HEADLINES
MOVIES | Walker's "Expanding the Frame" film series spotlights risk-takers
and visionaries
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/30388
by Lydia Howell, TC Daily Planet
This year's Expanding the
Frame<http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5409> film
series at the Walker Art Center, starting this weekend and running through
February 28, celebrates risk-takers. Some are the films' subjects, others
are filmmakers pushing the medium itself or challenging censorshipcultural
or political.
INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET
MUSIC | Bowerbirds and Sharon Van Etten are soothing (if not soporific) at
the Varsity
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/30385
by Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet
The Varsity Theater was the perfect place for the
Bowerbirds<http://www.bowerbirds.org/> performance
on Tuesday nightthe North Carolingian trio's bittersweet melodies were
perfectly matched to the theater's lush, velvety decor. In fact if it
weren't for the stage lights one could have mistaken the entire performance
for an intimate gathering in someone's enormous living room. Attendees
lounged around the floor, chatting, sipping drinks; sometimes cradling
pillows from one of the venue's many couches. Three hundred pairs of pajamas
would have made the picture completebut alas, the recent cold spell kept
everyone bundled.
NEW IN BLOGS
ARTS ORBIT | Effort, risk, creation: *Everything Must Go* and the process of
making and funding new work in the theater
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/30392
by Katie Kaufmann A small show of this scale, even with the reduced rental
fee involved in collaborating with the Red Eye, cost $4,000. Ticket sales
would not be able to cover that. It is only thanks to the donations of many
people wanting to see the show succeed that I won't go into debt.