Stage & Arts
Jungle's 'Anna in the Tropics' is a warm breeze that leaves us cold
REVIEW: "Anna in the Tropics" is a lovely piece of literature, but on stage it rarely comes to life.
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Gather round – we're making empanadas
Some foods are made for a crowd. To consume them, yes, but also to make them. Empanadas are one of those foods.
TV & Media
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How to find vintage fashions from Dayton's and other bygone department stores
Secondhand stores peddle high-end designs from the great Twin Cities department stores.
Eat & Drink
Downtown East's McKinney Roe serves up a showy room, familiar menu
REVIEW: At McKinney Roe in downtown Minneapolis, a crowd-pleasing menu is served in a splashy setting. But when there's a stab at a signature dish, the results don't quite jell. | ★★ out of 4 stars
Music
The last Run the Jewels show? Rap stars joked about Myth gig being their last
Review: Killer Mike and El-P joked about Tuesday's sold-out gig being their last.
Variety
Vintage fashions from the great Minnesota department stores
Once upon a time, the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul each boasted a handful of high-end department stores.
Eat & Drink
13 Minn. chefs, 2 eateries among James Beard Awards semifinalists
The annual awards, the so-called "Oscars of the food world," recognize and celebrate excellence across 21 chef- and restaurant-related categories. The category that garnered the most local names? Best Chef: Midwest.
Celebrities
Howard Stern sued for airing woman's personal IRS conversation
Howard Stern is being sued by a woman who claims that her personal and tax information were broadcast on Stern's show.
Books
REVIEW: 'The Dark Flood Rises,' by Margaret Drabble
FICTION: An aging British woman confronts her own mortality in this troubling and courageous novel by the author of "The Peppered Moth."
Eat & Drink
Minneapolis' Le Meridien Chambers hotel ditching its upscale restaurant for more casual concept
"It's going to be a neighborhood restaurant for downtown," chef Mike Rakun said. "I love downtown, and I want to make it a restaurant where I'd want to go."
Music
Jazz darling Maria Schneider comes home with Minn.-inspired 'Thompson Fields'
Jazz composer Maria Schneider returns to perform a Grammy-winning work born in rural Minnesota.
Variety
Snowy owls sighted in Minnesota, but in small numbers
Snowy owls are a showy sight, but only a handful have shown up here so far this winter.
Stage & Arts
Park Square's restaging of 'Nina Simone' rises on song
REVIEW: Last year's Park Square hit returns with added music and a sharpened script.
Variety
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My secret to making friends in the Twin Cities? Lots of Tinder dates
Part of the reason is the simplicity: Online dating was the easiest way to meet people when I moved to the Twin Cities two years ago. And part of it is just me.
Music
Worst love songs? St. Thomas music faculty says avoid these on Valentine's Day
Given that all are "deemed equally abominable," the St. Paul university declared in announcing the choices, "the songs are listed in a random jumble, like a sack of broken hearts."
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