ing the “Laugh Riot” in front of the Capitol, keep it relevant for today’s contemporary life- park, Occupy Lansing has had regular trated people who wanted to tackle prob- during which eight people sang folk songs style. showings of five to eight people at events, lems facing Lansing via direct action and modified with protest lyrics. This mixed-use building, including an meaning its core numbers are dwindling. community organizing, causing many “The problem with the camp is that office and two residential units, is a great start They are requesting the City Council go to of them to walk away from the group. it’s stagnant, it’s only in one part of the to the changing landscape of South Capitol. bat for them on the overnight camping, Lamere accused them of being “co-opted city,” Hudson said. “People not on that 617 S. Capitol Ave. is next in line — look for but it’s unclear what will amount from by the Democratic Party.” end of town may have never even heard of its restoration to be complete sometime late that. Only the mayor can grant an ordi- The park occupation is necessary to Occupy Lansing. How would they unless next summer. Forecast: South Capitol is the nance waiver, said City Clerk Chris Swope. bolster the group’s numbers by engaging they had a reason to go down there? You gateway to watch. Council has the power to amend the city’s the community, organizers say. Over the need to involve the entire city and make overnight camping ordinance, but the past two months several members have an active effort to go to the people, not — Amanda Harrell-Seyburn chances of that happening appear slim. been given citations for two attempts to make them come to you.” A larger view suggests Occupy Lansing reoccupy the park. “Eye candy of the Week” is our weekly look at (Andy Balaskovitz contributed report- some of the nicer properties in Lansing. It rotates each may be losing sight of what it’s protesting. “No one can usurp my constitutional ing for this story.) week with Eyesore of the Week. If you have a suggestion, A former occupier and even Bernero, a right to assemble,” Occupy Lansing mem- please e-mail [email protected] or call 999-5064. vocal supporter of the Occupy movement, ber Linda Zarebski told the City Council — Sam Inglot 6 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012

nomic development agencies picked style 1915 commercial building that Karp, largely on the strength of two once housed high-end iron grillwork, Karp finds a recent successes outside of Lansing. Tiffany chandeliers and glass mosaics Last year, Karp and Prater rehabbed and Pewabic tiles. the Standart-Simmons Building, a “There’s not a lot left in the interiors,” bigger pond century-old warehouse in downtown Karp said. “Most of what we’re dealing Toledo, into 75 apartments, now 100 with is historic facades.” Lansing developer picked percent leased. When the project is finished, Karp for $85 million project in Detroit Before that, Prater and Karp trans- expects about 250 high-end apartments formed Flint’s 1920 Durant Hotel from and 75,000 square feet of office space to Detroit’s Capitol Park is a quiet trian- an empty shell in January 2001 to a mix comfortably with low-income hous- gle of benches and planters surrounded completed project, with 93 apartments ing that’s already here. The Griswold by grand old buildings that are better and a grand ballroom, in August 2011. Building, a large block of low-income described as sky-ticklers than skyscrap- Karp said the apartments in both senior apartments with Art Deco flour- ers. They shelter, rather than loom, as projects are at full occupancy. ishes, borders the east side of the park. people chat and feed pigeons in the Capitol Park, bounded by Shelby, In a cream-colored building to the west, modest-sized park. Griswold and State streets, was a bus- next to the Farwell, window plants and Lansing developer Richard Karp tling bus hub until 2009, when the hipsters strumming guitars can be seen can’t seem to get away from the state Rosa Parks Transportation Center was in the windows. Capitol. In April, Karp won a bid to ren- built a few blocks west. Now the park “They’re not legally rehabbed — no ovate three historic Detroit buildings in is an oasis of tranquility a block from permits pulled or anything — but peo- Capitol Park, where the Michigan State Woodward Avenue. Karp said there’s no ple are living there and they’re adding Capitol stood until 1847. A tiny metal space like it in the city. to the culture and the flavor that’s down replica of the Capitol, about two and a “The buildings that ring us around here,” Karp said, referring to the hipster half pigeons long, still marks the spot. here have six to 13 stories, and that’s hangout. It’s a big coup for Karp, who beat out a relatively comfortable space for At $85 million, the Capitol Park major Detroit players like the Ilitches humans,” Karp said. project is more than twice as big as for the contract. Karp’s frequent partner The buildings slated for renovation anything Karp has done before, but he in renovation projects, Lansing’s Kevin include the United Way Building, a dig- prefers to look at the job as three sepa- Prater, will team with him on the $85 nified 11-story slab on the park’s west rate buildings, each costing less than Lawrence Cosentino/City Pulse million project, financed by a complex side, and the gracefully angled Capitol $30 million. “So this is right in our Lansing-based developers Richard Karp (right) patchwork of loans, tax credits and Park Building, which spreads like an wheelhouse,” Karp said. (The Durant and Kevin Prater are developing a key trio of neighborhood stabilization funds from open book at the park’s south end. Hotel in Flint cost $41 million and the downtown Detroit buildings in the Capitol Park HUD. The prize among the three is the area, including the Farwell Building, behind A consortium of local and state eco- Farwell Building, a classic Chicago- See Karp, Page 7 them. PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF LETTING OF DRAIN CONTRACT with purchase is an additional $30.00 per set. AND DAY OF REVIEW OF APPORTIONMENTS A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at 10:00 am. on Thursday, June 14, 2012, KINAWA VIEW DRAIN at the office of the Ingham County Drain Commissioner, 707 Buhl Avenue, Mason, Michigan 48854. Prospective bidders are required to attend and participate in the conference. All bidders must sign in NOTICE IS NOW GIVEN, that I, Patrick E. Lindemann, Drain Commissioner for the County by name of attendee and business represented. Only bids from bidders in attendance at the pre-bid of Ingham, State of Michigan, at the Office of the Ingham County Drain Commissioner, 707 Buhl conference will be opened. All others will be considered non-responsive. Avenue, Mason, Michigan 48854, will receive sealed bids until 9:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, when bids will be opened and publicly announced for the construction, maintenance Contracts will be made with the lowest responsible bidder giving adequate security for the and improvement of a certain drain known and designated as the “Kinawa View Drain” located and performance of the work in the sum as specified in the bidding documents, reserving to myself the established in Meridian Charter Township in said County. right to reject any and all bids and to adjourn such bid letting to such time and place as I shall publicly announce. In construction, maintenance and improvement of said Drain, the following approximate quantities and type of tile or pipe, along with appurtenances, will be required and a contract let for the The date for the substantial completion of such contract is October 15, 2012, with final same: completion by May 1, 2013, and the terms of payment are contained in the contract specifications. Any responsible person wanting to bid on the above-mentioned work will be required to deposit bid security Quanity Unit Description in the amount specified in the bidding documents as a guarantee that they will enter into a contract and furnish the required bonds as prescribed by the contract specifications and applicable law. All bids shall 700 Cyd Embankment, CIP remain open for one hundred and twenty (120) days after the day of the bid opening, but I reserve the 1030 Cyd Excavation, Earth right at my sole discretion to release any bid and bid security before that date. 50 Ft Culvert, Class F, Concrete, 18 in. 2 Ea Culvert End Section, Concrete, 18 in. Bidders shall comply with the Ingham County policies regarding the payment of Prevailing 2 Ea Drain Marker Post Wages, and Equal Opportunity/Nondiscrimination, as set forth in Ingham County Board of Commissioners 410 Ft Sewer, Class A, 10 in., Trench Det. A Resolutions #02-263 and #02-283, respectively. 1000 Ft Sewer, Class IV, 12 in., Trench Det A 9 Ea Drain Structure, 24 in. diameter 8 Ea Drain Structure, 48 in. diameter DAY OF REVIEW OF APPORTIONMENTS 1580 Ft Underdrain, Subgrade, 8 in. NOTICE IS FURTHER HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, the apportionments for benefits to the lands comprised within the “Kinawa View Drain Drainage District," will be subject to review for one day from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the Ingham County Drain Commissioner’s Office, and miscellaneous related items, including road, drive and sidewalk restoration, soil erosion and located at 707 Buhl Avenue, Mason, Michigan 48854, or at such other time and place to which I may sedimentation control practices, traffic control, and landscape restoration. Pipe depths range from 2 adjourn. At the meeting to review the apportionment of benefits, I will have the tentative apportionments to 8 feet in depth. against parcels and municipalities within the drainage district available to review. At said review, the computation of costs for maintenance and improvement of the Drain will also be open for inspection by All stations are 100 feet apart. There are NO bridges in this contract. There is 1 culvert in any interested parties. this contract, located in Dobie Road, lying in an east/west direction, approximately 86 feet north of the south property line of 3821 Dobie Road. Pursuant to Section 155 of the Michigan Drain Code of 1956, as amended, any owner of land within the drainage district for the Kinawa View Drain or any city, village, township, or county Plans and Bidding Documents may be viewed beginning on Wednesday June 6, 2012, at aggrieved by the tentative apportionment of benefits made by the Drain Commissioner may appeal the the office of the Ingham County Drain Commissioner, 707 Buhl Avenue, Mason, Michigan 48854 or may apportionment within ten (10) calendar days after the day of review of apportionment by making an be obtained at Auburn Dalle, PLC, 107 ½ East Grand River Avenue, Lansing, MI 48906 (ph. 888-822- application to the Ingham County Probate Court for appointment of a Board of Review. 2416). Paper copies of plans will be available for a $40.00 non-refundable fee at the office of Auburn Dalle PLC. Ground shipping with purchase is an additional $20.00 per set. Priority overnight shipping Any drain assessments against land will be collected in the same manner as property taxes. If drain assessments against land are collected by installment, the landowner may pay the assessments Continues on page 7 City Pulse • June 13, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 7

location in 1940. The other two are 617 N. like the berm between a K-Mart and a Wal- to decide how far it wants to go in the direc- Karp Capitol, built in 1888, and 211 W. Saginaw, Mart,” Winans said. “It’s a very suburban tion of activism. built in 1898. use of land and not what we want in the A range of options, from a Facebook page from page 6 The college offered last week to sell off neighborhood.” to direct action such as a public “funeral” the homes to the highest bidder willing to Preservation Lansing only launched May for the houses, will be under discussion at a Standart project cost $20 million.) move them, but the offer “is an empty ges- 23, with the intention of giving awards to members-only meeting this week. Karp has been eyeing Detroit’s neglected ture and it doesn’t change a thing,” accord- the best preservation projects in the city, gems for years, but he said it’s surprisingly ing to Preservation Lansing’s Nathalie but the LCC flare-up has forced the group — Lawrence Cosentino hard to find a willing seller. Occasional pay- Winans, who chairs Lansing’s Historic offs like casinos or a Super Bowl, he said, District Commission. from page 6 keep owners waiting for a “big payday.” “It’s the lowest hanging fruit they could PUBLIC NOTICES “So people sit on these vacant buildings, possibly have offered,” Winans said. “It works in full with any interest to-date at any time and thereby avoid further interest charges. and they just crumble away,” he said. out great for LCC because they don’t have to The following is a description of parcels of land constituting the Special Assessment District Meanwhile, a series of big rehab projects pay for the demo. You have to pay for mov- for the Kinawa View Drain: in Detroit’s midtown and downtown are ing the houses, buy the land to put them on, filling fast, with waiting lists announced for restore the foundation, electrical, et cetera.” 33-02-02-27-300-005 33-02-02-34-127-023 33-02-02-34-131-007 33-02-02-34-202-014 33-02-02-27-451-003 33-02-02-34-127-024 33-02-02-34-131-008 33-02-02-34-202-015 each new project. Karp expects much of the Winans said she expects the homes to be 33-02-02-27-451-004 33-02-02-34-127-025 33-02-02-34-131-013 33-02-02-34-202-016 demand for the Capitol Park apartments demolished. 33-02-02-34-102-006 33-02-02-34-127-026 33-02-02-34-131-014 33-02-02-34-202-017 from Wayne State University students and However, LCC spokeswoman Ellen 33-02-02-34-102-007 33-02-02-34-127-027 33-02-02-34-131-015 33-02-02-34-202-018 33-02-02-34-102-008 33-02-02-34-127-028 33-02-02-34-131-016 33-02-02-34-202-019 employees of latter-day Detroit-o-philic Jones said the college has received one let- 33-02-02-34-105-003 33-02-02-34-127-029 33-02-02-34-131-017 33-02-02-34-202-021 companies like Quicken Loans, which has ter of interest, from a person who wished 33-02-02-34-105-004 33-02-02-34-127-030 33-02-02-34-131-018 33-02-02-34-202-022 recently moved hundreds of new workers to remain anony- 33-02-02-34-105-005 33-02-02-34-127-031 33-02-02-34-131-019 33-02-02-34-203-001 33-02-02-34-105-006 33-02-02-34-127-032 33-02-02-34-131-020 33-02-02-34-203-002 into the area. mous. “That Stay current 33-02-02-34-105-007 33-02-02-34-128-001 33-02-02-34-131-021 33-02-02-34-203-003 “Having a billionaire like [Quicken CEO] person will be Meeting 1 p.m. today at the 33-02-02-34-105-008 33-02-02-34-128-002 33-02-02-34-131-022 33-02-02-34-203-004 Danny Gilbert running around, spending contacted by LCC Administration Building 33-02-02-34-105-009 33-02-02-34-128-003 33-02-02-34-131-023 33-02-02-34-203-005 board room for people 33-02-02-34-105-010 33-02-02-34-128-004 33-02-02-34-176-001 33-02-02-34-203-006 money like a drunken sailor, buying build- Purchasing to interested in buying one 33-02-02-34-105-011 33-02-02-34-128-005 33-02-02-34-176-002 33-02-02-34-203-007 ings left and right, doesn’t hurt either,” he prepare docu- of the three houses slated 33-02-02-34-107-007 33-02-02-34-128-006 33-02-02-34-176-003 33-02-02-34-203-008 said. ments to fulfill the for summer demolition by 33-02-02-34-107-008 33-02-02-34-128-007 33-02-02-34-176-004 33-02-02-34-203-009 Lansing Community College 33-02-02-34-126-001 33-02-02-34-128-008 33-02-02-34-176-005 33-02-02-34-203-010 No wonder Karp sounds like he has RFP [Request for Or call the LCC Purchasing 33-02-02-34-126-002 33-02-02-34-128-009 33-02-02-34-200-007 33-02-02-34-203-011 blasted through a mined-out cave into the Proposal] crite- Department and get a copy 33-02-02-34-126-003 33-02-02-34-128-010 33-02-02-34-201-001 33-02-02-34-203-012 mother of all lodes. ria,” Jones said. of the Request for Proposal 33-02-02-34-126-004 33-02-02-34-129-001 33-02-02-34-201-002 33-02-02-34-203-013 at 483-1785 Monday-Friday 33-02-02-34-126-005 33-02-02-34-129-002 33-02-02-34-201-003 33-02-02-34-203-014 “We’ve kind of run out of things to do in Jones said a between 7:30 and 4 p.m. 33-02-02-34-126-006 33-02-02-34-129-003 33-02-02-34-201-004 33-02-02-34-203-015 Lansing,” he said. “The scale of projects we do meeting is sched- Proposal due date: July 2 33-02-02-34-126-007 33-02-02-34-129-004 33-02-02-34-201-005 33-02-02-34-203-016 don’t exist there, unless we do new construc- uled at 1 p.m. 33-02-02-34-126-008 33-02-02-34-129-005 33-02-02-34-201-006 33-02-02-34-203-017 33-02-02-34-126-009 33-02-02-34-129-006 33-02-02-34-201-007 33-02-02-34-251-001 tion.” In 2005-’06, Karp and Prater set the today at the LCC Administration Building’s 33-02-02-34-127-001 33-02-02-34-129-007 33-02-02-34-201-008 33-02-02-34-251-002 keystone of downtown Lansing’s resurgence boardroom “for those who are interested in 33-02-02-34-127-002 33-02-02-34-129-008 33-02-02-34-201-009 33-02-02-34-251-003 with an $8 million renovation of the 1915 purchasing the houses.” 33-02-02-34-127-003 33-02-02-34-129-009 33-02-02-34-201-010 33-02-02-34-251-004 33-02-02-34-127-004 33-02-02-34-129-010 33-02-02-34-201-011 33-02-02-34-251-005 Arbaugh Building into lofts and office space. Minimum bid is a dollar. 33-02-02-34-127-005 33-02-02-34-129-011 33-02-02-34-201-012 33-02-02-34-251-006 Last Thursday, on a weekly visit to the Preservationists have suggested that 33-02-02-34-127-006 33-02-02-34-129-012 33-02-02-34-201-013 33-02-02-34-251-007 site, Karp looked across the sheltering box rather than demolishing or moving the 33-02-02-34-127-007 33-02-02-34-129-013 33-02-02-34-202-001 33-02-02-34-251-008 33-02-02-34-127-008 33-02-02-34-129-014 33-02-02-34-202-002 33-02-02-34-251-009 canyon of Capitol Park. A little girl danced houses, the college restore them, perhaps 33-02-02-34-127-009 33-02-02-34-129-015 33-02-02-34-202-003 33-02-02-34-251-010 in the shade, scattering the pigeons. In the as part of an academic training program. 33-02-02-34-127-010 33-02-02-34-129-016 33-02-02-34-202-004 33-02-02-34-251-011 middle distance, just south of the park, the “We do that with the Eastside 33-02-02-34-127-011 33-02-02-34-129-017 33-02-02-34-202-005 33-02-02-34-251-012 towering Deco David Stott Building loomed Neighborhood Association and the Ingham 33-02-02-34-127-012 33-02-02-34-129-018 33-02-02-34-202-006 33-02-02-34-251-013 33-02-02-34-127-013 33-02-02-34-130-001 33-02-02-34-202-007 33-02-02-34-251-014 like an Olympian gateway to the mighty County Land Bank with Restoration Works, 33-02-02-34-127-014 33-02-02-34-131-001 33-02-02-34-202-008 33-02-02-34-251-015 architectural works of downtown Detroit — but that’s not our plan for this parcel of 33-02-02-34-127-015 33-02-02-34-131-002 33-02-02-34-202-009 33-02-02-34-251-016 rehab heaven. land,” Jones said. 33-02-02-34-127-016 33-02-02-34-131-003 33-02-02-34-202-010 33-02-02-34-251-017 33-02-02-34-127-017 33-02-02-34-131-004 33-02-02-34-202-011 33-02-02-34-251-018 “There’s 15, 20 years of work to do here,” Winans and Brenna Moloney of 33-02-02-34-127-021 33-02-02-34-131-005 33-02-02-34-202-012 33-02-02-34-251-019 he said, and disappeared into his truck. Preservation Lansing and the Michigan 33-02-02-34-127-022 33-02-02-34-131-006 33-02-02-34-202-013 33-02-02-34-251-020 Historic Preservation Network said moving In addition to the assessed parcels and tracts of land listed above, the County of Ingham and Meridian — Lawrence Cosentino the buildings should be a last resort because Charter Township will be specially assessed at large for benefits in the construction, maintenance and it would take them out of their context. improvement of the Drain. “I understand that two of these houses NOW THEREFORE, all unknown and non-resident persons, owners and persons interested were moved already, but they have been in the above-described Special Assessment District and you, the Supervisor of Meridian Charter there for 50 years,” Moloney said. “Their Township, the Clerk of Ingham County and the Chair of the Ingham County Road Commission, are new location has earned some significance hereby notified that at the time and place aforesaid, or at such time and place thereafter to which said bid letting may be adjourned, I shall proceed to receive bids for the construction, maintenance and on its own.” improvement of the Kinawa View Drain, in the manner hereinbefore stated; and, also, that at such Down-they-go Abbey? Moloney cited a 1997 study submitted to time and place as stated above from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. local time, the apportionment of benefits the city of Lansing, in which all three build- and the lands comprised within the Kinawa View Drain Special Assessment District will be subject to College puts three century-old hous- ings were found to contribute to a potential review; es up for auction; preservationist historic district. AND YOU AND EACH OF YOU, owners, municipalities, and persons interested in the says it’s an ‘empty gesture’ “Having gone through [the houses], I aforesaid lands are hereby cited to appear at the time and place of such bid letting and day of review of apportionments aforesaid, and be heard with respect to such special assessments and your can see why that determination was made,” interests in relation thereto, if you so desire. Despite a flurry of objections from local Moloney said. “All three of them have really preservationists, Lansing Community nice features. You would hate to see these Proceedings conducted at the pre-bid conference, bid opening and day of review are subject to the Michigan Open Meetings Act. Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for effective College is sticking to its plans to replace materials wasted and their presence in the participation should contact Patrick E. Lindemann, the Ingham County Drain Commissioner at (517) three century-old downtown houses at the neighborhood wasted as well.” 676-8395, or through the Michigan Relay Center at (800) 649-3777 (TDD) at least fourteen (14) days southwest corner of North Capitol Avenue Winans dreads the “monumental sig- before each to request mobility, visual, hearing or other assistance. and Saginaw Street with a “monumental” nage” LCC plans to put up on in place of the This notice is given pursuant to Section 154 of the Michigan Drain Code of 1956, as amended. welcome sign. houses almost as much as the demolition or One of the homes, 205 W. Saginaw, was removal of the houses themselves. Dated: May 31, 2012 /s/ built in 1902 by department store owner “If it’s anything like the ‘park-like space’ Patrick E. Lindemann F.N. Arbaugh and moved to its present on the southeast side of campus, it will be Ingham County Drain Commissioner 8 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012

