by staff
This weekend, something artful seems to be in the air. Performers Jaime Carrera and Jennifer Arave introduce two new works, “In the Crease” and “Outcast,” at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, and Carrera has promised it’s some of his “weirdest” work yet (which is saying a lot). Visual art takes center stage with openings at Shoebox, SooVAC, Soap Factory, TuckUnder Projects and, of course, the Red Hot Arts Festival. There’s also plenty of live music, dance parties, and even burlesque on a showboat, so get out there, fall in love with some art, and keep the summertime thrill alive.
xo, l’étoile
THURSDAY, JULY 26TH
“Dress Rehearsal”
@ Jaguar Land Rover
8905 Wayzata Boulevard
Golden Valley
6-9 pm (7:30 pm fashion show) / $50
Dress in cocktail attire and clear your social calender for a day to support the Boys & Girls Club of Minneapolis in style at the second annual party and fundraiser, “Dress Rehearsal.” Be wooed by a classic car exhibition followed by a high-class fashion show styled by l’étoile’s very own Jahna Peloquin and HAUS Salon. At the show see pieces by local designer Emma Berg and looks from the last 50 years of fashion by other local artists. Minnesota Monthly style editor Katie Dohman will offer commentary and after the show, check out Emma Berg and Stephanie Lake’s pop-up shop, featuring apparel, accessories and jewelry. Start the evening like a celebrity and have your car parked and washed while the proceeds go to the Boys & Girls Club. Tickets are $50 and available here. -Meg Junkermeier
Click HERE for the Boys & Girls Club of the Twin Cities site
THURSDAY, JULY 26TH & SUNDAY, JULY 29TH
“In the Crease”/”Outcast”
@ Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater
810 W Lake Street
Minneapolis
7 pm show (6 pm doors) / $10–$15 sliding scale
A performance piece double-hitter, “In the Crease”/”Outcast” features new work by local performers and choreographers Jennifer Arave and Jaime Carrera. For “In the Crease,” performance and video artist Arave confronts the unexpected and conceptually answers the question “at the start of the day, what do we expect this body of ours will need to do?” In “Outcast,” the celebrated Carrera tackles the common view of “normal,” dissecting the ideas of what society considers acceptable. And – because it wouldn’t be a signature Carrera without – boundaries will be pushed, twisted, bent and shocked and the world will never be the same. -Juleana Enright
Click HERE for the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater site
THURSDAY, JULY 26TH
Kitten Forever + Eileen & the In Betweens + Teenage Moods
@ Kitty Cat Klub
313 14th Avenue SE
Minneapolis
9 pm / 21+ / FREE
Thursday is a night of cute punk rock at the Kitty Cat Klub. Playing are garage rockers the Teenage Moods, who sound sort of like a more fuzzed-out Zombies mixed with sunny folk pop. Also playing is Eileen and the In Betweens hailing from New Mexico and Minneapolis – it’s cute folk stuff sung by a girl with a real voice that isn’t affected and just sounds real – twee in the best way possible. Last but not least, it’s Kitten Forever’s first show in, well, forever. It’s fun, punky, grrrl rock stuff that makes you want to thrash and do the Twist at the same time. -Danielle Morris
Click HERE for the Kitty Cat Klub site
Kitten Forever
THURSDAY, JULY 26TH
Tu Fawning w/ AU + WolfLords
@ 7th St. Entry
701 First Avenue N
Minneapolis
8 pm / 18+ / $10
Headliners Tu Fawning’s latest, A Monument, is a weird little minimalist work, full of skittish rhythms and thick layers of vocal harmonies and, at times, not much else – the result are songs that propel along nicely on a pillow of air, giving singer Corrina Repp’s rich, theatrical alto plenty of room to move within. It helps that their music is interesting as heck, too – it’s nominally “electronic” “pop” though honestly it’s neither, if that makes any sense. Openers AU are more maximalist in their approach, layering thick swaths of synths, guitars, banjos and god knows what else into their frantic, dramatic music. And we love local openers WolfLords – Aby Wolf’s voice is a proven quantity, rich and wonderful, and Grant Cutler’s arrangements are always exciting as hell. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the First Avenue site
THURSDAY, JULY 27TH
Soft Opening
@ Clubhouse Jäger
923 Washington Avenue N
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE
Groove to smooth jams from the latest in DJ fever at Soft Opening, featuring Māchen Davis & Mark McGee aka MAKR. Plus, revel in tasty drink specials, including $5 Jameson and $2.50 PBR, and other delish libations dished out by the ever-charming Jäger bartenders. -Staff
