Lansing social media is lamenting grim news — the beloved venue Mac's Bar will likely no longer host live music. more

You could get into a thicket teasing out trombonist Michael Dease’s many inspirations. He’s a professor of jazz at MSU, after all. more

Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences and WKAR-TV are collaborating with MSU’s African Studies Center to present the documentary “Year of Global Africa.” more

Contest nominations will be accepted until 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 2. more

What good are poems in a pandemic? A short film called “How to Make a No-Sew Coronavirus Mask From a Poem,” based on a poem by Wendy Drexler, takes a disarmingly direct approach. more

On this edition of City Pulse On the Air, reporter Todd Heywood interviews Ricci J. Levy of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation. more

The pandemic gave artist and illustrator Kathryn Darnell the opportunity to push her considerable illustration skills in new directions. more

My favorite thing is a Mitchell acoustic that belonged to my brother. He got home from the Iraq War and decided that he wanted to learn how to play guitar. He wanted to be like me — I got my brother into music big time. It was both ways. He got me into some stuff, and I got him into some heavier stuff.  more

The Dogs may have formed in the late ’60s, at the height of the electrifying Detroit rock scene that birthed The Stooges, MC5 and Bob Seger, but the band of Lansing natives are best known for its 1978 punk-rock classic: “Slash Your Face.”  more

Twenty years ago, Michigan State University music major Matt Eldred frequented the campus library to listen to CDs. That’s where he became fascinated with “The Holocaust Cantata: Songs From the Camps.” more

City Pulse editor and publisher Berl Schwartz returns to his usual hosting duties for a special 420 edition of City Pulse On the Air.  more

Lansing Community College newspaper The Lookout has captured a prestigious prize for student journalism. Despite having an inexperienced staff during the entry period of April 1, 2019, through March 31, 2020, The Lookout took home the top prize for Division 3 of the 2020 Michigan Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. more

It won’t be visible from outer space, but the latest attraction on Lansing’s resurgent riverfront promises to make a big splash of color and laughter and draw kids and parents from many miles around. more

Calling Westlund’s Apple Market a Lansing mainstay is quite an understatement. On April 11, the market reached its 100th anniversary — a remarkable milestone no matter what industry you’re in. more

This year has been very kind to Lansing native Edward McClelland. His new novel, “Running for Home,” is his second book in 2021. Earlier, he published  “Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint and the Strike That Created the Middle Class,” a non-fiction examination of the 1937 sit-in strike in Flint that resulted in the recognition of the United Auto Workers. more

Looking to boost your acting repertoire? Thanks to a new recurring online performance project, anyone has a chance to include “Riverwalk Theatre Performer” on a resume. By sharing a video that conforms to each month’s theme, you could be one of Riverwalk’s featured artists for its new monthly virtual talent show series. more

The Lansing Art Gallery and Education Center has debuted its selections for the 36th annual Art Scholarship Alert High School Exhibition. An exhibit of artwork crafted entirely by talented Greater … more

I got this collection as sort of a hand-me-down. It was my dad’s collection from his older brother. It’s a bunch of punk records that have been passed down from the ’80s and ’70s and it’s one of those things where it always sat on a shelf, and I’d say “Oh, what’s this? Can I look at this?” And I’d be told, “No, you’re going to mess it up and break it.” more

In past years, April was referred to as Autism Awareness Month. In 2021, the Autism Society of America is encouraging a shift towards calling it Autism Acceptance Month instead. After all, awareness … more

Motown Records will always be associated with its string of brilliant pop-infused R&B hits by The SupremåTemptations, The Miracles and a long roster of others. The sound founder Berry Gordy masterminded alongside Smokey Robinson defined a generation of ’60s youth and continues to inspire the hitmakers to this day. more