Movie Blog: This Week's Best Bets
A few days ago, the list of features for this year's Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival dropped. There are more than 170 movies in the lineup, and, as you can imagine, there's a lot to look through.
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A few days ago, the list of features for this year's Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival dropped. There are more than 170 movies in the lineup, and, as you can imagine, there's a lot to look through.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has received nearly 700 pieces of rare East Asian artwork and a $12.5 million endowment from a former St. Paul resident.
The legendary rock band, the Rolling Stones, could soon be heading to the Twin Cities. They haven't officially announced their 2015 world tour, but released a video on Twitter as a tease.
This year's St. Patrick's Day parade is Tuesday, and WCCO's own Jamie Yuccas will be the celebrity grand marshal. Festivities will include floats, bands, walking units, and several new entries. The parade starts at 6:30 p.m. on Nicollet Mall, between 11th Street and 5th Street.
It isn't so very often that we get two Friday the 13th months in a row. You don't have to be superstitious to perk up whenever the fateful date approaches. You might just be a fan of some of the cheesiest, least frightening horror movies ever made, the Friday the 13th franchise.
Since there was no "This Week's Best Bets," there'll be a "Weekend's Best Bets." So while you're out enjoying the spring-like temps, consider popping by one of the events listed below. They include a DVD and estate sale, as well as back-by-popular demand screenings of Godard's latest, "Goodbye to Language."
The comedian plans to play every position while making appearances at five Arizona spring training games on Thursday. He will play for all 10 teams involved, HBO and Major League Baseball announced Wednesday.
Michele Bachmann is finding new work in our nation's capital. She's no longer a political member of Congress, but she plays one in the latest version of "Sharknado!" A picture of former Minnesota congresswoman Bachmann shows her filming outside the White House on Wednesday.
After what seems like forever, the Lyndale Theater's empty, barren space is leased and is now home to a new brewery. LynLake Brewery opened to the thirsty, hip masses in Uptown on Oct. 10, 2014 just in time to the last bit of warm sunshine on its rooftop.
We now know who will play this summer's two-day festival at the Walker Art Center.
Country music legend Willie Nelson and Family are "On The Road Again" and are traveling to Minnesota to take the stage at Mystic Lake Casino in May.
USA Today's "10Best" website cited the many annual events in the area centered around the Northrup King Building, including the spring Art-A-Whirl, the fall Fine Arts Show and November's Art Attack.
Director Paolo Virzì's multi-sided moral fable Human Capital took home the Best Picture award last year from the equivalent of the Italian Oscars, managing somehow to best Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty, which happened to bag an actual Oscar. While Virzi's film isn't half as good as Sorrentino's, it must be said that "Human Capital" is pretty, gripping and has the aura of greatness, even if it does come off a little too much like another Oscar winner, 2006's Crash.
A Duluth-based pop rock songstress is headed to the Twin Cities to release her newest album, "Holy Bones," at the Turf Club Tuesday.
The doctor who helped treat Harrison Ford after his vintage plane crash-landed on a golf course says he found the actor slumped over in the cockpit but conscious. Spinal surgeon Sanjay Khurana was golfing next to Santa Monica Airport when he saw the plane "belly flop" and rushed to the fairway where it came to rest.
