Richard SchenckSports Editor

Located next to Tony Sacco’s in the Eastwood Towne Center is the newly opened Capital Prime Steaks & Seafood restaurant, formerly known as Bar 30.

As soon as you walk through the door, you can forget about what you know about dining in the Lansing area.

Once you are led to your leather seats at any of the numerous well-spaced tables, you are comfortably able to have some privacy while not left feeling like you are in no man’s land.

While looking over the menu, a variety of dishes might make you otherwise think you’re in a metropolitan, white tablecloth establishment.

The low-hanging chandeliers and smooth jazz have enough ambience where you sense they are there without being

unpleasant.With sections that appeal to meat,

gluten free, seafood or salad, there is something for everyone. The appetizer menu is anything but simple with choices such as Ahi Tuna Tartar and Oyster Rockefeller.

I chose the salmon salad with a glass of Pietra Santa ’10 Chardonnay out of California.

With a new experience in every bite with the Novia Scotia salmon, roasted bell peppers and raspberry-maple vinaigrette, it was a depth of flavor that one has to experience to know the feeling.

As far as fine dining goes, the quality of the food is only enhanced by having the chef come from the back of the house to personally ensure your food is up to your standards.

Capital Prime offers an extensive wine and beer list to ensure you have a beverage that can enhance your dining.

Servers offer you a taste of your choice

before the pour so you can be sure of your choice.

The menu is a bit pricey for the average college student, with appetizers ranging from $7 to $14 and entrees from $9 to $37 for the hefty 18-ounce Porterhouse.

Capital Prime is fine dining finally brought to the capital area. With lunch, dinner, and dessert menus, any palette can be satisfied for a price.

Once through the door, you cease being an average Joe and live like the better half.

Jeremy KohnStaff Writer

I must admit I found myself chuckling at the sight of Sandra Bullock falling deeper and deeper into space when I first laid eyes on the trailer they released for Gravity.

After a little curiosity and Internet hearsay piqued my interest, I decided to purchase a ticket for a 3D showing of the film.

The film is directed by Alfonso Cuaron, who some might recognize as the director of the acclaimed movie Children of Men.

The story stars Sandra Bullock as Ryan Stone, a mission specialist upon the NASA shuttle Explorer, and her superior Matt Kowalski, played by George Clooney.

While the mission team is surveying the shuttle, a distress signal comes across their radio, informing them debris from a Russian satellite is headed toward their location at a relentless speed.

This movie may sound like a typical outer space action film, However, there were two things that made this movie outstanding: the cinematography and the movie’s musical score. The cinematography was spectacular.

Cuaron draws you into the story and brings the sensation that you are floating with Bullock and Clooney amongst the stars. One of the most powerful scenes in the movie has Stone reaching critical low levels of oxygen.

Cuaron shot this scene entirely as if the viewer was inside her spacesuit. Viewers can feel her panic as she realize every breath she takes could be here last.

The soundtrack was the perfect accompaniment to the camera work. The music helped set the emotional spectrum of the story. It was beautiful and whimsical during scenes of exploration, and it was intense and daunting when characters’ lives were hanging in the balance.

If you choose to see one movie in 3D this year, I encourage everyone to spend the extra money and see Gravity in 3D.

Oct. 28 - Nov. 10, 2013www.lcc.edu/lookout

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Sarah Spohn A&E Editor

The minute my Make a Move CD by Gavin DeGraw started spinning, I pictured the metal on the tracks. Don’t think screeching freight train sound; rather the soundtrack to a lyrical cross-country journey.

Gavin DeGraw’s newest single, “Best I Ever Had” is refreshingly upbeat compared to many of his previous heartfelt piano ballads.

While the name might not be the most original, the talent is nothing but genuine.

For those fans like myself

who remember the honest grit of “I Don’t Wanna Be” or the breezy Free album, this new version of DeGraw tunes might strike the wrong chord. Make a Move is the product of the artist working with other music producers, and it shows.

The influence of One Republic’s Ryan Tedder’s collaboration might not be so subtle. A few of the tracks could arguably be mistaken for One Republic songs.

That being said, I will always be a fan of Gavin DeGraw and I can’t expect a change over the last 10 years since his debut Chariot album was released.

Life’s twists and turns might have re-directed this singer-songwriter in a somewhat altered route

than fans are used to. Think more of a stomp drum feel in the backgrounds than a single croon and swoon pianist.

Fans are happily reunited with the Gavin they fell in love with on the song, “Make a Move.”

“I’m Gonna Try” announces the return of the croon and swoon serenading we know. The same goes for track seven, titled “Need.”

Even if the album sounds more pop-based than the usual one-man raw talent show we’re used to, DeGraw still proves we need him.

The final track, “Leading Man” only reassures the fact that DeGraw is still a force to be reckoned with in the industry.

Make a Move appeals to editor

Located in Eastwood Towne Center, Capital Prime Steaks & Seafood offers a variety of seafood, vegetables and tender cuts.

Photo by Richard Schenck

‘Prime’ is cut above

Gravity pulls in the ratings