It's the Bomb!

SPECIAL EVENT
Gallery Grooves

Join us tonight for Gallery Grooves, The Rake’s monthly art, jazz, and
wine event. Socialize and discuss the latest jazz with Kevin Barnes
from KBEM, peruse the art, and enjoy the wine samplings. This
month, view a collection of artworks based on the techniques of Pablo
Picasso — all by adolescents between ages 11 and 17. Artists Like Me was
done in partnership between the Walker Art Center and Free Arts Minnesota,
a nonprofit dedicated to bringing the healing arts into
the lives of abused, neglected, and at-risk children. —Jennifer Havrish

7-9 p.m., Whole Foods Market, 3060 Excelsior Blvd., Minneapolis; 612-927-8141; free.

STYLE
Hottie Patrol

The DIVA MN
organization, which produces the big, annual

DIVA MN
fashion show and fundraiser to
benefit research on HIV/AIDS (in
March), is hosting a well-intentioned auction and MCTC student runway show this evening. But
the event’s real draw, no doubt, will be an appearance by Jack Mackenroth, that ridiculously beefcake-y (but
gay – wah!) contestant from Project Runway Season
4. Mackenroth is kindly lending his
services to judge the students’ designs. And now, here’s a
tangential time-killer: We
just visited Mackenroth’s personal website and discovered
the reason for his Herculean build: He’s a former All-American
swimmer with, in fact, his own world record! —Christy DeSmith

6-9 p.m., Epic Nightclub,
110 N. Fifth St.,
Minneapolis; $50.

FILM & DISCUSSION
Face to Face with Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick’s satirical, sinister Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
somehow made comedy from "accidental" nuclear attacks and all the
apocalypses that inevitably followed. Released into the Cold War
intrigue and Communist paranoia of 1964, it was meant to mock all
participating, power-hungry military leadership; forty-four years
later, it feels perhaps more eerily relevant than ever. Part of the
Weisman Museum’s film discussion program, this free screening—broken
down into the best clips—invites viewers to contemplate over pizza (free pizza) our
current state of affairs and how they parallel Kubrick’s time period
turned upside down. Led by University of Minnesota anthropology
professor Michael Wilson, the dialog appropriately runs alongside the
museum’s current Paul Shambroom exhibition Picturing Power, a series
of color photographs depicting manifestations of community, industrial
and military control. —Haily Gostas

4-6 p.m., Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (in the WAM/Shepherd Room), 333 East River Rd., Minneapolis; 612-625-9494.

ART
Robyn Horn & Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin

Downtown Minneapolis’ Nina Bliese Gallery represents a horde of
international artists in the fields of contemporary (painting,
sculpture, monotype, photography) and wood arts, so it makes sense that
each exhibition highlights the best of their, well, categorical
best. Fascinated by wood’s initial resistance to and eventual
materialization into stone-like shapes, Arkansas artist Robyn Horn adds
her immaculate, highly acclaimed wood art into the mix (the gallery’s
current collection is apparently the most prominent in the Upper
Midwest); while the infrared photographs of Minneapolis’ own Ann
Ginsburgh Hofkin have been featured in the prestigious CameraArts
magazine and Israel-based solo shows. Both women use the aspects of
life most out of our control as fuel for artistic fire, and tonight’s reception celebrates their contrasting-yet-harmonious
results. —Haily Gostas

5-8 p.m., The Nina Bliese Gallery (exhibition runs until Friday, March 28^th), 225 South Sixth St., Minneapolis; 612-332-2978.