Senior Editor, Arts & Entertainment | Features

Tim Campbell is the senior arts & entertainment editor for the Star Tribune, supervising coverage of music, theater, movies, art and TV. In a four-decade career, he has worked in the news department, business, sports and graphics, and was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative project.

Campbell's current job reflects a longstanding passion for the arts, having grown up on a steady diet of Guthrie Theater shows, and exhibitions and concerts at Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In his free time, he loves to kayak on Lake Superior and listen to jazz, rock and soul.


The big gigs: 10 concerts to see in the Twin Cities this week

Concert highlights for June 24-29 include Carly Rae Jepsen and other Pride music, the TC Jazz and Blue Ox music fests, Wallows and Brandy Clark.


His son Jimmy Jam made it a doubly 'Happy Birthday' for Minneapolis music great Cornbread Harris

The newly anointed Rock Hall of Famer joined his bluesman dad for a 95th birthday bash.


His son Jimmy Jam made it a doubly 'Happy Birthday' for Minneapolis music great Cornbread Harris


The big gigs: 10 concerts to see in the Twin Cities this week

Concert highlights for April 7-13, including Santana, Arooj Aftab, Ukrainian group Dakha Brakha and Slipknot


10 best things our critics are watching this week

From John Stamos' new Disney series to a Dolly Parton tribute, here's what we're tuning into.


Americans shouldn't be afraid to inspect our collective 'basement,' says famed author Isabel Wilkerson

She discusses her new book about the structural roots of racism for a Talking Volumes audience.


Pandemic affected how author Sarah M. Broom feels about home

The bestselling writer of "The Yellow House" discusses her "obsession" in a Talking Volumes interview.


Music takes to the streets via Bands on Vans

See how the live-music series works as Nur-D performs in northeast Minneapolis.


Meet beloved nature writer Helen Macdonald – and her pet parrot

Interviewed via Zoom from her English cottage, the author introduced Talking Volumes guests to her housemate.


Famed author Claudia Rankine brings her conversation about race to Minnesotans via Zoom

Watch the writer's appearance as she opened our Talking Volumes book series.