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Great Lake Swimmers; the Pines; the Parlour Suite 7th St. Entry	Wed., August 20, 8:00pm	Downtown Minneapolis	Music
Great Lake Swimmers' 2007 release, Ongiara, was a gorgeous record full of lush, moody folk ambiance seamlessly melded with deeply poignant and heartfelt lyricism. Even though they aren't touring behind a new record at present, the five-year output of these prolific Canadians can more than fill... More >>

Rain Taxi 50th Issue Celebration The Keg House	Wed., August 20, 5:30pm	Downtown Minneapolis	Readings & Lectures Poetry/Spoken Word Music
Some may say that hard times have befallen the art of literary review. Many will point to sluggish and declining book sales as indicative of a growing trend: People just don't read books anymore. But even in the dark night there are bright stars in the sky. Minneapolis, for example, is often... More >>

Before the Teardown Mill City Museum	Daily from Thu., May 8 until Sun., August 31	Downtown Minneapolis	Museums
With all due respect to the crop of sleek, soaring skyscrapers clumped in downtown Minneapolis, there were some pretty cool buildings around downtown before the rise of glass and steel constructions. In 1960, the Star Tribune realized that the stone and brick buildings that had filled the... More >>

Design For the Other 90% Minneapolis Sculpture Garden	Daily from Sat., May 24 until Sun., September 7	Suburbs	Museums
According to the press release for this show, 90 percent of the world's population, or 5.8 billion people, have no access (or sparse access) to products and services we take for granted. And while internet service and hearing-aid batteries are among the luxuries included in this list, the lack... More >>

Eric William Carroll: All Buildings Dream In Blueprints Christensen Center Art Gallery	Daily from Fri., July 18 until Fri., September 5	Downtown Minneapolis	Galleries
Though I have seen many an installation, I don't know that I have seen a re-installation like this. While not quite a re-installation, but conceptually in that vein, Carroll has created a "blueprint" of the ghosts of last April's "All Student Juried Art Show." The artworks once displayed in the... More >>

From Sportswear to Streetwear The Goldstein Museum Of Design	Daily from Sat., August 16 until Sun., November 2	Greater St. Paul	Museums
All the cool kids might think their Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars are just hip canvas shoes. Ditto for Technicolor Nike Air Force Ones. But to the well-trained designer's eye, these kicks mark a significant departure in our fashion history: the idea that clothes designed to be worn for sports... More >>

Friedlander Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., June 29 until Sun., September 14	Downtown Minneapolis	Museums
Currently, Father Duffy's ornate grave and statue cower under the neon command of a Coke advertisement. The once-marvelous monument to a man has been reduced to an obstruction blocking sightlines to an array of billboards and soaring buildings. That's the scene in one of photographer Lee... More >>

God's Pottery Acme Comedy Co.	Daily from Tue., August 19 until Sat., August 23, 8:00pm more dates/times	Downtown Minneapolis	Comedy
God's Pottery has done for gently mocking hokey Christian music what Sasha Baron Cohen's Borat did for laughing at Kazakhstan. Guitar player Jeremiah Smallchild and bell player and singer Gideon Lamb are always in character, never do press under their real names (Wilson Hall and Krister... More >>

History Room: 20 Years of No Name The Soap Factory	Daily from Sat., April 19 until Sun., October 26	North & Northeast Minneapolis	Galleries
A lot has changed over the past 20 years. We've gone through three presidents. Macs became cool, then lame, then cool again. Alternative music became corporatized, then turned into emo. A lot has changed over the years for the Soap Factory as well. One of the oldest galleries in the Twin Cities... More >>

Mayumi Amada: Misc Gage Family Art Gallery	Daily from Fri., July 18 until Fri., September 5	Downtown Minneapolis	Galleries
Mayumi Amada might be the best-known artist in the state working in the doily medium. She's created works based entirely on the cloth knickknacks, including an installation of four- to nine-foot-wide doilies floating in water as homage to her grandmothers, who taught her how to crochet. Other... More >>

Walker On the Green: Artist Designed Miniature Golf Minneapolis Sculpture Garden	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 24 until Sun., September 7, 10:00am-8:00pm	Suburbs	Sports - Participatory
Walker Art Center's two brand-new, seven-hole mini golf courses aren't your average putt-putt experience. They don't have oversize windmill blades covering the tunnel to the hole, or any other mini golf clichés. Artists designed the holes around the theme "Green," and were given the... More >>

Poster Offensive 4 Black Dog Coffee And Wine Bar	Daily from Fri., August 15 until Mon., September 15	Downtown St. Paul	Galleries Art
If you think back to the sophisticated décor of your college dorm room, you probably had at least one sweet-ass poster taped to your wall. Maybe it was the "Periodic Table of Mixology," or it might have been the one with John Belushi in his COLLEGE sweater, a poster of Bob Marley smoking... More >>

Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination Science Museum Of Minnesota	Daily from Thu., June 12 until Sun., August 24	Downtown St. Paul	Museums
There is only one thing you need to know about the traveling exhibit "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination": There will be a real, functional hovercraft, and visitors can sit on it. And not too far away, the prop of Luke Skywalker's landspeeder will also be there. It's a perfect example... More >>

Statements: Beuys, Flavin, Judd Walker Art Center	Daily from Thu., May 15 until Sun., July 12	Downtown Minneapolis	Museums
At first glance, it might be hard to find a common thread between these three artists, other than hastily applying a "Minimalism" tag to their work or noting that the bulk of their work came out of the 1960s and '70s. Joseph Bueys often worked with felt and manipulated found objects,... More >>

The Lost Empire: Photographer to the Tsar The Museum Of Russian Art	Daily from Mon., May 5 until Wed., October 1	South Minneapolis	Museums
If there is one thing to be said about Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, it's that he was ambitious. He was a chemist and photographer who merged his passions by designing a camera and method to view black-and-white negatives in color. At the beginning of the 20th century, he took... More >>

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Altered Esthetics	Daily from Thu., July 31 until Sat., August 30	North & Northeast Minneapolis	Galleries
It's true that the revolution may not be televised, but I suspect it will be well-documented nonetheless. Much like the sentiments captured in the song by Gil Scott-Heron of the same name, actual shifts in civil rights movements, both locally and globally, often occur in pavement cracks too... More >>

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69 Cents Bogart's Place	Wed., August 20, 9:30pm	Suburbs	Music

A Night on COLORx The Varsity Theater	Wed., August 20, 6:45pm	North & Northeast Minneapolis	Music

Adrianne; Brianna Lane; Betsy Ade Cabooze	Wed., August 20, 8:00pm	Downtown Minneapolis

Atlantis Quartet Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant	Wed., August 20, 7:00pm	Downtown Minneapolis	Music

Bernie King Kitty Cat Klub	Wed., August 20	North & Northeast Minneapolis	Music

Cadillac Kolstad & the Flats Lee's Liquor Lounge	Wed., August 20, 8:00pm	Downtown Minneapolis	Music

Condos$; Gold Stasiu's	Wed., August 20, 9:00pm	North & Northeast Minneapolis	Music

Dave Karr Quartet Artists' Quarter	Wed., August 20, 9:00pm	Downtown St. Paul	Music

DJ Nikoless King & I Thai	Wed., August 20	Downtown Minneapolis	Music