Black & Single Blues, by Dwight Hobbes
Life without Lesli was, any way you sliced it, a losing proposition. Sleep, forget about it. It took ...
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Dwight Hobbes’ Black and Single Blues
Editor’s note: This is the 16th episode of “Black & Single Blues” since the series began in our ...
A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway—Entertainment, etc. by Dwight Hobbes
A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Things on Broadway have ...
Movies, Media & More – by Dwight Hobbes
Buffalo Soldiers: historic cinema in more ways than one Buffalo Soldiers (DVD) is a marvelous exception ...
Entertainment, etc. by Dwight Hobbes: A conversation with Fancy Ray: egotist extraordinaire
Fancy Ray “The Best Lookin’ Man in Comedy” McCloney is, let’s say, an acquired taste. Not so much his chuckalicious ...
Something I Said, by Dwight Hobbes—Admiring Black women’s bodies sexist? Racist? Horseradish.
The beautifulest thing about Black women’s bodies is, well, indeed they are Black women’s bodies. In, literally speaking, all sorts ...
Movies, Media & More, By Dwight Hobbes—New online column takes on Hollywood’s Blackout
“Movies, Media & More” — despite the nice, innocuous title — is neither nice nor innocuous. I just call it ...
Arts No Chaser, by Dwight Hobbes—Neighbors: Great acting can’t redeem stilted attempt at satire
Some time back, Chris Rock stepped on stage at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. He didn’t say so much as ...
Junkyard Empire: the music follows their politically active path—Entertainment, etc., By Dwight Hobbes
Junkyard Empire is not your run-of-the-mill hip hop. For one, the band doesn’t have a sexist bone in ...
Peavey Park progress: Community activism, cops help reduce crime—By Dwight Hobbes, Contributing Writer
“Is the Peavey Park area being left to wallow in crime?” asked the MSR in the August 4-10 issue. This ...
SOMETHING I SAID, By Dwight Hobbes—Jealousy. It happens in a relationship. Anybody who denies that lies.
God knows why — which may go to prove even He ain’t perfect — jealousy, like sugar, honey and ...
Actor Jo Mani breaks out of typecast into action films—Entertainment, etc., By Dwight Hobbes
Jo Mani -Photo by Nikki Love Multi-talented Jo Mani stands at what is, to say the least, an interesting point ...
News Analysis—By Dwight Hobbes, Contributing Writer
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that no victims of May’s tornado that tore through North Minneapolis are beefing about ...
Local dad plans new amusement park Urban Jungle will provide community-centered fun for inner-city youth—By Dwight Hobbes, Contributing Writer
From the mouths of babes: Lebron Riley, executive director of Urban Jungle, Inc., recalls, “Back in ’94, ’95, a father ...
ARTS NO CHASER, By Dwight Hobbes—Comedian K Jay uses old-school fusion to create his own voice
It’s great when an up-and-coming comedic ace pays homage where it’s due, which is exactly what happened when ...
SOMETHING I SAID By Dwight Hobbes—When you’re dumped, deal with it
There’s that point at which the most hopeless romantic needs to suck it up and face reality. When you get ...
AND A HARD PLACE By Dwight Hobbes—New food shelf struggles to meet growing demand
Frequenting a food shelf doesn’t have quite the stigma it used to carry with folk who’ve looked down on those ...
SOMETHING I SAID By Dwight Hobbes—Rhythm Circus a racist rip-off
Leafing through the playbill for Rhythm Circus’ Feet Don’t Fail Me Now! — hell, just reading that title, this show ...
Ushering at the Janet Jackson concert—By Dwight Hobbes, Entertainment, etc.
Just great. Begged and bugged my boss to work Janet Jackson. Walk in late. Not CPT, still, tardy on ...
AND A HARD PLACE By Dwight Hobbes—Making do at the dollar store
It doesn’t always pay to be pretty. Carla Paige recounts bussing home from work, off her feet for the day. ...
