A sampling of acts at the Twin Cities Jewish Humor Festival. If the weather has you down, you can escape for a week by diving into the Twin Cities Jewish Humor Festival. The festival's 2018 incarnation features stand-up comedians, a film delving the darkest sources of humor, a hit show about
Movies
REVIEW: Soaring The Last Jedi Reignites the Flame (Spoiler-Free)
NEWS: Walker Art Center Transforms into Giant Robot, Stops Monster Menace (April Fools)
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
PREVIEW: 2017 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
A production still from The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki. The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, which bills itself as the Midwest's largest international film event, returns April 13-29, 2017. This year's festival includes 10 feature films and a variety of shorts. Films will be presented at five
EDITOR’S NOTE: 8 Months In
It's been eight months since we founded the Twin Cities Arts Reader. That's a nice round number – we have eight people on our team, too. Some of us are more visible than others. Some of us are more active than others! Together, we've built some of the largest and most expansive performing
PREVIEW: Arts Board Film Festival
The Minnesota State Arts Board has announced the schedule for the 2016 Arts Board Film Festival, a free exposition of films by 32 filmmakers and groups of filmmakers who received Arts Board grants between 2013 and 2015. Films range from 1-minute dance films (of which there are 10) to 20-minute excerpts
Van Gogh/MIA Redux
Vincent van Gogh has featured prominently in several exhibitions and events at the Minneapolis Institute of Art over the past year. Van Gogh's 1890 painting Irises made an appearance on loan and the museum went big with a giant, farmer's field-sized recreation of the painter's Olive Trees – a truly memorable spin on art.
PREVIEW: Rare Musical Films at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres will show four compilations of rare music films at the Fireside Theatre on select Sunday afternoons in 2016 at 3 pm. Each showing is followed by dinner, and is introduced by film historian Bob DeFlores. The showtimes are: Sunday, February 7: The Soundies - Jukebox musical films of the 1940s Sunday, May 8: Great Comedy