Cristina Córdova BOOKS & AUTHORS by Eeva-Liisa Waaraniemi Corruption, Betrayal, and Intrigue Anyone who delights in the romance and nostalgia of simply walking into a grand 90-year-old neighborhood library should experience St. Anthony Park Library at least once. You might as well go there with dual purpose, however, and tonight’s reading of Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster’s Story … Read more
BOOKS AND FOOD Raking Through Books – Writing About Food If you pay close attention to The Rake online, you’ll have already noticed the addition of at least one new voice in the vintage and victuals arena. Ann Bauer’s new wine blog, Beyond the Cask, is just one small piece of a much larger project … Read more
THEATER AND PERFORMANCE Gender Queercore This evening, Homocore Minneapolis presents Gender Queercore with Actor Slash Model, from Chicago. This transgendered indie-grass music and performance duo, comprised of Simon Strikeback and Madsen Minax, conveys mega-queer, trans-centric, and kink-aware music through simple melodies and witty lyrics. Their show tonight features tough tough skin, zibra zibra, and thunder … Read more
WINE AND ADVENTURE A Celebration of Art and Wine It’s going to be a lovely weekend, so get in the car, do a little driving, and spend the day (or the entire weekend) on the Three Rivers Wine Trail, visiting wineries amid lush valley scenery, sampling locally-produced wines, enjoying the featured artwork, and listening to … Read more
BOOKS AND AUTHORS Tell Me a Story, Tell Me a Lie Join humorist Kevin Kling and host Heather McElhatton for an evening that showcases our finest writers and musicians to present existing work and collaborate on new pieces. Kling built his reputation in the Twin Cities during the 1990s with his groundbreaking plays “21A,” “Fear … Read more
STORYTELLING If You Like to Hear Yourself Talk Start off the evening with a light bite and a bottle of wine at JP American Bistro. Sit out in the patio if the weather and crowds permit. Order a bottle of the Emilio Moro Valladolid ’01. It’s from the Ribera del Duero region of Spain, so … Read more
FILM Rare, Weird, Stupid, and Sometimes Brilliant Back in February of 2006 our very own Rake movie critic, Peter Schilling, reviewed Joel D. Stitzel’s Cinema Slop, describing it as a great place “to shut down your brain and settle in with something genuinely awful.” This eccentric movie program goes way beyond the now-standard cult classics … Read more
ART Japanese Visual Culture: The Power of Girls’ Comics Shojo Manga! Girl Power! East and West is an internationally touring exhibition that celebrates the evolution of Japanese comics for girls from the postwar era to the present. Manja are Japanese comics. Sojo manga are Japanese comics for girls. These comics reflect the evolution of social … Read more
ART Art on a Roll Northfield has more to offer than the “Cows, Colleges, and Contentment” of the city motto. (Aren’t there more pigs than cows there anyhow?) A city becomes a true city only when it produces outsider art. Or didn’t you know that? Well, one thing you probably do know is that small … Read more
BOOKS & AUTHORS Never End a Title in a Preposition If you’ve read our July issue already, then you already know that local poet Éireann Lorsung is helping Ben Weaver light “a fire to burn things back to pure.” In fact, he liked her poetry so much the first time he read it, that he … Read more