by Kathleen Kvern, Project Director, mnartists.org   February 23, 2006 The event features a small selection of artists from the ongoing Radio mnartists series presented on the site and airing on KFAI’s “Art Matters.” “Live at the McGuire” is a celebration of Minnesota�s vibrant arts culture and the radical democracy that is mnartists.org. The evening will feature interviews, performances, and lively…

by Carol Logan   February 15, 2006 From October 7 to October 30, 2005, Twin Cities theater-goers had the unusual opportunity of witnessing Sally Wingert transform herself into a nineteenth-century mystical Hasidic rebbe in Mixed Blood Theatre�s production of by Yehuda Hyman. This play was the winner of the 2000 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. Guthrie Theater season ticket holders, as…

by Paul Brissett   February 15, 2006 “How do you remember all those lines?” is the most frequently asked question of actors by non-actors. Learning the lines is, if not the easiest, at least the simplest part of acting in a play. One local amateur actor once said, “Learning the lines is easy. Taking care of your home, family and day job while you’re working on a play is the hard part.” Time demands on an…

by Shannon Gibney   February 9, 2006 Not in the least bit thrilled by the redesign? Feel like you just might die of shock if you could actually get your hands on some(as opposed to opinions spouted by a cacophony of experts across the country)? Fear not � your profound bitterness is shared by many of your neighbors, who are as exasperated as you are at the state of the American media. While tuning into…

by Julia Durst   January 26, 2006 The Ripsaw�s demise conjures up the last lines of T.S. Eliot�s �The Hollow Men�: �This is the way the world ends/ not with a bang but a whimper.� After months of whimpering, the newspaper fell silent this past December. I am hardly the authority on all things Ripsaw, as my association with the paper spans only two of its six-plus years. Nonetheless, here�s the tale of my…

by Regan Golden-McNerney   January 12, 2006 Fluffy, kitchy, flowery and utterly revolutionary describes the artwork at Milwaukee�s Paper Boat Gallery and Boutique. Located on the cities� Southside, just blocks from the port of Lake Michigan, the Paper Boat Gallery is a bridge between Northeast Minneapolis and Chicago�s Lincoln Square. Founded by Kim Kisiolek and Faythe Levine in June 2005, the Paper Boat…