- Becki-Iverson
- March 8, 2016
Indulge your inner thanatologist with the new exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota Photo courtesy of the Science Museum of Minnesota. I have yet to meet a person young or old who wasn’t obsessed with mummies at some point in their lives. Usually this means Egyptian mummies, but not
- Becki-Iverson
- January 25, 2016
I don’t know if I’ve ever been this excited for a museum exhibit. I was definitely pumped about Frida Kahlo at the Walker several years back, but this blows all others out of the water. Impossible to ignore, the Guerrilla Girls have been kicking the patriarchy’s ass for more than
- Becki-Iverson
- January 22, 2016
Who is he? Who is ‘I’? How come this is not me, although I am playing myself now? We agreed that I have to learn how to differentiate between what is fiction and what is not, between what is real and what is not. These are my words, yet this is not
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
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
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
According to common myth, pirates are ruthless, evil, greedy, uncompromising souls. My piratic knowledge, like many, expanded little beyond Johnny Depp’s turn as Captain Jack Sparrow. So I expected a childish display upholding this myth at the Science Museum’s new special exhibition, Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday,” novelist Pearl S. Buck once said. History Theatre’s new production,1968: The Year that Rocked the World at the Minnesota History Center, is a vivid depiction of the mantra. A hodgepodge of timelines, song snippets, and short sketches the piece illustrates
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
Losing a child, or watching one struggle with illness, is without a doubt the hardest experience parents can go through. Thanks to Faith’s Lodge, a retreat nestled among 80 wooded acres in northwestern Wisconsin, they don’t have to do it alone. Since 2007, more than 800 families have made use
- Becki-Iverson
- September 24, 2012
A true renaissance man, Gordon Parks encompassed a swath of professions in the arts, including musical composition, screenwriting, poetry and film direction. The pursuit he followed with the most passion, however, was photography. Beginning with photo shoots for St. Paul department store Frank Murphy, Parks’ extraordinary career as a photographer