After serving in Vietnam, Taylor Swan brought back home with him combat stress. And years later, he found himself battling dependency on drugs and alcohol. In a quest to get sober, Swan went to a rehabilitation center for war veterans in Grand Rapids.

Corduroy Stone is run by Mike Jones, a graying, middle-aged man with degrees in landscape horticulture and counseling. Jones, who is not a licensed counselor in Michigan, gives therapy to men and women looking to reconcile their feeling of same-sex attraction.

It’s Shakespeare meets “Miami Vice” as the Michigan State University Opera Theatre takes on Charles Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette.” The French-language adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy has been transferred to 1980s Miami Beach.

“Sounds of Relief” will be heard all through the Old Town Temple Building in Lansing with a wide range of music from rock to hip-hop to electronic in an event to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. What started out as a modestly sized event sponsored by Lansing Electronic Artist Kollective and other organizations has turned into an eight-hour night of music from 6 p.m.-2 a.m Friday, March 19.