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Topics > Arts > Cover - Arts |
The cover stories that elevate and make one contemplate - arts. |
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Vive la Chanhassen
Monday 25 June @ 13:51:46 (Read: 11597) |
FILM REVIEW
by ED FELIEN
The revolution is not a dinner party.
—Mao Zedong
With all due respect to Mao Zedong, The Chanhassen Dinner Theatre has turned the revolution of 1832 in Paris into a dinner party and it’s a very satisfactory dinner, a lovely party and a good reading of the revolution.
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Film Festival: Some Recommendations
Wednesday 18 April @ 16:17:05 (Read: 2879) |
by MAX SPARBER
Ghosts of Cite Soleil: A fascinating documentary that provides a breathtakingly intimate look at a particularly grotesque piece of history. Danish director Asger Leth points his camera at two brothers on the streets of Port au Prince, Haiti. The pair shares a crush on a French relief worker, an alarming propensity for violence, and a role in Aristide's secret army, the Chimeres, which translates literally as "the ghosts." This group of armed thugs did Aristide's dirty work in the Haitian ghettos in the months before his ousting, and this documentary takes a look at the way violence is often used as a tool in the real world, and at the scars, both literal and emotional, it leaves in its wake.
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The 25th Annual Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
Wednesday 18 April @ 16:17:20 (Read: 2743) |
By PAUL BACHLEITNER
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival (M-SPIFF) is 25 years old this year! But where's the party?
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Our Favorite Fools
Wednesday 28 March @ 15:09:21 (Read: 5973) |
Pulse writers pick their favorite clowns, comics, pranksters, and holy fools
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Who Do You Love?
Thursday 15 February @ 16:34:36 (Read: 3872) |
10 Pulse writers compose Valentines to the objects of their affection.
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The Christmas You Never Knew
Wednesday 20 December @ 21:18:34 (Read: 2250) |
Every year, far-right talking heads like Bill O’Reilly claim that Christmas is under attack from liberals, going so far last year as to call for boycotts of Sears because they called their catalog “Wish Book Holiday 2005” instead of something Christmas-specific. But just because lefties are an inclusive group doesn’t mean we don’t know how to have fun. Instead of fighting the battle on some semantic shore, this year we’re taking the war to their back yard and making Christmas over in our own wacky, unorthodox image. Join the lunatic fringe, fight the power and deck the halls.
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Christmas Around the World
Wednesday 20 December @ 21:08:55 (Read: 2420) |
 by MAX SPARBER
What’s that fellow doing in the Christmas creche? It’s a popular tradition in Catalonia to include a figure in a manger scene called the Caganer, a merry little fellow made of clay who is squatting in a dark corner and, well, relieving himself — an image believed to represent fertility, but, lately, also an opportunity for a little scatological satire. It is now possible to buy Caganers representing figures as lofty as the Pope and as base as Osama bin Laden, all producing their own surprising Christmas gift.
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Non-traditional Xmas Movies
Wednesday 20 December @ 21:08:59 (Read: 2193) |
 “Die Hard”
Sure, “Die Hard” rewrote the book on how to make an action movie, but it also broke the mold when it comes to Christmas movies. Forget treacly feel-good themes and soft-focus morality: concentrate on the crackling one-liners and the terrific performances by Paul Gleason as Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson and Alan Rickman as ex-terrorist/exceptional thief Hans Gruber.
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Christmas Cocktails
Wednesday 20 December @ 21:09:33 (Read: 2873) |
 by MAX SPARBER
Brandy Blazer
NOTES: Even with the possibility that we won’t see snow this Christmas, December is still chilly in Minnesota, and an ideal time for a hot drink. They don’t get much hotter than the Brandy Blazer, which is actually set on fire. A sweet cocktail with a hint of orange—although not sweet in the buttery nipply, syrupy, powdered sugary style that’s popular among amateur drinkers.
