Jerry Freeman of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder talks about his new novel

Apr. 3 |     By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   It’s said that those who can, do, and that those who can’t, teach. In the publishing racket, more than one grousing writer would attest that those who can’t do, edit. Not the case with...

Old Log’s Mahalia delivers in song

Apr. 3 |     Old Log Theater’s Mahalia, starring Sandra Robinson Hodges with Dianne E’Laine and Sam Reeves Old Log Theater is flaws and all, a winning ticket. This is the second go around for the production, which premiered at Old Log in 1994....

Transparent Tiger Woods

Apr. 3 |     For someone who doesn’t want to be called Black because he’s this fraction one thing and that fraction another, Tiger Woods sure is crazy ‘bout having himself a 100 percent White blonde. Let’s see. Woods went and married Elin...

Black and Single Blues — A Vegas gig brought Keith and Lesli together again

Mar. 27 |     How could Keith figure out a way to not break Lesli’s heart? A knife began twisting in his gut. Why? He’d walked away from women with barely more than a second thought. Who was she to be somebody so special? Back when they’d first...

Way to Grow shows one way to close the achievement gap

Mar. 21 | Intensive home program supports students and their families     News Analysis By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   Way to Grow Executive Director Carolyn Smallwood is passionate about the community empowerment institution. Sitting in...

Black & Single Blues: Keith worries he might — god forbid! — have found his soul mate

Mar. 21 |   Lesli threatened to — hell, had done it — make a lie of Keith’s conviction that soul mates do not come along in real life. For one, she understood his concerns about identity in relation to her own. That night of their first “date”...

Shá Cage solo theatrical debut examines the N word through women’s eyes

Mar. 21 |   In Twin Cities spoken word, a field glutted with grandstanding hacks, gifted veteran Shá  Cage is an exception that proves the proverbial rule. Nine out of 10 alleged artists are antagonistic, interminably posturing, self-congratulatory frauds...

Are opposite-sex friends okay if you are in a committed relationship?

Mar. 21 |   Came across on Facebook a sister by the name of China La’Amour, who has a BlogTalk Radio program, Tha Strawberry Lounge, and have seen the FB page, giving a heads-up to tune in, some interesting subjects for discussion. One is whether, if...

Keith had given up on the long-term relationship thing — ‘til Lesli came along

Mar. 13 |     Fear is a funny thing. Not that he was anywhere near laughing. It was just queer. Lesli was the best woman to have happened to him — and scared him to within an inch of his life. Someone, somewhere, might’ve been his mother or...

Blaming victims of rape only worsens the harm done

Mar. 13 | Rape is a terrible enough crime, the brutal and vicious violation of a human being, debasing her, using her body as nothing more than a receptacle, leaving her traumatized for perhaps the rest of her life. Making things still worse is the practice...