Movies
'Little Joe' gives psycho-bio thriller genre new life
This curious botanical mystery asks, "Is true happiness feeling nothing at all?"
Eat & Drink
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The winning cookies of the 2019 Star Tribune Cookie Contest
Out of 207 entries, we have four finalists and a winner. They're appealing on many levels, especially the way each one introduces a wide range of delicious ingredients into our cookie universe: whiskey, sunflower seeds, turmeric and tea.
Eat & Drink
Inside the University of Minnesota's secret meat and cheese market
A small shop on the U's St. Paul campus has been selling dairy and meat at bargain prices for decades.
Movies
'Office' star Jenna Fischer coming to Minnesota to shoot hockey movie
Jenna Fischer will appear in inspiring drama about the hockey-crazed Iron Range, directed by husband Lee Kirk.
Variety
"Walk back to your body" at the Weisman Art Museum explores the overlap of art and science
Artists explore sleep, the human heart, adolescence, and the aging process in year-long project.
Eat & Drink
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Sushi at the gym? Two public restaurants open at new Southdale Life Time
Protein shakes aren't all you can get post-workout.
Variety
Zombies, Vikings and baby oil: Chefs get greased up for Travail Sexy Chef Calendar
Travail restaurant raises eyebrows and laughs with its seventh annual Sexy Chef Calendar.
Variety
How an outsider came to love the forbidding Minnesota winter
Thirty-one years ago, I moved from New York to Minnesota. I imagined myself as a character in Ole Rolvaag's "Giants in the Earth": far from family in a foreign land, the climate of which seemed designed to kill me.
Variety
20 Minnesota-made gifts from chocolates to ceramics, hats to dog collars
Makers from across Minnesota offer the best of their work just in time for holiday gift-giving.
Stage & Arts
'Six,' the thin, electric girl power musical, rocks the Ordway
The British import had its splashy pre-Broadway opening Tuesday at the Ordway Center.
TV & Media
Variety
Carrie Underwood, Pitbull and Zac Brown to headline second TC Summer Jam
A key change in 2020 is a charge for parking, which was free in 2019.
Music
Maroon 5 returning to Xcel Center in 2020 with Meghan Trainor
Adam Levine's crew landed another hit single this fall with "Memories."
Music
Minnesota transplant J.S. Ondara has much to celebrate at First Ave homecoming gig
The Minneapolis folk-rocker returns home Saturday after a year of steady touring, including some Neil Young dates and a Newport Folk Fest set.
Music
Minnesota Orchestra reports biggest deficit ever, but says it's fiscally 'strong'
A strong year for fundraising built its endowment, but provided less support for day-to-day operations than expected.
Books
Review: Harry Bosch is still going strong in 'The Night Fire'
FICTION: An LAPD detective and his new partner team up to solve the death of an ex-con.
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An 11-year-old La Crosse boy has become an international crochet phenom
A seventh-grade boy's love of crochet has helped him focus, brought him a viral following and changed his family's life.
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