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Kids in the Hall, Feb. 26: On Monday night, several members of the City Council agreed with Mayor Virg Bernero’s call to draft a “vicious dog ordinance” and revise what he called a “bureaucratic nightmare” of a rel- atively new snow ordinance. Also, a public hearing was set for Niowave’s tax abatement request at its pole barn and Kathie Dunbar refused to meet in closed session over her computer issues.

‘Local jobs for local workers,’ Feb. 25: Roughly 150 union workers and supporters protested Monday afternoon at a city construction proj- ect they say is using out-of-city, non-union workers. Mayor Bernero says local unions had an opportunity to bid on the work, and he was looking out for taxpayers’ interest when he went with the lowest bidders.

Be in ‘Idiot,’ Feb. 20: “Green Day’s American Idiot,” the critically acclaimed punk rock musical based on the band’s 2004 conceptual album, comes to Wharton Center April 9 for a three-day run. Wharton Center is calling out to Lansing-area artists and graphic designeers to submit artwork for the set.

Check out these stories and more only at lansingcitypulse.com. City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION investigate after it learned there was computer saga is over, despite the city concern over Dunbar’s and Bitely’s attorney’s finding no wrongdoing Computergate interaction. on the part of Dunbar. At Monday’s Internal memo from city attorney Bitely and Dunbar were interviewed Committee of the Whole meeting, the finds no criminal wrongdoing, separately by the City Attorney’s Office Council attempted to go into closed ses- C basis for removal or ethics vio- and gave differing accounts of what sion to discuss “attorney-client privi- OF THE WEEK lation related to Councilwoman happened. The memo does not say how leged written communications.” Kathie Dunbar the two accounts differed. The Council didn’t have the neces- In a Feb. 5 public statement, Dunbar sary six votes to do so, however. Dunbar A draft internal memo from the said she did not immediately report and Councilwoman Tina Houghton Lansing City Attorney’s Office to City the damaged computer “because I was voted against the motion, which was Council members last month clears ashamed to admit, and didn’t want to made by Councilwoman A’Lynne Boles- At-Large Councilwoman Kathie relive, how bad things had gotten at the Robinson, while Jeffries, Wood, Derrick Dunbar of any wrongdoing related to a end of our marriage.” Months later, she Quinney, Jody Washington and Boles- city-issued laptop computer. said, when asked to bring in the com- Robinson voted for it. Jessica Yorko was The Jan. 14 memo does not name her puter for software updates, “I confided absent. Washington, Boles-Robinson specifically, but over the past month the to a staff person that the computer was and Yorko said they did not know the Council has debated — both internally damaged. In a lapse of judgment and specific topic of the closed session. and publicly — an incident related to misplaced trust, I shared details of the Wood and Jeffries declined to comment. Dunbar’s city-issued laptop. It appears incident that resulted in the computer About a half-hour later, during the to revolve around whether Dunbar being damaged, and since I thought it Council’s regular meeting, Dunbar asked a City Council employee to help was damaged beyond repair, we dis- announced from the dais: “I’ve heard her cover up damage to the lap- that I am the topic of that top. closed session again. I would Dunbar has said it was invite anyone who would like Property: 145 W. Ash St., Mason damaged during an argument to discuss my computer to not with her former husband. The do it behind closed doors. If Owner: City of Mason memo says that while he was you have an issue, bring it out Assessed value: $0 Council president, At-Large here. … I say no closed session, Councilman Brian Jeffries told let’s do it on the floor.” the City Attorney’s Office about Dunbar said Tuesday she a Council member — presum- will continue to vote against A library is the living room of the com- ably Dunbar — speaking with a going into closed session “to munity. A gathering place open to all. Be it Council staffer about her dam- discuss anything related to this a small, neighborhood library or the central aged computer. witch hunt.” district library, the building design must Though the Council employ- Even Jeffries appears to be both civic and approachable — like the ee is not named in the memo, Dunbar Bitely want any information related to Mason Branch Library. it appears it was Council office the incident made public: “I’m The design strikes a perfect cord. It has a manager Diana Bitely who was figuring out how we can break suggestive residential feel heightened by the approached by Dunbar. The Council has cussed options for replacing it. My only the silence.” He declined to comment chimney that indicates a fireplace within — just two employees, Bitely and adminis- interest was to keep the details of the further. the hearth of the community, a place of gath- trative secretary Lindsay Green. Green incident private and protect my fam- It’s possible some Council mem- ering. Plus, the gabled entry, cupola and loca- said she was not involved in the inci- ily. Despite assurances that my personal bers still want to pursue action against tion just steps from courthouse square are dent, adding that it was Bitely. family matters would remain confiden- Dunbar, as evidenced by their desire to evidence that this building is civically special. Bitely declined comment and tial, that conversation has become the go into closed session. Yorko said she The library was designed by local architect referred a reporter to an attorney, Mary basis for a politically motivated witch left previous closed sessions feeling that Harold A. Childs and was commissioned by Chartier, who was not available for com- hunt, led by Brian Jeffries.” Dunbar had “not committed a crime or Albert J. Hall for Mason as a memorial to his ment. Bitely did not explain why she has Information Technology Director an ethics violation, but I felt like some wife, Ada A. Hall. According to head librarian retained an attorney. Eric Tumbarella, when contacted by members of Council, despite me feeling Cheryl Lyons, the library was such a show- Bitely worked for Jeffries’ law firm the City Attorney’s Office, said the com- comfortable of those facts, just want to piece that people traveled from other coun- for less than a year, Jeffries said. She has puter had been turned in for repair, spend more time on the issue.” ties to experience it when it was completed. worked for City Council for at least six which resulted in a relatively routine Moreover, Yorko said, Council mem- Today, Lyons views her role not only as care- years, he said. fix, the memo says. No department bers are typically aware of why they are taker of the 35,000-plus book collection, but The City Attorney’s Office found that or employee was ever charged money going into closed session, whether it’s also the historic building which had a recent there was no crime committed and that for repairing the computer, the memo for “pending litigation” or to discuss interior renovation. The library celebrates its there was no basis to remove Dunbar adds. labor contracts. 75th anniversary later this year. from office, based on its investigation. Two of Dunbar’s interns were also “I still don’t know why that topic was Another prosecutor confirmed the deci- interviewed about the interaction between brought up in closed session,” she said of — Amanda Harrell-Seyburn sion, the memo says. Dunbar and Bitely because they saw it Dunbar’s laptop. The City Attorney’s Office also found happen. One could not recall details of the When asked if she thought Monday’s there was no violation of the city’s eth- conversation, while the other supported attempt at a closed session was to pur- ics ordinance because Dunbar did not Dunbar’s recollection, the memo says. sue more action against her, Dunbar “Eye candy of the Week” is our look at some of the nicer personally benefit financially from the declined to comment. properties in Lansing. It rotates each week with Eyesore of the incident. Week. If you have a suggestion, please e-mail eye@lansingci- Make it public typulse.com or call Andy Balaskovitz at 999-5064. 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If the city were a household, long-term One is increasing the General Fund con- liabilities would be akin to the mortgage. tribution; another is restructuring future The city needs to make higher mortgage employee contracts that cost the city less. payments, said attorney Steven Liedel, a The city could also issue bonds to help pay member of the Financial Health Team, for it, which has been done in places like which will give Mayor Virg Bernero its rec- Oakland County (where it’s worked “very ommendations in March. well”) and Detroit (where it’s been a “disas- “With any balanced approach, you want ter”), Liedel said. to make adjustments to the system so it’s The city funds 10 percent of its retiree sustainable,” said Liedel, who is helping health care obligations and about 60 per- lead a Financial Health Team subcommit- cent of its pension obligations, Liedel said. tee on long-term budget solutions. “It’s a While the team may not recommend those structural issue for the city. It can have both be increased to 100 percent, it will an operating budget that’s balanced. But likely call for an increase. without adjustments to deal with long- To ignore these unfunded liabili- term obligations, the city is going to con- ties is “certainly not prudent,” said Tony tinue to have budget struggles every year Minghine, associate executive director PUBLIC NOTICES to meet those obligations. It’s like a house- and chief operating officer of the Michigan hold saying our budget is balanced, except Municipal League. “To not fund it now City of Lansing for our mortgage.” means someone else is paying for it down Notice of Public Hearing Unfunded liabilities are long-term the road.” The Lansing City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, March 11, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the costs for paying city employee pensions And the problem for cities is exacerbat- City Council Chambers, 10th Floor, Lansing City Hall, Lansing, MI, for the purpose stated below: and retiree health care. They’ve steadily ed due to double-digit inflation in health increased since 2008, largely due to dou- care costs, Minghine said. To afford an opportunity for all residents, taxpayers of the City of Lansing, other interested persons to appear and be heard on the approval of a New Personal Property Exemption (PPE-6-06) ble-digit inflation in health care costs and “What they’re trying to do is recog- requested by the applicant indicated below: a dip in the stock market. Between 2005 nize that we need to deal with these and 2010, unfunded pension liabilities costs here and now and not kick the can Applicant: Niowave, Inc. Location: 1012 N. Walnut Street more than doubled from $54.2 million down the road. The idea that these costs Location of subject property: to $165 million. Between Dec. 31, 2007, have gotten to be so large absolutely LOTS 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 BLOCK 39 ORIG PLAT. and Dec. 31, 2009, unfunded liabilities in impacts any city’s ability to provide ser- Approval of a New Personal Property Exemption (PPE-01-12) requested by Niowave, Inc. will retiree health care increased 36.6 percent vices,” he said. result in the abatement of new personal property taxes located within the subject property. Further from $275.5 million to $376.4 million, Yet Scott Dedic, chairman of the city’s information regarding this application for property tax abatement may be obtained from Mr. Karl according to figures from the city’s Finance Employee Retirement System Board, said R. Dorshimer, Economic Development Corporation of the City of Lansing, 401 S. Washington Sq., Department. it’s “not that simple” to start fully fund- Suite 1, Lansing, Michigan, 48933, (517) 483-4140. Liedel said retiree health care was ing its long-term obligations. Moreover, Chris Swope, City Clerk around $410 million in 2010, meaning the he says the city’s funding levels are “func- city’s unfunded liabilities are now in the tional.” NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING neighborhood of $600 million. “I would support maintaining the cur- EAST LANSING HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION rent system and trying to eat away at unfunded liabilities,” he said. Notice is hereby given of the following public hearing to be held by the East Lansing Historic District The Bernero administration says its Commission on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., in the 54-B District Court, Courtroom 2, 101 goal is to increase its contributions to Linden Street, East Lansing. unfunded liabilities, but it has to balance A public hearing will be held for the purpose of considering a request from Peter and Pennie that with cuts to services. Foster-Fishman for multiple modifications to their home at 1046 Cresenwood. The owners “Things are not fully funded because are proposing a second floor addition, window replacement, an entry trellis, and other minor changes intended to match the existing home. we have to make hard choices,” said Chad Gamble, Lansing’s chief operating officer. Call (517) 319-6930, the Department of Planning, Building and Development, East Lansing City Hall, “Fully funding obviously impacts public 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, for additional information. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard. safety and roads in the city. It’s on our radar and something that we are looking The City of East Lansing will provide reasonable auxiliary aids and services, such as interpreters forward to begin trying to address more for the hearing impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered at the meeting, to individuals with disabilities upon request received by the City seven (7) calendar days prior to the completely in budget cycles moving for- meeting. Individuals with disabilities requiring aids or services should write or call the Planning ward.” Department, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI 48823. Phone: (517) 319-6930. TDD Number: 1-800- 649-3777. — Andy Balaskovitz

