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Thrillist: The Best Winter Activities To Remind You Minnesota Is Actually The Best

It’s a good thing I love being a Minnesotan, because I’m really becoming an expert in activities to do here.   Photo courtesy of Thrillist Close on the heels of my Thrillist roundup on best non-holiday related Minnesota activities, I’ve compiled a new roundup of more active hobbies to undertake

Thrillist: The Best Things to Do This Winter (in the Twin Cities)

Whenever someone not from Minnesota comes to visit, I hear the pity in their voice when they talk about living here through the winter. Photo courtesy of Thrillist Inevitably something along the lines of “bUt HOW dO yoU sUrvIvE iT?!?” comes out of their mouths, and all I can do

Thrillist: The Best Things to Do in 25 of America’s Most Fun Cities

Doesn’t #23 seem a little low on the ranking?   Photo courtesy of Thrillist How do the Twin Cities stack up when compared with our fellow American metropoles? Let me count the ways. Thrillist asked me to send in some suggestions for cliched sights in the Twin Cities worth their

The Wickhams Brings a New Festivity to Pride and Prejudice

How can you find a new way to indulge your love for Jane Austen?   Photo by Rich Ryan You took all the Buzzfeed quizzes about “Which Bennet are you?” and watched every Austen remake to be found thousands of times (here’s looking at you, Clueless). What’s left at this

Children’s Theatre Company’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas Remains a Classic + Give to the Max Day 2019

Sometimes things are even better the second time around.   Photo by Dan Norman Anyone who knows me even mildly well knows that I am not a re-visitor of pretty much anything. Movies, books, plays – I am almost always a one and done. There are so many new-to-me pieces

MUST SEE: Children’s Theatre Company’s I Come From Arizona

If I could take a billboard out to make the world a better place, it would say something like: stop underestimating children.   Photo by Dan Norman I think we have a tendency to think that just because kids are small sized humans and have limited vocabularies that somehow they’re

Is God Is is Literally Killer

CW: This show (and review) discusses violence, assault, sexual assault and abuse.   Photo by Rich Ryan Walking out of Mixed Blood Theatre last night, all I could say was HOT DAMN. For anyone living under a rock, yesterday Dr. Christine Blasely Ford testified in front of the Senate Judiciary

Some Thoughts on the Inaugural MN Theater Awards

Does an awards show even need actual awards?   Last night marked the first ever MN Theater Awards, aka The Little Show That Could that took over after the Ivey Awards folded abruptly last year. Many people in the #tctheater community were disappointed by the loss of an event to

MUST SEE: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf

Lush. Lavish. Generous. Honest. Humbling.   Photo courtesy of the Penumbra’s website These are just a few of the words that come to mind when I try to describe the full circle experience that is the Penumbra’s latest show, Ntozake Shange’s seminal for colored girls who have considered suicide /

Little Women Packs a Big, Beautiful Punch

Adapting favorite childhood stories to a new medium can be tricky business.   Photo by Rich Ryan The unique mix of nostalgia and ownership that childhood characters breed can wreak all sorts of havoc on an adaptation’s profitability. For example: despite coming from an eternally beloved book series and boasting a

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. they make one story become the only story.

– chimamanda ngozi adichie

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