MUSIC
Gear Daddies Add Boxing Day Show Just for You
The English might have Boxing Day, but we have the Gear Daddies. And who needs another commonwealth holiday when we can have good old American country rockers. With their shows on the 28th and 29th already sold out, the band has shown some Austin, Minnesota flexibility by adding an extra show to their tour. Get ready to drive your Zamboni, peeps. "That right there is one expensive machine." —Kate McDonald
8 p.m., The Fine Line Music Café, 318 1st Ave. N., Minneapolis; 612-338-8100; $31.
MORE MUSIC
Not So Bad at All, and Then Some
A band called The Bad Plus — covering the likes of Black Sabbath and Nirvana — might not conger immediate thoughts of your typical jazz trio, but this is precisely the appeal of the Minneapolis-grown group. From their beginnings, playing weekend gigs in Minnesota in 2000, The Bad Plus has gotten national attention with their unique sound and style that fuses jazz with rock and roll. —Kate McDonald
7 & 9:30 p.m., Dakota Jazz Club, 1010 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis; 612-332-1010; $40 & $28.
BOOKS & AUTHORS
John Allen Paulus — Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up
Hot on the heels of the birth of Christ comes yet another assault on
religious belief. God knows, the godless have been on the pop culture
offensive of late (see: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Philip Pullman
et al.), and if the other side of the barricades didn’t have such an
overwhelming historical foothold, you could almost accuse the atheists
of piling on. The irony of so many of the recent irreligious screeds is
that they tend to be marked by the same brand of repellent intolerance
that has been the appalling hallmark of God’s zealots through the ages.
It seems sad that even the unbelievers are reduced to preaching to
their choirs. As to whether John Allen Paulos
has any truly fresh light to shed on the subject—hint: It says right
there in the title that the man’s a mathematician, and his book
undertakes all manner of logical refutations of God’s existence
(yawn)—I’m afraid he’s ultimately just another dog barking at cars. —Brad Zellar
Available today at bookstore nationwide.
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