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in the past about bringing something he said. downtown, she said. “I think we don’t Lansing Township Planning Director A venue want to lose sight of that space for down- Steve Hayward, who worked in the city’s town Lansing.” planning and development department Eye The LSO has been in talks with the when Hollister tried bringing a venue candy! cometh owner of the venue about hosting some downtown, acknowledges Lansing’s long- of the orchestra’s smaller events. The standing need for a mid-sized performing A performing arts center is main concert series would still be held at arts center. He also serves on the board of of the week coming to Lansing Township — the Wharton Center, she said, but details the Arts Council of Greater Lansing. what’s that mean for downtown still need to be fleshed out. “I think there “One step at a time, we’re trying to Lansing? are some real possibilities. We haven’t add things in the region,” Hayward said, committed to anything.” not straying far from thinking of Lansing Whoooooosh. That’s the sound of When asked if she thinks the move is as also East Lansing and Meridian, Delta Lansing Township leaving the city of a bad sign for bringing a venue down- and Delhi townships. “This region needs Lansing in the dust on the goal of creat- town, Millbrook said, “I hope not. For a home for the arts.” ing a performing arts center. downtown development, a performing Hayward recognizes the work of local On Oct. 1, construction is set to start arts space is important for any plan. It’s theater companies as “very strong” and on a 12,000-square-foot, 1,500-capac- just a matter of things being close and the impact Wharton has on the region. He ity performing arts venue at Eastwood the money being there.” says Senatore’s venue won’t compete with Towne Center in Lansing Township. The as-of-yet unnamed venue is the convention business around town. It’s a similar concept that city offi- part of a larger expansion — called The If it is about the township competing cials have hoped to bring downtown for Heights at Eastwood — taking place on with the city, Hayward said he would “have Property: 141 Leslie St., Lansing nearly 20 years — across three mayoral the north end of Eastwood Towne Center. to acknowledge the fact that the township Owner: David and Carrie Muylle administrations — to no avail. is less than a city.” But, he added, Assessed value: $17,500 Very few, if any, disagree that where such a development would the greater Lansing area could happen largely depends on pri- Good buildings are not only attractive — use a mid-sized performing arts vate investment. “It’s not like they also have good DNA. What is building center to fill a niche somewhere they haven’t had a chance,” he DNA? It’s the original construction essentials between the Wharton Center said of someone building a venue like superior craftsmanship and quality mate- and Mac’s Bar or Riverwalk in the city. “If there’s a developer rials that hold up through standing neglect. Theatre. In the mid-1990s, in town that wants to build one This craftsman-style stunner in Lansing’s former Lansing Mayor David of these things, let ‘em build it. Eastside Neighborhood has seriously good Hollister actively pursued such Some have tried.” DNA. Built in 1915, it is the latest unveiling in a venue to be located in what is Bernero countered: “If the a string of Dave Muylle’s restorations on Leslie now the Stadium District, but venue would work there, it and Regent streets that demonstrate how suc- those plans never got beyond Sam Inglot/City Pulse would work better downtown.” cessful urban revitalization can be. the proposal stage. A second A portion of the first floor of this parking ramp, as part of David Wiener, who was the Clever built-ins, closets and innovative ele- attempt roughly 10 years later by a larger expansion at Eastwood Towne Center in Lansing chief of staff for the Hollister ments meet the needs of today’s lifestyle, as the city, Cooley Law School and Township, will contain something the city has sought for administration, said the plan does a flexible floor plan that accommodates Lansing Community College years: a mid-sized performing arts venue. that started in the mid-’90s to for more than the traditional single family met the same fate. bring a multi-purpose perform- residence this house was originally built for. Those tied to the Eastwood plan The township is essentially the developer ing arts venue across the street from the Although it looks like a traditional single largely chalk it up as a win for the region, of The Heights, paying for the construc- baseball stadium “just kind of never took family home, this house has been modified to not as a setback for downtown Lansing. tion of the restaurants, venue and park- off.” Several years later, the city tried to include two suites on the second story and a But does a venue on the far north side ing ramp with more than $20 million partner with Cooley and LCC for a shared garden flat — you’d never know from the curb, of Ingham County contribute to bringing in municipal bonds. The venue owner, space at the corner of Kalamazoo Street and that is exactly what makes this a success- more people downtown? Chuck Senatore, will lease the space from and Capitol Avenue: “We had a number of ful design. The form fits the character of the At least one vocal critic — not just of the township. Bernero said he finds it meetings about it, but it just never gelled. neighborhood, but the use offers the flexibility the venue, but of Eastwood all together — “very, very odd and perplexing that the Too many different pieces,” he said. necessary for contemporary living. is Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero. He says township is so directly engaged in specu- Bob Trezise, president and CEO of When reflecting on the completion of 141 Leslie, the suburban development draws people lative entrepreneurial endeavors.” the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, Muylle says: “I think this is the best I’ve done. It’s away from the region’s core: downtown Senatore, an East Lansing native said on City Pulse’s TV show a month not only about the house, but also the context, how Lansing. And a performing arts center and co-founder of Tony Saccos Coal ago, “If the city does focus on a perfor- it is embedded in Lansing and connecting it all in belongs downtown, he added. Oven Pizza, came back to the area after mance art center, it needs to be in the so many ways, culture and community.” “It’s part of what the downtown needs. launching his restaurant in five other heart of downtown Lansing.” If you’re interested in seeing the interior, a I don’t think it’s part of what a suburban states. Just north of his restaurant and Whether a mid-sized performing arts tour of two craftsman-style houses on Leslie mall needs,” he said. “The urban sprawl adjacent bar, Bar30, a Hyatt Place hotel center is downtown or in Eastwood doesn’t Street, which includes this address, is sched- that is best represented by Eastwood and apartments are planned. A park- really matter, as long as the demand for uled for 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sept. 14. Call 999- represents an unsustainable model that ing structure is already up. His venue is such a site is met, Wiener said. 3924 for more information. really tears at the core of the urban cen- going on the first floor of the mixed-use “If it fits a niche not being met, then ter. … (Eastwood) is a bastardization of parking ramp next to seafood, Latin and that’s good for the community,” Wiener — Amanda Harrell-Seyburn the concept of an urban core.” steakhouse-style restaurants. said. “Obviously, as a Lansing person, “It’s kind of a bummer,” said Courtney “Eye candy of the Week” is our look at some of the “We’re hoping to draw a lot of bands we’ve always looked for ways to draw peo- nicer properties in Lansing. It rotates each with Eyesore of Millbrook, executive director of the and things like that that would have ple into the city.” the Week. If you have a suggestion, please e-mail eye@lan- Lansing Symphony Orchestra. “There normally skipped over Lansing because singcitypulse.com or call Andy Balaskovitz at 999-5064. were discussions that have been close” there’s not a large enough venue here,” See Eastwood, Page 6 6 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012

program this week, by tying his opponent released after Forsyth’s investigation indi- tion will be floating around when the next Eastwood to the intriguing investigation into the cate Schmidt and Bolger not only knew of speaker vote takes place. That said, how- Republican House speaker and the shady this problem, but helped the GNC store ever, he said, “I wouldn’t be afraid to vote from page 5 filing day switch-a-roo in Grand Rapids. manager file anyway. against him. I don’t want to vote against Cochran noted that Oesterle is carry- Then the Senate minority leader, him by hearsay.” When asked if he thinks the Eastwood ing the banner for a party that not only cut Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, and Listening to these comments in the venue will make it more difficult to bring education and jacked up senior citizens’ Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Lansing public television studios, Cochran a similar place downtown, Wiener said: “I income taxes, but tried to rob Democrats in Mark Brewer hopped in, asking the Ingham used the words “unethical” and “illegal” to would guess so. They would be filling a niche. a Grand Rapids House seat of a legitimate County Circuit Court to conduct a one-per- describe these shenanigans. Oesterle quick- There’s no point in building another one. candidate through some underhanded son grand jury investigation into potential ly noted those two words are different. “Our whole approach was to try not to scheme. perjury. That’s true, but in the political realm, compete. If they’re filling a niche, then so be “It’s just a travesty what they did,” The judges responded with surprising neither is very good. In Grand Rapids, it. And that’s what they’re doing. … I’d rath- Cochran said on the show. “The Republican speed, tapping Judge Rosemarie Aquilina a poll conducted by Practical Political er look at this from a regional perspective.” prosecutor in Kent County even admitted to look into the matter as the one-woman Consultants and MIRS had Schmidt getting what they did was unethical. They need to grand jury. Meanwhile, Secretary of State skewered by unknown, first-time candidate — Andy Balaskovitz stop playing political games.” Ruth Johnson has potential campaign Winnie Brinks, 69 to 31 percent. Rep. Roy Schmidt, R-Grand Rapids, opt- finance violations in front of her since Bolger, too, saw his numbers in his own ed to switch from Democrat to Republican Schmidt cut a $450 check for Mojzak, but district drop to tough re-elect numbers on the filing deadline after much consulta- never gave it to him. against a relatively unknown candidate tion with Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall. For Democrats, the GOP couldn’t have after a Mainstreet Strategies poll asked lis- And to assure himself an easy re-election gift-wrapped a better campaign present. teners some leading questions. victory, he promised his nephew’s 22-year- Scandal, intrigue, a criminal investigation. No charges have been filed. Nobody Bolger/Schmidt old roommate $450 to run a phantom cam- After giving one away in Oakland County has been convicted. But the press has cov- paign against him as a Democrat. two years ago with the fake Tea Party ered this story with front-page attention scheme comes to 67th Kent County Prosecutor William Forsyth debacle, the Republicans fumbled one throughout the state. blew the whistle on the whole affair before right back with this Bolger/Schmidt situa- Republicans have a 64-46 majority in The sleepy 67th the primary election, declaring that the tion and the photocopied petitions turned the House, meaning nine seats will need to state House District is whole thing smelled to high heaven, but in by disgraced former U.S. Rep. Thad flop for the Democrats to manage a 55-55 in slumber no more. that no laws were broken. McCotter. split. Ten seats would switch power. Given Democrat House Democrats, however, noted that the pho- Cochran is more than willing to take that there are only two or three open seats candidate Tom ny candidate, Matt Mojzak, didn’t live in advantage of the situation. in play (the 67th being one of them), the Cochran wound up and the 76th House District for 30 days before The former Lansing fire chief said he odds of success are long. swung at Republican filing. thinks Bolger should be prosecuted and Rep. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor, who Jeff Oesterle where it Mojzak planned on moving into the sees it as a shame that partisanship in co-chairs the House D’s campaign efforts, hurt during the “City district this summer, but he didn’t live in Lansing has devolved to where the House said last week on “Off The Record” that Pulse Newsmakers” the district when he filed. Text messages speaker feels Republicans need to “pull a the Bolger/Schmidt situation is “good for stunt like that.” Democrats around the state. It will spill out The spectacle has now put Oesterle, who beyond West Michigan.” PUBLIC NOTICES had absolutely nothing to do with the situa- One of the first places of spillover NOTICE: Contractors Wanted tion, on the defensive. appears to be Ingham County, where If he wins the election and Bolger wins Oesterle could find his feet stuck in this The City of Lansing Development Office is actively soliciting contractors to bid for housing rehabilitation and new construction contracts to be offered during the coming year. Projects involve work in existing re-election in the 63rd House District, will toxic mess. occupied or vacant single family homes and will use Federal funds. Bid opportunities will range from he vote to re-elect him as speaker? (Kyle Melinn is the editor of the MIRS contracts as small as $500 through whole house rehabilitation or construction projects at $200,000 or Oesterle wouldn’t say. He noted that he Newsletter. He can be reached at melinn@ more. Contractors must be licensed and insured, and may be required to meet additional certification requirements including lead-based paint. doesn’t know how much more informa- lansingcitypulse.com.)

The Contractor Application can be can be picked up at 316 N. Capitol Ave. Suite D-2 Lansing MI 48933 or accessed on line at http://www.lansingmi.gov/pnd/development/rehabilitation.jsp Bid PUBLIC NOTICES opportunities immediately available include 3615 Brighton, 3500 Ronald and 3814 Coachlight NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY Common. Minority and women owned businesses are encouraged to apply. CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION REPORT AVAILABLE July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012 AND PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE City of East Lansing CDBG Program TO: Citizens of the City of Lansing The City of East Lansing has completed the 2011 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report covering activities from 7/1/11 through FROM: Virg Bernero, Mayor 6/30/12. This is to provide notice that the formal 15 calendar day comment period on the Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report begins on September 5, 2012 and concludes on September PURPOSE: NOTIFICATION OF AVAILABILITY OF THE CONSOLIDATED 20, 2012. Individuals wishing to see and review the Performance Report may do so at the City’s ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT (CAPER) Planning & Community Development Department located in Room 222, East Lansing City Hall, 410 July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012 Abbot Road, East Lansing, Michigan between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The City of Lansing is preparing its Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report The East Lansing Community Development Advisory Committee will hold a public hearing on (CAPER) for the period July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012 pursuant to Federal Community Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 6:00 p.m., in Court Room 2, 54-B District Court, 101 Linden Street, Development Program rules and regulations. Before submitting its Consolidated Annual East Lansing, to receive comments on the CDBG program performance during the 2011 program Performance and Evaluation Report to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) year. Individuals and groups wishing to comment on the program performance are encouraged to for approval, the City must, after appropriate public notice, make the report available to the public attend the public hearing. for examination and comment for a period of 15 days. The comment period is September 6, 2012– September 20, 2012. Written comments may also be submitted and should be addressed to the CD Advisory Committee, in care of the East Lansing Planning and Community Development Department, no later than 5:00 p.m., A summary of public comments received as a result of the public participation process will be on September 26, 2012 or should be presented to the Committee at the public hearing. submitted to HUD as part of the CAPER.

