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Katherine Boo, in Minneapolis, tells harrowing stories of a Mumbai undercity

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

Reporting results to funders is a challenge every nonprofit faces. "We gave you $50,000 last year. How can you prove the world is a better place this year?" It's particularly a challenge, though, for nonprofit journalism enterprises like the Twin Cities Daily Planet. An organization like Feed My Starving Children can tell you exactly how many starving children they fed with your money. What can we report? We can report the number of stories we told.

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No class size caps in proposed St. Paul teacher contract

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

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Just a week ago, the St. Paul Federation of Teachers planned a picket and rally at the district headquarters to stand united with parents in order to achieve class-size caps.

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THEATER | Joking Envelope's "Safe as Houses": Buyer beware

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Chris Carlson in Safe as Houses. Photo courtesy Joking Envelope.

Safe as Houses is like a Michael Bay movie: it's big, it's intense, it's often impressive, there's a lot of screaming, and it doesn't much seem to matter at any given moment what happens next.

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DESIGN | "Create, inspire, brand, and market": AIGA Minnesota honors the best in local design

By Crystal Erickson, TC Daily Planet

A can designed by Duffy & Partners of Minneapolis.

The Minnesota chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, will hold its 32nd annual Design Show this Friday, March 26, from 6-9 p.m. at the Walker Art Center. For this year's show, entrants were asked to "show your block." Christina Rimstad, Design Show chair, explained that "'Show Your Block' is a call to designers out there to display their genius, demonstrate their pride by showing us their best ‘blockbusting' work created over the past year."

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"The Secret Life of Hedy Lamarr" at the BLB

03/30/2010 (All day) - 03/31/2010 (All day)

Hedy Lamarr, a starlet of Hollywood's "Golden Age", knows a few more things than she's letting on. What's she building in there? What is that tapping sound? Shouldn't she be memorizing her lines?

Opening-Day Gallery Talk: 1964

03/25/2010 - 7:00pm

A new exhibition homes in on the array of artistic developments under way in 1964-the same year that saw the Beatles' invasion of America, race riots erupting across the nation, the Civil Rights Ac

MOVIES | At the Walker, Minnesota filmmakers are truly "Women With Vision"

By Lydia Howell, TC Daily Planet

Pride of Lions. Below: Ida's Story. Images courtesy Walker Art Center.

The diversity of subject and style by the Minnesota filmmakers whose work is featured in the Walker Art Center's Women Wit

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THEATER | Nimbus slides down a "Strike-Slip"-pery slope at the Theatre Garage

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Kim Egan and Michael LaFleur in Strike-Slip. Photo by Josh Cragun, courtesy Nimbus.

I have to hand it to the folks at Nimbus for attempting such an ambitious production as Strike-Slip by Naomi Iizuka, now playing at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage. With a large cast, a hugely innovative design, and a play that tackles themes of violence, cross-cultural connections, and redemption, the company must be given credit for risk-taking. Unfortunately, they are hindered by the script itself, which relies too heavily on coincidences and has little to say.

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