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What I've learned from cutting people's hair

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by André Salvadore | 9/16/09

Dear André,

I'm curious. In all your years cutting hair and talking with people, you must have learned some things about human nature and relationships. Have you? If so, what are they?

Thanks—

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Minneapolis Hmong residents want better police protection

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Ka Kong speaks at community meeting. (Photos by Sheila Regan)

Hmong residents from North Minneapolis met with Councilmembers Don Samuels and Barbara Johnson last Saturday to ask for help in getting more Hmong police officers in north Minneapolis.  The meeting, which was half in Hmong and half in English, addressed concerns by the Hmong community that language and cultural barriers are causing them to feel they can't go to police, and when they do, little happens. 

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MUSIC | Then I saw An Horse, and I'm a believer

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

At 8:30 last night, I had never heard a single song by the Australian band An Horse. Four hours later, I was pulling their poster off the 7th Street Entry wall to bring home as a souvenir. The bouncer said he'd never seen anyone do that. "I'm kind of geeking out," I admitted, showing him the An Horse t-shirt hanging out of my pocket.

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Sweet suds at the Ninth Annual Autumn Brew Review

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Jon Behm

 

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The Minneapolis Greek Festival raises Hellenic in Uptown

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Spanakopita, tiropita, and souvlaki on a stick were among the Greek favorites served last weekend at the 21st annual Minneapolis Greek Festival, held at MORE »

Ethiopia in Minnesota: The local front of a distant war

By Douglas McGill, TC Daily Planet


What am I, truly? Saint or sinner? Hero or boob?

When I report the harrowing stories of the torture and persecution of Ethiopian refugees who now live safely in Minnesota, am I being  "noble" and "brave," a "freedom-loving" journalist who is "a friend to the voiceless ones"?<--break- />

Or am I - as dozens of riled-up critics of my reporting charge - in fact being a sucker for refugees who lie to win asylum status, and even worse being a "biased," "ignorant," "confused white man" who "sits down in [my] luxurious home in the Twin Cities to write about what happens in the Horn of Africa," believing that I am helping to heal the world while in fact I am only "fostering more violence"?

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OPINION | An open letter to Amtrak

By Brian Kaller, TC Daily Planet

When I visited my native USA this summer, I needed to take my daughter from Minnesota to Missouri, a thousand-mile trek across the Heartland. I decided to use Amtrak, and wanted to share with you my perceptions of the journey.

I wanted to avoid driving for several reasons. I didn’t want to strap a five-year-old into a car seat for 12 hours, or be forced to stop at numerous roadside franchises designed to sell movie promotional toys and congealed pseudo-food. I remembered the last time we made the journey, when a kamikaze deer smashed our rental car and left us stranded on the Iowa highway. Most of all, though, I wanted to see how easily one could journey halfway down the length of America without a car.

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DANCE | "Ashesh Barsha": A vaguely feminist praxis from Ananya Dance Theatre

By Jon Behm, TC Daily Planet

Ananya Dance Theatre finished the third and final piece of its environmental justice trilogy this past weekend, performing Ashesh

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Bandleader, record mogul, journalist, coffee fiend: The mad, mad, mad, mad world of Ian Anderson

By Anissa Stocks, TC Daily Planet

l-r: Grace Fiddler, Ian Anderson, and Elliot Manthey. Photo courtesy One for the Team.

Sunday: A day of rest and of relaxation.

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I survived Chicago-Lake Liquors

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

Most liquor stores in Minneapolis close at 9 p.m., but Chicago-Lake Liquors, which calls itself Minnesota's largest-volume liquor retailer, is open until 10. This means that between 9 and 10 o'clock on any given night, Chi-Lake Liquors has an atmosphere not dissimilar to that of a Hayward fireworks depot at 5 p.m. on the Fourth of July. For the most part, Chi-Lake patrons between 9 and 10 p.m. don't look particularly proud or excited to be getting their drink on; they look determined, or weary. Kids are left waiting in cars, and $0.99 mini-bottles of Bacardi Gold are popular impulse buys at the register.

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