Chris Steller, editor at The Bridge brightly illustrates the problems with the continuing park privatization going on in Minneapolis in his editorial:
« Shakespeare was wrong: All the world's not a stage.
That's why, here in Minneapolis, we go to such efforts to build and maintain the special places that are our stages. We see theater far more than do people in other American cities; we crave outdoor music during our abbreviated summers. Stages are precious community gathering spots.
Rome has its Coliseum, but in Minneapolis a more newly minted ruin, the Washburn-Crosby mill, has become a stage, where the Mill City Museum's summer music series, "Mill City Live," is now in its third season.
Just next door, the Guthrie Theater has just opened its new three-stage building. »
Read the entire editorial at the Twin Cities Daily Planet.