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All content by Joseph Kleinschmidt

Book talk: “Brain on Fire” by Susannah Cahalan

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published August 7, 2013
Barlow's postcards may not depict scenic vistas, but they do offer a new take on the one of the first photographs taken.

Richard Barlow goes postal

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published August 7, 2013
Kevin Kling, writer of "Humanimal," during rehearsal at Open Eye Figure Theater on Monday evening.

“Humanimal”: Beyond Kevin Kling’s wildest dreams

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published August 7, 2013
Dreamy psychedelic pop band Carroll.

Handle with Carroll

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 31, 2013
Actors Phillip Schramm, Brandon R. Caviness and Joel Thingvall in the play "Stuck in an Elevator with Patrick Stewart" featured in the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Forever on the Fringe: comedies at the fest

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 31, 2013

Andy Kaufman’s debut album

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 24, 2013
Comic book artist Zak Sally in his studio on Tuesday July 23rd, 2013.

Twin Cities comics scene gets physical

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 24, 2013

Culture Compass: Jimmy Pardo, FLOW and Alabama Shakes

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 24, 2013

Crime and medicine in “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist”

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 24, 2013
Part Mammal practices at Elliott Snyder's home on Monday June, 22nd 2013.

Part-time, Part Mammal

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 24, 2013

Culture Compass: Beyonce and Beer

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 17, 2013
Minneapolis artist Bill Ferenc is one of the many artists updating vintage science fiction novel covers from the '50s and '60s for the Light Grey Art Lab's show "Station Zero".

Odd future at Light Grey Art Lab

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 17, 2013
Minneapolis residents gather round the pavilion near the Stone Arch Bridge to listen to local band Silent Agency on July 15th, 2013.

Hear this: World Listening Day at the Walker

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 17, 2013
Allegra Lockstadt's half of "Candy Arena" features a row of flowers against Andres Guzman's abstract orbs.

Andres Guzman and Allegra Lockstadt bring eye candy to Paper Darts

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 10, 2013
Author Laura Waterman Wittstock Monday, July 8, 2013, at her home in Southeast Minneapolis. Her book, "We Are Still Here" gives a history of the American Indian Movement, which was founded in Minneapolis in the 1960s. JOE SENDING SOMETHING

“We Are Still Here” chronicles American Indian Movement

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 10, 2013
Indie rock artist Mike Midwestern. He will release his new CD "Oh My Soul" during a release party on July 13, 2013, at Honey in Minneapolis.

Mike Midwestern releases “Oh My Soul”

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 10, 2013

“Looks Like Fun” at Will Call

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 10, 2013
A caipirinha and a sangria make a great couple for summer cocktails.

A couple of college cocktails for summer loving

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 3, 2013

Culture Compass: Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys and “The Lone Ranger”

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 3, 2013
Minneapolis psychedelic band Flavor Crystals

Underwater with Bathysphere at First Avenue

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published July 2, 2013
Jim Kolles, left, and Erica Krumm together make up Minneapolis band Oaks.

Local band Oaks release “Field Beat”

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 26, 2013
Minneapolis writer and author of "Minneapolis Madams," Penny Peterson.

All of the red-lights

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 26, 2013
Tao Lin edits the independent publisher Muumuu House. His previous novels are Eeeee Eee Eeee and Richard Yates.

Interview with Tao Lin: What happened in “Taipei”

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 26, 2013

Culture Compass: Guante, Kanye and 10 Thousand Sounds

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 19, 2013

Q&A with Dan Savage

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 19, 2013
Metric performs live at Rock the Garden on Saturday June 15th, 2013.

Review: Rock the Garden (and Garage) 2013

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 16, 2013
Minneapolis teacher Jen Arzayus, left, and lead editor Zane Spang explain the process of shooting and editing a documentary on Thursday, June 6, 2013, at Arzayus's Minneapolis home. Her documentary "White Cactus" follows the story of her relationship and reunion with her father, a former Columbian drug lord.

“White Cactus” and white lies

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 12, 2013
Minneapolis artist and graphic designer J. Zachary Keenan works in his studio Tuesday, June 11, 2013, in the Washington North Loop. Keenan is one of the artists featured in the You Can Do It, Put Your Back Into It Exhibition at Light Grey Art Lab opening June 14.

Living in a perfect word

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 12, 2013
Indie pop band Hot Freaks.

Freaking out

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 12, 2013
Augie's Bar lies behind the streetcars on Hennepin Avenue in this 1949 photo.

Gangsta’s paradise: “Augie’s Secrets” and Minneapolis mob life

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 5, 2013

Theresa Kay’s Top Ten Trash Films

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 3, 2013
From comedian Andy Haynes's set on "Conan": "I'm pretty broke which is hard to believe because I look like a senator's nephew."

Growing Haynes

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published June 3, 2013

Summer block parties in the Twin Cities

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published May 29, 2013
Claps, a local Dark Wave, Post-Punk band play a dark, minimalistic style of synth pop music that is comparable to acts such as New Order and Cold Cave.

CLAPS won’t leave the basement

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published May 29, 2013
Ryan of the shadow cast for the Rocky Horror Picture Show plays Frank N Furter live during a midnight showing of the film on Sunday, May 26, 2013, at The Uptown Theater. The theater shows Rocky Horror on the last Saturday of every month and actors from the shadow cast, Transvestite Soup, perform along with the movie while screaming profanities and interacting with audience members throughout the film.

Trash Talk

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published May 29, 2013

Movie review: “Upstream Color”

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published May 9, 2013

METZ means nothing

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published May 9, 2013
In addition to writing music, Colleen Green occasionally draws a comic centered around a cartoon version of herself smoking weed.

Green machine

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published May 2, 2013
In "The City Dark," biologists along the Florida coast study the effects of Miami's light pollution on sea turtles.

