For more than 30 years, Al Milgrom ran the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, putting directors and their artistic visions in the spotlight.
But this weekend Milgrom, who stepped down as director in 2010 will participate in the festival in a different capacity as a filmmaker.
Four and a half decades after taking his camera into the Minneapolis streets, he has completed his long-awaited documentary The Dinkytown Uprising.
The film documents a student protest in April 1970, when the University of Minnesota campus was tense over President Richard Nixon s escalation of the Vietnam War.
Milgrom confesses people who know him are surprised when he tells them he has finished the project sometimes to the point of astonishment.
Minneapolis retailer s window display wins national award
MartinPatrick3 teamed up with the Minnesota Dance Theatre on the display.
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A Nutcracker window display in Minneapolis North Loop neighborhood won the Judges Choice Award in a national contest.
MartinPatrick3, at 212 N Third Ave., teamed up with the Minnesota Dance Theatre to display costumes from The Nutcracker Fantasy in its windows, which earned the retailer the inaugural Judges Choice Award in the Winning Windows of North America contest.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first year in 55 years the Minnesota Dance Theatre did not present Loyce Houlton s Nutcracker Fantasy, but the theater teamed up with the retailer to keep the tradition alive in a new way.