Author: Andrew Newman

What would the world be like if God were president? Local inspirational speaker and spiritual psychotherapist Lisa Venable answers that question in her first book, God for President: A Parable About the Power of Love. When disillusioned activist Sarah Rose retreats from Washington to her Minnesota hometown, she begins to wonder exactly what would happen…

Mira James, heroine and amateur sleuth of the Murder by Month mystery series, returns in local author Jess Lourey’s newest work August Moon. This fourth installment of the series finds Mira about to leave adopted home Battle Lake, Minnesota for good — until a high school cheerleader is murdered. The act is soon linked to…

A murder in a south Florida retirement community would seem to be an event that is definitely out-of-the-ordinary. Add in a blind heiress loved by the town’s only cop, a former slasher film queen who runs a raucous Bar & Grill for the under-65, and a trio of Swedish circusfolk, and you’ve got yourself a…

The Parkway Theater presents its first live stage production with Judy Cooper Lyle’s The Black Orchid, an examination of the immensely influential early twentieth century stage performer Josephine Baker. Performed by the Urban Spectrum Theatre Company and featuring Madeline Howie as Baker, the production begins on June 19 in a preview performance at 8:15 p.m.…

Visitors to the Walker Art Center may get a glimpse of what it’s like to be a "wannabe" (people who voluntarily want to get amputations) when a First Look premiere of the new film Quid Pro Quo screens on Friday, June 6. Hailed by Variety as "strikingly original and provocative" when it premiered at the…

"Going green" has almost become a fashion statement in this day and age, but finding the most effective ways to help the environment can often be tricky, and the impact we have on the world around us is often greater than we think. Throughout the summer, the Walker Art Center will present a series of…