Email AuthorAllegra Oxborough
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Global Dance Festival at The Brick, 7/19/12
July 19, 2012 in Gimme Noise
SIM girls dance during AC Slater's setGlobal Dance Festival Day 1With Knife Party, 12th Planet, AC Slater, and moreThe Brick, MinneapolisWednesday, July 18, 2012You don't need to know the difference...
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Krewella on pop, parties, and parents
July 18, 2012 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Nikko LamereSee Also:Global Dance Festival 2012 lineup and stagesKrewella moves fast. Last September, the group gave a scattered, evidently-green interview, in which producer Kris Trindl said he'd first...
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Michael Gaughan goes 'Buck Turbo' at the Burnet Gallery
July 10, 2012 in Dressing Room
Michael GaughanRelated stories: Michael Gaughan: 100 CreativesMichael Gaughan on collaborating with Sean Hartman, the creative process, crying on the floorEyedea watercolor portrait by Michael Gaughan featured on the cover of...
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"Rembrandt in America" displays at the MIA
June 29, 2012 in Dressing Room
Self-Portrait, 1659Before the still photograph and the moving image, we only had artists to interpret and record our visual world. Our histories and mythologies -- the stories we imagined --...
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Twin Cities Improv Festival kicks off at Huge Theater
June 21, 2012 in Dressing Room
Nels Lennes, Jill Bernard, and Butch RoyRecently, a dissatisfied Groupon user wrote that Huge was "NOT an improv theater. Everything is scripted. I was very disappointed. Maybe they should change...
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Chris Danforth wins $25,000 McKnight Composer Fellowship (INTERVIEW)
June 11, 2012 in Gimme Noise
Related:Will the Real Chris Danforth Please Stand Up?Last time Chris Danforth spoke to City Pages, he hid behind his antics, initiating a game of hide-and-seek with Steve Marsh. This time...
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Camp Fire organizers fan flames in a growing performance culture
June 11, 2012 in Dressing Room
Justice of Dragons, Stacy Redstar, and Kristen Zyra are creating a world where people don't punch clocks. Instead, they touch fire. It's a realm where defying gravity pays the bills,...
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Non-fiction yarn spinner Joanna Solotaroff returns from camp
June 04, 2012 in Dressing Room
Photo by Adrianne MathiowetzFor eight weeks, Joanna Solotaroff has been living in a place she calls heaven. At Transom's second-ever radio boot camp in Cape Cod, the woman who originated...
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Xavier Marquis on clean living and hip-hop -- album release at Triple Rock tonight
May 25, 2012 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Stacie AnnBy Allegra OxboroughXavier Davis sometimes Facebook-likes comments on Lupe Fiasco's page, a tactic he uses to turn strangers on to his own music. Performing under the name Xavier Marquis,...
