Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Food + DiningMpls.St.Paul Magazine Shopping + StyleMpls.St.Paul Magazine Arts + EntertainmentMpls.St.Paul Magazine Parties and Party PicsMpls.St.Paul Magazine Travel + VisitorsMpls.St.Paul Magazine HomesMpls.St.Paul Magazine HealthMpls.St.Paul Magazine FamilyMpls.St.Paul Magazine Weddings
Arts + Entertainment
This Week's Picks

Friday, November 20, 2009

Another Night Before Christmas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.



Gary Louris and Mark Olson at the Varsity Theater

Gary Louris and Mark Olson at the Varsity Theater

VIDEO

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.

/images/feature_box/video.gif

Chuck Klosterman and E.L.nO. at the Triple Rock

Chuck Klosterman and E.L.nO. at the Triple Rock

VIDEO

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.

/images/feature_box/video.gif

Concert in the Sky

Concert in the Sky

VIDEO

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.

Guthrie Pooch Photo Shoot

Guthrie Pooch Photo Shoot

VIDEO

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.

Museums + Galleries
The Lourve and the Masterpiece Check out one of the year's most anticipated museum exhibitions.
The Morning After . . .

The Morning After . . .

blog by Mpls.St.Paul A+E Editor Tad Simons

Review: The Seafarer @ The Jungle Theater
by Tad Simons
on November 14, 2009

Tad SimonsThe 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...

Review: The Sense of What Should Be @ The Playwrights' Center
by Tad Simons
on November 9, 2009

Tad SimonsThe idea that comic books might provide more useful information than religion for navigating the modern world is a promising one. After all, during the...

Party Patrol

Party Patrol

blog by mspmag.com's Parties Editors

Cities 97 Sampler Volume 21 Release Party
by Maura Ryan
on November 20, 2009

Maura RyanParty 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

Erin GuldenShoppers gather at the Graves 601 to shop and support Free Arts Minnesota at the second annual Maiden Minnesota event.

David Anderson

LA Log

blog by David Anderson

Angelina Jolie's Body Double, a Minnesotan
on October 21, 2009

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...

USofAnderson and Har Mar Superstar in my hood
on October 12, 2009

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...

martini

Dive Bars

These are "dives" in the best sense of the word—places where character,  tradition, and local color run much deeper than usual.

mspmag.com Social

Join us on:


Facebook
>>

Twitter
>>

YouTube
>>
Features
the new congress

The New Congress

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.”

a nun of nunset blvd

Do you like to laugh at nuns?

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.    

georges de la tour's the card-sharp with ace of diamonds

The Louvre and the Masterpiece

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.

dan graham's

Dan Graham: Beyond at the Walker Art Center

A major retrospective of conceptual artist Dan Graham’s work, Dan Graham: Beyond, comes to the Walker Art Center, October 31–January 24.

» A+E CALENDAR


Family Friendly

Loading. . .

» The Louvre and the Masterpiece

louvre painting

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.

» Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

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

» mspmag.com Mobile

mspmag.com Mobile

mspmag.com Mobile

mspmag.mobi, our new mobile site, allows you to find restaurants, shops, nightlife, and special offers on your cell phone fast.

» Nightlife Guide

Nightlife Guide

Our take on the local nightlife scene.

+ Live Music
+
Dance Club
+ Happy Hour
+ Wine Bar

» New in A+E

Just Announced

For the latest in new Twin Cities A + E events, check out Just Announced.


mspmag.com | Mpls.St.Paul Magazine © 2009 MSP Communications, Inc. All rights reserved