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• Flying Monsters 3D: High times with David Attenborough. "Put this flick at the top of your list for a beat-the-heat summertime escape, with or without the kids."
• Local comic finds at SpringCon. Courtney Algeo stocked up on beach reads.
• OUT Twin Cities Film Festival has never been timelier. Jim Brunzell previews the third annual event.
• Chill summer: Claire de Lune, Theresa Andersson, Chicha Libre. Jay Gabler recommends a soundtrack for your BBQ.
• Worst ideas for Twin Cities summertime fun. Anything involving the BoDeans and an orangutan.
• Creative placemaking: Logic models and love. Laura Zabel explains why MayDay is her favorite day of the year.
• Most regrettable Art-a-Whirl impulse buys. Wire sculpture of R.T. Rybak's hair ($199).
• Crush with eyeliner: Vidal Sassoon remembered. "He loved art and style, but knew that life was too short to spend it under a dryer in a salon."
• Q: Who is that? A: William Godlin, perambulatory skeleton of the Uptown Theatre. "I'm apparently 'that guy,' or so people frequently tell me."
• Prospect Park's Cupcake advances to Food Network's Cupcake Wars Championship series. $50,000 is on the line.
• Dillinger Four bare all at the Triple Rock Social Club. Review by Logan Adams, NSFW photos by Jeff Rutherford.
• Carolyn Lee Anderson's Shijéí/My Heart at All My Relations Gallery leaves you staring. "You don't have to know art" says Dwight Hobbes.
• Penumbra Theatre's The Amen Corner at the Guthrie Theater brings Tyler Perry to mind. Review by Marcus Michalik.
• Licensed to Ill and the legacy of Adam Yauch. "When Adam Yauch died, I queued LTI up on my iPod and memories from my childhood came flooding back."
• Art-a-Whirl and Tough Mudder make for a hot weekend. On Saturday, it's man (and woman) vs. the mud.
• Battleship hits its mark. "If you walk into a Battleship screening with expectations inappropriate for a film that takes as its source material a game consisting of ten toy boats, four plastic trays, and a handful of red and white pegs, you have only yourself to blame."