Talk & Signing with Author Jaye Beeler & Photographer Dianne Caroll Burdick

A project comprised of 2000 road miles covered, 8000 scenes photographed and 150 assignments to investigate, Jaye Beeler and Dianne Caroll Burdick's new book Tasting and Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food is nothing if not extensive. With a shared passion for fresh and local, Beeler and Burdick pooled their writing and photography skills to craft a book to make the Mitten proud!

Thursday, May 17th @ 7:00pm, 28th St.

Girls’ Night Out presents Michigan native Louise Krug

A beautiful young woman from Kansas is about to embark on the life of her dreams, only to suffer a brain bleed that collapses the right side of her body, leaving her with double vision, facial paralysis, and a dragging foot. Meet Louise Krug, as she presents her memoir Louise: Amended, an unflinching, wise, and darkly funny portrait of sudden disability and painstaking recovery. Challenging the notion that one person’s tragedy is a single person’s story, Louise: Amended depicts a dismantling—and rebirth—of an entire family.

Thursday, May 17th @ 7:00pm, Eastwood 

WLNZ Radio Road Show featuring Jamie Sue Seal & John Latini

Join us for the May installment of the WLNZ Radio Road Show, a live broadcast music/variety program hosted by Jack Robbins, Karen Love, Dave Downing and the Grand River Band of LCC Radio, 89.7 FM! This month guest host Berl Schwartz, editor of the Lansing City Pulse, is joined by musical guests Jamie Sue Seal and John Latini. Jamie Sue Seal has recorded five albums, toured to every region of the United States and performs as a solo artist, in duos and with her band. John Latini seems to be a perennial nominee for every Southeast Michigan music award, and winner of many, including the Metro Detroit Songwriting Grand Prize, the Detroit Blues Challenge and songwriting honors in North Carolina and Texas.

Friday, May 18th @ 7:00pm, Eastwood 

Author Talk and Booksigning with Chris Kemp for his new book, Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris

"Preternaturally hardened whale dung" is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. A rare secretion produced only by sperm whales, ambergris is expelled at sea and floats on ocean currents for years, slowly transforming, before it sometimes washes ashore looking like a nondescript waxy pebble. Christopher Kemp uncovers the unique history of ambergris.

Thursday, May 24th @ 7:00pm, 28th St. 

Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food with Jaye Beeler

Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food embraces the surging interest in eating local food for our physical and economic health, and for tasting the pleasure of simple, delicious, beautiful food. Author Jaye Beeler, former Food Editor for the Grand Rapids Press, will bring samples of Michigan food for you to taste as she takes you on a culinary tour that reaches north from the cranberry bogs and thimbleberry jam of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the southeastern inner city garden plots of Detroit. Seasoned journalist Jaye and award-winning photographer Dianne Carroll Burdick team up to take you there through their visual and descriptive look at the essence of agricultural Michigan.

Thursday, May 24th @ 7:00pm, Eastwood