Riding into a bike-friendly future
By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
How many exercise plans can guarantee you’ll lose
at least 2,000 pounds on the first day?
Next week’s regional Smart Commute, from May 16
to May 20, is an unprecedented drive to get people from
all over Greater Lansing to leave their two-ton cell on
wheels in the garage and propel themselves to work for
one liberating week.
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Eyesore of the Week: 925
E. Oakland Ave., Lansing
Letters: Fenner
article disputed; What crime in Fenner Park?
Lansing mayoral contest has a whole new look
By THOMAS P. MORGAN
Up until last week, state Sen. Virg Bernero and Mayor Tony Benavides were
expected to cruise through the non-partisan August primary, from which the
top two vote-getters advance to November’s general election.
Enter Lynne Martinez.
Martinez, a former state representative, walked into City Hall late
Tuesday morning to file paperwork making her candidacy for mayor official.
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Benavides taking flak for wanting city flak
By THOMAS P. MORGAN
Annette Guilfoyle has worked in public relations for 35 years. She regularly
collects newspaper clippings to gauge the public’s perception of her employer.
When her bosses look good, she looks good. But Guilfoyle doesn’t represent
a hot celebrity or a Fortune 500 company. She does public relations for the
city of Grand Rapids.
Hoping to follow Grand Rapids’ example, Lansing Mayor Tony Benavides is
proposing the creation of a “public information officer” to help
promote the city to investors, media and the general public.
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East Lansing eateries battle the summer blues
By AMY OPREAN
As the spring semester came to a close last week and MSU students
said their goodbyes to one another, many restaurant owners on
Grand River Avenue were saying goodbye to huge chunks of their
customer base, and possibly their businesses.
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Lucinda Means: ‘Too young and too great to go’
By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Friday, April 29, with the state’s highest-profile showcase
for bicycle advocacy set to begin within two weeks, the bicycling
community lost a much-loved friend and a dedicated, articulate
spokeswoman.
Lucinda Means, the first executive director of the League of Michigan
Bicyclists, died in her sleep Friday, April 29, at 49. An autopsy
indicated she had suffered a stroke.
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Openings juxtapose juicy grit with meaty dust
By WHITNEY SPOTTS
In 2002, Icarus Falling presented the Midwestern premiere of Graham
Farrow’s “Talk About the Passion.” The production
was so successful that director Jeff Croff is offering the official
world premiere of Farrow’s “Lake of Fire.”
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The original ‘U-2’ returns
to the Ten Pound Fiddle
By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
It might seem hard at first blush for the average person to relate
to folk legend U. Utah Phillips.
Anybody around here ever had his hands frozen to the iron underbelly
of a flatcar while riding the rails in Montana? Picked up any
Navajo songs from a priest in San Juan lately? How many of you
have run for U.S. Senate on the Poor People's Party ticket? Oh
yeah, how'd your last record with Ani DiFranco do?
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Get In Tune: Local Music News
By WHITNEY SPOTTS
Lansing’s premiere metal band, Summon,
dedicated its 2003 album "…And the Blood Runs Black"
to "the fans of extreme, brutal metal," claiming, "We
shall conquer." The band’s attitude hasn’t changed
on its newest release "Fallen," its sixth overall and
second for label Moribund Records. The song title "Fast as
Hell, Loud as Fuck" about sums it up.
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Author sniffs out ‘Horseplayers’ from inside
By BILL CASTANIER
Too late. Too bad. If you had read Ted McClelland’s book,
“Horseplayers, Life at the Track,” you might have
picked Giacomo in this past weekend’s Kentucky Derby. A
$2 bet paid $102.60.
The book, written over a 12 months, is an insider’s look
at playing the ponies by a self-described gambler’s apprentice.
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"Crash" scorches along dramatic freeway
By SUSAN W. WOODS
Director Paul Haggis, who won a 2004 Oscar for best adapted screenplay
for “Million Dollar Baby,” has written and directed
a taut, emotionally charged film that outrages, affects and stimulates
the mind. What more can you ask of a film?
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Retrospective spans 17 years of pitch-perfect
history
By WHITNEY SPOTTS
The Greater Lansing Gay Men’s Chorus really has something
to sing about, not that it had trouble finding reasons before.
For 17 years the choir has been a source of harmony in the local
GLBT community, and this weekend the group will present a retrospective
of its tenure with "Through the Years."
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:ADVICE GODDESS: Amy
Alkon
What is your view of magazines like Penthouse
and Playboy? I have maybe 30 of these magazines and a dozen soft-core
DVDs. I store them in my closet, but you start to get close to some
women, and they feel entitled to go through your things. I don’t
want to throw everything out or lock it up, but, in many cases,
this stuff seems to be a deal breaker. How should I react to women
who don’t want it in my house at all?
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