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| 30 Percent More Commercial First Amendment Gallery | Daily from Sat., August 23 until Thu., September 25 | Minneapolis (North & Northeast) | |
 For one sweet and liberating month, the creative force of Puny Entertainment's 22 madly artistic minds will be unleashed on First Amendment Arts to create art for art's sake rather than for a corporate sponsor. Not that the collective's work for corporate sponsors is bad or bland. In fact,... More >> |
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| Art Here: Get Out the Vote Minnesota Museum Of American Art | Sat., September 13, 5:00pm | St. Paul (Downtown) | |
 Elephants and donkeys and Ron Paul, oh my! It's time to add another event to your election-year to-do list as the Minnesota Museum of American Art proudly presents "Get Out the Vote," its last patio concert event of the 2008 season. The event features an art exhibition showcasing the winners of... More >> |
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| Earthdance Powderhorn Park | Sat., September 13, 12:00pm-9:00pm | Minneapolis (South) | |
 When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for hippies to organize, the results can be powerful. Woodstock and the World Trade Organization riots are just a couple of examples of what can happen when the "long-hairs" congregate to promote love, power of the people, understanding,... More >> |
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| Garrison Keillor Common Good Books | Sat., September 13, 11:00am | St. Paul (Downtown) | |
 It takes a natural storyteller to hold a nation's worth of public radio listeners' attention each week for 30-plus years. It takes an exceptionally talented storyteller to hold that attention by talking about a fictional hamlet in rural Minnesota. Garrison Keillor is such a storyteller. With... More >> |
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| Mill City Museum's 5th Anniversary Mill City Museum | Sat., September 13, 1:00pm-4:00pm | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
 Long before the Mill City Museum began claiming to the world that it was the "best smelling museum ever created," the space it occupies was a mill rather than an homage to one. In fact, the Washburn A Mill, as it was known back in the olden days, was the largest mill in the state. That was no... More >> |
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| Taste of Lake Street Midtown Commons | Sat., September 13, 3:00pm-7:00pm | Minneapolis (South) | |
 It's been a tough couple of years for the businesses along Lake Street. Constant construction, in an attempt to create turn lanes and widen that sidewalk about 12 inches, has probably driven away a significant amount of summertime customers. This Saturday, restaurants from the area get to... More >> |
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| Zebulon Pike (CD-Release); Dosh Triple Rock Social Club | Sat., September 13, 9:00pm | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
 Minnesota's favorite self-described "instrumental prog-doom" band issues forth its biennial statement of potent and tectonic heaviness, Intranscience (Unfortunate Music). The disc shows that even with personnel changes (bassist Tom Berg replaces Steve Post, now in Bastard Saint), the band is... More >> |
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| Bad Jazz: Tickled Pink Open Eye Figure Theatre |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., September 12 until Sat., September 27, 7:30pm more dates/times |
Minneapolis (South) | |
 When Bad Jazz looks back on its 25-year history, it does so with a sense of style. There's 1985's "Coffeehouse Bad Jazz," 1988's "Scary Bad Jazz," and 2004's "Fool's Paradise" (an April Fool's performance for MPR at the Fitzgerald Theater, in which not a moment of their live performance made... More >> |
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| Bondage A-Go-Go Ground Zero | Every week Saturday, 10:00pm | Minneapolis (North & Northeast) |
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 Are you still feeling guilty over that thing you did at your Fourth of July party? Still partying hard this weekend? Ready to go public with your leather fetish? Then tonight's Bondage A Go Go is the place for you. The long-running industrial/kink/fetish night goes above and beyond the typical... More >> |
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| Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Walker Art Center | Daily from Sat., September 13 until Sun., January 4 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
 It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >> |
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| From Sportswear to Streetwear The Goldstein Museum Of Design | Daily from Sat., August 16 until Sun., November 2 | St. Paul (Greater) | |
 All the cool kids might think their Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars are just hip canvas shoes. Ditto for Technicolor Nike Air Force Ones. But to the well-trained designer's eye, these kicks mark a significant departure in our fashion history: the idea that clothes designed to be worn for sports... More >> |
