Unlike the costume drama it appears to be, “Quills” is decidedly free of the lavish sets and pretentious history lessons that grind other period pieces like it to a screeching halt.
Can’t stop those teeth from grinding when thinking about that half-eaten box of chocolate grandma sent for Christmas?
Friday The MSU Philharmonic Orchestra and Campus Orchestra perform at 8 p.m. in the Fairchild Theatre in the Auditorium.
MSU staff member Patricia Johannes practices ringing the bells on the carillon Thursday in Beaumont Tower.
He sits on a large chair, dressed lavishly from head to toe, in a small castle topped with golden turrets.He doesn’t rule a country.
Jon Styf’s life changed two years ago when his best friend, Western Michigan University student Taylor Pierce, was diagnosed with leukemia.“That was a really important event in my life and I learned a lot about myself from it,” the journalism sophomore said.
“Traffic,” a contemporary thriller set in the world of drug trafficking and enforcement, paints a bleak picture of the current state of the war on drugs and its casualties.Through a series of interrelated stories, the film tackles the world of drug trade as seen through the eyes of an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency officer, a Mexican policeman, an increasingly drug-addicted teenager and a pampered wife set to take over her husband’s drug empire.“I think what’s interesting is the scope of (the movie) - it’s vast,” said Emmy-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan.And “Traffic” just may be the feel-good drug movie of the holiday season, the stoner comedy “Dude, Where’s my Car?” notwithstanding.That’s what Gaghan said of the one to two minutes of cheer in the otherwise violent and intense movie.Gaghan went all around the country to research the story, he said in a telephone interview Wednesday from New York City, where the film was having a premiere.
Fusing God with technology is only one theme of the hit Broadway musical “Godspell,” which brings a spirited and technologically enhanced cast to the stage. The show opens Tuesday at Wharton Center’s Great Hall.
MSU alumna Kristen Plater wanted to take a break from the Boston music scene to visit East Lansing for a couple of weeks.
Movies are constantly being split into categories and genres, be it horror, comedy, drama or action.
Although “Communicating Doors” has a complicated plot, it isn’t hard to enjoy this fast-paced, murderous comedy that involves everything from love to greed.The story, set in 2014, begins as an elderly and wealthy attorney, Reece, played by English senior Michael Scott Hunter, requests the aid of a Sexual Services Specialist, or a 3S, named Poopay.
Jeremy Meadows wanted to connect with a growing web of friends with sites on the Internet. “I knew a lot of people that had them and I wanted to jump on the bandwagon, too,” said the English graduate student, who created www.msu.edu/~meadows7 in 1996. In the past four years, Meadows has seen the number of student Web sites rapidly branch out. “There are definitely a lot more Web sites since I started college,” he said. The Internet “really took off” during the 1995-1996 school year, said Dave Krauss, a senior specialist in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences who began teaching over the Internet with MSU’s first Virtual University course in fall 1996. Since then, constructing Web sites has become part of the curriculum for classes such as Computer Science 101 and sections of American Thought and Language.
For all the people out there who have a passion for movies and at least halfway consider themselves to be a critic of some sort, I have some advice for you: Stay exactly the way you are now.
Everclear Songs From An American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time For A Bad Attitude (Capitol Records) When Art Alexakis of Everclear promised his band’s latest album, “Songs From An American Movie Volume Two: Good Time For a Bad Attitude,” would present a harder and louder side of the band, some fans might have learned how to smile. Alexakis gave the impression that the album would be something different, something experimental.
Enon Believo! (SeeThru Broadcasting) For most bands or groups, there is a general classification that adheres to the kind of music they produce.
MSU’s TV sitcom, “The Show,” taped its 35th episode Saturday in front of a live studio audience. In its 12th season, the comedy dissects life on MSU’s campus.
School of Music undergraduate students Eric Knechtges and Sean Spicer will premiere their compositions at 7:30 tonight in Wharton Center’s Great Hall. The MSU Symphony Band will perform both works.
ANN ARBOR - Don’t tell the U.S. Air Force, but aliens docked their spaceship on human soil Sunday night. The vaporized human molecules that make up science-rock outfit Man or Astro-man?
According to Billboard magazine, acclaimed singer/songwriter/producer Richard Marx is back at the top of the charts with the No.
From belly sculptures to figure drawings and rain installations, the Apartment Art Sale has it all.The Art Apartment, 210 Abbott Road, Suite 18, is holding its end-of-the-season sale, titled “Apartment Art: Mementos of the First Year.”The sale, which started Sunday and will continue on Dec.