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH-SUNDAY, JULY 29TH
Pam Grier Double Feature: “Foxy Brown” & “Jackie Brown”
@ Trylon Microcinema
3258 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis
Foxy Brown: 7 pm Friday, 9:45 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday / $8
Jackie Brown: 9 pm Friday, 7 pm Saturday, 4:15 pm Sunday / $8
Quentin Tarantino first brought Pam Grier to my – and presumably millions of others’ – attention when she’s name-dropped in Reservoir Dogs during the vulgar and comical “E. Lois” anecdote about a beautiful cocktail waitress who uses superglue to teach abusive men a lesson. Tarantino compares the story’s vengeful heroine’s appearance to Grier, who was Blaxploitation’s hot, chic, and street-smart protector and revenger in Coffy and Foxy Brown. With Jackie Brown, Tarantino featured Grier and even Foxy Brown’s title fonts, stirring together his love for Blaxploitation with his love for Elmore Leonard novels (in this case, Rum Punch), making Leonard’s tough-as-nails white stewardess heroine an African American surrounded by emblems, songs, and stories of a lost time. With a remarkable soundtrack and cast (Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Bridget Fonda, and Robert De Niro in probably his last memorable role), particularly Robert Forster as a lovable bail-bondsman who romances Grier’s Jackie, Tarantino creates a racially driven and witty Los Angeles criminal soufflé, about cultures hopelessly divided by history, but still attracted to each other. The Trylon’s Grier double feature shows how Tarantino pays tribute to Grier’s iconic 1974 Foxy Brown performance, while crafting the first of his many remarkable and lethal women who rise up against their would-be controllers and victimizers (Kill Bill, Death Trip, Inglourious Basterds). It also anticipates this year’s new Tarantino adventure, Django Unchained, which follows a fugitive slave trying to free his wife from a plantation owner. The trailer indicates the film is as much inspired by ’70s Blaxploitation as it is by Sergio Leone, and will continue to mine the filmmaker’s romance with the images and stories that nurtured him, from all cultures. -Niles Schwartz
Click HERE for the Take-Up Productions site
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH
Puppet Show & Little Library Grand Opening
@ 3326 Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis
For the best parking spot: YMCA lot on Blaisdell
6:30-8:30 pm / FREE
Bring a lawn chair or a blanket and pull up a seat on the makeshift lawn – it’s time for a puppet show. If you haven’t heard of a “little free library” before, it is about time you learned. The Little Free Library is a project dedicated to promoting literacy and the love of reading by creating free book exchanges worldwide. Come out for the grand opening of the project – an evening of puppet-theater provided by the Open Eye Figure Theater, plus ice cream, watermelon. Most importantly, don’t forget to bring a book to donate! -Alexandra Katz
Click HERE for the Little Free Library site
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH
STNNNG w/ Coffin Pricks + Bombay Sweets + Toxic Shrews
@ Turf Club
1601 University Avenue
St. Paul
9 pm door / 21+ / $7
Minneapolis’ own STNNNG have been making chaotic, energetic, hard-hitting post-punk for five or six years now. Their stuff is anarchic and occasionally dissonant, with vocals that are shouted/spoken/admonished rather than sung. Well, you’ve seen ‘em by now – if you love ‘em, they’re tighter, louder and heavier now, and killer drummer Ben Ivascu has been moonlighting in Poliça of late, so see ‘em while you can. Chicago’s Coffin Pricks open up, and their
old-school lo-fi punk should fit nicely into the lineup – close your eyes and it’s 1985 again, in a good way. Bombay Sweets are a twangy, mysterious sounding one-man outfit (with live backup), and Toxic Shrews features former members of the erstwhile, much beloved Teenage
Moods. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the Turf Club site
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH
Hard Dance MN presents: Time Machine feat. Frankie Bones
@ Ground Zero
15 NE 4th Street
Minneapolis
10 pm / 18+ / $15 door, $10 advance
