'Mats math

A little by-the-numbers recap before we stop talking about the Replacements' Midway Stadium concert that people won't stop talking about: Four songs on Saturday's set list had not been played at their other 2013-2014 shows ("Skyway," "If Only You Were Lonely," the finale "Unsatisfied" and the Jimmy Reed cover "Going to New York," delivered with truly special guest Tony Glover on harmonica). Twice, the band's co-founders Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson offered unusual PDA onstage, including the full-on lip-lock for "Kiss Me on the Bus" and a big bear hug at show's end. Only one former band member, Slim Dunlap, was referenced in the set. "We wish he was here," Westerberg said. An impressive $5,100 was raised for Dunlap a night earlier from a poster signed by many a rock star, and auctioned by Hi-Fi Hair's Jon Clifford. And one more dollar figure: $31,000, which was the purse on Saturday for the horse named Chris Mars' first-ever visit to the winner's circle at Canterbury Park. His human namesake (the Replacements' original drummer) was spotted at the track, but not the ballpark. There are only three more shows left on the 'Mats current calendar, including Friday's New York gig. We're counting the days till we find out what comes next.

CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER

Capitol City pride

Last week's spirited publication party for the "Saint Paul Almanac" opened with acrobats from Circus Juventas and ended with a whirling dance by Gavino Limón, 5, an Oneida-Ojibwe boy. In between were poems, music, red roses, two kinds of cake, and jokes about how great it is not to live in Minneapolis. (Jokes! They were joking!) Now in its ninth year, the almanac is an annual 400-page city guide to events and attractions of St. Paul, packed full of poems, essays and photographs by St. Paul types — everyone from Garrison Keillor to emerging writers. Its joy and beauty is in its wild egalitarianism. Held at the Black Dog Café in St. Paul's Lowertown, the party reflected the youthfulness, energy and diversity behind the almanac. Highlights: IBé, a spoken-word poet from Guinea and Sierra Leone, was the emcee. Lisa Yankton, a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota tribe, talked about the Dakota words for the moon (the January moon is wi-otehi-wi, which means the hard or difficult moon), and Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, who is of Peruvian heritage, read his poem, "Where Are You From?" The answer: St. Paul. Not Minneapolis. St. Paul.

LAURIE HERTZEL

M.anifest's destiny

How's this for transatlantic exposure? Twin Cities-weaned rapper M.anifest is featured in a new video profile from London's BBC, which filmed him in Ghana. M.anifest, who still maintains local ties after a decade as a Minnesotan, is back living in his native country and generating quite a buzz as a music-maker there. He has won several trophies at the Ghana Music Awards. M.anifest told the BBC's "Africa Beats" that he finds Ghana to be "a ridiculous place, and so that has ridiculously inspired me. It provokes everything that you can imagine in me." Performing for the BBC with a live band, he showed off two of the tracks he has dropped since relocating: "Debi Debi" and "Someway Bi," both of which are on his EP "Apae: The Price of Free" and are available via iTunes.

CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER

Gavino Limón

Don't forget Winona

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona has added a 5,000-square-foot gallery and loans of eight new paintings to its already impressive collection of water-themed art. The new Richard and Jane Manoogian Gallery will officially open to the public on Sept. 28. The new paintings include images by English landscape master John Constable (1776-1837), German Expressionist Max Beckmann (1884-1950), American Modernist Stuart Davis (1892-1964) and the romantic American naturalist Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), whose "View From Fern-Tree Walk" (1887) is a star addition. The pictures are on loan from the museum's founders, Bob Kierlin and his wife, Mary Burrichter. Detroit-native Richard Manoogian, a prominent collector of American art, is heir to a faucet-manufacturing fortune derived from Masco Corp., which was founded by his father. With support from a foundation established by the Manoogians, the Winona museum added a gallery that will house primarily paintings from its collection and long-term loans of Hudson River School, French and American Impressionist, and European and American modernist paintings.

Mary Abbe

Better than Beyoncé?

Beyoncé got a bit of flak for borrowing a whole lotta dance moves, not to mention set and costumes, from Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's work "Rosas danst Rosas" for the "Countdown" music video a few years back, but instead of getting all huffy, De Keersmaeker decided to have fun with it. The renowned modern choreographer, who brings the 30-year-old piece to Walker Art Center on Oct. 15, encouraged people to submit videos of their own — "all you need is a chair," she says — to her website as a sort of a Rosas "remix project." Since then, people around the world have watched her instruction video and sent in their versions, from such locations as carousels, kitchens, elevators and public parks. If you're game to put a Minnesota ring on it, the Walker and Northrop Auditorium will post your completed video through Vine or YouTube and tweet it with the hashtag #ReRosasMN. The submissions with the most retweets have a chance to win prizes from the Walker. Deadline is Oct. 9.

Kristin Tillotson