After 18 years, seven studio albums, 12 drummers, almost a thousand gigs and counting, Jon Ginoli, founding member of Pansy Division, not only has seen it all, but also tells all in his new book of memoirs, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division.
The first openly gay pop-punk band, Pansy Division initially went on tour in […]
Attending the Humana Festival of New American Plays is a theater junkie’s version of Fashion Week in Paris (without the snobbery). The annual event, presented by Actors Theatre of Louisville, features marathon performances of new scripts by the Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neills of tomorrow before they hit Broadway (or, more likely, a theater […]
Crossing the Rubicon
The Sounds
On Cross the Rubicon, The Sounds build off the music they crafted on 2006’s Dying to Say This to You. The Swedish five-piece loves their 1980s new-wavish rock ’n’ roll, but on their third album, they prove to be more than just slaves to the sound. Fueled by a driving backbeat, and […]
Phédre / July 8-9 / Guthrie Theater/ 818 s. 2nd St., Mpls./ (612) 377-2224 / www.guthrietheater.org
Queer literary folks know gay Greek dramatist Euripides’s Hippolytus as the definitive incest tragedy, but in 1677, French playwright Jean Racine retold the tale in Phèdre.
Screening in high definition at the Guthrie, the film of the National Theatre of Great […]
Don’t be fooled by the stiff name. The Highland Business Association (HBA) knows how to throw a party. Highland Fest in St. Paul, July 17-19, celebrates its 26th year of entertaining, incorporating business with art, food, local music, and carnival-style fun. From bingo and kiddie rides to softball, beer tasting, fireworks, and Brazilian music, literally […]
Big: well-known and somewhat prominent.
Eminent: famous and admirable.
Huge: local sandblast artist Kerry Dikken.
From the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to the W Hotel in Downtown Minneapolis, it seems as though Kerry Dikken’s spectacular sandblasting talent is synonymous with all things big. Based out of his Blasted Arts studio on Nicollet Avenue in South Minneapolis, he specializes […]
Recently, the Minnesota Orchestra unveiled a $40 million project to remodel its 35-year-old hall in Downtown Minneapolis. The Toronto firm of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects was chosen from a field of 100 potential architects to design the project.
Gordon Sprenger, Chair of the orchestra’s Architect Selection Committee, said, “Our committee was impressed with the way […]
