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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Legacy funding debate splits urban and rural senators
By Don Davis Rural and urban Minnesota senators battled Wednesday night about how to divide outdoors and arts program funding. Rural senators won, but just barely. Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, sai...
Posted on 5/15/13 at 8:26 PM
MOVIES IN THE MANCAVE Episode 12 - "Ip Man" Review
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5QJeczb4kw...
Posted on 7/13/11 at 3:20 PM
ON MY MIND MN Arts Count
Since I received the following information from two separate sources in my email today, I thought it's important enough to pass it on and share with others. The Minnesota StateArts Board is conducti...
Posted on 4/13/11 at 11:36 PM
BEYOND THE BEAT 'Mame' hits the stage with laughs
Arts and Entertainment The Woodbury Community Theatre's production of "Mame" made its debut Saturday, March 6 on the Loft Stage at East Ridge High School. The show tells the story of Mame D...
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:12 AM
Student’s sculpture hatches high honors
Woodbury High School senior receives Silver Medal in National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
By Amber Kispert-Smith , May 13, 2013
Book Report: Finding the funny in very grave matters
Humorists can make hay of the least likely subjects.
Like death.
Remember W. C. Fields?
By Dave Wood, columnist , April 26, 2013
Book Report: Stolen library book opened his eyes
“Who’s Yer Daddy?” edited by Jim Elledge and David Groff (University of Wisconsin Press, $26.95) is a fascinating look at writers and artists who inspired the work of gay writers and artists by the gay writers and artists themselves.
By Dave Wood, columnist , April 20, 2013
They are some of the ‘Best’
District 833 students featured in Les Farrington's Best 100 Juried Art Exhibition.
By Amber Kispert-Smith , April 19, 2013
Book Report: Another word on former presidents; waxing poetic on the death of a fly
Three American presidents lead off this week’s roster of books: Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. You could fill libraries with what has already been written by these guys, but leave it to the scholars — they can always find a niche that’s unfilled.
By Dave Wood, columnist , April 11, 2013
Book Report: A new Scandinavian thriller takes the stage
I’m way behind in my coverage of the Scandinavian thriller surge in world publishing, not having even read a Stieg Larsson thriller, so I’ll try to make it up by reviewing a finely wrought thriller by first-time Swedish author Alexander Soderberg. It’s “The Andalucian Friend,” (Crown, $26), translated by Neil Smith.
By Dave Wood, columnist , April 04, 2013
Book Report: This, not your PBS version of London
“I wander thro’ each charter’d street
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,
By Dave Wood, columnist , March 29, 2013
A poetic finish to high school
For the second year in a row, Woodbury High School senior Yemi Ajagbe will represent Minnesota in Washington, D.C., at the National Poetry Out Loud finals April 28-30 after having won the Minnesota Poetry Out Loud competition on March 18.
By Amber Kispert-Smith , March 29, 2013
Book Report: Indiana, no, make that Wisconsin Jones
When I was a kid in a small Wisconsin grade school, one of my favorite subjects was Wisconsin history, taught to me by my sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Lily Reich.
By Dave Wood, columnist , March 22, 2013
International spotlight finds East Ridge actors
Both East Ridge’s one act play, “The Big Meal,” and East Ridge junior Katherine Spicuzza will be participating in the International Thespian Festival this June. “The Big Meal” will be featured in the Chapter Select Showcase and Spicuzza will be competing in the National Individual Events Showcase (NIES).
By Amber Kispert-Smith , March 21, 2013
Parks and Recreation holds ‘messiest’ art camp
Students got their hands dirty – literally – last week during the “Messiest Art Camp Ever!”
By Amber Kispert-Smith , March 20, 2013
Book Report: Glowing endorsements for new poet
River Falls poet Thomas R. Smith writes that Kristin Laurel’s new book of poetry will “burn itself on your memory.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , March 14, 2013
Marching Royals to perform in St. Patrick’s Day Parade in NYC (W/VIDEO)
The Woodbury High School Marching Royals marching band, however, will be heading to the Big Apple where it will perform in the 252nd New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 16.
By Amber Kispert-Smith , March 11, 2013
Book Report: Area author’s round two a success
Not long ago I raved about a first novel written by a neighbor down the road in Lake Elmo, Minn. His name: Jim Trevis.
By Dave Wood, columnist , March 08, 2013
Book Report: Son carries on, expands war narrative
As the River Falls Reads program winds down and folks who have read and enjoyed Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, “The Killer Angels,” are looking for new reading material, I’m happy to report that although Shaara died in 1988, his family lives on in the person of his son, Jeff Shaara, who also writes about the Civil War and has completed his father’s trilogy with “Gods and Generals” and “The Last Full Measure.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 28, 2013
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