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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

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

BLOG: Death and dis-memberment

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

BLOG: Soup to Nuts

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Dessert, anyone?

BLOG: Observance

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Food for thought

BLOG: Prep, pomp, and circumstance

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Circumstance: The Anton Kissbougel Technique

BLOG: Fringe Lab: Experimental Performance

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Fringe Lab 2011 Assessment Report

BLOG: Embedded

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Final Dispatch

BLOG: Front of House from Behind the Lens

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That's all folks!

BLOG: Black spandex and heavy breathing

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

BLOG: Emotiolitical

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Change Agent and being an agent of change

Fringe-chic

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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

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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

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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!

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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!

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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

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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

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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?

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

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emilyrschmidt: I made a batch of iced coffee. I cleaned under my bed. I organized my desktop. I've had 4 shots of espresso. And now...I write. #mnfringe

stenchen_: @ollie_dunk was on my way home but ended walking past the DofE and lending my support to the #MNPL cup final

maxthemuppet: First read-through is tonight!! #mnfringe http://t.co/UOjEaUYn

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