The Morning After . . .

The Guthrie’s Women/Race/Facebook Problem

Ever since the Guthrie Theater announced its 50th Anniversary season two weeks ago, many in the local arts community have been boiling with indignation over the fact that the overwhelming majority of plays being presented by the Guthrie in its 2012-13 season are written and directed by men, and address what Charles Barkley, in a recent Saturday Night Live skit, calls “white people’s problems.”

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Harriet Island: Where all good festivals go to die

Among music fans there’s been a lot of chatter about Live Nation’s announcement that its first-ever River’s Edge Music Festival, on St. Paul’s Harriet Island, will be headlined by the Dave Matthews Band, Tool, the Flaming Lips, and twenty-five or so other bands of varying degrees of obscurity.

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