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In 2025, the MacArthur “genius” grant winner opened a 15-year retrospective at the Walker Art Center 🖼️
Dyani White Hawk is Minnesota Star Tribune’s Artist of the Year
In 2025, the MacArthur “genius” grant winner opened a 15-year retrospective at the Walker Art Center.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In 2025, the MacArthur “genius” grant winner opened a 15-year retrospective at the Walker Art Center 🖼️
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Chef Eric Pham cooks through fire and family at his St. Paul restaurant, serving up the Twin Cities’ next generation of Vietnamese cuisine 😋
Khue’s Kitchen is the Star Tribune’s 2025 Best New Restaurant
Eric Pham cooks through fire and family at his St. Paul restaurant, serving up the Twin Cities’ next generation of Vietnamese cuisine.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Chef Eric Pham cooks through fire and family at his St. Paul restaurant, serving up the Twin Cities’ next generation of Vietnamese cuisine 😋
From fine dining to fast casual and barbecue to pasta galore, these are our favorite new eateries. But one stands out above them all 🍽️🏆
The Minnesota Star Tribune names its 10 best new restaurants of 2025
From fine dining to fast casual and barbecue to pasta galore, these are our favorite new eateries. But one stands out above them all.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
From fine dining to fast casual and barbecue to pasta galore, these are our favorite new eateries. But one stands out above them all 🍽️🏆
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Alan Sparhawk revisited his old band Low’s Christmas album in the most beautiful way last night at the Fitz while melding with Trampled by Turtles like it was his new band.
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Review: Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles stand and strum together
At the Fitzgerald Theater on Thursday, Low's singer and his longtime friends rekindled the comforting vibe heard on their new album.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Alan Sparhawk revisited his old band Low’s Christmas album in the most beautiful way last night at the Fitz while melding with Trampled by Turtles like it was his new band.
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It was a big year for Gully Boys, with the release of their long-awaited full-length debut (which is a beast btw!) and tour dates all over the country. Here’s a wrap on their year ahead of their big gig Saturday at the Varsity Theater.
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What Minneapolis' Gully Boys learned on the road in 2025
The punk quartet caps off a year of crisscrossing the country with a hometown release party for its first full-length album.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It was a big year for Gully Boys, with the release of their long-awaited full-length debut (which is a beast btw!) and tour dates all over the country. Here’s a wrap on their year ahead of their big gig Saturday at the Varsity Theater.
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After leaning into '90s nostalgia and women rock heroes in its first two years, the Minnesota Yacht Club is going more for '00s-era hitmakers and emo acts in 2026. More millennial, less Gen-X. The full lineup and ticket info is out now.
What do you think?
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What do you think?
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The Strokes, Lumineers to rock Minnesota Yacht Club in 2026
The third annual mid-July festival on St. Paul’s Harriet Island will also feature Matchbox Twenty, Black Keys, Cage the Elephant and Lord Huron.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
After leaning into '90s nostalgia and women rock heroes in its first two years, the Minnesota Yacht Club is going more for '00s-era hitmakers and emo acts in 2026. More millennial, less Gen-X. The full lineup and ticket info is out now.
What do you think?
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What do you think?
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The third annual mid-July festival on St. Paul’s Harriet Island will also feature Matchbox Twenty, Black Keys, Cage the Elephant and Lord Huron.
The Strokes, Lumineers to rock Minnesota Yacht Club in 2026
The third annual mid-July festival on St. Paul’s Harriet Island will also feature Matchbox Twenty, Black Keys, Cage the Elephant and Lord Huron.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The third annual mid-July festival on St. Paul’s Harriet Island will also feature Matchbox Twenty, Black Keys, Cage the Elephant and Lord Huron.
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The lineup announcement for MN Yacht Club 2026 is coming Tuesday morning a month earlier than usual; a sign there's going to be stiffer competition from other festivals and outdoor concerts next year.
Guesses are now running rampant for who's playing.
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Guesses are now running rampant for who's playing.
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Guess who's playing Minnesota Yacht Club in 2026? Lineup is coming Tuesday.
Organizers invited fans to name names for who might be playing the three-day music fest set July 17-19 on St. Paul’s Harriet Island.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The lineup announcement for MN Yacht Club 2026 is coming Tuesday morning a month earlier than usual; a sign there's going to be stiffer competition from other festivals and outdoor concerts next year.
Guesses are now running rampant for who's playing.
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Guesses are now running rampant for who's playing.
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While his life was widely celebrated as intertwined with Los Angeles, Lynch had deep ties to the Midwest, where his personal, creative and spiritual endeavors intersected 🎥
A 1,200-mile journey into David Lynch’s creative and spiritual Midwest
The visionary filmmaker’s art looked at the broken psyche inside America. His life showed a way to fix it.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
While his life was widely celebrated as intertwined with Los Angeles, Lynch had deep ties to the Midwest, where his personal, creative and spiritual endeavors intersected 🎥
The closure comes on the heels of two others in the past two weeks, Schram Haus Brewery in Chaska and Invictus Brewing in Blaine, as breweries nationwide grapple with steadily declining sales and consumption of beer and alcohol 🍺
Fair State Brewing announces it will close after this weekend
The Minneapolis brewery told its members it was no longer a “fully functional business.”
