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Ring surprisingly intense, suspenseful
How can two films with plots so similar be so different? More than a month ago I had to sit through “FearDotCom” and wonder why it failed.
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Fans skank to Mustard Plug at Temple
Lansing - Mustard Plug’s bassist Matt Van threw his bass to the ground in rage Friday night, then picked it up again to hurl it into the crowd.Well, he was going to, but Van restrained himself.
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Oktoberfest deemed a success despite low turnout
Shaun Murray, Phi Delta Theta social chairman, almost lost his girlfriend over this.Murray spent the last two months preparing for Friday’s Oktoberfest 2002, an outdoor concert at the rock on Farm Lane to benefit the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation, an organization that fights Lou Gehrig’s Disease.“It’s been so stressful,” the public administration and public policy sophomore said.
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Shipmates, ElimiDATE offer tasteless, shallow look at dating
I’m pretty sure Chris Hardwick hates his job. Hardwick, the former co-host of MTV’s “Singled Out” with Jenny McCarthy, is back on the television dating scene with Sony Pictures Television’s effervescent reality show, “Shipmates.” The program follows two often disillusioned contestants around a cruise ship while they painfully size each other up and decide if their unworthiness to each other will preclude the eventual dance-floor hookup. Hardwick, in a continuous state of apparent physical and emotional pain, will sigh and roll his eyes as he gives the post date wrap-up, where nail-biting viewers find out if the curious daters have confessed their liking for each other or bitterly left the cruise ship alone. But his wearied attitude and sarcasm regarding the contestants and their important mission is almost vital to the show - it reminds the television audience that despite the overflow of shows like “Shipmates” and its familiar counterparts “Blind Date,” “elimiDATE,” “Dismissed” and “The 5th Wheel,” our culture might not readily embrace the ideals present in every skin-tight episode.
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Parallel Lives entertaining, but lacks focus
Though billed as a “fast-paced romp” springing from “feminist minds,” the only surprising thing about Icarus Falling’s newest Creole Gallery show is that there is, well, nothing much surprising about it at all.
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Espresso Royal to host CD release party
Espresso Royal Caffe, 527 E. Grand River Ave., in conjunction with Atlantic Records, is hosting a CD release party for Duncan Sheik’s most recent album “Daylight” at 8 p.m.
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Space-rock band to perform at Green Door
The Lansing band Hydrophonic, self-described as “space travel through music,” is celebrating the release of its first full-length album, “Orbits,” at 9:30 p.m.
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Weekend guide
Friday • The Temple Club, 500 E. Grand River Ave. in Lansing, presents Live Jazz Happy Hour with the Jazz Dogs from 5-9 p.m.
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Music marathon
Gathered in a small practice room on the second floor of the Music Building, nine guys huddle in a group, striving for perfect balance and blend.
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Critic hopes reviews will send U to local theaters
In what might at first glance appear to be a weak attempt to justify my existence, I endeavor this week to define what a review is good for, if they’re any good at all. The question I sought to answer was, do reviews matter to people?
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U alumni open enhanced Novi theater
Novi - A new business sprouting up in the jungle of commerce that is the Detroit suburb would normally be just another business. But MSU alumni Ruth Daniels and Carl Slemer hope a theater that offers amenities others don’t will make their Emagine theater stick out. The 86,000-square foot anchor of the Fountain Walk retail complex opens Monday to movie patrons who will see films in comfort.
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Tesitmony offers Southern soul, vocals
Dana Glover has a sultry voice that emanates with Southern charm as her long, brown, wavy hair gently caresses her beautiful features. But this is about her music so we’ll focus on that, regardless of the fact that Glover has been a model since the young age of 16.
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Abandon surprises with semi-entertaining story
Sometimes I wish I thought like producers of some of the movies I watch. I mean, what an idea it is to make a film that makes no sense until the very end.
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Crowd control
Sitting at a brown rectangular table in a confined conference room in Breslin Center on Sunday, Matt Laskowski enjoys what’s left of a limited smorgasbord of nachos, fried rice and taco salad. And after only about three minutes, his radio crackles and his facial expression turns from content to somewhat annoyed, but not surprised. “I’ve never once worked an event that, as soon as I sit down to eat, I don’t get called,” he says.
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Coffeeshop rocker takes off with Waiting for My Rocket to Come
Some people just have what it takes to make it. Others just dwindle into a never-ending circle of disappointments.
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Whats happening?
Events • Accapalooza will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre.
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Tool rocks Breslin Center crowd
It was quite apparent that the fans at Breslin Center on Sunday were there for one thing: Tool. They were apathetic when Messughah hit the stage for a nearly two-thirds empty floor.
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NCAA Football 2003 offers best of college football video games
You know you’ve got something amazing when a video game captures the essence of college tradition exactly like its real life counterpart.
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Boredom with society, psychological problems highlighted in Hedda Gabler
Lansing - A beautiful, strong-willed woman is stifled by society and suffocates in domestic boredom.