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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
Improvements at Edina park showcase climate change protection
State pulling leases for long-stalled Mesabi Metallics taconite mine
Minnetonka district agrees to return missing bell and wheel to Minneapolis Park Board
St. Paul schools eye ethnic studies requirement
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Sports
Kaprizov's two quick goals force overtime, but Wild loses 3-2 to Vegas
Loss to Memphis spoils another special night for Edwards
Twins can't capitalize on big opportunity in 3-1 loss to Texas
Passing ability will earn Achonwa more playing time with Lynx
Business
Summer bookings take off for Sun Country
Valleyfair, struggling to fill jobs, raises pay for food workers to $15 an hour
State pulling leases for long-stalled Mesabi Metallics taconite mine
US stock indexes mixed as tech rebound fades; Peloton sinks
Opinion
Radical rhetoric on U policing is irresponsible
In Trump vs. Facebook, a split decision
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Senate Republicans threaten to cut state parks funding over 'clean cars' rule
Liz Cheney clings to GOP post as Trump endorses replacement
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Nation
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World
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Duluth
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Celebs
Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are getting divorced
Bruce Springsteen receives this year's Woody Guthrie Prize
Prince Harry, Jennifer Lopez make voices heard at Vax Live
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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.