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December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The closure comes on the heels of two others in the past two weeks, Schram Haus Brewery in Chaska and Invictus Brewing in Blaine, as breweries nationwide grapple with steadily declining sales and consumption of beer and alcohol 🍺
Chef/owner Daniel del Prado is hewing closely to French recipes and techniques at Thérèse, which opened in late November in the substantial dining room once occupied by the Lynhall 🍷
Daniel del Prado embraces French excess at his new Edina restaurant
What to expect at the chef’s latest project at 50th and France, which shifts from a tartine-driven daytime menu to a indulgent French brasserie after dark.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Chef/owner Daniel del Prado is hewing closely to French recipes and techniques at Thérèse, which opened in late November in the substantial dining room once occupied by the Lynhall 🍷
We’re at Southdale mall celebrating our Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest winners! 🍪🏆🤩
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We’re at Southdale mall celebrating our Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest winners! 🍪🏆🤩
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We combed through hundreds of recipes to find these gems 🏆🍪
The winning recipes for the 2025 Minnesota Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest
Sweet and salty, chocolate and caramel, nutty and minty — this year’s winning batch of cookies has it all.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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We combed through hundreds of recipes to find these gems 🏆🍪
The winning recipes for the 2025 Minnesota Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest
Sweet and salty, chocolate and caramel, nutty and minty — this year’s winning batch of cookies has it all.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We combed through hundreds of recipes to find these gems 🏆🍪
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The Heights had been sold, but sounds like it’ll be in good hands with the operators of a similarly beloved Chicago theater.
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The Heights Theater sold to operators of historic Chicago movie house
The Twin Cities' oldest movie theater is being bought by the operators of Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, which also has a good reputation with cinephiles.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Heights had been sold, but sounds like it’ll be in good hands with the operators of a similarly beloved Chicago theater.
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Ain’t nothing but a Ukrainian thing tonight, but there’s a lot more to choose from over the next week for live music in the Twin Cities. @stribgoingout.startribune.com
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The Big Gigs: 8 top concerts to see in the Twin Cities this week
Highlights for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 include Burna Boy, DakhaBrakha, the Suburbs, Nicholas David’s release party and Shaun LaBelle featuring Najee.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ain’t nothing but a Ukrainian thing tonight, but there’s a lot more to choose from over the next week for live music in the Twin Cities. @stribgoingout.startribune.com
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Day before Thanksgiving travel at MSP airport, 2002 🦃✈️
📸: Richard Sennott from the Star Tribune archives
📸: Richard Sennott from the Star Tribune archives
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Day before Thanksgiving travel at MSP airport, 2002 🦃✈️
📸: Richard Sennott from the Star Tribune archives
📸: Richard Sennott from the Star Tribune archives
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Good beer isn’t enough for Twin Cities breweries to draw a crowd anymore. Here are some other ways they’re doing it.
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With beer sales down, 15 ways Twin Cities taprooms are brewing up new customers
Yoga classes, magicians, saunas and (gasp) even jazz players are being used by breweries to draw customers as beer sales slump.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Good beer isn’t enough for Twin Cities breweries to draw a crowd anymore. Here are some other ways they’re doing it.
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The popular music venue and pizza makers entered into an agreement to create Wrestaurant, which was widely praised but closed in less than two years.
Palace Theater sues Wrecktangle Pizza for $1.6 million over failed restaurant partnership
The popular music venue and pizza makers entered into an agreement to create Wrestaurant, which was widely praised but closed in less than two years.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The popular music venue and pizza makers entered into an agreement to create Wrestaurant, which was widely praised but closed in less than two years.
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At 90, African art specialist is selling the gallery he thinks of as ‘a gift from God’
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November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
At 90, African art specialist is selling the gallery he thinks of as ‘a gift from God’
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‘Queering Indigeneity’ debuts at the Minnesota Museum of American Art >> new from me for the @startribune.com @stribgoingout.startribune.com
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November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
‘Queering Indigeneity’ debuts at the Minnesota Museum of American Art >> new from me for the @startribune.com @stribgoingout.startribune.com
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I finally got a Labubu! And then I ate it. Get your own & all the tasty food news of the week ---> www.startribune.com/x2-pastries-...
Find Labubu macarons and more must-have treats at a new St. Paul bakery
Plus Krispy Kreme is almost here, three new eateries opening in Kingfield, cocktails in Northeast and more food news.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I finally got a Labubu! And then I ate it. Get your own & all the tasty food news of the week ---> www.startribune.com/x2-pastries-...
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The great Salman Rushdie examines mortality from myriad angles in "The Eleventh Hour," a quintet of stories just out from Random House. Here's my review for @stribgoingout.startribune.com: www.startribune.com/salman-rushd...
Review: Salman Rushdie still at top of his powers with ‘Eleventh Hour’
Fiction: His elegant short fiction probes the shadows of mortality and loss.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The great Salman Rushdie examines mortality from myriad angles in "The Eleventh Hour," a quintet of stories just out from Random House. Here's my review for @stribgoingout.startribune.com: www.startribune.com/salman-rushd...
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Did we really need another version of Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 epic? Maybe not, but Jeremy Messersmith needed to get his adaptation out of his head by today, a story that exemplifies the song’s lasting “all-consuming” power.
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Hear one famed Minnesota songwriter's 'Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald' remake
Jeremy Messersmith’s idea to rerecord Gordon Lightfoot’s epic 1976 song for the shipwreck's 50th anniversary became “all-consuming.”
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November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Did we really need another version of Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 epic? Maybe not, but Jeremy Messersmith needed to get his adaptation out of his head by today, a story that exemplifies the song’s lasting “all-consuming” power.
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Anna Graves opens for Stevie Nicks on Wednesday in St. Paul with a new record deal after recent dates with the Head & the Heart.
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Meet the Minnesota farm girl opening for Stevie Nicks
Anna Graves is already an industry vet at 28, but she returned home to restart her career with new inspiration.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Anna Graves opens for Stevie Nicks on Wednesday in St. Paul with a new record deal after recent dates with the Head & the Heart.
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