Caroline Palmer

The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

A filmmaker from Minnesota tells the story behind a lost animated masterpiece, plus hits and misses of the fest by our critics

2012 Artists of the Year

From poets and directors to comedians and dancers, the Twin Cities are teeming with creativity

MSPIFF 2012: Reviews

Headshot, Unforgivable, Natural Selection, and more

Artists of the Year 2011

Alan Moore, Louis C.K., Bethany Larson, and more

MSPIFF: The Interrupters, Louder Than a Bomb, and more

Reviews from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

Alec Soth, Kevin Kramp, Robyn, and more: Artists of the year

Influential artists of 2010

Time of the Comet and The Revenant: Bonus MSPIFF reviews

MSPIFF: Your passport to 58 countries via 145 films

Festival kicks off its 28th year in the Twin Cities

Aby Wolf, K'naan, and P.O.S. top Artists of the Year '09

Paying homage to those who speak the language of creativity

Fringe Festival 2009: Robots, penguins, and bodily urges

Minneapolis tradition serves up 11 days packed with theater performances: Get your reviews here

MSPIFF: Reviews of the rest

Il Divo glitters among duller bulbs like The Girl From Monaco, Just Another Love Story

Justin Jones

A Guide to the 2008 Fringe Festival

Underpants, Shakespeare, and Giant Squirrels

Breakfast of Champions 7/25: I Want the Moon, Redux

Breakfast of Champions 7/18: Who whupped Batman's ass?

Southern's Bartlett, 30-year arts veteran, ousted: outcry ensues

Under the Sky: Outdoor dance at the lake reviewed by Caroline Palmer

Breakfast of Champions 5/8: Reasoned Dialogue in the Polis

Flicks to Pick

A guide for taking the guesswork out of MSPIFF

Artists of the Year

We identify the most interesting, influential and inimitable artists of 2007.

Artists of the Year

The Body Cartography Project

Artists of the Year

The Show Must Go On... and On... and On

Not Reviewed Here: Another 140 Fringe Plays. Sorry.

Your M-SPIFF 12-Pack

A dozen discerning film fest picks

Top 10 Films of 2005 (plus many more)

Live Nude Theater Cheap Cheap Cheap!

(Okay, a few of the performers in the nation's biggest Fringe Festival aren't nude. but a lot of them are.)

Film Fest Coverage II: The Sequel

The M-SPIFF's second week brings 'The World' and more

Artists of the Year

12 Rods, Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Quentin Tarantino, Garrison Keillor, MF Doom, Lawrence Lessig, Randi Rhodes...

Fringe Festival Reviews

The Movie Lovers

The world makes out all right at the International Film Festival

Artists of the Year

Iraq. SARS. Jay Leno, Still on television practically every night. Yeah, 2003 was about as much fun as a social disease.

Artists of the Year

Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun

Audiences chew on a film-fest twofer: Central Standard's indie films and Sound Unseen's musical movies

City of Sideshows

Amid all the carnival barking of the fringe, we tell you which tent shows deserve your ten bucks

Artists of the Year

"Don't Ever Say (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Onstage Again!"

Audiences storm the stage. Actors suffer gastrointestinal distress. Backstage confessions of theater gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Do That to Me One More Time

Once is never enough: Try another tryst with world cinema in week two of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival

It's a Wrap

The Mpls/St. Paul International Film Festival swaddles the Cities in cinema

Artists of the Year

Framed, penned, screened, danced, sung, shot, delivered: City Pages lauds the artistic creations of 1999

Next Stop, Obscurity

The master of hats. The scrivener of sheet music. The literary litigator. Seven people whose contributions to the arts win them utter invisibility.

Safety in Numbers

Nymphomaniacal roommates! Meta-Willy Lomans! Dancing Canadians! City Pages reports from the biggest, baddest Minnesota Fringe Festival to date

Haunting the House

Artists of the Year

Keeping the Faith

U Film Society's Jewish Film Festival delivers a celluloid shalom for the age of kabala chic

Naked Lunch

At the Fringes

Siege Mentality

Life Is Short, Art Is Long: Nathan Christopher, Allison Moore, and the Skewed Visions company act out their alienation in a site-specific installation.

Artists Of The Year

We list the best of the best of 1997.

Artists Of The Year

Artists of the Year

Makers who mattered in 1995