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Book note: "The Florist's Daughter" opens a family pressure cooker

By Mary Ellen Shaw , TC Daily Planet

I had the good fortune to first encounter Patricia Hampl’s The Florist’s Daughter (2007) in late November 2007 shortly after its release, when Carol Connolly hosted a reading with Hampl and poet Katrina Vandenberg (Atlas) on my husband’s birthday, at the University Club on Summit Avenue. What was especially fun about this location was that it figured in Hampl’s life as the scene of her senior prom – the story of which she told us with wry humor. Adding to the intimacy, one of the audience members traded reminiscences with Hampl about The Olympic, an ice skating rink that figures prominently in the book, as both of them remembered the music piped in and the feeling of being there in the same period of time. MORE »

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By staff , TC Daily Planet

This is the place to look for recount data—updated from the Secretary of State’s web site every night. And this is the place to send your recount stories — editor@tcdailyplanet.net. Check this space every day for more stories! MORE »

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Giving Thanks and Giving Back

This Thanksgiving, families throughout the Twin Cities will gather at the table and be thankful for what they have, despite the rough economic climate. But Thanksgiving can also be a time for people to help those less fortunate themselves: here is a list of ways you can help on Thanksgiving Day and beyond. MORE »

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MOVIES | "Let the Right One In": Classic horror, minus the naked coeds

By Jim Brunzell III , TC Daily Planet

Horror films may be, artistically, the most dismissed genre in film, but the genre has become a cash cow for studios. Films in franchises like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Saw can cost less than $10 million but make triple that in opening-weekend ticket sales. Unsurprisingly, many of the older horror franchises have been recently remade or updated—a new Friday the 13th film is opening on Friday the 13th of February, 2009. Horror films have always attracted teenagers and college kids, who flock to theaters in hopes of seeing inventive new death scenes, naked coeds, and gore galore splattering from aliens, demons, monsters, and humans. Most of these films, however, are bland copycats that are simply not scary. Fortunately, that can’t be said about Let the Right One In, the astonishing new Swedish coming-of-age vampire film from director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist (adapting his own novel, Let Me In). Alfredson and Lindqvist kick the doors in on the generic bloodsuckers and present a new horror classic. MORE »