Movie Blog: This Week's Best Bets
Thanksgiving gives you the chance to reflect and reminisce. In that vein, here are four beloved movie options around town this week to ignite the warming bug of nostalgia ... and one unforgettable turkey.
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Thanksgiving gives you the chance to reflect and reminisce. In that vein, here are four beloved movie options around town this week to ignite the warming bug of nostalgia ... and one unforgettable turkey.
A group of about 15 men in Fargo-Moorhead have started a gay men's chorus, and hope to pull off a holiday concert. The chorus organized a few months ago and has been holding weekly rehearsals at a Fargo church.
Fans of mini golf will be happy to hear it will return to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden next summer. The Walker Art Center plans to have a full 18-hole course designed by Minnesota artists. The museum is looking for 10 new designs, and they will accept submissions until Jan. 10. Artists will only have to submit designs, but will not be obligated to build or maintain the holes.
Bluegrass, sex and the shadow of death. Those are the elements that bind together the lyrical and longwinded Broken Circle Breakdown, a drama that simultaneously tells two stories: that of how a young couple fell in love, and how their love failed.
The Walker Art Center says mini golf will return to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden next summer. This time, the museum plans to have a full 18-hole course designed by Minnesota artists.
"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" may not be a great movie in and of itself, but it at least justifies the series' prominent position within current pop cultural discourse. It certainly lives up to its role as the series' "Empire Strikes Back."
This holiday season, you can help Minnesota charities while enjoying music from some of the industry's most popular names. A local staple of the holidays for several years has been the release of the Cities 97 Sampler CD.
"Pandemonium, excitement." "A lot of energy. A lot of 12-year-old girls crying." That's what Bruno Gunn and Meta Golding respectively say their lives have been filled with ever since they embarked on their press tour for "Catching Fire." You can hardly blame them for perhaps overstating the case.
We are in the 100 percent thick of the year-end prestige madness. Already, I've been carted off to the snake pit twice this month over the sheer number of long-deferred must-see titles that are suddenly and simultaneously available. The mind boggles, but the cinephile rejoices.
After a week in Minneapolis, comedian Dave Chappelle finished his stay with breakfast – serving pancakes at the Target Center for a good cause. The pancake breakfast was a part of a charity event that Chappelle wanted to participate in.
McNally Smith College of Music will present Grammy Camp in St. Paul next summer. The camp is the Grammy Foundation's signature music industry camp for U.S. high school students. McNally Smith is one of four host sites in 2014.
Despite the snow and the cold, the Twin Cities are a place many Africans call home, and those over at the Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul decided to celebrate that fact with a festival called Images of Africa.
Comedian Dave Chappelle is enjoying a successful run at First Avenue and he's also added an extra show at the Pantages Theatre Saturday. Today, Chappelle sat down with his good friend, WCCO reporter, Reg Chapman to talk about his week in Minneapolis, what's ahead and more.
Minneapolis is home to not one, but two of the best bakeries in America -- at least according to The Daily Meal's latest report.
When I first met Chastity Brown, late afternoon traffic was just reaching its peak outside WCCO-TV's front door. After walking inside and quick introductions, Chastity immediately said with a smile something to the tune of, "Man, it's way too busy down here…" That approach to life -- that urge to relax-and-take-your-time -- is engrained in Chastity's music.
