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HEADLINES

Playwright and producers clash over <i>Border Crossing</i>

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/11404

by Joel Grostephan, TC Daily Planet

On May 4, <i>Border Crossing</i>, a play about immigration, finished
an 8-day-run at the Ritz Theater. The play was produced and directed
by the Off-Leash Area, a Minneapolis company known for adventurous
movement-based productions. Reviews were complimentary, but the
playwright, Marcie Rendon, refused to see it.

Minneapolis doles out $164,500 for graffiti prevention and clean-up

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11433

by Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor

Relatively speaking, there's a lot more money spent on graffiti
removal locally than you probably realize. Along with the Minneapolis
Anti-Graffiti Initiative, which pays citizens cash for leads about
graffiti that produce arrests, the city of Minneapolis is offering
Graffiti Micro Grants to non-profit community-based organizations and
churches for beautification programs, graffiti clean-up, and teaching
the Graffiti Hurts curriculum, among other projects.

Tallying the votes

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y Nick Busse, Session Weekly

Hardly a day goes by without a member of the public asking a
legislative staffer some variant of the following question: How do I
find out how my legislator voted on a bill?

Governor, legislators bow to religious right on sex-ed bill

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/11422

by Andy Birkey, Minnesota Monitor

A bill to ensure age-appropriate and science-based sex education
curriculum in Minnesota schools was stripped from the Omnibus
Education Policy bill currently being debated in conference committee.
Offered in some form for the last eight years, comprehensive sex
education has the support of the majority of Minnesotans, yet
legislators lack the political will to put the bill on the governor's
desk.

INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET

Music note: Sweat, beards, and broken banjo strings

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/11416

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

While we were waiting for the Avett Brothers to take the stage at the
Cabooze Thursday night, I pointed out to my girlfriend that there were
not one, not two, but three banjos plugged in and ready for action. We
were all the more impressed when the band started playing and it
became clear that multiple banjos were necessary not to be played
simultaneously, but to insure that there would always be a backup
ready when Scott Avetts fierce strumming began to shred steel strings.

A fine line between aerosol art and graffiti

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/11423

By Anna Ewart, Minnesota Daily

To some people, it's public art; to others, it's a nuisance. Some city
officials say that both aerosol art and illegal graffiti are
problematic. Aerosol art is legal spray painting done in public spaces
or on canvases, while graffiti is illegal marking on public or private
property.

The 2008 baseball season gets a Spanish twist

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/11429

by Lauren Hayden, La Prensa de Minnesota

When people think of Latinos and sports, they picture a ball, two
teams and lots of running around. The favorite game of many Latinos,
however, is not soccer. This baseball season, Latino Communications
Network (LCN) will broadcast 26 Twins games in Spanish on their radio
stations KMNV AM 1400 and KMNQ AM 1470.

NEW IN VOICES

To be Black in America

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/11424

by Ralph Remington, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

I remember rushing home on Friday nights to see The Brady Bunch and
The Partridge Family on ABC TV, followed by The Odd Couple and Love
American Style. This is the Black experience in America.

I remember having two portraits on the walls in my childhood home, one
of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other of JFK. This is the Black
experience in America.

NEW IN BLOGS

Passion and bitterness without circumspection

http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/11434

by Eric Pusey, Politics from the Precincts

Y'all probably notice that I don't write about the Presidential race
much at all. First because my goal is to write about MN politics.
Second cuz I'm a wonk and if I were to start, it'd be all I'd write
about ... ever ... its a wee bit complex as you all know. Third, there
are MORE than enough people covering it ... from the gasbag, lying,
egotistical pundits to sites like Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars,
firedoglake and Huffington Post to thousands of blogs across the
country.