Reporter | Arts and Culture

Jenna Ross is an arts and culture reporter.

Jenna Ross is an arts and culture reporter with the Star Tribune. She specializes in newsy features and in-depth profiles, spotting emerging issues and intriguing characters. The national Society for Features Journalism honored her work with a first-place prize for "Specialty Writing Portfolio" in 2021. Before joining the paper's arts and entertainment team, she wrote about regional and breaking news as an enterprise reporter. Her favorite stories on that beat seemed to involve big lakes: She captured the winter surfing scene on Lake Superior and profiled the longtime teacher at the one-room schoolhouse on Lake of the Woods. A Duluth native, she published her first newspaper, "The Ross Report," when she was 11 years old.


New photos show Timothée Chalamet on set as Bob Dylan

The Minnesota bard is an executive producer of the film, which is being shot in New York City.


Before finale, get to know Daisy Kent, the bubbly Minnesotan on 'The Bachelor'

Her family in Becker, Minn., describes what it was like for her to lose, then gain, her health and her hearing: "It's not all sunshine and roses — and she knows that."


Two Minnesotans are among the 19 new members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Composer Libby Larsen and author Charles Baxter have earned international reputations from their Minneapolis homes.


Daisy Kent brings 'The Bachelor' home to Minnesota for Hallmark movie-worthy date

The 25-year-old from Becker, Minn., received one of Joey Graziadei's three roses during Monday night's episode of the reality TV show.


The last masked places: Why these small businesses and nonprofits still require masks

A bakery. A bookstore. A bike shop. More than two years after the state dropped its mandate, these Twin Cities spaces ask patrons and employees to mask up.


'Bachelor' picks Daisy Kent for hometown dates: 'We're going to Minnesota!'

On a date in Canada, the 25-year-old nabbed one of the last four roses. Next week, the show will feature Becker, Minn., where she grew up.


St. Paul Chamber Orchestra to cut three suburban venues

To grapple with reduced audiences and philanthropy, the nonprofit will no longer play in Wayzata, Arden Hills and Stillwater. But it will still play at nine venues.


Minnesotan Daisy Kent makes final six on 'The Bachelor'

The 25-year-old watched Monday night's episode with "the most important people in my life."


Murder mystery movie 'Unholy Communion' filmed in St. Paul

A first-time author and a longtime director have teamed up to make a noir shot along the city's West 7th corridor, "like a sound stage in itself."


'The Golden Bachelorette' is a go. But will it star Minnesotan Leslie Fhima?

ABC-TV announced Saturday the show will air in the fall.