Weekend Culture Compass - Red Pens, Pee-Wee Herman and Sinbad, oh my!

Thursday

Film — Short Works by Haegue Yang
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave.
6:30 p.m.
Free

Take advantage of the Walker’s Target Free Thursdays by stopping by for a set of short films by Korean conceptual artist Haegue Yang. “Unfolding Places,” “Restrained Courage,” “Squandering Negative Spaces,” and “Holiday Story” feature myriads of colorful shapes in inappropriate places, like polluted lake shows and dingy sidewalks.

Art – Art Form 1040: Re-Arted
The Gallery at Fox Tax
501 1st Ave. N.E.
Free

This exhibit at the Fox Tax questions what can effectively be accomplished by collaboration. Instead of working together on a project, local artists appropriate and “redo” each other's work. “Art Form 1040: Re-Arted” is a high-powered, institutionalized version of tagging, so keep your own bottles of spray paint at home, please.

Friday

Comedy — Sinbad
Burnsville Performing Arts Center
12600 Nicollet Ave.
7:30 p.m.
$37.50

Though A&E secretly believes that Sinbad peaked with his stint with The Governator in “Jingle All The Way,” his stand-up tour continues in Burnsville. Hopefully he at least acknowledges the Mall of America and that terrible sitcom Fox somehow gave the green light to in 1993, aptly titled “The Sinbad Show.”

Music — Halloween, Alaska
First Avenue
701 1st Ave. N.
8 p.m.
$10

Local band Halloween, Alaska is hosting a benefit concert for recently-hospitalized 7th St. Entry sound engineer Matt Lindquist. The “O.C.”-featured electronic indie-poppers are joined by Gay Witch Abortion, The Idle Hands, Murzik, Story Of The Sea and Tal Tahir.

Music – Shannon Curfman
Fine Line Music Cafe
318 1st Ave. N.
9 p.m.
$15-18

North Dakota-based singer-songwriter Shannon Curfman released her first album “Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions” in 1999 at the age of 19. The blues-rock singer is back to Minneapolis touting her newest album “What You're Getting Into.”

Film – Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Uptown Theatre
2906 Hennepin Ave.
11:55 p.m.
$9

Even though Pee-Wee has become an iconic representation of the word “creep” in the past few years, it's nice to recall a simpler time when cultural discourse hadn't quite pervaded our minds and tall thin men who touched themselves in public were still endearing. Ah, well, nothing gold can stay.

Dance – Pilobolus
Northrop Auditorium
84 Church St. S.E.
8 p.m.
$31-55

The Pilobolus Dance Theater is like one of those traveling contortionist freak-shows, except instead of filled with bearded ladies, they graceful and artistic.
Saturday

Music — Red Pens, Brute Heart, Is/Is
Kitty Cat Klub
315 14th Ave. S.E.
9 p.m.
$5

Red Pen’s Howard W. Hamilton III and Laura F. Bennett will make you forget about the candlelit ambience of the Kitty Cat with their tuneful, distortion-filled rock music. Not only are Red Pens City Pages’ band of the year, but the opening acts are up-and-comers too.

Art — Opposing Thumbs
Art of This Gallery
3506 Nicollet Ave. S.
7 p.m.
Free

Local artists John Marks and David Petersen disagree on just about everything. Even though they’ve debated on aesthetic, political and philosophical themes, the two have managed to use their fight to bring Art of This Gallery into economic safety and artistic affluence. This month-long exhibition celebrates the collaboration and contention that has made AOT what it is today.

Music – Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, Big Trouble
The Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Ave. S.
8 p.m.
$12-15

A drunk girl outside of Kitty Cat Klub once said to a few lucky members of A&E, “I'm totally into local bands and shit.” If you're pining to be as in as this girl was, and you still haven't heard Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, you must by living under a metaphorical rock in this music city. Anyhow, your perfect date-night chance is coming up at the show “Celebrating, Like, 100 Years of Romantic Comedy.”

Film – Two or Three Things I Know About Her
The Trylon
3258 Minnehaha Ave.
7 p.m., 8:50 p.m.
$8

This 1960s French film, directed by esteemed Jean-Luc Godard continues the Trylon's celebration of said Frenchman. “Two or Three Things I Know About Her” centers on Juliette Janson, a housewife turned call girl on the streets of Paris.

Art – Instant Film Forever
Gallery 122 at Hang It
122 8th St. S.E.
Free

Though now it may seem a little too hip to re-celebrate the advent of instant film like Polaroid, Gallery 122 at Hang It is passionate about their love for fuzzy snapshots. Artists Nadine Gross and Sam Hoolihan explore their love for the simple, gratifying art that is instant photography.

Sunday

Film — “Rebecca”
Heights Theater
3951 Central Ave. N.E.
7:30 p.m.
$8

“Rebecca,” believe it or not, is Hitchcock’s only film to catch a Best Picture nod from the Academy. The film is based on Daphe du Maurier’s novel about the politics of the perfect relationship when a naïve woman marries a wealthy widower.

Rent
The Lab Theater
700 1st St. N.
7:30 p.m.
$46.50

If nothing says “Happy Valentine's Day” like a population of street rats grappling with homelessness and HIV, this is the perfect date for you. Notably, this particular production of Rent features local SotaRican starlet Maria Isa and Far From Falling's Harley Wood.

Culture to Consume

Listen to This: This week’s theme is heady electric pop-hop. Hot Chip’s “One Life Stand” and Yeasayer’s “Oddblood” are big contenders, but A&E loves Toro y Moi’s “Causers of This.” Also worth noting is French minimalist hip-hop star Uffie’s new EP “MCs Can Kiss.”

Click This: It’s about time those tiny apartments got an upgrade, U of M students. The resident interior designers of the Daily recommend two of the best design blogs: Apartment Therapy and The Selby.

Read This: Don DeLillo recently released his fifteenth novel, “Point Omega.” The story follows seventy-three year old Richard Elster, a former government intelligence agent turned documentary star.

Watch This: Even though A&E is fairly certain “Valentine’s Day” is going to flop horribly, let’s all head to the theaters and laugh at all of the terrible acting and gay undertones. (Actual recommendations: ultra-Jewish drama “Eyes Wide Open” and Danish femme fatale thriller “Terribly Happy.”)

Eat This: Don’t forget: Sunday is V-Day, darlings. Chances are that if you don’t have reservations yet, you’ll be stuck driving thru for your romantic meal (we hear even White Castle’s dine-in is taking reservations). If you’re trying for delicious vegetarian apps, A&E recommends Brasa’s set of three side-dishes. Bring a date and you’ll up your appetizer count to six for the evening!

Drink This: A&E’s recently become obsessed with St. Paul eatery Senor Wong’s specialty cocktails, including the Angry Dragon, Bangkok Lemonade and Donkey Punch.