Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 3: 'Stop The Pounding Heart'

• Apr 5, 2014

Movie Blog: 'Nymphomaniac: Vol. II' Review

At the center of Nymph()maniac: Volume II is the interplay of sex and cruelty, love and pain. While masochism becomes the well from which the protagonist, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), draws pleasure from middle age, it's the people whom she loves or trusts that hurt her most. Likewise, it's only those whom she's closest to that she ever seeks to wound.

• Apr 4, 2014

Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 2: 'Closed Curtain'

I know it's perpetually bad form to criticize the critics when it comes to covering festival movies, but sometimes it's inevitable when it feels like critics are the only ones talking about a given film. But to hear people accuse "Closed Curtain" of being self-pitying, well, cry me a river.

• Apr 4, 2014

Local Music Tap: U Of M's Spring Jam Lineup Announced

There's nothing quite better at shaking off the winter blues than fresh music and a celebration of the warm weather ahead. The University of Minnesota's Spring Jam provides exactly that, and their lineup has just recently been announced!

• Apr 3, 2014

Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 1: 'Belle'

While at this time last year, very few people had likely heard the name Solomon Northup (the victimized protagonist of the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave), it's a safe bet far fewer still had ever heard of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay.

• Apr 3, 2014

Movie Blog: This Week's Best Bets

With both a rude jolt and a surge of excitement, film fans in the Twin Cities find themselves on the cusp of this year's Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, which opens on Thursday with a screening of Belle and continues for 17 days with more than 200 features.

• Mar 31, 2014

Dakota Plans To Take Over Shuttered Artists' Quarter

A famed jazz club in St. Paul that has been closed for months is set to reopen, and it may be under the auspices of another esteemed Twin Cities jazz establishment. If the deal goes through, the Dakota Jazz Club will take over the space which formerly housed by the Artists' Quarter in downtown St. Paul.

• Mar 31, 2014

Hockey Moms Sought For Reality TV Show

A Minnesota-based television production company is hosting an open casting call for hockey moms. McCally-Lee Entertainment is seeking hockey moms from across the Midwest for its idea about a reality TV show called "Hockey Moms." CEO John McCally says the company is looking to find "lively and charismatic mothers in the region" for the show, which is in early development.

• Mar 29, 2014

Movie Blog: 'Two Lives' Review 

The film is set in the year 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We meet Katrine in an airport in Germany, and due to her wearing a disguise, we know that she's up to something fishy.

• Mar 28, 2014

Curiocity: MSU Grad, Bismarck Native On Performing In 'Once'

Since the 2007 film, people have been enthralled with a little independent Irish film that was made for a mere $150,000. It was shot in less than 20 days but went on to gross more than $20 million worldwide.

• Mar 28, 2014

Curiocity: Q&A With Chef Michelle Bernstein

She's been featured as a guest judge on Bravo's "Top Chef," has a James Beard Award under her belt and several restaurants boasting fresh, inventive Latin cuisine. And on Friday, you'll have a chance to see (and smell) her cooking talents in action.

• Mar 27, 2014

Fleetwood Mac To Open 33-City Tour In Minneapolis

After 16 years, Fleetwood Mac is back in full -- and to celebrate, they're kicking off a multi-city tour in Minneapolis this fall.

• Mar 27, 2014

Prince Planning Paisley Park Parties This Weekend

"Sometimes It Snows In April," and sometimes the Purple One shows up to "Play in the Sunshine" at Paisley Park in March. Prince is planning a big party at Paisley Park this weekend called "Paisley Park After Dark."

• Mar 27, 2014