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VOL. 17 ISSUE 47 Correction: (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com Because of a reporting error, congressional candidate Elissa Slotkin’s ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5061 position on Medicare was misreported in Kyle Melinn’s column last or email [email protected] PAGE CLASSIFIEDS: (517) 999-6704 week. It should have said that she supports allowing people to buy into Medicare, not that she favors Medicare for all. 5 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 Tension running high in the marijuana licensing battle ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Skyler Ashley [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 EVENTS EDITOR • Ella Kramer [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 PAGE PRODUCTION MANAGER • Abby Sumbler CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF LANSING [email protected] LEGAL NOTICE 7 (517) 999-5066 STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Charter Township of Lansing Board of Appeals to be held City pushes to remove liquor license of local bar [email protected] Monday, July 23, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Township Offices located at 3209 West Michigan Avenue, SALES EXECUTIVE Lansing, Michigan, for the purpose of hearing the following appeal: Lee Purdy • [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 PAGE Tom Mellen • [email protected] • (517) 999- BA-18-10 -- In order to rebuild/repair this fire damaged property, the following variances have been 6710 requested: 19 Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Daniel 1) 4.5 foot variance to allow a 20.5 foot front yard setback. (Ordinance requires 25 E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill Castanier, feet.) Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence 2) 175 square foot variance of required living space for residential property. A tribute to Anthony Bourdain (Ordinance requires 720 square feet.) Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie Pohl, Address: 122 Brynford Dennis Preston, Allan I. Ross, Dylan Tarr, Rich Tupica, Cover Ute Von Der Heyden, David Winkelstern, Paul Wozniak Interns: Shruti Saripalli Tentative text and other information may be examined at the office of the Clerk, 3209 West Michigan Art Avenue. Distribution manager: Paul Shore • (517) 999-5061 Susan L. Aten, Clerk By Shawn Green Delivery drivers: Dave Fisher, Yvonne LeFave, Charter Township of Lansing Thomas Scott Jr., Richard Simpson, Jack Sova

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CP#18-159 City Pulse • July 5, 2018 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Legal haze Lawsuit rattles Lansing’s marijuana market Does Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope have ordinance “that’s favorable to millionaire car- — with a population of about 116,000 resi- that,” Baldori added. a right to be wrong? petbaggers who are trying to put these local dents and the potential to expand commerce Let Lansing Vote argued Swope erred City officials argued he does in an ongoing residents out of business,” said attorney Bob into the surrounding region — is drastically when he opted to toss out more than 40 per- lawsuit that threatens to upend Lansing’s Baldori. “These are the mom-and-pop shops underserved with so few provisioning cen- cent of the 6,730 signatures submitted with medical marijuana industry, potentially forc- that have been involved with the business ters, he suggested. As many as 80 had oper- their petition. Swope said inaccuracies filed ing all of the city’s pot shops to close as early since the very beginning. They’re being mus- ated in Lansing last year. by the circulators who collected the names as later this month. And an important ruling cled out by big money.” “This is capitalism,” Baldori said. “Let these ultimately invalidated the initiative, nudging expected from Ingham County Circuit Court City Council members in October nar- people go. Let these entrepreneurs conduct it just below the threshold needed to bring Judge James Jamo could resolve the case rowly passed an ordinance that enacted a their business.” the issue to a vote. next week. state-mandated licensing framework for up Baldori said the city’s ordinance reflects a The lawsuit — after months of legal Let Lansing Vote — a state-registered to 25 dispensaries within city limits. Swope “reefer madness” mentality in its regulation motions, court hearings and combative dis- ballot committee representing an unnamed was ultimately tasked with selecting which of the medical marijuana market, at times positions — now rests squarely on 226 signa- number of would-be marijuana dispensaries ones. watching weed with a closer eye than alcohol. tures collected by Missouri circulator Vince — last year filed a lawsuit that aims to strike Swope and Mayor Andy Schor couldn’t be Let Lansing Vote was formed to circulate a Ivory. Court records state he listed “St. Louis down the city’s 2017 ordinance that many sure how the prior City Council landed on the petition to nullify the regulation. Baldori said City” as his county of registration when he claimed to be overly restrictive in an industry figure, but both suggested the market need- the lawsuit was only filed after Swope over- submitted the forms. And Swope didn’t con- pegged to generate millions of dollars for the ed to be capped. Local residents complained stepped his bounds. sider that a valid response. state capital. about the high concentration of provision- Thousands signed a petition to overthrow The form clearly required Ivory to list a Swope last year threw out Let Lansing ing centers near their neighborhoods. And the ordinance, but Swope — using his per- county — not a city — in the space provided, Vote petitions that challenged the ordinance, many shops operated in “shoddy” conditions, ceived right to use his own discretion — ruled Swope said. St. Louis, however, is an inde- not because the signatures were invalid but Swope said. hundreds invalid and enacted the regulations pendent city. Officials there said it holds no because he contended the petitions’ circula- “It’s probably the most fair way if you’re regardless. A debate over the discounted allegiance to a particular county. The city tor had erred in filling out the paperwork. going to put a cap on it, but it’s a difficult sit- signatures for months brewed into a con- instead functions within its own jurisdiction. Jamo must now decide what (if any) mis- uation,” Swope added. tentious legal battle as the industry tries to Voters there register for elections through takes were made and whether the issue can Applicants were given a December dead- maintain its heartbeat. city offices, for example. find its place on the ballot. line to enter into a point-based scoring sys- Baldori estimated the city has spent up to Swope said he didn’t know that informa- But some said a ruling to revoke the ordi- tem or face closure. An outside firm was $100,000 in defense of the lawsuit. Swope tion at the time but still questioned the legal nance would ultimately eliminate the only hired to judge each business plan. Key fac- said he couldn’t be sure. Multiple calls to City validity of the maneuver. St. Louis residents remaining legal mechanism that allows mar- tors like safety regulations, quality standards, Attorney Jim Smiertka were not returned. — and those who live in one of 38 indepen- ijuana-related businesses to set up shop with- business experience, job creation and capital A Freedom of Information Act request that dent cities scattered across Virginia — could in city limits. Both sides suggested compro- investment allowed the best shops to float to sought clarification on the financials was be simply ineligible to submit these types of mise could be possible but agreed Lansing’s the top of the pool, Swope said. not immediately returned to City Pulse by petitions, he suggested. He doesn’t know. medical marijuana industry is off to a largely Baldori, however, argued the ordinance Monday. uncertain start. gives preferential treatment to mostly out-of- “I don’t know where their interests lie The city essentially cobbled together an state investors with money to blow. Lansing when they’re spending taxpayer dollars like See Lawsuit, Page 6

veiled threats toward staff that answered his call. Barron about a week later turned to Emotions run high in marijuana licensing battle Facebook as his irritation festered. “He said he was coming after me,” Swope City clerk files for personal protection order against applicant’s husband said. “I’m barely acquainted with him. I An ordinance to regulate Lansing’s bur- us; The little fish, basically. The pay-to-play don’t know this individual. He seems to be geoning medical marijuana industry contin- shops are the ones that are still open. … We very irritated and agitated, directed at me. It ues to fuel tensions between aspiring entre- just need a new ordinance that works for seemed that he wasn’t completely reasonable preneurs and the elected officials charged everyone.” and I didn’t want to have anything to do with with the oversight of their livelihoods. Exact details regarding the recent denial him. … I’ve never had to file a PPO before. I But a judge’s order aims to mandate civility are specifically exempt from disclosure under had to learn how to do it.” after a rift at City Clerk Chris Swope’s office Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act but Barron, in cellphone videos broadcast- took a personal turn. Swope maintains the Barrons scored far ed online, stands on the sidewalk outside Chelsey Barron, a local provisioning center too low on a point-based system designed Bradly’s Home and Garden on Grand River applicant and would-be owner at GotMeds, to cherry-pick the creme of the (marijuana) earlier this year was disheartened to learn she crop. There was essentially no chance they’d See Marijuana, Page 6 didn’t make the cut for a limited number of gain approval, Swope said. dispensary licenses available under the city’s An application for a personal protection complex selection process. That’s when her order filed last month in 30th Circuit Court husband, Mike Barron, got involved, he said. maintained Barron — in the aftermath “The system we have is pay to play,” Mike of learning of Swope’s decision — angri- Mike Barron Barron said. “They want to get rid of all of ly phoned the City Clerk’s Office and made 6 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • July 5, 2018

choices on how to go about fixing it. If they had no idea.” “ready to talk” about a settlement. Schor said Lawsuit want to be spiteful, they could get to the Many dispensary applicants — like Mike he’s open to the conversation but is unsure point to where there is no ordinance. That Barron and his wife, Chelsey, of GotMeds — what sort of deal could be struck beforehand. wouldn’t make any sense to me.” argued the licens- “We’re always from page 5 “They could fix this in one day, but they ing process is far too open to sit and He’s not a lawyer, he added. could insist on shutting down the business,” restrictive. He said have that conversa- “There’s no clear answer,” Swope main- Baldori added. most local shops tion,” Schor added. tained. “I don’t think it’s ever been litigated.” The potential interruption would also that opened before Swope is cau- “This case may clear it up,” he said. inevitably divert funding that could have the ordinance took tiously optimistic City officials — even if they did fumble otherwise landed in city coffers, officials said. effect were forced but recognizes rec- Ivory’s petition — said they are unable (or The regulatory structure alone — with near- to make “educat- reationally legal- perhaps unwilling) to correct the mistake. ly 130 businesses vying for a limited number ed guesses” on the ized marijuana Schor said the lawsuit is about the ability of of licenses — has already collected at least city’s unfamiliar could again change Swope to use his own discretion to deter- $650,000 in application fees that could soon scoring system. the game. An ini- mine which citizen-driven petitions are need to be refunded. Barron just wants tiative to legalize valid. Attorneys have argued Swope has an Schor said medical marijuana businesses the market to grow. the possession of unequivocal “right to be wrong.” that applied for a dispensary license and paid “We feel like and sale of certain “Frankly it’s not relevant because, again, the $5,000 application fee were allowed to they’re spending amounts of mar- discretion implies the right to be wrong,” continue operations until a final determina- our own money ijuana is slated to said Deputy City Attorney Heather Sumner, tion could be made. Many have since been against us,” Mike make its way onto according to courtroom transcripts. “The denied and received only a 50 percent refund Barron said. “When the statewide bal- clerk used his discretion to make a determi- for their time, he said. None have been for- this is all said and lot on Nov. 6. The nation. Regardless of the answer, discretion mally approved. done and the pen- state would then implies the right to be wrong.” Swope said most of the provisioning center nies are all add- be required to Schor also maintained a successful lawsuit applications arrived during the week of the ed up, I think the institute yet anoth- from Let Lansing Vote could fundamental- deadline and funneled some $400,000 to public is going to er licensing system ly reshape the way the city enforces medical the Clerk’s Office in a single day. Additional be blown away. The for its regulation. marijuana. State law requires local munici- revenue was generated from tickets issued to city is going to have “Lansing should palities — like Lansing — to enact their own those who continued to operate shops with- to negotiate and lis- Kyle Kaminski/City Pulse have a well-regu- regulations both for state revenue sharing out an application or after they were formally ten to us. If we have Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope amid medical lated medical mar- and for dispensaries to fully complete the denied. to run this petition marijuana applications. ijuana industry,” licensing process. But the added cashflow was matched by an back again and Swope said. “It’s The entire industry — at least temporarily overwhelming amount of busywork, officials again and again, we not unexpected to — would need to be shut down until anoth- said. will.” have these different elements moving in and er ordinance can be put in place to legally Swope’s office was forced to hire a full-time Jamo is scheduled to hear a motion for out of this industry. It’s possible they could allow for its operation, Schor said. The City employee to help oversee the application pro- summary disposition from Let Lansing Vote all be forced to shut down. Then we have this Council could eventually be ordered to revisit cess, he said. Weekly meetings with attorneys on Wednesday. Barron and other local entre- vote on the state ballot for recreational use. … the ordinance if the lawsuit succeeds, but no and other departmental leaders have kept preneurs said his ruling will help chart the That could change the whole thing.” market is better than a broken one, Baldori the office on overload. The city has also paid course for the uncertain future of Lansing’s Visit lansingcitypulse.com for continued contended. nearly $80,000 to a consulting firm tasked burgeoning medical marijuana business. coverage of Let Lansing Vote’s lawsuit as the “It’s up to them,” Baldori added. “They with processing business plans for would-be Both sides, however, appeared willing to case proceeds. made a mistake here. They’ve got a lot of dispensaries. resolve the issue before it lands in Jamo’s — KYLE KAMINSKI “This is a bigger task,” Swope added. “We courtroom. Baldori said Let Lansing Vote is [email protected]

