Wharton Center will host a “wild, wide mix” of musical genres Thursday night when the Turtle Island String Quartet performs, violist Danny Seidenberg said. The ensemble, which plays at 7:30 p.m., mixes an array of styles with classical, the traditional chamber music fare. “It ranges from folk to bluegrass to R&B,” Wharton spokesman Bob Hoffman said.
Your Sept. 27 editorial “Out of Ammo” on the failure of the anti-concealed weapon movement in Michigan was poorly reasoned and ill-informed.
In honor of October being Filipino History Month, the Philippine American Student Society sponsored a celebration Tuesday at the rock on Farm Lane to educate students and provide information about the organization.The group painted the rock in the afternoon to commemorate the first-time event.
Suzanne Vega Songs in Red and Gray (A&M Records) Suzanne Vega has been making records since 1985.
I am writing to state my complete disgust with Ted Rall’s political comic “The Making of the Resident - 2001” published in The State News on Oct 1.
Patrons of local watering holes are putting their money where their mouth is.This week, local bars within the Responsible Hospitality Council are contributing money from cover charges and percentages of sales for to aid in relief for the Sept.
When Michigan’s and MSU’s volleyball teams square off at 7 p.m. tonight at Michigan’s Cliff Keen Arena, it will be for more than in-state bragging rights.
Events Phoenix Rising Drum Circle: Come Drum And Dance With Us, 8 p.m. Friday, Purdue Room in the Union.
When Norman Sauer heard about the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, he predicted he would be called into action. For two years, the anthropology professor has been a member of Disaster Mortuary Teams, groups of skilled professionals that assists in the identification of bodies and mortuary services in a disaster. And for two and a half weeks, the professor spent his time working to identify victims in New York and Somerset County, Pa., south of Pittsburgh, where he saw things most people would never dream of seeing. He returned to Michigan last Wednesday after fulfilling his team’s time commitment and seeing his first mass tragedy.
Skate hard or go home. That’s the only option for the 23 members of the MSU Skate Club, a group of aggressive in-line skaters, BMX bikers and skateboarders from the Lansing, East Lansing and Okemos areas.
By now, after reading my columns, I’m sure that either A) you are intrigued with what I have to say or B) you think I’m a moron, but you are still compelled to read my columns. What I am saying is that no one is perfect, and no one should ever claim to be.
Sean, a general business management senior, chose to steal cable last year because the company took too long to deliver the service. “We had a cable installation set up and they didn’t come that day, and when we called back, they said it would be two weeks,” he said. Instead of waiting, Sean said he spliced into his neighbor’s cable service.
With Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month both recognized in October, leaders at Williams, Yakeley and Gilchrist halls are eager to show their support.Mentors, minority aides and other staff held a kickoff event at midnight Sunday for 31 Marathons in 31 Days, a fund-raiser sponsored by Residence Life.Participants took the first steps toward their goal by walking or running 1 mile around West Circle Drive.For the next 31 days, whenever they are walking or running on campus, they will keep a tally of the number of miles they covered - hopefully until they reach the equivalent of 31 marathons.“It’s going to be really interesting to see if we can pull this off,” said Jason Leonard, an electrical engineering senior and mentor at Williams Hall.
Lansing - A Lansing nightclub may not be able to serve its customers alcohol with a church nearby. The Temple Club, 500 E.
Pontiac - It had been almost two years since Ben Folds Five played at a Michigan venue. On Sunday night at Clutch Cargo’s in Pontiac, Ben Folds returned, minus the five. It was the same sold-out place, the same Baldwin SF-10 piano, mostly the same fans. The Folds faithful started showing up about 2 p.m.
Listen to the word on the street, read the bathroom graffiti or log on to the Internet. Police are not popular. It’s an inevitability that campus police will be viewed as the enemy by some students.
Michigan electricity customers will soon get an unsettling charge added to their monthly bills. For the next three years, we’ll all be charged for a “customer education program” to prepare us for added competition in the electricity market.It’s not unsettling that the state will spend $33 million on the campaign - electricity deregulation is a tricky issue - but it is questionable that state officials will pay three public relations companies tied to Michigan’s two major utility companies, Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison, to run the campaign.
Michael Douglas has got it pretty well figured out, I’d say. Why? It’s quite simple - he’s married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, and he does a movie where he gets to fool around with Famke Janssen and hang out with Brittany Murphy.
The city of East Lansing will hold its general election Nov. 6, but time is almost out to register to vote.
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month gives women the opportunity to learn more about the disease - the sooner the better. Activities throughout the month will help women recognize the importance of early detection. Today is “Tell a Friend Tuesday,” which encourages women to call eight friends they care about who are older than 40 and remind them to get their yearly mammogram. Lansing Mayor David Hollister will be placing calls in support of the program at City Hall from 10-10:30 a.m. Sharon Greenhoe, a spokeswoman for the Lansing-area American Cancer Society, said early detection is the most important treatment of the disease. “Early detection is 97 percent curable,” she said.