By Michael Anthony | Friday, April 25, 2008

This won't be your everyday field trip. Close to 200 children, college students and others from the St. Cloud area — ravaged in recent years by anti-Semitic incidents — will perform a Holocaust oratorio at former Nazi death camps in late May. This is but one of the strands of irony and coincidence encircling "To Be Certain of the Dawn" and its eloquent plea for tolerance. 

By Camille LeFevre | Thursday, April 24, 2008

With its new "Border Crossing," set in the desert along the Arizona-Mexico border, Off Leash Area is just the latest dance company to tackle political issues through movement.

By Kay Harvey

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Minnesota is at the forefront in recognizing that participating in the arts is good for older people. In a new twist on the Artists in the Schools concept, artists will share their skills in senior residences, care facilities, community education programs, senior centers and other places where seniors gather.

By David Hawley

Monday, April 21, 2008

The Old Log Theater is part of a disappearing breed: a for-profit, unionized theater. Hundreds of actors — including Nick Nolte and Loni Anderson — have worked there over the decades, but it has the reputation of being in theatrical Siberia. Don Stolz started running the place in the 1940s, and turned over the operation to his sons in 2006. Even so, Stolz, now 90, still gives the curtain speeches.

By Rob Nelson | Wednesday, April 16, 2008

While the 26th annual Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival features one high-profile documentary of American teens, the fest fondly known as the M-SPIFF is most distinguished by grown-up fare from beyond our borders.  

By Michael Metzger | Monday, March 24, 2008

Conductor Edo de Waart's career is like a global game of musical chairs, spanning continents, famed orchestras and celebrated performances of classical music. In his latest move, the former conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra will return to the Twin Cities as an artistic partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

By David Hawley | Thursday, March 20, 2008

Jon Hassler, considered one of Minnesota's leading contemporary novelists, died early this morning from complications of a degenerative neuromuscular disease that had ravaged him for more than a decade. He would have been 75 on March 30.

Beloved Minnesota author Jon Hassler, 74, died early this morning. Hassler, who wrote 21 books in his lifetime, had been working on a novel when MinnPost writer Dave Wood interviewed him last fall. For 13 years, Hassler had been dealing with a Parkinson's-like disease called progressive supranuclear palsy. Here is a statement from St. John's University about Hassler, a former writer-in-residence and alumnus.

Just as people in their teens and 20s drove the music industry's switch to digital music, some in the MP3 generation are now giving an unlikely boost to vinyl records. They like the artwork and sound quality, among other things. 

VIDEO: Two local online vinyl record proprietors show off their wares

PHOTO SLIDE SHOW: Vinyl record cover art

By Christina Capecchi | Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Spring break vacations are just one example of the way Americans, particularly the younger generation, have transformed the tradition of taking pictures. Once reserved for special occasions, spontaneous photos now have become an essential ritual often as important as the event the camera records. Here's a look at how this enormous societal change in attitude and behavior happened.