T2P2

On the Fringe | Big Thinkers, Serious Issues, Improv Comedy

August 10, 2012

The best Social Studies class ever

Parry

Parry grandstands, blows stack, wastes everybody’s time

August 9, 2012

But he can still claim per diem!

Mike and Ben have a heart-to-heart

August 8, 2012

Commodore Parry’s new strategy

St. Paul City Attorney declines silver platter prosecution

August 7, 2012

A profile in prosecutorial courage

Drink Me

On the Fringe: Animalice and Confession of a Drunk Mother

August 6, 2012

Throughout the Minnesota Fringe, LeftMN theater correspondent Jennifer Tuder is doing reviews of the shows she sees. Here are two more. You can read her Fringe preview here, and see an earlier review of Chorus here. Animalice:  Art is making, not faking. “Make something,” says Alice to Domina Peabody.  And that is the crucial point […]

Tapestry

On the Fringe | Chorus

August 4, 2012

Chorus:  Voices After the Silence If you like beautiful writing that will break your heart, Chorus is for you.  Thursday night’s line-up included Nancy Donoval, Amy Salloway, Christine Stark, Anya Achtenberg, and show creator Alison Bergblom Johnson.  As is true of most sexual assault, almost all of the survivors in these pieces know their assailant:  […]

I was rilly skeerd

August 3, 2012

Plus, dead men tell no tales!

Wolf hunt

Minnesota’s Brutal Wolf Season (Part 2)

August 2, 2012

Deer population just an excuse for the hunt, not a reason for it

Minnesota Fringe Festival

On the Minnesota Fringe

August 1, 2012

The Fringe Festival is quintessentially Minnesotan

Tom Harkin

Rasmussen used Minnesota State Grant to game financial aid regulations

July 31, 2012

Documents released by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Monday show Minnesota’s State Grant program for higher education was used by Rasmussen College to maintain its federal financial aid eligibility. A series of emails sent by Rasmussen executives demonstrate how money from the Minnesota State Grant program was used to artificially […]

Sanford and Son

Poverty isn’t good for ratings

July 31, 2012

Where did all the working class characters go?

Because shoulder-fired rockets don’t shoot down airplanes

July 31, 2012

People do!