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Review: ‘The Death of Stalin’ seizes the memes of destruction

Review: ‘The Death of Stalin’ seizes the memes of destruction

by Haley Bennett
Published March 26, 2018
The melodramatic comedy doesn’t present a plot so much as it unravels one — basically, it’s about politics.

A&E’s guide to spring style in 2018

by Haley Bennett
Published March 22, 2018
It may still be snowing, but if you’re anything like us, you’ve been planning your picnic weather outfits for a month or more.

Culture Compass: Corgis, beer and gloomy electric-pop

by Haley Bennett
Published March 5, 2018

Friday: "Bad Day at Black Rock" “One of the few Hollywood films to tackle anti-Japanese-American bigotry during World War II,” this 1955 CinemaScope thriller will show you how the movies used to handle...

Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow

Review: The dynamic brutalism of ‘Red Sparrow’

by Haley Bennett
Published March 5, 2018
“Red Sparrow” realizes our deepest cultural fears: “The Cold War did not end. The Americans are drunk on shopping and social media,” and it's Mother Russia’s time to strike…
Clockwise from top left: Annabelle, Presley, Dillanger, Tinkerbell, Nana, Thea

The personalities at Cafe Meow

by Haley Bennett
Published March 1, 2018
Netflix and chill is over. Coffee and cats are in.

Review: ‘Born 2 Ball’ has no bounce

by Haley Bennett
Published February 19, 2018
Helicopter parenting meets hip-hop.
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades Freed.

Review: ‘Fifty Shades Freed’ just sucks. It really does.

by Haley Bennett and Sophie Vilensky
Published February 12, 2018
We would’ve loved less drama and more dirt. Here is A&E's dual review of the unsexiest thing on celuloid.
Justin Timberlakes Man of the Woods album cover.

Review: With ‘Man of the Woods,’ Justin Timberlake fails to blaze a new path

by Haley Bennett
Published February 5, 2018
What starts out here as a clear trail toward unbridled debauchery takes a weird turn to become a tangle of cringey genre criss-cross.
Treehouse Records is open for business on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at Treehouse Records on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis. The store is closing after 44 years because its owner, Mark Trehus, is retiring. 

Long-time Minneapolis music shop Treehouse Records closes Dec. 31

by Haley Bennett
Published December 14, 2017
Initially North Country Music and known from the early ’70s to the mid ’80s as Oar Folk Records, the shop has left an imprint on the Minneapolis music scene for decades. But the times are a-changin’.
Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures

Review: The Shape of Water

by Haley Bennett
Published December 13, 2017
Mermaid film noir sounds like a fishy genre, but director Guillermo del Toro navigates it with skill.
Local punk band Uranium Club pose for portraits in Wilson Library on West Bank on Sunday, Dec. 3.

Minneapolis’ punk band Uranium Club discusses process and popularity

by Haley Bennett
Published December 7, 2017
One might expect a punk outfit called the “Uranium Club” to have an explosive, noise-fueled outlook in all they do. But the members of the band are all pretty stable elements.

Culture compass: Cult films, trippy electro-pop and the best food for finals in Dinkytown

by Haley Bennett
Published December 6, 2017

Friday: Screening of "The Room" – Midnight Madness This December, the Uptown Theatre's monthly showing of “The Room” complements this week’s release of James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist.”...

The Guthrie Theater presents Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol for the 43rd year through Dec. 30.

Review: The Guthrie’s 43rd Performance of “A Christmas Carol”

by Haley Bennett
Published December 5, 2017
“A Christmas Carol” has said “Bah. Humbug!” to poverty and greed for nearly two centuries.
Courtesy of A24 Films

Review: ‘The Disaster Artist’

by Haley Bennett
Published December 4, 2017
The best (and only) movie ever made about the worst movie ever made, which you should see before you see this one.
Thayers Witch Hazel Toner, Yes to Grapefruit Dark Spot Correcting Serum, Yes to Tomatoes Detoxifying Charcoal Mud Mask and Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Lotion are displayed on Monday, Nov. 27.

