With their previous entries into the Minnesota Fringe all selling out by the end of their respective festivals, the Four Humors troupe has become something of an August favorite in Minnesota theater. This will be their fourth year participating in the Fringe, and the group is affiliated with three shows that will be playing around … Read more
These angels are useless. The heavenly agents that populate Chris Adrian’s new story collection, A Better Angel, sit idly by their hapless wards, disappointed and impotent. Their existence, it seems, is incidental, and at times they are nothing more than a higher order of fuck-ups. Which somehow makes these angels strikingly believable. A trinity of … Read more
I was excited to be able to catch up with Rachel Teagle and Ben Egerman, two friends of mine and veterans of the Carleton College theater scene. As newcomers to the Fringe, they were kind enough to lend some of their perspective, caffeine induced hysteria, and details about their new show, Orange. The Rake: How … Read more
ART & MUSICGallery Grooves Jazz & Art PartyIf there’s one thing we’re good for here at The Rake, it’s putting on a fantastic party – and the Twin Cities Pan African Fest is the perfect excuse! Satisfy your art-tooth on multiple levels tonight at Altered Esthetics Gallery, where you’ll be lucky enough to lay eyes … Read more
Rake photographer Denis Jeong is set loose in Detroit Lakes and tells us all he sees and hears. See the slideshows (Part 1 and Part 2) chronicalling his weekend, nudity and all. Boom-bam-bop-tap! Boom-bam-bam-pop-pop-pop! Is this what a drum circle sounds like? Maybe not, but that’s the sound I was hearing as I drifted in … Read more
About 50 years ago, the BBC broadcast an April Fools report about the annual spaghetti harvest in Switzerland, and got hundreds of inquiries from viewers who wanted to know where they could buy their own spaghetti trees. Really. So just to be clear on this – the pizzas at the Pizza Farm, (real name: A … Read more
FRINGE FESTIVALStrawberry Fields TemporarilyWear your laughing pants (you know, the Zubaz with lightning bolts on them) to this uproarious Fringe performance at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. Strawberry Fields Temporarily is a one-man-show written, directed and performed by clever comedian and storyteller Ben San Del, also the brains behind the 2006 Fringe … Read more
While Minnesota has long touted its progressive credentials – enacting policies to help the nation’s huddling masses, deifying a well-intentioned former school teacher, and allowing the irredeemably stupid to perform police work – California has followed the teachings of its favorite son and popped a cap in the state’s aspirations to be the nation’s Leftist … Read more
This is Minnesota. There’s Café Barbette, there’s Galactic Pizza, there’s the Armajani Bridge stretching from the Sculpture Garden to Loring Park. Except really it’s a month from now, the Republican National Convention is in town, and there’s a right-wing/neo-Nazi plot underway to kill three Jewish abortion doctors. This is the world of Bart Schneider’s new … Read more
It’s a scene enough to bring tears to a restaurant owner’s eyes. As we dined Friday night at the new Favor Café (the former Restaurant Miami), 913 W. Lake St., one party after another walked in the door – mostly young women dressed for a night of partying. Some of them sat down at tables, … Read more