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“If we are doing it for businesses, we should be able to do it for knowledge A carrot for workers who will then attract businesses,” Fresh content every day, delivered to your e-mail. Schor noted. Sign up for our newsletter today at www.lansingcitypulse.com There’s no argument over whether a bet- graduates ter-educated workforce creates a stronger economy: It is a view shared by Business PUBLIC NOTICES Michigan is one of the dumbest states in Leaders for Michigan, most economists Ingham County is seeking bids for one new Aerial Lift on Truck Chassis for the the nation, but it’s not a matter of genetics and the Snyder administration. Right now, Department of Transportation and Roads. The bid document may be found on-line at or innate intelligence. Michigan is falling short. http://pu.ingham.org under Current Bids link and assigned #29-13. Bids are due 3/7 at 11AM. We aren’t trying hard enough. And we’re Bob Trezise, president and CEO of the also losing too many of Lansing Economic Area Partnership, says NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING our best and brightest. tuition reimbursement tied to staying in PARK BOARD MEETING State Rep. Andy Schor Michigan “would have more impact than NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held at Gier Community Center located at thinks a better-educated anything else we did.” Trezise advocates 2400 Hall Street, Room 210, Lansing on March 13, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. for the purpose of considering Michigan will be a more what would amount to free tuition for any a DNR Land Acquisition Grant application to purchase property located at 830 River Street, Lansing, Michigan 48912 prosperous Michigan. college student who stayed and worked in The Lansing Democrat Michigan for a minimum of five years after All interested persons are invited to attend this public hearing or submit written comments to has introduced a bill graduation. Lansing Parks and Recreation, Attention Brett Kaschinske, 200 N. Foster Avenue, Lansing, MI 48912. WALT SORG taking aim at Michigan’s Schor says the challenge with retain- cumulative IQ by helping ing talent is a “chicken-and-egg” problem. BRETT KASCHINSKE, DIRECTOR, PARKS AND RECREATION prepare the workforce for the jobs of the The top graduates want to find work. By CITY OF LANSING 21st century — and keep them in Michigan. providing a financial incentive to stay, the NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Schor’s bill would authorize tax credits growing pool of college graduates would for up to half of a college graduate’s tuition attract those jobs to the state. Multiple AMENDMENT TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING CODE if he or she stays and works in Michigan. studies show graduates are looking for a The Lansing Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at 6:30 p.m., The reimbursement would come through great place to live and then try to find work Neighborhood Empowerment Center Conference Room, 600 W. Maple St. (Corner of W. Maple income tax rebates spread over five years. there. and N. Pine Streets) to repeal Section 1282.03 of the Lansing Codified Ordinances and replace it with a new Section 1282.03 permitting the grant of a Special Land Use on the condition that it will The bills are co-sponsored by the legislators Schor’s legislation is modeled after Op- not result in a change to the site plan submitted in conjunction with application for the Special Land who represent Michigan State University portunity Maine, which has succeeded in Use. The proposed ordinance would also require City Council approval for any new building or and University of Michigan: Sam Singh, D- slowing the exodus of talent from America’s building addition, 1,000 square feet or greater in area, for any property on which Special Land Use permit has been granted following the effective date of the proposed ordinance. East Lansing, and Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor. northeast tip. Schor would expand on the Michigan was wealthy through much Maine program by including students who If you are interested in this matter, please attend the public hearing. Written comments will be of the 20th century because home-grown earn graduate degrees — the workers most accepted between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on city business days if received before 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at the Lansing Planning Office, Dept. of Planning and Neighborhood Development, entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Charles valued by knowledge-economy businesses. Suite D-1, 316 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing, MI 48933-1236. For more information, call Susan Durant, Walter Chrysler and the Dodge John Austin, president of the Michigan Stachowiak at 517-483-4085. brothers started businesses here. The seeds State Board of Education, agrees with planted by Ford, GM, Dodge and Chrysler Schor that if the jobs aren’t there, young served as a magnet for more manufac- talent would spur them. turing within our borders, encouraging “Creating conditions that both help NOW ON MY18-TV! Ransom Olds to move to Lansing. (We more of our people afford and realize 10 A.M. Sundays also became America’s pizza capital thanks needed post-secondary education … is a to Detroit native Mike “Little Caesar” powerful and essential way to make Michi- Ilitch and Ann Arbor’s Tom “Domino’s” gan more prosperous.” Monaghan.) The issue is especially relevant at MSU, A key to creating jobs and wealth is which ranks ninth nationally in the num- attracting and retaining talent. Lately, ber of foreign students. Twenty percent of Hosted by Michigan has been doing a lousy job. this year’s MSU freshmen class is from out- Berl Schwartz Michigan ranks 35th among states in side the United States, including more than Newsmakers the percentage of adults with college de- 1,500 from China. Most foreign students grees, due, in part, to the state’s 39th-place get their education here and then go home. ranking in support for higher education. Retaining some of the top students from The more education a Michigan resident other states and nations could jumpstart has, the more likely he or she is to leave the the state’s economy. state. While the net of immigration and mi- As for logistics: Can a Democrat get the gration for high school dropouts is zero, the concept through the Republican Legisla- state has a net loss of 0.9 percent for those ture? Schor, who was formerly a lobbyist with four-year degrees and 1.3 percent for the Michigan Municipal League, un- among those with post-graduate degrees. derstands that he needs GOP buy-in to his How important is this loss? concept. He appears to achieved it. Consider how different might Michigan Schor’s bill has caught the attention of be today if another native son, the co- state Rep. Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake, who founder of the world’s third most valuable chairs the House Committee on Michigan technology company, had stayed home. Competitiveness. Although Schor’s bill was What would it have meant if East Lansing initially referred to another committee, it’s Mike Callton Timothy Jenkins native Larry Page had not migrated to Cali- likely to end up in Shirkey’s committee, State Representative fornia, where he and Sergei Brin created which would take it up this spring. of Star Buds Google? Schor is also looking at using the state’s Comcast Ch. 16 Lansing: 11 and 11:30 a.m. Sunday, March 3 For years, state government has used bonding authority to create a revolving Comcast Ch. 30 Meridian Township: 11:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3; 5 p.m. tax incentives to lure and retain businesses student loan fund that could lower tuition to the state. Schor thinks it makes good borrowing costs for students. Sunday, March 3, through Saturday, March 9; and 11:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9. economic sense to do the same to counter (Sorg can be reached at sorg@lansingci- the “brain drain.” typulse.com) Watch past episodes at vimeo.com/channels/citypulse 8 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • February 27, 2013

continued on page 9 PUBLIC NOTICES ship or control,” according to college policy. Davenport and Cooley, which are exempt Packing heat from the state law as private colleges, also completely ban guns regardless of licensure. Under MSU’s interpretation of the law, on campus wouldn’t that leave LCC open to a lawsuit? Perhaps. Gun rights advocates’ drive to loos- State “preemption” law forbids any “local en restrictions on campus unit of government” from applying restric- tions to firearms outside of state or federal If you’re a college student in the Lansing law. Michigan law states that firearms are area and you have a concealed pistol license, forbidden in college classrooms and dormi- there is only one campus where you can tories, but allows concealed carry on cam- exercise that right — to some extent. puses. Of the two colleges and two universi- Therefore, Smith and his group believe ties in the area, three of them — Davenport public colleges that prohibit firearms any- University, Cooley Law School and Lansing where, like LCC, are preempting state law. Community College — completely ban guns Steve Dulan, an attorney for the Michigan on campus. At Michigan State University, Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners, you can carry concealed on campus though believes a state Court of Appeals ruling in not in certain buildings. October involving Michigan Open Carry In Michigan and elsewhere throughout and the Capital Area District Library may the country, gun rights advocates are push- open the doors for change at colleges that ing for fewer gun limits on campuses. completely ban guns. “We seek to legalize concealed carry on The Appeals Court ruling said CADL was college campuses for people who already a “quasi-municipal governmental agency” have licenses,” said Reid Smith, director of and therefore couldn’t have gun policies more Michigan Students for Concealed Carry, a stringent than state or federal law because of chapter of the national organization that’s the preemption law. Dulan believes if the case trying to reform Concealed Pistol Licence — stands, then preemption law could “prob- CPL — laws at colleges. Smith, a 25-year-old ably” be applied to what he called “quasi- med student at Wayne State University, has government” public colleges, like MSU and had his license for several years. LCC — but that would be left up to litigation. “We have nothing to say about lowering However, CADL has filed for leave to the age, or changing license requirements. appeal with the state Supreme Court, said But if you can carry (concealed) in a grocery Phillip Hofmeister, president of Michigan store or shopping mall, you should be able to Open Carry. If the case winds up before the do it at a college campus.” justices, the case law will be up in the air The group lobbies the state Legislature to until a decision is made. draw up bills that would eliminate gun-free Regardless of the CADL case, the aims of zones on college campuses, which — even Smith and his allies may be solved through if you are licensed to carry concealed — are state legislation that was introduced last limited to dorms, classrooms and sports week. and entertainment venues, not campus at- Sen. Mike Green, R-Mayville, introduced large. However, some campuses ban them SB213 last Wednesday. The bill would repeal outright, like LCC. At MSU, license holders all “gun-free zones” with the exception of can carry concealed on campus, but guns are K-12 schools, hospitals and churches, which banned from dorms, classrooms, entertain- would be able to regulate who can carry on ment venues and sports arenas. their property on a case-by-case basis or Throughout the country, gun rights activ- through a blanket policy. ists have been making gains in expanding “It would give us everything we want,” gun rights on college campuses. According Smith said. “It decriminalizes self defense to The New York Times, both Mississippi on college campuses.” and Wisconsin adopted laws allowing ver- The Presidents Council, State Universities sions of concealed carry at state universi- of Michigan — an advocacy group for the 15 ties in 2011. In March 2012, the Colorado public universities in the state, including Supreme Court unanimously decided that MSU and Wayne State — are adamantly the University of Colorado was violating opposed to the bill. state law by banning guns from campus. “He wants the wild west, that’s what he MSU spokesman Kent Cassella said in an wants. Guns anywhere, anytime, any place, email that MSU decided to allow concealed concealed or otherwise,” Presidents Council carry on campus in 2009. Before that, guns Executive Director Michael Boulus said of were banned throughout campus. Green. “This is totally counter to where the “The narrow change to the university’s country is going right now in terms of limit- ordinance in 2009 simply aligned us with ing firearms and doing checks on guns. Our state law regarding concealed weapons,” campuses are some of the safest places in Cassella said. “That was the reason behind our state and country. That can be attributed the changes.” to strict policies that keep guns off campus.” At LCC, guns are not allowed anywhere on campus. This includes “all College owned — Sam Inglot or leased buildings and surrounding areas such as sidewalks, walkways, driveways and parking lots under the College’s owner- City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 9

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Photo by John Douglas Photography Night of confluence Mezzo soprano Allison Lansing Symphony chaperones a heavy Sanders performs classical-jazz date a hybrid classical- jazz piece By LAWRENCE COSENTINO ting bossy Germans run the this week After a while, you can tell when musicians show and instead base “the with the are “excited to be doing X” because it’s their future music of this coun- Lansing default mode and when they re- try” on the uniquely Ameri- Symphony Preview ally are a little bit on fire. can sound of “Negro melo- Orchestra. Composer Brian Gaber, a dies.” (They didn’t seem to professor at Florida State University, is the listen. Last month, the De- creator of “Ancestral Waters,” a hybrid classi- troit Symphony wrapped cal-jazz-African piece that weaves a soprano up another big Beethoven soloist, a jazz trio and a symphony orchestra festival.) into a multi-layered reverie on the African- To show ‘em how it could American experience. be done, Dvořák packed Right now, about 20 readers are surely his “New World” Symphony warbling to themselves, “Uhhh, I don’t know — the other big work on about this,” for 20 different reasons. But be Saturday’s slate — with African-American- when Hughes was only 18. As soon as Gaber rience playing in jazz orchestras and other warned that symphony maestro Timothy inspired tunes. heard its evocation of “ancient, dusky riv- combos, Gaber wanted to go with the flow. A Muffitt is on fire with this piece— he is out But black musicians, shut out of con- ers” stretching from antiquity to the time of traditional “classical” setting wouldn’t do. A to convince. cert halls and conservatories by racism in Abraham Lincoln, he longed to set it to mu- confluence could make for a choppy ride, but “It’s unlike anything else I know out Dvořák’s day, took the culture for a wild sic. it was worth trying. there,” Muffitt said. “It flows so perfectly from ride in a different machine. Fast forward, But now is as good a time as any to get an The trick, to Gaber, is not to muddy the one idiom to the through ragtime, jazz, R&B and hip hop to awkward question out of the way. Gaber isn’t waters. Lansing Symphony next that these 2013, and classical-jazz hybrids are still an black. Qualms? “Let jazz be jazz and classical be classical, styles are per- “That is a great question, maybe THE Orchestra anomaly. Outside of a pops concert, how of- and just put them in the same space,” he said. fectly matched. ten do you see a jazz combo unpack next to question, and I’ve thought about it for a long While the trio swings, the orchestra sticks Masterworks V: Dvořák’s New It’s really an in- time,” Gaber said. “The first thing I’d say to World the Lansing Symphony? Never, until drum- to the spacious, bittersweet sounds associ- Allison Sanders, mezzo soprano spired piece.” mer Larry Ochiltree, guitarist Neil Gordon that is, any one of us can feel compassion for ated with American composers like Aaron 8 p.m. Muffitt pre- and Lansing Symphony principal bassist- any other.” Copland and Samuel Barber. (Barber’s “First March 2 miered “Ances- and-jazzman Ed Fedewa park their axes on Far from hijacking Hughes’ verse, Gaber Essay for Orchestra” will set the table for Sat- Wharton Center Cobb Great Hall tral Waters” in stage Saturday. Tympani, meet trap drums, said, he wanted to do it justice. urday’s mixer, also by design.) January with meet djembe. “That comes from a personal voice, from a “No one’s asked to step out of their com- his other band, the Baton Rouge Symphony, “Brian fulfilled exactly what Dvořák said people to which I do not belong,” he said. “All fort zone,” Muffitt said. “It’s not like the or- and Saturday’s guest soloist, Allison Sanders. American composers should be doing, and I’m doing is taking these beautiful words and chestra is being asked to play faux jazz.” Gaber’s piece will be part of a larger lesson he’s done it in a way appropriate for the 21st wrapping them in music. The story that’s be- Gaber found the capstone to “Ancestral in American music Saturday night. While century,” Muffitt said. ing told is not being told by me. They’re just Waters” when he came upon “The Old Sea teaching in New York in 1892, folk music- The first cause of this confluence isAf- stories that I find compelling.” Chain,” a poem by Joe Coleman de Graft, a loving Czech composer Antonín Dvořák rican-American poet Langston Hughes’ The endless divergences and convergen- writer from Ghana in West Africa, who died fell in love with African-American spirituals. groundwater-deep poem “The Negro ces of American music have a lot in common in 1978. He urged American composers to stop let- Speaks of Rivers,” a masterpiece written with the flow of rivers. With years of expe- See Symphony, Page 13 more interesting concert by giving the Courtesy Photo audience a crucial role in the show. A vote for the orchestra “If the majority of people want the The hits of Michael Jackson, that's what Lansing Lansing Symphony Orchestra wants your advice on its summer concert we'll give them,” said Santorelli. “It's Symphony nice to get the community involved in Orchestra Adado Riverfront Park concert on June our performances.” is giving By DYLAN SOWLE Will “Billie Jean” or “Angie” get a 5, starting Lansing's 20th annual free The symphony will play alongside audiences chance to waft down the Grand River in Concert In the Park series. The choices one of several outside groups, depend- a chance downtown Lansing? The Lansing Sym- consist of songs by Michael Jackson, ing on which program is selcted. which to select phony Orchestra is getting a head start The Rolling Stones or a medley of ‘80s will be brought in to contribute vocals their on its summer concert in the park this tunes. Voting is unlimited and can be and additional instruments. summer year by asking you to choose what mu- done at the orchestra's website, lansing- The deadline is April 8. After that, concert sic you want to hear. symphony.org. you have to wait until summer to see series The orchestra opens public voting Marketing director Rachel Santorel- if you’ll have to “Beat It” or if you’ll be repertoire. today to decide on the music for their li said the symphony wanted to make a “Waiting on a Friend.” City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 13