Bradly’s Home and Garden either in Lansing and appealed but none have been sanctioned. gible for a state license regardless of how the Marijuana or the Grand Rapids location. And Swope doesn’t have a timeline for when city handled his wife’s application. “It’s disappointing when people revert to those will be processed. And state law requires provisioning cen- from page 5 some type of revenge,” Swope said. “That “We’re very close, but it’s a bit hard to pre- ters gain approval from both the state and word has been used.” dict,” Swope added. “A lot of it depends on their local municipality. Avenue, encouraging others to “harass” the Barron said his behavior never crossed any other departments.” “It’s not even about this dispensary,” Barron owner and Swope’s husband, Brad Rakowski. legal lines. He was simply expressing frustra- Barron argued the point-based system — added. “GotMeds will probably go away. Court records state he barged inside and tion with Lansing’s “broken” system for mar- with a heavy focus on job creation and capital There are too many things wrong with the labeled Swope an obstacle to his family’s ijuana-related enterprises, he argued. His investment — gives preferential treatment to licensing process. It’s more, to me, about the marijuana-related aspirations. wife’s business — along with dozens of oth- outside investors with cash to spend while way the city is handling everybody. I think it’s An embroidered “Fuck Chris Swope” hat ers that took root under former mayor Virg local shops are left to wither on the vine. A unfair in a lot of ways. It doesn’t matter if I that Barron had made just added insult to Bernero’s administration — have since been similar message was echoed by attorneys tied have a part in the store, I’m still a patient and injury, Swope said. forced to close their doors. to a lawsuit filed against the city in response I want nice stores.” “While he’s sitting downtown stroking his “I don’t believe it was a fair process from to the ordinance. Barron further claimed Rakowski failed pen, he’s ruining someone’s business down the beginning,” Barron added. “I’m ashamed of the city and how they’ve to file permits or adhere to licensing require- the street,” Barron explained, maintaining he City Ordinance 1217 mandates Swope first pencil-whipped their way through this whole ments for his business. State records indicate never threatened violence toward Swope or select only 20 provisioning centers to oper- process,” Barron said, labeling himself a Rakowski is the legal registrant of corpora- his husband. “I just wanted to check out his ate within city limits. Five more could gain vehement supporter of Let Lansing Vote’s tion. Any previous issues with permits have business. It wasn’t really a pissing match but approval within the next year but many of lawsuit but denying any personal ties to the been fixed, Swope said. it turned into one. … (Swope) has his head an estimated 80 dispensaries won’t be able case. The suit, if successful, would require “I still beg to differ,” Barron said in response. in the clouds.” to open. Swope said he’s only considering the city’s medical marijuana ordinance to be One of the forms he said Rakowski failed Chief Probate Judge George Economy’s businesses that score on the higher end of his placed on the ballot. to file was to do business as Bradly’s Home recent order bars Barron from crossing paths private scoring mechanism. The swipes against Swope are instead and Garden. with Swope until at least Dec. 8, both at his More than a dozen licenses for growing motivated by a desire to level the entrepre- So, Barron claimed he has filed one him- workplace or at his home. Designed to quell operations and other facets of the industry neurial playing field, Barron added. But self with Ingham County as … Bradly’s Home Swope’s growing concerns for his personal have been approved but Swope has taken Swope maintained GotMeds — after Mike and Garden. safety, the temporary restraining order also his time with provisioning centers. Records Barron’s felony forgery and counterfeiting — KYLE KAMINSKI prohibits Barron from again returning To show dozens have applied, faced rejection conviction in 1998 — would have been ineli- [email protected] City Pulse • July 5, 2018 www.lansingcitypulse.com 7

state regulators onto the same page. Police chief locks crosshairs on southside ‘nuisance’ bar City officials still did what they could, recently denying Singh’s request for a cabaret license, Swope said. That city-issued permit Council urges state to revoke license at Binni’s is legally required for any business that pairs entertainment with dining. “I don’t know how the state will handle this,” Swope said. “I don’t know how often they suspend licenses as opposed to revok- ing them but they’re currently not allowed to have any type of dancing or entertainment.” Councilmembers spoke up against the “nuisance” bar and also claimed the estab- lishment owes about $20,000 in delinquent taxes to the city. Calls to Manjit Singh were not returned but his son said he isn’t giving up in his ongoing fight to stay in business. “I’m trying to hit an upper-class market,” Love Singh said, noting his status as a busi- ness management student at Grand Valley State University. “I’m doing everything in my power to fight back against this. How are you going to shut me down before I’ve had a chance to prove myself? There have been no problems since April.” Binni’s Bar and Grill is at 820 W. Miller St. Love Singh said the bar has since been closed, at least temporarily, while he awaits a Kyle Kaminski/City Pulse final determination on his liquor license and City officials are moving to revoke Binni’s Bar and Grill’s liquor license. Binni’s owner Love Preet Singh wants a chance to turn it finalizes the ownership transfer. around. — KYLE KAMINSKI [email protected]

Binni’s Bar and Grill — tucked into an gathered there for various musical events unkept plaza at the corner of Washington over the last few years. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Avenue and Miller Road in south Lansing— is “The previous owner had some mishaps,” EAST LANSING PLANNING COMMISSION likely to go unnoticed to the average daytime said Love Preet Singh, referring to his father, Notice is hereby given of the following public hearings to be held by the East Lansing Planning passerby. There’s no flashy signage; nothing Manjit Singh. Commission on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 7:00 p.m., in the 54-B District Court, Courtroom 2, 101 to advertise happy-hour drinks. Yelpers have Singh, 21, said he assumed ownership of Linden Street, East Lansing. yet to recognize its quiet existence near the the business in April at his father’s request. He 1. A public hearing will be held to consider Ordinance 1431: An ordinance to amend the Hilliard Drain with a single review. plans to push back against the recommenda- Zoning Use District Map of Chapter 50 – Zoning – of the Code of the City of East Lansing But Lansing Police Chief Michael tion and contended city officials have “some to rezone the northeast corner of Haslett and Park Lake Roads from RA, Residential Agricultural to B-2, Retail Sales Business. The property is two acres in size. Yankowski is all too familiar. At Yankowski’s kind of thing” against the bar. Officials at the assistance, the City Council last week unani- Department of Licensing and Regulatory 2. A public hearing will be held to consider Ordinance 1432: An ordinance to Amend mously approved a recommendation to send Affairs said the bar’s liquor license remains Section 50-853 of Chapter 50 - Zoning - of the Code of the City of East Lansing to clarify the nonconforming use of a structure provisions. to Michigan’s Liquor Control Commission. intact — for now. Their message is simple: Lansing is fed up LARA spokesman David Harns said state 3. A public hearing will be held to consider Ordinance 1433: An ordinance to amend Sections 50-382 and 50-383 of Chapter 50 - Zoning - of the code of the City of East with the Binni’s. Revoke its liquor license. regulators — specifically because of the city’s Lansing to allow for the development of extended care nursing facilities on less than “As chief of police, it’s my job to ensure recent resolution in support of the license a five acre parcel without the requirement of also developing either single-family, two- that our police department maintains order, revocation — is set to review the bar’s abili- family or multiple family housing in the same development plan with an approved Special Use Permit in the RM-8, Planned Unit Development District. preserves public safety and fosters a better ty to serve drinks at a meeting next month. quality of life for those who live work and State records indicate the current license is 4. A public hearing will be held to consider Ordinance 1434: An ordinance to rezone the properties at 314, 328, 334, 340-344, and 341-345 Evergreen Avenue to revert the visit the Capital City,” Yankowski wrote to in escrow pending a successful ownership zoning on the properties from Conditional B3, City Center Commercial District to RM32, city officials. “Binni’s is not doing enough to transfer at the business. City Center Multiple-Family Residential and P, Parking. regulate the setting and proactively intercede “This isn’t even fair,” Love Singh add- 5. A public hearing will be held to consider Ordinance 1435: An ordinance to rezone altercations that occur.” ed. “They’re not even giving me a chance to the property at 341-345 Evergreen Avenue from RM32, City Center City Multiple-Family Authorities tracked nearly 50 calls for prove myself. … It has a bad past. I get that. Residential to Conditional B-3, City Center Commercial. service at the bar since 2016, according to I’m here to take it to a new light and make it a Call (517) 319-6930, the Department of Planning, Building and Development, East Lansing City Yankowski’s letter. A shooting was reported more family-friendly business. The problems Hall, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, for additional information. All interested persons will be given there on New Year’s Day. Another incident with the rap shows were bad. That’s not the an opportunity to be heard. These matters will be on the agenda for the next Planning Commission meeting after the public hearing is held, at which time the Commission may vote on them. The in March left a man with a bullet to his leg; demographic that I’m trying to go for any- Planning Commission's recommendations are then placed on the agenda of the next City Council Yankowski said the shooter is still at large. more.” meeting. The City Council will make the final decision on these applications. Other 911 calls included robbery, assault and A new lineup of Latin-inspired music aims The City of East Lansing will provide reasonable auxiliary aids and services, such as interpreters ethnic intimidation, among others. to attract a largely Mexican audience to the for the hearing impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered at the meeting, to The bar also faces unrelated liquor viola- bar, Love Singh said. individuals with disabilities upon request received by the City seven (7) calendar days prior to the meeting. Individuals with disabilities requiring aids or services should write or call the Planning tions, the letter continues. Yankowski said City Clerk Chris Swope said Council mem- Department, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI 48823. Phone: (517) 319-6930. TDD Number: 1-800- patrons have been able to sneak weapons bers ultimately don’t control the issuance 649-3777. past bouncers, customers have been harassed — or revocation — of liquor licenses but the Jennifer Shuster and neighbors have grown weary of the large recently passed resolution should help nudge City Clerk — and often raucous — crowds that have CP#18-158 8 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • July 5, 2018 ‘Probably profane’ Progressive leaders share first thoughts on Kennedy’s exit

