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11:47 am
May. 16, 2012
Beer, zombies, and rainbows: Your official summer 5K fun run guide
By Patrick Strait
It's wild what people will pay to do to themselves.This Saturday and Sunday, thousands of folks will descend on Somerset Amphitheater for the Tough Mudder, a 12-mile obstacle course designed by t... More >>

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10:30 am
May. 16, 2012
'Happy Cabaret' supports Central Corridor businesses with a free show
By Sheila Regan
Tyler Olsen hopes to bring some smiles -- and some patrons -- to University Avenue, which has been hurting for customers ever since construction began on the Central Corridor. On Friday, Olsen's H... More >>

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9:46 am
May. 16, 2012
Mrs. Smith is back, Broadway style
By Ed Huyck
After a year where his Mrs. Smith alter-ego had a scary Halloween, hosted a failing fundraiser, and then went to a women's prison, David Hanbury wanted to explore a different side of the charact... More >>

Spotlight

12:00 am
May. 16, 2012
The Amen Corner at Penumbra
By Ed Huyck
The questions that swirl at the center of The Amen Corner — about faith, sin, redemption, and hope — haven't changed since James... More >>

Dressing Room

10:40 am
May. 15, 2012
Ira Glass thinks Block E is a prison [AUDIO]
By Jessica Lussenhop
Paging Mayor Rybak. Block E might have a public image problem on its hands.As a part of its second live broadcast of a video-version of This American Life, host Ira Glass bought his cast of perfor... More >>

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9:34 am
May. 15, 2012
Walking Shadow makes the stage a stage in 'Compleat Female Stage Beauty'
By Ed Huyck
A brief mention in Samuel Pepys's diaries led local playwright Jeffrey Hatcher to investigate the story of Edward Kynaston, a 17th-century actor renowned for his performances in women's roles. W... More >>

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9:52 am
May. 14, 2012
Decentralized Dance Party invades Minneapolis
By Patrick Strait
Downtown Minneapolis got down to business this past weekend.Men, women, kids, and giant bananas danced their faces off on Saturday night, as the Decentralized Dance Party brought its "Strictly Bus... More >>

Dressing Room

8:00 am
May. 14, 2012
Walker Art Center announces Summer Music & Movies line up
By Jessica Armbruster
The Walker Art Center recently released its schedule for its popular and free Summer Music & Movies. The series pairs local bands with film screenings on the green lawn of Loring Park in down... More >>

Dressing Room

11:00 am
May. 11, 2012
Craftstravaganza features sweet goods from Tiny Hands
By Tatiana Craine
Combine the crafty internet sensations Pinterest and etsy, add some distinct Minnesotan flair, bring it to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, and you've got Craftstravaganza. The seventh-annual e... More >>

Dressing Room

9:00 am
May. 11, 2012
Penumbra merges secular and sacred in 'The Amen Corner'
By Ed Huyck
The Amen Corner, James Baldwin's landmark work, has been on the radar of Penumbra Theater's Lou Bellamy for a long time. "I've been teaching the play for over 30 years at the University of Minne... More >>

Dressing Room

7:57 am
May. 11, 2012
MCAD, MayDay, Craftsravaganza: Freeloader Friday
By Jessica Armbruster
This week in Freeloader Friday we have Craftstravaganza and Art Du Nord, two events selling great handmade items from talented artists. Speaking of talented artists, Northrup King Studios will b... More >>

Dressing Room

7:22 am
May. 11, 2012
Opitz Outlet opening huge warehouse this weekend
By Jen Boyles
Opitz Outlet is a haven for the spendthrift fashionistas of the Twin Cities. While they already have two buildings filled with style steals on Excelsior Boulevard, this weekend they're packing an... More >>

Dressing Room

12:02 pm
May. 10, 2012
Free stuff alert: The Walker Art Center is extra free tonight
By Jessica Armbruster
Freeloader Friday won't be published until tomorrow morning. However, this week's Target Free Thursday Nights at the Walker is loaded with so much stuff that we had to give it an Freeloader-inspir... More >>

