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History of Hip: JagerCon

History of Hip: A Brief History of Cocktails

Kwanzaa Family Day

A Victorian Christmas at the Ramsey House

New Northstar Cocktails book is a home bartender's best friend

New book will make you a cocktail pro.​ The logo on the cover of Northstar Cocktails, the new cocktail guide by local cocktail superstars Johnny Michaels and the North Star Bartenders' Guild, could be suitable as a super cool rock band logo; this is no coincidence--the guys and gals who created th ... More >>

Northstar Bartenders Guild book release party: You're invited Nov. 10

One of the best bartenders in the Cities has a book party, and you're invited​Here's a party guaranteed to have a dearth of Zimas available. Craft cocktail wizard Johnny Michaels is releasing his first book. Available from Borealis, the book will retail for $20. The Northstar Bartenders Guild is a ... More >>

1968 Exhibit Opening Party

One of the best bartenders in the Cities has a book party, and you're invited​Here's a party guaranteed to have a dearth of Zimas available. Craft cocktail wizard Johnny Michaels is releasing his first book. Available from Borealis, the book will retail for $20. The Northstar Bartenders Guild is a ... More >>

The 1968 Exhibit

One of the best bartenders in the Cities has a book party, and you're invited​Here's a party guaranteed to have a dearth of Zimas available. Craft cocktail wizard Johnny Michaels is releasing his first book. Available from Borealis, the book will retail for $20. The Northstar Bartenders Guild is a ... More >>

Asia Bistro to resurrect Nankin's legacy

Minnesota Historical SocietyThe original Nankin restaurant.​After 80 years in business, Minneapolis's storied Nankin Cafe, longtime a center for Minnesota's Chinese community, closed in its City Center location in 1999. Its legacy has lived on in bits and pieces, with some of its furnishings f ... More >>

RetroRama: Underneath it All

Minnesota Historical SocietyThe original Nankin restaurant.​After 80 years in business, Minneapolis's storied Nankin Cafe, longtime a center for Minnesota's Chinese community, closed in its City Center location in 1999. Its legacy has lived on in bits and pieces, with some of its furnishings f ... More >>

History of Hip: Minnesota Naughty?

Minnesota Historical SocietyThe original Nankin restaurant.​After 80 years in business, Minneapolis's storied Nankin Cafe, longtime a center for Minnesota's Chinese community, closed in its City Center location in 1999. Its legacy has lived on in bits and pieces, with some of its furnishings f ... More >>

DIY: Brewing With the Founding Fathers

Minnesota Historical SocietyThe original Nankin restaurant.​After 80 years in business, Minneapolis's storied Nankin Cafe, longtime a center for Minnesota's Chinese community, closed in its City Center location in 1999. Its legacy has lived on in bits and pieces, with some of its furnishings f ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty offers "Governor No" veto pen to Minnesota Historical Society

Governor No smiles for the camera.​Tim Pawlenty has been known in St. Paul as Governor No for a while now. And he's proud of the title, and the 299 bills he vetoed while in office. So proud, in fact, that he's now turned over his "veto pen" -- a really, really over-sized pen designed for dra ... More >>

Cooking with chocolate: chefs' tips (RECIPE)

Lisa GulyaRuby Moon chocolate truffles​Frazzled by the holiday hubbub? A little chocolate cookery could help soothe those frayed nerves. Three chefs share their tips for cooking with chocolate, plus a recipe for mole sauce.

The Minnesota Historical Society preserves local music history

See Prince's Purple Rain suit and the original First Avenue light board

Voting instructions in Swedish and Norwegian

Speak English, would ya?​Today is Election Day. And while we wait in line to cast our votes in the Twin Cities, the chances are good that we're going to hear some language other than English being spoken. This is nothing new. And despite what the English-only crowd would have us believe, it d ... More >>

Fabulous Catering prepares wild game this Week in Food

It's time to get classy with tequila: Pittsburgh Blue tequila dinner. ​Autumn arrives in the Twin Cities. Take down some tequila, preserve some kraut, prepare your wild game, and follow it all up with a Farm Fresh Feast this Week in Food. Tuesday 10/5 We admit Maple Grove is a haul, but hey, i ... More >>

