Behind the Story

Behind the Story is a regular TC Daily Planet column, featuring stories and reflections by Sheila Regan.

HERC incinerator and the Minneapolis environment: What can one person do?

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

Photo by Susan Hubbard

I now have a little paper bag in my kitchen, filled with banana peels and coffee grounds, with a few apple cores thrown in. There are also some chicken bones and egg shells, but as I write this, I look up “should you put meat in your compost?” on Google and I realize that you’re not supposed to compost meat, so I guess I’m going to have to start over.

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Standing room only: What can theater companies learn from rock shows?

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

This ain't the Guthrie: an enthusiastic young crowd enjoys Major Lazer at First Avenue last month. Photo by Jay Gabler.

I ventured out of my comfort zone this week and wrote a concert review of Sigur Ros at Roy Wilkins Auditorium. I don’t do music reviews often, in part because I feel a little bit like a fraud when I write them.

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Will Minneapolis's next mayor be a hipster like R.T. Rybak—and is that what the city needs?

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

Photo by Cynthia Frost

I have a long-held belief that the Portlandia mayor is secretly based on R.T. Rybak. Okay, I know, I know, it’s probably more likely that Portlandia’s mayor is based on Sam Adams, who was mayor of Portland when the IFC show—a satire of contemporary hipster culture—first aired in 2011, and who made a cameo on the show. Still, you have to admit that Portlandia’s mayor has a bit of a Rybak-esque quality, or vice versa.

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"Sex at Dawn" in bed with Bedlam Theatre's John Bueche

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

Chris Garza 

So I got a Facebook invitation, and the title of the invitation was "Sex at Dawn at Dawn."  Not knowing that there was a popular science book with that title, I read with curiosity the rest of what the invitation said.

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Will the “real” radicals please stand up?

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

Sisters' Camelot bus 

This whole Sisters’ Camelot disaster sure has been confusing.

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