Archive Search Results

1. Savage Love

   Savage Love

   By Dan Savage

   Published: June 11, 2008

   I'm a bisexual woman, age 20, and I am threesome-ing it with my best friend and her boyfriend during a stay abroad. I knew the girl (who's mostly straight) beforehand. The girl...

2. Theater

   Comedian's Tragedy tackles the tough questions

   Matthew Amendt delves into tricky and delicate ideas with an assurance that belies the fact that it's his first shot as a playwright

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: June 11, 2008

   The threads of the page, stage, and life itself have been interwoven for about as long as all three elements have existed (we'll leave cave paintings for another day). But...

3. A-List

   Heroin Shieks

   By Holly Day

   Published: June 11, 2008

   When Cows called it quits after their 1996 release Whorn came out, frontman Shannon Selberg moved to New York and started up a new band, the Heroine Sheiks. Drawing heavily on...

4. A-List

   Isolated Acts: Pinhead

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: June 11, 2008

   The Red Eye's New Works 4 Weeks series continues this week with the first of the three-week Isolated Acts offerings: Pinhead, in which Justin Jones mines Bob Fosse's All That...

5. A-List

   David Sirota

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Liberals aren't the only ones with populist ideals. In fact, people and groups of all political persuasions have decided to take on big business, the federal government, and...

6. A-List

   Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton: Songs of Ascension

   By Caroline Palmer

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Meredith Monk is a pioneer who has transformed music, dance, theater, opera, and film, but after more than 40 years at work it's clear that she continues to innovate with...

7. A-List

   Great River Energy Bicycle Festival: Stillwater Criterium

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Anybody who has feared for her life while crisscrossing through downtown Minneapolis on a ten-speed, dodging right-turning SUVs and close calls with side mirrors, knows that...

8. A-List

   Great River Bicycle Festival: St. Paul Riverfront Time Trial

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Anybody who has feared for her life while crisscrossing through downtown Minneapolis on a ten-speed, dodging right-turning SUVs and close calls with side mirrors, knows that...

9. A-List

   Taylor Eigsti

   By Rick Mason

   Published: June 11, 2008

   A former child prodigy, pianist Taylor Eigsti opened for his mentor, David Benoit, at age eight, and four years later was opening for the likes of Diana Krall and Al Jarreau....

10. A-List

    Steve Turre Shell Choir

    By Rick Mason

    Published: June 11, 2008

    One of the most unusual big bands out there, Steve Turre's Sanctified Shells includes six trombonists who double up playing seashells and five percussionists who incorporate...

11. A-List

    Smoke and Mirrors: Photographs by Vance Gellert

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Are those llama fetuses hanging in that market? Why is that frog being stretched out into a tortuous position? Why is that child lying nearly naked and covered in flower...

12. A-List

    Modern Radio's Nine Year Anniversary

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: June 11, 2008

    I think it's fair to say that the First Amendment Gallery has cornered the local market on rock 'n' roll art shows. Though it's been open less than two years, the space has...

13. A-List

    Roma di Luna

    By Rick Mason

    Published: June 11, 2008

    The third album from Roma di Luna, Casting the Bones, is still anchored by the husband-and-wife duo of Alexei and Channy Moon Casselle. But it's more of a full-band effort,...

14. A-List

    Peter Murphy

    By Erin Roof

    Published: June 11, 2008

    If Iggy Pop, the godfather of punk; James Brown, the godfather of soul; and Peter Murphy, the godfather of goth, went at it in some semi-supernatural brawl, Murphy would be the...

15. A-List

    David Sedaris

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: June 11, 2008

    David Sedaris is back with another collection of essays full of self-deprecation, unexpected and apt comparisons, family high jinks, and the charming sentimentality that has...

16. A-List

    Stone Arch Festival of the Arts: ArtCar Event

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Featuring over 250 artists, this year's Stone Arch Festival of the Arts will play host to a variety of outdoor-friendly activities. Theater, dance, children's performances, and...

17. A-List

    Sexy Spring V

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: June 11, 2008

    We all know that summer is full of topless guys jogging, dangerously low cleavage, and skimpy swimsuits, but sometimes, thanks to rain, lack of a fitness regimen during the...

18. A-List

    Nam Le

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Reading Nam Le's The Boat, it is hard to believe that such rich characters could exist within the confines of a single writer's mind, much less the pages of one collection of...

19. A-List

    Gogol Bordello

    By Ward Rubrecht

    Published: June 11, 2008

    What could a multiethnic gypsy-punk band from New York and a redneck country singer from Akron possibly have in common? Not a whole lot, as it turns out. Gogol Bordello's stage...

20. A-List

    Red Stag Block Party

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 11, 2008

    The second annual Red Stag Block Party is going to be a zoo. In addition to the crimson deer in the venue's name, there will be a flea market, and musical acts with names that...