BY KAY SCHROVEN “Welcome to Wally’s!” Actress Nubia Monks delivers this line repeatedly in “Primary Trust” and gets laughs every time. This is the magic of the Pulitzer Prize winning play by author Eboni Booths. Directed by Marshall Jones III, the play focuses on a vulnerable but likable 30-something man…
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BY ED FELIEN At first I thought, like everyone else, it must have been someone from the left who killed Charlie Kirk. Kirk had said things like: Black women shouldn’t be political leaders because they don’t have the “brain processing power”; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “huge…
BY ED FELIEN We loved you. We especially loved you and Gwen when you talked about teaching kids and watching over the lunchroom in the Mankato public schools. I still have your lawn sign. We thought you were on our side. You sounded like a prairie populist last year when…
BY ED FELIEN What does it look like? If it were under the old rules, where the candidate with the most votes wins, Frey would likely beat Fateh. He’ll probably get 40% of the vote. Fateh will probably get something like 34% of the vote. Davis will probably get something…
BY CLINT COMBS In a sharp and often personal mayoral debate on Friday, Sept. 26, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and State Senator Omar Fateh clashed over ethics, housing policy, policing, and leadership style. Held at Westminster Presbyterian Church, the debate was the most heated to date in what has become…
Dozens of Minneapolis residents and community advocates filled the City Hall rotunda early Sept. 12 to deliver a stack of petitions demanding Mayor Jacob Frey end the city’s contract with Israeli surveillance company Zencity. The City of Minneapolis signed a $500,000, three-year contract in October of 2023 with an Israeli…
BY STEPHANIE FOX Students from Sanford Middle School walked out of their 6th grade class at noon on Sept. 5 and headed to Longfellow Park with hand drawn signs saying “Stop Gun Violence.” This was one of the many protests following the mass school shooting at nearby Annunciation School, only…
BY CAM GORDON The city’s failure to effectively respond to encampments made headlines again in September. Shootings at or near two southside encampments on E. Lake St., one at Stevens and the other at 27th Ave., resulted in 13 people being shot and injured. One of them, Jacina Oakgrove, died…
BY ED FELIEN Late Monday evening on Sept. 15, someone shot into two homeless encampments on Lake Street. One person was killed and six more were injured. Police believe it was a turf battle for who could sell drugs in the area. Trivon Leonard, Jr., from a Chicago suburb, is…
BY DANIEL COLTEN SCHMIDT Mayor Jacob Frey controls the futureof the Roof Depot site, and the East Phillips Urban Farm vision depends on whether he decides to allow the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) to build or not. After three months of requesting a meeting, EPNI has finally commenced good…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Annunciation School shooting overshadows opening days To be honest, I didn’t know about any prior school shootings in the Twin Cities, so I thought the shooting that killed two children and injured 17 other people might have been the first one here. It was not, but…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE We’re not Uptown, and we don’t wanna be gentrified! I have written quite a few times before about what I love about my neighborhood, Standish, and its adjacent partner, Ericsson. They’re the right size, friendly and diverse, with lots of well-loved small businesses. Last year, we…
BY ROSE JAMES I recently took my four year old son to see Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile The Musical at Children’s Theatre Company This was his first experience with live musical theater. As a former theater kid, my heart wanted him to fall in love with the stage. We…
Bertolt Brecht’s “The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui” will be presented in a non-traditional space in Seven Points (the former Calhoun Square) in Uptown Minneapolis Oct. 31 – Nov. 23. “We first produced Brecht’s “The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui” in 2001. We tried to present it again last fall,…
