Category: So Little Time

Get out your berets and celebrate French independence with Barbette on Sunday, July 13 when they host a Bastille Day Block Party. Featuring a flea market and organic food and beverages, the free event will also showcase several bands and entertainers. The fun begins at 4 p.m. and goes until 10 p.m. Barbette is located…

Join Stevens Square Center for the Arts on July 12 and 13 for their annual Twin Cities Zinefest, a celebration of zinesters and indie music fans that showcases the Midwest’s homegrown talent. The event will also feature an art show, craft demonstrations, guest speakers and panel discussions. Attendance is free. The event runs July 12…

After their last local gig in a venue that actually had rows of seats bolted to the floor, they’re back at First Ave. where they’ll always belong, riding the crest of Stay Positive, yet another startling, snarling confessional of clean and dirty secrets set to anthemic guitar riffs, all girded by their thoroughly charming, drunken…

Here’s a gig that lets you strain the brandy or fine single malt over your tongue while you swell with pride for living in a place with such a vibrant local jazz scene. Cox is an internationally renowned bassist who had Billy Higgins and Dewey Redman on his first record and happens to call the…

Here’s a truism of modern art: Every new generation of emerging young artists is convinced it will reinvent the culture. And, strangely enough, they all go about this reinvention pretty much in the same way: By making a bunch of meaningless noise. Think of Tristan Tzara here, and his poems that go nowhere. Think of…

Guy Maddin has spent his career trying to replicate the 1920’s German and Russian silent filmmakers’ styles. To see today’s stars, like Isabella Rossellini, splashed on the silver screen in The Saddest Music in the World in archaic textured film is a surreal experience. But Maddin has taken surreal to a whole new level in…