Category: Features
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Flint panel, viewers react to gritty “Flint Town” with anguish, ambivalence–and ask, who controls Flint’s story?
By Harold C. Ford “Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.” …Plato, The Republic, Book IV Nearly 100 persons gathered at the Flint Public Library April 10 as five panelists reacted to the recently…
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“Glass is light” in stunning new additions at Flint Institute of Arts opening April 21
By Jan Worth-Nelson The ribbon-cutting at 10:30 a.m. April 21 of the Flint Institute of Arts blockbuster new wing, galleries, and studios will be the climax of a story rivaling the best door-stop novel. It is about a middle-aged woman’s third marriage to a furniture baron named Glass, and how, maybe on a whim, she…
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East Village Magazine – April 2018
The latest issue of the East Village Magazine is available for download here:
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Review: City’s crime, race, politics all in the lens of compelling, humanizing “Flint Town”
Ed Note: A community conversation about the eight-part Netflix series “Flint Town,” co-sponsored by East Village Magazine and the Flint Area Public Affairs Forum, is set for 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 at the Flint Public Library. Thanks to Ed Bradley for reviewing the series in advance of that event. The series, directed by Zackary…
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Residents voice concerns on pot dispensary zoning; council decision deferred to April 4
By Meghan Christian Approximately 46 Flint residents, mostly from the College Cultural Neighborhood (CCN), stood before Flint City Council on Monday, March 26 and again on Wednesday, March 28 to voice their opinions on the creation of a new marijuana dispensary in the old Family Video located at E. Court Street and Franklin Avenue. The…
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“Enough is enough” Flint protestors declare in “March for our Lives” rally against gun violence
By Jan Worth-Nelson Under the watchful eye of the statue of nonviolence guru Mahatma Gandhi at Willson Park Saturday, participants at a rally organized by twin 17-year-old Powers High School students brandished protest signs and chanted “Enough is enough” in solidarity with the Washington, D.C. rally and an estimated 800 other rallies around the country…
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Confluence of efforts on “the spine of the city” changing the Flint River reality, narrative
By Jeffery L Carey Jr and Jan Worth-Nelson Demolition of the crumbling Hamilton Dam on the Flint River downtown, now underway, has brought together numerous community, scientific, and engineering efforts in a process affected and propelled by the water crisis and part of a longer-term dramatic change in the narrative of the waterway that some have…
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Flint City Riveters, women’s full-tackle football team, open season April 7
By Dylan Doherty Yes, women can play football, Louise Ogadinma declares. And not only can they play–a number of women in Flint want to play. That hardy corps of athletes have found an outlet in the Flint City Riveters (FCR), a full-tackle women’s football team playing its 2018 season opener April 7 against the Columbus…
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Trial policy to aid restoration of service for water shutoffs, council and mayor announce
By Jan Worth-Nelson Flint residents whose water has been shut off can get service restored by paying part of their balance due during the next 60 days, thanks to a “trial policy” approved by the Flint City Council this week. Terms for the reconnections are as follows: — If the shutoff is the first, the…
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Hamilton Dam coming down as “rewilding” of Flint River flows forward
By Jeffery L Carey Jr. The crumbling 98-year-old Hamilton Dam on the Flint River is coming down. Currently under demolition, the deteriorated old structure finally is being removed from its position just north of the University of Michigan-Flint campus, with the Fabri Dam further west slated for removal as well. The Hamilton Dam has been…
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