Even during normal, nine-to-five, Monday-through-Friday business hours, the building overflowed with props, paints, giant set pieces, and the most wonderful costumes. The Jeune Lune building was once a small self-storage facility, so there were all manner of cubbyholes stuffed with unusual treasure�a pile of suitcases and shoes from the original production of The Golem, a dismantled column from…

Photo of Eddie Oroyan and Laura Selle Virtucio in “Brown Rocket”, one of this year’s Momentum shows. (Photo by Cameron Wittig, courtesy of the Walker Art Center) by Profile by Lightsey Darst   July 8, 2008: she has a generous presence, strength she can modulate from explosion to feather with catlike grace. Lines hang in the air after she�s moved on, as if they were there all along. You don�t forget Selle…

by Article by Matthew Everett   July 8, 2008 redefined “impossible” for me the other weekend. After what I saw there, I had to move a long list of things over into the �possible� column. Among the “impossible” feats of that weekend, I saw a movie - an entire movie - created in the time it took to watch it. The Neutrino Project Twin Cities introduced three teams of filmmakers - each with a couple of improvisers, a…

by Essay by Gabriel Combs   July 7, 2008The Rake. I was waiting for the 21 bus to go from the K-Mart on Lake Street to Selby and Dale in Saint Paul, where I was supposed to pick up a check for a recently completed mural for a bike shop. Before leaving the studio, and probably because I’d been overly stressed of late about having no actual living space, I’d smoked a couple of of low-grade pot I’d found…

by Commentary by Michael Fallon   June 23, 2008 of the recent panel discussion on �Minneapolis� artistic future,� sponsored by the Minneapolis Arts Commission, you didn�t miss much. In what best can be described as an excruciating exercise of intensive local arts spin, early attendees to the event were treated to a host of thought-terminating clich�s from Minneapolis City Council President Barbara…

by Profile by Hannah Dentinger   June 16, 2008 the phone book, looking for a psychiatrist. Any psychiatrist. She settles on a Dr. Beedle. �A man named Beedle,� she reasons, �can�t be all bad.� Later that day, Hornbacher perches on a chair in Dr. Beedle�s office.           �What brings you here today?� he asks.           �I�m going crazy.�           �Well, don�t beat around the bush,� he says. �Jump right in.� Hornbacher�s new memoir abides by that maxim…

IF YOU’RE OFFERING A SURVEY OF MINNESOTA CARTOONISTS, you have to, first, mention that the Twin Cities ranks fifth in the nation for the number of resident cartoonists (and then follow that claim with a disclaimer that the above ranking is anecdotal at best). Of course, you’d also want to dust off your pop cultural histories so you could detail the genesis of the comic book form—which begins with…

by Profile by Myron Berdahl   June 9, 2008 projects that speak to our shared humanity. Her hope is that by moving, or even surprising viewers with the stories in her films audiences will, at the very least, question their preconceptions. A former clarinet player herself, Goldberg has always been drawn to the music scene. In fact, much of her documentary work over the past 25 years has been focused around…

The entrance to Marlaine Cox’s back room office, just off the workfloor of her metalworking shop EVIDENCE OF THE MARRIAGE OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE is all around us. In the Twin Cities, alone, such public art abounds, from the murals and sculpture adorning the state capital to the mosaic work found at the light rail stops along Hiawatha. These gracious artistic touches can elevate even the most…