Long time radio guy from Scotland, now covering arts for the MPR Culture Unit, and blathering about film on Cube Critics every Friday.
As any fan of the Scottish band Belle and Sebastian might expect, Stuart Murdoch, the band’s central figure, is direct — to a point — about his directorial debut “God Help the Girl.” “These are characters that I love, and people that I know and then bits of my own past, but I am not Read more →
Some 50 people wandered through the door for the first Late Night Lit event at Common Good Books in search of copies of Haruki Murakami’s new novel “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage.” Read more →
Three Mu Performing Arts actors took a searing examination of Chinese-American culture and presented it in Chinese restaurants in towns around Minnesota. It worked. Read more →
Minnesota Orchestra fills out the rest of its 2014-15 performance schedule by revealing the Live at Orchestra Hall series, its holiday concert offerings, and the family concerts. Read more →
A couple of weeks back on Cube Critics, I mentioned to Stephanie the Movie Maven how a film which opened just with sound of waves washing on a beach had transported me. I’ll admit it was a bit of a tease. I wanted to talk about the experience rather than the movie, which wasn’t going to open for a Read more →
The Minnesota Orchestra today released a jam-packed 2014-15 season, its first full season since ending a contentious labor-management struggle. Read more →
It was a big day for announcements at the National Lutheran Choir today: a new season, a new assistant conductor, and a new choral festival which could well become an annual event. Read more →
Liquid Music curator Kate Nordstrum is excited about the third season of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s new music concert series. “These works are all new projects, the vast majority of them created specifically for the series,” said Nordtrum who curates the SPCO’s successful new music program. She described the artists being presented as “powerhouses.” Read more →
Director Richard Ayoade takes on Dostoyevsky’s dark novella about a man confronted by a new work colleague who not only looks just like him, he begins to take over his life. Read more →
Comedian Bill Cosby today cancelled two concerts scheduled for May 31 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Orchestra, which was presenting the shows, said in a release that the cancellations were due to “lower than anticipated ticket sales.” They will be rescheduled at some as yet unspecified date, orchestra officials said. The Cosby shows were Read more →
Euan Kerr