June 2011
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Literary Death Match: A bookish brawl at the Aster...
Minneapolis is chock full of amazing literary events, however one of my favorites doesn’t really stem from the Twin Cities at all: rather, its visit to our area is only one leg of this bookish behemoth. The Literary Death Match is much less violent than it sounds, but is as fun to watch as a schoolyard brawl (supposing you’re an unapologetic individual with a rubberneck and staring problem...
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Arts Orbit Radar 6/2/11
What’s happening this week
On the radar
Grand Old Day is the big brand-name event this weekend, but there’s a lot of buzz surounding the new Northern Spark festival: an all-night art orgy all along the Mississippi that seems like (not to stretch the metaphor) fertile ground for adventure.
In music, local singer-songwriter Caroline Smith is at the Entry on Thursday to air some of...
May 2011
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"Kung Fu Panda 2": A goose fathers a panda, and...
It’s no surprise that the success of Kung Fu Panda (2008) has led to a sequel, but with such an open-and-close story, there was some question as to where we’d find Po on his second outing. DreamWorks Animation could have thrown our panda protagonist into any number of stock action premises, selling tons of merchandise at the expense of the plot. Instead, Kung Fu Panda 2 offers a touching...
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All-time most-read Daily Planet arts/lifestyle...
Compiled out of curiosity.
1. Best bars for meeting single women (by Cyn Collins, 2009)
2. Interview: Atmosphere’s Sean Daley (a.k.a. Slug) (by Justin Schell, 2008)
3. Busted Magazine: 20 pages of Twin Cities mug shots for just $1 (by Jay Gabler, 2010)
4. Why I love Grey Gardens (and Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale) (by Rebecca Collins, 2009)
5. Hanna: Big girls...
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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Is it tacky for Adele to trade press access for...
Adele’s show on May 26 at First Avenue will make her the first artist ever to play that venue while simultaneously having the nation’s #1 single (“Rolling in the Deep”) and #1 album (21). The Daily Planet won’t be covering the show, because we didn’t make the list of press approved to cover the high-profile performance. If we had been selected to cover...
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Arts Orbit Radar 5/26/11
What’s happening this week
With more and more great features, reviews, and other content coming in every week, I’m moving to this abbreviated format indefinitely so as to free up more time to edit and post it all in a timely fashion. Also, there are a few other matters I should attend to:
Thanks to our talented and dedicated contributors!
It’s Memorial Day weekend, and the...
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Improbable's "The Devil and Mister Punch": Work,...
Red Eye Theater’s annual New Works 4 Weeks festival is coming up, and co-artistic-director Miriam Must has asked me not to review the works in progress. I agreed to that last year—and then sort of reneged. So this year I’m going again, but I’ve promised to write nothing whatsoever about the works in progress.
I’m sorry to be attending the performances under those...
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Bob Dylan's secret: How, at 70, he's more relevant...
I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now. Once, out of curiosity, I asked my mom what charity, in the event of my untimely death, she would suggest donations to in lieu of flowers. “Well,” she replied, “you don’t go to church, and Harvard doesn’t need the money.” She paused for a moment to think, then asked, “Does Bob Dylan take...
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The Tangential: Ways GAYNGS could spend their... →
thetangential:
Buying 100,000 bags of GAYNGS Funyons
Buying a vowel so they can be GAYINGS
Ordering GAYNGS logo thongs for everyone in the group, with tear-off track pants to wear over them
Buying a round of bubbly for the whole First Ave Mainroom to pour in their pants
Bribing press to get a little publicity for Justin Vernon’s obscure “Bon Iver” side project
Buying a beat-up VW minibus...
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New Theatre Group's "The Debate Over Courtney... →
Review by Matthew Everett.
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My ten most-listened artists I've never seen live
1. Tom Waits. Fat chance of ever seeing this guy, unless I’m willing to travel out of state or unless he goes broke and needs some quick cash—which he doesn’t seem dumb enough to do.
2. Talking Heads. This could happen only conceivably, under as-yet-unknown circumstances; Tina Weymouth and David Byrne kind of hate each other (via longstanding sexual tension), and it was all...
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