Licks and lessons from Detroit
Soulful Detroit trumpeter Dwight Adams can teach MSU Jazz Studies students a lot of things when he comes to town for a week-long residency and a concert Friday night, but self-promotion is not one of …
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Move like a proton
I’d love to clue you in on the weird and wonderful dance production coming to the Wharton Center Sunday, but it won’t be easy. As Frank Zappa should have said, writing about dancing is like dancing about isotopes. …
Gusts from the Windy City
String quartets are so 19th century. Saxophone quartets are the room-swell-ing, bone-buzzing, shape-shifting vehicle of choice for many of the 21st century’s most vital and compelling …
To hell and back: The story of Buchenwald Airman Russell Hilding
Lansing native Russell Hilding, who died at age 100 last year, was the last surviving Buchenwald Airman. He left behind a trove of memorabilia.
A blast of Basie
Jazz vocalist Carmen Bradford can whisper, soar, groove and thunder her way into your soul. She makes it look easy, but it’s not. “It’s a challenge to sing every night, to …
‘A different type of ecstasy’
It’s a chilly Wednesday morning in Chicago, and 25-year-old violinist Adé Williams, soloist at this week’s Lansing Symphony opener, can’t wait to practice.
‘Not your father’s co-op’
A long six years ago, the East Lansing Food Co-op was trampled, like a rare mushroom, in a slow-motion stampede of competing health food and specialty food stores. It was a sad …
The Saginaw Saga
If there are seasons in the life of a city block, it’s been a long winter on the 900 block of West Saginaw Street, in the heart of the city’s near west side.
Lansing’s planned performing arts center does finance dance
If all goes as planned, Lansing’s 2022-‘23 arts calendar will bring the first act of a multi-million-dollar, real-world production, decades in the making: the groundbreaking of a new …
The next act
Eric Olmscheid has a strange sense of timing when it comes to taking a new job. He started work as the fourth executive director in the 40-year history of MSU’s Wharton Center for Performing …