Artscape
From Park Square, a virtual play festival; Crooners to offer drive-in concerts after all
ALSO: Online discussion with Kate DiCamillo; Minnesota Opera’s “The Shining” to stream; and more.
Arts & Culture
MNopedia
The Kensington Runestone: Minnesota’s most brilliant and durable hoax?
The Kensington Runestone has provoked a host of scholarly and popular articles and books. The Minnesota Historical Society library carries more than forty titles on the subject.
Artscape
Dark & Stormy’s Sara Marsh: ‘To be ready is the key thing’
“Our industry is literally gone. It’s poof, it’s gone,” said Sara Marsh. “It’s hard to convey that it doesn’t exist right now. But that’s the truth of things at the moment.”
Artscape
SPCO’s 2020-21 season is all about its own musicians; Minnesota Opera launches Digital Opera Series
ALSO: MSPIFF39 Redefined: A Virtual Film Festival; Art-A-Whirl goes online; a Prince concert from the Purple Rain Tour; and more.
Artscape
Janis Lane-Ewart: ‘Tell someone that you’re thinking of them, whenever that crosses your brain’
Sally Award winner Janis Lane-Ewart is currently the development officer for KBEM, the jazz radio station based in North High School.
Artscape
The Guthrie’s plans for 2021; Latté Da to focus on new work
ALSO: ASI’s online Cocktails at the Castle; Daniel Radcliffe reads the first chapter of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”; and more.
Artscape
Jazz guitarist Zacc Harris: ‘The thing I’ve worked on for my whole musical life is just not an option right now’
Quarantine Qoncert #1 will take place at 7 p.m. tonight (Friday, May 8) as a Zoom “house concert.” It will feature solo sets with drummer JT Bates, guitarist Zacc Harris, bassist Chris Bates and pianist Bryan Nichols.
Artscape
The Loft’s virtual Wordplay draws crowds; a conversation with Roz Chast
ALSO: Free online screening of “Love Them First: Lessons From Lucy Laney Elementary”; Danish String Quartet: Last Leaf available for a week online; and more.
Artscape
Minnesota potter Matthew Krousey: ‘As artists, not creating right now would be a big mistake’
Like many events that can’t be held in a time of physical distancing, the 28th Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour has gone online.
Artscape
MSPIFF announces 40+ films in virtual festival; 30 years of Walker Dialogues available
ALSO: Storytime From Space; a reading of “A Play by Barb and Carl”; “Rez Road 2000” online; and more.
MNopedia
Around the turn of the century, blackface minstrel shows were a staple of prominent Minnesota theaters
Theaters such as the Orpheum, the Pence Opera House and the Academy of Music (Minneapolis) all hosted the performances.
Sports
How do you run a regional sports network when there are no sports?
At a time when Fox Sports North is normally gearing up for one of its busiest stretches, COVID-19 has brought the sports calendar to a halt. So how does Minnesota’s regional sports network choose what to put on TV?
Artscape
The Dakota’s Lowell Pickett: ‘Music connects us as human beings’
“I see this as something we’re all experiencing, and we have to work together and support one another in order to get through this,” said Dakota owner Lowell Pickett.
