Harriet Island

Lilydale Park hikers witnessed man burning to death in apparent self-immolation

Two hikers out yesterday evening in St. Paul's Lilydale/Harriet Island Regional Park got an extremely grisly surprise when they came across a man engulfed in flames.SEE ALSO: White Bear Lake's sudden shrinkage: DNR sued by group demanding less water pumping Despite their efforts to save the man, inc ... More >>

Live Nation: River's Edge Music Festival on hiatus in 2013

The River's Edge Music Festival will not be back in 2013, Live Nation officials say. The $4.8 million, two-day event on St. Paul's Harriet Island debuted last June with headliners Dave Matthews Band and Tool, as well as the Flaming Lips, Scissor Sisters, Diplo, and several others spread over multipl ... More >>

Festa Italiana arrives this Week in Food

It's a packed Week in Food, with a wine-tasting club, Festa Italiana on Harriet Island, and a lesson in Argentine cooking. Luckily it's all spread out over the week, so if you're dedicated, there's no reason not to hit up each and every one. 9/18 Just because you're young doesn't mean you can't b ... More >>

Summit at 26 years: 'We're very true to ourselves'

See also: Summit Backyard Bash is Saturday Minnesota has seen a recent boom in local brewers, with startups ranging from Fulton to Harriet to the upcoming openings of Pour Decisions and HammerHeart Brewery. As the local scene gets ever more crowded, City Pages is taking the time to hear what local ... More >>

Poliça

IndiaFest

Irish Fair of Minnesota

15 gorgeous GIFs from River's Edge Music Festival 2012

Related:10 gorgeous GIFs from Rock the Garden 2012Review: River's Edge Music Festival Day 1, 6/23/12Review: River's Edge Music Festival Day 2, 6/24/12Slideshows: Music Day 1, Music Day 2, People Day 1, People Day 2  The very first River's Edge Music Festival is now a piece of Harriet Island lor ... More >>

River's Edge Music Festival Day 2, 6/24/12

River's Edge Music Festival 2with Dave Matthews Band, The Flaming Lips, Puscifer, Poliça, Awolnation, Diplo, Mutemath, Delta Spirit, K. Flay, AM & Shawn Lee, Mexican Institute of Sound, Civil Twilight, Hey Rosetta!, Kids These DaysHarriet Island, St. PaulSunday, June 24, 2012Related:Review: Riv ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: River's Edge, Foster the People, Collective Soul, Korn

The way to survive this weekend is lots of sunscreen and lots of water as River's Edge Music Festival comes to Harriet Island with big name bands like Tool and Dave Matthews Band. If fighting crowds in the heat is not your thing, Foster the People will be returning to Minneapolis and The Pines will ... More >>

Why hating Dave Matthews Band is less cool than liking them

Related:Tool's Maynard James Keenan: Metaphorically speaking, I just had a babyRiver's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineup & scheduleDave Matthews Band is Sunday's big draw for the inaugural River's Edge Festival on St. Paul's Harriet Island. Umpteen die-hard fans who buy the ticke ... More >>

Tool's Maynard James Keenan: Metaphorically speaking, I just had a baby

Related:Maynard James Keenan on recruiting Dave Matthews fans and getting the Scissor Sisters drunkRiver's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineup & scheduleThere are very few people with the mix of wit, intelligence, and eccentricity so honed as Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan. All ... More >>

SoundTown 2012 lineup: Jane's Addiction, Florence the Machine, & more

Related:Lollapalooza 2012 lineup announcedRiver's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineupOn the same day Lollapalooza unveiled its extensive slate, we get the details on the SoundTown Music and Camping Festival as well. The yearly fest in Somerset, Wisconsin, brings Jane's Addiction, Flore ... More >>

Spring Saint Paul Art Crawl

Quietdrive on writing Up or Down and growing up

Related:River's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineupQuietdrive release a new album for their holiday show5 Questions: Quietdrive's Kevin TruckenmillerMinneapolis band Quietdrive have just released their latest album, Up or Down, which chronicles the everyday life struggles the band went ... More >>

Polica make TV debut on Jimmy Fallon Wednesday, unveil U.S. tour

Related:SXSW: Polica as the road teamPolica at First Avenue (with cover shoot outtakes) River's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineupAlthough MInneapolis electro-percussive soul collective Polica aren't quite at the level of an Ellen DeGeneres shout-out yet, they're about to get a huge a ... More >>

Basilica Block Party 2012 lineup

Related:Rock the Garden Festival 2012 lineupRiver's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineupWilco's Minnesota dates: Rochester and Duluth and that's itToday, the lineup will be announced for the 2012 Basilica Block Party. As Cities 97 reveals each of the acts scheduled to perform, we will u ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2012 lineup announced, and it's a good one

Related: SoundTown 2012 lineup announced River's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineupYet another festival lineup came hurling toward the concert-going set late last night and it's a good one. This year's Lollapalooza performers include a bevy of top-tier Billboard-charting acts -- start ... More >>

Will River's Edge Music Festival 2013 bring Skrillex to St. Paul?