The heart tells you this is a great idea. Seven proposals The brain questions whether Michigan can meet these standards without a lot more surcharges on electric bills. This group is DEAL OF THE WEEK possible well organized. It got professional help from Byrum and Fisk, which passed the USE BONUS CODE: ZTRW Voters may need a separate ballot in medical marijuana proposal in 2008. Will November just to answer ballot petition the money be there to beat back an orga- questions. Seven viable movements are in nized “no” campaign? SAVE 50% the field or the court system with eyes on Chance of making the ballot: 95 percent the Nov. 6 ballot. Chance of passage if on the ballot: 50 At Trowbridge Pizza & Pasta on savelansing.com The following is a percent rundown of where the 4. Public Vote On Second Span Across various initiatives stand Detroit River A Sicilian-inspired eatery today, about a month With Gov. Rick Snyder set to announce At Trowbridge Pizza & Pasta you’ll find away from the secretary his sans-Legislature, Detroit-to-Windsor daily specialty pizzas like the chicken of state’s July 9 deadline. span idea, the Detroit International Bridge kabob and other unique pizzas 1. The New Co. is trying one more Hail Mary to protect including the chicken shawarma, Emergency Manager its monopoly. the double spicy pepperoni and the Repeal Law Could a ballot proposal mandating this The public employee union, AFSCME, measure go before the voters be too little, kafta with sliced ground beef, green teamed up with Michigan Forward and oth- too late? Will Snyder just go ahead and peppers and onions. There are also ers to repeal the state’s new emergency man- build it with the Canadians regardless? I daily specialty pastas, such as baked ager (EM) law, P.A. 4, which gives guberna- don’t bet against the person with the power rigatoni or penne, but classic items torial-appointed EMs the power to revoke a to appoint judges. like spaghetti and lasagna available. negotiated public employee union contract. Chance of making the ballot: 85 percent Salads and breads (garlic and cheese) The Court of Appeals ruled the “P.A. Chance of passage if on the ballot: 60 round out the menu along with 4 Repeal” folks didn’t use the required percent 14-point type, but there’s still a question Chance of this actually stopping the blueberry, peach, apple and cherry about whether the font that was used is New International Trade Crossing if adopt- dessert pizzas. “good enough.” After a larger Court of ed: 35 percent Appeals panel looks into the question, the 5. More Casinos Supreme Court will likely get a crack at A proposal that builds a private casino in this, too. north Lansing and seven other locations has You must sign up and purchase our The Republican-nominated majority enough money to pay circulators, but will has never been squeamish about rolling it have more than the Indian tribes, MGM stupendous deals online only at: over precedent. and Motor City, which will saturate TV in Chance of making the ballot: 25 percent September and October opposing it? Arguing SaveLansing.com Chance of passage if on the ballot: 40 the state needs more gambling didn’t work in percent 2004. Can’t believe it will eight years later. PUBLIC NOTICES 2. Collective Bargaining Ballot Chance of making the ballot: 75 percent Proposal Chance of passage if on the ballot: 20 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS UAW President Bob King wants to put a percent ABBOT ROAD CDBG SIDEWALK & RETAING WALL stake through the heart of this Right to Work 6. 2/3 Vote On Tax Increases PROJECT talk with a ballot proposal that guarantees An out-of-state venture to install a two- CITY OF EAST LANSING collective bargaining rights and turns the thirds legislative super majority on tax 410 ABBOT ROAD clock back on several anti-union laws passed increases sounds good in concept, but is EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN 48823 by the 2011-‘12 Republican-led Legislature. a train wreck in practice. The best chance It’s a high-risk, high-reward gamble to kill this proposal may be through the Sealed proposals will be received by the City of East Lansing at the Office of the Director of Public that may also face a legal challenge based courts (“Are you sure you have 317,000 val- Works, up to 11:00 A. M., Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at which time and place proposals will be publicly on the large number of state laws this con- id signatures?”) The strategy stopped the opened and read for the furnishing of materials, labor and equipment for installation of a concrete block retaining wall and new concrete sidewalk along Abbot Road in the City of East Lansing. Proposals stitutional amendment would repeal. The 2006 Stop Overspending ballot proposal. may either be mailed to the Director of Public Works at 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, Michigan UAW, the Michigan Education Association Chance of making the ballot: 50 percent 48823 or hand delivered to the Office of the Director of Public Works located at 1800 E. State Road, and other unions will get the signatures Chance of passage if on the ballot: 60 East Lansing, Michigan. they need to make the ballot. percent The Contract Documents, including Specifications, Plans and Bidding Forms may be obtained at the But will some business outfit success- 7. Home Help Care Director of Public Works' Office, located at 1800 E. State Road, East Lansing, Michigan, by paying a fully argue that there is too much constitu- It’s hard to vote against anything deal- Twenty Dollar ($20.00) non-refundable preparation fee. tional amending going on? The Supreme ing with those wonderful souls who make Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier's check or bid bond payable to the City Court ruled that way with Reform practically dirt helping the disabled and of East Lansing, in the amount of not less than five percent (5%) of the bid amount, which shall be Michigan Government Now in 2010. If it elderly on Medicare stay in their homes. forfeited to the City of East Lansing if the bidder to whom the Contract is awarded fails to enter into a does make the ballot, Wisconsin proved Whether they should be given the power to Contract within ten (10) days after the Contract is awarded. The unsuccessful bidders' checks or bid bonds will be returned upon final award of Contract, approved and executed. how much more money the “no” side can organize as a government employee union bring to the table. since they receive federal money is a differ- Prevailing wages are required for this project. Chance of making the ballot: 70 percent ent question all together. A non-mandatory prebid meeting will be held on-site on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM . Chance of passage if on the ballot: 35 Tea party members go bonkers over this percent issue. Is the SEIU committed to spending The City of East Lansing reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, to waive defects in proposals, 3. Renewable Portfolio Standards the money to see this one through? and to make the award in its own best interest. Renewable energy types want to con- Chance of making the ballot: 45 percent stitutionally mandate that 25 percent of Chance of passage if on the ballot: 55 CITY OF EAST LANSING Michigan’s energy comes from wind, solar percent and other renewable sources from 2025. (Kyle Melinn is the editor of MIRS capi- By: Marie McKenna That’s a lot of windmills and solar panels tal news service. Email melinn@lansingci- City Clerk — and those things aren’t cheap. typulse.com.) City Pulse • June 13, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 9

Arts& Culture art • books • film • music • theater Take me to the river Thanks to Lansing Art Gallery, it's the summer of riparian sculptures in downtown Lansing By TRACY KEY The downtown riverside has sprouted sculptures as its banks have become an outdoor art trail. Welcome to the summer-long Lansing Art by the River exhibition. Several months ago, Catherine Babcock, executive director at the Lansing Art Gallery and coordinating curator for this event, sent out a statewide call to artists to submit their statues; a panel of three local artists and art teachers decid- ed which 10 would make the cut. Tracy Key/City Pulse Lansing Art by the River runs through “I’m thrilled at the number of people using Aug. 30. The submissions range from the river walk,” said Lee Kronenberg, abstract to realism, and even include a creator of the steel sculpture “Eclipse.” green frog made of scrap metal by art- “It gives them the opportunity to see ist Phil DePeal, winner of last year’s some of the talent in the area.” Scrapfest competition in Old Town. “We wanted artwork that would from the City of Lansing Arts and Grants feel appropriate along the River Trail,” program. Babcock said. She found inspiration for the idea of Planning began a year ago when outdoor art exhibits while she was attend- Babcock's idea was approved for a grant ing a gallery reception for a different indoor exhibit. “We saw these young people out on the streets, and I said to a co-worker, ‘How come they never come in to our exhibi- tions?” Babcock said. “So I said, ‘Why don’t we bring it out to them instead?'” She decided that moving the art out- side would reach people who might not usually visit a gallery or museum. Babcock also saw an opportunity to include a layer of interactivity by embrac- ing society’s love of electronic devices. Each piece of art is accompanied by a phone number that visitors may call to Tracy Key/City Pulse listen to the artists “It’s very spontaneous,” sculptor and Michigan State University graduate Doug Delind talk about them- Lansing Art by said of his creation “Rebound,” which was inspired by his love of MSU basketball. “The selves and their the River bronze is cleaned up, in contrast with the roughness and spontaneousness of the inspirations. Through Aug. 30 wood.” Delind’s bronze sculpture, “Gateway to Good Health,” is located in front of the “You get a nice Located between IM West Building on the Michigan State University Campus. feeling for the art- Michigan Avenue and ist’s personality Shiawasee Street. The event is free and when they speak of open 24 hours a day. idea has been expanded for Art by the River People’s Choice award will be presented their inspiration, For free docent-guided to include a QR code that can be scanned at the end of the summer to the artist and I think it will tours of Art by the River, with a smartphone to bring up a webpage with the most votes, including a $1,000 Tracy Key/City Pulse call (517) 374-6400 help people under- www.lansingartbytheriver. about the piece and its artist. prize for first place. Last year’s Scrapfest winner Phillip stand the art more,” com “They all have cell phones,” Babcock The sculptures are located along the DePeal created a frog and dragonfly. Babcock explained. or lansingartgallery.org said of Lansing’s youth. “What a great River Trail between Michigan Avenue “People want to see something that This concept was way to educate them about the artwork.” and Shiawassee Street, near the Lansing inspires them and draws them in,” initially tested last summer during Art In addition to reading more about Center and the Lansing City Market. he explained. “Sculptures help the by the River’s predecessor, Lansing City the artists and artwork, viewers can also Ramps can be found behind the market community grow.” Streets, and it was extremely popular. The vote for favorite sculptures online, and a for wheelchair and stroller accessibility. 10 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012

CAPITAL AREA Fire on DISTRICT LIBRARY water DragonHeart Racing Sign up for brings an ancient Summer Reading! Chinese sport to Lansing By RICH TUPICA Over 2,000 years ago the sport of drag- on boat racing first emerged in southern China. It wasn’t until last year that it finally made its way onto the waters of Lansing’s Grand River. Labor Day weekend saw the first Capital City Dragon Boat Race, which introduced the sport to mid-Michigan and also inspired some of its novice rac- ers, particularly Team DragonHeart. The Photo by Claire Lea members were hooked on the feeling of breezing down the water with a crew of From left, DragonHeart team members Anthony Amoroso, Johanna Johnson, Larry 20 focused mates working in unison. Stegman and team captain Rob Flanders show off their boat. From that was born DragonHeart Racing, a Lansing-based dragon boat team a week before the race at the last individual effort. team that is looking for new members; all minute.” “There’s really nothing like the sensa- are welcome to join. Both “recreational” After racing down the river in a long, tion of working together in sync and glid- (just for fun) and “racing” (competitive) flashy Taiwan-style dragon boat, Barthel ing through the water on a beautiful day memberships are available. realized the pensive benefits of the sport. on the Grand,” he added. “It’s peaceful “We heard about the Capital City “It requires a tremendous amount of and so much fun. It’s almost a spiritual Dragon Boat Race last year and mental focus,” Barthel explained. “It’s activity. You have to experience it to really thought, ‘That sounds like fun,’” recalled almost a very meditative activity because feel what it’s like.” DragonHeart team member Tom Barthel. there are so many different components The team quickly coined its motto: “So we gathered together a loose affilia- to the paddle stroke. When the boat is “One Heart. One Mind. One Body. Dragon Plus enjoy exciting events tion of coworkers, family members and gliding in the water, it feels as though Heart!” The team members bonded and friends. We basically cobbled together a you’re part of one paddler, not just your won the Division One gold medal at the featuring magic, music, live Capital City race. That adage soon took animals and more. It’s all on an extended life. “After the race there were four or five free! Come in for a schedule, City Pulse Newsmakers of us sitting around thinking what now? That was so much fun,” Barthel recalled. Hosted by or visit cadl.org/summer. “We wanted to continue doing it.” Berl Schwartz With an itch to get back on the water, some of the members scraped together This week’s guests: cash and purchased a Hong Kong-style Candidates for the Democratic nomination for the 68th District House seat Aug. 11 last day dragon boat from a dealer in Florida. 2012 to claim See DragonHeart, Page 11 prizes!

cadl.org/summer Anne Clayton Ted O’Dell Andy Schor cadl.org/geek 37 Many thanks to these local businesses Lansing Community College Chairman of the Ingham County Adjunct Professor Lansing Jobs Coalition Commissioner for their generous donation of prizes.

