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My favorite thing is a Realistic Stereo Mixing Console from the ’80s. A dear friend stuck it in my hands in 2004, suggesting I would know what to do with it. I was 20, I’m 35 and a half now.
A downtown bagel shop with eclectic, Michigan-made ingredients and a staff that treats customers like old friends — that’s the ambition of Goodfellas, a new stadium district restaurant expecting its soft opening the first week of February.
Friday, Rick Johnson brings his solo act to Mac’s Bar for a fundraiser concert supporting The Commons
REVIEW
Mid-January is not a propitious time to pile more angst onto a pre-oppressed populace, already weighed down by foul weather and fouler news.
REVIEW
In Peppermint Creek’s new stage play “Gloria,” now playing at Central United Methodist Church’s cavernous Great Room, the lights come up on three 20-something millennials sitting foursquare, desks facing each other.
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The “Boy Gets Girl” play at Riverwalk Theatre’s Black Box is nothing like a Hallmark movie. It’s not the kind of story where the jerk sees his flaws and turns into a sweet ol’ chap and, by gosh and golly, he gets the gal after all.
I’ve known M.L. Liebler for the better part 20 years now, and if he’s passionate about anything it’s poetry and music, especially if they relate to Detroit.
Want to make some noise? Do you have a rock ‘n’ roll disposition, but think guitar music is old and in the way? Don’t fret, you oddly specific hypothetical reader — the Sound Around at Broad Art Lab has you covered.
Ever since Tom Arthur, the pastor of the Sycamore Creek United Methodist Church, acquired the building on South Pennsylvania Avenue five years ago, he thought the sanctuary was an ideal place for community theater.
Festooned with greenery and smelling of fresh pine, the wheelchair ramp on the north side of 615 N. Martin Luther King Blvd. is a cheerful sight and a possible life saver for the resident, a 90-year-old veteran who had developed health issues and become prone to falling in recent months.
In some other time and in some other place, Sen. Pete Lucido’s careless comments to younger women he’d met around the state Capitol would have been nervously laughed off.
OPINION
In November 2018, more than two-thirds of state voters supported sweeping changes to Michigan’s absentee voting laws, bringing us in line with 27 other states that allow no-reason absentee voting.
Hundreds of government employees working for the cities of Lansing and East Lansing and Ingham County government were paid more than $100 million in total last year. Many of them collected six-figure paychecks, leaning heavily on taxpayer dollars to bring home the bread for their own families.
The idea has been raised: Should Lansing rename a local street after President Barack Obama?
Worn down by greasy food? Did your favorite brunch spot let you down last week with some soggy French toast? If you’re craving something new, a unique dining opportunity is coming to the Old Town Marquee this weekend.
Marijuana enthusiasts are crying foul at an advertising campaign by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services over its take on cannabis consumption.
Cooper has had some head-spinning experiences at the top of the international music world. Before he came to Chicago last July, he was the first American to play principal horn in the Berlin Philharmonic.
UNCORKED
This year was kind of a stressful one, yes? Maybe not for everyone. But it felt intense. The beauty of Jan. 1 is that it’s our chance to reflect on our choices from the last year, reset, and forge a new path for ourselves.
