NEW YORK - Jennifer Lopez is quickly becoming the queen of all media. Lopez’s romantic comedy, “The Wedding Planner,” debuted at the top of the box office this week, and now her new album, “J.
MSU’s Fairchild Theater will host “25 Alive!,” a show by the Lansing-based professional modern dance company, Happendance, this Friday through Sunday.And its dancers say the show is more than just steps, turns and modern movement.“My favorite piece is ‘Shards,’” said Kelly Harris, a no-preference sophomore and member of Happendance since last year.
Chrissie Gass doesn’t mind a little polygamy, as long as it pays off. In fact, it’s a normal practice in her world.
Water, snow, wading cows and a lot of woodlands now grace the walls of Kresge Art Museum. They’re painted, of course, in landscape portraits of the 19th century, and will be there until March 18 in Kresge’s “Masterpieces of 19th-Century American Painting: From the Simple to the Sublime.” “I saw one museum patron laying on his back on the floor, looking at a painting,” Kresge curator April Kingsley said.
Does anyone else think MTV really, really sucks?I have increasingly noticed the awards-show reruns, ’N Sync tributes and old “Road Rules” episodes are the only programs ever on anymore.I remember way back in the day, when I was in elementary and middle school, when actual music videos were still played.
Every few years Abrams Planetarium breaks from its usual astrological shows and does something a bit more cosmological. “The Last Question” is just that show.
NEW YORK - A former corrections officer who moonlighted as a bodyguard for Sean “Puffy” Combs testified Wednesday that he had never once seen the rap impresario carrying a weapon. Prosecution witness Leonard Curtis Howard said he would never have associated himself with Combs if the defendant had carried a firearm. “If he is going to carry an illegal firearm, there is no reason for me to be there,” Howard said under cross-examination.
The Dingees The Crucial Conspiracy (Tooth and Nail Records) Attention punk rockers - not punk rock posers - the real punk rockers: Shell out some hard-earned cash and pick up the latest piece of punk rock perfection by The Dingees. The Orange County ska-punk rockers, who grew out of a summer side project in 1996 with some members of The Supertones, have turned into one of the best true ska-punk rock bands out there. The album opens with the high-strung Clash-influenced “Spray Paint (We Won’t Carry Over)” and takes the listener on a journey of many different artistic influences including Rancid, Operation Ivy and Green Day - with a touch of the Ramones, Black Flag and The Specials. The political content is found in virtually every song including “Middleman:” “Some Pharisee elitist got you mocking monkey see, your heart ain’t out in person seems it’ll probably never be, you missed the point pretty close to perfect, when you’re backbiting me.” “Summer” is a classic feel-good rock song with a generous array of horns similar to something The Supertones would kick out, while “Dear Sister, Dear Brother” and “We Rot The Voodoo” both scream Bob Marley. “Christina Fight Back” is an anthem about young women fighting against eating disorders and “Ronnie Raygun” is an intense and quick-driven angry song that sounds like it was recorded on a regular tape deck in someone’s garage.
Bumpus Stereoscope (Kaprow Records) Bring on the ruckus - it’s time to jam to Bumpus! Like a sequel to a movie, it is usually difficult to make a follow-up to an album that has as much impact as the original.
Don’t get the wrong idea. Any movie with cheerleaders robbing a bank, persistent tampon jokes and a Conan O’Brien running gag is probably going to be bad. But “Sugar & Spice” is charming, in a charmless sort of way.
LOS ANGELES - Destiny’s Child, Dolly Parton and ’N Sync have been added to the list of performers on Grammy night.
Will somebody please explain to me why people are so dumb?A 13-year-old Connecticut boy was hospitalized Saturday with second- and third-degree burns after allowing himself to be lit on fire.Police reported the boy - with help from a friend - poured gasoline on his feet and legs and had his friend ignite the flames.
Chicago-based hipsters “Bumpus” can’t get enough of East Lansing. After a high-energy performance last November at Rick’s American Cafe, 224 Abbott Road, the group is returning to the venue Wednesday to hold its CD release party at 10 p.m.
By DAVID BAUDERThe Associated PressNEW YORK - Comedy Central has ordered producers of an upcoming comedy series about the first family to remove all references to President Bush’s twin daughters.The series, by “South Park” producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, had attracted notoriety when a proposed script leaked out with the 19-year-old girls, Jenna and Barbara, portrayed as incestuous lesbian lovers.Parker and Stone had already distanced themselves from that idea, but Comedy Central executives - who had received many complaints - told them this week the girls could not be included in their series at all.“We aren’t comfortable with them being in the show,” Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said on Friday.
Japanese film director Masato Harada has been making and translating movies since the late 1970s, but that doesn’t stop comparisons to newer filmmakers. “He’s one of the new-wave cinema directors in Japan - compared to (Quentin) Tarantino,” said Michael Lewis, director of the Asian Studies Center and an MSU professor of history.
Like the Hatfields and McCoys, Montagues and Capulets, there are the Felixes and the
LOS ANGELES - Former “News Radio” actor Andy Dick has complied with drug rehabilitation terms under a program that could clear his record of cocaine and marijuana possession. A judge reviewed a progress report Friday and said the actor appeared to be in compliance with court-ordered treatment. He had been ordered to undergo a two-year drug diversion program after pleading guilty to charges of cocaine and marijuana possession and possession of a smoking device. If he completes the program successfully, he could be cleared of charges. “I feel fine.
It’s a nice day for a “Blood Wedding.”At least the student cast of the play by Frederico Garcia Lorca think so.
Those who visit “Unrelated Segments,” an exhibit at the Kresge Art Center, are “bound to be captured by something,” said MSU art graduate student Harry Williams, whose work is among those being exhibited. The artwork on display ranges from stone carvings and abstract paintings to activated machines. April Liu, a sculptor for the past three years, said since most exhibits at Kresge show work done by undergraduate art students, “Unrelated Segments” may be the only show this year on campus to feature graduate artwork.
Friday: DJ AJ will spin house and trance at Troppo, 213 Ann St. He takes the stage at 10 p.m.