Most of Richard Barlow’s recipients have no idea who’s sending mail to them. But when the artist picks someone for his “Daily Bromides” series of watercolors, he sends them one...
Twelve years ago, a car altered Kevin Kling’s life forever. At the corner of Lake Street and Lyndale Avenue, he clung to life on his motorcycle after a near fatal crash.
The accident left his right...
Susannah Cahalan found two red dots on her arm one morning in February 2009. She figured she had bedbugs like many New Yorkers at the time. After several fumigations and increasing anxiety, Cahalan’s...
Carroll is a band with a hell of a work ethic. “Needs,” the only release by the Macalester College-founded group, is only six songs long, but the brief back catalog never meant they shied away...
Since 1994, the Minnesota Fringe Festival has offered a staggering amount of theater over its annual 11-day run. With 176 shows in 16 venues, the largest non-juried theater festival in the United States...
Drag City recently released the first and only album by Andy Kaufman this month. Entitled Andy and his Grandmother, the infamous “song-and-dance-man” recorded the album’s material on...
Every band needs a meeting spot. Between beers and bocce ball, Part Mammal first bonded at the Nomad World Pub. The West Bank bar has been the band’s natural habitat since 2010.
A sign at the bar...
You can almost feel the sweat dripping off the pages of “Sammy the Mouse,” Zak Sally’s latest series of comic books. He spent months slaving over the first volume’s run, working...
STUFF TO DO
FRIDAY:
Jimmy Pardo
Fast-talking Chicago native Jimmy Pardo has a sweet job,warming up the audience every night for Conan O’Brien’s late-night show. Though one could see that gig...
In October of 1946, Hermann Goering committed suicide. Inside his prison cell, the Nazi war criminal swallowed a vial of cyanide.
Following the end of World War II, the remaining leadership of Nazi Germany...
DreamHaven Books houses a vast repository of lost science fiction gems. Talking cats and floating cubes litter the pages of these ’60s- and ’70s-era pulp novels, but simply taking a look at...
Sometimes the vegetables give off a reedy low-pitched tone. Other times, Philip Blackburn’s talking plants emit a set of seemingly random percussive beats.
“Some of them have more emotive qualities...
A band of demonstrators from across the country gathered outside the White House, right under newly elected Richard Nixon’s nose. As author Laura Waterman Wittstock remembers, the timing couldn’t...
Green Day’s “Dookie” made an impression on a 14-year-old Mike Cunningham.
“That’s really what made me want to play an instrument,” he said.
Known as Mike Midwestern,...
Who doesn’t like to add a shrewdly placed Hitler moustache to a stern portrait? What better way to pass the time than doodling a meandering trail of geometric shapes? Local artist Leanna Perry...
Andres Guzman and Allegra Lockstadt both complained of sores on their hands.
“Don’t you get calluses from working with concrete or sanding things all day?” Lockstadt said.
Neither...
Let’s face it: that half jug of Gatorade is not the most enticing thing to offer a potential sexual partner. Why not add some class to your bag of beverage tricks?
Make some stiff drinks to help...
STUFF TO DO
SATURDAY:
“Pride and Prejudice”
Be honest with yourself: you’ve never actually read a Jane Austen novel. You might as well start with the most well-known...
At First Avenue this weekend, fans will get to take what the venue bills a “psychonautical voyage.” The Bathysphere journey may be proverbial, but the festival boasts a list of trance-inducing...
On a bike ride through the riverfront district in Minneapolis, Penny Petersen realized one brick building was out of place among the upscale housing. From what she knew about the late 19th century in the...
Under a mountain of inked paper and Adderall, Tao Lin worked tirelessly on “Taipei.”
Crafting his third novel — an alienating piece of comic fiction — required copious amounts of...
After a storm knocked out electricity for more than half a million homes and businesses in the metro, Erica Krumm and Jim Kolles entered their cramped Minneapolis practice space to check the power.
The...
Since 1991, Dan Savage’s syndicated advice column has served up frank sex talk to worrisome virgin teenagers, bi-curious feminists and everyone in between. “Savage Love” only represents...
STUFF TO DO
FRIDAY:
“Speak Up and Get Down,” featuring Guante and the 2013 MN Brave New Voices team
Minneapolis underground emcee Guante is a busy man. As well as working...
Despite the mid-afternoon thunderstorm, Dan Deacon forged ahead underground on Saturday.
