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3-Minute Egg no longer actively publishes new material. Our archives are temporarily unviewable here because we’re no longer associated with our previous our video host, Blip.tv. However, I’m working to upload every Egg video to YouTube, and I’ll eventually re-link those videos to this site. Meanwhile, I’m preserving the URL …

More Marimba: Stephen Paulus

Marimba players from all over the world are in the Twin Cities for the Marimba 2010 International Festival and Conference. Some of the music comes local composers. In the first of two Eggs related to the festival, 3-Minute Egg brings you to the Cathedral of St. Paul to hear marimba …

Dance a capella

James Sewell Ballet, the male choir Cantus and composer Mary Ellen Childs have collaborated on new work, titled Air — on stage this weekend as part of a larger Sewell Ballet program at The O’Shaughnessy. 3-Minute Egg went to Wednesday’s run-through and talked with the three masterminds behind this engaging …

Saint Paul City Ballet

Lorant Andaházy and Anna Andrianova Andaházy founded Andaházy Ballet, in St. Paul, in 1947. St. Paul City Ballet and has since thrived in the space in the Mac-Groveland neighborhood, but only a few years ago did the school expand into a full performance company. Jennifer Rockwell and Ross Edwards, a married …

King and his court

Dave King is the Twin Cities’ most musical drummer and at the center of the Twin Cities’ avant garde jazz scene. This weekend the Walker Art Center is giving you double doses of King — nearly every band or project he performs with will be on stage. 3-Minute Egg is …

The University of Wing Young Huie

Wing Young Huie made his mark in the 1990s with his groundbreaking photo documentary of St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood. Several years later, he took on the entirety of Minneapolis’ Lake Street. Now he’s winding up his work on a six-mile stretch of University Avenue. Wing gives 3-Minute Egg a preview …

Kenwood Symphony competition

Each year, the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra invites local vocalists and musicians to compete in its annual Masters Concerto and Aria Competition. Winners of the 11th annual competition performed this past Saturday at Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis. 3-Minute Egg went to the rehearsal earlier in the day.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Homeless, not Voiceless

For six years, zAmya Theater has given voice and a stage to people who are or were homeless, casting them alongside more seasoned actors, in original theatrical works peppered with real stories. zAmya, now under the umbrella of St. Stephens Human Services, is touring its newest production to local schools, …

The Body Cartography

Otto Ramstad and Olive Bieringa are a couple who also create public performance works as The Body Cartography Project. They’ve performed and taught around the country, on both coasts and internationally. 3-Minute Egg dropped into a fundraising party at their Minneapolis house, where they and other dancers performed snippets of …

Monster Drawing Rally

Midway Contemporary Arts asked 75 artists to each spend an hour drawing, painting, making collages on paper and producing anything else the center could sell — for $35 each, first-come first-served — for its second annual Monster Drawing Rally. 3-Minute Egg soaked up Saturday night’s frenzy of community and art-making.

Hijacking Mad King Thomas

Veteran dance duo Hijack asked emerging dance trio Mad King Thomas to choreograph pieces on each other for the Red Eye’s Isolated Acts series of new work. The results have become Maybe — on stage this weekend, and on screen here in this experimental Egg from 3-Minute Egg, which interviewed …

National Poetry Slam preview

St. Paul’s Soap Boxing slam poetry team won all the marbles in 2009, topping about 70 other teams from around North America to win the National Poetry Slam. Now St. Paul is defending that title on its home turf — the 2010 National Poetry Slam happens Aug. 3-7 at various …

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