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Again, it’s a big weekend for theater: For one, Gatz is running… It’s a production I had promised myself I’d see, way back when the Walker was first announcing its performing arts season. This was to be an exercise in self-betterment, or so I thought. But now that the show’s here, however, I can’t quite … Read more

Hmmm, it’s definitely a movie sort of day…. For one, the Walker Art Center will preview its season of films this evening. And then there are myriad opportunities to catch arty short’uns–at the Bedlam Theatre’s Wings on a Shelf Film Festival, for example, (which begins and ends today) and at the Soap Factory’s You Were … Read more

There’s not much in terms of exceptional after-school activities today; unless you count the special screening of Meet Me In St. Louis, with a very special guest, the former child star of that film, Ms. Margaret O’Brien (i.e., Tootie). It all happens at the Heights Theatre tonight. What strikes me, however, is that a lot … Read more

The seed of what follows was planted yesterday, when I blogged, in passing, about the band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Pretty cool name for a band, huh? And there’s more where that came from in today’s concert listings: Mel Gibson and the Pants. The latter of these plays the Nomad this eve. But … Read more

I don’t know… what’s going on today? It’s raining. Dave Barry‘s in town. Corey Flintoff, too. At the Nomad: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin–which is a great band name! Anyone read that profile of former president Clinton in last week’s New Yorker? Turns out, Clinton loves Yeltsin, too. In any case, I heard ’em … Read more

What I’d do this weekend if I wasn’t going to the North Shore (I go begrudgingly… its hard to pull me away from the city I love in the thick of fall arts season): Kid Dakota at the Turf, Lit 6 at the Ritz, Osmo at Harreit. Oh, and I’m ‘sposed to say there’s going … Read more

The Soap Factory’s 99 sale/fundraiser is tonight…. The basic rundown is this: The gallery’s putting up a bunch of 5 x 7 (as in, inches… INCHES!) original works–some by famous artists, some by regular enough folks (with cool jobs). But you’ll never know unless you buy something.

We’re putting the finishing touches on the October issue today and tomorrow, and so I won’t be able to sneak over to Peazey Plaza for the Minnesota Orchestra’s free, lunchtime concert. (But I’ll likely catch the replay this Sunday at Lake Harriet.) Nor will I make it to Lee’s tonight to see The Derailers. (Ah, … Read more

How is it that you firsted respond to Herman Hesse’s book, Siddhartha? For me, I was in about my sophomore or junior year of college when I read the thing, and I found it absolutely riveting. And so I took my color-coded highlighters to it as a Pentecostal would her bible. In particular, I remember … Read more

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention today’s five-year anniversary of the September 11 catastrophe. There are, of course, all kinds of memorial concerts going on this evening–at Landmark Center and at the Harriet Bandshell, to name just a couple. But Emigrant Theater is commemorating the event in an interesting way; they’re doing a series … Read more