MUSIC Along the Banks of the Mississippi A great voice is a wondrous thing. A great voice singing the music is was clearly meant to sing, is downright spiritual. Such is the story of William Elliot Whitmore. This man can sing! But his is not just another pretty voice; it’s a vocal representation of the … Read more
Here’s the Twinsville Development at the proposed Northstar rail station in downtown.
Oddly, the last two movies I’ve seen have had more or less the same storyline: impoverished street musician suddenly finds success but suffers many personal losses along the way. The first was La Vie en Rose, a biopic about the French singer Edith Piaf. It was long — 140 minutes — and as violent a … Read more
Perversely, after a summer of drinking meaty, dry red wines, when the cool weather set in this week, I suddenly got a hankering for white. A woman’s body is fickle, as I tell my husband often. One day, you slip into your size-7 jeans and run around the world bending every which way like an … Read more
Lists bore you? Don’t bother. You can get breaking news in a colorful, jagged puzzle format at newsmap. Even if you don’t find anything interesting, it’s a great screen to stare at. Kind of like an Escher.
Last minute alert for your social calendars: The third annual Sashion Flow (get it, ha-ha) event is happening tomorrow, September 8 at Soo Visual Arts Center. What a great way to combine clothes- and art-making, as I know you Minneapolitans so love to do. The featured designers include Annie Larson and, one of my new … Read more
We spotted Michael Kutscheid the other night in the dining room of his new restaurant, Sanctuary, looking proud as a peacock – and even more dapper than usual. The elegant new dining room and lounge, which Kutscheid owns with partners Roger Kubicki and Naomi Williamson, opened quietly last week on the ground level at of … Read more
Every so often a comment rolls in too ripe for response to bury in a link. So I’m dragging a couple recent shots across my bow out in the full light of day. (How many metaphors is that?) The first, upset with my “ranking” of local TV newsrooms, says: “Lambert, you love taking swipes at … Read more
3:10 to Yuma. Now playing in theaters around town. The original (1957) is also showing for one week only at