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THEATER | Joking Envelope's "Safe as Houses": Buyer beware
Safe as Houses is like a Michael Bay movie: it's big, it's intense, it's often impressive, there's a lot of screaming, and it doesn't much seem to matter at any given moment what happens next.MORE »
DESIGN | "Create, inspire, brand, and market": AIGA Minnesota honors the best in local design
The Minnesota chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, will hold its 32nd annual Design Show this Friday, March 26, from 6-9 p.m. at the Walker Art Center. For this year's show, entrants were asked to "show your block." Christina Rimstad, Design Show chair, explained that "'Show Your Block' is a call to designers out there to display their genius, demonstrate their pride by showing us their best ‘blockbusting' work created over the past year."MORE »
"The Secret Life of Hedy Lamarr" at the BLB
Hedy Lamarr, a starlet of Hollywood's "Golden Age", knows a few more things than she's letting on. What's she building in there? What is that tapping sound? Shouldn't she be memorizing her lines? With the help of a shovel and an accordion, Kevin Kling and Simone Perrin dig up secrets even Hedy didn't know she had.
Opening-Day Gallery Talk: 1964
A new exhibition homes in on the array of artistic developments under way in 1964-the same year that saw the Beatles' invasion of America, race riots erupting across the nation, the Civil Rights Act signed into law, and the first U.S. bombs dropped on North Vietnam.
MOVIES | At the Walker, Minnesota filmmakers are truly "Women With Vision"
The diversity of subject and style by the Minnesota filmmakers whose work is featured in the Walker Art Center's Women With Vision Film Festival really impressed me. Many of these directors are breaking new ground in what documentaries can do and how they do it.MORE »
THEATER | Nimbus slides down a "Strike-Slip"-pery slope at the Theatre Garage
I have to hand it to the folks at Nimbus for attempting such an ambitious production as Strike-Slip by Naomi Iizuka, now playing at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage. With a large cast, a hugely innovative design, and a play that tackles themes of violence, cross-cultural connections, and redemption, the company must be given credit for risk-taking. Unfortunately, they are hindered by the script itself, which relies too heavily on coincidences and has little to say.MORE »
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
"A breathing portrait . . . you feel the deep, lonely ache of something precious lost. Thank Heaven that Stories Left to Tell reminds you that something precious remains as well. " -New York Times
Thursday, March 18 with Louie Anderson
Friday, March 19 with Kerri Miller
Saturday, March 20 with Kevin Kling
MOVIES | Jacques Audiard, Tahar Rahim, and Thomas Bidegain talk about their Oscar-nominated film "A Prophet"
The thrilling new Oscar-nominated French crime drama A Prophet finally opens this Friday at the Lagoon Cinema. The film, masterfully directed by Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips, The Beat That My Heart Skipped), is his first in five years—and was well worth the wait.MORE »
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