Artist-designed mini golf returns to the Walker

Categories: Art
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Can You Handle This? By Tom Loftus and Robin Schwartzman
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Sculpture Garden, which opened in 1988 as a joint project between the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board, the Walker and mnartists.org are bringing back Artist-Designed Mini Golf. The set up is comprised of two eight-hole courses. It's pretty much just like regular mini golf, except, you know, arty.

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Summer Fun: Artist-Designed Mini Golf at the Walker [slideshow]



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Bid'ah takes class project to full-length project

Categories: Theater
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Image courtesy Dreamland Arts
Born out of a seven-minute piece presented in a class at Macalester College last fall, Bid'ah has grown to be a full-length show to be presented this weekend at St. Paul's Dreamland Arts.

The experimental piece is the brainchild of Taylor Helfand and Mohamed Samatar, and includes not just the show but also an art gallery. The pair took time to talk about the work's development, and the use of Kickstarter to fund their creation.

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Memory Lanes Block Party, Dear Data CD-release: Freeloader Friday

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Jonas Crisco, exhibitin at this weekend's "Jerome Emerging Printmakers Exhibition"
Friday is finally here, and it's a long one. As usual, there are plenty of free things to do around town. Come take a look at our list and plan your three-day weekend.

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Voltage 2013 now has an offical lipstick, thanks to the Elixery

Categories: Fashion
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As all beauty junkies know, limited-edition products are often considered collector's items and sometimes even achieve a cult status among fanatics. For this year's installment of Voltage, event organizers MNfashion collaborated with local cosmetics house the Elixery to create a special lipstick unique to the event.

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Voltage fashion designers and music lineup announced

The Elixery's locally-made vegan lipsticks


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Top 5 books for reading near the water

Categories: Books
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At last, summer is starting to creep its warm-temperature tendrils around us, thawing our cold Minnesotan winter hearts. This weekend, if the weather cooperates, many of us will be taking a trip to the lake, biking along the river, or maybe even sitting poolside.

Let's get you in the mindset of waves, shall we? Here are five books that are set nearby or written on the topic of water to pack in your beach bag.

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'He was the man': Remembering Eric Wheeler

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Courtesy Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Eric Wheeler Interact's 2011 production of 'JOY!' with Kat Corey and Ryan Lee
The Twin Cities lost a great actor this week. Eric Vernon Wheeler, who had Down Syndrome, started his acting career 22 years ago at the age of 20 in a show called We're All in This Together. It was the first production by Interact Theatre (now Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts). After his last performance with Interact on Saturday, Wheeler died on Tuesday, May 21 from cancer. He was 42 years old. 


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Hamlet: 'It is too long'

Categories: Theater
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James Napoleon Stone (Laertes), Meri Golden (Gurtrude), Arther Peden (Claudius) in Hamlet.
It's a decided mixed bag with Theatre Coup d'Etat's latest effort. The young company's third go-round with Shakespeare finds them tackling the difficult text of Hamlet. To the company's credit, there are plenty of excellent moments and ideas spread throughout the show, from the location itself to a number of the performances.

It is the telling of the troubled Danish prince, and the political machinations that eventually grind him and the rest of the court up that is most troubled in this instance.

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Zombie Pub Crawl 2013 date announced

Categories: Announcements
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Photo by Nicola Losik
The annual Zombie Pub Crawl is a thing to behold. What started as 30 people wandering around northeast Minneapolis has snowballed into a festival involving tens of thousands of people spanning two cities. Last year's event even broke a Guinness World Record.

And yep. It's happening in 2013.

See also:
Zombie Pub Crawl breaks world record
Behind the brains of Zombie Pub Crawl
Zombie Pub Crawl undead in St. Paul



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Toil & Trouble's Heroes and Villains: Win VIP tickets!

Categories: Free Stuff
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This weekend, many of us will be grilling outdoors, drinking beer, and sitting by a lake. The ladies of Toil & Trouble, however, will be fighting an epic battle of good versus evil. For their special Memorial Day show, the troupe will be taking on a heroes and villains theme. The evening will feature burlesque, boylesque, pasties, merkins, and, most likely, a few superhero capes.

Looking for something to do between those patio parties? This could be your ticket. Dressing Room has a pair of VIP passes. Here's how to enter to win:

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Nautilus brings back The View from Here

Categories: Theater
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Joel Liestman
This week, Nautilus Music-Theater returns to the Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview for five performances of its production of The View From Here, a one-man show by New York-based composer/lyricist Timothy Huang. Huang first debuted the piece at the New York Music Theatre Festival in 2005. Nautilus performed it for the first time last year in a work starring Joel Liestman, with musical direction from Jerry Rubino and stage direction from Ben Krywosz.

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