Category: Arts & Culture
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Jazz Fest seeking new leadership as Hecklers plan exit
by casey ekAfter about 25 years, Twin Cities Jazz Fest luminaries Steve Heckler and Kristine Heckler will be stepping down following the 2023 season. Steve is…
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Solidarity Street Gallery
Carrying theme “resilient generations” the third annual Solidary Street Gallery, slated for Sept. 9-10 Along Payne Avenue on the East Side, will be centered around our…
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Arab Film Festival
Mizna’s 16th edition of the Twin Cities Arab Film Fest returns Sept. 28-Oct. 2 in hybrid format. Films represent movement and resist displacement, challenging conventional narratives that…
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The Violence Project illuminates culture of mass shootings
By Margaret KinneyOur country is in the grip of a mass shootings epidemic. It is unique to our country and to our times. The USA experiences…
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Schmidt Art Crawl returns this fall
By Lark GilmerArt Lives at Schmidt Artist Lofts. For the last several years, we have not only created art but also produced unique events to display…
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Flying High: An Interview with Author Emmett Zimmerman
Picture this: May, 2022. What were you doing? For Emmett Zimmerman, an 8-year-old author, it was getting his book published. Plane Crashes is a fictional book…
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Brad Zellar’s latest novel is ready to roll
By Tim RamseyFull disclosure. I am a borderline Brad Zellar zealot. He’s been writing and editing among us Twin Citians for decades. He’s earned the attention…
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Notebook Recollections: Walk This Way
Local icon Tim Rumsey walked to work most days from 1987 to 2000. He began as a form of exercise but kept at it for his…
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White Squirrel Bar hits one-year milestone
Wife and husband, Dani and Jarret Oulman, were channeling this inside joke while naming White Squirrel Bar, 974 West 7th St. In case you get…
