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SXSW Day Two: Neil on 3/15/07
By: Neil Olstad[Read full review]
Okkervil River - Photo by Stacy Sandstrom We awoke today to a warm but not hot, sunny day in Austin. Better weather could simply not be asked for on such a wonderful day as today. Today on our way into town, our quirky apache Indian cabbie “Rain” went from telling us about his girlfriend’s lung cancer to why he sleeps with other women in less than 90 seconds. It doesn’t get much better than...
SXSW Day Two: Stacy on 3/15/07
By: Stacy Schwartz[Read full review]
Lindsey Kimball of 89.3 The Current, Nomad Pub booker Matt Perkins and HWTS's Neil Olstad - Photo by Stacy Sandstrom I am so tired. So, so tired. Not hungover tired. Just a horse dragged me town the street by my ankles tired. But because I hope this is interesting, I’ll tell you what I did today. 11:45am: Woke up, ate a granola bar, got ready for Rain to pick us up in the hippie-ca...
SXSW Day One: Neil on 3/14/07
By: Neil Olstad[Read full review]
Neil's Badge - Photo by Stacy Sandstrom After a 6 a.m. flight out of Minneapolis and an hour layover in Dallas, I officially arrived in Austin, Texas for the annual South by Southwest music conference for the second time in as many years. Not booking your hotel months in advance these days means that you don’t stay downtown, but instead in one of many hotels lining the Austin highwa...
SXSW Day One: Stacy on 3/14/07
By: Stacy Schwartz[Read full review]
Stacy's Badge - By Stacy Sandstrom 5pm: Go to registration & pick up badges for Music Festival portion of SXSW. This takes place at the conference center where you wait in a long line to receive your badge and a packet of random junk mail. Actually, it went pretty quickly—they get your ID, take your photo and about 10 minutes later you’re set. After that we headed downstairs to get o...
St. Paul Art Crawl: An Overview on 10/14/06
By: Kristine Lambert[Read full review]
Lowertown and downtown Saint Paul seemed a bit sleepy when I arrived, but the insides of the nearly 25 buildings included in the St. Paul Art Crawl were buzzing with people passing through over 200 artists’ studios and galleries. I found the atmosphere to be unpretentious and high-energy, with an exceptional variety of media. My goal was to try to hit as many spots as I could, pick out the artists that struck me, and focus on them. I would, though, recommend any art lover...
Wild River Festival at Harriet Island on 9/10/06
By: David Rachac[Read full review]
From the time I first heard of it, I had questions about the Wild River Festival. I couldn’t quite see the link between music, film AND comedy that would make it a cohesive festival concept. I wondered about the drawing power of a lot of the bands that were involved, especially for the price that was being asked. And throughout the summer, I just didn’t hear a lot of chatter about it – I was hoping that enough people would ...
Los de Abajo, Low, Rickie Lee Jones, Solomon Burke, Steve Earl, and That 1 Guy at Winnipeg Folk Festival on 7/6/06
By: David de Young[Read full review]
Neko Case at the Winnipeg Folk Festival - Photo by David de Young Anyone who knows me, knows I am a festival junkie. To date I've been to England's Glastonbury, Reading, and V Festivals (2001), Ireland's Witness/Oxegen (3 times), Denmark's Roskilde Festival (3 times) and Germany's Hurricane Festival. I hazard to say that makes me no fes...
Winnipeg Folk Festival: Part 2 at Winnipeg Folk Festival on 7/6/06
By: Lauren Knapp[Read full review]
Crooked Still - Photo by Sara Montour Tweeners: Crooked Still Having attended The Winnipeg Folk Festival twice before, I was aware of what I was getting myself into when I purchased my ticket from an extremely friendly Canadian Ticketmaster employee in late June. Again this year, I was unacquainted with most of the musicians on the line-up and knew I...
Artwear in Motion: Future Tense at Textile Center of Minnesota on 10/18/03
By: David de Young[Read full review]
Two models exhibit some of the wearable art by artist Cynthia McGuirl of Thomaston, ME at Artwear in motion I spent my Sunday doing something I would not have guessed a year ago that I'd be doing. I volunteered from noon to 6 p.m. to staff a boutique during the second and final day of the Textile Center of Minnesota's (http://www.textilecente...