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Television

Vincent Kartheiser of 'Mad Men' loves The Current, hates your blog

By Andy Mannix Mon., Mar. 26 2012 at 12:46 PM

Categories: Television

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AMC.

Vincent Kartheiser is too adult for your stupid Twitter feed, too.

Any casual viewer of AMC's Mad Men is sure to recognize Vincent Kartheiser, a.k.a. Pete Campbell, the weaselly young executive always trying to climb the corporate ladder at Sterling Cooper (and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in later episodes).

Just in time for the long-awaited fifth season premiere, the New York Times ran a fascinating "Leisure Time" interview with Kartheiser over the weekend, and it sounds like the young actor still has plenty of love for his hometown.

A Minneapolis native, Kartheiser says he's still a fan of 89.3 The Current, Juicy Lucy's, and, of course, Garrison Keillor. From the interview:

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Television

'Tabatha Takes Over' H Design salon in Lyn-Lake Minneapolis

By Jessica Armbruster Mon., Feb. 27 2012 at 11:40 AM

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Photo by Craig Lassig

Last month, Tabatha Coffey of Tabatha Takes Over visited Jungle Red Salon & Spa to give some tough love to owner Suzanne Erickson, who was struggling so hard to make ends meet that she was actually living at her business. Tomorrow night, the show will return to Minneapolis to revamp H Design, a salon with vastly different issues, but still in dire need of a reboot.

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'Minnesota Original' features Rebecca McDonald, CP assistant web editor

By Jessica Armbruster Mon., Jan. 23 2012 at 9:11 AM

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Minnesota Original is a weekly Twin Cities Public Television program that highlights creative folks in the local community. Past shows have included musician Jeremy Messersmith, hip-hop/spoken-word performer Dessa, and painter/sculpture artist Gregory Euclide. In a recent episode, the show took a moment to feature photography powerhouse (and City Pages' assistant web editor) Rebecca McDonald.

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Tabatha talks about taking over Jungle Red Salon & Spa

By Nicole Crosbie Tue., Jan. 10 2012 at 8:37 AM

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Tabatha talks with Suzanne Erickson

It's not always easy to admit that you need help managing both your business and your personal life, and it certainly isn't easy to open yourself up for criticism on national television, but Suzanne Erickson, owner of Jungle Red Salon & Spa, did just that. While her shop was seeing growth in clientele, staff, and sales, there were still issues with cash flow.

"The common perception seems to be that a business owner with a great business model and a great reputation must be doing well financially," Erickson says. "That wasn't the case for me, and I wanted to figure out why."

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Holidays

Top four (awesomely) bad holiday TV specials

By Patrick Strait Wed., Dec. 7 2011 at 8:23 AM

Categories: Holidays, Television

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There's something about the holiday season that makes television get way more awesome.

Every year, soulless TV execs take our favorite pieces of pop culture, dress them in a Santa outfit, and feed them back to us in the form of a shit show called a "holiday special." Sometimes it's a wacky story about why the lead characters need to save Santa from some terrible situation at the North Pole, other times it's all about stepping in as the big man himself and delivering toys to kids. Long story short, holiday specials are usually a complete train wreck. And it rules.

This Thursday night, Bryant-Lake Bowl is screening what many consider to be the most awesomely-bad holiday special of all time: The Star Wars Holiday Special. Does it have a 3D performance by Jefferson Starship? It does. Does Bea Arthur make an appearance as an intergalactic bartender? Yup. Does Mark Hamill's hair look so soft that you just want to wrap yourself in it like a velour jump suit? Absolutely.

In celebration of the event, we went back and found a few more fantastically terrible holiday specials that helped bastardize some of the best TV shows and movies of the past few decades.

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Penumbra readies updated 'I Wish You Love'

By Ed Huyck Fri., Nov. 18 2011 at 9:33 AM

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Dennis W. Spears as Nat King Cole.

When I Wish You Love opened at Penumbra Theatre earlier this year, playwright Dominic Taylor knew 1) he had a success on his hands and 2) the piece still needed some work.

After successful runs in St. Paul, Washington D.C. (at the Kennedy Center), and in Hartford, the show returns to Penumbra for a three-week production. Taylor's examination of Nat King Cole and the influence his groundbreaking television show had in the 1950s has drawn strong praise for the performance of Dennis W. Spears as the musician, including an Ivey Award.

Still, the show was far from perfect.

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'Bat Boy' returns for Halloween

By Ed Huyck Tue., Oct. 25 2011 at 8:33 AM

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Tyler Michaels as Bat Boy.

In 2004, Minneapolis Musical Theatre hit pay dirt with the off-kilter Bat Boy: The Musical. The show proved to be a massive hit for the company, and paved the way for a string of unusual musicals including Zombie Prom, Jerry Springer: The Opera, and last year's Halloween offering, Evil Dead: The Musical.

This scary season, MMT revisits the piece, performing it at the Illusion Theater, its recent home. Not only has this allowed the company to present a piece that is more fully staged, it gives audiences who missed it the first time around a chance to get into a Weekly-World-News vibe just in time for Halloween.

I chatted with director Steven Meerdink, one of MMT's co-founders, about this and the original production.

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Television

Real World casting call in Minneapolis

By Jessica Armbruster Mon., Oct. 24 2011 at 8:07 AM

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Youths from the Real World: San Diego living it up

Do you thrive on drama, have a histrionic personality, and have no qualms about acting out on national television? Do you also happen to be young and good looking? Then you need to attend this Wednesday's open casting call for the Real World 27.

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'H.M.S. Pinafore' sets sail on PBS

By Ed Huyck Wed., Oct. 12 2011 at 8:06 AM

Categories: Television, Theater

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Image courtesy the Guthrie Theater

If you missed out on the zany Gilbert and Sullivan action when it played at the Guthrie Theater earlier this year, or want to revisit David Bolger snappy, Ivey-Award-winning choreography, or just want to enjoy a theatrical piece without a theater critic coughing incessantly behind you, then check out the first part of PBS's Arts Fall Festival Friday, when the Guthrie's H.M.S. Pinafore is broadcast.

The piece is the first of nine specials originating from across the country. The Guthrie joins the likes of the San Francisco Ballet, the Los Angeles Opera, the Miami City Ballet, along with Andrea Bocelli's Live in Central Park, and a broadcast of Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam documentary, Twenty.

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Glitter-bombing to be featured on 'Glee' this season [VIDEO]

By Jessica Lussenhop Tue., Sep. 6 2011 at 12:15 PM

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Sue Sylvester gets a taste of the rainbow.

Minnesotan inventors have given the world Post-Its, Spam, and now: the glitter bomb.

This latest phenom, invented by local activist Nick Espinosa, has just achieved the highest echelon of cultural validation: A character on the hit TV show Glee is set to get g-bombed.

"I definitely didn't expect this," says Espinosa.

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