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It’s all laughs all the time this weekend, or at least it should be that way until Sunday. And I’ll need it after last night’s trip to The Guthrie, where I saw The Real Thing. Now, don’t get me wrong; it’s a good play and all… and a very talky play with a certain amount … Read more

Regular Horticulturists might’ve noticed a lot of music around here as of late, even though in, in real life, much time is being spent at the theater–this being the opening of the big, fall theater season ‘n all. Although I’ll be at The Guthrie tonight watching Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, a piece of my … Read more

Here’s a benefit event that’s been circling amidst my cyber-friends: CONRAD’S ALL-STAR REVUE, A BENEFIT FOR CONRAD SVERKERSON AND THE TWIN CITIES MUSIC COMMUNITY TRUST; translation: a fundraiser for all the low-income music industry-types who can’t afford health insurance–but are stricken with illnesses, such as treatable but expensive forms of cancer, and get themselves into … Read more

Diversions and anodynes, to help you forget about the closing of that long, holiday weekend as well as the fact that this, officially, signals the onset of fall (and who knows, you might like that sort of thing… autumn, I mean): Doomtree plays First Ave tonight. M. Ward plays the Varsity. The Coreopsis Poetry Collective … Read more

Sign o’ the local theater scene picking back up: Emigrant Theater, a newcomer company, opens a pretty cool-sounding show this evening. Check what we wrote about it for the theater page of our September issue, in So Little Time (or the section formerly known as “Broken Clock”). From here on out ’til November the theatergoing … Read more

Today’s the last day of August, for heaven’s sake… Never before has it been more urgent to catch an outdoor show! Try the last installment of Patio Nights at the Minnesota Museum of Art–with the Belles of Skin City and, again (a favorite), Desdemona.

A few folks from around here made it out to see Army of Shadows at the Edina Cinema last night–this being Jean-Pierre Melville’s rarely seen 1969 film about the French resistance during WWII, both inspired by Melville’s own wartime experiences and the book Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel. Anthony Lane, the notoriously cranky but … Read more

Again, there’s not a lot of interesting stuff going on today. I guess we’re in a pre-holiday “slumber” (or something). Sigh… The State Fair’s still happening but, pfft!, that’s not much of a secret. The Twins are playing. Plenty o’ shows to see at the all-new Guthrie. And speaking of which, Jeffrey Hatcher, who penned … Read more

Not much going on ‘cept the cheaper showing of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Tonight it’s fifteen dollars as opposed to the usual eighteen. How many times can she recycle one secret, you ask?