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If you are sitting around in Minneapolis and not quite sure what to do with yourselves tonight, let us offer a couple suggestions for you. Obviously, we brought you an interview with Grieves & Budo yesterday, so if you are looking for a hip-hop show, that’s going to be your bag, and then there are [...]

Despite the mourning in his name and the sly, dark poetry of his lyrics, which go straight for the gut and the heart, sometimes by way of the bottle, Grieves is a funny guy. The man born Benjamin Laub may be “batshit crazy”, as he claims, but also genuinely funny in conversation, especially when backed [...]

“That whole idea of decade packaging, things don’t happen that way…that packaging of time is a journalist convenience that they use to trivialize and to dismiss important events and important ideas. I defy that.” -Utah Phillips, “Bridges” from The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere Journalist convenience or not, a decade is about to come up on [...]

Alright, so the Fringe Festival and I haven’t always had the best of relationships. Suspicious as I am of large organizations of wildly enthused people and competitive art-making (which, with the time-limits and winner’s encore slot, the Fringe is) I’ve generally avoided the event, or at least, only gotten into it when I need to. [...]

If you’re looking for an affable, wind-through-your-hair, off-to-see-America, summer-driving kind of record, look no further than Joey Ryan and the Inks‘ latest offering, Dennis Lane. Filled with catchy hooks, that sunny disposition from Beach Boy harmonizing and filled with oblique and sweet lyrics from tunes like “Jester In The Wind”, Dennis Lane also has an [...]

The annual Vita.mn List of Lists edition hit news-stands this week and CakeIn15 was happily surprised to see that we had been nominated (in great company) to the “Best Local Blogs” list. Thanks to everyone who reads us and made that happen, it is an honor.   For more Vita.mn and CakeIn15 related goodness, be [...]

Here is a piece of shameless self-promotion and cross-posting, but hey, if you’ve got a platform, use it. As has been noted before, CakeIn15 scribe cas wears several different hats and one of them is as an actor with Savage Umbrella, an upstart company of artists dedicated to new theatre experiences. Savage Umbrella has their [...]

Living in Los Angeles in 2003 was a painful time- a seething frustration with war and America, a personal sense of anguish and hopelessness under the crusted, sticky orange skies and, to top it all off, Elliott Smith was dead. Elliott Smith, who murky death by knife through heart was so stupidly poetic and overblown [...]

Photo by Christian Erickson at a CakeIn15 BBQ! Ever wonder what C15 founder, editor and Jane-of-all-trades Staciaann was up to? This City Pages “100 Creatives” feature has your answer!

CakeIn15 was delighted to learn, along with the rest of the twitterverse, that 89.3 the Current would be welcoming a new DJ into their regular rotation. DJ Jake Rudh, the stylish mastermind behind the Mad Men premiere parties, veteran behind the wheels of steel and leader of the ever-popular mod & glam dance night Transmission [...]