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Award season: Entertainment that deserves a shiny gold globe

With 2012 already in full swing, it can be easy to forget about 2011 while keeping busy making plans for the new year. But members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association find it important to recognize those who made 2011 a year to remember — and they do it by presenting icons with a shiny gold globe.

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Whirlwind celebrity romances simply set standard for divorce

What girl out there doesn’t love to imagine her dream wedding? From the moment the backpack is strapped on their shoulders on the first day of school, little girls are predisposed to daydream of ball gowns, veils and cakes with white icing stacked high to the ceiling ­— and don’t forget the picturesque plastic bride and groom perched on the very top.

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Bluegrass fans gather to appreciate Lansing band

Although bluegrass and folk music might not be the average student’s first choice for entertainment, to Lansing-based group The Whiskey Pickers, that doesn’t matter. “Most people are receptive to bluegrass even when they don’t think they will be,” said mandolin player and graduate student Brian Bienkowski.

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Street style: Kyle Ribant

Advertising junior Kyle Ribant has given up on traditional means of purchasing clothing and turned to the Internet to do his shopping. Ribant said he is attracted to cyber shopping because of the many opportunities to find sales on clothing.

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Spartan Clay Club makes ceramics accessible to more students

As soon as he picked up his first chunk of clay, Wade MacDonald’s fate was decided. While attending Western Michigan University for his undergraduate degree, the current MSU graduate student took a class in which he was able to work on a ceramics wheel and decided to incorporate the practice into his future career.