Books

"Sex at Dawn" in bed with Bedlam Theatre's John Bueche

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

Chris Garza 

So I got a Facebook invitation, and the title of the invitation was "Sex at Dawn at Dawn."  Not knowing that there was a popular science book with that title, I read with curiosity the rest of what the invitation said.

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Visiting Little Laos on the Prairie: An Interview with Chanida Phaengdara Potter

By Ketmani Kouanchao, Kouanchao Corner
When you're looking for the online voice of the Lao American community, you don't often see many of us regularly writing, considering there are over 200,000 Lao in
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Kouanchao Corner

COMMUNITY VOICES | Chillax, broseph, puns are alivelicious

By Art Allen, Community Voices

As the organizer of the Twin Cities Pun Slam, I am appalled at the idea that quality can dictate whether or not a pun is a pun. Slate.com writer Simon Akam suggests that portmanteaus (a subset of puns) such as "chillax," "Wikipedia," and "Bridezilla" are not puns because they stray too far from what some text book says a pun should be. He says we are experiencing "the death of the American pun, replaced by something grosser, dumber, uglier."

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Mulling a life spent in the science fiction community

By Eleanor Arnason, Facts and Fictions

I may have written what follows before. Mulling is like that. And I'm not going back over my old posts. Life is too short to reread what I have previously written.

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Facts and Fictions

'Beloved child': Diane Wilson on healing ourselves, transforming past harm and working for peace in our families and communities

By Kathy Magnuson, Minnesota Women’s Press

(Photograph by John Ratzloff)

Diane Wilson is a Minnesota author and Mdewakanton descendant. Her first book, "Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past," retraces her family's Dakota heritage across five generations and won a 2006 Minnesota Book Award. Her second book is "Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life." Wilson is also the executive director of Dream of Wild Health, a Native-owned farm in Hugo, Minn., whose dream is to help American Indian people reclaim their physical, spiritual and mental health.

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Progress in the Walker Library do-over

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

Minneapolis-based Vincent James Associates Architects (VJAA) designed the new Walker Library, scheduled to open in the Uptown area of Minneapolis in 2014. (Submitted rendering)

Construction of the $12 million new Walker Library at Lagoon and Hennepin seems to be right on schedule. The Hennepin County Library System says, “We’re looking forward to re-opening the library in mid-2014.”

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Jerry Freeman of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder talks about his new novel, "In a Kick-Ass Sentimental Mood"

By Dwight Hobbes, Sounding Off On Sound

It's said that those who can, do, and that those who can't, teach. In the publishing racket, more than one grousing writer would attest that those who can't do, edit. Not the case with Jerry Freeman of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (MSR).

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Internet and the libraries: Both are here to stay!

By Ann Treacy, Blandin on Broadband

While I was doing training in Windom last week, one of the students asked if I thought there was a role for libraries as we know them in the future – after all won’t everything be going online. So it was fun later in the week to run into the recent survey from Pew Internet & American Life that demonstrates that libraries are still vital…

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Blandin on Broadband

Poet to Poet: IBé Kaba

By Bryan Thao Worra, Bryan Thao Worra on TCDP

Ezra Pound famously opined that poetry is "News that stays news." For many publications, poets are interviewed in a journalistic, narrative fashion, even when being interviewed by anoth

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Bryan Thao Worra on TCDP

Deformed frogs still a mystery: Retired biologist recalls research was "unpopular and controversial every step of the way"

By Natalie Zett, Park Bugle

Judy Helgen (Photo by Deb Rose)

In 1995, a group of schoolchildren enjoying a leisurely nature hike around Ney Pond in south central Minnesota began finding frogs with extra limbs, missing limbs and other abnormalities such as extra eyes. Their teacher placed a call to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to report this alarming discovery.

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