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Chick flick Sweetest Thing fails to deliver
You’ve gotta love the weather right now. In just a matter of days, I’ve been drunk and outside several times.
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Goo Goo Dolls much anticipated album is easily confused with earlier recordings
Writing a follow-up to a highly successful record must be quite a feat. Not only does the artist have the pressure of writing more hits that will remind its fans that it can still write really good songs, but it has the task of proving to harsh critics that it has staying power. I’m one of the critics who was quite skeptical about the newest by the Goo Goo Dolls.
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Moth rocks with Provisions
What can you say about a band that just plain rocks? Each song on Moth’s third record couldn’t have been done better. Hailing from Ohio, the same state that spawned Nine Inch Nails, Devo and The Breeders, Moth contributes a solid major label debut by molding generous portions of geek rock in with some dark and satisfying love songs, such as “Lovers Quarrel,” one of the album’s best. Brad Stenz’s gritty vocals glide along the same horizon as U2’s Bono, and even occasionally slightly hints at Jeremy Enigk of the now defunct Sunny Day Real Estate. The music somehow manages to incorporate punk rock angst with a tint of spunk by nailing each song’s theme, whether it be bittersweet, relaxed or carefree. A decent number of songs on the record sound like they were written for radio airplay.
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Exhibit highlights student work
An eclectic mix of traditional paintings, electronic art and statues has transformed the Kresge Art Museum for the 2002 Undergraduate Art Exhibition. An accumulation of a year of hard work, the art show opened last week and runs through April 28. It is an exhibition of judged art, from art department courses, including ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Roughly 200 people attended Friday’s opening day as they crammed into the corridor of the Kresge Art Center to listen to Chairman Jim Hopfensperger announce the show’s winners. A constant flow of art enthusiasts then moved to the gallery to view the student art on display. Jenclare Gawaran, an art education junior had a drawing piece in the show titled “Branded.” “I don’t think people realize there is a creative side to this university,” she said.
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White Stripes revive Detroits music past
It’s been a while since thinking of Detroit as a true “rock city” was viable, what with pathetic acts like Kid Rock, Eminem and Andrew W.K.
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Campus Invasion 2K2 tour hits Breslin today
The Campus Invasion 2K2 tour hits Breslin Center today as Nickelback performs, with special guests Default and Injected. The event also will feature the MTV “Interactive Music Expo,” which starts at noon south of Breslin Center.
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Changing Lanes is fast-paced; more than just revenge thriller
Don’t let the title fool you, “Changing Lanes” deals with an awful lot of rage, but not really road rage.
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Ladies rock Old Town with 4-day festival
Lansing - Latricia Horstman was surprised by how many people came up to her and thought the event she co-organized with Sarah Stollak, Ladyfest Lansing 2002, was for lesbians only. “It isn’t anti-men, it’s pro-women,” Horstman said.
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Recital allows students to show power of music
Emma McLaughlin slowly approached a drum that sat on a wooden chair in the middle of the Music Building Auditorium stage Friday afternoon.Walking with a grin plastered on her face, she looked at the packed audience and removed the drum from the chair, before sitting cross-legged on the floor.Emma, who has Down syndrome, played the drum rhythm to the “Michigan State Fight Song” at Celebrate Abilities, the fourth anuual music therapy program recital.The 9-year-old from Dimondale was among 23 students of various ages who performed songs they learned as part of their sessions at MSU’s Music Therapy Clinic.
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Hair is 60s musical treat of flowers, freedom, nudity
Once in a while we all just want to get naked and be free. The cast of the Department of Theatre’s production of “Hair” gets this enviable task on the stage of Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. The colorful production, which opened Thursday, has the spirit and all the right moves to relax anybody.
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Film buff strives to finish latest effort
Everyone’s known someone who, at some point or another, has said the words we all know they’ll give up on.
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Entertainment briefs
Anime Festival to commence Saturday The second annual Anime Festival will be held at the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, on Saturday. Anime fans will have their chance to watch popular anime films like “Fruit Basket,” “Inu-Yasha” and “Rurouni Kenshin” and win prizes for anime drawings. “It was a big hit last year,” young adult librarian Mary Hennessey said.
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Girls lost in R. Kelly scandal as people ponder album sales
Jay-Z calls R. Kelly’s latest alleged sex scandal with underage girls, this time caught on video, “The gift and the curse.” It sounds more like he’s sugarcoating a serious issue while conveniently promoting his upcoming album, “The Gift And The Curse.” I’m not surprised, considering how Jay-Z degrades women consistently in his music.
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Therapy concert tonight
For an inspiring and enjoyable evening of music, visit the fourth annual MSU Music Therapy Recital at 4 p.m.
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Frailty a good pick for film
As we all know, most hopes for Hollywood to come through with quality are met with stinky garbage and our money wasted.
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Hair promises knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded braided fun
This weekend come and enjoy the natural high of “Hair,” a production that will have your soul floating on some groovy tunes while addressing a few social issues of the ’60s. Jason Wagner, a theater senior and a the Tribe, a band of hippies in the play, said this production is outstanding and allows the cast to be as free spirited as possible. “It you want to see a musical that has something to offer,” Wagner said, “this musical has something to offer.” At the beginning of the show, a pack of tribal hippies dance and sing odes to sex and love, marijuana and peace.
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Living up the night
Staying busy during the weekends is one thing college students seem to crave. And students and residents of the college towns of East Lansing and Ann Arbor always have argued about which town better fills those nightly gaps between the end of classes and the beginning of another day. But there likely is no answer to that endless predicament.
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Leading ladies to sing at Wharton in Friends
This weekend MSU welcomes “Just Between Friends,” featuring Barbara Cook and Marilyn Horne.
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Hair hits Wharton
“Hair,” the musical that marks the activism and turmoil of the 1960s, spreads its groovy revolution tonight. At the hub of the show, a pack of tribal hippies dance and sing odes to sex and love, marijuana and peace.
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Ladyfest kicks off today in Lansing
In mid-August last year, Lansing residents Sarah Stollak and Latricia Horstman traveled to Chicago for Ladyfest Midwest 2001, an event celebrating women in music and the arts. Almost immediately after their return to Lansing, they began planning for Ladyfest Lansing 2002, which will be held today through Sunday at various venues in Lansing’s Old Town. “The first thing we thought was that Detroit should totally do a Ladyfest, but the more I thought about it I was like ‘Lansing needs to do a Ladyfest, not Detroit,’” Stollak said.