Category: Features
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News Brief: Annual Santa Run/Walk to create merry sea of red downtown Dec. 1
The YMCA of Greater Flint hosts its Annual Family Santa Run/Walk Dec. 1, with events for all ages and a “virtual run” for those who cannot participate. Participants in all but the children’s quarter-mile dash will receive a five-piece Santa suit, including beard. Children in the quarter-mile “Reindeer Run” will receive reindeer antlers. Santa’s Workshop…
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Hamady sacked again: local food advocate responds to store closure
By Darlene Carey On the threshold of winter, Hamady Complete Food Center closed its doors at 9 p.m. Nov. 6, fewer than four months since its grand reopening July 25. Repeated attempts from East Village Magazine for comments from Hamady management went unanswered. When the store opened, owner Jim McColgan…
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Thanksgiving memoir: Temple of the City — a story of Atwood Stadium
By Gary L. Fisher NOTE: Gary Fisher, a local historian, spoke on the history of the venerable Atwood Stadium at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 at the Genesee County Historical Society at the Durant-Dort Carriage Company office, 316 W. Water St., Flint. My first trip to Flint’s Atwood Stadium is seared in to my brain.…
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Flint Fright Film Fest 2018 draws 260 entries, stages entertaining show for horror fans
By Jeffery L Carey Jr. About 260 entries submitted to the Oct 27 second annual Flint Fright Film Fest provided “a low cost fun show for people in and around Flint who love horror and weird stuff like we do,” stated film festival organizer and judge of the festival Paul Counelis. A film titled Sweetie by two…
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Review: “The Rep” performs energetic “Assassins” to packed house
By Patsy Isenberg On Friday night, Nov. 9, the talented and energetic cast of “Assassins” opened a timely musical at The Rep. With inspired direction from Michael Lluberes, producing artistic director of the company, this show takes the audience on a wild ride revisiting nine presidential assassinations or attempted assassinations in U.S. history. Time is…
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Midterm election gives Dems the U.S. House, Michigan governor; 50 percent turnout in county
By Paul Rozycki After the most contentious and energized election in many decades, voters went to the polls in record numbers, and produced results that were both expected and surprising. By most estimates, the turnout nationwide and in Michigan was expected to break decades old records for a mid-term election. In Genesee County over 50…
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RACER Trust sets two public meetings on Buick City PFAS contamination, other environmental issues
By Jan Worth-Nelson RACER Trust, a company organized to clean up and sell abandoned General Motors properties, has scheduled two public meetings in Flint for at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the Harding Mott University Center on the UM-Flint campus and at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle on East…
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Commentary: Bent but not broken–remember Flint’s history of fighting back
By Ted Nelson This is a lightly edited transcript of Ted Nelson’s speech at the Flint Institute of Arts on Oct. 21, 2018 When the makers of “JFK: The Last Speech” arrived in Flint to shoot scenes for their award-winning documentary movie recently shown at the Flint Institute of Arts (FIA), they were eager…
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East Village Magazine – November 2018
The latest issue of the East Village Magazine is available for download here:
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Commentary: Thanks due to election workers, who keep the wheels of democracy turning
By Paul Rozycki For those of us who spend our time trying to analyze the most recent election with polls, predictions and punditry, it’s easy to forget about all the work and preparation that goes into just running an election. The job of putting the ballot together, setting up the voting machinery, staffing the 231…
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