Arts & Culture

The Nightinghales join Spin with Cyn, to perform live-in-studio! Various members are long-time musicians of the music scene as the Nightinghales as well as members of Idle Hands, Faux Jean and more. Nightinghales music harkens to the halceon days of Brit-pop – the Kinks, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, as well as early US underground such as Velvet Underground, Johnny Thunders and more.

This week on MinneCulture, producer Andy Driscoll takes an in-depth look at Penumbra Theatre—celebrating its 34th anniversary as the only Twin Cities theater producing plays by, of and for the African-American community. Penumbra’s legacy includes 27 world premieres of important plays by Black playwrights, and the starting place for all of August Wilson’s plays.

St. Paul’s recycling provider, Eureka Recycling, has begun a pilot project to test curbside pick-up of compostable materials. Six hundred homes will participate in the three-month study to see how landfilled waste can be reduced with industrial composting. KFAI’s Asa Diebolt reports on the project.

06-23-10

John C. Reilly is one of cinema’s most versatile character actors, equally at home in comedies and dramas. His new movie, Cyrus, is a little of both, as Reilly finds himself locked in a battle of wills with his new girlfriend’s manipulative, Machiavellian son.