‘Miscellany’ Archives
Stay or Go?
HOBT seeks community input, stories, as it faces difficult decision By Lindsey Fenner In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre is reevaluating its occupancy of the Avalon Theater at 15th and Lake in Midtown Phillips. HOBT, founded in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood in 1973, produces the annual MayDay parade and festival, stages original productions at the Avalon and throughout Minnesota, and collaborates with community through artist residencies and workshops. The theater company has made the historic Art Deco theater its home since 1988. However, badly needed repairs and updates, and lack of space, will force HOBT to make the difficult decision in the next year to stay in the Avalon or find a new home. HOBT is in the early stages of this process, and is seeking community input in making its decision. About 60 community members attended a community listening session on May 17, and approximately 300 people have completed an online survey on the theater company”'s [...]
Alley Allies Save this date!…
June 17Â 5 PM to 7:30 PM Augsburg Fairview Academy, 2504 Columbus Ave. Alley Communications, Publishers of the Alley Newspaper, will host a gathering of its most dedicated loyalists, writers, advocates, and contributors to talk about: “What community ownership means and how does it bear on the future of the Alley?
Rave and Save Burma-Shave
Was two blocks east in 1882 when built, Vine Congregation”'s Church to be. C. A. Anderson had no guilt, Moving it in 1892 to everyone”'s glee. Burma-Shave Burma-Shave/Vine Church Sidewalk Rally May 7th 2016 Loved by Americans including Gertrude Stein (who, in Everybody”'s Autobiography wrote “I wish I could remember more of them, they were all lively and pleasing.... I wish I could remember them I liked them so much”), Burma-Shave signs have been called part of “the national vocabulary” and have been installed in the Smithsonian Institution as relics of the 20th Century. Over 7,000 sets of signs using 600 individual poems were maintained in 44 states and were seen by untold numbers of drivers. It”'s possible that through the 1920s, the Depression, World War II, and the 1950s, Burma-Shave”'s poems were the most public, widely read verse in America.
