Arts
Peter Edelman: How our government criminalizes the poor
Peter Edelman, a Minneapolis native, worked for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He’s now a professor at Georgetown University Law Center....
Lisa Berman: Back from underground
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor There was a brief explosion of breakdancing 35 years ago. I remember it, because...
Church and State is timely show for MJTC
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Playwright Jason Odell Williams didn’t think he’d be doing rewrites of Church and State while the play...
Trump’s rise moves songwriter Seth Kibel to despair
Seth Kibel, a Washington, D.C.-based musician, says he was “shellshocked” by the results of the 2016 presidential election: “I had...
Mark Helprin: Paris, sentence by sentence
Paris in the Present Tense, by Mark Helprin, Overlook, 394 pages, $28.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Mark Helprin is a...
Melody Moezzi : The same struggle
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor The 17th Annual Twin Cities Mental Health Education Conference, Oct. 22 at Temple Israel,...
Lillian Hellman: Always new again
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor The Guthrie Theater has, either through accident or design, discovered the joys of Jewish...
Dorit Rabinyan: ‘A curse, then a blessing, then a curse’
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan, who will be in Minneapolis Oct. 23, found herself in...
Barton Fink has a case of writer’s block
"I’m having a little trouble getting started,” explains Barton Fink (John Turturro) to Hollywood film studio exec Ben Geisler (Tony...
An unexpected ending from Nathan Englander
Dinner at the Center of the Earth, by Nathan Englander, Knopf, 252 pages, $26.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Nathan Englander...
