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In Haiti when the quake hit: One Minnesotan's story
Joëlle Vitiello is a professor of French and Francophone studies at Macalester College in St. Paul. She also studies Haitian literature, and happened to be in Port-au-Prince on January 12, so she was an eyewitness to the earthquake in Haiti. The Daily Planet interviewed Vitiello about her experiences during the earthquake, the aftermath, and what the future of Haiti now looks like. MORE »
February 8: The week ahead at the Capitol
Assuming the weather doesn't shut everything down, there are a lot of early opportunities to speak up at the Capitol this week.
Here are a few:MORE »
Minneapolis Public Schools poised to make familiar face its new leader
When it came time to find its fifth superintendent in ten years, the Minneapolis School Board decided to forgo a nationwide search and shop locally instead.
On Tuesday, the board is expected to appoint to the post its only candidate and finalist, current Deputy Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson. Bill Green, the district's current superintendent, will retire June 31.MORE »
Bonding in rural MN
So we've seen what the Twin Cities asked for, and what they might get in this year's bonding bill at the Legislature.
Next, we'll take a brief look at bonding requests from outstate, or rural Minnesota.MORE »
THEATER | Gremlin Theatre's hilarious, horrifying, brilliant "Homecoming"
No matter what anyone writes about the plays, and productions of plays, by Harold Pinter, you can be sure of one thing. Everybody’s right, and everybody’s wrong. Nothing’s certain because there are too many loose ends, vast oceans full of things unspoken, and enough wiggle room in the silences that almost anything is possible.
The only three things I’m sure of about Gremlin Theatre’s current production of Pinter’s The Homecoming are these:
It’s hilarious.
It’s horrifying.
And it’s brilliant.MORE »
MOVIES | When too many cooks don't spoil the broth: Oscar nominee "The Hurt Locker" an exception to Academy rules, with four producers credited
The Hurt Locker, a contender for Best Picture in this year's Oscar race, has been given the distinction of "extraordinary circumstances" in the listing of its producers, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week.MORE »
THEATER | Mu Performing Arts bring Hwang's "Yellow Face" to the Guthrie
David Henry Hwang, who wrote the Tony Award winning M. Butterfly, which satirizes the famous Puccini opera Madame Butterfly, now takes on that opera's remake. Mu Performing Arts' Yellow Face, now playing at the Guthrie's Dowling Studio, is set at the time that Asian-Americans were protesting the casting decisions for Miss Saigon, which is based on Madame Butterfly.MORE »
SeeClickFix: Civic solution or cyber-soapbox?
In late December, the TC Daily Planet began hosting a SeeClickFix widget. Based in New Haven, Connecticut, SeeClickFix has drawn nationwide attention by creating a platform for average citizens to air their concerns. According to Jeff Blasius, SeeClickFix co-founder, it is a "toolbox for social civic engagement."MORE »
Why we shouldn't do a damn thing about the decline of classical music
Today the Twittersphere has been tossing around a blog entry by The New Yorker's Alex Ross.MORE »
THEATER | "Rent" feels fresh and thrilling in homegrown production at The Lab Theater
The production of Rent currently playing at The Lab Theater is the kind of thing you don't see very often: a homegrown, fully-staged, professional production of a Broadway musical. There's a good reason you don't see such productions very often, and it's not an artistic reason—as this production makes clear, we have no shortage of dazzling local talent.MORE »
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