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MnArts Magazine: November 2008
MnArts magazine

This month's featured articles include: one artist's obsessive accounting of the human face of the Iraq war, drawings by Frank Big Bear, Jon Ferguson's take on "Animal Farm," and much more.

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LITERATURE: Familiar Pleasures
Features, Literary Arts, Thinking Souls: A Literary Series

Poet Connie Wanek reflects on pleasures to be found in the lyrical new collection by Margaret Hasse (a multiple What Light winner!), "Milk and Tides" (Nodin Press, 2008)

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THEATER: A Good Night of Sandbox Play
In Performance, Performing Arts

Playwright Matthew Everett took in the new Sandbox Theatre offering, loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's "Masque of the Red Death." The verdict? It's not perfect, but it's still a great night of theater.

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ESSAY: Seeing War Through Borrowed Eyes
access+ENGAGE e-journal, Features, Visual Arts

Author Marya Hornbacher pens an elegant, insightful analysis of Megan Rye's archive of complex, humane paintings documenting the Iraq war. (On view in the Burnet Art Gallery at the Chambers Hotel from November 14-January 11)

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What Light: This Week's Poem: Charisse Gendron
What Light: This Week's Poem

This week's poem, "Pedestal" by Charisse Gendron, was selected by Deborah Bernhardt. ALSO: Hear this cycle's WL winners read their winning poems on Sunday, November 23 at Magers and Quinn Booksellers.

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miniStories: "Rosebush" by Tiffany Bolk
miniStories

"Rosebush" by Tiffany Bolk, selected by novelist Michael Kimball, quietly explores that moment on the cusp of adolescence when the longings of a child's heart vie with dawning adult truths.

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mnSpin: This Week's Playlist: Charles Sadler, Military Special and Mother Banjo
mnSpin

This week, listen to a playlist of the three winning tracks by Charles Sadler, Military Special and Mother Banjo.

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VISUAL ART: A High Culture Embrace of Pop, "Hot Ink"
Features, In the Galleries, Literary Arts, Visual Arts

Britt Aamodt offers a glimpse into a rich, whirlwind tour through our state's wealth of cartoon artists in what looks to be one of the MMAA's last exhibitions for a while, "Hot Ink: Comic Art in Minnesota."

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THEATER: "Animal Farm" from Page to Stage
In Performance, Performing Arts

Theater critic Christy DeSmith offers her take on Jon Ferguson's ambitious staging of the classic dystopian George Orwell allegory, "Animal Farm." She finds it to be a deeply flawed but, nonetheless, provocative and worthwhile bit of theater.

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VISUAL ART: The Prolific Vision of Frank Big Bear
Features, In the Galleries, Visual Arts

Critic Ann Klefstad weighs in on the new exhibition of drawings by 2008 Bush "Enduring Vision" award-winner Frank Big Bear--the first large collection of his artwork to be displayed in over a decade--on view at the Tweed Museum in Duluth through March 22.

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Calendar

North Branch Arts & Craft Fest
November 22, 2008
North Branch Arts & Craft Fest, North Branch
Saturday Puppet Shows for Kids at HOBT
October 4, 2008 - November 22, 2008
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis
Courage Cards Promotion- Bachman's on Lyndale
November 22, 2008
Bachman's
Skills: new work by Megan Tengwall
November 6, 2008 - November 22, 2008
Snoodle Ceramic Studio and Gallery, Duluth
Paintings at West 7th St. Market
November 22, 2008
St. Mark's , Saint Paul

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