Ivan Iler News Today

In the first week of November, I got an email from an angry Lansing culture lover. “I need to clone myself,” the reader complained. “I can’t go to all of these things.”

“It’s a sleepy little town on a river bend,” Dimondale native Camron Gnass said of his lifelong home. “It’s more of a bedroom community than it is anything with real commerce. There’s just kind of one main blinker-light there, and other than that it’s a kind of off-the-beaten path.”

Thursday morning, a fabulous scene out of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” played out in a cluttered motorcycle shop in St. Johns, north of Lansing.

Noted Lansing-area sculptor Ivan Iler’s artwork can be seen up and down what Joan Nelson, former director of the Allen Neighborhood Center, calls the “scrappy little Kalamazoo Street art corridor.” Iler has installed several bike racks along the corridor and, combined with a new mural at the Lansing Bike Co-op and the addition of a new Brian Whitfield mural at the Neighborhood Center, the strip has a new vibrancy. Even the bus stops have become works of art.

While on vacation I spotted the biggest brown trout that I had ever seen in Michigan. You can find out where it is in Michigan and why it's there in the first place.

While on vacation I spotted the biggest brown trout that I had ever seen in Michigan. You can find out where it is in Michigan and why it's there in the first place.

While on vacation I spotted the biggest brown trout that I had ever seen in Michigan. You can find out where it is in Michigan and why it's there in the first place.

While on vacation I spotted the biggest brown trout that I had ever seen in Michigan. You can find out where it is in Michigan and why it's there in the first place.

While on vacation I spotted the biggest brown trout that I had ever seen in Michigan. You can find out where it is in Michigan and why it's there in the first place.

While on vacation I spotted the biggest brown trout that I had ever seen in Michigan. You can find out where it is in Michigan and why it's there in the first place.