Facetime: Maidens of honor

When you get 36 local women-owned companies and nearly 1,200 women in one room at Minneapolis' Graves Hotel, there's only one possible result -- high-energy shopping.

Photo right: Maiden MN

Seinfeld still makes 'nothing' funny

Jerry Seinfeld

He's older and he's richer, but Jerry Seinfeld was in top form at his sold-out Orpheum Theatre show this weekend.

Books

Literary Lions

Talking books

Having a men-only reading club helps guys become, well, open books.

Psst: Out there with the prophecies

It's just a coincidence -- although a happy one -- that the Edge Life Expo '09 opens on the same weekend as the movie "2012," which foretells the end of the world as we blow it.

Eleanor Mondale's recovery is going well

In the first public update in more than two months, a website tracking Eleanor Mondale's recovery from brain cancer surgery says it is going well and that there has been "no sign of the tumor returning."

Photo right: Eleanor Mondale, 2006

Stylepoints: "Presence of the Holidays"

It's a pop-up market with 35 artists, including Local Motion, Iron by Cheryl, Patti Berg, Universal Pants, Cocoa & Fig and Sculati Design with live jazz all day Saturday.

Photo right: Jewelry by local designer Karla Haugen

End of Aerosmith?

One of rock's most combustible acts has been rumored to be on the rocks since Steven Tyler fell off a stage in Sturgis this summer.

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