Sheila Regan
@sheilaregan.bsky.social
Arts columnist at MinnPost and classical music critic at the Pioneer Press. Based in Minneapolis. Profile photo by the late Hector Roberts. linktr.ee/sheilaregan
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opera has no problem live streaming and offering their work on demand, and everyone knows its opera, whereas theatre...
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
opera has no problem live streaming and offering their work on demand, and everyone knows its opera, whereas theatre...
I was not expecting Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters to be so filled with contempt. They don’t seem to be poems to a person he loved, but rather a clap back to someone who filled him with derision.
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I was not expecting Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters to be so filled with contempt. They don’t seem to be poems to a person he loved, but rather a clap back to someone who filled him with derision.
In his music, a recent documentary film and an upcoming photo book, Alune Wade traces the trans-Atlantic diasporic story from its roots to its branches. The Senegalese musician performs with his band on Wednesday at the Cedar. www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...
Defying labels, Alune Wade shapes his own genre - MinnPost
The French musician with Senegalese roots is bringing his band and a new film to the Cedar Cultural Center for 'An evening with Alune Wade.'
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November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In his music, a recent documentary film and an upcoming photo book, Alune Wade traces the trans-Atlantic diasporic story from its roots to its branches. The Senegalese musician performs with his band on Wednesday at the Cedar. www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...
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"This all began with the Rigged Census" claims the guy who was president during the 2020 census
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"This all began with the Rigged Census" claims the guy who was president during the 2020 census
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Really great point about the lack of SRO-type housing in US cities. www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/the-banish...
The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes
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November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Really great point about the lack of SRO-type housing in US cities. www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/the-banish...
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There's something a bit weird about a film that has Alicia Silverstone (48) playing Jesse Plemons (37) mom.
August 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
There's something a bit weird about a film that has Alicia Silverstone (48) playing Jesse Plemons (37) mom.
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It's gotta be frustrating for journalists scraping by and doing great work to go to NY Times dot com and read a puff piece written by a nepo baby that whitewashes a journalist who had sex with a source and has now parlayed that into a new book and a job at Vanity Fair
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's gotta be frustrating for journalists scraping by and doing great work to go to NY Times dot com and read a puff piece written by a nepo baby that whitewashes a journalist who had sex with a source and has now parlayed that into a new book and a job at Vanity Fair
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At this point the Metro Blue Line is basically a tour of public amenities we are denied access to on the off chance they might benefit a homeless person.
I always get so depressed when I see the permanently fenced off amphitheater in front of the central library in downtown Minneapolis. This beautiful sculpture overhangs a completely unusable public amenity.
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
At this point the Metro Blue Line is basically a tour of public amenities we are denied access to on the off chance they might benefit a homeless person.
I always get so depressed when I see the permanently fenced off amphitheater in front of the central library in downtown Minneapolis. This beautiful sculpture overhangs a completely unusable public amenity.
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I always get so depressed when I see the permanently fenced off amphitheater in front of the central library in downtown Minneapolis. This beautiful sculpture overhangs a completely unusable public amenity.
Owamni chef Sean Sherman’s new cookbook takes readers on a culinary journey of ‘Turtle Island’ www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...
Owamni chef Sean Sherman's new cookbook tours the continent - MinnPost
Making the seal tartare isn’t really the point of Sherman’s 'Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America.'
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November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Owamni chef Sean Sherman’s new cookbook takes readers on a culinary journey of ‘Turtle Island’ www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...
Curious about how the bootleg thc economy will reform itself.
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Curious about how the bootleg thc economy will reform itself.
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I think people should not forget who helped push for a ban on their weed drinks
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I think people should not forget who helped push for a ban on their weed drinks
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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“Just the day before he was detained, Ya’akub had recorded and participated in a city council meeting in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, where he spoke out in support of local community leader Marwan Marouf who was detained by ICE, according to a court filing from his legal team last week.”
A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked.
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
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“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
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When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE
As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Just the day before he was detained, Ya’akub had recorded and participated in a city council meeting in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, where he spoke out in support of local community leader Marwan Marouf who was detained by ICE, according to a court filing from his legal team last week.”
Kris Kollins isn't a great actor, but neither was Prince. While Kollins’ acting is lacking, his resemblance to Prince is almost uncanny, and what he lacks in range, he makes up for in charisma. www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Kris Kollins isn't a great actor, but neither was Prince. While Kollins’ acting is lacking, his resemblance to Prince is almost uncanny, and what he lacks in range, he makes up for in charisma. www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...
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This novel has been getting press in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and beyond — but has attracted surprisingly little attention in our area, given that the title was literally written by @duluthnewstribune.com reporter Tom Olsen.
Front Row Seat: Chris Kraus explores Iron Range murder in new novel
"The Four Spent the Day Together" was inspired by the 2019 killing of a man on a Hibbing trail. It's a winding, metafictional exploration of personal responsibility — including the author's.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This novel has been getting press in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and beyond — but has attracted surprisingly little attention in our area, given that the title was literally written by @duluthnewstribune.com reporter Tom Olsen.
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Witch’s Hat in Tower Hill Park
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Witch’s Hat in Tower Hill Park
Pardons are such an odd aspect of the American justice system. They are so seemingly arbitrary and give power to just a small number of people. By their nature they negate the validity of the court system.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Pardons are such an odd aspect of the American justice system. They are so seemingly arbitrary and give power to just a small number of people. By their nature they negate the validity of the court system.
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
After Sylvia Plath died, her ex-husband wrote to a friend, "That's the end of my life. The rest is posthumous." I wonder what it was like to live a posthumous life for 3 and a half decades? Prolific in literary output, certainly. But perhaps also haunted, especially given his final book of poems.
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
After Sylvia Plath died, her ex-husband wrote to a friend, "That's the end of my life. The rest is posthumous." I wonder what it was like to live a posthumous life for 3 and a half decades? Prolific in literary output, certainly. But perhaps also haunted, especially given his final book of poems.
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my latest: CRIT grants personhood status to #coloradoriver - 3rd in North America by Indigenous peoples. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River wins personhood status from Arizona tribal council
Personhood status creates a powerful new mechanism for protecting the eponymous river that makes life possible in their arid homelands.
www.azcentral.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
my latest: CRIT grants personhood status to #coloradoriver - 3rd in North America by Indigenous peoples. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
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Can’t make it up. The name of the Indianapolis suburb where a homeowner killed Maria Florinda Rios Perez on his front steps, as she stood next to her husband, ready for another day of cleaning other people’s houses?
Whitestown.
Whitestown.
House cleaner shot to death on front porch after going to wrong house in Indianapolis suburb
Authorities are considering whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she came to the wrong address.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Can’t make it up. The name of the Indianapolis suburb where a homeowner killed Maria Florinda Rios Perez on his front steps, as she stood next to her husband, ready for another day of cleaning other people’s houses?
Whitestown.
Whitestown.
Have you ever thought about using your powers for good?
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Have you ever thought about using your powers for good?