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    From anti-Semitic hotbed to healing: St. Cloud area students to perform oratorio at Nazi death camps

    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. 

    Dance and politics: a fruitful union

    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.

    'We want more than bingo': Artists cater to seniors

    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.

    Old Log endures in its neck of the woods

    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.

    Film fest: 'the discovery of another world'

    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.  

    Traveling man: Edo de Waart returns to familiar turf

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    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.

    1933-2008: Jon Hassler wrote to the end

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    Photo by Dave WoodJon Hassler
    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.

    Minnesota author Jon Hassler dies at 74

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    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.

    MP3 generation discovering the virtues of vinyl

    By Dan Haugen | Thursday, March 20, 2008

    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

    Cancun, cocktails and cameras: How digital photos have altered our actions and rewired our thinking

    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.

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