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Marianne Combs January 11, 2013, 3:34 PM Jan 11, 2013

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A new weekend line-up features Wits, Studio 360 and The Strand back to back on Saturday evenings.

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Does Twitter offer any promise for literature?

Marianne Combs November 28, 2012, 3:54 PM Nov 28, 2012

The Twitter Fiction Festival gets underway today.

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The Silver Linings Playbook – a rom-com about serious things

Euan Kerr November 23, 2012, 9:00 AM Nov 23, 2012

Author Matthew Quick hopes the movie based on his novel will get people talking

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Give to the Max in its fourth year – now for public schools, too

Marianne Combs November 13, 2012, 11:55 AM Nov 13, 2012

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Up until this year many schools have been able to participate, but some public schools were left out.

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The episode of This American Life you were meant to hear, but didn’t

Marianne Combs November 5, 2012, 2:24 PM Nov 5, 2012

Due to technical difficulties, parts of this past weekend’s episode of This American Life (about the upcoming election) were replaced with an older episode. Here’s what you missed.

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MNuet: creating a digital home for classical music

Marianne Combs October 1, 2012, 12:45 PM Oct 1, 2012

A new website aims to be a one-stop destination for all that’s going on in the Twin Cities classical music scene.

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A remix of remixes: Gotye’s ‘Somebodies’

Marianne Combs August 14, 2012, 4:13 PM Aug 14, 2012

As the tributes and remakes piled up for his song ‘Somebody That I Used To Know,’ Gotye was inspired to go one step further.

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Artists chosen to install works at Union Depot

Marianne Combs August 7, 2012, 3:35 PM Aug 7, 2012

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The board of the Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority has approved the selection of four public art commissions at Union Depot.

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Why didn’t Akram Khan’s Olympic dance piece air on NBC?

Marianne Combs July 30, 2012, 10:57 AM Jul 30, 2012

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NBC chose to cut away from the opening ceremonies for a pre-taped interview with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps just as choreographer Akram Khan was performing his tribute to the 52 victims of the July 2005 London bomb attacks.

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