As the haunting introduction of their classic “Beasts of Burden” provoked the mingling attendees to occupy a state somewhere between bewilderment and apprehension, Kill the Vultures‘ poet Crescent Moon and DJ Anatomy capped a wave of unbridled tension last Friday night from the stage of Gallery 8 during the Walker’s AfterHours opening for its...
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HowWasTheShow’s CD Review Podcast for February, 2010, recorded at Kings Wine Bar in South Minneapolis on Sunday, February 21st. The panel includes Andrea Swensson of the City Pages and Ben Clark. Hosted by HowWasTheShow’s David de Young. Solid Gold – “Matter of Time” – (http://www.myspace.com/solidgold) Wapsipinicon – “Vans on Dupont” – (http://www.myspace.com/thewapsipinicon) Dewi Sant –...
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Playwright Frank Higgins does two very smart things with his vivid Black Pearl Sings! (at Penumbra, 270 N. Kent Street, St. Paul, through March 14, penumbratheatre.org). First, he shoehorns an amazingly wide range of Depression-era America into his story: the humid Texas penitentiary, complete with chain gang, the convict (Pearl) who holds, in her bones,...
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It’s been a fast year for Twin Cities upstarts the Red Pens. After dropping their first album, Reasons, last summer, Howard Hamilton and Laura Bennett won City Pages’ Picked to Click honors in September and, more recently, had the honor of topping the bill at First Avenue’s Best New Bands concert. Having pretty well conquered...
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I arrived at The Triple Rock too late to catch any of opener Andrew Broder’s material, so I could only imagine how one of our most unpredictable troubadours set the stage for the headliner Saturday night. When the clock struck 10:30, however, the pesky thoughts of how I had somehow misplaced four twenty dollar bills...
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HowWasTheShow is proud to present Meredith Westin‘s photos from Saturday’s Retribution Gospel Choir show at the Triple Rock. See also, Dan Alvin’s review.
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Michael Morris slipped a disc into my hand last Tuesday night at Kings Wine Bar and asked me to check it out. The timing couldn’t have been better. Morris had just returned from a 33 day tour of the West, and with his band, now going by the moniker Dewi Sant, he was set...
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Text by David de Young HowWasTheShow is proud to present Jenn Barnett’s photos from Sunday’s Joel Bremer / Mad Ripple Valentine’s Day marathon (7 hours!) hoot at Dusty’s in Minneapolis. Many in attendance remarked that this was the “best hoot ever,” and I tend to agree. The love and music in the room spilled...
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I will admit that I wondered why Illusion Theater (528 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis) might pick this standard in American literature classes for a new adaptation. I know the book well, and even after years away from the classroom, I could recollect many images from its pages. Such is the power of Cather’s writing. Though...
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The Trickster pops up everywhere. Reynard the Fox, Prometheus, Eshu (in the Yorba culture), the Monkey King (in Chinese mythology). In western literature, the quintessential Trickster is probably Shakespeare’s Puck. The character appears most vividly, though, in the vast and varied Native American storytelling tradition. He can be a crow or a spider, but most often he’s...
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