Cake In 15

Ladies & gentlemen, this arrived in our inboxes today: the entirety of Mark Mallman‘s discography in one 5 hour, 45 minute YouTube video. Take in that thought for a minute and then just be unsurprised that this came from a guy who has put on 72-hour marathon live shows and also be happy that it’s [...]

Last Friday night about 1200 people filled the First Avenue Mainroom and 7th Street Entry in order to catch eight local bands who are either heading down to or hoping to head down to Austin, TX next week for South by Southwest. It was the Vita.mn SXSW Send-Off and the CakeIn15 crew were there because, [...]

There is a difficulty to surprise, in that if you expect it, it won’t surprise. This is at the crux of of the encounter of Lifelike at the Walker Art Center, a show about works of art that are not what they seem to be. It is a conservative survey -curator Siri Engberg made a [...]

Dear American Idiot, I have some questions for you. Why? Why, why, why? Are you performed without an intermission so that people are discouraged from leaving halfway through? Did anyone ever tell you about character development? Did the irony of doing a musical criticizing American thoughtlessness using undeveloped narrative cliché about slackers never occur to [...]

“I have more of a response,” the woman in the black hat starts at the talkback for Ballad of the Pale Fisherman at the Illusion Theater on Thursday night. “I,” she hesitates and from behind, her shoulders start to shudder and she tries to catch her breath and voice, “I am from New England, and [...]

It’s fashion week in Minnesota, do you know where your kids are? Last Saturday, the University of Minnesota fashion students were showing off the fruits of their studies, like a final exam, job interview and leap into public life all rolled into one. The look of student fashion show seems to fall into a similar [...]

The 3am frost crackles on my face, the scant ice crunches underneath my feet. My heart is beating too fast already; the cold is threatening, and I am in an alleyway hoping that I have found the right house. A back porch light comes on at the house as I approach, not accusingly or harshly, [...]

Since winter has been especially kind to cyclists this season, some cyclists are paying it forward with a gift of their own: burlesque. In that vein, here’s the latest in an occasional series of posts highlighting local Kickstarter projects we love, tipping a helmet to Wheel Sexy Cabaret, a burlesque event by the bike community [...]

“Don’t write about people who have paid you money,” was the watchword running through my head at the sold-out Poliça show at First Avenue on Tuesday night. “Or if you are going to write about them, at least let people know.” So, two years ago when Roma di Luna was getting ready to release Then [...]

The Dangers of Being Earnest or Wildean Women May Not Judge… If Mitt Romney’s fortune was made on a piece of insider trading, wouldn’t you want to know? Doesn’t Newt Gingrich taking exorbitant sums of money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as a “consulting historian” smack of self-aggrandizing conflict of interest? Do the adulterous [...]