Fearless Comedy and Dirty Music

The Fearless Comedy Launch Party on Saturday night was wildly successful. The room was packed for five hours as a stream of entertainment and beer washed over the crowd. I also hear that a healthy stream of money washed from the crowd back to the entertainers, which is as it should …

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PowerPoint Karaoke Is Fearless Tonight!

That’s right! TONIGHT PowerPoint Karaoke joins forces with the shiny-new Fearless Comedy production company at their launch party! Join us! Saturday, January 12th Amsterdam Bar and Hall 6:00pm until late $20 suggested donation PowerPoint Karaoke will go on sometime around 10:30pm, but before that will be a parade of locally-grown …

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Should I do a weekly column?

It struck me this morning that the Minneapolis / St. Paul area currently has a great array of art house / single screen / non-first-run movie theaters, certainly more than I was aware of when I was growing up in this town. The Heights regularly shows vintage films between showings of first-run movies. …

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TWO PowerPoint Karaokes in ONE WEEK!

That’s right! This week is your chance to see PowerPoint Karaoke TWICE! PPK THE FIRST: Saturday, January 12th, at the Fearless Comedy Launch Party Amsterdam Bar and Hall 6:00pm until late $20 suggested donation The sparkling-new Fearless Comedy production company is opening its tenure on the Twin Cities comedy scene with a …

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Not Exactly the Top Movies of 2012

I’ve written before about the clinically obsessive behavior I engage in when it comes to watching movies. In addition to that, I keep a detailed running list of all films I watch in a year. For instance, here’s how 2012 turned out: I watched 391 films total (yes, that’s more than …

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Thursday Night: PowerPoint Karaoke!

Remember that PowerPoint Karaoke will be return victorious to the Bryant Lake Bowl on THURSDAY NIGHT! See improv comedians bravely attempt to give a PowerPoint presentation for a deck that they have never seen before. This awesome event happens at the Bryant-Lake Bowl on Thursday, December 27th, at 10:00pm! Doors will open at …

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A High-Speed Car Chase Christmas

On Christmas, I got to be witness to a crime. How was your holiday? Fes Works and I were driving home on Christmas Day, fat and be-gifted from my dad’s family’s annual ice skating / brunch ritual. I was just about to turn left onto the side street that led …

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Goodbye, Instagram. Hello again, Flickr.

Earlier this week, the Internet was abuzz with news of new terms of service from Instagram. At first glance, the new terms seemed to indicate that Instagram could sell user photos as stock photography, without compensation to the user. It probably wasn’t that simple, as the legalese of the new …

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Butt-Numb-a-Thon 2012

The Butt-Numb-a-Thon film event is part sheer unadulterated glee, part gruelling endurance test. First, you have to apply to attend, and then hope desperately that you make it in. Then, assuming all goes well, you arrive at the theater at noon on one day, and exit sometime after noon on the next …

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Butt-Numb-a-Thon 14 Prelude and Aftermath

I’m not exaggerating when I say that I’m still recovering from my trip to Austin. A lot went on, it was pretty much all awesome, and I had very, very little sleep. I’ll tackle BNAT itself and the Open Windows movie shoot in separate posts (mostly because my notes are still hiding somewhere …

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