Email Author Sheila Regan

2013 Stories by Sheila Regan

• Encyclopedia Show Minneapolis: The Circus

  published May 15, 2013

  This Sunday, Encyclopedia Show Minneapolis wraps up its second season with an episode all about the circus. The event will include a panel of... More >>

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  'He was the man': Remembering Eric Wheeler

  published May 23, 2013

  The Twin Cities lost a great actor this week. Eric Vernon Wheeler, who had Down Syndrome, started his acting career 22 years ago at the age of 20 in a show called We're All in This Together. It was th... More >>

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  Nautilus brings back The View from Here

  published May 22, 2013

  This week, Nautilus Music-Theater returns to the Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview for five performances of its production of The View From Here, a one-man show by New York-based composer/lyricist Timo... More >>

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  Graffiti artist/yarn bomber HOTTEA's "Inner Workings" at Burnet Gallery

  published May 20, 2013

  "Inner Workings," a solo exhibition of pieces by HOTTEA (Eric Rieger) at Le Meridien Chambers Burnet Gallery, marks a more introspective approach for the artist, whose career over the years has gone f... More >>

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  Art-A-Whirl: 7 things not to be missed

  published May 16, 2013

  It's that time of year when northeast Minneapolis goes nuts with art, music, and activities as studios and buildings open their doors. There's always fun stuff to see and do at Art-A-Whirl, and y... More >>

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  Top 10 museums in the Twin Cities

  published May 14, 2013

  May is Minnesota Museum month. This Saturday, museums will additionally be celebrating International Museum Day. So with those two things in mind there's no better time than now to check out all the s... More >>

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  Director Josh Cragun on Tesla's predictions: "The dude was talking about the iPhone."

  published May 10, 2013

  Nikola Tesla, the oft-forgotten inventor who died impoverished in 1943, has been getting a bit of attention as of late with posthumous celebrations of his contributions to science, and his eerily corr... More >>

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  "Art(ists) on the Verge" at the Soap Factory

  published May 08, 2013

  Now in its fourth year, Northern Lights.mn's Art(ists) on the Verge mentorshop program recently showcased its latest group of fellows experimenting with art, technology, and interactive and participat... More >>

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  Shane Carruth wows again with Upstream Color

  published May 07, 2013

  Folks may want to brush up on Henry David Thoreau's Walden: (Or Life in the Woods), as what it has to say about retreating into nature provides a key element in Upstream Color, a new film showing at t... More >>

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  Hazel Belvo and the "Spirit Tree" at Bockley Gallery

  published May 06, 2013

  For the last 50 years, 87-year-old visual artist Hazel Belvo has been painting the Spirit Tree, known by the Anishinaabe people as Manidoo-giizhikens, or "Little Cedar Spirit Tree." (In the past, it... More >>

• Lorca in a Green Dress

  published April 9, 2013

  This weekend, Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater present Lorca in a Green Dress, a play by Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz... More >>

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  Endings and beginnings as Zenon Dance turns 30

  published May 02, 2013

  The spring concert of Zenon Dance Company and School's 30th anniversary season carries a few of endings. The company will be honoring longtime dancer Greg Waletski, who has been dancing with the troup... More >>

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  Top 7 bookstores in the Twin Cities

  published May 01, 2013

  Some say bookstores are dead. The age of e-books and online shipping has hit shops like Barnes & Noble, Little Professor, and the now-defunct Borders hard. However, there's something special about... More >>

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  Allen Brewer re-interprets artworks through written descriptions in latest exhibition

  published Apr 29, 2013

  Upon arriving at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' MAEP galleries, a group of young women squeal as they discover that two of them are actually a part of the new exhibit. For the show, titled "Ve... More >>

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  Interact artists on Honey Boo Boo: "They didn't really see what the big deal was."

  published Apr 25, 2013

  According to co-director Taous Khazem, satire is the name of the game for Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts' new show, By the Seat of our Pants. The production features a series of paro... More >>

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  Junauda Petrus: "I wanted to do a show where I worked with other black women."

  published Apr 24, 2013

  This week, aerial artist Junauda Petrus will debut a new work, There are Other Worlds, at the Open Eye Figure Theatre. It's a performance piece, produced by Free Black Dirt, that uses aerial arts, poe... More >>

• Neal Karlen

  published April 17, 2013

  Get the true story of the late Augie Ratner, the boxer-turned-nightclub proprietor who owned Augie's Theater Lounge and Bar (where Augie's Bourbon... More >>

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  Public Functionary's inaugural exhibition is victorious

  published Apr 19, 2013

  The much-anticipated opening of Public Functionary, the new gallery in northeast Minneapolis brought to you by director Tricia Khutoretsky, is finally here with an exhibition of work by Dzine, titled ... More >>

• AIS 123... 4: An Exhibition Celebrating Artists in Storefronts

  published March 20, 2013

  It's hard to believe that it has been just a year since Artists in Storefronts splashed onto the Twin Cities scene. Led by the fearless Joan... More >>

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  Red Eye Theater's Dreamless Land: Surprisingly dream-like

  published Apr 18, 2013

  The plot of Julia Jarcho's Dreamless Land remains almost within reach throughout the play. Just when you think you sort of "get it," the characters switch and the plot shifts from B-movie horror, to s... More >>

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  Five not be to missed local films at MSPIFF

  published Apr 16, 2013

  The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival is now in full force. If you didn't get a chance to check out the festival last weekend, you've got until April 28 to get over to St. Anthony Main ... More >>

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  SooVAC and Soo Local have some crazy shit going on

  published Apr 15, 2013

  Imagine this: A storefront turned art gallery at 35th and Nicollet packed to the brim with scenesters, hippies, and a sprinkling of gutterpunks on Easter Sunday. They are rapt as performance artist Ja... More >>

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  River See opens at Pillsbury House

  published Apr 11, 2013

  While Sharon Bridgforth was born in Los Angeles, her family originally came from Louisiana and Tennessee, moving up North as part of one of the "great migrations" of African American people. Music was... More >>

• Sistah Solo

  published April 2, 2013

  Maia Maiden is back at Patrick's Cabaret with Sistah Solo, two evenings of film, dance music, and spoken word celebrating female artists of color.... More >>

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  Shift Change co-op documentary screens at Trylon

  published Apr 09, 2013

  As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, perhaps it's time to take a look at alternatives to the exploitations of big corporations. Shift Change, which gets a screening at Trylon Microcinema th... More >>