If it was ever unclear where music was heading, Gorillaz have made very clear where they think it should go. Their 2010 album, “Plastic Beach,” is one of the best albums of the year so far and will most likely be competitive with the rest of the year as well.
After graduating from MSU with a food science degree last year, Johnson took the initiative to follow her passion working with food, despite the scientific focus of her degree, she applied to the CIA to polish her skills in the kitchen.
The University Activities Board hosted its annual Dice and Ice event at 8 p.m. Saturday to a crowd of more than 1,000 people.The event welcomed MSU students and East Lansing residents to a night of fake gambling, ice skating and prize giveaways
Benjamin Clore’s sculpture will be displayed in the Kresge Art Museum as part of MSU’s Department of Art and Art History Master of Fine Arts Exhibition running from Saturday to April 2. Three other master’s candidates, painters Andrew Rieder, Grant Whipple and Andrea Wicklund, also are displaying their final work, a type of visual dissertation, in the exhibit.
The Wind Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Abrams Planetarium will offer a new show, “Journey to the Edge of Space and Time,” beginning at 8 p.m. Friday.
The College of Music will sponsor Trumpet Day 2010 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at East Lansing High School, 509 Burcham Drive.
With another spring approaching, more students are picking up the sport of longboarding to get to class and cruise around campus. Recent warm weather and the popularity of the sport has prompted a boost in local sales of the longer-sized skateboard.
Whether you’re 21 and ready to hit the bars or you want to stay inside and celebrate the holiday, there’s a way for everyone to get a little Irish this St. Patrick’s Day.
Inspired by the nighttime creatures she heard scurrying and squeaking in her backyard, MSU alumna and Morrice, Mich., resident Brenda Roy wrote and illustrated a children’s book, which was published at the end of January. Called “Night Noise,” the book combines poetry with biology to create a story about nocturnal animals. The State News talked with Roy about her new book and its reception, as well as her plans for the future.
The “One Night of Queen” show will be put on at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
The opening reception of the master of fine arts exhibition will be held from 7-9 p.m. Friday at Kresge Art Museum.
The 2010 addition to the Battlefield pantheon is a solid all-around experience with a couple of tweaks and a multiplayer mode that will make players rethink FPS tactics.
After years of training, the students join the traveling professional group, Nrityagram. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, they will perform at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Kresge Art Center’s Gallery 101 exhibit “%$#&!: A Comics Exhibition” features the work of 15 student comic artists in MSU’s only comic studio course, taught by associate professor Ryan Claytor, and will run until March 30.
Grammy Award-winning guitar group, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, will perform at 3 p.m. March 21 at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall. The group plays classical as well as contemporary music. The State News sat down with the newest member of the group, Matthew Greif.
People Respecting the Individuality of Students at MSU, or PRISM, will host a sexually transmitted infections awareness panel from 8:30-10 p.m. Tuesday in Room 340 of Case Hall. The event will feature panelists to answer students’ questions.
MSU’s Center for Poetry and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities will host the second annual Festival of Listening at 7 p.m. Friday at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.
My mom jumped and touched the air in astonishment as the very first 3-D movie preview played before our Wonderland adventure began. While she anticipated something great, I expected another re-imagined letdown incomparable to the original novel and cartoon movie.