State Government
Is the Minnesota Capitol haunted? An investigation.
Halloween or no, it turns out the Minnesota Capitol’s ‘Shadows and Spirits’ tour is pretty light on the spirits.
Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
Dan Wilson on songwriting — and how he comes up with his online tips
Dan Wilson: “I have this philosophy about song ideas that not everyone agrees with, but I’m right and they’re wrong. Which is: I try to record every idea I have that I think is really good.”
Artscape
Art Attack and a new era at Northrup King; ‘Hausu’ at the Trylon
ALSO: The Danish String Quartet at ASI; Minnesota Orchestra with violinist Leila Josefowicz; and more.
Artscape
Chris Larson’s ‘Depression Groove’ to open; Park Square cancels two musicals
ALSO: Poetry Reading: Patrick Deeley at St. Thomas; Accordo at Westminster Hall; violist Nobuko Imai with Chamber Music Society; and more.
Artscape
Cine Latino film festival focus is on cinema with a conscience
ALSO: Release party for Prince’s book “The Beautiful Ones”; “Macbeth” at the James J. Hill House; and more.
Community Sketchbook
At Festival de las Calaveras, Latinx Minnesotans ‘remember, reflect, and connect with our ancestors’
For three hours at CLUES, a few hundred people expressed, in a burst of artful ways, their love for their Latinx community and gone-not-gone loved ones, and about the thin lines between this world and the afterworld.
Sports
How the Houston Astros became world champions of terrible judgement
If you’re wondering how a club could employ an executive with so little common sense, and how its media relations team could mangle crisis management so badly, it’s because … well, they’re the Astros, one of baseball’s most arrogant and tone-deaf organizations.
Books
Remembering Minneapolis’ most infamous bar: Moby Dick’s
Moby Dick’s was a bar “that folks visited just to say they’d been there.” An excerpt from the forthcoming book, “Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities,” by Bill Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant.
Artscape
Five to receive Sally Awards; ‘Six’ event at MOA
ALSO: Anat Gov’s “O My God!” at Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company; a Diva Cage Match; “For Sama” at the Walker; and more.
Artscape
Terence Blanchard’s ‘Caravan’ at the Ordway; Daily Show Writers at the Cedar
ALSO: “The Lost Brothers” launch; the 25th Annual Artability Art Show & Sale; James Sewell Ballet’s “Opera Moves” at the Cowles; and more.
Artscape
No Northern Spark in 2020; Inuit art returns to Highpoint
ALSO: Author Ingrid Rojas Contreras at Club Book; Rooted: Special Edition at the Ordway; and more.
Artscape
Walker panel considers the state of local news; Markus Zusak at Magers & Quinn
ALSO: “Motherlanded” at Dreamland Arts; novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at Northrop; and more.
Sports
Sad part of Tommies’ ambition: It risks the end of a special rivalry
If UST succeeds, Saturday’s annual St. Thomas-St. John’s football game may be the next-to-last in the MIAC’s most popular rivalry. UST is scheduled to exit the MIAC in the spring of 2021.
