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February 3, 2011 – By JMM In 2008, when I took my then six year-old son to see Speed Racer the movie, he sat transfixed staring at the screen for the entire 2+ hour run time. At the conclusion of the movie, he stood up and loudly proclaimed, “Wow! That’s not at all like the [...]

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -Martin Luther King Jr. Read the “Letter from Birmingham Jail“. Washington Post on drafting the “I Have a Dream” speech. Watch Martin Luther King Jr’s last speech. 1959 MLK interview at KTCA. Then-Senator Obama’s speech on race in America today. Remembering [...]

Hey kids, as promised, here’s another ticket giveaway!  This time you get the chance to see the amazing Cloud Cult at First Avenue!  It’s an all ages show, so anyone can enter.  Our friends from Fort Wilson Riot open the show and have a new remix of their tune “Forgotten Language” by DJ Compact Dics [...]

When I was in high school my friend Amy gave me a copy of a cassette of the album “A Man Called (E).”  I wasn’t sure who this guy was, or why I found his music interesting. It seemed simple & easy, but I kept walking around singing it. I never really heard any more [...]

Current DJ David Campbell welcomed Cake In 15′s own Staciaann into the studio for The Local Show on September 26, 2010.  Staciaann talked about how she got involved in the local music scene, getting started in photography, and this very blog.  She was also asked to choose music to play during her hour. Local show [...]

In keeping with the last post, here is something I stumbled across while surfing the web yesterday, and broke down weeping as I watched it. StoryCorps is a project of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Public Radio and the Library of Congress to capture an oral history of the lives lived in America, an [...]

Since its inception not-so-long ago, Moon Glyph has dared to only release music via the “dead” medium of the cassette tape.  Even so, they’ve found great success, and worked with some wonderful local and national acts.  Having mastered the art of the tape, the boys decided it was time to make a comp, but do [...]

We’re no Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, but we do like to eat and like it even more when we get to try out food before a restaurant opens. The Depot Tavern, the much anticipated restaurant/bar from the fine folks at First Avenue opens up to the public on Friday and it does a lot for our [...]

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” -Martin Luther King Jr. Gimme Noise posted this yesterday, but it is worth sending out as many times as possible to as many people as possible. Shot over the Minneapolis May Day parade, here [...]

For more information on how to get tickets to this special event, please email staciaann@cakein15.com.