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Finnegans to package its beers in cans

Finnegans will be releasing both its classic Irish Amber and Blonde Ale in can form. The new cans could hit stores as early as next week, but the company will officially kick off the can release May 1.Finnegans was Minnesota's first nonprofit brewery, with 100 percent of its proceeds going toward hu ... More >>

Caribou Coffee shutters 80 stores, rebrands 88 others

In an announcement made yesterday, Caribou Coffee Company, Inc., based in Minneapolis, has made the decision to close 80 of its lower-performing stores across the country, including at least two in the metro area. In addition to the store closings, Caribou will rebrand another 88 locations ... More >>

Minnesota personal incomes increased more in 2012 than just about all other states

Minnesotans are just hot, period. But recent data indicates our state is particularly hot in the areas of job creation and personal income.SEE ALSO: Economic recovery? What economic recovery? Mpls donut shop hiring... an unpaid internAccording to the latest U.S. Department of Commerce data, per capi ... More >>

NFL fandom map shows Purple Nation extending Iowa and the Dakotas [IMAGE]

The Vikings aren't just Minnesota's team. They're also the Northern Iowa Vikings, the North Dakota Vikings, and the Eastern South Dakota Vikings, apparently.SEE ALSO: Cute Vikings fans photobombed at Lambeau by middle finger-flipping Packers backer [PHOTO] Facebook's data science analyzed more than ... More >>

High school wrestler crushed by falling light fixture during match, survives [VIDEO]

Madison, South Dakota high school wrestler Michael McComish has got to be feeling both unlucky and lucky these days.SEE ALSO: Brock Lesnar reportedly 'rips apart' WWE dressing room following PPV double-crossing [VIDEO]Unlucky because last Friday, a huge light fixture fell from the rafters during a m ... More >>

53 percent of Minnesotans own a pet, putting us in the bottom ten nationally

All those dogs running around Lake Calhoun in the warmer months are deceiving: Relative to the rest of the country, not that many Minnesotans own a pet.See Also:- Internet Cat Video Film Festival purrs into Minnesota- Lily the black bear gives birth to two cubs live on webcam [VIDEO]- Minnesota's la ... More >>

The May North on Interstate Lives, female fans, and their restless spirits

Growing up in the North Country ingrains a different way of thinking from someone who was raised in the city. On their second album, The May North set to capture the restless spirit that roams the North Country and interpret it into their music. Interstate Lives is curiously exposed, living in both ... More >>

Aerosmith's Global Warming tour launches in Minneapolis

​Aerosmith will begin its 18-date summer tour this June at Target Center. Dubbed the Global Warming tour, the seminal Boston band will bring Cheap Trick along for the North American dates that carry between mid-June and early August."The old Aerosmith is back with a new vengeance and we will kick ... More >>

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Elderly South Dakota man drives in fog, makes wrong turn, turns up days later in Minnesota

​From the 'why people older than the average life expectancy maybe shouldn't be allowed to drive' department:A 82-year-old Britton, South Dakota man was driving in dense fog Friday night near his home when he got lost. He turned up almost two days later in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.Leonard Johnson a ... More >>

Redbox: Wisconsin is the most romantic state

​Move over Honolulu, see you later San Francisco -- if you're looking for romance, the place to be is La Crosse, Wisconsin. And if that doesn't work for you, go to Green Bay.Or so say the folks at Redbox. The movie rental company recently compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Romantic Cities in the c ... More >>

10 Country Songs in Memory of the Edmund Fitzgerald

​A dozen autumns ago I moved to Minneapolis from South Dakota, and it was then that I learned how all'a ya can't shut up about one thing: The Halloween Blizzard of '91.

Pete Dexter lets it bleed

Hard at work on his eighth novel, Deadwood author still packs a punch

Kid Dakota's 'Listen to the Crows as They Take Flight': First listen

​BY RYAN PAUL PLEWACKISpecial to Gimme NoiseI've been fortunate to have worked on a few projects with Darren Jackson over the course of the last year. There had been small hints and mentions of a new Kid Dakota record in the works. But, no matter how hard I pried, Jackson gave me little to run wit ... More >>

Metrodome's new food offerings look lame compared to Target Field's

The collapsed Metrodome makes a comeback.​Centerplate, a concessions provider for entertainment venues, convention centers, and sports stadiums, announced its new menu items for the 2011 NFL season at the Metrodome. If you're looking for Vikings-watching fuel, here's what you can expect:

Should Minnesota have a state dessert?

