September ’24 Events
Arikara Proper
Through October 5
All My Relations Arts
1414 E Franklin Avenue
Free
Arikara Proper is a solo exhibition featuring a collection of paintings from artist J. White (Arikara). A self-taught painter, White shares and celebrates her Northern Plains culture through the lens of an urban Indian, relying on personal experience to feed her creativity and prescribe identity, and expressing passion on her canvas in a way that’s palpable. An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, August 3rd from 6-9pm. For gallery hours and additional programming, visit allmyrelationsarts.org.
2024 BareBones Community Builds and Workshops
September 3 – October 26
Various sites and venues
Free
The BareBones Annual Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza is a community vehicle for collectively honoring and mourning the dead, and a cult favorite throughout the Twin Cities. You can participate in the Extravaganza by building puppets, co-creating, or being part of the show when you join in on BareBones’ annual community builds, rehearsals, and workshops from mid-September through October. Email volunteer@barebonespuppets.org if you are interested in being involved! Find more information and dates at barebonespuppets.org/community-calendar.
Four Sisters Farmers Market
Thursdays
11 AM – 3 PM
1414 E Franklin Avenue
Free
Enjoy local food, handcrafts, and community at the Four Sisters Farmers Market every Thursday through October 31st!… Read the rest “September ’24 Events”
Twisters
from the series Movie Corner…
4/5 Stars
Action/Adventure/Drama
Universal Pictures
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
I had a wild dream shortly after I retired that turned into a storm (tornado) chaser dream. I thought a tornado chaser had to be a more fun, more dangerous and more frenzied job than an ambulance chaser. I haven’t seen a tornado touchdown since I was a kid growing up in Minneapolis. (I have seen the aftermath of that violent, twirling mass of nature, though.)
Remembering that dream, I went to see director Lee Issac Chung’s, (director of Minari 2020, Munyurangabo 2007), Twisters – a spinoff of director Jan de Bont’s Twister (1996) starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Twisters is such a high octane affair at certain times, it leaves one hyperventilating from what’s up on the screen. (In the original Twister a cow floated across a truck’s windshield during a tornado.)
Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones), born and raised on an Oklahoma farm, does what she loves best – graduate work in physics and meteorology with the idea that in the near future ultra-absorbent polymers, similar to the material used to make diapers, will counteract tornadoes. Kate will never forget five years earlier when a horrific tornado did extensive damage in her home state of Oklahoma and she nearly lost her life in the process.… Read the rest “Twisters”
