Tonight, in an alley behind the Matchbox Coffee Shop (1306 2nd Avenue NE–just off Broadway) a great guy named Barry is going to show some keen flicks. In his words: “We shoot video onto the painted brick, fairly large. We have a portable speaker, but I’m hoping to get FM transmission up and running as well (drive-in style). There’s no parking behind the Matchbox, but plenty in the neighborhood. Chairs/blankets are recommended.” Even better: you get to vote on the movie! Your choices:
Clerks
Slapshot
Watermelon Man
Don’t hate me: I haven’t seen any of those movies, though I wish I’d checked out the latter two (Kevin Smith… no thanks).
And: Tonight at Once Upon A Crime, a reading of the new book Twin Cities Noir. The Rake’s own femme fatale has a write-up, which includes a nice slam on awful theater.
And now for something completely different: I’m jumping on the World Cup bandwagon, in part because of Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey’s The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup. With essays by Nick Hornby, Robert Coover, and especially Alexander Osang’s melancholy tribute to the East German teams of old, this is wonderful book that really drives home the beauty, joy, and significance of an event that typically elicits yawns from us Americanos.
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