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This week’s picks

Thursday, November 20
Does Joe Dowling have the Guthrie logo tattooed on his arm? I haven’t checked, but I suspect not. Jeremey Catterton, artistic director of Lamb Lays With Lion, now literally wears his heart on his sleeve—specifically, on his inner forearm. The LLWL troupe will be at the Hexagon tonight performing The Little Skeleton That Could Not, a work of “info-tainment” about alcoholism, AIDS, and anorexia. Stick around afterwards for music by Fort Wilson Riot, Plastic Chord, and Speed’s The Name.

Friday, November 21
Last Christmas you gave your godparents a terra cotta garlic cooker…how are you ever going to top that?! Try a work of original art from a student at MCAD; the school’s annual art sale opens tonight. MORE »

by Jay Gabler, Arts Editor • TC Daily Planet • 11/10/08 • Starting this week, you’ll notice a welcome change in our arts coverage—a change that will help us keep you right on top of the latest local goings-on.

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Unless a miracle happens, there’s going to be a Pi-shaped hole in the heart of Minneapolis. Pi Restaurant and Bar, the meeting place for queer women, the GBLT community, and alternative people of all stripes, is the latest casualty of the faltering economy and is set to close its doors on November 15. Pi patrons have responded to the news with an overwhelming campaign of generosity to Pi’s owner, Tara Yule, but the situation is still grim. MORE »

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Thursday, November 6
If last year’s documentary Helvetica got you all hot and bothered, you won’t want to miss the new film Typeface, which features naked wooden letterpress type from the first frame to the last. It’s screening tonight at the Walker.

Friday, November 7
While the hipster crowd squeezes into the Northrup King Building, escape west across the river, where the Northside Arts Collective is holding its annual Arts and Artists Gala. MORE »

by l’etoile magazine staff • 11/5/08 •

As the season gets chillier, the art index seems to be heating up! Eager to cram in as much creative co-mingling as possible before the snow falls, local arty-types are banding together all over the city this weekend. We recommend hitting up multiple stops for ultimate visual stimulation!

Workhaus Collective kicks off its second season with Forgetting, a play about three grief-scarred women whose sole aim is to block pain. Or is this about one woman’s careening journey, told simultaneously from the perspective of three, seven, and ten years after her brother died? The women’s names resonate as archetypes—Blood, Bone, and Ash—and there appear to be similarities in how their brothers died. To be honest, I’m not sure. This play is like Ingmar Bergman on meth. MORE »

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In an effort to meet growing customer demand for electricity in south Minneapolis, Xcel Energy is proposing the Hiawatha Project — a plan to build new electrical infrastructure, including two new substations and electrical lines to connect them, near the Hiawatha light-rail transit corridor and in the Midtown area. MORE »