Boston Public’s Vice Principal Scott Guber is checking in on MSU students this weekend.Anthony Heald, who plays Guber in the Fox Television’s classroom drama, will be the grand marshal in tonight’s Homecoming parade.“I always thought that I would want to come back,” the 1970 graduate said.
MARINA IONESCU For The State News The MSU Jazz Band I will present its season-opening concert, “The Blues,” at 7:30 p.m.
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.
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.
Denzel is good. Denzel is great. Denzel can carry almost any movie. So, what hasn’t Denzel done?
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.
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.
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.
Ludacris will visit the MSU Auditorium for a Homecoming kick off concert Thursday at around 7:30 p.m.
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.
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.
Lansing - Music, art and beer fans braved cold winds and rain to visit Octoberfest 2001.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mark Gross has fond memories of the song “Gimme Shelter” by the Rolling Stones. When Gross was a guest for the first time on “The Tonight Show,” that was the song the Rolling Stones jammed. “It was the greatest experience I could ever ask for,” he said.
If you can’t make it to The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago this weekend, you can still enjoy a bit of its exhibition this weekend at Saper Galleries, 433 Albert Ave.Fifty reproductions from John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” will be on display Sunday at the gallery in downtown East Lansing.“What’s wonderful is that the 50 best are here and you don’t have to go to the Chicago Field Museum or New York to see them,” gallery owner and 1973 MSU graduate Roy Saper said.
“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.
All WeekendMichigan artists will exhibit their work at the Lansing Art Gallery, 425 S.