Month: July 2008

  • Dying in Public Places

    DYING IN PUBLIC PLACES Lust. Terror. Violence. Outbursts of Song. All of these can happen when stuck in an invisible box… cannibalism too. Dying in Public Places: a darkly comic new musical, written by Keith Hovis and directed by Jenna Papke, premieres August 1st at 10:00 pm as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. 60…

  • All Music Wednesday: Electro Rockers, Lesbian Karaoke and Dead Composers

    MUSIC CSS & The Go! Team Tonight First Avenue welcomes Brazilian provocateurs CSS aka "Cansei De Ser Sexy" – which in Portuguese means "tired of being sexy," though by the looks of them seems to mean the opposite. A fiery electro-rock quintet of vampiric fashion plates, CSS quickly gained notoriety in the first wave of…

  • Dancing and Double Axels Downtown

    I promised this story about my years as a figure skater awhile back, but I wasn’t ready to fall on my ass -again- until I knew in my heart it was time. I could write a book on my years of experiences as a figure skater but from the looks of things as they stand…

  • Legislatin' Sexy: Meet the Most Beautiful People from the Capitol!

    SPECIAL EVENT Legislatin’ Sexy Party ’08 On Tuesday, the 29th of July, the votes will be tallied and the people will have spoken, singling out the King and Queen of Minnesota politics and bringing an end to the heated debate over who is truly the most beautiful at the Capitol. And while the answer to…

  • Eric Inkala's "Overflow: A Pleasure Trip"

    Eric Inkala‘s no fool. After a good run of years of painting his coloristic, hazy-dazy, arabesque, Little-Engine-that-Could-meets-Pacman murals (this guy is a tagger of the most whimsical sort) on walls around town, Inkala’s finally been hit by the legitimacy bug. That is, in the manner of graffiti artists gone legit–like Keith Haring in the 1980s…

  • Caviar on Credit

    Through August 3, A Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training is presenting Caviar on Credit at the Dowling Studio. For the past 12 years, the Guthrie has taken pride in offering continuing education programs to young actors from institutions throughout the country and hosting a stage upon which they exhibit all they’ve learned. In return,…