What: Wanda Sykes Where: Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis When: 8 p.m., Friday Cost: $39.75-$59.75   Though shows bearing her name have been commercially unsuccessful,...

  What: Discussion with Janet Groth and Garrison Keillor When: 7 p.m., tonight Where: Common Good Books, 38 S. Snelling Ave.   When Janet Groth was a student at the University of Minnesota during...

  What: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti When: 9 p.m., Saturday Where: Fine Line Music Café, 318 N. First Ave., Minneapolis Price: $15   Days before their ninth album, “Mature...

  “Sleepwalk with Me” Where: Uptown Theatre Directed by: Mike Birbiglia Starring: Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, James Rebhorn Unrated   Ira Glass is famous for telling stories....

  “The Inbetweeners” Where: Lagoon Cinema Rated: R Directed by: Ben Palmer Starring: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison Opens: Sept. 13   Anyone who sets out to make a raunchy...

  What: Purity Ring Where: First Avenue’s mainroom, 701 N. First Ave. When: 8 p.m., Friday Cost: $10 in advance; $12 at the door   Canadian duo Purity Ring’s ascent to popularity...

When: Sept. 4-Oct. 6 Where: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, 405  S. 21st Ave. Cost: Free    When Howard Oransky was hired as director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery in...

  “Samsara,” the new film from Ron Fricke, comes 20 years after the release of “Baraka.” In that film, he captured fascinating and bizarre images from around the world in hopes...

  Anyone who has attended elementary school since the mid-’90s has probably had “The Giver” assigned as homework. Whether or not they actually read it depends on their level of academic...

  What: Great Lake Swimmers When: 7 p.m., Thursday Where: Cedar Cultural Center, 416 S. Cedar Ave., Minneapolis Cost: $12-15 The Ontario folk collective Great Lake Swimmers has been together for nearly...

  Mother’s Day is a little more than a week away, which means it’s time to start thinking about what to get or do for mom this year. If you’re over the age of 11, the days of giving...

  What: “Steampunk Delusions”   When: April 27- May 12 Where: Open Eye Figure Theatre Cost: $12-16 Odd subgenres seem to pop up almost daily. But it’s generally in music where...

  What: Social Distortion, The Toadies, Lindi Ortega When: 5 p.m. Thursday, 7 p.m. Friday Where: First Avenue, 701 First Ave. N, Minneapolis Cost: $30+ Ages: 18   Mike Ness, the front man and...

There is a weird pride that comes with being the youngest person to attend an event. Or maybe it's not pride, exactly, but an automatic sense that, by default, you are the hippest person in the room....

  What: Harry and the Potters and Koo Koo Kanga Roo When: Doors open at 12:30 p.m., April 7 Where: Cedar Cultural Center, 416 S. Cedar Ave. Cost: $10   Even if there is a Harry Potter movie marathon...

  What: “Blind Date” When: Now until April 1 Where: Ordway McKnight Theatre, 345 Washington St., St. Paul Cost: $40-45   It’s hard to think of two more flop-sweat inducing things...

I, like everyone else, saw "21 Jump Street" over the weekend. And like pretty much everyone else, I thought it was awesome. There are plenty of reasons for this, most notably the script...

Anyone who subscribes to Netflix knows how easy it is to get hooked on the Instant streaming feature of the site. One morning you might decide to take a break, skip one of your bigger, more skip-able lectures...

Converse has recently teamed English genre benders Gorillaz with James Murphy, leader of the now defunct LCD Soundsystem, and Andre 3000 for a song called "DoYaThang" as part of their "Three...

Show: “Napoleon Dynamite” Time: 7:30 p.m. Sundays Network: Fox Jon Heder is now eight years removed from the debut of his most popular role as the courageous, moonboot-wearing Napoleon Dynamite....

Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced that flags in his state would be lowered to half-staff on Saturday in honor of the late singer and New Jersey native Whitney Houston. The statement...

Let me first say that for your weekly television news, Tony Wagner is your man. I apologize to him and his family for stepping into his realm, but I want to so I will. "TGS Hates Women" is the title of...

Thursday Tom Segura Acme Comedy Company 708 N. First St. 8 p.m. $15 You may remember Tom Segura from his legendary performance as âÄúBear Suit GuyâÄù on an episode of the short-lived CBS...

  What: An Evening with Gary Busey &undefined;&&undefined;undefined&undefined; When:  7 p.m. Friday Where: Parkway Theater, 4814 S. Chicago Ave., Minneapolis Cost: $48-58 College...

Kenneth Parcell said it best: "More than jazz or musical theater or morbid obesity, television is the true American art form." And the biggest day of the year for TV comes on Sunday. You...

The first time I saw Freddie Gibbs live was his performance at the 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival. Despite his self-constructed gangster reputation, Gibbs's technical abilities as a rapper and strong production...

What: 36th Annual Championship and Household Pet Cat Show Where: Exhibition Hall at the River Centre, 75 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul When: Jan. 28-29 Cost: $4 for adults, $3 for children and seniors YouTube,...

  What: Screening of âÄúFrom the Back of the RoomâÄù Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Minneapolis When: 8 p.m., Jan. 30-31 Cost: $5-10 âÄúFrom the Back of the RoomâÄù...

What: 36th Annual Championship and Household Pet Cat Show   Where: Exhibition Hall at the River Centre, 175 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul When: Jan. 28- 29 Cost: $4 for adults, $3 for children and seniors...

This year's Oscar nominations were released yesterday in a characteristically awkward and unnecessary ceremony. Why can't they just put the list up on their website? I think the Academy of Motion...