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“Save Your Generation was only supposed to be one release,” says Tony Pacheco, the sole laborer of the Michigan music label. Pacheco had prior experience with other areas of the music scene, such as screen-printing, booking shows and networking with bands. “I grew up going to shows at the Flint Local 432 from 1997 onward,” he recalls. “Everyone I met in Flint had a band.” Starting his own label, however, was something he had always wanted to do. “I was about to get married and I knew if I didn’t do it before then, I would never do it.” Scrounging up the little money he had, Pacheco put out an EP in 2013 under the Save Your Generation Records label for his friend’s solo band, Nick Ciolino. The band, unfortunately, played only a single show and Pacheco was left holding a box of records. That didn’t stop him, though.
When My City sat down with Amie Burke, 36, she wore a T-shirt that reads, “Weird But Nice.” We quickly found out that this creative, fun and energetic radio deejay fit that description to a T. Burke plays on the Bath City Roller Girls team, is an instructor at Sailor’s Mouth Yoga, a Detroit School of Burlesque graduate and performer, a comic book reviewer at Slackjaw Punks and a vintage clothing collector. She lives life in the moment and keeps an open mind. “If an opportunity comes my way, I just roll with it,” says Burke, a Central Michigan University grad who earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, and can be heard on radio stations US 103.1 (classic rock) from noon to 3pm, and CARS 108 (adult contemporary) from 5-7pm. “I try to take opportunities as they come and since we only live once, why not?”
On October 24, an excited group of young entrepreneurs presented their business concepts to a panel of judges and a community audience, in hopes of becoming one of two winners of the first ever Fenton Shark Tank competition.
Classic and favorite Halloween tunes, with an amazing graphics and light show. Show is a delight for the entire family. Favorite Halloween tunes such as “The Monster Mash,” “Ghostbusters,” “Thriller,” and more!
Halloween at the Gardens–Applewood Estates
The Flint Youth Theater presents a new adaptation of this mind-expanding science fiction story that’s still a favorite with one of literature’s most enduring young heroines, Meg Murry, is back. Once again, she’s joining forces with Mrs. Whatsit, Charles Wallace, Calvin O’Keefe and more to battle the forces of evil so she can rescue her father, save humanity and find herself. After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. young and young at heart.
The Flint Quilt Festival features traditional, historical, contemporary and fiber art at eight unique locations in the Flint Downtown Entertainment District. Participating venues include: The Flint Public Library,1026 E. Kearsley Street; The Greater Flint Arts Council, 816 S. Saginaw Street; Flint Masonic Temple, 755 Saginaw Street; The Stockton Center at Spring Grove, 720 Ann Arbor Street; First Presbyterian Church, 746 S. Saginaw Street; The Good Beans Cafe, 328 N. Grand Traverse; The Local Grocer,601 Martin Luther King Avenue and Knob Hill Bed & Breakfast, 1105 S. Drive.
Enjoy Downtown Flint’s biggest craft beer event featuring eight bars, restaurants, breweries and taprooms as they come together to showcase their favorite craft brews. 6-10pm.
Lacing up a pair of boxing gloves and stepping into a ring was the furthest thing from an 11-year-old Claressa Shields’ mind. She was too busy dealing with a difficult, at times transient childhood, and just trying to fit in at the Beecher School District’s Dailey Elementary.
“People forget where they are, they forget what they look like, and just let themselves move,” says Krista Loutner, lead singer and guitarist of Flint metal band, Sweat, when describing the band’s notoriously bombastic live shows. “People are so worried about whether someone is watching them or how they’re going to look, but sometimes at Sweat shows, people forget.” For a brief moment, the rest of the world disappears and fans can be themselves and cut loose, whether that’s head-banging, moshing, or simply soaking in the music.
Michael Littlejohn, 62, is not interested in marketing his artwork. “I have a distaste for it,” he says. “I don’t put a lot of stock in pushing into the art scene … I’ve always had a day job so that, at night, I could come home and indulge myself with my work.” Littlejohn’s entire house is his art studio, with a painting room upstairs where he spends hours on the acrylic paintings that have been his artistic mainstay, while the bottom floor is a dedicated art space, as well, featuring his completed work along with workstations for the glass mosaics that have occupied much of his labor for the last three years.
