ItâÄôs Saturday afternoon, and the core unit of MPLS.TVâÄôs 100-plus volunteers is standing in a hot studio sipping cans of Coke and preparing for nudity âÄî lots of it. Ryan Warner...
WHAT: What Remains WHEN: Saturday, June 5, 7 p.m. âÄì 11 p.m., runs until July 25 WHERE: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd St. SE, Mpls. âÄúArt is never finished.âÄù ItâÄôs an old...
WHAT: Jerome Emerging Printmakers Exhibition WHEN: Reception and Meet-the-Artists event, May 28, 6:30 âÄì 9 p.m., exhibit runs May 28 âÄì June 26 WHERE: Highpoint Center for Printmaking,...
WHAT: AAXI: A Decade of Aesthetic Apparatus, One Year Late WHEN: Reception, May 28, 6 p.m. âÄî 8 p.m. Exhibit runs May 28 âÄî June 27 WHERE: Minneapolis College of Art + Design, 2501 Stevens...
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</> A peek at local artist Steve Tenebrini's contribution to "Hit Like a Girl" at The Pink Hobo this weekend, via his Twitter
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Band: Dada Trash Collage — This local band is getting...
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Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound looks like above picture, but his music sounds more like a smoke-filled southern bog inhabited by sensitive space aliens from the future. More specifically, his...
Growing up, my older sister Krissy used to play the “Rent” soundtrack on a regular basis, and I was puzzled by the sing-song answering machine messages and the occasional breakage from song into outright...
The 8-song EP is to be released digitally, and buyers can decide how much money to donate to the rapper's efforts to help Haiti. The donations will accompany his friends as...
If you're using a Blogger format to post your musings about music (with MP3 accompaniments), be careful. A few big-name outlets, like Pop Tarts Suck Toasted (I'd put the link but it died), have been...
Chin Dian Café
Food: This restaurant boasts a hybrid of Indian/Chinese cuisine (Chindian – get it?) that includes dishes like lemongrass beef skewers and five-spice shrimp. Their V-day...
Deerhunter's Bradford Cox has gotten a lot of buzz with his solo project Atlas Sound, whose latest album "Logos' is a spacy, melodious electronic goodie bag that feels at once...
Now, I know you guys are all in college and aren’t necessarily whiling away your days in a Sinead O’Connor-style “Nothing Compares to You” relationship. That’s why my particular...
We get lots of weird stuff in the mail. "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" gumball machines, "Indiana Jones" whips, a bottle of dirty brown water (to symbolize moonshine, it turned...
Watch this: Catch Morgan Freeman playing Nelson Mandela in âÄúInvictus.âÄù The Nobel Prize winner and activist requested that Morgan Freeman portray his life story. WeâÄôre also...
Culture to Consume Watch this: From the director of âÄúThank You for SmokingâÄù and âÄúJunoâÄù comes âÄúUp in the Air,âÄù a film about a detached man (George...
Dear reader -
Don't get me wrong. I entertain zero illusions that any of you will actually read this entire list. But, here's why I imagine you might - your tastes are the type that has made iTunes decide...
1. Commercialized angst In the âÄô90s, angst was somewhat sincere. Kurt Cobain's music made it cool, and his tragic death made it all too real. Then at the end of the decade, âÄúAmerican...
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There's a time and a place to drag your -ss off off uTorrent and buy one of those round shiny things called a CD, and it's this Friday, when Black Friday sales will surely render...
Photo courtesy Do-While.com.
Of course Minnesota Monthly's tiny people cupcake universe portrays a random sample of tiny Minnesotans that is arguably lacking in diversity, but there's something...
Interview and text by Tony Libera
What are your feelings on “Stella” not being renewed for a second season? Do you have any pent up rage about it?
MIB: Well, all the pent up rage in my life...
Lying âÄì the favorite past-time of marketers, politicians and storytellers, is finally starring in its own tale. Co-written and featuring Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the British âÄúThe...
