NewsfeedPianist to perform
Prize-winning pianist Lori Sims will perform at Saginaw Valley State University Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 pm in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall as part of the 2004-05 Rhea Miller Concert Series. »
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Backstage with The Tempest
It's 1 pm Sunday afternoon and most of the cast for The Tempest is crowded inside the make-up room. Those unfamiliar with the actors would presume they'd be staring into mirrors, silently reciting lines and rehearsing cues. Instead the cast is spending their time joking, laughing and singing along to a radio blaring throughout the room. The noise and energy radiating throughout is so overwhelming that it is difficult to imagine that in less than an hour, these individuals will transform themselves into characters created almost 400 years before. »
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Music students assist Valley Wind Quintet
The Valley Wind Quintet performed together Tuesday, March 22 for the 22nd consecutive year.
The spring concert took place in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall and featured music composed by Amy Beach, Gyorgy Ligeti, and W.A. Mozart. »
Lullabies doesn't rock as hard as Songs
Here is a question that many bands face every year: Is an album a failure if it doesn't emulate the total mastery that its predecessor achieved, yet still manages to be a completely thrilling hour-long ride? »
Wylde's Mafia makes Ozzy an afterthought
There was a time when Ozzy Osbourne was not just a mumbling old man with long hair and tattoos on the television. »
Subplots, mysteries make Beauty Shop ugly
Although not as great as it predecessors Barbershop and Barbershop 2, Beauty Shop has its share of interesting moments. But for the amount of subplots and characters, the movie abruptly finishes and doesn't leave as many memorable characters or moments as the Barbershop set. »
Sin City shows how good bad really can be
Sin City is quite simply a work of art. Here is a film that meets and perhaps even exceeds the lofty expectations and hype it seemed to garner almost overnight. Based on the Frank Miller comic series of the same name, Sin City is a masterstroke of style and craft. This is a movie about shady people in a shady world, doing shady things, and it has never been so fun. »
Kutcher predictable in Guess Who
In no way is it fair to put Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher and Judith Scott next to Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn. Yet, in some subtle ways, that's exactly what Director Kevin Sullivan does in Guess Who, his own personal rendition of Stanley Kramer's 1967 classic Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. »