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1 week ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. The Mississippi River flows around Raspberry Island as a menagerie of technicolor beasts stand guard. Looking down from the Wabasha Street Bridge that connects downtown St. Paul to the West Side Flats, the pack looks like Jurassic psychedelia: dinosaur-size creatures who’ve found themselves in a city park.
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1 week ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |Anika Besst |Alex V. Cipolle |Max Sparber
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region. ‘The Lodger’ with Live Score by Paris1919May 30 — “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog,” from 1927, is often cited as the film where Alfred Hitchcock first found his voice, even if it was silent.
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2 weeks 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. Memorial Day Concert and ReenactmentMay 24 — Calling all BBQ lovers and history nerds: Before Memorial Day got its name, it was called “Decoration Day,” after the tradition of decorating the graves of Civil War soldiers. Over time, it became “Memorial Day” to honor all American military members who have died in service.
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2 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Terresa Hardaway remembers a pivotal moment with the rapper Common a few years back. It was 2021 at the first anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd. Hardaway was handing out t-shirts she had designed at an event at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis.
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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Jacob Aloi |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. ‘Crush-A-Whirl’May 17 — While Art-A-Whirl takes over northeast Minneapolis, Turbo Tim’s cat-populated autoshop will be busy crushing cars in the name of art.
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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. The Falcon Heights City Council has approved a pay-by-mobile parking program for the duration of the Minnesota State Fair. Historically, the fair’s host city has been one of the free nearby parking options with about 1,000 street spots.
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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
Kelsi Sharp strolls around a gallery, reflecting on the photo collection she’s built of signs around Minnesota. These include classics from Nye’s Polonaise Room in Minneapolis and Betty’s Pies on the North Shore. The collection also includes unsung heroes, hidden in alleyways in Stillwater and behind new construction in St. Paul. “There’s this thing that painters used to do in the Renaissance — you would emulate the masters,” Sharp says.
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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Alex V. Cipolle
This year marks 50 years of Hmong refugee resettlement and immigration to Minnesota. MPR News will feature Hmong Minnesotans in a variety of careers through the month of May as part of our “ChangeMakers” series. This series highlights Minnesotans from diverse and often underrepresented backgrounds who are making an impact.
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3 weeks ago | 
twincities.com | 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 the Met — 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. “Everyone’s looking at it as a big Minnesota moment in New York,” says Brenda Child, the Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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4 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Anika Besst |Jacob Aloi |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. Hygge Happy HourMay 8 — In Norwegian and Danish, the word hygge does not have an easy English translation. It is generally understood to represent a feeling of coziness and comfort brought on from relaxing, and each week at Norway House, in Minneapolis, that mood takes the form of a happy hour.
