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Puppet Problems Performers Play Passionate Potheads September was a good month for Mankato Mosaic. Their string of play performances entitled “Puppet Problems” was a hit among audiences at venues such as the Mankato Event Center, Mankato Brewery, the What’s Up Lounge and other community stage venues around Southern Minnesota. This quirky play starts with a young man living in his apartment with his girlfriend and their roommate, Fernando, a Chicano party animal with a taste for booze, women, marijuana and cocaine. Fernando caused tension between the couple, Frank and Jessica, in the Apartment, but one night Fernando snorts a little too much blow winds up dead on their couch. A funeral is held and soon after, Fernando’s tension-causing tactics come back in the form of a hand puppet. Fernando’s behaviors stay the same from where he left off. He leads Frank, his longtime Pal, on a path of destruction and self reflection until Frank finally lets Fernando go and runs off with his sweetheart (after she mashes Fernando’s puppet face in with her heel at a bar, of course). “Puppet Problems” was written by Mitch DeDeyn and is adapted from a short play of the same name. It was directed by Leslie Dupree Cady. Find color photos, video clips and the recorded interview of the director at slantedmag.com, facebook.com/slantedmag and youtube.com/slantedmagmn.
Photos taken at the Mankato Event Center, 12 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 1710 by Rob Lawson
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KMSU Station in Kato Celebrated 50 Yrs. KMSU, located in the Alumni Foundation Center near the Minnesota State University, Mankato Campus celebrated 50 years on air in September. Fuzzy from FuzzTalk Radio and other volunteer personalities discussed standup comedy at the Mankato Event Center with Zack Kolars a night before the shindig at KMSU that celebrated their 50 years of live broadcasting in the community.
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COVER/Feature ARTIST: JOSE “JOSIER” MORALES
Jose “Josier” Morales is an amazing tattoo artist in the Greater Mankato Area, where he lives and works. He is a Macabre-style sketch artist that prefers working in black, etching the finest details with his absolute obsession with getting every detail right. Slanted Mag interviewed Morales in exchange for exclusive use of his art in the October Noir Issue. Here is what he had to say: Slanted Mag: Where are you from and how did you get to the Greater Mankato Area? Morales: Snnta Ana, California and I traveled across the U.S. to get to Minnesota with my family. Slanted Mag: How old were you when you started becoming interested in art and design? Morales: I was in like 5th grade, so probably 10 or 11 years old. When I was little, we used to battle between classmates for the best drawings. At first, I was intimidated, but it became so natural and so I stuck with it for the rest of my life. (Continue to next page)
Demons Sketch by Jose “Josier” Morales.
Jose “Josier” Morales is a tattoo artist that lives in Mankato and works at Impulse Tattoo in St. Peter. He moved to MN from Santa Ana, CA with his family.
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Slanted Mag: When did you design your first tattoo? Morales: My first tattoo was on myself, then on a family member. I’d hurt myself before I’d try it on someone else. I used a homemade machine back then. You’re not going to believe it, but now people actually trust me alot with their flesh. Slanted Mag: What kind of music do you listen to? Morales: Underground political rap, deathcore, death metal, that kind of stuff. Music plays a huge inspiration in my artwork and I’m also a musician. It just plays a huge role in my life. I can’t live without it. Slanted Mag: Talk about an interesting experience in the shop. Morales: Well, the other day I tattooed a 75-year-old woman and a 78-year-old man. I find that fascinating because even though some of their beliefs are quite reserved, they still want to get a tattoo. Back in the 40s, tattoo shops weren’t mainstream. You had to meet people at discreet locations like diners and work it out privately. People also wore less revealing clothing back then like suits that covered them. Slanted Mag: What inspires your work? Morales: Realism and horror. Also just things that I see in everyday life. Slanted Mag: What’s hardest for you to sketch? Morales: I can’t really think of anything. I think I can pretty much draw anything as a sketch. Slanted Mag: What color is dinosaur poop? Morales: Green.