âÄúJenniferâÄôs BodyâÄù DIRECTEDY BY: Karyn Kusama STARRING: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody RATED: R SHOWING: Area Theaters The trailers for "Jennifer's Body" were slightly...
There's a lot marketed at twentysomethings (tequila, Priuses ... anti-wrinkle cream?), and often times the precise targeting is somewhat transparent, or at least unobtrusive. With a few clicks,...
I got to chat with head A.V. Club writer Nathan Rabin just after I'd finished his new memoir, "The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You By Pop Culture." We talked for about 45 minutes, longer...
SUNDAY: Headliners The Flaming Lips drew in a whole new crowd, this one of varying ages and with a proclivity for costume-wear (panda masks, human-sized banana suits, that kind of thing). Suspense for...
SATURDAY: Union park was packed to the fences today as crowds filtered in to see bands ranging from poetic, deep-voiced songsters The National to recovering-from-valium-cocktail-shame Wavves. How many...
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Those people with all that money and all those ideas in Hollywood have decided that making a Facebook movie could possibly for some reason be good. No, it's not a high-energy...
PHOTO COURTESY FOX ATOMIC
Here's the trailer for "Jennifer's Body," by Diablo Cody and starring Megan Fox.
But couldn't they have copied "True Blood's" poster just a bit less obviously?
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5:08 p.m.: About 400 different sources are reporting that Michael Jackson was taken to a hospital after found unconscious and in cardiac arrest. TMZ, CNN and The New York Post are reporting...
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For the second time, Stephen King finds himself getting comfy in the pages of Esquire magazine, after they published his "Gingerbread Girl" in 2007. This time, his story has the lofty...
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London-based artist Graham Rawle is fairly mysterious in his tastes. First of all, he's not only an artist but a writer as well, and most of his works combine wordplay with imagery....
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Continuing with A&E's new, unofficial "Hot big name actor caught candid" series, here is a passage from Elle magazine's interview with Jason Segel that painted a unique picture of...
Attention all Comparative Lit, Studies in Cinema and Media Culture and any other vaguely artsy majors (as well as anyone who likes, um, culture): your savvy-in-the-making will be very much appreciated...
A&E just covered the ARTCRANK fest, where local cyclists congregate around bike-centered art. If that got readers curious for more fruits of the bizarre intersection between biking and art, look...
Dan Deacon's latest album of many, "Bromst," dropped last Tuesday, and is a must-listen mixture of Wonka craziness and spooked dance synths. According to Bromst, one of his main inspirations...
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Robert Pattinson has become known to journalists as a celebrity who cannot bear awkward silences, instead preferring to fill them with confessional-flavored nervous chatter. For...
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According to our poll, 65% of A&E readers voted that "Watchmen" did not live up to fanboys' high standards for the comic that's its author, Alan Moore, claimed was essentially impossible...
The New York Times published a story called "Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City," which compared the encyclopedia to New York City, claiming that they're both unfinished and full of avenues and detours....
Attendees of one of the most irony-infested music fests of the year can despair a bit less at the less-than-impressive line-up; The Flaming Lips are now closing the show. While last year had killer act...
Our generation has seen an unprecedented fading of the split between high and low culture.Trends like Alexander McQueen designing for Target are a testiment to that. One of the main reasons this has occured...
While "Tokyo!", directed by Michel Gondry, Bong Joo-Ho and Leos Carax looks completely frenetic, psychotic and ingenious in itself, some of its contents are inspiring more media that rivals...
Ok, so this isn't really an RSS feed, but in case you're wondering where A&E subscribes, here's the rundown. On my Google page, I get feeds from Advertising Age, USA Today (I don't care if its the...
YouTube certainly has the monopoly on internet video content, but lately Vimeo has been cropping up next to it on search engines and Facebook posts. While the two are different, Vimeo presents an intriguing...
