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Just about 50 years ago, a headline jolted George Bodem when he picked up his Minneapolis Morning Tribune: "43 DIE IN...
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Never mind that he lives in south Minneapolis and went to Minneapolis South High School. Peter Geye's Up North credentials are...
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Love interrupted: Facebook reunites high school sweethearts decades later.
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Let me get this straight, newcomers think. You people drive a big truck on the ice, drag out a house, cut...
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Retired teacher, known as the 'Kite Man,' crafts thousands of flyers out of plastic
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Never mind the snow. Reina del Cid walks into the Overflow Espresso Cafe wearing bright green Converse sneakers. When you grow...
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The national Christmas tree in the White House is like the Senate: Every state is represented equally, regardless of its size
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He doesn't own a cellphone. When you spend most of your time ensconced in St. Paul's early history, why bother?
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Trent Johnson, owner of B&J Trees, likes his job, but it's a demanding one.
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Meet a tattooed baker, poet, Little League coach and grandfather.
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Curling is a mystery to many, since it appears to combine two things most people don't associate: slow-motion hockey and sweeping...
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Follow the signs to St. Nick's Antiques 6 miles west of St. Peter on Hwy. 99, then a couple of miles...
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If you were listening to talk radio in the 1990s, chances are you heard Bruce Gordon read the news on KSTP....
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Cancer survivor hopes to play every nursing home in the state "before they put me in one."
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Stacey Dinner-Levin is a Minneapolis educator and author who wrote a play based on her family's experiences raising a child with...
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Some people look at an incomprehensible video of a chunky pop star rapping about a neighborhood in Seoul and think: I...
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Nearly 30 years ago, Frank Vavreck was gazing at a Minnesota map when he had a royal vision. He saw a...
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Every year around this time, Deborah Bushinski leaves her Minnetonka home studio, pulls on her rubber Wellington boots and tromps through...
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A moping economy, print in decline, culture reduced to "Honey Boo Boo" marathons. Hey, it's a great time to launch a...
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You could call it foreshadowing or a lame attempt at teenage humor.
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As the expression goes, the State Fair is funny, but it's not ha-ha funny. It's a slow-rolling show of communal absurdities,...
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From bricks to bikes and oils, a retired bricklayer sets the scene.
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It's not too late for a road trip, is it? No, it's never too late.
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Twenty miles in a day is (little or) no sweat to this group of kids and their parents.
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Chris Hill of Columbia Heights is a truck-driver-turned-ad-copywriter whose rock band will be playing a charity next month.
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With watering can in hand, she visits a not-quite-forgotten cemetery.
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When you think of Minnesota trading partners, you think "Wisconsin." We give them condescension, they give us quarterbacks. Or perhaps Canada:...
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There's something that blooms in a kid's brain when he looks up at the fire in the sky, hears the crispy...
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As he nears 90, WWII stories flow, as do some tears.
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When it comes to sensory overload, this guy's workplace has it all.
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Those who forget the past are doomed to be reminded that we tore it down, and sometimes the reminder comes in...
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Leya Hale found herself dancing on a fine line between honor and offensiveness recently on the ultimate stage.
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Flashback to the '80s: It's been a good run for Susan Vass. The comedy clubs, Dudley Riggs, a stint on "Prairie...
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With three lives saved the last decade, this state trooper is indeed 'essential.'
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A "DJ" in the olden times was a hopped-up motormouth at a radio station, but the term has changed. It's still...
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After a heart attack nearly killed him, he gave up the corporate job to hawk uniquely styled hot dogs.
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If you'd told people 100 years ago that local beer was coming back, they'd wonder what you meant. Isn't it all...
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Sunday afternoon sunlight filters through stained-glass windows, casting the interior of this brick St. Paul church in a soft glow. Besides...
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Her job is a mouthful, but this veterinary ophthalmologist has a free offer for guide dogs.
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You know those people who have one career and get stuck there all their days? Well, we're going to have to...
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On the edge of historic downtown Chaska, there's a century-old brick home on the corner of Pine Street and Chaska Boulevard...
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You can't get more New York than this: Manny Laureano attended Fiorello LaGuardia High School, then went on to Juilliard.
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He worked at the Pentagon on 9/11, but now this retired Army colonel is back as mayor amid the hard rock...
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Cindy Olson is Minnesota Modest to the core.
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If you were a sneaky sort of person, you would have taken a newcomer down to Lake Calhoun last week and...
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Art is in the eye of this photographic beholder: U of M grad student finds beauty in those ice chunks that...
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Memories of Dad run deep for this ice fisherman.
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Go ahead, live in Lake Wobegon if you'd like. But developer Ray Harris -- the man behind Calhoun Square, among other...
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The first U.S. troops were sailing to World War I. Stamps cost two cents. Charlie Chaplin pranced on the big screen....
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If you're interested in type, the world is a font catalog. You walk into Target, look at the new display and...
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A local photographer has collected portraits of 20 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and he's far from finished.
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If the Vikings ever get a new stadium, we all know what it will look like: a stadium. Unlike many civic...
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A lutefisk miracle? Kitty Taute overcame big odds and an aneurysm but she's back selling tons of stinky fish in tiny...
