What was the world rocking out to on the day you were born?

Assuming the weather doesn't shut everything down, there are a lot of early opportunities to speak up at the Capitol this week.

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David Henry Hwang, who wrote the Tony Award winning M. Butterfly, which satirizes the famous Puccini opera Madame Butterfly, now takes on that opera's remake. Mu Performing Arts' Yellow Face, now playing at the Guthrie's Dowling Studio, is set at the time that Asian-Americans were protesting the casting decisions for Miss Saigon, which is based on Madame Butterfly.MORE »

Many news stories go untold every day, judging by the overload of news releases and notices that arrive in my inbox every day. I get at least a hundred real messages daily (in addition to almost as many spam messages that slide right on through the filters). As I scan these, I look for stories that we can assign to freelance writers, and wish for more community reporters to write about what is happening in their communities. Here's what 24 hours looks like:MORE »