New summer Egg schedule

3-Minute Egg is turning down the heat for the summer. We’re producing new Eggs every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday through June and taking most of July off to focus on the business of frying these Eggs. So keep your subscriptions up — we’re still turning out new Eggs, just fewer of them during the slower summer months.

And mark your calendar for the debut of 3-Minute Egg on the Minnesota Channel of Twin Cities Public Television: 9 pm Saturday, with repeat airings 3 am, 9 am and 3 pm Sunday — starting June 6. Set your TiVos and DVRs!

We’ll see you soon around the Twin Cities Arts SEEN.

- matt

Dakota Jazz Combo

Some of the best high school jazz musicians in the state learned from the pros through a program run through the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education. The Dakota Combo, as the students are collectively called, capped the program with a concert at MacPhail Center for Music. 3-Minute Egg was there. You can catch these high schoolers again June 19 in St. Paul’s Mears Park as part of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival.

A Hmong Journey of the Heart

May Lee-Yang is a playwright by choice and a reluctant performer who co-mingles both roles in her new show, Sia(b) — pronounced SHE-uh — A Journey for the Hmong Heart, on stage May 30 through June 7 at St. Paul’s Gremlin Theater. 3-Minute Egg, which first met the playwright/performer through Intermedia Arts’ Naked Stages series, got reacquainted during a rehearsal at Carleton Artist Lofts.

Black Label Movement

Carl Flink was a dancer in Minneapolis and New York before he became a lawyer. He has since straddled both lines, in a sense, infusing the dances he makes with themes of social justice. Field Songs is the newest work he’s put on his Black Label Movement, on stage May 29 through June 7 at the Southern Theater. 3-Minute Egg dropped into the Barbara Barker Center to catch a rehearsal and speak with Flink, who now also chairs the dance and theater program at the University of Minnesota. Live music for this piece comes from the Jinnies.

No Memorial Day Egg

So turn off the computer already and soak up some holiday sun. We’ll be back Tuesday with a fresh Egg exploring the work of Carl Flink and his Black Label Movement.

Klipper goes to Antarctica

Stuart Klipper is a Minneapolis photographer who has made a half-dozen sojourns to Antarctica, on funding from the National Science Foundation. The view of the Deepest South through Klipper’s lens comes through in his recent photo book — THE ANTARCTIC: From the Circle to the Pole — which Klipper discussed with 3-Minute Egg before a reading at Magers & Quinn.

Improv-a-Go-Go

The Brave New Workshop was the nation’s first home of improvisational theater, but it wasn’t until the founding of Improv-a-Go-Go — 8 pm every Sunday — that Minneapolis began to develop a scene around that improv. 3-Minute Egg attended the 7th anniversary show of Improv-a-Go-Go this past Sunday and spoke with its founder, Butch Roy, about the series’ impact on the local improv scene.

Art-a-Whirl: Part 3

In our third and final Egg from Art-a-Whirl 2009, we peek into a bronze pour by Rabi Sanfo, a West African native, and the studios of several artists in the Casket Arts Building.

Art-a-Whirl: Part 2

The second in our three-part Egg basket from Art-a-Whirl 2009 detours from the main drag of warehouse spaces to farthest reaches of “Nordeast” Minneapolis, to the home studio of Laurie Svedberg, who has spent much of the past three decades turning her living space into a work of art. Our series concludes Wednesday with an excursion to the Casket Arts Building.

Art-a-Whirl: Part 1

The people who put on Art-a-Whirl claim it’s the largest open-studios event in the United States. 3-Minute Egg certainly won’t argue the point. It’ll take us three Eggs this week just to give a slice of the Art-a-Whirl life. Our series begins with stops in the Grain Belt and California Buildings. Look for more Eggs from Art-a-Whirl 2009 Tuesday and Wednesday.