When Gov. Wendell Anderson, a former Gopher hockey star, introduced the new University of Minnesota President C. Peter Magrath around the athletic department in 1974, he started the day with breakfast ...

The faces stare up at you from the folded tabloid newspaper on sale at the your nearest convenience store: hundreds of photos of people at what might be the worst moment of their lives, available to ...

“I expect better from the Daily Planet,” says an upset commenter on my review of the stage adaptation of Disney’s The Lion King. “The Lion King story was stolen from the Mali people. It’s loosely ...

In the process of organizing some of the Tretter Collection’s assorted material, I ran across an undated pamphlet from A Woman’s Coffeehouse that is reminiscent of a nearly-forgotten period in local ...

We often forget just how colorful the Twin Cities get when summer rolls in. Most of the time, our sister cities are blanketed in snow under gray, overcast sky. But underneath all the dreariness, lies ...

Two close calls marked the third day of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) on Wednesday. The nearly 2,000 Lutherans, media and activists assembled at the ...

“Ah, thank god it’s winter again,” said no Minnesota commuter ever. Winter in the Twin Cities means at least three things for commuters: slower driving, jam-packed bus rides, and less biking. However, ...

In 1929, two brothers from Italy saw an opportunity to bring the food of the old country to Italian Americans living in the Beltrami neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis, a Little Italy on the frozen ...

The last meal for a prisoner to be executed. An eerie town in Nebraska. A waitress goes missing. Sleeping with lutefisk. Unseen creatures in a rural barn. The murder of Santa Claus. These are some of ...

The deep cultural meanings in the traditional Hmong wedding ceremony has lost their relevance to many Hmong as they transition to life in the United States resulting in conflict in the community ...

Nina Archabal is the General Director of Minnesota Opera, a position that she assumed just before Thanksgiving in 2014. Although she holds three degrees in music and has long been involved in the ...

County records show that TCF National Bank, which is also the mortgage lender to LWCC, bought the property. Per Minnesota law, Living Word has until July 28, 2011, to redeem the property by securing ...