Home & Garden
Lake of the Isles mansion that once sold for record price hits market for $5.995M
A Mediterranean mansion set the record — twice — for highest-priced house sold in Minneapolis.
Music
Twin Cities concerts of the week: Huun Huur Tu, Pokey LaFarge, Caitlyn Smith
Big gigs for the week of Jan. 19-25, also including Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine and a Johnny Cash tribute.
Eat & Drink
Burger Friday: A butter burger in southwest Minneapolis that puts Culver's to shame
At Book Club, chef Asher Miller uses his favorite burger as a role model, and then improves upon it.
Stage & Arts
Minnesota legend Mike Lynch: A portrait of the artist as blue-collar hero
Legendary Minnesota artist Mike Lynch is celebrated in a retrospective opening Saturday.
Music
![TOM WALLACE ï twallace@startribune.com Assign#00001622A Slug:clas0217 02/11/2008 Minneapolis, MN]Twin ities native, classical composer Libby Lars](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/QSJUECHH6JFO3OSZHHRB4VJRZ4.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Minnesota composer goes pop! wham! boom! with comics-inspired concert
REVIEW: The Schubert Club hosted a novel recital of Libby Larsen's comics-inspired music.
Books
Review: 'Fire Sermon,' by Jamie Quatro
FICTION: This magnificent debut novel explores inner conflict.
Stage & Arts
New musical in Bloomington is one of the hottest tickets in town, with good reason
Smart storytelling and charismatic actors make this chamber piece sing.
Books
Review: 'The Stowaway,' by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
NONFICTION: The tale of a young stowaway to Antarctica illuminates American culture as it emerges from the 1920s.
Books
Review: 'Himalaya Bound,' by Michael Benanav
NONFICTION: A nomadic tribe attempts its annual migration despite government opposition.
Books
Review: 'Peculiar Ground' by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
FICTION: A walled English estate is the setting and subject of a sprawling historical novel.
Books
Review: 'The Milk Lady of Bangalore,' by Shoba Narayan
NONFICTION: A New Yorker returns home to India and develops a newfound respect for cows.
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Feeling lots of stress over carts all over the parking lot?
Here's some helpful parking lot etiquette.
Music
Journey and Def Leppard announce July 27 date at Target Field
The '80s hitmakers have played the Twin Cities often in recent years, but usually as their own headliners.
Music
Two weeks after igniting an old-school dance party, Lady Lark returns to First Ave
A year after her first singing gig, the '80s-flavored R&B groover is already playing her second First Ave show.
Variety
Guthrie to investigate after ex-worker alleges 'sexist culture'
After the employee resigned this week, she wrote that the theater's culture "has kept and continues to keep women down" by tolerating inequity and harassment.
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