Category: So Little Time

  • Vans Warped Tour 2008

    Less than twelve hours after Nine Inch Nails wraps up, you can roll out of bed and head out to Canterbury Park for VWT, the extravaganza all the snarly-snarky-kewl skate-punks love to disdain. And there’s plenty to curl your lip at, what with 76 bands on the docket (no lie) and a much broader cross-section…

  • Nine Inch Nails

    The new Trent Reznor isn’t for everybody, including a large portion of his established fan base, who cherished the obsessive perfectionist who pushed the industrial-punk envelope with vintage stuff like Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral. But after waiting at least five years apiece to put out his first three discs, the sex symbol…

  • Bill Maher

    Maybe the best thing about Maher is his refusal to be pigeonholed, his keen negotiation of the difference between unorthodoxy and hypocrisy. He’s variously proclaimed himself a libertarian and voted for Ralph Nader for President (after supporting Bob Dole in 1996), aligned himself with PETA and NORML, and was the first to bring Ann Coulter…

  • Kevin Mahogany Sings Big Joe Turner

    Mahogany’s resemblance to Turner is more physical than vocal. While matching Big Joe’s large, expansive frame, Mahogany is more dulcet crooner than blues shouter, closer in spirit to another vocalist he feted four years ago on his Mahogany Music label, Johnny Hartman. But Mahogany did play a Turner-Jimmy Rushing composite in Robert Altman’s film, Kansas…

  • Face The Nation

    The affect of the changing world on typography will be on display when the Minnesota Center for Book Arts presents *Face the Nation*, a new exhibit that begins July 12 in the Star Tribune Foundation Gallery. The changes in typography between 1900 and 1960 – a period that encompassed two World Wars – will show…

  • Get StARTed

    *Get stARTed*, an exhibit featuring the works of 10 Minneapolis College of Art and Design MFA students, will give local audiences a taste of new and emerging artists beginning July 10 at the Burnet Art Gallery in Chambers Hotel. The exhibit will showcase new works available for purchase. The event is part of the hotel’s…