Face the elements with A&E’s guide to affordable winter skincare

by Haley Bennett
Published November 30, 2017
December means the holidays are right around the corner — but it also means the start of dry skin season.

Review: Björk’s “Utopia”

by Haley Bennett
Published November 27, 2017
Those whose favorite Björk albums are “Debut” and “Post” may be disappointed at how much her latest resembles 2015’s “Vulnicura.” “Utopia” is for die-hard fans of her latest style.
Intimate Battles is directed by Lucía Gajá. Photographs courtesy of Lucía Gajá.

Cine Latino Film Fest: A snapshot

by Haley Bennett
Published November 20, 2017
Documentary, animation, docu-drama, thriller — the 5th annual Cine Latino Film Fest, hosted by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Society, offered a great variety in today’s Ibero and Latin-American cinema.
Manager and projectionist Earl Luckes views out a screening window to make sure the movie is playing correctly for the audience at the Parkway Theater on Friday, Nov. 10.

No rules apply in the Twin Cities Psychotronic Film Society

by Haley Bennett
Published November 16, 2017
“Welcome to my world. Wheelbarrows of chicken, broken projectors.” So begins our introduction to the Twin Cities chapter of the Psychotronic Film Society.

Culture compass: Impending Thanksgiving, strange girls and the latest of Netflix’s originals

by Haley Bennett
Published November 15, 2017

Friday: MN to Palestine: How to talk about colonialism at Thanksgiving Following social justice movements at college, but anxious about how to handle heated conversations around the turkey table? IfNotNow...

Courtesy of Big Machine Records

Review: Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’

by Haley Bennett
Published November 13, 2017
On this album, Swift’s goal is to prove she doesn’t care about her bad reputation, and juvenile lyrics make her case perfectly.
The Enchantments performs during the Universitys A Cappell-Off at Coffman Memorial Union on Friday, Nov. 3.

UMN A Cappell-Off was pitch perfect

by Haley Bennett
Published November 6, 2017
Each of the five competing groups had to sing a throwback song, a ballad and a wild card.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer: No animals harmed in the process

by Haley Bennett
Published November 6, 2017
“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” is a psychological horror film without cheap thrills. It’s a challenge to the things that make us feel safest: family and medicine.
Kyle Lambert, Courtesy of Netflix

Review: Things are still strange in Hawkins

by Haley Bennett
Published October 30, 2017
The Duffer Brothers have refined the binge-watch. Sci-fi fans everywhere are grateful for the pitch-perfect note “Stranger Things 2” hits.

Magic and mystery with The MAZE

by Haley Bennett
Published October 29, 2017
Jim Munroe, a magician and survivor of leukemia, performed in Coffman’s Great Hall on Wednesday night.
Isabel Enns, left, Tessa Dahlgren, middle, and Kate Powers, right, discuss their work in the play In the Next Room on Friday, Oct. 20 in the Rarig Center on West Bank. The play debuts at the Rarig Center on Nov. 2.

Bringing buzz to the invention of the vibrator

by Haley Bennett
Published October 26, 2017
The Rarig Center will open its new show, “In the Next Room (Or The Vibrator Play)" Nov. 2.
Ty Dolla Sign performs during the 2017 homecoming concert at TCF Bank Stadium on Friday.

Review: Homecoming show fails to impress

by Haley Bennett
Published October 23, 2017
Headliner Ty Dolla Sign rallied the audience behind drug and alcohol references rather than his music.
Danny Cohen, Courtesy of Matador Records

Review: Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile’s ‘Lotta Sea Lice’

by Haley Bennett
Published October 19, 2017
Indie favorites Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile's new collaborative album, “Lotta Sea Lice,” follows popular sounds too closely to make a splash.
A mock funeral home setting is set up in a classroom in Jackson Hall on Friday, Oct. 13. Mortuary Sciences majors learn the business side of becoming a funeral director as well as anatomy.

Talk about ghosts: Mortuary science and the art of communication

by Haley Bennett
Published October 19, 2017
It’s hard not to think of death as the leaves turn brown and the ground hardens. But for the University's mortuary science department, death is part of everyday life.
A detail of one of Edies woodcut pieces of work. Edie is one of five emerging Minnesota artists to receive the Jerome Foundation Fellowship award this year.

