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Calexico Fine Line Music Cafe	Sat., November 22, 8:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Music
The town of Calexico takes its name from the state and country on whose border it lies: California and Mexico. You might guess that the band took their name from their hometown, but the rockers hail from Tucson. Instead, the town is a metaphor for their sound, which bow-leggedly straddles the... More >>

M83; School of Seven Bells Triple Rock Social Club	Sat., November 22, 9:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Music
Sometimes hyperbole's not only called for, but demanded, and School of Seven Bells is such a case. Solely composed of indie-rock refugees—multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Curtis used to be in Secret Machines, and you may remember vocalists/twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza from On!... More >>

CD Release Party: Nation of Immigrants? The Loft Literary Center	Sat., November 22, 8:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Poetry/Spoken Word
As ancient and universal as the smile, spoken word is an art form that simultaneously transcends the differences between cultures and serves to bring those differences into sharp relief. For many years now, Equilibrium has offered a space and a stage to the voices of a group as diverse in... More >>

SOLD OUT: Red House Records 25th Anniversary Grand Finale Concert The Cedar	Sat., November 22, 7:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Music
St. Paul's Red House Records, the little folkie label that rose to international renown under the impassioned leadership of the late Bob Feldman, concludes its year-long silver anniversary celebration with this concert featuring three artists who represent its deep pool of talent: John Gorka,... More >>

1001 Mixed Blood Theatre	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., October 30 until Sat., November 22, 7:30pm more dates/times	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Theater
The story of Scheherazade resonates on any number of levels, but it works just fine on the most straightforward: that storytelling can not only save our skins, it's the very fabric of life itself. Jason Grote's 1001 tackles the textures of love and politics with an onstage DJ, telling the tale... More >>

Absolute Pulp Bryant-Lake Bowl	Every week Thursday, Saturday from Sat., November 8 until Sat., November 22, 7:00pm more dates/times	Uptown/Eat Street	Theater
When you think of a theater company devoting its energy to literary adaptations, the dusty whiff of reverent takes on canonical classics springs to mind. Which is why Hardcover Theater is so consistently fun: In recent years, they've taken on sci-fi, a creepy old children's story, and a... More >>

Eduardo Blidner: Argentine Drag Queens Icebox Quality Framing And Gallery	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Wed., January 7	Northeast	Art Galleries
Argentine photographer Eduardo Blidner is no stranger to Minneapolis's Icebox Gallery. In 2000 the gallery hosted Blidner's first solo show, which launched his series "Tango Argentino" around the world. Last year Icebox was the first gallery in the world to host Blidner's globetrotting... More >>

Bondage A-Go-Go Ground Zero	Every week Saturday, 10:00pm	Northeast
Are you still feeling guilty over that thing you did at your Fourth of July party? Still partying hard this weekend? Ready to go public with your leather fetish? Then tonight's Bondage A Go Go is the place for you. The long-running industrial/kink/fetish night goes above and beyond the typical... More >>

Brent Weinbach Acme Comedy Co.	Daily from Tue., November 18 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm more dates/times	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Comedy
Brent Weinbach does not laugh at his jokes. In fact, you might not, either. In a steely deadpan, he delivers stories that derive their humor from the narrative and from Weinbach's ability to say things in the most clinical way without so much as smiling. For example, he tells the story of... More >>

C.J. Chenier Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant	Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 21 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Music
Arriving late to zydeco after beginning his career playing top 40, multi-instrumentalist C.J. Chenier nonetheless managed to serve an apprenticeship with his father, zydeco king Clifton Chenier, picking up accordion and enough of the rudiments to seamlessly take over the Red Hot Louisiana Band... More >>

CSI: The Experience Science Museum Of Minnesota	Daily from Wed., October 15 until Sun., January 4	St. Paul (Downtown)	Museums
Is getting up-close and personal with a dead body and finding how it got that way your kink? You're in luck. The traveling exhibit, "CSI: The Experience," opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota. In this criminally creative display, visitors dive into several crime scenes and use modern... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., September 13 until Sun., January 4	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., September 14 until Sun., January 4	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Hindsight is Always 20/20 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum	Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4	University	Museums
As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist and composer R. Luke Dubois explores this irony with a visual pun. In his 43 prints and light boxes, Dubois creates a... More >>

