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Eric Friesen remembers Michael Steinberg

Longtime classical broadcaster Eric Friesen pays tribute to musicologist Michael Steinberg.
by Marianne Combs

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Twin Cities Book Festival announces featured authors

Ten authors will talk about their most recent works, covering not just fiction and poetry, but pop culture, nature and food.
by Marianne Combs

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Summer doldrums

What to do when the theaters don't?
by Marianne Combs

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Imagine a world

Imagine a world

Imagine yourself the city planner, architect, decorator and gardener for your own virtual neighborhood. What would you build?
by Marianne Combs

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The Culture of Me, Myself and I

It used to be that each person would have to wait their turn around the campfire to tell their story. Now it's as though everyone's talking simultaneously.
by Marianne Combs

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Slant/Light/Volume

The Walker remounts a stunning commission from 1971.
by Euan Kerr

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Opening Tonight: The Beautifully Grotesque

Opening Tonight: The Beautifully Grotesque

Sylvia Ortiz explores the strange duality that many women endure, which is to say feeling simultaneously beautiful and ugly.
by Marianne Combs

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Layers of meaning

Layers of meaning

What we might think of as finished is sometimes just a stopping point on a longer artistic journey.
by Marianne Combs

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Art by outsiders

Art by outsiders

Outsider artists often make the rest of us feel uncomfortable. Their work is raw, and they don't just hang it on clean gallery walls. Art is their life, and it seeps out everywhere.
by Marianne Combs

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