St. Croix River

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Brookside Tavern

NYTimes profiles weird Minn. classroom of standing children

Perhaps furniture choice in classrooms is just as important as instruction.

Polar Express

Perhaps furniture choice in classrooms is just as important as instruction.

Lumberjack Days

Perhaps furniture choice in classrooms is just as important as instruction.

Log Rolling in Our Times

Perhaps furniture choice in classrooms is just as important as instruction.

Al Fresco, Refreshed

Twin Cities purveyors make it easy to reinvent the picnic

A Bridge Too Far?

Twin Cities purveyors make it easy to reinvent the picnic

Enter Sandman

Why Neil Gaiman is about to become bigger than death

River City Rebirth

Minneapolis's restaurant scene is reborn—again!—This time with big money and farm-positive ideals.

Best of the Twin Cities: Winners

Minneapolis's restaurant scene is reborn—again!—This time with big money and farm-positive ideals.

No Exit

Animosity between residents of a small east metro town leaves them stuck with each other

Burger Meisters, Revisited

Reader mail brings more, more, more nominations for the region's best burger

Best of the Twin Cities: The Winners

Reader mail brings more, more, more nominations for the region's best burger

Playing With Fireproofing

The Lakeland city beach is beautiful, secluded, and contaminated with asbestos

Small Businesspeople

The Lakeland city beach is beautiful, secluded, and contaminated with asbestos

Cheesehead Power?

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

OutFront aims to strengthen outstate ties

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

Gardener Extraordinaire

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

Organic Without An Attitude

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

Club Med

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

Eat At Cecil's

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

Walking the Dog

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

2009 Pride Boat Cruise

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

Lumberjack Days

NSP says it needs to run high-voltage wires over the scenic St. Croix to keep the lights on in western Wisconsin. But critics charge the utility's plans go much further.

Freeloader Friday: July 24-26

They say nothing's free. They were wrong.

Wandering cougar may have ditched suburbs, gone to Wisconsin

One DNR expert thinks all the sightings involve the same big cat, and the service has been collecting DNA samples to test that theory.

Michele Bachmann wants St. Croix River cut from Wild and Scenic Rivers protection

She supports a monster, $668.5 million bridge span built to divert traffic away from Stillwater and its aging lift bridge.

Communist Daughter frontman Johnny Solomon finds small-town sound

Band practices in Solomon's Boxcar restaurant in Wisconsin

Sample Circuit, Perennial Plate, and more: Your foodie calendar

​This week, do something special for all the ladies of the world. According to Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, an exhibit in its last week at the Bell Museum, women provide almost half of the world's agricultural labor. View photos, track food as it travels from field to fork, and learn other ... More >>

KDWB Booty Cruise turns into lady fight on St. Croix River

​KDWB's annual ladies-only Booty Cruise got a little catty this year on the St. Croix River. Police were called to the boat in Stillwater Thursday night after a fight broke out between a bunch of the booty-shaking women in attendance. The women on the booze cruise apparently came for the wild da ... More >>

Twin Cities Thinkers

Meet the Minnesotans shaping our future

Lumberjack Days in Stillwater: A Paul Bunyon approved road trip

albertopviega/flickrLumberjacks await your arrival.​ We are desperately trying to pack in as much road trip and food festival fun into summer as humanly possible. And since Stillwater is so close, Lumberjack Days can be a getaway for those who don't have the time to get away. Bringing together a ... More >>

Lumberjack Days

albertopviega/flickrLumberjacks await your arrival.​ We are desperately trying to pack in as much road trip and food festival fun into summer as humanly possible. And since Stillwater is so close, Lumberjack Days can be a getaway for those who don't have the time to get away. Bringing together a ... More >>

Urban Cowboy, Minne-Motor Fest: Freeloader Friday

​ (Pictured: Past entrants hope to achieve flight for Red Bull's Flugtag)This week we have multiple CD-release shows, an art fest on the north side, and some DIY flying machines that will (most likely) crash into the Mississippi.

Red House Barnfest

​ (Pictured: Past entrants hope to achieve flight for Red Bull's Flugtag)This week we have multiple CD-release shows, an art fest on the north side, and some DIY flying machines that will (most likely) crash into the Mississippi.

