Inspired by the amazing photography Meredith Westin contributed to the Daily Planet, this May I invested in a camera that allowed me to rediscover the interest in photography I developed for over ten years with a 35mm Minolta SLR that I bought in an Australian pawn shop and used until it was stolen from me in 2009. It’s been fun to get my finger back on a shutter release, and it’s been rewarding to be able to document some of the many crazy and wonderful events that take place every year in the Twin Cities. Here are my favorite moments I caught in 2010.
May 2: Happy birthday to us! Twin Cities Daily Planet celebrates four years, looks to the future
May 6: Kate Nash challenges her audience with a pounding performance at First Ave (pictured: Supercute!)
May 9: Faces of Cinco de Mayo
May 11: A soaring performance by Frightened Rabbit at the Varsity (pictured: Our Brother the Native)
May 16: Newly-christened Cat Fish offer a sneak peek into Fanciness vs. the Void
May 18: Dearling Physique lead a “Cattywompus” night of music and film at the Red Stag
June 2: A first look at the new ROBOTlove
June 3: Talking Tree, Bella Ruse, Carl Hauck, and Tricia Scully at the 331
June 5: Cromulent’s Troilus and Cressida brings love and death to a park near you
June 9: Mad King Thomas prepare to join The League of Red Herrings
June 13: Art of This hosts Open Exchange to kick off summer programming
June 19: Lookbook return triumphantly home to First Ave
June 21: Rock the Garden 2010: Fun in the sun with MGMT, Sharon Jones, OK Go, and Retribution Gospel Choir
June 23: Fireworks at night as the Walker Art Center restores the Whitney Bridge
June 29: Gastro Non Grata takes a Vagabond Vacation at First Ave
July 10: Koerner and Glover at the Mill City Museum: Forever young
July 12: I scream, you scream, we all scream for BadNraD at the Entry
July 23: Zinesters and their zines at Twin Cities Zinefest
July 20: Circus Juventas gathers Sawdust
August 23: Honeystick sweeten the pot at the Entry
August 23: In a state of Nature at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
September 2: Faces of the Minnesota State Fair
September 17: The last days of Lookbook
September 20: At 1419, Jonathan Bruce Williams’s Light and Color wows
October 10: Mark Mallman’s Marathon 3: “This is just for fun”
October 11: Zombie Pub Crawl VI bloodies the West Bank
October 21: Deadmau5 at Epic: 3,600 Mau5keteers can’t be wrong
October 24: BLM/Seifert/Flink CREATE a beautiful but hollow Woyzeck Project
November 22: What 75,000 poinsettias look like: Bachman’s stocks up for the holidays
November 29: Paying tribute to the Replacements, and beer (is there a difference), at First Avenue
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