There are a lot of things that can be said about theater, but an important factor of the theatrical experience that is often overlooked is the audience.
Student renters scored a small victory midnight on Tuesday when the moratorium on banning new rental licenses in East Lansing expired without renewal.
Trip-hop is the cashmere of the music business. Its delectable sound is formed by multiple drum loops used as the base of the music, computer-programmed ethereal effects applied over the drums and enchanting, airy female vocals to give the music a soothing, drug-induced vibe.
An 18-year-old Lansing man accused of holding a Red Robin employee hostage and firing eight shots in the Delta Township restaurant faces 16 charges and the possibility of life in prison, according to the Eaton County Prosecutor. Levon Tarele Pate was pulled over by the Michigan State Police fugitive team on Sunday because he was wanted for questioning in the double homicide of two Lansing-area women, Eaton County Sheriff Rick Jones said. Cousins Elizabeth "Betsy" Lowe, 24, and Brandy Lowe, 21, were found shot the morning of Oct.
After a split this past weekend with St. Lawrence and New Hampshire, the No. 9 MSU hockey team will travel to Marquette to play Northern Michigan. An oddity of the Wildcats' home, the Berry Events Center, is that it hosts an Olympic-sized ice sheet.
All over East Lansing, baseball fans and non-baseball fans gathered around TV sets as the deciding game in a heated battle between two East Coast baseball clubs captured their eyes and hearts. The New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox rivalry can be that engrossing, some said. "It's the ultimate rivalry," said Mike McCullough, a computer science and engineering junior, on Wednesday night as he and two friends sat watching the game at Buffalo Wild Wings, 360 Albert Ave.
For most football teams, there is an air of judgment that comes with the bye week. It can be bad for a team on a winning streak because the time off can potentially erode that positive momentum.
Right after college Bob Alexander joined the Peace Corps, helped breed chickens in south India and spent his free time reading about American government. "As a consequence, I really learned more about the United States by being out of the country," he said.
The teen television sitcom "Saved by the Bell" lives on in the hearts of many through an endless stream of reruns, and one character's attempt to make people laugh about it.
Two years after an MSU student died while crossing Chandler Road, a crosswalk lies near the site she was struck.
I am writing in response to John O'Connor's column ("Dems made family members fair game in presidential election" SN 10/19). It's surprising to see someone who has such strong political opinions, yet is so breathtakingly ignorant of even recent political history.
With its 12th place finish at the Pre-NCAA Invitational this past weekend, the MSU men's cross country team has found itself in the national rankings, as the Spartans sit at No.
Editor's note: This is the third of four stories previewing the candidates for the 8th District of the U.S.
It didn't have anything to do with clowns, but "A Thousand Clowns" received few laughs Saturday at Riverwalk Theatre, 228 Museum Drive in Lansing. The theater's second production for the season was somewhat entertaining, but all in all was an average play performed with average acting. The story stars Murray, an unemployed TV writer in New York City who has too much time on his hands.
Sweetest Day or Valentine's Day be damned. Under no circumstances will I ever give flowers to a woman.
Each new basketball season is an opportunity for unproven players - young and old - to rise up, play more minutes and have a greater impact. This season, sophomore power forward Delco Rowley and sophomore center Drew Naymick are prime candidates to fill that role in the Spartans' frontcourt. And with an eager, talented batch of freshmen big men new on campus this season, Rowley and Naymick must step up while the opening is there. "I'm looking forward to those two coming in and stepping up and playing in these games because I've told them that this is the time to do it," junior center Paul Davis said.
Editor's note: This is the second of nine stories previewing the candidates for the MSU Board of Trustees. It took Mike Miller 25 years to graduate from MSU.
A visit from two Mexican coffee farmers Tuesday helped some MSU students explain why it's important to make fair trade coffee available in campus cafeterias. The speakers, Jose Vasquez, president of the Las Abejas Civil Society, and Macario Arias Gomez, president of the Maya Vinic Coffee Cooperative, which is part of the society, spoke of hardships they faced growing coffee beans in Chiapas, Mexico before organizing into cooperatives and selling to fair trade companies in the United States, Canada, Japan and Switzerland. "We are organizing as a cooperative so that we can organize and work toward a better life," Vasquez said. In the mid-'90s, the Mexican government wanted to take the coffee farmers' communal land and sell it to private oil and timber companies, but the farmers peacefully protested.
Five community petitions to limit rental housing in East Lansing neighborhoods were introduced and referred to the East Lansing Planning Commission at Tuesday's City Council meeting. Through an ordinance approved by the council in April, residents have the power to create "overlay districts" through the petitions.