Courtesy Photo The Blue Light Symphony Players perform from page 12 “Chicago: the Musical” this weekend. The “It was like the other bookend,” Gaber group donates said. “It describes what slavery was like its proceeds when you’re the one on the African shore to fallen police seeing people taken away. They’re both very officers. beautiful poems, and they just seemed to fit together.” As the piece winds down, it flows back to its source. Gaber quotes a traditional Hausa song from Ghana, sung to lament the dead, with djembe and agogo bells (African per- cussion) added to the mix. Finally, he inserted a wordless middle movement, “Prayer.” Allison Sanders, a warm-voiced mezzo-soprano based in Phil- ber 2011. During his four-month recovery, adelphia, said she has trouble holding it to- ‘Razzle Dazzle’ for those in blue Jamie Spencer received a letter and an “ex- gether while singing the “ooo” in the middle tremely generous donation” from the group. part. Lansing’s newest theater ensemble moves up to the main stage with ‘Chicago’ Spencer is back on duty. “It feels solemn but hopeful,” she said. “I was extremely touched that complete forming arts. “I’m almost moved to tears every time.” By MARY CUSACK strangers would do so much for our fam- It’s the theater company equivalent to an Hart was teaching her children to sing She has a different problem during the ily,” said Jamie Spencer, who attended Blue extravagant coming out party, a la MTV’s and dance in her basement dance studio outer two movements. Light’s “Broadway Revue” last March with “My Super Sweet 16.” Af- when she realized that there more children “I have to check myself when the jazz trio her husband. “These people work extremely Preview ter eight years of producing who wanted to perform than the existing lo- comes in because I’m blown away,” she said. hard and are very dedicated to supporting youth-oriented Broadway cal children’s theaters could accommodate. “I want to groove out, and I really can’t do law enforcement families.” revue shows, the Blue Light Players, a non- Hart and Southwell’s philosophy: “Don’t that.” Blue Light profit musical theater company, is entering complain about something if you’re not will- “Chicago: the Sanders grew up in the South and lived started with the world of adult theater with an ambitious ing to fix it.” Musical” in Birmingham and Memphis, cradle of the nine elementary production of “Chicago.” In an interesting Their fix became the Blue Light Players. Albert A. White Performing Civil Rights movement. She’s only 25, but school-aged cast twist, a musical about the birth of the celeb- In addition to giving children performance Arts Theater said that Gaber’s music helped her under- members and rity criminal will provide financial support opportunities, they felt strongly that the has grown to 37 Hannah Community Center stand some history. 819 Abbot Road to the families of fallen and injured law en- company had to give back to the commu- members this year. “A lot of times I forget about the struggles East Lansing forcement officers. nity, so they made it their mission to raise that came before me,” she said. “I go about High school and March 1 -2 Although the company may be relatively money to support the families of fallen and my life and feel so lucky to do what I do. This college students 7 p.m. Friday; 2 p.m. & 7 unknown to Lansing area theatergoers, the injured police officers — ergo that colorful p.m. Saturday piece came along, and when I delved into it, expressed inter- Blue Light Players has been around since part of their name. Since its inception, the est in joining, so $15 it was very touching for me.” (517) 484-1100 2005. The group was founded by husband- company has raised and distributed over eventually the cast It matters “not at all” to her that Gaber bluelightplayers.com and-wife team Dan Southwell and Helen $25,000. isn’t black. was split into sev- Hart, who met while performing in Mudge’s Jamie Spencer experienced the Blue “I’m glad the music and text is out there eral troupes, and Follies, a vaudevillian performance troupe Light’s commitment to community service and it’s being performed,” she said. “People includes performers from kindergarten to that holds annual revues in Grand Ledge. firsthand. Her husband, Michigan State Po- are getting an understanding and a feel- college age. Divas need not apply, as cast- Both make time around their day jobs — lice Trooper Drew Spencer, suffered a trau- ing they might not have gotten otherwise. I Hart is an IT project manager, Southwell is matic brain injury when a passing motorist could care less what the source is.” See Chicago, Page 14 a law enforcement officer — to pursue per- struck him during a traffic stop in Septem-

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minology.” Chicago Southwell has been in law enforce- ment for 34 years. He said his expe- from page 13 rience working on the Capital Area Critical Incident Stress Management ing is non-competitive. Any student who is Team, which provides debriefing and willing to commit to the rigorous rehearsal diffusion services to emergency per- schedule gets a part. sonnel, guided his choice of where the “We are always focused on the commu- money should go. Blue Light makes nity service aspect —you’re not doing this direct contributions to families of fall- to become a star,” Hart said. “You’re doing en and injured law enforcement per- this to raise as much money as possible and sonnel, presenting the gifts in person give back to the community. That helps tone and honoring the officers and their down some of the egos.” families at subsequent performances. Hart and Southwell bring a balance of “I’ve seen the traumatic (impact) professionalism and passion to the com- of line of duty deaths and I’ve at- pany. Hart has a quiet intensity as she de- tended the funerals,” Southwell said. scribes the process of casting and producing “That was where the passion came shows and how she teaches professional from.” Southwell’s voice softens just work ethics from day one. a bit as he shares a story of present- “Everything we do involves learning ing a Blue Light Players T-shirt to the about theater,” said Hart, “Even our young- son of a Detroit police officer who was est children learn proper etiquette and ter- killed in the line of duty, along with an invitation to be an honorary member of the troupe. Hart was intent on making their grown-up debut a strong statement about the quality of Blue Light’s pro- If you want to be judged, duction capabilities. He knew “Chi- cago” was the right choice. Go to court. “It weds the vaudeville concept of

what we do with the Broadway revue into the full-fledged musical theater,” Courtesy Photo said Hart. “It showcases what we can Blue Light Players has donated almost $25,000 to do as an organization.” charity since its inception eight years ago. If you want to be accepted, “Chicago” is a satire of the cult of personality phenomenon created by the high-profile debut just to get "Chicago," but Come to Pilgrim Congregational Church. media and consumed by the public. It re- luck was on her side — she was granted one volves around Prohibition-era showgirls/ of those three precious licenses, allowing murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, Blue Light to conclude its season with a little who are as corrupt as the system into which razzle dazzle. they are thrown. The women are manipu- The cast of 20, whose ages range from 16 125 S. Pennsylvania Ave. lated by lawyer Billy Flynn and prison ma- to 57, and were chosen through Blue Light’s Pilgrim Congregational Worship Service tron “Mama” Morton. Throughout the story first competitive audition process. Cast they burn through songs that have become members travel from as far as Flint, Howell United Church of Christ Sunday - 10 AM ingrained in popular culture, such as “All and Marshall to be in this show. Lansing MI (517) 484-7434 that Jazz,” “We Both Reached for the Gun” “As we’ve said to our cast, there is no in- PilgrimUCC.com and “Cell Block Tango.” The lesson: fame is between on this show —we’re either going to fickle, because the public always hungers for be highly successful, or we’re going to be an the next sensational scandal. extreme failure,” Hart said. “It will happen March 21 - April 21, 2013 Samuel French, the license-granting en- together. No one person can save this show, tity for “Chicago,” approves only 5 percent of no one person can ruin this show.” applications for the show. In addition, it only Succeed or fail, Blue Light Players will Find out what happens when a middle allows three productions in a year in Michi- continue to perform a full musical annually. aged English housewife realizes her life gan. Hart said she was set on performing They are already planning next year’s show, has been shaped by choices made by the popular musical, no matter what. Her although Hart is not ready to make any an- everyone but her in this funny and contacts at Samuel French suggested that nouncements. Whatever the choice, it’s un- moving one-woman show. she should have a second choice while she likely to have the built-in irony of having the (Contains mature themes.) waited three months to get approval. In fact, “Cell Block Tango” supporting the needs of Hart said they would have delayed their law enforcement families. Pay-What-You-Can Preview Thursday, March 21 @ 8PM $15 Previews March 22 @ 8pm, March 23 @ 8pm March 24 @ 2pm and March 28 @ 8pm

by Willy Russell Williamston Theatre Directed by Lynn Lammers 122 S Putnam St.,Williamston 517-655-7469 Featuring Julia Glander www.williamstontheatre.org City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 15 Comics: The Thing With Three Brows! Low, middle and high culture converge at the MSU Comics Forum

By LAWRENCE COSENTINO That fish is There are questions you both love and hate to hear. Ryan Claytor gets one often: “Where do I start reading comics?” You can’t blame people for asking him. Claytor, 33 writes and draws way too big comics, teaches comic art at Michigan State University and organizes the A trip inside the human brain, a fishing MSU Comics Forum, an annual gathering of creators, scholars and fans coming this weekend on campus, now in its sixth year and growing. chipmunk, a girl’s first tattoo and a “slightly But how do you answer such a question in 2013? In the Middle Ages, less evil story” are all bound up in the “book” meant “Bible.” In 1965, “comic book” meant “superhero.” Both first-ever, 92-page MSU Student Comics media have diversified a bit since then. Anthology, ready in time for this weekend’s “I don’t think there’s been a more exciting time to be a reader of MSU Comics Forum. comics than right now,” Claytor said. Library and bookstore shelves groan with graphics, from R. Special Collections cataloguer Ruth Ann Crumb’s stern take on the Book of Genesis to Chris Ware’s bleak Jones wanted a comics anthology to kick off existential glyphs to kitchen-sink tales of everyday life. Comic artists the library’s publishing venture as a nod to are breaking ground in history, science, politics, horror, humor and MSU’s massive collection of over 200,000 genres yet unnamed. The speakers, films and panels this weekend at MSU will cover subjects as diverse as comics in the Islamic world, comics, 2.5 million strips and shelves of journalism, pop culture, annoying fanboys and on and on. history and criticism. Ann Arbor’s Josh Neufeld, the first comics journalist to get a Knight- The collection will be the library’s first Wallace fellowship, will be at the journalism panel. in-house product from the Espresso Book “It’s very nice to see comics getting that smart-people imprimatur,” he Machine, a robotic print-on-demand said sardonically. Neufeld is best known for his intimate-yet-epic 2009 book on Hurricane contraption the library bought this year. Katrina, “A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.” He gravitated to comics journalism after reading the pioneering work “The topics are fascinating and not of Joe Sacco, gritty chronicler of everyday life in Bosnia, Gaza and other global trouble spots. fannish at all,” Jones said, noting the absence Floored by Sacco’s meticulous work, Neufeld dropped the autobiographical comics he was producing up to then and of superheroes or galactic warriors. “One of jumped into journalism. He spent three weeks as a Red Cross volunteer in post-Katrina Biloxi, them, I don’t quite understand, but the jury MSU Comics Forum Miss., gathering first-person stories and assembling them into a turbulent, emotional mosaic. “I’m a cartoonist, and I’ve always told stories through comics,” he said. “It’s just more satisfying as a creator liked it.” (That would be Leslie J. Anderson’s March 1-2 to add the comics element to storytelling.” “The Grackle,” a cryptic tale of birds and cats Snyder-Philips Hall, 2nd floor For full schedule of films, More recently, Neufeld illustrated Brooke Gladstone’s witty expose of big media, “The Influencing rendered in dark washes.) panel discussions and Machine,” which got some love from Stephen Colbert and The New Yorker and has already become Jones and her staff cast a campus-wide other events, see www. a staple in journalism classes. comicsforum.msu.edu Besides taking part in panel discussions, Neufeld will hang out at the fan-fair-ish Artist’s Alley net in October and got 30 submissions by 17 Sunday with keynote speaker Nick Bertozzi (see related story) and a few dozen Michigan and creators. Some had training and others did Midwest comic creators. not. The three-man jury consisted of MSU Unlike high-brow academic conferences or comics conventions, the MSU forum throws academics, creators and fans comic art instructor Ryan Claytor, Special together in a tight space. “That’s part of the fun,” Neufeld said. He’s happy to schmooze with fans and artists from the Spidey-Star-Trek-Star-Wars- Collections comics curator Randy Scott and Dark-Knight basement that still thrives under the edifice of respectability. Samuel Thomas, a retired history professor “The dirty secret of all of us fancy cartoonists is that we all started out in comics because we loved superheroes or funny who studies editorial cartoons. animal comics,” Neufeld said. “A lot of us don’t do it any more, but that bone is still in our bodies.” The anthology is $12 at the Main Library Claytor is no exception. He went through a Disney phase and was later taken with the droll “Groo the Wanderer,” a satire Copy Center on 2 West; on shop.msu.edu; of muscle-bound barbarian comics. Claytor’s strips, collected every few years in soft cover under the title “And Then One Day,” take a gentle path, following the and on Amazon.com starting Friday. author’s daily musings while getting out Courtesy of Ryan Claytor of bed or looking at the night sky. MSU art “I process things visually a lot more teacher Ryan successfully than I do prose, but I also CHECK Claytor bares like writing and reading,” he said. his obsession “Comics are a great hybrid of the two. OUT with drawing I wouldn’t know how do it in any other COMICS comics (and medium.” FROM demonstrates Claytor teaches comics and other the value of art classes at MSU and an advanced THE a judiciously comics course at U of M Flint. He’s BOOK placed in “embryonic talks” about creating a ON monologue comics specialization or minor at MSU. box) in his Many comic artists, Claytor included, PAGE 16! autobiographical feel that comics broke through to strip, “And Then respectability in the public mind when One Day.” Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust chronicle,

