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I Bet Trump is a Bad Cook
from the series Peace House Community Journal... Marti Maltby By MARTI MALTBY One of the worst pieces of advice I ever followed was that I should throw a piece of spaghetti at a wall to test whether it was done. Looking back, I realized the person who told me this was either playing a practical joke or was the victim of someone else’s joke. Too busy trying to decide what to look at to do anything else! All that throwing spaghetti at the wall accomplishes is a waste of food and a mess on the wall. It is so much easier to just bite a piece of spaghetti to see if it is as soft as you want it. Whether spaghetti sticks to the wall has nothing to do with its consistency or flavor. Of course, this is where we get the expression “throw it at the wall and see what sticks”. It means trying every option all at once and seeing what works. So far, that seems to be a pretty good description of Donald Trump’s Presidency. I’m sure that Trump (or at least the people who [...]
June 2025 Events
Ode To Walt WhitmanThrough June 8Open Eye Theatre506 E 24th Street$15 - $30Created & Performed by Bart Buch, Ode To Walt Whitman is a tender, silent puppet poem - a dialogue between Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca that contrasts Whitman’s America, a nation full of lovers and comrades, with what Garcia Lorca sees, an America inundated with machines and tears. For tickets, visit openeyetheatre.org/ode-to-walt-whitman. “Anpewikin Kolawaya Yelo C’angles’ka K’ogmaya Yelo (The Sun is My Friend… I adorn Myself with a Sacred Hoop),” James Star Comes Out. Featured in Creation.Story, at All My Relations Art. Creation.StoryThrough July 26All My Relations Arts1414 E Franklin AvenueFreeCreation.Story is a group exhibit featuring artists who invoke the oral traditions and creative expressions in their Očhéthi Šakówiŋ heritage, and as such continue this thriving tradition. Artists featured are Jhon Goes In Center, James Star Comes Out, Mikayla Patton, Randilynn [...]
Join the 5th Annual Poetry and Jazz in the Sacred Ground
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL Left to Right: Donna Isaac, Dralandra Larkins, and Patrick Cabello Hansel, the artists behind this year’s event. PHOTOS: Courtesy the artists. The 5th Annual Poetry and Jazz in the Sacred Ground takes place at the historic Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery in south Minneapolis on June 21 at 2 pm. The cemetery was recently named one of only two sites in Minnesota on the National Register of the Underground Railroad. This year’s event brings together award-winning poets Donna Isaac (author of In the Tilling)¸ Dralandra Larkins (author of Before I Lie), and Patrick Cabello Hansel (author of Breathing in Minneapolis, among other collections). Local poets who’ve written a poem about ancestors are welcome to sign up for an open mic. Music will be provided by Larry McDonough on keyboard and Richard Terrill on saxophone. Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery is located at 2945 Cedar Avenue South (the corner of Lake Street) in south Minneapolis. [...]