BESTMAZE Sunday, June 17 Sunday, June 24 CORN MAZE Comcast Channel 16 Comcast Channel 30 Lansing Meridian Township 11 & 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. & 11:30 p.m.

Great Harvest Bread Company Impression 5 Science Center • Little Caesar’s Pizza Watch past episodes at vimeo.com/channels/citypulse City Pulse • June 13, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 11 Spotlighting the Pulsar Awards

he 2011 Pulsars, recognizing the best in Best Lead Actress/Play Best Ensemble/Play Lansing theater, were presented Monday Christina Traister, “A Streetcar Named Desire” “Heroes” (Stormfield Tevening at a ceremony held at Riverwalk Theatre) Theatre. The hosts included Bruce Wade, Evan Best Lead Actress/Musical Pinsonnault, Chad DeKatch, Tigi Habtemariam, Erika Moul, “Legally Blonde” Best Ensemble/Musical Dana Brazil and Amanda Whitehead. “The Usual” (Williamston The panel of Pulsar judges is made up Best Supporting Actor/Play Theatre) of Mary C. Cusack, Erin Buitendorp, Kathy Edward O'Ryan, “The Gingerbread House” Helma, Tom Helma, Ute von der Heyden and (Lansing Community College) Best Costumes Paul Wozniak. More than 50 productions that Mary K. Hodges-Nees and opened between May 2011 and April of this year Best Supporting Actor/Musical Patti Campbell, “Conspiracy” were evaluated and rated for this year’s field. Landon Duyka, “Legally Blonde” (Riverwalk Theatre)

Best Play Best Supporting Actress/Play Best Lighting “A Streetcar Named Desire” (Michigan State Lela Ivey, “Next Fall” (Peppermint Creek Katie Sprow, “Two 9/11 University) Theatre Co.) Plays” (Michigan State University) Sam Inglot/City Pulse Best Musical Best Supporting Actress/Musical “Legally Blonde” (Michigan State University) Trish Amanda Hubbard, “Legally Blonde” Best Makeup Angela Dill, Veronica Diebold and Joe Quick performed Susie Perazza, “Terra Nova” “Easy Street” from Riverwalk Theatre’s production of Best Director/Play Best Featured Actor/Play (Riverwalk Theatre) “Annie” at Monday’s Pulsar Awards. Rob Roznowski, “A Streetcar Named Desire” Jeremiah Hawkins, “Ruined” (Peppermint Creek Theatre Co.) Best Properties Best Musical Direction Best Director/Musical Patricia A. York, “The Lady With All the R. Mackenzie Lewis, “Legally Blonde” Rob Roznowski, “Legally Blonde” Best Featured Actor/Musical Answers” (Stormfield Theatre) Scott Long, “Legally Blonde” Best Choreography Best Lead Actor/Play Best Set Design Dionte Brown, Travis Staton-Marrero and April Doak Bloss, “Blackbird” (Peppermint Creek Best Featured Actress/Play Rob Roznowski, “A Streetcar Named Desire” Townsend, “Legally Blonde” Theatre Co.) Leslie Hull, “A Streetcar Named Desire” Best Sound Best Original Script Best Lead Actor/Musical Best Featured Actress/Musical Sergei Kvitko, “The Lady With All the Answers” Joseph Zettelmaier, “Dead Man's Shoes” Wes Haskell, “Legally Blonde” Claudia Dibbs, “Legally Blonde” (Stormfield Theatre) (Williamston Theatre)

Courtesy Photo ‘Mozart’s Sister’ Director Second fiddle In French with English subtitles René Féret's Presented by East Lansing Film Festival and Lansing “Mozart's Sister” By CITY PULSE STAFF Symphony Orchestra speculates on The Lansing Symphony Orchestra has 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14 the life and work welcomed many collaborators over the Hannah Community Center of Wolfgang 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing years. The latest is the East Lansing Film $10; $25 VIP tickets include movie, reserved seating Amadeus' older Festival: ELFF and LSO have teamed and afterglow reception. sister, Nannerl up to present director René Féret's 2011 (517) 487-5001 (Marie Féret), French drama "Mozart's Sister" at 7:30 www.LansingSymphony.org who entertained p.m. Thursday at Hannah Community musical ambitions Center in East Lansing. right, Nannerl was destined to be overshad- of her own. The film takes a speculative look at owed by her younger sibling. She was even the life of Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia scolded for attempting to play the violin, Mozart (Marie Féret), Wolfgang’s older which her father considered an unsuitable sister, commonly known as Nannerl. A choice for a young lady in the 1760s. gifted musician and composer in her own General admission tickets are $10.

Rob Flanders, a DragonHeart team DragonHeart member, said he hopes this is the start to something much bigger. from page 10 “It’s the fastest growing water sport in the country,” Flanders said. “We just In April, some of the DragonHeart want to see what we can do in this area members also attended Bow Wave, a — bring in something new. The city is renowned Florida-based dragon boat starting to turn around, it seems like the training camp. economy is getting a little better, this is “It’s a really top-notch camp: It has just our small part.” dragon boaters from all over the country “We want to help bring in some new and Canada,” Barthel said. “We learned breath to the area with a new sport and about the finer points of dragon boat- at the same time support the Capital City ing, four of us went down for a week. race, everything we’re doing is pointed They had some Olympic-level Canadian to that. It’s such a wonderful event that’s coaches that translated their skills into great for the city.” Dragon boating. They taught us how to For event dates and membership info, be a team, how to paddle.” visit dragonheartracing.org. 12 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012 Taking radio on the road Lansing Community College’s WLNZ gives audiences the chance to see a live audio theater production By RICH TUPICA veteran. Regulars include The Grand River It’s been nearly 74 years since Orson Band (the “house band”), along with WLNZ Welles captivated listeners with the “War of on-air personalities like Jack Robbins. the Worlds” radio show. The delivery was “In radio you had to use your imagina- so convincing that some believed a violent tion to paint the pictures,” Downing said. “A Martian invasion was actually in progress. lot of people don’t practice using that part James Sanford/City Pulse That old-time radio format enchanted of their imagination anymore. It’s really fas- The former AMC Meridian 6 Theatres complex is in shabby shape right now, but a bulk of the country from throughout the cinating, and I guess that’s why it’s kept my Celebration! Cinema plans to turn it into a plush new venue known as Studio C! 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, thanks to legends like interest for all these years.” Jack Benny and Abbott & Costello. By the For those who prefer interactive experi- early 1960s that style disappeared from the ences, this traveling radio show offers that will have in common with the former AMC airwaves, mainly due to the dawn of televi- — with a little help from the crew at the Coming soon property is its size: “It will remain six the- sion and Top 40 music programming. start of the event. aters,” VanWagoner said. “We won’t extend Even so, Dave Downing, WLNZ-FM “We spend a few minutes kind of coach- to a theater the boundaries of the theater.” station manager, said ing the audience into how to react during a Last summer, while the AMC Meridian WLNZ Radio the radio play is still live radio show,” Downing said. “It’s kind of was still operating, there were reports Road Show thriving. a lost art for most people. At one show we near you that the property would be taken over 7 p.m. Friday, June 15 “Audio theater is passed out sound effects. We had probably Forget the old AMC: by American Theatre Corp., which also Michigan Theatre very much alive,” said a couple dozen people do the sound effects Celebration! Cinema will had plans for a cinema that could serve 124 North Mechanic Downing, who is a long- of chickens in a barnyard.” restaurant-style cuisine and alcohol. But St., Jackson turn the defunct Meridan $5 (show is suitable time enthusiast. “When Karen Love, WLNZ’s program director the company never moved forward with for all ages) you think of the popu- and a regular at the road show performanc- 6 theater into Studio C! the project: Around the same time, the www.lcc.edu/radio larity of audio books, es, said getting out of the studio and broad- Scripps Howard News Service reported those include sound casting live in front of people has become a By JAMES SANFORD that American Theatre Corp. CEO James effects — a lot of audio books have full-cast staple at the station. In Steve VanWagoner’s eyes, the shut- T. Duffy and his various companies had enactments. A lot of the things that were “That outreach in the community really tered AMC Meridian 6 Theatres complex been sued at least 69 times and racked up done for 1930s, 1940s radio are still being makes a difference,” Love said. “Typically, could one day be an upscale cinema, with $24.6 million in judgments for unpaid rent done for video games, television shows, and nobody sees us because we are located in refreshments whipped up by chefs, plush or broken contracts. movies.” a basement. We also do live concerts every stadium-style seating and possibly even a VanWagoner is aware that getting Studio WLNZ, Lansing Community College’s Friday at the Sir Pizza Grand Café in Old liquor license. He envisions an enormous C! in shape in the next six months or so will radio station, is known locally for producing Town from noon until 1 p.m. That’s called difference between the shabby old AMC, be a challenge. Although AMC closed the an old-time radio show at Dart Auditorium the ‘Grand River Radio Diner.’” almost apologetically tucked away behind theater last October when its lease ended, each year during the Silver Bells in the City So what’s next for WLNZ? the Meridian Mall, and Celebration! it looks like the company gave up on main- celebration. “I found the script for the radio version Cinema’s latest venture, Studio C!, which taining the facility long before that. The station hits the road monthly with of ‘Wizard of Oz.’ I’m trying to see if I can VanWagoner hopes will be open before the The exterior of the building has patches the “WLNZ Radio Road Show,” which put that together,” end of the year. of peeling paint and well-weathered glass; makes a stop Friday at the Michigan Downing said. “It “We want it to be different than any oth- the décor inside is pure late-1980s, with Theatre in Jackson. It will be broadcast was produced in er theater in the area,” said VanWagoner, shopworn Formica counters, a shabby- online and over the airwaves. the 1950s when vice president of marketing for the Grand looking box office and a half-moon conces- The variety show format is performed they re-released Rapids-based theater chain. He visited the sion stand, its back walls plastered with in front of an audience and includes com- the movie. They property last Thursday with Jeremy Kress, glossy magenta and cherry-cola-colored edy sketches, musical performances and a had Judy Garland Celebration! Cinema’s director of market- tiles. Looking around, you can almost new host each time. The Michigan Theatre on the original ing and promotions. hear Debbie Gibson’s “Electric Youth” or performance features guest host Evan radio show.” “We want a service staff that’s second Martika’s “Toy Soldiers” booming out of the Pinsonnault from WLNS-TV and musi- to none. Hopefully, if you want to, you’ll lobby sound system. cal performer Joel Mabus, a Michigan folk be able to buy your ticket online and go The outdated design extends into the straight to your seat, if you don’t want to theaters, “which are now sloped-floor and Courtesy photo stand in line.” will be changed to stadium-style seating,” Lansing Community College graphic artist If you’re in no mood to wait around for VanWagoner said. The “premium seating” Daedalian Lowry performs in one of popcorn, that won’t be a problem at Studio that will be installed will give custom- WLNZ-FM’s radio plays. C!: “We’re thinking about a service that will ers more room to relax; it also means the deliver (snacks) to your seat, if that’s what capacity for each theater will be reduced. you want,” VanWagoner said. “We expect to have less than 1,000 total “We’re not going to use the word ‘con- seats” in Studio C!, Van Wagoner said. cession. We’ll have a full menu, and it will The lineup of films may also be distinc- be chef-prepared from our own recipes. You tive. “We hope we can bring in some inde- can call it ‘VIP,’ or ‘premium,’ or ‘premiere,’ pendent movies that will be exclusive to the if you like.” area,” VanWagoner said. “We’re looking at VanWagoner said Studio C! will be an an environment that caters to more of an environment unlike Celebration! Lansing, adult audience that wants to watch movies.” US 127 & Lake Lansing Rd the 20-screen complex on the south side The cost of the remodel has yet to that boasts the area’s only IMAX screen. be determined; the same is true of the www.NCGmovies.com “We could have come in and just created admission prices at Studio C!, although a theater like our others, but that didn’t VanWagoner acknowledges the fees “will (517) 316-9100 make sense. 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A $10 ticket grants Campbell is an instructor at Lansing Commu- access to the Grand Café, Esquire Bar, Spiral Dance Bar nity College and has been a LGBTQ activist for and the Festival Tent. Beginning in the late 1970s, the 49 years. Coming out at Antioch College in white party theme was used as a symbolic approach to 1963 and again at the University of Connecticut unify members of the LGBTQ community. “Everybody in 1967, Campbell says he is the first out male wearing white means we’re all the same; we’re all equal,” student on a college campus in the nation. said Spiral Dance Bar general manager Daniel Young. (See story on Page 16.) Several Michigan White Party-themed food and drink specials will be groups will be in attendance, including the offered at participating venues, as well as music from DJ Lansing Derby Vixens, Dykes on Bikes and the Sammy, DJ Element and other live performances. Michigan Equality Band. Portions of the proceeds benefit Michigan Pride. SATURDAY | Noon CAPITOL COMMITMENT CEREMONY & RALLY The Rev. Kent Lederer of Unity of Greater Lansing leads a commitment ceremony atop the Capitol steps. Couples can register at 11:30 a.m. Michigan Pride co-chairwoman Emily Horvath said the commitment ceremony’s purpose is to “bring light to the fact (LGBTQ couples) do not enjoy marriage equality in this state.” Following the ceremony, Mayor Virg Bernero initiates the rally at 12:20 p.m. with East Lansing Mayor Diane Goddeeris; Kevin Epling, national co-director of Bully Police USA; Cole Bouck of the Michigan Gay Officers Action League; and Emily Dievendorf of Equality Michigan. Saturday | 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday | 2 to 11 p.m. MICHIGAN PRIDE FAMILY ZONE MICHIGAN PRIDE FESTIVAL

