Actress Michelle Myers Berg has what she considers a heavenly role. As Sister Celeste, Myers Berg conducts historical walking tours of Saint Paul clad in a habit and veil and thick-soled black Oxford shoes. This weekend she has added Jazz…
The many styles of jazz, from free-swinging bebop to contemporary to New Orleans brass, will take the stage on June 23-25 with the return of the annual Twin Cities Jazz Fest. Close to four dozen acts will be featured at…
Highland Park actor Sun Mee Chomet will be making up for lost time this month at the Guthrie and Southern theaters in Minneapolis. At the Guthrie, Chomet will appear as Miss Bates in the world premiere of Emma, playwright Kate…
While air raid sirens blare and bombs explode in faraway Ukraine, a Twin Cities band is filling the local air waves with music to raise money for the victims of that bloody war with Russia.Founded in 2007 as a party…
One day last fall, Mary Jo Lawless was out for a walk. She crossed paths with Brenda Ryan. The neighbors had waved to each other in the past, but did not really know one another. This time, instead of going…
Guitarist Jeff Ray and harmonica player “Hurricane” Harold Tremblay met in 2009 when Ray was playing a solo gig at J.S. Bean Factory on Randolph Avenue. “I heard him and asked him to be on my show,” recalled Tremblay, host…
St. Paul company choreographs updated version of Stravinsky ballet. Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, first performed in 1910 by the newly formed Ballets Russes, has been reimagined by Ballet Co.Laboratory for its season finale on May 20-22 in…
Art can seem obscure to the distant observer. It helps when one knows a thing or two about the artist. That is the beauty of “Art Speaks” at the Minnesota History Center. The current exhibit includes more than 160 works…
Play was penned with help of 200 who know the system from inside. Wonderlust Productions is dedicated to telling untold stories of importance. In its forthcoming premiere, The Labyrinth and the Minotaur: The Incarceration Play Project, Wonderlust examines what happens…
West End author Larry Millett is laying to rest his Shadwell Rafferty mystery series. Then again, he did not leave himself much choice. Shadwell dies in Rafferty’s Last Case: A Minnesota Mystery, the ninth and final novel featuring the Saint…
Three restaurants whose roots are in Southeast Asia are being transplanted this spring in Saint Paul. The owners of the single Filipino and two Vietnamese establishments all promise updated versions of classic family recipes.KALSADASet to open by the end of…
It was a pretty good crowd for a Monday at Bogey’s Lounge. The regular crowd shuffled in. Many of them had guitars or harmonicas in hand because Monday is the night for the open jam at Bogey’s, 970 Sibley Memorial…
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