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State of the Arts

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Archives for April 2012

Minnesota Mix

Kulture Klub Collaborative helps struggling youth define their lives in art

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 23, 2012, 12:07 PM Apr 23, 2012
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Kulture Klub Collaborative develops arts programs for youth who are, or who have been, homeless.

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Get ready for World Book Night

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 23, 2012, 10:06 AM Apr 23, 2012

Tonight tens of thousands of people will go out into their communities and give away free books.

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Classical MPR launches choral initiative

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 23, 2012, 8:00 AM Apr 23, 2012

The Choral Initiative seeks to make inroads to new communities, new audiences and new forms of choral music.

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Wishes for the Sky on Earth Day

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 22, 2012, 7:55 AM Apr 22, 2012

On Earth Day, people will gather at the Mississippi River to make wishes and send them up into the sky on kites.

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Poet Gerard Smyth on the need for clarity

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 21, 2012, 3:54 PM Apr 21, 2012

The winner of this year’s O’Shaughnessy Prize talks about the crossover between journalism and poetry.

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Art Hounds

Art Hounds: Van Stee, Crash Test Dummies, and portraits of readers

Chris RobertsChris Roberts April 19, 2012, 7:35 AM Apr 19, 2012

The hounds track down a Minneapolis electronic band with a Dutch name and occasional krautrock influences, a painter who’s celebrating book readers in southwest Minnesota and a post-apocalyptic play with horror movie sensibilities.

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Rock The Garden line-up announced

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 18, 2012, 4:55 PM Apr 18, 2012

The June 16 concert will feature The Hold Steady, Trampled By Turtles, Doomtree, Tune-Yards and Howler.

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The reviews are in for UofM/Latte Da’s ‘Spring Awakening’

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 18, 2012, 11:24 AM Apr 18, 2012
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Rave reviews abound for this high-energy musical that pairs Theater Latte Da’s direction with U of MN students and Carl Fink’s choreography.

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A sushi dream becomes a US film reality

Euan KerrEuan Kerr April 18, 2012, 8:59 AM Apr 18, 2012

Filmmaker David Gelb learned a philiosophy of hard work from the wolrd’s greatest sushi chef.

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Star Tribune apologizes for misleading ad framed as a review

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 17, 2012, 6:30 PM Apr 17, 2012
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A one-and-a-half-page ad wrapped around a section of the paper included a ringing endorsement for the play by the newspapers editor, Nancy Barnes.

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