Bust out the bikinis, ya'll. It's going to be in the upper 30s this weekend! Well, okay, you can hold off the the barely-there fare for a couple more months, but at least we're making progress. With a smoldering mix of events happening this weekend including dance parties, rock shows, and an over abundance of awesome art, we're sure you'll find an excuse or two to shed some layers. The end of winter is in sight, dear readers!
BONUS: Join us on Wednesday the 16th at the Guthrie Theater for l'etoile night! Discounted tickets and an exclusive after party with the cast, complete with complimentary drinks and treats! Click HERE for more info.
xo-l'etoile
Photo by Eric Eul for l'etoile
THURSDAY MARCH 10TH
Shelter Me 2011
@ Chowgirls Parlor
1224 2nd St NE
Minneapolis
5 p.m. to 9 p.m. / $12
The peeps behind the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless and Animal Humane Society truly believe that if the animal troops could talk they would say “gimme shelter.” Tonight, join the coalition and fellow fur-friend lovers for a charity event designed to help our four-legged pals permanently in good homes and fund the local charities that make it happen. Munch down delicious vegetarian fare from local nom nom aficionados Chowgirls Killer Catering, jive to some groove-tastic tunes courtesy of DJ Jake Rudh, sip down ice cold top notch brews from Harriet Brewing and decadent treats from Muddy Paws Cheesecake. Not to mention feast your peepers on custom posters a’la Adam Turman and bring a photo of your favorite pet to get a high-quality sketch on the spot by Sarah of Lintu Art for a mere 20 bones. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to pet-friendly charities, plus the first 25 guests will receive a generous grab bag filled with an event poster from Adam Turman, the grandiose local coupon book Chinook and much more!
Click HERE for the Facebook event
THURSDAY MARCH 10TH
Pocket Lab Reading Series No. 10
@ Rogue Buddha Gallery
357 13th Ave NE
Minneapolis
7 p.m. / Free
In a flurry of belles-lettres, the Pocket Lab Reading Series returns to the Buddha on Thursday, featuring an absolutely lavish literary lineup (we can alliterate, too!). Cast number 10 includes co-founder and editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, Matt Hart; Madison poet Adam Fell; Chaska-based novelist, teacher, and hot sauce addict Seth Michael Berg; “God Save Gertrude” (a punk-rock riff on Hamlet) playwright Deborah Stein; and local film-poetry production company Co-Kisser creator Jen March. For such a bite-sized gathering, we’d say it sounds larger than life.
Click HERE for the Facebook event
FRIDAY ART PICK: FRANCIS BACON
What's l'etoile looking at this week?
Golden years, golden years. Just what are the golden years? Are they those fleeting years of passion and realized youth in our 20s and 30s? Oh, to be the artist l’etoile is obsessed with this week, English/Irish figurative abstract artist, Francis Bacon. Though some would say bon vivant artist Bacon may have peaked before his 40th birthday, that doesn’t mean the man didn’t leave behind a bold austere, graphic and emotionally raw catalog of distorted imagery and disambiguatory paintings. A master of provocative subjects such as crucifixion, Papal heads, grotesque figurines and motifs of death, Bacon was renowned as the most astonishingly sinister and original artist in England. Bizarro manifested!
Click HERE for more info on Francis Bacon's art
FRIDAY MARCH 11TH
The Somethin’ Else #10 (Yetifest)
@ Yeti Records
3506 Nicollet Ave S
Minneapolis
6 p.m. / $5 (or Free with Potluck Contribution)
Mix some MN music and your favorite munchies this Friday with the cool people behind Yeti Records at this food-n’-tune-filled soiree. The Somethin’ Else #10 will be the perfect potluck kick-off to your weekend, showcasing a mound of Minneapolis’ most experimental musicians that will both tickle your taste buds and sooth your eardrums. Stop by to nom on homemade hot dishes and get down to the grooves of locals Josh Granowski, Matt Wacker, Radical Cemetery, Grant Cutler’s 2012, Kevin Cosgrove & Lisa McGrath, Oblong Box and the like. Did we mention if you bring your own shareable food you get in on all the goodness for free? It's true.
Click HERE for the Facebook event
FRIDAY MARCH 11TH
Selections from Ana Voog’s Anacam
@ Smitten Kitten
3010 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis
6 p.m. / Free
Since August 22, 1997, the world has seen a lot of Ana Voog. From daily activities like vacuuming and hosting guests to building a free-form crochet hat empire (you can buy one of your own on her website) to the conception and birthing of her first child, the 24/7 of Voog’s life has been on display via anacam, the longest running webcam slash conceptual art experiment to date. Friday at Smitten Kitten, both fans and those unlucky ones who’ve been out of the loop the past fifteen years can enjoy a sampling from the anacham archives and even take a favorite or two home. Be prepared for anything and everything – in Ana’s world, extreme (and extremely sexual) is norm. Not that we’d have it any other way.