RECIPE: Add the following to an Old Fashioned glass: 2 small (30ml) shots of cognac, 1 sugar cube, an orange twist and a lemon twist. Flambé the mixture, stir well with a long bar spoon, extinguish the flame and strain into a snifter glass. Be cautious
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Fringe Must-Sees: a Pulse guide
Thursday 03 August @ 15:22:57 (Read: 3335) |
 See also:
Your Guide to effective Fringing by Max Sparber
The Visible Fringe by Max Sparber
A Preview of the Festival by Dwight Hobbes
Corncobs, Hotdogs & Other Dirty Secrets: A series of plays by New Orleans' artists Dennis Monn and others that present masturbating commuters, buttermilk biscuits, foul mouthed grandma, tramps, thieves, queers, applebees, american idol, drunks, cornbread, semis, hippie, midwest, redneck, transients, rudolph, Rod Stewart & more... All served up in three hysterical helpings of Americana!
Deviled Eggs: The Four Humours Theatre present what looks to be a very funny tale of an impotent Satan trying to father the apocalypse.
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A preview of the Festival
Thursday 03 August @ 15:23:29 (Read: 2861) |
See also:
Your Guide to effective Fringing by Max Sparber
The Visible Fringe by Max Sparber
Fringe Must-Sees: a Pulse Guide
Considering the determination and creativity she’s applied during her six-year tenure, you have to believe that if Minnesota Fringe Festival executive director Leah Cooper reinvented the wheel, it’d actually wind up being rounder. Not to knock her predecessors, but Cooper has transformed the event from a funky-little-fest-that-could into a juggernaut, and did it without compromising on the art. In fact, she’s increasingly broadened the Fringe’s artistry and steadily got it off life support and on strong financial footing—when’s the last time you heard of art and solvency going hand in hand? She changed spoken-word participation from a novelty act on the Fringe sidelines into Spoken Word Fringe, which has since become an audience magnet. She instituted Teen Fringe, strengthened the Kid Fringe, included previously ignored spaces like Pillsbury House Theatre and In The Heart of the Beast Mask and Puppet Theatre. She’s attracted high-profile spots like Mixed Blood Theatre and Illusion Theater. There’s more, but you get the idea—the woman has no sense of what it is to leave well enough alone and has made the whole project a lot better for it.
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The Visible Fringe
Thursday 03 August @ 15:24:07 (Read: 2934) |
See also:
Your Guide to effective Fringing by Max Sparber
A Preview of the Festival by Dwight Hobbes
Fringe Must-Sees: a Pulse Guide
Longtime Fringe patrons will certainly have noticed by now that the most consistently dazzling creative acts at the Fringe Festival are not always found onstage at any of the festival’s many venues. They’re often found hanging in the lobbies outside. This is the Visual Fringe, a showcase of local fine artists that makes use of the various Fringe locations as a sort of citywide gallery.
The Visible Fringe is organized somewhat differently than the remainder of the Fringe Festival. Shows in the festival are picked by a lottery system, and are entirely unjuried—if you pay your registration fee, you have as much chance as anybody else of getting a slot at the Festival. The Fringe’s fine arts showcase is curated by a small selection panel, including Outsiders and Other Gallery executive director Yuri Arajs, who founded the Visible Fringe.
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200-plus shows, 23 locations, the largest nonjuried arts festival in America
Thursday 03 August @ 15:24:54 (Read: 3053) |
Attending the Fringe Festival is a logistical challenge of mind-boggling complexity. Never fear, intrepid theatergoers. Pulse is on hand to suggest ways to make the most of the 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival.
