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Celebrating Cinco de Mayo 2013 in the Twin Cities

By Matea Wasend, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Jay Gabler, from the 2010 Cinco de Mayo Festival in St. Paul 

The first weekend in May will be a festive one—which is only fitting, now that the weather has finally taken a turn for the better.

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First steps to home landscaping: Photos and sketches

By Margo Ashmore, Northeaster

Steve Modrow of biota Landscape Design + Build  helps a resident with outdoor planting ideas. (Photos by Margo Ashmore)

They stood in line for the one-on-ones, as Northeaster Steve Modrow of biota Landscape Design + Build, Amy Chapman of Victory Neighborhood and others offered quick pencil and tracing paper consultations for attractive home landscaping.

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MayDay 2013 more vibrant with every workshop

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

There are still appeals for participants in any and all of MayDay. After this week of workshops, rehearsals for the Ceremony will commence.

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You might be a Minnesotan if…

By Robert Roscoe, The Journal of American Rocket Science

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Minnesota.

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Bill Burr at the State Theatre: Inexplicably funny

By Dwight Hobbes, Sounding Off On Sound

Photo courtesy Bill Burr

Bill Burr at the State Theater in Minneapolis on March 23 was a complete mystery. The house was packed to the rafters and the whole place constantly stayed in hysterics. Go figger: well, I guess, it proves the old saying, "Five million flies eat sh*t, they can't all be wrong."

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What to say (and not to say) on social media when tragedy strikes?

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

Like many people across the country, I was at work on Monday when the Boston Marathon was hit by a deadly attack. The nation's attention was riveted on the tragic scene unfolding in Copley Square. There was nothing we could do except watch, hope that the worst was over, and...talk. Talk on Twitter, talk on Facebook, talk on Tumblr.

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Creating art

By Amy Doeun, Crazy Boy Farm

Imagine a world without great music, or art, one in which Mozart's genius was stifled by the neccessary duty of going to school or Michaelangelo's art was censored by the common ideas of the time. Imagine a world where everyone ate the same things, where they all dressed the same and talked the same. A world in which you could never excel past your "peers" or radical ideas were stifled.

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MayDay 2013 magic germinates with each workshop

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

A week of six free Public Workshops has passed. The chaos has spurred on development. Mirth continued building and theater was everywhere.

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The Public Recluse
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