• E.L. Eats

    Venture beyond E.L. for best breakfast

    Going out for breakfast is always a great way to start a weekend day. I traveled a little out of my East Lansing comfort zone for the ultimate weekend comfort food — a bacon and eggs breakfast at The Golden Harvest, 1625 Turner St., in Lansing. And after my experience there, I’ll drive the extra couple miles west on Grand River Avenue to hit up this Lansing breakfast nook instead of confining myself to East Lansing.

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  • MSUT3K: A Film Blog

    New drama's aimed to satisfy 'morbid' audiences

    We follow cops on their beats through temptation and triumph. We follow firefighters into burning buildings and deeper into their lives that are burning down around their ears. We watch the good men and women of any crime scene investigation room dissect, discuss and get into and out of danger week after week. The inherent appeal of any workplace drama or comedy is to watch other people in situations you can’t/won’t/shouldn’t/are incapable of being in yourself. We’d all like to think we can make it as a tough-as-nails police detective or a crack pathologist. Truth is, these jobs are probably not nearly as fun or glamorous as they look on TV. So what’s the appeal of these shows anyway?

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  • Striking a Chord

    Feist and Gibbard make perfect match

    I’m not really a fan of Death Cab for Cutie. I don’t dislike it, per say, I just never really got into it. And I think the name is kind of stupid. But besides that point, in an odd turn of events, I almost always find myself a fan of singer Ben Gibbard’s side projects.

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