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Some listeners are sick to death of the same old music, while others have enough challenges in their lives and long for familiar comforts. How do you satisfy them all?For this Saturday’s …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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11/3/22
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With Halloween around the corner, what better time to take in a few scares? “Misery” at The Lebowsky Center for Performing Arts in Owosso might be just the …
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10/27/22
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Peppermint Creek Theatre Co. has never shied away from a challenge, and its decision to open the 2022-‘23 season with the musical “Merrily We Roll Along” continues that tradition. …
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Mary Cusack
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10/27/22
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When Kai Harris got the news her book “What the Fireflies Knew” was reviewed in The New York Times, she said, “It was surreal.” For a book by a first-time author to be …
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Bill Castanier
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10/27/22
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Good ensemble comedy requires tight timing, connected actors and clear direction. “Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine,” at Riverwalk Theater, stands just on the threshold of …
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Todd Heywood
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10/27/22
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Stephen Woida Jr., who performs under Hardigrade, has recorded experimental music in the Lansing scene for years. His new single, “Headstrong,” shows the songwriter exploring new sonic …
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Rich Tupica
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10/27/22
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String quartets are so 19th century. Saxophone quartets are the room-swell-ing, bone-buzzing, shape-shifting vehicle of choice for many of the 21st century’s most vital and compelling …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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10/27/22
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Grace Rosen, a local performer, makes her solo UrbanBeat debut Sunday, Oct. 30. ...
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10/27/22
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W.S. Penn’s new book, “Raising Bean,” is a written testament to Native American storytelling. Penn wrote the collection of essays for his granddaughter Bean (Clare) in the form of …
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Bill Castanier
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10/20/22
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On the first anniversary of opening up a tiny pop-up bookshop inside Middle Village Micro Market, A Novel Concept co-owners Christine Peffer Bennett, 31, and Elise Jajuga, 38, were still adjusting to …
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Sarah Spohn
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10/20/22
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On paper, the plot and themes of playwright Jeff Augustin’s work “Corktown, Or Through the Valley of Dry Bones” is an intriguing play for Michigan residents.
The story, …
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Mary Cusack
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10/20/22
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Known for its seductive Latin rhythms, Tiempo Libre is one of the hottest Latin bands today. The three-time Grammy-nominated Afro-Caribbean music group has performed its tropical music pallet …
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10/20/22
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Back in 2005, GTG Records pressed up its first release, The Plurals’ “A Very Good Thing” CD. Since then, the label, operated by The Plurals, has issued a tall stack of records, most …
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Rich Tupica
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10/20/22
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For those counting down the days to Halloween, this festival, marketed toward “ghouls and goblins of all ages,” might be the ticket. How-To Halloween, which supports local nonprofits, is a …
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10/20/22
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With Halloween just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to indulge in the odd, strange, weird, scary and fun. And a REO Town business is doing just that all day Saturday. …
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Sarah Spohn
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10/14/22
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Stephen King once described books as “a uniquely portable magic” and The REO Town Book Party hopes to fully support that notion this Saturday.
The inaugural literary …
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Sarah Spohn
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10/14/22
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Loud dispatches from Lansing’s music scene LP cover art. FBC presents the event at the Campus Town Mall.
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Rich Tupica
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10/14/22
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THURSDAY, Oct. 13 — Lansing College Performing Arts coordinator Paige Tufford knew last year as the department started planning the 2022-‘23 theater season that space and time were going …
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Todd Heywood
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10/13/22
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Renowned Michigan author Jack Driscoll’s “Twenty Stories” is the last book he’ll write in Michigan. Following his the death of his wife, Lois, early last year, he has decided …
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Bill Castanier
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10/7/22
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Five years ago, Rose Jangmi Cooper was doing her thing when she heard the dramatic call of the theater muses.
She’d been known in the Lansing area for years as the woman who rode …
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Todd Heywood
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10/7/22
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