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The 2009 Fringe Festival. The Bryant-Lake Bowl. The lines began early. From Travis Anderson's photo blog, "Fringe-chic."

For eleven beautiful days of summer, Minnesota catches Fringe Fever, hosting the largest unjuried performance festival in the United States. And, every year, MinnesotaPlaylist.com provides a completely subjective, utterly unfocused, randomly hysterical, unevenly insightful collection of blogs to help you cut your way through the shows, parties, and propaganda.

BLOG: BrokeAss Fringe

by Rebekah Rentzel • Aug. 15

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Was it Good for You? Finding your Fringe Value System.

BLOG: Death and dis-memberment

by Christina Ham • Aug. 11

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The End of the World? Not Until We Sing Some Songs First

BLOG: Soup to Nuts

by John Middleton • Aug. 15

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Dessert, anyone?

BLOG: Observance

by Mo Perry • Aug. 15

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Food for thought

BLOG: Prep, pomp, and circumstance

by Avye Alexandres • Aug. 15

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Circumstance: The Anton Kissbougel Technique

BLOG: Fringe Lab: Experimental Performance

by Sarah Wash • Aug. 18

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Fringe Lab 2011 Assessment Report

BLOG: Embedded

by Peter Hajinian • Aug. 16

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Final Dispatch

BLOG: Front of House from Behind the Lens

by Scott Pakudaitis • Aug. 14

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That's all folks!

BLOG: Black spandex and heavy breathing

by Laura Holway • Aug. 16

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Well, nice job! There were surprises, there was community, there was survival. 169 acts made it!

BLOG: Emotiolitical

by Adam Whisner • Aug. 15

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Change Agent and being an agent of change

Fringe-chic

by Travis Anderson • Jul. 8

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Travis Anderson masterfully welds photo essays around the themes, trends, and schemes that emerge at the 2009 festival. Masterfully.

Full-on Fringe

by Marya Hornbacher • Jul. 8

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Writer Marya Hornbacher attempted full-on immersion at the 2009 Fringe and comes out the other side transformed.

The "Real" Thing

by Matt Sciple • Jul. 8

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Matt Sciple uncovers a Unified Theatri-fringical Theory of Everything, and invents an art-making equation, while digging through 35+ shows at the Fringe.

Fringe Binge TV!

by Ben McGinley • Jul. 8

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Filmmaker and actor Ben McGinley drags his camera and his unique sense of humor around the 2009 Fringe Festival, taking in dance, talking to birds, and more.

Ignore This!

by John Middleton • Jul. 8

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John tries to write about dance, stalks technicians, peeks into the guts of the Fringe, fixes its iniquities - all while making us laugh.

Anna stalks Quinton Skinner

by Anna Sundberg • Jul. 8

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Anna stalks Quinton Skinner, Casebolt and Smith, boobs, and more. She shares her off-the-cuff obsessions and captures the wild spirit of 2009 Fringe.

Love at first sight

by Alan M. Berks • Jul. 8

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Over the course of eleven days of performance, I lose all critical perspective. The object of my idealistic love is a big, messy, erratic, many-headed monster.

How's your fringe show?

by MinnesotaPlaylist • May. 18

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The 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival is three months away. Have you already fallen behind?

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