Email Author Peter Ritter

2000 Stories by Peter Ritter

• Tinsel Town

  published December 20, 2000

  Merry materialist Karal Ann Marling unwraps a century of loot and lore. More >>

• Case Closed

  published November 29, 2000

  A 30-year-old lawsuit against the City of Minneapolis finally grinds to a halt. More >>

• Of Human Bondage

  published October 25, 2000

  Wang Ping's personal study on Chinese foot binding reflects on the pain of freedom. More >>

• On the Rebound

  published October 18, 2000

  This year's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival finds new queer cinema yearning to forget its affair with Hollywood More >>

• The Party Crasher

  published October 11, 2000

  From the White Earth reservation to the White House? Winona LaDuke hits the campaign trail. More >>

• A Rice by Any Other Name

  published September 27, 2000

  The University of Minnesota's genetic research on wild rice goes against the grain. More >>

• Lost In Space

  published September 13, 2000

  Through the looking glass with digital artist Paul Higham. More >>

• Barnyard School

  published August 30, 2000

  More than a thousand artists each year compete to find the art of the blue ribbon at the State Fair. More >>

• Joanna Haigood's Flying Circus

  published August 23, 2000

  Since when has tumbling off a 120-foot grain silo been a form of modern dance? More >>

• No Place Like Home

  published August 2, 2000

  Abdul Hassan fled Somalia fearing for his life. Immigration authorities in St. Paul gave him a warm welcome: They threw him in jail. More >>

• Zoom

  published June 28, 2000

  Photographer Wing Young Huie's massive Lake Street USA project reveals six hundred ways of seeing a city. More >>

• The Theater Company

  published June 28, 2000

  The West Group's corporate production of Anything Goes proves there's no business like show business. More >>

• Gold Diggers of 2000

  published June 21, 2000

  Actor-director Kenneth Branagh enters his Love's Labour's Lost in this year's musical movie sweepstakes. More >>

• Civil Unrest

  published June 7, 2000

  A spat in Minneapolis's Civil Rights department re-ignites a feud. More >>

• Beating the Traffic

  published May 17, 2000

  Writer-director Justin Kerrigan talks about Human Traffic. More >>

• Hamlet Machine

  published May 17, 2000

  Michael Almereyda's contemporary Hamlet projects tragedy onto the screen of corporate culture. More >>

• Agribusiness as Usual?

  published April 26, 2000

  At the University of Minnesota's farm school, discord blooms over budget cuts and the biotech bonanza. More >>

• The Empire Strikes Back

  published April 26, 2000

  Bollywood star Om Puri makes a second career in British films about frustrated Eastern immigrants. More >>

• Public Enemies

  published April 19, 2000

  Getting tough on Minneapolis's least wanted. More >>

• Northern Lights

  published April 12, 2000

  Alison McGhee's novel Shadow Baby revisits the charmed solitude of the author's Adirondack childhood. More >>

• No More Words

  published April 12, 2000

  Stanley Tucci's Joe Gould's Secret defends its subject's novel approach to nonauthorship. More >>

• Mouse Tracks

  published March 29, 2000

  The Road to El Dorado turns the rape of the Americas into a ride through the Magic Kingdom. More >>

• Too Much Joy

  published March 22, 2000

  Lost in the funhouse with the Walker Art Center's Let's Entertain . More >>

• Ladies First?

  published March 8, 2000

  Keep your laws off my potty: A restroom refusenik's crusade for modesty at Southwest High School. More >>

• Temptress Money

  published March 8, 2000

  Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige meets the changing market halfway. More >>