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Gary “Juara” Clements has been making art since the second grade. His drawing board and supplies are always with him, he said. He has taught the subject in a Minneapolis school and “carried art into every job I’ve ever had,” said Clements, a longtime South Minneapolis resident who has lived in Seward for more than two years. He has exhibited in local galleries, and he has applied in the past for — but never had work accepted into — the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute’s Annual International Art Show for Artists with Disabilities. MORE »

While we were waiting for the Avett Brothers to take the stage at the Cabooze Thursday night, I pointed out to my girlfriend that there were not one, not two, but three banjos plugged in and ready for action. She shook her head in admiration. “Shit is going to start on fire!” MORE »

To some people, it’s public art; to others, it’s a nuisance. Some city officials say that both aerosol art and illegal graffiti are problematic. Aerosol art is legal spray painting done in public spaces or on canvases, while graffiti is illegal marking on public or private property. MORE »

When you attend Eugene O’Neill’s saga Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Theatre in the Round, it will be a page out of history, the playwright’s best known and most enduring work. It will also be an opportunity to catch premier rising talent, actor Wade Vaughn, in the cast along with respected names Rob Frankel, Maggie Bearmon Pistner, Tom Sonnek, and Rachel Finch. Between the script and the actors, you shouldn’t have any trouble being impressed by what you see. Who you won’t see, however—unless she happens to be milling about the lobby at intermission—is the person on whose head it heavily falls to make the night a success. After all, Long Day’s Journey is a cornerstone of European/American culture, and TRP is well known for its strong casts—so the invisible lady and guiding hand, director Lynn Musgrave, had better have it together. MORE »

The Bridge and Mshale, two of our community media partners, published thoughtful and thought-provoking articles this week on the murder of a Somali teen in the Cedar-Riverside area in April, and the views of friends and community as the search for the shooter continues. Read Somali teen’s murder unearths generational conflict in community by Edwin Okong’o from Mshale and Cedar-Riverside mourns death of Somali teen by Jeremy Stratton from The Bridge. MORE »