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.
For the entire month of March, MSU’s Community Music School encourages those interested in taking lessons to bring a friend when attending a program at CMS.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the MSU Women’s Resource Center is offering coupons for women to use in any of the 13 residential dining halls from Tuesday to March 26.
Kresge Art Museum, Gallery 101, is featuring “%$#&!: A Comics Exhibition” from Monday until the end of March.
The internationally acclaimed Nrityagram Dance Ensemble will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
Miss spring break already? Revisit the tropical memories with this tropical vegan dessert.
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.
“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.
The East Lansing Public Art Gallery will feature works by watercolor artist Lori Zurvalec from 1-2 p.m. Sunday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
A musical performance of the children’s book “Strega Nona” by Tomie dePaola will be performed at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
The Quiet Water Society is hosting the 15th annual Quiet Water Symposium from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.
What is so special about a tiny gold statue of a man named Oscar?
“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.
Armond White, notorious for being a controversial critic in New York City, is a self-proclaimed lover of not only film, but music and pop culture, spoke during Wednesday’s lecture, a part of the MSU Film Institutes in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building.
The Ballet Folklórico de México will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
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.”
For both Tom Chodl and Jon Wiita, a road trip to Texas is the last spring break hurrah as MSU students — with a twist. Instead of pulling out the ol’ Rand McNally paper map, Chodl and Wiita are turning to Google Maps and asking users to plan the trip for them through their blog.
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.
Comedian Brian Regan will perform live at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, will be hosting local band Souldub at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.