See also:
The Visible Fringe by Max Sparber
A Preview of the Festival by Dwight Hobbes
Fringe Must-Sees: a Pulse guide
Your guide to effective Fringing
1. Make your plans: Pick up a copy of the Fringe Festival’s program or head on over to the Fringe webpage (FringeFestival.org). Both sources have every single Fringe event listed, with capsule descriptions of all Fringe shows and some helpful additional information, such as the various genres of performance represented at the Festival (dance, musical theater, etc.) and useful warnings (adult subject matter, nudity). Have a pen and paper handy and simply mark off the shows that look interesting—I find it helpful to make one list of shows I absolutely want to see and another of shows that I might potentially like to see. This is a highly idiosyncratic process, based in the unique taste of each Fringegoer (I know of one fellow who always puts shows with nudity or drug use on his “must see” list), and, unless you’re already quite familiar with the local theater scene, you’re probably going to wind up with a much larger list of possibilities than certainties. That’s all right—we’ll detail later how to decide whether an uncertain show is worth checking out.
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A quick and dirty guide to making and distributing digital movies
Wednesday 26 July @ 18:22:06 (Read: 3761) |
 by Max Sparber
At its simplest, all you need to make a digital film is a recording device of some sort, and all you need to distribute it is an internet connection. A rough short movie can be made with the camera itself, by shooting scenes sequentially, but if an aspiring digital filmmaker is going to put together a more polished movie, he or she is going to need some way to edit the raw footage. Fortunately, surprisingly sophisticated editing software is now available for little or no money.
So then, the tools of digital filmmaking, step-by-step:
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Some local digital filmmakers online:
Wednesday 26 July @ 22:23:40 (Read: 3872) |
MINNESOTA STORIES: The bespectacled Chuck Olsen is probably the best-known of Minnesota’s v-loggers, or “video bloggers,” and his Minnesota Stories offers short films about our fair state at the astonishing rate of one per weekday. If there’s an interesting event in the Twin Cities, such as a Rollergirls tournament or the opening of the new Central Library, chances are good that you’ll see Olsen there with his digital camera, and, within a few days, see a deftly edited, dryly humorous short film on the event. Mnstories.com also features short films by other local digital filmmakers, and the web page includes links to a number of local v-logs. Olsen actually has another, more autobiographical collection of short movies on blogumentary.typepad.com, which range from intimate to hilarious to profoundly weird, and are sometimes all three simultaneously.
CHASING WINDMILLS: Daily episodes from the life of a Puerto Rican couple in Minneapolis, played by J.A. del Rosario and Cristina Cordova, who actually are a Puerto Rican couple living in Minneapolis. Although they film each two-to-three minute episode in their apartment, and additional castmembers, when they appear, are played by the couples actual friends, don’t mistake Chasing Windmills for autobiography—the short films are fictional and scripted, and usually quite funny, functioning as a sort of daily comic strip, which is how the filmmakers often describe it.
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How digital video and online distribution is going to change the world
Wednesday 26 July @ 22:23:45 (Read: 3625) |
All right, the world of online digital filmmaking is not much to look at right now.
by Max Sparber
The top three most-viewed films on YouTube, the most popular digital video website, include a six-minute parody of popular dance styles (seen over 29 million times), a music video made to the Pokemon theme song and shot entirely in a teenager’s bedroom (over 14 million viewings), and a professional promotional gimmick consisting of a live-action version of the introductory credits for “The Simpsons” (over 8 million viewings). Browsing randomly through YouTube and similar digital video reveals a nearly infinite number of three-minute video clips of people’s dogs, illegally uploaded segments from “The Daily Show,” Jamaicans dancing an inexplicably popular (and notably spastic) dance called “The Bird Flu” in their living rooms, and other assorted home videos.
It doesn’t seem like the ingredients for a revolution, but then, who would have expected the drunken ravings of a group of expatriate British businessmen in New England taverns to produce a rebellion against King George III?
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Filming the Digital Revolution
Wednesday 26 July @ 22:23:52 (Read: 2755) |
by Max Sparber
On Tuesday, July 18, with very little fanfare, the Walker Art Center offered a roundtable discussion on the subject of low-budget filmmaking. The event was titled “Making Good Film and Television with Almost No Money,” and featured four panelists. The first, Bill Rude, had been responsible for organizing the discussion, and led the conversation. Rude is a filmmaker and teaches summer courses in filmmaking at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His guests were Sean C. Covel & Chris “Doc” Wyatt, who were two of the three producers of “Napoleon Dynamite,” and Ari Fishman, who was a producer for “The Daily Show with John Stewart.”
