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News + Politics

Fierce environmental champions: Meet the 2021 Goldman Prize winners

Tom Molanphy - June 15, 2021

Six real-life heroes who have pushed back against global disaster, from Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' to Malawi's plastics crisis.

Housing

Help is on the way — but many tenants don’t know about it

Tim Redmond - June 11, 2021

Phone bank seeks to find people eligible for rent relief who may not know it's available or how to apply. Here's how to join.

City Hall

Supes clash with parks director over role in private organization’s ‘threats’

Tim Redmond - June 9, 2021

Ginsburg waffles when asked if he knew of and approved a Parks Alliance letter that the supes agreed was 'outrageous' and 'unacceptable.'

Business + Tech

The Chron has a Mission business story all wrong (are we surprised?)

Tim Redmond - June 8, 2021

There are very real issues of displacement and racial equity in the debate over moving a tech-centered 'destination' to 14th and Mission.

Housing

OPINION: The Bad Things about Wiener’s housing bill, SB9 …

John Elberling - June 4, 2021

... and how it could be amended to include Good Things.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Pride accelerates with trans student athletes in ‘Changing the Game’ doc

Dennis Harvey - June 4, 2021

Plus: Trans opera, Moomin creator bio-pic, and a questionable reboot of British empire adventure film.

Art

Review: Vibrant varieties of artistic experience in ‘Ambiguities of Blackness’

Genevieve Quick - June 2, 2021

In the first of five exhibitions that will showcase the recipients of Minnesota Street Project Foundation's inaugural granting program for Black artists and cultural...

Lit

Through hardship, a pastor encounters good people in ‘United States of Grace’

Emily Wilson - June 2, 2021

Lenny Duncan's 'Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope" isn't the usual redemption story.

Art

From refuse, artist Kloe Chan creates emotional refuge

Mary Corbin - June 1, 2021

Physical space and community play an important role in hand-crafted works like 'I Will Knit Us a Sanctuary'

Movies

Docfest 2021 provides colorful human stories in a year that needs them

Dennis Harvey - May 31, 2021

Heroic women wrestlers, legendary soul singers, Sparks, and the Space Lady all feature in this year's festival.

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