City Pulse

08/22/2026

It's National Eat a Peach Day and you can eat a peach cobbler waffle created by a East Lansing home chef and available at around 2,500 Hilton properties.
Here's to the first guest Waffle Boss!

08/22/2026

ELFCO doing better after sending out warning signals, but the real test will be September

08/22/2026

Eastside summer fest

08/22/2026

“The novel began as a love song to the small fishing community on the Garden Peninsula in the UP where my father grew up, and to the young woman I was when everything was possible,” author Diane Les Becquets said. “The images that come to me of my younger self are always those of when I was in nature: exploring the woods on the Garden Peninsula; fishing off the dock in front of my grandmother’s house or the concrete dock at the fish house; taking the aluminum boat with the outboard motor out on Garden Bay; spending days at my Uncle Billy’s hunting camp; campfires; blueberry picking; collecting rocks and bones and driftwood, then returning to Tennessee and building forts in the woods and catching crawdads and minnows in the creek; and spending time with horses and cats and dogs and all things wild.”

Full review in this week's City Pulse and in comments

08/22/2026

Farmers Market Saturday

08/22/2026

Ozay Moore was having a quiet meal alone inside Lansing Shuffle aft the Cap City Breaking Jam.

With a look of contentment on his face, Moore dug into an avocado bowl from Shuffle eatery Takitos AF. To use a hip-hop reference, it was a mixtape of hearty ingredients, feat. rice, beans, pico de gallo, corn, lettuce and more.Filled with such a colorful array of fixings, I found the dish to be symbolic of the diverse audience that eats up the Cap City Breaking Jam.
Moore had just taken big bite of his bowl when I danced over to his way with a question.

“This was a great day for the community, wasn’t it?” I asked.

With his mouth full, he responded, “Mmm hmm!”

08/21/2026

While we all stayed away from lettuce last month during the Cyclospora recall, Rashida Harrison had her backup plan.

She simply picked some from her Groesbeck neighborhood backyard.

The 46-year-old mother likes getting her hands into the dirt and watching, slowly, as the fruits of her labor appear.

(This is a column about the progressive candidate who won the 28th Senate District in a field of three other choices. Full column by Kyle Melinn below and in this week's City Pulse)

08/21/2026

Can the Red Cedar Roots Festival hang on and keep up the generational legacy of folk festivals in East Lansing, dating back decades and including summertime ice spear fishermen in Washington D.C. on top of music, art, food, historic research, reenactments and much more.
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08/20/2026

The Cosmos, attached to and operating in tandem with Zoobie’s Old Town Tavern, has long been a go-to when I want an al fresco dining experience. Recently, though, it’s secured a spot in my takeout rotation. The reason? It upped its chicken wing game.

Fries, duh, but also try the corn fritter balls, Cosmic Caesar and garlic bread.

08/20/2026

Red Cedar Roots Festival shows the deep connections from East Lansing to traditional music, art and dance.

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The inaugural Red Cedar Roots Festival included The Flint Southernaires, Celestina y Los Sanchez, a Tejano/conjunto band and Kritya Dance Ensemble,