Recent content from Rachel Hutton
Adult Minnesotans have rediscovered the comfort of snow pants: 'Warmth is cool'
Adults embraced snow pants this winter, and wondered why they gave up the warmth they knew as kids.
Rose Bayuk, Army nurse and nursing home director, dies at 105
Rose Bayuk was a feisty 5-footer who, at 104, still hosted near-weekly dinner parties for her large circle of family and friends.The former Army nurse…
Daughter's death drives Minneapolis woman to fight 'fire' of teen suicide
After her 13-year-old daughter took her own life, a Minneapolis mom devoted herself to addressing the teen suicide epidemic at its roots.
The art (and science) of making outdoor ice rinks in Minnesota
Minneapolis rink-makers wield fire hoses and flood boxes, shovel ice shavings, and fight frost boils to provide smooth ice.
Together in life and death: Couples battle coronavirus
As COVID-19 has ravaged the elderly, couples who have spent nearly a lifetime together are dying together — days, sometimes hours apart. For some families, the losses are even more painful because a vaccine was almost within reach.
Minnesota photographers offer comfort through funeral and remembrance photography
Funeral photography, while still rare, is growing in the age of COVID as families seek new ways to remember.
Tide overs and rain checks: How to cope with changes to your holiday tradition
Modified and postponed plans can still tap the surprising benefits we get from rituals.
Food, music and big names come to Great Northern Festival for 2021
A new executive and artistic director adds culinary, cultural, and artistic programming.
Minneapolis' Sweets Kendamas sells the hottest quarantine toy you've never heard of
A Minneapolis man is fueling the global craze for the hottest quarantine toy you've never heard of.
Minnesota's expanded Great Northern festival is a 'bright light' for the winter ahead
Here’s something else the pandemic has put in short supply: things to look forward to. So this year’s Great Northern (Jan. 28 through…