After months of rehearsal and preparation, the Jazz Studies program’s leading ensemble took first place in the nation at the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship at Jazz at Lincoln Center Wednesday (April 20).
Terry Terry is the first to admit he’ll never get a prize for his musical skills. He plays flute and drums in a jam band that gathers sporadically at his house, called The Other Band.
Two and a half months after Lansing Mayor Andy Schor announced plans to build a downtown performing arts center, the players are still backstage, working out who will own and operate it.
There’s nothing quite like the enthusiasm of Barb Whitney as she grabs you by the hand, yanks you over to a painting or sculpture at the Lansing Art Gallery and expands your mind with a breathless appreciation.
Broad Museum director Monica Ramírez-Montagut told City Pulse last week that she plans to create a permanent space for the “museum collection,” including the former Kresge Art Gallery collection, resolving a question that has hung over the museum like a sword of Damocles since its beginnings in 2012.
After a rocky pre-adolescence marked by bad luck with its top leadership, unmet expectations, a persistent undertow of bafflement and hostility from the community, and a pandemic for a cherry on top, the Broad Museum is cooking on all burners this spring.