Do you like fun? Do you have a conscience? If so, please join Aeon for a super cool event on Tuesday which will work to end homelessness in the Twin Cities. The event costs $25/person or $125 for a team and includes tickets for bowling, drinks, networking opportunities, and general

Halloween seems to be one of those truly polarizing entities with no middle ground – either you wait for it all year and dress to the nines, or you hole yourself up with Netflix and no lights, hibernating all month until the little ghouls have locked their costumes away. Photo

May my anger remain real and smaller than my love. It’s always good to support local art, and original art. I find that displacing myself from traditional performance pieces periodically helps me open my mind and get some new ideas about what is possible in theater and shake up my

It always takes a while for events to hit their stride, and this year the Ivey awards did. Although it’s been around for 12 years it’s never felt quite so engaging or well organized as it did on Monday night. It was my third time attending and I have to

Jane Austen fans should be very pleased…. Photo by Dan Norman. …With the latest offering from the Guthrie theater. In the tradition of the best Austen adaptations, from Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility to Gwenyth Paltrow’s Emma to Clueless to Bridget Jones, the current staging of Sense and Sensibility retains

TKTBSU is a modern day romantic comedy with something for everyone I always find Mu Performing Arts’ shows so thoroughly original, highly engaging and really thoughtful. Most of Mu’s performances also tend to fall in my performance sweet spot of 90 minutes or less**. Their latest offering is a dark

You won’t be able to stay in your seat during this infectious show Did you know that an alcoholically-inclined fur trapper founded St. Paul? No? Well it’s true. Long before St. Paul was the city of gangsters, long before it was even known as St. Paul, it was known as

Get your Good Karma in this weekend and volunteer to stop hunger. Do you like beer? Are you social justice minded? Would you like to help better your community? If the answer to any of the above is yes, and you have no plans this Saturday, now you do! Second

Tick one more thing off my bucket list How have I never been to the Brave New Workshop? How, how, how?! I have walked by the theater hundreds of times on Hennepin (until last week it was the only theater on Hennepin that I’ve never visited, in fact), and somehow

Experience Native American Cultures at the Ordway Center Your Good Karma for the day is calling. This will be short because everything I have to say is much better said in the expose here by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, but: if you’re looking for the coolest thing you can do today, it’s funding The