‘Miscellany’ Archives
February ’24 Events
Keith Braveheart, Buffalo Nation: Creating Community, from the exhibit Okizi (To Heal), on view at All My Relations Art through April 13th. CREDIT: All My Relations Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge KeepersThrough March 16Katherine E. Nash Gallery405 21st Avenue SFreeDreaming Our Futures marks the launch of the University of Minnesota’s George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts, and features work in a wide variety of painting media and esthetic approaches by 29 artists. An opening program will be held on February 3rd from 4-8pm. For more information and gallery hours, go to cla.umn.edu/art/galleries-public-programs/katherine-e-nash-gallery. Okizi (To Heal)Through April 13All My Relations Arts1414 E Franklin AvenueFreeOkizi (To Heal), is a partner exhibition with the American Swedish Institute in response to the traveling exhibition, Arctic Highways: Unbound Indigenous People. Okizi highlights the revitalization efforts that reconnect [...]
Twin Cities Area Solar Co-op Makes Rooftop Solar More Affordable
By BOBBY KING, MN SUN State Director Jessica Tank and partner Royce, Minneapolis Solar Co-op members and City of Lakes Community Land Trust homeowners, LMI program participant Nonprofit Solar United Neighbors (SUN) helps Twin City Area homeowners of all incomes go solar with the Twin Cities Area Solar Co-op. The solar co-op will help homeowners: Understand the benefits of rooftop solar and the incentives availableAllow them to use group buying power for a great price and service from a solar installerHelp low-income homeowners tap into incentives that can cover a majority of the cost How SUN’s Solar Co-ops Work.The solar co-op is free to join. SUN has an open-and-competitive bidding process with local solar installers for the group’s business. A committee of co-op members and SUN staff reviews bids and selects a single solar company for the group’s business. All members then get a proposal for solar at their property from the selected installer at the solar co-op [...]
Dream Scenario
Movie Review By HOWARD MCQUITTER II A24 2023Comedy/ Horror 4/5 Stars Howard McQuitter II In researching what film I was going to see at the theater on Thursday, December 5, I accidently came across Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario, starring Nicholas Cage. It was a good choice. Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) is a nondescript professor of evolutionary science at a small fictional college. His students seem to be as incurious as he is tedious. Paul’s life begins to change drastically when his youngest daughter, Sophie (Lily Bird), starts to see him in her dreams. Paul appears to have the power of levitation in Sophie’s dreams, although it is not explained neither how or why he has this power. Everything seems innocent enough until his ex-wife, Claire (Marnie McPhail), runs into Paul with his current wife, Janet (Julianne Nicholson), at an event. Claire tells them both she sees Paul in her dreams, much to the couple’s chagrin. Claire insists [...]
