A woman was sexually assaulted Saturday evening after entering a stranger’s car in Dinkytown, according to an email from the University of Minnesota Police Department.
The...
University of Minnesota Vice President and Chief Information Officer Scott Studham resigned Friday.
Studham started in his former position in February 2012, and oversaw the IT department for the...
Weeks after a heart attack, Billy Thompson manually removed bricks from a burned-down church in Milan, Minn.
The 86-year-old saw the bricks as an important addition to his homage to the tiny Minnesotan...
Donning a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume, Abe Cass zipped along the Mississippi River on water skis, completing a few back flips along the way.
The stunt was part of the Twin Cities River...
Eat this:
Giordano’s Deep Dish Pizza
The Chicago-based restaurant Giordano’s graced the people of Minneapolis with a location in Uptown this past month. Now that some of the buzz has...
Local artist Jeff Millikan left books outside so bees could create honeycomb in the pages. As with many of his projects, Millikan photographed the results.
“As they eat away at the text,...
Minnesota native Damiian Mario Lang’s childhood home in Dinkytown will serve as the backdrop of his show for this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Since first performing the show at...
Alightbulb sparked for Michael Rault when his father taught him the opening guitar riff to Van MorrisonâÄôs âÄúBrown Eyed GirlâÄù at age 12. âÄúAfter I figured that out,...
Thursday FLOW Northside Arts Crawl Back for its 10th anniversary, the FLOW Northside Arts Crawl presents three days of art. The festival celebrates variety, showcasing performing and visual art. On Saturday,...
Donning a tall 18th century white wig, Scott Heron teetered on his pointe shoes on a table before sliding off to collapse beneath it. The stunt was one small piece of his latest dance performance with...
Paddle this: Lake Harriet Make the most of the sunshine with a recently established pastime âÄî paddleboarding. When picking a paddle paradise, Lake Harriet makes a great contender with its free...
It’s Thursday, which means we’ve already had four days of this miserable week. You’re probably tired, overworked and hungry because you don’t really know how to cook anything besides...
While they were working on their latest EP, Jennie Lawless and Christopher Williams of Warehouse Eyes made it a regular habit to dance in their living room.
A simple glance at the movie title “God...
The self-deprecation in Jen Kirkman’s humor doesn’t seem to match up with her career.
In addition to stand up, the comedian has written a New York Times bestseller titled “I...
A lightbulb sparked for Craig Nordeen when red, white and blue doughnuts arrived at his workplace around this time last year.
Nordeen, who works as a designer at an advertising firm, saw potential...
In the midst of a rain storm Sunday, roughly 30 men and women in neon green T-shirts paused their work at Fred Lawshe Park as Marlyn Anderson shouted, “Fire in the hole!”
On cue,...
After forming in 2012, the Twin Cities band gained attention with their 2013 single “Kisser,” which garnered over a million plays on SoundCloud. Since the buzz, the band has released singles...
We all know Twitter is great for a lot of things, whether it’s skimming headlines, sharing pictures of your cute pet or just plain old lurking. But even if you think you’ve curated the perfect...
A stop at a flea market during a road trip home from a vacation in Myrtle Beach, S.C., sparked Brian Wheat’s musical career as a preteen.
“I think my parents were fed up with my sister...
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Eli’s Donut Burgers
Donuts? Burgers? Thanks to Eli’s, you don’t have to choose. The zany pairing is available at Eli’s Donut Burgers food truck. The gluttony...
Since his arrival to Tate Laboratory of Physics in 1959, physics professor William Zimmermann said the building has seen periodic updates to its labs. Now, it’s in for a total makeover.
The...
As a McNally Smith College of Music 2005 graduate, Alison Scott entered a singer-songwriting competition and unwittingly kicked off the rest of her music career.
Since winning the contest...
In high school, Ryan Traster traded his trumpet for a bass guitar and didn’t look back.
Over past decade, the singer-songwriter has lived and played in New York, Portland, Los Angeles and...
Wear this:
Sun gear
As warm summer temperatures move in, it’s important to keep properly and stylishly covered from the sun. Go find sunscreen and that perfect pair of sunglasses that say...
