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Senior Arts Spotlight: Milly Cogen
A makeshift recording studio Cogen set up at her grandmother’s house in November. Photo by Milly Cogen ’21 Betsy Barthelemy, Arts Editor April 8, 2021 This time last year, Milly Cogen ’21 was an environmental studies major planning her senior internship experience — fast forward a few months, and she was suddenly a music major, composing, performing on and producing her own concept album. “I don’t like saying that the pandemic made me change major tracks,” Cogen said.
Senior arts spotlight: Ailsa Burke
Betsy Barthelemy, Arts Editor February 18, 2021 Even amidst a pandemic, virtual classes and the cramped pace of the module system, studio art majors are still finding ways to make meaningful work. Ailsa Burke ’21 has had to look inward to prepare for her capstone in module 4 from her off-campus apartment. “Lately, I’m making art that is familiar in subject and content to what I’m experiencing,” Burke said. “So right now that’s myself, my apartment, my surroundings.
WMCN shifting from pause to play
The outside of the WMCN office. Photo by Malcolm Cooke ’21. Betsy Barthelemy, Arts Editor September 10, 2020 With their studio currently inaccessible to students, their FM broadcasting license nearing expiration and new broadcasts at a standstill, WMCN may seem like it’s on the brink of extinction, but it’s just the opposite.
Mac alum fosters artistic expression at the Loft Literary Center
Betsy Barthelemy, Arts Editor March 5, 2020 Some parents may be wary of their kids majoring in fine arts because other majors might seem to have an easier path to success. Britt Udesen ’98, the executive and artistic director of the Loft Literary Center, has one thing to say about that idea: “Bullshit.” “There isn’t some bright line that you have to draw between being committed to the arts and, you know, eating,” she said, laughing.
Out-of-State Sales Tax Laws are Evolving: How to be Ready
The ag market is rapidly changing and laws are having a difficult time keeping up. Two evolving factors greatly impacting dealerships’ customer bases today are consolidation and the internet. As dealers consolidate, customers from those acquired dealerships could choose to keep shopping there, or they could turn to third-party online sellers such as Amazon.
Untangling the Matrix of Prevented Planting Claims with George Bercaw
Rain continues to fall across the U.S. Corn Belt, and with many Final Plant Dates (FPDs) already weeks into the past, growers should seriously consider talking to their crop insurance agents about filing prevented planting claims. These claims come with very nuanced sets of rules, deadlines and limits based on the crop and location, but if handled correctly will save growers money after planting less than initially expected.
Farm Equipment Receives Two Honors at the 2019 SIPAwards
Farm Equipment Executive Editor Kim Schmidt, Audio-Visual Manager Joe Kuenzle and Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter were honored recently with two awards from SIPA for Farm Equipment’s “How We Did It” podcast and the 2018 Dealership of the Year video series featuring Reynolds Farm Equipment. The Farm Equipment team recently received a pair of SIPAwards for two of the magazine’s emerging digital media platforms.
Be a Leader, Not a Boss: Top Tips for Motivating Employees to Boost Sales
Already a subscriber? Login now. By Betsy Barthelemy posted on June 18, 2019 | Posted in Best Practices, Dept. Management Trent Hummel, a trainer at the Western Equipment Dealers Assn. Dealer Institute, forgoes teaching sales strategies to instead drive staff-wide motivation and engagement to boost sales and improve the quality of work within businesses. Trent Hummel brings over 25 years of dealership management experience to the Dealer Institute at the Western Equipment Dealers Assn. (WEDA).
Increasing Productivity and Efficiency Boosts Dealership Profits in the Age of Amazon
Already a subscriber? Login now. By Betsy Barthelemy posted on June 18, 2019 | Posted in Best Practices, Dept. Management Kelly Mathison, a consultant and trainer at the Western Equipment Dealers Assn. Dealer Institute, discusses emphasizing interdepartmental teamwork and personalized, rather than automated online-based, service in ag equipment dealerships in order to maximize profits per hour. “What are the two critical factors that really drive the financial success of your business?”
Comprehensive, Bundled Service Plans Maximize Precision Profitability
Platte Valley Equipment, a John Deere dealer with 4 locations in eastern Nebraska, closed out the first year of its E3 precision farming service program with around 25 customers. Now in its fourth year, almost 80 farmers are enrolled — and the program’s 98% percent retention rate speaks to the value customers are getting out of the investment. “It’s gone up every year,” says AMS Specialist Cory Allely, who is based out of Platte Valley’s Wahoo location.
Students explore definitions of “home” in mainstage production
This weekend and next, the new Theater and Dance Building will inaugurate its new mainstage, the Macalester Theater, with “Letters|Home,” a student and staff-developed dance theater piece that makes use of every aspect of the new, flexible performance space. The show explores the idea of “home” by drawing upon St. Paul’s history as well as stories students wrote about their own lives or their ancestors’ lives, particularly focusing on immigration, displacement and spirituality.
