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Now in its sixth year, the annual David Bowie tribute concert Rock for Pussy is boasting one of its biggest and most talented batch of guest singers yet. Organized by 89.3 the...
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There's something very hallucinatory about The Wizard of Oz. The book is filled with political metaphors and bizarre situations; the movie is a manic icon of great Hollywood...
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Did you know that ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand? Or that zebra stripes are unique like human fingerprints? How about that giraffes are the insomniacs of the...
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The Rockstar Storytellers are late in their second season but show no sign of slowing down anytime soon. With monthly shows at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, a fundraiser for the...
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For some people, three-day weekends are an opportunity to enjoy the nightlife without early-morning consequences for one extra day. So think of tonight as Saturday. Solera...
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Okay, so harness racing isn't quite as dramatic as chariot racing. There aren't any gold-painted wheelbarrows pulling men wearing spiked metal bracelets. Its fanbase also...
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Ray Sandford doesn't want to do this.
On a sunny yet cool mid-April morning, the pear-shaped 54-year-old
emerges from the front door of his ranch-style group home in...
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Jake Nyberg tromps through the mall, his rainbow-tinted, mirrored
sunglasses reflecting the expensive wares: gourmet chocolates, $60
men's silk bowties, $4 organic juice. In...
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Day after day, more Minnesotans are becoming increasingly fed up
with the never-ending battle for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat. It's so
bad that many of the people who voted...
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"Hey, Al, wake up. Wake up! It's me, Norm."
"What the hell are you doing, Coleman? It's 2:30 in the morning."
"I want to talk to you, Al."
"You couldn't call? Why are you...
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Craig can't protect you
To me it seems that parents, brothers, and elders need to provide some protection and guidance to young women. Is it too much to ask that when...
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In their disheveled attic studio, the members of Gay Beast don't talk mathematics. Early on, they don't talk much at all. Today, singer and keyboardist Dan Luedtke is busy...
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Four years ago, City Pages ran a cover story on a young, burgeoning hip-hop group by the name of Big Quarters. The article followed Brandon "Allday" Bagaason and his younger...
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The local hip-hop community is grieving over the recent announcement that the Dinkytowner Café will close on Sunday, May 31. After much speculation in the preceding...
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KELLY CLARKSON"My Life Would Suck Without You"
No, Kelly, our lives would suck without you. We're totally throwing this on our BFF's next mix CD, no...
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WEDNESDAY 5.20
Animal Collective
First Avenue
The obsessive sonic experimentation of Animal Collective has evolved over successive albums to the point that their ninth,...
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When I found out about the openings of Zen Asian Contemporary at
Lyn-Lake and Mt. Fuji on 28th and Hennepin, my first response was to
stifle a yawn. I was so over the idea of...
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Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's new model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...
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Writer-director Rian Johnson's movies—first
Brick in 2006, now The Brothers
Bloom—are clever and soulful confabulations. The
filmmaker, whose screenplays read like...
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The jarring of the surreal and unfamiliar may well be the source of what most frightens us, as well as a major component of what makes us laugh. Charles Campbell's He Woke...