As a coach and behavior specialist at Cedar Riverside Community School, Jennifer Weber witnessed East African girls struggling to handle their skirts or keep their hijabs intact while playing sports
“Teams...
Though artists Krista Franklin and Gloria Talamantes-Data (aka Gloe) both live in Chicago, they first met at Intermedia Arts’ B-Girl Be Festival.
Now the two will collaborate as featured...
Though it may not match the glamour of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts or the Science Museum of Minnesota, there’s yet another source of educational enrichment in town that quietly opens for the...
If you’re a choral connoisseur (or maybe you just like fish tacos), you may want to grab a lawn chair and zip on over to Minnehaha Falls tonight.
Starting at 7 p.m., three vocal ensembles...
When Jonathan Krentz returned from his six-year service in the National Guard band, he joined the first country band he could find.
When that band fell apart, he and bassist Drew Sherman started...
In the midst of the ’80s new wave craze, a group of Minneapolis teenagers took a stab at punk rock.
Soul Asylum was born.
“When Soul Asylum started out, we were a real punk rock...
Friday: Temples
The British rock group will be bringing their psychedelic tunes to the Mainroom during their U.S. tour, which ends at Bonnaroo. They released the album, “Sun Structures,” in...
As a young boy, Cadillac Kolstad’s father snuck him into bars on the West Bank of Minneapolis to give him his first exposure to live music.
Now an established musician, Kolstad brings...
As a college freshman in 2007, Lee Henke tracked down the music resonating through his dorm’s hall and found guitarist Ryan Acker, his future bandmate.
The two have been playing music...
Tame Impala delivered a seamless set of jams to a sold out crowd at First Avenue Wednesday night in Minneapolis.
It was their first show in town since 2013.
The band’s lead vocalist...
The Gear Daddies seized the hearts of Minnesotans in the 1980s.
The Austin-based country-rock band, which features Randy Broughten, Nick Ciola, Billy Dankert and Martin Zellar, parted ways...
When Andy Fritz isn’t laboring away in the library for his computer engineering degree at the University of Minnesota, he plays in the electronic duo Tender Meat with Jon Coe.
Fritz...
Bent over a paint-splattered table, Justin Spooner and Peter Lincoln Rusk weighed whether to paint a space diamond or a DNA helix on their cardboard space computer.
The two University of Minnesota...
Whether it’s helping each other with parallel parking or taking turns fronting the band, Minneapolis band Web of Sunsets maintains a team player attitude.
Sara Bischoff, Chris Rose and...
Soon, the concrete in front of Weisman Art Museum will be transformed into a grassy oasis.
Starting Monday, the WAM Collective will present a pop-up park of artificial grass and wooden...
Photo courtesy of Tina Machina
The Ghost Wolves brought their punk blues to Lee’s Liquor Lounge in Minneapolis on Thursday. After a stop in Madison, the pair made their way to Illinois,...
This Thursday, March 12th, the Trylon will feature two films from Minneapolis filmmaker John Ervin: “Made in Berlin” and “The Tiki War.”
“[The event]...
The days of simple sandcastle entertainment may be dwindling — Disney has developed the “world’s first autonomous sand art bot,” aptly titled “BeachBot.”
College...
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Thursday, January 29th marks 170 years since the publishing of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven.” To commemorate this occasion, here are 5 notable readings of the famous,...
A circulating TIME article reports that you can now play “Oregon Trail” online through the Internet Archive, a site that brings back hundreds of retro games you likely played on one of these.
When...
After a wholesome five hours of sleep one morning last week, I tuned in to the Current’s morning show and endured 50 seconds of confusion and hilarity as the audio from this fantastic video played....
Pop-Tart ads have become known over the years for their darkly humorous scenarios in which anthropomorphic pastries unexpectedly meet their fate. They appear in various situations, whether as a closet...
Whether you’re killing time on a boring Sunday afternoon or yearning to find something “before it was cool,” Forgotify and Petit Tube have got you covered.
According to the Forgotify...
Megan Culverhouse helps Chives the puppet get in costume. Photo by Liam Doyle
On Tuesday night, I tagged along with one of our photographers, Liam, who was shooting photos for The...
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