Fridley on YouTube: 'Glee' Has Nothing on Stargazers Dancers

Watch students rehearse a number for the Fridley district arts fundraiser.

The local equivalent of the cast of "Glee" rehearses in this video teaser for the Fridley School District's annual Stargazers arts fundraiser, set for May 19, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., in the district auditorium at Fridley High School. Tickets Main theater: $10 per person Wings/balcony: $5 per person Purchase tickets online (credit card purchase through PayPal): Information Email: fridleystargazers@gmail.com Phone: 763-502-5077

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Fridley on YouTube: Jonathan Son Sings Adele at Fridley High School Variety Show

The spotlight was on and the audience was clapping along.

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Fridley on YouTube: Stargazers Teasers Are Getting Crazier

Move over, Monty Python—Check out Fridley Middle School's promo for Stargazers.

Fridley Middle School Principal and a few friends star in this short preview for the Fridley School District's annual Stargazers arts fundraiser, set for May 19, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., in the district auditorium at Fridley High School. Tickets Main theater: $10 per person Wings/balcony: $5 per person Purchase tickets online (credit card purchase through PayPal): Information Email: fridleystargazers@gmail.com Phone: 763-502-5077

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Fridley on YouTube: Stargazers Teaser

School staff didn't even spill their coffee during this number.

Check out the smooth moves in this short preview for the Fridley School District's annual Stargazers arts fundraiser, set for May 19, 2012.

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Fridley, Columbia Heights Students Honored in Congressional Art Competition

Artwork by Christine Wilda and Tawney Smart placed in the competition.

Two local students were honored for their artworks in Minneapolis Monday as part of the Congressional Art Competition. Christina Wilda of Columbia Heights High School and Tawney Smart of Fridley High School, both seniors, placed in a competition among student artists from schools in Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District, according to an announcement from the office of U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN).  Wilda tied for second place with Devin Aadland of the Perpich Center for Arts Education, and Smart won third-place honors. Artwork by first-place winner Claire Drysdale of Breck School will be part of a display at the U.S. Capitol. Thirty-six students from 15 high schools participated in the Fifth District competition. “The arts are the …

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VIDEO: 'Drowsy Chaperone' at Spring Lake Park High School

Get a taste of the performance that continues next weekend.

Here is a video snippet from Spring Lake Park High School production of "The Drowsy Chaperone"—which continues with three more performances this coming weekend. UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS AND VIDEOS TO THIS POST!

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EVENT: 'The Drowsy Chaperone' at Spring Lake Park High School

Performances of the musical are April 19–21 and 26–28.

See a show within a show as the music and theater departments at Spring Lake Park High School present "The Drowsy Chaperone," April 19–21 and 26–28. The performance schedule is: April 19 is preview night, with all seats priced at $5 each. The same bargain can be had for the matinee show on April 21. Otherwise ticket prices are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students. You can buy tickets at the auditorium or online, subject to availability.    

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EVENT: Open Reading at Banfill-Locke for National Haiku Poetry Day

Bring five poems to Tuesday evening haiku reading at Fridley arts center.

Celebrate National Haiku Poetry Day with Haiku Society members in an open reading Tuesday, 7 p.m., at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts in Fridley. Bring five haiku to read! (That's 85 total syllables!) Gary Lee Joyner will perform, and refreshments will be on hand.  Get limbered up by leaving a haiku or two in comments below. (If you're more the muse type, upload a photo to inspire others.)

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PHOTOS: $13 Tattoos on Friday the 13th at Fridley's Creative Images

Each Friday the 13th (three this year) they pack 'em in.

Customers crowded into Creative Images in Fridley on Friday for a Friday the 13th sale, when tattoos were only $13. It's a deal Creative Images offers every Friday the 13th, said D.J. Binczik from behind the counter as she greeted new arrivals. Customer No. 45 arrived at 5 p.m. Friday for a sale that started from noon to 10 p.m. On an average day, Binczik said, a tattoo artist there might have two to three appointments or seven or eight walk-ins. A Regular Marc Mihelich's $13 tattoo was a pair of dice on his heavily decorated left arm. The Fridley resident has a spade with the number 13 from the last Friday the 13th, in January. (There's another coming in July.) Mihelich said he comes in "whenever I get the itch or have a couple extra …

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