This Friday at Harper’s Restaurant & Brewpub 131 Albert Ave., Infinite Entertainment and Student Express will be presenting All Access, a 21-and-up party that includes 100 foot video screens, a spring break trip giveaway and many other prizes.
FRIDAYThe “Black Comedy Tour“ featuring Shawn C & Cocoa Brown will be visiting MSU.
“The Secret Marriage” opens tonight with deceit, sexual tension and humor, not to say that sexual tension isn’t funny in itself. Put on by the School of Music, Domenico Cimarosa’s opera, “Il Matrimonio Segreto,” is adapted from Italian so audiences will be able to understand and enjoy the plot. “The music is really sparkling, very enjoyable and it’s out and out funny,” said Melanie Helton, director and assistant professor of voice. Performances are 8 p.m.
On any seemingly normal day, you may stand behind a seemingly normal chap dutifully extracting dough from the ATM.“Hey.
All the press material for the new film “Tape” highlights the fact it takes place in Lansing.
There’s one sure-fire way to really enrage Jimmy Gnecco.Compare him to the late Jeff Buckley.“I knew that after Jeff became popular we’d be compared to him,” Gnecco said as his touring caravan climbed through the Canadian Rockies.
When some people think of a cappella groups, images might come to mind of people in striped shirts singing the old barber-shop quartet standards. But for the popular MSU a cappella group Capital Green, MSU’s first and only coed vocal group, its performances can include quite a bit more variety.
If the Broadway version of “Kiss Me Kate” was as good as its touring sister company, it probably deserved the Tony Award it won for Best Revival of a Musical last year. The musical opened Tuesday night at Wharton Center and plays through Sunday.
Lit Atomic RCA Lit is one of those bands people love or hate. Either way, it’s hard to deny it writes some catchy stuff, and this album is a vindication of why it is such a popular outfit. It doesn’t matter that the percussion work is minimal and amazingly simple, but perhaps that’s the point.
Green Day International Superhits! Reprise Records Once upon a time Green Day was a great band - back in the day when it was all about Lookout!
Meegan Holland said the Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St., in Lansing, doesn’t generally book old-time country-bluegrass acts, but something about the newly formed “Uncle Earl” showed promise. “You’ve just got four very talented women up there so I figured you can’t go wrong,” said Holland, the concert presenter for the gallery. “Uncle Earl” will perform at 7:30 p.m.
Sloan, quite possibly one of the few great things to come out of Canada besides Labatt beer and fellow rockers Our Lady Peace, has come out with its long-awaited release, “Pretty Together.” Plain and simple, this is a disappointing album, not because it’s bad, but because it fails to match earlier releases.
Michigan poets Mary Ann Samyn and Gerry LaFemina arrive in Old Town Lansing today for an evening of poetry at The Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St. Tonight’s Old Town Poetry series reading is sponsored by the Lansing Poetry Club and the Lansing Community College Creative Writing Club. “It seemed like a good idea to link up the writing club with The Creole Gallery,” club adviser and LCC Professor Dennis Hinrichsen said. Hinrichsen said the poets were chosen because of their recent publications and because he thought it was important to feature Michigan writers. Their most recent collections are LaFemina’s “Zarathustra in Love,” and Samyn’s “Inside the Yellow Dress.” He described LaFemina’s poetry as “Whitman-esque.” LaFemina wrote for a time about living in New York City, and now incorporates his city experiences with poetry about life in Michigan. “Mary Ann Samyn writes a very spare, lyrically concise poem,” Hinrichsen said.
The first question you need to ask yourself when perusing this week’s new releases is a simple one: “Do we really need this album?” The first answer you should come to is, “no, no we most certainly do not.” Perhaps the only redeeming quality to this album is that it features two brand new songs.
By Marina Ionescu On Saturday an audience in Wharton Center’s Great Hall listened to the MSU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dai Uk Lee and Raphael Jimenez, featuring Natalia Khoma, cellist and MSU faculty member. The program consisted of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s “Upbeat!
Crime films are a staple of modern movies. Whether trying to be funny (last year’s “Snatch,” the upcoming “Ocean’s 11”) or serious (this year’s “The Score”), these movies provide a little guilty pleasure for watching bad people do bad things in the hopes of striking it rich. And almost no one can do crime-caper movies like David Mamet, the famed writer-director-playwright who is responsible for the new movie “Heist.” With other crime flicks such as 1987’s “House of Games” and 1998’s “The Spanish Prisoner” under his belt, his newest foray into the world of crime is a blast to watch.
The popular musical revival “Kiss Me Kate” arrives at Wharton Center today for eight performances that run through Sunday. While on Broadway, “Kiss Me Kate” won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
The East Lansing Film Festival will present a sneak preview of “Tape” tonight at 7:30 in 108B Wells Hall.
“Hamlet” is among the best plays ever written and deserves careful preparation and execution.
Making fun of people is risky business, and making fun of overweight people is even riskier. And making fun of them for a whole movie could be disastrous.