New theater and dance building officially opens
Last November, Macalester’s old theater and dance building was torn down after 54 years of housing plays, dance performances and classes. On Thursday, Feb. 14, 14 long, hectic months of transition came to fruition during the new building’s opening event. A crowd of around 500 students, faculty and community members filled the Janet Wallace Arts Commons. The program began with speeches from President Brian Rosenberg and Provost Karine Moe.
Geyser plays WMCN, tours the Midwest
Corbin Dodd ’18 and Ryan Dugan ’17 met through the Macalester music department a few years back. Dugan met Juliet Kelson ’20 when their separate bands played a concert together in Chicago, and Dodd later met Jack Lickerman through music department events. Now, the four of them are on their way to dropping an album. Geyser’s genre is difficult to pin down.
Student-led production currently untitled. to debut in the black box
Frustrated by the lack of work by students of color that gets performed in theater, Gretta Marston-Lari ’21 decided to do something about it. What started as a project for a theatre class last spring will become the first production to premiere in Macalester’s new black box theatre: currently untitled. “We came up with the idea that everyone does a monologue and held auditions for students of color, immigrant students and transgender students,” she explained.
Professor Mark Mazullo Plays Beethoven’s Late Sonatas After 20 Years of Practice
As he was finishing up his PhD, music professor Mark Mazullo began to learn Beethoven’s Sonata in A-flat Major, Opus 110.
Guthrie’s Noises Off is a fun-filled break from the real world
When the Guthrie Theatre announced the inclusion of classic farce Noises Off in its 2018 season, the artistic director Joseph Haj could not have anticipated how vital the power of laughter would be in the face of everything going on in the world today. Noises Off provides exactly that: a welcome pause from reality to explore all aspects of the world on the stage: from the rehearsals, to the backstage, to a performance gone awry.
Alina Baraz and JMSN light up First Avenue
The energy of a live music performance is hard to find anywhere else. The bouncing of sound waves against the walls and the crowd dancing on the floor can be contagious—it can have the power to even make someone unfamiliar with a band’s music an instant fan. It is rare for this liveliness to begin before the music does. Last Tuesday night, the dedicated fans of Alina Baraz made that happen.
Mixed Blood Theatre presents the acclaimed Is God Is
This show contains mentions of domestic violence and abuse. Nestled in an old fire station where the University of Minnesota meets downtown Minneapolis is one of the Twin Cities’ most established inclusive performance spaces: Mixed Blood Theatre. Since 1976, this company has built their repertoire on their mission for pluralism, excellence, egalitarianism, openness and “predictable unpredictability,” as outlined by their website. Performances are meant to be widely accessible.
BØRNS performs sold-out show at Palace Theatre
Playing his sold-out show at St. Paul’s historic Palace Theatre — which was built just over a hundred years ago as a vaudeville theatre in the heart of the city, and was recently renovated into a concert venue — Garrett Borns of the indie pop sensation BØRNS paused his lively set to reflect. “If these walls could talk, you know?” He smiled at the Minnesotans around him.
Smallpools warms weather-beaten crowd
Saturday brought a record-breaking April snowfall to the Twin Cities, right on time to push Springfest, Macalester’s annual outdoor event with food, music and end-of-semester stress relief, into the Leonard Center fieldhouse for the second year in a row. Students trailed in throughout the afternoon drenched in snow, pairing spring-themed outfits with thick snow boots and apprehensive attitudes about how seasonally-appropriate the festival could be in the dimly lit fieldhouse.
Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost” at Theatre in the Round
One of the most prominent figures in theatre history is Sir Oscar Wilde, whose works are still produced for the screen. Known for his poetic scripts and unusually lavish style of dress, Wilde caught eyes and ears in 19th-century London and still holds them to this day. Yet, aside from the massively successful “The Picture of Dorian Grey,” Wilde is rarely remembered for his several novels and novellas.
Portugal. The Man plays sold-out show at Palace Theatre
During the second song of their Feb. 9 sold-out performance, the screen behind St. Paul’s Palace Theatre’s weekend feature read “We are Portugal. The Man! Just making sure you’re at the right concert.” For a band that’s been releasing music for over fourteen years, you’d think this banter would be unnecessary. Yet, it proved to be a relief for the audience that stayed for the main performance after a chaotic opener.
BØRNS performs sold-out show at Palace Theatre
Playing his sold-out show at St. Paul’s historic Palace Theatre — which was built just over a hundred years ago as a vaudeville theatre in the heart of the city, and was recently renovated into a concert venue — Garrett Borns of the indie pop sensation BØRNS paused his lively set to reflect. “If these walls could talk, you know?” He smiled at the Minnesotans around him.
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