One man’s music walks the earth. The other man’s music floats above it. One plucks rhythm and soul from strings and wood. The other makes machines cry. Jazz bassist Rodney Whitaker and techno pioneer Carl Craig inhabit different musical worlds, but they f... See more
“Immigration” is a dry bone of a word, bleached white and worn to a nub by countless fingerprints, agendas and statistics. The stories and images that fill this weekend’s fourth annual Michigan State University Latinx Film Festival put flesh, skin and blo... See more
Walk into the latest art exhibit at East Lansing’s (SCENE) Metrospace, “Things that Stay,” and feel your blood pressure go down by about 20 points. Last week, curator Laurén Gerig was orchestrating the work of three Michigan artists, balancing their affin... See more
Russian-born, London-based conductor Vasily Petrenko tackles some heavy music with the venerable Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. But he dances with the ensemble so nimbly and has so much fun on the podium that you hardly feel the weight. Petrenko brings the... See more
Despite the risk of turning off the old guard, new music peeks through the window fairly often at the Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s regular concerts, but it doesn’t usually break the window. Composer-in-residence Jared Miller’s “Shattered Night” concerto, ... See more
