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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

John Ostler
April 16, 2002

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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Campus Invasion 2K2 tour hits Breslin today

Dan Julian
April 16, 2002

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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Ladies rock Old Town with 4-day festival

Dan Julian
April 15, 2002

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

Dan Julian
April 15, 2002

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

Tanee Elston
April 15, 2002

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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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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Hair promises knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded braided fun

Tanee Elston
April 12, 2002

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

Leslie Escobar
April 12, 2002

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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Hair hits Wharton

Tanee Elston
April 11, 2002

“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

Dan Julian
April 11, 2002

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.

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Ladyfest Lansing 2002 event listing

Today For all shows at the Temple Club, 500 E. Grand River Ave. in Lansing, admission is $10 a day without an event pass. Bands: All bands at Temple Club • The Trembling, 8 p.m.

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Cello Plus chamber music series continues

Dan Julian
April 11, 2002

The second annual MSU School of Music’s “Cello Plus” chamber music series kicked off Wednesday night at the Music Auditorium, and will continue with performances Friday, Sunday and Monday at the same location. Suren Bagratuni, associate professor of cello and performer, started the series in 1996 at the University of Illinois School of Music and introduced it here when he joined the faculty in 2000. Bagratuni said it is difficult to catch some of the performers live without paying a huge amount of money. “These are top quality musicians,” he said.