Bright lights, bigger picture

by Haley Bennett
Published October 12, 2017
Printmaking gets brightened in Edie Overturf’s electrified artwork.
Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas in Blade Runner 2049

Review: “Blade Runner 2049”

by Haley Bennett
Published October 9, 2017
Slow? Fine. Sequel that regurgitates sci-fi cliches and is less daring than its 30-year-old predecessor in every way? Not cool.
Hannah Doyle and Lindsey Bronson pose for a photo at the Wizard Camp-In on Friday, Sept. 29 at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul.

Fantastic geeks and where to find them

by Haley Bennett
Published October 5, 2017
This past Friday, you would have found them at the Science Museum of Minnesota, decked out in their blackest robes and pointiest hats, wandering among different wizarding world-themed activities at the museum's first adult Wizard Camp-In.
Laura Bidegain posts her doodles on the wall during the Doodle Jam workshop at the Minneapolis Zine Fest on Saturday, Sept. 30.

Any zine you like

by Haley Bennett
Published October 2, 2017
A zine is exactly what it sounds like: a mini magazine. They're published by the creators, who're sometimes cartoonists or other artists, sometimes just people compiling doodles.
Kenneth Kearney, Courtesy of Calabro Music Media. 

Moon Hooch: Uncontrolled substance

by Haley Bennett
Published September 28, 2017
Moon Hooch is bringing the dance jam to Minneapolis this Saturday.
Joe Davis and the Poetic Diaspora warm up before performing at the Powderhorn PorchFest on Saturday, Sept. 23.

Porchfest highlights music, dance in Powderhorn

by Haley Bennett
Published September 25, 2017
17th Avenue was blocked off from 31st Street to 33rd for this year's Powderhorn Porchfest in Minneapolis.
Film reals sit in the projection room at the Trylon Cinema on Thursday in South Minneapolis.

Hanging out in the dark together: the Trylon Cinema reopens

by Haley Bennett
Published September 21, 2017
This summer, amid “contractors and plans, volunteers and sweat, missed deadlines and anxiety,” the Trylon cinema expanded. It is now ready to let the celluloid roll.
Arab Film Festival Director and UMN PhD Student Michelle Baroody poses for portraits with Program Coordinator Jordan Lee Thompson outside of Pillsbury Hall on Tuesday.

Reel Perspectives: The 12th Arab Film Festival

by Haley Bennett
Published September 21, 2017
The festival offers viewers a glimpse at contemporary Arab and Arab-American lives.
People view James Rosenquists mural Worlds Fair Mural at Weisman Art Museum on April 12, 2017.

A&E’s go-to sites around Minneapolis (and St. Paul) for students

by Haley Bennett
Published September 15, 2017
Get acquainted with the Twin Cities! Bike or take the bus for bonus city-slicker points.
Festival goers dance to music performed by The Levendes at the Minneapolis Greek Festival at St. Marys Greek Orthodox Church on Saturday, Sept. 9.

Taste of Greece at weekend festival

by Haley Bennett
Published September 14, 2017
The 29th Minneapolis Taste of Greece Festival served in spades what it promised: great food and (great) live music.
The Miami Dolphins play songs off their second LP, Water You Waiting For, on Friday Sept. 1, at the Seward Cafe in Minneapolis.

Q&A: The Miami Dolphins’ Chaotic Pop

by Haley Bennett
Published September 5, 2017
The Miami Dolphins (Minneapolis band, not the Florida football team) discuss their new album “Water Your Waiting For.”
Patrons browse through records on Saturday Sept. 2, at Dead Medias grand re-opening in South Minneapolis. Dead Media is a record, tape and book store that now has a performance space in the basement.

Dead Media now lives in Powderhorn

by Haley Bennett
Published September 5, 2017
The volunteer-operated shop that sells records, cassette tapes and secondhand books moved into a glossy new space in the Corcoran-Powderhorn neighborhood.

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