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Max Sparber

A performer, playwright and long-time arts and culture journalist, Max Sparber has served as a theater critic, arts/entertainment editor, editor in chief and feature writer at a variety of publications, including a three-year stint at City Pages. In 2007 he won a Frank Premack Award for Public Affairs Journalism.

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The Glean

Minnesota GOP convention covered tweet by tweet

By Max Sparber | 10/05/09
Marty Seifert wins the GOP straw poll. PLUS: The economy is still ailing, and Nazis barely manage to march on Minneapolis.
The Glean

How much political hyperbole is too much?

By Max Sparber | 10/02/09
PLUS: Grayson and Bachmann rhetoric, Pawlenty on the run, and Mall of America Field?
The Glean

When lawbreaking resembles tantrums ...

By Max Sparber | 09/29/09
PLUS: The GOP complains about mayors who want to be governors; Pawlenty's presidential ambitions unpopular in Minnesota; and tainted cocaine is on its way.
The Glean

Bad times for moose; worse for a suburban black bear

By Max Sparber | 09/28/09
PLUS: Bachmann gets an action figure, Rybak gets the support of the Teamsters, and Favre saves the day.
The Glean

A notable tricycle theft; a bad time for dogs

By Max Sparber | 09/25/09
PLUS: Gubernatorial hopefuls take aim at each other while Minnesota mayors call out Pawlenty.
The Glean

Series of police stories raise questions about use of force

By Max Sparber | 09/22/09
PLUS: Bachmann writes Obama about ACORN, and a Minnesota giant speaks about health care.
The Glean

Pawlenty's travels: His profile rises, and Democrats respond

By Max Sparber | 09/21/09
PLUS: Gentleman's club survives, health pros take a German field trip, and Brett Favre attracts the attention of a sketch comedy theater.
The Glean

Tim Pawlenty: Politics from Bizarro World

By Max Sparber | 09/18/09
Tim Pawlenty's pronouncements make sense if you imagine they mean the opposite of what he says; Bachmann delightedly defunds ACORN; the Strib exits bankruptcy.
The Glean

Clarifying weapons laws: Guns OK, puppets not

By Max Sparber | 09/15/09
PLUS: A GOP candidate for governor is bitten by a bat, Bachmann backs Joe Wilson, and "feminized fish" are flourishing.
The Glean

Norman Borlaug: A man who may have saved a billion lives

By Max Sparber | 09/14/09
Tributes to the father of the Green Revolution. Plus: Obama pushes health care reform, and Republicans push back.