Weekend best bets
Music If you like it loud, hot and heavy, head out to The Temple Club, 500 E. Grand River Ave.
Music If you like it loud, hot and heavy, head out to The Temple Club, 500 E. Grand River Ave.
The MSU Museum will host its 15th annual "Chocolate Party" to benefit the care and preservation of the cultural and natural history collections of the museum on Feb.
"No special effects. No stuntmen. No stereotypes. No other feeling comes close." The scrolling opening statement is a testament to the surfing reality that "Step Into Liquid" brings to the screen.
Tonight's show at The Temple Club will feature artists in order from loud to louder to loudest. Three local bands, Mike Moran & The Big Ones, The William Wyatt Band and Mason's Case, will play the venue, 500 E.
The rich smell of wet paint on screen prints, the overwhelming visual image of a mounted, plaster-cast body, and vibrant colors call out from the heart of the Lansing area's local art scene. But there is little reply. The response that artists in the area receive still doesn't hold them back.
Day 1: Friday In the lobby of the second floor of IM Sports-Circle, the mood is quiet.
There's nothing worse than fraud. Fake people, fake fur, fake smiles and all of these fake clothing brands and accessories should all be gathered together in a room and torched. I've been watching you around campus.
"The Big Bounce" is exactly what we needed to breathe life into the dullness of January's film selection.
If the quality of the movie "Barbershop 2: Back In Business" is anything like its soundtrack - it would be two hours worth of just barely satisfactory entertainment. That's the grade I give the "Barbershop 2: Back In Business" soundtrack.
In one word - wow. When I walked into Riverwalk Theatre on Friday, I was sure there was going to be dancing and singing - since the show I was seeing was a musical - but what I didn't expect was that two performers would absolutely blow my mind and in turn make the show one of the most successful local productions I've seen. "Dreamgirls" opened last Thursday at the Riverwalk Theatre, 228 Museum Drive in Lansing, and is set to run its short stint through Sunday.
BLUES"Tell Me Baby," Jimmy Dawkins, Fedora Though he was born in Mississippi, Jimmy Dawkins is always associated with Chicago blues.
Whit Hill and The Postcards' debut record, "We Are Here," is honestly not a style of music I normally listen to.
The raw smell of conditioned leather permeates the air as large men clad in black leather jackets, jeans, tall black boots and tattoos stroll past vendor tables crowded with Harley-Davidson stickers.
BoarsHead Professional Theater will be producing "Free Food & Full Frontal Nudity" - a sketch comedy performance in the fashion of "Saturday Night Live". Every few months, BoarsHead Theater produces a Dark Night series which allows the second-company actors to get out on stage and perform; the sketch will be this month's. The series will be run today and Tuesday at the BoarsHead Theater, 425 S.
I have a great deal of respect for Ani DiFranco. DiFranco is always known for doing things her way that usually include making music her way.
For a basketball team to stay popular after more than 75 years, it takes something special. It takes a touch of tradition, a pinch of humor, great showmanship and a whole lot of mad skills.
The biker generation rides into town this weekend. The 14th annual Giant Motorcycle Swap Meet will be held from 11 a.m.
It's not just a play. Nor is it simply a performance. It's not a drama or a musical. And it's certainly not something our mothers were going to when they were our age. It's "The Vagina Monologues" - the award-winning play written by Eve Ensler, and it will be performed by a cast of MSU students on Saturday and Sunday at the Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre. The hour-and-a-half long show will tell the stories of hundreds of women across the globe during their experiences of giving birth, sexuality, rape and even getting their first period. "Women would line up everywhere I went to tell me stories about being beaten, battered and incested," Ensler said in a telephone interview.
They can be subdued or suggestive and can grab your attention without you even knowing it. To the average person, it's just something to glance at, but for those who create the fliers that advertise concerts, it's art. Flier artists can be kids who print off of their personal computers or they can be college graduates who charge up to $150 per design. From Lansing Craig Horky is one of the many artists who has moved from sketching fliers to high-quality productions.
It certainly appears that Lansing-based rock group The Farewell Drive is steadily moving forward down the highway of success.