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Mac-Groveland

Up In Arms: A Night of Hip Hop and Spoken Word to Honor Fong Lee and End Police Brutality

Sat, 2009-10-03 20:00

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Magnetic North I Nomi of Power Struggle I Michelle Myers of Yellow Rage I Maria Isa I Blackbird Elements I Quante I Rodigo Sanchez-Chavarria I E.G. Bailey I Tou Saiko Lee with Posnosys I True Mutiny I Sha Cage I Kevin Xiong with Pada Lo I Tish Jones I Maipacher I Logan Moua I Bobby Wilson I Hilltribe I Poetic Assassins and Special Guests

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Shadows of Life: X-Ray Images of Plant and Marine Life

Thu, 2009-09-24 (All day) - Wed, 2010-06-30 (All day)

Shadows of Life: X-Ray Images of Plant and Marine Life is Macalester College's 2009-2010 "science-related" art exhibit featuring X-ray prints that offer an exciting peek beneath nature's surface. The artist Dr. Andre Bruwer, a Mayo-trained radiologist, was one of the first to use the X-ray machine as an artist's tool.  The show opens Thursday, Sept. 24 in the James R.

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Four houses in four hours: Road-tripping the AIA Minnesota Homes by Architects tour

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Hunched over a table at Moose & Sadie's, Aunt Betsy and I scanned the map in Architecture Minnesota. One of our planned stops was in Apple Valley, the southernmost point on the Homes by Architects tour. "We may need to stop for Twizzlers," said Betsy.MORE »

What I've learned from cutting people's hair

By TC Daily Planet

by André Salvadore | 9/16/09

Dear André,

I'm curious. In all your years cutting hair and talking with people, you must have learned some things about human nature and relationships. Have you? If so, what are they?

Thanks—MORE »

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Whole Foods gets an earful about CEO's opposition to health care reform

By Michael Moore, Workday Minnesota

The CEO of Whole Foods Market, the world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods, is against President Obama’s efforts to reform and expand health care insurance. Union activists nationwide are helping John Mackey share that opinion with his store’s millions of socially conscious consumers.

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Berkeley Avenue: An address that sells itself?

by Jay Gabler | 8/24/09
I spotted this sign this morning at the corner of Grand and Snelling in St. Paul. It seems a curious strategy for selling a house—will buyers respond to an advertisement that contains no information besides the fact that some house is for sale on Berkeley Avenue?MORE »
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Tibet Arts moves a few doors down

By Bety Rostandy, Asian American Press
Patrons of Tibet Arts in St. Paul may want to know the store has moved a few doors down from its original 1087 Grand Avenue location to 1051 Grand Avenue in St. Paul, near the Lexington Parkway intersection.

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Celebrating Wet Paint in St. Paul

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet
“When you own a business, an independent locally owned business, it’s not just a business venture,” says Wet Paint's Beth Bergman said, “It’s a way of life.” According to Bergman, independent businesses carry a set of values that “people are just not interested in how much money you make, but how much it fits into the community, aMORE »

MUSIC | Art Vandalay dances with your demons

By Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet
Don’t tell anyone, but in his secret identity, singer-songwriter Art Vandalay is PR rep Brandon Henry of Red House Records.MORE »
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News Day

NEWS DAY | Homes at risk in Minnesota / Dragons, dinosaurs and Quist / Students vs. superintendent candidate

By Mary Turck, News Day

Minnesotans losing homes A record 92,500 Minnesota homes are either in foreclosure or in danger of foreclosure, reports the Star Tribune. Altogether, that's just over ten percent of the 900,000 home loan mortages in the state.  Some 62,000 mortgage holders were behind don their mortgages during the third quarter. MORE

• Minnesotans losing homes Foreclosure and delinquency rates at record levels
• Dragons, dinosaurs and Quist Allen Quist is back, as a far-right First District candidate
• SPPS superintendent candidate sees no relation between race, achievement gap

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News you can use

NEWS YOU CAN USE | Click for food shelves!

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

My friend Ken writes "I know that food shelves are really hurting this year," and then passes along a painless way to send donations:MORE »

KARE 11 & Land O'Lakes are donating $1 for every person who clicks on their web site.   Go to the website listed below and on the right side of the screen (at the top) there is the green area where it says:   You Click, We Donate.   It's that easy. Please pass to all of your friends.

Thanks, Ken!

THEATER | Barbara Berlovitz's "Stories as Told in a Bed": An intimate and sublimely humorous journey

By Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet

It is tricky business reviewing a work in progress, putting the writer in a barely tenable position. How can you be fair to the playwright, casting comment on a script that's still in development? Critique the weaknesses and you're a villain for kicking the play's legs out from under it before it's had a chance to actually stand on them. Praise the strengths and you're a cheerleader clapping the author on the back before the job's finished being done.MORE »

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Stories we are working on

These are some of the stories we are working on. If you would like to contribute information or opinions, please e-mail the writers!

• Emerald ash borer Ramsey and Hennepin Counties are under quarantine for Emerald Ash Borer.  Have you been affected? Email sheila@tcdailyplanet.net

• Thanksgiving recipes No - not the turkey and the pumpkin pie. We're looking for your favorite non-traditional recipe, like Aunt Harriet's vegetarian non-meat loaf. Send them to editor@tcdailyplanet.net

• What's your story? Is there a story you'd like to write? Or a story you think we should be covering? Email editor@tcdailyplanet.netMORE »