If you site yourself a diehard raver, the name Frankie Bones is most likely one you worship and owe your glowstick-shaking booty to. Known as “The Godfather of American Rave Culture,” Bones is attributed to bringing the wonderful world of the rave to the U.S. after his ’89 gig in UK, “Energy,” spiked over 25,000 people. Invigorated by the reception of his compositions, Bones went back to Brooklyn and launched a series of infamous parties dubbed Storm Raves and, well, the rest is turntable archives. Tonight, Ground Zero proudly hosts the Rave Godfather for a dancetastic evening of time warp proportions featuring sets by Sound in Motion’s Jack Trash, BootyCore extraordinaire Nancy Yamacoochie, Hard Dance Minnesota’s NRG1 in an epic “vs.” battle with KLD, and – of course – a set by OhhGEE Managment’s own Frankie Bones. Hosted by MC Obliquity and the TC’s hardest dancers, Bass Kandi. Prepare to be candy flipped. -Juleana Enright
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH
We Became Actors + Halo Sparkle + The Book of Right On
@ Hell’s Kitchen
80 S 9th Street
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / $5
On Friday, Hell’s Kitchen hosts a diverse three-band lineup. The Book of Right On, raised from the ashes of the Belles of Skin City, combine angular beats with equally angular melodies that sounds like a new brand of post punk via Television and the like. Also playing is Halo Sparkle, which have have a sound that combines female-led emo rock with crunchy ’90s grunge riffs. Closing out the night is We Became Actors, playing a brand of power pop that sounds like it was born in the skate park, but all grown up. -Danielle Morris
Click HERE for the Hell’s Kitchen Underground site
The Book of Right On
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH
@ Clubhouse Jäger
923 Washington Avenue N
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE
This Friday’s Pleasure Principals dance night is a little special. With Mike 2600 out of town, DJ Damien Espada (Wants Vs. Needs) is joined by the handsome Plain Ole Bill (Get Cryphy). Prepare yourself for a night of funk-filled, unadulterated, pop-tastic pleasure as you dance to the sophisticated spinnings and double DJ remakes of old school classics. In the mood for Michael and Janet, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks, Billy Idol, and Billy Ocean all under one roof? If you’re catching what we’re throwing out, you know Jäg is the place to dance tonight. -Staff
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
SATURDAY, July 28TH
Tour de Fat Minneapolis
@ Loring Park
Minneapolis
9 am registration, 10 am Bike parade / $5 suggested donation
It’s that time of year again for the craziest bicycle parade to ever hit the Twin Cities – The Tour de Fat. The annual 15 city tour will be stopping in Minneapolis and will be featuring tons of live entertainment, local food, a bike parade and of course, New Belgium beer. The highlight of the event is sure to be the ceremonious car-for-bike swap in which one person hands over their car keys, and pledges to live one year car-free. Vehicles will be auctioned, with proceeds benefiting the Midtown Greenway Coalition, Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists, and the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota. Be sure to wear a costume, ride a bike, and join the best bicycle parade around! -Chelsea Streich
Click HERE for the Tour de Fat site
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH & SUNDAY, JULY 29TH
Red Hot Arts Festival
@ Stevens Square Park
18th Street & 2nd Avenue S
Minneapolis
11 am-7 pm Saturday & 11 am-5 pm Sunday / FREE
The Stevens Square and Loring Heights neighborhoods will be ablaze with art this weekend at their annual Red Hot Art Festival! Witness burning creativity as neighborhood artists like Chuck U, Rogue Citizen, Karen O’Bryan and others show their work, and hear live music from nearly 30 bands including Fort Wilson Riot, France Camp, TIGER VS, Jezebel Jones and more on a double-stage, all-day bill, plus food from local vendors. Also appearing on Sunday will be the Open Eye Figure Theater with their Two Wheel Toy Theater, which was featured earlier this year at Northern Spark. -Staff
Click HERE for the Red Hot Art site
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
“TNT/Tunnel & Trellis: Sarah Wolbert Raspberry Patch Residency”
@ TuckUnder Projects
5120 York Avenue S
Minneapolis
7–9 pm / FREE
Raspberries may not immediately bring to mind ambitious multi-disciplinary art projects, but this weekend, TuckUnder projects presents the work of artist in residence Sarah Wolbert. Trained as an architect and engineer, Wolbert has expanded her interests beyond buildings to issues of equality, ecology and community engagement. Structures, paths and rooms supporting raspberry growing areas encourage visitors to move through and interact with the installation, allowing them to experience growth in new ways. Some berry bushes have been given away to help sculpt paths, and the boundaries are maintained and organically redesigned using salvaged materials, woven branches, and additional plants. Raspberry products are continually created by the homeowner/curator, and will be available for interpretation or ingestion by visitors. The installation as a whole is intended both as a meditation on the process of urban agriculture, as well as an artistic inspiration for viewers. Saturday’s opening – with the artist in attendance – happens in tandem with the closing party of Pamela & Frank Gaard’s “Dual Portraits,” which includes an in-process dual portrait of Ms. Wolbert. If TuckUnder’s recent exhibits are any guide, this should be a thought-provoking example of engaging public art. -Anthony Enright