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Sorry for the gulf working, metal working, masonry, cosme- between columns. tology, beekeeping — so they can move I had the privilege beyond their current station in life. But it of visiting West doesn’t stop there. In Mboro, the center Africa — specifi- started a restaurant, a cyber café and a cally, Burkina Faso radio station that employ locals, while the and Senegal — last profits they earn help sustain the school month as part of and training center. a small delega- The leadership, staff and volunteers tion from Lansing. (we met a Peace Corps worker from Dropping in for a Atlanta) are not only dedicated, but also short time hardly makes me an author- effuse compassion and caring at high ity on anything I experienced, but I levels. There was no hubris or arrogance was awakened to a world hitherto only visible to me in this work they do for the glimpsed through books and TV disaster community. The dedication to democracy, snippets. to sharing in decisions, to valuing and We met with leaders from Burkina empowering every member of the society Faso and Senegal who had visited here to was most inspiring. Their countries may learn about economic development and have come late to the application of politi- civil society. These folks work in their cal democracy, but I sense they have a communities empowering women, help- deep commitment and appreciation of its ing those in extreme poverty, educating force for building fulfilling lives for all. students from pre-K through university, Burkina Faso is listed as the seventh training workers, protecting the environ- least developed country in the world ment and assisting entrepreneurs. They by the United Nations Development do it tirelessly, with great passion and Program’s indicators. Indeed, our visit to compassion, and with no signs that they some market places and even in the capi- see this work as a burden, but rather as tal city, Ougadougou, revealed poverty RECYCLE a responsibility to the places they call of the kind I’ve never seen. But I came home. away with a strong belief that people Their stories are inspiring, especially as with ideas and commitment working they have so few resources with which to together for their community can build a work. But that hasn’t stopped them from better world and in the process they, too, opening schools and training centers for are fed. My colleagues from the delega- those in rural areas who otherwise would tion were equally humbled by this expe- be left behind; getting women involved rience. in the community, government and busi- Upon returning I pondered how to GET A ness; and tackling cultural taboos like connect the local with the global. One female circumcision or polygamy. Burkina idea has emerged. Cascade Engineering $ Faso just passed a law requiring that in Grand Rapids has developed a bio- Rethink. Recycle. Reward. women have a minimum of 30 percent sand filter for water that requires no 30 representation in their parliament or the electricity and can provide clean water REBATE political parties’ running slates will lose for a family for eight years. Might we Chances are, the older refrigerator or freezer 50 percent of their funding. Meanwhile, send some over there to be tested in that in your basement or garage is running up Senegal has a parliamentary parity environment and see how they work SAVE UP TO requirement of 50 percent women and for the many millions with little or no your utility bill by an average of $150 a men. access to clean water? If it works well, Women in Senegal have built a net- we could export the technology and help $ year. Recycle it, reduce your energy use and work of 106 organizations that work them manufacture it. There is no short- 15 0 keep harmful materials out of landfi lls. We’ll together on a wide range of issues in sup- age of discarded plastic in either Burkina A YEAR IN port of each other — and the affection or Senegal, so perhaps collecting the ELECTRICAL COSTS pick it up for free and you’ll pick up $30. they hold for one another and the spirit plastic and repurposing it to make the they bring to their work moved us all. filter containers could generate needed About a two-hour drive from the capi- jobs and make clean water available For a FREE pickup, call tal, Dakar, in the small town of Mboro, while reducing trash — a win-win-win. 1.877.270.3519 or visit one organization has founded a school Maybe this will work, but what other for children who are orphans, disabled, ways might we share the best we have www.lbwl.com/EnergySavers. or otherwise so poor they have not been in Lansing to meet the needs of others attending a regular school. The Center struggling to eke out a life? for Educational Research and Promotion That’s an economic development mod- of Children of Mboro, which we visited, el more sustainable than a $10 million helps get the younger children ready for scoreboard: 100,000 water filters serving entry into the formal school system, and half a million people everyday for eight those that do enter generally excel. years. Those who come to the center too (Terry Link was the founding director far behind to benefit from that form of MSU’s Office of Campus Sustainability Refrigerators and stand alone freezers must be in working condition and must be between 10 and 30 cubic feet using inside measurements. Lansing Board of Water & Light contracts with JACO Environmental, an appliance recycler, to pick up and recycle the units. Lansing Board of education are trained here through and recently retired as director of the of Water & Light residential electric customers must own units being recycled. 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13493_LBWL12_bin_5.042x11.25_bw.indd 1 8/9/12 5:02 PM 8 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012 Getting a pat on the roof Five buildings nominated for first Preservation Lansing awards Photos by Sam Inglot and Lawrence Cosentino/City Pulse And the nominees for the first-ever Preservation Lansing awards are (from left): Pat Gillespie’s Armory project, 330 Marshall St.; Dave For decades, Lansing blithely bulldozed Muylle’s restoration of a duplex, 127-129 Leslie St., the conversion of an old filling station to a coffee shop, 127 W. Grand River Ave.; the its historic buildings and neighborhoods mixed-use redevelopment of an old grocery store, 1135 N. Washington Ave.; and a downtown law firm’s office that has stood the test of to make room for freeways, urban renewal time, 403 Seymour Ave. The winners will be announced Oct. 24. projects and bland architectural junk. The city is still behind the curve compared to Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle. et hammer-slinger few people outside the “This is something a small business own- other places — even East Lansing — that In keeping with the evangelistic zeal of preservation community have ever heard of. er can take on, and that can really make a cherish historic urban fabric. Preservation Lansing, each of the winners Over the past 20 years, Muylle has pains- difference in the neighborhood,” she said. This year, a new preservation group has will host a porch party in the week after the takingly restored over a dozen east side found concrete (and brick and wood) evi- ceremony to bask in their win, ogle their new homes nearing the century-mark in age, The vibrant handshake dence that the city is catching up slightly. Pewabic plaque with their neighbors and beginning with his own home, a crack house Only a block away from Artie’s stands Five restoration projects have been nom- spread the gospel of historic preservation. turned craftsman’s showcase. another nominee, the 1909 Walker Building, inated for the first Preservation Lansing Nathalie Winans, one of the Preservation Lansing architect Dan Bollman, also a formerly Beeman’s Grocery and more awards, to be given Oct. 24 — the first in Lansing judges, is also chairwoman of Preservation Lansing judge, said Muylle recently a dollar store with the brick exte- what hopes to be an annual recognition Lansing’s Historic District Commission. “tends to undersell himself.” rior painted nasty green. Developer Gene of those in the community who save, not Taken as a whole, Winans said cautiously, “He’s doing the right thing socially and mor- Townsend leveraged private and state funds demolish, architecture. the nominees “suggest there is a modest ally, and it ends up being the right thing from to put together a two-year, $771,000 project The structures range in size from a tiny increase in momentum toward a historic the preservationist perspective,” Bollman said. to calm the 8,000-square-foot hulk into a 1920s gas station turned coffee shop at the preservation ethic in Lansing.” classic Old Town layer cake — commercial northwest corner of town to a massive National The small jewel space on the bottom, apartments on top. Guard armory spruced into airy office space Gillespie’s fort Muylle’s duplex, though modest, dwarfs The Walker Building isn’t as distinctive on the East Side. The nominees also include Diverse as they are, all five projects sprang another nominee, Artie’s Filling Station, as Artie’s or the Armory, but it promises to a humble East Side duplex restored to crafts- from local impetus and involve local play- 127 W. Grand River Ave., on the extreme anchor Old Town’s west edge and extend a man-solid form, a joyfully gardened-up down- ers. Even the biggest of the projects nomi- west fringe of Old Town. Dale Schrader of vibrant handshake to the near west side. town law office in a historic house and a blocky nated, developer Pat Gillespie’s $5.2 mil- Lansing put more than $140,000 into the “It’s not the button or the zipper, it’s the green hulk tamed into mixed-use service on lion, 38,000-square-foot renovation of the 260-square-foot filling station, built in 1925 urban fabric, and you need to encourage the west fringe of Old Town. Marshall Street Armory, is a hometown as Pulvers Brothers Filling Station but der- that too,” Bollman said. Three of the five nominees will be award- job. Gillespie grew up near the armory and elict since the 1960s. It’s now a coffee shop. Another thing all the nominees have ed custom-made Pewabic Pottery plaques played on the big guns out front. From wed- “That’s the one that jumps out at me the in common is that they have the potential and will celebrate their win with neighbor- dings to swap meets to circuses, the Armory most, only because of the state it was in,” to transform their surroundings, and the hood porch parties. Both the plaques and had countless military and civilian ties to the Bollman said. “The other buildings needed Walker Building is a classic example. the parties will be funded by Preservation surrounding community. When the National work, but this was really bad.” “These nominations were chosen because Lansing, courtesy of a $2,300 grant from Guard phased it out, Gillespie played fort Winans also singled out Artie’s as a “labor they function as a sort of anchor for their the Michigan Association of Realtors. with a vengeance, turning the Armory into a of love.” neighborhoods,” Winans said. “That corner is The awards ceremony will be Oct. 24 at headquarters for nonprofit organizations and “He used historic information on similar a gateway going into Old Town. Those kinds of a historic Lansing location yet to be deter- a home for his own development company. service stations to restore the original terra gateways can make or break a neighborhood.” mined. A Preservation Lansing member cotta roof and little details like the electric said the ceremony will have a steampunk Muylle’s labor of love lights suspended around the perimeter of The good steward theme, with entertainment by the Lansing At the other end of the spectrum from the building,” Wianns said. The Alane & Chartier law firm, 403 Gillespie’s high-profile Armory make- Public-private mega-projects like the Seymour Ave., was nominated to illustrate over, homeowner/restorer Dave Muylle’s $140 million Ottawa Power Station reno- yet another aspect of preservation. The 18-month labor of love to restore a 1915 vation a few years ago produce significant office is a Queen Anne style mansion over a duplex at 127-129 Leslie St. is just one in a ripple effects, Winans said, but so do small century old, once home to Michigan State long series of projects completed by the qui- jewels like Artie’s. University benefactor Frederick Jenison and later the headquarters of the American Lung Association, so it never went to seed like some of the other nominees. But Preservation Lansing wants to encourage ongoing stew- Free ardship as well as dazzling makeovers. Free Maintenance isn’t glamorous, but 37 Preservation Lansing member Gretchen Cochran said that’s the way to keep a build- ing from ever needing a restoration costing tens of thousands of dollars. Cochran, a west side neighbor to the law firm, has watched Chartier and her col- leagues work hard on the exterior. “They Meditation hauled mountains of ivy off the sides,” Quan Am Buddhist Temple Cochran said. “They cleared tons of weeds, Every Thursday 7-8:30 p.m. including poison ivy, from the foundation, 1840 N. College Rd., Mason, MI 48854 re-landscaped the grounds to facilitate prop- Everyone welcome - For information: er drainage away from the building.” Call: (517) 347-1655 or (517) 853-1675 quanamtemple.org — Lawrence Cosentino City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 9

Sam Inglot/City Pulse An empty hallway in Bingham Elementary School. The location is a prime piece of real estate situated just off Michigan Avenue and directly across from Sparrow Hospital. The empty halls of the Lansing School District

By SAM INGLOT is overgrown with weeds, the remnants And if enrollment does stabilize, what With the first week of school underway Northwestern Elementary School, just of a baseball field and backboards with can the cash-strapped district do with and the dust settling on the new district- south of the airport, looks more like a no hoops surround it. The windows are its vacant buildings, which also include wide reconfiguration, school officials say crack house than a school. The building, boarded up and are covered in graffiti, Moores Park Elementary, Bingham they are ready to tackle the real estate which has sat vacant for nearly a decade, same with the walls. A small tree also has Elementary, Otto Middle School and situation. is a sharp contrast to the surrounding sprouted up in front of one of the doors, Wainwright Elementary? The district neighborhood of modest homes. a testament to how long the building has owns 62 buildings and properties in total, The committee Francisco Ramirez, who has lived across gone unused. The building looks like it and administrators are trying to come up Moores Park Elementary closed in from the vacant building for 15 years, belongs in a burnt-out urban wasteland, with a plan. 2009, Northwestern has sat vacant since says the place is an eyesore and attracts not a Lansing neighborhood. “When you look at the size of the Lansing 2003. The three most recent closings of hoodlums. Ramirez’s opinion on the building is School District and all of the real estate Bingham, Wainwright and Otto are the “The rest of the neighborhood is really similar to that of his neighbors: It looks both used and unused, it’s a big thing to result of a new district reconfiguration nice. The school district cuts the grass terrible and something needs to be done wrap your mind around,” said Myra Ford, that also included the closing of Elmhurst. but other than that the building looks about it. In his opinion, the district should president of the board of education. Although Elmhurst will no longer serve really bad,” he said. They took down the turn the site into a community center or Ford said the district needs to get as a school building for kids, Lansing basketball hoops years ago because people library. moving on what to do with the growing School District Superintendent Yvonne were just “hanging around.” Northwestern is one of five vacant number of vacant buildings so they don’t Caamal Canul said the building has been The police were called several times buildings owned by the Lansing School become a nuisance to communities. repurposed into a centralized location for over the years because kids had broken District and part of a larger dilemma: “We need to move in a serious direction. district services. It now holds the parent into the building, Ramirez said. What will happen to excess property Where do we need to be in 10 years? What resource center along with the Retired and The empty brick building, which was if district enrollment continues on its is going to be our high school population? Senior Volunteer Program. built in 1939, sits on a six-acre plot in downward trend? The building inventory Which elementary buildings are aging northwest Lansing. Playground equipment is too large for the number of students. out? We need a plan in place,” she said. See Empty Halls, Page 10

Bingham Elementary School Otto Middle School Wainwright Elementary School Moores Park Elementary Northwestern Elementary 121 Bingham St. 500 E. Thomas St. 4200 Wainwright Ave. 316 Moores River Drive 2908 Andrew Ave. 28,232 sq. ft. 219,397 sq. ft. 41,322 sq. ft. 29,281 sq. ft. 20,894 sq. ft. The building is a "prime location" as the The huge building on the north side is by The former magnet school on the south In the shadow of south Lansing smoke The worst looking building of the bunch. eastside school is located right off Michigan far the largest closed school building. The side is an ideal location for a community stacks and placed right in the middle of a Forlorn recreation areas and untamed shrubbery Ave. and directly across from Sparrow Otto Health and Wellness Center is still run center. The Black Child and Family Institute neighborhood the land would be a hard sell surround the building, which is near the airport. Hospital. Michigan Public Health Institute, a out of a small portion of the building but it said if their charter school idea comes to for commercial purposes. The site was Residents say the property is an eyesore and nonprofit, is looking to possibly develop the too will soon be closed and replaced by a fruition, the building would be a great place proposed to MPHI as a possible alternative attracts delinquents. Nothing is official but there site into a health-focused charter school. school-based clinic in Eastern High School. to house the operation. to Bingham Elementary. have been conversations about demolishing it. 10 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012 Empty Halls

from page 9 Repurposing and the sale or lease of district-owned properties has happened in the past, but with a new administration comes a new way of doing things, said Sam Sinicropi, the district’s assistant superintendent of operations. He said the administration is setting up a real estate committee to analyze the property assets of the district to come up with a plan for how to tackle the vacant buildings. The Board of Education decided to take all properties off the market earlier this year in order to assess the values, so the few building inquiries Sinicropi has received have been minimal. Natural Healing “I haven’t had many lengthy conversations. I’ve had email & Wellness Solutions inquiries and some calls, but Sam Inglot/City Pulse ACC I’ve mainly said, ‘Look, nothing John Krzystowczyk of Michigan Energy Options (top) Alternative and Complementary Care, Inc. is for sale right now. Keep checks out a ceiling crawl space in the old Genesee your eyes and ears open,’” he School as Bob Tinker of Archiopolis and David Meeder said. “I’m very anxious for the of Michigan Energy Options look on during an energy committee to come up with audit of the building. The building, which still houses A full-service wellness center offering natural solutions plans because we need to for some non-profits and community groups, needs for healing and wellness through a variety of services, the city. Hopefully we’ll have extensive repairs and may soon be vacant. some recommendations in the products, classes and workshops, including natural coming months, maybe even a health assessments, homeopathy, massage, reiki, cranial month.” The real estate committee will be made proper maintenance and a vision for the sacral, pranic, reflexology, hypnotherapy, t’ai chi ch’uan, up of administration officials, Board of building after it closed led to the building’s Education members and people from the looking the way it is. auricular acupuncture, yoga and much more. community with real estate experience, he “That was the problem with said. Northwestern,” she said. “It was closed “As a board and as a district, we need years ago, and back then they did not to decide what it is that we want to keep, do what they needed to do to keep it Whether you have minor issues such as tight muscles, what we want to keep up for the future and from getting to the point where it’s not what is it that we think we’re not going to habitable. We don’t want to do that with headache or general fatigue, or you’re dealing with use again,” Caamal Canul said. “You can’t any buildings again — it doesn’t make a serious and chronic illness such as cancer, ACC make those kinds of decisions until you sense to do that.” know everything that you have. Right Ford called the building “hazardous.” provides natural solutions to help each person’s now the real estate committee is working Caamal Canul hopes that with the individual situation. on what we have and what everything is formation of the real estate committee, worth.” Northwestern will be the last school to sit The first step the real estate committee vacant and unkempt for so long with an will undertake is assessing the value of the undecided fate. properties, she said. The administration “Northwestern is one of those wants to get an outside appraiser to take properties that because there hasn’t been on the task. a real estate committee, it just sat there “I would not want a buyer to think that and languished,” she said. “Now we really we’re so helpless and needy that we’d sell need to do something about it. Do we anything for any price just to have the give it to the Land Bank? Do we raze it? money,” Caamal Canul said. “That’s not We’re not going to use it as a school. We how we want to approach our stewardship know what the trend data says and we of the taxpayer’s property.” have neighborhoods that are not being populated with children.” Some thoughts on the schools Both Ford and Caamal Canul talked Northwestern is the token eyesore of the about the possibilities of tearing down the cluster of closed schools. Board President building. 617 Ionia Street, Lansing 517.708.8510 Ford said the district didn’t do what it Otto Middle School, which is on the needed to do to prevent the building from north side between Turner and Larch www.massageandwellnesslansing.com falling into disrepair. She said a lack of See Empty Halls, Page 11 City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 11

Sparrow Hospital. Empty Halls The founder of BCFI, Barbara Roberts Mason, told the board at a mid- from page 10 August school board meeting that the organization is pursuing a planning grant streets, was closed during the district to formalize the charter idea, which aims reconfiguration. The enormous building is to help at-risk kids, and will then pursue still being used for its community health an authorizer (she said they hope it’s the clinic, though that will probably change in Lansing School District). Mason said that the near future with a school-based clinic the recently vacated Otto and Wainwright opening this fall at Eastern High School, school buildings would be “acceptable” Caamal Canul said. accommodations for the program. “We’re still debating what we’re going As for selling or leasing the properties to do with Otto. It’s a huge building, it’s after values are determined and they are put really a nice building, has some great back on the market, Caamal Canul said the qualities and has a lot of space,” she said. district has to think about whom they sell “We have to look to the future. We have to it to and how a proposed use will reflect on always think: Just because a school loses the district. In the Walnut Neighborhood enrollment does not mean that facility, west of Old Town, the small up-and- that building, can’t be functional for coming business Niowave renovated the another purpose.” vacant Walnut School in 2006. Neighbors and city officials have praised Niowave for Wainwright is a neighborhood school Sam Inglot/City Pulse rehabbing the building and improving the just like Moores Park, Caamal Canul said, Lansing Board of Education President Myra Ford (left) and Superintendent Yvonne Caamal which will factor in to how the district neighborhood overall — until the company Canul chat with district staff before a press conference on Thursday. They said a real estate built an unsightly 14,000-square-foot pole decides to deal with it. committee is being formalized to tackle the district’s vacant property situation. “It’s a complicated site,” she said. barn without neighborhood input and “It’s right smack dab in the middle of a attitudes changed. neighborhood, so for commercial property has trained 12,000 people and given away space filled would be ideal, Caamal Canul “A lot of people might be interested, it’s a little difficult to sell. We would much 5,000 computers.” and Ford said there are a lot of logistics to but we also have to think, ‘Are you the rather have it as a community center or He said the building used to host an figure out before delving into the realm of right buyer?’ What someone is going to some place where kids could go.” early childhood program, a WIC office charter schools. do with our property says a lot about what and senior services. If the building were MPHI proposed the idea of an “Eastside we value as important development,” she Add Genesee to the list? to close, he said, there are “elements” of Health Academy,” which MPHI officials said. “We have to think about that because Until recently, the Genesee School was the neighborhood that could take over. said would be ideal for the now-vacant we are stewards — we’re not a corporation the home of the Black Child and Family He said homeless people and drug addicts Bingham Elementary School across from that can just decide without public input.” Institute (now known as Building Child might move into the enormous building and bring the whole neighborhood down. and Family Initiatives) since 1986. Due CAPITAL AREA DISTRICT LIBRARIES to funding issues and a growing list of Jefferson led an energy audit this maintenance concerns, the community weekend with contractors from the What’s small enough to fit in your wallet, outreach group packed up its belongings Lansing Board of Water and Light as well and moved temporarily to the Foster as other organizations interested in the but BIG enough to change your life? Community Center. The group had a fate of the building. cushy, $1 a year lease with the district. “It would take months to tear this But with the possibility that more building down,” said Bob Tinker of A Library Card! tenants may leave the Genesee School, Archiopolis, a commercial energy auditor. 835 W. Genesee St., which needs extensive “We don’t want that. They don’t build them like this anymore, but any old building is repairs, the fate of the building grows In September your CADL more uncertain. It may soon join the list going to require a lot of work.” of closed buildings. Tinker’s report on the building would card is more valuable than BCFI was one of several community be available in four to six weeks, he said. organizations that occupied the building. BWL’s walk through Genesee is part of a ever. Use it to enter prize Other outreach groups, like Closing the pilot program aimed at specifically helping drawings at the library, Digital Gap, Greater Lansing African nonprofits with energy audits. American Health Institute and Veterans Although the fate of the building is plus get discounts from yet to be determined, Caamal Canul Helping Veterans, are still there because these local businesses: they have summer programs that continue said the district may be able to help out into the fall, which the district allowed the organizations that remain with work them to wrap up, Sinicropi said. space. • Biggby Coffee on West Ottawa St. in Lansing “What we did is we struck a deal and “Since we do have space already in said, ‘Look, we don’t want to throw you some buildings, I think that we would be • Cravings Popcorn in Old Town out on the street,’” he said. “All (the district probably willing to say to them, ‘Hey listen, • Edru Skate-A-Rama in Holt does) is cut the grass.” we’ve got space over at Woodcreek or we’ve • City Limits Bowling Center in Mason Marcus Jefferson is the executive got space at Sexton if you want to relocate,’’ director of Closing the Digital Gap, she said. “We’d be happy to look at that. Don’t have a card yet? Get one—or renew an expiring one—at any a Genesee-housed organization that We’ve been talking about that internally.” CADL branch and receive a free popcorn coupon from NCG Cinemas! provides computers, Internet access and computer training to low-income Moving forward: charter schools? residents. His organization is one that Three organizations looking to start Get Your Card Today! would like to remain in the 100-year-old charter schools, including the Michigan building. Public Health Initiative and Building Child Visit any CADL branch or “No one wants the building closed. It’s and Family Initiatives, have approached been an asset to the community for years,” the school board with interest in some of cadl.org/getacard for details. he said. “In the last 12 years my program the vacant properties. Although having the 12 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012

