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Video Games Live
Experience the Minnesota Orchestra accompanied by game footage on giant video screens, as it performs the music of the most popular games from the beginning of video gaming to the present. Plus, there will be an interactive segment: selected audience members will play a game live onstage while the orchestra performs the music!
MUSIC | Pieta Brown's "Shimmer": Sweet sounds for a rainy day
Don Was, producer of Pieta Brown's EP Shimmer (Red House Records), overstates the case when he calls Brown "a great singer-songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism," but she is indeed quite capable. Brown is a pleasant throwback to the troubadour mode that gave such folkies as Tom Rush and Rosalie Sorrels their groundbreaking careers. She handles the artform with a sure hand, telltale evidence of her bloodline as the daughter of folk legend—and Red House Records founder—Greg Brown.MORE »
THEATER | At the Guthrie, generations U and V bask in the light of "Coward's Women"
"If you're going to use a cigarette as a prop, at least smoke the damn thing."
-Noel Coward
Had Noel Coward been born a Minnesotan, he would probably have high-tailed it to the coast so quickly it would have made F. Scott Fitzgerald look indecisive and made Bob Dylan seem like a slowpoke—and yet, we're celebrating a season of Coward on local stages, with Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter on the Guthrie's McGuire Proscenium Stage, Blithe Spirit at the Jungle, and now Coward's Women produced by the Producing House (unfortunately, the band is not the Band) in the Guthrie's Dowling Studio.MORE »
MUSIC | Hey, Twin Cities, where's the love for old school? Hip-hop legend Afrika Bambaataa thrills a small crowd at Epic
It seems odd that in a city where people toast Dre Day every year with screen-printed forties, Minneapolis hip-hop heads completely overlook the classics. But it always happens, and so did it when Afrika Bambaataa came to Epic Nightclub on Saturday, March 13, an event that brought out many talented breakdancers from the area. The legendary DJ performed at to a small crowd including many faces familiar to those who frequent old-school hip-hop shows.MORE »
Literary Death Match Twin Cities, Episode 1
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BOOKS | Greg Hewett's "Darkacre" and Lightsey Darst's "Find the Girl": Two powerful new collections from Coffee House Press
To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Loft Literary Center offers a double bill of Coffee House Press authors, local poets Greg Hewett and Lightsey Darst. They will be presenting their work April 1 at 7:00 p.m.MORE »
Forever Young: Passion Pit Afterparty and Record Room Launch
With Moon Goons, Famuel, Ricky Biggs, and Upgrayde. 18+, $5/$10.
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