What's happening Friday? MNKINO26: Beyond the Grave, African Violet Society fall sale and show, and more — see the events on our community calendar. "When my brother turned seven, my father was deported."MORE »  The 1968 exhibit opened October 14, to a cheerful crowd, many of whom remembered the year in different ways. At the button-making station in the lobby, a couple ordered up competing Gene McCarthy and Richard Nixon for president buttons before heading on to the rest of the exhibit. Cheerful young people, (over)dressed in "hippie" paraphernalia, guided visitors, some of who were older people wearing their own resurrected finery. Upstairs, enjoying chili in the members' lounge, one man held forth on how "w! e need to go back to the 1950s when there was real freedom and the government couldn't tell anybody what to do, couldn't force people to get medical treatment for a kid with cancer. That's a violation of freedom." Shades of the Tea Party ... or was it the John Birch Society?MORE »
The eponymous nightclub that provides the setting for the musical La Cage Aux Folles promises strange sights and unique experiences, and the touring version now playing at the State Theatre certainly makes good on that promise. If nothing else, when's the next time you're going to get to see pop culture icon George Hamilton lay a passionate kiss on the lips of a chubby guy from St. Paul?MORE » After two seasons, there still is no Black-owned business or product inside the Minnesota Twins' publicly-owned downtown ballpark, which is partly financed by Hennepin County sales taxes.MORE » Students from the University of Minnesota's Somali Student Association are frustrated with the media's declining interest in the African famine. A drought throughout the Horn of Africa brought on a famine that has killed more than 29,000 children in Somalia alone.MORE » While University of Minnesota employee health care costs continue to rise, health benefits for same-sex partners of University employees cost even more.MORE » THEATER | Hunter Gatherers at Red Eye Theater: All talk, little plot by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet • Kevin McLaughlin, Bethany Ford, Jen Scott and Dan Hopman, ably directed by Red Eye artistic director Steven Busa, conduct a virtual clinic on how to thoroughly engage an audience, keeping everyone with you every step of the way.
MUSIC | The Drums at the 7th Street Entry: A hand-clapping good time by Emily Weiss, TC Daily Planet • The Entry was jam-packed with giddy hipsters on an unseasonably warm fall night on Wednesday, all waiting for the jangly and darkly effervescent tunes of the Brooklyn-based New Wave outfit Th! e Drums. It was refreshing to see that the band—made up of guys who look like they would wear ironic letterman jackets and ask for the William Reid when they get their hair cut—were seemingly able to float above all the initial hype that surrounded their 2010 album The Drums, and took the stage with a likeable "we're a working band" kind of attitude.
OPINION | Suburban sprawl: A Ponzi scheme? by Conrad deFiebre, Minnesota 2020 • One of the deepest critiques of expansionary American growth patterns comes from a surprising quarter: Minnes! ota fiscal conservative Charles Marohn. He even blames suburba! n sprawl for our current financial crisis.
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COPACETIC CONVERSATIONS | Adverse assumptions by Deb Pleasants • "Hey, I didn't want to assume anything," was the boisterous waiter's only response. No matter how many time we attempted to point out his transgression, he would just deflect us with jazz hands and say, "Like I said, I didn't want to assume anything."
MN BUDGET BITES | New studies tell a familiar story: Racial disparities in assets by Nan Madden • Two new reports from a national think tank look at financial security and opportunity in Minnesota, and find that Minnesota as a whole does better than the national averages, but worse than national averages when it comes to communities of color. Unfortunately, the story of Minnesota's deep racial disparities is a familiar one – one you've heard from us most recently in our blog on census data on incomes and poverty.
MN PROGRESSIVE PROJECT | The Key(stone) to solving some problems by Eric Fergus! on � �� I was running an information table at a public event Saturday like I did a bunch of times this summer and Fall for my senate district DFL. This was for OFA and the Hayden campaign for the special election Tuesday, though I doubt that makes a difference regarding my point. Well, maybe it does, because I was trying to help President Obama get reelected and that's where I'm going with this. I'm specifically getting to the Keystone XL pipeline. Here's some background.
PLUMB TUCKERED OUT | Seriously. Give me all your stuff. by Melanie Danke • Oooooo, I'm so excited! I just bought my sister's Christmas present (don't judge) and it is darling! It is perfect, perfect, perfect...
...at lea! st, I think it is. I have a hard time feeling 100% confident about the presents I buy for her as I'm never totally sure who I'm shopping for-- Lil' Sis, or me and the life I'd be living if I went all Single White Female on her.
POKING AROUND | All politics are local – in Windom Park at least by Mary Treacy • An historic 111 Windom Park residents braved the chill to show up on the monthly meeting of Windom Park Citizens in Action on Tuesday, October 18. Judging from the early exodus of several newbies one might conclude that the draw was a hotly-contested neighborhood vote on a proposed liquor store at Stinson Marketplace, in space recently vacated by Rosacker's.. A proposal to oppose the liquor store! initiative went down to defeat in what seemed to many a confu! sing vot e. | 
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