Arts& Culture art • books • film • music • theater There’s popcorn in 2012-2013 THEATER the orchestra pit PREVIEW Celebrity guest directors, film adaptations make for a diverse upcoming theater season

By CHRISTOPHER HORB theater ensemble, Courtesy Photo Spielberg shares equal stage time with which closed two years “American Idiot,” the punk rock opera Shakespeare (sort of) in this diverse the- ago. based on Green Day’s 2004 album of the ater season that tries to leave no audi- “It was a nice break same name, pounds into the Wharton ence behind. This season’s crop of choices but we’ve realized we Center in April. includes heavy hitters such as McNally, just can’t stop doing Chekhov and the Bard himself, but there theater,” he said. are also new voices giving Lansing-area theatergoers a more contemporary expe- Lansing rience. That includes over a dozen shows Community College with Hollywood counterparts as well as a LCC's Performing brand new theater company serving up a Arts Department little sauciness. will work overtime to include an extra pro- All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre duction in the lineup Just because this season’s theme is — the season opener, “Exploring Our Roots,” artistic director “Vigil.” The black com- Miranda Hartmann says that doesn’t mean edy is directed by and the company is above trying something new. stars Emmy Award- All-of-us will stage its first musical next July, winner (and Lansing “Aladdin & His Wonderful, Magical Lamp.” native) Timothy “It’s a nice little milestone for us, said Busfield. Production Hartmann. ”The last few years there have coordinator Melissa been a lot of kid-friendly musicals coming Kaplan says she was on the market, and we saw an opening.” thrilled at the chance Also new to All-of-us this season: “The to host a performer of Beatles Slept Here,” a whimsical story Busfield’s caliber. steeped in the music and mythology of the “It’s a really cool iconic rock band. The company returns to project all around,” she said. “It’s dark but Measure,” a satire on duty and religion Over The Ledge Theatre Co. more familiar territory with the fairy tale it’s very witty and it’s a tour de force for the that he’s hoping to stage in “a church-like Executive director Joe Dickson says his double bill of “The Princess and the Pea” actors.” setting,” as an example. Meanwhile, new company — which debuted last November and “Rapunzel.” The show was made possible through a shows will include “U.P.,” about a man seek- and is still enjoying a successful first season Heart of Student Success Grant, which sup- ing answers in the titular peninsula, and — is hard at work planning a full slate of Ixion Ensembe ports new productions. LCC’s season lineup “The Lady Victory,” an adaptation of Jane shows for next year (possibly as early as this This debut season will feature just a pair also includes the musical “Ragtime,” the Taylor poetry. winter). Meanwhile fans can tide them- of shows designed to whet appetites for a Shakespearean tragedy “Titus Andronicus” selves over by catching this season’s final full slate next year, according to artistic and the horror-film spoof “Slasher.” Mid-Michigan Family Theatre show, “The 25th Annual Putnam County director Jeff Croff. Director Bill Gordon points to a pair of Spelling Bee,” which bows this weekend. “We’re offering an additional perspective Michigan State University upcoming shows as illustrations of the stark to local theater,” Croff said. “We’re putting This year’s theme of (NEW) Plays in contrasts visible this season. The futuristic Peppermint Creek Theatre Co. an emphasis on collaboration by recruiting New Ways couldn’t be more appropriate. “The Giver” is inspired by Lois Lowry’s dys- To celebrate its tenth anniversary, storytellers from all disciplines.” In fact, Rob Roznowski, the program’s head topian children’s novel about kids fighting Peppermint Creek is presenting a lineup of Croff is hoping to encourage new works of acting and directing, says the season is for individual freedoms in an oppressive premieres under the banner “Dare To Dream” through what he calls “The Wheel,” a writ- going to be something of an experiment. society, while “Woods” is a fractured fairy — a theme that ties all the shows together, ers' group that will develop new concepts in “The renovations (inside the MSU tale featuring characters from Three Little according to founder Chad Badgero. staged readings and, ultimately, new pro- Auditorium and Fairchild Theater) are Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. “The “All the characters are dreaming of ductions. forcing us to rethink our performance Giver” was chosen partly due to the name something more,” he said. “But it’s also a The ensemble’s first shows are the spaces,” he said. “We’re trying to find loca- recognition of the popular novel. commentary on us as company. It’s gotten Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Topdog/ tions specific to each production and ask- “So many middle-school age kids loved us thinking about the places we still want Underdog” and the irreverent disco musi- ing ourselves how can we do these shows in that book growing up,” he said. “The show to go.” cal “Saucy Jack & the Space Vixens.” Croff is unique ways.” has a small cast with lots of complexity to The troupe’s mission — to produce no stranger to the area theater scene, hav- Roznowski pointed to November’s pro- the staging and we thought it would be ing previously headed up the Icarus Falling duction of Shakespeare’s “Measure For appealing.” See Theater, Page 14 City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 13

Photo by Luke Anthony Photography THEATER GUIDE “Spring Awakening” appears at WHAT'S PLAYING AND WHERE Riverwalk this fall.

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AECT = All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre, allofusexpress.org, (517) 333-2580 ext. 0. IE = Ixion Ensemble, ixionensemble.com, (517) 775-4246. LCC = Lansing Community College Theater, lcc.edu/showinfo, (517) 483-1488. MMFT = Mid Michigan Family Theatre, mmft.net, (517) 339-2145. MSU = Michigan State University Theatre, theatre.msu.edu, (800) WHARTON. PC = Peppermint Creek Theatre Co., peppermintcreek.org, (517) 927-3016. youth trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes in this Tony Award-winning musical. Apr. 9-11. RT = Riverwalk Theatre, riverwalktheatre.com, (517) 482-5700. in this Tony Award-winning musical. Jan. “Catch Me If You Can” (WC): Musical SDT = Starlight Dinner Theatre, starlightdinnertheatre.com, (517) 243-6040. 15-20. adaptation of Spielberg’s film about the WC = The Wharton Center, whartoncenter.com, (800) WHARTON. “End Days” (WT): Comic and poignant exploits of a slippery con artist. Apr. 16-21. WT = Williamston Theatre, williamstontheatre.com, (517) 655-7469. story of a 16-year-old girl navigating the “The Beatles Slept Here” (AECT): pressures of love, loss and family. Jan. Whimsical children’s comedy inspired by All titles and dates are subject to change. Please call the theaters or visit their websites for updates and ticket prices. 24-Feb. 24. the Fab Four. Performance will be held at “In The Heights” (PC): Tony Award- Riverwalk Theatre. Apr. 19-28. winning musical depicting a Dominican- “Funny Girl” (MSU): Legendary musical with their faith in a Depression-era farming American neighborhood in New York City. about the poignant transformation of SEPTEMBER community. Dates TBA. Jan. 24-Feb. 2. famed comedienne Fanny Brice into a star. Apr. 19-27. “Spring Awakening” (RT): Teenagers NOVEMBER FEBRUARY navigate the twists and turns of sexuality MAY in this Tony Award-winning rock musical. “Little Women” (AECT): The Louisa May “U.P” (MSU): A Los Angeles man seeks life’s Sept. 13-23. Alcott favorite follows the March sisters’ answers in the Upper Peninsula. Feb. 5-10. “8” (PC): A one-night-only staged reading “Vigil” (LCC): Emmy Award-winner and emotional journey to womanhood. Nov. 2-10. “Princess and the Pea/Rapunzel” (AECT): about the legal battle over California’s Lansing native Timothy Busfield directs and “Ragtime” (LCC): Fictional characters A pair of classic fairy tales is brought to life Proposition 8, which sought to deny stars in this dark comedy. Sept. 14-23. mix it up with real-life 20th century onstage in this double-bill. Feb. 8-16. marriage rights to same-sex couples. “Three Sisters/Anton In Show historical figures in this Tony Award-winning “Sister Act: A Divine Musical Comedy” May 10. Business” (MSU): Anton Chekhov’s musical. Nov. 2-11. (WC): Musical adaptation about a zany “The Fox on the Fairway” (SDT): A tribute classic is paired with a modern comic tale “Good People” (PC): A single Boston lounge singer hiding out in a convent. Feb. to British farces featuring the stuffy denizens of three actresses prepping to appear in a mother struggles to stay afloat in an 12-17. of a private country club. May 10-18. staging of the play. Sept. 19-30. unforgiving economy. Nov. 8-17. “Sleuth” (RT): Deadly mind games ensue “10:53” (WT): A woman takes refuge in a “Boom” (WT): Offbeat comedy about a “Measure For Measure” (MSU): when a mystery writer seeks revenge on waiting room during a family medical crisis. lone scientist with plans to ensure the Shakespeare’s lesser-known satire his wife’s lover in this classic thriller. Feb. May 16-June 16. survival of mankind in anticipation of a centering on the travails of a neophyte nun. 14-24. “My Favorite Year” (RT): Musical about doomsday event. Sept. 20-Oct. 21. Nov. 9-21. “Oliver Twist” (MMFT): An orphan falls in the comic collision between a television “Ebenezer” (WT): Fifteen years after the with unsavory characters in this adaptation variety show writer and a faded matinee OCTOBER events of “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer of the Charles Dickens classic. Feb. 15-24. idol in the 1950s. May 30-June 9. Scrooge is reunited with “Tiny” Tim “The Lady Victory" (MSU): A group of “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” (RT): “Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson” Cratchit. Nov. 15-Dec. 23. teens grapple with issues of duty and family Black comedy about a spinster taking (PC): The seventh president is reimagined “The No-Hole Holiday” (RT): Family in a Catholic home for girls. Feb. 21-27. care of her manipulative mother. Dates as an emo rock star in this Tony Award- musical about the rivalry between TBA. nominated musical. Oct. 4-13. Halloween and Christmas. Nov. 23-Dec. 2. MARCH “Saucy Jack & the Space Vixens” (IE): “Slasher” (LCC): The set of a low-budget “Topdog/Underdog” (IE): Two African- Ribald sci-fi disco opera set in a bar at horror film becomes the scene of a real American brothers struggle to find their “The Curious Savage” (SDT): An the end of space. Dates and location TBA. series of murders in this dark comedy. way out of poverty in this Pulitzer-Prize- eccentric widow tries to outwit her greedy Oct. 5-13. winning drama. Dates and location TBA. stepchildren in this warmhearted family JUNE “James and the Giant Peach” (MSU): tale. Mar. 8-16. Roald Dahl’s fantastical journey is brought DECEMBER “The 39 Steps” (RT): Hitchcock meets “A Walk in the Woods” (MMFT):Legendary to life using puppetry. Oct. 12-21. Monty Python in this spy farce. Mar. 14-24. characters cross paths in this fractured “Anything Goes” (WC): Classic musical “War Horse” (WC): Acclaimed drama of “Compulsion, or The House Behind” (PC): fairy tale. June 14-23. depicts the zany antics aboard an ocean a young man’s World War I-era journey to Puppetry is used to enhance the story of a liner. Oct. 16-21. recover his beloved horse. Dec. 5-9. man’s obsession to bring “The Diary of Anne JULY “Advise And Consent” (RT): A Stages “Titus Andronicus” (LCC): Frank” to America. Mar. 21-30. of the Law series entry detailing the Shakespeare’s bloody take on the last days “Shirley Valentine” (WT): A working-class “Next To Normal” (PC): Acclaimed rock machinations and manipulations behind a of the Roman Empire. Dec. 7-9. housewife finds her worldview transformed musical about a family struggling with Senate confirmation hearing. Oct. 18-28. “North Pole Radio Hour” (MMFT): after taking a trip abroad. Mar. 21-April 21. mental illness. July 11-20. “Steel Magnolias” (SDT): Tough-but- Santa takes the stage in this riff on a “Tuna Does Vegas” (WT): The finale of tender Southern women bond over life’s ‘40s-style radio show. Dec. 7-16. APRIL the “Tuna Trilogy” finds the eccentric misadventures in a small-town beauty residents of a small Texas town on a shop. Oct. 19-27. JANUARY “Yankee Tavern” (RT): A post-9/11 New madcap excursion to Las Vegas. July “The Giver” (MMFT): Adaptation of York bar is the setting for a couple’s 11-Aug. 18. a Newbery Award-winning dystopian “August: Osage County” (RT): Darkly unsettling encounter with a conspiracy “Aladdin and His Wonderful, Magical children’s novel. October 19-28. comic tale of an Oklahoma family with some theorist. Dates TBA. Lamp” (AECT): The titular character “The Diviners” (RT): A charismatic serious skeletons in the closet. Jan. 10-20. “American Idiot” (WC): Green Day’s teams with a magical genie to fight evil in preacher and a gifted young boy struggle “Billy Elliot: the Musical” (WC): A British punk opera concept album is brought to life this musical fantasy. July 26-Aug. 3. 14 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012

friendly “The No-Hole Holiday” and adult- “Anything Goes” rides into the Wharton Williamston Theatre Theater themed Broadway hit “Spring Awakening.” Center next month, it will mark just According to artistic director Tony the second stop on the classic musical’s Caselli, change is in the air this season. from page 12 Starlight Dinner Theatre national tour. This season’s schedule “There’s nothing gentle about the “These are tough times and we wouldn’t also includes a host of cinematically upheavals going on in these shows,” he contemporary theater that addresses vital survive if we didn’t escape once in awhile,” themed Broadway favorites, includ- said. “All of these plays deal with sudden social issues — is exemplified by such said artistic director Linda Granger. “We ing the one-two punch of the Steven life-changing events and what you do when shows as “Next To Normal,” chronicling a get so many letters from people thanking Spielbergian “War Horse” and “Catch the universe says, ‘This is happening to you family’s experience with mental illness, and us for allowing them to forget their worries Me If You Can,” as well as “Billy Elliot: right now.’” “8,” a documentary play taken directly from for a bit.” The Musical” and “Sister Act: A Divine Case in point — the season-opener the trial record of the federal constitutional Accordingly, Starlight offers up Robert Musical Comedy.” It will also feature “Boom,” an eclectic comedy about college challenge to California’s gay-marriage-ban- Harling’s Southern comedic drama “Steel Green Day’s explosive punk rock opera students anticipating the end of the world. ning Proposition 8. Magnolias” as its season opener. The show “American Idiot.” There will also be two world premiere pro- Of the seven shows this season, three are continues to be a mainstay on the com- Marketing/communication direc- ductions by Michigan playwrights: Joseph musicals, which Badgero said was meant to munity theater circuit and ranked near the tor Diane Willcox is particularly excited Zettelmaier’s “Christmas Carol”-inspired raise an air of celebration. top of a Starlight poll gauging prospective for “War Horse,” which has earned much “Ebenezer” and Annie Martin’s comedy audience interest. name recognition after inspiring last year’s “10:53.” In both cases, the playwrights will Riverwalk Theatre “It’s dramatic but it’s also very funny at acclaimed film adaptation. The show is be working directly with the troupe to stage The season lineup includes 11 shows — times,” Granger said. “The bond between brought to life utilizing elaborate, life-size the plays. including three black box productions — these women and how they take care of puppets as the horses. “Generating new voices is such an that run the gamut from the farcical com- each other is very heartwarming.” “It’s extraordinary,” she said. “It’s only a important thing,” said Caselli. “We want edy of “The 39 Steps” to the high-minded few seconds before you accept these pup- audiences to know that if they keep com- “Advise and Consent.” Riverwalk will also Wharton Center pets as the real thing. Your imagination just ing, we’re promising to keep giving them serve up musicals, including the family- When the revival of Cole Porter’s takes over.” new stories.”