How I Learned to Drive Paul And Sheila Wellstone Center For Community Building	Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 7 until Sat., November 22, 7:30pm more dates/times	West Side	Theater
Paula Vogel garnered a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1998 for How I Learned to Drive, staged here by the oft-incisive Theatre Unbound. The bare outlines of the plot are enough to inspire a hearty cringe: Lil' Bit, growing up in rural Maryland with an extended family in the 1960s, becomes at an... More >>

I Land Intermedia Arts	Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., November 20 until Sat., November 22, 7:30pm	Uptown/Eat Street	Dance & Performance Theater
When thinking of Hawaii, a few things might spring to mind: hula dancing, surfing, bananas, and nowadays, Barack Obama. But of course the rich history of our sunny 50th state goes beyond Capri Sun Hawaiian Punch commercials and songs about tropical vacations sung over a ukulele. Enter I Land,... More >>

INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 26 until Sun., January 18	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
When we think of art from India, most of us probably conjure images of Bollywood films or Hindu deities with four arms. This massive show of contemporary Indian photography and video art at MIA promises to be eye-opening, playing with some Indian traditions and stereotypes and exploding others.... More >>

Level 13: Secret Level Altered Esthetics	Daily from Thu., November 6 until Sat., November 29	Northeast	Art Galleries
It began as a series of squares fighting each other to beeps and boops. So it's easy to argue that video games have matured exponentially in aesthetics, story arcs, and overall quality over the past 30 years or so. It's no wonder that artists who grew up playing video games would find... More >>

MCAD Annual Art Sale MCAD - Minneapolis College of Art and Design	Fri., November 21, 6:00pm-9:00pm more dates/times	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Galleries Holiday/Fall
This year marks the 11th annual student show for budding artists studying at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and, as is the case every year, almost the entire purchase price of the works goes directly to the students who created them. So this holiday season, give the gift of an... More >>

Post Secret Minneapolis Central Library	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., November 30	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Galleries
If you don't know what Post Secret is, you've probably never been on the internet or to a bookstore. It's the website and art project started in 2004 by Frank Warren, a quiet family man living in Germantown, Maryland. Warren asks that people send him postcards that reveal their secret; he then... More >>

Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78 Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., March 15	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
Forty or 50 years on, it's hard to imagine now the manic energy of the art world in the 1960s, or the way that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, in particular, blew the doors off of artistic sensibilities at the time. Their libertine experimentalism bridged abstract expressionism and pop... More >>

Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., October 18 until Sun., January 11	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
Late Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo is sort of like the pinball-ish game pachinko: While hugely popular in Japan and select other places on the map, he just never took off in America. Sure, some American art scholars can talk about his impact on postwar art movements. But despite the 18 years... More >>

Danny Saathoff: The Mechanical Alchemist Gallery 360	Daily from Sat., November 8 until Sun., January 11	Edina	Art Galleries
In the parlance of the art world, which seems to put a premium on stuffiness, Danny Saathoff's new show, "The Mechanical Alchemist," is a collection of "interactive assemblages." But don't let the terms fool you; the art is very anti-stuffy. You can think of the pieces as artistic Bop-Its.... More >>

Minimal/Manimal: The 4th Volunteer Biennale The Soap Factory	Daily from Sat., November 15 until Sun., November 30	University	Art Galleries
They say that you must suffer for your art, but what about other people's art? For every tortured artist there are a handful of people logistically tortured, including the curator who puts together the show, selecting artists and ensuring the art is hung or installed the best way possible.... More >>

The Harvest Jamboree Marriott Minneapolis West	Fri., November 21, 7:30pm-1:00am more dates/times	St. Louis Park	Music
There's a sense of Americana in the interplay between fiddle and bass, and a driving force in the fast-picked mandolin and banjo that just can't be found outside of bluegrass. Local addicts of the genre flock to spots around the cities, such as Dulono's Pizza, the Malt Shop, and the Riverview... More >>