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Guerrilla street signs have been popping up in South Minneapolis recently touting everything from free hugs for hippies (a tree holds the sign in notoriously lefty Powderhorn Park) to lost ninjas (“Have you seen him? Probably not. Because then you would be dead”). Continue Reading
With violence escalating in Egypt, where protesters are taking to the street in opposition to government corruption, unemployment and poverty, Rep. Keith Ellison has released a statement urging Egyptian authorities to stop using force against its citizenry, which the Minnesota Democrat says have “legitimate grievances.”
Image: David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (face in dirt), c. 1990
You know how the networks often digitally superimpose ads onto sports stadium billboards for TV viewers? Continue Reading
Minnesota’s 2007 “concealed-carry” law allows permit-holding gun owners to carry an unlimited number of handguns on their person in public except for certain cases and when businesses specifically post their policy banning guns on site.
Minneapolis mural duo Broken Crow (John Grider and Mike Fitzsimmons) is back after two weeks in Gambia, where they were part of the Wide Open Walls project.
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It was a good weekend for Tom Horner, the Indepedence Party candidate for governor. He picked up endorsements from editorial boards in some of Minnesota’s biggest papers, including the dailies in Duluth and Minneapolis. Less surprising is Tarryl Clark’s endorsement over incumbent Republican Michele Bachmann by the St. Cloud Times: that paper endorsed the last Democrat to take on Bachmann, Elwyn Tinklenberg, in 2008.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune hinted at a Horner endorsement in mid-September, but followed through on it Sunday in a glowing piece that hailed his centrism and bipartisanship as useful during tough times when “stalemate and drift could prove not merely disappointing but disastrous.” The paper contrasts Horner’s budget proposals, a “blend of an expanded sales tax base, higher cigarette taxes and a cap on income tax deductions that advantage upper-income earners,” with those of Democrat Mark Dayton — who wants to raise taxes on the highest earners in Minnesota — and Republican Tom Emmer. “Horner recognizes that it’s past time to ease the ‘no new taxes’ inflexibility that has paralyzed efforts to restore fiscal stability to government since it was lost in the big tax cuts of 1999-2001,” the editorial reads. Continue Reading
Siah Armajani, Murder in Tehran (2009)
Minneapolis artist Siah Armajani — who created the iconic Irene Hixon Whitney Footbridge across Interstate 94 — will be given the Chevalier Award of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Continue Reading
The Indianapolis Museum of Art — selected to represent the U.S. at the 2011 Venice Biennale — will present the work of Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla at the U.S. Continue Reading
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