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Chill summer: Claire de Lune, Theresa Andersson, Chicha Libre
This spring, I've had to eat my words. For the past few years, I've been advising bands to skip the physical CDs and just send download links to journalists—the hard copies, I've said, get tossed in a pile that may or may not ever get excavated. Then last month I bought a car that has a working CD player, and lo and behold! Suddenly making it into that pile is the best way to get my attention. Some of the discs I've had to resist tossing straight out the window (Dwight Hobbes said it all when it comes to Paul Spring: I should've had a V8), but three have made for very chill soundtracks for warm-weather cruising.MORE »
The view from Crystal Bridges
BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS—Surprises abound on the hills, in the gullies and across the streams of Benton County in northwestern Arkansas. Those surprises, uniquely enough, also generate whipsaw-like juxtapositions of the banal and extraordinary and challenge aesthetic compartmentalization and comprehension.MORE »
Art-a-Whirl and Tough Mudder make for a hot weekend
Art-A-Whirl happens this weekend in Northeast Minneapolis. If you’ve never been, you should plan on checking it out. If you like art and/or music, you will want to head over to see some bands at Psycho Suzi’s, Grumpy’s NE, The Sample Room, and the 331 Club; and check out all the open artists; studios and galleries all over the area. There is even an Art-a-Whirl edition of the Hotpants dance party on Saturday night. Usually some of the food trucks park themselves in Northeast to feed the hungry art-lovers. I’ll be checking Art-A-Whirl out on Saturday, since Sunday I will be watching people run around in the mud.MORE »
Cutting the Census, impairing our democracy
At this moment, researchers of many persuasions – Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, and libertarians as well – from research institutions as varied in their points of view as the Heritage Foundation, the Urban Institute, and the Cato Institute – all share an apprehension: Last week, the U.S.MORE »
Minnesota scores a "C" for family-friendly workplaces
What would it mean to your family if there was new baby in the house or a sudden illness that required leave from your job?
A national organization that advocates for paid leave for new parents and other family–friendly policies says Minnesota is merely average in supporting new parents in the workforce.MORE »
Remembering Adam Yauch: What the Beastie Boys meant to us
Adam Yauch, a.k.a. MCA, a founding member of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died on May 4 after a long battle with cancer. In the wake of Yauch's death, I asked our arts contributors to share their Beastie Boys memories.MORE »
Small investment, big results
Five years ago, the Twin Cities area was one of four across the country to land a $25 million federal grant to encourage bicycling and walking for everyday transportation. This, of course, drives many conservatives nuts.MORE »
Senate Farm Bill falls short on conservation, family farm agriculture
On April 26, the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee passed its version of the 2012 Farm Bill by a vote of 16 to 5. The bill, which includes $23 billion in cuts over the next 10 years, is anticipated to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote yet this year.MORE »
Redemption
“Harbor of Hope” is a seventy-three minute film about thirty thousand refugees from the concentration camps in Europe who arrived in Malmo Sweden in 1945. Red Cross boats brought them to the harbor and the citizens of Malmo found beds, in school buildings, in museums, in any public spaces that could be turned into hospitals.MORE »
America beyond the 2012 elections: What the candidates should be discussing
Groucho Marx was declared that any club that would have him as a member I would not want to join. His sentiment perhaps captures my attitude toward presidential candidates–anyone who wants to be president I would not want to support!MORE »
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