Music

Singer Max Raabe stands erect before the microphone, garbed in a tuxedo and tails with his blonde hair slicked back, and croons songs that were the rage of Berlin during the 1920s and ’30s, the time of the Weimar Republic.

When my mother told me that I didn’t understand a true Minnesota winter because it had been many years before my birth that a winter had been this long, it made me feel like I was on an episode of Game of Thrones—because seriously, who talks like that?

Delphia Blize's West River acquits her as a lyricist's lyricist who can take the everyday occurrences in life and make magic of the mundane. And, actually, when it's happening to you, things like getting through a holiday, whether to spend the night with a lover, it can feel—though millions of others manage to do the deal with the same thing without the word coming to an end—like something of special consequence is going on.

Independent Filmmaker Project Minnesota (IFP) announced today that Andrew Voegtline has been awarded the New Media Project Grant, a $50,000 award from the McKnight Foundation for an innovative media arts project. A graduate of St. Olaf college, where he studied music and composition, Voegtline is interested in fusing technology with various artmaking practices such as video, poetry, dance and music.  His project, Digital Cities, will use GPS location and other information from users’ smartphones to determine what content they will experience, creating a site-specific on overdrive “songscape across the city.”