Medina

MSPIFF 2012: Reviews

Headshot, Unforgivable, Natural Selection, and more

Ted Nugent at Medina Entertainment Center, 8/7/11

Photos by Nikki Miller​Ted Nugent August 7, 2011 Medina Entertainment Center Ted Nugent's incantations are amusing, even charming, the first, second, third, even fourth go-round. But by the end, for fuck's sake. It's like listening to your drunk uncle complain about your aunt's bad cooking fo ... More >>

Gayngs at Coachella, Nikki Sixx phones it in at the Fitz, and more notes from the weekend

Photos by Denis Jeong Plaster​April is continuing to roar by us at a steady clip, and this past weekend our local scene was so bustling that we had to export some of our musicians out to Indio, California before the whole town overflowed.

Cinderella at the Medina Entertainment Center, 4/16/11

Photos by Nikki Miller​Cinderella April 16, 2011 Medina Entertainment Center I have zero nostalgia for this band. Not an ounce. The exposure I had to Cinderella's era of music - hair metal I guess they call it? - was by way of my cousin Shawn. I think she drove an Olds Toronado and had a copy ... More >>

Dwight Yoakam, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Justin Townes Earle and more this four-day weekend

​Four day weekend? Totally! Just call into work on Monday and Tuesday! Why? Because Justin Townes Earle is playing First Avenue on Monday! And you know you wanna get ass-drunk for that show. After all, he'll probably be, right?

M.anifest and Justin Schell reflect on their trip to Ghana and forthcoming documentary

Photo by B FRESH​After returning home from a month-long adventure in Ghana (and being featured in City Page's Year in Music review) filmmaker Justin Schell and artist M.anifest sat down with Gimme Noise to discuss the impact of their experiences, life-changing interactions with M.anifest's grandfa ... More >>

Best Concerts of 2010

​From beginning to end, 2010 has kept us busy running from venue to venue in pursuit of some phenomenal live music. Gimme Noise's team of writers and photographers fanned out across the Twin Cities to catch as many shows as we could, and each of us ended up with our own diverse and distinctive lis ... More >>

Best Country Shows of 2010

​Given our proximity to an abundance of casino venues, the popularity of state and county fairs, big summer festivals in every neck of the woods (and on lakes and in fields), and the recent influx of urban and suburban Western-themed bars, it's no surprise we've seen plenty of great country ac ... More >>

Denny Hecker and Christi Rowan's supposed wedding crashed by U.S. Marshals

Nice day for a white collar crime wedding.​Talk about your modern romance. Yesterday, Denny Hecker had a meeting with his lawyers at the U.S. Attorney's offices in Minneapolis, when there was a knock on the door. It was Rev. Peter Geisendorfer-Lindgren, the pastor who has been helping Hecker ... More >>

Christi Rowan battles eviction from Hecker's McSchloss

Denny Hecker and Christi Rowan: Money changes everything.​Christi Rowan, who once got to share in all manner of Denny Hecker's bling as his live-in girlfriend, is now battling eviction from his stately McMansion out in Medina. The former auto dealer magnate, meanwhile, awaits sentencing on fe ... More >>

Don Williams, Crystal Gayle to play this weekend

​For my 30th birthday weekend, I plan to do what any 60-year-old worth their weight in mashed potatoes would do. While my friends attend underground shows and record store appearances with the rest of the children of the baby boom and beyond, I will be squirming in my seat with excitement over ... More >>

Red Pens, Danzig and more

​For my 30th birthday weekend, I plan to do what any 60-year-old worth their weight in mashed potatoes would do. While my friends attend underground shows and record store appearances with the rest of the children of the baby boom and beyond, I will be squirming in my seat with excitement over ... More >>

Forbes 400 list includes six Minnesota tycoons this year

Whitney MacMillan has more money than you do. A lot more.​When it comes to the really, really rich folks, few can touch the likes the Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder is now worth a mind-boggling $54 billion, according to the latest Forbes 400 list But here in Minnesota we have some bona fid ... More >>

