Ivy League

The 802 Tour's luxurious experience hits the Walker in March

​On March 22 and 23, a collective of young, folk-rooted composers who were drinking buddies back in Vermont will perform at the Walker's William and Nadine McGuire Theater. If you read that sentence and a certain level of pretentious cultural superiority didn't come to mind, go back and read it ag ... More >>

Brad Pitt in Moneyball

The formula works in numbers-heavy baseball flick

University of Minnesota: We're number 68! We're number 68!

U of M: The M stands for "mediocre." ​The University of Minnesota really is one of the best schools in the country... if you get far enough down the list. The U came in No. 68 on the U.S. News and World Report's influential college rankings list, which was released yesterday. Coming in 68th in any ... More >>

True West at Torch Theater

Exploring the twang-filled heart of darkness

Levaquin causes tendon rupture

Was it too lucrative for its makers to warn patients?

Jay-Z and Cornel West discussion simulcasted today at Minneapolis Central Library

​The Jigga penned a memoir. Co-written with journalist dream hampton (Source, Village Voice, SPIN), Decoded unpacks Shaun Carter's journey from Brooklyn to Manhattan -- the rote tale of pauper to prince, sardines to steak -- and explicates his most famous lyrics, explaining the density and persona ... More >>

Swing Kids, Dirty Dancing, Planet B-Boy: The best dance movies of all time

Courtesy Dancing With the StarsD-list celebrities with A-list moves​It's been a month since the season finale of Dancing With the Stars, but The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is keeping the love alive with their summer dance series. Today Twin Cities twinkletoes will be downtown cuttin ... More >>

Cowboy Down

Murdered Southern Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

Black Pearl Sings!: Theater spotlight

Murdered Southern Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

Dodge Holiday Classic

Murdered Southern Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

Dodge Holiday Classic

Murdered Southern Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

Dodge Holiday Classic

Murdered Southern Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

Dodge Holiday Classic

Murdered Southern Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

Dec. 15, 2008: Toki Wright, Bob Mould & new P.O.S.

Oscar-Starved

Savage Love

Spotlight: True West

Free Will Astrology

Studying for an Mrs. Degree in 2005

A Woman's Work is Never Done

Walker Art Center's "Women With Vision" Salutes Female Production on Both Sides of the Camera

Thursday morning papers

Walker Art Center's "Women With Vision" Salutes Female Production on Both Sides of the Camera

Geeks of America, Hail Your King

The growing pains of Conan O'Brien

Why Is Sloth a Mortal Sin?

Was Charles Macomb Flandrau the father of modern Minnesota letters--or just a literary layabout?

Bush Bash

Live from NYC: Hundreds of thousands of protesters, 20,000 cops, and one coronation

The Walls of Red Wing

The remarkable 114-year story of Minnesota's last juvenile detention home

Both Sides Now

'Laurel Canyon' finds Frances McDormand bridging the gap between lovely and sad

City of Sideshows

Amid all the carnival barking of the fringe, we tell you which tent shows deserve your ten bucks

Sonic Outlaws

The second annual edition of “Sound Unseen” highlights the subversive side of music making in the era of media consolidation.

The North Woods Project

Native Minnesotan filmmaker Katie Koskenmaki turns Vermont into the scary "Minnesota" of "The Windigo"

Power Play

Putting Minnesota on the map with a national title was the easy part. For the Gopher women's hockey team, sustaining that reputation is the challenge.

Rebirth of a Nation

Director David Gordon Green reconsiders the South's constitution in George Washington

Original Sins of Comedy

Beginning as a satiric gutbuster, Spike Lee's Bamboozled becomes its own stereotype

Come Back, Gilligan

The unreal world of Survivor

One Flew Over the Chicks' Nest

Girl, Interrupted recasts Ken Kesey's macho myth as distaff melodrama

Newton's Laws

A one-man show captures the complications Huey P. Newton faced in trying to walk like a Panther

Young Spuds in a Longhorn Daze

A one-man show captures the complications Huey P. Newton faced in trying to walk like a Panther

Roger Headrick's Purple Heart

He was instrumental in building the Vikings team that's now laying waste to the NFL. So why isn't anyone thanking Roger Headrick?

Henry: Portrait of a serial auteur

He was instrumental in building the Vikings team that's now laying waste to the NFL. So why isn't anyone thanking Roger Headrick?

A Separate Peace

When Trip Shakespeare broke up, Matt Wilson marched off to war against his muse. Five years later, this exacting songwriter returns from the front with his first solo album.

His Better Half

On the Straight and Narrow: Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.

BOOKS: Oriental Girls Desire Romance

On the Straight and Narrow: Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.

Clark Griffith and the Mandate of Heaven

Thirteen years after Calvin Griffith threw up his hands and sold the Twins to Carl Pohlad, his son Clark is back with a bid to buy the team and make sure it stays in Minnesota. Why? Because he figures that's the way it ought to be.

Hoops and Ladders

How sports are wrecking schools.

Paradise Lost

How sports are wrecking schools.

Songs From the Wood

How sports are wrecking schools.

Semi-Magic Realism

How sports are wrecking schools.

An Unsentimental Education

A week on the inside with the students and teachers of Wayzata High and St. Paul Central.