Marinda Bland

About me

Marinda Bland (email marinda@tcdailyplanet.net) lives and writes in the Twin Cities.

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BOOKS | Poet Joanna Rawson's challenging but stimulating "Unrest" will make you feel just a little bit more alive

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

Joanna Rawson wants you to be frustrated. In her second book of poetry, Unrest (Graywolf Press), Rawson writes her personal manifesto, and she lets you in on her philosophy of life, the universe, and everything. What Rawson sees in this world is chaos in perpetuity, as described in her poem "Provisional Endings during Wartime":

Tomorrow you'll set all this chaos right.
But the thought gets lost underneath, in the undertow.MORE »

DANCE | Stuart Pimsler's new production at the Guthrie leaves one "Longing" for coherence

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

Inspired by the poetry of Leonard Cohen and influenced by Marcel Proust's musings on memory, Tales from the Book of Longing made its world premiere at the Guthrie Theater this weekend. Stuart Pimsler wrote, directed, and conceived this work with the help of his partner Suzanne Costello. Pimsler and Costello both perform in Tales, along with five members of Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater: Brian Evans, Cade Holmseth, Kari Mosel, Laura Selle Virtucio, and Roxanne Wallace-Patterson.MORE »

Take a shot for water resource management

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

“There is a stigma to the people who support environmental efforts—y’know, granola people, treehuggers, pick the name—and I wanted to bring another energy to the effort. Look, a vodka company is sponsoring an environmental trip—that’s cool,” said Kevin Lilly, founder of the nonprofit organization What About Blue?.MORE »

Crime down in Minneapolis

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

Violent crime in Minneapolis has decreased by 38% since 2006, and property crimes have decreased by 23% since 2007, according to a panel of experts who gathered Friday, July 31, to talk about falling crime rates. The occasion was the monthly "Breakfast with Gary" community meeting with Minneapolis City Council Member Gary Schiff.MORE »

Looking around the Twin Cities

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

Price of gas got you down? If you were planning a road trip this summer, but then thought better of it, fear not! There are plenty of beautiful vistas and scenes of historical import right here.MORE »

One Day in July

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

Minneapolis is under martial law. The police have opened fire on unarmed strikers, and the governor has called in the National Guard. What’s all the brouhaha about?MORE »

MOVIES | "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" wins over a member of the iGeneration

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

“Oh, you’ll love it!” That’s what everybody and my mother told me when I said I was going to watch Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the first movie in the Walker Art Center’s Newman Rocks retrospective of the early work of the late Paul Newman.MORE »

Harry Potter is back!

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

Midnight was the witching hour on Tuesday night as Harry Potter returned to the big screen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment of an eight-part movie series featuring The Boy Who Lived. Things have changed, though, since the last movie premiered in 2007. J. K. Rowling’s seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series came out ten days after the fifth movie.MORE »

A happy feeling: Summer music at the History Center

By Marinda Bland, TC Daily Planet

History is jammin’ this summer at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota Historical Society is hosting 9 Nights of Music—a free live outdoor music series—every Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:00. The series, which started June 30, continues through August 25.MORE »