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“Maus,” won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize. After “Maus,” comics saturated the surrounding culture, and not just as kitsch or pop decoration. The pitiless brushstrokes of Chris Ware and David Clowes put a new edge in often-smug New Yorker covers. An unprecedented, multi-generational story, told in four separate New Yorker Thanksgiving covers last fall, was another conspicuous moment in what Ware called comics’ “walkathon towards literacy.” Today, if comics were a monster, it would be called The Thing With Three Brows: high, middle and low. The Graphic Novels section of any bookstore is still loaded with riffs on bubble-armed beings like the Hulk, Superman, X-Men and so on. But there are potboilers, soap operas and other “civilian” page-turners, along with a growing body of journalism and autobiographical work from masters like Sacco and Clowes. Even science and philosophy FROM THE MSU STUDENT COMIC ART ANTHOLOGY has been served by books like “Logicomix,” about the intellectual development of Bertrand Russell, and a slew of science-oriented Left: Courtesy of Marie Lazar, Right: Courtesy of Spencer Thulin comics by Ann Arbor’s Jim Ottaviani. Pirate whimsy from Marie Lazar ("Treasure Island") and plain At the top of the shelf now is Ware’s strange new “Building weirdness from Spencer Thulin (“Post-Hell Service: A Slightly Stories.” Claytor considers it Ware’s best work yet and another Less Evil Story”) spice up the first MSU Student Comic Art watershed for the medium. It’s not a book, but a box of various- Anthology, published this week by the MSU Main Library. FROM THE MSU STUDENT COMIC ART ANTHOLOGY sized documents, from tiny leaflets to flip books to newspapers, that tell a cumulative story. There are no directions on how to read it, so the reader is left to flit through its labyrinthine cityscapes like Courtesy of Nick Bertozzi a guardian angel (or a fly) and piece the story together. Ann Arbor Ware’s work has already converted many skeptics. In a recent comic artist review, New Republic critic Steve Almond admitted that he Josh Neufeld's sighed “Oh, Christ,” at the sight of “Building Stories,” but went on vivid reporting to declare it “one of the most important pieces of art I have ever on Hurricane experienced.” Katrina, collected Claytor shows his students work like “Building Stories” and in "After the Nick Bertozzi’s story-in-a-map “Boswash.” Deluge," made “This is what you can do with comics,” he said. “You’re not him the first relegated to 24-page, floppy, saddle-stitched books. You can do comic journalist any format you want.” to receive a When Claytor talks about technique, he uses cinematic terms Knight-Wallace like “two-shot” and “POV,” but comics artists have power most film fellowship. directors can only dream of. Even Stanley Kubrick can’t stretch and Neufeld will join a shrink the screen to fit the subject. Comic artists still struggle for panel on comics respect, but total control of the universe is no small compensation. journalism at this “Talk to comic artists who write and illustrate their own work weekend's MSU and inevitably you’ll hear, ‘Yes, I am a control freak,’” Claytor Comics Forum. admitted. Still searching for your new career? You can be in a new career in as little as 9 months! “Now is the time to make a change. Earn your diploma or associate degree from Career Quest.” CLASSES START NOW ENROLL TODAY! CQLC.EDU (517) 318-3330 3215 S. Pennsylvania Ave, Lansing FULL DISCLOSURE: Get more information on completion and placement rates, average student dept and related employment data at www.cqlc.edu/disclosure City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 17 From ‘The Salon’ to the big sky Nick Bertozzi unpacks a bottomless bag of comic tricks

Courtesy Photo Artist-on-artist arguments, sex and violence, juiced by hallucinogenic blue absinthe, heats up "The Salon," Nick Bertozzi's graphic novel about Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Braque and company. Bertozzi is the keynote speaker at this weekend's MSU Comics Forum.

By LAWRENCE COSENTINO get into a fight in “The Salon,” a surly publishing to small press work to critically From French-ified sound effects like Stein gives them both a slap, a la Moe praised books for St. Martin’s Press and “knoque” to carefully beaded Lakota Howard. (Bertozzi confirmed that it First Second books, MacMillan’s graphic Sioux word balloons, comic artist Nick wasn’t my low-brow imagination. “You’re novel division. He has taught cartooning Bertozzi carries a loose bag of storytelling the first person to get that,” he said.) at the New York School of Visual Arts for tricks — some stolen, some adapted, Bertozzi describes himself as “pretty 10 years. some invented. self-taught.” He was looking at comics At MSU, he’ll delve into his “primordial “I’ve always approached the world as before he could read them. When he was soup” of influences, unpack his bag a pot luck,” the keynote speaker at this 4, his father read him “Tintin,” with its of story-telling tricks and illustrate year’s MSU Comics Forum said. “Rib, elegant, clean lines by French master with “lots of pretty pictures,” including grab, take, steal and put into my big Hergé, along with “Classics Illustrated” excerpts from works in progress. Readers stew.” (“Moby Dick in 50 pages”) and — gasp might be surprised, for example, to find Since 2000, Bertozzi, 42, has become a — R. Crumb’s underground hippie anti- that the thick brush that lovingly limns top creator in the field with an ambitious hero, “Mr. Natural.” Picasso’s bare butt in “The Salon” owes a run of projects, including a comic that “He skipped over the naughty pages lot to Mickey Mouse. unfolds like a road map, a biography of and wouldn’t read me the swear words,” “What an incredible line, that huge, Harry Houdini and an upcoming 300- he explained. luscious, thick, perfect contour line page epic on the founding of Israel. Biographies, history, fantasy and Disney developed in the 1930s and 1940s “I keep my eyes open,” he said. “It’s a science fiction books seeded a tangle of that set the standard for what we think of function of getting bored.” interests that is still growing. There was as comic art,” Bertozzi said. “I’m attracted In “The Salon,” published in 2007, he a superhero phase — there always is with to it, but I don’t want to just emulate it. I re-created the Paris apartment where boys — but it was over by college. want to take it and manipulate it.” Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Braque and While Bertozzi was studying Spanish Bertozzi’s magnum opus comes out in other bohemian types invented modern at the University of Massachusetts, a new April: “Jerusalem,” a 380-page epic on art, squeezing turn-of-the-century Paris wave of comics crept back into his life. A the building of Israel from 1940 to 1948, into a digest-sized den of purple panels friend gave him a copy of Daniel Clowes’ written by Boaz Yain. Needless to say, it stuffed with sex, booze, arguments and grim confessional comic “Eightball” and called for months of research. art supplies. the seminal soap opera graphic series “I spent two days trying to find In contrast to the claustrophobic “Love and Rockets.” Here was real life in out whether judges in the Palestinian “Salon,” Bertozzi’s “Lewis and Clark” honest black and white, with no Spandex mandate wore wigs, as they did in (published in 2011) sprawls across a tights in sight. Britain,” he said. “They do.” larger format in wide panels that stretch “This was the vanguard of Bertozzi is happy to see comics break from margin to shining margin. Barrier independent publishing in the late ‘80s out of the superhero mold, but in some cliffs tower from the top to the bottom of and throughout the ‘90s,” Bertozzi said. ways, the medium’s coming of age has the page, tents billow with flatulence and “It was unlike anything I’d ever seen. gone too far for his taste. He won’t be bugs wander into the margins. Naturally, I started writing comics — renting the DVD of “Tintin,” Steven “I wanted you to understand how really bad ones.” Spielberg’s blasphemous motion-capture annoying it is to haul a giant dugout canoe His first not-bad one was “Boswash,” take on the beloved stories Bertozzi took up a hill and be engulfed in mosquitoes,” a story about Mexican immigrants the in at his father’s knee. Bertozzi said. “When I read stories, that’s reader has to unfold like a state road map. “I’ll never see it, and I’m not going to the kind of small quotidian moment that The project won him a Xeric Award, a allow my children to see it,” he said. “The makes it so much more real.” prestigious grant in the comics industry. most beautiful two-dimensional art, and An in-joke or two doesn’t hurt, either. From there, he negotiated the they made it three-dimensional! The less When arch-rivals Matisse and Picasso treacherous hopscotch from self- said about that the better.” 18 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • February 27, 2013

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Photo by Dave Trumpie Photography Woman of steel Pakistani artist Naiza Broad Art Museum gets three new exhibits Khan (right) featuring diaries, geometry and metallic underwear speaks to a group at the By DANA CASADEI Her sculpture opening of Staying true to its contemporary theme, series, titled “Ar- her exhibit, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum ro- mour Lingerie,” which had tates in three new exhibits this week. is made from the a preview First up is “Karachi Elegies,” created by artist’s clothing viewing last Pakistani artist Naiza Khan, in her first and out of galva- Thursday. solo exhibit in the U.S. The show focuses nized steel. Imag- on Khan’s experiences in her home of more ine a lace teddy than 20 years, Karachi, Pakistan, and is cu- from Victoria’s rated by Karin Zitzewitz, Michigan State Secret — then try University assistant professor of art history to picture that and visual culture. made of steel, and Zitzewitz, whose specialty is in the mod- with a few extra ern and contemporary art of India and details, such as Pakistan, had the job of creating the exhibit spikes. Khan takes outfits that aren’t nor- Argentinian artist Guillermo Kutica’s be in an exhibit, showing the mind behind culled from six years worth of Khan’s work, mally associated with strength and power “Diarios” consists of 17 pieces and a video of the madness of his creations. starting with her first pieces in 2007. Zitze- and makes them say, “I am woman, hear me Kutica creating his work. The circular, 48- The third exhibit, “Geometries: Selec- witz said that it’s quite common for contem- roar.” Her pieces refer to the human figure inch canvasses bring a whole new meaning tions from the Collection,” is curated by porary art museums such as the Broad to without it actually being there, adding lay- to the concept of keeping a private diary — Alison Gass, the museum’s Curator of Con- use guest curators to augment the expertise ers and meaning, showing that women can especially for those who had locks on theirs. temporary Art. The exhibit will showcase of the curatorial staff. Khan’s exhibit consists kick ass, no matter the outfit. Over a ranging time period, Kuitca draws shapes, taking prints and paintings from of two video works, three sculptures, two oil While working closely with a craftsman, and writes, on discarded canvases that have five different artists: Josef Albers, Kenneth paintings and a series of seven photographs. each piece was hammered and then welded been stretched over a round table in his Noland, Bridget Riley, Sol LeWitt and Kris- The pieces capture Khan’s experiences together. Khan said part of her inspiration studio. He’s taken what, for many, is a book tin Cammermeyer. Guests will be greeted in the constantly changing city of Karachi, for these was Rani Jhansi, who was a lead- filled with their dreams, fears and thoughts by lines and shapes in ways they may have which has undergone major upheavals in ing figure of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and brought it out into the open. His “Diari- never imagined, making geometry much recent years. Khan’s paintings and video and that these pieces pay homage to Jhansi’s os” (Spanish for “diaries”) are windows into prettier, and more intriguing, to look at. work are described as “disrupted geogra- act of heroism. the life of the artist, with things as simple as Math has been at the heart of abstract phy,” where she layers images and words. “It’s an interesting paradox,” Zitzewitz memos with phone numbers or lists etching art for the past 50 years. The basic lines and At a lecture Monday evening at the said. “They look like they could flow in the their ways into his work. The table that he shapes create pieces that invoke the imagi- Broad, Khan said that she begins working wind but they’re steel and your mind imag- uses enhances the idea of letting people into nation, letting viewers see what they want with a sketch and then “constantly dumps ines them as flowing clothing and under- his home, and bringing them into his. Each to, and question what they see, in the ever- thoughts” onto the paintings. If she doesn’t stand that they’re solid. They’re both deli- piece of art leaves marks and memories on changing creations in front of them. like it, she simply paints over it. cate and strong.” the table; maybe one day the table itself will

