Think Fast: Kushner, Titanic, and Chicago Coke

Playwright Tony Kushner has asked that no national reviewers critique the Minneapolis production of his world-premiere play at the Guthrie Theater — a sign he feels his newest work is not ready for the national spotlight and a potential blemish on the theater’s celebration of the Pulitzer Prize-winner. More here.

Pictures courtesy of MPR and Coucou Circus. Tony Kushner’s epic Tony and Emmy-winning “Angels In America” portrayed on right picture.

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Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, has died, having been the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

More here. (picture supplied by AP)

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People arrested in Chicago are more likely than prisoners in other major cities to test positive for drugs, according to a new report from the White House.