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The everyday objects stored in closets, basements and thrift stores across Michigan have a story to tell that’s more interesting than meets the eye. For its new exhibit, "The Secret Lives of Michigan Objects," the Michigan History Museum highlights the lesser known tales of household items until May 2020.
Perhaps you vaguely recall the 1972 movie version of “Cabaret,” which featured a dazzling Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles.
A large Sparrow coach bus will be parked outside of Advent House Ministries Friday at 1:30 p.m. The public can line up for free, basic health services and screenings. It is advised that patients with Medicaid/Medicare or other insurance bring their membership card, but is not required.
Rod Melancon’s “Road to Pinkville” 2019 tour spans the United States and stops in Lansing June 27. Opening the show, a part of the “Country-ish” concert series at The Loft, is Evan Bartels.
My interest in neon started once I started to document them on Instagram. I was always attracted to bright colors and the aesthetics of it. I wish I could live in a more colorful ‘80s and ‘90s world and really love how the old malls really went crazy with neon to decorate.
Last year, Timothy Blackmon and Tissa Khosla, joined by drum and bass players, brought the dizzying sounds reminiscent of the “Free Jazz” movement to the Summer Solstice’s Education Stage. Friday, the Michigan State graduates reunite under a new name and sound.
The longest days of summer, a nationally acclaimed new album, a long-deferred homecoming and sudden, unexpected loss — Etienne Charles has a lot to celebrate and solemnize in his East Lansing Summer Solstice Jazz Festival set Friday.
Jane Bunnett’s fire-and-ice Afro-Cuban vibe is unlike anything else in jazz. The Toronto-based saxophonist and her young band, Maqueque, churns up a groove that’s unmistakably Cuban, but the watercolors wash over the lines, into post-Coltrane ecstatic grooves, free jazz, African forms and almost anything else Bunnett has soaked up in decades of listening and playing.