seems to have been an absolute success.” seemingly losing battle to keep the entire “How to Survive a Plague” which focuses Susan Woods, director of the East Lan- city from going up in flames. The film took on groups fighting to end of the AIDS cri- C! worthy sing Film Society, has programmed films top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival last sis; and “Amour,” which has proven to be for one of the theater’s screens since Jan. year, and some of the film’s subjects will quite a hit with audiences. Niche film series continues with 17. Those pictures included awards season make a live appearance on March 16 at Stu- “That movie really seems to resonate docs, shorts and indies darlings “A Royal Affair,” “Chasing Ice” and dio C! to discuss the film. with people,” said Studio C! general manag- “The Intouchables.” She slipped recent Best “It’s an amazing opportunity to see how er Chad Wozniak. “This series has brought By ALLAN I. ROSS Foreign Language Oscar winner “Amour” film doesn’t just exist on the screen,” Woods a lot of people out who have stopped going In its first two months, experimental in two weeks ago to whet audiences' ap- said. “It’s a living, breathing art form that to the theater because they think nothing film theater Studio C! in Okemos has al- petites for round two, which starts Friday can affect change in the world, and Lan- good is out. I’m seeing 600 to 700 people ready transformed the concept of a night at with fellow Oscar winners “Searching for sing audiences can meet these real people each week packing the seats for these small the movies for mid-Michigan filmgoers. It Sugar Man” (Best Documentary Feature), that were in the movie. You’re not going to movies most people have never heard of. has food several notches above your typical “Paperman” (Best Animated Short) and get to experience this at your typical movie We’re definitely on the cutting edge of all megaplex fare (think appetizers, pizzas and “Curfew” (Best Live Action Short). The lat- house.” this. We took a risk and it’s definitely pay- sandwiches) as well as a liquor license and, ter two are part of a package of short film The new program also includes the ing off.” for a modest upgrade price, lush reclining showcases, enabling audiences to view all biographical com- seats. Oh, and for the last month it’s shown the nominees. Woods said she conducts an edy/drama “Hyde a slew of award-winning films that were exhaustive search before settling on a film Park on Hudson,” MOVIES: largely unavailable in Lansing. to bring to town, pouring over reviews and about FDR’s rela- “56 UP,” documentary, 144 minutes “There is no model for what we’re doing watching every trailer she can. tionship with King “AMOUR,” drama, 127 minutes with Studio C!,” said Ron Van Timmeren, “But I never see a film before I bring it George VI, star- “BURN,” documentary, 86 minutes “HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE,” documentary, 120 minutes vice president in charge of programming here,” she says. “I want to be just as sur- ring Bill Murray “HYDE PARK ON HUDSON,” comedy/drama, 94 minutes for the Grand Rapids-based Loeks The- prised as the rest of the audience. I have as the 32nd prez; “SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN,” documentary, 86 minutes atres Inc., which owns the six-screen the- to say, though, with all the work I put into “56 Up,” the eighth Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation,” 88 minutes (“ADAM ater. “It’s a true experiment. It’s very unusu- picking a movie, I’m hardly ever wrong.” iteration of the AND DOG,” “FRESH GUACAMOLE,” “HEAD OVER HEELS," "MAGGIE SIMP- al for a theater to devote this level of time to Besides “Sugar Man,” which follows the “Seven Up!” docu- SON IN ‘THE LONGEST DAYCARE,’” “PAPERMAN”) smaller movies, but we’re not doing this to search for a Detroit folk singer, “Burn” is mentary series that “The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action,” 113 minutes (“ASAD,” “BUZKASHI BOYS,” “CURFEW,” “DEATH OF A SHADOW (DOOD get rich — we’re educating local audiences, another new documentary to light up the interviews a group VAN EEN SCHADUW),” “HENRY” FOR THE FULL SCHEDULE, VISIT raising some money for the East Lansing screen — and, interestingly, is also Detroit- of British citizens Film Society and just trying to break even. centric. “Burn” spends one year following a every seven years; The accounting’s not in yet, but so far this team of Detroit firefighters as they fight a the documentary CELEBRATIONCINEMA.COM/ELFS City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 21

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of Detroit, and he writes with an intensity But even after the absolute darkness and passion about a city and its residents, of the book, LeDuff said he “doesn’t just Motown in mortem both of which he loves. The author brings think Detroit can come back, I know it.” Detroit author writes requiem for little joy to this dark look at a city on the He points to the revitalized car companies, rotting metropolis ropes and way beyond being called hard- the fresh water, the trade center to Canada scrabble. and recent mayoral corruption trial as ex- LeDuff is among a handful of journal- amples. By BILL CASTANIER Detroit author and journalist Charlie ists who have taken the New Journalism of “But we have to reorder our political LeDuff doesn’t need a white suit, acid or a the 1960s to a whole new level; he recently priorities,” he said. “We have to quit bleed- rich boy’s swagger to prove that he belongs did a segment in his underwear at his new ing our children.” among the greats of New (now old) Jour- reporting gig with Detroit Fox 2 News. He The book ends with a tender, almost nalism. His new book not only gives him has also proved his chops in traditional surreal moment, when LeDuff returns to a seat at that table, but he gets to pick the journalism, winning a Pulitzer Prize while the site of his beloved sister’s death. There, entrée — and he certainly looks the part. working at The New York Times before in an overgrown field, he discovers new The jacket cover of his new book “Detroit: moving home to work at The Detroit News life. An American Autopsy” shows LeDuff and to be closer to his family. His first “That’s when she stopped in front of me, dressed in a leather vest, his shirt sleeves newspaper job was with the Alaska Fisher- not ten feet away, unafraid,” he writes. “A rolled above his elbows, cigarette dangling man’s Journal. spotted fawn, a pretty little thing…I don’t in his left hand and wearing black shades LeDuff knows all about inverted pyra- believe in reincarnation, but I do believe in against the backdrop of the Detroit sky- mid journalism, but he has come to the symbolism.” line — looking quite like Sean Penn in his conclusion it’s not for him. He also says It’s not likely LeDuff will be asked to tougher, meaner days. And that’s not even that he thinks traditional journalism has address the Detroit Chamber of Com- mentioning the striped cowboy boots. lost its way. merce any day soon (in the book he refers LeDuff, 46, was raised in the suburbs “Why be a bore at something,” he said. to the city as a “post-industrial sarcopha- But “Detroit: An American Autopsy” is gus”), but he recently did a segment for Fox anything but boring — it’s a high-octane, News on golfing in Detroit. Of course, he grab-you-by-the-neck-and-shake-up- Courtesy Pulse did take a different approach, golfing 18 everything-you-know-about-humanity Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff miles in downtown Detroit on the incred- post-mortem examination. Starting with a takes a deeply personal look at Detroit. ible stretches of vacant land while report- frozen corpse and ending with a look at an- ing what he saw. other more personal, tragic death, LeDuff In one memorable segment LeDuff is takes you on a ride you will not soon forget. until she fatally fell out of a car traveling searching the high grass for a lost golf ball COMING SOON When asked if his book is a form of lit- 80 mph. His niece died of a drug overdose. when a car goes by. A woman leaning out erary ruins porn, he bristles. His mother, a single mom, toiled her whole of the car window asks LeDuff to help her rEad aCross aMEriCa “I feel it’s exactly the opposite,” LeDuff life in a flower shop until it was destroyed find her runaway daughter who she fears dr. sEuss storytiME said. “The book is about people living and by crime. is going to commit suicide. When LeDuff slogging through life and how do we get to And if that isn’t enough cred, while writ- asks how she knows that, she answers: Saturday. March 2. 1 p.m. a new day.” ing the book he discovered his mixed-race “Because she took all my drugs.” Lansing Location Normally you would expect the fluff heritage at a family funeral that includes a LeDuff compiled most of the material peddlers who consistently point to Mid- mulatto grandfather. in the book from a two-year period while Saturday. March 9. 2 p.m. town’s revival to attack the white boy from “I’m glad I didn’t hate myself,” LeDuff working at The Detroit News. When tak- Okemos Location the suburbs (he lives Pleasant Ridge, about said. “It was like all at once I knew where ing the job, he writes that he promised two miles north of Detroit’s northern bor- I sprung from and it was, ‘Kunta Kinte, I himself, “I’d build a castle of words so der, 8 Mile Road), but LeDuff has walked found you.’” high on the banks of the Detroit River that Writing & Publishing the walk, He candidly talks the talk about LeDuff’s “Detroit” is reminiscent of Da- they couldn’t help but see it from Times a book today: his own family and their desperate travails vid Simon’s “The Wire,” to which it is being Square.” while living in the city. His sister was in favorably compared — the difference being Sunday’s New York Times book section a Conversation between a and out of hooking her whole adult life this is real life. The author placed himself carried a glowing review of LeDuff’s new self-Published & traditionally in the center of the action by embedding book. Assigned to cover Detroit Council Published author himself with the Detroit Fire Department member Monica Conyers’ corruption case, and becoming its biggest cheerleader, to he finds himself being groped by her in a Join us for a Q&A session and book the disdain of the politicos. His reporting dim lit Detroit Bar. signing with authors Jenny Milchman was critical to solving an arson murder of “Man, you can’t make Detroit up,” he and Rick Murcer. one Detroit firefighter. said. Jenny Milchman is a suspense writer from New Jersey. Her debut Commerical & Residental novel, Cover of Snow, was released Quality books at half the price. in January. Jenny is the Chair of the Fully Insured International Thriller Writers’ Debut Authors Program. Rick Murcer is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author from Michigan. 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Wed. feb. 27 >> Shop to Stop the Violence Handing over a credit card can be thrilling, especially when you’re about to make an exciting purchase. Today, get ready to feel great when you buy at Retail Therapy. At Shop to Stop the Violence a portion of the day’s proceeds will be donated to help fund “Take Back the Night,” an international event held every April at Michigan State University, to spread awareness about sexual violence. Guests will also be able to enjoy locally owned women’s wear company, Trybe’s trunk show, which, for the non-fashionistas out there, is a special sale where vendors present merchandise directly to select customers in unique venue, for which Retail Therapy qualifies for in spades. There will be wine, beer and food, as well as a discussion by members of the MSU Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Team. 4-8 p.m. Retail Therapy, 5100 Marsh Road, Suite B-1, Okemos. ON THE (517) 574-4427. Wed. feb. 27 >> Underwater Robotics Today, you can enter the world of underwater robotics and see another reason why robots rock. Robots can do all kinds of awesome things humans can’t, including searching for boats that have been underwater for decades. Teachers and students from three Capital Area Schools of Innovation network organizations will present updates on “The State of Innovation TOWNListings deadline is 5 p.m. the THURSDAY BEFORE in Mid-Michigan High Schools.” At 7:30 p.m., the documentary “Last Flight Home” will be publication. Paid classes will be listed in print at the cost screened as a fundraiser for the Stockbridge Underwater Robotics Team. “Last Flight Home” of one enrollment (maximum $20). Please submit them to showcases the work of the BentProp Project, which searches the waters and jungles of the the events calendar at www.lansingcitypulse.com. If you need help, please call Dana at (517) 999-5069. Email western Pacific for downed WWII aircrafts and their missing crews, using robots, in order information to [email protected]. to bring them home for a final goodbye. Guess you’ll have to watch to see if they find any treasure. 6:30 p.m. $10. NEO Center, 934 Clark St., Lansing. (517) 851-7770 ext. 6202. Wednesday, February 27 FRI. MARCH 1 >> Opening reception Classes and Seminars In May, the East Lansing Art Festival will celebrate its 50th anniversary. That’s half a century of East Lansing art, folks. This Drawing Class. For all levels with Shirley Hazlett. Friday, as part of an ongoing celebration, (SCENE) Metrospace will unveil its second exhibit of the year, showcasing many of Pre-registration required. 1-3:30 p.m. $50 for 4 weeks. the posters designed for the festival over the past five decades, including the first one created by Mike Bidwell. Did you know Gallery 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., Lansing. Community Yoga. For all levels. 6 p.m. FREE. Just B Bidwell helped launch the festival in 1963 when he was seeking a project for Alpha Delta Sigma? He went to the City of East Yoga, 106 Island Ave., Lansing. (517) 488-5260. Lansing and Chamber of Commerce about producing an event much like Ann Arbor’s fair, and little did he know the success Family Storytime. Stories, rhymes & activities that it would become. There will also be award-winning pieces of work from past festivals on display. 6-9 p.m. FREE. (SCENE) for kids 6 and under. 10:30 a.m. FREE. CADL South Metrospace, 110 Charles St., East Lansing. (517) 319-6832. scenemetrospace.com. Lansing Library, 3500 S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 272-9840. March 1-3 & 8-10 >> 'Yankee Tavern' Babytime. Beginning story time for babies under 2. Do you question everything and try to prove things that others 10:30-11 a.m. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. Theater may have never thought of? Love a good conspiracy theory? Then Meditation. For beginners and experienced. 7-9 PREVIEW you may want to check out Riverwalk Theatre’s latest Black Box p.m. FREE. Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, 3015 S. production, “Yankee Tavern,” which is drenched in them. The 2007 Washington Ave., Lansing. (517) 351-5866. Steven Dietz thrill ride takes place, you guessed it, at the Yankee Seed Swap & Minimizing Seedling Diseases Tavern in New York City. Bar owner Adam is studying conspiracy theories Workshop. Seed exchange, 5:30 p.m. Workshop, 6 while his late father’s friend, Ray, has a conspiracy theory for everything. Then p.m. FREE. MSU Plant Pathology Dept., 919 Filley St., Lansing. (517) 853-7809. letsgardenlansing.org. there’s mystery stranger, Palmer, who comes into the bar and seems to know a The Theology of "Star Wars." Discussion. 6-7 p.m. little too much. Throughout the play, some of the more prominent 9/11 conspiracy FREE. Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, theories are discussed. What will you believe? And more importantly, whom? 8 125 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-7434. p.m. Fridays & Saturdays. 2 p.m. Sundays. $12, $10 students & seniors. Riverwalk pilgrimucc.com. Theatre, 228 Museum Drive, Lansing. (517) 482-5700. riverwalktheatre.com. Beauty of Breastfeeding: Share to Success. Nursing moms, partners, babies & siblings welcome. sat. march 2 >> 5th Annual Mason Women’s Expo 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 337-7365. Sometimes all you need is a little TLC after a long week. This Saturday, Sowers Chiropractic Center and Dart Bank are hosting Drop-in Figure Drawing. Easels & drawing boards the 5th Annual Mason Area Women’s Expo, a day for women of all ages to be catered to. There will be a variety of vendors, provided. Bring other supplies. 7:30-10 p.m. $5, $3 including jewelry, make-up and an area to get helpful kitchen tips. At 11:30 a.m., there will be a fashion show by Okemos students. Kresge Art Center, Physics & Auditorium Modeling, and at 1 p.m. there will be a product fashion show by Kean’s Store. If you’re up for a little exercising, there will also roads, East Lansing. (517) 337-1170. be Zumba classes to take part in. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Ingham County Fairgrounds, 700 E. Ash St., Mason. (517) 676-0788. Renegotiating Black Studies Series. Speaker Dr. Khalil Muhammad. 6:30 p.m. MSU International Center, tue. march 5 >> Encore! 50+ Expo 169 International Ctr., East Lansing. msu.edu. Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. First This Tuesday, Lansing Community College will host the first Encore! 50+ Congregational United Church of Christ, 210 W. Expo, an event geared toward adults 50 and over, as part of their Encore! Saginaw Hwy., Grand Ledge. (517) 256-6954. 50+ Program. The day will include workshops, panel discussions and chances to meet with various resources. There will also be breakout Events Fenner Nature Center Walking Group. 5 p.m. sessions designed to help older job seekers with the tools needed for FREE. Fenner Nature Center, 2020 E. Mount Hope searching for jobs in today’s world. Don’t know how to use LinkedIn? Ave., Lansing. (517) 483-4224. mynaturecenter.org. There’s a session for that. Want to know what to wear to get that job? Practice Your English. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing There’s a session for that too. For those looking for more personal Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) enrichment opportunities, there will be workshops presented by some 351-2420. of LCC’s Community and Continuing Education faculty. Pre-registration Karaoke. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. FREE. Reno's East, 1310 Abbot is required. Noon-6 p.m. FREE. LCC’s East Campus, 2827 Eyde Parkway, See Out on the Town, Page 25 East Lansing. (517) 483-1860. lcc.edu/lifelong/encore/expo. 24 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • February 27, 2013