Join LGBTQ families at the south end Michigan Pride swings into high gear in Old Town; of Burchard Park in Old Town for an featured entertainment on the main stage includes afternoon of activities, including an hip-hop and soul duo God-des & She at 2 p.m. and inflatable bounce house, face painting electro-pop artist Chris Willis at 5 p.m. There will with clowns Frolic and Mee-Mee, be a variety of vendor and nonprofit booths, along Pride-themed arts and crafts, with food selections from Lansing area restaurants. bean-bag toss, football and Frisbee The festival continues until 11 p.m. with DJs mixing throw, a lollipop tree and resource up the mood, and drink specials available at the information for LGBTQ family Michigan Pride festival tent. Admission is $5. networking and advocacy. Families both inside and outside the LGBTQ community are invited to attend. Saturday | 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. PRIDE 2012: THE AFTER PARTY Spiral Dance Bar hosts an after-party featuring Top 40 and dance music and videos with DJ John Cruz indoors and hip-hop and electronic mixes with DJ Element outdoors. Drink specials and live performances are featured all night long. The event is 18 and over. 14 HAPPY PRIDE! www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012 Lawrence Cosentino/City Pulse Mark Two for the Books Ritzenhien and Stephen Gay Okemos couple shares a lifetime of Wilensky, collecting with MSU and the community here at their home in By LAWRENCE COSENTINO record straight. Okemos, have Mark Ritzenhein and Stephen Wilensky After 30 years of life together, illness given about love to recall the afternoon in the early is forcing them to sort a lot of things 2,000 gay- 1990s when they crossed the Yarlung River out. Ritzenhein has terminal cancer. An themed books in a wooden boat, heading into Tibet, uninvited breeze of transition is stirring and other listening to the clicking of unsoftened yak their house full of art, books and memories. materials to cheese. This year, the couple donated about MSU. That’s a long way from the split-level 2,000 gay-themed books to Michigan home in Okemos they have shared as a State University, along with memorabilia couple for 30 years. and cash endowments for both the “Lansing is a lovely place to live, as long library and the MSU Museum, with more as you can get away for some excitement,” endowments to come. Wilensky said, in a sly growl. “For the past 30 years, in my personal Back to the yak cheese story: Heading life, I’ve tried to be as out as possible, and ephemera chronicling the inner lives and Ellen James said. Even then, the library for an obscure monastery near Lhasa, the not to hide, to remind people that not collective struggles of gay men in America. usually has to pay for it. “It’s especially couple traveled with two Chinese guards everybody is a cookie-cutter human being,” Small kitchen-sink press editions, mass- wonderful when people are willing to share toting rifles in bamboo-woven cases, a Ritzenhein said. market books, academic tomes, cartoons: with us for free something that means so Tibetan lama and two peasant ladies No cookie cutter this side of Alpha You name it, they collected it. much to them.” chewing yak cheese. Centauri would fit Ritzenhein. He’s a “It’s all over the map,” MSU librarian “A great deal of what we have, they don’t “It has the consistency of marble and restorer of pianofortes and fortepianos, Sharon Ladenson said. “They collected have,” Wilensky said. “A lot of it will be on takes about an hour to soften up in your fervent advocate of native plant gardening, literature. They collected areas that span open shelves.” mouth,” Wilensky explained of the cheese. poet, textile artist, and — get out your into humanities, sociology, psychology, That means a lot to the donors. Some of “They click it on their teeth. I felt like I was Scrabble tiles — avid vexillologist. That history, military history, cookery. There’s the hotter stuff, like the photo books, will in a Charles Lamb novel.” means he designs and analyzes flags. quite a bit of autobiography and biography.” be in Special Collections, but most of it will “You’re kind of anoxic (oxygen-deprived) He doesn’t dabble in any of these If you’re wondering what a gay cookbook be out there for anyone to use. at 12,000 feet, so it was a bit purple-hazy,” things, either. Get him started on what’s is like, key it up in MSU’s card catalog in “We’re part of the community and it Ritzenhein said. wrong with, say, suburban lawn culture a few weeks, when it’ll all be catalogued should be too,” Ritzenhein said. “It was a wonderful day,” Wilensky said, or the Lansing city seal, and we wouldn’t and ready. Back in the 1980s, Ritzenhein, a beaming back at his partner. have room for the main topic of this story, They’re also giving the MSU Museum a Saginaw native who came to MSU for Ritzenhein and Wilensky have traveled which is books. cache of ephemera, including gay-themed a degree in music, took offense when a together to every continent, including “I read gay fiction aloud in the car T-shirts, a large photo collection and Lansing councilwoman — he doesn’t recall Antarctica, where they slid down a snowy while we drive our long distances all over,” American flags Ritzenhein carried in three her name — suggested that every “queer” hill in the bright sunshine of Paradise Bay, Ritzenhein said. “It keeps us both happy.” national gay rights marches. The museum in Lansing belonged in San Francisco. drawing looks from curious penguins. Wilensky, a radiologist and native of East will use some of these artifacts in a January “I thought, ‘You go to San Francisco,’” They have visited every U.S. state and Lansing, began collecting gay literature in 2013 exhibit, and all of it will be available he said. “I decided that this is my home Canadian province. San Francisco in the 1970s. He’s the more to researchers. and my community, and I have every right “And territory,” phlegmatic and stolid of the pair, looking But the mother lode of gay books is the to be part of it and to stay here.” Wilensky added. on like a patient Buddha while his partner meat of their endowment. Legacy talk is hard, whether the need to Duly noted. These fires sparks in all directions. Together, the “We may go for five or 10 years without sort things out is urgent or not. As we talked men are in a mood couple has amassed a staggering cache getting a collection we’re really interested to sum up, to set the of gay-themed books, photographs and or happy to have,” library spokeswoman See Donation, Page 15

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By HOLLY JOHNSON portion of God-des’ inspiration as a rapper “I think it’s really important to rap or Since 2006, God-des & She, came from feeling like the community did sing about things that are important to a two-woman hip-hop duo, has not have a voice. you,” God-des said. “If you’re not genuine been making a name for itself in “We talk about struggles within the in your music, people aren’t going to the music world. The two were community and ways we can make change receive it.” first noticed after an appearance out of that,” God-des said. “We’re very out on Showtime’s hit series “The L in our music.” Word”; since then, God-des & God-des & She’s fanbase spans across Chris Swope She have hit the No. 1 spot on the the board, from young adults to senior MTV Logo countdown with their citizens. God-des said that older members City Clerk song “Love You Better,” sold over of the LGBTQ community have even 40,000 albums and performed spotlighted the duo as being on the in venues from New York City to “frontiers of the movement,” commending Sweden. In a phone interview last their modern style. week, the women — who originally “In the 1970s, God-des & She hail from the Midwest —said they feminism and gay 2 p.m. Saturday, pride was centered in June 16 could not be happier to take the Main Stage, main stage at this year’s Michigan folk music and poetry,” Michigan Pride Pride festival. God-des said. “(Older Festival in Old Town “If I could play Gay Pride every members) respect the day I would,” said God-des, the fact that it is still political through hip- wordsmith and rapping half of the hop.” twosome. “People come (to Pride) Being out rappers in a hetero-normative one day a year and they actually society has not always been easy for the two, Proud Member feel like they can completely be but God-des insists that their dedication of the themselves. They’re really receptive and honesty have to our performing.” brought them success. LGBT Community As openly gay artists, God-des & The duo releases its Courtesy Photo She have taken it upon themselves fourth studio album Hip-hop/soul duo God-des & She will release a to reach out to members of the later this year. Enjoy Pride! new album later this year. LGBTQ community. A large LGBT Friendly Business Celebrating diversity and equality in our community! Thank You 2012 Michigan Pride Festival

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in the mid-1980s for goose hunting, and what we do. All that really matters is how Ford tough he said once he had decided to write the we react.” book he returned several times, driv- That’s the story he tells so wonderfully More than 20 years after ing around and dictating notes. There in “Canada,” showing how the father Bev, he started it, Richard are long passages in the book about the the mother Neeva and the twins react Ford unveils ‘Canada’ area’s geography and the simple beauty of to circumstances swirling around them. place, along with luxurious descriptions “That’s why I give away the bank robbery By BILL CASTANIER of hunting trips. Hunting is Ford’s first and the murders and make the book be The hook: Joyce, Salinger, Twain, love, after Kristina. about what happens after that,” he said. Vonnegut, Dickens — these are all “Once I sat down to write the book, Ford said he once again crossed paths authors we know by their last names. I was able to simulate a huge amount with fate a few years ago in the form of Each was also a master of the first line. of material,” Ford said. “I don’t trust my a cancer scare. “I dodged a bullet. It Richard Ford’s “Canada” is likely to get memory.” changed the way I conducted my life.” “Ford” added to that pantheon of liter- That may be why his prose is at such a The author said his novel also has two ary geniuses. Its stark opening sentences: high level when he writes about the vast distinct divisions (life in Great Falls and “First, I’ll tell you about the robbery our landscapes of the American West and life in Canada) that show how fate causes parents committed. Then about the mur- Canada. Ford avoids flowery, sentimental abrupt changes. “It’s what I intended, the ders” descriptions, opting instead for a voice abrupt before and after.” But, “anyone can write a hook,” as Ford that is straightforward and purposely He said the most difficult part in writ- pointed out in a recent phone interview flat, but almost uncannily beautiful in its ing the book was “finding a way to mingle from Minneapolis as he was waiting to simplicity. the intelligence and vocabulary of an older do a book signing. “The real onus is when It’s almost as if he draws from the man, but make the younger boy’s (voice) you write a sentence like that, you have to natural world of the Wallace Stegner or predominant.” He has accomplished that follow it right up.” Courtesy Photo Peter Matthiessen, while mixing Salinger task with ease. That he did. Early reviews of “Canada” “Canada” is Pulitzer-winning author and Twain into Dell’s description of his have called it a “literary masterpiece” and Richard Ford's first novel in six years. everyday world. an “extraordinary new novel.” Early readers of Ford will recognize Ford will tell you that the novel is not plicably rob a bank. The crime leads to the basic plot of “Canada” from the short new. His latest book comes six years after their arrest and the abandonment of Dell story “Optimist,” which first appeared in “The Lay of the Land,” which was the and his twin sister, Berner. The novel sees Esquire Magazine. It was about another final installment of the Frank Bascombe Dell, at his mother’s request, separated young man who found his world turned trilogy that included “The Sportswriter” from Berner and spirited off to Canada. upside down when his father killed a man. (1986) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Once in Canada, Dell is placed with an But beyond just the pure beauty of the Coming Soon “Independence Day” (1995). But “Canada” expatriate American whose unsavory past written word, Ford returns to one of his to Schuler of Lansing has roots going back more than two follows him to Canada, leading to another recurring themes, fate, and how it inter- decades. crisis. venes in life. He tells about his own youth “I started the novel in 1989, which is to Ford, a Michigan State University growing up in Mississippi, stealing cars, FIERCE READS say I wrote 20 pages,” Ford said. “Things graduate, has always been what he calls “a taking joyrides and being involved in a got in the way and I just didn’t write it.” copious note-taker,” who uses his research lot of petty crimes. He and a friend were Young Adult The simple title belies the sophisticat- to compose his novels. Ford said by the “stealing for thrills,” he said, and he ended ed and mature writing that is contained time he began writing “Canada,” he had up in juvenile detention when fate, in the Author Tour within the 418-page book, which is an thousands of pages of notes. form of his father’s death, intervened. It Join us for the Michigan stop incomparable retelling of a common liter- “I had a huge notebook. It is very oner- was then his mother bluntly told him to of the Fierce Reads tour, a ary premise of a young man’s adventure. ous clerically, but it’s the way I figured out “change”— she couldn’t take care of him national tour of four exciting “Canada” mixes a coming-of-age story how I had to compose a book.” anymore. debut young adult authors! with an unusual Robinson-Crusoe-set- Vast amounts of material in the note- “That’s my general view of life and adrift theme. book contain notes he compiled on one of what happens to us. 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Advice Goddess © 2011 Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Motherly Shove & Look What The Catty Dragged In To read more of Amy's advice and guidance, please visit our Web site at Q: I am in my sympathy is the first step in shrinking past you, which was like making it a lit- www.lansingcitypulse.com 20s and, for eight her hurt feelings. (For best results, avoid tle bed out of shredded newspaper so it months, have been mentioning that Mom’ll think she’s from could give birth to a whole litter of them. seeing a girl who the wrong side of the Crayola box.) Since the direct approach would likely Amy alkon might very well be You can’t control your mother’s lead to snarly denials and ill will, shut her [email protected] “the one.” The prob- behavior, but you can control who she down by consistently jabbing back, but lem is she wants to meet my mother, gets to meet. This would be a good time in a jokey tone — “Oh, you mean like my who is beyond controlling. She plays a to reconsider the definition of family. relationship…” — and she should get all game with girls I date, which I call “the Maybe family means people who act like sputtery…no, that’s not…no…she didn’t, 20 questions of doom.” Her questions family whether they’re blood relatives or blah, blah, blah. By calling her out indi- start out normal, but by question 10, not, and maybe you should bring your rectly, you two can maintain the polite she’ll ask stuff like “Have you ever seen girlfriend around to meet those people — fiction that she hasn’t been going all my son in the nude, and if not, do you your dearest friends and maybe an aunt mean drunk on you and maybe get back have plans to?” She’ll also say very nega- and uncle who are fond of you. Chances to some semblance of friendship as it’s tive things about me. Also, I’m a dark- are, what ultimately matters to her is not supposed to be: that when a friend alerts skinned black person, and my girlfriend meeting your mother but believing you you that you have something in your is biracial, and my mother doesn’t want think she’s important enough to introduce. teeth, it’s because she wants you to look me dating a light-skinned girl because Show her (and keep showing her) that good, not because her shoelace is caught. she wants grandkids who resemble her. I you’re proud of her and that she’s loved and want to keep this girl, but she is growing appreciated, and she should stop sulking. Jonesin' Crossword By Matt Jones impatient with my not letting her meet In fact, she might even start joking about my mom, and is beginning to think I’m what it would be like, being invited over “GQ Poseurs”— so not ashamed of her. for a nice quiet dinner of sacrificial lamb what they seem. —Stuck — or, as your mother might put it to her: by Matt Jones “Let me just show my son to his chair, A: Moms say the darndest things: “So, dear, and then I’ll show you to your spit.” dear…how much do you owe in student Q: After I got a new boyfriend, a Across loans and have you seen my son’s winkie?” friend started making frequent passive- 1 Like some mattresses Any girl meeting her boyfriend’s moth- aggressive jabs at me. Lamenting her 5 Cat of many colors 11 Cranberry growing site er for the first time expects a few uncom- datelessness, she sniffed, “At least I’m not 14 Bailiwick fortable questions — but on her politics one of those people who need to jump 15 ___ acid and reproductive plans, not whether from relationship to relationship,” know- 16 Number one prefix? she’s had the chance to probe that mole ing full well that I got into my current 17 Table salt, in chemistry under Sonnyboy’s scrotum. People who relationship a month after ending my class don’t have saboteurs for parents can find previous one. There are reasons I can’t 18 Noah’s mountain 19 Summer Olympics city it hard to understand that somebody’s just boot her from my life, so is there a after London mother could be their relationship’s way to get her to stop? If I called her out, 20 Worked hard on a worst enemy. You, on the other hand, are she’d just deny it. mathematical proof? already dreading your mother’s hospital- —Dissed 23 Bollywood’s home ity: “Son, shall we have coffee and dessert A: Close friends tend to leave stuff 25 Agent’s activity now and push your little friend into the lying around in each other’s life — but 26 Leading figure on a long journey? woodchipper later?” stuff leading to questions like “Hey, 31 Really slow, on sheet Talk to your girlfriend, but not about did you forget your phone on my coffee music 64 Controversial radio except the face maybe meeting the middle-aged mean girl also table?” not “Hey, did you leave your knife 32 Hash browns, e.g. host Don 12 Cuban region from the 38 Reddish-purple shade known as your mother. Open up to her between my T4 and T5 vertabrae?” You 33 Nobel Prize-winning 65 Be a gourmand Spanish for “East” 39 Aims for about the painful relationship you have probably can’t change her way of seeing novelist Gordimer 66 Highest-quality 13 Words uttered in 41 Substitute 35 Roadside bomb letters disbelief 42 Hobby of in-creasing with your mother and how hurtful it’s all you have through the prism of all she 67 The largest one-digit 36 ___ vert (green bean, square 21 Word after mole or popularity? been that she has tried to drive away doesn’t. (Really, she couldn’t be happier in French cuisine) mall 43 Slam every woman in your life. (Some animals for you — that is, unless you fell down 37 Not working today Down 22 Bread in a Seinfeld 44 Big galoot eat their young. Some eat their young’s the stairs.) Where you went wrong is in 40 Separately 1 ___ interference (base- episode 46 Incredible Hulk co- girlfriends.) 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JUNE 13 Music begins at 40 Who cares how long the spring has been around, as long as the water keeps coming up fresh and sparkling? Michigan State University’s evergreen Verdehr Trio, known around the classical world as a never-ending fountain of new violin- clarinet-piano music, can be forgiven for caring about its age a little this year. Violinist Walter Verdehr, clarinetist Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr and pianist Silvia Roederer begin a year-long 40th anniversary celebration with a gala concert tonight — a sampling of the hundreds of new pieces they’ve commissioned over the years, from far-flung composers like Peter Sculthorpe (Australia), Gernot Wolfgang (Austria), Stephen Chatman (Canada), Libby Larsen and Gunther Schuller (U.S.), as well as near-flung MSU alumni Ricardo Lorenz and James Niblock. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center. $8-10, free for students and those under 18. (517) 432-2000. JUNE 15 Art you can wear This Friday, the Lansing Art Gallery welcomes Jenny Schu for a Jewelry Trunk Show presentation and discussion. In 2004, Schu received a BFA from the University of Michigan Looking for participants for the City School of Art and Design; she has since focused on fiber of Lansing’s 4th of July Parade art and textiles. Thanks to a 2012 Individual Artist's Grant from the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Schu can offer On Wednesday, July 4th For more information or to fill out an application visitors insight into the new direction she’s heading with visit www.lansingmi.gov/parks or call her artwork, which involves sculptural bead-weaving. Gier Community Center (517) 483-4313 Jewelry will be sold beginning at 7 p.m., followed by Schu’s talk at 7:30 p.m. 7-9 p.m. Friday, June 15. FREE. Lansing Art Wednesday, June 13 Gallery, 119 N. Washington Square, Lansing. (517) 374-6400. www.lansingartgallery.org. Classes and Seminars Meditation. For beginners and experienced. 7-9 Courtesy Photo p.m. FREE. Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, 3015 S. Washington Square, Lansing. (517) 351-5866. Community Yoga. Power yoga class. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Lansing. (517) JUNE 16 488-5260. Grande Paraders Square Dance Club. Modern Jaycees host workshop Western-style square dancing. Casual attire. 6:30 p.m. $3 members; $4. Lions Community Park, 204 The Lansing Jaycees face the Redford Jaycees in a series of debates regarding whether the U.S. government should W. Jefferson St., Dimondale. (517) 694-0087. increase transportation funding. The teams will focus on the topic “Resolved: The United States federal government Learn Bike Repair. Help maintain the MSU Bikes' should substantially increase its transportation infrastructure investment in the United States.” In addition to rental fleet and earn time to work on your own bike. watching the debates, Michelle Kesling of the Redford Jaycees will give a presentation on how to argue effectively. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Dem- “Learning to debate enhances civic knowledge and analytical skills, which are critical in a democracy,” said Joe onstration Hall, MSU Campus, East Lansing. www. bespartangreen.msu.edu/happenings.html. Kelly, Lansing Jaycees individual development vice president and former East Lansing High School debate coach. The Night Sky. On observing the stars and Attendees can learn tactics to improve their skills. 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 16. Debate begins at 1 p.m. FREE. planets from MSU's Abrams Planetarium Production The third floor boardroom of the Capital Area District Library, 410 S. Capitol, Lansing. For more information, visit www. Coordinator John French. 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE. Delta lansingjaycees.org. (248) 716-0539. Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 ext. 4. www.dtdl.org. Effectively Utilizing Volunteers. 2nd Floor, Conference Room; get tips and tools to make the best JUNE 17 use of volunteers' time. 1:30-4 p.m. FREE. 5303 S. Cedar St., Lansing. [email protected]. Father’s Day show embraces See Out on the Town, Page 25 adventure and Michigan This Sunday, fathers and sons can spend quality time R. Knott together at the movies. The Lansing Mall Cinema features Lawn, Landscape & Snow Services a special screening of “Waterwalk.” Directed by actor Lawn, Landscape & Snow Services Bob Cicchini (“Godfather III,” “Dreamgirls”), the film Mowing Vacation Mowing Eavestroughs Cleaned Spring Cleanups showcases Kalamazoo native Chase Maser in his first Rolling Garden Tilling Stump Grinding lead role. Based on a true story, “Waterwalk” recounts Bushes Trimmed or Pulled Sidewalks Edged Steve and Justin Faulkner’s attempt to be the first Tree & Brush Removal & Hauling Seeding single canoe team to retrace the treacherous 1,000- Snow Removal & Salting Since 1986 mile discovery route of the Mississippi from St. Ignace to FREE ESTIMATES St. Louis. 7 p.m. Sunday, June 17. Call for prices. Lansing Mall Cinema, 921 Mall Drive, Lansing. (517) 886-3456. 517 993-2052 517 694-7502 Courtesy Photo www.GQTI.com. 24 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012 turn it Down A survey of Lansing's musical Landscape By Rich Tupica

