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Jon Behm

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Jon Behm (jonbehm@gmail.com) is a Minneapolis-based photographer and writer. While his specialty is music, Jon has a wide variety of interests that tend to take him all over the Twin Cities on a daily basis.

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At the Varsity, political philosopher Michael Sandel prompts moral soul-searching

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

Political philosopher and author Michael Sandel stopped by the Varsity Theater last night to present his wildly popular presentation on justice for Policy and a Pint, the series presented by The Current and the Citizens League. Though Sandel admitted that it was the first time he ever presented his talk in a "beer hall," the Varsity's stage served as a fine pulpit in place of Harvard's lecture halls, where Sandel has for two decades been teaching the most popular course in the university's history.MORE »

Varsity Theater

MUSIC | At the Turf Club, Amy Millan burns slow and strong

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

Canadian songwriter Amy Millan stopped in at the Turf Club on Saturday night while on tour to support her recently released solo record, Masters of the Burial.MORE »

Turf Club

THEATER | "Mary's Wedding" at the Jungle Theater: Same old story, love and glory

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

Mary's Wedding, directed by Joel Sass and onstage now at the Jungle Theater, does not pretend to any aspiration greater than being a simple love story. However, as we have seen time and time again, in the right hands simple love stories can be tremendously moving. Mary's Wedding is just such an instance, a clichéd story of a young girl and her beau gone to war made touching by actors Alayne Hopkins and Sam Bardwell.MORE »

MUSIC | Roma di Luna's Alexi and Channy Moon Casselle excavate their roots underground at the U

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

The fifth season of the University of Minnesota's "Making Music" series kicked off on Thursday night at the Coffman Union's subterranean Whole Music Club. Local favorites Roma di Luna were the first band on tap for the innovative series that invites musical guests to speak in front of a live audience about their pasts, presents, and futures.MORE »

DANCE | "Ashesh Barsha": A vaguely feminist praxis from Ananya Dance Theatre

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

Ananya Dance Theatre finished the third and final piece of its environmental justice trilogy this past weekend, performing Ashesh Barsha (Unending Monsoon) at the Southern Theater.MORE »

Twin Cities gardens on parade

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

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Twin Cities' gardeners couldn't ask for a more gorgeous August day for the 2009 Parade of Community Gardens, which took place under clear blue skies on Saturday.  During the "parade" gardeners from all over the Cities' opened their plots to the public, showing off their bounty as well as supporting community gardening as a sustainable and eco-conscious way of producing food.  Nearly forty garden locations participated, each one containing multiple gardens.

Powderhorn Park Art Fair 2009

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet
Torrential downpours did little to dampen the spirit of the Powderhorn Art Fair this year - as soon as the rains finished on Saturday thousands came out to see original works from artists from all over the country. Part of Minneapolis's "Arts Weekend," the fair featured hundreds of crafts, paintings, and sculptures, jewelry and furniture, in addition to a wide array of other disciplines.MORE »

MUSIC | Cryptacize and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone at the Turf Club: Alone, yes; painful, no

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

With Minneapolis’s popular Basilica Block Party going on last weekend, St. Paul was definitely not the place to be for music fans. Correspondingly, attendance at Capital City venues suffered—most notably at the Turf Club, where two very high-quality touring acts performed to a sparse crowd on Saturday night.MORE »

MUSIC | Slick Brits: The Heavy at the Fine Line

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet
Even after a long holiday weekend, Minneapolitans still had plenty of energy left over to welcome British band the Heavy to the Fine Line on Monday night.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 »