News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Saturday October 10th 2026
By Any Means (2026)
from the series Movie Corner…
3.5 Stars Out of Five
Period Piece/ Political Thriller/ Action/ True Crime
Paramount Pictures
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
As the summer comes to an end along with the summer blockbusters (The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, etc.) there’s usually a hiatus between the summer blockbusters and the upcoming films with Oscar aspirations.
However, early in September I decided to see By Any Means, directed by Elegance Bratton (The Inspection – 2022), a film set in 1966 in the heart of the Civil Rights struggle in the volatile state of Mississippi where murders, beatings and expulsions of Blacks and sympathetic whites occurred with the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. The film leads its audience to Mississippi NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer, promoter of voting rights for Blacks, who is murdered by Ku Klux Klan members. What’s fresh in the minds of Black people is the murders of three civil rights workers: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner by white supremacists in Mississippi in 1964. In September 1963, four little Black girls were murdered at a bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church. This serves as a backdrop to the murder of Dahmer.… Read the rest “By Any Means (2026)”
Oct. ’26 Events
The alley recommends confirming all events beforehand.
What Could Not Be Erased: Ledger Art by Joe Pulliam
Through October 9
Two Rivers Gallery
1530 E Franklin Avenue
Free
What Could Not Be Erased features the work of acclaimed Oglala Lakota ledger artist Joe
Pulliam, who puts forward a powerful tradition of Lakota ledger art that has shaped Lakota
people for generations. Learn more about Pulliam’s art at the Two Rivers Gallery page on
facebook. For gallery information, go to 2riversartgallery.org.
WAABERIGA DHAMMAADKIISA / at the end of daybreak
Through October 26
Gage Gallery
610 22nd Avenue S
Free
In their exhibit developed during the 2026 Soomaal Visual Arts Fellowship, artist nafyar
explores identity through the lens of personal memory and digital archives using cyanotype,
painting, and video installation. nafyar is interested in the effects of displacement and alienation
on memory and culturemaking; their work discusses notions of fixed linear time that have
created holes in which the misremembered and forgotten orbit. See galleries.augsburg.edu
gallery hours and information.
in.visible
Through Oct 26
Christensen Gallery
720 22nd Avenue S
Free
Featuring the work of 2026 Soomaal Visual Arts Fellow Jowhara Luula, in.visible dives into an
inner world that cannot always be read from the outside.… Read the rest “Oct. ’26 Events”
Willam Anthony Hazelquist: 140 Day Soldier Died Two Days Before WWI Armistice
251st from Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery…
Historians are fond of saying that they “fell down a
rabbit hole” when they start out researching one topic and
wind up somewhere unexpected. This is one of those
stories. There is a small connection to the cemetery but a
larger story about a man who lived in what was to become
the Phillips neighborhood.. In fact, he lived three doors
down from my house.
Company B 353 rd U.S. Infantry
Born in Minneapolis on March 29, 1890
Died on November 9, 1918, from wounds received at the Battle of Meuse-Argonne.
William Anthony Hazelquist was a homebody. He was
28 years old but had never spent more than a few days
away from home. He was inducted in the U.S. Army on
June 22, 1918, and after completing his training, he was
shipped out to France. He died there on November 9,
1918.
William was born in Minneapolis on March 29, 1890,
the fifth youngest of Swedish immigrants, John and
Sophia Johnson’s six children. His father emigrated in
1880 and his mother in 1882. They married in Minneapolis
on January 24, 1885, and became naturalized citizens in
- John Hazelquist worked as a tailor.
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