Spotlighting Twin Cities' Music from the Basement Up.
One of the newest trans-focused music venues in the Twin Cities is throwing a birthday party for their close friend, Sam Nordquist, on Sunday, June 1st at 6:30 p.m. I had the privilege of meeting the organizers in their home to learn more about the event, their connections to Sam, and how they turned their place into a transgender music sanctuary.
Read MoreOn February 22, 2025, 26 BATS! will embark on their first theatrical endeavor as a band, integrating both new and old material in telling a story of queer magic, live at the Southern Theater for one night only.
Read MoreThus begins the first entry of this collection of poetry, pornography, and political theory, centered around the rallying cry, “Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!” Originally born from opposition to the environmental disaster known as the Hiawatha Golf Course (a questionable use of urban land in South Minneapolis that requires pumping hundreds of millions of gallons of groundwater to prevent it from sinking back into its original wetland state), this eye-catching, provocative slogan serves as theme and title for a 29-entry collection of queer, arousing, thought-provoking writing.
Read MoreOriginally started in 1992 by James “Hymie” Peterson (namesake of Hymie’s Vintage Records) and Rich Shelton, The Record Show has been happening around the Twin Cities every other month for 30 years.
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