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Iraqi Voices: a Minneapolis refugee and a Baghdad blogger
Wednesday 26 July @ 15:23:26 (Read: 4867) |
by Lydia Howell
 “Since I opened my eyes in the world, I opened them to bombs and fear and war,” says Yacoub Aljaffery, 25, an Iraqi refugee who’s made Minneapolis his home for the past 10 years. He supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq with good reason. His father, a Shia imam and resistance leader, was murdered by Saddam Hussein’s regime. Mixed Blood Theatre recently hosted the play “Born in Iraq,” co-written and directed by Nestor Amarilla and inspired by Aljaffery’s life.
“Iraq seems to be falling apart at the seams under foreign occupiers and local fanatics,” wrote Riverbend, age 28, on Febuary 23, 2006. She’s become internationally known as the sole woman blogger (real name concealed for her protection) witnessing life under American occupation. British publisher The Feminist Press collected her blog, “Baghdad Burning,” into a book this past spring. (RiverBendBlog.blogspot.com)
I saw one of the last performances of “Born in Iraq” (scheduled to have another run in October) and interviewed Aljaffery. Listening to his story confronted me with uneasy realities about life under Saddam before the U.S. invasion.
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PAINTING WITH THE CAMERA
Thursday 18 May @ 10:58:55 (Read: 4541) |
St. Paul resident JoAnn Verburg takes her remarkable photographs to MoMA
by Elaine Klaassen
 We are all angry at our mortality. We don’t like it that our life has a set length to it, AND we don't like it that we can only be our own selves. One of our big challenges in life is to get away from seeing everything through, and with, our own eyes only. The mark of a great artist— in any medium— is the ability to make possible our escape from the confines of our own defining egos and to help us cross over to where we’ve never been—almost as someone else.
When I read “Les Misérables” it changed what I was aware of. I saw architecture, homes, public buildings, streets and parks completely differently. I saw the meaning of design and its relationship to society. I went around for weeks describing everything I saw in Victor Hugo language, as though Victor Hugo was seeing it, not me.
There’s a photographer in St Paul, JoAnn Verburg, who was chosen last fall for a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City—in 2007. Holy MoMA!!! She’s in good company: Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollack (as well as the sculptor Lee Bontecou, the painter Elizabeth Murray and the photographer Lee Friedlander, to name a few). Verburg’s work will be accorded new power and prestige by virtue of being seen in the venerable institution where art energy converges into critical mass. But that’s not why I like her. It’s because she lent me her eyes—like Victor Hugo did.
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May Day—the original blood, sweat and tears of Labor
Wednesday 03 May @ 17:14:15 (Read: 2581) |
 by Ed Felien
The first day in May is celebrated in every country in the world (except America and Canada) as a Workers Holiday. It is meant to recognize the value of labor and give workers one day to articulate their joys and struggles in whatever form they choose. Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, union organizers, radicals and anarchists used this holiday as a platform to agitate for social change on behalf of working people.
As early as the 1860s there was a struggle for the eight hour day. Ten-, 12- and 14-hour days were common for workers. Anarchists were deeply committed to this struggle, and the police and National Guard acting on behalf of business owners were determined to suppress the movement.
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The origins of the May Day Festival
Wednesday 03 May @ 17:14:20 (Read: 3389) |
by Max Sparber
There is a puzzling little horror film that came out of England in 1973 called “The Wicker Man.” The film occasionally pops up on lists of the best horror films ever made, and has attracted a solid cult following, but viewers who turn to it looking for a typical story of monsters and mayhem are generally bewildered. For one thing, but for an extended, anguished climax, the film isn’t particularly frightening. It tells of an irritable and earnestly Christian Scottish police detective, played by Edward Woodward (best knows as television’s “The Equalizer”), who is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a small child on a remote Scottish island. He arrives just as the islanders are preparing for their annual May Day festivities, and he quickly comes to realize that the islanders have reverted back to paganism, directly inspired by Sir James George Frazer’s 1922 history of magic and religion “The Golden Bough.” The island’s teenage girls leap naked through bonfires, the grade schools teach earnest lessons on the phallic symbolism of the May Pole, and the film ends with a disquieting human sacrifice.
