The, uh, preferred weekend agenda:
Tomorrow night at the Turf Club, they’re offering a crash-course for geeks like me who’ve fallen out of touch with the local indie music scene. The band Diplomacy, whose music is described as rather peppy and yet restrained, will celebrate the release of another new CD. “Try If You Like” Low and Death Cab for Cutie, they say. My dear friends at 2024 Records have even provided this link, which gives a taste of the new disc’s sound: www.2024records.com/preview/
Two interesting theater happenings that came in after the July deadline: Torch Theater, the new-ish theater troupe belonging to local stage vet (and one helluva Blanche DuBois in a recent production of Streetcar), Stacia Rice, will open Cat on a Hot Tin Roof–and hopefully Rice will be continuing her streak with Tennessee Williams.
Another interesting theater happening (that I, admittedly, know very little about, other than the fact that I’m intrigued but won’t have time to actually go): Ode To Walt Whitman, something that’s been dubbed as “a puppetry performance that uncovers an unspoken dialogue between Whitman’s Leaves of Grass poems and Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem, Ode to Walt Whitman.” See what I mean?
I could go on and on. A Night of Short Films and Dadaist Vaudeville With Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls. A costume design retrospective, featuring the work of Theatre de la Jeune Lune resident designer Sonya Berlovitz. The Midwest Bookhunters Bookfair. The Minnesota Orchestra’s free outdoor concert on the waterfront of the quaint, rather summer-like town of Hudson, Wisconsin. Yes sir, I love the summertime. Too bad it’s about half over.
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