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Conference gives counselors tools for ‘Healing the Village’

Conference gives counselors tools for ‘Healing the Village’

May. 15 |     Founder Simmons says first step in healing the village is addressing male pain   By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   It is said nothing is as irresistible as an idea whose time has come. The Fifth Annual 2013 Community...

Thoughts of Leslie kept Keith out of jail

Thoughts of Leslie kept Keith out of jail

May. 15 |     Lesli. Maybe the best thing, beyond her good looks and bangin’ body, was that she had a wonderful sense of humor. He would call her up, mad enough to chew nails and spit thumbtacks, and wind up laughing his hind parts off. He sure...

Jeffrey Osborne delivers jazz standards with A Time For Love

Jeffrey Osborne delivers jazz standards with A Time For Love

May. 15 |     Eighties’ heartthrob, master vocalist and a fine songsmith, Jeffrey Osborne has a very special gift for fans, A Time For Love (SSR Records). His newest since 2005’s Yes, I’m Ready, it’s a winning note on which listeners who’ve...

This week’s Entertainment spotlights!

This week’s Entertainment spotlights!

May. 15 |     The Music     Kool G Rap and DJ Polo  Fri., May 17, 10 pm • Cabooze, 917 Cedar Avenue S., 612-338-6425 or www.cabooze.com • Kool G Rap is regarded as a hugely influential golden age rapper. He is often cited as one of...

Sandra Robinson Hodges speaks with MSR about her starring role in Mahalia

Sandra Robinson Hodges speaks with MSR about her starring role in Mahalia

May. 15 |     By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   Going backstage to the dressing room, congratulating Sandra Robinson Hodges on her triumphant turn as Mahalia Jackson at the Old Log Theater, you’d never guess she’s Twin Cities’ gospel...

Changing of the guard with the T-Wolves

Changing of the guard with the T-Wolves

May. 15 |     Flip Saunders’ good calculations will replace David Kahn’s poor ones   Because of my November 7, 2012 column (“The smartest White team in the NBA: T-Wolves team return to the 1950s?”), we took heat from those who took exception...

Bangladesh tragedy reveals the realities of capitalism

Bangladesh tragedy reveals the realities of capitalism

May. 15 |     While we cower and agree to give up more of our hard-earned rights as citizens, the real bogey man the real terror of our lives gets little notice, and that is the system of economic exploitation called capitalism. I realize for a lot...

Critics of Rosenbloom column skirt  around statements by Sanger

Critics of Rosenbloom column skirt around statements by Sanger

May. 15 |     Columnist Lucky Rosenbloom’s commentary [column of April 11] on abortion and its devastating effects on Black America is the dirty little secret Black activists, most Black clergy, Black scholars and, of course, the liberal White left...

Gopher shortstop leads team in runs, hits, doubles, triples and home runs

Gopher shortstop leads team in runs, hits, doubles, triples and home runs

May. 15 |       The leadoff hitter in baseball is mainly expected to be speedy and a regular on-base player. After her last home game of the season, we asked U of M shortstop Tyler Walker, who bats leadoff for the Gophers, if there is a similar...