Rosanne Cash, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to play Fair for free

Photo by Nikki MillerNitty Gritty Dirt Band at the Medina, March 2010​Country music fans possessing abundant wealth - be sure to check out Tim McGraw (Saturday 8/28 7:30, $37-67) and Carrie Underwood (Tuesday 8/31 7:30, $39-59), both playing the Grandstand during the initial days of the State Fair ... More >>

Denny Hecker requests vacation trip. Forget it, judge says

A judge calls Denny Hecker a flight risk​Poor Denny Hecker. His auto empire's kaput. The guy's in bankruptcy up to his eyeballs and his toys are all gone. The feds are coming after him on some major league fraud charges. He wears a court-ordrered tracking device around his ankle. And now h ... More >>

30th Annual Hamel Rodeo

A judge calls Denny Hecker a flight risk​Poor Denny Hecker. His auto empire's kaput. The guy's in bankruptcy up to his eyeballs and his toys are all gone. The feds are coming after him on some major league fraud charges. He wears a court-ordrered tracking device around his ankle. And now h ... More >>

Denny Hecker's 'very close friends' ride to the rescue

​The flat panel televisions, the furniture, the pool and ping pong tables that almost got carted away to help pay off Denny Hecker's creditors? They'll get the cash instead, thanks to some unnamed friends with $15,000 worth of expendable income who came forward with the cash at the last minute ... More >>

Christi Rowan will likely testify against Denny Hecker

​Failed auto dealer Denny Hecker's girlfriend, Christi Rowan, pleaded guilty to bankruptcy and fraud charges Tuesday afternoon in federal court. She admitted she lied under oath in Hecker's $767 million bankruptcy case about earning more than $150,000 a year. She also admitted lying about he ... More >>

Christi Rowan may hear from U.S. Marshals

​Denny Hecker's girlfriend, Christi Rowan, has evidently been making life hard for the court-appointeed trustee in his $767 million bankruptcy case. Court documents say she's not allowing the trustee's lawyer and an auctioneer into the couple's Medina estate. They're looking for furniture, a ... More >>

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band put the fun in funerals in Medina

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band hearken back to a time when folk/country rock was pouring out of California and everyone was covering everyone else and especially covering Dylan.

Denny Hecker stole from his kids to pay for mansion during bankruptcy

Hecker raided his children's trust funds with the help of his former in-law.

Minneapolis skyway can be yours for just $50,000 cash

Plus: Unibrow bandit strikes with furrowed fierceness

Delbert McClinton

Plus: Unibrow bandit strikes with furrowed fierceness

The English Beat, Solid Gold, and more

Plus: Unibrow bandit strikes with furrowed fierceness

Five for February: Country acts comin' our way

Nepotism and lady beer guts: three acts to see if you've got nothin' better goin', and two not to miss.

Readers respond to "The Sound and the Fury"

Nepotism and lady beer guts: three acts to see if you've got nothin' better goin', and two not to miss.

Hamel Rodeo

Nepotism and lady beer guts: three acts to see if you've got nothin' better goin', and two not to miss.

Readers respond to "The Men in Red"

Nepotism and lady beer guts: three acts to see if you've got nothin' better goin', and two not to miss.

Bloody Monday hits Minnesota too

To Swerve and Protect

8/2 Morning Communiqué

The Ice Man

Scott Romfo suffered the lowest recorded body temperature and lived to tell about it

West Africa Social Club

Orchestra Baobab bring Seventies Senegal to modern America

Better Days

They went through hell in Mogadishu. But for 17-year-old Mohamed Abdullahi and other Somali immigrants, in Minneapolis it's still an uphill climb.

N'Dour Endures

A world-music star from 1970s Senegal finds his place in the age of hip hop

Like a Prayer

How the power of faith is fueling the revitalization of Catholic education

A Storm On The Prairie

More than any other group, the Posse Comitatus sounded the call for revolution in farm country.

Slicing the Forest

More than any other group, the Posse Comitatus sounded the call for revolution in farm country.