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18 hours ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. ‘As American as Chinese Food’Ongoing — MinneCulture is an award-winning podcast from KFAI that produces insightful audio documentaries that shed light on moments in Minnesota history and culture.
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1 week ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. St. Olaf at Orchestra HallApril 18 and 19 — St. Olaf College is currently in its Sesquicentennial. As part of the 150th birthday celebration, St. Olaf musical groups will perform a pair of concerts at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis.
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1 week ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens “The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York” on July 17, it will mark the first solo exhibition of Morrison’s work at a major institution outside Minnesota since he died in 2000 — seen by many as a milestone for both the artist and the state’s art history. This will be the first time many will learn Morrison’s New York story.
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1 week ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
Between a Roy Lichtenstein sculpture and the iconic “Spoonbridge and Cherry,” about 100 protesters rallied for workers’ rights Thursday night outside the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The rally was hosted by the Walker Worker Union.
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2 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. 100th Anniversary Reading of ‘The Great Gatsby’April 10 — One of the best-known novels connected to the North Star State turns 100 today — and the Minnesota Historical Society and Friends of the St. Paul Library are hosting a live reading of “The Great Gatsby” from beginning to end.
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2 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
Each year, the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) highlights new work from around the globe, but it also reserves space for stories rooted closer to home. The Minnesota Made program showcases features, documentaries and shorts created by local filmmakers or shot in the region. This year, we reviewed five standout Minnesota-connected films from the festival, each offering its own perspective on the people, places, and ideas that shape the state.
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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. Art & Sound Lounge, Vol. 1April 3 — The Walker Art Center transforms into a “moody listening salon” for the first night of a three-week series. Guest artists Andy Jacobs and DJ Maracuya will collaborate on the music while guests enjoy cocktails and craft artmaking.
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4 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
Rob Taxpayer was holding his newborn son when he found out his friend had been murdered. “While my son was sleeping in my arms, I got a buzz on my phone about it,” Rob remembers. “This sense of safety was just shattered. My friend had been killed, and it was less than a mile from my house.”That friend was August Golden, a fellow musician and member of the DIY punk scene.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
Cheryll Fong stands in front of a tantalizing collection of buildings. There’s a gabled sea captain’s cottage, an art deco veranda cafe and a colossal monument built into red rock reminiscent of the ancient Colossus of Rhodes. “It’s absolutely stunning,” Fong says. They’re architectural sketches and watercolors made by women studying at the University of Minnesota in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
Kayla Knoll is a full-time nurse and a poet in the creative writing MFA program at Hamline University in St. Paul. Much of her poetry reflects on her experiences as a nurse, a career she began during the pandemic. Knoll reads her poem “I Stopped Learning Their Names.”“I see their faces peeked out from under starchy blankets. Eyes remain unopened, but no sleep comes. Lines trail from every entrance to their body.
