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Featured Story: Some Girl(s)

By: John Olive

Mo Perry and Clarence Wethern in Some Girl(s) - Photo by Aaron Fenster The holidays can be gruesome. All those Carols, the overdone Nutcrackers, the ancient Holidazzle parade, everything over-designed and sparkly. The retail frenzy. The jacked-up airfares. The pasted-on smiles. Joy to the world! Humbug.   If you're looking for an antidote to all this fakey feel-good, here's a good one: Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) (Walking Shadow Theatre Company performing at the Pillsbury House Theatre through Dec 5, walkingshadowcompany.org). LaBute is famously misanthropic and Some Girl(s) doesn't disappoint, though it lacks the ov...

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Photo of the Week for November, 9, 2009

This week's photo of the week was an easy one to pick.  It's Erik Hess's photo of Mark Mallman performing an unexpected encore performance of 2Pac and Dr. Dre's "California Love" with Har Mar Superstar (aka Sean Tillman) at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. As Mallman's band played what looked like it would be his final song of the night Saturday night, November 7th, I noticed Mr. Superstar standing in the front row and wondered what would happen next.  It has always been a personal dream of mine (not joking) to see these two - two of the best showmen to come out of Minnesota ever - perform together. See more of Erik's photos from Saturday here....

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Photo by: Erik Hess