Lowry Hill Neighborhood News and Events

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THEATER PREVIEW | Sibyl Kempson, living female playwright of Elevator Repair Service

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Sibyl Kempson. Photo by Sheila Regan.

Last week, I met Sibyl Kempson on the day of her arrival from Brooklyn as she began final rehearsals for the preview performance of Fondly, Collette Richland at the Walker Art Center. She's a petite, exuberant firecracker of a woman, and we immediately dished about arts education policy, the economy, sexism, and a number of other political, artistic, and social topics as we walked across Loring Park to have a drink.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Craig Taborn brings his brand of frenzied heroism to the Walker Art Center

By Mark Mahoney, Community Voices

Craig Taborn, the protean pianist, composer, and conceptualist, will return home to his native Minnesota Friday night for a celebration of his music at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater. The performance, cryptically entitled “Heroic Frenzies,” will begin at 8. He will play in three different formats: with his electronica outfit Junk Magic, with his acoustic trio, and solo.

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THEATER REVIEW | Walking Shadow Theatre Company's "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde": An uncharacteristic failure

By Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet

Photo credit Dan Norman

If you must miss one show this season, it may as well be Walking Shadow Theatre Company's production of Moisés Kaufman terminally static Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at The Minneapolis Theatre Garage. Which is too bad, because Walking Shadow Theatre, but a couple years from seeing its first decade, has well earned its stripes as an entity of acting and directing strength.

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Abraham Cruzvillegas's "Autoconstrucción Suites" at the Walker Art Center: Giving new life to found objects

By Amina Harper, The Art House

Abraham Cruzvillegas, La Polar, 2003. Photo courtesy Walker Art Center.

When I began writing for the Twin Cities Daily Planet it never really occurred to me that I could get free access to things. I mean, I knew it was possible, but I wasn’t entirely aware that I could use my status as a member of the press to partake in events that I might not get to see otherwise—and get free breakfast in the process.

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Burch Steak and Pizza Bar in Minneapolis: Isaac Becker invents the un-steakhouse

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

A steakhouse in Lowry Hill? Seriously?? A few short blocks from Birdhouse and the Namaste Cafe and the Wedge Co-op and Tao Natural Foods? (Okay, it's also a few short blocks from Rudolph's and Lee's Liquor Lounge, but let's not complicate this story.)

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