Ruth Lednicer was in a meeting at to make access to abortion harder,” she train wreck” of political news. Supreme Court. Planned Parenthood of Michigan last said. “When abortion is still a constitu- “Reversals of progress for LGBT people, And it’s not just the Supreme Court that Wednesday when she received a surpris- tionally protected right and a legal med- marriage in particular, seemed unlikely is changing. ing text message: Supreme Court Justice ical procedure, many states, including with Kennedy on the court,” Dievendorf “This administration has an opportu- Anthony Kennedy was retiring. Michigan, have made it harder for women said. “Hearing that he is retiring was a blast nity to remake the federal courts,” Kaplan Across the country, like a prophetic to get access.” to that hope.” said. “President Trump has been able to flash-forward in a dystopian science fiction In Michigan, these legislative burdens Kennedy penned the 2015 decision get many of his nominations to the feder- movie, the news summoned up instanta- include a 24-hour waiting period, manda- declaring a constitutional right to same-sex al courts approved, and these are lifetime neous visions of hard-won protections tory counseling to discourage women from marriage, the 2003 ruling that invalidated appointments, and they affect a genera- for women, minorities and LGBT people, getting an abortion, and a requirement to Texas sodomy laws and several other semi- tion.” reversed in a finger snap. buy a separate insurance rider for abortion, nal rulings advancing LGBT rights. Is there a Plan B for the ACLU? The meeting came to a halt. which you have to buy before you’re preg- “LGBT rights would likely be consid- “I don’t know,” Kaplan said. “If it’s what “My first thoughts were probably nant — angrily dubbed “rape insurance” ered his legacy, right down to our ability to we think is going to happen, we’re going to unprintable,” Lednicer said. “It was some- by Democratic gubernatorial candidate legally show affection towards each other, have to rethink. We avoid our state courts thing we all knew could happen but I don’t Gretchen Whitmer. to have consensual sexual relationships,” as much as we can because we know what’s think any of us expected it to happen right In 1992, Kennedy was one of three jus- Dievendorf said. “He absolutely knows going to happen. If we have to adopt that now.” tices appointed by Republican presidents what is at stake and this could impact the kind of strategy with the federal courts, For Lednicer, director of media and com- (David Souter and Sandra Day O’Connor civil rights and progress of marginalized where do you go?” munications for Planned Parenthood, the were the other two) who surprised many people for generations. So a lot of us are The most obvious answer, for Kaplan, is news capped a bad week. The administra- observers by crafting a plurality opinion angry and scared.” the ballot box. tion of President Donald Trump had just in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which In the short term, Dievendorf’s strategy “Despite the challenges, there’s also proposed a rule that could prohibit doctors let Roe’s central holding stand. In 2016, is to concentrate on the process by which a opportunities,” Kaplan said. “This election who get federal family planning funding Kennedy was the swing vote in Whole new justice is selected and confirmed. is so important. More and more people are under Title X from referring their patients, Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which over- “LAHR will try to activate our senators, engaged and following it.” mostly low-income women, to abortion turned abortion restrictions in Texas that and not just on the Democratic side,” she Kaplan said the ACLU strongly supports providers. put an “undue burden” on a woman’s access said. “We’ll look for senators with an open the League of Women Voters’ “Promote the Like millions of others, Lednicer is gird- to abortion. ear about those who will be affected by Vote” campaign to pass a Voting Rights ing for a possible reversal of Roe v. Wade, Without Kennedy on the court, such their decision, who know the impact it will Amendment to the state’s Constitution. should the court tilt to the right. state-imposed restrictions are less likely to have.” The amendment would allow all registered “If Roe v. Wade were overturned, abor- be struck down at the federal level. That, Jay Kaplan of the American Civil voters to vote by absentee ballot, automat- tion would be illegal in Michigan,” she said Lednicer said, is a matter of life and death. Liberties Union of Michigan was in his ically register citizens to vote when the do . “Then you reach the point where people “We saw in Texas, when they put in the Detroit office when he heard Kennedy was business at the Secretary of State’s Office have to travel across the country.” really restrictive laws, unintended preg- retiring. and allow citizens to vote on or before There’s no doubt which way the wind is nancies skyrocketed, but more importantly, Kaplan said his first thoughts on hear- Election Day, among other things. blowing in state houses across the country. maternal mortality skyrocketed,” Lednicer ing the news were “probably profane.” The “Personally, I get depressed. I get wor- Lednicer has been tracking a long series of said. “Women were dying in childbirth nation’s court of last resort, the keystone ried,” Kaplan said. “You can just wallow legislative acts meant to “chip away” at Roe because they weren’t getting the care they of ACLU’s legal strategy for decades, may in this black hole of despair but we have v. Wade. needed. The right to access to safe and legal soon be no resort at all for the organiza- to look at the things we can do. There’s a “Over several years, we have seen actions abortion right now is definitely on the line.” tion’s underdog clients. tremendous opportunity in November but put in place in this country, state by state, Emily Dievendorf, president of the “It’s very difficult to successfully bring a people have to vote.” Lansing Association for Human Rights, civil rights claim in our state courts because Planned Parenthood’s Lednicer struck doesn’t remember where she was when she of the very conservative makeup of the the same note. She pointed to last month’s heard the news. For her, Kennedy’s retire- current Supreme Court and our Court of stunning referendum in Ireland. ment was just part of “watching a constant Appeals,” Kaplan said. “So you rely on your “Expat women flew in from all over to federal court many times to obtain justice.” vote, to make sure Ireland made abortion Kaplan said it’s now an “open question” legal for the first time ever,” she said. “This whether the ACLU will be able to bring can be a wake-up call for people who think successful claims through the federal that voting doesn’t really matter.” courts all the way up to the United States —LAWRENCE COSENTINO [email protected] 40 CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF MERIDIAN NOTICE OF POSTING OF TOWNSHIP BOARD MINUTES

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By SKYLER ASHLEY We can’t all have as dramatic a home- coming as Shelby Ann-Marie Miller. The Nashville-based, Portland-native country singer makes her way back to Michigan today for a performance on the main stage at Common Ground Music Festival. Since dropping the Miller to form her stage name, Shelby Ann-Marie at Anne-Marie, Common Ground 20, has been Auto Value Stage, July 5 carving her way 4:05 p.m. into the music Adado Riverfront Park For tickets visit: industry from www.commongroundfest.com a young age. She honed her singing chops as a child in her community church choir in Portland and is now on the positive end of what was once a long shot. “I knew I wanted to sing country when I saw Carrie Underwood on ‘American Idol.’ I was like, that is where I want to be,” Ann- Marie said. And so she took the first logical step to live up to Underwood. At just 15, the minimum age to compete, Ann-Marie was one of 30 contestants on season 13 of “American Idol.” She made her way past the strenuous audition rounds where many are mercilessly booted off. Courtesy photo As is often the case, the process was much Shelby Ann-Marie takes to Common Ground’s Auto Value Stage July 5. more exhausting than the convenient dra- Kim Bengel — a classic “guy who knows a young age became incredibly apparent. She the form of age-old sexist attitudes from matizations shown on television. guy that knows a guy” scenario. Bona fide found herself in the company of seasoned music executives. Ann-Marie notes being Starry-eyed? Try baggy-eyed from too country star Chace Rice was in need of an musicians that knew their way around the told “not to expect radio play” as a female much cheap coffee and reshoots. opening act for an upcoming show at Fifth bottle. country singer. But it’s hardly been a damp- “I think it was definitely different from Third Ballpark in Grand Rapids and Ann- “I remember doing schoolwork on the er on her spirit. what I thought it would be. You see what’s Marie fit the bill perfectly. way to shows. Everyone would be partying “The women are still coming back strong on TV and think ‘Oh she’s going to be “She said, ‘Hey, I saw this girl singing at and getting ready for the show, and I’d be and I feel like there’s more of them kind singing a couple of songs and having fun,’ Summer Fest. She’s really good, check out sitting there with my textbook,” Ann-Marie of powering together to get up there as an Ann-Marie said. “It was months of tryouts her Facebook!’ And so they ended up book- said. “It was a little bit different being the artist,” Ann-Marie said. “That’s why I real- before I even get in front of the judges, and ing me on that show,” Ann-Marie said. younger one in the crowd.” ly like Casey Musgraves so much, why I’ve tons of other tryouts in between.” Ann-Marie quickly scrambled together a After graduating, Ann-Marie spent a drawn so much from her — she doesn’t Ann-Marie’s mother Tina Miller, director backing band of older local musicians and year at home honing her song craft, grind- care. She was like, ‘I know my song’s not of marketing at Message Makers, only had stepped out onstage to a crowd of roughly ing out original compositions and deciding for the radio, like it’s better than the radio.’” glowing words for her daughter’s accom- 5,000. It was stark new territory for a sing- on a cohesive style to roll with. She was While Ann-Marie puts the finishing plishments. er used to television cameras and compar- making routine visits to Nashville, but had touches on her first release since the move “I’m extremely proud of her work ethic, atively minuscule audiences. Even though yet to make the move permanently. But to Nashville, she’s preparing to perform on she never gives up. She’s doing what she the days leading up to the gig were plagued eventually, the pull was too good to resist the main stage at Common Ground with loves,” Miller said. “The goal is for her to with preemptive stage fright, Ann-Marie and Ann-Marie used her manager Bengel’s Cale Dodds, Hunter Hayes and Kip Moore. be a positive voice in the industry — that’s delivered a performance worthy of the many Music City connections. She’s played the fest before and is more very important to her.” opportunity bestowed upon her. Ann-Marie, attending college via online than happy to make the return. The music industry has infamously high But while everything seemed to be look- courses, made the move and was no lon- “It’s just another one of those moments demands, especially of a young pop singer. ing up, Ann-Marie still had to juggle her ger the big local talent, but a musician in a that really humbles you.” In the end, despite not winning the main blossoming singing career with her final city of musicians, a needle in a needle stack. prize, the experience earned Ann-Marie a years of high school. But she views the change as a positive influ- valuable crash course in show business. “That concert my first day of junior year, ence, and a push into doing greater things. After leaving the show, her ambitions I spent half the day at school, and then I “It kind of humbled me a little bit. It just took a sharp turn toward performing orig- packed up my stuff. I had everything in my made me realize that everybody out here inal music. Covering old country and rock car to change and get ready for the show,” can sing, and everybody out here is super For a complete staples was old hat. It was time to get a Ann-Marie said. “It wasn’t necessarily a talented,” Ann-Marie said. “You have to Common Ground band and write some tunes. double life, but just handling two com- find what works for you and you have to Ann-Marie’s first major break post- pletely different schedules.” write good songs. There’s so much that goes Music Festival “American Idol” came when her music As she got into the routine of perform- into it besides just singing a cover song.” schedule, see page 13. was passed along to country promoter ing regularly at small bars and venues, her She’s dealt with tribulations, notably in 10 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • July 5, 2018 V Proudly announcing the 2017-2018 Pulsar nominees The ballots have been scoured, the scores have been never count out the stalwart Riverwalk Theatre or the All of the Lansing area’s community, professional or tallied. Finally, we are ready for the 2018 Pulsars. ever impressive Williamston Theatre. college theater groups were in contention. Pulsars do Leading the charge are the Owosso Community Players The winners will be announced at a dinner event on not cover children’s theater, high school theater, gala with 24 nominations and the MSU Department of Monday, July 16, at Urban Beat in Old Town. Tickets presentations, student showcases or workshop shows. Theatre with 23. are on sale at www.lansingcitypulse.com. To have been nominated, each play/musical was Pulsar Awards Following close behind is The biggest standouts this year are Owosso required to have been viewed and scored by three $20 Ixion Theatre Ensemble and Community Players’ “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” judges. This year’s judges were: Tom Helma, Kathy Monday, July 16 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. the LCC Theatre Program, Riverwalk Theatre’s “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” LCC Helma, David Winkelstern, Sue Winkelstern, Paul UrbanBeat Event Center with nine and 10 respective- Theatre Program’s “Coyote on a Fence” and MSU Wozniak, Mary Cusack, Ute von der Hayden, Erin 1213 Turner Road, Lansing www.urbanbeatevents.com ly. But, of course, one can Department of Theatre’s “Thus With a Kiss I Die.” Buitendorp and Meegan Holland. (517) 331-8440

