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Bookworms peruse piles and piles of palatable books!
PHOTO COURTESY RAIN TAXI

“I cannot live without book [festivals]”- Thomas Jefferson

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published October 7, 2009
The Twin Cities Book Festival brings together a community of bookworms
Barbara Evan’s “Silly Girl” is one of the many featured works of art at this fall’s St. Paul Art Crawl.
PHOTO COURTESY  ST. PAUL ART COLLECTIVE

St. Paul Crawl ain’t small

by John Sand
Published October 7, 2009
Our state’s capital showcases their artistic talent through a series of gallery tours, artist studios and live performances.
Spectators inside Haegue Yang’s “Yearning Melancholy Red” immediately become both a critic of the elaborate maze of blinds and a hidden limb of the work.
PHOTO COURTESY WALKER ART CENTER

Haegue Yang is a new kind of insider

by John Sand
Published September 30, 2009
Yang’s installation at the Walker explores the life inside of lifeless objects.
The shading on Tim Sundquist's award winning dead baby tattoo is most intricate. PHOTO BY TOM JOHNSON, DAILY

The freak and chic of tattoo culture

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 23, 2009
A&E’s intrepid reporter fields the needles and skulls to check out the Minneapolis Tattoo Arts Convention.
Li and Liu “just doing it” in their gallery
PHOTO COURTESY KATHERINE E. NASH GALLERY

Encounters with modern Chinese art

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 16, 2009
“Encounters: The Past Re-configured” at the Nash looks into the past to see the future identity of Chinese art.
"Look at the beard on that guy!" says local student group.
PHOTO COURTESY CAMPUS PEOPLE WATCHERS

How-to: people watch

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 16, 2009
We all do it, now learn to get the most out of it with some simple steps from a not-so-creepy student group.
PHOTO COURTESY RANDOM HOUSE

Inside the Collyer brothers’ mansion

by Kara Nesvig
Published September 9, 2009
E.L. Doctorow’s new novel is a national treasure

West Bank Social Center ‘powerhouse’ of MPLS cultural cell

by Mark Brenden
Published September 9, 2009
Both ambiguous and unpredictable, WBSC is harboring the strangest cultural events in the city.
PHOTO COURTESY ATRIA

Reading list: William Kent Krueger

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 9, 2009
The local author releases “Heaven’s Keep” to his series of fast-moving mysteries.
‘Big Funny’ puts the comic in the spotlight

‘Big Funny’ puts the comic in the spotlight

Published August 11, 2009
The release of a 48-page newspaper made entirely of comics is a lifeboat for a medium stuck in the sinking newspaper industry.

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