Zinta Aistars's Blog, page 15
August 28, 2014
Grand Rapids' inaugural Midwest Climate Ride cruises toward success
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Rapid Growth Media
August 28, 2014
Photography by Adam Bird of the WMEAC team
This is no casual bike-for-a-cause event. Next weekend, the Grand Rapids team riding in the Midwest Climate Ride will bike from Grand Rapids to Chicago. Along the way, they'll raise money for several local organizations who are working to combat climate change right here in West Michigan. Zinta Aistars finds out what makes this group spin.
Emily Loeks responded without thinking when a friend...
Published in Rapid Growth Media
August 28, 2014
Photography by Adam Bird of the WMEAC teamThis is no casual bike-for-a-cause event. Next weekend, the Grand Rapids team riding in the Midwest Climate Ride will bike from Grand Rapids to Chicago. Along the way, they'll raise money for several local organizations who are working to combat climate change right here in West Michigan. Zinta Aistars finds out what makes this group spin.
Emily Loeks responded without thinking when a friend...
August 21, 2014
Collapse of the Soviet Union and Brotherly Love Featured in New Novel
by Zinta Aistars
Airing on WMUK 102.1 FM Radio
August 19, 2014
Josh Weil
Josh Weil will debut his novel, The Great Glass Sea, Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. atBookbug in Kalamazoo along with friend and author Mike Harvkey. Weil describes his book as a "fraternal love story."It's about two Russian brothers whose parents are unable to care for them and so they become each others' support in life. But when they near adulthood and the Soviet Union collapses, the brothers are desperat...
Airing on WMUK 102.1 FM Radio
August 19, 2014
Josh WeilJosh Weil will debut his novel, The Great Glass Sea, Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. atBookbug in Kalamazoo along with friend and author Mike Harvkey. Weil describes his book as a "fraternal love story."It's about two Russian brothers whose parents are unable to care for them and so they become each others' support in life. But when they near adulthood and the Soviet Union collapses, the brothers are desperat...
August 19, 2014
Author features karate and anti-government extremism in new novel
by Zinta Aistars
Airing on WMUK 102.1 FM Radio
August 19, 2014
Mike Harvkey
My interview with author Mike Harvkey for WMUK 102.1 FM, Kalamazoo, Michigan's NPR affiliate, airs today at 7:50 a.m., 9:50 a.m., 4:29 p.m., 5:44 p.m., and Saturdays after "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!" or listen online at http://wmuk.org/people/zinta-aistars.
Mike Harvkey will debut his novel, In the Course of Human Events, Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. at Bookbug in Kalamazoo along with friend and aut...
Airing on WMUK 102.1 FM Radio
August 19, 2014
Mike HarvkeyMy interview with author Mike Harvkey for WMUK 102.1 FM, Kalamazoo, Michigan's NPR affiliate, airs today at 7:50 a.m., 9:50 a.m., 4:29 p.m., 5:44 p.m., and Saturdays after "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!" or listen online at http://wmuk.org/people/zinta-aistars.
Mike Harvkey will debut his novel, In the Course of Human Events, Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. at Bookbug in Kalamazoo along with friend and aut...
August 14, 2014
Zip in and go at Ziingo
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
August 14, 2014
Chances are good that if you ask someone what Kalamazoo-area restaurants are their favorite, Chinn Chinn will be on that list. Its owner and chef John Tsui talks with Zinta Aistars about his career in the restaurant business and his latest venture, Ziingo.
It’s Monday morning, the one day during the week that the Asian bistro, Chinn Chinn, at 52885 N. Main Street in Mattawan, about 15 miles west of Kal...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
August 14, 2014
Chances are good that if you ask someone what Kalamazoo-area restaurants are their favorite, Chinn Chinn will be on that list. Its owner and chef John Tsui talks with Zinta Aistars about his career in the restaurant business and his latest venture, Ziingo.
It’s Monday morning, the one day during the week that the Asian bistro, Chinn Chinn, at 52885 N. Main Street in Mattawan, about 15 miles west of Kal...
July 28, 2014
Kori Jock's undies business creates a party in your pants
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
July 17, 2015
Kori Jock
Blend a sassy style with lots of cheekiness, and deeply rooted personal values, especially environmental sustainability, and you have the high-energy Kori Jock's La Vie en Orange, which turns T-shirts into hand-made underwear designed to make you happy.
Everyone today talks about recycling: plastics, glass, metal, compost, paper. But underwear?
Kori Jock tosses her head, her long brown hair flyi...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
July 17, 2015
Kori JockBlend a sassy style with lots of cheekiness, and deeply rooted personal values, especially environmental sustainability, and you have the high-energy Kori Jock's La Vie en Orange, which turns T-shirts into hand-made underwear designed to make you happy.
Everyone today talks about recycling: plastics, glass, metal, compost, paper. But underwear? Kori Jock tosses her head, her long brown hair flyi...
