Post in TC Daily Planet Headlines: What's up at Lake of the Isles?; Multicultural music; Bush removes foot from mouth; Sunday books and blogs

Jul 06 02:01 UTC

SUNDAY, July 6

HEADLINES

What the heck is going on with Lake of the Isles?

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12525

by Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

History looks different from different perspectives. There's the
history that people remember, the history that is written down, and
the history that really truly existed. Lake of the Isles in
Minneapolis possesses mystique and romanticism, but its current
renovation and reconstruction project is controversial. Disagreements
arise because of differences in what people believe the lake should
look like, what they imagine it looking like in the past, what it has
become due to man-made manipulation, and what it naturally tends toward.

Nine nights of multicultural music at the Minnesota History Center

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12522

by Betsy Mowry, TC Daily Planet

July 1 kicked off the 12th year of the Minnesota History Centers
spirited Nine Nights of Music. Every Tuesday night in July and August,
the Minnesota History Center brings free outdoor music to the vast
green lawn encircling its building at the intersection of Kellogg
Avenue and John Ireland Boulevard in downtown St. Paul.

Bush removes foot from mouth, Nelson Mandela from Terrorist Watch List

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12526

by Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Independent

By the time you read this sentence, George W. Bush will probably have
shoved his foot into his mouth again. But at least Nelson Mandela will
still be off the Terrorist Watch List. The White House finally removed
Mandela from the Bush Administration's list of the world's evil-doers--
and only a week after Bush trimmed North Korea and Kim Jong Il from
the ranks of the "axis of evil."

Consciously dying

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12490

by Jeanne Bain, Minnesota Women's Press

Our culture treats birth as a joyous event. A woman who creates her
birth plan has a myriad of options. She gets to choose who is present
at the birth, and how and where she gives birth, creating a sacred,
self-directed event. We've come a long way in choosing to honor that
part of the circle of life. Those involved in the conscious dying
movement think we ought to treat death the same way.

INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET

Readers, Writers and Books

Soul sister

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12491

by Pam Taylor, Minnesota Women's Press

The mood in the room was so calm no one even noticed her breathing had
stopped. Minutes later, the room filled with a sense of peace that can
only be felt with the understanding that a soul's journey had just
taken a new turn. With no struggle, no screams and no regrets, a
beloved wife, sister, mother, grandmother, friend and nursing
professor had continued along her quest for true spirituality with
nothing holding her back and all the love in the world propelling her
forward.

Alzheimers disease in the Hmong Community

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12482

by Grant Kruger, Asian American Press

Linda Gerdner, author of Grandfather's Story Cloth, which
shines a light on Alzheimer's Disease and the Hmong Community, made a
couple of stops in St. Paul recently. The disease is a progressive
brain disease which is growing in numbers among the Asian community.
As many as 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory,
thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies
or social life. Alzheimer's gets worse over time. Today it is the
sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.

The Locavore's Dilemma: A new book touts local food in Minnesota

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12309

by Brett Laidlaw, Minneapolis Observer Quarterly

This is The Locavore Moment: The trend toward eating local, in-season
foods has gained remarkable momentum over the last few years,
celebrated in best-selling books and championed by movements like the
"100-Mile Diet," the brainchild of Canadians Alisa Smith and James
MacKinnon, and Slow Food, the international group that works to
preserve food traditions. Where sophisticated eaters once sought rare
delicacies from distant lands -- Italian truffles, Caspian sturgeon
caviar, French foie gras -- now those same savvy gourmands are likely
to rhapsodize over more homely fare -- an heirloom tomato, a parsnip,
house-fermented sauerkraut.

NEW IN VOICES

Instant Runoff Voting boosts voting power for communities of color

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12544

by Senator Mee Moua and Council Member Ralph Remington, Minnesota
Spokesman-Recorder

In 1975, voters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, elected their first African
American mayor using Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). The losing candidate
filed suit, claiming that IRV is unconstitutional.

NEW IN BLOGS

The lover, sighing like a utility box (or, Mewling and puking on
Hennepin Avenue)

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12531

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

The Hennepin Theatre Trust and Keep Minneapolis Beautiful have just
called for artists proposals to decorate utility boxes in a manner
interpreting Shakespeares Seven Ages of Man speech from As You
Like It. Im not kidding.

No, we don't work for the CIA

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12414

Pablo and Nicole  Bolivia, 6/16/08, World View

Never a dull moment in El Alto, Bolivia. Today's two sets of field
interviews offered quite the dramatic contrast.

The Fourth of July 2008

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12553

by Stephen Young, The Fifth Column

I read the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July and, to my
surprise, the words came up with a new meaning. Or maybe my current
distemper about our politics put new meaning into the old words.

Fiction: My first wife

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12551

by John Jodzio, mnartists.org

I remember that you read the instructions for the rock polisher to me
out loud. It was hot and we were sitting on that shit brown couch of
ours that wed found on the curb and huffed the 14 blocks home. As you
read, your voice was full and confident, like you were announcing a
fire sale on tires or carpet.

Delighted to be crazed

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12532

by John Munger, TC Daily Planet

This Monday, July 7, the first of two Fringe-For-All showcases happens
at The Ritz. Migawd. Its happening already. The Fringe Festival is my
favorite time of year, crazy as it may be.

When is a dance show really a dance show?

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12554

by John Munger, TC Daily Planet

If you set the Fringe Web site search engine for dance youll get 23
entries. Dont trust this result 100 percent.

Fringe 2008 Users Guide

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12542

by Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

That "New to Fringe?" page on the Minnesota Fringe Festival website is
mighty handy.

Returning favoritesLive Action Set (Part 4)

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12547

by Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

Can we have a moratorium on the number of productions that members or
collaborators of Live Action Set are involved in in this years
Fringe? Not that I begrudge them a prodigious artistic output or
anything, but if they add any more to their list, Ill never get
around to talking about anybody else.