“Those we serve,” said Haj, “we serve extremely well, but we are not serving enough people. There are entire populations that are left out.” Photo linked from the City Pages; credit to Mark Vancleave. Or at least the Dowling Studio is about to get cheaper, as announced by City Pages

I can’t rave enough about this. Photo courtesy of Park Square Theatre. I’ll just dive right in: Nina Simone: Four Women, the new show at Park Square Theatre, has everything you could want in a play, and they go all the way with it. It is a must see; forget

I’ve had this on the brain all weekend… So I had to share briefly. A good friend of mine invited me to a performance this past weekend. She didn’t even know much about it, so my date and I walked in blindly to the experience, completely unsure of what to

This show is what is usually called “white feminism” at its finest And although I may catch some flak for saying that, I do mean it. Things are going to get real in a second. Before all that: The How and the Why is an absolutely fascinating play about the

Eating well has never felt so good. All the colors nature can provide. Over the years, a ton of people have asked me about joining my CSA. I’ve been a proud, card carrying member of Community Homestead’s CSA program for over four years now and I can’t imagine what I’d do

Sometimes being the best isn’t enough. Which is really a shame, particularly in the case of Brasserie Zentral, one of the most unique restaurants in Minneapolis. Or at least it was. Brasserie closed last weekend thanks to poor turnout and an extraordinarily competitive dining market (both for customers and employees),

Cancer has become one of the most popular causes around, receiving millions of dollars in donations,  and promotional products and celebrity endorsements by the truckload. The Susan G. Komen campaign and Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong organization lead the pack, but there are a number of other foundations quickly catching up to

The principle of karma dictates that good deeds beget more good deeds (we’re paraphrasing centuries of philosophy here, but you get the idea). As wallets get thinner and demands on our time multiply, it’s easy to forget that doing good is more than just another thing to put on our