Pleasant's

Monday marked the grand opening of Tonic Up Top, the second-floor dining room-turned-bar at Mount Pleasant's Tonic.

New on the scene: Pizzeria Paradiso and Tonic Up Top Fritz Hahn 2010

Mount Pleasant's low-power community Radio CPR -- that's 97.5 on your FM dial if you're within a stone's throw of the Raven -- is hosting several fundraising events this week, and they sound a lot more fun than the usual PBS pledge drives.

Nightlife Agenda 2010

Yoga Week continues through May 22 with complimentary and $5 classes at studios across town, and if you dig Saturday's outdoor yoga vibe, then you'll be interested to know that Quiet Mind Past Tense Yoga is offering a free class on May 22 in Mount Pleasant's Lamont Square.

Om free 2010

However Anthony Asadullah Samad's "Our Weekly" got a pittance compared to Pleasant's "The Wave," taking about $6,500 from the Ridley-Thomas IE, the SEIU allied Alliance for a Stronger Community.

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Friday 2009

However Anthony Asadullah Samad's "Our Weekly" got a pittance compared to Pleasant's "The Wave," taking about $6,500 from the Ridley-Thomas IE, the SEIU allied Alliance for a Stronger Community.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

The bottom line is that Pleasant's screed is a sign that Ridley-Thomas supporters are desperate to deflect attention from a very real federal investigation.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

"Some students at Alveda King's speech Tuesday night did not expect a strictly literal interpretation of the advertised 'life affirming choices' speech," reports Central Michigan Life, student newspaper of Mount Pleasant's Central Michigan University:

Reductio ad Non Hitlerum 2009

We cannot know for certain how many of these stories are factual versus mythic, but as Michelle Cliff muses, upon viewing Mary Ellen Pleasant's headstone, which bears the epitaph - "She was a friend of John Brown" - somewhere in the myths and the legends and the tales is the kernel of truth.

Emerging from the Shadows of History: Mary Ellen Pleasant Anxious Black Woman 2008

Myra was weaving a frontlet of green hazel twigs to slip under Pleasant's headstall, when she happened to turn and caught sight of her grandmother standing by the upper gate, leaning on her ivory-headed staff, and shading her eyes against the level sun.

Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Pleasant's crutch swished down on his wrist, striking his pistol to the floor.

In Happy Valley John Fox 1891