Wednesday news and reviews
Art
Michael Gaughan: 100 Creatives
While some artists find creativity in dark places, others take on projects with a joy that is instantly contagious. Local illustrator and performer Michael Gaughan definitely belongs in the latter category.
- Jessica Armbruster, City Pages
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Kristina Perkins shows photographs from her bus tour of the U.S.
With the help of donations from friends and family, as well as her own money, Perkins bought a bus ticket for $430 and travelled to 37 states, taking over 4,000 photographs along the way.
- Sheila Regan, City Pages
Books
Picoult, known for her social-issue themes, pits fundamentalists against a lesbian couple in this novel about the rights of gay parents.
- CYNTHIA DICKISON, Star Tribune
Young Austin, Minn., author finds fame -- and fortune -- publishing her work online
Amanda Hocking, 26, has enjoyed sudden success, earning somewhere between $1.4 million and $2 million, she says
- Tad Vezner, Pioneer Press
Dance
Day of Irish Dance at Landmark Center
St. Patrick's day is close upon us, and for anyone looking for more than a kiss and some green beer, St. Paul's Landmark Center will be thumping with the sounds of Irish music and dancing.
- Coco Mault, City Pages
Movies
Out of the past: 'Rango' and 'Take Me Home Tonight'
A look at the 'acid western' and '80s romantic comedies.
- Max Sparber, MinnPost.com
Music
Lady Gaga dumps Target over anti-gay donations
Well, that didn't last long.
- Andrea Swensson, City Pages
Bob Dylan gets the green light to play China
After being barred from performing in China by the Ministry of Culture last year for unknown reasons, Bob Dylan has received the go-ahead to perform two dates in April.
- Andrea Swensson, City Pages
Michael Jackson headed to Target Center (sort of)
Cirque du Solei is bringing the late singer's memory out on the road in "The Immortal Tour."
- CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Star Tribune
Mike Starr of Alice in Chains dead at 44Starr had been publicly battling with drug addiction for the past few years.
- Andrea Swensson, City Pages
Stage
An effectively campy, creepy "Cabaret" from Frank Theatre
A seductive evening at the Kit Kat Club is provided by Frank Theatre's production of Cabaret.
- Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet
Dido thwarted by the madness of mythic love
For all its virtues, Theatre Pro Rata's Dido, Queen of Carthage proves too inconsistent to build the tension needed for the play's heartrending final act.
- Brad Richason, Examiner.com