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Music

Concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis plays final season

Concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis plays final season

After twenty seasons, concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis, the woman in the first chair of the Minnesota Orchestra, will be turning that chair over to someone else. She joined Tom Crann from Orchestra Hall, where today she told her collagues she's moving on.
by Tom Crann

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Media analyst weighs in on Best Buy/Napster deal

Media analyst weighs in on Best Buy/Napster deal

Today, Best Buy announced a move to buy into the digital music business. The Richfield-based electronics retailer is planning to acquire Napster for about $121 million. To talk more about the Best Buy/Napster deal Tom Crann talked to Aram Sinnreich, a media industry analyst and NYU professor.
by Tom Crann

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Best Buy to acquire Napster

Best Buy to acquire Napster

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Inc. said Monday it will acquire online music-sharing site Napster Inc. for about $126.8 million in cash, in a move to boost its digital media capabilities.

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Songs for the lovelorn

Songs for the lovelorn

For centuries, lovelorn souls have written letters addressed to "Juliet, Verona, Italy." They're writing to the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. A production at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis takes a musical and theatrical look at "The Juliet Letters."
by Marianne Combs

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Dance hits rock bottom with unique setting of 'Ocean'

Dance hits rock bottom with unique setting of 'Ocean'

If you are a modern dance lover, the place to be this weekend is the bottom of a quarry in central Minnesota. Thousands of people will travel to St. Cloud to see the Merce Cunningham Dance Company perform "Ocean" on a specially constructed-stage, 150-feet below ground level.
by Euan Kerr

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The self-described Forrest Gump of comedy

The self-described Forrest Gump of comedy

Actor Taylor Negron has appeared in more than 100 movies and many TV shows. Now he's telling many of these stories in a show called "Satellites," which he'll perform this weekend in Minneapolis.
by Euan Kerr

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