Greenwich Village

Twin Cities Hip-Hop Awards, Father You See Queen, and more

David Bromberg Quartet

Dawes, Dylanophilia, and the Twin Cities' love affair with touchy-feely folk rock

Photo by Kevin Hays​L.A. Americana band Dawes are so cavalier about their draw in the Twin Cities that they announced their plans to play a New Year's Eve show at the Varsity before they even rolled into town to perform their sold-out show at First Avenue this Friday -- and in his interview with C ... More >>

Coen brothers plan film on '60s folk scene

​This year was another critical success for the Coen brothers as their remake of True Grit received Oscar nominations and solid reviews from critics. But the duo never rest for long between hits. Variety recently announced that their next project will be a retro piece exploring the '60s folk sc ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Paul Simon, Zola Jesus, and more

​This year was another critical success for the Coen brothers as their remake of True Grit received Oscar nominations and solid reviews from critics. But the duo never rest for long between hits. Variety recently announced that their next project will be a retro piece exploring the '60s folk sc ... More >>

Tom Paxton, Janis Ian

​This year was another critical success for the Coen brothers as their remake of True Grit received Oscar nominations and solid reviews from critics. But the duo never rest for long between hits. Variety recently announced that their next project will be a retro piece exploring the '60s folk sc ... More >>

Snoop Dogg: Master of time and history

​Snoop Dogg is many things: actor, coach, writer, husband, father, seminal West Coast rapper, time-traveler, and history alterer. Here now, a small sampling of his exploits through the ages.

Tacita Dean Film Installation

​Snoop Dogg is many things: actor, coach, writer, husband, father, seminal West Coast rapper, time-traveler, and history alterer. Here now, a small sampling of his exploits through the ages.

Jerry Jeff Walker ('Mr. Bojangles') to play Zoo Saturday

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

David Bromberg and Jorma Kaukonen

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

David Grisman & John Sebastian

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

Andrew Bird, Lookbook, No Bird Sing, and more

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

Maria Muldaur's Garden of Joy Jug Band

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

Ghostland Observatory, the Dodos, and more

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

Steve Earle

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

Pinkberry, we don't want 'cha anyway

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

Pinkberry, we don't want 'cha anyway

​In 1965, an Upstate New Yorker turned National Guardsman gone AWOL turned traveling busker turned Greenwich Village folk scenester was thrown in a New Orleans jail for public intoxication, where it came that he... knewaman - Bojangles - and - he'ddance - for... oh, it's only one of the most-playe ... More >>

Karen Dalton

Cotton Eyed Joe

Younger Than That Now

Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

A Beautiful Mind

Minnesota-born Paul Nelson was a '60s folk revival pioneer and a founding father of rock writing

The Case of the Very Large Closet

Comic-strip artist Alison Bechdel draws a messy portrait of her secretive father and the house where he hid

The Wal-Mart Effect: a Q & A with author Charles Fishman

Comic-strip artist Alison Bechdel draws a messy portrait of her secretive father and the house where he hid

A Complete Unknown

Scorsese takes 200 minutes to preserve the mystery of Dylan

Thinking Big

Resilient Impresario Jeremy Walker's Jazz Is Now! Nonet

Kentucky Fried Horse

Leave your family. Throw away your money. And don't worry. You'll never regret having done it.

Northern Exposure

Winnipeg's avant-garde auteur Guy Maddin comes in from the cold

Comforts of Home

A pair of comfort-food cookbooks to make surviving cabin fever season a little easier

Hello, I am a Malaria-Carrying Mosquito

Latter-day beat Anne Waldman goes for blood

Class Action

With 'Justice,' a pair of Twin Cities civil rights lawyers raise the bar for African American filmmaking

The Mouse That Roared

James Lindbloom brings eclectic sounds to his Roaratorio record label

The Gay '40s

A man named Flaming Youth cruised the tearooms, drag weddings hit Lake Minnetonka--and everyone remained cloistered in the closet: An excerpt from Ricardo J. Brown's memoir of gay life in old St. Paul

Lady of the Portrait

Nearly two decades after Alice Neel's death, her cold-eyed humanism has begun to look revolutionary

The Best Years of Our Lives

They love their highballs and hate their wives: The miserable men of Richard Yates

Elegiac Feelings

Battling beat Gregory Corso retires to the dead poets society

No Future?

I went to CMJ Music Marathon 2000 and all I got was this lousy tote bag

Tomorrow the Green Grass

I went to CMJ Music Marathon 2000 and all I got was this lousy tote bag

Beyond Borders

A new documentary chronicles the underground life of New York's street book vendors

It's Giuliani Time

The new Shaft signs on to do the mayor's dirty work

Symphony of a City

Suzzy Roche hits the road with a new album about the beauty of staying home

No More Words

Stanley Tucci's Joe Gould's Secret defends its subject's novel approach to nonauthorship

Not Fade Away

Iconic singer-songwriter Eric Andersen leads his own folk revival with You Can't Relive the Past

Artists of the Year

Iconic singer-songwriter Eric Andersen leads his own folk revival with You Can't Relive the Past

Liberating Liberace

The most fabulous musician of all time helps America see queerly in a new video collection

Love Cry

The most fabulous musician of all time helps America see queerly in a new video collection

Out here

Even lesbians can learn to love Long Island.

Girls Against Boys

Rosie the riveting: Crimson #1 exaggerates the obvious with its Rasta-talking vampire

Holiday Box-Set Roundup

Rosie the riveting: Crimson #1 exaggerates the obvious with its Rasta-talking vampire

CULTURE TO GO

Rosie the riveting: Crimson #1 exaggerates the obvious with its Rasta-talking vampire

Lost & Found

Rosie the riveting: Crimson #1 exaggerates the obvious with its Rasta-talking vampire

Party for Your Right to Fight

Rosie the riveting: Crimson #1 exaggerates the obvious with its Rasta-talking vampire