News For, By and About People
The nymphs in Cirque du Soleil’s Alegria are
youthful and ethereal. Their exuberance is infectious and their enchanting dance can melt the hardest of hearts.
Performances set to begin on February 4 to 7, 2010 at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit and March 31, 2010 through April 4, 2010 at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. Photo by Camirand.
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm announced DMB Director Lisa Webb Sharpe’s appointment as senior vice president for finance and administration at Lansing Community College (LCC).
Reality shows have infiltrated our televisions. Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar was recently featured on “Man vs. Food”.
To the right holding the burger is Steve Mallie, owner of Mallie’s Sports
Grill. To the left in the suit is Danny Girton from Guinness World Records.
Courtesy photo
Jazz Studies at MichiganState University
As Michigan State University begins to discuss ways to reduce current and projected budget shortfalls, we have become aware of false rumors relating to the status of the Jazz Studies
Program within the College of Music. We want to assure our current jazz majors, their parents,
prospective jazz students, faculty, alumni, and friends that the undergraduate
and graduate degree programs in jazz at Michigan State University are continuing. The only
aspect of the jazz major to be discontinued is, regretfully, the jazz voice specialization.
I realize people in this country feel the pressure of the instantaneous, got to have it now world and have a self-inflicted condition of having to be anywhere else right now. However, it still amazes me how many people do not seem to have the capacity to enjoy the moment.
Mighty Medicine is a guitar and vocal duo whose intention is to offer music that swings while it nourishes; funky folk with splashes of jazz and blues, and original tunes with hopeful, positive words we can all use a little dose of now and then.
Photo by David Smith