Pimpin' at X-Cel For those who love getting out on the dance floor and can’t wait until Halloween for a costume par- Courtesy Photo Courtesy Photo ties, Club X-Cel might be the spot on Thursday. Witch Mountain Robert Francis X-Cel is hosting a “Pimps and Hoes Party,” with prizes awarded for best costume (otherwise regular Thursday, June 14 @ (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles to check out this show. alcore band), Fertile Brainsoil (East Lansing-based dress code is in effect). Music will be provided by DJ St., East Lansing, all ages, $7, doors open at 7 p.m.; music Friday, June 15 @ Uli’s Haus of Rock, 4519 S. Martin prog-rock), Unguarded Moment (local pop-punk), Sizl and DJ E-Nyce (a.k.a. Emilio Nyce), with visuals at 8 p.m. Luther King Blvd., Lansing, 18 and over, $5, 9 p.m. The Black Order (Ohio-based metal), Up in the Sky by Paradigm Productions. Nyce, the host of the Anberlin unplugs Witch Mountain (local hip-hop), Above the Mean Sea (White Lake- event, is a Lansing-based DJ who has also spent based math-rock) and Kiki's Burlesque. time living in Flint and southwest Detroit. Nyce, at The Loft brings doom to Mac's Saturday, June 16 @ Bleeding Iron & Nails – Old Town who spins hip-hop, R&B, Top 40, reggaeton and Central Florida alt-rockers Anberlin recently Witch Mountain has been playing smoke-hazed Temple Building, 502 E. Grand River Ave., Lansing, all ages, pop, first started his career at house parties. Around announced the “Anberlin Acoustic Tour,” which doom metal for 15 years now, sharing stages $10 cover, $7 with food item, doors at 5 p.m., show at 6 p.m. 2008 he began taking it more seriously after getting stops at The Loft on Friday. The band, led by gui- with the likes of Weedeater, Electric Wizard, LA-indie folk hits Lansing involved with the Mic Club hip-hop showcases; tarist/vocalist Stephen Christian, has been going EyeHateGod, Clutch, Thrones, Soilent Green and in 2010, he also began to take part in the Capital strong since 2002; some of the members were rock- others. The Portland, Org.-based band plays Mac’s Robert Francis, a Los Angeles multi-instrumental- City DJ Olympics. Locals may have seen him per- ing together as far back as 1998 under the moniker Bar on Friday, along with Lord Dying, Satyrasis ist and songwriter, brings his indie-folk sound to an form at X-Cel, Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge and Mac’s SaGoh 24/7. After dropping three studio albums over and Borrowed Time. Witch Mountain was formed all-ages show on Sunday at Mac’s Bar. Francis began Bar. He also recently spun for the special education the course of five years with Tooth & Nail, the band by guitarist/songwriter Rob Wrong and drummer taking piano lessons as a child. A few years later Ry classes at both Everett and Eastern high schools. announced in August 2007 that it had signed a deal Nathan "Nanotear" Carson and has lasted through Cooder gave the budding musician his first guitar. Thursday, June 14 @ Club X-Cel, 224 S Washington with major label Universal Republic. The “Under a number of line-up changes. Since 2009 the band Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante Square,, Lansing, 18 and over. $5 for 21 and over, 10 the Waves” LP hits stores Sept. 25. Anberlin’s 2010 has had lead singer Uta Plotkin, who is also known took on the then-teenaged Francis as his only p.m. to 2 a.m. LP, “Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place,” has sold over for her work in Aranya and Stalking Jane. This is student. A few years later, Francis was releasing 700,000 copies to date. Witch Mountain’s first full U.S. tour since 2001. his own insightful solo albums. His latest release, Vanity, Oh Vanity at (SCENE) Friday, June 15 @ The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, Friday, June 15 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., “Strangers in the First Place,” is out on Vanguard The Great Lakes Collective, a Lansing-based music all ages, $15 advance, $17 door, doors 7 p.m. Lansing, 18 and over. $10, 9 p.m. Records. Opening the show at Mac’s are Skinny collective, has a large roster of local talent, including Black & Sloan Kettering, Jory Stultz and DL Rossi. Uli's hosts Xfactor1 Old Town Temple Vanity, Oh Vanity, which plays (SCENE) Metrospace Sunday, June 17 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., on Thursday. The keyboard-driven, “vintage indie XFactor1, a Columbus, Ohio-based metal band, Building rocks again Lansing, 18 and over. $7 advance, $8 doors, 6 p.m. rock” band (that credits Woody Allen as a primary plays Uli’s Haus of Rock on Friday, along with “Bleeding Iron and Nails” is a charity concert at the influence) features Kelly Tabor (vocals and keyboards), openers Hillside Barrier, Avenue Sky and Arson Old Town Temple building (formerly the Temple Jake Simmons (guitar and vocals), Joel Hornbeck Radio. XFactor1 is promoting its latest single Club) featuring seven heavy acts, mainly from the (bass) and Greg Thompson (drums). Also perform- “Bring It On,” which is on the new disc “Famous. mid-Michigan area. Proceeds from the event go ing is songwriter Ryan Kralik (from Kent, Ohio), plus Last.Words” on Megaforce Records. Fans of to the Mid-Michigan Food Bank. Set to rock out locals Kyle Nelson Pentecost and Frances Bennigan. Mushroomhead, Flaw and Bobaflex might want at the vintage venue are Beyond the Fallout (met- Post it at www. facebook.com/turn it down

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Liberation Theology. How does this theology relate to the teachings and example of Jesus? 6-7 Thursday, June 14 p.m. FREE. Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Classes and Seminars Christ, 125 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Lansing. (517) 484- Yoga 2XL. Learn to move with confidence. 7:15-8:15 7434. www.PilgrimUCC.com. p.m. $8 suggested donation. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Events Eating Disorders Annonymous Meeting. A Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. Grand group of people recovering from eating disorders Ledge Baptist Church, 1120 W. Willow Hwy., Grand who talk about recovery. 7-7:45 p.m. FREE. CADL Ledge. (517) 256-6954. Mason Library, 145 W. Ash St., Mason. (517) 899-3515. Practice Your English. Speaking and listening to Beal Botanical Garden Tour. Led by Peter Car- City Pulse’s James Sanford English in a friendly, relaxing atmosphere. 7-8 p.m. rington, assistant curator of the garden. 12:10 p.m. talks entertainment news FREE. MSU Campus, East Lansing. www.lib.msu.edu/ FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, every Friday around 7:50 am East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. general/events/index.jsp?e=169. Youth Service Corps. East side youth grow food, EcoTrek Fitness. Group outdoor workout for all and develop leadership skills. Ages 11-17. 3:30-5:30 p.m. fitness levels. 5:45-7 p.m. FREE. Woldumar Nature FREE. Hunter Park Community Garden House, 1400 Center, 5739 Old Lansing Road, Lansing. (517) 243- And hear Berl Schwartz of City Pulse block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 999-3910. 6538. www.ecotrekfitness.com. call Tim an Ignorant Slut — or worse! Lansing Walkability Audit. Need volunteers. 3-5 p.m. FREE. Allen Neighborhood Center, 1619 E Events Every Wednesday at 8:30! Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 292-3078. Morning Storytime. All ages welcome for stories, Allen Street Farmers Market. Fresh fruits songs, rhymes. 10:30 a.m. FREE. Delta Township and vegetables, meats, crafts, activities and more. District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 2:30-7 p.m. FREE. Allen Neighborhood Center, 1619 321-4014. E Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 485-4279. www. Karaoke. Every Thursday night with Atomic D. 9 allenneighborhoodcenter.org. p.m. LeRoy's Classic Bar and Grill, 1526 S. Cedar St., Ice Cream Social. Learn about south side's free Lansing. (517) 482-0184. summer programs for kids, seniors programs Euchre. No partner needed. 6-9 p.m. $1.50. Delta and more. 5-7 p.m. FREE. South Side Community Township Enrichment Center, 4538 Elizabeth Road, Coalition, 2101 West Holmes Road, Lansing. (517) Lansing. (517) 484-5600. 394-7400. southsidecommunitycoaliton.org. Mid-day Movies. Watch recent releases on the Summer Baby Time. Rhymes, songs and puppets big screen. 2 p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing for babies under the age of 2. 10:30-11 a.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East See Out on the Town, Page 26 Lansing. (517) 351-2420. www.elpl.org. Fundraiser for Ken Ross. Help raise funds for Ingham Circuit Judge Ken Ross. 5:30-7:30 th p.m. $50 suggested donation. Country Club of 12 Annual NACW Lansing, 2200 Moores River Drive, Lansing. RSVP [email protected]. Wine Tasting Music Membership Drive Jazz Wednesdays. Featuring the Jeff Shoup Trio. and 7-10 p.m. FREE. Gracies Place, 151 S. Putnam, Wil- liamston. (517) 655-1100. Scholarship Event Faculty Recital. With the Verdehr Trio. 7:30 p.m. $10, $8 seniors, FREE students. Cobb Great Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Hall, Wharton Center, MSU Campus, East Lansing. 5:30 - 8:30 pm 1-800-WHARTON. www.music.msu.edu. Concert in the Park. Summer music series, with Wharton Center exciting new performers, lawn seating. 7 p.m. FREE. East Lansing, MI St. Johns City Park, located off Morton and Park streets, St. Johns. (989) 224-8944. Sammy Gold (SaGoBa). Sammy Gold (SaGoBa) $50 Members $65 Guests plays '80's pop-rock. 7-11 p.m. FREE. Rookies Join NACW for $175 which includes Restaurant, 1640 S. US 27, Lansing. (517) 487-8686. the wine tasting & a 15 month membership

