Advertise
Donate
Log in
Arts and Culture
Sort by: Featured Most recent
1420 results total, viewing 641 - 660
Bloody Butterflies is bassist/guitarist Jon Howard and drummer Abigail Mogg.
Bloody Butterflies bring wall of riffs to the Avenue
This weekend, it’ll get loud at The Avenue Café when Bloody Butterflies close out a night of heavy, Michigan-made bands. Sharing the roster is Warhorses, a Detroit-based outfit … more
|
Starlight’s production of “West Side Story” outside in downtown Lansing.
In lieu of City Pulse’s Pulsar Awards: Wink’s theatre picks
  (Because of COVID’s impact on area theater during the 2021-’22 season, the Pulsar Awards are impossible to determine. But City Pulse didn’t want local theater talent to go … more
|
The phantasmagorical colors and forms of Benjamin Duke’s “Looking Forward” pop from underneath the Shiawassee Bridge.
River’s artistic edge
No summer walk in downtown Lansing is complete without taking in the varied stimuli of Lansing ArtPath, a multi-media outdoor art display organized by the Lansing Art Gallery along three miles of the … more
|
Locust Point is (left to right) Phil Lynch (guitar, vocals), Dave Peterman (drums, guitar, vocals) and Albert LaRose (bass).
Q&A: Riffing with Phil Lynch of Locust Point
Lansing’s own Locust Point debuted with a brilliant self-titled LP in 2018, an LP stocked with undeniable, Thin Lizzy-caliber guitar riffs and rock ’n roll hooks.   Last month, … more
|
Where the wild books are
Thanks to the Capital Area District Library, Ingham County parks have morphed into literary jungles where parents can take their children on a reading safari — far from smartphones and video … more
|
Wild Honey Collection formed in the summer of 2020 and has since released two albums.
Wild Honey Collective returns with ‘Volume 2’
  This month, The Wild Honey Collective unveiled “Volume 2,” another collection of rustic original and traditional music. Over the past year, the newly formed local outfit has made a … more
|
Kenneth G. “Red” McIntyre at his home in Okemos holding a photo of him with the staff of the President’s Commission on Student Unrest, for which he led the investigation into the Ohio National Guard’s killing of four people at Kent State University during a peace protest in 1970.
Kenneth G. ‘Red’ McIntyre: Witness to history
When Kenneth G. McIntyre entered Michigan State University in 1956, he had his heart set on being a sports writer. After working two summers for a local newspaper, though, he took a constitutional … more
|
Steven Bridges, seen here at a 2018 exhibit he co-curated at the MSU Broad Art Museum, was named the museum’s interim director on Wednesday (July 6). “If we don’t find a sense of joy in the work we do, then there’s something wrong,” Bridges said.
Bridges promises ‘steady hand’ as Broad Art Museum’s interim director
For the MSU Broad Art Museum, a fourth transition at the top position in 10 years is not really a transition, according to key members of the MSU administration, the museum staff and its advisory … more
|
‘Songs about Stuff’ delivers on ’90s nostalgia
A silly and sardonic 90-minute musical featuring the songs of local music legend Wally Pleasant, “Songs about Stuff” bristles with ‘90s angst, music references and the evergreen … more
|
Mark Rolston has acted in a list of now-classic films and television series, including “Aliens,” Shawshank Redemption” and “Star Trek,” among others.
Alien encounter: Mark Rolston reflects on his dynamic career before C4 appearance
To this day, decades later, people often recognize actor Mark Rolston as Private Drake in 1986’s “Aliens” or Bogs in 1994’s “The Shawshank … more
|
The crew at the OneWheel meetup.
On A Roll: Lansing’s eclectic electric skateboarding scene sparks joy
Members of Lansing’s most mesmerizing meetup coast into a parking lot on a Wednesday evening in Old Town. Men, women and children glide effortlessly on electric skateboards. Thirteen of over … more
|
Capital City Comic Con co-owner Bryan Harris (right) with Shamus Smith, aka the Lansing Batman, dressed as Spaceghost. He is getting married Sunday at the convention. He will also be interviewing guests on the mainstage (as Spaceghost), including actor Tom Arnold.
Seeing Stars: Capital City Comic Con ushers in Hollywood stars
It was Bryan Harris’ profound love of pop culture that first drew him toward the Capital City Comic Con — C4 — but it was the annual event’s community that ultimately … more
|
The ensemble of “Songs about Stuff: The Music of Wally Pleasant,” presented by Over the Ledge Theater in cooperation with Riverwalk Theater. The ensemble includes (left to right) Courtlandt Lyons, Storm Kopitsch, Anasti Her and Jeff Kennedy. It runs various dates from July 7-17 at Riverwalk Theatre’s Black Box space.
From the Barn to the Black Box
Joe Dickson was a week away from opening Over the Ledges Theater company’s 2022 season when he was told by the Grand Ledge city manager that the Barn Theater, located … more
|
ScrapFest 12’s newest addition to the annual repurpose-focused art festival is the ReFashion Show.
ScrapFest returns in style
ScrapFest 12, the repurpose-focused art festival, returns to the streets of Old Town this weekend with a scrap metal sculpture competition, eco-art booths, live music and family activities. But a … more
|
Kamryn Whitfield is a local creative who has published her first book of poetry.
A notable local poet emerges from a family of creatives
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard writers say “I could do that” when it comes to writing poetry. No, you can’t. Writing poetry is hard. It takes a special … more
|
Pianist Clayton Stephenson played a concerto by Florence Price with the LSO at the Wharton Center May 13 and will return June 2, 2023, to premiere a new work by LSO composer-in-residence Patrick Harlin.
Major works, world premieres burst from Lansing Symphony in 2022-‘23
A benevolent hippo just sat on your creeping dread of next year. Exciting young soloists at the top of their game, bucket-list musical experiences like Stravinsky’s explosive … more
|
"Fortunately, I found a very good successor whose musical interests extend far beyond mine," Elderly Instruments co-founder Stan Werbin said of his daughter, Lillian.
Strings and Roots
The tune was pretty shaky at first, but it’s lasted 50 years now.   When Elderly Instruments opened July 5, 1972, in a basement in East Lansing, it was a 10-foot by 12-foot cubicle with … more
|
For more than a decade, Jahshua Smith has been a fixture in Michigan’s hip-hop scene.
Local emcee Jahshua Smith weighs in on the state of hip-hop in Lansing
As far as hip-hop goes in the state of Michigan and throughout the country, I wholeheartedly believe that a collection of the greatest voices to ever represent the genre were born in Lansing, or have … more
|
Mark Kurlansky
Papa and me: A writer’s obsession with Hemingway
Mark Kurlansky, who has written nearly three dozen books, some about mundane topics with titles such as “Salt” “Paper” and “Cod,” and is working on a book about … more
|
Local illustrator and designer Sara Pulver organized the first-ever 2022 Capital City Creatives Crawl.
Crawling with artists
 Bar crawls sound like fun to begin with, but they always leave you the worse for wear. A Creative Crawl has the opposite effect — the more stops you make, the more energized, inspired and … more
|
« Prev | 1 … 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 … 71 | Next »
Currently viewing stories posted within the past year.
For all older stories, please use our advanced search.

Connect with us

Advertise
Contact Us
© Copyright 2024 City Pulse | Privacy Policy
Powered by Creative Circle Media Solutions