When rain made his performance on the Walker Art Center’s outdoor stage for Rock the Garden completely impossible,...
Words of encouragement cover everything from the walls of fluorescent-lit offices to college dorm rooms reeking of leftover pizza — the world runs on the genre of inspirational vernacular. Now that...
With the arcade in mind, pop-funk, five-piece Hot Freaks enter the local music sphere with plenty of quarters and Mountain Dew in hand. Inspired by Nintendo’s back catalog of video game soundtracks...
Trash bags marked with red tape carried the cocaine. A trucking company would gather the haul like it was garbage at ports, sites where the cruise ships docked. In the 1980s, coke from Colombia poured...
Israel “Icepick Willie” Alderman punctured victims’ brains via their eardrums with his namesake tool — that way, an autopsy would fail to detect any sign of a homicide....
Each week, Trash Film Debauchery hosts screenings of the best of the worst movies. The kind of cheap thrills you're too shy to admit you love. So if you couldn't show your face at recent screenings...
Andy Haynes no longer sleeps on an inflatable bed—now he’s making enough money to afford an actual mattress. When the stand-up used to live with fellow comic Rory Scovel in L.A., he slept on...
“Starcrash” hasn’t aged well, but last Wednesday, the 1978 Italian sci-fi romp graced the screen of the Trylon Microcinema, where B-movie fans gather each week to embrace the forgotten...
Nothing spells the advent of summer like the local block party, a Twin Cities tradition. Even though the First Avenue and River’s Edge festivals were shelved this year, the Cities are alive...
Jed Smentek founded his band after buying a retro synthesizer off of Craigslist. To form CLAPS, he’d need the inspiration from the ’80s synth to build the moody minimalism his band is known...
What: METZ with No Joy and Buildings
Where: Coffman Union, Whole Music Club
When: 8:30 p.m., Friday
Cost: $5 for University students, $7 for the public
Age: 18+
To hear METZ live means to hear the pulsating...
Shot on 16 mm film on a mere $7,000 budget, 2004’s “Primer” stands among the brainiest sci-fi movies ever made. But the technical story didn’t depend on a multi-million dollar Michael...
What: “The City Dark”
Where: Bell Museum of Natural History, 10 Church St. SE,
Minneapolis
When: 7 p.m., Thursday
Cost: Free with museum admission
Armed with his homemade telescope and...
What: Colleen Green
Where: Memory Lanes,
2520 S. 26th Ave., Minneapolis
When: 10 p.m., Monday
Cost: Free
Colleen Green hasn’t had a real job in four years. Between stops in Canada and Detroit,...
What: Theophilus London
Where: CoffmanUnion, Front Plaza
When: 12 p.m., Friday
Cost: Free
Delving into the list of influences that inspire Theophilus London feels dizzying. His culture-hopping retrospective...
THINGS TO DO
THURSDAY
Art in Bloom
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Art in Bloom brings floral artists to the Minneapolis Institue of Arts for a four-day tribute to all things art,...
What: Nick Drake’s Musical Legacy
Who: Joe Boyd presents Mason Jennings, Steve Tibbetts with Wendy Lewis and Haley Bonar
Where: Cedar Cultural Center, 416 S. Cedar Ave, Minneapolis
When: 7:30 p.m.,...
What: “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP”
When: 7:30 p.m., Wednesday
Where: Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $9
When the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power first...
Home to 83,000 objects spanning 5,000 years of human history, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection only represents a puny fraction of the artifacts yet to be discovered on the ocean floor. Recent...
What: Amy Stewart
Where: Magers & Quinn, 3038 S. Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis
When: 7:30 p.m., Thursday
Not many authors readily admit to alcohol’s role in their work. But in “Wicked...
Atypical subjects rarely faze Mary Roach, a science writer who has penned books about everything from cadavers to the feasibility of sending humans to Mars. For the latest line in her taboo-oriented books,...
“Starbuck”
Where: Landmark Edina
Rated: R
Directed by: Ken Scott
Starring: Patrick Huard, Julie LeBreton, Antoine Bertrand
Opens: Friday
The opening scene of “Starbuck” finds...
Until recently, the DJs on “African Rhythms” had to rely on more expensive means of finding new music. They’d use their connections to purchase obscure music everywhere from Mali to the...
THINGS TO DO
THURSDAY
“Searching for Sugar Man”
Where: Landmark Lagoon Cinema, 1320 Lagoon Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $7
Sixto Rodriguez released two albums in the...
