One of the first women elected to the Minnesota Legislature, Sue Metzger Dickey Hough backed gun control — and more hangings
Hough was described in the local press as “one of the ardent advocates of hanging.”
Arts & Culture
Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
Westminster Town Hall Forum to focus on democracy; JazzMN Orchestra at Crooners
ALSO: “Red Hot Friday” at Stevens Square Park; Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog; and more.
Heartbreaking ‘Kindertransport’ at the American Swedish Institute; Happy Apple at Icehouse
ALSO: Minnesota Orchestra’s Summer Finale; “An Evening of Show Tunes with Tyler Michaels King and Friends” at Crooners; and more.
Secrets of the State Fair Fine Arts Show
Jim Clark is the man in charge. The fair’s fine arts superintendent made time for an in-person interview at the Fine Arts Building last week.
VocalEssence, Cantus return to live and in-person performance; Ragamala Dance at Lyndale Gardens
ALSO: Malamanya live at Lyndale Gardens; Teresa Mock presents “The Uncertainty Principle”; and August Green Roof Poetry at the Walker.
Ray and Ester Dowidat’s film ‘Cologne’ is a portrait of a Carver County German enclave near the end of the Great Depression
In 2001, the Librarian of Congress selected “Cologne” as one of twenty-five films that year for the National Film Registry, an inventory of significant American films.
Jane Smiley, Prince biographer in Club Book’s Fall 2021 line-up; horror movie marathon at the Parkway
ALSO: The New Standards at Crooners; Black Forum presented by The Bureau at Mia; and more.
Ordway requires proof of COVID vax/negative test; The Bad Plus goes pianoless
ALSO: Collide announces 2021-22 season of five events; Lowertown Guitar Festival 2021 at Como Lakeside Pavilion; and more.
Go/don’t go to ‘Immersive Van Gogh’? That depends
This is art as entertainment, experience, distraction and relaxation. An escape from the daily news and the events of the past year and a half.
HOBT to sell its longtime home; the joy of hearing the Minnesota Orchestra
ALSO: Launch event for Patrick Nathan’s “Image Control” at Subtext Books; “Sounds for Silents” at the Walker Hillside; and more.
A brief history of Minnesota’s Superior National Forest
The area comprises three million acres of boreal forest in northern Minnesota.
Mankwe Ndosi’s ‘Felt/not said’ album release; ‘COVID-19: Labor Camp Report’ book launch
ALSO: Free tickets to “Respect” at the Riverview; Food Truck Rally and Music at Franconia Sculpture Park; and more.
Yellow Tree Theatre’s 2021-22 season; JC Sanford’s CD release at Icehouse
ALSO: Minnesota Orchestra to perform Dvořák’s New World Symphony; Youth Jazz Showcase and Sophia Kickhofel Group at the Black Dog; and more.
The M launches search for new ED; Bach Roots Festival to begin
ALSO: Authors John Toren and Matt Schuth at SubText Books; Open Courtyard Family Days at Mill City Museum; and more.
Talking Volumes, Ten Thousand Things announce 2021-22 events
ALSO: The Adam Meckler Orchestra at Crooners; Guthrie adds “Destiny of Desire”; the CHS Field Cat Video Festival; and more.
A 1914 Minneapolis Journal headline said Mary Fridley Price died trying to save her dog. It turned out she was murdered.
The murdered woman’s father suspected her husband and hired a private investigator whose efforts eventually helped uncover the truth.
Northrop announces 2021-22 ‘collage season’ of in-person performances, music and films
Among the nine in-person dance performances that will start in October are several dance films and a small series of concerts on Northrop’s restored Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.
How Democratic chair Leonard August Rosing helped break a nearly 4-decade streak of the Republican control of the Minnesota governorship
Rosing started his political career with the Republicans but changed parties over disagreement with the national party’s tax policies.
Jazzman Steve Kenny: ‘The pandemic did not destroy me. It made me stronger.’
On Saturday night at a café in Lowertown, Steve Kenny will stand before a crowd and proclaim, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog!”
Bon Iver to headline ‘Stop Line 3’ protest concert in Duluth; tons of things to do today, this weekend and beyond
ALSO: The FLOW Northside Arts Crawl 2021; Patrick’s Nicollet Island Cabaret; the Loring Park Art Festival; and more.
