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Fiscal watchdogs sound budget alarm for St. Paul, noting high taxes, business loss, slower growth

A coalition of self-described fiscal watchdogs has released a wide-ranging, 18-page report intended to lift alarm in regards to the state of St. Paul’s funds and monetary outlook, from rising property taxes to a shrinking downtown tax base. The report...

Weekend picks: Mary Mack at Acme Comedy; Adam Weiner at Sound Unseen’s festival of music and films; and ‘Multiple Realities’ at Walker After Hours

Local comedian Mary Mack has been touring heavily of late, but lucky for us, she makes a stop in Minneapolis this week to record a brand new album at Acme Comedy Club. Photo by Shelly Mosman Join to get Artscape in...

The sound of success: How improved hearing aids profession change

Joel Streed | (TNS) Mayo Clinic News Network When does a trickle sound like a waterfall? After you get hearing aids, in response to Charlie Pierce. “I spent so a few years not hearing the things that I can hear now....

Weekend picks: the Fall Sound Garden; a colourful international dance festival; and film premiere of ‘Tethered to the Ether’

Still from "Tethered to the Ether." Michael Thomsen Join to get Artscape in your inbox every Friday afternoon. With the autumn colours in full swing, there’s still time to soak up the season’s beauty on the Fall Sound Garden, a pop-up music...

Heroes met, heroes kept: The Minneapolis Sound and the MinnPost Festival

The Minneapolis Sound panel, from left: Nikki “DJ D.I.M.E.” White, Andrea Swensson, Jamecia Bennett, Walter “Q Bear” Banks Jr., Pete Rhodes and moderator Harry Colbert, Jr. MinnPost photo by Jazzmine Jackson The saying goes, “Never meet your heroes.” The premise is when...

​Carbon Sound goals to bolster appreciation of Black music 

Carbon Sound, a Black music stream, website and app from Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and The Current, in partnership with KMOJ, is expanding the narrow definition of what number of see Black music. It was launched on June 16,...

‘Tales of the Northside’ honors Minneapolis Sound and community

There have been a lot of purple tributes around town last Wednesday, June 7, on what would have been Prince Rogers Nelson’s sixty fifth birthday. These included “The Dance Electric” party at First Avenue, “Perpetually in My Life” on...

Legendary sound engineer relishes union leadership role

In its 129-year history in Minneapolis, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 13 had never elected a business agent who wasn’t a White male. That each one modified on November 8, 2022 when Wendell Bell, a...

Weekend Picks: Planetarium Mars experience; Christmas satire; shoegaze sound

NASA and the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center on the University of North Carolina team up with the Bell Museum on a journey to Mars. Photo by Joe Szurszewski Enroll to get Artscape in your inbox every Friday afternoon. Journey to Mars...
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St. Paul prevails in legal fight to raze, replace historic Hamline-Midway Library

Following 16 months of litigation, a Ramsey County district judge has given the town of St. Paul the go-ahead...
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St. Paul-based Securian Financial lays off 58 employees across departments

Securian Financial has notified 58 employees — roughly 2% of its total workforce — that their roles with the corporate are being eliminated in...

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 District and again faces May...

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...