Monday, October 7, 2024

Take a peek behind the curtain and test drive the NEW StateNews.com today!

Features

FEATURES

Circus aims to do more than entertain

For the past 29 years, the Caravan Youth Center has brought in the classic family spectacle of laughing clowns with painted faces and big red noses, trained tigers performing tricks, costumed trapeze artists twisting and spinning through the air and jugglers tossing brightly colored balls ­— the circus — to Breslin Center.

FEATURES

Workshop trains students to rock

“The School of Rock,” workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 13 at the MSU Community Music School, 841 Timberlane St. Any middle- or high school-aged students with some experience on guitar, bass, keyboard, drums or vocals are welcome at the workshop.

FEATURES

'The Body' to hit stage in E.L.

“The Body” will allow viewers to experience a night of modern dance at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, with Lansing-based Happendance professional company, which will be presenting its annual winter concert featuring eight original dances. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

FEATURES

Alumna hopes for Spartan support for shot on 'Survivor'

After spending the last two summers scuba diving, riding elephants, eating maggots, drinking duck blood soup, visiting Buddhist temples and teaching English in rural elementary schools in southeast Asia, Whitney Lund, a 2009 MSU alumna, became addicted to adventure travel. Looking for another opportunity to do something different, she decided to audition for the pinnacle of wilderness tests: the CBS show “Survivor.”

FEATURES

Vonnegut featured at annual read

Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” was the main attraction Saturday as the James Madison College hosted its seventh annual Marathon Book Reading. Students and faculty read the book cover-to-cover Saturday.