ART, MUSIC, AND WINE
Groove to the Music, Groove on the Art
That’s right, folks; it’s time for another Gallery Grooves, The Rake’s monthly art, jazz, and
wine event. Socialize and discuss the latest jazz with Kevin Barnes
from KBEM, and enjoy free libations compliments of The Wine Company. The Hennepin History Museum’s current exhibition, Studies from Life,
feature costume and object portraits by Minneapolis artist Timothy G.
Piotrowski. Come meet Piotrowski and learn more about how he uniquely
interprets and photographs the Hennepin History Museum’s luscious costume
collections on living models against a back-drop of vintage furniture,
art objects, and historic locations. Tonight’s featured jazz selections include Champian Fulton’s Champian, Herbie Hancock’s River, and New York Voices’ A Day Like This.
7-9 p.m., Hennepin History Museum, 2303 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-870-1329.
FILM
Journeyman
Finally someone addresses the so-called “boy problem,” and it’s just some punk with a camera and a PhD father as the subject. No, seriously folks: Kevin Obsatz is a young, but plenty talented, filmmaker with several upstanding shorts under his belt. But his latest, and most ambitious, project (his first documentary) deals with the culture’s desperate need to engage boys in rites of passage (partly on account of their fatherlessness). The film asks at least one interesting question: Are men afraid of boys? Here, we have our own interesting question: Will there be footage of savage men running through woods wearing nothing but codpieces and warrior paint? Yes, friends, that looks to be the case. It’s worth noting: The subject matter is related to that of Protagonist, a documentary soon to be released nationally. But here we have a local bent, replete with home-grown experts like Dr. David Walsh and Kevin’s dad, Dr. Michael Obsatz, someone who’s been involved in mentoring boys and men. —Christy DeSmith
7 p.m., Riverview Theatre, 3800 42nd Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-729-7369; $8.
MUSIC
Huun-Huur-Tu
Do you know the guy in the upper left corner of our website? His name is Owen, and he’s an odd sort of chap. In fact, a couple of months ago, he even took a Tuvan throat singing class. Tonight, you can get the real deal. (Owen still has a lot of practicing to do.) "Throatsingers, as they’re called, can produce up to four notes at the
same time, layered one on top of the other, rumbling like an earthquake
or whistling like a mutant cricket. It’s unearthly stuff, seemingly
more likely to come from Mars than the open steppes north of Mongolia.
Huun-Huur-Tu is only one of several Tuvan groups who’ve successfully
conquered Western world-music stages, and they’re probably the ones
least influenced by outside genres and electric guitars… But the four fellows in Huun-Huur-Tu are all masters of the genre and
have the advantage of numbers—to hear the full quartet boom out
together into a reverberating, rich kargyraa will send a tingle up and
down your spine."
7:30 p.m., Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-338-2674; $25.
THEATER & PERFORMANCE
Indigenous Voices
What happens when Indian of the Future and Buffalo Man face off? Who wins the epic battle to protect Indian Country? The past? The future? Something entirely different? Beats me. But John Bently Spang and Marcus Amerman seem to have an answer. Interested? You ought to be. This evening brings you the answers… or at least one step closer.
7:30 p.m., Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave. S.,
Minneapolis; 612-871-4444; $12 (members $8).
GOOD DEED
Green Thursday
Forget Black Friday, which is just around the corner. Today is Green Thursday, and that’s somehow so much better. If only we knew what it was… Ok. Today kicks off a three-day eCycling event. No, you can leave the bicycle at home. This is three days of major electronics recycling. Today through Saturday you’ll see truckloads of TVs, VCRs, toasters, computers, and monitors being hauled to the Mall of America — not to sell them, not to buy them, but to simply save them from the landfills (or to save our landfills from them, rather). Grab your crappy electronic equipment — now is the time — and drop it off. Heck, you can always buy a new one at the mall, right? The Environmental Protection Agency puts electronics at the top of the black list when it comes to environmental threats. Just think of it as planting a tree.
6 a.m. – 7 p.m., Mall of America, Met Lot, just north of the Mall and near Ikea.
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