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| Black Crowes; the Black Keys Minnesota State Fair Grandstand | Sat., August 30, 7:30pm | St. Paul (Greater) | |
Always a spine-throttling live act, Akron power duo the Black Keys are touring behind the album of their careers: a multi-hued blues-rock-based song set produced by Gnarls Barkley maestro Danger Mouse, who'd originally asked the Keys to write songs for an album by Ike Turner and collaborated... More >> |
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| Private Dancer (CD-Release) Turf Club | Sat., August 30, 9:00pm | St. Paul (Greater) | |
Somewhere, deep in John Nash's most private journals, lies an arcane equation. It's lost on the layman, but it reduces all the variable thrills of attending a show to the pints of sweat that must be mopped from the stage afterward. In the deepest cloisters of the mathematical community, this is... More >> |
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| Solutions Twin Cities Intermedia Arts | Sat., August 30, 7:30pm | Minneapolis (South) | |
Though politicians may want you to believe that they are the harbingers of change, us regular citizens tend to remain skeptical. Though we often look to our government for change, we know that they hardly corner the market. Tonight, Solutions Volume 3 will feature activists, scientists,... More >> |
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| Spark24 Peavey Plaza | Sat., August 30, 5:00pm | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
Are you up for sustained exposure to the Minneapolis/St. Paul arts scene for 24 straight hours? If so, spark24 is for you. Starting at 5 p.m. on August 30, Peavey Plaza, Orchestra Hall, and over 60 other venues including restaurants, bars—even stores in the downtown Minneapolis... More >> |
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| Civicfest Minneapolis Convention Center |
Sat., August 30, 9:00am-9:00pm more dates/times |
Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
CivicFest is a great, big, sloppy kiss for the executive branch of the federal government. And what better time than during the Republican National Convention? The thorough history of the leaders of the free world is displayed at CivicFest, complete with an exhibit of presidential china through... More >> |
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| Derive 2 Open Eye Figure Theatre | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., August 21 until Sat., August 30, 8:00pm | Minneapolis (South) | |
The Republican National Convention is upon us, so there's no better time to consider Samuel Beckett's short play What Where, which references torture and unexplained disappearances. For Dérive 2, Flaneur Productions has invited Jim Bovino, Bedlam Theater's John Bueche, HIJACK, and the... More >> |
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| Jimmy Pardo Acme Comedy Co. |
Daily from Tue., August 26 until Sat., August 30, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
It's an election year, but comedian Jimmy Pardo can't seem to get into it. "I donated money to Obama's camp so I could get a free bumper sticker for my car," he says. "That's about as political as I've gotten." Though he's done a few jokes on the subject, his heart just isn't in it. "Maybe I'm... More >> |
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| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Altered Esthetics | Daily from Thu., July 31 until Sat., August 30 | Minneapolis (North & Northeast) | |
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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| Too Much Love First Avenue | Every week Saturday, 10:00pm | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
Few people know more about dance music and its history in Minneapolis than Dory Kahale, who has more aliases than Cybil if she were a chat-room perv. Known as DJ Apollo (techno), Ralph Laurenn (booty house), Cocaine on Her Dress (indie electro), and now breathing new life into the Dirty... More >> |
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| Before the Teardown Mill City Museum | Daily from Thu., May 8 until Sun., August 31 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
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 >> |
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| Bondage A-Go-Go Ground Zero | Every week Saturday, 10:00pm | Minneapolis (North & Northeast) |
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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 >> |
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| Design For the Other 90% Minneapolis Sculpture Garden | Daily from Sat., May 24 until Sun., September 7 | Suburbs | |
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 >> |
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| From Sportswear to Streetwear The Goldstein Museum Of Design | Daily from Sat., August 16 until Sun., November 2 | St. Paul (Greater) | |
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 >> |
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| Friedlander Minneapolis Institute Of Arts | Daily from Sun., June 29 until Sun., September 14 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
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 >> |
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| Hindsight is Always 20/20 Weisman Art Museum Theatre | Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
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 >> |
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| Hail to the Chief: Images of the American Presidency Minneapolis Institute Of Arts | Daily from Sat., August 2 until Sun., September 21 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
With three concurrent political art shows, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has made itself the epicenter of political expression during the Republican National Convention. The shows all explore the endless ways in which artists past and present have shown support or disapproval for our... More >> |
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| History Room: 20 Years of No Name The Soap Factory | Daily from Sat., April 19 until Sun., October 26 | Minneapolis (North & Northeast) | |
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 >> |
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| Mayumi Amada: Misc Gage Family Art Gallery | Daily from Fri., July 18 until Fri., September 5 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
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 >> |
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| Minnesota Renaissance Festival Renaissance Festival Site |
Mon., September 1, 9:00am-7:00pm more dates/times |
Suburbs | |
Olde tyme Europe wasn't a very happy place, what with pestilence, famine, war, and death joyriding around the continent on a pretty regular basis. Luckily, there were also some entertaining parts: jousting, booze, and theater principal among them. Minnesota's RenFest provides the fun without... More >> |
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| Mike Elko; Ruthann Godollei: Unconventional Wisdom Minneapolis Institute Of Arts | Daily from Fri., August 29 until Sun., October 26 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
With three concurrent political art shows, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has made itself the epicenter of political expression during the Republican National Convention. The shows all explore the endless ways in which artists past and present have shown support or disapproval for our... More >> |
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| 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 | |
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 >> |
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| Minnesota State Fair Minnesota State Fairgrounds |
Daily from Thu., August 21 until Sun., August 31, 6:00am-12:00am more dates/times |
St. Paul (Greater) | |
It's the world's strangest Pavlovian experiment: Place Minnesota residents in the vicinity of massive quantities of manure, claustrophobia-inducing crowds, and spinning Midway rides, and their mouths immediately begin watering for food on a stick. In addition to the old standbys (Machinery... More >> |
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| Poster Offensive 4 Black Dog Coffee And Wine Bar | Daily from Fri., August 15 until Mon., September 15 | St. Paul (Downtown) | |
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 >> |
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| Richard Prince: Spiritual America Walker Art Center | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., March 14 until Sun., September 14 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
Can an artist simultaneously celebrate and critique pop culture? Those familiar with the incredibly varied work of Richard Prince have seen appropriation, pop culture, and cultural criticism battle it out over the span of his 30-year career. His medium of expression varies greatly, from... More >> |
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| Statements: Beuys, Flavin, Judd Walker Art Center | Daily from Thu., May 15 until Sun., July 12 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
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 >> |
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