by Review by Connie Wanek   November 18, 2008 to explore and make sense of their own lives�and, by extension, all of life�then Margaret Hasse has managed to put her days and nights�and, by extension, ours�into remarkable order and clarity. Her new book of poems from Nodin Press, Milk and Tides, is her first since In A Sheep�s Eye, Darling (1988), though she has published regularly and been widely…

DECEMBER 21, 2004. 0800 HOURS. NEAR MOSUL, IRAQ. A suicide bomber walks into an American Army mess hall tent and detonates himself on Christmas Eve, killing at least 22 people, including 14 U.S. service members. A photographer captures the moment just after the explosion: an enormous hole torn in the tent’s roof, desert sun streaming in on the rubble of overturned tables and bodies and chairs. The next…

by Review by Ann Klefstad   November 10, 2008 in Frank Big Bear�s brilliant work. It�s hard to comment on this show; as testimony to a long life lived in relentless service to vision, the work�s passion and intelligence is totally humbling. “I believe that I’ve paid my dues as a parent, as a taxicab driver, as a native, as an artist, as a survivor and as a human being,� Big Bear wrote in materials for this…

“Wheels to Nowhere.” These boots, courtesy of civic boosters, are placed all over Red Wing. (Photo by Sari Gordon) FIVE YEARS AGO I QUIT MY HIGH-PAYING CORPORATE JOB in Eden Prairie and moved to Ellsworth, Wisconsin, to write a book. I wrote and wrote and spent up my 401(k) and wrote some more. And then I sold some stuff on eBay and kept writing—until a squirrel moved into the ceiling over our bedroom and…

by Review by Matthew Everett   October 21, 2008 that makes me laugh,” my friend said after taking in Walking Shadow Theatre Company�s latest production, Jordan Harrison�s Amazons and Their Men. We were sitting down to dinner following the show (and not a very late dinner either, since the production clocks in at a brisk hour and fifteen minutes total, no intermission). My friend could tell the play was…

by Article by Britt Aamodt   October 20, 2008 Time to skateboard, to put off homework, to submerge yourself in the complex social interactions of teenagedom at the coffee shop where anyone who’s anyone goes to get noticed. This time of day, Camila Davila, Lech Lors, Marty Marosi, and Innokenty “Kesh” Zavyalov, aged fifteen to eighteen, should be crashed on a sofa in the family rec room, Mountain Dew cracked…

by Article by Megan Wiley   October 13, 2008 a relationship far deeper than mere coexistence; the hope is that one furthers the other. As the mode of communication evolves from the written to the digital word, it seems inevitable that what is communicated will, itself, change as well. The Twin Cities has a well-established, thriving music scene, and accordingly�one could argue fortunately�we have a large…

“The Raft of the Medusa” Th�odore G�ricault (1818�1819). Oil on canvas.193.3 � 282.3 in, Mus�e du Louvre, Paris. (Courtesy of Wikipedia) by Article by Lightsey Darst   October 1, 2008, opening this weekend at the Southern, spins out of years of research into violence�into assault, hand-to-hand violence, group violence, and the Manson Family murders. What sort of dance comes from this material?          Sherman is a small…

Studio On Fire owner and principal designer, Ben Levitz, standing in front of one the studio�s Heidelberg presses. (Photo Britt Aamodt) by Profile by Britt Aamodt   October 1, 2008, wiry and boyish with blunt-cut sandy hair and spectacles that, like Sarah Palin’s, stand out from his face. But unlike the Republican vice-presidential hopeful, Levitz isn’t aiming for conservative chic. He’s got the…