Black Fashion Week celebrates its sixth year with emerging and established designers, big-name brands, and a Minneapolis Met Gala at the Mia. WORDS BY KATIE DOHMAN The sixth year of Black Fashion Week is here, and it’s bigger than ever, promises Natalie Morrow, founder and CEO of Black Fashion Week.…
Abzi Connects Comedy to the Somali Community WORDS BY PATRICK STRAIT When Abzi—who performs under his mononym—started performing at open mics last summer, he fell in love with comedy right away. While he would hit up five or six stages each week, he also noticed that there weren’t many Somali…
Comrade Tripp is Very Popular, but Still Sad WORDS BY PATRICK STRAIT Comrade Tripp has a voice that is incredibly unique in the Twin Cities comedy scene. And that voice is very sad. His nervous, soft-spoken tone combined with his self-deprecating, anxiety-packed humor has allowed him to become one of…
The comedian hustles her way to success and waits for no one. WORDS BY PATRICK STRAIT Despite only living in Minnesota since this past January, we’re claiming Kelsey Cook as one of our own. A stand-up comic who got her start in Washington 14 years ago, Cook spent the better…
U of M apparel design students emerge from four turbulent years ready to solve the world’s challenges artfully. WORDS BY KATIE DOHMANPhoto by Joe Dammel Each year the senior apparel design class produces a final project, shown on and off runway, that showcases the talent, ambition, and skill they’ve attained…
Artistic alchemy spins silence and sorrow into strength. WORDS BY CHLOE GALLAGHER • • • Two Minneapolis exhibitions debuting this month are examining hard truths through mediums whose perceived delicacy bely a profound narrative power. In Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts asks…
WORDS BY ISABELLE WATTENBERG • • • The CANDY BOX Dance Festival, presented by ARENA DANCES, celebrates the vast diversity and imaginativeness of dance—think of it like a Whitman’s Sampler of dance. The event features a week of master classes, and performances by eight dancers representing a variety of experience…
Senate District 56 Senator Lindsey Port is shepherding a key piece of legislation to ‘Legalize It.’ WORDS BY KATIE DOHMAN • • • When South Dakota-born Minnesota State Senator Lindsey Port (DFL) lost her election for a House seat in 2016, her first reaction was to build a coalition—of other…
Get in the grooves of the local record store scene. WORDS BY MARTIN DEVANEY • • • Typically falling on the third Saturday in April, Record Store Day has had a large hand in the vinyl resurgence over the last decade-plus, as baby boomers hauled dusty vinyl from the basement,…
Let’s Get Hiii- 4/20 Mini-Market EventIn addition to some amazing local vendors who specialize in CBD, THC, and HEMP products, Lakes & Legends will be dropping some specialty brews that fit the grassy theme and releasing an extremely limited new flavor of our Hiii THC Sparkling Water. 4/20, 4 PM.…