Q&A with playwright Alan Berks about his new play, Music Lovers on 3/8/10

By: David de Young
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Nathan Christopher, Lindsay Marcy and Randy Reyes in MUSIC LOVERS - Photo credit - Travis Anderson Those of us who regularly see both music and theater events in the Twin Cities know that the scenes overlap a lot more than people might suspect. Musical theater aside, as exemplifed by the recent production of Rent which featurng Twin Cities Hip Hop and R&B ...

Slideshow: SXSW Sendoff Party at First Avenue at First Avenue on 3/6/10

By: Meredith Westin
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HowWasTheShow is proud to present Meredith Westin's photo slide show from The SXSW Sendoff show at First Avenue on Satrday, March 6th.  The slideshow is set to Peter Wolf Crier's "Crutch and Cane" from his album Inter-Be. Photos in this set include Peter Wolf Crier, City on the Make, Jeremy Messersmith, Lookbook, The Pines, and Romantica.  ...

Kill The Vultures at Walker Art Center on 2/26/10

By: Dan Alvin
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Kill The Vultures in the Walker's Gallery 8 - Photo by Emily Crenshaw 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 th...

Slideshow: Electric Fetus Benefit at First Avenue on 2/26/10

By: Meredith Westin
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HowWasTheShow is proud to present Meredith Westin's photo slide show from The Electric Fetus Benefit at First Avenue on Friday, February 26th.  The slideshow is set to Unknown Prophets "Face The Storm" from their 2009 album Le System D. Photos in this set include Cloud Cult, Peter Wolf Crier, Roma di Luna, Total Babe, Jeremy Messersmith, Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps, Ruby Isle, Trailer Trash and Unknown Prophets. Proceeds from the show went to both help re...

Somebody/Nobody at Mixed Blood Theatre on 2/26/10

By: John Olive
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 Elizabeth Grullon and Taj Ruler (in T-shirt) in Mixed Blood's SOMEBODY/NOBODY  - Photo by Ann Marsden Deranged starlet Sheena Keener flees the Surf Awards ("All those eyes"), stumbles out of her limo, rolls down a bebrambled freeway embankment and now with a photogenic scrape on her pampered forehead pounds on the wobbly door of Loli's cinderblock L.A. a...

Violet at The Guthrie Theater on 2/26/10

By: Janet Preus
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Violet - Britta Ollmann, Monty - Randy Schmeling, Preacher - Alan Sorenson and Young Violet - Maeve Moynihan in Theater Latté Da's production of VIOLET presented by the Guthrie Theater - Photo by Michal Daniel Theater Latté Da’s new musical, Violet – nicely suited to the Guthrie’s black box space, the Dowling Studio Theater – is a tight little ens...

Black Pearl Sings at Penumbra Theatre on 2/21/10

By: John Olive
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Crystal Fox (Pearl) and Stacia Rice (Susannah) -Photo credit: Ann Marsden 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 g...

Podcast: HowWasTheShow CD Reviews for February 2010 on 2/21/10

By: Andrea Swensson, David de Young
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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 – &l...

Q&A with Red Pens' Howard Hamilton on 2/21/10

By: Jeff Gage
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Red Pens at Jagerfest in fall, 2009 - Photo by David de Young 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. &n...

Photo set: Retribution Gospel Choir at Triple Rock Social Club on 2/20/10

By: Meredith Westin
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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.  ...