Best Play • Karyn Perry, Riverwalk Theatre — “Monty Python’s • Karen Kangas Preston, Williamston Theatre— “Our • “Broke-ology” — Ixion Theatre Ensemble Spamalot” Lady of Poison” • “Coyote on a Fence” — LCC Theatre Program • Karen Vance, LCC Theatre Program — “Dog Act” • Chris Kennedy and Kristine Maier, Riverwalk • “Gidion’s Knot” — Ixion Theatre Ensemble • Brad Willcuts and Karen Vance, MSU Department Theatre — “Monty Python’s Spamalot” • “The Misanthrope” — MSU Department of Theatre of Theatre — “American Idiot” • Jenna Light, MSU Department of Theatre — “Dog • “Thus With a Kiss I Die” — MSU Department of Act” Theatre Best Set Design • Angela Wendelberger and Lucy Jane Wagenaar, • Brandon Barker, Ketura Bradford, T’Nia Burse, MSU — “Thus With a Kiss I Die” Best Musical Michael Gault, Mike Merluzzi and Nick Zoia, MSU • “9 to 5: The Musical” Department of Theatre — Best Hair and Makeup — Owosso Community “Thus With a Kiss I Die” • Lori Bailey-Smith, Riverwalk Theatre — “She Loves Players • Bob Fernholz, LCC Theatre Me” • “Falsettos” — Peppermint Program — “Coyote on a • Lori Bailey-Smith, Riverwalk Theatre — “Monty Creek Fence” Python’s Spamalot” • “Disney’s Beauty and the • Josh Holliday, Shelby • Jenna Light — “Dog Act” Beast” — Owosso Community Lindquist, Dirk Rennick and • Mallory Maxton, MSU Department of Theatre — Players Dan Wenzlick, Owosso “The Misanthrope” • “Monty Python’s Spamalot” Community Players — • Lucy Jane Wagenaar and Angela Wendelberger, — Riverwalk Theatre “Disney’s Beauty and the MSU Department of Theatre — “Thus With a Kiss I • “Murder for Two” Beast” Die” — Williamston Theatre • Ray Kelley, MSU Department of Theatre — “Dog Act” Best Original Script Best Director (Play) • Bob Nees, Riverwalk • Jennifer Maisel, Williamston Theatre — “Out of • Jeff Croff, Ixion Theatre Theatre— “She Loves Me” Orbit” Ensemble — “Broke-ology” • Rob Roznowski, MSU Department of Theatre • Mary Job, Over the Ledge Best Property Designer — “Thus With a Kiss I Die” • Stephen Spotswood, Theatre Co. — “Moon Over • Brandon Barker, MSU Williamston Theatre — “Doublewide” Buffalo” Department of Theatre — “The • Rob Roznowski, MSU “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” Misanthrope” Best Specialization Department of Theatre — • Linda Granger, Starlight • Sadonna Croff, ASL Coach, Riverwalk Theatre — “Thus With a Kiss I Die” Dinner Theatre — “Farce of “Scotland Road” • Dan Smith, MSU Department of Theatre — “The Habit” • Rachael Cupples, Vocal Director, Owosso Misanthrope” • Ray Kelley, LCC Theatre Program — “Dog Act” Community Players — “Disney’s Beauty and the • Paige Tufford, LCC Theatre Program — “Coyote on • Anna Owens, Mike Windnagle and Gail Worden, Beast” a Fence” Owosso Community Players — “Disney’s Beauty and • Connie Curran-Oesterle, Dialect Coach, Riverwalk the Beast” Theatre — “Monty Python’s Spamalot” Best Director (Musical) • Michelle Raymond, Williamston Theatre — “Murder • Alison Dobbins, Williamston Theatre— “Out of • Garrett Bradley, Owosso Community Players — for Two” Orbit” “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” • Matt Ottinger, Media Consultant, Riverwalk Theatre • Ben Cassidy, Peppermint Creek — “Falsettos” Best Sound — “Monty Python’s Spamalot” • Meghan Eldred-Woolsey, Riverwalk Theatre — • Julia Garlotte, Williamston Theatre — “Our Lady of “She Loves Me” Poison” Best Actor (Play) • Bob Purosky, Riverwalk Theatre — “Monty Python’s • Griffin Irish, LCC Theatre Program — “Dog Act” • Michael Banghart, LCC Theatre Program — Spamalot” • John Lepard, Williamston Theatre — “Murder for “Coyote on a Fence” • Rob Roznowski, Williamston Theatre — “Murder for Two” • Rico Bruce Wade, Ixion Theatre Ensemble — Two” • Jason Painter Price, MSU Department of Theatre “Broke-ology” — “Thus With a Kiss I Die” • David Dunckel, Over the Ledge Theatre Co. Best Musical Direction • Chelle Peterson, LCC Theatre Program — “Coyote — “Moon Over Buffalo” • Jillian Boots, Owosso Community Players — on a Fence” • Matt Greenbaum, MSU Department of Theatre “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” — “The Misanthrope” • Angie Constien-Schwab, Peppermint Creek — “I Best Lighting Design • Ben Guenther, LCC Theatre Program — “Coyote Love You Because” • Deanna Da Silva, Owosso Community Players — on a Fence” • Nick Frederick, Owosso Community Players — “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” “The Full Monty” • Bob Fernholz, LCC Theatre Program — “Coyote on Best Actress (Play) • John Dale Smith, Riverwalk Theatre — “Monty a Fence” • Janette Angelini, MSU Department of Theatre Python’s Spamalot” • Alex Gay, Williamston Theatre — “Murder for Two” — “The Misanthrope” • John Dale Smith, Peppermint Creek — “Falsettos” • Freddy Pacolin, MSU Department of Theatre — • Janet Colson, Ixion Theatre Ensemble — “Gidion’s “Dog Act” Knot” Best Choreography • Shannon Schweitzer and Nick Zoia, MSU • Sara Frank-Hepfer, Ixion Theatre Ensemble — • Garrett Bradley and Erica Duffield, Owosso Department of Theatre — “Thus With a Kiss I Die” “Gidion’s Knot” Community Players — “Disney’s Beauty and the • Cassie Little, Riverwalk Theatre — “Scotland Road” Beast” Best Costume Design • Emily Sutton-Smith, Williamston Theatre — “Out of • Garrett Bradley and Erica Duffield, Owosso • Violet Jones, MSU Department of Theatre — “The Orbit” Community Players — “9 to 5: The Musical” Misanthrope” City Pulse • July 5, 2018 www.lansingcitypulse.com 11

Best Supporting Actor (Play) V • Daniel Bonner, Ixion Theatre Ensemble — “Broke-ology” • Jeff Magnuson, Riverwalk Theatre — “Buried Child” • Zach Riley, Over the Ledge Theatre Co.— “Moon Over Buffalo” • Heath Sartorius, Over the Ledge Theatre Co. — “The Tropical Pickle” • LeKeathon Wilson, Ixion Theatre Ensemble — “Broke-ology” “Monty Python’s Spamalot”

