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Frances Priya, also referred to as FPA, is this year's featured artist for the Walker Art Center's “Sound for Silents” event. Priya is a multidisciplinary artist from Minneapolis. Photo courtesy of Frances Priya.

Local musical artist partners with the Walker Art Center to create music for selected silent films

by Frankie Carlson
Published July 25, 2021
The Walker’s “Sound for Silents” event is back with artist FPA set to perform her newly written compositions alongside three short films August 19 on the Walker grounds.
Pastor of the University Baptist Church Doug Donley and Executive Director of the Southeast Como Improvement Association Jessica Focht-Perlberg pose in front of the church on July 21, 2021. Focht-Perlberg and Donley organized a Drop-in Day at the church offering free hot meals, haircuts and supplies to the unhoused community in Dinkytown.

University area group hosts event providing unsheltered neighbors with resources

by Hanna Van Den Einde
Published July 25, 2021
Showers, hot meals, haircuts and other resources were at University Baptist Church for those struggling with housing insecurity.
City council members Cam Gordon and Steve Fletcher answer questions about affordable housing and share bad landlord experiences during a “Housing Town Hall” event hosted by the MSA at Coffman Memorial Theater, Wednesday Jan. 31, 2018.

Minneapolis will add a mental health response to 911 calls

by Emalyn Muzzy
Published July 25, 2021
Beginning in August, Canopy Mental Health & Consulting will be responding to emergency calls along with police, firefighters and paramedics.
Pillsbury Hall as seen on Sept. 16, 2015. The building is the second-oldest standing building on campus.

Members of the English department speak about Pillsbury Hall move

by Nathanael Ashton-Piper
Published July 24, 2021
The building has undergone renovations since 2018 and will officially reopen this fall to house the English department, creative writing program and brand new Liberal Arts Engagement Hub.
Sally's Saloon's TikTok page offers entertaining content related to the local bar and its guests.

Sally’s Saloon is all the talk on TikTok

by Sophia Zimmerman
Published July 22, 2021
Local businesses, like Sally’s Saloon and other bars around town, are using the platform to draw in business in an unconventional, real way.
Photo of Dr. Eric Weitz, courtesy of the Princeton University Press

Former history professor and scholar of modern Europe Eric Weitz dies at 68

by MaryKate Fenstermaker
Published July 22, 2021
Eric Weitz taught at the University for 13 years until 2013, during which he directed the Center for German and European Studies and played an instrumental role in the formation of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies as a professor and chair of the History Department.
Minneapolis City Council meets in the council chambers at Minneapolis City Hall on Jan. 16, 2017.

Proposed amendment could change organization of Minneapolis government

by Hanna Van Den Einde
Published July 21, 2021
A local Minneapolis organization is raising support and awareness for the amendment in order to change the structure of city government.
Senior Emily Heslin handles the ball during the game against DePaul on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

Gophers soccer adds Allie Wisner as an assistant coach, becoming third all-female staff across the Power Five conferences

by Michael Lyne
Published July 21, 2021
Wisner is joining Gophers soccer after spending the past three years as an assistant coach for the University of Utah.
Doty: Freedom to speak and freedom to listen

Doty: Freedom to speak and freedom to listen

by Matthew Doty
Published July 21, 2021
What a 60-year-old Bob Dylan song taught me about division and ideology.
Brankin: Well, well, look who’s inside again

Brankin: Well, well, look who’s inside again

by Tara Brankin
Published July 21, 2021
Bo Burnham’s new special is poignant and relatably heartbreaking.

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