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Thanks to the climate of political correctness, it seems like every time someone black gets a burr under his or her saddle and puts it between book covers, he or she is heralded as a brilliant pen and a great shining voice of undeniable consequence. Usually, it’s some inept writer but a savvy hustler who made the right insider connections, got on the good side of a grant committee and, presto, ascended to prominence, a feted prize-winning darling of the “cutting edge” status quo. Thank God, every once in a blue moon, somebody comes along who isn’t selling a bill of goods. MORE »

by l’etoile magazine staff • 10/8/08 •

by Ellen Dahl, The Minneapoline • 10/3/08 •

Arts Orbit is a multisource blog about the local arts scene, featuring both original contributions by Daily Planet writers and entries reprinted from partner blogs and online publications.

Several weeks spent training at SNDP and the Entry were followed by my first mainroom show—the Duran Duran “Big Thing” comeback tour. DD was a high school favorite in 1982: the epitome of all things British and “New Wave,” and not from rural Minnesota. Six years later, however, they were a spent force, having exchanged their alt-cred genesis for teenybopper arena adulation. MORE »