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Kate Winslet graciously gave thanks while telling Meryl Streep, that she could "just suck [up]" the fact that no one else could even believe they were in a category with her. This speech...
The Oscars had a montage of "What Love Looked Like in 2008," which featured clips from last years' films that depicted couples in love. The montage showed the robots from "WALL-E" several times but never...
Ryu Itadani is the kind of artist whose work needs no explanations. Close ups of product labels seem to entrance him with a focus unrivaled only by his enchantment with strings of flowers and complicated...
"Twilight" review part two: The film
Something unexpected was in the air at the showing of teenage girl-cult film "Twilight:" giggles. Lots of giggles. After reading the slow-paced,...
Part one of "Twilight" review:
I don't know how or why, but I'm one of those people who likes vampire stories. Maybe because my sisters and I watched "Buffy" religiously when I was...
The Spirit is probably one of the only superheroes with a trademark of white-soled tennis shoes. He's also one of the only celluloid superheroes who lack any charm or charisma whatsoever. Unfortunate,...
Formula for "Four Christmases":
Take "Meet the Parents" and add a relatively pain-free Christmas angle. Take one part from each of two famous and tragic Hollywood breakups. (Reese Witherspoon...
In John Stewart's coverage of the bankruptcy of several newspapers, he cited a fake paper called "The Minneapolis Liar" whose front page center story had the headline, "2+2=5." Was...
We've just entered into the era of no-class bliss combined with snowed-in despair, and it is rather unfortunate that all our favorite shows just ended for the season. But if there's any network that is...
Acting out of my lifelong wish to own a magical device that could scare all my human ancestors of yore into burning me at the stake, I’ve decided to get an iPhone for Christmas...
Papa Johns costumes. Hamburger costumes. Skin-tight body suits featuring giant balls. Obviously comedians Tim & Eric are taking the art of theater to a new level. Naturally, the engineers behind the...
I've said this many times and I'll say it again: I love Wikipedia. One reason why I love Wikipedia is because it catalogues all the pointless aspects of culture that define the commercialized recesses...
1. When "Tyra Mail" arrives, you must scream as if it were something exciting.
2. Talk about religion a lot.
3. At one point, we are going to bring in a shipment of male models to...
In a nation that prints glossy publications that range from "Cat Fancy" to "Playboy" (which could have also been called "Cat Fancy" and achieved the same purpose), quality...
Possibly the strangest commercial out there is the Volkswagen ad that features Brooke Shields pretending that the ad is a public service announcement to discourage women from getting pregnant "just...
photos courtesy SpinMaster
It's Saturday and I'm sitting around watching Disney's One Saturday Morning (or at least that's what it was called when I was young. Back then it featured "Recess"...
Big Hair Mania
The Varisty theater is just a hop and a skip from most freshman dorms and all those other living arrangments that us upperclassmen have since made. It's also only one block from the liquor...
Most annoying ad campaign: Glade.
The creators of the Glade commercials cooked up this idea of this type of K-Mart housewife to sell their ads. She's busy, she's kind of poor, and she's slightly neurotic....
After a strong recommendation from my roommate, I allowed Apple to run its "Genius" program on my iTunes. It promises that if you "click the Genius button ... iTunes creates a playlist of other songs from...
Ad of the Week: Nuva Ring It took me about ten views of the synchronized swimming Nuva Ring ad to understand its true genius. On the first appearance, a bunch of girls wearing bikinis that say days of...
Turns out the Fleet Foxes sound way better when their flawless (may I say prismatic?) vocals aren't trapped in your tiny iPod headphones. I made it down to the Cedar on Saturday for their show with the...
The other day I saw a sign outside of Dinkytown liquor stores that said that Smirnoff Raw Tea was only $2.50. This struck me as strange, because I had read a whole article about how ingenious the advertising...
Anyone who's ever drank a can of Coke in another country knows that sugar tastes better than corn syrup, but we Americans seem to find sugar more often in packet form. It might be that as a nation we're...
