Eric Olmscheid has a strange sense of timing when it comes to taking a new job. He started work as the fourth executive director in the 40-year history of MSU’s Wharton Center for Performing …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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8/25/22
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If Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss has one regret about his riveting new book, “Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe,” it’s the unfortunate publication …
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Bill Castanier
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8/25/22
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In April 2017, Luxury Flux released its remarkable debut album and seemed to be on an upward trajectory in Lansing’s music scene. The self-titled disc combined minimalistic art-rock with early …
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Rich Tupica
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8/25/22
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A cast of 28 actors of varying ages, abilities and backgrounds brought down the house Saturday night at Lansing’s Riverwalk Theatre with its immense “Big Fish” production. …
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Chelsea Lake Roberts
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8/25/22
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I turned 29 a few days ago, I've lived here in Lansing since 2019, I'm a half white-half Latino male, and I’m writing about an article written by Todd Heywood about the challenges still faced …
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Eric Vincent
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8/18/22
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It takes a village, maybe even M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Village,” to pull off a monthly show in Lansing, but the horror film series Quality Scary has done just that.
The …
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Chelsea Roberts
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8/18/22
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Sift through Flat, Black and Circular’s bargain bin
Flat, Black and Circular, or FBC, has been a downtown East Lansing fixture since 1977. Vinyl record collecting can be pricey, …
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Miranda Dunlap
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8/18/22
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Blondies Barn
If a big breakfast is the most important meal, Blondie’s Barn is the place to be, and owner Andrew Manuel isn’t shy about it.
“No one has larger …
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Miranda Dunlap
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8/18/22
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Budtender Spencer Donley was drawn to the budding world of cannabis years before his official start in the industry, with a little help from his family.
“My dad was among the first …
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Miranda Dunlap
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8/18/22
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It was an experiment that nearly torpedoed the infant radio station before it could grow to maturity, much less mark a “Century of Service.”
As WKAR interim general manager Shawn …
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Dawn Parker
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8/18/22
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From Big Sur, a prolific Lansing-based rock ‘n’ roll band, just went full-Lansing and released a new album recorded live at Horrocks Farm Market. The live record, fittingly titled …
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Rich Tupica
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8/18/22
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The last Eye for Design (below) was not identified by our readers. Sand-colored brick and blue panels of sheet metal intersect on the façade of BWL’s Wise Road Water Conditioning Plant. …
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James Knarian
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8/11/22
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By TIM RETZLOFF
We have only glimpses of earlier generations of same-sex couples because for so long society forced those we today understand as LGBTQ+ people to live largely in secrecy. …
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Tim Retzloff
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8/11/22
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After being canceled in the pandemic year of 2020 and downscaled in 2021, Lansing’s Smooth Jazz Fête, an afternoon-long revue of national smooth jazz luminaries in the shade of the east …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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8/11/22
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In the summer of 1987, in honor of its sesquicentennial, the State of Michigan was front and center in Washington for the Smithsonian Folk Festival.
Ninety Michiganians showcased, spoke …
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Bill Castanier
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8/11/22
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How does one come to terms with a fantastically imaginative father who’s painted a world of witches and giants? That’s a key conflict in the upcoming Riverwalk production of “Big …
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Todd Heywood
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8/4/22
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With the recent death of Kathryn Anne Omoto, the Mitten State lost one of its true architectural history buffs. The author died at her home in Elk Rapids, Michigan, this past week. She was 86.
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Bill Castanier
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8/4/22
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In the summer of 2000, I was 22 and newly arrived to Lansing, trying to figure out life while attempting to turn a few acquaintances into friends. Days after arriving, I was driving my 1994 …
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Sean Madigan Hoen
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8/4/22
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'The Realistic Joneses' is a refreshingly deep plunge into the reality of long-term love as told through two couples who happen to have the same last name. Although the show has serious themes the …
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Chelsea Lake Roberts
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7/29/22
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Joan Bambery:
Fish Fighters Lansing
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Bill Cosentino
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7/28/22
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