Pohlad goes west: The New York Times Magazinehighlights Bill Pohlad, of Minneapolis-based River Road Entertainment (and a friend of the Walker), along with other “fabulously wealthy individuals that have come from other businesses to Hollywood in the last few years.” The magazine highlights Pohlad and others for supporting “sophisticated yet commercially viable films that probably would not have been…

I had the opportunity to see Bela Tarr‘s Prefab People at the Walker last month. The film is a retrospective on Hungarian culture during the 1970′s and 1980′s, Bela Tarr wanted to capture the melancholy state of relationships . He accomplished this through intense closes up throughout the film, the use of the close ups of his characters (husband and wife) helped portray an intense uncomfortable…

Then your answer is Kinky. I mean Kinky music….err the band Kinky. I first heard these guys while playing SSX 3 back in the good old days. Back when video games cost $49.99 instead of $59.99 and people still had ambitions for this person and this person. But all things aside, at this point you should be asking yourself: “What is Kinky?”, “Why do I care?”, “Why does he always have to force his opinions on us…

A couple weeks ago WACTAC had the opportunity to meet Dan Perjovschi, a Romanian artist and illustrator included in the Brave New Worlds exhibition. Check out the video (thanks for the edit Bre!). If you are interested in hearing more about Dan’s work, check out the interviews from his massive MOMA installation (video 1 and video 2) …or shut off your computer, get out of the house, and see the…

The Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) announces a call for Twin Cities teens to submit altered books for a juried exhibition January-March 2008 in the MCBA studios. The exhibition will be part of a citywide series of workshops, exhibitions and programs capped by the annual convention of the Public Library Association in Minneapolis, March 25-29, 2008. Media releases, electronic and printed…

Saul Williams is out with a new online only LP – The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. It is quite magnificent, produced by Trent Reznor of NIN. Jay-Z, as I’m sure you all know, is out with American Gangster to connect with the new film of the same title. I just bought the album the other day, I highly recommend it. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I’ve heard great things, I went opening…

Antisuburbanites: In the past six years, the number of kids living in Manhattan has shot up by 30 percent. The New York Timeslooks at three ways urban families in New York, LA, and London are foregoing suburban life while still trying to carve out peace — and space — in the city. Shutter Condo: Inspired by Korean delis and Chelsea storefronts with rolldown metal doors, Shigeru Ban is building a nine-unit…

Disnification: As filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) and anti-shopping culturejammer Rev. Billy use Disney’s typeface to excoriate Christmas’ consumerist overdrive, photographer Annie Liebovitz signs on to do an all-celebrity series of portraits for the Magic Kingdom. Dismantling Democracy: In an audio slideshow, Geoff Edgers at the Boston Globe gives a good overview of the controversy over — and…