In euchre, when you are dealt the “ace-no-face” hand, you have the option of throwing it back, picking up the remaining cards and giving yourself a second chance. However, as Lee Abramson, who writes music under the name Ace Noface can attest, real life is a little bit different.
A comfortable, easy and cheap shoe, flip-flops have got it all. But an August study conducted by Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Analytical, a national environmental laboratory, suggests flip-flops contain dangerous bacteria and might be a breeding ground for Staphylococcus aureus, a dangerous germ.
It’s time to dust off the ol’ vinyl. As new record stores pop up around East Lansing, Hodge Heckaman, a professional writing junior working at The Record Lounge/Scavenger Hunt, 503 E. Grand River Ave., said the younger audience is gaining an appreciation for vinyl through its dream-like vision of the past.
The MSU Museum and Kresge Art Center present Threads of Change: The Transformation of West African Textiles exhibit. The exhibit includes Kente cloth of Ghana, mud cloth of Mali, printed cottons from New Guinea and more. The event is free and is sponsored by the MSU Museum. The display runs through November.
The dining room of Alpha Chi Omega fell silent Monday as Jen Hayes, merchandising manager of Seventeen magazine, took the floor. Makeup artists stood behind her, poised with brush in hand.
When Glenn Sterner graduated in 2004 from MSU with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture and natural resource communications with plans to attend graduate school, he didn’t know just how much more MSU would be showing up in his still very young career.
So you’ve moved into your new apartment, but you can’t afford to order out. Try these easy recipes while still managing your new low-maintenance lifestyle.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival. It’s odd that a film celebrating the monumental event neglects the most important feature of the festival: music. You’ll see weed, sex and plenty of long hair, but no more than a hint of music here.
Learning isn’t just for children, which is why the Turner-Dodge House will be holding a historical camp on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m.
When Mama Bear’s Café opened two years ago, its owners wanted to offer a new and healthy food market. “(Co-owner of Mama Bear’s) Eugene Hall felt like when he went out to eat in town, he wasn’t really finding anything healthy or fresh to eat. He just wasn’t impressed with the quality of food as far as small, quick service restaurants,” said Cecilia Garcia, co-owner of Mama Bear’s Café, 1224 Turner St., in Lansing.
The Lake Lansing Park South in Haslett has more to offer than a place to enjoy a cookout and spend time outdoors. On Friday, the Doowops will take to the bandshell stage at 7 p.m. to entertain families with their 1950s and 1960s music. The event and parking are free.
Boys run, couples circulate, pass the ocean, promenade, bow to your partner and yellow rock. Square dancing is more than “swinging your partner round and round” and “do-si-do.” The Grande Paraders, the Lansing-area square dancing group, started in 1972 and has 32 members.
Purchasing books for class at MSU inspires a diverse spectrum of emotions in students. Some feel excited, some feel shocked and even more feel outraged. There is one class on campus, however, where your supplies will not be found on a bookshelf or even an electronics store, but run more along the lines of fins, masks and air tanks.
The time students spend at MSU can determine a lot of the important parts of life after stepping off campus. A lot of people decide what they want to do with their lives, make lifelong friends and even meet their future spouses while matriculating at MSU.
Mothers and grandmothers make baked goods out of the love in their hearts. Some people have turned their passion for baking into a career. Enter Morgan Yates, manager and head cake decorator for Bake N’ Cakes, 3003 E. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing.
Beaumont Tower is a university landmark, a symbol synonymous with MSU and recognizable to people who’ve never been to East Lansing, let alone on campus, all over the nation. We walk by it every day, hurrying from class to class, without ever stopping to pay attention to it.
When teen celebrities covered the tabloid magazines and made headline news for being pregnant, it began helping put the issue of teen pregnancy into everyday conversations.
Demolition derbies, fried foods and carnival rides are scheduled to make their annual August appearance in the Lansing area as the 155th annual Ingham County Fair comes to the fairground, 700 E. Ash St., in Mason, for the week of Monday, Aug. 3 through Saturday, Aug. 8.
Some people grow up fighting. Whether it’s for sport or just being the smallest kid on the block, some people are born swinging and never stop. John Lennox, a theater instructor at Lansing Community College, was an admitted scrapper growing up, and the first time his high school theater director asked him to throw a punch on stage, he realized he knew just as much about fighting on stage as he did offstage.
Switching majors in college is nothing new. However, it is a little less common to entirely change career paths. With a biology degree from MSU’s Lyman Briggs School in 1993, Ed Stielstra intended on going to medical school. But his plans changed.