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Small theater, big impact: zAmya Theater Project tells stories drawn from real lifetime of homeless

Kris Jackson believes everyone should take care of their neighbors, homeless or not. Jackson and her daughter, Swazi, participated in zAmya Theater Project’s “A Prairie Homeless Companion” two years in a row. The show was created for the stage in...

Husband gives wife the gift of life 

After getting married in a courthouse in August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Phil and Cherida Terrill did it another time in grand fashion. A complete picture-book wedding ceremony and reception took place in July 2022. But soon after,...

Teen kills sixth grader, wounds 5 others and takes own life in Iowa highschool shooting, police say

PERRY, Iowa — A teen armed with a shotgun and a handgun unleashed terror at an Iowa highschool on the primary day of classes in the brand new yr, authorities said, killing a sixth grader and wounding five others...

2023 in photos: The Pioneer Press captures life in and around St. Paul

Numerous people within the Twin Cities will remember 2023 for its snowy start. I do know I'll, as I photographed people shoveling and playing in one among our snowiest winters on record. That snow — will it ever come again?...

Weekend Picks: Alpha Consumer at Icehouse; It’s A Wonderful Life radio play; Barbara Cohen + Little Lizard Reunion Concert

"We Are Still Here" Robert DesJarlait Enroll to get Artscape in your inbox every Friday afternoon. The clock is ticking all the way down to 2024, and it’s an incredible time to go say goodbye to 2023 with music, art and...

On Minnehaha Avenue, one other storefront shows how entrepreneurialism and inexpensive rents bring city streets to life

Most Sundays and just a few interspersed weekdays,D&J Glove Repair is where you’ll find Jimmy Lonetti plying his trade: fixing, restoring and selling leather baseball mitts. MinnPost photo by Bill Lindeke With apologies to the Witch District, with Fractal Cactus on...

Remembrances of Monica, eighth grader fatally shot in St. Paul: She had a life ‘stuffed with potential,’ ‘infectious smile’

Monica Holley, the 14-year-old fatally shot in St. Paul Wednesday, is being remembered as someone who “brought joy to our community.” She was an eighth grader at Highland Park Middle School in St. Paul, and lived within the Greater East...

St. Paul house fire claims lifetime of 1 person, 2 pets

An individual died after a fireplace at a St. Paul home, the primary fire fatality of the yr in town, the fireplace department said Wednesday. Fire crews responded to a report of a structure fire within the 1000 block of...

Dark & Stormy’s ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ breathes recent life right into a neglected play

Jean Brodie is an unconventional educator. She exhorts the Scottish schoolgirls under her tutelage to show away from safety and stability and run passionately into the arms of goodness, truth and sweetness. She has much in common with Robin Williams’...

A lonely life ends. A brother writes a ‘brutally honest’ obituary.

Brian Eldridge is loved. Nevertheless it took his death and an uncommonly candid obituary for the world to precise it. The obituary, published in Sunday’s Pioneer Press, has spread across social media and garnered online tributes from people he never met....
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U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum seeks thirteenth term in rematch with May Lor Xiong in 4th District

Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional...
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Believed to have been the oldest working nurse in Minnesota, Joyce Gimmestad retired at 88. She reflects on 7 many years in healthcare

Joyce Gimmestad hoped to succeed in 90 before retiring from being a nurse. Still, she retired on June 22, at 88, attributable to a...

Family of 83-year-old St. Paul man killed in hit-and-run: ‘We’ll forgive you. … Please turn yourself in’

For 30 years, John Bidon took each day runs around Lake Phalen near his St. Paul home. He’d stretch it out to 5 miles...

Alemar Cheese, longtime Minnesota producer of soppy French-style cheeses, moves to California

Alemar Cheese, an award-winning creamery that’s been positioned on the Food Constructing in Northeast Minneapolis since 2019, has packed up and moved west. Founder Keith...

Federal civil case against Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan dismissed

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