​The Wisconsin legislature is circulating a proposal to make the cream puff their state dessert, which got me to thinking: Why doesn't Minnesota have a state dessert? Our state fruit (the Honeycrisp apple), state grain (wild rice), and state mushroom (the morel) all seem to be relevant sourc ... More >>

National American University gets rich from federal loans

Meanwhile 15.7 percent of graduates default

Brooks & Dunn at Cheyenne Frontier Days: the writer eats crow

Photo by Nikki MillerI'm sorry, Ronnie Dunn. :(​For those of you who have been following the latest drama in my life, here's your update; for those of you who have not, first, a synopsis.

Buffalo Moon brings samba soul to the Cedar tonight

Photo from Radio K​This weather is reminding me a lot of being back home in Texas. With heat indices hitting 110 degrees yesterday, there's no better way to (slightly) cool down than with a nice, chilled drink on the Cedar Cultural Center's patio while rising local band Buffalo Moon belt out their ... More >>

Foxy Falafel's Erica Strait: Five Questions

Photo by Nikki MillerFoxy Falafel's bike-powered smoothies at the Uptown Market​If you've been to the Kingfield, Uptown, and Northeast farmers markets this summer, you've probably seen Foxy Falafel owner Erica Strait peddling (and pedaling) her bike-powered smoothies and amazing falafel, along wit ... More >>

Planned Parenthood announces new St. Paul HQ

​Planned Parenthood's Highland Park clinic in St. Paul, the frequent scene of anti-abortion protests -- and, more recently, counter-protests favoring reproductive rights -- is closing up shop. But the services it offers aren't going away. Instead, the women's reproductive health organization ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Michele Bachmann's Census claptrap ignored in Minnesota

​It looks like Minnesotans are keeping their cool in the face of all that claptrap about evil Acorn plots and prisoner camps sullying the 2010 U.S. Census. Heck, even Glenn Beck thought she was nutty. Our fair state, along with South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana, ranks in the Top 5 so ... More >>

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Republicans still steamed over Franken's rape amendment

A two-month-old vote on a bill to protect rape victims still ties Republican senators in knots.

Readers respond to our Michele Bachmann cover story

Minnesota, where the schools are not above average

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce finds Minnesota's public education system downright middling. We don't even earn a gold star (unlike Wisconsin).

Pawlenty preening himself for the throne

Meanwhile: Bachmann says more crazy stuff; Favre is favred

Minn. pot-bellied pig gang on destructive rampage

There's a new gang in town and it's not one to be messed with. A growing gang of feral pot-bellied pigs is starting to wreak havoc in western Minnesota and officials who are trying to track them down can't seem to find these obese creatures.

Readers respond to "Guantánamo's Final Days"

South Dakota specialty is like fondue minus the fondue

Chislic said to come to South Dakota by way of Germany by way of Russia.

Minnesota snags $9 billion in stimulus aid, 66,000 jobs

So what will you get out of this stimulus package? A lot, analysts say.

Kowalski's will begin selling liquor after long battle for new laws

Breakfast of Champions 4/29: That was the month that was

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Return of the Grievous Angel

Haley Bonar on the fine art of disappearing—and coming back in one piece

4/5: Morning Communique

Savage Love

Drug wars

Brand New Heavies

Surf rock, metal, and shoulder-length hair: First Avenue's class of 2003

Lucky 13

Paul Collins's Banvard's Folly gives posthumous props to a dozen and one forgotten oddballs

Let the Good Thymes Roll

Dog day afternoons: Teeny handbags, lutefisk jokes, and the virtues of loose tea

Bury My Heart

For years it has been whispered that the 1976 slaying of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash was an inside job. Now a new rash of accusations aims squarely at local heroes Clyde and Vernon Bellecourt.

Something to Say to Harriet

Seeing Red

Lakota artist Francis Yellow turns historical injuries into polemical offensives

Short Cuts

A local showcase of short student films exposes the long road of working in celluloid

Let Them Eat Sludge Cake

A new plan for disposing of metro-area sewage has critics crying foul

End of the Trail

Inside the kill pens at the horse auction house

Love's Cold Calculus

Notes on the least reputable and most profitable literary genre in American publishing: the romance novel.