MSU alumna Bailee Beachy is showing that the rivalry between MSU and Michigan goes far beyond sports enthusiast. The former Spartan is a semifinalist in Maxim magazine’s annual Hometown Hottie competition.
After a few intense days on the field, World Dwarf Game athletes met on the water and tennis court for a day of relaxation. Day four of the World Dwarf Games, or WDG, served as an exhibition day offering flag football, tennis and bass fishing to allow the athletes a break from the sports they trained so hard for. Emma Farnham, an athlete from Belfast, Northern Ireland, spent the day on Lake Lansing in the bass fishing competition.
On day three of the 2013 World Dwarf Games Team USA took home the bronze in arguably the most intense sport of the week, soccer. USA team 4, also known as the Towers, eliminated the Great Britain Bulldogs open division team in an 8-0 win. Day three also saw competition in sport shooting, which took place at MSU’s Demmer Shooting Sports Training Center. Bulldogs goalkeeper and only female member Kim Dean, of Manchester, faults the loss to defensive errors and great competition. “We just made a few defensive errors early and they just kept coming at us, so by half time we were already down and second half we held them up but just a few broke through the line and they’ve got some really good sprinters,” Dean said. Playing in unfamiliar heat for a longer duration then her team was used to, Dean said made the match against their “biggest rivals” especially difficult. “We’ve never played 25 minutes a half before and we normally play 10 minutes each way so this has kind of been a massive sort of set up on our own physical fitness, especially playing in this humidity and heat,” Dean said.
In the second day of the 2013 World Dwarf Games, athletes competed in badminton singles, team boccia and swimming. The World Dwarf Games allows athletes with dwarfism or disproportionate dysplasia the opportunity to compete against and meet more than 400 athletes from across the world. For Sri Lanka’s badminton singles gold medalist Randika Cooray, the games are an opportunity to escape the cruelties of the real world and be in a world for a week in which she isn’t laughed or stared at. “It’s phenomenal – meeting people and knowing they are going through the same aches and pains that I am,” Cooray said. Cooray joked that she thought a group of children playing football was going to laugh at her when she walked by them the other day.
Four years of hopes, dreams and hardwork met on track and field Saturday at MSU for the first day of the World Dwarf Games. “It’s so relieving everyone’s in the same position all the time,” Great Britain competitor Ollie Clarke joked.
The carnival rides sat motionless as people wandered to and from the barns, studying the trotting pigs, penned animals and craft projects, ignoring the rain pattering on tin roofs overhead. “We move forward and do everything as if it were incredibly beautiful,” Sandy Dargatz, executive director of the Ingham County Fair, said.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of St. Johns City Park’s Performance Shell, patrons gathered for the symphonic resonance of classical music, the piquancy the flavorful pulled pork and to honor those who made the the venue a unifying stop for St.
After realizing that the hula hoops today were nothing like the hula hoops she loved as a kid— Annie Terwilliger set out to make hula hoops that both kids and adults could love. Using pex pipe and electrical and decorative tape enables Terwilliger’s hula hoops to be weightier which she said allows hula hoopers, both advanced and novice, to hula hoop faster and easier.
The traditional breakfast waffle has been transformed into a unique vessel for breakfast and nonbreakfast foods, and it’s wandering into the mouths of Lansing residents and beyond. “Wandering Waffles came from the fact that I love breakfast,” owner Samantha Wilbur said.
The MSU Student Organic Farm held its third annual Sausage Throwdown Tuesday afternoon to hard work in the ways of pork. Students from the Organic Farmer Training Program and the student work crew at the MSU Student Organic Farm came up with their own sausage recipe and battled for bragging rights. Laurie Thorp, program director of the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment, or RISE, helps out at the farm and said the contest was a great way for the students to take a break from farming and celebrate the animals they raise. “For us, it’s a really nice way for us to take a pause in the summer from all the hard work they’ve been doing in the heat and also an opportunity for them to learn some culinary skills,” Thorp said.
As Lansing resident Sonya Lang indulged in the sweet and savory treats of local eateries and listened to upbeat melodious live bands, she couldn’t help but compare Saturday night’s Taste of Downtown excitement to a lively street in Memphis, Tenn. “I turned to my sisters and said, ‘This reminds me of Beale Street,’ but it’s exciting because it’s in Lansing,” Lang said.
Dicker and Deal, the second-oldest secondhand store in Greater Lansing has been around since 1973. In many ways, the store is a throwback to a simpler time.
In recent years, the Lansing area has slowly grown into a hub for up-and-coming hip-hop artists. Local producers such as Curshawn Terrell are working to keep the trend alive.
There’s a brewing food rivalry in downtown East Lansing, pitting two restaurants against one another for the hearts and the stomachs of the city’s many night owls.
After an exciting week of intense American rock, melodic acoustics and new-age folk, Common Ground ended with a lyrically charged night of hip-hop that included Ludacris, Kid Ink and Michigan native Jon Connor.
Experiencing a host of performances ranging from rock to rap to folk, State News reporters who covered Common Ground have personal accounts — and unforgettable memories.
Locals and world travelers alike found some common ground tonight: folk music.
Bright colors, glow in the dark accessories and smiling face were added to the electric feel on day five of the Lansing Common Ground music festival. MGMT attracted the largest crowd of the night but with three stages, festival-goers had the option to see ten other bands such as Awolnatiom, Twenty One Pilots, and Foxy Shazam.
The fourth night of the Common Ground Music Festival boasted the biggest crowd yet, in addition to a genre-redefining act. Prepared for a rock-oriented night, the crowd, dressed consistently in cowboy hats and boots, jean shorts and camouflage caps, bounced beach balls, threw their hands up and filled Adado-Riverfront Park. “You see different people every night, and there’s a different feel,” Williamston resident Erica Pincumbe said.
Old or young, the third day of the Common Ground Music Festival attracted music lovers of all ages with a lineup featuring legendary guitarist Slash and local up-and-coming metal bands.