INTERVIEW: Ilima Considine as the Sexbots on SXSW, Summertime, and More Arts Lifestyle Music Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 Ilima Considine with PDX Dance Collective. Photo by Micah Goldstein. Two weeks after the 2017 installment of South by Southwest closed its doors, it's still the post-recovery (and/or hangover) period for festival attendees. Since its founding in 1987, this Austin, Texas-based festival has grown from a small new music festival to one
NEWS: Walker Art Center Transforms into Giant Robot, Stops Monster Menace (April Fools) Arts Dance Dining Lifestyle Movies Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 The W.A.L.K.E.R. giant robot prepares to deal a finishing blow to the monster that menaced Minneapolis this morning. The Minneapolis Monster Menace has come to an end. In a stunning development, the Walker Art Center transformed into a giant robot and defeated the monster menacing Uptown in a climactic battle on
BREAKING NEWS: Giant Monster Menaces Uptown (April Fools) Dining Lifestyle Visual Arts by Hanne Appelbaum - April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 Citizen reporter Johnny Pommegraine's iPhone picture of the monster after it emerged from the Walker Art Center's Sculpture Garden. A giant monster has hatched from an egg discovered during I-94 construction and is menacing Uptown Minneapolis. The egg was discovered by an MnDOT construction crew working on the Lowry Hill Tunnel. The crew broke
BREAKING NEWS: I-94 Construction Uncovers Monstrous Egg (April Fools) Lifestyle Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 A construction worker's photo of the egg discovered during work on the Lowry Hill Tunnel. A monstrous, crystalline egg was discovered this evening by MnDOT construction crews working on repairs to I-94 in Minneapolis. The giant orb was uncovered during scheduled work on the Lowry Hill Tunnel near the Walker Art
TRAVEL: Lines, Precheck, and Global Entry Lifestyle by Twin Cities Arts Reader - February 11, 2017February 11, 2017 An advertising banner on the TSA website. Even before recent political events, US air travel had some problems with lines. TSA lines. They're not likely to get better while the federal government is in the middle of a hiring freeze. Almost a year after chronic understaffing and 2+ hour screening lines at
NEWS: The Changing of the Iveys – Scott Mayer Steps Down Arts Dance Lifestyle Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 21, 2016 Nathan Barlow rides in on a white horse in this publicity photo for the 2016 Ivey Awards. Scott Mayer has announced that he will be stepping down as the lead organizer and producer of the Ivey Awards. Mayer founded the Ivey Awards for local theatre in 2004 and has been the lead organizer
FEATURE: Anti-Women’s Suffrage Cartoons Arts Lifestyle Music Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - November 8, 2016November 8, 2016 Today is Election Day in the United States, when Americans cast votes for presidential, congressional, state, and local elections. Art and politics are rarely separated for long; one form of art, editorial cartoons, feature a long history of engagement with politics. One of the fallacies often said of art is that
PREVIEW: The Museum Sage @ MIA Arts Lifestyle Visual Arts by Hanne Appelbaum - November 6, 2016November 9, 2016 Museum Sage is coming to the Minneapolis Institute of Art on December 2nd. This service promises to help you answer important life questions in an unusual manner – by taking you through an art gallery with your eyes closed, then allowing you to select the artwork with your answer in
FEATURE: Provocative Ideas at ASTR Conference Arts Lifestyle Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - November 4, 2016November 4, 2016 Kellen Hoxworth of Stanford University presents his paper "Transoceanic Blackface; or, The Silver Belt Jig" at ASTR 2016. The early morning session at an academic conference is usually considered the kiss of death for attendance, but more than 150 people showed up for the opening plenary on Day 2 of the
PREVIEW: 2016 Fall Wine Tasting @ Chanhassen Dinner Theatres Lifestyle by Twin Cities Arts Reader - October 21, 2016October 21, 2016 The Twin Cities have hit peak foliage, but there's still time to enjoy a taste of fall before winter strikes. If your preferences run in a vintage vein, say of the quaffable, liquid sort, you might want to think about what you're doing next Thursday, October 27. That's when The