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WEDNESDAY PICK | Bedlam's 10-Min Play Fest: A mixed bag (in a good way) at Mixed Blood
Rumor has it that Bedlam Theatre, after nearly two years in its temporary Seward home, is closing in on a deal that will land it in a new permanent home. In the meantime, though, Bedlam is building on its long-time relationship with Mixed Blood Theatre—just down the street from Bedlam's former West Bank space—by staging its annual 10-Minute Play Festival on the Mixed Blood stage. Whereas in previous years the short plays have appeared in series, this year Bedlam's making it easy on us by staging them all back-to-back at six performances over five days. The watchword for these little plays is innovation, so don't expect any tidy little dramas: settle in to your seat, and hold onto your hat.MORE »
OUT Twin Cities Film Festival has never been timelier
Since 2010, the OUT Twin Cities Film Festival has slowly become a terrific niche film festival in the Twin Cities. What started out as a two-day event covering various LGBTQ topics, mostly through film screenings, has blossomed into a four-day festival filled with films, guest speakers, professional script reading, and musical artists performing at various venues in Minneapolis. Opening on Thursday, May 31 and running through Sunday, June 3, the OUT Twin Cities Film Festival will be held at St. Anthony Main Theatre and features a diverse line-up—including perhaps its strongest film slate in its three-year existence.MORE »
How welcoming is Minnesota to newcomers? Advocates for Human Rights to host community conversation
How welcoming is Minnesota to newcomers? That's the question being posed by The Advocates for Human Rights. This year and next, the Minneapolis-based nonprofit is monitoring, documenting, and assessing the experiences of immigrants and other key communities against international human rights standards. It’s part of a project called the One Voice Minnesota Network, an effort to build more welcoming communities statewide by providing tools and resources and promoting collaborations.MORE »
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Prospect Park's Cupcake advances to Food Network's Cupcake Wars Championship series
Kevin VanDeraa, owner of beloved bake shop Cupcake, has more to be excited about than the impending conclusion of Central Corridor construction on University Avenue in front of his shop: having won the Yo-Gabba-Gabba-themed episode of the Food Network's show Cupcake Wars on April 15, VanDeraa is now set to compete in the show's "Cupcake Champions" series.MORE »
In Minneapolis, urban planning guru Charles Landry encourages consideration of cities' "ethical landscape"
City planning guru Charles Landry says urban planners should emphasize social and cultural capital over their traditional reliance on economics alone in the development of cities. Landry, who has evaluated the livability of cities all over the world, spoke May 7 at the Cowles Center in downtown Minneapolis to begin a weeklong residency of workshops, talks and tours of the Twin Cities.MORE »
Granary Corridor planning seeks to accommodate economic development and livability from 35W to 280
A bicycle and pedestrian greenway may be the most cost-effective transportation use of the railroad trench through Dinkytown, while new truck routes could increase access to I-94 and Minnesota Hwy 280. This scenario was among more than 16 options considered over the last several years by planners, architects and neighborhood residents looking at the Granary Corridor around the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Transportation engineer JoNette Kuhnau presented their Granary Corridor Study to about 80 neighborhood residents and other stakeholders on May 9 at Van Cleve Park in Southeast Minneapolis.MORE »
STYLE | WAM Collective presents "No White" fashions inspired by fairy tale
On April 25, the WAM Collective student group presented No White, a student design competition and fashion show, at the Weisman Art Museum. The looks were inspired by Ballet Preljocaj’s production of Snow White.MORE »
SATURDAY PICK | May Lee-Yang, Brian Beatty, Andy Sturdevant, and others have "FLO(we){u}R Power" at the Soap Factory
I know it's petty, but as an editor, sometimes the name of an event is so obnoxious that you feel like you can hardly write about it and still take yourself seriously. Such has been the case with the Soap Factory's exhibit named—sigh—FLO(we){u}R, an installation in which artists Amber Ginsberg and Joseph Madrigal recreate a WWI bomb factory to build seed bombs. (Sometimes a concept is just too hippie even for the Daily Planet.) But Allison Morse snared me with the TalkingImageConnection (speaking of awkward names, Pat, can I buy a space?) reading scheduled for May 12 with local luminaries including irreverent Fringe favorites May Lee-Yang and Brian Beatty as well as the happily ubiquitous Andy Sturdevant. Dig out those cut-offs and paisley and groove on down to Marcy-Holmes for this free event.MORE »
THEATER REVIEW | Via Box Wine Theatre, "Dalí's Liquid Ladies" get deep at the Cedar-Riverside People's Center
"It's hard to nail both entertaining and profound," I wrote in a preview of the Box Wine Theatre production of Dalí's Liquid Ladies, "and no local playwright does it better than Savannah Reich." It's true: for all its accessibility, Reich's script starts upshifting soon after the curtain rises and by the time the curtain (or virtual curtain) falls, the play's firing afterburners. What starts as an amusing reenactment of a historic oddity—Salvador Dalí's surrealist pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York—becomes a probing meditation on the nature of desire.MORE »
MUSIC PHOTOS | Fountains of Wayne at the Varsity Theater
Fountains of Wayne and opener Nicole Atkins rocked the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis on Saturday, April 28th.MORE »
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