Wednesday, Nov. 4 2009 @ 2:06PM
We're not really sure what the occasion is, but local print artists Burlesque of North America are hosting an epic DJ party Friday, November 20th from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. It's dubbed Spaced-Out Bass Odyssey and there is a catch: This event is being held at a secret location. Check out the details after the jump.
Monday, Oct. 19 2009 @ 3:07PM
(This week's show brought to you by a security camera? Photo by m.gifford)
This Thursday marks the start of a four-day festival loaded with improv music, CD-release shows for musicians like Gay Witch Abortion and HAZE XXL, and an art show feature a massive retrospective on two popular Minnesota artist groups. The festival does indeed have a name: Non Consensual Post Dada Constructivist Cerebral Warts Art/Music/Film Festival 2009. Trying saying that three times fast.
Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009 @ 3:38PM
(Pool and Tiki Bar Maliu Mai after the tsunami. Photo by telemal)On September 29 both Samoa and American Samoa (they're located about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii) were hit with hard by a tsunami. The incident caused massive damage to the islands. Several villages were completely wiped out and around 200 people perished. This Saturday, Peace Corps volunteers returning from Samoa will team up with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity to throw a party at Psycho Suzi's in hopes to raise funds for the people who have lost their homes.
Friday, Oct. 2 2009 @ 2:40PM
(Photo by Mac Users Guide)In July 2006, unarmed teenager Fong Lee was shot nine times in the back by a Minneapolis police officer in front of an elementary school. Last May, officer Jason Anderson was exonerated of using excessive force in the situation. Outraged, the Fong Lee's family continues their battle for justice in court. This night of awesome national and local hip-hop and spoken word is set to raise funds for the family's continuing legal fees.
Monday, Sep. 28 2009 @ 3:50PM
(Will the food court sate them? Photo by
Eric Ingrum)
You know something is approaching saturation overload when MOA is getting in on the action. And while there will be at least a dozen zombie events in the Twin Cities over the next couple weeks, zombies will probably remain popular because they make for an easy, cheap costume and when they show up in movies they're still pretty freaky.
Friday, Sep. 11 2009 @ 1:12PM
(photo by eschipul)They have their own trading cards. They won awards at this year's Fringe Festival. Several members are posing with booze on their website. That's pretty rock 'n' roll, right? This weekend, the Rockstar Storytellers begin their third season of spinning yarns (not into sweaters).
Friday, Aug. 28 2009 @ 1:19PM
(photo by ginnerobot)Are you undead? Do you feel an insatiable hunger for brains? Do you like to roll around in dirt, pour corn syrup blood all over your face, and get drunk? Then this pub crawl is for you.
Friday, Jul. 31 2009 @ 2:58PM
OK, it's not dead in the UK, either, where the stuff is mainstream as pop music. But it seems any electronic music fan you'd ask in the States would be the first to pronounce the death of drum & bass/jungle like he was written into its will.
Here in Minneapolis, however, the DJs and producers who consider themselves soldiers of the genre that mashes ragga, hip-hop and megabasslines are many. And they've compiled Volume 3 of the CD series started in the early '00s,
Twin Cities Drum & Bass, celebrating its release tonight.
Friday, Jul. 31 2009 @ 2:56PM
It's hard for me to believe that
Ghostbusters is 25 years old. I remember the first time I watched the flick. It was at my friend Julie Carver's 7th birthday party. For us kids the movie was both terrifying and hilarious. And it was a big deal that we were watching it at her home because VHS was still a pretty new phenomenon in my suburban world.
OK, maybe I do believe
Ghostbusters is that old.
Friday, Jul. 17 2009 @ 2:38PM
(photo by stephen.moore)What, a made-up holiday? Sure, why not. Set firmly between Labor and Memorial Day, Laborial Day is a day for observance about... something. Ask Chuck and Sean of Trivia Mafia what it all means.
Friday, Jul. 17 2009 @ 1:21PM
(photo by theonetruedevo)Clueless when it comes to downtown St. Paul? In an effort to bring bars, entertainment venues, and patrons together, Heimie's Habadashery is hosting a party that will help you paint-by-the-numbers a really fun evening.
Friday, Jul. 10 2009 @ 4:10PM
(Somewhere out there, breakdancers are doing their thing. Photo by Glamour Schatz.)
Live art, skateboarding, MC battles, and a million other things will be happening at 711 Art Show.
Friday, Jul. 10 2009 @ 11:58AM
It's a sad sight on Hennepin Avenue: the Uptown Bar & Cafe's beloved patio has disappeared and left only a few crumbs in a now empty lot. For years the Uptown patio hosted happy drinkers and smokers, enjoying their fix amidst the busy traffic and cool breeze. The demolish has left many buzzing with questions: why now, during prime patio season? Why would this dive rid its prized asset and oh, god, who is taking up this space? The answers are not very comforting...
Friday, Jul. 3 2009 @ 12:05PM
(photo by John Kratz)A lot can happen in 10 seconds in Minneapolis. It's a little like a New York minute, only more mellow. Ten seconds also makes a great time amount for short attention spans and low-budget (or zero budget) cinema. This Saturday after Red, White, and Boom! you can check out this screening of 100 ten-second films.
Wednesday, Jul. 1 2009 @ 8:58AM
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| Photo by Joe Fahey |
Despite the tough economic times, there have been a surprising number of new music venues popping up around the Twin Cities -- the
501 Club on Washington opened earlier this year, and this month will see kick-off shows from
Sauce on Lake and Lyndale and the Music Box on Nicollet and 14th. All three venues appear to be oriented toward promoting local music, and are located in areas that are otherwise lacking in live music haunts. Whether the scene is busy enough to support these new ventures is yet to be seen, but the prospect of three very different and attractive music venues popping up in the span of a couple of months is exciting.
