Fabric Painting

Entertainment briefs

16 May 2012

Catholic school to host first production Saint Francis Catholic School of the Lakes drama club will host its first production called "Pirates of the Curry Bean" at 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday in the school gymnasium.

Another Banksy painting destroyed

16 May 2012

THE Australian body of work by the Johnny Appleseed of graffitidom, Banksy, keeps becoming rarer and rarer. In Melbourne on Tuesday, a builder bashed a hole through a wall in Prahran for a new cafe and destroyed a parachuting rat painted by the British artist some 15 years ago. It was the latest visit paid by the Visigoths to Banksy's work. A stencil of a man wearing an old-fashioned diving bell ...

In the shadow of elevators, streets spawn artists, broken hearts

16 May 2012

As my MinnPost colleague Marlys Harris wrote in her Cityscape column a couple of weeks ago, Hiawatha Avenue is sort of a bummer. There’s not much hope for it, at least not as a thoroughfare you might actually walk down and enjoy — I recall a drawing by the Minneapolis artist Andy DuCett from a few years ago depicting the crossing at 38 th Street, with the following legend scrawled in lowercase ...