If there is ever one grand assumption I will make as film reporter, it's that everyone likes movies. Horror, romance, drama, comedy, historical pieces, adaptations of literature and theater, human interest, foreign and so on -the expanse of genres ensures that everyone will be left with something to chew on.
Other than the muffled music emanating from its small storefront after dark, there isn't much that makes Magdalena's Tea House stand out from the other shops and boutiques lining Michigan Avenue near Clemens Street in Lansing.
The No. 9 MSU women's basketball team will continue its short three-game home stand when Wisconsin comes to Breslin Center at 7 p.m.
Fixing the budget deficit, creating new jobs, and improving health care and the economy were the biggest topics on the minds of local representatives as they started the 2005-06 legislative session on Wednesday. Members of the Michigan Senate and House of Representatives were sworn in for the 93rd session, continuing the job of Sen.
In response to the State News' request that the United States help the conflict in Sudan, "Peace at last?" (SN 1/11), it appears evident that the State News editorial board is made up of journalism majors, not history majors. How exactly will the United States help Sudan?
There are five theater performances in the local area to start off the first weekend back to school. "A Slight Exaggeration" Written by: Robert J.
The Ingham County Parks Department will hold free activities on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Burchfield Park will have free entrance into the park and free cross county ski rentals.
MSU gymnast Sarah Alexander was named a Big Ten Co-Gymnast of the Week with Minnesota's Carolyn Yernberg on Wednesday. Still recovering from shoulder surgery, the junior tri-captain earned the Spartan Invitational's all-around title Friday with a score of 39.150 and helped MSU take first place in the team competition.
A year ago, if you were looking for good chicken within a reasonable vicinity of campus, your options were limited. The wingdings in dorm cafeterias have that odd oxymoron factor - they're greasy on the outside and dry as hell on the inside.
While senior citizens in Charlotte are making crafts and baked goods, local businesses and places of worship are urging others to donate money - and it's all for the same cause. Area residents and businesses still are contributing to the hundreds of millions of dollars the United States has sent to victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia and southern Africa. Members of the Islamic Center of Greater Lansing, 920 S.
The MEAP, for high school students at least, is no more. Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a bill Jan.
This letter is in response to the student writing "Retribution will not right past wrongs" (SN 1/11). Whether or not a rapist should be punished is by far one of the stupidest comments I have ever read.
The beat-up van bumbled over the cultivated soil as we drove away from the dairy farm toward the forest. My friend, John, parked near a thicket skirting the denser wood.
Students taking a Catholic theology course at a local church can receive three MSU credits this semester.
It wasn't meant to happen, but it did. You are not quite sure what to do next. It's hard enough just to get over the shock and confusion.
The East Lansing City Council tossed around the idea of shortening the time a rental overlay district can remain untouched by new zoning petitions at Tuesday's work session. Questions from residents about changing the "no tamper" duration at the Jan.
Every once and a while, a film comes out that attempts to recreate the worst events in human history - events that cannot ever be adequately described, because words and pictures can never do justice to real experiences.
Quentin Makowski smokes a carton of cigarettes each week. The Lapeer native calls himself "an avid smoker" and even wrote a paper in high school defending the habit.
In response to Matt Bishop's column "Pistons hurting due to loss of Mehmet Okur" (SN 1/11), the only thing more asinine than Okur only playing "3.3 more minutes per game than he did during his rookie campaign" is the assertion that the Pistons are struggling because of the loss of a man relegated to mop-up duty during the championship season. With Okur playing a minuscule role in the Pistons' playoff march to the title, a point that Bishop asserts several times, how can the blame for this year's lackluster showing be blamed on Okur's absence?