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Friday, November 20, 2009
Another Night Before Christmas
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After a lonely social worker shares her groceries with a homeless man, the same man masquerading as Santa Clause breaks into her home. Another Night Before Christmas is a twist on the famous poem that shares its namesake. |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Event Horizon
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Event Horizon is an ambitious multidisciplinary project that features various aspects of the Walker's extensive collection presented in a continuously unfolding rotation-of film, paintings, sculpture, performances, and ideas-over the course of three years. |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Osmo Vänskä with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
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Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra Music Director, performs as a soloist for the first time since moving to Minneapolis six years ago, performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. In the second half of the performance, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra performs The Bridge, a work composed by Vänskä in response to the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. |
Monday, November 23, 2009
Electric Six
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Electric Six is a six-piece metro Detroit-based band that plays what has been described as a brand of rock music infused with elements of "garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal. With The Gay Blades and Millions of Brazilians. |
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
The Sheroes of Comedy
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The Sheroes are Alycia Cooper, Tracey Ashley, Leighann Lord and Retta four headlining comediennes, who have all made names for themselves for more than a decade as individuals. You have seen them on Comedy Central NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Last Comic Standing, Comics Unleashed, TVLAND HBO Def Comedy All Star Jam, and ABC’s The View, to name a few. They also work colleges and clubs across the country and abroad. The tone of the show is sexy, sassy, smart, and insightful, and the chemistry between the girls is undeniable. |
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Big Pink
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You've heard this duo's song "Dominoes" on the Current. The super-catchy electropop duo has made waves across the pond, and is now searching for US domination. With Crystal Antlers and Claps. |
Friday, November 27, 2009
Welcoming Christian Zacharias
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Acclaimed pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias begins his SPCO artistic partnership with a French-themed program that showcases Zacharias as pianist and conductor. |
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Choreographer's Evening
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This is one of the annual don't-miss evenings of Twin Cities dance-a showcase of local work, from splashy to strange, emerging to established, mainline to marginal. Curators Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad (of the BodyCartography Project) should give this year's version an experimental spin. |
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine senior writer Steve Marsh chats backstage with former Jayhawk musicians Gary Louris and Mark Olson before their performance at the Varsity Theater.
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine staff writer Steve Marsh talks to author Chuck Klosterman about his book Downtown Owl, Sarah Palin, and the state of zoos in America, plus, we capture Electric Light Orchestra tribute band E.L.nO. performing at the Triple Rock Social Club.
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine staff writer Steve Marsh goes 25,000 feet into the air to talk with local musicians, from Lori Line to Dan Wilson, at Sun Country’s Concert in the Sky event.
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine senior editor Brian Lambert checks out the pooch photo shoot at the Guthrie featuring Wyatt, the four-legged star of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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Check out one of the year's most anticipated museum exhibitions.
blog by Mpls.St.Paul A+E Editor Tad Simons
Granted, the premise of Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather sounds like the setup for an SNL skit: “Hey, how about we take the plot of The...
The literature on the subject seems fairly clear: negotiating with the devil is a bad idea. The devil holds all the good cards—infinite time, supernatural...
blog by mspmag.com's Parties Editors
Party Patrol trekked out to Lake Minnetonka for the Cities 97 Sampler Volume 21 Release Party to mingle with feel-good DJs, laid back musicians, and big-hearted fans.
Maiden Minnesota by Erin Gulden on November 6, 2009 Shoppers gather at the Graves 601 to shop and support Free Arts Minnesota at the second annual Maiden Minnesota event.
blog by David Anderson
L.A. Magazine featured the life of an actor-waiter in its August L.A. Archetype column, and now come November, another former Minnesotan appears in the very... I’m two weeks away from launching my web opus: USofAnderson.com—hence my recent hiatus from the blogging world. It’s a project that has consumed me like...
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These are "dives" in the best sense of the word—places where character, tradition, and local color run much deeper than usual.
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The New Congress combats the creeping sanitization and corporatization of contemporary pop music by blending R & B, hip-hop, jazz, and rock that it calls “urban soul.”
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In real life, nuns aren't all that funny. But during the holiday season, Twin Citians invariably flock to shows featuring various forms of nun- and church-based hilarity.
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SLIDESHOW
See a sample of the masterpieces from the Minneapolis Institute of Art's new exhibit The Louvre and the Masterpiece, running from October 18-January 10.
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A major retrospective of conceptual artist Dan Graham’s work, Dan Graham: Beyond, comes to the Walker Art Center, October 31–January 24.
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» The Louvre and the Masterpiece
See a sample of the masterpieces from the Minneapolis Institute of Art's new exhibit The Louvre and the Masterpiece, running from October 18-January 10.
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This exhibit includes replicas of passenger cabins, photographs, and a spectacular Omnitheater film. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, June 12-January 3, 2010, The Science Museum of Minnesota
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