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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Why ACCESS DENIED? Or, you and net-neutrality

By Nicholas P Heille, Free Speech Zone
Nicholas P Heille

 They're out to get yah and Tim Wu's "The Master Switch" tells you how they will do it.  Photo by N P Heille

Why ACCESS DENIED?  Or, you and net-neutrality.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Review: A Minnesota Kid

By Joe Butwin, Free Speech Zone

Review: A Minnesota Kid: In Search of Heroes and Ghosts by David Butwin

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In "Her Stories," Virginia Hamilton tells African-American fairy tales—and tells them well

By Amina Harper, The Art House

Typically, when I spend the night at the house of local artist Rudy Fig I expect that there will be a lot of art making, snacking, and cuddling with her 17-month-old son Vincent. And while these things still happened, this time I went with a slight ulterior motive.

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Celebrating African American literature during Black History Month

By Mary Treacy, Poking Around

In Minnesota and throughout the nation the name Archie Givens – Senior or Junior — is synonymous with the rich legacy of African American literature.

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Poking Around

"The gatekeepers are gone": Minnesota publishers adapt to the self-publishing explosion

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

A Paper Darts staff meeting (via Paper Darts on Facebook).

“I think that publishing is taking a long time to catch up to the technology that’s available,” says Jamie Millard, executive director of the Minneapolis publisher—and publication—Paper Darts. “There’s going to be a new role for publishers. We’re going to see self-publishing increase, but readers are still going to want some sort of curation.”

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OUR SCENE | Tish Jones: "There are many diverse communities, but there's a lot of cross-pollination"

By Tish Jones, TC Daily Planet

courtesy Tish Jones

I was born and raised in St. Paul, and I still live here. I’m now 25 years old. I’m an activist, an artist, an organizer, and an educator. I work in different media, including hip-hop and spoken word; I organize and participate in different events around the Twin Cities. I’ve curated at least five different open mic series over the past seven years, and I also create my own art, which I produce and share through different media.

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Local Jewish author Deborah Jiang Stein explores her troubled beginnings in new memoir

By Robin Doroshow, American Jewish World

Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison by Deborah Jiang Stein is available from Cell 7 Media.

It’s not every day you get the opportunity to read a personal memoir written by your next-door neighbor.

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Lao Minnesotan arts year in review

By Bryan Thao Worra, Bryan Thao Worra on TCDP

It's been such a busy year already, I haven't had time to take us all on a look back at the year that was for Lao Minnesotan artists and our friends and family in 20

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Bryan Thao Worra on TCDP

CENTRAL CORRIDOR VOICES | A pint-sized child: A poem

By Mike Hazard, Saint Paul Almanac

Photo by Diego Vázquez, Jr.

A pint of raspberries rests
in the lap of a pint-sized child.

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Ahmed Ismail Yusuf explains Somalis in Minnesota in new book published by Minnesota Historical Society

By Ibrahim Hirsi, TC Daily Planet

Minnesotans who were curious about what drove the largest concentration of immigrants from the East African country of Somalia to snow-covered Minnesota gathered January 24 at the MORE »

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