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May Day 2006
Wednesday 03 May @ 17:14:29 (Read: 3077) |
In the Heart of the Beast’s May Day Festival: “The Time is Now”
by Nancy Sartor
Weeks before the robins return and the daffodils begin to bloom in Minnesota, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOTB) is busy coordinating its annual May Day parade and ceremony, a unique blend of theater and community activism that takes place the first Sunday in May.
Sandy Spieler is a founding member of HOTB, which evolved from the Powderhorn Puppet Theater in 1974, and has been the group’s artistic director since 1979. “For our first May Day we were looking at a way of doing an outdoor event to bring people out of their houses,” she recalled. “We wanted to rejuvenate a certain spirit in people by creating a forum for them to discuss what was happening in their minds and in their hearts. We wanted to make it fun and energetic, but with some depth. In a way we saw it as another anti-war activity, but instead of shouting ‘down with this’ or ‘up with that,’ we knew that a strong way of protesting is to bring people together.”
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The International Film Festival
Thursday 20 April @ 17:41:10 (Read: 4563) |
 If you love films, you know better than to plan a vacation in April, the month of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival (M-SPIFF).
by Paul Bachleitner
For about two weeks, the M-SPIFF serves up an exotic buffet of more than 100 independent, local and international films sure to make a glutton of any true cineaste. Many of the films have won awards at festivals around the world, but don’t appeal to the mainstream enough to appear again on a Twin Cities screen or even in the most intrepid viewer’s Netflix queue. Quite simply, the M-SPIFF is the Upper Midwest’s largest film event. Its size and quality are only a tier or two below the world-class festivals in Cannes, New York, Toronto or Berlin. This year’s 24th Annual M-SPIFF is not an event to take for granted, in more ways than one.
“It really is one of the strongest representations of films in the last 24 years," said Al Milgrom, M-SPIFF’s stalwart program director. “And next year will be the 25th, if we live that long."
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Chris Shillock: An Anarchist in Action
Thursday 01 December @ 23:20:23 (Read: 6027) |
by Dwight Hobbes
Ain’t many beatnik poets left. Chris Shillock is one. As in true, old-school spoken word. Before even The Last Poets there was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and the rest of that bunch from the early 1960s. They pioneered the spoken-word part of avant-garde theater, preceding the likes of Amiri Baraka (when he was LeRoi Jones), Sonja Sanchez, Miguel Pinero and such contemporary icons as Sekou Sundiata and Rhodessa Jones. These days, in the Twin Cities, we’ve got premier proponents J. Otis Powell, Louis Alemayehu and Shillock sustaining the genre.
John Christopher Shillock, as he calls himself after he finishes a poem or a book, profoundly impresses—with bleak stuff that is brilliant as hell.
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Women no longer on fringes with Fringe
Wednesday 03 August @ 20:54:02 (Read: 19720) |
by Adrienne Urbanski
Considering that the majority of actors are female, as well as a large percentage of playwrights, it’s a bit perplexing that so few shows feature predominantly female casts or women writers and directors. Though the immense popularity of Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues” has helped etch out a new niche for women in theater, the Fringe festival has for years provided a much-needed platform for women in theater.
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The Return of the Fringe!
Wednesday 03 August @ 20:55:05 (Read: 6192) |
by Dwight Hobbes
What’s a cynic to do? By now, the Minnesota Fringe Festival should’ve changed from daring and resourceful alternative theater to co-opted mainstream fodder. Instead, success (as the nation’s largest non-juried performing arts festival and the third-biggest Fringe in all of North America) apparently hasn’t cost the Fringe any integrity. It started out as—and, after 12 years, remains—a venue where ideas, from grit to glitz, are welcome.