Click HERE for the TuckUnder Projects site
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
Our Flow is Hard presents: The Rustic Volcano Reading
@ Tarnish&Gold Gallery
349 13th Avenue NE
Minneapolis
8 pm / All Ages (after party 21+) / FREE
Hot on the heels of their inaugural reading series – and we mean lava hot – the sharp-tongued girlpoets of local (evocatively named) poetry collective, Our Flow is Hard are back and primed for another anything flies, nu-poetry event. Hosted in Tarnish & Gold’s crepuscular alleyway, “The Rustic Volcano Reading” celebrates the gallery’s last event in their current space with a DIY-induced reading featuring Chicago’s Meghan Lamb and Russ Woods (chapbook authors and co-editors of Red Lightbulb mag), Franciszka Voeltz from “Cross Pollination: A Mobile Show and Tell Tour” and OFIH’s Carrie Lorig. Tonight’s reading also welcomes an appearance from the fab Fly Away Zine Mobile, a Portland-outfitted traveling free-lending library and self-publishing skills sharer promoting DIY literature via their awesome zine van. Don’t forget to bring your chapbooks and zines for epic swap time. After the reading, head next door to the 331 for drinks and poetry chats. -Juleana Enright
Click HERE for the Our Flow Is Hard Tumblr
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
“Bob Bourbon: Lightwork” + Richard Lloyd (Television) live set
@ Shoebox Gallery
2948 Chicago Avenue S
Minneapolis
7–10 pm / FREE ($5 suggested donation for music)
Sculptor Bob Bourbon presents a series of artworks using discarded street lamps and lenses to manipulate light while creating new ways to see public lighting. Originally hailing from Nîmes, France, the sculptor’s work brings a unique appreciation of distinctly American found objects that allows familiar luminaries to be experienced in unexpected ways. The Shoebox Gallery’s intimate and uniquely public storefront space allows the artist’s light-works to carry on a dialog with the bustling lights of vehicles and stoplights of the Chi-Lake area. Don’t miss the opportunity to see this quirky and – ahem – illuminating exhibition. BONUS: Richard Lloyd of Television fame is performing a live set on the rooftop at 9 pm! BYOB. -Anthony Enright
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
“Kinship of Rivers”
@ The Soap Factory
514 Second St SE
Minneapolis
Opening reception 7-11 pm, runs through August 5th / FREE
Celebrate this weekend at the “Kinship of Rivers,” an international river project that brings together the communities along both the Mississippi and Yangtze River, the longest river in Asia. The celebration will include art, music, food, poetry and even flag making, with the highlight of the event being a performance of “Ten Thousand Waves,” a narrative poem written by Wang Ping set to music by Bruce Bolon. So stop by and celebrate the riverly love, all while supporting local performing artists. -Chelsea Streich
Click HERE for the Soap Factory site
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
“Weathering the Storm: New Work by Greg Gossel”
@ Soo Visual Arts Center
2638 Lyndale Avenue S
Minneapolis
Opening reception 6–10 pm, runs through August 26th / FREE
With a background versed in design, Wisconsin-born, Minneapolis-based artist, Greg Gossel has found his artistic niche blending multi-layered work with words, images and gestures to illustrate and illuminate a visual history of differentiation and personal process. Boasting quite the portfolio, Gossel has exhibited in L.A., San Francisco, Norkew Y, Copenhagen, Milan and London, was invited to create a large-scale mural on the façade of Miami’s Aqua Art Fair, worked with clients like Burton Snowboards, Stussy and Interscope and been published in Juxtapoz Mag and Artslant, to name a few. In his latest exhibition, Weathering the Storm, Gossel features 13 new, large-scale works on paper and canvas showcasing a collection of billboard and street ad scraps, torn, stained, media manipulated and rebirthed revealing a new context and polished composition. Not to to missed! -Juleana Enright
