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Review: "The Skin of Our Teeth," Girl Friday Productions—Five stars

by Matthew A. Everett | 7/6/09 •

“We’re not what the books and plays say we are.”

It’s a bitch when the world keeps ending on your wedding anniversary.

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Those other rules of the game: Part II

by Jean Gabler | 7/4/09 • In a recent blog entry, I started to tell you about the rules of baseball that affect the movement of players between the major league and minor league teams. Here is a quick recap: Major league teams are limited to 25 players on their roster.

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MN VOICES | Ange Hwang, founder of Asian Media Access

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Steve Wewerka, Steve Wewerka Photography, © 2009. Photo courtesy of the Saint Paul Foundation.

“I am not just Chinese American, I am Ange Hwang.MORE »

Fringe 2009: Dance performances

by John Munger | 7/4/09 • As usual, there are about 20 dance shows in this year’s Fringe Festival. That might not seem like many out of 162 shows total. But the fact is, with five performances apiece over an 11-day period, these 20 shows add up to more dance performances in the Twin Cities than during any other 10-14-day period in the year. If you are a dance fan, cash in some vacation time from work and hook up with the Fringe. The big news this year is that we have a flood of out-of-town dancemakers on hand.MORE »

Pre-Fringe profiles: Summation

by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low | 7/3/09 • So with the Fringe Web site going live, I figured it was high time to repost the profiles that I've been working on for the past couple of months. Click on the haiku below to be taken to their show page, or the link beneath it to be taken to the original article. It all makes sense.MORE »

MUSIC | Black Blondie and Foxy Tann knock 'em dead at the Uptown Pride Block Party

By Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet

The crowd at the Uptown Pride Block Party. Photo by Ernesto De Quesada (Creative Commons).

The Uptown Pride Block Party on June 26 was an LGBT PrMORE »

Hibo Khalaf: Citizen-in-waiting on July 4

By Deb Pleasants, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Deb Pleasants

Sitting behind the reception desk at the International Institute of Minnesota (IIM), Hibo Khalaf displays both poise and professionalism.MORE »

THEATER | Cirque du Soleil's "Kooza": A big flippin' deal

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Photos courtesy Cirque du Soleil

Near the beginning of Cirque du Soleil's Kooza, a large number of grinning men and women

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Duncan Jones's "Moon" landing in Uptown

By Erik McClanahan, TC Daily Planet

Director and Writer Duncan Jones, who has established a notorious reputation for controversial fare in the advertising arena, started out as a wild-cam operator for Tony Scott (True Romanc

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