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| Hindsight is Always 20/20 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum | Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
 As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist and composer R. Luke Dubois explores this irony with a visual pun. In his 43 prints and light boxes, Dubois creates a... More >> |
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| Hail to the Chief: Images of the American Presidency Minneapolis Institute Of Arts | Daily from Sat., August 2 until Sun., September 21 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
 With three concurrent political art shows, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has made itself the epicenter of political expression during the Republican National Convention. The shows all explore the endless ways in which artists past and present have shown support or disapproval for our... More >> |
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| History Room: 20 Years of No Name The Soap Factory | Daily from Sat., April 19 until Sun., October 26 | Minneapolis (North & Northeast) | |
 A lot has changed over the past 20 years. We've gone through three presidents. Macs became cool, then lame, then cool again. Alternative music became corporatized, then turned into emo. A lot has changed over the years for the Soap Factory as well. One of the oldest galleries in the Twin Cities... More >> |
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| Junk Bonanza Medina Entertainment Center | Daily from Fri., September 12 until Sat., September 13, 9:00am-5:00pm | Suburbs | |
 They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure; anyone who has rummaged through the chaos of Ax-Man Surplus Store in St. Paul knows this to be true. This weekend features an epic junk sale just a short ride outside the Twin Cities. But don't drive out there expecting new junk; there... More >> |
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| Minnesota Renaissance Festival Renaissance Festival Site |
Fri., September 26, 9:00am-7:00pm more dates/times |
Suburbs | |
 Olde tyme Europe wasn't a very happy place, what with pestilence, famine, war, and death joyriding around the continent on a pretty regular basis. Luckily, there were also some entertaining parts: jousting, booze, and theater principal among them. Minnesota's RenFest provides the fun without... More >> |
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| Mike Elko; Ruthann Godollei: Unconventional Wisdom Minneapolis Institute Of Arts | Daily from Fri., August 29 until Sun., October 26 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
 With three concurrent political art shows, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has made itself the epicenter of political expression during the Republican National Convention. The shows all explore the endless ways in which artists past and present have shown support or disapproval for our... More >> |
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| Statements: Beuys, Flavin, Judd Walker Art Center | Daily from Thu., May 15 until Sun., July 12 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
 At first glance, it might be hard to find a common thread between these three artists, other than hastily applying a "Minimalism" tag to their work or noting that the bulk of their work came out of the 1960s and '70s. Joseph Bueys often worked with felt and manipulated found objects,... More >> |
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| The Lost Empire: Photographer to the Tsar The Museum Of Russian Art | Daily from Mon., May 5 until Wed., October 1 | Minneapolis (South) | |
 If there is one thing to be said about Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, it's that he was ambitious. He was a chemist and photographer who merged his passions by designing a camera and method to view black-and-white negatives in color. At the beginning of the 20th century, he took... More >> |
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| The One Show: Advertising + Design + Interactive MCAD Gallery | Daily from Sun., August 24 until Wed., September 24 | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
 MCAD's "The One Show" is like the anti-Superbowl, or the antithesis to the increasingly mundane annual British Television Advertising Awards at the Walker. The last two offer a place for humorous and slightly weird TV ads. "The One Show," on the other hand, showcases ads that are creative,... More >> |
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| A Godless Arbitrator; Cannot Justify; Dinner at the Mortuary; Pygar The Dinkytowner Cafe | Sat., September 13, 4:00pm | Minneapolis (North & Northeast) | |
| A Tribute to Willie, Waylon & the Boys Mayslack's Music Lounge | Sat., September 13 | Minneapolis (North & Northeast) | |
| Adam Linz Trio Cafe Maude | Sat., September 13, 9:00pm | Minneapolis (South) | |
| Backyard Tire Fire; Ha Ha Tonka; Little Man 7th St. Entry | Sat., September 13, 8:00pm | Minneapolis (Downtown) | |
| Ben Weaver (CD-Release); Ax in the Oak; Kill the Vultures; Tarlton Turf Club | Sat., September 13, 9:00pm | St. Paul (Greater) | |
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