Photo by Bill Raab, courtesy of Circus Juventas The Twin Cities are hopping this weekend: Minnesota Fringe Festival launches into its 176 shows in 16 venues across Minneapolis beginning Thursday. Loring Park Art Festival takes up residence in the park next to the Walker Art Center on Saturday and Sunday. In Northeast Minneapolis, a much-buzzed-about […]

Malcolm Myers painting “Jazz Night.” Photo courtesy of Grand Hand Gallery Grand Hand Gallery opened a worthwhile exhibition over the weekend, a themed retrospective of work by influential University of Minnesota art professor and internationally noted artist, Malcolm Myers (b. 1917 – d. 2002). “All That Jazz” features a selection of 20-some pieces — mostly paintings, […]

The Kirkbride Building in Fergus Falls. Photo by Tim Litt, courtesy of Springboard for the Arts Knight Arts grantee Springboard for the Arts got some digital ink from Minnesota Public Radio last week: the arts organization has just been awarded a $75,000 Our Town grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant will […]

Here’s a delightful bit of theater that may have flown under your radar: “Shade’s Brigade,” a staged “radio thriller” in the style of classic ’30s and ’40s broadcast serials. The show is the creation of Twin Cities theater stalwart Eric Webster and is presented by the Producing House. Each episode is performed live, on stage at the Jerome […]

At the entry of the Bindery Projects’ new exhibition of work by Los Angeles artist Nery Gabriel Lemus, the first thing you see is a small cotton tapestry, a textile rendering of a dark photograph of an urban underpass. The tapestry image is emblazoned with the title of the show in thick, white, block letters: […]

Little Brown Mushroom’s Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers culminates in a public event Saturday July 13 at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. This weekend, 15 “visual storytellers” from all over the world are convening at the headquarters of Little Brown Mushroom (LBM), an interdisciplinary publishing outfit based out of photographer Alec Soth’s St. Paul […]

I’ve got a perfect summer read for you – atmospheric and witty, satisfying and emotionally resonant. Twin Cities-based Sarah Stonich’s new book, “Vacationland,” is a novel in stories, all of which revolve around characters connected somehow to Naledi, a fading lakeside vacation getaway in Northern Minnesota, spitting distance from Ontario. Stonich draws each short tale […]