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Rock ’n’ recovery: Celebrating sobriety at Hazelfest
“Recovery stories are the best,” said David Campbell backstage at Hazelfest, the fourth annual Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation-sponsored music and healing bash held on the campus of Hazelden in Center...
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein talks of economic and racial...
The Capri Theater on West Broadway has seen its share of history, including Prince’s first solo shows in 1979 and performances by Charlie Chaplin, Barbara Stanwyck and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra....
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United in purple we stand: Prince day at the fair
Everybody in Minnesota has a Prince story, especially many of the record-setting crowd of 141,023 who attended Friday’s “Unite In Purple Day,” a celebration of the Minneapolis-born legend who died on...
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Duchess Harris shares grandmother's story in upcoming 'Hidden Human...
“My grandmother was in the group of the first 11 black women recruited to work at NASA, and I’ve wanted to tell this story for 25 years,” said Miriam “Duchess” Harris, a professor and chair of the...
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Pictures from a revolution: A preview of Daniel Corrigan’s new book of music...
“When are you going to have a book out?”Dan Corrigan says he’s been hearing the question for 10 or 15 years, but fans of the influential and inspirational Minneapolis music photographer have been...
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Prince forever: Xcel tribute proves Prince lives on through his music
“Prince forever! Prince forever! Prince forever!” chanted Stevie Wonder around midnight Thursday at the Xcel Center in St. Paul, perfectly summarizing and capping off an unforgettable tribute to the...
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Minnesota hockey legend Henry Boucha is on a mission to tell the stories of...
Jim WalshWhat does Henry Boucha, Minnesota’s most famous Native American athlete, think about Sam Bradford — should the Vikings’ star quarterback talk about his Cherokee roots? “Oh, it would be...
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Santaland and memories: Last Christmas at 700 Nicollet Mall?
Jim Walsh“It’s been like this all day, packed since we opened,” said the hostess at the Oak Grill, the venerable 12th-floor restaurant at Macy’s, gesturing toward the 114–year-old department store’s...
View ArticleDivided Americans: ‘We have to find a way to live together’
Jim WalshAs a family therapist who specializes in divorce and couples counseling, University of Minnesota professor Bill Doherty may be singularly qualified to weigh in on the Divided States of America...
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'Minnesota 13: From Grain to Glass' tells the secret bootlegging history of...
Jim WalshIn St. Cloud during the Great Depression and Prohibition days, the monks of St. John’s Abbey ran and owned, in the area today known as Collegeville, the biggest moonshine-brewing still in...
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Middle East by way of Minnesota: scenes from the St. George Middle Eastern...
Jim WalshThe tenth annual St. George Middle Eastern Festival took over the grounds of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in West St. Paul over the weekend, transporting all concerned to...
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Meet Minneapolis' punk rock ramen chef, Matthew Kazama: 'You can’t do this...
Jim Walsh“Passion and intensity; yes, yes, ‘passion and intensity,’ ” said Matthew (nee Yuichiro) Kazama, when it was suggested to him that passion and intensity is the common denominator that fuels...
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A Call To Men: Stepping outside the 'man box'
Jim Walsh“Without a doubt, there are some absolutely wonderful things about being a man, but at the same time, there’s some stuff that’s just straight-up twisted,” A Call To Men’s CEO Tony Porter said...
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How a Minnesota-born actress/activist helped launch the Vietnamese-American...
Jim WalshHow did nail salons, and the fine art of giving pedicures and manicures, become one of the main industries of Vietnamese-Americans in the Twin Cities and beyond? Here’s An Nguyen, nail...
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Midway memories: Dazzling lights, fleeting hopes, and an encounter with...
Jim WalshThe Minnesota State Fair proper has always been a humongous, homogenous happy place, while the Midway is its louder and raunchier flipside and where all the action is — rides, roller coasters,...
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Why the Puerto Ricans In Minnesota Committee is bringing Oscar López Rivera...
Jim Walsh“Puerto Ricans need their coffee!,” exclaimed singer/rapper/writer/activist Maria Isa Pérez to her fellow board members of the Puerto Ricans In Minnesota Committee last Thursday. “We must have...
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Silence is violence: A Call To Men conference encourages men to speak out...
Jim WalshMen are creeps who get away with being creepy, and one need only look at the "locker room talk" that didn't keep Donald Trump from reaching the White House and influencing others to conclude...
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Day of the Dead: Exhibition sheds light on rituals that honor ancestors
Jim Walsh“I wanted to honor my grandfather,” said Minneapolis-based artist Ana Laura Juarez, curator of a new Day of the Dead art exhibition at Intermedia Arts, as she and her fellow artists hung the...
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Arts and crafts and dharma: meet Minnesota’s only Buddhist youth group
Jim WalshGotta start ’em young.Tucked off University Avenue in an otherwise nondescript industrial neighborhood of Blaine, the modest grounds of the Thiên Ân Buddhist temple come resplendent in...
View Article'What can we do?': Minneapolis music school Slam Academy reaches out to refugees
Jim WalshFor five years, Slam Academy in northeast Minneapolis has been teaching eager students how to program beats, write songs, and record tracks as professional musicians. Now, with the world in an...
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