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The next generation of troubadours:
The Creole Gallery welcomes Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
The
word "pedigree" means different things to different people.
In the music world, it means where and what you come from, that your
name is golden and therefore so are the expectations. Singer/songwriters
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, who perform Jan. 24 at the Creole
Gallery in Lansing, have such a pedigree.
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Attacking
Lansing’s urban sprawl
The 1996
film "Taken for a Ride" reveals the tragic and little known
story of how General Motors led an auto and oil industry campaign, in
the 1930s through the ‘50s, to buy and dismantle about 100 streetcar
lines in 45 cities. Across the country, tracks were torn up, sometimes
overnight, and GM’s diesel buses were placed on city streets.
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City
Council cuts but keeps public comment
Lansing resident Hazel Bethea was hoping the City Council would remove
public comment from the broadcast of its meetings. Instead, she said
she was "confused and disgusted" by the decision to maintain
broadcast of the comment.
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Harold
Leeman takes on City Council’s ‘troika’
Harold Leeman
Jr. sits in the cold upstairs meeting room of the North Lansing Community
Center in Old Town. He’s wearing a Lansing City Council sweatshirt
and sipping a soft drink. And talking about what got into him the night
before.
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LANSING:
John Pollard
Smith’s off and running
- in the wrong direction
CIVIL
LIBERTIES: Henry
Silverman
Signs of our time — funny and frightening
ART
SCENE: Alison Corlett
Saper showcases sculptures that
create subtle nuances of human flesh and bone
MUSIC
SCENE:
Women’s festival making its
way to Lansing
Schmidt
returns to Ten Pound Fiddle spotlight
Filia Terra is a local band
to keep an eye on
MSU concert shows power of
jazz as political, spiritual force
Review: Friday at the
Hideout: Boss Detroit Garage
THEATER
SCENE:
Horde
of bounding Russians to take Wharton Center stage
Community and college theaters
plan strong seasons
‘Wit’ invites us to drink
deeply of that ever-present consciousness of death
"Breaking the Code":
The show does go on
FILM:
Review: ‘Tape,’ set
in Lansing motel, is a nice change from big-budget flicks
THE
INTERNET: Bonnie Bucqueroux
Tips and techniques on writing
for the Web
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