Also taking the stage is Billiards Music, a Lansing band specializing in acoustic-dub music. The band has a West Coast, reggae-rock sound similar to Sublime. Billiards Music started as a solo project featuring songwriter Brandon Jo (guitar/lead vocals).

The discovery of another planet identical to our own is the starting point for director Mike Cahill’s “Another Earth,” a moody drama that’s not so much science fiction as it is an in-depth character study.

There’s the new news set, which will feature a 110-inch projection screen behind the anchor desk, a couple of new additions to the on-air team and the prospect of going to highdefinition in the fall.

The play depicts a trio of World War I veterans (played by Gary Houston, Richard Marlatt and Richard Henzel) plotting to escape the confines of a military hospital. It was written by French playwright Gerald Sibleyras and has been translated and adapted by Tom Stoppard, one of Thatcher’s personal favorites.

The American Prize is a series of nonprofit national competitions that recognize and award cash prizes to the best recorded performances of music by individuals and ensembles in the United States at the professional, community/amateur, college/university, church and school levels.

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Dear City Pulse: I just wanted to drop you a quick line and wish you a happy 10th birthday. Since you were just a little squirt, you have played an important role in my life, and I hope to continue to see you grow. I talked to your dad, Berl, the other day. He said you’re doing qui...

The very week I moved to East Lansing from Germany, my wife introduced me to this “great local weekly called City Pulse.”

I have had the unusual pleasure of working both with and for the City Pulse as an advertiser, writer and editor.

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