It's so much more than a murder story starring beautiful women. The musical "Chicago," showing this week at Wharton Center, is about the 1920s, feeling good at no expense and jazz. It's not that cool bluesy, saxophone kind of jazz made popular by Ray Charles and Miles Davis.
There's a surprise inside Jessica Rehling's mailbox - it could be a Broadway musical, last season's hit TV show or a Hollywood hunk. As a subscriber to Netflix online video rental, Rehling is able to pick movies online and have them sent to her home through the mail.
This is getting ridiculous. Crime investigation and forensic science spin-off shows already had gone too far - and now there is another one coming to prime time television in early 2005 - "Law & Order: Trial By Jury." Come on, is NBC for real?
Welcome back to "Rock Your Body," The State News fitness and nutrition column. Each week, we hit up our local experts with some questions and pass on their wisdom to you. But before we get to the goods, we thought we'd tell you a little bit about who'll be giving you advice. Tom Ostrander: Tom is the owner of Powerhouse Gym, 435 E.
Dustan Louque, the parent behind the group Louque, has lived in culturally volatile sectors of the United States for his entire life.
There are two things you should take into serious consideration before entering the world of Nintendo's "Donkey Konga." First and foremost - check your pride at the door.
On Dec. 21, 1988, a Pan Am flight carrying about 259 people crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland - killing everyone on board including 11 more people on the ground. MSU Director Jeanine Cull will reenact one family's turmoil after losing their only child and son in the crash, in the MSU Department of Theatre's next production, "The Women of Lockerbie." Although Deborah Brevoort wrote the play as fiction, it is based on true events that took place, starring a devastated American family who was embraced by the women of Lockerbie. The play begins in Lockerbie after the Livingston family's memorial service for their son.
The "Jigsaw" killer, a serial murderer who sets up puzzles that his victims must either solve or kill themselves trying to, is holding two men captive inside a tiny room - a riddle in itself.
"Chicago" Veterans of show business, Velma and Roxie, find themselves in jail for murdering their cheating lovers.
By the time the catchy opening riff of "What'd I Say" beats through the theater and a set of fingers fly across the keyboard, the audience is already sold on "Ray." This is going to be an amazing film - the crowd can tell.
Some might call Flatfoot's sophomore record a rock 'n' roll album. Some might call it a country bluegrass album.
"American Idol" star Ruben Studdard is selling his CDs and topping the charts, but what about the "106 & Park" Freestyle Friday grand-slammer Jin? Those of you who witnessed the big-mouthed Chinese rapper battle the hell out of his opponents on the BET show may have been wondering what's been up with the new Ruff Ryder since the release of his first single "Learn Chinese" last year.
Cal Stephanides originally was born as baby girl Calliope Helen Stephanides in 1960; it says so on his birth certificate - but Cal was reborn in 1974, and this time as a boy.
Welcome back to "Rock Your Body," The State News fitness and nutrition column. Each week, we hit up our local experts with some questions and pass on their wisdom to you. But before we get to the goods, we thought we'd tell you a little bit about who'll be giving you advice. Tom Ostrander: Tom is the owner of Powerhouse Gym, 435 E.
"Surviving Christmas" kicks off with all the traditional holiday clichés of sleighbells jingling, city streets bustling and Christmas trees twinkling in the park. "It's the most wonderful time of the year," we're told. This opening montage concludes, however, with a depressed grandmother putting her head into the oven, right next to the frowny-faced gingerbread men she just finished icing. It's a clever and comic juxtaposition: Deconstructing our favorite holiday images like that. It's a device director Mike Mitchell should have used throughout "Surviving Christmas," a ho-hum film that quickly digresses from its sprightly beginning into an unfunny take on all the usual holiday dreck. Ben Affleck stars as Drew Latham, a lonely millionaire who offers a suburban Chicago family $250,000 to let him spend Christmas in their home.
Prepare to be razzle-dazzled. That tap dancing, vibrant singing and jazzy feeling Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger brought to the screen two years ago in the movie version of "Chicago" will be presented in the flesh at Wharton Center next week. In addition to the six Academy Awards the movie walked away with in 2002, "Chicago" has been racking up awards since it first opened on Broadway in 1996.
MSU student improv comedy group "Your Mom" will perform at 12:15 a.m. Saturday at Connxtions Comedy Club, 2900 N.
The School of Music is celebrating clarinet day on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Music Building.
Robert Roth's background is rich with colorful people and life-changing experiences: He was almost Nirvana's second guitarist.
This year, Halloween won't be the scariest day of the fall. According to the Real People Players, the real chills begin Nov.