Cristina Córdova DANCEIt’s Getting Hot in Here You might have to wear your full-body parka snowsuit to the show, but once you step inside, The Rabbit Show Dance Ensemble promises to turn up the heat with some hotter-than-hot dancing. Representing an elusive Minnesotan summer and sunshine is the goal of the thirteen choreographed dances that are part … Read more
BOOKS & AUTHORSHave a Beer and a Book Join us for Raking Through Books, The Rake’s monthly happy hour book club, at Kieran’s Irish Pub. This month, meet authors Biloine W. Young, Wing Young Huie, and David Parker. Exploring human rights, activism, the power of story, and determination of spirit, these three authors tell their … Read more
As the cold weather digs in its claws to take hold for the next four months, we must keep things in perspective by remembering one key fact: This city’s greatness depends largely on the cold. Sounds strange; I know. But can you imagine a city as great as this one with decent weather? It’d be … Read more
FILMThere Will Be Blood The latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) is rumored to be a front runner for the best-picture Oscar, but that’s highly unlikely. There Will Be Blood is magnificent, epic, and utterly bizarre; films this weird never win the big one. Based loosely on Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, … Read more
ARTMidwest Sanctuary Immigration to the United States is at its highest level since its historic peak in the 1920s; there really are a lot of people roaming the world, either forced by war or economics or driven by curiosity or circumstance. And many of them, artists included, end up here. (Read some of their stories … Read more
PERFORMANCESample This Year’s Goodies Who doesn’t love samples? And who wants to sit though one long show when you can squeeze in many, in nice neat ten-minute increments? Sample Night Live: Art in a Trial Size does just that, giving one a buffet of bite-sized upcoming performance options that includes everything from rock bands to … Read more
Today is the last day of 2007. Happy almost New Year! Spend a little time today reflecting on the year gone by; then move onward and welcome the new year head on, without ever turning back. That’s the key, folks — keep moving forward. Always move forward. Here are a few items to help … Read more
FILMA Post-Christmas StoryI firmly believe that music is for everyone — and there is certainly enough from which to choose this weekend — but if you’re just not in the mood (perhaps puckered out from the holidays), you might prefer to kick back in a nice, dark theater for a post-holiday treat. We get so … Read more
FILMChicago Restored! Who better to tell ya about all that jazz then the people who were actually living it? At the end of the roaring ’20s, a little film was made that incorporated all the music, gin, and debauchery of the times. While the movie originally met with fear, the premise inspired the hit Bob … Read more
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 … Read more