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THE STORY OF CROW BOY
The Story of Crow Boy by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre Photo by Daniel Polsfuss Created by Masanari Kawahara, Sandy Spieler, Steven Epp and Momoko Tanno In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre The Story of Crow Boy asks what it means to be human amidst incredible brutality On stage Feb 18 ”“ 28, 2016 “A timely story of how experience can inspire art, and how art can transform the world” ”“ Steve Epp, Core Collaborator In a time when the world is challenged by cultural suspicion and ethnic distrust, HOBT enables this conversation with a new performance by some of the Twin Cities leading visual and performance artists. THE STORY OF CROW BOY explores the intriguing life story of Taro Yashima who wrestled with human brutality, racial discrimination, and the ravages of WWII to build work of social conscience, compassionate insight, poetic visual form, and ultimately ”“ of joy. Yashima reminds us what it [...]
Save &/Or Rave Burma-Shave: Disaster Comes to a Contest
BY SARAH SILVER I was a jingle judge for the Burma Shave company. Actually, I got the job under false pretenses. In the Spring of 1956 I had bumped into an old friend from journalism school, who told me that an opening was available - “just mention Ed Emery, a professor at the college,” she said, “you”'ll be the next jingle judge.” That”'s what happened. They assumed Mr. Emery had sent me, so I was hired for a four-month period to start immediately. For readers born after 1960, Burma Shave was an internationally-known phenomenon. Famous from the 1920”'s through the 1950”'s for its unique advertising methods, this modestly-operated company was located next to a railroad track in the Bryn Mawr area of North Minneapolis . Its main products were a shave-less cream and a not-so-well-known powder toothpaste. To advertise the shaving cream, Burma Shave erected thousands of sets of five consecutive signs along highways all over [...]
