FLASHLIGHT ON THE ARTS 1-25-93
© Adam Granger
ADAM: And now, it's time for "Flashlight on the Arts", our regular look at the forgotten, forlorn and forsaken in the arts. "Flashlight on the Arts is brought to you by Beerobics, the health club where you can do aerobics and drink beer at the same time! Beerobics, where there's always a game on the screen, a beer in your hand and hope for your body. And now, "Flashlight on the Arts".
POP: In the studio arts, the Uptown Edible Art Gallery in Minneapolis announces the opening of an exhibit of cheese sculpture by Senator John Glenn. Large pets are not allowed, and no flashbulbs, please. Also in the studio arts, Karla's Kutesy Krafts in Keewatin announces its third annual front yard plywood art competition. First and second place ribbons will be awarded in several categories, including mama and baby bears, cute raccoons and little grannies bending over and exposing their knickers.
ADAM: In music, the Anoka Tenor Bagpipe Big Band will present an all-day concert of the music of Marvin Hamlisch, starting at 6 a.m. in the mess hall of the Hennepin County Jail. Prisoners awaiting trial will be given an expedited chance to confess and be transferred to Stillwater Prison. Also in music, the vaunted "I Never Heard of You, but You Guys Are Great" tour is finally coming to Hugo this Sunday. This traveling tour features groups dropped from the Motown Record label early in their careers, and includes the Delusions, the Misconceptions, the Perversions, Lulu and the Humdingers, the KO's, the DT's and the BO's. They'll perform a selection of songs written in the Brillo Building--
POP: --uh, Adam, don't you mean the Brill Building?
ADAM: --No, this is the Brillo Soap Pad Building, in Trenton, New Jersey. There used to be a couple of guys on the maintenance crew who got together on their lunch break and wrote songs, and they sold them to Motown Records real cheap. The show will be at eight o'clock at the Hugo Minidome.
POP: In dance, the Fleetfoot Friends of Flora and Fauna Environmental Dance Group of Lake Elmo will present a recital of ballet classics wearing nothing but mosses and ferns. The concert, entitled "I've Grown a Costume to Your Face", Will be Wednesday at the Lake Elmo Arboretum Ballroom. Also in dance, there will be a performance by the Flying Saucers, a team of Canadian precision plate-throwing tap dancers. The show will be Friday night in the parking lot of Danny's Discount Dinnerware in Deephaven. People squeamish about seeing fine dinnerware broken should not attend. Free admission to those over one hundred years old.
ADAM: This week in "Flashlight on the Arts", we have a new branch of the arts: Performing Textile Artists. And this week in the performing textile arts, dare-devil weaver Mavis "The Blonde Bomber" Tremaine will bungee-jump off of the observation deck of the Foshay Building in Minneapolis. Here's the really exciting part: instead of a conventional bungee cord, Mrs. Tremaine will use a rope made of brightly-colored angora knitting yarn. Mavis Tremaine is just out of the hospital. In fact, this will be The Blonde Bomber's first appearance since her one-time-only skydiving performance piece, "The Knitted Parachute", eighteen months ago. Her good friends at Fairview Southdale hospital wish her well, and they're saving her room for her. Also in the performing textile arts: Rope and lasso virtuoso Pop Wagner will attempt to establish a new Mister String world record. Say, that's this all about, Pop?
[Mister String demonstration]
And that attempt will be Thursday night at the Knots Landing Lasso-Throwing Club in Hastings.
POP: And that's "Flashlight on the Arts", brought to you by Beerobics, where you don't have to suffer to look like you're losing weight.
ADAM: Beerobics: "Give yourself a fighting chance
To fit back in those Sunday pants"
POP: Beerobics: "Pop a brew, watch the game
And walk out feeling just the same"
© Adam Granger
ADAM: And now, it's time for "Flashlight on the Arts", our regular look at the forgotten, forlorn and forsaken in the arts. "Flashlight on the Arts is brought to you by Beerobics, the health club where you can do aerobics and drink beer at the same time! Beerobics, where there's always a game on the screen, a beer in your hand and hope for your body. And now, "Flashlight on the Arts".
POP: In the studio arts, the Uptown Edible Art Gallery in Minneapolis announces the opening of an exhibit of cheese sculpture by Senator John Glenn. Large pets are not allowed, and no flashbulbs, please. Also in the studio arts, Karla's Kutesy Krafts in Keewatin announces its third annual front yard plywood art competition. First and second place ribbons will be awarded in several categories, including mama and baby bears, cute raccoons and little grannies bending over and exposing their knickers.
ADAM: In music, the Anoka Tenor Bagpipe Big Band will present an all-day concert of the music of Marvin Hamlisch, starting at 6 a.m. in the mess hall of the Hennepin County Jail. Prisoners awaiting trial will be given an expedited chance to confess and be transferred to Stillwater Prison. Also in music, the vaunted "I Never Heard of You, but You Guys Are Great" tour is finally coming to Hugo this Sunday. This traveling tour features groups dropped from the Motown Record label early in their careers, and includes the Delusions, the Misconceptions, the Perversions, Lulu and the Humdingers, the KO's, the DT's and the BO's. They'll perform a selection of songs written in the Brillo Building--
POP: --uh, Adam, don't you mean the Brill Building?
ADAM: --No, this is the Brillo Soap Pad Building, in Trenton, New Jersey. There used to be a couple of guys on the maintenance crew who got together on their lunch break and wrote songs, and they sold them to Motown Records real cheap. The show will be at eight o'clock at the Hugo Minidome.
POP: In dance, the Fleetfoot Friends of Flora and Fauna Environmental Dance Group of Lake Elmo will present a recital of ballet classics wearing nothing but mosses and ferns. The concert, entitled "I've Grown a Costume to Your Face", Will be Wednesday at the Lake Elmo Arboretum Ballroom. Also in dance, there will be a performance by the Flying Saucers, a team of Canadian precision plate-throwing tap dancers. The show will be Friday night in the parking lot of Danny's Discount Dinnerware in Deephaven. People squeamish about seeing fine dinnerware broken should not attend. Free admission to those over one hundred years old.
ADAM: This week in "Flashlight on the Arts", we have a new branch of the arts: Performing Textile Artists. And this week in the performing textile arts, dare-devil weaver Mavis "The Blonde Bomber" Tremaine will bungee-jump off of the observation deck of the Foshay Building in Minneapolis. Here's the really exciting part: instead of a conventional bungee cord, Mrs. Tremaine will use a rope made of brightly-colored angora knitting yarn. Mavis Tremaine is just out of the hospital. In fact, this will be The Blonde Bomber's first appearance since her one-time-only skydiving performance piece, "The Knitted Parachute", eighteen months ago. Her good friends at Fairview Southdale hospital wish her well, and they're saving her room for her. Also in the performing textile arts: Rope and lasso virtuoso Pop Wagner will attempt to establish a new Mister String world record. Say, that's this all about, Pop?
[Mister String demonstration]
And that attempt will be Thursday night at the Knots Landing Lasso-Throwing Club in Hastings.
POP: And that's "Flashlight on the Arts", brought to you by Beerobics, where you don't have to suffer to look like you're losing weight.
ADAM: Beerobics: "Give yourself a fighting chance
To fit back in those Sunday pants"
POP: Beerobics: "Pop a brew, watch the game
And walk out feeling just the same"