Film Independent’s Spirit Awards are back in the Walker Cinema! Our annual presentation of Spirit Awards nominees showcases creativity and innovation in visual storytelling with the best of indie cinema. This year’s highlights include Wild Indian (by Minnesotan filmmaker Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.), Summer of Soul, Zola,Queen of Glory, and more. Co-presented with Film…
Mortimer’s residencies are a cornerstone of the MPLS + STPL rock scene, and every week in February The Sex Rays return to the stage with their crunchy twangy throwback sound with some good ol’ fashioned rock ‘n’ roll from some of the loudest and most fun bands around the Twin Towns that…
How could a high profile fashion magazine like Vogue possibly gaslight a big chunk of MPLS? Do a lengthy fawning profile of Mayor Jacob Frey. The write-ups, which will be in March print, includes a lot of fun personal tidbits—his legit accomplishments as a competitive runner, his parents were both modern ballet…
Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain, with a rare prescience.…
Hosted by best friends (and two of the dopest scientists you will ever meet), Titi and Zakiya, Dope Labs serves up scientific principles with a healthy dose of tea—unpacking pop culture through the black lens. From cuffing season to Cardi B, they’ll take what’s trending and put it under the microscope with…
Driven by a devotion to the sonic afterlife, memory, and material curiosity, “one of the most exciting young composers in North America” (The Guardian), Kara-Lis Coverdale makes her Upper Midwest debut at The Great Northern 2022. Her dynamic work explores genre-defying electronic music that weaves together several musical systems and languages—encapsulating a…
How’s this for a start to the event recommendations? The brutalist of the brutal! With a name like Cattle Decapitation, metalheads can expect music that’s either a little light tongue-in-cheek nerdy fun—or absolutely serious deathgrindcore about the monstrosity of human with album names like Human Jerky and The Anthropocene Extinction. Added bonus for the…
Not all heroes wear capes . . . or ninja hoods. Tim Alan Holly, one of the hardest working people in the MPLS + STPL Arts & Culture scene programs B-movie stuff all over town, including the incredible Cinema of the Macabre series at Emagine Willow Creek on Monday nights,…
Update: This show has been rescheduled for April 7th, tickets available on the Icehouse site. What could possibly be better than seeing and hearing electro-soul dynamo Lady Midnight perform her album Death Before Mourning? Having the whole project come to life with a full band performance with a lenghty and…
While some of us have been trying to use the pandemic time to, say, learn a little more Italian via phone apps, Diane Miller has continued to be a driving force in the MPLS + STPL music scene. The Current’s Local Show host releases her new EP Earth to Diane this weekend…