Arts

Smoothly surreal art at the Spyhouse

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • June 30, 2008 • I'm sitting at the corner of 25th and Nicollet, watching people bump into my car as they try to parallel park...must be Monday! Fortunately the Spyhouse coffee shop here offers aesthetic and comestible pleasures to warm the heart and cool the lips. MORE »

Returning favorites—Live Action Set (Part 2)

by Matthew A. Everett • June 30, 2008 • The members of Live Action Set, and its collaborators, are casting a long Fringe shadow this year. In addition to Galen Treuer helping out as Zombie Movement Coach on Walking Shadow’s production of William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead (Galen loves the zombies), there’s also... Hastings High School Drama Club MORE »

Dan Wilson tells the story behind Semisonic's "Closing Time"

by Jake Mohan, Reveille Magazine • June 25, 2008 • The mission statement of the non-profit PUSH Institute (“dedicated to the spirit of inquiry, organizing research around basic lines of discovery”) and this year’s PUSH Conference theme (“The Fertile Delta” explored “through the lenses of economics, politics, religion and technology”) suggests that the Institute is a progressive organizaMORE »

Seven billion Pixy Stix

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • June 29, 2008 • My friend Nalini and I were sitting enjoying some Pixy Stix (on clearance for $1 at the Highland Park Blockbuster) when we noticed that each Stik (Stick? Stix?) was numbered. A Maui Punch Pixy Stik, for example, was numbered 7318514434. That got us wondering: Did they start from 1?MORE »

Returning favorites—Live Action Set (Part 1)

by Matthew A. Everett • June 29, 2008 • I've often thought, “I’d go watch Live Action Set do pretty much anything.” The first go-round at Red Eye last summer of the show they’re remounting in the Fringe this year tested that notion. Tested it really, really strenuously.

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Do bikinis still sell beer when beheaded crappies are involved?

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • June 29, 2008 • One of the great media brouhahas of my youth was the debate over whether we children were being warped by advertisements on television. In 1991, Old Milwaukee was castigated for its advertisements featuring the Swedish Bikini Team, which allegedly tipped teenage boys luckier than me over the precipice into lives of drunken, sex-crazed dissolution.MORE »

Foshay Tower party

by Todd Melby, 6/12/08 • Back in the 1980s, I worked at the Foshay Tower as a security guard. I was in college and often pulled the late shift, 11 p.m.-7 a.m. I remember sneaking into the wood-paneled penthouse suite once occupied by Wilbur Foshay, the businessman who built the obelisk skyscraper in 1929. Although I was the only one in the building at the time, I felt like I had to keep the lights off because I wasn't supposed to be in there.MORE »

Poem: Willow

by Meggie Elder, InDigest Magazine I’m uncertain about most things even when I should be sure because I’ve been taught to willow. My mother says that willows are always sad and I agreed, palming what I could from the conversation. Now, when I walk, I ramble, when I sing, I sigh, and when I answer, I waiver, understanding that little is better than being unsuited, recommending we all consider our subscriptions to the weepy eyelashes and shallow veins that run us ready into the ground. MORE »

An encounter with Alec Soth

By Daniel Miller, TC Daily Planet
Until August 10th, the first photograph you’ll see when you walk into the U.S. Bank Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is an odd portrait of my friend Charles Erie.MORE »
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