The Rolling River Music and Film Festival wasn't necessarily a bad dream ... it was just too big. In fact, the event which aspired to give St. Paul a much needed night-life boost sounded like a pretty...

These are dire times for any sort of animation that doesn't involve computers. Such old-fangled crafts as cel and puppet animation, which require thousands of meticulously detailed drawings or carefully...

For those of you who don't know it, The Children's Theatre Company's artistic director, Peter C. Brosius, is behind the most interesting productions in the Twin Cities. He has a taste for offbeat, ingenious...

There is something about Aaron Cometbus that makes it seem as though he is writing the story of your life. A recent City Pages review of a new compilation of Cometbus's self-titled zine began with the...

The moment Ted Koppel announced that Nightline would be exploring the cultural phenomenon the kids call rap, the music's normally irresistible head-boppin' beats vanished. It is the same way that too much...

There is plenty of the usual, boring background stuff that Erik Appelwick is sick of talking about. But there are also plenty of Minnesotans who don't know his music. Once he was convinced that the basic...

As an account of the transformation of England's most notorious industrial wasteland into a global dance music mecca, Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People is far from exhaustive. Although billed...

It is difficult to watch Siddhartha in 2002, given that in the 30 years since its release, the central myth of the movie ñ that of a seeker of spiritual understanding ñ has gone from hot new idea to...