Category: Local Culture

  • Jazz Fest announces 25th annual lineup

    Jazz Fest announces 25th annual lineup

    The Twin Cities Jazz Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary when it returns to St. Paul’s Lowertown Arts District for two days of free and family-friendly…

  • Notebook Recollections: Walk This Way

    Notebook Recollections: Walk This Way

    Local icon Tim Rumsey walked to work most days from 1987 to 2000. He began as a form of exercise but kept at it for his…

  • Norms and Difficult People

    Norms and Difficult People

    Building an Antiracist Community Norms and Difficult People One of the challenges often faced by voluntary community organizations, including congregations, is working with difficult people. As a…

  • 137th Saint Paul Winter Carnival

    137th Saint Paul Winter Carnival

    The 2023 Saint Paul Winter Carnival will kick off on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 5:30 p.m. with the inaugural “Light Up The Park” event in Rice…

  • Lights up at Union Depot

    Lights up at Union Depot

    A cappella group the Mistletones perform at the Union Depot as firework ignite the sky at the annual holiday tree lighting Dec. 3, 2022.  

  • Arctic conditions close out 2022

    Arctic conditions close out 2022

    Shannon, who did not provide a last name, blows snow between two houses on Oneida St. Dec. 22, 2022. Frigid temperatures and blowing snow slammed the…

  • Notebook Recollections: Walk This Way

    Notebook Recollections: Walk This Way

    Local icon Tim Rumsey walked to work most days from 1987 to 2000. He began as a form of exercise but kept at it for his…

  • Share your ideas of priorities for the new DFL majority

    Share your ideas of priorities for the new DFL majority

    County perspective Sen. Sandy Pappascolumnist After years of gridlock and division, Minnesota finally has a unified government. Thanks to voters, we now have a state government…

  • Barbershops and Stories

    Barbershops and Stories

    Building an Antiracist Community  When barbers first started cutting hair at 925 West 7th St., the internet and search engines were decades away from being imagined,…