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This season’s best of the best
With so many local arts venues and organizations announcing their fall and spring seasons, it may seem daunting to choose which events to purchase tickets for and make time to attend. more
For collectors of classics like “The Great Gatsby,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Maltese Falcon,” a pristine dust jacket can propel the price to astronomical figures. Without a dust jacket, a first edition is typically worth mere thousands.
Sometimes, it’s OK to judge a book by its cover
Graphic designer Milton Glaser may have become famous for his “I Love New York” logo and his poster for Bob Dylan’s “Greatest Hits” LP, which helped launch the psychedelic art movement. more
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Upon walking into the MSU Broad Art Museum’s Minskoff Gallery, thousands of jet-black monarch butterflies, each one etched in fine detail, swarm above your head. The exhibition, “Complex Dreams,” Opens Sept. 13.
Delicate dreams of freedom
Is it possible to walk into someone else’s dream? If you do, does it become your dream? more
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Local theater returns in full force this month
As we head into September, the leaves of summer stock Shakespeare productions are starting to curl into a Greater Lansing theater season teeming with artistry, entertainment and even some new plays! more
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The Ten Pound Fiddle will host another lengthy calendar of folk concerts and dances for its milestone 50th season. Folk legend Tom Paxton (left) and Grammy Award nominee Amythyst Kiah are just two of the 2024-‘25 performers.
Fifty years of folk
Louis Armstrong once declared, “All music is folk music — I ain’t never heard any horse sing a song.” more
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Figurative sculptor Curt LaCross presents at a Mid-Michigan Art Guild meeting at the Foster Community Center.
Mid-Michigan Art Guild: Seventy-plus years of offering local artists ‘something new’
Founded in 1951, the Mid-Michigan Art Guild works to encourage artistic expression and appreciation through learning and social opportunities for local artists. more
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“West,” the first of three murals to be completed in Dustin Hunt’s “Lansing Shaped” series, at Scribbles & Giggles Child Care Center in west Lansing.
‘Lansing Shaped’ continues Dustin Hunt’s goal of creating murals ‘people can connect with’
If you’ve noticed fresh pops of color around town lately, thank local muralist Dustin Hunt. more
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In 2011, Eric Hirsimaki retired from the Great Lakes shipping industry and began writing about it instead. His most recent release, “Sail, Steam, and Diesel,” provides a comprehensive history of cargo transport on the Great Lakes, from the vessels used to the goods they carried.
Former industry worker explores history and impacts of Great Lakes shipping
The Great Lakes run through Cleveland-area author Eric Hirsimaki’s blood. He spent 40 years working in the Great Lakes shipping industry — on a cargo railroad, aboard boats, at the ports they visited and beyond. more
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Bob Baldori (left) and David Small, friends since their teenage years, have teamed up on “The Boogie Kings,” a political newsletter.
A new beat
Bob Baldori and David Small met as teenagers in Detroit in the late 1950s. Baldori, a musician who has performed worldwide, and Small, a successful illustrator, each tells their friendship’s origin story, more
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Though it’s been six years since mystery writer Steve Hamilton published his last full-length Alex McKnight book, fans of the series will have to wait a bit longer for the follow-up. His new book, “An Honorable Assassin,” is the third installment of another series following Nick Mason, a reluctant assassin forced into the line of work by a Chicago crime lord upon his release from prison.
Steve Hamilton gets back to his ‘old stuff,’ starting with Nick Mason
When I heard Steve Hamilton had a new book coming out, I thought it would be another entry in the long-running Alex McKnight series, about a former Detroit cop turned private eye. Hamilton has written 11 books and two short stories in the series. more
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Wendi King and her husband, Eric. The couple’s relationship is the subject of King’s new book, “Don’t Settle for Prince Charming: A Queen Deserves a King.”
Longtime educator hopes to inspire healthy relationships with new book
When it comes to selecting your life partner, never settle. more
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Photo by Ariniko Artistry Photography Luka Pawsek as Prior Walter in Riverwalk Theatre’s production of “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches”
Riverwalk Theatre’s ‘Angels in America’ is a tour de force
“Angels in America” is a powerful, moving and sometimes shocking play about the dawning of the AIDS crisis and requires skilled hands and a very talented cast to successfully produce. more
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Local music scene fixtures Kevin Ream and Mark E. King are keeping busy with their rock band, From Big Sur, but also their own solo music.
From Big Sur to big solo albums Kevin Ream and Mark E. King talk recent LPs
Dynamic four-piece rock ‘n’ roll outfit From Big Sur has become a Lansing fixture over the years, thanks to a steady schedule of live gigs and well-crafted records. But the band members … more
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Sue Mills at Patriarche Park, where she led a fundraising campaign to convert tennis courts to pickleball courts.
8 over 80: Local octogenarians work to better their communities, their families and themselves
Sue Mills served a 23-year stint as director of the Greater Lansing Arts Council, until she retired in 2005 at age 65. Twenty years later, there’s no point in asking her what she does with her … more
Mason McNair, the new director of MSU’s Horticulture Gardens, and his son, Miles, pose in front of an apple tree at their home in DeWitt.
Staff believe new director will be ‘unifying force’ for MSU Horticulture Gardens
When Mason McNair was 6 years old, his mother had to entice him into a trip to Juniper Level Botanic Garden in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the promise of ice cream. more
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Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” sits at the No. 1 spot on The New York Times’ list of the top books published in the 21st century so far, while Denis Johnson’s “Tree of Smoke” rounds out the list at No. 100.
Evaluating The New York Times’ best books of the 21st century
The New York Times recently compiled a list of the top 100 books published in the 21st century so far, and it’s surprising what’s on it and not on it. more
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Saxophonist Phil Denny, founder and organizer of the Armory Smooth Jazz Fête, will play a set at 6 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 10) with Detroit vocalist Isis Damil.
Neither antsy nor pedantic
Can smooth jazz be defined without using musical terms? more
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Michigan State University’s copy of Ptolemy’s “Geographia” before (left) and after receiving the “full spa treatment.”
MSU Libraries breaks rare 16th-century cartography text out of its cage
One of Michigan State University’s rarest and most valuable books in its Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections recently got the “full spa treatment” by MSU conservation librarian Garrett Sumner. more
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Heath Sartorius (left) as Louis Ironside and Luka Pawsek as Prior Walter during a rehearsal of “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches” at Riverwalk Theatre.
Angels in Lansing
This month, Riverwalk Theatre will stage “Millennium Approaches,” the first half of “Angels in America,” a landmark play about queer identity and the AIDS crisis in the United States. more
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En Plein Air Mid-Michigan artists paint at the DeVries Nature Conservancy in Owosso.
Local painters venture into ‘plein air’ to connect with source, each other
“En plein air” is a French term meaning “in the open air.” The practice of painting en plein air was solidified in France during the early 1800s, when portable easels and, later, the invention of paint tubes allowed artists to travel out of their studios and create “in situ,” or onsite. more
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