Friday, April 5,2013

Uke got served

Local teen plays on trolley tonight for First Fridays

by Allan I. Ross

Friday, April 5 — For two years, Lansing First Fridays has given mid-Michigan entertainment junkies a good reason to look forward to the first Friday of every month — and guess what tonight is.

Friday Fashion Pulse

Color coated

by Marisol Dorantes

Friday, April 5 — Ah, April — the beginning of… another winter? (Yep, there's snow in the forecast for this weekend.) While our calendars might say spring, the frigid winter winds are overstaying their welcome. As relentless as nature can be, so can the fashionable residents of Lansing.

Gig Report

A rundown of Lansing shows this week

by Hannah Scott

Thursday, April 4 — What better way to bring in a warm, early spring weekend than with some bright indie and laid-back mellow rock shows? The styles — both homegrown and all the way from Vancouver — make their way to Lansing this weekend through the likes of Hey Ocean and Billiards music.

The gallery that isn't

Neighborhood Empowerment Center raises ghost of Kresge Art Museum

by Lawrence Cosentino

Art is supposed to stir deep questions. Here's one that comes to mind the minute you walk into the Neighborhood Empowerment Center in northwest Lansing: "What is this — a gallery or something?"

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Wednesday, April 3,2013

First Sunday

by City Pulse Staff

New Exhibits The Avenue Café Work by James McFarland. Hours: 10 a.m.-midnight. Monday-Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. 2021 E. Michigan Ave, Lansing. (517) 853-0550. EagleMonk Pub and Brewery “Lost Butterfly Studio,” macro photography by Rodney Johnson. Re...

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Wednesday, April 3,2013

Williamston's funny 'Valentine'

Funny, poignant look at middle age grounded in sincerity

by Paul Wozniak

Meet Shirley Valentine: a middle-aged wife, mother and genre trope who learns to love herself on an excursion to a foreign country. She sometimes speaks in rhetorical Oprah-isms, such as, "You don’t start again at 46, do you?"

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Wednesday, April 3,2013

The kids are all Reich

Australian drama gives the Holocaust a new set of victims: Nazi children

by ALLAN I. ROSS

Nazis are easy narrative villains — the systematic slaughter of 11 million people really puts them in their own class of evil. Consequently, in literature and film, it's a bold move to depict them as anything less than cold-blooded monsters.

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Wednesday, April 3,2013

New in town

Jonna's 2 Go & Portable Feast and Friends

by ALLAN I. ROSS

The "gateway to East Lansing" is getting a little more welcoming this week with the opening of Jonna's 2 Go, the western-most location for a series of southeast Michigan-based convenience stores.

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Wednesday, April 3,2013

Turn it down

A survey of Lansing's musical landscape

by Rich Tupica

Known as the "Belleville Three," Detroit producers Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson are heralded as the innovators of techno. Saturday, Saunderson performs at The Loft.

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Wednesday, April 3,2013

The great outdoors

Film festival celebrates extreme sports, instills a love of nature

by Dana Casadei

"Extreme" and "extraordinary" are two words that are frequently used to describe the Banff Mountain Film Festival. "Inspiration" follows closely behind.

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