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Film follows common trend
I can’t give half a point for these reviews. I don’t know exactly why, I just can’t.
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Traditional recital set to pay tribute to lives lost in 9-11
The Homecoming recital this year will take a break from the traditional Homecoming songs to pay tribute to those who died in the Sept.
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Rocky Horror cast prepares for weekend shows
It’s not quite Halloween, but if you need to dress up anyway, think about heading over to Club Paradise, to see a shadow cast of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”Much like the student production on campus last week, this shadow cast will involve actors playing along with the movie, as it shows in the background.The difference is that this version has been in the works a little longer and has a bigger budget.
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Parading around
“Originally we wanted to build Sparty in the place of Atlas, but we used the football player instead,” explained SAF co-director and anthropology junior Shannon Skibinski.
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Jazz band to perform The Blues
MARINA IONESCU For The State News The MSU Jazz Band I will present its season-opening concert, “The Blues,” at 7:30 p.m.
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Thrifty Threads
Perhaps the college poorhouse paralyzes your wallet, then disengages your ability to keep up with a trend of the month - or at least buy that snazzy pair of New Balances.
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Broadway classic hits Wharton
Almost every character, save the ensemble, in “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” has appeared on Broadway - except the star, Ann-Margret. The play opened Tuesday night at Wharton Center and continues through Sunday. Reading the biographies in the program is like reading a Broadway playbill - the credits are impressive.
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Denzel good, movie bad
Denzel is good. Denzel is great. Denzel can carry almost any movie. So, what hasn’t Denzel done?
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American Hi-Fi rocks campus with bare rock n roll
It was a night of drummers and ex-drummers as Boston-based rockers American Hi-Fi performed for a crowd of about 400 at the Fairchild Theatre Monday night. In support of its self-titled debut effort, the band performed many of its radio hits including “Flavor of the Weak” and “Fool for You.” It’s too bad American Hi-Fi didn’t get as good as a response as it deserved.
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Devil is cool, but not red hot
They sound like Lit. They’re touring with Lit. They’re signed to Lit’s own RCA-distributed Dirty Martini label. They look like Sum 41 or a PG-13-rated Rancid. Go figure. Handsome Devil is riding the recent pop-punk wave like a Sum 41 or Blink 182.
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Athenaeum album is poor mans Eve 6
Like Eve 6? Nope me either, so you might as well quit reading. However, if you are one of those Eve 6 faithful, you may want to read on. Way back in 1998 Eve 6 released its self-titled debut and helped redefine an entire genre in the business - bad music. But if you were one of the many who rushed out on impulse to pick up Eve 6’s CDs, you will probably like Athenaeum - one of the worst clones of crappy mainstream music that I have heard in quite some time. It cannot be helped if your voice sounds like someone else’s.
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American Hi-Fi to rock Fairchild
Rick Pniewski appreciates good old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll bands - which is why he’s excited about American Hi-Fi performing at the Fairchild Theatre tonight. “It’s just good basic rock ’n’ roll,” said Pniewski, manager of CD Warehouse, 228 Abbott Road.
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Musicians to perform free show tonight
Latin American musicians Los Folkloristas will perform for free at 8 p.m. tonight at the Music Building Auditorium.Its mission, “to preserve and record the traditional music of Mexico and Latin America,” takes it across the globe, as it has been doing for 35 years.“It’s fantastic what they do,” said Manuel Chavez, associate director of the department of Latin American & Caribbean Studies.
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Rapper Ludacris to kick off Homecoming at auditorium
Ludacris will visit the MSU Auditorium for a Homecoming kick off concert Thursday at around 7:30 p.m.
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Theater expert visits U
Students in the Department of Theatre are getting lessons from an expert this week, and the rest of the university is invited to join in.Stan Brown, a voice and acting professor visiting from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, will speak to and with students at 5 p.m.
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Joy Ride combines horror and thrills
Horror and thrill fans finally have a movie worth heading to the theater for. After a disastrous year for the genre (“Jeepers Creepers,” “Soul Survivors”) “Joy Ride” provides all the chills and thrills you could hope for.
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Octoberfest hits Lansing
Lansing - Music, art and beer fans braved cold winds and rain to visit Octoberfest 2001.
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Professor displays creations
Irving Zane Taran’s retrospective selection of art is enjoying its last exhibit at Hankins Gallery.Taran’s paintings from the 1960s and 1970s are slowly being sold, so when the exhibit ends in mid-November, his early work will be unavailable for display.“We won’t do a show that traverses this much time and space again,” he said.What remains for this exhibition are selections that in 1997 hung in the walls of the Midland Center for the Arts along with a Mark Rothko exhibit.Part of his success, he says, can be attributed to the atmosphere of East Lansing and MSU.“This is my community,” he said.
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Actors have positive attitude about latest movie release
A pair of brothers and a friend play a prank on a lonely trucker and pay the price.That’s the basic plot of what is expected to be one of this weekend’s big money-makers, “Joy Ride,” starring Paul Walker Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski.
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Big-wigs killed the independent rock-star
“House of GVSB” by genius rock band Girls Against Boys definitely ranks in my top 10 favorite records of all time. With a variety of amazing albums under its belt on Chicago-based independent label Touch and Go Records, Geffen Records called and showed some interest in signing it. GVSB was in a bind.