NEWS: Minnesota Represents at James Beard Awards for Restaurants and Chefs Dining Lifestyle by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 25, 2025 A promotional image for the James Beard Awards. The semifinalists for the 2025 James Beard Awards celebrating American restaurants and chefs were announced yesterday. These national awards recognize exceptional talent and achievement in the culinary arts, hospitality, media, and broader food system, as well as a demonstrated commitment to equity, community,
NEWS: Minnesota State Fair Reaches New Attendance High Dining Lifestyle by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 3, 2019 Closing-night vehicular accident and shootings notwithstanding, the Minnesota State Fair soared to new heights in 2019. Fairgoers walked through the gates some 2,126,551 times – 3.9 percent more than 2018, which itself set records. Six of the twelve fair days set records for those days. While there was less buzz about new
WEEKEND PICKS: Space Eggs, Play Readings, Hobbits, and Sunken Pharoahs Arts Dance Dining Lifestyle Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Hanne Appelbaum - March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 A man steps into the giant space egg sauna at the American Swedish Institute. Photo by Basil Considine. Looking for things to do this weekend? Here are our top picks: Thursday Gun control's on the mind and theatre is the battleground. Code Red Playwrights presents a series of short (1-5 minute) play readings
NEWS: Walker Art Center Transforms into Giant Robot, Stops Monster Menace (April Fools) Arts Dance Dining Lifestyle Movies Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 The W.A.L.K.E.R. giant robot prepares to deal a finishing blow to the monster that menaced Minneapolis this morning. The Minneapolis Monster Menace has come to an end. In a stunning development, the Walker Art Center transformed into a giant robot and defeated the monster menacing Uptown in a climactic battle on
BREAKING NEWS: Giant Monster Menaces Uptown (April Fools) Dining Lifestyle Visual Arts by Hanne Appelbaum - April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 Citizen reporter Johnny Pommegraine's iPhone picture of the monster after it emerged from the Walker Art Center's Sculpture Garden. A giant monster has hatched from an egg discovered during I-94 construction and is menacing Uptown Minneapolis. The egg was discovered by an MnDOT construction crew working on the Lowry Hill Tunnel. The crew broke