Minneapolis Videos

3-Minute Egg drops into Form+Content to check out angelic work from Camille Gage and Fox Tax Gallery for some pop culture paintings by Rob McBroom.

James Vogel and Ezra Stead met as filmmaking students at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and have made a few short films together. Their first feature-length film, The City, is a hyper-violent psychological horror film featuring an all-local cast and setting. The filmmakers spoke with 3-Minute Egg on the eve of tonight's 9:30 premiere screening at Oak Street Cinemas. The movie also screens December 6 at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Minneapolis Art on Wheels, a new media project based at the University of Minnesota, has found its first fixed locale -- the West Bank Social Center -- from where it beams art onto a nearby wall at 8 pm every Wednesday. 3-Minute Egg met with a couple of artists and a project insider on a recent Wednesday evening.

Ollie Stench bad language, bad nudity and gossip.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's style editor Melissa Colgan and wine columnist Bill Coy highlight some holiday gift ideas at the 5th annual Perfect Parties event at the Woman's Club of Minneapolis.

Second video from their new album By The Throat In Stores Now. Director: Maria Juranic DP: Steve Speers Producer: Scott Ferril

Press release from: Health Care For America Now. Minnesota HCAN Coalition Says Health Insurance System Set Up To Generate Profits While Failing To Provide Health Care and Denying Claims Minnetonka, MN - UnitedHealth Group, the nation s largest private health insurer, was targeted Monday morning by over one-hundred members of the Minnesota contingent of the Health Care for America NOW (HCAN) coalition, including small business, labor, faith-based, and non-profit advocacy organizations. The group convened outside the doors of UnitedHealth Group s Minnetonka headquarters protesting the health insurer s practice of denying care and claims in order to generate record profits. Six arrests were made after protesters refused to stop blocking the doors to the headquarters. We re here today to stop UnitedHealth Group from continuing its business practice of denying health coverage and insurance claims as the primary means of turning a profit, said Julie Schnell, President of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and one of those arrested. Enough is enough. The status quo is failing most Americans. The time has come for Congress to ensure we have the health care we can afford and that means the choice of a public health insurance option. While health insurance CEO s took home $690 billion, health insurance premiums have been going up four times faster than wages. In addition to ongoing federal lobbying efforts, UnitedHealth Group has also been involved in work to prevent a public option from becoming law. In an August email, the insurer s advocacy group UnitedHealth s United for Health Reform, urged employees to attend town hall meetings and contact congressional members to elevate anti-reform messaging. And UnitedHealth Group, through its subsidiary Ingenix, is the sole owner and funder of the Lewin Group, which produces polling and research content widely cited by the GOP to stop health care reform. Diane Brennan, small business owner and grandmother, and one of those arrested, said she was involved in Monday s protest because Americans across this country are angry that many members of Congress are more interested in what insurance industry lobbyists have to say and the $1.4 million they spend every day to oppose reform -- than what working families need. Change may be threatening to private insurers because they have the most money to lose. But whose side is Congress on? All I know is that if the insurance companies win, we lose. Names of those arrested: - Anna Brelje (Political Director, Mpls Regional Labor Federation) - Pamela Twiss (Program and Organizing Director, TakeAction Minnesota) - Julie Schnell (President, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota) - Sean Anderson (Organizer with SEIU Local 26) - Diane Brennan (Small Business Owner, Grandmother and ISAIAH Leader) - Mary Rosenthal (SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and former UnitedHealth Group employee)

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