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I’m off for a four-day hiatus, dear horticulture converts. But before I check out early for the week, I thought I’d leave you with these Wednesday through Sunday highlights: Technically, I’ll be in or near the twin towns to do stuff. So, one item on the to-do list is Torch Theatre’s reprise of Cat on … Read more

My favorite thing about the fair is NOT machinery hill. Nor is it the exotic animals (i.e., the sad looking giraffe whose head doesn’t quite fit under the big top). It’s not the stunt skateboarders and BMX bikers, not the corndogs and cheese curds, nor is it the ejection seat. And don’t get me wrong; … Read more

All right, it’s the season finale of the Walker Art Center’s music and movies in the park series… and because Low will be playing, you can be sure there’ll be a, uh, party. Or at least something resembling a party… I mean, there’ll certainly be a lot of folks out in the park to see … Read more

Last Friday I was walking down the avenue–Riverside Avenue, to be exact. I was, at the time, admiring the marquee at the old Viking Bar, which read “Gone Fishing”; and I’d remarked to the boyfriend about that. But, because he’d never been to the place, I started going on about how much I’d always liked … Read more

Two outdoor concerts happening today, which I’ll recommend, with feeling, since the window of opportunity is closing on these things: On my side of the river, out in the courtyard at the Mill City Musuem, there’s Desdamona (gee, I remember when she was just a wee thing at the Artist Quarter’s open mic) and The … Read more

I’m going to venture across enemy lines here (not really…), and refer you to Jim Walsh’s post about the First Avenue HayDay documentary that’s screening tonight as the kickoff for Sound Unseen. I mean, Walsh was there, man… Me, during the First Avenue heyday, well, I was a fourth grade nothing kicking about on my … Read more

IFP (Independent Feature Project, d’uh) is throwing itself a lil’ soiree this evening. It’s a fundraiser for the organization–which is dedicated to promoting the work, locally, of independent screenwriters, filmmakers, and photographers. But it’ll only set you back about fifteen bucks, so it’s cheap as benefit events go. Expect to be fed, watered, and entertained … Read more

Only worthwhile happening tonight: the music and movies in the park event, this time with Vicious Vicious and a certain flick called Adam’s Rib. The new film playing over at the Bell is interesting–a documentary called Beauty Academy of Kabul, about women studying cosmetology in post-Taliban Afghanistan.