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Ellen Frazel

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Ellen Frazel is a recent graduate from Macalester College with a degree in English and Creative Writing.


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Landfall, Minnesota: Photographer Jared Watsabaugh finds beauty in a town of manufactured housing

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
Landfall, Minnesota is one of only two incorporated cities in the United States comprising almost entirely manufactured housing.MORE »

MN VOICES | Ange Hwang, founder of Asian Media Access

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
“I am not just Chinese American, I am Ange Hwang.MORE »

FORUM | Cut the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department's Complaint Investigation Unit?

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
Should Minneapolis abolish the Complaint Investigation Unit of the city's civil rights department? Read both sides of the argument. Then add your opinion.
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BOOKS | Poets Tim Nolan and Todd Boss ruminate on time, memory, marriage, and family

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
Though neither poet came away with a Minnesota Book Award, finalists Tim Nolan and Todd Boss have produced solid books of poetry unmistakably tinged with Midwestern sensibility and Minnesotan landscape.MORE »

Powering up in St. Paul: One Ford Ranger goes electric

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
As Stew Roberts, owner of the Foreign Service Auto Repair in Roseville, showed me the Ford Ranger he had recently finished converting from gas to electric, he stopped mid-sentence to sniff the air.

“I think I smell burning plastic,” he said.

Seeing a small trail of smoke wafting from behind the driver’s seat where Roberts sat, I pointed, “There’s some smoke.”MORE »

Canoeing at Welch Mill: Fun, even if you're not a nature person

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
I graduated from Macalester College this May and was decompressing before continuing the dreary search for a summer job when one of my housemates came in and asked if I wanted to go on a canoe trip the next day.

I hesitated at first, because I’m not really a super nature kind of girl. I classify people into three categories:MORE »

MOVIES | William Klein's "Polly Maggoo" faces the tough questions: Who would you rather bed, LBJ or Fidel Castro?

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966) provides a harsh and hilarious critique of many trends of the 1960s: the fashion industry, the boom of pop culture, confessional television shows, modernism, the popularity of psychology, and the changing tide of politics. The film was William Klein’s first feature-length film and won him the Prix Jean Vigo at the Cannes Film Festival.MORE »

MOVIES | William Klein's "Messiah": Koyanis-God-si

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
William Klein's Messiah (1999) pairs the entirety of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with footage of modern religious rites, city life, and human suffering. With no dialogue—only images and music—the film can get a bit exhausting.MORE »

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer inspires a new group: Minnesota Peace Project

By Ellen Frazel, TC Daily Planet
“Does everyone know the R.E.M. song ‘It’s the End of the World As We Know It’?” asked University of St. Thomas Justice and Peace Studies professor Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, who recently challenged Norm Coleman and Al Franken for a seat in the U.S. Senate.MORE »
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