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Just as he's coasting to his best Billboard chart performance yet, R&B crooner John Legend has announced a Twin Cities concert performance set for this summer. Legend is booked to perform at the Mystic Lake Casino Showroom on Friday, June 20 at 8 p.m.
The Minnesota Zoo has announced some of the acts included in its lineup of summer concerts, and the roster includes old favorites and new talents alike. The Subway Music in the Zoo series opens June 2 with a concert by the Monkees.
This week's collection of movie best bets is a bit hastier than normal because, duh, you should be first and foremost checking out our daily selections from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Just as the weather's heating up, so are the number of movies enticing you to stay indoors.
Tim McGraw will be returning to the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand with special guest Ryan Kinder on Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30. Tickets are $71 and $56 (all reserved seating) and go on sale at 10 a.m. this Saturday, April 12.
It's a little difficult to recommend today's selection if you aren't already familiar with the films of South Korean master Hong Sang-soo. Like many auteurists' pet faves, he tends to allow elements and themes to flow freely between his films, and the result is a body of work that's greater than the sum of its parts.
Making a movie is tough. Making a movie in India is tougher. Making a movie in India while living in the shadow of your legendary father David Lynch is - as Larry David may put it - pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty tough. But director Jennifer Lynch was up for the task, and allowed an Australian documentary crew intimate access to her life (at that of her pre-teen daughter Sydney) while undertaking the production of the Bollywood horror flick Hisss in 2008.
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.
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.
The man who has been synonymous with late nights on CBS for more than two decades will soon be giving up his prestigious post. "Late Show" host David Letterman announced he will soon be retiring. Letterman said during the taping of his show on Thursday that while there has been no date set, he thinks sometime in the 2015 year he will retire.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
