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Relatively speaking, there’s a lot more money spent on graffiti removal locally than you probably realize. Along with the Minneapolis Anti-Graffiti Initiative, which pays citizens cash for leads about graffiti that produce arrests, the city of Minneapolis is offering Graffiti Micro Grants to non-profit community-based organizations and churches for beautification programs, graffiti clean-up, and teaching the Graffiti Hurts curriculum, among other projects. The cap for each organization is $10,000. (The image above, by the way, is the city’s very own anti-graffiti graffito.) MORE »

It’s probably a coincidence that Rhino released expanded and remastered versions of the first four Replacements albums on the same day that Rhymesayers Entertainment dropped Atmosphere’s latest full-length album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold. The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard chart, making it the highest-charting release in the history of Rhymesayers, a Minneapolis hip-hop label home to artists including Brother Ali, I Self Divine, and Eyedea & Abilities. MORE »

“Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you’re never quite on the beat. Sometimes you’re ahead and sometimes behind. Instead of the swift and imperceptible flowing of time, you are aware of its nodes, those points where time stands still or from which it leaps ahead. And you slip into the breaks and look around.” (Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man) MORE »

With dozens of compelling but under-attended shows presented each year, I assumed that the independent theater community in the Twin Cities had lifted every stone in search of audiences. When I entered the Bryant-Lake Bowl theater to find myself among a crowd of middle-aged knitters, I realized that the ever-entrepreneurial Joseph Scrimshaw had proven me wrong. MORE »

“D’Amico will not be bullied into violating Federal law.” Standing in the vestibule of the D’Amico & Sons restaurant near 22nd and Hennepin in Minneapolis, Amy Rotenberg cut the figure of a wronged corporation, wearing a stylish black trench coat and an expression combining shock, outrage, and seriousness. As she spoke, Rotenberg raised her eyebrows and inclined her head forward to emphasize her point. MORE »