Updated 9:53 am PST, Sunday, February 24, 2019 In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, photo, people play on the Ice on Lake Superior, starting to pack in along the shore near Duluth, Minn., and attracting explorers and ice fishermen out on to the lake. Access to the mainland ice caves remain CLOSED. Ice continues to move around quite a bit. Over the last few days, open water has been visible from Meyers Beach as well as near Eagle Island. This ice is typically poor quality ice, which reacts poorly to movement due to weak bonding along the fractures. (Brian Peterson/Star Tribune via AP) less In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, photo, people play on the Ice on Lake Superior, starting to pack in along the shore near Duluth, Minn., and attracting explorers and ice fishermen out on to the lake. Access to ... more Photo: Brian Peterson, AP … [Read more...] about The Latest: I-29 closed from Grand Forks to Canadian border
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Storm whips up blizzards, dumps snow in Dakotas, Minnesota
Updated 3:17 pm PST, Thursday, December 27, 2018 In this Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018 photo, Lance Nieuwenhuis shovels snow out of his driveway in Sioux Falls, S.D. Nieuwenhuis' son watches in the background while wearing shorts. The weather service in Sioux Falls, South Dakota says rain is changing over to snow from west to east Thursday with heavy snow and gusty winds through Friday. (Briana Sanchez/The Argus Leader via AP) less In this Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018 photo, Lance Nieuwenhuis shovels snow out of his driveway in Sioux Falls, S.D. Nieuwenhuis' son watches in the background while wearing shorts. The weather service in Sioux ... more Photo: Briana Sanchez, AP Photo: Briana Sanchez, AP Image 1 of / 15 Caption Close Image 1 of 15 In this Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018 photo, Lance … [Read more...] about Storm whips up blizzards, dumps snow in Dakotas, Minnesota
A perfect storm of puppetry; ‘Swede Hollow’ reading at ASI
The puppets are coming. A lot of puppets. Should we be scared? No, because puppets in the right hands are magical. Bunches of them, large and small, are heading our way. It’s a perfect storm of puppetry. Starting Friday (Oct. 5) at the O’Shaughnessy with Manual Cinema’s “The End of TV.” Manual Cinema is a performance collective based in Chicago. Their specialty: live cinematic shadow puppet shows. Set in a post-industrial Rust Belt city in the 1990s, told through images, lo-fi video feeds and R&B-inspired art pop songs performed live by a five-piece band, “The End of TV” explores two sides of the American dream: the technicolor promise of television and the reality of industrial decline. Here’s the trailer. It looks amazing. 7:30 pm. FMI and tickets ($28). Scroll down to learn about the free Manual Cinema workshop on Thursday at Heart of the Beast (aka Puppet Central). Saturday will be puppet pandemonium at Heart of the Beast (HOBT). … [Read more...] about A perfect storm of puppetry; ‘Swede Hollow’ reading at ASI
Student opportunities — not financial crises — may drive Minnesota’s future school consolidations
Before the kickoff of fall sports, staff at the Eveleth-Gilbert Senior High were busy selling tickets to die-hard Iron Range sports fans. Among them, Tony Tassoni — an Eveleth resident of more than 80 years — stopped by on Monday to purchase his season pass. Nowadays, he has a grandson to support from the sidelines. But he’s been cheering on football players and other athletes in the Eveleth-Gilbert Public Schools district for as long as he can remember. The rivalry between Gilbert and Eveleth that he’d initially grown accustomed to was disrupted back in 1993, when the two districts merged. And now his beloved Golden Bears may soon become a relic as well, if current talks between the Eveleth-Gilbert and Virginia Public Schools Districts over merging at the high school level come to fruition. Asked how he feels about this possibility, Tassoni said, “The rivalries will always be there.” But it’s a move he thinks should have happened 25 years … [Read more...] about Student opportunities — not financial crises — may drive Minnesota’s future school consolidations
VocalEssence on tour in Mexico; Peter Lorre series at the Trylon
The news about U.S.-Mexico relations continues to seesaw. After threats, tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, there’s a new free-trade deal in the works. There’s endless talk about a border wall and who will or won’t pay for it. ICE raids keep netting Mexican nationals. But this week, at least, Americans and Mexicans are strengthening a bond that reaches back more than 10 years. Face-to-face, voice-to-voice, through the universal medium of music, they’re finding common ground and shared joy. So are concert audiences. In 2008, Philip Brunelle and VocalEssence launched the ¡Cantaré! program. (Translation: “I will sing!”) It was founded partly because Brunelle wanted to know more about Mexican choral music, but also in response to Minnesota’s changing demographics. Brunelle saw a need for culturally relevant arts programming and education for Minnesota’s growing Latino community, and an opportunity to build cross-cultural … [Read more...] about VocalEssence on tour in Mexico; Peter Lorre series at the Trylon