Michigan-filmed 'Answer This!' to screen at Capital City Film Festival

Filmed in Ann Arbor, the new comedy flick Answer This! will be showing at the first-ever Capital City Film Festival (which runs next week, April 14 through 17) on Sunday, April 17.

If you recall from VIM's Fall 2010 issue (see: Michigan: Hollywood's New Hot Spot), the movie follows the life of a University of Michigan graduate student who finally begins to figure his life out when he enters a citywide pub trivia tournament with his friends. Answer This! stars Chris Parnell (TV's Saturday Night Live), Christopher Gorham (TV's Ugly Betty) and Arielle Kebbel (John Tucker Must Die) among others and also marks the first time U-M has lent its name to a film.

To buy tickets to the screening, click HERE.

For the entire calendar of events check out the Capital City Film Festival website.

Attention Aspiring Fashion Designers!

The recently opened Michigan Fashion Proto (MFP), 1305 S. Cedar St., Ste. 304, has been established for YOU, aiming to provide designers, established businesses and students with a fully functioning pattern and sample room for production and production-management functions. The MFP consists of industrial machinery, professional standard goods and highly skilled workers.

Owner Rebecca Clark, 35, of Okemos has more than 12 years of experience working in New York's fashion district and has worked with such fashionable presences as Vera Wang, Daisy Fuentes and Lori Goldstein.

Clark's Michigan Fashion Proto will be officially introduced to the public through an opening event that will celebrate Michigan's budding fashion industry on Thursday, Feb. 10 at the MFP studio.

Check out the company's website HERE.

3rd Annual Middle of the Mitten This Saturday!

The 3rd Annual Middle of the Mitten is a local talent showcase held by The Record Lounge, 503 E. Grand River Ave., and commemorates the opening of the store itself in 2008.

The Record Lounge founded its business with a priority being to showcase local, independent talent (as well as great vinyls). As a result, Record Lounge employee and MSU professional writing student Joel Heckaman has worked with the shop for the past three years to put together this fantastic event showcasing local-area and independent musical talent.

Starting at 6 p.m., this year's showcase is happening on Saturday, Jan. 29 at Lansing's The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., and will feature such acts as: Versus The Ocean, Life Size Ghost, Frank And Earnest and Adam Dahl (for the entire list click here).

Tickets: $5 presale (available from bands or at The Record Lounge), $7 at the door.

VIM up for 'Top of the Town' Award!

VIM Magazine is up for the Best Student Publication award in this year's Top of the Town Awards brought to you by Lansing City Pulse and WLNS TV 6.

VOTE HERE (in the "...WHATEVER" category)

Winners will be announced March 9!

Fifth annual Oktoberfest in Old Town

Kick off your October the right way this Friday and Saturday by checking out the fifth annual Oktoberfest in Old Town. The Old Town Commercial Association is hosting this German-themed festival, which will feature German food, music and most importantly...beer!

The festival will feature live entertainment between 6 and 11 p.m. on Friday and from 2 to 11 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $17 at the door or $13 if you buy them online (by tonight!). Ticket price includes admittance to the beer tent, a souvenir beer stein and three food and drink tickets. All proceeds will go directly to the Old Town Commercial Association and the continuing revitalization of Old Town.

So come, drink and be merry at Old Town's Oktoberfest this weekend! You know you want to.

For more information on the event, visit the 2010 Old Town Oktoberfest website.