Exchange, industry, and adaptation: economics in Minnesota
In the 1980s, Governor Rudy Perpich touted Minnesota as “the brainpower state.” This is, ultimately, the story of Minnesota’s economy.
Arts & Culture
Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
Brian Liebeck of Icehouse: ‘The thing that kept us alive this summer was being able to do outdoor shows’
Lucky for Icehouse – very, very lucky – it has a large outdoor courtyard. Concerts have been held there since June, with socially distanced seating and masks required.
GLOW Holiday Festival to light up the fairgrounds
ALSO: 2021 NEA Jazz Masters announced; Gypsy Mania Hot Club Quartet to be livestreamed from the Dakota; Bill McKibben online for Westminster Town Hall Forum; and more.
2020 Twin Cities Film Fest goes hybrid; Jungle Theater announces fall season
ALSO: “Women of Broadway: Patti Lupone” online; Dodge Poetry Festival Opening Celebration on Zoom; and more.
Bonding bill’s long journey ended well for the arts
ALSO: Virtual Club Book features David Treuer: “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee”; Pen Pals with Colum McCann; musical instruments and aerosols research; and more.
Duluth’s Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial aims to ensure a dark episode in the city’s history isn’t forgotten
On June 15, 1920, a mob of 10,000 people oversaw the lynching of three African American circus workers falsely accused of rape in downtown Duluth.
G. Phillip Shoultz III of VocalEssence: ‘Stopping has never been an option for me’
Shoultz leads the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers (32 professional singers), the VocalEssence Chorus (115-120 volunteer singers) and the youth choir VocalEssence Singers of This Age, aka VESOTA.
Two streaming films have Minnesota ties; The Moving Company launches web mini-series
ALSO: Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: “Operation: Immigration”; The Theater of Public Policy: “What Is the Future of Public Media?”
Mia’s remodeled Asian galleries to open; Twin Cities Book Festival to begin
ALSO: Happening Now — Art Month in St. Paul; American Swedish Institute’s Drive Thru Lutfisk Dinner; “Wuthering Heights” opera; and more.
MSP Film Society’s ‘Cine Latino’ film festival goes virtual and Minnesota-wide
Scheduled for Oct. 15-22, the MSP Film Society’s 2020 showing of the best new U.S. Latino, Latin American and Iberian films has been dubbed “Cine Latino En Casa” – at home.
The outbreak of World War I forever changed the plans for Minneapolis’ Victory Memorial Drive
The original ideal for the road was part of an overall plan to connect Minneapolis’ major parks with parkways.
Rain Taxi’s Eric Lorberer: ‘Writers are thought leaders and maybe heart leaders as well’
Rain Taxi will publish its 100th issue this winter. And next week the 2020 Twin Cities Book Festival will take place virtually over three days: Oct. 15 through Oct. 17.
New MacArthur Fellows have Minnesota ties; ‘Sweet Land’ goes virtual
ALSO: Talk of the Stacks features Julia Alvarez on Zoom; Bloodline with Diane Miller + Big Shoe 4tet in the courtyard at Icehouse; and more.
A big opening weekend for classical music: Minnesota Orchestra, SPCO and Schubert Club’s International Artist Series
What was manifestly clear in all three performances was how much the musicians want to perform for us, stay engaged with us and continue to bring their artistry to us.
Ibram X. Kendi’s Distinguished Carlson Lecture; Arts for Biden-Harris holds virtual Zoom rally
ALSO: Ariana Kim: “How Many Breaths?” Live Mini-Concerts; Talking Volumes: Sarah Broom, on Zoom; and more.
How there came to be a statue of Charles Lindbergh on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol
Commissioned by the Lindbergh Fund and the Minnesota Historical Society, it honored the aviator’s 1927 transatlantic flight and his childhood roots in Minnesota. It did not address Lindbergh’s support of American isolationism and antisemitism leading up to World War II.
Conductor Sarah Hicks: ‘I can’t wave to silence, or to an empty room’
Hicks will host the first of six livestreamed concerts by the Minnesota Orchestra tonight, Oct. 2. All are free.
New murals in St. Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone, new Community Supported Art from Springboard
ALSO: Magers & Quinn presents Neal Karlen and “This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey On + Off the Road” online; on Cantus’ website: “There Lies the Home”; and more.
Minnesota Orchestra musicians sign two-year contract extension; the Weisman to reopen
ALSO: Guthrie to present virtual ‘Christmas Carol’; Illusion Theater presents Carlyle Brown’s ‘Down in Mississippi’; and more.
Penumbra receives $2.5 million Ford Foundation grant; Schubert Club announces 2020-21 Mix season
ALSO: Club Book presents Dahr Jamail; Uptown Brass at Crooners; Minnesota History Center to reopen; and more.
