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THEATER | At Bedlam, Four Humors prove that "Love is Blind...and Furry"
I see quite a few plays, but never have I heard someone laughing so hard that she actually cried out for help. At the Thursday night performance of Four Humors' Love is Blind...and Furry at Bedlam Theatre, the woman behind me was in such paroxysms that she pleaded for mercy, as though someone was tickling her. "Stop! Oh, Stop!"MORE »
Dirty Projectors at the Cedar
The Brooklyn-based experimental rock group Dirty Projectors is the brainchild of frontman and chief songwriter Dave Longstreth, who released his own first album, The Graceful Fallen Mango, in 2001, before formally creating the band that launched his career.
Steely Dan at Northrop Auditorium
Opening act: Sam Yahel
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"The perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies."
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Close calls in dark corners: Questions about Minneapolis bike trail's safety
It was close to 10:30 on a Friday night when cyclist Allison Thoele's regular ride home turned ugly.MORE »
As she headed north on the paved trail that parallels the Hiawatha Avenue light-rail line, Thoele, 28, spied three shadowy figures lurking up ahead.
Women's Night Out - with an international flavor
More than 100 women who live and work in the Cedar-Riverside area celebrated "Women's Night Out" on October 24 at the Brian Coyle Center, an event designed for women in the community to get to know each other and build community. Neighbors, service workers, and girls mingled, sampled different kinds of ethnic food, and were entertained by a fashion show and open mic in the event, now in its fourth year. MORE »
MUSIC | Saul Williams and friends rock out before an unmoved audience at the Varsity
Saul Williams's "Niggy Tardust Experience" tour made a stop at the Varsity last Sunday, in a jam-packed roster of musicians from the Afro-Punk collective. The spoken word artist is touring in support of his 2007 album The Inevitable Rise and Fall of Niggy Tardust, for which he worked closely with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The tour is a sampler of acts affiliated with Afro-Punk, a movement seeking to break black musicians out of the stereotypes the industry has placed on them. Such an ambitious cause is sure to find mixed results, as was the case with a skeptical predominantly white Midwest crowd, who didn't seem to understand what was going on for most of the night.MORE »
White Denim at the 400 Bar
Lucia Hwang: "What's Up?"
Artist reception: Thursday, October 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Artist gallery talk: Thursday, October 29, 6 p.m.
Adeline Johnson Conference Room, Oren Gateway Center
THEATER | "The House Can't Stand" under the weight of its own significance: Steve Epp and Dominique Serrand erect an elaborate artifice at the Southern Theater
A couple of times in The House Can't Stand, Steve Epp's unnamed female character refers affectionately to the couch often occupied by her late husband: a charming but worn old thing that sags conspicuously in the middle where the man of the house formerly rested his corpulent frame. The whole show is a bit like that couch: it's hard not to feel tenderly towards, even though it sags in the middle under the weight of a grand historical allegory.MORE »
Two documentaries on John L. Kube
Cherifa Keita will present his two documentaries: Oberlin-Inanda: The Life and Times of John L. Dube, and Cemetery Stories: A Rebel Missionary in South Africa with a Q & A after each.
