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McKnight Foundation seeks nominations for community service award

Know someone who works hard to make our community better? Nominate them to win $10,000.

Southern Theater's war of words comes to uneasy end

Artists, management call truce after highly criticized firing of artistic director Jeff Bartlett

Graywolf Press is lone wolf in book publishing

The publisher is a thousand miles from NYC but remains one of the best

Nightmare on Oak Street

Minnesota Film Arts downsizes its festival, prepares to sell off its screen

The New Voyageurs

Wherein six Minnesotans brave the Mekong River, whirlpools, and dysentery in a leaky boat with a lawnmower engine held together by toothpaste and cardboard and live to tell about it

Mn SAT Answers and Winners

Wherein six Minnesotans brave the Mekong River, whirlpools, and dysentery in a leaky boat with a lawnmower engine held together by toothpaste and cardboard and live to tell about it

MN SAT

The great Minnesota brain freeze: 82 chances to cheat with Google and win valuable prizes!

I Am A Camera

Searching for backyard wrestlers, cholos, a scorpion belt, and the most blessed Virgin with Xavier Tavera

Twins Stadium: Verbatim testimony from the House

Searching for backyard wrestlers, cholos, a scorpion belt, and the most blessed Virgin with Xavier Tavera

Extreme Makeover: Lake Street

Hennepin County and Minneapolis are spending millions to rebuild south Minneapolis's main east-west thoroughfare in a new image. But whose vision is it?

You're on Your Own with the Ham

Hennepin County and Minneapolis are spending millions to rebuild south Minneapolis's main east-west thoroughfare in a new image. But whose vision is it?

Green Acres

Inver Grove Heights tries to turn one of its last farms into a subdivision

Can't Knock The Hustle

Why would a giant of free jazz hang out with middle school kids?

Baby Please Don't Go

Former Minnesotans Say the Twin Cities Cultural Scene Is Insular. Insecure. Unprofitable. Out of Touch. What Does It Mean to Live in an Artists' Paradise If Everyone Wants to Leave?

This is a Recording

Local labels are redefining the way to make music

A World Without Tutus

Civic boosters are proud of the Twin Cities' theaters, orchestras, museums, and literary centers. so what happened to the ballet?

Danse Macabre

After 22 Years of Supporting Artists, the Minnesota Dance Alliance Marches Into the Grave

Central Heating

A Minneapolis neighborhood association raises the eyebrows of city administrators--and the ire of some of its constituents

Arrested Development

City officials say the head of the Frogtown Action Alliance is dodging them. Two former employees say he sexually harassed them. Leaders in the struggling St. Paul neighborhood fear Shem Shakir's bad karma is contagious.

Theater of the Absurd

When the Shubert inched down Hennepin Avenue a year ago, Minneapolis politicos promised a bright future for the historic theater. They didn't mention stingy legislators, taxpayer bailouts, or the specter of the wrecking ball.

When you wish upon a city

If you could wave your magic wand and make one improvement to the Twin Cities, what would it be?

Shooting for Dollars

Can this year's Minnesota Independent Film Fund winners marshal their scripts to the screen?

Sound Check

Can this year's Minnesota Independent Film Fund winners marshal their scripts to the screen?

Shadow and Act

Penumbra Theatre's campaign to build an ambitious new stage has the makings of an epic drama--or a nonprofit tragedy

For Art's Sake!

What takes seven years to build, costs nearly $600,000, and looks like a boondoggle?

Folding Chair

Five years ago Joel Sisson's blend of art, social work, and lawn furniture was the talk of the town. Now the founder of the Green Chair Project is sitting on a pile of dreams and unpaid bills.

Two To Tango

The courtship between artists and foundations is filled with sweet talk, deception, and intrigue

Money In, Art Out

Arts funding and the cost of free money

Distress Signals

KTCA tried to survive the public TV wars by being bigger and better. Too bad the grants dried up and the talent jumped ship.

Pure Bedlam

KTCA tried to survive the public TV wars by being bigger and better. Too bad the grants dried up and the talent jumped ship.

Mother Superior

The terrible compassion of Mary Jo Copeland.

New Kids on the Block

A nonprofit group called Urban Ventures is making moves along the long-depressed Lake Street corridor--and polarizing some of the people who live there in the process.

Why Art Sucks: 57 Cultures and Nothing On

The local art scene has turned into a refuge for the creatively challenged.

Blockbusted

The local art scene has turned into a refuge for the creatively challenged.