Issue 382

Peterson Is New Southern Theater Executive Director Gary Peterson became the new Southern Theater Executive Director on January 1. With a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota, he has an extensive background in nonprofit management, fund-raising, community service, and arts administration. Southern Theater Board Chair Susan Lach said, “Gary comes to us…

With a new year and a new decade under way, the whooping and hollering, champagne cork-popping and hilarity having subsided, it is time to take a moment to reflect on the important things in our lives: dear friends and loved ones; good health; prosperity…a working Internet connection! Lose that last, and you’re back in a…

I recently traveled to Maine to find out why its citizens voted against gay marriage. I did this because it’s the type of hard-hitting, investigative journalism my readers have come to expect from me. Okay, actually, the only reason I went to Maine is because that’s where my girlfriend was raised, and she occasionally insists…

Dark Touches Har Mar Superstar Really, this is how you do funky pop music. Har Mar Superstar (stage name of Sean Tillman) takes a lot of cues from the classic funk and disco of the 1970s to make his music. Along the way, he dips into more recent styles, from hip-hop to electro-clash, while never…

“Diet” often is thought of as some sort of restriction or sacrifice in food intake, but in reality, we all are on a “diet,” which actually means any eating and drinking pattern. However, to make things easier, throughout this column, “diet” will refer to some eating pattern involving restrictions. Literally hundreds of diets have hit…

In tough economic times, one of the first ways some people try to save money is to cut back on insurance. Those television ads would lead you to believe it’s easy to do so: Just call an online insurance company, and get a cheaper rate instantly. Moreover, insurance isn’t something you think about on a…