Building debris and unearthed rocks lie exposed in a deep pit next to the Soap Factory. As construction crews finish up work on another high-end apartment complex, continuing to mask the former industry...
What: The Ruby Suns with Painted Palms
When: 9 p.m., Friday
Where: 7th St. Entry, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $10 advance, $12 door
Age: 18+
Ryan McPhun’s frequent flyer miles are...
Who: Justin Torres
What: Reading and Q&A
When: 4 p.m., Friday
Where: Walter Library, Arthur Upson Room (Room 102), 117 Pleasant St. SE,
Minneapolis
Cost: Free
No language obscures the...
What: “Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation,” with co-star Chris Strompolos
When: 7 p.m., Thursday
Where: Riverview Theater, 3800 S. 42nd Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $8
Chris Strompolos...
After needing an advertisement for his college band’s show, he designed a comic book-inspired flyer that would eventually carve out his career path. Plastered on various dive bars’ bathroom...
More amateurs and performers alike are telling their private tales on stage and over the radio. Nationally established storytelling syndicates like “This American Life,” “The Moth”...
What: Story City: “My First Time”
When: 7 p.m., Thursday
Where: The Loft Literary Center, 1011 S. Washington Ave., Suite 200, Minneapolis
Cost: Free
When Adam Marquardt took the stage...
Predicting the fate of the world generally creates a lot of disappointment. From the thousands of Millerites awaiting Christ’s second coming in 1843 to talk-radio personality Harold Camping’s...
Obsolete, energy-inefficient spotlights illuminated the stage of Ultan Recital Hall until this year. As theater technician and lighting designer Jessica Solinksy explained, the incandescent bulbs damaged...
What: “Minnesota Funk” Public Reception
When: 6 p.m., Thursday
Where: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, 405 S. 21st Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: Free
Four years ago, artist...
What: “A Stone Thrown at the Guilty” staged reading
When: 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday
Where: Stoll Thrust Theatre, Rarig Center, 330 S. 21st Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: Free
Two...
THINGS TO DO
THURSDAY
Who: Nada Surf with Eternal Summers
Where: Fine Line Music Cafe
318 N. First Ave., Minneapolis
When: 8:30 p.m.
Price: $18
Somewhere between 1990s fuzz bands The Lemonheads...
What: Discussion of “Through the Portals of Pigs and Manure, The Story of the Minnesota Influence on American Surgery” with Dr. Arnold Leonard
When: 4 p.m., Wednesday
Where: Coffman Union Bookstore,...
CULTURE TO CONSUME
Watch this: “Drugs Are Like That”
Educational films from the sixties and seventies can be pretty addicting to watch, especially given the wide collection available...
Wide release
Rated: PG
Directed by: Ang Lee
Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Adil Hussain
Opens Nov. 21
Lost in the Pacific Ocean after a shipwreck, Pi Patel only has a Bengal tiger as company...
What: Low with Germaine Gemberling and Rich Mattson
Where: Cedar Cultural Center, 416 S. Cedar Ave., Minneapolis
When: 8 p.m., Friday
Cost: $18 in advance, $20 day of show
All ages
Clad in a black...
What: The Magnetic Fields with Gal Musette
When: 7 p.m., Tuesday
Where: First Avenue Mainroom, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $30
Age: 18+
Even though his lyrics tend to evoke ambiguity, Stephin...
What: Opening reception for “PTSD: Coping with the Past Self”
When: 6 p.m., Friday
Where: Keg House Arts Building 34, Flow Art Space, 13th Avenue NE, Suite B002B, Minneapolis
Cost: Free
Streamers...
“The Sessions”
Where: Uptown Theatre
Rated: R
Directed by: Ben Lewin
Starring: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy
Opens: Friday
Mark O’Brien spent the majority of his life...
What: MPR’s “Wits” with Dave Foley and Mike Doughty
When: 8 p.m., Friday
Where: Fitzgerald Theater, 10 E. Exchange St., St. Paul
Cost: SOLD OUT
One skit from the first season of...
What: Discussion of Nuruddin Farah’s “Crossbones”
When: 7p.m., Oct. 29
Where: The Loft Literary Center, 1011 S. Washington Ave., Minneapolis
Distance and time usually separate...
CULTURE TO CONSUME
Album:
“Allelujah! Don’t bend! Ascend!” Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Ten years have passed since this Canadian post-rock instrumental band has released an album,...
