BY ED FELIEN “Israel has a right to defend herself,” Pres. Barack Obama. As long as Hamas and others use violence to achieve their legitimate aims of independence and statehood, they continue to play into Israel’s hands. The collective guilt of the holocaust will always force Americans and Europeans to…
BY RICHARD TAYLOR Your correspondent has the good fortune to live upstairs from singer-songwriter Chastity Brown. We met recently for an interview. SSP: Why do you make music? Well, it’s been a compulsion from childhood. I come from a musical family. My father played the piano, trombone, and sang, and…
BY ED FELIEN The Minneapolis Commiss-ion on Civil Rights hosted a public forum on affordable housing at Pillsbury House on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Nekima Levy-Pounds, professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, moderated a panel discussion by specialists in the field from government agencies and nonprofits. Sue…
In collaboration with Forecast Public Art and artist Randy Walker, Roosevelt High School has been working on the “Connections Gallery,” an art installation and permanent structure in front of the school with changeable components that Roosevelt students and the community can enjoy and use. The Connections Gallery will be dedicated…
The League of Longfellow Artists (LoLa) invites the public into artists’ home studios and backyards, as well as neighborhood cafés, bars and shops, to showcase the wide range of fine arts and practical crafts made by artists and artisans of the greater Longfellow community of South Minneapolis. The sixth annual…
BY STEVE HUNEGS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “Friends in need are friends indeed. Here tonight, we are friends indeed.” It is worth recalling this exhortation by Governor Mark Dayton at last week’s Israel community gathering when reading Ed Felien’s recent column on the ongoing conflict between Israel, a liberal western democracy, and…
