Breslin Center was oozing romance and peaceful tunes at the seams Tuesday night. About 7,700 people showed up for a concert featuring pop-rock heartthrob John Mayer with an opening act of East Coast indie rockers Guster. I'll be the first to admit I know nothing about John Mayer or Guster.
Hey, kids! Want to rent a movie? "101 Dalmatians?" "Breakfast at Tiffany's?" "Rebel Without a Cause?" "Chicago?" "Holes?" Okay, you can have them all.
Katy Stokes' life changed and progressed during her first few weeks at MSU like most freshmen's lives do.
There hasn't been a metal album released in years that's as wicked and constructed with such a veracious talent as the self-titled Probot album. Probot is Dave Grohl.
The release of the 2004 Wharton Center season is a stunning lineup featuring some of the biggest Broadway productions, three world-premiere commissions and a new jazz program that combines the efforts of Wharton and the MSU School of Music.
By John Grier Special for The State News The disco ball was spinning, filling the room with silver specks of reflected light.
It's safe to say that we are in the midst of a wussification of mainstream rock stars and popular rock in general.
The eighth annual Young Playwrights Festival will be at Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre Sunday at 3 p.m.. Students from Holt, Mason, Haslett and Saline High Schools will have their plays performed by the MSU Department of Theatre. The festival showcases six local high school students who submitted one-act plays in the fall to be chosen as finalists with the chance to have their material performed and directed by the MSU Department of Theatre.
The Carl Rosa Opera Company will perform the classic Gilbert and Sullivan production "The Mikado" at 7 p.m.
Bob Guiney, the single guy from TV's "The Bachelor," will bring his musical group, The Bob Guiney Band, to the International Center on Saturday. Guiney, an MSU alumnus, will perform as well as host the Spartan Bachelor Contest.
"Grace and the Storm" A Manhattan drug dealer comes across a mythical drug that stimulates parts of the brain humans don't know how to use.
For more than 30 years, Hobie's Restaurant has been tucked away in the Trowbridge Plaza but it remains one of East Lansing's best untapped resources for sandwiches and soup on the go. Once part of a thriving franchise, Hobie's, 930 Trowbridge Road, has survived a near closing. "Parents know about this place because back in the '70s and '80s, this was the place to come to," Hobie's owner Dave Baker said.
Last week, I dealt with people stumbling around like wild banshees. Students exposed themselves and peed in hallways.
Seven years ago, Susan Woods took the reins of the first East Lansing Film Festival while looking to add a bit of cinematic art to a town sorely in need of it.
Few factors can make a band immediately amazing. One of them is when the drummer rocks so hard that he or she starts to bleed (see www.jucifer.com). Or when flange and distortion are used simultaneously (Flange, noun: Fuzzy, spacey guitar effect that sounds cool). Another is when the lyrics are so good, you skip backward on the CD just to hear them over again. Thus is Jucifer's new six-song (plus bonus track) release, "War Bird." Jucifer is a really, really loud rock band.
Without stars Johnny Depp and John Turturro, "Secret Window" likely would be another lackluster, made-for-TV, Stephen King adaptation.
COUNTRY"Live at Billy Bob's," Michael Martin Murphey, Smith Music Group Since recording his first solo album in 1972, country songwriter Michael Martin Murphey has become better known for his solo material than his work with the Lewis & Clarke Expedition or his songwriting for The Monkees.
Tuesday is the deadline to enter the Campus Center's Student Film Festival. Films should be dropped off in VHS format to room 322 in the Union.
Truth be told, I'm not a NASCAR fan. Racing doesn't push my buttons the right way, what with the driving in circles all day long.
Detroit, deshmoit. You'd think we were an hour and a half away from Seattle or something the way people describe the "scene" these days.