Peter Nelson at The Avenue The Avenue, 2021 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, FREE, all ages, 9 p.m. turn it Fans of jazz and gumbo might want to stop by The Avenue Café every Thursday for a free performance by the Peter Nelson Jazz Quartet and a chance to order from the New Orleans-inspired menu. The group, which plays jazz classics and originals, is led by Nelson, a trombonist and composer/ arranger, and includes Matt Lorusso (guitar), Judson Branam (drums) and Down bassist Sam Copperman. “Most of what we play would fall under the head- ing of jazz,” Nelson said. “But our music is the sum of everything we enjoy A survey of Lansing's listening to, drawing influence from rock, classical, hip-hop and salsa.” In April thu. feb. musical Landscape the band will release its album “Watercolors.” At 8 p.m. Thursday, WDBM-FM (88.9 The Impact) will air an interview and performance by the quartet on By Rich Tupica 28th “The Basement.”

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Uli’s Haus of Rock, 4519 S. Martin Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Unitarian Universalist Church, 855 Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Luther King Blvd., Lansing, 18+, $15, Lansing, all ages, $8, Grove St., East Lansing, all ages, 8 p.m., Lansing, all ages, $12, $10 adv., $10 adv., 7 p.m. 9 p.m. $15, $12 Fiddle members, $5 students. 6 p.m. Zach Myers, the guitar player from the Over the past two years, The Lansing Michigan acoustic duos Jamie-Sue Seal & Ontario-based melodic-punk rockers The multi-platinum selling modern rock band Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle (LUVS) has John Latini and Shari Kane & Dave Steele play Flatliners return to Mac’s Bar Thursday, with Shinedown, plays a stripped-down acoustic been performing theatrical shows on street Friday at The Ten Pound Fiddle concert series. openers Little American Champ, Reconnect, show Thursday at Uli’s Haus of Rock. Joining corners, bars and various stages across Michi- Seal & Latini have scored fans across the Natural Disasters and Explicit Bombers. Myers on stage are musicians Chris Allen gan. Friday, the 15-piece Lansing-based band country, from New York to New Mexico, with Since 2002, The Flatliners have spent count- and Zach Mack. The trio plays some originals, plays a Great Lakes Collective showcase at their intimate gigs and true-to-life “heartland- less hours in vans, dive bars, and concert covers and a few Shinedown songs. The list Mac’s Bar, along with The Appleseed Collec- er music.” Latini has been awarded songwrit- halls across North America, Europe, Australia of openers consists of Deveraux, Blackened tive and Jory Stultz. LUVS is known for its ing honors in three states and is a two-time and Japan. That intense tour regimen has Earth, Calming Hannibal, Silence the Fear, A Americana, vaudeville-inspired sound. That im- Detroit blues champion; Seal releases solo earned the Fat Wreck Chords-signed four- Line Equals Maybe and Soul Fetch. Aside from age is topped off with a dynamic stage show records on her own imprint, Smokin’ Sleddog piece a dedicated fan base. The band’s sound his gig in Shinedown, Myers is also the lead that features hand-built props, scripts and Records. She also is an artist manager, concert mixes ‘90s skate punk and ska with hints of singer and guitarist for The Fairwell and man- pyrotechnics. The band describes its style as promoter and tireless roots music entrepre- inspiration from The Replacements and Hot ager of Sore Eyes, a band from his hometown “New Orleans meets Eastern Europe at a car- neur. Kane and Steele met in 1991, crossing Water Music. The Flatliners’ last album was of Memphis. Shinedown, which is known nival sideshow.” LUVS recorded a new album, paths as blues musicians. Today, they’re an 2010’s “Cavalcade,” and the band is work- for its hit cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple "Extra! Extra!" It's streamed at dylanrogers. acoustic blues duo, playing original and classic ing on material for a new record., word is it Man,” formed in Florida in 2001. bandcamp.com. blues, gospel, swing and ragtime, a sound de- could be out as early as spring 2013. scribed as “street swing and stomp blues.”

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LIVE & LOCAL Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat u r day The Avenue Café, 2021 E. Michigan Ave. Peter Nelson Jazz Quartet, 9 p.m. Nate Woodring Jazz Trio, 8 p.m. Open Mic, 8 p.m. Bar 30, 2324 Showtime Drive D.J. Skitzo, 10 p.m. D.J. John Beltran, 10 p.m. D.J. John Beltran, 10 p.m. D.J. Skitzo, 10 p.m. Colonial Bar, 3425 S. MLK Jr. Blvd. Eric Brodberg Band, 9 p.m. Velocity Shift, 9 p.m. Velocity Shift, 9 p.m. Connxtions Comedy Club, 2900 N. East St. Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. Mike Bonner, 8 p.m. Mike Bonner, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Mike Bonner, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Crunchy's, 254 W. Grand River Ave. Mighty Medicine, 10 p.m. Karaoke, 10 p.m. Karaoke, 10 p.m. Karaoke, 10 p.m. The Exchange, 314 E. Michigan Ave. Wine Night, 8:30 p.m. Showdown, 9:30 p.m. Showdown, 9:30 p.m. The Firm, 229 S. Washington Square DnW Sound DJs, 9 p.m. Various DJs, 9 p.m. Grand Café/Sir Pizza, 201 E. Grand River Ave. Kathy Ford Band, 7:30 p.m. Karoke with Joanie Daniels, 7 p.m. Ladies Night w/ D.J, Fudgie, 8 p.m. Green Door, 2005 E. Michigan Ave. The Hoopties, 9:30 p.m. Starfarm, 9:30 p.m. Mix Pack, 9:30 p.m. The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave. Zach Deputy, 7 p.m. Jimkata, 8 p.m. OCD Moosh & Twist and Huey Mack, 7 p.m. Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave. The Deep End, 9 p.m. Lansing Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle, 9 p.m. Kyle Brown, 9 p.m. Moriarty's Pub, 802 E. Michigan Ave. Open Mic Night, 9:30 p.m. From Big Sur, 9:30 p.m. From Big Sur, 9:30 p.m. Rookies, 16460 S. US 27 Sea Cruisers, 7-10 p.m. Water Pong DJ, 9 p.m. Karaoke Dance Party, 9 p.m. Live Bands, 7:30 p.m. Rum Runners, 601 East Michigan Ave. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 9 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 7 p.m. Dueling Pianos & DJ, 7 p.m. Uli's Haus of Rock, 4519 S. MLK Jr. Blvd. Zach Myers, 7 p.m. The Thirsty Perch Band, 9:30 p.m. Various Artists, 9 p.m. Unicorn Tavern, 327 E. Grand River Ave. Frog & the Beeftones, 8:30 p.m. Bear Band, 8:30 p.m. Bear Band, 8:30 p.m. Waterfront Bar & Grill, 325 City Market Drive Suzi & The Love Brothers, 6 p.m. Craig Hendershott, 6 p.m. Joe Wright, 6 p.m. Whiskey Barrel Saloon, 410 S. Clippert D.J., 9 p.m. D.J., 9 p.m. D.J., 9 p.m. D.J., 9 p.m. Sunday Karaoke, 9 p.m. Drag Queens Gone Wild, 11 p.m., Spiral Dance Bar; DJ Mike, 9:30 p.m., LeRoy's Bar & Grill; Open Mic, 5 p.m., Open Blues Jam, 7-11 p.m. Uli's Haus of Rock. Monday Steppin' In It, 9:30 p.m., Green Door: Easy Babies funk trio, 10 p.m., The Exchange. Open-Mic Mondays, 6:30 p.m., Michigan Brewing Company-Lansing. Monday Funday, 9 p.m., The Firm. Tuesday Tommy Foster & Guitar Bob, 9 p.m., The Exchange; Neon Tuesday, 9 p.m., Mac's Bar. Jazz Tuesday Open Jam, 9 p.m., Stober's Bar, 812 E. Michigan Ave. City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 25

Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351- 367-6300. cadl.org. Gallery 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., Lansing. Out on the town 2420. elpl.org. After School Wednesdays: Food for Thought. (517) 999-1212. 5th Annual Pizza Taste-Off. Ages 11 & up. Ages 8-14. Marshmallow challenge. 3 p.m. CADL Haslett Family Education Day. Celebrating Dr. Seuss' from page 23 Registration required. 4 p.m. CADL Mason Library, 145 Library, 1590 Franklin St., Haslett. (517) 339-2324. cadl. birthday. Storyteller & green eggs. 5 p.m. FREE. Lansing W. Ash St., Mason. (517) 676-9088. cadl.org. org. City Market, 325 City Market Drive, Lansing. (517) 483- Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-7366. Stockbridge Advanced Underwater Robotics. Shop to Stop the Violence. Truck show, food & 7460. lansingcitymarket.com. Downtown Y Annual Giving Campaign. Silent Panel discussion, 6:30 p.m. "Last Flight Home," drinks. 4-8 p.m. Retail Therapy, 5100 Marsh Road, Suite Community Advisory Committee. Meeting. 6:30- auction & entertainment. 6-8 p.m. $30, $50 for two. screening, 7:30 p.m. . $10. NEO Center, 934 Clark St., B, Okemos. (517) 574-4427. 7:30 p.m. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, Midtown Beer Company, 402 S. Washington Square, Lansing. (517) 851-7770 ext. 6202. Drop-In Homework Help. Any subject, grades K-12. East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. Lansing. (517) 827-9640. lansingymca.org. Party Like Mad. Brings items to swap or donate. 5-7 p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing, 401 S. Capitol "Slavery to Freedom" speaker series. Rev. ESOL Reading Group. Practice English reading & 5:30-8:30 p.m. $10. The Center for New Enterprise Ave., Lansing. (517) 367-6363. cadl.org. James Lawson. Reception follows. 5 p.m. FREE. Kellogg speaking skills. Noon-1:30 p.m. CADL Okemos Library, Opportunity, 934 Clark St., Lansing. Conference Center, 219 S. Harrison Road, East Lansing. 4321 Okemos Road, Okemos. (517) 347-2021. cadl.org. Oral Health Storytimes. Delta Dental's mascot, Drop-In Art Class. For preschoolers. 10-11:30 a.m. $1 After-School Program. Middle & high school Music activities for ages 3-6 & more. 10:30 a.m. FREE. CADL per child per class. Delta Township Enrichment Center, students. Gaming & activities. 3-6 p.m. East Lansing Renee Fleming. Grammy-winning opera singer. 7:30 Aurelius Library, 1939 S. Aurelius Road, Mason. (517) p.m. $38-$78. Wharton Center, MSU Campus, East 4538 Elizabeth Road, Lansing. (517) 323-8555. Lansing. (517) 432-2000. whartoncenter.com. Codependents Anonymous. 7-8 p.m. FREE. Marshall Music Ukulele Playalong. With Chris Community Mental Health Building, 812 E. Jolly Road, Advice Goddess & Zatzke. Instruments available or bring your own. All Lansing. (517) 672-4072. ages. 6 p.m. FREE. Marshall Music, 3240 E. Saginaw St., Savage Love Lansing. (517) 337-9700. marshallmusic.com. Events Musique 21. 7:30 p.m. FREE. MSU Residential College Spanish Conversation Group. Both English & CAN NOW BE READ ONLINE in the Arts & Humanities, MSU Campus, East Lansing. Spanish will be spoken. 7-8 p.m. FREE. East Lansing www.lansingcitypulse.com Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351- Theater 2420. "The Lady Victory." Drama about a home for unwed Comedy 4 A Cause. Featuring Mike Bonner. Proceeds Jonesin' Crossword By Matt Jones pregnant teenagers. 7:30 p.m. $13 adults, $10 students, Laughs for Kimmy. 8 p.m. $15 donation. Connxtions $11 seniors. Arena Theatre, Auditorium Building, MSU Comedy Club, 2900 N. East St., Lansing. (517) 908-5945. “What Is This?”-- Campus, East Lansing. (517) 432-2000. connxtionscomedyclub.com. you tell me. Euchre. No partner needed. 6-9 p.m. $1.50. Delta Literature and Poetry Township Enrichment Center, 4538 Elizabeth Road, by Matt Jones Out of this World Book Club. "The Hobbit," J.R.R. Lansing. (517) 484-5600. Tolkien. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, Karaoke. With Atomic D. 9 p.m. LeRoy's Classic Bar & Across 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. Grill, 1526 S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 482-0184. 1 Smoky entree Film Screening. "Revenge of the Electric Car." 7 p.m. 5 It may be enough FREE. Foster Community Center, 200 N. Foster Ave., 9 Picks a candidate Thursday, February 28 Lansing. (517) 487-6467. 14 *Phrase once heard Classes and Seminars After-School Program. Middle & high school before a long beep students. Gaming & activities. 3-6 p.m. East Lansing Staying Connected with Facebook. Connect with 16 What “X” may mean Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351- friends & family. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Foster Community 17 *Part of a memo- 2420. elpl.org. Center, 200 N. Foster Ave., Lansing. (517) 708-4392. rable anti-drug com- MSU Library Film Series. Screening of "Wham! Bam! iteclansing.org. mercial Islam!" 7 p.m. FREE. MSU Library, 100 Main Library, MSU Polarity Yoga & 5 Tibetan Rites. With Danelle 18 He jumps on turtles Campus, East Lansing. Hutcheson. Drop-ins welcome. 12:10-12:50 p.m. & 5:45- frequently Blaxploitation Films. Screening of "Shaft." Adult 7 p.m. $10 per class, $48 for 6 weeks. ACC Natural 19 Former Texas Gover- audiences only. 7 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, Healing and Wellness, 617 Ionia, Lansing. nor Richards 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. Take Off Pounds Sensibly. Weigh-in, 6 p.m. 20 Karaoke joint, usu- Oral Health Storytime. Delta Dental's mascot, ally Meeting, 6:30 p.m. FREE to visit. St. David's Episcopal activities for ages 3-6 & more. 10:30 a.m. CADL 21 Viper relative Church, 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. (517) 882-9080. Downtown Lansing Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. 23 Unit of resistance stdavidslansing.org. (517) 367-6300. cadl.org. 24 Fire, euphemistically Water media. All levels welcome, with Donna Randall. Writers Roundtable. 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483- 4233. & 5-7 p.m. $10, $9 seniors, $6 children 6-11, $10 take- Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 712-6674. Out on the town Alcoholics Anonymous. With ASL interpretation. 8 out, FREE under 5. St. Casimir Church, 815 Sparrow Dr. Seuss Storytime. "Read Across America" theme, p.m. FREE. Alano Club East, 220 S. Howard St., Lansing. Ave., Lansing. (517) 482-1346. "Hat's Off Dr. Seuss." 1 p.m. Schuler Books & Music, from page 25 (517) 482-8957. Fish Fry. Food & entertainment. 5-7 p.m. $10, $5 2820 Towne Center Blvd., Lansing. (517) 316-7495. Alcoholics Anonymous. Closed women's meeting. children, FREE 4 & under. Cristo Rey Church, 201 W. schulerbooks.com. Music, 3240 E. Saginaw St., Lansing. (517) 337-9700. 7:30 p.m. FREE. St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 6500 Miller Road, Lansing. (517) 394-4639. cristoreylansing. First Saturday Contra Dance. Workshop, 7:30 marshallmusic.com. Amwood Drive, Lansing. (517) 882-9733. catholicweb.com. p.m. Dance, 8-11:30 p.m. $10, $8 members, $5 student, Fish Dinners. Portion of proceeds benefit Holt FREE 14 & under. Central United Methodist Church, Theater Events Community Food Bank. 4:30-7 p.m. $9, $8 seniors, $5 215 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 614-5858. Family "The Pregnancy Project" & "Deep Blue Funk." Fish Fry. Take-out available. 5-7 p.m. $9.50, $9 seniors, kids 5-10, FREE four & under. Messiah Lutheran Church, Day. Activities inspired by exhibit "Naiza Khan: Karachi One-acts centering on teenage pregnancy. 7 p.m. $5, $5 kids five & under. St. Mary Catholic Church, 157 High 5740 W. Holt Road, Holt. (517) 694-1280. Elegies." Noon-4 p.m. FREE. Eli and Edythe Broad $3 students & senios. J.W. Sexton High School, 102 St., Williamston. (517) 655-1159. Pasta Bar Dinner. 5-8 p.m. $7, FREE children 4 & Art Museum, 556 E. Circle Drive, MSU Campus, East McPherson Ave., Lansing. Karaoke. 8 p.m. Best Western Plus Hotel, 6820 S. under. St. Andrew Orthodox Church , 1216 Greencrest Lansing. (517) 884-3900. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 694-8123. Ave., East Lansing. (517) 202-2892. Read to the Dogs. Sign up to read to a therapy dog. Friday, March 1 Singles TGIF at the Hawk. Hors d'oeuvres, door Opening Reception. "The East Lansing Art Festival Bring own book or choose one at library. 11 a.m.-Noon. Classes and Seminars prizes & DJ. 8 p.m.-Midnight. $12. Hawk Hollow Golf 50th Anniversary Poster Art Exhibition." 6-9 p.m. FREE. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Oil Painting. For all levels, with Patricia Singer. Pre- Course, 15101 Chandler Road, Bath. (517) 281-6272. (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., East Lansing. Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. registration required. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $50 for 4 singlestgif.com. (517) 319-6832. scenemetrospace.com. weeks. Gallery 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., MSU Comics Forum. Keynote speaker, Nick Bertozzi. Artists Reception. Three mixed media artists. 6-8 Music Lansing. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. MSU Residential College in the Arts & p.m. Shiawassee Arts Center, 206 Curwood Castle Velocity Shift. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. FREE. The Colonial Bar Travelogue Series. Pat & Phil Ewing, "Three Weeks Humanities, MSU Campus, East Lansing. comicsforum. Drive, Owosso. (989) 723-8354. shiawasseearts.org. & Grille , 3425 S. MLK Jr. Blvd., Lansing. (517) 882-6132. in Paradise — Hawaii." 7 p.m. $2 donation. Foster msu.edu. Dvorak's New World. Three compositions, American Community Center, 200 N. Foster Ave., Lansing. (517) Annual Lenten Fish Fry. All-you-can-eat. Noon-1 p.m. Music music from different times. 8 p.m. $15-50. Wharton Grand River Radio Diner. Featuring Olivia Millerschin Center, MSU Campus, East Lansing. (517) 487-5001. & Pat Zelenka Project. Noon-1 p.m. FREE. Grand Cafe/ lansingsymphony.org. Sir Pizza, 201 E. Grand River, Lansing. (517) 483-1710. lcc. Children's Concert Series. Features Tim the Music edu/radio. Man. 11 a.m. FREE. Hannah Community Center, 819 Velocity Shift. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. FREE. The Colonial Bar Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 319-6929. & Grille , 3425 S. MLK Jr. Blvd., Lansing. (517) 882-6132. First Friday. Featuring Ryan Apple. 7-9 p.m. Great Theater Lakes Art Works, 306 E. Grand River Ave., Lansing. "Chicago." 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. $15. Hannah Community US 127 & Lake Lansing Rd (517) 372-4293. greatlakesartworks.com. Center, 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing. (Please see details March 1.) www.NCGmovies.com Theater "Yankee Tavern." 8 p.m. $12, $10 seniors & students. "Chicago." Tony award-winning musical. 7 p.m. $15. Riverwalk Theatre, 228 Museum Drive, Lansing. (Please (517) 316-9100 Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, East see details March 1.) LANSING - OFF SOUTH CEDAR AT 1-96 Student Discount with ID Lansing. (517) 490-4567. bluelightplayers.com. "The Pregnancy Project" & "Deep Blue Funk." VISIT CELEBRATIONCINEMA.COM OR CALL 393-SHOW ID required for “R” rated films "Yankee Tavern." Thriller by Steven Dietz. 8 p.m. Pre & post show panels. 7 p.m. $5, $3 students & $12, $10 seniors & students. Riverwalk Theatre, seniors. J.W. Sexton High School, 102 McPherson Ave., 228 Museum Drive, Lansing. (517) 482-5700. Lansing. (Please see Feb. 28.) CAPITAL AREA DISTRICT LIBRARIES riverwalktheatre.com. "The Pregnancy Project" & "Deep Blue Funk." 7 p.m. $5, $3 students & seniors. J.W. Sexton High Sunday, March 3 Celebrate March is Reading Month... School, 102 McPherson Ave., Lansing. (Please see Classes and Seminars details Feb .28.) Spiritual Talk, Pure Meditation & Silent Prayer. ! One of Mata Yoganandaji's "Inspiring Talks." 7 p.m. #GetCaughtReading FREE. Self Realization Meditation Healing Centre, 7187 Saturday, March 2 Drumheller Road, Bath. (517) 641-6201. Classes and Seminars Juggling. Learn how to juggle. 2-4 p.m. FREE. Orchard Here’s how: Authentic Movement & Poetic Expession. Street Pump House, 368 Orchard St., East Lansing. Instructor Maja McKeever. 3-5 p.m. $25. Creative (517) 485-9190. 1. Read anything, Wellness, 2025 Abbot Road, #200, East Lansing. (517) Beginning Classical Yang Tai Chi. Instructor Tim anytime, anywhere 351-9240. creativewellness.net. Bernath-Plaisted. Reserve your spot. 3-4 p.m. $95. Tai Chi in the Park. Taught by Bob Teachout. 9 a.m. Creative Wellness, 2025 Abbot Road, #200, East 2. Capture yourself FREE. Hunter Park Community GardenHouse, 1400 E. Lansing. (517) 351-9240. creativewellness.net. Kalamazoo St., Lansing. Intermediate Tai Chi. Instructor Tim Bernath- reading on Instagram All-Grain Brewing Class. How to brew all-grain craft- Plaisted. Reserve your spot. 4-5 p.m. $95. Creative beer. Noon-5 p.m. FREE. That's How We Brew, 3000 Wellness, 2025 Abbot Road, #200, East Lansing. (517) 3. Share your photo Vine St., Lansing. (517) 708-7548. thatshowwebrew.com. 351-9240. creativewellness.net. using the hashtag Overeaters Anonymous. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Sparrow Zentangle Basic Process. No experience needed. Professional Building, 1200 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. Supplies purchased on site. Noon-5 p.m. $8. Piece of #GetCaughtReading mine pottery, 202 S Bridge St., Grand Ledge. (517) 622- Events 0727. pieceofminepottery.com. Winning photos will 5th Annual Mason Area Women's Expo. 10 a.m.-3 GriefShare Seminar. A DVD series, with small be used in our ads. p.m. FREE. Ingham County Fairgrounds, 700 E. Ash St., support group discussion. 4-6 p.m. FREE. Grace UMC, Mason. (517) 676-0788. 1900 Boston Blvd., Lansing. (517) 490-3218. Eastside Souper. Food, raffle & silent and live Overeaters Anonymous. 2-3:15 p.m. FREE. Sparrow auctions. 4-6:30 p.m. $5, $3 kids under 14, $18 family Professional Building, 1200 E. Michigan Ave., Conference four or more. Pattengill Academy, 626 Marshall St. room F, 2nd floor, Lansing. (517) 332-0755. Lansing. (517) 484-9109. Alcoholics Anonymous. With ASL interpretation. 9 MSU Comics Forum. Artist alley & panel discussions. a.m. FREE. Alano Club East, 220 S. Howard St., Lansing. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. MSU Residential College in the (517) 482-8957. Arts & Humanities, MSU Campus, East Lansing. Codependents Anonymous. Meets on the third comicsforum.msu.edu. floor. 2-3 p.m. FREE. CADL Downtown Lansing Library, cadl.org Strictly for Fun Variety Dance. Snacks & 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing. (517) 672-4072. instagram.com/cadlibrary refreshments. Lesson, 7 p.m. $10 lesson only, $15 lesson & dance. Central United Methodist Church, 215 N. See Out on the Town, Page 27 City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 27