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The season of merriment is upon us, and for many that means the old familiar daily stresses are replaced with new...
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The season of merriment is upon us, and for many that means the old familiar daily stresses are replaced with new,...
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One man's obsession: chronicling the people and history of a curious card game called cribbage.
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This Don Quixote is tilting at futsal courts to boost U.S. soccer.
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Bill Rose, a local photographer known as the Recapturist, shoots signs all over the state and country, researches the history and...
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An old cassette tape opens the door to century-old yarns.
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At Polly's Coffee Cove on St. Paul's East Side, music and a sense of community commingle.
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In the future, car batteries will text you when they're ready to die. Today you might get no notice.
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A century ago, the Meeker Island Lock and Dam was on its deathbed along the Mississippi River gorge. Built on the...
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My Minnesota: "I was born and raised in Chicago, but my mom's family is from Tower, and all my cousins were...
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The story of the artist and the found-object artwork that both ended up behind the bar at the Wise Acre Eatery...
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A married couple from St. Paul's East Side, Bob Malos and Shelley Dugan are everyday folk who just happen to prove...
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Dale Howey needs to take a deep breath before he introduces himself as an "eco-evangelical, spiritual, atheist, dirt-worshipping, tree-hugging, hyphen-Unitarian." OK,...
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Long before the rise of Starbucks, Minnesotans were a coffee-drinking tribe. It was always a joy to take a visiting Manhattanite...
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Everyone goes downtown eventually. Oh, you'll find people who insist they never go downtown, because you might get murdered, and it's...
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A cabin on an island offers solitude and camaraderie for retiring autoworker.
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One woman's quest to amplify the stories of the newest, and often the most challenged, Minnesotans.
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The poetic description: Mira LaCous decorates the nighttime sky. Fire is her paintbrush! The heavens are her canvas! Put it another...
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Despite sharing his home with 76 guys, painter Jay Wittenberg has been lonely the last three years. That's because the men...
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Mary Swenson Ettl describes herself as "just a regular librarian-Realtor sports-fan car-and-motorcycle-enthusiast." Oh, another one of those? Yes. A Twins enthusiast...
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In the early 1960s, Timon Bondo found himself 8,000 miles -- and two letters -- away from home. The Kenyan émigré...
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Minneapolis filmmaker Patrick Coyle is marshaling resources for his fourth film, a high school football tale called "Half at Zero," slated...
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Every store needs a Dale Findlay. He's the guy who knows where everything is. Do you have green microfiber dishtowels for...
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With an Ethiopian orphan on the way, a St. Paul deli owner is hanging up his apron.
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Listening to Jo-Anne Kirkman talk about art can be heady stuff.
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Every store needs a Dale Findlay. He's the guy who knows where everything is. Do you have green microfiber dishtowels for...
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Christopher Bahn is an arts journalist and critic, a native Minnesotan -- well, born in Indiana, but moved back before his...
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Matt Burgess' office in his Uptown apartment is more like a closet.
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A while ago we profiled Bill Corbett, one of the minds behind the funniest slab of entertainment ever to pour forth...
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Up on Elephant Lake, another generation grows up amid moose, wolves and huge bluegills.
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To get to Ryan Beamer's office, you walk through the wind on the harbor side of the 81-year-old aerial lift bridge,...
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Gail Weber is the founder of TOSCA, a Metro arts magazine named after Puccini's opera. By some remarkable coincidence, it also...
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Sometimes it seems we have two tribes up here: Arts and Sports. You're one or the other, right? No. Meet Joe...
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Like many teenage girls, 16-year-old Sedra Bistodeau spends lots of time in the tiny upstairs bathroom at her family's home east...
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My Minnesota/ North Shore morning.
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The "Mystery Science Theater 3000" star works away on new projects in a southern burb, where he sometimes goes to the...
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For this longtime flyer Up North, there are three seasons: floats, wheels and skis.
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Some people -- perfectly rational people who go to work and hold jobs -- believe that weather reporters can actually affect...
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From bomb tech to novelist to law school, Cody gets around, but comes home in the end.
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For five years now, Chad Korby has worked as a mechanic and gas station attendant in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed station...
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If you polled all the transplants, you'd find three reasons for coming here -- love, a job, a magazine article that...
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From the new light rail to the old affordable housing debate, this pair knows how to roll up sleeves and fight...
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Bob Collins' Twitter alter-ego is the grumpy old man from the movie "Up," a dolorous face scrunched in perpetual disapproval. If...
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"I never expected to stay here more than a few years," Esther Ouray says, after working steadily as an artist, dancer,...
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This is the year you're going to get organized. That closet full of stuff? You'll purge, ruthlessly. That box crammed full...
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Minneapolis minister mixing up faith and action
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Andy McNamara plays games for a living, but he has the world's greatest excuse: He's is the editor-in-chief of Game Informer,...
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Now recently retired from the game, Tony Sanneh has returned to Minnesota to run a multi-pronged nonprofit organization that aims to...
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Bill Corbett is not one of those famous local guys whose mug beams with all available teeth from the cover of...
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