John Campbell A&E Reporter The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed. var so68_1 = { params : { wmode : "opaque", allowfullscreen : "true", bgcolor : "#000000"},...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Miller Auditorium announced both its 2012-13 Michigan Mailers Spotlight Series and its smaller Broadway Plus Series shows this morning, completing the line-up for the upc...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The year 2013 is a big one for Western Michigan University’s School of Music. Sophomore Aaron Bomer playing on a Steinway & Sons piano in a practice room in Dalt...
Read More →John Campbell A&E Reporter Fancy Pants Theater is putting on three shows for the price of one with “Something Old, Something New, and Something In Between.” “Something Old, Something New, an...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor When the right song collides with the right moment, both are immortalized forever. I’ve written a lot, over the past few years, about music I love most, but while criti...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The 2012-2013 season at The University Theatre is rapidly coming to an end, and what better way to close than with the Cole Porter Tony Award-winning classic “Kiss Me,...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Farmers Alley Theatre is fusing Alfred Hitchcock with Monty Python with their production of “The 39 Steps,” continuing its near sold-out run The four-person show is ...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor 42 Directed by Brian Helgeland Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Andre Holland B The uplifting and inspirational sports story is the type of movie we’ve seen ti...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The 2012-2013 season at The University Theatre is closing up shop this and next weekend with Cole Porter’s Tony Award-winning classic “Kiss Me, Kate.” “Kiss ...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Stanley (Landon Cally) and Eugene (Nikolas Spayne) try to come up with comedy sketch ideas in "Broadway Bound." (Photo courtesy of James Smith) The Kalamazoo C...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor The last time the Broadway national tour of “Wicked” stopped by Kalamazoo, it really did defy gravity. The smash musical theater hit, which is closing in on its 10th a...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The Bullock Performance Institute’s Live and Interactive! series closed its year-long run last Wednesday night with the University Percussion Ensemble. Directed by WMU...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre is bringing the third installment of Neil Simon’s “Eugene trilogy” to Kalamazoo with “Broadway Bound.” Western Michigan University...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Roger Ebert, arguably the most famous and influential writer in the history of entertainment criticism, passed away earlier today due to complications from thyroid cancer....
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Craig Manning A&E Editor After weeks of speculation and supposed information leaks, the line-up for this summer’s Lollapalooza was announced today via the music festival’s official website. Se...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The Bullock Performance Institute’s Live and Interactive! series continues on Wednesday evening with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). ICE consists of Eri...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Matt Crowle (Courtesy Photo) A Broadway actor is taking the stage at the Franke Center For the Arts in Marshall for one more night only. Matt Crowle, who portrayed Not D...
Read More →Sean Murphy A&E Reporter Spring Breakers Directed by Harmony Korine Starring: James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine A- Spring Breakers is a frustratingly amazi...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor From the moment the curtain began to rise on Miller Auditorium’s West Michigan premiere of American Idiot, it was clear that this wasn’t going to be your customary pie...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor The national touring company of “American Idiot,” the hit Broadway musical based on Green Day’s 2004 rock opera of the same name, is coming to Miller Aud...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The Bullock Performance Institute’s Live and Interactive! series continued last Wednesday with the Western Wind Quintet. The quintet, consisting of WMU music professor...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience RCA, 2013 B+ There’s nothing in music criticism that bothers me more than writers lambasting an artist and tearing down their ...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Western Michigan University's theatre program announced their 2013-14 season this morning. Theatre productions are performed at the Gilmore Complex on WMU's West C...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Some video game series’ don’t get sequels as often as the gaming community hopes. Fans have been clamoring for a new StarFox game since 2006 and a new Killer Instin...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Lachlan MacQuarrie (Macduff) and Shane Schmidt (Macbeth) star in WMU's "Macbeth" (Photo by John Lacko) Vengeance is awakened at the D. Terry Williams Theat...
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Ambrosia Neldon News Editor For the past 60 years, WIDR (originally coined “In-Dorm Radio”), Western Michigan University’s student-run radio station, has been a huge part of the ent...
Read More →John Campbell A&E Reporter A person’s first sexual experience is something that is very different for everyone. Some people find their first experience extremely hilarious. Others don’t lik...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Growing up in Marquette, Mich., Jeremy Porter was probably one of those guys who spent as much time listening to the radio and spinning records on the turntable as he did ...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Slim Gypsy Baggage is back by popular demand. The regional-touring act, which has been on a 100-gig-a-year schedule since they came together back in 2011, played Bell’s ...
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Megan Wenzl News Reporter On Sunday, March 17, Western Michigan University students will embrace the fun green-themed holiday of St. Patrick’s Day. Western Herald File Photo Kalamazoo bars will ha...
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