Dressing Room

10:36 am
May. 10, 2012
Skewed Visions presents 'Black Water,' its latest site-specific performance
By Sheila Regan
Theater artist Charles Campbell takes his audience to an abandoned market in St. Paul for his latest endeavor with Skewed Visions, a company known for its site-specific performances. Black Water e... More >>

Dressing Room

8:00 am
May. 10, 2012
Making fools for fun in 'The Golden Ass'
By Ed Huyck
It doesn't get any more primal than telling stories around a campfire. After all, back in the figurative or literal cave, around life-preserving flames, our ancestors first began to spin... More >>

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12:31 pm
May. 9, 2012
Birchbark Books hosts poets Bao Phi and Ed Bok Lee tonight
By Sheila Regan
This evening, two acclaimed local poets will be giving a reading sponsored by BIrchbark Books at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Performance poet Bao Phi, author of Sông I Sing, and Ed Bok Lee, win... More >>

Dressing Room

8:06 am
May. 9, 2012
Decentralized Dance Party takes to the streets this Saturday
By Patrick Strait
There's one gang headed to Minneapolis this month that no one should run from.The Decentralized Dance Party (DDP) is bringing what they call "the world's funnest spontaneous street party" to town ... More >>

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7:28 am
May. 9, 2012
Ira Glass on 'This American Life -- Live!' and 'Retraction'
By Jessica Lussenhop
For the first time since retracting the most popular episode of This American Life, "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory," host Ira Glass is speaking to the media again. He's all done with apolo... More >>

Dressing Room

10:11 am
May. 8, 2012
Playwrights' Center hosts a new-play-centric party
By Ed Huyck
Forty years of anything calls for a party, and the folks at the Playwrights' Center are ready to celebrate their birthday in style this weekend at the Varsity Theater. They'll do it not j... More >>

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8:00 am
May. 8, 2012
Savannah Reich takes on the artist manifesto
By Sheila Regan
Savannah Reich's latest creative endeavor, Us with Moustaches: A Performance Manifesto, is "intended as a love note to manifestos" she says. The project stems from the tradition of artists like Sa... More >>

Dressing Room

10:10 am
May. 7, 2012
Garrison Keillor's Common Good Books re-opens in new location
By Tatiana Craine
Since childhood, local legend and radio icon Garrison Keillor longed to have his own bookstore. Common Good Books is his dream come true. For the last six years, the store was located underneat... More >>

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<i>The War Within/All's Fair</i> takes on workplace absurdities The War Within/All's Fair takes on workplace absurdities
By Ed Huyck

Looking around the stage last weekend at the Southern Theater, I had a sense of anticipation ahead of The War Within/All's Fair. Decades of watching work crafted by Dominique Serrand… More >>

<i>The Amen Corner</i> at Penumbra The Amen Corner at Penumbra
By Ed Huyck

The questions that swirl at the center of The Amen Corner — about faith, sin, redemption, and hope — haven't changed since James Baldwin wrote the piece 60 years ago,… More >>

<i>Are You Now or Have You Ever Been...</i> at the Guthrie Are You Now or Have You Ever Been... at the Guthrie
By Ed Huyck

Early on in Carlyle Brown's exploration of Langston Hughes and his testimony before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations (the Joseph McCarthy-led anti-communist witch hunt of the 1950s), the poet… More >>

<i>Vasa Lisa</i> at Open Book Vasa Lisa at Open Book
By Ed Huyck

In Kira Obolensky's delightful retelling of this Russian folktale, the title character goes on an adventure into the deep, dark forest to confront the witch Baba Yaga, who she believes… More >>

<i>Doubt</i> at Park Square Theatre Doubt at Park Square Theatre
By Ed Huyck

Befitting a play about the slippery nature of the truth, the title of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play can be taken in multiple ways. For sure, part of it… More >>

<i>Steampunk Illusions</i> at Open Eye Figure Theatre Steampunk Illusions at Open Eye Figure Theatre

Steampunk Delusions Open Eye Figure Theatre Two local small theaters team up for a trip to a Victorian world that never was, full of mad scientists and trips to Mars. Each theater… More >>

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