Forced venue change for LGBTQ+ Catholic students' summit highlights need for...
In February, Benilde-St. Margaret’s High School senior Parker Breza helped organize the area’s first-ever LGBTQ+ Catholic Student Coalition as a way to “create genuine, open conversation about LGBTQ+...
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'The highlight of my life': Joe Minjares brings back Augie Garcia for a...
“I’m 69. What’s happening to me with this play, with the feeling I’m getting and the strokes, has been the highlight of my life.”So said Joe Minjares Friday afternoon, sitting in Pepito’s, the Mexican...
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'An ode to the dead': Living the pirate dream with Cap’n Dan Kellogg
When news hit that 49–year-old Minnetonka father of three Dan Kellogg had purchased a pirate ship that was originally destined for Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort and would now be traveling up the...
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Huge meets huge: Sumo at the Mall of America
What could be better than watching three huge sumo wrestlers push each other around on a stage flanked by Sea Life and fast-food joints? Nothing, decided hundreds of people who lined the Mall of...
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Me ’n’ the Stones: One Minnesota fan’s journey all down the line with 'The...
I’m excited to hear the Rolling Stones at TCF Bank Stadium this week, but not as excited as I was when I drove two days straight to Florida with my big brother Jay to see them 40 years ago this summer....
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Stones at the U: What a band, what a night
What a band, what a night.That was the consensus of 50,000 TCF Bank-goers Wednesday night, as day-long rains subsided right around concert time, allowing the Rolling Stones to rip through a two-hour...
View ArticleAttorneys shine a light on the growing problem of elder abuse in Minnesota
Reports of elder abuse are cresting as baby boomers’ parents age and their sometimes sketchy offspring and other opportunists navigate an uneasy economy – so much so that in 2006, the International...
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'Best day ever': Portraits of Pride
The party started Friday morning as news broke that the Supreme Court of the United States had made gay marriage legal across the land, and continued at Twin Cities Pride events throughout the weekend,...
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Summer in the city: Invasion of the teenage tree people
Summertime and the livin’ is easy in South Minneapolis, where many of the teens have been practicing the fine art of hammocking – or 'mocking, as the kids say – since early spring. At all times of day...
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Rock, rock, rock for the home team: Flamin’ Oh’s at Target Field
Two beloved Minnesota institutions – the Twins and the Flamin’ Oh’s – teamed up Wednesday afternoon at Target Field as part of the team’s ongoing Midwest Music Showcase series, in which local bands...
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Black Bike Week in Minneapolis: Cycling conference promotes fitness and...
Wikimedia CommonsMarshall Taylor, circa 1900The National Brotherhood of Cyclists (NBC) was formed in 2008 by a group of African-American grassroots cycling clubs from around the country. The groups –...
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Sister Cities: sharing 'the best of ourselves and the best of our communities'
Launched in 1956 at President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s White House conference on citizen diplomacy, Sister Cities International hosted its 59th annual conference over the weekend in Minneapolis, sister...
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Open Streets on Lake: From Somali dancers to vintage 45s and Bernie Sanders...
Since its launch five years ago, Open Streets Minneapolis has evolved from its first two streets, Lyndale and Nicollet in South Minneapolis, to Franklin Avenue (Aug. 16), Lowry Avenue North (Sept. 26),...
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CTC at 50: Children's Theatre alums recall the magic
As proclaimed by governor Mark Dayton, Sunday was Children’s Theatre Company Day in Minnesota, and alumni and fans of the beloved Minneapolis arts institution gathered for a 50th reunion over the...
View ArticleGo Topless Day in Minneapolis: One woman’s fight for the freedom to bare breasts
Faith Neumann was 12 years old when she got her first lessons in sexism and gender inequality.“I remember when I was in my tech ed class and the teacher was talking and this guy was talking to me,”...
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Midway Murals Project: Beautifying busy Snelling Avenue with public art
Despite such landmarks as Midway Books and the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul’s Snelling Avenue is the road most often traveled to get somewhere else. That much was recognized by Jonathan Oppenheimer,...
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The Patriot listeners and party faithful bond over GOP debate
The Republican presidential race came to The Mermaid in Mounds View Wednesday night, as about a hundred GOP faithful gathered to eat, drink, watch three hours of debate on TV, and bond over their...
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What the future civic engagement will look like in Minnesota
“Sometimes you have to shake, rattle and roll until you get the results you want. You have to challenge people who are not used to being challenged.”So said law professor and president of the...
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How Minnesotans celebrated Eid al-Adha
All over the world Thursday, Muslims celebrated Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), the Islamic festival that commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to follow Allah’s command to sacrifice...
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11 Minnesota podcasts that are worth your time
CC/Flickr/Patrick Breitenbach“Podcasts? I guess I’m just not the kind of person who would listen to that. Who listens to those?”That was the reaction one old-school media member made to me last year...
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