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“…Camp taste draws on a mostly unacknowledged truth of taste: the most refined form of sexual attractiveness (as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure) consists in going against the grain of one’s sex. What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something [...]

…that we may or may not get to. We make no promises. Saturday: Big Quarters Saturday: Magic Castles Saturday + Sunday: Memory Lanes Block Party Sunday: Soundset 2009

West Bank.  Tonight. Seriously, this is ruckus.  This is all kinds of mad swinging, arms in the air chanting, sweet harmonies, rhythm hoodoo sweat getting real rowdy and dance and pray we all live.  Watch your back, there’s music out there tonight. Jeremy Messersmith with KaiserCartel at the Cedar Cultural Center Messersmith has been nigh [...]

Now that the brains behind the always-free, live music haven the 331 Club in NorthEast have taken over the old Matty B’s restaurant downtown and christened it the 501 Club, tonight’s a good night to check it out. Cyn Collins, West Bank author and mainstay has curated a KFAI Radio sponsored show of old-timey programming [...]

Oh, Saturday morning, what to do tonight? The Bedlam’s Surrealist Party?Rumble on the Southside at Art of This? Or the Rift 36 Hour Songwriting Competition? And that isn’t even the half of it. It’s gotta be spring, with so much happening, and it’s about time. So get some sun now and then go out and [...]

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Clapperclaw Music + Arts Festival is pairing with avant-garde theatre group Lamb Lays with Lion to throw F*ck You I Love Me, a Valentine’s Day Carnival.  Music by the Battle Royale, Koo Koo Kanga Roo and Loveless Aphrodite, carnival games, haikus, costumed cupids, open bar, you know- a [...]

Isn’t it some sort of bad sign that it’s Friday the 13th the day before Valentines Day?  Are more people dumped because of the ill-omens and dark portents of such a day, increasing the misery of the Hallmarkiest of Hallmark holidays?  Let’s diagram this out.  If (a) is the general dark spirit of Satan lurking [...]

Gonna let the poster do the talking: Ritz Theatre 345 13th Ave NE Minneapolis MN 55413 Thursday, Jan. 22 – Sunday, Jan. 25 8:00 PM $25.00  (No one under the age of 18 will be admitted)

…like I am the Lizard King. Seriously, if this was Zach Galifianakis, we’d be laughing.  But it’s not.  It’s just sad.

Lamb Lays with Lion‘s “in poor taste if it wasn’t so funny” The Little Skeleton That Could Not opens up a night of music with To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie and Milwaukee-based Insurgent Theatre‘s “Call To Action to the Radical Core of the Creative Class” Paint The Town. Violence, mayhem, dancing and aesthetic terrorism ensue, [...]