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Featured Story: M. Butterfly

By: Janet Preus

Tina Chilip (Suzuki), Randy Reyes (Song Liling) and Andrew Long (Rene Gallimard) in David Henry Hwang’s M. BUTTERFLY. Photo 2010 © Michal Daniel The Guthrie opened David Henry Hwang’s most acclaimed play, M. Butterfly, to a packed house that gave every indication of having left their own worlds behind to contemplate this inscrutable and fantastic story.   The story is launched from both a true incident involving a French diplomat and the opera, Madame Butterfly, but Puccini’s opera functions rather more like a coat hangar for the play – without it, the play falls down, but it’s not the p...

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Photo of the Week for April, 4, 2010

Though a sizable chunk of Twin Cities indie rock fans were packed into the sold-out Spoon show up the block at First Avenue Friday night, Communist Daughter didn’t have any trouble assembling an exceedingly healthy team of fans at The Fine Line to help them celebrate the release of their debut album, Soundtrack to the End.   It didn’t hurt that the local support bill was top notch, including the tight and catchy Brit-pop machine The Arms Akimbo and hook-laden Idle Hands. In between sets, local dance duo Estate spun tracks, so the energy never let up.   For Communist Daughter, this was a bit of a coming out party, despite the fact that in various configurations the band has been playing many these songs around ...

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Photo by: Pamela Goetzke Diedrich