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July 25, 2008
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Prosperity Planning 101: Charting E/Lansing's Metro Future
By: Staff, 7/23/2008
With the future of the U.S. economy on the line, Bruce Katz, from the DC-based Brookings Institution, is rallying the country's largest 100 metropolitan areas to action, and offering us a gut-check on how the Lansing/East Lansing metro stacks up in the new, global paradigm.
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For Young Professionals, New Venues Fuel Lansing Nightlife
By: Gabrielle Johnson, 7/16/2008
Downtown Lansing nightlife has gotten a boost from a host of successful new venues, and the young professional crowd is finding places to let loose in the city. CG's quick guide to the new places, old favorites, and hot picks for a night (or two) on the town.

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Fine Art of Low Budget: Filmmaking From Fairview Street
By: Brad Garmon, 6/25/2008
Along with a cadre of other talented indy-film upstarts building high-quality films on miniscule budgets, Michael McCallum works in a world well below the radar of big-budget film incentives.

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Going Hollywood: Lansing Financiers Get Film-Friendly
By: Melinda Clynes and Brad Garmon, 6/25/2008
Thanks to new state incentives and a few ambitious Lansing entrepreneurs, a vacant parking lot in Downtown Lansing may soon be bustling with the action—and cash—of big-budget, Hollywood films.

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Haze Gallery Opens Doors to Opportunity
By: Ann Kammerer, 6/18/2008
Hazel Hotwagner left a highfalutin’ corporate job for paintbrushes and an easel. Now the artist’s community she helped create is following her to new gallery space in Old Town Lansing. (more >)