will battle the congestion. “All of our parking is torn up, so no Diva sings When festivals attack! matter which spot we chose it was going REO Town reinventing itself as place ‘where art is made.’ to be kind of a headache,” Wert said. “But we didn’t want to skip a year. We wanted the blues By RICH TUPICA even entering this sector of the city. Not to keep up the momentum from last year, Lansing songstress If you drive south on Washington what you’d call a prime location for a fes- but right now the street is only open for Square out of downtown Lansing, just tival, let alone one that features an art northbound driving.” orchestrates stylish beyond I-496 you’ll hit REO Town. At competition, live bands and a beverage Commercial association board mem- least, you used to. Now you hit a Road tent. ber Paul Holland has been Wert’s co- performance event Closed sign, a Sidewalk Closed sign, and, But REO Town unveils its Art Attack! organizer throughout the planning of to top it all off, an orange Detour sign festival anyway this Saturday, as part of both Art Attack! festivals. By RICH TUPICA with giant arrow pointing toward the a loftier idea to show some love to this “REO Town is an area on the cusp,” The blues has always been sodden in highway. often overlooked Lansing district. Holland said. “If you came down here gloom. Even the late gospel vocalist Mahalia A couple of grants are giving the area a “Our goal is to have Old Town as the a couple years ago, there wasn’t much Jackson once said, “Anybody singing the much needed street-and-sidewalk make- north pole and REO Town the south pole,” going on. Now you see all of this invest- blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.” But over — complete with bike lanes, bike said organizer Ryan Wert, who is also ment happening. I think the sights are that’s not true for Twyla Birdsong. racks and benches — but it seems like treasurer of the REO Town Commercial turning to REO Town.” Holland, 26, said “I’m rooted in the blues, that’s what the universe is conspiring against people Association, which hosts the event. “The that was enough motivation to ramp up really gets my heart pumping and brings idea is to make it this year’s festival, which also features me joy,” said Birdsong, who is performing more visually continu- fare from the REO Town Pub, Grand a unique event this weekend at Gregory’s ous.” He says hosting Grillin and Gator’s Grill. Children’s activ- Ice & Smoke. The Lansing-based song- festivals and opening ities will be hosted by Reach Art Studio. stress has gigged around Michigan for the Art Alley are efforts to “Last year we organized Art Attack! past two years, playing solo or with The help brand REO Town in just over two months and we still had Hoopties, her blues group that released as an arts-friendly around 500 people show up, plus there its debut disc “It Ain’t Never Been Easy” part of the city. were only six bands,” Holland said. “This last year. Birdsong’s throwback resonant The main attrac- year have 18, plus a much bigger area.” voice is similar to vintage soul originators tion of Art Attack!, While REO like Ruth Brown, Etta James and Irma now in its second Town is under- REO Town Art Attack! Thomas, but with bits of more contempo- year, is the Showdown going a renais- rary smooth R&B singers like Joss Stone in REO Town, a sance similar Saturday, Noon to 11 p.m. and Anita Baker. However, the 40-year-old Lansing’s REO Town district live-art competition to the one Old Corner of Malcolm X and singer’s roots are deep in gospel. which gives artists in Town once expe- Washington Avenue “I grew up in the church, and my mom a variety of media — rienced, Wert All ages, art area is free, is a minister,” she said. “I was about 8 years music area $5 in advance/$8 including photogra- said the two gate old when I started in the youth choir, but I phy, textiles and met- areas are not reotownartattack.com was very much in the background. The first alwork — six hours in any sort of greatlakescollective.com time I led a song I was about 16.” to complete a piece competition. He While sitting at the Gone Wired Café, in front of the audi- envisions REO Birdsong, who is also the mother of three ence. As for music, Town as “grittier,” and Holland agrees. teenagers, summed up her diverse sound. bands include the “There’s no reason to compete with “I want it to be the gospel-soul feel of Lansing Unionized Old Town,” Holland said. “People go the blues,” she said. “I’m always rooted in Vaudeville Spectacle, there to buy and appreciate art, but REO the blues, but the gospel has to come out.” P.H.I.L.T.H.Y. and Town is positioning itself to be the place When Sam Cooke transitioned from Courtesy photo Jory Stultz. Wert said where people go to create and experience An artist captures a view of REO Town at last year's Art Attack! he’s hoping people art. This is where it’s made.” See Birdsong, Page 15 City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 15

Biological tales WHOM City Pulse will inter- occur after concep- YOU view speakers com- tion, in the way genes LOVE ing to Michigan State are turned on or off at SPEAKER SERIES University for the specific periods of devel- semester-long “Whom opment, may have a role in You Love: the biol- sexual orientation. These changes are called ogy of sexual orienta- “epigenetic” (literally "above the genetic") and tion” speaker series. are influenced by the environment. Sexual ori- The series, organized entation may not be all about genetics. by MSU neuroscience Vilain Professor Marc Breedlove, What motivated you to pursue this will consist of academic experts from univer- kind of research? sities across North America who will support My first rotation as a medical student in Breedlove’s research that proves, in part, that Paris was devoted to the treatment of inter- homosexuality is natural. The speakers are sex children. Doctors were making all sorts being filmed for a planned documentary of life-altering decisions on behalf of these that Breedlove is raising funds for through children, with little more evidence than their a Kickstarter campaign. All lectures will be own beliefs. I was determined to understand held at 4 p.m. Mondays at MSU in Wells Hall how these children developed, how their Courtesy photo room 115B and are open to the public. brain was functioning, and what happened Twyla Birdsong will perform a blend of blues, jazz and gospel at a special event this Below is an interview with the first speak- to them later on in their life. One lingering Saturday night at Gregory’s Ice & Smoke in Lansing. er, Eric Vilain, a professor of human genetics question was whom they loved. And I start- at the University of California, Los Angeles, ed my research in this area. I was passionate to outdo a routine night at the bar. She who will speak on “Biological Tales of Sexual about it from day one, and I still can't wait Birdsong will be backed by Ed Fedewa on bass, Orientation.” to go to my lab every morning. Mike Eyia of Orquesta Ritmo on gui - from page 14 tar, Clarence “Booney” Dottery of Soul What is your lecture about? How crucial of a role does physical Xpress on drums, and saxophonist Brian Many people think sexual preference is appearance play in gender identity? gospel to secular in the mid-‘50s, he caught Lange. Local guitarist/vocalist Elden a choice you make growing up, or that oth- There is little evidence that physical appear- some grief from both sides. Birdsong Kelly opens the show. er people can influence. For example, they ance itself plays a role in the development of doesn’t want to fall into a similar trap, say- “A few years ago I went to Gregory's believe that early unpleasant heterosexual gender identity. There is evidence, however, ing that while she does have a spiritual side, because (Lansing saxophonist) Phil Denny experiences or being raised by a single parent that our gender of rearing — what our parents she is opened-minded about playing music. was playing,” Birdsong said. “I was sitting increases your chances of being gay. A conse- and peers consider us, either boys or girls — “When I first started singing the blues there with a couple of singer friends and I quence of this ignorance is that some people plays a much more important role. I performed at the Temple Club a lot,” she said, ‘Ooh, this would be nice. We should believe that sexual orientation can be changed said. “There was a lot of stigma around that do a Cotton Club-type show here. It could through willfulness or therapy. However, a lot What do you think are some of the because it used have a Billie Holiday vibe, with some blues of evidence points to a biological influence on worst things that have been done in An Elegant Evening to be a church, and jazz.’ Then recently I re-watched ‘Lady sexual orientation. the name of science to people with with Twyla Birdsong people didn’t Sings the Blues’ and got inspired by that. I study ambiguous sex, or "intersex,” in ambiguous gender? with special guest Brian Lange want to come. And on top of everything, Gregory’s is a which the genitals are not fully masculinized Probably the hubris of thinking that sex- Saturday, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. But I firmly great soul food restaurant and not many or feminized. A large clitoris, for example, ual orientation can be easily changed, based Gregory's Ice & Smoke believe the place people know that.” that falls between the statistical range of on dubious arguments. 2510 N . Martin Luther King is the people. If But Birdsong eventually offered up a female and male genitals. Blvd., Lansing. $15. you have good more diva-inspired motive for booking the What do you think this speaker series For tickets call 517-894-5137. people in there sophisticated night of music. Has your research turned up any could possibly do for the social per- with good ener- “A while back I’d purchased this beauti- surprises? ception of homosexuality? gy, that’s what matters. I want to expose the ful gown,” she said. “I never go anywhere We have studied a number of twins that It has the capacity to make all of us more music to everyone.” but I wanted to get it out just in case. I fig- have discordant sexual orientation — one is tolerant. What we don't understand scares us. Birdsong organized this weekend’s ured people would enjoy getting dressed up gay, the other is straight, but both have the event, called “An Elegant Evening with and having a night on the town with dinner exact same genome information — so how do For more information, including a link to Twyla Birdsong,” which she says is meant and a show.” we explain this? It is possible that changes that the Kickstarter page, go to whomyoulove.com. 16 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012 Float like a butterfly, sting like a Spartan

Lansing-area fighter “fighting childhood obesity” and “giv - takes on a new career ing kids something to do to keep them off the street” do little to conceal a not- working with youths so-furtive agenda: that street runs both ways. By HOLLY JOHNSON “They keep me out of trouble,” says It’s a sweltering late summer morn- Harris. “I just want to show them what ing, and a handful of Lansing-area kids I know. They give me something to do.” are spending the end of their respec- Harris runs his organization in the tive vacations jumping rope inside a Capitol City Boxing building, 2120 S. muggy boxing gym. A Kanye West song Cedar St. in the heart of Lansing. After thumping over the speakers is keeping wind sprints, today’s student program them in rhythm as their trainer, former is a shadowboxing-based workout, Mixed Martial Arts boxer Kolmarge which teaches proper boxing condition- Harris, paces back and forth, watching ing and positioning. The young train- intently. ees put on gloves and start unleashing “Now 25 times back and forth,” he some steam onto the heavy bags or shouts. The ropes hit the ground and into Harris’ padded hands — an activ- the kids sprint across the gym floor. As ity that appears to be highly favored by their friends have been sleeping in all the attendees. summer, these kids have spent their At first blush, Harris, a west side school break running, jumping, bob- Chicago native, is an intimidating fig- Holly Johnson/City Pulse bing and weaving under Harris’ strict ure. He has fighter written all over Kolmarge Harris (left) spars with Mike Morgan, a 15-year-old Lansing resident who attended boot camp-like regime. It’s one of the him: his unreadable stare, his com- Harris’ nonprofit fitness camp this summer. Harris, a Chicago native, started the camp this programs offered through the Lansing batitive stance, his imposing physi- summer as a way to fight childhood obesity and keep Lansing youths “off the street.” Spartans Youth Organization, a com- cal stature. He allows the kids to take munity-based nonprofit he founded their swings at him, but his eyes seem after he retired from boxing earlier this to capture every motion they make. It’s big, docile-looking dog — you assure training with boxing bags, his candor year. The organization’s syrupy goals of like watching a small child whacking a yourself that the situation is going to is downright disarming. be OK, but in the back of your mind, “It was a great way to release pent- you’re always kind of wondering. But as up anger,” he says. ”The bags can’t hit soon as Harris starts to speak about the you back.” art of boxing or the kids he works with, He began boxing at Windy City his tough demeanor bubbles into child- Boxing Club in Chicago when he was like excitement, his parries and thrusts 7 years old, fighting as an amateur for become lively hand gestures and his 18s years before going pro at age 25. In glare melts into an ecstatic smile. 2009, at the age of 34, he received his “Kolmarge mixed martial arts license and fought LSYO training wants to do so for three years before throwing in the Mon-Thurs 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. much and he towel this past June. Harris says his (enrollment now open) has so many lifelong passion for boxing has kept $40 per month ideas floating him humble, positive and controlled — To register, call (517) in his head,” features he wanted to pass along. After 894-8429 or email [email protected] says Doniele traveling to various gyms around the facebook.com/lansingsyo McDaniel, country, including Floyd Mayweather’s Harris’ partner Boxing Gym in Las Vegas, he realized and the organization’s vice president that Greater Lansing needed a space and secretary. “It’s my job to wrangle that could provide fitness programs them.” for children in a community-based McDaniel helps facilitate the pro- setting. grams, but said she mainly handles “We’ve got gyms that deal with ama- the “business side of things.” Sitting teurs and pro boxers, but we don’t have side by side, the two intently watch a lot of people here who are training the students running around the gym kids,” he said. Then, as if to demon- doing their exercises. Harris spouts strate that he’s not afraid to lay down words of encouragement to the pant- the law, he spins around and barks at ing students and McDaniel chats about the students. upcoming goals for the youth organi- “No cell phones, no talking, no jok- zation, including applying for grants. ing!” The students freeze, looking at There’s always economics to worry each other furtively. They seem to ask: about, such as funding new equipment, “Which one of us broke a rule?” Harris improved flooring and traveling to keeps them on edge for a couple sec- tournaments — as well as sponsorships onds, but then a gentle smile spreads — to consider. It would all play like a across his face. cheesy coach-saves-the-neighborhood He and McDaniel share a laugh, movie if Harris wasn’t so gosh-darned and the exhausted group of kids, now earnest. When asked how he started drenched in sweat, takes five. City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 17

your life, but you on air for station D95.2. “They hit on some still drive the car,” relevant things, and with the séances and A Paranormal activity she said. “If you group readings, you can see how everyone follow your chart, is connected to their spiritual life. They hit Clairvoyant convention comes to Lansing what you were the nail on the head for a lot of people.” meant to do in Not everyone who comes is looking for By TRACY KEY like your cup of tealeaves, you could always life can become a clues about when they will meet Mr. Right Gazing into my crystal ball, I can see solicit the advice of an expert at Maria’s superhighway.” or seeking commune with their long dead a gathering charged with mystery and Psychic Fun Fair this Sunday. The event will great aunt Gertrude. intrigue approaching. Yes, it is becom- “All the readers are very positive,” said Shaw feature a dozen “Things have changed — people have ing clear — there will be people emerging astrologer/event organizer Maria Shaw other psychic read- gone through a lot of chaos and crisis,” from the haze seeking guidance and direc- Lawson. “We’re not going to say you’re ers, each specializ- Lawson said. “Now people are asking me, tion. I’m sensing going to die or you have a hex. Our vision ing in specific styles of reading, such angel ‘When can I sell my house?’ ‘When will I be Psychic Fair the beginning of is to give hope and peace, and give you a cards, palm readings and rai ki. There will able to get a job?’ The economy has been many journeys. forecast for next three to six months.” even be a dedicated pet psychic present to low for so long that people have turned to Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. I can feel that it Lawson has participated in over 500 foretell Fido’s fortune. asking more about basic survival.” Hampton Inn of Lansing, 525 N. Canal Road, Lansing will be a day to psychic fairs during her 20-year career. “I thought it was a unique experience, In that spirit, Lawson feels that she is $5 admission, $10 per try new things. She has also written 10 books (in 11 differ- something to attend at least once in your providing a genuine service to the public, reading Maybe you should ent languages), written horoscopes for the life, even if you’re not a believer,” said radio and maybe — just maybe — giving a little Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult ask for a date with National Enquirer, appeared on television host Jenna “Kat” Poag, who had her first help where she can. (517) 214-4592 that hot co-work- and provided predictions for celebrities mystic encounter at one of Lawson’s fairs “We’re not here to take advantage of er you’ve been including Tony Danza, Taylor Swift and while scouting for potential clairvoyant anyone,” she said. “I can vouch for every- drooling over. Or Miley Cyrus. She uses the positioning of candidates to include as a psychic segment one — they’re legit.” perhaps it is time to switch to a career in the planets at the time of the client’s birth coal mining. to form her forecast, coupled with her own OK, full disclosure — I’m no clairvoy- sense of “intuition.” ant. But if getting your palm read sounds “Your astrology chart is like a map of FALL Spell check COLOR TOUR Quirky comedy gives middle Celebrate the Glorious Fall Foliage on a school ‘oddballs’ their moment in VINTAGE DIESEL the spotlight TRAIN RIDE

Courtesy photo By ALLAN I. ROSS The cast of "The 25th Annual Putnam County OCTOBER 6, 2012 If you show up this weekend for Over Owosso to Clare Spelling Bee," the Tony Award-winning the Ledge’s production of “The 25th musical which opens this weekend at Over Depart from Owosso, Michigan at 9:00am, with a planned arrival into Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” it the Ledge Playhouse in Grand Ledge. Clare at 12:30pm. Following a two hour visit of downtown Clare. might be a good idea to thumb through a dictionary real quick, or at least catch up Audience participation is obviously a fun- The passengers will board at 3pm for a scheduled 7:00pm return to Owosso. on the latest headlines on Huffington Post damental part of this production, so hav- COACH TICKETS $99 — you may just end up going toe-to-toe ing it in this setting really increases the with the actors. interaction and the fun.” “Every show we pick out four audience The Tony Award-winning musical is set OCTOBER 13, 2012 members to come up and play along with at a spelling contest, with most of the actors Mt. Pleasant to Cadillac the actors,” says playing tweens who are dealing with a vari- Board at 10:00am from Mt. Pleasant to the Steam Railroading Institute, Over the Ledge’s ety of adolescent problems. Actor Doak Bloss where we will travel to Cadillac, Michigan. Explore and stroll through Cadillac’s The 25th Annual artistic direc- plays one of the judges who, when prompt- Putnam County tor Joe Dickson. ed, defines words for the contestants and quaint downtown, and then board for an early afternoon return to the Mt. Pleasant. Spelling Bee “We’re looking for uses them in sentences. Basically, though, it’s Over the Ledge Theatre Co. those audience just a set up for word-related jokes and jabs ROUND TRIP TICKET - $75 Sept. 6-16 spellers.” at current events. 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Dickson says “The original script still has O.J. Sundays that this is one Simpson references in it, so we’ve had a OCTOBER 20, 2012 Ledges Playhouse his favorite musi- lot of fun updating it,” Bloss says. (In other Owosso to Alma 137 Fitzgerald Park Dr., cals, and thought words, don’t be surprised if a contestant Grand Ledge Board at 10:00am to the Railroading Institute where we will travel to $7 student /$10 senior /$12 it would fit well starts addressing an empty chair.) adult in his com - “One of the words we give is ‘mar- Alma, Michigan. Explore and stroll through Alma’s quaint downtown, and (517) 318-0579 pany’s Ledges riage,’” Bloss says. “When they ask for then board for an early afternoon return to the SRI. overtheledge.org Playhouse. the definition, I say, ‘A sacred institution “I saw between one man and one woman … ROUND TRIP TICKET - $75 (‘Putnam’) at Wharton a few years ago, except in Massachusetts, New York, New and I thought the space there was just Hampshire, Iowa and Washington, D.C.’” 405 S. Washington Street. P.O. Box 665 Owosso, MI 48867 too big for the show,” he says. “The Should be a hoot, as long as no R-E-P- 989.399.7589 www.michigansteamtrain.com Ledges Playhouse is much more intimate. U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S show up. 18 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012

