Keith Harris

Minneapolis

Co-Founder and Editor at Racket

Co-founder/co-editor of Racket. Final City Pages music editor. Economically unviable. Not the dead British ventriloquist. Premature anti-rockist. He/him.

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Articles

This Week on the Big Screen: 'Pride and Prejudice,' John and Yoko, Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan (He Plays Twins)

1 week ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

Before I put MSPIFF 2025 behind me for good (you can still catch the last Best of the Fest installment tonight), I may as well run down the films I saw in week two, listed in decreasing order of appreciation. Seeds—A gorgeous black and white doc about Black farmers in Georgia that's like slowly turning the pages to an art photography book. Predators—A fair-minded doc about the skeevy Bush II-era crime porn reality show To Catch a Predator and its gross legacy.
Crime Watch Mpls? More like CRYme Watch Mpls.

1 week ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. By the end of the month, new encryption methods will block public access to police scanners. And I’m sure your first response to this news is the same as mine: What is @CrimeWatchMpls going to do?
Politicians' Relatives Vie for Ousted GOP Sex Creep's Senate Seat

1 week ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. When it comes to political sideshows, it takes a lot to upstage Jennifer Carnahan, but the guy in pajamas might have done the trick.
Record Store Day Is Upon Us, So Let's Talk About Physical Media in This Week's Open Thread

1 week ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

This weekend is Record Store Day, and as always there's plenty happening around town. You can learn all about that in today's Freeloader Friday. Pretty cool that Bootsy Collins is DJing at Electric Fetus eh? So for this week's Open Thread, I wanted to not only ask if you ever attend RSD events or go shopping that day, but also, what is your relationship to physical media in general? How much have you held on to, and how much do you still buy?
On the Big Screen: MSPIFF Wraps Up, Other Film Series Rev Up

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

We're in the homestretch of MSPIFF, which ends on Sunday. I haven't made as many screenings as usual, due to scheduling conflicts and a wearying depletion of serotonin. Maybe I'll rally this weekend. Here are the films I have seen, ranked according to preference. Only Grand Tour will be screening again, but four films I recommended in my festival preview (Misericordia, Queendom, Checkpoint Zoo, and Manas) are showing over the next four days.
How Much Does the U.S. Govt. Owe Minnesota? $300 Million and Counting.

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. So far the Trump administration has blocked $300 million in grants to Minnesota while placing an additional $56 million in funds at risk. Did I come up with these numbers using the magic of journalism? No, I looked at the new tracker that Gov. Tim Walz announced today, which will be updated daily.
Ghanian Highlife, British-Caribbean Jazz, and Bill Murray: It's Your Complete Concert Calendar: April 8-15

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

I am once again asking musicians I like not to come to town while I'm covering the film festival.
On the Big Screen This Week: MSPIFF, Opera Obsessives, and Mad Submariners

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

Whew. It's one of those weeks when you question your commitment to listing every movie that's out there. Ideally, all the other theaters in town would stop programming movies I want to see while the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is going on. That is not the case. In addition to Diva at the Walker and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at the Heights, there's Blade and Beau Travail at the Trylon and Spirited Away at the Parkway.
An Educated Guesser’s Guide to the 2025 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

The only avuncular advice I shared with my niece when she started college last fall was this: When in doubt, pick your courses based on the professor, not on the subject. The rationale behind that advice applies to film festivals too. Sometimes a synopsis or a clip won’t sell a movie, but then you see who’s directing it, or who’s in the cast. And sometimes a movie seems right up your alley, but a newbie filmmaker just blows it.
There's No Good Music at All in Your Complete Concert Calendar: April 1-7

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

Haha, you were fooled by the headline! You are a fool! An April fool, to be exact! There's lots of good music here! Good one, Keith.