Click HERE for the Soo Visual Arts Center site
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
The Northeast Folk Festival
@ Grumpy’s Northeast
2200 4th Street NE
Minneapolis
Noon-midnight / 21+ / FREE
Do the names Pre-Existing Conditions, The People’s Chariot, Nikki And The Ruemates, Roe Family Singers or Felonious Bosch mean anything to you? Well if they do, swing down with countless others come down to Northeast and hang out at Grumpy’s for the afternoon. Why? Because it is time for the 14th annual Northeast Folk Festival! With two stages, one outdoor and one inside you will have more than your pick of music – performances run basically back to back all day. Just in case you need to be further convinced, here comes some more name dropping: Calamity Jean, Mike Nicolai, Germaine Gemberling and Paul Metsa. Go! -Alexandra Katz
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
Black Audience
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
Nadine DuBois & The Showboat Follies
@ Harriet Island
Harriet Island Road & Wabasha Street N
St. Paul
Bar and decks open at 10 pm, shows begin at 11 pm / $15
A night on Minnesota Centennial Showboat is the perfect way to enjoy the beautiful Minnesota summer, and this week brings an opportunity to see some great live entertainment all at the same time. Lili’s Burlesque founder Nadine DuBois and her lovely Showboat Follies ladies will be performing their all-new burlesque show along with a chorus of dancers, live music, and plenty of comedy. Make the haul to St. Paul and prepare to be entertained by some of the best in the biz. -Chelsea Streich
Click HERE for the Padelford Riverboats site
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
White Denim w/ Eight Bit Tiger + LifeLikeSound
@ 400 Bar
400 Cedar Avenue S
Minneapolis
9 pm (8 pm doors) / 18+ / $10
Best Coast w/ Jeff the Brotherhood + Those Darlins
@ Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Avenue S
Minneapolis
8 pm (7 pm doors) / All Ages / $17
The West Bank hosts a couple of Big National Touring Acts on Saturday – depending on how the timing works out (it looks staggered by a couple hours) you could feasibly catch both. First off, re: White Denim – we’re just gonna call it, folks, as hip as they are and as post-post-deconstructionist-post-whatever as you wanna call ‘em, they’re a prog band, plain and simple. That ain’t a bad thing by any means. (We like a bit of Styx now and again – well, some of us do. Well, our music critic does. We think he might be crazy.) But don’t pretend that their whip-neck tempos, time signature shifts and deconstructed song structure is anything else. That said: “D,” their latest, is really quite amazing – it manages to sound tight and taut despite their progressive leanings, no mean feat. Meanwhile, Best Coast – featuring indie darling Bethany Cosentino (who is totes dating Nathan from Wavves-Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the 400 Bar site & HERE for the Cedar Cultural Center site
Best Coast vs. White Denim
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
Another Saturday Night: Orange Party
@ Kitty Cat Klub
315 14th Avenue SE
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE before 11 pm, $3 after
The good-lookin’ men and ladyfolk of the Twin Cities are sure to congregate at this month’s edition of Another Saturday Night, the latest dance party concoction from DJs Bach and So Gold. This month’s edition features a listening party for Frank Ocean’s recently-released agent ORANGE, which we called a “game changing” album in the R&B world and “nothing less than the best record of the year so far.” Recline in the shambly, luxe surroundings of the Kitty Cat Klub, or blow off some steam on the dance floor to a sexy mix of classic and modern R&B. Get there before 11 pm for free cover and happy hour drink specials. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
Attitude City Monthly Party
@ Clubhouse Jäger
923 Washington Avenue N
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE
One of our favorite monthly dance jams is here! The crate-digging connoisseurs of Attitude City are at it again with a night of delicious dance beats and Clubhouse Jäger’s tasty cocktails. Join the one and only Jeff Dubois and special guest Ryan Simatic for a blend of vintage disco, house, italo, and funk blended together with some modern bangers. -Staff
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
Editor in Chief: Jahna Peloquin / Header design by Caroline Royce, photo by Robb Long / Contributors: Juleana Enright, Anthony Enright, Jon Hunt, Niles Schwartz, Danielle Morris, Meg Junkermeier, Chelsea Streich, Alexandra Katz, Jahna Peloquin
