Picture it: Minneapolis, 2009. Food trucks saturated the streets of most major cities, but local municipal c...]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/restaurants/the-twin-cities-new-fleet-of-food-trucks/ http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/news/chaotic-dfl-convention-fails-to-endorse-a-mayoral-candidate/ When nearly 1,400 delegates gathered inside the Minneapolis Convention Center auditorium on Saturday morning, six candidates for mayor of Minneapolis were on the ballot for DFL endorsement: former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew; City Council Members Betsy Hodges, Gary Schiff, and Don Sa...]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/news/chaotic-dfl-convention-fails-to-endorse-a-mayoral-candidate/ http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/feature/your-guide-to-10-thousand-sounds-festival/ When City Pages set out to launch a new music festival in downtown Minneapolis — one that was chic, dynamic, and vibrant — we picked a name to reflect that: 10 Thousand Sounds. After all, the Land of 10,000 Lakes is as fertile in arts and culture as it is in natural resources.

But Green...]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/music/the-goondas-engineer-the-dog-show/ http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/music/in-defense-of-low-s-waltz/ Duluth experimental rockers Low gave one of the most polarizing performances ever to hit Rock the Garden this month. You see, their entire set consisted of a 28-minute version of their 1996 song "Do You Know How to Waltz?" The dirge-y, slow-building track stretched to nearly twice the length foun...]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/music/in-defense-of-low-s-waltz/ http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/arts/war-horse-at-the-orpheum/ War Horse, the National Theatre of Great Britain hit that became a Tony winner, arrives in town with all of the spectacle intact. It's a big, bold production that's at its best when Joey, the puppet horse at the center of the story, is on stage. When we get to the human stories, it becomes...]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/arts/war-horse-at-the-orpheum/ http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/arts/the-brutes-tells-the-story-of-war-s-losers/ They say history is written by the winners, but what of the losers? What of the people and lands and countries ground down by the forces of war and history?

In Theatre Forever's latest piece, we meet a tiny band of folks most definitely on the losing side. Their numbers have been reduced ...]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.citypages.com/2013-06-19/arts/the-brutes-tells-the-story-of-war-s-losers/