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Friends and family of Joel Larson have started a campaign to remember the energetic and dynamic young gay man who lost his life to anti-LGBT hate in Minneapolis’ Loring Park in 1991. Larson’s loved ...
The heart of Sergio Choy’s job as a medical interpreter is to capture the spirit of the message between patient and medical provider. “You hear things like, ‘I’m feeling a little blue today,’ in ...
The faces stare up at you from the folded tabloid newspaper on sale at the your nearest convenience store: hundreds of photos of people at what might be the worst moment of their lives, available to ...
County records show that TCF National Bank, which is also the mortgage lender to LWCC, bought the property. Per Minnesota law, Living Word has until July 28, 2011, to redeem the property by securing ...
Fadumo Isse sat with three other Somali refugee women in the hallway of a homeless shelter in north Minneapolis with her eyes welling up with tears as she told her story of the first six months of her ...
Public art is popping up all over the Standish and Ericsson neighborhoods—murals on buildings and utility boxes ,sculpture at Lake Hiawatha Park and Oaks Station Place, colorful windows at courageous ...
Jason Sole realized he had become a statistic when he was convicted for a felony for the third time. Since then, after a life of selling drugs, gang activity and losing close friends, Sole decided to ...
For 81 years a bunch of American Swedes have congregated at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis to celebrate their heritage with music, dance, and food. Svenskaranas Dag (Swedish Heritage Day) used to draw ...
The first half of Dollhouse, Rebecca Gilman’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, now on stage at the Guthrie Theater, adapts surprisingly well to contemporary suburban America. The human ...
Like many Dakota stories, this one begins in 1862, at the outset of the U.S.-Dakota War: Little Crow’s starving warriors took up arms against white settlers in the Minnesota River Valley in attempt to ...
In the University of Minnesota area’s dinkiest neighborhood, Target is set to debut its smallest store in company history. On Wednesday, the Minneapolis-based retail company will open the doors to its ...
Q: What kind of music do young Somali-Americans listen to? Are there Somali or Somali-American pop stars? A: Like most immigrants before us, young Somali kids try to fit in rather than stand out. More ...