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Sea Change's happy hour, Psycho Suzi's patio, and roasted goat at the An-Nuur International Restaurant

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

Highlights of a week of eating: 

Let's see—Sunday night Carol took me out for Father's Day for dinner and a show. The real highlight was actually the show, Clybourne Park at the Guthrie. It's one of the best plays I have seen in years: a sharp, funny, serious play about race that had the audience laughing out loud (and squirming in their seats). (Read Jay Gabler's Daily Planet review.) But the late night bite next door at Sea Change was also a treat. Sea Change offers a happy hour every night from 8 to 11 p.m.  (and also Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3 to 6, and Mondays from 5 to 6.) We split an order of fries, a cup of bouillabaisse ($6), crisp fried calamari with curry aioli ($7), and a shrimp cocktail ($8), all beautifully presented and robustly flavorful.

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Minneapolis Somali photographer introduces 'The Youth/Dhalinyarada' at Weisman Art Museum

By Ibrahim Hirsi, TC Daily Planet

Brian Wiley, left, assistant professor at the University of Illinois, and photographer Mohamud Mumin, right, chat during Community Day event at the Weisman Art Museum. (Photo by Ibrahim Hirsi)

“The Youth/Dhalinyarada” project, which consists of portraits and a short video narration of both the success and challenging stories of 13 Somali-American men, was among the featured exhibits at the June 16 Community Day at the University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum.

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3437 Garden: Powderhorn Park neighbors find it's easy being green

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

Kamia Waddell brings her son to help with the planting.

Friday, June 14 was a busy day for the gardeners at 3437 Garden in the heart of South Minneapolis’s Powderhorn Park Neighborhood. The city-owned lot is one of 13 neighborhood gardens available to not-for-profit organizations willing to jump through a few bureaucratic hoops and pay some relatively small fees to grow their own food. The lots chosen are too small to develop and should remain gardens well into the future.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Fitz and the Tantrums energize the Varsity Theater

By Patrick Dunn, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Patrick Dunn

The Los Angeles Indie Pop band Fitz and the Tantrums performed their soul-inspired jams for two back-to-back sold-out shows this week in Minneapolis. Out in support of their new album More Than Just a Dream, the high energy dance party entertained established and new fans and provided a good workout as well on Monday, June 17. Their unique sound which features horns and keyboards in place of guitar (that’s right, no guitar) has caught the attention of a diverse group of listeners.

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A family like any other

By Michele St. Martin, TC Daily Planet
Photos By: 
Michele St. Martin

Now that same sex couples can legally marry in Minnesota, how will their families look different than those headed by straight people? Not very, if the Melchert-Zimmerman family is any indication.

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Socializing on the arts scene: Pro tips for surviving a night out

By Amina Harper, The Art House

Courtney Algeo welcomes the crowd to the Paper Darts Volume 5 launch party. Photo by Jay Gabler.

When I was growing up, my one and only dream was to stay in the house and do nothing. This was mainly because I hated school, but I also felt at an early age that freedom from school meant the freedom to engage the world without restrictions. In my adolescent mind, this meant sitting in front of the TV all day eating junk food and watching old VH1 documentaries (this was back before VH1 became a reality show cesspool).

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Needtobreathe and Drew Holcomb at the Orpheum Theatre: Not for the particularly discerning

By Dwight Hobbes, Sounding Off On Sound

Rock fans just aren't all that picky in this day and age about what they listen to. And go crazy for. Serving as a perfect example, were Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band as active as they used to be, Needtobreathe would not able to get arrested, much less fill the Orpheum Theatre as they did May 1st. The outfit's musicianship is reasonably adequate, but the songwriting is mediocre on top of which frontman and lead singer Bear Rinehart doesn't have an original bone in his body. In fact, song after song, phrase for phrase, his vocals put you in mind of someone who always wanted to grow up and sound exactly like Bob Seger. Imitation, here, isn't the sincerest form of flattery: it's the surest form of failure. Seger—albeit clearly influenced by seminal pioneer Little Richard, did it first and did it with feeling, not as anyone's echo, a note for note copycat. That is how it went, throughout the entire evening with the band doing number upon number that was to music what tracing paper is to art.

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Juneteenth features Rosa Parks re-enactment

By Margo Ashmore, TC Daily Planet

At the June 15 Juneteenth celebration in North Minneapolis, the Juneteenth Players  re-enacted  December 1, 1955 when Mrs.

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Act for Education plans theater focused on education issues

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Last January, Maria Asp, a local actress and theater educator attended a conference sponsored by United Way that was all about school reform, touting the successes of school districts in Miami and

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MUSIC REVIEW | The sun breaks through at The Current's Rock the Garden

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet
Photos By: 
Meredith Westin

Well, I decided to finally get my butt over to Rock the Garden this year, after having spent the last several years reading the Twitter postings about it and being envious that I was missing out on the fun. In fact, I have only been to one Rock the Garden previously, when Sonic Youth and Stereolab played in 2000, which was such a great concert that perhaps the high bar was what prevented me from going again.

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