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City Pulse On the Air, April 10, 2022: Weekend events …

Production editor Skyler Ashley goes over interesting events coming to Lansing this week and speaks with Edward Emmerich of Dead Hour Noise about life as a DIY musician in Greater Lansing.

City Pulse On the Air, Feb. 27, 2022

Production Editor Skyler Ashley runs down events in Greater Lansing happening this week from Monday, February 28 to Saturday, March 5. Reporter Audrey Matusz interviews Art Austin as part of City Pulse's Lansing Legends series, which examines local residents who have witnessed generations of Black excellence.

Saddleback Barbecue acquires Detroit Frankie’s

Frank Tignanelli, the pizza pie mastermind behind Detroit Frankie’s Wood-fired Brick Oven is hanging it up. Tignanelli announced via the Detroit Frankie’s Facebook page that he has sold the restaurant to Saddleback Barbecue, which will absorb the eatery and rename it to Slice by Saddleback.

City Pulse On the Air, March 6, 2022

Production Editor Skyler Ashley runs down events in Greater Lansing happening this week from Monday, March 7 to Saturday, March 12. Reporter Audrey Matusz interviews 72-year-old Barbara Davis as part of City Pulse's Lansing Legends series, which examines local residents who have witnessed generations of Black excellence.

City Pulse On the Air, March 13, 2022

Production Editor Skyler Ashley chats with Biggby Coffee Co-CEO and co-founder Bob Fish about the Michigan coffee franchise's history and formation.

City Pulse On the Air, March 20, 2022

Production Editor Skyler Ashley gives a breakdown of what's happening in Greater Lansing this weekend, and reporter Audrey Matusz interviews Dr. Surae Eaton-Sangster, a beloved 72-year-old family doctor from Sparrow Hospital.

Lansterdam in Review: Microdosing marijuana mints with …

There have been plenty of potent pot products featured in this review in recent months. This week, we turn to the opposite end of the spectrum: The lowest-dose edibles available on Lansing’s recreational market. With 2.5 mg of THC in each of these tangy little mints, you’d need to gobble down the whole bottle to match the THC of a standard pot brownie. 

Lansterdam in Review: Lansing’s oldest smoke shop …

If this column has taught me anything in recent weeks, it’s that Lansing has plenty of premium pot and that I probably smoke far too much of it for my own good. But we can’t leave out the peripheral side of the industry that has long been in place before weed was legal: head shops. 

Lansterdam in Review: The cleanest and easiest way to …

Over the last few weeks, cannabis concentrates have found a special place in my heart. With THC percentages well above 60%, they’re usually an incredibly efficient way to smoke. Just a few dabs will usually do the trick. My only complaint: It takes too much effort to use a blow torch.

Lansterdam in Review: Liquid THC, Lansing’s dankest …

Jars is among the newest pot shops to open in Lansing as the industry blossoms across the region.

Lansterdam in Review: Full spectrum oil — the …

Good news: After months of selling only medical marijuana products to card-carrying patients, Pleasantrees in East Lansing is now selling recreational cannabis to anyone over the age of 21.  

Lansterdam in Review: Potshop, pizzeria make for good …

Bazonzoes opened its doors for both medical and recreational sales earlier this month and is conveniently located across the street from Deluca’s Restaurant — making it perhaps the most convenient one-stop-shop in Lansing for high quality cannabis and even higher quality pizza. 

Lansterdam in Review: Skymint and Pure Options 

Warning: Crunch Berries seems to be a creeper. Despite clocking in at among the higher THC percentages available on the local market last week, this strain didn’t hit me very quickly. Rather, it seemed to work more in the background — increasing in potency about an hour after I smoked it. 

Lansterdam in Review: Smoke this weed and you might …

OG Kush and I go way back. It was among the first strains I’ve had the pleasure of smoking and it has long been a staple in my go-to cannabis lineup. When I saw it’s glitzy younger brother — Platinum OG Kush — in stock at Skymint, I had to give it a shot. And I almost forgot that I did. 

Lansterdam in Review: Reviewing dank products from …

I couldn’t let this weekly weed review guide go on for too much longer without including some of the delicious, cannabis-infused edibles rapidly finding their way to the Lansing marijuana scene. They usually make for a longer lasting, stronger and more complex sort of buzz. They’re also less intimidating to the uninitiated smoker, and tend to taste much (much) better than a blunt.  

City Pulse On the Air, April 17, 2022: Weekend events, …

Production editor Skyler Ashley breaks down what's happening in Lansing this week, and arts editor Chloe Alverson interviews Lansing's new poet laureate Masaki Takahashi. Ashley also interviews Dom Korzecke and Emma Grrl, organizers from the DIY music festival StoopFest.

Lansterdam in Review: Cheap Edition

I was skeptical when Greater Lansing’s largest pot producer launched its new marijuana brand called “Two Joints” earlier this year.

City Pulse On the Air, March 27, 2022: Weekend …

On this edition of City Pulse on the Air, production editor Skyler Ashley breaks down the upcoming events heading to Lansing this week and weekend. Reporter Audrey Matusz interviews Ernie Boone as part of City Pulse's Lansing Legends series.

New exhibit explores Black displacement caused by the …

Next time you take a stroll downtown, you can learn about a crucial and all but forgotten piece of Lansing history. The Historical Society of Greater Lansing, the City of Lansing and the National Parks Service are putting together a new exhibit that tells the story of the construction of the I-496 expressway in 1964, which resulted in the vast destruction of a historic Black Lansing neighborhood.

City Pulse On the Air, Sept. 12, 2021

City Pulse On the Air, Sept. 12, 2021 Broadcast. Listen to City Pulse On the Air every Sunday at 10 a.m. on 88.9 FM The Impact.

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