For Teri Parks, cutting hair is a community business. The 47-year-old Lansing resident — who has spent more than two decades fluffing, puffing, whirling and curling hair — said hair salons are like old-fashioned general stores. “Like on ‘Green Acres,’” she said.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with two of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and their perspective on their new frontier.
As people everywhere vow to shed pounds and begin eating better for the new year, some will inevitably look to the latest crash diet or quick fix. The cabbage soup and grapefruit diets may have run their courses and fallen to the wayside by now, but one particular diet — or cleanse rather — keeps coming around.
There is no doubt there are those who partake in keggers, drinking games or bar crawls whenever the chance arises — just as there are many with regular, alcohol and pack-a-day cigarette habits. In the midst of a good time, sometimes there is nothing we won’t do to intensify the madness.
Our dirty little secrets, the vices and habits that make us shame ourselves, are some of the greatest human equalizers. As the new year picks up momentum, it’s prime time to take stock and resolve your sins with help from the power of seven — deadly sins, that is.
A new semester is beginning, and riding shotgun with it is that wonderful sick feeling in my stomach that only serves to further remind me — like I could ever forget — that break is over and it’s back to the world of long study sessions, projects and exams.
It can define an evening. It can draw eyes or make jaws drop. It can start conversations, and it can fuel them. It’s your dress.
With endless varieties, tastes and aromas, there’s one timelss drink that continues to attract a cultural following — wine. Extracted from delicate grapes lining vineyards, variations of wine are available from across the globe.
It’s the most dreaded time of the year — finishing finals in an attempt to pull off somewhat honorable grades while maintaining a social life and trying to stay sane.
It is every bit a typical living room. There are broken-in couches and other scattered pieces of furniture. A cat wanders around, investigating newcomers.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with two of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and their perspective on their new frontier.
Reading and writing are two of the most important activities in the world for Colleen Davis, so when she opened her coffeehouse about two years ago in Lansing, she wanted to offer the academic community a place to meet.
When Summer Schriner left October Moon, she said she knew it wouldn’t be a question of if – but when she would open another shop.
For Colleen Davis, co-owner of Gone Wired Cafe in Lansing, the best part of operating a coffeehouse is providing a space for students and residents to actively take part in the arts — from reading to writing.
Ready or not, the holidays are upon us. Here is where to find everything you will need for a merry good time, no matter what you may be celebrating.
When I first moved into New Community Co-op, 425 Ann St., my co-op house, I had no idea what to expect. I was moving into a house with 13 strangers at the beginning of the summer when most of my friends were not in East Lansing, and needless to say I was a little nervous.
Around 4 a.m. Saturday at the Avalon Co-op, 236 N. Harrison Road, I slept resolutely in my bed with a belly swirling full of tequila and low-grade beer.
As my best friend and I entered a Detroit elementary school dressed up as Tigger and Winnie the Pooh in the dead of winter, kids — wearing sandals and T-shirts in the foot of snow — turned to stare.
So you’re planning a big holiday feast or a nice dinner for friends or family when you find out one of the guests is a vegetarian or a vegan.
Ah, the holidays. The very idea can conjure up so many images: cold weather, warm food, snowflakes, a break from your classes and the pan-denominational gift-giving celebration of your choosing. But, there is another side to the holidays that some students are less than enthusiastic about — family.