"When we’re seeing events unfold through a screen, especially if it's happening not where you are, it’s hard not to feel disconnected from it...This shifted a little over a month ago one morning when I was doing my weekly visit to East Lansing, right by Michigan State University, to visit my girlfriend at the time."
Influenced by the likes of the expressive and innovative, Elvin Jones, and the tasteful, funky drumming of The Meters’, Zigaboo Modeliste, Russ Sauter can fill the room with colorful complex rhythms and fill it again with profound space. If you’re interested in either drum or entry-level piano lessons, you can contact Sauter at (810)-347-7994.
Set to launch by April 15, Cell Core Creative's 1 Minute Media initiative is offering digital videos and tools in a Facebook group that will teach businesses how to produce videos and digital content. If a business can't create their own video, Cell Core Creative is offering to produce a one-minute video piece for them until April 15.
Joining in on a $422,000 grant from the Educational Credit Management Corporation Foundation (ECMC) to the Michigan Community College Association, Mott Community College (MCC) is extending housing, food, child care, and transportation support to its students.
Through his event Comics, Coffee & Conversation, local creative, Jonathan Diener wants to introduce the everyday person to the real world, behind-the-scenes of comics, not just the stereotypes associated with them. Registration is now open for Comic, Coffee & Conversation on Saturday, March 21.
Last year, Flint native Jonathan Quarles, 37, started to make technological waves in his city by coming up with a system that turns the condensation in the air into water with the help of solar panels.
Diener was formally introduced to Flint’s downtown scene as a teen when he and his brother played a gig at the Flint Local 432 on West 1st Street as The Swellers, which would become a successful punk group. As Diener toured the world playing in various bands, Flint still captured his imagination.
Getting most of your merchandise locally and personal customer service may be seen as a more traditional way to do things, but Ryan Garrison, owner of Von Ryan's/Sleep Well mattress store on Miller Road, takes things further with the ‘authentic’ experience with little to no internet presence at all.
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