Priorities. Priorities. Be on the lookout for Leinenkugel’s Northwoods beer, which, after a two-year hiatus, finally goes on sale today for a limited time. Mmmmm.
Also, be sure to stop and visit our Multimedia page again for a tour of the Art Shanty Project with Rake intern Tricia Towey. We’ll have a new Owen video for you later this week.
FILM
Our Man in Havana
Unavailable on DVD in the U.S., this 1959
British noir classic reunites director Carol Reed and writer Graham Greene, the
sly duo who gave us The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, also classics. Here,
Alec Guinness plays James Wormold, a British vacuum cleaner salesman stationed
in Cuba who is enlisted as a spy for
Queen and country. Concerned that he is going to lose this prized position,
Wormold concocts a story about secret rockets, using vacuum cleaner circuit
diagrams to fool the British Secret Service into believing he’s onto a Russian
missile scheme. Shot entirely in Cuba-Castro’s government was, at the time,
eager to encourage a film that portrayed a corrupt Batista regime. —Peter Schilling
7:30 p.m., Parkway Theater, 4814 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis;
612-822-3030, $5.
MUSIC
Tim Finn and Alice Peacock
Minnesota in early February is the perfect place and time for some
intelligent and effervescent pop to quicken our winter-slogged minds
and brighten our outlooks across the snow-covered prairie. The chance
to hear ex-Split Enz frontman (and Crowded House cohort) Tim Finn spin flax into gold while reprising the magical realism of his latest solo disc, Imaginary Kingdom, fills that prescription better than anything else out there this month. At his best—and much of Imaginary Kingdom
qualifies—Finn blends Paul McCartney’s delightful sense of naïveté with
Ray Davies’s trenchant eye for social detail. Folk-pop thrush Alice
Peacock (a White Bear Lake native, donchaknow) has enough insight and
honesty in her mainstream-safe approach to set the stage as a strong
opening act. —Britt Robson
7:30 p.m., Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-338-2674; $25.
BOOKS & AUTHORS
Say Yes to No
We’ve all seen parents idly sitting by as their children grossly misbehave — not a word, not a "No," not a reprimand, or one of those motherly glares that freeze you at the core. Nothing. And then we complain about the state of youth today. Accoring to psychologist, author, and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family Dr. David Walsh, we just need to learn to say "No!" Join Walsh this evening as he shares some of his strategies for raising healthy, self-reliant kids. He’ll be discussing his new book — offering an antidote to Discipline Deficit Disorder — No, Why Kids of all Ages Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It.
6:30 p.m., Pohlad Hall, Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis; 612-630-6000.
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