While our current climate may not inspire you to rip off your shirt in exchange for some cheap plastic beads, we encourage you to embrace the spirit of Mardi Gras, Minnesota style! With such costume-worthy events as Techno Karneval and even our own Lifestyle Editor's Birthday soiree, we think you'll easily find an excuse to rock an exciting new persona. We do, however, hope you'll keep your shirt on.
xo-l'étoile
photo credit: Robyn Breen for l'étoile
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30TH
Fearless Filmmakers: Music That Moves
@ The Oak St. Cinema
309 Oak St. SE
Minneapolis
7pm / $9 or $7 for Students
Fearless Filmmakers presents a collection of the best music videos and documentaries by such notable Minnesota Filmmakers as Chuck Statler, Rick Fuller, and Phil Harder. Q&A will follow the screening.
BONUS: After Party @ The Kitty Cat Klub with Bella Koshka and To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie. Receive a free drink with purchase of a ticket to the screening!
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THURSDAY JANUARY 31ST
Bad Art Party
@ Beasthouse
600 Washington Ave. N
North Loop
(enter around back)
8-11pm / 21+ / Free
Take that garage sale art and turn it into a contemporary masterpiece! Join the crew at Beasthouse along with a bevy of local artists tonight for a "Bad Art Party". Bring your own bad art discovery or use one of their finds and creatively convert to your heart's content. Cocktails, food, and good tunes round out your artistic experience!
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THURSDAY JANUARY 31ST
Rumpshaker 90's Dance Party
@ The Entry
701 1st Ave. N
Downtown Mpls
9pm / 18+ / $5
Pump up the jam with Mike the 2600 King, Kenny Kingston, DJ Co-Op, and DJ Hunnicutt tonight at the Entry as they spin some hot nineties rumpshaking anthems.
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THURSDAY JANUARY 31ST (THROUGH FEB 17TH)
Warm Beer, Cold Women
@ The Guthrie
818 2nd St.
Minneapolis
7:30pm / $18-$34
Producer/Director Robert O. Berdahl assembles some of the area’s finest actors, singers and musicians for an evening of orphaned stories and bruised music scribed by the prophet of the common man: Tom Waits.
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FRIDAY ART PICK: KEITH ERIC WILLIAMS
Recent Minneapolis transplant Keith Eric Williams is a happy discovery for us. His lucious illustrations are brightly warm but have a graphic-novel feel that helps lend a dark edge. His detailed and hand-inked images range from the fascinatingly creepy to the marvelously sexy - so we can't help but predict you'll be seeing a lot more from this artist is 2008.
Keith Eric Williams helped fill in the blanks for l'étoile this week with a quick q&a:
You are relatively new to Minneapolis - what do you think about the creative scene here?
The arts, fashion and music scenes in Minneapolis are great. I'm a Hip-Hop head, and I love going to local shows. I'd love to delve into the fashion and arts scene more I just need to find the time.
What prompted you to move to Minnesota?
I heard a lot of good thing about the city and its creative community, so I decided to pack my bags. I also just needed a change of scenery.
Describe your artistic style - what mediums do you use and what are your inspirations?
I would describe my style as traditional meets digital meets surreal. Most of my pieces start off as a black and white inking and from there its all digital
experimentation. I'm a traditionally trained artist so I'm always conscious of anatomy, color and design. I'm inspired by most things creative, everything from typography to motion graphics to painting.Do you have any plans to exhibit your work in the near future?
Yes, I love my digital work but I want to get back to my roots and paint more, maybe do a little printmaking. I've finally gotten settled into my new home and my style. I think this year is gonna be a big year for me so hopefully you'll see me in a gallery soon.
Favorite hangouts in Minneapolis?
I've been b-boying (breakdancing) for six years now so I love clubbing. Foundation and First Avenue are always nice. You'll also see me at local and touring hip-hop shows. I'm also a permanent fixture at the Tea Garden in Uptown - I love that place. Shout out to everyone there.
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1ST
Bitter Fruits/Anxiety Dreams
@ Altered Esthetics
Q'arma Building
1224 Quincy St. NE
Northeast Mpls
7-10pm / Free
A double-art-header is in store for you tonight at the Q'arma Building! Altered Esthetics Gallery's latest show "Bitter Fruits" is the study of woman as an object in art, with over 150 works of sculpture, painting, photography and performance art from over 80 artists on both floors of the Q'arma. Anxiety Dreams, curated by Tonja Torgerson and Ellen Mueller, takes over the 1st Floor lobby with works pretaining to the artist's personal experiences with, and interpretations of, anxiety dreams.
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1ST
HOTEL featuring Max Pask
@ The Kitty Cat Klub
14th & University
Dinkytown
10pm / 21+ / Free
New York's Max Pask invades Minneapolis this weekend to party-rock your face off! Be prepared to pull out your most impressive moves as Jonathan Ackerman hosts another edition of Hotel at the Kitty Cat Klub with Pask as his special guest.
BONUS: Do we smell an after party?
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1ST
New Work by Techtonic Industries & Karolina Karlic
@ Franklin Art Works
1021 East Franklin
Minneapolis
6-8pm / Free
St.Paul based collaborative Techtonic Industries present a 16 monitor video installation that deconstructs Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". Also on display, the talented and lovely Karolina Karlic presents a collection of photography based on contemporary life and landscape in the Ukraine.
