Mainstream art leaves audiences with few choices
Mainstream musicians have put the last nail in the coffin of big music, making it nothing but the same brand with a different label. To make it big, one must sell out.
Mainstream musicians have put the last nail in the coffin of big music, making it nothing but the same brand with a different label. To make it big, one must sell out.
When looking at a particular film, there are certain values to look for - certain virtues that can make or break the spirit of a movie.The acting, for example, can lift a film above all of its hurdles, despite how horrible or great the story is.
Scarce beats, a dearth of DJ scratching and a lack of the pulse-pounding electronic rush of techno will all end this weekend in Lansing. The Capitol Area Electronic Sound and Image Festival is coming to Lansing tonight and Saturday. The festival is free to the public and is the first electronic music festival in the Lansing area.
When Judy Wang was 21, she decided not to go to college. So her parents bought her a coffee shop to manage instead.For the first two years, I worked really hard - I didnt go out at all, Wang, 25, says during a work break at 8:30 p.m.
Bright colors, swinging sounds, vibrant dancing and supreme singing are all key in a hit musical. Copacabana proved itself to be just that at its Wharton Center opener Tuesday night.
TOLEDO, Ohio - In 1835 Michigan lost a battle to Ohio.It wasnt over football, basketball or any other sport.It was a fight to keep what would become known as The Glass City.
With the first batch of cinema greats (and not-so-greats) of the fall open and, in some cases, shut, the second batch is ready to roll out the red carpet and walk into the box office. As great movies such as Cameron Crowes Almost Famous and Christopher McQuarries The Way of The Gun make room for the newer, younger squad of films, its time to preview what will be coming out soon. Opening this weekend Remember the Titans This movie practically is set to be one of the biggest feel-good films of the fall.
This is the true story of an open casting call for the MTV series The Real World.Casting directors will hold open call auditions for The Real World and Road Rules from 10 a.m.
In 10 days I will be 22.And its about time.I cant wait to be done being 21 - to not feel like a kid going out on the town for the first time every time I get carded, to not have waitrons squint at me and say, Youre only 21? Twenty-one was an enjoyable year, sure, but I am ready to be done with trips to the bar.I was so excited to turn 21, if only so I could go to the bar with my boyfriend or have a glass of wine when I go out for dinner.
Sum 41 Half Hour of Power (Island Records) Sum 41 shows off a decent sense of humor on its new album, Half Hour of Power. Unfortunately, its supposed to be a band, not a stand-up comedy troupe. The album starts off with a satiric poke at Satanic-themed heavy metal with Grab the Devil by the Horns and **** Him up the ***. The band redoes a pack of familiar-sounding 1980s thrash metal riffs over a wordless minute, which, combined with the title, clearly skewers the excesses of the genre that spawned Metallica, Anthrax and Slayer. The rest of Sum 41s album is not quite as clever.
Virginwool Open Heart Surgery (Breaking Records) Virginwool is a peculiar name for a band.
Camron S.D.E. (Sports, Drugs & Entertainment) (Epic Records) Before rapper Mase found Christ, he found time to make the hit single Horse & Carriage with fellow Harlem World member Camron.
His résumé reads like an American Film Institute Top 100 list, recording his work with unforgettable films such as The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, Stand By Me and The Green Mile. His movies have created genuine feeling in people for more than two decades, whether those emotions be extreme horror, deep sadness, divine absolution or even witty cheerfulness.
It is truly amazing when a film captures the audience members collective heart; when every person sitting in the theater cant help but feel all the trivial pains and pleasures put forth in the story. Unfortunately for audiences everywhere, this only occurs once in a great while. However, it did in many theaters this weekend when writer and director Cameron Crowes Almost Famous caught its first batches of well-deserved attention. The movie, Crowes first film since his double Academy Award-nominated Jerry Maguire, is set in one of rock n rolls most cardinal eras, the 1970s - back when everything was on vinyl.
Like many who go to the Big Apple to try to make it big in show business, Darcie Roberts got her break in New York.Tonight, Roberts plays a similar role as Lola Lamar, the leading lady in Barry Manilows Copacabana, who heads to New York to break into the business.The play is inspired by Manilows Grammy award-winning song Copacabana. Copacabana is the story of a small-town girl from Tulsa, Okla.
Run to the library, catch a better book and kiss this story line goodbye - Run Catch Kiss by Amy Sohn (Scribner Paperback Fiction, $12) falls far short of its potential. Just out of college, Ariel Steiner, 22, is an aspiring actress in New York City who becomes discouraged after being cast in fat-girl roles and after going on countless letdown auditions. The novel tells of a young woman with low self-esteem who essentially sells herself to the lowest bidder to make extra money.
Backed by successes on the silver screen, several filmmakers are trying their hand at television production with new shows starting on FOX this season.Dark Angel, produced by Titanic director James Cameron, and Freakylinks, supported by Gregg Hale, a producer of The Blair Witch Project and David S.
For two comedians performing on campus this weekend, getting laughs out of college students is never a sure thing.
LANSING - To Kill a Mockingbird reveals the racial tensions of life in a small town in the Deep South in the 1930s. The show opened Thursday at Boarshead Theater, 425 S.