Chides Boatner E.B. Boatner’s editorial “Closer than a Brother” [Lavender, August 15] states that animal activists claim they have the right to kill researchers and their families. I don’t know where Boatner got his information,...

Don Roos Goes to the Dogs You probably already have seen the teasers for Marley & Me, featuring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston chasing an adorable puppy down the beach to the theme from Chariots of Fire. So, what possibly...

“If you build it, they will come….” Thus, a cornfield in Iowa now boasts a baseball field. Similarly, the cornfields 20 miles from the Twin Cities metro were the unlikely choice for the birth of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres....

Arthur Miller’s gripping and amazing A View from the Bridge still resounds—especially now, with its desperate portrayal of illegal immigration. It also probes biases around sexuality and gender perhaps more than any other Miller...

As you’d expect, 8Ball Theatre’s 3 Way: A Sex Farce is drawing in the crowds and deservedly favorable reviews. The piece rightly is hailed as fun and fabulous entertainment, which it definitely is. But 3 Way is actually a truly...

Does the Ordway have seat belts? This may be the year we’ll need them, as the Minnesota Opera’s 2008-09 season puts the “grand” back into “Grand Opera.” While one new, contemporary work is slated, the other four composers—Verdi,...

Now on DVD, Boy I Am, the documentary that has been causing such a stir in transgender circles, is the ultimate mixed bag. On the one hand, it’s a deeply substantive inquiry into female-to-male (FTM) transgender experience that...

Friedlander: Photography, now in its final week at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), is a must-see exhibition, exceptional for the sheer mass and time span of the artist’s works, from the 1960s to the present. Born in...