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Placemaking: loving where you live and why it matters

By Bruce Johansen, TC Daily Planet

Frogtown artist-resident, Seitu Jones (l), Va-Megn Thoj, Asian Economic Development Association (r) 

Photos by Bruce Johansen

“What makes people love where they live, and why does it matter?” “What bonds residents to a city and how can a community foster those emotional ties to drive economic success?” Those are ques

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MUSIC REVIEW | Jesse Cook makes it a double at the Pantages Theatre

By Patrick Dunn, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Patrick Dunn

Although most of us don’t get the opportunity to dine in the café’s of Seville or dance in the clubs of Havana, it is possible to experience a sense of that cultural vibe in our own city through live music performance. That’s just what took place Thursday, May 9 within the doors of the fabulous Pantages Theatre where Canadian guitarist Jesse Cook and his band transported fans with their style of Rumba Flamenco. Cook is touring in support of his current release “The Blue Guitar Sessions,” a definite shift from the fiery upbeat tunes he’s best known for. Although the mood of the album is "blue," the melodies are beautiful and built around the idea of leaving space to appreciate how Cook crafts each note to deliver the intended message.

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"The Great Gatsby" and the Great Pumpkin: Writers who wrestled with their Minnesota pasts

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's new film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

It was my friend Eric Bennett who drew my attention to a reference made by Bob Dylan to his fellow Minnesota escapee, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In Dylan’s song “Summer Days,” from 2001’s Love and Theft, a woman looking into the narrator’s eyes and holding his hand tells him he can’t repeat the past. “You can’t?” he replies. “What do you mean, you can’t? Of course you can.”

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ST. PAUL NOTES | Who's on First? Candidates lining up for council seat

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

Map of First Ward from Ramsey County website.

With Melvin Carter III leaving his First Ward city council seat on July 5, who's next? While the City Council will probably make an interim appointment, candidates who want to serve out the rest of the two-year term will be running in the November 5 election. Among the earliest to announce:

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Soul of University: Walkability workshop focuses on St. Paul's Frogtown, Summit-University neighborhoods

By John Akre, TC Daily Planet

Placemaking Expert Dr. Katherine Loflin led a Walkability Workshop in St. Paul's Little Mekong neighborhood through a light drizzle on May 8.

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Dominique Serrand talks about the Moving Company's "Out of the Pan Into the Fire"

By Rene Meyer-Grimberg, Arts Orbit

The Moving Company's new show Out of the Pan Into the Fire is now playing at the Southern Theater. Director Dominique Serrand talked with me about the process of creating the show in collaboration with students at the University of Iowa.

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REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK | Biking on Minnehaha — where's the community input on reconstruction?

By Rebekah Peterson, TC Daily Planet

A buffered bike lane in Minneapoils. Photo by Matt Johnson, licensed under Creative Commons. 

Minnehaha reconstruction — is there really an opportunity for meaningful community input?

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MUSIC PHOTOS | Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires at the Cedar Cultural Center

By Alexa Jones, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Alexa Jones

On Tuesday, May 7, Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires played at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis with Paul & the Tall Trees to open.

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Neighborhood Notes: Eighty years of Hamline-Midway history in Iver H. Carlson & Son store

By Harry Kent, TC Daily Planet

Iver H. Carlson in 1942

Stepping into Iver H.

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