Click HERE for this art event and more at mplsart.com
FRIDAY MARCH 11TH
Never Quiet Never Soft
@ Cult Status
2913 Harriet Ave S
Minneapolis
7 p.m. – 1 a.m. / free
Tonight, Cult Status gallery welcomes you to the dollhouse (and the forest) as they present Never Quiet, Never Soft, a site-specific installation from local artists Shawn Hebrank and Albie Rock. Make your way through a human-sized birdhouse while you hear tunes from Dark Dark Dark’s Marshall LaCount, harpist Rachel Blomgren and Brute Heart’s Ackie Beckey. Wander through a dialogue that juxtaposes folk-life and "woodsly" aesthetic in paintings, prints and sculpture where it’s no surprise to see art dolls, acorns and antlers, brass instruments and bearded men, wheat and wings, lanterns and lighthouses and other atmospheric anomalies.
Click HERE for this art event and more at mplsart.com
FRIDAY MARCH 11TH
BNLX EP #5 Release Party
@ Cause Spirits and Soundbar
3005 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis
9:30 p.m. / $7
The bill for tonight's BNLX EP release show reads like a dream come true. Idle Hands will deliver haunting hi-fi/lo-fi rock that will make your toes curl, Satellite Voices will charm you into another dimension with their outta-this-world sound, and Byzantine Beatbox is worth showing up for just based on visuals alone--though a little birdy chirped to us that BB's performance will involved a mini Astronaut Wife reunion with Amy and Janey on vocals (covering a Jeremy Messersmith tune, no less). And of course, headliners BNLX whose wall of sound will melt your face and sear your ears in the best possible of ways. Truly an all-inclusive night of solid local music. #WIN
Click HERE for the Facebook event
FRIDAY MARCH 11TH
Rock & Roll Spring Break
@ Turf Club
University & Snelling
St. Paul
9 p.m. / 21+ / $7
It's another SXSW send-off weekend here in the Twin Cities, with a record number of bands gearing up to head down south to showcase their talents to the masses and represent our scene. Friday night, get a taste of the impending Austin shenannies at the Turf Club, where Christy Hunt has assembled an insane line up of local and national acts, including H.U.N.X., Pink Mink, Brooklyn's JM Airis, Detroit's the Hounds Below, Hastings 3000 and more. All this for only seven bones - that's only a buck a band. The Clown Lounge will be open too! We know where we'll be on Friday night!
Click HERE for the Turf site
FRIDAY MARCH 11TH
Extra Large
@ The Record Room
701 1st Ave N
Minneapolis
10 p.m. / 18+ / $3 adv or $5 at door
March is here and now that all of the post-NY resolution “get skinny” hype has finally worn off we are all for getting Extra Large. Once again, local mix master, Mike 2600, is bringing his usual grab bag of tunage to take over First Ave’s Record Room. This time around, Mike welcomes special guest Kevin Beacham who will play a plethora of rap, funk and homegrown DJ jams. Not to mention, the Record Room bartenders will be serving up 2-4-1 well drinks all hours before the strike of 12 while the dudes for Burlesque of North America and Lee Greenwich will be throwing out tons of free swag to the first clutch of lucky ducks to show up.
Click HERE for the Facebook event
COOL LINK: GREEN’S DICTIONARY OF SLANG
What's l'etoile looking at on the web this week?
Have an insatiable desire to improve your dirty vocabulary? Well, you’re in luck, author Jonathon Green – the nation’s “indefatigable lexicographer of filth, a tierless troweller in the slurry of un unsayable” (according to The Independent) has released a mind-bendingly addictive guide to taboo talk that even the crassest of Brits would shy from. The extensive three-volumed edition is a historical reference as well as a hilariously subversive take on new slang language.
Click HERE for more info
SATURDAY MARCH 12TH
The Soap Factory Presents: Tim Carroll
@ Soap Factory
514 2nd St SE
Minneapolis
7 p.m. / Free
From monstrous Haunted Basements to performance art sanctuaries, the Soap Factory has homed many a site-specific installation. Tonight, join as the Soap presents a special maze-like exhibit, the latest from artist Tim Carroll, encompassing the entirety of the gallery’s 12,000 sq ft space. Using chalk drawings and tar paper, Carroll creates a show inspired by ancient Greek pottery, Victorian needlepoint and the elegance and simplicity of black and white and raw textures. With live music and soundscapes from Teen Anal Terrorist, The Blink Turk, Jason Wade and Jaime Carrera.
Click HERE for this art event and more at mplsart.com
SATURDAY MARCH 12TH
Inside Out: The Self Portrait Show
@ Hennes Art Company
1607 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis
6 p.m. / Free
Believe it or not, the art of self portraiture still exists beyond oh-so dramatic Facebook self-snapshots and extensive Macbook photobooth albums (we know, you were just bored one day). Just ask the twenty-six artists behind Inside Out: The Self Portrait Show, opening Saturday at Hennes Art Company. Curated by naturalist painter John Schuerman, the show features a plethora of artists and mediums, including SooVAC artist and curator Suzy Greenberg, figurative painter Luke Hillestad, immaculate sculpturist Kyle Fokken, puppeteer Michael Sommers, and painter/collage artist Jennifer Davis (we’re particularly fond of her whimsical, storybook-like illustration style, recently printed on a Tapes n’ Tapes t-shirt). Straightforward, thought-provoking, abstract, and totally off the wall, the ways these artists have chosen to represent themselves are bound to surprise you – and hopefully reflect a little something of yourself, too.
