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1. Theater

   American Apathy takes satiric aim

   U.S. consumer society is an easy target

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: April 9, 2008

   AMERICAN APATHYUrban Samurai Productionsat the Playwrights' Center, through April 27612.332.7481Pick just about any moment in human history and you'll find plenty to send up....

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   School of Public Health/MN Public Health Association: Annual Film Festival

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Forget sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll—how about sex, health care drugs, and oil? Those are the three subjects of the fourth annual U of M School of Public Health Film...

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   KRS-ONE

   By Jordan Selbo

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Teacher, poet, lecturer, and Blastmaster. What you might not know about the legendary hip-hopper KRS-ONE, however, is that he's one of the best MCs that ever did it live. Like...

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   Peter Lang

   By Rick Mason

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Peter Lang is one of those guys whose facility on guitar helped establish the Twin Cities as a hotbed of acoustic fingerpickers back in the '70s. In the last few years, he...

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   The Anoushka Shankar Project

   By Rick Mason

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Shankar and sitar have long been virtually synonymous, dating at least to virtuoso Ravi Shankar introducing the Indian classical instrument to the Beatles. In the last few...

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   Andrew S. Natsios: The Crisis in Sudan and the Humanitarian Response

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: April 9, 2008

   In 2003, when he was an administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Andrew S. Natsios said that the U.S. would spend $1.7 billion to rebuild Iraq. Turns out...

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   Dead Man Walking

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: April 9, 2008

   The 1995 film Dead Man Walking was based on a book by Sister Helen Prejean about her relationship with a condemned convict. It snagged an Oscar for Susan Sarandon, as well as...

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   Marc Bamuthi Joseph

   By Caroline Palmer

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a National Poetry Slam champ, a Broadway vet, a hip-hop theater star, and an agile dancer with a light touch reflecting a lifetime of experiences spent...

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   Errol Morris

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris first rose to prominence as a brilliant storyteller and camera-toting activist with his 1988 film The Thin Blue Line. The film told the story...

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    The Harlem Globetrotters: Washington General's Shawn Faust

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 9, 2008

    You could say that Shawn Faust is a professional loser. As a player and coach of the Washington Generals, the Harlem Globetrotters' opponents, he hasn't known the thrill of...

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    Kao Kalia Yang

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Kao Kalia Yang was born in 1980 in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, a place that she called home for years. Her parents had somehow navigated the awkward stages of affection...

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    Unbranded: Conversations in Performance

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Emerging artists abound in the Twin Cities, showing us what's hot and cool, and pushing the current aesthetic envelope. But what about mid-career artists who are still creating...

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    Geoff Herbach

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Local author and Electric Arc Radio player Geoff Herbach's first novel, The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg, is very much like a Bob Newhart bit. You know, the ones in which he...

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    Circumference

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: April 9, 2008

    An injury to the brain is nothing to laugh at unless, you know, you find a way to make it funny. Interact Center's Broken Brain Summit is inspired by true stories of performers...

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    Broken Brain Summitt

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: April 9, 2008

    An injury to the brain is nothing to laugh at unless, you know, you find a way to make it funny. Interact Center's Broken Brain Summit is inspired by true stories of performers...

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    Big Baseball Book Bonanza

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Everybody knows there are as many books about baseball as there are blades of grass in an outfield. The Big Baseball Bonanza brings together authors of three of these books...

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    Geoff Herbach

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Local author and Electric Arc Radio player Geoff Herbach's first novel, The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg, is very much like a Bob Newhart bit. You know, the ones in which he...

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    Kao Kalia Yang

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Kao Kalia Yang was born in 1980 in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, a place that she called home for years. Her parents had somehow navigated the awkward stages of affection...

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    Kao Kalia Yang

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Kao Kalia Yang was born in 1980 in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, a place that she called home for years. Her parents had somehow navigated the awkward stages of affection...

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    Kao Kalia Yang

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Kao Kalia Yang was born in 1980 in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, a place that she called home for years. Her parents had somehow navigated the awkward stages of affection...