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Whole Music Club announces line-up for Making Music's ninth season

The storied music discussion series is an outstanding smorgasbord of local and national talent, and the 2009 line-up continues the tradition into a ninth season.

Bizarre "Siren" buzzes at The Walker

Just a hair from obnoxious, the room hummed simultaneously as if warning the entire state of a severe storm's approach.

Walker Art Center to cut $1.1 million from budget

Do you feel guilty about going on Free Thursdays now and not making a donation? Probably.

Making Music: Black Blondie

Do you feel guilty about going on Free Thursdays now and not making a donation? Probably.

Choreographers' Evening

Do you feel guilty about going on Free Thursdays now and not making a donation? Probably.

Momentum: New Dance Works

Do you feel guilty about going on Free Thursdays now and not making a donation? Probably.

An Endless Summer of Cinema

The season's best film festivals and events

Walker On the Green: Artist Designed Miniature Golf

The season's best film festivals and events

What the hell does the Walker addition look like?

A City Pages contest

Fall Film Events

A City Pages contest

Good Enough

20.21, the Walker's hotly anticipated Wolfgang Puck restaurant, is very good in many ways, but not great

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.

About Face

"Changing the Guard" reflects the new British cinema's turn toward the personal and the political

Dependent Children

Two American indie films, Broken Vessels and Restaurant, show adults behaving badly

Steeplejack says No mas

Two American indie films, Broken Vessels and Restaurant, show adults behaving badly

Experimental Film, pre-Nike

Two American indie films, Broken Vessels and Restaurant, show adults behaving badly

Why Art Sucks: 57 Cultures and Nothing On

The local art scene has turned into a refuge for the creatively challenged.

Spoon and cherry to be reuinited Friday

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Fantastic Fourth

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

The Twin Cities are teeming with artful events this autumn

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

The Twin Cities are teeming with artful events this autumn

Be inspired by everything from an anime festival to a film noir microcinema

Low announce select dates for unique project

The minimalist rockers' newest tour is a collaboration with dance choreographer Morgan Thorson.

Astra Taylor's Examined Life screening tonight at Walker

Check out the trailer and other video from the film screening tonight at the Walker.

Múm, Sin Fan Bous perform on this week's MPLS.TV

Watch an exclusive performance by the renowned Icelandic group and their tourmates.

Wall-to-Walker

Watch an exclusive performance by the renowned Icelandic group and their tourmates.

After Hours Preview Party: Abstract Resistance

Watch an exclusive performance by the renowned Icelandic group and their tourmates.

Movies & Music in Loring Park on hiatus for 2010

​We just received an update from the Walker Art Center announcing its summer events, and the release came with this surprising twist: "Due to the density of programming being organized by the Walker, Music & Movies in Loring Park will take a hiatus this summer." For those who live near Loring ... More >>

Rock the Garden time-lapse: 48 hours in 2 minutes

The Walker Art Center just posted an amazing time-lapse video of the 48 hours of set-up, production, and tear down at this past weekend's Rock the Garden festival, and the result is mesmerizing. It's a quick and captivating representation of just how much work goes into putting together such a massi ... More >>

Video: Sharon Jones in action at Rock the Garden 2010

Photo by Nick Vlcek​Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings were easily our favorite act at this year's Rock the Garden, and looking back at this footage of her performance, it's easy to see why she won us over so quickly. Check out the clip of Ms. Jones and Co. playing "Got to Be the Way It Is" below, and ... More >>

The Walker's Teen Arts Council talks about Open Exposure

photo via the Walker Art Center​This Sunday the Walker Art Center's Teen Arts Council is hosting Open Exposure, an all-day mini-festival taking place on the Walker's green grounds. Featuring Eyedea & Abilities, Tapes 'n Tapes, Total Babe and three high school bands hand-picked by the Council o ... More >>

Walker Art Center divvies up curatorial duties 50/50

Collection Walker Art Center Miriam and Erwin Kelen Acquisition Fund for Drawings, 2005 Copyright retained by the artist Laylah Ali, "Untitled", 2005​Everyone is choosing sides lately: Team Coco, Team Edward, Team Jacob. At the Walker Art Center, chief curator Darsie Alexander has decided to ... More >>

Wants vs. Needs, mnartists.org Field Day: Slideshows from the weekend

Photo by Kevin O'Meara​The weather this weekend was sweltering. While many of us crashed at the lake or sat in front of a fan with a cold brew, others more ambitiously ventured around town in search of something cooler than mere air conditioning.

Open Field picnic at Walker Art Center

Walker Art Center​Picnicking days are coming to a close, but here's one of your last opportunities: Walker Art's Open Field is hosting a picnic Friday, September 3, from 6 to 8 p.m.  This year they've added a grill to the sculpture garden and smartly stocked it with food, beer, wine, and ma ... More >>

Student Open House: Street Level

Walker Art Center​Picnicking days are coming to a close, but here's one of your last opportunities: Walker Art's Open Field is hosting a picnic Friday, September 3, from 6 to 8 p.m.  This year they've added a grill to the sculpture garden and smartly stocked it with food, beer, wine, and ma ... More >>

'Dark Matters' brings surreal puppetry to the Walker

​The first piece in the Walker Art Center's Adventures in New Puppetry series is going to be a tough act to follow. This weekend, dancer and choreographer Crystal Pite and her company Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM will perform a piece that "explores the idea of undetectable forces at work in cosmolo ... More >>

Show Us Your Face!

​The first piece in the Walker Art Center's Adventures in New Puppetry series is going to be a tough act to follow. This weekend, dancer and choreographer Crystal Pite and her company Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM will perform a piece that "explores the idea of undetectable forces at work in cosmolo ... More >>

Betsy Ruth Byers: Elsewhere

​The first piece in the Walker Art Center's Adventures in New Puppetry series is going to be a tough act to follow. This weekend, dancer and choreographer Crystal Pite and her company Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM will perform a piece that "explores the idea of undetectable forces at work in cosmolo ... More >>

The Spectacular of Vernacular

​The first piece in the Walker Art Center's Adventures in New Puppetry series is going to be a tough act to follow. This weekend, dancer and choreographer Crystal Pite and her company Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM will perform a piece that "explores the idea of undetectable forces at work in cosmolo ... More >>

Toy Theatre After Dark

​The first piece in the Walker Art Center's Adventures in New Puppetry series is going to be a tough act to follow. This weekend, dancer and choreographer Crystal Pite and her company Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM will perform a piece that "explores the idea of undetectable forces at work in cosmolo ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: Slightly Stoopid, Tex Pistols, Sugarland, R. Kelly

​"I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band."- Joey Ramone

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870

​"I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band."- Joey Ramone

Local Jewelry Mart

​"I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band."- Joey Ramone