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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...

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...

Spoken Hero: Terrence DuJour

Spoken Hero: Terrence DuJour

May. 8 |     Teen finds greatest satisfaction helping others     News Analysis   By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   People in our community and their giving spirit to others often go unnoticed as “Unspoken Heroes. Our Spoken...

Lesli grew under Keith’s skin and into his brain

Lesli grew under Keith’s skin and into his brain

May. 8 |     A long week. Spent in good spirits, but it was long. After leaving Lesli off at the airport, Keith had ridden back to the hotel and gotten his regular routine in gear — looking over the sheets, running fingering scales. Then he’d...

Autumn Reign’s Truth Serum: poetry to touch and heal

Autumn Reign’s Truth Serum: poetry to touch and heal

May. 1 |   It’s quite an accomplishment to write poetry well. If you don’t think so browse through the aisle of a bookstore — one of the few that may be left in an area near you — and take agood look at just how many books you can find of either...

Black & Single Blues — Lesli flew back to L.A. but never left his thoughts

Black & Single Blues — Lesli flew back to L.A. but never left his thoughts

May. 1 |       Love. Just like that. Well, he’d wondered, is there really any other way for it to happen except all of a sudden? He’d stepped out of the cab. “Luis,” he said, “since you got so much mouth about other folk bidniz, you...

Begging works: let Smokey Robinson do it for you

Begging works: let Smokey Robinson do it for you

May. 1 |     Fellas, say you find yourself in a situation where this woman who just came back to your crib is absotively, posilutely irresistible. She digs you or she wouldn’t be there. But that doesn’t mean she wants to do what you’ve wanted...

One man’s battle against illiteracy

One man’s battle against illiteracy

Apr. 24 | A. J. Briscoe shares his life-changing lesson on the value of reading   By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   The MSR has, of late, had the opportunity to report on education as empowerment with profiles on Carolyn Smallwood and educator-motivational-speaker...

Rick Ross’ apology just a phony play for sympathy

Rick Ross’ apology just a phony play for sympathy

Apr. 24 |   Hypothetical situation: Rick Ross is hanging out at his favorite water hole. He strikes up a conversation with a guy. They hit it off pretty good and he invites the fella back to his crib to shoot pool, watch the game, whatever. Ross, for...