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The Daily Planet's top ten stories of 2008
It’s been quite a year in the Twin Cities, and the Daily Planet has been on the scene. With the help of our media partners and our tireless citizen journalists, in 2008 we published over 10,000 articles, blog entries, photos, and event listings. When we saw that the Minnesota Independent had tallied their top ten most-read articles for the year, we were inspired to check the stats and see what articles Daily Planet readers found most fascinating in 2008. MORE »
Jogging for Jintao
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The Six Shooter Series: An A-team of B movies
World genre cinema is alive and well in Minneapolis with the opening of Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In at the Lagoon Cinema. The film, which has won several awards at film festivals around the world and carries a 97% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is the first in Magnet’s Six Shooter Film Series, a showcase of six of the best films from the vanguard of international genre cinema. MORE »
MOVIES | British Television Advertising Award winners bring whimsy to the Walker
One doesn’t need to be especially cynical to see the annual December screening of the British Television Advertising Award winners at the Walker Art Center as the Twin Cities’ most honest holiday tradition. Instead of paying to be preached to about peace and love and selflessness, museumgoers pay to be preached to about the power of material goods to solve all ills. Given that most mainstream movies are essentially advertisements for associated merchandise, it’s refreshingly candid of the Walker to tell it like it is: we’re going to charge you to watch a lot of ads. MORE »
World mourns Miriam Makeba, "Mama Afrika"
by Mshale staff • 11/11/08 •
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Arts Orbit is a multisource blog about the local arts scene, featuring both original contributions by Daily Planet writers and entries reprinted from partne
Interview: "Happy-Go-Lucky" director Mike Leigh
British director Mike Leigh’s latest film Happy-Go-Lucky has the power to repel or attract. You either love or despise his latest character, Poppy, played with effervescent charm by Sally Hawkins. Her performance carries the movie, not unlike David Thewlis’s Johnny in Leigh’s dark 1993 film Naked—but where Johnny saw doom and gloom in everything, Poppy sees the bright side. MORE »
Gangs
A video letter by Media Mike about pre-emptive war, gangs and role models. Monkey see, monkey do. For more, visit http://www.thecie.org MORE »
