Category: Culture
Theatre, music, libraries and festivals, with reviews marked as opinion.
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Review: Open House turns the theatre foyer into a stage
Opinion. For three months, the dramatist Lea Kowalski worked at a desk in the foyer of the Stadttheater and talked to anyone who came in. The result, Open House, opened the season on Saturday to a full house.
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The central library now stays open until midnight
Since September, the central library has kept its reading rooms open until midnight from Monday to Friday. Staff leave at 8 pm; after that, visitors get in with their library card.
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Regulars save the Blue Lock jazz cellar
When the landlord raised the rent by 60 percent in the spring, the oldest jazz club in the city looked finished. Six months later, 1,100 members own the building together.
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Riverside festival draws 60,000 despite the rain
Three days, four stages and almost no dry hour: the Riverside festival still had its second-best year since it began in 2009.