Guide St. Patrick’s Day in St. Paul

Celebrate St. Paul’s Irish heritage throughout the month of March at events all over town – capped off by one of the largest St. Patrick’s…
Tease Salon: A West 7th Mainstay with Heart

On West 7th Street, in a brick building that blends quietly into the corridor, Tease Salon has become a steady fixture — not through splashy…
Highland Park Community Spotlight: Jie Ming Mandarin Immersion Academy

Each month, we are featuring a Highland Park business or organization. Community Spotlight honorees may have deep roots in Highland Park or might be new…
In “Saints and Sinners,” Local Author Tells the Unknown Story of the Founding of St. Paul

For many Minnesotans, St. Paul’s early history is reduced to a handful of familiar names and half-remembered legends. In “Saints and Sinners: The Pioneers of…
What Is Truth?

Where was my notebook? My first reaction was confusion. It was that feeling one gets when you are certain where you left the car parked,…
50 years in West 7th, Part Three

There is a certain amount of conceit necessary to record one’s life story! Let alone in three parts!! (you need room for all the!!!!) I…
Community Voices: The Virus Within Us

Here we go again. Some people in the community hunkering down in their homes waiting for it to be safe to go outside. Schools providing…
Great Chefs of Grand Avenue to Debut as Upscale Fundraiser Celebrating Food, Community and Cause

An ambitious new culinary fundraiser will make its debut next month when Great Chefs of Grand Avenue brings together many of St. Paul’s best-known restaurants…
Origin Stories Part the Ninth: Origins of St. Paul, Radically Revised

The City of St. Paul was birthed with the expulsion of immigrants by the U.S. military. In the 1600s French explorers, traders and missionaries came…