Chris Roberts
This week, dancers moving to a mix of old and still older traditions, a film fest illuminates the lives of people with disabilities, and a play about how childhood memories cloud the future of a family. Read more →
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Archives for October 2013
Marianne Combs
Looking for something different this Halloween? Check out these options: 1.Twin Cities Horror Festival Southern Theater in Minneapolis hosts this second annual festival celebrating all things spooky and scary. 7 p.m. — The Harty Boys (Comedy Suitcase) 8:30 p.m. — Edgar Allan (The Coldharts) 10 p.m. — The Murderer Did It! (Four Humors) 11:30 p.m. Read more →
Looking for a hot literary debate on a cold evening? I’ve got not one, but two events to warm up your Tuesday night.
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Robert Redford’s quiet performance in ‘All is Lost’ left Stephanie Curtis speechless this week: And on the radio, Euan navigates the darkness of “The Counselor,” starring Penelope Cruz, Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt. “Cube Critics” was created and produced by Chris Roberts. “The Cube Critics” theme was written by Chris Roberts Read more →
Productive. “Who the Hell is Richard Manuel?,” is the second full length album from Patches & Gretchen in less than a year, a fact that makes frontwoman Gretchen Seichrist not apologetic or even self conscious, but proud. Since Seichrist started collaborating with songwriting partner and multi-instrumentalist Danny Viper, her malleable troupe of accompanying musicians known Read more →
Molly Bloom
As you may have heard on MPR’s Morning Edition, there was a standing room only crowd inside the Cathedral of St. Paul Thursday night at the inaugural recital for the Cathedral’s two refurbished pipe organs. Over the last three years, those organs were taken completely apart and cleaned, the leather windchests were replaced and more Read more →
On the agenda this week: Four gifted landscape painters, a celebrated composer’s Minnesota premiere and a play that has it all — zombies, cannibals and a Buddhist backbone. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) It wasn’t the martial arts action that Twin Cities arts writer Stephanie Xenos found most interesting about Theater Mu’s Read more →
David Cazares
Foreign Motion, a new jazz fusion ensemble with a diverse and international vibe, plays tonight and Saturday at St. Paul’s Artists’ Quarter. Read more →
“Carrie,” a remake of the 1976 horror classic of the same name starring Julianne Moore and Chloe Moretz, comes to theaters this weekend. Should you see it? Euan Kerr has some opinions on the topic: And on the radio, Stephanie Curtis finds “likable” doesn’t go far enough in “A.C.O.D.,” while Euan is mesmerized by “The Read more →
The hounds dig up Mall mysteries, Latino portraits and Mississippi River songs. Read more →