US 127 & Lake Lansing Rd www.NCGmovies.com Nick Cave’s screenplay for ‘Lawless’ (517) 316-9100 Student Discount with ID suggests he oughta stick to music ID required for “R” rated films They used to write backwoods bal- by Jack’s cardboard characteriza- lads about men like the Bondurant tion. LaBeouf just can’t measure up to brothers, the Virginia moonshiners Hardy in any way as an actor: Hardy who built their own little empire during can express a multitude of meanings Prohibition. Unfortunately, instead of through a simple, guttural grunt and a picking up his guitar and cranking out well-timed squint, while you can prac- a tune about them, alt-rocker Nick Cave tically see flashing neon “VACANCY” turned to his word processor and wrote signs in the slack-jawed LaBeouf’s eyes a screenplay. in his many close-ups. Although it claims to be “based on Rather than illuminate the family a true story,” “Lawless” seems about as history or look into what life was like in authentic as a three-dollar bill, a pas- rural Franklin County in 1931, “Lawless” LANSING - OFF SOUTH CEDAR AT 1-96 tiche of blood-spattered brutality, sog- piles on even more plots and subplots. VISIT CELEBRATIONCINEMA.COM OR CALL 393-SHOW gy sibling-rivalry drama and a couple Here comes Maggie (Jessica Chastain), of go-nowhere romances that take up a former fan dancer who fled Chicago time without adding a whit of excite- to hide out as a cook and waitress at Courtesy Photo ment. the Bondurants’ café/gas station. Meet Musician Nick Cave’s screenplay for Cave’s story loses its focus faster than Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce, giving an “Lawless,” starring Jason Clarke, Tom a teenager after a couple swigs of white almost over-the-top performance that Hardy and Shia LeBeouf, falls flat. lightning. At first, “Lawless” seems to be further damages the film’s credibility), about the sullen Forrest (Tom Hardy), a special deputy whose dandified style Coming Soon the take-charge brother who oversees of dress and painstakingly perfect hair “Lawless” the same gritty-pretty look of to Schuler of Lansing the bootlegging business. Forrest has are offset by a dirty mouth and a dirtier his previous film, “The Road.” There’s a become a living legend in his neighbor- mind. subdued shimmer in the sepia shades Former Detroit Tigers hood for his ability to cheat death, and Still don’t have enough to keep track and dusty grays that saturate nearly Hardy instills the character with mys- of? Let’s welcome hot-tempered gang- every image, and when violence erupts, Publicity Director terious magnetism and meance. But ster Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman) and Hillcoat doesn’t hold back, presenting the potentially rich set-up deteriorates secretly rebellious preacher’s daughter a shockingly thorough throat-slashing, DAN EWALD quickly when it becomes apparent that Bertha (Mia Wasikowska, who is given a castration and numerous shootings Join us for another great Detroit Tigers we’re going to have to witness the com- nothing to do but look shy and curious) and stabbings. If only “Lawless” put as event with Michigan author and former ing-of-age of Jack (Shia LaBeouf), the to further complicate a tale that’s already much detail into its drama. Chastain Tigers Publicity Director Dan Ewald as he youngest of the Bondurants, an eager- on the verge of bursting at the seams. brings a bit of defiant spirit to Maggie, talks about his memoir Sparky & Me! but-wimpy kid who wants his own piece The yawn-worthy “don’t tell daddy” flir- but the woman remains nothing more of the action. Whatever excitement the tation between Bertha and Jack belongs than a copy of some stock character In the tradition of Tuesdays With Morrie, movie has built up in its first half-hour in another movie — one that no one Joan Blondell or Glenda Farrell played Dan Ewald pens a memoir of his friend- by focusing on Forrest is squelched should have to pay to watch. The mid- 75 years ago. ship with legendary Tigers manager dle Bondurant brother, Howard (Jason While “Lawless” looks sensational and Sparky Anderson, the man who taught Clarke), is written off as a boozy, pos- provides a few meaty scenes for Hardy him not only the nuances of baseball, but sibly shell-shocked WWI veteran while and Oldman, it’s hard to shake the the importance of life’s unwritten rules. Banner gets a major build-up, and then sense that the essence of this drama was Few sports figures, regardless of their abruptly drops out of sight. severely watered down somewhere along position, have generated as much good Director John Hillcoat gives the way. will as Sparky Anderson, the legendary manager for the Cincinati Reds and the Commerical & Residental Detriot Tigers. Sparky met author Dan For sale: items from 30 elections back to 1820! Ewald in 1979, and thus was born a life- Fully Insured long friendship not likely to ever be seen again in baseball. 1852 1936 $50 7 p.m. Wed. Sept. 12 $18 1922 1968 $10 1956 $6 1848 $8 $24 1964 $15 1940 $8 1972 Curious Book Shop $ 6 307 E. Grand River * E. Lansing Call Joan at: 332-0112 * we validate parking For more information, visit Newspapers, Buttons, Mon - Sat 10 - 8, Sun 12 – 5 www.schulerbooks.com (517) 485-2530 Brochures and more! www.curiousbooks.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 19

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Thinking, thinking, thinking. ing about a week before you ran a letter from a —Lighter In Loafers Q: I have been in Hey! Maybe it’s because the last time woman who was wondering about withholding a long-term relation- you caught her talking about you and your sex until her husband lost some weight. I told my A: As I said in my response to Like Boys ship with a wonderful relationship in a public online forum, YOU boyfriend not to have sex with me until I lost 15 Slimmer, if a couple can make the withhold- woman who doesn’t BLEW THE FUCK UP AT HER. Remember? pounds. It took me three and a half weeks to lose ing of sex into an erotic game that they’re have a lot of people You were angry then because she was talk- the weight, but it really strengthened our relation- both playing and both enjoying—and not an she socializes with in ing about you on the interwebs. And you’re ship. He was supportive of my weight-loss goals, he asshole move one partner is pulling—I could her daily life. She is a angry now that she isn’t talking about you on had an incentive to help me make healthier choic- maybe see this sort of arrangement working. DAN SAVAGE Burning Man person the interwebs. es, and it brought an erotic tension to the pro- And I’m pleased to hear that at least one cou- [email protected] and converses online If you’re looking for a reason why your girlfriend cess that we both dug. My only suggestion for ple out there was able to successfully eroti- with other “burners.” feels inhibited around you, HBM, maybe it’s the the woman who wrote you: Don’t tell people cize a diet by combining it with chastity play. I confronted her when I realized she was mixed signals. She gets in trouble for talking about about it! The people we told were angry at Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly pod- discussing the ups and downs of our relation- you; she gets in trouble for not talking about you. If my boyfriend for “withholding” sex unless I cast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. ship in a public online forum. She still hung your girlfriend feels like she’s going to be in trouble out on that forum, but her presence dimin- with you no matter what she does, HBM, then she’s ished. I assumed she was socializing in private going to feel inhibited around you. And she’s going Jonesin' Crossword By Matt Jones e-mails. A few months later, I discovered that to err on the side of sharing less of what she does she was actually moderating a different forum. with you. “Outside Protection”-- I deleted the site from my history and decided When your girlfriend gets back from Burning we’ve got this covered. to avoid it. Last week, while she was at Burning Man, HBM, here’s what I think you should say: “I real- Matt Jones Man, I checked out the forum she moderates, ize this makes me sound crazy, and maybe I am crazy. even though I knew I shouldn’t have. What I But remember when I was upset about you talking Across found was that she never mentions having a about me—about us—in that public online forum? 1 English homework list boyfriend, even when it might be relevant to Well, I stumbled on another online forum and you 6 Health gp. based in a discussion. I was never mentioned, not even weren’t talking about me. And that upset me, too.” Atlanta in passing. I don’t mind that guys compliment Acknowledge your insecurities, HBM, take 9 Like stray dogs 14 Wake Island, for one her, and I understand the benefits of positive some responsibility for the impact they may attention from the opposite sex. If she came to 15 Pet for Harry Potter have on her behavior, and then have a long 16 “The Path to the Nest of me and told me that is what she was seeking talk about how you can both enjoy a little Spiders” writer Calvino and that it was chaste, I would be fine with it attention from members of the opposite sex 17 FX show about a stand- as long as she made that clear to other forum without making the other person feel like up comic members. shit. 18 Crunchy stuff in a We are both attractive, and I get attention walkway at times from other women. I often mention Q: I’ve been dating someone for a little 20 Final Four gp. 22 A, in Austria that I have a girlfriend to avoid someone get- more than two months. After the second ting the wrong idea. I also feel like she saves 23 Kimmel competitor week, he was saying things like “We need a 24 He released the album the spontaneous, uninhibited, and adventur- word between ‘like’ and ‘love’ because ‘I like “So” ous part of herself for these people at Burning you’ doesn’t seem sufficient.” After weeks 28 FBI worker Man. Does it sound like she is cheating emo- of telling him to slow his roll, I agreed to 29 Half of an eternal tionally? How can I bring this subject up in make it official and stop dating and sleep- balance 62 Staff 10 In any way of 2012 a way that doesn’t make me seem like just ing with other guys because he wanted to 30 Pre-album collectibles 65 “Sex, Lies and Video- 11 Church passage 42 “Random” abbr. on a more of a depressing part of her life? I don’t “lock it down.” It’s been a week, and he’s 31 Faux ___ tape” actress MacDowell 12 “By the Time I Get to moving box 34 Limo driver’s big day want her to lose her outlet, but I feel like she still on Scruff and Growlr. I’m a little put 68 Poet Sylvia Phoenix” singer Campbell 43 Fourth Greek letter 36 Genetic messenger 69 ___ Soundsystem 13 2012 acronym akin to 49 Gift material for a sixth is not showing me the respect one should off because he was the one who pushed for show a partner of 10-plus years. material 70 Nag persistently “Be adventurous” anniversary exclusivity and the title of boyfriend. Should 38 From the beginning, 71 Electronics name 19 ___ Gnop (retro game 50 “Wouldn’t that be awe- — Her Burning Man I be concerned? Can hookup apps be part in Latin 72 Designer monogram of the 1970s) some...” of a healthy, monogamous relationship? 40 Trucker’s less-green under the Gucci label 21 “Just ___” (No Doubt 52 Kawasaki competitor A: I don’t want to alarm you unnecessar- Obviously a talk is needed. alternative to biofuel 73 “Find ___ and fill it” song) 54 Pale looking ily, HBM, but partnered people who go to — Sick of Scruff 44 Skipped the restaurant 24 Season 4 “Bachelor- 55 Business decision- Burning Man sans partner are typically plan- 45 “A curse on your Down ette” DeAnna makers family!” 1 He played Batman before ning to cheat cheat, not cheat emote. Casual A: Obviously. 25 Long-plumed herons 56 Sheer, smooth fabric 46 Being, to Berlioz George 26 Baby-dressing photog- 57 iPhone buys straight sex, like sandy ass cracks and seeing Maybe your boyfriend wants to cheat but my friend Eric naked, is a huge part of the 47 987-65-4321, e.g. 2 Prefix meaning “ear- rapher Geddes 58 Actress Ward doesn’t want to be cheated on—he wants his 48 102, way back when related” 27 Actor Morales of 59 Where Farsi is spoken Burning Man “experience.” boyfriend locked down, but doesn’t want to be 51 Furtive 3 Advice to the angry “NYPD Blue” 63 “And what have we But the kind of straight guy who goes to locked down himself—or maybe he thinks it’s 53 “___ was going to say 4 She “Doesn’t Live Here 31 Stamp when there here!?!” Burning Man for casual sex—and the art too soon to delete his online personal profiles. before you interrupted Anymore” aren’t enough stamps 64 The “bad” cholesterol, and the experience and the transcendence— Or maybe, like a lot of gay men, he treats hook- me...” 5 Like the eyes of the 32 Reluctant (to) for short doesn’t give a shit if the girls he fucks have up apps like a virtual gay bar, i.e., a place where 54 What a mom might sleep-deprived 33 Cirque du ___ 66 Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6 Good or bad figure? boyfriends back home. Or in the next tent. he can hang out and socialize with friends and picture a secretly-bratty 35 Hosp. scanner 9 ___ Minor kid to be 7 Insignificant sort 37 “___ Wiedersehen!” 67 Announcer Hall Your girlfriend could post your picture to exes and, perhaps, get his flirt on now and then. Burning Man forums, mention you in every 57 Largest of seven 8 Missouri senator Mc- 39 Contest where you’d But if lurking on Scruff and Growlr makes 60 Blocked tic-tac-toe line Caskill face-to-face conversation she has, and wear a hear “chiaroscurist” his newly locked-down boyfriend feel inse- 61 Friend, in France 9 Defunct space station 41 Tony-winning musical shirt with your picture on it everywhere she cure, he should stay off hookup apps. Or, if goes on the playa, HBM, and she’d still find he simply can’t give ’em up, your new boy- ©2012 Jonesin’ Crosswords • For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Ans wers Page 25 20 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012 Listings deadline is 5 p.m. the THURSDAY BEFORE publication. Paid classes will be listed in print at the cost of one enrollment (maximum $20). Please submit them to the events calendar at www.lansingcitypulse.com. If you need help, please call Dana at (517) 999-5069. Email information to [email protected]. SEPT. 5 You’re gonna want a Coney In the first in a series of lectures, Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives, MSU journalism Professor Joe Grimm will discuss Coney Island hot dogs. This lecture will cover more than common toppings, however — it will showcase how Michigan is the center of the Coney nation, something that Grimm documented in his 2012 book “Coney Detroit.” It will also cover how Coney restaurants are deeply rooted in Michigan’s blue-collar economy, going as far back as the 1920s and discuss the workers, immigrants working their way up the American economy, with many restaurants now run by third- and fourth-generation family members. 12:15- 1:30 p.m. FREE. MSU Museum Auditorium, 409 W. Circle Dr., East Courtesy Photo Lansing. (517) 432-3357. SEPT. 9 Party with a cause SINGLE TICKETS FOR This Sunday get a chance to party at the Potter Park WHARTON CENTER'S 2012-13 Zoo. Hosted by the Capital Area Down Syndrome SEASON NOW ON SALE Association and sponsored by Dean Transportation Most of Wharton Center’s 30th anniversary season and Grainger, there will be a variety of events went on sale Monday to the general public. Tickets throughout the day. Stroll through Potter Park with are now available for "Anything Goes," "War Horse," "Billy Elliot," "Sister Act," "Catch Me If You Can," and T.J. Duckett, Sparty and the Big Lug, and listen to the Green Day punk-rock opera "American Idiot." live music by Sudden Impact. There will also be lots Also available are tickets for the Blue Man Group, of family activities. The Centennial Group will host a jazz icon Sonny Rollins, the Ukulele Orchestra of free SecureChild photo ID booth, providing parents Great Britain, Mannheim Steamroller, Sir James with personal safety kits for their kids. Noon-4 p.m. Galway’s Legacy Tour, and the entire Act One Family Series. Wharton Center tickets are available for $12 per person, $35 per family. Potter Park Zoo. 1301 purchase online at whartoncenter.com and at the S. Pennsylvania Ave., Lansing. cadsa.org. Wharton Center box office on the MSU Campus in East Lansing. For more information, call (800) WHARTON or (517) 432-2000. Courtesy Photo Wednesday, September 5 Classes and Seminars Meditation. For beginners and experienced. 7-9 p.m. SEPT. 10 FREE. Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, 3015 S. Washington Ave., Lansing. (517) 351-5866. Community Yoga. Power yoga class. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Art from the Heart Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. This exhibit, running Sept. 7-25 and featuring contemporary and traditional art, is hosted by the MSU Federal Drawing Class. All levels welcome, with Dennis O'Meara. Credit Union and the Peckham Community Partnership Foundation. The Art from the Heart program provides professional, individualized instruction in the visual arts to artists with disabilities, Featured artists will display See Out on the Town, Page 22 and sell their pieces. The Peckham Community Partnership Foundation is committed to supporting the initiatives, Several items of fresh produce programs and services that help fulfill its mission of reducing or eliminating barriers to employment. Reception: picked daily from our field. 5-7 p.m. FREE. MSUFCU’s Headquarters Lobby. 3777 West Road, East Lansing. (517) 333-2424. • Tomatoes from our eld $.99 per lb., $8.95 half bushel • Green Peppers & Cucumbers 5 for $.99 from our eld • Hardy Mum Plants SEPT. 11 $4.99 each • Thistle Seed Be a part of “QuizBusters” $1.19 per lb. Mid-Michigan game show fans can be in the TV studio audience for the taping of "QuizBusters" at WKAR studios. • Cabbage $.25 per lb. Local personalities and community leaders from the arts, media, politics and theater will face off in team • Wild Birdseed Mix competition, battling for bragging rights in the 24th season opener of the local game show. "QuizBusters" host $.49 per lb. Matt Ottinger will ask questions and MSU's Sparty will be on hand to cheer on the teams. Two games will be played, with two different teams facing off for each game. This evening is part of the Evening at WKAR series, where community members are invited to learn more about, and be a part of, public broadcasting in mid- Farm Market 1434 E. Jolly Road, Lansing | 517.882.3115 Michigan. 7 p.m. FREE. Communication Arts & Sciences Building, 404 Wilson Road, East Lansing. (517) 353-5982. City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 21 turn it Down A survey of Lansing's musical Landscape By Rich Tupica Spartan Remix expects 1,000 Over 1,000 students are expected to fill the field Courtesy Photo outside of the MSU Auditorium for the annual Kenneth Thomas at The Loft Spartan Remix. The free, all-ages event features music from DJ Rod P — the official DJ for the Detroit Gories, Mudhoney and the Moldy Peaches. Opening the Pistons — Karen Rodriguez, Enrique Rosas Duet and Zain show is Catalina Wine Mixer. Shamoon and the Blat Pack. Dances will be performed by the Wednesday, Sept. 5 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan ASU African Student Union, FreQuency Dance Crew Ave., Lansing, all ages. $6, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. and the MSU Breakdance Club. Other attractions include DJ Kenneth Thomas drag queen Hershae Chocolatae, a Greek unity march, graf- at Lansing Beach party fiti artist Freddie Diaz and a visit from Sparty. This year’s Courtesy Photo theme is “What’s Your Ink?” The evening will cover World-famous DJ Paul Oakenfold once called Reverend Deadeye at Moriarty's the art of tattooing, paints, and various mediums of Kenneth Thomas “one of the most promis- ink while also recognizing cultural diversity and how ing young DJs in the electronic scene right now.” Friday, Sept. 7 @ The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, Free Rev. Deadeye it’s made up of diverse languages. Plenty of tents, from Thomas, a Detroit techno superstar, spins his $8 for 18 and over, $7 advance, $12 at door, 9 p.m. show at Moriarty's organizations like the LBGT Coalition, will be on-site melodic dance music Friday at The Loft. The night Big Willy drops second album The rustic sounds of Reverend Deadeye & His No with some cultural activities aimed at promoting diver- is dubbed “Endless Summer,” with those dressed in Man Gospel Band returns to Lansing next Tuesday, sity awareness. The Spartan Remix is hosted by the Office beach attire saving $2 off the cover charge. Beyond Local eclectic rock band Big Willy releases its second full- Sept. 11, for a free show at Moriarty’s. This Colorado of Cultural and Academic Transitions and the Lesbian, touring the world as a headliner and produc- length album, “Out for Trouble,” Sunday at an early Green native mixes raw blues, garage-rock and gospel into a Bisexual, Gay, Transgender Resource Center. There will ing, Thomas is also a talent scout for Perfecto Door show — doors open at 3 p.m. Opening the show is primitive blast of sound in the traditional “one man be free food, T-shirts, and a long board raffle. (Oakenfold’s label), promoting the renaissance Bad Gravy. Big Willy is rooted in the blues, rock ‘n’ roll and band” set up. According to his website, “Feet fer Thursday, Sept. 6 @ MSU Auditorium Field, 542 of the renowned U.K. trance label. Opening the some classic soul. “This record still has the Big Willy stompin, hands fer strummin', mouth fer shoutin'.” A Auditorium Rd, East Lansing, free, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. show is a long list of DJs, including Rob Perry, a sound that we’ve established, but the lyrics, the music, couple of his fan-favorite tunes include “Fuck the Devil” City Pulse hosts: fixture in the Lansing and Detroit-area elec- and the arrangements are on a whole new level,” said and “Drunk on Jesus.” Opening the show is local roots tronic music scene. While he first started front man Will Rideoutt. Since the band formed rock acts Dead Ben Rooster and The Leper Colony. Fans Teenage Slumber Party at Mac's dabbling in electronic music in high school, in 2004, it has shared the stage with the likes of of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash or the King Khan & The first in a series of upcoming City Pulse-hosted it wasn’t until 2008 that Perry performed his Tab Benoit and Larry McCray. It also record- BBQ show may want to stop by this gig. events happens Wednesday at Mac’s Bar when Teenage first live show at Mac’s Bar and soon become ed an episode of “Backstage Pass,” a doc- Tuesday, Sept. 11 @ Moriarty’s Pub, 802 East Michigan Slumber Party and Catalina Wine Mixer play an early, a regular performer. Also performing is Klees, umentary-style show aired on PBS. This Avenue, Lansing, 21 and over, FREE, 9 p.m. all-ages show. Headlining is Teenage Slumber Party, a Space, Craig D, Space Camp, host/MC Dean second album is a follow up to 2009’s “King Grand Ledge-based punk-rock duo made up of Dylan Cue, X Theory, AKDJ, MC Rain, Pep-Step, Mista Without a Crown.” Sowle (guitar/vocals) and Ariel Rogers (drums). The Mixta and Xaos. Limited $7 pre-sales are avail- Sunday, Sept. 9 @ Green Door, 2005 E. Michigan minimal sound is sloppy and poppy, sounding some- able in East Lansing at The Record Lounge or Ave, Lansing, all ages until 9 p.m., after 9 p.m. what like a confused mix between The Oblivians, The Flat Black and Circular. it’s 21 and over.

