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Top 10 must-see Minnesota music videos this week

Local Frames is a weekly column spotlighting the best new music videos featuring musicians and directors with Minnesota ties.This week launch right into the festivities with a new, erotically charged Atmosphere video, released to get people even more hyped for the big Soundset Festival taking place ... More >>

The best New Year's Eve jazz shows in the Twin Cities

News Year's Eve is perhaps the most universally bitched-about holiday. We come to expect long lines, impossible parking and cab situations, and clubs filled with amateurs crowding the bar with obnoxious shot requests.But for live music junkies, New Year's Eve in the Twin Cities is Mecca, with most v ... More >>

Reckless Ones

October's fest streak continues this Week in Food

Another week in October, another series of epic, not-to-be-missed festivals this Week in Food -- make space in your stomach and your weekend. 10/8 Sun Street Breads is hosting its first beer dinner (you read that correctly) tonight by featuring a "A Road Trip Down Highway 61" with heaps of Fulton ... More >>

Maps & Atlases, the Weeknd, Jimmy Cliff, and more

Reckless Ones

Reckless Ones

Dr. Dog at First Avenue, 2/17/12

Photo by Reed Fischer​Dr. DogFirst Avenue, MinneapolisFebruary 17, 2012Dr. Dog turned the Mainroom stage into their own cozy living room Friday night at a sold-out First Avenue. They decorated their immediate surroundings with numerous lamps, afghans, and other random comforts of home including ... More >>

Reckless Ones: Best under-the-radar Minneapolis band

They're big in France

Kaivama's Sara Panjunen and Jonathon Rundman reflect on their new Finnish-American project

​One violin, one guitar, lots of talent.  Sara Pajunen and Jonathon Rundman reflect a piece of the Northwoods in their Finnish flavored sound, pulling creativity from their childhoods in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Hibbing, MN, respectively.  Pajunen fuses the Finnish pelimanni f ... More >>

Red Bull Open Ice

International Ski Jumping Competition

Niklas Backstrom: The Wild's stone-cold secret weapon

Goalie is cool as ice between the pipes

Nordic Lights Film Fest

Kramarczuk's Kielbasa Festival

Minneapolis 6th most eco-friendly city in the world

Photo: aturkusBetter than a Pacific island paradise?​OK, so we didn't win the title of the most eco-friendly city in the world. That title goes to Vienna, Austria, according to Mercer, which ranks 221 cities around the world as a way of helping companies and governments pay employees fairly w ... More >>

US Air Guitar Championships: Minneapolis Regional

Moose No. 4073 wanders into Duluth

So Duluth resident Dawn Bloom looks up one day and there's a big moose in her yard, accessorized with a radio collar. Mike Schrage, a biologist for the Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa tells the Duluth News Tribune that No. 4073 was collared northeast of Finland, Minn., in February 2008. No one's sure ... More >>

International Ski Jumping Competition

U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team vs. WCHA Women's All-Stars

US Air Guitar Championships: Minneapolis Regional

Air Guitar Championships return to the Twin Cities this Friday

And now for something completely different.

P.O.S. heads to Europe

After a long Spring tour, P.O.S. hops across the Atlantic to tour his outstanding new disc, "Never Better."

The Songs We Can't Escape

Nordic Roots Festival: Waltz With Me and Vasen

Nordic Roots Festival: Hedningarna; Detektivbyran

Nordic Roots Festival: Frigg

Nordic Roots Festival: Hoven Droven; Hurdy Gurdy

Nordic Roots Festival: Triakel

Nordic Roots Festival 2007

Korpiklaani: Tervaskanto

Air Guitar Championships: AC/DC, Airness, Awesome

Help!

Stephanie and Kelly Kinnunen didn't quit their jobs, sell off their worldly possessions, and move into a motel in order to launch a new magazine about patio furniture

11/02 Morning Communiqué

Various artists: "A Tom Moulton Mix"

Shaken and Stirred

Martinis for purists and lovers of fruity mixed drinks alike

Lau Nau: Kuutarha

Rapture: Songs for the Withering

Staying Power

A Finnish film festival testifies to centuries of determination

Skin Flicks

The naked truth about putting together a regional showcase like the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. And a revealing body of blurbs about the best and the not-best of the fest.

Jay Gilligan's First Law

A body at rest becomes art in motion

The King's Men

Reviewing local players and plays in the spirit of cultural authority Larry King

Norse Code

What draws young Nordic musicians to medieval songs about wolves ripping babies from the womb?

Over There

While American critics script eulogies for foreign film, this year's festival at Cannes suggests that reports of its death are an exaggeration

Norse by Midwest

This weekend's Nordic Roots Festival unearths connections to the Old World

New Jack Swedes

A Grab Bag of Reels

Artists Of The Year

We list the best of the best of 1997.

MUSIC: Väsen

Virtual Passport