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About Me

Dwight Hobbes has written for ESSENCE, Reader's Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, Mpls/St. Paul, MN Law & Politics, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Saint Paul Almanac 2009, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Circle, Insight News where he wrote the opinion column "Something I Said" and is lead arts critic. He contributes the commentary column "Hobbes In The House" to Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder and does a TV version for Spectator (MTN-Ch. 17) over community access cable in Minneapolis. And has spoken his mind over National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio and KMOJ in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Was regularly featured as guest commentator on NewsNight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul. His plays are Shelter - produced at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues - produced by Mixed Blood Theatre in Point of Revue, selected for Bedlam Theatre's 10-Minute Play Festival and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can't Always Sometimes Never Tell - produced by Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Island University, reading at The Kennedy Center and published in the anthology CENTER STAGE, In the Midst - produced by Long Island University, starring Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke on the "Farewell To August Wilson" panel at the Guthrie Theater, broadcast on Conversations With Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ). He's been interviewed on WCCO's "Steele Talkin'" by Jearlyn Steele and on "UNOBSTRUCTED" (BlogTalkRadio) by Alaina R. Alexander.Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single "Atlanta Children" (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Island/NYC area, including The Other End, Kenny's Castaways and My Fathers Place. He fronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, Hobbes has opened for David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at Terminal Bar, sat in with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley at Sol Testimony's Soul Jam, The New Congress at Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille's Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops in at the occasional open mic around town. And is in production for "Angels Don't Really Fly", a mini-EP with guests Alicia Wiley, Yohannes Tona, Aaron Cosgrove, Steph Devine and J.D. Steele.

My Interests

Pretty much anything that ain't boring and some things that are.

I'd like to meet:

Yaphet Kotto, Paula Jai Parker, Christopher Walken

Music:

Eclectic. No, not electric. Eclectic.

Movies:

A Raisin In The Sun, Brother From Another Planet, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, One False Move, Deuces Wild, Bebe's Kids. 8MM. And anything with either a good story to it or starring Clint Eastwood.

Television:

NYPD Blue. Law & Order. X-Files. Hannah Montana (sue me). Girlfriends. Outer Limits. The Shield. Scrubs. The View (I'm sorry, but Sheri Shepherd flips my switch!).

Books:

Illusions by Richard Bach, The Man Who Cried I Am, The Primitive, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Ann Petry's The Street. Rubyfruit Jungle.

Heroes:

Richard Pryor. My cat, "Butch". Dick Gregory. James Baldwin, Dylan Thomas, Bobby Womack, Laura Nyro, Jimi Hendrix, Luther Allison, The Last Poets.

My Blog

Mean Streets

Making It on Mean Streets read here
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:06:00 PST

Something I Said/Non-Misogynist Hip-Hop

For some reason, far too many folk have it in their heads that to authentically convey the urban aesthetic is to cuss with every other word and, as much as one can, denigrate women. Such, believe it ...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:26:00 PST

Music/Erica West

from Insight NewsTalent on the order of Twin Cities-based R&B songbird Erica West doesnt, to quote the old saw, come along every day. More the point, music lovers indeed are lucky if such a vocalist...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:37:00 PST

Books/"Morgan Freeman: A Biography"

from Insight NewsFew actors are as memorable as Morgan Freeman. Accordingly, before you turn the first page, it is a tantalizing prospect to read Morgan Freeman: A Biography (Barricade Books, $24.95)...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:34:00 PST

Books/"Tangled Roots" author Angela Henry interview

from Insight NewsMystery author Angela Henrys "Tangled Roots" (Sepia/Kimani Press $16.95), is an engaging experience that escalates into exhilaration with taut drama, intermittent comic relief and a j...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:27:00 PST

Film/The Skeleton Key, Angel Heart

from Insight NewsEver since The Serpent and the Rainbow, a 1988 fact-based film in which folk were plagued by supernatural possession, the less I knew about hoodoo, the better I liked it. Not that I ...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:01:00 PST

Music/Joto

from Pulse of the Twin CitiesIn February, Mint Condition frontman Stokley Williams talked about a spin-off he and some cohorts had put together, a Latin jazz ensemble, Joto. It was him on drums with ...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:19:00 PST

Video/Mint Condtiion "Live from the 9:30 Club"

from Pullse of the Twin CitiesMint Conditions Live From The 9:30 Club (DVD) is a stone cold sucker-punch. And you dont have to be a fan to feel it. If its your first exposure, youre hit hard as Stok...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:05:00 PST

Music/Susheela Raman

from Insight NewsSusheela Raman is a phenomenally gifted recording artist. And, since she has no plans to perform around here in the foreseeable future, one is well advised to get her newest, Music f...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:35:00 PST

SIS/Community Access Cable

from Insight NewsOther areas may not do too badly, but Twin Cities community access cable viewers could be in for a bad experience. In keeping with its historically finite wisdom, the U.S. Congress i...
Posted by Dwight Hobbes on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:34:00 PST