Potholes as far as the eye can see

Is anyone doing anything about all these potholes? Yes, and Nekessa Opoti tells you exactly what. Twin Cities pothole season is open: Tips for tracking and reporting By Nekessa Opoti, TC Daily Planet Both Minneapolis and St. Paul have surveyors and crews out working night and day to fix the not-quite-spring potholes around the cities. Along with reports made via email and from phone calls from residents, both cities prioritize potholes based on size of potholes and the location's traffic.MORE » Arts Orbit Radar 2/17/11 By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet What's happening this week Thursday, February 17 On the radar: Recess, the multimedia dance night, returns for the third month to the Varsity Theater. Yes, I am friends with the people who run it and yes, I am biased—but if you go and don't have a good time, I will personally refund the money you paid for this issue of the Twin Cities Daily Planet.MORE » Under the radar: "Latinos in Transition" is the theme of Teatro del Pueblo's Tenth Annual Political Theatre Festival, opening today at Gremlin Theatre. Parents may apply to state academies By Kris Berggren, Session Weekly/Session Daily Parents of students with hearing or visual disabilities have several options for services based on the recommendation of a school district's individual education planning team. What they can't do without IEP authorization is request that their child be placed at the Minnesota State Academies for the Deaf or Blind.MORE » Minnesota Sunshine Dance warms up China audiences By Ange Hwang, Asian American Press Minnesota Sunshine Dance has a lot to celebrate these days. They have not only just finished a successful guest appearance with 28 dancers at the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium with UCAM's "China the Beautiful" annual show, along with their summer China Performance Tour last August 2010.MORE » THEATER | Sam Green's "Utopia in Four Movements" asks a big question, but gives a wrong answer By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet Before I became a journalist I went to grad school for sociology, and over the years I've spent a lot of time defending sociology against artists and writers who think that it's a shallow, reductive discipline—you can't reduce social behavior to equations, so why even try? My response is that no one understands the complexity of social behavior better than one who has tried to reduce it to equations and realized just how difficult that is. If you never try to scientifically test your theories about society, you can run around spouting all sorts of glib theories and remain perfectly convinced that they're correct.MORE » Walker Art Center Inside the Daily Planet THEATER | Michelle Perdue's The Housekeeper's Dirt takes on the issue of domestic violence by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet Michelle Perdue's The Housekeeper's Dirt at the Playwrights' Center dramatizes a not-quite savory and seldom-acknowledged aspect of black history. As with all cultures, African-Americans aren't immune to domestic abuse. And, as with other culures, the issue gets swept under the proverbial rug, beatings happening behind closed doors and nothing being done about it. It hardly ever gets talked about. MSR staff writer receives media award for coverage of women in sports by James L. Stroud, Jr., Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Last week, the Minnesota Coalition of Women in Athletic Leadership organized and sponsored Minnesota's 25th Annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day Celebration in a packed State Capitol Rotunda in St. Paul. After State Senator Larry Pogemiller presented Governor Dayton's proclamation, various awards were presented to individuals for their contributions to girls and women's sports in Minnesota. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder's (MSR) Staff Writer Charles Hallman received the media award for his long commitment to covering women's athletics in Minnesota. MUSIC | Kronos Quartet surprise, unsurprisingly, at the Walker Art Center by Kate Gallagher, TC Daily Planet One measure by which to judge a Kronos Quartet performance is the degree to which it challenges your notion of classical music. Yes, Kronos comprises two violinists (David Harrington and John Sherba), a violist (Hank Dutt), and a cellist (Jeffrey Ziegler), which is the standard orchestral quartet; Kronos, however, is anything but standard. For over 30 years Kronos have been pushing the definition of classical music with astounding success, having commissioned over 700 works and arrangements and released more than 45 recordings. Graduate student sentenced in 2006 ferret farm "liberation" by Cali Owings, The Minnesota Daily A University of Minnesota graduate student was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for raiding a ferret farm in 2006. THEATER | Letter from a young theater artist to Charles Mee, re: erased bobrauschenbergamerica at 1419 by Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet Here's the thing about Charles Mee. He's a great playwright. He brilliantly draws from classic texts and popular culture to create plays that are provocative and profound and beautiful. And Mee has a noble mission. He started this thing called the (re)making project, where he gives permission to any theater company to steal is work royalty-free so long as they only use part of it. NEW IN BLOGS WHO IS THAT? | Rebecca Collins, (un)closeted screenwriter by Jay Gabler • "Right now I'd really like to talk about the TV show Dallas, Charlene Tilton, the Oscars, Diana Vreeland, or the Egyptian uprising." THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST | Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a mouthful, and a must-see by Jim Brunzell III • Apichatpong Weerasethakul is not an easy name to pronounce (he goes by "Joe" for short), and his latest film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, is quite a mouthful too-but "Joe's" film won the prestigious Palme d'Or Award at the most recent Cannes Film Festival. The Thai director began making short films in 1993, releasing his first feature length film, Mysterious Object at Noon, in 2000. But it wasn't until his 2002 film Blissfully Yours won him the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival that film enthusiasts around the world starting to learn his name rather than referring to him as "the Thai director with the long name." LOON COMMONS | Food, farming, and relationships—A love story by Brian DeVore • When food system pioneer Ken Meter set out to do an analysis of an entire state's food system, he figured he'd unearth some impressive statistics and gain a few insights into the complicated nature of producing, processing, transporting and marketing all those fruits, vegetables, meats and dairy products. DRINK.CHAT.POLICY | Something to chew on: Does government need more closed doors? by Justin Elston • Today's NY Times had this scintillating quote about Obama's Budget conference call (where somebody from the government talks through the new budget over the phone with a bunch of people. I know, welcome to the future of technology!): it was "mostly boring." MN BUDGET BITES | Dayton uses a balanced approach to balance the budget by Christina Wessel • This morning, Governor Dayton presented a budget proposal that takes a balanced approach to solving the state's $6.2 billion deficit through a combination of spending reductions and revenue increases. It seeks to address the needs of Minnesotans struggling in tough times, restore balance to the state's tax system and improve the state's fiscal health over the long term.
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