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Wednesday THURsday FRIday SAT UR DAY Colonial Bar, 3425 S. MLK Jr. Blvd. D.J., 9 p.m. Homespun, 9 p.m. Homespun, 9 p.m. Connxtions Comedy Club, 2900 N. East St. John Roy, 8 p.m. John Roy, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. John Roy, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Crunchy's, 254 W. Grand River Ave. Mighty Medicine, 10 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Exchange, 314 E. Michigan Ave. Tryst Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. The Firm, 227 S. Washington Square DnW Sound DJs, 9 p.m. Various DJs, 9 p.m. DJ Donnie D, 9 p.m. Grand Café/Sir Pizza, 201 E. Grand River Ave. Kathy Ford Band, 7:30 p.m. Karoake with Joanie Daniels, 7 p.m. The Avon Bomb, 8 p.m. Green Door, 2005 E. Michigan Ave. Dewaynes, 9:30 p.m. Second Nature, 9:30 p.m. The Smoking Jackets, 9:30 p.m. The Squids, 9:30 p.m. The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave. Twin Cats, 8 p.m. Kenneth Thomas, 9 p.m. The Wombats, 7 p.m. Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave. Bitch Please, 9 p.m. Cosmic Throne, 9 p.m. Moriarty's Pub, 802 E. Michigan Ave. Open Mic Night, 9:30 p.m. Lincoln County Process, 10 p.m. From Big Sur, 10 p.m. From Big Sur, 10 p.m. Rookies, 16460 S. US 27 Sammy Gold, 7-10 p.m. Water Pong DJ, 9 p.m. Karaoke dance party with DJ Klimaxx, 9 p.m. Live Bands with DJs & DJ Klimaxx, 9 p.m. Rum Runners, 601 East Michigan Ave. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 9 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 7 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 7 p.m. Unicorn Tavern, 327 E. Grand River Ave. Frog & the Beeftones, 10 p.m. Capital City Groove, 9 p.m. Capital City Groove, 9 p.m. Uli's Haus of Rock, 419 S. MLK Jr. Blvd. Various Bands, 9 p.m. Dr. Me, 9 p.m. Various Bands, 9 p.m. Waterfront Bar & Grill, 325 City Market Drive Mike Eyia Quartet, 7 p.m. Joe Wright, 7 p.m.h Whiskey Barrel Saloon, 410 S. Clippert St. DJ, 9 p.m. DJ, 9 p.m. TJ Thomas & the Kentucky Spirit, 9 p.m. TJ Thomas & the Kentucky Spirit, 9 p.m. Sunday 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. Monday 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. Tuesday 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. 22 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012

Okemos, 1982 Grand River Ave., Okemos. (517) 349-8840. Morning Storytime. All ages welcome for stories, songs, 482-4749. resurrectionlansing.org. Out on the town rhymes, and fun. 10:30 a.m. FREE. Delta Township District Nite Ride Around Town. 8-10 mile bike ride around Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014. Lansing, stop halfway for food and drinks. 5:30 p.m. from page 20 Thursday, September 6 Bananagrams Night. 7 p.m. FREE. Schuler Books & Music FREE. Beaumont Tower, MSU Campus, East Lansing. 1-3:30 p.m. $50 for 4 weeks. Gallery 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Classes and Seminars Lansing, 2820 Towne Centre Blvd., Lansing. (517) 316-7495. (517) 347-1689. Turner St., Lansing. Yoga 2XL. Learn to move with confidence. 7:15-8:15 Spanish Conversation Group. Both English and Spanish "American Daydream" Reception. Featuring Religious Freedom & Health Care. On how the p.m. $8 suggested donation. Just B Yoga, 106 Island will be spoken. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 artist Valentin Pulido. 6-9 p.m. FREE. Art Alley, 1133 S. Affordable Care Act requires coverage of birth control, Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Washington Ave., Lansing. (517) 898-4046. even for some religious institutions. 6-7 p.m. FREE. Pilgrim Eating Disorders Annonymous Meeting. 7- South Lansing Farmers Market. Locally produced food, 6th Annual Mayors' Ramadan Unity Dinner. Congregational United Church of Christ, 125 S. Pennsylvania 7:45 p.m. FREE. CADL Mason Library, 145 W. Ash St., youth activities and educational opportunities. 3-7 p.m. FREE. Grace Celebrating diversity and the Muslim culture, hosted by Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-7434. pilgrimucc.com. Mason. (517) 899-3515. cadl.org. United Methodist, 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing. (517) 482-5750. Virg Bernero and Diane Goddeeries. Proceeds of the After-School Youth Gardening Programming. QiGong & Tai Chi classes. Light exercises for those Jack Dempsey. Meet the award-winning author as event go to Greater Lansing Food Bank. Essay contest Youth Service Corps, ages 11-17, activities focusing on who have physical limitations, senior citizens or just he presents stories from "Ink Trails." 5:30 p.m. FREE. winners announced. 7-9:30 p.m. $25 per individual, $75 gardening, nutrition and community service. 3:30-5:30 need to unwind. 8 a.m. Up to $8. Just B Yoga, 106 Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame,213 per family of four. Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave., p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community GardenHouse, Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. W. Main St., Lansing. michiganwomenshalloffame.org. Lansing. (517) 483-4141. 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. Yoga for Beginners. With Gaby Kende, certified Table Benefit Dinner. Come enjoy a delicious dinner Grand Opening: Conquest Health Fitness yoga teacher and certified yoga therapist. 9:30-11 a.m. prepared and cooked on the farm by Jackie Cosner and Center. Enjoy a variety of activities, a meet-and-greet family. 6-8 p.m. $15. Floodplain Farms, 703 S. Francis, with Tom Izzo and other Spartans, and a 5K run. 4-7:30 Events FREE new students. Center for Yoga, 1780 E. Grand River Lansing. (616) 502-8265. p.m. FREE. Conquest Health & Fitness Center, 15500 Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. Grand Ledge Baptist Ave., East Lansing. (517) 351-6640. center4yoga.com. Chandler Road, Suite 2, Bath Township. (517) 641-4348. Church, 1120 W. Willow Hwy., Grand Ledge. (517) 256-6954. Lowe's South Side Cruise-In. Open to classic conquesthealthandfitness.com. Practice Your English. Join conversations and cars, trucks, hotrods & motorcycles. 6-11 p.m. FREE. Theatre Land Use Lunch. Join the Mid-MEAC for a discussion practice speaking and listening to English in a friendly, Lowe's Lansing, S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 699-2940. "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." on personal property tax in Michigan. Noon-1 p.m. $5 relaxing atmosphere. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Lansing Area South Codependent Anonymous The Tony award-winning musical comedy set in a middle suggested donation. Central United Methodist Church, Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Meeting. 7-8 p.m. FREE. Community Mental Health school auditorium. 8 p.m. $12 adult, $10 senior, $7 215 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing. Allen Street Farmers Market. Fresh fruits and Building, 812 E. Jolly Road, Lansing. (517) 672-4072. student. Ledges Playhouse, Fitzgerald Park, off Jefferson vegetables, meats, crafts, activities and more. 2:30-7 Water Media. All levels welcome, with Donna St., Grand Ledge. (517) 318-0579. p.m. FREE. Allen Neighborhood Center, 1619 E Kalamazoo Randall. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $50 for 4 weeks. Gallery Auditions for "Little Women." Children, ages Music St., Lansing. (517) 485-4279. 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., Lansing. 9-18, needed for All-of-us Express Children's Theatre's Grand River Radio Diner Concert. Featuring Marie Rose Teen Night at Spiral. Wtih DJ Alabama from 97.5. Ages Teen Time. A variety of drop-in activities for teens, production of "Little Women." For those preparing to and The Swiss Kicks & Dave Samano.Noon-1 p.m. FREE. Grand 14-18 can dance in a safe and fun environment. 7 p.m.- 5th grade or older. 4 p.m. FREE. Dewitt District Library, audition, scripts can be checked out at the ELHCC Cafe/Sir Pizza, 201 E. Grand River, Lansing. (517) 483-1710. midnight. $10. Spiral Dance Bar, 1247 Center St., Lansing. 13101 Schavey Road, DeWitt. (517) 669-3156. front desk. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10 scripts. Hannah Community Sammy Gold. '80s pop rock. 9 p.m. FREE. Buddies Pub (517) 371-3221. [email protected]. Composting for Beginners. Learn how to start Center, 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 319-6963. & Grill, 1937 W. Grand River Ave., Okemos. (517) 347-0443. MSU Choral Union auditions. Auditions for the your own compost bin at home. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Grand River Band. Performance featuring The Grand 2012-2013 season will be in Room 147. Come prepared to Southside Community Center, 5825 Wise Road, Literature and Poetry River Band. 6 p.m. FREE. Fay's Evelyn Bay Coffee, 134 S. sing the first verse ofThe Star Spangled Banner. 6 p.m. FREE. Lansing. (517) 374-5700. Storytime With Ms. Deb. Ms. Deb will read three Cochran Road, Charlotte. facebook.com/FaysEvelynBay. MSU Communication Arts and Sciences Building, MSU Explore Your Personal Vision for Career books on the topic of the week and do a craft. First Friday. Live music featuring Abbey Hoffman. 7-9 campus, East Lansing. (517) 353-9122. Success. Explore your personal vision of success 10 a.m. FREE. Barnes and Noble Lansing, 5132 W. p.m. FREE. Great Lakes Art Works, 306 E. Grand River Knit-Wits. Open to knitters of all ages and skill levels. and learn how to create a realistic career plan. 10 a.m.- Saginaw Highway, Lansing. (517) 327-0437. bn.com. Ave., Lansing. (517) 927-4500. 3:30 p.m. FREE. Dewitt District Library, 13101 Schavey noon. $5. Basic SmArts Members, FREE, Level 2 SmArts Road, DeWitt. (517) 669-3156. dewittlibrary.org. Members, $10, non-members. MICA Gallery, 1210 N. Turner Theatre St., Lansing. (517) 371-4600. oldtownarts.org. Friday, September 7 "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling After-School Youth Gardening Programming. Music Classes and Seminars Bee." 8 p.m. $12 adult, $10 senior, $7 student. (Please Kids, ages 5-10, can join in activities focusing on Jazz Wednesdays. Featuring the Jeff Shoup Trio. 7-10 Relics of the Big Bang. Emphasizes research see details Sept. 6.) gardening, nutrition and community service. 4-5:30 p.m. FREE. Gracies Place, 151 S. Putnam, Williamston. currently underway at CERN. 8 p.m. $3, $2.50 students Auditions for "Little Women." 6:30-8:30 p.m. p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community GardenHouse, (517) 655-1100. & seniors, $2 kids. Abrams Planetarium, MSU Campus, (Please see details Sept. 6.) 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. East Lansing. (517) 355-4676. pa.msu.edu/abrams. Cork and Canvas. An instructional art class. We Literature and Poetry Literature and Poetry Events Baby Time. Books and songs for ages 2 years provide the canvas, paint and instruction. 6-8:30 p.m. Music & Movement Storytime. Dance and Putt-Putt Party. Presented by the Entrepreneur Institute and younger. 10:30 a.m. FREE. Delta Township District $25. 1210 Turner St., Lansing. (517) 999-1212. sing to music, and learn to play with instruments. of Mid-Michigan. Register before September 4. 4:30 p.m. Library, 5130 Davenport Dr., Lansing. (517) 321-4014 x3. Ageless Grace Classes. The movements, done in 1 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, 5130 $25 per individual, $100 per family of four. Hawk Hollow Golf Lansing Area Science Fiction Association Meeting. a chair, focus on the healthy longevity of the body, Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 ext. 3. Course, 15101 Chandler Road, Bath. (517) 641-4295. Informal dinner and conversation. 7 p.m. FREE. Buddies Grill, mind, emotions and spirit. 1:15-1:45 p.m. 3 sessions Michigan Reads! Kathy-Jo Wargin. Meet the Euchre. No partner needed. 6-9 p.m. $1.50. Delta Township 2040 Aurelius Road, #13, Holt. (517) 402-4481. for $21. Creative Wellness, 2025 Abbot Road, #200, author of "Moose on the Loose." 1 p.m. FREE. Dewitt Enrichment Center, 4538 Elizabeth Road, Lansing. (517) 484-5600. Meet Peadar O'Guilin. Join the author of "The East Lansing. (517) 351-9240. creativewellness.net. District Library, 13101 Schavey Road, DeWitt. (517) Karaoke. Every Thursday Night with Atomic D. 9 p.m. LeRoy's Inferior" and "The Deserter" for a pizza party. 6 p.m. Oil Painting. For all levels with Patricia Singer. 10 669-3156. dewittlibrary.org. Classic Bar & Grill, 1526 S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 482-0184. FREE. Schuler Books & Music Lansing, 2820 Towne a.m.-noon. $50 for 4 weeks. Gallery 1212 Fine Art Mid-day Movies. Watch recent releases on the big screen. 2 Centre Blvd., Lansing. (517) 316-7495. Studio, 1212 Turner St., Lansing. p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Meet Eloisa James. Meet The New York Times Book Signing with Elizabeth Shaw. Meet the author Saturday, September 8 Lansing. (517) 367-6363. cadl.org. bestselling author. 7 p.m. FREE. Schuler Books & Music of "The Lone Wolverine." 4-6 p.m. FREE. Schuler Books & Classes and Seminars Music Okemos, 1982 Grand River Ave., Okemos. (517) 349- Tai Chi in the Park. Meditation at 8:45 a.m. followed by 8840. schulerbooks.com. Tai Chi. 9:30 a.m. FREE donations. Hunter Park Community ERASER-FREE SUDOKU HARD Insect Investigations. Part of a weekday science GardenHouse, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. program to introduce and reinforce science curriculum Overeaters Anonymous. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Sparrow TO PLAY for home-schooled children. 1 p.m. $4 per class, $10 per Professional Building, 1200 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 485-6003. season. Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Meridian Beginner Tai Chi. 8-9 a.m. $8. Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Fill in the grid so that every row, col- Township. (517) 349-3866. Lansing. (517) 488-5260. umn, and outlined 3-by-3 box contains Relics of the Big Bang. 8 p.m. $3, $2.50 students & seniors, the numbers 1 through 9 exactly once. Events $2 kids. (Please see details Sept. 7.) No guessing is required. The solution is Alcoholics Anonymous. With ASL interpretation. Parenting Group. Lecture and group discussion each week. unique. 8 p.m. FREE. Alano Club East, 220 S. Howard St., 10-11 a.m. Call to register. Women's Center of Greater Lansing, Lansing. (517) 482-8957. 1710 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 372-9163. To avoid erasing, pencil in your pos- Storytime. Stories, rhymes, songs and a craft for ages Occupy Lansing. General assembly meetings. 1 p.m. FREE. sible answers in the scratchpad space 2-5. 10:30-11:15 a.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Reutter Park, Corner of Kalamazoo & Townsend St., Lansing. beneath the short line in each vacant Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Partner Massage Class. Learn tips and tricks of massage. square. For solving tips, visit Alcoholics Anonymous. Closed women's meeting. 2:30-5:30 p.m. $80 per couple. Creative Wellness, 2025 Abbot www.SundayCrosswords.com 7:30 p.m. FREE. St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 6500 Road, #200, East Lansing. (517) 351-9240. creativewellness.net. Amwood Drive, Lansing. (517) 882-9733. Recycle Computers and Electronics. Collection event for Answers on page 25 Resurrection Ox Roast Festival. 5 p.m. FREE. Resurrection Church, 1531 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) See Out on the Town, Page 23 City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 23 Alternative and Complementary Care Natural Healing & Wellness Solutions Out on the town 355-4672. pa.msu.edu/abrams. from page 22 Events Overeaters Anonymous. 2-3:15 p.m. FREE. Sparrow computers and electronics. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Ingham County Professional Building, 1200 E. Michigan Ave. Conference Health Department, 5303 S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 887-4312. room F, 2nd floor, Lansing. (517) 332-0755. REO Town Art Attack! Festival.Art by Michigan artists and Alcoholics Anonymous. 9 a.m. FREE. Alano Club East, 18 Michigan bands on two stages. Noon-11 p.m. FREE, $5 music in 220 S. Howard St., Lansing. (517) 482-8957. New Capital Area Singles Dance. With door prizes. 6:30- advance, $8 day of. 112 E Malcolm X, Lansing. reotownartattack. com. 10:30 p.m. $8. Fraternal Order of Eagles, 4700N. Grand River intown Ave., Lansing. (517) 819-0405. Ikebana Flower Arranging Workshop.10 a.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-7132. East Lansing Farmers Market. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, crafts, activities and more. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. By ALLAN I. ROSS Events Valley Court Park, 400 Hillside Ct., East Lansing. The school year’s back, Salsa Dancing. DJ Adrian "Ace" Lopez hosts Lansing's Stewardship Work Days. Families with children and longest standing weekly salsa event. Singles welcome. community members can volunteer for a couple hours helping and with it come tense keep Fenner beautiful. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Fenner Nature shoulders from hunching 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $5. Gregory's Bar & Grille, 2510 N. MLK, Lansing. (517) 323-7122. Center, 2020 E. Mount Hope Ave., Lansing. (517) 483-4224. over keyboards, anxiety Beer & Wine Tasting. Free samples. 2-4 p.m. FREE. Second Sunday. 10 percent of what is spent will be from juggling a variety of Vine and Brew, 2311 Jolly Road, Okemos. donated to the East Lansing Public Library. 4-9 p.m. FREE. activities and headaches Urbandale Farm Stand. Purchase fresh, local produce, Dublin Square Irish Pub, 327 Abbot Road, East Lansing. tour the farm, or volunteer. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. 700 block of S. (517) 351-2222. elpl.org. from too much, um, Resurrection Ox Roast Festival. Noon-5 p.m. FREE. studying. Yeah, that’s Hayford Ave., Lansing. (517) 999-3916. Resurrection Ox Roast Festival. Noon-11 p.m. FREE. Resurrection Church, 1531 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 482-4749. it, studying. Now, you Resurrection Church, 1531 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) Maria's Psychic Fun Fair. Astrology, tarot, spiritual readings have several choices of 482-4749. and more. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $5, $10 per reading. Hampton Inn how to deal with these 2012 Walk to End Alzheimer's. Help raise awareness Lansing, 525 N. Canal St., Lansing. (810) 631-6887. and funds for Alzheimer's care, support and research. 11 Vegan Potluck. Bring a plant-based dish to pass, no meat, afflictions, with most of eggs or dairy and a copy of the recipe. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. MSU them involving popping a.m. FREE. Capitol Building, 100 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (734) 475-7043. Clerical Technical Union, 2990 E. Lake Lansing Road, East pills or six-hour “Breaking Second Saturday Supper. 5-6:15 p.m. $8, $4 kids. Lansing. (517) 394-5485. Bad” marathons to Mayflower Congregational Church, 2901 W. Mount Hope Cars and Bikes for Special Kids. Variety of activities. unwind. Fortunately, Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-3139. Money raised goes to Beekman Therapeutic Riding Center. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $10. Beekman Center, 2901 Wabash, Lansing. (517) there’s another option: Discovery Walk. Explore the park with a naturalist guide Sam Inglot/City Pulse 755-5720. Alternative and from the Harris Nature Center. 10 a.m. $3. Nancy L. Moore The Pyramid Room in the third floor of the ACC Wellness Center Park, 1960 Gaylord Court, Okemos. (517) 349-3866. 9th Annual Sparrow Foundation Women Working Complementary Care is dedicated to yoga, tai chi and other classes. Urbandale Farm's Tomato Festival. Tomato tasting, Wonders. 8:30 a.m. $25 for adults, $10 for children ages 5-14, Natural Healing & Wellness recipes and tomato lore. Noon-2 p.m. FREE. Urbandale Farm, before Sept. 2, $30 after Sept. 2. Sparrow Hospital, 1215 E. Michigan Solutions — or just ACC, qigong, and coming soon cancer prevention. She 653 S. Hayford Ave., Lansing. Ave., Lansing. sparrow.org/w3race. for short — a new full- there will be workshops says that she would never Fall Family Fun Festival. Live music, kids games and Fall Family Fun Festival. Enjoy live music, kids games and on raw food cooking and undergo chemotherapy local vendors. Noon-5 p.m. FREE. Van Atta's Greenhouse & Flower local vendors. Noon-5 p.m. FREE. Van Atta's Greenhouse & service natural healing Flower Shop, Old M-78, Haslett. (517) 339-1142. the basics of the human again. Shop, Old M-78, Haslett. (517) 339-1142. and wellness center in Spider Hunt Family Special. Come learn about spiders body’s energy system. “In the long run, the American Muscle & Antique Auto Show. DJ, downtown Lansing. door prizes, food & drink, a muffler rappingcontest and through hands-on activities and a hunt forspiders. 3 p.m. $7 If you prefer to do your natural route is not “The goal is to awards. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $10 registration. UAW Local 652, 426 per family. Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Meridian provide the necessary holistic healing at home, very expensive, it lasts Clare St., Lansing. (517) 896-8317. Township. (517) 349-3866. tools to help people heal ACC carries a wide range of a lifetime and it doesn’t Zoo Party. Creative black tie event, food, drink & live Music and live healthier lives supplements, natural body harm your body,” Kraft says. auction. 21+. 6:30-11:59 p.m. $85 members, $100 non- care products, essential She started writing her members. Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Music on the Patio. Featuring Brad Maitland and Dan through non-invasive Lansing. (517) 342-2717. potterparkzoo.org. Wixon every Sunday. 6-9 p.m. FREE. Waterfront Bar and and natural therapies,” oils, crystals and gemstone business plan for a holistic Grille, 325 City Market Drive, Lansing. (517) 267-3800. jewelry. wellness center while says owner Karen Kraft. Music Sheryl Crow. Live music from the Grammy-winning “Whether you have Kraft, a massage still in the hospital, and An Elegant Evening with Twyla Birdsong. Soul, jazz artist. 7 p.m. $38, $68, $78. Wharton Center, MSU minor issues such as therapist and reiki the result is ACC, which ballads, funk and blues. Dress code is evening attire. 6-9 p.m. $15. Campus, East Lansing. (517) 432-2000. tight muscles, headache, master, has a unique, opened last month. Gregory's Ice & Smoke, 2510 N. MLK Blvd., Lansing. (517) 894-5137. personal insight into “People are tired of Frontier Days Festival: Music at the Park. Featuring Theatre or general fatigue, or "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling natural healing: in 2005, the side effects of the Kayleigh Dawn Sloann, Ryan Knott, the Grand River Band and you’re dealing with more. 12:30 p.m. FREE. Charlotte Performing Arts Center, 378 Bee." 2 p.m. $12 adult, $10 senior, $7 student. (Please a serious and chronic she was diagnosed with drugs that their doctors State St., Charlotte. (517) 541-5690. see details Sept. 6.) illness, we try to provide Hodgkin’s lymphoma. are prescribing and want After six months of to learn how to heal natural solutions to help Theatre Monday, September 10 each person’s individual chemotherapy she themselves,” says Kraft. "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." 8 p.m. went into remission, That’s what we’re here $12 adult, $10 senior, $7 student. (Please see details Sept. 6) Classes and Seminars situation.” Divorced, Separated, Widowed Conversation but four years later she for.” Auditions for "Little Women." 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Please see With imaginatively details Sept. 6.) Group. For those who have gone through loss of a named nooks named the was diagnosed with spouse due to death or divorce. 7:30 p.m. FREE. St. Buddha Room, the Peace the same disease for a Alternative and David's Episcopal Church, 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. second time. Another Complementary Care Sunday, September 9 (517) 323-2272. stdavidslansing.org. Room and the Pyramid Natural Healing & bout of therapy again Classes and Seminars Grief Seminar. A DVD series, with small support Room, ACC offers many Wellness Solutions group discussion. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Grace United services, including a removed it only for it to 617 W. Ionia St. Lansing Area Codependents Anonymous. 2-3 p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Methodist, 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing. (517) 490-3218. variety of natural healing return for a third time. Lansing Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. St. David's Episcopal This time, she spent her Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ave., Lansing. (517) 367-6300. cadl.org. methods such as massage, Relics of the Big Bang. 4 p.m. $3, $2.50 students & Church, 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. (989) 587-4609. time in the hospital 517-708-8510 Chronic Pain Support Group. For those hypnotherapy, reflexology massageandwellnesslansing.com seniors, $2 kids. (Please see details Sept. 7.) experiencing any level of chronic physical pain. 4-5:30 and acupuncture. It also and months of recovery The Family Show. "Space Chase," for children from p.m. FREE. Women's Center of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. features classes such as researching natural preschool through grade 3 and their families. 2:30 p.m. $3, $2.50 students & seniors, $2 kids. Abrams Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 372-9163. yoga, t’ai chi ch’uan and remedies for cancer and Planetarium, 400 E. Grand River Ave., East Lansing. (517) See Out on the Town, Page 24 24 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012

