Ludwig van Beethoven

TU Dance

James Sewell Ballet

Does classical music at transit stations really help deter crime?

In an effort to reduce crime, Metro Transit staff now pipes in classical music at the Lake St. LRT station.​Does playing classical music at busy transit stations really help deter crime?Some of you may remember when classical music played from speakers above the bustling Block E bus stop years ago ... More >>

Philip Glass at the Dakota, 4/6/11

"An evening with Philip Glass... Just an evening?!"

DeVotchKa's Nick Urata talks romance and his band's European influences

​DeVotchKa's European influence is abundant throughout all of their music, but one thing stands out with their recent album, 100 Lovers: Romance. Not the kind of romance that initially comes to mind; I'm not talking roses and rainbows, puppies and poppy-seed muffins. The type of romance that em ... More >>

Children's Theatre Company's "Bartholmew Cubbins" evokes childhood (and adult) cool

This design isn't as spikily abstract as Dr. Seuss . . . by the show at CTC is​ There is a passage in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf when the novel's protagonist reaches such a state of jaded cultivation that a musical passage by his hero Beethoven suddenly sounds trite and pat. It happens to all of ... More >>

Ratatat at First Avenue, 9/11/10

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Shapiro & Smith Dance: Women and Men

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Eddie Griffin

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Beethoven's 6th Symphony tonight at Orchestra Hall

Put your Grizzly Bear CD on pause and get some culture up in you.

Joshua Redman

Put your Grizzly Bear CD on pause and get some culture up in you.

James Sewell Ballet: Ballet Works Project

Put your Grizzly Bear CD on pause and get some culture up in you.

Manny's attempts to raise the steaks—er, stakes

Legendary steakhouse now serving breakfast, lunch

My Top 20 music videos of all time

Legendary steakhouse now serving breakfast, lunch

Bonerama

Legendary steakhouse now serving breakfast, lunch

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth with Paranoid Park

A masterful work on a shoestring budget

Classic Stoner Behavior

A masterful work on a shoestring budget

Barefoot and Pregnant

The food artist of the year is clear: Shepherd's Way Farms makes a glorious art of cheese, and survival

Top 50 CDs from 2006

The food artist of the year is clear: Shepherd's Way Farms makes a glorious art of cheese, and survival

Quote Unquote

Homages, paraphrases, and glorious messes from Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins

Altering ELO's Eden

Electric Light Orchestra reissues deliver—and dilute—paradise

8/24 Morning Communiqué

Electric Light Orchestra reissues deliver—and dilute—paradise

"Something about that song haunts you"

Electric Light Orchestra reissues deliver—and dilute—paradise

There's a Riot Goin' On

Electric Light Orchestra reissues deliver—and dilute—paradise

Sweet Sixteen

Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

Free Beethoven

Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

Free Will Astrology

Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

Free Will Astrology

Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

The End Of The Affair

Liv Ullmann talks about finishing her 'marriage' with Ingmar Bergman

The E Street Shuffle

Shapiro & Smith Dance creates a working-class collage with help from Springsteen

If I Were a Carpenter

Alyn Silberstein has built the walls of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Now he's hanging his work on them.

I Was a Teenage Rock Star

Alyn Silberstein has built the walls of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Now he's hanging his work on them.

Invisible Cities

An open zine collects the manifestoes of street poets, single dads, and itinerant academicians

Zombie Jamboree

Neo-retroists Clinic and the Strokes raid the graves of punkers past

The Greatest Shows on Earth

Uzbek beauties! Swedish peaceniks! Iranian mummies! A guide to the high-wire act otherwise known as the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival.

An Encyclopedia of Little Abominations

Emily Carter's flirtation with drugs led her from Park Avenue to a bad marriage with the festering streets of New York's Alphabet City. Now, in a collection of stories, Carter recalls the ABCs of addiction--and spells out the terms of a new life in Minnea

Rhyme out of joint

Rising rap star Slug is a master at putting words in order. Now why won't his life fall into place?

Sound Check

Rising rap star Slug is a master at putting words in order. Now why won't his life fall into place?

Taking Care of Business

Nurse-turned-actor-turned-director Bonnie Hunt brings her benevolent touch to Return to Me

Starting Over Fresh

Moshen Makhmalbaf's euphoric cinema reaffirms the basic beauty of life

Charlie Burton: One Man’s Trash

Moshen Makhmalbaf's euphoric cinema reaffirms the basic beauty of life

The Indestructible Beat

South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim found a mentor in Duke Ellington, a fan in Mandela, a community in American free jazz, and a muse in his once-lost country

Ken Lonnquist: The Fifth Beatle

The Fab Four--in one--of children's music

Anne Rice: Violin

The Fab Four--in one--of children's music

New Music America

Plymouth Music Series' Phillip Brunelle

Kids on the Block

How the classical music industry devours its young

Hum Job

How the classical music industry devours its young

Rach and Roll

How the classical music industry devours its young

JAZZ NOTES '96

How the classical music industry devours its young

Book Roundup

How the classical music industry devours its young