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COMMUNITY VOICES | Could I forgive the 9/11 terrorists?

By Community Voices
Photos By: 
Cheryl Kempton

It was September 13, 2001 and about an hour into my drive from the Twin Cities to Colorado. I had started by turning on the radio.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Open Saint Paul: What do you think of the zoning changes recommended by the West Grand Zoning Study?

By Staff, Open Saint Paul

Introduction

On March 8th, 2013, the Planning Commission voted to release the findings and recommendations of the West Grand Zoning Study for public review and comment. A public hearing date was set for April 19th. The public hearing will be held during the Planning Commission meeting that day, in Room 40 in the basement of City Hall beginning at 8:30 a.m.

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At Ordway-sponsored Cultural Conversations, Mexican-Minnesotans decry discrimination and call for better-informed discourse about immigration

By Anna Hoeschen, TC Daily Planet

Photos: October 19 Cultural Conversation. Photos by Ryan Cutler.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts' two-week festival Mascaras y Milagros: Mexican Arts in Minnesota concluded on October 26 with a performance by jazz musician Poncho Sanchez. During the festival, the Ordway sponsored a series of art and cultural events that celebrated Mexican art and culture in Minnesota. A sequence of talks titled "Cultural Conversations" provided an opportunity for community leaders, activists, and artists to comment on relevant issues for Mexicans and Latinos. The two final conversations focused on immigration and spoken word.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Open Mic Storytelling Night in Mac Groveland Oct 18

By Ann Treacy, Neighborhood Notes

MAC Community Little Free Library

Last month I wandered through a South Minneapolis community art constella

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Indochin hits the sweet spot for Vietnamese dining in St. Paul: cheap, interesting and reasonably attractive

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

If you were to draw on of those Venn diagrams for Vietnamese restaurants with overlapping circles showing the places that are a) inexpensive, b) offer authentic, interesting cuisine and c) suitable for a date, Indochin on Grand Ave. in St. Paul would fall right into the sweet spot.

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Laura Jeffrey Academy nurtures strong, growing women in St. Paul

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Dejanae Spillman, Loura Garcia-Potter and Rabiya Sehgal-LaRocque  (Photos by Sheila Regan)

It’s not very common for a middle school grade student to talk about vulnerability as an asset.

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Luke Marcott's "Filmpocalypse," a.k.a. "Filmzilla: The Novella"

By Courtney Algeo, Lit Lyfe

I recently received a lovely thing in the mail—the first book from Cloud City Press. As the editorial director of Paper Darts I get to read a whole lot of work from young, up-and-coming writers. Generally, though pleasurable, this type of reading is not for pleasure; I’m reading it to decide whether or not it should be published with Paper Darts. It was nice, for a change, to sit back and read the early work of a writer just for kicks, and not have to make any decisions about it’s merit in terms of whether or not I believe it to be “ready” for publication, because the author made that decision already and published it himself. Boom.

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Dave Enyeart of Common Good Books: "The experience of reading is always enriched by being shared"

By Courtney Algeo, Lit Lyfe

To celebrate the reopening of Common Good Books at its new location right on the doorstep of Macalester College, Dave Enyeart and crew have planned a three-day-long series of events to kick off the many successful, page-turning, book-loving, reading aloud to a captivated audience years ahead.

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Lit Lyfe

Living at Home program celebrates 25 years in Mac-Groveland and Summit Hill neighborhoods in St. Paul

By Staff, Summit Hill Association

Macalester-Summit Hill Living at Home Program (MSHLAH) is excited to be celebrating its 25th year providing services to the community.

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Macalester College slam poetry team enhance the Capital City's national name

By Leah Binkovitz, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Leah Binkovitz

Lit up in an otherwise dark Macalester dorm basement, Neil Hilborn serves as tonight’s slam emcee. His frame taut beneath his signature suspenders and his slicked golden hair restless beneath his agitated hand, he knows how to rile up a sometimes reluctant room. As the Macalester slam poetry team’s assistant coach, Hilborn regularly rallies a crowd of roughly 90 college students. Not too long ago, he was on that stage as a member of the team. And even a college nationals-winning poet like himself has had to deal with the arbitrary justice of slam’s randomly selected judges.

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