lmond-crusted salmon, Cajun shrimp and crawfish gumbo, and pesto-grilled rainbow trout with lobster saffron ravioli scallopini are just a few of the surprising culinary delights you will find at Pesto’s, a tiny restaurant located at the corner of Dye and Miller Roads. With seating for not quite 50 patrons, the restaurant celebrated its 20th
lint native W. David Tarver is a Flint Central High School graduate, former Kettering University student and U of M alum. He founded Telecom Analysis Systems, Inc. and within 12 years sold it for $30 million. Recently at the Flint Public Library to discuss his book Proving Ground: A Memoir, he took a few
Art a la Carte Wednesdays 12:15 – 1:15pm FIA Teen Artist Forum with Chakaia Booker February 6 ♦ 10:30 -1 1:45am Flint Public Library & FIA Love & Respect Live Conference February 13 – 14 ♦ 6:45pm Friday, 12:45pm Saturday Flint Central Church of the Nazarene “Anything Goes” February 13 – 14 The Whiting FSO
Mid-Michigan Band & Orchestra Day 01.09.15 Flint Institute of Music A full day of workshops, master classes and rehearsals culminated in a concert on The Whiting stage by members of the Flint Youth Wind Ensemble, Flint Youth Symphony Orchestra and members of more than a dozen area high school bands and orchestras. ♥
ife has been good for the University of Michigan-Flint’s hockey team this winter. Cohesion on the ice and camaraderie off it have produced a hot streak in the team’s new home arena, which features rambunctious crowds, an office and locker room awash in team colors and the team’s logo at center ice. “We have a
ll around the country, sex and labor trafficking is on the rise – and Michigan is one of the top five states where this activity is proliferating. According to a report released by the Michigan Commission on Human Trafficking, sex trafficking is the exploitation of a person for commercial sexual activity through force, fraud
aliyah Dietlin, an eighth-grade student at Madison Academy, knows what it’s like to be bullied. A shy, quiet girl, she was being picked on and talked about by some students at her school. “It really upset me,” she said. “I was ready to go home and cry and just be by myself.” Instead, she
nthony Artis and his wife Davida have been assembling an art collection since 2009. The Anthony J. and Davida J. Artis Collection of African American Fine Art, which is currently on display at the Flint Public Library, is the result of a series of encounters with art that sparked a fire within the collectors. Anthony
t’s frigid outside, but in the basement of Catholic Charities’ Center for Hope, it’s toasty warm. “That’s no exaggeration,” CEO Vicky Shultz says wryly. “The boiler only has two settings: off and on, so when it’s on, it’s hot!” For thousands of the area’s homeless, the Catholic Charities warming center is a safe haven from
eering into the kettle with a practiced eye, Cory Fernelius appraises the mixture of water and grains boiling inside. With hands that once worked his family’s farm, the 29-year-old Fenton resident expertly adds more hops to the concoction. Now near the end of the process, he seeks to transfer the liquid containing sugars and grain
all dream of having a love that’s something special: a mate who stays by your side through thick and thin, whose feelings grow stronger and tenderer as years pass. It’s hard to find these days, but Dr. Erick and Gloria VanDuyne are an example of love that’s stronger than a feeling. Gloria MacArthur met Frederick
illa Hawkins has been a warrior her whole life. She is the last living member of a 12-citizen committee that helped pass the Flint Fair Housing Ordinance. In February 1968, Flint became the first city in the nation to pass by popular vote an open housing referendum. It passed by a narrow margin, making national
