Arts Spotlight
Fringe Festival Reviews: Balls Out, Disney Dethroned, Red Hamlet.
Well it’s the end of Fringe and I am wrapping up my shows. So I am posting three today and three tomorrow. This year’s Fringe was great, there was a lot of wonderful good shows. So, kudos to everyone that made this festival a success.
1. Balls Out: by Six AppealMORE »
Fringe Festival Reviews: Status Update, Underneath the Lintel, The Beasts, The Day the Nineties Died
- Status Update: by Laurel Schwartz
A very well informed play. This show really took the issue of social media and privacy and put it in the spot light. Cyber bullying is an issue that is rarely talked about, and I’m glad to see that this issue is finally being brought to discussion.MORE »
Minnesota Fringe Festival Day 2: Reviews on Damn You Auto Caress, Perchance to Dream, Taiko Blast, and Macbeth: Video Game Remix
Another round of shows seen on August 5th. This time I saw four and today I hope to make a record of at least 7 or 8 shows today. So without further delay I shall bring you what you have been waiting for, my opinion.MORE »
Snow Sculpture Contest at last year's City of Lakes Loppet
I spent the Saturday morning of February 6, 2010 along The Mall in the Uptown area of Minneapolis. Teams were at work form 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. forming illusions using snow. Blocks of snow 4 feet wide, 4 feet deep, and 8 feet tall was to be the base material for a few hours of transformation.MORE »
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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.MORE »
THEATER | "The Master Butchers Singing Club" makes sweet, melodramatic music at the Guthrie
When an usher asked the woman sitting in front of me Sunday night at the Guthrie to autograph a ticket for him (she graciously agreed), I realized that the woman was Louise Erdrich, author of the novel that served as the basis for the evening's world premiere production of The Master Butchers Singing Club. I couldn't help watching for Erdrich's reactions throughout the play, and I can report that she seemed very well-pleased, clapping and laughing out loud. And indeed she should have been pleased: on the Wurtele Thrust Stage, her book becomes a ripping yarn that's consistently entertaining, often moving, and staged with enormous heart. MORE »
THEATER | "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" at the Children's Theatre: It's 1979—or, rather, 1938—all over again
On Friday night, my mom and I went to see The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins at the Children's Theatre Company for the second time. The first time was in 1979, when we saw CTC's first production of the Dr. Seuss story about a boy with a magically multiplying hat. It's the first play I have any memory of going to see. I was very young then—only four years old—but I certainly remember the litter of orange hats across the stage, and the scary magicians. (I was a sensitive child; Cookie Monster on TV used to frighten me to tears.) MORE »
MUSIC | Khaira Arby sings of women's rights at the Global Roots Festival
Malian singer Khaira Arby begins every concert with a song called "Salou" that is an invocation, though she doesn't stress the importance of a particular religion. The spiritual singer, who is on tour in North America for the first time after 20 years as a professional singer in her home country of Mali, believes it doesn't matter the name you call God—whether it's Jesus or Mohommed or some other name—matters. The important thing, she believes, is to live a good and spriritual life. "There is only one God, even though there are many religions," she said in an interview.MORE »
THEATER | An overstuffed "Last Seder" at Park Square Theatre
Remember the TV show The Love Boat? A random assortment of actors and comedians, current and classic, were assembled on a weekly basis to perform in a series of disconnected stories of romance and heartbreak, loosely tied together by the notion that they all take place on the same cruise liner, with the same crew people weaving in and out. The characters and situations were quickly sketched in because the whole thing had to be crammed into an hour (well, 45 minutes once you cut the commercials out). And of course, there was Charo.MORE »
MUSIC | The last days of Lookbook
This morning, Andrea Swensson at City Pages broke the news that electropop duo Lookbook have gone on an "indefinite break." I agree with Andrea that Lookbook had been sounding stronger than ever in recent months, and their first (and, apparently, only) headlining gig at First Avenue's Mainroom was the best show I've seen this year by a local act.MORE »
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