Through the NFO, Minnesota farmers sought to use collective bargaining to fight corporatization of agriculture
Minnesota NFO and county chapters encouraged farm communities to support each other and challenge the farm-product pricing system.
Arts & Culture
Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
Why Joan Vorderbruggen and Hennepin Theatre Trust have parted ways
Everyone has a breaking point, even “Joan of Art.”
A dozen things to do as the fall arts season begins
We’ve seen more than a few fall arts seasons, but none that compares to this one.
Bach is back and ARTCRANK returns
ALSO: Claudia Rankine to appear in a virtual Talk of the Stacks; the Mary Ann Key Book Club, chapter 2; the Walker Cinema reopens; and more.
New leadership for the Weisman; Joshua Bell at Orchestra Hall
ALSO: Chamber Music Society honors memory of Judy Dayton; MN Opera outdoors at Allianz Field; “Dear Evan Hanson,” the movie; and more.
The short history of the Minnesota Twins’ Calvin Griffith memorial
The Twins included a statue of the owner that brought the team to Minnesota in a series of memorials erected when Target Field opened in 2010. By 2020, the organization removed the statue, acknowledging Griffith’s open racism.
The return of Liquid Music; ‘Sherwood’ opens at the Yellow Tree Theatre
ALSO: JXTA breaks ground on its new campus; Red Wing’s Anderson Center hosts children’s book festival; SOLO at the Cowles; and more.
The Twin Cities Jazz Festival returns to Mears Park
Enjoy it live and in person — or virtually from home.
Playwrights’ Center announces 2021-22 season; Crooners presents ‘Rondo ’56’: Remembering St. Paul’s Black Main Street’
ALSO: “E.A. Hoppé and the Ballets Russes” at TMORA; Brass Messengers at Lyndale Gardens; Fortune’s Fool Theatre’s new storytelling anthology; and more.
New leaders at the Ordway and Coffee House Press; new Minnesota poet laureate
ALSO: Green Card Voices launches new graphic novel anthology at Landmark Center; Ethan Iverson plays Bacharach at Crooners; and more.
Minnesota’s Grand Portage National Monument protects a trading route use by people in northern Minnesota for centuries
The Grand Portage is an ancient overland trail used by Indigenous peoples since at least the start of the first millennium CE.
The Dakota reopens, shiny and ready; Nachito Herrera to headline 20th annual Selby Avenue JazzFest
ALSO: Open Streets Minneapolis returns; “FAUCI” movie opens; Lauren Groff at Talking Volumes; and more.
Master bread baker and poet Klecko: ‘Nobody’s imagination is as interesting as my life’
On Wednesday, Sept. 15, at the University Club in St. Paul, the award-winning author of “Hitman-Baker-Casketmaker” will read from his latest, “Lincolnland,” and drop a brand-new book with his former mug shot on the cover.
Susan Albright retires from MinnPost; ‘The Alpinist’ may trigger your acrophobia
ALSO: “The Bias Inside Us” at St. Cloud State University; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra opening weekend; and more.
Theater Mu announces 2021-22 season; Chalkfest at Arbor Lakes
ALSO: Detroit Jazz Festival goes virtual; Tom Jones: “Strong Unrelenting Spirits” opening reception at Bockley Gallery; and more.
Walker’s Fall 2021 Performing Arts season; silent films with live music at the Trylon
ALSO: American Pottery Festival 2021 at Northern Clay; 7th Annual Film Score Fest at St. Paul’s Mears Park; and more.
Trombone Shorty joins Sue McLean lineup; Hopkins Center announces nine-concert season
ALSO: The Trademark Theater announces new season; SPCO offers livestreamed concerts free; and more.
Jungle announces 2021-22 mainstage season; New Native Theatre opens ‘The Unplugging’ outdoors
ALSO: Documentary “On Broadway” at St. Anthony Main; Lowertown Sounds: Tina Schlieske with the Sunken Lands at Mears Park; and more.
One of the first women elected to the Minnesota Legislature, Sue Metzger Dickey Hough backed gun control — and more hangings
Hough was described in the local press as “one of the ardent advocates of hanging.”
Westminster Town Hall Forum to focus on democracy; JazzMN Orchestra at Crooners
ALSO: “Red Hot Friday” at Stevens Square Park; Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog; and more.
