Minnesota Arts

One of the most overlooked and under-valued reasons new college grads and young professionals move to the Twin Cities is it's vibrant local music scene.

Check this out if you are headed to Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival… The ‘Dickfork” After-Party! The Hood Internet also just released four new tracks today on their site.. Life During WartimeFriday, July 17 @ Darkroom9PM –...

The Twin Cities have officially reached a crisis level of Mountain Dew Throwback. I can't find the stuff anywhere as of this week. If you're out and about and you spot a 12-pack, let me know (or use @amck and...

So I’m standing in my kitchen browning ground turkey to put in some Hamburger Helper (who says you have to use hamburger?), and my three year-old son comes running in and begs me to turn on the stereo. He is my son, after all. I flip through the...

A Somali political delegation is visiting the United States this week to brief leaders in Washington about the situation in their homeland. President Abdirahm Muhammad Farole, who represents the Somali state of Puntland, also traveled to Minnesota. read...

Maggie Sandford offers an engaging look into photographer Tony Nelson's new exhibition of work documenting the local artist community behind Jim Walsh's (aka The Mad Ripple) weekly Hootenanny nights. image: Dan Wilson playing at a Friday night Hootenanny image: Chastity Brown, on site at a 'Hoot' image: Portrait of Chastity Brown (2007) image: Portrait of Billy Bragg, another 'Hoot' veteran image: Ben Kyle, another regular, in studio image: Candid photo at a Hootenanny image...

On July 3rd 2009, Across the Board will air an interview with pop star, "Tiffany:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_(singer), from the Saloon Pride Block Party on June 28th.