by Essay and collection by Alison Morse   August 28, 2008 That is the question people still ask me whenever I tell them that I was an animator for twenty years before becoming a writer. My answer? Usually, I just say: �I made cartoons. You know, like Disney.� What I�ve always wanted to say is a bit more complicated. An animator’s work falls somewhere in-between visual art, music, dance, acting and filmmaking…

by Profile by Mich�le Campbell   August 26, 2008 at a Twin Cities business magazine and before he wheeled through dozens of downtown and south side bars, or cooked up back door deals with sketchy characters. It began even before he snorted, smoked, and shot up those countless lines of cocaine. It started before he tried to break into his best friend�s apartment, and long prior to the time that same…

Photo from “The Record Store: A Good Thing” in the July 2008 issue of Paste Magazine, which lists Electric Fetus as one of the 17 coolest record stores in the US. (Photo courtesy the Paste Magazine website) by Article by Chris Godsey   August 18, 2008about music industry life�a podcast, at least. He’s manager of the Minneapolis Electric Fetus, where he’s worked for 22 years, since his early twenties. Doing…

by Article by Justin Schell   August 18, 2008 to emerge from Somalia is K�naan, one of the headliners for this year�s Twin Cities Pan African Festival, Minneapolis has their own rising MC with roots stretching from here to Mogadishu. Abdulle Elmi, better known as MC Free One, performs as part of the Usual Suspects, one of the Twin Cities� most promising new hip-hop groups. Free One�s journey to…

Joanna Kohler (pictured above) used her connections at MNWIFT to put together “Minnesota Motorcycle Stories,” a collection of stories recorded during a motorcycle trip across Minnesota, summer 2008. (Photo courtesy of the artist.) YOU MUST HAVE BEEN LIVING IN A REMOTE SIBERIAN VILLAGE for the past two years if the name Diablo Cody doesn’t ring a bell. But, then, maybe you’re not good with names. So here’s a…

by Essay by Michael Fallon   August 4, 2008 Robert Rauschenberg passed away at age 82 this past May, a group of seven young people, all of them one-quarter of the artist�s age, stood in front of an audience of about 100 at the 2008 Mpls-St. Paul International Film Festival (M-SPIFF). The occasion was the screening of a film, Disconnected, that the group had made for a class on documentary film at Carleton…

by Article by Geoff Herbach   August 2, 2008 to the Minnesota Fringe Festival, and to everyone involved in the show, Audish. Let�s just get that out of the way. So�          Slight Dylan Frederick runs around the house at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, nervously clicking a pen, barking directions at the actors on stage. This is a tech rehearsal: lights, sight lines, voices; Dylan shouts to one actor to use better breath…

“Archer Daniels Midland Co.” by Cameron Booth, 1934. Gouache over charcoal on paper (Courtesy of the Weisman Art Museum) by Article by Julie Caniglia   July 15, 2008 Certainly plenty of people have drawn parallels between our current situation and the economic disaster that persisted throughout the 1930s (plus a few years of the decades on either side). When you consider that the prices for food and oil…

“Untitled 13” by Mikhail Baryshnikov, 2006. 40” x 30” Digital C-print mounted to sintra. Signed and dated on verso. Print 1 from edition of 15 by Article by Camille LeFevre   July 14, 2008 (June 20, to be exact), an exhibition of photographs by Mikhail Baryshnikov, titled Merce My Way and depicting Merce Cunningham�s dances, opened at the Weinstein Gallery in south Minneapolis. A media circus, a see-and-be-seen…