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MN VOICES | From Korea to Minnesota and back: Kelly Fern shares her remarkable double-adoption story
The more you learn about Kelly Fern, the more you want to know. Not only does she tell a moving personal story of being adopted from Korea at age five, she reveals that on the flight to America, her identity was accidentally switched with that of another young adoptee—a circumstance that ultimately resulted in her family adopting three Korean girls, not just the two sisters they'd expected. Further, Fern herself had a child who she gave up for adoption. In the space of less than a year, Fern recently reconnected with both her biological family in Korea and her biological daughter in Minnesota. By this point, you may be thinking Fern should write a book—and, in fact, she has.MORE »
National day puts high black AIDS rates in Minneapolis spotlight
“Silence is death,” said J. Louis Thompson, HIV coordinator at The Aliveness Project. Thompson was one of several speakers at an event held at the University of Minnesota’s Urban Research and Outreach Center as part of the 12th Annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7.MORE »
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Somewhere in Brazil there is a piglet who has been squealing for her Minnesota swill.MORE »
OPINION | Sometimes they really are out to get you
I try not to engage in irresponsible conspiracy-mongering. It's too easy to get caught up in paranoia and beliefs about far-reaching networks advancing shadowy agendas...usually a recipe for gratuitous stress and anxiety. The world is interesting enough without conjuring up the Illuminati or faked moon landings.MORE »
THURSDAY PICK | Uptown Cafeteria: Designed for relaxation
It took me a while to really appreciate the design of Parasole's Uptown Cafeteria and Support Group. At first glance, it's a pretty lucid and simple gimmick—oh, right, cafeteria theme. Trays on the walls, lunch lady photos over the urinals, cute. But I keep returning to Cafeteria, and though the unpretentious and nicely priced happy hour food menu is one reason for that, the bright, appealing, smart design doesn't hurt. With a distinctive blue-and-orange palette, NYC-based Moschella + Roberts created a space that feels both comfy and classy. If you can stomach the two-figure cocktail prices—and if the jumpy Parasole doesn't shut Cafeteria down before the thaw—the Skybar is an excellent alternative to the crowded spray-tan meat market on the roof of Stella's.
Santorum wins GOP vote in Minn.
Rick Santorum won the Minnesota caucuses Tuesday night — a symbolic victory just north from where he won the first caucus of the election season in Iowa a month ago.
The former Pennsylvania state senator also won the Colorado caucus and Missouri primary Tuesday.MORE »
Loeffler, Dziedzic discuss bonding bill, politics
“It is an election year, and I hope it will bring people to their best behavior,” State Representative Diane Loeffler (District 59A) told the Northeast Network gathering at the Eastside Food Cooperative Jan. 12.MORE »
Como Sunday Series lights up winter season
Break out of the winter doldrums by attending the Como Community Council’s monthly Sunday Series, three presentations from February to April, all free and open to the public. Learn more about butterflies and moths and how to attract them, travel back in time with a neighborhood historian and pick up some new approaches for gardening with native plants.MORE »
Airport noise in Standish and Ericsson neighborhoods
Have you heard an airplane go by recently? Many Standish and Ericsson residents have been hearing multiple flights overhead. What’s more, the flights are extremely loud. Airplanes can be heard from inside the house and are particularly nerve-wracking when people are working or playing outside.MORE »
WEDNESDAY PICK | "Morvern Callar" takes a strange journey at the Walker Art Center
Though Lynne Ramsay's 2002 film Morvern Callar is set during the holidays, it's just as well that it's not screening in December: there's nothing very Christmasy about the lights of a tree illuminating a human corpse. That's how the movie opens; we soon learn that the body belongs to the eponymous heroine's boyfriend, who committed suicide and left the manuscript of a masterful novel for Morvern (Samantha Morton) to send to a publisher. Leaving her boyfriend's body lying under the tree and going out to the pub is only the first of a number of unexpected decisions made by Morvern in a movie that will delight lovers of dream-like indie films but will frustrate viewers looking for a traditional plot. You know who you are.MORE »
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