Category: Arts
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Speakeasy Mississippi Burlesque Premieres in Winona
Speakeasy Mississippi Burlesque is a production by Annika Gunderson, premiering in Winona on Saturday, October 26, 9 pm to midnight, at Dibs Café. The show will feature five prominent Minneapolis burlesque artists: Queenie Von Curves, Musette the Mistress Of Mischief, Sheila Rouse, Sweetpea, and Paulie Graff. Attendees will also find local artists featured: live music…
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Jamie Harper – The Man, the Myth, the Beard
In his studio, a rented, ancient basement as grungy as his beard, I easily noticed a bird guide book poking out of his backpack. All around me were paintings resting against the walls, and doors waiting to be endowed with an image. Cans of house paint were piled on the table, and a pencil, buried…
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WHYnona?
Just over four years ago I stepped foot in Winona, Minnesota for the first time. I couldn’t have known it at the time, but it was the beginning of something so much bigger than where I would spend that summer or do a little Spear(e)shaking. Looking back on it now I can say, without hyperbole,…