FRINGE FESTIVALStrawberry Fields TemporarilyWear your laughing pants (you know, the Zubaz with lightning bolts on them) to this uproarious Fringe performance at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. Strawberry Fields Temporarily is a one-man-show written, directed and performed by clever comedian and storyteller Ben San Del, also the brains behind the 2006 Fringe … Read more
While Minnesota has long touted its progressive credentials – enacting policies to help the nation’s huddling masses, deifying a well-intentioned former school teacher, and allowing the irredeemably stupid to perform police work – California has followed the teachings of its favorite son and popped a cap in the state’s aspirations to be the nation’s Leftist … Read more
This is Minnesota. There’s Café Barbette, there’s Galactic Pizza, there’s the Armajani Bridge stretching from the Sculpture Garden to Loring Park. Except really it’s a month from now, the Republican National Convention is in town, and there’s a right-wing/neo-Nazi plot underway to kill three Jewish abortion doctors. This is the world of Bart Schneider’s new … Read more
It’s a scene enough to bring tears to a restaurant owner’s eyes. As we dined Friday night at the new Favor Café (the former Restaurant Miami), 913 W. Lake St., one party after another walked in the door – mostly young women dressed for a night of partying. Some of them sat down at tables, … Read more
If you haven’t noticed the trend by now, I plan on highlighting a Fringe play each day through the end of the Festival. Did you happen to see an amazing Fringe play that you think our readers should know more about? Plug it into the comments section below and tell me why you liked it … Read more
FRINGE FESTIVAL The Chasm: Two Prevailing Winds of Gabriela Mistral Based around the work of one of Latin America’s most respected poets, Gabriela Mistral, Disquietude Theater Company takes us on a lush journey that brings her poetry to life. This story of "the chasm between sorrow and hope" includes a visual feast of projected collage … Read more
Pictured above: The 2003 EVO RS, the utlimate stripper. And what were you thinking? I’ve been away for awhile. Seems the economy is picking up a bit with the price of gas going down a cent. It’s all senseless to me. What I find equally senseless is the axiomatic ability for certain headlines to pull … Read more
It’s the middle of July and the melons on the fruit stands are sweet. I see a woman in a cotton dress, its translucence making visible the form of her body under the skirt. She is lovely. She isn’t stuffed into jeans; she’s wearing a dress of diaphanous cotton, compared to which denim is about … Read more
It wouldn’t be too surprising for a first-time Fringe performer to feel a little overwhelmed with the whole experience. Ten minutes to load in, an exact amount of time to perform your show, then ten minutes to load out. If you run longer than the time allotted, you get the lights turned off on you. … Read more
One common blogging convention, that our Vicious Circle of intrepid arts writers has yet to employ, is what I am going to hereby dub the "Cavalcade of Links" (also sometimes called, by those who follow such things more closely, a "Blog Carnival"). For our purposes, a Cavalcade of Links is a posting wherein a lazy … Read more