I am writing this in my living room on my couch with a large Italian mastiff snoring like a Sardinian sow pig behind me. She doesn’t mean any offense and, in fact, Grinza is a sweet dog, stinkiness notwithstanding. She’s better company than most people, if I am being honest. I mention her because she […]
The Monster Women
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 12
The Creamery District Night Market is on tonight, with puppets, art and fire dancing. Shop for sartorial splendor at Bang! Bang! Vintage, check out art by MK Studios, Birdman Ceramics and Seapod Studios, quaff some cider from Wrangletown Cider Co., enjoy a bilingual puppet show and enjoy the musical stylings of The Monster Women. What […]
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Call Your (or Somebody’s) Mother
I will make this short and sweet, like these fragrant May nights we are lucky to share. Your life started with a womb — unless you were hatched like my friend Walt the bearded dragon — and if you are lucky enough to still have its owner as a positive part of your life, you […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 21
Winnipeg’s Mulligrub makes the trek south from the Cree land of muddy water to play its brand of emo pop for you at the Outer Space tonight. Fellow travelers Señor Fin from Seattle bring a big, hushed and pretty rock sound down from rain town and local songwriting act Blood Honey (now with drums!) rounds […]
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Vinyl for the Soul
This week includes an important day for your local music scene, sandwiched right between 4/20 and Earth Day. It’s Record Store Day, a barely decade-old bridge between the music collecting public, independent record stores (what’s left of them) and the recording industry (what’s left of it). Why would I mention an ostensibly commercial holiday in […]