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This week, Turn it Down! dishes dirt on new releases hot off the press from two local bands. The first is a soulful digital single, the second is a raw EP recorded remotely while all band members …
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Rich Tupica
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6/19/20
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Jon, a Lansing-based DIY producer says he grew up “all over the place” but has called Lansing home for the last six years. Read on to find out more.
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Rich Tupica
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6/19/20
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We are in a time when lawn signs have replaced graduation, Zoom is a preferred wedding venue, kids are having drive-by birthday parties and we are saying goodbye to our friends and loved ones on Facebook and with posts on funeral home web sites.
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Bill Castanier
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6/19/20
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Reyna said she hopes the day will see a peaceful, positive get-together for local artists to share their work with one another, as well as demonstrate support for the movement against police brutality.
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Skyler Ashley
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6/19/20
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A stunning, 6-foot-tall portrait of George Floyd by Flint artist Isiah Lattimore is stopping joggers, bikers and strollers in their tracks as they pass under I-496 on the Lansing River Trail.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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6/19/20
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Tim Lane is an athletic specialist for the City of East Lansing and the assistant coordinator of the East Lansing Art Festival. He is a husband and father. Aside from that, Lane is also an artist, writer and poet—and his favorite thing fully reflects that creative passion.
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Rich Tupica
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6/16/20
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Last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order giving libraries across Michigan the green light to reopen on Monday. Wait — not so fast! You will be able to get a haircut before you can check out a book.
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Bill Castanier
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6/16/20
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The Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-‘21 line-up is packed with new music by young American composers and major blockbusters from the likes of Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich and Richard Strauss,
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Lawrence Cosentino
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6/16/20
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The pandemic of 2020 was no get-together. It was the ultimate stay-apart.
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Nicole Rico and Lawrence Cosentino
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6/12/20
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So while its strange times like we’ve never seen before, this week “Locals Pick Locals” Vol. 9 digs back and unearths some optimistic, summery tunes that’ll hopefully brighten your day.
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Rich Tupica
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5/30/20
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After 10 weeks of solitary lockdown, Lansing jazz lovers dug the sound of a simmering trio again. Shoup, guitarist Rick Hicks and organist Jim Alfredson stirred their plinks, licks and lines together and resumed the livestreaming version of Moriarty’s Jazz Tuesdays in Alfredson’s studio basement.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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5/30/20
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My favorite things are plants. Indoor plants, outdoor plants, plants from all growing zones and conditions. They symbolize life on this planet: no plants, no life.
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Rich Tupica
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5/29/20
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A photographer wanted to get out and do some work and a moment in time needed to be documented. A portrait genre was born.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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5/28/20
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Nothing in this world combines exercise, diversion, travel, philosophy and safely fleeting human contact better than biking. It’s no wonder that this spring, a lot of people are rediscovering the bicycle as a glorious way to shake off the stink of quarantine.
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As an engineering technician for the City of Lansing for more than three decades, Bob Rose’s life revolved primarily around numbers and hard data. Now, he’s spending his retirement exploring his artistic side.
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Skyler Ashley
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5/23/20
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Walls have been built to separate us; to repel invading armies; to keep people in; to keep people out; to protect privacy; buffer expressway noise; and, sadly, to protect property values.
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Bill Castanier
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5/22/20
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“Greenhouse,” which features his largest array of producers to date, is a major leap forward for MikeyyAustin.
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Skyler Ashley
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5/21/20
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You usually have to turn a suit or a pair of pants inside out to finish an alteration. Turning the whole store inside out is a new wrinkle, even for one of downtown Lansing’s retail anchors, 160-year-old Kositchek’s men's clothing store.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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5/21/20
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Fifty years ago Sunday, May 24, 1970, more than 35,000 music fans crowded into a muddy field at Michigan State University’s Old College Field.
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Bill Castanier
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5/21/20
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If the Curtainless Theatre was a musical group, it wouldn’t play simple pop or three-chord rock ‘n’ roll.
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David Winkelstern
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5/15/20
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