Best Supporting Actress (Play) Players – “Disney’s Beauty and the You are cordially invited • Sandra Birch — “Beau Jest” Beast” • Rachael Cupples, Owosso • Christine Ciucanu, Peppermint Creek to the Community Players — “Vanya and — “I Love You Because” Sonia and Masha and Spike” • Leah Gerstel, Peppermint Creek — 2018 • Tyra Hight, Ixion Theatre Ensemble “Falsettos” — “Broke-ology” • Kathryn Mulcahy, Riverwalk Theatre • Diana Lett, Over the Ledge Theatre — “Monty Python’s Spamalot” Co. — “Moon Over Buffalo” • Andrea Wollenberg, Williamston • Amy Winchell, Owosso Community Theatre — “Murder for Two” Players — “Rabbit Hole” Best Supporting Actor (Musical) Best Featured Actress (Play) • Vinnie Lindquist, Owosso Community • JaNay Duncan, Over the Ledge Players — “Disney’s Beauty and the Theatre Co. — “Moon Over Buffalo” Beast” • Katelyn Hodge, MSU Department of • Boris Nikolovski, Riverwalk Theatre— Presented by Theatre — “The Misanthrope” “Monty Python’s Spamalot” • Janet Lockwood, Riverwalk Theatre • Issac Orr, Riverwalk Theatre — “She — “Scotland Road” Loves Me” • Taylor Rupp, Owosso Community • Zach Riley, Riverwalk Theatre — Players — “Vanya and Sonia and “Monty Python’s Spamalot” Masha and Spike” • Michaael Windnagle, Owosso Honoring Local Theater • Eljiro, Victoria, Williamston Theatre — Community Players — “Beauty and the “Out of Orbit” Beast” 5:30 p.m., Monday, July 16, at Best Featured Actor (Play) Best Supporting Actress (Musical) • Jim Coyer, Over the Ledge Theatre • Janette Angelini, MSU Department of Co. — “Moon Over Buffalo” Theatre — “American Idiot” • Peter James Florian, MSU • Shelby Antel, MSU Department of Department of Theatre — “The Theatre — “American Idiot” Misanthrope” • Stephanie Banghart, Owosso • Mark Polzin, Riverwalk Theatre — Community Players — “Disney’s “Scotland Road” Beauty and the Beast” • Nicholas Richardson, Owosso • Alissa Britten, Owosso Community Community Players — “Rabbit Hole” Players — “Disney’s Beauty and the • Steven Wulfekuhle, Riverwalk Beast” 1217 Turner Street Theatre — “Scotland Road” • Rachel Raymer, Peppermint Creek — “I Love You Because” $20 per person, Best Actor (Musical) • Matt Eldred, Peppermint Creek– Best Featured Actor (Musical) $10 for 12 and under “Falsettos” • Ken Beachler, Riverwalk Theatre — • Ben Holzhausen, Riverwalk Theatre “Monty Python’s Spamalot” Includes dinner and live — “Monty Python’s Spamalot” • Edric Haleen, Riverwalk Theatre — • Issac Orr, Owosso Community “She Loves Me” entertainment by Jeff English. Players — “Disney’s Beauty and the • Jake Przybyla, Owosso Community Tickets must be purchased by Beast” Players — “The Full Monty” • Jake Przybyla, Peppermint Creek — • Greg Martin, Owosso Community Thursday, July 12 at 5p.m. “I Love You Because” Players — “Disney’s Beauty and the • Mark Schenfisch, Williamston Theatre Beast” — “Murder for Two” • Evan Worden, Owosso Community Players — “Disney’s Beauty and the Best Actor (Musical) Beast” Visit • Claire Canfield, Owosso Community Best Ensemble (Play) • “Elephant’s Graveyard” — Over the lansingcitypulse.com Ledge Theatre Co. • “Our Lady of Poison” — Williamston Theatre to purchase tickets • “The Taming” — Williamston Theatre • “The Home Team” — Riverwalk Theatre • “Thus With a Kiss I Die” — MSU Department of Theatre

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Upbeat downbeat Work begins on MSU’s $35 million Music Pavilion By LAWRENCE COSENTINO proofing, he started to miss his high school Schmoozing VIPs crowded a drab in Minnesota. rehearsal hall at the MSU Music Building “It’s a white box with a piano and you Wednesday, munching ham sandwiches. hear 20 other people practicing, like they’re Piano student Jared Burseth threaded his in the room with you,” he said. way through the big shots to eye a set of With more than 600 music majors and color renderings. 2,000 non-majors who take music classes, Images courtesy MSU College of Music Burseth didn’t seem to notice that a the College of Music has outgrown its old Top right: MSU’s new Music Pavilion, an extension and renovation of the existing music few feet away, MSU Interim President building, but there’s more to the story than building, is expected to be finished by the end of 2019. John Engler was posing for photos with that. The last major addition to the original 101-year-old arts patron Selma Hollander 1940 building was made in 1956. Left and bottom right: Three spacious rehearsal halls, and a renovation of an existing and College of Music Dean James Forger. Rodney Whitaker, director of Jazz hall, will accommodate the College of Music’s 12 ensembles and combat hearing damage The big shots were busy basking in the Studies, said he “literally cried” when he caused by poorly designed, cramped rehearsal areas. announcement, made that afternoon that heard the project was finally a go. Whitaker Whitaker said. “It allows us to have multi- Construction will begin with the demo- a new, 37,000-square-foot Music Pavilion is more responsible than anyone for the ple rehearsals at the same time.” lition of Hart Recital Hall on the west end — a combination of new spaces and reno- burgeoning numbers and prestige of the In the new space, faculty members who of the building. (Engler told the group to vation of the old — was a go. College of Music. teach loud instruments, like percussion, expect “a symphony of heavy machinery” in Outside, on the grassy field just west of “Some of us have sustained hearing loss will have larger rehearsal spaces. the coming months.) The new building will the 1940 music building, surveyors were because the facility wasn’t built to modern Former MSU trustee Dolores Cook, extend west and south toward West Circle already laying out stakes and stringing out specs,” Whitaker said. “Most rooms aren’t namesake of the Cook Recital Hall and Drive and attach to the façade of the cur- the boundaries of the new space. high enough and there’s no place for the co-chair of the campaign that raised pri- rent building. The project is on a fast track, The airy practice rooms, rehearsal halls sound to go.” vate money for the project, was more fired with completion expected in 18 months. and gathering spaces for students looked Climate control is nonexistent. “When up than anyone. Choral director David Rayl said his choirs spiffy but fairly functional on the easels, winter comes, instruments crack and peo- “This feels like Christmas,” she said. “It will use the existing, renovated rehearsal but Burseth, his fellow students and MSU ple spend a lot of money repairing instru- has been a long journey. There were days hall, only with state-of-the-art acoustics. faculty scrutinized them avidly, like a unit ments,” Whitaker said. when we thought this would not happen, For years, they’ve had to walk across cam- of heart surgeons who will no longer have A contingent of faculty members helped and we had changes in what we could rea- pus —rain, shine or snow — to rehearse to operate out of a barn. draw up the plans for the new building. sonably expect.” onstage at Fairchild Theatre. The first time Burseth squeezed into a With 12 ensembles in the college, Whitaker Cook said the campaign has raised $11.3 “The practice rooms are going to be so practice room at MSU and played an old said, three rehearsal spaces were needed. million in the past 14 months, with $6.2 much better, the facilities for band, percus- upright piano, without benefit of sound- “That will affect our whole schedule,” million left to reach its goal of $17.5 mil- sion — all transformative,” Rayl said. “The lion. The university will match that sum to current practice room situation is grim. In meet the project’s total cost of $35 million. midday, there are sometimes lines of stu- dents waiting to get in. They’re cramped and the acoustics are terrible.” Home of the World Famous Sizzler Correction “If you don’t get out of classes early, In the June 20, 2018 issue of City there’s a line down the hall and you might Pulse, Dr. Patrick Hennessey was as well scrap your practice session,” mello- incorrectly identified as the Best phone player Nikki Sanford said. Chiropractor. Creative Wellness’ Dr. The building has been a stumbling block 1/2 OFF Megan Patrick is the rightful winner of to recruitment for years, even as the num- LUNCH OR this award. See Music, Page 19 DINNER Buy one lunch or dinner and recieve a 2nd of equal or lesser value for 1/2 off Valid Sunday-Thursday Only. Dine-In Only. Valid with coupon only. Not valid with any other offers or discounts. Expires 8/15/18. 5000 N. 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the ability to take a pencil and crayon in my hand and do drawings, so I took art classes Meet the artist: Shawn Green in high school. By the time I went to the Art Institute of Atlanta, I already had the ability By BRIANNE TWIDDY When I got there I learned the designers and to draw so they taught me the technicalities A woman lays on the ground, eyes closed their styles and thought that’s the way want- of it. They taught me the professional tools — bright red sunglasses perched near her ed to go. I did some modeling, movies and you’d need and about different mediums. I head. Her eyes are painted a bright purple, pageants on national and local levels, and I took classes and tried everything I could get and there’s a large tattoo visible on her incorporated that into my artwork. I went to my hands on. I ended up experimenting and shoulder. Her name is “Bathing Beauty,” school because I thought I was going to go putting everything I learned together, and and she is just one of Lansing artist Shawn into fashion full-time and become a fashion “Bathing Beauty” is a result of that. Green’s paintings that blend fashion with designer. As I got older and continued going Where can people find your artwork? art. to school, I shifted more toward the busi- I don’t currently have my work displayed, Green, who primarily works with markers, ness aspect, but I never got away from art. but I’ve had it shown in art galleries like pastels and colored pencils, describes her That’s the kind of person I am. I love fashion Atlanta, Houston, New York, Las Vegas and artistic style as “colorful and contemporary.” and makeup — the whole works. East Lansing. I designed a book cover for “What keeps me inspired is how many How did you find your passion for art and Courtesy photo the Michigan Health and Human Services beautiful things there are out there,” she fashion? Green and her daughter Shayla. training manual. My artwork is also on my said. “I love to capture the beauty of life. I have always been fascinated about color clothing line, which can be found at shopvi- There’s a lot of bad things, but there’s so models in magazines wearing extraordinary and fashion from a very early age. Living in da.com/collections/shawngreen601. much beauty and I like to capture that in the household with four sisters, and having designs, and I used to day dream that I was my drawings.” to share each others clothing, prompted the designer, and they were wearing my What kinds of “beautiful” things do you me to dream about having my own things clothes. I began to draw models at an early try to capture in your art? that I didn’t have to share. I used to sit and age and use all kinds of mediums like pen- Call for submissions I’m a very fashion-oriented person, I love daydream about becoming a model and cil, markers, acrylic paint, water colors and This summer, City Pulse will feature fashion — I actually went to school for it. living in Paris. I used to see these beautiful color pastels. local art on our cover for up to eight How does fashion influence your art? issues: June 27-Aug. 29, excluding our Fashion spills over into my artwork. It’s Aug. 15 anniversary issue. Submission fascinating to me. I love the colors and see- guidelines: Anyone living in Ingham, ing photographer take pictures to capture Eaton or Clinton counties may submit the moment. Seeing the angles and colors in entries. Artists agree to give the originals the background inspires me. I take that and to the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, capitalize on it, making it into something which places them in the silent auction that I can work with. at its annual Holiday Glitter fundraiser. Tell me about a time you saw something The artists receive 30 percent. SCHEDULE that inspired you and made it your own. Submissions should be print quality With “Bathing Beauty,” I added more to (300 dpi). her than what the original looked like. I cap- The available space is 10.25 inches THURSDAY SATURDAY italized on that and added more style to it — wide by 6.5 inches high. Your art need not be exactly that, but it needs to be a Auto Value Stage Auto Value Stage bright red sunglasses and the magazine cov- rectangle of roughly those proportions er next to her. I get inventive. 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Between While writing in Paris in 1921, Ernest for summer vacation in northern Michigan 1921 and 1933, Hemingway wrote numer- Hemingway pondered his time spent in at Walloon Lake near Petoskey. The sights, ous short stories that appeared in mag- Michigan. the sounds and the people he encountered azines, but it wasn’t until 1972 that the In the book “Moveable Feast” he wrote, “It as he grew into a young man would become stories were collected in “The Nick Adams was a pleasant café, the basis for his later writing. Stories.” Through his short stories, best contained The collection would be a good place The Hemingway warm and clean and friendly … I in the collection “The Nick Adams Stories,” to start if you plan a northern Michigan Petoskey Tour was writing about Hemingway helped create the whole “up Hemingway tour. Hemingway takes you and The Nick Adams up in Michigan north” experience. into the woods and fishing streams near Country Tour and since it was a Today, it’s possible to walk metaphorical- Petoskey in these seminal short stories. For a map of the tours visit: wild, cold blowing ly “in the shoes” of the young Hemingway A 2010 book “Picturing Hemingway’s www.mihemingwaytour.com To book a tour visit: day it was that sort in a self-guided walking and driving tour of Michigan,” by author and Hemingway www.petoskeymuseum.org of day in the sto- downtown Petoskey. expert Michael Federspiel, is another excel- ry … Maybe away Under the guiding light of the Michigan lent way to learn about how much northern from Paris I could write about Paris as in Hemingway Society, 15 sites were select- Michigan meant to Hemingway. Paris I could write about Michigan.” ed as important and germane to the later The young Hemingway’s time in Beginning in 1899, and continuing until writing of Ernest Hemingway. Each site is Michigan coincided with advent of popular labeled with a bronze marker detailing the photography, so his excursions are well doc- site’s connection to Hemingway and his umented. There are numerous photographs SCHULER BOOKS writing. For example, the Annex on Lake of the young Hemingway swimming, fish- Street was a popular saloon and billiard ing and playing with his sisters. &MUSIC hall; the marker details that Hemingway The bustling downtown of Petoskey,

