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'Young Playwrights' have materials performed

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.

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Movie hopping

"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.

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Eatery is best kept secret in E.L. after 30 years

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.

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Take Seven

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.

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Jucifer EP really, really, loud

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.

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New releases

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.