Salon Saloon's 'Teenage Show' tonight at Bryant-Lake Bowl

​Tonight at Bryant-Lake Bowl the Salon Saloon serves up another helping of thoughtful and provocative discourse with a unique live-action presentation on teenagers. The discussion will cover everything that makes them tick, what made us tick when we were that age, and the differences (or lack of) ... More >>

Chocolate

​Tonight at Bryant-Lake Bowl the Salon Saloon serves up another helping of thoughtful and provocative discourse with a unique live-action presentation on teenagers. The discussion will cover everything that makes them tick, what made us tick when we were that age, and the differences (or lack of) ... More >>

MNHS's annual documentary film festival is accepting submissions

​The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) has a knack for asking simple but big questions. This year they want to know: What does 1968 mean to you? It's a question MNHS is extending to everyone for their 1968 Film Festival Competition--even to those who weren't yet a twinkle in their mother's ... More >>

DIY Meat & Fish workshop on Saturday

Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society​Learn how to make sausage with The Craftsman's meat wizard Mike Phillips and how to prep a whole fish with Coastal Seafoods' Nils Westdal this Saturday courtesy of ... the Minnesota Historical Society? Yep, that's right. The afternoon delight at ... More >>

DIY: Meat

Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society​Learn how to make sausage with The Craftsman's meat wizard Mike Phillips and how to prep a whole fish with Coastal Seafoods' Nils Westdal this Saturday courtesy of ... the Minnesota Historical Society? Yep, that's right. The afternoon delight at ... More >>

Lyndale White Castle building's mysteries revealed

Ever wondered what sort of princess resides in its shiny white turret?

History of Hip: Yesterday's Tomorrow's

Ever wondered what sort of princess resides in its shiny white turret?

Grand Marais circa 1958

It's a much different place these days where the main street heavily caters to the weekend visitors.

99th Birthday Celebration

It's a much different place these days where the main street heavily caters to the weekend visitors.

Minnesota's Greatest Generation is now on Twitter

The Minnesota Historical Society is tweeting about Americans that came of age in the mid-20th century.

Gran Torino is racist and insensitive, says Hmong writer

Party on

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

9/23 Morning Must Reads

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

Gubernatorial Graffiti

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

RetroRama

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

HIstory of Hip: Design

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

Art attacks the suburbs, making it cooler

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

The Enemy Within: Terror in America 1776-Today

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

The Beauty of Bundt

They're easy. They're delicious. They're Minnesotan. It's time to show your Bundt-cake pride.

Right on Lake Street

They're easy. They're delicious. They're Minnesotan. It's time to show your Bundt-cake pride.

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

Has any man in the Midwest played more gigs than Kico Rangel?

Baked & Saved

Desperate for last-minute holiday gifts? How about a cookbook where a dozen Minnesotans make their lives as real as bread?

Murder, My Sweet

Whispering of St. Paul's hidden lives (and deaths),a new photojournalism exhibit shoots to kill

Take Me Out

Two hundred years of history as experienced in Minnesota's bars and restaurants

Desert Fatigues

In a new memoir, former marine Joel Turnipseed loses his personal philosophy while winning the Gulf War

John Berryman Leapt Here

Mapping the literary landmarks of the Twin Cities

For Love of Labor

An odd-jobber chronicles an ugly chapter in Minneapolis union-busting

Something in the Air

Is that a harmonic convergence in your trousers or are you just happy to see me?

Be Here Now

A documentary show at the Minnesota Historical Society captures the state of the state, one second at a time

Subterranean Homesick Blues

An archaeologist, two bottles of whiskey, and the cavemen of the Mississippi: Digging for the city beneath the city

Gold Coast

The grand totals for Minneapolis riverfront developement are staggering. Look closely at the bottom line of 11 proposed projects.

Rule of the Bone

After a century of hoarding American Indian remains, scientists are being forced to return their specimens. But the bodies may not go back into the ground without a fight.

Lost City

Minneapolis's riverside milling district is about to become a condo tract and history park. But there are plenty of stories the commemorative plaques won't tell