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photo by karolina karlic
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1ST
Bring The Noise
@ The Dinkytowner
14th & 4th
Dinkytown
Rock and Hip Hop collide in a good way tonight at the Dinkytowner. Featuring Project 13, Adrenaline, Screaming Blood Skull and more.
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1ST
Techno Karneval
@ 301 Summit Ave.
St.Paul
(look for the big brick mansion)
9pm-2am / $5
Germans don't celebrate Halloween in October, they celebrate Karneval in February! Think parades, lots of booze, over the top costumes and of course TECHNO! Come see DJ Whutnot scratch it up, and party German-style at this Karneval-inspired soiree (in a mansion no less!)
TIP: During Karneval in Germany, masks are an especially important part of your ensemble, so get creative!
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COOL LINK: INFORMATION ARCHITECTS
Japanese design agency Information Architects have created a Web Trend Map for 2008. Taking the top 300 most influential and successful websites and applying them to the greater Tokyo-area train map makes for a fun and clickable guide to top-shelf web surfing.
CLICK HERE FOR THE INTERACTIVE MAP
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
Fermentation & Frivolity 2.2: Food Not Bombs Benefit
@ The Belfry Center
3753 Bloomington Ave. S
Minneapolis
2pm-2am / Donation
Support Food Not Bombs today at the Belfry! Taste a variety of deliciously vegetarian fermented foods and bevies such as Kim-Chi, homemade Komubucha, and more. Live music all day featuring Brian Whitson and the Nightwolves, Unicorn Basement, Hayduke Lives, MC Monster Goblin, The Dirty Paws, Good Morning Miss Bliss, and many more.
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
Love Rox
@ Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave. S
Uptown
5:30pm-Midnight / $35-$100
The coolest V-day party this year is at Intermedia Arts. Bid on the perfect somethin'-somethin' for your sweetie in the silent auction, take in performances by Quilombolas, Mighty Fairly, Marvelle and Foxy Tan as well as an "Art Burst" showcase with spoken word, theater, and music by Ibé, isis, Teatro de Pueblo, and Heiruspecs. Need more incentive? Indulge in kissing photo booths, massage, hairstyling, and a 30 foot hanging buffet.
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
Electric Arc Radio
@ The Women's Club Theater
410 Oak Grove St.
Loring Park
7pm / $12 ($8 w/ student id)
The 2008 season of Electric Arc Radio begins tonight at the Women's Club Theater. Described as a "Literary-Musical Tragicomedy", the Electric Arc crew cleverly pokes pop culture with a stick in this hipster-friendly radio drama.
BONUS: Hear episodes from last years season each Sunday at 6pm on 89.3 The Current.
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
Angie & Shakira's B-day Party
@ Ballentine VFW Post 246
2916 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis
10pm / 21+
Bust out the camo-print, it's a l'étoile-style birthday! Our Lifestyle Editor and well-known style maven Angie Hanson celebrates the day of her birth along with other February babies at where else? The VFW. Suggested dress code is military couture.
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
Objects of Affection
@ Rosalux Gallery
1011 Washington Ave.
Downtown Mpls
7-11pm / Free
Artists Daniel Buettner and Ingrid Restemayer pay tribute to all things made, bought, sold, and then stolen or lost. Buettner's detailed paintings compliment Restemayer's carefully composed mixed media works, weaving a witty tale of quirky nostalgia that will definitely make you feel all warm inside.
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
Drunken Spelling Bee
@ 331 Club
13th & University
Northeast Minneapolis
7pm / 21+ / Free
The name says it all. Pre-registered contestants play drink-n-spell at the 331. Celebrity judges, prizes and drink specials all night. Can you spell h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s?
BONUS: Digital Crush/l'étoile photog Susannah Dodge will be competing - come cheer her on!
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
Surf Night
@ The Hex
2600 27th Ave.
South Mpls
9pm / 21+ / Free
Dig out that Hawaiian shirt and warm up to the beach-inspired sounds of Big Surf, Al's Rockabilly Quartet, and the Awkwards tonight at the Hexagon. Surfs up!
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
Moongoons After Party
@ THR33
3rd St. & 3rd Ave. S
3rd Floor
(Next to Lickity Split)
Downtown Mpls
2am / $5
Join The Moongoons, special guest Max Pask, and theDEVIOUSone tonight at a brand new afterhours spot for an all night dance party. Look for the doorman underneath the XXX sign, enter quietly and be extremly respectful of the area as to not draw attention! Easy parking in the lot half a block away, on 3rd & Washington.
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SUNDAY MUSIC PICK: KHAN
We are completely and utterly in love with Khan. This Berlin based music maker and producer is the epitome of buzzworthy. His weird disco-soul jams are fun and danceable but thoughtful enough to please even the most jaded music fan. With an unusual combination of elements such as jazz, punk, funk, techno and even a little downtempo vibe, we can't wait for more remixes!
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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3RD
Mardi Gras Brunch
@ Jax Cafe
1928 University Ave. NE
Northeast Mpls
9:30am-3pm (last seating at 2pm) / $26.95
One of our absolute favorite brunch spots in the city once again indulges us with their annual Mardi Gras Brunch. Chow down on delectable dishes such as Chicken and Seafood Jambalaya, Blackened Redfish, Andouille Sausuage, Oysters on the half shell and much more, set to the appropriate soundtrack of the Minnesota Dixie Trio. Call 612-789-7297 for reservations.
BONUS: After Brunch head a few blocks down to the 331 Club for their can't-be-beat $3 Bloody Mary special!
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