reportedly played billiards and watched filled with tourists looking for trinkets and Bill Castanier/City Pulse Magic Free Play bare-knuckled boxing in the Pennsylvania fudge, would seem strange to Hemingway, A statue of Ernest Hemingway stands Park across the street. who knew it as a rough and ready place to in Petoskey, one of many tributes to the Tue., July 10 from 6-8pm The sign also speculates the Annex was drink, romance women, hunt, fish and get author in the Northern Michigan city. the inspiration for his short story “A Man married. Bring a deck and play in a casual, of the World.” Two sites on the tour, Pinehurst and Ladies Aid Society in 1919 with his war friendly environment. Beginners A statue of Hemingway was erected in Shangri-La, recognize his marriage to his experiences, Jesperson’s Restaurant, a welcome! Commander (EDH) is the park in 2017, as a tribute to the time first wife Hadley Richardson. References Hemingway favorite and Bay View’s Evelyn the most popular format choice. he spent in Petoskey. The statue is based to the Pinehurst and Shangri-La appear Hall, Hemingway’s alleged winter writ- Additionally, all attendees receive 20% on a famous 1919 photograph taken while in his short stories “Up in Michigan,” and ing haunt. The Little Traverse Historical of all Magic and related products. Hemingway was recuperating from injuries “Summer People.” Nearby is another stop — Museum also has exhibits dedicated to he received in Italy during WWI. the Horton Bay General Store, frequented Hemingway’s times in the Petoskey area. The photo shows a slim and young by the young Hemingway for penny candy. Pout Pout Fish author Hemingway bundled in a leather winter A good place to end the tour is the Annex, DEBORAH DIESEN presents jacket, holding a briefcase and leaning on a now the City Park Grill, where you can enjoy Pippa and Percival, cane. A bottle of wine can be seen peeking lunch and tip one to Hemingway. Following Author Tim Wendel to speak Pancake and Poppy from his right pocket. lunch, it’s only a short walk up Lake Street at City Pulse Book Club The creator of the statue edited out the to McLean and Eakin, a local bookstore Tim Wendel, author “The Summer wine bottle, replacing it with what appears which stocks Hemingway’s books. McLean of ’68: The Season that Changed Saturday, July 14 @ 11am to be a notebook. On the day we visited, our and Eakin is a great place to hang out, and Baseball and America Forever,” will guides pointed out the pocket was filled to during the summer months the store hosts join the July meeting of the City Pulse Join NYT-bestselling picture book the top with water from a recent rain. several author events featuring major writ- Book Club by Skype for a discussion author Deborah Diesen for a story One quipped “his iPad is getting soaked.” ers. of his book about the championship time of her newest book, Pippa and Percival, Pancake and Poppy: Four Along the tour, which will require driving Other sites on the tour: the Carnegie season of the Detroit Tigers. Also, Peppy Puppies! Told in bouncing, to Walloon Lake and Horton Bay, you will Library, where Hemingway regaled the Award-winning rolling rhyme, this sweet story is sure baseball research- to capture the hearts of little dog er and writer Peter lovers everywhere. Morris will be a We Have guest. Morris is Booked: True Crime the author of nine Your books, including Book Club Meeting the acclaimed “ 20% OFF Summer Game of Inches: Tuesday, July 17 @ 7pm The Stories behind General Fiction paperbacks and the Innovations This month, Booked is reading Anne Reading! that Shaped Baseball.” Perry and the Murder of the Century by hardbacks through July 10th! Peter Graham. Each month’s selection The club will meet at 7 p.m. will be 20% off and featured on our Thursday, July 12, at City Pulse, 1905 book group table Curious Book Shop Archives Book Shop E. Michigan Ave. Parking is available 307 E. Grand River * E. Lansing 519 W. Grand River * E. Lansing on the street and behind the building. Located in the Meridian Mall 332-0112 * We validate parking! 332-8444 * Free Parking! Space is limited so please RSVP by 1982 W. Grand River Ave., Okemos Mon - Sat 10 - 8, Sun 12 - 5 Mon - Sat 11 - 6, Sun 12 - 5 emailing [email protected] or www.curiousbooks.com [email protected] calling (517) 449-8771. www.SchulerBooks.com City Pulse • July 5, 2018 www.lansingcitypulse.com 15

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FAMILY CRAFT TIME. From 10:30 to 11 a.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East Lansing. TOWN (517) 351-2420. Events must be entered through the calendar at lansingcitypulse.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. ARTS Wednesdays for the following week’s issue. CHARM BANGLE. From 6 to 8 p.m. $45 per person. Charges may apply for paid events to appear Delphi Glass, 3380 E Jolly Rd. Lansing. 1-800-248- in print. If you need assistance, please call 2048. Ella at (517) 999-6704. KIDS ART WITH IRINA. From 12 to 1 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East Lansing. Thursday, July 05 (517) 351-2420. Saturday, July 07 CLASSES-AND-SEMINARS MUSIC (TOPS) TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY . At 6 p.m. First meeting FREE.. Haslett Middle School, 1535 Franklin SYNC 3. From 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. $7 pre-sale, $10 day Friday, July 6 St. Haslett. of. 18+. Mac's Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave. Lansing. (517) 484-6795. A COURSE IN MIRACLES. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Love offering.. Unity Spiritual Center of Lansing, 230 S. EVENTS By SHRUTI SARIPALLI IMDB. Holmes Lansing. 517-371-3010. The World War I story of a group of The movie also has internationally TEA TALKS. From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Free. Delta EARLY MORNING MEDITATION. From 7 to 8 a.m. Township Library, 5130 Davenport Drive Lansing. French women who came together to recognized names attached to it like FREE. Creative Wellness, 2025 Abbot Road, # 200 (517)-321-4014. tend to a farm while the men fought director Xavier Beauvois. One of East Lansing. Heartfulness Meditation. From 4 to 5 is relevant and relatable to this day. Beauvois’ earlier films, “Of Gods and p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot ARTS Road East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. The tale is recounted in the highly Men,” claimed the prestigious Grand FUSING FORUM. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. FREE. Delphi acclaimed and appreciated French Prix prize at the Cannes Film Festival. NIA. From 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Cost: $12 per class Glass, 3380 E Jolly Rd. Lansing. 1-800-248-2048. or purchase a 'Class Card' for 8 classes for $80.. movie “The Guardians,” which comes “The Guardians” is performing Creative Wellness, 2025 Abbot Road, # 200 East Sunday, July 08 to Lansing Celebration Cinema July 6. considerably well commercially in the Lansing. “We felt that its story of women United States after Music Box Films CLASSES-AND-SEMINARS SPANISH CONVERSATION. From 7 to 8 p.m. FREE. banding together in a hostile world had acquired it for the American market. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East JUGGLING. From 2 to 4 p.m. FREE. Orchard Street uncommon contemporary relevance,” “The theatrical market for foreign Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Pumphouse, 368 Orchard St. East Lansing. said said Brian Andreotti, director of film is at a low ebb right now, but MUSIC Monday, July 09 theatrical distribution and acquisition we’ve found success by acquiring at Music Box Films. quality films that deserve to be seen JAZZ THURSDAYS WITH HAPPENSTANCE. From 7 to CLASSES-AND-SEMINARS “The 9 p.m. UrbanBeat Event Center, 1213 Turner St. The movie will on the big screen,” said Andreotti. Lansing. Guardians” A COURSE OF LOVE. From 1 to 2 p.m. Love offering. Opens Friday, July 6 be showcased as a “Sometimes a film makes sense as Unity Spiritual Center of Lansing, 230 S. Holmes Celebration Cinema part of the Indie Film an acquisition because of a notable MUSIC IN THE GARDEN FEAT. THREE MEN & A Lansing. 517-371-3010. 200 E. Edgewood TENOR. From 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Veterans Memorial Blvd., Lansing Series at Celebration director like Beauvois, or because of Gardens Amphitheater, 2074 Aurelius Road Holt. 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(517) 351-2420. 9 a.m. to noon This class does have an increased cost due to the cost of components for this otherwise are not official selection at 2018 COLCOA GAMES AT THE MERIDIAN SENIOR CENTER (SEE workshop. being told – stories French Film Festival. DESCRIPTIONS FOR DATES AND TIMES). From 12:30 tinkrLAB Member: $349.00 we need to hear,” said Eric Kuiper, “Our team caught ‘The Guardians’ at to 4 p.m. Bingo and Bridge- $1 - $2 per person to Not Yet Member: $399.00 play. Meridian Senior Center, 4406 Okemos Road Prices increases after 5/1/18. tinkrLAB, Meridian the chief creative officer of the Grand the Toronto International Film Festival Okemos. Mall, 1982 W Grand River Okemos. 517-233-1524. Rapids-based Celebration Cinema. and we immediately pursued acquiring The movie has already made a it. It’s also the kind of film that needs to GRASSROOTS PHILOSOPHY. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. EVENTS Free!. Kelly's Downtown, 220 S. 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Jonesin' Crossword By Matt Jones Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezsny July 5-July 10, 2018