Theater Please join us for an exclusive backstage tour "On the Verge." Outdoor performance of comedy of the Wharton Center while you enjoy strolling about Victorian explorers on a journey through tapas & wine pairings. Proceeds from the silent space and time; part of Summer Circle Theatre. 8 auction to benefit the Harriet E. Pincumbe Scholarship Fund. Catering provided by p.m. FREE. MSU Auditorium, 150 Auditorium Road, Morton’s Fine Catering. East Lansing. (517) 432-2000. www.theatre.msu.edu. We would appreciate your RSVP Literature and Poetry and prepayment online at Baby Time. Books and songs for ages 2 years and facebook.com/nacwlansing younger, with a parent/caregiver. 10:30 a.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 x3. Lansing Area Science Fiction Association Meeting. New location. Informal dinner and lively conversation every week. 7 p.m. FREE. Buddies Grill, Open Jam with Bad Gravy, 9:30 p.m., Green Door; Karaoke, 9 p.m. Drag Queens Gone Wild, 11 p.m., Spiral Dance Bar; DJ Mike, 9:30 p.m., LeRoy's Bar & Grill; Open Mic, 5 p.m., Uli's Haus of Rock. 2040 Aurelius Road, #13, Holt. (517) 402-4481. Steppin' In It, 9:30 p.m., Green Door: Easy Babies funk trio, 10 p.m., The Exchange. Open-Mic Mondays, 6:30 p.m., Michigan Brewing Company-Lansing. Aspen Bernath-Plaisted. Author shares Tommy Foster & Guitar Bob, 9 p.m., The Exchange; Neon Tuesday, 9 p.m., Mac's Bar. Jazz Tuesday Open Jam, 9 p.m., Stober's Bar, 812 E. Michigan Ave. "I Am The Quiet Of The Falling Snow." 7-8 p.m. 26 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012

Meridian Sun Golf Course, 1018 Haslett Road, Hall & Morgan, Noon-1 p.m. FREE. Grand Cafe/Sir Grille, 2510 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Lansing. Out on the town Haslett. (517) 337-8281. Pizza, 201 E. Grand River, Lansing. (517) 483-1000. (517) 323-7122. www.lcc.edu/radio. Girl Scout Reunion. Former Girl Scouts can from page 25 TheateR Sammy Gold. Pop-rock. 6-9 p.m. FREE. Coach's come share memories with other scout sisters. 1-4 Pub and Grill, 6201 Bishop Road, Lansing. (517) 882- p.m. $6, $4 seniors, $2 kids. Michigan Historical Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 367-6363. "The Understudy." A behind the scenes story of 0790. www.coachspubandgrill.com. Museum, 702 W. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) www.cadl.org. theater professionals struggle to balance ego, art 373-3559. Kids Time: Ages 5-11. Help Eastside youth to grow and commerce. 8 p.m. $20. Williamston Theatre, 122 Real Talk For Teens. 5-7 p.m. FREE. (Please See food, develop leadership and life skills. 4:30-5:30 S. Putnam, Williamston. (517) 655-SHOW. TheateR Details June 15) p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community GardenHouse, "On the Verge." 8 p.m. FREE. (Please See Details "The Understudy." 8 p.m. $25. (Please See Occupy Lansing. General assembly meetings. 1 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 999- June 13) Details June 14) p.m. FREE. Reutter Park, Corner of Kalamazoo & 3910. "On the Verge." 8 p.m. FREE. (Please See Details Townsend St., Lansing. www.occupylansing.net. Spanish Conversation Group. Both English and Literature and Poetry June 13) Averill Woods and Lewton-Rich Spanish will be spoken. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Storytime With Ms. Deb. Ms. Deb will read three Neighborhoods Mile Long Garage Sale. Just Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) books on the topic of the week and do a craft. 10 Literature and Poetry south of Grand River on Lansing's west side. 8 351-2420. a.m. FREE. Barnes and Noble, 5132 W Saginaw Hwy., Music & Movement Storytime. Dance and sing a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Averill Woods Neighborhood Lansing Walkability Audit. Need volunteers. Lansing. (517) 327-0437. www.bn.com. to music, and learn to play with instruments and Association, Between Waverly, Holmes and 5:30-8 p.m. FREE. Gier Community Center, 2400 Hall more. 1 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, Deerfield, Lansing. (517) 394-3996. St. Lansing. (517) 292-3078. cityoflansingmi.com. 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 ext. 3. It's Always Earth Day. Need volunteers to help Chipmunk Story Time. Children can join Chicory Friday, June 15 Poetry Reading. In celebration of poet Diane maintain the park. 9-11 a.m. FREE. Harris Nature Chipmunk for 'Bird Song." 10 a.m. $3. Harris Nature Wakoski's 75th birthday. 7 p.m. $3. Scene Classes and Seminars Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Meridian Township. Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Meridian Township. Cork and Canvas. An instructional art class. Metrospace, 110 Charles St., East Lansing. (517) 319- (517) 349-3866. (517) 349-3866. We provide the canvas, paint and instruction. 6832. www.scenemetrospace.com. On Winning Debates. The Lansing Jaycees South Lansing Farmers Market. Locally You are welcome to bring a beverage. 6-8:30 will take on the Redford Jaycees in debates and produced food, youth activities and educational p.m. $25. 1210 Turner St., Lansing. (517) 999- hold a workshop. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Downtown opportunities. 3-7 p.m. FREE. Grace United Methodist, 1212. Saturday, June 16 Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (248) 1900 Boston Blvd. Lansing. (517) 482-5750. Real Talk For Teens. Comprehensive sex Classes and Seminars 716-0539. Family Library Night. On navigating the library, education classes for teens. Teens who attend Beginner Tai Chi. Can build strength and reduce choosing books, ideas for family literacy activities, all sessions will get $50 to Target. 5-7 p.m. stress. 8-9 a.m. $8. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., and more. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District FREE. South Side Community Coalition, 2101 Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Music Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321- West Holmes Road, Lansing. (734) 926-4766. Tai Chi in the Park. Meditation at 8:45 a.m. Live Music at Altu's. Featuring a different music 4014 ext. 3. www.dtdl.org. Workplace Yoga. Noon-1 p.m. And Partner followed by Tai Chi. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Hunter Park act each Saturday. 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Altu's "Mozart's Sister." The speculative story of Yoga. 6-7:30 p.m. $10 per class. Center for Community GardenHouse, 1400 block of E. Ka- Ethiopian Cuisine, 1312 Michigan Ave., East Mozart's sister and her struggles as a music Yoga, 1780 E. Grand River Ave. East Lansing. lamazoo St., Lansing. Contact Bob Teachout (517) Lansing. (517) 333-6295. www.eatataltus.com. prodigy; presented as a co-production of East (517) 388-2049. www.dharmayogaarts.com. 272-9379. Bleeding Iron and Nails. Seven bands at the Lansing Film Festival and Lansing Symphony Overeaters Anonymous. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Old Town Temple Club to raise funds for Mid- Michigan Food Bank. 5-11 p.m. $10, $7 with a Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. $10, $25 VIP tickets. Hannah Events Sparrow Professional Building, 1200 E. Michigan Food Donation. Temple Building, 500 E. Grand Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing. Michigan Pride. The White Party kicks off Ave., Lansing. (517) 485-6003. River Ave., Lansing. www.Bleedingiron.com. (517) 487-5001. the celebration, white apparel theme, DJs and Parenting Group. Lecture and group discussion Contemporary Percussion. Featuring Neighborhood Picnic. Enjoy dinner and celebrate nearby bar specials. 9 p.m. $10. Old Town, each week. 10-11 a.m. Call to register. Women's Tala Rasa. 7 p.m. $5, $3 students. Scene the end of the school year with neighbors and Grand River Avenue and Turner St., Lansing. Center of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. Michigan Ave., friends. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Redeemer Church, 2727 Metrospace, 110 Charles St., East Lansing. (517) (517) 485-4283. www.michiganpride.org. Lansing. (517) 372-9163. W. Holmes Road, Lansing. (517) 882-8000. 319-6832. www.scenemetrospace.com. Alcoholics Anonymous. Open meeting The Red Barn Presents Joe Wright. Fall Lowe's South Side Cruise-In. Open to classic Events for family and friends with American Sign Creek singer Joe Wright reunites with drummer cars and trucks, hotrods and classic motorcycles. Michigan Pride Capitol March and Rally. Language interpretation. 8 p.m. FREE. Alano Russ Morse, and bass guitarist Ikes Taylor. 7:30 6-11 p.m. FREE. Lowe's, S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) Participants will start at park and march to the Club East, 220 S. Howard St., Lansing. (517) p.m.-Midnight. $5. Crosby Mint Farm, 1250 East 699-2940. steps of the Michigan Capitol. 10 a.m. FREE. Adado 482-8957. Parks Road, St. Johns. (800) 345-9068. Riverfront Park, 531 N. Grand Ave., Lansing. www. Storytime. Stories, rhymes and a craft for Don Middlebrook and Living Soul. Live Music michiganpride.org. ages 2-5. 10:30-11:15 a.m. FREE. East Lansing music. 4-6 p.m. $10 day of. Reno's East, 1310 Jazz Thursdays. Various artists featured each Michigan Pride Festival. The festival welcomes Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. Abbott Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-7366. week. 6:30-9:30 p.m. FREE. Mumbai Cuisine, 340 (517) 351-2420. all ages and includes food, music of God-des & She Albert St., East Lansing. (517) 336-4150. and Chris Willis. 2 p.m. $5. Old Town, Grand River Alcoholics Anonymous. A closed women's TheateR The Williamston Summer Concert Series. meeting. 7:30 p.m. FREE. St. Michael's Episcopal Ave. and Turner St., Lansing. (517) 485-4283. www. "The Understudy." 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. $22 matinee, Music every Thursday through August 30. Featuring Church, 6500 Amwood Drive, Lansing. (517) 882- michiganpride.org. $25. (Please See Details June 14) a variety of different genres. 7 p.m. FREE. 9733. Beer & Wine Tasting. Try free samples. 2-4 p.m. "On the Verge." 8 p.m. FREE. (Please See Details McCormick Park, located at N. Putnam and High Jewelry Trunk Show. And Artist Discussion, FREE. Vine and Brew, 2311 Jolly Road, Okemos. June 13) Streets, Williamston. with Jenny Schun. 7-9 p.m. FREE. Lansing Art www.vineandbrew.com. Mason Orchestral Society concert. A joint Gallery, 119 N. Washington Square Suite 101, Salsa Dancing. DJ Adrian "Ace" Lopez hosts concert at the Bandshell. 7 p.m. FREE. McCormick Lansing's longest standing weekly salsa event. Lansing. (517) 374-6400. lansingartgallery.org. See Out on the Town, Page 27 Park, located at N. Putnam and High Streets, The RivMX 5K 2012. Run for Los Ninos, Singles welcome. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $5. Gregory's Bar & Williamston. proceeds help with orphan care in the Mazatlan Scor!. An event for adult players of string area. 7 p.m. Price varies. Riverview Church, 3585 instruments (violin, viola, cello, bass). 9:30 a.m. Willoughby Road, Holt. (517) 694-3400. ERASER-FREE SUDOKU MEDIUM Price varies. Okemos Conference Center, 2187 Anberlin. Acoustic tour, alternative pop-rock. TO PLAY University Park Drive, Okemos. (877) 726-7267 ext.4. 7 p.m. $15 advance, $17 door. The Loft, 414 E. www.StringCamp.com. Michigan Ave., Lansing . www.theloftlansing.com. Carl McCray Trio. With guest guitarist Mike Eyia. Founder's Day Feast & Festivities. Come Fill in the grid so that every row, col- 7 p.m. FREE. Waterfront Bar and Grille, 325 City celebrate the church's 90th anniversary. A buffet umn, and outlined 3-by-3 box contains Market Drive, Lansing. www.lansingwaterfront.com. feast, bake and book sale, silent auction and the numbers 1 through 9 exactly once. Vanity, Oh Vanity. With Ryan Kralik and Kyle family activities. 4-9 p.m. FREE. Church of the No guessing is required. The solution is Nelson Pentecost and Frances Bennigan. 7 p.m. $7. Resurrection, 1531 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) unique. Scene Metrospace, 110 Charles St., East Lansing. 482-4749 . (517) 319-6832. www.scenemetrospace.com . To avoid erasing, pencil in your pos- Celebration Singers and Ringers Youth Music sible answers in the scratchpad space Choirs Concert. Eleventh summer tour, choirs LCC Radio Road Show. Starring Joel Mabus. 7-9 beneath the short line in each vacant from Cincinnati's Church of the Saviour United p.m. $4 advance, $5 at door. Michigan Theater, square. For solving tips, visit Methodist Church. 7 p.m. FREE. Lansing Central 124 North Mechanic St., Jackson. (517) 483-1000. www.SundayCrosswords.com United Methodist Church, 215 N. Capitol Ave., brownpapertickets.com. Lansing. (517) 485-9477. Grand River Radio Diner Concert. Featuring Answers on page 28 Sammy Gold. Pop-rock. 6:30-9:30 p.m. FREE. City Pulse • June 13, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 27

