We finally have a new Call for Artists page on our website. You can access it directly through the More for Rake Readers links at the bottom of each page. Be sure to check in periodically for new listings. To submit a listing, send your description via email with Call for Artists as the subject line.
ACTIVISM
Walk or Bike to Work
We started out Bike Walk Week with the Great Commuter Challenge, and now it’s Twin Cities Bike Walk to Work Day. Leave the car at home today — or at the very least, carpool with your colleagues. With soaring gas prices, just think of the money you can save — and the great shape your ass will be in if you continue this all summer. If only each day began with a downtown celebration. Today, from 6:30 – 9 a.m., there will be fun for all in both downtown Minneapolis (North Plaza) and downtown St. Paul (Rice Park). Anoka folks, don’t despair; join your fellow pedestrians at the Anoka County Government Center Atrium. After burning up those calories with your brisk morning commute, you can re-fuel with a free continental breakfast — and free Peace Coffee. You really can’t complain.
LECTURE
Duality Reality — What’s a Big Ole Company to Do?
The Rake has been Twittering lately, and exploring social media possibilities all around. Sure, we have a MySpace page — though we really don’t do much with it anymore. And we put an occasional video on YouTube — Dude Weather is there every day. But I just haven’t taken the time to set up a Facebook page. I simply can’t stomach the idea of one more "arm" to maintain. And frankly, I’m not even sure how valuable any of this is to our readers, or to The Rake, in general. But we’re out there. At least we’re out there. Let’s be honest: I’m not sure anyone has any concrete answers. But certainly a panel of leading social media experts ought to shed a little light on the matter. Join MIMA today for Duality Reality: Who Controls Social Media in the Enterprise, and learn how big organizations are or aren’t adopting social media – and who makes the decision to do it.
5:15 p.m., Solera, 900 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis; members $20, nonmembers $45.
FILM
Steve Ef’n McQueen
Need I say more? (OK, I guess so.) The Edina Cinema is bringing Steve McQueen’s 1963 epic World War II adventure, The Great Escape, to the big screen again. Hmmm.. that’s an odd sentence. First off, I say "again" because, well, it was probably on the big screen in 1963 — and surely is has been so many times since then — but not all of us have had the pleasure of seeing it there. No, not I — though I’ve seen it at least a dozen times in smaller formats. OK, let’s continue dissecting my beautifully misleading sentence. Steve McQueen’s epic 1963 World War II adventure — epic, yes; World War II, yes; adventure, definitely; but Steve McQueen’s? He stars in it, OK? Does that make it his? Does that mean he has to share it with Richard Attenborough, James Garner, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, and other stars in the film? And what happens if they don’t play nice? To say it’s a John Sturges film would perhaps be more correct. Why? Does the director own it? Perhaps. Or perhaps the author owns it. But which one? Paul Brickhill, who wrote the original book, or James Clavell, who wrote the screenplay? Frankly, I’d say the allied POWs who made their great escape from the Stalag Luft III German prison camp — via tunnel — in the ’40s probably own the story best. It’s theirs after all. Always theirs, despite a touch of fiction tossed in to appease the Holy Wood.
1:30, 5, and 8:30 p.m., Edina Cinema, 3911 W. 50th
St., Edina; 651-649-4416.
ART WORKSHOP
How to Think Like an Art Critic—For Fun and Profit
Psst… Wanna know a secret? We have a new art blog in store this month. For a little glimpse into the mind of one of our Vicious Circle art critics, head over to Pratt Community College this evening for Michael Fallon’s workshop on well-reasoned art critique and how to appreciate the arts from a critically active frame of mind. How to Think Like an Art Critic—For Fun and Profit, brought to you by mnartists and Twin Cities Daily Planet, is open to anyone at all, but if you happen to be interested in freelance art writing, Fallon will help yo get started with pointers, resources, and direction.
7-9 p.m., Pratt Community School, 66 Malcolm Ave. SE, Minneapolis; $15.
In celebration of Children’s Week, the University of Minnesota Bookstore, at Coffman Union, is offering 25 percent off all children’s books.
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