"You Are Correct"--some Aries (March 21-April 19) Twentieth-century French prize more precious than knowing your calling? well-known pairings. novelist Marcel Proust described nineteenth-century Can any other satisfaction compare with the joy of Across novelist Gustave Flaubert as a *trottoire roulant*, understanding why you're here on earth? In my view, 1 "Silicon Valley" or "rolling sidewalk": plodding, toneless, droning. it's the supreme blessing: to have discovered the co-creator Mike Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust's tasks that can ceaselessly educate and impassion 6 Bacon portion writing to an "electric generator" from which flows you; to do the work or play that enables you to offer 10 Duck out of sight a "powerful current always ready to shock not only your best gifts; to be intimately engaged with an 14 "News" site with "Area our morality but our very sense of humanity." In activity that consistently asks you to overcome your Man" headlines, with the coming weeks, I encourage you to find a middle limitations and grow into a more complete version "The" ground between Flaubert and Proust. See if you of yourself. For some people, their calling is a job: 15 Military assistant can be moderately exciting, gently provocative, marine biologist, kindergarten teacher, advocate 16 Cain's brother and amiably enchanting. My analysis of the cosmic for the homeless. For others, it's a hobby, like 17 Sudden shocks rhythms suggests that such an approach is likely to long-distance-running, bird-watching, or mountain- 18 Shred produce the best long-term results. climbing. St. Therese of Lisieux said, "My calling is Taurus (April 20-May 20) You remind me of Jack, love!" Poet Marina Tsvetaeva said her calling was "To 19 Film spool, back when that was still a thing the nine-year-old Taurus kid next door, who took up listen to my soul." Do you know yours, Libra? Now is skateboarding on the huge trampoline his two moms an excellent time to either discover yours or home in 20 Capital served by Gardermoen Airport put in their backyard. Like him, you seem eager to further on its precise nature. 21 Classic Nickelodeon travel in two different modes at the same time. (And Scorpio (October 23-November 21) Have you game show with a 2018 I'm glad to see you're being safe; you're not doing the entertained any high-quality fantasies about faraway reboot equivalent of, say, having sex in a car or breakdancing treasures lately? Have you delivered inquiring 23 Redolence on an escalator.) When Jack first began, he had communiqués to any promising beauties who may 25 Delivery people made difficulty in coordinating the bouncing with the rolling. ultimately offer you treats? Have you made long- obsolete by refrigeration But after a while he got good at it. I expect that you, distance inquiries about speculative possibilities that 26 With 44-Across, too, will master your complex task. could be inclined to travel in your direction from their getting punished for Gemini (May 21-June 20) From the day you were frontier sanctuaries? Would you consider making one's actions born, you have been cultivating a knack for mixing some subtle change in yourself so that you're no 31 Singer/actress Grande and blending. Along the way, you have accomplished longer forcing the call of the wild to wait and wait and 32 Anise-flavored liqueur mergers that would have been impossible for a wait? 33 Z, in New Zealand 62 Disney film set in founder Wilber Kingdom" extra lot of other people. Some of your experiments in Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) If a down-to- 36 Wilder's "Young China 11 Letter-shaped girder 40 Fix eggs, in a way amalgamation are legendary. If my astrological earth spiritual teacher advised you to go on a five- Frankenstein" costar 63 Pt. of CBS or CNS 12 Big name in farm 41 Away for a while assessments are accurate, the year 2019 will day meditation retreat in a sacred sanctuary, would 37 One of the 64 Ambulance team, machinery 42 Itty littermates bring forth some of your all-time most marvelous you instead spend five days carousing with meth Kardashians briefly combinations and unifications. I expect you are even addicts in a cheap hotel? If a close friend confessed 13 Pompeo of "Grey's 43 Out of commission 38 Dungeons & Dragons 65 Word that's Anatomy" (abbr.) now setting the stage for those future fusions; you are a secret she had concealed from everyone for years, equipment considered an building the foundations that will make them natural would you unleash a nervous laugh and change the 21 She has a singing 44 Tennis racket string alternative to the last backpack subject? If you read a horoscope that told you now 39 Brewhouse brew word of each theme material, once and inevitable. What can you do in the coming weeks 40 Unfavorable audience phrase 22 Canyon effect 45 Borough for JFK to further that preparation? is a favorable time to cultivate massive amounts of reaction Down 24 Relaxation room Airport Cancer (June 21-July 22) An open letter to Cancerians reverence, devotion, respect, gratitude, innocence, 42 "I Would Die 4 U" 26 "Beowulf," for one 46 Sunburn-relieving from Rob Brezsny's mother, Felice: I want you to know and awe, would you quickly blank it out of your mind singer 1 Mojo ___ ("Powerpuff Girls" villain) 27 ___ Mountains plants that I played a big role in helping my Cancerian son and check your Instagram and Twitter accounts on 44 See 26-Across 2 Ones, in Juarez (dividers of Europe and 47 Overly sedimental? become the empathetic, creative, thoughtful, crazy your phone? Asia) character he is today. I nurtured his idiosyncrasies. 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Aquarius (January 20- February 18) Allergies, irritants, 61 Ego-driven 10 Fast-food chain 38 "Jurassic World: Fallen reruns of "Reba" Leo (July 23-August 22) The ghost orchid is a rare stings, hypersensitivities: sometimes you can make white wildflower that disappeared from the British these annoyances work in your behalf. For example, ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords • For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to countryside around 1986. The nation's botanists my allergy to freshly-cut grass meant that when I was a your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Ans wers Page 18 declared it officially extinct in 2005. But four years teenager, I never had to waste my Saturday afternoons later, a tenacious amateur located a specimen growing mowing the lawn in front of my family's suburban home. in the West Midlands area. The species wasn't gone And the weird itching that plagued me whenever I got forever, after all. I foresee a comparable revival for into the vicinity of my first sister's fiancé: If I had paid SUDOKU ADVANCED you in the coming weeks, Leo. An interesting influence attention to it, I wouldn't have lent him the $350 that he or sweet thing that you imagined to be permanently never repaid. So my advice, my itchy friend, is to be TO PLAY defunct may return to your life. Be alert! thankful for the twitch and the prickle and the pinch. In Virgo (August 23-September 22) The ancient Greek the coming days, they may offer you tips and clues that poet Sappho described "a sweet-apple turning could prove valuable. Fill in the grid so that every red high on the tip of the topmost branch." The Pisces (February 19-March 20) Are you somehow apple pickers left it there, she suggested, but not growing younger? Your stride seems bouncier and row, column, and outlined because they missed seeing it. It was just too high. your voice sounds more buoyant. Your thoughts seem 3-by-3 box contains the "They couldn't reach it," wrote Sappho. Let's use fresher and your eyes brighter. I won't be surprised this scenario as a handy metaphor for your current if you buy yourself new toys or jump in mud puddles. numbers 1 through 9 exactly situation, Virgo. I am assigning you the task of What's going on? Here's my guess: you're no longer doing whatever is necessary to fetch that glorious, willing to sleepwalk your way through the most boring once. No guessing is required. seemingly unobtainable sweet-apple. It may not be things about being an adult. You may also be ready to The solution is unique. easy. You'll probably need to summon extra ingenuity wean yourself from certain responsibilities unless you to reach it, as well as some as-yet unguessed form can render them pleasurable at least some of the time. of help. (The Sappho translation is by Julia Dubnoff.) I hope so. It's time to bring more fun and games into Answers on page 18 Libra (September 23-October 22) Is there any your life.

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Created at New York City’s Vampire Cowboy’s Theatre Company, “Men of Steel,” comes from the playwright who drafted “She Kills Monsters” and has been described as a “superhero story for adults.”

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A survey of Lansing’s Musical LAndscape TURN IT D WNBy RICH TUPICA Past Tense at Kittel & Co. Listener at at The Robin Thur., July 5 Sat., July 7 The Avenue Café Fri., July 13 Mac’s Bar Theatre

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Thursday, July 5 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Saturday, July 7 @ The Avenue Café, 2021 E. Friday, July 13 @ The Robin Theatre, 1105 S Ave., Lansing. All ages, $12, $10 adv., 6:30 p.m. Michigan Ave., Lansing. 21+, $5, 8 p.m. Washington Ave., Lansing. All ages, 8 p.m.

Listener, a Kansas City-based rock band, combines Local old-school metal crusaders Past Tense headline and Brooklyn-based fiddler, violinist and composer Jeremy the grittiness of Americana and Southern rock with a night of heavy sounds Saturday at The Avenue Café— Kittel has composed or collaborated with a diverse the poeticism of spoken word, ardently delivered by warming up the stage are After the Minor (Flint-based batch of artists—from My Morning Jacket and Bela vocalist/bassist Dan Smith. What began as Smith’s metalcore) and Loa (Lansing-based “Southern sludge”). Fleck to Yo-Yo Ma and Abigail Washburn. The Saline, solo act in 2002 swiftly evolved into a full-on “talk The event doubles as a head-banging birthday bash for Mich.-native was a five-year member of the Grammy music” band comprising Kris Rochelle on drums and Past Tense bassist and founding member Banzai Ryan. winning Turtle Island Quartet and has also gigged and Jon Terrey on guitar. A year later, the band issued a Back in August, Past Tense debuted a music video for “Let recorded as a solo artist. This year, he debuted his self-titled disc, and followed it up with 2005’s “Ozark the Sin Begin,” an old-school metal-inspired tune off the new band: Kittel & Co. Friday, July 13, the band of Empire.” In 2010, the “Wooden Heart” LP garnered band’s forthcoming LP, due out this year. As for the band’s virtuoso string players headline an intimate gig at the buzz after the title track’s music video racked up over genesis, it started as a throwback metal tribute band— Robin Theatre. Kittel & Co. are touring in support of 1.7 million YouTube views. The group’s latest release, covering everything from Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden its new LP, “Whorls.” The record, released last week 2014’s “Time Is a Machine,” was praised by Under the to Slayer and Pantera. After switching lead singers to via Compass Records, melds classical and acoustic Gun for having “so many new and unique approaches Shannon Strobel a few years back, Past Tense regrouped roots, with the flair of folk, jazz and Celtic sensibilities. to telling age-old stories.” Thursday, the band headlines as an original power-metal outfit and then won the 2016 Kittel has a master’s degree in jazz performance at Mac’s Bar—openers include Red Sweater Lullaby Q-106 Homegrown Throwdown. Fans of Hammerfall, from the Manhattan School of Music and received the and Sister, Sibling. Listener’s Dan Smith will perform Exodus or Testament might want to check out the band’s 2010 Emerging Artist Award from his alma mater, the a special solo set. genuine, devil-horn metal sound. University of Michigan.

