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Fatoumata Diawara at Cedar Cultural Center, 4/12/13

Fatoumata DiawaraCedar Cultural Center, MinneapolisFriday, April 12, 2013 There wasn't a n'goni or djembe to be seen or heard at the Cedar Friday night. Fatoumata Diawara played a flashy cherry-red guitar any aspiring teen metalhead would drool over, and she fronted what looked like a standard rock ... More >>

The best Twin Cities concerts: 4/10-4/16

If you can brave the weather, there's plenty of music going on this week. Thursday, twenty one pilots play a sold-out show at the Triple Rock while Boz Scaggs makes an appearance at the State Theatre. Friday night, Zoo Animal will be at the Icehouse, Ex Nuns rock Cause, Edward the Confesso ... More >>

Fatoumata Diawara

Voices of Strength: New Dance and Theater by Women from Africa

Fall Arts Guide 2012

Dobet Gnahoré

Toubab Krewe

Ghana goes down

David Beckham urinates on U.S. soil

Are You Happy?

'Chronicle of a Summer' dares to ask the important question

Thank you for talking to me, Africa

One Nation, Invisible

The untold story of local hip hop: 1981 to 1996

Blows Against the Death Penalty

Local attorney Sandra Babcock recently won a major international court decision

Continental Drift

Little Monrovia

They can quote the Constitution and sing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Their ancestors hail from Virginia. Meet the Twin Cities' newest African immigrants.

Where in the World

Lemon Laws: Choreographer Ralph Lemon bravely attempts a cross-cultural dance experiment that "really shouldn't work."