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1 week ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. ‘The Lodger’ with Live Score by Paris1919May 30 — “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog,” from 1927, is often cited as the film where Alfred Hitchcock first found his voice, even if it was silent.
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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. ‘Crush-A-Whirl’May 17 — While Art-A-Whirl takes over northeast Minneapolis, Turbo Tim’s cat-populated autoshop will be busy crushing cars in the name of art.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. 100th Anniversary Reading of ‘The Great Gatsby’April 10 — One of the best-known novels connected to the North Star State turns 100 today — and the Minnesota Historical Society and Friends of the St. Paul Library are hosting a live reading of “The Great Gatsby” from beginning to end.
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2 months ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
Each year, the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) highlights new work from around the globe, but it also reserves space for stories rooted closer to home. The Minnesota Made program showcases features, documentaries and shorts created by local filmmakers or shot in the region. This year, we reviewed five standout Minnesota-connected films from the festival, each offering its own perspective on the people, places, and ideas that shape the state.
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2 months ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. Art & Sound Lounge, Vol. 1April 3 — The Walker Art Center transforms into a “moody listening salon” for the first night of a three-week series. Guest artists Andy Jacobs and DJ Maracuya will collaborate on the music while guests enjoy cocktails and craft artmaking.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
mprnews.org | Max Sparber
Minnesota Opera’s adaptation of “The Snowy Day” stays true to author Ezra Jack Keats’ simple yet groundbreaking children’s book, preserving its vivid textures and colors while adding playful music and small expansions to the story, resulting in a brief but warmhearted production.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
Critical DMs are lightly edited Slack conversations by members of the MPR News arts team about Minnesota art and culture. This week, Arts Editor Max Sparber and Senior Arts Reporter Alex V. Cipolle discuss a display of elves rescued from the iconic Dayton’s holiday show, on display through the windows of a private home in St. Paul through Dec. 25. Max Sparber: The weather outside is frightfulBut the elves? MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Max Sparber
Cube Critics Jacob Aloi and Max Sparber discuss a a movie about an opera soprano at the end of her life and a movie about an entire genre of music at the end of its life. ‘Maria’Angelina Jolie delivers a compelling performance in “Maria,” a biopic about legendary soprano Maria Callas. The film centers on the final week of her life, framed as an imagined documentary crew capturing her swan song.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Critical DMs are lightly edited Slack conversations by members of the MPR News arts team about Minnesota art and culture. This week, Arts Editor Max Sparber and Senior Arts Reporter Alex V. Cipolle discuss ”Tomte: the Gnome, the Myth, the Legend” at the American Swedish Institute.
