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: 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,...
“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....
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...
“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...
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...
The Brooklyn-based electronic duo Teengirl Fantasy played the 7th Street Entry last Friday night, showcasing their rare ability of making danceable music you can do homework to.
Logan Takahashi...
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...
What: The Fred Eaglesmith Traveling Show
When: 7:30 p.m., April 15
Where: Cedar Cultural Center, 416 S. Cedar Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $15 in advance, $18 at the door
It’s not clear...
What: The Daredevil Christopher Wright
Where: 7th Street Entry, 701 First Ave.
When: Sunday, April 22
Cost: $12-14
Over the past few years, Eau Claire, Wis., has experienced a musical...
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: Judah Friedlander
When: April 10
Where: Varsity Theater, 1308 Fourth St. SE
Cost: $18-20
Judah Friedlander has been doing standup for more than 20 years, but he’s most recognizable for playing...
There is a moment in David H. Steinberg’s new young adult comedy, “Last Stop This Town,” where he writes, “Yet part of graduating high school was also pretty scary. It was...
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...
Directed by: Michael Dowse
Starring: Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill
Rated: R
Showing at: Lagoon Cinema
“Goon” really only slows down once, and it’s to show...
Artist: Tanlines
Album: “Mixed Emotions”
Label: True Panther
Electronic pop is an over-saturated market by now. Technological advances in music production have made bedroom-project dream...
What: Megafaun
When: March 24, doors open at 8 p.m.
Where: Turf Club, 1601 W. University Ave., St. Paul
Cost: $15
“Freak-folk” has all of the connotations and trappings...
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...
What: “The Sports Show”
Where: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 S. Third Ave., Minneapolis
When: Thursday through May 13
Price: $4-8, free with student ID
Last week, after much deliberation...
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...
“Hairdresser Blues”
Artist: Hunx
Label: Hardly Art
“Dropping out feels nice, and I don't wanna be a fool,” Hunx, the onstage persona of Oakland singer-songwriter Seth...
What: Islands
When: 10:30 p.m. Friday
Where: 7th Street Entry, 701 First Ave.
Cost: $12
Ages: 18+
Wordsworth wrote “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting” in his classic poem “Ode:...
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...
What: Harold and the Purple Crayon
Where: Children’s Theatre Company, 2400 S. 3rd Ave.
When: Feb. 23-26
Cost: $10-43.50
The first objective of children’s entertainment is, believe it or not,...
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....
What: Memorial show for Daniel Levy
When: 1:30 p.m., Saturday
Where: History Theatre, 30 E. 10th St., St. Paul
Cost: Free
Twin Cities rock veterans the Honeydogs are hard at work readying their 10th studio...
What: Schoolboy Q
When: 9 p.m., Feb. 18
Where: Varsity Theater, 1308 Fourth St. SE
Cost: $15
Age: 18+
Influential tastemaker and hipster-bible music website Pitchfork Media gave Los Angeles...
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...
With mid-February days away, ValentineâÄôs Day is right around the corner, as is the backlash that accompanies it each year. Public displays of affection and mushy subplots on every episode of...
What: 30th Annual Battle of the Jug Bands
When: Feb. 11-12
Where: Feb. 11: Nomad World Pub, 501 Cedar Ave.
Feb. 12: The Cabooze, 917 Cedar Ave.
Just a few weeks removed from the Janis Joplin tribute...
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When: 7 p.m. Friday
Where: Parkway Theater, 4814 S. Chicago Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $48-58
College...
What: Juicy Steak Moustache
When: 12-4 p.m., Saturdays until March 10
Where: Northrup King Building, Studio 395, 1500 Jackson St. NE
Cost: Free
Anyone who has caught a glimpse of Michael Cera's thin,...
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...
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, 175 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul
When: Jan. 28- 29
Cost: $4 for adults, $3 for children and seniors...
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...
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...
What: Raucous Caucus II
When: 7 p.m., Jan. 19 and 10 p.m., Jan. 20
Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Minneapolis
Cost: $12
When did âÄúpoliticsâÄù start feeling like a bad word?...
What: Happy Birthday Janis Joplin! Tribute Show
When: Jan. 21, 8:30 pm
Where: The Cabooze
Cost: $10
At its worst, nostalgia for music of the âÄò60s and âÄò70s results...
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