Click HERE for this art event and more at mplsart.com
SATURDAY MARCH 12TH
Fresh: 10 artists from the gallery’s first five years
@ Burnet Gallery
901 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis
6 p.m. / Free
Top tens can be so disappointing, but the exact opposite is true with Fresh, opening Saturday at the Chambers’ Burnet Gallery. In a five-year anniversary celebration of sorts, ten artists from the gallery’s brief, but shining history will be on display, including Angela Strassheim, whose visceral, unflinching photographs of family life were first exhibited at the Chambers in 2007; Andrea Stanislav, who dazzled us in 2009 with Holiday in the Sun, featuring paintings decked out in shellac, glitter, and tasty wordage; and Chris Larson, whose chilling sculpture/video installation (literally: the project involved a frozen house) Deep North debuted in 2008. And you know there’ll be valet parking. So fly.
Click HERE for this art event and more at mplsart.com
SATURDAY MARCH 12TH
Scuffle & Scrape: Shawn McNulty
@ Rosalux Gallery
1224 Northeast 2nd St.
Minneapolis
7 p.m. / Free
“Scuffle & Scrape” is the shiny new solo show from painter and Rosalux Gallery founder Shawn McNulty – his first in the gallery’s Nordeast nook. McNulty is known for christening his paintings with spontaneous, abstract titles (“turmeric,” “red tail,” and “copacetic,” to name a few), so it comes as no surprise that the title of his show would carry equal significance: “scuffling” is his word for the applying, chopping, slicing, scraping, and reapplying of paint upon his canvas, resulting in the conceptual “skirmishes” (McNulty’s descriptor) that are his final works. Layered as much with meaning as with material, the paintings will be on display at Rosalux starting Saturday. Color your weekend dynamic (the arty word for awesome).
Click HERE for this art event and more at mplsart.com
SATURDAY MARCH 12TH
Share|Space:2 Opening P(art)y
@ Tarnish & Gold
1511 Marshall St NE
Minneapolis
7 p.m. to 10 p.m. / $5
Mama always said “sharing is caring” and the artists in Tarnish & Gold’s ultra group show definitely have taken her words of wisdom to heart. Get overwhelmed and visually flustered by the art work of 30 local artist including pieces from Megan Frauenhofffer, Kyle Coughlin, Hilary Berg, Brian Frank, Paige Guggemos, Yoshi Coryne, Victoria Martinez and more! Enjoy epic tuneage from Crimes & DJ Andrew Broder.
Click HERE for this art event and more at mplsart.com
SATURDAY MARCH 12
Fleetwood Magic!
@ Turf Club
1601 University Ave. W.
St. Paul
9 p.m. / 21+ / $7
Look at this lineup: Vampire Hands, Me & My Arrow, Nightinghales, Little Foot, Invisible Boy, Hot Roxx DJ. Delicious. Awesome. Now, imagine those bands and Hot Roxx DJs playing a Fleetwood Mac tribute at the one and only Turf Club. Yes. That's right. A Fleetwood Mac Tribute. Join the all-star cast for a magical night of some of the greatest songs in rock history--and hey, maybe think about throwing on a costume or something. It is a tribute, after all, and Stevie Nicks as inspiration is all the excuse we need.
Click HERE for the Facebook event
SATURDAY MARCH 12TH
Transparent Radiation
@Nick and Eddie (Warehouse)
1612 Harmon Place
Minneapolis
9 p.m. / 18+ / $5
Minneapolis' best-kept secret will be opening up its doors for an epic night of all-out dancing mania--like you could expect anything less from the hipster hideaway on a Saturday night! Be there to check out the awesome sounds of Food Pyramid, Nomia & Delta Lyrae, DJ Overzealous Sound System, with Oil Lights and Projections by Wonderhaus. And try not to geek out too much over the sheer awesomeness of it all.
Click HERE for the Facebook event
SUNDAY MUSIC PICK: BRAIDS
What's l'etoile listening to this week?
It’s kind of a shame that Braids is getting so much buzz (and not to mention ceaseless Animal Collective comparisons) on the indie circuit; we’re really hoping they stick around long after the hipsters get bored and move on to the next big (as in mediocre but danceable and named after a cute animal) thing. The Montreal four-piece crafts a haunting, swirling jungle of rises, falls, and clickety-clacks, a dream surprisingly-but-cleverly shattered by the feral cries of singer/keyboardist Katie Lee. And all that comes before the lyrics: astute, sailor-mouthed musings on sexuality and self-discovery (“what I found is that we/ we’re all just sleeping around”), the kind that seems born of an entire young-adulthood spent in ennui. Um, what’s not to love about that? Our verdict: riveting, definitely one of those rare few “it” bands worth risking cliché for.
Bonus: Braids will be playing the Entry on April 3rd!
Click HERE for the Braids Myspace
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