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Blackbird Café is coming to 38th and Nicollet, occupying the corner storefront in a building that has been mostly vacant since the Lander Group’s proposed “38”, a mixed use project with eco-friendly condos, went the way of so many other projects on the drawing board in 2005. Continue Reading
International Students ask: “Do I need a flu shot?” by Eliana Gramer and Larissa Peifer, TC Daily Planet • As a new international student from Germany, now at Hamline University in St. Paul, Raphael Schaefer is not used to Minnesota’s unsettled weather. One of the first things locals told him was, “Welcome to Minnesota! If you don’t like the weather, wait ten minutes!” Continue Reading
Breaking – see article by Sheila Regan.As it happens – FBI raided homes of local activists today (September 24), in what looks like part of a national operation. We want your first-hand reports, analysis, comments – just add them as comments to this story, and email sheila@tcdailyplanet.net or editor@tcdailyplanet.net with your contact information.Twin Cities IndyMedia has the first reports:On Friday morning, three houses in the Minneapolis area are believed to have been raided by SWAT Teams. While we have few details right now, the F.B.I. appears to be targeting people associated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Besides the raids in Minneapolis, houses in Michigan, North Carolina and Chicago were also targeted.Raids occurred at 1823 Riverside, above the Hard Times Cafe, and the 2900 block of Park Ave. One other raid is reported, as well. Outside Hard Times Cafe, three unmarked black SUVs (one with an Illinois license plate) sat in the parking area as of 10am, when a lawyer observed 8 FBI agents sitting in the residence examining materials. Otherwise the scene was calm.Agents had broken in the door there at 7am Friday morning, breaking an aquarium in the process. The Uptake has a preliminary report, and promises photos and more video soon:Breaking: Details emerge about Anti-war Grand Jury Posted on September 24, 2010 by denverabc From the UpTake: FBI agents raided homes in Minneapolis and Chicago apparently looking for links to terrorist activity. Continue Reading
It’s fall now in this, our year of discontent, and of late I’ve begun spotting members of a species whose proliferation I first witnessed visiting my brother in Georgia this past summer.
I’m speaking of the growing numbers of what appear to be middle-class adults standing on sidewalks along commercial boulevards and waving placards for some retail outfit located just across the par Continue Reading
MUSIC | Khaira Arby sings of women’s rights at the Global Roots Festival by Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet • Malian singer Khaira Arby begins every concert with a song called “Salou” that is an invocation, though she doesn’t stress the importance of a particular religion. The spiritual singer, who is on tour in North America for the first time after 20 years as a professional singer in her home country of Mali, believes it doesn’t matter the name you call God-whether it’s Jesus or Mohommed or some other name-matters. The important thing, she believes, is to live a good and spriritual life. “There is only one God, even though there are many religions,” she said in an interview. Swaying to the hidden melodies by Mordecai Specktor, American Jewish World • Jeremiah Lockwood imbibed hazzanut, cantorial music, at the knee of his grandfather, a renowned cantor from New York City. Continue Reading
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Randy Stoecker wrote a fascinating book looking at the struggles of the 1970s, from the perspective of the early 1990s. Continue Reading
MUSIC | Nikki Schultz’s Lost and Found (and Lost Again) is an excellent offering by a strong performer by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet • My first time experiencing gifted vocalist Nikki Schultz, she was at the Cedar Cultural Center this summer, singing backup in soul balladeer Chastity Brown’s band for the release of the High Noon Teeth album. She wasn’t so much background as a healthy part of what made the music work as splendidly as it did. Distinct timbre, a real passion for emoting and, in general, a strong store of entertaining energy. Forum focuses on potential for clean energy jobs by Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota • One solution to the nation’s unemployment crisis is the creation of clean energy jobs, but to achieve that goal everyone must be involved in the effort, participants in a Congressional forum agreed. Week one by Luke Feuerherm, Minnesota Daily • Hours after the last class filed out, an eclectic bunch trickled into a classroom in Tate Hall. Continue Reading
The hand-wringing has begun. How can American citizens vote to take Congressional control away from the Democratic Party and hand it back to the Republican Party, the very organization that ran the country into the ground during the decade and a half when it controlled either one or both chambers of Congress? How can voters be so blind to their own self-interest?
How many immigrants, and from which countries? Working class or poor? How many families with children and how many elders? Long term residents and newcomers?