Creative Electric

Czeslaw's Loop: The Final Opus

Czeslaw's Loop unites dozens of local musicians for massive riverside Art-A-Whirl project

​What started as an annual tradition during Art-A-Whirl has now transformed into a project of monumental proportions. Previously known as the Boat Project, which would invite local noise and experimental rock bands to play on the roof of a houseboat and out in the middle of the Mississippi River b ... More >>

Lyn-Lake Street Fest, Coney Island art: Freeloader Friday

​(This guy escaped from Coney Island) This week we have gallery show homage to Coney Island, a benefit for MN Fashion, and free music at the Triple Rock.

Art-A-Whirl: The Slow Mirror and the Metronome

Photo: Ted SalzmanSome of the heads behind the project​Art-A-Whirl quickly approaches, our cities' creatives plotting their innumerable takeovers of Nordeast, that part of Minneapolis where successful artists from Uptown seem to move. For our part, we would like to direct you to two can't-miss sho ... More >>

Throwback and Summer Video Retrospective

Photo: Ted SalzmanSome of the heads behind the project​Art-A-Whirl quickly approaches, our cities' creatives plotting their innumerable takeovers of Nordeast, that part of Minneapolis where successful artists from Uptown seem to move. For our part, we would like to direct you to two can't-miss sho ... More >>

Flyer of the Week: Creative Electric Studios

This week's flyer is for a show happening during Art-A-Whirl.

SS Infinite Regress

This week's flyer is for a show happening during Art-A-Whirl.

Local Music Yearbook '06

Prince went to Vegas. Smokers went to Maplewood. Tapes 'N Tapes went to the moon. And sometime after the last zombie dance party got busted, we wrote it all down for you.

I'd Stay Away from That There Shotgun Shack

Artist Chris Larson and his deeply weird cabin

Peeing in Lake Wobegon

The Lit 6 crew are housemates without a house, radio stars without a station. And that's just the way they like it.

The Beautiful Ones

A bar act that croons Bob Seger while wearing pink tutus? Better make that a double.

The best of K Records

A bar act that croons Bob Seger while wearing pink tutus? Better make that a double.

50 comics in a box

A bar act that croons Bob Seger while wearing pink tutus? Better make that a double.

Are You Okay?

Zak Sally turns his darkest thoughts into visceral, elliptically personal comics--but he doesn't really want to talk about it

The Grappler

Inspired by his father’s pro wrestling career, photographer and curator Karl Raschke struggles to blur real and fake, introspection and spectacle

Flush with Praise

Inspired by his father’s pro wrestling career, photographer and curator Karl Raschke struggles to blur real and fake, introspection and spectacle

Rock, Scissors, Paper

Squad19's concert posters find a place on gallery walls--if only they can stay there

View Master

Squad19's concert posters find a place on gallery walls--if only they can stay there

Bless The Beasts And The Road Kill

The Minnesota association of rogue taxidermists unearths an exquisite corpse

Amazing Adventures in Pen and Ink

Two hundred drawings. Twenty-four hours. A dozen artists. One international cartoonist conspiracy.