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Every week, The State News presents five things going on in the world of pop culture that might make your life a little bit better.
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Shakespeare group enacts love scenes
With Valentine's Day on the horizon, Sunsets with Shakespeare is prepared to perform classic love literature.
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Hard Lessons rock Lansing before extensive tour
It felt more like a sauna than a bar. The Hard Lessons made a triumphant return to Lansing with a standing room-only performance at Mac's Bar, 2700 E.
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1 hit wonder band produces decent 3rd album
Wheatus' new album won't change the world, but it will put some smiles on teenage faces. The Long Island-based band is best known for the 2001 catchy hit "Teenage Dirtbag" and has stayed true to its poppy garage rock sound on "TooSoonMonsoon." The new album is the band's third full length — "Suck Fony" was released in 2005, but that was just a reissue of the second album "Hand Over Your Loved Ones" with two new tracks. The most striking aspect of the band always has been, and still is, the high-pitched voice of Brendan B.
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Theater venues abundant
There have been claims that Americans are opting to skip going to the theater because of piracy, increased ticket prices and better technology for watching at home.
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Yellowcard matures on new album
Katie Fletcher For The State News "Lights and Sounds" is the newest release from Yellowcard, the pop-rock group whose last few songs were released among a flurry of California-themed singles from similar bands.
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1-man act produces mellow, stripped-down sound
Barr combines spacey jazz with spoken words hitting on the offbeats. The band is one of kind in umpteen ways.
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'Capote' outstanding look at 'In Cold Blood' author's life
In 1959, a family of four in sleepy Halcomb, Kan., was brutally murdered. Enter Truman Capote — writer for The New Yorker — desperate to tell the story. Capote devotes years to his research.
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Campus events group lacks members
Marc Nardacci has an incredibly intense job resting on his shoulders. In his first year as director of ASMSU's Pop Entertainment, he faced a smaller amount of group members than last year, as well as a hefty budget cut.
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Cancelled TV show fresh look at reality
"The Book of Daniel" was my favorite television show of all time. Note the keyword: was. The program involved an Episcopalian priest dealing with family dilemmas, church politics and his own pill-popping addiction.
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Electric Six delivers predictable 2nd album
By John Hudson For The State News Electric Six's upcoming album "Señor Smoke" allures listeners with the same contagious dance beats and droll songwriting heard on its previous release "Fire." Warner Music UK refrained from releasing "Señor Smoke" in the States despite its considerable acclaim in England.
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The changing space of music
The Internet has become a vehicle to establish and reinvent one's own identity. And for many cyber-savvy folks, MySpace.com has become a popular Web site to exercise one of the human race's most prized personal tastes — music.
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Five favorites
Every week, The State News presents five things going on in the world of pop culture that might make your life a little bit better.
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Alumnus creates documentary on Flint athletes
Flint is a sports town, and athletes from the area frequently play at MSU, University of Michigan and other major universities.
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Bond actors remembered
By now everyone has heard the news — Pierce Brosnan is out and Daniel Craig will be the next James Bond.
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'Stranger' predictable, riddled with genre clichés
Jill is in trouble long before a stranger starts calling. She's 800 minutes over on her cell phone bill — gasp.
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'Something New' entertaining blend of race issues, romance, comedy
Justin Kroll For The State News Since the 1960s, movies about interracial relationships such as "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "Jungle Fever" have taken a more dramatic and serious approach.
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Brosnan transitions well from Bond to comedy
"A hitman and a salesman walk into a bar … " is the tagline for "The Matador" — and the whole movie is one long, hilarious punchline. Hitman Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan) and struggling businessman Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) are both in Mexico City on business.
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'New World' beautiful; too much focus on scenery
By Justin Kroll For The State News It is rare today in movies that we see directors take the gamble of slowing a film down and making it into a piece of thought-provoking art, instead of a fast-paced, action-packed epic.
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Beatles tribute band, public sing-alongs highlight festival
Curtis Remington might look like your average businessman by day. But by nightfall, khakis are traded for bright colors, keyboards for guitars and short haircuts for wispy wigs. A graphic artist by day and a Beatle by night, Remington is the rhythm guitar and harmonica player for the Beatles tribute band Yellowsub Marines, and he loves every minute of it. "This isn't a full-time job, this is a full-time passion," Remington said.