The Music

Soundset 2013

Sun., May 26, 11 am — 8:30 pm • Canterbury Park, 1100 Canterbury Rd. Shakopee, MN, 952-445-7223 or www.soundsetfestival.com/ • This years Soundset Festival features nine hours of hip hop music all in one day – rain or shine. Performers include Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion, Busta Rhymes, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Greg Grease, A$AP Ferg, Tech N9ne, Joey Bada$$, Dizzy Wright, Sean Price, The ReMINDers, and many more.

Memorial Day Blowout Soundset After-Party

Sun., May 26, (doors open at) 9 pm • Insert Coins, 315 1st Ave. N., Mpls., 651-564-4016 or www.insertcoinsmpls.com • Hosted by Snoop Dogg and featuring a live performance by MN Fats and music by DJ D Mil.

CED LINUS Album Release Party

Tues., May 28, 7 pm • First Avenue & 7th St. Entry, 701 N. 1st Ave.,  Mpls., 612-338-8388 or http://first-avenue.com • Also featuring Sti-Lo Reel, Absent, Ken-C, Aquafresh, Lifted Mindz, Nick Travae (Flood the Basement), DJ Grizzley, and hosted by Cooly.

Kings of the Mic Tour 

Thurs., May 30, 7:30 pm • Target Center, 600 First Ave. N., Mpls., 612-673-1600 • Two-time Grammy winning recording artist, LL COOL J featuring DJ Z-Trip, will headline the “Kings of the Mic” Tour, which will prove to be this summer’s ultimate Hip-Hop music experience. Joined by legendary artists Ice Cube, Public Enemy and De La Soul.

Coolio

Sat., June 1, 9 pm • Cabooze, 917 Cedar Ave., Mpls., 612-338-6425 or www.cabooze.com • W/ Level Heads, The Anchormen, and DJ Applejews.

The Screen

After Earth

Various theaters • A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help • Starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith.

Peeples

Various theaters • Sparks fly when Wade Walker crashes the Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace’s hand in marriage • Produced by Tyler Perry and starring Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, and David Alan Grier.

The Stage

A Streetcar Named Desire

Thurs-Sat., 8pm — Sun., 4pm, May 23-26 • Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. S., 612-203-9502 or www.tenthousandthings.org • An all-new take on this universal story of family dysfunction, delusion and desire. Guest directed by Randy Reyes, in consultation with Lear deBessonet. Featuring Elizabeth Grullon, Kurt Kwan, Kris Nelson, and Austene Van.

TU Dance

Fri., May 31 — June 2, various times • The O’Shaughnessy, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, 651-690-6700 or http://oshaughnessy.stkate.edu • A nationally-acclaimed company with St. Paul roots, TU Dance has become renowned for its diverse repertory, versatile artists, and engaging, dynamic, generous performances. Join TU Dance at The O’Shaughnessy as the company closes out its ninth performance season with a spring dance concert of world premiere works by Uri Sands and Camille A. Brown.

WITS w/ Hannibal Buress w/ Open Mike Eagle

Fri., June 7, 8 pm • Fitzgerald Theater, 10 E. Exchange St., St. Paul, 651-290-1200 or http://fitzgeraldtheater.publicradio.org • Hannibal Buress has worked as a writer for 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live. Chris Rock says Hannibal is “the funniest young comic [he’s] seen in years.” Hannibal released his debut comedy album, My Name Is Hannibal, in 2010 • The LA Times calls Open Mike Eagle “one of LA’s smartest young voices.” He has released three albums and has collaborated with P.O.S and MC Paul Barman. Mike has also bridged rap and comedy, rapping at shows by some of our favorite comedians, including Paul F. Tompkins and Hannibal Buress • The June 7 live recording will also feature a special two-song appearance by P.O.S

The Arts

 

 

Arts on Chicago Celebration

Sat., June 8, 11 am-2 pm, 3700 block of Chicago Avenue • Almost forty artists involved with the 20 art projects of Arts on Chicago will come together to celebrate the year-long initiative on Saturday, June 8, 2013. Residents from Powderhorn, Bancroft, Bryant and Central neighborhoods encourage Minnesotans from across the metro area to take part in activities that knit together the creative assets of this historic corridor in S. Minneapolis • Music, specialty food trucks, children’s activities, and free snow cones will be available.

 

 

Realism Reconsidered

Through July 26 • Gordon Parks Gallery, Metro State Univ. Library and Learning Center, 645 E. 7th St., St. Paul, 651-793-1631 • Featuring Minneapolis-based artists Raina Belleau and Howard Quednau, who turn to folklore and the narrative to explore a different sense of truth. Belleau’s manipulated animal sculptures and Quednau’s skillful tiny model dioramas become playful, and sometimes dark, representations of altered realities and fictitious spaces • Mon.–Thurs., 11 am — 7 pm, Fri.–Sat., 11 am — 4 pm. No Fri. hours during summer months.

 

 

 

Contemporary Arts Studio: Spring 2013

Through June 6 • Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA), 1108 W. Broadway Ave., Mpls., 612-588-1148 • Visit their renewed gallery and see the ideas, issues, and techniques used in artwork by Cameron (age 15), Kayla (age 14), and Namir (age 14), who were employed as contemporary artists at JXTA this winter • Young artists in JXTA’s Contemporary Art Studio produce commission works for clients like Minnesota Alliance with Youth and Youthprise, in addition to developing, showing and selling their own work • All of the work on exhibit is reasonably priced, with items starting as low as $100 • Gallery hours: Tues., Wed., and Thurs., 10 am — 5 pm,  other hours by appointment.

 

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