The 2024 election: What’s on the ballot and what’s at stake?
By Paul Rozycki In a year when we’ve seen a sitting president step aside from his certain nomination, a former president facing criminal convictions over payments to a porn star and two assassination attempts, the nomination of the first African-American/Asian woman to be president, and unfounded claims about pet dogs and cats being eaten by Haitian immigrants, no one can say we’re witnessing a typical presidential election. But with...
The East Village Magazine – October 2024
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Flint Repertory Theatre dives into a new season with a big splash in ‘Godspell’
by Patsy Isenberg The Flint Repertory Theatre’s new season opened last Saturday with a delightful interpretation of “Godspell” – originally a rock musical about the Gospel of St. Matthew adapted to 1970s New York City – now set in a swimming pool. But more on that later. “Godspell” has been performed many times through the years since it came on the scene as playwright and director John-Michael Tebelak’s master’s thesis at Carnegie...
Flint organizations to host city, state candidate forums
By EVM Staff Communities First, Inc. (CFI), in partnership with Flint Beat and the League of Women Voters of the Flint Area, will host candidate forums for offices in the City of Flint, Genesee County, and the Michigan State House of Representatives in the coming days. According to press release from CFI on Oct. 2, 2024, the forums will be posted on the nonprofit’s Facebook and YouTube pages from Oct. 4 to Oct. 8. “We believe...