Finding the peace: Qigong is subject of upcoming conference
Every weekend, Normandale Community College in West Bloomington transforms into an unlikely epicenter of alternative health and spirituality, with classes and workshops in everything from yoga and tai...
View ArticleTalking with the taxman about poetry — and deductions
“Talking With The Taxman About Poetry” is the whimsically named 1986 album by Billy Bragg and 1926 poem by Russian and Soviet poet Vladimir Vladimirovich, but there’s nothing whimsical about the...
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Coming soon: Love is (truly) the law
It’s perfect, really.The Suburbs’ 1983 anthem “Love Is the Law” is poised to become the unofficial theme song of the moment when the bill to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota becomes law, which could...
View ArticleChris Kluwe’s farewell musical moment turns into a tribal, cathartic event
“I’m gonna sing on this one — don’t judge me. It’s not my fault, I was born with this voice,” Chris Kluwe told a couple hundred people packed into Cause nightclub in Minneapolis Tuesday night at the...
View ArticleRush-hour reality: Jobless Joe is one of the desperate begging at freeway exits
Rush-hour drivers coming off 35W via the Lake Street exit Monday evening were met by 32-year-old Joe.He wouldn’t give his last name, but he held a sign that read “Laid Off Homeless Single Dad 4 KIDS” —...
View ArticleThe Suburbs and Mayor Coleman lead celebratory crowd in 'Love Is the Law'
A little before 10 p.m. Tuesday in downtown St. Paul’s Ecolab Plaza, after ebullient sets by Hookers & Blow, P.O.S., Zoo Animal, The Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus and more, St. Paul mayor Chris...
View ArticlePowderhorn Park community sing: What better way to bond with a bunch of...
As anyone who found themselves singing “Love Is the Law” in downtown St. Paul Tuesday night — live and in person or virtually — there is nothing quite so medicinal, in an old-school tiger-balm way of...
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'Urban Cycles,' on New Yorker's cover, is the work of MN native Marcellus Hall
If this week’s cover of The New Yorker has something of a Minneapolis feel, it’s because it was created by Minneapolis native Marcellus Hall, a Washburn High grad, musician, illustrator, and longtime...
View ArticleGrant Hart Q&A: New day rising for Hüsker Dü co-founder
Grant Hart has made a name for himself as co-founder of Hüsker Dü, the Minneapolis punk trio whose stormy split is as storied as its music. At the moment, Hart is rising from the ashes of some personal...
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Driftwood nights: Music reigns, characters change at this true American original
MinnPost photo by Jim WalshIn it for the music, and for the long haul: Driftwood talent booker Larry Sahagian and bar owner Heidi Fields.In his beautiful 2005 memoir, "The Tender Bar," J.R. Moehringer...
View ArticleSupport for Venus DeMars' tax fight to include music, auction at Triple Rock
Venus DeMars’ Facebook profile photo says it all: a portrait of the Minneapolis-based transgender singer/songwriter/bandleader/painter, covered by a placard that reads, “Not An Artist.”When we last...
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Riff Randell forever: P.J. Soles on 'Rock 'n' Roll High School'
Someday soon, P.J. Soles will start writing a memoir tentatively titled “The ‘Totally’ Girl,” based on her life as the actress most of the world knows as the teenager who brought “totally” into the...
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'Jim Hill’s daydream': A sneak peek at sculptor Aldo Moroni’s trippy history...
According to it’s official website, St. Paul is “the most livable city in America.” But in the hands of sculptor Aldo Moroni, the stomping grounds of Fitzgerald, Keillor, and Soucheray is currently...
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Bob Dylan homecoming: Postcards from Duluth
DULUTH — It was a dramatic and genuinely breathtaking sight Tuesday night around 11 p.m., that of Bob Dylan and his big band on stage at Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth. The 72-year-old music legend...
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Tears for Trayvon and Terrance as ralliers in Minneapolis call for justice
Fourteen-year-old Abryana Cohen started crying softly when she told me her age and I commented that she’s around the same age as Trayvon Martin, who was killed by George Zimmerman last February and...
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Who are those high-wire cats in local parks and beaches? Slackliners
“Awesome,” whispered a bicyclist breezing through the bowl of Lyndale Farmstead Park in South Minneapolis last Saturday, as Mark McKee slowly but confidently walked an 80-foot slackwire suspended...
View Article20 facts for the owner of the Slim Dunlap poster
What you hold in your hand, what you or some smart museum curator purchased via the Songs For Slim auction house shortly after it went up for bid in late summer 2013, is an incredible artifact of rock...
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Johnny Rey is the Twin Cities' latest musical 'old dog' to try new tricks
The Suburbs are back. The Replacements are back. The old dogs of the Minneapolis music scene are hoisting their collective middle fingers to middle age yet again, none with less fanfare than Johnny...
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Musician Tom Mason is having time of his life — as a pirate
Tom Mason was a fixture on the Twin Cities rock scene throughout the '80s, playing with Paul Westerberg in their short-lived pop outfit Rock Island, touring with songwriter/guitarist Jeff Waryan in...
View ArticleFired after she came out to colleagues, Totino-Grace teacher leaves...
After enduring the Catholic school version of “don’t ask/don’t tell” for several years, Totino-Grace High School English/religion teacher Kristen Ostendorf unexpectedly came out to her colleagues at...
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