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J.D. Souther The Cedar	Sun., November 23, 7:30pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Music
Singer/songwriter J.D. Souther played a key, if somewhat behind-the-scenes, role in the rise of Southern California country rock in the early 1970s. He was a running mate of Glen Frey's before the latter became a founding member of the Eagles, which made hits out of a number of songs co-written... More >>

1001 Mixed Blood Theatre	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., October 30 until Sat., November 22, 7:30pm more dates/times	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Theater
The story of Scheherazade resonates on any number of levels, but it works just fine on the most straightforward: that storytelling can not only save our skins, it's the very fabric of life itself. Jason Grote's 1001 tackles the textures of love and politics with an onstage DJ, telling the tale... More >>

Absolute Pulp Bryant-Lake Bowl	Every week Thursday, Saturday from Sat., November 8 until Sat., November 22, 7:00pm more dates/times	Uptown/Eat Street	Theater
When you think of a theater company devoting its energy to literary adaptations, the dusty whiff of reverent takes on canonical classics springs to mind. Which is why Hardcover Theater is so consistently fun: In recent years, they've taken on sci-fi, a creepy old children's story, and a... More >>

SOLD OUT: AC/DC Xcel Energy Center	Sun., November 23, 7:30pm more dates/times		Music
If you need to be reminded that AC/DC is a rock 'n' roll band in one of its purest forms, you have a problem and should seek medical attention from your local rock doctor. And while their output of the last 15 years has been mostly satisfactory, with a smattering of occasionally awesome... More >>

Eduardo Blidner: Argentine Drag Queens Icebox Quality Framing And Gallery	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Wed., January 7	Northeast	Art Galleries
Argentine photographer Eduardo Blidner is no stranger to Minneapolis's Icebox Gallery. In 2000 the gallery hosted Blidner's first solo show, which launched his series "Tango Argentino" around the world. Last year Icebox was the first gallery in the world to host Blidner's globetrotting... More >>

CSI: The Experience Science Museum Of Minnesota	Daily from Wed., October 15 until Sun., January 4	St. Paul (Downtown)	Museums
Is getting up-close and personal with a dead body and finding how it got that way your kink? You're in luck. The traveling exhibit, "CSI: The Experience," opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota. In this criminally creative display, visitors dive into several crime scenes and use modern... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., September 13 until Sun., January 4	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., September 14 until Sun., January 4	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Hindsight is Always 20/20 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum	Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4	University	Museums
As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist and composer R. Luke Dubois explores this irony with a visual pun. In his 43 prints and light boxes, Dubois creates a... More >>

How I Learned to Drive Paul And Sheila Wellstone Center For Community Building	Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 7 until Sat., November 22, 7:30pm more dates/times	West Side	Theater
Paula Vogel garnered a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1998 for How I Learned to Drive, staged here by the oft-incisive Theatre Unbound. The bare outlines of the plot are enough to inspire a hearty cringe: Lil' Bit, growing up in rural Maryland with an extended family in the 1960s, becomes at an... More >>

INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 26 until Sun., January 18	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
When we think of art from India, most of us probably conjure images of Bollywood films or Hindu deities with four arms. This massive show of contemporary Indian photography and video art at MIA promises to be eye-opening, playing with some Indian traditions and stereotypes and exploding others.... More >>

Post Secret Minneapolis Central Library	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., November 30	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Galleries
If you don't know what Post Secret is, you've probably never been on the internet or to a bookstore. It's the website and art project started in 2004 by Frank Warren, a quiet family man living in Germantown, Maryland. Warren asks that people send him postcards that reveal their secret; he then... More >>

Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78 Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., March 15	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
Forty or 50 years on, it's hard to imagine now the manic energy of the art world in the 1960s, or the way that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, in particular, blew the doors off of artistic sensibilities at the time. Their libertine experimentalism bridged abstract expressionism and pop... More >>

Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., October 18 until Sun., January 11	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
Late Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo is sort of like the pinball-ish game pachinko: While hugely popular in Japan and select other places on the map, he just never took off in America. Sure, some American art scholars can talk about his impact on postwar art movements. But despite the 18 years... More >>

