Helland Center’s multi purpose room and stage was an open canvas for Dean Magraw’s music, stories and teachings. People walking by couldn’t help but pause and listen to the musician’s guitar concert at MCTC on Thursday, April 19 in part of the MCTC fine arts festival. Members of the audience tapped their feet, hands [...]
Magic love potions, fairies, roaring from a lion and a never-ending stabbing filled the stage, as did the laughter and applause when MCTC’s all-student cast performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream. MCTC’s Spring play, with classical Shakespearean music and semi-modern, 60’s wardrobe caught approval and cheers from the audience. The fairies flowed across the forestry stage [...]
WANDA, MCTC’s student-lead writing club, held a prose and poetry reading on Feb. 14 near Josephine’s Cafe, with a broad theme of “relationships,” in honor of Valentine’s Day. Students submitted pieces to be read by the WANDA crew anonymously, in addition to several pieces WANDA selected written by a variety of authors. “We all picked [...]
Metal rock band Breaking Day performed their way to the Rawkzilla Battle of the Bands finals at the Doghouse Bar and Grill in Maplewood on Sept. 21. The band comprised of MCTC students has brought their unique brand of music to the Minneapolis scene since Nov. 2009. The band is made up of [...]
Halloween is rapidly approaching, and ‘tis the season when gamers across the country search for a fear-inspiring title to distract themselves from the decorations they should be putting up and the hordes of candy crazed kids lining their driveways. Luckily, there are quite a few games that can really inspire that pants-soiling terror that we [...]
Sept. 20, 2011, was about people professing to the world, “I am capable, I have something to say, and damn it, I’m going to say it.” I showed up outside the Zine Mobile, parked in front of the MCTC library, out of love. Officially, I was there to write this story for your information, but [...]
This month, Forgotten Films presents three movies that explore the fuel of much adolescent angst. No, not relationship drama, but two deceptively simple questions: ‘Who am I?’, and ‘What am I doing here?’ These films take these questions literally, every protagonist awakening in an unusual situation with no memory of who they are or [...]
The MCTC Theater Department is gearing up for their fall production of Lysistrata, a comedic drama written by Aristophanes. It is one of the eleven surviving plays from the acclaimed playwright of ancient Athens. The play centers around a group of women who are tired of the redundancies of war, and who truly resent what [...]
A stunning production of “The Visit”, by Friedrich Durrenmatt, directed by Maxine Klein, ran April 6 – 8th in the MCTC Whitney Fine Arts’ main stage theater. Over 50 attendees filled the theater seats Thursday night, April 7. The production, put on by MCTC and MSU (Metro State University), included the talent of guest actors [...]
After a slight delay, the lights go down. Martina Marraccino, emcee for the night, stands on stage, wearing a form fitting, sparkling green dress. Held Feb. 11 in the T.Building Plaza level, MCTC’s first ever drag show was organized by PRIDE!, the MCTC lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered, queer and allies club (LBGTQ). Martina Marraccino performed [...]
