With all due respect to Mao Zedong, The
Chanhassen Dinner Theatre has turned the revolution of 1832 in Paris
into a dinner party and it’s a very satisfactory dinner, a
lovely party and a good reading of the revolution.
Their current production of “Les Miserables” gives us
a stripped-down but highly charged version of probably the most
popular play in the last 20 years. On one level it is the story
of Jean Valjean and his pursuit by Javert. Valjean has served 19
years on a chain gang for trying to steal a loaf of bread. After
completing his sentence, he is required by law to identify himself
as an ex-convict to employers and anyone else with whom he must
do business. He quickly finds himself homeless and out of work.
He changes his name and becomes a successful businessman, but Javert,
the agent of the police, pursues him and wants to send him back
to prison for illegally hiding his identity.
Every Minnesotan could be covered under a state
administered healthcare plan within the coming year if legislators
can overcome opposition from a powerful healthcare insurance industry
and a governor who publicly opposes the type of “single-payer,”
government-run system that a growing alliance of lawmakers, physicians,
professionals, labor unions and business and community groups endorse.
Foreclosues way up in Minneapolis,including Southside
As predatory lending schemes of the ’90s
take their toll on homeowners, foreclosure rates are rising all
over the country. Minneapolis has been hit particulary hard by foreclosures,
with numbers doubling from 320 in the first quarter of last year
to 678 in the first quarter this year.
Do you want a talk to get behind yourself and
push, talk Joe Minjares: an entrepreneur and artiste with grown
kids and grandkids, Minjares keeps on keepin' on. Lately, he rescued
Southside Minneapolis landmark Parkway Theater from demolition.
With it, by the way, he plans to make it the state's first Latino-owned
performing arts center.
When we discovered that MAC was doing a series
of presentations about the new runway that opened last year at MSP,
and that one of these was scheduled for Nokomis on July 30, we decided
that SMAAC should hold its Forum at Nokomis on July 30 as a counterpoint.
We thought this would be an excellent way to keep MAC honest.
With the introduction of State Sen. John Marty's
(DFL-Roseville) "Minnesota Health Care Act" and the clear
possibility that the state could be heading down the road to statewide
universal health care, Minnesotans could be in for waves of advertisements
by groups of "concerned citizens" that claim to champion
public health and well-being while making sure an entrenched private
health insurance industry remains "in the pink."A U.S.
Supreme Court decision published near the end of June invalidated
a prime component of the 2002 Campaign Reform bill and may have
made it easier for well-financed interests like state HMOs to influence
elections while turning a blind eye to how those interests represent
themselves.
The two most established theatrical institutions in the Twin Cities
are trumpeting revolution. Chanhassen Dinner Theatre is reviving
“Les Miserables,” which portrays conditions surrounding
the 1832 Revolution in Paris (see review, page 15), and The Guthrie
is reviving “1776,” a musical drama about the signing
of the Declaration of Independence.
The Metropolitan Airport Commission is closing
the runway most generally used for take-offs and landings for re–construction
and opening up the North-South runway for July, August and September.
This means people living in the Riverside area will be hearing 300
flights a day land
"Installation is currently in progress,"
is the message that appeared on US Internet's website when attempts
were made last week Wednesday to order wireless internet service
for parts of downtown, the University's West Bank and for the Cedar-Riverside
neighborhood.
The two most established theatrical institutions in the Twin Cities
are trumpeting revolution. Chanhassen Dinner Theatre is reviving
“Les Miserables,” which portrays conditions surrounding
the 1832 Revolution in Paris (see review, page 15), and The Guthrie
is reviving “1776,” a musical drama about the signing
of the Declaration of Independence.
