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Walker Art Center By: Jeff Photos by: Kyle Matteson The announcement that My Morning Jacket was going to headline this year’s Rock the Garden was all I needed to hear to make this the first one I’d attend. I’d never seen MMJ live, but I’ve heard enough people sing the praises of their live show, [...]

You may have noticed, if you tried to visit the site at all yesterday, that all you got was a white page with a picture of a country road, saying that we were “Just another WordPress site.” At that point, sadly, we were, as all of our electronic posts and ramblings were shifting between servers, [...]

Sometimes you just have to get out of the place where you are and get someplace else, especially if where you’re going is someplace with killer art, food and people, amongst other things. In that spirit, since the mid-career retrospective Glenn Ligon: America was closes at the Whitney this weekend, and because of all the [...]

Staciaann is an unabashed gleek, and so when the Glee touring show came through town on Wednesday, she strapped on her camera and headed down to the Target Center to document the vocal-fireworks-and-confetti-cannons song-and-dance show for City Pages. Check out her review here and the full slideshow here. Those kids know how to work a [...]

Thanks so much to all those who were able to make it over to CakeIn15′s Memorial Day BBQ!  We had a lot of fun – large bags of cheeseballs, ketchup chips, SO many buns, handstands, cupcakes, sparklers, fireworks, dark & stormys, photos, puppies, drawings of octopi,  smores, vinyl, and so much more. Eat more food! [...]

Something tells me that the man from the North Country kind of hates getting old, and that the attention and well wishes make it worse. Maybe he loves it, though, You can never tell behind the rasp and sunglasses like that, and he just keeps on keepin’ on, so the song goes. Happy Birthday Bob, [...]

Communist Daughter White Light Riot

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 Through, Get Old, Get Lifted & Get Gone It’s the last day of SXSW and despite running on only a couple hours of sleep every night and an increasing sense of delirious desperation about timetables and covering shows, it’s still sunny and warm and that’s really enough to get going. That, [...]