Local artist Theresa Rosado has been busy the past few months. She completed a poetry broadsheet for the Historical Society of Greater Lansing.
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By BILL CASTANIER
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11/6/24
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Although its existence was short-lived, MC5, one of the seminal Detroit bands of the ’60s, lived on in the music of some of the most prominent punk and grunge bands of all time.
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By BILL CASTANIER
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11/6/24
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For nearly 40 years, East Lansing’s annual Women in the Arts Festival has been a space for solidarity that celebrates voices often pushed to the margins, offering a platform for women artists to be heard, seen and celebrated.
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By AJ GLAUB
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11/6/24
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There are few plays that would dare attempt to dramatize such serious and disparate subjects as pollution, the exploitation of the poor and the corporatization of public services,
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By MARK GMAZEL
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11/6/24
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Whenever Ryan Claytor faces an overwhelming situation or a daunting task, he thinks about something his father used to say: “It’s like eating an elephant. Take it one bite at a time and before you know it, you’re done.”
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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11/6/24
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In the midst of a swinging, spectacular and songful Lansing Symphony Orchestra concert Friday evening (Nov. 1), one small gesture stood out.
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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11/6/24
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“Don’t go in the basement,” a dire warning left unheeded by thousands of grisly horror-movie victims, means nothing to Ben Ackley.
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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10/30/24
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Alec Joseph and Brice Reynolds, both 26, have been best friends since they were sixth graders at Waverly East Intermediate, in part due to their shared affinity for clothing and sneakers.
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By TYLER SCHNEIDER
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10/30/24
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Willis Delony doesn’t look like a fugitive from the law, but don’t let the scholarly glasses and kindly smile fool you.
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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10/30/24
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The Library of Michigan has turned its second-floor Lake Erie Room into a photo gallery featuring the work of the late Norman Zadoorian, who shot thousands of moody black-and-white photographs of Detroit in the mid-20th century.
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By BILL CASTANIER
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10/30/24
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Lillian Werbin’s connection with the banjo didn’t begin with a song — it began with a map.
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By AJ GLAUB
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10/23/24
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For those who view the printed word as an art form, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.’s new book, “Citizen Printer,” is a tour de force.
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By BILL CASTANIER
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10/23/24
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Judging by the youthful audience’s reactions to “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical” at Lansing Community College, the fans of Rick Riordan’s Greek-mythology-based book series were thrilled with the show.
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By MARK GMAZEL
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10/23/24
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By now, Rodney Whitaker has had a few weeks to ponder his late-September induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joins the ranks of artists, scholars, leaders and scientists like Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Einstein.
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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10/16/24
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By Steve Underwood
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10/16/24
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In a dimly lit theater, the last survivors of an obliterated culture search for spiritual bonds in a reality show from hell.
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By CHELSEA LAKE ROBERTS
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10/16/24
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Seven prestigious writers, including a National Book Award winner, will gather in East Lansing next week for an author reunion of the Great Michigan Read program, which has annually picked a book for the whole state to read starting with Ernest Hemingway’s “The Nick Adams Stories” in 2007.
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By Bill Castiner
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10/16/24
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When Owosso’s Shiawassee Arts Center invited Lansing artist Michelle Detering to show her work this year, she immediately thought of her teacher and friend Jim Ferguson.
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By CHELSEA LAKE ROBERTS
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10/16/24
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Unfortunately for Ixion Ensemble Theatre, its production of “Turn, Turn, Turn,” a collection of monlogues, is an undercooked, under-rehearsed and nearly pointless rehashing of an uncompelling, previously staged original work.
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By MARK GMAZEL
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10/16/24
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What’s the antithesis of a tug of war? It took some heavy pulling from both sides of the ocean, in the same direction, to bring about a rare visit from the fabled London Philharmonic Orchestra to Michigan State University’s Wharton Center on Oct. 17.
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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10/10/24
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