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Nate on Drums: Minnesota Late Night Magic
Wednesday 02 March @ 21:10:39 (Read: 3648) |
by Rob van Alstyne
The whole story has an undeniable fairy tale quality to it. A bunch of bored suburban Minnesota teens start screwing around on home video, slowly honing their craft and bringing other friends in on the action as they move into their college years. Improbable roommate pairings come down from the University of Minnesota housing department, “randomly” assigning two Davids – one a comedic magician, the other a video-obsessed cut-up – to live together. A creative brain trust is formed, a scheme is hatched, a public access show launched.
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep At Night
Friday 15 October @ 20:04:53 (Read: 3673) |
by Bruce Rubenstein
This is an excerpt from a story about what some Minneapolis policemen with long memories still consider the worst crimes ever committed here. The O'Kasick brothers, a gang of armed robbers, murdered one officer and maimed another so severely that he never recovered. People pored over the details of the perpetrators' lives as they emerged piece-meal after their spree was ended, and were shocked that the kind of poverty and pathology that spawned them could exist in the pleasant, midwestern city that Minneapolis seemed to be in the 1950s.
The Saint Cloud, Minn., region is blessed with an abundance of high quality granite, both pink and gray, that can be quarried, slabbed and sold for a variety of purposes.
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Sound Unseen
Thursday 30 September @ 12:18:04 (Read: 2502) |
by Rob van Alstyne
It’s that time of year again—the leaves are changing color, the Vikings aren’t living up to expectations and an onslaught of superb films about independent music is about to hit the Twin Cities. The Sound Unseen film festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, and what began as a tiny showcase has swelled into a 10-day event so smokin’ hot that Europeans are clamoring to have it brought to their shores.
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Sound Unseen: Film Review
Thursday 30 September @ 12:15:17 (Read: 2610) |
by Rob van Alstyne
"Low In Europe"
Director: Sebastian Schrade
2003, Germany, 50 Minutes
A life-on-the-road examination of Duluth’s beloved slowcore institution, “Low In Europe” isn’t a particularly revelatory documentary by any means, but is still enjoyable in its own unassuming way. The film consists of grainy black and white footage of the band walking around, loading gear and rehearsing on their European tour for Trust crossed with brief interview snippets and more polished live concert footage.
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Fringe expands into new dimensions
Wednesday 28 July @ 19:06:46 (Read: 3367) |
by Dwight Hobbes
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? Tell that to Minnesota Fringe Festival executive director Leah Cooper. She steered last summer’s hugely successful 10th anniversary Fringe and, instead of standing pat, has added new dimensions to the festival.
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Going Solo
Wednesday 28 July @ 19:03:13 (Read: 2759) |
by Eric Larson
You want to trust Heidi Arneson when you meet her. It’s her see-through blue eyes, her childlike attitude, her openness that command your attention.
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Cinephiles of the Twin Cities
Wednesday 07 July @ 16:23:06 (Read: 3554) |
by Ben Sachs
When most people say, “I’m going to see a movie,” they usually mean a Hollywood event movie, a highly marketed product designed to share our cultural consciousness for a few weeks before being replaced. A recent example would be “The Passion of the Christ,” although it was an event for me only because I had to leave early for fear of getting attacked by the more reverent fanatics there.
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Under the Radar: The Best Movies of 2003
Thursday 22 January @ 13:08:54 (Read: 3493) |
by Ben Sachs
Rachida,” the debut film by Algerian writer-director Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, is the first great movie I’ve seen in the Twin Cities this year. While not especially strong on plot, the film is nonetheless a staggering portrait of rampant violence in Algeria, which seems to occur largely without explanation. (It’s easy to see why the Walker Art Center chose the film as part of its series of world films about “war, peace and resistance.”)
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