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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...

Fall arts and entertainment guide: Gallery shows tell big stories in personal ways

As summer ends, museums across the Twin Cities are elevating individual narratives as a option to explore larger, thornier societal topics. How can drawings communicate the experience of 37 continuous years of incarceration? What can we find out about pre-Soviet...

Moving recent St. Paul play shares local caregiver stories

Roger’s case of ALS was sudden and swift. Within the months before he was diagnosed, he ran two marathons. Just a few years earlier, after retiring from many years as a theater professor, he passed the Minnesota Bar exam and have...

MinnPost’s most read stories of 2023: The 12 months of marijuana

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 2023 brought a flurry of activity within the Minnesota Legislature with a “bonkers” session in addition to chaos in Washington, D.C., involving Minnesota’s own Tom Emmer, however the story this 12 months for MinnPost readers was marijuana. From where...

This 12 months in urbanism: The five biggest Twin Cities planning stories of 2023

Housing prices keep rising, and rents together with it, as an ongoing shortage of homes that has grown more acute within the last 15 years has led to a Darwinian housing market (i.e., survival of the richest). MinnPost file photo...

Weekend picks: a ‘Latest Standards Holiday Show’ on the State; ‘Stories of the Lesser’ with Fox & Beggar Theater; and a brand new work...

"VANAHEIMR: Stories of the Lesser" The Fox & Beggar Theater Join to get Artscape in your inbox every Friday afternoon. Haven’t caught on to the vacation cheer yet? It is likely to be difficult to muster up what with war, inflation...

‘Reframing Our Stories’: A box of old photos led to the History Center’s recent Native American exhibit

A box of old photos has led to a brand new exhibit opening Saturday on the Minnesota History Center. Listed here are a number of things to learn about “Reframing Our Stories.” A box of photos Photos of Native American dancers are...

These are the stories MinnPost Festival attendees want us to cover more

Within the free “Public Square” section of the MinnPost Festival, we arrange a booth and asked attendees this query: “As we prepare for local city elections this 12 months, what kinds of local stories do you wish MinnPost to...

A lifetime of service, filled with stories: WWII vet, former St. Paul firefighter turns 103.

Howard Seitzer looked back on a lifetime of service Wednesday, filled with stories, as family and friends gathered to wish him a joyful 103rd birthday. Seitzer flew air missions into Germany during World War II and later joined the St....

Weekend Picks: Step outside yourself with graffiti art, photographic stories

A detail from KRUSH 330 by Peyton Scott Russell, 1986, Acrylic on denim White Bear Center for the Arts Enroll to get Artscape in your inbox every Friday afternoon. Writer John Koenig got here up with the very useful term “sonder,” which...
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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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