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.
Events • The Asian Studies Center will show the Japanese film “Princess Mononoke” at 7 p.m.
Despite a strong belief that nothing good will ever come out of Ann Arbor, the melodically aggressive quartet TapRoot is set to make people think otherwise.
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.
If “The Rules of Attraction” promotional posters, featuring stuffed animals showing off what they learned from Kama Sutra didn’t carry enough shock value, the actual film did. The posters came very close to attracting more attention than the movie. Roger Avary directs a very dark and humorous look at college relationships.
All American Pita, 553 E. Grand River Ave., is hosting a CD release party from 6 to 9 p.m. today for Jason Mraz’s debut album “Waiting For My Rocket To Come.” The 25-year-old was born in Virginia but spent the last two years of his life in the sunny streets of San Diego playing regular gigs at coffee houses until the day he was signed to Elektra Records.
Kathleen Clark began writing for the stage on a sailboat traveling down the East coast of the United States, heading for the sunny Bahamas. “If you’ve ever wanted to be a writer, that’s the place to do it,” she said.
Remember those endless nights of playing NHL ’93 on the Sega Genesis? The relentless hammering of three buttons, the amazing graphics and the fast-paced action - something we thought was way ahead of its time and impossible to improve on.
A five-member cast will play to all four sides of the Auditorium’s Arena Theatre stage when “Three in the Back, Two in the Head” opens tomorrow night. The title of Canadian playwright Jason Sherman’s 80-minute one-act play refers to bullet holes in the body of the main character’s father. Theater senior Kelly Cavanagh plays Paula Jackson, a young woman looking for the truth behind her father’s murder. With a minimalist set and few props, the audience is forced to focus full attention on character development.
Tara talked me into it. Sure, I was a Cher fan, but to actually dress up like her? It wasn’t something I had thought about until we saw the advertisement for a Cher look-alike contest at Club Paradise, 224 S.
Cher wasn’t planning on leaving quietly.Lowered from the ceiling of Breslin Center for her “Living Proof: The Farewell Tour” on a chandelier singing U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” the singer wanted to make sure her arrival would keep people talking.
Lansing - If someone’s ever said a band needs vocals to make it decent, they’ve never heard Adam’s Castle.The band held a CD release show Friday for its new album “One Year” at the Temple Club, 500 E.
Where did “Knockaround Guys” come from? All of a sudden, there is a cast of promising actors teaming up with seasoned veterans in a Mafia flick. After a long wait, a wait only matched by the Tyson-Lewis fight, “Knockaround Guys” opens today.
If you’ve never been to the Temple Club, 500 E. Grand River Ave. in Lansing, there’s no excuse this weekend.
Let the laughing begin. BET’s Comic View boasts a stomach-aching experience with the arrival of “Laugh Til You Drop: Part II” at 8:30 p.m.
A gleaming black piano graced the Union Ballroom on Wednesday night.It quietly basked in the presence of two towering speakers, a small drum set and the eager ears of about 100 students.Following a few delays, Magdalen Hsu-Li emerged to the delight of the audience, with an acoustic guitar in hand and the inception of her set.Mentioning just one of a number of talents doesn’t do her justice.
The second installment of the East Lansing Film Society’s fall series features the Canadian film “Atanarjuat” (The Fast Runner) at 7 p.m.
Flipping through stacks of vinyl records in my parents’ basement a few months back, I came across the original Woodstock recordings.
Friday Club Paradise, 224 S. Washington Square in Lansing, will host round two of Battle of the Bands.
Local pop-punk band Hyperbole is ripping it up at The Landshark, 101 E. Grand River Ave., at midnight Friday. The five-piece band just released “Boy Meets Wonder” in September and is touring across Michigan for the next two months. Guitarist Jacob Jon Bender said fans of bands like Blink-182, New Found Glory and Saves The Day should give the band a listen.