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Local confectioners bake sweets for MSU Museum
It's hard to read the word "chocolate" without instantly having your mouth water. It's everywhere.
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To heel or not to heel?
Perhaps you read Archie comics when you were a child. If you did, then you obviously know the difference between Betty and Veronica.
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The face of poker
If sitcoms on television have taught viewers one thing, it's that everyone knows how to play poker. The stereotypes of who's sitting at the table are all there.
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Car buff gives tips for buying used autos
Buying a used car on a limited college budget can be tough. But here are a few guidelines to help you purchase a used car. After you find the ideal car from a dealer or private seller and set up a time to evaluate the car, proceed with skepticism.
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Local music group Roundabout returns to scene after 2 year hiatus
Two years is a pretty long time for any music act to take a break from playing gigs. Especially when that act is local, unsigned and self-supportive.
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'Cure for Valentine's Hangover' fun, quirky
For an evening of quirky and amusing entertainment that will bare all and tell it like it is, catch "A Cure for the Valentine's Hangover." The short-play series, presented by local theater group Icarus Falling, is running through this weekend and offers a different angle for looking at love.
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Former Spice Girl cooks up luke warm solo release
It's hard to recognize Emma Bunton these days without those baby doll dresses, pigtails and the nickname Baby Spice.
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'Six Degrees' cast exhibit fluid performance
It's altogether too easy to classify the rich elite from New York or Aspen high life as snobby or cold-hearted, and forget that they too are human. "Six Degrees of Separation," running this weekend at Lansing Community College, shows the warm-blooded side to the upper crust with compelling characters and an inventive tale. The play is based on a true story of a con man who enters New York society pretending to be actor Sydney Poitier's son. In "Six Degrees of Separation," con man Paul dupes several families with a fake story and knowledge of their children, who are at prestigious universities.
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Area holds live jazz, indy
Just because it's not the weekend yet doesn't mean you can't still rock out. There's plenty of live local music happening in the area this week to tide you over until Friday and Saturday night.
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Kresge curator to hold 'Cremaster' discussion
April Kingsley, curator of Kresge Art Museum, will host a discussion on performance artist and Director Matthew Barney at 7 p.m.
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Student Film Festival now accepting entries
Residence Halls Association and the University Activities Board will be accepting DVD and VHS entries for their second annual Student Film Festival from now until March 15 in the University Activities Board office, 322 Union.
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Ben Lee's 'New Sleep' lacks depth, offers lukewarm tunes
One of the biggest trends in pop culture right now is to reinvent cool by declaring "this is the new that." Comedy is the new drama.
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Addicting show flaunts lives of rich teenagers
This won't be easy, but here goes... Hello, my name is Emily and I'm addicted to MTV's "My Super Sweet 16." I know, I know.
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Twist-filled 'Bad Education' proves to be director's best work
Spanish writer and director Pedro Almodóvar has done it again. Following internationally acclaimed films such as "All About My Mother" and "Talk to Her" is Almod-var's latest release, "Bad Education," arguably his most disturbing and intriguing yet.
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'Suddenly Last Summer' portrays death, disorders
A frightening world of cannibalism, sexual desires and murder comes to a head with southern sensibilities this week in the show "Suddenly Last Summer," written by Tennessee WIlliams. Presented by the MSU Department of Theatre, the play revolves around the tragic and mysterious death of Sebastian Venable.
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One Be Lo's album spits true lyrics, funky flow
What makes a great hip-hop album? For some, excellence is achieved through vicious, banging beats that leave the head nodding so emphatically that any words are almost unnecessary.
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Double or nothing
Double standards exist in almost all areas of life. For example, how come there aren't as many changing tables in men's bathrooms as there are women's bathrooms?
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Peering into the future
Years ago, children everywhere ripped a single sheet of notebook paper from their Trapper Keepers and folded, tore and colored their way to a cootie catcher.
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Fake date-rape pills far from funny; absurd
It was a graffiti party in a typical college student house. People were writing on each other's white shirts, others were dancing.
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Apple products gain popularity with innovative design, function
Ah, the age-old rivalry: Windows versus Mac. Although the Windows PC has dominated the computer playing field throughout the lives of our technologically advanced generation, Apple, with the help of its die-hard fans, has gained some serious momentum lately.