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Dominic Papatola is the critic-at-large for The State of the Stage and theater critic for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press

Can arts reporters be friends with artists?
May 13, 2005
The idea makes me uncomfortable.
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Jukebox musicals
April 28, 2005
Your favorite pop music oldies are being remade into theater shows
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No room for Proust
April 15, 2005
All the talk about the Minnesota Book Awards has got me thinking about my own literature habits.
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You might be an art snob if...
July 30, 2004
Ten easy ways to tell.
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Polarization rules
July 23, 2004
There's no denying that the middle ground has all but disappeared from our political discourse. Times used to be that people from divergent ideologies could come together to hash out their viewpoints and then reach some kind of mutually agreeable understanding, if only an agreement to disagree.
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How about wasting some money on the arts?
May 14, 2004
Think about it: Remember those stories about $600 toilet seats procured by the Pentagon? Why doesn't that happen in the Arts?
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