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Ed. note: Yes, we know this is late. It just goes to prove what we’ve been telling ourselves: Do it now. If you put it off once, you’ll put it off again. West African funerals (and a lot of rites of passing outside our dreary funeral dirges) are all out wild parties, a riotous display [...]

Staciaann shoots a lot (A LOT!) of shows and now there’s a handy way to see what’s up and what she’s shot, her brand new “Staciaann Photography Is Delicious” Tumblr! It’s shiny and will give you a preview shot of a set and then link you either to the slideshow for the publication, or to [...]

In Which We Get Spun, Get Off, Get Orchestral & Get Short Friday is the day that SXSW starts to show it’s seams a bit, with some cancellations, changes in plans and last minute scrambles to see bands. For instance, Middle Brother was supposed to perform on the KUT stage at 10:35 in the morning, [...]

In Which We Get Delayed, Get Warm, Get Lovely & Get Geeky Doggerel, MSP-AUS, SXSW The shaky lean, precipitous climb the hopes of bands on the rise and there the cemetery far below, filled with soldiers, far from home. The plotted houses, a frozen swing, ordered lives, the old man’s sting driven fast into the [...]

The Cliché boutique “Avoid the Grey” runway show is always a good mid-winter pick-me-up, a way to kick off the new year with a taste of some of the more established Twin Cities designing talents and also some getting their first breaks. The fifth edition of the event, held on Saturday at the Old Arizona [...]

Earlier today, Domino and Dearling Physique premiered this video for “Discipline Your Hands” from the new Dead-Eye Dealer release at the Apple Store in Uptown. The video features knitwear designs from Kevin Kramp, arguably the most exciting designer, if not the most polarizing, working right now in the Twin Cities, and Hilary Falk, who has [...]

(…not to be confused with Black Nativity.) The lovely ladies of Blacklist Vintage cordially invite you out to their store at 1st Avenue & 26th Street for their annual “Black Christmas” shopping event, where they and the stylists from l’etoile will act as personal shoppers for the evening. Get a 10% discount on items, enjoy [...]

Fighting the Culture Wars, Again orLive Free or Die Trying “Shut it down!” When Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough ordered that A Fire In My Belly, a 13 minute video by artist David Wojnarowicz with a soundtrack by Diamanda Galas, be removed from the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” at the National [...]

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Fashion reviews always make me snarky. I’ll admit it and I can’t help it- as much as I hate to say things that may seem to unfairly undercut the hard work that someone has put into presenting their artistic labors, fashion seems uniquely positioned for this kind quipping. It combines the general pretentiousness of art [...]