Inside the Daily Planet, 10/02/08

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Theater note: A tedious Life in the Theatreby Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily PlanetThe Jungle Theater is the Twin Cities’ lone professional, Off-Broadway-caliber venue devoted to white theater. The company produces white playwrights, works with white directors, and, with rare exceptions, employs white actors. Which is fair, since places like Mixed Blood Theatre, Penumbra Theatre Company, and Pillsbury House Theater make it their mission to hire professionals of color. After all, white is a color too, and Caucasian folks are entitled to have an intimate, quality house in which to see their culture and sensibilities reflected.VOICES | First Ave’s lesson well-learnedby Almostred, Rift MagazineThere used to be a homeless shelter across the street, before the bus depot moved a third time. On cold nights it would fill up fast, leaving a hobo convention milling around outside the club. Continue Reading

Inside the Daily Planet, 09/25/08

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THINGS PEOPLE SAY | The great bailout heist: What will $1 trillion buy?by Steve Perry, Minnesota IndependentAs if $700 billion weren’t an incomprehensible enough sum on its own, that widely repeated figure only represents Henry Paulson’s personal stash of get-out-of-debt-free cards. The total tab on the array of taxpayer-financed Wall Street bailouts presently contemplated is likely to be closer to $1.8 trillion by the reckoning of CNBC, whose highly recommended estimate includes a rundown of the additional bailout billions.A little (foreclosed) house on the (stolen) prairieby Sheila Regan, TC Daily PlanetThursday, September 18 was not a typical lunch hour at Edina Realty. On that day, a group of real estate agents gathered in a conference room with members of zAmya Theater Project and participated in a theater workshop aimed at finding solutions to the housing crisis.Views and Reviews: Music to Our EarsMusic note: Babushka, babushka…Rusalka?by Jay Gabler, TC Daily PlanetIt took a few days of driving around the Twin Cities listening to Jenny Dalton’s new album Rusalka’s Umbrella, but it finally got under my skin. It’s a concept album, and the concept is water.Cedar Cultural Center goes back to Nordic Roots one last timeby Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily PlanetIf you haven’t been to the annual Nordic Roots Festival, don’t put it off any longer! This year’s go-round, its tenth, will be the last. Continue Reading

Obama rally addresses the economy

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More than 3,500 Obama-Biden supporters gathered downtown Minneapolis on Friday to hear Barack Obama’s plan for the economy. The rally took place as McCain addressed thousands of supporters in Blaine. Bill Clinton’s phrase “It’s the economy, stupid!” seems to have resonated with the Obama-Biden campaign as it tries to persuade voters Obama has a viable plan to fix the economy. The rally is an indicator of the campaign’s efforts to hone its message as economic woes on Wall Street and across America deepen. Speakers R.T Rybak, Majority House leader Margaret Anderson Kelliher, and Representative Keith Ellison stuck close to Obama’s economic plan. Continue Reading