Feeling Minnesota
Here's a few bits of news and links I have been collecting the past few weeks, relating to my home state of Minnesota. Don't ever say I don't represent!
- Christopher Riley plays Radiohead in a piano concerto at Minnesota Orchestra Hall.
- I almost forgot. MNSpeak is a great (new?) website that pulls together a ton of news pertaining to Minnesota. Who would have thought there would be so may posts to peruse?
- The Chicago Tribune has a great article comparing downtown Minneapolis with the Mall of America. "Minneapolis has 30 live theater venues, including two that have won Tonys...The Mall has 32 shoe stores." People who get upset by the those visitors guides to the U.S. that mention only one stop in our poor "fly-over" state, will take heart in this article.
- Because "more people live in a revitalized downtown Minneapolis today than, we're told, live in downtown Denver, Dallas, Houston and Indianapolis combined" (quoted from ChiTrib article above) this will be needed: The Nicollet is a huge new residential building set to go up downtown Minneapolis soon. It will still be a foot or two shorter than the IDS Center. Come on!
- hourcar is up and running in the Twin Cities and with prices as low as $2.95/hour and $0.39/mile it may just convince a few to forgo the cabs or sell their second car.
- A Prairie Home Companion is filming now so there have been several Lindsay Lohan sightings in the cities. I can't believe this is being made into a movie! But with Robert Altman and now Paul Thomas Anderson taking the directing roles can it be less than good?
- The Minnesota Center For Photography has, what looks like, an amazing exhibit that opened this weekend called: Musicapolis: scene & seen 1965-2005 that chronicles the rich musical history of the Twin Cities from performances by the Beatles and Bob Dylan to Prince and Snoop Dogg. Here is an accompanying story from the Star Tribune
- Battleground Minnesota is "hip hop documentary musical starring Chris "Shakademic" Johnson, Glenn Scott, former Vice President Walter Mondale, Senator Norm Coleman, Senator Mark Dayton, and Governor Tim Pawlenty." If that description doesn't get you interested, this preview will.
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