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  • Music

    January 18, 2012

    Roy Wilkins: Who was he?

    The story behind the iconic St. Paul venue

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Johnny Michaels, La Belle Vie mixologist, opens up about his past, his craft, and his new book

    MNHSJohnny Michaels ​Johnny Michaels has been a fixture in the Twin Cities cocktail scene for as long as I can remember. He has maintained one of the coolest and most interesting cocktail lists in town at La Belle Vie since it moved to its current location at 510 Groveland. He has written for seve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Tim Pawlenty's fascinating official portrait unveiled [IMAGES]

    Tim Pawlenty's portrait is more interesting than Tim Pawlenty.​Tim Pawlenty's portrait will not hang in the White House unless he staples it to the wall during a civilian tour. But now the beloved former governor will forever haunt the hallway of the state Capitol, thanks to the unveiling of Pawle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Michele Bachmann co-sponsors English-only bill

    Don't know much about history.​Fresh off doubling down with the birthers, history-challenged Rep. Michele Bachmann is now throwing in with the English-only crowd. Bachmann has co-sponsored a bill from Iowa Rep. Steve King, "To declare English as the official language of the United States, to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Bill Ingebrigtsen carries English-only bill into state Senate

    Bill Ingebrigtsen wants you to speak English only.​State Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen, a guy with enough Scandinavian in his surname to qualify as a character in an O.E. Rolvaag yarn about immigrant hardship on the prairie, is carrying the flag for English-only into the Minnesota Senate. Yah. He wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Lowry Hill Walking Tour of Healy Homes

    Trilby Busch​ This Saturday, architectural history buffs can enjoy an informal walking tour and photo shoot in Lowry Hill. Organized by a couple of researchers who have been studying master builder T.P. Healy, who designed and built houses for Minneapolis's high society in the late 1800s, the ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Picked to Click 2010

    Pink Mink lead the pack in our 20th annual best-new-bands poll

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Tim Pawlenty loves federal spending (on flood relief)

    Suddenly loving federal cash.​Yesterday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty was loving federal spending. Not the kind to help all Minnesotans with their health care costs, however. Just the kind to help southern Minnesota recover from floods. The former isn't a priority, he says. He won't even allow state a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Spider John Koerner gives us a reason to whiskey tonight and tomorrow

    photo via Red House Records​Seeing Spider John Koerner live is a lucky thing, something we get treated to more often than, say, we deserve. Memories or wishes of north woods hootenannies and smoke-filled parlors in the sixties as all those jubilantly drunk revelers stomp and squall towards sunrise ... More >>

  • News

    July 1, 2009

    Bowfishing: Catching carp with a bow and arrow

    photo via Red House Records​Seeing Spider John Koerner live is a lucky thing, something we get treated to more often than, say, we deserve. Memories or wishes of north woods hootenannies and smoke-filled parlors in the sixties as all those jubilantly drunk revelers stomp and squall towards sunrise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Lenny Bruce Remembered at the Turf Club

    Influential comedian Lenny Bruce is the subject of a panel discussion featuring Stand Up! Records' Dan Schlissel.

  • Feature

    April 16, 2008

    Minnesota filmmakers at the festival

    Profiles of the local film community

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2007

    Bernard Walker ("Short Lunch"), R.I.P.

    Profiles of the local film community

  • News

    June 6, 2007

    In with the Old

    With the AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, Larry Millett hijacks the parade of homes

  • News

    December 13, 2006

    Mn SAT Answers and Winners

    With the AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, Larry Millett hijacks the parade of homes

  • Columns

    September 27, 2006

    Dear John

    An architecture tour you can take with your pants around your ankles

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    Best of the Twin Cities: Winners

    An architecture tour you can take with your pants around your ankles

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    Local Music Yearbook '05

    Rappers were hot. Smokers were cold. Rockers were on Myspace. And sometime after the last Katrina benefit, we wrote it all down for you.

  • News

    June 15, 2005

    The Barnstormer

    A few years ago, Doug Ohman was a theme-park executive with 600 employees. Today, he photographs barns. What happened?

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    Minnesota's Fifty Greatest Hits

    The greatest Minnesota-made records of all time

  • News

    December 8, 2004

    Cruel and Unusual

    You think winter in Minnesota sucks? Friend, you don't know anything about winter in Minnesota.

