October 31, 2025

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Michigan Artist Named “Male Vocalist of The Year” at 2013 Tejano Music Awards

Rina Risper03 mins

Ricky Valenz from Lansing, Michigan is 
making waves in the Tejano music industry.
 
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SAN ANTONIO, TX–  The 33rd Annual Tejano Music Awards held at the Lila Cockrell Theater on October 19th, proved to be a big night for Tejano newcomer Ricky Valenz. Valenz, who won last year’s “Best New Artist Male-2012” walked away with two awards, including “Male Vocalist of the Year”, making Valenz the first male artist to win “Best New Artist Male” and “Male Vocalist” back to back.
 
 

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Movie Review: Dark Girls

Rina Risper04 mins

By Samantha Ofole-Prince
 
What makes a documentary essential? Is it its political, social relevance or subject matter? 
 

Powerful, intelligent and surprisingly entertaining, “Dark Girls” is an essential and riveting film that pulls back our country’s curtain to reveal the deep seated biases and hatreds of racism – within and outside of the Black American culture. 

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Veteran’s Day is November 1, 2013 New Benefits on the Horizon Assistance Applying for VA Benefits

Rina Risper04 mins

LANSING, MI —  Many veterans and their dependents find the VA process overwhelming while others are unaware of their eligibility. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has numerous benefit programs for eligible veterans and their surviving spouse. 

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November Slates National Adoption Month

Rina Risper06 mins

By Rick Garcia
 
 
What do Steve Jobs, Nelson Mandela and former U.S. Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Bill Clinton all have in common?  If you haven’t already done a google search on your phone or computer, the aforementioned notables are on the same team of Wendy’s Restaurant founder Dave Thomas – also the creator of the Wendy’s Foundation for Adoption.
 

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Your Other 8 Hours: The broken window fallacy and unintended consequences

Rina Risper07 mins

By Robert Pagliarini, 
Tribune Media Services
 
Have you heard the parable of the broken window? It’s a wonderful example of unintended consequences that applies not only to businesses activity and government regulations but to individuals as well. Fans of the book “Freakonomics” are given a front row seat to watch the dramatic and always surprising (they are “unintended” after all) effects of unintended consequences. But in our haste to laugh and condemn the short-sighted thinking of others, we often don’t see the unintended consequences we are creating in our own lives.

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Top 5 Spots to Learn Something New

Rina Risper09 mins

Cooking at the Culinary Institute of America.
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Along with ecotourism and voluntourism, a growing trend in travel is edutourism, where visitors spend part of their trip engaged in a class to learn a new skill or hobby that is indicative of the place and or culture.

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Reflections of Life

Rina Risper06 mins

Antonella Milagros Benavides and her father, Sean Paul Benavides celebrating her Sweet 16.   Courtesy photo

 

By Sean Paul Benavides

While working at the Domino’s Pizza store in East Lansing in 1985, Sundays were crazy as we would sell hundreds and hundreds of pizzas to  Michigan State University (MSU) students. One particular day an older manager named Phil (name changed), would do the routing of the pizza deliveries which meant that he would send different orders on the same delivery with one driver. 

 

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News Spotlight: Lansing Reading is Fundamental (RIF) is presenting “White Christmas”

Rina Risper02 mins

 Lansing Reading is Fundamental (RIF) is presenting “White Christmas”, a Gala Night at the Riverwalk Theatre, Tuesday, December 3, beginning at 6:00 pm.


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