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Hui Niu Wilcox of the Ananya Dance Theatre rehearses a piece titled ìBlue Dream Journeysî with other dancers from the troupe on Sunday outside Barbara Barker Center for Dance. The group will perform the piece with the public during Northern Spark, a city-wide all-night art festival.

Dancing in the dark

by Grant Tillery
Published June 11, 2014
You can’t start a fire without a (Northern) Spark

Fatboy Slim loves the World Cup

by Spencer Doar
Published June 10, 2014

The World Cup starts in two days and Fatboy Slim has a proper musical tribute to get you feeling football festive.  The DJ put together “Bem Brasil,” a two-disc ode...

1990’s “Darkman,” Liam Neeson and the Batman connection

by Spencer Doar
Published June 6, 2014

After my desired fix of Liam Neeson badassery wasn’t fully sated by his recent airplane hijacking thriller “Non-Stop” — an average, no-nonsense Neeson installment filled with plot...

Lana Del Rey: “Ultraviolence”

by Grant Tillery
Published June 5, 2014

Lana Del Rey’s music is hit and miss.  For every good song she (nay, her songwriters) churns out, she’ll drop four or five duds in its trail.  “Ultraviolence,” the title...

Javanese jive

by Grant Tillery
Published June 4, 2014
The International Novelty Gamelan’s reinterpretation of traditional gamelan music is a highlight of the Heliotrope festival.
Minneapolis-based painter and graphic designer Michael Cina works on artwork for his collaborative exhibit "She Who Saw The Deep" at Public Functionary on May 29. Cina has been collaborating with New York-based photographer John Klukas for the past year and their artwork will premiere at Public Functionary on June 7.

Looking deeper across time zones

by Joe Kellen
Published June 4, 2014
Collaborating from different time zones, John Klukas and Michael Cina devised an oppositional look at the chaos of living.
Sage Francis' wear and tear

Sage Francis’ wear and tear

by Joe Kellen
Published June 4, 2014
Providence-based rapper, producer and record label head Sage Francis deals with personal demons on his latest LP, “Copper Gone.”
Founder of Forged Artifacts Matt Linden displays  the label's most recent vinyl release, Between Themselves by Gloss, outside of his home on Friday. Linden started the label in 2012

Unearthing buried treasure

by Grant Tillery
Published June 4, 2014
Matt Linden’s Forged Artifacts label is home to some of Minneapolis’ top, underrated young artists.

One writer’s secret to a perfect marriage

by Joe Kellen
Published June 4, 2014
The solution to writer and performer Mark Bentley Cohen’s marriage problems was seeing other people — with his wife.

Four songs for thin walls

by Joe Kellen
Published June 3, 2014

Alright, so you play guitar. We won’t shame you here because you’ve already had your fill of that from your crappy friends. You’re probably trying to develop a new hobby or learn the...

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