Bridge 1-4 p.m., euchre: 6-9 p.m. $1.50. Delta Township 699-8062. lansingclippers.com. Take Off Pounds Sensibly. 7 p.m. FREE to visit. Out on the town Enrichment Center, 4538 Elizabeth Road, Lansing. (517) Film Night. Featuring "Slumdog Millionaire." 7 p.m. Eaton Rapids Medical Center, 1500 S. Main St., Eaton 484-5600. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, Rapids. (517) 543-0786. from page 23 JAMM Meeting. Jazz Alliance of Mid-Michigan, open to East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. Fall Babytime. Story time for babies under two. all. 7:30 p.m. FREE. 1267 Lakeside Drive, East Lansing. The Better Living Book Club. Discuss "Kindred Presbyterian Church of Okemos, 2258 Bennett Road, 10:30-11 a.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Monday Morning Movie. Free movie. 10:30 a.m. Spirits" by Dr. Allen Schoen with special guest, Dr. Okemos. (517) 505-0068. Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. FREE. Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Anne Rice. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Schizophrenics Anonymous. 10 a.m. Room 215-F, Homework Help. Students can drop-in for free Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 ext.4. Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Community Mental Health Building, 812 E. Jolly Road, tutoring, grades K-8. 5-7 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Monday Movie Matinees. Movies are free and Lansing. (517) 485-3775. Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. intended for an adult audience only. 1 p.m. FREE. East Music Yoga 40. All ages welcome. 7:15 p.m. Suggested $7. English Country Dancing. No partner necessary. Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. Open-Mic Mondays. Sign up to play solo, duo, with Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Room C20. 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE MSU students, $5, (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. your band. Spoken word acts welcome. 6:30-10:30 p.m. Intro to Computers. With professionals instructors. $2 students. MSU Snyder Hall, MSU Campus, East Westside Farmers Market. Get fresh produce and FREE. MBC Lansing, 402 Washington Square, Lansing. 2:30-4 p.m. FREE. Capital Area Michigan Works, 2110 S. Lansing. people.alblon.edu/ram/lecd. more. 4-7 p.m. FREE. 743 N. MLK Blvd., Lansing. (517) 977-1349. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 492-5500. MCACA Mini-grant Program Workshop. Learn KAK Network Golf Outing. Four-person scramble with Bluegrass Country Picking Jam. Bring your acoustic On the Way To Wellness. Nutrition and wellness about this year's mini-grant program. 1-3 p.m. FREE. auction and on-course contests. 6:45 a.m. $50 breakfast, instrument and join others to make music. 7:30-10:30 coaching in a positive, informative, and motivational 1210 Turner St., Lansing. michiganadvantage.org/arts. $200 entire gold outing. Country Club of Lansing, 2200 p.m. FREE. VFW Club Post 6132, 3104 W. St. Joseph St., format. 9:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. $10. Presbyterian Church After-School Youth Gardening Programming. Moores River Drive, Lansing. (517) 712-0580. kaknetwork.org. Lansing. (517) 337-1517. of Okemos, 2258 Bennett Road, Okemos. (517) 349-9536. Ages 5-10, activities focusing on gardening, nutrition Auditions for Mid-Michigan Youth Symphony. QiGong & Tai Chi classes. Light exercises for those and community service. 4-5:30 p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Come with a prepared piece of music, with or without who have physical limitations, senior citizens or just Community GardenHouse, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., accompaniment andsight-reading. Call to schedule an Tuesday, September 11 need to unwind. 8 a.m. Up to $8. Just B Yoga, 106 Lansing. allenneighborhoodcenter.org/people/kidstime. audition. 3:30-7 p.m. FREE. East Lansing High School, Classes and Seminars Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. 509 Burcham Drive, East Lansing. (517) 646-6096. Schizophrenics Anonymous Self-help Support Speakeasies Toastmasters. For those looking to American Sewing Guild Lansing Clippers. The become a better speaker. 12:05-1 p.m. FREE. Ingham Events Group. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Sparrow Professional election of officers for 2013 and more. 6:30-9 p.m. County Human Services Bldg., 5303 S. Cedar St., Social Bridge and Euchre. No partner needed. Building, 1200 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 485-3775. FREE. UAW Local 652, 426 Clare St. , Lansing. (517) Lansing. 1926.toastmastersclubs.or. Kripalu Style Yoga. Stretch, focus and realign the body and mind. 10-11 a.m. Purchase 8 classes for $80. Creative Wellness, 2025 Abbot Road, #200, East Lansing. (517) 351-9240. creativewellness.net. With you when you explore. Water media. All levels welcome, with Donna Randall. 6-8:30 p.m. $50 for 4 weeks. Gallery 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., Lansing. Microsoft Excel Basics. Learn how to use a spreadsheet. 6-7 p.m. FREE. Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 367-6356. After-School Youth Gardening Programming. Ages 5-10, activities focusing on gardening, nutrition and community service. 4-5:30 p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community GardenHouse, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. ESL Workshop. For anyone interested in having conversations to practice speaking and listening in English. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org.

Events Mid-day Movies. Recent releases on the big screen. 2 p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 367-6363. cadl.org. Game On! Play a variety of board and video games. 3-5 p.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014 x3. Morning Storytime. All ages welcome for stories, songs and rhymes. 10:30 a.m. FREE. Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing. (517) 321-4014. Storytime. Stories, rhymes, songs and a craft for ages 2-5. 10:30-11:15 a.m. & 6:30-7:15 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Medication Disposal. Learn about properly disposing unused, unwanted or expired medications. 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. The State Capitol Building, Capitol Ave. at Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-1466. Innovation Club for Entrepreneurs Meeting. Topics and speakers will address elements of venture creation. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Gone Wired Cafe, 2021 E. Healthcare can be complicated. That’s why PHP has nurses on staff to Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 853-0550. help you fi nd the right path. Just one reason why we’re the #1-rated* Auditions for Mid-Michigan Youth Symphony. 3:30-7 p.m. FREE. (Please see details Sept. 10) health plan in Michigan for customer service. Wherever your family’s Books on Tap. Discuss "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Jimmy's Pub, 16804 adventures take you, we’re there. Chandler Road, East Lansing. (517) 324-7100. Classics Book Club. Meet in the Library Meeting phpmm.org Now connect with us on Room to discuss "The Trial" by Franz Kafka. 1-2:30 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. *PHP’s customer service rating was 89.34 against an average for the state of Michigan of 84.26. The source for data contained in this publication is Quality Compass® 2011 and is used with the permission of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Quality Compass 2011 includes certain CAHPS data. Any data display, analysis, interpretation, or conclusion based on these data is solely that of the authors, and NCQA specifi cally disclaims responsibility for any such display, analysis, interpretation, or conclusion. Quality Compass is a registered trademark of NCQA. CAHPS is a registered trademark of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). See Out on the Town, Page 25 City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 25

