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Probed for bilking taxpayers, suspect checks in from Ghana - City Pulse

3 days ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Kyle Melinn

A professed aerospace manufacturing expert, whom the attorney general is investigating for doing nothing tangible with $2.5 million in grants he received in 2020 and 2021, says he’s in Ghana. And as long as Attorney General Dana Nessel is around, he’s not coming back to Michigan.
Pure Options lights up Lansing Pride with a cannabis oasis - City Pulse

3 days ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Chris Silva

Get ready to unfurl those rainbow flags and maybe a blunt wrap or two. Pure Options is bringing a whole new dimension to this year’s Lansing Pride festivities Saturday. The business isn’t just showing up; it’s setting up shop on the hallowed asphalt of the Sir Pizza parking lot in Old Town, promising a chill, cannabis-friendly gathering space for all Pridegoers.
How crime novelist Elmore Leonard changed his biographer’s life - City Pulse

1 week ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Bill Castanier

(This is the second in a two-part series on Detroit’s famed writer.)C.M. Kushins was 11 when his mother gave him a copy of “Get Shorty.” It led to a life of writing. He writes in the postscript to his newly released biography of Elmore Leonard, “Cooler Than Cool,” that “I discovered the narrative voice that excited me.”Kushins was an inveterate crime-fiction reader as a teen when he sent a short-story manuscript to Leonard.
‘So much sunshine’ - City Pulse

1 week ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

It’s high time for “Summertime,” in more ways than one. Tiffany Gridiron, a spellbinding singer in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson, is the perfect choice to open this year’s Summer Solstice Jazz Festival. “It’s such a beautiful time of year. There’s so much sunshine, it’s so joyful, there’s so much music,” Gridiron enthused.
Another string, another thing - City Pulse

1 week ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

The stars are dotted across the night sky in a grand, continuous scroll, but if you look closer, you see that each dot burns with its own chemistry and life story. Peter Bernstein, one of the world’s greatest jazz guitarists and headliner of the Summer Solstice Jazz Festival, plays with a bright, spacious sound and a twinkling, panoramic flow. But if you listen more closely, you can hear him shape each note according to the rhythm, chemistry and emotion of the moment. Am I flying too high?
‘No Kings’: Getting riled up about being riled up - City Pulse

1 week ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Kyle Melinn

An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 protesters gathered on the Capitol lawn last Saturday in Lansing’s version of the “No Kings” rally. Organizers hoped it would be the largest gathering ever seen there. It didn’t come close. In the last 25 years of Capitol rallies, I can come up with, off the top of my head, at least seven larger demonstrations. I can come up with several more that were much more newsworthy. But that’s not the point. The point is that the event happened. Again.
The ‘heartbeat’ of the Wharton Center - City Pulse

1 week ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Kurt Anthony Krug

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2025 6:19 am Bonnie Knutson, a professor of business at Michigan State University and a longtime patron of the school’s Wharton Center for Performing Arts, is positive that her love of theater and the arts runs in her blood.
A sunburst of jazz - City Pulse

1 week ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2025 6:18 am Thursday, June 19-Saturday, June 21 Downtown East Lansing See pages 16-17 for schedule, map and performer bios You can pack a lot of fun into two of the longest days of the year. Michigan State University guitar maestro Randy Napoleon, in his first year as artistic director of this weekend’s Summer Solstice Jazz Festival, aimed for a sunny event that would ensnare passers-by as well as passionate jazz lovers, kids as well as connoisseurs. “I made an...
‘Every saxophonist’s dream’ - City Pulse

1 week ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Lawrence Cosentino

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2025 6:27 am King Ghidorah, the golden, winged monster of “Godzilla” fame, comes at you with three fire-breathing heads.
Remembering Elmore Leonard, a prolific Detroit storyteller - City Pulse

2 weeks ago | lansingcitypulse.com | Bill Castanier

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 6:23 am (This is part one of a two-part article on the legendary Elmore Leonard. Next week, I will interview his biographer.)How cool is cool?