Cartoons and Animation

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

Le Cirque Rouge: Happy Holidays in the Land of Misfit Toys

Dana Gould

The Itch That Burns

Free First Saturday: Going to the Movies

10 best Beavis and Butthead moments

​Yesterday the news leaped forth from the Internet that everyone's favorite (hopefully not only in retrospect) latchkey simpletons Beavis and Butthead are returning to MTV sometime later this year, part of a top-to-bottom restructuring of MTV's corporate posture. While the news wasn't entirel ... More >>

Dora the Explorer's excellent Tom Emmer adventure

Image: WikipediaDora the Explorer had an excellent adventure with Tom Emmer.​Poor Dora the Explorer. All she wants to do hang with Diego and Boots the Monkey. But instead, the Nick Jr. cartoon character is getting dragged into the Minnesota governor's race. Nick Espinosa, who also goes by the ... More >>

92KQRS Classic Rock Art Show

Mastodon and Dethklok tonight at Roy Wilkins

The grand expression of metal at its most unseriously serious hits the Xcel's second stage tonight.

Simpsons help fight obesity in UK

The UK's Department of Health tackles obesity using the Simpsons as a backdrop.

Paper Toy and Pop Out Show opens this Saturday night

Check out this insane urban paper design show.

Britney Spears

The Popstream: Knifin' Around

The goofiest thing Bjork and Thom Yorke have ever been involved in -- which is saying something.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater: Rooms of Disquiet

Rock Art Show

30 Percent More Commercial

Irony, thy name is Lou Dobbs

Culture Jamming

A bounty of Bootsy tops this week's pop culture picks

Animation

Kruddler CD-Release Show

Culture Jamming

A super Star Wars parody tops this week's pop culture picks

Culture Jamming

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe Easy, 'Simpsons' Fans. The Movie Is Eeeexcellent.

Here are the week's best releases from the pop culture universe

Here are the week's best releases from the pop culture universe

Here are the week's best releases from the pop culture universe

6/9: Morning Communique

DangerDoom: The Mouse and the Mask

Holla, MF Doom, if you're reading this blog...

Pikachu Will Be Killed Tomorrow

Is children's television still the land of the lost?

But what about the animated adventures of Puck?

Gumby turns 50

Ray Harryhausen and the new Sinbad movie

Take The Paxil, Charlie Brown

The miserable children of Charles M. Schulz

Tokyo After Dark

Escaping into the anime of the A.M. on the Cartoon Network

Tough Times in Toon Town

Taking Out the Trash

With Between Garbage and Science, Pierre Hébert drags the icon of art animation into the digital age

Toon In, Turn On

Thirty years later, the Beatles' animated Yellow Submarine is still an excellent way to get high

Disney Gets Deep

The Hi/Lo Country

Family Guy's madcap suburban Dada slips on more serious subjects

In Living Color

Some of television's most animated conversations on race and culture are taking place among cartoon characters

CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Peanuts and the monstrous, infantile reductions of neurosis