Your Twin Cities guide to Independent Book Store Day
This Saturday’s a great excuse to patronize your favorite local bookstore— or adventure to one you’ve never been to— when Independent Book Store Day ushers in a host of goodies. …
Arts & Culture
McKnight Printmaking fellows confront, defy normalcy in exhibit
You have just a few more days to catch a wonderful exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, featuring the work of Carolyn Świszcz and Natasha Pestich. Both artists received the …
The progressive tenure of Republican Gov. Harold LeVander
Karl Harold Phillip LeVander was born in Swede Home, Nebraska, but grew up mostly in Watertown, Minnesota, the son of a Lutheran pastor. At Gustavus Adolphus College he debated, played football, competed …
Beloved local art store Art Materials LLC moving to Detroit Lakes
A Minneapolis institution is heading out for greener pastures as Art Materials LLC, moves its storefront from Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and continues its online business. …
Art, concerts and events across the Twin Cities
Art isn’t just something nice and pretty or fun— though it can be those things. It also is an essential tool for survival, as you’ll see in some of the …
What to see at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival opens this week, launching two weeks of films by international stars and local talent. The festivities start on Thursday, April 11, but just as …
The history of Northwest Airlines
Minnesota entrepreneur Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin incorporated Northwest Airways, Inc. in Michigan on Sept. 1, 1926. He based his operations south of Minneapolis at Speedway Field with nine employees. The …
Gabriela Hearst Costumes Female-first ‘Carmen’ at San Francisco Ballet
Onstage during Arielle Smith’s fabulous new, female-first vision of the classic “Carmen,” which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Ballet Thursday night, the titular character wields a fiery …
Shakespeare marathon at the Guthrie
From a virtual pipe organ used in a classical music concert, to a fusion of orchestral instrumentation and hip hop stylings, what’s old is new and what’s new is old …
North Korea looms large in Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit
If you’ve been intrigued by the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s new exhibition, “The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989,” Thursday is the day to go. Meet at Mia is …