Trapped in a Room With a Zombie
1405628214-zombie_071714.jpgp1 Don't just sit in a dark theater and watch a zombie movie on the screen. For this interactive experience, you're trapped in a room -- and an actual hungry zombie is there...
View ArticleHow to Be a Korean Woman
1403829548-sun_mee_chomet_062614.jpgp1 Sun Mee Chomet was six months old when her Korean family gave her up for adoption to an American family. How to Be a Korean Woman chronicles the acclaimed local...
View ArticleMeals on Heels
1405099761-meals-071114.jpgp1 Choose your best, most fashion-forward footwear to wear to this event, because the 6th Annual Meals on Heels party returns to St. Paul to prove yet again that philanthropy...
View ArticleRejecting Central American refugees — 1980s to 2014
Mary TurckDuring the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Central American refugees arrived in the United States. Like the child refugees fleeing Central America in 2014, they were met with hostility,...
View ArticleThe free lesson in MnSCU's $2M consulting contract
Nick Stumo-Langer Minnesota State Colleges and Universities’ recently announced a $2 million contract with consulting group McKinsey & Company to assist with a system-wide initiative, Charting the...
View ArticleDoes Minnesota Republican frac sand fight reflect Kurt Zellers' rainmakers?...
Sally Jo SorensenWith the Republican gubernatorial primary less than a month away, the campaigns are departing from Gaylord B. Parkinson's 11th Commandment for endorsement battles as they try to...
View ArticleTransit budgets expose hidden costs of roads
Mike Hicks Transit projects make for easy political targets because of high construction costs. They have prices in the many millions of dollars, and occasionally tip into the billions, which brings...
View ArticleFor only $15/Minnesotan, we could have the Senate offices we need
Dick Bernard$1 million equals about 20 cents per Minnesota resident (5.4 million population; triple the population in 1905)$1 billion equals about 3 dollars per United States resident (314 million...
View ArticleSt. Paul Saints
midwaystadium-041113.jpgp1 Follow the St. Paul Saints into another exciting season of American Association professional baseball at Midway Stadium. The roster sports some big-league veterans as well as...
View ArticleFresh Ink Series: Miranda
1405105317-illusion_071114.jpgp1 Whenever you assume a fake identity, you risk losing the "real" one underneath. This is just one of the mind-bending problems haunting the title character of Miranda,...
View ArticleSEA LIFE Minnesota Aquarium: Sharks After Dark
shark.jpgp1 The Mall of America's SEA LIFE Minnesota Aquarium invites you to party with more than 10,000 sea creatures after dark. Dance the night away to DJ tunes while surrounded by octopi, sea...
View ArticleTC Spotlight
spotlight-icecreamfinal.jpgTC Spotlight is a weekly highlight of local businesses. Each week we explore a different theme and pick 4-6 businesses to spotlight.TC Spotlight is a weekly highlight of...
View ArticleNelson's Ice Cream
POINT(-93.1665979 44.927767) Nelson’s Ice Cream began in Stillwater in 1923, and expanded to Saint Paul in May 2014, bringing with it its broad pallet of over 40 tasty flavors, “monster scoops” and...
View ArticleFranklin Freeze
POINT(-93.2379378 44.9628793) One part ice cream shop, one part Middle Eastern eatery, the partnerning of Franklin Freeze and Pita King has been a fruitful one, allowing for year-long business and a...
View ArticleTom's Popcorn Shop
POINT(-93.2473282 44.9163276) Tom's Popcorn Place has been a fixture on Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis since 1971, offering traditional popcorn favorites such as Caramel, Krunch and Cheddar Cheese Corn,...
View ArticleJesters Comedy Improv
jesters-comedy-improv-920.jpgp1 In the same vein as the hit TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? Jesters Comedy Improv features a hilarious troupe of off-the-cuff performers who'll do just about anything...
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