The MSU School of Music’s Jazz Spectacular continues tonight when veteran pianist Marian McPartland performs with Rodney Whitaker on bass and Milwaukee-based Carl Allen on drums. The event begins 7:30 p.m.
If anything is colorblind, it’s love, and the perfect story to convey such a message is the musical “South Pacific,” which tests racial barriers during World War II . Dance captain Lenny Daniel said despite being written in 1949, the play’s story line is relevant today. “It also shows what the daily life was like for the soldiers,” he said. The plot centers around Nellie, a nurse from Arkansas who falls in love with a French painter named Emile.
I’ve never read the book “The Time Machine.” The reason is not, as many suspect, that I am barely literate, but that I was too busy being nerdy and reading comic books.
James Patterson has certainly established himself as one of the best modern suspense novelists, with works including the highly successful “Kiss the Girls” and “Along Came a Spider.” He has a knack for binding moratorium with frightening reality. But sometimes a so-called “long-awaited” new book is nothing more than a pile of marketing hype.
The MSU School of Music, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost, kicks off its annual Jazz Spectacular today at the Union.
I missed my favorite television program Wednesday. It’s a special time I put aside every Wednesday night at 10.
Well, if you’re like me and you work somewhere where you get paid jack, (I love my job, boss!) you’re not going anywhere for spring break.
Hundreds of miles from home, you squat on a toilet for three hours because you drank the water, horribly sunburned and hung over from the day before. Chances are, you won’t have to deal with anything worse than this on your spring break.
It’s about that time - time to put on a teeny-weeny bikini. OK, maybe I’ve exaggerated just a bit.
Singer and songwriter Brooks Williams will perform with fiddler Rani Arbo tonight at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 855 Grove St.
Calling all book lovers and art buffs. This weekend there’s a chance see the exhibit “A Reader’s Art2: artist’s books in North America” at The Art Apartment, 210 Abbott Road, suite 18. National and international artists will showcase a variety of books using different materials.
At some point in all our lives, we all waste a good two hours watching some made-for-television movie.
It’s been a while since I did a DVD review. Why, you ask? Because it takes friggin’ forever to do one.
Friday • Breslin Center presents veteran rockers REO Speedwagon and Styx on their “Arch Allies Tour” at 7:30 p.m.
Released on a Lansing-based record label, each song on “The Entertainers” is masterfully done and shows off the precision talent of Russian natives cello player Viktor Uzur and violinist Andrej Kurti.
I was pretty surprised after the Daniel Pearl tragedy when I realized that being a journalist could be a dangerous profession.
Love her or hate her, she’s going to continue making records for quite a while - so it’s important to take her for what she’s worth, even if she’s way past her prime.
Josh Clayton-Felt is someone who needs to be heard. The former School of Fish leader died in 2000, at 32, of cancer.
Whatever happened to Kevin Costner? Once upon a time he was great, starring in movies like “Bull Durham” and “Dances With Wolves.” But now he seems to pick movies by throwing darts at scripts, and he hasn’t gotten a good one yet.“3000 Miles to Graceland,” “Thirteen Days” and “The Postman,” for God’s sake?
If you’re seeking acting techniques, check out “Theatre of the Inner Hues,” performed by a few MSU theater students. The acting techniques displayed are called Buddhist Chakras, used by Fay Simpson. Director and theater senior Lindsey Stakoe said she learned the techniques at a conservatory at Michael Howard Studios in New York City. “It inspired me so much I decided to create a play to teach the students about the technique,” Stakoe said.