While the rest of Minnesota spends the month celebrating 100 years of Judy Garland, on Friday and Saturday Minneapolis-St. Paul will celebrate another gem of cinema that hails from the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Roger Nygard is perhaps best known for his acclaimed documentary Trekkies, about the most obsessive fans…
by Isabelle Wattenberg This month, Jungle Theater and Theater Mu present Cambodian Rock Band, a play by prolific New York-based playright Lauren Yee. The story follows a survivor of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge genocide who returns home for the first time in three decades to reckon with his past as his…
Words by Tiffany Lukk Truly, where does the time go? So long ago, Icehouse started off as loading docks where Cedar Fuel and Ice harvested 75,000 tons of ice. Later it transformed—and there must a great story here—a studio for video and audio recordings. Then, ten years ago, the location…
For the cover of the May issue, DISPATCH used a still from the new documentary Move Me, one of the selections of this year’s Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. In it, performer with a disability and first-time filmmaker Kelsey Peterson tells her engaging and emotional personal story: At 27, she…