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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
Showdown over DEI issues won't lead to Anoka-Hennepin shutdown, superintendent says
Daughter sues St. Paul, two officers in Yia Xiong's killing
A Minnesota sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to come home, 83 years later
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school district selects new superintendent
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Sports
Vikings mock draft: seven rounds, eight picks and, yes, one quarterback
Scoggins: Worried about costly trade up in draft for QB? Vikings bosses shouldn't be.
Reusse: Shaver was 'Voice of the North Stars' and an all-time great guy
Castro's three-run birthday blast helps Twins beat White Sox
Business
St. Cloud warehouse lays off hundreds of workers as Publishers Clearing House downsizes
Fairview sees financial upturn despite $189M operating loss last year
Longtime downtown Fargo staple Zandbroz Variety closing in June
Ramstad: Health care is a tough arena for AI to make a difference
Opinion
In Minnesota, statistical gloom amid the hope of a progressive-led boom
Taiwan policy must be a campaign issue
Editorial cartoon: Anything but the news
Readers Write: State Sen. Nicole Mitchell, pro-Palestine protests, Third Precinct
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Yuen: Lynx No. 1 pick Pili finds 'blessing' fueling dreams of Samoan, Indigenous kids
TV review: Bon Jovi documentary goes down in a blaze of boredom
Kao Kalia Yang, Edel Rodriguez and others bring us gorgeous new picture books
Pulitzer Prize-winning Minneapolis author Louise Erdrich announces new book
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Reusse: Shaver was 'Voice of the North Stars' and an all-time great guy
Al Shaver, who had a premier standing among Minnesota sports radio voices, died Monday at 96. He made many friends and called it like he saw it.
Chip Scoggins
Scoggins: Worried about costly trade up in draft for QB? Vikings bosses shouldn't be.
If the Vikings on Thursday night draft a quarterback who becomes a star, you won't remember what they paid to get him.
Jennifer Brooks
Minnesota state senator's burglary arrest puts private family drama in the election year spotlight
Public waits to learn more after state Sen. Nicole Mitchell was arrested in a relative's home.
Patrick Reusse
Reusse: There's no doubt Finch is the right coach for the Wolves
Chris Finch is a finalist for NBA Coach of the Year, but he brings more to the table than just victories, including lessons learned in faraway places.
Politics
Minnesota Senate GOP files ethics complaint against Sen. Nicole Mitchell
Supreme Court appears skeptical that state abortion bans conflict with federal health care law
Minnesota TikTokers react to app's ban in the U.S.
Investigator says Trump, allies were uncharged co-conspirators in plot to overturn Michigan election
Nation
Arizona indicts 18 in election interference case, including Giuliani and Meadows
Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
About 1 in 4 US adults 50 and older who aren't yet retired expect to never retire, AARP study finds
Columbia University cites progress with Gaza war protesters after encampment arrests
World
Italy halts loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art following dispute over 'Doryphoros' sculpture
Spain's prime minister says he will consider resigning after wife is targeted by judicial probe
TikTok may be banned in the US. Here's what happened when India did it
Rush hour chaos in London as 5 military horses run amok after getting spooked during exercise
Curious Minnesota
Why do so many Minnesota homeowners get free roofs after a hailstorm?
What are the financial pros and cons of retiring in Minnesota?
Introducing the Curious Minnesota Collection. Every question we've answered — now in one place
How did Faribault become home to Minnesota's deaf and blind academies?
Celebs
Summer Movie Guide: Virtually all the movies coming to theaters and streaming from May to Labor Day
The Big Gigs: 10 best concerts to see in the Twin Cities this week
Photographer alleges he was forced to watch Megan Thee Stallion have sex and was unfairly fired
Video shows Alec Baldwin smacking phone away from woman demanding he say 'Free Palestine'
Inspired
Female inductee in Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame is flying high
Driver pulled from burning car on I-94 in St. Paul thanks good Samaritans for saving his life
73 years later, St. Peter man finally getting Purple Heart
The story of Hercules the cat: Rescued in 2022, Target model in 2024
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Laurie Hertzel is senior editor for books at the Star Tribune, where she has worked since 1996.