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Wednesday, March 17,2010

Master P to masterpiece

Ella Joyce speaks for Rosa Parks in ´Rose´

by Lawrence Cosentino

“It’s the part I was born to play,” Joyce said. “I have actually felt her spirit right down inside of me on stage.” spur a court challenge to discrimina- Best known for her leading role in the tory seating practices on Montgomery socially conscious Fox sitcom “Roc,” which buses.

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Wednesday, March 17,2010

Gregarious guitars

L.A. Quartet finds strength in numbers

by Lawrence Cosentino

With arrangers like Kanengiser in the group, the entire universe of music is theirs to pillage, with one restriction: no electronics. In addition, all of the quartet’s material ' old, new, borrowed or blue ' has to make guitar sense. On Sunday’s slate, for example, is a crowdpleasing arrangement of six pieces from Bizet’s opera “Carmen.

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Wednesday, March 17,2010

Breaking new ground

by Lawrence Cosentino

On Tuesday morning, Kevin Waldman’s biggest headache was protecting big shots like architect Zaha Hadid, billionaire tycoon Eli Broad, Michigan State University president Lou Anna Simon and Gov. Jennifer Granholm from stepping in the March mud at the groundbreaking of MSU’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum.

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Wednesday, March 10,2010

Rainbows and monsters

Show spotlights artwork of autistic students

by Lawrence Cosentino

The show isn’t all rainbows. At Sunday’s reception, Ben Davis, a sophomore at Charlotte High School, stood proudly next to a display case of insectoid horrors made of ceramic, clay, wire and acrylic paint. Davis caught me looking into the blood-red mouth of a spidery thing with a lot of eyes.

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Wednesday, March 3,2010

Charrette it

Visiting speaker swears by hot development tool

by Lawrence Cosentino

“Then somebody comes along and picks and chooses, saying ‘This is what the public wanted.’” Hunt said the transit village lacks amenities promised to the community as “mitigation” of the increased traffic it would bring. He said a public meeting space “slowly disappeared,” free shuttle buses to reduce local car traffic were.

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Wednesday, February 24,2010

Higher than a kite

After a few bounces, LSO sends Mozart soaring into the sky

by Lawrence Cosentino

The Lansing Symphony has climbed crags, ridden rapids and moved mountains of major repertoire under maestro Timothy Muffitt, but Saturday night they faced a truly daunting task: lifting a beautiful, balanced box-kite of Mozart into the air and keeping it there the whole evening.

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Wednesday, February 17,2010

GENERATIONS of GENERATION

Lansing’s Board of Water and Light fires up 125 candles

by Lawrence Cosentino

On Jan. 26, 1885, the voters of Lansing approved a bond issue of $100,000 for a public water system. The people took control of the utility by a ringing vote of 445 to 49. The spigot of debate over how to manage public utilities opened along with the waterworks, and it hasn’t shut off since.

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Wednesday, February 17,2010

Star in the stacks

‘History Detective’ Zuberi comes to downtown library

by Lawrence Cosentino

While plumbing the origins of hip hop, the dapper sleuth of PBS’ “History Detectives” went to the Bronx apartment where young DJ Kool Herc lived. He drove to a bar in Reno to find out whether a bell on the wall rang at a 1919 Joe Louis bout. He may yet plop down in your kitchen and blow your mind with some family history you never knew.

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Wednesday, February 17,2010

Mozart madness

Amadeus gets his day in LSO concert

by Lawrence Cosentino

He knew the “Jupiter” would have to go at the end of the concert, if only because nothing short of Jesus and Elvis juggling moon rocks on a unicorn could follow. On the other hand, Muffitt didn’t want to start the night with romantic or modern music written after Mozart’s time.

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Wednesday, February 10,2010

Wake up, Knapp's

Ignite will warm up downtown landmark

by Lawrence Cosentino

In a rapid-fire format dubbed “Attention Deficit Theater” by an Oregon newspaper, Ignite speakers get five minutes to hook the audience on a pet topic, from personal experience (surviving the first year of marriage) to general interest (eating whole foods).

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