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STOP THE VIOLENCE RALLY
November 26, 2011
12 Noon – 3 pm
Capital Steps
Lansing, MI
LEFT: Ygnacio “Notch” Bermudez, Justin Christian and Big Perm at one of their events.
Photo by Brandyn Armstrong
LANSING, MI — Ygnacio “Notch” Bermudez was a young 35 when he died on November 10, 2011. He was born May 16, 1976 in Lansing, Michigan. His mother, Ruth Lopez, tearfully said that her son was her best friend.
Photographer Richard Galosy, Robert P. Busby and artist Honora Bird in an undated photo. TNCP photo
LANSING, MI — Rising star Steve Fulger is playing at the Robert P. Busby Memorial Reception in honor of Old Town great the late Robert P. Busby on Friday, December 2, 2011 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Creole Gallery located at 1218 Turner St. It will be an evening of the many things Robert Busby loved: music, art, family and friends.
By Sharon Fox
I love pecan pie, but it’s always so SWEET! Here’s a recipe that you’ll love, and you don’t need Karo or corn syrup!!
Dear Readers,
I watched my friend, Kristen Taylor, sip on a glass of tonic water as we sat in an area in front of the bar at Xiao China Grille & Lounge located at 3415 East Saginaw Street in Lansing, MI.
By Chris Rabb
I recently came across a pithy, anti-Occupy Wall Street column in Entrepreneur Magazine that encouraged protesters to go home and create start-up ventures instead of standing up for social and economic justice. The column was just under 400 words, but I can summarize it for you: Stop complaining and start a business. Though the conservative argument behind it was neither new nor particularly well-founded, it was aggressively inane and patently misguided all the same.
Dear Rina,
I wanted to send you this in honor of Veterans Day.
Bellaire Bridge Calls Me Home…from a memoir written for my Dad
By Nancy Allen
My dad was born in Moundsville, West Virginia, the oldest child of Pap a coal miner and Katherine a Russian immigrant. The mines and the steel mills were always by the Ohio river where the heart of the city beats and flows. Everything in the valley runs along side the Ohio River, and the only way that you could get across the river to West Virginia was, and is, the Bellaire Bridge.
Studio: Universal Pictures (104 min)
Plot: An action-comedy about a staff of blue-collar workers who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler that stiffed them.
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Gabourey Sidibe, Alan Alda, Casey Affleck, Michael Pena, Matthew Broderick
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: ****
By Samantha Ofole-Prince
Dear Tamara:
I just found out that my father has a daughter with another woman. Apparently he had an affair on my mother shortly after they were married. The woman contacted my father and now wants to have a relationship with him after all of these years. I also found out that my mother and two siblings already knew about this girl and no one bothered to tell me. Yes I am the baby of the family, but I think I had as much right as everyone else to know the truth. I haven’t talked to my parents or my siblings since they broke the news to me and to tell the truth, I don’t think I am going to any time soon. If they could lie to me all these years about having a half-sister, what else could they be keeping from me? Furthermore, I am angry at my father for betraying my mother. I can’t believe she even stayed with him all of these years!
Betrayed
By Robert Pagliarini, Tribune Media Services
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve written how you can save money this Christmas. If you follow those tips, you’ll make the people on your list quite happy. But if “happy” just isn’t good enough for the most special people in your life, you can give them a gift they will never forget.
The holidays are a perfect time to focus on family and friends, not food. It’s also an important time to move more and eat better.