With all the music venues and live-performance spaces being temporarily closed due to COVID-19, this week’s Turn It Down! features a few Michigan-made songs for you to take in while you’re locked down inside your crib.
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Rich Tupica
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4/5/20
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This time every year, you’ll hear “The Monster Mash” and the “Ghost Busters Theme” ad nauseum. While that’s not necessarily a bad thing for Halloween devotees, why not dig deeper into the grave of ghostly melodies?
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Rich Tupica
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10/30/20
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Jack Deo, a photographic historian from Marquette, will visit the Library of Michigan Saturday (April 15) for a lecture about historic photographers from the Upper Peninsula. The event, hosted by the …
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4/13/23
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Looking to get your grocery shopping done while soaking up the sunlight and supporting local farmers and businesses? Visit any of the farmers markets in Greater Lansing, where you’ll find fresh …
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Nicole Noechel
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5/25/23
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Greater Lansing will come alive Sunday evening (Dec. 31) with events for all ages and interests to help ring in the new year. This year seemed to fly by, but there’s still time for one more night of debauchery or family-friendly fun to send 2023 off with a bang.
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By NICOLE NOECHEL
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12/28/23
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Laura Hall is a volunteer with the Westside Neighborhood Association. After graduating high school, she was gifted a handmade quilt from each of her grandmothers. She is very close with …
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Skyler Ashley.
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8/18/21
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Hip-hop isn’t exclusive to the art of rhyming, so it’s no surprise that A Night at the Soul Lounge, a monthly event at The Avenue Café, offers a diverse blend of the culture …
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Rich Tupica
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1/26/23
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In 1989, Cleveland native Keith LaMar was imprisoned after fatally shooting a man in the chest during a drug deal that went south. Then, in 1993, his life changed forever when 10 people were killed …
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CHELSEA LAKE ROBERTS
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3/16/23
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): My reading of the astrological omens inspires me to make a series of paradoxical predictions for you. Here are five scenarios I foresee as being quite possible in the …
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Rob Brezsny
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5/18/23
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While Michigan Avenue is Lansing’s hotspot for live music, it’s important to remember the smaller listening rooms in other neighborhoods. One of those, the Robin Theatre, has been a …
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Rich Tupica
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5/25/23
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Just beyond the westernmost point of the Lansing River Trail, in a wooded grove, lies a piece of Iceland. That is where Katrín Sigurdardóttir, the featured artist at MSU’s Broad Museum this winter, was born and grew up.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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11/21/19
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See the play wearing a bathrobe and a tall, feathery hat. View it while holding a bong and a garlicky slice of pizza. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Williamston Theatre’s “These Mortal Hosts” is only available for home viewing.
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David Winkestern
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4/6/20
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If you were hoping to jam out to “All the Small Things” and other blink-182 hits at Cooley Law School Stadium, you’ll have to wait until 2021.
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Skyler Ashley
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5/7/20
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Father Time is about to spank the first cries out of Baby New Year 2024, which means it’s time to celebrate some highlights of the 2023 theater scene in Greater Lansing.
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By MARY CUSACK
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12/28/23
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On this edition of City Pulse On the Air, reporter Todd Heywood interviews Ricci J. Levy of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation.
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Staff
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4/24/21
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Tomorrow (April 13), Riverwalk Theatre begins its run of “Steel Magnolias,” an adaptation of the 1989 film about women finding friendship in a local beauty salon.
“M’Lynn …
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4/13/23
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Enjoy the spring weather with farmers markets, an edible plant walk, a soccer match and a community river cleanup. There are also plenty of art exhibits and events, theater productions, a new paranormal museum and a few Mother’s Day celebrations to round out your weekend.
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Nicole Noechel
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5/11/23
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Look up. Look down. Public art, also called vernacular art, is all over Greater Lansing, whether it’s hidden in a bathroom at Harry’s Place or splashed across buildings in Old Town, REO Town and downtown. …
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Bill Castanier
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5/18/23
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Ryan Holmes, 36, of Lansing, is an artist and arts educator with Mid-Michigan Leadership Academy, where he instructs children from kindergarten to eighth grade
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Skyler Ashley
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4/6/20
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"This Must Be the Place: Quality Hits From Lansing" is a new compilation that gives the local music scene a well-deserved opportunity to shake off some of the rust.
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Skyler Ashley
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3/29/21
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