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Print ArticleTwin Cities Book Festival turns 12, attracts book lovers of all sorts
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This Saturday, the festival returns with author panels, a used book sale, a children's pavilion, and more featuring any style of literature one can imagine.
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Threesomes at the Toronto Film Festival: James Franco + Vanessa Hudgens + Ashley Benson vs. Asia Argento + Charlotte Gainsbourg + François Cluzet
This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature three-way sex scenes. In Spring Breakers, characters played by James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson "do it" in a swimming pool; in Do Not Disturb, a French remake of the 2009 American indie Humpday, a bisexual couple played by Asia Argento and Charlotte Gainsbourg seduce a drifter played by François Cluzet. 
I am mentioning these facts at the beginning of this blog posts in order to attract people who search the internet for information about movie sex scenes -- a segment of the human population which, Google Analytics suggests, far outnumber the segment which actually, like, cares about cinema. To the sex scene searchers, I say, welcome! We will get to what you came here looking for in a moment. But first, a brief primer on French cultural theory.
More »Minnesota Renaissance Festival: How to journey back in time for cheap
Categories: Festivals, Free Stuff
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| Renaissance Festival openings |
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Ladies of the Renaissance Festival
This weekend marks the start of the always-awesome Minnesota State Renaissance Festival. Here you'll find old-school sports demonstrations, belly dancing, turkey legs the size of your head, and some of the coolest artisans around, selling everything from tiny pots of glitter to real battle axes.
As the summer months come to an end, some of us may be finding our budgets a little tighter than we would like. This doesn't mean you have to forgo Ren Fest. In fact, once you pay for admission there are tons of free (or almost free) things happening on the grounds at any give moment, including theater and music performances, food and alcohol tastings, kids' crafts, and more. While this list is only a mere sampling of some of the free things to do, it should give you a solid jumping off point on how to enjoy event without putting a major dent in your pocket.
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Ladies of the Renaissance Festival
This weekend marks the start of the always-awesome Minnesota State Renaissance Festival. Here you'll find old-school sports demonstrations, belly dancing, turkey legs the size of your head, and some of the coolest artisans around, selling everything from tiny pots of glitter to real battle axes.
As the summer months come to an end, some of us may be finding our budgets a little tighter than we would like. This doesn't mean you have to forgo Ren Fest. In fact, once you pay for admission there are tons of free (or almost free) things happening on the grounds at any give moment, including theater and music performances, food and alcohol tastings, kids' crafts, and more. While this list is only a mere sampling of some of the free things to do, it should give you a solid jumping off point on how to enjoy event without putting a major dent in your pocket.
Afrifest hosts three days of culture
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| Photo courtesy Afrifest |
| Afrifest 2011 |
This weekend, the sixth-annual Afrifest will host three days of culture, music, and fellowship. Festivities start tonight with a gala at the Ritz featuring art, music, and fashion. Events continue on Saturday and Sunday in Brooklyn Park with soccer, a health and wellness fair, and other happenings.
46th Street Block Party to raise funds for park
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| Photo courtesy ColorWheel Gallery |
| Taylor Lindgren painting Live |
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Midwest Tomato Fest: It was joyous, albeit stinky
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| Photo by Taylor Paino |
| A sea of red at Tomato Fest |
Massive tomato fight invades downtown Minneapolis Saturday
The Midwest Tomato Fest [SLIDESHOW]
Last Saturday, thousands swarmed a parking lot on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis with one mission: To throw tomatoes at each other at the second-annual Midwest Tomato Fest. Stinky, overripe, inedible tomatoes donated by farmers from Arkansas coated participants' bodies, and made their clothes reek of rotten food.
The fight, inspired by an event in Spain called La Tomatina, was founded by a few St. Thomas dudes. It began after an afternoon of booze-soaked dancing to Top 40 jams. Beloved local food trucks like World Street Kitchen served up eats that would prepare these scantily clad bodies for war.
I was there, among the Midwest Tomato Fest thousands. With the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and David Foster Wallace in my heart, I launched myself into the saucy, chunky fray. More »
Midtown Greenway Community Bike Festival celebrates cycling
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This weekend will provide yet another appealing reason why Minneapolis is the nation's foremost bike city.
On Saturday, outside of Freewheel Bike on the Greenway, the third-annual Midtown Greenway Community Bike Festival will offer live blues and roots music from the Grand Marquis, guided half- and one-hour bike tours of Midtown, and a children's Bike Rodeo. There will also be free snacks, water bottles, and T-shirts, plus bike decorations and other fun giveaways. More »
Massive tomato fight invades downtown Minneapolis Saturday
Categories: Festivals
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| A Frame Forward Photography |
Midwest Tomato Fest gets messy (2011 slideshow)
What do you get when you take 60,000 tomatoes, give them to 5,000 pumped up, sweaty people, and give them the green light to wreak havoc on each other? Downtown Minneapolis is about to find out.
Twin Cities Improv Festival kicks off at Huge Theater
Categories: Festivals
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| Nels Lennes, Jill Bernard, and Butch Roy |
That made Butch Roy angry.
Sitting in Huge's sparse, colorful lobby on Lyndale Avenue, Roy is joined by the theater's fellow founders Nels Lennes and Jill Bernard. "That person was going out of their way to make a publicly disparaging statement about what we do," says Roy. "It's like the people who can't enjoy magic, because they're looking for how they've been taken so much that they miss the fun."
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