BY ADAM M. SCHENCK Swandive Theater’s production of “Kid-Simple” at the Southern Theater has much to recommend it. Co-directors Meg DiSciorio and Damon Runnals create an intricate set with the best sound design I have seen, or rather heard, in local theater. Sound bumps and soothes the audience. Lead actor…
For the past five years, the Minneapolis public schools have been slowly laying off educational assistants, a classification of paraprofessional, because they don’t meet new college experience requirements different from when they were hired. At this point, there are 17 EAs left in the district, all with 25 or more…
BY CAROL BECKER Minneapolis has 160 neighborhood parks and 49 neighborhood park buildings. This excludes any regional parks like the Chain of Lakes or the Riverfront. A study done last year by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board showed that we need $14 million a year to maintain these neighborhood…
BY TONY BOUZA America’s hands wring in agony over police-black tensions now characterized by the Black Lives Matter movement. What a mystery! Cops treat blacks badly. Mirabile dictu!! Look at any analysis of American social, economic or judicial life and who will you find—literally or figuratively—on the ghetto corners of…
