Well, it takes a charismatic front person with an amazing set of pipes, some dark lyrics and some punk- and hard rock-influenced guitar, heavy bass and hard-hitting drum beats.
After nearly two decades on the block, John Novak said he has witnessed many a small business' rise and fall on Grand River Avenue. Novak reopened Wazoo Records, 619 E.
A local tanning salon was robbed Friday, leaving police looking for two suspects who might have been armed at the time of the robbery. A man and a woman entered B-Tan, 233 E.
There is no doubt that before John Sinclair took the stage at Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St.
Despite a record-setting performance from its star pitcher, the MSU softball team endured a rocky start to its Big Ten season this past weekend. Two losses in a doubleheader at Iowa on Sunday capped a four-game road trip for the Spartans (19-13 overall, 1-3 Big Ten). Before falling to the Hawkeyes (22-15, 4-0), MSU split a pair of games at Illinois, losing, 7-1, in its Big Ten opener on Friday and winning, 2-0, on Saturday.
Bent wheels, worn shocks and damaged frames are common complaints at Jerry's Automotive in Lansing this time of year. Michigan's rough roads create 10 to 15 percent of the shop's auto repair and maintenance business, said Roger Mathews, manager of the store, located at 5544 S.
A global advertising expert will give a guest lecture this week for a one-credit course in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
MSU police received reports of an armed robbery in the Brody Complex on Sunday evening, but upon further investigation, officers discovered it was a larceny. MSU police Sgt.
Wow. Congratulations, Erin Ruth, for doing research and being on your way to receiving a degree in "nutritional science." Now let me bring Ruth into the real world.
"One small step for Greek Life...One giant leap in the right direction." Banners emblazoned with the 2004 Greek Week slogan hung below the cover of a tent while members of fraternity and sorority teams walked laps during the second annual Relay for Life. The relay, along with other kick-off events, was held Friday at Munn Field.
The Third Noble Truth of Buddhist principle tells us that suffering can be overcome, that true happiness and full contentment are not only possible, but available to those who seek it. Buddhist philosophy also tells us that life itself is suffering, and that inevitable suffering is the result of human nature, without any good or evil undertones and regardless of your level of happiness.
Maverick had Goose. Bird had McHale. Haim had Feldman. But who will love John Kerry? Over the weekend, America's favorite monotonous senatorial snowboarder announced the heat is on to select his running mate sometime within the next eight weeks.
The Kresge Art Museum will add a new painting to its Figurative Expressionism Collection Initiative with the help of a grant from The Judith Rothschild Foundation. The work, "Two Figures, Two Heads" by Louis Finkelstein, was purchased with the $10,000 grant, and although it is not housed in the museum, the work will be made available for the next Figurative Expressionism exhibit. The Figurative Expressionist works are those with the figure kept in the work while moving toward abstract expression. Finkelstein, who created the work in 1998, studied painting at The Cooper Union, The Art Students League of New York and the Brooklyn Museum School.
Members of the MSU Rube Goldberg Machine Team spent more than four months tinkering with wires and mousetraps to get their contraption ready for the national competition held Saturday at Purdue University.
As windows and doors are cracked open for the first time to let the spring air in, members of MSU's undergraduate student government are looking at making April "Lock Your Door!
When Bill Brooks and Katie Neddermeyer swim, they talk about movies, music and the latest shows on television. The two go to movies at Wells Hall every once in a while on the weekend, and for Neddermeyer's 21st birthday, Brooks bought her margaritas at the Texas Steakhouse Saloon in Lansing. Neither dreamed such a close friendship would come on the other side of a newspaper ad.
Friday night, it was curtains for Don "Big Jim" Ravioli. Less than an hour into a gala celebrating the grand opening of a friend's speakeasy, the mob boss was brutally gunned down in front of gangsters, gamblers and scantily clad harlots. The lights flickered out seconds before the shooting and, despite a broken champagne bottle near Big Jim's bullet-ridden body, no other evidence remained.
Andrew Goetz paints a picture of John Kerry as a committed supporter of the armed forces "Kerry's campaign jump-started by veteran's Vietnam rescue" (SN 3/31), but Kerry's actions immediately following his service and voting record in the Senate say otherwise. Kerry, while under oath, tossed out wild and unfounded accusations of war crimes in Vietnam before a Senate committee in 1971.
In response to the front page article "Caught in the middle" (SN 3/31), I find it disturbing that MSU students are going to the West Bank to act as human shields for homicide bombers.
Erin McLaughlin Special for The State News While most of MSU's campus lay still and freezing from the bitter snow, a warm and tropical atmosphere lingered in the Union on Saturday night.