Theater Out on the town "The Understudy." 2 p.m. $22, $10 student. Baristas become Williamston Theatre, 122 S. Putnam, Williamston. from page 26 (517) 655-SHOW. www.williamstontheatre.org. Literature and Poetry "Folk Tales for Fun." A show for the whole bartenders at Gone Wired J. Gabriel Gates. Local teen author discusses family. 3 p.m. $4 pre-school age, $6. Mid his latest book, "Ghost Crown." Noon-4 p.m. Michigan Family Theatre, 440 Frandor Ave., FREE. Barnes and Noble (Lansing), 5132 W Lansing. (517) 339-2145. www.freewebs.com/ Earlier this year, what’s going on at Gone Wired, owner Saginaw Hwy., Lansing. (517) 327-0437. www. midmichfamilytheatre. Gone Wired Café — Mike Malott recently started serving bn.com. the caffeine-fueled coffee during the day and staying open Father's Day Storytime. A special Splat the study area/performance space at 2021 until 4 a.m. to allow buzzed revelers a Cat storytime, includes reading three books and Monday, June 18 E. Michigan Ave. — quietly landed a chance to sober up before they hit the making Father's Day cards. 11 a.m. FREE. Barnes Classes and Seminars liquor license. Then, last Tuesday, it road. and Noble, 5132 W Saginaw Hwy., Lansing. (517) Divorced, Separated, Widowed Conversation started serving beer and wine as the Malott says he’s going to continue 327-0437. www.bn.com. Group. For those who have gone through loss of interior begins to undergo certain to lure talented national and local a spouse due to death or divorce and are ready to “atmospheric upgrades,” according to singer/songwriters to Zeppelin’s with move on with their lives. 7:30 p.m. FREE. St. David's Sunday, June 17 Episcopal Church, 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. (517) owner/operator Colleen Davis. She his intimate, homey setting, as well as 323-2272. www.stdavidslansing.org. says two key factors played into her showing movies on off-nights, hosting Classes and Seminars Lansing Area Codependents Anonymous. GriefShare Seminar. A DVD series, with small decision to transition from a coffee bar standup comedy acts and nurturing support group discussion. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Grace to a, um, regular bar. an art studio. He has also begun cre- Meets on the third floor. 2-3 p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., United Methodist, 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing. (517) “About 90 percent of our [catered] ating separate club rooms within the Lansing. (517) 367-6300. www.cadl.org. 490-3218. parties want alcohol,” Davis said. “It building, including The Mine Shaft Overeaters Anonymous. 2 p.m. FREE. Every- Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. St. David's was just good business sense to get a in the basement, which may or may body Reads Books and Stuff, 2019 E. Michigan Ave., Episcopal Church, 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. liquor license. I don’t want to have to not be haunted. Definitely a must-see Lansing. (517) 485-8789. (989) 587-4609. www.stdavidslansing.org. tell any more large parties that I can’t — and if you’re afraid of ghosts, you Real Talk For Teens. Comprehensive sex Chronic Pain Support Group. For those experi- accommodate their needs.” can check out the pictures on their education classes for teens. Teens who attend all encing any level of chronic physical pain. 4-5:30 p.m. The other reason is just as practical, Facebook page. sessions will get $50 certificates to Target. 5-7 p.m. FREE. Women's Center of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 372-9163. if not a little nobler. Slice of the Action FREE. South Side Community Coalition, 2101 West Holmes Road, Lansing. (734) 926-4766. Real Talk For Teens. 5-7 p.m. FREE. (Please See “I’m trying to have a more local Tony Sacco’s Coal Oven Pizza Details June 17) focus,” she said. “You can’t do that with became Eastwood Towne Center’s new Summer Pottery Classes. The class plus two Events coffee — it doesn’t grow in Michigan. northern anchor when it opened three 3-hour student practice sessions are offered each Salsa Dancing. DJ Mojito spins salsa, It’s a lot easier to be local with wine, weeks ago. With 10 national loca- week. 7-10 p.m. $220 for 10 weeks. Greater Lansing merengue,& Bachata. 7 p.m.-Midnight. $5 21, $7 microbrews and spirits. It makes for tions stretching from Lansing down Potters' Guild, 8099 Coleman Road, Haslett. (517) under 21. Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge, 6810 S. Cedar 339-8978. www.glpg.org/classes. a more sustainable business that also to Florida, it also became the north- St., Lansing. sustains the local economy.“ ern-most store for the contemporary Alcoholics Anonymous. Closed meeting for Now, with the Green Door and Italian chain. those who desire to stop drinking, with American Events Emil’s, this makes for three watering “Business has been unbelievable so Sign Language interpretation. 9 a.m. FREE. Alano Euchre. Play euchre and meet new people. 6-9 holes on the same block in Lansing’s far — just busy, busy, busy,” said Dan Club East, 220 S. Howard St., Lansing. (517) 482- p.m. $1.50. Delta Township Enrichment Center, 4538 eastside neighborhood, creating a Zopf, Tony Sacco’s managing partner 8957. Elizabeth Road, Lansing. (517) 484-5600. micro-bar district of sorts. In March (and a personal friend — full disclo- Capital Area Singles Dance. Meet new friends Social Bridge. No partner needed. 1-4 p.m. $1.50. Delta Township Enrichment Center, 4538 Elizabeth 2005, Davis opened her establish- sure: in the early ‘00s, we worked with door prizes. 6-10 p.m. $8. Eagles, 4700 N. Road, Lansing. (517) 484-5600. ment at the site of the former Raupp together at Mitchell’s Fish Market, Grand River Ave., Lansing. (517) 819-0405. Bill Maher. Comedy. 7 p.m. $35-$65. Wharton Monday Morning Movie. Get your film fix at the Campfitters sporting goods store, 300 yards to the south). “We’ve been library. 10:30 a.m. FREE. Delta Township District which gives Gone Wired its unique really happy so many people have Center, MSU Campus, East Lansing. (517) 353- 1982. Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321- Swiss chalet-like exterior and spa- found us already here in the back Father's Day Wilderness Survival 4014 ext.4. cious two-story interior. (Fun fact: 40. It’s a really good sign of what’s to Walkabout. Fet outside and learn what it takes Westside Farmers Market. Get fresh produce The booths in Gone Wired are refur- come.” to truly survive in the wild. 1-2:30 p.m. $10, and more. 4-7 p.m. FREE. 743 N. Martin Luther King bished set pieces that were used in With its open kitchen, high-energy $5 members. Fenner Nature Center, 2020 E. Jr. Blvd., Lansing. www.nwlansing.org/wfm.html. “Pulp Fiction.”) atmosphere, and kid-friendly sensibili- Mount Hope Ave., Lansing. (517) 483-4224. www. East Lansing Drop-in Writer's Workshop. Get Davis says that she’s stepping into ties, Zopf says Tony Sacco’s is the kind mynaturecenter.org. help writing anything from a book to a poem, short the bar scene nice and slow, limit- of place that works for both a first Insect Safari Family Special. Connect with story or something else. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing ing the drink menu to just beer, wine date and a family night out. But at the nature on Father's Day, use nets to catch and Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) release something. 3 p.m. $7 per family. Harris 351-2420. www.elpl.org. and “specialty” coffee drinks as the center of the concept is the pizza itself, A Grab Bag Crafts. Ages 3 and up can reuse the summer-long conversion takes place. which is cooked in a unique way. Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Meridian Township. (517) 349-3866. library's leftover craft supplies to create something. She’s also begun staying open later “Coal-fired ovens get hotter than 1-3 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 to encourage more traffic and, by the traditional pizza ovens,” Zopf said. Stewardship Work Days. Families with children and community members can volunteer for a Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. time fall arrives, she expects Gone “The cheese melts quicker and the top- couple hours helping keep Fenner beautiful.n, 9 Wired will have traditional bar hours. pings cook faster without overcooking a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Fenner Nature Center, 2020 E. Music “From the beginning, Gone Wired the tomato sauce. And our sauce really Mount Hope Ave., Lansing. (517) 483-4224. fofnc. Open-Mic Mondays. Sign up to play solo, duo, has always been me,” Davis said. “I’m pops — you can taste the freshness of org. with your band. 6:30-10:30 p.m. FREE. Michigan not a large corporation: I’m just one the tomatoes.” Father & Son Movie. Screening of "Waterwalk," Brewing Company, 402 Washington Square, Lansing. person who runs a business, and it’s Tony Sacco’s also features a full list the story of Steve and Justin Faulkner's retracing (517) 977-1349 been really hard the last few years of classic Mediterranean sandwiches, of a 1,000 mile route of the Mississippi. 7 p.m. Harpbeat. The combination of harp and to stay alive. I still have lots of plans salads and appetizers, as well as a full Call for price. Lansing Mall Cinema, 921 Mall Drive, percussion instruments while singing, moving to for the future, but it took me seven beer and wine list. Later this summer, Lansing. (517) 886-3456 or (888) 447-1361. the music. 2-3 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321- years to get where I’m at right now. Zopf and his partners will unveil Bar 4014 ext. 3. www.dtdl.org. Everything in time.” 30, an upscale martini lounge that will Music Robert Francis. Folk, Indie, Singer-songwriter, Leaded Zeppelin’s open next door. Stay tuned for more Theater Across the street, the all-ages- details on that one. pop. 6 p.m. $7 advance, $8 day of. Mac's Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-6795. www. Auditions. For "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Open friendly Zeppelin’s Music Hall is ("Retailing it like it is" appears macsbar.com. to all ages. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Mid Michigan Family morphing into its own distinctive every other week. Email allan@lan- Theatre, 440 Frandor Ave., Lansing. (517) 339-2145. “thing.” In a clever bit of synergy with singcitypulse.com.) See Out on the Town, Page 28 28 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012

Real Talk For Teens. 5-7 p.m. FREE. (Please Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny June 13-19 Out on the town See Details June 17) Research on Dog Aggression. Researcher from page 27 Molly Tamulevich is leading a focus group on ARIES (March 21-April 19): It's time for your right LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thomas Edison said how to reduce dog attacks. 6:30-8:30 p.m. hand to find out what your left hand has been doing something to the effect that a person who is thoroughly www.freewebs.com/midmichfamilytheatre. FREE. Allen Neighborhood Center, 1619 E Kalamazoo lately, and vice versa. They've been attending to their satisfied is probably a failure. I guess he meant that if St., Lansing. (517) 485-4279. [email protected]. separate agendas for a while, and now it would be wise you're not always pushing to make your life better, you Tech Shorts: Mango Languages. Learn the to have them work together more closely. As they get must not have very high standards or passionate goals. Tuesday, June 19 basics: what it is, how it works, and how to sign up. reacquainted, a bit of friction would be understand- While I can see the large grains of truth in that theory, Classes and Seminars 1:30-2 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, able. You may have to serve as a mediator. Try to get I don't think it applies in all cases — like for you right Beginning Yoga Class. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $10. 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 ext. 3. them to play nicely with each other for a while before now, for instance. During the upcoming grace period, it Center for Yoga, 1780 East Grand River Ave., East jumping in to the negotiations about how best they can will make sense for you to be perfectly content with the Lansing. Contact Carolyn Ojala for details (517) 388- cooperate in the future. And be very firm with them: no state of your life just as it is. To do so won't make you 2049. Events slapping or fighting allowed. lazy and complacent. Just the opposite, in fact: It will Schizophrenics Anonymous. A self-help support Compassionate Friends. For grieving parents TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some relationships charge your psychic batteries and create a reservoir group for those affected by the disorder. 10 a.m. who have lost a child of any age. 7:30-9:30 p.m. that you call "friendships" may be little more than use- of motivational energy for the second half of 2012. Room 215-F, Community Mental Health Building, FREE. Salvation Army Community Center, 701 W. ful connections or status boosters or affiliations that SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Twenty-four-year-old 812 E. Jolly Road, Lansing. (517) 485-3775. Jolly Road, Lansing. (517) 351-6480. enhance your power and influence. There's no shame actress Annalynne McCord has risen up in rebellion Yoga 40. For those in their 40s, 50s, 60s and Mid-day Movies. Watch recent releases on the in that. But it's also a smart idea to make sure that against what she calls "Hollywood's perfection require- beyond. 7:15 p.m. Suggested $7. Just B Yoga, 106 big screen. 2 p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing at least some of your alliances are rooted primarily ment." Lately she has been brazenly appearing in public Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 367- in pure affection. You need to exchange energy with without any make-up on. She has even encouraged Take Off Pounds Sensibly. Anyone wanting 6363. www.cadl.org. people who don't serve your ambitions so much as paparazzi to snap photos of her in her natural state. to lose weight is welcome. 7 p.m. FREE to visit.. Game On. Play a variety of board and video they feed your soul. The coming weeks will be an excel- "I'm not perfect," she says, "and that's okay with me." Eaton Rapids Medical Center, 1500 S. Main St., games. 3-5 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District lent time to cultivate friendships like that. Take good I nominate her to be your role model in the com- Eaton Rapids. Contact Judy at (517) 543-0786. Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321- care of those you have, and be alert for the possibility ing weeks, Scorpio. You will be able to stir up useful Schizophrenics Anonymous Self-help 4014 x3. of starting a new one. blessings for yourself by being loyal to the raw truth. Support Group. For persons with schizo- Morning Storytime. All ages welcome for GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you remember what You can gain power by not hiding anything. (And yes, I phrenia and related disorders. 5:30 p.m. FREE. stories, songs, rhymes and fun. 10:30 a.m. FREE. realize that last statement is in conflict with the core you were doing between July 2000 and June 2001? Sparrow Professional Building, 1200 E. Michigan Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Scorpionic philosophy.) Here's my guarantee: It'll be fun Think back. Did anything happen then that felt like Ave., Lansing. (517) 485-3775. Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014. to be free of unrealistic images and showy deceptions. a wild jumpstart, or a series of epiphanies, or a Seeking Safety. Practice skills and learn about Kids Time: Ages 5-11. Help eastside youth to benevolent form of shock therapy? Were you forcibly SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Nineteenth- new resources. 1:30-3 p.m. FREE. Justice in grow food, develop leadership and life skills. 4:30- dislodged from a rut by an adversary who eventu - century Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev once called Mental Health, 520 Cherry St., Lansing. (517) 5:30 p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community Garden- ally became an ally? Did you wake up from a sleepy his fellow novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky a "pimple 887-4586. House, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. trance you didn't even know you had been in? I'm on the face of literature." But more than a hundred Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. Pres- (517) 999-3910. guessing that at least some of those experiences will years after that crude dismissal, Dostoyevsky is a byterian Church of Okemos, 2258 Bennett Road, Storytime. Stories, rhymes, songs and a craft be returning in the coming months, but on a higher much more highly regarded and influential writer than Okemos. (517) 505-0068. for ages 2-5. 10:30-11:15 a.m. & 6:30-7:15 p.m. octave this time. Turgenev. Use this as inspiration, Sagittarius, if you Intro to Computers. Professionals from Ca- FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Steven Covey have to deal with anyone's judgmental appraisals of you reer Quest teach the basics. 2:30-4 p.m. FREE. Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. describes your "circle of concern" as everything you're in the coming days. Their opinions will say more about Capital Area Michigan Works, 2110 S. Cedar St., Lansing Walkability Audit. Need volunteers. concerned with or worried about. Your "circle of influ- them than about you. Refresh your understanding of Lansing. (517) 492-5500. 5:30-8 p.m. FREE. Grace United Methodist, 1900 ence," on the other hand, is anything that's within your the phenomenon of "projection," in which people super- On the Way To Wellness. Barb Geske Boston Blvd., Lansing. (517) 292-3078. ability to change right now. For example, you may have impose their fantasies and delusions on realities they provides nutrition and wellness coaching in a DTDL Crafters. Conversation, knitting and other general long-term questions or anxieties about the don't see clearly. positive, informative format. 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 handcrafting projects. Bring own supplies. future of your health. That's your circle of concern. But CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take a few deep p.m. $10. Presbyterian Church of Okemos, 2258 2:30-4 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District your circle of influence contains specific actions you breaths. It's important not to get overly worked up Bennett Road, Okemos. (517) 349-9536. Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) can take to affect your health today, like eating good about your recent diversion from the Truth and the Computer Class. Learn Excel. 7 p.m. FREE. 321-4014 ext. 4. www.dtdl.org. food, getting enough sleep, and doing exercise. What Way. I mean it's not like you sold heroin to high school Community of Christ, 1514 W. Miller Road, Lan- Taking Off Pounds Sensibly Openhouse. I'm seeing for you, Cancerian, is that the coming weeks students or dumped toxic waste into a mountain Learn what TOPS can do to support you while will be an excellent time to spend less time in your stream, right? It's true that you've incurred a minor sing. (517) 882-3122. Speakeasies Toastmasters. Become a bet- losing weight. FREE. Eaton Rapids Medical circle of concern and more in your circle of influence. karmic debt that will ultimately have to be repaid. And Center, 1500 S. Main St. Eaton Rapids. Call Stop fantasizing about what may or may not happen, yes, you've been reminded that you can't allow yourself ter speaker. 12:05-1 p.m. FREE. Ingham County Human Services Bldg., 5303 S. Cedar St., Judy: (517) 543-0768. and simply take charge of the details that will make a to lower your standards even slightly. But I doubt any of Rehearsals. For The East Lansing Kiwanis difference. it will matter in five years — especially if you atone now. Lansing. 1926.toastmastersclubs.org. Health Initiative Workshop. American Community Band. 7 p.m. FREE. MacDonald LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There's a wild zoo about two So please go ahead and give yourself a spanking, make a Middle School, 1601 Burcham Drive, East hours northwest of Seattle. After paying your fee, you definitive plan to correct your error, and start cruising in Cancer Society presents on Cancer Prevention and survivorship. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. North Lansing. (517) 930-2381. www.elps.k12.mi.us. can drive your car through acres of land where large the direction of the next chapter of your life story. "The Deep Blue Sea." Directed by Terence animals are allowed to roam free. When I took the tour, AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Have you ever tried West Initiative, 1012 N. Walnut St., Lansing. (517) 999-2894. www.nwlansing.org.p2.hostingprod. Davies. Rachel Weisz stars as a spirited I stopped my rented Dodge Stratus by the side of the to drink from a fire hose? The sheer amount and force British wife trapped in a passionless road to get a better look at a humongous buffalo with of the water shooting out the end makes it hard to com/. a humped back and a long woolly beard. It lumbered actually get any moisture in your mouth, let alone enjoy See Out on the Town, Page 29 over to where I was parked and for the next five min- the process. On the other hand, it is kind of entertain- utes thoroughly licked my windshield with its enormous ing, and it does provide a lot of material to tell funny SUDOKU SOLUTION CROSSWORD SOLUTION purple tongue. My head was just inches away from stories about later on. But are those good enough From Pg. 26 From Pg. 22 its primal power, and yet I was safe and relaxed and reasons to go ahead and do it? I say no. That's why perfectly amused. I wouldn't be surprised if you had a I advise you, metaphorically speaking, to draw your comparable experience sometime soon, Leo. sustenance from a more contained flow in the com- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the Biblical book of ing week. Cultivate a relationship with a resource that Genesis, Jacob had a dream of angels ascending and gives you what you really need. descending a ladder that went up to heaven. I recom- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The coming week will mend that you try to incubate a similar dream, or else be an excellent time to declare your independence do some meditations in which you visualize that scene. from anything that depresses you, obsesses you, or It would help prime your psyche for one of this week's oppresses you. You will attract help from unexpected top assignments, which is to be adaptable as you go sources if you take that brave action. At the same time, back and forth between very high places and very low it'll be a perfect moment to declare your interdepen- places. Heaven and earth need to be better connected. dence with anything that fires up your imagination, stirs So do the faraway and the close-at-hand, as well as up smart hope, or fills you with a desire to create mas- the ideal and the practical. And you're the right person terpieces. Be adventurous as you dream about blend- for the job. ing your energies with the very best influences.

