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How classy would we be if we just left it at this?

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I reached Willow Lake just in time to see three trumpeter swans drifting down the far shore, abnormally bright against the water’s deep, pure blue. I never look at water or the sky these days w...

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The Minnesota State Fair’s political booths were in full swing Wednesday, with the November election just over two months away and the governor’s race, a U.S. Senate seat, all eight congressi...

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“I like to compare it to your grandparents house. People are sad when their grandparents finally sell the house and move into a condo or assisted living or something. But you still have the mem...

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The T-shirts at the State Fair are always an interesting referendum on the public’s tastes, interests and general attitudes about life in Minnesota. This year, with no hotly contested elections...

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Jim Walsh went exploring THE MANY FASHIONS OF THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR

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DOG DAYS OF SUMMER, AND THE LIVING IS … DRUNK AND DICEY ON THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS. With summer on the ropes, the clubs aflame with warm-weather-loving party people, and the Twins, ...

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> “The Clock” is a 24-hour-long montage of scenes from thousands > and thousands of movies and television shows, assembled by >  Marclay over several years. Each one...

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TERRITORIAL ALLEY: A VESTIGE OF THE SPINE THAT LINKED THE TWIN CITIES Commuting from Pig Eye Parrant’s tavern in St. Paul to Ard Godfrey’s house in Minneapolis in the 1850s down Territorial ...

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President Obama ate lunch at Matt’s Bar in Minneapolis today… nbd. No official word on whether he burned the roof of his mouth on molten Jucy Lucy cheese. Photo by REUTERS/Larry Downing. R...

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STROLLING THE GREEN LINE: FROM LEXINGTON TO LOWERTOWN Andy Sturdevant continues his interactive tour of some of the top sites along the newly opened Green Line, going from the Lexington Parkway...

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While rain poured down on Saturday night, a surprising number of you hardy souls still made it out to Northern Spark. MinnPost was in the lobby of the Northrop Auditorium (the weather dashed our ...

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BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE MINNESOTA CAPITOL RESTORATION Photos by Tom Olmscheid 

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A FIRST-TIMER’S GUIDE TO NORTHERN SPARK, THAT BIG, CRAZY ALL-NIGHT ARTS FESTIVAL: Q&A with Steve Dietz, Northern Spark’s founder and artistic director, the guy who looked around the Twin Cit...

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From the 1890’s to Saturday, June 14, 2014, MinnPost journalists Joe Kimball and Tom Nehil have compiled a timeline of the Green Line

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Andrew Putz named executive editor of MinnPost : > We’re proud to announce that Andrew Putz will be MinnPost’s > executive editor, starting June 30.

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Tammy Faye Bakker’s year in Minneapolis (1960/1961) was quite eventful; Minneapolis is where she and Jim met, married, and began their ministry . (Minneapolis is currently home to Jim and Tammy...

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If you go into one of those bars (or banks, I guess) and talk to some of the Northeasters around you about ecclesiastical neighborhood attractions, at some point someone will make the following a...

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Rainbow over St. Anthony Falls Thursday morning

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It might be useful to begin by pointing out that, in the Twin Cities, there are three Mississippi Rivers. Not literally, but in a sense. Each of these three rivers has its own set of peculiaritie...

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