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Jan 21, 2004
The Column: What's Happening at Sixth and Second?
Andrew Knighton

Andrew Knighton’s column continues his thoughts on glass architecture, finding in the old First National Bank building in downtown Minneapolis one incarnation of the form.
Jan 4, 2004
The Column: Ethics and Spirituality in the Theater, Part 1
Dean Seal

Dean Seal's column this month is on Jack Rueling of Mixed Blood Theater, and is the first of three pieces based on the lecture series "Ethics and Spirituality in the Theater."
Dec 11, 2003
The Column: Should I Wear the Red Shirt, or the Blue One Again?
Michael Fallon

Michael Fallon's column this month is a meditation on the relativism of taste: even critics don't like the same things all the time.
Dec 4, 2003
The Column: “Will the Last One to Leave Duluth Please Turn Out the Lights”
Christian McShane

Christian McShane writes his column this month on the puzzling and catastrophic-for-Duluth closing of the Norshor Theater, the primary venue for anything new in town. Why do these things happen? He has some ideas.
Nov 18, 2003
The Column: The Man Who Dreamed He Was Made Of Glass
Andrew Knighton

Andrew Knighton's column this month is on the glass architecture of a dreamer and utopian fabulist named Paul Scheerbart. What do Scheerbart's fantasies have to do with the blue-glass persona of Minneapolis? Tune in next month . . .
Nov 10, 2003
The Column: A Serious Shift?
Dean J. Seal

Dean Seal's column this month is on two multimedia performance events that deal with "serious" subject matter in truly theatrical ways. He detects a new openness in performance to matters of moment in the current political climate.
Oct 23, 2003
The Column: What Vincent Van Gogh Means to Us Today
Michael Fallon

Michael Fallon finds an answer to what we long for in the art that we love.
Oct 13, 2003
The Column: The First and Last Frontier
Christian McShane

Christian McShane, our fourth columnist, will write on music and musicians in the northern part of the state. He joins Michael Fallon, Andrew Knighton, and Dean Seal. This is his meditation on the origins of music and its continuing invention.
Oct 1, 2003
Manifesto: Why I Love Small Independent Theater
Dean J. Seal

Dean Seal, familiar to any fan of performance and theater in Minnesota, is our newest columnist, joining Michael Fallon and Andrew Knighton. He'll write once a month on issues in performance in this space: The Column.
Sep 23, 2003
Perfect 10: Celebrating Radio K's Birthday
Andrew Knighton

Andrew Knighton celebrates the decade of rich musical life that is Radio K, 770 AM, local music's capital in Minnesota.
Aug 29, 2003
The Column: Hollywood Art Critic, Part I
Michael Fallon

HOLLYWOOD LIKES A GOOD YARN—especially a tidy tale that’s been telegraphed in advance, hits all the right emotional points, and plays out exactly as expected.
Aug 18, 2003
The Column: The Thousand Points of Blight
Andrew Knighton

Andrew Knighton proposes a new strategy for artists faced with this year's draconian funding cuts.
Aug 2, 2003
The Column: How I Became, of All Things, an Art Critic
Michael Fallon

The Column runs once a week. Michael Fallon writes a column on issues in the visual arts once a month; Andrew Knighton will cover cultural affairs. Other columnists will weigh in on performance and music. Look for The Column; let us know what you think!

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