Don't skimp on my full list of recommendations below, but here's a recap of what to see this weekend at the Oak Street Cinema-based Sound Unseen festival of music and film (complete official schedule here): Friday: T.Rex movie, with afterparty at Four Seasons. Saturday: Musical animation classics and more at the Walker Art Center from noon to 9:00 p.m. (also Sunday). A 1:15 p.m. screening of The Point, the 1971 16mm animated classic narrated by Ringo Starr. 930 F Streeet, a new doc about the Washington, D.C. venue the 9:30 Club (the First Avenue of D.C.) at 9:30 p.m. Shawn Hewitt and the National Strike perform preceded by videos at the Entry. Sunday: More musical animation/avant-garde classics at the Walker Art Center from noon to 9:00 p.m. Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth, a doc on the P-Funk keyboardist, screens at 5:30 p.m. Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan screens at 5:45 p.m. at the Bell. The 2005 hip-hop doc Tragedy: The Story of Queensbridge (screens at 9:00 p.m. Then there's an afterparty at Pizza Luce downtown, with reggae DJ Tony Paul.

City Pages reviews the films, Terri Sutton riffs on docs about dead dudes, and the Sound Unseen festival site otherwise runs down its full schedule of movies and music from Friday, Oct. 7 through Sunday, Oct. 16. To sort it all out, here's an opinionated guide to everything essential about the fest (and you might as well mark your calendars now for Shawn Hewitt at the Entry on Saturday, DJ Spooky's live "remix" of The Birth of a Nation at the Varsity on Monday, and Scene Minneapolis, 1977-1984 at the Oak Street on Thursday, Oct. 13). All films screen at Oak Street Cinema unless otherwise noted... More >>

My profile of Desdamona in today's City Pages is a giant, belated arrow pointing to somebody you gotta hear. Watch the end of this B-Girl Be video for a taste of her awesomeness (with Carnage beatboxing). She performs this Saturday at the Leaning Tower of Pizza (the one in Stadium Village, 2501 University Ave SE, 612.331.7474--no, I didn't know they had live music, either) with a nice hip-hop lineup: Ray Vanderedez, St. Paul's Guardians of Balance (G.O.B.), New York transplant Trama, Golden, Lady D, and Special Dark of KFAI on the wheels of steel. You can also catch Desdamona with live modern R&B band New Congress at Bunker's every Thursday (I'll have to miss it this week) and every Tuesday hosting a freeform open mic night at the Blue Nile. See her web site, her freely-venting blog, and her audio-handy myspace page for more.

Like most Atmosphere articles, the new cover story in Urb (currently on newstands that haven't run out of copies) is remarkable mainly for its placement (hey, cover of Urb) and the latest Dan Monick photos of Ant and Slug in Minneapolis. But the man known to former roommates as Sean Daley kicks off his typically freewheeling phone interview by identifying "Lucy," the object of so much lyrical obsession, as follows: "Everybody's like 'Who is she?' I [usually] say she's not a real girl, that Lucy is really hip-hop or that she's my cat. No, Lucy runs fucking Muddy Waters." Which confirms what I always thought, but never broached with either Slug or Lucy, because in the end, does it really matter? Go watch either version of Solaris if you think your image of a loved one is the whole person. The correct answer is that Lucy is Slug. (And if she sings songs about him in her new band, then that character is her, too.) Update Friday: Listen to Atmosphere's studio appearance on the Current. Read the Star Tribune report on Rhymesayers' sales boom and expansion.