Justin Grecco creates a mini food dynasty

Bellanotte's former chef runs Roman Anthony's, Grecco's, and Chef In A Box

Red Stag and the Grass Fed Cattle Company say "Beef: it's what's for dinner" this Week in Food

Infrogmation Keep your shirt on (and your mask) during Linden Hills Coop's New Orleans-style parade. ​Beef gets a lot of play this week with Red Stag playing host to the Peterson Limousin Farms family (producers of prized Limousin cattle) and Farmer Dan of the Grass Fed Cattle Company inviting the ... More >>

Celebrate Grecco's second anniversary next Thursday

Kris Drake for City PagesLobster gnocchi at Grecco's​Next Thursday, Grecco's will celebrate its second anniversary and the restaurant's new dining room and wine bar, with the St. Croix River in autumn as its lovely backdrop. You can sample 50 wines, multiple food stations, and butler-passed h ... More >>

Lakeland teenagers dead in suicide shooting [UPDATE]

Police found the two bodies in a Lakeland park near the St. Croix River, above.​The bodies of two teenagers found in a Lakeland park Tuesday evening have been identified, and police say they're now treating the incident as a suicide case involving a gun.

Jacob Campbell killed Lisa Grijalva before taking his own life

Campbell and Grijalva died in Lakeview's Humphries Park.​The Ramsey County Medical Examiner has ruled that 14-year-old Jacob Z. Campbell killed 15-year-old Lisa M. Grijalva with a shotgun before turning the weapon on himself Tuesday evening in Lakeland. Police found the bodies of the teenager ... More >>

Michele Bachmann was for the stimulus while she was against it

Bachmann: Saddling our kids with the fedeal debt is OK when she does it.​Remember the Fox News gabfests, the D.C. rallies and the campaign ads where Michele Bachmann brags about voting against President Barack Obama's stimulus bill? Too much federal spending, she says. Turns out she had her h ... More >>

Michele Bachmann likes earmarks. Just call them something else

This woman wants a bridge.​Tim Pawlenty got away with not raising taxes by redefining a "tax" as a "user fee." Now Michele Bachmann supports a redefinition of earmarks she likes, because those earmarks aren't really earmarks. They're, well, something else.

Michele Bachmann says federal law doesn't apply to pet bridge project

Bachmann's porking for a bridge to Wisconsin.​Rep. Michele Bachmann insists America is headed for socialism and bankruptcy because "porking" has gotten way out of control--unless, of course, you're talking about her pet bridge project to Wisconsin. She's about to submit a bill that does an end ru ... More >>

Betty McCollum promises to fight Michele Bachmann's bridge

McCollum promises to stymie Bachmann.​We have a congressional border spat. DFL Rep. Betty McCollum wants to know why, if Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the federal government are all broke, GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann wants to build a $700 million bridge over the St. Croix River. Bachmann, who complain ... More >>

Tim McGraw at Xcel Energy Center, 5/14/11

Photos by Kathy Easthagen​Tim McGraw May 14, 2011 Xcel Energy Center Several stops into his Emotional Traffic Tour, country music superstar Tim McGraw paid a visit to the Twin Cities Saturday night with a performance at the Xcel Energy Center. A true professional after over twenty years of pe ... More >>

Stillwater Lift Bridge will close in a government shutdown

​A government shutdown will create a major transportation headache for anyone who relies on the Stillwater Lift Bridge to get back and forth to Wisconsin. If legislators cannot reach a budget agreement before July 1, the bridge will be raised and closed to traffic on what also happens to be the d ... More >>

Asian invasion: Silver carp DNA found in St. Croix River

WikipediaSilver carp: If you see this, it's already too late.​The apocalypse is nearly upon us, bio-spherically speaking. The leaping, terrifying, invasive Asian Carp has reached the St. Croix River. The invasion was announced this afternoon by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, which ... More >>

The Nova Wine Bar: A romantic getaway in Hudson

The Nova Wine BarNova's impressive display of wine​Located in quaint downtown Hudson, Wisconsin, The Nova welcomes guests with a cozy and intimate atmosphere. A flickering fireplace and the collection of Tiffany lamps give the setting a warm glow. Tucked away on the hillside overlooking the St ... More >>