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Just released 1970 Bob Dylan album features his sessions with George Harrison
Under a European copyright law, the oft-bootlegged recordings were issued in a limited three-disc collection.
Sundance Film Fest hitting close to home
The annual festival, usually in Utah, will switch to virtual and remote sites in 2021, including Minneapolis.
Illusion Theater is goin' south
The organization will continue to develop new work in a home in south Minneapolis.
'Mannequin trees' deck the halls at virtual holiday exhibition
Part-Christmas tree, part-mannequin, works at the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery explore Black culture.
'Purple Lane' glows Prince-ly at Minnesota State Fair holiday lights show
Dig if you will the icicles, the moose, the snowflakes and more at the drive-through Glow Holiday Festival at the State Fairgrounds.
Coronavirus shuts down Twin Cities museums again
Twin Cities museums will be closed for at least four weeks.
Minneapolis actor to lead New York theater
Zach Curtis, once a mainstay on Twin Cities stages, will take over theater company near Binghamton, N.Y.
Minneapolis College of Art and Design's annual art sale goes virtual
Students and recent alumni sell their artworks for $1-$1500 through a giant, searchable database.
Remembering Bruce Swedien, the father of Twin Cities recording studios and Michael Jackson's engineer
In 1953, he founded Minneapolis' (still-operating) premier studio before working with Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand and Miles Davis.
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis release new slow-jam single with Babyface
The song is expected on the first album starring the hit-making Minneapolis producer-songwriters as recording artists.
Fixing the world one bird feeder at a time
Fixation -- a book with broad application
Some notes on climate
Not encouraging
Similarities: Maine and Minnesota birds
Books for each compared
'Flores Oscuras' Halloween show explores real-life terrors people of color face
Xochi de la Luna's two-night performance will be Friday and Saturday at Chicago & Lake in Minneapolis.
Minnesota artists make buttons and stickers to get out the vote
Nonpartisan voter turnout initiative distributes 40,000 artist-made buttons and stickers.
Minneapolis music hero Tony Glover's archives to be auctioned including rare interviews with Dylan, Hendrix
The collection includes records, autographed books by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, and signed correspondence from Joan Baez, Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan.
Blue jays love peanuts
An entertaining peanut feeder
Here is a cardinal nest
Friction holds it together
Local
Lisa Sayles-Adams, longtime Twin Cities school leader, makes case for Minneapolis superintendent job
Gov. Tim Walz appoints new Hennepin County judges
'Christmas City' is big business in Duluth
Lawsuit: Minneapolis police shot, injured man with projectile at bus stop during unrest
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Sports
Grocholski scores career-high 26 as Gophers women trounce Norfolk State
Former Wild coach Evason on firing: 'You just know. You have a feeling'
UMD football player who transferred from North Dakota State dies at 22
Neal: This squad, from Minnesota and all over, is off to the Final Four
Business
Ramstad: Minnesota will never see an economic force like the one created by women in last 40 years
Lawsuit targets Cargill, other food companies for child labor in cocoa supply chain
Minnesota's inaugural racial equity index shows progress, but gaps remain
Predictions of soaring costs spark debate over Minnesota's community solar program
Opinion
Minnesota business regulation isn't pretty
Picking a state flag is no easy task
Editorial cartoon: Congressional candidate
Readers Write: New state flag, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, car-sharing, taxpayer money
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Curtains to rise again at Park Square Theatre in St. Paul
Classic French chicken dish embraces garlic — 40 cloves of it
Minnesota-made bonbons win awards at international chocolate competition
St. Paul company raises the hot honey heat with Ghost Honey
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Can we not talk about it for a while? It seems a strange request, because we don’t talk about it much, specifically. It’s like…
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At Art Institute, doll's disappearance sparked conversation about race; now, she's back
She was removed quietly from an elaborate, three-story dollhouse at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. But the mysterious disappearance of the tiny doll — a…
Gail Rosenblum
St. Paul exhibit tackles mental health: 'People don't realize how hard it is'
A man sits alone in his living room, immersed in an inner dialogue about his depression. In a dark forest, foreboding creatures approach, only their…
Politics
Biden visits Boebert's district to reject Republican criticism of green policies
Gov. Tim Walz appoints new Hennepin County judges
Want to pick up vehicle tabs with less hassle? Try a kiosk
Arizona officials who refused to canvass election results indicted by grand jury
Nation
Rosalynn Carter is eulogized before family and friends as husband Jimmy bears silent witness
Iconic Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center illuminated in midst of pro-Palestinian protest
Indian official plotted to assassinate Sikh separatist leader in New York, US prosecutors say
Feminist website Jezebel will be relaunched by Paste Magazine less than a month after shutting down
World
Israel releases more Palestinian prisoners on sixth day of Gaza truce after Hamas frees 16 hostages
Pope Francis is still having trouble breathing due to lung inflammation, Vatican says
US Air Force Osprey crashes off Japan during training, killing at least one of the eight on board
Britain's Parliament honors Elton John for his work fighting HIV in the UK and beyond
Curious Minnesota
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Ask a question now: What are you curious about, Minnesota?
How did Minnesota become the nation's top turkey state?
Celebs
Daryl Hall accuses John Oates of 'ultimate partnership betrayal' in plan to sell stake in business
Taylor Swift is Spotify's most-streamed artist of 2023, ending Bad Bunny's 3-year reign
Frances Sternhagen, Tony Award-winning actor who was familiar maternal face on TV, dies at 93
Actor Jonathan Majors appears in court as jury selection begins in New York assault trial
Inspired
Power couple Penny and Bill George believe in doing 'a force of good in the world'
Residents of Edina senior housing meet monthly to write, read, remember
Meet the woman who preserves and catalogs St. Paul's Rondo memories
A teen died. Now his friends visit his grandma for breakfast each week.
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Bird migration report
Good to better upcoming
Pity the birds in Phoenix
Birds don't like it any better than people do.
Lucinda Williams will stream series of themed concerts to benefit First Avenue, the Dakota
"Lu's Jukebox" kicks off Oct. 22 with a Tom Petty tribute, followed by salutes to Southern soul, 1960s country, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and holiday tunes.
SooVAC gallery reopens with three new exhibitions about the Black experience, masculinity and abstraction
The Minneapolis gallery requires masks and is open at reduced capacity and hours.
Annual Red Wing arts fest goes hybrid in-person and virtual
The COVID-friendly event is outdoors and socially distanced.
