In the Creative Spirit. A poetry prompt for January.
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Fast asleep in the mid-afternoon sun, these Labrador retriever puppies couldn’t be cozier or more content as baby Ella screams with joy. Lisa Willey, a Maple Grove resident since 2000, took advantage of a great summertime photo opportunity while spending a day visiting a family friend.
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Maple Grove resident Thomas Sullivan is no ordinary writer. He is one of a special few who can say he is a USA Today best-selling author (for Case White) and Pulitzer Prize nominee (for The Phases of Harry Moon)—yet if you try to define his genre of writing, you might find yourself at a loss.
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Known as a universal language, live music brings communities and visitors together—and Chuck Skajewski is no stranger to onstage entertainment.
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There’s a good chance you’ve heard of the Church Basement Ladies. There’s an even better chance that you’ve seen the Church Basement Ladies—and the ladies weren’t even in church.
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In George Bernard Shaw’s novel Immaturity, there’s a clever and ever-comprehensible conditional sentence: “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
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Skyler DeGrote is the 22-year-old author of two books in the Soul Collection triology—and she’s working on another. A 2010 Maple Grove Senior High graduate, DeGrote recently finished a degree in advertising and graphic communications at the University of Minnesota-Moorhead.
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One of our favorite local stage organizations, Yellow Tree Theatre, has been awarded the 2014 Star Tribune Best of Minnesota’s “Best unexpected place to find great theater” award, and is the 2014 winner of a Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Arts Achievement Award.
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A kid’s bedtime is the worst. Trying to get little ones to go to sleep can be a nightly battle. So much so that Richard Dahlberg based an entire children’s story around a battle he had with his then 7-year-old daughter Allison.
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How does a Marine Corps crew chief on F4 Phantoms get into creating stained-glass masterpieces? All it takes is one breathtaking experience with a church and a big window.
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The month of April brings the notorious aspects of the spring season, such as
April Fool’s Day and rainy weather. But perhaps most important, it brings the
official start to baseball season. Baseball is truly America’s favorite pastime,
