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After being canceled in the pandemic year of 2020 and downscaled in 2021, Lansing’s Smooth Jazz Fête, an afternoon-long revue of national smooth jazz luminaries in the shade of the east …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Summer Solstice Jazz Festival roars back with two days and two stages of swing
Pianist Larry Fuller never took a jazz class. He feels lucky to have played “in the wild,” as he describes it, with jazz greats like Floyd “Candy” Johnson, jazz and blues …
New comic book tells ‘heroic origin story’ of Gay Pride in Michigan
Some stories are best told from below the ankle. Four entangled bare feet — two white and two black —nestle playfully at the top of the last page of a new comic book that …
LSO goes where no one has gone before in season closer
Is there anything new under the Sun? The first minutes of “Earthrise,” the world premiere of a cosmic-themed work by LSO composer-in-residence Patrick Harlin, left room for …
MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams gets to the heart of the matter
On April 23, 2022, the first sunny Saturday afternoon in months, about 1,000 people ducked into a windowless labyrinth of concrete, cables and electronics, housed in a dim, zeppelin-sized bunker on the south campus of Michigan State University. They listened patiently as scientists shouted themselves hoarse, through pandemic masks and over the roar of machinery, about radio frequencies, dipole magnets and other arcane subjects.