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Best Places To See Fall Colors In Minnesota
With the end of summer, some people get depressed thinking about the cold weather and the snow that will soon be around the corner when winter rolls around. But if you think like that, you will be...
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Best Movie Theaters In The Twin Cities
There are other reasons to see movies during the summer than the tired old excuse that theaters are air-conditioned. Here in the Twin Cities, we have theaters so great, you’d go to them on a...
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Movie Blog: Holiday Traditions Return
Christmas is a time for traditions, and a couple indie theaters in Minneapolis are running special screenings to help keep those traditions alive and well. A beloved Michael Powell and Emeric...
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Movie Blog: Eco-Films At St. Anthony, Bell Museum
By Eric Henderson, WCCO Earth Day is still a couple months away, but we’ve reached the point in winter where we’re all entirely ready to accelerate our arrival to springtime, by any means necessary. So...
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Best Neighborhood Gems: Minneapolis
Okay. So I am going to start off with a disclaimer saying, there are many great places to enjoy in each neighborhood of Minneapolis. For this list, I am going to keep it simple. Are you ever invited...
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Movie Blog: MSPIFF Wraps Up After 3 Weeks
By Eric Henderson, WCCO Remember back when the 2011 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival began? Remember how much colder it was that April 14th? The high temperature struggling to just...
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Movie Blog: ‘Stuck Between Stations’ Is Mpls Moonstruck
Summer, romance, Minneapolis: These are but some of the ingredients in a charming, Minnesota-made movie now playing at St. Anthony Main. It’s called Stuck Between Stations, and it follows the one-night...
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Entries Sought For Minn. High School Film Festival
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An annual film festival for Minnesota high school students is putting out the call for entries. Organizers of the 2012 .EDU Film Festival say they need short films and videos from...
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Movie Blog: Q&A With TC Film Fest Awarded Director
It’s been a few months since the Twin Cities Film Fest, but St. Anthony Main is giving one of the festival’s award-winning movies an official premiere this weekend. Lambent Fuse, a multi-character...
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Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 14: ‘Restoration’
The thing about crowd-pleasers at film festivals … after a few of them, they start to all seem as though they’re operating from the exact same playbook. You can anticipate the emotional beats with no...
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Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 16: ‘Found Memories’
Gorgeously filmed (with only the very faintest whiff of a Stella Artois advertisement), Found Memories is another spin on the “strong will of youth overcomes staid obsolescence of age” archetype. The...
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Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 19: ‘Keyhole’
The latest film from Canadian treasure Guy Maddin is a handmade masterpiece. Like most of his previous films, Keyhole is pretty bizarre, visually beguiling, and features Isabella Rosselini and a...
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Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 20: ‘Nancy, Please’
“The dog ate my homework” gets a wryly navel-gazing, grad school spin in Nancy, Please (a film which, incidentally, boasts maybe my favorite title this year). In Andrew Semans’ first feature film,...
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Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 22: ‘Where Do We Go Now?’
I can’t think of a more appropriate title for the final film of the 2012 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. It’s been a long, winding grueling, exciting, surprising road to get to this...
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Movie Blog: Marriage Debate Heads Up Out Twin Cities Film Fest
As Jim Brunzell already noted in the Twin Cities Daily Planet, there’s a definite political question hanging in the air over the Out Twin Cities Film Festival this year. Marriage. Minnesota is one of a...
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Best Waterfront Dining In Minneapolis
With summer in full swing, there is nothing Minnesotans love more than soaking up the outdoor weather for all its worth. What could be better than sitting on an outdoor patio at your favorite...
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Dark Star’s Collection Goes On Sale
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Sports fans are helping keep a local radio legend’s legacy alive. George Chappel, who was known over the WCCO Radio and television airwaves as Dark Star, died this past June. He...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
OK, I’ll cop to a little mistake in last week’s column. The screening I said would be happening on Thursday last week — The Day the Earth Stood Still at the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights — is...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
It’s going to be a busy release day at multiplexes this coming Friday (Taken 2, Pitch Perfect, and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie are all on deck), and nearly as busy at the art house, with the impending...
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Movie Blog: ‘Only The Young’ Review
It’s been a couple thousand years since the Apostle Paul wrote about becoming a man. In his letter to the Corinthians, he made it sound as if the transition to manhood were instant. For him, perhaps,...
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Minn. Filmmaker Debuts Ice Show Documentary At Int’l Film Fest
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Filmmaker Keri Pickett produced and directed “The Fabulous Ice Age” – a film about the history of theatrical ice shows which dates back 100 years. Pickett says people know about...
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Minn. Runners Honor Boston Marathon Victims
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — More than 40 Twin Cities runners gathered on St. Anthony Main on Monday, jogging along the Mississippi River to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. The event,...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
Pride is over, but another week of celebration is about to begin. So if you need to flesh out your Fourth of July plans, or just cool off for a few hours, here’s some flicks worth considering… –...
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Movie Blog: Rock Doc Week With ‘Band Called Death’, ‘Big Star’
The great Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini once said that there’s only a few stories. That aphorism bore true, I found, when watching two rock ‘n’ roll documentaries slated to come out this weekend —...
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Departed Pets To Be Remembered In Mpls.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Fido and Fluffy may be departed, but pet owners will have a chance to remember them at a pet memorial next month in Minneapolis. Two organizations that work with pets and pet owners...
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Water Line Break Causes Major Damage In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Authorities say a water line break has caused significant damage to at least a pair of businesses in Minneapolis Thursday morning. Officials said the break happened on St. Anthony...
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Movie Blog: Philip Seymour Hoffman Week At St. Anthony Main
If you haven’t paid your cinematic respects to the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minneapolis’ St. Anthony Main Theatre has pretty much the perfect opportunity to do so. Over the weekend, the theater...
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Best Places To Take Family Photos In Minnesota
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. When it comes to family and loved ones, this can be especially true. No matter who moves away, or what changes in the world, you will always...
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Working For The Weekend: Entertainment Best Bets
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150108075732587AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Cheer up, the weather is getting warmer. Or at least it’s not going to be quite as ridiculously cold. OK, so...
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Working For The Weekend: Entertainment Best Bets
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – In Minnesota, we love celebrating other each other’s heritages. That’s what will be happening in both Minneapolis and St. Paul this weekend. Any excuse to have an outdoor...
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Good Question: Where Does Box Office Money Go?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” keeps shattering box-office records. The seventh episode of the saga has now brought in over $1 billion worldwide. It’s expected to clear more than...
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Minneapolis Movie Theaters Announce Screenings Of ‘Purple Rain’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The movie that sent Prince into the highest echelons of super-stardom will be screening at several locations around Minneapolis this Saturday. “Purple Rain” was released in 1984....
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