Related:River's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineupSoundset 2012 lineup announced, includes Big K.R.I.T.Slideshow: Skrillex at Skyway TheatreU2 at TCF Bank Stadium, 7/23/11 The inaugural running of the River's Edge Music Festival will bring Tool, Dave Matthews Band, Diplo, the Flaming ... More >>

River's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineup

Related:Death Cab For Cutie, Avett Brothers highlight Des Moines' 80/35 Fest line-upKid Dakota, Mayda, Bloodnstuff lead Lyn-Lake Street Fest lineupFeist, DeVotchKa, and Rufus Wainwright top Music in the Zoo's summer concert scheduleThe Live Nation-sponsored River's Edge Festival at Harriet Island ha ... More >>

Saint Paul Art Crawl

Harvest season means multicourse meals and food fests this week in food

A five-course Summit dinner this week at Wildfire​Based on the sheer volume of hefty multicourse dinners and food festivals that are hitting our inbox, it's clearly time to start laying on that seasonal layer of fat for insulation. 9/21 A Summit-themed five-course dinner? Hells yes. Wildfire ... More >>

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Minnesota Showboat Players

Taste of Minnesota now in bankruptcy

Taste of Minnesota, we bid you adieu​ The deadline for the owners of Taste of Minnesota to fight involuntary bankruptcy has passed. The historic festival is now officially dead. Not only are last year's owners bankrupt, but the city of St. Paul announced yesterday that no new Taste event would ... More >>

Taste of Minnesota ends in bankruptcy

Is financier Andy Faris to blame?

How Andy Faris ran Taste of Minnesota into bankruptcy

ZyckoAndy Faris ran Taste of Minnesota into Bankruptcy.​Five more people filed claims yesterday against the company that botched the historic Taste of Minnesota festival on Harriet Island and drove it into bankruptcy.This year's Fourth of July weekend event was a complete debacle. A combination of ... More >>

20.21 and Burger Moe's offer two solid buns this Week in Food

John LeechFeast with Fezziwig on Harriet Island. ​Mr. Fezziwig hosts a feast, Burger Moe's hosts Tim Mahoney, and 20.21 Chef Asher Miller hosts three seconds of ultimate relaxation this Week in Food. Monday 12/29 Get your drink on--with a buddy. Ngon Bistro now offers dinner for two with a pitc ... More >>

Art lovers crawl through St. Paul this weekend

Julie Keller, Embers​This Friday marks the start of the 30th year for the Saint Paul Art Crawl. What began as a small gallery hop in the artists' studios of Lowertown and downtown has grown to encompass much of the city, from Harriet Island, to Grand Avenue, to the University/Raymond area of tow ... More >>

Saint Paul Art Crawl

Rock the Boat 3 embarks tomorrow night

The third Rock the Boat fundraiser, produced by Minnesota non-profit VEGA Productions (who gave us the Minnesota Beatle Project compilation) and benefiting music and art programs in Saint Paul public schools, takes place tomorrow night aboard two connected Padelford River Boats that launch from Harr ... More >>

Brother Ali, Britstock: Freeloader Friday

Gloria's Lobotomy by Rudy Fig​There's never a week in the Twin Cities without great free stuff to do. This week's hot happenings include an incredible lineup at the Pizza Luce Block Party (Brother Ali! Dessa! Pink Mink!), sugary sweet art by Rudy Fig and Jeff Warner over at the Gallery at Fox Tax, ... More >>

St. Paul's Irish Fair, August 13-15

Kiss me, I'm at the Irish Fair. ​ It is time to dust off those tartan plaids, as one of the most spirited gatherings of the summer is happening this weekend--St. Paul's Irish Fair. This event, now over 30 years-old, is taking place Friday through Sunday on Harriet Island, home to the fair since 2 ... More >>

Taste of Minnesota's best eats and drinks: a critic's guide

This year's Taste should be the tastiest in recent memory.​The irony of the Taste of Minnesota celebration, coming up this weekend on Harriet Island, is that a festival that started out promoting Minnesota food ended up morphing into one of generic pronto pups and cotton candy. (The same cha ... More >>

Justin Townes Earle, Dale Watson and Oak Ridge Boys this weekend

My favorite illegal fireworks​The Fourth of July, or Independence Day as I began calling it once I hit adolescence and wanted to say things not in rural colloquialisms but with an air of sophistication - think "Febrooary" not "Febyaray," "Attacks on the World Trade Center," not "NineEleven," a ... More >>

Taste of Minnesota and Red, White, and Boom punctuate the Week in Food

God bless our freedom from kippers and tripe. ​It's a week of celebrations from Thai cuisine and kale to local food and folk music. Not to mention our independence from bangers and mash and our right to light pyrotechnics. Your Week in Food . . . Monday 6/28 We've come a long way since Swedish ... More >>

Saint Paul Art Crawl, MN Fashion Week: Freeloader Friday

​(Work by Greg Gossel)This week we have the epic Saint Paul Art Crawl (now with live music from Soundcrawl!), MN Fashion Week events, and art openings featuring naked people and pop culture (not all in one spot).

Saint Paul Art Crawl

Freeloader Friday: Binge drinking zombies, art crawls, and ballet

No, not all at the same time.

Weekend Checklist: Blind Shake, D4, and Eye of the Great Protector

July 3-5.

Mall of America flasher likes showing his package to everyone

Marcus Nelson is a homeless Level 3 sex offender who has been convicted 10 time for indecent exposure in the past decade.

St. Paul Art Crawl

Wear your kneepads: St. Paul art crawl is this weekend

Over the Weekend: September 19-21, 2008

Labor Day successfully taken back by rallying musicians

Five Places to Watch Fireworks

"Taste" festival gets new flavor

What song is it you want to hear?

Deck Days of Summer

Storing up extra sunshine for the winter ahead

Swedish Roulette

Rolling on the River

No Wake Cafe