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INQUIRY OF
LOVE by
LUKE
EXCEL,
PROSAIC MINDS
Image by Jose “Josier” Morales From a young age I was told that love is real, maybe not tangible, but real. It is always real whether it is present in our vision or not, that’s the idea we have been presented. Like the wind when it’s seen through a window we don’t feel it but we see the objects it runs its fingers through. Much like love, we don’t see it, but we see the lives it runs itself through. The lives it runs down in order to show how painful it can be. Just like the wind when it tears down the most stable of houses, love can tear down the most stable of hearts. Maybe that’s why we’re afraid of tornados. But the truth is those tornados start to form the day we become complacent with saying I love you. We start tearing down our own hearts the day love becomes a pinnacle. You’ve made love to someone’s soul only once you’ve hung upon her every batting eyelash. When you construct pure thoughts around single words spewed from a simple look, a distant gaze. The butterflies are let free to roam, and grow, with the knowledge that they’ll reappear when she does. Trustingly returning with every reoccurring touch of fingers, mingled laughs and magnetic forces keeping four eyes locked upon each other. Dreamers speak of passion, lovers speak of action, and passionate dreamers find their lovers in the fields of future actions. I remember you like an addict reminisces of smoke clouds. My love you had, but my life you took. You weren’t my drug though, no, you were the bloody rag used to clean up my torn apart heart. As I lay there dying, you did nothing to help. Ringing out the rag onto my decaying soul, reminding me of my failure. It didn’t end there, no, you laid your foot upon my chest as I coughed up any remainder of love I had for you. Crushing my rib cage, the same cage that had once held those all too fleeting butterflies. The gleam in your eyes blinded me; the dull blackness of the bottom of your shoes blinded me, as you walked over my visions of love. You see, baby, you didn’t break my heart, you massacred my entity. You left my remains for the wolves of decency. Pitiful looks and despair filled eyes as you mocked my love. When it comes to love I taught myself to walk, baby, when it comes to love you taught me to run. I ran my fingers through the serrated blade that was our love. It brought me a masochistic personality. It hurt me to love you; I’ve always wondered what a bleeding heart truly felt like. Not a broken heart, no, you were too fragile with the pain you dealt. Like two little kids playing in a field you’d trip me and ask why I was on the ground. Like two misguided adults you’d lie to me only to question my trust. She told me four simple words, one easy lie. I love you. Four fooling words and the fourth laid in her eyes, they said don’t. I don’t love you; it’s as painfully obvious as that, when your eyes meet the ground, when my words meet your ears. It’s the twiddling thumbs, it’s the erratic movements of those eyes I once saw myself spending eternity in. I gave her my heartstrings to play along with our loves melody. String by string she plucked them, wrapped them around her pretty little fingers and choked our future to its oh so timely death. She laid its corpse flat in my dormant heart, it’s a trophy babe, and you killed us. Ripped our stillborn love apart before it could even ask why. I wonder if I’ll ever learn that I can’t heal these wounds with metaphors. I wonder if you’ll ever know how I felt, when you put that shotgun to my heart and loaded it with your lies. This bleeding heart can’t hold your deceit on its tongue any longer. And I wish I could grind my teeth into cupids’ arrows. I need you to know how good of a marksman you’ve made me. My fingers have bled from shooting these arrows at every lie you’ve told me, trying to convince myself to love them.
Eagle River playing at Octoberfest in St. Peter
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CityArt On the Go
Pedestrians and drivers in City Center Mankato will notice something different about the traffic signal boxes that occupy space at street corners in Old Town along Riverfront Drive and Front Street. Beginning last week and continuing throughout the next, traffic signal boxes-which house electrical equipment to operate traffic lights-are being made over with colorful murals, turning infrastructure into CityArt On the Go. You might have mistaken Bill Bukowski for a graffiti artist last weekend if you saw him painting his mural “Sibley Park Garden” at the corner of Riverfront Drive and Cherry Street. To the contrary, Bill is an accomplished artist and art professor at Bethany Lutheran College, and one of 10 exceptional artists chosen to transform the gray, unassuming boxes with eye-catching art. The murals each have their own unique story to tell, and the placement of the art on the street allows a greater number of people to interact with the piece than if it were tucked away in a gallery. Three vinyl wraps have now been professionally installed by SignPro, with one more scheduled to be installed this week. The remaining six boxes will be painted by artists this weekend and are scheduled to be completed the week of September 16th. The City Center Partnership’s CityArt Committee and Twin Rivers Council for the Arts, which are collaborating on this project, will begin phase two next summer and plan to target additional boxes in the City Center for beautification. Funding for this project is being made possible by grants from the City of Mankato, Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Carl and Verna Schmidt Foundation, Mankato Area Foundation and financial support from the City Center Partnership and in-kind donations from SignPro. The City Center Partnership was created to serve City Center Mankato by developing the area into an attractive and dynamic place to live, shop, work and play. The City Center Partnership is devoted to enhancing the City Center’s vitality and visibility throughout the Greater Mankato community and beyond. Twin Rivers Council for the Arts, a regional arts and culture service organization, works with the public and their affiliates to ensure that arts and culture thrive in Greater Mankato. Twin Rivers is a nonprofit organization that advocates for the arts, cultivates public participation by connecting people to arts and culture, and creates partnerships between the business, cultural, and academic communities.
