With a platform based on her passion for the fight against human trafficking, newly crowned Miss Michigan 2010 and MSU alumna Katie Lynn LaRoche is hoping use her celebrity to make a difference.
Local band Gunnar and the Grizzly Boys sat down with The State News to discuss their music in anticipation of “Home Grown,” the CD the band is releasing this month. The group has opened up for big country names including Gretchen Wilson and Justin Moore and plan to continue with their band in to the future.
As two different celebrations that are placed back to back, the Festival of the Moon and Festival of the Sun each emphasized different beverage tastings as well as celebrations. Friday night featured a beer tasting with Kalamazoo-based Bell’s Brewery, Inc., in honor of the shortest night of the year at the Festival of the Moon. Saturday’s event featured a wine tasting of a variety of local wineries to highlight the summer solstice for the Festival of the Sun.
The annual Festival of the Moon and Festival of the Sun will take place from 6-11 p.m. Friday and from 2-10 p.m. Saturday at Turner Street and Grand River Avenue in Lansing’s Old Town. The festivals include beer tasting with Bell’s Brewery, Inc. on Friday, wine tasting from a variety of award-winning wines and an array of local food vendors on Saturday.
The Summer Circle Theater will be presenting a version of “Alice in Wonderland” at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday at the Outdoor Theater on the banks of the Red Cedar River. The play is based off the Lewis Carroll novel and a script made by Andre Gregory’s “experimental theatre troupe,” and is directed by Mary Job.
For those who enjoy The Postal Service songs that include a female singer, but were always left wishing they were a little less electronically enhanced, Stars’ new release “The Five Ghosts” is the album you’ve been waiting for.
There’s just something about Drake. The 23-year-old Toronto native’s June 15 release of “Thank Me Later” is a little bit of everything I wanted, and when he raps about how the game needed life and he put his heart into it, he’s not just being cocky.
Last May, history senior Ben Lutz began to mull over ways he could put his aspirations into action, and by August he had developed an idea to begin what has now become DIPSAO, a T-shirt company where all the proceeds go to globalwater.org, a global water relief fund.
Abandoned kitchenware, discarded car parts and metal knick-knacks were collected by 16 teams of artists Saturday afternoon at Friedland Industries, Inc., 405 E. Maple St., in Lansing, to kick off the second annual Old Town Scrapfest.
Eminem seems to have done a total 360º from his previous album, which left fans underwhelmed to say the least. He has returned to his roots as a hard-core rapper with no agenda except to say exactly what’s on his mind. But this time, in a much more honest and personal way.
I don’t especially enjoy metal music. I generally feel as though I am being verbally assaulted when I hear it, and I think it is mostly pointless. However, “The Bride Screamed Murder,” a new release by longtime band The Melvins, was a breath of fresh metal air for someone who was ready to write it off before I had given it a chance.
On one of his many trips to Mackinac Island, 11-year-old Connor Hoffman decided to take out his camera and start snapping pictures of the historical Michigan destination. After submitting a photo of the Mackinac Bridge to the 2009 Michigan Week Youth Photo Contest, and winning, Hoffman, now 13 years old, gets to enjoy the bridge in a new way — seeing it tour all over the state.
I’m more than a little thrown by the new Band Of Horses album “Infinite Arms.” I just don’t get it — and I really, really wanted to. The album is the third release from the indie rock group. They have built themselves a large following in a relatively short span of time, but despite the pedestal on which I had them before listening to the new album, I must say — I’m very rarely so wrong and disappointed at the same time.
Bruce and Sheryl McCristal created a single-volume comprehensive history of MSU in 2004. Five thousand copies were published and the McCristals say no more will be made, meaning only a few hundred remain available.
After 17 years, the antics of the Phantom terrorizing opera houses in theaters across the country are soon coming to an end. However, there is more than just rehearsals and theatrics that allow the star of the show to carry on his performance.
There are only a handful of things in life you can really depend on. Driving somewhere always takes longer than driving back, drinking beer before liquor will give you a hangover, puppies will always be cute and The National will always release a stellar album.
Bret Michaels has been booked to perform at Common Ground Music Festival July 15 at Adado Riverfront Park in Lansing. Michaels is best known for his involvement with the’80s rock band Poison and his appearance on the reality dating show “Rock of Love” on VH1.
Lansing Live will present Showdown with opening act Matt Foresman beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday in Washington Square in Lansing. Showdown is a four-member band that has been performing throughout the Midwest for more than 30 years.
Tents in Old Town were booming to the music of James Brown and Marvin Gaye as the first Mi.Funk concert took place from 2 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the corner of Turner Street and East Grand River Avenue in Lansing.
Only Conan O’Brien can tell a stadium full of Spartans they had a drinking problem and their mascot should be a “Spartan vomiting into his own helmet,” and be met by hysterical laughter. Friday night at Breslin Center, O’Brien took the stage brandishing an MSU T-shirt and his full late-night band behind him for his “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour.”