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HWKN’s design features three circles for gathering, socializing and meditation.
Michigan State University students, faculty, staff and alumni have been asked to help choose a design for a memorial recognizing the death of three students and the serious injury of several others when on Feb 13, 2023,
Luther S. Allison, a Grammy-winning pianist, drummer, composer and 2019 graduate of Michigan State University jazz studies, returns to East Lansing on Tuesday (March 25) as music director of “New Orleans Songbook,” a Jazz at Lincoln Center touring extravaganza packed with some of the nation’s top musicians.

‘New Orleans Songbook’ tour brings MSU grad full circle

There’s more to New Orleans music than Carnival, Mardi Gras and letting the good times roll.
“I’m thrilled and honored that my story has been adapted to film, and I can’t wait to see Adam Brooks’ interpretation,” Lansing author Lori Nelson Spielman said of the Netflix adaptation of her debut novel, “The Life List,” which will arrive on the streaming platform March 28.

Lansing’s Lori Nelson Spielman hits it big with Netflix adaptation

Having Netflix base a film on her first novel may not have been on Lansing author Lori Nelson Spielman’s life list, but here she is.

Irreverence reigns supreme in Riverwalk’s ‘Importance of Being Earnest’

Photo by Ariniko Artistry
Beck Murphy (back left), Kameron Going (back right), Lewis Elson (front left) and Rachel Daugherty (front right) in Riverwalk Theatre’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest,” by Oscar Wilde.
Valentine’s Day 1895, St. James’s Theatre in London.
Taha Mandviwala (left) as Pi Patel and puppeteers Anna Leigh Gortner, Shiloh Goodin and Toussaint Jeanlouis as Bengal tiger Richard Parker in the national tour of "Life of Pi."
“Life of Pi” is the story of an unlikely young hero who fights against the odds to survive and uncovers a ferociousness inside himself along the way.
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Rodeo Boys just released a new single, “All American Man.” A new album, “Junior,” will be released April 25 by Don Giovanni Records.
According to Rodeo Boys’ label, the Lansing band’s upcoming album, “Junior,” “captures the quiet rebellion of a queer, blue-collar heart.” The rugged yet …
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The leprechauns are looming, the Guinness taps are flowing, and the city of Chicago is preparing to dye its river green.
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Mike Geeter describes comedians like himself as “alchemists,” uniquely able to transform their audiences.
Stepping inside the Robin Theatre in REO Town, you find something rare: A quiet space where the audience is locked in.
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Our 2023 Arts and Culture Issue:
Library of America seeks to rectify censored Ernest Hemingway works
If you’re a fan of Ernest Hemingway, the revelation that some of the language and content in his most famous novels was censored won’t be a surprise.
Drummer Jeff Sipe has worked with a variety of musical greats, from bluegrass and folk titans like Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs to jazz-fusion guitarist John McLaughlin, members of jam bands like Phish and Widespread Panic and Indian musicians like Debashish Bhattacharya.
Jamming with two Jeffs
When galaxies collide, time tilts in all directions, past, present and future. Sound crumples into surprising forms and strange new frequencies.
“It was the best surprise,” Detroit poet Melba Joyce Boyd said of learning she was selected to be Michigan poet laureate.
Melba Joyce Boyd named Michigan’s third poet laureate
Prolific Detroit poet Melba Joyce Boyd has been selected as the state’s third poet laureate by the Library of Michigan.
Photo by The Mattesons Photography
Jecara Williams (left) as Little Red Riding Hood and James Curtis as the Wolf in the Lebowsky Center for Performing Arts’ production of “Into the Woods.”
Lebowsky Center reaches for the stars with ‘Into the Woods’
“Into the Woods” has been a staple of the musical theater catalogue since its Broadway debut in 1987, and for very good reason.

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