Looking for something to do tonight? Head to the Walker Art Center Cinema tonight at 7p for what sounds like a pretty unique perspective on the implications of modernism. Huh? Let them describe it:

Based in Amsterdam and founded in 1997 by Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers, and Danny van den Dungen, Experimental Jetset has been consistently reinterpreting the implications of modernism, often from the perspective of a youth-based counterculture. The studio is perhaps best known to U.S. audiences from their appearance in the documentary Helvetica (2007), and their dogmatic use of that typeface has become a defining aspect of their work and has influenced new generations of graphic designers. Experimental Jetset’s iconic print work explores ways in which we are both shaped by and help shape our material environment. Projects for cultural clients include collaborations with the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Purple Institute, Centre Pompidou, Colette, Dutch Post Group, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Le Cent Quatre, De Theatercompagnie, and 2K/Gingham, which released their iconic John&Paul&Ringo&George T-shirt design. The studio’s work has been exhibited in galleries across the world, and in 2007 New York’s Museum of Modern Art acquired a large selection of their projects for inclusion in its permanent collection. Since 2000, members of Experimental Jetset have been teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

This lecture will be webcast live and archived on the Walker Channel (channel.walkerart.org).

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PRE-/INAUGURATION:

• If you will be stuck at home or work, every television network will be airing it. It will also be streamed online by CNN, who have a deal with Facebook. Lifehacker has a good list for keeping up with the Inauguration online, too.
• Riverview Theater will be showing the Inauguration on their screen. The event is free, open to the public (though non-perishable food donations encouraged), and begins 9:30AM.
• Minneapolis Central Library will air live coverage and pre-Inaugural commentary from Dr. David Schultz about inaugurations in history, the importance of the first 100 days and the significance of Obama’s election, with a post-Inaugural discussion led by the League of Women Voters Minneapolis.
• Little Wagon will show the Inauguration at 11AM.
• Bulldog NE will feature food and drink specials, $3 beer, door prizes, and Inauguration coverage beginning at 11AM and lasting into the night.
• Gold Thyme Cafe will serve light refreshments and cake during their party running from 9-4PM.
• Gluek’s will be running an “extended Happy Hour all day” with half-priced appetizers and other drink specials beginning 11AM until close.
• The Birchwood Cafe will begin airing Inauguration coverage at noon, with a replay of highlights from 5-9PM. They will have an Obama-inspired menu and a special kids menu
• Parkway Theater will show the Inauguration on their screen at 9:30AM, with an open mic afterward for people to talk about whatever.
• Lee’s Liquor Lounge will show the Inauguration and follow-up with live music at 10PM.
• Walker Art Center will show the Inauguration on their Cinema screen at 11:30AM, there’s no admission required to watch.
  

POST-INAUGURATION:

• Black Dog Cafe will have snacks, a cash bar, music, and a photo exhibit of St. Paul during the RNC beginning at 7PM.
• SEVEN will be replaying the Inauguration on 20+ TVs starting at 8PM. The event is free and open to the public (though non-perishable food donations encouraged), with Henry Lake from KFAN as Emcee and local artist Kerry Dikken “has created a limited edition Champagne Bottle with the face of Barack Obama.”
• Dakota Jazz Club will have Yolande Bruce, Ginger Commodore, Debbie Duncan and Tonia Hughes-Kendrick performing and large screens broadcasting the events from the Capitol, for $10 from 7-11PM.
• First Course is having a bash, and coincidentally, has half-priced wine on Tuesdays.
• Epic will be having a huge party with live music, DJs, and spoken word performed after Obama’s speech at 8PM. 21+ / Doors 7PM / $15 Advance / $20 Door
• The Caterpillar Lounge will be having a party at 10PM, with DJs playing “the best in underground house and techno music.”

• The TC Avengers, “an all-inclusive direct action group committed to dismantling all forms of oppression” with an emphasis on LGBT issues (e.g., they sponsor Dyke March), are “chronicling gendered injustice” by putting together a Google map documenting instances of harrassment based on gender and sexual orientation. I presume, given their mission statement, they’d include incidents based on race, (dis)ability and whatever other situations might cause a person to feel uniquely targeted and threatened. (via @autoclavicle)
• Google released its web browser, Chrome, in Windows-only format a few weeks ago. Yesterday, Minnesota company CodeWeavers released “proof of concept” versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux. (via @Minnov8)
• At the Walker tonight: Daniel Bergin on Parents, Kids, and the Media. Daniel Bergin is a media educator and TPT producer.(via @lisa_ray, founder of Parents for Ethical Marketing and the Corporate Babysitter blog)
• Michele Bachmann: Still a crazy hypocrite!
• Minneapolis has a new Sister City: Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico) from which thousands of Twin Cities residents have emigrated.
• Altered Esthetics (now sporting its fancy new F1 Overnight Website Challenge redesign) has put out the Call for Art for 2009. There are 12 themes (one for each month). You may end up on display at AE and/or featured in their 2009 calendar. Read the submission guidelines (pdf) and get your artwork in by September 30.
• The Poster Offensive 4 exhibit, a political poster show, just closed at the Black Dog Cafe but will be opening September 24 at the Frank Stone Gallery. Watch the 3 Minute Egg video on Poster Offensive. (via bigboxcar)
• And, hey! Look at 3 Minute Egg, “a video blog spotlighting the Twin Cities arts scene, created and produced by Matt Peiken, former staff arts writer at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and managing editor of the Walker Art Center’s magazine.” Matt, one word of advice: Disable that SnapShots WordPress plugin. It’s really annoying.
• Lazy Lightning: Random Sampling of South Metro Police Calls.
• Fringe Famous: Why you gotta be all melodramatic?
• Glimpses of Soul Photography talks about photographing They Might Be Giants at First Avenue. With photos from said concert.

Originally uploaded by Rachel Kramer Bussel.

A visitor to our fair city tries her first Jucy Lucy. It is, and I quote, “SO GOOD.”

I got to have brunch with Rachel and some other folks on Sunday. She made the most of her weekend, taking in a Fringe show, visiting the Walker, eating at Matt’s, going to a cupcake meetup, and doing readings from her books at Amazon Bookstore and the Smitten Kitten (her reason for being here in the first place). I believe she’s going to the Mall of America today. A quick look at a lake or a river and she’ll have done most of the quintessential things for Minneapolis visitors. We strongly warned her that it would not be safe to visit again next year until May or so.

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On July 5, the Trisha Brown Dance Company at the Walker Art Center performed the seminal “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building,” which hasn’t been seen in the United States since its New York debut nearly 40 years ago. Photos on Flickr here.