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TEEN FOOD TASTERS CLUB. From 4 to 5 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East Out on the Town Lansing. (517) 351-2420. FRIDAY, JULY 6 >> ‘PANOPLY OF PUPPETS’ AT MSU RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES from page 15 TUESDAY GAMES. From 1 to 4 p.m. Euchre, Free Want to see puppets from around the world this summer? Visit the Lookout Art Gallery to see a Bridge, $1 - $2 per person. Meridian Senior Center, collaborative exhibit between the MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and the MSU 4406 Okemos Road Okemos. Tuesday, July 10 Museum. You can see marionettes from Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Chile, Nepal and a pair CLASSES-AND-SEMINARS Wednesday, July 11 of Czechoslovakian rod puppets on display. Noon to 2p.m. Free. RCAH Lookout! Gallery, C200 Snyder Hall, Second Floor, 362 Bogue St., Michigan State LEAN IN LEAD UP. From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. FREE. CLASSES-AND-SEMINARS University, East Lansing. (517) 355-0210, www.rcah.msu.edu Panera Bread (Frandor), 310 N. Clippert St. Lansing. AARP SENIOR LEARNING SERIES: GOOD FORM WALKING LITERATURE-AND-POETRY CLINIC. From 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. FREE. East FRIDAY, JULY 6 >> ‘MONSTER MASH’ AT THE AVENUE Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East Lansing. BOOKS ON TAP BOOK CLUB. At 6:30 p.m. FREE. (517) 351-2420. Come experience a “new kind of terror to numb the nerves” with a movie monster theme party. DJs Jimmy's Pub, 16804 Chandler Road East Lansing. will perform a mix of goth, industrial, witch house, post-punk, electro, darkwave and techno. An added (517) 324-7100. MINDFULNESS MEDITATION. From 7 to 9 p.m. Chua bonus is the live horror themed visuals. Featured DJs include Joe Moon, Kevin J, D Nihil, Crackula and Van Hanh Temple, 3015 S. Washington Lansing. Chris Hoddy. FAMILY STORYTIME. From 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. FREE. 9 p.m. to 1:45 a.m. Free. 21+ The Avenue, 2021, E. Michigan Avenue, Lansing. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East MSU CREATIVE WRITING GROUP. From 7 to 8 p.m. Lansing. (517) 351-2420. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road (517) 492-7403, www.avenuecafelansing.com East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. MUSIC PRACTICE YOUR ENGLISH. From 7 to 8 p.m. FREE. FRIDAY, JULY 6 >> WORKSHOP: RESEARCHING YOUR HISTORIC HOUSE JAZZ TUESDAYS AT MORIARTY'S. From 7 to 10 p.m. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East FREE. Moriarty's Pub, 802 E. Michigan Ave. Lansing. Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Ever thought your building has a unique architectural style? Does a specific part of the building really (517) 485-5287. stand out? Find out more about the architectural value of buildings, their history and stories associated MUSIC with them. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to uncover house histories: who built them and when, their TUESDAY IS BLUES-DAY AT URBANBEAT. From 7 to architectural styles, and the stories of the families who called them home. At the end, you will also learn From 1 to 2 p.m. 10 p.m. UrbanBeat Event Center, 1213 Turner St. CONCERT WITH THE CATBIRD SEAT. what to do with that information. Lansing. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. 9 a.m. – noon $79 for non-members, $39 for members of Historical Society of Michigan. Meijer Education EVENTS Center, Historical Society of Michigan, 5815 Executive Dr., Lansing. (800) 692-1828, www.hsmichigan.org/ DULCIMER WORKSHOP WITH THE CATBIRD SEAT. From programs/workshops NATURE CONNECTION SUMMER CAMP. From 9 a.m. to 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, noon $65/ 4-day camp. Harris Nature Center, 3998 950 Abbot Road East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Van Atta Road Meridian Township. (517) 349-3866. FRIDAY, JULY 6 >> THE GRAND EXPERIENCE AT THE LANSING CITY MARKET THE ST. JOHNS CONCERT IN THE PARK SERIES - THE SCI-FI MOVIE NIGHT. At 6 p.m. FREE. East Lansing MERIDIAN CONCERT BAND. 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Bourdain’s later work in television, bringing the realities of food and food Thanks, Chef: A tribute to Anthony Bourdain culture from around the globe to the By NICK GAVRILIDES spotlight, has changed the dining scene I was never great at the whole high forever. Regular boring old standbys are school thing. I did not come from a wealthy now getting traded out for items with family. These two facts of my teenage ethnic and cultural flair. Food is dancing off existence became the driving force that plates like art and being served up hot and pushed me to enter the “Back of the House” on-demand. trade early on. I was fifteen years old, to Lansing’s growth in the food scene has be exact, when I got my first job scrubbing a lot to thank Bourdain for. We’ve come sheet pans and floors in the local bakery for a very long way as a “foodie” destination minimum wage. town. That, in no small part, has to do It was a great time for a wayward with the work and life of the amazing teenager who wasn’t keen on high school chef, writer and food advocate — Anthony academics and could also use a little jingle Bourdain. in his pocket to hang out with the crew. So, from me and all of us in the business Little did I know, who love our work, we say thanks chef! You a few hours of will be deeply missed. afterschool work Nick Gavrilides owns the Soup Spoon would end up being Café on Michigan Avenue in Eastside Courtesy photo the beginning of my Lansing. Chef, author and television host Anthony Bourdain died June 8. work-life education, and the first steps of the various personalities found in the We borrowed lines like, “It’s going to be along the path to restaurant, from the egomaniacal chefs to a Mario’s kind of day today,” meaning starting a restaurant the suited-up restaurant owners impressing very busy and a pain in the butt, or, on the Eastside of their friends. “Dreadnought day,” a slow and endless slog. Lansing. Anecdotes of the endless precarious We had a new swagger that wasn’t present Gavrilides There was a situations the everyday cook encounters before “Kitchen Confidential.” savory kitchen were described with laser accuracy. It was Bourdain wrote to us kitchen people across the hall, so I got to mingle with, in one of the greatest things I had ever read. — cooks, dishwashers and chefs alike. He my opinion, the coolest group of people Bourdain gave me a sense of pride that showed us the honor and skill that was ever. Grumpy, brutally sarcastic people welled up inside myself with each page. contained in the ability to prepare food for Featured on: wielding knives with deft hands, shooting Pride for my job, pride for the people I people. The honor that had been clouded flames to the ceiling out of scorching sauté spent ten hours a day with, pride for the by the world that had no understanding of pans, bandanas tied around their brows life-path I chose. With the stroke of his the professional food business. How could I and scars running up both arms from knife pen, Bourdain completely changed my ever thank him enough for this? Try our slips and grease burns. I just had to join mindset on the industry and profession The sense of love and pride for my this team, there was no other option in my I landed in. I returned to work from that industry cultivated by Bourdain’s work Fish, Burgers & Steak mind — the ultimate modern pirate ship vacation a different person. pushed me to excel in my industry. I called to me from an early age. I loaned my copy of “Kitchen worked many years as a head chef, which I soon learned that the world around me Confidential” to every cook I worked with. eventually led to the opening of my own Fresh off the Grill! didn’t hold kitchen work, or the workers Every day the discourse in the kitchen venue for food culture – the Soup Spoon for that matter, in the same high regard. took words and phrases from the book. Café. I often felt cold stares of disapproval that WE DID IT! such a nice young boy would throw his potential down the proverbial garbage of the recruiting process. It’s been a diffi- disposal by working in a kitchen. cult sell.” I learned to pay no attention to it and Music Ordman is another example of the dis- carry on in my work. But still, there was no parity between MSU’s facilities and its deep sense of pride being developed in my from page 12 ber of majors mushroomed and the faculty stellar faculty. She’s going to Iowa City young mind’s psyche. Then came along the later this month accept the International 2018 book that changed everything. swelled in size and stature. “MSU has one of the best music pro- Trombone Association’s annual award for I was on summer vacation with my excellence in teaching. She couldn’t help family and I needed some reading material grams in the Midwest with one of the worst buildings,” Whitaker said. “Sometimes we noting that the University of Iowa has new to chew up a few beach-time hours. I music facilities, too. heard about this obscure book, “Kitchen lose high quality students because they’ll go to U. of M., Hope College, Wayne State. There’s little danger the new facilities Confidential,” by the New York City chef will spoil the college’s hard-charging fac- Anthony Bourdain, which was rumored to All those places have better facilities than Best Fish Fry we have.” ulty. be full of humor and anecdotes that only an In a corner of the old rehearsal hall, 3 Years in a industry kid would understand. I decided Trombone professor Ava Ordman, in her 16th year at MSU, remembers a plan plate piled with cookies, veteran drummer to give it a read. Randy Gelispie of the MSU Professors of Row! From the very beginning it was for a new building that got as far as ren- derings 13 years ago, but never came to Jazz surveyed the scene from afar. 2417 E. Kalamazoo mesmerizing. Each page described another Gelispie said he’s happy about the detail of mine and my fellow kitchen fruition, owing to budget cutbacks and the Lansing, MI 48912 subsequent recession. new building, but it wouldn’t change his workers’ professional lives — eerily to a approach to music or teaching one bit. T. It was like reading someone narrate “Every year students come to audi- (517) 993-5988 tion and they’d go to Ann Arbor and see “You know me,” he said, pointing to the the daily life of a cook, as if it were some dirty windows behind the architect’s draw- www.eastsidefishfry.com twisted comical nature show. these new facilities that keep expanding,” The only American owned & Ordman said. “That’s always been a part ings. “I’ll play in the corner.” Woven into the text were descriptions operated fish fry in Lansing

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