- By Dan Veaner
- Entertainment
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While Cornell's Schwartz Center, and the Kitchen and Hangar Theatres brought a variety of plays to the area, Lansing students were no slouches. Among many band, orchestra and cabaret performances were outstanding as well as high stepping. The High School gave us 42nd Street, and the Middle School performed Guys and Dolls Junior.We couldn't let the year pass without mentioning our regular volunteer columnists. Jim Evans, Sam Bellotto Jr., and Allison Veaner hold the record for being in every single issue of the Lansing Star since it began publishing regular issues in July of 2005. Evan's SMART TALK is a smart, funny, and sassy challenge to all of us to use our language as it is meant to be used, with words meaning specific things that communicate ideas in ways we can all understand. Bellotto has generously provided us with weekly crossword puzzles for each issue, and is the author of the Crossdown software that he uses to create them, and we use to display them in the Star. Veaner is the voice of the homeless SPCA animals who are featured each week.
We couldn't let the year pass without mentioning our regular volunteer columnists. Jim Evans, Sam Bellotto Jr., and Allison Veaner hold the record for being in every single issue of the Lansing Star since it began publishing regular issues in July of 2005. Evan's SMART TALK is a smart, funny, and sassy challenge to all of us to use our language as it is meant to be used, with words meaning specific things that communicate ideas in ways we can all understand. Bellotto has generously provided us with weekly crossword puzzles for each issue, and is the author of the Crossdown software that he uses to create them, and we use to display them in the Star. Veaner is the voice of the homeless SPCA animals who are featured each week.
Her brother Ben pens the Lansing Cafe comic, and would have also made the record but for a broken collar bone last year. You could say that he has been in every issue, though, because we ran favorite Lansing Cafe cartoons while he was recovering. And of course there is Lansing's own advice columnist, Ask IMO (In My Opinion). Matthew P. Binkewicz pens the IMO columns with wit and wisdom.
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