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…
Retribution Gospel Choir at Triple Rock Social Club
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,…
Photo set: Retribution Gospel Choir at Triple Rock Social Club
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.
Dewi Sant CD Release Party with The Starfolk and Alison Rae at Cedar Cultural Center
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,…
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…
My Antonia at Illusion Theater
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…
According to Coyote at The Children’s Theatre Company
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…
Is/Is, Red Pens, Strange Lights and Camden at Kitty Cat Klub
Whoever publicized Saturday night’s show at the Kitty Cat Klub did their best to confuse me about the line up. There were at least four different combinations of bands floating around online and in the local rags, so I headed to…
Expecting Isabel at Lowry Lab Theatre
At the outset I have to declare a prejudice: my wife (my play-going companion last night) and I are adoptive parents. We underwent, 13 years ago, the infertility/adoption tribulations of the hapless couple in Lisa Loomer‘s Expecting Isabel (Theatre Unbound, Lowry…