Arts

Art Scoop at the Rice Street Festival

By Mary Thoemke, TC Daily Planet
On a cool autumn evening last October the North End community held its first-ever Rice Street Art Scoop at Dar’s Double Scoop Ice Cream Shop. Kevin Barrett, owner of Dar’s, served pumpkin ice cream.MORE »

Film note: "The Judge and the General," a mass-murder mystery

By Lydia Howell, TC Daily Planet

Images courtesy Walker Art Center

In 1973, a military coup overthrew and murdered the democratically-elected president of Chile, socialist Salvador Allende, replacing him with General Augusto Pinochet, whose regime perpetrated tortureMORE »

Music note: Local gospel legend J.D. Steele produces slammin' album for Kenyan children's choir

By Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet

Cover image ©2008 Nairobi Java House

When J.D. Steele approached me a year or so ago about doing a write-up on a trip he’d made to Kenya, it was the first time we’d interacted.MORE »

Coffee Crawl on Saturday

By Jim Brunzell III, TC Daily Planet
John Bradley has been organizing art shows for J. & S. Bean in St.MORE »

Mystery Science Theater of the mind

by Dustin Nelson, Minneapolis Street Art Observer • July 20, 2008 •
This is probably my new favorite stencil. How awesome. (Click here for detail.) MORE »

Fringe-For-All 2—Hey, I'm Talking Murder Here

by Matthew A. Everett • July 23, 2008 • "You're not here because of your pasty white ass." Next to last Fringe-For-All 2 act - Hey, I'm Talking Murder Here "Three twisted tales of revenge and murder set in an unexpected future and featuring a bewildered clone, homicidal robot and a couple of talking dogs. Rod Serling, eat you heart out!" MORE »

Countdown to Fringe...

by Kate Hoff • July 22, 2008 • I have one of the beautiful printed Fringe schedules in front of me. Pick up one of your very own at your local public library, or wait for it to appear in the City Pages next week. It's also on the Fringe website, but it's harder to write on the electronic version. MORE »

Fringe-For-All 1—59 Minutes Til the End

by Matthew A. Everett • July 23, 2008 • "I've never been my ideal body weight!" As pleas for one's life go, not bad. Original. The first preview of the whole Fringe-For-All two-part craziness was 59 Minutes 'Til The End "A 49-minute show that knows we all die a little every day. Laugh, cry and sing (optional, very optional) to the stories and songs of one man's deaths and rebirths. It's the feel-good funeral of August." MORE »

Fringe-For-All 2—Among the Oats

by Matthew A. Everett • July 23, 2008 • "I like the versatility of duct tape" Last act of the Fringe-For-All double feature - Among The Oats "Three guys wake up and find themselves inside of a can of oatmeal." So, sort of like Waiting For Godot, with oatmeal. No Exit, with fiber. MORE »

Fringe-For-All 1 and 2—Traffic lights

by Matthew A. Everett • July 23, 2008 • There are warning lights at Fringe-For-All. The performers see them, and the audience sees them. And the audience holds the performers to them. With thirty acts to get through in a night, ya' gotta keep things moving briskly along. Everyone get their fair shot. Everyone gets three minutes, and only three minutes - no matter how hard they try. The applause will drown you out. You are politely told you're done and it's time to leave - by a room full of people. MORE »
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