UPDATE: We have a winner — Cate McKinney of Minneapolis! She watched and won, and so can you. Our next contest for local tickets goes online Friday. Our third weekly contest is here, and we’ve got a prize worth your time — two tickets to see Hedda Gabler, which runs Feb. 11-14 at the Southern [...]
Archive for January, 2010
28 Jan
Body Cartography: Half Life
Otto Ramstad and Olive Bieringa — a couple collectively known as the Body Cartography — have always made environmentally inspired dances. Their new work, 1/2 Life, is born from more than five years of scientific and social exploration involving nuclear war and energy. 3-Minute Egg caught glimpses of the work and spoke with the pair [...]
27 Jan
Monday = Wednesday
Michael Lewis, J.T. Bates and Adam Linz started playing jazz together as kids and, in 2000, began performing as the trio Fat Kid Wednesdays every Monday night in the basement “Clown Lounge” of the Turf Club. Those late-night Monday sessions are still going strong, despite success and commitments in other musical avenues for all three [...]
26 Jan
Visualizing Print
Georgette Sosin and Robyn Stoller Awend are Jewish artists whose faith play into their artwork. Sosin’s latest work, part of her Shared Heritage exhibition at the Tychman Shapiro Gallery, derive from Neil Douglas-Klotz’s book Prayers for the Cosmos. Awend recently merged printmaking, photography and sculpture into an exhibition at Form+Content based on an Abraham Sutzkever [...]
25 Jan
Stepping into Heaven
Longtime local choreographer Judith Brin Ingber has made some of her most poignant work in collaboration with artists from other disciplines. She and composer Alex Lubet are behind People of the Book, an evening of performance and visual art also featuring work from Stuart Pimsler and Hmong spoken word duo Gobrosis. Ingber’s artistic contribution is [...]
22 Jan
Weekly quiz No.2
UPDATE: We have a winner — Michael Croswell of St. Paul! He watched and won, and so can you. Our next contest for local tickets goes online Friday. Our second weekly contest is here, and we’ve got quite a prize for your winning effort — two tickets to see Macbeth at the Guthrie! Here’s what [...]
21 Jan
Dessa Darling
Dessa Darling has evolved from slam poet to essayist to rapper and singer. Her new CD, A Badly Broken Code, is a tuneful mix of rap, R&B and poetic musings. 3-Minute Egg peeks into a rehearsal for Dessa’s CD release show Friday at the Fine Line. Members of Heiruspecs make up her backing band.
20 Jan
Red Pens
Howard Hamilton and Laura Bennett connected over mutual admiration for each others’ visual art, but the two have made a larger splash through their music. The duo, known as the Red Pens, performed last weekend at First Avenue through Radio K’s showcase of the “best bands of 2009.” 3-Minute Egg was in the front row, [...]
19 Jan
Art Shanty Projects
The warmest opening day in the history of the Art Shanty Projects inspired a record number of people to trek onto a frozen Medicine Lake this past Saturday to check out the hangouts and hovels built by artists, architects, students and others. 3-Minute Egg gives you a glimpse at many of them. There’s Shanty programming [...]
18 Jan
Adding to the 20 Percent
Women and transgendered people make up only 20 percent of the working directors and playwrights out there — that’s according to Claire Avitabile, the founding director of 20% Theatre Company, whose aim is to balance the scales. Toward that end, 20% is showcasing its Fresh Five — five one-act plays written and directed by people [...]
