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MGMT headlines fifth day of Common Ground

Bright colors, glow in the dark accessories and smiling face were added to the electric feel on day five of the Lansing Common Ground music festival. MGMT attracted the largest crowd of the night but with three stages, festival-goers had the option to see ten other bands such as Awolnatiom, Twenty One Pilots, and Foxy Shazam.

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Little Big Town carries country themed night at Common Ground Music Festival

The fourth night of the Common Ground Music Festival boasted the biggest crowd yet, in addition to a genre-redefining act. Prepared for a rock-oriented night, the crowd, dressed consistently in cowboy hats and boots, jean shorts and camouflage caps, bounced beach balls, threw their hands up and filled Adado-Riverfront Park. “You see different people every night, and there’s a different feel,” Williamston resident Erica Pincumbe said.

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Slash Bash

Old or young, the third day of the Common Ground Music Festival attracted music lovers of all ages with a lineup featuring legendary guitarist Slash and local up-and-coming metal bands.

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Common Ground to feature teen rock bands

Amidst the Common Ground Music Festival excitement this week, MSU Community Music School Rock Camp has assembled eight talented teenaged bands that will be “rocking out” among the big names in music at Adado Riverfront Park in Lansing on Saturday.

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Here Come the Mummies highlight unique styles at Common Ground's second night

No matter if you’re a Sheepdog or a Mummy, rain wasn’t going to stop the performances Tuesday night. After a couple of thundershowers in the early evening, the clouds lightened up — allowing the bands to put on a show for everyone who was brave enough to stick out unpleasant weather at Common Ground Music Festival’s second day.

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Lansing prepares for Fourth of July fireworks, parade

Every year the city of Lansing has a July 4th celebration including a parade, live music and fireworks.

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Bike tour explores modern architecture in E.L.

Residents from Greater Lansing pedaled their way through modernistic architecture of the 1940s and ‘50s with the East Lansing Modern Bicycle Tour on June 29. The tour was sponsored by Tri-County Bicycle Association (TCBA), the MSU Museum and the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council. The tour highlighted buildings like the East Lansing Public Library and residential homes built after World War II, which tour guide Adrianna Jordan said were influenced by modern architecture giants such as Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Loos and Walter Gropius.

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MSU hosts Rock Camp for teenagers

MSU Community Music School’s, or CMS, “Rock Camp” will be giving teens, ages 11-18, the ultimate gig: a chance to perform among the big names at the Common Ground Music Festival on July 13. Rock Camp is a weeklong summer camp, held from July 8-13, that will provide students with training from a band that has toured nationally: The Outer Vibe.

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Covering All The Bases

When morning breaks over the ball field of Kircher-Municipal Park, one man stands armed with an arsenal of equipment, ready to prepare the nearly endlessly used field for another day’s punishment.

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Facetime: Adam Savage

Whether they’re strapping JATO rockets to a 1967 Chevy or using 800 pounds of ANFO to blow up a cement truck, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have been approaching science in a not so conventional way for a decade on the Emmy-nominated Discovery series “MythBusters.” On June 22, the inquisitive co-hosts will be blazing mind-twisting experiments live with their “Behind the Myths” tour at Wharton Center. For the past 20 years, Savage and Hyneman have worked alongside one another doing special effects for big-time blockbusters such as “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” and “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones” and “The Matrix” trilogy.