Courtesy Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts

Eric Wheeler Interact's 2011 production of 'JOY!' with Kat Corey and Ryan Lee

The Twin Cities lost a great actor this week. Eric Vernon Wheeler, who had Down Syndrome, started his acting career 22 years ago at the age of 20 in a show called We're All in This Together. It was the first production by Interact Theatre (now Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts). After his last performance with Interact on Saturday, Wheeler died on Tuesday, May 21 from cancer. He was 42 years old. 
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For many decades, Roger Ebert's reviews influenced what movies people saw in the theater. His career included 46 years at the Chicago Sun-Times and 31 years on TV, including At the Movies with Gene Siskel (and later on with Richard Roeper).

Earlier this week Ebert announced his retirement, and the return of his cancer. This afternoon the Times announced that Ebert had lost his long battle with thyroid and salivary gland cancers.

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A Jack Edwards designed costume from The Misanthrope

Costume and fashion designer Jack Edwards lived a life in clothes. Though his early career efforts took him to Broadway, Hollywood, and opera houses around the world, Minnesotans may be most familiar with his work through his 18 years as costume director for the Guthrie.

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From Broadway to the Guthrie to Holidazzle: A Jack Edwards retrospective

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Tom Sweeney, Star Tribune

Suzy Greenberg

Members of the Twin Cities art scene were shocked and saddened when artist and curator Suzy Greenberg died suddenly on August 16 of natural causes. As the founder of the Soo Visual Arts Center, a non-profit art gallery located in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood, Greenberg showcased a wide variety of national and local talent, including graffiti artist Deuce Seven,  Curster toymaker Erin Currie, and large-scale muralist Greg Gossel.

Tonight, friends, family, colleagues, and art lovers will honor her memory with an art show and gathering.

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"Wild" Bill Bauer was a staple of the local comic scene. He was beloved and revered amongst local talent, including Scott Hansen, Louie Anderson, and Alex Cole. He died Thursday, August 30 in his sleep at his home in Inver Grove Heights. He was 62.

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Self Portrait by Daniel Kaniess

Dan and Car #3

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​In 1954 Howard Weisskopf founded Ragstock, a Minneapolis-based chain that sells new and used clothing. Over the decades, the business has expanded to include 10 stores in Minnesota, as well as shops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa.

According to an obituary that recently ran in the Star Tribune, Weisskopf died on September 26. He is survived by Gloria, his wife of 66 years; three daughters; and a handful of grandchildren.