‘A sweetheart of a man’
SUNDAY, Aug. 17 — It’s hard to believe that Lansing had a newspaper man who was roundly admired, imitated and loved as a writer, as a human being and even as an editor, but there was such …
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‘It’s all surreal’
Lansing native Melissa White can expect to receive a golden gramophone with her name engraved on it come April.
‘You should be so lucky’
Betty Baxter, a breezy jazz vocalist with a winning, lowkey presence and an encyclopedic knowledge of the Great American Songbook, died Thursday morning at 91 after fighting off several health problems.
”Nancy’ gives me pure pleasure’
Bill Griffith, creator of the syndicated comic strip "Zippy," has pushed a big rock up a tall hill in his new graphic novel, “Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created ‘Nancy.’”
‘They even took the dirt’
It took over five years, including a pandemic pause, to bring one of Lansing’s least known but important and wrenching stories to the screen, and now it’s here.
‘It’s a great time’
East Lansing’s Summer Solstice Jazz Festival is sprouting an early pepper this year, and it’s a hot one. Bassist Jonathon Muir-Cotton and his multi-talented Expressions band will …
‘I found the formula’
How hot is Michael Dease? The MSU jazz trombone professor with the frictionless, ductile tone, rippling rhythmic drive and unquenchable zest for life is at the very top of his game. ... …
Down the chute with gusto
Music is nothing but vibrating air, but sometimes it has the power to convince you that the world is just being born — or that it’s coming to an end. Friday’s world premiere of “The Fourth Pedal,” a piano concerto by Lansing Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence Patrick Harlin, had it both ways.
Explorer in residence
It’s hard to budge a symphony orchestra, what with all those tubas, fiddles, harps and whatnot. The weight of tradition makes it even harder. But in the past three years, 38-year-old composer …
Bell, book and Kindle
Are you one of those readers who like to open a biography in the middle, to get to the good stuff? You don’t care what Napoleon or Catherine the Great did in diapers? …