Orgy Vapor Transmission (Reprise Records) If you want to revive those old feelings of teen angst, then Orgy’s new album, “Vapor Transmission,” is your guide to bitterness.
England, that foggy place somewhere far across the great, wide ocean has been sending its funny-talking pop culture exports this way for many a year.No harm in that, we drown them in our movies and music much more than any country does to us.
Getting a divorce is no laughing matter, but The Riverwalk Theatre’s production of “Let’s Get a Divorce” is just that.A comedic tale of divorce set in 19th-century France, “Let’s Get a Divorce” shows the lighter side of divorce and the importance of romance in marriage.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Saturday Night Live is looking back on its illustrious past.
Various artists Music from the Motion Picture The Ladies ManDreamWorks Records “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels doesn’t seem to understand the problem of turning a five-minute skit into a full-length film.
Music, craft items, food, beer and people came together this weekend in Lansing’s Old Town for Octoberfest.More than 14 bands from swing to ’70s classic rock came out to play to the crowds on Saturday and Sunday.
A bit of Cuban culture has found its way into the MSU Libraries.The library’s Special Collections division received 70 books from a Cuban book artist collective earlier this year.
Black cats, broken mirrors, heads-down pennies - all superstitions to be avoided, but especially today, Friday the 13th. “There are so many (superstitions),” said Gary Hoppenstand, a professor of American Thought and Language.
Friday Fishbone with Primitive Reason and Soot will be at the Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward Ave.
I can remember in third grade, just before the MSU-University of Michigan football game, being exposed to the still-growing rivalry between the two schools.
There is a certain quirky eerieness about today, Friday the 13th. Strange superstitions and an overall scary aura surround every Friday the 13th, but especially this one, in October, just a few weeks before Halloween. Today, much like Halloween, has developed a plethora of creepy superstitions.
Before the winter weather comes to stay, Old Town Lansing is giving you your “Last Chance to Rock” in the streets. Fourteen local bands, 15 vendors and a projected 15,000 to 20,000 people will invade Turner Street in Old Town Lansing this weekend for the seventh annual Old Town Octoberfest.
Old Town Lansing’s Octoberfest drew an estimated 20,000 people last year. They came for music, food, beer and just a general good time.Those who come for the music this year will be there for a long list of local acts.
Two years ago, Annie Scott turned her teeth orange. The hospitality business senior wasn’t demonstrating her holiday spirit. She had eaten too many Halloween Oreos. “I started eating them and I was like, ‘Wow, these are really good,’ and 20 minutes later, I smiled at someone and my teeth were orange,” she said. The orange cookies are part of a growing list of specialty foods only available during the Halloween season.
Divorce is a controversial social issue that many people take seriously. In light of that, Riverwalk Theatre is producing the comedy “Let’s Get a Divorce.” Set in France during the late 19th century, the play depicts how a traditional society copes with the idea of divorce. “It’s about a society based on smoke and mirrors.
When nostalgic movies about the 1990s and the ’00s come out in another decade, cassette tapes may be something for teenagers of the future to laugh at.
The School of Music’s newest cello professor, Suren Bagratuni, is acclimating to East Lansing.“I love it here,” Bagratuni said.
In 1992, director Greg Glienna made a very low-budget short film about a young man’s tragic introduction to his girlfriend’s parents.
Face Face (Gabriel Records) The guy or the girl in the front with the microphone is invariably the focus of any band.
Meat Puppets Golden Lies (Breaking Records) Arizona’s Meat Puppets continue to throw out albums in their careerlong, and probably frustrating, flirtation with the mainstream. In the early ’90s they hit it big with their single “Backwater” and the late, great Kurt Cobain had them on Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” special to play a few of their tunes.