Of the three new venues, the Music Box is by far the most intriguing. The history of the building alone is enough to demand attention: What began in the 1920s as a venue for vaudeville and cabaret-style shows transformed in the 1950s to a church run by
Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband, Jim -- the pair were even married inside the theater. Many of the rooms used by the Bakkers during the church days still maintain the original decor, and a walk through the deepest corridors of the basement reveals cavernous spaces painted with depictions of Jerusalem and Jesus.
Friday, Jun. 26 2009 @ 3:14PM
(photo by "passamanerie")Bomp, a monthly party at the Bedlam Theatre, takes a detour into the strange, sparkly, sexy alien world of the
Rocky Horror Picture Show this Saturday. Will you be going as Janet... or are you a Columbia?
Friday, Jun. 19 2009 @ 5:37PM
(photo by Andrej_Filev)The Grown-Up Spelling Bee relocates to the 501 Club this Saturday. Oh, and the best part: The better you spell, the more you get to drink for free.
Friday, Jun. 19 2009 @ 12:58PM
Increasingly cementing its reputation as the place to go and cut a rug, Clubhouse Jager (umlaut omitted on account of laziness) is hosting yet another crazy dance party tonight featuring local hip-hop's
DJ Espada.
Friday, Jun. 12 2009 @ 4:24PM
(Pictured above: the beer pool you will have to swim through (no, not really). Photo by Mykl Roventine)
This Saturday the Valkyries Women's Rugby team is hosting its annual fundraiser. However, this is not your typical benefit. There will be no keynote speakers, no silent auctions, and no gourmet dinner. There will however, be beer. Lots of beer. You will also have to pass tests of coordination, accuracy, and agility. Think of it like the trials at the end of the first
Harry Potter book, only at a bar with drunks.
Friday, Jun. 12 2009 @ 3:51PM
If you haven't seen Pulp Fiction, you have either been living in a cave, or were born after '97. For those of us that saw this flick on continual loop when it came out, it's easy to feel jaded about it. However, its manic color scheme, loud retro music soundtrack, and bizarre asides into the California gangster underworld make it a perfect movie to view at midnight.
Friday, Jun. 5 2009 @ 4:23PM
(photo by
Christian Javan)
Each year the Sexy Spring Collective hosts Sexy Spring, a weekend-long festival filled with workshops, lectures, screenings, and activities for those the sexually adventurous, curious, and knowledgeable.
Friday, May. 29 2009 @ 3:31PM
(photo by Digital Sophia)Oh, the 1980s. It was a simpler time. A time before we knew what kind of porn Pee Wee Herman enjoyed, a time where a heroin addict could write a wholesome little sitcom called
Alf, and it was a time where you could solve a Rubik's Cube by peeling the stickers off and putting them back on.
Thursday, May. 21 2009 @ 2:16PM
(photo courtesy of gomattolson via Flickr)Popular downtown hot spot Brit's Pub recently announced their summer schedule, which includes the return of their popular lawn bowling.
Saturday, Apr. 25 2009 @ 5:03PM
(The old Cedar sign, before renovation)The original sign for the Cedar Cultural Center was once as iconic to the West Bank as the Uptown Theater marquee was to... Uptown. Like the rest of us, it has aged over the years, and not necessarily for the best. Towards the end the lights no longer worked, the corners were rusted, and there were rumors of angry animals living inside. Last fall, the Cedar set out to raise funds to give the sign the facelift it deserves.
Friday, Apr. 24 2009 @ 4:51PM
(photo by
lewis chaplin via Flickr)
Prom is a magical, tension-filled, crucial time in the lives of young teenagers on television. In the real world, it is remembered by many as that night you negotiated a curfew past midnight, spent a lot of money on an itchy dress or a rented tux, and danced barefoot on the hardwood floor of your school gym or at the hotel party room. We promise this Saturday night's prom will be far more grown up.
Friday, Apr. 24 2009 @ 4:42PM
(photo by
celine nadeau via Flickr)
Ground Zero is perhaps best known for Bondage A-Go-Go, a weekly Saturday night party that celebrates all things kinky with music, performances, and public whippings. This weekend, they get kink-specific with the 15th Annual Rubberball.
Friday, Apr. 17 2009 @ 12:00PM
(photo taken at a Pecha Kucha event in Cologne, Germany by pecha kucha cologne)Pecha Kucha was created in 2003 by a Japanese design firm. Originally intended as a networking event, participants were asked to give a presentation of 20 slides where ideas and information allotted for each slide was a mere 20 seconds. The result was a rapid-fire, exclamation of concepts well-suited for our generation's short attention spans.
Friday, Apr. 10 2009 @ 4:00PM
(photo courtesy of --Sam-- via Flickr)Remember the good old days when intellectuals contemplated weighty topics through a haze of cigar smoke, holding a brandy snifter close to the heart? No? Yeah, I guess not. How about that time you got wasted in college and ended up talking to your roommate about the nature of reality until 4:30 am? OK then. This club is a little bit like that, only more sophisticated and for grown-ups.
Friday, Apr. 10 2009 @ 3:48PM
(photo courtesy of Mulad via Flickr)It's been a violent, bone-breaking season (as usual) for the Minnesota RollerGirls, but all good things must come to an end. This Saturday will be the final showdown of the season.
Friday, Apr. 10 2009 @ 3:36PM
(photo courtesy of fibroblast via Flickr)There probably aren't many times where one would need to serve over 500 cocktails in an hour, but this upcoming Thursday will be one of those days. Bartender Chris Raph will serve an epic amount of cocktails in hopes of breaking the Guinness Book of World Records' current world record for most cocktails prepared in one hour.
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