Category: So Little Time

Get a little zen with contemporary sculptor, teacher, and garden wanderer Kinji Akagawa. You’ll spend the day with this local master learning about his art and process which will come to a close with a VIP tour of of the artist’s studio and private garden in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley. For the past…

The official Soul Queen of New Orleans, Irma Thomas has gracefully matured from the belter who literally 50 years ago (1958) told her romantic rivals, "You Can Have My Husband (But Please Don’t Mess With My Man)," to a caresser who engages the violins and doesn’t shed a shred of dignity on the bittersweet "Another…

Re-creating the popular 1960s sitcom Get Smart on the big screen is no easy task. Just ask Don Adams, the original Agent 86 from the series. He tried to re-create Maxwell Smart on the big screen in the 1980s, with The Nude Bomb, a movie that lived up to its title. At least in 1980,…

While the elegant Dakota isn’t quite as sublime as the outdoor quad in front of Northrop Auditorium—where Baobab played under sunny skies and swirling dancers in a beautiful evening on their last tour—this amazing 11-piece band does have another superb record’s worth of tunes in their arsenal: Made In Dakar, released in May, and equal…

There seem to be a lot of movies lately that feature a select few survivors of a catastrophic apocalypse who have to battle mutated humans in their search for other survivors (see 28 Days Later, The Happening, I Am Legend, and Shaun of the Dead). This, however, is not a new concept. An early pioneer…

Red Eye Theater’s New Works 4 Weeks Festival is well underway. After its Works-In-Progress performances last week, the festival heads into its Isolated Acts performances this weekend with Justin Jones’s Pinhead, a reaction to Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz. This new pseudo-auto-choreo-biography begins Friday, June 13 and runs through Sunday, June 15, with 8 p.m.…