March 2010
March 30, 2010Pawlenty Commentary Touches A Nerve
You know you've put your finger on a hot button when an article fires people up enough to write their own thoughts about it—or blog them or Twitter them or Facebook them. And that's what has happened with Chiseling Away, the commentary in this month's issue on Governor Tim Pawlenty's wish to slash funding this biennium for the Minnesota State Arts Board (which distributes state grant money) by 33 percent and eventually get rid of it altogether. In next month's issue, we'll publish some of the letter responses. For now, you can read people's thoughts at other sites, including this Read more » Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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March 30, 2010Twins fever? There's a play for that: "It's Outta Here!"
New stadium, new hot dogs—could you be more fired up for the opening of Target Field? Well, sure, especially after seeing "It's Outta Here!" a new interactive play from a host of Minnesota writers, including Brian Lambert and Peter Schilling, who's currently hawking his new baseball book. Designed in nine acts, or innings—complete with a seventh-inning stretch and baseball songs—the play is essentially seven short plays, each by a different writer (Schilling's, written with Judd Spicer, is called "Who's on Steroids?"). The play is making the rounds of various Minnesota and Wisconsin theaters, winding up at... Read more » Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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March 25, 2010Minnesota Orchestra the "Greatest Orchestra in the World," Says New Yorker
We knew Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra were great. Now everyone who reads the New Yorker (people still read magazines, we hope, right?) knows it, too. Critic Alex Ross, writing about the Minnesota Orchestra's performances of Beethoven and Sibelius during a 31-day orchestral marathon of premier ensembles at Carnegie Hall, gave an endorsement to Vänskä and company that could hardly be more glowing if it were played by a hundred-piece symphony: "For the duration of March 1," he enthused, "the Minnesota Orchestra sounded, to my ears, like the greatest orchestra in the... Read more » Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 in What's New What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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March 15, 2010Big Pulitzer-Winner "August: Osage County" Lights Up Ordway
To those who have already seen "August: Osage County," winner of a Pulitzer and multiple Tony Awards in 2008: lucky you. To everyone else, lucky you, too. Because when the grand drama about a large Oklahoma clan falling apart (and the unspoken truths that held it together) finally arrives in Minnesota on March 16 at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, it will feature not only stars (Broadway's Estelle Parsons) but also some of the best local actors, including Guthrie Theater regular Barbara Kingsley and Park Square Theater regular Stephen D'Ambrose (who, in fact, are married to each other). The play itself comes with a lot to recommend to anyone who wouldn't otherwise jump to see the latest Broadway hit. Partly, it's the... Read more » Posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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March 5, 2010Cuban Film Festival Kicks Off A Great Month For Movie Mavens
A month full of foreign films kicks off tonight with the Cuban Movie Festival, followed next week by Mizna's Arab Film Festival and the Walker Art Center's Women of Vision festival. With the theme, "The US government says we can’t travel to Cuba, So let’s go to the Cuban movies!" The Cuban Movie Festival gives audiences an unprecedented opportunity to view a cross-section of Cuban films. Screenings will take place at the St. Anthony Main Theatre on the riverfront in Minneapolis. The films include classics such as Clandestinos by Fernando Perez; El Benny by Jorge Luis Sanchez; The Last Supper (La Ultima Cena) by Tomas... Read more » Posted on Friday, March 5, 2010 in What's New Blogs Front & Center | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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