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When you attend Eugene O’Neill’s saga Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Theatre in the Round, it will be a page out of history, the playwright’s best known and most enduring work. It will also be an opportunity to catch premier rising talent, actor Wade Vaughn, in the cast along with respected names Rob Frankel, Maggie Bearmon Pistner, Tom Sonnek, and Rachel Finch. Between the script and the actors, you shouldn’t have any trouble being impressed by what you see. Who you won’t see, however—unless she happens to be milling about the lobby at intermission—is the person on whose head it heavily falls to make the night a success. After all, Long Day’s Journey is a cornerstone of European/American culture, and TRP is well known for its strong casts—so the invisible lady and guiding hand, director Lynn Musgrave, had better have it together. MORE »

The strains of guitar, upright bass, saw, and folksy vocals wriggled their way through the crowd last Friday as over fifty local cartoonists, along with scores of friends and patrons, packed the Altered Esthetics gallery in Northeast Minneapolis for the opening of “Lutefisk Sushi.” The show features the work of over fifty local cartoonists on both gallery walls and in a box of black-and-white “mini comics” written by each artist for the occasion. MORE »

Stone Soup are blues rock at its best, with a classic style and solid chops. They’re also smart enough to have been patient with bringing the band along. Over the past couple of years, they have methodically gone from cutting a demo and digging up gigs to steadily building a following while working on their CD Roots. The whole thing is paying off handsomely. Instead making a common mistake—pushing a rushed product to market and then trying to hustle up an audience before the disc is obsolete—the guys have something to show for themselves and a faithful core of fans to show it to. MORE »

The Bridge and Mshale, two of our community media partners, published thoughtful and thought-provoking articles this week on the murder of a Somali teen in the Cedar-Riverside area in April, and the views of friends and community as the search for the shooter continues. Read Somali teen’s murder unearths generational conflict in community by Edwin Okong’o from Mshale and Cedar-Riverside mourns death of Somali teen by Jeremy Stratton from The Bridge. MORE »