What: Discussion of “A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.”
When: 4 p.m., Thursday
Where: Coffman Union Bookstore, 300 Washington...
The tenants of rock ‘n’ roll usually champion excess and abandon, clearly incompatible with conservationism. Rarely do festival attendees in a psychedelic stupor want to consider about their...
What: “shadows traces undercurrents” public reception
When: 6 p.m., Thursday
Where: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, 405 S. 21st Ave., Minneapolis
Discarded thoughts...
Victoria Legrand’s voice never faltered in last night’s concert, consistently enthralling the sold-out First Avenue crowd. The Beach House vocalist sang behind a thick matte of hair...
Zombies no longer occupy a distant fringe of pop culture, with continual examples of the obsession with reanimated corpses cropping up every year. AMC’s television series “The Walking Dead”...
What: Talking Volumes: Abraham Verghese hosted by Kerri Miller
Where: The Fitzgerald Theater, 10 E. Exchange St., St. Paul
When: 7 p.m., Wednesday
Dr. Abraham Verghese speaks about his initial foray...
In one of Coffman Union’s dull fluorescent-lit rooms, 14 amateur student performers gather each week for the sake of comedy. Thriving in the mundane spaces normally used for study groups, the improv...
What: Author William Swanson discusses “Black White Blue”
Where: Coffman Union Bookstore, 300 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis
When: 4 p.m., Tuesday
Cost: Free
On the evening of...
What: The van Gobots’ “Free Smells” EP Release Show
When: 9 p.m., Saturday
Where: Cause Spirits and Soundbar, 3001 S. Lyndale Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $5
Age: 21+
The...
What: Music for Malawi: A benefit concert featuring The New Gruv and The Debuts
When: 7 p.m., Sunday
Where: Kieran’s Irish Pub, 601 N. 1st Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: Suggested donation of $20
Malawi...
Tomorrow marks the release of Secret Stash Records’ Twin Cities Fun & Soul: Lost R&B Grooves from Minneapolis/St. Paul 1964-1979. The 21 track compilation uncovers the lost era in Minneapolis-St....
Tonight the first ever video game themed concert comes to the Orpheum Theatre for The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses. A full symphony orchestra will recreate those moments on your N64 or GameBoy...
What: Masters of Illusion Live!
When: 7:30 p.m., Sept. 21
Where: State Theatre, 805 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis
Cost: $43.50 to $79
Most people have polarized views of magic. Their...
CULTURE TO CONSUME
Listen to this: “Sleeping Ute” by Grizzly Bear
The second single from Grizzly Bear’s latest album, “Shields,” showcases the Brooklyn four-piece’s...
What: Talking Volumes
Who: Junot DÃaz hosted by Kerri Miller
Where: The Fitzgerald Theater, 10 East Exchange Street, St. Paul
When: 7p.m., Sept. 18
Cost: $25 ($23 for MPR members)
Time...
According to a new story in the Duluth News Tribune, the U's former athletics director Joel Maturi may have been the inspiration behind one of the most memorable sketches in Saturday Night Live history....
Last night, the VH1 talking head known for his role in the I Love the 70s/80s/90s/New Millennium series performed his particular brand of sarcastic comedy in front of a packed crowd in Coffman’s...
Whether asserting Harry Potter’s satanic origins or Captain Underpants’s poop-related insensitivity, young adult literature remains contested by overly protective parents who voice their unwarranted...
What: BANNED! [The Title of This Event Has Been Censored], a lively panel discussion of literature and censorship
Who: Authors Ellen Hopkins, Pete Hautman, Pamela Klinger-Horn, James Klise and Charlotte...
This week, we’re reading books dealing with life beyond death. Featuring both a scientist and an LSD user straight out of Berkeley, Calif., the two selections provide mind-altering accounts that’ll...
Patti Hecht-Kressly, a former police officer for 13 years, now surrounds herself with actors. She coaches them to reproduce symptoms of mental illnesses like post-traumatic stress disorder for training...
Zach CondonâÄôs once solo project Beirut developed out of recordings consisting of faraway abstractions of places the young high school dropout wanted to go. Distant nostalgia first defined...
What: âÄúThe Big Spill,âÄù a presentation by Leigh Fondakowski
Where: 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education
When: 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
After speaking to a Shell Oil worker, Leigh...
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