What's Happening This Week
On the radar: This week's finest display of postmodern contrasts is not to be found at the Walker or at Art of This but at the Megamall, where—in the same season that a Barbie Store opened its doors [...]
The Minneapolis-based Bush Foundation recently announced a bold $40 million initiative to recruit, prepare, place and support new teachers in Minnesota and the Dakotas over the next 10 years. MORE »Byline Minnesota 2020 By: John Fitzgerald [...]
Minneapolis narrowly escaped losing much of its Civil Rights Department when the city council, by the smallest of margins, voted to reject a proposal to turn over the investigative duties of that department to the State. The rationale for the proposal was cited as [...]
Last December, after the Minnesota Independent ran an article about Minnesota Teen Challenge and the federal earmark the Christian drug treatment center is receiving, the group wrote in to challenge the Independent's characterization of their programs, as well as that of Huffington [...]
Heavy Sleepers and Narrative Landscape, silent video works by Zhao Liang that will be on view in the Walker Art Center's Target Gallery from this weekend through mid-March, are simple documents that inspire a world of questions. The videos capture contemporary life in [...]
According to the Asian Restaurant Association there are 97 Thai restaurants in Minnesota including one of the newest, Sen Yai Sen Lek - Big Noodle Little Noodle - in Northeast Minneapolis. Open just a year, the restaurant has already made the list of Best [...]
My personal belief is that Scrooge had it right, muttering "Bah, humbug." But I have to admit the Steeles' 25th Anniversary Christmas Concert at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul spread a strong helping of soulful cheer. They had the whole place, full' [...]
Warn the kids. Santa isn't coming to town this season. Instead, the fate of Christmas relies on the younger Claus, Junior, who must save the day when a depleted Christmas "belief-o-meter" puts the jolly man in a deep slumber. That's the premise of Junior' [...]
A sanctioned protest organized by Climate Justice Action to Copenhagen's Bella Center ended in violent clashes and arrests. Demonstrators pushed past police lines, prompting pepper spray and baton beatings from police. CNN reports that 250 demonstrators were arrested. UN Climate Change Conference. December 16, [...]
"I got my life back, that is why I'm standing up, to put a face on the story" began Bukola Oriola, who was a journalist in Nigeria before marrying a United States citizen, a family friend from Nigeria. After they were married, they moved' [...]
Introduction & Key Findings
In the eyes of many Minnesotans, public transit is a creature of the big cities, a way to get around the urban jungle that is generally praised by policy progressives for enhancing mobility and prosperity, but denounced by conservatives as welfare [...]
You've heard a lot of talk about this United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen. Or, maybe you haven't heard much at all. David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief for Mother Jones, is here to shed some light on the big questions: Who are the [...]
The skies over Northern Minnesota's signature natural areas will get 30 percent clearer - by 2018 - under new rules approved today by a 7-1 vote of the state Pollution Control Agency board.MORE »
Byline Minnesota Independent By: [...]A report on two Minnesota gang databases released December 2, "Evaluation of Databases in Minnesota & Recommendations for Change," has raised important questions about practices with a significant impact on Black youth and families statewide. Other media coverage has focused on sections of the [...]
A nationwide campaign to organize 40,000 airport security screeners includes workers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, where union organizers and supporters are taking part in a week of solidarity actions. At MSP airport, the screeners - called Transportation Security Officers or TSOs - recently [...]
The Vine Arts Center will hold its second annual Holiday Sale this Saturday, December 19, from 12-5 p.m. The center is a tenant of the Ivy Arts Building, which was formerly the Flour City Foundry, in the Seward neighborhood. The term "vine" [...]
Here's a description of playwright Lonnie Carter's Hawking from the Playwrights' Center's Web site. "Hawking is the fictionalized account of the last day on earth of Stephen Hawking (he may be going to Mars), a.k.a. Prometheus Bound, as he is visited by artists, philosophers,'" [...]
Three years ago, after years of budget cuts and declining resources, Edison High School had no band. In the 2008-2009 school year--a year after the Minneapolis Public Schools named Carla Steinbach Edison's principal--the school board "fresh started" the school, giving it more resources and [...]
As the executive director for St. Paul's Aurora St. Anthony Neighborhood Development Corporation (ASANDC), which runs social, economic housing and commercial development programs, Nieeta Presley strives to empower people to effect social change. Her work, which ranges from helping people find economic independence [...]
Legislative sessions have become like a series of "Friday the 13th" movies - suspense followed by terror followed by horror and then repeated until the grisly finale. Year after year of inattention to the financial needs of Minnesota students has led to teacher layoffs, [...]
Will the suburbs ever build enough affordable housing? Attendees at a November 20 Center for Urban and Regional Affairs forum seemed skeptical both about suburban plans for affordable housing and about the Met Council's role in pushing the issue. MORE »Byline ' [...]
"Severe" and "devastating" were two words used by lawmakers to describe budget cuts they may have to make to fix Minnesota's projected budget gap without new revenues. MORE »Byline Session Weekly/Session Daily By: staff [...]
Northeast-based artists and arts supporters made up about one-fifth of the crowd at a listening session Nov. 17 for the Arts, History and Cultural Heritage Planning Project. The project deals with spending the 19.75 percent of the money generated by the Amendment to Minnesota's' [...]
Va Megn Thoj, Tran Nhon and David Zander recently testified on unemployment issues of the Asian American community of Minnesota at a Jobs Task Force Public Hearing. MORE »Byline Asian American Press By: Staff [...]
Who knows the Minnesota Oromo?
Who knows their dark secret?
Fifteen thousand Oromo live in Minnesota but they blend in almost invisibly, like a stealthy, anonymous population in the state.
MORE »Byline dougmcgill TC [...]
Prospect Park is known for historic houses, but rarely is it associated with its Glendale neighborhood, a community that has been home to Somalis for the past 13 years. MORE »Byline The Minnesota Daily By: Lolla [...]
