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Soundset fast approaching

by Spencer Doar
Published May 24, 2014

The Soundset hip hop festival in Shakopee, Minn. looms large this Sunday, and unlike previous years, it’s supposed to hit 80 degrees and be partly sunny. The concert staple has grown in size...

Ingredients for Super Bowl success in Minneapolis

by Spencer Doar
Published May 21, 2014

Now that Minneapolis secured the 2018 Super Bowl (a mere presidential term away), it’s time to start speculating on how it will go.  Here are some essential ingredients for a successful Twin...

Concert review: HAIM at First Ave

by Grant Tillery
Published May 20, 2014

The Haim sisters are forces of nature, the “Witchy Wom[e]n” Don Henley sang about years before their birth, and are highly in tune with the fiendish aspect of hard rock, which they masterfully...

Californication mid-season update

by Grant Tillery
Published May 19, 2014

Showtime knows how to run excellent TV shows into the ground and turn them into mockeries of their former selves.  They did it with “Weeds” and, arguably, “Dexter.”  Season...

Music of the people, for the people

by Jackie Renzetti
Published May 8, 2014
The well-traveled Charlie Parr reveals his experiences in soulful folk.
Will Wiesenfeld proves he is a master of the sound wave.

Shower the people

by Grant Tillery
Published May 8, 2014
Baths is Will Wiesenfeld's swim into soloism.
Osmo Vanska, director of the Minnesota Orchestra, poses for a portrait outside of Northrop Hall on Thursday. May 1 marked the first day of his two-year contract to return as music director for the Minnesota Orchestra after a 16-month musician lockout.

Conductor in chief

by Grant Tillery
Published May 8, 2014
Osmo Vänskä aims to restore one of the world’s premier orchestras to its previous heights
Eugene Mirman's comedy is both crispy AND nutritional!

Pretty good comedy: Eugene Mirman prepares to tour U.S

by Joe Kellen
Published May 8, 2014
Comedian Eugene Mirman’s “Pretty Good Friends” tour is aptly named — those are the only kind of folks he wants to work with.
Courageous Endeavors saxophone player Nelson Devereaux, right, and drummer Miguel Hurtado, left, practice with their jazz quartet at Jazz Central Studios in Minneapolis on Thursday, May 1. Courageous Endeavors released their debut album on Tuesday, May 6.

The shape of jazz to come

by Grant Tillery
Published May 8, 2014
Courageous Endeavors are poster boys for a jazz scene overcoming significant challenges
#1. An assembled view of the Nerf Maverick REV-6.
#2. An inside view of the Nerf Maverick REV-6 after removing the outer shell. 
#3. All firing mechanisms of the Nerf Maverick REV-6 displayed with cocking mechanism on the far left and the magazine on the far right.
#4. An isolated view of the magazine separated into the dart housing and air restrictors.

It’s Nerf modding or nothin’

by Spencer Doar
Published May 8, 2014
Watch your eyeballs and proceed only under close adult supervision.

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