Students and guests took over the floor Thursday night in the first dance pit at the Steve Aoki concert. Electronic dance music, or EDM, artists Steve Aoki, Gareth Emery and R3hab lit up Breslin Center with multicolored strobe lights.
To supplement this year’s Homecoming “Creating Spartan Super Heroes” theme, comic creator and alumnus Geoff Johns has returned to campus as this year’s grand marshal. Johns has worked with film director and producer Richard Donner on movies including “Conspiracy Theory” written episodes of the TV show “Smallville” and co-produced the action movie “Green Lantern.”
This weekend is filled with Homecoming events, but there also are other things happening to grab the attention of students and community members. Friday Homecoming Parade MSU will be celebrating it’s annual homecoming parade with a Creating Spartan Superheroes theme.
Every morning at 3:30, bleary-eyed bakers put dozens of pink ribbon-shaped bagels in the oven as part of the final preparation before the bagels are distributed to Sparty’s locations, residential dining halls, the MSU Bakers’ farm stand and for individual orders. This October marks the fifth year Gwen’s Bagels have been a staple for the MSU community. The bagels, baked and sold by MSU Bakers, promote breast cancer awareness.
Game day in East Lansing is filled with tons of green and white, rows of? houses barbecuing and students and alumni playing games outside.
Graceful pirouettes spun into racy thrusts and gyrations as ’80s classics spilled from Wharton Center Tuesday, marking the 30th anniversary of the cinema classic with a rendition of the film, “Flashdance the Musical.” A trailblazer for many other 1980s dance films, “Flashdance” excited audiences, and the musical succeeded in reviving that excitement while still managing to add a few comical curves that kept the audience chuckling.
Members of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority are manicuring a new type of fundraiser to raise awareness about domestic violence — selling nail polish. During October, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Sigma Delta Tau is partnering with Jewish Women International, or JWI, in a national campaign to sell a $10 special edition Girls Achieve Grapeness!
Bar crawls are a fun college tradition, and with the creation of a new app, these adventures can be taken to a whole new level. Alumni Paul Recchia and Erik Sundberg have created Bar Crawl Bingo, an app that combines the amusement of bar crawls with the gambling game bingo. Recchia, who developed concept, said users put in the names of select bars, favorite drinks and challenges.
On Monday, 11 organizations began a weeklong process of creating a float worthy of winning over a panel of judges at Friday’s Homecoming Parade. Various organizations, including Spartans Fighting cancer, Lyman Briggs College and the MSU Black Alumni and Black Graduate Student Association, are working on the floats in Spartan Stadium that fit this year’s “Creating Spartan Super Heroes” theme.
To celebrate the life-changing impact Spartans have all over the world, MSU’s 2013 Homecoming will include superhuman touches to support this year’s superhero motif.
Some feet were bare, while others wore tennis shoes as they tapped the floor in sync with the beat of the fiddle and guitar Saturday night at the Central United Methodist Church in downtown Lansing.
A sea of plaid covered the Brenke Fish Ladder in Old Town this Friday as part of the third annual celebration of Plaidurday, the brainchild of MSU alumnus” Justin “Bugsy” Sailor. “It started in 2010 when a coworker made fun of me for wearing plaid flannels so often,” Sailor said.
The smell of beer and the sounds of Bavarian bands filled the streets of Old Town in Lansing this weekend for the 8th annual celebration of Old Town Oktoberfest. Hundreds of people, including many students, gathered in downtown Old Town Friday and Saturday to embrace the longstanding German tradition.
Looking for a study break? There are a few different events going on in both East Lansing and Lansing this week. Flashdance the Musical Tuesday, Oct.
In 1969, Ray Walsh began selling books out of the basement of his house on M.A.C. Avenue. Forty-four years later, the MSU alumnus still is providing a plethora of reading material for students and community members at Curious Book Shop on Grand River Avenue. Walsh said many people walk by the store without sparing a second glance because it appears to be so small. Although the book shop is only 18-feet wide, it is 100-feet deep and has three floors stuffed with books, comics, magazines and posters. “We have a lot more than people expect,” Walsh, 63, said.
The Second City, a legendary comedy theater from Chicago, presented Happily Ever Laughter last night in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, Theater in the lower level of Snyder Hall. The theater erupted in laughter and applause as the five members of the show pelvic thrusted their way on to the stage.
As the ‘80s hit “Maniac” played in Brody Hall, bystanders were caught off guard as members of the MSU Dance Club and Wharton Center Student Marketing Organization broke out in a “Flashdance” rendition. The neon-shirted flash mob wandered into Brody Wednesday and performed a choreographed routine to promote “Flashdance the Musical” coming to Wharton Center Oct.
The MSU men’s lacrosse club is making its presence known across the nation with a new video series featured on The Lacrosse Network, a YouTube channel that covers the sport of lacrosse. The web series, “The Program: Fall Ball,” was released Tuesday on the network.
Chicago’s legendary comedy show, The Second City, will be performing Oct.
An eclectic mix of dances embodying contemporary grace, interpretive sensuality and energetic hip-hop filled the stage Tuesday at Wharton Center to kick-off the 2013 “So You Think You Can Dance” tour. The 11-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning show started its 42-city tour with a sold out performance, which is a big deal for the Wharton Center to host, said Tara Peplowski, marketing manager for Wharton Center. “It’s very exciting to have that caliber of dance performance on our stage that has received national exposure,” Peplowski said. The top 10 finalists of season 10 took to the stage and provided the audience with season favorites and new dance routines that included a bicycle number, varying forms of dance and music by Robin Thicke and Beyonce. The season 10 tour line-up included Aaron Turner, Hayley Erbert, Jasmine Harper, Jenna Johnson, Makenzie Dustman, Nico Greetham, Paul Karmiryan, Tucker Knox and season winners DuShaunt “Fik-shun” Stegall and Amy Yakima. Yakima, of Northville, Mich., was excited to be back in her native state, and said winning the season and being on tour is a dream come true. “I would be home right now taking dance lessons — now I’m out on tour,” Yakima said.