When Newsweek magazine called Grand Rapids a “dying city,” five thousand of its people responded, to create a Grand Rapids performance piece strung together via a world-record lip dub video of the song, American Pie. Had me grinning from start to finish. Yeah, we just aren’t going to take it anymore from lamestream media and its ignorant pronouncements from “on high” about what’s really going on down here, below, in the lotus-lined trenches.