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strategies. 6-7:45 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District The Association meets on the third 27, Lansing. (517) 487-8686. Out on the town Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321- Wednesday. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. Grace United Don Middlebrook and Living Soul. Live 4014 ext. 4. www.dtdl.org. Methodist, 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing. (517) music. 6-10 p.m. FREE. Reno's East, 1310 from page 28 Real Talk For Teens. 5-7 p.m. FREE. (Please See 482-5750. Abbott Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-7366. marriage. 7:30 p.m. $8, $6 seniors, $3 students. Details June 17) The Scandinavian Society of Greater Theater Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing. Fellowship and music with which "Around the World in 80 Days." Jules Lansing. (517) 980-5802. Events to dance around the maypole, will be Verne's story of a global adventure that Fundraiser for Ken Ross. Help raise funds Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. followed by a potluck dinner. 2-5 p.m. FREE. Faith starts with a bet; part of MSU's Summer for Ingham Circuit Judge, Ken Ross. 4-7 p.m. $50 Grand Ledge Baptist Church, 1120 W. Willow United Methodist Church, 4301 S. Waverly Road, Circle Theatre. 8 p.m. FREE. MSU Auditorium, suggested donation. 1408 Cambridge, Lansing. RSVP Hwy., Grand Ledge. (517) 256-6954. Lansing. (517) 482-8357. 150 Auditorium Road, East Lansing. (517) 432- to [email protected]. Practice Your English. Speaking and listen- DTDL Book Club. Discuss Karen Russell's 2000. www.theatre.msu.edu. ing to English in a friendly, relaxing atmo- "Swamplandia!,'' 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Delta "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Music sphere. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Based on the "Peanuts" comic strip by Lansing. (517) 321-4014 ext. 4. www.dtdl.org. Jazz Tuesdays. Hosted by the Jeff Shoup Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) Charles M. Schulz. 8 p.m. FREE. LCC Outdoor "The Deep Blue Sea." 7:30 p.m. $8, $6 seniors, Quartet with guest artists from the MSU Jazz 351-2420. Amphitheatre, N. Washington behind Dart $3 students. (Please See Details June 19) Studies Department and the Mid-Michigan jazz Youth Service Corps. East side youth grow Auditorium, Lansing. www.lcc.edu/showinfo. community. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. FREE. Stober's Bar, 812 food, and develop leadership skills. Ages 11-17. E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. 3:30-5:30 p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community Music Literature and Poetry Eastwood Summer Music Series. Outdoor Garden House, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Jazz Wednesdays. Featuring the Jeff Shoup Baby Time. Books and songs for ages 2 years family-friendly concert. With Sea Cruisers. Lansing. (517) 999-3910. Trio. 7-10 p.m. FREE. Gracies Place, 151 S. and younger, with a parent/caregiver. 10:30 6-8 p.m. FREE. Eastwood Towne Center, 3000 Lansing Walkability Audit. Need Putnam, Williamston. (517) 655-1100. a.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, 5130 Preyde Blvd. Lansing. (517) 316-9209. volunteers. 3-5 p.m. FREE. Allen Concert in the Park. Summer music series, Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 x3. Concerts at the Shell. Jukebox Memories, Neighborhood Center, 1619 E Kalamazoo St., with exciting new performers, lawn seating. Lansing Area Science Fiction Association hits from the 1950s and 1960s, sponsored by Lansing. (517) 292-3078. 7 p.m. FREE. St. Johns City Park, located off Meeting. New location. Informal dinner and the Williamston Area Beautification Fund. 7 Allen Street Farmers Market. Fresh Morton and Park Streets, St. Johns. (989) lively conversation every week. 7 p.m. FREE. p.m. FREE. McCormick Park, located at N. fruits and vegetables, meats, crafts, 224-8944. Buddies Grill, 2040 Aurelius Road, #13, Holt. Putnam and High Streets, Williamston. ww w. activities and more. 2:30-7 p.m. FREE. Allen Stan & 3rd Degree. Live music. 9:30 p.m. (517) 402-4481. capitalcitybrassband.com. Neighborhood Center, 1619 E Kalamazoo FREE. Green Door Blues Bar & Grill, 2005 E. Don Middlebrook and Living Soul. Live St., Lansing. (517) 485-4279. www. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 482-6376. music. 6-9 p.m. FREE. Wrought Iron Grill, 317 S allenneighborhoodcenter.org. Sammy Gold (SaGoBa). Pop-rock. 7-11 Elm St. # 201, Owosso. (989) 472-9025. Colonial Village Neighborhood Meeting. p.m. FREE. Rookies Restaurant, 1640 S. US

Theater Auditions. For "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Open to all ages. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Mid Michigan Family Theatre, 440 Frandor Ave., Lansing. (517) 339-2145. www.freewebs.com/midmichfamilytheatre.

Wednesday, June 20 Classes and Seminars Meditation. For beginners and experienced. 7-9 p.m. FREE. Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, 3015 S. Washington Square, Lansing. (517) 351-5866. Community Yoga. Power yoga class. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Grande Paraders Square Dance Club. Modern Western-style square dancing. Casual attire. 6:30 p.m. $3 members; $4. Lions Community Park, 204 W. Jefferson St., Dimondale. (517) 694-0087. Learn Bike Repair. Help maintain the MSU Bikes' rental fleet and earn time to work on your own bike. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Dem- onstration Hall, MSU Campus, East Lansing. www. Authorized Warranty Service bespartangreen.msu.edu/happenings.html. 1915 E. Michigan Ave. Lansing, MI 48912 Coupon Swap. Meet other coupon enthusiasts, (517) 351-9339 www.capmac.net exchange coupons, and discuss deals and [email protected] Garden Beds Spring & Fall Cleanup Weeding Edging Mulching Design Restoration New Plantings Let us refresh your Fertilization garden and renew your Outdoor Color enthusiasm for your Color Beds own yard and home. Containers with Annuals & Tropicals Spring, Summer, Fall & Winter Designs Color-To-Rent for Parties & Events 16886 Turner St., Lansing, MI 48906 | (517) 327-1059 | www.theplantprofessionals.com | [email protected] 30 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 13, 2012 Applause-worthy For a satisfying Italian meal, just say Bravo!

By JOE TOROK had been market-tested and corporate- I much prefer to patronize local eat- approved for maximum diner satisfac- eries over chain restaurants. Based on a tion. select reading of my reviews, some may I might have been out of my element, have a difficult time swallowing that fact. but Bravo! has this going for it: It deliv- It’s just that I also prefer restaurants, ers a pleasant, if not lovely, dining experi- local or not, that live up to what they say ence. elfco.coop they’ll delver. Aside from entrées served a bit too So when I enjoyed a satisfying evening quickly, the service was great. My com- at Bravo! Cucina Italiana in Eastwood panion and I were seated quickly and Towne Center last week, we bantered easily with our friendly, I felt conflicted at first: attentive and knowledgeable server, who This is a corporate chain, immediately suggested a wine when que- Lansing's newest specialty food, beer and wine store. I thought, and a pretty big ried. one, too, with locations in Sure, he attempted to upsell, but I’m 19 states. asked if I want to add a salad or drink by Gift packages and gift cert ciates Review Bravo! is enormous on many a server at local restaurants, too. the inside, with a small (It’s funny — for as much as I hear folks legion of well-trained servers, cooks, hating on chain restaurants, there are for Father’s Day hosts and a free-floating manager check- plenty of local places, with loyal patrons, ing to make sure everyone at every table that do a serviceable job emulating the is happy. I sensed even the Roman ruin décor — busted faux-marble columns — See Bravo!, Page 31 Free Sampling every Saturday from 2-4 Arcadia Ales, with rep from brewery | 6/16 Rose Wines | 6/23 Unibroue | 6/30

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to steaks, and a sam- meat and cheese on the Cafes & Diners THE DAILY BAGEL — pling of ethnic cuisines menu. 2211 S. Cedar Serving fresh bagels from Mexico to Asia to St., Lansing. Open 24 COFFEE JAM — Grab Trusted by growers since 1983 made daily the old–fash- Italy. 4625 Willoughby hours every day. (517) www.superiorgrowers.com some classic comfort ioned way and a full Road, Holt. 11 a.m.–8 267–7606. TO, $ food and dessert here. menu of sandwiches p.m. Monday–Friday, 9 The cookies are made and salads in down- a.m.–8 p.m. Saturday, FRANDOR DELI — fresh daily, but get town Lansing. 309 S. closed Sunday. (517) Pizza, sandwiches and there early because Washington Square. 7 694–8655. TO, WB, $$. more served cafeteria they sell out quickly. a.m.–3 p.m. Monday– style in the Frandor 6427 Centurion Drive, Friday, closed Saturday DENNY’S — Home of shopping center. 300 N. Lansing. 6:30 a.m.– 5 & Sunday. (517) 487– the original Grand Slam Clippert St., Lansing. 8 p.m. Monday–Thursday, 8201. TO, OM, WIFI, $ and Moons Over My a.m.–8 p.m. Monday– 6:30 a.m.–4 pm. Friday, Hammy, Denny’s knows Saturday, closed 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturday: DECKER’S COFFEE breakfast is good any- Sunday. (517) 351–9342. closed Sunday. (517) — In addition to coffee time. A wide range of TO, $ 327–1111. TO, D, Wi– and espresso drinks, sandwiches, dinner and Fi, $ this locally owned coffee desserts are also avail- GOLDEN HARVEST shop offers a full menu able. 7330 W. Saginaw — Featuring home– D&L HEART AND SOUL of breakfast sandwiches, Highway, Lansing. Open cooked meals made from CAFE — A unique fusion bagels, smoothies, ice 24 hours. (517) 323– scratch every morning, Superior Growers Supply “gets” growing – of American-style break- cream and more. 220 2110. Also at 2701 E. this breakfast and lunch with five locations to serve YOU! fast and lunch menus S. Washington Square, Grand River Ave., East spot has been a Lansing with Asian cuisine as Lansing. 7 a.m.–6:30 Lansing. (517) 351–0421. staple for more than 50 • Livonia - 29220 Seven Mile Rd. well. Highlights include p.m. Monday–Friday, 8 TO, $$. years. The restaurant’s homemade sausage a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday, specialties include the • East Lansing - 4870 Dawn Ave. patties and General 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday. FLEETWOOD DINER popular omelets, waffles • South Lansing - 5716 S. Pennsylvania Ave. Tso's chicken. 4805 (517) 913–1400. OM, P, — A staple on this and pancakes, all which North Grand River Ave., WIFI, $ throwback diner’s menu are homemade. 1625 • West Lansing - 3928 W. Saginaw Hwy. Lansing. 6 a.m.–3 p.m. is the Hippie Hash, a Turner St., Lansing. 7 Monday–Wednesday; 6 DELHI CAFE — A quiet, medley of shredded a.m.–2:30 p.m. Monday– • Howell - 2731 E. Grand River Ave. a.m.–8 p.m. Thursday- family restaurant with potatoes, green peppers, Friday, 8 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Saturday; 7 a.m.-3 p.m. authentic Greek cuisine, mushrooms, broccoli, Saturday and Sunday. Sunday. (517) 321–6333. favorite American dishes onions and tomatoes (517) 485–3663. $ TO, WiFi, $ from burgers to seafood combined with any

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sauce, the chicken on their own. The tiramisu was velvety Bravo! itself (pounded smooth; the flourless chocolate cake was breast meat, we dense and rich; and a still-warm slice of from page 30 presumed) didn’t bread pudding warmed up the dish while stand out. If that its round cap of vanilla ice cream cooled corporate model to a tee.) sauce was out of a things down. And unlike other Italian restaurants can, the cooks did Finally, Bravo! actually serves a fresh I’ve experienced, I didn’t feel compelled a pretty good job cup of coffee. If that weren’t enough (and to check my chair for long-forgotten making it taste like believe me, for this town, it was plenty), tomato sauce, or my fork for someone it wasn’t. they offer espresso, cappuccino, latte — else’s food bits before I ate. As for the you know, the kind of after-dinner drinks Herbed bread, soft on the inside and Fra Diavolo, the a self-respecting Italian restaurant should crusty on the outside, is served with creamy sauce hid offer. meals, alongside a mild olive oil mixed the heat on first I’m not sure the evening deserved with sweet, sun-dried tomatoes, rose- bite, but a warm standing applause (except for the coffee mary, thyme, basil and a tad too much hint of spice crept perhaps), but we enjoyed our meal and salt to dip it into. in after a couple of Joe Torok/City Pulse our time together in Bravo! We didn’t Instead of the appetizer menu, we went mouthfuls. really care that the meal was likely much with a small flatbread ($7.49) from the piz- Things improved Bravo! Cucina Italiana in Eastwood Towne Center is part of a more American than Italian. We had a za menu and were delighted with the dish. as the meal went restaurant chain with locations in 19 states. good time and we ate good food. Whether Crispy flatbread, no doubt charred with on. For dessert, a restaurant has locations in a half-dozen precision in the kitchen’s large, open-fire we went with the sample tray ($8.99) one item. The dish came with smaller states or one location in town, that’s a oven, held little silky-smooth bites of por- because it was just too difficult to select portions of three desserts, all worth a try recipe for success. tabella mushroom, dollops of aggressive gorgonzola just barely melted and translu- cent onions the color of amber, cooked to the point of releasing their natural sugars. We also ordered the lobster bisque ($5.49), a creamy blend of seafood fla- vors — lobster along with bits of shrimp Bravo! Cusina — with some parsley Italiana and a drizzle of olive 2970 Towne Centre oil adding a fresh Blvd., Lansing touch. (517) 485-3779 For entrées, we 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday- settled on the Fra Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday Diavolo Campanelle and Saturday with shrimp 11: a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday ($17.99) and the TO, OM, FB, P, $$$$ Chicken Parmesan Milanese ($16.99). Interesting note: There appear to be no gimmicks on Bravo!’s din- ner menu, not even chicken fingers. The pasta in both entrées was cooked al dente. The pasta with the chicken was herbed with a thin coating of oil, and the trumpet-vine flower-shaped campanelle Consider pasta was a nice fit for the creamy Fra Diavolo sauce. While the Milanese had a nice crispy $ exterior that soaked up the well-made, Father’s Day! TheTail of Lobster mildly acidic and gently sweet tomato Lobster Fillet Mignon free slice with purchase Lobster Stufed Walleye week of June 11-17 Lobster And Scallops19 2 1

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