February 2010
February 26, 2010Comedians on ice! It's the first-ever Minneapolis Jewish Humor Festival!At Sabes Jewish Community Center in St. Louis Park, running through March 7 Read more » Posted on Friday, February 26, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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February 24, 2010Prince in trouble. But check out these "new" vids from 1984!The Purple One has been sued by the Irish. Read more » Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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February 20, 2010Review: Penumbra Hits the Right Notes in "Black Pearl Sings!"
Starting in the Great Depression (the other one) and continuing through the 1960s, the Library of Congress dispatched musicologists, folklorists, and other academics to the Deep South in search of "authentic" music, the older the better, lest it disappear in the increasingly homogeneous babble of progress. They found it all right, in the person of singing sharecroppers and guitar-toting prisoners, as in the case of Leadbelly, the inspiration for Black Pearl Sings!, a beautifully thought-provoking quasi-musical playing at Penumbra Theatre in St Paul through March 14. With two richly talented actresses and a dozen musical gems, Penumbra invokes centuries of... Read more » Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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February 12, 2010Last-Minute Valentine's Ideas For Going Out!
If you're lucky, you can see the eternal romantic Connie Evingson sing the music the Boomers fell in love to (or simply with) in the latest "Jazz at the Jungle" concert, this time featuring the music of the Beatles. Evingson, better known as a jazz thrush, is joined by the Levy brothers (Adam and Noah, of Honeydogs fame) among others. But the weekend shows are close to sold out, so check out Monday's as well. If you haven't seen what's become of the former Jitters cabaret club in northeast Minneapolis, it's now called Honey and, indeed, you're advised to bring yours on Sunday for a 7 p.m. show of music and storytelling with longtime jazz vocalist Arne Fogel and guest... Read more » Posted on Friday, February 12, 2010 in Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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February 9, 2010The Best Theater and More for Valentine's Day
I don't know you. And I don't know your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/domestic partner/mistress/pet. But whomever you're spending Valentine's Day with, and presumably you know it's this weekend, I will venture some advice: Don't spend it at a crowded restaurant where the waiters are exhausted by the likes of you and you're forced to listen to the lovesick cooing of your dining neighbors. And if you bury a ring in the chocolate mousse, I will find out who you are and compel you to eat it. No, instead I recommend that if you're going to head out on the town that you take the edge off the forced romance by going to see a show that resonates with your shared sensibilities. Here are a few options. Murder. Yes, murder most foul in Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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February 2, 2010St. Louis Park Represents at the Oscars
So Ethan and Joel Coen will be back at the Oscars, fingers crossed that "A Serious Man," which filmed around the Twin Cities in 2008, wins Best Picture. But arguably, it doesn't count as much as it did when they won the award for "No Country for Old Men," since this year—for the first time since the 1940s—there are 10 nominations for Best Picture instead of the usual five. The merits—and we'll get to that later—of "A Serious Man" and the other nine nominees notwithstanding, it's hard to interpret this cinematic... Read more » Posted on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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