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How Psychostick's hats stay on while performing is a mystery for fans.

Holiday psychosis

by Spencer Doar
Published December 11, 2012
Psychostick wants the audience laughing while they mosh.

The Fashionista is in: Festive attire

by Shannon Ryan
Published December 11, 2012
Be fete-ready in a flash in one of these novel approaches to holiday style.
Artistic director Ben Riggs leads the members of the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus in vocal exercises. Riggs started as the artistic director in August.

His first noel

by Lucy Nieboer
Published December 7, 2012
The Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus welcomes a new artistic director and a new take on Christmas music.
Bill Squire no longer spreads the word of God, unless its funny.

Looking for knighthood

by Spencer Doar
Published December 6, 2012
Bill Squire is content to work a room without the trappings of stardom.
Gallery installation coordinator Teréz Iacovino, right, installs the Minnesota Funk exhibition Saturday at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery with two interns, art history and French studies sophomore Kaitlyn Carver and art senior Chiara Parisi. The group exhibition will have a public reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Funk with my art

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 6, 2012
Artists Chris Larson and Lamar Peterson tweak reality for “Minnesota Funk,” where surrealism is king.

Lethal Injection

by Spencer Doar
Published December 6, 2012
Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal is in the game too deep to get out now.
Bruce A. Young reads lines during a rehearsal for "A Stone Thrown at the Guilty" on Saturday at Rarig Center.

Casting the first stone

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 6, 2012
“A Stone Thrown at the Guilty,” a play in progress by Nuruddin Farah, examines the interior lives of Somali characters in the midst of two political uprisings.

Reel Animals

by Martina Marosi
Published December 6, 2012
There’s no business like monkey business.

Culture Compass: Nada Surf, “Chasing Ice” and Emily Dickinson

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 6, 2012
A&E plans your weekend. You’re welcome, rubes.
Sarah Edwards, creator of the I AM MPLS! variety show, shown in her downtown office at Pixel Farm in Minneapolis on Friday. The variety show features passionately creative people from Minneapolis at the Varsity Theater at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

Who is Minneapolis: I AM MPLS!

by Shannon Ryan
Published December 6, 2012
Collaboration creator Sarah Edwards talks the past, present and future of the Minneapolis variety show.

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