A dance critic who “can’t abide most theater” sees Rude Mechs’ The Method Gun and—surprise—isn’t blown away. She does, however, like the tiger.

The You Are Hear podcast launches its 13th edition with a conversation on storytelling through music with legendary blues man Charlie Parr.

Skewed Vision’s Charles Campbell variously calls what he does “dance, installation, object-theater, Interstitial Cross Media Platform Dingleberry Time Enhancement… What the hell is theater? I don’t know. Who cares, really?”

“It had a vibe, right? Spaces have vibes,” said Shawn McConneloug of SpaceSpace, the endearingly named rehearsal space and theater on the southern edge of downtown Minneapolis that recently closed after more than two decades.

In a poetic dispatch from Minneapolis’ David Petersen Gallery, Jay Orff heads to City of Seals to experience the work of Kristopher Benedict and Fabienne Lasserre.

We end the first year of our monthly literary podcast You Are Hear as we began it, with new stories by Britt Aamodt and host Brian Beatty.

Tweaking the usual year-end list, Nathaniel Smith assesses the state of the arts in Minnesota, from pop-up galleries, art and craft fairs, and the financial domination of the MCAD Art Sale in the Twin Cities scene.

Lightsey Darst did the Deborah Hay “three-peat” last week, taking in all three performances in the Walker’s mini-festival of the contemporary dance explorer.

Jeremy Walker weighs in on the MN Orchestra and SPCO lockouts: the hotly contested issues of pay for professional musicians, spendy capital campaigns, and what we all stand to lose if the concert halls stay silent much longer.