Vigil set Tuesday at Temple Beth El for Pittsburgh victims
By Jan Worth-Nelson Steven Low, executive director of the Flint Jewish Federation, has confirmed a prayer vigil for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre will be held at 7:30 Tuesday at Temple Beth El, 5150 Calkins Rd., Flint Township. "It is a...
Review: “Beautiful Decay” sculptures featured at MCC through Oct. 30
By Patsy Isenberg "Beautiful Decay" is the theme of a mixed media sculpture exhibit by Cara O’Brien, showing through Oct. 30 at Mott Community College’s Fine Arts Gallery in the Visual Arts and Design Center. The show is a 16-piece collection of abstract sculptures...
News Brief: Dryden Building “Pop Up Shops” open Thursday, expanding downtown retail
Dryden Building Retail Pop Up Shops opens with a ribbon cutting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, 601 S Saginaw Street. Refreshments and desserts will be served. The Pop-Up Shops comprise more than a dozen vendors of locally made art, clothing and accessories, and featuring...
News Brief: Health Coalition seeks Medicaid focus group Nov. 3
The Greater Flint Health Coalition is seeking 10 Flint residents to offer ideas on Medicaid expansion. The focus group will gather at 3 p.m. Nov. 3, at the Neighborhood Engagement Hub office, 3216 M.L. King Ave. Snacks are provided, and each participant will receive a...
News Brief: Community Foundation offering grant info sessions Nov. 5
The Community Foundation of Greater Flint has changed its grant process, and will host a two “grant information sessions” for non-profit organizations, Monday, Nov. 5, at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan’s facility at 1939 Howard Avenue. Sessions begin at 1 p.m. and...
Flint Literary Festival kicks off Friday, features water crisis writers and Flint-native poets
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and journalist Anna Clark, whose critically acclaimed books about the Flint water crisis drew national attention, will headline this year’s Flint Literary Festival Oct. 26-27 at the Flint Public Library. They will be appearing together for the...
News Brief: Whaley Children’s Center wins $25K grant from State Farm
Whaley’s Children Center has been awarded a $25,000 bricks-and-mortar grant for LaFontaine Learning Academy from State Farm Neighborhood Assist. The grant, determined in part by community voting from among 2,000 applicants, will be used to air condition the gymnasium,...
News Brief: Sports mindfulness expert, comedian highlight free seminar Oct. 25
George Mumford, sports speaker, will headline “Athletics 2.0 – Pure Performance,” a mindfulness seminar, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct 25, at the Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center, 3501 Lapeer Rd. Presented by the Crim Fitness Foundation, the event also features...
News Brief: 100K Ideas designers forum Oct. 24
"100K Ideas," a Flint-based nonprofit, will host a how-to forum for designers, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Ferris Wheel, 615 Saginaw St. “Inform, Inspire and Invent” will feature design professionals in a roundtable discussion, to offer advice and share best...
Gas-burning cars and trucks will be left behind, futurists of SEJ panel predict at Factory One
By Harold C. Ford A panel of automotive futurists anticipated the next great transportation transition for the human species during the first day of the Society of Environmental Journalists' (SEJ) 28th Annual Conference in Flint, Oct. 3-7. That transition will likely...
Book Review: “Winners Take All” pinpoints elites’ “helping and hoarding” while abetting unjust status quo
Review by Robert R. Thomas The recent successful Genesee County millage for-the-arts vote, which starting in January and for the next ten years will bring in $8.7 million/year of taxpayers' money to a dozen nonprofit arts organizations, got me thinking about the...
Review: Chilly Artwalk brings witches, quilts, music, and “South of the Border” to warm up downtown scene
By Patsy Isenberg On a chilly Oct. 12, Artwalk brought not only great art but quilts, music and witches. The nip in the air didn’t discourage lots of people from walking around in downtown Flint for sensory experiences found at several galleries and many other...
National journalists gliding into the Flint River see herons, egrets, kingfishers–and pride
By Jan Worth-Nelson Last Saturday during the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Flint, participants were offered a handful of local tours. One of the most popular was a kayak trip down the Flint River sponsored by the Flint River Watershed Coalition....
Book Review: David Buick’s Marvelous Motor Car by Lawrence Gustin
by Harold C. Ford Get your name on 40 million cars and you’re bound to find fame and fortune. Nonetheless, David Dunbar Buick was forgotten first by the company that bears his name, then by the public, and ultimately by historians. Author, Flint native, former Flint...
“Hire local,” union picketers urge at Flint Cultural Center Academy site; FCCC: “We did.” Contractor: “We are local.”
By Jan Worth-Nelson Ed: This story has been updated to add comments from Houston Mellentine, lead foreman for Structural Precast Services, a subcontractor on the Flint Cultural Center project. A group of picketers from several local unions at the construction site...
Environmental journalists depart Flint after “historic” conference in heart of water crisis territory
By Jan Worth-Nelson As 700 journalists and other attendees departed from downtown Flint after a five-day conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists last weekend, conference organizers said they hoped they plowed the ground for better environmental coverage...
Event – Rally The Vote – In Flint MI
Event – JFK: The Last Speech – Book Launch In Flint, MI
Flint water story embodies crises of lost democracy, Hanna-Attisha tells national journalists
By Jan Worth-Nelson The story of Flint is a story of many deep crises the country is facing, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha asserted to a crowd of about 400 national reporters at the Riverfront Banquet Center in downtown Flint Wednesday night. She said the Flint story "is the...
East Village Magazine – October 2018
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Driver in Dort Highway protest collisions won’t be charged, Flint police chief says
By Meghan Christian The driver of the red pickup truck that collided with protesters on Dort Highway around 7 a.m. Tuesday will not currently face any charges, according to Flint Police Chief Timothy Johnson at a mayoral press conference at City Hall the afternoon...
A New Generation: Millennials, young adults like Flint’s Santino Guerra embracing politics
By Meghan Christian According to Ruth Milkman’s analysis “A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest” in the January, 2017 American Sociological Review, the media has perpetuated an idea that millennials (who range between 22 and 36...
Commentary: 2018 is not your typical midterm election
By Paul Rozycki This year’s midterm election could be like most other midterms….except when it’s not. And it looks like it’s not going to be like most midterm elections. The usual midterm election Here’s what usually happens in most midterm elections. First, the...
City Council Beat: mutual condemnations, calls for civility dominate September meetings
By Meghan Christian “All I’m gonna say is: get the word out. When you hear me say I want to change the complexion of this council, and people say is it a threat, no. It’s factually what I’m going to do,” First Ward Councilperson Eric Mays said during his final...
Brian O’Leary pursues the “dynamic symmetry” of street photography
By Jeffery L Carey Jr. “Anywhere you look in Flint there is something interesting to take a picture of,” street photographer Brian O’Leary says, and then jokingly adds, “I’ll often stand in one place for hours waiting for that truly interesting thing to happen, but...