587-4609. Bradly’s Home and Garden Out on the town Chronic Pain Support Group. For those experiencing any level of chronic physical pain. 4-5:30 from page 26 p.m. FREE. Women's Center of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 372-9163. Events Capital Area Singles Dance. With door prizes. 6-10 Events p.m. $8. Fraternal Order of Eagles, 4700 N. Grand River Social Bridge. No partner needed. 1-4 p.m. $1.50. Ave., Lansing. (517) 819-0405. Delta Township Enrichment Center, 4538 Elizabeth Showbiz Sundays Drag Revue. Male impersonator Road, Lansing. (517) 484-5600. pageant. 11:30 p.m. $5. Spiral Dance Bar, 1247 Center Mac's Monday Comedy Night. Hosted by Mark St., Lansing. (517) 371-3221. spiraldancebar.com. Roebuck & Dan Currie. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Mac's Bar, Mexican Buffet. All you can eat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. (517) 484-6795. macsbar. $10, $5 ages 8 & under. Cristo Rey Church, 201 W. com. Miller Road, Lansing. (517) 394-4639. cristoreylansing. catholicweb.com. Music Open Mic Blues Mondays. Blues, rock and spoken Theater word. 6:30-10:30 p.m. FREE. Midtown Beer Co., 402 Sam Inglot/City Pulse Auditions for "The Emperor's Nightingale." 6:30- Washington Square, Lansing. (517) 977-1349. Bradly's Home and Garden is moving into the historic Thelma Joyce Osteen 8 p.m. FREE. Alfreda Schmidt Southside Community Comfort Station in Old Town. Center, 5825 Wise Road, Lansing. mmft.net. Literature and Poetry That’s the best thing about “That’s still tiny, but it’s "Yankee Tavern." 2 p.m. $12, $10 seniors & students. Better Living Book Club. "Proof of Heaven," by Eben Riverwalk Theatre, 228 Museum Drive, Lansing. (Please using existing buildings — triple the space I had in Alexander. 7-8:30 p.m. East Lansing Public Library, 950 see details March 1.) Abbot Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. elpl.org. all it needed was a few small (Absolute Gallery),” Rakowski changes to go from something said. “And that extra space is New that was beat up to something allowing me to expand my Monday, March 4 Tuesday, March 5 intown spectacular.” lines.” Classes and Seminars Classes and Seminars The Comfort Station is a His selection includes art, Kundalini Yoga. No experience needed. Taught by Budding Naturalists: Wild Weather Wind. 11 a.m.- contributing resource within a variety of home décor items, Emily Emersen. 5:45-7 p.m. $12 per class, $60 for 6 Noon. $5 first child & $3 each additional child advance, weeks. ACC Natural Healing and Wellness, 617 Ionia, By ALLAN I. ROSS the North Lansing Historic and handmade, high quality $8 & $5 day of. Woldumar Nature Center, 5739 Old Lansing. Lansing Road, Lansing. (517) 322-0030. Old Town’s Thelma Joyce Commercial District, which furniture. New items include Learn to Meditate. Focus on secular fundamentals. Tai Chi & Qigong. Taught by Bruce Ching. Drop- ins Osteen Comfort Station — is on the National Register of “naughty” cards, exfoliating 8:15-9 p.m. Donations. C. Weaver Physical Therapy welcome. 5:45-7 p.m. $12 per class, $60 for 6 weeks. or, colloquially, simply “the Historic Places. It is therefore soap made with sand from Exercise Studio, 1720 Abbey Lane, East Lansing. (517) ACC Natural Healing and Wellness, 617 Ionia, Lansing. Comfort Station” — turns protected by Michigan’s State Lake Michigan, artisan jewelry, 272-9379. Take Off Pounds Sensibly. Weigh in, 6 p.m. Meeting, 98 this year. The building Historic Preservation Officers, new and antique flatware, Babytime. Beginning story time for babies under 2. 7 p.m. FREE to visit. Eaton Rapids Medical Center, 1500 10:30-11 a.m. East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot has varied in utility over the which means that Rakowski gourmet dog treats from S. Main St., Eaton Rapids. (517) 543-0786. Road, East Lansing. (517) 351-2420. years from a public restroom can’t make any changes to the a bakery in Ludington and Intro to Computers. Learn from professionals. Metaphysical Mondays. Discussion. 7-8 p.m. FREE. 2:30-4 p.m. FREE. Capital Area Michigan Works, 2110 S. (its original use, hence that children’s toys from Georgia. building’s exterior, including Triple Goddess New Age Bookstore, 1824 E. Michigan Cedar St., Lansing. unassuming moniker and adding any kind of permanent “I’ve also supplied bridal Ave., Lansing. (517) 347-2112. Speakeasies Toastmasters. Become a better its location next to the signage. and wedding supplies for Preschool Open House. Learn about program. Call speaker. 12:05-1 p.m. FREE. Ingham County Human now-defunct train tracks) “It’s going to be pretty 20 years, but I just never to reserve a day. 9-10 a.m. FREE. Lansing Christian Services Bldg. 5303 S. Cedar St., Lansing. (517) 887- School, 3405 Belle Chase Way, Lansing. (517) 882-5779 to the headquarters for the challenging to make my shop promoted it,” Rakowski said. 1440. ext. 107. lansingchristianschool.org. North Lansing Community work with limitations like “Now I’ll be able to expand my Water media. All levels welcome, with Donna Randall. Divorced, Separated, Widowed Conversation Pre-registration required. 6-8:30 p.m. $50 for 4 weeks. Association. But this week that,” he said. “There are many expertise in that area as well.” Group. 7:30 p.m. FREE. St. David's Episcopal Church, Gallery 1212 Fine Art Studio, 1212 Turner St., Lansing. it’s getting two new tenants: things I can’t do, and had to Rakowski, who’s married 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. (517) 323-2272. The Michigan Historic get approval for what I did do.” to Lansing City Clerk Chris Overeaters Anonymous. 7 p.m. FREE. St. David's See Out on the Town, Page 29 Preservation Network, which Gary Scheuren, programs Swope, moved to Lansing Episcopal Church, 1519 Elmwood Road, Lansing. (989) seems like a perfect fit, and director for Michigan Historic when he was 18. He studied Bradly’s Home and Garden, Preservation Network, said merchandising and interior eum Drive, across from Lansing 8 Mus Cent a home décor store which will that exterior work on the and fashion design. He 22 er vastly expand in size from its building included window worked for “quite a few” Riverwalk Theatre previous location. restoration and making fashion businesses in town Brad Rakowski, 47, opened the building barrier-free by before opening his own Bradly’s Home and Garden in replacing the sidewalk on the space in Absolute Gallery ? October 2011 inside Absolute side that faces the train tracks. two years ago. He said he has Thriller by Gallery, two doors down. On the interior, a wheelchair no set plans for an official Steven Dietz ? On Friday, he moves into the lift and some new restrooms grand opening, but said he Directed by ? new space on the first floor were added, and the formerly will most likely piggyback on Michael Hays of the Comfort Station; he open-air second floor was Michigan Historic Preservation 37 will occupy the front half, and converted into separate Network's open house, which YANKEE TAVERN Michigan Historic Preservation offices, a boardroom and a Scheuren said is planned for Network will occupy the back kitchenette. sometime in late spring. Ray never met a half and the entire second But every business needs 9/11 conspiracy floor. a sign. Rakowski solved that theory he didn’t like. Bradly’s Home and Garden A mind-bending work. “There is so much problem by creating a flag, 313 ½ E. Grand River Ave., Lansing character to the old building,” which he says he’s pleased (517) 719-8081 Rakowski said. “It sums up my with. As for the space, 500 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 11 a.m.- March 1-3 & 8-10 whole design philosophy of square feet is a lot of room to 5 p.m. Sunday; closed Monday. $12/$10 student/senior/military bradlyshomeandgarden.com 8 pm Fridays/Saturdays; 2 pm Sundays transforming urban space. play with. reservations 482-5700RiverwalkTheatre.com 28 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • February 27, 2013 Your Vote, Your Choice!

You choose who performs with the Lansing Symphony at this year’s Summer Pops Concert.

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FREE CONCERT CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 The Music of Michael Jackson: 7PM ADADO RIVERFRONT PARK Who's Bad? This pops concert will have you traveling across Michael Jackson's 40 year career, experiencing unexpected "thrills" and singing along to all of the songs you know so well!

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Learn more at elfco.coop Photo courtesy of Anji Reynolds 4960 Northwind Dr. • East Lansing • Mon ~ Sat 9 ~ 9 • Sun 10 ~ 8 The Hunter Park GardenHouse supplies fresh produce to local farmers markets and restaurants including farm-to-table restaurants Red Haven and Fork in the Road.

which are right down the road. So if we do decide to make a trip to the farm before or- Farmer in ‘The L’ dering, we can probably make it back before the place closes for the night. Two Lansing-area restaurants “Farm to table is most directly related maximizing fresh, local produce to community and helping out small farms St. Patty’s and families,” said Ben Ackerman, chef and By LAURA JOHNSON co-owner of Fork in the Road, 2010 W. Sagi- I recently saw a clip from the show “Port- naw St. in Lansing. “So we get the food from landia” in which a dining couple the farmers, we deal directly with them and “Luck of the Irish” asks their server an absurd list of we try to take a minimalist approach with Casino Run questions about the local ori- the food. At the end of the day, it’s about de- gins of the chicken on the licious food.” menu. When the server So let’s take a breakfast menu item at produces the chicken’s pa- Fork in the Road: the biscuits and gravy with ORGANIC pers (his name was Colin, an organic fried egg (a huge serving, which Saturday, March 16 and he was fed a diet of has lately gotten huger). The pork sausage sheep’s milk, soy and hazel- comes from Clear Creek Farms in Eaton Enjoy a relaxing train ride to Mt. Pleasant’s Soaring Eagle Casino. nuts), the couple remains uncon- Rapids, a collaborative producer made up vinced, and the scene ends when they leave of several family farmers offering grass-fed, Departs 12noon and returns approx. 9:30pm the restaurant to go check out Colin’s farm free-range and all-natural meats. The egg before they can feel comfortable ordering either comes from Three Ponds Farm in De- Train ride includes $10 in play, $5 food voucher and Cash Bar him for lunch. Witt, Cedar Crest Dairy in Hudsonville or Now, this is a little ridiculous (even if it Owosso Organics, a family owned, certified illustrates some unfortunately accurate ste- organic farm four miles west of Owosso. $59 COMPLETE reotypes), but the underlying quest to find Or the veggie scramble. The potatoes out where our food comes from is not so sil- come from Visser Farms in Zeeland or ly. Because the truth is, we don’t really know Crisp Country Acres and Lakeshore Fam- what we’re eating, and that has implications ily Farm, two farms that have joined forces for the health of our bodies and communi- in Holland. The greens come from Laugh- ties, for people and animals we never see ing Crane Farm in Bath. Mushrooms from and for the environment. So much of our Earthy Delights, a DeWitt business that food is grown with chemicals and infused provides wild-harvested, traditional, arti- with hormones and travels thousands of sanal foods. Fork in the Road also supports miles to reach our plates. It comes in unrec- local businesses, not just farmers: coffee ognizable forms, with bizarre and confusing from Traverse City’s Great Northern Roast- lists of ingredients. ing Co., gelato from Palazzolo’s, bread from Helping to combat this industry-induced Stone Circle Bakehouse. confusion are farm-to-table restaurants, Compared to Fork in the Road’s fast- commonplace in “foodie” cities but recently casual style, Red Haven, 4480 S. Hagadorn making a welcome appearance in the Lan- Road in Okemos, is more of an upscale-type sing area. Restaurants like Fork in the Road place. The dynamic tapas-focused menu and Red Haven (and their food truck coun- comes from up to 35 Michigan farms and www.wichigansteamtrain.com/sri/tickets - The Steam Railroading - Institute’s Visitor Center terparts, Trailer Park’d and Purple Carrot) businesses, depending on the season. Places 405 S. Washington St., P.O. Box 665 - Owosso, MI 48867 serve seriously good food made with ingre- like Green Eagle Farm (Onondaga), Wild- For ticketing information, call 989.399.7589 dients from local growers and producers — from places we can see and visit, some of See Organic, Page 31 City Pulse • February 27, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 31

“Because they source all of their ingredi- The Delta Side Business Association & Delta Township Present the Organic ents locally, they understand the struggles we go through as farmers and the actual 10th Annual from page 30 price of quality, healthy, delicious food,” said Jared Talaga, co-founder of Flood Plain Community Expo 2013 flower Eco Farm (Bath), Spartan County Farms. Located on Francis Ave., it provides Meats (a family farm producing all-natural Fork in the Road with greens, eggplant, pep- Saturday, March 2, 2013 10 a.m.-3 p.m. meats in Webberville) and The Shrimp Mar- pers, tomatoes, herbs and garlic. “That in Lansing Mall, 5330 West Saginaw Highway, Lansing, MI ket (located in Okemos, and Michigan’s only turn lets them pay us a fairer price for the shrimp farm). And their décor is Michigan, veggies we grow.” too — the woodwork was readapted from an Not that everyone should or could eat FREE ADMISSION! old barn in Charlotte, cherry lug boxes are here every day — or even every week. While used for light fixtures and seasonal photo- the prices compared to similar restaurants graphs line the walls to show you your food’s in other cities are reasonable, you’ll pay Michigan beginnings. more than you would at a fast food restau- You get the idea. These ingredients, prod- rant, for sure. But it’s a great chance to see ucts and even aesthetics scream “Michigan,” what fresh, local, seasonal food tastes like; so we can feel like we’re eating in a place, to consider where the food we eat comes from a place. We’re eating more seasonally, from, who grows it and how; and to connect Gold Level THANK YOU TO OUR 2013 SPONSORS: Bronze Level locally and consciously — which, to me, at- with and support the place in which we live. taches us to our place and makes us more a Maybe even to think about starting our own part of it. Not to mention the economic sup- gardens, or finding a farmers market. It’s a port that Michigan farmers and businesses conversation starter and an idea grower — seriously need. like planting a seed. For more information, contact Jen Roberts at 517.323.8590 or visit www. deltaside.org

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