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Whether you’re looking to spend your weekend toking with friends in celebration of 420 on Saturday, enjoying nature and helping beautify outdoor spaces in observance of Earth Day on Monday, sampling a variety of craft beers, watching new and experimental films or dancing your heart out, events across Greater Lansing have you covered.
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By NICOLE NOECHEL
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4/18/24
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San Francisco-based pianist and composer Adrienne Torf will perform with Voices of the Revolution, a Lansing-based group of women spoken-word artists and gospel singers, 7:30 p.m. Sunday (April 21) at UrbanBeat in Old Town.
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4/17/24
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The 5 th annual FILMETRY festival, presented in partnership with the Capital City Film Festival, will premiere 11 new short films adapted from poems informed by cinema. The event begins 5:30 p.m. …
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4/17/24
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As the 1950s jazz standard puts it, “Spring can really hang you up the most.”
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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4/17/24
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In her book, “Mother of Orphans: The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, A Colored Man’s Widow,” Lansing author Dedria Humphries Barker tells the true story of her great-grandmother Alice Donlan, a second-generation Irish American who married a Black man in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the hostile Jim Crow era.
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By BILL CASTANIER
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4/17/24
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By TESSA PANETH-POLLAK
“Marqueetown” is a documentary about one man’s quest to restore the historic marquee of the single-screen Nordic Theater in Marquette. An Art Deco …
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4/12/24
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By MARY CUSACK
Calling a film a “slow burn” is often a compliment. In the case of “The Activated Man,” not so much. The plot is slow, and the plot holes burn through …
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4/12/24
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“Fresh,” released in 1994, may be the least fresh offering in a lineup of much more recent films. But three decades later, the intense story about a 12-year-old losing childhood innocence …
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By DAVID WINKELSTERN
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4/12/24
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The schedule of events in Greater Lansing this weekend is packed, from numerous fundraising events, concerts, theater productions and film screenings to horse shows, art workshops, kids’ activities and much, much more.
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By NICOLE NOECHEL
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4/11/24
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Everyone loves Duke Ellington, but few of his fans have heard his 1940s gem “Long, Strong and Consecutive,” with lyrics like this: “Kiss me long, strong and consecutive; no short snort will suit me, jack.”
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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4/11/24
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Few musicians dig deeper or glow brighter than New York-based bassist, composer, singer and bandleader Endea Owens, the special guest at this year’s MSU Jazz Spectacular. Owens is a proud representative of her hometown of Detroit and MSU, where she began her jazz education.
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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4/11/24
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Even her name dripped with mystery and romance.
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By BILL CASTANIER
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4/11/24
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At a time when remakes, sequels and spinoffs reign supreme at movie theaters and on streaming services, one of the goals of Capital City Film Festival is to provide a breath of fresh air for moviegoers in Greater Lansing.
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By NICOLE NOECHEL
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4/11/24
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It didn’t seem like a good plan to have the childless writer review a children’s play, but no one else was available. Off I went to the Kingdom of Mango Chutney, aka Dart Auditorium,
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By MARY CUSACK
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4/11/24
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When “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” showed up on this season’s list of Broadway shows at the Wharton Center, I winced.
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By VICTOR RAUCH
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4/11/24
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A responsive crowd can enhance the experience for both spectators and performers. I witnessed this atmosphere on opening night of the musical “Spring Awakening” at the Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
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By VICTOR RAUCH
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4/11/24
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No Skull returns with ‘Dark Tower’-inspired riffs
-Q&A with vocalist and bassist Ryan Andrews
Ryan Andrews of No Skull has been making loud sounds in the Lansing music scene …
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By RICH TUPICA
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4/10/24
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Punk takes center stage at official afterparty
Aurat is a Los Angeles-based band led by Pakistani American vocalist Azeka Kamal and her music partner, bassist and producer Gil Talbot. The …
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By RICH TUPICA
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4/10/24
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This weekend offers an eclectic mix of events, from benefit concerts, new theater productions and a poetry showcase to a lumberjack festival, a craft supply sale, Michigan State University Science Festival activities and much more.
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NICOLE NOECHEL
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4/4/24
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Whenever a student art exhibit comes along, many folks dismiss it, assuming the museum or gallery is just checking a box, dutifully fulfilling its educational mission.
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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4/4/24
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