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Aditi Kapil is one of the finest comedic talents ever to see a Twin Cities stage. Too bad she’s squandered her gift by deciding to write and direct in addition to acting. That decision has led to Kapil’s play Love Person being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It’s led to her newest work Agnes Under the Big Top, A Fairy Tale copping a New Play Development grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; the play will be developed with Lark Play Development Center in New York. She broke into Twin Cities theater as a would-be successor to Lucille Ball, only to wind up as, without question, an artist of proven consequence. MORE »

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • 11/15/08 •
Pizza Lucé to deliver Heiruspecs teaser discs.

The author of Hmong and Lutheran in Minnesota is Katie Mocol, a journalism student at Hamline University and an intern at the TC Daily Planet. The author line originally, and erroneously, listed the name of her fellow Hamline journalism student and intern, which was my error.
- Mary Turck MORE »

CORRECTION 11/9/08: Two Minnesota House races must have recounts. In District 12B up in Morrison County, DFL incumbent Al Doty leads Republican candidate Mike Lemieur by 76 votes. In District 16A, DFL candidate Gail Kulick Jackson leads Republican candidate Sondra Erickson by 99 votes. Minnesota Senate District 16 also must have a recount, as DFL candidate Lisa Fobbe leads Republican Alison Krueger by 85 votes. District 16 includes most of Sherburne County. MORE »

Last week, the City of St. Paul’s Cultural STAR Board unanimously recommended that the city make a $3 million, ten-year commitment to help fund the construction of a new concert hall at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. If approved by Mayor Chris Coleman and the St. Paul City Council, the grant would be one of the largest in the 14-year history of the Cultural STAR program, which disburses approximately $1.5 million annually to support the arts in St. Paul. While many members of St. Paul’s arts community agree that the Ordway project is worth the expense, the board’s recommendation has sparked concern that a commitment of that size would have a decade-long negative impact on funding for the city’s smaller arts organizations. MORE »

If it’s true good things come in threes, then 2008 has been a banner year for Peter Blau.

First, the year kicked off in January with the Daily Planet profiling Blau’s volunteer work as a creative writing instructor at Volunteers of America, Regional Correctional Center for Women. Next, members of the VOA administration decided to highlight Blau’s service by republishing (with author permission) the Daily Planet article in the VOA Board of Director’s annual report. That brought him to the attention of Mpls/St. Paul Magazine, which honored Blau (along with nine other volunteers and philanthropists) by placing him in their Volunteer Hall of Fame earlier this month. He and the other recipients each received a plaque as well as $1000 to be donated to a nonprofit agency of their choice. MORE »

Richard Hagen remembers playing around the neglected Stevens House as a child. “The house sat by the bridge, it was boarded up. When I was a kid, we would play at Minnehaha Park. We would peek in the windows and yell ghost!” MORE »

Four cornerstones of the local music scene will get their due on Sunday, Oct. 19, when Willie Murphy, “Spider” John Koerner, Tony “Little Sun” Glover and the late Dave “Snaker” Ray will be among those inducted into the Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame at an event at the Minneapolis Eagles Club, 2507 E. 25th St. MORE »