Five local bands are hoping Friday night's rock festival at the Temple Club will pique the interest of area music fans. Playing at "The Rock Show" are Five-Fifty, 100 Watt Head, Powerface, Hawks and Snakes and The Caustic Pop!. The doors open at 7 p.m.
It's always a surprise when no one mentions this famous comedy team. Both have been linked to other actors as comedy teams but came together on the big screen a number of times.
It's survived two world wars, it's managed to stand after being engulfed by flames and now the building at 1218 Turner St.
Robert Rodriguez's "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" shouldn't disappoint fans who have been drooling for an encore after "El Mariachi," and "Desperado." The final edition to the trilogy has all the same style, humor and action as the other films, which made the director/writer famous. The only real disappointment is that El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) must fight for screen time against its other colorful characters. When audiences last left El Mariachi, he had run off with his love Carolina (Salma Hayek). In flashbacks, we learn the couple finally settled down, married and started a family.
Something about those awful home-decor shops always leaves me wishing I had more money to spend. Every time I go into those places and see all the weird lamps, sweet chairs and artwork, I get inspired, thinking of all the awesome things I could do to spruce up the area where I live.
We all knew when to chime in.My dad, being the only male in a house full of estrogen, sang Johnny's part, of course."How high's the water, Mama?" his deep voice demanded to know.
Last week's loss vs. the almighty Louisiana Tech Bulldogs has Spartan football fans scratching their heads.
Matchbox Twenty and Robert Randolph & the Family Band are stopping in East Lansing to rock MSU later this semester.
It's roughly 50 inches long, made of hard wood and is being ridden all over town. A newly popular form of transportation known as the longboard is giving people a different way to get to class, go down the street or simply a smoother way to wander about, said Erick Sauer, an employee at Modern Skate & Surf inside the Frandor Shopping Center. "They're just made for cruising around," he said.
There's a guest in town but she won't be asking for directions - she'll be giving her own.The MSU Department of Theatre will kick off its 2003-04 season with the help of guest director Carolyn Gillespie, a theater professor for the University of Michigan-Flint.After completing classes around 5:15 p.m., Gillespie commutes to MSU Monday through Friday, budgeting just enough time to grab some food and eat in the car before rehearsing with the cast of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" from 7 to 11 p.m.Sitting with her chin resting on her clasped-together hands, Gillespie smiles, showing her pearly white teeth, while describing what she thinks makes theater unique and interesting."I like that it uses so much of a person," the Stanford graduate said.
"Cabin Fever" is juvenile gore, humor and has an ending that feels like it was stolen from a 1950s science fiction flick. An homage to the horror movies of the past, the film fails to scare but does make you sick. It starts with a group of five college-age friends driving off for a weekend in the country.
"Walk Witt Me" is chic. Make that "Sheek." Former LOX member Sheek Louch is out on his own and has composed an album full of aggressive East Coast rap while still managing to vary his songs in melody enough so they do not get too stale.
The 4th annual Twilight in the Garden fund-raiser for Kresge Art Museum will be held Sunday from 4 to 7:30 p.m.
With Nicholas Payton's latest effort, "sonic trance," I got my first mentally taxing test as music reporter. How do you give a rating for lyrics when the album is almost completely devoid of them? The album's too good to suffer an undeserved "1" for lyrics.
The Michigan Writers Series will kick off its fall season with novelist Craig Holden tonight at 7:30 p.m.
After what has seemed like a drought at the box office of movies that are less entertaining than watching your socks go around in a dryer, here comes "Matchstick Men." Exciting and funny, this film deserves to become a big hit with audiences. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Roy, an obsessive-compulsive con artist whose partner, Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell), convinces him to go to therapy.
Ramble on...Most of us have heard about the new East Lansing noise violation hike, which has raised the fine for noise violations ranging from $500-$1,000 and now includes jail time, provided kegs, live entertainment and other factors are observed.I can understand the city's concern.
Christopher Showerman might be strong as he can be, but he'll have to start watching out for that tree.The 92 MSU graduate was chosen to play Disney's newest jungle swinger in "George of the Jungle 2," due on video in October.The film follows the adventures of George and his son as they try to save the jungle from evil developers.The movies are based on the 1960s' cartoon, which spoofed jungle heroes of the past.
Cheese isn't just another dairy product to John Partridge."There's a lot of art in cheese-making - you can't just take a recipe and follow it," the food science and human nutrition professor said.
It's a Wednesday morning and alarms are sounding in a buzzing, cross-campus chorus as MSU students wake up for their first class.