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“Died in a Trailer Park Woke Up a Mermaid” at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 8, 2013

“It’s too late!  The Fringe is almost over!”  Nonsense.  There are TWENTY-ONE juicy time slots left in the next four days.  With two performances remaining, Ariel Leaf’s Continue Reading

“Stardust” at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival:Short but (Bitter) Sweet

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 7, 2013

Stardust clocks in at a brief 26 minutes or so.  But writer/director Kimberly Rolfs, who just graduated from high school(!), gives the audience a heartbreaking fictional meditation on suicide Continue Reading

“Jesus Christ Ex Machina” at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival:Engrossing but Confusing

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 7, 2013

We saw Continue Reading

“Stop Talking: The Game of Talking” at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 7, 2013

Stop Talking: The Game of Talking is back for a second year. Continue Reading

“Men Will Be Boys” at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 5, 2013

As a mother of boys, I appreciated the feminist male perspective of Scot Moore’s one-man show Men Will Be Boys at Theater in the Round. I was glad my 15 year-old got to see it with us—it sparked some conversation on the way home. Continue Reading

“A Brief History of Irish Music” at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival: Drinking, Dying, and Doing It

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 5, 2013

A Brief History of Irish Music  is more of a concert with banter than a play about the history of Irish music.&nb Continue Reading

“Shelly Bachberg Presents:How Helen Keller and Anne Frank Freed the Slaves”, Minnesota Fringe Festival: Oh Yes, They Went There

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 5, 2013

We saw ten shows total on Saturday and Sunday and not a single turkey.  I don’t know if it’s the art and/or science of our selection strategy or just dumb luck.  We saw original dramas, e Continue Reading

More Knights, More Shoes, and The Doctor: Launcelot and Guenever, Buckets and Tap Shoes, and Who’s on First: 50 Years of the Doc

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 3, 2013

Our Friday night fringing began with hauling a smoking microwave oven out of the house.  Good times.  But we still made it to the Music Box Theater in time for the first show.  There Continue Reading

Drawing in the Audience: “Once Upon a Chalkboard” at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 3, 2013

The 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival has begun.  As a veteran fringe-goer,  I know that taking risks is part of the thrill of the festival.  I’m game for anything.  But I do emplo Continue Reading

Minnesota Fringe Festival 2013 Preview: Stop Talking: The Game of Talking

By Wendy Gennaula (Good to Momma) | August 1, 2013

Stop Talking: The Game of Talking, another late addition to this year’s festival, is back.  Based on the British game Show “Just a Minute”, local Fringe-favorite stars face off in a game of ta Continue Reading

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Arts

  • Dance as deep listening: “Weave” by Rosy Simas Danse comes to the Ordway

    Rosy Simas of Rosy Simas Danse is Haudenosaunee, Seneca, Heron Clan. She brings a Native feminist lens to the contemporary dance world with her body of work, the latest of which is “Weave,” a collaborative dance project. “Weave” will make its debut on Jan. 12 at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, a co-commissioner in […]

  • Ritual and revelation: Black Ensemble Players reimagine Shakespeare

      “It was kind of a whimsical artistic impulse,” recalled Antonio Duke, as he reminisced on this past spring when Ashawnti Sakina Ford drove him home each night after their rehearsals for a production of “Imaginary Invalid,” a play by 17th-century French actor and playwright, Molière. Duke mentioned that he would love to play Puck, […]

Food and restaurants

  • Project sweetie pie north minneapolis
    North Minneapolis takes back food systems, land through urban agriculture

    Transforming the community and its residents is the main goal of Northside food system organizers, who are using food as a tool to aid in that transformation.

  • Ha Tien Market
    Ha Tien Market still finds home along the Green Line, despite problems

    On a rainy, cool day Ha Tien is a warm and welcoming site.

Education

  • St. Paul’s school resource officer policies still leave district room for improvement

    On May 25, 2016, St. Paul School Resource Officer Bill Kraus forcibly arrested then 19-year-old Darion Bell outside of St. Paul Central High School. Bell, a Black youth who had recently transferred out of Central to the High School for Recording Arts, was on Central’s campus to visit one of his former teachers. Kraus used […]

  • Hiawatha Collegiate High School goes beyond ‘beating the odds’ for students of color

    Equity is one part of a broader vision for the Hiawatha network of schools.

Community Voices

  • [COMMUNITY VOICES] Non-criminal ‘technical violations’ are increasing Minnesota’s prison population

    When it comes to incarceration rates, Minnesota stands out as one of the few states who is experiencing an increase in their prison population despite prison overcrowding and crime at a 50-year low. While there are multiple factors for this, a significant part of this increase is due to the incarceration of formerly released individuals […]

  • Community Voices: [PHOTOS] Minneapolis comes out strong for “Families Belong Together” nationwide march

      On the afternoon of Saturday, June 30, Minneapolis was one of 600 cities and towns across the country to come alive with thousands of people vigorously and collectively denouncing the U.S. government’s federal immigration policies as part of the Families Belong Together nationwide march. Photographer Nancy Musinguzi’s recent photos captured the over 7,000 people […]

In Case You Missed It

IGGERS DIGEST | Katar River: flavors and aromas of Ethiopia

It's easy to miss the Katar River restaurant, hidden away in a little industrial strip behind the Lake & Hiawatha shopping center in south Minneapolis. And even if you saw the big sign outside, you probably wouldn't know that this is specifically an Ethiopian restaurant, and a very good one.

Lynnell Mickelsen: Why all the conspiracy theories and pearl-clutching in this year’s school board race?

This has been the hottest school board race I’ve seen in 25 years of living in Minneapolis, with lots of conspiracy theories and pearl-clutching. Many of my neighbors and friends see the furious posts on Facebook, with all the hysterical warnings about the imminent destruction of public education as we know it, and are honestly confused.

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