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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
Family members say no signs of trouble before St. Paul murder-suicide
A Hopkins psychic admits to swindling $130K from 2 clients
Cambridge, Minn., recovering after floods
Minneapolis nonprofit Appetite for Change receives record $1.5M gift
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Sports
49ers had 'great hopes' for Adofo-Mensah. Now he's on the opposing team.
Neal: Gardenhire's antics helped keep the Twins clubhouse loose
What could new Big Ten media rights deal mean for the Gophers?
MRI shows no damage to shoulder of Twins starting pitcher Mahle
Business
3M earplug bankruptcy: Shrewd plan or sham?
Companies are tracking workers' productivity more, including UnitedHealth and Allina
Minnesota adds 19,100 jobs; jobless rate still at historic low
Asian markets mixed after Wall St gains on jobs data
Opinion
Counterpoint: No double standard, just free speech for all
Up to date on polio, other vaccinations?
Editorial cartoon: Christopher Weyant on the state of America
Readers Write: Renaming Patrick Henry High School, Rep. Liz Cheney, hearing aids, First Amendment
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Duran Duran will kick off its U.S. tour in Minnesota as newly elected Rock & Roll Hall of Famers
Neal Justin: 'She-Hulk: Attorney at Law' makes a strong opening statement
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Expect glorious music and a bug or two at 'Magic Flute' in gardens and parks
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3 charged with killing Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in 2018
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World
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Curious Minnesota
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Duluth
Gov. Tim Walz celebrates 'Free the Growler' push, July job creation Up North
Duluth City Council approves park levy referendum on November ballot
Charge: Iron Range driver was extremely drunk when he caused crash that killed other motorist
Jury finds Chisholm man guilty of murder in 1980s cold case
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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.