Tips for keeping water out of your house during winter thaw
When snow becomes liquid, make sure it's flowing away from your house, not into it.
Eat & Drink
Pie for Pi Day today? 10 top Twin Cities spots to try
Buy it or bake it — we've got ideas to help you celebrate March 14.
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Your work schedule could put you at risk for depression, study says
The study in the the British Medical Journal was by researchers from University College London and Oregon State University.
TV & Media
New season of 'Project Runway' brings fresh faces, unprecedented diversity
The popular reality competition has a new host — and a new mission.
Eat & Drink
How Castle Danger nabbed the crown in last year's Ultimate Minnesota Beer Bracket
In a North Shore vs. Twin Cities faceoff, Castle Danger Brewery prevailed.
Stage & Arts
Inspired by Minnesota beauty queen, Jungle Theater's 'School Girls' questions colorism
A Minnesota beauty queen inspired Jocelyn Bioh's play about discrimination according to skin tone.
Stage & Arts
After shutdown scare, Minneapolis' Soap Factory will reopen by Labor Day
The building will be converted to office space, but the Twin Cities experimental art venue will have a home in the basement level, rent-free, for two years.
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Oprah wears Red Wings on cover of O magazine
The mega-celebrity shows off the Minnesota company's new women's boot line.
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After decades in historic St. Paul mansion, Forepaugh's restaurant closes
The restaurant recently mourned the loss of its head chef.
Stage & Arts
Sports-obsessed director takes swing at 1919 World Series scandal with Minnesota Opera premiere
Writer and director Eric Simonson sees an "uplifting tragedy" in the 1919 World Series scandal.
Music
Second-generation rocker Tucker Jensen, 29, mourned by Minnesota music community
The son of blues and soul vet Mick Sterling fronted the rising band Dirt Train at the same time he was undergoing chemotherapy.
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A Monticello, Minn., movie theater will offer ax throwing as well as cocktails and heated reclining seats
A luxury movie complex in Monticello, Minn., is sharpening its offerings with ax throwing.
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5 things to know about Candytopia, a sugary wonderland at Mall of America
A new pop-up installation at MOA is Instagram-worthy, but it isn't exactly cheap.
Eat & Drink
Bacon-centric restaurant coming to downtown Minneapolis hotel and development
Breakfast meat takes a starring role on the menu at Bacon Social House.
TV & Media
TV picks for March 13: 'Made in Heaven,' 'Empire,' Jimmy Carr
Jussie Smollett is back as "Empire" returns from break, but he's been written out of the last two episodes.
Movies
The French could have invented the word 'voyeur' to describe gory thriller coming to Minneapolis
"Knife + Heart" is showing at the Trylon.
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