East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Out on the town Fundamentals of Personal Empowerment. Series Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny September 5-11 of classes for both personal fulfillment and ordination. from page 24 7 p.m. FREE. MSU Pavilion, 4301 Farm Lane Rd., East ARIES (March 21-April 19): Life tests you all the LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Disappointments should Lansing. (517) 337-4070. fellowshipfortoday.com. Music time. Sometimes its prods and queries are hard and be cremated, not embalmed," said the aphorist Henry Allen Street Farmers Market. Fresh fruits Jazz Tuesdays. Hosted by the Jeff Shoup Quartet weird; they come at you with non-stop intensity. On S. Haskins. That's good advice for you right now, Libra. and vegetables, meats, crafts, activities and more. and will feature regular guest artists from the MSU other occasions the riddles and lessons are pretty fun It's an auspicious moment for you to set fire to your 2:30-7 p.m. FREE. Allen Neighborhood Center, 1619 E Jazz Studies Department. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. FREE. and friendly, and provide you with lots of slack to figure defeats, letdowns, and discouragements — and let Kalamazoo St., Lansing. (517) 485-4279. Stober's Bar, 812 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. them out. In all cases, life's tests offer you the chance them burn into tiny piles of ashes. I mean all of them, Baby Story Time. Short stories, free-play time to grow smarter, both in your head and heart. They stretching back for years, not simply the recent ones. for babies 6-24 months old. 11:30 a.m. FREE. Dewitt challenge you to stretch your capacities and invite you There's no need to treat them like precious treasures District Library, 13101 Schavey Road, DeWitt. (517) 669- to reduce your suffering. Right now, oddly enough, you you have an obligation to lug with you into the future. Wednesday, September 12 3156. dewittlibrary.org. have some choice in what kinds of tests you'd prefer. The time is right for you to deepen your mastery of the Classes and Seminars Toddler Tales. Story time for toddlers, 2-3 years old. Just keep in mind that the more interesting they are, art of liberation. Meditation. For beginners and experienced. 7-9 p.m. 10:30 a.m. FREE. Dewitt District Library, 13101 Schavey the bigger the rewards are likely to be. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Columnist Sydney J. FREE. Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, 3015 S. Washington Road, DeWitt. (517) 669-3156. dewittlibrary.org. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to the Harris told the following story. "I walked with a friend Ave., Lansing. (517) 351-5866. Post-Polio Support Group Fall Pot Luck. Bring religion of ancient Egypt, Tefnut is the goddess of mois- to the newsstand the other night, and he bought a Community Yoga. Power yoga class. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. your own utensils and a dish to share. 5 p.m. FREE. ture. In the natural world, she rules rain, dew, mist, paper, thanking the owner politely. The owner, however, Just B Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Granger Meadows, 1745 Granger Meadows Lane, humidity, and condensation. For humans, she is the did not even acknowledge it. 'A sullen fellow, isn’t he?' Our Daily Work/Lives. "The IWW Insurgencies of Lansing. (517) 339-1039. source of tears, spit, sweat, phlegm, and the wetness I commented as we walked away. 'Oh, he’s that way 1912: Working Class Men and Women in Revolt," Fran League of Women Voters Welcome Reception. Shor. 12:15-1:30 p.m. FREE. MSU Museum Auditorium, produced by sex. In accordance with the astrological every night,' shrugged my friend. 'Then why do you Featuring speaker Rich Robinson. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. omens, I nominate her to be your tutelary spirit in the MSU Campus, East Lansing. continue being so polite to him?' I asked. And my friend Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, East coming week. I suspect you will thrive by cultivating a Fall Babytime. Beginning story time for babies under replied, 'Why should I let him determine how I’m going Lansing. lansing.mi.lwvnet.org. fluidic sensibility. You will learn exactly what you need two. 10:30-11 a.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, to act?'" I hope you'll adopt that approach in the coming Eastwood Towne Center 10th Anniversary. to learn by paying special attention to everything that 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. week, Scorpio. Be your best self even if no one appre- Wide variety of events and activities throughout the day. exudes and spills and flows. Drawing Class. All levels welcome, with Dennis ciates it or responds. Astrologically speaking, this is 10 a.m. FREE. Eastwood Towne Center, 3000 Preyde Blvd., GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I'm guessing that you O'Meara. 1-3:30 p.m. $50 for 4 weeks. Gallery 1212 Fine prime time to anchor yourself in your highest integrity. Lansing. (517) 316-9209. shopeastwoodtownecenter.com. don't know the name of the person who sent the first Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., Lansing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the 1960 email. It was Ray Tomlinson, and he did it in 1971. You're Environmental Justice. Discussion on Olympics at Rome, Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila was Music probably also unaware that he originated the use of the environmental justice and healthy communities. 6-7 barefoot as he won a gold medal in the marathon Jazz Wednesdays. Featuring the Jeff Shoup @ symbol as a key part of email addresses. Now I'd like p.m. FREE. Pilgrim Congregational United Church of race. Four years later, at the summer games in Tokyo, Trio. 7-10 p.m. FREE. Gracie's Place, 151 S. Putnam, to address your own inner Ray Tomlinson, Gemini: the Christ, 125 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Lansing. (517) 484- he won a gold medal again, this time while wearing Williamston. (517) 655-1100. part of you that has done valuable work hardly anyone 7434. pilgrimucc.com. shoes. I'm guessing this theme might apply to you and knows about; the part of you that has created good After-School Youth Gardening Programming. your life in the coming weeks. You have the potential stuff without getting much credit or appreciation. I Youth Service Corps, ages 11-17, can join in activities Literature and Poetry to score another victory in a situation where you have celebrate that unsung hero, and I hope you will make a Baby Time. Books and songs for ages 2 years and triumphed in the past. And I think it's even more likely focusing on gardening, nutrition and community special effort to do the same in the coming week. service. 3:30-5:30 p.m. FREE. Hunter Park Community younger, with a parent/caregiver. 10:30 a.m. FREE. to happen if you vary some fundamental detail, as CANCER (June 21-July 22): Busy editor Katie Hintz- GardenHouse, 1400 block of E. Kalamazoo St., Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Bikila did. Zambrano was asked in an interview what she does Lansing. allenneighborhoodcenter.org/people/ Lansing. (517) 321-4014 x3. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Wikipedia has when she's not working at her demanding job. She youthservicecorps. Lansing Area Science Fiction Association extensive lists of the biggest unsolved problems in said she likes to gets together with her "article club," Meeting. New location. Informal dinner and lively medicine, computer science, philosophy, and nine other which is like a book club, except it's for people who conversation every week. 7 p.m. FREE. Buddies Grill, fields. Each article treats those riddles with utmost Events don't have time to read anything longer than articles. I 2040 Aurelius Road, #13, Holt. (517) 402-4481. respect and interest, regarding them not as subjects to Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. Grand would approve of you seeking out short-cut pleasures "Sparky & Me" appearance by Dan Ewald. The be avoided but rather embraced. I love this perspec- Ledge Baptist Church, 1120 W. Willow Hwy., Grand like that in the next few weeks, Cancerian. It's one of former Detroit Tigers publicity director discusses his tive, and urge you to apply it to your own life. This Ledge. (517) 256-6954. those phases in your astrological cycle when you have memoir. 7 p.m. FREE. Schuler Books & Music Lansing, would be an excellent time, astrologically speaking, to Practice Your English. Practice speaking and a poetic license to skip a few steps, avoid some of the 2820 Towne Centre Blvd., Lansing. (517) 316-7495. draw up a master list of your biggest unsolved prob- listening to English in a friendly atmosphere. 7-8 p.m. boring details, and take leaps of faith that allow you to schulerbooks.com. lems. Have fun. Activate your wild mind. Make it into a FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, bypass complicated hassles. game. I bet that doing so will attract a flood of useful LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Imagine you're living in 1880. information that'll help you get closer to solving those You're done with work for the day, and are at home Interested in placing a classified ad in City Pulse? problems. (Here's Wikipedia's big list: tinyurl.com/ enjoying some alone-time leisure activities. What might City Pulse Classifieds Call (517) 999-5066 or email [email protected] ListofProblems.) those be? By the light of your oil lamp, you could read a AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There's a certain Sassy Grass (517) 589-5559 One Stop for ALL your book, sing songs, compose a letter with pen and paper, City Pulse is seeking candidates to join its lesson in love that you have been studying and studying sales team. Full time and part time positions available. Sales Outdoors needs! Landscaping, Hardscapes, Tree Removal/ or write in your diary. 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The good Commercial & Residential with FREE Estimates! worked games. Aren't you glad you live today instead of 1880? On the other hand, having so many choices can news is that all this could change in the coming months. result in you wasting a lot of time with stimuli that don't I foresee a breakthrough in your relationship with SUDOKU SOLUTION CROSSWORD SOLUTION intimacy. I predict benevolent jolts and healing shocks From Pg. 22 From Pg. 19 fully engage you. Make this the week you see what it's like to use your leisure time for only the highest-quality, that will allow you to learn at least some of the open- most interesting and worthwhile stuff. hearted truths that have eluded you all this time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I'll bet that a-ha! experi- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A mother wrote to ences will arrive at a faster rate than you've seen in the "Car Talk" columnists to ask whether it's possible a long time. Breakthroughs and brainstorms will be to cook food on a car engine. 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Visit Cottage Gardens Sam Inglot/City Pulse where the garden experience The Fruit House Winery tasting room inside the Lansing City Market features hard cider is unimaginable and come meet and perry, in addition to wide variety of fruit wines. the friendliest dog Dublin! We sell wholesale ornamental trees, This cider house rules shrubs, perennials & large evergreens. Uncle John’s hosting hard cider You’ll also find unique garden statuary, festival this weekend horticulture reference books, mulch & more! Hours: Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. By MICHAEL BRENTON rapidly expanding, with local wineries and CLOSED WEEKENDS For generations, mid-Michigan resi- breweries adding hard cider production and come meet the friendliest dog Dublin! dents — along with travelers throughout to their traditional fermented beverage Cottage Gardens A Tradition of Quality Since 1923 the Midwest — have enjoyed weekend expertise. In fact, Michigan is now reput- 2611 S. Waverly Hwy., just south of I-96 jaunts up to Uncle John’s Cider Mill, on US ed to have more cider producers than any 517.882.5728 [email protected] 27 in St. John’s. Uncle John’s is a frequent other state in the nation, and Mike Beck, visit cottagegardenslansing.com or getdrtygardening.com today! site for events such as car shows, ultralight co-proprietor at Uncle John’s, is one of aviation fly-ins, concerts and, of course, Michigan’s hard cider pioneers and a fore- promo1 pick-your-own fruit and vegetable excur- most authority on the subject. sions. Now in its fifth generation of family Great Lakes region ciders and perries ownership, what started as a simple fruit come in numerous flavors and styles. They farm has become a full-fledged, family- are made with apple and pear varieties of friendly, agricultural tourist destination. which most of us have never heard, and Modern features include a bakery, a res- which would be unpleasant as table fruit taurant, a gift shop (featuring a selection due to their hard texture and relative bit- of locally made fudge, jerky and syrup) and terness. Cider apples and pears are typical- the Fruit House Winery, which has its own ly high in tannins (contributing to struc- wine and cider tasting room. Each week- ture), acids (balancing sweetness) and end, thousands flock to Uncle John’s for sugars (necessary for fermentation). Hard the products, the events and the fun. cider is frequently produced by blend- The Fruit House Winery is a destination ing several varieties, each adding its own all its own. There are 19 options, including unique character. The permutations are a chardonnay as well as several blends — endless: still or sparkling, sweet, dry, soft and some of the other choices get a little or acidic, single fruit or blended — includ- more playful, such as honey wine, cran- ing with other fruits, such as Michigan berry wine and peach wine. Their house- cherries) — and organic or farmed with made apple brandy, distilled on site from traditional methods. their cider, is delicious, and the tasting The Great Lakes Cider and Perry room offers up to 11 different hard ciders, Festival will feature the music of Fading depending upon the season. Hard cider is World Band, who play a wide variety of refreshing and thirst quenching with wide- styles, including rock, country, pop and spread crowd appeal, and is be a perfect Big Band. Attendees will be able to sam- addition to a fall tailgate table. Drinkers ple more than 100 ciders and perries from who enjoy lighter beers and crisper white Michigan and surrounding states. The $15 wines would be big fans of cider. ticket price includes commemorative glass Which brings us to the 5th Annual and 10 sample pours. Great Lakes Cider and Perry Festival, to No time to drive up to the cider mill? be held at Uncle John’s this Saturday. If No worries — Lansing-area oenophiles you enjoy sampling beers and wines, you can also visit Uncle John’s satellite tasting shouldn’t miss the opportunity to sample room in the Lansing City Market. hard apple cider and hard pear cider (also In Vino Veritas known as perry), brought in from produc- (Michael Brenton is president of the ers throughout the Great Lakes region. Greater Lansing Vinters Club. His col- The hard cider industry in Michigan is umn appears monthly.) City Pulse • September 5, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 27

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Sunday (517) 484-1567 mushrooms, broccoli, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday. 349-1701 Cafes and TO, WiFi, $ onions and tomatoes (517) 381–7437. gtpie. Diners combined with any com. D, TO, P, OM, Enjoy our patio while you can! COFFEE JAM — Grab meat and cheese on the WIFI, $. Other locations BACKYARD BBQ some classic comfort menu. 2211 S. Cedar at 1403 E. Grand River — Lawn chairs, pot- food and dessert here. St., Lansing. Open 24 Ave., East Lansing. 6:30 SAVE the TUBA MUSEUM! ted sunflowers and The cookies are made hours every day. (517) a.m.–10 p.m. Monday– Our neighbor wants to TEAR DOWN wooden shutters create fresh daily, but get 267–7606. TO, $ Saturday, 7 a.m.–10 a backyard feel in a there early because p.m. Sunday. (517)– our building so they can expand. light–hearted atmo- they sell out quickly. FRANDOR DELI — 203–3304. D, TO, P, sphere. Pork is smoked 6427 Centurion Drive, Pizza, sandwiches and OM, WIFI $, and at 200 SIGN OUR PETITION ONLINE for 14 hours before being Lansing. 6:30 a.m.– 5 more, served cafeteria S. Washington Square, served in Backyard’s p.m. Monday–Thursday, style in the Frandor Lansing. 6:30 a.m.– 7 at travelerstuba.com signature barbecue pork 6:30 a.m.–4 pm. Friday, shopping center. 300 p.m. Monday–Friday, 7 sandwiches. 2329 Jolly 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturday: N. Clippert St., Lansing a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday, or Google “Tuba Museum petition” Road, Okemos. 10:30 closed Sunday. (517) Twp. 8 a.m.–8 p.m. and 9 a.m.–4 p.m. a.m.– 7 p.m. Monday– 327–1111. TO, D, Wi– Monday–Saturday, Sunday. (517) 316–0900. 2138 Hamilton at Okemos Road in downtown Okemos Friday, 11 a.m.– 4 Fi, $ closed Sunday. (517) D, TO, P, OM, WIFI, $ p.m. Saturday, closed 351–9342. TO, $. Sunday. (517) 381–8290. THE DAILY BAGEL — HOBIE’S — Hearty Second location at 301 Serving fresh bagels GOLDEN HARVEST soups, subs stacked high S. Washington Square, made daily the old–fash- — Avast, mateys! with meats and toppings Lansing. 10 a.m.– 7 p.m. ioned way and a full Pirates rule the grill and much more are Monday– Friday (517) menu of sandwiches here. Manners take served cafeteria–style in 853–2777. TO, P, $ and salads in down- a back seat to edgy, this restaurant laden with town Lansing. 309 S. creative dishes served sports memorabilia. 930 BETTER HEALTH Washington Square. 7 in Lansing’s most outra- Trowbridge Road, East CAFE — Located a.m.–3 p.m. Monday– geous seating area. Lansing. 10:30 a.m.–8 inside the Better Health Friday, closed Saturday Expect to wait a while for p.m. Monday–Friday, 11 Market near the Frandor & Sunday. (517) 487– your Bubba Sandwich, a.m.–8 p.m. Saturday, Shopping Center, this 8201. TO, OM, WIFI, $ Suck It Omelette or closed on Sunday year– cafe features a deli, juice pancakes (as big as round. (517) 351–3800. bar and espresso bar DECKER’S COFFEE your head), but also hobiesrestaurant.com. with a focus on organic — In addition to coffee expect to make a friend OM, TO, Wi–Fi, WB, $ and natural foods, includ- and espresso drinks, or two—you’re all in the ing fair trade and organic this locally owned coffee same ship at Golden JACKIE’S DINER — coffees, organic juices shop and popular study Harvest. 1625 Turner This southside diner’s and smoothies, organic spot offers a full menu of St., Lansing. 7 a.m.–2:30 biggest draw is its break- salads and meats free breakfast sandwiches, p.m. Monday–Friday, 8 fast special ($3.99 before of nitrates, antibiotics or bagels, smoothies, ice a.m.–2:30 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m., Monday-Friday, preservatives. 305 N. cream and more. 220 and Sunday. (517) 485– except holidays). 3812 Clippert St., Lansing. 9 S. Washington Square, 3663. $ S. Martin Luther King Jr. a.m.–9 p.m. Monday– Lansing. 7 a.m.–6:30 Blvd. 7 a.m.–3 p.m. seven Saturday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m. p.m. Monday–Friday, 8 GONE WIRED CAFE days a week. (517) 393– Sunday. (517) 332–6892. a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday, — This popular hangout 1240. Second location at betterhealthstore.com. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday. and study spot serves 4421 W. Saginaw Hwy. TO, $ (517) 913–1400. OM, P, more than coffee — 7 a.m.–8 p.m. Sunday– WIFI, $ beer and liquor were Thursday, 7 a.m.–9 p.m. BRUNCH HOUSE — recently added. Hungry Friday and Saturday. Walking out of a diner, DELHI CAFE — A quiet java junkies can also Breakfast buffet Saturday you don’t often find your- family restaurant with grab a quesadilla, salad and Sunday only. (517) self thinking, “That was authentic Greek cuisine, or other menu items. 323–6512. TO, $ one fantastic Lebanese favorite American dishes 2021 E. Michigan Ave., salad.” You might think from burgers to seafood Lansing. 9 a.m.–midnight JERUSALEM BAKERY that, however, after Sunday–Thursday, 9 Some of the tastiest TIM BARRON to steaks, and a sam- — eating at The Brunch pling of ethnic cuisines a.m.–7 p.m. Friday and hummus you'll find in EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING House, since owner Leo from Mexico to Asia to Saturday. (517) 853– the area awaits you at Farhat has peppered Italy. Daily specials and 0550. TO, P, Wi–Fi, $ this grocery store with his traditional breakfast banquet room also avail- a Mediterranean cafe house menu with dishes able. 4625 Willoughby GRAND TRAVERSE PIE twist. Short orders of 6AM-9AM rooted in his Lebanese Road, Holt. 11 a.m.–8 CO. — Serving fruit and baked kibbee, shwarma, heritage. Try “Leo’s p.m. Monday–Friday, 9 cream pies, pot pies and falafel and much more house special,” which a.m.–8 p.m. Saturday, quiches. The menu also are cooked fresh, while begins with seasoned closed Sunday. (517) includes sandwiches, the hummus, tabouli and beef, onions and pine 694–8655. TO, WB, $$. salads and grab-and-go pillow–soft pita bread, nuts sautéed in a fry- dinner items. Also serv- among other selections, ing pan, then combined FLEETWOOD DINER ing espresso and Fair are ready to grab and with a couple of eggs. — A staple on this Trade coffees. 3536 go. 1456 E. Michigan 1040 S. Pennsylvania throwback diner’s menu Meridian Crossing Drive, Ave. 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Ave., Lansing. 7 a.m.-3 is the Hippie Hash, a Okemos. 6:30 a.m.–8:30 Monday–Saturday. (517) p.m. Monday- Friday; 8 medley of shredded p.m. Monday–Friday, 8 485–9975. jerusalem– a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and potatoes, green peppers, a.m.–8:30 p.m. Saturday, pita.com. TO, OM, $. And hear Berl Schwartz of City Pulse call Tim an ignorant slut — or worse. Every Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. 28 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 5, 2012