Category: Arts & Culture

  • Otto Bremer Trust Invests $200,000 in Dodge Nature Center

    Otto Bremer Trust Invests $200,000 in Dodge Nature Center

    The Thomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center (DNC) announced it had received a $200,000 investment from the Otto Bremer Trust (OBT), St. Paul, to improve community health and…

  • McCollum Announces 2019 Congressional Art Competition

    McCollum Announces 2019 Congressional Art Competition

    Congresswoman Betty McCollum today invited high school students in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District to participate in the 2019 Congressional Art Competition, “An Artistic Discovery.” The contest is…

  • Subtext Books Literary Events

    Subtext Books Literary Events

    6 West 5th St. unless noted. See subtextbooks.com/events/2019 Wed, 4/3, 7 p.m. Reading & signing: Mark Mallman for The Happiness Playlist Thu, 4/4, 12 noon. Reading and…

  • Venus, a civil twilight planet with indigo, the midnight blue hour

    Venus, a civil twilight planet with indigo, the midnight blue hour

    HALLE O’FALVEY  |  columnistDusk is a moment between day and night. Twilight is a time period of illumination that changes every day. Photographers and painters appreciate twilight,…

  • Views from the Garden: Spring Renewal

    Views from the Garden: Spring Renewal

    When you see this a sense of spring will be in the air. This day, the prediction is for rain soon, a sure sign of the…

  • 5 Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

    5 Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

    4/7, 1pm. Temple of Aaron, 616 South Mississippi River Blvd. (at Hartford Avenue). Piet is the Dutch Master who designed the High Line and Battery Park Gardens…

  • Celebrate National Poetry Month in April

    Celebrate National Poetry Month in April

    “The Poetry of Puppetry 2” premieres on George Latimer Central Library’s historic Jemne Puppet Stage Saint Paul Public Library’s Youth Services department invites families to celebrate National Poetry Month in April with an…

  • Stories of Minnesota Immigrants from 22 Different Countries

    Stories of Minnesota Immigrants from 22 Different Countries

    “Green Card Voices: Immigrants Telling Their Life Stories”Over the years, Minnesota and the Twin Cities have been shaped by many diverse immigrant populations. In the new banner exhibit, “Green Card Voices:…

  • They come for water, stay for food

    They come for water, stay for food

    BIRDS IN PARTICULAR   By Halle O’FalveyIf you have ever thought about feeding the birds but did not want to commit, March and April are your months. Natural…