‘Miscellany’ Archives
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 [...]
Something Shifts
By SHELIA BLAND Anonymous, wherever she is.Titles and roles fit only haphazardly.Sliding out of place,Occasionally slipping off altogether. Sites within contain shifting landscapes.Fear, loneliness, occasional joy. Spaces behind the face often contain bafflement. Wonder.A maze of amazement.Spaces behind the navel, host anxiety, turbulence,Sometimes electrical jolts.Spaces behind the left breast ache. Long.Sometimes pound. She has been searching – for she knows not what.Change. Something different. She needs to be released.Perhaps even transformed. No space seems to fit – No place feels like home. She touches people lightlyWhile they slam into her Movement.She needs constantly to move.Years of moving –once exhilarating,leaves her longing for a resting place. She rides buses.They are flexible.Available without reservation. The countryside flashes by in non-stop Kodak moments.Nights are nice because they bring silence. She sits in the night silence [...]
