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Arts and Entertainment

A wild ride

Area theatre goers are in for a wild ride attending a play about ... well a wild ride. "Men on Boats,' by Jacklyn Backhaus and directed by Michigan Tech Assistant Teaching Professor Nich Radcliffe opens its four-night run Tuesday at the McArdle Theatre in the Walker Arts and Humanities Center ...

From Spice Girl to fashion mogul

NEW YORK (AP) — Now here’s something you might not quite believe about Victoria Beckham, glam Spice Girl turned high-profile fashion designer: At theater school, they purposely put her in the back row. Because she was too heavy. “It was really difficult,” she says now of the memory ...

Finally!

NEW YORK — Bad Company singer-songwriter Paul Rodgers treasures one of his last phone calls with guitarist Mick Ralphs. It was to deliver the news that, at long last, they'd been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “I said to him, ‘Do you remember when we were looking for a ...

41 North Film Festival

HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech's 41North Film Festival begins its four-day run at the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts on the Michigan Technological University campus. The 41 North Film Festival showcases award-winning independent films and filmmakers from around the region, country, and world. ...

Carry on

HARRIS — Rock legends Kansas are set to bring their powerful sound to the Island Resort & Casino for two big shows on Feb. 27 and 28. Tickets are $60 and go on saleat 10 a.m. today (Oct. 30) through the casino. With a legendary career spanning five decades, Kansas has firmly established ...

Boyer work in Japanese gallery

ABOVE NEW YORK STATE ROUTE 25 Former Houghton resident Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer will have a drawing done with Crayola® Twistables® coloured pencils on paper included in a group art exhibition in Japan. "The Feelings Between Us and Their Influence on Our Collective Creativity," which is ...