Highland Park

Ten tips for creative placemaking emerge from Get Connected! meeting in St. Paul

By Bruce Johansen, TC Daily Planet

Lars Christensen and Erin Pavlica

Bruce Johansen

Have you ever wondered what creative placemaking is? A top-ten how-to list from Jill Mazullo, Envision Minnesota’s director of communications and development, reveals what it is by describing how to do it: 

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Francis Basket food shelf reopens in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood

By Jeanette Fordyce, TC Daily Planet

Almaz Zeru (Photo by Jeanette Fordyce)

Almaz Zeru works part-time three days a week at a pizza parlor.  She is a survivor of the ravages of war in Eritrea and has made dramatic life/cultural changes coming to Minnesota.  She has used Francis Basket food shelf in Highland Park for three years.

“I get minimum wage and when I get a better job I won’t need to use food assistance,” said Zeru, a single mom of two children.  

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Plein air artists Lipelt, Davis and Cunningham at the Frameworks

By Janet Contursi

The current exhibit at the Frameworks Gallery is a fine collection of plein air work by local Minnesota artists Greg Lipelt, Derek Davis and Joshua Cunningham. The Frameworks has consistently brought together talented plein air painters and is one of Minnesota’s most important galleries for local artists.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Greg Lipelt—painting the light

By Janet Contursi, Free Speech Zone

"Stoney Point"

A retrospective is a time to reflect.

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Must-see exhibit at the Frameworks Gallery

By Janet Contursi

The current show at the Frameworks Gallery, “Polly Norman - Summer Blast,” offers an unexpected treat—while Norman’s photography alone is worth seeing, it is sharing space with some very fine paintings and sculpture by a diverse group of artists.  

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THEATER | "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding" by Minnesota Jewish Theatre: Unapologetically political, completely adorable

By Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Sarah Whiting, courtesy Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company

When you pick up a ticket for a play entitled My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (currently in production at the Minnesota Jewish Theatre), you sort of know what you're signing up for as an audience member. However, when I first got the assignment to review the show, I didn't notice that it was also a musical. Or that the play started its life as a big hit in the Toronto Fringe Festival. My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding is unapologetically political, and completely adorable.

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Kunnakudi M. Balamurali Krishna at St. Kate's

03/05/2010 - 5:00pm

About the Artists

Kunnakudi M. Balamurali Krishna

Urban Farms Offer Solutions

By Evelyn Hadden, TC Daily Planet

a 2009 Backyard Harvest garden in mid-season

Lisa Mason

MINNEAPOLIS, March 2, 2010- With its goals of expanding the local foodshed in the Twin Cities and providing urban dwellers with more access to fresh produce and the skills to grow it, the Backyard

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Norah Jones at the O'Shaughnessy

03/17/2010 - 7:30pm

With Sasha Dobson. $56-$61.

A Report on the Banality of Love

03/06/2010 (All day) - 03/28/2010 (All day)

Hannah Arendt was a beautiful 18-year old Jewish student at Marburg University when she met Martin Heidegger, her professor of philosophy.

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