July 22, 2014
Bad Dates Turn Into Good Reads: 'Strange Love' By Lisa Lenzo
by Zinta Aistars
Arts and More program interview
WMUK 102.1 FM Radio
Kalamazoo, Michigan's NPR affiliate
Author Lisa Lenzo
"I don't see how you can go out in public with a man who wears a mullet," says Annie Zito's daughter, Marly, in the book Strange Love.
Credit Charlie Schreiner"It's not a mullet," Annie replies. "He just has a few wispy pieces of hair in the back." "That's a mullet, mom," Marly argues. "And a bald guy with a mullet, that's as bad as you can get."In Lisa Lenzo’s S...
Arts and More program interview
WMUK 102.1 FM Radio
Kalamazoo, Michigan's NPR affiliate
Author Lisa Lenzo"I don't see how you can go out in public with a man who wears a mullet," says Annie Zito's daughter, Marly, in the book Strange Love.
Credit Charlie Schreiner"It's not a mullet," Annie replies. "He just has a few wispy pieces of hair in the back." "That's a mullet, mom," Marly argues. "And a bald guy with a mullet, that's as bad as you can get."In Lisa Lenzo’s S...
July 21, 2014
Larry and Lina: Busy Chicago Poets In A Digital World
by Zinta Aistars
Arts and More program interview
WMUK 102.1 FM Radio
Kalamazoo, Michigan's NPR affiliate
Larry Sawyer and Lina ramona Vitkauskas of Chicago are busy poets. In addition to publishing numerous poetry books, they helped start the Chicago School of Poetics and are co-editors of milk magazine, one of the first online poetry forums in the late 1990s. You can find their work at Kazoo Books in Kalamazoo.
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE ON WMUK.
LISTEN to the full interview.
LISTEN...
Arts and More program interview
WMUK 102.1 FM Radio
Kalamazoo, Michigan's NPR affiliate
Larry Sawyer and Lina ramona Vitkauskas of Chicago are busy poets. In addition to publishing numerous poetry books, they helped start the Chicago School of Poetics and are co-editors of milk magazine, one of the first online poetry forums in the late 1990s. You can find their work at Kazoo Books in Kalamazoo. READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE ON WMUK.
LISTEN to the full interview.
LISTEN...
July 10, 2014
The Bard in the park, on wheels, with Fancy Pants
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
July 10, 2014
Brishen Miller and the Argosy
Shakespeare wrote that all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Fancy Pants Theater want to make sure all local parks are a stage, if not the world (not yet, anyway). Zinta Aistars checks in with the principals of the theater troupe.
With avocado green carpeting and orange chairs, a crocheted multi-colored zig-zag afghan tossed over the couch, the 1978 vin...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
July 10, 2014
Brishen Miller and the ArgosyShakespeare wrote that all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Fancy Pants Theater want to make sure all local parks are a stage, if not the world (not yet, anyway). Zinta Aistars checks in with the principals of the theater troupe.
With avocado green carpeting and orange chairs, a crocheted multi-colored zig-zag afghan tossed over the couch, the 1978 vin...
June 30, 2014
Sports medicine team keeps a young gymnast vaulting
Chloe - Osteochondritis Dissecans of Elbow
by Zinta Aistars
Chloe Uson
What Shane Uson saw when Matthew Axtman, DO, an orthopaedic sports medicine specialist with Spectrum Health Medical Group, showed him x-ray images of his daughter Chloe’s elbow looked like fragments of floating bone. It was a scary image.
“Chloe was 11 years old when problems with her elbow first started,” Shane Uson says. “That was three years ago. She’s a gymnast, and at one point the pain in her elbow was bad eno...
by Zinta Aistars
Chloe UsonWhat Shane Uson saw when Matthew Axtman, DO, an orthopaedic sports medicine specialist with Spectrum Health Medical Group, showed him x-ray images of his daughter Chloe’s elbow looked like fragments of floating bone. It was a scary image.
“Chloe was 11 years old when problems with her elbow first started,” Shane Uson says. “That was three years ago. She’s a gymnast, and at one point the pain in her elbow was bad eno...
June 20, 2014
Welcome Home: Creating a rain garden
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Welcome Home magazine
Summer 2014 Issue
We live in a sloped and graded world. Rooftops on houses are pitched, sidewalks are sloped, while landscaping is graded to allow rainwater to follow gravity away from building foundations. No one wants a leaky basement or a mushy lawn. In the minds of builders and engineers, all that sloping and grading made sense.
In recent years, homeowners and builders are taking another look at what happens to rainwater runoff.
Accor...
Published in Welcome Home magazine
Summer 2014 Issue
We live in a sloped and graded world. Rooftops on houses are pitched, sidewalks are sloped, while landscaping is graded to allow rainwater to follow gravity away from building foundations. No one wants a leaky basement or a mushy lawn. In the minds of builders and engineers, all that sloping and grading made sense.
In recent years, homeowners and builders are taking another look at what happens to rainwater runoff. Accor...