  • News

    November 17, 2004

    Stew Thornley's Book of the Dead

    A boneyard baedeker reveals
    where the bodies are buried

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2004

    First Avenue's Black Tuesday

    A boneyard baedeker reveals
    where the bodies are buried

  • News

    September 15, 2004

    Lullaby for the Working Class

    Local poet Mark Nowak pens industrial verse for closed steel factories and forgotten labor pains

  • News

    September 1, 2004

    Short Lunch Speaks; Hip-Hop Mystery Solved

    Local poet Mark Nowak pens industrial verse for closed steel factories and forgotten labor pains

  • Arts

    July 28, 2004

    Strange Fruit

    'The Last Minstrel Show' makes entertainment out of tragedy

  • News

    April 7, 2004

    Busting the Buses

    Local transit wars past and present

  • News

    August 7, 2002

    Freaks Like Us

    Buxom firestarters and dog-faced men: Frontier theater on the fringe

  • Arts

    June 12, 2002

    Timothy Mckinney's Baadasssss Song

    Making art and fighting back: the lowdown on Minnesota's first black feature

  • Art

    February 13, 2002

    The Best Things In Life Aren't Free

    Figuring out how to finance the future of art at SooVAC

  • Books

    December 12, 2001

    Stage Protest

    With demolition all but assured, preservationists aim to take their fight to court

  • News

    May 2, 2001

    Best of the Twin Cities: The Winners

    With demolition all but assured, preservationists aim to take their fight to court

  • Books

    January 24, 2001

    Pupsicles

    Freeze-drying: It's not just for pets anymore

  • Arts

    August 30, 2000

    Barnyard School

    More than a thousand artists each year compete to find the art of the blue ribbon at the State Fair

  • Arts

    June 7, 2000

    Bandstand of the Americas

    Half a century after a son of Mexican immigrants founded local rock, a new generation of Latinos listens for its own song

  • News

    January 19, 2000

    Sorry, Charlie!

    The Twin Cities mark the occasion of Charles Schulz's retirement by scrambling to turn him into a hometown hero

  • Books

    September 22, 1999

    Pipe Dreams

    A local memoir, The Girls Are Coming, recounts the strange comedy of 1970s workplace integration and the campaign for gender equity

  • Arts

    June 9, 1999

    The Age of Work

    Photographers Lewis W. Hine and David Parker frame the debate over child labor

  • Feature

    November 1, 1998

    My Marvelous Minnesota

    The home of Fort Snelling, loons, timber wolves, and the U of M

  • Books

    August 19, 1998

    River Wild

    The home of Fort Snelling, loons, timber wolves, and the U of M

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    Tilting at Highways

    War against the planned Hiawatha Avenue extension is being waged on several fronts--but it's an uphill battle.

  • News

    January 7, 1998

    Sold Down The River

    Minneapolis's brave new riverfront will have parks, museums, and upscale condos. Who said subsidized housing was just for the poor?

  • News

    November 12, 1997

    Suicide Squeeze

    Minneapolis's brave new riverfront will have parks, museums, and upscale condos. Who said subsidized housing was just for the poor?

  • News

    October 22, 1997

    When Elections Mattered

    Rotten eggs, firebombs, and the "wicked extortions of the coal kings": Local campaigns weren't always this dull.

  • Arts

    September 10, 1997

    The People, Yes

    A collection of Minnesota photographs from Jerome Liebling reveals his hard brand of humanism.

  • News

    April 2, 1997

    Riverfront Double Play

    Developer and Sports Facilities Commissioner Peggy Lucas pursues both a new ballpark and upscale condos

  • Feature

    September 25, 1996

    ANATOMY OF STARDOM

    Developer and Sports Facilities Commissioner Peggy Lucas pursues both a new ballpark and upscale condos

  • Feature

    July 17, 1996

    THIS OLD PRESS

    Developer and Sports Facilities Commissioner Peggy Lucas pursues both a new ballpark and upscale condos

  • Restaurants

    June 12, 1996

    Club Med

    Developer and Sports Facilities Commissioner Peggy Lucas pursues both a new ballpark and upscale condos

  • News

    November 29, 1995

    Winter Directory

    Developer and Sports Facilities Commissioner Peggy Lucas pursues both a new ballpark and upscale condos

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