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Movies
Vince Vaughn's "Dilemma" has an easy solution: See a different movieThe Dilemma features numerous sports metaphors, so here's one to describe the film itself. Some movies lose like a football team loses, by making a series of mistakes that leave them in poor field position to succeed. This movie, however, loses like a baseball team loses: again and again, Vaughn's character has a chance to make a reasonable decision and salvage the film, but again and again, he strikes out. Eventually, the movie just runs out of innings.
- Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet
Music
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De Waart takes SPCO on tour of favorites
For his second weekend with the Chamber Orchestra, Edo de Waart chose music close to his heart, from Mozart to Adams.
- Larry Fuchsberg, Star Tribune
Natalia Kills on music, film, snow, and nakedness
Natalia Kills, the British pop singer-songwriter-performer-provocateur, is pulling out all the stops to make an impression in the music world--complete with a video series called Love, Kills xx in which Natalia...well, kills.
- Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet
Stage
What Gob Squad gets out of the 'Kitchen'
The British/German troupe riffs on the films of Andy Warhol, including his "Kitchen," to make a statement about permanence and evanescence.
- Graydon Royce
'Gob Squad's Kitchen': 15 minutes of fame, one show at a timeThe piece itself isn't as much a recreation of the obscure film but a meditation on the influence it--and the rest of the 1960s counterculture--have had in the decades since Warhol and his Factory friends decided to make art in their own image.
- Ed Huyck, City Pages