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.

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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.

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Lansing has new digs for those looking to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of a bar without the social pressures of drinking.

In the middle of the night, partway through a cross-country drive, I unfolded myself from the driver’s seat at another random gas station. Someone special was waiting at the east end of Interstate 90, but the rig and I both needed fuel. 

Michigan State University’s Dr. William G. Anderson lecture series From Slavery to Freedom returns for its 21st year with a lineup of virtual speeches, featuring filmmaker Dr. Monique Morris, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and Cornel West, associate professor of public philosophy at Harvard Univerity and professor emeritus at Princeton University. 

Flash in the Pan is food writer Ari LeVaux’s weekly recipe column. It runs in about 100 newspapers nationwide, nourishing food sections large and small with complete protein for the …

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?” asked then-Senator Barack Obama, during an Iowa campaign rally in 2007. There was no Whole Foods in Iowa at the time, and his gaffe, and the inevitable backlash, all became known as  “Arugula-gate.” 

Flash in the Pan is food writer Ari LeVaux’s weekly recipe column. It runs in about 100 newspapers nationwide, nourishing food sections large and small with complete protein for the belly …

I was on the hunt for the Winter Pebbles, an assortment of turnips, potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnip and winter radishes that some enterprising farmers at the market sell as a mix. They look like a basket of gleaming jewels. They remind me of Fruity Pebbles, the breakfast of Flintstones.  

The New Year is often a time to contemplate one’s relationship with calories. After months of culturally sanctioned gluttony, we find ourselves suddenly facing a cold empty chasm, facing a familiar question: will we fill this void with purpose, or leftover eggnog? 

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. 

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.