New House GOP plan would increase cap on SALT deductions to $30K for married couples earning $400K or less But NY Rs — Stefanik, Lawler, Garbarino and LaLota — wrote last week that was too low to win their support. “Hell no,” LaLota said Thurs when I asked if he could back $30K

Bold set design, dramatic lighting and pounding score pack a punch with Mathew Janczewski’s choreography at the Walker. startribune.com/review-creativ…

My piece on Pan Daijing's “Sudden Places” Walker Art Center is now online on Flash Art's site: flash---art.com/article/pan-da…

NEWS: Amazon has suspended its massive data center project in Becker as Minnesota lawmakers plan to roll back sales tax exemptions for the industry. The company cited uncertain development timelines. startribune.com/amazon-suspend…

Much of the ‘racial reckoning’ efforts after Floyd’s murder never emerged washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05…

Longtime Twin Cities theater artist Steven Epp is playing double duty at the Southern Theater right now, performing in two plays that are running in rep. I reviewed both shows here. minnpost.com/artscape/2025/…

In “Mae West and the Trial of Sex,” Walking Shadow Theatre Company in Minneapolis mines the events surrounding West’s “Sex” trial and puts a microscope to censorship proponents during the time period. minnpost.com/artscape/2025/…

I don’t know if Americans realize how often ICE arrests US citizens, and how long those citizens can spend detained. I spoke to Davino Watson, who spent 3.5 years in a detention center. He was a citizen every minute of that time. 1/3

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18 dance and theater events to catch outdoors in Minnesota this summer startribune.com/18-best-outdoo…

i’ve been sent this footage of an MPD officer on east lake st during the federal action on 6/3 turning around and shoving a person who was filming him

Ted Olsen keeps exploring new approaches and sounds in “Violette,” an album he’s releasing this week minnpost.com/artscape/2025/…

Hip-hop dancers, breakers, emcees and choreographers converge at St. Paul’s Park Square Theatre for three days of “The Sota Movement: The Minnesota Street Dance Festival.” startribune.com/new-street-dan…

By the end of this month, Lake Street is going to get 34 new murals between Nicollet and 30th Ave. S. The “Lake Street Lift Mural Bonanza” is part of the larger “Lake Street Lift” program, an $8 million initiative that wraps up on June 30. minnpost.com/artscape/2025/…

I know we're not supposed to talk about X on here, but just as an update, when you do searches now about a popular topic, the vast majority of results are AI-written posts from the Grok account.

This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website right now. It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website. The Department of Commerce has no immigration functions whatsoever that I am aware of. No, the President cannot sell green cards. Period.

My new feature for The Stage: a profile of Casey Nicholaw, prolific director-choreographer, who's opening Disney's "Hercules" in the West End. thestage.co.uk/big-interviews…

The Ojibwe, Delaware, and many other Algonquian tribes have the same word for “the people” #people #Algonquian #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe

The Wooster Group heads to the Walker Art Center in February, highlighting its 2025-26 performing arts season. The season also encompasses the legendary Trisha Brown Dance Company performing works by Brown and Merce Cunningham. startribune.com/trisha-brown-m…

A former auto body shop next to Pillsbury House + Theatre will now house a new training program for future technical theater professionals, part of the theater and community center’s new expansion into a wider campus, called the Pillsbury Creative Commons. minnpost.com/artscape/2025/…