Seeing stars: “The City Dark” at the Bell Museum

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published May 2, 2013

Theophilus London Calling

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published April 25, 2013

Culture Compass: Danny Brown, Art in Bloom and Tim & Eric

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published April 25, 2013

A Nick Drake Tribute at the Cedar Cultural Center

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published April 23, 2013

Documentary highlights the legacy of ACT UP

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published April 18, 2013

New tech, ancient art

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published April 18, 2013

The botany of booze

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published April 11, 2013

Big ‘Gulp’

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published April 2, 2013

Movie Review: ‘Starbuck’

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published March 28, 2013
Charles Sugnet, an English professor at the University, co-hosts KFAI radio’s “African Rhythms” show on Thursday, March 7, 2013 in Minneapolis.

Radio without borders

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published March 14, 2013

Culture Compass: “Searching for Sugar Man,” Dr. von Hagens and Yeah Yeah Yeahs

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published March 7, 2013

Sea Change

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published March 7, 2013

Under construction

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published February 28, 2013
The Ruby Suns Band Photo

Wandering star

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published February 21, 2013

Beasts of the Northern Wild

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published February 14, 2013

Culture Compass: Herzog and Ocean

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published February 14, 2013
The crew finished their seven-year project 1989, editing the movie at the local ABC affiliate, WLOX-13.

State of the Ark

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published February 7, 2013
Friday is the beginning of 2013's Lowertown First Fridays where illustrator David Witt will be releasing his first hardbound book, "Portraits Volume One." Witt is the official artist of the annual Zombie Pub Crawl poster and has done extensive screen-printed poster workthroughout the years.

Prints among thieves

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published January 31, 2013

Storyteller’s Delight: A round-up of five local outlets

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published January 24, 2013

Spilling Guts

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published January 24, 2013

Book Club: Apocalypse Edition

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 12, 2012

Music: Now in Technicolor

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 12, 2012

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

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 6, 2012
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
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
"Dirty Baby" presents a melding of the works of artist Ed Ruscha, poet David Breskin and musician Nels Cline without a beatnik playing the bongos, as Breskin explained. Here they stand by a few barbecues for some reason.

Parental control

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 29, 2012
A crane lowers Big Mouth, the Minnesota Zoo's 1,700-pound beluga whale, onto an operating table.

In the mouth of the whale

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 27, 2012

Movie Review: “Life of Pi”

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 21, 2012
Alan Sparhawk met his future wife and Low collaborator Mimi Parker at the age of nine and began composing music at age 13.

Lowdown

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 21, 2012

Culture Compass: Titus Andronicus, Daniel Tosh and info-tainment

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 21, 2012

Pop-drunk love

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 13, 2012

The divided self

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 8, 2012
Andy McCormick, left, Karen Majewicz, left center, Ryan Billig, center, and Chris Hepola of Dreamland Faces rehearse in their studio space in the Seward neighborhood on Wednesday. The band will be performing at the Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis on Thursday.

The sounds of silence

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 8, 2012

Fifty shades of Foley

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 1, 2012

Review: “The Sessions”

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 1, 2012
Professor Louis Mendoza specializes in immigration and Chicano studies. Mendoza went on an 8,000 mile bike trip five years ago where he examined the United States' treatment towards immigration issues.

Wheels in motion

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 25, 2012
Somalian novelist Nuruddin Farah is the author of ten novels, a nonfiction book, and numerous articles. Farah was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota's English department.

Keeping Somalia in his heart and on the page

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 25, 2012

Culture Compass: Sea Wolf, unholy monsters and ghost stories

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 25, 2012
Professor Mark Pedelty has published his third book, “Ecomusicology: Rock, Folk, and the Environment” and still finds time to play in a band called The Hypoxic Punks.

Professor sees greener musical pastures

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 18, 2012
Joyce Lyon, co-curator of the “shadows traces undercurrents” exhibit and a University associate professor, reflects on her work.

Mapping the invisible

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 18, 2012
Beach House performs a sold out show at First Avenue on Tuesday night.

Review: Beach House at First Avenue

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 11, 2012

Undead ends

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 11, 2012

Fiction Prescription

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 9, 2012
Sophomore speech-language-hearing sciences major Lauren Shibley does an improv warm-up exercise with the rest of the MinnProv teammates during their first meeting of the year at Coffman Union.

MinnProv members make it up as they go along

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 4, 2012

New book recounts a 1970 St. Paul murder

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 2, 2012

Warm heart of Africa

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 27, 2012

Vestiges of a dictator

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 27, 2012

Take a whiff

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 27, 2012

Twin Cities’ lost era of funk and soul

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 24, 2012

Your own “Legend of Zelda” symphony

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 22, 2012

Culture Compass: Maria Bamford, Fire in the Northern Firs and F. Scott Fitzgerald comes alive

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 20, 2012
Working magician Tyler Erickson, a magic teacher and member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, poses in the theater at Twin Cities Magic and Costume Co. When the company moves, the theater won

Tricks of the trade

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 20, 2012

Uncovering Junot Díaz

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 18, 2012

Joel Maturi’s Chris Farley connection

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 17, 2012

Recap: Michael Ian Black at Coffman

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 15, 2012

Book Club: Afterlife Edition

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 13, 2012

Panel talks book bans

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 13, 2012

Abandon censorship

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published September 13, 2012

Crisis professionals

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 8, 2011

Kiss kiss bang bang

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 8, 2011
Zach ?ondon of Beirut performs Dec. 3 at First Avenue in Minneapolis.

Review: Beirut at First Avenue

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 4, 2011
The indie rock quintet Clap Your Hands Say Yeah brags fans including David Bowie and David Byrne.

Fancy Claps

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 1, 2011
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