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Powderhorn Art Fair 2008

Aug 3, 2008 in Design and Photography | No comments

This was Art Fair weekend in Minneapolis, with large shows in Powderhorn, Uptown, and Loring Park.

As a proud South Minneapolis resident, I’m all about the Powderhorn Art Fair, and choosing to stay as far away from Uptown as possible. Tricia and I have made it a yearly event, as it was one of our first “dates”, and also the weekend I proposed to her. It’s a wonderful opportunity to see a lot of local and regional artists, but without the crowds of the other fairs. And this year it seemed that they had much better food options, with quite a few of the Midtown Global Market places having stands in the park.

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Sasha Frere-Jones: Bon Iver: Bon Iver’s show at the Bowery Ballroom brought me up short. I’d never seen him, and I simply had no idea that all this heavenly music came out of such an affable, unpretentious person, and such a tall one. Though Vernon recorded the album alone, he is touring with a live band, and an opening act called Bowerbirds, who I would be celebrating more loudly if Vernon hadn’t wiped my brain clean.