Once again I’m ignoring this weekend’s top releases–especially Stranger Than Fiction, which does not look appealing in the least (sorry Amy). Instead, dear readers (or reader), there are two films outside the mainstream worth checking out: The Mill City Museum is hosting the documentary Urban Explorers: Into The Darkness tonight at 6:30. Director Melody Gilbert … Read more
Jon Ferguson‘s new show, Ligustrum Vulgare, is playing tonight at the Bryant Lake Bowl. (And I’m dragging Peter Schilling to go see it.) If you don’t already know, Ferguson is the Brit-born director who, in 2005, created the anti-war “clown show” Please Don’t Blow Up Mr. Boban, which starred many members of the Live Action … Read more
The Star Tribune finally managed to get a story in about Minneapolis School Board member-elect Chris Stewart’s “Tammy Lee and Everyone Who Supports Her Hate Black People” web site. They couldn’t get the story in before the election for some reason, probably because, as they said, Stewart didn’t return their call until after the election. … Read more
juggling, juggling, juggling … Did you hear the news about Five Restaurant? Chef Stuart Woodman, the one who was recently named a Best New Chef by Food & Wine, was asked to leave his restaurant by his partners. This was supposed to be the best new restaurant in the state, an epiphany of foodie dining. … Read more
Whether you be toasting liberally or crying in your beers about the election results (I have a feeling that, like me, my readers are doing a little of both), it’ll probably be a good night to go way, way back (before you were too young or unborn to care about this shit): there’s B.B. King … Read more
The founders planned for it to work out this way: one party controls the executive; the other party controls the legislature. Except for the fact that the chief executive is George Bush, things could be a lot worse. God knows they have been for the past 6 years. If there is one thing that’s been … Read more
A morning like this, a morning on which you will not truly wake up, but rather go through the habitual motions of waking up –brush your teeth, shower, change your clothes, walk the dog, and go off in the usual stupor to work– you’re left wrestling with the old, hard-wired reactions to nights like the … Read more
And those of you who depend on the newspapers or the TV for your news did, Minneapolis School Board Candidate Chris Stewart wrote and posted this “spoof” of Tammy Lee’s website front page on his blog, americanhotsausage.com. It’s since been removed and the blog has been passworded so you can’t see any of his previous … Read more
It is well known that certain types of cars are blue, green and red. The bluest of the blue is the Volvo station wagon. The sedans, however, are quite popular in Georgetown, where you find the ocassional conservative. Locally, however, Bush supporters and Volvos are rarer than Amy Klobuchar apologists at, say, Grace Church. The … Read more
Happy election day. Two related happenings, where the worlds of art and politics collide: there’s an election night cocktail party at Gallery 13. And Bedlam Theatre will set about spoofing the television news in a one-night show at Bryant Lake Bowl.