Category: Arts & Culture

  • To Peel or Not to Peel

    FOOD MATTERS Take carrots, for instance. But you might also wonder about beets, potatoes, squash. I get asked this question from time to time, from…

  • Pig’s Eye Island

    BIRDS IN PARTICULAR In 1838, Pierre ‘Pigs Eye’ Parrant, an illustrious squatter, built a tavern at the head of Fountain Cave, which became known as…

  • West End Artist Profile: Sid Korpi

    West End Artist Profile: Sid Korpi

                    Artist, teacher, actor, author, wedding officiant, editor, dog-walker, dancer and animal chaplain — Sid Korpi is a Renaissance woman now living on West Seventh, converting…

  • 12th Annual Saint George Middle Eastern Festival

    12th Annual Saint George Middle Eastern Festival

    St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church holds its 12th Annual Middle Eastern Festival on July 19, 20 and 21 at the church, 1250 Oakdale Ave.…

  • Mancini’s Classic Car Show

    Mancini’s Classic Car Show

    Owner Larry Casey offers Pat Mancini a ride in his 1957 Chrysler classic, at Mancini’s Back to the 50s Car Show in June, held in…

  • Ramsey County Historical Society’s History Revealed Events

    Thursday, July 11, 7:45pm: Irik Nathanson, “Downtown St. Paul” Presentation & Book Signing at Waldmann’s Brewery, 445 Smith Ave N. Reservations requested: rchs.com; 651-222-0701. Sunday,…

  • Whole Wide World – West 7th Public Library

    Whole Wide World – West 7th Public Library

    by Leslie Spring, Library Manager Join in the fun and stay active with Summer Spark at Saint Paul Public Library. There is still time to…

  • Guitar Concert Features Local Musician

    Guitar Concert Features Local Musician

    Grammy-winning guitarist Pat Donohue (Prairie Home Companion) teams up with eclectic West End guitarist Jerry Kosak to present a concert of acoustic fingerstyle and slide guitar…

  • Food Matters: Plucking Raspberries

    Food Matters: Plucking Raspberries

    I love the brambling foods, which are so insistent, flirtatious, and charmingly disheveled. Not to mention so sharply delicious. We grow three varieties of raspberry: Caroline…