The back of the University Activities Board T-shirts worn by employees said it best: “What does Pushing 33 + Bliss 66 + 19 Wheels equal?
Sleater-Kinney. Touring. New album. Those three thoughts kept repeating through my head the entire summer. When I heard Sleater-Kinney would be touring after its latest release, “One Beat,” I was ecstatic.
“Snatch” meets “Shaft” in Screen Gems Inc.’s latest project, “Formula 51.” It’s odd that chemistry is the central theme of the film, since it’s used so much in the casting of the movies roles.
Talk about beating a dead horse. Frank and his brother Vince Rogala have been trying to make it in the music industry since 1976.
Homecoming weekend has finally arrived and it’s time to celebrate in numbers. The University Activities Board is hosting its first Homecoming Jam at 8 p.m.
Samuel L. Jackson returns to the big screen this weekend with the much anticipated “Formula 51.” Jackson plays college graduate and chemistry prodigy Elmo McElroy, who loses a chance at becoming a pharmacist after a drug possession charge in 1971.
Young East Lansing singer Scott Barnes will be performing at 9 p.m. today at Coffee Jam, 6427 Centurion Drive in Lansing. The aspiring musician started playing guitar when he was 13.
Fox is launching a series of auditions for the next “American Idol” - and the first stop is right here in Michigan. The audition will take place at 8 a.m.
Plays don’t usually revolve around a character the audience doesn’t like, let alone someone they despise. The protagonist in Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” is headstrong, angry, frustrated and stifled in a life society has chosen for her.
Flipping the channels one Saturday afternoon, my roommate and I saw an advertisement on MTV for its second installment of “Making the Band” - “Making the Band 2.” As I watched the commercial and waited for the announcement of another boy band/girl band-type group, I learned, much to my surprise, that a hip-hop group will be formed with the aid of P.
Mention the band Tool, and you’ll notice widely different reactions. One person will shrug and act indifferent.
The rules for transporting packages, according to courier Frank Martin, are don’t open the package and no names. It sounds easy, and for the payment of $40,000 I would quit my job.
Friday • The University Activities Board will feature Green & White Fridays Homecoming Kick-off as part of Homecoming celebrations from noon to 2 p.m.
The MSU Documentary Filmmakers and the East Lansing Film Festival are co-sponsoring a homegrown movie screening at 7 p.m.
Sometimes growing old brings us back to our youth. And English Assistant Professor Jeffrey Wray’s film “China” gave the audience a different perspective of life on Saturday during its premiere at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. Rudolph and Evelyn Jackson (Von Washington and Sheila Stewart) lead nauseating lives.
Events • The Asian Studies Center will show the Japanese film “Princess Mononoke” at 7 p.m.
Tom Petty is an artist who’s never struggled with creative excellence since he hit the music scene in the 1970s. Today, Petty has created a definitive hybrid of American music.
Fayetteville, W. Va. - Hanging from a rock 30 feet above the ground with only a thin climbing rope and a trusty belayer determining her safety, Dawn Smith hears the slight murmur of the New River hundreds of feet below her and searches for the next minuscule crack or ledge to propel higher on the almost-flat rock face. MSU Outing Club members on the ground called out advice to the deaf education junior, giving her advice as to where to go next. “You’re going to want to bring your right foot up to that crack just above your right knee,” one member shouts. From the ground, the cracks in the rock look enormous, but staring at them head-on, they only go a centimeter or two deep - and each hole’s circumference is tiny.
Opening in pitch black to the tune of a mournful jazz trumpet and a light dusting of piano keys, the Department of Theatre’s “Three in the Back, Two in the Head” briefly evokes the image of a of a private eye’s office in the moments before the play begins. But as soon as the lights come up, the audience is thrust into the cold world of the play and never looks back. “What did he do - that was so wrong?” Paula Jackson (theater senior Kelly Cavanagh) demands of CIA agent Katherine Doyle (theater graduate student Sarah Reule). Paula’s quest to trace the bullets referenced in the play’s title - bullets used to murder her military scientist father - drives the action in the play through the Pentagon, the U.S.
When Adam Miller received a letter from Creators Syndicate last July, he thought it was nothing more than another form letter.“I had gotten other rejection letters, and they all used form letters and I thought that’s what this was,” said Miller, 27.“I was about to stick it in a file and forget about it.”But after reading through it carefully a second time, Miller was shocked, and even thought it was a joke.In the letter, the California-based organization offered Miller a syndication contract for his comic strip “Bachelor Party,” which explores the lives of recent college graduates.When Miller attended MSU, the comic was called “Student Ghetto” and featured younger versions of the same characters in “Bachelor Party.” The comic ran for about three semesters in The State News. After graduation in 1999, Miller immediately began sending his material to syndication companies throughout the nation.“I got a lot of good response from it at first, but people didn’t really want to syndicate it to college kids - they didn’t see the college market as strong enough for a national paper,” he said.For that reason, Miller changed the name of the comic to “Bachelor Party” and marketed it toward an older crowd and a bigger market.John Newcombe is the director of development at Creators Syndicate.