MN VIDEOS | HipHop Doc

By Malcolm X. Moody, SPNN

SPNN Doc U participant tells the story of two local hip hop artists in the Twin Cities music scene in this short documentary.

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When things go well

By Dwight Hobbes, You sure this is how Richie Havens got famous?

When things go well, it can make a hell of difference in life. You breathe easier more often, can pull together a little confidence and actually get a few things accomplished.

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REVIEW | Kristen Schaal and Rufus Wainwright deliver an off-the-cuff Wits

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet

Photo courtesy Minnesota Public Radio

It seems the whole of the Twin Cities was present Friday, April 12 for the hip arts roundup that is Minnesota Public Radio’s Wits. Once again, the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul hosted a sold out show comprised of laughs, tunes and a few laughy tunes. As the second production of Wits’ 2013 spring season, legendary “popera” pianist Rufus Wainwright and comedienne Kristen Schaal (most well known for her characters in Flight of the Conchords and 30 Rock) stumbled through the mostly hilarious MPR variety show.

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MUSIC PHOTOS | The Revival Tour stops at the Varsity Theater

By Alexa Jones, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Alexa Jones

On Thursday, April 11, The Revival Tour stopped by the Varsity Theater and featured Chuck Ragan, Dave Hause, Jenny Owens Young, Rocky Vololato, and Tim McIlrath.  

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MUSIC PHOTOS | Clutch's Earth Rocker World Tour lands at First Avenue

By Jeff Rutherford, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Jeff Rutherford

On Wednesday, April 10, Clutch brought its Earth Rocker World Tour to First Avenue, which included Scorpion Child, Lionize, and Orange Goblin.

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The many lives of filmmaker Craig Laurence Rice, Part I

By Lu Lippold, TC Daily Planet

Courtesy Craig Rice

Here’s an imaginary conversation you might overhear while waiting in line for tickets at the upcoming Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival.

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Tom Selleck's Moustache's "Heartbreak 101": Expert production, amateur pop

By Dwight Hobbes, Sounding Off On Sound

Photo courtesy Tom Selleck's Moustache

Tom Selleck's Moustache's Heartbreak 101 is fairly routine, generally dispensable pap, exactly the sort of sing-songy, cloying, terminally pleasant fodder that gives the term "pop music" a bad name. In short, this some pretty silly, saccharine stuff.

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MayDay 2013 workshops begin

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

April 2013; and of the 30 Days of Biking, I have 11 dates already assigned with a biking destination. For me HOBT is a good draw, the most wonderful sights, a collection of the&n

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Fearless drummer: Iris Shiraishi makes her statement with a big Japanese drum

By Katie Hae Leo, Minnesota Women’s Press

Iris Shiraishi will never forget the day she landed in Iowa, ready to start graduate school. Hawaiian-born and -raised, she had never experienced a real winter.

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Comfort choir: The sacred sound for when there are no words

By Mikki Morrissette, Minnesota Women’s Press

Bright morning stars are rising, day is a-breaking in my soul
-Verse from an Appalachian song from which the Minneapolis-based comfort choir derives its name. (Photo by Sarah Whiting)

The transformational energy of dying was apparent to Barbara McAfee when her father-not a cuddly man generally-became sweeter in the process of talking with his family about his pending death from pancreatic cancer. The experience "was a threshold, profoundly healing, strangely fun at times," she said now, several years later.

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