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CULTURE WARS the Dark Patterns of Online Harassment November 20 - 26, 2019 www.lansingcitypulse.com Locally owned • A newspaper for the rest of us CULTURE WARS The dark patterns of online harassment CitySee Pulse Ads.qxp_Layout page 1 11 10/27/19 4:51 PM Page 4 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • November 20, 2019 Benedict Auto Body Your ONE STOP shop for 246 W. Maple • Mason COLLISION, MECHANICAL & 517.676.4970 GLASS! www.benedictautobody.com FULL TIME FULLY CERTIFIED MECHANIC State Certified & Trained Computerized Auto Alignments Suspension Tune Ups Brakes “When you want AC Work quality workmanship, Exhaust Repair no mile is too far to drive.” IF YOU HIT A DEER, BRING YOUR CAR HERE! 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This is an original oil on wood working a career in politics. I was from an artist in the UK. It was cre- already a hippy in high school, but ated probably 20 some years ago. I I did the state exam and aced it so I used to do a lot of buying on eBay had a job waiting for me and took it. and antique stores. I like the original When this painting came, I gasped art pieces. when it came out of the box. It was This one almost looks like it is a already framed when I got it. I like photograph. I do have other original to keep my receipts and correspon- pieces, but this one takes the cake. dence from the artist. My dad, who It could be based on him 20 collected classic cars, taught me to years ago. His shirt is very casual. do that. She wanted to let me know You know he even stopped coloring she did one just like this of John his hair recently? That’s something Lennon and gave it to Yoko. between just him and me. That was like “Wow.” But I honest- I could just tell it was gorgeous ly have no respect for Yoko. I do have from seeing it on eBay. Some paint- a lot of respect for artists. This to me ings you can look at and know is just beautiful. Prints are one thing instantly they are going to talk to and original items are another. That you. You can see his jaw here and just to me just captures it. see it start moving. I hope the wed- I worked at an art gallery for five ding ring is when he was married to years and it helped me find more val- Linda and not what’s-her-name. ue of art too. I drove my parents crazy collect- I haven’t bought anything Beatles ing when I was 11 years old in 1963. related for years. I’m at the point in When I was 12 or 13, I did a lot of my life that other than groceries, I babysitting, which gave me more don’t need anything else. money to collect. I can’t do some- (This interview was edited and thing where I am in second place. I condensed by Dennis Burck. To start to get carried away. visit the Spector Beatles collection, My longtime friends say it trickles arrange a tour time at 517-648- down to me decorating too. I know 2043. If you have a recommendation I’m weird. I know I’m different. for “Favorite Things,” please email In my professional life, I ended up [email protected].) 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • November 20, 2019 VOL. 19 ISSUE 15 (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5061 or email [email protected] PAGE CLASSIFIEDS: (517) 999-6704 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz 13 [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Audrey Matusz The hand that rings the bell [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 EVENTS EDITOR/OFFICE MANAGER • Suzi Smith [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 PRODUCTION MANAGER • Skyler Ashley PAGE [email protected] (517) 999-5066 17 Composition • Abby Sumbler STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino A new food truck for Lansing's vegans [email protected] • (517) 999-5065 Dennis Burck • [email protected] (517) 999-6705 Kyle Kaminski • [email protected] PAGE (517) 999-6710 20 SALES EXECUTIVE Lee Purdy • [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 Homeless outreach program celebrates two years of service Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Capital News Service, Bill Castanier, Ryan Claytor, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence Johnson, Terry Link, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Dennis Preston, Carrie Sampson, Nevin Speerbrecker, Rich Tupica, Ute Von Der Cover Heyden, David Winkelstern, Paul Wozniak Distribution manager: Art Garrett Clinard • (517) 999-6704 Delivery drivers: Garrett Clinard, Dave Fisher, Dale By Maddison Chaffer Gartner, Jack Sova, Gavin Smith Interns: Matthew Stine • [email protected] NOW AT 10:00 A.M. SUNDAYS on FOR DESIGN City Pulse • November 20, 2019 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION FOR A carousel for the City Market? DESIGN By BILL CASTANIER A recent article in City Pulse regarding possible reuses for the Lansing City Market got me thinking that a perfect marriage OPINION with our new beach on the river would be a carousel. I’m a fan of carousels, having growing up in a city with two amusement parks, Wenona Beach and Tony’s Park in Bay City, and then going to college in East Lansing where we had easy access to Property Address: Lake Lansing Amusement Park and 303 Oakhill, East Lansing its storied carousel. Until visionary city leaders saw the Current Occupant: possibility of a beach, I would have Kappa Alpha Theta thought that bringing a carousel to Year Built: 1935 Lansing a bit of over-reach. Historic Several people recognized last carousels are expensive and they month’s Eye for Design, but Mary don’t often show up for purchase on MSU Archives & Historical Collection Jessup responded first. She noted the open market. Jane’s Carousel in People riding the Lakeside Carousel at the opening of AutoWorld, in Flint, in 1984. that she had passed through the Brooklyn cost more than $1.5 mil- distinctive front door of the Kappa lion to purchase and took 28 years to In the last decade there have own carousel in use at the Van Andel Alpha Theta house, 303 Oakhill Ave. restore. A Coney Island carousel was been several communities which Museum Center. A carousel similar purchased by New York City in 2005 have shown interest in providing a to the one owned by MSU operates in East Lansing, many times as an for $1.8 million and an additional home for the carousel, but they were at Greenfield Village, Dearborn. undergraduate student at Michigan $1.7 million was spent to restore it. hindered in part by the cost of con- Additionally, there are carousels at State University. Founded in 1870 as However, Lansing with imagina- structing a building to house it year Comerica Park, Detroit, Crossroads the first Greek-letter fraternity for tion, chutzpah and money might round. That wouldn’t be as much Village, near Flint, Silver Beach women, a chapter was installed at be able to land a historic carousel. of a problem for Lansing since it in St. Joseph, and on the Detroit MSU in 1926 and the house that is There’s one right down the street- has the City Market on the banks of Riverfront. now the home of the Thetas appears sort of. Michigan State University the Grand River, which could easi- Why a carousel? Riding a carou- to have been completed in 1935. Museum still owns a 1916 Herschell- ly house it. Grand Rapids, another Spillman carousel that has 35 carved, river town west of Lansing has its See Carousel, Page 6 This month’s Eye for Design can wooden animals, including zebras, be found in Lansing along the cor- a pig, a dog, chicken, horses and a And by coincidence … ridor between East Lansing and the Punch and Judy Chariot which it Asked about the carousel idea, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor said that using it at Capitol. The first person to cor- stores in Marion, Ohio. the City Market is, very preliminarily, under consideration. rectly identify the location of the The “menagerie” carousel was first “I had a citizen reach out to me and say I have an idea and why not put a car- detail will receive a City Pulse Eye installed at Lakeside Park in Flint in ousel there,” Schor said.
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