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Slanted • Octo ber 2013 4 1 This Is My Song: Music of Sibelius and Brahms kicks off the Mankato Symphony’s 2013-14 season: Oct. 6 Start Mankato, Minn. – September 17, 2013– Lose yourself in the sweeping music of two of the world’s greatest composers, Johannes Brahms and Jean Sibelius. Both Brahms and Sibelius are classicists at heart who will shake your very soul with soaring melodies, gorgeous dialogue, and dramatic gestures. Brahms’ sense of evolving harmony and melody has made the Second Symphony a timeless favorite of audiences and players since it was written in 1877. This concert is the first performance in the Mankato Symphony’s 213-14 season, These Are Our Songs. Joining our ensemble as a guest artist is RussianAmerican violinist Yevgeny Kutik. Hailed for his dazzling command of the violin, has become a highly sought-after artist on the concert stage worldwide and will lay bare the tempestuous soul of Finland. The program features Finlandia and the Violin Concerto in d minor, Op. 47 by Sibelius, and Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 by Brahms. Tickets are available through
mankatosymphony.com and the TRCA Box Office at 507387-1008 in advance, and at the door. Individual tickets Gold Section—Adult: $25.00 each Silver Section—Adult: $20.00 each Bronze Section—Adult: $15.00 each Any Section—Youth (Under 18 or with student ID): $5.00 each About YEVGENY KUTIK, violinist Hailed for his dazzling command of the violin and its repertoire, as well as a communicative immediacy that harkens back to the legendary Romantic masters, Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik has become a highly sought-after artist on the concert stage worldwide. Of special, personal significance, he was a featured performer at the 2012 March of the Living observances, playing at the Krakow Opera House and in front of over 10,000 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Early in 2012, Marquis Clas-
sics released Yevgeny Kutik’s highly acclaimed debut CD -”Sounds of Defiance,” featuring the music of Shostakovich, Schnittke, Pärt and Achron. Later in the year, he was the featured soloist with the newly formed All-Star Orchestra, recording Joseph Schwantner’s Soliloquy for Violin and Orchestra - The Poet’s Hour for a national broadcast on PBS. Comprised of distinguished American orchestral musicians from across the country, andunder the baton of Gerard Schwarz, the All-Star Orchestra taped eight programs in August 2012, all of which will be broadcast on National Television and then issued on DVD by Naxos. Yevgeny Kutik made his debut with Keith Lockhart and The Boston Pops in 2003 as the1st Prize recipient of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition. He was also awarded a 2006 Salon de Virtuosi Grant as well as the 2006 Tanglewood Music Center Jules Reiner Violin Prize. A native of Minsk, Belarus, Yevgeny Kutik immigrated to
the United States at the age of five. Shortly thereafter, he began violin lessons with his mother, Alla Zernitskaya, and continued with the late Zinaida Gilels. His other principal teachers have included Shirley Givens, Roman Totenberg and Donald Weilerstein. Mr. Kutik holds a bachelor’s degree (cum laude) from Boston University and a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory. Of special note, Yevgeny Kutik continues his close association with the United Jewish Federations of North America Speakers Bureau, annually performing throughout the United States to raise awareness and promote the assistance of refugees from around the world, a cause to which he is particularly dedicated. Yevgeny Kutik’s violin was crafted in Italy in 1915 by Stefano Scarampella, one of the finest 20th Century instrument makers. He makes his home in Boston. October 6, 2013 at 3pm Mankato West High School Auditorium.
2013 CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour: Last Chance to VOTE for People’s Choice Sculpture and Photo Only 3 weeks left to vote for your favorite sculpture in the CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour. The sculpture with the most votes will be named the “People’s Choice” winner and will be purchased the City Center Partnership for permanent installation this spring in Mankato’s City Center. To vote, simply pick up a brochure from any of the ballot boxes in the City Center, check which sculpture you like best and drop your vote into the ballot box or mail the ballot into the CCP Office at, PO Box 193, Mankato, MN 56002. Voting ends October 25th. Join in the CityArt Photo Contest by visiting the City Center Partnership Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/Mankato.CityCenter) and “Like” your favorite photo from the album titled,“CityArt Photo Contest People’s Choice”. The winning photo that receives the most “Likes” will receive a cash prize. Voting for the photo contest ends October 31st.
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