Entertainment

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the band Chicago took the stage at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall. Though audience members did not fear lightning strikes the way they might have at a previous MSU Chicago performance, the atmosphere was still electric.  In May of 1970, Chicago was among the likes of Jefferson Airplane and Rotary Connection as they played to a rain-soaked crowd of 35,000 on a rather muddy Old College Field. Ray Walsh, now owner of East Lansing’s Curious bookstore, had covered the event for The State News.  "Chicago was one of the groups that came out last," Walsh said. "They quit doing the concert after a while because there was so much rain coming down and nobody could hear anything." Despite the chaos that ensued ...

Privately-held Valve Corporation, a relatively minor player in a juggernaut’s world of gaming, has potentially pulled off a generational coup. In a surprise hardware showcase announced yesterday, the firm did more than introduce a new line of sleek devices—it ignited a wildfire of speculation across the gaming and tech industries, with Microsoft (MSFT) again attracting fresh takeover target rumors.Meet Your ETF AI Analyst At the center of the frenzy is Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine, a polished PC–console hybrid slated for early 2026. Though Valve insists it is “still a PC,” the product’s intent is unmistakable: to sit in the living room, run Steam like a console, and blur the line between traditional PC gaming and plug-and-play console experiences. Based on initial fan reactions, th...

Filmmaker Osgood Perkins—the man you brought you 2023’s Longlegs and 2025’s The Monkey—is back with a new creepy horror film opening in theaters this weekend, Keeper. Directed by Perkins, with a screenplay written by Nick Lepard, Keeper is a surrealist horror movie that stars Emmy-winning actor Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) as a woman named Liz, who is left alone in a secluded cabin for the weekend, after her husband Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) abruptly leaves in the middle of their anniversary celebration. Now that’s just rude! Especially because now Liz has to deal with this supernatural evil entry that’s stalking her. Ugh! The Keeper movie is a tiny, two-actor film that came to be because Perkins had to pause production on The Monkey amid the 2023 writer and actors’ strike. Yay s...

Over the summer, it was story time with Jeffrey Liles and Robert Wilonsky. Two Dallas music culture historians delved into in-depth topics for a one-night-only storytelling experience. The audience was instructed to write one single word on an index card. A band, genre, concert, or album, the word was the inspiration and jumping-off point. The show is spontaneous, leaving people to be engaged and inspired, as Wilonsky provides the necessary context and chronological order needed to fill in Liles’ timeline. This weekend, Liles and Wilonsky are doing it again for Storytellers at The Kessler: Cottonmouth, Texas Chapter 2. Wilonsky will return for hosting duties while Liles is back to reflect on a transformative time in Dallas music history. When news happens,...

AC thVRsday In his weekly column, Android Central Senior Content Producer Nick Sutrich delves into all things VR, from new hardware to new games, upcoming technologies, and so much more.Last night, I lay in bed playing Lumines Arise til my arms started to ache from holding my Steam Deck in the air. This afternoon, I placed my Meta Quest 3 on my head and seamlessly continued my progress in the game, this time with an unparalleled sense of immersion that my Steam Deck could never hope to offer.It's this type of hybrid play-as-you-please gaming haven that Valve planted the roots for when it launched the Steam Deck several years ago, which is now entering the blooming stages as the Steam Frame launches in early 2026.The Steam Frame, as the new VR headset is called, is a standalone "Steam De...

Glen Powell has been in quite a few projects over the past few years, and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. That’s particularly true of his latest film to hit the 2025 movie calendar, Edgar Wright’s remake of The Running Man, which sees his character Ben Richards join a reality show in which he has to elude people for 30 days who are trying to hunt and kill him. So what are critics saying about the upcoming Stephen King adaptation?The author himself, who published the novel of the same name in 1982 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, has seen the film and called it “fantastic,” while audiences’ first reactions praised the fun dystopian action thriller. In CinemaBlend’s review of The Running Man, Eric Eisenberg agrees it is a great Stephen King adaptation … until it’s comple...

Soviet Era and Music Collage by J. Reynolds FLC’s Holly Quist stages lecture-recital Sunday “Gubaidulina’s work is not the kind of thing you put on during morning yoga,” wrote Zachary Woolfe in his March 13 New York Times obituary for the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. The eminent musician had died the day before leaving a legacy of powerful music and an extraordinary personal history. That legacy has been extended by Holly Quist, visiting professor of piano at Fort Lewis College. Quist paid tribute to her musical mentor Sep. 28 at the FLC Faculty Showcase. She performed the majestic “Chaconne.” Since then, she has expanded her lecture-re...

To support military families in need during the holiday season, the Christian County Military Affairs Committee is partnering with Oak Grove Racing, Gaming and Hotel to give away 750 turkeys for Thanksgiving. Committee Director Shannon Lane says they typically host ham giveaways near Easter, but due to the federal government shutdown, which ended on Wednesday, he wanted to find away to support military families now. The turkey giveaway is open to all Department of Defense I.D. cardholders. Committee Chair Philip Eastman says the giveaway is an example of their mission to support active-duty military members, veterans and their family members. Last week, the committee hosted a food distribution at the Oak Grove entertainment destination. Afterward, Lane says Oak Grove Racin...

Keeper will be released in theaters on November 14.Osgood Perkins has had a very busy year. Just weeks ago, he started production on his next film, The Young People, after kicking January off strong with The Monkey, one of my favorite films of 2025. Perkins is so busy that he’s making movies while he’s making other movies: Keeper, the latest of Perkins’ “dark trips” and a tale of new love gone wrong, was shot during a production break on The Monkey forced by the 2023 actors’ strike under an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA. A movie having an accelerated development and production process doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll have major issues (2004’s Saw was shot in 18 days), but the risk sure does go up. With Keeper feeling like a slow-burn that never gets cooking, that seems to have been at lea...

The University of West Florida Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present the UWF Strings and Vocal Recital in concert. The performance will be held on Friday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m. at Old Christ Church in historic downtown Pensacola.  In their first semiannual end-of-semester recital, UWF Strings and Vocal studio students will perform in a showcase of various works. Featuring select UWF voice, violin, viola, cello and string bass students, this showcase offers a sampling of diverse talents. Students will perform works by Bach, Telemann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Massenet and more.  This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required for this event. For more information, call the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music office at 850.474.2147. Source ...