Author: Kate Iverson

SPECIAL EVENTHüsker Dü J.C. Memorial EP Release Party & Film Exposé Snap up a lil’ piece o’ Twin Cities music history tonight at Grumpy’s! Minneapolis’ own original punk rock royalty, Hüsker Dü, are releasing a super special, super limited edition EP containing three live songs recorded in 1982-1983. Why here, why now you ask? Well,…

ART The Throw Up Vol. 4 Release Party Elusive Minneapolis art duo, Pop Vomit, celebrates a number of things tonight! Not only can you get a last glimpse of a very cool exhibit at the closing reception for the Altered Esthetics Resident Artists show, featuring Pop Vomit’s installation entitled "Operation: Vomit Boy," but they’ll also…

SPECIAL EVENT IFP 20th Anniversary Party I don’t know about you, but I can peg a film geek from a mile away. It’s kind of like gaydar, except for filmmakers. The look often entails square framed glasses, a ratty baseball cap, possibly a beard, and if you get close enough, an air of over-confidence along…

FESTIVALSMidsummer FestivalCome party with The Center for Independent Artists at this creativity-fueled neighborhood festival tonight! Fun for kids and adults alike, the Midsummer Festival is not your average art fair; with Afro-Cuban art and drumming performances, welding demos, a creative invention exhibit, a make-your-own-t-shirt studio, fire dancing, live MC’s from Hope’s Art of the MC,…

WINE & DINE Taste of the Twin Cities Originals Are your eyes bigger than your stomach? Put it to the test tonight at the Taste of the Twin Cities Originals extravaganza where there will be so much to try that you may not be able to handle it. Over 30 of the Twin Cities finest…

MUSICKevin Mahogany Sings Big Joe Turner Mahogany’s resemblance to Turner is more physical than vocal. While matching Big Joe’s large, expansive frame, Mahogany is more dulcet crooner than blues shouter, closer in spirit to another vocalist he feted four years ago on his Mahogany Music label, Johnny Hartman. But Mahogany did play a Turner-Jimmy Rushing…