Danny Saathoff: The Mechanical Alchemist Gallery 360	Daily from Sat., November 8 until Sun., January 11	Edina	Art Galleries
In the parlance of the art world, which seems to put a premium on stuffiness, Danny Saathoff's new show, "The Mechanical Alchemist," is a collection of "interactive assemblages." But don't let the terms fool you; the art is very anti-stuffy. You can think of the pieces as artistic Bop-Its.... More >>

Minimal/Manimal: The 4th Volunteer Biennale The Soap Factory	Daily from Sat., November 15 until Sun., November 30	University	Art Galleries
They say that you must suffer for your art, but what about other people's art? For every tortured artist there are a handful of people logistically tortured, including the curator who puts together the show, selecting artists and ensuring the art is hung or installed the best way possible.... More >>

The Harvest Jamboree Marriott Minneapolis West	Fri., November 21, 7:30pm-1:00am more dates/times	St. Louis Park	Music
There's a sense of Americana in the interplay between fiddle and bass, and a driving force in the fast-picked mandolin and banjo that just can't be found outside of bluegrass. Local addicts of the genre flock to spots around the cities, such as Dulono's Pizza, the Malt Shop, and the Riverview... More >>

The Hidden World of Bears: Photography by Lynn Rogers Bell Museum Of Natural History	Daily from Wed., August 27 until Sun., January 4	University	Art Museums
Grizzly Adams has nothing on biologist Lynn Rogers. Rogers has been studying bears for 40 years, getting close to them, and apparently earning the animals' trust. At the Wildlife Research Center in Ely, Rogers has tracked more than 100 bears with radio collars, some for longer than 20 years. He... More >>

Toys On Roids Soo Visual Arts Center	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Wed., December 24	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Galleries
Despite the title of this show, it is not a series of José Canseco Starting Lineup figurines on display. Although that would be kind of cool, too. The "roids" in Sean Tubridy's "Toys on Roids" do not refer to steroids, but to Polaroid photos. And the "toys" refers to, well, that's pretty... More >>

TU Dance O'Shaughnessy Auditorium	Daily from Fri., November 21 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm more dates/times	Macalester/Groveland	Dance & Performance
The O'Shaughnessy Auditorium is ample, and few local companies can really command the space, but TU Dance, led by Uri Sands and Toni Pierce-Sands (both former members of New York's Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater), has no trouble spreading the joy of motion to each and every board onstage.... More >>

Vatican Splendors: From Saint Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums and Swiss Guard Minnesota History Center	Daily from Sat., September 27 until Sun., January 11	St. Paul (Downtown)	Art Museums
Remember that Onion headline a few years back when Pope John Paul II died? "Heaven Less Opulent Than Vatican, Reports Disappointed Pope." Zing. Everybody knows that the pope and his posse at the Vatican live surrounded by ornate and priceless treasures amid ancient buildings designed and... More >>

Zenon Dance Company: 26th Fall Season Southern Theater	Thu., November 20, 7:30pm more dates/times	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Dance & Performance
The Zenon Dance Company hits the ground running in its 26th season with a program that gives these versatile dancers plenty to wrap their highly articulate arms, legs, and torsos around. The overused phrase "wildly eclectic" actually applies to this splendid troupe of performers, who take on a... More >>

Balls Southern Theater	Every week Saturday, 12:00am	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Dance & Performance
The first time I went to Balls, the most memorable performance of about a dozen involved a man shouting atheist poetry from inside a refrigerator box. The second time I went, a musician who was in the midst of a small tour through the Midwest stopped by for a heartbreaking acoustic guitar... More >>

Level 13: Secret Level Altered Esthetics	Daily from Thu., November 6 until Sat., November 29	Northeast	Art Galleries
It began as a series of squares fighting each other to beeps and boops. So it's easy to argue that video games have matured exponentially in aesthetics, story arcs, and overall quality over the past 30 years or so. It's no wonder that artists who grew up playing video games would find... More >>

Open House: If These Walls Could Talk Minnesota History Center Library	Daily from Thu., October 23 until Mon., January 31	St. Paul (Downtown)	History/Tours/Landmarks
>"Open House: If These Walls Could Talk," is the recreation of a house that still exists in the Railroad Island neighborhood of St. Paul. The Minnesota History Museum is always bursting with hands-on exhibits, and "Open House" is no exception. Upon entering the house, every object in the... More >>